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Overnight Open Thread (12-3-2014) - Holy Crap Christmas is 3 Weeks Away!! Edition
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"Mr Brand is fond of having himself depicted as Che Guevara, a figure for whom he shares the daft enthusiasm of many members of his generation. He frets that Guevara was "a bit of a homophobe," but insists that "we need only glance at Che to know that that is what a leader should look like," i.e., a bit like Russell Brand. Guevara was a mass murderer who shot people for amusement. The cause in which he fought was the cause of gulags and murder. There are today, at this moment, thousands of political prisoners being tortured in prisons that Guevara helped to establish, and millions foundering in the totalitarian police state he helped to found off the coast of Florida. But. sure, great hair."
-- Kevin Williamson on Russell Brand
Sergei Guriev, a former adviser to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and a former board member of Russia's largest state bank, said: "If nothing changes, if sanctions aren't removed and the price of oil does not go up, then in two years the Russian government will have a major problem - it will lack cash and it will not be able to borrow it."
Poll: Germans United Against Russia
The Politbarometer poll for ZDF television found 58 percent back the EU sanctions [against Russia] even if they damage the German economy, up from 52 percent a month ago.
The poll also found that 76 percent backed the sharper tone of Merkel's recent criticisms of President Vladimir Putin's policies.
Rolling Stone Hedges Its Bets on the UVA Rape Story
Here is the problem that Rolling Stone has: The magazine clearly has lost confidence that it knows what happened that night-despite the fact that it published a chillingly specific account of a gang rape. And it can not re-report the story now. What's done is done.Also, it wants to put the onus of responsibility on Jackie, without looking like it is discrediting her. The magazine is carefully distancing itself from its primary source, but doing so in a way that it hopes no one will notice.
Nor will Rolling Stone simply admit that it screwed up.
And so it is using carefully crafted language to frame Jackie's story as significant whether it's true or not; the really important thing is how the University responded to it.
Which is a morally reprehensible argument.
And as the author points out if Rolling Stone with all its resources has been unable to verify the story, then maybe the University of VA's response isn't quite as scandalous as Rolling Stone is trying to make it out.
Jonah Goldberg Expresses Doubt About Rolling Stone's UVA Story
And Sabrina Erdely's journalism.
Erdely admits she set out to find a sexual assault story at an elite school. She looked at lots of other colleges, but none "felt quite right," in the words of a Washington Post media column on the piece. But UVA - which Erdely would go on to describe in the Rolling Stone article as a school without a thriving "radical feminist culture seeking to upend the patriarchy" - was just right.
Erdely wouldn't tell the Washington Post if she made an effort to corroborate the story with Drew, let alone the pledges. Bizarrely, she won't even say whether she knows the rapists' real names. She seems more eager to talk about public policy than the facts she reported.
And the SJW/Journalist Industrial Complex Strikes Back.
NYT Reporter Who Published Darren Wilson's Address Feeling the Heat
Variants of the AR-15 have been the most commonly sold guns in the US for several years now.
In a country where gun ownership is assured by the Constitution, the supply of ARs is abundant. Some even call it a glut.It seems the battle over these guns, if not over, is close to it.
"I think the shift you're seeing now is the military-style weapon is here to stay because it's appealing to a whole new generation," said Steve Denny, owner of Carolina Guns & Gear in Arden, which has a wall full of military-style weapons for sale.
"You can see it in the industry," Denney said. "The industry had to change from military-style weapons being something that they sold sometimes to them being something that is at the forefront of all their advertising - the tactical use of a firearm."
Glenn Beck Loses Bid to Dismiss Saudi Student's Libel Suit
Well I hope he's got proof of his claims about the student being involved in the Boston marathon bombing or else he's going to be out a good deal of money.
I watched the movie The Hobbit. Twice. First I saw it in its "standard" mode. A day later I returned to see The Hobbit in 3D at a high frame rate of 48 frames per second, called HFR. HFR is a cinematic hi-tech that promises greater realism. It was amazingly real. And disturbing at first....I was surprised though that the movie in 48HFR looked so different. (The 3D did not have an effect.) Even though both formats were shot with the same cameras and lighting, they appeared to be lighted and shot on different sets. The HFR lighting in the HFR movies seemed harsh, brighter, and more noticeable. The emotional effect of HFR was disturbing for the first 10 minutes. And perplexing - because the only thing different in the two movies was that one was displayed in the 48 frames it was shot at, and the other was computationally reduced down to the normal 24 frames per second. Why would the frame rate distort the lighting and the emotion?
I was not the only one who noticed. The HFR version of the Hobbit - the first commercial movie to be released in this new format - stirred up howls from the critics. Very few filmish people liked what they saw. For most it was painful.
Later in the article visual effects guru John Knoll explains why 48fps is so jarring in movies today and how Hollywood will adjust for it.
Also: What is the 'Soap Opera Effect'?
Bank Robbers Fall For the Old Throw the Money on the Floor Trick, Get Shot
Isn't It Time To Bring Home A Drone?
Well I bought this drone on sale a while back and it's been a lot of fun. I just wish the batteries lasted longer. And that I could get a live video feed from it instead of just a recording.
German Government: Hey Why Don't You Have Sex in the Dark...For Gaia
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Peaches at December 03, 2014 10:50 PM (ncAtG)
Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at December 03, 2014 10:50 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Peaches at December 03, 2014 10:51 PM (ncAtG)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 10:51 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (S9rS1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (tFgoR)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (rTCJ6)
Dang-darn... lol.
-PEACHES!!!! FTW!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 10:52 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:53 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: The Lost Dutchman at December 03, 2014 10:53 PM (9F2c1)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:53 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (rTCJ6)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (16bOT)
Now I can sleep.
Posted by: Entfremdung Politik at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (BL7aj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 03, 2014 10:55 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:55 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: DC in River City at December 03, 2014 10:56 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:57 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Peaches at December 03, 2014 10:57 PM (ncAtG)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (J526e)
Posted by: Chet Cognomen, Flunking Algebra, Again at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (zfw24)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (RzZOc)
What's after that, Linc Hayes brownies? Didn't know Mod Squad could cook.
Posted by: dartist at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (ahBY0)
-Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (RzZOc)
Huzzah!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (16bOT)
Remember, Fluke picked Georgetown on purpose - she knew they didn't cover b.c. s it was a perfect vehicle for her activism.
Really not liking a lot of my fellow women lately.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (ABcz/)
Alls ya need to know about Russell Brand is: even Katy Perry couldn't stand him anymore after about a year of marriage.
KP never confirmed it, but it was once reported that she was sick of Perry ridiculing her because of her Pentacostal background.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (fGApK)
Twice as many frames adds twice the detail, twice the intensity of the image. Twice as many 'steps' in the motion, more fluid, less blur.
Jarring when you've been used to the softer image of the standard film frame rate.
Posted by: --- at December 03, 2014 11:00 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Peaches
-----------------
Howdy Peaches.
I was busy following Maet's instructions and reading that 2013 ONT.
We were doing the same thing then in the comments we are doing now, which may or may not be mention-able.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at December 03, 2014 11:00 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 11:00 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 11:01 PM (rTCJ6)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:01 PM (ucDmr)
Sorry, Sweet Cheeks, if you were in a coed "Greek letter" organization, you weren't in a "Greek letter" organization, either. You were in an organization pretending to be a Greek letter organization populated by those that were deemed unacceptable for membership by actual Greek letter organizations. Which is exactly the same way you ended up being an SJW "journalist."
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:02 PM (nL0sw)
-Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (ABcz/)
Pretty much. Search for the most "impact" and refuse to do due diligence.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:02 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 03, 2014 11:02 PM (2qBk+)
It's telling that even other *regular MSM* outfits are going after them.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:02 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:02 PM (KCxzN)
Yeah? So why are they still so #*(&!^$ expensive?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (jucos)
Posted by: HuuskerDu at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (gYAkw)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (AC0lD)
Finger Penetrating V......????
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:04 PM (tFgoR)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
--------------------
A lot of people are trying to sell for what they have in them if they bought during the scare.
Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at December 03, 2014 11:04 PM (4Mv1T)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (RzZOc)
That sounds kind of extreme, its almost like you want an advocate of mass murder to be held to account.
Posted by: cm9000 at December 03, 2014 11:04 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (MDgS8)
Yup. Fluke never claimed *she* couldn't afford b.c., she just told the sob stories of unnamed friends with health issues, etc.
IIRC, her hobby horse as an undergrad was transgenders.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: eleven
I think you have that backwards...
Or maybe not.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (s9AKD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (T4t+V)
-Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (s9AKD)
Uhhh... demand? Even with the "supply-side" creating...
YOU KNOW THIS, DAMN YOU!!!
Troll!
...wait. You were baiting idiots like me, weren't you?
*delete*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: --- at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:04 PM (tFgoR)
*******
Why, the WaPo could use someone with your quoting and editing skills.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (2qBk+)
Remember, Fluke picked Georgetown on purpose - she knew they didn't cover b.c. s it was a perfect vehicle for her activism.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (ABcz/)
Recall her characterization of UVa as the school she picked because it lacked a "radical feminist culture devoted to upending the patriarchy."
No agenda there.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Gooey duck at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (vPh3W)
Tainted taint.
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 11:00 PM (MDgS
In a million + microscopic ways, Brand will be with Perry...forever.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (Oo0Xc)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (s9AKD)
Actually with the current glut they're probably near an all-time low in real dollars. If you shop around, you can find complete new guns for under $500.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (pAlYe)
It stops being about doing things and becomes about being important.
Just about all the people I hung out with through school turned out to be jackholes who care more about position and stance than anything real.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Splunge at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (oKE6c)
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And Katie Perry was all into Brand.
And vice-versa....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM (AC0lD)
Just to clarify, I meant physically in the biblical sense.....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (AC0lD)
For some reason, he was concerned about something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTj4cL5qqc
Posted by: Huh? at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (xnAyb)
*delete*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap)
*sigh*
Amigo, I'm not going to 'bate you no matter how many Justin Bieber trading cards you offer me.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (s9AKD)
Especially the "not up in the front", sneaky drivers and organizers a few rows back, and towards the rear of the crowd.
That'd be a good intel video for the rest of us to study-up on.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (RzZOc)
Here's just one article on it: http://www.trenblindado.com/nordlinger.html
One of the most nauseating recent celebrations of
Guevara took the form of a movie, The Motorcycle Diaries, whose
executive producer was Robert Redford (one of the most dedicated Castro
apologists in Hollywood, which is saying something). The movie received a
standing ovation at the Sundance Festival. About this obnoxious
hagiography and whitewash, I will confine myself to quoting Tony
Daniels: "It is as if someone were to make a film about Adolf Hitler by
portraying him as a vegetarian who loved animals and was against
unemployment. This would be true, but rather beside the point."
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (ABcz/)
Or maybe not.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (s9AKD)
IIRC, she pursued him first. She got his attention by throwing a water bottle at him during a concert.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (Oo0Xc)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (pAlYe)
Delton had a Black Friday sale price on one their models for $499. Not a top-end brand or model, but it'll still go bang.
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 10:54 PM (KlVdw)
(chuckles) We never sleep, you know!
Posted by: CPUSA at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (oKE6c)
You can get a Colt M4 from PSA for $800, right now. You can put together a decent rifle for less than $600.
Posted by: Jean at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (TETYm)
For some reason, he was concerned about something...
Wait, there's a crisis, and the country's leader is not going to a fundraiser? Or playing golf? Man, that's just crazy.
Posted by: Splunge at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (qyomX)
I was thinking I had seen some advertised for around $600 somewhere lately.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (CoZQP)
Hollywood has decided that what everyone really really wants to see this Xmas is a movie about a comic strip whose last fanbase member mumbled "twenty three skidoo" with their last dying breath during the Eisenhower administration. It also inspired a Broadway musical that men would cut off a body part to avoid sitting through.
Yes, Little Orphan Annie is back.
It's different this time. This time she's black. Because we won't achieve true equality until we've remade every film since the invention of the camera with a black star and/or cast.
Never fear though. It's being produced by film directing powerhouses Jay-Z and Will Smith. Jamie Foxx plays an updated Daddy Warbucks.
This thing will suck hard enough to pull the ship in Interstellar showing next door out of the worm hole.
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (6iEQd)
Posted by: Thrawn at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (Oo0Xc)
I'd like to get his attention by throwing a brick at him.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (rTCJ6)
Yep. And around here, the largest pies easily run about 2 to 4 inches larger than that.
Krauts! Fear our enormous pizza!
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:11 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Piercello at December 03, 2014 11:11 PM (JybVy)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 11:11 PM (rTCJ6)
*And,* Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere, who I've told you about before? How douchey his views are on conservatives? He's been getting into more and more trouble with his readers because he is decidedly NOT on the side of Michael Brown re Ferguson.
PLUS Wells has been championing a new flick from Kevin Costner called "Black or White," which supposedly examines a story regarding race relations from a decidedly *conservative* viewpoint (within the realm of a divorce/child custody story). He even said at his blog today, the "politically correct left" is squashing the film.
http://tinyurl.com/pxrpq7o
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:11 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 11:11 PM (MDgS8)
It's different this time. This time she's black.
Because we won't achieve true equality until we've remade every film
since the invention of the camera with a black star and/or cast.
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (6iEQd)
Then they'll start remaking the same goddamned films with pederast stars and/or casts. Then with serial killer stars and/or casts.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (oKE6c)
Cough.
Posted by: The Gaystapo, Hollywood Branch at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (noWW6)
-Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:07 PM (pAlYe)
I haven't been able to find one for less than $600.00. even at the local gun shows, they are $600+. They won't budge, either. They wouldn't even take XBox 360 games in-trade ...lol.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: no good deed at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (w3a0Z)
Posted by: daddy whorebucks at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (T4t+V)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:13 PM (fGApK)
Yep - his speech is five and a half hours from now. Let's hope he doesn't nuke anything because he's pissed...
Posted by: Huh? at December 03, 2014 11:13 PM (xnAyb)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:01 PM (ucDmr)
Blocking traffic, the latest fad. But they've changed the name of the riots from Brown to Garner.
Fame is fleeting.
And they are having a die-in in Seattle.
Like most nights.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 03, 2014 11:13 PM (1Y+hH)
I know, right?
Where DO you get the right size tentacles after 5pm, even on the Left Coast? Those fun-loving Japs!
Posted by: btdt at December 03, 2014 11:13 PM (fBW52)
And fortunately, the North Koreans have already hacked Sony and have leaked the full, brand new artistic accomplishment online along with four other films in retaliation for the film where they try to assassinate Kim Jong-il.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:13 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (T4t+V)
Remember, Fluke picked Georgetown on purpose - she knew they didn't cover b.c. s it was a perfect vehicle for her activism.
Really not liking a lot of my fellow women lately.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (ABcz/)
I don't know what percentage of women buy this stuff. This GOP War on Women type of crap is spread in the media, and from what I see, way too many women are brainlessly buying into it. If it is said often enough in the media, they take it as fact.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (A/e8X)
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (k+AIG)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:12 PM (16bOT)
Actually the complete guns may be a Black Friday only thing but if you buy a complete lower on sale from one vendor and wait until an upper is on sale from another vendor, you should be able to get a complete AR for under $500.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: RT at December 03, 2014 11:15 PM (Wo9OY)
Yeah? So why are they still so #*(!^$ expensive?
I hated those things when I was in the Army but now I want one dammit. Does anyone know if they sell what I'm thinking is the second version with the closed end flash suppressor? The earlier ones had the open end on it.
Posted by: dartist at December 03, 2014 11:15 PM (ahBY0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V43lTkt-_Us
Posted by: Huh? at December 03, 2014 11:15 PM (xnAyb)
-Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:09 PM (s9AKD)
Those were "Untraded-Mint". You shouldn't have mentioned those here.
*tears-off collar*
No.
Words.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:15 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: who the f**k is that f**k? at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (fBW52)
I was doing some online Christmas shopping, and per the Sierra Trading Post website, you can't ship pocket knives to New York. Only one of the lower 57 where that's so.
U sux Empire State.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (kdS6q)
It's
different this time. This time she's black. Because we won't achieve
true equality until we've remade every film since the invention of the
camera with a black star and/or cast.
Never fear though. It's
being produced by film directing powerhouses Jay-Z and Will Smith. Jamie
Foxx plays an updated Daddy Warbucks.
This thing will suck hard enough to pull the ship in Interstellar showing next door out of the worm hole.
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (6iEQd)
There is a group that says that casting Whites to play non-White roles is "race bending" and is evil (and cultural appropriation)
Yet they think that non-Whites playing Whites is totes cool:
http://bit.ly/1yhpYSJ
Posted by: The Political Hat at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (J526e)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Maetenloch
SnW MnP 15: was offered at street for $550 prior to NOOTOON.
Still $600 online and $900 local.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (s9AKD)
His original schtick seemed to be more insulting white left-wingers who read the alternative left-wing rags that carried his column.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (CoZQP)
Amigo, I'm not going to 'bate you no matter how many Justin Bieber trading cards you offer me.
There are Justin Bieber trading cards, and I wasn't told?
Posted by: Harry Reid at December 03, 2014 11:16 PM (qyomX)
-Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:14 PM (pAlYe)
Nice!
-Thank You!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: --- at December 03, 2014 11:06 PM (MMC8r)
Ouch.
I'm glad I don't have the faintest idea who he is.
Meanwhile, in related news at Chez Guevara (SWIDT?), those assholes at Nielsen are ringing the phone off the hook to get us to participate in their survey. I have forwarded all their calls to the local Communist Party outlet (a branch of ANSWER), but I've got bad news for them: apart from sports we don't turn on the television from one month to the next. They want me to fill out a log (for which they'll pay $5 - woot!)? Fine, here it is:
There. Now gimme my $5.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (ZPrif)
How's $550 sound? http://tinyurl.com/oaqahql
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (nL0sw)
"336"You people what jump out of perfectly serviceable airplanes have my respect."
Yo,
I did maintenance and mods on many aircraft used for skydiving. None of
my aircraft(including Twin Ottters and Cessna Caravans) EVER had an
incident related to maintenance or fitness for flight. They may not have
been "Pretty", but they were airworthy..."
Interesting that the [strike]riots[/strike] demonstration in NYC are even blocking ambulances, and they don't give a shit.
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Posted by: ChrisP at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (Lq0wJ)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (6iEQd)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (AC0lD)
Right after the elections a few weeks back, Gustavo also actually wrote a column for OCWeekly examining how, believe it or not, the GOP in Orange County is now actually *more* diverse racially than the Dems. Here's the piece:
http://tinyurl.com/k4ntalr
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (KCxzN)
achieve true equality until we've remade every film since the invention
of the camera with a black star and/or cast.
Well, didn't a pasty red-headed orphan kid kinda reek of white privilege?
Posted by: cm9000 at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: ChrisP at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (Lq0wJ)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (pAlYe)
What kind of half-assed amateur hour security software do you have to
have to get hacked by the North Koreans? How many metric fucktons of
money does Sony have and they're hacked by guys probably using ketchup
packets as currency?
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (6iEQd)
The news report on NBC said it was embarrassing because Sony is apparently owned by a tech company.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 03, 2014 11:21 PM (AC0lD)
Yes, Little Orphan Annie is back. This time she's black. It's being produced Jay-Z and Will Smith. Jamie Foxx plays an updated Daddy Warbucks.
Posted by: B
Pity the film got leaked in the Sony hack, and anyone who might want to see it can do so for free.
Quel domage.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 03, 2014 11:21 PM (kdS6q)
It's different this time. This time she's black. Because we won't achieve true equality until we've remade every film since the invention of the camera with a black star and/or cast.
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (6iEQd)
True sign that the Apocalypse is nigh: when they cast as a scientist someone other than Jeff Goldblum.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:21 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Charles Gibson at December 03, 2014 11:22 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 10:59 PM (ABcz/)
These SJW's and feminists (aka professional vajayjays) make me sick - especially when I consider this whole "rape culture" business is probably being engineered and publicized to help either Hillary or Fauxahontas with their 2016 runs. We're supposed to love them them because they have uteruses and men are rapey and so we helpless things need the government to look after us.
I can't stand them. I like my fellow ettes just fine.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (ZPrif)
Just drink some Japanese beer.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (ucDmr)
"A Clockwork Orange" could IMHO actually be improved if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day downtown Detroit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (fGApK)
Nielsen are ringing the phone off the hook to get us to participate in
their survey.
Yeah, I foolishly got involved with Arbitron for a few weeks. They sent me a few crisp new $5 bills, but I got tired of making shit up about how much/which radio I was listening to.
They'll give up on you in a few weeks.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (k+AIG)
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (6iEQd)
Actually the North Koreans are surprisingly sophisticated when it comes to hacking. They have entire universities devoted to hacking and computer security penetration. And until recently their main targets were South Korea and Japan.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:24 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at December 03, 2014 11:24 PM (4LMNs)
Posted by: JEM at December 03, 2014 11:24 PM (o+SC1)
I have $900-ish to spend
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM (KCxzN)
Bud's is your friend: http://tinyurl.com/noqlnhx
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:24 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:17 PM (ZPrif)
Los Dos Cholos Gordo?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 03, 2014 11:25 PM (MbqmP)
For me:
1. It's the lower that the gummint considers the firearm. Live in a state wiv few enuf fags you can buy a suppressor? Go subsonic, high sectional density profectile, get some NV, and learn to make bacon. In your suburban backyard.
2. Uneasy wiv the idea that your God-given right to keep and bear arms has been infringed since 1934? Not a tech-head but know what a file is, and may have heard something about drill-bit chatter once? Go 80% lower. Put your GF's initials as the serial number on the rifle you made just for her.
Go ahead!
Posted by: 5.56x45mm, not only at December 03, 2014 11:25 PM (fBW52)
I'm guessing no.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:26 PM (ZPrif)
http://handyssmokehousemeats.com/
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:27 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (ucDmr)
Do you have Time-Warner now? If so, there's a solution.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:27 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:20 PM
roger that, Maet. I gots nearly $900 of rolled coins saved up.
I will own a.45 ACP Colt 1911, eventually
I'm patient, like that
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:27 PM (KCxzN)
He was having none of it:
"Because I'm a man, I don't deserve to play that part?" Leto
asked, rhetorically. "So you would hold a role against someone who
happened to be gay or lesbian --- they can't play a straight part? Then you've made sure people that are gay,
people that aren't straight, people like the Rayons of the world would
never have the opportunity to turn the tables and explore parts of that
art," Leto said to big applause from the audience."
Either every role is fair game or it's not. You can't have a protected class of characters set aside to only be played by members of that group.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:27 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:27 PM (ABcz/)
Well, from what was posted the other night on the ONT you might wanna do that pretty quick. Colt is in some mucho trouble.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM (CoZQP)
Hey, Russell, if you think Che looked cool, what about those snappy Nazi uniforms? True, Adolf wasn't much to look at - he didn't have good hair like Che and his pants always looked baggy, but the SS were really stylin' with those high boots and all. And what about that Idi Amin? Shit, that dude looked like he was straight off the cover of the Sgt. Pepper album! That's how you pick leaders!
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM (+XMAD)
Brand: No brains. No talent. No looks.
Funny, I do not see him running off to live in Cooba.
Typical shithead liberal.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM (5R5/9)
We live in like the sixth-lowest crime city in California, but if I say that I'll have to kill someone breaking in tomorrow night, so I suppose I shouldn't say it.
But I still want the shot-sweeper.
Posted by: JEM at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM (jucos)
I'm not here every night, but I haven't seen cthulhu in the last couple days... any seen him lately?
Posted by: shredded chi at December 03, 2014 11:29 PM (PEWoI)
Posted by: Baldy at December 03, 2014 11:29 PM (+35FH)
On the rare occasion I make pillsbury cookie dough cookies, I bake them until chewy on the inside/crisp on the outside.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 03, 2014 11:29 PM (rTCJ6)
$559.00 + free shipping to your FFL.
http://bit.ly/1I2hWQp
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:30 PM (tFgoR)
"A Clockwork Orange" could IMHO actually be improved if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day downtown Detroit.Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (fGApK)------------That's a pretty good idea.Only downside, the inevitable cry of racism because all the hooligans are non-white.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:30 PM (KlVdw)
I'm late to the ONT, but I made up for it by only reading the red numbers and letters.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 03, 2014 11:30 PM (rJUlF)
Horrible people. But they did know how to look good doing it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:30 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:31 PM (tFgoR)
re: The Sony haxor
Fury is pretty good, especially the battle scenes. Tactics are a bit questionable: "how about he just lay smoke on that Tiger and run left? Naw, charge!", as is whatever accent Brad Pitt keeps attempting.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 03, 2014 11:31 PM (kdS6q)
I CANNOT IMAGINE a more ANTI-welfare mentality movie EVER being made.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:31 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 03, 2014 11:31 PM (T4t+V)
I'm guessing no.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:26 PM (ZPrif)
Last time I looked they were blocking traffic. And Brown is out, Garner is in.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 03, 2014 11:32 PM (1Y+hH)
With the lead character obsessed with Barry Manilow?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 03, 2014 11:32 PM (MbqmP)
"A Clockwork Orange" could IMHO actually be improved if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day downtown Detroit.Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (fGApK)------------That's a pretty good idea.Only downside, the inevitable cry of racism because all the hooligans are non-white.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:30 PM (KlVdw)
Yeah, that's totally unrealistic.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (oKE6c)
Hollywood has decided that what everyone really really wants to see this Xmas is a movie about a comic strip whose last fanbase member mumbled "twenty three skidoo" with their last dying breath during the Eisenhower administration. It also inspired a Broadway musical that men would cut off a body part to avoid sitting through.
Yes, Little Orphan Annie is back.
It's different this time. This time she's black. Because we won't achieve true equality until we've remade every film since the invention of the camera with a black star and/or cast.
Never fear though. It's being produced by film directing powerhouses Jay-Z and Will Smith. Jamie Foxx plays an updated Daddy Warbucks.
This thing will suck hard enough to pull the ship in Interstellar showing next door out of the worm hole.
Posted by: B at December 03, 2014 11:10 PM (6iEQd)
WTF? They are doing a biopic on "Little Oral Annie?
Talk about Hollywood running out of ideas.
Oh, "Orphan", nevermind.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (+Fae7)
"A Clockwork Orange" could IMHO actually be improved if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day downtown Detroit.
Posted by: qdpsteve
--------
Nothing to lose, everything to gain.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Gingy who is HOME at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (KAmzK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (fGApK)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (ucDmr)
-Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:19 PM (nL0sw)
OOOHHHHhhh! Sold!
Thanks!!!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:34 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:34 PM (pAlYe)
Meh. BTDT. Prefer the H&K USP. Ambi mag release. Decock lever lets me drop the hammer and carry it like a revolver. 1st shot is DA, then SA for the other 12.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:34 PM (tFgoR)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 03, 2014 11:03 PM
Yeah, but I have to admit, I enjoyed the "F**k CNN" chanting.
I kinda like the fact that most of the places where they're blocking traffic are in democrat/liberal strongholds.
There was video of these protesters laying in front of mall store entrances so that shoppers had to tiptoe around, stepping over their prone bodies. I can't believe that those doormat shoppers didn't step on their hands. They should have called in some 300 pound Walmart shoppers to walk over them.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2014 11:34 PM (A/e8X)
if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day
downtown Detroit.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:23 PM (fGApK)
You assume that there will be White people in Europe in the future...
Posted by: Imam of Londonistan at December 03, 2014 11:34 PM (J526e)
Agree. It was "Wolfen" for me. "Watch a horror movie with a mostly black audience" should be on everyone's bucket list. This was at a theater in Boston; I noticed a really tall black guy go to the head of the line, and gathered from the whispers that he was named something Parrish (Robert, maybe), and was a big deal in basketball, which I do not follow.
Posted by: Splunge at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (qyomX)
And she let Russell Brand in. Apparently with enough frequency to account for a marriage.
If you credit her with a starting IQ of 140, and debit it by 5 every time Brand stuck his poxy Marxist little dork into her, then the end result is probably somewhere around...
...uh...
-120.
Which leaves her somewhere in 'I wouldn't fuck her with Joe Biden's dick' territory.
Posted by: JEM at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (o+SC1)
There's a low-life layabout junkie from the UK who decided he was going to become a war zone journalist back in the 1990s, and ended up in some of that decade's more unpleasant locales.
One of which was Chechyna while the Russians were having serious troubles there in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR. (And apparently still are.)
The post-Red Army version of the Russian military was underpaid, if paid at all, undertrained and underequipped, led by corrupt drunks, and with doctrine badly unsuited to a MOUT fight, but they arrogantly sent columns into downtown Grozny regardless.
Very few of those soldiers came back alive, and they had horrifying stories of what the Chechens did to their captured brothers in arms. Entire mechanized infantry companies pretty much evaporated.
So the Russians fell back on their classic basics. They have always figured artillery to be The God Of War, and they brought up every big tube in the state arsenals (some of which are just colossally sized) plus copious stocks of surplus ammo, and ran continuous fire missions against Grozny 24 hours per day for about two weeks straight. There was very little left of the city after that.
The layabout junkie journalist, who was in the city and barely made it out, said it was like being on the inside of an F5 tornado made out of high explosives, hot metal and shattered concrete fragments.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (noWW6)
Well, from what was posted the other night on the ONT you might wanna do that pretty quick. Colt is in some mucho trouble.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:28 PM"
I'll take an "old one"...four or five digit serial number, I'm not looking for "new in the box", I want the real deal
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Baldy at December 03, 2014 11:36 PM (+35FH)
This reminds me. I work for a company that is owned by a German parent company. Occasionally the boys from Das Deutschland pay a visit to check in and see how things are going. Hearing German spoken live in person has creeped my out. Years and years of was movies and having seen all the old newsreel of Hitler public speaking.........and then you hear it right in front of you.
Ooky.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:36 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:33 PM (fGApK)
Actually, remembering the Kubrick movie, you'll need something that's out of copyright & can be performed by a moog-playing weirdo with his penis duct-taped 'tween his cheeks.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (MbqmP)
I'm guessing no.
I think there were some unlicensed parades. You can get arrested for parading without a license in NYC.
Posted by: Entfremdung Politik at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (qt/8j)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (CoZQP)
It was spring term, MSU, 1986, they were called the "Emmons Seven"... not as bad as the freshman fifteen. You could hose the Seven off and after a week or two your good as new.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:38 PM (KCxzN)
You get used to it. But even after I had done that, it was somewhat creepy to stay in a hotel room in Cologne, over a pub, and hear them singing songs together at 1 am. I wouldn't know the "Horst Wessel Song" if you sung it into my face, but I did wonder...
Posted by: Splunge at December 03, 2014 11:39 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: eman at December 03, 2014 11:39 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (noWW6)
I'm pretty sure I read his book at some point but I can't remember the title.
Well unless it was another ex-heroin junkie Brit war-journalist who happened to write a book.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:39 PM (pAlYe)
You reminded me of the black remake of the Wizard of Oz they did in the '70's, "The Wiz." When you watch it you are reminded that they were doing tons of coke in Hollywood in those days. That's the only explanation that makes sense.
Nowadays, while they're still doing drugs, the explanation is that Hollywood has completely run out of ideas and can only do remakes.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:42 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:35 PM (KCxzN)
You're going to need more than $900, unless you stumble across a great deal. Vintage 1911s will run on the retail market at least $1800.
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Swatara at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (AvP4a)
Two exceptions I noticed were Ace and ... the GotNews guy that everybody else on the new media Right seems to hate and attack in the most vicious, personal terms possible.
Maybe he deserves it, but man, seems like he's hated by the Right even more than the Left.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (ZPrif)
That's a heck of a price for that. I don't want or need an AR-platform but that's a darn good price.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (CoZQP)
That's rich!
On a not so funny note, 4 cops were hit by a car while protecting 100+ Denver high schoolers who decided to take their Ferguson protest off campus and into the streets today. One of them is in critical condition.
Here's what a sophomore said: "Listening to people say F the police and then they get hit trying to make sure you aren't hit by a car."
Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:39 PM
You are wicked in your humor, Sir.
Spot On.
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM (KCxzN)
Hearing German spoken live in person has creeped my out.
Steiner. Steiner!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM (tFgoR)
Man... prices have changed on the AR 15's from only a month ago!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:37 PM (16bOT)
I overpaid for my ARs years ago, but I don't regret it.
Posted by: cm9000 at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM (8zCR+)
I'm so sorry to hear that Baldy. Prayers.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM (+XMAD)
I saw "Penitentiary III" at "The Fo'" (The Forum Theater) in Birmingham (or was it Montgomery?), as one of three white guys in the whole audience.
It was f'n hilarious.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 03, 2014 11:46 PM (fIv/H)
-Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (nL0sw)
If it makes Alton feel any better, he'd pay about the same for 30-Year-Old Macallan!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:46 PM (16bOT)
You want a Series 70, 1911 Colt. Not a Series 80. And, the older ones, while from the romance age of skilled hands and manually operated forges and mills......are mostly, just old. Loose, worn out and in need for double their purchase price in gunsmithing, just to bring 'em back into spec.
Myself, I want a Colt Lightweight Commander, Series 70, 1911. 4-1/4" bbl., with an alloy frame. Few ounces less, superb balance and just a gem of a gun.
I do have an all-steel Colt Commander, but I lust after the factory lightweight. One day.....one day....
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 11:46 PM (RzZOc)
Posted by: B
Again, the remake of RED DAWN changed the invading force to NoKo's.
Just think of how much Sony has invested in countries east of there.
Again, a zero-sum game with some countries.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:47 PM (s9AKD)
"Five Songs That Are Sure To Clear Out The Bar:"
5. "You Are Not Alone" - Michael Jackson
4. "Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak
3. "Who Let The Dogs Out" - Baja Men
2. "Fifteen" - Taylor Swift
1. "You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:47 PM (fGApK)
Denise Bizer @BizerBizer 35m
@yesnicksearcy @GOPMommy @BiasedGirl @hboulware Does that mean I can I call you dick-head-with-toy-gun now? Great.
Yes, Nick Searcy! @yesnicksearcy 32m
Not a toy, Sea Hag.It's called a "prop." Highly paid actors like me pose with them for money. @BizerBizer @GOPMommy @BiasedGirl @hboulware
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (S9rS1)
-Posted by: cm9000 at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM (8zCR+)
Yeah.. now that I am "in the market", I'd like a deal. Ten years ago, I'd gladly throw cash at one!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (16bOT)
Oz they did in the '70's, "The Wiz." When you watch it you are
reminded that they were doing tons of coke in Hollywood in those days.
That's the only explanation that makes sense.
Nowadays, while they're still doing drugs, the explanation is that
Hollywood has completely run out of ideas and can only do remakes.
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing
ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:42 PM
(+XMAD)
Not as bad as "Godspell"...
Posted by: A Roman Soldier with hammmer and nails at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (J526e)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:48 PM (+XMAD)
Do not resist.
Shut your mouth except to say you want a lawyer, and cooperate with the police.
You'll be alive the next day and you can tell your lawyer your side of the story.
If you resist, the Law is designed to force you into a state of arrest and it cannot assure your safety.
You can end up dead and nobody did anything wrong except you.
That's a pretty shitty way to die.
Posted by: eman at December 03, 2014 11:49 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: cm9000 at December 03, 2014 11:44 PM
dammit...I had a perfectibility servacible SKS before the tragic boating accident
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2014 11:49 PM (KCxzN)
The odd thing is that you'll need to train your retriever to exit the skiff carefully.
I've lost every single one of my former firearms in deep water boating accidents.
I lose the pregnant clingers in shallow water driving accidents, but there I dive repeatedly, then go home, shower, call the defense attorney, and put on clean slacks, shirt, and jacket for the cameras.
Posted by: 5.56x45mm, not only at December 03, 2014 11:49 PM (fBW52)
Ease on down the road, baby!
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:49 PM (ZPrif)
They should hold up their hands at the same time they're chanting "I can't breathe. " Then they'd have a protest twofer going.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:50 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:50 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at December 03, 2014 11:50 PM (g+qqc)
I'm sure that was surreal. Start hearing somebody yelling in German over the loudspeaker and you just know things can't be good.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:50 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: bill-o at December 03, 2014 11:51 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 03, 2014 11:51 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: LIV in Baltimore at December 03, 2014 11:52 PM (uF6Is)
_My War Gone By, I Miss It So_.
Anthony Loyd.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Splunge at December 03, 2014 11:08 PM (qyomX)
Agreed. Aside from his stupidity, there is something I find annoying about his mannerisms, his speech, and his voice. I find him unwatchable, and I don't understand why he has fans. I put him in the same category as Pauly Shore who had that annoying way of speaking and made a career of it.
Brand may have some funny jokes, but I can't get past the voice.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM (A/e8X)
I passed up a cheap, cheap SKS several years ago. Just wasn't my bag and I was in the process of getting another bolty.
Kinda wish I had now.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:54 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 03, 2014 11:54 PM (dULJN)
If I can just get through this horrible year....
Posted by: eleven at December 03, 2014 10:57 PM
You will. It's been a pretty crappy year here too, but we will survive. *hugs*
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 03, 2014 11:54 PM (o/90i)
He gets 50 Moron Points for that, but he's still an ignorant twit.
Posted by: eman at December 03, 2014 11:55 PM (MQEz6)
4. "Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak
3. "Who Let The Dogs Out" - Baja Men
2. "Fifteen" - Taylor Swift
1. "You Raise Me Up" - Josh Groban
Most of those will kill the crowd at the karaoke bar, too. Number 3 might not, though, depending on how happy and drunk the crowd is.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 03, 2014 11:55 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at December 03, 2014 11:56 PM (91eZY)
-Posted by: tcn in AK, almost at December 03, 2014 11:50 PM (g+qqc)
She mentioned last-night that she was "taking a mental break and watching the tee-vee".
I did that throughout October and it was worth it.
Taking a break from politics and electronics, in general, is a good thing!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:57 PM (16bOT)
Anthony Loyd.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM (noWW6)
Ah yes - that's it. I also vaguely recall that he was in the Royal Army before becoming a war journalist.
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 03, 2014 11:57 PM (pAlYe)
http://tinyurl.com/koe8bfa
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:57 PM (fGApK)
You reminded me of the black remake of the Wizard of
Oz they did in the '70's, "The Wiz." When you watch it you are
reminded that they were doing tons of coke in Hollywood in those days.
That's the only explanation that makes sense.
Nowadays, while they're still doing drugs, the explanation is that
Hollywood has completely run out of ideas and can only do remakes.
Posted by: Donna V. (brandishing
ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 03, 2014 11:42 PM
(+XMAD)
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Pretty sure the high point for evidence of coke use was "Thank God it's Friday".
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:58 PM (KlVdw)
Dive repeatedly? Nah bro. You can let that part go.
But the neck brace. Can't forget the all-important neck brace.
Remember you've got to keep the thing on in public for about three months after the "accident". I nearly forgot to wear the damn thing to the funeral.
Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at December 03, 2014 11:58 PM (noWW6)
Thanks. Now I have THAT song playing in my head. ARRRRRR
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2014 11:58 PM (A/e8X)
Maet/others - I don't really have room in secure storage or prudent room in the current spending plan ...... but if I DID start looking at ARs, I'd have to start from scratch learning about them (only walnut - or arctic birch - and blued steel here). This 80% thing is interesting, guy at the range two weeks ago gave me the full briefing, pretty easy to arrange that now. I'll probably just wait. Want to get better with my Garands, and hope to start reloading for them soon. And not excited about a new caliber (I reload everything I shoot except for the 54R, which will be milsurp until supplies dwindle and prices rise).
JEM - if you look on CalGuns there are occasionally Norinco knock-offs of M12s for sale. Almost got one myself, to use in 3-gun "WWII" division. Also a company down in Louisiana converts the old civilian models to M12 configuration.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: torquewrench at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (CoZQP)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 03, 2014 11:51 PM (zOTsN)
I'm kind of hoping that with all this overshadowing Ferguson that Congress will not be forced to come up with money to "rebuild Ferguson". The people of Ferguson destroyed their city, they should rebuild it.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread
One of the many things Japan got right: Karaoke *boxes*.
You only have annoy your closest friends.
Next best thing in Japan; they all can carry a tune.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (s9AKD)
Brand may have some funny jokes, but I can't get past the voice.Posted by: nerdygirl at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM (A/e8X)--------------What did I ever do to you, buuuUUUdy?
Posted by: Pauly Shore at December 04, 2014 12:01 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:01 AM (1Y+hH)
At least, the Radio Shack story is still interesting.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:01 AM (fGApK)
According to IMDB, no movies in 2014, nothing in production. Apparently he's producing a documentary about his life or something.
Hist last movie was the flop Rock of Ages in 2012. Though he did voice work for Despicable Me 2 in 2013.
He he mildly successful comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek in 08 and 2010.
So maybe this crazy political communist act is a way to keep him in the public eye -- people don't seem to want to pay him to be an actor very much.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:02 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:03 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 03, 2014 11:58 PM
I'll see your "TGIF" and raise you with "Car Wash".
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 12:03 AM (tBSrv)
I am not making this up.
Pepper spray them!
Posted by: Jean at December 04, 2014 12:03 AM (TETYm)
-Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 03, 2014 11:55 PM (rJUlF)
I used to "guest-emcee" a karaoke night for a a friend. > ...lol.
Neil Diamond was, by far the most popular artist.
...followed closely by every male-female duo ever written.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:04 AM (16bOT)
I passed up a cheap, cheap SKS several years ago. Just wasn't my bag and I was in the process of getting another bolty.
Kinda wish I had now.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 03, 2014 11:53 PM I kinka pissed off Maet upthread with the SKS talk
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:04 AM (KCxzN)
All Russell Brand does in movies is be Russell Brand. He has no talent or range. You need a weird, loopy, druggy guy with an English accent to play an idiot? He's your guy.
That may be a limited character.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:05 AM (CoZQP)
You know... the "33" Vinyl-Sized stuff that "went out" after five years.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:06 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:08 AM (KCxzN)
Cannot believe I didn't bookmark it - I might have, but can't find it within my massive gun-related bookmark collection.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:08 AM (afQnV)
Howdy y'all... finally finished updating my software and such.
It's drudgery, but necessary drudgery.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:09 AM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:09 AM (CoZQP)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 12:09 AM (tFgoR)
With my crowd it's usually one of three genres...country, classic rock, or hip-hop.
When I first started going there, I sang Journey songs (because I do them well -- if it's true, it ain't braggin'). Now that's what they want me to sing Every. Damn. Week.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:10 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 04, 2014 12:10 AM (dULJN)
--
It's basically just two movies.
I honestly thought he'd done more.
He remade Arthur in 2011, massive flop. $40M production budget. $45 global box office. Studios get half. So they lost almost $20M before you have any market costs -- which is about $40M.
His other movies Sarah Marshall, Greek he was the supporting actor. Arthur was his big starring role in 2011 -- and it lost the studio $20-$60M probably.
Which is probably why he's never starred in a movie since.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:11 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:11 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:12 AM (/mTq0)
Davidson's Gallery of Guns?
Budsgunshop dot com?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 12:12 AM (tFgoR)
Posted by: Roadrunner at December 04, 2014 12:12 AM (nWv04)
-Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:08 AM (KCxzN)
I really want to Know You...
-But.
-It.
-Takes.
-So.
-Long.
-I.
-Know.
Hallej-Hallejay!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:12 AM (16bOT)
Is that true or just nutjob internet stuff?
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:12 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:13 AM (fGApK)
them well -- if it's true, it ain't braggin'). Now that's what they want
me to sing Every. Damn. Week.
Start singing the stuff off the first three albums exclusively, that'll shut 'em down.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 04, 2014 12:13 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:14 AM (zt+N6)
Heh. I used to sit in a lot with a buddy of mine who did acoustic shows at a bar I frequented. He was in a bad mood one day, but still "cheerfully" playing and singing for the crowd. These were four hour gigs, so he took a break every hour for about ten minutes. After the third hour, he leaves the stage for his break, grabs a drink, comes over to where I'm sitting and says, "I swear to God I'm going to slit the throat of the next mf'er that wants me to do another GD Doobie Brothers song."
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:14 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: TJ at December 04, 2014 12:14 AM (G1eTV)
Yeah I know, I'd only be about the 94,375 man to do it. But I practically have the words memorized.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:15 AM (fGApK)
But no he's mostly now just famous for being famous and doesn't seem to actually do much in the way of acting.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:15 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (/mTq0)
Karaoke is not about the audience, it's about you.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (CoZQP)
gunbot is ammo, mags - ammoseek is ammo and reloading supplies
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (afQnV)
Apparently Spector would spend far more time guzzling cherry brandy than actually working.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (fGApK)
-Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:10 AM (rJUlF)
That's "Pop-Culture Syndrome". It is what Andy Kauffman, (Latke from "Taxi"), fought against.
"Do That Thing We Know!!!"
I don't blame them, really. The Law of Diminishing Returns applies, but you need the fifth excellent donut to "confirm".
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (16bOT)
All Russell Brand does in movies is be Russell Brand. He has no talent or range. You need a weird, loopy, druggy guy with an English accent to play an idiot? He's your guy.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
Truth be told, that's exactly what any actor does.
Robert Deniro. Al Pacino. Michael Caine. Pick your fav.
They all play themselves. A version, yes. Sometimes bad, sometimes good. Sometimes obnoxious, and sometimes sympathetic.
It's projection and mannerism. It's the ability to moderate your personality on demand.
And, above all, success in H-wood is the luck to be paid to be insincere with flair.
A lot of the spite directed towards Brad Pitt may be deserved. *meh* either way. But he did enunciate one honest thing. Paraphrasing, "Actors like me are a dime a dozen. I got lucky. I don't apologize for it, but it doesn't lend me any credibility."
That right there, if accurate, makes him the most honest man in Babylon.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:17 AM (s9AKD)
275 Costanza: you forgot, Get Him To The Greek.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:13 AM (fGApK)
Pretty sure he mentioned it.
Didn't Brand have the lead voice in some CGI rabbit movie? And then he did that Arthur remake that flopped. Yeah his most popular movies have been where he's a bit part/supporting actor or doesn't appear at all, because most sane people don't want to watch a guy that looks like a "rock star" 2 days before he gets sent to his court mandated 6 months of rehab.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:18 AM (zt+N6)
Yeah, but I would want something in a more powerful caliber than the 5.56, which is basically a squirrel rifle.
6.8 minimum. So there's some cost delta right there.
And I'm in Commiefornia, so I have to jump through all of the ridiculous configurational hoops that drive the price higher.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 04, 2014 12:18 AM (noWW6)
-Posted by: Country Singer at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (nL0sw)
If it makes Alton feel any better, he'd pay about the same for 30-Year-Old Macallan!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 03, 2014 11:46 P
You people make my brain hurt...thank you
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:18 AM (KCxzN)
--
No, I included that. Moderately successful 2010 comedy.
His career basically went Sarah Marshall to Greek to Arthur to ... crazy youtube ranting guy.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:18 AM (ZPrif)
-Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM (fGApK)
That does not surprise me in the least. ...Down the choice of intoxicant.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:19 AM (16bOT)
"A Clockwork Orange" could IMHO actually be improved if the setting was just moved from the future EU to... present-day downtown Detroit.
Hell, around here we call that news at 11.
Posted by: The Truth, the whole Truth etc. at December 04, 2014 12:19 AM (6jKOp)
Dayum. That'd be nice to have.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 12:19 AM (tFgoR)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 04, 2014 12:20 AM (014lE)
Wow, you must really hate squirrels.
Posted by: Splunge at December 04, 2014 12:20 AM (qyomX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarin at December 04, 2014 12:20 AM (b5BZa)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 04, 2014 12:20 AM (014lE
Johnny Football will be a non starter after 2 years
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (b5BZa)
Yeah, I get it. Now that I'm the MC and not just a customer, I want to keep the crowd entertained, because that's the job.
qdpsteve: In the two years I've been at the bar, I've never heard anyone sing "King Of The Road". Great song.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:16 AM
Whatever it takes to get the result. It was worth all the brandy and slacking off. Spector MADE that album what it is. IMHO, anyway.
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (tBSrv)
Wiff Attitude, mate!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (s9AKD)
I don't even follow stocks that closely and would say, they're headed for a crash. They've been opening up way too many stores all at once here in SoCal lately.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (fGApK)
http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=russellbrand.htm
Yes he was the voice in Hop in 2011, which was reasonably successful. And the lead voice so that's something.
Sarah Marshall was his break-out role in 08.
He's like a one-note SNL sketch -- except he's stretched it almost 7 years now.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (rJUlF)
You are exactly right. Most good actors are characters themselves. Characters people expect and like to see.
Brand? What does he do for anyone. For what audience?
Nicholson was Nicholson in every movie. Eastwood was Eastwood in every movie.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (CoZQP)
Expect something major between now and Christmas...
...hope King Stompyfoot likes short vacays.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (/mTq0)
It's worse than that. He has "Earned Clown Face." You know how people say that after 40, you have the face you deserve? (Pause to contemplate Pelosi. Either Pelosi.) He has a face that perfectly expresses how Progressives argue. No thought. Snark and Smarm as far as the eye can see. And an invincibly ignorant faith in his own supreme wisdom.
Posted by: Splunge at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (qyomX)
Wow, you must really hate squirrels.
Posted by: Splunge
You fuckers crack me up! thanks!
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (l3vZN)
-6.8 minimum. So there's some cost delta right there.
-And I'm in Commiefornia, so I have to jump through all of the ridiculous configurational hoops that drive the price higher."
--Posted by: torquewrench at December 04, 2014 12:18 AM (noWW6)
I was never in the market for more than a 5.56. You're just a "Three-Shot Junkie" at this point!
(I don't blame you. I just don't have any income right now! My budget allows for what has been posted in the 5.56.)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (16bOT)
World's First Anti-Islam Wine Hits the Market
" "Hal & Al's Seventy 72 Virgins" is the world's first wine for anti-Islamic crusaders.
Released by an Australian think-tank and nonprofit group called the Q Society, "72 Virgins"'s profits will be used to fund the group's advocacy against Islamic influence and extremist ideology.
As first mentioned in the Australian newspaper Adelaide Advertiser:
A Barossa wine called Hal & Al's 72 Virgins is being sold as a fundraiser for an anti-Islamic movement that is worried about a "culture war".
The virgins are a reference to the rewards jihadis believe they will receive in Paradise once they kill others and themselves.
Profits from the "fine Australian sparkling wine" will go to the Q Society, which bills itself as "Australia's Leading Islam-critical Movement".
The Q Society warns that Islam is linked to discrimination and violence and run lectures teaching about "the true nature of this totalitarian theocratic ideology". "
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM (CoZQP)
Posted by: TJ at December 04, 2014 12:14 AM (G1eTV)
Discovery is a bitch.
Got sued by a former employee years ago, we turned everything over in the first couple of weeks. 5 years after he filed the suit, we finally got the information that we requested the first couple of weeks.
To say they were slow playing the suit in hopes of a settlement would be an understatement.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM (KlVdw)
You mean Johnny Clipboard.
That football game wasn't even going to be the highest rated 1 pm football game in Ohio.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM (zt+N6)
Everybody's trying to tell me what is right for me
I need a drink and a quick decision...
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (rJUlF)
Welp, I now know you're definitely not the KJ at my VFW Post.
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM (nL0sw)
http://tinyurl.com/koe8bfa
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 03, 2014 11:57 PM (fGApK)
I can't believe they're still open. I've gone in a couple of times because I needed some cable. You can shoot a cannon through most of their stores.
I'd swear they're a front for something. They don't seem to have enough customers to justify paying the employees.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM (A/e8X)
I am not making this up. Pepper spray them!
Posted by: Jean at December 04, 2014 12:03 AM
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At least the chant would make sense then.
Posted by: Accuracy is Everything at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM (Nbc1l)
I put him in the same category as Pauly Shore who had that annoying way of speaking and made a career of it.
I'm compelled to point out that of course, Pauly Shore is a variety of weasel.
'sup jackwagons
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM (8v9fw)
-Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 04, 2014 12:22 AM (rJUlF)
Hell Yeah! Reminds me of my Dad! One of his only tunes that he hums!
Trailers for sale --or rent!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:27 AM (16bOT)
305 "Truth be told, that's exactly what any actor does."You are exactly right. Most good actors are characters themselves. Characters people expect and like to see. Brand? What does he do for anyone. For what audience?Nicholson was Nicholson in every movie. Eastwood was Eastwood in every movie.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:23 AM (CoZQP)
Gary Oldman. I think he's one of the exceptions to the rule.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:27 AM (zt+N6)
I hope the studio is ready to eat the loss.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:27 AM (/mTq0)
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM (zt+N6
We are so lucky here. From Farve to Rodgers.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 04, 2014 12:27 AM (b5BZa)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (9tzvc)
Same with Kmart, although they closed a lot of their stores a few years ago and seem to have a small loyal core of shoppers that won't give them up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (fGApK)
In the case of the 12 year old, the cop being "troubled" has the same relevance to Brown stealing cheap cigarillos and being high: It supports or puts into question key facts. In that case the real question is: Did the kid pull what looked like a real gun on a cop or brandish an already pulled what looked like a real gun in a dangerous manner? That is the only thing that really matters. If the answer to either is yes, then a reasonable person in the cops position would feel to be in mortal danger.
In the case of the choking death, the man committed a crime, was being confrontational against the officers. How long did the officers wait before finally grabbing him and had they exhausted more peaceful means? Even then, was the choke-hold done in a non-standard way or in a way that was clearly meant to unnecessarily hurt or cause pain? I saw it noted that they didn't try to do anything to help the mad after the fact... that portion if true is worthy of condemnation.
I don't have all the facts, and I will withhold judgement until I have them.
Posted by: The Questioning Hat at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (J526e)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (16bOT)
torque, that's another reason the AR bug hasn't bitten - when you have to consult a complicated flow-chart (you've probably seen it on CalGuns) just to know what you can own, and the allowed configurations ...... f**k it! As I say bitterly to people at the range, in CA every citizen is having to become a jailhouse lawyer just to live here, within "the law".
I'm so ignorant of ARs that when I do the timer/range officer thing at shootin' matches, I barely know how to have the shooters clear their rifles, apart from seeing the mags out and chamber clear, of course. But I did get to "sit in" on some Navy EOD folks getting their M249 familiarization a few months ago at the range, so I know how to change barrels, load both both ways, clear jams, etc. So I've got that going for me.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 04, 2014 12:28 AM (014lE)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (fGApK)
Definitely -- he just vanishes into the role. Still blows my mind to think that the same guy played Commissioner Gordon and that weird dude from The Fifth Element.
Posted by: Splunge at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (qyomX)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 03, 2014 11:59 PM (+Fae7)
If congress didn't force taxpayers to pay for someone else's imbecile behavior, they wouldn't have any reason to exist.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (A/e8X)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/540226863004909568
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/540227182833180672
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/540227603500908547
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/540227941708603392
Posted by: kbdabear at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (GrXXa)
To say they were slow playing the suit in hopes of a settlement would be an understatement.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
Don't worry, Romney's got your back, Mister and/or Misses Entrepreneur!
Posted by: Schteve Schimdt, consult to the schtars at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:24 AM
Too bad no one can start such a group if they wanted in the USA. Obama and Holder would put a stop to such *hatred*.
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:29 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (nL0sw)
"we need only glance at Che to know that that is what a leader should look like"
Yeah Che... what a guy. Hated homosexuals, racist, murdering, lying. That's what we need more leaders to be like? Frankly I can't work out how Russel Brand gets the time of day from a reporter. Who gives a damn what this smack addict loser says?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (39g3+)
Trailers for sale --or rent!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap
Roger Miller King of the road baby
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (b5BZa)
Yeah, but I would want something in a more powerful caliber than the 5.56, which is basically a squirrel rifle."
Taken more animals with a .223 than all other calibers combined. It's a hot, fast .22 round that will do incredible shit if landed properly. Killed a good number of pigs with it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (CoZQP)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:31 AM (39g3+)
"No justice, no tree."
They are after that big Christmas Tree.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:01 AM (1Y+hH)
Any chance the tree will fall on them?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:32 AM (A/e8X)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM
Oooooh. "Roller Boogie". That's a pretty big raise. If we're gonna get pot committed, I'm shoving with "You can't stop the music". You just can't stop "You can't can't stop the music". The making of that "movie" alone created the coke shortage of 1980/81.
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 12:32 AM (tBSrv)
My favorite: a friend of his worked at an RS located in a mall so decrepit, the floor of the restaurant above it collapsed, drenching the store in excrement and dreck.
RS demanded their *single employee there* clean it up himself.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:32 AM (fGApK)
-Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (b5BZa)
That tune is ingrained in my DNA.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:33 AM (16bOT)
Destination: Bangor, Maine
Worn out suit and shoes
I don't pay no union dues...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:34 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: buzzion
He may be the exception. Or we just agree with the fucker.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:34 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:34 AM (39g3+)
-Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 12:32 AM (tBSrv)
I saw that "Village People" movie and my father still thinks that is what "turned" my Brother gay... LOL.
Swingin' Dicks at the ol' Y.M.C.A!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:35 AM (16bOT)
Everybody's trying to tell me what is right for me
I need a drink and a quick decision...
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:26 AM
Then do it. If you want to chat my email is below.
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:36 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: The Dude at December 04, 2014 12:36 AM (SyKbw)
...there's always the "Weapon of Peace"
http://tinyurl.com/l7gjm3e
Good luck with that re-branding, Ivan.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:36 AM (/mTq0)
Rooms to lent, 50 cents. No phones, no pool, no pets.
I ain't got no cigarettes...
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:36 AM (KCxzN)
"She's Gone."
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:37 AM (fGApK)
325 Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM (zt+N6 We are so lucky here. From Farve to Rodgers.
Yeah. And the Bengals have managed to get two somewhat serviceable at times quarterbacks in a row.
Meanwhile the Browns are stuck with Charlie Fry v2.0 keeping Brady Quinn v2.0 on the bench.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:37 AM (zt+N6)
As I said to a friend, if you don't finish them with the first shot, you've got real trouble.
He said, "You mean they'll charge?"
I said, "No. They'll slink away somewhere to heal up and plot revenge. Nothing worse than a squirrel with a blood grudge."
Posted by: torquewrench at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (noWW6)
Swingin' Dicks at the ol' Y.M.C.A!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:35 AM (16bOT)
******
As a DJ in the 80s, lemme tell ya, that one always got the crowd rocking. Apparently no one really does listen to the words.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (2qBk+)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (014lE)
The fun thing with Che is, the murdering bastard left Cuba within a couple of years after the revolution because blowing up trains is a hell of a lot more fun than making them run on time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (8v9fw)
Posted by: Swatara at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (AvP4a)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
More importantly, if any weapon is 'responsible' for deaths, shouldn't human fists be on trial here?
And further, shouldn't the reductionist mode be on a warrant for stupid without derp?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:39 AM (s9AKD)
-Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:36 AM (KCxzN)
*clicks fingers in-time*
I'm a "Maaaa-yan of Means" by No Means...
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:39 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 04, 2014 12:15 AM (ZPrif)
I didn't even know he did movies. I thought he just did stand up comedy and some gig on an awards show that I didn't watch because I hate awards shows.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:39 AM (A/e8X)
Kalashnikov: promoting peace and calm
http://tinyurl.com/nmotu5y
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:40 AM (39g3+)
gunwatcher.com
Somehow the graphics seem different than I (vaguely) remember. But it must be the site. Anyway, seems like a decent shopping bot for those seeking hardware.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:40 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 12:41 AM (Vp1dQ)
-Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (2qBk+)
No Shit. I didn't ...lol.
I Was a Kid!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:41 AM (16bOT)
"No justice, no tree."
They are after that big Christmas Tree.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:01 AM (1Y+hH)
Any chance the tree will fall on them?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:32 AM (A/e8X)
Can it be set on fire first?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 04, 2014 12:41 AM (FMbng)
I bought an Israeli clone (IMI)... it goes BANG for less.
And no, I don't think I stepped down by buying it...
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:41 AM (/mTq0)
His song "Honey" will make you bust out bawling as badly as "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:42 AM (39g3+)
325 Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:25 AM (zt+N6 We are so lucky here. From Farve to Rodgers.
Yeah. And the Bengals have managed to get two somewhat serviceable at times quarterbacks in a row.
Meanwhile the Browns are stuck with Charlie Fry v2.0 keeping Brady Quinn v2.0 on the bench.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:37 AM (zt+N6)
Try being a Redskins fan. Last good QB was maybe Joe Theisman back in the early 80's, but more likely Sonny Jurgenson back in the early 70's.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 12:42 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:43 AM (afQnV)
Yeah I know, I'd only be about the 94,375 man to do it. But I practically have the words memorized.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:15 AM
I'm thinking on my bucket list I'd do karaoke once more. King of the Road is on my list, along w/ maybe a good Zeppelin song, or...
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:44 AM (o/90i)
If it hasn't been done already, somebody's going to make a fantastic biopic of Roger Miller someday.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:44 AM (fGApK)
-Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:42 AM (39g3+)
I don't remember "Honey", but that second one was certainly a tear-jerker.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:45 AM (16bOT)
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:45 AM (fGApK)
gunwatcher.com
Somehow the graphics seem different than I (vaguely) remember. But it must be the site. Anyway, seems like a decent shopping bot for those seeking hardware.
Thanks! I'll check them out tomorrow! Night all. Early morning thread comes early. Duh!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 12:45 AM (tFgoR)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:30 AM (nL0sw)
It was an all day thing, with over a dozen separate chats, multiple presentations, c. I was hoarse with all the interviews for 8+ hours and a bit fatigued. For the "chalk talk" portion I didn't use the space on the White board optimally (didn't have one to practice on), and it wasn't as smooth as it ought to have been. However, the what was presented was good (IMHO), and I didn't make too many screw-ups while hopefully hitting on points that they were looking for.
I'm not the only candidate, and I probably wasn't as slick in the presentation as other candidates, but I have a strong enough background, experience, and such to be competitive.
Posted by: The Questioning Hat at December 04, 2014 12:45 AM (J526e)
Destination: Bangor, Maine
Worn out suit and shoes
I don't pay no union dues...
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:34 AM
That's it, right there
King of the Road
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:46 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:44 AM (o/90i)
Flakes or you are what is by Zappa
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 04, 2014 12:46 AM (b5BZa)
In Berkeley, there is one of the last remaining truly old-old-school electronic stores left in the USA -- Al Lasher's Electronics. Been there since the Cretaceous Era, and all the hardcore hobbyists and inventors go there. It's dusty, like a maze, and jam-packed with every imaginable bizarre old (and new) electronics part. If you want a tube to fix your 1938 shortwave radio, -- go to Al Lasher's. Missing a component from your Heathkit build-a-computer? Al Lasher's. Inventing a Time Machine Orgasmatron? Al Lashers.
Still owned by the same family that founded it, and they're grumpy, dissheveled -- and they know their shit cold. Supplying the unkempt tinkerers of the Bay Area for 60 years will make you an encyclopedia.
Anyway, fuckin' Radio Shack saw Al Lasher's and said to themselves, "Ooooh, a mom-and-pop business we can drive into bankruptcy and steal their customer base!" So Radio Shack opened a new outlet just one block away down the street from Al Lasher's. Direct attempt to steal away customers.
Guess what happened? FAIL.
First of all, the new Radio Shack still was stocked solely with their ridiculously limited and insultingly useless merchandise, just like every other Radio Shack.
Secondly, despite having the "economy of scale," every single thing that Radio Shack sold, Al's Lasher's had cheaper. Plus, you could buy it individually at Al's and not in a purposely gouging overpriced 6-pack at Radio Shack.
End Result after five years of trying to wait out Al's?
Radio Shack Corp. just announced that that branch was going to be shut down. Because it was losing money.
And it was true -- the few times I walked by, it was always deserted.
So suck it, Radio Shack! Mom and pop FTW!
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:46 AM (K4YiS)
Isn't Mark Rypien on the list? He had a Hell of season in '91 and blew out a Super Bowl.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:47 AM (CoZQP)
Here's to hoping you get the job!
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:48 AM (nL0sw)
-Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 12:42 AM (+Fae7)
Step #1. Cry Me A River.
Step #2. Shut The Fuck Up.
Step #3. Knock It Off.
This is Cleveland. You obviously have No Fucking Clue.
P.S.: I treated you like a jerk and I apologize for you being more of an idiot.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:48 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:49 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:49 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:49 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (Vp1dQ)
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: The Questioning Hat
*Sends Magic Hand Vibes for Maximum Win. *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:41 AM
we'll have to talk.
heywoodblogger @ the yahoo thingie
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (KCxzN)
Never apologize.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (CoZQP)
Isn't racist that Doug Williams not included ?
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (014lE)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 12:04 AM (KCxzN)
???
Posted by: Maetenloch at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (wqVD1)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:46 AM (K4YiS)
Word.
Posted by: Tweeks Coffee at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (J526e)
Mostly, this is right, but I feel like Gary Oldman should be tossed into the discussion as a counterexample, if he hasn't been already.
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (A6vWB)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 12:43 AM
--------------------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjty394oyw
If anyone has a better copy of this SNL Hispanic Pronunciations skit with Jimmy Smits, link it.
Posted by: Accuracy is Everything at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (Nbc1l)
So suck it, Radio Shack! Mom and pop FTW!
Posted by: zombie
I have to ask; how fast do you type?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (s9AKD)
"She's Gone."
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:37 AM
OK, I'm often slow on the uptake.
Happens as you approach your 60s. I'll leave out the part about too much wine.
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (o/90i)
He said, "You mean they'll charge?"
I said, "No. They'll slink away somewhere to heal up and plot revenge. Nothing worse than a squirrel with a blood grudge."
Posted by: torquewrench at December 04, 2014 12:38 AM (noWW6)
Do not feed the little bastards near your house.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 12:53 AM (A/e8X)
398 You are exactly right. Most good actors are characters themselves. Characters people expect and like to see.Mostly, this is right, but I feel like Gary Oldman should be tossed into the discussion as a counterexample, if he hasn't been already.
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2014 12:51 AM (A6vWB)
Comment 323. There are likely others as well.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:53 AM (zt+N6)
Alas, sometime in the early 90s RS told him his services were no longer needed.
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 12:53 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: andycanuck at December 04, 2014 12:53 AM (T4t+V)
I was born in 1966.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:53 AM (fGApK)
HAHAHAHAHAAH"
-Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
Makes me no matter. I quit watching Cleveland football last year. The constant change in ownership/management/coaches/philosophy ...etc? ...just since 1999 -?
I was done.
Let fools suffer that fate.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:54 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:54 AM (CoZQP)
Photo: New York's Lincoln Tunnel reopened after protesters briefly stopped traffic; Port Authority on scene - @Bogs4NY
Photo: Spike Lee and his son join New York protests over Eric Garner grand jury decision - @davidmackau
Posted by: Meremortal at December 04, 2014 12:54 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:54 AM (K4YiS)
Will remember it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:54 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 04, 2014 12:55 AM (MbqmP)
-Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:50 AM (CoZQP)
You've never read my "off-color" stuff... LOL.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:55 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 12:55 AM (KlVdw)
I got it to the rough prototype stage, but after the two dozenth orgasm in reverse, I went back to the drawing board. Finally gave up on the thing. It's gathering dust out in the garage.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 04, 2014 12:56 AM (noWW6)
It's a company waiting to die.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 04, 2014 12:56 AM (2qBk+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Pretty slow, actually -- hunt and peck one finger on each hand. (Index finger of let hand, third finger of right hand, if you must know.)
I am just relentless in my pound-a-letter enthusiasm. And if I'm trying to go quick, I just skip the proofreading, often leading ti multiple typos.
Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2014 12:57 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Swatara at December 04, 2014 12:57 AM (AvP4a)
The story I linked to portrays Radio Shack as a company that just stopped giving a shit sometime around 1989.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:57 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 12:59 AM (KlVdw)
Don't aquiesce. Ya da man. Lay down some law.
Hasta.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:59 AM (CoZQP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:59 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 12:59 AM (/mTq0)
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Himmler's family didn't survive to put his name on a t-shirt.
On a more serious note, there was an amusing bit several years back involving Che's family. Iran was hosting his family for some event, and Amhadinajad (or however you spell his name) made some comments linking Che and Allah.
The family was not happy about that.
Posted by: junior at December 04, 2014 01:00 AM (N+HLW)
...then one kid asked me for my email address.
*click*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:00 AM (16bOT)
Isn't Mark Rypien on the list? He had a Hell of season in '91 and blew out a Super Bowl.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:47 AM (CoZQP)
Hogs. If it hadn't been for those 5 players, the team would have been a 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 team. This is a team that traded a starting QB for a left tackle that anchored the line for 7 more years. Now they trade 3 first round picks for a toothpick legged qb that doesn't understand how a pocket works, has zero field presence, and zero escapability.
Rypien had that season, and then he kind of disappeared several years later.
This is a franchise that didn't sign Trent Green before he left for St Louis, and thought Jeff George would be a great franchise QB. Jeff George.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 01:01 AM (+Fae7)
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 12:45 AM
That's an idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cOYzDtpEmI
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 01:01 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (39g3+)
When I'm in a store and they ask for my phone number I simply say, "No." What are they going to do, not sell you their merchandise? It happened to me at a Toys R Us.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 04, 2014 01:03 AM (A/e8X)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 12:55 AM
Do they have to be bad? Or, just fucked up? Have you seen "Brain Damage"?
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 01:04 AM (tBSrv)
-Hasta."
-Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 04, 2014 12:59 AM (CoZQP)
You want me to post shit that I'd later have to apologize for?
No amount of "You 'Da Man" will prompt that... lol.
I'd have to be fourteen beers into a twelve-beer evening for that to even percolate, amigo!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:04 AM (16bOT)
They wouldn't be my first choice for electronics, but there's a serious lack of decent electronics stores in my area, so I go with what's nearby for me (5 mi down the road).
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 01:04 AM (/mTq0)
Yes, but it wasn't a crime-crime. He was performing the vital public service of helping consumers avoid a ridiculous tax in the best of American traditions.
And while technically the 'law' may allow cops to do whatever is convenient for them once they make a declaration that someone's under arrest, they are making it increasingly difficult for anyone with a functioning conscience to back them up.
I mean, one cannot look at the video of those thugs with badges and say, sure, I support that.
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2014 01:05 AM (A6vWB)
Posted by: Swatara at December 04, 2014 12:57 AM (AvP4a)
I used to be able find most of the parts needed to tweak guitar amps there. They usually had the right resistors, capacitors, switches, etc. There was always a store close by.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 04, 2014 01:05 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Swatara
We have an awesome, old electronics store nearby. Problem being that they refuse to acknowledge anybody outside of 70's CB radio assholes.
Depressing store. Brought up Arduino breadboard projects.
No register.
It's hard to understand such a suicidal mindsets.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 01:06 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: fly gal at December 04, 2014 01:06 AM (365cV)
Posted by: The Dude at December 04, 2014 01:07 AM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Farmer at
------------------
There's a good Zeppelin song?
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:07 AM (hZtAR)
A city I live near, Cerritos, actually put a law on its books around 1978 that signs *cannot* have poor grammar on them. Their Toys R Us store opened in 1972.
For something like 20 years, the city gave them a hard time demanding they change the sign. The store's management, which has always been a moneymaker for the chain and city, finally had to threaten to move and leave forever, to get the city to back down.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:07 AM (fGApK)
And Maet, I think you must have forgotten to put in "Feel Good Story of the Day" on that bit about the journalist in Chicago being served an eentsy-weentsy bit of her own medicine. Of course I expect and hope no harm comes to her, but we're at the point where this sort of "blowback" is actually welcome, in that it might start to discourage at least some of the most egregious behavior.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 01:07 AM (afQnV)
OW!!!!!! FUUAAKKKK!!
Posted by: Joe Theyesmann at December 04, 2014 01:08 AM (1Y+hH)
Most of moron computer geeks would probably kill to have such a store in their town.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 01:08 AM (/mTq0)
Can it be set on fire first?
Yes, but only if it was found to be selling it's lights...singularly.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 01:08 AM (Vp1dQ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:09 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 01:10 AM (nL0sw)
Step #2. Shut The Fuck Up.
Step #3. Knock It Off.
This is Cleveland. You obviously have No Fucking Clue.
P.S.: I treated you like a jerk and I apologize for you being more of an idiot.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 12:48 AM (16bOT)
#1 It's Cleveland, it ranks somewhere below Jacksonville on the NFL's "Who Gives A Shit" meter.
#2 It's Cleveland, if they moved to Saskatchewan, would anyone notice?
#3 Didn't Ray Lewis play for them?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 01:10 AM (+Fae7)
Get a run in your pantyhose, Joe?
Posted by: andycanuck at December 04, 2014 01:10 AM (T4t+V)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:09 AM (KlVdw)
need to watch more August Underground
Posted by: The Dude at December 04, 2014 01:10 AM (SyKbw)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 01:13 AM (nL0sw)
need to watch more August Underground
Posted by: The Dude at December 04, 2014 01:10 AM (SyKbw)
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Never heard of it. Which is probably a good thing.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:13 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 01:14 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:15 AM (fGApK)
do y'all remember when they had the Tandy leather stores?
I liked them a lot as a kid. I wonder where all my leather tools ended up?
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:17 AM (/ACV3)
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2014 01:17 AM (A6vWB)
qdpsteve, Cerritos (other claim to fame being home of Nakoula Nakoula, arguably the most important political prisoner in modern US history) had a law about grammar on signs? In CA? Where half the incoming freshmen at the state colleges require remedial math and English? That's amusing.
Of course 1978 was 1,345 years ago in CA. Prop 13 passed that year. And so on .....
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 01:18 AM (afQnV)
Bryan Cranston?
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP)??
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:19 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: Country Singer at December 04, 2014 01:13 AM
What he said. Off to bed here, be well all.
T
Posted by: Farmer at December 04, 2014 01:19 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 01:20 AM (Vp1dQ)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 01:20 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:13 AM (KlVdw)
first one has a dude gut a chick and then bang the gaping hole on her stomach
Posted by: The Dude at December 04, 2014 01:20 AM (SyKbw)
I also still remember they passed an early HOA-style law: the *entire city* has "Cerritos Colors." You're only allowed to paint your home (most of them were built between 1967 and 1975) certain earth tones.
To this day there's unhappiness about that.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:21 AM (fGApK)
Bryan Cranston?
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP)??
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:19 AM (fGApK)
Christian Bale?
Robert Downey, Jr.?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 01:21 AM (+Fae7)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 04, 2014 01:21 AM (KCxzN)
-Tim Couch
-Derek Anderson
-Brandon Weeden
-Colt McCoy
-Charlie Frye
-Kelly Holcomb
-Brady Quinn
-Trent Dilfer
-Jeff Garcia
-Jason Campbell
-Doug Pederson
-Seneca Wallace
-Luke McCown
-Jake Delhomme
-Ken Dorsey
-Brian Hoyer
-Ty Detmer
-Thad Lewis
-Bruce Gradkowski
-Spergon Wynn
-"Johnny Drunken Douchebag Football"
Suck My Dick, Redskins fan.
Fuck You all-the-way back to 1968, you cock-savoring monster.
Yeah... pre-"Super Bowl".
Once you've enjoyed sucking my enraged, engorged COCK, you can then check the MLB timeline.
Since you don't have a NBA franchise?
--Eat Me.
...then check that timeline.
Go Fuck Yourself.
...Your Entire Family can Go Fuck Themselves, really.
...Redskins?
-Savor my asshole.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:22 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:09 AM
Jeez, "Liquid Sky"? Haven't seen that since around when it came out. Weird, weird shit. I'll have to find it again, can barely recall it. You gotta check out "Brain Damage" from 1988...
http://youtu.be/2-3M21Ye72U
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 01:23 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:24 AM (16bOT)
Man wouldn't that have upset the Johnny Clipboard fanatics for him to be 3rd string behind possibly the worst QB to ever make it to a Super Bowl.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 01:24 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:25 AM (Zkic6)
-Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 01:24 AM (zt+N6)
Negative, Ghostrider. The pattern is full.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:26 AM (16bOT)
Well some time when I'm in the area for one of my food tours (stores and restaurants, usually an ethnic theme), I'll have to cruise through Cerritos and check it out. There's a decent gun store there, too, from what I hear (Ammo Bros.).
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 01:27 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Methos
Edward Scissorhands isn't the most demanding of slack-jawed weirdos...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 04, 2014 01:27 AM (s9AKD)
I've also read Cerritos is rated only behind *Beverly Hills* by the US Census as the American city with the most disposable income per household.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:29 AM (fGApK)
The "Wizards", on the other-hand...
...they should move to Alabama so somebody Gives a Shit.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:29 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:30 AM (16bOT)
Sandra Bullock
Greg Kinnear
Kurt Russell (He was outstanding in "Miracle")
ODMom,
Moccasins might be the first thing I made! I eventually got into "tooling" leather and made some really nice belts ( for a kid, anyway). Man... I miss the seventies.
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:31 AM (5ebrm)
:-)
I've seen 'em. The store is actually made out to look like an old west saloon.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:32 AM (fGApK)
Although he was playing happy Snake Plisskin when he filmed Captain Ron.
Posted by: buzzion at December 04, 2014 01:33 AM (zt+N6)
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Ah, there you go, exactly who I *meant* to be thinking of but couldn't quite arrive at. Kingsley's good too (immediately brings to mind Iron Man 3, Schindler's List, and some movie with I think Tea Leoni where he played an alcoholic washed up hitman) but I haven't seen what I hear are his best.
Posted by: Methos at December 04, 2014 01:34 AM (A6vWB)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:35 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:35 AM
It's fucking great. One odd role that makes the whole movie is in "Sneakers". He is excellent in that and steals the flick.
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 01:38 AM (tBSrv)
Bernie Kosar and Otto Fucking Graham!?!
When was the last time you heard a Mother naming her Son "Otto"?!?
Right-around the turn of never, I'd suspect.
The last time that happened was 1941, just before the sinking of the fucking Bismarck.
You wanna trade "No Way we Win" stories with a guy from Cleveland, Ohio?
...really?
...Really?
I can go toe-to-toe with Chicago Cubs fans and you think you can cry to me?
*HAH!*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:39 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:41 AM (fGApK)
The teacher in high school that taught us tooling was such an uncomfortable nerd and so were the the Tandy Leathers guys! I swear, the same men taught my boys in scouts, and the stamps had not changed. A bit. They should've gotten into Michael's craft stores before scrapbooking and stamping!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 01:45 AM (Vp1dQ)
Haven't seen that in years - I'll have to dig out that DVD, I guess.
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:45 AM (5ebrm)
I've driven by Grant's, though never stopped there. Think my nice, gun-owning, clueless BIL goes there. I recall him goofily dismissing all this talk about new laws restricting gun ownership/use he heard in the store a few years back. I could only smile and gently suggest that in CA, "crazy talk" of that sort was barely keeping up with reality. Anyway, recall the storefront - looked like Knott's Berry Farm or Frontierland.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 04, 2014 01:45 AM (afQnV)
http://bit.ly/1yoikVm
Posted by: F**k the Quislings at December 04, 2014 01:46 AM (J526e)
Once again, fantastic chat. Thanks and see you tomorrow night.
Posted by: qdpsteve at December 04, 2014 01:46 AM (fGApK)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:47 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:48 AM (16bOT)
You gotta check out "Brain Damage" from 1988...
http://youtu.be/2-3M21Ye72U
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 01:23 AM (tBSrv)
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That clip looks like an Anti-drug commercial masquerading as a low budget horror flick.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:53 AM (KlVdw)
It's a good, solid, honest name, unlike some others I can think of...
...like Treyvon.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 04, 2014 01:53 AM (/mTq0)
that's TOO funny. I remember those Tandy nerds...
Of course, I was (am?) a nerd, too.
come to think of it, I think it was my Boy Scout den mother that first took me to Tandy & taught me leathrrwork. Of course she was a cool full-blooded Indian.
BTW, what part of the Old Dominion if you don't mind me asking? I'm down here in Norfolk.
*g'night, Steve.
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 01:56 AM (5ebrm)
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 04, 2014 01:53 AM
Yeah, it's pretty much an addiction allegory. It's very good for a virtually unkown fucked up film. It's like David Lynch and Ken Russell wrote and produced a flick for Roger Corman to direct.
Posted by: otho at December 04, 2014 01:58 AM (tBSrv)
Fuck You all-the-way back to 1968, you cock-savoring monster.
Yeah... pre-"Super Bowl".
Once you've enjoyed sucking my enraged, engorged COCK, you can then check the MLB timeline.
Since you don't have a NBA franchise?
--Eat Me.
...then check that timeline.
Go Fuck Yourself.
...Your Entire Family can Go Fuck Themselves, really.
...Redskins?
-Savor my asshole.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:22 AM (16bOT)
Since 93:
Heath Shuler (1st rounder)
John Friez
Gus Frerotte
Jeff Hostetler
Trent Green
Brad Johnson
Jeff George
Tony Banks
Danny Wuerfell
Shane Matthews
Patrick Ramsey (first rounder)
Mark Brunnell
Tim Hassellback
Jason Campbell (first rounder)
Todd Collins
Donovan McNabb
Sexy Rexy Grossman
John Beck
Robert Griffin III (3 first rounders)
Kirk Cousins
Colt McCoy
Now kneel down and clean up the suck from that.
BTW, Head coaches named Norv Turner, Steve Spurrier, and Jim Zorn really put the team that plays in Landover, MD in a crappy posistion for over 20 years.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 02:00 AM (+Fae7)
Bernie Kosar and Otto Fucking Graham!?!
When was the last time you heard a Mother naming her Son "Otto"?!?
Right-around the turn of never, I'd suspect.
The last time that happened was 1941, just before the sinking of the fucking Bismarck.
You wanna trade "No Way we Win" stories with a guy from Cleveland, Ohio?
...really?
...Really?
I can go toe-to-toe with Chicago Cubs fans and you think you can cry to me?
*HAH!*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 01:39 AM (16bOT)
You think people were lining up to name their kids after Theismann? The only reason a woman would have named their son after Theismann is because he knocked them up.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 02:02 AM (+Fae7)
I was bummed that the leather nerds hadn't gotten a little hip to encourage my boys to find it fashionable.We were in Prince William at the time which was working on being NoVA. I'm in Spotsyltucky now, just past the cows.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 02:04 AM (Vp1dQ)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at December 04, 2014 02:06 AM (Vp1dQ)
-"The Giants Win The Pennant! The Giants Win The Pennant!"... was "The Shot Heard 'Round the World". It was "The Call".
...it came against the Cleveland Indians.
-John Elway drove 98 yards in just over a minute to lead the Broncos over the Browns in the 1986 AFC Championship Game. (Against the #1 Defense in the NFL.)
-Earnest Byner fumbled on the One-Yard line when the Browns were about to take the lead against Denver in the 1987 AFC Championship Game.
-Michael Jordan hit a shot from twenty feet-out to defeat the Cavaliers in 1989 to send the Bulls to the NBA Championship.
-The upstart Florida Marlins took the Indians to seven games during the 1997 season. A fledgeling shortstop barreled a nasty pitch, back up-the-middle; just over the outstretched glove of an excellent-fielding, Cy Young contending Starter for the win.
I have not even touched THEE Ohio State Buckeyes and their All-NFL teams' losses to inferior opponents.
PLEASE come join our "Swing-State" and vote.
We can share tales of woe.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:14 AM (16bOT)
-Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 04, 2014 02:02 AM (+Fae7)
That is your retort?
God Bless you.
...break a leg!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:15 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 04, 2014 02:17 AM (FMbng)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 03, 2014 10:58 PM (RzZOc)
He'll probably have to get the Colombian army to do the deed. Bolivia has gone full socialist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2014 02:19 AM (8Fl6F)
'Nuff-Said.
The Bears won a Super-Bowl.
'Nuff-Said.
Washington is in contention in MLB again this year.
The Cubs will be next year.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:21 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Just you wait, amigo. Just you wait.
Posted by: lead foot nixon at December 04, 2014 02:22 AM (s9AKD)
She will not quit The Cleveland Browns.
I did.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:23 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:24 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:25 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:29 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: Mr. Natural at December 04, 2014 02:31 AM (/pOl7)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:32 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:32 AM (16bOT)
Pulled into Sucia Island in the San Juans and got the boat tied to the last buoy. Nice quiet and idyllic location. There was about 20 boats hanging off the buoys. Getting close to sundown and was just sitting down with a drink and..
Someone cranked up the most annoying drone and proceeded to buzz that thing back and forth for what seemed like an eternity.
We were really tempted to pull out the anti-piracy weapon and try some 12 ga drone hunting.
Warning, drones can go splodey if used improperly.
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at December 04, 2014 02:33 AM (0atFl)
Posted by: lead foot Nixon
------------------
Sometimes you just gotta let it go, amigo.
Posted by: Wade Garrett at December 04, 2014 02:38 AM (5ebrm)
It makes me tired and annoyed.
No wonder I only lurk during the daytime threads.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:39 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 02:42 AM (5ebrm)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 02:43 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: lead foot nixon at December 04, 2014 02:46 AM (s9AKD)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 03, 2014 11:43 PM (ZPrif)
In Canada, a coroner would rule that "death by misadventure". Clearly no intent on the part of the cops to do anything other than arrest the guy, who was resisting. A guy with multiple priors, resisting arrest? Just how stupid is that? An exceedingly unhealthy guy, living a high-risk lifestyle; it'll never end well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2014 02:52 AM (8Fl6F)
I fell asleep before 11 & woke up an hour ago & I'm now wide awake.
Maetenloch
If you're reading, why would you say this ONT sucks?
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 02:54 AM (sj3Ax)
I will read comments.
It's only after midnight & I thought some from CA like Cthulhu would be here.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 02:57 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Joe at December 04, 2014 03:00 AM (hgVy+)
-Posted by: Joe at December 04, 2014 03:00 AM (hgVy+)
Fightin' and Trouble are my Middle-Name.
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go.
...I Owe My Soul to the Company Store.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 03:07 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) at December 04, 2014 03:08 AM (16bOT)
I'm kinda here & doing a few other things...
worked 'til 11:30 last night tiling a bathroom, and even though I'm sore and tired, can't sleep.
Hope your neck is feeling better.
Posted by: shredded chi at December 04, 2014 03:08 AM (5ebrm)
I don't remember talking with you.
I'm glad I'm not the only one awake. Where are you from?
I'm in Massachusetts, near Boston. But I am a conservative & there are more here than people expect in one of Bluest states.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 03:11 AM (sj3Ax)
prices were bad, their stock was pointless and poor, their clerks
annoying with the whole phone number thing, and they never seemed to
have anything anybody wanted. How are they still in business?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 04, 2014 12:52 AM (39g3+)
Radio Shack started out as mainly a mail-order outfit, back in the 1950's, I think, possibly even pre-War. I think they had a retail location at their warehouse. Used to be a decent place to buy components, but they have all but completely abandoned that end of the market, now concentrating on gadgets and toys. At one point, they merged with the Tandy Leather Company, and a number of their stores became co-locates with Tandy Leather leathercraft shops.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2014 03:25 AM (8Fl6F)
Neck was acting up last week because I had injection in it for shoulder pain.
I've got clothes in dryer & it's taking 50 minutes & then another 45 minutes. It's far too long. I'm going to ask my neighbor, a very active retired electrician to check it. It shouldn't take this long to dry towels & other whites, it's been doing this for months.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 03:30 AM (sj3Ax)
342 "Commissioner Gordon is the first really good acting job I've seen Gary
Oldman in that he didn't chew up the scenery and howl at the moon."
Yeah, he did some heavy chewing as the bad guy in Air Force One.
(Would a sequel be Air Force Two? Or Air Force One Two?)
Posted by: duke at December 04, 2014 03:31 AM (enhDu)
You can't sleep either?
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 03:33 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 03:34 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 04, 2014 03:41 AM (FMbng)
I've always found Radio Shack stores to be low on quality, customer service & anything else that mattered.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 03:42 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 03:43 AM (zdHi2)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 03:48 AM (vIjYi)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 03:51 AM (zdHi2)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 03:53 AM (vIjYi)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 03:58 AM (zdHi2)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 03:59 AM (zdHi2)
I took clothes out of dryer, etc & poured a glass of wine because I need to sleep.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 04:11 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 04:24 AM (zdHi2)
We need men & women that are not wimps in GOPe. These fools talk but do nothing. Is it fear of being called racist?
This country was founded by men of great integrity & they fought for it with their lives.
These fools only care if they are going to be invited to elite parties & funded by CIC for next election.
DC should not be Capitol. Let's move it to Wisconsin or another state where they won't find so many elite dinner parties
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 04:28 AM (sj3Ax)
po' me... ;-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 05:09 AM (vIjYi)
Dugway Proving Grounds
Planet Irwin
29 Stumps
China Lake
El Centro or Lenorre (SP?) NAS
all come to mind.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 05:11 AM (vIjYi)
http://patterico.com/2014/12/03/always-trust-content-from-patterico/
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 05:14 AM (vIjYi)
i like Conservative Review, Boehner is faking opposition to SCOAMT amnesty!
We need men women that are not wimps in GOPe. These fools talk but do nothing. Is it fear of being called racist?
This country was founded by men of great integrity they fought for it with their lives.
These fools only care if they are going to be invited to elite parties funded by CIC for next election.
DC should not be Capitol. Let's move it to Wisconsin or another state where they won't find so many elite dinner parties
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 04:28 AM (sj3Ax)"
It's worse than that. Here is an article pointing out that former House and Senate staffers move on to K Street lobbying firms and having their former boss now be in the majority means that they are now raking in a lot more bucks. All they care about is that the people they have access to are the ones who control the money spigots. They don't care about policy or conservative issues, only their own financial well being. These are the people who host those elite parties.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2556501
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 04, 2014 05:25 AM (PD6iL)
"DC should not be Capitol. Let's move it to Wisconsin or another state where they won't find so many elite dinner parties"
Dugway Proving Grounds
Planet Irwin
29 Stumps
China Lake
El Centro or Lenorre (SP?) NAS
all come to mind.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 04, 2014 05:11 AM (vIjYi)"
Most of your suggestions seem to be military bases on the west coast. I seriously doubt that moving the nations capital to California would improve anything. Maybe if the capitol were in the middle of the country that might help. If you want to stick to military bases, there is Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri or Fort Leavenworth in Kansas which has the additional benefit of a short commute to the federal prison.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 04, 2014 05:32 AM (PD6iL)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 04, 2014 05:34 AM (ZeBBB)
Now I a,going to have to open in Mac!
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 05:35 AM (sj3Ax)
Some of the reviews I read indicated they don't feed all that well
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 05:49 AM (zdHi2)
I. Going to make new pot.
I had an expensive Cuisinart maker & it lasted less than 8 months. I bought it brcause I had reward $$ & it was on sale.
I don't like coffee that much & have 1/2 cip, if that.
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 06:01 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: NativeNH at December 04, 2014 06:09 AM (zdHi2)
http://www.nasa.gov/index.html
The spacecraft is built by Lockheed Martin. The flight will only last a few hours, and will loop high above Earth in order to make a high-speed re-entry. In many ways it's similar to SpaceX's first Dragon test flight in December 2010, which was just two orbits and a splashdown.
Posted by: rickl at December 04, 2014 06:29 AM (sdi6R)
Peruse through here, and there are several.
http://tinyurl.com/mqco43b
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 04, 2014 06:29 AM (wPA9Q)
Posted by: mindful webworker - ready for some day, maybe this one at December 04, 2014 06:31 AM (YxTUV)
Posted by: rickl at December 04, 2014 06:33 AM (sdi6R)
Stepped in something slightly gooey when I first got here.
One of the barrel staves is seeping a viscous black liquid at the bottom.
So...pretty much everything is normal.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 04, 2014 06:34 AM (wPA9Q)
Hello, everyone. Early morning meeting, so no story today. In movie history, however, today in 1924 was the premiere of Erich von Stroheim's lost masterpiece Greed.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 04, 2014 06:35 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2014 06:36 AM (tiOTz)
Posted by: rickl at December 04, 2014 06:39 AM (sdi6R)
I found a good place. Free shipping. I have a pawn shop that'll do transfers for $25.00. Bud's prices, plus transfer fee is still cheaper than what I can find locally.
http://bit.ly/1q5Br4n
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 06:39 AM (tFgoR)
I would actually love to see a DoJ Civil Rights investigation into the State of New York depriving minority citizens the Right to keep and Bear Arms.
But, I'm thinking that isn't going to happen any time soon.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 04, 2014 06:39 AM (wPA9Q)
Posted by: policiadearmadajose at December 04, 2014 06:40 AM (O55aB)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 06:41 AM (tFgoR)
I may have to look around there after work tonight.
But, I am at the Maryland limit for AR's, unless I go the HBAR route.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 04, 2014 06:41 AM (wPA9Q)
Posted by: rickl at December 04, 2014 06:43 AM (sdi6R)
Almost all of the gun stores here have them around that price
Posted by: policiadearmadajose at December 04, 2014 06:43 AM (O55aB)
GTT. No silly assed "limit". Only limit is what the spouse will allow. LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 06:44 AM (tFgoR)
That sucks
Posted by: policiadearmadajose at December 04, 2014 06:44 AM (O55aB)
Hello, everyone. Early morning meeting, so no story today. In movie history, however, today in 1924 was the premiere of Erich von Stroheim's lost masterpiece Greed.Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 04, 2014 06:35 AM (zF6Iw)
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And Greed is good.
Posted by: Gordon Gekko at December 04, 2014 06:44 AM (KlVdw)
Well, it's not actually a limit.
More like a ban since 1 Oct, 2013 in the State.
And, I'm getting to the point that I need another gun safe before I get any more toys.
So. I'm good for now.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 04, 2014 06:46 AM (wPA9Q)
Posted by: Carol at December 04, 2014 06:46 AM (sj3Ax)
At home, not at a Holiday Inn Express.
Posted by: ALH at December 04, 2014 06:50 AM (btTLZ)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 04, 2014 06:54 AM (FS3xS)
I now a new earworm.
Trailers for sail or rent.....
Rooms to let for fifty cents...
no phone...no pool...no pets...
I aint got no cigarettes!!!
Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at December 04, 2014 06:56 AM (91eZY)
Posted by: Havedash at December 04, 2014 06:53 AM (G1XMn)
Dunno. Besides the boat, there's also an issue with the second stage, so they're still holding.
I just heard that the flight is supposed to last 4 hours and 23 minutes, and the launch window is about 2 1/2 hours long. They want both the launch and splashdown in the Pacific to occur in daylight.
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Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2014 07:02 AM (tFgoR)
I've mercifully forgotten which launch it was, but "they" had called us out of class to watch, a whole junior high school with one modest TV on the auditorium stage ("All our rockets blow up," Tom Wolfe said), and when the delays got over two hours or so, they gave up and sent us back to the drudgery. Everyone felt cheated, in different ways.
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