Morning Thread (1-5-2015)

Back to the grind.

Posted by: Andy at 06:42 AM

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1 Good morning. Jury duty this week. Ugh.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 05, 2015 06:43 AM (wVWRM)

2 mornin' folks
a balmy -18 here this morning

Posted by: wing at January 05, 2015 06:47 AM (gd8Or)

3 Kris Kreosote is a Cowboys fan!
that explains sooooo much

Posted by: some dope at January 05, 2015 06:50 AM (+kznc)

4 G'morning, all

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2015 06:50 AM (DoX/w)

5 SE AZ checks in with a low of 30 this morning!

Posted by: Old Dog at January 05, 2015 06:51 AM (tQYJH)

6 And, that 4th Quarter was worthy of the WWF.
NFL blows

Posted by: some dope at January 05, 2015 06:51 AM (+kznc)

7 The fix is in. Cowboyzzzzz, bitchezzz.

Posted by: dr kill at January 05, 2015 06:52 AM (EhBgV)

8 Morning Glories! Up and at'em...

Ok. Coffee first.

Posted by: Fewenuf at January 05, 2015 06:52 AM (zPNX5)

9 23 here in Centex...and I wish that was in celsius.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 05, 2015 06:52 AM (OsWis)

10 42 degrees here in NE Massachusetts. Down to 20 or lower by tonight, and at or below freezing for the rest of the week. Lovely.

No story today, since I have a meeting in 5 minutes. I'll try to do better tomorrow.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 05, 2015 06:53 AM (zF6Iw)

11 ipadatosis! It's not just for breakfast anymore.

Posted by: Fewenuff at January 05, 2015 06:54 AM (zPNX5)

12 32 degrees in the AV, SoKal.

Posted by: Fewenuff at January 05, 2015 06:56 AM (zPNX5)

13 Minus 12 here in MSP.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 05, 2015 06:57 AM (VGqjW)

14 Cowboys will leave Green Bay with tails between their legs.They can't possibly get the same set of refs.

Posted by: se pa moron at January 05, 2015 06:58 AM (zxQ4h)

15 It's 68 at 6 after 7.

Posted by: dr kill at January 05, 2015 06:59 AM (EhBgV)

16 mornin' folks
a balmy -18 here this morning

Morning all. A blazing hot 28.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:03 AM (cSU3r)

17 I opened up my Extensis font server this morning and saw that it was wishing me a "JOYOUS KWAANZA".

Great way to start the new year.

Posted by: Caliban at January 05, 2015 07:03 AM (DrC22)

18 Morning all, Happy New Year! Back into it after a visit to family in the AV (small world Fewenuff!). Flying back non-Southwest last night, missed the games. Were the refs consistently bad or just the muffed interference call/non-call? As much as it kills me, I prefer the Cowboys over the Lions after watching those thugs step on the Bear lineback and Rogers leg. That kind of play by these 'gentle giants' needs to be stopped.

Posted by: RedDish at January 05, 2015 07:04 AM (5eXg1)

19 Its not bad here in the DC metro area. About 40 and sunny. The real cold stuff shows up here later in the week. Well, cold for the mid Atlantic anyway.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 05, 2015 07:05 AM (ZiHIw)

20 I'm East of the cold weather, so it's a comfortable 39 here. But it should drop 15 degrees by this time tomorrow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2015 07:07 AM (Zu3d9)

21 Well the new congress starts today, any bets on how long it will take to start pissing everybody off?

Posted by: Kreplach at January 05, 2015 07:07 AM (gcTzl)

22 New form of performance art - Vaginal Knitting

*WARNING* HuffPo link

http://tinyurl.com/lruwy9s

I would be disappointed of this was not already discussed.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 05, 2015 07:09 AM (XzRw1)

23 18 here in SW OK. We might get above freezing today. It is cold enough to make me consider actually drinking coffee.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 05, 2015 07:10 AM (czBah)

24 21
Well the new congress starts today, any bets on how long it will take to start pissing everybody off?

I'm in for 30 seconds.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 05, 2015 07:11 AM (XzRw1)

25 @22 vaginal knitting is OLD.

Posted by: blaster at January 05, 2015 07:11 AM (Rx8ML)

26 It's finally winter here. Weatherman is so excited. /eyeroll

Posted by: votermom at January 05, 2015 07:12 AM (cbfNE)

27 I'm not gonna b!the about the cold. Here in Savannah I'll be cursing the heat and thinking fondly of the cold come june. Yay winter.

Posted by: TBolt69 at January 05, 2015 07:12 AM (3EU6a)

28 25
@22 vaginal knitting is OLD.

You've restored my confidence in aoshq. Thanks.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 05, 2015 07:13 AM (XzRw1)

29 Morning, fuckers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 05, 2015 07:14 AM (fwARV)

30 Their first big test will come in March when the debt cieling has to be tackled so the big question is how are they going to prepare the battlespace.

Also DHS is only funded until then so I see the typical bloviating and procrastination with a hastily cobbled together agreement voted on at the 11th hour.

In other words we'll be screwed again.

Posted by: Kreplach at January 05, 2015 07:16 AM (gcTzl)

31 Well the new congress starts today, any bets on how long it will take to start pissing everybody off?

Posted by: Kreplach at January 05, 2015 07:07 AM

Define "everybody."

Once Boner fends off challenges to his "leadership," it'll be a normal Choom Gang party on teh Hill, and they can get down to doing the "nation's business" of feathering their own nests and p*ssing away the money that will have to be printed to make people think this country still has a chance of surviving as anything but a third-world shithole.

So no Democrats will be upset except for cosmetic political purposes. The only ones who will feel the pain will be...us.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 05, 2015 07:16 AM (yAC3X)

32 Heh. Kris Kreosote.

"It is only a wafer-thin mint."

"Fuck off. I'm full."

"Bon appetit!"

[EXPLODES]

Posted by: Sharkman at January 05, 2015 07:16 AM (rXB/r)

33 Sefton checking in. -11 in janesville WI. Will be bringing the chill colder than Hilary's thighs back to NYC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2015 07:17 AM (1ZobC)

34 Why is Dershowitz being accused of of having sex with a 17 year old who says she was held as a sex slave? Possibly because he says the ways campuses handle rape accusations violates due process of the accused? Interesting timing that this comes up now.
It's either that and/or it's because something damaging might come out on Clinton. I'm much more likely to believe Clinton is having sex with teens procured by Epstein than Dershowitz.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 05, 2015 07:17 AM (DXzRD)

35 Posted by: Sharkman at January 05, 2015 07:16 AM (rXB/r)

We should be so lucky!

Posted by: Old Dog at January 05, 2015 07:18 AM (tQYJH)

36 I'm not gonna b!the about the cold. Here in Savannah I'll be cursing the heat and thinking fondly of the cold come june. Yay winter.
Posted by: TBolt69

Same here. But an 80 degree swing in 6 months is a bit extreme.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:18 AM (nOvTJ)

37 work is never truely done

Posted by: eric at January 05, 2015 07:18 AM (AIXBo)

38 If you have a Republican Rep please e-mail or call themthem today and urge them not to vote for Boehner as Speaker even if you think it will do no good..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 05, 2015 07:20 AM (DXzRD)

39 JJ checking in from a remote location!

If I was at work I'd do some c/p fu and post the countdown for you.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (wVWRM)

40 Morning! -3F with around -20F wind chill.. Yikes! Didn't seem to bother the dog, however. She took her sweet time out in the yard. But it is days like this I really appreciate having a fenced in yard!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (/9Mak)

41 The artist is not actually knitting a vagina. And, the vagina is not doing the knitting. As industrial processes go, this is just a matter of raw-materials storage. Warehousing, if you will.

My take? Call me when we get to vaginal punch presses or turret lathes.
Especially if they're strap-driven. Because that would be awesome.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (xq1UY)

42 We won!

Posted by: Cowboys at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (jhRZ+)

43 Posted by: Sharkman at January 05, 2015 07:16 AM (rXB/r)

We should be so lucky!

Posted by: Old Dog at January 05, 2015 07:18 AM (tQYJH)

I remember how hard I laughed at the Mr. Creosote scene in The Meaning of Life way back in college in 1982. Doubled over in my seat gasping for air, in actual physical pain from laughing so hard. That was a great movie.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 05, 2015 07:22 AM (rXB/r)

44 34

It's actually not new; this accuser did not pop out of the woodwork recently. She's been at this since 2011.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 05, 2015 07:23 AM (3y414)

45 I'm much more likely to believe Clinton is having sex with
teens procured by Epstein than Dershowitz.

Juan was never there.
--Epstein's mother

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:23 AM (nOvTJ)

46 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2015 07:17 AM (1ZobC)

The midwest steppes......

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2015 07:23 AM (Zu3d9)

47 I still disturbed by the Jerry Jones/Chris Christie celebratory hug. *shudders* It looks like his gastric bypass surgery was a failure. I suspect they forgot to take into account the second stomach.

Posted by: no good deed at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM (w3a0Z)

48 My take? Call me when we get to vaginal punch presses or turret lathes.
Especially if they're strap-driven. Because that would be awesome.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (xq1UY)

Even just a PhotoShop of such a Rube Goldbergian device would take the Intertubes by storm, I predict.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM (rXB/r)

49 JJ checking in from a remote location!

If I was at work I'd do some c/p fu and post the countdown for you.
Posted by: Golfman

746.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM (nOvTJ)

50 >>>It's either that and/or it's because something damaging might come out on Clinton. I'm much more likely to believe Clinton is having sex with teens procured by Epstein than Dershowitz.
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.The Clinton team is doing a whole bunch of "housecleaning" right now. I suspect they are behind the effort in the MSM to discredit Sharpton also. Got to punish her enemies to make them shut up before she announces remember.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM (4oSLk)

51 I can't believe the Cowboys won.. I only watched the first half.. they really sucked. Oh well..

Rooting for the Packers anyway. I would really like to see the Pack make it to the Superbowl. (Oh wait.. Am I allowed to say Superbowl, or must I say "The Big Game"? lol )

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 05, 2015 07:28 AM (/9Mak)

52 27 in Bryan, TX. Glad it ain't no worse than that.

Posted by: Cato at January 05, 2015 07:30 AM (J+mig)

53 Got to punish her enemies to make them shut up before she announces remember.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM

I dunno why she bothers.

If Shrillery only has to face Teh Jebster, Shuckabee or Woobio next year, she's a lock to win big.

Might be that another year of the Boner/Bitch GOPe-dominated Congress will make a Democrat stranglehold on all political offices certain.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 05, 2015 07:31 AM (yAC3X)

54 Posted by: MrScribbler at January 05, 2015 07:31 AM (yAC3X)

If Boner is Speaker again, it's third party time.

Posted by: Cato at January 05, 2015 07:32 AM (J+mig)

55 My take? Call me when we get to vaginal punch presses or turret lathes.
Especially if they're strap-driven. Because that would be awesome.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 05, 2015 07:21 AM (xq1UY)

I've got some industrial sized real estate for rent.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 05, 2015 07:33 AM (XzRw1)

56 Missed you all. Very nice time doing belated Christmas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2015 07:34 AM (R8VfN)

57 Why would the Clintons want to discredit Sharpton? You think he has something on them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 05, 2015 07:34 AM (DXzRD)

58 57 FenlonSpoke,

See Souljah, Sistah

The Clintons are as slimy and clingy as the Ogabes

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 05, 2015 07:36 AM (/4AZU)

59
Cold (39 F) and wet here in Delaware, which has pretty much been the case throughout the past two weeks.

Given an opportunity later this afternoon, there are a few things still in pots that I need to get into the ground today while the getting is good.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2015 07:36 AM (bWFHa)

60 47 no good deed,

Or his spare chromosome....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 05, 2015 07:38 AM (/4AZU)

61 Why would the Clintons want to discredit Sharpton? You think he has something on them?

Would you want to be held hostage to him?
The Clintons shake down. They don't get shook down.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:39 AM (nOvTJ)

62 >>>Why would the Clintons want to discredit Sharpton? You think he has something on them?
.
.
.Sharpton doesn't need anything on anybody, he can just make $hit up and get it into the papers as fact.

I do remember him and Bill did not get along very well when he was president and there were some issues with Hillary and Al IIRC. I think there is something in their background that Hillary wants to get in front of.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 05, 2015 07:41 AM (4oSLk)

63 Amazing how the British press has in depth news about events in the US but here we get football news.

Posted by: freaked at January 05, 2015 07:41 AM (JdEZJ)

64 27 headed for 45 and sunny today in DFW.

"Back to the grind." HA! not for me, I start collecting funemployment as of 1/1/15. FML.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 05, 2015 07:42 AM (60Vyp)

65 If Boner is Speaker again, it's third party time.

Posted by: Cato at January 05, 2015 07:32 AM

A shame more people didn't think that way in 2008.

The distress/disgust generated by McCain was strong, and a few people were saying we should start getting a party that represented actual conservative, patriotic people up and running. But the Poppin' Fresh Brigade was heavy on the "third parties have no clout!" bullshit, and were happy to take whatever crumbs Our Republican Betters were willing to dribble out.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 05, 2015 07:42 AM (yAC3X)

66 Fox was just now talking about how a bunch of companies, including Walmart & GM, are Sharpton's biggest donors. They are cslling it "go away money"

Posted by: votermom at January 05, 2015 07:43 AM (cbfNE)

67 The elite have been teasing black folk a long time with the dream of ruling over the old Confederacy. Hillary is the ultimate carpetbagger.

Posted by: Eromero at January 05, 2015 07:44 AM (go5uR)

68 Fox was just now talking about how a bunch of
companies, including Walmart GM, are Sharpton's biggest donors.
They are cslling it "go away money"

Posted by: votermom at January 05, 2015 07:43 AM

New York Post had a story on this over the weekend.

Apparently, Al is damn near as good at extortion as Reverend Jesse. Choom Boy has 'em both beat, though. No one has done better with that good ol' Race Card than President Historic First�.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 05, 2015 07:46 AM (yAC3X)

69 I think what happened with the call in the Cowboys game was the refs looked at the giant screen, realized there was a push off/niggly facemask by the offensive player and decided to pick up the flag. A horribly bad decision.

Posted by: Better Feared than Loved at January 05, 2015 07:48 AM (nRvEn)

70 Grind without bump?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 05, 2015 07:48 AM (uSAVP)

71 Very nice time doing belated Christmas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 05, 2015 07:34 AM (R8VfN)

A crypto-Christian?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2015 07:49 AM (Zu3d9)

72 Morning, Glories! (fewenuf swiped my greeting

)

Incipient sunrise. All of 12° out. Maybe a little warmer in. Much warmer under the covers, but I must abandon my secure position soon. After I get caught up on comments...

Posted by: mindful webworker likes warmth at January 05, 2015 07:49 AM (uys7x)

73 Too cold outside for that mouse. Sucks to be him.

Posted by: Cicero kid's kitteh. at January 05, 2015 07:50 AM (uSAVP)

74
Especially if they're strap-driven. Because that would be awesome.

Seldom cited historical and mathematical fact: multiple powered tools of machine shops in days of yore that were driven with belts connected to a single rotating horizontal shaft more often than not had said belts configured in the shape of a Moebius strip, whose single-sidedness improved their wear life.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2015 07:50 AM (bWFHa)

75 47
I still disturbed by the Jerry Jones/Chris Christie celebratory hug.
*shudders* It looks like his gastric bypass surgery was a failure. I
suspect they forgot to take into account the second stomach.

Posted by: no good deed at January 05, 2015 07:24 AM (w3a0Z)

It's the food, not the quantity. Pasta, donuts, soda, bread, more pasta, chips, potatoes, and pasta.
If he'd eaten nothing but butter-fried bacon for the past year, he'd be 100 pounds lighter.

Posted by: Formerly at January 05, 2015 07:51 AM (yxw0r)

76 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 05, 2015 07:51 AM (Zmw74)

77 THEY ARE CALLING IT, "GOING AWAY MONEY?"

Posted by: Teh Rev! Al Sharpton at January 05, 2015 07:53 AM (uqV2n)

78 Did Al Roker get the same surgery that Krispie Kreme did?
Roker looks cadaverous now, like he's dying. He looked better wwhen he was overweight.

Posted by: votermom at January 05, 2015 07:53 AM (cbfNE)

79 Have a good trip back to NYC, J.J. Get out before tonight!

My daughter is on her way back from Los Angeles..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 05, 2015 07:53 AM (/9Mak)

80 33 in HouTx...pool heater is kickin' it today

Posted by: DanMan at January 05, 2015 07:53 AM (RPn+I)

81
In a sumo wrestling-themed campaign debate between Shrillary and Krispy-Kreme, neither candidate would ever be out of costume.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2015 07:54 AM (bWFHa)

82 If he'd eaten nothing but butter-fried bacon for the past year, he'd be 100 pounds lighter.

Challenge accepted!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:54 AM (nOvTJ)

83 ox was just now talking about how a bunch of companies, including Walmart & GM, are Sharpton's biggest donors. They are cslling it "go away money"
_____________________

Just another one of Choom Boy's "accomplishments." If he hadn't been regularly hosting the fraud Sharpton at the White House, and thereby giving the loathsome shake-down artist a legitimacy he doesn't deserve, Sharpton wouldn't have been hired by MSNBC, and wouldn't have the platform from which to trumpet his racist crap.

P.S. We miss you Vic and hope you're okay.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 05, 2015 07:54 AM (2ruKl)

84 In a sumo wrestling-themed campaign debate between Shrillary and Krispy-Kreme, neither candidate would ever be out of costume.

"Aaaaand in this corner, Thunder Thighs Cankles. Let's get ready to ruuuuuuuuuuuumble"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:55 AM (nOvTJ)

85 @74 And those belt-makers were prime users of buffalo hides. Between the bison and the "horizontal shaft," we might could get something going here, genedered-art-wise.

Those shaft systems were originally driven by water wheels. Then, steam engines could slip right in there. It was only the development of smallish individual electric motors that enabled factory floors to unstrap and get "off the line." The gendered-art consequences are left as an exercise for the reader, as it were.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 05, 2015 07:56 AM (xq1UY)

86 FenelonSpoke: "If you have a Republican Rep please e-mail or call themthem today and urge them not to vote for Boehner as Speaker even if you think it will do no good."

My problem helping on this is, my congressman was already the first out of the gate saying he wouldn't vote for Boehner. (Yay, Jim!) Only thing to write him for is thanks and congratulations.

Elect the right guy in the first place - save on stamps (real & figurative).

Posted by: mindful webworker - proud Okie at January 05, 2015 07:56 AM (uys7x)

87 83 ox was just now talking about how a bunch of companies, including Walmart & GM, are Sharpton's biggest donors. They are cslling it "go away money"

Nothing new under the sun, see?

Posted by: Al Capone's Ghost at January 05, 2015 07:57 AM (uSAVP)

88 How is Vic?

Posted by: votermom at January 05, 2015 07:57 AM (cbfNE)

89 Those shaft systems were originally driven by water wheels. Then, steam engines could slip right in there. It was only the development of smallish individual electric motors that enabled factory floors to unstrap and get "off the line."

Steam driven Sybians. Genius!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2015 07:57 AM (nOvTJ)

90 Wow...
Early dump already

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 05, 2015 07:58 AM (DoX/w)

91 Roker looks cadaverous now

His White House dinner invitations tapered right off.
And then they fired the chef.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 05, 2015 07:59 AM (xq1UY)

92 And all that money Al extorts is TAX-FREE!

Posted by: --- at January 05, 2015 08:03 AM (MMC8r)

93
21 Well the new congress starts today, any bets on how long it will take to start ~~pissing everybody off~~ ckufing everybody over?

fixed

Posted by: The Truth, the whole Truth etc. at January 05, 2015 08:04 AM (6jKOp)

94 I want Newt back as Speaker.

He was on Face the Nation and handled the Scalise question the way you would want a Speaker to handle it.

We need someone who can actually think and talk in real time.

Posted by: jwest at January 05, 2015 08:48 AM (vwlGK)

95 SOON.

Posted by: The Glaciers at January 05, 2015 08:50 AM (MMC8r)

96 Going through 7 gal. of RV propane a week here in Phoenix. Ice on the deck two nights ago but it's getting warmer.

Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 05, 2015 09:51 AM (BxB4b)

97
Pick just about any school board or city government not in California, and they could do a better job of managing Congress and the budget.
But, not Detroit, not Stockton, not Illinois, not the University of California...criminy, we are in trouble...
Hoping Ed Hoculi the Head Official with the big biceps he is so proud of gets the Green Bay/Dallas game, would be fun to watch his pained face as he has to cover up his pumped up skin.

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