Morning Thread (1-9-2015)

Happy Friday, all.

Posted by: Andy at 06:25 AM

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1 Foist?!?!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:26 AM (/kVvc)

2 Let me just man spread out here in all this space

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:26 AM (g6jni)

3 Thank you for coming. I supposed you're wondering why I've called you all here today....

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:26 AM (/kVvc)

4 It's Friday already?

Posted by: kraki at January 09, 2015 06:28 AM (krvsp)

5 "I supposed you're wondering why I've called you all here today..."'

I thought it was to find out how well "Steve" did with T9's truck wash

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:28 AM (g6jni)

6 I thought it was to find out how well "Steve" did with T9's truck wash
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:28 AM (g6jni)

I was thinking more along the lines of catching up on some some Catholic bashing and thinly veiled racism.

But, truck wash updates are good too.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:30 AM (/kVvc)

7 What's so damn happy about it?

Posted by: f'd at January 09, 2015 06:30 AM (JdEZJ)

8 Just make these bastards grease spots already!

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:31 AM (S9rS1)

9 Just make these bastards grease spots already!
Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:31 AM (S9rS1)

That's what they want.

Don't give them what they want.

Although....I'd be totes OK with them being perp walked from that warehouse while wrapped in bacon.

I'd be down wit' 'dat.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:32 AM (/kVvc)

10

DAY 794

669 to go (742 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Mugwumps, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:34 AM (CMkNk)

11
Mansplain - when John Milius whips out a .45, shoves it into Katzenberg's face and says "no, Jeffrey. I'm going to shoot the film my way, okay?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (CMkNk)

12 That's what they want.

Don't give them what they want.

Grease spot 'em. If they're breathing, they are still a threat. Make martyrs out of them? Nah. Other muzzies don't need an excuse.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (/B0pU)

13 I was thinking more along the lines of catching up on some some Catholic bashing and thinly veiled racism.

So that's what was on the Bill Donohoe thread?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (zF6Iw)

14
Jeez, this is early. Haven't even had time to check out the ONT.

Then again, I bitch when this thread comes at noon, so I'll cope.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:37 AM (CMkNk)

15 So that's what was on the Bill Donohoe thread?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (zF6Iw)

No, the other morning. You were here for that.

But it's pretty much a weekly occurrence.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:37 AM (/kVvc)

16 "Although....I'd be totes OK with them being perp walked from that warehouse while wrapped in bacon. "

If only we could bring back the Stocks, and Pillory in the public square.

Put them both in the stocks, wearing Pedo-Prophet masks, and let people point at them and mock them.

Then execute them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (g6jni)

17 Wow, one of the first impulses the new Congress has is to raise gasoline taxes. And Republicans support this. What the fcuk did I vote for last November? My congressman(a Republican who I voted for) voted in favor of cromnibus.

I was foolish enough to believe things would change with a Republican-led Congress. If I read anyone criticizing anyone else for not voting LOTE, I'll gladly remind them in not-too-kind words to STFU.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (2X7pN)

18 MI is honoring Tom Hayden's home site in Port Huron, MI. Just what we need. Honoring a terrorist's home town where SDS started.

http://tinyurl.com/mt8rcr9

Repeat

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (wlDny)

19 You didn't hear Ralph Peters on Fox. He said if they're dead, they're dead. They're more effective as Islamist propaganda if they stay alive, even if rotting in prison.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (S9rS1)

20 Grease spot 'em. If they're breathing, they are still a threat. Make martyrs out of them? Nah. Other muzzies don't need an excuse.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (/B0pU)

Can we compromise then? Can we just hack their heads off and then hang them from a lamppost by their testicles?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (/kVvc)

21 HO-lee ker-CFUK its crappy outside. 34 and breezy on the way to a high of 37 with sleet and freezing rain over the weekend? Where's that damn glowbull warming when you really need it?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (60Vyp)

22 13 13 I was thinking more along the lines of catching up on some some Catholic bashing and thinly veiled racism.

So that's what was on the Bill Donohoe thread?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:36 AM (zF6Iw)

I don't recall bashing Papists. I do recall that Bill Donohue is a complete jackass, not so much for his idiotic commentary but for how he totally quadrupled down on them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (CMkNk)

23 Cop killers? If it was the USA I could safely predict their imminent demise. France? They could end up on a chartered plane to shitstainastan.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (zxQ4h)

24 19 You didn't hear Ralph Peters on Fox. He said if they're dead, they're dead. They're more effective as Islamist propaganda if they stay alive, even if rotting in prison.
Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (S9rS1)

I am hoping the French security services have itchy trigger fingers. I think they do.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:40 AM (CMkNk)

25 I don't recall bashing Papists. I do recall that Bill Donohue is a complete jackass, not so much for his idiotic commentary but for how he totally quadrupled down on them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (CMkNk)

He is, was, and always will be a jackass.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:41 AM (/kVvc)

26 "Can we compromise then? Can we just hack their heads off and then hang them from a lamppost by their testicles?"

-Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:39 AM (/kVvc)

Festive.

Cost to Taxpayers = 0

I'm in if you're buying.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (16bOT)

27 I am hoping the French security services have itchy trigger fingers. I think they do.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:40 AM (CMkNk)

Hell, I'd be satisfied with a negligent discharge.

At point blank range.

Repeatedly.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (/kVvc)

28 Collect video of hours of their interrogations .

Use CGI, and editing to put together fake video of both of them renouncing Islam, and condemning the Pedo-Prophet

Put the video on you-tube.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (g6jni)

29 I'm in if you're buying.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (16bOT)

Done.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (/kVvc)

30 On second thought, try to capture them alive, then saw their heads off on camera. Or impale them.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (S9rS1)

31 If you are a foreign auto maker better keep your nose clean or Obama will crap all over you. The UAW is his hommie.

http://tinyurl.com/lo77zfa

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (wlDny)

32 25 He is, was, and always will be a jackass.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:41 AM (/kVvc)

Did you listen to his argument with Hugh Hewitt? It was painful. I mean, truly painful to hear a man so utterly tone deaf and then resort to straw men and bullshit to try and shout down Hewitt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (CMkNk)

33 He is, was, and always will be a jackass.

I find that most people who are self=promotionally religious tend to be jackasses. I think its required.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (2X7pN)

34 Use CGI, and editing to put together fake video of both of them renouncing Islam, and condemning the Pedo-Prophet

Put the video on you-tube.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 06:42 AM (g6jni)

I wanna party with you, cowboy.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (/kVvc)

35 19 Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:38 AM (S9rS1)

Ralph Peters would be a great Sec Def in a Cruz or Walker administration. Just a thought.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:44 AM (CMkNk)

36 *Stamp*

I Act up, though.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 06:44 AM (16bOT)

37 Can we compromise then? Can we just hack their heads off and then hang them from a lamppost by their testicles?

Deal! I'll bring the dull, rusty knife. You grab the rope.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 06:45 AM (/B0pU)

38 If the Tea Party really wants to put the fear of God into the Establishment GOP they/we need to start showing up at their houses in their home districts.

Posted by: southdakotaboy at January 09, 2015 06:45 AM (yh4lQ)

39 You know its a sad comment on western civilization that any country has yet to make an example out of these black flag terrorists. I mean old world accountability style ass kickin' examples.

Kill the perps, raze the mosques where they were taught/proselytized, export the immediate family's and the imams to Somalia. That kind of example.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2015 06:45 AM (60Vyp)

40 I find that most people who are self=promotionally religious tend to be jackasses. I think its required.
Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:43 AM (2X7pN)

It's only required so he can pay his mortgage. That's my issue with him. I've never seen one interview with him, including on the rather sedate EWTN, when he wasn't pegging the sound level meter into the red.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:45 AM (/kVvc)

41
Ralph Peters would be a great Sec Def in a Cruz or Walker administration. Just a thought.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:44 AM (CMkNk)

With Allen West as DepSecDef.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (/kVvc)

42 38 If the Tea Party really wants to put the fear of God into the Establishment GOP they/we need to start showing up at their houses in their home districts.
Posted by: southdakotaboy at January 09, 2015 06:45 AM (yh4lQ)

Who will be our Al Sharpton?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (CMkNk)

43 Deal! I'll bring the dull, rusty knife. You grab the rope.

Only if it was previously used to butcher a pig.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (2X7pN)

44 39 Kill the perps, raze the mosques where they were taught/proselytized, export the immediate family's and the imams to Somalia. That kind of example.

I'd like to send them back to the Stone Age, but they're still in it.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (S9rS1)

45
WHO WILL BE OUR AL SHARPTON?

Posted by: Al-zharpt'n at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (CMkNk)

46 The French have got to stop with the #RespectForMuslim bullshit already. It's embarrassing to watch.

Where's my coffee?

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (6um35)

47
Off criminal sock.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:47 AM (CMkNk)

48 Who will be our Al Sharpton?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

WHO WILL BE OUR AL SHARPTON?
-Al Sharpton

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 06:48 AM (/B0pU)

49 46 The French have got to stop with the #RespectForMuslim bullshit already. It's embarrassing to watch.

Where's my coffee?
Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (6um35)

Jeez, you think they're bad? Try Sweden or England. I think the average Frenchman, schmuck that he is, can see which side the baguette is buttered on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:48 AM (CMkNk)

50 "Kill the perps, raze the mosques where they were taught/proselytized, export the immediate family's and the imams to Somalia. That kind of example. "

Go slower, I'm writing this down.

Posted by: Vlad Putin at January 09, 2015 06:48 AM (g6jni)

51 Crap. Missed it by _ that much.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 06:49 AM (/B0pU)

52
Rick, you're too slow. More coffee for you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:49 AM (CMkNk)

53 Where's my coffee?

Where are my pants?

This is not my beautiful house!

Que Talking Heads!

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:49 AM (2X7pN)

54 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Picture day today.
First, our weekly Ziegfeld Girls, the Cutter Sisters:

http://goo.gl/rbnV2n

Not much is known about the sisters, whose names were Daphne Diana ("Daisy") and Cassandra Cleolia ("Cookie").They worked in vaudeville, but were never a successful act, finally, in 1898, teaming up with a stage magician by the name of. . . Harry Potter.

Now, our birthday girl, Vilma Banky (here in 1925s The Eagle):

http://goo.gl/lDtikk

Born in Hungary in 1901, Banky was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn when he made a 1925 European trip. Her family was very much against her acting career, but Banky signed with Goldwyn nonetheless.

She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle and in 1926s The Son of the Sheik, receving plaudits as a "rare beauty" and nicknamed "The Hungarian Rhapsody." It's an urban legend that she retired from films because her thick accent made her unacceptable, but by 1927 she had appeared in 16 movies and was wearying of the business. As well, she had just married actor Rod LaRoque (in a union that lasted to his death in 1969) and wanted to swettle down and simply be his wife.

Banky died, age 90, in 1991, though her death wasn't announced until the next year; she was angry that no one was visiting her in her last years and had directed her lawyer to make no mention of her passing. Her ashes were scattered at sea.

Here she is in one of her last films, 1928s Two Lovers:

http://goo.gl/dMaQDD

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:50 AM (zF6Iw)

55 Cue, not Que!

Too much coffee!

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:50 AM (2X7pN)

56
In the vein of Ralph Peters for Sec Def, how about General al-Sisi as head of NASA? Muslim outreach.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:51 AM (CMkNk)

57 No, the other morning. You were here for that.

Oh, yes, the Loretta Young thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:52 AM (zF6Iw)

58
Eleven days into the new year and it already blows chunks.

Man, when I was a kid, it took at least until the end of February to do that!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (bWFHa)

59 Can we just hack their heads off and then hang them from a lamppost by their testicles?

Objection: assumes vesicles not in evidence.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (xq1UY)

60 I watched Morning Mika for five minutes of banality. Time for an Irish coffee.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (2X7pN)

61 54 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 06:50 AM (zF6Iw)

Hungarians know how to hold a grudge. Trust me. From experience. Momma Sefton was either your best friend or you were persona non grata.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (CMkNk)

62 Letting the days go by...
Water flowing underground.

...same as it ever was.

...same as it ever was.

...same as it ever was.

...same as it ever was.

Letting the days flow by?

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 06:54 AM (16bOT)

63 58
Eleven days into the new year and it already blows chunks.

Man, when I was a kid, it took at least until the end of February to do that!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (bWFHa)

Just think what our collective innards will look like by next Christmas.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:55 AM (CMkNk)

64 Man, when I was a kid, it took at least until the end of February to do that!

I think we romanticize too much about the past. We didn't have a 24/7/365 news cycle.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:55 AM (2X7pN)

65
Not eleven days, nine days... sheesh.

Of course, when I was a kid, I could count.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:55 AM (bWFHa)

66
Vilma sounds like a mashup of cartoon characters Velma and Wilma.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:55 AM (CMkNk)

67 Free college.

That couldn't possibly have unforeseen consequences.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (MMC8r)

68 Eleven days into the new year and it already blows chunks.

Man, when I was a kid, it took at least until the end of February to do that!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (bWFHa)

Methinks someone has been gallivanting around in ace's time machine.

Posted by: mugiwara at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (3a584)

69 65
Not eleven days, nine days... sheesh.

Of course, when I was a kid, I could count.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:55 AM (bWFHa)

Kommon Korpse will do that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (CMkNk)

70 Morning Mika takes herself way to seriously.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (6um35)

71 Hungarians know how to hold a grudge. Trust me. From experience. Momma Sefton was either your best friend or you were persona non grata.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:53 AM (CMkNk)

I'm OK with this Hungarian holding a grudge against me.

As long as she holds it over and over and over and over again.

http://tinyurl.com/q7gsqzd

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:57 AM (/kVvc)

72 67 Free college.

That couldn't possibly have unforeseen consequences.
Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (MMC8r)

Isn't it amazing that people blame the banks for the high cost of tuition instead of the colleges that charge the bloated fees in the first place?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:57 AM (CMkNk)

73
I'd like to send them back to the Stone Age, but they're still in it.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:46 AM (S9rS1)

Oh, they can only dream of living in the Stone Age! T'would be like paradise to them!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 06:57 AM (bWFHa)

74 Morning Mika takes herself way to seriously.

She insists upon herself.

I don't know what that actually means, but it sounds good(with a second Irish coffee).

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 06:58 AM (2X7pN)

75 Hungary: The world capital of internet porn. No joke.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 06:58 AM (S9rS1)

76 "Free college. That couldn't possibly have unforeseen consequences."

Seriously, I need to go back to school and get a better degree.

Posted by: Said every student with a Wymenz/Gender/Ethnic Studies degree at January 09, 2015 06:58 AM (60Vyp)

77 Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves...

early mornin', Mika come around.

...and lay man-oo-er down.

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 06:58 AM (16bOT)

78 71 Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:57 AM (/kVvc)

Yoi, ish te nem!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 06:59 AM (CMkNk)

79 SO I guess they still haven't caught the killers of the Charlie cartoonists yet although they did, I see,
rob a gas station.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 06:59 AM (DXzRD)

80
Gypsies, tramps and thieves. That's the Obama family album.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:00 AM (CMkNk)

81 Cher is crazier than Mika. That is an accomplishment!

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:00 AM (2X7pN)

82
The USOC has selected Boston as the nation's 2024 Olypics bid, beating out other cities such as Los Angeles.

The Mighty O then actually congratulated the liberal beaneaters with some more of that "Boston Strong" twaddle.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 07:00 AM (kdS6q)

83
67 Free college.

That couldn't possibly have unforeseen consequences.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 06:56 AM (MMC8r)

Like unleashing even more estrogen-suffused, micro-aggression compliant omega males into the general population? No downside there!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:00 AM (bWFHa)

84 SO I guess they still haven't caught the killers of the Charlie cartoonists yet although they did, I see,
rob a gas station.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 06:59 AM (DXzRD)

News report this morning says the cops have them cornered in an industrial area somewhere.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:01 AM (/kVvc)

85 Made it to work through the snowmageddon,

How tempted am I to leave my out-of-office on all day, with a message saying I couldn't make it in? VERY tempted!

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:01 AM (7ObY1)

86
Snowing in DeBolshevik town.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:02 AM (CMkNk)

87 News report this morning says the cops have them cornered in an industrial area somewhere.

I heard they have hostages and are negotiating simultaneously claiming they want to be martyrs. That's not a good sign for the hostages.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:02 AM (2X7pN)

88 The gypsies I'm pissed at right now are gypsy plows.

The po-po really need to start cracking down on their blatant and dangerous practice of backing out right in front of you on very slippery roads.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:02 AM (7ObY1)

89 Living in Boston, I can say the last thing we want here is the Olympics. Better get Obama to stump for us in the next stage.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 07:03 AM (S9rS1)

90 News report this morning says the cops have them cornered in an industrial area somewhere.

Now is the time to call in arty.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:03 AM (/B0pU)

91 Maybe I don't need a second Irish coffee!

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:03 AM (2X7pN)

92 I heard they have hostages and are negotiating simultaneously claiming they want to be martyrs.

Hope they get their wish. With extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:04 AM (7ObY1)

93 Thanks for the great pictures MPPP. Though some sharp elbows and a faux fur bikini g string would be much appreciated as well. Did they wear those back in the twenties? Probably not. Oh well, never mind.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:04 AM (wy4/l)

94 I see the governor of Tennessee just signed a law giving free Community college tuition to any High School Graduate. On the surface this seems like a great idea to spend the Lottery proceeds on, but I cant shake the feeling that this will turn out bad for everyone involved.

I foresee a graduation rate of less than 15% and newly expanded (with State money) Community College's sitting there empty constantly asking for more and ever more money to keep up with the bloated Staff.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (4oSLk)

95 He is, was, and always will be a jackass.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 06:41 AM (/kVvc)

And unfortunately, the MFM jumps on their Bullshit Bandwagon and refers to him as a Catholic Leader.

No, no he is not, you lying hacks.

Posted by: DangerGirl at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (7/YOc)

96 Hungarians know how to hold a grudge.

So do I.

Posted by: Keyser Soze at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (5f5bM)

97 Living in Boston, I can say the last thing we want here is the Olympics. Better get Obama to stump for us in the next stage.
Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 07:03 AM (S9rS1)

ESPN Boston (Gordcon Edes) was up with a piece within hours about what a crappy decision this is.

And...having repeadtedly savored the pleasure of both Storrrow Drive and 128 at rush hour, I can say he's right.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (/kVvc)

98
Was there nary a word yesterday in the HQ about it having been the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans?

Johnny Horton would be so disappointed.

http://youtu.be/XBmE_clkBBU

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (bWFHa)

99 90>> Cordon the area and let the enstompening begin.

Posted by: Said every student with a Wymenz/Gender/Ethnic Studies degree at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (60Vyp)

100 So I guess if it snows enough the high schoolers will come home early-Oh joy. :^(

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (DXzRD)

101 "Snowing in DeBolshevik town."
-Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:02 AM (CMkNk)

A-Hay-O-my-my-my...

...hay-ay-ay-ay ay.

Life in a Northern Town.

*ding-ding-ding-ding*

Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (16bOT)

102 Nixon's Birthday!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (5f5bM)

103 Our local newspaper always had pictures of bikini-clad Australians from Perth during the winter months when I was a kid.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (2X7pN)

104 96 So do I.
Posted by: Keyser Soze at January 09, 2015 07:05 AM (5f5bM)

Q.E.D.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (CMkNk)

105 Stupid sock.... Gotta be smarter than the technology your trying to operate.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2015 07:07 AM (60Vyp)

106 Was there nary a word yesterday in the HQ about it having been the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans?

Yesterday was Elvis's birthday, too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:07 AM (5f5bM)

107
If Keyser Soze married Esther Rolle . . .hmm. I could go for a nice buttered kaiser roll.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:08 AM (CMkNk)

108 Geez, I just contradicted myself regarding romanticizing the past.

I guess I do need another Irish coffee, or just forget the coffee altogether!

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:08 AM (2X7pN)

109 I always thought Keyser Soze was Turkish. Or maybe a myth criminals tell to scare their children.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:10 AM (5f5bM)

110 109 I always thought Keyser Soze was Turkish. Or maybe a myth criminals tell to scare their children.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:10 AM (5f5bM)

He was a Magyar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:10 AM (CMkNk)

111 Yesterday was Elvis's birthday, too.

I'll be celebrating my birthday in two days, provided my liver holds out.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:11 AM (2X7pN)

112
109 I always thought Keyser Soze was Turkish. Or maybe a myth criminals tell to scare their children.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:10 AM (5f5bM)

He is Turkish in The Usual Suspects

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:12 AM (bWFHa)

113 Ridin' the storm out

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:13 AM (7ObY1)

114 112 He is Turkish in The Usual Suspects
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:12 AM (bWFHa)

No, he's Hungarian.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:13 AM (CMkNk)

115 No, pretty sure he was Turkish. He wiped out that Hungarian gang, along with his family.

Wikipedia says, "According to Kint, Keyser S�ze began his criminal career as a petty drug dealer in his native Turkey."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyser_S%C3%B6ze

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:14 AM (5f5bM)

116 Or maybe a myth criminals tell to scare their children.

Like, "If you're stoopid and get caught, the po po will manspread you"?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:14 AM (/B0pU)

117 113 Ridin' the storm out
Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:13 AM (7ObY1)

Like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan.

(What the hell was Morrison writing??)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:14 AM (CMkNk)

118 115 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:14 AM (5f5bM)

But that guy in the hospital was babbling in Hungarian. Okay, Soze is a Turk.

Keyser Sollozo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:15 AM (CMkNk)

119
Meanwhile in Alta California, Sen, Boxer's retirement has the lil piggies lining up to the trough. Top of the Dem list are California Attorney General Kamala "The Ugandan Giant" Harris and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is also signaling.

Republicans already throwing in the towel, even through the Dems are likely going to split their vote among multiple candidates.

The Hill

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 07:15 AM (kdS6q)

120 He is Turkish in The Usual Suspects
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:12 AM (bWFHa)

No, he's Hungarian.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:13 AM (CMkNk)

From Wikipedia:

According to Kint, Keyser S�ze began his criminal career as a petty drug dealer in his native Turkey. His legendary persona is born when rival Hungarian smugglers invade his house while he is away, rape his wife, and hold his children hostage; when S�ze arrives, they kill one of his children and demand that he give his business to them. Instead, S�ze kills his own family and all but one of the Hungarians, who he knows will tell the Mafia what has happened. Once his family is buried, S�ze goes after the mob and kills dozens of people, including the mobsters' families, friends, and even people who owe them money. He then goes underground, never again doing business in person.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:17 AM (/kVvc)

121 Ridin' the Storm Out is REO Speedwagon.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 07:17 AM (S9rS1)

122
By the way, while we weren't looking, Boko Haram Nazis have slaughtered 2,000 people in Nigeria.

Two. Thousand. People.

(**big "fuck you" to Bill Donohue**)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 07:17 AM (CMkNk)

123 Yay me! Payday H8 treat. Chicken bisquit.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:18 AM (/B0pU)

124 ***yawn***
Uggggh, in a shit area for 2 hours waiting for the morning runs
But at least McDonalds fries and coffee for breakfast

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 07:18 AM (IUFR3)

125 Teh tweet just now:
Community Colleges are already low-cost, so of course Obama wants to "fix" that.
Ignores real problem: student loan spigot.

Also a bunch of other tweets on the subject.
As a mom of a HS senior, this proposal has me seeing red.

Posted by: @votermom at January 09, 2015 07:19 AM (cbfNE)

126 I think if there's going to be a "Catholic League maybe it should include Blessed Pier Georgio Frassati who seemed to have been quite an athletic young man before be contacted polio-note the comment about his dislike for fascists and would have more than a dim view of militant Islam:

http://www.frassatiusa.org/frassati-biography

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 07:19 AM (DXzRD)

127 Seems a shame that we can't start a whisper campaign that Jihad is actually a trick by the Joos to get Muslims to kill themselves.

Posted by: Vlad Putin at January 09, 2015 07:19 AM (g6jni)

128
124 ***yawn***
Uggggh, in a shit area for 2 hours waiting for the morning runs
But at least McDonalds fries and coffee for breakfast
Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 07:18 AM (IUFR3)

Get that man some Imodium D, stat!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:20 AM (bWFHa)

129 "Ridin' the Storm Out is REO Speedwagon."

Saw them in Maine in 1978.
The beginning of RTSO is fantastic

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (g6jni)

130 121 Before they went commercial (and made zillions of dollars) with "High Infidelity." When your fan base becomes 99% female, it's over.

But Ridin' the Storm Out and Roll With the Changes were awesome rock and roll back in the day when they were mostly unknown.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (5f5bM)

131 @127- You mean that's not true?

Posted by: Case at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (wf3Kt)

132 Thanks for the great pictures MPPP. Though some sharp elbows and a faux fur bikini g string would be much appreciated as well.

No g-string, but - Raquel Welch:

http://goo.gl/RyrQMk

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (zF6Iw)

133 ***yawn***
Uggggh, in a shit area for 2 hours waiting for the morning runs
But at least McDonalds fries and coffee for breakfast
Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 07:18 AM (IUFR3)

Thanks for the....ummmmm....."detail"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (/kVvc)

134 Uggggh, in a shit area for 2 hours waiting for the morning runs

But at least McDonalds fries and coffee for breakfast

Shouldn't take 2 hours to get the runs from that crap.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:21 AM (/B0pU)

135 Obama administration called Boko Haram mass killings "violence" yet as opposed to terrorism? Have they said anything?!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 07:22 AM (DXzRD)

136
Meanwhile, this:

After defeating a rebellion by 25 conservative Republicans this week, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday declared:

"During my years here when I voted, I had the eighth-most conservative voting record in the Congress, and it does pain me to be described as spineless or a squish," Boehner told reporters. "But what pains me the most is when they describe me as the establishment. I'm the most anti-establishment Speaker we've ever had. Who was the guy who got rid of earmarks? Me. Who's the guy who believes in regular order? Me."

The Hill

"Who's the guy who believes in regular order? Me"

You lying drunken whoreson.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 07:22 AM (kdS6q)

137 128. Get me a few tankers of it
I'm in a shithole known as nanakuli

This place needs a giant flush

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 07:22 AM (IUFR3)

138 (What the hell was Morrison writing??)

Riders on the Storm was written for an art film that Morrison never finished, called HWY. From what I've read, the song pretty much sums up the plot. He and his drug buddies filmed about 15 minutes or so of it (iirc) and some of the footage survives.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:23 AM (7ObY1)

139 I see the governor of Tennessee just signed a law giving free Community college tuition to any High School Graduate. On the surface this seems like a great idea to spend the Lottery proceeds on, but I cant shake the feeling that this will turn out bad for everyone involved.

College tuition will rise to swallow all available money, which is what it has been doing for decades. The solution becomes for gummint to throw more money at it, which continues the cycle.

Not to mention increasing demand for limited slots, which does nothing to increase supply or quality.

Imagine any private industry that can tap an unending supply of public money to bring in an increasing customer base, consider the results that would have.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 07:23 AM (MMC8r)

140 Damn, already a chronic checking me out

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 07:24 AM (IUFR3)

141 Saw them in Maine in 1978.
The beginning of RTSO is fantastic

I just love the line "thinkin' about what I've been missin' in the city - and I ain't missing a thing."

Pure poetry to me.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:24 AM (7ObY1)

142
During my years here when I voted...

Is Bonehead saying that he doesn't vote there now? Then WTF is he even doing in Congress?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:25 AM (bWFHa)

143 with all the fund raising emails I got during the recent election, I obviously missed the one from the GOPe entitled "Help Us Raise Taxes!".

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:25 AM (6um35)

144 139 And a 2-year community college AA diploma becomes the "new normal," sufficing for what a high school diploma used to mean.

Not that there's anything at all wrong with community college -- 2 of my kids are there now to save money, and one went on from CC to a 4-year college -- but in the college prep track it should be college, not extended high school to make up for what the igh school failed to do.

And IF kids go on from high school to CC to get a technical education in a usable skill, that's a good thing. But again, it should be something they want and pay for, not a normal part of education.

It is not all right for all students to be expected to stay in school until they are 20.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:27 AM (5f5bM)

145 Just ran out front to shovel the walk before the office ladies start getting here. Drifts halfway up the front door (I had come in the side door where it didn't drift so much.)

It be nasty out there.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:28 AM (7ObY1)

146 Finally it can happen...
Being inducted into the college football HOF for being the architect of the greatest turnaround of a program in the history of the game...

Keep calm and Snyder on

Gotta go. The FSA ain't gonna feed itself.
Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: teej says go K-State at January 09, 2015 07:28 AM (kVErN)

147
Meanwhile, the GOP!:

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said he hopes his GOP colleagues hold off on a vote to fully repeal Obamacare until after Republicans have shown they can govern. :I think its important that we demonstrate that we can be productive before we have the inevitable fight over repealing Obamacare.:

Rollcall

"Productive" being defined as more taxes, more spending, more regulations and more helpless damsel-like hand-waving at Obama's ex-ords.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 07:28 AM (kdS6q)

148
143 with all the fund raising emails I got during the recent election, I obviously missed the one from the GOPe entitled "Help Us Raise Taxes!".

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:25 AM (6um35)

That message was carefully hidden in nano-pica font in the midst their childish "voters opinion survey" questions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:28 AM (bWFHa)

149 And a 2-year community college AA diploma becomes the "new normal," sufficing for what a high school diploma used to mean.

And HS becomes "Lord of the Flies".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:28 AM (/B0pU)

150 $28.25 to fill up my Ford Ranger @ $1.79/gal.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:30 AM (/B0pU)

151 May I be the first to coin: "ObamaPlomas"?

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:30 AM (7ObY1)

152 Another shooting, now at a Parisian kosher store

Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2015 07:30 AM (+35FH)

153 148 I saw my other Senator, Ted Cruz, saying the exact opposite to Cornyn on Election Night about timing. (No surprise there.) But what Ted said was that we will do an Obamacare repeal vote because we promised to, it will fail to have enough votes to override a veto, and then we'll get on to trying to dismantle what we can piece by piece, which is something we can do.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 09, 2015 07:31 AM (5f5bM)

154 "Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn"

He's such a pill....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 09, 2015 07:32 AM (0Vs5e)

155
151 May I be the first to coin: "ObamaPlomas"?
Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 07:30 AM (7ObY1)

Now in the economy twenty-four roll pack!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:32 AM (bWFHa)

156 May I be the first to coin: "ObamaPlomas"?
Posted by: Citizen X

All on favor respond by saying Aye.

Aye.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:33 AM (/B0pU)

157 103 Our local newspaper always had pictures of bikini-clad Australians from Perth during the winter months when I was a kid.

Posted by: hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:06 AM (2X7pN)
==========================

are you Aussie or was your local news editor just fascinated with girls from Perth? Not that theres anything wrong with that...I myself have an interest in bikini-clad girls from Perth, for example.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 09, 2015 07:34 AM (6um35)

158 When gas prices started coming down, you just knew, you just knew, what those assholes in D.C. were thinking.

Posted by: Case at January 09, 2015 07:35 AM (wf3Kt)

159
And you'll be tickled to read about the plans for the new term from Team Republican's puppetmaster The Main Street Partnership and their Republican marionettes.

The good news? Rep. Fred "Light Bulb Ban" Upton wants to do more work on energy efficiency. Then things go South from there.

blogs.rollcall.com/218/main-street-republicans-detail-policy-agenda/

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 07:35 AM (kdS6q)

160 John Cornyn is really out there saying "resist the evil GOP effort to overturn ObamaCare!"?

what a fool.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:37 AM (6um35)

161 asshole terrorists have up to 7 hostags in a print shop

they have been in communication with a third person

a third gunman has a hostage at a kosher sandwich store in Paris

Posted by: ThunderB at January 09, 2015 07:37 AM (zOTsN)

162 I saw REO Speedwagon in OKC in 2012; 50-50 male-female ratio. They did the ballads that were big radio hits, but rocked the rest. Still pretty good after all this time.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread on patrol at January 09, 2015 07:37 AM (ppCGB)

163 http://bit.ly/149gH1L
Reynold's Law

Posted by: Tmitsss at January 09, 2015 07:37 AM (Pa9vP)

164 are you Aussie or was your local news editor just fascinated with girls from Perth? Not that theres anything wrong with that...I myself have an interest in bikini-clad girls ~~from Perth, for example~~
Posted by: Joe Biden

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:38 AM (/B0pU)

165 I think Jews ought to get out of France-Go to Israel. It's safer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 07:39 AM (DXzRD)

166 http://bit.ly/149gH1L
Reynold's Law

Shiny side out?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:40 AM (/B0pU)

167 High for today in ETEX is 38 and frozen precipitation for Saturday/Sunday. Can't something be done about this? For the chirren social justice and tibetan gerbil worming?

Posted by: Eromero at January 09, 2015 07:41 AM (go5uR)

168 the call needs to go forth to all Senate Republicans, "Just shut the fuck up!!". Seriously, no talking. Zip it.

Also, any "Responsible Government" House members, like Fred "the dim bulb" Upton.

They exemplify all that is wrong with the Republican Party, except, of course, for Teh Ted and Mike Lee.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:41 AM (6um35)

169 french have been the largest number of immigrants to israel in the last four years

40,000 have fled

74 per cent of french jews are strongly considering leaving

Posted by: ThunderB at January 09, 2015 07:41 AM (zOTsN)

170 israel expects at least another 10,000 frenchmen this year

i say more

the restaurants in israel about to get an upgrade

Posted by: ThunderB at January 09, 2015 07:42 AM (zOTsN)

171 Jews out?

Then it'll be Catholicism vs. Islam.

Sounds vaguely familiar.

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:44 AM (g/zj9)

172 Subsidizing the markers of status does not does not create the character traits that created that status, it undermines them. Reynold's Law

Posted by: Tmitsss at January 09, 2015 07:45 AM (Pa9vP)

173 Then it'll be Catholicism vs. Islam.
Sounds vaguely familiar.
Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:44 AM (g/zj9)

I see that you haven't been in any cathedrals in Europe lately.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:45 AM (/kVvc)

174 John Cornyn is really out there saying "resist the evil GOP effort to overturn ObamaCare!"? what a fool.

You want to kill 404Care? Remove the Congressional exemption, FORCE them to sign up online, and IRS rape them on non-compliance.

404Care will go down quicker than a homecoming queen.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:45 AM (/B0pU)

175 the French are trading those rabble-rousing, cabal-leading, welfare queen Jews for nice quiet Muzzies, are they?

Makes sense.

Posted by: Satan at January 09, 2015 07:46 AM (6um35)

176 Glenn is right on that. Turn the CC's into trade schools and put in an order for 10 million 3D printers, stat.

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:46 AM (g/zj9)

177 I'm from Upstate New York. Winter seemingly lasted forever. We needed something to distract us from the cold.

Posted by: Hadoop at January 09, 2015 07:46 AM (tHTFq)

178 Was any part of the Highway Trust Fund used to fund the California Rail Boondoggle ?

Posted by: Tmitsss at January 09, 2015 07:47 AM (Pa9vP)

179 It's important that the terrorist holed up in the kosher deli be given whichever pickle best suits him. Thus saith my VoxCard.

Posted by: Ezra Klein at January 09, 2015 07:48 AM (6um35)

180 174>> You want to kill 404Care? Remove the Congressional exemption, FORCE them to sign up online, and IRS rape them on non-compliance.

It would be veto proof...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 09, 2015 07:48 AM (60Vyp)

181 If there are not a lot of Jews or practicing Catholics "tolerant" Muslims can always going after Evangelicals. That group is growing over there:

http://tinyurl.com/89ynzpd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 07:49 AM (DXzRD)

182 'Free' college should exempt social 'science' and liberal arts, but it won't, because that's really the point. A few years of indoctrination and they can produce Lena Dunhams on an industrial scale.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 07:49 AM (MMC8r)

183 It's important that the terrorist holed up in the kosher deli be given whichever pickle best suits him.

The pork pickle.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:50 AM (/B0pU)

184 Sean, I've been in more of them than you imagine. When it comes to a choice, your average secular European isn't going to back Islam. But I'm speaking more about basic world views. Hollande's "republicanism" is a squish and suited like a parasite to times of health and ease. Underneath secularity is something else. When the SHTF, we'll know what it is.

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:51 AM (g/zj9)

185 Fox says 5 people, a women and children, are being held hostage in France.

Posted by: Baldy at January 09, 2015 07:51 AM (+35FH)

186 178
Was any part of the Highway Trust Fund used to fund the California Rail Boondoggle ?

Posted by: Tmitsss at January 09, 2015 07:47 AM (Pa9vP)

They are funding it piecemeal. So far they have sold $10B in bonds out of an estimated cost of $68B. (and experts say it will cost much more.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 07:52 AM (wlDny)

187 France should inflate coverage about the hostages immediately.

I hope they stream the footage of police dragging the dead jihadi's through the streets. With close-ups. And women spitting on their corpses.

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:54 AM (g/zj9)

188
In celebrating its 50 year anniversary, US Santa Cruz now bills itself as "The Original Authority on Questioning Authority".

I'm willing to bet that their campus speech code belies that boast.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:54 AM (bWFHa)

189 Sean, I've been in more of them than you imagine. When it comes to a choice, your average secular European isn't going to back Islam. But I'm speaking more about basic world views. Hollande's "republicanism" is a squish and suited like a parasite to times of health and ease. Underneath secularity is something else. When the SHTF, we'll know what it is.
Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:51 AM (g/zj9)

The cathedrals are empty in Europe, so it won't be the Crusades again.

Secularists - which represents the entirety of European political leadership at every level from nation to town - are totes OK with living under Sharia.

The "it" that you think is lying under secularism is it's rot. Europe will go down with a whimper and not a bang.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 07:54 AM (/kVvc)

190 I just realized one of the terrorists scumbags is named Cherif. Is that as in "Cherif don't like it"?

Well, Rock the Casbah.

http://binged.it/1BI0ONf

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 07:55 AM (6um35)

191
UC Santa Cruz...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 09, 2015 07:55 AM (bWFHa)

192 bombs between the minarets...

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 07:56 AM (g/zj9)

193 bombs between the minarets...

Awesome band!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:57 AM (/B0pU)

194 Heh heh heh. Local Chick-fil-A H8 shack has cars wrapped around the building. Sonic next door? Not a car.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 07:59 AM (/B0pU)

195 You wanna go home? Get Bourne.

Posted by: Pamala Landy at January 09, 2015 08:00 AM (WCnJW)

196 It's not the political elite that will fight. The cathedrals are just buildings.

Posted by: Feh at January 09, 2015 08:00 AM (g/zj9)

197 Living in Boston, I can say the last thing we want here is the Olympics. Better get Obama to stump for us in the next stage.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 07:03 AM

Amen. This is idiocy. Where are we going to put it? How much worse can they make our already legendarily bad traffic, and do we really need one more gigantic hackfest in town? Actually, if it means we get to indict yet another house speaker, that could be one small benefit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 09, 2015 08:00 AM (094bv)

198 These guys want to be martyrs. Here's an idea. As the police liquidate the banlieues, they can hand out flyers of these guys, saying "they're the reason we're here."

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 08:01 AM (S9rS1)

199 "Subsidizing the markers of status does not does not create the character traits that created that status, it undermines them. Reynold's Law"

Back in the day when ESWS a voluntary qualification in the Navy, it meant a great deal as a motivational indicator.

So.....big Navy decided to make it mandatory.
And Commands were evaluated on how many of their Sailors were ESWS qualified.

No one listened to our argument that the sought after, inmate character traits were what caused the individual to seek the voluntary qualification.
Nope. Becoming qualified is what causes the character traits.

Cart, horse....some assembly required.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:01 AM (g6jni)

200 197 What I've always said Boston needed was a few white elephants.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 08:02 AM (S9rS1)

201 Yeah, the Catholic Church took a looooong time to accept Magna Carta.

Guys like Donahoe still don't quite understand the First Amendment.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 09, 2015 08:02 AM (V70Uh)

202 if those guys want to be martyrs, they could just hand over their guns, free the hostages, and the fuzz will give them their wish. I don't see a problem here.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 08:04 AM (6um35)

203 What I've always said Boston needed was a few white elephants.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 08:02 AM

Good point. We could use a totally useless building/Ferris wheel/unidentified 'sculpture.' Mumbles' R2D2 building is getting old...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 09, 2015 08:05 AM (094bv)

204 When you search-engine the name of Donohoe's front group, the first hit is for the organization that carried out the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre. With a world of historically-connected names available, they chose that one. Volumes spoken.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2015 08:06 AM (xq1UY)

205 Anyone else ever have middle ear surgery? I did last week to replace stirup (stapes) with a prosthetic. Holy Hell I was unprepared for how that turned my world upside down. I figured I might be a little dizzy for a day or two, I was in the navy and offshore fished most of my life so my equilibrium has always been perfect.
I thought I was dying, felt super drunk, couldn't walk straight and the worst part is it actually affected my intelligence. I think I temporarily lost about 35 iq points. The doctor took out the packing yesterday and that helped tremendously but I'm far far from 100 percent. I can hear in that ear now for the first time in twenty years but I think that is freaking out my brain which is no longer used to nerve impulses from there, every sound is like a mini lsd trip.
So mark this down if you ever need ear surgery, it's going to be a funky recovery.
I guess in a few months when I have normal hearing it will be worth it but for now I really really miss my ability to balance and think in a linear manner.

Posted by: traye at January 09, 2015 08:08 AM (ijlul)

206 "Love Letter"-An "Our Daily Bread" devotional:

http://odb.org

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 08:09 AM (DXzRD)

207 This is idiocy. Where are we going to put it?

Not to worry, I read that 70% of the facilities will be new and temporary.

So glad the Bay Area avoided your fate. They were looking forward to ramming thru all sorts of transportation and infrastructure projects, "for our own good", of course.

Posted by: t-bird at January 09, 2015 08:09 AM (FcR7P)

208

Rod Taylor, star of such flicks as "The Time Machine" and "The Birds" has passed away at 84.

RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 09, 2015 08:09 AM (CMkNk)

209 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:01 AM (g6jni)

What is ESWS?

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:10 AM (wlDny)

210 Sorry you're having problems. Traye. That sounds miserable. Will pray for your healing and balance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 08:11 AM (DXzRD)

211 In reference to post #198, google the history of Lidice, Czech Republic.

Posted by: TheGhostOfSimonaHalep'sDDs at January 09, 2015 08:11 AM (S9rS1)

212 "I think I temporarily lost about 35 iq points. "

I can see the headlines now.

After effects from surgery cause person to become liberal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:11 AM (g6jni)

213 Less than four hours sleep.

Water in shower not quite working right.

Bathroom renovation until nearly 3am.

I'm a very unhappy Cylon today. Going to take massive effort not to gut a fool.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Warlord of the Western Wastes at January 09, 2015 08:12 AM (m9V0o)

214 So the muzzies want to be martyred. I say give them what they want. Just hang on one sec while I get some bacon ready. Oh, muzzies, by the way - you want it open casket or closed? Just one second while the .338 Lapua Magnun round gets chambered. #boom #alwaysbringenoughgun

If these two examples of human debris are allowed to breathe, they will continue to be an example to other like minded individuals. They can continue to spew their hatred. The quicker they assume room temperature, the better this planet will be.

Posted by: IBrewBeerWhatsYourSuperPower at January 09, 2015 08:13 AM (DlmoZ)

215 So glad the Bay Area avoided your fate. They were
looking forward to ramming thru all sorts of transportation and
infrastructure projects, "for our own good", of course.

Posted by: t-bird at January 09, 2015 08:09 AM

Yay! We can finally get Deval's high speed rail line to New Bedford!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 09, 2015 08:13 AM (094bv)

216 Less than four hours sleep. Water in shower not quite working right.

Bathroom renovation until nearly 3am.

I'm a very unhappy Cylon today. Going to take massive effort not to gut a fool.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Warlord of the Western Wastes at January 09, 2015 08:12 AM (m9V0o)

Maybe that's the solution to get the French police to be a little more aggressive.

Bathroom renovations.

Wait...you need to first have bathrooms for that. Dammit.

:::: back to drawing board :::

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:13 AM (/kVvc)

217 but for now I really really miss my ability to balance and think in a linear manner.

Posted by: traye at January 09, 2015 08:08 AM (ijlul)

So...you're a temporary liberal?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 09, 2015 08:13 AM (Zu3d9)

218 "What is ESWS?"

Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist

Intended to be a Surface Navy version of Sub Quals.

Came out after your time.
Late 70's, early 80's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:14 AM (g6jni)

219 But Ridin' the Storm Out and Roll With the Changes were awesome rock and roll back in the day when they were mostly unknown.

--

In my youth, and back when I didn't pay too much attention to lyrics, I loved "Golden Country," what I now consider REO's smack in the face to America. Great song, otherwise! heh

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 09, 2015 08:14 AM (6C3ns)

220 "Nope. Becoming qualified is what causes the character traits"

Sounds like the theory behind common core math; trying to teach the shortcuts and tricks used by people who are deft with math, without teaching the boring parts which underlie the deftness.

We seem to be onto some kind of basic principle of stupid leftism here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 09, 2015 08:15 AM (Hk17e)

221 18 MI is honoring Tom Hayden's home site in Port Huron, MI. Just what we need. Honoring a terrorist's home town where SDS started.

... Proper honors would include blowing-up his home

Posted by: #BringBackOurHumVees at January 09, 2015 08:16 AM (LA2U/)

222 Right on schedule, clients calling bitching about the people who couldn't make it in.

Major f'ing snowstorm be damned, I guess.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 09, 2015 08:16 AM (7ObY1)

223 199. From what I've heard there's like three more qual pins like esws
Got to make the kids feel good I guess

So says the EMC (SW/AW/DV)

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 08:16 AM (IUFR3)

224 "We seem to be onto some kind of basic principle of stupid leftism here."

Pretty much.

Birds can fly, and birds have feathers.

So....if we teach pigs to fly, they will grow feathers.

...

...

Profit!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:17 AM (g6jni)

225 Thanks FS.

And

After effects from surgery cause person to become liberal.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice a

Some of my first thoughts after I figured out that now I was dum dumb was "oh, so that is why liberal exist."

I have a farm and have to feed my animals and had to have a card that said "feed pigs, then feed dogs, then feed birds." It has to be done in that order but I kept getting confused.

Posted by: traye at January 09, 2015 08:17 AM (ijlul)

226 John Wayne called Rod Taylor "a real man."
John. Wayne.

I will never forget him singing "Blue Moon" with the concertina in "Fate Is The Hunter." I have flown with guys just like that. Much more fun in retrospect.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2015 08:18 AM (xq1UY)

227 the media keeps saying about all these things going on around paris that "nobody knows if these incidents are related"

OF COURSE THEYRE ALL RELATED-ITS FUCKING MUSLIMS TRYING TO FUCK UP THE WORLD-ITS ALL THE SAME THING-ITS ALL THE SAME PROBLEM

it would be like if in one part of atlanta TWO people died of an ebola-like illness, and then in ANOTHER part of atlanta FIVE people died of an ebola-like illness-YES, THEYRE RELATED *ITS EBOLA*

Posted by: sound awake at January 09, 2015 08:18 AM (fKOqs)

228 What's going on around here ?
Thursday is Podcast day. Thursday is always podcast day. There has not been a podcast on a Thursday for weeks now.

Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at January 09, 2015 08:18 AM (TQxRy)

229 Just got back from shoveling the driveway.

What's going on in France?
The brothers are holed up in a printing press but someone else is holding hostages in a kosher deli? Did I hear that right?

Posted by: @votermom at January 09, 2015 08:18 AM (cbfNE)

230 Profit !

Yay !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 09, 2015 08:19 AM (Hk17e)

231 Drudge is reporting that the League of Houmourless Muslims are cornered and want a martyr's death.
I say we should have some scantly clad showgirls peel off all their skin starting at their balls, ending by slowly cutting off their heads, shitting down their necks and then feeding their remains to pigs and monkeys.

Posted by: #BringBackOurHumVees at January 09, 2015 08:19 AM (LA2U/)

232 "So says the EMC (SW/AW/DV)"

Yup, gotta have a pin for everything.

Used to watch Squadron send out their Sailors TAD to ride ships, just long enough to get the Qual.

Not a day longer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:19 AM (g6jni)

233 227. Hmmmmmm
They all have beards......could be Amish

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 08:19 AM (IUFR3)

234 What's going on in France?
The brothers are holed up in a printing press but someone else is holding hostages in a kosher deli? Did I hear that right?
Posted by: @votermom at January 09, 2015 08:18 AM (cbfNE)

Yes. And they're all talking to each other via cell phone.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:19 AM (/kVvc)

235 We only need free college because the Union/Gov schools aren't doing their job.

College students reading at a 7th grade level says it all.

Young people totally clueless on geography, history, civics.

Obsession with self and a lack of ability to do any critical thinking on most any subject.

The perfect citizenry for tyrants, demagogues and oligarchs.

Still the powers that be decided to import more.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 09, 2015 08:20 AM (RZzX3)

236 "Our loyal, brave people... should know the truth. They should know that there has been a gross neglect and deficiency in our defenses; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road... and do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of the bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year, unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in olden time."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 09, 2015 08:20 AM (659DL)

237 Donahue is the wrong messenger, but with the growing Evangelical radicalization and threats against segments of the Catholic population in America, the Catholic league is a needed a group. The next step would be the turn it into a militia to defend Catholics in America from potential genocide.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:20 AM (zHV9p)

238 We had CRAO and EWS on the Enterprise in the early 70s.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:20 AM (wlDny)

239
Meanwhile over at the allegedly conservative National Review, this guy:

Raise the Gas Tax. A Lot - Charles Krauthammer, National Review

Calls for a $1 increase in the "user fee" because buying gas is bad m'kay and the Republicans will have more opportunity to fiddle with the chips and determine winners and losers.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 08:21 AM (kdS6q)

240 May I be the first to coin: "ObamaPlomas"?

yes ! and no transcripts will be given out !

Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at January 09, 2015 08:21 AM (TQxRy)

241 And, the trolls are up.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2015 08:22 AM (xq1UY)

242 @201
People like you look for any excuse to Catholic bash. Keep spitting at Catholics and you will see we are not pushovers.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:23 AM (zHV9p)

243 RIP, Rod....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 09, 2015 08:23 AM (0Vs5e)

244 Holland apparently hasn't got the message that right after terror attacks, the really hip western leaders always head to Vegas for fundraisers. It's kind of a thing.

Posted by: MTF at January 09, 2015 08:23 AM (6um35)

245 Drudge is reporting that the League of Houmourless Muslims are cornered and want a martyr's death.

Cant we give them the Manuel Noriega treatment and just blast Milli Vanilli music 24/7 until they shoot themselves or surrender ?

Posted by: McCool at January 09, 2015 08:23 AM (TQxRy)

246 232. I've seen that on my destroyer
They'd have to go elsewhere for an engineering signature unless they wanted to stand a few U/Is in the pit

I got mine as an E-4 on the Forrestal in 88 on the med cruise
It was hard as shit, final board, went with a FC2 and a FC1
They didn't get it, I did
First third to ever do it

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (IUFR3)

247 "We had CRAO and EWS on the Enterprise in the early 70s."

No slight was intended.
I forgot you were still in in the 70's.
And if I remember right, ESWS was just ramping up right about that time.

Hell, I remember my first ship in 78' and the concept of EOSS was still sort of hit or miss, depending on the Command.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (g6jni)

248 "The No Go Zones of Europe"

Where those murderous French Muslims came from they're a lot more:

http://tinyurl.com/pjnowvc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (DXzRD)

249 Double hostage situations ib France!
I woke up ar 8 & Fox had weekly Friday with Geraldo & I put local news on.

Good Morning!

Posted by: Carol at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (sj3Ax)

250 Raise the Gas Tax. A Lot - Charles Krauthammer, National Review

Pains me to say it, but fuck you, Charles.

Trial balloons everywhere.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (659DL)

251 Donahue is the wrong messenger, but with the growing Evangelical radicalization and threats against segments of the Catholic population in America, the Catholic league is a needed a group. The next step would be the turn it into a militia to defend Catholics in America from potential genocide.
Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:20 AM (zHV9p)

Your tin foil hat is a little off-kilter.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (/kVvc)

252 @245 Brilliant concept, but this is France. Johnny Hallyday FTW!

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 09, 2015 08:25 AM (xq1UY)

253 242 -

Keep making stupid, idle threats, and people will see you aren't really Catholic.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 09, 2015 08:26 AM (Dj0WE)

254 @251
The hatred expressed at Catholics in a daily basis on conservative websites have convinced me its time for Catholics to arm up and form militias.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:26 AM (zHV9p)

255 247 Hell, I remember my first ship in 78' and the concept of EOSS was still sort of hit or miss, depending on the Command.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:24 AM (g6jni)

I got out in 77.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:26 AM (wlDny)

256 We have Hector sign, ya'll.

Don't feed it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 09, 2015 08:26 AM (659DL)

257 Ace up

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:27 AM (wlDny)

258 We have Hector sign, ya'll.

Don't feed it.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 09, 2015 08:26 AM (659DL)

Dammit, forgot to check for hash

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:27 AM (/kVvc)

259 "It was hard as shit, final board, went with a FC2 and a FC1 "

Our CO chaired each and every ESWS Board back in the day.

First question?

"What is the mission of the United States Navy, as defined in Title X of the US Code?"

If you got that one wrong, all stop.

About Face, dismissed.

Ding Ding....dumb Ass, departing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:27 AM (g6jni)

260 KooKoo Hector's in.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 08:27 AM (MMC8r)

261 Ughhhh
Either 5 min till the runs start or 35
Need to get paid!!!!! Momma wants a new pair of sh.....
Actually God knows what T wants, but whatever it is it's not cheap

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 08:27 AM (IUFR3)

262 By the way, while we weren't looking, Boko Haram Nazis have slaughtered 2,000 people in Nigeria.

-
This is a statement of kill-crazy-lunatic-phobia.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 09, 2015 08:28 AM (ee9LE)

263 Hector's paranoia is a many-faceted jewel.

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 08:29 AM (MMC8r)

264 259. Ours had at least one dept head as the senior board member
I had Suppo
Bastard wouldn't stop with the UNREP questions

Posted by: Navycopjoe at January 09, 2015 08:29 AM (IUFR3)

265 Hector's paranoia is a many-faceted jewel.
Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 08:29 AM (MMC8r)

Tertiary syphilis is a bitch.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:30 AM (/kVvc)

266 WTH?-"Evangelical radicalization"Oh, good grief. It's the same troll from yesterday under a new handle.

Evangelicals are no threat to Catholics. Some Catholics might leave to join Evangelical churches but the reverse is also true. Christ died so that we might be one, dimwit. We stand together as Christians or we perish separately.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 09, 2015 08:30 AM (DXzRD)

267 Yes. And they're all talking to each other via cell phone.

France needs Maet.
Hack the cell phones. Reroute all calls to voice mail. Replace vm message with "HODOR!"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 09, 2015 08:33 AM (/B0pU)

268 What I've always said Boston needed was a few white elephants.

-
Remember the Big Dig? This'll be even better.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 09, 2015 08:34 AM (ee9LE)

269 "They'd have to go elsewhere for an engineering signature unless they wanted to stand a few U/Is in the pit "

I used to Sit a fair number of EOOW Boards for the Officers trying for their SWO Quals.

Many a time my first question was "Describe the route from the DC Deck to the EOOW's position in Main Control"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:35 AM (g6jni)

270 269 Many a time my first question was "Describe the route from the DC Deck to the EOOW's position in Main Control"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:35 AM (g6jni)

LOL, how many missed that?

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:36 AM (wlDny)

271 @242
Its you snake handlers who are making threats against Catholics.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:36 AM (zHV9p)

272 @266
Evangelicals spew hatred towards Catholics on a daily basis. They threaten ethnic cleaning against Hispanic Catholics and insult the Church. That is a threat and one many Catholics are starting to wake up to.

Evangelicals are as much a threat to Catholics as are Muslims.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:38 AM (zHV9p)

273 I had a JG going for his engineering quals who could not rotate a ratchet wrench. We used those to open valves with. He didn't understand that you had to turn it over to go in one direction.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2015 08:38 AM (wlDny)

274 "LOL, how many missed that?"
Out of the ones that I chose to ask?

Most of them.

Senior EOOW, and Top Snipe, I knew every Officer who stood on the deck plates.

And...those who didn't, but said that they did.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:38 AM (g6jni)

275 "snake-handlers"

Mark your bingo cards.

I've got a wait for 'neocon.'

Posted by: --- at January 09, 2015 08:38 AM (MMC8r)

276 Wow, not Hector is arguing with himself.

Really gonna need to up that Lithium dose.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 09, 2015 08:39 AM (/kVvc)

277 "I had a JG going for his engineering quals who could not rotate a ratchet wrench. "

Had one like that.
Give him a crows foot, and he's gonna either lose an eye, or chip a tooth.

And the valve will still be shut.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:40 AM (g6jni)

278 Wow, one of the first impulses the new Congress has is to raise gasoline taxes. And Republicans support this. What the fcuk did I vote for last November?

-
You mean you still don't see the humor in that?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 09, 2015 08:40 AM (ee9LE)

279 It's Hector's misfortune that the days of the Inquisition are passed.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 09, 2015 08:42 AM (ee9LE)

280 @279
Protestants burnt witches and raped Catholic nuns. Go cry me a river about the inquisition.

Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:43 AM (zHV9p)

281 Raise the Gas Tax. A Lot - Charles Krauthammer, National Review

Calls
for a $1 increase in the "user fee" because buying gas is bad m'kay and
the Republicans will have more opportunity to fiddle with the chips and
determine winners and losers.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 09, 2015 08:21 AM (kdS6q)

I like Krauthammer generally but he is all wet here. I am not sure if he has looked outside much but those big trucks that drive around and deliver everything you eat and use: THEY RUN ON GAS.
Can't we just reduce both and spend less?

Posted by: Dandolo at January 09, 2015 08:43 AM (wyI5D)

282 Heh. That's how I refer to going to my church on Sunday. "OK, off to handle snakes!" My pastor thinks it's funny.

Posted by: Bob's House of Nics Too Lengthy for iPads at January 09, 2015 08:44 AM (yxw0r)

283 Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist

Intended to be a Surface Navy version of Sub Quals.

Came out after your time.

Late 70's, early 80's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:14 AM (g6jni)

And its Aviation counterpart, Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist, which also went the same way - becoming mandatory, also against the opposition of anyone who wore the wings. Now if one of these guys wants to stand out they have to get dual qual'd (carrier squadron sailors get both EAWS and ESWS for the carrier).

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 09, 2015 08:44 AM (6fyGz)

284 It's Hector's misfortune that the days of the Inquisition are passed.

SEND IN THE NUNS!

Posted by: Torqemada at January 09, 2015 08:45 AM (MMC8r)

285 Heh. That's how I refer to going to my church on Sunday. "OK, off to handle snakes!" My pastor thinks it's funny.

I once referred to my pastor as a 'man of the polyester.'

Posted by: Torqemada at January 09, 2015 08:46 AM (MMC8r)

286 Morning, Glories!

Does anyone have details on the new moron baby, when was born, etc? I missed it.

Also, whatever else I missed in important news?

Right now, got to feed beasts....

Oh, BTW:

nood

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 09, 2015 08:49 AM (0Euvx)

287 "And its Aviation counterpart, Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist, which also went the same way - becoming mandatory"

And this is the path that we will follow with Secondary Education in the U.S.

In the meantime, my Doctor keeps his yacht at a marina in Florida.
In the slip next to his?
My Plumbers yacht.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 09, 2015 08:50 AM (g6jni)

288 I dunno, I see Krauthammer as the broken clock - he's right once in a while, but he comes out with this kind of krap too often for my taste. He belongs on Fox.
Which if you think about it is about the worst thing one can say about someone in the dextrosphere.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 09, 2015 08:53 AM (Hk17e)

289 Evangelicals are as much a threat to Catholics as are Muslims.Posted by: Catholic League at January 09, 2015 08:38 AM (zHV9p)This Catholic says you're full of shit, Hector.

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