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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com | Overnight Open Thread (2-24-2015)Christian rulers throughout history did the same, Voegelin observed, when they allowed the illegitimate use of the legitimate political apparatus of the day. It is not acceptable to invoke God and at the same time disassociate the justice found in God's moral law from the implementation of political power for power's sake-particularly in the guise of some salvationist crusade that offers a convenient pretext for amassing power. Voegelin's famous command to both Christians and modern gnostics alike was, "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" Humanity must not try to play God by forcing the end times or by seeking utopia on earth. It will only lead, he warned, as in the Tower of Babel parable in the Bible, to political disorder and senseless human suffering. Quote of the Day II - Adam Baldwin Unsafe For Women Mainstream "geek culture" media have been frothing at the mouth this month because Supanova, an Australian convention for sci-fi, comic, anime and gaming fans, has refused to rescind actor Adam Baldwin's invitation to appear, after a petition claimed that, as a supporter of GamerGate, his attendance will make women "feel unsafe". And by 'feel unsafe' they mean he will disagree with them. Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings. "They sought paradise in a Scottish field - and found hunger, boredom and mosquitoes" Evans, the author of this book, was one of those oddballs who rather looked forward to the apocalypse, because it promised 'challenging times ahead'. If, in the not too distant future, famines and droughts more or less wipe us out, that will be our own fault for allowing population levels to reach an unsustainable nine billion - the predicted figure for 2050. How much better the planet will be with a select handful living in their villages of yurts, log cabins, teepees and straw-bale huts, the children gambolling happily 'amidst the bracken and the trees'. The air will be cleaner. Wildlife 'will make a comeback'. Neighbours will help each other out. People will be fitter as a result of their manual labour. Also: People often ask me why environmentalists tend always to incline to apocalyptic conclusions about the state of the planet. "Because it makes them happy," is my standard response. This is not tongue-in-cheek. There is something about certain kinds of personality types that derives a frisson of delight from contemplating the end of the world. And if you point out that the end of the world is not at hand, it makes environmentalists very unhappy, in part because it deprives them of the opportunity to play savior to the world. Note that this personality type is not strictly confined to environmentalism or the Left.
Sweden's Multicultural Expert on Islamophobia Joins ISIS in Syria Eight months of ISIS so far, as I sit to write, have taken their toll on every aspect of the city. Electricity and running water are available for two to four hours a week, but no one knows which hours in any given week. Umm Saja, an employee at a city office, said that she is not surprised by the lack of services: "Providing clean water and energy to people is not child's play. It takes regular, trained employees and experts. How are a bunch of brainwashed young people who have not finished grade school going to maintain such functions?" People approach the militants to complain only to be answered, "You Moslawis are too spoiled. Think about the early days of Islam. Did the Prophet own an air-conditioner?" DOJ Announces No Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman Despite 18 months of looking for anything they could possibly use against him. Apparently More Climate Chakras Need Releasing Because being a climate saint makes you prone to chakral swelling. Grandma Maced By Police For Bringing Cupcakes To Granddaughter's Classroom Apparently there is an on-going custody dispute over her son's daughters along with restraining orders for all involved. Apparently not everyone likes grandma's cupcakes. Of Course: Obama Vetoes Keystone It turns out that when you don't care about public opinion or your party's fate anymore and the opposition doesn't have a 2/3 majority, you can do pretty much whatever you like. "Ghost Rider" B-52 Rises From The Grave To Fly Again "U.S. Air Force serial number 61-0007, a B-52H known by its nose art as "Ghost Rider," was brought out of seven years of storage at the Defense Department's boneyard in Arizona. Its new mission? To replace an active B-52H that was badly damaged by fire while on the ground at Barksdale Air Force Base and make the USAF arms treaty-dictated fleet of 76 B-52s whole once again." FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine It's just a mini CNC mill optimized for finishing 80% lowers but since it has the word 'gun' in its title, it must be evil and/or illegal. Last fall, Defense Distributed - the company created by Cody Wilson of 3D-printed gun fame - announced a DIY gunsmithing machine called the Ghost Gunner. Now, FedEx is refusing to ship the device, saying there are laws or regulations that would prohibit them from shipment. A FedEx spokesperson said, "This device is capable of manufacturing firearms, and potentially by private individuals. We are uncertain at this time whether this device is a regulated commodity by local, state or federal governments. As such, to ensure we comply with the applicable law and regulations, FedEx declined to ship this device until we know more about how it will be regulated." Wilson argues, "They're acting like this is legal when in fact it's the expression of a political preference. The artifact that they're shipping is a CNC mill. There's nothing about it that is specifically related to firearms except the hocus pocus of the marketing." Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy Knock, knock. Who's There? Land-Octopus. Teh Tweet! Tonight's post brought to you by Japanese wannabe pro-wrestlers preparing before their Battle Royale match: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2015 09:27 PM (0Ew3K) 2
... Adam Baldwin's invitation to appear, after a petition claimed that, as a supporter of GamerGate, his attendance will make women "feel unsafe".
Imagine the awful possibility of terrorists descending on the event. The first place these shrieking ninnies would run to is behind the backs of men like Baldwin. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 09:27 PM (etsc+) 3
Federal Government to Sacrifice Your Children's Health to Gaia
Recently, concerns were raised about the Federal Dietary Guidelines being updated with Gaia being placed before lowly human beings. They said they wouldn't do that but, unsurprisingly, they lied, and are now touting "plant-based: diets for "sustainability" rather than explicit worship of mother Gaia. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8415 Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2015 09:29 PM (0Ew3K) 4
Ah Japan I will miss you...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 24, 2015 09:31 PM (/4AZU) 5
In these complaints one hears not only the voiced Islamist cant, but also the rural accents beneath it that identify most ISIS cadres as poorer, less well-educated Iraqis who have resented Mosul urbanites all their lives.
I see. ISIS = Khmer Rouge Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 09:32 PM (sdi6R) 6
I had to read the post first, didn't I? Sigh...
Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2015 09:32 PM (FcR7P) 7
Kent State
TwitchyTeam @TwitchyTeam ROTC vans torched, students warned not to wear uniforms; Will Eric Holder 'occupy' this ROTC office? bit.ly/1AqDHql Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 09:34 PM (ZPrif) 8
* comes up gasping for air *
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:34 PM (F2IAQ) 9
Adam Baldwin is gonns be in Sydney? Cool.
Posted by: otho at February 24, 2015 09:34 PM (tBSrv) 10
DOJ Announces No Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman
And yet the radio news tonight had to remind us for the millionth time that Zimmerman shot and killed "an unarmed black teen". I cfuking hate these people. Media delenda est. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 09:35 PM (sdi6R) 11
Adam Baldwin makes me feel.......quite safe.
Posted by: Ktgreat at February 24, 2015 09:35 PM (Bl4dy) 12
* pant, pant *
Damn! Escaped from the sucking vortex of a second banning. *tips hat to my anonymous rescuer* Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:36 PM (F2IAQ) 13
Evening 'rons. I'm finding myself with a severe case of cabin fever. Been iced in for two days. This afternoon everything finally thawed. Just in time for another ice storm tonight.
I have never wanted to go to work so badly. Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at February 24, 2015 09:36 PM (KuU4f) 14
Slow night round here eh ?
Posted by: mccool at February 24, 2015 09:36 PM (g5Luu) 15
I think in general, exposure to a variety of things early in life helps prevent allergies later; however, one of my sons possessed very severe pediatric allergies to very common substances (eventually determined to be milk, eggs, and wheat) even though they were introduced very gradually into his diet just like we did to the other kids, none of whom have any allergies. The word "individual" exists for a reason.
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 24, 2015 09:36 PM (ftVQq) 16
g'evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 24, 2015 09:37 PM (4gN5w) 17
In these complaints one hears not only the voiced Islamist cant, but also the rural accents beneath it that identify most ISIS cadres as poorer, less well-educated Iraqis who have resented Mosul urbanites all their lives.
I see. ISIS = Khmer Rouge Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 09:32 PM (sdi6R) Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: The Modern Day Khmer Rouge http://tinyurl.com/m9tkyoy Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2015 09:37 PM (0Ew3K) 18
About 2 yrs ago another young man of about 28 or so decided to live rough and froze to death also I believe in Scotland.
Posted by: Bruce J. at February 24, 2015 09:38 PM (iQIUe) 19
I worry that nutters will try to give their infants whole peanuts or peanut butter and kill their kid.
Posted by: Bruce J. at February 24, 2015 09:39 PM (iQIUe) 20
@JamesRosenFNC: Senior @StateDept official arrested in child sex sting http://t.co/in9JRadmmp
A senior State Department official in charge of federal counterterrorism programs was arrested Tuesday afternoon for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor, Fox News has learned. ... Daniel Rosen, who is the director of counterterrorism programs and policy at the State Department, was arrested and transported to the D.C. jail and charged with one count of Use of a Communications Device to Solicit a Juvenile. Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 09:40 PM (ZPrif) 21
And if you point out that the end of the world is not at hand, it makes environmentalists very unhappy, in part because it deprives them of the opportunity to play savior to the world.
It's part of the morality play of a oikophobic, obtuse cult; Earth GOOOD, men BAAD, GAIA PUNISH! YEAAY!!! Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 09:40 PM (etsc+) 22
I watched a 3 part series on Scandanavia. It was about what made them so happy and happy they were including paying their high taxes.
After 2 episodes I couldnt take it anymore. They are so fucking boring. Seriously, boring. Posted by: Bruce J. at February 24, 2015 09:41 PM (iQIUe) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 24, 2015 09:42 PM (l1zOH) 24
Mo. Rons.
Posted by: fluffy at February 24, 2015 09:42 PM (Ua6T/) 25
I cfuking hate these people. Media delenda est.
Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 09:35 PM (sdi6R) For some reason that reminds me of the tenacity of the liberals/Democrats/Socialists, they never quit and they always have the next assault on liberty being perfected in the back room (See Care, Health, 2700 pages of). Contrast that with the ineptitude of the GOP whose only solid proven technique of legislative participation in Constitutional governance for nearly all occasions is preemptive surrender, and rapid surrender at that! Posted by: Hrothgar at February 24, 2015 09:42 PM (ftVQq) 26
This country is headed for bad times. This is what the Washington City regime wants. They have been pushing for it a long time. Don't be surprised when something bad happens warranting martial law. It's right around the corner. Certainly before November 2016. Count on it.
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2015 09:45 PM (go5uR) 27
Anyway, good evening morons, working the AoSDD for Chicago mayoral.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 24, 2015 09:45 PM (l1zOH) 28
Feminists are truly heinous she-beasts.
Posted by: jmel at February 24, 2015 09:50 PM (cfFqn) 29
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2015 09:45 PM (go5uR)
There was a time not too long ago (2008 or so) when I would have dismissed your comment out of hand. Nowadays, I regret not having a farm with good fields of fire! Posted by: Hrothgar at February 24, 2015 09:50 PM (ftVQq) 30
Interesting. Steve Sailer says he knows ppl doing market research on phrases to counter the open borders Left.
He says the one testing the best so far is: Controlled immigration for the national interest. Or just "controlled immigration" for short. Unz Review: But I believe in this and it's been tested by research http://www.unz.com/isteve/i-believe-in-this-and-its-been-tested-by-research/ Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 09:50 PM (ZPrif) 31
I'm in the minority but I really dislike all the characters in the movie Whiplash. Are all musicians selfish assholes?
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 09:50 PM (glJL/) 32
So..., should we expect a statement fem Harf? Psaki?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:52 PM (F2IAQ) Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 09:52 PM (g/zj9) 34
Hola, amigoz en loz tuboz!
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (T1005) 35
Always with the tentacle porn, eh, Japan?
Posted by: a land octopus at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (OVx7B) Posted by: Gary Glitter at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (Ua6T/) 37
Evening y'all! How's Tuesday treating everyone?
Posted by: tbodie at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (5tBJV) 38
Ghost Rider: Mors de Caelo
Posted by: HAL at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (OmBeX) 39
Jessica Vaughan @JessicaV_CIS 10h10 hours ago
Latest Obama exec action will let spouses of H1B guestworkers jump in line for work authorization, ahead of others awaiting green cards. Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (ZPrif) 40
Anyway, good evening morons, working the AoSDD for Chicago mayoral.
Posted by: Misanthropic --------------- I'm going to call it for the Democrat. BTW..., ignore email from me this evening. Looks like I'm back among the consecrated. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:54 PM (F2IAQ) 41
japan's imploding into the absurd
Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 09:54 PM (g/zj9) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:55 PM (F2IAQ) 43
Note that this personality type is not strictly confined to environmentalism or the Left (Saviour to the world).
Then there's the "I'll be happy when everyone is as totally screwed as I am." (see zerohedge). Posted by: Sammy the Swisher at February 24, 2015 09:55 PM (1Y+hH) 44
As regards the Chicago mayoral race, all the options are bad ones.
Rham is a nasty piece of work. "Chuy" Garcia is a commie and his son has some significant troubles with law enforcement. It would appear these two are headed for a runoff in April. Posted by: Boots at February 24, 2015 09:55 PM (l9mF2) 45
"Mary Poole, 78, is still recovering from injuries after what she claims was a violent attack from a school district police officer last year"
I recall having been taken aback during the Martin-Zimmerman foofooraw by the revelation that Trayvon Martin had been arrested by a school district police officer, who found a "burglary tool" and the evident proceeds of burglary, to wit, expensive women's jewelry for which Martin was unable to account. (It eventually was traced to a nearby residence.) I wasn't taken aback by Saint Trayvon of the Bloodied Hoodie turning out to have been a criminal. Not in the least. What I found startling was that the school district had their own dedicated police force. WTF? Is that a thing now? Didn't take long to figure that one out. It is an artifact of anti-truancy policies. Educrats now face having the flow of money cut back when pupils aren't actually present in school. My god! The money! The money! Won't someone please think of the money! Well, educrats turn out to be VERY KEENLY focused on the money and its continued flow. And hence there's a problem. In districts where the pupils are likely to be criminals, when the pupils get caught committing crimes, bringing in the local metro police to handle the matter would typically mean that said perp-upils would end up in juvie, and not in class, and hence _the money_ would not be forthcoming. This got the attention of the educrats. Speedily. So having their own puppet school district police force reporting to the educrats means that when problem pupils commit crimes and are caught, those crimes can be safely swept under the rug by the "police", and the miscreants put on "diversion" and kept in school. Hence money. Everybody happy. And, Saint Trayvon had benefited repeatedly from this system. As his various serious crimes were discreetly excused. That Saint Trayvon was a nasty enough piece of work that the educrats eventually felt they had no alternative other than suspending him, with the associated financial penalties for the district, instead of "diverting" him? It tells you that they were worried about an even worse thing potentially resulting from his presence than a loss of money. A shooting or a stabbing on school premises. THAT can't be covered up very easily. Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 09:56 PM (noWW6) Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 24, 2015 09:57 PM (20X6f) 47
[from Maetenloch:]
"And by 'feel unsafe' they mean he will disagree with them. Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings." ^^This!!^^ That was, like, poetry...pure poetry. It never seems to occur to these feminazis that all their caterwauling does, is make them look like exactly what they claim they have evolved beyond. Posted by: wheatie at February 24, 2015 09:57 PM (Zc7HF) 48
And by 'feel unsafe' they mean he will disagree with them. Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings.
If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 09:57 PM (cPHH6) Posted by: Sammy the Swisher at February 24, 2015 09:57 PM (1Y+hH) 50
test
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 09:57 PM (0FSuD) 51
another
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 09:58 PM (0FSuD) 52
his attendance will make women "feel unsafe".
So, pick some vague charge that can't possibly be addressed that makes your opponent innately illegitimate. Classic Leftism. Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 09:58 PM (MMC8r) 53
an another
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 09:58 PM (0FSuD) Posted by: seamrog at February 24, 2015 09:59 PM (SY3yB) 55
come on
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 09:59 PM (0FSuD) 56
Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings."
And those same people will say "PUT THEM IN COMBAT!!!" Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 09:59 PM (MMC8r) 57
Nip - Third time's the charm
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 09:59 PM (F2IAQ) 58
And you're 3 for 3. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 09:59 PM (1Y+hH) 59
OK then good night. Sniper verdict coming up live
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:00 PM (0FSuD) 60
And yet the radio news tonight had to remind us for the millionth time that Zimmerman shot and killed "an unarmed black teen".
I cfuking hate these people. Media delenda est. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 09:35 PM You mean they left out "who was bashing his head into a sidewalk"? Color me shocked. if I ever hear anyone in my presence say anything about the "Gentle Giant" and hands up...well don't expect that will end pleasantly. I used to be more optimistic about the general populace, now I think the majority are plain idiots. Thanks Obama, some uniter you are. Posted by: Farmer at February 24, 2015 10:00 PM (o/90i) 61
Evening all. Atl. getting ready for Snowmageddon 2015, opening tomorrow afternoon and playing until Thursday morning.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 10:00 PM (3F6F8) Posted by: fluffy at February 24, 2015 10:00 PM (Ua6T/) 63
Agree completely on the apocalyptic dream casting that the left is given to. You mention that people on the right are given to it as well.
I had a discussion with a friend of mine once about the allure of post-apocalyta to libertarians. The argument basically boiled down to it is mostly being due to an intense weariness of PC/leftist culture. One thing about a post apocalyptic landscape where humanity has been thrown back to the stone age is that it would crystalize what is truly important for people. You want to believe that all viewpoints are equal and we have to try to understand our enemies. Well you can't because they are coming over that hill and are going to kill all the men and take all the women. That kind of thing. For the conservative/traditionalist mindset however, this type of idea is anathema because at the same time you crystalize people's views of the world, you also throw out all the good things. We are conservative or traditionalist because we believe that western civilization IS A GOOD THING and is worth protecting. As much as there are times I feel sympathy with the "Let it Burn" crowd, what comes after everything comes down is not a reinstitution of the old ways and courtesies, that comes hundreds of years later. What happens right then is a brutal dogfight of pain and misery. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (wt/Oq) 64
Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings.
The goal of both feminism and welfare programs is to turn people into children who need to be taken care of. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (kGrwF) 65
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Always with the tentacle porn, eh, Japan? Posted by: a land octopus at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (OVx7B) Where are you going with this? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (T1005) 66
Got it. I have about four different nic links only one works.
Hammer you ready for snow tomorrow night. We are suppose to get 4-6 inches. Might get to use my snow chains! Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (0FSuD) 67
Chicago is a sanctuary city and has many residents who are not legally permitted to vote.
One might well wonder, well it's Chicago, home of vote early and vote often, so how is illegality a problem? In a democrat primary those dirty dems know exactly what tricks the other dirty dems will be trying to pull off, so it's not as easy as fooling a republican. Posted by: Boots at February 24, 2015 10:02 PM (l9mF2) 68
Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings."
Hrmm... like a kitchen? Making sammiches? Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 10:02 PM (0NdlF) 69
Evening all. Atl. getting ready for Snowmageddon 2015, opening tomorrow afternoon and playing until Thursday morning.
Posted by: Man -------------- ?? Is there snow forecast? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:02 PM (F2IAQ) 70
22: I seem to recall that Scandinavia have a rather high suicide rate.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (20X6f) 71
Trivial annoyance post --
Is anyone else annoyed when these newspapers (the Local in one of the above links) use arabic words instead of english? I don't want to learn goat-fucker-speak. We have perfectly good english words, why to they do this? Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (LWu6U) 72
Evening, folks. Another hearty ONT, Maet. Thanks.
You may have read about the guy here in Oklahoma who awoke to find his lady-love trying to chomp off his manhood? I found where he went wrong. "...the victim said he and his girlfriend were out drinking and began arguing while walking home 'about how needy she had become....'" Jessica Remer, KJRH http://tinyurl.com/kv4f5lm I have the strangest sense of deja vu because I already wrote this comment, but somehow it just vanished. Posted by: mindful webworker - ow at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (ACs58) 73
Tentacle pron has deep roots in Japanese art history.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (mx5oN) 74
Last Thursday, the San Francisco Superior Court granted a petition for writ of mandate I wrote finding that S.F.'s "Ellis Act" relocation assistance payment scheme is invalid. (Jacoby v. City & County of S.F.) This is a big deal because the lefties had thought they had found a way to stop the Ellis Act. What does all this mean to you morons? It is an undeniable victory for property rights. :->
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI) 75
About the drams of last night's ONT:
Have Weirddave and Gingy made up? Does Weirddave pooky stick need reconstructive surgery? -- We can build it longer, larger, stronger! These are the ONT Questions. Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:04 PM (u82oZ) 76
Resurrectable hangar queen B52's must be rare; most had their wings pulverized, out in the open so the Russian satellites would have a clear view. "We" signed a treaty, you know. Seventy-six shall be their number. There were about ten times that. Then came The Peace.
Take comfort in knowing the other peace-loving nations are also following those treaties to the letter. Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 24, 2015 10:04 PM (xq1UY) 77
Granny beater link goes to Daily Caller, so beware.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:04 PM (mx5oN) 78
"You Moslawis are too spoiled. Think about the early days of Islam. Did the Prophet own an air-conditioner?"
He probably made his 9 year old wife fan him. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:04 PM (kGrwF) 79
Quote of the Day II - Adam Baldwin Unsafe For Women
Yeah right. More like the 'ettes are unsafe for Adam Baldwin iykwimaittyd. Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 24, 2015 10:04 PM (+bmru) 80
News here reported that Trayvon was "gunned down" and noted that he was an unarmed youth. They also noted that Zimmerman "claimed it was self defense at trial."
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2015 10:05 PM (Rx8ML) 81
Does Weirddave pooky stick need reconstructive surgery?
-- We can build it longer, larger, stronger! The Six Million Dollar Dick? Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:05 PM (mx5oN) 82
American Sniper Trial Verdict reached!
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:05 PM (sj3Ax) 83
Nip - I think it is too warm for it. Are they predicting snow in CLT?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:05 PM (F2IAQ) 84
Is there snow forecast? Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:02 PM (F2IAQ) Yes. Anywhere from 2 to 6 inches, depending on how far North of I20 you are. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 10:05 PM (XrHO0) 85
Nip - I don't see any snow predicted for ATL or CLT.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:06 PM (F2IAQ) 86
>>>Where are you going with this?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (T1005)<<< Er, uh. NTTAWWT, oh mighty Elder god. Posted by: a (cowering) land octopus(sy) at February 24, 2015 10:06 PM (OVx7B) 87
One theory about the large uptick in allergies is the possibility that kids are not getting involved with soil, and its copious bounty for the gut bacteria, as much. The part of that that seems most delightful is the possibility that the "little kids eating dirt" behavior might have been instinctive, and that the kids actually were onto something.
Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (qyomX) Posted by: Joey 'Two Megs of Rahm' Biden at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (pLhWv) 89
74...It is an undeniable victory for property rights. :->
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI) --------- Wtg, SFGoth! Posted by: wheatie at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (Zc7HF) 90
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Last Thursday, the San Francisco Superior Court granted a petition for writ of mandate I wrote finding that S.F.'s "Ellis Act" relocation assistance payment scheme is invalid. (Jacoby v. City County of S.F.) This is a big deal because the lefties had thought they had found a way to stop the Ellis Act. What does all this mean to you morons? It is an undeniable victory for property rights. :-> Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI) SFGoth! I haven't seen you around in a while...how goes with your sartorial adventures? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (T1005) 91
@83
Suppose to be 45 all day then rain at 4, then at midnight start snowing and snow all night. You have to be getting the same shit. Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (0FSuD) 92
"You Moslawis are too spoiled. Think about the early days of Islam. Did the Prophet own an air-conditioner?"
No. Because muzzies didn't invent it. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (cPHH6) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (6Oeuf) 94
80 News here reported that Trayvon was "gunned down" and noted that he was an unarmed youth. They also noted that Zimmerman "claimed it was self defense at trial."
Where would we all be without The Narrative? Lost, that's where. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (qyomX) 95
DOJ Announces No Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman
Despite 18 months of looking for anything they could possibly use against him. Same as with their "investigation" of the Ferguson cop. Why it's almost like Holder is more concerned with promoting his own identity politics agenda than with doing his frikkin' job. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:07 PM (kGrwF) 96
That land octopus is a pussy.
Posted by: Land Shark at February 24, 2015 10:08 PM (W5DcG) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:08 PM (4ka5+) 98
A friend of mine once said snowfall and men are alike. Until you see it you never know how many inches you'll get.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:08 PM (u82oZ) 99
Nip - Forecast : http://tinyurl.com/9accx4a
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:08 PM (F2IAQ) 100
Hola, amigoz en loz tuboz!
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM Sorry, no habla Californianese. Posted by: Farmer at February 24, 2015 10:08 PM (o/90i) 101
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI)
That's good on its face, but can you elaborate a bit more? Thx Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM (1Y+hH) 102
MWNP - ATL forecast : http://tinyurl.com/mp6mc9a
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM (F2IAQ) 103
67 Chicago is a sanctuary city and has many residents who are not legally permitted to vote.
One might well wonder, well it's Chicago, home of vote early and vote often, so how is illegality a problem? Don't forget the felons. Including the disgraced politicians. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM (qyomX) 104
Glad you are back, Mike!
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:10 PM (sj3Ax) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:10 PM (6Oeuf) Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:10 PM (cPHH6) 107
GUILTY
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:10 PM (0FSuD) 108
GUILTY!!!
YES! Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (sj3Ax) 109
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (wt/Oq)
Yeah, and because I think we realize we are SO far away from the closest thing this world has seen to libertarianism (the US at its founding) and theres really no path back unless some kind of earth changing event happens. It's less depressing to think apocalyptically then to realize that yeah, we're probably stuck in this socialist utopia for the rest of our lives with no hope of escape. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV) 110
74 What does all this mean to you morons? It is an undeniable victory for property rights. :->
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI) 'Splain Lucy! Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (+bmru) 111
Verdict reached in Chris Kyle Sniper trial.
Guilty. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:10 PM (cPHH6) God Bless Texas. Posted by: PaleRider at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (dkExz) 112
Huzzah!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (u82oZ) 113
For all you Chicago fans, it looks like Chewy got enough votes to force Rahm into a runoff. Still won't matter but back to your regularly scheduled ONT.
Posted by: dartist at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (ahBY0) 114
Chicago is a sanctuary city and has many residents who are not legally permitted to vote.
One might well wonder, well it's Chicago, home of vote early and vote often, so how is illegality a problem? Don't forget the felons. Including the disgraced politicians. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM (qyomX) Don't forget about the dead. Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (8zCR+) Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (0FSuD) 116
You may have read about the guy here in Oklahoma who awoke to find his lady-love trying to chomp off his manhood?
I found where he went wrong. "...the victim said he and his girlfriend were out drinking and began arguing while walking home 'about how needy she had become....'" Paleo diet would have prevented that. Posted by: Paleo guy who's like paleo all over the place at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (MbqmP) 117
Life? That's all?
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (sj3Ax) 118
We have perfectly good english words, why to they do this?
Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (LWu6U) But the arabic words are more nuanced so the true believer can see the subtext. For example, in English you would say "That muz goat-kcufer is lying", while the correct preferred form is that to say "That mohammedan is following his religious practice of taqiyya!" Posted by: Hrothgar at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (ftVQq) 119
Don't forget the felons. Including the disgraced politicians.
Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM ( And dead folks, don't forget the dead folks. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (4ka5+) 120
As much as there are times I feel sympathy with the "Let it Burn" crowd, what comes after everything comes down is not a reinstitution of the old ways and courtesies, that comes hundreds of years later. What happens right then is a brutal dogfight of pain and misery.
Well said. Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (g/zj9) 121
For all you Chicago fans, it looks like Chewy got enough votes to force Rahm into a runoff. Still won't matter but back to your regularly scheduled ONT.
Posted by: dartist Chicago, racing to imitate Detroit. Bigger, badder, uglier, more corrupt. How will they blame it on the Republicans? Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (+1T7c) 122
"It's less depressing to think apocalyptically then to realize that yeah, we're probably stuck in this socialist utopia for the rest of our lives with no hope of escape."
A socialist utopia would be much worse than this. So, you have that to look forward to at least. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (1Y+hH) 123
Everytime the news mentions PTSD of Kyle's murderer they never mention he saw no combat. They want to make every veteran seem to be on the verge of breaking down.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (glJL/) Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (cPHH6) 125
Recently, concerns were raised about the Federal Dietary Guidelines being updated with Gaia being placed before lowly human beings. They said they wouldn't do that but, unsurprisingly, they lied, and are now touting "plant-based: diets for "sustainability" rather than explicit worship of mother Gaia.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8415 Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2015 09:29 PM (0Ew3K) There's only one way to deal with all this school lunch crap. Everyone who dislikes the BS guidelines, needs to stop taking hot lunch. The programs will lose money due to food being dumped and not paid for, and the local people will have to fix the problem. It's a real problem for the schools if almost no one takes the lunches. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (kGrwF) 126
MWNP - ATL forecast : http://tinyurl.com/mp6mc9a
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:09 PM (F2IAQ) ******* Not sure where AccuWeather gets their info, but almost all Metro county schools are already closed tomorrow, Govt. Offices closing at Noon, and radio has been updated every freaking minutes about the snow tomorrow into Thursday morning. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (XrHO0) 127
But it'll probably burn anyway.
Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (g/zj9) 128
>>>For all you Chicago fans, it looks like Chewy got
enough votes to force Rahm into a runoff. Still won't matter but back to your regularly scheduled ONT. Posted by: dartist at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (ahBY0)<<< Moochelle was running against Rahm??? Posted by: I did not know this at February 24, 2015 10:14 PM (OVx7B) Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:14 PM (0FSuD) 130
There's only one way to deal with all this school lunch crap. Everyone who dislikes the BS guidelines, needs to stop taking hot lunch.
Indolent parents can't be bothered. Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 10:14 PM (MMC8r) 131
I think a latino commie asshole wd be perfect for chicago.
Posted by: Bruce J. at February 24, 2015 10:14 PM (iQIUe) 132
Life? That's all?
Posted by: Carol For some reason, the prosecution did not seek the death penalty. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:15 PM (cPHH6) Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:15 PM (g/zj9) 134
There is something about certain kinds of personality types that derives a frisson of delight from contemplating the end of the world.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (mx5oN) Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (0FSuD) 136
I think most conservatives who predict the apocalypse just want a chance to use their prepper supplies under real conditions . It's like soldiers training for combat.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (glJL/) 137
You Dallasites are too spoiled. Think about the early days of the republic. Did Sam Houston own an air-conditioner?
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (zauWW) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (6Oeuf) 139
The part of that that seems most delightful is the possibility that the "little kids eating dirt" behavior might have been instinctive, and that the kids actually were onto something.
Posted by: Splunge Yeah, I've wondered about that in relation to the phenomena of pregnant wimmen folk have odd cravings whilst preggers; pickles and ice cream, etc. I've read of pregnant teachers feeling the need to munch on chalk from the chalkboard. It's almost as if 250,000 years of ...um, human existence passed on beneficial behaviors or something. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (etsc+) 140
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You Dallasites are too spoiled. Think about the early days of the republic. Did Sam Houston own an air-conditioner? Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (zauWW) No, but the Mexican whores had big fans. Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (0FSuD) 141
For everyone with a ongoing medical condition, the clock starts as soon as drug prescriptions are not refilled.
LIB means a lot of death, even among the virtuous. It took 12 years fro Venezuela to go from a modern country, the most prosperous in South America, to a country with empty pharmacies, shuttered stores, long lines, little power or water, and without toilet paper. Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (u82oZ) 142
Feh, you don't cook to pack a lunch anyway. Probably a lot of schools don't allow good old PBJs anymore though.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (dkExz) 143
Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (g/zj9)
My take on the "let it burn" thing is that there's going to be fire no matter what we do. That doesn't mean we can't keep it confined to the kitchen. The US Government is pretty well past the point of hopelessness, but the Constitution and the principles it was built on are still sound. It's going to go, and I don't think there's any effort in the possible that can prevent that, but if the states survive its collapse relatively intact, we'll start again and build it better. Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (3HxZe) 144
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 24, 2015 10:12 PM (ftVQq)
Hey man, I'm always down to learn new words and phrases. Even if they're Arabic. Besides, it makes the article writers feel smart to throw out some ish they know people will have to google. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (AkOaV) 145
142 Feh, you don't cook to pack a lunch anyway. Probably a lot of schools don't allow good old PBJs anymore though.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (dkExz) Some kid might have a peanut allergy. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (mx5oN) Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (cPHH6) 147
his attendance will make women "feel unsafe".
That's freaking ridiculous! Adam Baldwin is one of the few guys in Hollywood I'd feel safe around! Sounds like these SJWs need a ClueBat! http://tinyurl.com/2qwozk Posted by: pookysgirl is supposed to be resting at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (dCUzJ) 148
In these complaints one hears not only the voiced Islamist cant, but also the rural accents beneath it that identify most ISIS cadres as poorer, less well-educated Iraqis who have resented Mosul urbanites all their lives.
I see. ISIS = Khmer Rouge Posted by: rickl But the call to prayer is so beautiful. What's wrong with you? Posted by: Barack Obama, Master of Time and Space at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (+1T7c) Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (0FSuD) 150
Chicago, racing to imitate Detroit. Bigger, badder, uglier, more corrupt.
How will they blame it on the Republicans? By opening their mouth. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (W5DcG) 151
141 It took 12 years fro Venezuela to go from a modern country, the most prosperous in South America, to a country with empty pharmacies, shuttered stores, long lines, little power or water, and without toilet paper.
So you're saying that Venezuela was "fundamentally transformed." Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (qyomX) 152
127 But it'll probably burn anyway.
Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (g/zj9) I think that's unavoidable at this point. We have reached a critical mass of people who don't know or care about American history, and/or are dependent on the government for either welfare or employment. They're not going to give that up without a fight, and nobody can get elected on a promise to end the gravy train. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (sdi6R) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (6Oeuf) 154
nerdy poor urban broke families don't cookPosted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:15 PM (g/zj9) ------------- PB and J or a bolgna sandwich isn't cooking. I would like to think that urbanites can handle that. Posted by: Darth Randall at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (KlVdw) 155
121 Chicago, racing to imitate Detroit. Bigger, badder, uglier, more corrupt.
How will they blame it on the Republicans? ------------------------------ Illinois did just elect a Republican governor, Bruce Rauner. So they have their scapegoat just in time. The gov just released his first budget, trying to get a handle on unsustainable (hehe) levels of spending and you would think he wanted to throat punch kittens. Posted by: Boots at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (l9mF2) 156
Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (3HxZe)
Burn away the dross and only the gold remains, eh? Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (mx5oN) 157
Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (3HxZe)
When, though? I don't think it's likely to happen in any of our lifetimes. We all know that it will eventually end and that the seeds are planted and maybe even sprouting. But as long as everyone keeps pretending all is well... Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (AkOaV) 158
123 Everytime the news mentions PTSD of Kyle's murderer they never mention he saw no combat. They want to make every veteran seem to be on the verge of breaking down.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (glJL/) There was this one guy I worked with and he was... mentally disturbed is putting it lightly. All of the nervous twitches (constant blinking, short temper at very small things, complete and utter lack of anything approaching patience.) One of my friends at work put it down to the time he spent in Iraq. I call bullshit. That was not PTSD, that was a mixture of perhaps drugs and a very screwed up mentally guy before he ever went into combat. The combat probably did not help anything, but he was not right before then, I would wager. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:20 PM (wt/Oq) 159
It took 12 years fro Venezuela to go from a modern
country, the most prosperous in South America, to a country with empty pharmacies, shuttered stores, long lines, little power or water, and without toilet paper. Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:17 PM (u82oZ) Castro advisers, what can't they do? Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:20 PM (0FSuD) 160
My take on the "let it burn" thing is that there's going to be fire no matter what we do. That doesn't mean we can't keep it confined to the kitchen. The US Government is pretty well past the point of hopelessness, but the Constitution and the principles it was built on are still sound.
It's going to go, and I don't think there's any effort in the possible that can prevent that, but if the states survive its collapse relatively intact, we'll start again and build it better. That's it. Dead spot on. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:20 PM (cPHH6) 161
That's freaking ridiculous! Adam Baldwin is one of the few guys in Hollywood I'd feel safe around! Sounds like these SJWs need a ClueBat! SJW words don't mean what regular people's words do. Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 10:20 PM (MMC8r) 162
Burn away the dross and only the gold remains, eh?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (mx5oN) That's about the best we've got left to hope for, so let's hope for that. Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (3HxZe) 163
Hopefully that asshole ends up getting smoked in prison
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (dULJN) Posted by: Barack Almighty at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (FcR7P) 165
Here's another nation who thinks, despite the Lightbringer's insistence that it's not true, that Russia is a geopolitical threat to them:
Lithuania is so concerned about a Russian invasion of the Baltics that it's bringing back (read: "temporary") conscription http://tinyurl.com/pkdkmwz Posted by: Thrawn at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (d7XFS) 166
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:16 PM (glJL/)
Heh, prepper supplies. I have like a gallon of water, an 18 pack of cigarettes, 2 or 3 packets of ramen, and maybe 5 beers. I'd say that'll last me, oh... six hours? Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (AkOaV) 167
Here's another nation who thinks, despite the Lightbringer's insistence that it's not true, that Russia is a geopolitical threat to them:
Lithuania is so concerned about a Russian invasion of the Baltics that it's bringing back (read: "temporary") conscription http://tinyurl.com/pkdkmwz Posted by: Thrawn at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (d7XFS) 168
But as long as everyone keeps pretending all is well...
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:19 PM (AkOaV) Reality can only be kept at bay for so long, and the Fed is running out of tricks. Math is going to come around swinging its clue bat, and I'm thinking sooner rather than later. Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (3HxZe) 169
That's good on its face, but can you elaborate a bit more?
Am not a Goth or a lawyer, but stayed at a Holiday Inn. Some California cities have laws controlling rent, which of course also control how landlords use the property. Ellis Act is state law that lets landlords "go out of business" and evict tenants. SF has city law forcing landlord to pay evicted tenants, which makes it too expensive for landlords to use the Ellis Act. Until SFGoth smited it down, I guess. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (0NdlF) 170
147 his attendance will make women "feel unsafe".
That's freaking ridiculous! Adam Baldwin is one of the few guys in Hollywood I'd feel safe around! Sounds like these SJWs need a ClueBat! http://tinyurl.com/2qwozk Posted by: pookysgirl is supposed to be resting at February 24, 2015 10:18 PM (dCUzJ) He hurt Anita Sarkeesian's feeeewings or something, so now he's a menace to wimminz. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (mx5oN) 171
Wow, 10 women and two men on jury.
Those Texas women are not to be fcuked with. You think 'ettes are tough..... Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (cPHH6) 172
161 SJW words don't mean what regular people's words do.
This. And it's not even close. They use words as ad hoc weapons. Meaning is nothing. Consistency is nothing. They do not think. They just lash out, and try to gain power. It's a fallacy to act as though their words have meaning, even to them. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (qyomX) Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (u82oZ) 174
"Hopefully that asshole ends up getting smoked in prison"
If he's actually going to straight state pen, damn. Yeah. He'll get out-crazied. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (6Oeuf) 175
Probably don't meet meanchelles new guidelines either if you put a tasty amount of peanut butter and jelly on the bread.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (dkExz) 176
Evenin' everyone.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (UVfht) 177
I have like a gallon of water, an 18 pack of cigarettes, 2 or 3 packets of ramen, and maybe 5 beers.
Is it dark, and are you wearing sunglasses? Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (mx5oN) Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (MDgS8) 179
It took 12 years fro Venezuela to go from a modern country, the most prosperous in South America, to a country with empty pharmacies, shuttered stores, long lines, little power or water, and without toilet paper.
Posted by: NaCly ---------------------- But..., the people loved Hugo Chavez! Income equality! Posted by: Progs everywhere at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (F2IAQ) Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (W5DcG) 181
"You Moslawis are too spoiled. Think about the early days of Islam. Did the Prophet own an air-conditioner?"
These fools really do want to return to the 7th century. Why can't we, uh, help them, IYKWIMAITYD? What's happening, Morons? Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (rJUlF) 182
Love the DOJ wording: "could not find enough evidence to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt..."
Why not say: "could not find evidence that he violated.." Posted by: bergerbilder at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (2o6Wj) 183
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:21 PM (AkOaV)
You're going to end up on the end of a leash held by a big guy with a hockey mask. Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (glJL/) 184
So you're saying that Venezuela was "fundamentally transformed."
Posted by: Splunge NOW YOU GET IT! You should be thanking me. Posted by: Barack Obama, Master of Time and Space at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (+1T7c) 185
No. Shit.
Link? I was watching channel 8 news live. They broke in to Forever to show the judge reading the verdict. Had three options: Guilty Innocent Innocent by reason of insanity. Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (cPHH6) 186
Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (3HxZe)
Well, I guess we'll see. It took the Romans a century to collapse. Took the soviets a little less time, but they were a shitty backwards society to begin with. I don't know the answer, but as long as people believe in the "full faith and credit" of the US govt (which everyone seems to), I don't see how anything changes. Unless or until there is real financial pressure on uncle sugar, nothing will change (for better or worse) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (AkOaV) 187
175 Probably don't meet meanchelles new guidelines either if you put a tasty amount of peanut butter and jelly on the bread.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (dkExz) One tsp. of peanut butter on half a sandwich thin. Jelly must be sugar free. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:25 PM (mx5oN) 188
I have like a gallon of water, an 18 pack of cigarettes, 2 or 3 packets of ramen, and maybe 5 beers.
Is that you Major Kong? Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 10:25 PM (W5DcG) Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:25 PM (0FSuD) 190
You're going to end up on the end of a leash held by a big guy with a hockey mask.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (glJL/) Yikes. Lets hope it doesnt come to THAT Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:25 PM (AkOaV) 191
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (rJUlF)
Hiya, Cap'n! How's the ticker? Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:26 PM (mx5oN) 192
Castro advisers, what can't they do?
Posted by: Nip Sip Keep Tampons on the shelf for customers? Posted by: giggles mcConnell at February 24, 2015 10:26 PM (9N0xF) 193
My take on the "let it burn" thing is that there's going to be fire no matter what we do. That doesn't mean we can't keep it confined to the kitchen. The US Government is pretty well past the point of hopelessness, but the Constitution and the principles it was built on are still sound. It's going to go, and I don't think there's any effort in the possible that can prevent that, but if the states survive its collapse relatively intact, we'll start again and build it better.
Posted by: Cato Pretty much. LIB does not announce an interest in the end of times, but I don't think Maety was referring to that either. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 10:26 PM (etsc+) 194
You see a row of microwave ovens, where are you?
Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 10:26 PM (8zCR+) 195
Is it dark, and are you wearing sunglasses?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:23 PM (mx5oN) Nah, I'm just going with the odds on this one. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (AkOaV) 196
Is Justified show with evil Carol?
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (sj3Ax) 197
And by 'feel unsafe' they mean he will disagree with them. Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings. Okay. That I got. I just didn't get the immanetize eschaton thing. Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (MDgS8) 198
Capt WB how ya doing?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (4ka5+) Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (cPHH6) 200
It took the Romans a century to collapse.
Yeah, well we started counting in 1912, so you're already overdue. Posted by: Historians from the future at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (MbqmP) 201
Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 10:03 PM (3vCoI)
WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Will we have the pleasure of your company more often now?? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (37e3g) 202
"I was watching channel 8 news live."
I fought a blurb on wfaa.com. Just says the judge sentenced him to life w/o parole. I'll be damned. General opinion was Insanity. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (6Oeuf) 203
194 You see a row of microwave ovens, where are you?
Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 10:26 PM (8zCR+) Either Best Buy or in a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (mx5oN) Posted by: Barack Obama, Master of Time and Space at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (+1T7c) 205
Good night all.
"Remember, if you're going down in flames, take out something big". Words the speechwriters removed from PBHO's hands. Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (u82oZ) 206
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You see a row of microwave ovens, where are you? 7-11 Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (cPHH6) No you are in a laundry mat and those are dryers. Stay off the crack. Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (0FSuD) 207
Yeah, well we started counting in 1912, so you're already overdue.
Posted by: Historians from the future at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (MbqmP) Heh, touche. And wouldn't it be 1913? (I'm assuming you're talking about when the fed was introduced. I'm too lazy to google to confirm the date) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (AkOaV) 208
194 You see a row of microwave ovens, where are you?
Offhand guess: the "Kim Jong-Il looking at things" blog. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (qyomX) 209
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a malignant traitor.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (M1uf/) 210
Unless or until there is real financial pressure on uncle sugar, nothing will change (for better or worse)
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (AkOaV) The thing propping us up is that we have the global reserve currency. That won't last forever, given that we've got competition vying for that status. Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (3HxZe) 211
Ms Tammy!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 24, 2015 10:29 PM (+bmru) 212
Posted this earlier, but here is another example of SJW stupidity. SJW twit has RAGESTROKE over white male cis-gender authors. Holds up a book by Neal Gaiman while wearing a Dr. Who t-shirt. Larry Correia completely destroys her.
http://tinyurl.com/kkqo43l Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:29 PM (Zm0GY) 213
I am out a here. Later alligator
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 24, 2015 10:29 PM (0FSuD) Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (M1uf/) 215
The thing propping us up is that we have the global reserve currency. That won't last forever, given that we've got competition vying for that status.
Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (3HxZe) Agreed. That will be the beginning of the end... if and when the USD is no longer reserve currency. The one thing we have going for us is that it's not like there's any better alternatives out there, and no govt wants to be constrained in their printing by pegging their currency to gold or something finite. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (AkOaV) 216
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Good. Found out my A1C ticked up two-tenths of a point. I haven't been as diligent on watching what I eat, so I'm doubling down on that. New medications should also help. I'm also back to taking antidepressants. After "the episode" last December and some other periods of deep blue funk, I realized I had to do something. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (rJUlF) 217
I'm calling the snowpocalypse in the SE a coin-toss. One side is rain, the other snow. Meh. We'll see. Just too warm for it to amount to much.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (F2IAQ) 218
And wouldn't it be 1913? (I'm assuming you're talking about when the fed was introduced. I'm too lazy to google to confirm the date)
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:28 PM (AkOaV) TR fragmenting the Republican party & deliberately working to get Wilson elected. Oh, Progressivism, we hardly knew ye. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (MbqmP) 219
186 Posted by: Cato at February 24, 2015 10:22 PM (3HxZe)
Well, I guess we'll see. It took the Romans a century to collapse. Took the soviets a little less time, but they were a shitty backwards society to begin with. I don't know the answer, but as long as people believe in the "full faith and credit" of the US govt (which everyone seems to), I don't see how anything changes. Unless or until there is real financial pressure on uncle sugar, nothing will change (for better or worse) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (AkOaV) I had a prof in college who said that in his opinion, almost all of the disasters that befell the western empire could be traced to Caracalla's Edict in 212 AD which made all freed men in the empire Citizens. Sound familiar? Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (wt/Oq) 220
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (F2IAQ)
Yeah, I've still got over 4 feet of snow in my yard, so I'm not too impressed by your projected 2-3 inches that may turn out to be rain. When we get 2-3 inches, we call it "Thursday" Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (AkOaV) 221
Tammy: Check out Kid Rock's new release. Very good. Drinking Beer With Dad almost brings a tear to these old eyes.
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My response to her: Hell no. Neil Gaiman is coming to speak at our university in March. I'm going to see him, because I really like his work. Now I can also consider it a big "up yours" to that lovely (yeesh) woman. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:32 PM (rJUlF) 223
Always with the tentacle porn, eh, Japan? Posted by: a land octopus at February 24, 2015 09:53 PM (OVx7B) And now for a soulful rendition of "I can't Keep My Hands Off Of You" by the Moron Tentacle Choir. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2015 10:32 PM (tSNLH) 224
Chris Kyle's murderer found guilty.
Posted by: Y-not at February 24, 2015 10:32 PM (9BRsg) 225
Ricardo,
You copied that from last thread. My internet or maybe it's last time I dropped this iPad, extremely slow today. Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:32 PM (sj3Ax) 226
You're going to end up on the end of a leash held by a big guy with a hockey mask.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:24 PM (glJL/) Yikes. Lets hope it doesnt come to THAT Doesn't sound all that different from the Folsom Street Fair. Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 24, 2015 10:32 PM (UVfht) 227
212 Posted this earlier, but here is another example of SJW stupidity. SJW twit has RAGESTROKE over white male cis-gender authors. Holds up a book by Neal Gaiman while wearing a Dr. Who t-shirt. Larry Correia completely destroys her.
http://tinyurl.com/kkqo43l Yeah. Hypothesis: the reason Anita Sarkeeeesian got as far as she did is that she is not completely ugly. Most of them are. This one is. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (qyomX) 228
Sound familiar?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (wt/Oq) According to google, the roman empire fell in 1453 (I would have guess earlier) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (AkOaV) 229
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And by 'feel unsafe' they mean he will disagree with them. Because if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures that they really should be assigned court-appointed guardians and placed in institutions where they can be protected from this cruel world of criticism, expectations, judgment and logic that refuses to properly bow down before the almighty Feelings. Okay. That I got. I just didn't get the immanetize eschaton thing. Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:27 PM (MDgS The eschaton is the Biblical "end times" or "end of days", when God says, "last call" and accounts are settled. Now, there are a number of groups that believe that they will be advantaged when this happens, and would prefer that it happens sooner rather than later.....but it is exclusively God's call as to when this might be -- and any acceleration toward this end is actively thwarting God's will. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (T1005) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (6Oeuf) 231
220 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (F2IAQ)
Yeah, I've still got over 4 feet of snow in my yard, so I'm not too impressed by your projected 2-3 inches that may turn out to be rain. When we get 2-3 inches, we call it "Thursday" Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 Lighten up Francis. Mr. Hammer and others live in NC where snow is not a common thing. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (4ka5+) 232
Posted this earlier, but here is another example of SJW stupidity. SJW twit has RAGESTROKE over white male cis-gender authors. Holds up a book by Neal Gaiman while wearing a Dr. Who t-shirt. Larry Correia completely destroys her.http://tinyurl.com/kkqo43l
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:29 PM That dude in the Dr Who shirt is a fatty. Posted by: otho at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (tBSrv) 233
" These fools really do want to return to the 7th century. Why can't we, uh, help them, IYKWIMAITYD? "
How about returning them to the stone age? Give them some room for improvement. Posted by: bergerbilder at February 24, 2015 10:34 PM (2o6Wj) 234
That school cop? The granny? Srsly, have you ever seen how tough those 110#, 78-year-old womyn under 5' can be? He's lucky he got out alive.
Posted by: Hank at February 24, 2015 10:35 PM (4NelN) 235
228 Sound familiar?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (wt/Oq) According to google, the roman empire fell in 1453 (I would have guess earlier) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (AkOaV) Fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The Byzantines considered themselves to still be Roman. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:35 PM (wt/Oq) 236
229 The eschaton is the Biblical "end times" or "end of days", when God says, "last call" and accounts are settled. Now, there are a number of groups that believe that they will be advantaged when this happens, and would prefer that it happens sooner rather than later.....but it is exclusively God's call as to when this might be -- and any acceleration toward this end is actively thwarting God's will.
This is a good theological explanation, but there is some conservative history here. I don't have it down pat, but I think this originated as a Buckley criticism of the Left -- that they were trying to create Paradise On Earth prematurely, and coming to grief, because such a thing is not possible in this dimension, and efforts to create it will result only in tears. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (qyomX) Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (MDgS8) 238
Folsom Street Fair is worse than Mad Max....
Capt Whitebread, she is really uummm oppressed. Went to college, dropped out and went to some place else of 'higher' education that did concentrations, attended Clarion West, and then dropped out again to become a mooch. Yeah she has win written all over her CV. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (Zm0GY) 239
Lighten up Francis. Mr. Hammer and others live in NC where snow is not a common thing.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (4ka5+) Oh, I know they're southerners. Just busting balls. My customers sent me pictures last year from NC during their little snow storm that shut down the whole south. I was laughing at the carnage caused by 2 inches of snow, but they acted like it was the end of the world. I thought all southerners drove big lifted 4x4s with confederate flags on the back? Surely they're capable of driving through 2 inches of snow? *ducks under a table* Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (AkOaV) 240
234: prolly wailed on him with her bionic cane. Fuckin overzealous assholes. Pumped full of steroids. Glorified mall cop.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (ucDmr) 241
13 Evening 'rons. I'm finding myself with a severe case of cabin fever. Been iced in for two days. This afternoon everything finally thawed. Just in time for another ice storm tonight.
I have never wanted to go to work so badly. Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at February 24, 2015 09:36 PM (KuU4f) I missed yesterday and went in around 1030 this morning. More snow predicted (maybe?) for tomorrow although I don't know if we will see it. Posted by: Lea at February 24, 2015 10:37 PM (vmMMi) 242
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Thank you cthulhu. Can I just call you cth? Kith? Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (MDgS You can call me all sorts of things, just so long as you don't call me late for dinner! Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:37 PM (T1005) 243
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The Byzantines considered themselves to still be Roman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:35 PM (wt/Oq) Ah, yes makes sense. That was around the time Christians got on their high horses and went Crusadin' to go get 'em some Muslimes, right? Those fricking islamophobes! Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:38 PM (AkOaV) 244
"I thought all southerners drove big lifted 4x4s with confederate flags
on the back? Surely they're capable of driving through 2 inches of snow? " And I thought all northerners were used to 97' of snow and -25 temps but, oh, the bitchin' this year. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (6Oeuf) 245
The eschaton is the Biblical "end times" or "end of days", when God says, "last call"
Pro tip: Don't say, "I'll have another beer!" Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (cPHH6) 246
Lighten up Francis. Mr. Hammer and others live in NC where snow is not a common thing.
Posted by: Misanthropic ------------------ Well, we're talking about two different areas. The Atlanta-Greenville-Charlotte corridor, where Nip and MWNP are, and, western NC, where I am. They are different animals. We get snow regularly in WNC, and it's not a big deal. Our lake here is still frozen. For the folks down below the Fall Line (Nip, MWNP) snow is a bigger deal, and the folks down there get exercised about it. What is about to happen is a one-day event, falling on warm ground. Not much to it. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (F2IAQ) 247
If I call you early for dinner you'll just be disappointed.
Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (MDgS8) Posted by: customer service cyclops at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (OVx7B) 249
243 Fall of Constantinople to the Turks. The Byzantines considered themselves to still be Roman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:35 PM (wt/Oq) Ah, yes makes sense. That was around the time Christians got on their high horses and went Crusadin' to go get 'em some Muslimes, right? Those fricking islamophobes! Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:38 PM (AkOaV) And also sacked Constantinople on their way through one of the times. They were almost PC in their equal opportunity sacking! New look at Crusaders? Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (wt/Oq) 250
Lets see in I think 1853 a Christian sect called the Millerites in upstate New York expected the world to end. Dressed up in white sheets, climbed on roofs, and waited. The end never came so they sheepishly climbed down.
End time mania in Christianity goes all the way back to Christ's time. Christ even warned about trying to predict it but still people try to guess the end. Silly wabbits. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (Zm0GY) 251
Rahm forced into runoff? Ha Ha!
Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (qyomX) 252
And I thought all northerners were used to 97' of snow and -25 temps but, oh, the bitchin' this year.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (6Oeuf) I'll give you that! Unprecedented amount of bitching here in New England over the unexpected extreme weather event of... snow. You should hear the local news. It's ridiculous. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (AkOaV) 253
It's less depressing to think apocalyptically then to realize that yeah, we're probably stuck in this socialist utopia for the rest of our lives with no hope of escape.
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:11 PM (AkOaV) Things will go on until they can't. If you had told me in 1979 that the Iron Curtain would collapse in 10 years, I would have thought you were insane. I expected the Cold War would last my entire life. On the flip side, in 2004, after all those "values" voters gave Dubya a second term, did you think the country would elect a guy with the middle name of Hussein in 4 years? 8 years after 9/11? History has made some really bizarre twists in the past and will do so again. Trying to predict the future is a fool's game, although I guess it's human nature to do so (and I certainly find myself doing it.) Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (+XMAD) 254
According to google, the roman empire fell in 1453 (I would have guess earlier)
Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (AkOaV) I don't know about that. The Holy Roman Empire (I mean like some German States & a few others) lasted into the 1600s, I think. But the old Roman Empire, as we think of it, was pretty much dead by the time of Valentinian. As in very little central authority, virtually no loyalty except perhaps to the notion that your collection of mud huts was once considered part of the biggest empire on Earth. Yeah, the Eastern Empire existed till the Ottomans finally mopped 'em up, but that wasn't an empire except in the most nominal sense after the 2nd Crusade or so. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (MbqmP) 255
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My customers sent me pictures last year from NC during their little snow storm that shut down the whole south. I was laughing at the carnage caused by 2 inches of snow, but they acted like it was the end of the world. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (AkOaV) That describes Philadelphians too, to be honest. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R) 256
That was around the time Christians got on their high horses and went Crusadin' to go get 'em some Muslimes, right?
Someone to be fetching my trusty steed "Quantrill", please? Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (cPHH6) 257
I had a prof in college who said that in his opinion, almost all of the disasters that befell the western empire could be traced to Caracalla's Edict in 212 AD which made all freed men in the empire Citizens.
Sound familiar? Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:31 PM (wt/Oq) Well seeing we have Putticus I in the white house we get to watch it all over again. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (FMbng) 258
244: 97' is only for yuppers. Not sure if they are part of the Midwest or not. I think they are Icebacks.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (ucDmr) 259
Surely they're capable of driving through 2 inches of snow?
---------------- Hell's bells. We had 4" last night. Didn't interfere with anything here. See 246 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (F2IAQ) 260
"Rahm forced into runoff? Ha Ha!"
The wonders are rolling in tonight. The ChiDem machine couldn't figure out which 'Crat to cheat? Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (6Oeuf) Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:41 PM (M1uf/) 262
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Good. Found out my A1C ticked up two-tenths of a point. I haven't been as diligent on watching what I eat, so I'm doubling down on that. New medications should also help. I'm also back to taking antidepressants. After "the episode" last December and some other periods of deep blue funk, I realized I had to do something. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:30 PM (rJUlF) Depression is a soul sucking bitch, so I'm glad you took care of that. Sounds like things are going ok otherwise, which I'm very happy to hear. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:42 PM (mx5oN) 263
My customers sent me pictures last year from NC during their little snow storm that shut down the whole south. I was laughing at the carnage caused by 2 inches of snow, but they acted like it was the end of the world.
I thought all southerners drove big lifted 4x4s with confederate flags on the back? Surely they're capable of driving through 2 inches of snow? *ducks under a table* Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:36 PM (AkOaV) ******* No need to duck, but my standard response to criticisms of this type are to extend an invitation to all of those who sneer to come on down here before the next one, then try and get around in and after it. After that I'll worry a little about what they have to say. Also, snow in the South is about as rare as a Northern College Football team winning a BCS Trophy. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 10:42 PM (3F6F8) 264
Fedex won't ship a CNC machine because of it's name? Probably scared of getting sued again by the govt. Friggin govt lawyers, coat the bbottom of the Potomac with them.
Posted by: fairweatherbill fighting the seventh century hordes at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (9N0xF) 265
260 "Rahm forced into runoff? Ha Ha!"
The wonders are rolling in tonight. The ChiDem machine couldn't figure out which 'Crat to cheat? They couldn't overcome the last-minute anti-ballerina vote. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (qyomX) 266
Actually, we in the NC mountains get snow more than you'd think. And that 2" of snow might not be a problem to people that live in the flatlands, but when you're trying to navigate down a 15% incline and through switchbacks and there's no guard rails, AWD means diddly-squat.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (Wo9OY) 267
Pro tip: Don't say, "I'll have another beer!" Beer Is Proof That God Loves Us And Wants Us To Be Happy That's a quote. I didn't make that up. Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (MDgS8) 268
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It's part of the morality play of a oikophobic, obtuse cult; Earth GOOOD, men BAAD, GAIA PUNISH! YEAAY!!! GUN GOOD! PENIS EVIL! Posted by: ZARDOZ at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (o78gS) 269
Chicago, racing to imitate Detroit. Bigger, badder, uglier, more corrupt.
How will they blame it on the Republicans? Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (+1T7c) All true, except that Chicago has always been as corrupt, if not more corrupt than Detroit. Decades of listening to local Chicago news turns your stomach. Chicago is an extremely large voting block for Illinois politics and Illinois has had 2 consecutive governors sent to prison. The way that Chicago is different from Detroit is that they still have a large proportion of educated, prosperous, successful people who live in the city. Unfortunately, those prosperous, educated people are also LIBERAL. So their city, in spite of having people who should know better, is going straight down the toilet, just like Detroit. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (kGrwF) 270
Weather, water cooler material now that the NFL is done for the year
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (4ka5+) 271
Is this the smoking thread?
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (KG0mU) 272
A factory cafeteria Made Up Largely of Hispanics is the answer to the microwave question.
Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (8zCR+) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (6Oeuf) 274
Caracalla was one of those short reign Emperors that no one like, even after he created the greatest bath house in history.
What helped Constantinople to fall was it being sacked just over a century prior by the 4th Crusade who was in the employ of Venice who wanted their economic rival knee-capped. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (Zm0GY) 275
"Resurrectable hangar queen B52's must be rare; most had their wings pulverized, out in the open so the Russian satellites would have a clear view."
Still bitterly furious about that. One in a long string of triumphs for the striped-pants set at State, wherein irreplacable and out-of-production national assets were traded away for a mess of pottage. Same damn dynamic as New START. The United States gave up still perfectly viable weapons systems, in good condition, well maintained, which the country could have easily afforded to keep going, while Putin's Russia in exchange gave up obsolescent rusting crap that they didn't even have the cash to keep painted. Got two tens for a five? Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 10:44 PM (noWW6) 276
123 Everytime the news mentions PTSD of Kyle's murderer they never mention he saw no combat. They want to make every veteran seem to be on the verge of breaking down.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:13 PM (glJL/) If you look at the descriptions of that guy, there is all kinds of criminal and mental junk. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that he had big problems before he ever entered the military. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:44 PM (kGrwF) 277
271 Is this the smoking thread?
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at February 24, 2015 10:43 PM (KG0mU) Yes. The earlier one was the nonsmoking thread. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (sdi6R) 278
250 Lets see in I think 1853 a Christian sect called the Millerites in upstate New York expected the world to end. Dressed up in white sheets, climbed on roofs, and waited. The end never came so they sheepishly climbed down.
End time mania in Christianity goes all the way back to Christ's time. Christ even warned about trying to predict it but still people try to guess the end. Silly wabbits. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (Zm0GY) There was a book out called 88 Reasons the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (mx5oN) 279
264 Fedex won't ship a CNC machine because of it's name? Probably scared of getting sued again by the govt. Friggin govt lawyers, coat the bbottom of the Potomac with them.
Next shipment will be labelled "trannie therapy device." They'll pass it through quicker than a counterman handing Cheetos to a student supplementing his Michelle lunch abomination. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (qyomX) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (6Oeuf) 281
266: The roads around there suck in the dry. I would not attempt in ice and snow. By the way, I'm a cheesehead. No way would I drive around there in that shit.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (ucDmr) 282
Football championships? Getting personal now. Next thing you know we will be comparing how many teeth we each have.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 10:46 PM (4ka5+) 283
For the folks down below the Fall Line (Nip, MWNP) snow is a bigger deal, and the folks down there get exercised about it.
What is about to happen is a one-day event, falling on warm ground. Not much to it. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 10:39 PM (F2IAQ) Yeah, I will admit to getting a little ... snow fatigued... this year. Running out of places to put it all. Usually we get at least one melt during the winter, but nope... just keeps piling up and staying below freezing. At least the snow is a good insulator against the house to keep the siberian cold air out. But yeah, we drive in snow every day and are used to it. Drive slow, leave plenty of distance for stopping and turning, you'll all survive and be alright. Also, always keep some gas in your generator and a few 5 gallon gas cans lying around and have a plan for heat if your electricity goes out. Cuz that's a real bitch. Oh, and if it does get knocked out -- for godsake, turn off the water, drain it out in the basement at the closest shut off to the ground, and leave faucets open upstairs so water can expand in the pipes. And then enjoy a miserable night with no heat. That's what we live with every year. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:46 PM (AkOaV) 284
274 Caracalla was one of those short reign Emperors that no one like, even after he created the greatest bath house in history.
Go on. Posted by: Rahm Emmanuel at February 24, 2015 10:46 PM (qyomX) 285
Actually, we in the NC mountains get snow more than you'd think. And that 2" of snow might not be a problem to people that live in the flatlands, but when you're trying to navigate down a 15% incline and through switchbacks and there's no guard rails, AWD means diddly-squat.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert Uhm, I do that pretty much everyday from Oct 15 to May 15 in a two wheel drive truck. Posted by: fairweatherbill fighting the seventh century hordes at February 24, 2015 10:47 PM (9N0xF) 286
I predict Jesus will come back shortly before the heat death of the Universe.
Maybe shortly before the sun goes nova, if that's sooner. Why wind up the toy if you're not going to let it completely unwind? Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:47 PM (M1uf/) 287
Re: Snowmagedon, the forecast here in central Iowa is 5-7 inches between Wednesday morning and Thursday mid-day. Yea! (not).
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Anna,
I read some of the fisking to CWJr (who actively despises SJW) and he got a huge laugh from Corriea's responses. I think I may have found the guy another fan. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:47 PM (rJUlF) 289
From Drudge:
'Mein Kampf' will soon return to German bookstores... http://tinyurl.com/qx5djqt I am surprised. I think the only way to combat poisonous ideas is to drag them into the light kicking and screaming and kill them with sweet reason. However, Germany has been so completely... overzealous on even Nazi Iconography (ask any wargamer about how german units are rendered in games about WWII) that I am surprised they would not outright ban Hitler's manifesto. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:48 PM (wt/Oq) 290
273: Sorta related.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:48 PM (ucDmr) 291
There is currently 12 B-52Hs at AMARG and 95 B-52Gs.
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Oh, by the by, did I mention that I wrote a book?
You can help me publish by donating to my GoFundMe. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:49 PM (M1uf/) 293
What? Details?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:45 PM (6Oeuf) ***** Details are in the post. Yeah......I know. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 10:49 PM (XrHO0) 294
I was going to cover Rahm's election but emailed CAC that my neck has been acting up since Thursday & it's waking me up at or before 4 am.
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238 Folsom Street Fair is worse than Mad Max....
And "Up Your Alley" is worse than Folson Street Fair. Zombie linked to his/her pictures of that event in an earlier thread and I made the mistake of going there. Some things cannot be unseen. What I noticed was that the pervs giving each other bjs and worse in the streets of SF were, generally speaking, not your buff gay pinup boys. Many were old and out of shape - either fat or bony - and looked like they were probably in SF when the Mamas and Papas came out with "California Dreamin'." That made the whole thing sad as well as disgusting. Elderly exhibitionists getting off on flaunting their nasty carcasses in public. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 10:50 PM (+XMAD) 296
During one blizzard in upstate NY , my friend took his mom's 4w drive bronco and he and his girlfriend went joyriding . He said he thought he was hot shit in his 4W drive as he passed stuck cars in the snow and driving through snow banks, etc. When he got home , his mom met him in the driveway and after looking inside the Bronco advised my friend that he never had the 4W drive engaged.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:50 PM (glJL/) 297
Fedex won't ship a CNC machine because of it's name?"
What? Details? Posted by: Ricardo Kill 2/3 way down the list of articles above. Posted by: fairweatherbill fighting the seventh century hordes at February 24, 2015 10:50 PM (9N0xF) 298
Why wind up the toy if you're not going to let it completely unwind?
No one expects the - Oh sorry, chaps, we jumped the gun a bit. Carry on. Posted by: Apoclyptic Inquisition at February 24, 2015 10:50 PM (0NdlF) 299
294 I was going to cover Rahm's election but emailed CAC that my neck has been acting up since Thursday & it's waking me up at or before 4 am.
Well, that sucks. I don't suppose a change of pillow would help, would it? I've had to tune in that area. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:51 PM (qyomX) 300
AllenG and Capt Whitebread, yeah Larry uses a Cluebat+8 on that idiot.
Dear Ms Special So-So, the reason people don't read your drivel is because frankly congealed porridge is far more appetizing. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 10:51 PM (Zm0GY) 301
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (+XMAD)
Fair enough. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:51 PM (AkOaV) 302
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:47 PM (rJUlF)
Have you heard of the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies slate? A bit of interesting anti-SJW fun with SF award nominations. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (0NdlF) Posted by: Beverly Cooper at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (4cD0e) 304
289 However, Germany has been so completely... overzealous on even Nazi Iconography (ask any wargamer about how german units are rendered in games about WWII) that I am surprised they would not outright ban Hitler's manifesto.
I think they did, for a long time. Last Nazi must have died or something. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (qyomX) 305
Mike Hammer,
Are you still hiding behind browser? Or are you un banned? I emailed you sent it &. went to check on potato I was baking in oven. I turned up heat posted a few here & ate it I just sat down to read now. Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (sj3Ax) 306
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According to google, the roman empire fell in 1453 (I would have guess earlier) Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:33 PM (AkOaV) I don't know about that. The Holy Roman Empire (I mean like some German States a few others) lasted into the 1600s, I think. But the old Roman Empire, as we think of it, was pretty much dead by the time of Valentinian. As in very little central authority, virtually no loyalty except perhaps to the notion that your collection of mud huts was once considered part of the biggest empire on Earth. Yeah, the Eastern Empire existed till the Ottomans finally mopped 'em up, but that wasn't an empire except in the most nominal sense after the 2nd Crusade or so. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (MbqmP) As an aside, there is a train of thought that considers the "First Rome" to have fallen when Alaric the Goth sacked Rome in 410 AD; the "Second Rome" to have fallen when the Turks sacked Constantinople in 1453 AD; and the "Third Rome" to still exist....any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (6Oeuf) 308
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poor urban broke families don't cook Posted by: Feh at February 24, 2015 10:15 PM (g/zj9) Don't make me bring up my parents who came from poor, rural, depression era families. 2 Words: Lard Sandwiches Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (kGrwF) 309
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Drive slow, leave plenty of distance for stopping and turning, you'll all survive and be alright. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:46 PM (AkOaV) I like to think I'm fairly competent driving in snow. I liken it to walking on eggs. Use a light, delicate touch on the gas, brake, and steering. Hills can still be a problem, though. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 10:53 PM (sdi6R) 310
I predict Jesus will come back shortly before the heat death of the Universe.
Well, several times, God mentions "the thousandth generation" in context of a blessing towards Abraham, et al. Jesus was 40 generations from Abraham (IIRC, from Matt Ch. 1). 2000 years after that now, so we're at about generation 110. Only a little while, now! Posted by: Harold Camping at February 24, 2015 10:53 PM (MbqmP) 311
All right fappers, I have to get up at the asscrack of dawn tomorrow, so I'm going to try to sleep. L8r h8rs!
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295: Donna, thanks for the reminder. I saw Zombies photo essay of that shit. All I can say is, neutron bomb. Oh, and eye bleach.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:55 PM (ucDmr) 313
"Note that this personality type is not strictly confined to environmentalism or the Left." Note further, however,that this personality type is a mere curiosity outside the Left and environmentalism, whereasthe exploitation of less eccentric but no less baseless environmental concerns by Left/environmentalismuniquely menaces freedom, rationality, and economic development. Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 10:55 PM (afQnV) 314
"The way that Chicago is different from Detroit is that they still have a large proportion of educated, prosperous, successful people who live in the city."
Also: when the American economy shifted rather dramatically from making things to financing things, Chicago had the CME, and Detroit had, um, payday loan storefronts. My suspicion is that the financial industry is about to virtualize and decentralize to such a degree that former hubs of it such as Chicago and New York City are going to be stunned with the speed with which the money went away. THEN Chicago will go full Detroit. Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 10:55 PM (noWW6) 315
and the "Third Rome" to still exist....any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Beijing? Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:56 PM (MbqmP) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 10:56 PM (6Oeuf) 317
Posted by: Harold Camping at February 24, 2015 10:53 PM (MbqmP)
Uh, I thought Jesus said no one knows the time or day He will return. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 10:56 PM (+XMAD) 318
any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Ah, Ja. Das dritte Reiche. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (AkOaV) 319
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Drive slow, leave plenty of distance for stopping and turning, you'll all survive and be alright. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:46 PM (AkOaV) I like to think I'm fairly competent driving in snow. I liken it to walking on eggs. Use a light, delicate touch on the gas, brake, and steering. Hills can still be a problem, though. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 10:53 PM (sdi6R) I am usually pretty good in the snow, even with a rear wheel drive car. This year though, the snow was so loose and powdery, combined with the extreme cold, that it was like driving on Crisco. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (wt/Oq) 320
In these complaints one hears not only the voiced Islamist cant, but also the rural accents beneath it that identify most ISIS cadres as poorer, less well-educated Iraqis who have resented Mosul urbanites all their lives.
Sarah Palin's accent? Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (AVEe1) 321
Uh, I thought Jesus said no one knows the time or day He will return.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 10:56 PM (+XMAD) Right. So just get everybody on Earth to guess a day, & the one day that no-one picks will be that day! Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (MbqmP) 322
Well, several times, God mentions "the thousandth generation" in context of a blessing towards Abraham, et al. Jesus was 40 generations from Abraham (IIRC, from Matt Ch. 1). 2000 years after that now, so we're at about generation 110. Only a little while, now!
He also says something about "Owning the cattle on 7000 hills." In my experience, when God starts using numbers that are bigger than 1 or 2, you need to start paying attention to if he's using symbolism. 1000 Generations means "All The Generations." Or "Until the end of time." Now, it might *also* be 1000 literal generations, but I wouldn't count on that. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (M1uf/) 323
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and the "Third Rome" to still exist....any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Beijing? Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:56 PM (MbqmP) Closer than you might think..... Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (T1005) 324
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Ah, Ja. Das dritte Reiche. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (AkOaV) Soo... Berlin, ja? Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (AkOaV) 325
After driving home from work for an hour in the snow for a 20 mile trip , I would always go to the empty parking when I got home and do donuts to relieve the stress of the drive.
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Fuck Chicago. Home of Hussein. At least Detroit knows they are fucked. Chicago will never figure that out.
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I don't know about that. The Holy Roman Empire (I mean like some German States & a few others) lasted into the 1600s, I think. But the old Roman Empire, as we think of it, was pretty much dead by the time of Valentinian. As in very little central authority, virtually no loyalty except perhaps to the notion that your collection of mud huts was once considered part of the biggest empire on Earth. Yeah, the Eastern Empire existed till the Ottomans finally mopped 'em up, but that wasn't an empire except in the most nominal sense after the 2nd Crusade or so.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (MbqmP) The Holy Roman Empire lasted up to part of the 19th century. Posted by: The Holy Roman Hat at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (0Ew3K) Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (rJUlF) 329
"End time mania in Christianity goes all the way back to Christ's time."
I blame the Book of Revelations. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (1Y+hH) 330
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any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Ah, Ja. Das dritte Reiche. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (AkOaV) Nope. They didn't think they were the new Rome....possibly because they were palled up with Mussolini who was in the old Rome. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (T1005) 331
Child, them ol boys with 36s and lift kits, flyin their colors, ain't scared of snow.
It's those pussies in downtown Atlanta ya gotta worry about. A quarter of whom are transplanted Yankees, by the way. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (37e3g) 332
Fuck Chicago. Home of Hussein. At least Detroit knows they are fucked. Chicago will never figure that out.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (ucDmr) ****** No, it is simply where he chose to live, not his home. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (XrHO0) 333
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Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) Ah, Ja. Das dritte Reiche. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:57 PM (AkOaV) Soo... Berlin, ja? Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (AkOaV) Nein. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (T1005) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (6Oeuf) 335
Right. So just get everybody on Earth to guess a day, & the one day that no-one picks will be that day!
Only, once someone figures that out, then it's also automatically eliminated. So I think we're better off not date-setting. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (rJUlF) 336
I blame the Book of Revelations.
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (1Y+hH) Pretty sure Revelation (singular) was written after Acts, and the Christians in Jerusalem were going for it from the start. Caused problems in just a few years after the founding of the Church because of a famine in the area. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (M1uf/) 337
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (M1uf/)
A day to God could be a thousands of years to us. Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (glJL/) 338
After winning WW11 the US imposed change on Germany and Japan. Germany internalized it to an extreme. What Japan did with I'm not so sure.
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325 After driving home from work for an hour in the snow for a 20 mile trip , I would always go to the empty parking when I got home and do donuts to relieve the stress of the drive.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 10:58 PM (glJL/) My dad taught me the basics of driving in an empty parking lot, and a little later took me back there when it was snow-covered. That helped a lot. Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (sdi6R) 340
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I don't know about that. The Holy Roman Empire (I mean like some German States a few others) lasted into the 1600s, I think. But the old Roman Empire, as we think of it, was pretty much dead by the time of Valentinian. As in very little central authority, virtually no loyalty except perhaps to the notion that your collection of mud huts was once considered part of the biggest empire on Earth. Yeah, the Eastern Empire existed till the Ottomans finally mopped 'em up, but that wasn't an empire except in the most nominal sense after the 2nd Crusade or so. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 10:40 PM (MbqmP) The Holy Roman Empire lasted up to part of the 19th century. Posted by: The Holy Roman Hat at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (0Ew3K) But, as the old observation has it, was never Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (T1005) 341
So I guess Helen Mirren toting a gun will scare all those Aussie SJW weak sisters?
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Action-Women-Movie-Montage-7.jpg Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (Zm0GY) 342
332: Whatever, the guy is still a fuckin hose head. Thanks Chicago.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (ucDmr) 343
312 295: Donna, thanks for the reminder. I saw Zombies photo essay of that shit. All I can say is, neutron bomb. Oh, and eye bleach.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 10:55 PM (ucDmr) When you see that crap, you do find yourself contemplating the "Let It Burn" scenario. I don't imagine many of the freaks who pranced around the Imperial City during the latter days of the Roman Empire survived the fall. But neither did a lot of good people. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (+XMAD) 344
As an aside, there is a train of thought that considers the "First Rome" to have fallen when Alaric the Goth sacked Rome in 410 AD; the "Second Rome" to have fallen when the Turks sacked Constantinople in 1453 AD; and the "Third Rome" to still exist....any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) According to Russia, they became the third Rome after the fall of Constantinople because a Byzantine pincers married into the Russian royal house. Posted by: The Czar's Hat at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (0Ew3K) 345
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"Ah, Ja. Das dritte Reiche." No. Not even close. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (6Oeuf) Do you know it? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (T1005) 346
For a good alternate take on Revelation, look up the book As A Lamb Slain by Floyd Stanley
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (M1uf/) 347
Nope. They didn't think they were the new Rome....possibly because they were palled up with Mussolini who was in the old Rome.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (T1005) .... Well... That's indirectly where the "third reich" thing came from, amigo. "Erste Reich" was the holy roman empire (born out of the ashes of the original Roman empire), Zweitte Reich was the Bismarck days, Dritte Reich was the national socialists and their socialist utopia. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (AkOaV) Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (UVfht) 349
Hey everybody.
I know it was a few threads ago, but Ace's article on "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" sounds like good advice for me too. I *need* to lose weight. I should probably take Ace's essay and adapt it to overeating, fast food, et al. Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:03 PM (elbY7) 350
Do you know it?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (T1005) I feel like you're going for... Washington DC Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:03 PM (AkOaV) Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:03 PM (sj3Ax) 352
What an unlucky guy Chris Kyle's killer is.
He got found guilty of murder in a state where there's an express lane to the executioner's chambers. And where the DAs openly have a policy: "Dead in 15 minutes or the next one is free!!" Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:04 PM (elbY7) 353
A day to God could be a thousands of years to us.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (glJL/) I remember a priest once noting during a sermon that for all we know we could still be in the early days of Christianity. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 11:04 PM (+XMAD) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:05 PM (37e3g) 355
Child, them ol boys with 36s and lift kits, flyin their colors, ain't scared of snow.
It's those pussies in downtown Atlanta ya gotta worry about. A quarter of whom are transplanted Yankees, by the way. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:00 PM (37e3g) ***** Well then, invite those Ole Boys on down to Atlanta, and tell them to be here by 1:00 tomorrow afternoon. Best make sure they are good with climbing over cars for 20 miles or so first though. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:05 PM (XrHO0) 356
A day to God could be a thousands of years to us.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (glJL/) Which works with the symbolism argument. "To God, all of time (a thousand years) is but a day, and a day is all of time." Because God exists outside the Universe (and therefore time) and so literally has "all the time in the world" to consider each and every moment for "eternity." Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:05 PM (M1uf/) 357
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So I guess Helen Mirren toting a gun will scare all those Aussie SJW weak sisters?" The Aussie general public don't mind gun-toting characters. They like the action flicks. They do mind any Aussies having guns and doing anything with them. The stuff Croc' Dundee did in the movies 20 years ago would get him squarely in jail today. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 11:05 PM (6Oeuf) Posted by: fairweatherbill fighting the seventh century hordes at February 24, 2015 11:06 PM (9N0xF) 359
The Holy Roman Empire lasted up to part of the 19th century.
Posted by: The Holy Roman Hat at February 24, 2015 10:59 PM (0Ew3K) Well, yeah, but it never was much of an Empire, really. A few German subscriber states, some Belgians, & Emperor Norton's your Uncle! I mean, there are a few loonies up here who think that Pittburg (kindly note the lack of an haitch) is still its own nation. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:06 PM (MbqmP) 360
I should probably take Ace's essay and adapt it to overeating, fast food, et al.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:03 PM (elbY7) Well if you have to lose weight, quit drinking beer. Works for me every time. But I don't really overeat or eat fast food. I like to save my calories for the liquid dessert. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:06 PM (AkOaV) Posted by: BlackOrchidPhotobomb at February 24, 2015 11:06 PM (pS66t) 362
343: Donna, All true. I plan on separating myself from that shit as far as possible. This ain't gonna be pretty.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:06 PM (ucDmr) 363
What an unlucky guy Chris Kyle's killer is.
On the other hand, no one forced him to pull that trigger. And it saddens me (I'm guilty of it, too) that the other man murdered that day keeps getting left off. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (M1uf/) 364
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:04 PM (elbY7)
Yeah, if he had killed Kyle in San Diego,the killer might have had a brighter future in front of him - or at least, a future. In Texas, not so much. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (+XMAD) 365
Mynewhandle,
I'm in Boston area where we've had close to 8 feet of snow from January 23-February 16 & none has melted. Others can get out but my AWD car is too big to get out of driveway. My older brother or friend have been getting things for me. We're going out Thursday afternoon. Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (sj3Ax) Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (6Oeuf) 367
Damn right I wouldn't feel safe if Baldwin came to a con! I mean look at the way he treated Kim Basinger....
[Puts on reading glasses] Oh, ADAM Baldwin. Nevermind. Posted by: Sister Sestina at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (fjP++) 368
The stuff Croc' Dundee did in the movies 20 years ago would get him squarely in jail today.
And got his inspiration shot dead, IIRC. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (M1uf/) 369
354: You like? I think it kicks it.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (ucDmr) 370
What Japan did with I'm not so sure.
Posted by: cm9000 Finally came to the realization that mercantilism was a big no-no, that trade was the way to improve one's economy, and that a withering psychological order can grind the spirit of people down to the point of negative population? Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (Q/1Jp) 371
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:01 PM (M1uf/)
I once knew something of that, but have long since forgotten. Revelation, yes, thank you. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (1Y+hH) 372
Maet, re apocalypse lovers and "Note that this personality type is not strictly confined to environmentalism or the Left": exactamundo times 1000.
I've mentioned her before here, but easily my most aggravating FB friend at this stage *isn't* a leftist. It's a woman who refuses to leave her home to go to church, yet is absolutely convinced she knows the absolute truth about everything about Christianity and that the End of Days is at hand. I've been very tempted to just tell her it's obvious what she really believes: that she's the *only* person who's going to heaven. If you so much as prefer Pepsi to her beloved Coke, yer goin' ta hell!!! Honestly, she'd almost be easier to deal with if she was a leftist. You can't disagree with her either without her immediately putting on her "poor poor me, I'm just trying to get you saved" routine. Just more proof, oftentimes Christians are their own worst enemies. Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (elbY7) 373
Others can get out but my AWD car is too big to get out of driveway. My older brother or friend have been getting things for me. We're going out Thursday afternoon.
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:07 PM (sj3Ax) Ah, right on. I, too, am in the Boston area (well, area'ish) but not in the peoples republic of mass. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (AkOaV) 374
And where the DAs openly have a policy: "Dead in 15 minutes or the next one is free!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:04 PM (elbY7) Sadly, it will be more like ten years before they get the needle. Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (8zCR+) 375
My take on Christ going 'don't try to guess the end Dude' is very simple. You are supposed to be living a life like Christ right now day to day, not trying to game the system to get yourself saved in the bottom of the 9th inning.
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Are you still hiding behind browser? Or are you un banned?
I emailed you sent it &. went to check on potato I was baking in oven. I turned up heat posted a few here & ate it I just sat down to read now. Posted by: Carol --------------- Carol, I'm now on my third IP. This one is working..., for the time being. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (F2IAQ) 377
I'm in Boston area where we've had close to 8 feet of snow from January 23-February 16 & none has melted.
Yup, I'm just a tad North of you. There was nothing on the ground but dirt & dead leaves for Christmas & the New Year. Now? We're going to be shovelling this shit until Heap Big Warren takes her oath of office. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (MbqmP) 378
FCC & JEF planning to take over Internet made me have to take extra muscle relaxer, plus neck hurt worse. That gave me Ragestroke!
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (sj3Ax) 379
If you have one... whip it out. Let's celebrate my birthday!
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (fLKzW) 380
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As an aside, there is a train of thought that considers the "First Rome" to have fallen when Alaric the Goth sacked Rome in 410 AD; the "Second Rome" to have fallen when the Turks sacked Constantinople in 1453 AD; and the "Third Rome" to still exist....any guesses as to what capital city that Third Rome might be? Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005) According to Russia, they became the third Rome after the fall of Constantinople because a Byzantine pincers married into the Russian royal house. Posted by: The Czar's Hat at February 24, 2015 11:02 PM (0Ew3K) Ding, ding, ding! Ivan III of Russia ("Ivan the Great") married Sophie Paleologue, niece of the last Byzantine Emperor, partially at the suggestion of Pope Paul II....thus establishing a claim that Moscow is the Third Rome. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (T1005) 381
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:05 PM (XrHO0)
I believe a small convoy of them from my gene pool are already on their down there for an event of some kind involving fast cars. Not worried about the snow, but then they're from Rabun County.... Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (37e3g) 382
About that ISIS profile - I'll read it, and the excerpted part is good, but - duh. I mean with respect to who the "foot soldiers" of ISIS are almost certainly to be. Not very bright or educated but "motivated" yutes from rural Iraq - and Egypt, Syria, maybe even a few from Jordan and Palestinian areas. In other words, pretty much the same feed stock we saw in Iraq before (on the Sunni side). Sure, some of the brass may have Syrian or Iraqi military training (though most likely, those folks are essentially contractors, not true believers), but I doubt there's much of the "elite" global jihadi squad - Chechens, Bosnians with real military experience. And the rich nutcase kids from the UK or Pakistan or Egypt or Saudi don't bring much capability to the fight - unless you're talking "PR" aimed at non-Arabs/non-Muslims. And prepare to be shocked to learn that drug use is rampant, and standard, among the ISIS yutes. I mean insane fanatical puritanism is one thing. Getting/keeping the yutes in action often requires some chemical encouragement (see drug content ofdead jihadi scum in Fallujah after we cleaned that out). Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (afQnV) 383
Child, them ol boys with 36s and lift kits, flyin their colors, ain't scared of snow.
It's those pussies in downtown Atlanta ya gotta worry about. A quarter of whom are transplanted Yankees, by the way. Posted by: Tammy ------------------------- The biggest whiners/complainers here are the half-backs. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (F2IAQ) 384
"And got his inspiration shot dead, IIRC."
Yes it did. The NT state police came for some arms he didn't hand over, gunfight ensued. He dead. Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (6Oeuf) 385
I once knew something of that, but have long since forgotten. Revelation, yes, thank you.
I've had religious/political debates with all sorts of people for a long time, and "Christianity is fundamentally socialist!" comes up a lot. As for the Revelation thing, my dad has been doing a study on it in his Bible class at his church (based on the book I mentioned) and gave me a copy. It's an interesting (if poorly written) read. And it makes much more sense than a lot of the "Revelation as End-Times Prophesy" stuff you hear. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (M1uf/) 386
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (MbqmP)
You're telling me! Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (AkOaV) 387
I want the chick in the Target commercial.
Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (zt+N6) 388
Another thing that's very frustrating about my End of Days Christian friend: she has *no* critical thinking skills whatsoever. She will provide a link to ANYTHING that agrees with her, no matter how nutty it is, as long as it's nominally Christian.
I'm seriously thinking of making a bogus website saying that Cheez Whiz and Triscuits contain chemicals that will turn Christians into devil worshippers who will work actively to bring on Armageddon. I'd bet $100 she'd link to it and post it as more "proof" of her beliefs. And to everyone talking about God and time: also exactamundo. Time is nothing to God. Glad to see so many people here get that. Wish we didn't call each other Morons; we're all obviously so much smarter. ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (elbY7) 389
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:04 PM (elbY7)
Sadly, it will be more like ten years before they get the needle. Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 11:08 PM (8zCR+) He got life, not the DP. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (37e3g) 390
BTW, Hugo the Chavez, we are planning a Moron meetup in GB - tentative date March 21. Be nice if you and other cheeseheads could make it.
With that, I say,goodnight to the Horde. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (+XMAD) 391
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Bingo. I also have some FB friends who are convinced it's the End Of Days. Some of these same friends were also convinced it was The End in the 1980s (nuclear war) and the 1990s (Gorbachev!). My view (and I could be wrong)? Christ will return when the Father tells him to. But since God exists outside of space and time, to try to set a date, or even a date range, is foolish. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (rJUlF) Posted by: fairweatherbill fighting the seventh century hordes at February 24, 2015 11:13 PM (9N0xF) 393
375: Anna, you get it. That's how it works.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:13 PM (ucDmr) 394
388 Another thing that's very frustrating about my End of Days Christian friend: she has *no* critical thinking skills whatsoever. She will provide a link to ANYTHING that agrees with her, no matter how nutty it is, as long as it's nominally Christian.
I'm seriously thinking of making a bogus website saying that Cheez Whiz and Triscuits contain chemicals that will turn Christians into devil worshippers who will work actively to bring on Armageddon. I'd bet $100 she'd link to it and post it as more "proof" of her beliefs. And to everyone talking about God and time: also exactamundo. Time is nothing to God. Glad to see so many people here get that. Wish we didn't call each other Morons; we're all obviously so much smarter. ;-) Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:12 PM (elbY7) Flakes are by their very nature, flakey. Like Biscuits. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (wt/Oq) 395
That could be a catchy tune:
"You've got to immanentize the eschaton Eliminate the negatives And latch on to the affirmative Don't mess with Mister In-Between You've got to bring ammo for the maxim gun To bring doom up to the minimum Have faith for pandemonium's Cake walk upon the scene" Posted by: Kindltot at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (t//F+) 396
The biggest whiners/complainers here are the half-backs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (F2IAQ) Yea, it seems to be an ingrained part of that general personality. Surly, sulky bastards. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (37e3g) 397
Anna, exactly.
buzzion: I want the chick in the Christmastime Audi commercials. You know her, the dark-haired young woman dressed as one of Santa's elves?? "We're gonna need a bigger bucket!!" I actually found her BTW. Her name is Selyna Warren, she's a comedian... and she just got married. All of the good ones are taken. Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (elbY7) 398
After winning WW11 the US imposed change on Germany and Japan. Germany internalized it to an extreme. What Japan did with I'm not so sure.
Herbivores. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (0NdlF) 399
Donna, March 21. We will be there!
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (ucDmr) 400
Has anyone heard from Peaches?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:15 PM (37e3g) 401
378 FCC & JEF planning to take over Internet made me have to take extra muscle relaxer, plus neck hurt worse. That gave me Ragestroke!
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (sj3Ax) Yes, it's surprising that more people haven't been talking about that. Richard Fernandez posted about it yesterday at Belmont Club, and Mark Levin read some excerpts tonight: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/02/23/losing-the-internet/ Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 11:15 PM (sdi6R) 402
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (elbY7)
Tights with her elf costume, I assume? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:16 PM (37e3g) 403
Fuck Chicago. Home of Hussein. At least Detroit knows they are fucked. Chicago will never figure that out.
Chicago won't go down as long as the mob can find a way to make money. How could it get better than to be connected to the White House? Posted by: dartist at February 24, 2015 11:16 PM (ahBY0) 404
Christ will return when the Father tells him to. But since God exists outside of space and time, to try to set a date, or even a date range, is foolish.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread "For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night." Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2015 11:17 PM (Q/1Jp) 405
Tammy, you know it!! Thick red ones. ;-)
What's worse, once I found her, she's in tights in most of her publicity pics as well. She must have the hosiery gene. Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:17 PM (elbY7) 406
400: Tammy last I heard she was going through some trying times with her dad health wise. Was trying to move to San Diego. My take was she wouldn't be around for awhile.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:17 PM (ucDmr) 407
re: the FCC and the attempted Internet coup.
When a Prog-Soc says how Net Neutrality will make things wonderful, ask them gently about do they have any issues with the government controlling your access? If they spout off its all for the people remind them 'oh you mean like how Holder's DoJ is going after makers of pr0n by squeezing the banks?' Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (Zm0GY) 408
"It's an interesting (if poorly written) read. And it makes much more sense than a lot of the "Revelation as End-Times Prophesy" stuff you hear."
I agree. Need to find my copy. The reason I mentioned it is I seem to remember a passage right at or near the end indicating that that Judgment Day would come rather soon. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (1Y+hH) 409
Posted by: rickl at February 24, 2015 11:15 PM (sdi6R)
Most people have either a) never heard of it or b) don't understand it. Even fairly news-savvy folks I know are confused. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (37e3g) 410
"I've had religious/political debates with all sorts of people for a long time, and "Christianity is fundamentally socialist!" comes up a lot. "
Actually, I think Communism/socialism is a sort of Christian heresy - promising to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and with its' own saints and demons. Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (+XMAD) 411
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:11 PM (M1uf/)
Never was a big fan of the Left Behind theory of things. Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (0NdlF) 412
buzzion: I want the chick in the Christmastime Audi commercials. You know her, the dark-haired young woman dressed as one of Santa's elves?? "We're gonna need a bigger bucket!!" I actually found her BTW. Her name is Selyna Warren, she's a comedian... and she just got married. All of the good ones are taken.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:14 PM (elbY7) Its all in the legs. The Target girl that is. http://youtu.be/16cJ5FAYBZA Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (zt+N6) 413
Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:10 PM (37e3g)
**** Ah yes, more of Brian France's genius on display. A race in Atlanta in February. Those boys are taking the easy way out and going South of any snow to Hampton. Send em up to Fannin or Union County tomorrow afternoon. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:19 PM (XrHO0) 414
buzzion, oh yeah. That's not Selyna though.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 24, 2015 11:19 PM (elbY7) 415
326 Fuck Chicago. Home of Hussein. At least Detroit knows they are fucked. Chicago will never figure that out.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February See Jay Cutler Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 11:21 PM (4ka5+) 416
Well Chicago is connected to the White House for 2 more years, unless Prez Golfsa A Lot decides he's not leaving.
And tonight Chicago decided that an historic first!!!! was required and put Rham Emanuel in a runoff for mayor with Jesus "Chuy" Garcia - a commie who was born in Mexico. Nothing wrong with being born in Mexico, it's a beautiful place. Commies like Chuy aren't known for encouraging a healthy financial sector so if he wins we can expect the Chicago financial sector to find greener pastures. An additional tax on financial transactions by the exchanges has been discussed. Posted by: Boots at February 24, 2015 11:22 PM (l9mF2) 417
But since God exists outside of space and time, to try to set a date, or even a date range, is foolish.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread Agreed. Though that doesn't stop some from trying, with extremely predictable results. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:22 PM (1Y+hH) 418
Never was a big fan of the Left Behind theory of things.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (0NdlF) I grew up in churches in the Southern Baptist Convention, and that same view was all I knew. I'll just say I don't hold to that interpretation any more. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:22 PM (rJUlF) 419
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (1Y+hH)
Stanley's take in the book is that everything up through chapter 20 of Revelation had taken place by the time the Apostles were anointed with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. And all the imagery is explaining what was going on *spiritually.* He says a few things I'd like backed up a whole lot more to accept firmly, but the vast majority of the book makes much more sense than the "Rapture and Tribulation" story. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:22 PM (M1uf/) 420
Chicago is the taint of this country. No redeeming social value. Skid mark City.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:23 PM (ucDmr) 421
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:19 PM (XrHO0)
I was kind of shocked myself. Why, I don't know because NASCAR has been fcuked for decades now, but..... My bubs and I were raised in the mountains, they really aren't bothered by snow! (I myself have not left the house in 10 days, save for one day Thor drove us into town for supper; I do not like driving on ice in these hills!) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:23 PM (37e3g) 422
Agreed. Though that doesn't stop some from trying, with extremely predictable results.
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:22 PM (1Y+hH) Does anyone remember "88 Reasons The Rapture Will Happen In 1988?" Scared the pants off me then, because I was in that mindset. When it didn't happen, I started reading more on alternate views on The End. Now, I believe it will happen when it happens, whether that's 15 minutes or 15,000 years from now. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:25 PM (rJUlF) 423
400 Has anyone heard from Peaches?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:15 PM (37e3g) Last week. She was battling flu Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at February 24, 2015 11:25 PM (4ka5+) 424
Chicago won't go down as long as the mob can find a
way to make money. How could it get better than to be connected to the White House? Posted by: dartist at February 24, 2015 11:16 PM (ahBY0) The Chicago machine has owned the Federal government since Obama was installed. Axelrod to Alinsky to Jarret. Posted by: cm9000 at February 24, 2015 11:26 PM (8zCR+) 425
Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter,
We are moving, most likely to Texas, brother I own house with wanted NM or AZ. Now it's between Texas or Arizona. I have package from Copperas Cove, TX but my brother was sick & I didn't want to share it. I have rose garden & we had single digit temps before any snow, if it was after snow, snow protects them. Early January we had nothing. Are you in MA? South isn't prepared for snow & doesn't have equipment we do in NE. I live on side street & it's piled up as high as when it stopped snowing two weeks ago. Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:26 PM (sj3Ax) 426
423: Going to the meet up?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:26 PM (ucDmr) 427
Most people have either a) never heard of it or b) don't understand it. Even fairly news-savvy folks I know are confused.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (37e3g I've tried to explain it to a number of people, but their eyes glaze over and they lose interest. It's not an issue that you can create a 10 second soundbite on, which is why the dems love it. And it's not extremely technical, I don't get why people don't understand but oh well. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (AkOaV) 428
Most people have either a) never heard of it or b) don't understand it. Even fairly news-savvy folks I know are confused.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:18 PM (37e3g I've tried to explain it to a number of people, but their eyes glaze over and they lose interest. It's not an issue that you can create a 10 second soundbite on, which is why the dems love it. And it's not extremely technical, I don't get why people don't understand but oh well. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (AkOaV) 429
Chicago is the taint of this country. No redeeming social value. Skid mark City. Have a beer, the Packers will be ok. Posted by: dartist at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (ahBY0) 430
Stopped snowing last Tuesday & not two weeks ago.
I'm patiently waiting for March. Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (sj3Ax) 431
Donna, will quote a dead white guy about Communism.
pg 438 of Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology on Marxism's world view. Penguin Books, 1976 edition. In a very interesting way one is reminded also of the councils, purges, manifestoes, and pretensions of the so-called people's governments of the Iron Curtain culture province, where the precepts of the Prophet Marx, reinterpreted by an elite of Ulamas, are put forth as the ijma of a purely mythical entity, the People. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (Zm0GY) 432
I'm a big fan of this apologetics blog, Tektonics, and no surprise, they have an article on Revelations and dating it. Good scholarly read, however you interpret the book.
http://www.tektonics.org/esch/revdate.php Posted by: ConservativeMonster at February 24, 2015 11:28 PM (0NdlF) 433
g'night, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 24, 2015 11:29 PM (4gN5w) 434
It's not an issue that you can create a 10 second soundbite on, which is why the dems love it.
And it's not extremely technical, I don't get why people don't understand but oh well. Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:27 PM (AkOaV) I fully admit I fall more in the glazed-eye category! But I figure if the government wants to do it, I am dead against it. Cliff notes, please? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:30 PM (37e3g) 435
Since a little bit of SJW's and Gamergate is mentioned in the thread I couldn't help but think that Olberdouche today is a similar example. You have a person of the media shitting on the consumers which will have a feedback loop to the content providers. Just like the SJW game journalists shitting on gamers so they've taken it to the advertisers to fight the SJW shitheads.
Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2015 11:31 PM (zt+N6) 436
Stanley's book has been around a while, and at 597 pages, it sounds like it's complete, if not exhaustive. Interesting. finding a copy may be an adventure.
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:31 PM (1Y+hH) 437
We dang humans, we always want to know how the story ends, don't we?
Posted by: Sister Sestina at February 24, 2015 11:32 PM (fjP++) 438
MisHum,
You have new email address? Which do I use? I noticed it on Wisconsin meet up email. How did covering election go? Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:33 PM (sj3Ax) 439
Adios, Friends in the little grey boxes.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:33 PM (ucDmr) 440
Winter wasn't going that badly until Feb. It's getting pretty late for this kind of cold. -18 last night, and record was -1. Also set a new record for yesterday. But we haven't had near as much snow as usual. The ground will get a good freeze, which is good for the soil.
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 24, 2015 11:33 PM (2o6Wj) 441
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:25 PM (rJUlF)
I was ten years ahead of you in the Nostradamus era. Armageddon was supposed to start in 1978. Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 11:34 PM (1Y+hH) 442
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Has anyone heard from Peaches? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:15 PM (37e3g) I had lunch with Peaches last week....I should check in to see how she's doing. Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (T1005) 443
Are you in MA?
New Hamster. My wife has decided, though that this is the last damned Winter we are spending up here. The 4 billion tons of white bullshit & three weeks below zero have finally broken her will to put up with it. I can't blame her too much. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (MbqmP) 444
I have not been around much because I have a serious gf and have been working on music and a case going to trial next month. Here's some backstory on my Ellis Act post:
This is a story about the lead plaintiff: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protecting-homes-central-to-both-sides-of-5725875.php The amount of relocation assistance is now back to what it was, not cheap, but not essentially designed to replace the lost rent control. There hasn't been a new story yet because the order just came out. This is the Ellis Act (well, it's not nearly thorough enough but a decent primer): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Act Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (3vCoI) 445
Night Chavez! Thanks for the heads up about Kid!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (37e3g) 446
Yea, it seems to be an ingrained part of that general personality. Surly, sulky bastards.
Posted by: Tammy -------------------- .. who think that we are lucky to have them among us, and also..., seem to feel that I owe them something. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (F2IAQ) 447
Hi & Good Night, Chavez!
How was anniversary? Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (sj3Ax) 448
Are you in MA?
New Hamster. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (MbqmP) How, YOU doin'? Posted by: One of Pixy's tweaking hamsters... at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (0Ew3K) 449
I need to go count sheep myself. Goodnight, all.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (rJUlF) 450
445: no problem. Glad you enjoyed.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (ucDmr) 451
I had lunch with Peaches last week....I should check in to see how she's doing.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (T1005) SO jealous! Was wondering if she was able to move into that new apartment yet.... Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:37 PM (37e3g) 452
Night, Capt!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:37 PM (37e3g) 453
Tammy Al Thor,
Are things with Thor good now? What state are you living in now? Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:37 PM (sj3Ax) 454
How, YOU doin'? Posted by: One of Pixy's tweaking hamsters... at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (0Ew3K) Yeesh. I'm only here for the sex & meth, & Barack is 20 minutes late. Guess I'll go disassemble all the electronics in the house. Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:38 PM (MbqmP) 455
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2015 11:36 PM (F2IAQ)
Yup. Angry folks, all in all. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:38 PM (37e3g) 456
447: Great Carol. Thanks for asking. Hope you get some relief from all that weather you have been dealing with.I can't imagine. Hope you are well.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:38 PM (ucDmr) 457
Cliff notes, please?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:30 PM (37e3g) ***** Bottom line... Services like Netflix, Hulu, Prime and Apple TV are eating up a disproportionate amount of bandwidth by being....successful. Although each already pays big premiums for this, it is still not "fair". So, while creating a problem in order to solve it, (the first part of that being a out the only thing Gov does well), they are proposing to step in and administer fairness of access. No way that could lead to any sort of censorship. Nuh uh. No way. It is way more than that, but it could be used to shut down this very blog if implemented. They also seem to have forgotten what the first two Ws in WWW stand for. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:39 PM (cIoI4) 458
New Hamster. My wife has decided, though that this is the last damned Winter we are spending up here. The 4 billion tons of white bullshit & three weeks below zero have finally broken her will to put up with it. I can't blame her too much.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 11:35 PM (MbqmP) Ah, same. Sorry to hear you're leaving the state. Snow sucks, but otherwise it's a nice place to live. Anyways, gnight all Posted by: mynewhandle at February 24, 2015 11:39 PM (AkOaV) 459
Drudge is pissed.
MATT DRUDGE @DRUDGE 2h 2 hours ago May the Democrats burn in hell for opening the doors to endless Internet regulation. I mean really burn. MATT DRUDGE @DRUDGE 55m 55 minutes ago Federal Communist Commission https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/570431329046638592/photo/1 Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 11:39 PM (ZPrif) 460
Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2015 11:37 PM (sj3Ax)
Ah,t hanks for asking, Carol! Things are okay. I am in Arkansas now, and he's been here most of the time since Christmas. I will probably head back to NC late in the Spring. Have you made up your mind about moving? Or at least narrowed down your choice of cities? Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:40 PM (37e3g) 461
Night, mynewhandle! (What was your old one?!)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:41 PM (37e3g) 462
459: the day will come when Hairy Reed will tell you when to shit. Trust me, it's coming. Three squares bitches.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:41 PM (ucDmr) 463
462 459: the day will come when Hairy Reed will tell you when to shit. Trust me, it's coming. Three squares bitches.
He probably doesn't care, once you've reached puberty. Posted by: Splunge at February 24, 2015 11:43 PM (qyomX) Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:44 PM (37e3g) 465
462 459: the day will come when Hairy Reed will tell you when to shit. Trust me, it's coming. Three squares bitches. Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:41 PM (ucDmr) That day has come and gone for me. Posted by: Mitch "Democrat's bitch" McConnell at February 24, 2015 11:45 PM (zt+N6) 466
Net Neutrality is "the Fairness Doctrine" for the internet.
Basically, the idea the Left is using is that some day Comcast or Time-Warner or AT&T might *possibly* start charging certain websites a premium for their bandwidth and what if they did that to your blog!?!?!?! Which, of course, is how you know it's just scare-mongering, since the big telecoms neither know nor care about DedicatedTenther.blogspot.com. But, even given that, it seems that, once again, the Prog-Tards have forgotten that you have no right to something that someone else must produce or provide. Therefore, because the possibility exists that it *could* happen, Government must step in to ensure that it doesn't happen. Or that it does happen, but only "fairly." Or something. (Another sign of it being scare-monger tactics: they don't actually ever say what they want Government to do). Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:45 PM (M1uf/) 467
Aaaaand, now I have "Jesus is Coming Soon" stuck in my head.
Oh, well, at least it has a decently good bass line. 'Night all. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:46 PM (M1uf/) Posted by: Farmer at February 24, 2015 11:46 PM (o/90i) 469
in the words of Rush( the band) some people need a ready guide. That never works. They were right on that one.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at February 24, 2015 11:47 PM (ucDmr) 470
BRB, time for the "Lesbian Bear Storm" show...
Posted by: The Kuma Hat at February 24, 2015 11:47 PM (0Ew3K) 471
I'm looking at "Ghost Rider" right now...
Posted by: I've said too much already at February 24, 2015 11:50 PM (YxTUV) 472
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) And Author, too! at February 24, 2015 11:46 PM (M1uf/)
Boy that took me back a few years. So much fun to sing! Reminds me of some fine people. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2015 11:52 PM (37e3g) Posted by: richard mcenroe at February 24, 2015 11:58 PM (XO6WW) Posted by: richard mcenroe at February 24, 2015 11:58 PM (XO6WW) 475
Football championships? Getting personal now.
NCAA titles? that would be NDSU, 4 in a row.. 58 and 3 over the last THREE years. Oh, and go Big10,11,12 what ever it is. Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 25, 2015 12:05 AM (lAXNl) 476
Someone asked earlier today about the dude supporting Iraqi Christians who was on Greta last night.
I caught a clip tonight somewhere on FNC, he's w/ Sons of Liberty International. Sounds like a good cause, I'll look into it. Posted by: Farmer at February 25, 2015 12:05 AM (o/90i) 477
"New Hamster. My wife has decided, though that this is the last damned Winter we are spending up here. The 4 billion tons of white bullshit & three weeks below zero have finally broken her will to put up with it. I can't blame her too much."
Do you not simply require a flamethrower? http://tinyurl.com/klglpsj Posted by: torquewrench at February 25, 2015 12:06 AM (noWW6) 478
Whazzap roonz and roonettez?
Posted by: GGE in the salt mines at February 25, 2015 12:09 AM (zVkaV) 479
Allen G.,
Do you have any knowledge of Copperas Cove? If so, please email me when you have a chance. I want to go when it's hottest there. Thank you! Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2015 12:09 AM (sj3Ax) 480
Fargo, ND - Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for "reckless endangerment" and "illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry" for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:12 AM (F2IAQ) 481
Tuesday Night ONT Compliance Pics
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/570267194606669825 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/570267390442913792 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/570267561851555840 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/570267860301451264 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/570268449072685056 Posted by: kbdabear at February 25, 2015 12:12 AM (GrXXa) 482
Fargo, ND - Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for "reckless endangerment" and "illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry" for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:12 AM (F2IAQ) 10 out of 10 for style. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 12:14 AM (FMbng) 483
Is there any interest amongst the NC Rons or Ettes for a "day at the range" meet up sometime?
Posted by: fastfreefall at February 25, 2015 12:15 AM (pqOzY) 484
You could replace every instance of "feminist SJW" with "feminists crab lice" or just plain "crab lice" and the meaning of the sentences would remain the same.
Posted by: Another_Bob at February 25, 2015 12:16 AM (3D0iC) 485
Fargo, ND - Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for "reckless
endangerment" and "illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry" for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:12 AM (F2IAQ) 10 out of 10 for style. Great isn't it? Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 25, 2015 12:17 AM (lAXNl) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:21 AM (F2IAQ) 487
Is there any interest amongst the NC Rons or Ettes for a "day at the range" meet up sometime?
Posted by: fastfreefall ------------- Maybe..., but unless it is west of Hickory, I'm a non-starter. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:22 AM (F2IAQ) Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 12:23 AM (T1005) 489
instance of "feminist SJW"
Posted by: Another_Bob Not you but the phrase "feminist SJW," is redundant in ad infinitum. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 12:24 AM (Q/1Jp) 490
I've been to Hickory.....
Posted by: cthulhu --------------- But you didn't stay. I don't blame you, once you east of the fall line, those people get strange. Too much oxygen down there. It make 'em giddy. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:24 AM (F2IAQ) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:25 AM (F2IAQ) 492
483, hellz yeah!
Posted by: GGE in the salt mines at February 25, 2015 12:25 AM (zVkaV) 493
Ah yes, more of Brian France's genius on display. A race in Atlanta in February. Those boys are taking the easy way out and going South of any snow to Hampton. Send em up to Fannin or Union County tomorrow afternoon. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 24, 2015 11:19 PM (XrHO0) Bill France, Jr. used to have them racing in Rockingham, NC in February when he was running things. Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at February 25, 2015 12:26 AM (+Fae7) 494
instance of "feminist SJW"
Posted by: Another_Bob Not you but the phrase "feminist SJW," is redundant in ad infinitum. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 12:24 AM (Q/1Jp) Not really. Trans SJW and RadFem SJW hate each other almost as much as they hate cishet men. Posted by: The Cis-Het Hat at February 25, 2015 12:27 AM (0Ew3K) 495
GGE - Come up for air?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:27 AM (F2IAQ) 496
Not really.
Trans SJW and RadFem SJW hate each other almost as much as they hate cishet men. Posted by: The Cis-Het Hat So 'trans' and 'RadFem' aren't inherently 'Feminsts'? I find that a Brigette too far. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 12:29 AM (Q/1Jp) 497
Have to get up early. Be well you Morons.
T Posted by: Farmer at February 25, 2015 12:30 AM (o/90i) 498
'Night Farmer
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:31 AM (F2IAQ) 499
Happy-ish Tuesday Night, all y'all ...
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at February 25, 2015 12:32 AM (P+IZm) 500
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Is there any interest amongst the NC Rons or Ettes for a "day at the range" meet up sometime? bit of a drive for me... anyone want to do the same here in SoCal? Posted by: redc1c4 at February 25, 2015 12:33 AM (lsWof) 501
385 410 Here's my standard answer to the "Christianity is fundamentally socialist" claim:
You don't know anything about Christianity. 1. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead to care for his widowed mother (luke 7). He didn't say it was the community's job, or Herod's job, or Pilate's job, or Caesar's job, all of which He could easily have done. Instead, He raised the son to care for his mother. In fact, nowhere in the New Testament can you find a word where He says that caring for the poor is the job of government. Instead, He says it is the job of believers. 2. You and I have a duty to give charity. We could agree that government is the best way to do that. I disagree -- I believe Catholic Charities or the Salvation Army or even your local church would do a far better job of it -- but a group of people could conceivably agree that government could manage it for them as their agent (which logically also means that the lowest possible level of government would be the most effective -- I'm talking about the village, neighborhood, or apartment building level of government, which can monitor behaviors, but that is another story). However, when we use the police power of government to take from a third person to contribute to our charitable cause, that is no longer charity. And when the recipients of the charity, or their designated representatives are allowed to vote "charity" for themselves to be paid for by all three of us, then what is going on has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus Christ. It is a way that political affairs can be organized by men, but it has nothing to do with God. 3. The admonitions of the rich that Christ makes are not calls for redistribution by government. They are exhortations to charity. They are about what is in the givers' hearts, not a way to care for the poor. Christ does not tell the rich to go give all their money to Caesar (Pilate, Herod) so that they can redistribute it for Him. Schemes that tax the rich to care for the poor are not based in Christian charity. Christ's concern was the salvation of men's and women's souls, not the workings of Earthly government. And don't even get me started about how He felt about tax collectors. Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2015 12:34 AM (5f5bM) 502
495, lunch break. No school tomorrow and no work tomorrow, so probably wont be on the ont.
Posted by: GGE in the salt mines at February 25, 2015 12:35 AM (zVkaV) 503
So 'trans' and 'RadFem' aren't inherently 'Feminsts'?
I find that a Brigette too far. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 12:29 AM (Q/1Jp) RadFem believe that anyone with a penis is an oppressor. "Trans-women" (who are men who think they are women) believes that the RadFems are "trans-misogynist" and cis-normative oppressors. Posted by: The Cis-Het Hat at February 25, 2015 12:36 AM (0Ew3K) 504
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I've been to Hickory..... Posted by: cthulhu --------------- But you didn't stay. I don't blame you, once you east of the fall line, those people get strange. Too much oxygen down there. It make 'em giddy. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:24 AM (F2IAQ) Wait a second....I thought the fall line went Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh. Hickory is at 910 feet, somewhat higher than the 292, 751 (counting the high ground, eh?), and 315 of the other three cities. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 12:36 AM (T1005) Posted by: Jeb 'Act of Love' Booooosh at February 25, 2015 12:37 AM (pLhWv) 506
Has Maet ever provided an update about his new super-annoying co-worker?
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2015 12:37 AM (elbY7) 507
Has Maet ever provided an update about his new super-annoying co-worker?
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2015 12:37 AM (elbY7) What do you think is in the burgers? Posted by: Barth's Burgery at February 25, 2015 12:40 AM (0Ew3K) 508
Lunch break is over now. Back to work now.
Posted by: GGE in the salt mines at February 25, 2015 12:41 AM (zVkaV) 509
"Trans-women" (who are men who think they are women) believes that the RadFems are "trans-misogynist" and cis-normative oppressors.
Posted by: The Cis-Het Hat at February 25, 2015 12:36 AM (0Ew3K) I can hear that creepy Nazi dude from raiders of the lost ark. Just shoooot them, shooot them both. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 12:42 AM (FMbng) 510
Wait a second....I thought the fall line went Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh. Hickory is at 910 feet, somewhat higher than the 292, 751 (counting the high ground, eh?), and 315 of the other three cities.
Posted by: cthulhu ------------------ Eastern Continental Divide is just east of here, barely east of Hendersonville. The dark line here: http://tinyurl.com/lzhznmv Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:44 AM (F2IAQ) 511
Barth, I *thought* they tasted a bit Democraty.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2015 12:45 AM (elbY7) 512
Trans SJW and RadFem SJW hate each other almost as much as they hate cishet men.
Posted by: The Cis-Het Hat There is no hate as intense as the hate felt by a nullo for a eunuch, and vice-versa: "Poseur!" "Johnny-Come-Lately!" "Half-Intact Freak!" "Ex-man!" Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2015 12:46 AM (K4YiS) 513
Eastern Continental Divide is just east of here, barely east of Hendersonville. The dark line here:
http://tinyurl.com/lzhznmv Posted by: Mike Hammer -------------------- And before you object..., for the purposes of this conversation...., that IS the fall line. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:46 AM (F2IAQ) 514
There is no hate as intense as the hate felt by a nullo for a eunuch, and vice-versa:
"Poseur!" "Johnny-Come-Lately!" "Half-Intact Freak!" "Ex-man!" Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2015 12:46 AM (K4YiS) Basically the left hates everybody. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 12:47 AM (FMbng) Posted by: The Super-Sized Hat at February 25, 2015 12:49 AM (0Ew3K) 516
There is no hate as intense as the hate felt by a nullo for a eunuch, and vice-versa:
"Poseur!" "Johnny-Come-Lately!" "Half-Intact Freak!" "Ex-man!" Posted by: zombie at February 25, 2015 12:46 AM (K4YiS) The sad thing is that I know what a "nullo" is. *shudders* Posted by: The Intact Hat at February 25, 2015 12:50 AM (0Ew3K) 517
I miss Super Sized order of fries.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at February 25, 2015 12:52 AM (GoyxN) 518
I just got home so I'm a late arrival to the ONT. I was wondering while driving over 40 miles of bad road if Barack Obama has ever had anybody who care enough about him to tell him when he was full of shit.
I've been told more than once that I was full of shit. Sometimes my critic was right and I was wrong and I smartened up. Sometimes I was right and my critics were wrong and I grew stronger in my convictions and my ability to think them through. I doubt the SCOAMF has ever had the benefit of being challenged in his thinking and, as a result, is a mental weakling. Posted by: Northernlurker aka Easybake at February 25, 2015 12:52 AM (XohZJ) 519
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Wait a second....I thought the fall line went Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh. Hickory is at 910 feet, somewhat higher than the 292, 751 (counting the high ground, eh?), and 315 of the other three cities. Posted by: cthulhu ------------------ Eastern Continental Divide is just east of here, barely east of Hendersonville. The dark line here: http://tinyurl.com/lzhznmv Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:44 AM (F2IAQ) Yeah, but that's a different dealio from the fall line -- where rivers stop being navigable. I realize that I'm a stranger to these parts, but trying to conflate different aspects of the area isn't being very sociable. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 12:53 AM (T1005) 520
Just a quick drop in tonight. Did battle on Facebook with some that thinks a letter by a 12 year old girl shows more wisdom than Phyllis Schafly. (And what does that say about us that we take antything seriously that a 12 year old might say ). I'm reading through Gerties Sewing Blog archives and one commenters bemoans that she likes vintage fashions from the 50s because that was "the time of our oppression". If you try to tell young women that housewives in the 50s didn't feel they were oppressed and might have enjoyed raising their families, they won't believe you.
At least the county commissioners voted to have "In God We Trust" as a motto on the wall of the meeting room. There was a huge debate and I expect that the WA state AG will insist they take it down. It's a very strange culture in the US these days. Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2015 12:54 AM (Lqy/e) 521
I lived the yurt lifestyle for three days. That was enough.
Posted by: Cicero of the Mongolian Nomads at February 25, 2015 12:54 AM (ZbCKc) 522
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Eastern Continental Divide is just east of here, barely east of Hendersonville. The dark line here: http://tinyurl.com/lzhznmv Posted by: Mike Hammer -------------------- And before you object..., for the purposes of this conversation...., that IS the fall line. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:46 AM (F2IAQ) What?!? Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 12:54 AM (T1005) 523
"I doubt the SCOAMF has ever had the benefit of being challenged in his thinking and, as a result, is a mental weakling.
Posted by: Northernlurker aka Easybake at February 25, 2015 12:52 AM (XohZJ) It is my guess that all his life he has been told "thats nice dear, now run along" Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at February 25, 2015 12:55 AM (GoyxN) 524
I lived the yurt lifestyle for three days. That was enough.
Posted by: Cicero of the Mongolian Nomads at February 25, 2015 12:54 AM (ZbCKc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6vJir53Cz4 Posted by: Ghingis' Hat at February 25, 2015 12:56 AM (0Ew3K) 525
Oh and the reason that radical environmentals long for the end of civilization? They don't like their lives very much and they don't want to have to make decisions. If the society falls, they will feel vindicated.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 25, 2015 12:56 AM (Lqy/e) 526
I realize that I'm a stranger to these parts, but trying to conflate different aspects of the area isn't being very sociable.
Posted by: cthulhu ----------------- In these parts..., my judgement is regarded as absolute. I'm telling you, cross that line and the quality of society drops steadily..., I mean Nip, EC, Lincoln, GGE..., all reprobates, right? I rest my case. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:57 AM (F2IAQ) 527
I've been up & awake since before 4 am.
It's time for me to go to sleep. Good Night, Horde. I left for 20 minutes to update my winter 2014-2015 to read in detail if, for any chance, my older brother forgets how bad this winter has been. He shouldn't because he's done most of snow removal & my best male friend has helped but he's had to work on worse days. Last week he left here Sunday after 7 & came home near midnight. Instead of coming in house after long day he was shoveling porches. I was going to get on porch roof because 4 feet of snow was on it. My brother told me drop from window to roof was too deep & I told my roommate we'd figure out something. He's very tall & shoveled porch roof & I didn't hear him. I will miss having him around. Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2015 12:57 AM (sj3Ax) Posted by: The Spankin' Hat at February 25, 2015 12:57 AM (0Ew3K) 529
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I realize that I'm a stranger to these parts, but trying to conflate different aspects of the area isn't being very sociable. Posted by: cthulhu ----------------- In these parts..., my judgement is regarded as absolute. I'm telling you, cross that line and the quality of society drops steadily..., I mean Nip, EC, Lincoln, GGE..., all reprobates, right? I rest my case. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 12:57 AM (F2IAQ) Just don't call it the "fall line"....call it the "fail line" or something. I know what the fall line is -- it's how far from the Atlantic you have to go to avoid alligators. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 12:59 AM (T1005) 530
Just a quick drop in tonight. Did battle on Facebook with some that thinks a letter by a 12 year old girl shows more wisdom than Phyllis Schafly.
Posted by: Notsothoreau As the saying goes, debating a Leftist is like playing chess with a pigeon; the pigeon is just going to knock your pieces down and shit all over the board. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:01 AM (Q/1Jp) 531
Which, of course, is how you know it's just scare-mongering, since the big telecoms neither know nor care about DedicatedTenther.blogspot.com. Boys and girls, THATS how you shamelessly pimp a blog that you don't have. Bravo. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 25, 2015 01:03 AM (xsQZk) 532
In the seven years that I lived aboard, I had in the ship's lockers, the means to build, to destroy, to heal, to kill, and just about everything in between.
I could distill seawater, harvest fish, birds and game ashore. The boat could make for me, electricity, hot water, distance made good and that distance far away from hostile shores. Not bad for a thirty-foot sloop. Living now in a nearly paid for 1,400 sq. ft. house, I have roughly 1/3 of that self sufficiency, and am painfully aware of the difference. Sometime in the next year or three, I think there'll be another boat. Forty to fifty foot range, with some serious blue-water credentials. The ultimate Bug-out-Bag. Take it ALL with ya. Now, if only I could mount a 20mm Phalanx on board, all would be jussssssst fine. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:04 AM (RzZOc) 533
it's how far from the Atlantic you have to go to avoid alligators.
Posted by: cthulhu --------------- ...and poisonous water snakes. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:06 AM (F2IAQ) 534
Rahm got spanked.
He got spanked HARD: ------------------------------- Clinton elected with less. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:08 AM (F2IAQ) 535
Now, if only I could mount a 20mm Phalanx on board, all would be jussssssst fine. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim Jim, can I call you Jim? Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:10 AM (Q/1Jp) 536
Now, if only I could mount a 20mm Phalanx on board, all would be jussssssst fine.
Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX The Pilar had to be content with 2- .50's. You should be happy with that. Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 25, 2015 01:10 AM (XmOA9) 537
Rahm got spanked.
He got spanked HARD: ------------------------------- Clinton elected with less. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:08 AM (F2IAQ) I doubt Clinton's numbers in Chicago were less than Rahms. Posted by: The Spankin' Hat at February 25, 2015 01:10 AM (0Ew3K) 538
So I signed up for Obamacare, after Obama wrongly took away my Medicare. So now I have to pay MUCH more for much less, and I am much more in need... Also, crappy insurer wont let me pay for first bill before March 1. YEAH!
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As the saying goes, debating a Leftist is like playing chess with a pigeon; the pigeon is just going to knock your pieces down and shit all over the board. Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:01 AM (Q/1Jp) And then strut around like he won. Posted by: rickl at February 25, 2015 01:16 AM (sdi6R) 540
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it's how far from the Atlantic you have to go to avoid alligators. Posted by: cthulhu --------------- ...and poisonous water snakes. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:06 AM (F2IAQ) Wait -- we were hiking in the Pisgah National Forest and the fiancee took a significant detour around a snake in a stream.....are you saying it couldn't have been poisonous? Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:16 AM (T1005) 541
Sometime in the next year or three, I think there'll be another boat. Forty to fifty foot range, with some serious blue-water credentials.
The ultimate Bug-out-Bag. Take it ALL with ya. Now, if only I could mount a 20mm Phalanx on board, all would be jussssssst fine. Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:04 AM (RzZOc) I want a death star. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 01:19 AM (FMbng) 542
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So I signed up for Obamacare, after Obama wrongly took away my Medicare. So now I have to pay MUCH more for much less, and I am much more in need... Also, crappy insurer wont let me pay for first bill before March 1. YEAH! Posted by: Baldy at February 25, 2015 01:15 AM (+35FH) Obamacare is facing some rough seas between now and May. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:19 AM (T1005) 543
Rahm got spanked.
He got spanked HARD: http://dd.aoshq.com/results/chicago-mayor/ ****************** But what does it say about Chicago that he got spanked from the left?? Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2015 01:20 AM (5f5bM) 544
I want a death star.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 01:19 AM (FMbng) Don't skip on the extras. You never know when you'll need a spare thermal exhaust port cover. Posted by: Darth Hat at February 25, 2015 01:20 AM (0Ew3K) 545
But what does it say about Chicago that he got spanked from the left??
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 25, 2015 01:20 AM (5f5bM) DOOM Posted by: Fourth Hat of the Apocalypse at February 25, 2015 01:22 AM (0Ew3K) 546
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In the seven years that I lived aboard, I had in the ship's lockers, the means to build, to destroy, to heal, to kill, and just about everything in between. I could distill seawater, harvest fish, birds and game ashore. The boat could make for me, electricity, hot water, distance made good and that distance far away from hostile shores. Not bad for a thirty-foot sloop. Living now in a nearly paid for 1,400 sq. ft. house, I have roughly 1/3 of that self sufficiency, and am painfully aware of the difference. Sometime in the next year or three, I think there'll be another boat. Forty to fifty foot range, with some serious blue-water credentials. The ultimate Bug-out-Bag. Take it ALL with ya. Now, if only I could mount a 20mm Phalanx on board, all would be jussssssst fine. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:04 AM (RzZOc) You're going to be 750 miles offshore, with a fair wind, and some IRS agents are going to motor up, board under arms, and demand that you document your Obamacare status..... Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:22 AM (T1005) 547
Obamacare is facing some rough seas between now and May.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:19 AM (T1005) ***** Unfortunately, BarryCare will be fine. After all, who is gonna get rid of it? Those snagged into it will be well and truly fcuked though. And more so by the year. Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 25, 2015 01:22 AM (3F6F8) 548
Weft, I do wish I could post the graphic for "infinity". The logo from the Infinity line of loudspeakers would be an easily searchable image file.
I shall henceforth refer to you thus as "8", as in "Infinite _____" And there, one may use pejoratives such as "pedant", "asshole", "jerk" and similar such deprecations as describe your fixation on my name, be it the automated form or the inserted signature block. You really should seek therapy as to your fascination thereof. I think you not well, lad. Otherwise, sit down, shut up, and drink this here shot of bourbon I've just poured you through the USB. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:25 AM (RzZOc) 549
@528 - This is one of those 'they all need to lose' races, my uninformed assessment based on five minutes' reading is that Rahm ended up in a runoff against a guy picked by the teachers' union head who had to drop out of the race herself.
The only reason Twinkletoes didn't win outright is because a well-funded black candidate took his black votes away, but couldn't get enough traction outside the black areas to knock off the proggie. I'm betting that in the runoff Rahm will get his black votes back and win reelection. Posted by: Michael Sam at February 25, 2015 01:25 AM (o+SC1) 550
Weft, I do wish I could post the graphic for "infinity". The logo from the Infinity line of loudspeakers would be an easily searchable image file.
Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:25 AM (RzZOc) ∞ Type in the following without spaces & # 8 7 3 4 ; Posted by: The ∞ Hat at February 25, 2015 01:27 AM (0Ew3K) 551
@546 - there is a solution for Jim's problem.
http://www.rafael.co.il/marketing/SIP_STORAGE/FILES/7/937.pdf Posted by: Michael Sam at February 25, 2015 01:29 AM (o+SC1) 552
∞
Test Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at February 25, 2015 01:30 AM (XrHO0) 553
Wait -- we were hiking in the Pisgah National Forest and the fiancee took a significant detour around a snake in a stream.....are you saying it couldn't have been poisonous?
Posted by: cthulhu --------------- No poisonous water snakes above the fall line. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:31 AM (F2IAQ) 554
You fkucers all rock, did'ja know that?
Absolutely, ROCK. Thatisall. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:31 AM (RzZOc) 555
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Wait -- we were hiking in the Pisgah National Forest and the fiancee took a significant detour around a snake in a stream.....are you saying it couldn't have been poisonous? Posted by: cthulhu --------------- No poisonous water snakes above the fall line. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:31 AM (F2IAQ) I'll be damned -- while we wouldn't have necessarily cuddled up with it, knowing that would have substantially lessened our anxiety. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:34 AM (T1005) 556
Eeek, stinky sock off
Posted by: JEM at February 25, 2015 01:34 AM (o+SC1) 557
I'll be damned -- while we wouldn't have necessarily cuddled up with it, knowing that would have substantially lessened our anxiety.
Posted by: cthulhu --------------- The only poisonous snakes, at all, in the Smokies, are timber rattlers and copperheads. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:37 AM (F2IAQ) 558
Just checking.
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 25, 2015 01:38 AM (2o6Wj) 559
Weft, I do wish I could post the graphic for "infinity". The logo from the Infinity line of loudspeakers would be an easily searchable image file.
I'd tempt your wish here, but I know better than to bait the lion. I shall henceforth refer to you thus as "8", as in "Infinite _____" And there, one may use pejoratives such as "pedant", "asshole", "jerk" and similar such deprecations as describe your fixation on my name, be it the automated form or the inserted signature block. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX This tiny corner of the internets, the slim veins of a prominent destrosphere, I'm honored to be a golom and or jerk to your comments. You really should seek therapy as to your fascination thereof. I think you not well, lad. Otherwise, sit down, shut up, and drink this here shot of bourbon I've just poured you through the USB. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX This is the start of some lame movie quotes. but thank yee just the same Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:40 AM (Q/1Jp) 560
Don't skip on the extras.
You never know when you'll need a spare thermal exhaust port cover. Posted by: Darth Hat at February 25, 2015 01:20 AM (0Ew3K) I'll stick DWS's fat ass in it to seal it off. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 01:40 AM (FMbng) Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:40 AM (Q/1Jp) 562
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I'll be damned -- while we wouldn't have necessarily cuddled up with it, knowing that would have substantially lessened our anxiety. Posted by: cthulhu --------------- The only poisonous snakes, at all, in the Smokies, are timber rattlers and copperheads. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:37 AM (F2IAQ) I thought copperheads were water snakes. Rattlesnakes, I grew up with.... Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 01:42 AM (T1005) 563
I'll be damned -- while we wouldn't have necessarily cuddled up with it, knowing that would have substantially lessened our anxiety.
Posted by: cthulhu --------------------------- See? You should ask about these things. BTW..., that 'little bit of snow' in NC? Here's picture from my office window, Christmas of 2010 : http://tinyurl.com/mky795m Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:42 AM (F2IAQ) 564
See? You should ask about these things.
BTW..., that 'little bit of snow' in NC? Here's picture from my office window, Christmas of 2010 : http://tinyurl.com/mky795m Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:42 AM (F2IAQ) All that cocaine! Posted by: The Coca Hat at February 25, 2015 01:46 AM (0Ew3K) 565
Waaaaaaay late. I'm out.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2015 01:47 AM (F2IAQ) 566
I'm out too. Goodnight all. Thanks.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 25, 2015 01:49 AM (elbY7) 567
I cannot believe it but it's snowing here again 3-5 inches.
I'm really going to sleep now. I had some things I had to do.B Posted by: Carol at February 25, 2015 01:49 AM (sj3Ax) 568
∞ aka Weft.
In this, you're providing a live demonstration of how trolls are born. Pick away at me as you will. Your reputation, your funeral. You're as big or as small a man as you wish to be. The decision is yours. I no longer give a shit, and I've shit plenty larger than the likes of you. Hasta la bye bye, trollish boy. And, goodnight, Horde. Y'all do most certainly rock. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at February 25, 2015 01:53 AM (RzZOc) Posted by: Fox2! at February 25, 2015 01:56 AM (brIR5) Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 01:58 AM (Q/1Jp) 571
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZAGBL6UBA
Posted by: And now for something completely different... at February 25, 2015 02:11 AM (0Ew3K) 572
The Hidden is on sci-fi. Shitty movie, but seeing Claudia Christian feeling herself up is worth it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 02:12 AM (FMbng) 573
I thought The Hidden was pretty good.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:16 AM (20X6f) 574
The Hidden was the best of the least of the 80's 'sci-fi' stuff.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 02:17 AM (Q/1Jp) 575
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZAGBL6UBA
The fact that Peanut Butter and Marshmallow Cream wasn't mentioned is raaaaacist ... somehow ... Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 02:21 AM (P+IZm) 576
I liked Maximum Overdrive so my standards are kind of low. I did have a great AC/DC soundtrack. All that said, I still think The Hidden was underrated. I still really liked it.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:22 AM (20X6f) 577
Overall the movie wasn't bad, some of the parts were a tad cheesy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 02:23 AM (FMbng) 578
...It did have a great AC/DC soundtrack.....is what I meant to post..
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:23 AM (20X6f) 579
It was the '80s!!! Cheesy was a feature, not a bug!
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:24 AM (20X6f) 580
Just a brief check in morons. Hopefully everyone is doing ok this evening.
Posted by: thathalfrican at February 25, 2015 02:27 AM (R5HRU) 581
It was the '80s!!! Cheesy was a feature, not a bug!
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:24 AM (20X6f) Yeah true. The 80's Sci-Fi's did have a different feel to them. I pretty much liked the 80's sci-fi. There were a ton cool movies without all that remake/rehash shit they do today. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 02:30 AM (FMbng) 582
Cheesy was a feature, not a bug!
Posted by: puddleglum@work It wasn't cheesy when we found it mockable... Oh, wait, no, we did 3'Oh Clock High http://youtu.be/5T607c23L8M Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2015 02:34 AM (Q/1Jp) 583
I remember debating the youngin' I work with occasionally (mid 20s) about Total Recall. I said the 80's version was better. He liked the new version. I'd take mid-80's Sharon Stone (she used to be hot) over Kate Beckensale (who is still hot). Must have went back and forth for a good 30 minutes. 12 hour mid shifts can make for some long dull nights. Mid 80s Ahnold would kick that little Irish boys ass (whatever that guys name was in the new one).
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:37 AM (20X6f) 584
3 O'Clock High was better than The Breakfast Club!
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:39 AM (20X6f) Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 02:40 AM (P+IZm) Posted by: jc at February 25, 2015 02:42 AM (iRJ+A) 587
What???
"Lots of them who are conservative and fascist deny the 'liberal' label. They get furious when their liberalism is pointed out, as if being a liberal is mutually exclusive with being a nazi or conservative lol" http://tinyurl.com/o8k2xam Posted by: And now for something completely different... at February 25, 2015 02:44 AM (0Ew3K) 588
Our winter was stolen. We izz wallerin' around in slop.
Climate Change Zombie Snow Hogs ... coming to a theater near you!!! Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 02:45 AM (P+IZm) 589
587: ok, I've read that a few times now and I still don't get it. She isn't seeing fury, she is seeing confusion. She is making no sense.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:49 AM (20X6f) 590
I saw Climate Change Zombie Snow Hogs in a small night club in Jamestown, NY in '93.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:51 AM (20X6f) 591
ok, I've read that a few times now and I still don't get it. She isn't seeing fury, she is seeing confusion. She is making no sense.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:49 AM (20X6f) "She" is a "trans-woman" who is admittedly mentally ill and survives off of mommy and daddy. Posted by: The Cis-Hat at February 25, 2015 02:54 AM (0Ew3K) 592
That's sad.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 03:01 AM (20X6f) 593
puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 03:01 AM (20X6f)
May she find Healing, although I doubt she wants to at present ... Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 03:03 AM (P+IZm) 594
I'm feeling increasingly disconnected.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:03 AM (T1005) Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 03:07 AM (P+IZm) 596
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cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:03 AM (T1005) iPad or Life ? Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 03:07 AM (P+IZm) I don't have an iPad. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:09 AM (T1005) 597
iPad or Life ?
Posted by: Adriane the Sandwich Critic ... at February 25, 2015 03:07 AM (P+IZm) I don't have an iPad. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:09 AM (T1005) Just reject reality and substitute your own. Posted by: The Substitutional Hat at February 25, 2015 03:17 AM (0Ew3K) 598
>>>I don't have an iPad.<<<
**stares zombie-like** That's why you feel disconnected. Join us. Must buy Apple. Must buy Apple. Must... Buy... Apple... **continues to stare zombie-like** Posted by: iSheeple at February 25, 2015 03:21 AM (OVx7B) 599
"She" is a "trans-woman" who is admittedly mentally ill and survives off of mommy and daddy.
Posted by: The Cis-Hat at February 25, 2015 02:54 AM (0Ew3K) Wow. Well done, mom and dad. Well done indeed. Posted by: Just some guy at February 25, 2015 03:23 AM (yxw0r) 600
>>>I don't have an iPad.
**stares zombie-like** That's why you feel disconnected. Join us. Must buy Apple. Must buy Apple. Must... Buy... Apple... **continues to stare zombie-like** Posted by: iSheeple at February 25, 2015 03:21 AM (OVx7B) No need to read over that "iCentipede" clause... Posted by: Zombie Steve Jobs at February 25, 2015 03:24 AM (0Ew3K) 601
>>>No need to read over that "iCentipede" clause...
Posted by: Zombie Steve Jobs at February 25, 2015 03:24 AM (0Ew3K)<<< No need. No need. We have already purchased the $50 proprietary adapter for that. We are of the Apple. We are of the Apple. We. Are. Of. The. Apple. Posted by: iSheeple at February 25, 2015 03:30 AM (OVx7B) Posted by: 50 Hats at February 25, 2015 03:36 AM (0Ew3K) 603
We are of the Apple. We are of the Apple. We. Are. Of. The. Apple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo Posted by: Orange at February 25, 2015 03:37 AM (P+IZm) 604
I have an Ipad. I don't use it because its fucking retarded.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 03:39 AM (FMbng) 605
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I have an Ipad. I don't use it because its fucking retarded. Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 25, 2015 03:39 AM (FMbng) Could be worse, could be 'droid. Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:44 AM (T1005) 606
Could be worse, could be 'droid.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 25, 2015 03:44 AM (T1005) Up yours too buddy! Posted by: C-3PO at February 25, 2015 03:47 AM (0Ew3K) 607
"if you took feminist SJW's claims seriously, the only possible
conclusion would be that women are such weak, utterly-maladapted-to-this-world delicate little creatures..." Put on the Burqa. Posted by: Robert at February 25, 2015 03:49 AM (cIL9k) Posted by: jc at February 25, 2015 03:55 AM (iRJ+A) 609
Our winter was stolen. We izz wallerin' around in slop.
Posted by: jc at February 25, 2015 02:42 AM (iRJ+A) Boy, you ain't kidding. And then it freezes up so nicely at night, just enough to make the world a sheet of ice. The dog actually slipped on the sidewalk this evening. Where in hell is our snow? I really wanted to watch the doggies run. Posted by: tcn in AK at February 25, 2015 04:00 AM (+YMhA) 610
I blame Taco Bell...
*************** Man hurt in mysterious lavatory explosion at his friend's house http://tinyurl.com/oa5cxu5 Posted by: The Non-Explosive Hat at February 25, 2015 04:02 AM (0Ew3K) Posted by: Epobirs at February 25, 2015 04:08 AM (IdCqF) Posted by: The Political Hat at February 25, 2015 04:23 AM (0Ew3K) 613
What kind of idiots sign a treaty that limits our B-52 fleet numbers?! What, we're supposed to launch cruise missiles from pickup trucks? bah! Everything is turning to shit! How are we supposed to destroy the world without enough B-52's!
Posted by: goon at February 25, 2015 04:33 AM (gNTQS) 614
You're thinking water moccasin.
Posted by: Jean at February 25, 2015 04:41 AM (ztOda) 615
G'morning, all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 25, 2015 05:47 AM (YrXgo) 616
Crappy furnace was turned off by my mentally ill mom when I was sleeping. Of course, there is more than one furnace in the house, and she is warm. There is a reason her other kids avoid her...
Posted by: Baldy at February 25, 2015 05:51 AM (+35FH) 617
Nice to see Iron Ballerina may be the first casualty of "Plan B"...
Use the Communist Hispanics to drive the white socialists to dust... "I'm Gooey for Chuy" Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 05:55 AM (/4AZU) 618
616 Posted by: Baldy at February 25, 2015 05:51 AM (+35FH)
One of my stepmothers a few back used to turn down the heat to "52" to conserve energy when we stayed over... of course she had an electric blanket.... Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 05:56 AM (/4AZU) 619
601 Posted by: iSheeple at February 25, 2015 03:30 AM (OVx7B)
The I-Cod.... of course in Obama's case it'd look like a full body condom. Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 05:57 AM (/4AZU) 620
Andy was so punctual for a couple of days, I expected to see a morning thread, at 6 on the dot again.
I see now it was all just a trick. Posted by: mindful webworker - in the dark at February 25, 2015 05:59 AM (SrXsf) 621
620 Posted by: mindful webworker - in the dark at February 25, 2015 05:59 AM (SrXsf)
It can't be chronological whack-a-mole w/out the frequency of it popping up being low... Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 06:00 AM (/4AZU) 622
583 Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 25, 2015 02:37 AM (20X6f)
The little Irish fella is Calling O'Ferret or something..... Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 06:02 AM (/4AZU) 623
A cat's weight doubles when asleep at the foot of your bed. Startling but true scientific fact.
Posted by: mindful webworker - cat-a-leptic at February 25, 2015 06:07 AM (SrXsf) 624
The problem is the idiots on our end interpreted the treaty to mean we couldn't re-rig the old buffs as Q52 bomb trucks and comm repeaters. Incapable of carrying nuclear ordnance - new racks for smaller JDAMs/SDB. 48 hrs on station, at 50K, taking DCFF from JTACs like a short order chef.
Posted by: Jean at February 25, 2015 06:09 AM (ztOda) 625
624 Posted by: Jean at February 25, 2015 06:09 AM (ztOda)
If the democrats were actively trying to undermine US warfighting capability Jean what would they do differently? Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 06:12 AM (/4AZU) 626
Well, if this place is gonna be run in this sloppy, unreliable manner... wait, has it ever been otherwise? "Part of the charm," like not being able to use Unicode.
Rats! I'm awake. Now I gotta get up. [kicks off covers and cats] Posted by: mindful webworker - bah homburg at February 25, 2015 06:14 AM (SrXsf) 627
63 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 24, 2015 10:01 PM (wt/Oq)
You live in a house with arsonists... the GOP refuses to try to take away the matches... "let it burn" is not about wanting the fire but recognizing it's coming and making it hot enough to burn out the arsonists too. Iron Ballerina is about to find out his pet monsters are going to devour his political career hungrily.... Smart conservatives will ally with the La Raza types to make sure the asshole left gets devoured first. Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 06:17 AM (/4AZU) 628
Andys up!
Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 25, 2015 06:18 AM (wVWRM) 629
Sven, dilute our capability with a bunch of long term, no win commitments that sucked cash and morale. E.g.: Gaza peacekeeping
Posted by: Jean at February 25, 2015 06:18 AM (ztOda) 630
628 Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 25, 2015 06:18 AM (wVWRM)
Curses foiled again in my pursuit of the magic #... Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 25, 2015 06:18 AM (/4AZU) 631
All of ISIS are war criminals who have also participated in crimes against humanity. The treatment of willing members of ISIS should be execution. (Well, maybe interrogate them as long as they are useful, THEN execute them.)
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