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Overnight Open Thread (8-5-2015)
Courtesy of The Daily Mail, a story for our times, with something for almost everyone:Two white gay men have their mixed-race adoptive child taken away and given to a black aunt the kid's never met.
I would be surprised if Big Gay took this lying down. Everyone seems to accept that Muslims are atop the diversity totem pole, but the rest of the batting order is still up for grabs.
-- Mark Steyn
The term 'wolf in sheep's clothing' captures an important truth: an effective way to leverage power is by assuming the status of a victim. A culture of victimhood is inherent to political correctness. It is through this victimhood, ultimately, that the tribal hatred of its advocates are nourished, and the dignity of its opponents are undermined.
-- tomowolade
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'"
-- St. Anthony the Great, circa 300AD
It's the big wedding episode. Jeannie and Amanda Bellows are wearing minis for the wedding rehearsal - Amanda, as always with a lower hemline.But there's a problem - a genie can't be photographed. Obviously, this will create a stir with lots of wedding photographers capturing the big astronaut wedding.
They formulate a plan to have Jeannie destroy or disintegrate all the cameras, but, as you might expect, that creates even more of a stir. What to do?
While she's having her hair done by Amanda, Jeannie comes up with the idea to have a mannequin in her place. Naturally, this leads to all kinds of wacky hijinx; unfortunately, none of it involving miniskirts. Moving right along...
-- Retrospace on I Dream of Jeannie, Season 5
I guess they've run out of OPM for the moment.
It's all over the wires: Puerto Rico has defaulted on its $58 million payment to creditors of its Public Finance Corporation, which was due by the end of day. San Juan's treasury only managed to scrape together some $628,000 towards the total. The government had tried to argue that the PFC bonds were of a different category-and had a different legal status-than general obligation debt. Credit rating agencies rejected the argument. "Moody's views this event as a default", Moody's analyst Emily Raimes said in a statement, according to Reuters. "This is a first in what we believe will be broad defaults on commonwealth debt."
What now? A whole lot of mess, more than likely.
Murders Rising in Major Cities Across the US
The Making Of A Yet Another Almost SJW Martyr
Dash and body cams are the natural enemy of wild SJWs.
Lindsey Graham's Strange, Charmed Military Career
Well all of his promotions for literally nothing make sense when you realize he was basically JAG's paid-in-rank lobbyist to Congress.
The SEC Moves to Mandate Wealth Shaming on American Corporations
The Secret to Modern Financial Success
And steps 1-11 are just the beginning of the list although I can already see that steps 3 and 7 could be problematic for some.
1. Don't marry her.
2. Use your mom's address for your mail.
3. The guy buys a house.
4. Guy rents out house to his girlfriend who has 2 of his kids.
5. Section 8 will pay $900 a month for a 3-bedroom home.
6. Lover signs up for ObamaCare; guy doesn't have to pay out-the-butt for family insurance.
7. Lover goes to college for free being a single mother.
8. Lover gets $600 a month for food stamps.
9. Lover gets free cell phone.
10. Lover gets free utilities.
11. Guy moves into home but uses mom's house for his mail.
The Waco Biker Gang Shootout Case Gets Stranger and Stranger
It's been over two months since a shootout at a Waco, TX restaurant left nine people dead and 18 wounded yet no forensics reports have been released and everyone involved in the case even peripherally still is under a gag order.
Finally Ending the Hospice 'Cruel Choice'
The Teen Who Exposed a Professor's Myth
Apparently the Google and local library microfilms are tools unavailable to professional academics.
In 2002, University of Illinois-Chicago history professor Richard J. Jensen printed "No Irish Need Apply: A Myth of Victimization." His abstract begins:"Irish Catholics in America have a vibrant memory of humiliating job discrimination, which featured omnipresent signs proclaiming 'Help Wanted-No Irish Need Apply!' No one has ever seen one of these NINA signs because they were extremely rare or nonexistent."
...Here, of course, is the problem: After only couple of hours Googling it, Rebecca, a 14-year-old, had found out these signs had, in fact, existed all along. Not only in newspaper listings-in which they appeared in droves-but, after further research, in shop windows, too.
The Irish were persecuted in the American job market-and precisely in the overt, literally written-down way that was always believed.
How a 1913 Fistfight Led to Mandarin Becoming China's National Language
How to Build a Classic Adirondack Chair and Enjoy Lounging the Rest of Summer
This is very tempting to try although I do think some of the steps can be simplified.
Does Drinking Alcohol Actually Kill Brain Cells?
Short answer: No.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that alcohol, even when applied directly to neurons, didn't kill them. It just interfered with the way they transmit information. Specifically, the researchers showed that alcohol causes certain receptors on neurons to manufacture steroids that inhibit memory formation.Some alcoholics can experience neuron death as part of a brain disorder called Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. In these cases, the evidence again suggests that the disease and cell death aren't caused by the alcohol itself, but a B1 (or thiamine) deficiency and general malnutrition that often go hand in hand with alcoholism.
For moderate drinkers, a number of studies from the last 15 years suggest that, far from killing brain cells, a little tipple is actually associated with a reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia.
Also: Top.Scientists. Say There Are Four Kinds of Drunk
Time for a Buzzfeed-style Quiz!
Psychologists have identified four different types of drunk people: the Hemingway, the Nutty Professor, the Mary Poppins and the Mr Hyde.
The Group knows your sins but doesn't care.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 10:46 PM (j1VIK)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 05, 2015 10:47 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 05, 2015 10:47 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Dogstar Returned at August 05, 2015 10:48 PM (BcS/0)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2015 10:48 PM (EzgxV)
In one of his books, Thomas Sowell points out that the Irish used to have unemployment rates worse than that of Native Americans. So I'm not sure how the "perfesser" could have concluded that anti-Irish discrimination was a myth.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 10:48 PM (j1VIK)
Posted by: Kohn Jasich at August 05, 2015 10:48 PM (GIIf5)
Posted by: Farmer at August 05, 2015 10:48 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: mindful on an unfamiliar cell at August 05, 2015 10:49 PM (JtBPN)
Posted by: steinmetz at August 05, 2015 10:50 PM (CrYC8)
Blithering idjit Chris Hayes seems incapable of understanding a simple sentence in English, to whit: The 2nd Amendment.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9645
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 05, 2015 10:51 PM (7YlUk)
Posted by: tommy dolby at August 05, 2015 10:51 PM (kivUY)
Who did Bay of Pigs?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (iA/+T)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (Kucy5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (2XMpf)
Well, I learned today there are *three* stages to Bad Credit:
1. "You've missed a few payments. Please give us a call."
2. "You are seriously delinquent. Contact us immediately."
3. "We're sending some goons to your house."
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 10:53 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 05, 2015 10:54 PM (Z7G74)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 10:55 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: Dogstar Returned at August 05, 2015 10:56 PM (BcS/0)
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Yeah and look what we got, Cochran
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 10:56 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (W5DcG)
The president who fcuked Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 10:57 PM (j1VIK)
I am going to have to open a new bank account at a new bank though. Turns out I've shared my current bank account info with... too many people.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 10:57 PM (ntObR)
the overt, literally written-down way that was always believed.
But we DON'T want the Irish!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 05, 2015 10:57 PM (DiZBp)
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 05, 2015 10:57 PM (S6zmj)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (Kucy5)
Pro tip: stale-dated baby parts make excellent lion bait.
Posted by: Deborah Nucatola at August 05, 2015 10:59 PM (U5R9J)
Posted by: Matt Yglesias at August 05, 2015 10:59 PM (FcR7P)
Kate Pierson, co-founder of the new wave party band The B-52s, has married her longtime lover Monica Coleman in Hawaii. The 67-year-old singer/songwriter took to her Facebook page on Tuesday to share photos of her and her new wife with the caption: #itsofficial!
So, was anybody in The B-52s straight?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 05, 2015 10:59 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (Kucy5)
Isn't American Do Gooders' upset over Zimbabwe's allowing lion hunts kinda racist? Not to mention imperialist? Aren't the black folks in Zimbabwe capable of making their own animal hunt decisions?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:00 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 05, 2015 11:00 PM (jPlFu)
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This depends mostly on whether or not white people know the name of that particular lion.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:00 PM (GvNnD)
Don't come knocking if you don't know my Rottweilers name.
What up qdp?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (zyIlW)
I find that amusing.
I choose to arrange my life so that I am not wallowing in debt, and I'm a 'deadbeat.'
Also, my credit rating is 850. Not bad for a deadbeat.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (j1VIK)
They are leaving it a little late to start a family. I foresee heartbreak.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (U5R9J)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: Kasich, bringing teh sexy back at August 05, 2015 11:02 PM (wZ2hu)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:03 PM (2XMpf)
Depends. Is the lion gay or transgendered?
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 11:03 PM (j1VIK)
Or, if you use a baby to lure the lion off the preserve so you can shoot it, which part will anger the Twitter Care Mob(tm)?
Yeah, shooting the lion.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2015 11:03 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:04 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:04 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 05, 2015 11:05 PM (kivUY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2015 11:01 PM (U5R9J)
For richer or poorer, for Geritol or Metamucil
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:05 PM (2wfWs)
Because only white people can be racist, and only against people of color.
So to say that Irish people were highly discriminated against by other white people, and yet still managed to overcome said discrimination and fully assimilate in to american and "white" culture within a generation or two kind of begs some questions and raises some awkward objections to liberals theories on blacks in America.
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 05, 2015 11:05 PM (AkOaV)
Nice work.
Posted by: Garrett at August 05, 2015 11:05 PM (2IEVZ)
Did Hayes eat shoots and leaves, or eat, shoot, and leaves?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2015 11:06 PM (NOIQH)
The blog Fosterhood in NYC is another good read on this: the blogger Rebecca is as idealistic a progressive as you could find but the story about her and her girls (one in foster care for three years, begin at three days old) is great. And maddening.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:06 PM (GvNnD)
Sad news from the SondraK blog. Longtime commenter and intrepid F/A-18 pilot, USMC Col. Jerry Cadick, passed away today.
http://tinyurl.com/oo43s3b
You'll find links to both the video of the crash wherein he survived a 70g+ impact upon contact with the ground, and another link to a good narrative of that crash, and his post-USMC flying career.
"Mourn not his death, but be grateful that such men lived among us."
Now, stand with me and raise your glass in honor.
To Absent Friends, Salute!
*hurls glass to shatter in fireplace*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2015 11:06 PM (RzZOc)
Long story short: half a paycheck of mine I just got, and that I REALLY needed to get some current debts paid, was eaten by an OLD creditor, and I don't want that to be able to happen any more.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:06 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (LAliD)
I told you the check was in the mail! Just hang on.
Posted by: a nigerian former cabinet minister at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (kivUY)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 05, 2015 10:54 PM (Z7G74)
Also, a welfare program that pretty much killed responsible fatherhood for large segments of our population. Kids need good, full time, fully supporting fathers. Our dad didn't spank us, my mom did sometimes, but for some reason we were more worried about pissing off our father.
A huge proportion of kids in urban areas don't have full time fathers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM (ucDmr)
Clearly, this guy has never been to Boston. Or thought anyone else had been.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (OGm46)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (ntObR)
Kate Pierson has married her longtime lover Monica Coleman in Hawaii.
They are leaving it a little late to start a family. I foresee heartbreak.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Maybe they can adopt an African kid -- temporarily.
Also, the new wife looks like the Martian vampire chick in Planet of Blood.
http://tinyurl.com/q7yl6em
Warning - she's not hot. That's just a very very good picture of her.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (kdS6q)
I KNEW IT!
I is smart.
Evening all.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (1eYr7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 10:52 PM (W5DcG)
The president who fcuked Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 10:57 PM (j1VIK)
Then passed her over to his brother, another Kennedy pig.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (zyIlW)
If you tell me I can get free insurance that I am already paying for with my taxes I have to take it. It's basic common sense. If you ask me if the system is correct or that it makes sense I can disagree.
An ideal and reality are too separate things. A corporation taking advantage of policy it doesn't agree with isn't hypocritical. Are they supposed to loose out to other companies that do take advantage? This is the real world and they have to make money for their employees and shareholders. The alternative is to cease to exist.
Posted by: bestie21 at August 05, 2015 11:09 PM (FK8HV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:09 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 05, 2015 11:09 PM (oZr5y)
Missed it by that much.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 05, 2015 11:09 PM (oKE6c)
Ewww.
*Runs away from house*
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:10 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:10 PM (2XMpf)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 05, 2015 11:10 PM (zyIlW)
I *know* I'll get in trouble for it, but for all the problems the USA has with illegal immigrants...
our bunch is still far better IMHO than the bunch immigrating into Europe.
(Okay, let the tomato-throwing commence. I got my trashbag kimono on already.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (ntObR)
http://www.theobamasutra.com/
I may have to talk about it on the book thread this Sunday.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (j1VIK)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:07 PM
Or any father, just mamas boyfriend who can't stand the little bastards. Easy to fall asleep on your baby and crush them because you're too drunk or stoned or both
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: rickl at August 05, 2015 11:12 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 11:12 PM (W5DcG)
Frank Zappa lyrics and that fucking communist son of a fucking fuckity bitch should never be spoken again in the same sentence
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:12 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:12 PM (ntObR)
telegraph.co.uk : Calais migrants: British anarchists infiltrate camps to provoke trouble, police warn.
French police convinced direct action taken by migrants trying to storm Channel Tunnel is coordinated by anarchists or far-Left activists
Odd what? Who would do such a thing?
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 05, 2015 11:12 PM (S6zmj)
Next thing you know, they'll find out that fapping doesn't cause blindness.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 05, 2015 11:13 PM (jPlFu)
73 The mexicanssure cleaned up the messwhen they took overCompton.
Way less violent and property values are rising again.
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:13 PM (LAliD)
Warning - she's not hot. That's just a very very good picture of her.
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Crazy eyes. Crazy eyes everywhere.
Posted by: Mr. Healthy Penis at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (HstNY)
Posted by: Miranda Lambert at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (oTIO6)
They're not making as much money on you. On the other hand, I was able to take early retirement because I was debt free, so keep it up.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (LAliD)
It does, since January 1988
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (2wfWs)
Clearly, this guy has never been to Boston. Or thought anyone else had been.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2015 11:08 PM (OGm46)
Yeah, this is Michael Bellesiles-level stupidity. Not only is his thesis incorrect, in fact, the exact opposite is true. Only an academic can screw it up that badly.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (j1VIK)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (2wfWs)
Daughters on the other hand, they love. Especially when mama is passed out on the couch at 2 a.m.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (10ydV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (oZr5y)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 05, 2015 11:13 PM (jPlFu)<<<
Maybe not for you...
Posted by: the ghosts that watch you fap at August 05, 2015 11:15 PM (4SpVz)
You paying off each month, not paying no interest.......not making them no munny.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (LAliD)
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (S6zmj)
A liberalish friend of mine - a VC - says recycling crap is a business opportunity. I point out that it is a financial opportunity, because the government will pay you for it, but not an economic opportunity, because it adds no value.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (oKE6c)
Yeah, I guess we undercut them and they had a bad quarter...
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Prescient11 at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (gBc+x)
I *know* I'll get in trouble for it, but for all the problems the USA has with illegal immigrants...
our bunch is still far better IMHO than the bunch immigrating into Europe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (ntObR)
This is very true.
Posted by: rickl at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: bestie21 at August 05, 2015 11:09 PM (FK8HV)
"Loose" ---> "lose"
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 05, 2015 11:17 PM (oKE6c)
***
You were beyond your moldy, smelly sell by date in the last thread.
Kindly just fcuk right off. You are beyond boring.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at August 05, 2015 11:17 PM (cygkw)
This can be illustrated with the following.
A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed.
Who has a right to healthy food?
A well balanced breakfast or the people?
There is no attenuation to be found in the rest of the bill of rights nor the constitution itself.
Posted by: Kreplach at August 05, 2015 11:17 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 11:17 PM (W5DcG)
Fred Ziffel?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at
Dastardly 1%ers of Hooterville.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:18 PM (2wfWs)
In one of his books, Thomas Sowell points out that the Irish used to have unemployment rates worse than that of Native Americans. So I'm not sure how the "perfesser" could have concluded that anti-Irish discrimination was a myth.
Because Irish are white and the narrative demands that white people can never be victims, they must always be opressors. Facts. Be. Damned.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 05, 2015 11:19 PM (7TK5d)
Hungry pet shocks its owner by copying baby and saying 'mama' in a bid to be fed
Diaz-Giovanini tells her young son Samuel to say the word 'mama' and uses the food as an incentive to get her baby to speak. Patches the dog whines in anticipation of the food while Samuel looks around the room in a slightly confused manner.
Diaz-Giovanini then scoops up some of the food onto her fork and repeats the process - again addressing young Samuel. Incredibly Patches then begins mouthing in a more controlled fashion and manages to clearly articulate the word 'mama'. Diaz-Giovanini begins laughing in surprise as Patches shows off and says the word again.
Rather humorously, the video then concludes with Samuel reaching out his hand to stop Patches from talking - as if annoyed that Patches had spoken first.
http://tinyurl.com/p6zs29p
Daily Mail
Feed your talking dog, you gdamned lazy whore!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 05, 2015 11:19 PM (kdS6q)
It's bullshit. Debt on a spreadsheet is "Money!" for many companies. Sorta like the Chinese buying our shit.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:20 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:14 PM (+lVUW)
They're not making *ANY* money on me, ha ha. Well, except for my mortgage, and I'm about to pay off the remainder, so double ha ha on them.
My finance adviser told me I can retire early, like you've already done, should I choose to do so, and I like to think my frugality had a little bit to do with that.
I just accepted an offer for a new job that will probably be my last, so I can max out on SSI, but it's nice to have that retirement cushion.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 05, 2015 11:20 PM (j1VIK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August
Moo moo likes to guzzle down jizz as well. Doesn't make it right
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:21 PM (2wfWs)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:21 PM (IetE/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:21 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 05, 2015 10:59 PM (kdS6q)
*raises claw*
Posted by: The Rock Lobster at August 05, 2015 11:21 PM (7YlUk)
Posted by: mynewhandle at August 05, 2015 11:05 PM (AkOaV)
Um, Asians. And lately, immigrants from the mid east. By the way, a suburban school district near me has a lot of minorities and immigrants. If you look at the top graduates every year, whites, Hispanics, Asians, mideasterners are all well represented. No, or almost no blacks among the highest achievers. If black leaders like Jackson ad Sharpton actually gave a damn about blacks they'd be hitting this a lot harder than they are, instead of lining their own pockets.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:22 PM (+lVUW)
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Oh. So tonight's ONT takes place in a YouTube comments section.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:22 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (oZr5y)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (IetE/)
Graham polled below one percent prior to the WaPo hit piece. It will be tough to document any further decline.
Posted by: Shooting fish in a barrell at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (pq97T)
Posted by: Kreplach at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 05, 2015 11:19 PM (7TK5d)
Why do you think that H. P. Lovecraft described half-human/half-Dagon as "Portuguese?
Posted by: The Mythos Hat at August 05, 2015 11:23 PM (7YlUk)
Loving beer that makes everyone horny. You find parked cars with couples having sex all over town. (My daddy was a small town cop.)
Fighting beer, everybody in town gets into fights.
Pass out beer, makes everybody pass out.
and Drunk beer, everyone is still conscious and mobile but drunk on their ass.
And any one week end it would be only one kind of beer. All the bars served the same kind of beer all over town.
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 05, 2015 11:24 PM (S6zmj)
Posted by: Zombie Brain Cells at August 05, 2015 11:24 PM (ord+p)
Yeah.
Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at August 05, 2015 11:24 PM (f+6Pd)
Posted by: Mr. Healthy Penis at August 05, 2015 11:25 PM (HstNY)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:25 PM (zOTsN)
The Mother tests positive for drugs in her system, they test the mother and baby without your consent. The Mother refuses not to breastfeed or stop taking drugs so the baby is placed with Grandma. Grandma and mama goes to court to decide where to place the baby, Grandma keeps refusing, when they finally say they will give the baby to foster care she agrees. Baby goes with Grandma gets WIC (Women Infant Children) food benefits. Mama lives with Grandma breastfeeds the baby and they pocket or sell the WIC MONEY.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 05, 2015 11:25 PM (c4yY7)
Posted by: Who wants to Window-lick? at August 05, 2015 11:26 PM (awspb)
You'll get through it. Soldier on. I had a friend who went through a period of unemployment and underemployment. It would reach a point where she'd have to return beef and pop cans to get some cash.
Michigan has a 10 cents deposit on cans and bottles.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:26 PM (+lVUW)
It just isn't a AoS thread without our 2-minute hate of Moo Moo.
I don't recall HIM ever talking shit about anybody ever here the whole time he was here.
Can't show him the same courtesy.
I just don't think he's that into you.
Tribal signaling.
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:26 PM (LAliD)
Doing the Mr. Mom thing tomorrow. Had a warm-up shot of Shine XXX Salted Caramel a few minutes ago.
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:27 PM (Gosad)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 05, 2015 11:27 PM (+4uXG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:28 PM (ntObR)
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Nah you ignorant twat, he just talks shit about everybody.
Posted by: Mr. Healthy Penis at August 05, 2015 11:28 PM (HstNY)
Posted by: Y-not at August 05, 2015 11:29 PM (RWGcK)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:29 PM (2XMpf)
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Well you can't really pocket WIC money; you can sell the formula on craigslist, I guess.
Besides, breast feeding takes effort. If you see a person posting cans of Enfamil every month on craigslist, it's a safe bet that the baby it's intended for is drinking plain cows milk or worse
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:29 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:30 PM (2XMpf)
Jensen printed "No Irish Need Apply: A Myth of Victimization."
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE IS SETTLED, WINGNUTZ!
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 05, 2015 11:30 PM (oVJmc)
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"Was"? Is he dead?
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at August 05, 2015 11:30 PM (oZr5y)
-Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:27 PM (Gosad)
I've never seen something as simultaneously racist, gay, blasphemous and encouraging in one sentence before this point.
God Bless the ONT.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 05, 2015 11:31 PM (OQ9R7)
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Man, the summer flew by, didn't it?!
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How is your garden doing?
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Kind of meh this year. It was too wet and cold in the Spring, I think. But I *did* just harvest a cucumber and had it w/ dinner.
Posted by: Y-not at August 05, 2015 11:31 PM (RWGcK)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:10 PM (2XMpf)
My response to that is that I will if they give me all of the FICA taxes I paid, along with the money I would have earned if I had invested it for thirty something years. They sold us a bill of goods, and I would want my money back.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:31 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 05, 2015 11:31 PM (+4uXG)
Posted by: Caitlyn "Bruce" Jenner at August 05, 2015 11:32 PM (oZr5y)
It just isn't a AoS thread without our 2-minute hate of Moo Moo.
I don't recall HIM ever talking shit about anybody ever here the whole time he was here.
Can't show him the same courtesy.
I just don't think he's that into you.
Tribal signaling.
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Moo talked some mean-spirited shit about Sven (crossed a line that the rest of us don't) that I've seen.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:32 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:32 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone
WIC covers way more than formula. Milk, bread, rice... there's lots of things labeled WIC in the supermarket.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:33 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone
WIC covers way more than formula. Milk, bread, rice... there's lots of things labeled WIC in the supermarket.
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I know, but only one thing can be easily
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:33 PM (GvNnD)
My vague memory of what I was told was that the set of events went something like this -
Everyone knew that the cops were watching the event, so the biker gangs were on generally good behavior. Then a fist fight (no weapons being used, because of the presence of the cops) started up. The cops immediately assumed the worst, opened fire without warning, and killed a bunch of unarmed motorcycle gang members who were not an immediate threat to the cops.
Obviously, something like this looks bad for the cops. So they've been attempting to cover it up until everyone forgets about it.
Posted by: junior at August 05, 2015 11:34 PM (3m3mw)
Yeah, they steal that. For the common good and all that shit.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 05, 2015 11:34 PM (IetE/)
I meant only one thing WIC covers can be easily resold for a fair amount of cash, and WIC doesn't cover milk, cereal, eggs, etc if the person qualifying is an infant.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:35 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 05, 2015 11:11 PM (2wfWs)
Jeebus, this happens way too often around here. Also, my sister is a teachers' aide in an elementary school where the kids from one family went to live with their dad because their loving mom had a pedophile boyfriend and wouldn't give him up for the sake of her children.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2015 11:35 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at August 05, 2015 11:37 PM (ktt8p)
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The Los Angeles outlier is rather odd. The rate's down several percentage points. Random happening? Or is something else going on? It's definitely not from anyone wising up in the city or county leadership around here...
Posted by: junior at August 05, 2015 11:37 PM (3m3mw)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone
Did not know that.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:37 PM (awspb)
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What a beautiful story!
Posted by: Hairy Reed at August 05, 2015 11:37 PM (oZr5y)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at August 05, 2015 11:39 PM (nJvB1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 05, 2015 11:39 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:39 PM (zOTsN)
Tribal signaling.
Posted by: MAx at August 05, 2015 11:26 PM (LAliD)
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Well, welcome new poster DAve!
I know I wasn't supposed to "out" you and all, but such a cleverly hidden nic compared to your original is worthy of..discussion. A deoder ring was not exactly required.
The comments thus far are on target. Moo is now careful to only verbally shit on groups of people, not individuals. That group is Conservatives, and comprises a large swath of the posters here.
He is an agitator and a simple contrarian, just to argue.
IOW, a GOPe like POS.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at August 05, 2015 11:40 PM (2z4UX)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 05, 2015 11:40 PM (2XMpf)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 05, 2015 11:41 PM (bZQB+)
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Kind of meh this year. It was too wet and cold in the Spring, I think. But I *did* just harvest a cucumber and had it w/ dinner.
Posted by: Y-not a
Unpossible!! This is the hottest year ever EVAH! NOAA and the University of East Anglia said so, and if you can't trust their data, what can you trust?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:41 PM (awspb)
http://tinyurl.com/nqe6h47
The weapon appears to have been an Assault Isuzu.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 05, 2015 11:42 PM (nL0sw)
Whoever recommended Shellback rum, thank you. Saw it for the first time today, and bought a pint because morons are rarely wrong. It is very good neat out of the freezer.
It was probably Jim.
Posted by: DC in River City at August 05, 2015 11:42 PM (itIXC)
You might want to see someone about your apparent neurological deficit.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 05, 2015 11:42 PM (mx5oN)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at August 05, 2015 11:43 PM (c4yY7)
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Kind of meh this year. It was too wet and cold in the Spring, I think. But I *did* just harvest a cucumber and had it w/ dinner.
Posted by: Y-not a
Unpossible!! This is the hottest year ever EVAH! NOAA and the University of East Anglia said so, and if you can't trust their data, what can you trust?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:41 PM (awspb)
If you can't trust their data, you must surely trust their scholarship and integrity.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2015 11:43 PM (EzgxV)
So it's just soft serve. Which of course means there was no summer this year
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:43 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: No, there are 6 Types of Drunks at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (laMCB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (Gosad)
Just saying hi. I've been about 3 hours behind all night on the comments and can't seem to catch up. I'm still on the primary open thread, and y'all have been great.
Somebody do me a favor though and throw want to win off a building for me? Thanks
Posted by: Blano at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (5GUzH)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (ntObR)
How are y'all doing tonight?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 05, 2015 11:45 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 05, 2015 11:45 PM (10ydV)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone
Did not know that.
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Yeah, WIC is actually a kind of solid program as these things go. They provide vouchers for certain foods (cereal, milk, eggs, beans, peanut butter, juice cheese, canned tuna, fresh veggies) and infant formula, and they provide classes (which ideally double as play groups/meet ups to benefit the kids socially) and they monitor the kids' iron and other stuff. They only provide regular food (rather than formula or a pump) if you're a pregnant, 3-months postpartum, or breast feeding mom, or if you have a kid between 1 and 5. So no one could really buy Cheetos and Kool Aid or sell their vouchers like happens with food stamps. They do kind of suck at determining what's healthy, though---Rice Krispies are NOT healthy.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:45 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:45 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: cthulhu
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As a Liberal Prof. friend of mine says, "They are well-respected people."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:46 PM (9mTYi)
It's a form of underground currency
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It's not worth
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:46 PM (GvNnD)
First, this could be a really big story, for a bunch of reasons, but I hope there is a more in depth post on this tomorrow, with a legal bent to it, because my question is....
Could the DOJ, in light of the thumb-drive evidence, be used to shield Hillary from a successful Congressional investigation by gathering all the evidence and then sitting on it? The rationale would be that they wouldn't make public evidence being used in an "active investigation". I've seen that tactic used before.
The plus being that the administration would have all the evidence necessary to indict, blackmail, or scuttle Hillary, all at their whim. Given how many stories there are about Obama's animosity towards the Clintons, it would be a fine "fuck you" to Hillary and Bill, were Obama to have her future in her hands.
On the other hand, could that same evidence be with-held from Congress for the purpose of shielding Hillary from attack until after the election?
This is a big effin deal, as paste eatin Joe would say, but not necessarily good for those looking for actual justice.
Any legal-eagles still up, sober, and with an opinion?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 05, 2015 11:47 PM (XmOA9)
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*ships Muldoon my Adirondack chair*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:47 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:47 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: cthulhu
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As a Liberal Prof. friend of mine says, "They are well-respected people."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:46 PM (9mTYi)
....while we, of course, are rabble.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2015 11:47 PM (EzgxV)
It's a form of underground currency
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It's not really worth enough to sell, and the security on WIC vouchers/cards is actually -- stupidly -- tougher than on food stamp cards
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:48 PM (GvNnD)
Thank goodness. There were rumors of a large wookie-like creature going into hen houses and swallowing eggs whole as fast as it could grab them. But, since it's only bird-flu...
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 05, 2015 11:48 PM (bZQB+)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:48 PM (GvNnD)
But if there is crack or meth to bought, a way will be found.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2015 11:49 PM (U5R9J)
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Interesting points, but no, not sober.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 05, 2015 11:49 PM (oZr5y)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:51 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:48 PM (GvNnD)
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IMO, you would be grossly mistaken if you thought was by accident and not design.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (cygkw)
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They have. Pity the poor soul who gets in line behind a WIC customer. That poor soul is usually me, someho
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (GvNnD)
But they aren't going to question if it's really your card or if you bought it
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (zOTsN)
Evening horde.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 05, 2015 11:53 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 05, 2015 11:16 PM (S6zmj)
Not really.
Pension funds are already strapped and need all the income they can get.
Also, whoever insured the bond will now get fucked because they will have to make the payout on the bond.
So, Puerto Rico will now have to pay a much higher interest rate on bonds that they will issue in the present and future, and those bonds will have a much higher insurance premium on them also. At that point, Puerto Rico will have a much larger line item in their yearly budget for debt service than they do now.
Plus, this is Puerto Rico, they have no tax base, everyone is on the dole in the best of times.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 05, 2015 11:54 PM (Z7G74)
It depends on the crime they are investigating. If it is the content of the emails themselves, such as for a charge of conspiracy or treason, or maybe corruption, then yes, the contents can be held back.
If it's a question of violating records laws, or perjury for her exit forms that say she has turned over all official correspondence, and not a crime of the content of the server, then I would think that would be subject to a FOIA request.
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:54 PM (Gosad)
Remember, we are being fed propaganda by the "news" organizations. Nothing is as it seems in D.C.
I suspect that the Clintons are in negotiations with Obama now as to what his price is for calling off the dogs.
That Clinton Foundation cash must be awfully tempting to Emperor Barry on the eve of his full retirement.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 05, 2015 11:54 PM (laMCB)
Except that the honoring of the vouchers is under merchant control, which is, for many merchants in many communities, an easily arranged model of fraud.
Debbie Dolebird brings her vouchers to the corner market, where she has an arrangement. She ostensibly leaves with healthy victuals for herself and her baby. In reality she leaves with smokes and booze.
The merchant takes the food off the shelf and moves it via informal cash market mechanisms elsewhere. The drawdown of smokes and booze are accounted for as "missing inventory". Goddamn shoplifters again.
There has not been a welfare-state mechanism yet devised which the "clients" of the welfare state have not rapidly figured out how to game.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (noWW6)
192 A cashier looking at your WIC card will say "no you can't buy twinkles with that" etc, you can only buy the approved foods
But they aren't going to question if it's really your card or if you bought it
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (zOTsN)
Twinkies aren't approved? (Serious question. I thought all the food restrictions were out the window)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (XAFOu)
-Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:44 PM (Gosad)
I'm pretty sure you're welcome.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:48 PM (GvNnD)
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IMO, you would be grossly mistaken if you thought was by accident and not design.
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I am aware that it's no accident.
I'm also aware that WIC has a way, way lower rate of participation than EBT/food stamps for these reasons. Foster parents of kids under 5 MUST participate in WIC in many areas, regardless of their own income, so it wouldn't surprise me if they actually are the majority of people jumping through those (fairly reasonable) hoops
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (GvNnD)
192 A cashier looking at your WIC card will say "no you can't buy twinkles with that" etc, you can only buy the approved foods
But they aren't going to question if it's really your card or if you bought it
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (zOTsN)
For awhile they required photo id.
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:56 PM (GvNnD)
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They have. Pity the poor soul who gets in line behind a WIC customer. That poor soul is usually me, someho
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (GvNnD)
Got behind such a deal yesterday....big deal was they had a mixed juice with pomegranate in it, and that's off the list. They could have cran-grape, peach, cran-apple.....but if it was tainted with pomegranate, it couldn't be done on WIC.
And I'm thinking, "those cheap bastards of pomegranate lobbyists....didn't even buy their way onto the fuckin' list."
Posted by: cthulhu at August 05, 2015 11:57 PM (EzgxV)
*****
Well, that didn't work out very well.
**uses vacuum to clean wood chips and sawdust out of my USB port**
Posted by: Muldoon at August 05, 2015 11:57 PM (NeFrd)
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The answer is statehood, it's obvious.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:57 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: CNN at August 05, 2015 11:57 PM (oZr5y)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (zOTsN)
Roger that.
The firms which play that game have been lucky so far in that the ability of the feds and the Fed to backstop and bail them has not been exceeded. At some point, inevitably, that ability will be exceeded. Katy bar the door.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (Gosad)
Posted by: Muldoon
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Yeah. Crap. I should have checked on your bandwidth before sending.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (9mTYi)
got, and that I REALLY needed to get some current debts paid, was eaten
by an OLD creditor, and I don't want that to be able to happen any more.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 05, 2015 11:06 PM (ntObR)
This sucks, by the way.
So, if you are worried about garnishments, remember that checking information is shared when your creditor sells your debt to a collection agency, and some companies will have records going way back.
Also, if you think this debt is stale and beyond the period for collection - you need to look up the information for your jurisdiction - you may be able to challenge the garnishment with your bank. The old creditor won't give a wet fart, but the bank may want you as a customer someday in the future and might listen if you can prove it before they mail it off.
The other thing you may want to do is compartmentalize your money until you have things stablized. The creditor is not asking for your money by account, but just by your name and SSN or other identifier. They can clean out all your accounts in a bank with a single garnishment, so multiple accounts with one bank are not useful in that regards.
I tell prospective parents to name their children boring names by the way. "Atticus" and "Bryttanee" stand out where David and Susan do not. No matter what, one day your children will curse you, and you should be glad to be cursed for the right reason, not the stupid one.
I would never suggest paying bills with money orders because of the high cost, and the whole "structuring" prosecution possibilities, but I do understand a lot of people are using those pre-paid debit cards because of fears of ID theft.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (zOTsN)
Twinkies aren't approved? (Serious question. I thought all the food restrictions were out the window)
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That's food stamps. WIC is different-ish. Only certain foods, and you have to turn up in person and take a class every other month to get your vouchers, but the income limits are higher
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (GvNnD)
Posted by: torquewrench
Does it even need to be said anymore that if those shitbirds spent half the energy they expend gaming the system on improving their skill-set and finding a job, we wouldn't need a welfare state?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 06, 2015 12:00 AM (awspb)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2015 12:00 AM (NeFrd)
...which is something I only explain if you haters stick to a Keynsian construct!
-Sincerely,
Nanci
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:01 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 06, 2015 12:01 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:01 AM (GvNnD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2015 12:01 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:02 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:02 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (zOTsN)
That's why I was questioning Twinkies. At the local 7-11 I think everything except smokes and booze can be bought with an EBT. And they advertise it.
Wish I had security footage of the looks I give when that happens.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:02 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Anita at August 06, 2015 12:02 AM (oZr5y)
Meanwhile, on a related topic, Rodger Simon over at PJMedia has an observation. It seems to correlate with a wiki entry for the 'knock out game' which apparently started in 1992 with one incident. Then went to the United Kingdom where it was called happy slapping in 2005. Then completely coincidentally in 2009 became murderous.
Obviously some federal grant money will be needed to study this issue.
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 06, 2015 12:02 AM (S6zmj)
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Via the miracle of compounded taxation!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2015 12:03 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:03 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:04 AM (GvNnD)
because of the high cost, and the whole "structuring" prosecution
possibilities, but I do understand a lot of people are using those
pre-paid debit cards because of fears of ID theft.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (3pRHP)
You can get money orders at Walmart for something like 60 cents each.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:04 AM (2XMpf)
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Bowe Bergdahl at August 06, 2015 12:04 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone
Did not know that.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 05, 2015 11:37 PM (awspb)
The other day I noticed that stores are putting stickers on formula containers that say where the product was purchased. I guess they do that so that black marketers will get found out.
Funny thing being found at drug house raids, Tide detergent. It is just as good as cash in certain communities because it is untraceable, popular, and easily converted back to cash.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 12:05 AM (Z7G74)
-Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (Gosad)
"Shine", "XXX" and "Warm-Up Shot" were all variables in my not-funny joke that needed to be explained.
I'm losing the masses. I need a week-long rest or something.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:05 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 06, 2015 12:05 AM (Gosad)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 12:05 AM (XmOA9)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (GvNnD
Thanks. Too many damn programs to keep track of.
Thankfully illegals haven't been receiving welfare.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (0O7c5)
SB had been an old friend of the late Christopher Hitchens.
The friendship did not survive Monicagate.
As Hitch tells it, Blumenthal was lying to him, and Hitch knew that Blumenthal was lying, and Blumenthal knew that Hitch knew that Blumenthal was lying, and Blumenthal plowed ahead and lied to Hitch's face anyway.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:07 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: DC in River City at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (itIXC)
Posted by: phoenixgirl
It gets me really frustrated.
Posted by: Avril Lavigne at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (awspb)
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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Of course Maxine Waters is in that same chandelier, so Nanzi may not be the dimmest either.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (NeFrd)
All of me believes that she believes that nonsense.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: @votermom at August 06, 2015 12:08 AM (cbfNE)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Bowe Bergdahl at August 06, 2015 12:04 AM (9mTYi
Naw dude. Your forgotten. Now puff puff pass.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: phoenixgirl
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Life could be easy. It just won't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (OQ9R7)
If memory serves, there was an article linked from the HQ a while back, about white-trash welfare-state dependence in Appalachia, and how families will walk out of stores with shopping carts containing overwhelmingly two-liter plastic bottles of soda pop.
The local informal medium of exchange.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:58 PM (zOTsN)
That's why I was questioning Twinkies. At the local 7-11 I think everything except smokes and booze can be bought with an EBT. And they advertise it.
Wish I had security footage of the looks I give when that happens.
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WIC cards can't be swiped in any card reader like LoneStar (food stamp) cards are. You insert it, chip first, into a special reader and a list of items that that particular family are approved for show up on the cashiers screen. It won't scan if they even get the wrong brand (JIF instead if Great Value)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (GvNnD)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2015 12:10 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:10 AM (2XMpf)
See, so I'm right. If a pud like Burton can like Kasich for not wanting to kill all the poor by denying then healthcare like a typical hardliner, everyone in America will too.
Posted by: Wants to whine! at August 06, 2015 12:10 AM (4SpVz)
-Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (noWW6)
We traffic in "Starburst Fruit-Chews" in my circle. We make no bones about it, either.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:11 AM (OQ9R7)
I suppose you want to talk about something, but you are not giving us much to go on. Start from the beginning:
And you're happy because....?
And you're sad because...?
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 06, 2015 12:11 AM (laMCB)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (0O7c5)
Magic of Internet/real world.
Come here for fun and sanity. Deal with the rest of the world when you can.
*but asked up above, everything ok?
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:11 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:12 AM (dgKBI)
Sure the tribes with casinos would be pissed beyond recognition, but IMHO it would be an incredible new money source for the state, and 100% voluntary.
Of course if anyone could actually lose money running a casino, it'd be the Sacto Sad Sacks.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:12 AM (ntObR)
Ok, that tells me the pros come here to try out their talking points and work up some rejoinders to the push back they get from experts in the horde.
The Horde has become a focus group for the democrats!
Posted by: Bliss Beerwaist at August 06, 2015 12:13 AM (S6zmj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 06, 2015 12:13 AM (2wfWs)
We traffic in "Starburst Fruit-Chews" in my circle. We make no bones about it, either.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:11 AM (OQ9R7)
Don't know if they're made still but I'll cut a mutha for a StrawBanana.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:13 AM (XAFOu)
Btw, earlier this evening a troll tripped the wire that triggers the monthly Micky Spillane posting, but I feel obligated to do it here on the ONT also:
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (awspb)
the HQ a while back, about white-trash welfare-state dependence in
Appalachia, and how families will walk out of stores with shopping carts
containing overwhelmingly two-liter plastic bottles of soda pop.
The local informal medium of exchange.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (noWW6)
yeah one of the NRO guys wrote a long article about it a couple years ago. it was quite sad. Buy soda with EBT, sell soda for meth.
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I've ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (9mTYi)
There's some guy on her show but the legs are stealing the show.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:15 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:15 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
And prevent your kid from learning to read so you can get extra money from the state every month.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 06, 2015 12:15 AM (10ydV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 12:16 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:16 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:12 AM (dgKBI)
So is chocolate syrup. It won't cost you a house.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 06, 2015 12:16 AM (2wfWs)
192 A cashier looking at your WIC card will say "no you can't buy twinkles with that" etc, you can only buy the approved foods
But they aren't going to question if it's really your card or if you bought it
Posted by: ThunderB at August 05, 2015 11:52 PM (zOTsN)
Twinkies aren't approved? (Serious question. I thought all the food restrictions were out the window)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 05, 2015 11:55 PM (XAFOu)
Back in college some 30 years ago, we read a book that said that if the US went away from all the different welfare programs and just gave something like $2000 a month to current welfare reciepients that they would get the money they needed, and it would cost the taxpayers a shitload less every year. Like almost half the yearly deficit at that time.
1 check for all their food, rent, utilities, you name it. If they wanted to blow it on smokes and lottery tickets, then the state go a big windfall from that.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 12:17 AM (Z7G74)
My eyes always catch her legs first too. I've been caught yelling at the TV...begging for the "Basic Instinct" moment. In my world she doesn't wear underwear...EVER!
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:17 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
Sounds like a dental conspiracy.
Posted by: @votermom at August 06, 2015 12:17 AM (cbfNE)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
Sounds like a dental conspiracy.
Posted by: @votermom
We are through the looking glass people!
Posted by: Zombie Cecil the Lion at August 06, 2015 12:18 AM (awspb)
not at the moment but I will be.
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:19 AM (0O7c5)
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Yes, the poor would be fine, but without all those government jobs how on earth will the Democrats ever survive?!?
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:19 AM (GvNnD)
There were actually "conservative" commentators with radio shows that "Thought He Went Too Far" when he took on the police and firefighters' unions.
Instead of telling people the truth about economic futures, he turned-tail and raised taxes, (fees, penalties, etc.), elsewhere to balance the budget.
He went along with the "Medicare Buyout" and supported Common Core.
He is about as "conservative" as George W. Bush.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:19 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (noWW6)
Of all the goons, lackeys, and hatchet-men hired by the Clintons to do their dirty work, Sid Blumenthal is the most loathsome. He makes Bill Moyers look like a Boy Scout.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 06, 2015 12:19 AM (j1VIK)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:19 AM (zyIlW)
Thanks and continues to praise Mr Hammer
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 06, 2015 12:20 AM (2wfWs)
Posted by: @votermom at August 06, 2015 12:20 AM (cbfNE)
He is a tremendous improvement over Ted Strickland (D), former governor.
He is vastly inferior to the likes of Cruz and Perry, and couldn't accomplish what Walker did with unions in a state considerably less blue than Wisconsin.
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 06, 2015 12:20 AM (Gosad)
Fuck you. Done.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:21 AM (XAFOu)
I remember in 1998 when Blondie made their big (and short-lived) comeback with "Maria."
Deborah Harry had NOT aged well by then, so I shudder to think what she looks like now.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:21 AM (ntObR)
Sounds like Bill Cunningham.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 06, 2015 12:21 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:22 AM (zyIlW)
Teena Marie. Only had *one* major crossover R&B hit, "Lovergirl" in 1984. I think Madonna ended up stealing her spotlight.
(Teena was basically the prototype for Mariah Carey.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:22 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:22 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (zyIlW)
The local informal medium of exchange.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:09 AM (noWW6)
The article was from Kevin Williamson? and it was the most disparaging thing I'd ever read about hill folk. He called em white trash, pill-billies, and on and on. I really didn't like him much after that. It was an unprovoked hate-screed, and no matter how often I agree with other things he says, I remember that column with disgust.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (XmOA9)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone
But Walker is a scam artist according to a Serbian bot. And Serbian bots are the most trustworthy of all the bots.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (awspb)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
Sounds like a dental conspiracy.
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If that's the case, then "l
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (GvNnD)
Longtime Scum Scamfrisco drunken gadfly, serial check bouncer and occasional mayoral candidate Warren Hinckle advocated for years that SF should open a casino on Alcatraz, complete with staff in retro prison guard uniforms.
The minor impediment that Alcatraz is federal and not municipal property did not seem to have registered with him.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:24 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at August 06, 2015 12:24 AM (GvNnD)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:24 AM (zyIlW)
She could have still made a major comeback and been bigger than she ever was before.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:25 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:25 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:14 AM (2XMpf)
Kevin Williamson wrote that; I'm pretty sure...
I'll go grab the link.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 06, 2015 12:25 AM (jPlFu)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 06, 2015 12:06 AM (noWW6)
Of all the goons, lackeys, and hatchet-men hired by the Clintons to do their dirty work, Sid Blumenthal is the most loathsome. He makes Bill Moyers look like a Boy Scout.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 06, 2015
What is James carville? Just another serpent head
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at August 06, 2015 12:25 AM (2wfWs)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:26 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:26 AM (OQ9R7)
I agree 100%.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:26 AM (kivUY)
The article was from Kevin Williamson? and it
was the most disparaging thing I'd ever read about hill folk. He called
em white trash, pill-billies, and on and on. I really didn't like him
much after that. It was an unprovoked hate-screed, and no matter how
often I agree with other things he says, I remember that column with
disgust.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 12:23 AM (XmOA9)
Umm really? I don't recall that at all.
Here it is http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-kevin-d-williamson
From how I remember it, if he used the term "pill-billies" it was only in reference to how others jeer at them, not as his sincere opinion of them
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:27 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:27 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Jake at August 06, 2015 12:27 AM (OOQu9)
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 06, 2015 12:27 AM (jPlFu)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:28 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:29 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:29 AM (dgKBI)
ANY society ( read, not necessarily government) that does not preemptively destroy it's leftists is in for deep shit down the road
dont have to wipe out the useful idiots, just the propagandists and organizers
Posted by: Grad School Fool at August 06, 2015 12:29 AM (A9KzJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:30 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 06, 2015 12:31 AM (Gosad)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:32 AM (ntObR)
Everything's good chem...
Posted by: phoenixgirl at August 06, 2015 12:27 AM (0O7c5)
I'm doing a "drive-by" to say that I was concerned (but knew that better and more sober people were on it).
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 12:32 AM (EzgxV)
No mention if his career will be cut short tho
Posted by: Jake at August 06, 2015 12:32 AM (OOQu9)
qdp, I saw her in concert a couple of years ago; she dresses moar conservatively now but yeah, I'd hit it.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 06, 2015 12:33 AM (jPlFu)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 06, 2015 12:33 AM (Gosad)
Just watch movies. It's literally the only way to figure out what is being done to us as a country. Your predictive abilities will increase seven fold if you go on a strict movie diet.
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:33 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:34 AM (ntObR)
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Cue banjo music
Posted by: Ned Beatty at August 06, 2015 12:34 AM (oZr5y)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:35 AM (OQ9R7)
Good evening, good people. Yet one more sparkly nice day in the Adirondacks.
I restored the headlights on the Camry, they were getting hazy and not illuminating all that well.
Used a kit from RainEx, it REALLY works,exactly as described. A test drive proved that.
'
I may even be allowed to sleep inside for a while now.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 06, 2015 12:35 AM (jeCnD)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:35 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at August 06, 2015 12:36 AM (Kucy5)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:36 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:36 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:37 AM (zyIlW)
I would never suggest paying bills with money orders because of the high cost, and the whole "structuring" prosecution possibilities, but I do understand a lot of people are using those pre-paid debit cards because of fears of ID theft.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2015 11:59 PM (3pRHP)
I've gone to using those pre-paid gift cards when we go out to dinner because I just don't want to hand over my credit card or debit card to someone that takes it into the back and does Lord knows what with it.
You know, like using their cellphone to take a picture of the front and back and then going crazy ordering from Babeland.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 12:37 AM (Z7G74)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 06, 2015 12:38 AM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:39 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:39 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:40 AM (kivUY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:34 AM
Your lack of faith in Debbie is disturbing... *clenches black glove fist*
Posted by: otho at August 06, 2015 12:40 AM (d8udV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:39 AM (ntObR)<<<
Puff, puff... pass.
Posted by: no thanks at August 06, 2015 12:42 AM (4SpVz)
Hey, I had a *huge* crush on Donna Pescow back in the day. Then I saw a recent pic of her.
(No, she's not ugly. She's just not... what she used to be. That's all. I'm sure I'm not what I was in 1987 anymore either.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:42 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 12:43 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:43 AM (kivUY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghTBrz1m_Q
Oh, and she gets nekkid in Videodrome.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 06, 2015 12:44 AM (jPlFu)
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/07/29/jerry-rice-calls-amari-cooper-new-tim-brown/
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:46 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 12:46 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 06, 2015 12:47 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:47 AM (kivUY)
I hope they've got units standing by to deal with the matter anti-matter reaction.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 12:49 AM (bZQB+)
I restored the headlights on the Camry, they were getting hazy and not illuminating all that well.
RainX, huh? Well, someone just taught me the coolest trick to do the same job for nearly free, if you have a can of brake cleaner and a rag. Squirt the rag and wipe. It was like magic. For best results, buff them and wipe again. My '98 Buick plastic headlights now look great.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 06, 2015 12:49 AM (jPlFu)
Teena Marie. Only had *one* major crossover R&B hit, "Lovergirl" in 1984. I think Madonna ended up stealing her spotlight.
(Teena was basically the prototype for Mariah Carey.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:22 AM (ntObR)
The difference between Mariah Carey and Teena Marie is that Mariah had her back on the mattress and legs in the air for her record label's President. Teena didn't.
Mariah has been the way she currently is since her first hit, but Tommy Mattola made sure that her whole persona was protected. When they divorced, well, you all remember "Honey".
Same thing with Whitney Houston and Clive Davis. Clive wasn't fucking her (wrong type of hole for his tastes), but he oversaw every little bit of her career. She was heavy on the coke back in the 80's, but no one ever crossed Clive, so the celebrity media always buried the coke stories about her. Once she and Clive had their falling out, Bobby Brown "got her hooked" on coke.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 12:49 AM (Z7G74)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:50 AM (kivUY)
Teena and her records never got as much promotion as I think she and they deserved.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Blanco
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Crossing the beams...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 06, 2015 12:47 AM (W5DcG)<<<
We approve.
Posted by: matter and antimatter at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (kivUY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:42 AM
It's just a state of mind. It'll always be 1978. DH gets an eternal pass. I have fond memories. Drug hazed, fond memories of "working" with DH. Always hot.
Posted by: otho at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (d8udV)
I've read more vile things online to be sure, but they were usually commenter under YouTube vids or Yahoo news.
For a columnist, very low grade. The kind of thing you could only write about poor white trash, because they aren't a protected species. Change the name to any other demographic and see how it sounds.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (XmOA9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:52 AM (9mTYi)
If I ever even halfway make it as a screenwriter/director in the movie business, I'll have lots of stories of how wonderful it was and is to work with Mila Kunis, and what a delightful person she is. Regardless of whether I ever even meet her or not. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:54 AM (ntObR)
I've seen SO many tricks that people have used over the years could probly write a book.
I would be quite hesitant about brakleen on plastic, usually it fogs it quite bad.
Glad it worked for you, though, have to remember that.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 06, 2015 12:54 AM (jeCnD)
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I have the Olds Cutlass in my garage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 12:54 AM (9mTYi)
-Two Tired.
(h/t Seamus Muldoon)
I can't even keep my eyes open for minimal discourse because I am Enjoying Many Beers.
The Best to all of you...
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 12:55 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 12:55 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 12:56 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:56 AM (kivUY)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:50 AM (kivUY)
Uh that's not moo moo. He was still using the Huck/Akin crap when he was declaring illegals can't get welfare earlier today.
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 12:56 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:57 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 06, 2015 12:47 AM (W5DcG)<<<
Unpossible. Liberty U. must be staffed and populated by closed minded hardliners (ha!) who would never allow such a person to come and speak, and provide for an free exchange of ideas.
Unlike the open minded institutions where we have pies thrown at us, or cancel our events/speeches because we are just awful haters who hate and don't deserve to be heard.
Posted by: Condi Rice, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ann Coulter, etc etc at August 06, 2015 12:59 AM (4SpVz)
I admit I didn't check the hashtag against H/A 2016 in any other thread.
Well, that's it for me tonight. See you tomorrow after the dentist. Actually, my dentist just got back from vacation last week. I'll have to ask him if he was hunting in Africa.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 12:59 AM (kivUY)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 12:57 AM (dgKBI)
Me too! I get better looking, stronger, richer, and more loquacious with every drink except the last one. Then it all falls apart.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 01:00 AM (XmOA9)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 01:02 AM (kivUY)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:02 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 01:03 AM (XmOA9)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 06, 2015 01:04 AM (kivUY)
My Raiders make it to the playoffs this season...and WWIII breaks out.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:02 AM (zyIlW)
In the playoffs, or elsewhere?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 01:04 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 01:05 AM (XmOA9)
My Raiders make it to the playoffs this season...and WWIII breaks out.
Superbowl. 3 seconds remaining in regulation, Raiders down by two and in position to kick a field goal. Everyone lines up for the kick, EMP takes out the grid.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:05 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 01:06 AM (OQ9R7)
Well, it is one of the signs of the apocalypse. Oh wait, that's the Jaguars. Nevermind
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 01:07 AM (XmOA9)
My Raiders make it to the playoffs this season...and WWIII breaks out.
Superbowl. 3 seconds remaining in regulation, Raiders down by two and in position to kick a field goal. Everyone lines up for the kick, EMP takes out the grid.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:05 AM (bZQB+)
Bane collapses the field after the opening kickoff and the opposing team ran it back for a touchdown. Game is never finished and the score remains 6-0.
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 01:07 AM (zt+N6)
Damn.
Too late.
And hardy ha ha cooth.
As in Iran decides to show what Obama gave them.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:07 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) T at August 06, 2015 01:08 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:08 AM (zyIlW)
Last weekend I Pee'd, Pooped, and Puked at the same time. Very weird feeling. I probably would have kept drinking but I couldn't find my way out of the back yard.
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:08 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 06, 2015 01:09 AM (XmOA9)
That's...impressive.
Your body was trying to get rid off all that booze by all three of your holes.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:10 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:13 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:54 AM
Go for it, dude. Stalk her. Whip it out. It's a real ice breaker and sometimes you just gotta get crazy. We should team up and hit Hollywood like a cheap slut.
Posted by: otho at August 06, 2015 01:13 AM (d8udV)
Remember, y'all, we're AMERICANS, so the head is held HIGH.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 06, 2015 01:14 AM (jeCnD)
I really enjoyed that little cameo by Want to Win! today, with his silly Kasich! stuff. Was laughing non-stop as the Horde played with him. Interestingly, he was somewhat interactive.
Hector is occasionally interactive. Not in an intelligent, logical way, of course. But responding to actual topics being tossed back at him.
Weird thing was bestie engaging with him. Weird because WTW!'s comments were just robotic and baseless, and bestie's responding to that caused most to regard him/her as another bot/troll/whatever.
Oh - and WTF with the mud-wrestling match going on back there between the regulars? Per the Prime Directive, I stay well clear of such festivities. At least one of the participants is an ONT regular - if he's here, does he want to voxsplain?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 01:15 AM (QDnY+)
I tried that once, and she said "What is that? Is that a piece of gum?" It's only bad thing about being Irish...I'm hung like a God Damned Squirrel!
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:15 AM (dgKBI)
Then I can be the "nice sane" one for her to take refuge with. :-)
Chicks dig that.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 01:16 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 06, 2015 01:16 AM (xetep)
Teena and her records never got as much promotion as I think she and they deserved.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 12:51 AM (ntObR)
When a record company or the record promoters wanted to get a record played, it usually got played.
Back in 1980, the Who released a song called "You Better You Bet". The feeling in the industry was that it would be their first number one single. MCA had cut their ties to independent record promoters about 6 months prior, and those record promoters decided that it was time for payback. The song debuted on the Hot 100 in the upper 30's, 2nd week in the mid 20's, 3rd week in the mid teens, 4th week stalled in the mid teens, 5th week started dropping. The stall and drop was a call made by the independent record promoters to show MCA who was boss. Several weeks later, MCA contracted back out with those promoters.
The record companies' in house record promoters are a real greasy lot, the independent record promoters make them seem like choir boys.
Teena's problem was that her "Svengali" was Rick James. If it had been Barry Gordy or Smokey Robinson, she would have been huge. But Rick James in the early 80's? Cocaine was a hell of a drug.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 01:16 AM (Z7G74)
Posted by: andycanuck
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Okay I set that up, but it's a Calais.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:16 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at August 06, 2015 01:18 AM (xetep)
*pours shot*
I still remember my dad cussing up a storm.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:18 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 01:18 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl
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Overpaid, oversexed, and over here..., as they said..
No disrespect to your grandfather.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:18 AM (9mTYi)
Blanco, I watched "The Heidi Game". Think my dad was watching with me, too.
Amazing how sports info has changed. One had to wait days for sports columnists to explain and discuss the whole Heidi thing to even know what had happened.
Now, there is TV coverage of high school sports. Locally, during the fall, there is a whole 30-minute TV show on high school football every Friday night. Back in my day, we would look (sometimes in vain) for the results of local/county championships in the local papers. Little items tucked backin the section with the sportfishing stats and the tennis club results. In our own sports (we had been eliminated earlier, but had trouble even finding out who won eventually).
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 01:20 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Blanco
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Grandfather! Grandfather!
Posted by: Heidi at August 06, 2015 01:20 AM (9mTYi)
That game happened nine days before I was born, so it wasn't a total loss for him
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:20 AM (zyIlW)
I really enjoyed that little cameo by Want to Win! today, with his silly Kasich! stuff. Was laughing non-stop as the Horde played with him. Interestingly, he was somewhat interactive.
Hector is occasionally interactive. Not in an intelligent, logical way, of course. But responding to actual topics being tossed back at him.
Weird thing was bestie engaging with him. Weird because WTW!'s comments were just robotic and baseless, and bestie's responding to that caused most to regard him/her as another bot/troll/whatever.
Oh - and WTF with the mud-wrestling match going on back there between the regulars? Per the Prime Directive, I stay well clear of such festivities. At least one of the participants is an ONT regular - if he's here, does he want to voxsplain?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 01:15 AM (QDnY+)
Which regular? And there should be a "Spotter's guide" that also includes TODD/AKIN, MUMR, Ira, and Average Joe.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 01:21 AM (EzgxV)
Yep thats what I was thinking. Its not like whoever wins can bucket out the water in the Titanic anyway. Screw It! Lets let Trump go in there and tell everybody that they are fired!
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:21 AM (dgKBI)
This evening I had the honor of attending (and playing for) a Mass for a Moron-minded friend who is studying for the priesthood, and who is about to be very busy for the next most-of-a-year. He's a good egg.
I'm about 300 miles into the day so far.
Posted by: Piercello on the road at August 06, 2015 01:21 AM (/Yo5v)
When he started trying to promote the Mary Jane Girls. OMG. According to the Wiki entry on them, even Rick realized pretty quickly how badly he had messed up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 01:22 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:22 AM (zyIlW)
*pours shot*
I still remember my dad cussing up a storm.
Papa Basura was a Radiers fan. Even had a picture with him standing next to Ben Davidson. Papa was standing on a box, or they'd have needed two pictures. So, yeah, know a little something about that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:23 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: zombie Rick James at August 06, 2015 01:23 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:23 AM (zyIlW)
MJ Girls actually got some serious airplay in Rick's desperate attempts to make them work. In the meantime, Teena Marie's records got ignored and gathered dust on the store shelves.
Life ain't fair, except for those precious few minutes when it's busy being *really* unfair.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 01:24 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: cthulhu
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The odd duck is Moo Moo. I don't think he comes here for the discussion...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:24 AM (9mTYi)
The brigade I was in when I deployed to Iraq in 2003:
1st Raider Brigade.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:25 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:25 AM (zyIlW)
I think the news cycle has gotten so much shorter that the local stuff gets in there because they need to fill the time.
That they can claim they're providing a community service in accordance with their FCC licensing requirements makes it a nice bonus.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:26 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:26 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:26 AM (dgKBI)
I don't think you're wrong, but the White Ghetto piece being talked about is important, very damn important, it may be one of the most important thing in the discussion of poverty and welfare that anyone can read.
It's important because it puts lie to all of the racist crap the left attaches to attempts to reform welfare. Here's a bunch of folks as white as any in America and welfare has poisoned their lives and prospects as completely as it does for everybody at the corner of Presstman and Blunt in Baltimore Maryland.
Government welfare kills the spirit and the soul of human beings, no matter who or what color the recipients are.
Period.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2015 01:28 AM (WvS3w)
From Amadeus.
Salieri might be the only one who appreciates Mozart enough. And for all of his scheming, can't lie about it when asked directly.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 06, 2015 01:29 AM (+4uXG)
Aslan's Girl, I think the most we can hope for (and it would be significant, quite welcome) from Trump is that he "smokes out" or damages other candidates on important issues. Illegal immigration is an obvious possibility, but beyond that I wonder.
Not anything about Trump's actual policy leanings, but it will be pretty easy for most of the candidates to do a meaningless "yeah, what he said!" about many of the "big" issues (spending, taxes, debt, O-care, Iran calamity).
Today on the radio Trump said he didn't plan to be attacking tomorrow but would respond if attacked himself. Heh heh heh. I don't think all of the others can resist (sniping at the front-runner is a normal, typically sensible tactic). If someone takes him on on immigration, THEN things might get interesting. Otherwise, expectations are sadly limited.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 01:30 AM (QDnY+)
Damn I had fun.
Moved to Hawaii in the 80s, so had to watch them from afar while in high school.
90s, I was married and living in GA, but still kept up with my team, though not as much, since kids took up a considerable amount of my time.
00s, went back into the Army, just in time to see my team lose to the gay pirates of Tampa. Three tours to Iraq plus seeing my team suck in a major way was not a happy time for me.
Now, in my 40s, I just want to see my Raiders win their 4th Lombardi before I leave this mortal coil.
Now...
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:31 AM (zyIlW)
I don't think you're wrong, but the White Ghetto piece being talked about is important, very damn important, it may be one of the most important thing in the discussion of poverty and welfare that anyone can read.
It's important because it puts lie to all of the racist crap the left attaches to attempts to reform welfare. Here's a bunch of folks as white as any in America and welfare has poisoned their lives and prospects as completely as it does for everybody at the corner of Presstman and Blunt in Baltimore Maryland.
Government welfare kills the spirit and the soul of human beings, no matter who or what color the recipients are.
Period.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 06, 2015 01:28 AM (WvS3w)
And turns real communities into tribalistic dogfights.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 01:31 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH
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You know, all through the Cold War and even during the VN era, there was a sense of possibility, a sense that our best days were ahead of us, I don't feel that it anymore. It pisses me off...., a LOT, because it did not have to go this way at all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:31 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:32 AM (zyIlW)
A thing of beauty.
The guy argues like a troll.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 06, 2015 01:34 AM (xSCb6)
First the Navy, courtesy of my dad, then the Army, courtesy of my dumb ass thinking that duty, honor, and country would still mean something to most Americans.
Boy was I wrong.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:34 AM (zyIlW)
Now...
So as long they're bad, you stay here?
Poor Chi, he won't be able to openly root against them...
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:34 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: Piercello on the road at August 06, 2015 01:35 AM (/Yo5v)
With the manipulation and indoctrination that has been allowed, this was the only possible outcome.
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:35 AM (dgKBI)
For the first time in twelve years, I'm actually looking forward to the season. May not see the playoffs, but I do believe that it will be a different Raiders than from years past. A Return to Excellence, if you will.
Chi has no interest in football...lol.
As long as he doesn't cheer for any AFC West rival or the Cheatriots, we all good.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:37 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 06, 2015 01:18 AM (ntObR)
Went to see him in concert in the spring of 82. It was awful. He was so fucking high, he couldn't even perform. The crowd booed him for half of his portion of the concert (5 or 6 songs, we think). The only saving grace was that he had all of his associated acts as his openers, so we got to see 4 or 5 artists in all.
I say we think he played 5 or 6 songs because you really couldn't tell what he was singing, you could only tell what the band was playing.
We think the playlist was:
Superfreak
Give It To Me Baby
You and I
Mary Jane
and we think Love Gun
This is when he was at the height of his popularity. A couple of years later he scheduled another concert, but it was cancelled after only selling a couple of hundred tickets and a "scheduling issue".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 06, 2015 01:38 AM (Z7G74)
You never know, he might take an interest in the "Chi"fs.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:40 AM (bZQB+)
The son I never had, who was raised right.
Kid's been running routes since he was FIVE.
He was a beast at Alabama, and I never dreamed he'd come to Oakland.
Between him and Michael Crabtree, catching balls from Derek Carr...I have no doubts with our offense.
The D on the other hand...especially our DBs and CBs raised some questions in my mind from the little I've seen in camp thus far.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:40 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi
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I am more inclined to blame human nature, in the sense that people become complacent, and societal decay follows on. See: The Romans.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:41 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:41 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:42 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:42 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Hardliner at August 06, 2015 01:42 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:43 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:44 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:45 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:46 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:47 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:48 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: Jimi at August 06, 2015 01:50 AM (dgKBI)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:51 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:51 AM (zyIlW)
SMFH, a pleasure as always. While we may not agree on football, I know that you're an intelligent woman of refinement and taste.
Because you're not a Cowboys fan.
G'night everyone.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 06, 2015 01:52 AM (bZQB+)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:53 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 01:55 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Philip Rivers at August 06, 2015 01:55 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 06, 2015 01:57 AM (E+MKO)
Fuggem.
I don't like Rivers as a player, but he seems to be a decent family guy and all, so not gonna hate on him too much...
Though I do hope the Mack truck runs him over this season.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 01:58 AM (zyIlW)
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Meanwhile, on the half-Asian hottie front...
Sexy half-Thai girl who has a low-level software job at a tech incubator gets chosen for some inexplicable reason (/s) to be featured in the program's recruiting poster...leading a few SEXIST MEN and also BITTER UGLIES to complain that the company shouldn't be hiring "unrealistic models" and pretend that they're in the software training program.
Sexy half-Thai writes faux-modest SJW-esque article claiming (falsely) that she's an "introvert" (who teaches hoop-dancing classes and is a yoga instructor who puts up glamor photos of herself online everywhere) who "doesn't want to be famous" and that men harass her sexually because she's so cute, and it's just not fair, she just wants to be a nerdy programmer!
In the guise of promoting the latest SJW meme, all sorts of MSM outlets now feel the need to show lots of pictures of said foxy programmer chick, who (Yay!!!) started a hashtag so other people "who don't look like programmers" can post selfies, and snag a bit of her fame. Of course, the MSM just wants click bait and all the traffic from people who can't resist pictures of sexy girls. People like you!
Pic of hot chick in ad:
http://tinyurl.com/p8k5xv8
Faux-modest article she penned to whip up fame and buzz:
https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/you-may-have-seen-my-face-on-bart-8b9561003e0f
BBC lame roundup of hashtag:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-33783007
Oh, and to top it off, they're now holding a discriminatory mix-n-mingle party where you get to meet said hottie.
Ticket prices?
$10 for minorities; $25 for white dudes who want to bang her.
Seriously:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ilooklikeanengineer-gathering-tickets-18026391422
How is that even legal?
All of this is a faintly interesting commentary on the modern world where in order for media outlets to have an "excuse" to post what the British tabloids used to call "Page 6 Girls," the newspapers now need to find some hilariously phony SJW cause to justify it.
Here, we need no such excuse.
Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2015 01:59 AM (jBuUi)
little snitch.
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
It has worked very well on my Mac, not sure the effectiveness on PCs.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:00 AM (zyIlW)
Or would that be the "Carson" Chargers? Not following the fiasco, so don't know what they'd be called if they moved *back* north (yes, the Chargers were originally the L.A. Chargers, one of the original AFL teams - tho I think they moved south pretty quickly).
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 02:01 AM (QDnY+)
Shit is fucked up all over.
Might as well focus on football.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:02 AM (zyIlW)
Since I originally posted that comment, they changed the ticket prices so people of all races now pay the same entrance fee to see her.
I guess they got complaints about the legality of the pricing tiers.
Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2015 02:03 AM (jBuUi)
little snitch.
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
It has worked very well on my Mac, not sure the effectiveness on PCs.
Posted by: SMFH
Little Snitch is ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE on my Mac. I literally could not function without it. You would not believe how many sneaky "calls home" all your software makes.
Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2015 02:05 AM (jBuUi)
Shit is fucked up all over.
Posted by: SMFH
No, you don't need to read anything. Just go to the links for girlie pics if you want to skip the politics.
Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2015 02:06 AM (jBuUi)
Your stories make me both feel so glad I no longer live on the West Coast, yet I have so many fond memories of living there, it breaks my heart to see what it has become.
Which is why I would have no problem whatsoever if my Raiders moved to San Antonio.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:06 AM (zyIlW)
Have no desire to see the pics. I don't swing that way.
The hypocrisy of the MFM never ceases to astound me.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:08 AM (zyIlW)
It should be noted that, under Linux: clients, servers, firewalls, and routers are more a matter of attitude than anything else.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 02:08 AM (EzgxV)
SMFH, I think you'd like Rivers as a leader. Apparently he literally carries the team, emotionally, in many situations, and is the main locker-room leader as well. He has played hurt so much that he earned complete respect from the rest of the players. In other words, a self-sacrificing fanatic who leads by example. (and he apparently just loves the game, as many of the best do, would probably do it for free)
On the personal side, again from indirect intel, he remains a hillbilly and family man (6 kids?). You won't find any headlines about him being involved in after-hours altercations in the Gaslamp district. Not that long ago, apparently, he still drove a beat-up van (big-family type van) to the stadium, which cracks up the guards.
Anyway, seems like *not* one of the more unappealing people in the game.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 02:08 AM (QDnY+)
This year's Kazakhstan Women's National Chess Team looks like this:
http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/files/news/2015/misc/dinarasad05.jpg
Yes, the chess team.
Posted by: zombie at August 06, 2015 02:10 AM (jBuUi)
But since he's the QB of a AFC West rival...he needs to go down.
Nothing personal.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:10 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:11 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 02:14 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Philip Rivers at August 06, 2015 02:15 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:16 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Arts and Craftsy Tony Romo at August 06, 2015 02:19 AM (4SpVz)
Would you like a crownie?
Posted by: Arts and Craftsy Tony Romo at August 06, 2015 02:19 AM (4SpVz)
We all know that you are the real Tony Romo in that commercial.
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 02:20 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 02:20 AM (zt+N6)<<<
You got me. And if I could make our defense out of paper mache, it would be much tougher than what we've had the past few years.
Posted by: Arts and Craftsy Tony Romo at August 06, 2015 02:23 AM (4SpVz)
The only folks who (should) be awarded engineering degrees are those who are still standing after 4-5 years of increasingly difficult courses.
Math doesn't really care about political correctness.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at August 06, 2015 02:24 AM (pXqOq)
Shit ain't all that hard, especially if you've worked with armament.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:26 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:26 AM (zyIlW)
I think Bad Comedian Eli Manning is a rip off of "Eli the Insult Comic" that pops up around here during football season.
Posted by: Arts and Craftsy Tony Romo at August 06, 2015 02:27 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:27 AM (zyIlW)
449 Yeah I have a church parking lot across the street and the same thing used to happen to me.
I run everything on the cable so I just removed the wireless antenna and that was that.
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 02:29 AM (LAliD)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:29 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 02:30 AM (LAliD)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:31 AM (zyIlW)
My little Phillip Rivers' story about his old car reminded me of a similar story which I *did* hear first-hand.
A few years ago, the museum where I volunteer, theVikings' offensive line great Ron Yary came in with relatives (daughter and her kids?).
Very nice guy. He introduced himself, and I immediately made a comment about his size (normal) - and jokingly asked if someone his sizecould get in as a special teams nose-guard or something these days. He laughed and said no way.
Anyway, he recounted how he was broke when he showed up for the first camp/game/whatever with the Vikings, driving a $300 car he had in college. The guards didn't believe he was on the team and were not letting him in the stadium! So along comes a legendary Viking (Alan Page or Carl Eller, someone like that), surely driving amore handsome ride,and says "let the kid in, he's one of us!".
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 02:35 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:39 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:41 AM (zyIlW)
Kazakh chess team: if single I'd consult with #2 and #4 (from left). Then again, they're so young they might not speak Russian. Then again, again, if they're Kazakh chess nerds then they DO speak Russian, probably.
Is Nursultan Nazarbiyev STILL president of Kazakhstan? Haven't looked lately, not having any gigs with the Clinton Foundation, but somehow I think I saw he was still there. President for life is kind of a thing there, as in many countries.
But of the Central Asian 'stans, nobody has as cool a title as the president of Turkmenistan. As I recall it translated roughly as "Horseman of the Turkmen". I do recall that the first guy to have that position (he's probably still there, too!) gave a visiting Iranian f**stick (can't recall, a familiar name, maybe Rafsanjani?) the traditional gift - a magnificent white horse. Against his advisers' wishes, said Iranian poobah mounted the horse and the thing promptly took off, embarrassed local security and panicking Iranian security chasing after.
This was in a State cable I remember reading at the time. Delicious.
VP Gore got the same gift when he visited and I seem to remember the amusing logistics chatter about getting that horse out of there when he left.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 06, 2015 02:45 AM (QDnY+)
Most calls looked pretty routine, to crapple mostly.
Posted by: Karnac at August 06, 2015 02:46 AM (DmRs2)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:29 AM (zyIlW)
I think it might be dead. He only did one article since the last QBs on Facebook. And at the end of QBs on Facebook he said he wasn't going to be doing them every single week anymore. So I really don't have any faith in him really doing anything anymore.
Posted by: buzzion at August 06, 2015 02:47 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:48 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 06, 2015 02:53 AM (zyIlW)
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at August 06, 2015 03:12 AM (uPxUo)
Posted by: Autumn Wind at August 06, 2015 03:16 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 03:18 AM (2XMpf)
Or in other words he was pimped out to Congress by JAG and the rank was left on the dresser in the morning.
Now we know why he's so nervous about being interviewed. He's waiting for THAT shoe to finally drop.
Well Lindsey, here it is. THUMP!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 06, 2015 03:18 AM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 06, 2015 03:23 AM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Miss Lindsey at August 06, 2015 03:24 AM (4SpVz)
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 03:26 AM (LAliD)
Johnny "aka the Mav with the sav" borrowed them.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at August 06, 2015 03:27 AM (x3GpS)
Isn't there a PC equivalent for Little Snitch???
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 03:26 AM (LAliD)
The answer is no.
And if you try to find one, I'll freeze up your computer.
Posted by: Bill Gates at August 06, 2015 03:27 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 03:38 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 03:57 AM (EzgxV)
I signed my son up for public school today for the first time. He has been in private school but that is ending. So, the secretary hands me a form that is an affidavit that my son is a Native American. I asked what the form was for. She told me that at this school, Indians get extra help so that they can succeed just like the other kids.
**Jaw hitting the floor**
So, I ask, you think he needs help because he is an Indian?
The response was that oh honey the school nurse even has a couple of adopted kids who are Alaska Natives and they are in the program and it is really helping them to succeed, it is just a great program......
So, I ask, if I list him as a Mayan Indian does that mean he doesn't qualify? The form says he has to belong to a recognized tribe.
Well, we don't know, honestly, I think that might be a problem, etc.
So, now he DOESN'T need help, even though he is still an Indian?
What the everloving fuck?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2015 04:00 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 04:01 AM (LAliD)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 04:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 04:01 AM (LAliD)
Well, it isn't like it's rare around here. My high school was something like 24% Native.
But assuming that my kid is stupid because he has brown skin? Fuck that shit.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 06, 2015 04:04 AM (+YMhA)
Sounds like a return to Middle-Earth....lyrics [translated] include: "A fine lovely apple I put in my pocket / And all I found was a seed potato"
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 04:08 AM (EzgxV)
504 Hope you know I'm not trying to be mean or offensive but that's just playing the odds.
And being less successful in school is different than being stupid it's primarily a cultural thing, like the reason so many black kids are not graduating.
Being smart and being successful in school are two very different things.
Just saying this 'cuz I'm a teacher and see how schools work.
Most everybody just wants more money 'cuz hell who doesn't like free stuff?
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 04:18 AM (LAliD)
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 06, 2015 04:23 AM (7YlUk)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2015 04:28 AM (Pp9Ha)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 04:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 04:39 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2015 04:44 AM (Cn2is)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 04:51 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at August 06, 2015 05:02 AM (EzgxV)
What's new in America besides Fredo ruining it?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2015 04:44 AM (Cn2is
I lived there when I was a kid.
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2015 05:22 AM (j7iSn)
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 05:34 AM (LAliD)
Yontan airfield
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 05:34 AM (LAliD)
Fortunate to still be living after that. When I was there, early 60's, they were still digging up large ammo dumps.....unexploded munitions still abundant.
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2015 05:40 AM (j7iSn)
516 My dad traded a marine sgt. a bottle of whisky for a .45 there
Guess there were lots laying around on the ground for some reason
Posted by: MAx at August 06, 2015 06:02 AM (LAliD)
How's Oki?
Probably old news, but the Naval Officer in Tennessee will not be charged.
http://tinyurl.com/ofntxf7
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 06, 2015 06:05 AM (VPLuQ)
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Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 06, 2015 06:16 AM (VPLuQ)
Hehas done well here in Oho in the last couple of eletions, even after losing to the state sanctioned eletion against the firemen, poilicemen, and paramedics's unions paying billions againsts his Senate 5 initiatives. He still won reeletion by 63%, deaggging with him a majority house, seate, and supreme court in possibly the puplest of purplre states.
I really think that this is a man that the democrats fear. He has has bona-fde pro-life credentals.
Posted by: brgerbilder at August 06, 2015 06:23 AM (+jijM)
492 Actually there are a fair number of people who want to be engineers. But they have no real idea what engineers do. And they are bad at math. But they want to be engineers! Someone has to sit them down and say "umm, if it took you 3 attempts to pass college algebra, you probably aren't going to survive differential equations, and maybe you aren't cut out for this engineering thing"
Posted by: chemjeff at August 06, 2015 03:18 AM (2XMpf)
"And before you begin descending the cascade of career preferences in order just to continue in this "promised land" of college, recognize that many of the choices you may next consider have extremely poor payback performances as a career for the continued time and money you'll invest. Think carefully about what you'll do next... and stepping off the higher education merry-go-round in order to get some employment experience while you think things through is perhaps your best option."
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