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Overnight Open Thread (10-8-2015)
A bit of housekeeping: I'm off to Europe for two weeks - Barcelona, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, plus wherever else my whim, wallet and corporate overlords take me. (I would have included a jaunt to Moscow and St. Petersburg too except that it turns out that Russia really, really does not want visitors and makes getting a visa expensive and difficult just like in the good old Intourist days.) So anyway not to worry - you'll be in the good hands of the usual bunch of last minute AoS non-credentialed subs.
"Your salary is a way to quantify what you're worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels shitty."She also brought up the difference in wages between her and "Iron Man" co-star Robert Downey Jr.
"Look, nobody is worth the money that Robert Downey Jr. is worth," she says. "But if I told you the disparity, you would probably be surprised."
-- Noted economist Gwyneth Paltrow
Boy, there really are a lot of constitutionally illiterate pieces on the Second Amendment from academics lately. Here's a hint: There's a huge literature on this stuff. The Second Amendment wasn't badly drafted or unclear, it was drafted by smart men who knew exactly what they were trying to say; you just don't want to hear that. Your cocktail-party "insights" on the Second Amendment are neither interesting nor correct. This is Dunning-Krueger scholarship at its worst.
-- Glenn Reynolds
Putin understands this all too well, and much of his UN speech was pitched directly at the consciences of these men and women. It was impossible not to chuckle at the strongman's chutzpah when, nearing his conclusion, Putin explained his hope to partner with other nations on an "issue that shall affect the future of the entire humankind"-climate change. In his recent 60 Minutes interview with Charlie Rose, Putin parried a question about the rule of law in Russia by invoking American race relations-a tried and true rhetorical gambit of the Soviet era...Putin understands American liberals better than most of them understand themselves, and light-years better than they understand him. This is among the reasons their assessment of his motivations is so misleading and incomplete. By presenting his actions as essentially reasonable and defensive in nature, by continuing, humiliation after humiliation, to hope that Putin will one day be their partner, they fail to focus their analysis on the dark core of his beliefs, which are ironically the very traits they believe compromise American conservatism: toxic nationalism and neo-imperialism.
He's not trying that hard to hide it.
-- Aaron MacLean
Whenever I've written about these issues, I get a lot of e-mails from guys scoffing, "Oh, right, Steyn. Like you'd be taking a bullet. You'd be pissing your little girlie panties," etc. Well, maybe I would. But as the Toronto blogger Kathy Shaidle put it:'When we say 'we don't know what we'd do under the same circumstances', we make cowardice the default position.'
I prefer the word passivity - a terrible, corrosive passivity. Even if I'm wetting my panties, it's better to have the social norm of the Titanic and fail to live up to it than to have the social norm of the Polytechnique and sink with it.
-- Mark Steyn
Quote of the Day IV - A New Evil Edition
What do the acolytes of the State want to ban this week? Which bootlace eyelet will they lubricate with eager spittle? Oh, the usual stuff. Fun. Your fun. Vox writer Dylan Matthews twittered his demands, and they're quite ordinary - except for one new requirement. See if you can spot it.-- James Lileks
Have We Finally Reached Peak #Problematic?
To the Left All Human Lives Are Equal But Some Lives Are Less Equal Than Others
There an argument going around among leftists that if pro-life people were really pro-life they'd be calling for guns to be banned instead of being all worked up over abortion. But as Bookworm points out there is an order of magnitude difference between the two:
Number of abortions performed in 2011 in the United States: 1,100,000
Number of homicides using guns in 2011 in the United States: 8,583
Also note that abortion is an act while guns are only a means to carry out an act. To make these comparable you'd have to call for a ban on scalpels, surgical vacuums and other medical instruments used in abortions. But then they'd argue that these are also used in to save lives too. Exactly. Just like guns are.
Vox's Matthew Yglesias Loves That Hillary Is a Shameless, Law Breaking, Dictator-in-Waiting
And no I'm not exaggerating - he basically comes right out and says this.
From her adventures in cattle trading to chairing a policymaking committee in her husband's White House to running for Senate in a state she'd never lived in to her effort to use superdelegates to overturn 2008 primary results to her email servers, [Hillary] Clinton is clearly more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas....Committed Democrats and liberal-leaning interest groups are facing a reality in which any policy gains they achieve are going to come through the profligate use of executive authority, and Clinton is almost uniquely suited to deliver the goods. More than almost anyone else around, she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them, procedural niceties be damned.
...She truly is the perfect leader for America's moment of permanent constitutional crisis: a person who cares more about results than process, who cares more about winning the battle than being well-liked, and a person who believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.
WeaponsMan on Who Spree Killers Are And Where They Get Their Guns
Read the whole thing.
Theodore Dalrymple: A Bien Pensant Pope
Dalrymple is not a fan of Pope Francis. And I do think he has Francis' number here.
After all, fundamental relationships do not call themselves into question: someone must do it in the name of some doctrine, some belief, or other. The Pope's resort to the passive mood is indicative of his moral cowardice in confronting the opponents of what the Church believes in. Those opponents he knows to be militant and aggressive, and to confront them openly, in so many words, would lead to his fall in the popularity polls. Therefore he evades the issue with vague and oily declamation. It is one thing to be peace-loving and conciliatory, it is another to surrender by means of avoidance of the issue....At every point, the Pope evaded specifics and resorted to unctuous generalities. No one ever courted unpopularity by denouncing injustice, but many risked much by being specific about what they considered, rightly or wrongly, unjust.
The Pope was against poverty in the way the preacher in the famous Coolidge anecdote was against sin. But while no secularist will speak up for poverty, the religious attitude has traditionally been more nuanced. Moreover, when the Pope spoke of 'the unjust structures' that exist 'even in the developed world,' he was presumably referring to the arrangements that lead to economic inequality. By doing so he was first making a fetish of wealth (for why else would inequality in itself be bad?) and second he was exciting one of the seven deadly sins, envy (the concentration on what others have irrespective of whether one has enough oneself). Of course, inequality may be unjust, but is not itself evidence of injustice. Evidence that it is so must be adduced independently, and this the Pope failed to do, preferring to court popularity while rocking no boats.
In short, the Pope was playing to a gallery and to a constituency, while wanting to be liked by everybody. There was nothing of timelessness in what he said but only of the temporal, the contingent, the fashionably platitudinous. He is not a shepherd, but one of the sheep.
CDR Salamander: The Russian Navy Breaks the Seal
This was only a matter of time, and we should realize that they just started down a path we first travelled in our first combat use of land attack cruise missiles; 1991....The SS-N-30A is, in many ways, a superior weapon - and more flexible weapon - than our TLAM. This should not be shocking. We have been complacently living off the hard work of the 1970s for awhile.
This actions by the Russians is significant, but in this way. We were hesitant in using our TLAM, but when we finally did, we became rather fond of it.The Russians have broken the seal on its use, and I think they will like it. Why not? For the last quarter century the USN has set a global norm on the use of this one-way armed drone. We have no room at all to argue against it use. None.
Expect more use from Russia of this weapon.
Also: Putin's De Facto No-Fly Zone Over Syria and Related Territories
A Pack of Lone Wolves Shooting Up Gun-Free Australia
Mark Steyn comments:
It's weird. The "denier" is in command of the facts, whereas the president of an organization specifically devoted to the subject appears to know nothing about it, but instead keeps drooling over and over about "the 97 per cent consensus".
By the way, that "97 per cent" nonsense is taken apart on page 295 of my book. It means 75 out of 77 more or less hand-picked scientists. So the "97 per cent consensus" is in fact a smaller number of scientists than the more than 120 I cite in my book, all of whom cheerfully put the boot in to Big Climate's poster child, the hockey stick.
Medical Progress: The Placebo Effect Now Stronger Than Ever
The Wisdom of Friday and Gannon
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 08, 2015 11:19 PM (kqGWM)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 08, 2015 11:20 PM (EzgxV)
Gyagos - always a pita.
Gamera 2015 New York Comic-Con Trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?t=10v=8HH0k_HNjBA
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 08, 2015 11:23 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:23 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: .87c at October 08, 2015 11:23 PM (APdPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:24 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:24 PM (bYGAR)
VOTE FOR POOKYSGIRL - THERE WILL BE BLOOD!
Posted by: pookysgirl at October 08, 2015 11:24 PM (DCMV1)
The Texans.... not so lucky
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:24 PM (tlqam)
"Putin understands American liberals better than most of them understand themselves,"
in part because Putin's KGB made the liberals who they are.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:25 PM (GWq3O)
Posted by: cm9000 at October 08, 2015 11:25 PM (2TUVm)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:26 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: logprof at October 08, 2015 11:26 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:26 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:27 PM (GFzi9)
What is important to a college in finding a professor? For the humanities and qualitative social "sciences," the only thing that matters to Cornell is "diversity."
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10054
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 08, 2015 11:27 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Carol at October 08, 2015 11:27 PM (sj3Ax)
When I was younger, with a bad attitude, I was always looking for an excuse to unload on some poor sucker who triggered my rage.
Now that I am old and feeble, it's a blood sugar thing. Completely unpredictable, other than I will not submit.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:27 PM (GWq3O)
Posted by: good links anyway, Maet! at October 08, 2015 11:28 PM (NiOJ4)
Posted by: avignon terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:28 PM (tlqam)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:29 PM (uZNvH)
"Putin understands American liberals better than most of them understand themselves,"
in part because Putin's KGB made the liberals who they are.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:25 PM (GWq3O)
My thoughts exactly.
SOVIET PROPAGANDISTS OF THE 1950's:
#1 -- ".....and if we feed 'em this line of malarkey, they'll have race riots in the 1960's"
#2 -- "No way."
#1 -- "Way! -- and if you think that's amazing, they'll elect a closet totalitarian for President in 2008 and 2012, and in 2015 one of the major candidates will be an avowed Socialist."
Posted by: cthulhu at October 08, 2015 11:29 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: AT-ST driver with PTSD at October 08, 2015 11:29 PM (NiOJ4)
Aw, we were having an ( I thought) interesting discussion about math.
Posted by: good links anyway, Maet! at October 08, 2015 11:28 PM (NiOJ4)
don't worry
cornbread still are square
and pi still are round
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:29 PM (uZNvH)
-- Noted economist Gwyneth Paltrow
Wanna know what I think is shitty? The disparity in income between what that self-important nitwit Paltrow earns and what a nurse earns. How the hell do these people in Hollywood not see the ridiculousness of their griping about income disparity? Paltrow doesn't think she's obscenely overpaid? And,um, her role in Ironman wasn't quite as important as IRONMAN! Maybe she thinks Lois Lane should have made just as much as Superman.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 08, 2015 11:30 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 08, 2015 11:30 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:30 PM (uZNvH)
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And there it is, the face of the totalitarian.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 08, 2015 11:30 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: C3PO at October 08, 2015 11:30 PM (Mz/Zg)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:31 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:31 PM (GWq3O)
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And if we could save just one life...by stopping illegal immigration...wouldn't it be worth it?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2015 11:32 PM (5LOno)
https://youtu.be/GeT-Ud7hnVs
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:32 PM (GFzi9)
They're all bullpuckey, but like the rest of it, they flood the zone with crap and if you detail the flaws of one, they claim to be referring to another one.
Or they just drool, get red-faced, and call you a sister-humping creationist redneck hillbanger who hates science and is a racist.
Because carpet-bombing the conversation works too.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:33 PM (bLnSU)
Bergoglio is an anti-pope. Benedict is still Il Papa.
Posted by: avignon terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:28 PM (tlqam)
Benedict isn't the official Pope. The Marxist is. Seems a coup has been had.
Posted by: cm9000 at October 08, 2015 11:33 PM (2TUVm)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:33 PM (uZNvH)
I suppose it doesn't matter as long as the Royals keep striking out
Posted by: avignon terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:33 PM (tlqam)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (gU8mL)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: otho at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (EWg9n)
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The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away forever.
Posted by: Moff Tarkin at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: eleven at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:35 PM (JO9+V)
It's the death penalty argument all over again, equalliy vapid and stupid.
And, since they refuse to listen and just repeat the same idiot talking points, the fight will go on until the sun is dust.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:35 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:35 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (uZNvH)
ONTs are funny. It's like people are afraid to post.
BOO!
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (xetep)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (uZNvH)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: t-bird at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (yddCj)
Like wearing an onion on your belt, which was the in thing back in the day.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: avignon terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:28 PM (tlqam)
A little mood music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBHfXPqbgI
Posted by: The Anti-Hat at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (xetep)
Posted by: eleven at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (rjtGa)
-- Noted economist Gwyneth Paltrow
You know, she's probably right. If she told me the disparity I would be surprised at how much money she is getting paid for a part that could be performed by 20 other women in Hollywood.
Posted by: buzzion at October 08, 2015 11:38 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:35 PM (GZ6Pf)
Yeah, a classic English name.
Posted by: cm9000 at October 08, 2015 11:38 PM (2TUVm)
And did they hit any hospitals?
Posted by: Blano at October 08, 2015 11:38 PM (cygkw)
Posted by: logprof at October 08, 2015 11:38 PM (vsbNu)
Oh yeah, "Iron Man."
Not... wait... what was the name of your character again?
Posted by: davidt at October 08, 2015 11:39 PM (Mz/Zg)
Posted by: eleven at October 08, 2015 11:39 PM (rjtGa)
Not that it was a deliberate policy to reach this point, but I took it to mean more of a psychological attack to destabilize and undermine the culture. The results were just a happy accident.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:39 PM (GWq3O)
It's been a good day to be a Texan. Well, maybe not a Texan how'd that end up?
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:39 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (RXFQJ)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (uZNvH)
If, as is surmised, Benedict was forced out...he is still the pope...de jure if obviously not de facto...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (5LOno)
Well, Boehner has really spun out of control. Last I read, he named himself "Speaker for Life" and installed his sons Uday and Qusay Boehner to top assistant positions.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (ntObR)
I think it was Naggy Mcbitch pants. That's all she's done in 3 of those movies. And they say there no good roles for women.
Posted by: Naes at October 08, 2015 11:41 PM (Ypc8j)
Exactly. RDJr pretty much *is* Ironman. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:41 PM (GZ6Pf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:41 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Jake at October 08, 2015 11:41 PM (BxFyv)
Posted by: Renee Ellmers at October 08, 2015 11:42 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: buzzion at October 08, 2015 11:42 PM (zt+N6)
I was referring to the Stros over the Royals.
But the Colts also beat the Texans in a game that almost certainly won't end up meaning anything.
Posted by: eleven at October 08, 2015 11:42 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:43 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 08, 2015 11:43 PM (VviqM)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at October 08, 2015 11:37 PM (xetep)
Even if it were correct, it wouldn't be relevant, because scientific fact is determined through discovery and testing and re-testing, not through a poll.
But it also happens to be a fraudulent number, used fraudulently. But people who are, if you will pardon the term, in complete *denial* about both the facts and the process.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:43 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Bob Dole at October 08, 2015 11:43 PM (Mz/Zg)
I watch Paltrow like I watch Matt Damon ... despite them
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:44 PM (JDhVI)
http://tinyurl.com/pxrbbzd
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 08, 2015 11:44 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子~WTF at October 08, 2015 11:44 PM (vBeA5)
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97% of scholars believe the sun revolves around the earth. Settled science bitches.
Posted by: The middle ages at October 08, 2015 11:44 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Bob Dole
If you can't get one on your own, you don't deserve one.
Posted by: My late Grandpa at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (awspb)
and in the same way there is an argument that
certain thoughts can not be imagined because the language does not allow
the thought to be expressed.
Most common examples, that I can't remember, come from Australian
aborigines. Don't ask me to explain it or give you an example.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:01 PM (GWq3O)
There
is a linguistics theory, which is followed by such wonderful elements
as neuro-linguistic theory, whatever gabble Noam Chomsky posits, and
whatever the one that came from watching the Navajo burn down their
houses with "empty" gas cans, that the words in a language shape
consciousness like a jelly-mold, with the reverse idea from this that
if you control the language and the words you control the minds.
There
is another school of thought (several really) that say 1) wow, too bad
for science fiction, then; and 2) that would mean there is no way to
bootstrap yourself out if serfdom, right?
If you believe (or
think it is useful to believe) that change is impossible or not
desirable, or can ever be really self directed, then you have every reason to
believe that words change reality.
If you believe that change is possible and inevitable then you look at societies that did change.
Carlo
Cipolla had a view that it was the cultural concepts were what were limiting:
if the concepts were the basis of your understanding and valuing
yourself in your society, stepping outside of those concepts is to
betray yourself and your society. In his book, Guns Sails and Empires,
he looks at the Turks and China's failure to adopt cannon in anything
but the most limited forms for a long time.
The Turks thought the cavalry and the
sword were the mark of a warrior, not projectile weapons. The Turks
viewed cannon as fortress smashers, and used them mostly in those roles.
The
Chinese were worse, in spite of having cast bronze and iron for a
thousand years, having invented gun-powder, and having the Jesuits in
Macao willing to teach them, they still couldn't cast useful cannon until after
the Boxer rebellion.
Part of that was due to the ruling elite being
chosen for prowess in poetry and arts, but the rest of it was due to the
worldview of China that discounted science and understandable change.
To understand the technology, they had to understand the science; to
understand the science they had to accept the foreign world view. To do
that was to be not-Chinese, and many very intelligent people could not
accept that conceptual leap.
Some of it is from a view of self that excludes
you from such thoughts - treating them like "Possum Stew"
concepts that are not only distasteful in themselves, but cheapening to admit to
having knowledge of them
Some of it is like facing the idea that challenges the view of the individual in society, like an entrenched bureaucrat conceptualizing privatization.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (3pRHP)
tickets. Gwenneth Paltrow gets paid IN SPITE of making people prefer to
avoid same movie. She gets paid - sometimes - to take up space, wear
certain clothing, and to smear mucus on people when the director tells
her to.
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at October 08, 2015 11:40 PM (RXFQJ)
Gwenneth is a prime example of nepotism and institutional corruption.
Posted by: cm9000 at October 08, 2015 11:46 PM (2TUVm)
https://youtu.be/7fBxmYUkwbI
But she sounds like Gojira and Rodan.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:46 PM (GFzi9)
Jesus fucking Christ, you weepy dumbass, who do you think was the highest-paid word-talker in the Hunger Games films?
Posted by: wait that doesn't count at October 08, 2015 11:46 PM (NiOJ4)
#1-How he ever became an airline pilot in the first place?
#2-Why does anyone with a serious addiction problem not know they can't do that job?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:46 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (3pRHP)
Take their tax credits, investigate their crimes, bust them for employment law violations and slush-fund frauds involving production companies, slap them pink and call them Sally.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: Baldy at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (sEXjW)
I wouldn't mind having a Johnny Cab from Total Recall
http://tinyurl.com/o2hjyse
Posted by: Naes at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (Ypc8j)
Shhhhhhh!
(That would be her ex-husband's girlfriend!)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2015 11:48 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 08, 2015 11:48 PM (ntObR)
97% of doctors believed stomach ulcers were caused by spicy foods and stress.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (JO9+V)
And that salt was bad for you.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at October 08, 2015 11:48 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:48 PM (PThYV)
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I can give up sausages any time I want, ok?
Posted by: Barack Obama at October 08, 2015 11:48 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (JDhVI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (GFzi9)
97+% of scientists never win the Nobel prize for science.
Oh, wait...
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (JO9+V)
And that salt was bad for you.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party
And a low fat diet will prevent heart disease.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (awspb)
They're going to make you sit through the entire series run of Lena Dunham's show "Girls." With maybe a few episodes of "The View" thrown in.
Just close your eyes and keep repeating yourself soothingly "I'm not here... I'm not here..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (ntObR)
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We prefer the terrm child likers.
Posted by: NAMBLA, the next great leftwing cause at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (5LOno)
Cardiac? Nuclear stress test? Had one last year.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (JO9+V)
It's called Skankfart.
You play a dumb skank who gets hit by a radioactive hotdog cart and get amazing superpowers.
Like ultrasonic farts that can mess up make-up and hair from miles away.
And the astonishing ability to know exactly the dumbest thing thing to say and the lamest way to say it.
It's you, baby.
Posted by: eman at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Naes at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (Ypc8j)
I was thinking the Australian Abo didn't have a concept of direction. He couldn't say go east to the ocean.
All his locations were linked to other locations so he could only tell you how to get somewhere by telling you the route you would take to get there.
There was another tribe that didn't understand time as in last week or tomorrow.
And, of course, I might be misremembering the whole thing.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (GWq3O)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (P4OkF)
paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels shitty."
Gwynny, you're not doing the same thing as RDJ.
Posted by: davidt at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (Mz/Zg)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 08, 2015 11:51 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2015 11:45 PM (NOIQH)
And that = what they want to take away from you.
I mean, there are people actually talking about interchangeable cars as a "public accommodation," where you don't even take your own car home, as the next step after getting you to stop driving your own car.
The hilarious thing is, it's the same people whinging about technology making people lazy and foolish.
Oh, and the only real reason to de-individualize cars is to regulate what you can do or carry in them, and where you can go.
I really wish enough people would buy a freaking clue on Central Planning.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:51 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Beatniks at October 08, 2015 11:51 PM (vBeA5)
https://youtu.be/OBGW3EzP3Dw
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:41 PM (GFzi9)
It reminds me of the original Blake's 7
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (3pRHP)
How many points could Obama score in a game involving retired NBA players? How many points could he score in a game involving dead NBA players?
How many reports would get the vapours watching Obama play basketball?
(I'm assuming the spastic president can't skate.)
Posted by: Northernlurker, feeling grumpy today at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (4rzL1)
Demonstrating that few "Universities" actually exist, if any.
By the way, that "97 per cent" nonsense is taken apart on page 295 of my book. It means 75 out of 77 more or less hand-picked scientists. So the "97 per cent consensus" is in fact a smaller number of scientists than the more than 120 I cite in my book, all of whom cheerfully put the boot in to Big Climate's poster child, the hockey stick.
There are at least two studies that taut the "97%" figure of doom.
Cook - survey of published papers for terms like 'climate change'
Doran / Zimmerman - survey of "Earth Scientists", 10,257 inquiries sent, 3146 responses, and all but 79 responded to the 'climate change' question.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: and that guy's as accurate as trumpetdaddy! at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (NiOJ4)
And Euro hookers. They're, like, everywhere.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:51 PM (bLnSU)
Exactly. It's not about the environment.It's not about congestion.It's not about safety.It's not about health.It's not about sustainability.It's about control - and being part of the ruling class.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (HalrA)
http://tinyurl.com/oa483rt
Did you guys see this?
That picture of Hillary - was that taken at Wal-Mart?
Posted by: Vertov at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (rRr9n)
punter #1: "The new Iron Man film is showing. Maybe we should go see it."
punter #2: "Robert Downey Junior's not in this one, it's some other guy."
punter#1: "Yeah, but Gwenth Paltrow's in it!"
punter #2: "Really? Well, let's go!"
punter #1: "Totally!"
A scene that will never happen.
Posted by: otho at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski
Dylan Matthews wants a high tax on that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (9Fc79)
That's a computer model that will do a bunch of arithmetic and tell you if you will still be in business if the interest rate on treasuries go to 3%, or unemployment rises to 10%
Seriously if it's cardio, they put you on a treadmill and make you run until you almost have a heart attack. If you have a heart attack, at least you are already at the hospital.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (GWq3O)
I did not have sex with that speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
Posted by: Renee Ellmers
*giggity*
Holy Modal Rounders - Boobs A Lot - 1971
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qDW9shiD8
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:49 PM (GFzi9)
Her career.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: davidt at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (Mz/Zg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:53 PM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Baldy at October 08, 2015 11:47 PM (sEXjW)
******
For a cardiac stress test you have to walk a treadmill until you are at 85% of your predicted capacity to do so. The length of time it takes you to get there is the measure of how well you do on the test. Minus wait time, less than an hour.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 08, 2015 11:54 PM (gU8mL)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:54 PM (PThYV)
___
Hey, i totally only kind of approved of the nationalist socialist junta back home so...I'm totes conservative
Posted by: Anti-Pope Francis at October 08, 2015 11:54 PM (5LOno)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:23 PM (GFzi9)
Deliberate Anna
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 08, 2015 11:54 PM (8PcKC)
Do you???
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 08, 2015 11:55 PM (GFzi9)
A low-fat, low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet is the key to fat loss and cardiovascular health. The science is SETTLED. There is a CONSENSUS.
Oh. Wait.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 08, 2015 11:55 PM (noWW6)
Yep, freedom of movement.
They want us all living like lil' veals in our micro-apartment highrises in the city. Eating vegan. Taking public transportation. For the environment. Riiiiight.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 08, 2015 11:55 PM (NOIQH)
Wait, when did we get an icemaker? I've been going down to the lobby all night.
Not a euphemism.
Posted by: DC in River City at October 08, 2015 11:56 PM (XVBCD)
Posted by: Naes at October 08, 2015 11:56 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: Anti-Pope Francis
A party that combines nationalism AND socialism, what could go wrong?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 08, 2015 11:57 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 08, 2015 11:50 PM (GWq3O)
what you say makes sense, and is concise.
I have issues. And a deep penetrating hatred of socio-linguistics and associated philosophies.
Long week.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 08, 2015 11:58 PM (3pRHP)
Not a euphemism.
Posted by: DC in River City at October 08, 2015 11:56 PM (XVBCD)
******
Which hotel ya in tonight? Marriott Gateway Aurora, CO for me.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 08, 2015 11:58 PM (gU8mL)
Do you???
Posted by: Anna Puma
Maybe she would pee her pants for a finale nowdays.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 08, 2015 11:58 PM (9Fc79)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:58 PM (PThYV)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 08, 2015 11:58 PM (KG0mU)
Anyway, the article casually mentioned that you had to get community permission to have a child.
Yeah. No. Yet that is liberal utopia.
Posted by: Lauren at October 08, 2015 11:59 PM (bYGAR)
Posted by: logprof at October 08, 2015 11:59 PM (vsbNu)
Posted by: not Eddie Rabbitt at October 08, 2015 11:59 PM (NiOJ4)
Posted by: otho at October 09, 2015 12:00 AM (EWg9n)
If memory serves, Bill Clinton underwent a treadmill stress test at Bethesda, and received a completely clean bill of health, and something like eighteen months later was in for a bypass operation.
Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2015 12:00 AM (noWW6)
First, I'd prefer to call myself anti-abortion than pro-life. I am not opposed to killing Taliban in war, killing terrorists, or executing murderers.
But if pro-life people ought to be anti gun, then they should also be anti-car. And anti-alcohol. How many people are killed by careless drivers every year? How many people are killed by drunks every year? How many drunks beat up their wives and/or kids? Gun control isn't about saving lives, it's about controlling our behavior.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2015 12:01 AM (+lVUW)
Hampton Inn in DDR's town.
And speaking of shitty hotels, the maids here couldn't be bothered to make the bed or empty the trash, but they did find time to steal my beard trimmer. It was only a shitty $20 piece of Chinese made junk, but I'm still gonna break out my DI Voice on the manager tomorrow at 0600.
Posted by: DC in River City at October 09, 2015 12:01 AM (XVBCD)
Posted by: otho
She was Gidget on TV. Gidget movies had various Gidgets.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2015 12:02 AM (9Fc79)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:02 AM (GFzi9)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652158337165889536
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652158611964100612
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652159191721766912
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652159639375638528
Posted by: kbdabear at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (GrXXa)
Just stress. Stupid shit pumped up for no good reason and then not delivered. Stress.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (PThYV)
"I'm sorry, Dave. Im afraid I can't do that. My records show you donated ten dollars to Ted Cruz."
Posted by: OCBill at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (VCCXE)
So is that what the SNL appearance was. Getting results?
Posted by: Sho Nuff at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (24rcg)
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Queen Barry I at October 09, 2015 12:03 AM (awspb)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652159855420047361
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652160392349642752
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652160636017750016
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652161111601508352
Posted by: kbdabear at October 09, 2015 12:04 AM (GrXXa)
Posted by: eleven at October 09, 2015 12:04 AM (rjtGa)
well the one I saw earlier tonight might be a likely suspect, based on her upper lip
Posted by: DC in River City at October 09, 2015 12:04 AM (XVBCD)
Go back out to the waiting room to, get this, wait some more. Get called back in about 20 minutes later to sit in a special x-ray chair and have pretty pics taken of the ol' ticker.
Back to the waiting room while the rest of the herd is similarly processed.
Get called back in eventually and get up on the treadmill to walk. Walk and walk as they raise the elevation and increase the pace, but still walking. At about 10 -12 -15 minutes have hit the targeted heart rate and they inject me with the nuclear dye again while on the treadmill. Then sit for 1 - 3 minutes to let dye circulate and get on the special x-ray chair again for more pretty pics.
Then back to the waiting room for 20 - 30 minutes to make sure I don't seize up and throw a rod. Collect my lollipop and then free to go after about 4 hours since arrival.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 12:05 AM (JO9+V)
I can accept the bed, but the towels are a bridge too far. Give me clean towels or give me death.
Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2015 12:05 AM (bYGAR)
Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at October 09, 2015 12:05 AM (Nj2wY)
Where the hell have you been? It's Friday here.
...
I'll take six dimes worth.
Posted by: some twitchy Compliance Pic addict at October 09, 2015 12:05 AM (NiOJ4)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652159855420047361
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652160392349642752
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652160636017750016
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/652161111601508352
Posted by: kbdabear at October 09, 2015 12:04 AM (GrXXa)
Oh great, now my soul has disappeared.. What am I gonna tell my wife?
Posted by: Northernlurker, feeling grumpy today at October 09, 2015 12:06 AM (4rzL1)
Posted by: logprof at October 09, 2015 12:06 AM (vsbNu)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:06 AM (awspb)
#2-Why does anyone with a serious addiction problem not know they can't do that job?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 08, 2015 11:46 PM (PThYV)
1) In the first scene he has a naval aviator tattoo, so I'm guessing he went Navy -> airlines and the addiction became a problem sometime after that.
2) Because humans aren't little computers. We have a great ability to rationalize all sorts of behavior. "I'm not an addict, I have it under control!" There's a reason that the first part of recovery programs is admitting that you have a problem.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at October 09, 2015 12:06 AM (fC9RO)
Or should I start another GoFundMe???
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:06 AM (GFzi9)
Or should I start another GoFundMe???
Posted by: Anna Puma
Here's something for your marketing: https://youtu.be/aDTwO0TlwOU
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:09 AM (awspb)
18 years later, in the mid-20s, they had gone through Rutherford and Bohr, and gotten to a quantum-mechanical model.
18 years of climate "science", and 97% of the "scientists" are apparently still stuck in the pudding.
Posted by: Mikeski at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (TuMIP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (sEXjW)
Posted by: Mikeski at October 09, 2015 12:11 AM (TuMIP)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:11 AM (QvClr)
Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2015 12:11 AM (LzzEz)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (sEXjW)
Sounds frightening. I will pray.
Posted by: Northernlurker, feeling grumpy today at October 09, 2015 12:12 AM (4rzL1)
Double dawg dare ya!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at October 09, 2015 12:12 AM (McRlu)
Cook - survey of published papers for terms like 'climate change'
Doran / Zimmerman - survey of "Earth Scientists", 10,257 inquiries sent, 3146 responses, and all but 79 responded to the 'climate change' question.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (JmGFJ)
You mentioned Cook and Doran/Zimmerman, there's also Stenhouse et. al. (2014) which asked a series of badly over-generalized questions, aggregated them, and applied the conclusion to propositions not asked. Prokopy (2014) was vague, small, and used mild statements to support stronger statements. There were several student papers and I think Oreskes published one, but she's basically a cartoon character.
Almost all of them ask questions like "do you think there's some anthropogenic content to warming, and that there has been warming since 1850," and then use positive responses in the abstract to support Chicken Little versions of their panic-mongering.
Damn near everyone agrees on those hopelessly vague and meaningless statements. Anyone who knows shit about the subject should be able to explain why they're meaningless (starting with the fact that this timescale starts with the Little Ice Age, and that the athropogenic content may be so small it's literally unmeasurable, possibly because CO2's atmospheric effect has reached "heat soak" and it's doing all it can in the space it has - and then there's the lag factor).
Basically the fraud is so huge and widespread that either a crapload of people are just plain evil, or just plain stupid, or both.
I mean, *all* of these make claims they don't support and are defended by professionals whose reputation *should* rest on accuracy and professionalism.
Does make one distrustful of these human critters.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:12 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Lauren
Towels I can deal with; I reuse towels at home.
The bed isn't ever clean, and, no, new sheets aren't enough.
Because that bed cover quilt is never, ever, ever, ever cleaned. And they so kindly place it on top of the pillows, sheets. Nor is that fuzzy weird thing on top of the sheets.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 12:12 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:12 AM (sEXjW)
A friend of mine did a stress test where they injected some sort of stimulant to simulate running on a treadmill because he had a bad leg or something like that.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2015 12:13 AM (9Fc79)
Posted by: otho at October 08, 2015 11:34 PM (EWg9n)
Also, you forgot to mention that Gwynnie has become known for saying a lot of patronizing, ignorant things on her blog. They could make some people NOT buy tickets to a movie that has her in it. That could cause the producers to take a few million off her paycheck.
Also, when People magazine announced that she was the "most beautiful woman in the world", she became a bit of a laughingstock, because, well, not even close. Other than being really, really skinny so that clothes hang on her just right, without makeup, she's no better looking than your average meth user from the trailer park.
Posted by: nerdygirl at October 09, 2015 12:13 AM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Decidedly Indifferent at October 09, 2015 12:14 AM (fLKzW)
It's an ass move to dis morons or ex-morons when they're not here, in general. (Not saying I haven't slipped into doing this myself.) If you're going to do it, at least provide a link
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 09, 2015 12:14 AM (aLXXe)
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 09, 2015 12:15 AM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Vertov at October 09, 2015 12:15 AM (rRr9n)
Blech. I know. I hate hotels.
Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2015 12:15 AM (bYGAR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:17 AM (VROg+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:17 AM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Decidedly Indifferent at October 09, 2015 12:18 AM (fLKzW)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 09, 2015 12:18 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 08, 2015 11:36 PM (Wo9OY)
We can afford them, it's just that the idea of "analyst" differs from the political hacks in the Pentagon and serious military analysts.
Even if it's competent, what good is it if the elites at the top don't want to hear what the analysts are saying? Obama called ISIS the "Jayvee Team" and "Al Qaida is on the run". Lower level analysts were threatened for less than sunny assessment about how we were doing against ISIS, and higher level hacks polished the turds to a fine sheen for Sir Golfsalot.
Posted by: kbdabear at October 09, 2015 12:19 AM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:20 AM (GFzi9)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (sEXjW)
*****
Baldy, sorry to hear this. You will get to the 85% of predicted very quickly given the situation. They work very hard to make sure this test will not kill or even hurt you.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 12:21 AM (gU8mL)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:10 AM (sEXjW)
Have they taken an echocardiogram yet? My first stress test was chemical and in a CT machine, I was lying down for it. If you can barely walk they shouldn't even be talking about treadmills.
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. I'm not trying to panic you, it's just that a lot of people wait out really bad stuff they shouldn't.
And talk to your doctor about a CPAP machine (used for sleep apnea), they take significant load off your heart when you're sleeping.
Other than that, I don't know details about your case (and I'm not a doctor), so I can only pray that whatever it is, it's something they can fix and get you kicking again.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:22 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 09, 2015 12:23 AM (9Fc79)
Depends on how many piggy banks I will have to murder in so doing.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at October 09, 2015 12:24 AM (McRlu)
Sometimes I swear to God they think they are triaging by seeing who dies when they stall another month or two. If you go from "fine" to "can barely walk" in a couple of months, Some Bad Shit Is Going On That Needs Immediate Attention, Bitches.
Some people wanted the NHS or Canada Care, well, you've got it already, you just pay more.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:25 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: next question at October 09, 2015 12:26 AM (NiOJ4)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:27 AM (awspb)
Posted by: Puddleglum@work at October 09, 2015 12:27 AM (NGd+i)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 12:28 AM (gU8mL)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:28 AM (sEXjW)
Posted by: PabloD at October 09, 2015 12:30 AM (BcOEh)
Posted by: PabloD
Will his OFA people be selling shirts and hats, like during the post-Gabby Giffords event?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:32 AM (awspb)
Crappywood is now a victim of the same progtardism that they push upon lesser mortals?
Does that cover it in a nutshell?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 12:32 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:28 AM (sEXjW)
Baldy, you need to have a long talk with Captain Whitebread soonest. He was having these "this seems bad but maybe I'm overreacting" things, was convinced by the Horde to go in and emphasize specific things, and has greatly improved since the surgery.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 12:33 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:28 AM (sEXjW)
Gold standard is angiogram, actual camera into the heart. I think they can usually tell from CT scans and echocardiograms.
Heart attacks almost always result in visible scarring and discrete areas of dead tissue.
There are also chemical markers but they can fade over time (or mislead).
An EKG is more for realtime events, but I'm sure it does show changes in the way the heart beats which may be permanent.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:33 AM (bLnSU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvqvHu-9kLE
Posted by: The Black n' White Hat at October 09, 2015 12:33 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:33 AM (+oRxW)
http://www.ufunk.net/insolite/squattypotty/
I can see it now. The actor makes the odd commercial here and there for the next year, then gets a break and plays a rapist on SVU. Does well, and gets other guest shots on TV series'. Gets the lead in a low-budget Lifetime flick - no ratings, but industry people notice. Starts to get bigger and bigger supporting roles on HBO flicks. Gets a nice second banana role on a hit Showtime series. Breaks into mainstream films, and works his way up, sort of like Bogart. Heavies at first, but then older, leads. Gets a call one day from an 80 year old Spielberg, who's making his final masterpiece, say King Lear. Shows up to sign the contract, and someone pulls out this 30 year old spot. "Sorry, but...."
Posted by: Vertov at October 09, 2015 12:34 AM (rRr9n)
Cook - survey of published papers for terms like 'climate change'
Doran / Zimmerman - survey of "Earth Scientists", 10,257 inquiries sent, 3146 responses, and all but 79 responded to the 'climate change' question.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (JmGFJ)
Mighty curious, isn't it, that two independent studies, using different methodologies, came up with exactly the same number? I guess if they had used 99 44/100%, people would have twigged onto the scam.
But bear with me a minute. If it were really true that nearly all practicing (and retired, for that matter) scientists were convinced of the truth of CAGW, we wouldn't even be having this discussion, because most likely we would accept it, too, just as we accept that the speed of light is circa 300,000 meters per second. And pay it no more thought.
We here all know the 97% figure is bullshit, and that it is being used to bolster a "theory" that is so wrong that it is easily disproved by our own personal experience, let alone historic data. And the fact that this "theory" is pushed almost exclusively by the Progressive Left, and that the so-called "remedy" amounts to a wet dream fro the Progressive Left is simply icing on the cake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 12:35 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: PabloD at October 09, 2015 12:35 AM (BcOEh)
Posted by: redbanzai at October 09, 2015 12:35 AM (NPofj)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:32 AM (awspb)
Probably with pictures of himself on them.
And a shoutout to Biden and a passive-aggressive comment about Kanye West talking up Ben Carson.
And he'll refer to himself a lot.
And he'll be 20 minutes late.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:35 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: PabloD at October 09, 2015 12:37 AM (BcOEh)
How many points could Obama score in a game involving retired NBA players? How many points could he score in a game involving dead NBA players?
Posted by: Northernlurker, feeling grumpy today at October 08, 2015 11:52 PM (4rzL1)
I think that's already been shown to be essentially "zero".
The court could be littered with the rotting corpses of ex-NBA players and TFG still couldn't hit the basket.
As I have said before, I would dearly love to see him play one-on-one against Sarah Palin, who was a *real* basketball player in high school.
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2015 12:38 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:33 AM (+oRxW)
Logistics in the area are quite challenging. There are big mountains to the east and west, and the main north/south route -- I-5 -- does some serious rollercoasters (including the highest point on I-5). It wouldn't be my first choice for barging in where I'm not wanted.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 12:38 AM (EzgxV)
(Except for the arrival at the airport, the motorcade, and his departure, and any remarks he makes in front of AF1. And the army of security and the journalists who will be recording the event for history.)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 12:38 AM (GWq3O)
Posted by: Puddleglum@work at October 09, 2015 12:40 AM (NGd+i)
And the trail of MSM slobber.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2015 12:40 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
-----------------
Even Moo Moo?
*damn*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
Posted by: rickl
I'd like to see him arm wrestle Sarah Palin. Or Michelle Malkin. Basically any 105 pound Conservative chick, because I know the results would be HI-freakin-larious.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:41 AM (awspb)
(Except for the arrival at the airport, the motorcade, and his departure, and any remarks he makes in front of AF1. And the army of security and the journalists who will be recording the event for history.)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 09, 2015 12:38 AM (GWq3O)
....and the accidental diversion out to East Nowheresville.....
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 12:42 AM (EzgxV)
*damn*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 12:41 AM (9mTYi)
****
Yep.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 12:42 AM (gU8mL)
Posted by: cthulhu
This. I live north in Eugene, and the logistical nightmare he's going to give to people who are trying to bury their family and friends should be a scandal.
Posted by: Vertov at October 09, 2015 12:42 AM (rRr9n)
Posted by: rickl
I'd like to see him arm wrestle Sarah Palin. Or Michelle Malkin. Basically any 105 pound Conservative chick, because I know the results would be HI-freakin-larious.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:41 AM (awspb)
I'd love to see him box Alan West.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 12:43 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:43 AM (sEXjW)
Think it would look something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsy4rW0xbYY
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2015 12:44 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:45 AM (vL/IL)
Just found the most up to date copy of the The Princess Who Caused Fear vol II on a thumb drive. Was sweating having to rewrite a story already written.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 09, 2015 12:46 AM (GFzi9)
If that is possible.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 12:46 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Baldy at October 09, 2015 12:43 AM (sEXjW)
I always interrogate them about what they say.
If you normally sleep on your back, try resting on either side and seeing if it helps you breathe.
It's subjective, but try to keep track of your condition. Always keep a phone with you.
If it's a blockage and they can fix it with surgery, there's a good chance it will be "sore but mobile the next day or the one after."
Good luck.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 12:48 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:51 AM (UiGnh)
I agree, at least with the first part. He's a bit of a contrarian, but that describes most of us if you are looking at the US as a whole. No reason to rag on him unnecessarily.
Posted by: DC in River City at October 09, 2015 12:51 AM (XVBCD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 12:51 AM (VROg+)
Robert Downey Jr. makes Disney/Marvel a shit-ton of money playing Iron Man. That's just a fact. He puts butts in the seats and money in their coffers. You played a minor supporting role that nobody gave a shit about. Plus, he's a way better actor than you. So shut up, fuck off, and go steam your hoo-ha.
Love and kisses,
Me
Posted by: Insomniac at October 09, 2015 12:51 AM (kpqmD)
Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at October 09, 2015 12:52 AM (uPxUo)
Step One : Turn out the lights.
Posted by: Husbands Everywhere at October 09, 2015 12:55 AM (5jzvv)
Posted by: redbanzai
A horse for the first king that would dare state that our country's main problem is economic literacy, omething that has never responded to trillions being thrown at the vague and purposely undefined notion of "Education."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 12:55 AM (JmGFJ)
I'm not trying to scare you, just trying to reinforce the good advice you have already received.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 12:55 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: DC in River City at October 09, 2015 12:55 AM (XVBCD)
Then you've never seen him fervently argue the exact opposite point of view within a month of a previous bedrock assertion of his.
I don't know what motivates that fucker, but I would venture "bullheaded contrarianism" rather than any kind of principle.
Sadly, I've noticed this tendency in more than one MBA who pretended he'd found God at the Argument Clinic.
Posted by: you want 12A next door at October 09, 2015 12:57 AM (NiOJ4)
Shorter Dalrymple: pope is a cowardly authoritarian illiterate bigot who uses his perch to spread toxic nonsense no less vile than that of the street mob driven by envy and avarice.
We are decades, if not more, beyond the point where there is any excuse for infantile moral narcissism on the topic of economic equality. Natural economic behavior (some call it capitalism) is the onlyreason that poverty is not the norm in great swaths of the world's population. It is the only reason (OK, potable urban water supplies, you can toss that in) that the developed world has the surplus to so generously help the truly needy (this would include every cent the Church dispenses).
Campanero Jorge came along after serious, rational observers had lost their patience with degrading, impoverishing, freedom-destroying crap being spewed by institutions with inertial"prestige". Which leaves the majority to coo and marvel at his, well whatever it is they find interesting or positive.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 12:58 AM (QDnY+)
And thanks for the awesome farewell ONT. Bon voyage!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 12:58 AM (GzDYP)
That would describe quite a few people who populate this place.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 12:59 AM (dOD0J)
Step One :
Posted by: Husbands Everywhere
Fixed, if Mad Men is to be believed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:00 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at October 09, 2015 01:01 AM (09Lhy)
I'd like to see him arm wrestle Sarah Palin. Or Michelle Malkin. Basically any 105 pound Conservative chick, because I know the results would be HI-freakin-larious.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 09, 2015 12:41 AM (awspb)
Full disclosure: Since it's late and we've all had a few, I will admit that in fifth or sixth grade, I was beaten in arm wrestling by the smallest girl in the class. Bam. Done. She was a scrawny little thing, too. To this day I still don't know how she did that.
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2015 01:01 AM (sdi6R)
Step One : Turn out the lights. 3 martinis on the mini bar
Posted by: Husbands Everywhere
Fixed, if Mad Men is to be believed.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:00 AM (JmGFJ)
You're only supposed to be wearing a ribbon with a bow when he comes in the door, and he gets to pull the end.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:02 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: TB at October 09, 2015 01:03 AM (YMEYJ)
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Like one of those dolls with a string in its back. The guy behind him would pull the string every time Mair was to speak.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2015 01:06 AM (9mTYi)
Putin. No need to explore how the less perceptive among us - who now run the country and culture - cannot understand him. Same as with any other important topic. They didn't earn the description "clueless" without reason.
But finding ultra-nationalism and imperialism in Russian thuggishness in Ukraine (essentially an integral part of Russia for over a millenium) and Syria (only extra-territorial client state remaining, vintage of nearly 50 years) is interesting.
Russian reach and influence today are at a low point not seen since a Swedish king dominated its region, excluding the chaos of the war/revolution/civil war period.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:07 AM (QDnY+)
Out early.
Here is "To the Bone" by The Kinks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxYY26qV1Y
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 09, 2015 01:07 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:02 AM (c+gwp)
Reminded me of a broken-down robot.
To Maetenloch: do have a fine trip, and stomp some jihadis if the opportunity arises. And maintain situational awareness.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:08 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: cthulhu
That's where the lawyer at the end of the bow jumps out with divorce papers, right?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:08 AM (JmGFJ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8uEP5-iKc
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:11 AM (0yhH4)
Really.
Moo Moo, for instance, has within the last six months come out both for and against massive deficit spending.
Go ahead and name someone else here who has made a similar well-thought-out logical leap.
Posted by: I'll be over here waiting on the edge of my seat at October 09, 2015 01:12 AM (NiOJ4)
Ditto on thanks for the great ONT, Maet, and envious of your trip. I think.
I used to travel all the time, for work and fun, and loved it. All over the world, especially places you'll never be, and probably wouldn't want to be. Then the last few years I've gone no further than 600 miles from home (by car). And I don't miss the travel.
Though living in a quiet beach town in northeast Brazil, or something similar in Vietnam, still sounds nice when I allow myself to think about it.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:12 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 09, 2015 01:16 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2015 01:01 AM (sdi6R)
Boobies obviously. Even the smallest in the class. Duh!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 01:17 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Gem
Which is why my 'umble self thinks Cruz would have better served to do something along the lines of:
Cruz: 97% of *all* scientists.
Mair: Yes.
Cruz: Which paper are you citing as reference for this?
Mair: 97% of all ...
Cruz: Again, what is the name of the scientific paper you are citing for this 97% number?
Mair: ...
Cruz: If you can't cite a piece of research, why are you certain in that awfully specific number?
Mair: (*consults with lackeys*)
Mair: 97% of climate scientists agree.
Cruz: So you are incapable of citing a single paper to back that number?
Mair: 97% of climate scientists agree.
Cruz: Mr. Mair, you aren't a scientist, let alone a climate scientist, you don't read the literature, and you can't cite a single paper in support of your reflexive comment to this committee. You'll have to forgive me for coming to the conclusion that you don't know what you're talking about.
Cruz: Mr. Chairman, I've heard enough for today. Motion to adjourn.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:17 AM (JmGFJ)
And soccer.
Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2015 01:18 AM (LzzEz)
Maet thanks for including the cruise missile link.
And though there is no way of knowing for sure, one could reasonably assume that use of the Russian systems would indeed be a happy time in intel circles. First look at these things actually being used.
And - though in this case I *do* doubt it is the case any longer - for many years the mishaps suffered en route by a few of the rounds (4, I think)would definitely have been a bonanza. As in, chance to retrieve actual hardware (unless they were set for impact detonation to prevent salvage). Somehow I lack confidence that the old spirit and determination are still there.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:19 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 01:21 AM (zt+N6)
You are being a bit of a contrarian right now.
What I said is that Mr. Moo Moo is not all that bad.
It looks like you are taking a contrary position to that statement.
Let's take Trump.
I'll probably vote for Trump.
Nip Sip probably won't.
We hold contrary positions.
Doesn't mean I will dump personal attacks on Nip Sip and I hope to get the same in return.
I am sure I could go back in the archives and find plenty of people who have changed their minds on just about any subject you could name.
Doesn't cost you anything to ignore it and yes I should take my own advice. I am working on it.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:23 AM (dOD0J)
buzzion, I'd add in the "pause" - more accurately, the 19 years of high-confidence data showing no temperature increase. Since all data prior to that suffers from lots of limitations even before it has been distorted, er, changed, er, "adjusted".
And some appropriate mockery of the (predictable) panic and silliness of the AGW industry in attempting to explain the "pause", reaching Peak Idiocy in the "idea" that the heat was somehow hiding in the ocean depths.
For a rousing conclusion, review the scandalous demise and revealing statements of the railroad engineer who headed up the IPCC for most of its existence.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:25 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2015 01:18 AM (LzzEz)
****
It is Euroweenie Kickyball. Damn, this place needs a Glossary.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 01:26 AM (gU8mL)
Tim, don't let Nip know about your Trump vote. He might ask you to explain your support of the Nazis. Unless he walked back that particular gem.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:29 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 01:29 AM (zt+N6)
I'm not a fan of some that still have posting privileges, but I sure as shit wouldn't want to have people talking about me behind my back.
Pseudo-Socking them? Knock yer self out.
Ace's No.1 Rule: Be Funny When You Break the Rules.
No. 2 of course is: You're rarely as funny as you think you are.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:30 AM (JmGFJ)
That's what got him flustered, and caused him to repeat the 97% mantra again and again. That's not going to make him look good in the eyes of his own crowd, let alone thinking people.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:30 AM (0yhH4)
Hmm, maybe two of the least persuasive or thoughtful regulars (one's been named, the other not) could do a colloquy on Euro kickball. They're both afficionados. Which is fine, to each their own. Soccer is eerily similar to water polo - fantastic conditioning and reasonably fun to play, pretty dull to watch.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:32 AM (QDnY+)
The ding at the end about how CNN and others gave the Oregon shooter a "race lift" was cute. Obama is mixed race and comes out as our first black president, while the shooter is mixed race and gets described as a white militant.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 09, 2015 01:34 AM (U6f54)
When you are a one-trick pony, people notice, after a while.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:35 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 01:36 AM (GzDYP)
285 Weft, some commenters seem to have no role here, other than to shill for the GOPe, strumpetdoody being the current champion in that marketplace.
When you are a one-trick pony, people notice, after a while.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:35 AM (0yhH4)
Sometimes people have an identity and not just a role.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:36 AM (EzgxV)
And Maet, have a safe trip and some fun while you're there.
Posted by: Blano at October 09, 2015 01:36 AM (C3E0x)
There is another(who will remain unnamed for now) who is getting ready to compete in that field.
He has been asked more than a few time times who he supports. So far. No answer.
It will get even more toxic as the bit players for the nomination drop out.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:38 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:38 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 01:36 AM (GzDYP)
No horses in beach volleyball, either, and I haven't heard any Morons call that boring.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:39 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 01:36 AM (GzDYP)
Damn -- when did they get rid of the horses? That was a mistake!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0AorvyRAYc
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:40 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:42 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: Arson Wells at October 09, 2015 01:44 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:39 AM (0yhH4)
I find beach volleyball pretty boring. The guy version just seems silly and the girls aren't that great. Even the good looking chicks aren't so great to look at while they're playing. They wear almost nothing but somehow it doesn't help. The good looking women tennis players are much more pleasant to watch, IMO.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 01:44 AM (zc3Db)
Actually, water polo is boring to watch because 1) it generally moves slowly - the speed of guys doing heads-up freestyle, and the speed of a thrown ball, and 2) most of the "action" takes place under water (grabbing, elbowing, punching, pulling).
But you'll never be in shape like that again, if you played as a younger person.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:45 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:38 AM (c+gwp)
Go ahead -- ask him if he'd rather it were quicker.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:45 AM (EzgxV)
He has been asked more than a few time times who he supports. So far. No answer.
It will get even more toxic as the bit players for the nomination drop out.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:38 AM (dOD0J)
******
I find I am Maxing myself out trying to discern who exactly you are referring to.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at October 09, 2015 01:47 AM (gU8mL)
Posted by: Gem at October 09, 2015 01:48 AM (c+gwp)
POP, true. Beach volleyball is very hard, but sort of dull to watch. Full-team, indoor, hard-court can be very good, in the way that exciting team sports usually are: constant action, constant opportunity to score, tremendous swings in momentum and passion. Watching two high-end SoCal college volleyball teams battling it out in a small-ish gym/arena, everyone sitting close to the action, is as good a team sport experience as I've seen. Well except for the Soviet Central Army-Pitt. Penguins exhibition game back in '89.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:49 AM (QDnY+)
If you have the key the car will always start if it has a good battery and gas. We men are simple machines in the end.
Posted by: Willy J. at October 09, 2015 01:50 AM (GfSPN)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:51 AM (dOD0J)
Or, for that matter, the Rangeland Derby (chuckwagon races) at the Calgary Stampede. Both quite dangerous to both horses and riders.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 01:51 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:51 AM (dOD0J)
When you are a one-trick pony, people notice, after a while.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
True, but, A ) how boring would be without them
B ) There a few more than just turnippatty that have affected a gainsaying demeanor.
Again, I think an easy delineation might be between those that were banned and those that haven't been ... yet.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:51 AM (JmGFJ)
Buck up, Tim. Still another 1,283 games to go.
OK, that's an exaggeration. But hockey season is waaaaay too long now, for a very physical game of intensity.
Where is vendette to discuss the length of the hockey season?
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 01:53 AM (QDnY+)
And I think he could.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:53 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: rhomboid
You forgot nut-pulling, nut-punching, nut-tweaking, nut-kicking, nut-massaging.
Water polo is for the nuts (tm).
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:55 AM (JmGFJ)
Hockey Double Headers.
If I were NHL Commish, that's what you would get. That and a compacted schedule. Hockey was meant for Fall and Winter.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:56 AM (dOD0J)
Yeah ... I used to like classical Olympic volleyball - not as much as they would run it on TV, but it was fun. The beach stuff ... not so much. I know it's an incredibly difficult game (especially jumping in the sand and such) but I just can't stand to watch it for more than a minute or two.
I find many, if not most, of the new Olympic sports to be uninteresting. But I really stopped watching the Olympics intensely after that fiasco in Seoul. I had never seen a country cheat so blatantly and "proudly" as the Koreans. It was unbelievable. Others have cheated their asses off, but usually they tried to cover it up. But the Koreans ... man, they were so proud of how they were cheating. I lost all respect for South Korea and their culture after seeing that. It was jaw-dropping. So, I pretty much cut my Olympics viewing by 90% after that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 01:56 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 01:58 AM (dOD0J)
And I think he could.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:53 AM (EzgxV)
I hope he gets the chance.
Posted by: Arson Wells at October 09, 2015 02:00 AM (UnJ7w)
If we're gonna go the full Progressive Machiavelli, we might as well have a professional.
Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2015 02:00 AM (jBuUi)
B ) There a few more than just turnippatty that have affected a gainsaying demeanor.
Again, I think an easy delineation might be between those that were banned and those that haven't been ... yet.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 01:51 AM (JmGFJ)
I singled that guy out because he sprang, full-blown (damn, what was that quote) into the commentariat only after Donald Trump became a contender. And confines his comments almost exclusively to denigrating Trump and tongue-bathing the GOPe. He's so predictable that several pseudo-socks exist and are funny because they do capture his persona.
I'm not a Trump fanboi, but it amuses me to watch the gyrations of his detractors. One might almost get the impression that some of them are not GOP at all, but Democrat mobys scared shitless that the GOP might shoot themselves in the foot and nominate a winning candidate in spite of themselves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2015 02:01 AM (0yhH4)
Posted by: Ray and Darrin LaHood. Brought to you by the Peroria, Il Chapter of gopErs for life. at October 09, 2015 02:06 AM (dOD0J)
Dunno if Newt could - don't think we'll get to see, either - but really the problem is mostly with the Senate GOP. If, as I am reliably informed, the Senate Dems pulled what is really an unprecedented and outrageous move and simply shut down the appropriations process, then the filibuster should have been removed. Period.
The filibuster and all the other elegant mechanisms of gridlock the Senate has developed over our history served us well, until now. That the Senate GOP won't do what's needed to return to a minimal baseline of rule of law and constitutional governance - regular order in appropriations - basically confirms that they are not serious.
The only "shutdowns" that should be occurring or looming in games of chicken should be by agency (more specifically all govt. functions as grouped in the 12 appropriations bills).
Of course it would be hard, even for the tiny little brazen mediocrities of the Beltway GOP (elected and otherwise), to pretend to believe that there was political peril in leaving the EPA or IRS languishing under short-term CRs.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:08 AM (QDnY+)
If we're gonna go the full Progressive Machiavelli, we might as well have a professional.
Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2015 02:00 AM (jBuUi)
He'd probably fight harder against Obama's agenda than Boehner has.
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 02:11 AM (zt+N6)
Anyway, Joe makes some, *gasp* anti-homosexuality comment. I don't remember the exact quote or the exact context, but his comment was based on homosexuality being a very bad thing, and this was just common sense and the default position of any decent society.
I laughed thinking of the shitstorm such a comment would cause today. Hell, the media would be on 24-hour wall-to-wall coverage mode, demanding everyone involved be fired and sent off to sensitivity training camp to be properly programmed. I'm sure Barky would have a primetime address about it.
Hell, I even wondered if MeTV would get some flack for it, but they didn't. I guess nobody in the media industrial complex noticed. It was only old farts like me who watch it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 09, 2015 02:12 AM (dvuhZ)
Good to see you blogging again. I'm sure the management's congrats are on the way with their usual alacrity.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 02:13 AM (JmGFJ)
And I think he could.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 01:53 AM (EzgxV)
I hope he gets the chance.
Posted by: Arson Wells at October 09, 2015 02:00 AM (UnJ7w)
There are so many options. So many.
I agree that they should vacate the chair. It ain't gonna continue.
And I think the nominee should be a game-changer. Go big or go home.
I don't see anyone in the Republican caucus being the right person. I think it should be someone who has battled the MSM and been on the national stage foremost, with a lesser ability to herd cats in the backrooms -- because the greater enemy is the media and not the cats.
I've put forth Newt and Tom Delay. They know their way around the place but are not entrenched in it. Alan West and Sarah Palin would cause the right heads to explode.
It's time to rumble.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:13 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: buzzion at October 09, 2015 02:11 AM (zt+N6)
That's a pretty low bar, since a team of 20 surgeons has still not yet been able to extricate the Weeping Boner from Barky's ass.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 02:13 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Chincoteague Pony at October 09, 2015 02:14 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 09, 2015 02:17 AM (YJmuy)
Dunno if Newt could - don't think we'll get to see, either - but really the problem is mostly with the Senate GOP. If, as I am reliably informed, the Senate Dems pulled what is really an unprecedented and outrageous move and simply shut down the appropriations process, then the filibuster should have been removed. Period.
The filibuster and all the other elegant mechanisms of gridlock the Senate has developed over our history served us well, until now. That the Senate GOP won't do what's needed to return to a minimal baseline of rule of law and constitutional governance - regular order in appropriations - basically confirms that they are not serious.
The only "shutdowns" that should be occurring or looming in games of chicken should be by agency (more specifically all govt. functions as grouped in the 12 appropriations bills).
Of course it would be hard, even for the tiny little brazen mediocrities of the Beltway GOP (elected and otherwise), to pretend to believe that there was political peril in leaving the EPA or IRS languishing under short-term CRs.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:08 AM (QDnY+)
The House could just use the current revenues and the expenditures from 1985 and walk. Let everything crash and burn if Leviathan can't live within what was outrageous deficit spending 20 years ago. There was waste, fraud, and abuse then -- that has never been rectified. The default budget for any year should be the expenditures from a prior year that didn't exceed current year revenues. How difficult is that?
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:19 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 02:21 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:21 AM (GzDYP)
I was working on a power supply. Finally tracked it down to a bad resistor. Should have been 68 ohms, it was infinite.
Noticed the time, came here.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 09, 2015 02:24 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:21 AM (GzDYP)
Newt is far from perfect -- but he knows how to run a government shutdown so the House doesn't end up bent over a desk with its pants around its ankles. Boehner and the Turtle have been an abject embarrassment in that regard.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:24 AM (EzgxV)
The next Speaker should make these 10 commitments before stepping into the position of trust.
http://1.usa.gov/1VD58UC
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:27 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230768
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2015 02:29 AM (sdi6R)
They need to do away with, at least for appropriation bills. They can still allow a real talking filibuster. If you're gonna do it, the by God, you're gonna stand up there and hold the floor for real. Get you catheters and piss bags ready and man up.
Hell, IIRC, ol' Strom Thurmond still holds the record. I remember he set up plans to take a shit on the senate floor if he had to. The rule was you had to stay on the floor, and he was going to do something where he kept one foot stuck out on the floor, through the door to one of the cloakrooms. His aide were going to hold up blankets around him, and he was going to shit in a bucket, with one foot sticking out technically on the floor.
But luckily, he didn't have to, sparing the republic that spectacle. But that's what a real filibuster involves.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 09, 2015 02:35 AM (dvuhZ)
The next Speaker should make these 10 commitments before stepping into the position of trust.
http://1.usa.gov/1VD58UC
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:27 AM (GzDYP)
There should be a baseline that pays off or repudiates the National Debt in a generation. 30 years, zero debt. That's where things should start.
Quite a bit of the recent horror has been a vain attempt to make this unimaginable. Obama has spent more money than anyone else in the entire history of mankind -- most of it foolishly. Since nobody could possibly raise anywhere near the money he has pissed away, much was borrowed, with the clear idea that it would never be repaid. With a huge national debt, every baby born comes into this life with the yoke of slavery upon his or her neck -- debt slavery, to pay interest on the debts of his or her parents.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:36 AM (EzgxV)
ODMom, thanks for that.
I have been saying since last week that the "rebels" needed to set out concrete demands a new Speaker must accept before he is approved.
Brat's stuff is all pretty tepid. I'd sharpen up (greatly) almost all his policy requirements. Actually, they need major work. And leave out the most important (which is a combined process/policy point) - regular order in appropriations, period.
Pretty good reminder how bad things are. Even the newcomer, true-outsider insurgent "conservative" seems to have very, very low ambitions for change.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:36 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
Newt ran circles around Clinton and the Democrats in the '90's. I imagine he'd do the same today and especially against some jackass like obama. At least Clinton knew when he was bested.
Posted by: Arson Wells at October 09, 2015 02:40 AM (UnJ7w)
Then again, Kasich was an important part of that process, and an impressive one, and now he's on the Redistribution Bandwagon.
Gingrich is also 72 years old.
I completely ignore the crap about how much the left hates him, that's a bonus. Hell, if they *didn't* that would be a disqualifier.
If he doesn't get in, he should be advising the person who does, in any case, especially in terms of how the late 90s went.
Either we're going to find a way to get a handle on the budget and abuses of power, or math will kill enough of us to balance the ledger.
And with nukes all over Asia pointed at each other, that could turn into an *awfully* big number.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 02:40 AM (bLnSU)
"Mandatory programs" are a lie -- plain and simple. Congress decided long-ago that votes were difficult and unpleasant because constituents might resent them, so they tried to set a bunch of shit on autopilot. The Constitution plainly states that appropriations are made by each Congress.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:42 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:45 AM (GzDYP)
Regular order in appropriations. CRs only of one week duration, no longer.
No funding to implement any aspect of O-care or amnesty. Period. (yeah yeah "self-funding" BS for O-care- plenty of damage can be done thru appropriations).
Active oversight, to include elimination or conditioning of appropriations, to end abusive and illegal behavior in IRS, EPA, and DOJ. No leash whatsoever, these agencies on punitive parole.
Concrete steps to begin long overdue management of rogue, lawless judicial branch, to include specific eliminations of jurisdiction and funding cuts. Begin process to reform judiciary to end lifetime appointments.
Reversal of lawless executive "law-making" such as that which gutted welfare reform or is now destroying the coal-powered electricity industry. As in every other area, extremely aggressive appropriations posture to enforce compliance and punish defiance.
This is really just the minimum. Compare these to Brat's list.
And despair.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:46 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Arson Wells at October 09, 2015 02:40 AM (UnJ7w)
Clinton still wanted to work and he acknowledged many of the traditions and customs of governing. Barky has no use for any of them. barky feels himself bound by nothing and dowsn't give a shit about anything. The only way to deal with Barky (other than impeachment, which is the only real and appropriate way) is to never pass anything he wants, keep putting shit on his desk that he'll veto (over and over and over) and to restrict the money he has access to - severely restrict it. If Barky wants to shut the government down (even the 18% shutdown) then it has to happen and Barky must be the one who has to give in (or, as said before, be impeached and tossed).
Dealing with Barky is like dealing with arabs. There is no goodwill in their culture so there is nothing to even try to get in that respect. All they understand is force and all they will ever respect is someone beating the living shit out of them. Barky is perfectly happy to destroy everything - as that destruction has been his main goal from the beginning - and he can only be dealt with by forcing an unconditional surrender from him or getting him to go so far that even the cowardly treasonous douchebags in the Vichy GOP start considering his impeachment.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 02:47 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:49 AM (EzgxV)
Regular order in appropriations. CRs only of one week duration, no longer.
No funding to implement any aspect of O-care or amnesty. Period. (yeah yeah "self-funding" BS for O-care- plenty of damage can be done thru appropriations).
Active oversight, to include elimination or conditioning of appropriations, to end abusive and illegal behavior in IRS, EPA, and DOJ. No leash whatsoever, these agencies on punitive parole.
Concrete steps to begin long overdue management of rogue, lawless judicial branch, to include specific eliminations of jurisdiction and funding cuts. Begin process to reform judiciary to end lifetime appointments.
Reversal of lawless executive "law-making" such as that which gutted welfare reform or is now destroying the coal-powered electricity industry. As in every other area, extremely aggressive appropriations posture to enforce compliance and punish defiance.
This is really just the minimum. Compare these to Brat's list.
And despair.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:46 AM (QDnY+)
rhomboid for Speaker. Who's with me?
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:51 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 02:51 AM (EzgxV)
I am. Rhomboid's got my vote.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 02:53 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 09, 2015 02:55 AM (YJmuy)
You're not wrong, POP. And I think my off-hand list above is the boring concrete expression of what you're saying - or could be.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
That is Congress' constitutional power, above all. They simply have refused to use it. The majority has literally and of course consciously (if implicitly) acquiesced in the effective elimination of that power. Pretty stunning, if you have any experience or memory of how things were (always) up until just recently.
Oh - and the proper, and proportionate, response to the Senate Dems' outrageous packing of the DC circuit court with alien fascists (wherein they ended the filibuster) should be refusal to approve ANY more judicial appointees. Should have been the policy since Day One of this new Congress, in fact.
It wasn't always, but now it's just a knife fight in a dark alley, the other side has repellent intolerable goals and absolutely no integrity or standards in how they reach them. The country's position and future are already seriously damaged. Sadly the GOP pretty much reflects the ignorance, passivity, and cowardice of most Americans in the face of this calamity. Hard to see how the ship gets turned around.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:56 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2015 02:56 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 02:57 AM (GzDYP)
Sounds good to me.
Those Courts that are inferior to the Supreme can be done away with simplicity.
I do believe it's Congress's job to maintain them and Congress can end them.
Posted by: Ray and Darrin LaHood. Brought to you by the Peroria, Il Chapter of gopErs for life. at October 09, 2015 02:59 AM (dOD0J)
Consider the geometric series of the "rice on the chessboard" parable. You put one grain on the first square, then double it with each successive square. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. You will note the each step adds 1 more than the sum of all previous squares. 4 is (1 + 2) + 1. * on the fourth square is (1 + 2 + 4) + 1.
The doubling period for federal spending and the debt is somewhere under 8 years, corresponding nicely with the the tenure of a two-term president.
Exponential growth is just something the human mind has trouble grasping. It wants to imagine linear growth. What kills you is the last steps. It seems like nothing to start with, but gets out of hand and kills you before you realize what's happening.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 09, 2015 02:59 AM (dvuhZ)
"If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve - though I will check out the cigar and whiskey cabinets in the Speaker's office for a few minutes, privately".
With the exhilirating satisfaction of the Horde's acclaim boosting my spirits, I will nonetheless now collapse into the sack.
I salute the peerless political acumen of the ONT commentariat. And I don't mean that in a self-serving way. Well, not entirely, anway.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:59 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 03:00 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 03:01 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at October 09, 2015 03:04 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 03:04 AM (dOD0J)
(slouches towards the rack)
Dang, rickl, you're right! I forgot. Instant and total obliteration of the "sanctuary city" nonsense. That one's easy.
ODMom, I respect Brat and I mean nothing negative. It just strikes me that his list is SO tepid, it is a pretty depressing indicator of where things stand.
Nothing on my list is radical, or "extreme". Most of it was SOP up til a few years ago. Most people (understandably) have no idea how far off the rails things are, in terms of process and basic constitutional balance.
Courts that legislate, a president that legislates and chooses which laws to obey, and a Congress that rubber-stamps insane fiscal policies and sucks its thumb while its powers and prerogatives vanish in the breeze.
Til tomorrow, friends in the little grey box .....
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 03:05 AM (QDnY+)
While spitting at her?
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 03:08 AM (GzDYP)
I think your list was excellent. I'd love to see ace do a post on it, to get those specifics more time in the public arena.
Hard to see how the ship gets turned around.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2015 02:56 AM (QDnY+)
I'm really very pessimistic in this respect. I don't really think there is a way to recover the Constitutional Republic in this nation. I have long thought that national divorce and the establishment of a new American Constitutional Republic is the only way ... and I am still of that mind. But, until we come to that action, your recommendations (and other actions by Congress to defend the Constitution and its constraints - which would also include impeaching SCOTASS justices who are just totally batshit insane ... though I hold out zero hope of this ever happening) are the only chance, if one still exists.
The combination of the destruction of trust by having our laws stomped on by everyone in power (stomped on by some, allowed by others who enjoyed watching the stomping) and made a total mockery of, combined with the our serious and potentially fatal fiscal and monetary problems, doesn't really make for an environment for optimism regarding a restoration of America. Both of those issues are so serious and so dangerous and they've both been totally abused and publicly rejected (the Rule of Law and the ideas of fiscal and monetary sanity) that's it's near impossible for me to see them healed in this nation that killed them so blithely and gleefully, if that combination is even possible
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 09, 2015 03:09 AM (zc3Db)
No doubt he is being tepid to us, but to them he is like the devil. That's how bad it is. I think he is trying not to be marginilized like say, Ghomert.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at October 09, 2015 03:13 AM (GzDYP)
Good morning horde, I know it's night to most of you
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 03:43 AM (gY61M)
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 03:53 AM (gY61M)
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 03:55 AM (gY61M)
361 Time to make the coffee, any requests?
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 03:55 AM (gY61M)
I don't do coffee, but drink tea by the pot. Mostly English, 'cause much of US tea is crap.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 03:58 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Icarus at October 09, 2015 03:59 AM (jdPh/)
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 04:14 AM (gY61M)
If you are in Frankfurt over the weekend or passing through CDG in Paris anytime next week, drop me a line.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 04:15 AM (XgfBI)
If you are in Frankfurt over the weekend or passing through CDG in Paris anytime next week, drop me a line.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 04:15 AM (XgfBI)
Just to be helpful -- I've swapped emails with Maet on a number of occasions at the address at the end of most ONTs. If you're looking for a personal connection, that works. I can't say the same for a post in thread.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 04:19 AM (EzgxV)
Good morning horde, I know it's night to most of you
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 03:43 AM (gY61M)
I've been to St. Pete. When we went -- which was the maybe the friendliest period in my lifetime -- the Schengen guys got in with a half-page visa application while the US and UK had a four page application that included any college degrees earned by our parents. Russia is all about using the process as the punishment.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 04:24 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 04:27 AM (XgfBI)
"Russia is all about using the process as the punishment."
Been on business. They wanted speicific knowledge of my military experience which I thought odd for a temp visa.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 04:29 AM (XgfBI)
At the address? Email the admin directly then?
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 04:27 AM (XgfBI)
A lot of the time (not always) Maet says "send content to XXXX@gmail.com" If you use that email, Maet will sometimes respond.
If you think about it, you can understand why it shouldn't be too easy.
Posted by: cthulhu at October 09, 2015 04:33 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2015 04:34 AM (gY61M)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 04:42 AM (dOD0J)
Verdun has to be number 1.
Jena would have to be in that list.
Along the riversides of Buda and Pest.
If you don't get creeped out walking in the old Government District of Berlin an 2 AM, nothing will.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 04:48 AM (dOD0J)
Replacing Downey would be like the first time they had to recast Bond after Sean Connery quit. Replacing you, on the other hand, would be more on par with replacing Moneypenny, M, or Q. Those actor held out until they shoveling dirt on them because they'd never get another gig as lucrative for how little they had to do. And just think, quitting the Iron Man franchise would free you up for another entry in the Sky Captain series. Real Soon now.
Posted by: Epobirs at October 09, 2015 04:50 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Epobirs at October 09, 2015 04:52 AM (IdCqF)
It sucks not having comment ability at the house, whateves.
Back to lurk mode.
Posted by: Gmac - IP banned at home - #twoweeks at October 09, 2015 05:00 AM (4pjhs)
LoL
RAF Biggen Hill or whats left of it, is a little spooky too. Some of the locals
will say they can hear the motors start up every now and then.
Thats about it for places I have been.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 05:05 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 05:09 AM (XgfBI)
Shouldn't that be Hasta La Vista, Auf Wiedersehen, Vaarwel, et cetera?
So. You're off to far, foreign and fancy places, huh?
Leaving us here to pine and whine with only the dregs dribbled out by the drudges of dreariness who cannot flee to better climes.
Well, good luck and watch your six. We'll miss you. (but we'll get some new sights before you get back.)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:15 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 05:17 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Gmac - IP banned at home - #twoweeks at October 09, 2015 06:00 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 09, 2015 06:12 AM (VPLuQ)
"Mired in the past, and afraid to allow their thinking to evolve"
They absolutely hate when you do this, as it is their play used directly against them.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 09, 2015 06:16 AM (VPLuQ)
Wouldn't that be a hoot?
Like I've said on numerous occasions, when you push the pendulum too far in one direction it infallibly pushes back just as far in the opposite.
Posted by: se pa moron at October 09, 2015 06:17 AM (sI4OA)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at October 09, 2015 06:17 AM (vn2q2)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 06:25 AM (XgfBI)
Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at October 09, 2015 06:27 AM (vn2q2)
"Man who calls police to say he's 'too high,' found in pile of Doritos"
http://go.fox13now.com/1R16lE5
Posted by: saltolibreveloz at October 09, 2015 06:28 AM (KvVk3)
If it were in Culver City, I would have suspected it was a former bicycle seat sniffing jazz guitar playing photographer of rusty hinges, and world renown paranoid blogger.
Aka, Jarles Chonson
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 09, 2015 06:34 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 06:37 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Gmac - IP banned at home - #twoweeks at October 09, 2015 06:42 AM (4pjhs)
That's because you're mired in the past, and afraid to allow your thinking to evolve.
J/K
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 09, 2015 06:42 AM (VPLuQ)
For as clueless as he ended up looking, the President of the Sierra Club would have done just as well if he had responded to the Cruz smackdown with: "This one goes to eleven."
Posted by: Book Lernt at October 09, 2015 06:42 AM (QolCq)
"
"J/K"
That ruined a really good belly laugh.
Should have left the "J/K" part out.
Still laughing though.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 06:44 AM (dOD0J)
He was a gent before we knew what it was to a be one. Loud mouth asshole. Defender of wimps.
G'bless
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 09, 2015 06:47 AM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and unimproved. at October 09, 2015 06:56 AM (dOD0J)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 09, 2015 06:56 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 09, 2015 06:56 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 09, 2015 07:21 AM (XgfBI)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 09, 2015 07:36 AM (VdICR)
Honey, the wildly successful franchise is called "Iron Man", not "Pepper".
Posted by: red speck at October 09, 2015 09:23 AM (9/Ug/)
Posted by: Arch & Heel Fanciers, Inc. at October 09, 2015 09:47 AM (L4s9C)
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