EMT 10/25/15 [krakatoa]

Thanks for all the suggestions re. Amsterdam.

Cheese, windmills, worst Mexican food in the world, whores, hash, Van Gogh, and Anne Frank.

I'll have to check how many of those my company will allow me to expense. Since I don't work for the secret service or the U.N., pretty sure they'll tell me to enjoy the Mexican food.

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1 Good morning again horde

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 05:59 AM (Ken0l)

2
DAY 1,083

380 to go (453 to Inauguration Day )

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, mewling mattress-myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2015 06:01 AM (iXhdS)

3 Morning??? I guess I need to go to bed!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:03 AM (UpGcq)

4 The worst Mexican food I've ever had in my life came from the Netherlands. Germany was a close second, but there were *some* good Mexican places there.

Posted by: Morseus at October 25, 2015 06:04 AM (Rp6C4)

5 Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, October 25, 2015. On this day in 1854 the Light Brigade charged at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Those of you who had English literature in school should remember this from the poem by Tennyson. Also immortalized in a 1936 movie of the same name by Errol Flynn.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:04 AM (t2KH5)

6 Texas just can't catch a break here lately. Must be global warming. No? How about climate change? No, how about climate chaos? No, how about weather.

http://fxn.ws/1LUYMz0

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:04 AM (t2KH5)

7 House Republicans approved a bill that will defund parts of Obamacare and defund the Planned Murder and Dismemberment Fund. Fox says Obama is sure to veto it, which will cause a government shutdown. So Fox joins the rest of the alphabets blaming Republicans for something Democrats do.

http://fxn.ws/1jHQHTM

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:04 AM (t2KH5)

8 Stupid liberal judge freed a repeat felon who came back and killed a cop in NYC. Stupid judge says she is sorry. Sorry scrunt, that's not good enough, you need to step down from the bench and get a job cleaning spittoons at the worse dive bar in Brooklyn.

http://fxn.ws/1POtwmV

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

9 Russia will redeploy special op forces to Syria to fight Obama's friends in Al Qaeda.

http://fxn.ws/1PKOWCh

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

10 4 dead and 44 others injured when stupid drunk weight challenged scrunt plows into a homecoming parade crowd. I don't know what the DUI laws are in OK but if this was in SC she would be a very old fat scrunt by the time she got out of jail.

http://fxn.ws/1McQFcG

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

11 The "pope" excoriated Bishops at the end of their meeting where they gave way on divorces but refused to budge on homosexuals and sin. Hey Mr pope, if you don't like catholic doctrine then find another religion.

http://yhoo.it/1Wbfwn4

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

12 CA's $68B bullet train to nowhere is likely to be far over budget and way behind schedule says study. And it is being paid for (partially) by taxpayers in Dubuque, Iowa and elsewhere. Why? Because Obama.

http://lat.ms/1RuLf0X

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

13 Sharyl Atkinson says the MFM is hiding the number of crimes committed by illegals in this county. I guess she means the mainstream news people because we have seen reports here from other media sources that have detailed the problem. Trump was right, although they are a small percentage of the population they are committing a very large portion of the violent crimes.

http://bit.ly/1LuAhXY

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

14 Paid agitators attempt to disrupt Trump speech in Miami after being bused in. No word on who paid for them, only "Democrat DWS" whoever that is. Trump should sue the Democrat Party.

http://bit.ly/1WbzPAP

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

15 Gov Andrew Cuomo invents a new law in NY to protect trans genders. He has a pen and phone too.

http://bit.ly/1PJTAjP

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

16 Jeb Bush Lashes Out: I've Got a Lot of Really Cool Things I Could Do Instead of Campaigning

Here a hint; why don't you do them instead of campaigning. The country is sick of Bushes.

http://bit.ly/1LuoE32

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

17 200 rioters terrorize London train station in support of those fake Syrian migrants.

http://bit.ly/1PKFGhz

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

18 Kindle Daily Deals

http://amzn.to/1LUWVtO

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

19 USGP qualifying is at 0900 hrs Texas time because of the rain out.
Pre race coverage starts at 1430 hrs eastern time
And the football gods put the Eagles on at 2000hrs
Busy day

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:08 AM (Ken0l)

20 4 dead and 44 others injured when stupid drunk weight challenged scrunt plows into a homecoming parade crowd. I don't know what the DUI laws are in OK but if this was in SC she would be a very old fat scrunt by the time she got out of jail.
...
How the hell do you get that drunk by 10 am???? But.. but.. her father says she's a good girl..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:10 AM (UpGcq)

21 Sheryl Atkinson is a gem and if a tenth of reporters did their job like her we wouldn't be in the mess we're in

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:11 AM (Ken0l)

22 Off to the gym at this ungodly hour so I can get some errands in on time to watch the 9:30am game from London.

NFL football at 9:30 am. So very wrong.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 25, 2015 06:11 AM (HMt16)

23 20 How the hell do you get that drunk by 10 am???? But.. but.. her father says she's a good girl..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:10 AM (UpGcq)

And she was turning her life around and planned on going to college.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:11 AM (t2KH5)

24 Well, da Bears have a bye week, so at least they won't lose...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:13 AM (UpGcq)

25 back to bed for me.. have a good day all y'all!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:15 AM (UpGcq)

26 �CA's $68B bullet train to nowhere is likely to be far over budget and way behind schedule says study. And it is being paid for (partially) by taxpayers in Dubuque, Iowa and elsewhere. Why? Because Obama.�http://lat.ms/1RuLf0XPosted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

The most insane part is it's going through a fault line. I saw some program once about how some college built a football stadium across a fault line. Within years it was cracked and tearing apart. What is length of a football stadium, 500 feet?

But what do I know? People with functioning brain cells get labeled as 'extremists' in the Age of Obama.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 06:17 AM (sI4OA)

27 Morning! I'm shocked, shocked that the California bullet train is over budget! Crazy times!

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:17 AM (e7T6D)

28 http://www.earthgrind.com/san-andreas-fault-line-and-golden-bears-stadium/

Found link on football stadium, torn apart fourteen inches.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 06:20 AM (sI4OA)

29 For 68 Billion [plus] they could offer free airfare for everyone in California that wanted to get from San Fran to LA for what, a couple hundred years?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:20 AM (e7T6D)

30 29
For 68 Billion [plus] they could offer free airfare for everyone in
California that wanted to get from San Fran to LA for what, a couple
hundred years?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:20 AM (e7T6D)

I don't understand why they need anything. I think they dreamed this shit up just to get some of that Obama money. I drove from Castro Valley (near Oakland/San Francisco) to San Diego and hit L.A. in only a couple of hours on Interstate 5. They do not need this train.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:26 AM (t2KH5)

31 Good girl drunk by 1000 am, but she use to be gone by 8:30am so maybe she's improving.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:28 AM (Ken0l)

32 I hope she never sees the light of day again but through bars.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:29 AM (Ken0l)

33 The Golden gate bridge may not survive a major quake. But on the other side of the bay, the Golden Bears have taken dramatic steps to protect their stadium. They're cutting it in half. When the work is finished, the stadium will rest on separate free-floating blocks of concrete, so if a quake hits, the whole stadium will roll with the punches. One side of the stadium is going to be a completely separate structure from other, and the two sides can move independently, even in a large earthquake. The two sides of the stadium are just going to move their separate paths, thereby there will be much less destruction. The job is going to take two years to complete. It'll cost the Bears a cool $320 million to carry out.So when the big one hits there's one place in the Bay Area that Roland thinks will be more than ready. According to him, the work that's been done on the stadium right now, it is going to be one of the safest places to be in the next large earthquake.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 06:30 AM (sI4OA)

34 Well the radio station here just switched over to their Sunday church stuff. That will continue until 3 pm. Good thing they don't need money from advertising.

I will have to find a nice long playlist for music.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:31 AM (t2KH5)

35 Trains are a lefty thing all over the western world, Amtrak is a money pit wasting hundreds of millions.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:32 AM (Ken0l)

36 32
I hope she never sees the light of day again but through bars.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:29 AM (Ken0l)

If she was in SC she wouldn't unless some idiot governor pardoned her.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:33 AM (t2KH5)

37 Yeah Vic, I was just reading some of the comments on the LA times story and it's crazy. I think you're right. They took political advantage of having Obama in office and doling out Federal monies. It boggles the mind how they could factor saving energy and surely not saving money on such a project. It would never, ever pay for itself and would require a huge budget to maintain, much less when the earthquakes happen, it will be interrupted for repairs AND how many people go from SF to LA? Really? Why don't they propose a underwater tunnel to Hawaii?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:33 AM (e7T6D)

38 33 Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 06:30 AM (sI4OA)

That is the way they built stuff at the plant where I used to work. They call that separation a "seismic gap". Unfortunately you can't do that with railroad tracks.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:36 AM (t2KH5)

39 35
Trains are a lefty thing all over the western world, Amtrak is a money pit wasting hundreds of millions.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:32 AM (Ken0l)

I read an article several months ago talking about AMTRAC. It said there were only two lines in the country that operated at a profit. One between NYC and Washington DC and the other between L.A. and Las Vegas. This new line they are building will never make a nickle despite the "law" that enabled its funding says that there can be no subsidies and it must make money.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:39 AM (t2KH5)

40 Heh heh... here's the best comment on the train I've found:

Who is going to ride this
train? It would take more than the current US population (340+ million
people) each paying $200 per ticket to break even at $68 billion. I
don't think that the system will cost zero dollars to operate, and I
don't think that there is an existing transportation system that can
handle 340 million people over its mechanical lifetime. It is a farce to
think that shuttling people between San Francisco and Los Angeles would
be even remotely worth the $68 billion cost, which could easily more
than double. And they whined and cried about the "bridge to nowhere",
this is the train nobody needs. Anybody who thinks this is a good idea
is a complete idiot Million vs a Billion. A million seconds.. 11 days. A billion seconds ... 32 years ... and a trillion seconds... known existence of mankind. Heh

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:39 AM (e7T6D)

41 Even if that train was built on a stable plane no one will still ride the thing. The only part of Amtrak that is close to even is the New York to Washington route.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:41 AM (Ken0l)

42 One of the commenters said, What is it with liberals and bicycles, windmills and trains?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:45 AM (e7T6D)

43 It's all graft paid to unions, lawyers and environmental studies, government oversight agencies working on project and nothing to do with riders. As I wrote it's a lefty project thing to get money to power donors.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 06:47 AM (Ken0l)

44 Over at Drudge, on the right column, read about Democrat corruption and the selling of wild horses to a guy in Colorado who has connections. BLM allowed him to purchase almost 1800 horses from 2009 - 2012 and he turned around and shipped them to slaterhouses in Mexico. He paid $10/horse. The Govt spent $140K shipping the horses to him... and he made $154K in profits selling them.

It is expressly forbidden to buy from BLM for slaughter. Been the law forever. So he breaks the law. Seemingly BLM never asked what he was doing with 1800 horses over 3 years.... and no charges are being brought, no penalties and no one at BLM is in trouble. Nice, huh?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:53 AM (e7T6D)

45 Here in No. Ill, a 20 year old man tried to get on a school bus. He is in jail, for now, but the solution is to split up the bus stop so the kids don't have to walk by his house. He has a prior when he asked two 12 year old girls to kiss him, and the judge released him on his own recognizance. I'm thinking he is an illegal. I'm also thinking that if I had done any of this, they would be piping light to me.

http://tinyurl.com/o4mb92y

Posted by: Bruce at October 25, 2015 06:57 AM (8ikIW)

46 You don't actually think that it really cost $68B to build a track between SF and LA do you? The transcontinental railroad cost just $50M to build from St Louis to SF in 1863 which by government inflation numbers would be just under $1B in 2014 dollars.

Most of that money is going into graft and corruption.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:58 AM (t2KH5)

47 One other thing on that railroad to LA. They are not actually building a new one. They are upgrading an old line so it should be even cheaper.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:01 AM (t2KH5)

48 Most of that money is going into graft and corruption.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party

Yeah, but according to Blazing Saddles, that was built with primarily N!@@ers, Chinks, and the Irish.
Now to bring it in at that kind of budget they would have to employ all women. And they would be all dressed in pink for the month of October.

Posted by: Bruce at October 25, 2015 07:01 AM (8ikIW)

49 Sharyl Atkinson says the MFM is hiding the number of crimes committed by illegals in this county. I guess she means the mainstream news people because we have seen reports here from other media sources that have detailed the problem. Trump was right, although they are a small percentage of the population they are committing a very large portion of the violent crimes.
___________________________

It's not just the media; it's also the government. And they've been doing this for years. There are all sorts of federal laws and regulations that forbid government workers from asking about an applicant's "immigration status" when somebody is applying for various types of welfare. The only reason for that is to prevent the compilation of stats on how many illegal aliens are receiving public welfare money.

There are similar laws and regs that say you can't ask somebody's "immigration status" when you're, for example, giving them "free" (i.e. taxpayer funded) medical care in an ER, or when you're providing them with a "free" (i.e. taxpayer funded) lawyer after they've been charged with a crime or a DUI, etc. Again, the only reason for these prohibitions is to keep the American public from knowing how much of their money is being pissed away by their government on providing "free" services to illegal aliens.

It's the same with crime stats. You're not supposed to ask about defendants' "immigration status" because we can't have John and Jane Taxpayer knowing how many illegal alien scumbags are committing crimes in their neighborhoods. And the media have taken it upon themselves not to report on criminals' "immigration status" so instead of reporting that an illegal alien raped and murdered that kid down the street, they simply say that "a Colorado man" was arrested for the crime, or that police are searching for "a man from Texas" in connection with the crime, or some other such nonsense.

But despite all the best efforts of our government/media cabal, we've still been able to discover some facts about illegal alien crime. For example, the state of Florida reports that 40% of the defendants who are convicted of murder in Florida are illegal aliens. Illegal aliens make up only about 6-7% of Florida's overall population, yet they're committing 40% of the murders there. But the media, and Dim politicians, continually insist that "immigrants" are more law abiding than U.S. citizens!

And then these idiots wonder why somebody like Donald Trump can get so much public support for simply saying what much of the American public already knows: that our government, and our media, are lying through their teeth about illegal alien crime (and the enormous amount of public welfare spending on illegal aliens), and have been for years.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2015 07:04 AM (a31sM)

50 >>>>Even if that train was built on a stable plane no one will still ride
the thing. The only part of Amtrak that is close to even is the New York
to Washington route.
.
.
.The North East Corridor actually turns a small profit. Conditions in New England down through Philly and DC are exactly what commuter trains are good at handling. Dense populations concentrated along the coast equals $$$ for mass transit.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at October 25, 2015 07:11 AM (iONHu)

51 Vic, a lot of that money is graft and payoffs to unions, surely, but too... 22 MILES of tunneling.... in a freaking earthquake zone... heh. 22 MILES. And the article says they want two tunnels, one for each way, so that's at least 44 miles. It's a huge mess and hopefully, when Trump is elected, he can kill their Federal subsidy, and once that's done, the project would die. I can dream, right?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:13 AM (e7T6D)

52 If they're tunneling through mountains that's where most of the big bucks are going. I personally hate going through tunnels. The Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel gives me the willies. The Pennsylvania turnpike has a few. I get white knuckles driving through them. They're not wide enough and you have tractor trailers coming at you, inches away, at 45 plus mph.

Maybe a fast train would be less unpleasant, maybe the thought of traveling a 100 plus mph, in the dark, through a mountain will be keep the ridership to just a handful.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 07:14 AM (sI4OA)

53 I'm thinking Mexican food in Amsterdam is like getting Maryland crab cakes or Chicago/New York pizza in Florida.

It just doesn't taste right.

Posted by: Bruce at October 25, 2015 07:17 AM (8ikIW)

54 I woke up at 6:45 and wasn't sure whether it was AM or PM until I checked my computer display. It's that time of the year when it's dark in both cases. The sky seems to be getting lighter now.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:19 AM (sdi6R)

55
CA's $68B bullet train to nowhere is likely to be far over budget and way behind schedule says study. And it is being paid for (partially) by taxpayers in Dubuque, Iowa and elsewhere.
Posted by: Vic

!Gracias!

Posted by: California

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 07:20 AM (kdS6q)

56 Conservative Treehouse has a good run-down on Hillary and Libya... she owns it... all of it. RCP had an article on this theme, and Sundance links to that and expands the timeline and failure theater of the administration.

It's clear, they gambled and lost and when it all blew up weeks before the election in direct confliction with their meme of Al-queda is dead and the M.E. is safer than evah!, they had to cover up their intervention to overthrow a government and it's failed aftermath, which they did and the media enabled.

Every crazy thing the left hurled at GWB and the Iraq war and mischaracterizing motives and legalities, they themselves committed with Libya, yet narry a peep.

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:21 AM (e7T6D)

57 52
Maybe a fast train would be less unpleasant, maybe the thought of traveling a 100 plus mph, in the dark, through a mountain will be keep the ridership to just a handful.
Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 07:14 AM (sI4OA)

The tunnel scene in "Atlas Shrugged" was one of the best parts of the book.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:21 AM (sdi6R)

58 It's way too early for this, even for a dead guy.

Posted by: Dick Nixon at October 25, 2015 07:21 AM (u5gzz)

59 The worst Mexican food I've ever had in my life came from the Netherlands. Germany was a close second, but there were *some* good Mexican places there.
Posted by: Morseus
---
This is why I don't feel sorry for Yeb! if he drops out.

He can always get a nice cushy sinecure with Michelin, reviewing Mexican restaurants throughout the world. There are worse fates out there.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 07:23 AM (MmVtG)

60 The only time I had trouble going through a tunnel was when the buses went on strike and I had to walk though the Alameda/Oakland tunnel. I was choking to death each time before I got to the other side.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:24 AM (t2KH5)

61 Good Morning,
It's 7:28 & where is everyone?

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:24 AM (sj3Ax)

62 61
Good Morning,

It's 7:28 where is everyone?

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:24 AM (sj3Ax)

Most people don't show up on weekends until between 7:30 and 8:00

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:26 AM (t2KH5)

63 Maybe we should just take boatloads of our illegals and just drop them off on the coast of England or France. They can send free money home from there just as well as from here, and they could certainly compete favorably in the job market with Syrians, if they were inclined to get a job. Plus, they are mostly non-Muslim, which I think a lot of Europeans would really welcome at this point. It probably would be a net savings for us, given that we would only have to deport them once or twice instead of ten times per person.

Posted by: goon at October 25, 2015 07:27 AM (gy5kE)

64 >>>I woke up at 6:45 and wasn't sure whether it was AM or PM until I checked my computer display. It's that time of the year when it's dark in both cases. The sky seems to be getting lighter now.
Posted by: rickl
---
What were you having? The only time I lose track of that is when I've drank myself into a blackout the night before.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 07:28 AM (MmVtG)

65
On January 28, 2010, the White House announced that California would receive $2.35 billion of its ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) request, of which $2.25 billion was allocated specifically for California High Speed Rail,. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, the federal government awarded the Authority a further $4 billion in high-speed rail funding

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Passed by the Senate on February 13, 2009 (60/3

YEAs --- 60
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Collins (R-ME)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 07:28 AM (kdS6q)

66 Hi Vic, J. J. & everyone else.
I keep waking up between 4-5 am & don't know why.

I'm probably going to take a nap or try.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:28 AM (sj3Ax)

67 63
Plus, they are mostly non-Muslim, which I think a lot of Europeans would really welcome at this point.

Posted by: goon at October 25, 2015 07:27 AM (gy5kE)

That bears repeating. As bad as our illegal alien problem is, the Europeans have it worse.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:29 AM (sdi6R)

68 >>>Stupid liberal judge freed a repeat felon who came back and killed a cop in NYC. Stupid judge says she is sorry. Sorry scrunt, that's not good enough, you need to step down from the bench and get a job cleaning spittoons at the worse dive bar in Brooklyn.

"Barcade". Dilapidated and unsanitary.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 07:30 AM (MmVtG)

69 @65... LDC, it is mindboggling how much federal money was thrown around to Democrat States and fellow travelers under the guise of Stimulus. They have no shame.

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:31 AM (e7T6D)

70 Oh, they have loads of shame, they use it as a weapon, but they don't feel it. They were raised by wolves.

Posted by: goon at October 25, 2015 07:32 AM (gy5kE)

71 MD-80, St. Martin's 7500 runway. Are they going to use all the pavement they have for the roll? Of course! What would that look like if you were standing off the departure end? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzRUR9Tq12k

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:33 AM (e7T6D)

72 Rickl,
It's dark here in Boston area too.

I don't have to drink to be confused. Winter is on its way. We've had earliest hard frost date since -979 last weekend. I live very close to Boston & it's usually much later. It was 29 degrees Sundat morning.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:33 AM (sj3Ax)

73 yike.. St. Maarten... yeah, no, I've never been there. heh

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:33 AM (e7T6D)

74 Every crazy thing the left hurled at GWB and the Iraq war and mischaracterizing motives and legalities, they themselves committed with Libya, yet narry a peep.
____________________

Yep. The "imperial president," the "irresponsible cowboy" going it alone, without bothering to get authorization from congress for the use of America's military against a foreign government that posed no direct threat to America. That was Obama in Libya.

And the stupid, irresponsible, inexperienced C-in-C who blindly charged into a foolish, ill-considered military action to remove another country's government, without any type of "exit strategy" or plan for what would happen afterwards. That was Obama in Libya.

And the ignorant, culturally-illiterate American president who created more America-hating terrorists than ever existed before because of his stupid, irresponsible, ill-conceived military actions in their lands. That was Obama in Libya.

And not a peep from the MSM about any of it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2015 07:35 AM (a31sM)

75 69
@65... LDC, it is mindboggling how much federal money was thrown around
to Democrat States and fellow travelers under the guise of Stimulus.
They have no shame.

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:31 AM (e7T6D)

I posted yesterday, 85% of the so-called stimulus went to solid blue Democrat States and mostly to downtown urban cities with majority black populations. That was why it was such a failure. Not only was it a waste just like FDRs boondoggles, but we didn't even get any infrastructure out of it. They could have went out behind the WH and burned the money and got the same impact. It would just be that a bunch of Obama's best friends who his sons would look like would not have got to pocket a wad of money.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:35 AM (t2KH5)

76
In Saturday's Louisiana Governor's race, Sen. Vitter barely squeaked into second place and next month's run off with a miserable 23% of the vote. The Democrat front runner got 40%.

Good luck GOPe.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 07:37 AM (kdS6q)

77 St. Maarten was beautiful. I was there 20 years ago. There is. French side & I believe Dutch side.

Nude beaches were disgusting. People flaunting it were the ones that should have been wearing tents!

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:38 AM (sj3Ax)

78 That same percentage, 85%, is Democrat states share of the free money that was handed out to put up the incredibly stupid health care marketplaces. No corruption to see here, move along, move along.

Posted by: goon at October 25, 2015 07:38 AM (gy5kE)

79 64
What were you having? The only time I lose track of that is when I've drank myself into a blackout the night before.
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 07:28 AM (MmVtG)

That's prolly what happened, then.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:39 AM (sdi6R)

80 How the hell do you get that drunk by 10 am???? But.. but.. her father says she's a good girl..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 25, 2015 06:10 AM (UpGcq)

Clearly trying to find the bottom before admitting there is a problem.
She found it.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 07:41 AM (3pRHP)

81 I can't get through Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:41 AM (sj3Ax)

82 Chumps For Trump. If you are going to be chumped why not be chumped by Trump?

Posted by: freaked at October 25, 2015 07:42 AM (BO/km)

83 71 MD-80, St. Martin's 7500 runway. Are they going to use all the pavement they have for the roll? Of course! What would that look like if you were standing off the departure end? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzRUR9Tq12k
Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:33 AM (e7T6D)

Guess they don't have many aborted takeoffs. You either make it or you don't.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:42 AM (sdi6R)

84 Amsterdam is also home to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.

(I don't know about this Anne Frank person but Kirk Douglas is from Amsterdam.)

Posted by: FireHorse at October 25, 2015 07:43 AM (67RmU)

85 They could have went out behind the WH and burned the money and got the same impact.

There would have been more impact. Inflation might be lower

Oh, wait, I swear I heard Larry Kudlow berating a guest yesterday over there being no inflation at all. "Zero point zero percent". These idiots don't buy food.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 07:44 AM (3pRHP)

86 Did everyone see Romney say Friday that w/o Romneycare there would be no TFFCare? Number One reason why he had no business being nominee in 2012!

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:44 AM (sj3Ax)

87 I hope somebody recommended Club Vandersexx.
It's what put the damn! in Amsterdamn!

Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 07:45 AM (j+aWk)

88 Is it wrong that I laughed because Vic thinks that dive bars still have spittoons?

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:46 AM (sdi6R)

89 All things considered, I still wouldn't prefer Philadelphia.

Posted by: Dick Nixon at October 25, 2015 07:46 AM (u5gzz)

90
For your Sunday viewing. Amazon is free streaming the first two episodes of its Man in the High Castle video series this weekend.

Based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Man in the High Castle depicts an alternate timeline in which the Axis Powers defeated the Allies during the Second World War. The United States is invaded and divided up: Germany gets the east coast up to the Rockies, while the Japanese get the western coast. In the pilot, we watched as Juliana Crain received a mysterious film reel that sent her into the Neutral Zone. On the other side of the country, Joe Blake began to drive across the country on a mission for the tattered resistance movement.

The first episode was released earlier in the year, but the second is brand spanking.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 07:47 AM (kdS6q)

91 >>>�200 rioters terrorize London train station in support of those fake Syrian migrants.

They were masked. Is it known if these were really leftard liberals, or were they mostly no-go-zone sewer rats like Anjem Choudhury?

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 07:47 AM (MmVtG)

92 87 I hope somebody recommended Club Vandersexx. It's what put the damn! in Amsterdamn!
Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 07:45 AM (j+aWk) Nice "Eurotrip" reference! For 10 extra points, what's the safe word?

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at October 25, 2015 07:47 AM (22uju)

93 81
I can't get through Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:41 AM (sj3Ax)

I got through it the first time I read it but it was a struggle. The last time I read it I did a LOT of skimming. This is one time when the movie was much better than the book. Ayn Rand was in much need of a good editor for that book.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:48 AM (t2KH5)

94 I can't get through Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:41 AM
________

I found the first half of Atlas Shrugged to be some of the best fiction writing I've ever come across. It had some neat elements -- mystery, interesting characters, the development of a dystopia -- and then is just went blah.

If you quit that book halfway through, I wouldn't hold it against you.

Posted by: FireHorse at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (67RmU)

95 88
Is it wrong that I laughed because Vic thinks that dive bars still have spittoons?

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:46 AM (sdi6R)

Well they used to when I was young.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (t2KH5)

96 @83 They probably stand on the brakes in position and spool up nice and high and then punch it. They'd hit go/no-go in pretty quickly... once you're N1, you're gonna fly it. I wouldn't stand off the end like that though.. easy way to die a sudden death.

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (e7T6D)

97 Vic,
Atlas Shrugged was dull at the beginning & I put it away & never picked it up again.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (sj3Ax)

98 I liked Atlas Shrugged. Then again, I'm not much of a fiction reader.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:51 AM (sdi6R)

99 I keep waking up between 4-5 am don't know why.

I'm probably going to take a nap or try.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:28 AM (sj3Ax){/i]

I do too Carol. But that's because the cat wants out.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 07:52 AM (3pRHP)

100 I can't get through Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:41 AM

Don't blame you! It's one of the most turgid, repetitive, hectoring, preachy books in the English language.

I've actually read it twice, and will admit I was impressed the first time (hey, I was 17). The second time, I skipped a lot, mentally snipping out the monstro speech from John Galt -- is he the role model for the looooong speeches from Castro, Nikita the K and that crowd? -- and cutting right to the "action."

I tend to ignore people who get all giddy about Rand's so-called "philosophy." She is the L. Ron Hubbard of rightwing politix.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 25, 2015 07:52 AM (eUxuB)

101 97 Atlas Shrugged was dull at the beginning I put it away never picked it up again.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (sj3Ax)

Rent the movie and don't forget it was split into two parts. It is much better than the book.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:52 AM (t2KH5)

102 Gone with the Wind is the same way. I could not get through the book at all.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:53 AM (t2KH5)

103 I don't understand why they need anything. I think they dreamed this shit up just to get some of that Obama money. I drove from Castro Valley (near Oakland/San Francisco) to San Diego and hit L.A. in only a couple of hours on Interstate 5. They do not need this train.
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:26 AM (t2KH5)

Yup....like 8 year olds they WANT this train...they don't NEED this train. More tax money spent for a political boondoggle like the Big Dig in Taxachusetts. All aboard!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2015 07:54 AM (ej1L0)

104 Kindltot
I was waking up too early because I had new BP med that's in my records I don't like & stopped taking it.
Doctor was too lazy to look at what I was taking in 2010 that worked.
Now I don't know why I'm waking up far too early.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:55 AM (sj3Ax)

105 96 @83 They probably stand on the brakes in position and spool up nice and high and then punch it. They'd hit go/no-go in pretty quickly... once you're N1, you're gonna fly it. I wouldn't stand off the end like that though.. easy way to die a sudden death.
Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 07:50 AM (e7T6D)

That's why YouTube is such a godsend. They did it so we don't have to.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 07:57 AM (sdi6R)

106 Thanks, Vic.
Usually book is better than movie because it has more detail.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 07:58 AM (sj3Ax)

107 Carol, at times I wake up about 1am and can't get back to sleep. I've started to get up and hand wash the dishes and wipe down the counters.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 07:59 AM (3pRHP)

108 101
Rent the movie and don't forget it was split into two parts. It is much better than the book.
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 07:52 AM (t2KH5)

Three parts. Part Three was in and out of the theaters so quickly that I didn't get to see it.

It was a good try but I think the book was better.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:00 AM (sdi6R)

109 Mel: The safe word is pronounced fluggelgleckheimlen. The actual spelling, with umlauts, angstroms, cedillas and miscellaneous European accents, chokes Pixy's rendering hamsters.

Also, LDC: The remaining 8 episodes of High Castle debut November 20 on Amazon. The same day as Netflix drops all 10 episodes of Alias Jessica Jones. Krysten Ritter... mmm. If only America had a leader who could teach me how to make hard choices.

Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 08:02 AM (j+aWk)

110
drove from Castro Valley (near Oakland/San Francisco) to San Diego and hit L.A. in only a couple of hours on Interstate 5.

They could raise the speed limit on the Central Valley portion of the 5 to 85 mph and get most of the benefits of the $100 billion and counting super train for the cost of new road signs.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 08:03 AM (kdS6q)

111 here is some comments on Venezuela and Salon magazine

https://mises.org/library/reflections-venezuela%E2%80%99s-economic-miracle

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 08:04 AM (3pRHP)

112 Greetings gentlefappers.

#freshhell

#WASTF

#moarcoffee

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:04 AM (LUgeY)

113 108 Three parts. Part Three was in and out of the theaters so quickly that I didn't get to see it.

It was a good try but I think the book was better.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:00 AM (sdi6R)

I just went and looked at my movie shelf. You're right it was three parts. But the book spent way too much time on trivial details. Typical Russian writer syndrome.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:04 AM (t2KH5)

114 [Atlas Shrugged is] one of the most turgid, repetitive, hectoring, preachy books in the English language.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 25, 2015 07:52 AM
________

It is that -- and wayyyyy too long. For all its faults, it built nicely -- but disappointed in the end. That said, if I had to say Yes or No to anyone considering this commitment, I'd say Yes, read it.

(It'd be so much more accessible if Iron Maiden would just turn it into a song, though.)

Posted by: FireHorse at October 25, 2015 08:05 AM (67RmU)

115 Spellcheck, Awesome you remembered the safe word. You are awarded 10 bonus points and my admiration.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at October 25, 2015 08:05 AM (22uju)

116 110 They could raise the speed limit on the Central
Valley portion of the 5 to 85 mph and get most of the benefits of the
$100 billion and counting super train for the cost of new road signs.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 25, 2015 08:03 AM (kdS6q)

I think I was doing 80 to 85 most the way anyway until I hot L.A.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:06 AM (t2KH5)

117 Kindltot
I wake up & start doing things too. Cleaning tub, sometimes I vacuum but try not to, because I'll wake up others in the house. I usually clean mirrors, televisions, etc.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:06 AM (sj3Ax)

118 There's a football game at 9:30 in the morning?

These are truly the end times...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:07 AM (LUgeY)

119 I read Atlas Shrugged in the Cliff Notes.

In the remake, Dagny could have been a computer programming engineer, and Reardon should have made fiberoptics.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 08:08 AM (3pRHP)

120 Are elbows even awake at that time?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:09 AM (LUgeY)

121 Also the Heineken tour. Can't forget that, Krak.

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 25, 2015 08:09 AM (Iyg03)

122 If there is a game at 9:30 we should have elbows soon.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:09 AM (t2KH5)

123 Carol, I am a terrible avoider. I try to do things I hate doing so I would rather go to sleep than keep doing it.
Sometimes it works.

I hope you get it sorted out, though. Not being able to get enough sleep is wretched.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 08:10 AM (3pRHP)

124 Good Morning, Hordelings. To celebrate Reformation Sunday, I'm staying Protestant.

A Praise Song appropriate for the occasion:

"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"

And though this world, with devils filled,
Should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed
His truth to triumph through us.
The Prince of Darkness grim,
We tremble not for him.
His rage we can endure,
For lo, his doom is sure.
One little word shall fell him.

~ sung by HeartSong at Cederville University

http://bit.ly/1WbHdMx

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at October 25, 2015 08:10 AM (dFi94)

125 109
Krysten Ritter... mmm.
Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 08:02 AM (j+aWk)

*bings*

You have good taste.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:10 AM (sdi6R)

126 Kindltot,
I take meds to function & used to sleep like a log. BP pill was waking me up to pee. I haven't taken it since Wednesday.
I do drink a lot of water but always have. The last thing I need is a pill that flushes it out!

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:13 AM (sj3Ax)

127 Carol, it is also 5.18 am here on a Sunday, so like today I just stay up.

Heck of a thunderstorm last night, woke me up a couple of times, it and the downpour pounding on the roof.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 08:15 AM (3pRHP)

128 453 days to go? Watch SCOAMT pull everything else, close GITMO, etc & opposition party will help him.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:16 AM (sj3Ax)

129 F1 qualifying in Austin is at 9:00 this morning too after the rainout yesterday.

I should start a second pot of coffee...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:18 AM (LUgeY)

130 128
453 days to go? Watch SCOAMT pull everything else, close GITMO, etc opposition party will help him.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:16 AM (sj3Ax)

Since GITMO was established by a treaty and base closing are done by a special commission I don't think he can do that with his pen and phone. However, if Republicans sit there on their dead asses he can do anything he wants. Half the crap he has done since he has been in office is illegal anyway.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:19 AM (t2KH5)

131 Bwdsboy... I just did the same... second pot almost ready. It's almost 7:30 and due to cloudy skies, still freaking dark outside in DFW. crazy.

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 08:19 AM (e7T6D)

132 Kindltot
I'm going to try to go back to sleep very soon.
It's 8:23 here & my eyes are burning because I've been up since before 5 am.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:19 AM (sj3Ax)

133 About 35 years ago my sister in law was sent to England by her employer. She took the opportunity to meet up with a old friend that had married a Dutch chef. She goes to Amsterdam to meet them. To celebrate her first night on the Continent, they take her to the trendiest restaurant in Amsterdam, you guessed it. They go Mexican.

Posted by: Tmitsss at October 25, 2015 08:21 AM (L0IIq)

134 Take care Carol.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 25, 2015 08:24 AM (3pRHP)

135 Stupid liberal judge freed a repeat felon who came
back and killed a cop in NYC. Stupid judge says she is sorry. Sorry
scrunt, that's not good enough, you need to step down from the bench and
get a job cleaning spittoons at the worse dive bar in Brooklyn.

http://fxn.ws/1POtwmV

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

It's time to completely flush the judiciary. Far too many idiots like this doing whatever they want that ends up costing lives

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 25, 2015 08:24 AM (DiZBp)

136 So, "Intercontinental" railroad, including graft, cost just $1 bil, and CalTrain will be closer to $100 bil? Easy solution: Let the Chinese do it. It's not like they didn't build the first one.

Supplies! -- Just The Punchline.

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

137 "However, if Republicans sit there on their dead asses he can do anything he wants. Half the crap he has done since he has been in office is illegal anyway."

Republicans have to show we can govern by sucking his cock religiously.

Posted by: John Boner in Assless Chaps at October 25, 2015 08:25 AM (u5gzz)

138 42 One of the commenters said, What is it with liberals and bicycles, windmills and trains?
Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 06:45 AM (e7T6D)

Coz they build the happy fun camps at the end of the railroad. Very efficient way of shuttling dissidents there.

Posted by: @votermom at October 25, 2015 08:25 AM (cbfNE)

139 You're complaining about football at 9:30?! One of the good things about the Left coast was Saturday/Sunday football at 10:00 am! Back in the day, spicy nachos or a good greasy breakfast burrito were just the cure for a hangover while watching whatever game. There was usually a lovely 3rd quarter nap and recovery by the second set of games at 1:00. And Monday Night Football was a happy hour staple, starting at 5:00. I'd say the good ol' days, but my liver might disagree. I don't know how you East coasters have done it all these years...I still haven't adjusted, now that I live here too.

Posted by: RedDish at October 25, 2015 08:26 AM (5eXg1)

140 Nachurly the NASCAR race (Go Junior!) starts at 1 and the F1 race starts at 2.

And I don't know why the NASCAR web site sux so bad. They should copy the design from the F1 site which is rich with gearhead mechanical car-type pr0n.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:27 AM (LUgeY)

141 Sharyl Atkinson says the MFM is hiding the number of
crimes committed by illegals in this county. I guess she means the
mainstream news people because we have seen reports here from other
media sources that have detailed the problem. Trump was right, although
they are a small percentage of the population they are committing a very
large portion of the violent crimes.

http://bit.ly/1LuAhXY

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

The MFM is one of the biggest problems we face. If they were even half way honest we'd be in better shape. There's probably most honest reporting in the North Korean press than the MFM

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 25, 2015 08:28 AM (DiZBp)

142 Go Cowboys!
Go Giants!
Double overtime tie game, please.

Posted by: se pa moron at October 25, 2015 08:28 AM (sI4OA)

143 Well, I'm not really complaining about AM football, it's just such a shock to the system. I'm not even sure the Earth begins its rotation that early.

Musician time and all that.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:30 AM (LUgeY)

144 Kindltot

You too!

I looked at on demand & thought The Walking Dead was over because I never watched it. They only have Season 6 to watch & I am not paying to watch seasons 1-5.
My cable bill is high enough. I only wanted to watch because people here say Carol & I think it's me.
Votermom & others have pointed out it's Carol from TWD.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:30 AM (sj3Ax)

145 Everyone have a great day, stay safe, dry and warm. Best wishes to all the Texas morons with all your rain. The dog is staring with 'those' eyes, so I'd better get her walking.

Posted by: RedDish at October 25, 2015 08:31 AM (5eXg1)

146 Good post over at The Z Blog on regional voting.
excerpt: But, it does raise the age old question about Iowa. Why do they go
first? Iowa is not very representative of the country. Iowa, for
example, is 2.6% black, while America is 13% black. It has a family
formation rate similar to Texas, but votes like Connecticut. Similarly,
it has church attendance similar to Tennessee, but votes for
pro-abortion candidates. Iowa is a very weird state.

Indeed.

Moar at ... http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=5689

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 08:31 AM (e7T6D)

147 Carol, I kept waking up at 5 am before my doc put me on high blood presdure pills. Then the first 2 nights I woke up every 2 hours. Then I guess I adjusted and I can actually sleep up to 8am now.

There are so many kinds of bp pills the doc should be able to find you a good match. The one I am taking is lisinopril hctz which a lot of people hate but so far knock on wood I am adjusted to it.

Posted by: @votermom at October 25, 2015 08:33 AM (cbfNE)

148 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMN9rU1x-A

Damn, it's like an air show there.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:35 AM (sdi6R)

149 146 Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 08:31 AM (e7T6D)

Iowa goes first because the RNCe wants to stick a stake through the heart of any real conservative candidate. Iowa - blue State, NH blue State - SC red state. But we have to split SC delegates between candidates. Same for Iowa and NH but they don't have any delegates to speak of anyway.

But if a conservative candidate loses Iowa and NH before making it to SC with split delegates (and a favorite son this time) that candidate is likely to drop out.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:37 AM (t2KH5)

150 Okay, who has read "Infinite Jest," the Defining Novel of The Age?
Just asking. It's about 1000 pages, the same length as Atlas Shrugged.
Some people just don't like big books. It's a cultural thing.

Others claim to have read all of "Kapital" (they lie), or claim to read all of the Bible every year. All of it, including The Begats. And some say Dostoyevsky is their fav"ou"rite. But they just can't manage Atlas Shrugged. Uh-huh.

The Protestants cheat. They leave out the middle book. Well, that's apocryphal.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 25, 2015 08:37 AM (xq1UY)

151 Vic,
I read at The Right Scoop that closing GITMO was one reason he vetoed defense bill.
I'd put up a better fight with zero than Boner & McConnell & I'm lucky if I weigh 95 pounds. What I lack in weight I make up in bully.

I know they're following chamber of commerce platform & are FOS promises.

I know most of what he's done is illegal.but AA & that word would be used if they tried to stop him.

Media made him & hides everything about him.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:38 AM (sj3Ax)

152 Buffalo Bills in London in about an hour.

Meanwhile, back in the States, we have one more week of Daylight Saving Time. Next Sunday the sun rises at 6:29, and I'll still be at work before it is. By December 21, sunrise is back to 7:19.

At least the weather is decent here for Halloween, so I can say goodbye to Mr Sun with a good long walk.

Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 08:38 AM (j+aWk)

153 @148.. heh heh... standing behind a 747 taking off?? What could go wrong?

Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 08:39 AM (e7T6D)

154 Patricia is such a tease.

Posted by: Mexico's Blue Balls at October 25, 2015 08:42 AM (LYCUN)

155 When in Amsterdam, stay at the Manor Hotel on Linnaeusstraat. The tram runs right past the front door, the interior decoration is psychadelic, and Theo van Gogh was murdered just down the street.

Get a bus/tram pass for the time you intend to be in Amsterdam. They're just too handy.

Try the beer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwerij_%27t_IJ

IIRC, there are a bunch of touristic bars around Rembrantplaatz.

Couldn't be bothered with the sex shows, so you're on your own there.

Good luck.

Posted by: Patrick Carroll at October 25, 2015 08:42 AM (hoUpO)

156 Votermom,
I take that one & think my BP is fine but doctors office is att least an hour away & I can't find a doctor near me.
If I go early & sit at takeout restaurant across the street my BP is perfect.

Ronald Reagan movie is on TCM. I'm going to go in living room & watch it & hopefully fall back asleep.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:45 AM (sj3Ax)

157 151 Posted by: Carol at October 25, 2015 08:38 AM (sj3Ax)

I had a nice long reply and hit the wrong key and lost all of it.

He also wants to transfer all those terrorists to US prisons. The MFM is not talking about that part of it.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:45 AM (t2KH5)

158 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2015 08:45 AM (VPLuQ)

159 Had a wonderful time yesterday in Annapolis, watching Navy bring it home again.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2015 08:46 AM (VPLuQ)

160 153 @148.. heh heh... standing behind a 747 taking off?? What could go wrong?
Posted by: Yip at October 25, 2015 08:39 AM (e7T6D)

I remember being at an actual air show and catching the prop blast from a Grumman Wildcat when it turned around like that. Good times. A 747 is probably x1000.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:46 AM (sdi6R)

161 I'm surprised there's any sand on that beach.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:46 AM (LUgeY)

162 160 I remember being at an actual air show and catching
the prop blast from a Grumman Wildcat when it turned around like that.
Good times. A 747 is probably x1000.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:46 AM (sdi6R)

LOL, the bus stop/cab stand near the pier at Subic Bay was right next to a runway. We used to get that jet engine blast all the time.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 25, 2015 08:48 AM (t2KH5)

163 I find Philadelphia has an indoor hard wood lumber yard, not far from me, so I'm skipping the London Bowl in search of beautiful and exotic scraps for guitar necks.

Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 08:49 AM (j+aWk)

164 Good morning.

I just got back from Walmart. Forgot to get bacon on Friday...Twas nice there at this hour.

We've had 3 inches of rain and will get about that more before the storm is over.

Most of it has been very gentle rain. Just perfect after 2 months of no rain!

Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2015 08:51 AM (nXeSu)

165 >>>The "pope" excoriated Bishops at the end of their meeting where they gave way on divorces but refused to budge on homosexuals and sin. Hey Mr pope, if you don't like catholic doctrine then find another religion.

The liberal spin yahoo gives every sentence makes it almost unreadable. I lack the stamina that it takes to do this. Vic, if it endangers your health, I'd understand if you gave it up. I don't understand how anyone can consume MSM raw on a regular basis.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 08:51 AM (MmVtG)

166 I find Philadelphia has an indoor hard wood lumber yard, not far from me, so I'm skipping the London Bowl in search of beautiful and exotic scraps for guitar necks.

Beware of the EPA SS squad. It's not so much that they're secret, but the insane obscure regulations that they enforce are.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 25, 2015 08:52 AM (LUgeY)

167 nood book

Posted by: OregonMuse at October 25, 2015 08:53 AM (m3AN1)

168 Spellcheck, envy. We had one, founded during the Late Unpleasantness when the road past it was a canal. Got urban-renoodled about 15 years ago, and a handsome weed-strewn vacant lot now marks the location. Strong men still weep when they think about missing that close-out sale. Many cool do-dads in my home interior are made of wood from that yard.

Speaking of strong men weeping, Subic! They tell me you could really get blown at the end of those runways...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 25, 2015 08:54 AM (xq1UY)

169 I was on base the other day, waiting for someone, just sitting in a park on a beautiful fall day.

Of course it was about 2 blocks from the flight line so it got really noisy and really smelly.

I have B-52s that fly over here all the time, so the noise didn't bother me much, but the smell...

Posted by: Mama AJ at October 25, 2015 08:54 AM (nXeSu)

170 163 I find Philadelphia has an indoor hard wood lumber yard

Posted by: Spellcheck at October 25, 2015 08:49 AM (j+aWk)

Personally, I prefer shag carpet.

Oh, that's not what you meant? Never mind.

Posted by: rickl at October 25, 2015 08:55 AM (sdi6R)

171 The liberal spin yahoo gives every sentence makes it
almost unreadable. I lack the stamina that it takes to do this. Vic, if
it endangers your health, I'd understand if you gave it up. I don't
understand how anyone can consume MSM raw on a regular basis.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 25, 2015 08:51 AM (MmVtG)

Yahoo is utter crap. It is on level with Vox. Thankfully the stupid bint who is running it is running it into the ground

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 25, 2015 08:55 AM (DiZBp)

172 Whilst motor cycling on Old Thirty west of Omaha, I got buzzed and coal-rolled by a B-52. Got to see, up close and personal, just how far those wings flex when they put the balls to the wall. One of my fondest open-road memories.

And yes, you can definitely smell raw JP. For a long time. But my dad worked 30 years dispatching fuel oil tankers, so I always felt that's what fathers smelled like.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 25, 2015 09:04 AM (xq1UY)

173 FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER VOICE: Bears running back Jerome Anderson takes the handoff and busts it up the middle. He breaks into the open...He's at the 35...He's at the 40...He's at the 45...annnnnnd...he disappears into a deep crevasse at midfield. The officials are spotting the ball at the eastern edge of the crevasse. Replacement running back Terrance Watters is jogging onto the field. Watters has been used only sparingly this season but something tells me he's going to see a lot more action from here on out.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 25, 2015 09:05 AM (NeFrd)

174 I've read Atlas Shrugged 1 1/2 times (abandoned at Galt's Gulch). Years ago, and the I started it again in 2011. I was amazed at how similar it was to the current progressives and Obama admin - really freaked me out. Really wish it had been edited down, because she really nailed their mindset and how it is so, so wrong.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2015 09:06 AM (NOIQH)

175 Watching NBC interview Ben Carson right now...

I'm getting a Chauncy Gardener vibe.

Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2015 09:06 AM (Zs4uk)

176 150 Okay, who has read "Infinite Jest," the Defining Novel of The Age?
Just asking. It's about 1000 pages, the same length as Atlas Shrugged.
Some people just don't like big books. It's a cultural thing.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 25, 2015 08:37 AM (xq1UY)
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Thanks, it's now on my library list.

I first thought you said "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions", by James Branch Cabell. Nobody reads Cabell anymore because satire means nothing these days!

As someone who lives in her own little space/time oubliette I can relate to Cabell's arch prose and fantasy realms. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, self-aware douchebag at October 25, 2015 09:31 AM (jR7Wy)

177 142 Go Cowboys!

Go Giants!

Double overtime tie game, please.

Giants vs. Cowboys is like the Iran-Iraq War--the best result is nobody wins. Doesn't really do the Eagles much good, but it doesn't have to....

Cloudy but clearing skies here in south central PA (I finally got outta Philly in April); the last few mornings I saw the planets you guys described but until yesterday I wasn't sure what I was seeing. Too bad, but I'd never get a chance to see stars and planets like those in the city....

Posted by: Jenk at October 25, 2015 09:36 AM (OtryE)

178 The NFL in London? WTF? Have I been in a freezer? That explains the blonde black guy withe the striking blue eyes duking it out with the big Italian. I think I saw the black guy's sister in Frankfurt in '82; she was wearing lime greens and I was hung over after a stop in Scotland...

Posted by: Jenk at October 25, 2015 09:42 AM (OtryE)

179 Crap. I think I've been willowed. I'll save my Dostoyevsky comments for the book thread....

Posted by: Jenk at October 25, 2015 09:44 AM (OtryE)

180 What can you expense? Well, there's the story of the guy who traveled to Texas on business. While he was there he bought a cowboy hat, which he put on his expense report. Because of the cowboy hat, his boss rejected the expense report. The guy re-filed it with the note "The cowboy hat is in there; find it."

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at October 25, 2015 10:07 AM (TqyFL)

181 The Gamecocks are having a rough season but there is a pretty cool story in the middle of it. Perry Orth is now the QB. He is a multiple time walk on with the team and was working at a local grocery to get buy. Just put up 277 yrds for a win over Vandy.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 25, 2015 10:13 AM (i7JE3)

182 Still raining in Texas at the USGP, cars are slipping all over the track.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 10:26 AM (Ken0l)

183 Jenk I'm hoping the G'nts win putting the Boys down a game

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2015 10:31 AM (Ken0l)

184 Amsterdam, a couple more things to try:

1. They serve gin and tonic by the bowl.
2. Bitterballen - local snack food.

Posted by: Patrick Carroll at October 25, 2015 04:52 PM (hoUpO)

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