Overnight Open Thread (11-5-2015)

What's with all this Emergency ONT shit? Why I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know.

Quote of the Day I

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power.

-- Tom Friedman in 2009

Quote of the Day II - Oops Edition

The New York Times yesterday reported China has been burning up to 17 per cent more coal a year than the government previously disclosed. Considering the vast scale of China's annual coal consumption, this is an absolutely gigantic correction.

Yet this small Chinese accounting 'error' is equivalent to most of the coal the US burns annually. Also a reminder that one-party autocratic states routinely lie and cheat.

Quote of the Day III

What matters, rather, is the strength of the longing. Modern liberalism is best understood as a movement of would-be believers in search of true faith. For much of the 20th century it was faith in History, especially in its Marxist interpretation. Now it's faith in the environment. Each is a comprehensive belief system, an instruction sheet on how to live, eat and reproduce, a story of how man fell and how he might be redeemed, a tale of impending crisis that's also a moral crucible.
In short, a religion without God.
-- Bret Stephens

Quote of the Day IV

The book's perfunctory pieties about Reagan's greatness are inundated by its flood of regurgitated slanders about his supposed lassitude and manipulability. This book is nonsensical history and execrable citizenship, and should come with a warning: "Caution - you are about to enter a no-facts zone."

-- George Will basically calling Bill O'Reilly a liar over his book, 'Killing Reagan'

Quote of the Day V

The photo at right comes from the "Hitler" menswear store in Gaza. I don't know whether Hitler himself is running it. If you know your P G Wodehouse, you'll recall that his Fascist leader, Sir Roderick Spode, ran a ladies' lingerie boutique on the side. So it's entirely possible that the Führer has been running a men's clothing chain in Gaza since the bottom dropped out of the dictating business.
At any rate, you 'll see that the mannequins are not just stylishly dressed but appealingly accoutred with sharp knives. Because when you go Jew-killing, you want both to look sharp and stab sharp.
-- Mark Steyn

Quote of the Day VI

Kathleen Kane: Burn it all to the ground. All of it. Purify Pennsylvania with fire. https://t.co/DPYfsRFxci

- Popehat (@Popehat) November 5, 2015

ACCEPT YOUR DESTINY, KATHLEEN KANE. BRING THE WINNOWING TIME UNTO THE LAND. FOR YOU ARE THE HARVESTER OF THE LORD, AND GOD WILL KNOW HIS OWN.

-- Moe Lane

Sweden: All European Nations Must Take in the Refugees We Invited
Denmark to Sweden: Fuck You

Okay they were a bit more polite than that but not by a whole lot.

"Sweden has long taken an unreasonably large responsibility in comparison with other countries in the EU, and now we are in a very tight position. It is time that other countries now take responsibility and therefore the government requests the redistribution of refugees from Sweden," [Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven] said.
But Löfven will get no help from Denmark, Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said on Thursday.

"Every country has chosen its own course within the refugee area. They have chosen theirs and now they must deal with it as they'd wish," Jensen told TV2 News.
"We know that there are some countries that are looking to Denmark and we know that Sweden has also looked to Denmark to find inspiration. That is probably the best help we can give them," Jensen said.

Here the inspiration they're referring to is the Danish hard-line approach to keeping the migrants from entering and settling in Denmark. The Danes may be prone to all the usual scandi vices but they're not stupid. And they're very much into being Danish and making sure that Denmark stays Danish in the future.

ESR: From Kafkatrap to Honeytrap

The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a "women in tech" advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.
..."They have made multiple runs at him." Just let the implications of that sink in for a bit. If my source is to be believed (and I have found him both well-informed and completely trustworthy in the past) this was not a series of misunderstandings, it was a deliberately planned and persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob.
I have to see it as an an attempt to smear and de-legitimize the Linux community (and, by extension, the entire open-source community) in order to render it politically pliable.

The comments at ESR's site are also depressingly on-point, noting that ministers and executives have been following this policy for years for similar reasons and that we're now well on our way to becoming a Russian dash-cam society where everything must be routinely recorded in order defend against false accusations.

Russians Getting Frisky in Orbit

An American firm, Intelsat, is the largest operator of communications satellites (75 at the moment) in the world and fears some of its satellites are being targeted by the Russians for a possible attack on Western communications satellites. All this came about in early 2015 when it was noted that a Russian military satellite was being moved into orbits very close (as in ten kilometers) of two Intelsat satellites. These incidents, which took place over a period of five months were reported to the U.S. Department of Defense which revealed that it had noted two other Russian military satellites carrying out similar maneuvers, but not as close to American satellites. All of these maneuvers were representative of what an attack satellite would do when preparing to damage or destroy other satellites. When the Department of Defense asked the Russians what was going on they received no answer. This is ironic because a lot of Intelsat satellites were placed in orbit by Russian rockets.

The New Worst Person in World - Destroy, Destroy, Destroy!

Okay stealing candy put out for kids is pretty low even on the modified pond scum scale. But the problem here is that the social media outrage mob only has a single penalty for all crimes: complete and utter personal destruction. And I'm not quite sure that Fat Bunny Candy-Stealer quite deserves that given all the father-rapers and shameless moperists who go unpunished every day in our society.

Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) Used State Agencies to Check Family Ranch For Evil Gaia-Killing Oil

I'm sure it was just so that the toxic pollutant could be safely removed and disposed of in a carbon-neutral way.

Gizmodo Doubles Down on Their Ted Cruz Gun Safety Attack

Claiming that Ted Cruz was totes pointing his gun at people. Except that in their 'smoking gun' animated gif you can actually see through the visibly unloaded empty chamber and barrel and it never swept over anyone in the background (not that it would be a violation if it had given that the gun was so clearly unloaded and disabled).

Clearly unable to see past his hatred of the Senator to admit he was wrong, and that he didn't actually understand Cooper's rules or that carrying an break-action shotgun (whether an over/under like Cruz was carrying, a side-by-side, or a single-shot) with the action open and the chamber empty is 100% safe, Siler instead retreated into a defensive and snarky temper tantrum.
It was almost cute. Almost. But Wes Siler purports to be an adult male, and should take responsibility for manning up and admitting he was wrong.

It's both sad and pathetic that he will not.

Equally in need of manning up is Kaili Joy Gray, the caustic editor of Wonkette, who went on an even longer and more clueless Cruz-hating binge filled with such vigor that you can all but see the froth flying from her soy latte -stained gums.
Amusingly, the comments section to the article is filled with comments from embarrassed readers correcting Gray over and over again, apparently to no avail.

Not Your Daddy's Parabellum: FBI Returning to 9mm for Service Round

Why Were the Star and Pound Symbols Originally Added to Phone Keypads?

The original Touch-Tone phones (not simply phones with buttons) were introduced to the American public in November 1963. The first phones only had 10 buttons, the numbers 1 through 0. See a picture of this first push button phone here: http://www.thocp.net/companies/att/att_company.htm. (See "1963." The specs, however, called for a five pointed "star" key and a "diamond" key, along with four other keys labeled A though D. The star and diamond were replaced with the asterisk and pound sign when one of the Bell System engineers decided the two extra keys on the dial should have characters drawn from the ASCII character set. Calling the asterisk "star" was easy enough, but naming the other key was more of a challenge. "Octatherp" was proposed but wisely rejected in favor of "pound."
...It took a while before anyone came up with something the general public could do with the keys. Remember the Picturephone, touted as the next great thing in telephones? The pound key was to have been used as a prefix for those calls, so a Picturephone user would know when to turn the screen on.

...After deregulation of Ma Bell in 1984, the new phone companies got wise to the extra keys and started using them to allow customers to control features on their phone systems, such as cancelling call waiting and call forwarding.
The letter keys (A, B, C, and D) are still in use today, but only for specialized applications. Technicians use them for network troubleshooting and applications, as do amateur radio operators for special controls on their systems. Those keys are available on several of my amateur radio units, and they get some use controlling several radio repeaters in my hometown.

Safety Tip For the Morons: Lamb Sacrifices May Be Less Effective Than You Think

WWII Battle of Navarone Giant Playset!

I have distinct memories as a kid of carefully evaluating and pondering this very toy in the JC Penny catalog while making up my Christmas 'dream-list'. I even remember playing with it at some point but I'm pretty sure it must have been at a friend's house.

Yahoo group. That is all.

Come on be a smartie and join the yahoo group party! For the children. Why do you hate children?

And my lo-fi Twitter spew.

Tonight's post brought to you by eat a dick kale:

Notice: Posted by the power of AceCorp LLC. Note that the long bows and mannequins are for display only. Do not taunt happy-fun ball. He knows where you spend your evenings. And your little Eulalie secret.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 11:23 PM

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1 See my sock, Watson. It's just as I told you -- the police forces are incompetent, Watson, just like you and your furry friend with whom you've been communicating this past fortnight. Git.

Posted by: sherlock holmes at November 05, 2015 11:24 PM (HbSdt)

2 derp

Posted by: Matthew Arnold in drag, on crack and machine-gunning the Reichstag at November 05, 2015 11:24 PM (8CdUx)

3 *Taunts Happy Fun Ball*

WHO DEY!

Posted by: buzzion at November 05, 2015 11:27 PM (zt+N6)

4 The Ludovico Technique comes to the NIH

The National Institute of Health has spent so far over $100,000 to "cure" bullying by eliminating one's moral campus, moral choice, and moral agency. 'Twould seem that the Ludovico Technique is not limited to fiction.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10301

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 05, 2015 11:28 PM (vBeA5)

5 I totally defended Maet in the EONT.

Totally.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2015 11:28 PM (gyKtp)

6 Realsies!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at November 05, 2015 11:28 PM (EzgxV)

7 I thought buzzion died and was buried in the day threads.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2015 11:29 PM (4ErVI)

8 Greetin's, cretins!

Not a night for me to hang out on the ONT, but I hope you all have more fun than is humanly possible. As usual.

Here's a thing I've been working up for a while now, finally posted to my website.

The Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide.
http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg

Just notes about tricks & techniques like how to italicize and why do I get those 500 errors.

If you check it out, and you think of anything I've missed, let me know.

Now to see what's in the post, and then pass out. It's been a day.

Posted by: mindful webworker - yaaawwwnnn at November 05, 2015 11:31 PM (GWm7j)

9 And Yoko Free, to boot.

Posted by: Garrett at November 05, 2015 11:33 PM (6n8J9)

10 So, ace was just fucking with us.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:35 PM (FsuaD)

11 Should I go summon the others, or let them figure it out themselves?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:36 PM (FsuaD)

12 Heh. Maet is a ham. Who knew?

Posted by: Know Code Extra at November 05, 2015 11:37 PM (9mTYi)

13 And they're very much into being Danish and making sure that Denmark stays Danish in the future.

And not wanting a spike in rapes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 05, 2015 11:37 PM (+lVUW)

14 hi all
thank you again Maet for another great ONT

Posted by: chemjeff at November 05, 2015 11:38 PM (uZNvH)

15 11 >>
Should I go summon the others, or let them figure it out themselves?

Jane, if they are playing with themselves down below, my advice is simple --

Let them.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2015 11:38 PM (gyKtp)

16 Newly-elected Canadian PM Justin (the Spawn) Trudeau simply lurves him some Chinese dictators, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 05, 2015 11:38 PM (0yhH4)

17 Don't know crap, but, made the ONT.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:38 PM (T/MCH)

18 Is that campus or compass?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 05, 2015 11:39 PM (GdFQh)

19 ...and ham is a meat.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:39 PM (NeFrd)

20 China needs to burn that extra coal if they want to power electric cars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 05, 2015 11:39 PM (FkBIv)

21 And they're very much into being Danish and making sure that Denmark stays Danish in the future.

And not wanting a spike in rapes.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Raping a danish? Disgusting. Unless maybe it's a cream cheese danish, I could hit that.

Posted by: French Cheese fetishists at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (awspb)

22 The problem with the Picturephone, and i am pretty sure this is why it ultimately failed in the marketplace, was that the dick pic han't been invented yet.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (6n8J9)

23 All that cheese has my mind bound up. The words won't flow. All this delicious content, and my snark can't get out, no matter how much I strain.

Imma gonna have a stroke if I keep pushing like this.

Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (2MU19)

24 Anyone else tuning into The View tomorrow to watch Carly vs. the Harridans? Haven't watched a second of the show in more years than I can remember, but I'll be watching tomorrow.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (FsuaD)

25 "What's with all this Emergency ONT shit? I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know."

Can you verify that?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (T/MCH)

26 And everyone is reading the links and not commenting. It's like I don't even know you people any more.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (HbSdt)

27 Is that campus or compass?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 05, 2015 11:39 PM (GdFQh)

I don't need a moral compass; I have GPS.

Posted by: every leftard, ever at November 05, 2015 11:41 PM (0yhH4)

28 "we're now well on our way to becoming a Russian dash-cam society where everything must be routinely recorded in order defend against false accusations."

I'm down with that. Just so long as false accusations thus revealed by recordings are punished with Russian levels of ferocity.

The black public university department chair of journamalism who shrieked RAYCISS ELEVENTY after a pair of white cops pulled up by her, and politely cautioned her about running in the road, and asked for identification? Who then alleged a long string of vicious abuses and cruel extirpations and felonious whiteyness? Where the recording then conclusively proved she had brazenly lied and defamed the police officers in multiple ways?

Yeah, how about immediate dismissal from her cushy no-heavy-lifting tenured academic post, complete forfeiture of her pension, a ban on future employment in education, and a couple of years in the pokey? That should do for starters.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:41 PM (noWW6)

29 Nuclear cars! If you're a fag.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (k9qR4)

30 " I totally defended Maet in the EONT."

Suck up.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (T/MCH)

31 Holy shit Maet. You have almost out did yourself. You're the best

Woot woot ONT baby

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (P4OkF)

32 I watched a link to a vid of a Rutgers Feminist Rape Poem session someone posted below, and I felt my soul sucked out of me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (FsuaD)

33 Cruz had that thingy that goes up dangerously pointing at people.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at November 05, 2015 11:43 PM (pmhkb)

34 Gotta say... the skinny jeans on those mannequins at the Gaza store are liable to get some stabby and stylish Pali thrown off a building.

Posted by: NTTAWWT at November 05, 2015 11:43 PM (REdlt)

35 Yeah, how about immediate dismissal from her cushy no-heavy-lifting tenured academic post, complete forfeiture of her pension, a ban on future employment in education, and a couple of years in the pokey? That should do for starters.

Posted by: torquewrench

No time in Siberia? That's a bit lenient, isn't it?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at November 05, 2015 11:43 PM (awspb)

36 Who gets to determine when an ONT is scheduled?

Posted by: buzzion at November 05, 2015 11:43 PM (zt+N6)

37 "It's like I don't even know you people any more."

Links? And you talk like a fag.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:43 PM (T/MCH)

38 Lots of dancing in this Kings v BlueJackets game, tonight.

Sandy bunch.

Posted by: Garrett at November 05, 2015 11:44 PM (6n8J9)

39 @25 some day Ricky he's just going to say fuck you and beat the shit out of you. Then we'll see about your questioning.

//////////

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (DmRs2)

40 ...and ham is a meat.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:39 PM
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Alien visitors are on to us as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

Posted by: TJ Camper at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (7d8Ef)

41 IIRC the Danes also told the goat-fucking Mohammedans to, well, go fuck a goat during the cartoon controversy. Good on 'em, I say!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (kpqmD)

42 Reason #3.424,566 that I won't ever be visiting the East Coast:

Voters in Bridgeport, Connecticut elected as their next mayor an ex-convict who spent seven years in federal prison after being convicted on 16 corruption charges.

Democrat Joe Ganim, 56, had served as mayor of Bridgeport - the state's largest city - 12 years ago, from 1991 to 2003, when he resigned after being convicted of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals and companies in exchange for sending city contracts in their direction, the New York Times reports.

I particularly liked this quote from a supporter:

"He didn't kill nobody," he said. "He didn't rape nobody."

Whoa dude -- way to set the bar high.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (gyKtp)

43 Sorry, but I'm bringing this forward from the cheese thread --

506 493 It might seem like a crime by someone with a fairly extreme dairy fetish, but police believe the cheese was stolen by a gang who will sell it on the black market.

Or it could have been a bunch of retards who thought it was gold. Makes as much sense as anything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 05, 2015 11:05 PM (zc3Db)

One of my favorite crime stories involves a guy who pulled up to the loading dock of a meat-packing plant and snagged three boxes waiting for a delivery truck. They were clearly labelled "rennets", but the guy just figured that might be the name of the distributor or something. Then he drove off.

Of course, they have security cameras and all that, so he wasn't very many miles away when the cops pulled him over. The cops were laughing so hard, they nearly couldn't cuff the guy. When he demanded to know why, they explained what "rennets" were (and, as a post tie-in, they are actually used in making cheese), whereupon the guy blurted out, "I'm going to jail for stealing 300 pounds of cow assholes?!?!?!?"

That was allowed as evidence at his trial, due to the "surprised outburst" exception to the Miranda ruling.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 05, 2015 11:18 PM (EzgxV)

Posted by: cthulhu at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (EzgxV)

44 "Who gets to determine when an ONT is scheduled?"

Do Not go asking questions.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (T/MCH)

45 Nuclear cars! If you're a fag.
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion
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Sweet, sweet subsidies, sucker.

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (9mTYi)

46 >>Who gets to determine when an ONT is scheduled?

Why do you care?

Shouldn't you be watching someone Fap?

Posted by: Garrett at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (6n8J9)

47 Saw this headline today:

"CNN Heaps Praise on Accomplished Neurosurgeon Noted For Separation of Conjoined Twins"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (NeFrd)

48 Oh, wait a second, I misread that. It actually said:

"CNN Heaps Praise on C-student Noted For Placing Clock Innards in Pencil Box"

My bad.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (NeFrd)

49 Those are some really butch Pali mannequins with knives. And by "butch" I mean sharing the girls' bathroom "butch."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (FsuaD)

50 "Who gets to determine when an ONT is scheduled?"

Fate.

Also sometimes Destiny. And on rare occasions Forethought.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (pAlYe)

51 @36 don't look at me buzz.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (pahrJ)

52 30 " I totally defended Maet in the EONT."

Suck up.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (T/MCH)

Even worse than that -- I lied too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (gyKtp)

53 "What's with all this Emergency ONT shit? Why I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know."

*****

Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

54 CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (FsuaD)

55 "...one-party autocratic states routinely lie and cheat."

Not the enlightened ones. Tom told me so.

Posted by: Kirk at November 05, 2015 11:49 PM (GBnWt)

56 "No time in Siberia? That's a bit lenient, isn't it?"

I suggested a few years in the pokey. I didn't suggest which one.

Left as an exercise for the reader.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:49 PM (noWW6)

57 Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

Time change and he didnt set his clock back

Posted by: Doom Rider at November 05, 2015 11:49 PM (ck8TA)

58 50 "Who gets to determine when an ONT is scheduled?"

Fate.

Also sometimes Destiny. And on rare occasions Forethought.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (pAlYe)

.....and what about US???

Posted by: Chance, Afterthought, Surprise, and Panic at November 05, 2015 11:50 PM (EzgxV)

59 >>>CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (FsuaD)<<<

Nine people from th good Dr.'s past? Why, that's 1, 2, 3... 9(!) more people than they managed to find from Choom Boy's past.

Inconceivable!

Posted by: no, not really at November 05, 2015 11:51 PM (REdlt)

60 Holy smokes! I actually had the Navorone mountain set as a kid in the 70s. I totally forgot about that thing. Thanks for the flashback Maet.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 05, 2015 11:51 PM (KlVdw)

61 CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.
---------------------------------

They can't find nine people that remember Obama from anywhere.

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 05, 2015 11:51 PM (9mTYi)

62 Howdy, beloved Horde!

Does anyone know which Supreme Court justice is being investigated in the Kane story?

Posted by: Emmie at November 05, 2015 11:52 PM (my5Fr)

63 Fuckin' Squareheads.

Posted by: Al Swearingen at November 05, 2015 11:52 PM (vsbNu)

64 the out of control prosecutor?

Yeah. This just shows there needs to be some federal prosecutor control legislation.

Hell hath no fury like a woman held to account for her criminality.

Also shows her monumental ego. Sure there's some crap there on the receiving end but she's all willing to burn it down because she herself screwed up.

Frankly, most of citizens here in PA (except for some obvious people) say bring it all out Beyotch you're just helping clean up the stables.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (Xo1Rt)

65 "Voters in Bridgeport, Connecticut elected as their next mayor an
ex-convict who spent seven years in federal prison after being convicted
on 16 corruption charges."

Immediately on the heels of the Democratic city councilman in East Chicago who stood unopposed for re-election, and won re-election, while under indictment for Murder One.

Waiting for this to happen with a U.S. presidential candidate. My guess is that it's not going to be very far in the future.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (noWW6)

66 24 Anyone else tuning into The View tomorrow to watch Carly vs. the Harridans?

I am temperamentally incapable of watching those #$&!'s. Even the possibility of Carli beating the crap out of them doesn't make them watchable.

I think I hate them almost as much as I hate Hillary.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (+lVUW)

67 Who is Kathleen Kane and why does she want to bring down fire and brimstone on those good Pennsylvania dutchmen? She has a beef with the Amish?

Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (2MU19)

68 This ONT is outta control. Outta control.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (T/MCH)

69 62. Never mind; it's a state Supreme Court justice. I wouldn't know about any of them.

Posted by: Emmie at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (my5Fr)

70 >>>They can't find nine people that remember Obama from anywhere.

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 05, 2015 11:51 PM (9mTYi)<<<

To be fair, we never checked in Indonesia or Pok-ee-ston, where he spent some quality time.

Posted by: the MFM at November 05, 2015 11:54 PM (REdlt)

71 61 CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.
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They can't find nine people that remember Obama from anywhere.

Posted by: Elon Musk at November 05, 2015 11:51 PM (9mTYi)

Graduates from that camp will only remember him when they see the Queen of Diamonds while playing solitaire -- and then they'll forget.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 05, 2015 11:54 PM (EzgxV)

72 This return to the 9mm comes 30 years after a 1986 Miami shootout in which a wounded man was able to kill two agents and hurt a third, leaving the FBI convinced the round did not penetrate deep enough to stop aggression.

Sure ... it was the bullet's fault. There's no way that the crack FBI weren't good enough shots ... no, couldn't be that!

FBI tests currently show the new 9mm gives "12 to 18 inches of penetration into the human body." Whereas, in 1986, a round fired in the shootout did not penetrate deep enough into the chest cavity to reach the suspect's heart.

A 9mm couldn't penetrate a few inches? Really?

meanwhile, when the FBI first made these changes it was the 10mm that seemed to be the choice .. but that was too big and scary for them, so we got the midget version, the 40 S+W.

Personally, I don't think there was ever any problem with the rounds they were using. They didn't take guys down because they didn't hit them well enough. Just going for a bigger round so that you can wing a suspect and twist him around (as the mythology goes) doesn't really help anything.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 05, 2015 11:54 PM (zc3Db)

73 62 Howdy, beloved Horde!

Does anyone know which Supreme Court justice is being investigated in the Kane story?
Posted by: Emmie at November 05, 2015 11:52 PM (my5Fr)

Don't know but I'm pretty sure they're talking about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (kpqmD)

74
I'm down with that. Just so long as false accusations thus revealed by recordings are punished with Russian levels of ferocity.

The black public university department chair of journamalism who shrieked RAYCISS ELEVENTY after a pair of white cops pulled up by her, and politely cautioned her about running in the road, and asked for identification? Who then alleged a long string of vicious abuses and cruel extirpations and felonious whiteyness? Where the recording then conclusively proved she had brazenly lied and defamed the police officers in multiple ways?

Yeah, how about immediate dismissal from her cushy no-heavy-lifting tenured academic post, complete forfeiture of her pension, a ban on future employment in education, and a couple of years in the pokey? That should do for starters.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:41 PM (noWW6)
----
Wouldn't writing a op-ed defaming the police be considered "Slander"?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (KlVdw)

75 I'd plug my fun little book, but I'm not sure the night walkers actually read, so never mind.

(To Save Us All From Ruin, A Muldoon Adventure- on Kindle)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (NeFrd)

76 "Time change and he didnt set his clock back"

Some enlightened jurisdictions eschew this foolishness.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (noWW6)

77 Did Carson ever hold down a classmate and shave his head? How about putting any animals on the roof of his car? It's hard hitting investigation and reporting half truths like this that protects us from evil men.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (pmhkb)

78 Look at me! I invented the touchtone phone! *waves guts of old phone around*

Posted by: Ahmad the Genius Clock Boy at November 05, 2015 11:55 PM (FsuaD)

79 " China has been burning up to 17
per cent more coal a year than the
government previously disclosed"

How else you gonna generate all that electricity to charge "green" cars?

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (ymbWD)

80 A few weeks after Tom Friedman is killed in a bizarre love triangle it will be discovered that he was on the PRC's payroll for over 25 years. Bank on it.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (dl4Tu)

81 Immediately on the heels of the Democratic city councilman in East Chicago who stood unopposed for re-election, and won re-election, while under indictment for Murder One.
Waiting for this to happen with a U.S. presidential candidate. My guess is that it's not going to be very far in the future.
Posted by: torquewrench

Tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Gov/Inmate Blagojevich at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (awspb)

82 32 I watched a link to a vid of a Rutgers Feminist Rape Poem session someone posted below, and I felt my soul sucked out of me.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:42 PM (FsuaD)

If they really want to do something about rape, they should quit writing dumbass poetry and arm themselves.

Posted by: Annie Oakley at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (+lVUW)

83 68 This ONT is outta control. Outta control.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (T/MCH)

We'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (kpqmD)

84 Good evening, Horde.

I'm not much fun to be around lately, considering my dad's health issues and all. Anyone mind if I sit at the darkened booth in the corner and just scowl at no one in particular?

Thanks. Knew you'd understand.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (rJUlF)

85 Out.

Great fun.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (T/MCH)

86 >>>This ONT is outta control. Outta control.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (T/MCH)<<<

This business will get out of control. It will get outta control and... wait... you know what... I don't care anymore. I don't have to worry 'bout that shit now.

Posted by: zombie Teh Fred as Admiral Josh Painter at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (REdlt)

87 22 The problem with the Picturephone, and i am pretty sure this is why it ultimately failed in the marketplace, was that the dick pic han't been invented yet.
Posted by: Carlos Danger at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (6n8J9)

Speaking of dick pics, here's a story aptly titled "The Night of the Living Dick Pics"

http://tinyurl.com/ob4oqze

Several lessons here. 1, women lie. 2, don't send pictures of your genitalia to strangers based on a phone number you find on the Internets. 3, friendships can be born out of the strangest of circumstances.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 05, 2015 11:58 PM (wZ2hu)

88 84 Good evening, Horde.

I'm not much fun to be around lately, considering my dad's health issues and all. Anyone mind if I sit at the darkened booth in the corner and just scowl at no one in particular?

Thanks. Knew you'd understand.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (rJUlF)

*scoots over*
*pats seat*

Go on, take a load off.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2015 11:58 PM (kpqmD)

89 Wouldn't writing a op-ed defaming the police be considered "Slander"?
Posted by: Darth Randall

Writing the op-ed is libel. Slander is spoken.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at November 05, 2015 11:59 PM (awspb)

90 Waiting for this to happen with a U.S. presidential candidate. My guess is that it's not going to be very far in the future.
Posted by: torquewrench
-------------
“Earlier today I announced that as President, I will take steps to ban the box so former presidents won’t have to declare their criminal history at the very start of hiring process. That way they’ll have a chance to be seen as more than just someone who’s done time. They’ll have a chance to be evaluated on their skills and their work ethic.”

Posted by: Hillary, last Friday at November 05, 2015 11:59 PM (9mTYi)

91 87
22 The problem with the Picturephone, and i am pretty sure this is why
it ultimately failed in the marketplace, was that the dick pic han't
been invented yet.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (6n8J9)

I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (FsuaD)

92 "CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth."

What sort of bizzaro world are we living in when NOT being violent is a bad thing?

Posted by: Lauren at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (bYGAR)

93 Evening horde.

Been been talking to my best gal-friend since '90.

Dad just got diagnosed with multiple cancers.

So if y'all are in a praying mood can you send one up for Richard.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (9jeGC)

94 An interesting ONT, to say the least.

There are so many topics to comment on that would get me banned, if I said what was really on my mind.

Posted by: rickl at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (sdi6R)

95
Saw this headline today:

"CNN Heaps Praise on Accomplished Neurosurgeon Noted For Separation of Conjoined Twins"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 05, 2015 11:46 PM (NeFrd)
Wasn't "Heaps Praise" Elizabeth Warren's Indian maiden name?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (KlVdw)

96 84 Good evening, Horde.

I'm not much fun to be around lately, considering my dad's health issues and all. Anyone mind if I sit at the darkened booth in the corner and just scowl at no one in particular?

Thanks. Knew you'd understand.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (rJUlF)

Got any karaoke groupies lusting after you lately?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (EzgxV)

97 But there can't be high-end clothing stores in "Palestine". The MSM told me the Jews' blockade had everyone there starving!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 06, 2015 12:01 AM (HbSdt)

98
So if y'all are in a praying mood can you send one up for Richard.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (9jeGC)

Prayers up for Richard.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 06, 2015 12:01 AM (FsuaD)

99 Hey Captain Whitebread, we'll help you turn that scowl into a frown in no time.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 06, 2015 12:01 AM (NeFrd)

100 "He didn't kill nobody," he said. "He didn't rape nobody."

Whoa dude -- way to set the bar high.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2015 11:45 PM (gyKtp)

I was going to suggest changing "he" to "she " and using that as a Hillary for President slogan. Then I thought about Vince Foster. And who knows how poor Huma got broken in.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:02 AM (+lVUW)

101 "Sure ... it was the bullet's fault. There's no way that the crack FBI weren't good enough shots ... no, couldn't be that!"

It's been a while, but my impression was that the feds had decent shot placement (under extreme stress) in the Miami shootout. A more muscular round might have stopped the festivities early, yes. Guaranteed to have done so? No. Ballistics are weird.

"meanwhile, when the FBI first made these changes it was the 10mm
that seemed to be the choice .. but that was too big and scary for them,
so we got the midget version, the 40 S+W.
"

Well, too big and scary for the female feds. Who for some reason, despite by definition being equal to or better than males in every possible way, had trouble with the Ten. Obviously a problem with the caliber. Cannot possibly be a problem with the female feds.

Expect many re-runs of this as the Pentagon debate whether and how to replace the 9mm sidearm.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 12:03 AM (noWW6)

102 "I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk."

I am just so, so glad that camera phones weren't invented until after my dating days.

Posted by: Lauren at November 06, 2015 12:04 AM (bYGAR)

103 Just imagine if CNN had been one 10th as interested in Obama's past and his shady associations as they are in whether Ben Carson once tried to stab a guy (he says it was a close family member) when he was a poor street kid.

Seriously. Do you think the douche would be president now?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 06, 2015 12:04 AM (FsuaD)

104 Hi all. Time for sammich and maybe a nap. Might see you all later or not.

Posted by: Farmer at November 06, 2015 12:05 AM (o/90i)

105 Is it bad to be good or is it good to be bad or is it hip to be square?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 06, 2015 12:05 AM (FkBIv)

106
>>>Immediately on the heels of the Democratic city councilman in East
Chicago who stood unopposed for re-election, and won re-election, while
under indictment for Murder One.
Posted by: torquewrench<<<

Campaign Slogan: Vote for ______ ! He's a good boy, a very good boy!

Posted by: Good Boy/Gentle Giant 2016! at November 06, 2015 12:06 AM (REdlt)

107 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662319775067054081

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662319981938532352

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662320139455606784

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662320303322898433

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662320454120644608

Posted by: kbdabear at November 06, 2015 12:07 AM (GrXXa)

108 Thanks.

Sorry. ONT....

What are y'all drinking...

*not buying, just asking

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:07 AM (9jeGC)

109 Well, too big and scary for the female feds. Who for some reason, despite by definition being equal to or better than males in every possible way, had trouble with the Ten. Obviously a problem with the caliber. Cannot possibly be a problem with the female feds.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 12:03 AM (noWW6)

Yep.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 06, 2015 12:07 AM (zc3Db)

110 108 Thanks.

Sorry. ONT....

What are y'all drinking...

*not buying, just asking

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:07 AM (9jeGC)

The bitter regret distilled from my life choices.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 06, 2015 12:08 AM (kpqmD)

111 "Vote for Jailbird Joe; you'll always know where to find him."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 12:08 AM (0yhH4)

112 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662320622891081728

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662357349059964928

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662357499559993344

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662360070911631361

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/662360456003239936

Posted by: kbdabear at November 06, 2015 12:08 AM (GrXXa)

113 The Owl Cam is back up. However, a pair of bald eagles have shown up and there appears to be a stand down between them and the great horned owl couple.

An avian soap opera.

http://landingsbirdcam.com/

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 06, 2015 12:09 AM (FsuaD)

114 Was the Moe Lane quote supposed to have a link?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:09 AM (EzgxV)

115 Wes Siler has always been a loudmouthed talentless dillhole.

And he always will be.

Posted by: once a dillhole ... at November 06, 2015 12:09 AM (8bZvl)

116 92 "CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth."

What sort of bizzaro world are we living in when NOT being violent is a bad thing?

Posted by: Lauren at November 06, 2015 12:00 AM (bYGAR)

Is 9 people the threshold? I bet we could find 9 people to say that Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were little thug bastards. Think CNN will talk to them?

Posted by: buzzion at November 06, 2015 12:09 AM (zt+N6)

117 >>>Immediately on the heels of the Democratic city councilman in East
Chicago who stood unopposed for re-election, and won re-election, while
under indictment for Murder One.
Posted by: torquewrench

Let me guess, the guy's name is Diddnt D. Nuthin

Posted by: Thrawn at November 06, 2015 12:10 AM (wZ2hu)

118 102 "I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk."

I am just so, so glad that camera phones weren't invented until after my dating days.

Posted by: Lauren at November 06, 2015 12:04 AM (bYGAR)

Nobody wants to see a dick pic. Why? Why? Why? Inflated ego or very very desperate.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:10 AM (9jeGC)

119 54 CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (FsuaD)

So, he knew 9 people that he didn't assault? Seriously, how dumb are these people with journalism degrees?

By the way, they did a tv movie about Carson a number of years ago. If you get a chance to see it, watch it. According to that he went at a kid with a knife. And I'll tell you, according to that movie, his mother is really something. She was married at 13 and dumped. She was illiterate and worked as a housekeeper. She had two sons, one became an engineer and the other a pediatric neurosurgeon. Not bad for an illiterate single mom.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:10 AM (+lVUW)

120 Recently, the Democratic contenders to become the presidential candidate of their party, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, were declaring their love for the Denmark. I came across the rising attraction of the model myself at the Greek Emergency Summit i Athens, Greece, earlier this year, and I gave a talk on it at the Student for Liberty conference in Sofia last month. My advice was: Don't try this at home; at least until you understand what the Danish Model is about.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at November 06, 2015 12:11 AM (e8kgV)

121 The bitter regret distilled from my life choices.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 06, 2015 12:08 AM (kpqmD

Pull up a stool. I think we have them reserved.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:11 AM (9jeGC)

122 I wish Trump would just go scorched earth and start discussing all of Hillary's long forgotten lies over the years. He can do it in that sarcastic tone he has that would make the Dems heads explode.

Trump: I know Hillary and I like her but she likes to tell tale tales. No way was she named after Sir Edmund Hillary like she said. Again I like her but come on. It's as bad as claiming she had to dodge sniper fire . Look it up. I'm not kidding. And what's sad is you guys in the press just ignore these things like you're on her payroll. You are always trying to find past statements I've said to support your false claims I'm racist but ignore Hillary calling people Jew bastards. Again don't get me wrong , I think Hillary is a fabulous person just not someone who you should believe her stories.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at November 06, 2015 12:13 AM (pmhkb)

123 The Danes may be prone to all the usual scandi vices but they're not stupid. And they're very much into being Danish and making sure that Denmark stays Danish in the future.

Most likely is their politicians don't want to become EX-politicians

Posted by: kbdabear at November 06, 2015 12:13 AM (GrXXa)

124 The bitter regret distilled from my life choices.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 06, 2015 12:08 AM (kpqmD

Pull up a stool. I think we have them reserved.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:11 AM (9jeGC)

******

Save one for me. I got the first round.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:14 AM (0G7UN)

125 114 Was the Moe Lane quote supposed to have a link?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:09 AM (EzgxV)

Never mind -- it's the link for the section heading.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:14 AM (EzgxV)

126 Waiting for this to happen with a U.S. presidential candidate. My guess is that it's not going to be very far in the future.
Posted by: torquewrench at November 05, 2015 11:53 PM (noWW6)

Well, it is democrats who want to give convicted felons the right to vote.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:15 AM (+lVUW)

127 Later.

Endeavor to persevere!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at November 06, 2015 12:15 AM (NeFrd)

128 "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:16 AM (Xo1Rt)

129
CNN rips Carson over his early years. They found nine (NINE!) people from his past who don't remember a violent youth.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (FsuaD)
-----
So, is CNN implying that Ben Carson isn't authentically black because he wasn't a thug?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 06, 2015 12:16 AM (KlVdw)

130 It's been a while, but my impression was that the feds had decent shot placement (under extreme stress) in the Miami shootout. A more muscular round might have stopped the festivities early, yes. Guaranteed to have done so? No. Ballistics are weird.

Yeah there was a documentary on the Miami shootout posted on here the ONT several years ago. As I recall the agents managed to shoot the suspects multiple times and with decent shot placement (given the sudden nature of the gunfight). But what disconcerted the FBI was the fact that even after being hit several times the suspects kept on fighting and still managed to kill two agents. In the end one of the wounded agents had to crawl up to the suspects and finish them off at point blank range with a shotgun. And this wasn't the only incident where suspects kept fighting after being hit with what should have been an incapacitating shot.

Note that off-the-shelf HP 9mm ammo has come a long way in the 30 years since that shootout.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:16 AM (pAlYe)

131 My fiancee, who loves me, gave me a business card for this place -- http://www.janesbeerstore.com/blog/ -- which is near her work.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:16 AM (EzgxV)

132 "What's with all this Emergency ONT shit? Why I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know."
*****
Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

******

??????

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:18 AM (0G7UN)

133 Don't forget to run out and buy some 147 gr. Speer Gold Dot G2 tomorrow.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:19 AM (Xo1Rt)

134 "Well, it is democrats who want to give convicted felons the right to vote."

Virginia probably has Terry McAuliffe in the governor's office today because of the previous GOP governor, Bob McDonnell, who thought it would be a bright and humane idea to restore felon voting rights.

I suspect it was because certain Democratic luminaries of Virginia had privately told McDonnell that if he did that, they would rig his upcoming corruption trials to let him off, and after McDonnell had complied, they welshed on the deal.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 12:20 AM (noWW6)

135
Posted by: Gov/Inmate Blagojevich at November 05, 2015 11:56 PM (awspb)

And his predecessor. Illinois is known for governors retiring to the big house.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (+lVUW)

136 Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

******
??????
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:18 AM (0G7UN)

Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

Also because I have meetings and job shit that conflict with the ONT.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

137 'Night, all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (FsuaD)

138 Kathleen Kane: Burn it all to the ground. All of it. Purify Pennsylvania with fire.

ACCEPT YOUR DESTINY, KATHLEEN KANE. BRING THE WINNOWING TIME UNTO THE LAND. FOR YOU ARE THE HARVESTER OF THE LORD, AND GOD WILL KNOW HIS OWN.

Heh! I would add, Hell Hath no Fury than a bureaucrat scorned.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (Bg0+M)

139 43 "300 pounds of cow assholes?"

Thanks for sharing that story, Cooth. You have restored my faith in humanity.

Posted by: Piercello at November 06, 2015 12:22 AM (RXfvh)

140 Said ammo being over a buck a round in your local store. (maybe more in your local store.)

And the Feebies buying up all the stock isn't gonna help the price any.

I'll shoot 2 or 3 slugs into the bad guy. I'm on a budget.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:22 AM (Xo1Rt)

141 132 "What's with all this Emergency ONT shit? Why I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know."
*****
Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

******

??????

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:18 AM (0G7UN)

Perhaps my favorite part of the Bible is the book of Ecclesiastes. I think that 3:1-8 might apply.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:22 AM (EzgxV)

142 And his predecessor. Illinois is known for governors retiring to the big house.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (+lVUW)

****

"Illinois. Our former Governors make our license plates. Personally".

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:22 AM (0G7UN)

143 Thanks. Knew you'd understand.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 05, 2015 11:57 PM (rJUlF)

I do understand, I spent some time taking care of my late father, who was in his nineties. Hang in there.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:23 AM (+lVUW)

144 Look. Happy fun ball can be dangerous (just ask zombie Buzzion) but taunting Maet will get you all kinds of fellow moron hate cause he'll get mad and we'll be getting Yoko Ono Hearing test videos for a week.

So BACK OFF!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:24 AM (Xo1Rt)

145 Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

Also because I have meetings and job shit that conflict with the ONT.
Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

*****

Well, I feel better now. Hows about you?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (0G7UN)

146
"I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk."

I am just so, so glad that camera phones weren't invented until after my dating days.

Posted by: Lauren at November 06, 2015 12:04 AM

Polaroids, envelopes and stamps. Chicks used to dig the personal touch and effort.

Posted by: otho at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (EWg9n)

147 144 Look. Happy fun ball can be dangerous (just ask zombie Buzzion) but taunting Maet will get you all kinds of fellow moron hate cause he'll get mad and we'll be getting Yoko Ono Hearing test videos for a week.

So BACK OFF!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:24 AM (Xo1Rt)

Well he's off til Sunday night so that's two ONTs you know will be Yoko free.

Posted by: buzzion at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (zt+N6)

148 RWC - I totally understand. My dad is battling advanced lung cancer.

Cooth -- Sadly, not lately.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (rJUlF)

149 136 Well, yeah, sure. But, it is consistently over an hour later than it used to be posted. Can I ask why this is?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 05, 2015 11:48 PM (0G7UN)

******
??????
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:18 AM (0G7UN)

Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

Also because I have meetings and job shit that conflict with the ONT.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

When you have time, please let us know the unclassified elements of these meetings and job shit -- like where you blew up oil platforms that controlled satellite networks of stolen diamonds rigged to lase ICBM installations.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (EzgxV)

150 Evening morons, how fares the horde?

It is the eve of my 5th anniversary. Celebrations will be subdued, however, as our beloved and venerable St. Bernard is scheduled to be euthanized the next day--she has essentially canine ALS. She will be much missed, and will get a couple steaks before she leaves us.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:28 AM (Gosad)

151 102 "I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk."

I said this during the Anthony Weiner days.
If any of you guys decide that it would be a good idea to send a picture of your junk to some woman you're trying to impress, understand this. She will show it to all her friends and they'll point at it and laugh and squeal. They'll say, "Eew", a number of times. Then they'll make really mean jokes about how small it is. DON'T DO IT!
Then they'll

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:29 AM (+lVUW)

152 Hey everybody.

Anyone here have experience with Amazon Locker?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 06, 2015 12:30 AM (ntObR)

153 150 Evening morons, how fares the horde?

It is the eve of my 5th anniversary. Celebrations will be subdued, however, as our beloved and venerable St. Bernard is scheduled to be euthanized the next day--she has essentially canine ALS. She will be much missed, and will get a couple steaks before she leaves us.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:28 AM (Gosad)

That is very sad, CC. Do you have a cover story for Son of Crank about her traveling internationally to meet relatives, or are you going to tough it out?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:31 AM (EzgxV)

154 Posted by: buzzion at November 06, 2015 12:25 AM (zt+N6)

But Maet stores up moron criticisms. It's like a fine whiskey. Aged for weeks in oak casks.

Then released upon us making us grind our teeth in despair.

Maet gives good revenge.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:31 AM (Xo1Rt)

155 *ahem*

Bat Guano.

Posted by: The Wise Old Food Man of the Mountains at November 06, 2015 12:31 AM (WVEI3)

156 Said ammo being over a buck a round in your local store. (maybe more in your local store.)

And the Feebies buying up all the stock isn't gonna help the price any.

I'll shoot 2 or 3 slugs into the bad guy. I'm on a budget.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:22 AM (Xo1Rt)

I'm with you. I'll stick with my 115 grain HP. I'm sure it will work just fine.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 06, 2015 12:33 AM (zc3Db)

157 Maet goes to Europe and suddenly a horde of arabs flood the continent and Putin starts bombing Syria.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:33 AM (Xo1Rt)

158 >>Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

This rught here makes me miss Genghis.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 12:34 AM (6n8J9)

159 Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

Also because I have meetings and job shit that conflict with the ONT.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

I demand a refund then! I DEMAND SATIAFACTION!

*looks at AoSHQ membership scribbled on a napkin.

*dammit!*

G,night horde. Thanks for the prayers and thoughts. Going to see her tomorrow just to be there.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 06, 2015 12:34 AM (9jeGC)

160 152 Hey everybody.

Anyone here have experience with Amazon Locker?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 06, 2015 12:30 AM (ntObR)

My experience with Amazon overall is that they will spill their guts about everything they know about you with just the slightest of provocations. Just naming their product "Amazon Locker" makes me think that nothing inside it should be unencrypted.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:35 AM (EzgxV)

161 I said this during the Anthony Weiner days.

If any of you guys decide that it would be a good idea to send a
picture of your junk to some woman you're trying to impress, understand
this. She will show it to all her friends and they'll point at it and
laugh and squeal. They'll say, "Eew", a number of times. Then they'll
make really mean jokes about how small it is. DON'T DO IT!

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:29 AM

Perhaps. But, the upside is that she's showing her friends.

Posted by: otho at November 06, 2015 12:35 AM (EWg9n)

162 (to the tune of 'The Wanderer')

Oh, I'm the pajama boy that has no brains of his own
I vote for asshole libs, my brain is mostly bone
And when I find myself falling for some skirt
I jump into my fridge and choke down expired yogurt
'cuz I'm the wimpiest
yeah, I'm the wimpiest
yeah, I'm a wimp, a wimp, a wimp, a wimp...

Posted by: New Improved PC Dion at November 06, 2015 12:36 AM (ntObR)

163 Someone who went to prison for stealing 300 pounds of cow assholes.

If I'm not mistaken, that qualifies him for running for governor of Illinois as a democrat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:36 AM (+lVUW)

164 "Celebrations will be subdued, however, as our beloved and venerable St.
Bernard is scheduled to be euthanized the next day--she has essentially
canine ALS."

Among the toughest things I have ever had to do.

Also among the most necessary things I have ever had to do.

For those of you who are faced with this, remember that your voice and your touch and your smell are greatly comforting to your animal friends during their last minutes of life. It's wrenching to see them off in person. But you gotta be there for them if you can.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 12:37 AM (noWW6)

165 150 Posted by : CC

My sympathies on teh doggie, and congrats on the 5 years.

I seem to recall that St Bernards were not a very robust breed. Still, I know it hurts.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 12:37 AM (gyKtp)

166 cthulhu, Amazon Locker is a service Amazon provides where they'll deliver to a location of your choice *other* than your home. Basically it's a network of PO Boxes owned by them.

Think it might not be a bad choice for me. I think I may need a bit more... privacy... from time to time re my purchases...

Posted by: New Improved PC Dion at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (ntObR)

167 They've done tests and found that even frangible ammo will blow through the human body mostly intact.

Frangible ammo was designed to disintegrate after striking hard materials to limit ricochets. NOT to break up more in the bad guy's body so no one gets a collateral hit.

So you can safely pass on that shit. I won't stick to 115gr FMJ for defense but I'm gonna do like a 124gr HP and practice a lot.

Winchester has come up with a new idea about ammo. They sell matched weights in a training round to a defense round. The training round is cheaper so you can train with it but you carry the defense round. Since their ballistics are designed to be very similar, your training will match Real Life. Or at least that's the theory.

When I can find a set, I'm going to give that a try.

Or course I'll have to shoot someone to find out if it works.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (Xo1Rt)

168 Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.

Also because I have meetings and job shit that conflict with the ONT.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

But thanks for all of the great ONTs. I go on news breaks occasionally but the information you have here nightly is always a reason I come back.

That and 'Rape Tuesdays'.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (AC0lD)

169 155 *ahem*

Bat Guano.

Posted by: The Wise Old Food Man of the Mountains at November 06, 2015 12:31 AM (WVEI3)

It was seabird guano, but who's counting?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (EzgxV)

170 Well, just blew my cover.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (ntObR)

171 The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a "women in tech" advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

Good policy for everyone, everywhere regardless of their job or setting. Men have to treat every encounter with a female with suspicion, assuming the worst. Every woman that approaches a man has to be presumed to be a trap, an attempt to ensnare and destroy you.

Its not fair to women, but then women have long assumed single men are serial killing rapists so I guess fair play and all.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2015 12:41 AM (39g3+)

172 Cooth, he's not even 18 months, I think we'll be ok with Son of Crank. My nephew, who is almost 5 and loves the dog to no end, knows she is going to heaven.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:41 AM (Gosad)

173 Fun fact: the last of the clipper ships were used to transport bat guano from South America to Europe in the early 20th.

These were steel hull sailing ships.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:42 AM (Xo1Rt)

174 NOT bat guano. Damn the power of suggestion.

Seagull guano.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:42 AM (Xo1Rt)

175 Sincerest condolences, Crank.

Toughest job a man had to do.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 12:43 AM (6n8J9)

176 Every woman that approaches a man has to be presumed to be a trap, an attempt to ensnare and destroy you.

And that, my friends, is another way progs have ruined life.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 06, 2015 12:43 AM (rJUlF)

177 don't stick your dick in crazy.

your workplace is infested with crazy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:44 AM (Xo1Rt)

178 It is the eve of my 5th anniversary. Celebrations will be subdued, however, as our beloved and venerable St. Bernard is scheduled to be euthanized the next day--she has essentially canine ALS. She will be much missed, and will get a couple steaks before she leaves us.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:28 AM (Gosad)

My condolences, CC. It is tough to lose a furry family member.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 12:44 AM (0yhH4)

179 172 CC

Thoughts and prayers, my friend.

Had to do this for our 13 1/2 year old puppy a few months ago.

Still hurts.

Posted by: speedster1 at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (1brdf)

180 Never be in a situation where you are alone with a woman you don't know and trust, and I mean trust. Take a friend, take another woman along. Leave the door open. Always have a way of denying everything plausibly.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (39g3+)

181 And that, my friends, is another way progs have ruined life.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 06, 2015 12:43 AM (rJUlF)

****

Yep. It is becoming unseemly to have a hetero relationship. All according to plan.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (0G7UN)

182 For those of you who are faced with this, remember that your voice and your touch and your smell are greatly comforting to your animal friends during their last minutes of life. It's wrenching to see them off in person. But you gotta be there for them if you can.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 12:37 AM (noWW6)

I did it for my first dog. It was actually very peaceful. The vet gave him one injection that made him sleepy. He was snoring. Then she gave him an injection that made his heart stop. I was glad I was there because I knew it was peaceful and painless.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (+lVUW)

183 "Why I haven't missed a scheduled ONT in over 7 years of operation I'll have you know."

Yes, but you've been doing this for ten years.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (Kucy5)

184 NOT bat guano. Damn the power of suggestion.

Seagull guano.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:42 AM (Xo1Rt)

Bat boy! Bat boy! Whatcha guano do?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 12:46 AM (0yhH4)

185 Yes, but you've been doing this for ten years.
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (Kucy5)

[checks time machine logs]

Uhhh no I haven't.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (pAlYe)

186 I still carry the tag from our dog when I was growing up.

I had to take her in to the Vet. (they didn't allow anyone to stay with them back then or I would've gone.) She had heart worms and just wasn't herself anymore and my Dad had put down our other dog that I was a baby with and he couldn't do it again.

Tough guy but a soft heart.

Corky 1957-1964 RIP (toy collie mix)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (Xo1Rt)

187 *ahem*

Bat Guano.
Posted by: The Wise Old Food Man of the Mountains
-------------------

Gotta score some before the hoarders get it all.

*rushes off to Whole Foods*

Posted by: Hipster Douche at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (9mTYi)

188 I seem to recall that St Bernards were not a very robust breed. Still, I know it hurts.
Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 12:37 AM (gyKtp)

Giant breeds tend to have shorter lifespans. But some of them are considered to be awesome family dogs. I've known people who have had Newfoundlands and St Bernards. Great dogs. If you don't mind mucousy spit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (+lVUW)

189 CC so sorry about the doggeh

Posted by: chemjeff at November 06, 2015 12:48 AM (uZNvH)

190 When can I have an electric car powered by one of those Russian plutonium thermal units that used to run their lighthouses/nav beacons?

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 12:48 AM (4U131)

191 That and 'Rape Tuesdays'.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at November 06, 2015 12:38 AM (AC0lD)

Yeah, well Rape Tuesdays is tough on some of us.

Posted by: the chicken at November 06, 2015 12:49 AM (+lVUW)

192 184 NOT bat guano. Damn the power of suggestion.

I wonder if he ever made general. :-)

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:49 AM (pAlYe)

193 Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.
Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

Psst. Maet. Wanna have some fun? Blow the margins out and watch a meltdown that puts toddlers to shame.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 06, 2015 12:49 AM (Vm8WO)

194 Fun fact: the last of the clipper ships were used to transport bat guano from South America to Europe in the early 20th.

These were steel hull sailing ships.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

I'm guessing this was the first HERO SAFE specification.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 12:50 AM (4U131)

195 So, what kind of cheese do you have?

Posted by: eman at November 06, 2015 12:51 AM (MQEz6)

196 I just got some hot pepper jack cheese and habanero jack cheese today, both Sonoma Jack wedges.

It's true, cheese is addictive.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 06, 2015 12:52 AM (ntObR)

197 So, what kind of cheese do you have?

Posted by: eman at November 06, 2015 12:51 AM (MQEz6)

*****

Fromunda. On special today only.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at November 06, 2015 12:53 AM (0G7UN)

198 195 eman

Nice MP ref :-)

Posted by: speedster1 at November 06, 2015 12:53 AM (1brdf)

199 The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a "women in tech" advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

Good policy for everyone, everywhere regardless of their job or setting. Men have to treat every encounter with a female with suspicion, assuming the worst. Every woman that approaches a man has to be presumed to be a trap, an attempt to ensnare and destroy you.

Its not fair to women, but then women have long assumed single men are serial killing rapists so I guess fair play and all.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

The other option is not put your real name on the conference nametag; use the name you use when talking to strippers. This also helps when eavesdropping on competitors.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 12:53 AM (4U131)

200 Cheese? I got tons of cheese. Got a bunch of it recently from... somewhere...

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 06, 2015 12:53 AM (39g3+)

201 Every woman that approaches a man has to be presumed to be a trap, an attempt to ensnare and destroy you.

It's getting worse all the time. Some universities are redefining pretty much anything related to male - female relationships, to the point that normal behavior is being vilified. There's no telling what they'll call rape.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 06, 2015 12:54 AM (+lVUW)

202 Key lawmakers from both parties say frustration with the White House among the top military officers is at its highest level in decades, the product of President Obama's cautious approach to the wars in Syria and Iraq and an indecisive inner circle of White House advisers who, critics say, have iced the Pentagon out of the policy making process.

"There's a level of dissatisfaction among the uniformed military that I've never seen in my time here," said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain in an interview. "For some of us who are a little older, let's go back and read the Pentagon Papers -- what the administration is doing is the kind of incrementalism that defined much of the Vietnam conflict."

Posted by: Operation Incoherent Resolve at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (e8kgV)

203 199 Jean

Heh.

I found and printed a "My Name Is" Inigo Montoya stickers; cut it to fit a name badge holder. Wear it at certain functions....

Posted by: speedster1 at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (1brdf)

204 Mostly cheddar (real cheddar) sometimes some swiss.

I don't experiment much with cheese.

I like bleu cheese in sauces and dips but not to eat straight.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (Xo1Rt)

205 I have 4 tonnes of shortening.

Posted by: The Comte do Monte Crisco at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (0yhH4)

206 Cheese? I got tonnes of cheese. Got a bunch of it recently from... somewhere...
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (9mTYi)

207 I've tested my Personal Defense Ammo on Texas Hill Country Deer, which run a bit smaller on average than South Texas deer, and a full 100 lbs on average less than a Pennsylvania deer, buck for buck, doe for doe.

A good Hill Country doe, will be live weight of about 120 lbs, and dress out around 80 lbs or so. Corresponding buck will live weight about 150 lbs, and dress out around 100 lbs.

So, a bit less than a 5'11", 200 lb. male, human assailant.

The Winchester 145 gr. Silvertip, in .357 Mag, from an S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman, in the 4" bbl., is running two for two on the does, and one for one on a buck.

Longest shot was about thirty yards on the buck. Closest doe was at about ten yards.

Only the buck managed to run off about forty yards after being hit. The ten-yard doe was DRT, and the other doe, just over 15 yards, took one giant leap of about twenty feet, and landed dead as dead could after the jump.

That round clocks right at 1,300 fps from said S&W revolver. All three shots exited the deer, so no recovered bullets to describe.

But that's a lot of tasty, tasty venison there. All gone now, those were all hunts in the late 1990s.

Point is, a good handgun round, on game roughly analogous to the human size in terms of ribcage, bone mass and organ size.

Given a decent shot placement, it'll do the job. Both does were perfect heart shots. The buck, I hit about 3" above the heart, but still got the aorta and lungs.

Wound cavities indicated good tissue disruption, and jellified tissue from about 1" into the wound, to about 10" penetration, then it become a simple "drilled hole" wound channel again.

Now, twenty-plus years later, I'm sure that any number of high performance handgun rounds would give similar results.

But to get those results, shot placement matters. With a handgun, it always will matter, far more than with a rifle.

Either way, I decline to volunteer as a guinea pig for proof of argument.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (McRlu)

208 OATH 9mm is another nice option. It's all I will carry in a .380, if I have to carry a .380.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 12:56 AM (4U131)

209
Was it Nauru or some other Pacific island "nation" that was, literally, mining itself out of existence (seagull guano, phosphates), and had already bought another island to move to, back in the '80s? Something like that.

Jean, again my memory strikes, but I recall some excitement back in the early 90s over NUCLEAR POWERED stand-alone WEATHER STATIONS the Soviets had placed around various former republics, which of course were disappearing and feared radiological materials were getting into the wrong hands (i.e, almost any hands). As much as I admire the nuclear chauvinism of the 50s, when only materials and existing technology limited the application of nuclear power to every imaginable and dubious purpose imaginable- Soviet stuff was different.

As I said during Chernobyl and after - kids and matches, Soviets and nuclear energy. Bad combos.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 06, 2015 12:56 AM (QDnY+)

210 re CC's family putting down the dog --

Let me guess. It will be Mr. CC taking the dog in for the euthanasia. As a second, but more remote possibility it will be both the Mrs. and the Mr. Not even considered by me is the chance that the Mrs. will take care of this task alone.

I must be some kind of patriarchal asshole for stating this, but it is a fact of male/female unions that the guy will take care of such matters.

I would even hazard to guess that in a lesbian relationship, it would be the butch doing the dirty.

Someone disabuse me of this notion.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 12:56 AM (gyKtp)

211
185 Yes, but you've been doing this for ten years.
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 06, 2015 12:45 AM (Kucy5)

[checks time machine logs]

Uhhh no I haven't.
Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (pAlYe)

Also, Maet has said there is no math on this blog. It may be because he's actually a shape shifting reptile here to enslave us all by concealing the true passage of time, but who are we to judge? Only Happy Fun Ball can judge Maet.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:56 AM (Gosad)

212 172 Cooth, he's not even 18 months, I think we'll be ok with Son of Crank. My nephew, who is almost 5 and loves the dog to no end, knows she is going to heaven.

Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at November 06, 2015 12:41 AM (Gosad)

It's tough for me to remember he's so young, because all of the photos that you post show him to be so engaged. Like, I dunno, something you'd expect from the son of an ER doctor.

I'm sure you've already figured to bring props -- like a radio or TV -- to the vet's, and to sit for a while on a couch with her to allay her sense of strangeness. I'm sure you understand that she should feel confident that you are in control and that things will be ok until she is calmly, safely, mercifully, passed-on.

For some reason, the image of dying alone has been getting to me of late.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 12:57 AM (EzgxV)

213 [checks time machine logs]

Uhhh no I haven't.

Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:47 AM (pAlYe)

Man .... tough crowd! I thought Richard was being pretty funny. But, I'm easy like that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 06, 2015 12:57 AM (zc3Db)

214 Posted by: Jim at November 06, 2015 12:55 AM (McRlu)

that's good to know. Thanks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:58 AM (Xo1Rt)

215 193 Because fuck all you non-AoSHQ premium members that's why.
Posted by: Maetenloch at November 06, 2015 12:21 AM (pAlYe)

Psst. Maet. Wanna have some fun? Blow the margins out and watch a meltdown that puts toddlers to shame.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 06, 2015 12:49 AM (Vm8WO)

30 line comment with no breaks.

Posted by: buzzion at November 06, 2015 12:59 AM (zt+N6)

216 Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 12:56 AM (gyKtp)

Masters always have the slaves do the dirty work.

or should that be Mistresses?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 12:59 AM (Xo1Rt)

217 A .357 with a 4"-6" barrel is all one needs to hunt most whitetails and edible pigs in the Eastern US (and apparently TX).

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 01:00 AM (4U131)

218 I had the Navarone playset and it was all kinds of awesome. That thing got a ton of use.

Posted by: Thatch at November 06, 2015 01:00 AM (pBZp4)

219 >>A good Hill Country doe, will be live weight of about 120 lbs, and dress out around 80 lbs or so

The Mule Deer I shot last week dressed out over 240 lbs. Well over.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:02 AM (6n8J9)

220 A .357 with a 4"-6" barrel is all one needs to hunt most whitetails and edible pigs in the Eastern US (and apparently TX).
Posted by: Jean
--------------------

Well, a steady hand helps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 06, 2015 01:03 AM (9mTYi)

221 >>A .357 with a 4"-6" barrel is all one needs to hunt most whitetails and edible pigs in the Eastern US (and apparently TX).

Longbow!

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:04 AM (6n8J9)

222 If the FBI wants to be more deadly, why don't they just use derringers?

Posted by: Rolling Stone at November 06, 2015 01:05 AM (REdlt)

223 222 If the FBI wants to be more deadly, why don't they just use derringers?

Posted by: Rolling Stone at November 06, 2015 01:05 AM (REdlt)

....or those little things that go up?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 01:06 AM (EzgxV)

224 nice ONT Maet

Posted by: thathalfrican at November 06, 2015 01:06 AM (R5HRU)

225 >>>....or those little things that go up?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 01:06 AM (EzgxV)<<<

Absolutely. A tactical derringer, with the little things that go up.

Posted by: Rolling Stone at November 06, 2015 01:08 AM (REdlt)

226 A .357 with a 4"-6" barrel is all one needs to hunt most whitetails and edible pigs in the Eastern US (and apparently TX).
----------------------------

Presumably, a well-placed shot from a .357 would kill an elephant. I would not hog hunt around here with one, however:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/p5b2r79

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 06, 2015 01:10 AM (9mTYi)

227 A BLACK tactical Derringer. With cop killer teflon bullets.

And a night sight.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:10 AM (Xo1Rt)

228 >>A tactical derringer, with the little things that go up.

Get High Capacity Model before they outlaw them.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:11 AM (6n8J9)

229 High-powered assault derringer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 06, 2015 01:12 AM (9mTYi)

230 Be an Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers for Future Space Missions

In anticipation of returning human spaceflight launches to American soil, and in preparation for the agency's journey to Mars, NASA announced it will soon begin accepting applications for the next class of astronaut candidates. With more human spacecraft in development in the United States today than at any other time in history, future astronauts will launch once again from the Space Coast of Florida on American-made commercial spacecraft, and carry out deep-space exploration missions that will advance a future human mission to Mars.

The agency will accept applications from Dec. 14 through mid-February and expects to announce candidates selected in mid-2017. Applications for consideration as a NASA Astronaut will be accepted at:

http://www.usajobs.gov

Posted by: Buck Rodgers at November 06, 2015 01:15 AM (e8kgV)

231 227 A BLACK tactical Derringer. With cop killer teflon bullets.

And a night sight.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:10 AM (Xo1Rt)

***rolls eyes***

Yeah, I've been spending time at the range. I realize how ridiculous this is. But we just did it about 5 posts ago. Can we graduate on to Hawaiian secession [ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ 2015-11-05/practical-guide-hawaiian-secession ]?

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 01:16 AM (EzgxV)

232 217, Jean, indeed, that is so.

But do avoid untested, unproven "cheap ammo" and go with some really premium stuff of GREAT reputation, and that you know will give very tight groups at whatever your personal "maximum range" for hunting might be.

It's better to give up say, 200 ft. per second in favor of a 3" group at fifty yards, than to go for the hotter round and a six or seven inch group at the same distance.

And a tight grouping, high velocity gas-checked Keith type lead solid SemiWadCutter, is to be far preferred over a high velocity, shotgun-pattered (vs. "grouping") miracle-wonder-hollow-souled-bullet of whatever manufacturer is buying the full page magazine ads this month.

With any pistol round, the first priority is accuracy, the second is penetration, and only then does "expansion" or "disruption" become a valid factor.

Conversely, a rifle round at 2,700 fps, can pretty much destroy the chest cavity, with merely a sternum hit. The tissue disruption from a Mach-3 impact is difficult to understate.

Those who regularly field dress deer, know of what I speak.

I've seen even the lowly .223 round, absolutely shatter the thoracic cavity of a mature buck. But then, a 3,100 fps impact tends to have a dramatic effect, just so long as the bullet itself holds together.

But in all my years of hunting, I've learned this. Accuracy trumps every other factor. And when I say "accuracy" I mean final shot delivery, precisely on target.

Put the bullet inside the game, where you've aimed for the actual heart, or lungs. Not out on the outside of the animal, but accuracy to the internal organs.

And if you're shooting at a liberal, don't try for a brain shot.

The target is too small.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 06, 2015 01:16 AM (McRlu)

233 The agency will accept applications from Dec. 14 through mid-February and expects to announce candidates selected in mid-2017. Applications for consideration as a NASA Astronaut will be accepted at:

http://www.usajobs.gov

Posted by: Buck Rodgers at November 06, 2015 01:15 AM (e8kgV)

A wonderful opportunity for muslim outreach! And you don't have to bring 'em back.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 01:20 AM (0yhH4)

234 >>>The agency will accept applications from Dec. 14
through mid-February and expects to announce candidates selected in
mid-2017. Applications for consideration as a NASA Astronaut will be
accepted at:

http://www.usajobs.gov

Posted by: Buck Rodgers at November 06, 2015 01:15 AM (e8kgV)

A wonderful opportunity for muslim outreach! And you don't have to bring 'em back.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 01:20 AM (0yhH4)<<<

They'll need clocks on Mars, right?

Posted by: ~~John Carter~~ Ahmed of Mars at November 06, 2015 01:22 AM (REdlt)

235 Oh, Christ.

Another Puerto Rico. And with pretty much the same outcome in store.

why can't folks just move on? Kamehameha was never going to be much more than a benevolent dictator and do they really think the US was going to allow such a prime staging base to be controlled by some other country?

And now they want to cut the ties that enable them to exist in the 20 th century? Plus they don't have the infrastructure to support themselves with out the Navy or US bucks.

Just. Like. Puerto Rico.

Which is why every time they hold a plebiscite for statehood or sovereignty it splits because there's a lot of bad and not much good to doing either.

Aren't there any Hawaiian economists that can explain the facts of life to these morons?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:22 AM (Xo1Rt)

236 C.C.

My condolences, sir.

I've had to do that. Beloved, lamented and cherished cats. The hurt is the same, I think.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 06, 2015 01:23 AM (McRlu)

237 232 217, Jean, indeed, that is so.

But do avoid untested, unproven "cheap ammo" and go with some really premium stuff of GREAT reputation, and that you know will give very tight groups at whatever your personal "maximum range" for hunting might be.

It's better to give up say, 200 ft. per second in favor of a 3" group at fifty yards, than to go for the hotter round and a six or seven inch group at the same distance.

And a tight grouping, high velocity gas-checked Keith type lead solid SemiWadCutter, is to be far preferred over a high velocity, shotgun-pattered (vs. "grouping") miracle-wonder-hollow-souled-bullet of whatever manufacturer is buying the full page magazine ads this month.

With any pistol round, the first priority is accuracy, the second is penetration, and only then does "expansion" or "disruption" become a valid factor.

Conversely, a rifle round at 2,700 fps, can pretty much destroy the chest cavity, with merely a sternum hit. The tissue disruption from a Mach-3 impact is difficult to understate.

Those who regularly field dress deer, know of what I speak.

I've seen even the lowly .223 round, absolutely shatter the thoracic cavity of a mature buck. But then, a 3,100 fps impact tends to have a dramatic effect, just so long as the bullet itself holds together.

But in all my years of hunting, I've learned this. Accuracy trumps every other factor. And when I say "accuracy" I mean final shot delivery, precisely on target.

Put the bullet inside the game, where you've aimed for the actual heart, or lungs. Not out on the outside of the animal, but accuracy to the internal organs.

And if you're shooting at a liberal, don't try for a brain shot.

The target is too small.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 06, 2015 01:16 AM (McRlu)

Fundamentally, doing a "stop" involves either disruption of command/control or dropping BP below levels that will sustain command/control. Riddling the guts and muscles with holes does little to take down an enemy, except as it crashes BP.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 01:24 AM (EzgxV)

238 Before the American delegation headed to Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 to negotiate a global warming treaty, the Byrd-Hagel Resolution clearly spelled out where the Senate stood.

Specifically, the resolution states that the U.S. and other developed nations should not enter into a treaty requiring reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and other greenhouse gasses unless it "also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for developing country parties within the same compliance period."

The resolution also states that the U.S. should not enter into any treaty that "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States." Clearly, the Senate was concerned that a global warming treaty may do the nation more economic harm than environmental good.

Posted by: Capt. Sum Ting Wong at November 06, 2015 01:24 AM (e8kgV)

239 Pharrell Williams and Al Gore's promise of a second round of Live Earth concerts on seven continents that would be broadcast to an audience of billions has been downgraded to a webcast in Paris, organisers have confirmed.

Posted by: Ho Li Fuk at November 06, 2015 01:26 AM (e8kgV)

240 >>Those who regularly field dress deer, know of what I speak.

The Pudding.

Rifle wounds are simply devastating.
I have only seen one intact heart in the last 15 years or so. Usually, everything in front of the diaphragm is liquified.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:26 AM (6n8J9)

241 "Put the bullet inside the game, where you've aimed for the actual heart,
or lungs. Not out on the outside of the animal, but accuracy to the
internal organs."

Yes. I was also cautioned by wise old hunters to study comparative anatomy.

Pigs in particular don't have critical organs where one would expect to find them based on comparably sized quadruped mammals.

I did laugh at the mention upthread of "edible pigs". One of the wise old hunters had, at the specific request of a landholder on whose property he hunted, stalked and bagged a very nasty very gnarly wild boar that had been doing a lot of damage.

They ended up making as much of the boar into heavily spiced sausage as they could, and it was still amazingly gamey meat. Enough so that while well into my cups, I was wrinkling my nose at it. Believe me, that takes some doing.

Posted by: torquewrench at November 06, 2015 01:30 AM (noWW6)

242 Archery hunting teaches you to shoot for your exit rather than your entry. It's a good way to think about shot placement.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:33 AM (6n8J9)

243 Target marked for common errors:

Right hand: http://tinyurl.com/pgqfakq

Left hand: http://tinyurl.com/pjrb2v6

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:36 AM (Xo1Rt)

244 If there are to be found 23 appreciative readers of the ONT, will you spare the Horde from Yokonization?

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at November 06, 2015 01:37 AM (uPxUo)

245 those are pdf files btw. so you can print them out and either use them as is or as a reference for whatever you have out there.

Like a golf swing guide chart.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:41 AM (Xo1Rt)

246 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 01:41 AM (Xo1Rt)

Nice charts but they didn't mark the mistakes that occur for hits outside of the 1 ring ... such as "uncoordinated douchebag", "hot chick walking by", "sneeze", ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 06, 2015 01:45 AM (zc3Db)

247 Mike Hammer - edible pig, I wouldn't feed one of those monsters to the jackasses at Gitmo ... well maybe

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 01:49 AM (4U131)

248 140
Said ammo being over a buck a round in your local store. (maybe more in your local store.)

And the Feebies buying up all the stock isn't gonna help the price any.

I'll shoot 2 or 3 slugs into the bad guy. I'm on a budget.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That

I got tired of ballistic statistics and just decided if I was going to be interviewed by the local DA's minions that I'd shoot the perp with my .44 Mag and be done with it. I use 230 gr JHP. Yes, I have several flavors of 9mm but I don't want to annoy the sob, I want to put them down and I really, really hope it never comes to that.

Posted by: Gmac - IP banned at home - #twoweeks at November 06, 2015 02:01 AM (4pjhs)

249 Jim, for hunting I use hard cast Buffalo Bore over my loads. I've just been getting lighter since moving East from Utah (30-06, down to 30-30, then a .357 levergun, then a 77-357, now a 357 revolver. Maybe next year I'll be using a .22mag.

Posted by: Jean at November 06, 2015 02:01 AM (4U131)

250 The Mule Deer I shot last week dressed out over 240 lbs. Well over.

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 01:02 AM (6n8J9)

You sure it wasn't just a mule?

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at November 06, 2015 02:02 AM (5zyvn)

251 The city of Berkeley was rocked today by huge protests -- over the most amateur, juvenile "racist incident" hoax yet.

Some kid -- wrap your mind around this -- took a photograph of a computer screen on which was displayed the Berkeley High School library web page.

Then he crudely photoshopped the words "KKK says kill all ni&&ers! and "Public lynching on campus of ni&&ers on December 9!!!" o something like that. Don't make me look it up.

Then he sent this totally absurd and instantly self-evident photoshopped picture to the high school's Afrikan (yeah, with a "k") Student Union, claiming that the library "had been hacked by the KKK!!!!" who were "threatening to kill black students!!!!"

So basically the entire student body went into hysterics and walked out of class today and stormed around the city protesting, lead by Black Lives Matters organizers (who just happen to also be teachers at Berkeley High School) and communists with megaphones.

The cops took about two hours to find the student hoaxer, but of course they aren't releasing his name or race because he's underage.

Needless to say, there is a 99.9999999% chance that the hoaxer is black and probably himself a member of the Afrikan Student Union and probably did it at the behest of the teacher/mentor who runs the club -- or maybe the kid is a white budding SJW already brainwashed into lunacy, training how to "shape the narrative" with faked hate crimes.

But since the race of the hoaxer remains unknown, the left STILL won't back down, coasting on what they (falsely) imagine is everyone's assumption that a racist white student pulled the hoax because racism.

Of course, the black activists who attempted this probably originally thought that everyone would actually believe that the KKK had a huge chapter on the Berkeley High School campus and really were planning to hold a mass lynching next month.

But since even the most die-hard Marxists found that notion utterly laughable at best, the fall-back position was, OK, maybe the guy who did this isn't really in the KKK, but he certainly is a racist!

But a quick scan of all the comments section for articles about this incident reveals that there is a 95% "Oh yeah, another bogus hate-crime hoax. Give it up already!" rate.

Despite all this, the African nationalists, Black Lives Matterites, SJWs and miscellaneous commies are in full hysteria mode over their own failed hoax, and their new target, as of a couple hours ago, is to get the white principal fired, because he took 11 hours to issue a statement buying into the reality of the lynching threat and throwing all available monetary resources to the Afrikan Students Union. 11 hours, you white bastard??!?!? You waited 11 hours hours to give into our demands and embrace our hoax? YOU'RE THE WORST RACIST OF ALL!!

Their rage has to be directed somewhere, so he's the target this hour. By tomorrow, who knows?

And that, my friends, is daily life in lefty-land.

Sorry, no links or quotes -- I'm tired. If you want the details, just go to google news and type in "Berkeley" and "KKK" and you'll find plenty of hits.

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:02 AM (jBuUi)

252 >>You sure it wasn't just a mule?

It was like dragging a Mule for a mile and a half!

Posted by: Garrett at November 06, 2015 02:07 AM (6n8J9)

253 did it have really long ears and a mane?

You coulda rode it out and THEN shot it.

supposedly hearabouts (se PA up against the Appalachians) there's a feral hog problem.

I'm thinking of investigating this some more.

Sounds more exciting and challenging than a deer or even and Elk.

Added bonus; no season. Game commission considers them a pest to be eradicated. but I'm wondering what the population really is and where they're concentrated if at all.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at November 06, 2015 02:22 AM (Xo1Rt)

254 87 22 The problem with the Picturephone, and i am pretty sure this is why it ultimately failed in the marketplace, was that the dick pic han't been invented yet.
Posted by: Carlos Danger at November 05, 2015 11:40 PM (6n8J9)

Speaking of dick pics, here's a story aptly titled "The Night of the Living Dick Pics"

http://tinyurl.com/ob4oqze

Several lessons here. 1, women lie. 2, don't send pictures of your genitalia to strangers based on a phone number you find on the Internets. 3, friendships can be born out of the strangest of circumstances.

I'm sorry, but that is funny as hell. I'm choking down out loud laughter so I don't wake my wife.

Posted by: Weirddave at November 06, 2015 02:24 AM (N8hFs)

255 And that, my friends, is daily life in lefty-land.

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:02 AM (jBuUi)

That's the operative line of your piece, and this is the world they want to build for us. This shit. Everywhere. Constantly.

I will not live in fear of lunatics, life is not so dear, nor peace so sweet to be purchased at the price of submission to the whims of the insane.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 06, 2015 02:26 AM (J+mig)

256 @251 Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:02 AM (jBuUi)

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Whoever did this got their first taste of power.
They're probably ecstatic right now. Maybe they'll grow up to be the next Bill Ayers and nostalgically recall how they "raised awareness" in their autobiography 40 years hence.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 02:29 AM (nS9xj)

257

Whoever did this got their first taste of power.

This is Berkeley. Yes, they're buzzed.

Fortunately, it's unlikely they will ever make it out of the Shattuck protest route. There are too many people with money/influence in the area who will keep them on a leash as useful idiots ... until they're pushing 40, when they become clearly too old to be anything other than an amusement, or wise-up by 30 and move to SF.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 06, 2015 02:37 AM (FlRtG)

258 If Hawaii wants to secede, I say let 'em. That'll be 2 less Democrat Senators to worry about, and as the rest of 'em started to feel disenfranchised, we might be able to persuade others to quietly show themselves the door. Californistan could become its own country, just like the Lefties think it could be, and stop fucking up the rest of us with their rainbows unicorn farts politics.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 06, 2015 02:39 AM (J+mig)

259 Damn ampersands. I'm going to have to learn to type without them one day...

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 06, 2015 02:40 AM (J+mig)

260 I think the cheese thread gave me a nightmare about a French Marxist trying to drag me into his car to assassinate me, despite the fact that counterrevolutionaries half stuffed him into a snow blower and he was in a semi zombified state, angily shouting above the din of the machine. I hate Marxists.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 02:45 AM (nS9xj)

261 To me the most hilarious detail of today's hate-crime hysteria in Berkeley is this:

Everyone is screaming that black students now "don't feel safe" on campus because this is merely the latest of "a series of racist hate crimes" at the high school, When pressed to list the previous hate-crimes, they cite two of them:

- an ill-attended Black Lives Matter protest (the lack of universal participation indicated that all non-attendees were declaring, through their absence, that black lives didn't, which really if you think about it is a veiled death threat, isn't it???).

- a "noose" found hanging on the campus.

Now, about that second incident, the "noose":

One morning, the Dean of Racism (or whatever his title is -- Diversity Czar? I forget) was walking across the campus courtyard before school started and found a noose hanging from a tree! A noose!! From a tree!!!

So there was the usual 48-hour hysteria.

Then a photo of the "noose" hit the Web, and it turned out to the string of a deflated balloon that had been tied to a tree branch, then eventually popped or whatever, and subsequently dangled in a tangle from the tree. The popped balloon was still attached. The string was about 5 inches long. And it wasn't in a noose -- it was just draped over a twig in a vague loop, as strings are wont to do.

The kicker? There has been some kind of "diversity festival" the previous day in the school courtyard where the string was found, replete with balloons -- which the Dean of Racism had himself tied to the trees.

So the guy who "discovered" the "noose" had himself been the one who put it there!!!!

This fact, however, in no way diminished the severity of this very serious "Racist Incident of the Noose," which today was repeatedly cited as one of the "pattern of hate crimes" on campus recently.

Is is really that bad? Yes, it is. It is that bad.

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:53 AM (jBuUi)

262 that black lives didn't,
=
that black lives didn't matter,

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:54 AM (jBuUi)

263 I've given up trying to take dick pics. The formaldehyde makes the image too cloudy.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 06, 2015 02:56 AM (nS9xj)

264 I can't think of a single, sane woman who wants to see a pic of some guy's junk.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
---
Much less having it physically attached to them.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 06, 2015 02:59 AM (nS9xj)

265 >>>- an ill-attended Black Lives Matter protest (the lack of universal participation indicated that all non-attendees were declaring, through their absence, that black lives didn't, which really if you think about it is a veiled death threat, isn't it???).

But if whites attended, the blmers would have also protested, since the latest fad is "safe spaces" free of whites.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 06, 2015 03:05 AM (nS9xj)

266 Re lamb sacrificing: the curandero in the wilds of the Chihuahuan desert i keep on retainer always recommends goat for sacrifice. Claims results are better. I aint gonna argue with the man.

Posted by: fastlibrefall at November 06, 2015 03:07 AM (+zgXl)

267
One of the things I admire about Fargo, season, two, is their heavy use of tuba. Not for children, tho. Brass instruments scare children. As a kid, I remember being terrified of the Peter Gunn theme.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 06, 2015 03:07 AM (iQIUe)

268 In the kafkatrapping link, in a comment about 1/3 of the way down, by user "asdf," are some very interesting links.

I knew some of that about wiki, but some of it is new.

Yeah, not only do you not want to be alone with a woman in a professional context, or a person, or not in a professional context... you should pretty much always be alert for someone trying to trap you no matter how irrelevant you think you are.

Horrifying paranoia is the necessary result of horrifying manipulative aggression.

The thing about the academic setting is that those who have been protecting and encouraging the aggressors have essentially unleashed them on the rest of us as a result of their complicity, cowardice and/or laziness.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:13 AM (bLnSU)

269 This fact, however, in no way diminished the severity of this very serious "Racist Incident of the Noose," which today was repeatedly cited as one of the "pattern of hate crimes" on campus recently.

Is is really that bad? Yes, it is. It is that bad.

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 02:53 AM (jBuUi)

One heartening thing to take away from this, is that, at least so far, these hoax attempts have been utterly breathtaking in their sheer level of incompetence. IQ 70's at work. I trust that if you, or I, or really any of us here, were to undertake some such stunt, that it would be carried off so well that it would be believed by all and sundry, and not just those who desperately want to believe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 06, 2015 03:15 AM (0yhH4)

270 >>>Okay stealing candy put out for kids is pretty low even on the modified pond scum scale. But the problem here is that the social media outrage mob only has a single penalty for all crimes: complete and utter personal destruction. And I'm not quite sure that Fat Bunny Candy-Stealer quite deserves that given all the father-rapers and shameless moperists who go unpunished every day in our society.

Maybe she was trying to fight childhood obesity by removing one of its causes?

She should have just licked the candy and return it. Then she'd have been lauded instead of pilloried.

Posted by: Ariana Grande at November 06, 2015 03:16 AM (nS9xj)

271 >>>Okay stealing candy put out for kids is pretty low even on the modified pond scum scale. But the problem here is that the social media outrage mob only has a single penalty for all crimes: complete and utter personal destruction. And I'm not quite sure that Fat Bunny Candy-Stealer quite deserves that given all the father-rapers and shameless moperists who go unpunished every day in our society.

I'd never steal candy from a baby. I prefer to steal their little hearts.

Posted by: Deborah Nucotola at November 06, 2015 03:22 AM (nS9xj)

272 One thing that rarely seems to come up in the Great Caliber War (except in the most technical discussions) is bullet design. Oh, it will get mentioned every now and then - but I've seen huge debates where it never comes up.

You have to match a good bullet design to its proper velocity. Too little and it won't expand, too much and it fragments, in the Goldilocks zone it expands and creates a deep wound channel, more likely to disable the target.

There are those who test this specifically, and come up with things like the Speer Gold Dot, or the granddaddy HydraShok, or dozens of others.

The annoying part is that the recommended velocities can be hard to find, even online, though the manufacturers can tell you.

9mm is fine, if it uses the right bullet, because they're designing for that application.

.38 Special is marginal because it's harder to find the right combination.

Between these two is the fuzzy border - but with the right setup a .38 is fine.

Heck, that's why the Seecamp .32 and the Silvertip were such a famous combo - the .32 Silvertip was, at least for a while, the only .32 bullet designed so that it worked effectively at the .32's velocity. Nobody else was even trying, they were just putting "a .32 bullet" in a case with the amount of powder from the chart and calling it good.

So you have to know more than the cartridge, you have to at least know a few things about the components.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:25 AM (bLnSU)

273

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:26 AM (+YMhA)

274 A smiley illustration of my time on the playground again today.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:27 AM (+YMhA)

275 UCB BLM is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, imposing the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move UCB forward in the 21st century.

Posted by: Tom Friedman at November 06, 2015 03:28 AM (nS9xj)

276 Me: No, you cannot throw snowballs at other kids' heads.
Kid: You mean like this?
Me: Exactly like that. Go sit down for five minutes.
Kid: It's too cold, I'll just go tell the principal.
Me: Works for me, kid.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:28 AM (+YMhA)

277 A smiley illustration of my time on the playground again today.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:27 AM (+YMhA)

Second childhoods can be fun until you are arrested for being a potential child molester...

Posted by: Just a thought... at November 06, 2015 03:28 AM (vBeA5)

278 Gonna be hard to arrest me for child molestation what with the leggings, wool socks, butt jacket, winter coat, gloves, hat, scarf and big bad-ass whistle I wear to do the job. Couldn't even get to the molestable parts in that ensemble.

Just sayin'.

The life of a playground supervisor: If you can survive the screaming and constant edge-of-disaster out of control nonsense, and then still make it to the playground to see the kids, you've made it, man.

Therefor:

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:31 AM (+YMhA)

279 Am I the only one who understands just how dangerous this is?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ozdqogw

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 06, 2015 03:32 AM (vBeA5)

280 Gonna be hard to arrest me for child molestation what with the leggings, wool socks, butt jacket, winter coat, gloves, hat, scarf and big bad-ass whistle I wear to do the job. Couldn't even get to the molestable parts in that ensemble.

Just sayin'.

The life of a playground supervisor: If you can survive the screaming and constant edge-of-disaster out of control nonsense, and then still make it to the playground to see the kids, you've made it, man.

Therefor:

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 06, 2015 03:31 AM (+YMhA)

Challenge accepted.

Posted by: Leviathan, abusing the fears of helicopter parents everywhere... at November 06, 2015 03:33 AM (vBeA5)

281 Second childhoods can be fun until you are arrested for being a potential child molester...

Posted by: Just a thought... at November 06, 2015 03:28 AM (vBeA5)

When I saw that news item about the Aspie arrested for talking to kids at a park, I remembered back some years to an extended conversation I had at a mall with a rather precocious gaming nerd kid.

Best to just stay at home these days. Don't talk to people, the cameras are everywhere, and the Stasi are everywhere, and they don't even wear uniforms anymore because they're volunteers.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:34 AM (bLnSU)

282 I trust that if you, or I, or really any of us here, were to undertake some such stunt, that it would be carried off so well that it would be believed by all and sundry, and not just those who desperately want to believe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Before I became an Internet personality, in my somewhat younger years, I was, setting aside all modesty here, an absolute master hoaxer. A colupe of mine even made the national news, and one went international. None of them had anything to do with politics, but I actually was interested in the concept of "manipulating the media," which I discovered was so easy that it actually took effort to not manipulate the media.

In one incident, which scarred me for life, I promulgated a completely ridiculous hoax, which to my initial delight fooled a bunch of people, but before it got out of hand, I revealed that it had all been a joke. Guess what? Many folks were so invested in the reality of my hoax that they refused to believe my retraction, and to this day I am known as the person who [REDACTED]. I have met strangers who knew my name associated with this hoax and still think it's real. "My God, are you the same xxx xxx who blankety-blank????"

Under various pseudonyms (and my real name), I am mentioned on Snopes.com no less than six times -- two of which get it completely wrong.

This all was back when I was young and still a default leftist moonbat-type, but luckily the hoaxes were more of the humor/scandal type, and in no way related to politics or current events.

But, as you note, if I had turned my mind in that direction, then or now, woo-eeeeee, it would be dead-easy to pull off a masterpiece.

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 03:35 AM (jBuUi)

283 268 In the kafkatrapping link, in a comment about 1/3 of the way down, by user "asdf," are some very interesting links.

I knew some of that about wiki, but some of it is new.

Yeah, not only do you not want to be alone with a woman in a professional context, or a person, or not in a professional context... you should pretty much always be alert for someone trying to trap you no matter how irrelevant you think you are.

Horrifying paranoia is the necessary result of horrifying manipulative aggression.

The thing about the academic setting is that those who have been protecting and encouraging the aggressors have essentially unleashed them on the rest of us as a result of their complicity, cowardice and/or laziness.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:13 AM (bLnSU)

I probably shouldn't mention any of this.....but I was the Controller of a company.....and I needed someone to handle accounts payable. This involves matching evidence that the company had asked for something, received what it had asked for, and been billed the amount it had agreed to be obligated for when it had requested it. On paper, this meant there was a PO, a packing slip, and an invoice -- if all three matched, stuff got paid.

I got someone to do this, and my first indication of trouble was when other staffers noted she was wearing the same clothes for several days in a row. Being alerted, I observed the same thing. I reported this to HR and was told that it was my problem.....and when she eventually changed clothes, I commented to her that it was nice to see some variation.

Fast forward some weeks, and a variety of other problems, and on the cusp of firing her for performance issues, she decides to accuse me of "coming on to her" -- because I'd expressed relief that she had finally changed clothes (mind you, there was no indication that she had also bathed). Resulted in an official HR investigation that went nowhere and had me discover that she had six weeks of unopened mail stashed in her cube.

So, yes, there is a peculiar advantage to never being in an undocumented private space with a psychotic underling. I shudder to think of how things may have played out if I didn't have myriad emails to HR, begging them to fix the problem.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 03:36 AM (EzgxV)

284 FFS, it'll likely dip into the high 30's next week.

This past Spring there was about two months when you could leave you windows open 24/7 and the temperature iwas in the low 80's to high 70's.

That has been cut short this Fall when there was less than a month between highs in the 90's, and highs in the 50's.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd rather have triple digit temperatures than mysterious white powder (that isn't cocaine) fall from the sky...

Posted by: The Desert Hat at November 06, 2015 03:37 AM (vBeA5)

285 colupe = couple

Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 03:37 AM (jBuUi)

286 So, yes, there is a peculiar advantage to never being in an undocumented private space with a psychotic underling. I shudder to think of how things may have played out if I didn't have myriad emails to HR, begging them to fix the problem.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 03:36 AM (EzgxV)

Let's just say I know people who have lost their jobs over trivial or nonexistent events along those lines.

Seriously, be a hermit. Everyone should be a hermit. Refuse to interact with strangers more than absolutely necessary.

At least, for once, it will be the extroverts who are driven nuts.

Next, morning people (******* woke me up this morning).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:41 AM (bLnSU)

287 Am I the only one who understands just how dangerous this is? http://preview.tinyurl.com/ozdqogw

Posted by: The Political Hat

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I don't get it. What's the danger?

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 03:41 AM (nS9xj)

288 I think voting selfies are primarily annoying, but I'm not sure I want rampant photography at the polling place. Just take a picture with your "I voted" sticker or whatever.

I'm sure I don't want to *ban* photography at polling places, but there are a couple of borders this trods on, like advocacy at polling places (sort of) and privacy of others.

On the other hand, sooner or later, people *will* be targeted based on photos of how they voted, if it hasn't happened already - I think this is what Hat is referring to.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:44 AM (bLnSU)

289 Anyway, peace out.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 06, 2015 03:48 AM (bLnSU)

290 Am I the only one who understands just how dangerous this is?http://preview.tinyurl.com/ozdqogw

Posted by:The Political Hat

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I don't get it. What's the danger?
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 03:41 AM (nS9xj)

The enforcement of privacy exists to protect the voter from duress or enticement.

I've personally seen attempts by union goons try to take photographic evidence of "correct voting". Your humble author has even seen union members walk in and loudly shout who they voted for.

I've witnessed union member come in to a polling station and ask for a "I voted" sticker because they were required by their union to show proof that they voted. Just how bad will it be when the union bosses can demand not just proof of voting, but proof of voting for the correct candidate.

This is not a partisan concern.

What stops an employer, using the "right" of an employee taking a selfie, to punish or reward the employees?

What stops a union boss, using the "right" of an employee taking a selfie, to punish or reward the union member?

What stops a pastor, using the "right" of an employee taking a selfie, to punish or reward a parishioner?

What stops a college, using the "right" of an employee taking a selfie, to punish or reward a professor?

Posted by: The Enfranchised Hat at November 06, 2015 03:52 AM (vBeA5)

291 a psychotic underling.
Posted by: cthulhu

You reminded me of an egregious workplace incident I witnessed first-hand that had nothing to do with false harassment claims but reveals the kind of people one needs to watch out for in the modern office:

I once worked at a small company, and the boss hired someone to basically do what used to be called "typing" or "data entry," but which I think we called "compositing" or some such.

Anyway, her job was to sit at a keyboard and type up the stuff she was told to type up.

She had been on the job for FIVE HOURS when she made her first official complaint, still on her first day at the job, that she was "suffering" and that her assigned task was "unfair" or some such.

Over the next hour she got grumpier and grumpier, and at 3pm on her first day on the job she called 911 and was carted away to the hospital with a nearly terminal case of (can you guess? This was the '90s. Think hard.) carpal-tunnel syndrome. (In layman's terms, "a sore wrist.")

I think she sued for $1.7 million, and settled for about forty grand.

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Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 03:52 AM (jBuUi)

292 At my last job, a female mid-level manager and a female file clerk were both "severely injured" by a falling Box of Death in the storeroom. Of course, there were no witnesses other than each of them serving as witness for each other. And the two of them had suddenly become very chummy in the weeks leading up to this tragic event (they had a distinct dislike for each other beforehand.)

Both of them finished out the day after this alleged tragedy, with neither of them saying one word about it, and with no visible injuries whatsoever. I had lunch with one of them (the file clerk) mere hours after this alleged incident, and she said NOT ONE SINGLE WORD about the severe injuries she would shortly claim she had just suffered.

Both of them remained on the payroll, without having to come to work, receiving full pay and benefits for OVER THREE YEARS before the case was finally settled and both of them received very sizeable payouts.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at November 06, 2015 04:04 AM (HMt16)

293 Posted by: zombie at November 06, 2015 03:52 AM (jBuUi)

And this, fellow morons, is why y'all need to be putting your money into capital-intensive investments. No to fast-food; yes to machine-shops. No to customer-service, yes to rental real-estate.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:05 AM (EzgxV)

294
Under various pseudonyms (and my real name), I am mentioned on Snopes.com no less than six times -- two of which get it completely wrong.

Ohhh. Challenge accepted!

*Google, Google, Google. Bing, Bing, Bing. DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo (say or type that, three times fast!)*

j/k, btw...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at November 06, 2015 04:06 AM (4DCSq)

295 Last Friday after telling everyone to be safe not 15 min and 3 miles away I hit a deer wrecking a portion of my truck. The buck was still alive and in the road so called for police. They (2) decided to shot the deer. It took 3 or 4 shots to finish it off so I wanted to ask but didn't what caliber he was using but wonder were they bad shot placements or small rounds (9mms my guess)
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at November 06, 2015 04:08 AM (JWMFs)

296 294
Under various pseudonyms (and my real name), I am mentioned on Snopes.com no less than six times -- two of which get it completely wrong.

Ohhh. Challenge accepted!

*Google, Google, Google. Bing, Bing, Bing. DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo (say or type that, three times fast!)*

j/k, btw...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at November 06, 2015 04:06 AM (4DCSq)

Yeah, I thought that was risky as well.....but there's only so much you can do to hide when you're black, male, 6'7", and do modelling....

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:10 AM (EzgxV)

297 295 Last Friday after telling everyone to be safe not 15 min and 3 miles away I hit a deer wrecking a portion of my truck. The buck was still alive and in the road so called for police. They (2) decided to shot the deer. It took 3 or 4 shots to finish it off so I wanted to ask but didn't what caliber he was using but wonder were they bad shot placements or small rounds (9mms my guess)
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at November 06, 2015 04:08 AM (JWMFs)

That sounds horrid -- I'm so sorry you went through this.

And, frankly, if they can't put an immobilized deer out of its misery in less than 4 shots, I really have to wonder about their overall competence.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:14 AM (EzgxV)

298 Night all.

Here is "Maiden, Mother & Crone" by The Sword:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7ndxWgW5A

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 06, 2015 04:17 AM (vBeA5)

299 And, frankly, if they can't put an immobilized deer out of its misery in
less than 4 shots, I really have to wonder about their overall
competence.

i don't...

fing incompetents

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 06, 2015 04:18 AM (4ge8N)

300
Yeah, I thought that was risky as well.....but there's only so much you can do to hide when you're black, male, 6'7", and do modelling....

Kobe!?!

Posted by: Spun and Murky at November 06, 2015 04:20 AM (4DCSq)

301 300
Yeah, I thought that was risky as well.....but there's only so much you can do to hide when you're black, male, 6'7", and do modelling....

Kobe!?!

Posted by: Spun and Murky at November 06, 2015 04:20 AM (4DCSq)

Ssssshhh!!!! Zombie is our friend. Our anonymous friend.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:21 AM (EzgxV)

302 Hat - I don't see how a selfie could ever be conclusive proof of how one voted. With the touch-screen voting machines in my jurisdiction (which are being replaced, btw), one could highlight the 'correct' candidates, take the selfie before casting one's vote, then go back a screen and change one's vote. There is a screen that in effect says, "Is this how you want to vote? If yes, touch the 'vote' button," but once one votes that screen disappears and there is no screen that shows how one actually voted.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:24 AM (37TvV)

303 and Kobe is only 6' 7" when he's wearing heels for Shaq...

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 06, 2015 04:25 AM (4ge8N)

304 I was working with a a half season professional hunter and he said they should have shot it in the back of the neck. It did on its own move while being shot to the center of the road then off the road.

Posted by: Skip at November 06, 2015 04:28 AM (JWMFs)

305 Hat - I don't see how a selfie could ever be conclusive proof of how one voted. With the touch-screen voting machines in my jurisdiction (which are being replaced, btw), one could highlight the 'correct' candidates, take the selfie before casting one's vote, then go back a screen and change one's vote. There is a screen that in effect says, "Is this how you want to vote? If yes, touch the 'vote' button," but once one votes that screen disappears and there is no screen that shows how one actually voted.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:24 AM (37TvV)

The printout tells who you voted for. Video proves that that is how you cast your vote.

Being able to vote is an honor an a privilege. It is a choice. You forgo idiotic things like "selfies" in order to make sure that someone else itsn' exercising power over you which can be used, with the monopoly of violence that is the state, to harm me and mine.

I have seen far less used as pressure to get people to vote a certain way.

Could "selfies" and "vines" be used to pressure people to vote a certain way?

YES.

One's right to take a "selfie" ends when that "free speach right" can be used to f**k over my freedom due to voter fraud.

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 06, 2015 04:30 AM (vBeA5)

306 Okay, horde - it looks like Home Depot will offer a one-time settlement for my broken wrist, so here's my question - how much should I ask for pain and suffering? I'm self-employed and in a field where I was able to continue working with the cast, so we're really just talking about pain and suffering and inconvenience - no lost wages. It was very painful the first few days and very inconvenient (went on a family trip with the cast on; have to delay installing new floors in my house because I can't pack up until the cast comes off, etc), but in general, not the worst thing ever. What do you think?

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:36 AM (37TvV)

307 Tomorrow, 650 Barnes + Noble bookstores are having "mini-Maker-Faires" that will continue through the weekend.

I've been to most of the actual Maker Faires since they got started, so my expectations are somewhat limited -- but I'm hoping it's a great success.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:38 AM (EzgxV)

308 306 Okay, horde - it looks like Home Depot will offer a one-time settlement for my broken wrist, so here's my question - how much should I ask for pain and suffering? I'm self-employed and in a field where I was able to continue working with the cast, so we're really just talking about pain and suffering and inconvenience - no lost wages. It was very painful the first few days and very inconvenient (went on a family trip with the cast on; have to delay installing new floors in my house because I can't pack up until the cast comes off, etc), but in general, not the worst thing ever. What do you think?

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:36 AM (37TvV)

Describe your situation to their lawyers and ask 'em what they think, then go double that and settle for 130%.

Posted by: cthulhu at November 06, 2015 04:41 AM (EzgxV)

309 "f**k over my freedom due to voter fraud."

Wait until the donktards and their little vichyite collaborators in the repuke party ram online voting down our throats.

There will be no such thing as a Secret Ballot.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois Old, Uniproved and TRUMP! for Emporer 2016 at November 06, 2015 04:42 AM (WVsWD)

310 Hat - I hadn't thought about vines. I think the people who want to allow selfies were just thinking, "Oh let people take a selfie of themselves at the voting booth," and not thinking that people would want to take pictures of the actual voting screen, but you're right, it could become something far worse. We had a few people want to take selfies at the last few elections and they weren't happy when told that wasn't allowed, and in fact that their phones were supposed to be turned off.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:43 AM (37TvV)

311 Cthulhu - good idea, thanks.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 06, 2015 04:46 AM (37TvV)

312 The Navarone Giant Playset was a Christmas gift I got from Santa back in 1981. I see one on eBay was just sold for $200.

Beginning to think my mother has a small gold mine in her attic that she is completely unware of.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 06, 2015 04:48 AM (XgfBI)

313 Tonite I watched on Netflix The Devil's Advocate. Yes it has both Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, both actors of which are reviled by quite a few of teh Horde members.

Fuck y'all.

It also features Charlize Theron naked, to which I say "Yum".

Anyhow, I lurv this movie because it explores the roots of evil and more importantly, the concept of free will. Without free will, we are all predestined robots.

I reject this premise. Without free will, there is no reason for my existence. Or anyone's. I think that Islam rejects free will as well. Islam is The Borg; the subversion of free will into the collective.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 04:54 AM (gyKtp)

314 Posted by: GnuBreed

One of my fave movies.

Keanu actually did pretty good in that film, and I rather like Pacino. So there. :-)

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at November 06, 2015 05:00 AM (/Ho8c)

315 @283 cthulhu

We work in the same trade. When dealing with female staff, especially in regards to performance or discplinary actions, I always have the HR manager, or other manager if no HR exists, as a witness. When the hint of legal action is dropped I immediately give the name our attorney's personal contact details and tell them to direct all possible litiagation to him. Let them know the intimidation doesn't work and have documented everything-- they won't do jack.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at November 06, 2015 05:02 AM (XgfBI)

316 So this Kathleen Kane, the Pennsylvania Punisher, any relation to Tom Kane?

Posted by: fluffy at November 06, 2015 05:53 AM (AfsKp)

317 The Guns of Navarone! I think I had that as a kid!

Wow, talk about a flood of memories. Plastic soldiers were the best. They fit pretty well into Tonka trucks, as I recall.

DIE, NAZI'S, HERE COMES MY YELLOW FRONT END LOADER OF DEATH...

Why, oh why, could they never make a properly scaled tank? Every tank that we got was insanely small for the size of the plastic men. Instead, the soldiers rode in Tonka Trucks...

And for GI Joe - the 12" version - I don't recall there even being a tank or any other kind of armor. I seem to remember motorcycles and, finally, a jeep. And it was huge (there's your answer, btw).

The ultimate toy, in this vein, was the GI Joe Gemini Capsule. I knew someone who had it, distantly, and he let us touch it... there was Joe, in his shiny silver suit and plastic helmet WITH RAISING VISOR!

Ah, the 60's...

Posted by: RobM1981 at November 06, 2015 06:06 AM (zurJC)

318 Not that I can find. Apparently Pennsylvania has a similar strain of retardation so common in Massachusetts: vote for anyone named Kennedy.

Posted by: fluffy at November 06, 2015 06:07 AM (AfsKp)

319 Ok TPH, I just wasn't able to imagine how selfies could be abused because I don't don't naturally think like that, but I'm at the point where such creative perversity.no longer surprises me. That's how they operate. I should have been able to work it out by now as an exercise, but I was feeling sleepy.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 06:13 AM (nS9xj)

320 It also features Charlize Theron naked, to which I say "Yum".

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 06, 2015 04:54 AM (gyKtp)

Connie Neilsen is even hotter ... but the movie stills sucks donkey shlong.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 06, 2015 06:14 AM (zc3Db)

321 What are we talking about?

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 06, 2015 06:24 AM (UQGss)

322 >>>and he let us touch it... there was Joe, in his shiny silver suit and plastic helmet WITH RAISING VISOR!

PEEKABOO!!! Tee hee!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 06, 2015 06:28 AM (nS9xj)

323 Ok Vic, what fresh wonders await us? I can take it.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at November 06, 2015 06:31 AM (nS9xj)

324 A refugee raped a three-year-old child - the Migration Board tried to conceal the incident

http://goo.gl/SG6o5t

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 06, 2015 06:39 AM (iQIUe)

325
Pat Condell goes after all the rape coverups by the gov and press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uws9BlnJmjI

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at November 06, 2015 06:42 AM (iQIUe)

326 [Late hit]

WHAT! No comments on that phone dial? It's from a DOD AUTOVON phone, and the red buttons stand for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash Override.

Teh rule in my squadron was that everything, including late-night overseas patch-through calls to girlfriends back home, was at least Immediate.

Posted by: J Moses Browning at November 06, 2015 02:13 PM (ZAF75)

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