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Leon De Smet, "Forest at Twilight" (1911)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 09:03 AM




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1 Kewl

Posted by: Bitter Jamie Farr (clinger, get it!?) at January 12, 2016 09:05 AM (KjOdQ)

2 Chernobyl

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 12, 2016 09:05 AM (l3vZN)

3 Looks like those pipe worms from The Marianas Trench.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 09:05 AM (5buP8)

4 I like the year this was painted!

Posted by: Bitter Jamie Farr (clinger, get it!?) at January 12, 2016 09:05 AM (KjOdQ)

5 Kinda orangey.

Posted by: HH at January 12, 2016 09:06 AM (DrCtv)

6
Listening to Gregg Abbott on Levin's show (bottom of the third hour). Great recap on the Article V process.

This guy is gonna be a superstar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2016 09:06 AM (zLP1L)

7 Those are the "shadows" of imploded Clemson fans.

Posted by: famefamefamefame at January 12, 2016 09:08 AM (4uDUj)

8 Corgis called

Posted by: Bitter Jamie Farr (clinger, get it!?) at January 12, 2016 09:08 AM (KjOdQ)

9 What was De Smet smoking?

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2016 09:09 AM (8HTq1)

10 Meh. This piece doesn't move me.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 12, 2016 09:10 AM (7RXcs)

11 The lava is consuming those birch trees!

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:10 AM (RD7QR)

12
What was De Smet smoking?

Posted by: steevy at January 12, 2016 09:09 AM (8HTq1)







No smoking whacky tobacky needed. Fumes from oils and paint thinner in a closed studio.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2016 09:11 AM (j4wsR)

13 If Alabama played the StL Rams, it would be a pick-em.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 09:11 AM (5buP8)

14 Microscopic view of Joe Bidet's scalp?

Posted by: Porter Swaggart at January 12, 2016 09:11 AM (53yqf)

15 Scary!!!

Posted by: @votermom at January 12, 2016 09:11 AM (cbfNE)

16 The first title was "Achoo!"

Posted by: Leon De Smut at January 12, 2016 09:12 AM (AxTzt)

17

Fire on the mountain, lighting in the air....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 09:13 AM (HSmrB)

18 I can't see the sniper

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (r9tFS)

19 Reminds me of the planet in the opening scenes of "Star Trek: Into Darkness".
Where are the albino natives?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (NOIQH)

20 The Burning Times have apparently started...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (wtvvX)

21 Like most things from 1911: overrated.

*Ducks. And covers.*

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (XiVKO)

22 20 The Burning Times have apparently started...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (wtvvX)


What's the name of the official newspaper of the burning time?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2016 09:15 AM (zLP1L)

23 If I was a tree, that's not the kind of tree I would be.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 12, 2016 09:15 AM (kpqmD)

24 21 Like most things from 1911: overrated.

*Ducks. And covers.*
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (XiVKO)

You're in SO much trouble.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:15 AM (RD7QR)

25 Coulter vs. Mair:
GOPe Lipstick Lez vs. GOProg-Dyke
Trib to follow...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 09:16 AM (5buP8)

26 18 I can't see the sniper
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (r9tFS)

Don't worry, he can see you.
On the left, scope is pointed right at you.

Posted by: @votermom at January 12, 2016 09:16 AM (cbfNE)

27 I love this one!

Posted by: Lea at January 12, 2016 09:16 AM (vmMMi)

28 21 Like most things from 1911: overrated.

*Ducks. And covers.*
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (XiVKO)


America pre-Wilson and the .45 automatic?

You better duck!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2016 09:17 AM (zLP1L)

29 I can't see the sniper



Too late.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 09:17 AM (lADRM)

30 Years ago a woman was helping to plan her daughter's wedding. She met with the owner of a flower shop and selected beautiful ornate centerpieces for each of the tables at the reception. In order to cut costs and maximize his profit the flower shop owner subcontracted with a shady supplier for metal trays on which to set the centerpieces.

Of course, when the big day came, the low-bid trays were not strong enough and crumpled as they were being carried into the banquet hall. This caused all of the floral arrangements to fall to the ground and the big day was ruined.

Seeking compensation, the lady consulted with her lawyer who counseled her...

..."You can't sue the florist for the trays."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 12, 2016 09:17 AM (NeFrd)

31 Them trees look like they're growing in a Mexican pizza.

I don't think de Smet got outdoors de much.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 09:18 AM (r9tFS)

32 Rammer Jammer, Yellowhammer, give 'em hell, Alabama!

Posted by: Grump928(c) is holding his head at January 12, 2016 09:18 AM (evdj2)

33 1911 was in the last great era of the US before the back to back wars that empowered the central government.


After WWI the country slid steadily downhill.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 09:18 AM (t2KH5)

34 Clemson sucks.

Posted by: Nick Saban at January 12, 2016 09:19 AM (hrMUT)

35
The first title was "Achoo!"

Posted by: Leon De Smut at January 12, 2016 09:12 AM (AxTzt)





Hey, I know that guy!

Posted by: Robin Hood at January 12, 2016 09:19 AM (j4wsR)

36
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 12, 2016 09:17 AM (NeFrd)
______________________________

Boo,, hiss,, hiss....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 09:19 AM (HSmrB)

37 ..."You can't sue the florist for the trays."

There are bad jokes. And there are long jokes.
That one was both.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 09:20 AM (5buP8)

38 21 Like most things from 1911: overrated.

*Ducks. And covers.*
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (XiVKO)

Oh shit. Now you've done it. That's worse than crossbows v. longbows.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 12, 2016 09:20 AM (kpqmD)

39 "You can't sue the florist for the trays."

Come the revolution, this sort of thing will be illegal.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 12, 2016 09:20 AM (u5gzz)

40 I'll be in my room.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 12, 2016 09:21 AM (NeFrd)

41 As always, I really like the impressionistic landscapes. Years ago, I had a really bad case of measles and it ruined my eyes. My perceptions of landscapes is more in line with those painters than the 'prettier' ones. Bad eyesight helps you retain your illusions since I never saw winter as stark.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 09:21 AM (MIKMs)

42 Very striking picture. One of things I so appreciate about your arts posting, rd. is that I learn about a lot of new and great artists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2016 09:22 AM (M+RRn)

43
Like most things from 1911: overrated.

*Ducks. And covers.*

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:14 AM (XiVKO)









You insult The Prophet John Moses Browning, peace be upon him?

I KEEL YOUUUUUUU!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur, Radical Browningan at January 12, 2016 09:22 AM (j4wsR)

44 Oh shit. Now you've done it. That's worse than crossbows v. longbows.


Longbows! Pluck yew mister! Pluck yew!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 09:22 AM (lADRM)

45 "Your Brain On Absinthe", (1911)

Posted by: t-bird at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (ANVXm)

46 And a "Brooklyn Tabernacle" devotional on prayer:

http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/devotional

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (M+RRn)

47 Ghost trees.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (FkBIv)

48 Very much enjoying the irony of Sanders being endorsed by MoveOn.org this morning.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (MbrzC)

49 http://www.enoughletter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Letter_to_the_President_updated11Jan2016.pdf

Bradley Cooper why have you betrayed me. Ace of Spades Podcast better have an explanation for this.

Posted by: gunslingeraz at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (ubt5O)

50 Dude fled to the UK at the start of WW1 even tho he was only 33 and of fighting age.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (iQIUe)

51 The 73rd annual Golden Globe awards witnessed a new level of good
guys with guns - handguns, tactical gear, and AR-15s with 'high capacity'
magazines - moving through the awards venue at the Beverly Hilton and
guarding the parameter for a gaggle of anti-gun celebrities gathered
inside.


Hypocrites! I won't listen to a celebrity complain about guns until they eliminate all the bad guns from their movies and tv shows.

Please, demonstrate for us what a post-2nd Amendment America would look like. One good example is the Brit cop show "Luther" where the detectives are unarmed, and surprisingly, end up getting in fist-fights w/their suspects when they confront them.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:24 AM (NOIQH)

52 I can't hear you, I'm under my desk.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:24 AM (XiVKO)

53 47 Ghost trees.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 09:23 AM (FkBIv)

Nah I don't want em

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 09:24 AM (xuouz)

54 Oh, I love Muldoon's puns!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:26 AM (NOIQH)

55 What a flippin' week.

So that asshole kidney stone that migrated south for the winter last week seems to have done damage on the exit, causing...well, its point of egress to contract to the point I couldn't #1 early Friday morning.

Trip to the ER opened the way, but yesterday I had a cystoscopic dilation to make sure it took. I'll save you the web search with the description "you want to stick what in my what and do what?!?" Blessedly they knocked me out for that. But now I have a Foley catheter for a week.

Truly, a pain in the dick.

Nice art, though.

(Please forgive this post. Need to get the grumble out of my system along with everything else...)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (m9V0o)

56 HORDE!!!

This is where I shamelessly both pimp and whore.

AtC and I's newest podcast episode is up. Link in nic.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (gW5Vg)

57 Sounds like it's gonna be the year of Brother Cavil.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (XiVKO)

58 Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (m9V0o)


Yikes. I've had a cystoscopy. You want to stick a what in my what! LOL

I truly do feel your pain.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 09:28 AM (r9tFS)

59 Please, demonstrate for us what a post-2nd Amendment America would look like.

We will paint you a picture in vibrant red. Best viewed from the bottom of a ditch.

Posted by: Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao at January 12, 2016 09:29 AM (AxTzt)

60 FenelonSpoke, left a quick reply / thanks at end of dead thread. Nice note.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all good at January 12, 2016 09:30 AM (zbbA4)

61 I like the year this was painted!
Posted by: Bitter Jamie Farr (clinger, get it!?) at January 12, 2016 09:05 AM (KjOdQ)


The ugly art - modernist and post modernest periods were supposed to be initiated in reaction to the horrors of WW1.
Unless Smets was reacting to the horrors of the Russo-Japanese war, I call bosh on that concept.

Um some of his stuff is kind of pretty, I like some of the paintings, when he felt like it he did stuff that was reminiscent of the Goya court paintings.

Others are just blocky and stiff looking. Oh, well.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 09:30 AM (q2o38)

62 someone carved TedCruz2016 into one of those trees. Yeah that one there.

Posted by: the guy who always says someone carved TedCruz into a tree at January 12, 2016 09:32 AM (of67s)

63 1913 in the middle of the night on Dec 23 (Democrats in control of both houses) passed the Owen-Glass Federal Reserve Act, and they have been burning through our currency ever since.

This burning trees painting was painted in 1911.

coincidence?

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 12, 2016 09:33 AM (5Gpe2)

64
Posted by: Pol Pot, Stalin, and Mao at January 12, 2016 09:29 AM (AxTzt)
__________________________________

Once I get my crown, I have plans to make you all look like pikers....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 09:34 AM (HSmrB)

65 asshole kidney stone

====

Wow, that got kinda convoluted in there, hunh?

Posted by: Bigby's Prosthetic Hand at January 12, 2016 09:35 AM (3ZtZW)

66 1913 in the middle of the night on Dec 23 (Democrats in control of both houses) passed the Owen-Glass>>>

What does fiberglass insulation have to do with this?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 12, 2016 09:35 AM (XtAzU)

67 Those trees are so....rigid.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 12, 2016 09:36 AM (1JqUE)

68 One good example is the Brit cop show "Luther" where the detectives are unarmed, and surprisingly, end up getting in fist-fights w/their suspects when they confront them.
---------------------

All the Brit cop shows are the same. Many end climactically with the cop having to talk to the armed suspect who usually has their kidnap victim at gunpoint, or about to throw them off a bridge, or burn them alive. The cops always get there just in time, no matter how far across town, or how well hidden they are. And the talking is always successful. True fantasy.

Posted by: Mega at January 12, 2016 09:38 AM (hHFOx)

69
I'll save you the web search with the description "you want to stick what in my what and do what?!?" Blessedly they knocked me out for that. But now I have a Foley catheter for a week.

Truly, a pain in the dick.


Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (m9V0o)









I could have done that for you at half price, y'know.

Posted by: Witch Doctor with a bowl full of Candiru at January 12, 2016 09:38 AM (j4wsR)

70 Trees. Trees. Trees.



I want to see pears in a bowl or a water lily in a pond. Or maybe a dog.


Tomorrow there will be trees

Posted by: grammie winger, waiting for the trumpets at January 12, 2016 09:39 AM (dwHMP)

71
Lots of people would be happy that they dont have to get up to take a pissl

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:40 AM (iQIUe)

72 There was that great Reno 911! episode where they did a cop exchange with the Brits. They thought the guy was a pussy, until they found out just how their cops can keep the peace without guns. Hint: it's not by speaking softly while carrying a big stick.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:41 AM (XiVKO)

73 (Please forgive this post. Need to get the grumble out of my system along with everything else...)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (m9V0o)


Gah, you have every right to grumble and snarl. Please heal before you do the only reasonable thing and start throwing furniture down the stairs.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 09:41 AM (q2o38)

74 (Please forgive this post. Need to get the grumble out of my system along with everything else...)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM (m9V0o)

How do you expect me to get work done when I'm curled up in a fetal ball with both hands over my dick?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:41 AM (RD7QR)

75
Leon De Smet, "The Night the Giant Forest Moles of Bulgaria Discovered Viagra" (1911)

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 09:43 AM (KUa85)

76 Condolences to Br. Cavil on his plumbing issues. That must smart!


Looks at painting. Swivels on stool, looks at scenery. Blue lake, Sun reflecting brilliantly off it, forested hills and distant volcano. Garden full of palm trees and lovely flowers. Nice breeze ruffling the water, waves lapping on the shore. Somewhere, a rooster crows, claiming credit for the sunrise.


Decides to stick with scenery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 09:43 AM (L2co/)

77 I'm pretty sure there's no sniper out there in th*BANG*

Posted by: db at January 12, 2016 09:44 AM (kyCVA)

78 Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Brother Cavil...I've had tubes in all my orifices before, it's no fun at all.

Posted by: CanaDave at January 12, 2016 09:45 AM (GOgUy)

79 How do you expect me to get work done when I'm curled up in a fetal ball with both hands over my dick?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:41 AM (RD7QR)



You left out the whimpering.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 09:45 AM (gW5Vg)

80 Looks at painting. Swivels on stool, looks at scenery. Blue lake, Sun reflecting brilliantly off it, forested hills and distant volcano. Garden full of palm trees and lovely flowers. Nice breeze ruffling the water, waves lapping on the shore. Somewhere, a rooster crows, claiming credit for the sunrise.


Decides to stick with scenery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 09:43 AM (L2co/)

Palm trees? Safe to assume you're not in Alberta right now?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:47 AM (RD7QR)

81 Brother Cavil, owie!

Hope you feel better.

Did the docs tell you to avoid any kind of food / drink?

Posted by: @votermom at January 12, 2016 09:48 AM (cbfNE)

82 How did they go from this to a single red stripe on a white canvas being art?

Posted by: DaveA at January 12, 2016 09:48 AM (DL2i+)

83 All the Brit cop shows are the same. Many end climactically with the cop having to talk to the armed suspect who usually has their kidnap victim at gunpoint, or about to throw them off a bridge, or burn them alive. The cops always get there just in time, no matter how far across town, or how well hidden they are. And the talking is always successful. True fantasy.
Posted by: Mega at January 12, 2016 09:38 AM (hHFOx)

==============
You forgot the part where they learn that the killer had a terrible childhood so all this caranage is understandable if not excusable. I hate brit TV, too. It's all pc and preachy. Boring. That is why US shows are so much better.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:49 AM (iQIUe)

84 Re: the painting...it's a dude running into the forest with his house on fire behind him.

Posted by: CanaDave at January 12, 2016 09:49 AM (GOgUy)

85 Dammit AOP, its raining and cold here today. You are off luxuriating with the geckos.

I really ought to take a vacation some time.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 09:49 AM (q2o38)

86 "33
1911 was in the last great era of the US before the back to back wars that empowered the central government.


After WWI the country slid steadily downhill.


Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 09:18 AM (t2KH5)"

You believe that because the history has been written by leftists who view the world as an unimpeded ratchet to the left.

However, the 1920s was a "return to normalcy" that saw prosperity and progress with unemployment rates of 3% to 5% while America transitioned from horses to motor vehicles, most of the country installed electricity for lighting, for new appliances that were available and for the radios that were now widely available. At the same time enormous strides were made in aviation.

All the left wants to talk about is Prohibition and the Stock Market Crash.

A hundred years from now, leftist politicians will ignore Ronald Reagan the way they now ignore Calvin Coolidge.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 12, 2016 09:49 AM (QHgTq)

87 Lets start calling cell phones freedom phones.

Posted by: efin nuts at January 12, 2016 09:50 AM (1uTkE)

88 Palm trees? Safe to assume you're not in Alberta right now?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:47 AM (RD7QR)


I am in Nicaragua for a week. You'd need a Paul Gaugin to paint this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 09:50 AM (L2co/)

89 That painting isn't at all realistic. When I look out my window, deep in the heart of the northern forests, I see snow. And Wind. Blowing snow makes for bad roads. And Cold. Temp ten degrees and falling. Too cold for salt, yet The State keeps pouring salt on the road in the hope that one day the temperatures will rise enough the salt will melt the ice made by the snow plow as it tries to scrape up the teeny tiny snowflakes.

So I look at these orange trees and wonder what it is that would make those trees orange? A distant nuclear explosion over the horizon? A house fire, perhaps started by a chimney fire, or candle? Maybe an oil well, or gas well fire. Or a false color image from a light amplification device?

It is a mystery to me because when I look outside I see white, grey gloomy sky, dark trees. Even the evergreen are so dark they are almost black.

The guy who painted that picture isn't from around here, that's for certain.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 09:51 AM (0PRfw)

90
I wonder if TFG is going to go full Bulsworth tonight during his last SOTU.

A big wad of "telling truth to power" from Princess Pissy pants.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least.

I wonder if anyone will have the grit to stand up and leave, if he really goes all community organizer on them.


Still, I can't stand TFG these days so I won't be watching...

Well, maybe if the Reps and Dims went all steelers and Bengal fans on each other-

punching each other in the head, pissing on everyone around them.

I could turn it for that.

Make it so.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 09:52 AM (KUa85)

91 Lets blame winter on global warming.

Posted by: efin nuts at January 12, 2016 09:52 AM (1uTkE)

92 I am in Nicaragua for a week. You'd need a Paul Gaugin to paint this.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 09:50 AM (L2co/)

===========
If it is so great, why did your family leave the day after you arrived????

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:52 AM (iQIUe)

93 most of the country installed electricity for lighting, for new appliances that were available and for the radios that were now widely available. At the same time enormous strides were made in aviation.

"You...you didn't build that..."

Posted by: D's FDR-Barky at January 12, 2016 09:53 AM (5buP8)

94
That painting looks like the Ukraine. If it is, then where are the Panzers?

Posted by: irongrampa at January 12, 2016 09:54 AM (jeCnD)

95 Say, Nigel, it looks like we've got a spot of a bank robber predicament down by Tuftsberry Square-on-the-Gallows. Would you be a sport and pop round to the precinct and submit a requisition for a single handgun and two bullets? There's a good fellow, wut? Jolly good!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, British cop at January 12, 2016 09:54 AM (NeFrd)

96 Palm trees? Safe to assume you're not in Alberta right now?
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:47 AM (RD7QR)


That or the Parti Citron has achieved its main political goal and there is now a flourishing lemon growing industry in Quebec

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 09:55 AM (q2o38)

97 Central American countries have high murder rates.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:55 AM (iQIUe)

98 most of the country installed electricity for lighting, for new appliances that were available and for the radios that were now widely available. At the same time enormous strides were made in aviation.



And distilling.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 09:55 AM (lADRM)

99 You all know President Gun-Sales is going to do his "thing" where he scolds everyone, and they take it wordlessly, because decorum.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 09:56 AM (XiVKO)

100 >>Many end climactically with the cop having to talk to the armed suspect
who usually has their kidnap victim at gunpoint, or about to throw them
off a bridge, or burn them alive.


Yup. The recent Luther special episode had this truly psycho killer who was just randomly, gruesomely offing people in all sorts of imaginative, non-gun related ways. Ended with confrontation and the talking. Why would you expect to talk a psychopath out of a killing spree - logic and reason have already left the building, mate!

But this is what Hollywood wants so bad - a world in which the killers and criminals have the advantage because they are better-armed (with whatever weapon they use) and have the will to use them. Meanwhile, the good guys act tough and....talk.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:56 AM (NOIQH)

101 Anybody ever used a Blue Snowball mic?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 09:56 AM (RD7QR)

102 The worse brit cop show had the detective drugged, abducted, and waking up handing from a meat hook and wearing a red teddy, wig, and makeup and being tortured by the trannie murderer.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:58 AM (iQIUe)

103 >>You all know President Gun-Sales is going to do his "thing" where he
scolds everyone, and they take it wordlessly, because decorum.


*click*

That's the sound of my remote changing to another channel, or shutting off the TV to read a good book. I'm not in his captive audience. Yet.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:58 AM (NOIQH)

104 You forgot the part where they learn that the killer had a terrible childhood so all this caranage is understandable if not excusable. I hate brit TV, too. It's all pc and preachy. Boring. That is why US shows are so much better.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:49 AM (iQIUe)


I wonder if that's an island nation thing.

You know, we're all stuck on this little island so we better understand one another.

You see the same thing in Japanese drama. Everyone has a backstory and excuses for why they are the way they are.

Really slows things down and dulls the impact.


Between the tentacle monster rapes I mean.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 10:00 AM (KUa85)

105 If it is so great, why did your family leave the day after you arrived????

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:52 AM (iQIUe)

You haven't met me? Heh. No, they had been here for 3 weeks; had to go back to work. And they have paying guests arriving next Sunday, so I have to go back then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 10:00 AM (L2co/)

106 If you are in Nicaragua, tell me, do the girls still hand roll cigars on their thighs and tuck them down their cleavages to get them out of the way to roll the next one?

A friend told me of his time in Nicaragua and it sounded like the bestest sales tactic ever

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 10:01 AM (q2o38)

107 Isn't that the lefts whole thing? That they believe everything can be talked out, with a resolution as they wish it to be?

So, or course Brit TV would be all about their wishcasting.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 10:01 AM (XiVKO)

108 There was a young American engineer who was shot dead in either El Salvador or Nicaragua. Cant remember which. He was a cause celebre for the left. What they left out was that he was in fatigues and armed and with commie guerrillas when surprised by the military.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 10:02 AM (iQIUe)

109 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with This Foolish Guy at the podium, if there were hecklers, protesters, and some chair throwing and face punching.

I, for one, want to see a brawl break out in the middle of the speech. I would watch that. I would cheer that.

Putt'm on roller skates and call it roller derby.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 10:02 AM (0PRfw)

110 Prayers for Health & Healing Brother Cavil ...

Posted by: Adriane te Witchdoctor Critic ... at January 12, 2016 10:02 AM (AoK0a)

111 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with



Mandela funeral fake signing guy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 10:03 AM (lADRM)

112 Well that's just unreal.

The Dems apparently had a debate last night. Which started at 8pm.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (gW5Vg)

113 You haven't met me? Heh. No, they had been here for 3 weeks; had to go back to work. And they have paying guests arriving next Sunday, so I have to go back then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 10:00 AM (L2co/)

============

No offense. I just remember you posting the day after you got there that you had to drive them to the airport. So, are you saying they own the house and rent it out?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (iQIUe)

114 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with

Cheerleaders with sharp elbows ...

Posted by: Adriane te History Critic ... at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (AoK0a)

115 I, for one, want to see a brawl break out in the middle of the speech.

Throw a shoe at him, at least he'd culturally understand that.

Posted by: DaveA at January 12, 2016 10:05 AM (DL2i+)

116 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


rubber band guns handed out at the door.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 10:05 AM (gW5Vg)

117 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with

trap-doors over shark tanks

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2016 10:05 AM (ZQfW9)

118 (Please forgive this post. Need to get the grumble out of my system along with everything else...) Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 09:27 AM

Urine better shape now, amirite?

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 12, 2016 10:06 AM (mIvL9)

119 I loved that the NRA said screw your stupid setup "town hall". Too bad our reps can't do the same.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 10:06 AM (XiVKO)

120 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with

****

Chuck Barris and a big Gong.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, British cop at January 12, 2016 10:06 AM (NeFrd)

121 Rage Level - Red.

Posted by: Weasel at January 12, 2016 10:07 AM (6xtq3)

122 Be better soon, Brother Cavil!
GI follies are not fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 10:07 AM (NOIQH)

123 Brit TV:
I stopped watching after Fa(w)(u)lty Towers was done. Some Masterpiece Thtr. was good, but that's tanked too. PC Revisionism is not just the death of history, it's also the death of fun.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 10:07 AM (5buP8)

124 Central American countries have high murder rates.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 09:55 AM (iQIUe)


There was a murder in a nearby town yesterday. TV showed graphic images of beaten-up corpse of gang banger beaten and thrown in ditch by presumably other gang-bangers. Chyron said it had to with drugs... Diriomo, a town right on the Pan-American highway; lots of transients. This place is like a gated community in comparison. Still, you lock the doors at night, because petty thievery is ever-present. And people can buy guns here, but I don't know the laws about them. There are gun shops.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 10:07 AM (L2co/)

125 Well that's just unreal.

The Dems apparently had a debate last night. Which started at 8pm.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (gW5Vg)



During the NCAA Title Game?


I have to hand it to the Dims.

There's a party who really understands the appeal of it's candidates.


I guess they're trying to "blank slate" them (ala Obama) as much as possible-

so they can create this fantasy candidate for the LIVs.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 10:08 AM (KUa85)

126 You have got to be shitting me: The Dems had a debate? LAST NIGHT?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 10:08 AM (659DL)

127 It'd be nice if a Ft. Hood survivor tried to sit in the empty chair tonight.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 12, 2016 10:08 AM (5buP8)

128 I would kinda love it if Obama's and Michelle's guests attempted to do something disruptive - like yell something. Read on Breitbart that some GOP'ers are bringing likewise political guests Kim Davie, etc.
It's turned into a circus.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 10:08 AM (NOIQH)

129 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with

A calliope soundtrack and a roving pack of mimes.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (659DL)

130 Such nice art pictures we get here! I've taken to copying them to my hard drive, then going to http://www.dailyjigsawpuzzles.net where they have a do-it-yourself jigsaw puzzle feature. You can use a picture saved to your hard drive and turn it into a jigsaw puzzle. There was a really nice painting last year, I think it was a tree-lined park lane at twilight - Russian, I believe. I wish I'd saved that one, it would have made a PERFECT jigsaw puzzle.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (gjLib)

131 112 Well that's just unreal.

The Dems apparently had a debate last night. Which started at 8pm.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (gW5Vg)

Oh, you didn't hear about Hillary offering Bernie a G&T before berating O'Malley for being a damn drunken Irishman?

(I might have made all that up. But what the hell, it's not like anybody watched.)

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (RD7QR)

132 Spent several days in Granada, Nicaragua and the the surrounding area about 10 years ago. Very interesting place.

Posted by: Weasel at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (6xtq3)

133 A call for help to the moron horde:

What is that site that lists a score (I think grading how conservatively they've voted) for every politician in red or blue right next to their names in their articles?

Thanks and have a pleasant morning.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (xuouz)

134 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with
A calliope soundtrack and a roving pack of mimes.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM


Best idea yet!

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 12, 2016 10:10 AM (mIvL9)

135 They are apparently also going to have a debate this weekend. During one of the NFL games.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 10:10 AM (gW5Vg)

136 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with...


****


Yakety Sax at high volume and fast forward video.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 12, 2016 10:11 AM (NeFrd)

137 If there was ever a time for Monty to drop the Doom... its now

Posted by: cajun caret at January 12, 2016 10:11 AM (UZQM8)

138 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


...an electric shock thingy hooked to him and make it activate every time he says 'me', 'myself', or 'I'...

Posted by: CanaDave at January 12, 2016 10:12 AM (GOgUy)

139 I'm thinking the Blue Man troupe.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 10:12 AM (q2o38)

140 No offense. I just remember you posting the day
after you got there that you had to drive them to the airport. So, are
you saying they own the house and rent it out?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 10:04 AM (iQIUe)


None taken, LOL. Yeah, this essentially a business venture, future retirement home? Last year was pretty good for them, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 10:13 AM (L2co/)

141 Ok, now you have me doing it! Frackers!

This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining...

With Bennie Hill and Marty Feldman sitting behind the President as he gives his speech.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 10:13 AM (0PRfw)

142 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


trap-doors over shark tanks

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2016 10:05 AM


With frickin' laser beams attached to the their heads? Go on...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2016 10:15 AM (me6xG)

143 I am going to engage in heavy mockery of the brave Democrats and their bold ideas from this point on. I mean, this kind of thing makes Mitch McConnell look like a sunshine advocate.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 10:15 AM (659DL)

144 >>...an electric shock thingy hooked to him and make it activate every time he says 'me', 'myself', or 'I'...


#WINNING!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 10:15 AM (NOIQH)

145 My cankles have an orange discharge like those trees do, I wonder if it has the same pungent, horrible smell?

Posted by: Hillary! at January 12, 2016 10:15 AM (LXaY1)

146 'What is that site that lists a score (I think grading how conservatively they've voted) for every politician in red or blue right next to their names in their articles?'

Conservative Review

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 12, 2016 10:16 AM (u5gzz)

147
Give them swords and battle axes, THEN put them on roller blades. THAT would be worth watching.

Oh, and make sure they have their bikehelmets on.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 12, 2016 10:16 AM (1JqUE)

148 133
A call for help to the moron horde:



What is that site that lists a score (I think grading how
conservatively they've voted) for every politician in red or blue right
next to their names in their articles?



Thanks and have a pleasant morning.

Posted by: at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (xuouz)

The ACU
http://tinyurl.com/hfd43tk

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 10:17 AM (t2KH5)

149 .an electric shock thingy hooked to him and make it activate every time he says 'me', 'myself', or 'I'... with your smart phone


damn but that sounds goooood

Posted by: Bigby's Prosthetic Hand at January 12, 2016 10:17 AM (3ZtZW)

150 Time for me to go meet the day. My mission today is to drive to Managua to buy some ceiling fans, because some of the existing ones are going bad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 10:18 AM (L2co/)

151 I am thinking that to show solidarity, the Secret Service should be disarmed.

Along with the U.S. Marshalls.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 12, 2016 10:19 AM (1ijHg)

152 After the EPA spill.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 10:22 AM (n22zQ)

153 I bought a second winning powerball ticket for tomorrows game. Champagne dreams and caviar wishes....

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 10:22 AM (iQIUe)

154 Soooo -- yesterday I followed all the links for the so-called 'scientist' who will be the invited guest of the Obamas at the SOTU. What kind of scientist is still not out there. This is nonsense.

Listening to BC and AtC podcast right now.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 10:23 AM (MIKMs)

155 Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:09 AM (xuouz)


Try this....

https://www.conservativereview.com/

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2016 10:25 AM (Zu3d9)

156 Watch for me tonight.

Posted by: THe Intellectual Stammer at January 12, 2016 10:24 AM (XzRw1)



Me too!

I'll be there.

Posted by: Uhhhhhhhh... at January 12, 2016 10:26 AM (KUa85)

157 Listening to BC and AtC podcast right now.


Good way to avoid the beatings.

*scurries off to listen*

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 10:26 AM (1xUj/)

158 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


rubber band guns handed out at the door.
Posted by: BC
--------------

Straws and spitballs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 10:27 AM (n22zQ)

159 "This is nonsense."

I specialize in nonsense. And pronunciamentos.

Posted by: Barky McDicklick, Ruler of the Free World at January 12, 2016 10:27 AM (u5gzz)

160 The dem debate was last night? Wow, they really are trying to drag granny across the finish line.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 12, 2016 10:28 AM (+aCe4)

161 Good morning, Hordelings.

The sun is up, the sky is blue, birds are singing and all my cousins back home in Alabama are waking up to a glorious day in the South after last night's stellar win by my Beloved Crimson Tide.

ROLL TIDE!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:28 AM (LUgeY)

162 161 What cocktail of prescription meds will Baroque be on tonight?
Posted by: Wood Shampoo at January 12, 2016 10:28 AM (XzRw1)

Viagra and coke. Reggie's salad isn't going to toss itself and talking to all those crackers is exhausting.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:29 AM (RD7QR)

163 It is not a forest - those are hundreds of demonic fingers reaching up from Gehenna to snatch into the fiery pits the souls of the unwary.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Expectations are Lower than the Temps at the Outrage Outlet! at January 12, 2016 10:30 AM (hLRSq)

164
I guess XzRw1 is under bannination?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 10:31 AM (KUa85)

165 If Cankles is indicted, then O'Malley would be their best bet. I would expect them to go with Bernie tho. The dems are just that insane.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 12, 2016 10:32 AM (1JqUE)

166 Orange trees caused my hazmat:

http://tiny.cc/76527x

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 12, 2016 10:32 AM (di1hb)

167 " My mission today is to drive to Managua to buy some ceiling fans, because some of the existing ones are going bad."


Ahhhh, life's toils.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 10:32 AM (LA7Cm)

168 After WWI the country slid steadily downhill.


Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 09:18 AM (t2KH5)


It's been downhill since Pangea broke up.

God, I loved that band....

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Expectations are Lower than the Temps at the Outrage Outlet! at January 12, 2016 10:33 AM (hLRSq)

169 Anybody ever used a Blue Snowball mic?

I have one. I like it. Plug & play with good fidelity. Great for podcasts.

I want to try to use it for voice-commands in Windows for B'Gal, but haven't set it up yet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:33 AM (LUgeY)

170 169 Anybody ever used a Blue Snowball mic?

I have one. I like it. Plug & play with good fidelity. Great for podcasts.

I want to try to use it for voice-commands in Windows for B'Gal, but haven't set it up yet.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:33 AM (LUgeY)

Thanks, podcasting is what I had in mind. Don't want to go through the hassle of a mic with an XLR connector.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:35 AM (RD7QR)

171 (Today is the 388th anniversary of the birth in Paris of French author Charles Perrault (1628-1703), who created the literary foundations of the fairy tale in his 1697 collection Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, sub-titled Tales of Mother Goose (Les Contes de ma Mère L'Oye) - which included Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), Le Barbe bleu (Bluebeard), and La Belle au Bois Dormand (The Sleeping Beauty).* Born to a wealthy family, Perrault was given a good education and embarked on a career of government service, eventually under Jacques Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV. Subsequently, after losing his government posts, he turned to writing, at first on architecture, painting, and stage works, but later epic poetry. He wrote his Mother Goose collection for his own children, likely basing many of his tales on existing folk stories. His collation was translated into English by Robert Sambert in 1727 and is now familiar all over the world.

"Oh, Grandmother! What big ears you have!
"All the better to hear you with, my dear."
- Charles Perrault (Les Contes de ma Mère L'Oye, "Little Red Riding Hood")

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 10:36 AM (n22zQ)

172 I was sorta hoping today's Mystery Click in rdb's image would've been an image of Nick Saban...

...or Big Al, Bama's mascot.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:37 AM (LUgeY)

173 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


rubber band guns handed out at the door.
Posted by: BC
- - - - -

Tar and feathers.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2016 10:38 AM (r65B3)

174 Thanks for the prayers well wishes. I was truly blessed the day I came here and discovered Ace and the Horde.

For the record, the only dietary limitations I have are "drink lots of fluids" and "no alcohol for 24 hours after the procedure", which is up this afternoon and has more to do with the sedative working its way out of my system.

I may even wander in to work later this week, though even if I don't I'm covered rather well, between stockpiling sick days almost nonstop since I started this job, working with folks who understand, and at least one co-worker as witness when I was picking up my prescriptions.

I'm told I'll be used to the damn thing after three days, but I'm counting towards next Monday when I get rid of the thing.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 12, 2016 10:38 AM (m9V0o)

175 Thanks, podcasting is what I had in mind. Don't want to go through the hassle of a mic with an XLR connector.

What recording software are you using, joncelli? I have Reaper and Audacity.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:39 AM (LUgeY)

176 XzRw1 has been banned for a while now. If you're quick, you can see it post most mornings, but they quickly disappear into the ether.

Persistent bugger.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 10:39 AM (XiVKO)

177 Years ago, I had a really bad case of measles and it ruined my eyes. My perceptions of landscapes is more in line with those painters than the 'prettier' ones. Bad eyesight helps you retain your illusions since I never saw winter as stark.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 09:21 AM (MIKMs)


So what you're saying is that the Impressionistic painters were most likely diseased.

That actually makes sense.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 10:41 AM (N8xMd)

178 Thanks CBD! Not what I was looking for though. The site is big and plain, feels like the washington post as far as page layout, but has a two digit percentage score against a red or blue background next to the name of every politician mentioned in one of their articles.

My memory is plain old flat out garbage.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:41 AM (xuouz)

179 176 XzRw1 has been banned for a while now. If you're quick, you can see it post most mornings, but they quickly disappear into the ether.

Persistent bugger.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 10:39 AM (XiVKO)

Haha what an idiot.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:43 AM (xuouz)

180 My suspicion is that the Syrian scientist is a chemist.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 12, 2016 10:43 AM (q2o38)

181 Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:41 AM (xuouz)

So is mine.....

If you find it, please tell the rest of us old fogeys.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 12, 2016 10:43 AM (Zu3d9)

182 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with

Slingshots and ball bearings.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:43 AM (LUgeY)

183 My phone was recently banned. I hate posting from my phone so I am actually in agreement with the punishment, like a good Orwellian citizen should be. I wonder what crime I committed?

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 10:44 AM (shLnc)

184 103 That's the sound of my remote changing to another channel, or shutting off the TV to read a good book. I'm not in his captive audience. Yet.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:58 AM (NOIQH)


I recommend "Dreams of My Father." That is all. For now.

Posted by: Presidential Alert System at January 12, 2016 10:44 AM (jV8Mq)

185 On the way into work this morning, while surveying the frigid, desolate and windswept landscape (a perfect metaphor for the Obama era), I heard the radio commentator say that this would be Barry's "last State of the Union" speech.

Finally. I thought we'd never get here. I know my brief moment of hope will be crushed, but I will remember and treasure it always.

Posted by: dissent555 at January 12, 2016 10:45 AM (VFhMt)

186 Looks like another attack is eminent.


http://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=250337

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 10:47 AM (ptqRm)

187 This election going to be our third in a row with a liberal vs. a socialist. Incredible.

Posted by: Mega at January 12, 2016 10:47 AM (hHFOx)

188 Thing I just learned as a new dog owner, a standard NCAA baseball lasts about two days of playing catch before the cover comes off entirely. I'll have to be parsimonious with the baseballs until the college season starts, when I can get a bunch of Wake Forest foul balls. Just had to donate a Chris Shaw homerun ball from last year to the maw of the giant beast.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 12, 2016 10:48 AM (2cS/G)

189 Ozymandias' Last SOTU?

He's still got most of a year to wreak havoc, so keep the foxholes clean and dry...

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 10:48 AM (o+SC1)

190 >>Thing I just learned as a new dog owner,

Well, you coulda gotta Shih Tzu. Then you wouldn't have that problem.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 10:49 AM (o+SC1)

191 Twilight your ass, that's smod and you know it. And about damn time.

Posted by: Eromero at January 12, 2016 10:49 AM (b+df9)

192 175 Thanks, podcasting is what I had in mind. Don't want to go through the hassle of a mic with an XLR connector.

What recording software are you using, joncelli? I have Reaper and Audacity.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:39 AM (LUgeY)

I haven't done any podcasting since I pulled the plug on my last blog, which was '09. I'm thinking of getting back into it but haven't decided. At the time I was using Audacity at first, then GarageBand.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:50 AM (RD7QR)

193 Ooh I like the pic!

Posted by: LizLem at January 12, 2016 10:50 AM (hvf9s)

194 That painting has creeping orange. . . Orange in color psychology is supposed to be indicative of warmth, happiness, optimism. I guess like the sun rising after a bleak, dark night. "Orange offers emotional strength in difficult times."

I hope we have reason for a creeping orange to cover this land.

Posted by: A Southerner of Honor at January 12, 2016 10:51 AM (26e2V)

195 This SOTU spectacle would be much more entertaining, especially with


SMOD astride Godzilla

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 12, 2016 10:51 AM (wtvvX)

196 183 My phone was recently banned. I hate posting from my phone so I am actually in agreement with the punishment, like a good Orwellian citizen should be. I wonder what crime I committed?
Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 10:44 AM (shLnc)

Pone phosting sucks for sure. You can rest easy knowing Ace and his heavenly host of cobs are right and just in all things.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (xuouz)

197 188 Thing I just learned as a new dog owner, a standard NCAA baseball lasts about two days of playing catch before the cover comes off entirely. I'll have to be parsimonious with the baseballs until the college season starts, when I can get a bunch of Wake Forest foul balls. Just had to donate a Chris Shaw homerun ball from last year to the maw of the giant beast.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 12, 2016 10:48 AM (2cS/G)

Oooh, using baseballs will make you a pauper before long, especially if you have a big dog. Use cheap Walmart tennis balls, buy several tubes at once, and toss them when they're soaked.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (RD7QR)

198 >>"Oh, Grandmother! What big ears you have!

Oh, Mr President, what a big pen and phone you have!

All the better to regulate you!

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (o+SC1)

199 At the time I was using Audacity at first, then GarageBand.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:50 AM (RD7QR)

Was audacity easy to use? What made you switch?

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (xuouz)

200 "Twilight your ass, that's smod and you know it. And about damn time."


So that apparent glow we see is atmospheric entry and not the sun?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (LA7Cm)

201 "Pone phosting sucks for sure. You can rest easy knowing Ace and his heavenly host of cobs are right and just in all things."


#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 10:53 AM (ptqRm)

202 188
Thing I just learned as a new dog owner, a standard NCAA baseball lasts
about two days of playing catch before the cover comes off entirely.
I'll have to be parsimonious with the baseballs until the college season
starts, when I can get a bunch of Wake Forest foul balls. Just had to
donate a Chris Shaw homerun ball from last year to the maw of the giant
beast.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 12, 2016 10:48 AM (2cS/G)\

When I was a kid we could not afford to buy baseballs every few days or even weeks. So when the cover started coming off due to broken threads we would sew them back up with fishing line which held up better.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 10:54 AM (t2KH5)

203 199 At the time I was using Audacity at first, then GarageBand.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:50 AM (RD7QR)

Was audacity easy to use? What made you switch?
Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 10:52 AM (xuouz)

It was just a matter of platform. I had a PC and used Audacity and then got a Mac and used GarageBand. (Although I recall GarageBand being easier but Audacity being more flexible. Like I say, it's been a while.)

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (RD7QR)

204
The free market will make us tip over.

http://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=250327

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (FkBIv)

205 At the time I was using Audacity at first, then GarageBand.

Sounds like you have it covered, joncelli.

I've been learning about MIDI and how to get that working. I'm planning on doing some recording here at Casa Backwardio. There's nothing like singing in a closet, which if you hear my voice, is totally appropriate.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (LUgeY)

206 Listening to Gregg Abbott on Levin's show (bottom of the third hour). Great recap on the Article V process.



This guy is gonna be a superstar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2016 09:06 AM (zLP1L)

I think an Article V convention is a bad idea because:
A) California and Illinois would have just as much say as Texas and Louisiana and

B) Politicians ignore the parts of the our current Constitution when it suits them and are unlikely to be any more respectful of any new Constitution.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (NPofj)

207 So what you're saying is that the Impressionistic painters were most likely diseased.
That actually makes sense.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 10:41 AM (N8xMd)
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Modern opthamology FTW! Truth, I wrote a longer analysis paper waaaaay back that J Joyce's bad eyes changed his worldview and shocked the little pond where I grew up. Got me great scholarships, but perhaps there is always some truth there.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 10:56 AM (MIKMs)

208 >>I recommend "Dreams of My Father." That is all. For now.
Posted by: Presidential Alert System


Touche!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 10:56 AM (NOIQH)

209 >>Montage: 140 Unfulfilled Obama Promises from Past SOTU Addresses<<

http://tinyurl.com/jv77a2p

Is there a claw back clause in the presidential contract? I want a refund form Mr. I, Me, Mine.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2016 10:57 AM (GGCsk)

210 I think an Article V convention is a bad idea because:
A) California and Illinois would have just as much say as Texas and Louisiana and

B) Politicians ignore the parts of the our current Constitution when it suits them and are unlikely to be any more respectful of any new Constitution.


1 million times A & 1 Brazillion times B!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 10:59 AM (lADRM)

211 Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?

Because I didn't get a big enough bottle last time and ran out.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2016 10:59 AM (GGCsk)

212 I would never buy baseballs to use, and it does seem a little wasteful, but I've kept a bunch of balls from games I've seen, for no particular reason, now I have something to do with them rather than watch them gather dust. Come February, I will have a nearly bottomless pit of free baseballs from Wake Forest games. We watch from outside the stadium, right field side, get a half dozen balls hit to us every game, counting fouls and homers. One guy keeps a 5-gallon bucket to put them in, and then at the end of the season gives away a prize to whoever guesses the total. Aluminum bats and mediocre pitching = a lot of long flies.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 12, 2016 11:01 AM (2cS/G)

213 Because I didn't get a big enough bottle last time and ran out.

Serves you right for not getting a 55-gallon drum of Valu-Rite like the rest of us do. Although the straws are only good for two, maybe three uses max before they melt.

And NO SMOKING!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:02 AM (LUgeY)

214 @202 But think of all the money you saved playing before people used gloves.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 12, 2016 11:03 AM (2cS/G)

215 A I said a few days ago what the TX governor is missing from his Art V changes is putting teeth in the changes that DC can not ignore. And removal of the supreme court from DC and placing it back in the States.


The federal government should have never had a federal court that was to decide what power the federal gov had. The founders never intended that and it was Adams' big government desire to undo what the founders did by packing the court with big government liberals like Marshall who was also a crook involved in land fraud in GA.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 11:03 AM (t2KH5)

216 I played with MIDI a lot as a kid. What a novelty to be able to make the type of music that Hans Zimmer made (in his presumably expensive studio) only a few years after hearing it in movies.

If I was to get back into it, I would do the 8-bit Nintendo retro thing, it seems like fun.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 11:04 AM (VdICR)

217 >> Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?


That would be suicide, even if it was with water instead of alcohol.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 11:06 AM (NOIQH)

218 Every time I see the acronym SOTU my mind reads it as STFU. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Posted by: fly gal at January 12, 2016 11:06 AM (8TdcF)

219 I played with MIDI a lot as a kid.
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*?*

When I was a kid, we had to get by with tissue paper on a discarded comb.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:06 AM (n22zQ)

220 Kevin D Williamson has an amazing quote about the SOTU, but I'm having technical difficulties.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 11:06 AM (VdICR)

221 211 Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?
Because I didn't get a big enough bottle last time and ran out.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 12, 2016 10:59 AM (GGCsk)

12 of coors (drink) and fifth of jack (shot)

I, me, or mine = drink
folks = drink
Intellectual stammer = drink
Mention of ISIS = shot
Attack on republican candidate = shot
There are those who say = shot
That's not who we are = finish beer
Swipe at Hillary = take a shot and finish beer

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:07 AM (xuouz)

222 Blah, I ain't gonna watch the SOTU. Waste of time.

Posted by: Draki at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (0eidE)

223 A I said a few days ago what the TX governor is
missing from his Art V changes is putting teeth in the changes that DC
can not ignore. And removal of the supreme court from DC and placing it
back in the States.


The federal government should have never
had a federal court that was to decide what power the federal gov had.
The founders never intended that and it was Adams' big government desire
to undo what the founders did by packing the court with big government
liberals like Marshall who was also a crook involved in land fraud in
GA.


Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 12, 2016 11:03 AM (t2KH5)

I understand that but with the current makeup of this country we are as likely to get an agreement that requires mandatory gender reassignment surgery and free vibrators for toddlers than anything useful in actually restraining the government.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (NPofj)

224 Listening to Gregg Abbott on Levin's show (bottom of the third hour). Great recap on the Article V process.



This guy is gonna be a superstar.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2016 09:06 AM (zLP1L)
I think an Article V convention is a bad idea because:
A) California and Illinois would have just as much say as Texas and Louisiana and
B) Politicians ignore the parts of the our current Constitution when it suits them and are unlikely to be any more respectful of any new Constitution.
osted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (NPofj)
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History says that Constitutional Amendments are an idiotic feature -- changed all the time. Yes, I live in Illinois and there are always enough idiots to agree to changes to 'close loopholes' and make it open season.

Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (MIKMs)

225 Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?

That would be suicide, even if it was with water instead of alcohol.
Posted by: Lizzy
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I'm going with "common sense", and "fair". Any mention of "ISIL" will require a double shot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (n22zQ)

226 "When I was a kid, we had to get by with tissue paper on a discarded comb."

Ask Vic about his first musical rams horn.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:09 AM (ptqRm)

227 Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:07 AM (xuouz)

What you are suggesting is tantamount to suicide. Even if you took away 3 or 4 of those, it would still lead to poisoning.

Even if you just left in I, me, mine. You'd be passed out before the rebuttal

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:10 AM (kKHcp)

228 Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (MIKMs)

Prolly b/c the SC wants their pensions funded.

Posted by: Draki at January 12, 2016 11:10 AM (0eidE)

229 Any mention of "ISIL" will require a double shot.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (n22zQ)
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What you are suggesting is tantamount to suicide. Even if you took away 3 or 4 of those, it would still lead to poisoning. Even if you just left in I, me, mine. You'd be passed out before the rebuttal
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:10 AM (kKHcp)
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Duh. Change ISIS to ISIL in my rubric

And yeah... but who's going to sit through the entire SOTU?

President Trump should bring back the written State of the Union. Doesn't play to his strengths though.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:12 AM (xuouz)

230 Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?



That would be suicide, even if it was with water instead of alcohol.

Posted by: Lizzy

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I'm going with "common sense", and "fair". Any mention of "ISIL" will require a double shot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (n22zQ)

I am going with "let me be clear" and "that's not who we are".

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 11:12 AM (NPofj)

231 I think an Article V convention is a bad idea because:
A) California and Illinois would have just as much say as Texas and Louisiana and

B) Politicians ignore the parts of the our current Constitution when it suits them and are unlikely to be any more respectful of any new Constitution.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 10:55 AM (NPofj)
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Since the states end up voting after the fact on all amendments, and three quarters of the states have to approve of each amendment, I think we are safe from libtard mischief. So I don't worry at all about your point (A).

As far as (B) goes I don't get the concern. Recently Jim Geraghty tried to make a similar argument, saying citizens are ignorant of the constitution so why change it, and that's nonsense. Geraghty argues more (or all?) citizens be required to be constitutionally literate before we try to fix abuses and, of course, that is ridiculous. As far as your own point goes, I think amending the constitution in order to give citizens more ability to fight back against abusive government obviously is a good thing.

So what if the bad guys will keep trying to abuse us? We just keep fighting them, and strengthening our hand constitutionally can only be a good thing.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (shLnc)

232 ...an electric shock thingy hooked to him and make it activate every time he says 'me', 'myself', or 'I'...

No teleprompters, and it goes off any time he says "uhh" or "uhm".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (S+N7W)

233 Nick Saban for President!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (LUgeY)

234
Ask Vic about his first musical rams horn.-----Village Idiot's Apprentice

He had to kill the ram first...with his bare hands.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (1JqUE)

235 I know a lot of Canadians who are just fantastic. Ted is a fantastic person. I'm not saying he is ineligible but just asking a question so that it can get clarified so it won't hurt the Republican effort overall. I love that Ted is in the race and have no doubt he believes he is 100% American.

Posted by: Donald 'I'm just trying to help' Trump at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (L8slQ)

236 Someone on the wife's facebook mentioned that Leonardo the bear receiver said something at the Golden Globes that would piss off conservatives. The video they attached didn't work. Anyone have an idea what he said?

Posted by: Bruce at January 12, 2016 11:13 AM (8ikIW)

237 Like flaming globes of Sigmund!

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at January 12, 2016 11:14 AM (JzFJE)

238 Let me be clear should be a shot and finish your beer too.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:15 AM (xuouz)

239 "When I was a kid we could not afford to buy baseballs every few days or even weeks. So when the cover started coming off due to broken threads we would sew them back up with fishing line which held up better."

Our s.o.p. was to wrap them up in black friction tape. They sucked but it was better than not playing. We also solved bat cracks at the handle of the bat by using thin nails to fortify them. This also sucked because sometimes the nails bent, and once cracked, the bats were never really the same.

Once my mom drove me to the large discount store (Almart) where I bought three baseballs for $1.00. I thought I had hit the lottery, only to learn that they split apart after being hit around for about 15 minutes. They had some sort of compressed cellophane filling. Probably my first real lesson in "You get what you pay for."

Posted by: RM at January 12, 2016 11:16 AM (U3LtS)

240 Chicago averaging 10 shot per day.

WOO HOO!!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 11:16 AM (fWAjv)

241 The Dems apparently had a debate last night. Which started at 8pm.

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They talked about white terrorism which, as Hilldog told us, is just as bad as ISIS.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 12, 2016 11:18 AM (Nwg0u)

242 Anyone have an idea what he said?

Anyone have an idea that I could give a flying goose shit about what Hollywood says about anything?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:18 AM (659DL)

243 So MoveOn's in for Bernie?

Hillary wasn't Pol Pot enough.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 11:18 AM (o+SC1)

244 Chicago averaging 10 shot per day.



WOO HOO!!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 11:16 AM


Pikers.

*hic*

Oh...you said "shot."

Posted by: Hillary! at January 12, 2016 11:18 AM (me6xG)

245 They talked about white terrorism which, as Hilldog told us, is just as bad as ISIS.

And then Derrick Henry ran over all of them.

I can dream, right?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:19 AM (659DL)

246 Anyone have an idea that I could give a flying goose shit about what Hollywood says about anything?
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:18 AM (659DL)

Don't antagonize the canadians.....

Posted by: Draki at January 12, 2016 11:19 AM (0eidE)

247 >>Anyone have an idea that I could give a flying goose shit
>> about what Hollywood says about anything?

DiCaprio is a Gulfstream Green. I'd like nothing better than to hear ursine DNA found in his backside.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 11:20 AM (o+SC1)

248 Offered without comment


http://tinyurl.com/hyogkh6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:21 AM (ptqRm)

249 Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy

I want everyone to examine the exquisite math-defying stupidity of that opinion.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:21 AM (659DL)

250 230 Is the drinking game for SOTU still one shot every time "I, me or mine" is uttered?

That would be suicide, even if it was with water instead of alcohol.

Posted by: Lizzy
----------

I'm going with "common sense", and "fair". Any mention of "ISIL" will require a double shot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (n22zQ)

I am going with "let me be clear" and "that's not who we are".



If you really wanna get schnockered, add in "folks" and "notion."

For some reason it extra-annoys me the way he always says "some folks have the notion..." every time he's about to denigrate his detractors.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 11:21 AM (r9tFS)

251 John Hinderaker had a great comment about TFG and Hillary, where he pointed out that gun control is a total political loser and yet they mysteriously keep talking about it. He suggests the Progressives are either completely out of ideas and so that's all they can talk about, or they are desperate to motivate their base to turn out, and this is the one crusade issue the hard-left core will still motivate themselves on.

Either way, it's not good for progressive candidates.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 11:24 AM (shLnc)

252 If you really wanna get schnockered, add in "folks" and "notion."



For some reason it extra-annoys me the way he always says "some
folks have the notion..." every time he's about to denigrate his
detractors.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 11:21 AM (r9tFS)

Those damn "folks"... not only do they have notions but they will never let the poor man be clear.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 11:24 AM (NPofj)

253 A little while ago I got an email from someone in one of the Fantasy Football leagues I'm in. His suggestion was that we implement the device discussed in this blog post: http://tinyurl.com/j6fowv6 as a means to prevent team owners from "going zombie."


It's a funny read, but at the end of this initial installment it also highlights the sad state of our current educational system (Abe R. Ham-Lincoln and Johneff Kennedy).

Posted by: Country Singer at January 12, 2016 11:25 AM (GUBah)

254 they are desperate to motivate their base to turn out, and this is the one crusade issue the hard-left core will still motivate themselves on.

Reminder: Dems have dumbshit political consultant hacks, too.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:25 AM (659DL)

255 So MoveOn's in for Bernie?

Hillary wasn't Pol Pot enough.


Please dump all of Soros' money down that well.

All. Of. It.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:25 AM (LUgeY)

256 If only gun laws were as easy to break as classified information laws.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:25 AM (XiVKO)

257 Damn! Just heard more about the murder here yesterday. Not a drug deal or gang-bangers. Victim was boinking another guy's wife, and relatives of the aggrieved husband "chastised" him. Victim worked as watchman at house in Granada owned by another Canadian I know. Small world.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:26 AM (L2co/)

258 Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy
I want everyone to examine the exquisite math-defying stupidity of that opinion.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:21 AM (659DL)
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Endlessly 'refining' our Constitution has made us even stupider.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 11:26 AM (MIKMs)

259 Listening to the Cochran/ATC podcast...

ATC does get excited when she's speaking of inequities in the law.

I can't wait to hear the podcast after she sees "Making a Murderer". Eleventy won't begin to describe it.

Posted by: jwest at January 12, 2016 11:26 AM (Zs4uk)

260
Someone on the wife's facebook mentioned that Leonardo the bear receiver said something at the Golden Globes that would piss off conservatives. The video they attached didn't work. Anyone have an idea what he said?


Probably this:

I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the Indigenous communities around the world. It is time that we recognized your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people that are out there to exploit them. It is time that we heard your voice and protected this planet for future generations.


Yogi apparently didn't wreck his rectum hard enough.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 11:28 AM (X6fMO)

261 Isn't AtC always excitable on the podcast?

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:28 AM (XiVKO)

262 I wouldn't put it past this current SCOTUS to declare an Article V convention unconstitutional on a 5-4 vote.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at January 12, 2016 11:30 AM (PFy0L)

263 261 Isn't AtC always excitable on the podcast?

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:28 AM (XiVKO)


She's remarkably calm in this one.

Posted by: jwest at January 12, 2016 11:31 AM (Zs4uk)

264 It is time that we recognized your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people that are out there to exploit them.

He said. After starring in a film financed and distributed by...wait for it...

...

...

...

Fox.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:31 AM (659DL)

265 "Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy
I want everyone to examine the exquisite math-defying stupidity of that opinion. "

As the Blogfather once opined: That which can not continue....won't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:33 AM (ptqRm)

266 2016 battery!

http://tinyurl.com/hgrqbdn

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 12, 2016 11:33 AM (Nwg0u)

267 the burning!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 12, 2016 11:33 AM (0O7c5)

268 I want everyone to examine the exquisite math-defying stupidity of that opinion.
Posted by: Circa
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As I have pointed out before, in my uber-Progressive little town, one must pay a fee to go out of business.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:33 AM (n22zQ)

269 The T*ts are calm....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:34 AM (ptqRm)

270 Isn't AtC always excitable on the podcast?

FIFY

And with that, I'm off to muck the Ravage stables where I'll probably be sleeping tonight.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:34 AM (LUgeY)

271 I see that Gabby Giffords endorsed Hilarity! yesterday.

She also endorsed an avocado and turpentine.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 12, 2016 11:35 AM (gyKtp)

272 "Yes, I live in Illinois and there are always enough idiots to agree to changes to 'close loopholes' and make it open season.



Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy."

Well the state can't go "bankrupt" apparently, they seem to think they own us all. The way to beat the unions claim on their golden (illegally unfunded) pensions, is to show the quid pro quo between the pensioners/union bosses/Democrat politicians. Vast sums are paid to the Democrats with the agreement that public union workers would get special treatment. Can't fire them for incompetence, must pay them for spurious/worthless extended degree credits, they get to retire early on pensions sometimes higher than their salary, etc.

This came up a decade or more ago, the illegal non-funding, and the Democrat response was to continue not funding enough (that would have bust the budget and killed their reelection chances) ... so they reinforced that even unfunded liabilities would be paid by future taxpayers. ie., We will screw you now AND we will screw the children later. These people should be in prison with Blago.

But they still go on strike to harm the children they claim to love (Chicago 2012, bad system highest paid in country, had ObamaRahma over the barrel), while they hold a monopoly on "education". These are obvious Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations, that buy off our political process. So yes, all public teachers and their union thugs and the politicians they bought must go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200,000. /sarconthatlastpart

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 12, 2016 11:35 AM (5Gpe2)

273 As I have pointed out before, in my uber-Progressive little town, one must pay a fee to go out of business.

Hugo Chavez, Mayor.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:35 AM (659DL)

274 "It is time that we heard your voice and protected this planet for future generations."

Which I plan on doing by renting he worlds largest yacht for me and my 20 best friends to have a wild floating party for a week. For you, all for you wonderful indigenous people.

Posted by: Leomardo De Caprio at January 12, 2016 11:36 AM (1BQGO)

275 Yogi apparently didn't wreck his rectum hard enough.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Thank you MPPP.
I guess I now can't figure why the knucklefu(er that posted it thinks it will get conservatives all pissed off.

Posted by: Bruce at January 12, 2016 11:36 AM (8ikIW)

276 Gabby Giffords just released a statement stating she likes turtles.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:37 AM (XiVKO)

277 222 Blah, I ain't gonna watch the SOTU. Waste of time.

Posted by: Draki at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (0eidE)


Nor will I. But what I will do is hang out on the AoSHQ SOTU thread and follow the comments from all the morons who are drinking. That's sure to be entertaining, and will get better as the night goes on.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 11:37 AM (N8xMd)

278 When I was a kid, we had to get by with tissue paper on a discarded comb.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:06 AM (n22zQ)


Only the rich kids could afford a swynet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:37 AM (L2co/)

279 272 - "I owe those unions," Mr. Obama explained in his 2006 political memoir, "The Audacity of Hope." "When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:38 AM (n22zQ)

280 Indiana governor Pence delivers the Indiana state of the state address tonight. Local media seem to think the most important subject that he MUST address is LGBTWXYZ rights.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 11:38 AM (FkBIv)

281 Assuming we're still being affected by the gravitational force of new year's resolutions (anchored, immovable, in the space-time coordinates 1/1/16) Ace has been up for 43 minutes.

At this point it's fair to say he's had his pudding, thrown a couple scoops of hobo ashes in the Mr Hobo brewing machine, and popped on a cheap, garish Marvel property movie for background noise.

I predict a nood before noon.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:38 AM (xuouz)

282 So Mr. DiCaprio is paying homage to the notion of the "noble savage", that mythical heritage of peace-loving indigenous peoples who lived in peace with their environment and their neighbors.

He's not alone by any stretch, that is what is taught in the anti-western school systems these days. It does however,

disqualify him as an intellect to be taken seriously by all with a passing knowledge of actual history.

Also known as a Hwood douche bag. One of thousands,

Next!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (kKHcp)

283 260 I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the Indigenous communities around the world. It is time that we recognized your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests ...
-------------------------------------------------------

Government steals from Indians for centuries and wrecks America every day (just ask the Navajo about the EPA!) and this idiot stands up and complains about businesses.

Progressives are ignorant to start with but when you pile on the fact this guy is an actor we really are getting into dumbshit territory, aren't we?

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (shLnc)

284 Well ain't you fancy, with your wax paper and comb what has all its teefs.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (XiVKO)

285 Hugo Chavez, Mayor.
Posted by: Circa
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RIP. He was a great man.

Posted by: Sean Penn at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (n22zQ)

286 I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the Indigenous communities around the world. It is time that we recognized your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people that are out there to exploit them. It is time that we heard your voice and protected this planet for future generations.

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Brain atrophy secondary to bear syphilis is an ugly, ugly thing.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (Nwg0u)

287 Gabby Giffords just released a statement stating she likes turtles.

The Hillary! Turtle Strategy:

1. Protect the Turtles
2. Tax those that harm Turtles
3. Open the border for more Turtles
4. Invest in Turtle Technology
5. Ensure access for Turtle nutrition and healthcare

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (659DL)

288 When I was a kid, we had to get by with tissue paper on a discarded comb.

All we had was a hollow log to beat on. Even then, we had to wait for the critter who lived in it to leave.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (LUgeY)

289 As I have pointed out before, in my uber-Progressive little town, one must pay a fee to go out of business.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:33 AM (n22zQ)


Seriously? This sounds like something out of an Ayn Rand novel. How does it work? How are fees collected from someone who's bankrupt?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 11:40 AM (N8xMd)

290 LGBTWXYZ rights are human rights and human rights are LGBTWXYZ rights.

(Hic)

Posted by: Hillary! at January 12, 2016 11:40 AM (1BQGO)

291 Progressives are ignorant to start with but when you pile on the fact this guy is an actor we really are getting into dumbshit territory, aren't we?

Even worse: Leo is ironclad certain of his own genius.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:41 AM (659DL)

292 The Hillary! Turtle Strategy:
1. Protect the Turtles
2. Tax those that harm Turtles
3. Open the border for more Turtles
4. Invest in Turtle Technology
5. Ensure access for Turtle nutrition and healthcare
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (659DL)


You're forgetting #6.

6. And when you get too many Turtles, state-funded Turtle abortions!

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (N8xMd)

293 How are fees collected from someone who's bankrupt?

"Ineffectively" comes to mind...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (659DL)

294 Tonight, Barky will tout his 'breakthrough' in Cuban-American relations, and the Global Warming Pact.

There. See? Everything is fine. Oh, and unemployment is at historic low levels.

Posted by: Sean Penn at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (n22zQ)

295 6. And when you get too many Turtles, state-funded Turtle abortions!

That's healthcare, wingnut.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (659DL)

296 Who made Dicaprio the speaker for all Native Americans? I suggest he be more charitable with his own money. He's a cheapskate. He's also exploiting the hell out of some reef in the Honduras where he is bldg a resort for multi millionaires.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (iQIUe)

297 I really don't like to make fun of the victim of a shooting, but when her asshole husband got all buttsore because it was easy for a guy we used to strap tons of explosives and radioactive material under to get an AR, I got over it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:43 AM (XiVKO)

298 He's also exploiting the hell out of some reef in the Honduras where he is bldg a resort for multi millionaires.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

Ah yes. Supermodel Island.

Posted by: Bruce at January 12, 2016 11:43 AM (8ikIW)

299 How are fees collected from someone who's bankrupt?

"Ineffectively" comes to mind...
Posted by: Circa
----------------

Not bankrupt. Just losing money. In the absence of bankruptcy, the city will place a lien against property.

Posted by: Sean Penn at January 12, 2016 11:43 AM (n22zQ)

300 "That's healthcare, wing nut."

Those Turtle mammograms aren't going to administer themselves, are they?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:43 AM (ptqRm)

301 >>It is time that we recognized your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people that are out there to exploit them.


Wonder when this guy will wake-up to the fact that he works for big, energy-using corporations.
Seriously, dude, you are a corporate tool, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 11:44 AM (NOIQH)

302 Who made Dicaprio the speaker for all Native Americans?

Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, and Frank de Kova.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:44 AM (659DL)

303 It's not like a bankrupt business has juice with anyone.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 11:44 AM (XiVKO)

304 Oops. Drops red diaper baby sock.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:45 AM (n22zQ)

305 "Elizabeth Warren, Ward Churchill, and Frank de Kova."

I cry for my Nation

Posted by: "Iron Eyes" Cody at January 12, 2016 11:45 AM (ptqRm)

306 Even worse: Leo is ironclad certain of his own genius.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:41 AM (659DL)

An entourage of sycophants and handlers will work against humility, over time.

Which is why I plan on having both those things after I win the PowerBall ,Bitches!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (kKHcp)

307 294 Tonight, Barky will tout his 'breakthrough' in Cuban-American relations, and the Global Warming Pact.

There. See? Everything is fine. Oh, and unemployment is at historic low levels.
Posted by: Sean Penn at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (n22zQ)

If I choose to drink every time he says I, Me, Mine, I'll be drunk in the first 5 minutes....Maybe I'll hold out drinking till He says Islam is the Religion of hate.... naw, that would make for an awfully dry night...

Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (/dSsq)

308 >>He's also exploiting the hell out of some reef in the Honduras where he is bldg a resort for multi millionaires.

They bulldozed/changed the terrain of Thailand's Phi Phi Island for "The Island". He jets all over the world, spends vacations time on ginormous yachts, etc.

STFU

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (NOIQH)

309 Lotteries erode the work ethic! As a favor to everyone else I will just take this Powerball jackpot so everyone can get back to a moral existence.

You're welcome.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (shLnc)

310 Seriously, dude, you are a corporate tool, too.
Posted by: Lizzy
-------------

He understands that. What he is doing is the same thing that most Hollywood libs do, he is purchasing an indulgence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (n22zQ)

311 Just dropped in again, and I'm surprised to see the art thread still going strong. It's been stomped so readily lately.

Hope I haven't just brought that on.

Posted by: mindful webworker - passerby at January 12, 2016 11:47 AM (zbbA4)

312 Hey....the News Dump?






Yeh, it's not here yet.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 11:47 AM (ptqRm)

313 Gabby Giffords is getting a lot of mileage out of being the collateral damage in the assassination of a Republican judge by a whack-job Democrat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:47 AM (L2co/)

314 BTW, I didn't see it mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is marrying Mick Jagger's old ex, Jerry Hall.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 11:49 AM (X6fMO)

315 Maybe I'll hold out drinking till He says Islam is the Religion of hate.... naw, that would make for an awfully dry night...

"Those who pervert the peaceful tenets of Islam..."
"Those who violate America's history of welcoming the poor and persecuted..."
"Those who seek confrontation instead of peace..."

Also known as the douchebag trifecta.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:49 AM (659DL)

316
Three lesbians, Sir Hillary Rodham, Mr. Sally Kohn, and Miss Shepard Smith walk into a vag leather bar in Manhattan and order Pussy Willow's.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at January 12, 2016 11:50 AM (OiFtZ)

317 I can be Pol Pot. Really, I can!

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at January 12, 2016 11:50 AM (8ZskC)

318 An entourage of sycophants and handlers will work against humility, over time.
Which is why I plan on having both those things after I win the PowerBall ,Bitches!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:46 AM (kKHcp)


Exactly so. Now, when I win the Powerball, I will bask in the illusion of my own awesomeness for the rest of my life. I will make Kim Jong Un look like an Amish farmer. Hell, Kim Jong Un will be shining my shoes.

Thanks, Powerball!

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 11:50 AM (N8xMd)

319 Gabby Giffords is getting a lot of mileage out of being the collateral damage in the assassination of a Republican judge by a whack-job Democrat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:47 AM (L2co/)

The Deuce, you say! There were no other victims that day.
Just poor poor Gabby Giffords. Those others were "extras".
Background noise. Bit players.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 11:50 AM (kKHcp)

320 BTW, I didn't see it mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is marrying Mick Jagger's old ex, Jerry Hall.

I'd like to congratulate Jerry on marrying Rubert Murdoch's generous pre-nup.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:50 AM (659DL)

321 BTW, I didn't see it mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is marrying Mick Jagger's old ex, Jerry Hall.


For reelz?


She is my least favorite of his squeezes, I never got the attraction.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 11:51 AM (1xUj/)

322 Illinois SC said that pensions are written in Ill Constitution -- even in bankruptcy.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 11:08 AM (MIKMs)

Tax fraud and under reporting income along with hiding income altogether is a Cottage industry in Illinois.

Not that I would know anything about it, Just to clarify.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at January 12, 2016 11:51 AM (WVsWD)

323 I take a little pride in the fact that I haven't seen a single show that win an award last night. Let them all be beheaded for all I care.

Posted by: Blano at January 12, 2016 11:51 AM (NHQQx)

324 BTW, I didn't see it mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is marrying Mick Jagger's old ex, Jerry Hall.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 11:49 AM (X6fMO)


I guess when one is as old and wizened as Murdoch, scoring one of Donald Trump's exes is off the table.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:52 AM (L2co/)

325 297 >> I really don't like to make fun of the victim of a shooting,...

Posted by: Chupacabra

Look, I know she's just a puppet being used by her hubby and the gun control crowd; then again, so was James Brady.

But if you're gonna climb up there on that stage, prepare for catcalls.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 12, 2016 11:53 AM (gyKtp)

326 I'm waiting for disclosure of Hillary's emails to El Chapo soliciting donations to the Clinton Foundation. But will probably will be reported as Hillary Reaches Out to Latin Community.

Posted by: Ex NYC Peasant at January 12, 2016 11:53 AM (k8tEg)

327 Let them all be beheaded for all I care.

They classified "The Martian" as a comedy.

No, really.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:53 AM (659DL)

328 Who made Dicaprio the speaker for all Native Americans? I suggest he be more charitable with his own money. He's a cheapskate. He's also exploiting the hell out of some reef in the Honduras where he is bldg a resort for multi millionaires.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 11:42 AM (iQIUe)

1) He's channeling Marlon Brando
2) Native Americans really have gotten screwed, and in ways which illustrate the hypocrisy of leftist dogma.
3) There has been a concerted effort over the past 300 years to erase the evidence of Native Americans' written language, metal working and textiles technologies, and the very existence of the mound-cities in the Ohio river valley, and all of it was done by racist progressive democrats from the comfort of their academic sinecures, in defense of provably wrong theories about native culture and origins, which we see echoed in "climate science" today.

Leo's diagnosis is just fine, it's his prescription which goes off the rails.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:53 AM (xuouz)

329 It's not like a bankrupt business has juice with anyone.
Posted by: Chupacabra

Especially if you're a bond holder.

Posted by: General Motors at January 12, 2016 11:53 AM (l3vZN)

330 MoveOn (started to defend Hillary against right-wing conspiracies) endorses Bernie.

And...

"Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by 14 points in New Hampshire less than a month before state's presidential primary" - @thehill
read more on thehill.com

Yikes.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 11:54 AM (3myMJ)

331
She is my least favorite of his squeezes, I never got the attraction.

She once explained her marriage to Mick thusly (I paraphrase): "whenever his eye roves, whatever you're doing, stop it and give him a blow job. That way, when he's finished, he won't feel like going after someone else."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 11:54 AM (X6fMO)

332 "Mr. DiCaprio is paying homage to the notion of the "noble savage", that mythical heritage of peace-loving indigenous peoples who lived in peace with their environment and their neighbors. "

I always find it amazing that people, adults no less, swallow that BS. My lib sister a year or so ago made some random statement about how badly "we" screwed the Indians. Couldn't help myself and went onto the list some the brain dead assumptions with that statement and how "I" didn't screw any Indians in any case. She actual took it kind of hard but it really seems like she never heard any of the counter-arguments or facts, like Indians were robbing and killing each other long before Europeans came to these shores. Grown, professional, supposedly well educated adult that has a Disney fairy tale knowledge of American history. And she is just one of tens of millions with the same brain washing.

Posted by: Realist at January 12, 2016 11:54 AM (1BQGO)

333 She once explained her marriage to Mick thusly (I paraphrase): "whenever his eye roves, whatever you're doing, stop it and give him a blow job. That way, when he's finished, he won't feel like going after someone else."

Shorter: A beejer in time saves nine.

I strongly endorse this theory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 11:56 AM (8ZskC)

334 Turtles all the way!

Reminding everyone that elephants hold up the earth on the back of the giant turtle. Pratchett creationist mythology seems ever more prescient.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 11:56 AM (MIKMs)

335 "whenever his eye roves, whatever you're doing, stop it and give him a blow job. That way, when he's finished, he won't feel like going after someone else."


Ah.

That does explain some of the things.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (1xUj/)

336 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:47 AM (L2co/)

That's what is so maddening. Those actually killed aren't important to the narrative and hit the memory hole.

Same thing happened with the "planned parenthood shooting". Once it was tweeted that no one at PP had been even injured the MFM lost interest in any of those who were actually injured or killed. But it's still "the PP shooting" for purposes of propaganda.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (GDulk)

337 DiCaprio should read a little about the Comanches and see whether they fit the Noble Savage leftard dipshit mythology.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (8ZskC)

338 I am 0 for 1 on predictions today.

Source: the clock.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (xuouz)

339 And what holds the turtle up?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (L2co/)

340 Sanders is leading Hillary by 5 in Iowa. NH too I think


Oopsey

Posted by: ThunderB at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (GjKsw)

341 It's turtles all the way down.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 11:58 AM (1xUj/)

342 DiCaprio should read a little about the Comanches and see whether they fit the Noble Savage leftard dipshit mythology.

The Aztecs and Chickasaws wave.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:58 AM (659DL)

343 Sanders is leading Hillary by 5 in Iowa. NH too I think


Harland or Bernie?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 11:58 AM (8ZskC)

344 288 When I was a kid, we had to get by with tissue paper on a discarded comb.

All we had was a hollow log to beat on. Even then, we had to wait for the critter who lived in it to leave.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 11:39 AM (LUgeY)

The critter was dinner.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 12, 2016 11:58 AM (kpqmD)

345 And what holds the turtle up?

JOOOOOOOOOS and their money, of course.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:59 AM (659DL)

346 Sanders is leading Hillary by 5 in Iowa. NH too I think

Harland or Bernie?


Harland is now Norm McDonald. He's Canadian and can't run.

...
...
...

What?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:00 PM (659DL)

347 >>DiCaprio should read a little about the Comanches and see whether they fit the Noble Savage leftard dipshit mythology.

>>The Aztecs and Chickasaws wave.


Abenakis killed my baby!

Posted by: Hannah Dustin at January 12, 2016 12:00 PM (NOIQH)

348 So in a once-removed way, ol' Rupert will be making sweet, sweet love to David Bowie.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 12, 2016 12:00 PM (vgIRn)

349 337 DiCaprio should read a little about the Comanches and see whether they fit the Noble Savage leftard dipshit mythology.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (8ZskC)

The Indian equivalent of Cincinnatti Bengals. They scalped my GGG Grandmother. Luckily for me, they left my infant GG Grandmother alive in her crib. She was too young to be a useful slave.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:00 PM (3myMJ)

350 Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:00 PM (3myMJ)

*Very* lucky for you, they usually bashed in the skulls of infants.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (GDulk)

351 And what holds the turtle up?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Fence post.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (FkBIv)

352 They scalped my GGG Grandmother. Luckily for me, they left my infant GG Grandmother alive in her crib. She was too young to be a useful slave.

I was scalped outside Paducah in 2007 by a roving band of NRA members. True story!

(Hic)

Posted by: H! at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (659DL)

353 Of all the women Mick's had, I thought Bianca was the least attractive. She had that Lorena Bobbitt / Leona Helmsley look in her eyes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 12:03 PM (X6fMO)

354 339 And what holds the turtle up?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (L2co/)

More turtles.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 12, 2016 12:03 PM (kpqmD)

355 How vile a people must one be (referring to Comanches) that tribes in your path dig holes half way up the side of a cliff, accessible only by retractable ladders, just to stay the hell away from you?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 12:03 PM (kKHcp)

356 Just because

http://tinyurl.com/jfrtsql

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 12:03 PM (ptqRm)

357 324 BTW, I didn't see it mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is marrying Mick Jagger's old ex, Jerry Hall.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 11:49 AM (X6fMO)


So Murdoch's going after Jagger's sloppy seconds? Eeew. I would think that would be punching down for him.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 12:04 PM (N8xMd)

358 Heh. The Beast's campaign is dying on the vine like a rotting tomato.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 12, 2016 12:05 PM (xWW96)

359 347 >>DiCaprio should read a little about the Comanches and see whether they fit the Noble Savage leftard dipshit mythology.


You would think if the White Man hadn't taken the Nobel Indians land all would be great. Seems they forgot that the "Indians" were not all one happy Family.... They were constantly waring with each other. Hardly the picture they portray...

Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 12:05 PM (/dSsq)

360 Leonardo DiCaprio's Indian names.

Fkd by Bear

Sinks like Lead

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 12, 2016 12:05 PM (XtAzU)

361 Hey Abboooooott!!!

Posted by: Wendy Davis at January 12, 2016 12:06 PM (DeqgK)

362 Fence post.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (FkBIv)


Nice. Almost got lost amid the rest of the comments.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 12:06 PM (kKHcp)

363 Nobel=noble

Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 12:06 PM (/dSsq)

364
Hillary is running strong and will capture both Iowa and New Hampshire, and will go forward with the nomination to win against the republican miscreant.

Posted by: Baghdad Huma at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (OiFtZ)

365 Could be worse. Murdoch could be marrying David Bowie

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (Wf1ED)

366 291 Progressives are ignorant to start with but when you pile on the fact this guy is an actor we really are getting into dumbshit territory, aren't we?
Even worse: Leo is ironclad certain of his own genius.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 11:41 AM (659DL)



And a high school dropout shall lead them.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (oKE6c)

367 But they used the entire buffalo. Every piece, man!

Posted by: A Leftard Dipshit at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (8ZskC)

368 I always thought Bianca was teh hawt.

https://idynamo.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/zzzzjaggerbianca.jpg

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (1xUj/)

369 " Fence post.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (FkBIv)


Nice. Almost got lost amid the rest of the comments."

He ain't one of us

Posted by: Stump Turtle Union, Local 377 at January 12, 2016 12:08 PM (ptqRm)

370 And what holds the turtle up?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 11:57 AM (L2co/)
_______

If we all clap really, really hard, the turtle is kept alive by our faith.

Clap harder.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 12, 2016 12:08 PM (MIKMs)

371 *Very* lucky for you, they usually bashed in the skulls of infants.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (GDulk)

I know.

Never held it against them. They lost the war. The last one quit coming around the place in 1914. The lady on the farm to the north of our place had no food when he came begging. He started to ride off, turned and took a shot at her as she stood in the doorway. Missed, the hole is still in the door jam. He was never seen again.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:08 PM (3myMJ)

372 With all your focus on her looks, which I think are just fine in a long-legged Texas sort of way, you guys are missing the only important thing about Jerry Hall: She advocates regular blowjobs to preserve marital bliss. Nothing else really matters.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 12:08 PM (shLnc)

373 Indians still scalp.


Indian casinos: an entire industry predicated upon the proposition that the paleface is the only animal that can be scalped more than once.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (L2co/)

374 There is a 25 year age differece betw Hall and Murdoch which isnt too bad at their ages. I think she's a lot of fun for him and knows how to treat a man. Sure, she loves his money but he loves her youth and good looks. Hope it doesnt go to shite.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (iQIUe)

375 Where were the indigenous peoples being indigenous before they were doing their indigenous thing here?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (FkBIv)

376 Re the Comanches, I'll just repeat what I said years ago - if they'd been in Dances With Wolves, the movie would have been a lot shorter.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (Wf1ED)

377 "She advocates regular blowjobs to preserve marital bliss. Nothing else really matters."

Can she grill a steak?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (ptqRm)

378 Where were the indigenous peoples being indigenous before they were doing their indigenous thing here?

France.

Posted by: A Solutrean Conehead at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (8ZskC)

379 >>*Very* lucky for you, they usually bashed in the skulls of infants.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (GDulk)




But in the nicest, most environmentally friendly way.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (oKE6c)

380 Indian casinos: an entire industry predicated upon the proposition that the paleface is the only animal that can be scalped more than once.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (L2co/)

How

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (xuouz)

381
She advocates regular blowjobs to preserve marital bliss.

****

I'm in agreement with Jerry and that's why my marriage is strong.

Posted by: Paula Jones at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (OiFtZ)

382 If we all clap really, really hard, the turtle is kept alive by our faith.

Or, we can just put him in the box next to the cat and then we'll never be sure he isn't alive.

Cuz my hands get tired of clapping quickly.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 12:11 PM (kKHcp)

383 Best book on them I've found:

"The Commanches" (Lords of the Southern Plains) by Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:11 PM (3myMJ)

384 *Very* lucky for you, they usually bashed in the skulls of infants.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:02 PM (GDulk)

But in the nicest, most environmentally friendly way.


Like Planned Parenthood, none of the infant went to waste.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:12 PM (8ZskC)

385 355 How vile a people must one be (referring to Comanches) that tribes in your path dig holes half way up the side of a cliff, accessible only by retractable ladders, just to stay the hell away from you?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 12, 2016 12:03 PM (kKHcp)




Some of the tribes of the Southwest made the Aztecs look like pansies. In some cases, their entire culture was based on kidnapping and torturing captives in the most brutal way they could think of.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:12 PM (oKE6c)

386 To those of the horde who will bravely, and sadistically watch the SOU tonight, I salute you.

Personally, if I am going to be lied to that brazenly, I would like a fine dinner with wine first.

This will all be about HIM (isn't it always?) and his legacy. I don't know how anyone will be able to sit through this malignant narcissists self aggrandizement.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:12 PM (oiNtH)

387 21 "right wing anti immigrant extremists" arrested in Leipzig.

Wonder if they'll be released like the 14 Cologne rapists?

Doesn't seem mere protests are cutting it.

Posted by: merkel jerk at January 12, 2016 12:12 PM (DeqgK)

388 Where were the indigenous peoples being indigenous before they were doing their indigenous thing here?

France.



Remulac.

Posted by: Belzar Conehead at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (1xUj/)

389 She advocates regular blowjobs to preserve marital bliss.

****

I'm in agreement with Jerry and that's why my marriage is strong.


Posted by: Paula Jones at January 12, 2016 12:10 PM (OiFtZ)


Monica Lewinsky is now a marriage counselor?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (oKE6c)

390 368 I always thought Bianca was teh hawt.
https://idynamo.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/zzzzjaggerbianca.jpg

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 12:07 PM (1xUj/)


Holy crap. They're kind of... out there, aren't they?

How can she wear something like that in public?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (N8xMd)

391 To those of the horde who will bravely, and sadistically watch the SOU tonight, I salute you.


I don't have the stomach for it. I plan to be staked to an anthill instead.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (8ZskC)

392 So I see obama gave an "interview" with Matt Liar today... Said trump is running a campaign of "scape goating" people.....Oh and The US is in no inherent danger.... Watch Your backs... Every time obama says not to worry about terror we get hit...

Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (/dSsq)

393 "The Great Commanche Raid" (Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas Republic) by Donaly E. Brice is good too, but only covers the one uprising.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:14 PM (3myMJ)

394 Nobel=noble
Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 12:06 PM (/dSsq)

____


Nobel=noble=no bull

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:14 PM (8XRCm)

395 If only it were possible to surreptitiously arrange for about twenty Comanche braves from circa 1850 to attend tonights SOTU I expect Leo would finally be able to call the account "paid in full". A relief for him and us, both.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 12:15 PM (shLnc)

396 I don't have the stomach for it. I plan to be staked to an anthill instead.


I'd watch it but I have to, um, I have to, uh, reprimer the Jeep.

Yeah that's it, man.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 12:15 PM (LUgeY)

397 How can she wear something like that in public?


Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 12:13 PM (N8xMd)


It's been a while. These days, she might need a see-through belt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 12:16 PM (L2co/)

398 >>3) There has been a concerted effort over the past 300 years to erase the evidence of Native Americans' written language,



They had a written language? Really? I didn't know that.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:16 PM (oKE6c)

399 The Indians in my neck of the woods like to be called "Indians." Not "First Peoples." Not "Native Americans."

Maybe these palefaces should bother asking them first.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 12:16 PM (r9tFS)

400 Hopefully Obama will announce an executive order tonight to fix the shameful lack of recognition of indigenous people by White celebrities at awards ceremonies.

Posted by: Realist at January 12, 2016 12:17 PM (1BQGO)

401
368 I always thought Bianca was teh hawt.

That picture must have been taken in Studio 54.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 12:17 PM (X6fMO)

402 They had a written language? Really? I didn't know that.
---------------
The cherokees did for sure, it is still in use on their reservation.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 12, 2016 12:17 PM (kXzR8)

403 "The Indians in my neck of the woods like to be called "Indians." Not "First Peoples." Not "Native Americans."

What's their position on "Redskins"?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 12:18 PM (ptqRm)

404 The Indians in my neck of the woods like to be called "Indians." Not "First Peoples." Not "Native Americans."

Maybe these palefaces should bother asking them first.

------

They also tend to root for the Chiefs, The Redskins, The Balckhawks and the Seminoles.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:18 PM (8XRCm)

405 386 >> Personally, if I am going to be lied to that brazenly, I would like a fine dinner with wine first.

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 12, 2016 12:18 PM (gyKtp)

406 Jagger is a great grandpa. Bianca is and "activist" snicker. His first kid by Marcia Hunt graduated from Yale.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:18 PM (iQIUe)

407 FOX Headline: McCain warns of more ISIS attacks after Istanbul bombing.

Brilliant!

That's like saying expect increasing periods of darkness after sunset.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2016 12:19 PM (r65B3)

408 Shorter version of tonight's SOU:

1. America is racist
2. Guns are evil
3. I fixed the economy
4. America is homophobic
5. There is no terrorist threat
6. Syria is at peace
7. Bush

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:19 PM (oiNtH)

409 On the whole aboriginal Americans thing I quite recommend the book "1491".

Makes lots and lots of sense about what the first wave of exploers (1500+) saw and why the first wave of settlers (1600+) found seemed at odds.

Posted by: Belzar Conehead at January 12, 2016 12:19 PM (1xUj/)

410 America is trannyphobic!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:20 PM (iQIUe)

411 FOX Headline: McCain warns of more ISIS attacks after Istanbul bombing.
Brilliant!
That's like saying expect increasing periods of darkness after sunset.
Posted by: Diogenes


How could he have possibly lost in 2008?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 12:20 PM (FkBIv)

412 1. America is racist
2. Guns are evil
3. I fixed the economy
4. America is homophobic
5. There is no terrorist threat
6. Syria is at peace
7. Bush
Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:19 PM (oiNtH)

-----

Not enough "I"'s....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:20 PM (8XRCm)

413 Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne is a great read on the Comanches.

http://tinyurl.com/zya6am2

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:21 PM (8ZskC)

414 My Sioux name is Never Let Go.

Posted by: Leonardo the Bear Catcher at January 12, 2016 12:21 PM (VdICR)

415 FOX Headline: McCain warns of more ISIS attacks after Istanbul bombing.
Brilliant!
That's like saying expect increasing periods of darkness after sunset.
Posted by: Diogenes

How could he have possibly lost in 2008?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.



He didn't expect it to get dark after sunset.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:21 PM (lADRM)

416 FOX Headline: McCain warns of more ISIS attacks after Istanbul bombing.
Brilliant!
That's like saying expect increasing periods of darkness after sunset.

Posted by: Diogenes



I am the King of the Bleeding Obvious!

*hands on hips*

*chest out*

*nose up*

Posted by: John McCain, Supergenius at January 12, 2016 12:22 PM (KUa85)

417 In Boulder county, Colorado, the hipster douchebag cyclists are the new lords of the paved high plains.

The Arapahoe are all gone, but the new lords are here.

You WILL yield to them, or be crushed by a deluge of foul language, water bottles, and spit.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 12, 2016 12:22 PM (U6f54)

418 Not enough "I"'s....

Posted by: fixerupper

You're right!

I am unprecedented
I am historic


Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:22 PM (oiNtH)

419 My Sioux name is Never Let Go.
Posted by: Leonardo the Bear Catcher



That's fine Flex Your Cheeks.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:23 PM (lADRM)

420 They had a written language? Really? I didn't know that.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 12, 2016 12:16 PM (oKE6c)

The Smithsonian destroyed thousands of artifacts with writing on them during the 1800s, under the leadership of fabulist John Wesley Powell.
s.si.edu/1PpAJ8S
A lot of them (evidence of metalworking in particular) were from the Indian tribes around the great lakes. The plains Indians were a different breed. I'm not saying there were thriving second-hand bookstores, but out of the hundreds of tribes living across the US, yeah, some of them had a system of writing.

And some of them lived in places like this:
bit.ly/1Q2OfEh

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 12:23 PM (xuouz)

421 Years ago a blogger was planning a chain of coffee shops. A design feature was a special area to contain customers who committed certain offenses to established decorum. This area required flooring that could withstand significant abuse, and he met one afternoon with the vendor to select flooring that was physically and chemically robust, and that incorporated appropriate elements of branding.

In order to cut
costs and maximize profit, the flooring vendor subcontracted with a
shady supplier.

Of course, when the big day came, the branding elements incorporated in The Barrel's flooring were incorrect, specifically a low-ranking playing card, rather than the high-ranking one specified.

This caused significant consternation amongst the patrons, even more so than the triple thread comment confusion observed on night of Alabama's 2015 football season triumph.



Seeking compensation, the blogger consulted with his lawyer who counseled him...



..."You can't sue the floorist for the treys."

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at January 12, 2016 12:23 PM (nSW/N)

422 Things of note: CNN actually talking about the Iowa polling showing Ms. Inevitable trailing Dr. Seuss.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:24 PM (659DL)

423 /Conehead sock

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 12:24 PM (1xUj/)

424 My Sioux name is Never Let Go.
Posted by: Leonardo the Bear Catcher at January 12, 2016 12:21 PM (VdICR)

------

Theat's what you think, Takes Bear Dick In The Ass.

Posted by: The Commanches at January 12, 2016 12:24 PM (8XRCm)

425 I could develop some minor respect for the Reps if-

they would roundly, loudly "Boo"

whenever TFG mentions one of his "accomplishments" at the SOTU.

Cat calls of "Liar" would work well too.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 12, 2016 12:25 PM (KUa85)

426 411 FOX Headline: McCain warns of more ISIS attacks after Istanbul bombing.

Point of order question: Doesn't the style guide say to refer to Sen. McVain as first name "Asshole" in all instances?

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 12:25 PM (shLnc)

427 376 Re the Comanches, I'll just repeat what I said years ago - if they'd been in Dances With Wolves, the movie would have been a lot shorter.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 12, 2016 12:09 PM (Wf1ED)

The most laughable part historically is when the Lakota village evacuates because a Pawnee raiding party is coming. There's a good reason that the Lakota were the dominant tribe of the Northern Plains. In reality, the Pawnee would have only raided if they had a regiment of US Cavalry backing them up, otherwise the Lakota would have ripped their heads off and shit down their necks.

Posted by: kbdabear at January 12, 2016 12:25 PM (2Qylw)

428 In Boulder county, Colorado, the hipster douchebag cyclists are the new lords of the paved high plains.

The Arapahoe are all gone, but the new lords are here.

You WILL yield to them, or be crushed by a deluge of foul language, water bottles, and spit.
Posted by: the littl shyning man


I dare them to tempt the laws of physics.
6k lb Ford F-350 Dually vs their 25 lb bike. Go ahead, deny them their right-of-way.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:26 PM (lADRM)

429 You WILL yield to them, or be crushed by a deluge of foul language, water bottles, and spit.

Posted by: the littl shyning man

We have an annual bicycle run here in Western CO and they are quite the obnoxious pieces of shit. The roads are cordoned off for the race and traffic diverted, but it is prior to the race that they try and take over the road to practice. There is nothing like seeing a pack of spandex wearing cyclists sweating and swearing because there is a Ford F-150 on their ass full of cowboys blowing the horn.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:26 PM (oiNtH)

430 The bear who guards all the Oscars is coincidentally also named Never Let Go.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 12:26 PM (VdICR)

431 "To scalp an enemy was not especially creditable, for anyone could scalp a dead man; hence scalping was only of secondary importance. But if the scalping was done under danger, it was considered worthy. The scalp was a trophy, proof of success to be used in the Victory Dance (after touchdown celebration), and was also desirable as a decorative fringe for shirts, shields and tomahawks."

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:27 PM (3myMJ)

432 Holy crap...very young Rick Springfield on The Rockford Files.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:27 PM (659DL)

433 ..."You can't sue the floorist for the treys."

*holds door open for Seamus Muldoon*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 12:28 PM (LUgeY)

434 Luckily ISIS will be stopped by the fence McCain built us. And don't call me John McCain.

Posted by: asshole at January 12, 2016 12:28 PM (1uTkE)

435 Cat calls of "Liar" would work well too.

Posted by: naturalfake

The GOPe could regain some respect if they would grow some balls and do this. But being on the same team as Pelosi and Reid prevents them.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 12:28 PM (oiNtH)

436 Jagger is a great grandpa. Bianca is and "activist" snicker. His first kid by Marcia Hunt graduated from Yale.

Mick is a friggin' Tory's Tory.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:28 PM (659DL)

437 Thanks for the book suggestions above, two of you.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:29 PM (3myMJ)

438 re: David Bowie's video, "BlackStar"; Shouldn't he have had a cameo of Bill Cosby in their somewhere? You could have had him singing "I'm a Black Star" and it would have been perfect, and then of course the Day of Execution tie-ins just write themselves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2016 12:30 PM (/jecC)

439 MR. SPEAKER...THE STRAWMAN GENERATOR OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:30 PM (659DL)

440 I could develop some minor respect for the Reps if-

they would roundly, loudly "Boo"

whenever TFG mentions one of his "accomplishments" at the SOTU.

- - - -

More likely they will hold hands with the Dems and shout together "Yes We Did! Yes We Did!"

Posted by: Diogenes at January 12, 2016 12:30 PM (r65B3)

441 Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished.

Posted by: rrpjr at January 12, 2016 12:30 PM (s/yC1)

442 My Sioux name is Never Let Go.
Posted by: Leonardo the Bear Catcher at January 12, 2016 12:21 PM (VdICR)

------

Theat's what you think, Takes Bear Dick In The Ass.
Posted by: The Commanches



So THAT'S what bear grease means!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:31 PM (lADRM)

443 Posted by: kbdabear at January 12, 2016 12:25 PM (2Qylw)

My understanding (admittedly gained from passng references in novels) is that the Lakota were hated by their neighbors snd are now 'Low-tribe-on-the-totem-pole' in the reservation systems that incorporate several tribes in one area.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:32 PM (GDulk)

444
So.... is Ace breaking his resolution on early in the day content???

I bet he's off with that Twitter hussie again.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:32 PM (8XRCm)

445 "Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished."

Only in a sane world would that be true. She's like a vampire, where is the silver bullet/stake?

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:32 PM (3myMJ)

446 Springfield XD-S .45 3.3" ordered

*check!


Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 12:32 PM (fWAjv)

447 >> Mick is a friggin' Tory's Tory.

There is a breed of British rocker who really just wants to make a shitload of coin, buy an old stone pile with some acreage, and set up as lord of the manor.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 12:33 PM (o+SC1)

448 Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished.

I tend to agree.

Set aside her empirical record aside, she is a horrible candidate on a personal level. She makes Rick Santorum look like Ned Flanders in comparison.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:33 PM (659DL)

449
Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished.
..............................

She finally got off the pot?

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 12:34 PM (HgMAr)

450 >> So.... is Ace breaking his resolution on early in the day
>> content???

>> I bet he's off with that Twitter hussie again.

I'd bet he's working up two and a half pages on MoveOn giving Bernie the bear-hug treatment.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (o+SC1)

451 If Hillary is finished, that just mean we'll get an Obama 3rd term.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (GZ6Pf)

452 Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 12:33 PM (o+SC1)

Isn't that pretty much what the surviving Beatles did?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (GDulk)

453 Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished.

From their keyboards to The Big Guy's iPad.

And with the anti-Christ George Soros' MoveOn.org officially backing Col. Sanders, I'd have to agree.

Col. Sanders is a caricature of a libtard and even Yeb! should be able to wipe the floor with him.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (LUgeY)

454 I dare them to tempt the laws of physics.
6k lb Ford F-350 Dually vs their 25 lb bike. Go ahead, deny them their right-of-way.
--
I know a guy who drives a 160,000 GVW 42 wheeler, and one year those insane cyclists claimed their right to use the road/route, which included a very steep hill, inches away from those 42 wheelers. The cyclists were secure in their belief that the law was on their side, that they had rights, and if one of those 42 wheelers should happen to crush the herd of cyclists, it would be the truck driver's fault.

By comparison, when Bush the Middle came to town, the secret service shut down the cartage company because they did not want those trucks on the highway with the president's limo.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (8auD2)

455 447 >> Mick is a friggin' Tory's Tory.

There is a breed of British rocker who really just wants to make a shitload of coin, buy an old stone pile with some acreage, and set up as lord of the manor.



Who doesn't?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:35 PM (lADRM)

456 I'd bet he's working up two and a half pages on MoveOn giving Bernie the bear-hug treatment.

18,000-word movie review of "Sisters."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 12, 2016 12:36 PM (659DL)

457 It's not just that the bear mauled him and had her way with him, Dicaprio fell about 30 feet down a cliff and the bear fell on top of him. How do you survive that?? There would have to be at minimum broken bones and the story predates the discover of setting bones.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:36 PM (iQIUe)

458 449
Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished.
..............................

She finally got off the pot?



Piss boy! Oh piss boy!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:36 PM (lADRM)

459 437 Thanks for the book suggestions above, two of you.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:29 PM (3myMJ)


Ditto. I now have enough material to begin the next book thread.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 12:37 PM (N8xMd)

460
The empty chair next to Big Mooch is supposed to symbolize the victim of gun violence but I'll bet she uses it for her right buttcheek.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 12:37 PM (HgMAr)

461 Forgive my typing. My keyboard is shot.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:37 PM (iQIUe)

462 The empty chair next to Big Mooch is supposed to symbolize the victim of gun violence but I'll bet she uses it for her right buttcheek.



In a just galaxy, it would symbolize the victims of planned parenthood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:38 PM (lADRM)

463 January , 2016 -

Bound and hanging upside from a chain in the Mexican hotel shower, I received an epiphany. As the sounds of chainsaws being pull started echoed through the room , I realized that for my entire life, I had been wrong about who the bad guys are, who the good guys are and pretty much everything else.

Posted by: Sean Penn's Diary at January 12, 2016 12:38 PM (7wqb3)

464 "Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished. "


Their reason?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 12:39 PM (LA7Cm)

465 "My keyboard is shot."


We must put an end to violence against pianos!

Posted by: Emily Litella at January 12, 2016 12:39 PM (3myMJ)

466 In a just galaxy, it would symbolize the victims of planned parenthood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:38 PM (lADRM)

Empty crib. Just to drive home the point.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 12:39 PM (fWAjv)

467 "Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished."

So bizarre since she is so widely admired and loved by he masses. She was doing fine until she started campaigning.

Posted by: Realist at January 12, 2016 12:39 PM (1BQGO)

468 January , 2016 -

Bound and hanging upside from a chain in the Mexican hotel shower, I received an epiphany. As the sounds of chainsaws being pull started echoed through the room , I realized that for my entire life, I had been wrong about who the bad guys are, who the good guys are and pretty much everything else.
Posted by: Sean Penn's Diary



#toobad!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:40 PM (lADRM)

469 Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished

Never! *hic*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 12, 2016 12:40 PM (Dwehj)

470 America is trannyphobic!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!


What are you saying? Gonna make the switch? All that tough guy talk merely a desperate attempt to deny who you really are?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 12, 2016 12:40 PM (DeqgK)

471 Good bye Rand Paul. Go back to McConnell's nursery.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 12, 2016 12:40 PM (IYPXj)

472 In a just galaxy, it would symbolize the victims of planned parenthood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:38 PM (lADRM)

Empty crib. Just to drive home the point.



One person in an empty stadium.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:41 PM (lADRM)

473 They had a written language? Really? I didn't know that.

---------------

The cherokees did for sure, it is still in use on their reservation.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 12, 2016 12:17 PM (kXzR

The Cherokee syllabary (written language) was developed in the 1810s and 20s by Sequoya. Before that, they had no written language. The Maya of Mesoamerica had a written pictographic language but no other Indian group in the Americas had a written language before first contact with Europeans.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 12:41 PM (NPofj)

474 Did anyone see Hillz wallowing in self-abasement for expressing the thoughtcrime of "illegal alien" instead of "undocumented worker" or "nontraditional permanent guest" or "privileged arriviste" or whatever the favored nom du jour is for our southern border invaders? She practically begged Jorge Ramos for absolution and swore that she would express only Correct Thoughts in the future.

http://tinyurl.com/gnx389a

So Hillz is totally down with the concept that Americans have to apologize to the people who are invading our country and demanding shit. Gawd, what a pathetic tool she is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:41 PM (8ZskC)

475 Ace is still celebrating my Beloved Crimson Tide's victory.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 12:42 PM (LUgeY)

476 "Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished."

Clinging, bitterly, to hope that is true. Fearing that nothing will change, and certain that we will wake up to President Trump's farcical re-enactment of Nixon's five years as President.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:43 PM (8auD2)

477
Posted by: Sean Penn's Diary
....................
Sucks being the Pretend Badass, eh Sean?

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 12:43 PM (HgMAr)

478 American Indians are just Asian invaders.

Think Chinatown with teepees.

Posted by: Emily Litella at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (3myMJ)

479 Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:43 PM (8auD2)

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CONCERN STATUS

( ) ignored
(x) noted

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (8XRCm)

480 Hillary's rusted-on support level - union brass, the feminist Coathanger Battalions, etc. - is 35%. She could be in a jail cell by November and, if nominated, she'd still get 35%.

Obama's melanin-determinate contingent won't turn out for her, but they won't turn out for Bernie either.

The hipsters need to Believe and Bernie's out-demagoguing her by a mile.

The quasi-educated suburbanites snowed by Obama's Kool-baked vocal cords and mad teleprompter skillz want someone who looks and acts Presidential, and she's not pulling it off. Some will drift to Bernie, some to Trump, a few may go to Rubio, some will just stay home.

I'm starting to believe she's toast.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (o+SC1)

481 The Maya of Mesoamerica had a written pictographic language but no other Indian group in the Americas had a written language before first contact with Europeans.


American hobos had a well thought-out vocabulary of pictograms indicating where a guy could score a meal and a beer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (8ZskC)

482 >>Set aside her empirical record aside, she is a horrible candidate on a personal level.


She is a horrible person, full stop.

There was no way to keep this hidden after decades of "public service" and being in the spotlight as the leading Dem candidate.

A lot of us figured that out during the '92 campaign, but it's taken many years for Dem Kool-Aid drinkers and the MSM to recognize she is a charmless harridan who only looks out for what is good for Hillary: more money, more power; always grasping for MORE!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (NOIQH)

483 >> Ace is still celebrating my Beloved Crimson Tide's victory.

The hobo herd gets a little thinner.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (gyKtp)

484 If I offended any of my lettuce-picking friends, I whole-heatedly apologize.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 12, 2016 12:45 PM (Dwehj)

485 Never mind, Emily. Go away.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:45 PM (3myMJ)

486 American hobos had a well thought-out vocabulary of pictograms indicating where a guy could score a meal and a beer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (8ZskC)
A useful thing to have:-)... what is the pictogram for mad dog 20-20?

Posted by: redbanzai at January 12, 2016 12:47 PM (NPofj)

487
Empty crib. Just to drive home the point.
......................

If the Repubes had any testicles they would have 4 empty chairs for Benghazi.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 12:47 PM (HgMAr)

488
Breitbart is saying today that Hillary is finished


If only.

I'd love for her to rage-stroke into a coma and have to spend the rest of her miserable life strapped to a hospital bed, paralyzed and unable to speak while Bill pops in every now and again for a staged sympathy visit with ever-younger and ever-bustier nymphets on his arm.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 12:47 PM (X6fMO)

489 American hobos had a well thought-out vocabulary of pictograms indicating where a guy could score a meal and a beer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (8ZskC)

----

http://tinyurl.com/mk77

Cuz Im a giver.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:48 PM (8XRCm)

490 She finally got off the pot?

I think the elderly use a commode.

Posted by: McCool at January 12, 2016 12:48 PM (TQxRy)

491 Serious question for those smarter than me (all of the above):

Who is advising Trump? The move to make immigration the top issue of the race could not have come from DT who does not give a damn where his cheap labor comes from.

The fact that the US Border issue segued perfectly into the European immigration mess - coincidence? In hindsight, this was genius as the Dems can't touch it without PC'ing all over themselves and looking foolish.

Who is Trump's James Carville/Karl Rove/Valerie Jarrett?

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (7wqb3)

492 American hobos had a well thought-out vocabulary of pictograms indicating where a guy could score a meal and a beer.


Saw that on Andy Griffin Show and Criminal Minds.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (lADRM)

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (N8xMd)

494 Illegal immigrant? You mean, like what cleans your toilet?

Posted by: Secretary Hillary! at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (XiVKO)

495 She finally got off the pot?

I think the elderly use a commode.
Posted by: McCool at January 12, 2016 12:48 PM (TQxRy)

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.....depends.....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (8XRCm)

496 So Leo is pro-Indian? That means if I go first he will cast himself on my fueral pyre? That is so sweet, so romantic. Oh, my Leo... it's that time again.

Posted by: The Bear at January 12, 2016 12:50 PM (DeqgK)

497
American hobos had a well thought-out vocabulary of pictograms indicating where a guy could score a meal and a beer.







But mostly, the beer.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 12, 2016 12:51 PM (j4wsR)

498 I have always been a staunch champion of dependency.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 12, 2016 12:51 PM (Dwehj)

499 "And, CUT!"

*chainsaw roars*

"Waitaminute I mean, no I mean..."

Posted by: Sean Penn - Hanging Upside Down in a Mexican Shower at January 12, 2016 12:51 PM (7wqb3)

500
If the Repubes had any testicles they would have 4 empty chairs for Benghazi.
Posted by: wth

And have a youtube video running.

Posted by: Lonesome Rhodes at January 12, 2016 12:51 PM (326rv)

501 I don't know what's worse: that Rolling Stone gave El Chappo complete editorial control, or that he felt he didn't need to make any changes to the article.

Posted by: Secretary Hillary! at January 12, 2016 12:52 PM (XiVKO)

502 I will do for you what you are totally unwilling to do for yourself.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 12, 2016 12:52 PM (Dwehj)

503 /sock

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 12:52 PM (XiVKO)

504 If R's had balls the Benghazi families would be there.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:53 PM (3myMJ)

505 Who is advising Trump? The move to make immigration the top issue of the race could not have come from DT who does not give a damn where his cheap labor comes from.

Since when do you have to 'care' in order to bring it up and score on it?

Posted by: Lonesome Rhodes at January 12, 2016 12:53 PM (326rv)

506 Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:43 PM (8auD2)

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CONCERN STATUS

( ) ignored
(x) noted
Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (8XRCm)

So what you are telling me is I should be unconcerned about the risk the stupid bicycle riders put themselves in?

Well, alrighty then. I won't worry about them any more. Thanks for clearing up my ethical dilemma.

Now what do I do about my liability when one of those stupid bicycle riders throws himself into the path of my car? That's why we have insurance and lawyers, right? You must be a lawyer.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (8auD2)

507 I think Leo's bear-crush has moved on. Drudge has a picture up this morning of him canoodling with some other guy.

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (shLnc)

508

Since when do you have to 'care' in order to bring it up and score on it?

You don't. You missed the point.


Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (7wqb3)

509 If R's had balls the Benghazi families would be there.

Wouldn't be bipartisan and collegial.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (8ZskC)

510 Someone turn on the Ewok lamp, it's 1:00, time for ace to wake up.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (jJRIy)

511
They took a blowtorch to the bottoms of my feet. Protip: It dont smell like bacon! Sean Penn's Diary

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (iQIUe)

512 Isn't this what Milton Friedman said? You don't get good politicians because they're good, you get them because you punish or reward them properly. And Trump's a good example of that in action.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (XiVKO)

513 Give a man a fishing pole and he'll pawn it for a flat screen.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at January 12, 2016 12:55 PM (Dwehj)

514 OK, putting on dumbbell repellent to go check HA...

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:55 PM (3myMJ)

515 "Who is Trump's James Carville/Karl Rove/Valerie Jarrett?"

I'd expect it's Trump himself. He thought of running in 2012, and so when this cycle came around, like any good marketer, he thought about where to position himself.

Wasn't hard to tell that a lot of potential voters were in an "underserved location" over Illegal Immigration. The Donald knows good location when he sees it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 12:56 PM (r1fLd)

516 Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (7wqb3)

Concern status:

[ ] ignored

[x] noted

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 12:56 PM (LUgeY)

517 But this is what Hollywood wants so bad - a world in
which the killers and criminals have the advantage because they are
better-armed (with whatever weapon they use) and have the will to use
them. Meanwhile, the good guys act tough and....talk.


Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 09:56 AM (NOIQH)

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It's mostly a screenwriter thing. The vast majority of them are enthralled with the power of their ... words. Words, words, words.
This is the mindset of the vast majority of professional media wordsmiths:
I control the ... words, so I have the power of a Jedi Master. Let me show you how the power of the words that I put in the mouth of a police negotiator tames a wild psychopathic killer. Watch and listen!All of my friends support gun control, because the authority of our words is the greatest weapon of all..

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 12:56 PM (JBggj)

518 All hotlines are now open.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Concern Desk at January 12, 2016 12:57 PM (Dwehj)

519 Cuz Im a giver.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:48 PM (8XRCm)

Love the 'Man With A Gun' pictogram

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 12:57 PM (fWAjv)

520 If R's had balls the Benghazi families would be there.

Wouldn't be bipartisan and collegial.

And all of Bill's raped women too.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:57 PM (3myMJ)

521 You don't get good politicians because they're good, you get them because you punish or reward them properly.

Yes, and I like Trump because I think he will stay bought.

Trump is a smart guy and knows how to hire smart people. He has definitely shown wisdom by listening to the right people on his campaign, so far. I am just curious about who is the brains behind the operation.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 12:58 PM (7wqb3)

522 Sometimes, words aren't taken in the manner in which they are written.





http://tinyurl.com/gt2osq8

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 12:59 PM (ptqRm)

523 Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 12:54 PM (8auD2)

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I wasnt talking about your post on cyclists.

Try to keep up.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:59 PM (8XRCm)

524 "http://tinyurl.com/gt2osq8"


Heh.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:00 PM (LA7Cm)

525 So Leo is pro-Indian? That means if I go first he will cast himself on my fueral pyre? That is so sweet, so romantic. Oh, my Leo... it's that time again.
Posted by: The Bear
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I recall when Marlon Brando held a big spiffy press conference announcing that he was 'returning' a large parcel of land that he owned to an Indian tribe.

SJW's everywhere were fainting with joy.

What wasn't pointed out was that the land wasn't worth much as real estate, but as a tax write-off was surprisingly valuable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:01 PM (n22zQ)

526 Concern status:



[ ] ignored



[x] noted



???

sheesh.

Maybe I'll come back when everyone is drinking and less tense.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:01 PM (7wqb3)

527 In more good news for Hillary, Chelsea Clinton is still supporting her and hasn't withdrawn her endorsement. She is key to attracting millennials.

Posted by: Realist at January 12, 2016 01:02 PM (1BQGO)

528
I wasnt talking about your post on cyclists.

Try to keep up.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 12:59 PM

What were you talking about then, or according to the rules of the game, I am required to read your mind?

Please try to be clear in your next feeble attempt.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 01:02 PM (8auD2)

529 526 Concern status:



[ ] ignored



[x] noted


???

sheesh.

Maybe I'll come back when everyone is drinking and less tense.
Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:01 PM (7wqb3)
***
Wait!

You forgot your pineapple

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at January 12, 2016 01:02 PM (Wu2k4)

530 Ace had to sleep in becuz he will have to watch parts of the SOTU. I'd have to think hard about my choices in such a situation; carbon monoxide or an overdose of barbiturates.

But lie to us ace, any excuse will do. The dog came down with rabies. I banned myself again. There was an earthquake. Any ole bone will do.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 12, 2016 01:02 PM (gyKtp)

531 Good news! China is building a naval/air base in Djibouti. They will be there to help the President, Peace Be Upon Him, finally solve the piracy issues in the western Indian ocean.

Posted by: John LeCarre, French-speaking Secretariat par excellence at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (shLnc)

532 The Ewok signal is now up on twitter.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (gW5Vg)

533 R's should invite Kate Steinle's parents.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (n22zQ)

534 It's buckwheats for everyone, Mortimer.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (XiVKO)

535
Illegal immigrant? You mean, like what cleans your toilet?
Posted by: Secretary Hillary! at January 12, 2016 12:49 PM (XiVKO)
......................

Si. Pobre de mi.

Posted by: Manuel Labor's wife at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (HgMAr)

536 518 All hotlines are now open.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Concern Desk at January 12, 2016 12:57 PM (Dwehj)


Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm concerned that I'm not concerned enough. What can I do?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (jV8Mq)

537
I'd expect it's Trump himself. He thought of running in 2012, and
so when this cycle came around, like any good marketer, he thought about
where to position himself.


Maybe so , maybe so.

It might be the case that he is the exception to the rule , and can see the issue for it's objective value rather than from his own point of view/experience/practical business need.


Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (7wqb3)

538 >>Watch and listen!All of my friends support gun control, because the authority of our words is the greatest weapon of all..

Yeah, the Brit police shows are likely inflating the effectiveness of talking a criminal out of his crime in progress.

However, watching Luther was very instructive in how poorly prepared a disarmed police officer/detective is against a criminal.

The show I mentioned, "Luther", has a main character whose flaws include a temper/going overboard in beating down suspects. Luther would not be in that position in a lot of cases if he just had a gun - pointing it and telling a criminal to stand still while he arrests/handcuffs them would eliminate the suspects attitude of, "Hey, he's unarmed and I have this knife/pipe/baseball bat, so yeah, I'm not going to cooperate with your arresting me, buddy."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (NOIQH)

539 What were you talking about then, or according to the rules of the game, I am required to read your mind?

Please try to be clear in your next feeble attempt.
Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 01:02 PM (8auD2)

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Timestamps. On the posts. The one I reference was at 12:43.

We dont always quote the original post to avoid repeating examples of dumbassery.

You do have a copy of the style guide right???

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 01:04 PM (8XRCm)

540 522
Sometimes, words aren't taken in the manner in which they are written.











http://tinyurl.com/gt2osq8

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 12:59 PM (ptqRm)

Do they not realize most of us are going to think of Clint Eastwood's empty chair?
Idiots.

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (jJRIy)

541 The Oscars. Ugh & how.

Posted by: Satcheen Littlefeather at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (hrMUT)

542 The Ewok signal is now up on twitter.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (gW5Vg)

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I *knew* it.....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (8XRCm)

543 Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm concerned that I'm not concerned enough. What can I do?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (jV8Mq)


DIAF

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (gW5Vg)

544 542 The Ewok signal is now up on twitter.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (gW5Vg)

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I *knew* it.....
Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (8XRCm)



Those of you on twitter should come retweet it and make sure to tag ace.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (gW5Vg)

545 Beep! Beep! Beep!

Posted by: John LeCarre, French-speaking Secretariat par excellence at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (shLnc)

546 Wait whut???


Two teens charged with raping an 18-year-old woman say the sex was consensual - and told cops she was having intercourse with her father in a Brooklyn park when they first saw her, a law enforcement source said Monday.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (fWAjv)

547 OH!

It's "Be an Asshole Tuesday"!


I just got the memo.

Carry on.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (7wqb3)

548 If R's had balls the Benghazi families would be there.



Wouldn't be bipartisan and collegial.



And all of Bill's raped women too.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 12, 2016 12:57 PM (3myMJ)

Plus, chairs for the San Bernardino victims, Planned Parenthood victims, Ft Hood dead, ME Christians murdered by muzlims, the dead in Chicago and Baltimore, etc.

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (ftVQq)

549 Over at Breitbart

"The Democrat Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is withholding
police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show as a way
to vent his frustration with the NRA for fighting the city on gun
control."

The organizers of the show should hire Blackwater for security. See how much the lefties like that.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hqjna6w

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 12, 2016 01:07 PM (XtAzU)

550 China is building a naval/air base in Djibouti. They will be there to help the President, Peace Be Upon Him, finally solve the piracy issues in the western Indian ocean.


Ass bandits and ass pirates near jer booty?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:07 PM (lADRM)

551 It's "Be an Asshole Tuesday"!


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Oh. Bad choice on rapey Tuesday.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 01:07 PM (8XRCm)

552 "Two teens charged with raping an 18-year-old woman say the sex was consensual - and told cops she was having intercourse with her father in a Brooklyn park when they first saw her, a law enforcement source said Monday."

I'm going to go with "not very damn likely" on that one.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (GZ6Pf)

553 Here's an NBC archived report on Marlon Brando's land give-back to the Indians.

LINK: http://preview.tinyurl.com/gv6fcrq

Heh.

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (JBggj)

554 547 OH!

It's "Be an Asshole Tuesday"!


I just got the memo.

Carry on.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (7wqb3)



No, it's Rapey Tuesday.

The asshole thing is just sort of part of the charm of this place.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (gW5Vg)

555 Trump advises Trump ... but he must have helpers.

O'Reilly is a long time friend, and their FOX chats have helped convince me Trump would be OK. Trump's kids are another positive indicator.

Trump got the advance copy of Coulter's book and used it fully to his advantage. So she was his best "adviser" so far I suppose.

Yeah, he has a company or three go through bankruptcy, but I don't know details. It is really not like an individual just skipping out on debt. Bonds or loans to companies are made with full knowledge of risk, and interest rates are set accordingly. Some businesses fail and then they get bankruptcy protection to work either a way out, or a fair way to divide the remainder, considering which debt is senior and so on.

Anyway ... to say Trump is just a moron that got given all his money is foolish, but is the attack many so called conservatives like to employ. Trump is not up to speed on every aspect of politics, but the other candidates have less experience in how things really work. The real nitty gritty of policy comes from the wonks, and Trump knows how to use "his people".

What Trump excels at is rallying America against the DC Cartel, and hopefully against the globalists. "America First" is not some sort of xenophobia ... it is only logical. The white guilt crap has to end. I'd like to hear Trump preach a little from the founders ideals ... we shall see.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (5Gpe2)

556
To quote the headline

First Ladies Box should be empty at State Of the Union Address


"Do they not realize most of us are going to think of Clint Eastwood's empty chair?"



Most, but not all of us.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (ptqRm)

557 " is withholding
police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show"

Yeah, but see, it's a gun show. So...I think they can probably take care of themselves.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (GZ6Pf)

558 "The Democrat Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is withholding police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show as a way to vent his frustration with the NRA for fighting the city on gun control."




The mayor's security detail should all get sick at once.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:09 PM (lADRM)

559
It's "Be an Asshole Tuesday"!


I just got the memo.

Carry on.


Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:06 PM (7wqb3)

I got that covered everyday.

Posted by: Ted Cruz, you want some maple syrup at January 12, 2016 01:09 PM (jJRIy)

560 You do have a copy of the style guide right???
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Looks like I have a very old copy. Trump isn't in it, nor how to respond to sarcastic Trumpsters.

I'll update it immediately. Thank you for your assistance in this compelling saga of internet commentary.

Posted by: Chinwendu Whitecrest at January 12, 2016 01:09 PM (8auD2)

561 "Ass bandits and ass pirates near jer booty?"


Ahoy!

Posted by: Butt Pirate at January 12, 2016 01:09 PM (LA7Cm)

562 Grobal warm put all continent under water. But we make artificial ontinent. Sabe the planet! Just a thought.

Posted by: China at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (DeqgK)

563 Someone way smarter than me said it first, but I've always thought the main difference between Donald and most politicians (if Donald gets elected) is that he knows the value to surrounding himself with smart people and not toadies.

Posted by: IC at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (a0IVu)

564 Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'm concerned that I'm not concerned enough. What can I do?
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik
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Salt-cave Qi Gong. Body-energy cultivation of health, healing and vitality.

I've found it amazingly therapeutic.

Posted by: Al Gore at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (n22zQ)

565 I'm going to go with "not very damn likely" on that one.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 01:08 PM (GZ6Pf)

You mean you wouldn't take the word of a yoot with a prior attempted murder (with a bat) charge?


What's this world coming to.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (fWAjv)

566 "The organizers of the show should hire Blackwater for security. See how much the lefties like that."


I am seriously considering attending that one. It's one of the better in the area.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (ptqRm)

567 >>The Democrat Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is withholding police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show...


Perfectly demonstrating why you can't depend on the state for personal security, as they are less inclined to protect those with whom they disagree politically.

Thanks for making a great case *for* the 2nd Amendment, Mr. Mayor!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (NOIQH)

568 Funny how gun shows are never the targets of an armed attack. I wonder why.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:10 PM (8ZskC)

569
"The Democrat Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is withholding
police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show as a way
to vent his frustration with the NRA for fighting the city on gun
control."



I expect the police chief is a political animal and will go along with this. More's the pity. He ought to tell that asshole mayor, "no, fuck you, we're providing security, and by the way, I've got pictures of you with little boys."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:11 PM (X6fMO)

570 It might be the case that he is the exception to the
rule , and can see the issue for it's objective value rather than from
his own point of view/experience/practical business need.




Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:03 PM (7wqb3)


As a real estate developer, I doubt that Donald Trump much concerns himself with the cost of stoop labor.

Your posts tend to give the impression that you view the economy as a zero-sum game, which is what drives the Left's politics of envy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:11 PM (L2co/)

571 teens charged with raping an 18-year-old woman say the sex was consensual - and told cops she was having intercourse with her father in a Brooklyn park when they first saw her, a law enforcement source said Monday.

====

It was like that when we got there!

Posted by: Bigby's Fistful of Dice at January 12, 2016 01:12 PM (Sb0Mp)

572 First Ladies Box should be empty at State Of the Union Address
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A compliment to the empty suit at the podium?

Posted by: Al Gore at January 12, 2016 01:12 PM (n22zQ)

573 I believe Harrisburg's mayor is the one that started a Kickstarter campaign to fight the NRA lawsuits over the cities breaking of the state's gun law preemption.

So, he's an asshole all around.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:12 PM (XiVKO)

574 what is the pictogram for mad dog 20-20?


Sometimes a spider, usually Helen Thomas.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:13 PM (1xUj/)

575 The Democrat Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is withholding police security from the upcoming Great American Outdoor Show...


Perfectly demonstrating why you can't depend on the state for personal security, as they are less inclined to protect those with whom they disagree politically.

Thanks for making a great case *for* the 2nd Amendment, Mr. Mayor!
Posted by: Lizzy



Doh!
--Mr. Mayor

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:13 PM (lADRM)

576 President Obama says he regrets not unifying congress.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 01:13 PM (FkBIv)

577 @555
Trump advises Trump ... but he must have helpers.


Yeah , he is just such an atypical politician that it is hard, for me anyway, to imagine how the daily operation works in his machine.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:13 PM (7wqb3)

578 That movie you all are making fun of is about Hugh Glass. A real mountain man, and one of the toughest sons of bitches who ever lived, even among a group of tough sons of bitches.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 12, 2016 01:14 PM (xWW96)

579 I guess Ace is getting his anal glands expressed again?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:14 PM (ptqRm)

580 President Obama says he regrets not unifying congress.

Boehner, McConnell and Ryan did that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:15 PM (8ZskC)

581
President Obama says he regrets not unifying congress.

1. That's a goddamned lie.

2. Congress is unified: "keep paying taxes, serf, and vote the way we tell you! Oh, and by the way, STFU!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:15 PM (X6fMO)

582 I may go to the Great American Outdoor Show, too.

May be able to sell it to the old lady using the "outdoor" part of the name.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:15 PM (XiVKO)

583 Maybe I'll come back when everyone is drinking and less tense.

*raises hand*


I'm drinking.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:15 PM (1xUj/)

584 Sometimes a spider, usually Helen Thomas.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:13 PM (1xUj/)

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Cux Im a giver

http://tinyurl.com/n7qrs3e

Posted by: fixerupper at January 12, 2016 01:16 PM (8XRCm)

585 President Obama says he regrets not unifying congress.

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Well, he certainly transformed it.

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:16 PM (JBggj)

586 " That movie you all are making fun of is about Hugh Glass."


It may have been you or someone else that mentioned this movie with Richard Harris. I'd never heard of it but I do want to see it now.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:17 PM (LA7Cm)

587 May be able to sell it to the old lady using the "outdoor" part of the name.

The Old Lady: Whats in that long box"

Camping gear dear.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 12, 2016 01:17 PM (XtAzU)

588 "I may go to the Great American Outdoor Show, too."

That's what we need.


A Moron Meet-up.....
At a gun show.


Film at 11:00

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:17 PM (ptqRm)

589 Your posts tend to give the impression that you view the economy as a
zero-sum game, which is what drives the Left's politics of envy.


No.

And , really?

*scrolls up *

This?

DT who does not give a damn where his cheap labor comes from.

That was intended as a statement of fact. As a builder/developer concerned with the project's bottom line, I would not expect him to have cared about cheap labor sources as long as he got plenty of it.





Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (7wqb3)

590 Obama told Matt Lauer he regrets not unifying the American people, not Congress.

Which makes sense, since Congress is plenty united.

The American people, not so much.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (r9tFS)

591 I'm drinking.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:15 PM (1xUj/)


I, for one, am shocked by this revelation.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (gW5Vg)

592 Eh, who am I kidding? Ain't no way Mrs. Chupacabra's going to that thing.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (XiVKO)

593 You know, we're all supposed to not judge people's parenting, but if your kid has attempted to kill someone with a bat and raped another person before 18, you're doing something wrong.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (LzzEz)

594 It may have been you or someone else that mentioned this movie with Richard Harris. I'd never heard of it but I do want to see it now.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill


Man in the Wilderness ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067388/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 01:19 PM (FkBIv)

595
I'm drinking.

Posted by: Bandersnatch


So what ?

SO LETS DANCE

*Anyway , You Want It, That's The Way You Need It Anway You Want It*

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:20 PM (7wqb3)

596 May be able to sell it to the old lady using the "outdoor" part of the name.

The Old Lady: Whats in that long box"

Camping gear dear.



Tent poles.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:20 PM (lADRM)

597 If only.

I'd love for her to rage-stroke into a coma and have to spend the rest of her miserable life strapped to a hospital bed, paralyzed and unable to speak while Bill pops in every now and again for a staged sympathy visit with ever-younger and ever-bustier nymphets on his arm.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 12:47 PM (X6fMO)

She would get the same loving visit that Grandma Dunham got and then 30-40 minutes later she's having her personal evaluation with Satan. A dead Hillary is the best possible outcome for her family and her party--they get the 800 lb gorilla out of the room for good and sympathy into the bargain. Even though he looks cadaverous, I suspect that Bill is taking much better care of himself than she is. A POTUS campaign, even the low impact one she is running is exhausting and draining and she does not appear to have any reserves.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at January 12, 2016 01:20 PM (kXoT0)

598 "Tent poles."

Who's pitching a tent?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:21 PM (ptqRm)

599 Because Harrisburg pulled out, the NRA is going to fill the roughly 40 positions with officers from the surrounding townships and Dauphin County, Dalseide said. He did not yet know the hourly rate charged by other agencies as they have just begun talks.
-----


You showed them!

Dumbass.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:21 PM (fWAjv)

600 That was intended as a statement of fact. As a
builder/developer concerned with the project's bottom line, I would not
expect him to have cared about cheap labor sources as long as he got
plenty of it.







Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:18 PM (7wqb3)


And you're puzzled as to why I think you are a Commie? Self-awareness, we much?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:22 PM (L2co/)

601 @221: How does he work any of that into the interpretive dance I've choreographed?

Posted by: Isadora Duncan at January 12, 2016 01:22 PM (bpn7O)

602 "Because Harrisburg pulled out, the NRA is going to fill the roughly 40 positions with officers from the surrounding townships and Dauphin County, Dalseide said. He did not yet know the hourly rate charged by other agencies as they have just begun talks.
-----


You showed them!

Dumbass."

Haa Haa Haa

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM (ptqRm)

603 "Trump advises Trump ... but he must have helpers."

Maybe not so much.

If you keep up on real news, and have a problem-solving brain, you can create a lot of your policy positions, which is what Trump seems to do, which is why on some issues that come up he can be "thin" exactly because he doesn't have a team of consultants creating silly focus-grouped policy papers that will never be implemented.

On occasion Trump has "borrowed" as he did from Senator Sessions on Illegal Immigration.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM (r1fLd)

604 "Man in the Wilderness ? "


That's the one.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM (LA7Cm)

605
I'm warming up in the bullpen for the most formidable run of my life!

Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM (OiFtZ)

606 So while waiting for the next thread I've been watching dashcam videos on YouTube.

First takeaway, Russians are some crazy-ass drivers.

Second takeaway, there's no point where watching oblivious people make left hand turns into traffic and hitting people is NOT funny.

Third takeaway, I'm getting myself a dashcam.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM (PFy0L)

607 So much for adding the Nelson Muntz sock

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (ptqRm)

608
Chicago averaging 10 shot per day.

WOO HOO!!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 11:16 AM (fWAjv)
................................

Can't they pick up the pace a bit? This is taking too long.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (HgMAr)

609 "You showed them!

Dumbass."


Stupid sumbitches gotta stupid sumbitch.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (LA7Cm)

610 543 DIAF

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:05 PM (gW5Vg)


I'm sorry, but that reply doesn't sound particularly "rapey." I suppose one could purport that dying in a fire would result in flames "licking" searing flesh, but that's quite a stretch.

It used to be that AoS represented the pinnacle of rapey comments, but it's quickly descending into paltry, LGF-like, sub-rape levels. Hopefully, this negative trend won't continue unabated.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (jV8Mq)

611 "He did not yet know the hourly rate charged by other agencies as they have just begun talks."

Let the Greater Philly public employee union frolics begin!

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:25 PM (JBggj)

612
And you're puzzled as to why I think you are a Commie? Self-awareness, we much?


Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Um , commie.

OK.

Of course.

I am totally confused.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:25 PM (7wqb3)

613 Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at January 12, 2016 01:23 PM

Bloomberg 2016: It's The Last Decision You'll Ever Need To Make

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:26 PM (8ZskC)

614 It's 1:30 o'clock. Do you know where your Ewok is?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 01:26 PM (LUgeY)

615 Chicago averaging 10 shot per day.
WOO HOO!!


Th Indiana NRA Zardoz head is doing a fine job of firearm distribution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 01:26 PM (FkBIv)

616 Correct style guide response to being asked if you have a copy of aforementioned style guide: It's in my other shirt.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:26 PM (XiVKO)

617
No one invited me to the State of the Union or I would have told the story of Bill Clinton fondling my butt and taco.

Posted by: Paula Jones at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (OiFtZ)

618 That movie you all are making fun of is about Hugh Glass.


***********


Known forever after as Hugh Janus following The Great Bear Rape of 1819.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (vgIRn)

619 569 He ought to tell that asshole mayor, "no, fuck you, we're providing security, and by the way, I've got pictures of you with little boys."


Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:11 PM (X6fMO)
-----------------------------------------------------

It's Harrisburg MPPPP, the only capital city in America so Democrat that it likes going bankrupt every now and then for fun. Pictures of the Mayor with little boys are seen as an electoral "plus".

Posted by: MTF at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (shLnc)

620 I went to the show in Harrisburg last year and it was great. So much interesting stuff I never even made it to the gun exposition hall, to my great regret.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (l3vZN)

621 Correct style guide response to being asked if you have a copy of aforementioned style guide: It's in my other shirt.

So it's true. The guys get shirts.

Posted by: Paul Anka at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (8ZskC)

622 "I would not expect him to have cared about cheap labor sources as long as he got plenty of it." mortimer

this is part of the problem with long term non enforcement ... to compete one has to accept the standard of using illegals, or become non-competitive.

Building trades and hotels, some horticultural things ... illegal labor is the norm and the only way to compete. In a sense the same problem with so called "free trade" where we buy from markets where workers are treated like slaves. So a big move to establish/grow the wine industry in Illinois mostly fails since two buck chuck made by illegals, and wine from Chile ... is impossible to compete with.

We can have "full employment" here, but not if we have to employ the whole world first, in hopes that they will one day buy from US.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (5Gpe2)

623
It may have been you or someone else that mentioned this movie with Richard Harris. I'd never heard of it but I do want to see it now.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill


A Man Called Horse
?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (X6fMO)

624 What wasn't pointed out was that the land wasn't worth much as real estate, but as a tax write-off was surprisingly valuable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

I think it was Brando who won an Oscar but didn't accept it and instead sent some indian chick up to the podium to make a political statement? Anyone remember that?

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:28 PM (oiNtH)

625 I liked Richard Harris best in The Count of Monte Cristo. I imagine The Horde mostly prefers what he did in the 70s.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 01:28 PM (VdICR)

626 I'm sorry, but that reply doesn't sound particularly "rapey." I suppose one could purport that dying in a fire would result in flames "licking" searing flesh, but that's quite a stretch.

It used to be that AoS represented the pinnacle of rapey comments, but it's quickly descending into paltry, LGF-like, sub-rape levels. Hopefully, this negative trend won't continue unabated.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (jV8Mq)



Your concern has been duly noted and filed with the AlextheChick Dept of Complaints and Annoying Bitching. You will get a response via mail in an emu sized box in 3-5 business days.

And about the rape? It's emu mating season. ENJOY!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:28 PM (gW5Vg)

627 Papenfuse said he doesn't think the Farm Show should host gun shows in a city besieged by gun violence.
-----

You have to admire the mans integrity and willingness to stand up for what he believes in.

-----

Harrisburg officials have pulled city police officers from the Great American Outdoor Show this year after negotiations collapsed over an NRA donation.




Nevermind

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:29 PM (fWAjv)

628 You showed them!

Dumbass."




Yeah. Way to screw 40 guys out of $35 - $40 an hour extra pay.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:29 PM (lADRM)

629 Richard Harris left a cake out in the rain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 01:29 PM (FkBIv)

630 I think it was Brando who won an Oscar but didn't accept it and instead sent some indian chick up to the podium to make a political statement? Anyone remember that?


Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:28 PM (oiNtH)

Sacheen Littlefeather

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:30 PM (fWAjv)

631
Posted by: Paula Jones at January 12, 2016 01:27 PM (OiFtZ)

All this talk about Paula Jones made me go look for a recent pic of her.

Yeah. . . .no.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:30 PM (X6fMO)

632
It used to be that AoS represented the pinnacle of rapey comments, but it's quickly descending into paltry, LGF-like, sub-rape levels. Hopefully, this negative trend won't continue unabated.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 12, 2016 01:24 PM (jV8Mq)

something something blood diamond.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 12, 2016 01:30 PM (VdICR)

633 "Obama's melanin-determinate contingent won't turn out for her"

Canquelles did just get the crucial Sybrina Fulton endorsement.

Fulton listed the rogue's gallery of "black mothers who have lost their sons", e.g., Saint Trayvon, Gentle Giant Mike Brown, et cetera.

She included on that list Laquan Mcdonald.

Um, Laquan's mother didn't "lose" her son. She had no interest in him and abandoned little Laquan at an early age. Laquan grew up a ward of the state. Then no-longer-little Laquan got shot. Then Mom suddenly took a VERY KEEN interest in Laquan. Mah baybee! Mah baybee! And Mom cashed a fat lawsuit-lottery check thanks to the kid she didn't want and had surrendered custody of.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 01:31 PM (noWW6)

634 Trees? Still? I think I commented on them with my morning coffee. And here it is lunchtime. They still look strangely orange, for trees. Oh well. Since I am paying for none of this, I intend to get my money's worth.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 12, 2016 01:31 PM (dFi94)

635 @ Alberta Oil Peon

I am trying and failing here, apparently.

One more go :
Trump is responsible to his investors to turn a profit. Labor is the number one highest expense on most projects. Getting the lowest price on labor is a smart and profitable move on his part.

Having no experience in that area I would expect that getting a solid supply of cheap labor involves battles with unions and other such obstacles that makes willing,legal inexpensive workers very appealing .

Communism is evil.


Not sure how else to say this.

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:32 PM (7wqb3)

636 A Man Called Horse?
Posted by: Mary Poppins
----------

Is that the one where he is strung up by his tits?

Posted by: Al Gore at January 12, 2016 01:32 PM (n22zQ)

637 #603

I agree. In this political climate, after 7+ years of watching things slide off the cliff, it's not hard to figure out what has the electorate so dayum pissed off at DC. Especially after we got back the Senate only to watch them give Bobo everything he wants with a cherry on top.

First and foremost, illegal immigrants are felons that make this country unsafe and unstable, plus they do the most damage at the local level by sucking up services to which they are not entitled. They are freeloading invaders--yeah, even, if they work 60 hours a week, they are freeloaders, because their money flies out of America to family in Mexico and we pay for their education, foodstamps, and health care. Such a deal for us.... Now, add in their crime rate and we are really talking a big problem--rape, drunk driving, murder, vehicular homicide, fraud, etc., etc.

Then we get to our invited freeloaders--Syrian refugees. Yeah, that's a good idea, invite a bunch of young healthy men who despise us and our culture here to live. WTF could possibly go wrong? Are you kidding me? Everything can and will go wrong with this, but, shut up, hater, diversity.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at January 12, 2016 01:32 PM (kXoT0)

638 Damn. That Al Gore sock is sticky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:33 PM (n22zQ)

639 And Mom cashed a fat lawsuit-lottery check thanks to the kid she didn't want and had surrendered custody of.


See? In Obama's America, dreams can still come true.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (8ZskC)

640 Considering the makeup of the AoSHQ community, it's a safe bet that someday one of our alibis will rely on a time stamp of a comment.

"Your Honor, I could not have been fucking that horse at 12:37pm, because I was posting a comment at Ace of Spades at that exact time!"

But for some reason, the clock is off here - pretty much like everything else.

Posted by: jwest at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (Zs4uk)

641 638 Damn. That Al Gore sock is sticky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:33 PM (n22zQ)



Ewwwwww.......

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (gW5Vg)

642 *dick kicks everyone*


What? I was bored. You're paying attention now, aren't you?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (1xUj/)

643 Correct style guide response to being asked if you have a copy of aforementioned style guide: It's in my other shirt.

That's just the index. The actual thing itself is a multi-volume behemoth, the first volume of which is currently holding up a corner of a coffee table here at Casa Backwardio.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (LUgeY)

644 The Richard Harris character in "Unforgiven" and his run-in with Little Bill was something to remember. Gene Hackman is a superb actor.

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (JBggj)

645 638 Damn. That Al Gore sock is sticky.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:33 PM (n22zQ)

That second chakra is a bitch to clean up

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (fWAjv)

646 "I never even made it to the gun exposition hall"

I do not understand these words, in this order.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:35 PM (ptqRm)

647 Political campaigns are shows, they are spectacles. They go long on emotion and very, very short on policy details. The mode of the electorate, the personality of the candidate - those are the things that a political campaign has to take into account. Lectures on The Proper Role of the Judiciary or on Constitutionalist Principles - Can Those Be Revived in the 21st Century are not going to be part of any political campaign for those would bore George Will to tears.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Expectations are Lower than the Temps at the Outrage Outlet! at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (hLRSq)

648 Richard Harris left a cake out in the rain.


A Man Called Horse.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (lADRM)

649 The paperboy failed to deliver my Noon Ace Post ... damn kid is always late.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (5Gpe2)

650 Posted by: torquewrench

I believe Sybrina Fulton while doing the Trayvon death tour raked in a lot of cash. I know that there was at least one physical family fight over money between the mother and another relative that the police had to break up. But other than that, it is all about peace, love, and non-violence.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (oiNtH)

651 As for Richard Harris, I always found him to be way overrated as an actor. IMHO, the character in every role he inhabited became a cross-eyed nearsighted constipated Brit with delusions of grandeur.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (kXoT0)

652 But for some reason, the clock is off here - pretty much like everything else.

Posted by: jwest
------------

Ah. But that is the beauty of an AoSHQ alibi. It is proof that you were somewhere else at the time of the misdeed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (n22zQ)

653
Correct style guide response to being asked if you have a copy of aforementioned style guide: It's in my other shirt.
........................

And all this time I've been keeping mine in my pants.

Posted by: wth at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (HgMAr)

654 "Then Mom suddenly took a VERY KEEN interest in Laquan. Mah baybee! Mah baybee! And Mom cashed a fat lawsuit-lottery check thanks to the kid she didn't want and had surrendered custody of.
"

Yeah, that happens a lot.

Posted by: Lauren at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (LzzEz)

655 Did someone upthread mention that today is HQ Asshole Day? I am always the last to know. If I had been properly informed, I could have made round little brown cookies.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (dFi94)

656 "Especially after we got back the Senate only to watch them give Bobo everything he wants with a cherry on top."

Mark Levin was utterly furious yesterday, as well he ought to be, about the GOP Senate just having meekly rolled over and easily confirmed yet _another_ outright left-wing radical Obama nominee to a lifetime seat on the federal bench. Not even token symbolic opposition.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (noWW6)

657 " know that there was at least one physical family fight over money between the mother and another relative that the police had to break up"


Tee shirt sale profit and royalties.



I remember it well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:38 PM (ptqRm)

658
*!*

Damn. It just came to me. Start a subscription website with time-stamped comments that are off by 1/2 hour or so.

Call it... Alibi.com

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:38 PM (n22zQ)

659 Also ...

Cookies are yummy.

I hate fcuking monkeys.


Alcohol is bliss.



Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:38 PM (7wqb3)

660
First Ladies Box?

Yeah,, I'd hit it....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 01:38 PM (HSmrB)

661 Polish State TV's 'Po przecinku' (After the comma) program this week reported German officials ordered CCTV video of the Cologne sexual assaults on New Year's Eve be deleted.



Nice that our betters are using the same trick that my niece uses to make 'monsters' go away.

*blanket over head...I can't see them, they can't see me.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:38 PM (fWAjv)

662 "Yeah, that happens a lot."

The formal name is "Winning the Ghetto Lottery"


No shit.


Google it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (ptqRm)

663 636 A Man Called Horse?
Posted by: Mary Poppins
----------

Is that the one where he is strung up by his tits?




Yes. Makes a helluva impression on a 8 yr old.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (lADRM)

664 Trump is responsible to his investors to turn a
profit. Labor is the number one highest expense on most projects.
Getting the lowest price on labor is a smart and profitable move on his
part.

Having no experience in that area I would expect that
getting a solid supply of cheap labor involves battles with unions and
other such obstacles that makes willing,legal inexpensive workers very
appealing .

Communism is evil.


Not sure how else to say this.


Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:32 PM (7wqb3)


Fair enough. I don't really believe you are a commie; just jerking your chain, because whether you realize it not, your assumption that Trump, being a capitalist, must necessarily be in support of cheap illegal labor, is a meme straight out of the Left's play book.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (L2co/)

665 The paperboy failed to deliver my Noon Ace Post ... damn kid is always late.
Posted by: Illiniwek


It might be in da Bushes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (FkBIv)

666 644 The Richard Harris character in "Unforgiven" and his run-in with Little Bill was something to remember. Gene Hackman is a superb actor.
Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:34 PM (JBggj)

I loved that movie.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (xWW96)

667 480
Hillary's rusted-on support level - union brass, the feminist Coathanger
Battalions, etc. - is 35%. She could be in a jail cell by November
and, if nominated, she'd still get 35%.

Posted by: JEM at January 12, 2016 12:44 PM (o+SC1)



Because of that 35%, she will never be in a jail cell. She would be tried in either DC or NY, and there is no way a prosecutor could ever get a jury of 12 random Washingtonians or New Yorkers that would vote unanimously to convict her, no matter how damning the evidence, and she knows it and the DOJ knows it.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 12, 2016 01:39 PM (5f5bM)

668 I asked this in the earlier thread, but, does the NRA throw hats at you guys?

I've been a member for 35ish years and have never once gotten a hat.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (XiVKO)

669 Mark Levin was utterly furious yesterday, as well he ought to be, about the GOP Senate just having meekly rolled over and easily confirmed yet _another_ outright left-wing radical Obama nominee to a lifetime seat on the federal bench. Not even token symbolic opposition.

He was Hispanic, and hence, invulnerable. Hispanics are "natural conservatives" and we can't have republicans doing anything to spoil the wonderful future that the GOP and Hispanic conservative voters have together.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (8ZskC)

670 I hate fcuking monkeys.


It's not bad when you get consent.

The resistance is a bitch.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (1xUj/)

671 655 Did someone upthread mention that today is HQ Asshole Day? I am always the last to know. If I had been properly informed, I could have made round little brown cookies.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (dFi94)

Hershey kiss cookies = Chocolate starfish

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (fWAjv)

672 #648 Juggernaut.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (Kucy5)

673 "Call it... Alibi.com"



Mightn't that be, oh, a little "obvious" to the authorities....?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (LA7Cm)

674 Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (noWW6)

Especially egregious since judicial nominees were *the* reason we've been told for decades that we *had* to vote R. Is there a D nominee that the Rs have blocked since gaining control?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (GDulk)

675 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at January 12, 2016 01:36 PM (kXoT0)

Plus most of the time he whispered his dialog.

Posted by: HH at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (DrCtv)

676 "It's not bad when you get consent. "

The Reach Around is definitely different then what you'er used to as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (ptqRm)

677 I've been a member for 35ish years and have never once gotten a hat.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (XiVKO)

None here.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (fWAjv)

678 Did someone upthread mention that today is HQ Asshole Day? I am always the last to know. If I had been properly informed, I could have made round little brown cookies.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 12, 2016 01:37 PM (dFi94)
In the shape of starfish?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (X6fMO)

679 2:00 pm meeting

Tummy full of chili


Should be interesting.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (fWAjv)

680 I've been a member for 35ish years and have never once gotten a hat.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 12, 2016 01:40 PM (XiVKO)


I have a hat, complete with scrambled eggs. Also a project 2 million belt buckle. Wearing it right now.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (xWW96)

681 Having no experience in that area I would expect that getting a solid supply of cheap labor involves battles with unions and other such obstacles that makes willing,legal inexpensive workers very appealing.
Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:32 PM (7wqb3)

The whole point of critical theory is to attack the weak point, or paradox, of a competing system (western capitalism) until that attack is subconscious, memetic, and can be applied independently by others, even to totally different situation.

As some moron was saying in a thread yesterday, we got bufu'd as a country by our deep-seated need to buy cheap. They exploited that instinct to open up pandora's communist box. Labor was the way they did it. It was always going to be the way they did it. It's not communist to be concerned with a rebalancing of the labor pool and the costs of different labor demographics here in this country.

However, Mort, if the paradox of Trump using illegal labor in his hotels and building projects makes him, the progenitor of border security as a campaign issue, untouchable, then I don't want to hear anything about the founding fathers. Because George Washington owned slaves.

Figure out a way to live, thrive, and survive in the dissonance.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (xuouz)

682 I've been a member for 35ish years and have never once gotten a hat.
Posted by: Chupacabra
-------------

Well..., I signed on at a gun show, and they handed me one.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (n22zQ)

683 527 In more good news for Hillary, Chelsea Clinton is still supporting her and hasn't withdrawn her endorsement. She is key to attracting millennials.
______________________

Millennials who live in $10,000,000 apartments with sweeping views of Central Park, and who have no discernable job skills (yet still get offered six-figure, make-work jobs, for which they rarely bother to show up).

So basically Chelsea gives them a lock on the Kardashian and Hilton sisters' votes.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (a31sM)

684 "I believe Sybrina Fulton while doing the Trayvon death tour raked in a
lot of cash. I know that there was at least one physical family fight
over money between the mother and another relative that the police had
to break up. But other than that, it is all about peace, love, and
non-violence."

Sybrina copyrighted her dead son's likeness to "prevent him from being exploited", and suggested unsubtly that all profits from merchandising would be directed to good works. Those good works turned out to be lining her pockets.

I think that the fight between various family members was not Trayvon Martin's family, but Mike Brown's family. It was Mike Brown's stepfather who wore a shirt with the likeness of the deceased and the words "GONE TO SOON".

Not sure where Soon is, but I'm happy that the huge thug is there and not here.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 12, 2016 01:43 PM (noWW6)

685 What, no Ace?

Posted by: donna at January 12, 2016 01:43 PM (/dSsq)

686 >>>think it was Brando who won an Oscar but didn't accept it and instead sent some indian chick up to the podium to make a political statement? Anyone remember that?
Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:28 PM (

At the risk of getting willowed, I'm watching a documentary on the making of island of dr Moreau about how crazy Brando was and how he kept messing with the film..

Posted by: Lea at January 12, 2016 01:43 PM (vmMMi)

687 I asked this in the earlier thread, but, does the NRA throw hats at you guys?

I've been a member for 35ish years and have never once gotten a hat.
================

I always got a hat when I helped host a Friends of the NRA dinner.

Posted by: mrp at January 12, 2016 01:43 PM (JBggj)

688 Ou est l'ewok?

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 01:44 PM (xuouz)

689 679 2:00 pm meeting

Tummy full of chili


Should be interesting.



Bet it gets more interesting around 2:45.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (lADRM)

690 #jesuisl'ewok

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (1xUj/)

691 @637 To add to it.

Illegals will never make a net financial positive contribution to the US Welfare State. In fact, they are a current net drain, and will always be. Nearly all of their children will be too, the occasional valedictorian excepted.

What they do is create an increasing need for the Welfare State, which means more teachers, social workers, health care workers, and prison guards.

If you make less than $xxx per year that's the way the math works, especially if you have children.

Now it's one thing to offer this to our current citizens, quite another to import the demand, especially when the math doesn't pencil out long-term for the citizens we're already trying to help.

Once again, minorities and women will be hardest hit.



Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (r1fLd)

692 Je suis Ace

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (ptqRm)

693 Ou est l'ewok?

The sidebar hasn't been updated in a while, either.

Pixy hamster revolt?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (LUgeY)

694 "Should be interesting."



For who?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:45 PM (LA7Cm)

695
***drums fingers***

Just waiting here for a service call on a printer problem. Got an e-mail acknowledgement at 12 saying "we'll be with you shortly!"

Now it's almost 2. I'll be damned if I sit here for another hour waiting when I could be drinking -

like certain people

**gives bandersnatch the stink eye.**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:46 PM (X6fMO)

696 VIA - Oh, that's right. Because nothing says peace and love than having a picture of St. Trayvon on your shirt!

I did a search and found out that Sybrina Fulton earns 68k a year working for the county housing division. County employees donated over 1000 hours of vacation time to her and she was able to take 8 months of paid of leave.

Our favorite shyster Al Tawana Sharpton appeared with her and the father at many events passing around a trash can for people to throw money in for the family.

You honestly can't make this shit up.

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:46 PM (oiNtH)

697 "For who?'

EPA?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:46 PM (ptqRm)

698 19 hours since he's been on the twatter machine.

*looks at calendar*


Yup, hibernation.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 12, 2016 01:46 PM (1xUj/)

699 Je ne suis pas un ewok.

No fucking thanks

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 01:47 PM (xuouz)

700 Fair enough. I don't really believe you are a commie; just jerking your chain

It's usually attached to a clothesline in the yard, so that explains that.

I admit it may have come across like a political shot, but I was looking at it like a problem to solve, rather than a form of attack.

I'm so opposite of a lefty I don't even recognize when I sound like one. Yeesh.

Maybe you nailed it with the 'self awareness' observation.

Anyway, I enjoy your posts. Thanks for responding!

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:47 PM (7wqb3)

701 Our favorite shyster Al Tawana Sharpton appeared with her and the father at many events passing around a trash can for people to throw money in for the family.


He deserves credit for an appropriate metaphor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 12, 2016 01:47 PM (8ZskC)

702
2:00 pm meeting

Tummy full of chili


Should be interesting.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at January 12, 2016 01:42 PM (fWAjv)
..............................

Take my advice, if you wear a pantsuit and Nehru jacket nobody can see the diaper.

Posted by: Hillarrhoids at January 12, 2016 01:48 PM (HgMAr)

703 Wow...it's been a while

Ammo Alert.

22lr

http://tinyurl.com/ztq2y7z

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:48 PM (ptqRm)

704 A big meal of hobo meat has the same effect on Ewoks as a big meal of turkey does to us.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:48 PM (L2co/)

705
Our favorite shyster Al Tawana Sharpton appeared with her and the father at many events passing around a trash can for people to throw money in for the family.

I'd love for a Trump AG to prosecute that nickelfucker to his grave.


Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:50 PM (X6fMO)

706 There are times that I wish Carson had done better in the race.

This is one of them

http://www.weaselzippers.us/?p=250369

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (ptqRm)

707 wow this is still up?

Posted by: Bigby's Prosthetic Hand at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (3ZtZW)

708 "I need a big meal of turkey like I need a hole in the head."

Posted by: Things Leon Trotsky Probably Never Said at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (JBggj)

709 That must be one fierce hangover...

Posted by: Gunslinger at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (4S7hN)

710 Ace finally.

Posted by: HH at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (DrCtv)

711 Is there a D nominee that the Rs have blocked since gaining control?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 01:41 PM (GDulk)

I understand that the rump ranger nominee for Secretary of the Army has withdrawn his nomination today. That's a small victory to most, but meaningful to some of us.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (5f5bM)

712 nood

Posted by: irright at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (zxnPQ)

713 "There are times that I wish Carson had done better in the race. "


I had forgotten the guy was even still in the race. He just fell off a cliff.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:52 PM (LA7Cm)

714 Ace is up and posting

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 01:52 PM (GDulk)

715 Any bets that this will get to 1K comments?

Posted by: Cheri at January 12, 2016 01:52 PM (oiNtH)

716 I'm so opposite of a lefty I don't even recognize when I sound like one. Yeesh.

Maybe you nailed it with the 'self awareness' observation.

Anyway, I enjoy your posts. Thanks for responding!


Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 01:47 PM (7wqb3)


Buys Mortimer a shot of Valu-Rite.


The Left is insidious in the way it shapes the terms of discourse, isn't it? One can get sucked into it, without realizing it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 12, 2016 01:53 PM (L2co/)

717 #705 That would be nice, but, Sharpton figured out the long con decades ago. He hides behind being a Reverend and makes a point to not "own" anything. Now that he has dieted himself down to skin and bones with a face that looks to be composed of sagging unbalanced parentheses symbols, he can easily make himself look victimized.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at January 12, 2016 01:53 PM (kXoT0)

718 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 12, 2016 01:52 PM (LA7Cm)

That's how I felt about Jindal before he actually *did* drop out. I had to consciously remind myself he was still running and, given that he probably best represented my world-view, that's no way to run a campaign.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 12, 2016 01:54 PM (GDulk)

719
All this talk about Paula Jones made me go look for a recent pic of her.

Yeah. . . .no.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 12, 2016 01:30 PM (X6fMO)
________________________________

I'd hit it....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2016 01:55 PM (HSmrB)

720 @651

Richard Harris was Irish, not a Brit, and fiercely proud of it.

There are a lot of great RH stories. Here's one:

Walking out from his London flat to get a pack of cigs, upon perusing the newspaper, he saw that Limerick Rugby, his local team from back home had a home match later that day at the infamous Thomond Park rugby pitch. In a day before cell phones, he said nothing to the wife, but flew over immediately which led to a three-day bender.

Upon returning to his London flat, he said to the wife: "Didn't you pay the ransom?"





Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2016 01:55 PM (r1fLd)

721 We have sat too long in this thread for any good it may have done. By the grace of god GO

Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 12, 2016 01:55 PM (xuouz)

722 I did a search and found out that Sybrina Fulton earns 68k a year working for the county housing division. County employees donated over 1000 hours of vacation time to her and she was able to take 8 months of paid of leave.
_____________________

How stupid does somebody have to be to give up their vacation time to a woman whose son ended up dead because (1) she was a lousy mother who didn't bother to teach her kid right from wrong; and (2) she was a lousy mother who threw her teenage son out of her house because she didn't want to be bothered dealing with the thuggish mess he'd become because of her negligent parenting -- all so that said lousy and neglectful mother can then take her phony "poor, poor, pitiful me" show out on the road and con some more money out of other stupid and ill-informed dopes, all to further fatten her own bank account?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 12, 2016 01:56 PM (a31sM)

723 I understand that the rump ranger nominee for
Secretary of the Army has withdrawn his nomination today. That's a small
victory to most, but meaningful to some of us.


Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 12, 2016 01:51 PM (5f5bM)

Looked into it. The butt pirate has stepped down as acting Secretary, not withdrawn his nomination. Of all people, John McCain (R-Arizona) was holding the nomination up as long as he continued to serve as acting Secretary. But Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) now has a hold on the nomination, supposedly because of Administration policy on Club Gitmo. If the D's were in charge of the Senate, it would be mighty fabulous there in the Army. I have to believe there are other rearguard actions going on by the R's that we don't hear much about because they don't get through the media filter.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 12, 2016 01:57 PM (5f5bM)

724 That would be nice, but, Sharpton figured out the long con decades ago. He hides behind being a Reverend and makes a point to not "own" anything. Now that he has dieted himself down to skin and bones with a face that looks to be composed of sagging unbalanced parentheses symbols, he can easily make himself look victimized.
_________________

His gaunt appearance is not so much the result of dieting but of the stomach-reducing obesity surgery he had years ago, and the medical complications that followed.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 12, 2016 02:00 PM (a31sM)

725 #248 oh now be fair. It was a flint axe.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 12, 2016 02:01 PM (Kucy5)

726 *knocks back shot of Valu-RITE, claws at throat*

thanks!
/hoarse whisper

Posted by: Mortimer at January 12, 2016 02:01 PM (7wqb3)

727 Sorry, should have been #234

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 12, 2016 02:03 PM (Kucy5)

728
Any SE Michigan morons out there?

Jinx the Cat will be visiting the Washtenaw / Livingston county area this weekend; Jinx & I are going to have a mini mo-me either Friday night or Sunday afternoon, probably in the Brighton area.

Sorry for the short notice, I meant to pimp this over the past weekend but real life interviened.

If you're interested, e-mail me at "heywoodblogger" on the yahooo thingie, or contact me through Teh Group

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2016 02:06 PM (ZQfW9)

729 I did not endorse Hillary(!).

I endorsed her choice of vodka.

Posted by: Gabby Giffords at January 12, 2016 02:50 PM (bpn7O)

730 You know which African country is a question?

"Djibouti?"

Yes. I made that up. I sure did.

Posted by: Elmore Leonard at January 12, 2016 03:40 PM (bpn7O)

731 FTSB: The German Federal police say the Arab "rape game" has established itself in Europe.



Some kind of personal Death Blossom needs to be invented.

Posted by: Grump928(c) is holding his head at January 12, 2016 04:01 PM (evdj2)

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