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Louis Apol, "Boslaan in Winter Attire" (n.d.)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 10:08 AM




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1 Trees and snow. Hmmm...

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 09:27 AM (DrCtv)

2 I'm only halfway there to admiring the painting

Posted by: countrydoc at January 18, 2016 09:28 AM (QP15r)

3 Nice.

Posted by: Golfman at January 18, 2016 09:28 AM (oxcYa)

4 Mornin', y'all

Posted by: Country Singer at January 18, 2016 09:28 AM (GUBah)

5 Is Boslaan the city or the dude walking along the tree line?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 18, 2016 09:29 AM (7RXcs)

6
Just imagine bouncing over those frozen wagon ruts in an unsprung wagon. Hell, even a buggy on springs would be miserable to ride in. I'd rather walk.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 09:29 AM (ja2z5)

7 Fourth

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 18, 2016 09:29 AM (iONHu)

8 Looks like out-houses on the right.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 09:30 AM (DrCtv)

9 So much snow!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 09:30 AM (NOIQH)

10 Ummm, dump up.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 09:32 AM (DrCtv)

11 New dump post just stomped this one.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 18, 2016 09:32 AM (ukNFU)

12 Ah art and dump up at the same time.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 09:40 AM (t2KH5)

13 What a pretty picture.

Little did those four college students know that--at the end of that snowy, bucolic road--lies a horror beyondimagining: a cyclopean, tentacledbeastburst forthlike a ripeputrescence from the elderitch, yonicdark between the stars, its yawning maw gaping wide with ravening, soul-devouring hunger.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 09:40 AM (OGbEB)

14 Careful where you step. The neighbor's dog pinched one next to the rubbish bins.

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 09:46 AM (UzPAd)

15
In before the snip..........

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2016 09:48 AM (j4wsR)

16 And it's back.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 10:11 AM (DrCtv)

17 Baslan means "Do not go there" in Mansi.

Posted by: Dyatlov Pass Hikers Association at January 18, 2016 10:14 AM (vgIRn)

18 Should we comment here?I'm confused.

Posted by: steevy at January 18, 2016 10:15 AM (8HTq1)

19 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 10:15 AM (kff5f)

20 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 10:16 AM (kff5f)

21 I found Waldo!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 10:16 AM (kff5f)

22 I think there's a dead waif frozen into that gully.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 10:17 AM (RQDhf)

23 For the horde's enjoyment:

Almost as good as a goat ...

http://tinyurl.com/h3thn3p

Even creepier are all the people walking by as if this is normal.

h/t IOTW

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 10:19 AM (hgBpU)

24 Winter is coming.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:19 AM (evdj2)

25 I saw that interview question asked of Hillary in Iowa about the FBI probe expanding. Just sat and watched it and studied her body language / speech patterns. It was so... creepy. She is a one weird, sick, unsettling bitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xP162Bqnlg

Posted by: ElKomandante at January 18, 2016 10:19 AM (Ql4Nd)

26 Okay.... a fine dump, moar coffee, and now a return to Art.

Week's getting off to a good start!

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 10:22 AM (C9pBZ)

27
I was misquoted!

Posted by: Sir Edmund Rodham at January 18, 2016 10:23 AM (OiFtZ)

28 I looked up "Boslaan," it's in the southern Netherlands. The name means something like "forest road."

Yeah, it looks chilly. I should send you a photo I took in Salt Lake City a few years ago - it was 100 degrees out and everything looks parched.

Posted by: Annalucia at January 18, 2016 10:23 AM (a5bF3)

29 Restomp

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 10:27 AM (t2KH5)

30 I like the new age twist the artist put on the painting.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 10:28 AM (1JqUE)

31 But choom has a brilliant idea to allow student loans be rolled into home mortages



This actually seems possible, if you could find a house sufficiently
under market value, which seems unlikely. It would be like paying off
your college loans with a 2nd mortgage.
==========
I've heard that done; back in the housing bubble run-up.

Some guys who bought houses to "flip." Instead of using the loan surplus to renovate the houses, they used it to pay off their student loans.

Then they filed bankruptcy on the houses.

It's well established in bankruptcy that it is not fraud to prefer one creditor over another when you're making your payments.

Posted by: RoyalOil at January 18, 2016 10:28 AM (fQ/0p)

32 Snow snow snow. That's what we were supposed to get this weekend but the NWS was wrong again. But they can predict global warming and 20 foot ocean level rise 100 years down the road.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 10:29 AM (t2KH5)

33 It was so... creepy.

I turned the sound off and watched the video. She looked like a bobblehead doll staring and nodding while the question was being asked. Looked away from the questioner while she answered. Even worse with the sound and inappropriate laughter. Public corruption is a different investigation than the classified info investigation.

Posted by: no good deed at January 18, 2016 10:30 AM (GgxVX)

34 Will the real top thread please stand up?

Repost from stomped dump:
Big happy news today is that the left got Scholastic to yank a book titled "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" because it showed GW' s cook and niece smiling as they bake the cake. Doncha know they were slaves and therefore never smiled in their lives, oh no, they spent their life weeping and wailing in pancakes as they drudged through the President's mansion.

Let them eat cake censorship.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 10:31 AM (cbfNE)

35 I generally like Judge Judy on Fox (although she has one of the most irritating voices in existence), but she really has the kneepads on for Trump.

I was quite irritated by a segment on her show last night where she did man on the street interviews with New Yorkers regarding Ted Cruz. "What do you think of Ted Cruz?" "He's stoopid!" "Why are people so jealous of New Yorkers?" "Because we are awesome!" "Where is Ted Cruz from?" "Canada!"

I enjoyed my visits to the Big Apple, but that segment actually did the reverse of what Judge Judy thought it did. It made New Yorkers look like a bunch of assholes.

And the New York assumption that any criticism is due to "jealousy" is ridiculous. I am personally more comfortable in smaller cities. The entire universe is not secretly dying to live on a crowded, expensive island. There are people who want a house and a lawn and more than 1 kid and the ability to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 10:31 AM (u0lmX)

36 Winter in North Dakota.

Brrrrr...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 10:31 AM (LUgeY)

37 Looks like London.

Posted by: JEM at January 18, 2016 10:33 AM (o+SC1)

38 Spotted the goose.

Posted by: eman at January 18, 2016 10:34 AM (MQEz6)

39 If nothing else, Trump has made this election fun.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 10:34 AM (Fmupd)

40 If I wanted to live in a big city that is a Commie enclave, I'd choose LA over NY hands down. You might be surrounded by leftist fools in LA, but at least you're not freezing your patoot off.

Like I am today.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 10:34 AM (u0lmX)

41 Is that Bigfoot on the side of the rode or the town vicar?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 18, 2016 10:35 AM (sl+zA)

42 The cold keeps the miscreants in.

One thing we look forward to in my parts is the junkies hibernating.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 10:35 AM (RQDhf)

43 weeping and wailing in pancakes

--

in manacles

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 10:35 AM (cbfNE)

44 "Putting an artist in custody sends a very bad message," said Bouzenoune, slamming a "worrying judicial prudishness".

He cited the case of South African artist Steve Cohen who was found guilty of indecent exposure in 2014 after dancing around in front of the Eiffel Tower with a live rooster attached to his penis with a ribbon.

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I'm pretty sure dancing naked with a cock tied to your cock is in the constitution, in the prancing pervert clause.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 10:36 AM (Nwg0u)

45 I actually watched "60 Minutes" last night to see the Sean Penn interview. My god that man is an idiot! And Charlie Rose wasn't playing nice. He kept hitting Penn with tough questions. And you could tell that Penn must have been rambling a lot 'cause you would see Rose cut him off a number of times to ask something specific.

Yes, Penn is indeed Jeff Spicoli.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 10:36 AM (DrCtv)

46 weeping and wailing in pancakes

--
In manacles

Seriously auto cucumber, it's a real word

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 10:36 AM (cbfNE)

47 Snow snow snow. That's what we were supposed to get
this weekend but the NWS was wrong again. But they can predict global
warming and 20 foot ocean level rise 100 years down the road. Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 10:29 AM


We got almost five inches of the pesky white stuff this morning. I'd be happy to send ya some, Vic!

Prediction here is that we might get a real snowpalooza this weekend. Some of the wilder "forecasts" say it could total 17 inches. I ain't too damn happy about that....

But the snowplow dudes are happy. They haven't had much to do this year.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 10:37 AM (ZPz7d)

48 22 I think there's a dead waif frozen into that gully.


Posted by: Chupacabra


What makes you think that? Now you've got me looking for Harry Reid's size six footprint's in the snow.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 18, 2016 10:38 AM (kfcYC)

49 Plow truck is late.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 10:38 AM (DL2i+)

50 So pretty! We had snow for the first time last night but it was just a teensy bit that barely shows on the car.

Posted by: Lea at January 18, 2016 10:38 AM (vmMMi)

51 That picture looks like I feel this morning. Where's the coffee?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2016 10:38 AM (r65B3)

52
Prediction here is that we might get a real snowpalooza this weekend. Some of the wilder "forecasts" say it could total 17 inches. I ain't too damn happy about that....



-!

Yes, we are worried because we are supposed to drive kiddo to a karate tournament

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 10:38 AM (cbfNE)

53 46 weeping and wailing in pancakes


Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 10:36 AM (cbfNE)

It's impossible to weep and wail when you have pancakes. They induce happiness, even in slaves.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 10:39 AM (u0lmX)

54 Hey, my pancakes are soggy with sweet Aunt Jemima tears! Awesome!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 10:40 AM (NeFrd)

55 the RNCe has lost hope for their preferred candidates in Iowa and NH and are now looking to SC. I have some news for AP and the RNCe, if things stay the way they are there is little hope for them in SC either. Their only out is how the RNCe has made the delegate assignments in SC virtually meaningless.

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I didn't mean to black your eye and break your arm. It's just that I love you sooooo much that when you get uppity I get scared I'll lose you. Please take me back. I'll change. I swear. You'll see.

- RNCe

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 10:40 AM (Nwg0u)

56 BTW, Vic - your comments (now on 3 threads! Yay) about coal plant decommissioning - one "insider" article a few years back (2013 IIRC) discussed some of the "incentives" coming from our pockets to dismantle a number of plants... of course, the data came from the "annual energy report", which is more Fed idiocy (the one from last winter had oil (Brent) bottoming out at the mid 50's)

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 10:40 AM (C9pBZ)

57
45 I actually watched "60 Minutes" last night to see the Sean Penn interview. My god that man is an idiot! .Yes, Penn is indeed Jeff Spicoli.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 10:36 AM (DrCtv)

Just imagine the deep political conversations he must have had with Madonna.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (u0lmX)

58 38 Spotted the goose.
Posted by: eman at January 18, 2016 10:34 AM (MQEz6)




Euphemism?

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (vgIRn)

59 Whoever posted the link to the Daily Sunny video - that was funny! Loved the Kasich mockery.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (NOIQH)

60 It appears that we will get our first actual below-freezing night of this winter tonight. 29 is the forecast. That will burn off my sweet potatoes and banana trees for sure.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (evdj2)

61 South African artist Steve Cohen who was found guilty of indecent exposure in 2014 after dancing around in front of the Eiffel Tower with a live rooster attached to his penis with a ribbon.

Non, monsieur, vous ne devrais PAS s'obstiner en "fucking that chicken".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (6FqZa)

62 "I'm pretty sure dancing naked with a cock tied to your cock is in the constitution, in the prancing pervert clause."

Which illustrates the inherent contradiction in the constitution and in law in general when one part says one thing, and another part says the opposite.

It's all fakery to beguile the innocent, as Obama has so skillfully demonstrated.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 10:42 AM (ja2z5)

63 According to Drudge, apparently Madonna tied one on before her latest concert. It's looking like Sean Penn married *down*

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (6FqZa)

64 Spotted the goose.
Posted by: eman at January 18, 2016 10:34 AM (MQEz6)

*****

Don't be silly. They come that way!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (NeFrd)

65 47 Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 10:37 AM (ZPz7d)


The Old Farmer's Almanac predicted cold and snowy on the East coast all the way from NC to ME. We are supposed to be cold and rainy. So far they have been right on. The OFA is usually good even if they are in commie Sanders State.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (t2KH5)

66 I didn't mean to black your eye and break your arm. It's just that I love you sooooo much that when you get uppity I get scared I'll lose you. Please take me back. I'll change. I swear. You'll see.

- RNCe




It's okay honey, you just go to sleep now.

Posted by: The Base at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (evdj2)

67 This picture is of dah Netherlands. Coldest day ever there was 17 below. Hottest ever was 100. Both during WWII, so this could be "Underground Weather."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (xq1UY)

68 Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:41 AM (evdj2)

Sweet potatoes and banana trees? Where are you?

29 sounds balmy to me right now.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (u0lmX)

69 ...apparently Madonna tied one on before her latest concert.


*****


Tied one what on? A rooster?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 10:44 AM (NeFrd)

70 oh, *devrez of course. My French declensions still need work

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:44 AM (6FqZa)

71 Where are you?


Gulf Coast. About a mile from Mobile Bay.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:44 AM (evdj2)

72 and yes, I was rubbing that in on the frozen Morons.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:44 AM (evdj2)

73 Spotted the goose.

Do you spot the string tied to it?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:45 AM (6FqZa)

74 Little did those four college students know that--at the end of that snowy, bucolic road--lies a horror beyondimagining: a cyclopean, tentacledbeastburst forthlike a ripeputrescence from the elderitch, yonicdark between the stars, its yawning maw gaping wide with ravening, soul-devouring hunger.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Posted by: troyriser at
...........
Beholder?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 10:45 AM (so+oy)

75 Watching that benghazi victims mom break up and call hillary Clinton a liar has me hotter than I was after watching Blackhawk down. FFS, do I hate these reprobate progtards that have hijacked this nation! Worse still are the reprobate ignoramuses that elect them. Bah!

Posted by: ChocoCheese at January 18, 2016 10:46 AM (QYmY5)

76 63 According to Drudge, apparently Madonna tied one on before her latest concert. It's looking like Sean Penn married *down*
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM (6FqZa)
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She tied a rooster to her penis??

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 10:47 AM (jR7Wy)

77 -1 F here this morning, with wind chills -15 to -25.. brutal.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 10:47 AM (so+oy)

78 >>Little did those four college students know that....


Heh. Ever see the Norwegian movie "Troll Hunter"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 10:47 AM (NOIQH)

79 So far they have been right on. The OFA is usually good even if they are in commie Sanders State. Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 10:43 AM

Yeah, the OFA seems to be pretty reliable, prediction-wise.

Vermonters know something about crappy weather. Despite their NE liberalism, it has always seemed strange that they would latch on to a NY transplant like Crazy Uncle Bernie. I could see him doing well here in MA. Or in CA.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 10:49 AM (ZPz7d)

80 >>>She tied a rooster to her penis??<<<

Is this a thing now? What part of the rooster?

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 10:49 AM (UzPAd)

81 -9F here and going down to -14 tonight. At least the days are getting longer.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 18, 2016 10:49 AM (XtAzU)

82 The entire universe is not secretly dying to live on a crowded, expensive island. There are people who want a house and a lawn and more than 1 kid and the ability to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time)


Amen!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 10:50 AM (FkBIv)

83 Is this a thing now? What part of the rooster?
Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 10:49 AM (UzPAd)
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Well, its cock-a-doodle-doo, presumably.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 10:50 AM (jR7Wy)

84 Well, pancakes sound pretty good. Think I'll make'm thin and fill'm with cream cheese and orange marmalade and call'm craps.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 10:50 AM (ja2z5)

85 -1 F here this morning, with wind chills -15 to -25.. brutal.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 10:47 AM (so+oy)
_________

It always feels worse without the snow cover. If this continues without the snow, my shrubs and trees could take a big hit.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 18, 2016 10:50 AM (MIKMs)

86 50 and sunny here in beautiful Texas...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 10:50 AM (C9pBZ)

87 It's supposed to get to the 40s here in Denver. Be a nice day for a walk.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:51 AM (6FqZa)

88
I'm pretty sure dancing naked with a cock tied to your cock is in the constitution, in the prancing pervert clause.

You mean the Harry Reid clause?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 10:51 AM (X6fMO)

89
Prediction here is that we might get a real snowpalooza this weekend. Some of the wilder "forecasts" say it could total 17 inches. I ain't too damn happy about that....


Mr Scribbler, tell me you don't live within a half hour's drive of Newburyport. If so, I'm going to take the gas pipe.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 10:52 AM (X6fMO)

90 You mean the Harry Reid clause?"

Nah. That's the "elastic exercise band" clause. Holds the chicken a bit tighter and all that...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 10:53 AM (C9pBZ)

91 The first summer I was in Germany (1976), it hit 100 a couple of days. A hot summer that year. The schwimbads were heaven on Earth. And I didn't do any swimming.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 10:53 AM (Fmupd)

92 This is a strange art thread, even for this crowd - wintery art, awful weather, politics and Madonna doing something with a rooster..

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 10:53 AM (a0IVu)

93 Drudge is intriguing today. When the robots automate 5 million MORE jobs away, will we use human/animal hybrids to destroy them? Or simply make the robots listen to a drunk Madonna concert? Or a Bernie/Hillary! debate tape?

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 10:54 AM (9JJgN)

94 It always feels worse without the snow cover. If this continues without the snow, my shrubs and trees could take a big hit.
Posted by: mustbequantum
.........
yeah.. but I can take the cold better than the snow.. bum knees have made it hard to shovel the driveway.. I know we got a lot more winter left.. but just being this far into January with so little snow so far and such a mild December makes it a bit more bearable.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 10:54 AM (so+oy)

95 Also, how many STD's does Bill Clinton have?

Over/ under 100?

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 10:55 AM (9JJgN)

96 Heh. Ever see the Norwegian movie "Troll Hunter"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 10:47 AM (NOIQH)

Fun flick. The kids and I joked about 'Troll Stank' for weeks after watching it.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 10:56 AM (OGbEB)

97  Also, how many STD's does Bill Clinton have? 

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All of them. Including a few completely new to modern medicine.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 10:57 AM (QjqzS)

98 I think that Bill's case of herpes successfully burned away his case of gonorrhea, and no pubic louse has ever penetrated the scar-tissue down there - so it's probably fewer STDs than you'd think

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 10:57 AM (6FqZa)

99 >>All of them. Including a few completely new to modern medicine.

No, no! He only looks thin, frail, and sickly because he went vegan. Really

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 10:58 AM (NOIQH)

100 For the fine and jail the employers crowd re: illegals. Why wouldn't just showing up often enough in the blue windbreaker with yellow letters and a bullhorn yelling Migra! do the job.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 10:58 AM (DL2i+)

101 If they ban Trump, I will definitely vote for him so long as he promises he will declare war on the UK. Come on! It's been 200 years.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 10:58 AM (iQIUe)

102 All of them. Including a few completely new to modern medicine.

The man rivals Calcutta for breeding new strains.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 10:59 AM (evdj2)

103
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (iQIUe)

104 Before the dump gets moved in front of the art thread which got moved in front of the dump that stomped the art thread...

I think I'll go back to the morning thread which I missed and see if Vic laid his newscast on us today.

Posted by: mindful webworker - balk tackwards at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (hgso/)

105 Here they come to snuff the rooster

Posted by: Chained Alice at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (FkBIv)

106 Would Trump be invading Great Britain... or liberating it, these days?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (6FqZa)

107 For the fine and jail the employers crowd re: illegals. Why wouldn't just showing up often enough in the blue windbreaker with yellow letters and a bullhorn yelling Migra! do the job.

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Attractive nuisance. If swimming pool owners have to sweat it, share the love.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (QjqzS)

108 He's a veritable Petri dish of ex-presidential squalor.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 11:01 AM (NeFrd)

109 Mr Scribbler, tell me you don't live within a half hour's drive of Newburyport. If so, I'm going to take the gas pipe.

MP4, it's almost exactly a half-hour drive -- up Rte. 133 and Rte. 1 -- to Newburyport. I always throw a salute to Timothy Dexter when I'm there!

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 11:02 AM (ZPz7d)

110 I'm going all conspiracy theory on the Iran- Us Navy capture unless someone can correct me and point out that there was more than an Iranian bass boat that detained our two ships.

That and the immediate apology is just too much for me to believe we were that incompetent and untrained. Also the timing . Someone set me straight as I hate wearing tinfoil. It messes up my hair.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 11:03 AM (qbqnC)

111 One of my FB friends who I knew from Summer Camp and is cute, but I digress, was at the Dem Debate last night and apparently is a big Dem. Sigh. I cut her slack because her son is Active Duty Army Ranger, but I so disappointed in her.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:04 AM (gf8BH)

112 From Drudge:

Portland Community College to devote an entire month to 'whiteness'-shaming

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Oh, good, 'cause if there's one thing academia needs more of it's white shaming.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:04 AM (Nwg0u)

113 Troll Hunter was fun.

A good movie I watched yesterday was Against the Sun.
True story of 3 WW II airmen drifting on a life raft to 34 days.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 11:05 AM (cbfNE)

114 I'm not saying that Bill might need to visit the clinic, but whenever he rolls on a condom, it looks like Rorschach's mask

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 18, 2016 11:05 AM (6FqZa)

115 Is anyone listening to Beck this am? I'd like to know about the manufactured tweet he sent out over the weekend about Trump.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (Fmupd)

116 104 I think I'll go back to the morning thread which I missed and see if Vic laid his newscast on us today.

Posted by: mindful webworker - balk tackwards at January 18, 2016 11:00 AM (hgso/)

Oh yes, it is there.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (t2KH5)

117 Pfft. Like Bill Clinton could get his flaccid pecker into a condom...

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (RQDhf)

118 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?

Posted by: Feh at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (Z5Pby)

119 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?


Is that supposed to be funny?

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 11:07 AM (c2krM)

120 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?
Posted by: Feh at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (Z5Pby)

Did I miss something? Did Hell freeze over?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:07 AM (gf8BH)

121 Did I miss something? Did Hell freeze over?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:07 AM


Naaaah. I think the dude was just trying for a funny.

Shrillery will be indicted the very day Choom Boy is impeached.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (ZPz7d)

122 Looks like a nice neighborhood. You would think the painter could do the pitcher on a day other than trash day, with the big ol' plastic cans out at the curb.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (Dj0WE)

123 Iran planning on increasing oil exports by 500,000 brls/day.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (Fmupd)

124 The only acceptable racism - as seen at the Director's Guild awards:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zoevk46

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (NOIQH)

125 I cut her slack because her son is Active Duty Army Ranger, but I so disappointed in her.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:04 AM (gf8BH)
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I have friends with kids in the military who are Obama/Hillary! fans and I wonder how they deal with the cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (jR7Wy)

126 Newburyport

Huh. OT: have to go there someday. It's where my ancestors came ashore a LONG time ago.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (yddCj)

127 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?

Hahahahahahhahaha.

That's a good one.

This is one case that will have be tried in the court of public opinion, 'cause that's the only way teh Hildabeast will be ever be charged with anything.

She's a Prog/Com in a Prog/Com administration. Which means that absolutely nothing will happen to her. Now, if it was me or you, we'd already be in jail with our lives in ruin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 11:11 AM (LUgeY)

128 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?
Posted by: Feh at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (Z5Pby)


DOJ asked me to tell you, yours are being worked on right now.

Posted by: Courtesy Call from Your NSA at January 18, 2016 11:12 AM (Dj0WE)

129 I cut her slack because her son is Active Duty Army Ranger, but I so disappointed in her.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:04 AM (gf8BH)
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I have friends with kids in the military who are Obama/Hillary! fans and I wonder how they deal with the cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM (jR7Wy)

AND AND The Army is slashing Officers are his pay grade as they down size the Army.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:12 AM (gf8BH)

130 Gloom, despair, agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:12 AM (kpqmD)

131 If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 11:13 AM (evdj2)

132 Huh. OT: have to go there someday. It's where my ancestors came ashore a LONG time ago.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:10 AM


They'd hardly recognize it. The downtown has been extensively redone to cater to yuppie hipsters.

I hardly ever stop there. Usually, it's just to walk past Timothy Dexter's house and visit his grave.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (ZPz7d)

133 Hey, it's MLK Day. Of course I had chicken and waffles for breakfast.
I'm not In College anymore.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (xq1UY)

134 Gloom, despair, agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery


It was just a song, not an instruction book!

Posted by: Hee Haw at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (yddCj)

135 Sallllute!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (LUgeY)

136 >>No, no! He only looks thin, frail, and sickly because he went vegan. Really
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 10:58 AM (NOIQH)

Such a stupid diet.

I am living the first season of homeland btw. I'll be sad when this free showtime goes away.

Posted by: Lea at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (vmMMi)

137 Who or what is Boslaan? Sounds like a location in the Star Wars universe.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:15 AM (kpqmD)

138 Just put a pork butt in the slow cooker. She's a sassy little looker, just like the one in CBD's cooking thread pr0n, enrobed in a vinegar-mustard rub. I'll have green beans with bacon as a side for dinner (and successive lunches).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:15 AM (jR7Wy)

139 Posted by: Hee Haw at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (yddCj)


Where I come from, you're a documentary.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 11:16 AM (LUgeY)

140 From Time:

Exclusive: Sanders Open to Raising Middle-Class Taxes for Healthcare

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Well I'll be go to hell. Did not see that one coming.

Meanwhile Girl Gollum Clinton says she'll raise taxes faster and higher!

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:16 AM (Nwg0u)

141 8 Looks like out-houses on the right.
Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 09:30 AM (DrCtv)
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There's a bathroom on the right...

Posted by: John Fogerty at January 18, 2016 11:18 AM (fWLrt)

142 I like this painting, I have good snow boots so the slush wouldn't bother me.

It reminds me, in an art-illiterate way, of John Singer Sargent. I keep trying to make the splotch across from the gate into that girl who's walking down a street.

When I google Boslaan all the results were in Dutch, so I'm presuming a big-boned milk-fed blonde reading in front of a fireplace inside.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 11:19 AM (1xUj/)

143 I have an MLK post on my blog

Link in nic

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 11:19 AM (cbfNE)

144 They'd hardly recognize it.

An understatement! They were in the original group of settlers.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:19 AM (eeTCA)

145 >>Exclusive: Sanders Open to Raising Middle-Class Taxes for Healthcare

LOL. Obamacare is already killing the middle class (and lower class) now that people are going broke just to pay 10's of thousands for healthcare. Good luck fining a big enough post-Obama "middle class" to tax, buddy.

Economics, how does it work?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:19 AM (NOIQH)

146 The Army is slashing Officers are his pay grade as they down size the Army.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:12 AM (gf8BH)
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And they'll find themselves UNEXPECTEDLY shorthanded for whatever epic turd comes down the pipe next and will scramble to enlist warm bodies. I've seen this feast/famine cycle so many times.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:20 AM (jR7Wy)

147 Who or what is Boslaan? Sounds like a location in the Star Wars universe.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death
- - - -

That was the talking lion on that movie where the English kids were sent north during the war to avoid the blitz.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2016 11:20 AM (r65B3)

148 Trump talking on FNC. He does make a connection with the people in the audience. It really is amazing to watch.

And all of it without a teleprompter.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 11:21 AM (Fmupd)

149 Who or what is Boslaan?

Double-a, so I'm guessing Holland or Flanders.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM (eeTCA)

150 Which is worse?

- Gun grabbers lecturing you on firearms when they know absolutely nothing about them

or

- Atheists lecturing you about what Jesus would do when they know absolutely nothing about religion.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM (Nwg0u)

151 >>Which is worse?

Yes. Both.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM (NOIQH)

152 Good luck fining a big enough post-Obama "middle class" to tax, buddy.

Feature, not a bug.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:23 AM (ANVXm)

153 150 Which is worse?

- Gun grabbers lecturing you on firearms when they know absolutely nothing about them

or

- Atheists lecturing you about what Jesus would do when they know absolutely nothing about religion.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM (Nwg0u)

They should both die and be sent to the special hell reserved for child molesters and people who talk in movie theatres.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:24 AM (kpqmD)

154 And all of it without a teleprompter.Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 11:21 AM (Fmupd)

I don't think talking coherently without a teleprompter became an amazing thing until Obama came along. Turns out The Greatest Orator Of Our Generation is the rhetorical equivalent of the Gimp in 'Pulp Fiction'.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:24 AM (OGbEB)

155 >>Trump talking on FNC. He does make a connection with the people in the audience. It really is amazing to watch.

He's bashing Obama for essentially revealing military activities/secrets to the enemy.

About freakin' time someone pointed this out!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:24 AM (NOIQH)

156 I hate working on days when there is no mail...I am not going to work next MLK Day. I "Think" I decided to work today because I have missed so many days to Navy Duty.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 11:24 AM (gf8BH)

157 148
Trump talking on FNC. He does make a connection with the people in the audience. It really is amazing to watch.



And all of it without a teleprompter.
---

The real proof of Pure Genius is the Ability to Read off of a Telepromotper.

O is Brilliant.

As are everyone in the MSM, except those loonies on Fox News.

Posted by: Shrill, Screaming Liberals Everywhere at January 18, 2016 11:24 AM (9JJgN)

158 Who or what is Boslaan? Sounds like a location in the Star Wars universe.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death
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That was the talking lion on that movie where the English kids were sent north during the war to avoid the blitz.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2016 11:20 AM (r65B3)


Right. And the talking lion was the doofus Jedi dude in the REALLY awful Star Wars movie, the guy who got gutted by the Oakland Raiders fan with the double sided light saber.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:25 AM (Dj0WE)

159 134 Gloom, despair, agony on me
Deep dark depression, excessive misery

It was just a song, not an instruction book!
Posted by: Hee Haw at January 18, 2016 11:14 AM (yddCj)

Trust me I didn't need instruction. You did give me the vocabulary to describe it, and for that I owe you a debt of gratitude.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (kpqmD)

160 Newburyport, from upthread, is quite charming. When I was a little kid it's where we caught the party boats to go deep sea fishing. (I am now a fishing snob and would not go on a party boat, but that's where I learned to love the game).

It's the mouth of the Merrimack River, which like my home river (despite the fact that I'm in exile in CT) the North runs directly W->E. When there's a dropping tide and a wind from the east, both of them set up an impassable chop at the mouth.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (1xUj/)

161 Hey grandpa, what's for dinner?

[Stops polishing non-existent glass and puts hand through window] Birthday cake made by manacled slaves!

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (Nwg0u)

162 In other Sanders news, did y'a'l'l see the announcement during football?
There's a new chicken at the Colonel's. Nashville Hot.

And they are introducing it via food truck in every city, village and township named Nashville they could find except that big one in Tennessee. Cute.

This comedian they have now impersonating the Colonel is, well, better than the last guy. I can't see him without remembering Mel Gibson in the role. But first...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (xq1UY)

163 Well

I hear Trump's siren call


"I don't want a general to go on TV, I don't want them to say "it's gonna take. Long time" I want them to knock the Hell out of ISIS"


Now going on about what happened to our sailors
Well. He's getting to me

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (zOTsN)

164 I don't think talking coherently without a teleprompter became an amazing thing until Obama came along.

He has lowered the bar so far that it's just part of the floor.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (ANVXm)

165 Why are Pixy's hamsters eating the bottom third of the picture?

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:27 AM (ANVXm)

166 His speech is on now on CNBC. Man. He is good

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:27 AM (zOTsN)

167 He has lowered the bar so far that it's just part of the floor.
--

Actually, the bar is now in the basement. Maybe even in the sub-basement.

Affirmative action in action! Lowering the bar for minorities, while making life harder for whites!

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 11:27 AM (9JJgN)

168 Hey grandpa, what's for dinner?

[Stops polishing non-existent glass and puts hand through window] Birthday cake made by manacled slaves!
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:26 AM (Nwg0u)

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Saaaa-----LUTE!!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:27 AM (8XRCm)

169 153 150 Which is worse?
- Gun grabbers lecturing you on firearms when they know absolutely nothing about them
or
- Atheists lecturing you about what Jesus would do when they know absolutely nothing about religion.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM (Nwg0u)


I've got one! How about Democrats who tell you what's wrong with the Republican Party and what Republicans should do to fix it?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:28 AM (qppoh)

170 >>Feature, not a bug.

Exactly.

It's just maddening that these Dems can get away with saying they'll fix the deficit created by Obamacare with taxes. Impossible. Might as well be announcing your plan to harness unicorn farts to get us off fossil fuels.
It's just a cover; pretend it can be fixed until it all collapses -- unexpectedly!! -- and then announce we *have* to go single-payer.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:28 AM (NOIQH)

171 Now talking about the Iran negotiations



Man. He is good

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:28 AM (zOTsN)

172 Who or what is Boslaan?



Double-a, so I'm guessing Holland or Flanders.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:22 AM


If I had to guess, I'm going with Wooded Lane, or some variation on the theme in Dutch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (me6xG)

173 I've got one! How about Democrats who tell you what's wrong with the Republican Party and what Republicans should do to fix it?
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Do you meant the GOPe, or the actual Democrats?

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (fWLrt)

174
GET READY TO TRUMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://goo.gl/P03XU1

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (iQIUe)

175 be sent to the special hell

Pit's full, flaming three-headed goat out front should've told ya.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (DL2i+)

176
Ill give Trumps this.

No "aaahhhhs".... "ummmms".... "drrrrrrrrrs".

All off the cuff.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM (8XRCm)

177 And all of it without a teleprompter.

Am I the only one who wishes he would use one? Or notes? His rambling discourse leaves me confused about what he's trying to say.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM (evdj2)

178 Do you meant the GOPe, or the actual Democrats?
Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (fWLrt)

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Difference without a distinction.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM (8XRCm)

179 ORDER ORDER

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM (iQIUe)

180 Do you meant the GOPe, or the actual Democrats?

BYRY.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 11:31 AM (evdj2)

181 175 be sent to the special hell

Pit's full, flaming three-headed goat out front should've told ya.
Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (DL2i+)

Talk to the hoof, you thilly man!

Posted by: Flaming three-headed goat at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (kpqmD)

182 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:20 AM (jR7Wy)

Which is why I'm sure Son will be drafted. The real question is if the Kidlets will as well, Eldest is 18 already. My real fear is that they'll be ordered to fight against Israel since that is the direction we're headed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (GDulk)

183 Am I the only one who wishes he would use one? Or notes? His rambling discourse leaves me confused about what he's trying to say.

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Ive noticed he speaks like a marketer would.

He repeats each of his points. Usually three times.

Took me a bit to figure out what he was doing.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (8XRCm)

184 He seems to ramble about himself too often.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (gOViX)

185 ORDER ORDER

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM


Heh. You just keep fuckin' that chicken, bub.

Posted by: Entropy at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (me6xG)

186 An understatement! They were in the original group of settlers.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:19 AM (eeTCA)


Even before 7-11's?

Wow.....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at January 18, 2016 11:33 AM (WWdgA)

187 Do you meant the GOPe, or the actual Democrats?
Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 11:29 AM (fWLrt)


Heh. Good question. I was thinking of actual Democrats. I had a rant about one of their concern trolls in the book thread yesterday.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:33 AM (qppoh)

188 It's working with me. Hard to talk off the cuff if you don't believe it. You get in trouble

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:33 AM (zOTsN)

189 There is no order, only Zuul.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:33 AM (kpqmD)

190 Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 11:30 AM (evdj2)

If they had that English guy dub in for him that would be good too. But I do agree with you. He jumps all over the place and his use of the same adjectives over and over is annoying. Of course I don't like him so it makes it even worse for me.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 11:35 AM (qbqnC)

191 Which is why I'm sure Son will be drafted. The real question is if the Kidlets will as well, Eldest is 18 already. My real fear is that they'll be ordered to fight against Israel since that is the direction we're headed.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 18, 2016 11:32 AM (GDulk)
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I like to think we are skirting the edge of the black hole but won't be sucked in, that there are limits to the madness and people will rise up, but then I'm a cockeyed optimist.

Remember when burning your draft card and questioning authority were cool?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:35 AM (jR7Wy)

192 I'm getting banner ads for houses in Dallas-Ft. Worth which makes even less sense than the panty liner ads in Spanish.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:36 AM (kpqmD)

193 Remember when burning your draft card and questioning authority were cool?

It was cool when is was of benefit to Communists.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (kpqmD)

194 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (qppoh)

195 He's that guy your mom told you to stay away from


But he is so compelling


Just called Bergdahl a dirty rotten traitor and that deal


Hoo boy

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (zOTsN)

196 >>Ive noticed he speaks like a marketer would.
He repeats each of his points. Usually three times.


Ah, good observation! His style is also very conversational - talks and tells stories like he's sharing a beer with the audience.


Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (NOIQH)

197 Or is it Sean Penn who wears Spanish panty liners?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:38 AM (qppoh)

198 Did the Steelers at least kick donkey ass last night?

Home with the flu today. not firing on all cylinders.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:38 AM (gOViX)

199 Im sneaking off to meet Trump after mom and dad go to bed

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:39 AM (zOTsN)

200 Ill give Trumps this.
No "aaahhhhs".... "ummmms".... "drrrrrrrrrs".
All off the cuff.


If President Low-Bar could do that, he'd be compared to exalted genius Stephen Hawking (think about it...)

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (ANVXm)

201 I'm getting banner ads for houses in Dallas-Ft. Worth which makes even less sense than the panty liner ads in Spanish.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:36 AM (kpqmD)


I get Mississippi casinos (I don't gamble), and an ad for a "poll" of Missouri conservatives, between Trump and Cruz... and the picture of Trump looks like the character from the cartoon movie, Rango.


Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (Dj0WE)

202 ORDER ORDER

-
Well, that Nashville Hot chicken doesn't sound too bad.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (Nwg0u)

203 198 Did the Steelers at least kick donkey ass last night?

No, the horses rubbed one out at the last minute.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (qppoh)

204 I've been doing a lot of travel over the past 6-8 weeks. I've noticed a disturbing trend at the many airports I've been through. Muslims working inside airports have skyrocketed. MSP has been like this for a long time. But now Atlanta, Seattle, Salt Lake, Denver are quickly catching up.

But that's OK, I guess. These are the "moderate" Muslims.

So never mind, all is well.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (0LHZx)

205 So, Parliament says, if Trump wins, he won't be welcome to visit Old Blighty?
Hmm. I'm slowly, slowly making up my mind on this one...

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (xq1UY)

206 any news from the DOJ? when are charges going to be filed?

Posted by: Feh at January 18, 2016 11:06 AM (Z5Pby)


I'm voting for a ham sandwich in the primaries.
I think it is important to vote for something that CAN be indicted.


Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (q2o38)

207 TRUMP WALL

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (xq1UY)

208 LOL - Trump just said he could build a wall, no problem, but it would have to be beautiful because one day it will be named "Trump Wall."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (NOIQH)

209 205
So, Parliament says, if Trump wins, he won't be welcome to visit Old Blighty?
Hmm. I'm slowly, slowly making up my mind on this one...
--

UK commie fags don't like him?

Then I do.

Not that hard.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (9JJgN)

210 194 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (qppoh)

I don't know and I don't want to know. I suppose whatever it is they're highly absorbent and antimicrobial.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:42 AM (kpqmD)

211 Did the Steelers at least kick donkey ass last night?

Home with the flu today. not firing on all cylinders.
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:38 AM (gOViX)


Yes, the Steelers won! Bradshaw completed bombs to Swann and Stalworth for 175 yard touchdowns.


Final score: Pittsburgh 3450, Denver not just nothing, but all their players are dead.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:42 AM (Dj0WE)

212 fk.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:42 AM (gOViX)

213 But that's OK, I guess. These are the "moderate" Muslims.

The proper reaction is to coo and pat the ones on the head who haven't killed anyone yet.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:42 AM (ANVXm)

214 203 198 Did the Steelers at least kick donkey ass last night?

No, the horses rubbed one out at the last minute.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (qppoh)

That seems physically impossible.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:43 AM (kpqmD)

215 Trump wins he will not go to UKs leaders. So they will have to go to him. Doesn't sound like a problem.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:43 AM (zOTsN)

216 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??

Just use a beach towel like everyone else, lady!

Posted by: Hillary! at January 18, 2016 11:43 AM (ANVXm)

217 British Parliament is debating the 'ban Trump' today, right? Should be entertaining. Don't think it would pass but then again, they are stupid arses over there so who knows.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 11:44 AM (a0IVu)

218 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:35 AM (jR7Wy)

If I have to lose him/them, I'd rather it was fighting for the IDF than againat them. I am very grateful to have been born and raised American, but am looking for a way to move to Israel. As a non-Jew with minimal income, that's got serious logistical problems.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 18, 2016 11:44 AM (GDulk)

219 I get Mississippi casinos (I don't gamble), and an ad for a "poll" of Missouri conservatives, between Trump and Cruz... and the picture of Trump looks like the character from the cartoon movie, Rango.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:40 AM (Dj0WE)


And the more I see this kind of crap, the more it makes me want to vote for the guy. He's pissing off *all* the right people.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:44 AM (qppoh)

220 @214 Clearly we are not all visiting the same video sites.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:44 AM (xq1UY)

221 Final score: Pittsburgh 3450, Denver not just nothing, but all their players are dead.


Only in my dreams.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:45 AM (gOViX)

222 I want to see a woman president soon, but not her. She's a disaster. She's a disaster

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (zOTsN)

223 Andrea Mitchell was a great villain in The Dark Crystal.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (VdICR)

224 Am I the only one who wishes he would use one? Or notes? His rambling discourse leaves me confused about what he's trying to say.

That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (wEq+O)

225 Trump won't need UK "leaders." He'll have the greatest of them all sitting right there on the sideboard, looking across the Resolute Desk. Busta Churchill.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (xq1UY)

226 Remember when burning your draft card and questioning authority were cool?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage


Back in Bernie's salad days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (FkBIv)

227 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??

-----

When you call my name.... it's like a little layer
I'm down on my knees.... I wanna put you there
In the midnight hour ...... a delicate flower
Just another layer.... you know I'll put you there.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (8XRCm)

228 222 I want to see a woman president soon, but not her. She's a disaster. She's a disaster

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (zOTsN)

Yup, give me a woman with the balls and integrity of Thatcher and she will have my very enthusiastic vote.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (a0IVu)

229 >>So, Parliament says, if Trump wins, he won't be welcome to visit Old Blighty?

Well, I can understand if they're just plain mad at the U.S. after the way Obama has snubbed them for his entire presidency. That they're not talking about not welcoming Hillary is bizarro. Get your priorities straight.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (NOIQH)

230 I AM THE WALL!

Posted by: Judge Dredd at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (VdICR)

231 Buster Churchill, Winston's badder-assed brother.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (Nwg0u)

232 208 LOL - Trump just said he could build a wall, no problem, but it would have to be beautiful because one day it will be named "Trump Wall."
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:41 AM (NOIQH)


Does the MSM even know they're being trolled?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (qppoh)

233 Heh...

**bites lip**


Ah seem to have a... heh... a rash on my manacles.

Posted by: W.J. Clinton at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (NeFrd)

234 I was quoting Trump. He connects. I want Cruz and I don't trust Trump but Trump connects

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (zOTsN)

235 That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (wEq+O)


This is the theme now? Trump's not telling you what he thinks enough for your taste?


I get not liking the guy, but if you won't acknowledge he's telling you what he thinks, you're deluding yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (Dj0WE)

236 As a non-Jew with minimal income, that's got serious logistical problems.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 18, 2016 11:44 AM (GDulk)
---
Willing to convert? You'd have the entire Jooo Conspiracy bankrolling you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (jR7Wy)

237 Does the MSM even know they're being trolled?
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (qppoh)

----

.... never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at January 18, 2016 11:50 AM (8XRCm)

238 Why is Trump's style a surprise, given his background?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 11:50 AM (QjqzS)

239 230 I AM THE WALL!
Posted by: Judge Dredd at January 18, 2016 11:48 AM (VdICR)

Dyslexic judges. Just what Mega City One needs.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:50 AM (kpqmD)

240 When you call my name.... it's like a little layer
I'm down on my knees.... I wanna put you there
In the midnight hour ...... a delicate flower
Just another layer.... you know I'll put you there.
Posted by: fixerupper


What kind of sick, twisted... Ok, that's damned impressive.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (mxCgt)

241 Didn't the Bern honeymoon in the USSR?

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (gOViX)

242 Rove is on Fox. Why does he have any credibility.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:52 AM (zOTsN)

243
That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (wEq+O)

Yeah, cynicism. I'm with you there, pal. I can relate. Greatest copingmechanism in a hard, cold, cruel world. Keeps me sane.

I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. Cup half empty, half-full? Fuck 'em. There is no cup.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:52 AM (OGbEB)

244 241 Didn't the Bern honeymoon in the USSR?
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (gOViX)


I hadn't heard this... Did the Moscow girls really knock him out?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:53 AM (qppoh)

245 >>Does the MSM even know they're being trolled?

Of course not! This is what is appealing about Trump (not my top pick) - he will say things that no other candidate says, the type of things 'rons and 'ettes might say in conversation, all while mocking the DC-media omni party.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 11:53 AM (NOIQH)

246 When you call my name.... it's like a little layer
I'm down on my knees.... I wanna put you there
In the midnight hour ...... a delicate flower
Just another layer.... you know I'll put you there.
Posted by: fixerupper

What kind of sick, twisted... Ok, that's damned impressive.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (mxCgt)

-----

I ....hear.... your..... voice......it's like an angel sighing.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:53 AM (8XRCm)

247 That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (wEq+O)


----------------


Trump a blank slate? He's anything but that. I'm seeing right now a candidate who's very confident in his views. He leaves no one doubting what he thinks or how he believes. If nothing else, I have no doubt about his love for this country.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (Fmupd)

248 241 Didn't the Bern honeymoon in the USSR?
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (gOViX)
---
I always think of this.

"Ship of Fools", From P.J. O'ourke's "Republican party Reptile":

http://www.areading.net/Republican_Party_Reptile/6.html

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (jR7Wy)

249 Cup half empty, half-full?

Cup is twice a big as it needs to be.

I'm an engineer.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (qppoh)

250 Brrr, cold!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (GKF1b)

251 "Enemy FDC is housed in that building over."

Roger that over.

"Move in and eliminate over."

Copy that, move in and eliminate, over and out.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (ej1L0)

252 Didn't the Bern honeymoon in the USSR?

Yes, after his internship in the Politburo.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (mxCgt)

253 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??


*****


Phew! Like a sturgeon.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (NeFrd)

254 Didn't the Bern honeymoon in the USSR?Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 11:51 AM (gOViX)

Yeah, Bernie and his bride were honeymooning in Moscow right about the same time Vaclev Havel, political prisoner, playwright and future President of the Czech Republic, was having the soles of his feet beaten with mallets by Soviet Secret Policeinterrogators.

Feel the Bern.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (OGbEB)

255 Dyslexic judges. Just what Mega Maeg City One Oen needs.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse Hoesr/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:50 AM (kpqmD)
FIFY

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (q2o38)

256 Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:49 AM (jR7Wy)

Can't convert if it requires denying Christ. Not even to get one of my dearest desires. My relationship with Christ is *why* I value Israel and the Jewish people and were I to form the words I would cease to live and only *exist*.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (GDulk)

257 That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 11:47 AM (wEq+O)

Yeah, cynicism. I'm with you there, pal. I can relate. Greatest copingmechanism in a hard, cold, cruel world. Keeps me sane.

I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. Cup half empty, half-full? Fuck 'em. There is no cup.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:52 AM (OGbEB)


Well at least you guys will KNOW you're smarter than everybody else. You'll have that going for you. Which is nice.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (Dj0WE)

258 Cup half empty, half-full?

Cup is twice a big as it needs to be.

I'm an engineer.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (qppoh)

-----

"HEY!!! This cup has PISS in it!!!!"

Im a realist.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (8XRCm)

259 249 Cup half empty, half-full?

Cup is twice a big as it needs to be.

I'm an engineer.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (qppoh)

This cup isn't gonna refill itself, cupcake!

/sexist

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (kpqmD)

260 I'm an engineer.

An engineer wants the safety factor. You're a bean-counter!

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:56 AM (mxCgt)

261 Rove is arguing guy in third has the momentum. Rubio

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:56 AM (zOTsN)

262 Feel the Bern; was that a phrase his supporters came up with? It makes me think of painful UTIs.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 11:57 AM (a0IVu)

263 253 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??


*****


Phew! Like a sturgeon.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (NeFrd)

Golf. Clap. Also, ew.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (kpqmD)

264 I had the darndest time with getting subsequent consonants and those stupid silent vowels in order as a kid, Pale Horse.

That and sight-reading word-blocks gave a lot of trouble too.

Not an insult at you, please.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (q2o38)

265 Dyslexic judges. Just what Mega City One needs.

Meaghan City needs butt stuff.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (mxCgt)

266 A new cup. The other guy will pay for it and it will be tremendous, just a fabulous goblet

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (zOTsN)

267 The brits enjoy curry and systematic rape of their children.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (iQIUe)

268 Cup half empty thread? There's no way that could go south.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (NeFrd)

269 253 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??


*****


Phew! Like a sturgeon.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (NeFrd)

Golf. Clap. Also, ew.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (kpqmD)

-----

Papa dont breathe...I'm in trouble deep.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

270 264 I had the darndest time with getting subsequent consonants and those stupid silent vowels in order as a kid, Pale Horse.

That and sight-reading word-blocks gave a lot of trouble too.

Not an insult at you, please.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 11:58 AM (q2o3


Furthest thing from my mind. Hell, I admire the effort.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:59 AM (kpqmD)

271 Well at least you guys will KNOW you're smarter than everybody else. You'll have that going for you. Which is nice. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (Dj0WE)

Being smart is like that joke about running from a bear. I don't have to be smarter than everybody in the room. I only have to be smarter than you.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:59 AM (OGbEB)

272 I always think of this.
"Ship of Fools", From P.J. O'ourke's "Republican party Reptile":
http://www.areading.net/Republican_Party_Reptile/6.html
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (jR7Wy)


My favorite line from the O'Rourke piece:

"What leftists?" said the leftists.

Heh. Applicable in so many ways.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (qppoh)

273 My lawyer just called. He says that one-third of the contents of the cup is his.

Posted by: Furious George at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (3GAnN)

274 >>Yeah, Bernie and his bride were honeymooning in Moscow...


Bernie's wife is a real peach.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qhwel35

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (NOIQH)

275 I'm an engineer.

An engineer wants the safety factor. You're a bean-counter!
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 11:56 AM (mxCgt)


If you're making chili, don't put beans in it, or we'll lose Texas!


TEXAS VALUES!!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (Dj0WE)

276
Cup half empty, half-full?

Cup is twice a big as it needs to be.

I'm an engineer.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (qppoh)







Engineer, hmmmm? Weapons or targets?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2016 12:01 PM (j4wsR)

277 Well at least you guys will KNOW you're smarter than everybody else. You'll have that going for you. Which is nice. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 11:55 AM (Dj0WE)

Being smart is like that joke about running from a bear. I don't have to be smarter than everybody in the room. I only have to be smarter than you.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:59 AM (OGbEB)


I just shot the bear. But you go on, keep running, smart guy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (Dj0WE)

278 >>Cup half empty, half-full?


There is no cup.

Posted by: Neo at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (NOIQH)

279 TEXAS VALUES!!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (Dj0WE)


Ride tall, shoot straight and dance with who brung ya?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (q2o38)

280 Bernie's wife is a real peach.


******


Somehow fitting, since he's the pits!


**Rimshot**


Thank you, thank you, tip your waitresses.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:03 PM (NeFrd)

281 Rove is arguing guy in third has the momentum. Rubio

Stuck to the bottom of the toilet bowl is inertia, not momentum.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:03 PM (n22zQ)

282 You can get by with just jogging now. The bear is having its way with me.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at January 18, 2016 12:03 PM (3GAnN)

283 249 Cup half empty, half-full?

Cup is twice a big as it needs to be.

I'm an engineer.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:54 AM (qppoh)

I actually submitted my quip to Readers Digest when I was 15 years old to get the 50 or 100 they gave you if published.

I submitted ' is the cup half full or half empty? It depends, are you filling it up or emptying it out to get the half cup?

I didn't get published.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 12:03 PM (qbqnC)

284 Texas took the cup. Then said "Molan Labe"

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 12:03 PM (zOTsN)

285 I want to see a woman president soon, but not her. She's a disaster. She's a disaster
Posted by: ThunderB


Shouldn't gender simply be a non-consideration? Just as no one cares if there will ever be a ginger president. Obama should have cured people of the desire to see a president with attribute x, where x is irrelevant with respect to being an ethical, competent leader.

Posted by: misojebnist at January 18, 2016 12:04 PM (GKF1b)

286 I always think of this.

"Ship of Fools", From P.J. O'ourke's "Republican party Reptile":




Oh, bless you Eris. I've read the first page and shall soon waste an hour or two there.

I've pushed P.J. on my kids. His best work is dated in some ways, because he refers to people who are no longer on the stage, but what he's talking about endures.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:04 PM (1xUj/)

287
194 Madonna wears Spanish panty liners??
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 11:37 AM (qppoh)





I don't know and I don't want to know. I suppose whatever it is they're highly absorbent and antimicrobial. Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 11:42 AM (kpqmD)
That reminds me of a rather disgusting story from Dennis Rodman about what Madonna liked him to do to her.And no, I won't repeat it. You can search yourself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 12:04 PM (X6fMO)

288 A lot of Trump speech is filler because the meat is such obvious common sense that to just say it doesn't require any justification.

1) I'll build a wall to keep people from illegally crossing the border.

2) Shut down entry to Muslims until we figure out what the hell is going on.

3) Our politicians are stupid, stupid.


Really, just twenty seconds to say it. None of which requires any justification, art of persuasion or anything to get you agree.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 12:04 PM (LXJ1e)

289 279 TEXAS VALUES!!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (Dj0WE)

Ride tall, shoot straight and dance with who brung ya?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (q2o3

I guess I'll be dancing with myself, oh oh oh dancing with myself.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:05 PM (kpqmD)

290 262 Feel the Bern; was that a phrase his supporters came up with? It makes me think of painful UTIs.
Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 11:57 AM (a0IVu)


Either that or eating a bad burrito.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 12:05 PM (qppoh)

291 287 Golden showers?I think Barky likes those too.

Posted by: steevy at January 18, 2016 12:05 PM (8HTq1)

292 Ride tall, shoot straight and dance with who brung ya?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (q2o3


---------


And then wait for Oklahoma to give you further instructions.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 12:05 PM (Fmupd)

293 Trump pressed all my buttons when he started talking about reviving manufacturing here.

I may be about to switch from Cruz if DT keeps this up. I don't recall hearing anything like that from Cruz.

And listening to DT's speech just now, I can easily picture having a drink with him. No wonder he's so far out in front of the Repumpkin pack.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:06 PM (LUgeY)

294 Is Trump still insisting that he will make Mexico pay for the wall?

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 12:06 PM (qbqnC)

295 Iranian sanctions lifted. Increases oil production. US oil, energy industry companies, oil industry employment tanks. Coincidence? Our administration has been 2 steps ahead for the last 5 years. And so, in his last year of Presidency, Obama pounds the final nail into the American economic coffin. If I didn't hate the direction of the American economy, the administration, and all its enablers with the heat of a thousand suns, I would have to sit back, applaud, and say well done.

Thank Heaven I am 54 and not 24. Again I say, I'm thankful that I don't have kids....

Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 18, 2016 12:06 PM (9wTLC)

296 The woman president thing was a quote from trump

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (zOTsN)

297 "Ship of Fools " is a great essay. I remember one part when O'Rourke was listening to some American lefty savage America in front of the Soviet Intourist guides and O'Rourke became so angry he had to leave the scene. Later on one of the Soviets says to O'Rourke, "We were not so impressed with what (American lefty) said. After all, we can read Pravda."

O'Rourke was at his peak in the 1980's. The essay about traveling through Lebanon during their civil war was great too.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present moment) at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (u0lmX)

298 Thank you, thank you, tip your waitresses.

And be prepared to run. They're pretty pissed off once they pick themselves up.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (kpqmD)

299
That's the point, he's not trying to say anything, remain as blank a slate as possible so the chumps can project whatever they want onto him and constantly talk about Winning! do the rubes feel like they'll be on the victorious side when they vote, oldest trick in the politician handbook.


As opposed to the ones who grit their teeth and snarl "secure the borders!" in English while winking, "come on in, amigo!" in Spanish.

Or the ones who give Hillary an award for her public service and then decry her tenure as SoS.

Yeah, Trump's the conman and his voters the rubes.

This place is turning into NRO.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (X6fMO)

300 rdbrewer,

The jpg of the painting doesn't load completely on the front page.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (W0RfD)

301 Being smart is like that joke about running from a bear. I don't have to be smarter than everybody in the room. I only have to be smarter than you.

Then shoot them in the knee with an arrow.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (evdj2)

302 Either that or eating a bad burrito.

Sweet Jesus, you got that right! Oh, gawd...gotta run...

Posted by: Hillary! at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (n22zQ)

303 Apparently Trump called Bergdahl a 'dirty, rotten traitor'... I know most folks expect more polished language from candidates, but I do find it quite delicious to hear him say what most folks are thinking without the 'lawyer' talk.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (a0IVu)

304 "Constitutional convention could ..." turn into a disaster.

A few decades back, after Roe v Wade, the idea of a constitutional convention came up among pro-lifers. Ultimately, it was nixed because there was no way to contain the damage a constitutional convention could inflict.

The definition of "state" was a bit obscure when applied to a constitutional convention. Did it mean the Governor (not likely), the state legislature or the delegation to the convention. If it is the latter, the power of each state delegation could rewrite the Constitution without limit. Since they are the "state", the normal requirements for ammending the Constitution would fail on their shoulders, rather than the state legislators. Additionally, given the venue, it would be unlikely that states could reign in their delegations, except by the selection of the delegates. Remember, they are the "state" at this point.

If the state delegation was overrun by "forces not akin to your values", expect a disaster.

Posted by: #PolarBearLivesMatter at January 18, 2016 12:08 PM (e8kgV)

305 And now, for a little Reagan.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUu2HKZGxJ4

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 12:08 PM (Nwg0u)

306 I'm optimistic that my athletic cup will soon be completely empty.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at January 18, 2016 12:09 PM (GKF1b)

307 >>
A lot of Trump speech is filler because the meat is such obvious common
sense that to just say it doesn't require any justification.

Obvious common sense to *us*.

He has to keep saying it because what he's saying has been deemed outside of the scope of reasonable, polite political conversation by the dc-media uniparty. He scares the bejeezus out of them every time he says this stuff.

I'm OK with the repetition, because the more he says this stuff, the more acceptable it becomes for the rest of the candidates and regular people to say it. He's a change agent.

Posted by: Neo at January 18, 2016 12:09 PM (NOIQH)

308 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (X6fMO)

Or the ones who call people cruel and malicious for proposing programs that will cause illegals to self deport.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 12:09 PM (qbqnC)

309 TEXAS VALUES!!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:00 PM (Dj0WE)

Ride tall, shoot straight and dance with who brung ya?
Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (q2o3


I just meant no beans in the chili, but sure, let's go with that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:10 PM (Dj0WE)

310 TEXAS VALUES!!


Kill Comanches.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 12:11 PM (evdj2)

311 And then wait for Oklahoma to give you further instructions."

Yeah, that's funny.

Oklawhereagain?

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:11 PM (C9pBZ)

312 "Just as no one cares if there will ever be a ginger president. "

*Ahem* I believe we got that one covered quite a while ago.

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at January 18, 2016 12:11 PM (u0lmX)

313 I just shot the bear. But you go on, keep running, smart guy. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (Dj0WE)

You missed. There is no bear.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 12:12 PM (OGbEB)

314 Thank you, thank you, tip your waitresses.

And be prepared to run. They're pretty pissed off once they pick themselves up.


Heh. I was flashing back to a previous online life in fishing forums. Someone was asking about how to tip guides. I knew most of the guides, so I said

"For a slightly built guide like Wayne a shot to the shoulders should tip him over, but for a more burly guide like Moore you're going to have to get below his center of gravity and explode up into him".

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:12 PM (1xUj/)

315 It's Noon o'clock. Do you know where your Ewok is?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:12 PM (LUgeY)

316 *Ahem* I believe we got that one covered quite a while ago.
Posted by: Tom Jefferson at January 18, 2016 12:11 PM (u0lmX)

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Yup..... Still second eh Tommy??

Posted by: George Washington.... the Ginger at January 18, 2016 12:13 PM (8XRCm)

317 There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? If there is a bear.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 12:13 PM (evdj2)

318 "For a slightly built guide like Wayne a shot to the shoulders should tip him over, but for a more burly guide like Moore you're going to have to get below his center of gravity and explode up into him".

So, more like a cow?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (LUgeY)

319 Really, just twenty seconds to say it. None of which requires any justification, art of persuasion or anything to get you agree.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 12:04 PM (LXJ1e)


Yep, but it is hardly worth standing in line for 2 hours for twenty seconds.

I am terrible at predictions, no ability whatsoever.

But the next president is going to have to know enough of the right people to set up a cabinet and give him good advice.

TFG didn't know anyone and had to rely on his fixers who only knew people like themselves, so everything is done in secret, behind closed doors and in a corrupt manner completely divorced from the law and from the constitution - and they never gave a damn.

This is a potential problem with all the newcomers, in various evolutions of the dilemma. (who does Carly know, who does Carson know?)

I am not sure Trump knows enough people who know how things work. He knows a lot of people, but I don't know if he has a pool of competent talent to draw from.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (q2o38)

320 Yeah, Trump's the conman and his voters the rubes.

This place is turning into NRO.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (X6fMO)


Nah, some people just have a natural aversion to Trump. I get that. I just think it would be nice if those who ONLY feel the need to come here often just to announce their aversion to Trump could be honest and say "so this is why I love me some Marco!"


But they won't.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (Dj0WE)

321 301 Being smart is like that joke about running from a bear. I don't have to be smarter than everybody in the room. I only have to be smarter than you.

Then shoot them in the knee with an arrow.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 12:07 PM (evdj2)

Ending an adventurer's career like that is just cruel.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (kpqmD)

322 I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. Cup half empty, half-full? Fuck 'em. There is no cup.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:52 AM


No spoon, either, so it's all good.

Posted by: That little kid at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (me6xG)

323 Wait - our first two presidents were gingers and yet the country survived? Truly a miracle.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (u0lmX)

324 It's Noon o'clock. Do you know where your Ewok is?

1:20 pm: Turn off alarm, boot computer.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (n22zQ)

325 This bear is rather like an elephant.

Posted by: Blind Indian guy grabbing the bear's trunk at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (NeFrd)

326 278
>>Cup half empty, half-full?



There is no cup.




Posted by: Neo at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (NOIQH)

The Cup, and all its content, including any air in the supposedly 'empty' portion of said cup, are US Government Property.
We will allow you to fill the cup, but only with Health Services approved ingredients, and you must of course, place both a warning label, and list all contents of the cup, upon said cup.
When filling said cup, you must abide by all Federal Guidelines and laws about Gender Equality, Disability Access, and Labor Laws, while paying the Federally mandated Minimum Wage.
The Empty Portion of said cup is of course, under the auspices of the EPA, and will adhere to all Federal Air Quality regulations, or the cup will be confiscated.
You will also pay property tax upon said cup, yearly, or a Lien will be placed upon the cup, and it may be sold if back taxes are not paid.
Is this cup is in the possession of an Undocumented American, then all of the above will not be enforced, due to the soon to be enacted Cup Immigration Bill.... which will soon either be enacted by Congress or enforced through Presidential order.

Posted by: IRS at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (f7rv6)

327 322 I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist. Cup half empty, half-full? Fuck 'em. There is no cup.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 11:52 AM

No spoon, either, so it's all good.
Posted by: That little kid at January 18, 2016 12:14 PM (me6xG)

Eh, stow it, baldy.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (kpqmD)

328 It's Noon o'clock"

Not here in Texas. Yet.

Here, have some chile...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (C9pBZ)

329 Being smart is like that joke about running from a bear.


****


Not a joke, trust me on this.

Posted by: T. Treadwell at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (NeFrd)

330 I've gone rugged individualist.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

There. Now use each of these as many times as you want in whatever order you want and make your own damn joke.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 12:17 PM (Nwg0u)

331 Or the ones who call people cruel and malicious for proposing programs that will cause illegals to self deport. Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 12:09 PM (qbqnC)Point taken. But then, it also depends on whether you think said candidate has had a come to Jesus moment or is espousing a position because they think that's what will get them votes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 12:17 PM (X6fMO)

332 It's Noon o'clock"

Not here in Texas. Yet.

Here, have some chile...
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (C9pBZ)

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Thats not Chile.

Chile goes on noodles. And has cinnamon in it.

Posted by: Skyline Chile at January 18, 2016 12:17 PM (8XRCm)

333
Wait - our first two presidents were gingers and yet the country survived? Truly a miracle.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (u0lmX)









Well, George had violently collected so many British and Hessian souls that he didn't see the need to steal more from this fellow Americans....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (j4wsR)

334 due to the soon to be enacted Cup Immigration Bill.... which will soon either be enacted by Congress or enforced through Presidential order.


Posted by: IRS at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (f7rv6)


*****

After they arrest you for violating the Cup Immigration Law do they take a mug shot?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (NeFrd)

335 Why is Trump's style a surprise, given his background?

We sought a statesman. We should have looked for a salesman.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (y8whS)

336 No, the horses rubbed one out at the last minute.

http://tinyurl.com/howdyux

Wilbburrr!

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (DL2i+)

337 There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? If there is a bear.Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 12:13 PM (evdj2)

But--hypothetically--what if you, like, established a rapport with the bear, formed a relationship with the bear--a relationshipyou found deeply satisfying not only on a physical level but on anemotional level and had..feelings, you know, for the bear. And the bear never called. Not once. How would you feel then--you know, hypothetically?

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (OGbEB)

338 Here, have some chile...


Does it have carrots in it the way BCochran likes?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (1xUj/)

339 Chile goes on noodles. And has cinnamon in it."

Yeah, sure. How's that Skyline Chili restaurant chain doing out in the real world anyway?

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (C9pBZ)

340 Here, have some chile...

Muchas gracias.

I ain't turning down chili, beans or no beans.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (LUgeY)

341 Wait - our first two presidents were gingers and yet the country survived? Truly a miracle.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (u0lmX)

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Bloody Gingers indeed. Bollocks.

Posted by: King George at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (8XRCm)

342 But then, it also depends on whether you think said candidate has had a come to Jesus moment

We don't need to come to Jesus; Jesus keeps coming to us. And Paco, and Carlos, and Javier, and Juan, and Jose, and...

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (kpqmD)

343 I am not sure Trump knows enough people who know how things work.

I'm sure Karl Rove will hook him up- if he chooses to ask.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (n22zQ)

344
It's Noon o'clock"

Not here in Texas. Yet.

Here, have some chile...
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:16 PM (C9pBZ)

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Thats not Chile.

Chile goes on noodles. And has cinnamon in it.

Posted by: Skyline Chile at January 18, 2016 12:17 PM (8XRCm)









Why don't you just go full 9mm vs 45 Auto? If you're gonna be a bear, be a Grizzly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (j4wsR)

345 Also, FRREEEEEEEDOM!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (y8whS)

346 Spouse just asked-after looking at the picture-"Where is Boslaan? " It sounds like somewhere in the Netherlands. I like the sun on top white portion of the but the snow on the brown/black on the eft is very nice as is the sun in the roadway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (w4NZ8)

347 -a relationshipyou found deeply satisfying not only on a physical level but on anemotional level and had..feelings, you know"

Awe, Mongo straight!

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (C9pBZ)

348 He's pissing off *all* the right people.

Is it a valid qualifier or just an appalling measure of how many $%^*( need pissed on.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (DL2i+)

349 Anyone tuning in to C-Span? Wonder how the Parliament debates are going..

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (a0IVu)

350 Wait - our first two presidents were gingers and yet the country survived? Truly a miracle.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 18, 2016 12:15 PM (u0lmX)


OUR FIRST TWO PRESIDENTS???


I keel you!

Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (Dj0WE)

351 So when may We expect obama to parade His "victory for diplomacy"hostages in the Rose Garden/

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (/dSsq)

352
Also, FRREEEEEEEDOM!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (y8whS)









Sounds like somebody just dropped trou......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (j4wsR)

353 Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (Dj0WE)
---------

Just a place holder.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (gmeXX)

354 I ain't turning down chili, beans or no beans."

*contemplates methodology of USB/Chili delivery*

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (C9pBZ)

355 After they arrest you for violating the Cup Immigration Law do they take a mug shot?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:18 PM (NeFrd)


And when they jug you, you will be completely dished.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (q2o38)

356 I just shot the bear. But you go on, keep running, smart guy. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:02 PM (Dj0WE)

You missed. There is no bear.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 12:12 PM (OGbEB)

The bear is in a quasi state of being there and not being there which of course you change by observing it. Quantum physicists have the best drugs.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:22 PM (W+RZ5)

357 OUR FIRST TWO PRESIDENTS???


I keel you!
Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (Dj0WE)

----

Well...... No way Im going on a three dollar bill. Tell me again...... what bill did you go on???

What's that??? LOOOOOOSER!!

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson. at January 18, 2016 12:22 PM (8XRCm)

358 I didn't know George Washington was Irish.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 12:23 PM (Fmupd)

359 Very strange but the picture only is half-viewable for me. After repeated refreshes of the page even, the lower half is green horizontal stripes of different shades. To see the whole picture I had to Google it.

I wonder why?

Posted by: MTF at January 18, 2016 12:23 PM (TxJGV)

360 And when they jug you, you will be completely dished."

*insert lesser of two weevils joke here*

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:23 PM (C9pBZ)

361 Cup half empty or half full?

Add bourbon.

(This is the best I can come up with this morning. Sorry.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - drink half, then refill at January 18, 2016 12:23 PM (hgso/)

362 I'm sure Karl Rove will hook him up- if he chooses to ask.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (n22zQ)


See, that's my point. (without being nasty)

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:23 PM (q2o38)

363 OUR FIRST TWO PRESIDENTS???
I keel you!
Posted by: Zombie John Adams


I do that all the time, too. Always forget Adams was second. His publicity team must have sucked.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (n22zQ)

364 351
So when may We expect obama to parade His "victory for diplomacy"hostages in the Rose Garden/

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:21 PM (/dSsq)

Posted by: IRS at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (f7rv6)

365 As opposed to the ones who grit their teeth and snarl "secure the borders!" in English while winking, "come on in, amigo!" in Spanish.


Which is exactly what Trump would do, he just hasn't had his time in office to do so like the other pols, so it's easy for people to tell themselves that this pol will be different from all the others.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (wEq+O)

366 The bear is in a quasi state of being there and not being there which of course you change by observing it"

Schrodinger's Bear?

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (C9pBZ)

367 After they arrest you for violating the Cup Immigration Law do they take a mug shot?


If I had my way you'd be in for a public flagon.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (1xUj/)

368 So I see GB is voting whether or not to "allow" Trump into their wonderful Country...

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (/dSsq)

369 *contemplates methodology of USB/Chili delivery*

You done gone and done it now. I gotta go seek and destroy me some chili at some point today.

Understand that there's food I only eat when it's cold. Chili is one of them and it's butt-freezin' cold down here today and will be for the next few days.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (LUgeY)

370 Zombie Thomas Jefferson needs to review the blog's new banning policy.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (NeFrd)

371 After they arrest you for violating the Cup Immigration Law do they take a mug shot?

----

Yup.... a black and white pitcher....

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson. at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (8XRCm)

372 Maybe Trump should send the UK an iPod full of Obama's speeches.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (RQDhf)

373 Lizzy

I so despise commies like Bern and his wife. Mooch has nothing on her.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (gOViX)

374 Sounds like somebody just dropped trou......

---

Part of it, actually. Lil' Cavil is now tube free.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (y8whS)

375 Maybe Trump should send the UK an iPod full of Obama's speeches.

Even I wouldn't wish that torture on them...

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (/dSsq)

376 Add bourbon."

Good call. Local Costco had Woodford Reserve at just over 20 bucks a bottle... WhoHoo!

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (C9pBZ)

377 MTF: Very strange but the picture only is half-viewable for me....

At a guess, you're seeing a partially-downloaded picture, and even when you refresh the page, it's pulling the pic up from cache.

Try opening the picture by itself in a tab, then refresh that, and see if it doesn't fix it on the blog page. (How to do that? Don't ask me; it's your browser.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - technically squeaking at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (hgso/)

378 See, that's my point. (without being nasty)

My point, unarticulated, was that I hope he doesn't. Insiders won't save us from insiders.

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (n22zQ)

379 Chile goes on noodles. And has cinnamon in it.


I could eat some Hard Times chili mac right now. It's only 10 degrees warmer in MD though.

At least it's not a POLAR VORTEX this year.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (DL2i+)

380 Zombie Thomas Jefferson needs to review the blog's new banning policy.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (NeFrd)

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I thought we could belittle people who were famous???

Oh wait..... we're talking about John Adams here. You may have a point.

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson. at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (8XRCm)

381 OUR FIRST TWO PRESIDENTS???


I keel you!
Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (Dj0WE)

----

Well...... No way Im going on a three dollar bill. Tell me again...... what bill did you go on???

What's that??? LOOOOOOSER!!
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson. at January 18, 2016 12:22 PM (8XRCm)


Go build your "house" and bang your "servant," you french loving fop!

Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (Dj0WE)

382 So I see GB is voting whether or not to "allow" Trump into their wonderful Country...

------------

Aaron Rogers has really liberalized northern wisconsin.

Madison county must be proud.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (gmeXX)

383 The bear is in a quasi state of being there and not being there which of course you change by observing it"

Schrodinger's Bear?

Possibly, but I thought Schrodinger was the kid who played piano in the Peanuts comics.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (W+RZ5)

384 I got arrested once and had my mug shot taken. In San Francisco, or was it Saucerlito?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (NeFrd)

385 There's chile and there's chili. Chile is made from New Mexico peppers and pork.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (vgIRn)

386 Washington and Jefferson were ginger?

It's a good thing they resisted the siren song of Islam. Although Washington never took communion. Maybe he was a secret convert?

Posted by: misojebnist at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (GKF1b)

387 Jada Plinketttt Smith calls for an Oscar Boycott.

Hell, I've done that for the past 60 years.

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 12:28 PM (8ikIW)

388 >>After they arrest you for violating the Cup Immigration Law do they take a mug shot?

*snort*
Good one

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 12:28 PM (NOIQH)

389 How to do that? Don't ask me; it's your browser.

Crap, Brooklyn tech support... Do I press 2 for India?

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:28 PM (n22zQ)

390 Understand that there's food I only eat when it's cold."

I can appreciate that, but let me tell you - nothing like a good chili and cold beer on a warm summer evening, with the sounds of the breeze rustling the oak leaves.

Oh, and don't forget the cigar for later.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:28 PM (C9pBZ)

391 Zombie Thomas Jefferson needs to review the blog's new banning policy.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:25 PM (NeFrd)


It's alright. I did threaten to keel somebody. We're zombies now. We do that sort of thing.

Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:29 PM (Dj0WE)

392 Yup.... a black and white pitcher....

****


Now that's a crock!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 12:29 PM (NeFrd)

393 I've been boycotting you and your wiener kids since sometime right after Demon Knight came out, Jada.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:29 PM (RQDhf)

394 Try opening the picture by itself in a tab, then refresh that, and see if it doesn't fix it on the blog page. (How to do that? Don't ask me; it's your browser.)


I never found Tab all that refreshing.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (kpqmD)

395 18 F. degrees now.
Think I'll put a sweater on.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (oFSUK)

396 Trump pressed all my buttons when he started talking about reviving manufacturing here.



I may be about to switch from Cruz if DT keeps this up. I don't recall hearing anything like that from Cruz.



And listening to DT's speech just now, I can easily picture having a
drink with him. No wonder he's so far out in front of the Repumpkin
pack.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:06 PM (LUgeY)

Trump wants to do this the wrong way... through tariffs... rather than getting rid of regulations and laws that drove companies overseas in the first place. I think Cruz's general inclination toward more freedom/less government interference is way more likely to actually improve the business climate in the US.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (OrI3J)

397 And the Oscars are stupid; George C. Scott had that right.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (RQDhf)

398 Crap, Brooklyn tech support... Do I press 2 for India?
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:28 PM (n22zQ)

----

Press 1 to talk to Vinkatesh about refresh rate.

Press 2 to talk to Vinkatesh about connectivity.

Press 3 to talk to Vinkatesh about security issues.

Press 4 to talk to Vinkatesh about all other concerns.



Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (8XRCm)

399 Don McLean arrested for tuning up his old lady....

Bye bye Miss American Pie.....Sock!....Pow!

And I thought he was dead.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (ej1L0)

400 OUR FIRST TWO PRESIDENTS???


I keel you!
Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:20 PM (Dj0WE)

----

Well...... No way Im going on a three dollar bill. Tell me again...... what bill did you go on???

What's that??? LOOOOOOSER!!
Posted by: Zombie Thomas Jefferson. at January 18, 2016 12:22 PM (8XRCm)


Go build your "house" and bang your "servant," you french loving fop!
Posted by: Zombie John Adams at January 18, 2016 12:27 PM (Dj0WE)


You are all a bunch of pikers! James Madison was our greatest president mostly because he commissioned his wife Dolly to make those wonderful snack cakes.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (W+RZ5)

401 I see at Hot Air there's a story that Jeb! is making a comeback in SC.... Has He gone from 1 % to 1.5%?

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (/dSsq)

402 A patient and my web guy is posting on FB about Trump and that absurd debate to ban him from entering England..I blasted him.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (gf8BH)

403 >>Jada Plinketttt Smith calls for an Oscar Boycott.

So, was any non-white actor robbed? I haven't seen any names mentioned as being snubbed, just cries that the quota was not met (again).

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (NOIQH)

404 Oh, the names change, Bander, but the bullshit is evergreen.

I have a few favorites that any cultivated person's library must own: Republican Party Reptile (my first PJO read), Parliament of Whores, Holidays in Hell, Give War a Chance (which I believe has the great Iwo Jima essay), and Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (jR7Wy)

405 There were a few more Presidents who were redheads:

http://www.redheadandproud.com/famous_redheads_political_USA_Presidents.html

Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (n22zQ)

406 I never found Tab all that refreshing."

Fresca FTW!

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (C9pBZ)

407 Good grief. GB doesn't have anything better to do than debate whether Trump should be allowed in their country?

MY English BIL thinks Trump is kind of"out there" but being a sensible person, I can only imagine that he thinks it ridiculous to try to keep Trump from coming into the country. I haven't asked him but that's my best guess on knowing him for 40 years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 12:32 PM (w4NZ8)

408 Is Boslaan the city or the dude walking along the tree line?
---------------

Isn't he the guy that played James Bond once?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 18, 2016 12:32 PM (oFSUK)

409 So, was any non-white actor robbed? I haven't seen
any names mentioned as being snubbed, just cries that the quota was not
met (again).


Posted by: Lizzy

Her hubby Willy was in Concussion. I guess she figures he should be the big weiner

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 12:33 PM (8ikIW)

410 My point, unarticulated, was that I hope he doesn't. Insiders won't save us from insiders.
Posted by: t-bird at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (n22zQ)


Um... Ditto.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:33 PM (q2o38)

411 Isn't he the guy that played James Bond once?"

Na, that was Schroeder.

Wait, what?

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:34 PM (C9pBZ)

412 Her hubby Willy was in Concussion. I guess she figures he should be the big weiner

---------

A movie no one saw to highlight an issue everyone has known about for years.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 12:34 PM (gmeXX)

413 Press 1 to talk to Vinkatesh about refresh rate.

Press 2 to talk to Vinkatesh about connectivity.

Press 3 to talk to Vinkatesh about security issues.

Press 4 to talk to Vinkatesh about all other concerns.



Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (8XRCm)


-----------------------


Press 5 and talk to Tyrone about complaints.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 12:34 PM (Fmupd)

414 Some like the taste of chicken feet. I prefer the taste of bear feet.

Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at January 18, 2016 12:35 PM (GKF1b)

415 401 I see at Hot Air there's a story that Jeb! is making a comeback in SC.... Has He gone from 1 % to 1.5%?
Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (/dSsq

Wow, all of those Lindsey supporters to the rescue.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 12:35 PM (voOPb)

416 GB doesn't have anything better to do than debate whether Trump should be allowed in their country? "

Let's ask the girls of Rotherham 'bout that.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:35 PM (C9pBZ)

417
You are all a bunch of pikers! James Madison was our greatest president mostly because he commissioned his wife Dolly to make those wonderful snack cakes.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:30 PM (W+RZ5)


I would concur.... James Madison may very well have been the greatest President...

Why???

He allowed Washington DC to be burnt to the ground...

Many of us feel he was correct... just way ahead of his time...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:35 PM (f7rv6)

418 Will Britain still keep Trump out if he's President of the USA?

Meh. I suppose by then, they'll be completely under Sharia law anyway.

Posted by: mindful webworker - inquiringly at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (hgso/)

419 Good grief. GB doesn't have anything better to do than debate whether Trump should be allowed in their country?

--------
No

Posted by: Michael the Weiner Savage at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (NUqwG)

420 The MP twat said we had to open our borders. Open yours.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (iQIUe)

421 Fire can't burn in a swamp!

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (RQDhf)

422 Will I still have to be sober if I am in a 4 billion dollar investment self-driving car? Obama drives me to drink, so I better get a pass if a robot is at the wheel.

Posted by: goon at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (gy5kE)

423 So, was any non-white actor robbed? I haven't seen any names mentioned as being snubbed, just cries that the quota was not met (again).
Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 12:31 PM (NOIQH)


I saw a list. I think it included Ice Cube's son, who played Ice Cube in the movie about Ice Cube.


Also the kid who played Creed in the movie Creed, which is about Rocky turning gay, I think.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:36 PM (Dj0WE)

424 I am just loving "Ship of Fools". O'Rourke is at the top of his game here.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 12:37 PM (jR7Wy)

425 Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:19 PM (kpqmD)

Well actually Jesus does keeps coming to us- and noiand I'm not talking about the Latino immigrants. :^)We just say ,"Get outta here" and refuse the grace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 12:37 PM (w4NZ8)

426 Half empty. Half full.
Two halves. One cup.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 18, 2016 12:37 PM (xq1UY)

427 414 Some like the taste of chicken feet. I prefer the taste of bear feet.
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at January 18, 2016 12:35 PM (GKF1b)

Me too!

Posted by: Dick Morris at January 18, 2016 12:37 PM (kpqmD)

428 Good call. Local Costco had Woodford Reserve at just over 20 bucks a bottle... WhoHoo!
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:26 PM (C9pBZ)

Some little sample sized bottle, or regular? Because for a regular sized bottle, that is more than 50% off.

At that price, I can get hammered on good stuff!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (kKHcp)

429 Being able to impersonate your father shouldn't be Oscar worthy.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (RQDhf)

430 Will I still have to be sober if I am in a 4 billion dollar investment self-driving car? Obama drives me to drink.."

Can't afford to drink after blowing another billion or so.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (C9pBZ)

431 US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro voiced a particularly sharp attack against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria on Monday, accusing Israeli authorities of holding them to different standards of law.

He expressed the unusually harsh criticism during a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv.

Shapiro condemned two brutal stabbing attacks on Sunday and Monday as "barbaric acts of terrorism," before launching into a critique of Israel's policies concerning the communities in Judea-Samaria.

Passing condemnation of the stabbings to cover himself and Fredo's ass and then goes right back after Israel....And Jews vote for Dems? My Fuckin G-D

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (gf8BH)

432 Her hubby Willy was in Concussion. I guess she figures he should be the big weiner

---------

A movie no one saw to highlight an issue everyone has known about for years.
Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 12:34 PM (gmeXX)


But he had an accent? How can you not nominate a guy for acting... when he has an accent???

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (Dj0WE)

433 The pic on the front page is still fucked up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 12:39 PM (W0RfD)

434 Has the British parliament declared the Coronation Oath hate speech yet?

Posted by: RioBravo at January 18, 2016 12:39 PM (NUqwG)

435 Trump wants to do this the wrong way... through tariffs... rather than getting rid of regulations and laws that drove companies overseas in the first place. I think Cruz's general inclination toward more freedom/less government interference is way more likely to actually improve the business climate in the US.

I'd think DT would be far more aware of the deleterious effects of unnecessary overregulation than Cruz would be, being as how he has to deal with them in his work. He's well aware of the role that high taxes have in discouraging business, he mentioned it today in that speech.

To my knowledge, being a Senator (or a lawyer either, for that matter) has far less governmental restrictions than a developer.

And another point, I think DT makes the crowd laugh a lot more than Cruz does. Don't get me wrong, Cruz reciting lines from The Princess Bride is all kinds of cool, but he's not known for it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:39 PM (LUgeY)

436 Why are they trying to ban Trump anyway? He said some "unkind" things about Muslims?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (w4NZ8)

437 436 Why are they trying to ban Trump anyway? He said some "unkind" things about Muslims?

Yup...

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (/dSsq)

438 This dump ass from York, UK has taken offense of Cruz's remarks. LOL idiots.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (iQIUe)

439 As a protip: Elijah Craig for cheap Bourbon. Easily drinks as a $35 fifth, but for around $22.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (RQDhf)

440 Some little sample sized bottle, or regular? Because for a regular sized bottle, that is more than 50% off. "

750.

Batch 1497.

Mrs. mouse did frown as I attempted to make it a 6 pack...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (C9pBZ)

441 Being able to impersonate your father shouldn't be Oscar worthy.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (RQDhf)


When you're the son of a failed hip hop artist(?) / failed actor, its all you got.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:41 PM (W+RZ5)

442 This is Britains "hate theater". They would rather ban Trump and Spencer than prosecute Muslim rape gangs and jail the police and politicians that allow it.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (zOTsN)

443 Which is exactly what Trump would do, he just hasn't had his time in office to do so like the other pols, so it's easy for people to tell themselves that this pol will be different from all the others.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (wEq+O)

******

Now who is projecting, with no factual backup, onto that supposed blank slate?

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (laYqV)

444 >>Her hubby Willy was in Concussion. I guess she figures he should be the big weiner



I saw the 4 min. trailer for that movie - Will's performance was so very careful, painful to watch (like Modona whose acting screams "look at me acting!"). I know actors like to have a range, but his talents are best used in movie's like MIB and Independence Day - he makes those movies fun to watch.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (NOIQH)

445 As a protip: Elijah Craig for cheap Bourbon. Easily drinks as a $35 fifth, but for around $22.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (RQDhf)


I don't drink anymore, but $22 for a bottle of bourbon... is cheap??


I've had some cheap bourbon in my day. I never spent $22 a bottle for it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (Dj0WE)

446 At Breitbart, Christie is jumping on the bash Cruz bandwagon with "Ted Cruz is asinine, the consummate Washington insider."

Laughable and sad at the same time.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (hgBpU)

447 I don't drink anymore, but $22 for a bottle of bourbon... is cheap?? "

Yeah. Bourbon is the new PBR.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (C9pBZ)

448 I deserved to win for Momentum, but was snubbed because of my color, and those little dot things beneath my eyes.

Posted by: Morgan Freeman at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (GKF1b)

449 I got a scam call supposedly from Pakistani accented Windows Support telling me that my computer was sending virus alerts.

I just said, "Virus alerts, that sounds like a serious problem"

Idiot just hung up. What a loser, if you are going to scam someone then play it out, right? What's to lose? I hope he gets a beatdown from his boss for being a wimp.

Idjit fool, must be relying on the marks to go, "oh, please take my computer and all my data! My grandaughter's name is the password to all my accounts!

I pushed harder selling fundraiser tickets when I was a telemarketer

Posted by: Kindltot at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (q2o38)

450 How many Jihadi Johns have the UK created?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (iQIUe)

451 Beam's about the same price.

If you want bottom shelf American whiskey, then sure, you can get cheaper.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (RQDhf)

452 Afternoon, all.

I think it's precious that Crazy Ed Schultz has gone to work for Russia Today. I'm pretty sure I'm late to the game and you guys have discussed this already.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (FsuaD)

453 Someone needs to explain to the Brits... that they no longer control what goes on in the Colonies.

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:45 PM (f7rv6)

454 Schrodinger's Beer

It was just here a minute ago. I don't know what happened to it.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 12:45 PM (Nwg0u)

455 I'm going to describe the guy I want to win as having momentum ... because I have zero regard for the intelligence of my audience.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 12:45 PM (VdICR)

456 Afternoon, all.

I think it's precious that Crazy Ed Schultz has gone to work for Russia Today. I'm pretty sure I'm late to the game and you guys have discussed this already.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (FsuaD)


You are so we are penalizing you ten points.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:46 PM (W+RZ5)

457 I think it's precious that Crazy Ed Schultz has gone to work for Russia Today. I'm pretty sure I'm late to the game and you guys have discussed this already.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (FsuaD)
---
I did not know that.

Well, he does look like a half-in-the-bag Boris Yeltsin.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 12:46 PM (jR7Wy)

458 Schrodinger's Beer

It was just here a minute ago. I don't know what happened to it"

Was it next to Schrodinger's Chili?

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:46 PM (C9pBZ)

459
You are so we are penalizing you ten points.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:46 PM (W+RZ5)


Okay. Just don't send me to the barrel.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (FsuaD)

460 Which is exactly what Trump would do, he just hasn't had his time in office to do so like the other pols, so it's easy for people to tell themselves that this pol will be different from all the others.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM (wEq+O)

******

Now who is projecting, with no factual backup, onto that supposed blank slate?
Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (laYqV)


Sssshhhhh... just wait a moment. Let him marinate in it for a bit.


If he gets it, there might be hope. If not.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (Dj0WE)

461 I got a scam call supposedly from Pakistani accented Windows Support telling me that my computer was sending virus alerts.

Last time I got one of those I broke into a fake Indian accent and kept saying "on my computer?" over and over until he finally gave up.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (FkBIv)

462
437 436 Why are they trying to ban Trump anyway? He said some "unkind" things about Muslims?

Yup...

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:40 PM (/dSsq)


I would LOVE to see the Queen invite Trump over for a Royal Visit...

Tell these idiots where they can get off...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (f7rv6)

463 Ice Cube is many things, but I wouldn't call either his rap or acting careers failures.

He was a BFD in the early 90's West Coast scene, and I'm pretty sure most of his movies make money.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (RQDhf)

464 I did not know that.

Well, he does look like a half-in-the-bag Boris Yeltsin.


From what little I've seen of him (thankfully), I'm reasonably certain that half of his bloodstream contains cheap vodka already.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:48 PM (LUgeY)

465 If I had my way you'd be in for a public flagon.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:24 PM


That's the standard penalty in China.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2016 12:48 PM (me6xG)

466 I don't drink anymore, but $22 for a bottle of bourbon... is cheap?? "

Yeah. Bourbon is the new PBR.
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (C9pBZ)


Then I'm glad I got out when I did. Too much trendy.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:48 PM (Dj0WE)

467 Okay. Just don't send me to the barrel."

I've often wondered - what if said barrel were oak, lightly charred on the inside?

Hmm.

Nah, not worth the risk.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:49 PM (C9pBZ)

468 Someone needs to explain to the Brits... that they no longer control what goes on in the Colonies.
Posted by: BB Wolf


Maybe they'll let Trump into the UK if we pay them a tea tax.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 12:49 PM (FkBIv)

469 Will I still have to be sober if I am in a 4 billion dollar investment self-driving car? Obama drives me to drink.."

-
Barack gonna drive me to drinkin' if he don't stop buying that self-drivin' Lincoln.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 12:49 PM (Nwg0u)

470 Then I'm glad I got out when I did. Too much trendy."

Veeery trendy."

Yep.

I knew it was over the top when I saw a bottle of Ol GranDad at 20 plus...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:51 PM (C9pBZ)

471 750ml is a full sized bottle (unless you buy Jameson in the 1.75 family-size)

Batch #'s are lost on me, I wouldn't know which are considered better than others anyways, and I don't buy to collect, even if a few of my bottles have dust on them.

A trip to Costco may be in my future.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 12:51 PM (kKHcp)

472 Yeah. Bourbon is the new PBR.

Erm...no.

Leaving single malts aside, people are starting to figure out that Bourbon tastes better than Scotch, especially at comparable price points.


Turns out our hillbillies know what they're doing.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 12:51 PM (1xUj/)

473 I see old Mickey Moore is out there protesting the "poison" water in Flint and demanding the Gov. resign.... Funny thing, the decision to change water systems came from the Dem. Mayor and city council backed by the EPA, but don't let facts get in the way...

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 12:51 PM (/dSsq)

474 If you think the hipsters killed the Bourbon market, you should look at what's happening to American rye. Bottles I used to pay $11 for now run $22.

At least when they got into PBR, the prices stayed low. And a lot of old brands under their umbrella are coming back.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (RQDhf)

475 I've had some cheap bourbon in my day. I never spent $22 a bottle for it.
Posted by: BurtTC
---------------

Clearly, you do not understand the nuances. Whiskey that has satisfied, nay, pleased millions for two hundred years is no longer acceptable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, who drinks his whiskey clear at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (oFSUK)

476 Ice Cube is many things, but I wouldn't call either his rap or acting careers failures.

He was a BFD in the early 90's West Coast scene, and I'm pretty sure most of his movies make money.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:47 PM (RQDhf)


He's the guy in that buddy cop movie with the little tiny unfunny black comedian?


Yeah, I don't think movies that make money can't ALSO be failures.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (Dj0WE)

477 I had my way you'd be in for a public flagon.


With the figure of a dragon?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (kpqmD)

478 I'd think DT would be far more aware of the
deleterious effects of unnecessary overregulation than Cruz would be,
being as how he has to deal with them in his work. He's well aware of
the role that high taxes have in discouraging business, he mentioned it
today in that speech.



To my knowledge, being a Senator (or a lawyer either, for that matter) has far less governmental restrictions than a developer.



And another point, I think DT makes the crowd laugh a lot more than Cruz does. Don't get me wrong, Cruz reciting lines from The Princess Bride is all kinds of cool, but he's not known for it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:39 PM (LUgeY)

I don't agree.

One of the things that bugs me about Trump is he is perfectly fine with crony capitalism which depends on not the lack of government regulation but instead gaming regulation for one's own benefit. Business men are no more inclined (in fact less inclined) than the average person to actually want a free market exactly because they can game the system to benefit themselves. Its why Trump's immediate goto is tariffs and its also why he supports ethanol subsidies/mandates... because he does not have an intellectual attachment to the idea of smaller government and gaming large government is his comfort zone.
I much prefer Cruz's intellectual hatred of government in general as I believe it is more likely that he will actually shrink the size of the government.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (OrI3J)

479
Schrodinger's Beer

It was just here a minute ago. I don't know what happened to it"

Was it next to Schrodinger's Chili?
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:46 PM (C9pBZ)


The poor guy, people keep stealing and not stealing his food.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:53 PM (W+RZ5)

480 Husband is into small batch gins (ugh). And likes his gin with muddled cucumber.

It's a "thing" apparently.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:53 PM (FsuaD)

481 I'm back.

Posted by: lace wigs at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (fbovC)

482 A .750L thingy of Beam is $15.99 down here. Plus tax.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (LUgeY)

483 Hendricks with cucumber is mighty fine.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (RQDhf)

484 How many Jihadi Johns have the UK created?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!


We talking immigrants, or ginger converts?

Posted by: 77% at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (GKF1b)

485 They want to drag Trump into mosques. How sick is that?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 12:55 PM (iQIUe)

486 The picture on the front page is still enfucked.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 12:55 PM (W0RfD)

487 I just think it would be nice if those who ONLY feel the need to come
here often just to announce their aversion to Trump could be honest
and say "so this is why I love me some Marco!"


Well that is not fair. A great many of us who don't like Trump, don't like Marco either.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 12:55 PM (lVU49)

488 483 Hendricks with cucumber is mighty fine.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (RQDhf)

I'd like to give Hendricks my cucumber. Christina, that is.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:56 PM (kpqmD)

489 Welcome back, lace wigs. You've been missed.

Do you have a Donald Trump version?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:56 PM (FsuaD)

490 I've had some cheap bourbon in my day. I never spent $22 a bottle for it.
Posted by: BurtTC
---------------

Clearly, you do not understand the nuances. Whiskey that has satisfied, nay, pleased millions for two hundred years is no longer acceptable.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, who drinks his whiskey clear at January 18, 2016 12:52 PM (oFSUK)


Heh... at this point I'm happy to be ignorant.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:56 PM (Dj0WE)

491 because he does not have an intellectual attachment to the idea of
smaller government and gaming large government is his comfort zone.


DING DING DING

you thought crony capitalism was bad under Obumbles?

Well wait for some New York style cronyism, TRUMP STYLE

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (lVU49)

492 750ml is a full sized bottle (unless you buy Jameson in the 1.75 family-size) "

Indeed. Of course, your Costco may vary...

"Leaving single malts aside, people are starting to figure out that Bourbon tastes better than Scotch, especially at comparable price points. "

No argument here.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (C9pBZ)

493 482 A .750L thingy of Beam is $15.99 down here. Plus tax.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (LUgeY)


$26 normal price here in Commiefornia...

But hell... our GAS is still about $2.40 a gallon....

The State has created a separate market through their taxation and regulation schemes...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (f7rv6)

494 What is a price point? Is it those down arrows with a number on it at WalMart?

Posted by: Big Ben - Bonnie Blue Party at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (NSoTm)

495 A .750L thingy of Beam is $15.99 down here. Plus tax.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (LUgeY)

About $8 cheaper than here.
At least Wi gets near-wholesale prices on Brandy.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (kKHcp)

496 Trump FUDPUPPIES out in force today.

Posted by: ChocoCheese at January 18, 2016 12:58 PM (QYmY5)

497 I just think it would be nice if those who ONLY feel the need to come
here often just to announce their aversion to Trump could be honest
and say "so this is why I love me some Marco!"

Well that is not fair. A great many of us who don't like Trump, don't like Marco either.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 12:55 PM (lVU49)


Ah! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to point out: I'm speaking of those who ONLY seem to want to rag on Trump.


I realize there are many who have other preferred candidates, and I would respect anyone who says "I hate Trump and luvs me some Marco!"


It's the second part they leave silent, and so I fill it in for them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:59 PM (Dj0WE)

498 you thought crony capitalism was bad under Obumbles?

Well wait for some New York style cronyism, TRUMP STYLE
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (lVU49)

And you know this how?
What shining examples do you have?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 12:59 PM (gf8BH)

499 483 Hendricks with cucumber is mighty fine.
Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (RQDhf)

I'd like to give Hendricks my cucumber. Christina, that is.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 12:56 PM (kpqmD


Ha ha ha ha ha! Wait...I don't get it.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 12:59 PM (W+RZ5)

500 I must defend the Anglo-Islamic Faith against this boorish Trump infidel chap! He shall not enter.

Posted by: Prince Charles at January 18, 2016 01:00 PM (GKF1b)

501 Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 12:42 PM (laYqV)


I'm basing that on having spent his entire adult life branding himself as a businessman extraordinaire, if he is what he says he is he won't stop the current system of a pretend border that allows cheap illegal labor to flow across and increase profits of corporate America, he was either lying then or lying now.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 01:00 PM (wEq+O)

502 "gin with muddled cucumber"

er, no thanks. Ever.

Gin is only acceptable as an antimalarial delivery system.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 01:00 PM (C9pBZ)

503 Husband is into small batch gins (ugh). And likes his gin with muddled cucumber.


Jane D'oh married a hipster? I did not see that coming.

So, story time, I shall tell the story of my Bourbon Awakening. For the purposes of this discussion, Jack Daniels is Bourbon. I am familiar with all of the debate, and whether it has to be from that county and how many times distilled and also shut up. JD tastes like Bourbon so it's bourbon.

I grew up not knowing anything and thinking that Jack Daniels was white trash hooch. And Scotch was sophisticated. So I'd drink Dewar's (blended fecking whiskey! I denounce myself).

So I moved to Germany in the early 90s and Jack Daniels cost exactly the same as Dewars. And I said to myself, "Self, why are these Euros paying as much for hillbilly shine as they are for noble Scotch?".

So Self drank some of the Jack Daniels and found it to be superior.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:01 PM (1xUj/)

504 493 482 A .750L thingy of Beam is $15.99 down here. Plus tax.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:54 PM (LUgeY)


$26 normal price here in Commiefornia...

But hell... our GAS is still about $2.40 a gallon....

The State has created a separate market through their taxation and regulation schemes...
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (f7rv6)

I'd rather drink gas than Beam anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:01 PM (kpqmD)

505 Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 12:39 PM (LUgeY)

Trump's going to have to do a lot more than make people laugh. And I don't think he has been held to the same standard as Cruz or the other candidates. I noticed after the debate people were really impressed with his knowledge on Chyyyna, but he'll have to cover a lot more territory coming up as the race narrows.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:01 PM (hgBpU)

506 At least Wi gets near-wholesale prices on Brandy."

She's a fine girl...

Ok, BBL.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at January 18, 2016 01:01 PM (C9pBZ)

507 Jane D'oh married a hipster? I did not see that coming.



Jeebus, no. A former liberal, however.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:02 PM (FsuaD)

508 I much prefer Cruz's intellectual hatred of government in general as I believe it is more likely that he will actually shrink the size of the government.

I agree with that statement.

With regard to your assertion that DT supports crony capitalism (A.K.A. corruption), my test for that is, "Has he cashed in on anything that TFP did, like green subsidies?" He hasn't to my knowledge. If he has, I'd like to know about it.

"Gaming the system" is not the same thing as having a team of lawyers to decode the laws and regulations one is forced to deal with in business. AFAIK, that's pretty much SOP.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:02 PM (LUgeY)

509 $26 normal price here in Commiefornia...



But hell... our GAS is still about $2.40 a gallon....



The State has created a separate market through their taxation and regulation schemes...

Posted by: BB Wolf at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (f7rv6)

The price of hooch in Virginia is also hugely inflated because... government run monopoly on liqueur.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 01:03 PM (OrI3J)

510 Jack Daniels is not Bourbon.

There is no debate on that. If it goes through the Lincoln County Process, it's Tennessee Whiskey.

Posted by: Chupacabra at January 18, 2016 01:03 PM (RQDhf)

511 With a successful landing on terra firma, why does SpaceX insist on landing their boosters on a barge on the ocean? Their sense of logic escapes me. Makes their thinking suspect.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:03 PM (Fmupd)

512 "Gaming the system" is not the same thing as having a team of lawyers to decode the laws and regulations one is forced to deal with in business. AFAIK, that's pretty much SOP.


Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:02 PM (LUgeY)

Yup, we do that everyday in our business. Butting heads with EPA, state and district regulations here in CA - otherwise our clients will get nothing permitted. As it is, those who can have left the state but power plants and refineries stay and have to work the system.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 01:04 PM (a0IVu)

513 I'm basing that on having spent his entire adult life branding himself as a businessman extraordinaire, if he is what he says he is he won't stop the current system of a pretend border that allows cheap illegal labor to flow across and increase profits of corporate America, he was either lying then or lying now.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 01:00 PM (wEq+O)

******

Well Burt, we have our answer.

ATM, you have no evidence that your statement is true. You are making asumptions and projecting them onto the "blank slate" you claim is Trump.

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (laYqV)

514 Do we even *have* an Ewok signal at the HQ?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (FsuaD)

515 Well wait for some New York style cronyism, TRUMP STYLE

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 12:57 PM (lVU49)



And you know this how?

What shining examples do you have?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 12:59 PM (gf8BH)

Trump: Eminent domain is wonderful
http://tinyurl.com/glrzdvn

Trump: I donated to Democrats and praised Hillary in order to grease the skids

http://tinyurl.com/ppnj49x

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (lVU49)

516 Apparently you can use either Japanese or Persian cucumbers for yur muddlin'. There's a joke in there somewhere. Probably dirty.

Posted by: lace wigs at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (fbovC)

517 What shining examples do you have?

I think the acquisition of the Penn Central Railyards on the west of Manhattan was arranged with personal political connections and pull. If I remember correctly, and I may not, it was funded either with city funds or investor funds, or both, not Trumps personal money. I think his development of the Commodore was similar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (rwI+c)

518
Well Burt, we have our answer.

ATM, you have no evidence that your statement is true. You are making asumptions and projecting them onto the "blank slate" you claim is Trump.

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (laYqV)


Yes, I believe we do.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (Dj0WE)

519 With a successful landing on terra firma, why does SpaceX insist on landing their boosters on a barge on the ocean? Their sense of logic escapes me. Makes their thinking suspect.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:03 PM (Fmupd)


I "Guess" because most space shots head over the Water, landing the Booster back on a Barge is more direct....and the Landing was spot on...a leg on the Booster broke away. I would think, not being an Rocket Scientist, that should be a relatively easy fix?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (gf8BH)

520 Who the hell names their kid Tulip?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (iQIUe)

521 I prefer Dickel.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (gOViX)

522 Just working from memory here, and I'm not a New Yorker. Trump is what Mother928 calls a "Wheeler Dealer". From a Texan, that's not a compliment.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:07 PM (rwI+c)

523 I think it's precious that Crazy Ed Schultz has gone to work for Russia Today. I'm pretty sure I'm late to the game and you guys have discussed this already.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:44 PM (FsuaD)

I didn't remember who Ed Schultz was for a moment. And he gave me such enjoyment the night Scott Walker won the recall election. These lefties are generally utterly forgettable people.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:07 PM (u0lmX)

524 Trump: I donated to Democrats and praised Hillary in order to grease the skids

http://tinyurl.com/ppnj49x
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (lVU49)

Oh please he was/is a builder in an overwhelming democratic City, State, and Region. If THAT is the best you have?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:07 PM (gf8BH)

525 Do we even *have* an Ewok signal at the HQ?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (FsuaD)


We used to. It was a flashlight, with a picture of Ruby Oh! in front of it.


No longer works for some reason though.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:07 PM (Dj0WE)

526 I must defend the Anglo-Islamic Faith against this boorish Trump infidel chap! He shall not enter.Posted by: Prince Charles at January 18, 2016 01:00 PM (GKF1b)Speaking of Chuck and Muslim scum, I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Anglican Church has prepared, upon his (presumptive) accession to the throne, to change the title "Defender Of The Faith" to a flaccid "Defender Of Faith."Can't upset the Musslemen, old chap.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 01:08 PM (X6fMO)

527 Do we even *have* an Ewok signal at the HQ?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:05 PM (FsuaD)

Yes we do. It looks like a teddy bear picnic. But sometimes the ewok still ignores it.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 01:08 PM (W+RZ5)

528 Who the hell names their kid Tulip?

I prefer Dickel.



Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 01:08 PM (FkBIv)

529 And I don't think he has been held to the same standard as Cruz or the other candidates.

Well of course not. Trump has spent his whole life donating to Democrats and flip-flopping on every issue, and that is all excused away, while Cruz accepts one loan from Goldman-Sachs and that is somehow an unacceptable heresy. It is mind-boggling. It is primarily because I think people who support Trump are doing so for purely emotional reasons. They will excuse and rationalize away every negative thing about Trump in order to validate their own feelings.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (lVU49)

530 I knew a young womanl named Tulip. Her parents were Asian Indian; I don't know if that is a common name in India. Her boyfriend's last name was Tweet. She said "If I get married my name will be Tulip Tweet and if you make any jokes about the birds and the bees I may strangle you."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (w4NZ8)

531 520
Who the hell names their kid Tulip?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (iQIUe)


Srsly. --

-- Gwyneth Paltrow's kid, Apple

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (FsuaD)

532 What's better than roses on a piano?

Tulips on an organ.




/7th grade

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:10 PM (1xUj/)

533 521 I prefer Dickel.
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:06 PM (gOViX)

Didn't know you swung that way. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:10 PM (kpqmD)

534 446 At Breitbart, Christie is jumping on the bash Cruz bandwagon with "Ted Cruz is asinine, the consummate Washington insider."

Laughable and sad at the same time.
Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 12:43 PM (hgBpU

Funny Fat Man. Never saw Ted Cruz swapping spit with Prezy 4 Putt like you did in October 2012.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 01:10 PM (voOPb)

535 It is primarily because I think people who support Trump are doing so for purely emotional reasons.


I have to admit that his putting the boot to the GOPe and Jeb! raises my emotions.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (rwI+c)

536 Well of course not. Trump has spent his whole life donating to Democrats and flip-flopping on every issue, and that is all excused away, while Cruz accepts one loan from Goldman-Sachs and that is somehow an unacceptable heresy. It is mind-boggling. It is primarily because I think people who support Trump are doing so for purely emotional reasons. They will excuse and rationalize away every negative thing about Trump in order to validate their own feelings.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (lVU49)


Project much do we? Who is making a big deal about the Cruz loan?

And most politicians flip flop on a whole host of reasons.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (gf8BH)

537 Her boyfriend's last name was Tweet. She said "If I get married my name will be Tulip Tweet and if you make any jokes about the birds and the bees I may strangle you."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (w4NZ8

But I'm guessing, "Hey Dot Head" was ok?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (voOPb)

538 522 Just working from memory here, and I'm not a New Yorker. Trump is what Mother928 calls a "Wheeler Dealer". From a Texan, that's not a compliment.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:07 PM (rwI+c)


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So your mom didn't make any investments? She's never had a realtor? She's never tried to sell a car?

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:12 PM (Fmupd)

539 Naming female children after flowers is very very common in Mongolia.

/end Cliff Clavin

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:12 PM (rwI+c)

540 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (voOPb)

I think she had heard all the jokes before and was tired of them. She was smiling when she said it.

I didn't make any of those kinds of "dot" jokes. She was quite Americanized., came here when she was about two and never wore a dot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 01:13 PM (w4NZ8)

541 So your mom didn't make any investments?

A Wheeler Dealer is someone who makes their fortune with OPM using political pull. Like being the cousin of the Railroad Commissioner.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:13 PM (rwI+c)

542 Who the hell names their kid Tulip?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! 


Hypercalvinist preacher?

Posted by: misojebnist at January 18, 2016 01:13 PM (GKF1b)

543 "Gaming the system" is not the same thing as having a
team of lawyers to decode the laws and regulations one is forced to
deal with in business. AFAIK, that's pretty much SOP.



Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:02 PM (LUgeY)

There are many former land owners in Atlantic City that would disagree with you re: Trump and gaming the system. Perhaps you should look into his checkered history with eminent domain.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (OrI3J)

544 Didn't know you swung that way. NTTAWWT.

rofl. Imma girl.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (gOViX)

545 >>Her boyfriend's last name was Tweet. She said "If I get married my name
will be Tulip Tweet and if you make any jokes about the birds and the
bees I may strangle you.

Heh, at least it's a distinctive name. Are you familiar with the model Lauren Bush (spawn of Neil Bush, IIRC)? She married Ralph Lauren's son, so her name is Lauren Lauren.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (NOIQH)

546 It is mind-boggling. It is primarily because I think people who support Trump are doing so for purely emotional reasons. They will excuse and rationalize away every negative thing about Trump in order to validate their own feelings.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 01:09 PM (lVU49)


Project much do we? Who is making a big deal about the Cruz loan?

And most politicians flip flop on a whole host of reasons.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (gf8BH)

Plenty are making noise about the loan & the NY value thing. Trump supporters aren't going to support Cruz at this point. They have to say something why they are supporting Trump.

I like Trump's take no press prisoner bulllshit. I find it refreshing someone talking non-pc for a change. However, he has flipped on most of the conservative agenda. At one time pro-abortion, pro gun control, pro immigration. Now he's changed his tune. Have a hard time accepting that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (voOPb)

547 Posted by: misojebnist at January 18, 2016 01:13 PM (GKF1b)

Good theological joke. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (w4NZ8)

548 Who the hell names their kid Tulip?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

Hypercalvinist preacher?



Tiny Tim?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:15 PM (LUgeY)

549 Posted by: Lizzy at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (NOIQH)

Now; I didn't know that. I guess it means that you're not likely to forget your name. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 01:16 PM (w4NZ8)

550 I heard Trump voted for the JEF in '08. Is that true? Does he own up to it?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:16 PM (FsuaD)

551 I heard Trump voted for the JEF in '08.


I presume they still have the secret ballot in NY, so if he didn't say he did, or didn't campaign for him, I don't know how anyone would know.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:17 PM (rwI+c)

552 Plenty are making noise about the loan & the NY value thing. Trump supporters aren't going to support Cruz at this point. They have to say something why they are supporting Trump.

I like Trump's take no press prisoner bulllshit. I find it refreshing someone talking non-pc for a change. However, he has flipped on most of the conservative agenda. At one time pro-abortion, pro gun control, pro immigration. Now he's changed his tune. Have a hard time accepting that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (voOPb)


The MSM Press and Trump are making noise about NY Values...Nobody cares...it's laughable. And if Trump falters most of his support will fall to Cruz,and I might add the other way round also.

Everyone should calm down...Unless this is your first Election, there is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:17 PM (gf8BH)

553 I forget if it was Trump pere or Trump fils, but the start of the Trump fortune was the development of the sports complex in the NJ Meadowlands.

About a minute and a half after getting permission to build there, they got the rest of the Meadowlands declared sensitive wetlands upon which no others could build.

So yeah, they use government to their own ends.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:17 PM (1xUj/)

554 544 Didn't know you swung that way. NTTAWWT.

rofl. Imma girl.
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:14 PM (gOViX)

That so?
*sidles over*
How YOU doin'?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:18 PM (kpqmD)

555 But he had an accent? How can you not nominate a guy for acting... when he has an accent???Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 12:38 PM (Dj0WE)

Me accent in 'Mary Poppins' was perfect but looky here: no bleedin' Oscar. Right bastards they were.

Posted by: Dick Van Dyke, Thespian at January 18, 2016 01:18 PM (OGbEB)

556 I heard Trump voted for the JEF in '08. Is that true? Does he own up to it?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:16 PM (FsuaD)


A Beck lie that he already apologized for...Hey did you all hear that Trump was the one really raped the Central park jogger?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:19 PM (gf8BH)

557 A Wheeler Dealer is someone who makes their fortune with OPM using political pull. Like being the cousin of the Railroad Commissioner.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January


--------------


Wheeler dealers come in all shapes and sizes. And they deal in, well, everything that can have a price attached to it.

There are good wheeler dealers and there are bad wheeler dealers.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:19 PM (Fmupd)

558
The MSM Press and Trump are making noise about NY Values...Nobody cares...it's laughable. And if Trump falters most of his support will fall to Cruz



I'm a doubter on this. Trump is getting support from the old Reagan Democrats. They might just not vote or even vote for Hillary if Trump isn't on the ticket. I do agree that Trump would get a significant chunk of Cruz voters, unless he really pisses them off.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:19 PM (rwI+c)

559 So your mom didn't make any investments?
__________________
A Wheeler Dealer is someone who makes their fortune with OPM using political pull. Like being the cousin of the Railroad Commissioner.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:13 PM (rwI+c)


I say this with all due respect to those who despise Trump: We've established he's not pure. He has flaws.


If you continue to point out his flaws, at this point you are being tuned out. You need more than that. You need something... else.


And don't ask me what that is, I'm not here to help you. I'm rather neutral on Trump at this point. He's doing his job. He has all but destroyed Gope's chance of getting their nominee through, the usual way. For that I praise him greatly. But for him to be the nominee??


Eh, I'll just ride this out a while longer.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:20 PM (Dj0WE)

560 I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Anglican Church has prepared, upon his (presumptive) accession to the throne, to change the title "Defender Of The Faith" to a flaccid "Defender Of Faith."Can't upset the Musslemen, old chap.Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing


Yes, that's what I was referring to. He is a disgrace.

Posted by: Prince Charles at January 18, 2016 01:20 PM (GKF1b)

561 There are good wheeler dealers and there are bad wheeler dealers.

You can't argue idioms. In Texas, there are no good Wheeler Dealers.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:20 PM (rwI+c)

562



I forget if it was Trump pere or Trump fils, but the start of the Trump fortune was the development of the sports complex in the NJ Meadowlands.


Now that's funny.
You are kidding right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:21 PM (gf8BH)

563 Insomniac, ohoo la la.

Home sick in bed. Should be at work.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:21 PM (gOViX)

564 Now that's funny.
You are kidding right?


No. I'm not a Trump scholar, it's what I remember from living in NYC in the 80s.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (1xUj/)

565 I dont want a virgin as president. I dont mind if they are a little wise to the world, and understand the world they mean to control

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (zOTsN)

566
Wait.... Infidel is an ette???

Well.... that kinda messes with the image I had in my head. We need a cisnormative marker for the folks round here to avoid this gender confusion.

For the record.... *I* pee standing up.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (8XRCm)

567 No. I'm not a Trump scholar, it's what I remember from living in NYC in the 80s.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (1xUj/)

I don't think Trump has much to do with the building of the Meadowlands. Jimmy Hoffa maybe, but not Trump

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (gf8BH)

568 Of course, I've barely been back in Texas over the last forty years, so I guess I can't really discuss current idioms. Maybe someone might say Wheeler Dealer as a compliment. Probably a transplant though.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:24 PM (rwI+c)

569 For the record.... *I* pee standing up.
Posted by: fixerupper



You could still be an 'Ette with messy trousers.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:24 PM (1xUj/)

570 563 Insomniac, ohoo la la.

Home sick in bed. Should be at work.
Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:21 PM (gOViX)

Hot whiskey toddies. Good for what ails ya.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:24 PM (kpqmD)

571 You could still be an 'Ette with messy trousers.


Or a hoverer.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (rwI+c)

572 >>>But he had an accent? How can you not nominate a guy for acting... when he has an accent???

Yes, but he didn't play a retarded slave. That's what you need to win an Oscar.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (7qAYi)

573 I don t mind a wheeler dealer. I just dont want him playing the shell game with me

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (zOTsN)

574 I pee sitting down, unless I'm camping.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (gOViX)

575 566
Wait.... Infidel is an ette???

Well.... that kinda messes with the image I had in my head. We need a cisnormative marker for the folks round here to avoid this gender confusion.

For the record.... *I* pee standing up.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (8XRCm)

You could be using a funnel. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (kpqmD)

576 Something long and important here to
bring on a new thread.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (fbovC)

577 I dont want a virgin as president. I dont mind if they are a little wise to the world, and understand the world they mean to controlPosted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (zOTsN)

S'okay, I was like a virgin once...hey...like a virgin...hey.

Posted by: Madonna, Feeling A Little Hungover at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (OGbEB)

578 566
Wait.... Infidel is an ette???

Well.... that kinda messes with the image I had in my head. We need a cisnormative marker for the folks round here to avoid this gender confusion.

For the record.... *I* pee standing up.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (8XRCm)


That's OK.... I still pee standing up too!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner, the most Corageous Woman in America at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (f7rv6)

579 Trump was the one on the grassy knoll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (FkBIv)

580 480 Husband is into small batch gins (ugh). And likes his gin with muddled cucumber.

It's a "thing" apparently.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:53 PM (FsuaD)

----
"I'm a Mixologist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2aVzmPxxM

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (jR7Wy)

581 Get to work here, willow.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (FsuaD)

582 Trump poisoned Mama Cass.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (rwI+c)

583 Project much do we? Who is making a big deal about the Cruz loan?

And most politicians flip flop on a whole host of reasons.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:11 PM (gf8BH)

Trump was trashing Cruz all weekend on the loan stuff. He went full maniac, tweeting for seven hours straight on Cruz. People were begging him to stop. It was ugly.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (hgBpU)

584 Tulips on an organ.




/7th grade
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:10 PM (1xUj/)

I lol'ed. Mebbe I was sick on that day. At any rate, if I ever heard it, I forgot.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (kKHcp)

585 S'okay, I was like a virgin once...hey...like a virgin...hey.

Posted by: Madonna, Feeling A Little Hungover at January 18, 2016 01:26 PM (OGbEB)


You voted for the JEF, didn't you?

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:28 PM (gOViX)

586 I prefer Dickel.
Posted by: Infidel


Strickly speaking, you mean?

Posted by: Meghan McCain at January 18, 2016 01:28 PM (GKF1b)

587 Excepr Trump saying he identifies more as a democrat than a republican, that the economy does better under Democrats, that only police and criminals need assault weapons, that he wouldn't ban partial birth abortions , that it was cruel and malicious to deport illegals, that single payer healthcare should be implemented in the US , that we should tax the rich 15% of their assets. , that privately owned real estate developers should be able to declare eminent domain to seize property, that people on the no fly list should be banned from buying a gun, that we want Russia to bomb Syria, that we shouldn't let Russia bomb Syria , that we should let in Syrian refugees , that we should ban Syrian refugees, that we should continue to fund planned parenthood and that everything will be awesome with him, he's the perfect GOP nominee.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:28 PM (qbqnC)

588 Husband is into small batch gins (ugh). And likes his gin with muddled cucumber.



It's a "thing" apparently.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:53 PM (FsuaD)


According to an Cheers episode I remember, that sounds like a "Screaming Viking"

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (8ikIW)

589 Trumps Dad built homes in the 20s. homes and super markets in the 30s, apartments in the 40s and 50s, and affordable homes for returning vets all over the five boroughs

nothing to do with the stadium

homes, apartments, hotels, resorts and casinos

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (zOTsN)

590 Trump was trashing Cruz all weekend on the loan stuff. He went full maniac, tweeting for seven hours straight on Cruz. People were begging him to stop. It was ugly.
Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (hgBpU)


yeah and? Trump's a fire thrower, that is part of his charm. Is this your first Election?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (gf8BH)

591 Trump shot Bobby Ewing.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (LUgeY)

592 >>>But he had an accent? How can you not nominate a guy for acting... when he has an accent???

Yes, but he didn't play a retarded slave. That's what you need to win an Oscar.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 01:25 PM (7qAYi)


Heh, I looked at his Oscar nominations, because I thought he was nominated for the wise and slightly supernatural caddy thing years ago, but...


Ali. Lost to Denzel for Training Day.


The Pursuit of Happyness (which I never saw/never heard of). Lost to Forrest Whitaker for Last King of Scotland (which I never saw/never heard of).


So yeah, those happened in the prior decade. Hollywood did their black thing. This is the era of LBGTQRSTUV. The Fresh Prince has to play a dude what wants to wear dresses if he wants another nomination. And maybe keep the accent. With some wise/supernaturally stuff going on. It can't hurt.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:30 PM (Dj0WE)

593 Trump, in the drawing room, with a lead pipe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:30 PM (rwI+c)

594 Trump turned me into a newt.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (kpqmD)

595 Trump shot Bobby Ewing.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (LUgeY)

Nope, that was Kristen.... and then it was all a dream.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (OrI3J)

596 Husband is into small batch gins (ugh). And likes his gin with muddled cucumber.



It's a "thing" apparently.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 12:53 PM (FsuaD)

I just don't understand a person that would prefer gin over whiskey.

Posted by: shillelagh at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (L3vVL)

597 I don't think Trump has much to do with the building of the Meadowlands. Jimmy Hoffa maybe, but not Trump

I don't think that Jimmy Hoffa was ever able to cement the trust of people the way the Donald has been able.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (fbovC)

598 Trump was trashing Cruz all weekend on the loan stuff. He went full maniac, tweeting for seven hours straight on Cruz. People were begging him to stop. It was ugly.
Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:27 PM (hgBpU)


I'm guessing Trump is looking at the trend lines on his internal polls. Losing Iowa is one thing--let Cruz take the hayseeds. But New Hampshire? NHis his own back yard. He can't afford to lose it.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (OGbEB)

599 According to an Cheers episode I remember, that sounds like a "Screaming Viking"

Only if the cucumber is bruised. Slightly.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (7qAYi)

600 Trump was flying the 5th jet on 9/11.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (Fmupd)

601 Trumps dad was Potter, thats it!

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (zOTsN)

602 No. I'm not a Trump scholar, it's what I remember from living in NYC in the 80s.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:23 PM (1xUj/)
---
All I knew about that short-fingered vulgarian Trump I gleaned from Spy Magazine.

Will Spy, like Bloom County, be revived now that Trump is astir and afoot again?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 01:32 PM (jR7Wy)

603 1:32 Picture is still fucked. I remain in the bushes, motionless. I know Charlie is out there just waiting. Biding his time. Charlie knows one thing. Waiting.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 01:32 PM (W0RfD)

604 I don't think that Jimmy Hoffa was ever able to cement the trust of people the way the Donald has been able.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (fbovC)
---
Jimmy Hoffa -- cornerstone of the community.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 01:32 PM (jR7Wy)

605 Some of the Trump critics begin to sound like the story of the guy on the roof in a flood, praying to God for rescue.

Man in a boat comes by and offers to save him.
Guy says no, God will save me.
A helicopter comes by and dangles a ladder.
Guy waves it off, yelling that God will save him.
The flood water rise and the guy, about to drown, says, "God, I have been a good man all my life, why have you abandoned me?"
God replies: "I sent a boat and a helicopter. Why did you reject My help."

God works in mysterious ways. Don't let your biases blind you to what may be happening.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (cbfNE)

606 I prefer Dickel.
Posted by: Infidel

Strickly speaking, you mean?

Posted by: Meghan McCain




Please take a long walk off a short pier.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (gOViX)

607 Trump's political affiliation isn't paranoia.
From wikipedia:
D before 1987
R 1987 - 1999
Reform 1999-2001
D 2001 - 2009
R 2009 - 2011
I 2011 - 2012
R 2013 - present

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (VdICR)

608 I assume that Cruz is trying to win Iowa, come in 2nd in NH and survive SC to get to Super Tuesday. If he doesn't do well there, I don't see his path to victory unless Trump implodes, which I don't see either.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (rwI+c)

609 I just don't understand a person that would prefer gin over whiskey.

Posted by: shillelagh

If you're serving whiskey, I'll drink whiskey.

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (8ikIW)

610 All Hail Eris, loved your link.

I gift you Shit Hipsters Say:

http://tinyurl.com/jqr6auv

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (FsuaD)

611 Trumps dad was arrested at a kkk protest in 1927

expect that to come up

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (zOTsN)

612 Jimmy Hoffa -- cornerstone of the community.

And consummate Giants fan.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (LUgeY)

613 I don't think Trump has much to do with the building of the Meadowlands. Jimmy Hoffa maybe, but not Trump

I don't think that Jimmy Hoffa was ever able to cement the trust of people the way the Donald has been able.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:31 PM (fbovC)


Yeah, but Hoffa was more down to earth.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (Dj0WE)

614 Trump's father buried Jimmy Hoffa in the Meadowlands.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (NeFrd)

615 Trump reminds me of a few in-laws.
I'm never sure where I stand or why on any given situation with them.

AND, it's always my fault, even if I was unaware of the situation.

Posted by: jwb7605 at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (DofIg)

616 I don't think he built the Meadowlands but he did build a couple of bankrupt Casinos.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (qbqnC)

617 "I don't think that Jimmy Hoffa was ever able to cement the trust of people the way the Donald has been able."


Heh. Mafia humor.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (LA7Cm)

618 The Pursuit of Happyness (which I never saw/never heard of). Lost to Forrest Whitaker for Last King of Scotland (which I never saw/never heard of).

Check out Last King of Scotland. Whitaker plays Idi Amin, who in his madness, claimed to be the last King of Scotland. He also killed people by playing real life Mr. Potato Head with them.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (7qAYi)

619 Jimmy Hoffa spent more time in the end zone yesterday than the Broncos.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (NeFrd)

620 From wikipedia:
D before 1987
R 1987 - 1999
Reform 1999-2001
D 2001 - 2009
R 2009 - 2011
I 2011 - 2012
R 2013 - present

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (VdICR)

it appears Trump is of the political party that holds Congress and holds the purse strings on the main

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:35 PM (zOTsN)

621 Yeah, but Hoffa was more down to earth.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (Dj0WE)

-----

....but something is always missing.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:35 PM (8XRCm)

622 Youse guys are killing with the Hoffa stuff.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:35 PM (rwI+c)

623 he gives to what ever party controls Congress

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:35 PM (zOTsN)

624 "I'm a Mixologist":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2aVzmPxxM
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage


Oh shit, that's hilarious.

*waves at Eris*

Back to PJ, I have and love all of those.

If I had to pick a favorite it's Holidays in Hell for the sheer damn genius of its conceit. "I shall go to the Green Zone in Beirut and write as a travel correspondent".

Brilliant.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:35 PM (1xUj/)

625 I don't think he built the Meadowlands but he did build a couple of bankrupt Casinos.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (qbqnC)

Yup it's all Trumps fault, even those other 7 Casino's he didn't own that went under....Not to mention the Lindbergh baby

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:36 PM (gf8BH)

626 Trump's cow started the Great Chicago Fire.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:36 PM (kpqmD)

627 ATM, you have no evidence that your statement is true. You are making asumptions and projecting them onto the "blank slate" you claim is Trump.

I'm making an assumption, it's just not based on a blank slate, it's based on Trumps own specific description of himself, so it's well founded.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 18, 2016 01:36 PM (wEq+O)

628 notice the brief stint as an independant seems coincide with when Congress was evenly split

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:36 PM (zOTsN)

629 It was Trump in a bear suit.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (GKF1b)

630 Jimmy Hoffa spent more time in the end zone yesterday than the Broncos.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (NeFrd)


Ok, I larfed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (Dj0WE)

631 I assume that Cruz is trying to win Iowa, come in 2nd in NH and survive SC to get to Super Tuesday. If he doesn't do well there, I don't see his path to victory unless Trump implodes, which I don't see either.Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:33 PM (rwI+c)

I don't see Ted Cruz' situation as desperateas you describe. In fact, I don't see him struggling at all. According to what I've read, the guy's still got plenty of resources--unlike, say, Jeb Bush, who's burned through something like $75 million in less than a month on the most ill-conceived TV ad buy in history.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (OGbEB)

632 Trump shot Archduke Ferdinand.

Posted by: We're Through The Looking Glass Here, People at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (7qAYi)

633 I don't think he built the Meadowlands but he did build a couple of bankrupt Casinos.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:34 PM (qbqnC)

******

Along with a shit ton of profitable projects. But by all means, focus on 4 out of hundreds. It makes you look totes not like a TDSer.

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (laYqV)

634 Jimmy's cup is either Hoffa full or Hoffa empty.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (NeFrd)

635 I don't see Ted Cruz' situation as desperateas you describe.


You don't think he has to do well on Super Tuesday?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (rwI+c)

636 Trump picks his nose and eats the boogers

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (Fmupd)

637
For the record.... *I* pee standing up.
Posted by: fixerupper






You could still be an 'Ette with messy trousers.Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:24 PM (1xUj/)
Or Michelle Obama.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (X6fMO)

638 . Whitaker plays Idi Amin,

Haven't seen that one yet.
Does it answer the actor playing a nut vs. nut playing an actor question?
e.g. Battlefield Earth

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (DL2i+)

639 Trump picks his nose and eats the boogers
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (Fmupd)

wait? that's wrong?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:39 PM (gf8BH)

640 "Jimmy's cup is either Hoffa full or Hoffa empty"


You're gonna hoffa try harder than that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 01:39 PM (LA7Cm)

641 Or Michelle Obama.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (X6fMO)

------

*squinty eyes*

Watch it buster.....

... and get Hoffa my lawn.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:39 PM (8XRCm)

642 Donald Trump watched while Joe Franklin raped me.

Posted by: Sarah Silverman at January 18, 2016 01:39 PM (Dj0WE)

643 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:29 PM (gf8BH)

You asked who was pushing the loan stuff. I answered. And?

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:40 PM (hgBpU)

644 so if the Congress switches control at some point after he is elected, will Trump switch as well?

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:40 PM (zOTsN)

645 Haven Monahan is actually Donald Trump.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:40 PM (kpqmD)

646 Donald Trump watches Girls.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:40 PM (rwI+c)

647 God said, "I sent you many luxurious helicopters and boats. I offered a way out. You drowned, not my call. Tragic."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 01:40 PM (VdICR)

648 Trump put a hole in the hull of the S.S. Minnow.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:41 PM (NeFrd)

649 The Hoff rules.

Posted by: KITT at January 18, 2016 01:41 PM (XtAzU)

650 Coffee break's over, back on your heads.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (rwI+c)

651 Trump put a hole in the hull of the S.S. Minnow.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:41 PM (NeFrd)

----

He was fishing and hooked a Tuna in the Gill-again???

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (8XRCm)

652 Youse guys are killing with the Hoffa stuff.


I was afraid nobody would get the joke. Too esoteric. *buzzer* Wrong.


For those in other parts of the country --
the rumor was [east coast thing] that Jimmy Hoffa's body (never discovered) was dropped into a cement pillar. Or buried somewhere on a football stadium in the Meadowlands.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (fbovC)

653 Another Python hunt in FL. Hold my beer.........

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (Fmupd)

654 Donald Trump gave James Carville the hundred dollars to drag through my trailer park.

Posted by: Paula Jones at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (X6fMO)

655 629 It was Trump in a bear suit.
Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (GKF1b)



But not like the bear suit in The Shining, right? *shudder*

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (vgIRn)

656 WTF is going on with Obambi's polling? He's broken 50 in Gallup and is up in Ras and Reuters.

I understand that his speech effectively cured cancer and created world peace, but is this bump due to end-of-term goodwill (which Bush was never the beneficiary of)? Are they oversampling the FSA?

I keep tabs on polling as part of my stock market algorithms, which worked until 2015, when nothing worked. With these numbers, we're not just looking at a bear market, we're looking at a raping-bear market.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (hqZPQ)

657 Trump sunk the Lusitania.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (kpqmD)

658 Donald Trump introduced Obamas mother to his father

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (zOTsN)

659 WTF is going on with Obambi's polling? He's broken 50 in Gallup and is up in Ras and Reuters.

I understand that his speech effectively cured cancer and created world peace, but is this bump due to end-of-term goodwill (which Bush was never the beneficiary of)? Are they oversampling the FSA?

I keep tabs on polling as part of my stock market algorithms, which worked until 2015, when nothing worked. With these numbers, we're not just looking at a bear market, we're looking at a raping-bear market.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (hqZPQ)


gas prices are low and people are stupid

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (zOTsN)

660 Man the Trump advocates get upset when you mention Trump's bankruptcies. Not all casinos by the way Nevergiveup. I'd wish you would get that upset at his desire for single payer healthcare.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (qbqnC)

661 At to why Ace is late...

I choose to believe that Ace attended a dinner party on the Upper East Side on Saturday, where the luminaries of the literary field and the pretenders to the punditry were all talking about "Making a Murderer".

Ace, having not seen it, continually excused himself from the table to avoid being outed as less-than-informed, thus spending the bulk of the evening fapping in the restroom.

In order to catch up, he spent all of Sunday, late into the night, binge watching Netflix, trying desperately to become informed.

Now, filled with knowledge, he sleeps the sleep of those poised and ready to speak on the subjects of the day.

Or, he's off doing other shit.

Either way.

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (Zs4uk)

662 Trump put a hole in the hull of the S.S. Minnow.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:41 PM (NeFrd)


We knew it!!!

Posted by: Zombies Thurston and Lovie Trump at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (Dj0WE)

663 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?feature=player_embeddedv=a2FWtELWUS0#t=48

Substitute TRUMP for KYLE and you get every thread til the votes are counted.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (DL2i+)

664 Donald Trump was one of the dingos that ate the baby..

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (Fmupd)

665 Trump boldly went where no man had gone before.


Oh, wait, never mind. That was Shatner.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (NeFrd)

666 Trump shanghaied Ace!

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (kpqmD)

667 Man the Trump advocates get upset when you mention Trump's bankruptcies. Not all casinos by the way Nevergiveup. I'd wish you would get that upset at his desire for single payer healthcare.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (qbqnC)

I mentioned them this morning. I agree his financial history will be a problem in the general


just having a little fun

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (zOTsN)

668 Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 01:37 PM (OGbEB)


Yeah well I hope you're right. I guess I'm just worried that Cruz and Trump kill each other off by being stupid and we get Dondi/Christie or Jeb/Kasich.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (hgBpU)

669 Now that I think of it, could Trump and Shatner be the same person?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (NeFrd)

670 Now, filled with knowledge, he sleeps the sleep of those poised and ready to speak on the subjects of the day.

Or lies in a pool of his own vomit.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (rwI+c)

671 Donald Trump was the iceberg.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (1xUj/)

672 Donald Trump helped Hillary win her Senate seat.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (qbqnC)

673 Trump/Shatner 2016

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (NeFrd)

674 Trump is getting support from the old Reagan Democrats. They might just not vote or even vote for Hillary if Trump isn't on the ticket.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:19 PM (rwI+c)

Blue collar whites make up a smaller slice of the demographic pie than they did in 1980. That's one reason the Dems feel so free to give them the finger. If they had the pull they once had, Sarah Palin would have been elected VP.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (u0lmX)

675 Donald Trump was the iceberg.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (1xUj/)

----

Hey ..... let's not get too carried away here....mmmmkay??

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (8XRCm)

676 Man the Trump advocates get upset when you mention Trump's bankruptcies. Not all casinos by the way Nevergiveup. I'd wish you would get that upset at his desire for single payer healthcare.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (qbqnC)

****

Yeah, I guess your thoughtful and reasoned stance would make it seem that way....to you.

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (laYqV)

677 We think it was his own vomit. You can't really dust for vomit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (1xUj/)

678 Trump stole my flow.

Posted by: Brian Williams at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (GKF1b)

679 Trump in 1997 urged George Lucas to direct again.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (VdICR)

680 Which is preferable to laying in a puddle of someone elses vomit.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (rwI+c)

681 Donald Trump is the anti Chuck Norris!

Posted by: tbodie at January 18, 2016 01:46 PM (Z2OIC)

682 Man the Trump advocates get upset when you mention Trump's bankruptcies. Not all casinos by the way Nevergiveup. I'd wish you would get that upset at his desire for single payer healthcare.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (qbqnC)


I am not upset by any of it and I support Cruz, but your attacks on Trump are to throw any and everything against the wall and see what sticks...Actually kinda reminds me of let's see..oh Yeah TRUMP

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (gf8BH)

683 I'm going to start posting half comments just like...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (W0RfD)

684 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 18, 2016 01:42 PM (hqZPQ)


gas prices are low and people are stupid
Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:43 PM (zOTsN)

_______

Yep. And that's what it always come down to. All the political minutiae we talk about on a daily basis is irrelevant for the most part. Gas cheap? Hooray for the prez!! Gas expensive, that fucking prezzie sucks!!

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (0LHZx)

685 Trump set up the guy in "Making of a Murderer"

Posted by: We're Through The Looking Glass Here, People at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (7qAYi)

686 Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 01:44 PM (Zs4uk)

Or he works on west coast time. It's only 10:47 here.

Hey, he's a renaissance ewok, amiright?

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (hgBpU)

687 Why would you ...

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (rwI+c)

688 Donald Trump is the REAL man in the high castle.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (0LHZx)

689 Jar Jar Binks was all Trump's idea.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (kpqmD)

690 Which is preferable to laying in a puddle of someone elses vomit.

Another good reason to switch from bourbon to gin.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (DL2i+)

691 I guess I'm just worried that Cruz and Trump kill each other off by being stupid and we get Dondi/Christie or Jeb/Kasich.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (hgBpU)

Yeah.

You think the GOPe isn't relishing these attacks on Cruz by Trump?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (u0lmX)

692 I mentioned them this morning. I agree his financial history will be a problem in the general
Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty

and Hillary is just fat & stupid enough to wander into that briar patch. Chapter 11 ain't Chapter 7.

Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (nFwvY)

693 "Trump in 1997 urged George Lucas to direct again."


Scariest one so far.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (LA7Cm)

694 Trump talked Yoko Ono into a musical career.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (kpqmD)

695 Donald Trump helped Hillary win her Senate seat.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (qbqnC)


Right. She was just a poor, penniless, no-shot-in-hell nobody, until Trump came along.


Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (Dj0WE)

696 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:47 PM (gf8BH)

I'm sorry. Posting facts is out of bounds? You can ignore them if you want but it won't make them not true.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (qbqnC)

697 Oh yeah, he shit in my pants too.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (rwI+c)

698
She says I am the one....

But the kid is Donalds son.

Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (8XRCm)

699 Bitchin Betty beat me to it.

Stoopid.

Posted by: Infidel at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (gOViX)

700 Trump shot my mother.

Posted by: Bambi at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (GKF1b)

701 "Trump talked Yoko Ono into a musical career. "



I stand corrected.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (LA7Cm)

702

Hillary would have won NY regardless of what Trump did or didn't do for her. I was in NJ at the time. It was a friggin coronation. A reward for not dumping Bill and putting up with all his BS. She was in NY for 15 minutes and all of NYC was panting for her

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (zOTsN)

703 Trump wrecked me.

Posted by: Edmund Fitzgerald at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (NeFrd)

704 I'm sorry. Posting facts is out of bounds? You can ignore them if you want but it won't make them not true.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (qbqnC)


And because you say them, they are true? Oh sorry I did not get that memo. I apologize

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (gf8BH)

705 Trump shot my paw!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (rwI+c)

706 You think the GOPe isn't relishing these attacks on Cruz by Trump?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM


They don't notice. They're still all excited by the Devastating Ripostes Heb! is hurling at Rubio.

I love seeing the bottom-feeders acting as if dissing each other will get any of them close to 10%.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (ZPz7d)

707 Trump made Ambrose Bierce disappear. He was getting to close to the truth.

Posted by: We're Through The Looking Glass Here, People at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (7qAYi)

708 Here at the HQ posters have repeatedly commented on the new tactic the TFG administration has pioneered for getting its way and changing laws without Congressional action.

The administration convinces some SJW org to file a lawsuit challenging the law and then the Justice Department "settles" the lawsuit and "agrees" to change enforcement as TFG wanted to do all along, but was prevented from doing by the inconvenient law.

Now, NYC has adapted the same tactic and eliminated some useful tactics in pursuing terrorists. They've even agreed to throw away knowledge on radicalization, gained over years in tough investigations. Fucking amazing.

http://bit.ly/1WnS73p

Posted by: MTF at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (TxJGV)

709 Trump shot my mother.
Posted by: Bambi at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (GKF1b)

----

Trump shot the deputy.

Posted by: Eric Clapton at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (8XRCm)

710 Trump told Archduke Ferdinand that Sarajevo was classy.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (1xUj/)

711 Trump bought Robert Mapplethorpe his first camera.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (kpqmD)

712 Trump is Chelsea's daddy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (FsuaD)

713 Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (Dj0WE)

Did he or did he not help her when she ran for Senator?

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (qbqnC)

714 Trump was the walrus.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (X6fMO)

715 "Why would you ..."



.....go to the store wearing nothing but.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (LA7Cm)

716 Saving $1,000 a year in gas costs based on lower oil prices based on OPEC's fragging our fracking: Thanks, Obama!
Killing off domestic oil and coal production, resulting in job loss and bankruptcies: Thanks, Obama!
Losing $1000s in 401k/IRA/529/pension funds in the worst period for returns since 1937: Thanks, Obama!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (hqZPQ)

717 "conservatives" seem especially hostile to Trump supporters, I'm guessing because they feel the finally have a chance for POTUS and Trump is ruining it. True Dat ...

But conservatives that support Trump see the dynamics he brings, the media attention, the huuuge excited crowds. The open border and China issues are now "in play", not an issue relegated (in the MSM) to racist xenophobic conservatives.

On the biggest issues, I think Trump moves the needle most. Border control is a must, and Trump is less likely to be bought off by the CoCs. Cruz not long ago wanted 5 times as many H-1B and other work visas. But now they both say they want to save American jobs first.

Making better deals with China is right, and business guys on Cavuto felt Trump understood the issues best. He won't just throw tariffs on everything, but he will negotiate much better, starting from strength (tariff threat). Trump is likely to win back the Reagan Democrats, and even union bosses see many members flipping to Trump partly on trade.

And only Trump took the strong stand on stopping the Muslim invasion (till we figure wtf is going on). He said there would be exceptions (business), but few are willing to even breach that subject for fear of the PC police. Looking at Europe, a leader that will say NO in no uncertain terms is vital.

I see a Trump schlonging of Hillary more likely than Rand Paul's "lose in a landslide" concern trolling. Cruz has to find big money and has to win over the GOPe that do seem to hate him. Trumps favorables keep climbing as he becomes candidate more than TV celebrity.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 18, 2016 01:52 PM (5Gpe2)

718 Trump is the me.

Posted by: Walrus at January 18, 2016 01:52 PM (NeFrd)

719 Trump talked Yoko Ono into a musical career.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM


Now that right there is some scurrilous attackin'....

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 01:52 PM (ZPz7d)

720 you should have seen the breathless reporting, even in the NYPost

They are moving to Chappaqua!!! They got a dog!!! She hired a decorator!!! She is traveling the state on a "listening tour"!!

they were panting for her

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:52 PM (zOTsN)

721 Donald Trump farts in elevators.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (qppoh)

722 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (gf8BH)

Tell me which fact I posted is untrue. You won't because you would rather ignore them.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (qbqnC)

723 Speed the primaries I say.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (rwI+c)

724 I guess I'm just worried that Cruz and Trump kill each other off by being stupid and we get Dondi/Christie or Jeb/Kasich.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 01:45 PM (hgBpU)

Yeah.

You think the GOPe isn't relishing these attacks on Cruz by Trump?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:48 PM (u0lmX)


If Cruz is going to be the nominee... and that's a huge IF, he's going to have to survive whatever Gope has in store, ALREADY. Trump isn't doing anything that Rove and Steve Schmitt and others of their ilk haven't already put together.


Months and months ago, the theory was, Obama was putting all Hilery's dirty laundry out there, so it loses its value AFTER she gets nominated. People believe that, and maybe it's true.


Have any of the folks here who are worried about Trump and Cruz going at it even considering the possibility they WANT to put this stuff out there? In case, you know, they have to team up at some point?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (Dj0WE)

725 The bear was Trump.

Posted by: Leo DiCaprio at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (1xUj/)

726
"Why would you ..."


.....go to the store wearing nothing but.....>>>

A colander mask and assless chaps...

Posted by: buzzsaw at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (XtAzU)

727 You don't think he has to do well on Super Tuesday?Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 01:38 PM (rwI+c)

Trump doesn't yet have anywhere near majority GOP support. As weaker candidates fall away, anti-Trump primary voterswill coalesce around either Cruz or Rubio, which is--in my view--is where the real fight is.

So no, neither Cruz or Rubio have to make a sweep to stay in the game. The others fall away and then they duke it out. The one who puts the other away takes on Trump. How that turns out is anybody's guess.

And then Jeb Bush, always considered the smartest and best Bush Brother, driven mad byshattered dreams, goes beserk and kills everybody in a bloody, chaotic denouement reminiscent of the robbery scene in 'Heat'.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (OGbEB)

728 Donald Trump calls directory assistance for numbers he could easily look up himself.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (qppoh)

729

Ever notice there are no Democrats on Mt Rushmore????

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM (8XRCm)

730 665 Trump boldly went where no man had gone before.


Oh, wait, never mind. That was Shatner.

That was Web Hubble.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 01:54 PM (7qAYi)

731 You breach a hull.

You broach a subject.




(by the way, don't look up "breach the hull" in the Urban Dictionary, even though you know you want to)

Posted by: Walrus at January 18, 2016 01:54 PM (NeFrd)

732 blubber sock off.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 01:54 PM (NeFrd)

733 Gas cheap? Hooray for the prez!!

Yeah, Obama places roadblocks and logjams against the frackers -- who ignore him, because capitalism and profit. Fracking increases the supply of natural gas and oil to such an extent that there's a worldwide oversupply and prices plummet.

Who in their right mind wouldn't give Obama credit?

/s

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (fbovC)

734 729

Ever notice there are no Democrats on Mt Rushmore????

A-hem!

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (7qAYi)

735 "A colander mask and assless chaps... "


I could see that working...

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (Zs4uk)

736 The Grassy Knoll? Trump

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (zv81W)

737 Trump is Chelsea's daddy.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (FsuaD)

It was all fun and games until this^

Posted by: D Trump at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (Z2OIC)

738 Trump says true things no other candidate will say, even Cruz, and says them in a way that connects with the voters. I wish Cruz had more of his style


Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (zOTsN)

739
Point of order if I may.

All chaps are "assless". If they had an ass... theyd be "pants".


That is all ..... carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 01:55 PM (8XRCm)

740 Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:49 PM (Dj0WE)

Did he or did he not help her when she ran for Senator?
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 01:51 PM (qbqnC)


She didn't run for Senator. She was handed the office.


You can keep pretending you don't know that, or you can have some credibility here. You can't do both.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (Dj0WE)

741 Trump groped me in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

Posted by: Angela Merkel at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (GKF1b)

742 Donald Trump's diet consists of steak, bourbon, cigars, and the tears of babies whose families he has evicted.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (qppoh)

743 No, I am your father!

Posted by: Anakin Trump at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (hqZPQ)

744 Whose turn is it to wake up Ace?

Posted by: simplemind at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (JTwsP)

745 Ever notice there are no Democrats on Mt Rushmore????

--

It's a good thing Barry's ears are so Dumbo-ified, or you could bet your sweet bippy he'd be up there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 18, 2016 01:57 PM (pVkEV)

746 Trump taught Barny Frank how to speak.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 01:57 PM (Fmupd)

747 Donald Trump is the Man In the Iron Mask

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 01:57 PM (qppoh)

748
Donald Trump farts in elevators.----OregonMuse

And blames others.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 01:57 PM (1JqUE)

749 They don't notice.


Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 01:50 PM (ZPz7d)

Of course they're noticing. They want Trump to rip Cruz to shreds - that's why they're not defending Cruz or pretending Trump is right to bring up the birth issue. And yeah, they agree with Trump that Cruz is a big meanie. He called Johnny Boehner names for God's sake!!!

I think the GOPe hates both Cruz and Trump, but perceives they'd have a better chance cutting deals with Trump, because cutting deals is what he does.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 01:58 PM (u0lmX)

750 743 No, I am your father!
Posted by: Anakin Trump at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (hqZPQ)

No, I am your father!

Posted by: Anakin Trump's ghey partner eating ghey soup at January 18, 2016 01:58 PM (kpqmD)

751 Trump didnt give us Hillary. Bill did that by porking every fat chick in sight

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 01:58 PM (zOTsN)

752 >>>The Grassy Knoll? Trump

DeGrassey Neil? Tyson

Posted by: Bill Nye at January 18, 2016 01:58 PM (GKF1b)

753 Donald Trump is responsible for the collapse of Netscape.

Also, Alta Vista.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 01:59 PM (qppoh)

754 That is all ..... carry on.

*shoots fixerupper in the knee*

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 18, 2016 01:59 PM (1xUj/)

755 Well, lunch time is over. Back to work for me. See y'all later.

Posted by: tbodie at January 18, 2016 01:59 PM (Z2OIC)

756 Trump shat himself at the White House. Twice.

Posted by: Al Roker at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (7qAYi)

757 Trump directed The Room.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (kpqmD)

758 Trump's mama sews socks that smell.

Posted by: Pazuzu Jackson at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (hqZPQ)

759 Ace hasn't commented on that little tart Twitter since the 15th.

Maybe he really is frozen in a pool of pudding and Valu-Rite.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (LUgeY)

760 Not only does Donald Trump leave the toilet seat up, he has them removed to save money.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (qppoh)

761 Point of order if I may.

All chaps are "assless". If they had an ass... theyd be "pants".


That is all ..... carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper


*****

Counterpoint- why is it that whenever you see a picture of a pair of chaps you see an ass? Hardly assless when you think about it.

They would only be assless if hanging in the closet.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (NeFrd)

762 New Coke?

Yup. Trump.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:00 PM (1xUj/)

763 Trump spat in my empanada and threatened to deport me.

Posted by: Jeb Bush at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (GKF1b)

764 748
Donald Trump farts in elevators.----OregonMuse

And blames others.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 01:57 PM (1JqUE)

Even when there's only one other passenger. The man is brazen.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (VdICR)

765
Valu-rite can freeze???

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (8XRCm)

766 perhaps Ace is having............pancakes?

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (zOTsN)

767 Eagles' decision to go with two QBs this year?

Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (Dj0WE)

768 Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (Dj0WE)

So for the record your answer is he didn't help her?

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (qbqnC)

769 Trump shot Bambi's mother. Then he left her body there to rot.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (1JqUE)

770 Trump invented Zima.

Posted by: buzzsaw at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (XtAzU)

771 >>Trump doesn't yet have anywhere near majority GOP support. As weaker candidates fall away, anti-Trump primary voterswill coalesce around either Cruz or Rubio, which is--in my view--is where the real fight is.


that makes sense as long as you ignore his rallies that bring out people by the tens of thousands a year before the election.

Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (nFwvY)

772 Point of order if I may.

All chaps are "assless". If they had an ass... theyd be "pants".


That is all ..... carry on.

Posted by: fixerupper


*****

Counterpoint- why is it that whenever you see a picture of a pair of chaps you see an ass? Hardly assless when you think about it.

They would only be assless if hanging in the closet.

----

**opens mouth**

**closes mouth**

.

.

.

.

.

...well fcuk....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (8XRCm)

773 As weaker candidates fall away, anti-Trump primary
voterswill coalesce around either Cruz or Rubio, which is--in my
view--is where the real fight is.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 01:53 PM


Leaving aside the strengths/weaknesses of the individual candidates, I think you -- and a lot of the Mighty Conservative Political Anal-yst Hotshots -- are missing is this: Trump has changed the dynamics of the process in a major way. A lot of his supporters are not Real Republicans or Reagan Democrats or susceptible to any of the standard labels. They are plain ol' folks who have been attracted to the notion of a candidate who says what they think and represents a turn away from Professional Politicians.

It's Common Core Math, where two candidates whose poll numbers are steady in the 0-10% range will coalesce, and the total for the surviving candidate will still be in the 0-10% range.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:03 PM (ZPz7d)

774 It's MLK Day ... the ewok is on holiday?

MLK's FBI files are unsealed in 12 years, at which time we find his connections to communists ... but speaking of it will be a hate crime by then. And New York values will look like "Escape from New York", if we elect Hillary.

Posted by: Illiniwek at January 18, 2016 02:03 PM (5Gpe2)

775 George W. Bush Trump told me not to run Marshawn at the goal line!

Posted by: truther Pete Carroll at January 18, 2016 02:03 PM (H9MG5)

776 Three stalls at the airport. In one, Larry Craig. In another, a cop. In the third?

Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (Dj0WE)

777 Trump invented paddle shifters

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (X+nFp)

778 Trump is the REAL Dallas Cowboy's coach.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (Fmupd)

779 54 % of Trumps contributions went to Congressional democrats, including Harry Reid


like I said. He seems to want influence over Congress no matter who is in charge

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (zOTsN)

780 Trump deflated the footballs for his good friend Tom Brady!

Posted by: Roger Goodhell at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (H9MG5)

781 757 Trump directed The Room.

That is not true. I did not do it. Ohai, Mark.

Posted by: Donald Trump at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (7qAYi)

782 Trump changed the recipe for Cadbury milk chocolate.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:05 PM (kpqmD)

783

OK Ace..... this aint funny anymore....

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (8XRCm)

784 Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 01:56 PM (Dj0WE)

So for the record your answer is he didn't help her?
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 02:01 PM (qbqnC)


No, he didn't.


But you have his entire history memorized, so you're going to show me how she wouldn't have been a Senator without Donald Trump's help.


Oh yes you are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (Dj0WE)

785 Change the recipe for KFC gravy- Trump

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (X+nFp)

786 I read Kevin Williams butt hurt rant in the dump. Oh dear. Us boobs in flyover country are too stupid and unnuanced to appreciate the exquisite wonderfulness that is New York.


We refuse to launch an expensive and probably unsuccessful missionary effort to save New Yorkers and the residents of other Democrat dominated cities from themselves and the consequences of their bad choices.

Just as Winston Churchill refused to be intimidated by an appeal to the tradition of the navy, dismissing them as rum, sodomy and the lash, it is reasonable to dismiss New York values as arrogance, sixewalk masturbation booths and an unwillingness to pay their bills.

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (V78cl)

787 780 Trump deflated the footballs for his good friend Tom Brady!


Posted by: Roger Goodhell at January 18, 2016 02:04 PM (H9MG5)

Now this I can believe. Probably paid off those ball boys with three free nights at the Trump Tower.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (a0IVu)

788 Trump changed the recipe for Cadbury milk chocolate.

And Guinness, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (LUgeY)

789 Trump also gave 100 k to The Clinton Foundation


a little "pay for play" I suppose. Like I said, he knows how to buy access

at least he is a purchaser and not a seller

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (zOTsN)

790 Trump changed the recipe for Cadbury milk chocolate.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:05 PM


If you're gonna play that game, I say Cruzer is responsible for New Coke.

So there.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (ZPz7d)

791 You broach a subject.

and broast a chicken.

What? it's gotta be better than TvC round 986

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 02:07 PM (DL2i+)

792 All chaps are "assless". If they had an ass... theyd be "pants".
---
But what of Prince's assless pants?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 02:07 PM (jR7Wy)

793 that makes sense as long as you ignore his rallies that bring out people by the tens of thousands a year before the election.Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (nFwvY)

Not true. Big rallies are a possible indicator of support but not a guarantee of majority support. As I recall, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul had some tremendously dynamic and crowded rallies in the last presidential election cycle--thundrous rallies which amounted to approximately jack and shit when it came to primary victories.

It is cute how Trump supporters run to protect their Beloved from any remark that might be viewed as less than flattering. Also reminiscent of Ron Paul.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:07 PM (OGbEB)

794 Trump only paid me 77 cents.

Posted by: Carly Fiorina at January 18, 2016 02:07 PM (GKF1b)

795 Is this the gun thread?

Posted by: tu3031 at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (YFFpo)

796 Sheesh. Primaries can't come soon enough so that all this bickering can end.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (a0IVu)

797 If you're gonna play that game, I say Cruzer is responsible for New Coke.

So there.
Posted by: MrScribbler


I was the one person who preferred New Coke to old.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (FkBIv)

798 Looking at an old shriveled babbling 'tard on FNC. Oh, wait. That's Bernie.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (Fmupd)

799 Trump gave us the New Jersey Generals! The USFL was way better than the NFL for that matter.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (hqZPQ)

800 Trump put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (NeFrd)

801 Donald Trump makes British politicians cry.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (qppoh)

802 would you rather have a buyer or a seller of access as POTUS

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (zOTsN)

803 I guess a half-assed job is better than...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:09 PM (W0RfD)

804 Trump bought KFC
...and turned it into Yum Foods...imported from Asia...

Posted by: Judas Washington at January 18, 2016 02:09 PM (eOpVe)

805 Is this the gun thread?
Posted by: tu3031 at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (YFFpo)


I would be, but Trump wants to ban gun threads.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:09 PM (Dj0WE)

806 Trump gave Old Yeller rabies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 02:09 PM (FkBIv)

807 Trump discontinued coke slaw at Chik-fil-a

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (kpqmD)

808 Donald Trump makes British politicians cry. Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM

Feature, not bug.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (ZPz7d)

809 Asians love KFC. Love. It.

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (zOTsN)

810 Trump wouldn't let Shane come back.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (kpqmD)

811 While often criticized, Donald Trump was never pillared like Jimmy Hoffa.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (fbovC)

812 As I recall, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul had some tremendously dynamic and crowded rallies in the last presidential election cycle

Only on the internet.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (qppoh)

813 Trump tipped Guam.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (NeFrd)

814 Trump changed McDonald's french fries.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:11 PM (LUgeY)

815 RNC has severed ties with NBC for the next debate


tell me that would have happened without Trump

try

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:11 PM (zOTsN)

816 795 Is this the gun thread?

Yes, and Trump likes a 9mm.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (7qAYi)

817 Trump is keeping Ace from giving us a new post!

Posted by: the most evil thing of all at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (H9MG5)

818 As I recall, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul had some tremendously dynamic and crowded rallies in the last presidential election cycle
------------
Only on the internet.
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:10 PM (qppoh)


He promised them more pot.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (Dj0WE)

819 Trump invented the Enchirito. Christie and Huckabee ate them all.

Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (nFwvY)

820
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (qppoh)


------------


Damn! He's got my vote.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (Fmupd)

821 Trump threw Timmy in the well and wouldn't let Lassie go get Mr. Gunderson.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (NeFrd)

822
The decision to cast George Lazenby as James Bond?


Trump.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (X6fMO)

823 They are plain ol' folks who have been attracted to the notion of a candidate who says what they think and represents a turn away from Professional Politicians.Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:03 PM (ZPz7d)

That down-home 'plain ol' folks' shit wears pretty thin, especially when you're talking about the same dumbasses (and their dumbass ancestors)who havefallen with almost boring repetition forthe same fast-talkingpopulist demogogues throughout our history. Trump's just another in a long line.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (OGbEB)

824 As we get closer to Iowa, I become more and more certain Trump will win it ... based on nothing more than the concern-trolling by those so adamant that he'll implode.

This is going to be fun.

Posted by: Irony at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (pfxf2)

825 815 RNC has severed ties with NBC for the next debate


tell me that would have happened without Trump

try
Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:11 PM (zOTsN)

That would've happened without Trump.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (kpqmD)

826 >>>>
I heard Trump voted for the JEF in '08. Is that true? Does he own up to it?
.
.
.Glenn Beck spread that rumor from a fake Tweet.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (iONHu)

827 Mark your calendars, e'rryone!

The Official AoSHQ Vegas meetup is going to be on ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (W0RfD)

828 Space Shuttle O rings: Sold by Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (Dj0WE)

829 Trump made all the candidates deal with immigration

made them agree to building a wall

pushed back against corrupt journalists

moved the Overton window

and killed the Jeb campaign

no matter what happens I am grateful for that

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (zOTsN)

830
Trump pioneered the art of tying a chicken to your dick-

only in his case he used a Ayam Cemani rooster and a YUUUUGE gold foil ribbon.


It was fabulous!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (0cMkb)

831 Trump made Debbie Wassermann-Schultz look that way.

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 02:14 PM (fWLrt)

832 717
"conservatives" seem especially hostile to Trump supporters, I'm
guessing because they feel the finally have a chance for POTUS and Trump
is ruining it.
--

I'm a fairly hardcore conservative/ Tea Party type, and honestly, what Republican is conservative? None of the ones out there.

Trump isn't a conservative, however, he is an outsider, so he's not a RINO, and he's not playing the Washington game. Which is why I support him and his potential SMOD/ LIB administration.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 02:14 PM (9JJgN)

833 New Fantastic Four movie? Trump

Posted by: We're Through The Looking Glass Here, People at January 18, 2016 02:14 PM (7qAYi)

834 Donald Trump does not take the sunrise and sprinkle it with dew.
Nor does he cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:14 PM (qppoh)

835
The Official AoSHQ Vegas meetup is going to be on ...


*****


Pay-Per-View?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:15 PM (NeFrd)

836 Moved the Dodgers out of Brooklyn: Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:15 PM (Dj0WE)

837 that makes sense as long as you ignore his rallies that bring out people by the tens of thousands a year before the election.

Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (nFwvY)

Honestly, I don't know how much that matters. Palin drew huge crowds too. (Yeah, I know those rallies was much closer to the election and not enough to counteract the Cult of JEF.)

Yes, it seems necessary for a candidate , whether it's JEF, Bern, Palin or Trump, to elicit powerful support and devotion from their followers and draw huge crowds at rallies - but that doesn't necessarily tell you how well they will do in the general. Polls, at least the presidential ones, have done a much better job at that. Trump's unfavorable are pretty high.

But then, I know only 1 person who is a Trump supporter, or who admits to being one. Both the libs and the conservatives I know (and the conservatives are not GOPe either) hate Trump. I mean, really hate. So when you talk about cross over appeal, you have to remember that he also repulses many people across the political spectrum.

(I would vote for Trump in the general, I like some of the things he says, but I simply don't trust him. I trust the Dems even less, but that's not saying much.)

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 02:15 PM (u0lmX)

838 Trump rapped my knuckles with a ruler and ran off with my cap.

Posted by: Pope Francis at January 18, 2016 02:15 PM (GKF1b)

839 Anybody try the new flavor of KFC?

It looks weird.

Like it's all covered with fried boils.


Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (0cMkb)

840 That down-home 'plain ol' folks' shit wears pretty
thin, especially when you're talking about the same dumbasses (and their
dumbass ancestors)who havefallen with almost boring repetition forthe
same fast-talkingpopulist demogogues throughout our history. Trump's
just another in a long line.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM


I'm sure the distaste is mutual.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (ZPz7d)

841
The Official AoSHQ Vegas meetup is going to be on ...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (W0RfD)


On what?

...fire?
...drugs?
...the downlow?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (qppoh)

842 Trump stole the cookies from the cookie jar.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (kpqmD)

843 Okay, ace. This isn't funny.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (FsuaD)

844 Donald Trump made Mitt Romney give that man cancer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (X6fMO)

845 Trump pushed the iceberg in front of the Titanic.

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (JOG+K)

846 770 Trump invented Zima.
Posted by: buzzsaw at January 18, 2016 02:02 PM (XtAzU)

I had to explain what Zima was to my husband (that's how manly he is...) I found a review of some sort on slate that was actually funny-they called it a beer-like solution. No beverage, not drink, solution.

That kind of explains the entire Democratic party, too, come to think of it. Something vile and inedible promoted as cool and better than the real thing.

Posted by: Moki at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (7q2ch)

847 Trump turned me gay.

Posted by: Ellen DeGeneres at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (GKF1b)

848 But then, I know only 1 person who is a Trump supporter, or who admits
to being one. Both the libs and the conservatives I know (and the
conservatives are not GOPe either) hate Trump. I mean, really hate. So
when you talk about cross over appeal, you have to remember that he
also repulses many people across the political spectrum.
--

I live in SE Michigan. Reagan Democrat Michigan.

I know quite a few Democrats that are for Trump. I also know Democrats in CA and NJ that are voting for him. In fact, I haven't run into anyone here that hates Trump yet.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (9JJgN)

849 A rich Arab walks into a bar and is about to order a drink when he sees a guy wearing a Jewish skullcap, a prayer shawl/tzitzis, with traditional ear locks. He figures the guy to be a Jew and wants to embarrass him so he shouts to the bartender: "Drinks for the house, everyone except the Jew."

Soon after the round is poured, the Jew gives him a big smile, waves at him, and calls out: "Thank you!" This infuriates the Arab.

He shouts out again: Drinks for the house, but not the Jew. Again, the Jew is not fussed, continues to smile, and yells:"Thank you!"

It happens a third time. The Arab, real cranky and asks the bartender: "What the hell is the matter with that Jew? I've ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar, over a 100 drinkers, all except him and all the silly bugger does is smile and thank me! Is he nuts?"

"Nope", says the bartender. "He owns the place."

Posted by: Grump928(c) has a joke at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (evdj2)

850 He's Trump, He's Trump, He's Trump - what's with his hair?

Posted by: Weird Al at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (7qAYi)

851 If Zima is the solution, then what is the problem?

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 02:18 PM (fWLrt)

852 Trump led the attack on the Beast's casle. Broke some of the dishes while he was there too.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:18 PM (Dj0WE)

853 Trump's weasels ripped my flesh.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:18 PM (kpqmD)

854 That would've happened without Trump.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:13 PM (kpqmD)

please show proof


remember how Trump led the other candidates to reject the length and format after the first debate

and pushed back on the journalists

and had their own negotiations with debate host networks without the RNC

the RNC is pathetic

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:19 PM (zOTsN)

855 Ishtar?

Trump.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:19 PM (LUgeY)

856 I'm sure the distaste is mutual.
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (ZPz7d)

I should hope so.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:20 PM (OGbEB)

857 851 If Zima is the solution, then what is the problem?
Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 02:18 PM (fWLrt)

Heterosexuality.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:20 PM (kpqmD)

858 The Stars Wars Prequels?


Trump wrote them all.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:20 PM (0cMkb)

859 Trump's just another in a long line.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (OGbEB)

Yeah. William Jennings Bryant drew massive crowds too. He's remembered as the guy who was made a fool of by Clarence Darrow.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 02:20 PM (u0lmX)

860 Trumps mostly come at night, mostly.

Posted by: Newt at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (evdj2)

861 I had to explain what Zima was to my husband (that's how manly he is...) I found a review of some sort on slate that was actually funny-they called it a beer-like solution. No beverage, not drink, solution.

That kind of explains the entire Democratic party, too, come to think of it. Something vile and inedible promoted as cool and better than the real thing.
Posted by: Moki at January 18, 2016 02:17 PM (7q2ch)


I have no idea who owns what, but just assumed Zima didn't die. They just added lemon and/or apple flavoring to it, and kept selling it to hipsters.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (Dj0WE)

862 Trump/Shatner 2016
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon


Trump is on the wing of the plane! Oh my God!
He's trying to sabotage the engine!!

Posted by: William Shatner at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (GKF1b)

863 Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:19 PM (zOTsN)

I'm messing with you. You said try to tell you, not to persuade or offer evidence.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (kpqmD)

864
Battlefield Earth?


Not Trump. Even he has standards.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (X6fMO)

865 Sheesh. Primaries can't come soon enough so that all this bickering can end.
Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (a0IVu)


Bwahahahaha! Good one!

Oh wait, maybe you're new here.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 02:22 PM (kKHcp)

866 I apologize. Will insert sense of humor chip into brain

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:22 PM (zOTsN)

867 228
222 I want to see a woman president soon, but not her. She's a disaster. She's a disaster

i want a woman pres so we can pay her LESS!

Posted by: WaldoTJ at January 18, 2016 02:22 PM (M1MpJ)

868 Trump, high on Bath Salts, attempted to eat my face.

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 02:22 PM (zv81W)

869 I'm sure the distaste is mutual.
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:16 PM (ZPz7d)

I should hope so.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:20 PM (OGbEB)


And this marks you as the pretentious prick you are.


You could do this without having to sneer at whole swaths of the country. But apparently you don't want to.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:23 PM (Dj0WE)

870 Heaven Can Wait?


Trump.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:23 PM (LUgeY)

871 Trump wants you too, Malachi!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:23 PM (X+nFp)

872 860 Trumps mostly come at night, mostly.
Posted by: Newt at January 18, 2016 02:21 PM (evdj2)

*blushes*
She's right, you know.

Posted by: Melania Trump at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (kpqmD)

873 Trump enjoys Jane Fonda movies.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (Fmupd)

874 OK, Trumpsters, I gotta go do stuff.

Y'all try and behave.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (LUgeY)

875 228

222 I want to see a woman president soon, but not her. She's a disaster. She's a disaster

i want a woman pres so we can pay her LESS!
----
If a woman president only gets 80% of the taxes of a man, I'd vote for her.

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (ZbV+0)

876 Trump wants you too, Malachi!


Nice.


I do think we could do an entire thread with just movie quote responses.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (evdj2)

877 The Official AoSHQ Vegas meetup is going to be on ...
---
...cocaine snorted from a midget tranny hooker's ass?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (jR7Wy)

878 Folks, Trump isn't winning because of conservative values. I don't think anyone's going to mistake the man for a rock-ribbed philosophical conservative. No, he's winning because he's a non-weirdo economic nationalist with at least some signs of being a cultural traditionalist. Right now, that is the message people want. They want things stacked for them (the way it "should" be) rather than against them (the way they see it having been for years and years). Trump promises that and people are looking for someone...anyone...to turn the tides back their way.

Will he? No clue. Can he? Hell if I know. Is this what's best? Eh...what's the old phrase about democracy beginning at 1200 calories per day? That's what we're seeing the economic equivalent play out right now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at January 18, 2016 02:24 PM (m9V0o)

879 Sheesh. Primaries can't come soon enough so that all this bickering can end.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 02:08 PM (a0IVu)

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



Then we get the campaign bickering, Then we get the post-election-this-is-why-we-lost bickering. That lasts till pretty much the next election. By the time it's all over, many of us will be missing a limb.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:25 PM (dFi94)

880 He's remembered as the guy who was made a fool of by Clarence Darrow.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands)


Made a monkey out of him?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 02:25 PM (FkBIv)

881 Donald Trump tried to kill our puppies.

Posted by: Lisa Simpson at January 18, 2016 02:25 PM (FwRqg)

882 Donald Trump stole my fiancee.

Posted by: Grampa Simpson at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (FwRqg)

883 Then we get the campaign bickering, Then we get the post-election-this-is-why-we-lost bickering. That lasts till pretty much the next election.


I recommend that everyone start drinking heavily.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (evdj2)

884
You could do this without having to sneer at whole swaths of the country. But apparently you don't want to.


The election's 11 months away. We'll find out soon enough whether "you're all a bunch of sister-humping, sloping-forehead morons being led around by the nose!" is a winning strategy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (X6fMO)

885 Donald Trump sexually harassed me.

Posted by: Marge Simpson at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (FwRqg)

886 If there's one thing I know about Morons, they're huggy drunks.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (evdj2)

887 Trump let the dogs out.

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (JOG+K)

888 Made a monkey out of him?


Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 02:25 PM (FkBIv)

Ha!

See ya later, horde.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (u0lmX)

889 Donald Trump made fun of my weight.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (FwRqg)

890 883
Then we get the campaign bickering, Then we get the
post-election-this-is-why-we-lost bickering. That lasts till pretty much
the next election.





I recommend that everyone start drinking heavily.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor
with equal or greater value at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (evdj2)

I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaay aheada ya!!! <HIC>

Posted by: SHRILLARY!!! at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (wtvvX)

891 Donald Trump's breath smells like cat food.

Posted by: Ralph Wiggum at January 18, 2016 02:27 PM (FwRqg)

892 House always wins on 21 in Backjack?

Trump

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (T78UI)

893
The election's 11 months away. We'll find out soon enough whether "you're all a bunch of sister-humping, sloping-forehead morons being led around by the nose!" is a winning strategy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:26 PM (X6fMO)

You shut your whore mouth! My forehead doesn't slope.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (X+nFp)

894
The KKK took my baby away!


No, wait. It was Trump.

Posted by: naturalfake Ramone at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (0cMkb)

895 Then we get the campaign bickering, Then we get the
post-election-this-is-why-we-lost bickering. That lasts till pretty much
the next election. By the time it's all over, many of us will be
missing a limb. Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:25 PM


With luck, it'll be the Democrats who are whingeing loudly about losing. For once.

Of course there will be howls from those whose favorite candidates didn't get the nomination, regardless of party.

The cries of the devastated Heb! fans will be lovely to hear....

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (ZPz7d)

896
The election's 11 months away. We'll find out soon enough whether "you're all a bunch of sister-humping, sloping-forehead morons being led around by the nose!" is a winning strategy.

Hey, nobody, I mean NOBODY leads me around by the nose!

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (kpqmD)

897 Oh Ewok, where art thou???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (wtvvX)

898 The KKK took my baby away!





No, wait. It was Trump.





Posted by: naturalfake Ramone at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (0cMkb)

Disguised as a dingo

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (T78UI)

899 Donald Trump fucked Ivanka. Wait. He actually has.

Good man.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (Fmupd)

900 AoSHQ, where Frank and Joey get shout outs.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (hJ9pI)

901 The election's 11 months away. We'll find out soon enough whether
"you're all a bunch of sister-humping, sloping-forehead morons being led
around by the nose!" is a winning strategy.
---
I think we'll know sooner than that. If an establishment friendly candidate isn't leading in delegates after super Tuesday, the answer is pretty much no.

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (ZbV+0)

902 Microsoft 10- Trump

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (X+nFp)

903 >>>Trump/Shatner 2016

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon<<<




Nooooo! They have committed far to many horrors against my kind!

Posted by: the Tribble on Trumps head at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (H9MG5)

904 Sometimes -- you know like when the country is tens of trillions in debt, hemmoraging the jobs of its citizens, paying trillions in benefits to non-citizens, has a citizen labor participation rate lowest in decades, has looming insolvency on the horizon... A little populism/nationalism is the best prescription drug available.

Posted by: lace wigs at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (fbovC)

905 Trump kidnapped the Ewok.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (cbfNE)

906 Posted by: rdbrewer at 10:08 AM

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (evdj2)

907 Saudi Arabias Grand Mosque Imam Slams Obamas Iran Deal As An Alliance Of The Safavids With The Jews And Christians Against Muslims

Weasel Zippers

I guess he does know Israel's position on this? Or conservative Christians. But I am most shocked he did not blame Trump?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (gf8BH)

908 Madonna's mid-career sudden onset British accent? Yup, Trump.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (2cS/G)

909 This one time, at Trump camp...

Posted by: Melania Trump at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (FwRqg)

910 House always wins on 21 in Backjack?

Posted by: Burnt Toast


That's like a reach-around or something?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (W0RfD)

911 When you have to Trump, Trump! Don't talk.

Posted by: Tuco at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (FkBIv)

912 The Trump ate my baby!

Posted by: Some Crazy Aussie Chick at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (JOG+K)

913 816
795 Is this the gun thread?



Yes, and Trump likes a 9mm.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 18, 2016 02:12 PM (7qAYi)

============================================
I hear he doesn't just 'like' the 9mm he thinks any other caliber is beneath him and he despises the .40 and the .45 is for the weak and feeble minded.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 02:32 PM (CbGSW)

914 You could do this without having to sneer at whole swaths of the country. But apparently you don't want to.

And this marks you as the pretentious prick you are.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:23 PM (Dj0WE)

I've lost count how many times you've called me very unkind names in just the last few weeks, Burt. Not whining about it, mind you, just noting it. Should also note that I may be a prick but never pretentious since pretentiousness implies equal amounts of grandiosity and delusion. I'm comfortable in my own skin and know with some certainty who and what I am, what I could be if I try hard enough.

Anyway, chill the hell out, Burt. They have a new policy here. Whether or not you get a waiver from it is anybody's guess, but better safe than sorry.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:32 PM (OGbEB)

915 Trump uses four pieces at a time.

Posted by: Sheryl Crowe at January 18, 2016 02:32 PM (GKF1b)

916 Posted by: Burnt Toast

That's like a reach-around or something?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:30 PM (W0RfD)

My keyboard doesn't do |_'s.Spe|_|_check usua|_|_y gets them.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 18, 2016 02:33 PM (T78UI)

917 I guess we're going to hit 1,000 comments before we get a new thread.

*pouts*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 02:33 PM (FsuaD)

918 Open Thread in the middle of the day approaching 1000 comments- Trump

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:34 PM (X+nFp)

919
the same dumbasses (and their dumbass ancestors)who have fallen with almost boring repetition forthe same fast-talkingpopulist demogogues throughout our history. Trump's just another in a long line.
Posted by: troyriser




Kan wun of ya'll from New Yawk readd that to me? Didnt have much skoolin', be'fer Pappy sent me out ta the fields ta werk.

Posted by: Clem - Flyover Country USA

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:34 PM (kdS6q)

920 Who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby? Trump.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 02:34 PM (FwRqg)

921 Trump put the benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:34 PM (qppoh)

922 Trump sent Ralphie a crummy commercial.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:35 PM (kpqmD)

923
I may be a prick but never pretentious
Posted by: troyriser



"Pretentious? Moi?"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:35 PM (kdS6q)

924 836 Moved the Dodgers out of Brooklyn: Trump.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 02:15 PM (Dj0WE)

Nobody tells me anything around here.

Posted by: Bob Dole at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (VdICR)

925 The secret head vampire in The Lost Boys- Trump

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (X+nFp)

926 a little "pay for play" I suppose. Like I said, he knows how to buy access



at least he is a purchaser and not a seller

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 02:06 PM (zOTsN)

I don't think Trump is a hypocrite for this... those are the rules and he knows how to game them. As I said last night to someone, what worries me is that Trump has no natural conservative instincts that I can identify beyond immigration.


What he has is a history of being very comfortable with a crony capitalist system that has enriched him and no evident inclination to want that system to change. His eminent domain abuse more than the buying of access is actually far more worrisome as a character issue is it shows a willingness to hold the government gun to the head of actual identifiable people in order to rob them of their property.
I love Trump on immigration and I am ecstatic about his giving the middle finger to the press and the PC police BUT I worry about what else he will do if he becomes president. That said, he is my second choice after Cruz because he is the only other real choice for conservatives in the race.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (OrI3J)

927 Trump kicked that lantern, not me!

Posted by: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (JOG+K)

928 Trump apparently did kidnap Ace. That or he is just getting wasted in MLK's honor.

Posted by: In Exile at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (Z7AXG)

929 Trump once stood up the Doublemint Twins.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:36 PM (qppoh)

930 897 Oh Ewok, where art thou???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 02:28 PM (wtvvX)

I laughed way too hard at this.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 02:37 PM (VdICR)

931 Must be a long MLK day parade.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 02:37 PM (gmeXX)

932 Trump uses four pieces at a time.
Posted by: Sheryl Crowe


I see five pieces.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at January 18, 2016 02:37 PM (FkBIv)

933

Trump writes for HotAir.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:37 PM (kdS6q)

934 Must be a long MLK day parade.
Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 02:37 PM (gmeXX)

Waiting for the Post Office float.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:38 PM (X+nFp)

935 Trump sold Emelia Earhart her maps.

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:38 PM (evdj2)

936 It was Trump, in the library, with a lead pipe.

Posted by: people playing Clue at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (H9MG5)

937 >>70 Heaven Can Wait? Trump.

a decent movie. better than Heaven's Gate.

which was also Trump.

Posted by: x at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (nFwvY)

938 Donald Trump fucked Ivanka. Wait. He actually has.
Good man.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (Fmupd)

Yup....that's another plus in the Trump category. The man can pull some sweet looking ass.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (ej1L0)

939 Trump shot first!

Posted by: Guido at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (JOG+K)

940 1000!!!

Posted by: Kreplach at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (aL8Gv)

941 You know, I go on Disqus and other comments sections and, just pointing this out, they are a lot easier to use. There's like 4-5 conversations going on in here and long threads become very messy.

I'm just going to let that float in the ether and, for your convenience, I denounce myself.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 02:39 PM (CbGSW)

942 Parade of the Ewoks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jRe6q9ZbE

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (jR7Wy)

943 What's the over/under on the number of computers with an open window for AoSpades that are continually being refreshed waiting to jump?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (X+nFp)

944 a decent movie. better than Heaven's Gate.


Speaking of which, Donald Trump was also the one who started the Heaven's Gate cult.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (FwRqg)

945 Kan wun of ya'll from New Yawk readd that to me? Didnt have much skoolin', be'fer Pappy sent me out ta the fields ta werk.

Posted by: Clem - Flyover Country USA
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:34 PM (kdS6q)

Always nice to hear good ole boy schtick from people who have never so much as mucked out a cattle stall or baled hay or any of the other hundreds of literally bullshit chores that constitute farm life.You can always tell poseurs by their affectations. They use a kind of countrified phraseology like 'plain ole folks' and 'fancy notions' and 'just common sense'. Gets tiresome.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (OGbEB)

946 I see 1000 comments.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (FkBIv)

947 Don't worry. Ace said he's going to post a new one at ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (W0RfD)

948 Trump told me that there were WMDs in Iraq.

Posted by: George W Bush at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM (GKF1b)

949 "...rum, sodomy and the lash..."

Sounds like my honeymoon.

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)

950 Donald Trump fucked Ivanka. Wait. He actually has.



Good man.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:29 PM (Fmupd)

I hope not as Ivanka is his daughter.


If you mean, IVANA, then that is totally OK as that was his wife.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (OrI3J)

951 It's Trump O'Clock

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (zv81W)

952 In less than one week, Cruz has forced Trump to adopt positions of Larry Tribe, align himself with the NY media, and to point out that Senate colleagues do not like him.

Sounds like a neat trick.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (gmeXX)

953 You know, I go on Disqus and other comments sections and, just pointing this out, they are a lot easier to use.


I don't care for thread discussions. I actually like this 1985 style flat topology. If I stayed on point, I miss out on most of the humor and non-sequiturs.

also TD Derrick Henry!

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (evdj2)

954 BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.

Posted by: Countrysquire, feeling reasonably fresh down there at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (eEBON)

955 Trump is the real killer!

Posted by: OJ at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (JOG+K)

956 threaded discussions




dammit

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:42 PM (evdj2)

957 We're gonna make 1000 before Ace rouses himself from his Val-U-Rite induced coma..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 02:42 PM (so+oy)

958 117 Pfft. Like Bill Clinton could get his flaccid pecker into a condom...


Posted by: Chupacabra

He's probably afraid to take it out of one. It's the only thing holding it together.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 18, 2016 02:42 PM (kfcYC)

959 The reason you don't get threaded discussions: Trump.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 02:42 PM (FwRqg)

960 BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.
Posted by: Countrysquire, feeling reasonably fresh down there at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (eEBON)


BUT BUT BUT I thought Hollywood was a liberal bastion? How can that be?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 02:42 PM (gf8BH)

961 Always nice to hear good ole boy schtick from people
who have never so much as mucked out a cattle stall or baled hay or any
of the other hundreds of literally bullshit chores that constitute farm
life.You can always tell poseurs by their affectations. They use a kind
of countrified phraseology like 'plain ole folks' and 'fancy notions'
and 'just common sense'. Gets tiresome.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:40 PM


Touchy little dude, ain't ya?

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:43 PM (ZPz7d)

962 BUT BUT BUT I thought Hollywood was a liberal bastion? How can that be?

----------

I'd like to know why they have a separate actor and actress category.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 02:43 PM (gmeXX)

963 The Macarena?

Trump.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:44 PM (0cMkb)

964 Who kidnapped sired the Lindbergh baby? Trump.


****

fixt

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 02:44 PM (NeFrd)

965
BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.


A little too late to suck up to the race pimps now, Bill.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 18, 2016 02:44 PM (X6fMO)

966 I'd like to know why they have a separate actor and actress category.


That's so cis-centric.

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:45 PM (evdj2)

967 I can just see Ace holding the post, waiting to see if he can post it just under the 1000 mark here.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 02:45 PM (ZkzmI)

968
Gets tiresome.
Posted by: troyriser



Oh dear, now we've tuckered you out.

Want your brown vinyl mat and carton of OJ so you can take a nap?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:45 PM (kdS6q)

969 Trump told me that I need to get ahead in life.

Posted by: ISIS member at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (GKF1b)

970 Before the rooster crows today, the ewok will skin three hobos on MLK Blvd.

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (UzPAd)

971 If you mean, IVANA, then that is totally OK as that was his wife.
Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (OrI3J)


--------------


All those Eastern European women look alike to me.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (Fmupd)

972 Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (dFi94)

973 The Macarena?
Trump.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:44 PM


I see him as more of a vuvuzuela.

Blasting in Poppin' Fresh's ear.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (ZPz7d)

974
Chipotle has renamed their menu...Trump's Revenge!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (0cMkb)

975 Quick! Someone post a link to the ghey hipster slap-fight.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (FsuaD)

976 Listening to the Trump speech excerpts on Rush, it's clear he is quite unfamiliar with Christianity or the Bible. "Two" Corinthians. The tone of his voice sounded insincere. I would have spoken of protecting Christians rather than Christianity, but whatever.

Just noting this. It's not very important to me what he said or how he said it.

Out of all of the contenders, Cruz is the one I trust the most to protect my rights as a Christian. As much as one can trust a politician, that is.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (3hIZX)

977 Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:46 PM (dFi94)

I though FS killed you.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (X+nFp)

978 Bob Marley shot the sheriff, but who shot the deputy? Trump.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 02:48 PM (FwRqg)

979 The more people know Cruz is the Canadian born the less people will vote for him.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 02:48 PM (LXJ1e)

980 BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.


Not to mention he probably couldn't get his prescription for roofies refilled. Why get all dressed up if you can't get laid?

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 02:48 PM (fbovC)

981
Burkina Faso?

Trump named it after his pet hamster.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 02:49 PM (0cMkb)

982

Troyriser's father is not a mailman. He's Trump.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:49 PM (kdS6q)

983 Listening to the Trump speech excerpts on Rush, it's clear he is quite
unfamiliar with Christianity or the Bible. "Two" Corinthians. The tone
of his voice sounded insincere.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (3hIZX)

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


Yeah, that was kind of painful to listen to. Like Hillary and her fake Southern drawl. Don't try to be something that you aren't. Just be respectful and protective, just like you said.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:49 PM (dFi94)

984 I always preferred Upper Volta

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 02:49 PM (ZkzmI)

985 >>>BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.<<<

Is that because he's being frogmarched to county in leg irons?

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 02:50 PM (UzPAd)

986 Global warming- Trump

Climate change- Trump

Climate Disruption- Trump

Polar vortex- Trump

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:50 PM (X+nFp)

987 I though FS killed you.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:47 PM (X+nFp)
=================================================

I got better.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:50 PM (dFi94)

988 That whole Jesus on the cross unpleasantness?


Trump

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 02:50 PM (zv81W)

989 EU passes controversial anti-Israel resolution

EU agreements with Israel will no longer apply to areas over 1949 Armistice lines, but EU stresses this is not a boycott of Israel.


The Yellow Star can't be far behind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (gf8BH)

990 Is Jada upset that's her husband wasn't nominated for the Oscar? My younger brother was highly offended at Will Smith supposedly Nigerian accent, which was not anything close to a Nigerian accent. He couldn't believe that they couldn't take the time to do research on what the accent should sound like, with the multitude of Nigerians milling all over the place. He was really upset about it, it was quite funny.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (3hIZX)

991 Trump and the Rubios ran up17 speeding tickets between them.

Posted by: MSM at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (GKF1b)

992
throws dart
1000?

Posted by: simplemind at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (JTwsP)

993 "I always preferred Upper Volta"


*cries*

Posted by: Guinea Bissau at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (LA7Cm)

994 Touchy little dude, ain't ya?
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 02:43 PM (ZPz7d)


I can't be trolled or provoked by safely anonymous non-people. You have to be a real person, someone I know, in order to get any kind of reaction (other than contempt) from me.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (OGbEB)

995
949 "...rum, sodomy and the lash..."

Sounds like my honeymoon.

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)


Sounds like prom night at Andrew Sullivan's.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (qppoh)

996 Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:50 PM (dFi94)

Heh. Thread winner!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (X+nFp)

997 So....?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (LA7Cm)

998 Here, Jane, maybe this will immanentize the next thread.

Emo bitch slap fight. It's like watching a chihuahua and a cockapoo snap at each other:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7yb80xQO_o

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (jR7Wy)

999 Trump paid Fen to kill Grammie.


Just tying a couple of memes together.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (kTF2Z)

1000 1000?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (qppoh)

1001 9-9-9

Posted by: Herman Caine at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (zv81W)

1002 1000

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (fbovC)

1003 Maybe?

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (laYqV)

1004 Ha! ha! Got it!

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (qppoh)

1005 Who gets the 1001th post?

Posted by: Trump at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (FwRqg)

1006 So...?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (LA7Cm)

1007
I can't be trolled or provoked by safely anonymous non-people. You have to be a real person, someone I know, in order to get any kind of reaction (other than contempt) from me.
Posted by: troyriser



"Pretentious? Moi?"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (kdS6q)

1008 Wow, didn't know ace was a gubmint employee

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (voOPb)

1009
missed it by that much

Posted by: simplemind at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (JTwsP)

1010 Damn.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (LA7Cm)

1011 Who was the first to keep fucking that chicken? Trump

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (FwRqg)

1012 1007
I can't be trolled or provoked by safely anonymous non-people. You have to be a real person, someone I know, in order to get any kind of reaction (other than contempt) from me.
Posted by: troyriser



"Pretentious? Moi?"
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (kdS6q

I am a real person FU

///////

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (voOPb)

1013 "Pretentious? Moi?"


*snort*

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (evdj2)

1014 Troyriser's father is not a mailman. He's Trump.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 02:49 PM (kdS6q)

Whoever it was must've been one handsome sonofabitch.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:53 PM (OGbEB)

1015 990 Is Jada upset that's her husband wasn't nominated for the Oscar? My younger brother was highly offended at Will Smith supposedly Nigerian accent, which was not anything close to a Nigerian accent. He couldn't believe that they couldn't take the time to do research on what the accent should sound like, with the multitude of Nigerians milling all over the place. He was really upset about it, it was quite funny.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 02:51 PM (3hIZX)



Mesa thought Jar-Jar Binks' accent was Nigerian.

Posted by: Will Smith at January 18, 2016 02:54 PM (0cMkb)

1016
Ewok Theme was part of a good decade for John Williams. 1980-1981 was the best year for any composer classical or contemporary.


Similar sound, Parade of the Slave Children. He breaks the 4th wall like Koolaid Man when he writes these self-contained vignettes. At most once per movie, and we love him for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7yDTEslRaM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 02:54 PM (VdICR)

1017 1000! I WIN!

Posted by: Donald Trump at January 18, 2016 02:55 PM (GKF1b)

1018 1000
1000?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM (qppoh)


Thread winner. Go to the window to collect your "get out of the barrel free" card.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 02:55 PM (FsuaD)

1019
Big Tony never consulted with Trump when they whacked me for my indiscretion.

Posted by: Zombie Big Pussy Bonpensiero at January 18, 2016 02:55 PM (OiFtZ)

1020 Trump had ace arrested.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 02:55 PM (qppoh)

1021 Maybe the reason Granny Clinton isn't in jail yet is because they haven't found a blacksmith with the skills necessary to make leg irons that will fit Hillary's hoofed cankles?

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 02:55 PM (UzPAd)

1022 1001 9-9-9

Posted by: Herman Caine at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM


Well done. A four year old economic proposal, blended with race to claim 1,000th post.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (fbovC)

1023 Trump touched troyriser in his no-no place.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (kpqmD)

1024 A four year old economic proposal

--------------

I always liked his 9-9-9 plan. What might have been.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (gmeXX)

1025 Honestly Cruz is the just the latest thang. It went something like from Perry to Fiorina to Jindel to Carson. Cruz is going to flame out too.

Why? Nobody wants a Goldman-Sachs connected, Harvard trained, government employee anywhere near the White House.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (LXJ1e)

1026 This thread is so long I think we're witnessing the beginning of the infinite trollloop.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (CbGSW)

1027 Trump touched troyriser in his no-no place.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (kpqmD)

******

Show me on the dolly.....

Posted by: Tim in GA at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (laYqV)

1028 I am freezing. My heat is turned up and I'm dressed in layers, but I just can't get warm. Anybody else in the minus degrees territory?

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (dFi94)

1029 Oh shit, did Ace go to the movies this weekend?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2016 02:58 PM (kTF2Z)

1030 Wow. Over 1000 comments. Awesome. Luxurious even. The best damn thread I've ever seen.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:58 PM (Fmupd)

1031 1001 9-9-9

Posted by: Herman Caine at January 18, 2016 02:52 PM


Well done. A four year old economic proposal, blended with race to claim 1,000th post.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (fbovC)
*****
I agree. Herman is the REAL thread winner.

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (zv81W)

1032 Trump touched troyriser in his no-no place. Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 02:56 PM (kpqmD)

Yeah, it was horrible. I felt like his daughter.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (OGbEB)

1033 I am freezing. My heat is turned up and I'm dressed in layers, but I just can't get warm. Anybody else in the minus degrees territory?
.............
It is now a balmy 7 degrees down here south of the cheddar curtain, grammie..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (so+oy)

1034 WTH

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (zOTsN)

1035 Mesa thought Jar-Jar Binks' accent was Nigerian.
Posted by: Will Smith at January 18, 2016 02:54 PM (0cMkb)

Jada can get with Bill Cosby and do her own film about the rape culture and all the fun therein now taking place in Europe.

They could call it "Dr. Huxable-Al-Islam Goes to Germany". Oscar for sure.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (ej1L0)

1036 Not in negative territory at the moment, Grammie, but it was -8 this morning. It's a balmy 5 right now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (kTF2Z)

1037 Is this where we agitate for a new thread?

Attica!
Attica!
Attica!

Allllll Pacino...

Posted by: ginaswo at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (qxNrP)

1038 Anyway, chill the hell out, Burt. They have a new policy here. Whether or not you get a waiver from it is anybody's guess, but better safe than sorry.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 02:32 PM (OGbEB)


You aren't the first person who has pointed out the "new" banning policy here.


Wanna know why I don't worry about it? Because I'm smarter than you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (Dj0WE)

1039 NY values limits you to one 16 oz soft drink at a time.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (qbqnC)

1040 BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.

Snort~!

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (DL2i+)

1041 I should add Canadian born, former Bush official.

So,

Nobody wants a Canadian-born, Harvard-trained, Goldman-Sachs connected, former Bush official government employee lawyer anywhere near the White House.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (LXJ1e)

1042 It is now a balmy 7 degrees down here south of the cheddar curtain, grammie..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 18, 2016 02:59 PM (so+oy)
===============================================

3 degrees here, but at least it's beautifully sunny. Supposed to be all the way to 28 degrees by Thursday.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (dFi94)

1043 Donald Trump is the only one who knows Kenneth's frequency.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (FwRqg)

1044 1030 Wow. Over 1000 comments. Awesome. Luxurious even. The best damn thread I've ever seen.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 02:58 PM (Fmupd)


And there's no other thread waiting in draft. This is it, kids.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (qppoh)

1045 BREAKING: Bill Cosby joins black actors who will not attend Oscars.
-----------------

However, he will be bartending at the after-party.

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (fWLrt)

1046 Oh shit, did Ace go to the movies this weekend?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2016 02:58 PM (kTF2Z)


Brokeback Mountain 2.


He went with Allah.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (Dj0WE)

1047 I am amazed at how being married to someone working for a major corporation has now become a major crime. How many of us, if we had had the requisite skills, would have turned down a job with Goldman Sachs if he had been offered one before the whole financial meltdown?

Let's hope nobody else's spouse works for any corporation with any ties to Democrats.

I used to work for a pharmaceutical company that probably pushed Obamacare along with the others. I guess I should be a pariah now.

All morons on this site that work for any universities should denounce themselves right now.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (3hIZX)

1048 1026
This thread is so long I think we're witnessing the beginning of the infinite trollloop.


Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (CbGSW)

____________________________________
Definition 'infinite trollloop': when 2 or more trolls, in a 'troll frenzy' begin trolling each other in a never ending series of troll comments about each other troll's ability to troll individual trolls.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (CbGSW)

1049 We are being punishshed

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (zOTsN)

1050 1039 NY values limits you to one 16 oz soft drink at a time.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (qbqnC)

---------------

That's alright, I'm a cheapskate. I always order the small size drink and get unlimited refills.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (LXJ1e)

1051 I'm calling Trump's supposed abuse of eminent domain as bullsh*t. I know of Trump's projects (and his father's) from following news over the years. I'm not aware of any that used eminent domain especially. If he had been throwing widows and orphans out on the street we'd know about it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (rs5De)

1052 Trump opened the Ark of the Covenant.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (VdICR)

1053 Jada Pinkass Smith not going to Oscars? Trump

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (zv81W)

1054 Holy cow has this thread gone to hell in a handbasket! Ace why have you forsaken us!

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (W+RZ5)

1055 Grammie, have you recovered from that heartbreaking GB game?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (qppoh)

1056 It wasn't me that tempted Adam and Eve with "this yuge, classy apple".

Posted by: the serpent at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (GKF1b)

1057 We are being punishshed

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (zOTsN)
=============================================

As we ought.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (dFi94)

1058
Sir Rodham Clinton will not attend the Oscars to protest whatever the other ones are protesting.

Posted by: Huma Abediin at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (OiFtZ)

1059 Wanna know why I don't worry about it? Because I'm smarter than you. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (Dj0WE)

You're still sore about that 'smarter than you' comment? Geez, Burt, that was 400 comments ago. Move on, man, move on. Let it go. Be free.

Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (OGbEB)

1060
Grammie, have you recovered from that heartbreaking GB game?


Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (qppoh)
=============================================

::: sinks back down into the pit of despair :::

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (dFi94)

1061 1028 I am freezing. My heat is turned up and I'm dressed in layers, but I just can't get warm. Anybody else in the minus degrees territory?
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (dFi94)




I recommend Hoodie-Footie Pajamas. Oh, and gold. And chariots in North America.

Posted by: Glenn Beck at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (vgIRn)

1062 Nobody wants a Canadian-born, Harvard-trained, Goldman-Sachs connected, former Bush official government employee lawyer anywhere near the White House.


I do. As long as he's in this, I'm not going to settle.

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:04 PM (evdj2)

1063 Interesting story about people who smuggle people into the UK. They both seem to have psych problems: woman who is a prostitute/waitress and a guy who is bipolar:

http://linkis.com/www.telegraph.co.uk/ONlZr

Both clamied to be human rights workers.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 03:04 PM (iQIUe)

1064
Judy and Donald just walked through the door
Like a queen with her king

Oh what a birthday surprise
Judy's wearin' his ring

It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to

Cry if I want to

Die if I want to

You would cry too - Vote for Rubio.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:04 PM (kdS6q)

1065 That's alright, I'm a cheapskate. I always order the small size drink and get unlimited refills.
--

LOL. I'd get a small and two straws to share with my Mom.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 18, 2016 03:04 PM (9JJgN)

1066 Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (3hIZX)

You're right of course chique.

I don't fall into any of those categories but i try to denounce myself first thing every morning. Kind of preemptive denouncing just in case.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 03:04 PM (X+nFp)

1067 What's going on, everyone have the day off but me?

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:05 PM (hk3Fb)

1068
I will be attending the Oscars and show casing my FUPA for the world to see and admire.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 18, 2016 03:05 PM (OiFtZ)

1069 +3 degrees, with a pretty brisk wind.

Grammie, we must be in the same area code.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (kKHcp)

1070
I recommend Hoodie-Footie Pajamas. Oh, and gold. And chariots in North America.

Posted by: Glenn Beck at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM

--

Thanks for the shout out Glen!

Posted by: Pajagram and Goldline.. at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (9JJgN)

1071 Let me just say for the uninformed that Atlantic city is and was the saddest shit hole of a town that ever was. If you cross the street from the casinos, just cross the street, you are in the shittiest most blighted neighborhoods east of East St Louis. Ok except maybe Detroit.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (zOTsN)

1072 What's going on, everyone have the day off but me?
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:05 PM (hk3Fb)


I have patients all day...pretty busy actually but of course my patient now is late

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (gf8BH)

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (iONHu)

1074 1068
I will be attending the Oscars and show casing my FUPA for the world to see and admire.
Posted by: Lena Dunham
-----------------

Will he be wearing a tux?

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (fWLrt)

1075 Trump turned me into a Newt.

Posted by: Dennis at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (iONHu)

1076 1047 I am amazed at how being married to someone working for a major corporation has now become a major crime. How many of us, if we had had the requisite skills, would have turned down a job with Goldman Sachs if he had been offered one before the whole financial meltdown?

Let's hope nobody else's spouse works for any corporation with any ties to Democrats.

I used to work for a pharmaceutical company that probably pushed Obamacare along with the others. I guess I should be a pariah now.

All morons on this site that work for any universities should denounce themselves right now.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (3hIZX)

-------------------------

Managing regional director is a bit different than "employee". Really it's just another example of the nasty relationship between Wall Street and DC

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (LXJ1e)

1077 Wanna know why I don't worry about it? Because I'm smarter than you. Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:00 PM (Dj0WE)

You're still sore about that 'smarter than you' comment? Geez, Burt, that was 400 comments ago. Move on, man, move on. Let it go. Be free.
Posted by: troyriser at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (OGbEB)


Oh sorry, I hadn't realized you said anything like that. I was just pointing it out.


Trying to be helpful to you. Because I am.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (Dj0WE)

1078 I'm not aware of any that used eminent domain especially. If he had been throwing widows and orphans out on the street we'd know about it.

http://is.gd/G6XHX2

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (evdj2)

1079 Over 1000 comments in an open thread in the middle of the day?

You guessed it, Trump!

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (JOG+K)

1080 +3 degrees, with a pretty brisk wind.



Grammie, we must be in the same area code.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (kKHcp)
================================================

Maybe not. I don't have much wind here at all. It's beautiful and sunny and calm. If it wasn't like a meat-locker out there, I'd go for a nice walk.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (dFi94)

1081 Caddyshack II?

Trump

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (ZQfW9)

1082 Is this why we can't have nice things? I'm pretty sure this is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (kTF2Z)

1083 The thing about Trump and Cruz is:

We'd be lucky to get both.
Even that won't be nearly enough.

Literally replacing everyone inside the beltway with a clone of RR riding a T-rex with rocket launcher might not be enough.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (DL2i+)

1084 1071 Let me just say for the uninformed that Atlantic city is and was the saddest shit hole of a town that ever was.
Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (zOTsN)


What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Gary Indiana at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (vgIRn)

1085 Grammie it could be worse, you could be from Philadelphia where we don't win many championships

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (hk3Fb)

1086 What's going on, everyone have the day off but me?
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:05 PM (hk3Fb)

Yes. Bwahahahaha

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (3hIZX)

1087 Trump is what prevents us from travelling faster than light.

Posted by: Albert Einstein at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (GKF1b)

1088 Seriously you guys??? What the hell? This thread was active when I left to go see 13 hours. Drive to movie, arrive 20 min early.... watch movie ( pew, pew ) drive home... grab a beer, sit down and this thread.... wow. I'm impressed. Keeping posting down for Robt. E. Lee!

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (e7T6D)

1089 1071 Let me just say for the uninformed that Atlantic city is and was the saddest shit hole of a town that ever was. If you cross the street from the casinos, just cross the street, you are in the shittiest most blighted neighborhoods east of East St Louis. Ok except maybe Detroit.
Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM (zOTsN)

-----------

The casino crap is really a black eye for me for Trump. So many more worthy endeavours out there.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (LXJ1e)

1090
Over 1000 comments in an open thread in the middle of the day?



You guessed it, Trump!





Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (JOG+K)

Dude, we ALL know who made this a 1000+ post open thread.

Posted by: Frank Stallone at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (FwRqg)

1091 There's nobody behind the wheel, and we're headed towards a cliff......

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (ZkzmI)

1092 Grammie it could be worse, you could be from Philadelphia where we don't win many championships


Or a Cowboys fan in the Jerry Jones era. Bitter? Moi?

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (evdj2)

1093 Cruz's wife crashed the U.S. economy and donated billions to democrats.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (3hIZX)

1094
Grammie it could be worse, you could be from Philadelphia where we don't win many championships

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (hk3Fb)
=======================================

Yeah, at least the Packers make the play-off round a good number of times. On the other hand, I'm a Cubs fan, so ....

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (dFi94)

1095 Grammie, have you recovered from that heartbreaking GB game?


Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (qppoh)
=============================================

::: sinks back down into the pit of despair :::
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (dFi94)


You have to admit though, if your team is going to lose, that was a pretty freakin' awesome way to do it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (Dj0WE)

1096 Grammie, 414?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (kKHcp)

1097 So I guess it's been a slow news day.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (hk3Fb)

1098 I'm calling Trump's supposed abuse of eminent domain as bullsh*t. I know of Trump's projects (and his father's) from following news over the years. I'm not aware of any that used eminent domain especially. If he had been throwing widows and orphans out on the street we'd know about it.


There were some holdouts. In one case he built right around them. He resurrected Atlantic City, New Jersey from a town with distinct no-go zones into prosperity. With the advent of liberalized 'gaming' in other surrounding states Atlantic City is preparing to return to its former inglorious state.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (fbovC)

1099 Could someone start new open thread?

Storm could take 50 paths Friday into Saturday, it's too soon to worry about it.

Posted by: Carol at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (sj3Ax)

1100 Oh for fuck's sake Ace, just steal something from Hot Air. Or make 200 word fun of somebody we don't like. We demand a chew toy.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (hJ9pI)

1101 500 Internal Server Error
nginx/1.0.15


The hamsters have become self-aware.

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (evdj2)

1102 Ace must be at the NYC MLK parade.

That, or he ran into a particularly feisty hobo last night.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (FsuaD)

1103 This is the thread that never ends...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (uhftQ)

1104 The dreaded internal server error!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (X+nFp)

1105 Let me just say for the uninformed that Atlantic city is and was the saddest shit hole of a town that ever was.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM

What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Gary Indiana at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM


Yeah, but we suck more & we're in the news this week

Posted by: Flint, Michigan at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (ZQfW9)

1106 1047 I am amazed at how being married to someone working for a major corporation has now become a major crime. How many of us, if we had had the requisite skills, would have turned down a job with Goldman Sachs if he had been offered one before the whole financial meltdown?

Let's hope nobody else's spouse works for any corporation with any ties to Democrats.

I used to work for a pharmaceutical company that probably pushed Obamacare along with the others. I guess I should be a pariah now.

All morons on this site that work for any universities should denounce themselves right now.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:01 PM (3hIZX)

________

I agree with you, generally speaking that a spouse's job shouldn't be an issue for a politican. But Cruz's wife is more than just "an employee" of GS. She's pretty high up the food chain, managing director.

The thing is anyone who goes to Harvard Law and then ends up a US Senator is most likely going to be married to someone who is an executive somewhere. Either GS, or a law firm or a Fortune 500 company, each entity having done some bad stuff at some point. So if we're going to disqualify Ted Cruz cuz his wife is at GS, then we're going to have to disqualify pretty much every one.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (0LHZx)

1107 Here we go again


Regional director of private wealth in Houston. FFS. Not a lobbyist. Lobbyists are the revolving door of which you are right to complain about. Not all employees of Goldman ever.


It isn't the Death Star FFS

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (zOTsN)

1108 Or a Cowboys fan in the Jerry Jones era. Bitter? Moi?

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (evdj2)
=================================================

Speaking of the Dallas Cowboys, I was in Burlington this morning and they had a sign up just as you enter the main street into town - "Home of Tony Romo - NFL Champion". Maybe it's been there a long time and I just never noticed it.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (dFi94)

1109 13 hours was good. Ace's review is spot on, but I didn't have trouble telling guys apart. Clearly they edited some stuff out, but no plot holes or WTF moments. Not as emotional as I thought it would be on me, but I was prepared. I did just about ruin a crown gritting my teeth as I seethed in a couple of moments. Highly recommend.

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (e7T6D)

1110 Trump not only caused the internal server error; he IS the internal server error.

Posted by: Armando at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (FwRqg)

1111 I'm calling Trump's supposed abuse of eminent domain
as bullsh*t. I know of Trump's projects (and his father's) from
following news over the years. I'm not aware of any that used eminent
domain especially. If he had been throwing widows and orphans out on the
street we'd know about it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:02 PM (rs5De)

If you don't know about it, you haven't looked very hard.
See, for instance, here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/265171/donald-trump-and-eminent-domain-robert-verbruggen

And here: http://tinyurl.com/zwls495
And here: http://www.cato.org/blog/donald-trump-eminent-domain-widows-house

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (OrI3J)

1112 then we're going to have to disqualify pretty much every one.

--------

Deal.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (gmeXX)

1113 1105 Let me just say for the uninformed that Atlantic city is and was the saddest shit hole of a town that ever was.

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:06 PM

What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Gary Indiana at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM

Yeah, but we suck more & we're in the news this week
Posted by: Flint, Michigan
------------------

pikers.

Posted by: Cleveland at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (fWLrt)

1114
If we were goldfish in Ace's care, most of us would be floating at the top of the bowl now.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (uhftQ)

1115 Everyone who isn't a Eagles fan around here ( as in non sports fans) thinks the Birds loose all the time but we've had some good runs just can't seem to finish the deal.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (hk3Fb)

1116 You have to admit though, if your team is going to lose, that was a pretty freakin' awesome way to do it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (Dj0WE)

No. No, no and fuck no!

Every year we end the season with out hearts ripped out.
No other team in the modern era has had that many playoff losses in walk-off fashion. 5 now, just in the Mike McCarthy era.

23 seasons 2 HOF QBs and 2 Lombardi trophies. There should be more.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (kKHcp)

1117 Is this thread going to be 13 hours?

Posted by: eleven at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (qUNWi)

1118 There were some holdouts. In one case he built right around them. He resurrected Atlantic City, New Jersey from a town with distinct no-go zones into prosperity. With the advent of liberalized 'gaming' in other surrounding states Atlantic City is preparing to return to its former inglorious state.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (fbovC)

______

WTF? Atlantic City and the word prosperity should never be uttered in the same sentence. It was a shithole before Trump, during trump and will be after Trump.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (0LHZx)

1119 1093
Cruz's wife crashed the U.S. economy and donated billions to democrats.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (3hIZX)


heh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (FsuaD)

1120 1085 Grammie it could be worse, you could be from Philadelphia where we don't win many championships
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:08 PM (hk3Fb)

Waiting 'till next year since 1960.

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha ( I frickin' hate Philthy)

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (JOG+K)

1121 And whichever moron recommended Ian Douglas's The Heritage Trilogy - blech - stupid - AGW - stupid - asshole characters - stupid.

Taking #2 back to library 2/3 read - yahoo the rock missed.

Posted by: DaveA at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (DL2i+)

1122 A lot of people are very unfamiliar with bank hierarchy. A VP is a nobody. Managing Director, esp of a region, is your first promotion


It's not that high up. Ask me how I know?

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (zOTsN)

1123 Grammie, 414?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (kKHcp)
==============================================

I used to be 414, then they split me off into 262.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (dFi94)

1124 Every major developer used Eminent Domain...and if you don't like Eminent Domain or how and when it is applied, take it up with the Courts and the Politicians.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (gf8BH)

1125 Oh my God, what if Ace has abandoned the blog?

What if we're trapped in this thread FOREVER?!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (jR7Wy)

1126 If I throw some money in the tip jar, can it go towards fresh hamsters for pixy?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (FsuaD)

1127 Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (dFi94)

I don't like the Cowboys at all, but I am glad Romo gets that recognition from his home town. He is, by all accounts, a very good guy, but Wisconsin's homegrown QB will never be its' favorite QB.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:15 PM (u0lmX)

1128 I wish it were possible to only pull new comments since the last refresh and not refresh the whole page.

Posted by: misojebnist at January 18, 2016 03:15 PM (GKF1b)

1129 Or a Cowboys fan in the Jerry Jones era. Bitter? Moi?
Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (evdj2)


I think it's amazing, that Pepsi commercial, where Jones gets on an elevator with a group of young, black Giants fans. You know in real life Jones has a group of goons with whom he travels, who would have roughed those guys up for daring to be in HIS elevator.


In my mind's eye, the commercial continues, with a dazed Jerry Jones standing in the elevator, alone as the doors open. He's not hurt, mind you, but he's standing there in his underwear. His fancy 10 thousand dollar suit gone. Along with his can of Pepsi.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:15 PM (Dj0WE)

1130 Atlantic City has much the same problem as other inner city shitholes: Democratic Rule

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:15 PM (gf8BH)

1131 I agree with you, generally speaking that a spouse's job shouldn't be an issue for a politican. But Cruz's wife is more than just "an employee" of GS. She's pretty high up the food chain, managing director.

The thing is anyone who goes to Harvard Law and then ends up a US Senator is most likely going to be married to someone who is an executive somewhere. Either GS, or a law firm or a Fortune 500 company, each entity having done some bad stuff at some point. So if we're going to disqualify Ted Cruz cuz his wife is at GS, then we're going to have to disqualify pretty much every one.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (0LHZx)

-------------------

Then disqualify all the bastards.

We don't have to live with the corrupt relationship between Wall Street and DC.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:15 PM (LXJ1e)

1132 Off to Twitter Land

Posted by: Phil Hartmark at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (zv81W)

1133 New Jersey is a no go zone amirite?

Posted by: eleven at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (qUNWi)

1134
Is this thread going to be 13 hours?
Posted by: eleven



You wish. Like every other time pixy sees a thread over 1000 comments, there's a Code 502 in our immediate future,

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (kdS6q)

1135 1099 Could someone start new open thread?

Posted by: Carol at January 18, 2016 03:11 PM (sj3Ax)


Sorry, not allowed to post new threads during the week.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (sqb72)

1136 Regional/managing director is still an employee, just a higher up one. Does she drive the major decisions people don't like? I don't think so.

It is, as they say, a nothing burger.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (3hIZX)

1137 Grammie how go the wedding plans?

Posted by: PaleRider at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (chkUd)

1138 Trump turned me into a Newt.


Posted by: Dennis at January 18, 2016 03:07 PM (iONHu)

Did you get better?

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (OrI3J)

1139 We don't have to live with the corrupt relationship between Wall Street and DC.

------------

Not NY values?

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (gmeXX)

1140
A lot of people are very unfamiliar with bank hierarchy. A VP is a nobody. Managing Director, esp of a region, is your first promotion. It's not that high up. Ask me how I know?
Posted by: ThunderB



Because you rob banks?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (kdS6q)

1141 Did everyone take MLK Monday off?

Posted by: rd at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (v0YLX)

1142 1122 A lot of people are very unfamiliar with bank hierarchy. A VP is a nobody. Managing Director, esp of a region, is your first promotion


It's not that high up. Ask me how I know?
Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (zOTsN)

-----------

I'm sure it's one step up from a teller.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (LXJ1e)

1143 MDs aren't high up? LOL!!

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (0LHZx)

1144 Thread has gone into double-overtime.

Posted by: Roy at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (fWLrt)

1145 A five hour open thread. Impressive

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (X+nFp)

1146 I am amazed at how being married to someone working for a major corporation has now become a major crime.
---
When taxpayer dollars by the billions are used to prop up bankrupt institutions whose sole purpose is to rob us anyway, it's a problem.

Does anyone believe Cruz would say no to TARP 2 when his own wife would support it?

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (ZbV+0)

1147 I don't know what the GB fans expected. The Packers went further than they could reasonably expect to given the way the offense played this year. Face it, accept it, they did pretty damn good - Divisional Playoffs.

Next, Jordy willing, they make it to the Super Bowl.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (CbGSW)

1148 Because you rob banks?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (kdS6q)


Well that is where the money is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (gf8BH)

1149 Did the Ewoks capture Ace?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (qxJ9H)

1150 I used to be 414, then they split me off into 262.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (dFi94)

We are 1/10 of a mile from 262. One block.


Howdy, neighbor!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (kKHcp)

1151 Does anyone believe Cruz would say no to TARP 2 when his own wife would support it?

---------

Yes. How do you know his wife would support it?

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (gmeXX)

1152 Sorry, blog's closed. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (hJ9pI)

1153 This thread is yuuuuuge. And luxurious.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (FsuaD)

1154 Do the names bernie or hilary ring a bell for any members of the circular firing squad here?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (gf8BH)

1155 ::: sinks back down into the pit of despair :::
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:03 PM (dFi94)

You really didn't think we were going to win that one, did you? Oh, yeah, it was tough to have hopes raised and then crushed.

But losing that game was no where as bad as losing to the Seahawks in the playoffs last year. Now, that was devastating.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (u0lmX)

1156 Every major developer used Eminent Domain...and if
you don't like Eminent Domain or how and when it is applied, take it up
with the Courts and the Politicians.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:14 PM (gf8BH)

That is utter bullshit. Eminent domain is THEFT and even if the government gives you the go ahead, decent people do not steal from other people.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (OrI3J)

1157 Sorry, not allowed to post new threads during the week. Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM

Damn good thing, too.

You'd put up a Book Thread and we'd have to think. And read.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (ZPz7d)

1158 You have to admit though, if your team is going to lose, that was a pretty freakin' awesome way to do it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:10 PM (Dj0WE)

No. No, no and fuck no!

Every year we end the season with out hearts ripped out.
No other team in the modern era has had that many playoff losses in walk-off fashion. 5 now, just in the Mike McCarthy era.

23 seasons 2 HOF QBs and 2 Lombardi trophies. There should be more.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (kKHcp)


Careful now, I hear if you complain too loudly about how you almost won MORE championships, people in other parts of the country (I'm looking at you, Kansas City and Chicago) tend to get miffed about it.


Or so I've heard.

Posted by: BurtTC - Baseball Cardinals Fan at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (Dj0WE)

1159 Now, Trump actually donated to dems and supported all sorts of Liberal policies and values, more recently, single payer, but we're supposed to be upset that's Ted Cruz's wife works for Goldman Sachs.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (3hIZX)

1160 No one packs the cash in from wall Street better than the Clintons

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (hk3Fb)

1161 WTF? Atlantic City and the word prosperity should never be uttered in the same sentence. It was a shithole before Trump, during trump and will be after Trump.


Stop trolling Moo Moo. I have half a century of experience with Atlantic City. I've flown halfway across the world to an exclusive resort only to meet a couple where she stayed home and he worked.

Parking f*cking cars at an Atlantic City casino. Now that may not fit your definition of prosperity, but to the Pineys of coastal NJ it sure did.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (fbovC)

1162 Grammie how go the wedding plans?

Posted by: PaleRider at January 18, 2016 03:17 PM (chkUd)
===========================================

Went to the caterer and made the menu selections this morning. Yikes, do they charge an arm and a leg or what !? Instead of Cancun we might have to honeymoon in Sheboygan.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (dFi94)

1163 A VP is a nobody.

Yeah. Every customer wants to talk to "someone in charge", so they have lots of VPs. I've talked to bank VPs who weren't born when I opened my checking account with that branch.

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (evdj2)

1164 Okay... do I need to start singing?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (kff5f)

1165 Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (kKHcp)

Heh. I'm 414.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (u0lmX)

1166 "Does anyone believe Cruz would say no to TARP 2 when his own wife would support it?"



I do.

Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (OrI3J)

1167 1136 Regional/managing director is still an employee, just a higher up one. Does she drive the major decisions people don't like? I don't think so.

It is, as they say, a nothing burger.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:16 PM (3hIZX)


_______

The CEO is also an employee. The MD isn't the top of the hill, but it's up there.

It's the equivalent of a VP in the non-IB world.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:20 PM (0LHZx)

1168 There are so many thread subwars going on here you need a freaking scorecard to keep up.

And f&#$ you too!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (X+nFp)

1169 That is utter bullshit. Eminent domain is THEFT and even if the government gives you the go ahead, decent people do not steal from other people.
Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (OrI3J)


That's laughable.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (gf8BH)

1170 Maybe Ace banned himself again.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (Fmupd)

1171 You'd put up a Book Thread and we'd have to think. And read.


Put up a chess thread.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says King Me! at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (evdj2)

1172 "- "Home of Tony Romo - NFL Champion"."



Um.....what?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (LA7Cm)

1173 Actually it's VP, Director, Managing Director. All the really I,portent positions are at the mother ship in NYC, not the regions. Lobbyists for the banks are the ones who go to work in govt, the revolving door. Not regional pukes

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 03:22 PM (zOTsN)

1174 Stop trolling Moo Moo. I have half a century of experience with Atlantic City. I've flown halfway across the world to an exclusive resort only to meet a couple where she stayed home and he worked.

Parking f*cking cars at an Atlantic City casino. Now that may not fit your definition of prosperity, but to the Pineys of coastal NJ it sure did.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (fbovC)

______

You're either insane or have zero taste if you think AC is anything other than a shithole.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:22 PM (0LHZx)

1175 Every mention of Trump adds 250 to the comment limit.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:22 PM (QM5S2)

1176 1108 Or a Cowboys fan in the Jerry Jones era. Bitter? Moi?

Posted by: Grump928(c) notes at January 18, 2016 03:09 PM (evdj2)
=================================================

Speaking of the Dallas Cowboys, I was in Burlington this morning and they had a sign up just as you enter the main street into town - "Home of Tony Romo - NFL Champion". Maybe it's been there a long time and I just never noticed it.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:12 PM (dFi94)



Champion of what? I guess maybe they've won their division a few times with him? Maybe? I think there's been playoff games in Dallas. But that really is pushing champion moniker.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 18, 2016 03:23 PM (z/Ubi)

1177 You really didn't think we were going to win that one, did you?
============================================


No, - actually I thought we'd get crushed. I was fully prepared to see them crash and burn. But that was bad.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:23 PM (dFi94)

1178 Moo moo only if you are in NYC. She wasn't. The big shots are in NYC.

Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 03:23 PM (zOTsN)

1179 Every mention of Trump adds 250 to the comment limit.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:22 PM (QM5S2)


If only we could change "mm" to "nt"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:23 PM (kff5f)

1180 Champion of what?
==============


Champion of Burlington Wisconsin.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (dFi94)

1181 Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (CbGSW)

Coz, the Packers were supposed to get blown out by the Cards.

So, when the game went the way it did, it sucks to not bring back a win.
HOF QBs don't grow on trees, there is a finite amount of time to cash these opportunities, and GB fans know it could take decades.

I shouldn't bitch, we could be Cleveland.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (kKHcp)

1182 Put up a chess thread.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says King Me! at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (evdj2)


Oh, hells no. That's the last thing we need.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (sqb72)

1183 Just put the Honeymoon on your credit cards Grammie, its the new American way after all. Sounds lovely.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 18, 2016 03:25 PM (chkUd)

1184 Yes. How do you know his wife would support it?
---
Because TARP kept Goldman Sachs afloat and therefore kept her her job (or kept it available for her to take, or kept her stock options worth something, however the timing worked out).

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:25 PM (ZbV+0)

1185 23 seasons 2 HOF QBs and 2 Lombardi trophies. There should be more.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:13 PM (kKHcp)

We won the first two SBs. Hence the "Lombardi trophy."

I'm trying to look on the bright side. I don't want to sound like football's equivalent of Yankee fans. They seem to expect the Yankees to win the WS every year.

(Of course, as a franchise, the Yankees have had much more success than any other pro team in any sport.)

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:25 PM (u0lmX)

1186 This is the Hotel California of threads - which means one of you is Glen Frye.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:25 PM (gmeXX)

1187 Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (CbGSW)

Coz, the Packers were supposed to get blown out by the Cards.

So, when the game went the way it did, it sucks to not bring back a win.
HOF QBs don't grow on trees, there is a finite amount of time to cash these opportunities, and GB fans know it could take decades.

I shouldn't bitch, we could be Cleveland.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (kKHcp)


Or St. Louis. Rejected by not one incompetent loser owner, but two!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:25 PM (Dj0WE)

1188 1173 Actually it's VP, Director, Managing Director. All the really I,portent positions are at the mother ship in NYC, not the regions. Lobbyists for the banks are the ones who go to work in govt, the revolving door. Not regional pukes
Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 03:22 PM (zOTsN)

---------

I'll give you that, Cruz's wife has been with GS for 11 years, but then again the past 8 were during a Dem administration so no opportunity to revolve back in to government and then next possibility is First Lady (not even counting the 2 years a wife of a Senator).

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (LXJ1e)

1189 " Put up a chess thread."



Check. Mate.


So what do we do now?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (LA7Cm)

1190 Speaking on playoffs, the Packers Cardinals was exciting. I like Fitz so I was glad he got his moment to shine. But I do feel for Packer fans, that must have been agonizing.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (a0IVu)

1191 Everyone *calm down.*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (FsuaD)

1192 1178 Moo moo only if you are in NYC. She wasn't. The big shots are in NYC.
Posted by: ThunderB, Bitchin Betty at January 18, 2016 03:23 PM (zOTsN)

______

She's not in NY? I thought she was.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (0LHZx)

1193 I can't believe Ace isn't going to post. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (W+RZ5)

1194
one thousand one hundred eighty ninth!

Posted by: wth at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (HgMAr)

1195 Is anyone up for ice cream?

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:26 PM (Fmupd)

1196 Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (kKHcp)

All of the pieces are there now, just need to be able to keep them all on the field at the same time. Maybe some more help on defense, but the Packers are on the cusp. And Rodgers has another 5-6 years left anyway.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (CbGSW)

1197 Donna, Hi neighbor!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (kKHcp)

1198 crap

Posted by: wth at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (HgMAr)

1199 Because TARP kept Goldman Sachs afloat and therefore kept her her job (or kept it available for her to take, or kept her stock options worth something, however the timing worked out).

----------

I'm not sure TARP kept GS afloat - obviously it helped. And yes there is an incesstuous relationship between GS (and WS) and DC. But I have no clue if that means that Mrs. Cruz holds the same view as others within GS. She may. I have no clue. I'm certainly not certain of that. People do hold different views of their employers.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (gmeXX)

1200 Getting kind of stuffy in this elevator

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (ZkzmI)

1201 I looked at the cited articles re: Trump and eminent domain. Is that all you got?

They report on two instances where Trump was unsuccessful in using it. One was an Atlantic City widow holdout who turned down a $1 million offer. She should have taken it.

Another was a grand redevelopment for Bridgeport (the asshole of CT -- Atlantic City without the casinos). Post Kelo it might have gone through.

Many of us -- me included -- don't like the Kelo decision but it is the law of the land. The Koch brothers are against mandated ethanol but it doesn't stop them from making money on it/

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (rs5De)

1202 Would Cruz's wife continue working for GS if he became president?

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (3hIZX)

1203 Y2K!!

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (QM5S2)

1204 Goldman has something like 12k VPs. In just 2014 they promoted over 300 people to MD

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:28 PM (zOTsN)

1205 You're either insane or have zero taste if you think AC is anything other than a shithole.

It was never 'my kind of town' you pretender. But it went from nothing to something and is heading back to nothing. Sorta like Hillary Clinton.

In the meantime, if you ever managed the payrolls and number of employees from the surroundings areas as those casinos did, I'd be impressed by the numbers. Instead your incessant pretending should embarrass you.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:28 PM (fbovC)

1206 Is this thread starting to smell like the socks withdrawn from a pair of boots that've spent ten miles trudging in Mr Apol's snow?

Posted by: JEM at January 18, 2016 03:28 PM (o+SC1)

1207 The "drafts" queue is still empty. Dang.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:28 PM (sqb72)

1208
The Hill

Rapper Killer Mike: I supported Sanders "after smoking a joint, reading his tweets"

video

http://hill.cm/FDEsVB4

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (kdS6q)

1209 Start again
P to K3

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (hk3Fb)

1210 1202 Would Cruz's wife continue working for GS if he became president?
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (3hIZX)


--------------


I thought she quit.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (Fmupd)

1211 Many of us -- me included -- don't like the Kelo decision but it is the law of the land.

-----------

No it is not. It is the current interpretation of the supreme law of the land, but it is not the law of the land.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (gmeXX)

1212 This thread, just like this election: Welcome to Thunderdome!

Posted by: Tina Turner's Legs at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (GzDYP)

1213 You know how you get sick of the people you drive cross country with? This thread is like that.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (W+RZ5)

1214 Okay. Ace made me do it.

"The snow blows white on the mountain tonight
not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation
and it looks like I'm the queen..."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (kff5f)

1215 Many of us -- me included -- don't like the Kelo decision but it is the law of the land. The Koch brothers are against mandated ethanol but it doesn't stop them from making money on it/
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:27 PM (rs5De)


Exactly and it is NOT up to the developer to use Eminent Domain, the Local Governing Entity has to do that and then it has to survive a Court Challenge, if there is one. Now I think Eminent Domain has been abuse, but to to blame Trump for Eminent Domain is absurd

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (gf8BH)

1216 Champion of cracked clavicles?

Posted by: eleven at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (qUNWi)

1217 Now, Trump actually donated to dems and supported all sorts of Liberal
policies and values, more recently, single payer, but we're supposed to
be upset that's Ted Cruz's wife works for Goldman Sachs.
---
That's the difficulty for *everyone else* in this election.

Trump is uniquely about the rejection of DC generally and the GOPe specifically. With a proposed crackdown on Mexicans and mohammadans being the primary policy question that's of any note.

Everyone else is running on fixing the system from within, so all they have is policy positions to question (which is to say, doubt). For them any reason to suspect they might be loyal to DC or the banksters is disqualifying.

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (ZbV+0)

1218 This is not a dream...not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this post as a dream. We are transmitting from post two thousand three hundred twenty nine. You are receiving this post in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (vgIRn)

1219 Nooooo body knows, the troubles I've seen . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (JO9+V)

1220 It was never 'my kind of town' you pretender. But it went from nothing to something and is heading back to nothing. Sorta like Hillary Clinton.

In the meantime, if you ever managed the payrolls and number of employees from the surroundings areas as those casinos did, I'd be impressed by the numbers. Instead your incessant pretending should embarrass you.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:28 PM (fbovC)

______

I feel sad for you if a shit hole like AC impresses you.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (0LHZx)

1221 I thought she quit.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (Fmupd)

Oh, so she may not even be working there now. Geez, this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (3hIZX)

1222 I do get tired of the 'law of the land' screed. Decisions made by judges are not the law of the land, in any sense. Laws are passed by legislatures, period. Anything else has to be considered a dictate.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (ZkzmI)

1223 Goldman, in 2015, promoted another 425 to MD. There are literally thousands of MDs

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (zOTsN)

1224
and it looks like I'm the queen..."
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (kff5f)





We'd like to give you an award for bravery.

Posted by: ESPN at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (vgIRn)

1225
Adam Kredo

Obama admin pardoned 21 Iranians who provided illegal nuke tech to Tehran and funneled "millions" under deal

http://goo.gl/jwk4yW



Some Cruz-style dual nationals. Some who are now going to stay in the USA after their pardon.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (kdS6q)

1226 Whats the over/under on this thread?

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (QM5S2)

1227 This is not a dream...not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this post as a dream. We are transmitting from post two thousand three hundred twenty nine. You are receiving this post in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (vgIRn)


That was a super creepy movie.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (W+RZ5)

1228 This thread needs puppies.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (iQIUe)

1229 Cleveland Browns > Buffalo Bills (worst franchise in all sports)

Most crappy teams can at least get excited about the draft. The Bills are ALWAYS around .500, so pick outside outside the top 10, ensuring that any exciting player or franchise quarterback is long gone by the time they pick. Plus, we're now the saddled with the entire Ryan family... Yay.

1181
Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:18 PM (CbGSW)



Coz, the Packers were supposed to get blown out by the Cards.



So, when the game went the way it did, it sucks to not bring back a win.

HOF QBs don't grow on trees, there is a finite amount of time to
cash these opportunities, and GB fans know it could take decades.



I shouldn't bitch, we could be Cleveland.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (kKHcp)

Posted by: Pyrocles at January 18, 2016 03:33 PM (MYMcU)

1230 This thread needs sweater puppies.

FIFY.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:34 PM (kff5f)

1231 This thread is longer than an Obama round of golf.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:34 PM (FsuaD)

1232 What happened to Ace? Someone send out an APB....

Posted by: donna at January 18, 2016 03:34 PM (/dSsq)

1233
Monday, Monday
la la. la-la lala
so good to me..
*hic*burp*fart*

Posted by: Hillarrhoids at January 18, 2016 03:34 PM (HgMAr)

1234 I can't. take. this. thread. anymore!!!!!1111!!!!!


*loses mind*

*activates deadly booby traps hidden throughout thread*

*leaves through secret hatch leading to sewers*

Posted by: naturalfake at January 18, 2016 03:34 PM (0cMkb)

1235 Is Ace collecting cans on the side of the road for community service?

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (W+RZ5)

1236 I read on FB if we get to 1500 posts in this thread Ace is giving 50 platinum memberships away and 10 morons get commemorative AoSHQ plates from the Franklin Mint!

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (e7T6D)

1237 Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (ZbV+0)

Subjective.

I think the GOPe should be burned with hottest fire and its ashes spread in space, but I don't care that Cruz's wife worked for GS. And I wouldn't care even if I was supporting someone else, which I was at the beginning.

Maybe it's because I have worked for a very large corporation before and I never would have considered my political views a reason not to try to advance in the company.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (3hIZX)

1238 The picture reminds me
Whose woods these are I do not know, but he lives in the village though.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (hk3Fb)

1239 1228 This thread needs puppies.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 03:32 PM (iQIUe)


-------------------


Watching my tomcat cavort in the back yard. He seems to be enjoying the cold.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (Fmupd)

1240 Obviously the pasta I had for lunch was defective.

I'm already hungry again.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (kff5f)

1241 Welcome my friends

To the post that never ends!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (JO9+V)

1242 My nose for news detects the smell of a quadruple flaming skull

Ace must be secretly working on a Clinton bombshell.

Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (UzPAd)

1243 I do get tired of the 'law of the land' screed. Decisions made by judges are not the law of the land, in any sense. Laws are passed by legislatures, period. Anything else has to be considered a dictate.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (ZkzmI)

Yeah, whattya going to do about it.
Actually, one of my pet peeves is how a narrowly constructed decision from the supreme court is interpreted by the press and the rest of the political class as the final word on a huge issue.
Gay marriage and abortion for examples.

And yet, here we are.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (kKHcp)

1244 Mrs Cruz WAS one of thousands of MDs, and she only worked in Houston. She quit last May.


Next

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (zOTsN)

1245
Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:30 PM (ZbV+0)


See, here we go. You are just rationalizing why we should ignore Trump's major flaws.

First, what makes you think Trump would "reject" DC? What does that even mean anyway? President Trump would... close cabinet departments? Fire a bunch of people? When has he said he would do this? Which departments would he close, and whom would he fire? Does that even matter to you? And what makes you think Trump would "reject" the GOPe? Of all of them he'd be the one most likely to make deals with them. He is not personally invested in destroying Ryan or McConnell or any other of them, because he's not an ideological conservative. He doesn't care if he makes a deal with McConnell or if he goes over his head. If you want Trump to "reject" "DC and the GOPe", don't you want at least a few details on what he is going to do?

And once he is done "rejecting" "DC and the GOPe", then what? Do you even care?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (uZNvH)

1246 1061 1028 I am freezing. My heat is turned up and I'm dressed in layers, but I just can't get warm. Anybody else in the minus degrees territory?
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 02:57 PM (dFi94)


Of course, I recommend:

...rum, sodomy and the lash".

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (Zs4uk)

1247 1221 I thought she quit.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:29 PM (Fmupd)

Oh, so she may not even be working there now. Geez, this is getting ridiculous.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (3hIZX)

---------------

Leave of absence.

She'll stop "working" for them until she goes back in 4 or 8 years.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (LXJ1e)

1248 I do get tired of the 'law of the land' screed. Decisions made by judges are not the law of the land, in any sense. Laws are passed by legislatures, period. Anything else has to be considered a dictate.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (ZkzmI)


I understand, but what is anyone supposed to do? You can ignore the law, as it's interpreted, and risk either criminal or civil penalties. You can implore your legislators to change the law, but you know full well these people are no more or less a corrupt process to the law as the courts.


The implication of course, is that Trump is a bad man for following the course that leads him to make money.

I get it. He's either a slimy, greedy businessman, or he's a shrewd wheeler dealer (to borrow the phrase from upthread).


Or he's both. I guess we don't have to like it, but I have to admit, when it comes to THIS Presidential race, this is not a make or break issue for me. Not even close.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (Dj0WE)

1249 Redskins' fans are happy to have finished better than we started this season. There is hope for the future at least.

The real success is that we got to keep our name.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (GzDYP)

1250 I crapped my Depends.

Posted by: Drooling Yammering Bernie at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (UBS9M)

1251 This thread is a gold mine for those sock ranking dorks.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (CbGSW)

1252 You know how you get sick of the people you drive cross country with? This thread is like that.

Posted by: StrawMan

Turn on the radio?

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (8ikIW)

1253 I shouldn't bitch, we could be Cleveland.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:24 PM (kKHcp)


I think Alexthechick mentioned on time that she's both a Browns AND a Cubs fan.

They probably have her on suicide watch all the time.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (sqb72)

1254 Turn on the radio?

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 03:37 PM (8ikIW


Piss in their big-gulp.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (kff5f)

1255 I'm starting to really understand why Catholics pray for the souls of people stuck in purgatory.

Posted by: Lauren at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (GZ6Pf)

1256
I read on FB if we get to 1500 posts in this thread Ace is giving 50 platinum memberships away and 10 morons get commemorative AoSHQ plates from the Franklin Mint!
Posted by: Yip
......................

Then somebody better mention Trump again.

Posted by: wth at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (HgMAr)

1257 9,999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall......

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (ZkzmI)

1258 How about a Smokers thread? Cigars, cigarettes, tipparillos, or whatever can smoke somethin'?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (3e8Ue)

1259 The head of the ECB (Euro version of The Federal Reserve) was a former MD at GS. But yeah that position is just slightly above janitor in terms of importance.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (0LHZx)

1260 You know how you get sick of the people you drive cross country with? This thread is like that.



Posted by: StrawMan

That smell from the back seat on your way to WallyWorld? Can never forget it!

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at January 18, 2016 03:38 PM (JO9+V)

1261

The Hill: Juan Williams - GOP to blame for civility's breakdown



Bite my crank.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (kdS6q)

1262 1242
My nose for news detects the smell of a quadruple flaming skull

Ace must be secretly working on a Clinton bombshell.


Posted by: Fritz at January 18, 2016 03:35 PM (UzPAd)


It had better be the announcement the bitch is going to be indicted.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (FsuaD)

1263 What exactly and specifically do you want Trump to do when it comes to "rejecting" DC and "destroying" the GOPe?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (uZNvH)

1264 #1228

How about dog photos with captions?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/olxmeh8


if you're looking for pictures of "sweater puppies"
I can't help you out there. Someone else can perhaps. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (w4NZ8)

1265 I feel sad for you if a shit hole like AC impresses you.

Save your sympathy. You ever drive through the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, shack after shack, where the primary breadwinner sold bloodworms at the dock of some rotting marina in Atlantic City before investors moved in?

Obviously being as wealthy as you incessantly pretend to be, not. Prosperity was brought to Atlantic City by Donald Trump and other investors. Deny it all you want. Just proves what a pompous fool you are.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (fbovC)

1266 OK question, trying to look up the Federalist.com and getting another site repeatedly, haven't gone there in a little while so did it change?

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (hk3Fb)

1267 Anyone got a good Babs Streisand joke?

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (e7T6D)

1268 Yeah, whattya going to do about it.
Actually, one of my pet peeves is how a narrowly constructed decision from the supreme court is interpreted by the press and the rest of the political class as the final word on a huge issue.
Gay marriage and abortion for examples.

And yet, here we are.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (kKHcp)


The difference is, when it comes to Trump, the law got interpreted, and then... he went out and used it to make money?


is that right?


In other words, he didn't look at the SC decision and go out and get gay married, or go out and start killing babies.


As far as principles go, being a guy who takes advantage of the legal/business climate to make money isn't the type of crime I consider a deal breaker.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (Dj0WE)

1269 We can argue over what station to listen to.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (GzDYP)

1270 Maybe it's because I have worked for a very large corporation before and
I never would have considered my political views a reason not to try to
advance in the company.
---
Would you work for an abortionist? If that was the only job available and you were desperate?

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (ZbV+0)

1271 Goldman Sachs would have gone broke in the financial crisis were it not for extraordinary actions taken by the Federal government, including the Fed ignoring the law to make it a bank holding company eligible for Fed emergency loans. Had the Fed done the same for Bear Stearns months before, it wouldn't have gone broke. Hank Paulson, former co-head of Goldman was Treasury Secretary at the time. Coincidence?

Goldman profited greatly from the subprime crisis until the bear turned around on it. It just paid a $5 billion fine related to this.

I could go on. Maybe Bernie Sanders is on to something.

As to Cruz, it's "bad optics" as they say in the business. It adds to his challenge that he's not a "regular guy."

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (rs5De)

1272 1248 I do get tired of the 'law of the land' screed. Decisions made by judges are not the law of the land, in any sense. Laws are passed by legislatures, period. Anything else has to be considered a dictate.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:31 PM (ZkzmI)


____

So if court rulings aren't supposed to mean anything, what's the point of court rulings?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (0LHZx)

1273 Federalist.com

http://thefederalist.com/

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (kff5f)

1274 Skip, I just got to the Federalist ok. http://thefederalist.com/

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (e7T6D)

1275 Leave of absence.

She'll stop "working" for them until she goes back in 4 or 8 years.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:36 PM (LXJ1e)

Imagine. She might want to start working again after her stint as First Lady (something you actually don't know whether she will do or not, by the way), and she may go to her old company to get her job back. Oh the humanity.

You are supporting Trump anyway, which is fine, so whether Mrs. Cruz worked at GS or was a champion homemaker is quite irrelevant to you.

Look, I'll vote for Trump over Hillary any day

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (3hIZX)

1276 If only Uncle Ace knew what was happening.

Posted by: eleven at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (qUNWi)

1277 GS has literally thousands of MDs. Not all MDs are equal. The MD of private wealth in Houston is no where near the MD in NYC in terms of importance

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (zOTsN)

1278 I'm going to watch movie on TCM on demand & hope Ace decides it's not really a holiday today.

Government workers are the only ones that have today off.

Posted by: Carol at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (sj3Ax)

1279 What exactly and specifically do you want Trump to do when it comes to "rejecting" DC and "destroying" the GOPe?
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (uZNvH)


Exactly and specifically, not be on board with the rapid march toward amnesty/open borders.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (Dj0WE)

1280 I give up.

I can't find the tire.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (ZLIxs)

1281 I thought cow cow had been banned. What a disappointment to find it just a temporary suspension.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (chkUd)

1282 1252 You know how you get sick of the people you drive cross country with? This thread is like that.

Posted by: StrawMan


----------------------


Okay. Let's sing. What do you want to sing?

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (Fmupd)

1283 Whose woods these are I do not know,
but he lives in the village though.
Posted by: Skip


I do not know whose woods these are,
But lives he in that village, thar.

Posted by: Yoda Frost at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (GKF1b)

1284 I thought it was Martin Luther King Day, not Groundhog Day. I left to do an unpleasant chore I've been putting off, I did it, and now I'm right back where I started, in Boslaan.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (Nwg0u)

1285 Anyone got a good Babs Streisand joke?

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (e7T6D)


Barbara Streisand has a good singing voice and is a good actress.



Hows that?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (kff5f)

1286 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

1287 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

1288 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

1289 Ok, I'll start , this will be epic...

Barbara Streisand walks into a bar....

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (e7T6D)

1290 Hope this isn't a sign that Ace is getting sick of blogging.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (1JqUE)

1291 You'll have nothing and like it

Posted by: New Threads at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (27ClR)

1292 *looks in*

Hmm...whole lotta comments in here.

*quietly exits thread*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (me6xG)

1293 Save your sympathy. You ever drive through the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, shack after shack, where the primary breadwinner sold bloodworms at the dock of some rotting marina in Atlantic City before investors moved in?

Obviously being as wealthy as you incessantly pretend to be, not. Prosperity was brought to Atlantic City by Donald Trump and other investors. Deny it all you want. Just proves what a pompous fool you are.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (fbovC)


Exactly. Well said

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (gf8BH)

1294 I nailed Babs Streisand and Angie Dickinson. Same weekend two different nights. I think.

Posted by: Drooling Yammering Bernie at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (UBS9M)

1295 1266 OK question, trying to look up the Federalist.com and getting another site repeatedly, haven't gone there in a little while so did it change?
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (hk3Fb)


federalist.com takes you to patriotpost.us

try http://thefederalist.com, should get you to where you want.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (sqb72)

1296 1279
What exactly and specifically do you want Trump to do when it comes to "rejecting" DC and "destroying" the GOPe?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (uZNvH)





Exactly and specifically, not be on board with the rapid march toward amnesty/open borders.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (Dj0WE)

Is that it? Even if Trump built his wall, the GOPe would still exist and the cesspool of DC would still be there.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (uZNvH)

1297 WTH? this is as stale as the 23rd hour of the Angie Tribeca watch-a-thon

Posted by: the Butcher at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (AGJqR)

1298 We should maybe do charades. Here - first one - what am I acting out? Clue - it's a song title.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (dFi94)

1299 Aren't we supposed to see a doctor if the thread lasts more than 4 hours?

Posted by: johnd01 at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (ukNFU)

1300
Barbara Streisand walks into a bar and says: "Ow, my nose!"

Posted by: wth at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (HgMAr)

1301 As to Cruz, it's "bad optics" as they say in the business. It adds to his challenge that he's not a "regular guy."
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:40 PM (rs5De)

Nobody who runs for president is a "regular guy". If they were they wouldn't have the money or name recognition to do it.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (W+RZ5)

1302 Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

So nice it posted thrice.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (kff5f)

1303 1278
I'm going to watch movie on TCM on demand hope Ace decides it's not really a holiday today.



Government workers are the only ones that have today off.



Posted by: Carol at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (sj3Ax)

________________________________________
Funny but I've always equated Ace as a government worker in terms of his daily output and general demeanor.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (CbGSW)

1304 Whose woods these are I do not know,
but he lives in the village though.
Posted by: Skip

I do not know whose woods these are,
But lives he in that village, thar.

-
Who birch this is?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (Nwg0u)

1305 Save your sympathy. You ever drive through the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, shack after shack, where the primary breadwinner sold bloodworms at the dock of some rotting marina in Atlantic City before investors moved in?

Obviously being as wealthy as you incessantly pretend to be, not. Prosperity was brought to Atlantic City by Donald Trump and other investors. Deny it all you want. Just proves what a pompous fool you are.
Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (fbovC)


_____

OK fine. Atlantic City is the Paris of New Jersey.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (0LHZx)

1306 Willow surrogate brings the truth about AC. A rotting corpse without the Casinos

Posted by: ThunderB at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (zOTsN)

1307 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

1287 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)

1288 Darn it. I inadvertently hit post before completing my sentence. But whatever I'm too lazy to finish.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:42 PM (+wjl1)


I think you got it this time.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (Dj0WE)

1308 Where the hell is willow? She can save us!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (X+nFp)

1309 Posted by: Pyrocles at January 18, 2016 03:33 PM (MYMcU)

I don't know how old you are, but 4 consecutive trips to the Super Bowl is a pretty good team.
I also don't know how they managed not to bring at least one Championship home. Made me feel bad for the Buffalo fans.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (kKHcp)

1310 >>How about a Smokers thread? Cigars, cigarettes, tipparillos, or whatever can smoke somethin'?


**Passes joint to left**

Don't bogart it.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (ZLIxs)

1311 Maybe ace ate at Chipolte yesterday.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (DrCtv)

1312 I'm escaping this decrepit thread. It's smelling worse than the Barrel in here.

Stay warm, OneEyedJack and Grammie! I gotta buy me some warmer socks. It feels like they're made of tissue paper.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (u0lmX)

1313 I still can't figure out "Where's Boslaan"

Posted by: Mallfly Cloggenstein of Bratwurst Vt at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (qSIlh)

1314 Kept giving me the Patriot Posts
Was surprised the only union guys on the job im on are are electricians and they were there, double time probably

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (hk3Fb)

1315 So if court rulings aren't supposed to mean anything, what's the point of court rulings?

--

Courts are supposed to adjudicate the law. Nowhere in the constitution does it empower any court, the supreme court included, to decide if a law is constitutional, and nowhere in the constitution does it empower the court to create law.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (ZkzmI)

1316 chique, you nailed the Triple-Lindy!

Posted by: johnd01 at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (ukNFU)

1317 OK fine. Atlantic City is the Paris of New Jersey.


Of course Willow did not say that...but I guess reading is only a hobby for you

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (gf8BH)

1318 Moo moo, there's a wide gulf between janitor and CEO.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (+wjl1)

1319 bartender looks up and says... " hey.. you look familiar. What's that under you arm?

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (e7T6D)

1320 @128181 "FAAAAAAAATTHHHHHEERRR!!!!!!!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (LFJ8C)

1321 What exactly and specifically do you want Trump to do when it comes to "rejecting" DC and "destroying" the GOPe?

Posted by: chemjeff


He's already doing it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (W0RfD)

1322 So would everyone be happier if Ted Cruz's wife were a Walmart greeter? You know to show he's a man of the people and shit?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (0LHZx)

1323 MLKJr day. Maybe he stole the FBI file by digging up J Edgar.
Can't decide if grave robbing is a step up or down from trash rummaging.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (FtrY1)

1324 Is that it? Even if Trump built his wall, the GOPe would still exist and the cesspool of DC would still be there.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (uZNvH)


Yes, but we'd have a wall.

Then we can tackle other problems.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (sqb72)

1325 Woah. Triple post. The hamsters are getting stir crazy.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (+wjl1)

1326 there's a wide gulf between janitor and CEO.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (+wjl1)


Well I guess you never saw "how To Succeed In Business Without Really trying"?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (gf8BH)

1327 Remember when we were all excited to see who would hit 1000? Ah, the good old days.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (dFi94)

1328 troyriser at 2:40PM.

Heh. Time for an old Texas joke.

One day, back when Texas was a Republic, a wealthy English gentleman was traveling about in his fancy carriage looking for some suitable land. He happened upon a rancher ankle-deep in his corral. Pulling up his team of matched black beauties well back from the mess, he gazed upon the rancher, mistaking him for an employee.

"Good morning Sirrah", he called out. "Mornin'" replied the rancher. "Where is your Master?" the gentleman inquired.

The rancher squinted at the carriage and said, "That sumbich ain't been born yet."

Posted by: Meremortal at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (3myMJ)

1329 What exactly and specifically do you want Trump to do when it comes to "rejecting" DC and "destroying" the GOPe?

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:39 PM (uZNvH)





Exactly and specifically, not be on board with the rapid march toward amnesty/open borders.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:41 PM (Dj0WE)

Is that it? Even if Trump built his wall, the GOPe would still exist and the cesspool of DC would still be there.
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:43 PM (uZNvH)


I'm not actually on board with Trump for President, so yeah, for me, that's it. I'm glad he exists in this race, and is doing what he's doing.


I'll not count on him for anything else at this point, because his success has been phenomenal. I was fully expecting to have given up entirely on the political process by now.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (Dj0WE)

1330 Courts are supposed to adjudicate the law. Nowhere in the constitution does it empower any court, the supreme court included, to decide if a law is constitutional, and nowhere in the constitution does it empower the court to create law.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:45 PM (ZkzmI)

______

Then why have a supreme court at all? Serious question. If they're not supposed to have any power, what's the point of their existence?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (0LHZx)

1331 >>Can't decide if grave robbing is a step up or down from trash rummaging.


Rummaging must mean something different in Ewok.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (ZLIxs)

1332 You humans are so inconsistent. You value bigness in general, yet here, you hate big threads. They make you uncomfortable and cranky. Why? Is that rational?

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (GKF1b)

1333 ace hates us.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands) at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (u0lmX)

1334 Finally got the federalist, very strange

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (hk3Fb)

1335 1298 We should maybe do charades. Here - first one - what am I acting out? Clue - it's a song title.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:44 PM (dFi94)


"Wedding Bell Blues"?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (sqb72)

1336 1334!!!

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (2oWD2)

1337 Dammit.

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:49 PM (2oWD2)

1338 >>ace hates us.



It's times like this that I am happy I am not Ace's Ficus.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:49 PM (ZLIxs)

1339 If they're not supposed to have any power, what's the point of their existence?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (0LHZx)
=====================================================

Now that you mention it, none at all. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS !!

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:49 PM (dFi94)

1340 1340!!!!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (jjaLl)

1341 50 feet. Wow!

Posted by: Clark W. Griswold at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (JO9+V)

1342 How dare you question Atlantic City values!!!

Posted by: Mad Rockastansky at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (qbqnC)

1343 As the Afghanistan War grinds into its 15th year, many U.S. military officers are telling Congress their hands are tied to go after the enemy, particularly the Islamic State, which is building up its presence in the country despite fierce opposition from the Taliban.

Current and former U.S. military officials tell me that the U.S. and NATO mission in Afghanistan is almost entirely focused on the re-emergence of al-Qaida and that strikes against Islamic State leaders are scarce.


Weasel Zippers vis Stars and Stripes

Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (gf8BH)

1344 >>Here - first one - what am I acting out? Clue - it's a song title.


'Why don't we do it in the road'?

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (ZLIxs)

1345 1340
1340!!!!

Posted by: Dirty Randy


Show off.

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (2oWD2)

1346 "Wedding Bell Blues"?


Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:48 PM (sqb72)
=================================================

No, silly. Of all people, I thought you'd get it. Pages? Turning? Person reading??

Who wrote the Book of Love.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (dFi94)

1347 We can argue over what station to listen to.

-
Now I'm going to draw an imaginary line down the center of this bench seat and you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (Nwg0u)

1348 I wonder if the art thread will go all the way till the ONT.

Posted by: IC at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (a0IVu)

1349 The painting hasn't fully loaded my last 10 posts or more, it's fading like Michael J FOX in Back to the Future

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (hk3Fb)

1350 You think this thread is long? Back in '49 we had a cave in and people were trapped commenting on the same thread for weeks on end. Never thought we see the light of a new thread....

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (W+RZ5)

1351 Space station is all gaga over a space flower. I'm waiting for the day they kill and process a moose up there. THEN I'll be impressed.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (Fmupd)

1352 ???1340 1340!!!!

On your AM dial?

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (DrCtv)

1353 Now I'm going to draw an imaginary line down the center of this bench seat and you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine.

Posted by: The Great White Snark

He's touching meeeee!!!

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 03:51 PM (8ikIW)

1354 Then why have a supreme court at all?

--

The supreme court is the final arbiter of disputes, and to disputes among states. That's all the constitution accords.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (ZkzmI)

1355 >>No, silly. Of all people, I thought you'd get it. Pages? Turning? Person reading??


'Why Don't We Do It In The Road'?

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (ZLIxs)

1356 So 2000th comment triggers that Y2K we were worried about back in the day?

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (FtrY1)

1357 Dear God, another hundred or so comments and this place'll turn into another Katrina Superdome!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (wtvvX)

1358 Show off.


Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (2oWD2)



Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (jjaLl)

1359 Now I'm going to draw an imaginary line down the center of this bench seat and you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine.

You'll have to draw the line over the middle of our little cousin. I'll hold him still for you.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (GzDYP)

1360 I read the whole Federalist site.
Still here?

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (QM5S2)

1361 *yawns* Maybe someone should light a fart or something. I dunno.

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (2oWD2)

1362 Seriously. Will one of you NYC morons check the hospitals for ace?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (FsuaD)

1363
Then why have a supreme court at all? Serious question. If they're not supposed to have any power, what's the point of their existence?
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 18, 2016 03:47 PM (0LHZx)

Clearly, you're trolling again. Of course, they're supposed to have some power.
But, when they overstep their constitutional authority, to whom does one go for relief?
The executive branch oversteps on a regular basis. Does that make it right?

Why don't you explain where you think the limits of the Courts power should be?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (kKHcp)

1364 >>ace hates us.


It's times like this that I am happy I am not Ace's Ficus.
Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:49 PM (ZLIxs)


Le sigh...

Posted by: Ace's Zombie Puppy at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (Dj0WE)

1365 "Space station is all gaga over a space flower."

I'm wondering how they did it. Plant cells don't work right in microgravity.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 03:53 PM (nVQRc)

1366 Nowhere in the constitution does it empower any court, the supreme court included, to decide if a law is constitutional

-----------

On this I disagree. If there is a law that is a violation of the Constitution, then the Court must declare the law "un-Constitutional" as the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. But that does not make the Court's decision the supreme law of the land.

We can at least stop saying a judicial decision is the supreme law of the land - it is not. The Constitution is. Nothing more.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (gmeXX)

1367 On a personal note, 8 weeks after foot surgery I am (as of today) allowed to start putting limited weight on the foot- 25 lbs this week. Woot!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (NeFrd)

1368 1356- let's find out, or we could try to crash it by synchronizing comments all posting the same second

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (hk3Fb)

1369 1334 Finally got the federalist, very strange


The Federalist is where Ace goes to confer, converse and otherwise hobnob with other wizards of the internet...

...all in a British accent.

Rum, sodomy and the lash. It all ties together.

Posted by: jwest at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (Zs4uk)

1370 To win the Presidency it helps that you can project regular guy values and can appreciate regular guy concerns. It's the "who would you have a beer with test." George W and Bubba had it. George Senior, Al Gore and John Kerry didn't.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (rs5De)

1371
'Why Don't We Do It In The Road'?

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (ZLIxs)
========================================

Gonnng. Thanks for playing. Here's your consolation prize. A nice 2 slice toaster.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (dFi94)

1372 >>Will one of you NYC morons check the hospitals for ace?


Check the Shelters, too.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (ZLIxs)

1373 OK fine. Atlantic City is the Paris of New Jersey.

In relation to what it was, prior to a massive infusion of investor cash, yes. When some poor Pine Barren resident goes from selling bloodworms at a rotting pier to flying halfway around the world to spend a couple weeks vacationing with his wife at an exclusive resort, that's bringing prosperity.

My Dad bought a home in the area for less than 10k. At the height of the boom, brought about by investors and jobs, he could have sold for over 300k. To put in today's numbers, multiply by three.

A lot of people made a lot of money.

Posted by: willow surrogate at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (fbovC)

1374 It's almost 4 pm EST. Anyone in the vicinity that can check on Ace? He's late a lot, but not usually this late.

Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (KkVB6)

1375 So how big does the thread have to get before we have to resort to cannabalism?

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (sqb72)

1376 Show off.




Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:50 PM (2oWD2)





Posted by: Dirty Randy


Probably have box full of ampersands, don't ya?

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (2oWD2)

1377 He's already doing it.


Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2016 03:46 PM (W0RfD)

GOPe runs Congress, Trump doesn't

Even if Trump wins, GOPe will still run Congress

Where is Trump saying "Primary Ryan" or "Get rid of McConnell"? At least the Tea Party actually sponsored candidates to get rid of GOPe fossils and enablers.
That is another reason that I don't like him. He is not leading a movement for fundamental change on any level. He is just saying "trust me I'll make everything all right all on my own". But we all know he can't.

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (uZNvH)

1378 I guess Ace got kidnapped by aliens again.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (cbfNE)

1379 See, here we go. You are just rationalizing why we should ignore Trump's major flaws.
---
I didn't do any such thing. Vote for whichever fool suits you.

I'm saying the appeal of Trump in the campaign, the reason people are supporting him, is largely a rejection of DC and the GOPe. To the extent that's true, no policy matters, the only thing that could make him unappealing is cooperation on his part with the uniparty. Anyone who's on that train has already concluded that the promises of republicans don't matter, so worries about actual policy don't apply-we have no influence on that question today in any case.

A second set of people which I assume includes you, is people who still think the promises of republicans are worth something. On that assumption, you can then discuss policies of the other candidates and pick your preference. But those arguments aren't going to be of any great interest to those in the first group because of what we see as a faulty assumption you've made.

On the one policy that matters to Trump supporters, the crackdown on mexicans and mohammadans, none of your guys are credible, where there's an open question of what Trump will do. That makes him the superior, if still lousy, choice.

To answer the rest of your question, no I don't much care what he does in office. Government's choices no longer matter in the macro sense. Nothing will be done to deflate the Fed-GS-JPM-etc bubble, so instead it will burst with whatever consequences that has. Iran will go nuclear, as will multiple Sunni states in response, and shortly after that "stateless terrorists" will start setting off nukes against anyone who upsets them. Russia and China will continue pursuing their interests because A) they want to, B) there's no cost to them for doing so, and C)wars are less costly to them than unrest at home.

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (ZbV+0)

1380
So halfway through Triumph of the Will on YouTube. Had never bothered to watch it.

Not a film expert, but I can see how it was fairly sophisticated for its time, as an inspirational documentary.

Interesting, of all the Nazi bigs, only Goebbels had a speaking style/voice that was tolerable. Hitler's a bit screechy, unless he was being sarcastic. Never realized Hess had a high-pitched voice, sounds almost silly when he does his over-the-top intros of the Fuhrer. The others (Ley, Rosenberg, Darre, et al) mostly sound like your typical Kiwanis chairman obligated to do a public talk but really no good at it.

Chilling to think that all the young enthusiastic faces in the massive assemblies would be mostly dead in the next 10 years (film was done at the 1935 party rally in Nuremburg), after the idiots on stage had led them into a helping create a nightmare of evil and destruction.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (QDnY+)

1381 They're raping babies on this blog!1111!!!!!!

Posted by: Sheppy Smith at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (FsuaD)

1382 I bet that Cruz's wife actually has a real job and if he wins and she steps down they won't just close the position and will actually find someone else to fill it.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (z/Ubi)

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Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (QM5S2)

1384 Seamus only weighs 25 pounds? Lemme make you a sammich.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (dFi94)

1385 Woot!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon

Woot indeed. I've had two foot surgeries, it's nice to be walking again isn't it?

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (8ikIW)

1386 1372
>>Will one of you NYC morons check the hospitals for ace?





Check the Shelters dumpsters, too.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (ZLIxs)

FIFY.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (wtvvX)

1387 uh oh.

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (QM5S2)

1388 So how big does the thread have to get before we have to resort to cannabalism?
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (sqb72)


I don't know about you but I'm starting at 1500.

Posted by: StrawMan at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (W+RZ5)

1389 ROLAND!

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (2oWD2)

1390 I'll vote for Trump if it comes to that, and I'll do it enthusiastically, considering what the other option is.

However, in addition to getting immigration under control, I think the rule of law is incredibly important. In fact I think it is the most important thing, and fixing the immigration problem falls under it.

I am not convinced that Trump will view upholding the rule of law as one of his important functions as president. He strikes me as someone who will act to get his own way, without paying too much attention to how it is being done. I'm not saying that he will deliberately set out to define and undermine the rule of law like Obama did. Just that it won't really be on his radar.

Not that I trust any politician, because politician, but Cruz seems to me to be the most likely to try to restore the rule of law. without it, we are no better than third world basket cases.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (+wjl1)

1391 Archeologists open Beethoven's tomb and find the surprisingly spry zombie Ludwig vB furiously erasing a musical score.

"What are you doing?" they exclaim.


"Decomposing"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (NeFrd)

1392 1357
Dear God, another hundred or so comments and this place'll turn into another Katrina Superdome!!!


Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 03:52 PM (wtvvX)

----------------------Seems a little early in the week to get all rapey, but what the hell, why not?!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (jjaLl)

1393 What a lovely post, Roland. Very thoughtful of you to make such a nice long scrolling experience for us all to enjoy.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (dFi94)

1394 I'll be back later......

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (QM5S2)

1395 Is Ace just showing off his New York values?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (GzDYP)

1396 There is nothing wrong with your blog. Nor will there be another thread. You have all died and gone to hell and will spend eternity in this thread.

Posted by: Rod Serling at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (1BQGO)

1397
1368 1356- let's find out, or we could try to crash it by synchronizing comments all posting the same second
Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (hk3Fb)


------------------


Let's do it. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (Fmupd)

1398 Aaaand Roland earns a trip to the barrel!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (uhftQ)

1399 1395
Is Ace just showing off his New York values?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (GzDYP)

More like New York Valu-Rite

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (wtvvX)

1400 1400!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (wtvvX)

1401 This thread's been up almost six hours. Emergency medical attention is needed.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (kpqmD)

1402
INTERNET BLOGS FOR SALE

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (nVQRc)

1403 Could be a worse MLK day. First one for me started with a 6.7 earthquake.

That was fun...

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (DrCtv)

1404 Very tense in this thread. And from some people that usually aren't. Oh and I see that moo moo is back once again spewing his "superior intellect" all over everything.


Total coincidence I'm sure.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (z/Ubi)

1405 Is that... poop?!?

Posted by: Dang, looking under the coffee table at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (2oWD2)

1406 If Cruz's wife's no longer with GS, this is a moot point, but if she were there in *any* capacity, if Cruz were President, of course she'd be used as a point of access to Cruz by GS, if there were something they needed that she could facilitate.

That alone should be enough to dissuade anyone from voting for him who's sick of the crony capitalism and MSM/Dem incest.

The principle is no different than not being able to play Lotto if you're related to someone who works there.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (GKF1b)

1407 What's the record number for comments?

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 18, 2016 03:59 PM (3e8Ue)

1408 It basically goes like this

Analyst > VP > Managing Director > Partner

MDs are about 6% of the GS workforce.

Look, I'm sure Mrs. Cruz is a very bright, intelligent hard-working woman. For all I know she is chomping at the bit to hold Wall Street accountable.

As ridiculous it is to think "NYC values" Trump as a conservative standard bearer (I don't think he has claimed that), its also ridiculous to think that a

Canadian-born, Harvard-trained, Goldman Sachs-connected, former Bush official permanent government employee lawyer is too.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 03:59 PM (LXJ1e)

1409 Speaking of cannibalism the book I read about horrors on the eastern front during WWII was saying it occurred way more than you might believe.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 03:59 PM (hk3Fb)

1410 >>ROLAND!


Best Drummer in Rock and Roll History.

Hands down.

Posted by: Steve Albini at January 18, 2016 03:59 PM (ZLIxs)

1411 Thanks for the O'Rourke, AllHailEris !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 18, 2016 03:59 PM (erRNA)

1412 Here's why Babs herself is a joke.

She's all worried about climate change, but when she goes shopping she takes her RV so she has bathroom privacy.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 18, 2016 04:00 PM (3myMJ)

1413 My cat is fucked up. Prefers Meow Mix to canned salmon.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 04:00 PM (Fmupd)

1414 1406 If Cruz's wife's no longer with GS, this is a moot point, but if she were there in *any* capacity, if Cruz were President, of course she'd be used as a point of access to Cruz by GS, if there were something they needed that she could facilitate.

That alone should be enough to dissuade anyone from voting for him who's sick of the crony capitalism and MSM/Dem incest.

The principle is no different than not being able to play Lotto if you're related to someone who works there.
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-lot at January 18, 2016 03:58 PM (GKF1b)

-------------

They don't call it a "revolving door" between DC and Wall Street for nothing.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 04:00 PM (LXJ1e)

1415 Mitch Mitchell

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (hk3Fb)

1416
Holy crap.... I leave to go to a footing inspection, then go to another jobsite and make sure my guys havent frozen their tongues to anything, eat lunch.... come back here... we're still on the same thread????

WTF have you guys been talking about????

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (8XRCm)

1417 Gonnng. Thanks for playing. Here's your consolation prize. A nice 2 slice toaster.


Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM


Yeaaahhh, boy! Jackpot!

Posted by: Toaster Fcuker at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (me6xG)

1418
I am mostly sitting out the Trump Wars, but Methos that was a pretty good taxonomy of many people's perspectives and motivations on the candidates. And your tour d'horizon of policy areas was pretty solid, too.

Anything is possible, but I see little reason for optimism on the big questions, regardless of who's in the Oval. Lawlessness (executive, administrative, judicial) now suffuses the civic culture, and in the fertile environment thereby created, rent-seeking, self-seeking, irresponsibility, and a frightening basic stupidity are romping around. Unlikely that will change substantially.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (QDnY+)

1419 My cat is fucked up. Prefers Meow Mix to canned salmon.
Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 04:00 PM (Fmupd)

----

I wish Mrs Fixer was fucked up like that.......

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (8XRCm)

1420 I'll be back later......

Posted by: Roland THTG at January 18, 2016 03:57 PM (QM5S2)


Oh no you don't!
Get your ass in that barrel, now!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (kKHcp)

1421 That is utter bullshit. Eminent domain is THEFT and even if the government gives you the go ahead, decent people do not steal from other people.
Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 03:19 PM (OrI3J)
That's laughable.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 18, 2016 03:21 PM (gf8BH)

NGU is right......from canals to the railroads to airports to Trump's casinos.....ED built this country.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (ej1L0)

1422 I just saw a dead body float by my hotel window.

- Lyin' Brian Williams

Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (Nwg0u)

1423
Speaking of cannibalism the book I read about horrors on the eastern front during WWII was saying it occurred way more than you might believe.----Skip

Still better than C-Rats...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (uhftQ)

1424 WTF have you guys been talking fighting about????

Posted by: fixerupper at January 18, 2016 04:01 PM (8XRCm)

Fixed for accuracy

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (FsuaD)

1425 A lot of people do not like "judicial review" but I don't see judicial review as a problem. With respect to Obamacare, we had all wanted the Court to use its power of "judicial review" which is an implied power under the Supremacy Clause.

The real problem is with substantive due process which is used to find rights never imagined. Of course, thanks to Kennedy, the Court no longer even uses substantive due process to find rights. Now we have some sort of inherent dignity process that certainly is to be found no where in the Constitution.

But judicial review. I'm cool with that - when properly applied.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 04:03 PM (gmeXX)

1426 I'm pretty good at killing threads. Maybe this comment will do that.

Posted by: stace at January 18, 2016 04:03 PM (CoX6k)

1427 I wish to add a comment to this epic thread. I have to witticism to scribe; no pithy or light joke. But I must be included.

Fuck you, Hillary. With a pineapple.

Thank you all, for indulging me. Carry on.

Posted by: chiefjaybob at January 18, 2016 04:03 PM (cgH9o)

1428 WTF have you guys been talking about????

Posted by: fixerupper

Until now...YOU!

Posted by: Bruce at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (8ikIW)

1429 >>Mitch Mitchell


Pretty good choice. Easily inside the Top 10.

But he's no George Hurley.

Posted by: garrett at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (ZLIxs)

1430 Well, I suppose I could do some housework or something.



Nahhhh.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (dFi94)

1431 1416- on the best size of rebar, psi of concrete, and vibration to use on footings

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (hk3Fb)

1432 I'm calling the comment numbers I want. For sentimental reasons I would appreciate it if you all would allow me to make comments #s 1776, 1812, and 1967.

Thank you.

Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (CbGSW)

1433 So would everyone be happier if Ted Cruz's wife were a Walmart greeter? You know to show he's a man of the people and shit?
---
That depends. So either of them have Ivy League degrees?

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (ZbV+0)

1434 Damn, even the painting for this thread is fading.

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 04:05 PM (2oWD2)

1435 the only thing that could make him unappealing is cooperation on his part with the uniparty

-----------

See the response to Cruz NY Values comment. Trump and the Uniparty have the same response. Advantage Cruz - IMO.

Posted by: SH at January 18, 2016 04:05 PM (gmeXX)

1436 I wanted 1967. Arm wrestle you for it.

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 04:05 PM (dFi94)

1437 1413 My cat is fucked up. Prefers Meow Mix to canned salmon.

That's because they put crack in it. I think. Read it on the internet. On a thread less than 3 hours old. Somewhere, but not here.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (GzDYP)

1438 I mentioned the painting fading for me a while ago

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (hk3Fb)

1439 Make America Great, one of them actually has a track record of conservatism? This is getting ridiculous. I don't even know why I keep on with this topic. I'm supporting Cruz now come up but I don't feel a great emotional connection to him. I've never set eyes upon the man. He's just one of the people contesting for the presidency and appears to me to be the best suited of the lot. You disagree. So be it.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (+wjl1)

1440 nood

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (e7T6D)

1441 *no

Posted by: chiefjaybob at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (cgH9o)

1442 1426 I'm pretty good at killing threads. Maybe this comment will do that.
Posted by: stace at January 18, 2016 04:03 PM (CoX6k)


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Please don't. Many of us want to breathe the cool morning air of a fresh thread just one more time. The dawn is coming. I can feel it.

Posted by: Soona at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (Fmupd)

1443 So would everyone be happier if Ted Cruz's wife were a Walmart greeter? You know to show he's a man of the people and shit?

------------

I thought mailman was the accepted man of the people profession?

Posted by: John Kasich at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (gmeXX)

1444 NOOD!!!

Posted by: johnd01 at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (ukNFU)

1445 Over the week end there was a story about the opening of an automated sidewalk masturbation booth in New York and now nobody has seen Ace for days. I am pretty sure that the two things are unrelated but, I have been wrong before.

Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (MpvuV)

1446 Posted by: CozMark at January 18, 2016 04:04 PM (CbGSW)

Aside from our trademark lack of civility, you know we're never going to remember those numbers, right?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (kKHcp)

1447 nood

Posted by: Yip at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (e7T6D)
==================================

What ? What ??

Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (dFi94)

1448 On a personal note, 8 weeks after foot surgery I am (as of today) allowed to start putting limited weight on the foot- 25 lbs this week. Woot!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 03:54 PM (NeFrd)


So you can put your dick in your shoe? Cool!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (Z8fuk)

1449 Ummm, I think ace just now woke up. Hard to tell.

Posted by: HH at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (DrCtv)

1450 I'm watching my Lawrence Welk on PBS! My diapers are damp.

Posted by: Drooling Yammering Bernie at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (UBS9M)

1451 M.O.O.N. that spells drummer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 18, 2016 04:07 PM (FkBIv)

1452 As a protest we could keep posting here until the ONT

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:08 PM (hk3Fb)

1453 New thread. See, I told you I was good at killing threads. My comments always post just when a new thread goes up. I claim all credit for this one.

Posted by: stace at January 18, 2016 04:09 PM (CoX6k)

1454 1390 I'll vote for Trump if it comes to that, and I'll do it enthusiastically, considering what the other option is.

However, in addition to getting immigration under control, I think the rule of law is incredibly important. In fact I think it is the most important thing, and fixing the immigration problem falls under it.

I am not convinced that Trump will view upholding the rule of law as one of his important functions as president. He strikes me as someone who will act to get his own way, without paying too much attention to how it is being done. I'm not saying that he will deliberately set out to define and undermine the rule of law like Obama did. Just that it won't really be on his radar.

Not that I trust any politician, because politician, but Cruz seems to me to be the most likely to try to restore the rule of law. without it, we are no better than third world basket cases.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 03:56 PM (+wjl1)

---------------------

I think it is just the opposite. Permanent government employees know nothing of the rule of law. Private sector employees in real estate, construction, manufacturing, etc know all about it.

A plant manager once told me, "my #1 job is not to go to jail".

Compare and contrast private sector accounting with public sector accounting.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 04:09 PM (LXJ1e)

1455 1378 I guess Ace got kidnapped by aliens again.
Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (cbfNE)

===========

Hope they give him a good anal probing...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 04:10 PM (iQIUe)

1456 Okay, wth is this thread still doing up? I ate breakfast, took a shower, revamped my weekly work schedule, and prepped some laundry.

I think someone around here is looking for disciplinary action.

Posted by: Joanne Hearts Cruz/Smod/And Trump as the last resort at January 18, 2016 04:10 PM (hgBpU)

1457 I vaguely remember something called a nood, but I thought it was all a dream.

Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 04:10 PM (+wjl1)

1458 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (ej1

There is a difference between the canals, highways, railroads ,etc and a parking garage for a casino. The Kelo decision turned the Constitutional meaning of ED on its head.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 18, 2016 04:11 PM (qbqnC)

1459 I ain't a goin'...

I AIN'T!!!!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 18, 2016 04:12 PM (jjaLl)

1460 1439 Make America Great, one of them actually has a track record of conservatism? This is getting ridiculous. I don't even know why I keep on with this topic. I'm supporting Cruz now come up but I don't feel a great emotional connection to him. I've never set eyes upon the man. He's just one of the people contesting for the presidency and appears to me to be the best suited of the lot. You disagree. So be it.
Posted by: chique testing testing at January 18, 2016 04:06 PM (+wjl1)

-----------------

I'm willing to give Cruz a shot on the Supreme Court, President, no.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 04:12 PM (LXJ1e)

1461 The Kelo decision turned the Constitutional meaning of ED on its head.

Erectile Dysfunction?

Posted by: gh at January 18, 2016 04:14 PM (YlqSL)

1462
Like Skip's "protest" idea. Heh.

SH, you're right, and you're wrong - or you're right in a way that doesn't mean much.

Sure, judicial review - while questionable in its basis - is not neccessarily a problem.

But when it is used simply to legislate, as it has been for decades (recently acquiring a more farcical and transparen, brazen character), obviously, big problems.

Not that it helps much, probably, but the dark humor of short, illustrative examples is getting better as things get more ridiculous: it's a deep mystery what sort of infringements are allowed on an expressright specified as NOT to be infringed - meanwhile man's oldest institutions need to be redefined by fiatof a half-dozen people in order to pwotect the feeweings of a tiny minority whose case has been rejected by the culture. It will only get better/worse, I'm thinking.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 18, 2016 04:15 PM (QDnY+)

1463 I guess Ace got kidnapped by aliens again.

Posted by: @votermom at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (cbfNE)



===========

Hope they give him a good anal probing...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 18, 2016 04:10 PM (iQIUe)

Depends on what you mean by "good".

Posted by: The Aliens at January 18, 2016 04:15 PM (T78UI)

1464 Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 03:55 PM (ZbV+0)

Well here is a news flash, presidents do more than just build a wall.

Let me put it to you this way: what are you willing to give up for the immigration wall? Everything? Because taken literally that is what your comment is saying. You don't care if the next president starts seizing guns and appointing whackos to SCOTUS as long as that wall gets built...

Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 04:16 PM (uZNvH)

1465 I'm staying right here.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 04:17 PM (NeFrd)

1466 How long can this go one?
How long must we sing this song?

When does pixy start banning late comments?

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:17 PM (nVQRc)

1467 However, in addition to getting immigration under control, I think the
rule of law is incredibly important. In fact I think it is the most
important thing, and fixing the immigration problem falls under it.
---
That isn't possible unless folks who abuse the power of their offices go to jail or worse (depending on the circumstance). Plenty of folks want to raise money on the awful behavior of Lois Lerner, but I haven't heard anyone promise a prosecution (and if not her, any of the folks who covered for her). I haven't even heard anyone suggest taking away her pension. Plenty of folks want to raise money on the mess obama's made in the middle east and increasingly here with his open borders, but no one's promising treason trials for everyone involved in those decisions.

My hope, and I'm massively projecting here, is that Trump gets into office, and the bottom falls out of everything. I think this will happen in any case, but what makes him different is the lack of loyalty to anyone in DC, so when the time comes for scapegoating the shit out of the problem, he'll lay waste to the cozy bipartisan crowd that made it all possible. But he's not campaigning on it, and I'm not counting on it.

Posted by: Methos at January 18, 2016 04:17 PM (ZbV+0)

1468 This thread is not dead.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:19 PM (nVQRc)

1469 1465 I'm staying right here.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon


******

THREADWINNER!!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 18, 2016 04:19 PM (NeFrd)

1470 So, Shameless, know any good puns?

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:21 PM (nVQRc)

1471 I'll kill this thing.

Die mfer die!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:21 PM (X+nFp)

1472 It's kinda cool and retro in here. *making a hook rug with a kitten on it*

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 04:22 PM (2oWD2)

1473 I could hang around here and snag 1500.

Posted by: at January 18, 2016 04:22 PM (qKhTG)

1474 I could hang around here and snag 1500.

Posted by:

Seriously?

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 04:23 PM (2oWD2)

1475 Well hell! It won't die. Why won't it just die?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:23 PM (X+nFp)

1476 1474?

Posted by: at January 18, 2016 04:23 PM (qKhTG)

1477 Let me put it to you this way: what are you willing to give up for the immigration wall? Everything? Because taken literally that is what your comment is saying. You don't care if the next president starts seizing guns and appointing whackos to SCOTUS as long as that wall gets built...
Posted by: chemjeff at January 18, 2016 04:16 PM (uZNvH)

Yes, unless we gain control of our immigration you will end up with whackos and seized guns anyways because voting won't mean a hill of beans. Look at California. It's wacko land because of uncontrolled immigration. If Trump stops that then everything else can be taken care of.

The GOP is complicit in this mess and putting someone they hate in charge is good enough for me. Cruz is my second choice though he is another H1B's for all guy.

Posted by: WOPR at January 18, 2016 04:25 PM (LTDSy)

1478 Rats, missed it by "that" much.

Posted by: at January 18, 2016 04:25 PM (qKhTG)

1479
Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:25 PM (nVQRc)

1480 Peeks into thread.

Looks around.

Is it dead yet?

Sure smells dead.

Pokes it with a stick.

It ain't moving.

Doesn't seem to be breathing either.

Shoots in the head twice.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:29 PM (X+nFp)

1481 I'm going to start simul-posting on both open threads. Everyone take out your 3-D glasses...

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 04:31 PM (2oWD2)

1482 Testing.

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:31 PM (qKhTG)

1483 [cue 1812 Overture]

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:31 PM (nVQRc)

1484 Oh yeah. 1500, here I come!

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:33 PM (qKhTG)

1485 Like Skip's "protest" idea. Heh.

SH, you're right, and you're wrong - or you're right in a way that doesn't mean much.

Sure, judicial review - while questionable in its basis - is not neccessarily a problem.

But when it is used simply to legislate, as it has been for decades (recently acquiring a more farcical and transparen, brazen character), obviously, big problems.

Not that it helps much, probably, but the dark humor of short, illustrative examples is getting better as things get more ridiculous: it's a deep mystery what sort of infringements are allowed on an expressright specified as NOT to be infringed - meanwhile man's oldest institutions need to be redefined by fiatof a half-dozen people in order to pwotect the feeweings of a tiny minority whose case has been rejected by the culture. It will only get better/worse, I'm thinking.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 18, 2016 04:15 PM (QDnY+)

---------------

The Constitution gave the President the power to veto a bill to keep it from becoming law.

It seems strange that the same Constitution didn't spell out the SC's power to veto laws and/or parts of laws.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at January 18, 2016 04:34 PM (LXJ1e)

1486 Oh yeah. 1500, here I come!
Posted by: at January 18, 2016 04:33 PM (qKhTG)

Nope. Not gonna happen.

Yes that is the gauntlet on the floor I just threw down.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:34 PM (X+nFp)

1487 15 more to 1500?

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:34 PM (qKhTG)

1488 So close...

Posted by: Dang at January 18, 2016 04:35 PM (2oWD2)

1489 Forget 1500 loser. Not gonna happen.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:35 PM (X+nFp)

1490 Uh oh. Let me think about this.

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:35 PM (qKhTG)

1491 Only Jeb! voters get 1500.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:36 PM (X+nFp)

1492 Go ahead hit post

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:37 PM (X+nFp)

1493 FORGET IT!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:37 PM (X+nFp)

1494 . . . thinking . . . thinking

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:37 PM (qKhTG)

1495 New thread is up ... ace lives.

Posted by: gh at January 18, 2016 04:37 PM (YlqSL)

1496 Don't think- POST

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:38 PM (X+nFp)

1497 [cues cannon fire]
[launches bot]
[embeds flash video]

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:38 PM (nVQRc)

1498 So close

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:38 PM (X+nFp)

1499 Now

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:39 PM (X+nFp)

1500 Oh no

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:39 PM (X+nFp)

1501 We all have a role to play. Mine is to have a crappy hash.

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:40 PM (qKhTG)

1502 Oh sorry.

Too bad.

I really feel for you, loser who loses.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:40 PM (X+nFp)

1503 Pretty pathetic.

A smug victory lap by me over someone I've never seen or will ever know about posting #1500 on a dead thread.

I rock.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:43 PM (X+nFp)

1504 NGU is right......from canals to the railroads to airports to Trump's casinos.....ED built this country.



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (ej1L0)

One of those thing is not a public good (actually and strictly speaking none of them is a public good but at least canals and railroads provide public transportation).
NGU is wrong and anyone who thinks stealing is ok is not particularly a good person either.


Posted by: redbanzai at January 18, 2016 04:43 PM (OrI3J)

1505 NGU is right......from canals to the railroads to airports to Trump's casinos.....ED built this country.



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 18, 2016 04:02 PM (ej1L0)

Erectile Dysfunction built this country?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:44 PM (X+nFp)

1506 "NGU is right......from canals to the railroads to airports to Trump's casinos.....ED built this country. "

So you are suggesting that empire building is over compensating for small peni?

Posted by: Williams Fitzlender at January 18, 2016 04:44 PM (nVQRc)

1507 If you think about it he may be right.

Just about the time Viagra came out the country went to hell.

ED built this country.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 18, 2016 04:46 PM (X+nFp)

1508 494 to 2000

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:46 PM (hk3Fb)

1509 Yes, yes! I got 1501, just like I wanted!

I'm on top of the world! 10,000 volts shooting out of my fingers!

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:47 PM (qKhTG)

1510 492

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 04:47 PM (hk3Fb)

1511 Okay, okay. This is the ultimate in procrastination here before your very eyes.

Posted by: <Kevin C> at January 18, 2016 04:50 PM (qKhTG)

1512 No, I'm getting the last word

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2016 05:16 PM (hk3Fb)

1513 SH at 1186: Too soon, man, too soon.

Posted by: Pastafarian at January 18, 2016 08:00 PM (pCf+a)

1514 Trees and snow, in paintings, are beautiful.

Posted by: French Jeton at January 18, 2016 08:13 PM (WMvHw)

1515 It's about damn time the Entire picture decided to show up in this thread. The fuck.

Posted by: Corona at January 19, 2016 09:24 AM (ragzU)

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