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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 09:26 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 09:26 AM (xuouz)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 09:26 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 09:26 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 09:28 AM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 28, 2016 09:28 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 09:28 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 28, 2016 09:28 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2016 09:29 AM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at January 28, 2016 09:29 AM (X+nFp)
Just saying.
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (2Ocf1)
Morning, Glories!
Vic: On this in 1887 in a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes were reported, 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
Um, sounds like a real Paul Bunyan type tale t'me. Like, I remember the winter it was so cold the air all froze in place and you had to take a knife to cut it just to let the dawg out...
Posted by: mindful webworker - eh? at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (JtBPN)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Anita Dunn's Mao Time Happy Ending Rub and Tug at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (dlIzT)
Poll round-up:
Iowa Republican NBC/WSJ/Marist Trump +7
Iowa Republican Monmouth Trump +7
New Hampshire Republican NBC/WSJ/Marist Trump +19
Cruz, Kasich, Rubio tied for 2nd
New Hampshire Republican Emerson Trump +17
Bush in 2nd, Cruz in 5th
South Carolina Republican NBC/WSJ/Marist Trump +16
Rubio close behind Cruz
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Fewenuff at January 28, 2016 09:30 AM (T/sbU)
Jeb Bush PAC plots Super Bowl ad in New Hampshire
Right to Rise USA, a super-PAC supporting Bushs presidential bid, is looking to raise $300,000 for a 30-second Super Bowl commercial in the New Hampshire market.
"Hey kid. Catch."
*throws guaca-bowl to boy in locker room*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Kid,_Catch!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:31 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ben at January 28, 2016 09:31 AM (7/K++)
Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), under fire from Republicans on national security, is getting a boost from ex-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The former Pentagon chief donated $1,000 to Feingold's campaign. Feingold is challenging Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
Asked about the donation, Hagel, who previously served as a Republican senator from Nebraska, touted their work together in the Senate. "[I've] worked with him on many issues. I believe that the Senate needs more senators like Senator Feingold who [will] work across party lines to help govern our country," the former Defense secretary said in a statement to The Hill.
Big tent!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:32 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: spypeach at January 28, 2016 09:32 AM (nyYhO)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 09:33 AM (iQIUe)
1) Easy explanation: Hagel is a Democrat.
2) If Hagel is a boost to your campaign, it must be doing pretty shittily.
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 09:33 AM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Fewenuff at January 28, 2016 09:33 AM (T/sbU)
And:
World War I Memorial Design Chosen for 2018 Completion
The World War I Memorial will be a three-sided wall depicting images of the so-called War to End All Wars, and will be located at Pershing Park in downtown Washington, D.C. The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission announced their memorial of choice, The Weight of Sacrifice by Chicago artist Joseph Weishaar and New York sculptor Sabin Howard.
http://tinyurl.com/zwbemyj
Looks like "Parking Lot Retaining Wall: The Narrative".
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:34 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: spypeach at January 28, 2016 09:35 AM (nyYhO)
Posted by: Ben at January 28, 2016 09:31 AM (7/K++)
It's kind of gotten out of hand. I mean, Buzzion got killed with a trident and everything.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 09:36 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: PRNDL at January 28, 2016 09:37 AM (2Ynt1)
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Fingers at January 28, 2016 09:37 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 09:37 AM (xuouz)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 09:37 AM (iQIUe)
*sobs*
But what about my needs?
Posted by: Circular Firing Squad at January 28, 2016 09:37 AM (XkVXQ)
maybe jeb will win iowa
Posted by: E.T. at January 28, 2016 09:38 AM (yq4gk)
really starting to get to me. I've got enough going on in my life that I
don't need to get into fights on a daily basis about politics.
I know exactly what you mean, Ben. Thanks for all the morning links you provide us.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 28, 2016 09:38 AM (gyKtp)
Ewe shore have purty lags!
Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 28, 2016 09:38 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:39 AM (1xUj/)
Just like the sainted, noble Donald Trump.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 09:39 AM (xuouz)
Posted by: Ben at January 28, 2016 09:39 AM (7/K++)
Judge lets Berkeley require cell phone warnings
The measure requires retailers to notify customers that the federal government sets radiation standards for cell phones, and that a user may be exposed to levels that exceed those standards by carrying a phone in a pocket or tucked into a bra when the device is connected to a wireless network.
SFGate
Women carry cell phones in their bras? Well, that's trashy.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:40 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 09:40 AM (iQIUe)
While his BFF claims to be leading the global fight against anti-Semitism.
Weasel Zippers
And now they have 1.5 billion more to play with
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 09:41 AM (kzdjp)
*slams bedroom door*
*flops onto bed and buries head into pillow*
I hate you Dad! You don't understand!
Posted by: Circular Firing Squad at January 28, 2016 09:41 AM (XkVXQ)
I also wonder whether I've got enough left to get through a Hildebeeste or Sanders Admin.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat, waving his cane at January 28, 2016 09:41 AM (l3vZN)
work across party lines to help govern our country
To paraphrase Hermann Goering, every time I hear bullshit like that, I want to punch someone's teeth down their throat.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 09:42 AM (X6fMO)
http://tinyurl.com/h5h4yfq
I bet this is happening nationwide, and will continue to happen until many assholes lose their jobs.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 28, 2016 09:43 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2016 09:43 AM (Hxh2/)
Barbie Is Finally Available In Three New Body Types
Fifty-seven years after first giving little girls an unrealistic representation of what a womans body should look like, Mattel is finally introducing three new versions of the iconic doll featuring tall, petite, and curvy body types.
http://tinyurl.com/gol6why
Pretty sure the tall one is really a dude.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:43 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Circular Firing Squad at January 28, 2016 09:44 AM (XkVXQ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2016 09:45 AM (LUgeY)
Missing a couple zeros
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2016 09:43 AM (Hxh2/)
yeah opps...150 Billion
hey what's a billion here and there when you have the bomb?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 09:45 AM (kzdjp)
Ben enjoy your break from the spate of verbal violence always waiting to slither out of our angsty souls.
srsly enjoy your time out, and hope you have a blast and make lots of pancakes.
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 09:45 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:45 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:45 AM (1xUj/)
For real?
My mom thought barbies were bad when I was a kid and my grandmother gave me one and she threw it away. And then she felt bad and apologized to my grandmother. Not to me.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 09:47 AM (lIU4e)
Oooh, it would be like watching dinnerplate dahlias fall from the sky!
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 28, 2016 09:47 AM (gjLib)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:39 AM (1xUj/)
That was Brian Dennehy body double #76.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at January 28, 2016 09:47 AM (WWdgA)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 09:47 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Teh Donald at January 28, 2016 09:48 AM (9krrF)
Ummm...excuse me...
Posted by: Crybullies at January 28, 2016 09:48 AM (XkVXQ)
Because little girls have never seen what real, live women look like.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 09:49 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at January 28, 2016 09:49 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 28, 2016 09:49 AM (RD7QR)
474 Just popping in to say that Goering's brother story from the ONT is pretty fantastic and one I had never heard before!
Morning all.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 09:08 AM (lIU4e)
-----!
Lea, I thought so too! I looked up the book (coz of course there's a book) and blogged it (link in nic)
Here's to Albert Goering, unexpected good guy.
Posted by: @votermom at January 28, 2016 09:49 AM (cbfNE)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 28, 2016 09:50 AM (ziriD)
Posted by: Teh Donald at January 28, 2016 09:48 AM (9krrF)"
And so will the snowflakes!
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 28, 2016 09:50 AM (gjLib)
Posted by: @votermom at January 28, 2016 09:50 AM (cbfNE)
http://tinyurl.com/hu8bqts
Maybe we should just do away with classified info, since our Top.Men. in DC can't seem to protect any of it anyhow.
It's getting so that us the citizens are the only ones who don't know what is in the gubmint files.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 28, 2016 09:50 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Bubba Ken at January 28, 2016 09:51 AM (XkVXQ)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 28, 2016 09:51 AM (HSmrB)
I only have to call, but I keep forgetting!
Have a good day!
I was watching the National Lampoon documentary last night & was laughing out loud. I am glad Ace mentioned it.
It's on Showtime, but made by History Channel.
I suggest you watch if you can.
Posted by: Carol at January 28, 2016 09:52 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 09:52 AM (OkKDg)
She was not a full sized sex toy. She was maybe more appropriately a fetish object, a 7" tall naked figurine. She was marketed to men.
http://bit.ly/1gkXBIS
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:52 AM (1xUj/)
Start peeing on stuff
I'm spraying my pee
I want to pee all over it
New York New York!
These little town squares
With restrictive laws
Can't hold back my splash in
New York New York!
I want to wake up in THE CITY
With a bladder that's full
Then pee on every street
Every stoop
Every door
Every keyhole not fullllll
*big finish*
Thanks to DiBlasioooo
I'm whipping it ouuuuuut
I'm gonna write my name
All over St Paaaat's
I'm free to urinate
And that feeling's really great
Right in your face
New York Neeewww Yooooorkkk!
Yeah! I'm eatin' asparagus tonight!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2016 09:53 AM (KUa85)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:53 AM (1xUj/)
http://bit.ly/1gkXBIS
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:52 AM (1xUj/)
_________________________
I'd hit it....
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 28, 2016 09:54 AM (HSmrB)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 09:54 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 28, 2016 09:54 AM (ziriD)
The World War I Memorial will be a three-sided wall depicting images of the so-called War to End All Wars, and will be located at Pershing Park in downtown Washington, D.C. The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission announced their memorial of choice, The Weight of Sacrifice by Chicago artist Joseph Weishaar and New York sculptor Sabin Howard.
http://tinyurl.com/zwbemyj
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:34 AM (kdS6q)
Wait, I thought people were joking about the WWi memorial the other day. There already is a ww1 memorial. It's kind of small, but it's been there for ages.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Neutral Media at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (CVhPs)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (e7T6D)
Oh, Frank Sinatra, why were you taken from us before the greatest song of them all came along??
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (gjLib)
To paraphrase Hermann Goering, every time I hear bullshit like that, I want to punch someone's teeth down their throat."
I thought it was Baldur Von Schirach, but I could be wrong (/pedant) but I heartily agree either way !
Furthermore, if I had access to ace's time machine (which of course totally doesn't exist) I would go back through time and apply that procedure until my brass knuckles had worn down to nubs, with particular attention paid to all the (insert string of profanity) who have told me that "the American people would never stand for that" and "there's no such thing as a slippery slope".
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (Z8DIA)
Posted by: Circular Firing Squad at January 28, 2016 09:56 AM (XkVXQ)
i remember arguing to another woman about Cain here, it was rather ugly on My side, i am ashamed of that. i decided shortly after that experience ettes /morons, real life friends and family were more important to me than the blood sport of politics.
and going nuts over this is super ugly.
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 09:56 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: rrpjr at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (s/yC1)
Oooh, it would be like watching dinnerplate dahlias fall from the sky!
At that size, they must have been coming down like turkeys from a helicopter.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (lIU4e)
That memorial is dedicated to the soldiers from the District of Columbia, not the nation.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 09:58 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 09:58 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: King Missile at January 28, 2016 09:59 AM (NOIQH)
So basically an updated version of Venus of Willendorf ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 28, 2016 09:59 AM (Z8DIA)
Its very existence perpetuates the patriarchal sexless rape culture!
Posted by: Fembot 3000 at January 28, 2016 09:59 AM (XkVXQ)
http://tinyurl.com/jb8gbh3
*Jon Corzine, still free as a bird*
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 28, 2016 10:00 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 28, 2016 09:50 AM (gyKtp)
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I believe to some extent (not necessarily in all cases) this is a feature of current policy, not a failure.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 10:00 AM (NUqwG)
And by soldiers of DC they mean those best at skimming a profit from the Design, construction, environmental impact... of Memorials.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (XtAzU)
I am right there with you on not intending to join in on any flame wars where we rip each other apart over various GOP candidates/pundits instead of the better targets for our rage: Obama, Hillary, etc.
Why should we give ISIS what they want?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (iQIUe)
I thought it was Baldur Von Schirach, but I could be wrong (/pedant) but I heartily agree either way !
I was wrong, actually - the line about "culture" comes from a Nazi-era play called Schlageter, and the actual line is, "when I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my gun."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:02 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (dnQ1L)
I really thought they could fly......
Posted by: Arthur Carlson at January 28, 2016 10:02 AM (WWdgA)
So what you're saying is we are old.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2016 10:03 AM (Hxh2/)
Yeah. And that the polity is made of many cohorts who barely know each other.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (evdj2)
so.
not worth it.
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 09:52 AM (1xUj/)
So...they marketed a doll, with sexy negligees, to adult men. Wow.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (XtAzU)
That was pretty bad even for this place which isn't big on reverence.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (hLRSq)
maybe jeb will win iowa
Posted by: E.T. at January 28, 2016 09:38 AM (yq4gk)
The Iowa Cockeye comes loaded with rigging from the start. First, it's filled with Iowans. Second, it is even more a popularity contest than elections where people go vote, then go home. Third, candidates who have hired teams to game the system can... wait for it, game the system!
In a better world, we would treat Iowa with the dignity and value it deserves. Which is to say, we wouldn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (Dj0WE)
Their definition of "govern" being very different from Webster's.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (WWdgA)
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (fQ/0p)
Posted by: Carol at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (FQKBL)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 09:57 AM (hLRSq)
I see.
I hate this whole bigger and bigger memorial trend they have going in dc, but it doesn't seem like it's going to stop soon so oh well.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:06 AM (lIU4e)
Something like that, anyway.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 28, 2016 10:07 AM (MIKMs)
I don't think that RINO means what y'all think it means.
The Republican party has NEVER been a conservative (for whatever value that term holds anymore) party. Its first president, Lincoln, presided as if he never heard of this quaint document called the Constitution.
Almost every Republican administration saw the expansion of the federal leviathan. Some more than others.
Reagan was an anomaly. Has there been any other Republican president who was actually "conservative-ish"?
So when we look at folks like Perino, Gutfeld, Rubio, Jeb, etc., ad nauseam, are they somehow behaving in ways that are contrary to what the Republican party is all about?
Or are we the ones who do not match the Republican ideals and behavior? Are we REALLY Republicans, or is that just the only option we believe we can go to?
So who are the real RINOS here?
I would say it is us. Or at least those of us who still have that R on their voter registration.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 28, 2016 10:07 AM (4nmNX)
Posted by: MTF at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (NeFrd)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (OkKDg)
http://tinyurl.com/homnsr8
RAW VIDEO: Armed Robbers Get Lit Up by Deadly Pair of Concealed Carriers
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (fWAjv)
Apropos of nothing, I once visited a Soviet military cemetery in the then East Germany. Massive Heroic Statuary everywhere. And I mean massive.
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (evdj2)
Yet another reason why I have no qualms about not voting.
Fuck. Them. All.
Posted by: SMFH at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (NMM6D)
"Why won't they make a doll that caters specifically to meeeeeeeeeeee!?"
I suppose it's asking too much to make your own dang clothes for barbie?
Oh wait, that would take some initiative.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (NOIQH)
anyhow... interviewed was a DUTCH journalist Iben Thranholm, and she posits that the problem of groping and womyns in Europe is revealing that European men are unable to defend their womynz because Europe has completely feminized all of their mens. I'll put vid link in my nic.
It was a good interview.
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (e7T6D)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 28, 2016 10:09 AM (4ErVI)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:09 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (X6fMO)
Hmmm..... My theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8piMHsOya4
Posted by: BurtTC at January 28, 2016 10:09 AM (Dj0WE)
Heh, they'll never top my memorial.
Posted by: Teddy Roosevelt Island at January 28, 2016 10:10 AM (NOIQH)
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You like dogging on Hillary, don't you? That's fun, isn't it?
Posted by: iforgot at January 28, 2016 10:10 AM (pC96u)
I'm doing fine. Just moved into my new place closer to Ft Hood, have two job interviews next week, and school is keeping me occupied.
How's things with you?
Posted by: SMFH at January 28, 2016 10:10 AM (NMM6D)
>> hate this whole bigger and bigger memorial trend they have going in
dc, but it doesn't seem like it's going to stop soon so oh well.
Can't be my island!
Posted by: Teddy Roosevelt Island at January 28, 2016 10:11 AM (NOIQH)
point to where it touched you.
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:11 AM (OkKDg)
I CAN defend. It's not a matter of defending or not. It's a matter of "what is the penalty for doing so?"
So when I lay a baseball bat upside a muzzies head, I won't go to jail?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at January 28, 2016 10:01 AM (XtAzU)
That was pretty bad even for this place which isn't big on reverence.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Small Appliance Sale at the Outrage Outlet! 10% Off Gender Blenders! at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (hLRSq)
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It was intended as a "living memorial" as were many around the country after WWI (college memorial union bldgs., memorial fields, etc.)
From the NPS site:
"The names of the men and women from the District of Columbia who gave their lives in the World War are here inscribed as a perpetual record of their patriotic service to their country.
A circular, open-air, Doric structure built almost entirely of Vermont marble, the memorial has an overall height of 47 feet and a diameter of 44 feet, large enough to accommodate the entire U.S. Marine Band. It was intended that the structure be a memorial and a bandstand and that each concert would be a tribute to those who served and sacrificed in the war."
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (NUqwG)
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 09:55 AM (lIU4e)
And Barky had it barricaded (along with the WWII memorial and banning any "sightseeing" in national parks) during the government faux-shutdown.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (zc3Db)
me? i'm okey dokey, considering.
and good luck on the interviews!
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: eman at January 28, 2016 10:13 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Rihar at January 28, 2016 10:13 AM (+ao6J)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:02 AM (evdj2)
Yep. And the continual ki-yiing about the death of President Kennedy - it would be like expecting Kent State protesters to go into mourning for the Archduke Franz Ferdinand once a year. Hollywood is particularly bad for this frozen in amber attitude. I saw a cartoon the other day, with a parody of Gloria Swanson's "I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille" line in 'Sunset Boulevard'. And I thought, "How many kids, teenagers, young adults watching this have ever SEEN "SB"? Probably 5%, but filmmakers keep thinking that what influenced them when they were young still influences kids today.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (gjLib)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (kzdjp)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 28, 2016 09:34 AM (kdS6q)
They don't do monuments well anymore. I was disappointed with the WWII monument. It looks like the WWI one is out to be even worse.
Posted by: WOPR at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (LTDSy)
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:04 AM (lIU4e)
Still do. All those $100 plus special edition Barbies are pretty much exclusively for adult men. Adult gay men.
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (2Ocf1)
So when I lay a baseball bat upside a muzzies head, I won't go to jail?
Posted by: rickb223
Denmark is bragging about prosecuting a victim of a forcible rape attempt for using pepper spray.
Think about that. More than a decade ago, women here cheered on Lorena Bobbit and women burning men in their beds.
Posted by: Blue Hen at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (326rv)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (OkKDg)
Glad we have such an awesome vetting process for those who come in the country.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:05 AM (FQKBL)
Some people feel that criticism gives them power. Pseudo-intellectuals take this stance, I find. The more I question the smarter I must be.
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 28, 2016 10:15 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:15 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (gjLib)
Especially since JFK was one shit-awful President.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 10:15 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Oschisms at January 28, 2016 10:16 AM (ZsN9X)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:16 AM (OkKDg)
So when I lay a baseball bat upside a muzzies head, I won't go to jail?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:12 AM (dnQ1L)
You are now an outlier though...
We have spent 2 generation now telling every boy in public school 'you will be suspended for fighting back, even when the other guy throws the first punch'.
This Programming is insidious, and stops NATURAL reactions from taking place.
Posted by: Blast from the Past... at January 28, 2016 10:17 AM (f7rv6)
Posted by: Tilikum Cruel Assault Whale at January 28, 2016 10:17 AM (0x/TW)
Oh wait, that would take some initiative.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:08 AM (NOIQH)
Or, you know, buy more outfits. Which is what they want you to do anyway.
If they were buying American girl dolls instead they could get nifty 50's outfits and stuff for them.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (lIU4e)
But he was one of the guys that banged Marylyn Monroe, after she became Marylyn Monroe.
So that's gotta count for a leeeeetle slack, ne?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (4nmNX)
what a head ache it must be.
so i do try. but i'm such a spaz and forget from comment to comment .
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (FQKBL)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2016 10:19 AM (lY6OQ)
Glad we have such an awesome vetting process for those who come in the country.
Oh, don't worry! The Obama admin is ALL OVER this. Right now they're working diligently on just the right messaging to assuage our fear of the Zika virus. What, you think their time would be better served putting together an action plan for preventing its spread in the US?
Top Men.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday that federal officials
are planning a "conspicuous, concerted effort" to communicate the risks
of the disease, making clear that it poses a far different --- and less
severe --- threat than the recent Ebola epidemic.
Feel better already!
*changes channel to Real Housewives of Whatevs*
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (NOIQH)
Baldur von Schirach mentioned before rush hour in the west. The HQ is a pretty heavy duty place. All I know about Schirach is Goebbels and Hitler hated his cultural work in Vienna, the scrawny little sycophant because he wanted to make Berlin, where he was Gauleiter, the Reich cultural capital, and the deranged mustached one because of his abiding bitterness at his own artistic failure in the Austrian capital.
But Ben - "I'm sure things will change once we have a candidate or at the very least it's down to two or three options".
Hmm. Aren't the food fights here now about, essentially, two or three options? It's not the Huckabee fanatics and the Yeb! loyalists who are going at it. Pretty much you-know-who vs. Cruz and the other Cuban, though that last one barely gets mentioned (not sure if that's because he's such a farcical figure, or anyone to whom he, inexplicably, appeals is too hesitant to mention it).
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (QDnY+)
sjwarrior Willow!
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (OkKDg)
Posted by: WOPR at January 28, 2016 10:14 AM (LTDSy)
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I do like the WWII monument. A matter of preference.
Given the specific location selected for the memorial, I think the designer did an excellent job. The monument is partially sunken so as to not impact sight lines down the mall. The pool within conforms well to the original plan for that portion of the Mall area generated by the McMillan Plan.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (NUqwG)
Which is why parenting is all the more essential these days. As a counterbalance to the indoc.
One of the things I kept drilling in to my son's heads was no matter what happens, punch them in the nose. Even if you lose or get suspended, it is vital that everyone else SEES that you will fight back, and there will be a cost.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (4nmNX)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (FQKBL)
So do you buy the expensive special edition Barbies, err, Barb?
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:20 AM (8HTq1)
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=64056
Posted by: Country Singer at January 28, 2016 10:21 AM (GUBah)
Tomorrow, he had his mind on a gun that was in his collection in AZ.
I happen to think that what those guys were doing in Oregon was approaching pointless, but they were occupying a nothing building in the middle of nowhere.
The occupy movement and the movement that took over the capital building in Minnesota and the movement that destroyed Furgeson and the movement that destroyed Baltimore were all left wing movements that killed actual people, raped actual women and destroyed actual property - buttloads of it.
Yet the tiny group of right wing protesters MUST BE STOPPED! And a guy - family guy - gets shot in the face for it.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at January 28, 2016 10:21 AM (BZAd3)
Shockingly, parents had a problem with this.
Weasel Zippers
See this? It's me shaking my head
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 10:22 AM (kzdjp)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2016 10:22 AM (C882D)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3419140/ The-50-violent-cities-world-revealed-21-Brazil.html
[take the space before "The" out]
Interesting, though thoroughly predictable, pattern in the list ...
I guess the left and Vichy Right are disappointed that only a few American cities made it onto the list and they think we need to import lots of Central and South Americans to get on top of this competition.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 10:22 AM (zc3Db)
I'm stuck with him on the ride home from work.
He is fully on board with the Republican Party uber alles.
It's all about the party winning, no matter how they govern.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 28, 2016 10:22 AM (4nmNX)
Crickets.....
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2016 10:23 AM (lY6OQ)
Posted by: Hot Gates at January 28, 2016 10:23 AM (KJZeR)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:23 AM (8HTq1)
This Programming is insidious, and stops NATURAL reactions from taking place.
It also rewards aggression in particularly warped way and penalizes self-defense.
This is yet another issue that isn't being addressed by any of the candidates that I know of. I'd think they'd get a boost by recommending that schools mirror the law and stop criminalizing self-defense.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 28, 2016 10:23 AM (LUgeY)
http://tinyurl.com/gljmvpf
Gun sellers say that most customers want a pistol that can fit easily into a handbag or a small drawer in the night table. 'People no longer feel safe, otherwise they would not be buying so many products here,' says a seller in North-Rhine Westphalia.
For the last few weeks he has been selling - like many of his colleagues - an average of three times as many alarm, gas, and signal guns as he was prior to the attacks that took place in Cologne on New Year's Eve. The attacks, which targeted women, made international headlines and raised concerns about refugees among large segments of German society.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:24 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 28, 2016 10:22 AM (C882D)
Echobelly is a Blondie tribute band .. and a damn good one!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 28, 2016 10:25 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 28, 2016 10:25 AM (Nwg0u)
But he was one of the guys that banged Marylyn Monroe, after she became Marylyn Monroe.
Jim Dougherty was the first guy who slept with MM, before she was MM. According to him, she was absolutely insatiable in bed, wanting to do it 24/7.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:25 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:18 AM (FQKBL)
It would be sort of hilarious to see a daily doll post start up...
I never cared about dolls, but my grandmother used to buy me madam alexander dolls every year. I had scarlett and a little dutch girl and about 30 others...They're all in the attic right now.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:25 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:26 AM (8HTq1)
Tomorrow, he had his mind on a gun that was in his collection in AZ.
I happen to think that what those guys were doing in Oregon was approaching pointless, but they were occupying a nothing building in the middle of nowhere.
The occupy movement and the movement that took over the capital building in Minnesota and the movement that destroyed Furgeson and the movement that destroyed Baltimore were all left wing movements that killed actual people, raped actual women and destroyed actual property - buttloads of it.
Yet the tiny group of right wing protesters MUST BE STOPPED! And a guy - family guy - gets shot in the face for it.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at January 28, 2016 10:21 AM (BZAd3)
________
The double standard is breathtaking.
Recommend Lou Dobbs from last night. He was very careful to use 'occupy' and 'demonstration' as descriptors, mirroring other protests.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 28, 2016 10:26 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2016 10:26 AM (+3RH+)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:27 AM (8HTq1)
http://tinyurl.com/h8jkr3n
Fair warning that goes to WaPo.
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 10:27 AM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (FQKBL)
are planning a "conspicuous, concerted effort" to communicate the risks
of the disease, making clear that it poses a far different --- and less
severe --- threat than the recent Ebola epidemic.
Lizzy, it is far less severe a threat than Ebola. But if you are pregnant, or might get pregnant, it is a huge threat, so much so that I believe they issued travel warnings.
Of course if you are the Obama administration and don't give a damn about unborn babies, you probably think its no big deal.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (Nwg0u)
===
Maybe after NH.
Part of Jeb's base is up that way. Kennebunkport is very close by, lots of Muffy's and Bunny's and prep school types.
Thing is, Cruz might get pushed down there because even if they won't vote Jeb they'll probly dismiss Cruz out of GOPe loyalty.
So Cruz might be 4th or even 5th place there. Likely? Dunno. But it makes NH more crucial than Iowa in some ways if we're trying to keep both Trump and Cruz viable til after SC.
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Fingers at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (8HTq1)
Heh. Me and my sisters each got a Madame Alexander doll. We were in grade school, so yeah, they got haircuts, my brother decapitated one, etc. Years later I found out these are collectible, valuable. Oops.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:29 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 28, 2016 10:29 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:26 AM (8HTq1)
Wonder when the antis will implement a buy-back program.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:30 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:25 AM (X6fMO)
Now why can't I ever meet a woman like that?
Posted by: every moron, everywhere at January 28, 2016 10:30 AM (WcCoO)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:31 AM (FQKBL)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (8HTq1)
The virus, which is not spread from person to person, causes flu-like symptoms that usually clear up within a week. But in pregnant women the virus can lead to serious birth defects including microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:32 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:33 AM (fWAjv)
are planning a "conspicuous, concerted effort" to communicate the risks
of the disease, making clear that it poses a far different --- and less
severe --- threat than the recent Ebola epidemic.
Lizzy, it is far less severe a threat than Ebola. But if you are pregnant, or might get pregnant, it is a huge threat, so much so that I believe they issued travel warnings.
Of course if you are the Obama administration and don't give a damn about unborn babies, you probably think its no big deal.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:28 AM (lIU4e)
And we could stop this with a simple change in US Regulation....
A US Regulation that:
1. Had no scientific validity... and
2. The EPA should not have had the power to create anyway (it should have been don't by law)...
Its killed over 600 MILLION people already in Africa and Asia...
I'm talking about DDT.
Zivka is mosquito born virus... we could pretty much stop it cold... but.... Politics...
Posted by: Don Quixote at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (f7rv6)
Posted by: eman at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersands at the present time) at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (u0lmX)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (8HTq1)
So it's like liberalism.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2016 10:35 AM (Hxh2/)
Then Gutfeld yesterday was ranting about Trump's guy threatening Megyn, and how any journalist must take this seriously and denounce him or something. It was so over the top I couldn't tell if it was just his schtick.
FOX had said Trump's guy was threatening saying something like "I wouldn't want Megyn to have to go through that again". Whatever it was (again), it happened before so was not a physical threat. I think he meant the regular attacks from Megyn's show ("cut his balls off" style attacks from her field of Trump haters) ... would be responded to by Trump "counterpunching", calling her lightweight or bimbo or whatever.
But it sounded like little Greg was trying to be Megyn's protector, beating his little chest. And that's the thing at FOX, they are sometimes their own family/mob. On Trump they've had a divide, but none from Trump's side are moderators. Megyn did had Giuliani on saying he liked Trump much better than Cruz (too strident and too far right to win or govern effectively), but then Giuliani declared his love for Ailes and said Megyn's question was fair, and they had a moment. ha
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 28, 2016 10:35 AM (5Gpe2)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at January 28, 2016 10:35 AM (t4GNF)
pregnant, or might get pregnant, it is a huge threat, so much so that I
believe they issued travel warnings.
I know, it's just the typical response from Obama re: spread of new and previously rare (in the US) diseases.
If it were just the Zika virus it would be no big deal (though reports of possible sexual transmission are not good). However, it's TB, whooping cough, mumps, EV-68 w/polio-like paralysis (haven't heard *anything* about that lately, huh?). They've been recklessly escorting unaccompanied foreign minors from our southern border to every state, and then insisting public schools enroll them without the required ID and vaccination records. Just like refusing to stop people from Ebola-infected regions, they are helping spread diseases instead of preventing them. And all they think to do is focus on messaging so we rubes don't notice what they're up to.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:35 AM (NOIQH)
Be careful what you wish for. Many moons ago, a...friend...was close to such a woman.
After a couple of days, his junk was sore, and he couldn't "finish" anymore. He was literally running on empty.
But the woman was not satisfied. Mean things were said, and it did not end well.
So yes, it is possible to get it on TOO MUCH.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 28, 2016 10:36 AM (4nmNX)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 28, 2016 10:36 AM (Nwg0u)
For that reason Obama will be forced to campaign hard for Hillary and/or Bernie both. Getting African Americans to turnout is going to be impossible for those old useless socialists to do on their own. Latinos as well. If all those demographic groups don't turn out at the same historic levels, and working class whites are finally motivated to vote, the Democrats lose on demographics. Then, there is the failure of Progressive policy to consider: lots of minority voters in my town are outspoken in their hate for all Democrats now, after the last seven years of FAIL.
Progressives are appealing to a smaller and smaller base as the months go by without any economic progress.
I think this could be a yuuuuggge victory this year for the forces of good. We just have to keep Rubio, Christie, Bush, and the other dwarves away from the top of the ticket.
Posted by: MTF at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: eman at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:29 AM (NOIQH)
Ha. Yeah, I hope the ones in the attic aren't melting...The dutch girl had these little wooden shoes! They were really cute but would never stay on.
Posted by: Lea at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (lIU4e)
Air Bonsai
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1280002828/air-bonsai-create-your-little-star
Uses magnetism to create a floating bonsai tree.
The Kickstarter goal was $80. They already have over $461K.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (KUa85)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending)
Possibly. Was the author wood shampoo?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (dnQ1L)
Daraa is just 32 km from the southern Golan and 12 km from the Jordanian border. Hizballah forces in this town are therefore within easy striking distance from northern Israeli and Jordan.
Thanks Fredo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 28, 2016 10:38 AM (kzdjp)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 10:02 AM (evdj2)
I work with a Snowflake Generation type. I'll vote for Sanders over Trump cuz Trump's a racist! Any way he was talking about something and I said that will end up like a 1972 election scenario. Blank stare. The other day another comment and I mentioned Kennedy did something similar. Blank stare. They have no clue about anything except he knows that everything is Bush's fault.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 28, 2016 10:38 AM (493sH)
Diogenes, Medved has had throat cancer - his appearance might be related to his fight against that. Since he's back on the air I'm hoping that means he's winning his battle, but I don't know. Wish him complete and rapid victory on that front.
On content, he's 80% miss, 20% hit (or was when I used to hear him on the radio, which I've stopped doing). Sensible on random things like the idiocy and financial unsustainability of most fashionable public transport (like "light rail"), and the disaster of expanding, intrusive, comprehensive welfare-ism (e.g. the disastrous explosion in "nutrition" programs that has turned schools into feeding centers for an already welfare-afflicted class of dependent families).
But his overall political "principles" seem to be no more than not agreeing with something that the dumbest, most clueless NPR listener in his social circle might find offensive or "unsophisticated". Positively delusional on mass illegal migration, both substantively and politically. And his somewhat risky (for radio) sarcasm becomes incredibly arrogant and off-putting when he is showing his a** on important topics.
Think he started as a culture/movie critic, where he's probably pretty good.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 10:39 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:37 AM (dnQ1L)
I believe it was!
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at January 28, 2016 10:39 AM (t4GNF)
I'm talking about DDT.
Zivka is mosquito born virus... we could pretty much stop it cold... but.... Politics...
Posted by: Don Quixote at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (f7rv6)
Perhaps not.
I read an article two days ago that suggested Zika virus may also be sexually transmitted.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2016 10:39 AM (KUa85)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 28, 2016 10:40 AM (u5gzz)
I'm talking about DDT.
Zivka is mosquito born virus... we could pretty much stop it cold... but.... Politics...
It's called "population control".
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:41 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 10:41 AM (FQKBL)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 28, 2016 10:41 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:41 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 28, 2016 10:42 AM (0O7c5)
I'm talking about DDT.
Zivka is mosquito born virus... we could pretty much stop it cold... but.... Politics...
Posted by: Don Quixote at January 28, 2016 10:34 AM (f7rv6)
Perhaps not.
I read an article two days ago that suggested Zika virus may also be sexually transmitted.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2016 10:39 AM (KUa85)
Look, sex with mosquitos is all very edgy, we get that, but please think of the morning after.
Posted by: eman at January 28, 2016 10:43 AM (MQEz6)
Chelsea Clinton's fundraising FLOP: Soul Cycle event to raise money for Hillary a bust as $2700 seats are offered for just $50 to fill bikes
http://goo.gl/5G6yiw
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I bet Ben Dreyfuss was there. LOL
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 10:44 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud
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Sure you can. Use the Global Warming Model. Assertions made ten years ago may be reasserted without penalty, regardless of whatever has happened in the intervening years.
Posted by: Al Gore Jr. at January 28, 2016 10:44 AM (n22zQ)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:45 AM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 10:45 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2016 10:45 AM (X6fMO)
The first thing I did when I got a new doll is wash its' hair. I got a Twiggy Barbie doll with short hair (boy, I'm dating myself - that had to be around 1966 or so, when she was big news) and after I washed it, the hair stood in spikes. My Twiggy was so ahead of the curve, she was punk 10 years early.
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersands at the present time) at January 28, 2016 10:45 AM (u0lmX)
Sounds a bit "judgy" to me.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 10:46 AM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 28, 2016 10:38 AM (493sH)
And that is because History is no longer taught in any rational form in junior high or high school anymore. The entire history curriculum consists of all the racists and oppressive things that America has done to others. Everything from killing all the Indians and bringing them diseases and tobacco, etc. to slavery to the KKK hanging blacks in the south, etc.
Just yesterday someone posted that Amherst college is going to remove their mascot, Lord Jeff, who I believe was a founder of the college. He dared write, at one point in the 1700s, that his band of settlers, etc. who were pretty much defenseless against the natives, should give the natives smallpox blankets and kill them off before they were all captured, tortured and killed by them.
He is now the most evil man ever.
Of course, no one talks about the natives who often killed their opponents in the most horrible way ever.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 28, 2016 10:47 AM (TKQrK)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 28, 2016 10:47 AM (kpqmD)
I made a quip about LBJ helping steal the election for JFK in 60, as well as Mayor Daley in Chicago.. and they blinked at me... They didn't know LBJ was a democrat.. or that he and JFK were the ones that ran the Viet Nam war... they both said it was Nixon and the Republicans! Many more examples... it was depressing.
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 10:48 AM (e7T6D)
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 28, 2016 10:35 AM (5Gpe2)
_____
Candidates are supposed to debate each other, not the moderators. Trump is the only Republican running that seems to understand this. Even Cruz, who was Mr Fight the MSM Bias, doesn't seem to grasp the bigger picture in all of this.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 28, 2016 10:48 AM (0LHZx)
Next thing we'll be talking about pork roasts.
Posted by: Sigurd Askr at January 28, 2016 10:48 AM (meisE)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 28, 2016 10:49 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: blaster at January 28, 2016 10:50 AM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: margaret sanger at January 28, 2016 10:50 AM (evdj2)
Just please don't start in on the beans in chili debate, or whether or not ketchup is an appropriate condiment for hotdogs.....
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:51 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 28, 2016 10:51 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:51 AM (8HTq1)
Yeah, I just read an NYT piece about this.
Side note: No. 2 Son's best friend started at Amherst in the Fall. He found that it had no standards at all, there were no expectations of the students, there was no structure to anything.
Instead of finding the liesure delightful he dropped out and is looking for an art school. It drove him nuts to have nothing expected of him.
I have used this in conversation with a ginger who laments everything about "kids these days". Some of the kids are alright.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 10:52 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 10:52 AM (8HTq1)
Every time I see an ad for that charity that sends mosquito nets to Africa I scream "Send DDT, you idiots!!!"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:53 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:53 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 10:48 AM (e7T6D)
We need to create easily digestible numerical scores, like a batter's slashline, based on money, voting, and affiliations, and create a political climate where your average American expects performance from their representatives the same way they expect performance from their sports teams.
With the same lusty calls for firings of incompetents and those who fail to meet their goals as you get for a head coach after a 6-10 season.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 10:53 AM (xuouz)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 10:51 AM (NOIQH)
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Really?
beans - yes; catsup - no; ketchup - no
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 10:53 AM (NUqwG)
Except the country isn't the same as it was in 1972.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 28, 2016 10:54 AM (FkBIv)
Did not know that about Medved and the cancer. I've always enjoyed listening to him and found it interesting that I came to disagree more frequently over the years. I hope he has a full recovery.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 28, 2016 10:54 AM (lY6OQ)
Posted by: Sigurd Askr at January 28, 2016 10:54 AM (meisE)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - WAR at January 28, 2016 10:54 AM (xuouz)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 10:55 AM (e7T6D)
Candidates are supposed to debate each other, not the moderators. Trump is the only Republican running that seems to understand this. Even Cruz, who was Mr Fight the MSM Bias, doesn't seem to grasp the bigger picture in all of this.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 28, 2016 10:48 AM (0LHZx)
I hope someone at the debate calls out FOX -
and specifically Megyn if they continue with the charade of bringing on two Dim activists. (one illegal alien, one muslim activist - voting for Sanders)
to shit all over a Republican debate.
Though I also hope that if FOX brings them out that the candidates have enough moxie to push straight back and not back off their positions.
This has all the makings of a complete shit show.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 28, 2016 10:55 AM (KUa85)
Yip, your tale could be told by all or most of us, I'd guess.
But, as with so many other things, it's impossible to know how today compares to earlier times.
Back when, for example,a now thoroughly degraded and (politically) idiotic, lifeless place like CA would do things like ban welfare for illegals and abolish "bilingual" education (both by ballot initiative), were normal people more politically aware and sensible as well as smarter about public policy? This was just 30 years ago or less.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 10:55 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: eleven at January 28, 2016 10:56 AM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Richard Nixon at January 28, 2016 10:56 AM (1xUj/)
Trump .398
Cruz .390
Rubio .270
Jeb .170
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:56 AM (dnQ1L)
Fuck them.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:53 AM (dnQ1L)
That's the spirit! There is something we can all agree we all hate!
*american muslim lurkers blackout slowly*
Posted by: Arson Wells at January 28, 2016 10:57 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:57 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 28, 2016 10:58 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 28, 2016 10:58 AM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Teresa Heinz Ketchup at January 28, 2016 10:58 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Diogenes
When he first came back on the air after his cancer treatment he sounded like a different person. His voice seems to have recovered and sounds as it did before.
He looks different without his mustache.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 28, 2016 10:58 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 10:59 AM (NUqwG)
Posted by: eleven at January 28, 2016 10:56 AM (qUNWi
okay, for that i will just have to find an ignore feature.
i have a kid that will put ketchup on his cheese, green pepper ,and salsa omelette's.
i keep promising to quit cooking.
also on steaks
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 10:59 AM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 10:59 AM (1xUj/)
Trump .398
Cruz .390
Rubio .270
Jeb .170
Or
Trump .45
Cruz 9mm
Rubio .380
Jeb .17 HMR
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 10:59 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Sigurd Askr at January 28, 2016 11:00 AM (meisE)
When the inevitable CNN debate in September is announced, with "moderators" like Candy Crowley, it will be impossible for the Republican nominee to say fuck that, I'm not going. Since every so-called conservative media personality is bashing Trump for not going as ordered to a debate, they won't be able to then call out CNN or ABC or NBC when they stack the deck with left wing hacks.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 28, 2016 11:00 AM (0LHZx)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 11:01 AM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 28, 2016 11:01 AM (u5gzz)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 11:01 AM (8HTq1)
Naw, .17 HMR is too zippy to be Jeb.
True. But it's also very, very small and only good for one thing.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 11:02 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 11:02 AM (8HTq1)
Have not watched a presidential "debate" since, well, not sure, but early 2000s (too painful), but is the one tonight REALLY going to feature call-in "questions" from an illegal and a Muslim grievance peddler?
Really?
Fox couldn't find a business owner ruined by "environmental" regulation and rent-seeking, or one of the millions financially ruined or heavily damaged by O-care and the destruction of what remained of the private policy market? Or even a construction worker economically ruined by illegal migration, to stay "on topic" with their list of issues?
Really?
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 11:02 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 28, 2016 11:00 AM (0LHZx)
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Inconsistency and hypocrisy have never bothered them before.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 11:02 AM (NUqwG)
That's a good point. I didn't consider that.
Posted by: Arson Wells at January 28, 2016 11:03 AM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 11:03 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 11:03 AM (nIGPZ)
Probably most of us morons are of the same mindset... that why we read and share here. I'm aware though, that there are folks , our peers, that just could not care less... they have opinions and pick shit up here and there... but really... they glass over if you go into any political or historical discussion with them. They are not stupid, but ignorant... by choice.
They float above it all. But can site all sorts of stuff in areas they care about. Hell, one of the guys I was mentioning... his exposure to the internet is scores and handicaps and looking up stats. Other than that... nah bro... he doesn't read anything. Heh.
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 11:04 AM (e7T6D)
Posted by: steevy at January 28, 2016 11:01 AM (8HTq1)
Now I've got "SuperFreak" stuck in my head. ("She's a superfreak! Superfreak! She's superfreakin', yow...")
Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at January 28, 2016 11:04 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 11:04 AM (NOIQH)
*ahem*
See Adrianne Palecki, Ms. Perkins in "John Wick"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 11:05 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: willow at January 28, 2016 11:05 AM (nIGPZ)
Really?
Really. And now you see why Trump decided to skip the Battle of Little Bighorn ambush.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 11:06 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 11:06 AM (e7T6D)
yeah, O'Reilly was telling Trump, "you gotta go show you can face that and handle it"
No, throwing crap in their face repeatedly and them coming back for more is not "presidential". Do we want the president to have to campaign by facing illegal sad stories ... the "why do you hate these dear children that just want to live the American dream?"
It is FOX pushing the globalist propaganda crap, when they should have (murdered by illegal) Kate's family on, or all the families harmed by the illegal trafficking, or the Disney workers pushed out and forced to train their H1B replacements. Being submissive to that BS is not leadership.
Cruz says it's a job interview ... nope. Megyn is not doing the hiring, and loving the illegals is not a job requirement. Trump is winning by bypassing the media control of the process of citizens making their choice. Cruz Rubio will play, as they love the FOX help at bringing down Trump.
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 28, 2016 11:07 AM (5Gpe2)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 11:07 AM (e7T6D)
That is beyond the pale. Burn him.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 28, 2016 11:08 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 11:08 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Tilikum Cruel Assault Whale at January 28, 2016 11:08 AM (+aCe4)
Posted by: Yip & 2 Corinthians at January 28, 2016 11:04 AM (e7T6D)
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Excluding those who have run for office, serve in political office, or have worked directly for a serving politician:
Who is happier?
Who is healthier?
Who makes more of a difference or has more impact on policy?
Posted by: RioBravo at January 28, 2016 11:08 AM (NUqwG)
Aha! Stealth edit? Ben seems to have dropped the line from this post about the primaries filtering down to "two or three" contenders as a time for him to return to a presumably less contentious environment.
Of course I wish he'd take no hiatus, and he's free to do anything, but it didn't make sense the way he originally stated it. It's already down to 2 or 3 contenders, or at least it looks that way. In any case, given the menu, I don't expect the discussion to get much more decorous and restrained any time soon.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 11:09 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 11:09 AM (QDnY+)
I, for one, will miss the insightful quips from Jim Gilmore.
Posted by: jwb7605 at January 28, 2016 11:11 AM (DofIg)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at January 28, 2016 11:11 AM (FQKBL)
He faces that just about every time he has an interview with the MSM.
He faces that at his various campaign events when hecklers show up and scream this stuff at him. As do all of the candidates.
No, the debate is supposedly to help GOP voters decide which candidate to vote for, not a chance to show they can also to appeal to Lefty media hacks and internet activists.
They don't need yet another opportunity to defend their stands on the issues, they need to tell us why their policy ideas on immigration, terrorism, etc. would be more effective than the other ***GOP***candidates.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 28, 2016 11:12 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 28, 2016 11:13 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2016 11:09 AM (QDnY+)
I, for one, will miss the insightful quips from Jim Gilmore.
Posted by: jwb7605 at January 28, 2016 11:11 AM (DofIg)
Who?
Posted by: George Pataki at January 28, 2016 11:13 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2016 11:15 AM (dnQ1L)
Posted by: Jeb's Wife at January 28, 2016 11:16 AM (ZsN9X)
"People may finally feel the effects of what they voted for, but will be too stupid still the figure out the cause."
That seems to be humanity in general. Socialism has destroyed Mexico. Yet the people from there come to America and what do they want? Socialism.
Too many people cannot and will not face reality. Look at the CA leftists. They have turned CA upside down, then they move to a red state like CO to get away from the mess they created. Once in CO, they start the cycle over again.
Posted by: Tilikum Cruel Assault Whale at January 28, 2016 11:17 AM (m3iiU)
Posted by: Yip & 2 corinthians at January 28, 2016 11:17 AM (e7T6D)
So still need bigger guns anyway. But so far I don't hunt, even though the deer surround me. one day ... one day ... oh, and I'm legal for crossbow in a couple years, instead of those whimpy compound bows. lol
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 28, 2016 11:22 AM (5Gpe2)
Posted by: Al Gore Jr. at January 28, 2016 11:23 AM (n22zQ)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 11:25 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Illiniwek
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Well, as you know, there is no 'One size fits all'. If I had to buy a single, practical rifle, and since I don't live in Alaska, I would be inclined towards a .243.
Shooting ground squirrels or rabbits with a .243 is overkill by a fair margin, but it's not insane. Hunting whitetails with the same is certainly not unreasonable at decent ranges. So, a good compromise. Quite a step up from a .17 though.
If it's only for vermin, it would be hard to go wrong with any of the bolt action .223's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 28, 2016 11:33 AM (n22zQ)
"Dave, I have to admit I had misgivings when he took Rubio's spot in the lineup, since the switch-hitter's average of .360 had looked so solid in the past, but it turns out Cruz' reliability has definately been an asset."
"No joking, that unforced error last season nearly cost them the championship. That's just not something you want to see in your clean-up position."
"While we're waiting for the pitcher to warm up, some news from around the league. Former big-time leadoff man Eric Cantor's been sent back down to the developmental leagues after his humiliating showing in last season's playoffs. Former New York big man Michael Bloomberg is still considering becoming a free agent according to sources close to him. And finally, Florida has traded Jeb Bush to Maine's developmental team for two players to be named later..."
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at January 28, 2016 11:35 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 28, 2016 11:44 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 28, 2016 11:53 AM (5Gpe2)
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