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Morning Thread (2-12-2016)

Hello, Friday. How you doin'?

Posted by: Andy at 06:19 AM




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1 Good Morning Daywalkers!

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks at February 12, 2016 06:21 AM (4pjhs)

2 Learned via the debate last night that my tax dollars via PBS hate my country.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at February 12, 2016 06:22 AM (sJuKe)

3 Damn, missed another debate...I'm just not keeping up on things. Must be the Global Warming we are having in the East..

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 06:24 AM (Pdb6E)

4 Debate? Watching to old socialists toss accusations at each other and then telling me I'm racist?


Right.

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks at February 12, 2016 06:25 AM (4pjhs)

5

DAY 1,193

270 to go (343 to Inauguration Day )

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


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 06:26 AM (zLP1L)

6 Just read a drudge link 75% of silicon valley tech workers are foreign born. So all you kids in college, get your STEM degree, then get in line.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 06:27 AM (fbovC)

7 Watching two old white socialists toss accusations at each other and then telling me I'm racist?

FIFY

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 06:28 AM (AfsKp)

8 The Hildibeast is sporting a gold Mao jacket in place of a pantsuit

Posted by: The Common Tater at February 12, 2016 06:28 AM (98J/K)

9 >>> The Hildibeast is sporting a gold Mao jacket

That's a 'tell'

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 06:32 AM (AfsKp)

10
Some of the comments on the Ted Nugent thread last night were quite revealing. Some people here need to check themselves I'd hate lake hell to have to leave this place.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 06:33 AM (zLP1L)

11 She has to out left old lefty.

Posted by: The Common Tater at February 12, 2016 06:33 AM (98J/K)

12 Good morning. Big decision today.I was to fly out to Vegas this afternoon to meet a friend. Found out last night she has to cancel. I need to figure out if I'm brave enough to go it alone. I guess I have until 2 to come up with my answer as that's when I need to head to airport. Looking at the forcast high this weekend for 14 here and 74 there I'm leaning yes.

Posted by: Molly k. at February 12, 2016 06:34 AM (4aaDj)

13 Go Vegas, it's in the 80's here in Phoenix! Wonderful February weather.

Posted by: The Common Tater at February 12, 2016 06:38 AM (98J/K)

14 I guess I have until 2 to come up with my answer as
that's when I need to head to airport. Looking at the forcast high this
weekend for 14 here and 74 there I'm leaning yes.

Posted by: Molly k. at February 12, 2016 06:34 AM (4aaDj)

I remember flying out of Chicago and seeing the frozen lake and landing in Vegas in 80 degree weather...quite an experience...to remember.Of course living in Vegas at one time, I know its unusually warm for February.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 06:43 AM (Pdb6E)

15 Posted by: Molly k. at February 12, 2016 06:34 AM (4aaDj)

Get. On. The. Plane.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:45 AM (659DL)

16
Somehow, I woke up with my left eye shut and irritated. Eyelash bent inward? Piece of grit?

Ow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 06:46 AM (zLP1L)

17 What's he hiding?

Time for answers on Bernie's radical history.

Sanders had lived on a kibbutz that had belonged to a Israeli political party called Mapan which in the 1950s had been a communist Soviet affiliated faction.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jj9lzm9

Great, huh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 06:46 AM (w4NZ8)

18 Agree with JJ.
Saw Nugent in concert in the early 80's, he was making sport of spitting on the audience (literally).
And now, finally, I've seen and heard enough of him.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me at February 12, 2016 06:47 AM (sJuKe)

19 Posted by: Molly k. at February 12, 2016 06:34 AM (4aaDj)

Get. On. The. Plane.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:45 AM (659DL)


Actually, let me correct that -- Get. IN. The. Plane.

Hat tip to the late George Carlin. Before he became bitter, snarling, and less funny.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:47 AM (659DL)

20 Ann Coulter had a column last week that cited a figure of 50, 000 overdose deaths last year. Heroin coming over our southern border. Just found out that young man I knew, an artist, overdosed and died.

Build the fucking fence and toss the dealers the hell out of the country.

Imagine the Vietnam veterans memorial. 50, 000 names. That's how many are dying each and every year.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 06:49 AM (fbovC)

21 Hey JJ, I read the comments on that thread for a while and finally had to bail out in disgust. I would point out that while I'm not a frequent commentator, I have been lurking for years. It sure seemed to me that there were a lot of nics that I had not seen before in it. It may have been that the trolls were out in force. Normally here at the HQ there is a lot of respect for the chosen ones.

Posted by: Bayou City at February 12, 2016 06:49 AM (EZkQC)

22 The prospect of Bernie or Hillary is awful, but the FrontPage headline about the debate made me laugh:

http://www.frontpagemag.com

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 06:49 AM (w4NZ8)

23 It's darkly entertaining to watch the financial genius sector of the economy try to sooth itself with echo chamber "no, it's not really that bad" pronouncements.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:50 AM (659DL)

24 Interesting to read the various descriptions of the debate last night in this mornings media. In one, Uncle Bernie is a likeable, and harmless old guy who is a true believer in the socialist ideology. But make no never mind because he's harmless and stuck back in the '60's. Never mind the tens of thousands of people who swarm to hear him speak.

Hillary, of course, is something of a worry. But never mind that because Trump is a Nazi, or would be if he were elected. And Cruz, no body likes him, and the others are all republican and who wants one of them to be president.

It's a mystery. We'll just have to wait and see what is decided at the conventions.

Posted by: Bjorn Trumpalot at February 12, 2016 06:51 AM (T9fzs)

25 20 Imagine the Vietnam veterans memorial. 50, 000 names. That's how many are dying each and every year.
Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 06:49 AM (fbovC)


And we're decriminalizing drug laws. Not just users but dealers. And of course general amnesty and early release for "humanitarian" reasons.

I am in a foul mood. (what else is new?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 06:51 AM (zLP1L)

26 >> The Hildibeast is sporting a gold Mao jacket

(Mission Impossible music playing) Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to select appealing outfits for a famous public person shaped like a mutant rutabaga.

*hmmm, no thanks, this one sounds like a suicide mission.*

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 12, 2016 06:51 AM (gyKtp)

27 It may have been that the trolls were out in force.

I didn't read that thread after a while, but if you see a bunch of new nics who are going on in a virulent fashion chances are it's trolls from Storefront, etc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 06:52 AM (w4NZ8)

28 Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to select appealing outfits for a famous public person shaped like a mutant rutabaga.

North Face three-person tent.

Room for Hillary, Huma, and the server.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:54 AM (659DL)

29 21 Normally here at the HQ there is a lot of respect for the chosen ones.

Posted by: Bayou City at February 12, 2016 06:49 AM (EZkQC)


As do most people. Most people are able to put their thoughts into relatively cogent sentences vis a vis Israel, Jews, liberalism, Democrats, etc.

Buit the contortionists trying to defend Nugent while equating people who point out the obvious about his post as PC SJW's and hypocrites was the bitter end for me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 06:55 AM (zLP1L)

30 So, I was defending Nugent the other day.

In the parlance of our political class, I "misspoke."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:55 AM (659DL)

31 7
Watching two old white socialists toss accusations at each other and then telling me I'm racist?



FIFY

Posted by: fluffy


Tweren't broke, they are BOTH to old.

Or is that too...?

It's to damn early/late and I'm not concentrating.

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks at February 12, 2016 06:55 AM (4pjhs)

32 In an eye-meltingly mustard yellow jacket, the uniform of some alien space armada invading the planet, Hillary Clinton glared balefully into the camera and promised the nation twice as much free stuff in return for their submission to her ruthless rule. Bernie Sanders, who kept coughing as if he might not live through the debate, never mind the election, upped the ante to three times as much free stuff.

Fro, "FrontPage"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 06:56 AM (w4NZ8)

33 >>>>
It's darkly entertaining to watch the financial genius sector of the
economy try to sooth itself with echo chamber "no, it's not really that bad" pronouncements.
.
.
.
.
.I agree. Yesterday I was bombarded by "The economy is doing just fine" articles. After living for 60 years I know B$ when I hear it. Plus I have learned that the more people try to prove the economy is doing just fine, the worse off it really is. Inversely proportional.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2016 06:56 AM (iONHu)

34 In before Vic?

And I only had to stay up all night to do it.

Having the overnight shift at work helped me have motivation to do so as well. Or at least some reason I had to anyway.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at February 12, 2016 06:57 AM (Ojki1)

35 The Onion is still bringing it:

"PBS Moderators Spend First 10 Minutes Of Debate Asking Candidates For Fundraising Advice"

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 06:59 AM (659DL)

36 TFG just created another 1,8 million acres of "National Monument" in the CA desert (LA Times)

http://tinyurl.com/jz2u88w

With his second term winding down, Obama has now protected more than 265 million acres of land and water, more than any other administration.

He sure is handy with that pen and phone.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 12, 2016 06:59 AM (gyKtp)

37 10
Some of the comments on the Ted Nugent thread last night were quite revealing. Some people here need to check themselves I'd hate lake hell to have to leave this place.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
---------------
G'mornin, sir.
Really? I guess I'm glad I checked out early yesterday & missed that one completely. I won't bother to go back to read it - or should i?

I get shocked sometimes when I learn new things about people here that I thought i "knew."

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:00 AM (OUpHg)

38 8 The Hildibeast is sporting a gold Mao jacket in place of a pantsuit
______________________

She has always had lousy taste. During her Arkansas years, she always looked like she had just pulled her clothes out of some Salvation Army or Goodwill bin. Even after the years of corruption started paying off and she had some money, she still dressed poorly, albeit expensively. She's overweight, pear-shaped, and has legs like tree trunks, but that doesn't mean she can't dress well. She needs a stylist.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 12, 2016 07:01 AM (df5V4)

39 With his second term winding down, Obama has now protected more than 265 million acres of land and water, more than any other administration.

For scale, that's six Tennessees.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:01 AM (659DL)

40 Couldn't bear to watch the commie slug-fest last night but after reviewing the comments it looks like it was even worse than I imagined. Amazed at to the hardy souls that can sit through that insanity.

If either of those two are elected this November it is either time to start survival training and stocking up on food and ammo or flee the country. There is something very wrong with a citizenry that could elect Bernie or Hillary to the presidency.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at February 12, 2016 07:01 AM (1BQGO)

41 36 Posted by: GnuBreed at February 12, 2016 06:59 AM (gyKtp)


Protected. Like the Gambino family "protects" neighborhood businesses in its territory.

The Unites States of F*k You Pay Me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:02 AM (zLP1L)

42 I know, as a marginal Catholic, that any thread which involves the Pope saying something leftist is one to avoid. The religious bigots crawl up out of the sewer. That's how they get their jollies.

A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:02 AM (fbovC)

43 Yeah, I watched that one for a bit and then just got pissed off.
My mother's parents were Jewish, my father's Welsh.
I'm 2nd generation Southern American.

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks at February 12, 2016 07:03 AM (4pjhs)

44 37 Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:00 AM (OUpHg)


Bust out Stormfronters and bigots are easy to deal with.. But there were a couple of "hey just asking the questions" types that were not that clever in trying to hide their attitude.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:03 AM (zLP1L)

45 I think Daniel Greenfield from "FrontPage" is almost as caustically amusing as Mark Steyn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 07:04 AM (w4NZ8)

46 The post on Rocco Ritchie on the ONT made me chuckle - "gay deprogramming his son" - but geez. thinking about it... poor kid. Madonna as your mom. Wow.

I think what Guy Ritchie is doing (letting the kid breathe for a bit) is probably pretty healthy in the long run.

It took me awhile to figure out that site (WWTDD?) is What Would Tyler Durden Do?

Posted by: Gem at February 12, 2016 07:04 AM (c+gwp)

47
She's overweight, pear-shaped, and has legs like tree trunks, but that doesn't mean she can't dress well. She needs a stylist.


She doesn't use a stylist for the same reason she doesn't use a speech coach or practice basic security protocol - you're not the boss of me!

She's a selfish, ungrateful, snarling bitch who's convinced she's the smartest woman in the world.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:05 AM (X6fMO)

48 With his second term winding down, Obama has now protected more than 265 million acres of land and water, more than any other administration.
---

Federally controlled land: we just don't have enough.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:05 AM (AfsKp)

49 Good morning all.

From this date in 1944- Anzio beachhead


Feb 12, 1944 - The EZ Dog Journal
Dawned clear but soon clouded over. Bombing on both sides. We lost two heavy bombers. Gerry did little damage. Little change of positions on front.




The Allies tenuous hold on the beachhead, now in the range of perhaps 8 miles deep and 20 miles wide is about to become even more tenuous.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:05 AM (NeFrd)

50 So, Bernie is a Commie-Jew.

And he wants to grab my guns?


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:05 AM (1ijHg)

51 Apropros of nothing, I'd like to throw this out there -

Fenelon is one of the greatest gifts we have here at this fine place. A real treasure.

That is all.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:06 AM (OUpHg)

52
The post on Rocco Ritchie on the ONT made me chuckle - "gay deprogramming his son" - but geez. thinking about it... poor kid. Madonna as your mom. Wow.


It's like having Anna Nicole Smith or Pamela Anderson as your mother - how do you handle it not only knowing your mom's got prOn shots of her out there, but that your buddies have probably fapped themselves dry over them?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:07 AM (X6fMO)

53 50 So, Bernie is a Commie-Jew.

And he wants to grab my guns?

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:05 AM (1ijHg)


It's a good thing I know and love you . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:07 AM (zLP1L)

54 after reviewing the comments it looks like it was even worse than I imagined.

There was:

A Henry Kissinger tangent. No, really.
A screed from the woman who ran against Barack Obama for President about her opponent being anti-Obama.
So much sucking up to the black vote that I thought Gwen Ifill might actually be vacuumed into a mouth.
The moment when the Vermont commie threatened the Kremlin commie.

There was no:

Mention of emails.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:07 AM (659DL)

55 Some lefty posted a link about income distribution in America, ideal, perceived and actual. Of course the actual had a huge spike at the upper 10% and even greater at the upper 1%. What the narrator failed to mention was that gigantic off-the-chart spike beyond the 1%. was the Clinton Crime Family.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at February 12, 2016 07:08 AM (1BQGO)

56 The Liberty Zone blog has an excellent rant/post about 404Care:

http://tinyurl.com/jtbvp7r

(h/t Instapundit)

It's a sad read, and an even sadder indictment of gubmint run anything.

There's also a link to a Facebook page dedicated to peoples OCare horror stories.

https://www.facebook.com/IhateObamacare/

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 12, 2016 07:08 AM (gyKtp)

57 She's a selfish, ungrateful, snarling bitch who's convinced she's the smartest woman in the world.

Worse.

She knows she is not.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:08 AM (659DL)

58 In an eye-meltingly mustard yellow jacket, the uniform of some alien space armada invading the planet, Hillary Clinton glared balefully into the camera and promised the nation twice as much free stuff in return for their submission to her ruthless rule.
_______________________

And they really do think they "rule" us. Obama used that same word in 2008. Here's a clue, you ignorant lefty f*ckwits: you're not "rulers," you're servants. We, the people, are the sovereign. You work for us.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 12, 2016 07:10 AM (df5V4)

59 JJ...I bailed at 100 or so...would tend to agree that we had some trolling going on. As for nugent, I'm still really surprised by the whole thing...read about it / get taken out at Schlussel's first.

Posted by: billygoat at February 12, 2016 07:11 AM (INxoa)

60 Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:06 AM (OUpHg)

Thanks..but now I'm going to slink away in complete embarrassment. :^)....unless I decide to link any other funny thing about Greenfield's analysis of the debate .

Really; People should read Greenfield's article. It's a great talent to make people laugh at the same time you make their eyes roll at the sheer criminal stupidity of leftists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 07:12 AM (w4NZ8)

61 39 With his second term winding down, Obama has now protected ]reserved for our corporate needs more than 265 million acres of land and water, more than any other administration.

FIFY

Posted by: Big Green at February 12, 2016 07:13 AM (c+gwp)

62 "Learned via the debate last night that my tax dollars via PBS hate my country."

Last time that the Vichy Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House, they could have defunded NPR and PBS, easily.

Instead? "Freedom fries". Light bulb bans. Ethanol mandates. Amnesty attempts. New three-letter agencies. Two failed wars. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Yay.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:13 AM (noWW6)

63 It's like having Anna Nicole Smith or Pamela Anderson as your mother - how do you handle it not only knowing your mom's got prOn shots of her out there, but that your buddies have probably fapped themselves dry over them?
______________________

I doubt any of Rocco's buddies have ceded control over their domain due to Madge's pix. She's way too old.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 12, 2016 07:14 AM (df5V4)

64 Morning! Where's Vic?

Glad I missed those debates.. I cannot stand listening to Shrillary for more than a minute anyway.. But watching her campaign melt down has been rather enjoyable.. and the pie fights over at the libtard blogs like Daily Kooks are ramping up very nicely! Fun!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 12, 2016 07:14 AM (UpGcq)

65 62 Instead? "Freedom fries". Light bulb bans. Ethanol mandates. Amnesty attempts. New three-letter agencies. Two failed wars. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Yay.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:13 AM (noWW6)


With Republicans like that, who need Democrats?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:15 AM (zLP1L)

66 I see someone besides just the two dems fighting last night is off their meds again.

And I took one look at the front page post about Nugent and recognized that was a neon sign to avoid that party as it was going to end in tears and people being dragged off in cuffs (or invisibly as the Ban Hammer hovered over the thread like the Angel of Death hung over Egypt during the Ten Plagues.)

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at February 12, 2016 07:15 AM (Ojki1)

67 Hoo boy:

' As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday'

They will go to any length to support the narrative. Next it will be that there is huge hole in the Earth that keeps all of the water from flooding the land.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:16 AM (BO/km)

68 I was in local courtroom a couple weeks ago. A young girl, very pretty, beaten up, her cellphone stolen. The perp and his lawyer spoke in Spanish. Not a word of English.

They caught some Hispanic dude dealing drugs in the parking lot of a local Wawa couple days ago. This is Smalltown, USA.

I lose a friend to a drug overdose. Most likely Mexican heroin.

But I'm a xenophobic hater. So tired of the establishment/political class explaining to me to shut up.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:16 AM (fbovC)

69 As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday

Every single time you think they can't top themselves...THEY DO.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:19 AM (659DL)

70 The ground is a sponge!

Posted by: A NASA Expert at February 12, 2016 07:19 AM (BO/km)

71 66 Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at February 12, 2016 07:15 AM (Ojki1)

As I waded into the sewer of that thread and reread it, there wasn't any real overt Joo-hatred. There was quite a bit of not-that-clever equivocation and some dumb defense of Nugent because "hey the left does this shit with impunity."

Again, nothing overtly ban-worthy, but very revealing about the mindset of a few people.

On the plus side, the majority of people posting were aware of this and swatted the trolls down. Proud of my fellow morons in that regard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (zLP1L)

72 >>> They will go to any length to support the narrative. Next it will be that there is huge hole in the Earth that keeps all of the water from flooding the land.

Something about 'heat trapped deep in the ocean'.

They fucking love science, but ignore that heat rises.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (AfsKp)

73 Valentine's Day educational series....

How to buy flowers:

Do not, under any circumstances, buy flowers online or over the phone from a large seller like FTD, Teleflora, ProFlowers, 1-800Flowers or any of a hundred more.

These are not florists. They are boiler room phone banks.

The Big Con is show you pictures of arrangements with options of small, bigger and biggest and to get you to order through them. After shaming you to order the "enhanced" version (for this instance let's say the $98 retail one), they then call local florists and order the $49 version with the same basic recipe.

They pocket the difference.

Your local florist diligently makes and delivers the cheaper version, never knowing what you paid for. When you look at it and start yelling that you've been cheated, the local florist doesn't know what you're talking about and the phone bank people (in some foreign country) don't give a shit.

If you are going to send flowers to someone in your town, pick a local florist and either call, or go in to order in person. Order on line if you're sure you're on the site of the local florist.

For sending flowers to a different area, google for florists in the town the receiver is in and check the websites. Look for a physical address in that town listed. If it doesn't have one, it's a boiler room.

Even if you're trying to send flowers to Bumbfuck Indiana and the name of the florist is "Bumbfuck Indiana Floral Creations", if there is no physical address shown it isn't real.

Get what you pay for. The more people you allow between you and the people who actually make and deliver your flowers, the less your arrangement is going to have.

Posted by: jwest at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (Zs4uk)

74 All that sand in the Great Basin is absorbing the excess water?

How lucky is that? Fire up the BBQ.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (1ijHg)

75 The ground is a sponge!

All the heat is going into the deep oceans where we can't see or measure it.

All the glaciers are being absorbed somewhere that we can see or measure.

Ye gods.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:22 AM (659DL)

76 can't.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:23 AM (659DL)

77 Its good sometimes that I can't post from home during the day. I tend to have a hair trigger attitude towards bigots. I grew up during desegregation here in the South and spent my first years in school in the re-education camps on Long Island.

Posted by: Gmac - Waiting on Colombus #two weeks at February 12, 2016 07:23 AM (4pjhs)

78 All that sand in the Great Basin is absorbing the excess water?

How lucky is that? Fire up the BBQ.


Remember two days ago when the usual suspects were screaming about the aquifers drying up?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:24 AM (659DL)

79 It's all over when you get Harry Belfonte's endorsement. Hillster should just give up and go back to Remulac.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:24 AM (BO/km)

80 They will go to any length to support the narrative.
Next it will be that there is huge hole in the Earth that keeps all of
the water from flooding the land.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:16 AM (BO/km)

Scientist have found an ocean larger than all the surface oceans combined deep in the earth near the core....so say the experts. Several articles about this last year.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 07:24 AM (Pdb6E)

81 It just dawned on me that the Sahara is going to get mildew any moment now.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:24 AM (659DL)

82 I'm going swimming in that granite outcrop over there.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:25 AM (659DL)

83 >>> On the plus side, the majority of people posting were aware of this and swatted the trolls down. Proud of my fellow morons in that regard.

ThunderB stayed late and was swinging the jawbone of an ass.

I wonder if there were a few trying to convince themselves that what Nugent wasn't that bad because they are fond of Uncle Ted. I'm disappointed over the whole thing.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:25 AM (AfsKp)

84
On this day in 1924, jazz conductor Paul Whitemanand his bandpremiered George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Here's Leonard Bernstein conducting and playing piano in a 1976 concert at the Royal Albert Hall:

https://goo.gl/Zg9osq

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:25 AM (X6fMO)

85 >>>>They will go to any length to support the narrative. Next it will be
that there is huge hole in the Earth that keeps all of the water from
flooding the land.



Something about 'heat trapped deep in the ocean'.



They fucking love science, but ignore that heat rises.
.
.
.
.
.No, no, no...you got it all wrong. It is swamp gas trapped in a thermal pocket reflecting light from the Planet Venus that makes the heat settle to the bottom of the ocean. Do try and keep up.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2016 07:25 AM (iONHu)

86 We came to the Gobi to brew our beer with the cleanest water on earth.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:26 AM (659DL)

87 "Ann Coulter had a column last week that cited a figure of 50, 000
overdose deaths last year. Heroin coming over our southern border. Just
found out that young man I knew, an artist, overdosed and died. Build the fucking fence and toss the dealers the hell out of the country."

Closing the borders and exiling the narcotraficantes will help. Some.

But even in the 1950s, when the borders were far tighter, and Operation Wetback was running, the USA still had a substantial heroin problem. With citizens doing the dealing instead of immigrants. It just wasn't as well noticed at the time.

It's a powerful drug, worth a lot of money on the street, that packs a lot of doses into a small space. Damned hard to check every small space.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:26 AM (noWW6)

88 State Rearing the Child: In Church, In School, In the

The focus this time: It's the state's child, not yours!

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11018

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 12, 2016 07:27 AM (vBeA5)

89 I got polled by CNN last night.

On all the issues that we face, foreign policy, the economy, etc. there were only two candidates I thought were best; Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

I cannot wait to see the results of the poll.

I loved the part at the end when she asked about income, education and whether or not I am "born-again"/evangelical.

It was NOT a push poll.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:27 AM (1ijHg)

90 Posted by: jwest at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (Zs4uk)

That looks like sound advice. Thanks.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 12, 2016 07:28 AM (gyKtp)

91 "Rhapsody in Blue"

Wow I have a CD with that on my desk at work. I think I'll blast it this morning when I get in.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:28 AM (BO/km)

92 All that water in the crust will put pressure on fault lines.

GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES EARTHQUAKES!!!!

I'll take my genius grant in gold Kruggerands, please.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:29 AM (659DL)

93 >>> How to buy flowers:

Trader Joe's, if you live near one, has flowers at good prices. The one I go to has cards, too.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:29 AM (AfsKp)

94 Love Rhapsody in Blue. Gives me the shivers every time I hear it.

It like to think is captured perfectly what America *felt* like at that time.

Posted by: Goldilocks at February 12, 2016 07:30 AM (pOgVG)

95 Some of the best looking roses I ever bought I got at Kroger.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:30 AM (BO/km)

96 HEY, KIDS!!!! WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN A MILE-HIGH BUILDING IN A PLACE OVERDUE FOR A MONSTER EARTHQUAKE?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:30 AM (659DL)

97 Coffee break. Good morning morons. Saw Hail, Caesar yesterday and commend it highly. Hugely entertaining and it moves fast. Not a bad performance in the bunch. Scandals, homos, commies and a briefcase full of cash. I need to page back and find Sefton's take. Burgers at Shake Shack after. As tasty as the NY original, but no lines. Too cold for much walking afterwards.

Posted by: Spellcheck at February 12, 2016 07:32 AM (HKBpI)

98 Some of the best looking roses I ever bought I got at Kroger.

You guys are slaves to Big Flower.

Bernie will fix this.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:32 AM (659DL)

99 Love Rhapsody in Blue. Gives me the shivers every time I hear it.
It like to think is captured perfectly what America *felt* like at that time

It really is a perfect piece. My musical tastes are far ranging but RiB is right up there with the best.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (BO/km)

100 Apropros of nothing, I'd like to throw this out there -



Fenelon is one of the greatest gifts we have here at this fine place. A real treasure.



That is all.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:06 AM (OUpHg)


Agreed, concur and endorsed. Can't say it too often.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (JO9+V)

101
"Rhapsody in Blue"


Wow I have a CD with that on my desk at work. I think I'll blast it this morning when I get in. Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:28 AM (BO/km)
Heh. If that opening clarinet glissando doesn't punch you right in the heart, you're not an American.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (X6fMO)

102 Saw a pickup truck yesterday owned by a Tiny House builder. Advertising on the sides and back. "We build tiny homes!" and the like.

Money quote on the tailgate: "When your house gets tinier, the world becomes your back yard."


Not sure what that means.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (NeFrd)

103 91 "Rhapsody in Blue"

Gershwin rubs me the wrong way. Give me Bach.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (AfsKp)

104 You guys are slaves to (big flower) Mrs freaked.

Sorry had to fify. I'm a slave to no man or business, but I know my place.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:35 AM (BO/km)

105 Money quote on the tailgate: "When your house gets tinier, the world becomes your back yard."

That you can use as a swimming pool.

--NASA

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:35 AM (659DL)

106 "When you home gets tiny, the sidewalk becomes your latrine."


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:35 AM (1ijHg)

107 >>> If that opening clarinet glissando doesn't punch you right in the heart, you're not an American

It punches me somewhere. WCRB plays it at least three times a week.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:36 AM (AfsKp)

108 I started to read that Nugent thread yesterday but bailed quickly. I thought about posting something along the lines of "hey, maybe Ted Nugent and Roger Waters can do an album together. They finally have something in common." but decided to pass. That thread got toxic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 07:37 AM (R/n45)

109
"When you home gets tiny, the sidewalk becomes your latrine."




Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:35 AM (1ijHg)

San Francisco.....

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 07:37 AM (Pdb6E)

110 @62

Let's also not lose site of the fact that the GOP has controlled the house for 9 of the last 11 congresses.

So when you look at that 19 trillion dollar debt its virtually all on the GOP.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 12, 2016 07:37 AM (rhtbc)

111 Not sure what that means


It means you can park your tiny house at a Walmart and observe the natural flora and fauna that abounds across our great nation.

* cues Rhapsody in Blue *

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:37 AM (BO/km)

112 "When you home gets tiny, the sidewalk becomes your latrine."
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo


*****


Snort!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:37 AM (NeFrd)

113 Bernie will fix this.Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)

Who needs all these small independent florists? Nationalize the entire industry. Place a surcharge on arrangements more than fifty dollars. Shipping via United Postal Service only, five day delivery. No rush service available. All orders must be placed one month before event.

Did I just about cover everything?

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:38 AM (fbovC)

114 When your house gets tiny, McDonald's becomes your dining room.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:38 AM (NeFrd)

115 San Francisco.....NOW WITH MINERALS: Flint.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:38 AM (659DL)

116 Did I just about cover everything?

Don't forget the "We accept EBT" signs.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:39 AM (BO/km)

117 Who needs all these small independent florists? Nationalize the entire industry. Place a surcharge on arrangements more than fifty dollars. Shipping via United Postal Service only, five day delivery. No rush service available. All orders must be placed one month before event.

Did I just about cover everything?


No substitutions and a surcharge for implied rape.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:39 AM (659DL)

118 Did I just about cover everything?

Posted by: ugg boots


*****


Do we really need 27 different types of flower?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:39 AM (NeFrd)

119
Surprise surprise. The MFM has declared Hillary the big winner of last night's debate. Not only that but last night was her best ever. Of course the previous one was her best ever and the one before that... Do Bernie's SJWs realize that no matter what he does or wins he's not going to win? The powers that be will schlong him

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 07:40 AM (45oDG)

120 Do we really need 27 different types of flower?

Brilliant.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:40 AM (659DL)

121 65 62 Instead? "Freedom fries". Light bulb bans. Ethanol mandates. Amnesty attempts. New three-letter agencies. Two failed wars. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Yay.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:13 AM (noWW6)


With Republicans like that, who need Democrats?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:15 AM (zLP1L)

--------//
With republicans like that, I say who needs republicans.

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 12, 2016 07:40 AM (BI43k)

122 Thanks..but now I'm going to slink away in complete embarrassment. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
-----------------
Don't sneak off. Simply stating a fact that you and everyone else here knows. You're a blessing.
Sometimes, it just needs to be acknowledged.
Even if it makes you blush.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 07:41 AM (OUpHg)

123 Mystic seer on Coast To Coast a night or two back pontificated on how The Pause in GW was the last bit of cover for Deniers but that the heat had been growing all along just that it was sequestered in the oceans and the La Nina / Nino cycle was about to let it bust out all over and DOOM ON YOU!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2016 07:41 AM (JO9+V)

124 Gershwin rubs me the wrong way. Give me Bach.Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (AfsKp)Your wish is my command.One of my faves, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, as performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra:https://goo.gl/C0vCe9

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:41 AM (X6fMO)

125 Tiny house=More with less. That's what they want you to believe anyway.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at February 12, 2016 07:41 AM (I0sxh)

126 Or to put it another way the GOP has controlled the house for 18 of the last 22 years and has zero point zero accomplishments to its name that is bad or disasterous.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 12, 2016 07:42 AM (rhtbc)

127 "HEY, KIDS!!!! WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN A MILE-HIGH BUILDING IN A PLACE OVERDUE FOR A MONSTER EARTHQUAKE?"

Scheduled for completion in 2045, it claims,

A-yup. Sure thing. Except for that whole, y'know, impending societal implosion in Japan. A country with the highest official debt to GDP ratio on the planet, populated by a people with no apparent interest in replacing themselves over time. Adult diapers outselling baby diapers.

The only thing that saved the Japanese this time round is the wipeout in global fossil fuel prices. Having centered their domestic power production around nuclear, and then having panicked and shut down all of the nuclear plants, they were bleeding out financially from the cost of imported fossil replacements The commodities collapse has temporarily chased that wolf away from the door.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:43 AM (noWW6)

128 Get what you pay for. The more people you allow between you and the people who actually make and deliver your flowers, the less your arrangement is going to have.

Posted by: jwest at February 12, 2016 07:21 AM (Zs4uk)


Picked up a dozen roses yesterday at Walmart for 14.99

Wife is just as happy - probably happier - than if I had paid more from the delivery guys.

Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2016 07:43 AM (2Ocf1)

129 6 Or to put it another way the GOP has controlled the house for 18 of the last 22 years and has zero point zero accomplishments to its name that isn't bad or disasterous.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 12, 2016 07:43 AM (rhtbc)

130 >>> Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Thanks. You roque!

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:44 AM (AfsKp)

131 Or to put it another way the GOP has controlled the house for 18 of the last 22 years and has zero point zero accomplishments to its name that is bad or disasterous.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 12, 2016 07:42 AM (rhtbc)

Well, they shut down the government a time or twelve.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at February 12, 2016 07:45 AM (oxcYa)

132 Tiny house=More with less. That's what they want you to believe anyway.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at February 12, 2016 07:41 AM (I0sxh)

Their houses probably ain't the only thing tiny.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2016 07:45 AM (JO9+V)

133 One of my faves, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, as performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra


*****


If it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:46 AM (NeFrd)

134 51 Chi & 100 Count de Monet

+ 6.022 x 10^23

We are blessed that Fenelon uplifts our conversations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

135 101 If that opening clarinet glissando doesn't punch you right in the heart, you're not an American.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 07:33 AM (X6fMO)


It's Joo music! Run away!


Seriously, it makes me think of my dad who turned me on to Gershwin and Ellington, Kenton, Goodman, the Dorseys, Basie and all the rest. Fitting that they were both born in '24.

Miss you, pop!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:46 AM (zLP1L)

136 What is the deal with Japan, anyway. They have serious high tech stuff they don't even bother to export, and they have weirder pron than the Germans, but they can't even be bothered to screw.

I am reminded of this Dilbert cartoon:

http://tinyurl.com/glawp3a

Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2016 07:47 AM (2Ocf1)

137 Just finished Rhapsody in Blue.. thanks for the link, MP4!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 12, 2016 07:47 AM (UpGcq)

138 News you can use:

Iran to Unveil Drone at Ceremony Featuring Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:48 AM (fbovC)

139 When your house gets tiny, your bedroom become your living room.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at February 12, 2016 07:49 AM (1BQGO)

140 If it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

Can't be said enough.

Posted by: fluffy at February 12, 2016 07:49 AM (AfsKp)

141 Hello Darkness, my old friend.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at February 12, 2016 07:49 AM (rwI+c)

142 Just had an interesting discussion with my 10 yr old grandson who has been off school due to snow days. Seems the white guilt canard is starting younger and younger. I see some long talks over lunch...

Posted by: FCF at February 12, 2016 07:50 AM (kejii)

143 When your house gets tiny, the city becomes your basement.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2016 07:50 AM (JO9+V)

144 Has anyone totaled up the amount of money the two Socialists 'debating' last night want to steal from working people?....Is the number under or over 100% of working America's income? Socialists and math ability are mutually exclusive 'skill' sets.

Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at February 12, 2016 07:50 AM (jagfX)

145 I haven't read the original article or the thread that everyone is talking about, but my wife and I have known Ted and Shemane Nugent for 20 years.

We're not close friends, but they lived fairly close before the move to Texas, Shemane and my wife both ran businesses in town and Ted was always supportive of anything that helped the community.

In all that time, in every encounter, Ted never said or did anything that could be interpreted as racist or anti-Semitic. Yes, he likes to talk and he likes to shock to make a point, but I think if he held any particular hate for any group other than liberals, I would have picked up on it.

Posted by: jwest at February 12, 2016 07:51 AM (Zs4uk)

146
Jeez, there's a shot of Ernardo Sandino (TM Seftoncorp '16) on AOL that's scary. Guy's face is emaciated and drawn. I know he's an alta-cocker but it looks like he's suffering from acute Methusaleh syndrome.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:51 AM (zLP1L)

147
SisterMao or UncleBernie ????


Pick your next President wisely people....well....hehehehe.....all the SUPER delegates are in Hillary's camp....so... SISTERMAO for the Win!!


The Fix is in.

Woot Woot!!

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at February 12, 2016 07:51 AM (Qj6zv)

148 When your house gets tiny, your spouse's farts become much less amusing than when you were first dating.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:51 AM (NeFrd)

149 The Japanese do not reproduce in captivity.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:52 AM (1ijHg)

150 I haven't read the original article or the thread that everyone is talking about,

OK, then.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 07:52 AM (659DL)

151 Started playing Rhapsody in Blue on the computer, the horns kick in and my beagle starts singing along.

Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2016 07:53 AM (2Ocf1)

152 148 When your house gets tiny, your spouse's farts become much less amusing than when you were first dating.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:51 AM (NeFrd)


I once lived in an 1890s railroad flat/tenement in Manhattan where the kitchen sink turned into a shower. Families shared a common bathroom when ti was first built.

We are no all devolving to "Hester Street." Socialism - brining families together*


*mostly in gulags, ditches and ovens.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:54 AM (zLP1L)

153 Interesting. Peak Muslim immigration?

NATO is sending a naval group "without delay" to help stop people smugglers in the Aegean Sea, following a request from Germany, Greece and Turkey, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:55 AM (fbovC)

154 Free Speech is Now Racist

Apparently freedom of speech is a tool of "White Supremacy", and only by silencing incorrect speech can people become free... to blindly agree with hard Left racial bigotry.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10979

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 12, 2016 07:55 AM (vBeA5)

155 "The Fix is in"

Stalina will be purging all the Sandernistas after the election for their disloyalty and sending them to Hillary fun camp. Ungrateful little scamps. Who do they think they are?

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at February 12, 2016 07:56 AM (1BQGO)

156 brining families together


Salty talk for a shape shifter.

Posted by: freaked at February 12, 2016 07:56 AM (BO/km)

157 Hillary, I choose YOU!

https://twitter.com/rightwinginit/status/698066735031685120

Posted by: Ash Ketchum at February 12, 2016 07:57 AM (vBeA5)

158 153 Interesting. Peak Muslim immigration?

NATO is sending a naval group "without delay" to help stop people smugglers in the Aegean Sea, following a request from Germany, Greece and Turkey, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:55 AM (fbovC)


Meanwhile, there is a potential for a shooting war between Turkey and Mad Vlad over Syria and "refugees" that could quickly escalate to a full on war between NATO (meaning just the USA) and the Russkies.

Thank you, Obama. You have united the world.

H/T at PJ Media, yesterday.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:57 AM (zLP1L)

159 Good morning

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 07:57 AM (3ZtZW)

160 With regard to "the world as your backyard" when owning a tiny house, a lot of people are going to get mugged by reality in the form of modern box-ticking municipal code enforcement.

I bought a vacant lot cheap! I'll park the trailer with my tiny house! Rad!

Wait, who's this person with the clipboard and the stern expression?

In my favorite example of code enforcement, here in Commiefornia, a suburban couple were written a fat city ticket for "water wastage" after keeping their front lawn green.

Fine, they said. They shut off the sprinklers and let the lawn die in the summer heat.

Next? The city comes back round and writes another fat ticket, for "creating an eyesore" with the dead brown former lawn. They'll get you coming and going.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 07:58 AM (noWW6)

161 Molly k. I think you should go to Vegas! My dad was a commercial airline pilot (retired now). I've gone to places several times alone just to take advantage of the free or reduced tickets. Sometimes it's even more fun to go by yourself. If you have a smartphone at restaurants/bars no one will blink an eye. You can totally do it!

Posted by: Adrienne at February 12, 2016 07:58 AM (9Ia+W)

162 149 The Japanese do not reproduce in captivity.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 07:52 AM (1ijHg)


I wish I could get one to lick my eyeball and remove whatever the hell is stuck in it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 07:59 AM (zLP1L)

163 I wish I could get one to lick my eyeball and remove whatever the hell is stuck in it.

Heroin residue?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at February 12, 2016 07:59 AM (rwI+c)

164 News you can use:

Iran to Unveil Drone at Ceremony Featuring Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:48 AM (fbovC)




Is that right after the "look what we did to your sailors" parade. Our bestest pals spitting in our faces. Thanks Barry and Lurch.Of course that commie bastard Barry wants this country humiliated. For Crusades, high horse etc.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 08:00 AM (45oDG)

165 If it ain't baroque, don't fix it. Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 07:46 AM (NeFrd)**Colonel Klink voice**Muldoooooonnnnn!!!!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (X6fMO)

166 ...mostly in gulags, ditches and ovens.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

*****

It's sickening to think that the price your family paid, your mother's generation, can be forgotten in the blink of an eye. The notion of "never again" is fragile indeed. I shall say a prayer for strength and remembrance. Don't let the ugliness get you down.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (NeFrd)

167 @TedCruz spoofs classic "Office Space" scene to MOCK Hillary Clinton

http://bit.ly/1LkIa02

Posted by: Damn it feels good to be a Hat at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (vBeA5)

168 This morning did not start well. I do not have running water. I have plenty of bottled and so was able to make coffee, brush my teeth and give myself a whore's bath (pits and naughty bits only). Needless to say, I do not feel very clean.

It's also something like 8 degrees out there.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (P8951)

169 153 Ugg Boots

A lot of very interesting items in the Eastern Med.

The Russians have mobilized their forces near Turkey and being quite bellicose about it. The Saudis say they are absolutely moving troops to Syria, without knocking out the Iranian proxy forces in Yemen.

Turkey is trying to make nice with Israel, realizing one of their strategic mistakes, and at the same time wanting to pulse a million or more refugees into Europe. They have not been paid the EU bribe.

Turkomen in Syria are being pounded by Russia. And wanting to flood into Turkey.


Good times, good times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

170 Iran to Unveil Drone at Ceremony Featuring Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan

====

Iran and North Korea are doing arms shows for each other.

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:02 AM (3ZtZW)

171 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday threatened to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to European Union member states, as he slammed the bloc's behaviour in the migrant crisis.


He's looking for financial assistance, also known as jizya.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:02 AM (fbovC)

172 166 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (NeFrd)

Bless you and yours, sir.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:02 AM (zLP1L)

173 171 He's looking for financial assistance, also known as jizya.
Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:02 AM (fbovC)


Jizya? Tell him to lie under Ron Jeremy and open mouth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:03 AM (zLP1L)

174 Posted by: torquewrench
-------------
Aaarggghhhhhh.
Don't get me started on "code enforcement" dickheads.
I live in one of the country's oldest cities (yes, there is a cannonball stuck in the wall of St. Paul's Church downtown - from the Revolutionary War).

I am on The Shit List with these guys. Tell them once "get off my f**king property and go get a real job, asshole!" & they tend to remember who you are.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 08:03 AM (OUpHg)

175 Colonel Klink voice**Muldoooooonnnnn!!!!

*****


Oh sure! Fenelon's a blessing and what do I get? Klinkvoiced!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:04 AM (NeFrd)

176
Farrakhan's (like Hyman Roth) been dying of the same cancer for 20 years now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:05 AM (zLP1L)

177 shoot.....i over slept.....that never makes for a relaxing day

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 08:06 AM (0O7c5)

178 Bernie demonstrates that his understanding of economics is completely a zero-sum model. He completely believes that the rich got richer and that directly deprives the poor.

He doesn't understand how an economy grows, and thinks its only distribution. And he thinks that the government is the solution, rather than the problem that shifts protective advantages to the super-rich.

Bernie's SMOD. He'll stop this country stone dead.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:06 AM (oVJmc)

179 Donna @ 168

Frozen pipes? Keep the taps open on every available faucet for now.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 08:07 AM (OUpHg)

180 Brandenburg No. 6 is my favorite. Gimme dat bass, no treble. Amazing how those six little compositions lower my blood pressure.

When I am really down, Papa Haydn is my current fix. Somehow, even when trying to be big and in a minor key, the music still has such joy. Vivaldi is a good one too. Now I have to look up the group Red Priest and see what they have to stream for free.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 12, 2016 08:07 AM (MIKMs)

181 169 Turkey is trying to make nice with Israel, realizing one of their strategic mistakes, and at the same time wanting to pulse a million or more refugees into Europe. They have not been paid the EU bribe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

Like that will happen with Erdogan. I think with the Russkies oil and gas about to get cut off, they are eyeing Israel's massive natural gas field.

Fuck the Turks. Until the Ataturks come back. Which is sadly doubtful in the short run.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:08 AM (zLP1L)

182 ernie demonstrates that his understanding of economics is completely a zero-sum model. He completely believes that the rich got richer and that directly deprives the poor.

He doesn't understand how an economy grows, and thinks its only distribution. And he thinks that the government is the solution, rather than the problem that shifts protective advantages to the super-rich.

Bernie's SMOD. He'll stop this country stone dead.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:06 AM (oVJmc)



Sounds like the commie idiot currently in the White House

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 08:08 AM (45oDG)

183 @TedCruz spoofs classic "Office Space" scene to MOCK Hillary Clinton

Wow, that's a spot-on spoof.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:09 AM (oVJmc)

184 182 Bernie's SMOD. He'll stop this country stone dead.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:06 AM (oVJmc)


The problem is not Bernardo Sandino's ignorance. It's the thousands of kids and LIV dopes who think he's brilliant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:10 AM (zLP1L)

185 So I finally got this bint with an STD treated. She didn't believe she had anything because she kept going to the ED for abdominal pain and vomiting and cramps and they didn't say anything about it. But she had gone to PP a month previous and gave the wrong address, etc so they couldn't tell her. The ED never tested her becoz, duh, she told them she went to PP and they didn't find anything.

Anyway, I get the gastro nurse on the phone and the girl is in the doc's office and all, but the gastro nurse sez "we're gastro, we've got nothing to do with that stuff - take it up with her primary"

Well, Hell. I called my boss, the head of public health for my County, and the girl got treated 5 minutes later due to what I'm sure was a pleasant phone call.

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:10 AM (3ZtZW)

186 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 12, 2016 08:11 AM (ZQfW9)

187 Just had an interesting discussion with my 10 yr old grandson who has been off school due to snow days. Seems the white guilt canard is starting younger and younger. I see some long talks over lunch...

Posted by: FCF at February 12, 2016 07:50 AM (kejii)



It sounds like these days education is nothing but brainwashing and indoctrination.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (45oDG)

188 PLANS are underway to build a MILE-HIGH skyscraper in Japan.

If approved the huge tower would be the tallest building in the world, dwarfing the current record-holder, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai which is half as tall at 2,717ft (828m).

Located in Tokyo Bay, an inlet southeast of the city proper, the plan -- dubbed Next Tokyo -- wouldn't just be a single massive building, but if approved would emerge as a mini city designed to combat climate change.


Of course, it just fine .. because it is designed to combat climate change.

Posted by: Michael Mann at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (e8kgV)

189 "I am on The Shit List with these guys. Tell them once 'get off my
f**king property and go get a real job, asshole!' they tend to
remember who you are."

Ah. Yes.

Scum Scamfrisco has an interesting arrangement. Absolutely bughouse bonkers city code requirements with which nearly no one complies. Instead, there is an elaborate parallel system of graft via fixers and "expediters" who have buddies on the inside at the city building department.

So the thing to say to the inspector is not "get lost, jerk," but instead, "I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I really should look into getting this fixed, if you can give me a month of leeway to have the work done. Is there anyone you might privately recommend as an engineering consultant?"

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (noWW6)

190 I also love Haydn. Anyplace, anytime.

Did anyone ask Hilldogger last night to explain the French complaints from yesterday that our foreign policy is provoking war in the ME, or the Russian worries that we might be bringing forth a WW3? How about the Saudi statement that our cozying up to Iran is forcing them into a war?

Lots of antagonism for the "incoherent" American foreign policy yesterday.

Posted by: MTF at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (TxJGV)

191
A highly active fault line is the perfect spot for a mile-high tower.

Oh those wacky Nipponese!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:14 AM (zLP1L)

192 181 J.J. Sefton

Yes. Turkey has not been a reliable ally since 2003.

As they get more Islamic, Turkey gets more anemic. The military used to step in and correct society. Not now.

I would date the decline with the massacres of the Armenians in the 1916-8s and the expulsion of the Greeks in the 1920s. The Great Fire of Smyrna has a long shadow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

193
Lots of antagonism for the "incoherent" American foreign policy yesterday.


I think they blamed Kissinger last night, didn't they?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:14 AM (oVJmc)

194 EXCLUSIVE: Cops investigating second anti-white attack in Brooklyn this week: 'This is for Malcolm X, cracka'





Wait don't tell me. They still can't figure out a motive

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 08:16 AM (45oDG)

195 Morning horde.

Happy Friday!

Heading to the 'burgh this weekend and will be stocking up on...

http://tinyurl.com/z77xuxn

3 bucks for that.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 08:16 AM (mEZce)

196 @188 Plans are underway to build a mile high skyscraper in Japan.

Let's nickname it Babble.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at February 12, 2016 08:17 AM (Bbcs8)

197 They blamed Kissinger? Leftover issues from 1975 put Hillary in the uncomfortable position of having to burn down the world?

Posted by: MTF at February 12, 2016 08:18 AM (TxJGV)

198 >>>>The Japanese do not reproduce in captivity.
.
.
.
.The Japanese population never really recovered from the WWE smack down they got during WWII. I think they are still holding on to some sort of cultural guilt trip about starting that whole mess but they won't admit it. They are committing sort of a National Seppuku in slow motion to atone for having lost the war I think.

I was stationed in Yokosuka for three years and I have never encountered a more self centered racist population than the Japanese.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 12, 2016 08:18 AM (iONHu)

199 A highly active fault line is the perfect spot for a mile-high tower. Oh those wacky Nipponese!Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Last week some volcano was erupting near one of their nuke plants. A tsunami started some other nuke plant into meltdown a while back.

Their pron is strange.

Good thing they know how to engineer cars.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:19 AM (fbovC)

200 Don't get me started on "code enforcement" dickheads.
I live in one of the country's oldest cities (yes, there is a cannonball stuck in the wall of St. Paul's Church downtown - from the Revolutionary War).

I am on The Shit List with these guys. Tell them once "get off my f**king property and go get a real job, asshole!" & they tend to remember who you are.


As I have said, who needs an HOA when you have nazi code enforcers?
You CAN fight an HOA. You CAN'T fight city hall.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:19 AM (geVJ9)

201 Cruz spoof is awesome

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 08:20 AM (mEZce)

202 "I think they blamed Kissinger last night, didn't they?"

It's a genius strategy.

Nothing galvanizes the Obama cohort of 21st century urban effnik yoof into getting up off the couch and out to the polling place quite like lengthy polemics about the historical role of Henry Kissinger.

You'll know things are really getting stern and serious, and the fight for the electoral affections of the World Star Hip Hop audience has become desperate, when they launch into Dean Acheson.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 08:20 AM (noWW6)

203 Someone is quick on the button today.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at February 12, 2016 08:20 AM (oxcYa)

204 What those thugs in Crooklyn don't seem to realize is that avenging Malcolm's murder would necessitate a trip to the south side of Chicago.

Posted by: MTF at February 12, 2016 08:20 AM (TxJGV)

205 i didn't watch the debate last night, rose at table9chat.com mentioned it was on pbs....i asked if "big bird" was the moderator.....she said "big bird" was there ...and then rose showed me a picture of hillary... omg

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 08:20 AM (0O7c5)

206 I saw 50 shades of grey Social Democrat, last night, and now I feel nothing but shame and despair.

Posted by: Fritz at February 12, 2016 08:21 AM (UzPAd)

207 Nugent's an idiot and 2a icon. He damaged his brand and his 2a efforts. Those of us that had thought more of him, well not at all anymore. As for the local fauna...don't fret Mr. Sefton, trolls gotta troll.

Posted by: Fewenuff at February 12, 2016 08:21 AM (T/sbU)

208 Located in Tokyo Bay, an inlet southeast of the city proper, the plan -- dubbed Next Tokyo -- wouldn't just be a single massive building, but if approved would emerge as a mini city designed to combat climate change.

Of course, it just fine .. because it is designed to combat climate change.

Posted by: Michael Mann at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (e8kgV)


*grins*

Posted by: Zombie Eiichi Hoba at February 12, 2016 08:22 AM (vBeA5)

209 It's also something like 8 degrees out there."

Well, it's something like 8 here too. As in 58...

I am soooooo liking this winter in south Texas thingy.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:24 AM (C9pBZ)

210 Someone is quick on the button today.




MUMR received a shift change at the crazy farm.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:24 AM (geVJ9)

211 Scum Scamfrisco has an interesting arrangement. Absolutely bughouse bonkers city code requirements with which nearly no one complies. Instead, there is an elaborate parallel system of graft via fixers and "expediters" who have buddies on the inside at the city building department.

So the thing to say to the inspector is not "get lost, jerk," but instead, "I see. Thanks for pointing that out. I really should look into getting this fixed, if you can give me a month of leeway to have the work done. Is there anyone you might privately recommend as an engineering consultant?"
Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 08:12 AM (noWW6)

And what was that address again?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2016 08:24 AM (EZebt)

212 Today is....

National Plum Pudding Day.

Yeah, I know you were wondering.

No, you can't dip anything into that unless you want to burn your bits.

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:26 AM (3ZtZW)

213 Damn, almost starting to feel sorry for the guy

http://tinyurl.com/zf8wk7h


*not really. But geeze Jeb!. Give it up.

'They're kicking me out the door,' Jeb said, confused on why he was being ushered off stage. 'They're kicking me out the door,' he repeated.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 08:26 AM (mEZce)

214 194 EXCLUSIVE: Cops investigating second anti-white attack in Brooklyn this week: 'This is for Malcolm X, cracka'


Wait don't tell me. They still can't figure out a motive
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 08:16 AM (45oDG)


Right in the neighborhood where I grew up. Advancing Backwards, aka "Progressivism."


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:27 AM (zLP1L)

215 192 As they get more Islamic, Turkey gets more anemic. The military used to step in and correct society. Not now.

I would date the decline with the massacres of the Armenians in the 1916-8s and the expulsion of the Greeks in the 1920s. The Great Fire of Smyrna has a long shadow.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:14 AM (u82oZ)

Erdogan put all the generals in jail several years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2016 08:27 AM (EZebt)

216 Fine, they said. They shut off the sprinklers and let the lawn die in the summer heat.

Next?
The city comes back round and writes another fat ticket, for "creating
an eyesore" with the dead brown former lawn. They'll get you coming and
going.>>>

Which started the "Green Shoots" business of turf painting. Yeah Green economy.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 12, 2016 08:27 AM (P/aDH)

217 207 Nugent's an idiot and 2a icon. He damaged his brand and his 2a efforts. Those of us that had thought more of him, well not at all anymore. As for the local fauna...don't fret Mr. Sefton, trolls gotta troll.
Posted by: Fewenuff at February 12, 2016 08:21 AM (T/sbU)


I'd just hate like hell to see this place sink to the depths of the Breitbart comment section.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:28 AM (zLP1L)

218 That was suttle.

http://tinyurl.com/j8yqa7e

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at February 12, 2016 08:28 AM (mI7oi)

219 Malcolm X?

Didn't Louis Farrakan order that hit?


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 12, 2016 08:29 AM (1ijHg)

220 215 San Franpsycho

Yes. That's when I knew Islamization of Turkey was irreversible.

Turkey was the powerhouse of manufacturing in the Arab World because it had secular values throughout society. Not now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

221 Gershwin was an aspiring rhapper.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:30 AM (NeFrd)

222 If it ain't baroque, don't fix it



I'll be Bach after the punning goes away.


Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2016 08:30 AM (KUa85)

223 @188 Plans are underway to build a mile high skyscraper in Japan.



Let's nickname it Babble.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at February 12, 2016 08:17 AM (Bbcs

Godzilla will take care of that....future movie...I watch all the old movies on MST3K

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 08:31 AM (Pdb6E)

224 As I have said, who needs an HOA when you have nazi code enforcers?
You CAN fight an HOA. You CAN'T fight city hall.
Posted by: rickb223
--------------
Oh, i disagree.
I may not win, but I CAN and WILL fight City Hall until the day I die. They know this now, and mess with me less these days.

It helps a lot when you answer the door in your underwear, with a 12 gauge in hand.

Posted by: Chi at February 12, 2016 08:31 AM (OUpHg)

225 Nugent's an idiot"

Rockstar type 101. Who ever listens to celebritards (even of the minimal variety)?

Further proof that I should stay away from the ONT...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:33 AM (C9pBZ)

226 Nugent's an idiot and 2a icon.

===

Not going to say much about it.
I will say he missed an opportunity because he's an idiot. He could've said maybe it makes no sense since Jews need guns more than most - but no, he had to go on a hate and conspiracy binge. Bah. Never was a fan anyway.

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:33 AM (3ZtZW)

227 This should be a clear call for welfare reform.
Career criminals should not be supported by the hard working,
law-abiding citizens in our communities. We need to bring back
fingerprint checks. We need to screen applicants for drugs. We need to
deny public assistance benefits to criminals who continually victimize
the very people who pay the bills. If we reinvest the money saved from
addressing this problem we could put more of an emphasis on treatment,
education and enforcement and truly make a difference," he said.






Two of the four men were in possession of public assistance benefit cards, according to the press release.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 08:35 AM (Pdb6E)

228 "Which started the 'Green Shoots' business of turf painting. Yeah Green economy."

That's a great racket.

There's a neighborhood I occasionally drive through where the turf painting guys convinced most of the local homeowners to pay for the spray "at a big discount, while we're working here locally".

They were as good as their word. They came through one afternoon and energetically sprayed people's dead lawns in a high permanency green. Also: cars. Fences. Siding. Walkways. Driveways. Pets.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 08:35 AM (noWW6)

229 I'll be Bach after the punning goes away."

Got to do some grocery Chopin in a few minutes, so there's that...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:35 AM (C9pBZ)

230 ALDI has special on roses today

Posted by: tmitsss at February 12, 2016 08:35 AM (Pa9vP)

231 Heard this on Levin last night. Whomever is the next President (G*d forbid if it's a commie) needs to stop this shit immediately.

http://tinyurl.com/hhe35m7


The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war planning to joint exercises with allies.

A new directive's theme: The U.S. Armed Forces must show 'resilience' and beat back the threat based on 'actionable science.'

It says the military will not be able to maintain effectiveness unless the directive is followed. It orders the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy - a wide array of 'climate change boards, councils and working groups' to infuse climate change into 'programs, plans and policies.'



Such utter fucking bullshit

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 08:35 AM (mEZce)

232
Even if you're trying to send flowers to Bumbfuck Indiana and the name of the florist is "Bumbfuck Indiana Floral Creations", if there is no physical address shown it isn't real.

I call foul. I grew up in Indiana. There is no Bumbfuck, Indiana. It's in Kentucky.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 12, 2016 08:36 AM (iis6V)

233 Huma escapes attempted hug by donor after debate
I wonder if she perfected that move on Carlos Danger?
https://youtu.be/KJqkCRUnocc

Posted by: @votermom at February 12, 2016 08:37 AM (cbfNE)

234 The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war planning to joint exercises with allies."

Yeah - and we laughed at the Russkies for having political officers at every level of Government (incl. the military). Now we've got "climate change" activists...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:38 AM (C9pBZ)

235 The posted article was from a Delaware County NY newspaper (Walton Reporter) Good luck on that, it will never happen anywhere.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 08:38 AM (Pdb6E)

236 Tags: Ted Cruz, pornography, Ron Jeremy


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/11/cruz-5/

Tough to condense into mere words...

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:38 AM (fbovC)

237 ALDI has special on roses today

Got the wife some roses at Aldi cheap that stayed fresh over a week a while back. I was already planning to get her VDay bouquet today and beat the rush.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:38 AM (oVJmc)

238 231 RWC - Team BOHICA

What!!! You can't shot, target, bomb, or torpedo
climate change.

That's what nuclear power reactors are for.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

239 220 215 San Franpsycho

Yes. That's when I knew Islamization of Turkey was irreversible.

Turkey was the powerhouse of manufacturing in the Arab World because it had secular values throughout society. Not now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 08:30 AM (u82oZ)



Yeah. This is something that people fail to realize-

Anytime you let islam have a sizable presence in your society,

you are doomed as a nation, unless you're willing to resort to all-out war to get rid of it, because-

muslims believe that allah demands the rape, murder, subjugation, and all the rest of it of non-muslims in order to attain paradise.

Who are you with your puny man laws to tell them not to do what their god commands?

And so back to the 7th century you go.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2016 08:39 AM (KUa85)

240 225 Further proof that I should stay away from the ONT...
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:33 AM (C9pBZ)


Wasn't even the ONT. Ace posted it at like 5PM.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:40 AM (zLP1L)

241
I saw ALDI in Wisconsin. I assume it's a chain? Looks like a pretty good market.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (zLP1L)

242 Wasn't even the ONT. Ace posted it at like 5PM."

Hmm. Glad to have missed it then, as that's only 4 here...

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (C9pBZ)

243 Tags: Ted Cruz, pornography, Ron Jeremy


Meanwhile, Jeremy has already endorsed Her Thighness.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (oVJmc)

244 239 Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2016 08:39 AM (KUa85)


A kebap-based economy isn't going to last long. Maybe marginally longer than a suicide-vest-based one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:42 AM (zLP1L)

245 Mornin' all. So glad it's Friday.

Posted by: Mainah at February 12, 2016 08:42 AM (659DL)

246 Watching to old socialists toss accusations at each other that they're not socialist enough and then telling me I'm racist?

FTFY

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 08:42 AM (Nwg0u)

247 243 Meanwhile, Jeremy has already endorsed Her Thighness.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (oVJmc)


He can't really be Jewish because his penis is too big (Sefton's schvantz being an outlier)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:43 AM (zLP1L)

248 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:44 AM (mw8Dm)

249 I saw ALDI in Wisconsin. I assume it's a chain? "

Indeed - a low price/discount grocer. At least the two I've been in were a cross between modest grocers and "club" store.

Prices seemed fairly low.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:44 AM (C9pBZ)

250 @246. It's the New World Order.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at February 12, 2016 08:44 AM (I0sxh)

251 Meanwhile, Jeremy has already endorsed Her Thighness. Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel


Wow. That's huge. But then again, being in the porn industry for so long, Ron Jeremy has probably had more than his fair share of 'feeling the Bern'.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:44 AM (fbovC)

252 248 I can separate the man/men from the music. Otherwise I would have nothing to listen to.
Posted by: stranded at February 12, 2016 08:43 AM (qQk+U)


My dad loved Wagner, which drove my mother nuts. Anyway, the Israel Philharmonic lifted it's ban on his music in '73, and Zubin Mehta caught all kinds of hell for it.

Still, it is difficult to listen to Pink Floyd, Springsteen and others now without their garbage infecting my head.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:45 AM (zLP1L)

253 251 Meanwhile, Jeremy has already endorsed Her Thighness. Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel


Wow. That's huge. But then again, being in the porn industry for so long, Ron Jeremy has probably had more than his fair share of 'feeling the Bern'.
Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:44 AM (fbovC)



Stage 4 VD and PPNG is a helluva drug . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:46 AM (zLP1L)

254 Why is the mirror universe encroaching into our own.....?

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at February 12, 2016 08:47 AM (PFy0L)

255 Greetings gentlefappers.

What fresh hell awaits us this fine day?

#WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 08:47 AM (LUgeY)

256 Some of the comments on the Ted Nugent thread last night were quite revealing. Some people here need to check themselves I'd hate lake hell to have to leave this place.

-
I hate to say it but Ted has jumped the hate shark. It's almost like finding out the Tooth Fairy doesn't actually exist. Ted has chosen the Chosen People as scapegoats.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 08:47 AM (Nwg0u)

257 Youngest kid called with an update on the speech given at her sorority by a visiting sister. Blather about 82 cents women paid and how to negotiate for a higher salary. Unfortunately, the woman was an east coastie lefty and the polite midwestern girls had no idea how to disagree without seeming rude and whether they should go to church to get ashes before or after the woman spoke and if it would be impolite to the nice jewish lady (historically jewish sorority and all senior members are jewish). The trials and tribulations of midwestern college life.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 12, 2016 08:47 AM (MIKMs)

258 Wow. That's huge.

Errr....

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 08:48 AM (659DL)

259 I saw ALDI in Wisconsin. I assume it's a chain? "



Indeed - a low price/discount grocer. At least the two I've been in were a cross between modest grocers and "club" store.



Prices seemed fairly low.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy!

ALDI is pretty much everywhere in the East...they sell mostly store brand products, which are usually good. They have limited hours and except mostly only cash and debit cards...I have 3 within a few miles of my adobe.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 08:48 AM (Pdb6E)

260 Some of the comments on the Ted Nugent thread last night were quite revealing. Some people here need to check themselves I'd hate lake hell to have to leave this place.


Ditto
Was very upsetting for some of us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:48 AM (mw8Dm)

261 On a positive note I drove yesterday for the first time since foot surgery back in November. Woohoo!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:49 AM (NeFrd)

262 Ditto
Was very upsetting for some of us



Hmm, I missed it. Prolly a good thing.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 08:50 AM (LUgeY)

263 Was very upsetting for some of us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:48 AM (mw8Dm)

Not even going to venture to that thread. Were the comments from regulars or from "concerned commenters"?

Posted by: Bernie S. at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (WVsWD)

264 Ace, please, please, please, please! Change the comment section to Discus or something similar that is free.

It is so difficult to reply directly to a post here or follow a thread. ASHQ has such vibrant and fun commenters but the communication is so handicapped by the format.

Please, let's start a collection for the web engineering costs. I'd gladly start it off with $100.

Posted by: nwfront99@gmail.com at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (2z4UX)

265 ALDI has special on roses today

====

Wife was bed-ridden sick over the weekend and I took the kid out shopping, where he picked out a bunch of multi-colored daisies for her. Maybe I'll have him do this one too.

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (3ZtZW)

266 Morning, all!

We're doin' fine here at chez Lizzy - it's Friday!!!


Calais resident gives a speech about what life has become in Calais after 18,000 refugees were relocated there. It is criminal that the authorities did this, and now are treating the town's citizen as the bad guys.

"We are finished, we are dead"

http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/calais-we-are-finished-we-are-dead/#more-38792

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (NOIQH)

267 Well, apparently Huma's every bit as icy and non-human as Hillary. They're perfect for one another.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (9ym/8)

268 219 Didn't Louis Farrakan order that hit?
----------------------------------------------------

I thought he pulled the trigger.

Posted by: MTF at February 12, 2016 08:52 AM (TxJGV)

269 /off old and dirty communist sock

Posted by: Tim in Illinois Dump Trump! Luze with Cruz! at February 12, 2016 08:52 AM (WVsWD)

270 On a positive note I drove yesterday for the first time since foot surgery back in November. Woohoo!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 08:49 AM (NeFrd)

Good news......... I had foot surgery 5 years ago, I did drive to the grocery store a couple of times with that complicated foot thing, lots of foam and Velcro.

Posted by: colin at February 12, 2016 08:52 AM (Pdb6E)

271 Why is the mirror universe encroaching into our own.....?
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks



Small tear in the fabric of the space/ time continuum.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:52 AM (geVJ9)

272 Trump is an asshole.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at February 12, 2016 08:52 AM (xWW96)

273 I find I just can't handel musical puns this early, so I am leaving but I will be bach later.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2016 08:53 AM (wYnyS)

274 38
8 The Hildibeast is sporting a gold Mao jacket in place of a pantsuit

______________________



She has always had lousy taste. During her Arkansas years, she
always looked like she had just pulled her clothes out of some Salvation
Army or Goodwill bin. Even after the years of corruption started
paying off and she had some money, she still dressed poorly, albeit
expensively. She's overweight, pear-shaped, and has legs like tree
trunks, but that doesn't mean she can't dress well. She needs a
stylist.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 12, 2016 07:01 AM (df5V4)

You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.

Posted by: Our Country Is Screwed at February 12, 2016 08:53 AM (jxbfJ)

275 Some people here need to check themselves"

Well, (yes, I'm trying to be charitable here, and no, I'm not going there...), perhaps more than a few are caught up in a sort of "he's really kinda our guy 'cause whatever, so we have to sorta defend him as there aren't a lot of pop music types on our side".

Or not. Dunno.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:53 AM (C9pBZ)

276 The government in the Netherlands attempted to ban the export of dogs to Israel, claiming that the IDF uses them as weapons, but was unable to find a legal means to do so.


The Dutch controversy over the IDFs use of dogs has been growing since last October, when the NRC Handelsblad claimed that the IDF uses dogs from Holland, some of whom have bitten Palestinians.


Hey Holland, bite THIS

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:53 AM (mw8Dm)

277 A new survey from YouGov finds that millennials have more favorable views of socialism than of capitalism.

The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism. Less than a third of millennials had a favorable view of capitalism. No other age or ethnic demographic preferred socialism over capitalism.


The 'long march' through the public school system is finally paying dividends.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (fbovC)

278 Not even going to venture to that thread. Were the comments from regulars or from "concerned commenters"?




Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (geVJ9)

279 264 Ace, please, please, please, please! Change the comment section to Discus or something similar that is free.

It is so difficult to reply directly to a post here or follow a thread. ASHQ has such vibrant and fun commenters but the communication is so handicapped by the format.

Please, let's start a collection for the web engineering costs. I'd gladly start it off with $100.

Posted by: nwfront99@gmail.com at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (2z4UX)

Commentary on how the blog is run always ends well

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (mEZce)

280 I read a statement yesterday in the news whereby an economic observer of the world global financial situation declared that, another global economic crisis would spell the death of capitalism.

The implication here is clear - and extraordinarily dangerous and extraordinarily a huge fabrication. The implication here is that capitalism is what is causing these crises. Bullshit.

This is nothing more than yet another attempt - concerted - to demonize free market capitalism and to promote world socialism - which is really what got us here.

Some of y'all may take issue with this and say that U.S. based capitalism is what caused the last crisis. Again - bullshit. Any society that has massive debt to the point that it is a practical impossibility to pay it back, is not practicing free market capitalism. Free markets in this country have not been allowed to operate for decades. Runaway government growth, runaway entitlements (socialism) and open crony capitalism (corruption, for the people still using archaic terminology) is what has substituted for free markets in this country.

We'd better be careful to nip this shit in the bud, or our children will be enslaved by this global push toward socialism.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (4ng05)

281 Tweren't broke, they are BOTH to old.

Or is that too...?

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The too two. Too corrupt. Too delusional. Too dishonest.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (Nwg0u)

282 Excellent news about the foot, Muldoon!

>>EXCLUSIVE: Cops investigating second anti-white attack in Brooklyn this week: 'This is for Malcolm X, cracka'



Aaaand will anyone dare mention that this is days after Beyonce's salute to Malcolm X and the Back Panthers at the Super Bowl?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (NOIQH)

283 On a positive note I drove yesterday for the first time since foot surgery back in November. Woohoo!!"

I sensed a disturbance in the Force.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:55 AM (C9pBZ)

284 The Dutch controversy over the IDFs use of dogs has been growing since last October, when the NRC Handelsblad claimed that the IDF uses dogs from Holland, some of whom have bitten Palestinians.


A Dutch Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 08:55 AM (659DL)

285 Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:53 AM (mw8Dm)

Bites Palestinians, eh!


GOOOD doggie!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2016 08:55 AM (wYnyS)

286 Were the comments from regulars or from "concerned commenters"?
Posted by: Bernie S. at February 12, 2016 08:51 AM (WVsWD)


Both..Some were outright Anti-Semites and they were mostly new "concerned commenters". Some were regulars whom, I will be charitable, are just misinformed and i will leave it at that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (mw8Dm)

287 Morning, Glorious fellow offspring of the Supreme!

What have I missed so far? 280+ comments, there must've been some mighty fine sayin' said, yah?

Posted by: mindful webworker - between the lines at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (Q1QrS)

288 Ugh, no Disqus!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (NOIQH)

289 The 'long march' through the public school system is finally paying dividends.
Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 08:54 AM (fbovC)

Gramsci would be proud.

Posted by: Mainah at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (659DL)

290 'This is for Malcolm X, cracka'

I'll take historical illiteracy for $100, Alex.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (659DL)

291 Ace, please, please, please, please! Change the comment section to Discus or something similar that is free.

===

PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT

Posted by: Bigby's Atomic Elbow at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (3ZtZW)

292 We'd better be careful to nip this shit in the bud, or our children will be enslaved by this global push toward socialism.


Those who bitch about capitalism being the root of all evil are the same ones trying to destroy it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (LUgeY)

293 Yesterday I was bombarded by "The economy is doing just fine"

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THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (Nwg0u)

294 >>You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.


Except that she's from middle class family, suburban Chicago, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (NOIQH)

295 The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism. Less than a third of millennials had a favorable view of capitalism. No other age or ethnic demographic preferred socialism over capitalism.


The 'long march' through the public school system is finally paying dividends.



That's because none of them have felt "true" socialism.
Walk up to them, confiscate their iPhone as "subversive" to state security, slap that starbucks out of their hand as "unapproved", "disappear" a few for no reason.

Let them truly feel the burn.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (geVJ9)

296 I "believe" many Military Dogs come from Holland. They have a specific breed of German Shepards that are perfect for that role. And guess where many go to be trained? ISRAEL. Even many of our Military Gods are intially trained in Israel. Read the book "Top Dog", it's about a US Marine Dog. Great Book

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 08:58 AM (mw8Dm)

297 Is this stupid?

I love the Subaru commercial with the 14 year old dog's birthday bucket list and the Willie Nelson song. Could watch it all day.

Last commercial I felt that way about was the 2002 (?) Superbowl commercial with the Budweiser clydesdales where they travel to NYC and bow across the river from the site of the WTC.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM (E6RIJ)

298
Wow. Dogs AND Jooz.

The Muzzies must be going ape.

(get it?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM (zLP1L)

299 Meanwhile, Jeremy has already endorsed Her Thighness.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (oVJmc)

He endorsed Beyonce? I didn't realize she was even running.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM (4ng05)

300 We have to bear the shame of Bill Clinton, but Hillary is from Chicago. So shove that Hillary is from Arkansas shit right up your stretched out ass.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM (xWW96)

301 or our children will be enslaved by this global push toward socialism."

Meh. More of Heinlein's "Bad Luck".

The reality is that "Free" markets and undirected mercantilism are the outliers in human history.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM (C9pBZ)

302 That's because none of them have felt "true" socialism.
Walk up to them, confiscate their iPhone as "subversive" to state security, slap that starbucks out of their hand as "unapproved", "disappear" a few for no reason.

Let them truly feel the burn.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (geVJ9)

Exactly, because for them, it's the "cool" thing to support socialism while they live in an affluent, comfortable, capitalist society. It's all about feelings of superiority over the person who disagrees with them.

Posted by: Mainah at February 12, 2016 09:01 AM (659DL)

303 Ugh, no Disqus!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 08:56 AM (NOIQH)


Killjoy...

Posted by: Data Miners at February 12, 2016 09:01 AM (vBeA5)

304 >>I love the Subaru commercial with the 14 year old dog's birthday bucket list and the Willie Nelson song. Could watch it all day.

Yes, it's very sweet. They have several cute ads about dogs, such as the one w/the kid saying "Come on, Duck" to get the dog (chocolate Lab?) into the car, from puppy/toddler ages to old/teen driver ages.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:01 AM (NOIQH)

305 Those who bitch about capitalism being the root of all evil are the same ones trying to destroy it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 08:57 AM (LUgeY)

Exactly right, and it is catching steam very quickly.

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at February 12, 2016 09:02 AM (4ng05)

306 I love the Subaru commercial with the 14 year old dog's birthday bucket list and the Willie Nelson song. Could watch it all day.


The scene with the tennis balls cracks me up every time.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:02 AM (659DL)

307 42 I know, as a marginal Catholic, that any thread which involves the Pope saying something leftist is one to avoid. The religious bigots crawl up out of the sewer. That's how they get their jollies.

A lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Posted by: ugg boots at February 12, 2016 07:02 AM (fbovC)

Yeah, it goes very quickly from "Francis is a clueless lefty" (which he is) to anti-Catholic bigotry. Hey, did you know there was a sex abuse scandal in the Church? I was, like, totally unaware of it!

I stayed away from that Nugent thread like Lena Dunham stays away from Weight Watchers. I knew it would make me angry and depressed.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:02 AM (u0lmX)

308 "The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism."

That is because they think socialism is Stuff White People Like.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at February 12, 2016 09:03 AM (1BQGO)

309 Shit, Ted. New ad features some "soft porn" actors.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (9ym/8)

310
It is so difficult to reply directly to a post here or follow a thread. ASHQ has such vibrant and fun commenters but the communication is so handicapped by the format.



Pffft.

One of the reason our comment section is better is that it isn't threaded. Everybody talks in the big rooms rather than getting off into branches.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (oVJmc)

311 298


Wow. Dogs AND Jooz.


The Muzzies must be going ape.


(get it?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:59 AM
~~~~
Lol. Maybe someone will have an anecdote about Mr. Arnold from Green Acres and we've hit the trifecta.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (E6RIJ)

312 307 Donna

What happened to your ampersands?

Are they safe? & I hope you are doing well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

313 307 You have to know when to step away from the HQ.I'm a veteran now and know just when to pull the plug.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (B48dK)

314 Yeah, it goes very quickly from "Francis is a clueless lefty" (which he is) to anti-Catholic bigotry.

I still get to make fun of the Alabama tank tread tracks still apparent on Notre Dame from 2012, right?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (659DL)

315 I've heard Discus criticized a lot. Why does everybody hate it so much? It seems to work well enough and I like it that the posting history of the poster is easily accessible. Am I missing something?

Posted by: nwfront99@gmail.com at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (1eYr7)

316 >>EXCLUSIVE: Cops investigating second anti-white attack in Brooklyn this week: 'This is for Malcolm X, cracka'

Malcolm X, who was, like most murdered black men in this country, killed by another black.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:06 AM (u0lmX)

317 The millennials are young idiots. And I guarantee they have no idea that 'free healthcare' means a 20% VAT tax that THEY will be paying.

Teach them that and watch the approval numbers drop.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 09:06 AM (oVJmc)

318 They have several cute ads about dogs, such as the
one w/the kid saying "Come on, Duck" to get the dog (chocolate Lab?)
into the car, from puppy/toddler ages to old/teen driver ages.


Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:01 AM
~~~
Yes! Love that one too.

Budweiser's ads were a big disappointment this year.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:06 AM (E6RIJ)

319 Drudge has pic of Huma in a similar-colored jacket - sorta neon greenish yellow. They're twins!! Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:06 AM (NOIQH)

320 Am I missing something?

Yes. You squirrel-hating hipster.

SQUIRRELS NEED JOBS, TOO.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:06 AM (659DL)

321 You have to know when to step away from the HQ.I'm a veteran now and know just when to pull the plug.
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (B48dK)

yeah but sometimes my blood starts a boiling and ......

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 09:07 AM (mw8Dm)

322 314 ND ain't even Catholic anymore.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:07 AM (B48dK)

323 "The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism."



Our enemies figured out that since they couldn't defeat us militarily, they'd conquer our society. They managed to do it so effectively that the entire idea of having an enemy has disappeared from any national discussion.

#WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 09:07 AM (LUgeY)

324 Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

My ampersands rest up during the day so they can be all fulla piss and vinegar for the ONT.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:07 AM (u0lmX)

325 The immigrant issue is a grab for future votes. Dems want the US to be effectively one party.

Conservatives would beat back this threat but ... like Batman fighting the Joker, always reacting and never taking the initiative. It means every f up will have long term consequences. Losing in a big way is inevitable

We need to talk about raising the voting age to 30. We should talk about it every year like it's a thing. Liberals talked about gay marriage like it was a real thing since ~2003. If your first vote is in college, that shapes your political identity differently than if your first vote is after being bit by taxes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:08 AM (VdICR)

326
Upholsterers everywhere are cursing Shrillary for having severely depleted the stocks of "Louis XIV Sun King Yellow" fabric.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:08 AM (BK3ZS)

327 ND ain't even Catholic anymore.
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:07 AM (B48dK)


Some people don't think the Vatican is either. Just saying

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 09:08 AM (mw8Dm)

328 321 Nevergiveup

I understand. We have all been there.

But let's focus on fighting our real enemies, not our shipmates.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:08 AM (u82oZ)

329 But let's focus on fighting our real enemies, not our shipmates.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:08 AM (u82oZ)


have you ever met my Shipmates? Some of the asshole Physicians i have to deal with? Just kidding, well not really, but. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 09:10 AM (mw8Dm)

330 I still get to make fun of the Alabama tank tread tracks still apparent on Notre Dame from 2012, right?


Yes. Yes, you do.

ROLL TIDE!!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 09:10 AM (LUgeY)

331 311 Lol. Maybe someone will have an anecdote about Mr. Arnold from Green Acres and we've hit the trifecta.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (E6RIJ)


Ziffle is a Jewish name. What's my payout?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 09:10 AM (zLP1L)

332 When I sense a thread is getting out of control I try to redirect with humor and titties.Sometimes it works.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:10 AM (B48dK)

333 squirrels should all DIAF

Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 12, 2016 09:11 AM (lVU49)

334 324 Donna

Thanks. I will learn from you.

I'll try and put some hydrogen peroxide in my ONT fonts.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:11 AM (u82oZ)

335 nwfront99: I've heard Discus criticized a lot. Why does everybody hate it so much? It seems to work well enough and I like it that the posting history of the poster is easily accessible. Am I missing something?

You're missing more than I want to take time to answer. Surely others will. I don't really mind Disqus, but I only endure it on small, slow-moving blogs. It would be a royal disaster here.

You might get some help from hints on referencing comments here in my unauthorized, unofficial, needs-some-updating Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide - see the "Referencing comments" section.

http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg

Posted by: mindful webworker - technically squeaking at February 12, 2016 09:11 AM (Q1QrS)

336
FOR FAR TOO LONG THE TOASTER INDUSTRY HAS BEEN FOISTING SUBSTANDARD RAW TOAST UPON AMERICANS.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR BERNIE SANDERS' AMERICA!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:11 AM (BK3ZS)

337 Scandals, homos, commies and a briefcase full of cash.

-
It's about the Clinton Famy Foundation?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 09:11 AM (Nwg0u)

338
Off to work. Later kiddies, and this long distance dedication goes out to a few from yesterday's post:


Keep on keeping it IS-real!

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

339 84 ... Thanks for the reminder about Rhapsody In Blue premiere, MP4. Umpty-ump years ago I had an LP of Rhapsody on one side and American In Paris and Slaughter On Tenth Avenue on the other. I played the living shit out of that album on my Zenith Hi-Fi, cloth covered speakers and all.

Those songs were an introduction to how effective complex harmonies and tempos could be. (Such a far cry from the Top 40 radio stuff I usually listened to.) I really believe they started me on to a love with JS Bach and Baroque music.

Posted by: JTB at February 12, 2016 09:12 AM (FvdPb)

340 Maybe someone will have an anecdote about Mr. Arnold from Green Acres and we've hit the trifecta.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (E6RIJ)


Ziffle is a Jewish name. What's my payout?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton


That factoid doesn't seem kosher.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (9krrF)

341 One of the reason our comment section is better is that it isn't threaded. Everybody talks in the big rooms rather than getting off into branches.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (oVJmc)

This x1000

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (mEZce)

342 If the posts of Ted Nugent, or people's unsatisfactory reactions to the postings - put you on the fainting couch, I'd hazard a guess and say you're not going to do very well in the impending End-Times Apocalypse.

You're going to see a lot worse before the show is over.

Posted by: Eye Patch, Hip Waders, and Hook Hands at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (JA5Qu)

343 When I sense a thread is getting out of control I try to redirect with humor and titties.Sometimes it works



I was lucky yesterday. Thread hit during afternoon drive time. Made it extremely hard to reply/comment.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (geVJ9)

344 315: "I've heard Discus criticized a lot. Why does everybody hate it so much? It seems to work well enough and I like it that the posting history of the poster is easily accessible. Am I missing something?"

This is very similar to problems faced by most of our states. Not content to go to your favored discus sites and enjoy whatever it is you enjoy about discus, you instead seek to come here and inflict it upon us.

We don't want your discus. If you prefer it, go to sites that use it.

Leave us alone.

This of course is a comment that applies equally to all the leftists seeking to move to our states and fuck them up too.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:15 AM (4nmNX)

345 The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism

Between the media and academia, they've been indoctrinated to believe that socialism means Sweden, not Venezuela.

Posted by: V the K at February 12, 2016 09:15 AM (O7MnT)

346 241
I saw ALDI in Wisconsin. I assume it's a chain? Looks like a pretty good market.




Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 08:41 AM (zLP1L)

Aldi's is a German chain - they're all over Europe I guess. They bought out Trader Joe's a while back.

Aldi's can be a good deal when it comes to things like paper towels, trash bags, cereal, canned goods and crackers - but their produce and meat never look good to me.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:15 AM (u0lmX)

347
Via Twitter, with pictures, apparently Shrillary's Louis XIV Sun King Yellow couture last evening was not the first time she's worn it in public. Another time was when she delivered a speech at Goldman Sachs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:15 AM (BK3ZS)

348 330 Nevergiveup

Well, it's not like they are NOAA or NPHS.

You just need to go to some real bad neighborhoods to get some perspective.

Too bad I gave up Air Force and Army jokes for Lent.

And on a serious note, the unraveling we see every day would try the patience of Noah, Moses and Abraham combined. We can surmount it, but sometimes it's not easy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

349 Disqus....let's see:
---Registration w/set nics, so no more socking
---Nested comments so you have to go back and forth to keep up with multiple comment threads
---Ratings/thumbs up vs, down - who cares?

I'd mention the performance, but pixy can get slow, too...

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:16 AM (NOIQH)

350 Maybe someone will have an anecdote about Mr. Arnold from Green Acres and we've hit the trifecta.
Posted by: IrishEi


Ziffle is a Jewish name. What's my payout?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

That factoid doesn't seem kosher.
Posted by: Brother Cavil



JJ is just trying to hog it all.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:16 AM (geVJ9)

351 Our old and outdated format is what keeps us off the radar from undesirables. Even though Instapundit and Rush occasionally give us Mana from heaven.

I have to sometimes use ctl c, ctl f, ctl v to track a conversation. But I'm sharing a forum with people who are also good at skimming. Other forums, I argue with someone and I include a link, and they can't even bother to read it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:16 AM (VdICR)

352 FOR FAR TOO LONG THE TOASTER INDUSTRY HAS BEEN FOISTING SUBSTANDARD RAW TOAST UPON AMERICANS.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR BERNIE SANDERS' AMERICA!


We need a $15 an hour jobs program for toaster technicians to serve the too-lazy-to-make-my-own-toast program. The four year toaster tech degree at Yale will set you back $300,000.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (659DL)

353 I pondered the Nugent thing last night. I've came to the following conclusions ...

It's another example of the mirror image symmetry of Republicans and Democrats.

Dems have their surrogates who ... no matter how nuts ... can go forth confidently knowing they'll receive some cover from the team. So do Repubs. They've got their Third Rail groups who can never be criticized en masse. So do Repubs.

The biggest difference I see is that Repubs like to self-flagellate quite a bit more ... and are more willing to defend groups that, by and large, vote against them. A noble trait that, so far, has yielded no political fruit.

Posted by: Irony at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (BHaRb)

354 I was lucky yesterday. Thread hit during afternoon drive time. Made it extremely hard to reply/comment.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (geVJ9)

Didn't even know there was a Nugent thread.

Thank you long commute!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (mEZce)

355 "I was lucky yesterday. "


Me too. Went back and skimmed. Glad I missed it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (9ym/8)

356 /hoists flag of Cavillonia: Swingline stapler gules on field argent

/starts burning things

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (9krrF)

357 345 The survey, taken at the end of January, found that 43 percent of Americans under 30 had a favorable view of socialism

Between the media and academia, they've been indoctrinated to believe that socialism means Sweden, not Venezuela.



You want Sweden.
You'll settle for Norway.
You'll get East Germany.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (geVJ9)

358 Mindful Webworker, thanks! Excellent info. Has anyone ever determined for sure what constitutes an "old" post that commenting on would cause a ban? I don't want this IP to get banned but I often read the comments up to a day after they are posted.

Posted by: nwfront99@gmail.com at February 12, 2016 09:18 AM (cygkw)

359 342 If the posts of Ted Nugent, or people's unsatisfactory reactions to the postings - put you on the fainting couch, I'd hazard a guess and say you're not going to do very well in the impending End-Times Apocalypse.

Posted by: Eye Patch, Hip Waders, and Hook Hands at February 12, 2016 09:14 AM (JA5Qu)

The Apocalypse is unavoidable. An AOSHQ thread is and I don't see any reason to unnecessarily get riled up. My blood pressure goes up every time I check the news or think about politics anyway.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:18 AM (u0lmX)

360 Ziffle is a Jewish name. What's my payout?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 12, 2016 09:10 AM (zLP1L)


It is a little known fact that the Old Testament's Abraham was actually Abe Ziffle to his friends.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (xWW96)

361 but their produce and meat never look good to me.

GOOD LOOKING MEAT AND PRODUCE ARE JUST EXPENSIVE SEX SURROGATES FOR THE PATRIARCHY. DON'T OBJECTIFY YOUR VEGETABLES, TROGLODYTES.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (659DL)

362 CBS reporting name (unconfirmed by local Columbus news or police) of dead machete attacker as Mohamed Barry, Somali origin.

Posted by: Baldy at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (1SCTq)

363 You'll get East Germany.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (geVJ9)

Our bureaucrats won't be nearly as efficient as the Krauts.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (u0lmX)

364 What would Trump do in a "debate" situation like that hosted by PBS last night?

In the general election runup, he won't be leading in polls by double digits, so he will not be able to smugly roll out his poll lines.

Would he be prepared to call her out on her lying, her Goldman Sachs issues, Benghazi, the email biz, her Clinton foundation scams, and her unlikeability?

Would he challenge her claims about accomplishments, citing State failures, her health insurance no-go, her Whitewater thing, cattle futures, and the biggie, her womans' stand, in light of Bill's bimbos and her destruction of same?

Does he have the chops, the verbal acuity, to do all this in an open-debate format such as PBS let go on last night?

Cruz sure would. But could Teh Donald?

And the bigger question. Would PBS allow a savaging like that to happen, or would they act to circle the wagons?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (U6f54)

365 I gave up cleaning my clothes dryer's filter for lint.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (NeFrd)

366 Disqus....let's see:
---Nested comments so you have to go back and forth to keep up with multiple comment threads




F. T. S.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (geVJ9)

367 Note: We have now passed the point where I can no longer tell if I am really parodying the left or just repeating something they have already said.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (659DL)

368 The millennials are young idiots. And I guarantee they have no idea that 'free healthcare' means a 20% VAT tax that THEY will be paying.

Teach them that and watch the approval numbers drop."

Heard from more than a few folks (worked around Cap Hill a bit at the time) when "Rachel" from Friends said "who's FICA and why is he getting all of my money?" (yeah, that's not exact, but close enough)...
That lit off a firestorm of calls and newfangled emails to Hill offices.

Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (C9pBZ)

369 Just read a drudge link 75% of silicon valley tech workers are foreign born.

That's because half the companies there won't even interview white men anymore, even if they're gay. Gotta keep up the quotas.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (3CwVB)

370 365 You'll burn your house down!

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:20 AM (B48dK)

371 356 /hoists flag of Cavillonia: Swingline stapler gules on field argent

/starts burning things

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at February 12, 2016 09:17 AM (9krrF)


I thought that was the flag of Peruvia.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:21 AM (u0lmX)

372 CBS reporting name (unconfirmed by local Columbus news or police) of dead machete attacker as Mohamed Barry, Somali origin.

I am totally shocked that this would happen at a restaurant named "Nazareth."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:21 AM (659DL)

373 Link to Columbus OH machete attack in nik

Posted by: Baldy at February 12, 2016 09:21 AM (1SCTq)

374 Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile. She seems miserable in every way.

Posted by: Northernlurker, muzungo at February 12, 2016 09:21 AM (4rzL1)

375 Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile.

When she pulled the trigger on Vince?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2016 09:23 AM (659DL)

376 The only thing real about Hillary is her heartfelt corruption and incompetence.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at February 12, 2016 09:23 AM (xWW96)

377 364: "And the bigger question. Would PBS allow a savaging like that to happen, or would they act to circle the wagons?"

There will be no R versus D debates this cycle.

Bernie won't be allowed to win the D nomination, and Skankles can't debate or allow her shit to be mentioned in a forum the public might see.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:23 AM (4nmNX)

378 Comment system?

My preference is to leave it the way it is.

Sort of an old school clunky charm to it, that takes some getting used to.

I rally don't want a commenting system that is so simple, even a caveman can do it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:23 AM (ptqRm)

379 Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile. She seems miserable in every way.

Posted by: Northernlurker

Only when the train runs on time, and she's "flush" with success.

Posted by: Bruce at February 12, 2016 09:23 AM (8ikIW)

380 373 "There is nothing that leads us to believe this is anything more than a random attack".

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:24 AM (B48dK)

381 Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile.


****


When she suckled her first and only-born child, Chelsea. I want to say that was in 2006 or so.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 09:24 AM (NeFrd)

382
One of the reason our comment section is better is that it isn't threaded. Everybody talks in the big rooms rather than getting off into branches.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 09:04 AM (oVJmc)


Yes indeed.

There is a surreal and crazy aspect to commenting here with multiple story lines going on simultaneously, sometimes with unintended hilarious consequences. It keeps you on your toes to kept the streams uncrossed, as it were, to follow along with what's being said and by whom.

A real plus, too, I think, is that it deters or confuses potential trolls from sites which do not follow this model so their attempts to practice their craft stand out as ham handed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:25 AM (BK3ZS)

383 Chelsea keeps a turkey baster in her purse. She calls it Dad.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at February 12, 2016 09:25 AM (xWW96)

384 I don't relish the idea of explaining VAT to someone who doesn't know who Kissinger is. They don't even dislike taxes in general. The Laffer curve needs re-branding because I bore people when I explain it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:26 AM (VdICR)

385 Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile.

Oh, my goodness yes, she smiles for real all the time when we're alone.

Posted by: Huma Abedein, Muslim Brotherhood Minder at February 12, 2016 09:26 AM (3CwVB)

386 Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner said 'right now there's nothing that leads us to believe that this is anything but a random attack.'

CBS News has identified the suspect as Mohammad Barry, however neither 10TV nor Columbus Police have confirmed the suspect's name. CBS News also reports Barry has a Somali background and may have traveled to Dubai in 2012.

Law enforcement tells them the incident appears to be the type of 'lone wolf terrorist attacks they're trying to stop.'



Reporting.

How doth it worketh.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 09:26 AM (mEZce)

387 Aldi in other countries is a different kind of store (back in the day, you could buy a Commodore computer there, I've learned). I guess they saw a niche for the American market that they decided to fill.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at February 12, 2016 09:26 AM (oVJmc)

388 Skankles can't debate or allow her shit to be mentioned in a forum the public might see

Hillary did "win" a debate with Lazio. By standing there looking female while Lazio mansplained to her about how she'd just lied.

Apparently that hurt Lazio in the polls.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2016 09:27 AM (6FqZa)

389 388: "...looking female..."

I'll have to take your word for that one.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:28 AM (4nmNX)

390 >>Has Hillary ever smiled in her life? I mean a natural, real, sincere smile. She seems miserable in every way.

May have been decades since that occurred.
She's made some really poor decisions in order to attain power and wealth.

What's funny is the show "The Good Wife" was definitely modeled on Hillary, as well as several other cuckqueaned wived of politicians, and this season has become unbearable w/the wife character becoming painfully aware of how awful her life is because she chose to stick w/the sleazy hubby because it was great being a lawyer whose governor hubby could nudge things for your clients' benefit. She is just as unsympathetic as old Hills.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:28 AM (NOIQH)

391 373 Link to Columbus OH machete attack in nik
Posted by: Baldy at February 12, 2016 09:21 AM (1SCTq)

Going to be lots of this in the future. When the mosques start teaching them to make homemade bomb vests it's going to get ugly everywhere.

Posted by: joncelli, getting it out of his system at February 12, 2016 09:29 AM (RD7QR)

392 Never cross the streams, crossing the streams is bad.

Posted by: Two dudes at a trough-style urinal at February 12, 2016 09:29 AM (VdICR)

393 "Aldi in other countries is a different kind of store "


Yes. In Australia they're sorta like Super Wal Marts. Can buy all manner of food, general goods, electronics, etc .

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 09:29 AM (9ym/8)

394 The Apocalypse is unavoidable. An AOSHQ thread is

Wait... you mean I never had to read any of Malor's posts?

Posted by: Eye Patch, Hip Waders, and Hook Hands at February 12, 2016 09:29 AM (JA5Qu)

395 "Our bureaucrats won't be nearly as efficient as the Krauts."

Ossi bureaucrats were efficient?

That will be news to my wife. The crat responsible for typing up her Birth Certificate mashed here first and middle names together.

Wir sind besser sozialisten!! Nict wahr?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois Dump Trump! Luze with Cruz! at February 12, 2016 09:30 AM (WVsWD)

396 "Aldi in other countries is a different kind of store"

We used to shop Aldi every time we drove up to Garmisch in Bavaria for vacation.

And here, they really can't be beaten when it comes to the offerings imported from Germany.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:30 AM (ptqRm)

397 So, did machete guy attack bc owner was Israeli? Or, did he have a grudge against his fellow somalis?

Somalis are a big pain in the ass. It was evident early on after 911 when so many returned home to be terrorists.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 12, 2016 09:31 AM (iQIUe)

398 Aldi did not buy out Trader Joe's. They are two separate brand names out of the same parent company out of Germany.

Aldi's markets to those who might otherwise buy groceries at WalMart. Trader Joe's pitches to those who go to Whole Foods, but are not totally in the tank for WF.

Everything at both is branded, but the brands are house brands. Look at the labels and you'll find the origin, and see that the item is branded and packaged for Aldi or Trader Joe's. You won't find Starbucks coffee at either, nor will you find Cheerios or Wheaties.

Per the euro model, you bring your own bags or boxes to Aldi, but at Trader Joe's, you'll get bagged and bags, and enjoy the service.

Trader Joe's is known for its low cost wines offerings, all under their own brand names. Here in Colorado, where liquor sales are permitted under one owner in one store only, state-wide, Trader Joe's selected a posh Denver location for their first store, which has the wine and beer offering, and their Boulder store cannot carry any wine or beer.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2016 09:32 AM (U6f54)

399 >>A real plus, too, I think, is that it deters or confuses potential
trolls from sites which do not follow this model so their attempts to
practice their craft stand out as ham handed.


Ugh, yes. So many sites have a resident troll who responds to each and every non-progressive comment, probably paid to do this. There is no conversation, only conservative-ish comments followed by snark, insults and/or disinformation. I don't even bother reading comments at Breitbart, Townhall, let alone more mainstream sites like WashPost.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 09:32 AM (NOIQH)

400 Didnt they have some kind of bomb/jet incident just last week in somalia?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 12, 2016 09:32 AM (iQIUe)

401 I was simply appalled at the normally sane people here last night that formed a torch and pitchfork mob and burned Ted Nugent at the stake all based on hearsay.
Please note that I am not defending Ted, I am pointing the finger at everyone for repeating hearsay and devolving into mob mentality.
It may be possible that Ted is a horrible anti-semite, but no one here last night was able to post a single comment that he actually made that anti-semitic.
Copying that incredibly offensive graphic has been used on many pro-gun sites was a really stupid move on his part, but everything he actually wrote is a rant against the anti-gun crowd and nothing more.
If someone can provide a quote from him that in any way denigrates the Jewish people, I will be the first in line to denounce him.
But until then, shame on all of you that participated in the virtual lynching. Something I never expected to see from the folks here that denounce the like of SJWs and Colleges that deny students due process.

Posted by: db at February 12, 2016 09:33 AM (7XeOt)

402 391: "Going to be lots of this in the future. When the mosques start teaching them to make homemade bomb vests it's going to get ugly everywhere."

I wonder what form the pushback will take?

Perhaps a rash of hunting accidents? I mean it is totally easy to mistake a muzzy for a deer/hog/rabbit from 1,000 yards away.

With a good scope.

In broad daylight.

In downtown.

From a rooftop/back of truck.


Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:33 AM (4nmNX)

403 Hill's voice grates on me worse than Sarah Palin. Was it like this when she ran in 2008? I don't remember it being this bad. Bernie's voice - cookie monster Dangerfield - is dulcet in comparison.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:34 AM (VdICR)

404 Doesn't appear anyone has bought this up in the thread, so I will.

Full disclosure, the link provided below does originate from the Conservative Trump House. However, the article itself is written by someone claiming to be a delegate for Ted Cruz and listed on the Cruz campaign site as being on his leadership team. The article in question is titled:

No Senator Cruz, Donald Trump does NOT want Single Payer health care.

Considering the writer's perspective, I thought it a worthwhile read.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hnno7qt

Posted by: Dead Parrot Society at February 12, 2016 09:34 AM (AJeMv)

405 10:45 am || Departs Los Angeles
11:40 am || Arrives in Palm Springs, California



Whew...time for a vacation

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 09:34 AM (mEZce)

406 Christ again.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 09:34 AM (mw8Dm)

407 ALDI was run by two Wehrmacht veterans who were very "reclusive."
Just saying, Some People still won't buy a Ford, because Protocols.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 12, 2016 09:35 AM (xq1UY)

408
Has anyone ever determined for sure what constitutes an "old" post that commenting on would cause a ban? I don't want this IP to get banned but I often read the comments up to a day after they are posted.
Posted by: nwfront99@gmail.com at February 12, 2016 09:18 AM (cygkw)


I'm not sure, but I do not comment on a thread for which the commenting essentially died more than twelve hours earlier and by "essentially died", I mean that give and take responses ceased.

Furthermore, anything I might be tempted to say would not likely be read by anyone anyway, so why bother to comment?

That said, there is no harm to reading, and only reading, through old threads, no matter what their age.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:35 AM (BK3ZS)

409 And here, they really can't be beaten when it comes to the offerings imported from Germany.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:30 AM (ptqRm)

Yeah, their German chocolates and cookies and wines are good - and quite cheap.

Get German wines and beer now before the Muzzies ban alcohol. Perhaps that will be the straw that finally breaks the German's back. You can manhandle their women but mess with their beer....nein.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:35 AM (u0lmX)

410 "Didnt they have some kind of bomb/jet incident just last week in somalia?"


Yup.

Only fatality was the bomber.
He got sucked out the hole he blew in the side of the 737 at 12,000 ft.

Hope he was conscious till impact.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:35 AM (ptqRm)

411 402 Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire)

I see you've been reading your Matt Bracken.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2016 09:36 AM (u82oZ)

412 Trader Joe's pitches to those who go to Whole Foods, but are not totally in the tank for WF.


I can't get over how happy all of the employees at Trader Joe's always seem to be. I had presumed some sort of cult indoctrination, but a diminutive friend says it's because they treat their employees well and pay them a lot.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 12, 2016 09:38 AM (1xUj/)

413 That 50 Shades thread needs to go in the sidebar as one of Ace's Greatest Hits. That's another reason I stayed clear of the Nugent thread. I had had such a good time reading the Shades of Gray comments that I didn't want to spoil my mood.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:38 AM (u0lmX)

414 411: "I see you've been reading your Matt Bracken."

Until I read his work, the whole back of the truck thing never occurred to me.

But if it ever becomes necessary, it is a very good tactic as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:39 AM (4nmNX)

415 They have 2 marathons, obama, and the grammies in LA this weekend. What a pain in the ass!

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

416
When she suckled her first and only-born child, Chelsea. I want to say that was in 2006 or so.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 09:24 AM (NeFrd)


ISWYDT

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 09:41 AM (BK3ZS)

417 Trader Joes is a helluva lot cheaper than Whole Paycheck.

I like to get cheese and wine there, although the "Two Buck Chuck" is a bit too cheap for me. You spend $12 on a bottle of wine at TJ and you feel like you're buying top shelf and at Whole Foods that's the cheap stuff.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:42 AM (u0lmX)

418 415: "What a pain in the ass!"

Does this not describe everything that goes on in L.A.?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:42 AM (4nmNX)

419 "I can't get over how happy all of the employees at Trader Joe's always seem to be. I had presumed some sort of cult indoctrination, but a diminutive friend says it's because they treat their employees well and pay them a lot. "

Trader Joe's is far and above the preferred store here at Fortress VIA.

The Staff is always helpful, courteous and never comes across as pretentious.

Almost the Chick-Fil-A of grocery shopping.

Whole Foods can lick my nut-sack, mostly due to the preening wannabe green cultist and SJW customers.
I giggle every time one of them gets struck by a Prius in the parking lot.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:42 AM (ptqRm)

420 I think I saw that the bomber was on fire and screaming before he got sucked out of the jet, VIA.

Posted by: pookysgirl at February 12, 2016 09:43 AM (K27gs)

421 420
I think I saw that the bomber was on fire and screaming before he got sucked out of the jet, VIA.
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 12, 2016 09:43 AM
~~~~
:-)

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:45 AM (E6RIJ)

422 384 I don't relish the idea of explaining VAT to someone who doesn't know who Kissinger is. They don't even dislike taxes in general. The Laffer curve needs re-branding because I bore people when I explain it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:26 AM (VdICR)

I explain the VAT in terms of salt. Imagine that you're making a gourmet dish. Every time you add an ingredient to the dish you also have to add a pinch of salt. Not a lot, just a pinch. By the time you're finished you've got a salty meal. That's the VAT: taxes and tax paperwork (salt) at every stage of manufacturing (cooking).

Posted by: joncelli, getting it out of his system at February 12, 2016 09:45 AM (RD7QR)

423 Hatchet Dude is reported to have been on the terrorist watch list prior to this fatal attack.


What a Co-Inkydink

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:45 AM (ptqRm)

424 Here in Colorado, where liquor sales are permitted under one owner in one store only, state-wide, Trader Joe's selected a posh Denver location for their first store, which has the wine and beer offering, and their Boulder store cannot carry any wine or beer.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2016 09:32 AM (U6f54)

What a bizarre law.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:45 AM (u0lmX)

425 Okay, so don't put a nose in your smiley face.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:46 AM (E6RIJ)

426 364 What would Trump do in a "debate" situation like that hosted by PBS last night?

In the general election runup, he won't be leading in polls by double digits, so he will not be able to smugly roll out his poll lines.

Would he be prepared to call her out on her lying, her Goldman Sachs issues, Benghazi, the email biz, her Clinton foundation scams, and her unlikeability?

Would he challenge her claims about accomplishments, citing State failures, her health insurance no-go, her Whitewater thing, cattle futures, and the biggie, her womans' stand, in light of Bill's bimbos and her destruction of same?

Does he have the chops, the verbal acuity, to do all this in an open-debate format such as PBS let go on last night?

Cruz sure would. But could Teh Donald?

And the bigger question. Would PBS allow a savaging like that to happen, or would they act to circle the wagons?

Posted by: the littl shyning man

Cruz wouldn't touch the sexism/women's issue. Trump would cleanse her clock in that forum. If the RNC allows a debate on PBS they should have their clock cleansed as well.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 12, 2016 09:46 AM (kfcYC)

427 423 Those "watch lists" are real useful ain't they?

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:46 AM (B48dK)

428 >>I can't get over how happy all of the employees at Trader Joe's always seem to be.

I sure wish there was one within 3 hours of here.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 12, 2016 09:46 AM (nXeSu)

429 "I think I saw that the bomber was on fire and screaming before he got sucked out of the jet, VIA."

I do soooo love a happy ending.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:47 AM (ptqRm)

430 "What a pain in the ass!"


Does this not describe everything that goes on in L.A.?


Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 12, 2016 09:42 AM


Well, San Francisco, certainly...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2016 09:48 AM (bzd8I)

431 430 Probably an underwear bomb that had time to work.Remember the other idiot got third degree burns on his junk as well as a good beating from the passengers who put him out.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 09:49 AM (B48dK)

432 @419
Trader Joe's employees get to have wine tasting meetings so they are able to properly recommend their various wines to the customers. They get paid for the wine tasting too. Any job where you can get paid to drink wine is bound to make you happy and cheerful.

Posted by: Beer Ninja at February 12, 2016 09:49 AM (KBjNt)

433 Well, so much for Mr. Mirror Universe. Silent banhammer I guess.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 09:50 AM (E6RIJ)

434 406
Christ again.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2016 09:34 AM (mw8Dm)

the second coming? i'm not ready!!11

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 09:51 AM (0O7c5)

435
Hillary did "win" a debate with Lazio. By standing there looking female

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2016 09:27 AM (6FqZa)

That must have been a real challenge for both her and the makeup artist.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:51 AM (u0lmX)

436 Whole Foods was supposed to open ages ago and still hasn't.

Just found an article about how other local stores increased their organic sections in anticipation of WF opening. And now they've had months to sell it to foo--people who like that stuff.

I never see anyone picking up anything from the organic section of my new Kroger. I giggle every time when the produce section is busy except for that one part...

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 12, 2016 09:51 AM (nXeSu)

437 119
Surprise surprise. The MFM has declared Hillary the big winner of last night's debate. Not only that but last night was her best ever. Of course the previous one was her best ever and the one before that... Do Bernie's SJWs realize that no matter what he does or wins he's not going to win? The powers that be will schlong him

Posted by: TheQuietMan

I think its best if their disappointment and rage are as fresh as possible in November to exact their ballot-box revenge against the scumqueen and her superdelegate drones who screwed over the one candidate as naive as they are.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 12, 2016 09:52 AM (kfcYC)

438 shout out to ginasw........got your email.....big hugs!!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 09:52 AM (0O7c5)

439 "Whole Foods was supposed to open ages ago and still hasn't. "

We have a huge downtown re-development project in the works, anchored by one of the new, ginormous Whole Food stores.


If that deal falls through, the entire re-development project becomes jeopardized .

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:54 AM (ptqRm)

440 I like to get cheese and wine there, although the
"Two Buck Chuck" is a bit too cheap for me. You spend $12 on a bottle
of wine at TJ and you feel like you're buying top shelf and at Whole
Foods that's the cheap stuff.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 09:42 AM (u0lmX)


If you are in the west you might want to look up the sommelier at Grocery Outlet.

Way back when, when it was still Canned Food Warehouse (after it was Rainbow Foods), they'd get a shipment of wine in, and the local enophiles would come in, buy one of everything, take them out to their cars, taste taste them in the parking lot, and come back for a case of anything that was good.

The best I ever did was buy 10 gallons of port for $10.00. The worst my dad ever did was buying 5 bottles of Algerian wine. (I say you shouldn't bother buying wine with arabic on the label, personally)

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

441 Damn. TBH3K is quick

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 09:56 AM (mEZce)

442 Show of hands.....


Who has seen the Whole Foods tie-in throughout this season of South Park?

The entire season is a must watch, but the first five or six episodes are dead-on skewering of the entire SJW/Yuppy crowd.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 09:56 AM (ptqRm)

443 the Frenchies used to doctor their red wine with Algerian red wine during lean vintages and not tell anybody

probably still do, some of them

Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 09:57 AM (qAmr7)

444 Because I probably won't be around for the Art Thread-"A Hoy Land Moments" devotional from the Jewish tradition-"Remembering Our Purpose"

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zj9lxoq

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 09:57 AM (w4NZ8)

445 How the hell do you get "sucked out" of a plane at 12,000 feet?
Bernoulli's Principle? Annular flow?
Regardless of what the ONT says, there's a difference between suck and blow.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 12, 2016 09:57 AM (xq1UY)

446 VAT is incredibly subjective in practice. That hole that gets stamped into the US manufactured whatever, is that a thing or not a thing? 90% of every step of every innovation could be argued as VAT or not VAT. Which way will that shake out for the politically connected? Every politician rakes in corrupt money from a bidding war between Widgets Inc and Dingus & Sons.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:58 AM (VdICR)

447 I sure wish there was one within 3 hours of here.
Posted by: Mama AJ at February 12, 2016 09:46 AM


We have one a half-hour away, but I went only once. TJ's seems to source a lot of their products locally, and the Danvers (MA) store was lacking a lot of the tasty stuff I used to get in CA. That was especially true of baked goods.

That said, my experience in CA was that TJ's was reasonably priced and full of quality stuff. Good booze, too (not so much the Two-Buck Chuck, but they had a nice variety of Scotch). And, as mentioned by others, the employees were happy and helpful.

Posted by: MrScribbler at February 12, 2016 09:58 AM (iW5Mq)

448 364 What would Trump do in a "debate" situation like that hosted by PBS last night?

In the general election runup, he won't be leading in polls by double digits, so he will not be able to smugly roll out his poll lines.

Would he be prepared to call her out on her lying, her Goldman Sachs issues, Benghazi, the email biz, her Clinton foundation scams, and her unlikeability?

Would he challenge her claims about accomplishments, citing State failures, her health insurance no-go, her Whitewater thing, cattle futures, and the biggie, her womans' stand, in light of Bill's bimbos and her destruction of same?

Does he have the chops, the verbal acuity, to do all this in an open-debate format such as PBS let go on last night?

Cruz sure would. But could Teh Donald?

And the bigger question. Would PBS allow a savaging like that to happen, or would they act to circle the wagons?
Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2016 09:19 AM (U6f54)

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

I does all that at his rallies and interviews so I'm sure he'd do in a debate.

As regards Cruz debate skills, fat lot of good it has done him. I think out of all the debates he maybe won two of them. And I don't think any debate gave him a knock out performance to raise his poll numbers.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at February 12, 2016 09:59 AM (LXJ1e)

449 "How the hell do you get "sucked out" of a plane at 12,000 feet?
Bernoulli's Principle? Annular flow?"




Fine...

The suspect departed the aircraft at approximately 12,000 foot.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 10:00 AM (ptqRm)

450 Wow, WF construction started in Oct. 2014.

Scheduled to open in Oct. '15.

Now they say they will open this fall and are blaming the weather.

Uh huh.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 12, 2016 10:00 AM (nXeSu)

451 I think its best if their disappointment and rage are as fresh as possible in November to exact their ballot-box revenge against the scumqueen and her superdelegate drones who screwed over the one candidate as naive as they are.


Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 12, 2016 09:52 AM (kfcYC)

Oh, silent seething is for conservatives. I think the lefties might make the 2016 Dem convention look like the 1968 one. We all know how peaceful and calm leftists are when they don't get their way.

If I owned a small business in Philly anywhere near the convention site, I'd take out extra insurance.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 10:00 AM (u0lmX)

452 As regards Cruz debate skills, fat lot of good it
has done him. I think out of all the debates he maybe won two of them.
And I don't think any debate gave him a knock out performance to raise
his poll numbers.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at February 12, 2016 09:59 AM
~~~~
To be fair, they really haven't had any "debates" yet. More like three-ring circuses. When it comes down to Dem vs. Rep, I think it will be very different.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 10:00 AM (E6RIJ)

453 I had all the illusions everything was ok: Mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold gives her first-ever TV interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer


============
How could she not? Werent there indications in their rooms which the parents never bothered to check? I dont believe in snooping on your kids if there is no reason but these kids gave plenty of reasons.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 12, 2016 10:01 AM (iQIUe)

454 Hello, Friday. How you doin'?


****

I came to watch yer coffee brewing.
Ain'tcha got no rhymes fer me.
Doot-n-da-doo-doo
Feelin' Groovy.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 10:01 AM (NeFrd)

455
VAT is incredibly subjective in practice.

And they wonder why their economy isn't competitive...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 12, 2016 10:01 AM (LUgeY)

456 I didn't believe it but Cruz's plan does include a VAT. Is he crazy?

Posted by: Make America Great Again at February 12, 2016 10:01 AM (LXJ1e)

457 And a short video, "Into this darkness" from "Our Daily Bread" devotionals:

http://odb.org/video/into-this-darkness/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2016 10:02 AM (w4NZ8)

458 YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!


http://tinyurl.com/hjv3xsj


Lena Dunham Doesn't Want To See Herself Naked Anymore
----


'Now, for better or worse, when I take my clothes off, I already can hear the din of the reaction. Part of getting older for me has actually been feeling more modest. Unfortunately, Hannah Horvath doesn't always allow for that. I hope to reprise some of her nudity in this final season with vigor.'


NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 12, 2016 10:02 AM (mEZce)

459 446 VAT is incredibly subjective in practice. That hole that gets stamped into the US manufactured whatever, is that a thing or not a thing? 90% of every step of every innovation could be argued as VAT or not VAT. Which way will that shake out for the politically connected? Every politician rakes in corrupt money from a bidding war between Widgets Inc and Dingus & Sons.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 09:58 AM (VdICR)

Which is why politicians love it and actual businesspeople hate it. The compliance costs are insane. Meanwhile, politicians and regulators rake in the baksheesh and make ideological decisions about winners and losers while small businesses give up because they can't afford to keep up with compliance.

Posted by: joncelli, getting it out of his system at February 12, 2016 10:02 AM (RD7QR)

460 The Apocalypse is unavoidable.

-
And Hillary! is inevitable.

Need I mention death and taxes?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 10:03 AM (Nwg0u)

461 Whole Foods has its share of numbskull SJW types with braids tattoos and Bernie stickers on their Kia's outside, but dammit some of their stuff is miles better tasting than the bullshit at the local associated grocers place

I buy everywhere I can get good stuff, mostly from area farmers, some from big box grocery and home, and some from specialty places like WF and a really great mom and pop Italian place nearby

there's too much indignant pompousing on both sides of the food aisle debate

buy the best-tasting stuff you can afford, don't fall for marketing BS, support good people when you can, and leave the whinging to puritanical types who are best left in their corner with their crap tomatoes or specialty kale

Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 10:03 AM (qAmr7)

462 (I say you shouldn't bother buying wine with arabic on the label, personally)


Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 09:55 AM (q2o3


Same holds true of bacon.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 10:04 AM (u0lmX)

463 " "How the hell do you get "sucked out" of a plane at 12,000 feet? "

Could be just fell out after the blast. Damaged his seat, etc.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 10:04 AM (9ym/8)

464 nwfront99: Has anyone ever determined for sure what constitutes an "old" post that commenting on would cause a ban? I don't want this IP to get banned but I often read the comments up to a day after they are posted.

Don't know how old is "old," but I think Krebs's take on it above (~40 is good all around. I've wondered if it's age or how long since it's been active. A book thread recently spilled over into the following morning, presumably without anyone getting canned.

But as Krebs noted, you probably won't have anyone read a comment placed on a thread that has been inactive a while.

And as said, reading anything won't get you banned.

Posted by: mindful webworker - technically squeaking at February 12, 2016 10:04 AM (Q1QrS)

465 >>The entire season is a must watch, but the first five or six episodes are dead-on skewering of the entire SJW/Yuppy crowd.


Heh, we loved the whole SODA SOPA vs. CT PA ( "sh$tty part") neighborhoods stuff.

Re: Somali plane bomber - thought I read that the bomb was in a laptop, and it exploded early (during takeoff, so not high enough to destroy entire plane?) so it blew a hole in the side of the plane and the bomber was sucked out.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 10:04 AM (NOIQH)

466 >>>436
I never see anyone picking up anything from the organic section of my new Kroger. I giggle every time when the produce section is busy except for that one part...
Posted by: Mama AJ at February 12, 2016 09:51 AM (nXeSu)

------

It's been incredibly freeing for me to learn that organic has little or no advantage over traditional. I shop from both sections, just buying the most attractive produce. Got some gorgeous organic beets with greens recently.

The only true organic produce I eat is the stuff the deer, squirrels, pill bugs, and snails leave for me in my garden.

Posted by: Emmie at February 12, 2016 10:04 AM (ezXrF)

467 I didn't believe it but Cruz's plan does include a VAT. Is he crazy?
Posted by: Make America Great Again at February 12, 2016 10:01 AM (LXJ1e)


Maybe if you define a VAT in how you are using it I might believe you.

Otherwise I just put that comment into the "It's gonna be classy" category.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 10:05 AM (q2o38)

468 Guess my palate just isn't as refined.

So Kroger it is.

Posted by: Irony at February 12, 2016 10:05 AM (BHaRb)

469 Who the hell pays 950 bucks for butt ugly sneakers?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 12, 2016 10:07 AM (iQIUe)

470 461 Whole Foods has its share of numbskull SJW types with braids tattoos and Bernie stickers on their Kia's outside, but dammit some of their stuff is miles better tasting than the bullshit at the local associated grocers place"

Trader Joes is where I buy stuff like cheddar and feta and Edam and Monterey Jack cheese because it's such a good deal there (and they have stuff like cheddar with carmelized onions. Yum!)

But if you want a much wider variety of domestic and imported and like the stinky kind (like Ace's beloved Epoisses), you go to WF, where it is pretty spendy, even if it's on sale.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 10:09 AM (u0lmX)

471 "buy the best-tasting stuff you can afford, don't fall for marketing BS, support good people when you can, and leave the whinging to puritanical types who are best left in their corner with their crap tomatoes or specialty kale"
Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 10:03 AM (qAmr7)


I agree. Whole Foods has a contract with some hippy farm that supplies chicken and although it's double the price of a regular store, it's worth it.

Posted by: jwest at February 12, 2016 10:09 AM (Zs4uk)

472 "organic has little or no advantage over traditional"

nutritionally true, but traditional? you mean "industrial"

I want to support entrepreneurs who make tasty stuff

garlic, for instance. the garlic at the big grocery is meh. the twin boy farmers who grow "organic" up the road grow different varieties of garlic, all of which are tastier

easy call

Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 10:09 AM (qAmr7)

473 Has anyone ever determined for sure what constitutes an "old" post that commenting on would cause a ban?

*****


If you look at threads from a few weeks ago in the "Posted by: Ace" line of the post the word "Comments" changes to "Access Comments". I always presumed this was the "No Go" signal. Not that I ever tested that theory.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 10:09 AM (NeFrd)

474 The Colorado liquor sales one-store-only thing sounds bizarre, but if you move here from elsewhere where liquor sales are pretty free-form, you don't notice the details at first.

They permit grocery stores and convenience stores to sell beer, but until you read the fine print, you presume it is the same beer as sold in the liquor stores. It ain't. It's 3.2 beer. Only the liquor stores can sell "high" beer.

What surprised me was finding how many beer makers make a 3.2 version for places like Colorado.

The single-store thing means that every wine and spirits store, and they just about all have signage that says, "wine and spirits," are single-location, single-owners stores. No one can own a multi-location wine and liquor business. Every single shopping plaza that includes a grocery supermarket also has a wine and spirits storefront, and they are close by the big box.

Each of the major supermarket chains has one store only, where they offer the full menu of beer and some wines. Likewise for Costco, and the big chains that choose to have one store with booze locate those stores near the wealth. The rest of the Sam's Clubs and Costcos have beer and wine and booze sold either inside, as store-within-a-store (owned singly and separately), or just outside the big entrance, inside the same building, but with a separate entrance.

Interestingly, Whole Foods chose their Boulder store as the one which has booze.

Colorado is a one-city state, and by that I mean that outside the Denver-Boulder metroplex, the rest of the cities and towns are small outliers, and thus none of those other places have booze inside the big boxes.

There is talk of change, driven by the need for consumer convenience, but like all things that relate to liquor sales, there are factions of resistance. Here it is all driven by the lobby of small biz owners that sell booze from those one-location small stores.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 12, 2016 10:10 AM (U6f54)

475 @463 Maybe he was pushed. I'm going to prefer to think that. I like it.

In other news, Ford will introduce four new SUV's in the next four years, including bringing back the Bronco. Looks like poor timing on Nugent's part: he could have finally become Bob Seger. What a yacht race that would make.

Of course, Henry Ford was a noted anti-semite, back in the day. Maybe Nugent hasn't followed recent history there, and he's angling for a shot?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at February 12, 2016 10:10 AM (xq1UY)

476 I don't understand the organic craze at all. Seems to me that scientists spent decades figuring out exactly what it was in crap that fertilized plants. Then they set out to isolate those elements so that farmers could enhance the soil without covering everything in sh!t and sickening people with e-coli.

Now all these knuckleheads want to pay $6 for a poopy-head of lettuce.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 10:10 AM (E6RIJ)

477 The pathetic local "newspaper" ran an article yesterday on Vermin Supreme's showing in the NH primary (dude should have run as a Republican...his 225 votes would have frightened a few Big-Name Candidates).

Not a terribly interesting story, except that ol' Verm apparently crashed a Chris Christie event and demanded that Krispy take a stand on the Free Ponies issue. The Big Guy apparently wasn't amused, which led Vermin to brand him a "pony-hater."

Now we know why Christie gave up. Pony-haters never prosper!

Posted by: MrScribbler at February 12, 2016 10:11 AM (iW5Mq)

478 "it's worth it"

to you, jwest

I get that there are people on fixed incomes who can't justify the cost, and that's fine. Tyson will do, and there's no shame in that.

my Orthodox Jewish neighbors raise their own chickens -- you should smell their living room at supper-time -- absolutely glorious

Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 10:11 AM (qAmr7)

479 The 1 mile Japanese tower:

So, you know, if you build a tower just 1 kilometer high, you can generate a steady 40kph wind updraft; chimney effect.

Solar towers or something like that, they call 'em.

I need to talk to Trump.

Station a bunch of those along the border--doubling as watchtowers--you get green energy cred, a border fence and electricity (to electrify the fence, natch).

Posted by: RoyalOil at February 12, 2016 10:11 AM (fQ/0p)

480 "including bringing back the Bronco"



Frigging. Sweet. Nobody builds anything like that anymore.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 10:12 AM (9ym/8)

481 "scientists spent decades figuring out exactly what it was in crap"

yeah, it's funny when you hold up an industrial green pepper to some pompy vegan and ask "what about this thing is 'inorganic'? they sputter

but of course "organic" refers to the conditions of production, not to the end product. an "organic" farm is one that minimizes or eliminates external inputs into its production process.

Posted by: Feh at February 12, 2016 10:14 AM (qAmr7)

482 I don't understand the organic craze at all. Seems to me that scientists spent decades figuring out exactly what it was in crap that fertilized plants. Then they set out to isolate those elements so that farmers could enhance the soil without covering everything in sh!t and sickening people with e-coli.

Now all these knuckleheads want to pay $6 for a poopy-head of lettuce.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2016 10:10 AM (E6RIJ)



There was a guy once. Name of Barnum, I believe. He had something to say about this sort of thing. Something about suckers and their money.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 12, 2016 10:14 AM (Dj0WE)

483 For a deranged maniac, MUMR is a surprisingly good speller.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 10:15 AM (NeFrd)

484 Debbie Wasserface Schmutz responds to superdelegates stealing the vote for Hillary!:

"Unpledged delegates exist, really, to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists," Wasserman Shultz said, adding that the Democratic Party "highlights inclusiveness and diversity at our convention" and wants to give activists "every opportunity" to participate, which she says it what the superdelegates are for.

Yeah, gotta keep the shoe clerks from inconveniencing the anointed but we'll throw 'em a bone of pretend influence.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 12, 2016 10:15 AM (Nwg0u)

485 Nood pitcher thread.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2016 10:15 AM (B48dK)

486 Trader Joe's carries a clear Balsamic vinegar which is outstanding on fresh salads.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 12, 2016 10:16 AM (ptqRm)

487 484 For a deranged maniac, MUMR is a surprisingly good speller.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 10:15 AM (NeFrd)

The voices in his head didn't start speaking to him until after elementary school English class.

Posted by: joncelli, getting it out of his system at February 12, 2016 10:16 AM (RD7QR)

488 Frigging. Sweet. Nobody builds anything like that anymore.

Sadly, new CAFE standards will make the New Bronco a piece of crap.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at February 12, 2016 10:16 AM (PFy0L)

489 Seamus Muldoon: Feelin' Groovy.

Heh - that's what I thought when I read the post, and I thought to extend some lyrics, but quickly forgot about it when I realized we were already hundreds of comments in. So, glad you took care of that!

I met Paul Simon once. In the "what I shoulda said" department, I thought that I should've said, "You know, there's not many people who can work 'gaberdeen suit' into lyrics."

Posted by: mindful webworker - and Mrs Wagner's pies at February 12, 2016 10:17 AM (Q1QrS)

490 >>What surprised me was finding how many beer makers make a 3.2 version for places like Colorado.



I would imagine that's also because in the olden days, the drinking law was 18 year olds could drink 3.2 beer, and had to wait until age 21 for the rest. It was great, because A] HS seniors could buy beer for parties, and B] you could get into bars at 18. Never noticed that they still used that difference in beer's alcohol content to determine where it can be sold.


Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2016 10:18 AM (NOIQH)

491 >>Station a bunch of those along the border

Isn't that called Carousel or something?

Posted by: JEM at February 12, 2016 10:18 AM (o+SC1)

492 >>Debbie Wasserface Schmutz responds

Big, big Kinsley gaffe in amongst the usual bafflegab.

Posted by: JEM at February 12, 2016 10:20 AM (o+SC1)

493 Funny how specialized my grocery shopping has become. I'll go to Whole Foods for certain things, Trader Joes for certain things I can't find elsewhere( they have a terrific garlic aoli mayonnaise I love, for instance) the local chain store (Pick n' Save) for most things, a megastore called Woodman's if I absolutely need something that the regular grocery doesn't have because Woodman's will probably have it.

Talk about first world issues. My mom went to one grocery store once a week and fed a family of 6 on that and, in the summer, on produce from our garden. I probably spend more time grocery shopping for just me than she did.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 10:23 AM (u0lmX)

494 478
The pathetic local "newspaper" ran an article yesterday on Vermin
Supreme's showing in the NH primary (dude should have run as a
Republican...his 225 votes would have frightened a few Big-Name
Candidates).

Not a terribly interesting story, except that ol'
Verm apparently crashed a Chris Christie event and demanded that Krispy
take a stand on the Free Ponies issue. The Big Guy apparently wasn't
amused, which led Vermin to brand him a "pony-hater."

Now we know why Christie gave up. Pony-haters never prosper!


Posted by: MrScribbler at February 12, 2016 10:11 AM (iW5Mq)
My Little Pony had the last laugh...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 12, 2016 10:24 AM (THSjq)

495 Posted by: joncelli, getting it out of his system at February 12, 2016 09:45 AM (RD7QR)

Excellent analogy, although I think the VAT is geometric not arithmetic. The "pinch" of salt you add each with each ingredient is proportional to the combined set of existing ingredients, which makes it even more pernicious than withholding on your salary.

Another VAT benefit for the political scum is that the consumer cannot figure out what the tax burden is on any specific purchase! But since it's all for the common good, that doesn't matter.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2016 10:25 AM (wYnyS)

496 The formulation "if X happens, then we're truly fucked" needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Too late. Much too late.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 12, 2016 10:26 AM (u5gzz)

497 Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 12, 2016 10:23 AM (u0lmX)


And I bet she fed her family of 6 on a weekly food budget that is about the same as your current individual food budget.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 12, 2016 10:27 AM (wYnyS)

498 New Cruz ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGWqKkzmJXwfeature=youtu.be


Posted by: redbanzai at February 12, 2016 10:34 AM (OrI3J)

499 This land was your land,
But now it's my land,
So get the fuck off,
And say goodbye, land

There'll be no cat-tle,
No tents nor A---TV's,
This land was grabbed
From you be me.

C'mon folks, sing it with me,
next verse, same as the first.....

Posted by: Your Benevolent Uncle Sam at February 12, 2016 10:40 AM (kKHcp)

500 420

I'd bet money that wherever he is now, he's still very warm.

Posted by: Master Fu at February 12, 2016 10:54 AM (7oglJ)

501 Hello darkness, my old friend

Posted by: P. Simon at February 12, 2016 11:54 AM (O4NI/)

502
473 Has anyone ever determined for sure what constitutes an "old" post that commenting on would cause a ban?
*****
If you look at threads from a few weeks ago in the "Posted by: Ace" line of the post the word "Comments" changes to "Access Comments". I always presumed this was the "No Go" signal. Not that I ever tested that theory.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 12, 2016 10:09 AM (NeFrd)


The "Comments" v "Access Comments" is not a signal of how active the comments thread has been. If you click on a link under "Recent Articles" at the left side of the main AoSHQ page, you are taken to the article and "Access Comments" appears at the bottom, even for the most current article.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 12, 2016 02:03 PM (BK3ZS)

503 No amount of help will make GRRM a good writer.

Posted by: gm at February 13, 2016 02:30 PM (YWSk9)

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