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Overnight Open Thread (3-16-2016)
Sometimes things come up.
Paris Massacre Suspect Shot Dead During Brussels Police Raid Yesterday
THEN WHO WAS PHONE: The HBO Slenderman Documentary
40 Highfalutin H-Words To Heighten Your Vocabulary
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:26 PM (jCnQn)
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:26 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (lRwmz)
Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: pilot141 at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (W4wsw)
Posted by: Josephistan at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (lRwmz)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Jake (not officially a regular) at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (e3LFu)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (ZYjbh)
Wait....low double digit comments on the ONT?!
*tip toes around until safety is assured
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (voOPb)
Thanks, Maet!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (McRlu)
1876 Presidential Election Results
Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes 185 Electoral Popular Vote 4,033,497
Democratic - Samuel J. Tilden 184 Electoral Popular Vote 4,288,191
Nothing like a photo finish in the electoral college.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 10:31 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Dimpled Chad at March 16, 2016 10:32 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:32 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (wMHCu)
*Then*, like Americans on Cinco de Mayo, we get drunk.
But, y'know, Irish drunk, unlike those Mexicans, who are the other great Roman Catholic contributors to American insobriety.
In honor of Dickie.
Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Tyler Mason at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (t/2s7)
Pity he never saw that volcano coming.
Posted by: hebdomad humpday at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (vC3VP)
So what are they doing? They're buying gold with some and parking the rest in foreign currencies *that do not have a negative interest rate*. I wonder if the economic central planning wizards of smart have fully thought through the consequences of causing a flight from their own currencies.
Now, if the Fed goes NIRP, then dollars won't be an option for these guys either and they'll move to something else.
Oh, what is a reinsurer you ask? Basically, it's insurance for insurance companies. There is what is known as tail risk, the low probability of having a bunch of claims occur at once in some event. They purchase insurance themselves for such a tail risk.
Which leads to "tail of the tail" risk. What happens if everybody has a tail event? That is an even more vanishingly small probability. But not zero. Govts would step if it wasn't too big. If too big even for govts, well, we're talking some serious biblical shit here.
Anyway, the Kraut reinsurer realizes that NIRP has very negative consequence for it tail risk exposure.
Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes 185 Electoral Popular Vote 4,033,497
Democratic - Samuel J. Tilden 184 Electoral Popular Vote 4,288,191
Nothing like a photo finish in the electoral college.
Posted by: Blano
****
Only answer: Thunderdome
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: iforgot at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 10:35 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Greg at March 16, 2016 10:36 PM (M1lTk)
Posted by: iforgot
****
Baby watchers? Well that explains the talcum powder and poop smell.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:36 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
****
They are not either thinking or leading. They are reacting, which is berry, berry much bad. Because they are the ones who are supposed to be leading.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (YLidQ)
Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius
Janet delayed a planned interest rate hike here.
Wonder what will happen for the rest of the year?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (FkBIv)
We're being spoiled by good news threads!
Posted by: t-bird at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (Z58Xa)
interest rate from -0.3% to -0.4%. Some big German outfit, one of the
biggest reinsurers in the world, has reacted. Remember the problem of
firms with huge amounts of money trying to convert to cash. It's just
physically impossible to do.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
Hookers and blow. It is the only way.
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Josephistan at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (7qAYi)
My migraine backed off with some fresh air and the coffee bean ice blended & mega aspirin dose treatment. So happyish?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (k53nK)
I, for one, am not worried about negative interest rates, since I don't own any bonds that pay a negative rate of return.
For those who do.......hahahahahahahahah. Sucks to be you.
Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (jCnQn)
Wonder what will happen for the rest of the year?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (FkBIv)
****
The Fed is apparently good with having a figurative gun with no ammo.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2016 10:40 PM (YJmuy)
Oh please. They sent in Van Damme. He did the splits which made the terrorist double over and grab his junk, then Claude kicked the terrorist's head into another zip code.
It's not like they can tell you truth about what happened, so the terrorist was "shot" to death.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:40 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)
Sarah Palin in Tina Turner's role?
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (GzDYP)
For those who do.......hahahahahahahahah. Sucks to be you.
Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (jCnQn)
****
You will not be laughing when every other type of account you own follows suit. And they all will.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (T78UI)
***
I suggest adding gin to the list. There's no better way to dissipate the taste of cigarettes and hooker spit.
Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (1xUj/)
They look like they have the skills to win big!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: OldDominionMom
****
Or S.E. Cupp if all you want is eye candy.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hVdx9)
hahahahahhahaha... you presume I have accounts.
hahahahahaahahahaha
You funny guy.
Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (jCnQn)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (RcpcZ)
Emergency operation. They said I was very close to dying. (I'd been fighting the infection it for weeks not realizing I was getting worse but with no money to even see a GP, I had to hope for my body to provide the cure didn't know the stone was stuck though.
And no. No bright lights or relatives calling me home or anything. The tsunami cheered me up though as I realized there were people in the world worse off than me.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (ubByS)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (RcpcZ)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179307184889857
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179481047146497
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179665760161795
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179832185933824
Posted by: kbdabear at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (cSnXm)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)
I would think more along the lines of "Bumfight".
Posted by: Bill H at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (pAH7H)
Those accounts are usually more than 5-6 figures.
Generally they don't do that to those with smaller accounts.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (RcpcZ)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (ioqGj)
you presume I have accounts.
hahahahahaahahahaha
You funny guy.
Posted by: Leon James
A no account guy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (FkBIv)
thought through the consequences of causing a flight from their own
currencies."
Or if they even have the capacity for such thinking.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (noWW6)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179981050126336
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180138059735041
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180274013872128
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180371179167744
Posted by: kbdabear at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (cSnXm)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)
Southern comfort. I puked like a champ
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (ioqGj)
I'm thinking more of her in some Slut Warrior Princess get-up, screaming like a banshee.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hVdx9)
Heh. Well, if all I want is eye candy I could go with Mr. Dude Palin.
After he heals up, of course.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (GzDYP)
"An" means "The"
"Poc" means "Billygoat"
"ar" means "on"
"Buile" means "Rampage".
That is all. And, I'm sure, of no interest to most.
It's from an old rebel song.
So, please, call me "Poc" when time or space press.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (RcpcZ)
I'm thinking more of her in some Slut Warrior Princess get-up, screaming like a banshee.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
We've found our new Xena!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Bill H
****
You think so small.
Go big or go home. Make it Pay-Per-Screw, have ultra slow mo, ads for various edged weapons used in the "Dome", sell bits of the bloody clothing from the "contestants", and maybe even limited edition death masks of the losers.
The sky is the limit here!
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (jCnQn)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)
Small problem of perspective, it is the hairspray that smells of gin.
Now the gin is good and the hairspray should make you want to pour a gin and tonic.
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)
***
I have the same reaction to poitin.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Bill H at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (pAH7H)
Posted by: publius
****
I like the way you think.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (hVdx9)
But for some reason there's not much dialogue.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (ioqGj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)
I forget what they were called but you put gin, Sprite, and a dash of grape juice in a glass and slam it so the carbonation takes away the burn.
Hacked in the street. So happily it was there when we woke up. 6'+ in diameter.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at March 16, 2016 10:54 PM (7FH+T)
But for some reason there's not much dialogue.
Posted by: andycanuck
****
My now elderly aunt, Debbie, raved about her time in Dallas.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (7FH+T)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (Xo1Rt)
***
Back in the day I stepped in a spiked booby trap and almost bled out. My last memories were of Souza-type music.
I got bettah.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (RcpcZ)
I've had better tasting cough syrup.
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (/WPPJ)
Small problem of perspective, it is the hairspray that smells of gin.
Now the gin is good and the hairspray should make you want to pour a gin and tonic.
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (T78UI)
Nah, I tried the same mind game with crack and snowflake cookies. Didn't work.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (hlMPp)
But bath salt is still just bath salt, right?
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (GzDYP)
March Madness Tournament Pool for the HQ. It is on Yahoo.
http://tinyurl.com/zff8qfc is the link
AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool
Password is Kaboom.
Picks need to be in by tomorrow 12:15 Eastern time.
Working on getting prizes that include Lifetime Supply of Kaboom Cereal, and early access preview of the All Yoko Ono ONT.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:00 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (ioqGj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (voOPb)
I may have to go kill him.
With an entrenching tool.
Hiya doin' there, Dickie?
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, just being Muldoon at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (NeFrd)
Back in my carefree college days, some of us went on a little Caribbean cruise. Jim Beam was smuggled onboard in pretty good quantities. It's a wonder I'm still alive.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:02 PM (dvuhZ)
With an entrenching tool.
Hiya doin' there, Dickie?
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile
****
I'd love to see that on You Tube.
Yes I have issues.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (ntObR)
Random association, etc.
Oh, and "Dickie."
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:04 PM (1zS3A)
No yet. Probably another 100 or so comments before the angry times get here.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Yada, yada, yada.... at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (WVsWD)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (Sqwro)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (ucDmr)
college debt. He's been active in conservative campus groups-and as a
result has some political connections that might be useful.
He's been talking about maybe getting a gig with Texas Right To Life.
Posted by: annoyinglittletwerp at March 16, 2016 09:21 PM (yBKiN)
Sounds like he's going places and doing useful things. You done good as a parent.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 16, 2016 09:26 PM
Posted by: Farmer at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (o/90i)
Random association, etc.
Oh, and "Dickie."
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile
****
Well, he wanted to go Nork. Now he gets the full experience.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (voOPb)
"I swear it must have been some bad seafood I ate last night"
*wonder if everyone knew I hate seafood.... Besides shrimp and scallop and clams and lobster
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (hlMPp)
We scare deer away with bottle rockets. Want one?
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (GzDYP)
Yeah, the fancy term is "disassociative reaction". I got the flu for a
week after eating my mom's meatloaf as a preteen and I couldn't eat it
again until my forties.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (ioqGj)
Went to my cousin's birthday party when I was about six. On the way home (the aunt was well known for light meals), stopped off at Der Wienerschnitzel. Got the stomach flu and puked for three days. Haven't had a hot dog since -- no ballpark franks, no kosher all-beef, nada.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:07 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:08 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (ucDmr)
----
You could electrocute an elephant live on stage!
Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (ioqGj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (GzDYP)
***
Thanks, but I prefer to let the rage build 'til I do something irrational.
BTW, back in the day, I went to school at Christopher Newport College *and* Old Dominion University.
I really enjoyed Virginia. Mind you, I was hop, skip, and jump away from Fort Monroe and the Yorktown Peninsula. It doesn't really get an better for a history buff.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (1zS3A)
I'm just glad they still let you keep your own ideas to profit off of....
Posted by: Zombie Robert Heinlein at March 16, 2016 11:11 PM (J3UIw)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:11 PM (uBSn/)
Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)
117: smart. i have not had a hot dog for years. pig lips and shit.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (ucDmr)
Yeah, but.....I've been to Nathan's at Coney Island -- I just didn't eat anything.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (EzgxV)
Oh, and watch out for the guy with the entrenching tool. I'm betting he knows how to use it and he's not in the best of moods.
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ucDmr)
124
Hey everybody.
Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)
Yeah......durned shame about that.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:13 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:13 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:14 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:14 PM (ntObR)
First Phil, then Malcolm and now Brian, not much good news from AC/DC these days.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (Sqwro)
"Ex-Flint Emergency Manager says he relied on experts in water crisis."
Experts at what?
Posted by: KT at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qahv/)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:17 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (Sqwro)
***
'ow many of their drummers have exploded?
Posted by: David St. Hubbins at March 16, 2016 11:17 PM (1zS3A)
Not as long as I can find schoolboy britches that fit, mate!
Posted by: Angus Young at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)
I forget what they were called but you put gin, Sprite, and a dash of grape juice in a glass and slam it so the carbonation takes away the burn.
Hacked in the street. So happily it was there when we woke up. 6'+ in diameter.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (hlMPp)
***
My own favorite is something I call the Balkan Express:
In a highball glass, equal parts:
Slivovitz
Absinthe
A dash of bitters, then top up with ginger ale.
It's a wonderful drunk it gives one, but the old lemon is apt to be a bit foggy the next morning.
Mind-bending, and with an
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (ucDmr)
"Oh, NOTHING will happen to lil' ol' special snowflake me!! Besides, I'm an American!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (ntObR)
I wish the rest of the state would push NOVA out and into DC where it really belongs.
But the way the calmly eating all of my plants deer jump straight up, legs going everywhere and freak out before they run like hell is pretty funny.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (GzDYP)
Also the tv show Supernatural (on Netflix) is awesome. Like X-Files but not as lame. Fight the fairies, vamps, zombies, angels. demons, the king of hell, Lucifer, wenbago's, werewolfe's, etc. They hunt monsters with guns, .45, 9 mm etc. it's pretty good.
A show where good beats evil. Kinda rare nowadays....
Posted by: prophet of the Elysian Fields at the end of Group W bench at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (KIJKy)
Bad horde
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:19 PM (uBSn/)
I have one as well. My last surgeries I was in the hospital for 10 days. I vomited all day and night. I can't even smell chicken or beef broth without gagging. I haven't had soup since.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 16, 2016 11:19 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)
***
Ivy league colleges. Relative thing. Etc.
I await the tell-all book.
Actually, he'll likely be traded back to the US in a couple of years for a few kilos of yellowcake.
Because that's how we roll, these days.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: prophet of the Elysian Fields at the end of Group W bench at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (KIJKy)
We have started streaming supernatural. I like it. It does remind me of the x-files.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)
I was 5. Probably had some pain mess in me but yeah, at the very least 2 1/2. I think I buckled under tha 3rd. I remember dropping the jar and then just getting sick.
Hey! I was transitioning from an 'outie' to an 'innie'
I needed the support
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ben at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (u9wGx)
Posted by: Hank at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (B7DEG)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (voOPb)
Working on getting prizes that include Lifetime Supply of Kaboom Cereal, and early access preview of the All Yoko Ono ONT.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:00 PM (zt+N6)
Every time I try to go in it says "unable to find site's URL to connect to."
Have tried 4 or 5 times.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (3eoPa)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ucDmr)
One of my favs
Could t agree with you more
I have all his LPs
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (voOPb)
I needed the support
Yikes...Butterscotch vomit.
Where do you even begin to clean that up?
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (qUNWi)
But can't remember what happened last week.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (ntObR)
===============================
Nobody has thought this shit through. And nobody wants to 'talk' about it.
Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (aUQgu)
Assuming he survives, he'll be a hipster god.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (voOPb)
Any word on Todd's condition?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)
***
My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.
Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.
But I *honed* it.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (qUNWi)
I was 5. I had staff at that time
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)
Some "brilliant" leftist "economist" probably came up with this scheme and couched it in all the terms that lefties eat up and sold that thing hook, line and sinker.
And if the reinsurers go tits up, you have 2008 all over again.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (ucDmr)
Well, as bad things are here, they're not *quite* as bad as in Brazil, but they're close:
From the International Spectator-
Brazil
- Worst recession in decades
- Largest ever anti-govt protests
- President facing impeachment
- Zika virus
- Olympics in August
Posted by: Thrawn at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (s87AC)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (uBSn/)
Is that the one qdp?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (voOPb)
The problem with it is when the food is not the actual cause of the violent sickness. It still kicks in. It's a problem for people getting treatments that cause nausea. They can develop the aversion to normal foods they were eating.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1JnAL)
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is big into reinsurance.
Would love to see those suckers get hit with multiple calamities at once.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (3eoPa)
"An" means "The"
"Poc" means "Billygoat"
"ar" means "on"
"Buile" means "Rampage".
That is all. And, I'm sure, of no interest to most.
It's from an old rebel song.
So, please, call me "Poc" when time or space press.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (1zS3A)
Thanks, Poc. Got to admit I was wondering, myself. My nic should be self-explanatory: a peon in the oil industry in Alberta, kind of an ironic riff on the common term "Oil Baron".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (/i7Ua)
Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)
Heard he got a footlong from Reuben.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (qUNWi)
Would love to see those suckers get hit with multiple calamities at once.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (3eoPa)
****
Sadly, no you wouldn't. You would end up paying to keep them whole.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (kgqJX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Farmer at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2016 11:31 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)
Kim Jong is a grotesque zeta male, the Michael Moore of Communist dictators. Why he hasn't been toppled yet I'm assuming is due to oriental customs regarding respect of authority figures.
Posted by: angela urkel at March 16, 2016 11:31 PM (TJbU1)
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:32 PM (YLidQ)
News on my radio (I haven't looked it up further) said he had a broken shoulder and ribs and punctured lung, which would have put him in endangered status at first, but now upgraded.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:32 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)
***
My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.
Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.
But I *honed* it.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)
***
Good man!
I recall, after a session of what we in my family call "therapy," that involved a handle of Jameson brought to bear on a broken heart, waking in an ER, with some smart-ass doctor or something saying to me, "Welcome back."
Since then, no more Irish whiskey - it's too smooth, too seductive - it's the woman at the end of the bar who will not only wreck your life, but will leave you longing for the sweet release of death when she leaves you.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (6FqZa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zezhdw_dNlU
Very interesting.
Posted by: eleven>>>
The concept of Ideological lens is misnamed IMO. When I hear lens I think photography. A better word would be ideological filter. The point being made is good just the filter to make the image the right color for ones personal ideology makes more sense to me. I suppose as with most things leftist they picked the word lens to better hide the fact they are lying when applying it to a subject. Filter would imply a real change to how one is viewing things.
Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (On7rW)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)
***
My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.
Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.
But I *honed* it.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)
***
Good man!
I recall, after a session of what we in my family call "therapy," that involved a handle of Jameson brought to bear on a broken heart, waking in an ER, with some smart-ass doctor or something saying to me, "Welcome back."
Since then, no more Irish whiskey - it's too smooth, too seductive - it's the woman at the end of the bar who will not only wreck your life, but will leave you longing for the sweet release of death when she goes.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (VdICR)
Every time I try to go in it says "unable to find site's URL to connect to."
Have tried 4 or 5 times.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (3eoPa)
Works for me. You can also find it by going to yahoo sports and choosing to join.
AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool is the name.
Password is Kaboom
Posted by: buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (VdICR)
Sadly, no you wouldn't. You would end up paying to keep them whole.
Posted by: Tim in GA
It's good to be the king of too big to fail.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (FkBIv)
----------------
My every experience with Old Bushmill's has ended badly.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (YLidQ)
You may be right, but would still love that left wing shitstain to eat some crow.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (3eoPa)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (FkBIv)
****
Yup. This is where we are now.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (On7rW)
Willy...have you seen this before?
I never have before tonight. It's intriguing, but I don't know what it is.
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (qUNWi)
"Investigation launched after video appears to show man urinating on Kellogg's food"
http://tinyurl.com/h4z4dun
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (uBSn/)
***
Ah. So you've met my wife.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (3eoPa)
*****
See 201. Warren would eat nothing. All of us would share the resulting shit sammich.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (YLidQ)
Now, why would people do that? Well common sense could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include the whole world as the system, that is true.
So somehow AD just magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus. Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and helicopter money if necessary.
This latter encounters the "zero bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity Trap and all that shit.
So you go negative (and have to try to get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make them spend it, and thus restore AD.
Savers bad, spenders good, see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP = fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.
Now, some economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)
I was thinking Southern Comfort.
Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (/i7Ua)
***
Well, since we're explaining our monnikers:
Took one of those BBC online test to rate my sociopathy - "decidedly devious" - worked for ages at a place where, for cultural reasons, young girls called an older man "uncle," and in this place did frolic not a little, and with whose former inmates I desport myself even now, hence the "still accepting and etc."
"Palpatine" came from one of the nieces, who made fun of my 'accent' and cadence the first time we met....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (On7rW)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (uBSn/)
Her rye was drinkable, butterscotch would take the finish off a granite gravestone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (/i7Ua)
AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool is the name.
Password is Kaboom
Posted by: buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (zt+N6)
Still can't find it.
This is why I don't bother usually: I need keystroke by keystroke instructions, otherwise I manage to screw it up somehow.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (uBSn/)
And the way he dispatches his opponents. The guy is sadistic
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (YLidQ)
Yeah I got it the first time, still a boy can dream.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:41 PM (3eoPa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (ntObR)
He likes them with extra mayonaise.
Plus, he likes to eat them with relish.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (1JnAL)
I'm at work...and apparently blocked...azzholes.
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:41 PM (3eoPa)
****
I take zero pleasure in stating that. Buckle up and keep your shit tight. Be well.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (YLidQ)
***
Ah. So you've met my wife.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (1zS3A)
***
Cut. Jib. Newsletter.
And, well, sorry about that. i'd never knowingly tag the spouse of a 'ron.......
We cool, as the young folks say?
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)
So, y'know, no more of that stuff.
The best booziest companies I ever worked for were British. Jaysus, they drink! Not as much as the Irish, obviously, but they have more of a global reach.
Should you be looking for your next hangout, etc.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)
The Norks are awaiting their Stauffenberg.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (uBSn/)
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Yup, and that's why I gave it up
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (voOPb)
Here's the theory. You see there's this thing called Aggregate Demand
(AD). That is the total demand for shit, goods and services in an
economy. During recessions, aggregate demand goes down. People stop
buying shit.
Now, why would people do that? Well common sense
could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But
somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical
thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get
scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone
else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include
the whole world as the system, that is true.
So somehow AD just
magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the
recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus.
Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and
helicopter money if necessary.
This latter encounters the "zero
bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a
deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity
Trap and all that shit.
So you go negative (and have to try to
get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make
them spend it, and thus restore AD.
Savers bad, spenders good,
see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP =
fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.
Now, some
economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and
mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)
===============================
Wake up. This is something.
Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (aUQgu)
In a sound system, think of it as rules of the public roads, if you're going to be an insurance company, you've got to be sound. That is, you've got to run a mathematical analysis of your risk, and be able to handle what is likely to come. Now your tail risk is handled by reinsurance. Which can basically be just a consortium of all the insurance companies together.
This means you can't run an insurance company like a casino (or drive like NASCAR on the public roads -- if you want a race, get your ass to a private race track).
During the orgy of the 90s, guess what all the Wall Street banksters and their buddies did? Lobby Congress and Billy Boy to allow them to run it more like casinos.
The old Glass-Steagal also had a provision that put a wall between insurance and the investment banking casino that got relaxed.
You know those Credit Default Swaps and all that shit? It was basically offering insurance without properly covering your risk.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (dvuhZ)
And the way he dispatches his opponents. The guy is sadistic
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)
He always has at least five people who do not trust each other in his presence at all times.
Ever played the old RPG "Paranoia"?
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (uBSn/)
Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (aUQgu)
Yes, but ignores the fact that people will also just deposit their money in Bank of Serta.
If nothing else, cash becomes worthless just a little slower.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)
***
Of course! I write outrages in dust. I carve compliments in stone.
....
Or is it the other way?
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (voOPb)
I think it may be quite possible to mount a small router on the tool holder, so that I could do light milling on 3 axes. It's a substantial hunk of iron, over 200 pounds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (ucDmr)
So, y'know, no more of that stuff.
The best booziest companies I ever worked for were British. Jaysus, they drink! Not as much as the Irish, obviously, but they have more of a global reach.
Should you be looking for your next hangout, etc.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (1zS3A)
***
Poc - ever go drinking with Chinese?
Gan bai!
Or with Koreans, known, affectionately, and with not a little awe as 'the Irish of Asia'....
The FOB's in general, and the girls in particular, seem to have rather strong opinions regarding the drink-capacity of westerners....
But the Chinese nicknamed me "eluosi" - "the Russian," because of my looks - so my boozing is not considered exceptional.
Drank more than one 'niece' under the table, but there was a Korean girl who very nearly prevailed....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)
Here's the theory. You see there's this thing called Aggregate Demand
(AD). That is the total demand for shit, goods and services in an
economy. During recessions, aggregate demand goes down. People stop
buying shit.
Now, why would people do that? Well common sense
could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But
somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical
thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get
scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone
else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include
the whole world as the system, that is true.
So somehow AD just
magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the
recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus.
Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and
helicopter money if necessary.
This latter encounters the "zero
bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a
deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity
Trap and all that shit.
So you go negative (and have to try to
get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make
them spend it, and thus restore AD.
Savers bad, spenders good,
see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP =
fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.
Now, some
economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and
mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)
The real problem is that government shit sandwiches count in GDP just like Swedish massages by Inga and fine champagne. If you spend $100 on each, they're counted exactly the same in GDP. Which contribute more to people's sense of well-being?
Barack Obama has spent more money than anyone, ever, in the history of the world -- pissed it away like a firehose, on more government shit-sandwiches than can be reckoned in a month of Sundays -- in order to bring the GDP up to the level it was at before it tanked. We don't have more champagne, we don't have more Inga -- we have Solyndra and Obamacare and a rogue EPA and IRS, we have Title 9 fascism in education and DoJ studies to find racism in police departments.
The GDP of what we might have some slight desire for has taken it in the ass, while the GDP of shit we'd rather avoid has exploded -- and all the Wise Men of Economics say we must spend more.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)
This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)
But I do post this song on FB every year. It is, I think, the definitive song of the Irish-American experience.
The Pogues. Thousands Are Sailing.
https://youtu.be/gc1G7aCpSsI
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2016 11:55 PM (1xUj/)
This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)
Just use an air rifle from the shrubs... just saying.
Trump will cover your legal bills.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 11:55 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (voOPb)
This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)
Sorry, I was trying to share the glory that is "Trash Humpers*" with someone,
.
* - This movie exists and I only got 10 minutes through it.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (s87AC)
Skip the killin' part. Just bury him with his phone. He'll go out, knowing the error of his ways.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:57 PM (ucDmr)
This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)
****
I have a few bags of lyme and a couple of shovels laying around, if you would find that helpful. Figuratively speaking only, of course.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:57 PM (YLidQ)
I think it may be quite possible to mount a small router on the tool holder, so that I could do light milling on 3 axes. It's a substantial hunk of iron, over 200 pounds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (/i7Ua)
I'm not sure what one of those might be -- could you toss a quick link to either a modern or historical example?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:58 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:58 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)
***
The Koreans are *awesome*. When I worked in Totsuka, I stopped in at a British-style pub run by a Korean on the way home from work most days. He took to ordering in Korean delicacies for us, which are spicy. Really spicy.
The Japanese are drinking lightweights. Maybe that's a cultural thing. They all get shit- and red-faced really fast, and that's the end of that.
Never went drinking with Chinese. Have drunk Chinese beer. No complaints.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)
I can't remember his name, but he did something I thought was impressive. He came up with a cycle model. Now, fitting the past to a curve is well, you can always do that. Doesn't tell the system will behave the same in the future.
But he got the behavior. You try to prevent recessions, the natural oscillations of the system. You do this with Central Bank and Keynesians meddling. You damp the swings, and finally get a period of "sustained growth". The sky's the limit. Then it crashes. Hard. Biblical proportions.
That was what we went through in the late 80s and the 90s. The "Great Moderation" they called it, the reduction in the volatility of the "business cycle". Then came 2008.
So he got a model that produced that behavior. Moderation period followed by Great Crash.
It impressed me.
But the dude had no solution other than "give free shit to the people".
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 17, 2016 12:00 AM (dvuhZ)
When you're a hunter/gatherer/scavenger, you eat anything that might have calories. If you eat something that makes you sick, you better have a good way to make sure you never eat anything like that again. There are still a few neurons way back there in the brain stem that do this for us.
Of course, the food doesn't have to cause the sickness. Feed a colicky baby strained peas at the wrong time, and the kid won't touch peas for three decades, if ever.
Posted by: mikeski at March 17, 2016 12:00 AM (LIUK5)
lowered their main interest rate from -0.3% to -0.4%. Some big German
outfit, one of the biggest reinsurers in the world, has reacted.
Remember the problem of firms with huge amounts of money trying to
convert to cash. It's just physically impossible to do.
So what
are they doing? They're buying gold with some and parking the rest in
foreign currencies *that do not have a negative interest rate*. I wonder
if the economic central planning wizards of smart have fully thought
through the consequences of causing a flight from their own currencies.
Now, if the Fed goes NIRP, then dollars won't be an option for these guys either and they'll move to something else.
Oh, what is a reinsurer you ask? Basically, it's insurance for
insurance companies. There is what is known as tail risk, the low
probability of having a bunch of claims occur at once in some event.
They purchase insurance themselves for such a tail risk.
Which
leads to "tail of the tail" risk. What happens if everybody has a tail
event? That is an even more vanishingly small probability. But not zero.
Govts would step if it wasn't too big. If too big even for govts, well,
we're talking some serious biblical shit here.
Anyway, the Kraut reinsurer realizes that NIRP has very negative consequence for it tail risk exposure.
Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuh
There is no thought involved (and certainly no respect for the property rights of currency holders to the value of their money).
There is only mad panic and the idea that there must be some lever available to them to MAKE PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT THEM TO DO... even if what they want them to do is stupid and nonsensical.
As Smith pointed out though, in his talk of Man of System" people have their own agency and are not pawns on a chess board to be moved at the whim of planners and with no ability to deviate from those plans. Which is why the main stimulus to the economy in Japan from negative interest rates was to stimulate the sale of home safes where cash can be kept at an interest rate of 0%.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 17, 2016 12:01 AM (NPofj)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)
***
The Koreans are *awesome*. When I worked in Totsuka, I stopped in at a British-style pub run by a Korean on the way home from work most days. He took to ordering in Korean delicacies for us, which are spicy. Really spicy.
The Japanese are drinking lightweights. Maybe that's a cultural thing. They all get shit- and red-faced really fast, and that's the end of that.
Never went drinking with Chinese. Have drunk Chinese beer. No complaints.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)
Part of the problem is that China is an empire. It contains multitudes of very different peoples -- and they have a wide range of tolerance for drinking.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)
Howdy, howdy!!!! Howzit goin'?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:04 AM (EzgxV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)
Lil Kim is also great entertainment....
for example he gave some retard who decided Pyongang was a great vacation destination 15 years for trying to steal a 15 cent propaganda banner...
you just can't buy humor like that.
Dumbass Ohioan who went to UVA should be a cautionary tale to moonbats that collectivism sucks and is overwrought INSTEAD you go to MSLSD's site and they say "well the Norks have rules"...
yes, yes they do and so will the assholes you dumbasses keep electing sport.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (g8Hfr)
Had to do a Google search to learn ...
Slenderman is modern folk tale horror story thing
Some teens attempted a murder and blamed it on Slenderman
Now there's a documentary
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (YLidQ)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)
***
You mean German beer brewed in China.....
http://tsingtaobeer.com/
From a german trading colony set up in the 19th century....
But baiju and soju......Lord, have mercy.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (lutOX)
The insanity of "microaggressions", which are perceived slights that exist in the subject viewpoint of self-identifying victims, is no longer reserved for the madness that is academia. Unsurprisingly, the same administration that declared that failure to affirm homosexuality as being something wonderful, even if one is tolerance and accepting of homosexuality, is tantamount to oppression, is now embracing the war on "microaggressions."
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11354
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 17, 2016 12:09 AM (vBeA5)
Yup the Chinese recognize 50+ internal nationalities....
and the further north the original tribes are the worse drunks they seem to be....
"Go Mongols"
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:09 AM (g8Hfr)
On the credit default swaps (among other things), to me the most important thing to keep reminding/correcting people is that the main problem (mortgages and related derivatives) could never have become the disaster they became without public (govt.) involvement. At both inception, and in blowing up the balloon with "investors" (esp. foreign banks)
Glass-Steagal repeal didn't immediately, or even soon, lead to this disaster, for a reason. The disaster was in no way an inevitable consequence of repeal. It was the specific result of reckless, optional actions by Fannie and the Fed, over a period of years.
And the reaction to the disaster was no less reckless and incompetent than the actions that led to it.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:10 AM (QDnY+)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvsYV_-mu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wny_0pi4hR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvECtlJQ4dU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-PmyAfQ5xY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAOW23GnFM
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:11 AM (1zS3A)
The world is out to get us.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (/f6Nd)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)
Don't forget that Barack the Wise decided that how the US calculates GDP should change.
http://tinyurl.com/h8ypcex
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (1JnAL)
I was in Boston, and scraped acquaintance with a charming young lady from Seoul who wanted to try "bu lan di and soda," bless her heart....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (RcpcZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)
That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)
I was in Boston, and scraped acquaintance with a young lady who wanted to try "bu lan di and soda," bless her heart....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:10 AM (QDnY+)
And there's another one coming down the pike:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2016/03/its-probably-no-376.html#comments
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (/i7Ua)
I missed a happiness thread?
That makes me unhappy!
Hey, it's my website's anniversary. Offering homespun webworks direct to websurfers since 1996 March 17. And still one of the web's best-kept secrets.
Alexa global ranking: #5,085,067!
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 12:16 AM (5a8XA)
INSTEAD you go to MSLSD's site and they say "well the Norks have rules"...
Would they have said the same about apartheid?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 17, 2016 12:17 AM (FkBIv)
Just a reference to the hour (late)?
Just curious, if anyone knows.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (QDnY+)
The memory of that fades. A generation takes the reins that has never experienced a crash of that magnitude. They tend to get more reckless, knowing nothing but gambles that pay off basically.
Remember the stereotype of the "banksters" back in the day? Think Mr. Drysdale from the Beverly Hillbillies. Mr. Mooney from the Lucy Shows.
These guys were tightwads extraordinaire. Absolutely constitutionally opposed to spending money. They'd die if they had to spend money. They wanted it all it vault where they could just wallow in it.
They weren't high rollers wanting the high life and hookers and blow. Now the stereotype of a banker is a high roller chasing return, recklessly with other people's money.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)
The one in the video isn't mine, but it is for sale for $750, and well worth it, I'd say.
A friend was at a yard sale behind a business in east Mesa. Seller had a lot of stuff. This shaper was on a pallet along with a 5" South Bend lathe, also with a War Production Board label on it. Guy wanted $500 for both, would not separate. So we bought it jointly, and buddy got the lathe, and I got the shaper. So $250 to me.
So I'm researching them on the Web, and first link I find, some guy got one for $25 at an auction. Sniffle. But I think I did OK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (/i7Ua)
No of course not which is what makes it all the more funny.
The only Culture on Earth not allowed to have rules evidently is the Anglosphere, and any trespass on morality is to be forgiven if the despot's melanin content is past a certain point.
That sane people of good character with core Judeo-Xian values cannot find common cause in thwarting genuine evil is the best indicator that the evangelical "collectivist" atheist movement has in fact driven western civ insane.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:22 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)
Don't forget that Barack the Wise decided that how the US calculates GDP should change.
http://tinyurl.com/h8ypcex
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (1JnAL)
Meh. Fiddling around the edges. The fundamental conceit that coerced spending benefits people as much as voluntary spending just buries the "GDP is good" crowd.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:22 AM (EzgxV)
***
Soju. Jesus. Never again.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:23 AM (1zS3A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)
That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)
Wow!
When was that sort of machine made?
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtM7zIF-IlU
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (VdICR)
The "Rebel Without a Party" bit is an homage to some of my favorite 'rons that frequent the morning hours, and was something I tagged on as my regular epithet after a long morning rant a year or two ago when a whole bunch of us (phoenixgirl, born a rebel - Vic we have no party, ManWithNoParty, etc.) came to the inescapable conclusion that "our representatives" were playing for the other team for real. I don't even remember what the issue was, probably something with Obamacare.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 17, 2016 12:26 AM (J+mig)
I'm not entirely complaining, but I feel robbed of volition.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (6n332)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)
The one in the video isn't mine, but it is for sale for $750, and well worth it, I'd say.
A friend was at a yard sale behind a business in east Mesa. Seller had a lot of stuff. This shaper was on a pallet along with a 5" South Bend lathe, also with a War Production Board label on it. Guy wanted $500 for both, would not separate. So we bought it jointly, and buddy got the lathe, and I got the shaper. So $250 to me.
So I'm researching them on the Web, and first link I find, some guy got one for $25 at an auction. Sniffle. But I think I did OK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (/i7Ua)
I knew there had to be a story. Cool beans!!!! I'm assuming it's Mesa, AZ -- is it going to be heading north?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (EzgxV)
Elle Fitzgerald-Undecided
https://youtu.be/_ksEQUiDp0s
Woman could flat out sing...
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:28 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (6n332)
I'm guessing they didn't go into how Brianna Wu is a he. It explains the drama queen behavior.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:29 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)
Howdy, howdy!!!! Howzit goin'?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:04 AM (EzgxV)
How'd the game come out?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)
I think metal shapers of that general type were devised in the late 19th Century, and were made at least as late as the 1960's. I think milling machines have largely supplanted them, but I am no expert.
The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)
Was thinking the same.
So what can you make with one?
*utter mechanical ignoramus*
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (EzgxV)
I think I will be keeping it here for the time being.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:34 AM (/i7Ua)
291 When was that sort of machine made?
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)
I think metal shapers of that general type were devised in the late 19th Century, and were made at least as late as the 1960's. I think milling machines have largely supplanted them, but I am no expert.
The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)
They excel at making keyways and are probably made today. In a home shop, there's a gizmo like a flat step drill that you ram through your keyway with an arbor press, instead of gracefully shaving chips like this guy.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:36 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (CKGil)
Heh. That was fascinating. I loved watching the musicians from the two bands watch each other and come together.
I do wonder if Ronnie Drew was questioning why he was there with Shane MacGowan.
It's the difference between talent and your gut maybe. Drew is a good singer, but MacGowan is compelling.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 12:41 AM (1xUj/)
The article was unable to conclude that Slenderman was evil. God help us all.
Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (CKGil)
Nothing is evil when everything is a shade of grey. That's why the world is fucked up. There is no room in the liberal mindset for objectivity, everything is subjective to them.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 17, 2016 12:41 AM (J+mig)
*utter mechanical ignoramus*
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)
Well, you can make a smooth, true, flat surface on a piece of metal, which is useful. And by turning the work in the vise, or using an indexing head, you could machine a perfect cube, or a hexagon. Could cut gear teeth on a blank, or make a keyway in a bore.
Cutting hollows or recesses in a workpiece might be difficult, because the moving cutter would wind up jamming chips against the wall at the end of the stroke. But if one were to mount a small router on the end of the ram, in place of the tool holder, one could, in theory, add the last 20% of goodness to an unfinished part. So you could make nifty aluminum ash trays.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:42 AM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)
Was thinking the same.
So what can you make with one?
*utter mechanical ignoramus*
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)
The reciprocating nature of this machine is good for making slots. Because you're moving linearly, you can make undercut slots or slots inside things ("keyways") -- which is a yuge pain-in-the-ass using a mill (which looks like a reinforced drill-press and uses rotational motion to shave the edges (interior or exterior) of things).
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:44 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:48 AM (1zS3A)
Watching the video the forward feed speed may be a problem. Can that be slowed? If not a Dremel type tool might work with a small tip.
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:50 AM (On7rW)
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:51 AM (RcpcZ)
Of the 3,500 Congressional Medals of Honor ever awarded, 2,000 have gone to Irishmen or Americans of Irish descent.
260 have gone to Irishmen who died in battle for the US before achieving US citizenship.
Suck it, Mexico.
Or Mario Rubio.
Or some such.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:55 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:29 AM (1D4Ef)
----
Yeah, nothing on her background. Or the fact that they have found out who was making and sending her pyscho death threat videos. Turns out it is a guy in some cult improve group and he was trying to make fun of gamergaters and isn't involved in gamergate.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (6n332)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:50 AM (On7rW)
The ram doesn't have to be powered. There is a large knurled knob mounted in tandem with the belt pulley, so that you could stroke the ram very slowly indeed, just like hand-feeding the carriage on a lathe.
So the table feed gives you your X-axis, the ram feed the Y-axis, and the downfeed the Z-axis.
There apparently was a kit to mount a Dumore grinder to the Ammco shaper. The Dumore was like a Dremel, with a much larger motor. My late father had one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (/i7Ua)
260 have gone to Irishmen who died in battle for the US before achieving US citizenship.
>>>
Well we do like a good fight even when outmatched. So it's kinda genetic.
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (On7rW)
Talking about evil - I just saw a segment on the death of Bob Crane.
Lots of bad in that story.
Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:51 AM (RcpcZ)
Quite freaky-deaky indeed. Outside of Crane's private life, it is astounding that Americans could be liberating Nazi death camps in 1945 and making comedy television series about Nazis in 1965 -- just 20 years later. Will we have a comedy series about Al-Qaeda in five years?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (On7rW)
***
Just doing the US/Irish military PSA. Especially for those who consider the Irish inveterate drunks and unfit for service.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (1zS3A)
Yeah. I kind of dislike the whole hyphenated American thing, and my people have been here long enough that we don't have any relatives in the Old Sod, but I named my boys Declan and Eamon and I do drink too much and I will punch you even if you're bigger than me.
There may be something to genetics.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (1xUj/)
$250 for an accurate 3D control system for a router/dremel is way cheaper than you could build one. And if you just need a slot or key the the original design is perfect.
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (On7rW)
White Room video - heh.
Listening to Ella. She could sing. Haven't heard that whole song in a long, long time. That drummer's kinda krupa, too.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:05 AM (sVGvG)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:09 AM (On7rW)
***
You are a very little, little man, aren't you?
I pray you live forever.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:11 AM (1zS3A)
Listening to McAlpine's Fusiliers.
Never could understand the Irish language. But I hung out at Irish bars in Chicago.
I'm English and some German, they tell me. My sainted Irish mother-in-law tolerated me, fortunately.
My wife and her kin are Irish, with (we think) a Chilean grandfather - Chicago "dark" Irish. My children are... great. We're all Okies, now.
(Looking for more music videos upthread.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:15 AM (On7rW)
Ima advise you to use a little discretion whilst burying all those separate parts. Maybe dumpsters in 7 different states?
Back while we were inventing dirt, distinguishing homonyms was part of the me-smart signal kit. And I just Kant give it up. Although I can will that everyone else do so.
Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (CKGil)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4D9jKRvFhs
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (FlRtG)
Neat. Wish the audio wasn't messed up though.
*click click click click click click*
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (gy5kE)
i'm sure there's a law against owning one here in #Failifornia
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:19 AM (5wiY1)
Better hang out here till the coffee kicks in.
So. How are things?
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:19 AM (FvSck)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)
***
Well, The Dubliners did have Dublin accents, which are difficult for Irish people outside Dublin in general. Still, they're fun.
If you want more traditional Irish music, look up Makem and Clancy, or the Clancy Brothers on YouTube.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:24 AM (1zS3A)
(don't worry, it's really a dream. Why else would you see me here mid-week?))
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:25 AM (FvSck)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:26 AM (5wiY1)
Irish version of cockney?
Enjoying more Irish tunes from upthread. But fading rapidly. Talk about metal shapers some more - better than a sleeping pill.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:26 AM (sVGvG)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)
***
Well, The Dubliners did have Dublin accents, which are difficult for Irish people outside Dublin in general. Still, they're fun.
If you want more traditional Irish music, look up Makem and Clancy, or the Clancy Brothers on YouTube.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (1zS3A)
And, for the Irish experience -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHj9vOu2eQ
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (FvSck)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (FvSck)
yeah, they're leftards, IIRC, but they have some catchy tunes.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:30 AM (FvSck)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
***
How do you confuse an Irishman?
Put a spade and a shovel against a wall, and ask himm to take his pick.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (gy5kE)
It's bascially a concrete quonset hut. Never been in a place with worse acoustics. So I saw Flogging Molly, but I've never really heard them live.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (1xUj/)
then, if i need to actuate something, especially for a one time visit, i only temporarily allow the minimum # required, and only for authors i recognize.
so far so good. once i even got a ransomeware screen, but i LOLed and closed it, with no problem or consequences.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (5wiY1)
Well, it's at the station...
Posted by: The Cream Hat at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (vBeA5)
*click click click click click click*
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (1D4Ef)
Yeah. How hard would it be to simply edit the video with new narration, spoken into a good mike in a quiet room? You could always mix in a "little" shop noise to make it sound authentic.
There are a lot of Youtube videos, and I'm talking scripted and "produced" ones, not eyewitness-y sort of stuff, that are so poorly produced as to basically fail at their intended purpose.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (/i7Ua)
yeah, they're leftards, IIRC, but they have some catchy tunes.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (5wiY1)
***
I mentioned "Float", somewhere above.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:34 AM (1zS3A)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Vn19FTosk
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:34 AM (FvSck)
A slightly different Irish music group -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZP-4B7kHqA
And an Irish vocalist who got her start in the previous band -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOeDWynY4o
You might note a bunch of performers whose last name is Brennan in the last two links. "Clannad" means "family". They're all related.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (FvSck)
what else could you possibly use it for?
well, that and watching/reading pr0n, of course.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (5wiY1)
Reactionary Monster:
The clicking was brutal.
This is a very fast video ... 1/2" deep cut, about .1" wide ... the smoke is from the residual oil on the chips heating up.
Cincinnati Shaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnE_h5qmjpk
If you have a spare 70 minutes,
"Making a straight edge blank Part 1/2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5mOnjrd2Q
shows a lot of the same techniques, but it's not a tutorial, and Part 1 is 35 minutes.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:36 AM (FlRtG)
Just about to turn in...killer headache in progress.
Hope things are going well for you.
Posted by: SMFH at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (On7rW)
Detroit isn't dead. It's just that The Cool has had to bank its fires and dig deep.
The R&B and blues ain't dead till I say it's dead.
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (FvSck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ic9kz_u4Y0
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (1zS3A)
An alternative spelling of "Coombe" is "cwm" -- leading to both the "Cwm Fjord-bank Glyphs Vext Quiz" typing test (the writings on the bank of a wooded flooded rounded valley cause exasperation to a game-show host), and one of the classic hangman-game pwns -- "cwm" [others include "rhythm", "zymurgy", and "why"].
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)
***
"Clannad" are all Donegal Irish. We Connaught Irish shun them.
We've never forgiven the whole Ta'in Bo' Cu'ailnge thing.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
***
How do you confuse an Irishman?
Put a spade and a shovel against a wall, and ask himm to take his pick.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (1zS3A)
My dad, from whom I inherit my Irishness, would often refer to a pick as an "Irish typewriter".
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:43 AM (gy5kE)
***
The Coombe was a slum in Dublin. Close by the Guinness brewery, if memory serves.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:44 AM (1zS3A)
Just about to turn in...killer headache in progress.
Hope things are going well for you.
Posted by: SMFH at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (rlfds)
Well enough, dear -- I hope the headache sleeps away.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:45 AM (EzgxV)
I look forward to playing with this one. It's going to need a table. I have built machine tables before by using the shell of an old top-loader washer. Put a thick wooden top on it, a bottom plate with casters, and a bottom and middle shelf. They are very sturdy, and cost next to nothing to make. Because of the reciprocating action of the shaper, I don't think having the table sitting on casters is a good idea. It would start sashaying around the shop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:47 AM (/i7Ua)
The moral to this story is: Never give a moron a vocabulary list!
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (gy5kE)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:49 AM (sVGvG)
Off to listen to more Al-Saadi. And beer and cigars. It's all we have left in Trump's 'Merica.
Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (FvSck)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)
***
"Clannad" are all Donegal Irish. We Connaught Irish shun them.
We've never forgiven the whole Ta'in Bo' Cu'ailnge thing.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (1zS3A)
Yeah, I got the "Western Slope of the Rockies" Irish. I did have a great-aunt that came over from the old country, fell off a truck onto a potato fork, and died from the subsequent impalement -- that's an authentic immigrant experience.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (EzgxV)
AOP:
Your shaper is probably 350 lb. I'd get some 2" .120-wall tubing and a welder. This might avoid a lesson in the future.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (1zS3A)
Some classic Irish. I take it you've seen Black Books.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)
***
I have just now re-read this and have begun to appreciate your total awesomeness. Honestly.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (1zS3A)
Cryin' Boehner endorses Paulie Boy if no candidate wins the nomination on the first ballot.
These motherfuckers are actually going to try this shit. I now favor civil war.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 17, 2016 01:55 AM (Dttnn)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (EzgxV)
***
Yes. Indeed. Irish women experiencing "implement" often die.
It's preferable to confession.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)
***
I have just now re-read this and have begun to appreciate your total awesomeness. Honestly.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (1zS3A)
More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:57 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (FlRtG)
Only about 250, apparently. At home, I have a brake lathe on one such table, and a Sioux valve grinder on another. The brake lathe is probably over 400 pounds, and the washing machine-based table holds it no problem at all. And it rolls easy on 4" iron-wheel casters.
Think of the shell of the washer as a giant box beam. Very strong in compression, which is the gravity load of the machine. Commercial machine tables are made quite similarly. Painted up to match the machine, these home made tables even look like factory issue.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:58 AM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:01 AM (1zS3A)
Cryin' Boehner endorses Paulie Boy if no candidate wins the nomination on the first ballot.
These motherfuckers are actually going to try this shit. I now favor civil war.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 17, 2016 01:55 AM (Dttnn)
Civil war is horrible, ugly, and dangerous -- Weirddave had a very sober AoSHQ post on the subject quite a while ago. I'd suggest that certain elected officials visit Fort Marcy Park first for some "contemplation".
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
***
Clint. Grike. Define.
Without the Burren vocabulary search!
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
***
Clint. Grike. Define.
Without the Burren vocabulary search!
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)
Without looking at anything, I'm thinking "Clint" relates to stone, and "Grike" relates to birds. The word I schlonged on my PSAT in 10th grade was "pulchritudinous"; I now know it as part of Pelvicachromis pulcher.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)
***
"Decidedly devious" is awesome. I'm stealing it for nics elsewhere.
Once, when I was, y'know, in the depths of PTSD and locked up, I was cordially compelled to take the MMPI. I took it with the help of two other stressed-out campers who volunteered to help me. I am amazed that I am allowed to walk the streets, a free man.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:15 AM (1zS3A)
AOP:
The shaper ram will vibrate; low frequency, some sinusoidal force; the ram is at least 50lb, maybe 75lb. This is VERY different from a lathe.
Cth (if you're reading):
The meeting is this weekend, and it's on the other side of the tunnel.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:19 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:21 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
***
Clint. Grike. Define.
Without the Burren vocabulary search!
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)
Without looking at anything, I'm thinking "Clint" relates to stone, and "Grike" relates to birds. The word I schlonged on my PSAT in 10th grade was "pulchritudinous"; I now know it as part of Pelvicachromis pulcher.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)
Clint -- (1) Geological Science) a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures. (2) (Physical Geography) any small surface exposure of hard or flinty rock, as on a hillside or in a stream bed.
One does not become a master bullshitter without some level of talent.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:21 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)
***
Clint. Grike. Define.
Without the Burren vocabulary search!
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)
Grike -- (Geological Science) a solution fissure, a vertical crack about 0.5 m wide formed by the dissolving of limestone by water, that divides an exposed limestone surface into sections or clints.
....of course, there are limits.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:43 AM (gy5kE)
I think you misspelt "whore's".
Pretty sure about that one.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)
Okay, now we are in the category of clippens and fensters.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)
AOP:
The shaper ram will vibrate; low frequency, some sinusoidal force; the ram is at least 50lb, maybe 75lb. This is VERY different from a lathe.
Cth (if you're reading):
The meeting is this weekend, and it's on the other side of the tunnel.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:19 AM (FlRtG)
Yikees! I missed the last one due to miscommunication with the fiancee.....but I'll need to make sure I end up in the right place for this one. I intend to attend.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:25 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:27 AM (/i7Ua)
The boy's 10th birthday went off wonderfully. DH took him to the pro shop and got him his first official bowling ball. Boy's name is Thor, and the brand of the ball was Hammer, so of course he got it engraved "Mjolnir."
Boy says it is the coolest birthday present ever. He is having the hockey team to the bowling alley on Saturday for a birthday party. Rock on, buddy, rock on.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:27 AM (+YMhA)
and yet, here you are.
%-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:28 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (FlRtG)
and maybe i'll win Miss America too. ;-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:32 AM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)
Okay, now we are in the category of clippens and fensters.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)
Look, I've had business meetings regarding perlins and sub-perlins, astragals and abutments (we were building a new HQ building). There is no end of technical terms within specialized fields.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:34 AM (EzgxV)
but since Ryan is going to be the nominee, i guess it doesn't really matter, does it?
/me ducks again
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:34 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:35 AM (/i7Ua)
and maybe i'll win Miss America too. ;-)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (5wiY1)
http://smilies.mee.nu/
Posted by: The 8) Hat at March 17, 2016 02:36 AM (vBeA5)
I intend to attend.
Are you interested in carpooling? I think it's about an hour drive.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (FlRtG)
Let me do some research. Might work.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:37 AM (EzgxV)
Here is "Tryin' to Mess My Mind" by Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uAGlXArx8
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 17, 2016 02:37 AM (vBeA5)
manly man that i am, and having my wife with me, i shamelessly begged until she gave in... %-)
total price, w/sales tax and DROS: $456. Similar gun at Guns America, ~$900, plus shipping tax DROS
early birthday present FTW WOOT!
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:41 AM (5wiY1)
But it's way to early for that.
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (fizMZ)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:45 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:51 AM (5wiY1)
But it's way to early for that.
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (fizMZ)
I could go on for a while about the difference between depreciation and amortization. Like I said, "[t]here is no end of technical terms within specialized fields." Of course, that doesn't mean you can't do a certain ironic-borrow here-and-there -- IIRC Spider Robinson describes a woman as "spathic".....which, in geology, means "having good cleavage".
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:55 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:00 AM (EzgxV)
Was reading what I missed yesterday morning
Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 03:02 AM (fizMZ)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:00 AM (EzgxV)
Which, incidentally, is a reason I've got "cache DNS" on my to-do-list
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:02 AM (EzgxV)
Red Leader is NOT standing by
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/220376.php
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:17 AM (5wiY1)
see ya later.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:19 AM (5wiY1)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:21 AM (5wiY1)
Anyway article at American thinker going over Missouri' voting numbers. Quickly 38.86% record turnout, both Trump and Cruz each have more than 70,000 votes than Hildabeast.
Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 03:37 AM (fizMZ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2016 04:30 AM (ptqRm)
May the good fairy wot sits in th' sky grant yer every wish!
(Okay it's from Bored of the Rings but still apropos)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at March 17, 2016 04:46 AM (jR7Wy)
As though a billion tiny monkeys with keyboards cried out, then were silent.
Posted by: fluffy at March 17, 2016 04:49 AM (2hcmo)
Posted by: fluffy at March 17, 2016 04:55 AM (2hcmo)
Posted by: RickZ at March 17, 2016 04:57 AM (7hoqr)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 05:23 AM (vKoqL)
A West
Baltimoreresident is suing the mayor and the City Council and
two city contractors after she said she experienced emotional and
physical anguish and damage to her home after her toilet exploded in
November 2014. According to the lawsuit, filed in Baltimore City
Circuit Court in February/
Just a little story from the Baltimore Sun to show the way to make a few bucks off the city....
Posted by: colin at March 17, 2016 05:45 AM (og1C6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:47 AM (HOQAh)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 05:49 AM (vKoqL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2016 05:50 AM (mw8Dm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:52 AM (HOQAh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:52 AM (HOQAh)
Inflation? Used to only be a penny
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2016 05:53 AM (mw8Dm)
I see the VA is firing three at the Phoenix hospital, how about fire the whole agency?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:58 AM (HOQAh)
Posted by: B. Wilson at March 17, 2016 05:59 AM (JO9+V)
Really, congratulations. God knows you al by real name and loves you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:02 AM (w4NZ8)
especially considering given the idiocy of this administration in all likelihood they fired the three people actually working.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:03 AM (g8Hfr)
Yeah so much for the "Monroe Doctrine"....of course it is not like the US is ready to fight a tier one opponent at any rate.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (vKoqL)
Posted by: Picric at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (QnQ+g)
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:05 AM (g8Hfr)
Jya ne!
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 06:07 AM (HOQAh)
Butte tried to go all out for St Paddy's day...
they get drunk, belligerent, and near the edge of life consciousness wise...
and I ask "this is different than yesterday how?"
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:07 AM (g8Hfr)
"the annual tradition" that ESPN will not continue if a Republican is elected...
I'd love nothing more than for ESPN to go bankrupt.
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: no good deed at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (vKoqL)
Chazz Bono = Transgenderman
Tamerlan Tsarnaev = Fenderman
Brando = Contenderman
Today we are all Benderman.
Posted by: angela urkel at March 17, 2016 06:10 AM (TJbU1)
Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:11 AM (TxJGV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:14 AM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:15 AM (TxJGV)
If you're more afraid of Trump than a woman who shrugs at getting an embassy killed in the wake of a Military Operation approved by no one but Giggles you may need to look in the mirror WRT "what's wrong with America?"
Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:15 AM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:17 AM (w4NZ8)
------------------------------------------------
"We didn't lose a single person in Libya" says the Hag.
Can you believe that gall?
Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:18 AM (TxJGV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:27 AM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:38 AM (w4NZ8)
Shows how far the Brits have fallen though, when you have London store employees "terrified" by a 67 year old frog who is throwing blocks of cheese at them.
Nelson is spinning in his grave. That is not the spirit of Trafalgar, chaps.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at March 17, 2016 07:13 AM (P8951)
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