EMT 4/9/2016 [krakatoa]

Is it spring yet?

Ever?

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1 Good Morning Morons. Today is Saturday, April 09, 2016. On this day in 1969 the "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. However Bobby Searl was separated from the case when he refused to sit quietly in the court and after many interruptions and calling the judge names he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for contempt of court. He was the only one who did any prison time which was a huge mistake.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)

2 The Norks say they have successfully tested their ICBM engine that they claim will be able to reach the US.

http://tinyurl.com/zoo2qyu

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)

3 Vic how did you beet me? I've been waiting for 10 min

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 06:02 AM (9VEpl)

4 Oh, good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 06:02 AM (9VEpl)

5 High crime in Chicago due to judges letting thugs off easy?

Lamar Harris had seven felony convictions and 43 arrests when he shot three Chicago police officers..

Why belabor the obvious? Start removing judges from their office and that crap will cease.

http://tinyurl.com/ja4w44k

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:03 AM (vvmPQ)

6 the rest

The same week, Samuel Harviley, who had just been paroled after serving
less than half of his sentence for armed carjacking, shot yet another of
the Windy City's finest

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

7 Snowflakes at a Dartmouth Sorority party have bowed to a pack of lies and canceled a Kentucky Derby Party which was called racist by a bunch of stupid and uneducated BLM idiot thugs. They said it was racist because the KY Derby had ties to the civil war and slavery. The KY Derby did not start until well after the Civil War and KY was not a Confederate State. People who bow to these idiots only encourage them.

http://tinyurl.com/hy4qldb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

8 The corrupt DOJ will finally abide by a court order and turn over documents on the felonious program Fast and Furious. You remember, the one felon Eric Holder lied to congress about and did not get charged with criminal contempt.

http://tinyurl.com/zs5r5oz

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

9 The UN wants to take over the world's oceans.

http://tinyurl.com/hhnwy6t

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

10 Scankles broke the law on the NYC subway by campaigning while actually on the subway. Of course no charges were filed because she is above the law.

http://tinyurl.com/q94eod3

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)

11 Evidently Chris Mathews wants to have Krazy Kommie Bernie's children.

http://tinyurl.com/zrqxe8w

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)

12 Scankles must have thrown some more stuff at Bill because now he is apologizing for his attack on the BLM thugs who were interrupting his speech.

http://tinyurl.com/zswqo8l

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)

13 Vic turniped quicker than Skip

Posted by: tmitsss at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (L0IIq)

14 The no-shit item for today:

The U.S. military has been hindered by an overbearing and inexperienced White House under President Barack Obama, according to each of his three former defense secretaries, causing the Pentagon to struggle to carry out operations and make decisions.

http://tinyurl.com/jatak23

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)

15 A tax reminder from WZ.

http://tinyurl.com/hmnjhk7

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)

16 (Don't ever try to stop Vic when he's on a roll)

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 06:06 AM (9VEpl)

17 Shelby is raising the ire of the RNCe by curbing the ability of the conservative hated Export-Import bank to guarantee big loans to major companies.

http://tinyurl.com/hvrpku7

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)

18 A Bill Clinton idiot judge has ruled that LA violated the constitution when the included a picture of a historic mission building with a small cross on the top of it in their county seal. The work of anti-religious radical atheists and general religion hating liberals combined with religion hating liberal judges.

http://tinyurl.com/jhqrfyk

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)

19 Remember those liberal AG's that were going to start lawfare against companies who opposed the AGW scam? Well they are starting their illegal campaign now.

http://tinyurl.com/jzxhf3l

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)

20 Ramirez

http://tinyurl.com/zwoz4l8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

21 Krazy Commie Bernie gets a lesson on socialist economies, but is he listening? Answer, no liberal every listens to these lessons.

http://tinyurl.com/gnghhnd

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

22 The Daily Deals

http://tinyurl.com/grxl7ca

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

23
Is it spring yet?
Ever?
----------------------------------

Well, my apple trees are blooming now. Just in time for another freeze tonight. Yet another Winter that will not go away.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:08 AM (vvmPQ)

24 Skip you may have been waiting 10 min but I have been waiting all night.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:11 AM (vvmPQ)

25 "Why belabor the obvious? Start removing judges from their office and that crap will cease.

http://tinyurl.com/ja4w44k"

I don't think so. Not until the 97% of the Police quit voting for the people who put the Judges into office and then vote to keep them.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. It's burnt Cap'n at April 09, 2016 06:12 AM (WVsWD)

26 And it is 37F here now and another hour before sunrise. I did not bring my plants in last night because the predicted low was 43F.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:13 AM (vvmPQ)

27
DAY 1,250

213 to go (286 to Inauguration Day )

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

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 09, 2016 06:18 AM (p4UlV)

28 Nothing going on this morning....

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Tap....tap....tap.... at April 09, 2016 06:20 AM (WVsWD)

29
I'd like to whack Jeffrey Toobin and Geraldo Rivera in the face with a sack of flaming horseshit.

Scum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 09, 2016 06:21 AM (p4UlV)

30 Quiet early morning in Hymietown. Supposedly snow is on the way? What the hell?

Oh well. Into the "shop" for a bit of model train bodging.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 09, 2016 06:21 AM (p4UlV)

31 Now it says rain and 42. Still, pretty clear this morning. Nice orangey sunrise hitting the building facades. Kind of like a Hopper painting.

**sigh**

Time for some eggy-weggs and jammy-wam.

BBL.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 09, 2016 06:25 AM (p4UlV)

32 http://tinyurl.com/zwoz4l8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

That was then. Who is now?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Tap....tap....tap.... at April 09, 2016 06:25 AM (WVsWD)

33 At Powerlineblog artical entrepreneur Kirk Kjellberg�makes a two shot 380 that looks like a cell phone, Leftists are up in arms. (See what I did there?)

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 06:26 AM (9VEpl)

34 32 That was then. Who is now?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Tap....tap....tap.... at April 09, 2016 06:25 AM (WVsWD)

I think that was Ramirez's attempt to remind people of the last time the parties were split the way they are now. Unfortunately most American are completely ignorant on history, and in particular, that time frame.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:28 AM (vvmPQ)

35 I got my wake up call at 0330 when two barred owls began either an argument or a mating session right outside my window.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 06:29 AM (3+KKq)

36 Just watched a show about Formula E racing. Electric formula one looking cars.

The teams get penalized for too much power consumption during the race and halfway through the race the driver, wait for it,

Changes cars! Wth is this? I knew the batteries were crap but dang. Changing cars during the race.

The future is now and it sucks.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 09, 2016 06:30 AM (yonAa)

37 Ok now, what is that cartoon saying? That we should be ready for the deadliest war ever to take place on American soil?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Not an Abe fan. at April 09, 2016 06:31 AM (WVsWD)

38 37
Ok now, what is that cartoon saying? That we should be ready for the deadliest war ever to take place on American soil?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Not an Abe fan. at April 09, 2016 06:31 AM (WVsWD)

Or it could be that he is alluding to getting a good President out of it on the Republican side while the Democrats were in a disarray. However, there are a lot of people who would disagree with that.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:33 AM (vvmPQ)

39 I have been thinking about this whole "cultural appropriation" thing.

If I cannot drink a margarita on Cinco de Mayo, "they" should not be using cell-phones, computers, English, automobiles, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 09, 2016 06:34 AM (1ijHg)

40 Thanks Vic. I am up early enough to actually read the all.

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 06:36 AM (V9TqF)

41 Or it could be that he is alluding to getting a good President out of it on the Republican side while the Democrats were in a disarray. However, there are a lot of people who would disagree with that.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:33 AM (vvmPQ)

We are going to get another repub POTUS that is going to suspend Habeus Corpus?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Need a lawyer?? at April 09, 2016 06:37 AM (WVsWD)

42 If I cannot drink a margarita on Cinco de Mayo,
"they" should not be using cell-phones, computers, English, automobiles,
etc., etc., etc.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo

I thought half priced margaritas were the only reason to celebrate CdM

Posted by: Bruce at April 09, 2016 06:40 AM (7S0RU)

43 41 We are going to get another repub POTUS that is going to suspend Habeus Corpus?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Need a lawyer?? at April 09, 2016 06:37 AM (WVsWD)

If Scankles wins on the Demo-commie side that is a strong possibility. Also throwing thousands of newspaper editors in jail and one entire State legislature.

On the Republican side now there is nobody that makes me even want to vote. I used to like Cruz but the more I find out about him the more I see that I can not support him.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:40 AM (vvmPQ)

44 I thought half priced margaritas were the only reason to celebrate CdM
Posted by: Bruce at April 09, 2016 06:40 AM (7S0RU)
***
Their men might be ruining our country, but some of those Latin ladies are quite the consolation.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 09, 2016 06:44 AM (lutOX)

45 ***We are going to get another repub POTUS that is going to suspend Habeus Corpus?***

And decides that a State cannot leave a voluntary association? What other organizations are there that once you're in you can never get out? The Mafia is the only one I can think of.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 06:44 AM (3+KKq)

46 45 And decides that a State cannot leave a voluntary
association? What other organizations are there that once you're in you
can never get out? The Mafia is the only one I can think of.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 06:44 AM (3+KKq)

The way I looked at it the Constitution was a legal contract between the States. When multiple States in the North started violating it and federal law the South had a right to declare that contract null and void.

The stage had already been set by the Tariffs of Abomination in which the South was paying extreme tariffs to finance public projects in the North. At the time of Lincoln an economic book I read said that SC alone was paying 75% of the federal tax.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:49 AM (vvmPQ)

47 "That we should be ready for the deadliest war ever to take place on American soil?"

I think he's saying remember the aftermath of open/contested conventions. And, there is some merit to it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 06:51 AM (9ym/8)

48 On the Republican side now there is nobody that makes me even want to vote. I used to like Cruz but the more I find out about him the more I see that I can not support him.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:40 AM (vvmPQ)

If those South Carolina Militiamen had not fired the first shot, the Union would have faded away. That's what you get for being impatient.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Bang! at April 09, 2016 06:52 AM (WVsWD)

49 I'd like to whack Jeffrey Toobin and Geraldo Rivera in the face with a sack of flaming horseshit.

Seems redundant, but I'd cheer you on.

Posted by: Hadoop at April 09, 2016 06:52 AM (2X7pN)

50 Vic- What did you learn about Cruz that now you don't want to vote for him?

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 06:54 AM (V9TqF)

51 I used to like Cruz but the more I find out about him the more I see that I can not support him.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Posted by: Hadoop at April 09, 2016 06:54 AM (2X7pN)

52 I think he's saying remember the aftermath of open/contested conventions. And, there is some merit to it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 06:51 AM (9ym/

I know he is find of speaking to the commonest of denominators with that cartoon. Not to serious students of history.

Abe was as addicted to spending OPM as any gopEr today is.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Bang! at April 09, 2016 06:54 AM (WVsWD)

53 Supposed to get three to five inches of snow today in Philly area, mainly on the grass. With forty mile an hour wind gusts. Spring, how does that work in the age of global warming?

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 06:55 AM (ZnIt3)

54 47 I think he's saying remember the aftermath of open/contested conventions. And, there is some merit to it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 06:51 AM (9ym/

I don't think so because primary elections are a relatively new thing. Both parties used to be all "open conventions". That remained until around 1912 when some States started "primaries". But as late as 1968 both parties still did the conventions for selecting candidates. Now all States run some type of primary or caucus to chose their candidate.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:56 AM (vvmPQ)

55 48 If those South Carolina Militiamen had not fired the
first shot, the Union would have faded away. That's what you get for
being impatient.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Bang! at April 09, 2016 06:52 AM (WVsWD)

The actual first shots were fired by people from GA down in Florida. As for SC Lincoln had already dispatched arms, troops and supplies to Charleston.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:58 AM (vvmPQ)

56 To make it clear, the federal power grab had begun almost from the day the Constitution was ratified and any sovereign State should have the right to leave if stepped on. We've been stomped.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 06:58 AM (3+KKq)

57 50 His support for unlimited H1B visas was the first thing and then a few other things cropped up. I think he has also supported common core in the past as well. I don't remember the other ones as well.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:00 AM (vvmPQ)

58 Sorry for you guys up North. It will be in the high sixties here today. I'm gonna be running the timing for our local soapbox derby downtown.

Posted by: freaked at April 09, 2016 07:00 AM (BO/km)

59 "I don't think so because primary elections are a relatively new thing.'

So you think it's a comment on political discord in general?

He's basically saying as near I can tell "the last time we had this much disagreement this guy got elected and you know what happened then."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:00 AM (9ym/8)

60 The actual first shots were fired by people from GA down in Florida. As for SC Lincoln had already dispatched arms, troops and supplies to Charleston.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:58 AM (vvmPQ)

Yeah he did. But the first shots were not fired by Federal Troops. The South done ginned up the outrage. What would of happened if that outrage never existed?

Game that out.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:01 AM (WVsWD)

61 56
To make it clear, the federal power grab had begun almost from the day
the Constitution was ratified and any sovereign State should have the
right to leave if stepped on. We've been stomped.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 06:58 AM (3+KKq)

And that power grab was actually started by Adams, the second President. He had always wanted a powerful central government but was thwarted at the Constitutional Convention.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:03 AM (vvmPQ)

62 59 So you think it's a comment on political discord in general?

He's basically saying as near I can tell "the last time we had this
much disagreement this guy got elected and you know what happened then."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:00 AM (9ym/

It all depends on how he views Lincoln or maybe the era in question.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:04 AM (vvmPQ)

63 We really have no good options. I think he has 'evolved' on the H1B. Didn't know about common core. That's a no go.

There have only been two presidential elections I haven't voted for the lesser of two evils.

*sigh*

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 07:04 AM (V9TqF)

64 60 Yeah he did. But the first shots were not fired by
Federal Troops. The South done ginned up the outrage. What would of
happened if that outrage never existed?

Game that out.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:01 AM (WVsWD)

You forget that Lincoln had refused to even listen to a delegation from the South that had come to Washington to debate for a peaceful separation. While Lincoln was already calling up troops to invade.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:06 AM (vvmPQ)

65 While I was waiting for the EMT I had a owl outside hooting, I've heard them for years but never have seen them so don't know what kind they are.

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 07:06 AM (9VEpl)

66 Morning 'rons!

Awoke to a dusting of snow on the ground this morning.. April 9th! Good thing wee got that global warmening coming any day now..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 09, 2016 07:06 AM (UpGcq)

67 TeeHee

No apology needed needed when I'm taking money from a SuperPac that is headed by the guys lawyer.
Did anyone mention that lawyer is a CoC honcho?

Nuttin says outsider like Mitch McConnell and the Chamber of Commerce.....

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:07 AM (WVsWD)

68 63
We really have no good options. I think he has 'evolved' on the H1B. Didn't know about common core. That's a no go.

There have only been two presidential elections I haven't voted for the lesser of two evils.

*sigh*

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 07:04 AM (V9TqF)

Remarkable that that H1B evolving did not occur until he started running for President, and well into the campaign.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:07 AM (vvmPQ)

69 While Lincoln was already calling up troops to invade.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:06 AM (vvmPQ)

What kind of success was he having? What kind of support was there for a aggressive war before Sumter?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:08 AM (WVsWD)

70 "What would of happened if that outrage never existed? "

That's a big matzo ball. The South, across the swath, thought the Feds were overstepping their bounds according to the Constitution as ratified less than a century earlier.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:09 AM (9ym/8)

71 Agreed Vic. I'm cynical this morning. I don't know how we overcome the FSA.

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 07:10 AM (V9TqF)

72 Gooooood morning, sleepy 'rons!

"People who bow to these idiots only encourage them." - Rinse, repeat. Thank you, Vic.

Scroom all. I will spend today and tomorrow watching a bunch of great guys knock a little white ball around the grass. For two days I will pretend the world is not going to hell in a handbasket and the most important thing in the world is Jordan Spieth holing a twelve-foot putt.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:11 AM (Zq1PA)

73 69 What kind of success was he having? What kind of support was there for a aggressive war before Sumter?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:08 AM (WVsWD)

There was a LOT of support in the NE, primarily MA. As for success in calling up troops all that took was his pen and telegraph.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:11 AM (vvmPQ)

74 I have neighbors here already mowing grass and the sun just started hitting the tops of the trees with temps still hovering around 35F.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:13 AM (vvmPQ)

75 " I will spend today and tomorrow watching a bunch of great guys knock a little white ball around the grass. "

I'm not a golf guy but I too believe I will catch a little of that. It's too great an event to ignore.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:15 AM (9ym/8)

76 Yes, the delegation from the South whose precondition was hands off slavery? The delegation that did not have the support of most Southern state leadership, because it was kinda secret? Too little, too late and Slavery. I hate these discussions because good people get upset, but I can't let only the states rights version of history go unchallenged.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:16 AM (PHxng)

77 Currently 22� here in beautiful Iowa. That's down two degrees since I got up. Yesterday we had rain, sleet and snow simultaneously...while the sun was shining. Wind's been blowing a gale for weeks. I ain't buyin' global warming but if they started talking about global winding I might get onboard.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:16 AM (Zq1PA)

78 Skip, our barred owls hoot sometimes but they make jungle noises mostly. Listen on YouTube when you can.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 07:18 AM (3+KKq)

79 76 I hate these discussions because good people get
upset, but I can't let only the states rights version of history go
unchallenged.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:16 AM (PHxng)

I haven't said anything above that is not absolute fact. The version you got in school is white-washed.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:18 AM (vvmPQ)

80 Is it spring yet?

I was promised Global Warming. I want my Global Warming. Not Climate Change. Not this Disruption nonsense. Warming. Bitch.

Posted by: jsg at April 09, 2016 07:18 AM (58666)

81 I'll take your word on it for now. What I can remember, there was very little enthusiasm in the North for an aggressive war.

Had one of the Confederate States allowed the Feds to fire the first shot, my guess is that things would have turned out different.

I guess South Carolina had ran out of patience. Too many old guys that remember nullification?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:19 AM (WVsWD)

82 I am in the middle of the Michigan GOP convention so between the 4 inches of snow and stupid people I am a bit frosty.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:19 AM (PHxng)

83 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:15 AM (9ym/

I used to play golf and watched the tourneys every weekend when I was married to my first hubby...a four-handicapper. After he died I stopped watching golf and didn't pick it up again for twenty years. When I did I was impressed with the current crop of golfers. Guys like Jordan Spieth and Zack Johnson make it well worth the time.

And the funniest thing happened when I started watching again. I was a lot calmer. Enjoy the afternoon, RK.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:20 AM (Zq1PA)

84 Stupid people here at the convention of course

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:20 AM (PHxng)

85 Sleeting here in central md.

Posted by: Madxmom at April 09, 2016 07:21 AM (/yaWd)

86 Why is Tax Day April 18?

The regular tax return filing deadline is April 15. However, due to the Washington D.C. Emancipation Day holiday being observed on April 15 instead of April 16, 2016, Tax Day is on the following Monday.

Emancipation Day holiday?

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 07:22 AM (ZnIt3)

87 Scroom all. I will spend today and tomorrow watching a bunch of great guys knock a little white ball around the grass. For two days I will pretend the world is not going to hell in a handbasket and the most important thing in the world is Jordan Spieth holing a twelve-foot putt.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:11 AM (Zq1PA)

,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That's exactly what I plan to do as well. I was really hoping that amateur could stay up there with Jordan but when he got the triple bogey on the last hole my hopes were dashed.

Posted by: Molly k. at April 09, 2016 07:22 AM (4aaDj)

88 Smart people - with whom I can completely disagree and still appreciate - are at this blog.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:23 AM (PHxng)

89 By sound is my only hope, it's a whooo WHOOO, whooo WHOOO. Usually a double call, there are two because we can hear them calling back and forth. Also have Broad Winged Hawks that live very close to my yard and come back year after year but move around to different trees every year I think.

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 07:23 AM (9VEpl)

90 Molly, I don't have cable so haven't seen the first two rounds. I wouldn't mind seeing the amateur win but have a really soft spot for Spieth. What a nice guy he is, dedicating his games to his special needs sister.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:24 AM (Zq1PA)

91 81
I'll take your word on it for now. What I can remember, there was very little enthusiasm in the North for an aggressive war.

Had one of the Confederate States allowed the Feds to fire the first
shot, my guess is that things would have turned out different.

I guess South Carolina had ran out of patience. Too many old guys that remember nullification?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Alt History Fan. at April 09, 2016 07:19 AM (WVsWD)

That is true, MA was the hot bed of war calling. And the people in NY absolutely opposed it to the point of riots in NYC. But Lincoln did not need their permission.
Another odd fact that never gets mentioned is that almost all of the federal garrisons in the South had already closed up and left. Ft. Sumter was a holdout and Lincoln wanted that shot fired there, which is why instead of recalling them he dispatched a ship from NY.
but i have to go phone ringing

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:24 AM (vvmPQ)

92 Emancipation Day is a day were all those hard working federal slaves are freed to have the rest of the sping/summer at full pay but only put in 20 hrs a week.

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2016 07:25 AM (9VEpl)

93 Poor Ernie. >3 feet for par and end up with a 9 on the easy hole. Ouch.

Posted by: jsg at April 09, 2016 07:26 AM (58666)

94 Off to vote for Michigan National Committeeman. Be well morons

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 09, 2016 07:27 AM (PHxng)

95 93
Poor Ernie. >3 feet for par and end up with a 9 on the easy hole. Ouch.

Posted by: jsg at April 09, 2016 07:26 AM (58666)
The wheels came off.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:27 AM (Zq1PA)

96 Skip, I got the bright idea to plug a big hollow in a pin oak tree so I got 20 feet up on an extension ladder with a can of foamy goo when I met my local owl face to face.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 07:28 AM (3+KKq)

97 Friday morning was infuriating. I was serious tempted to do some real
damage before leaving the stupid financial scam office that suckered me
in for a job interview. They called on Thursday when I was napping and I
failed to ascertain that they were one of the IT contract jobs I'd
recently applied for. The clues were there, such as asking me to arrived
in 'professional business attire', as if I owned any. I've never known
anyone looking for workers on the blue collar end of IT who would make
such a request. As it is I put on clothes I haven't worn in at least
five years and only very occasionally before that.

The moment I
stepped inside I knew something was wrong. This was some sort of
financial services operation. They bring in dozens of possible recruits
every year, hoping to find one or two guys with the capacity for evil to
sell their crap. Legit companies don't recruit this way.

This
was in North Hollywood, around Laurel and Victory. The general
shoddiness and number of homeless and vehicles that hinted at containing
those just a step above sleeping on the street. Yet only a short drive
up Laurel is Studio City, an area practically dripping with money.
Sometimes it annoys me living out in Castaic because of how far I have
to drive before the slightest prospect of a job appears but at least
anybody living on the streets is less obvious.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 09, 2016 07:28 AM (IdCqF)

98 I remember seeing an owl up close once. It was standing on our front porch and looked about three feet tall. I was standing about three feet away and nearly shat myself. It looked like a little demon.

It immediately bolted. I never realized they were that big.

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 07:29 AM (ZnIt3)

99 Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 07:28 AM (3+KKq)

It's comments like this that make me wish hard for an up-arrow button.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:29 AM (Zq1PA)

100 Awoke to the sound of tree frogs singing. As soon a the first few flakes fell...silence. Now off to Philly to visit another school. Ugh

Posted by: Clarney at April 09, 2016 07:29 AM (u3v3I)

101 I'll take your word on it for now. What I can remember, there was very little enthusiasm in the North for an aggressive war.�

Thats an understatement. Look up New York City Draft riot.

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 07:33 AM (ZnIt3)

102 "I was serious tempted to do some real
damage before leaving the stupid financial scam office that suckered me
in for a job interview."

Epo, don't feel bad. I fell for one of those years ago too. Get a call in response to your resume, need to get this done in a limited time because the client is in a hurry to get moving, make an appointment, yadda, yadda.

Show up and things don't smell right. People aren't acting "right." You get your interview and it's nothing but a hard sell routine.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 07:33 AM (9ym/8)

103 So what's with the UN "taking over the oceans"? Do I really need to worry about that?

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:33 AM (Zq1PA)

104 "Awoke to the sound of tree frogs singing."

Any frogs or toads around here would still be frozen.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Who let the Frogs out? ribbit...ribbitttt at April 09, 2016 07:33 AM (WVsWD)

105 "So what's with the UN "taking over the oceans"? Do I really need to worry about that?'

The useless nations is one vote away from declaring your bath tub full of water a "ocean"

So yes. Start worrying.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Out...Out....OUT!!! at April 09, 2016 07:35 AM (WVsWD)

106 Gonna make me read it, aren't you Tim?

When does the shooting start?

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:37 AM (Zq1PA)

107 I'm supposed to get snow this afternoon. Not sure when it's supposed to start. I'm going to have to try to get out there early to clean up all the branches and mow the lawn.

On the plus side, Glenlivet 18 doesn't cause hangovers.

Posted by: rickl at April 09, 2016 07:37 AM (sdi6R)

108 A temporary price increase given to the U.S. Postal Service in January 2014 it set to expire this weekend. Starting Sunday, April 10, a stamp for a 1-ounce letter will cost 47 cents, down from 49 cents. International letters will drop 5 cents to $1.15 and postcards will be 34 cents, a decrease of 1 cent.

&$9834 The price of meat has just gone up, but your stamp price is going down ♪

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 07:42 AM (ZnIt3)

109 re: UN taking over our bathtubs...FTA

"These are expected to result by the end of 2017 in draft language for a
planned oceans treaty that could then be chewed over for another year or
two in broader international sessions."

It would appear the danger is not imminent, so I will place this one somewhere beneath repealing Obamacare and above re-naming the one hundred thirty-fourth street "Martin Luther King Drive".

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 07:43 AM (Zq1PA)

110 I guess that explains why our last postage meter update for work lowered the price to 48.5 per letter. The entire gov't is a clusterfark.

Posted by: Infidel at April 09, 2016 07:45 AM (V9TqF)

111 I should try and get something accomplished this morning. I really should.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Yawnnnn at April 09, 2016 07:47 AM (WVsWD)

112 Zappa reference from the same song I referenced above.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at April 09, 2016 07:51 AM (hh7FY)

113 Baltimore has sleet, wet snow mixed with rain.

And stupid people.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 07:59 AM (ptqRm)

114 I'm back. Little brother calls every Saturday morning and talks my ear off.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 07:59 AM (vvmPQ)

115 Nothing says good morning like reading a plethora of Vic first thing in the...it's 8:04? Holy shit!

Posted by: Corona at April 09, 2016 08:01 AM (ragzU)

116 The U.S. military has been hindered by an overbearing and inexperienced White House under President Barack Obama, according to each of his three former defense secretaries, causing the Pentagon to struggle to carry out operations and make decisions.

http://tinyurl.com/jatak23

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)

It has nothing to do with inexperience. It has everything to do with Barry wanting to neuter the military. Gays, trannies and gutting the effectiveness of the military.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:01 AM (45oDG)

117 Chris Mathews is getting a little creepy

https://vine.co/v/iIlO67mlb0b

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 08:02 AM (ptqRm)

118 Swiped this from CDR Salamander, and his front porch crew yesterday.

But in the discussion of neutering our military, it bears reading again.

http://tinyurl.com/z85usx4

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 08:04 AM (ptqRm)

119 "http://tinyurl.com/z85usx4"

We're headed for a clobbering. But, maybe we need it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 09, 2016 08:08 AM (9ym/8)

120 Snowflakes at a Dartmouth Sorority party have bowed to a pack of lies and canceled a Kentucky Derby Party which was called racist by a bunch of stupid and uneducated BLM idiot thugs. They said it was racist because the KY Derby had ties to the civil war and slavery. The KY Derby did not start until well after the Civil War and KY was not a Confederate State. People who bow to these idiots only encourage them.

http://tinyurl.com/hy4qldb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)

In today's world we can't let the facts get in the way of the insanity. And what in the hell does horse racing have to do with the Civil War and slavery? Were they racing slaves at one point?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:09 AM (45oDG)

121 Read a global warming scare story this morning. Global warming is causing Icelandic glaciers to melt, causing planet to 'wobble'. No mention of volcanoes underneath the glaciers - there's 30 of them altogether. An 'inconvenient truth' omitted.

In other news, the sky is falling and only the democrats can stop it.

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 09, 2016 08:12 AM (ZnIt3)

122 President Barack Obama on Friday told donors that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were doing Democrats a "favor" by exposing extreme views within their party on issues such as immigration and national security.

Following the law is so extreme.

"He said, 'You know what? I can deliver this message with more flair, with more panache,'" Obama said.

The ego that never quits.

Speaking in an opulent two-storey atrium with marble pillars in the home of billionaire oil heirs Gordon and Ann Getty, where donors paid $33,400 per couple to benefit the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Obama mocked Trump.

Who again is the party of the rich?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:12 AM (45oDG)

123 "Global warming is causing Icelandic glaciers to melt, causing planet to 'wobble'"

Time to go to interplanetary NTB, and toss it on the planet balancing machine.

Easy Peasy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 08:14 AM (ptqRm)

124 I took a muscle relaxer earlier and a pain pill just a few minutes ago for my back. I'm going to wait for the meds to kick in and then operate some machinery.

Posted by: Weasel at April 09, 2016 08:17 AM (e3bId)

125 "and then operate some machinery."

You did wash them down with a beer, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 08:18 AM (ptqRm)

126 123
"Global warming is causing Icelandic glaciers to melt, causing planet to 'wobble'"

Time to go to interplanetary NTB, and toss it on the planet balancing machine.

Easy Peasy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2016 08:14 AM (ptqRm)

Actually the northern ice caps are melting because some of the currents in the Atlantic have shifted causing the northern latitude ocean to warm. At the same time due to that shift the ice caps at the southern side have increased because the southern oceans have cooled.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 08:18 AM (vvmPQ)

127 Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:12 AM (45oDG)

Was there any report on how many people actually coughed up thirty grand to see Obastard?

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 08:18 AM (Zq1PA)

128 nood

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 08:19 AM (vvmPQ)

129 Weasel, the meds won't help unless you washed them down with a double shot of Scotch.

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 08:19 AM (Zq1PA)

130 The Gettys - ugh. The most dysfunctional family evah!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 09, 2016 08:21 AM (iQIUe)

131 Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:12 AM (45oDG)

Was there any report on how many people actually coughed up thirty grand to see Obastard?

Posted by: creeper at April 09, 2016 08:18 AM (Zq1PA)

But he told about 100 people at the annual "signature" fundraising dinner for Nancy Pelosi, Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, that Trump had laid bare what some in the Republican party had been saying for years.

But wait up there's more!

It was Obama's fourth stop on a fundraising swing through San Francisco and Los Angeles. Earlier, in San Francisco, Obama held a private roundtable at the Potrero Hill home of Susan Sandler and Steve Philips for the Democratic National Committee with about 25 people who paid up to $33,400 to attend.

He started Friday in Los Angeles with a breakfast event at the Brentwood home of "Spiderman" actor Tobey Maguire, closed to the media, where an undisclosed number of $33,400-tickets raised money for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

On Thursday, he spoke at a fundraising dinner for the DCCC in a tent with seating for about 80 people outside the Bel Air home of Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and Cindy Horn, an environmental activist.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:21 AM (45oDG)

132 I'm going to wait for the meds to kick in and then operate some machinery.Posted by: Weasel

Just don't run with scissors in your hands.

Posted by: Mothers Everywhere at April 09, 2016 08:21 AM (ZnIt3)

133
All these wealthy people supporting and loving this commie turd and his anti-American policies. I really wish everything these vile bastards support would blow up in their faces. But the common man is the only one who pays for their stupidity and vanity.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:26 AM (45oDG)

134 120
And what in the hell does horse racing have to do with the Civil War and slavery? Were they racing slaves at one point?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 09, 2016 08:09 AM (45oDG)

The snowflakes were probably thinking of the song "Camptown Races" which was performed in the old minstrel shows. Thus, horse racing = racism.

Posted by: rickl at April 09, 2016 08:30 AM (sdi6R)

135 >>>The teams get penalized for too much power consumption during the race and halfway through the race the driver, wait for it,

Changes cars! Wth is this? I knew the batteries were crap but dang. Changing cars during the race.<<<

That's frickin absurd. You ever get the feeling we're living in an alternative universe where nothing makes sense?

Posted by: Fritz at April 09, 2016 08:30 AM (UzPAd)

136 I love bacon!

Posted by: Mad hatter at April 09, 2016 08:36 AM (xCLaT)

137 Maybe they were thinking of lawn jockeys, too.

Posted by: rickl at April 09, 2016 08:38 AM (sdi6R)

138 134 The snowflakes were probably thinking of the song
"Camptown Races" which was performed in the old minstrel shows. Thus,
horse racing = racism.

Posted by: rickl at April 09, 2016 08:30 AM (sdi6R)

Ironic that Camptown Races was written by Stephen Foster who was a Northerner who only visited the South one time.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 09, 2016 08:51 AM (vvmPQ)

139 124
I took a muscle relaxer earlier and a pain pill just a few minutes ago
for my back. I'm going to wait for the meds to kick in and then operate
some machinery.

Posted by: Weasel at April 09, 2016 08:17 AM
~~~
Ugh. Wish I had them. I've been bent over since Thursday AM. Not a disc--I get muscle spasms. Using a combination of Aleve, Advil, and/or Tylenol. Right now alternating Advil and Tylenol every two hours. Absolutely miserable, and I've got about 40 people coming to my house tomorrow for oldest son's surprise party.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 09, 2016 09:17 AM (E6RIJ)

140 Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby, yes he was a more authentic African American than our President

Posted by: tmitsss at April 09, 2016 09:53 AM (L0IIq)

141 The Ramirez cartoon is simple. Lincoln was the product of a contested convention. He won on the third ballot.

Posted by: burke at April 09, 2016 10:32 AM (dsrlq)

142 Obama, the other day, mentioned that the judiciary now in place would make a difference.

President Cruz will help rectify that liberal judge problem.

Posted by: Ralph at April 09, 2016 11:06 AM (AShJK)

143 Being a Obama supporter allows you to smile as one of his non islamic terrorists slit your throat.

Posted by: Buffalbob at April 09, 2016 04:33 PM (8nL8o)

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