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Overnight Open Thread (4-19-2016) - Hate Cake Edition
"The man who killed Trayvon Martin should have never had a gun in the first place."
-- Hillary Clinton in a campaign appearance this week
I think we are detecting a pattern here. If all the anti-Israel, terror-accommodating Swedish officials were forced to resign, they wouldn't be able to staff a government.
-- John Hinderaker commenting on Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister, Åsa Romson, who insists on referring to the 9/11 attacks as 'accidents'
Quote of the Day III - Lacuna of Leadership Edition
No military can remain a military if hostile powers routinely launch missiles at its $7 billion aircraft carriers, ship-jack its vessels and humiliate the crew, or buzz destroyers to interrupt naval exercises. Yet this is now the new normal of the U.S. military and Navy in particular. These provocations at sea and in the air will increase, as Iran, Russia, and perhaps soon China grasp that there are no consequences to symbolically humiliating the U.S, but some utility thereby in limiting its range and outreach to allies. Perhaps to avoid the harassment, we can rename destroyers "outreach vessels," carriers can become "safe spaces," and jet-fighters can be "contingency operators."
-- Victor Davis Hanson
"We believe in a layered approach."
-- Douglas County, CO schools spokesperson Paula Hans explaining why school security officers have AR-15s in addition to their pistols
Bernie Sanders Pays Way Too Little Taxes According to...Bernie Sanders
Tax deductions are practically like stealing from the public according to Sanders. But of course he takes every single possible one he can. Because it's not hypocrisy if you care.
Bernie Sanders released his 2014 tax return this weekend, revealing that he and his wife took $60,208 in deductions from their taxable income. These deductions are all perfectly legal and permitted under the U.S. tax code, but they present a morally inconvenient, if delicious, irony: The Democratic socialist from Vermont, a man who rages against high earners paying a lower effective tax rate than blue-collar workers, saved himself thousands using many of the tricks that would be banned under his own tax plan.With all of his itemized deductions, Sanders's taxable income was significantly lower than it would have been if he had taken the standard deduction. The deductions left Sanders and his wife paying $27,653 in federal income taxes in 2014, on a joint income of $205,271 - an effective federal tax rate of 13.5 percent. If that seems low to you, your instincts are right: According to the Tax Foundation, the average federal income-tax rate for a couple making $200,000 to $500,000 in 2014 was 15.2 percent. The "millionaires and billionaires" that Sanders is so fond of berating payed, on average, just more than twice as much of their income (27.4 percent) in federal taxes as he did.
On the campaign trail, Sanders's taxation philosophy is simple: If you can pay more, you should; deductions are not a justifiable reason for a wealthy person to pay a lower effective rate than someone who earns less. His web site declares, "We need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay. It is not acceptable that corporate CEOs in this country often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than their secretaries."
...What Sanders did, using every option and advantage available under a Byzantine tax code to minimize his tax payment, is a normal practice for many Americans. But it's also exactly what the targets of his anger do. You can argue about whether or not that's greed, but it's impossible to argue that it isn't hypocrisy. The paragon of liberal purity is not as pure as he'd like the world to believe.
Millennials and Marriage and Divorce
Respondents were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement that "Divorce is usually the best solution when a couple can't seem to work out their marriage problems." In 2002, about half of Americans disagreed. Within a decade, the share had risen to more than 60 percent. In the most recent data, younger Americans - a cohort with the lowest marriage rates on record, mind you - were especially likely to perceive divorce as an unacceptable response to marital strain.
Trans-Friendly Series 'Transparent' Film Crew Outraged Over 'Trans-Friendly' Bathrooms
The beef is that men, women and transgenders can all enter as they please, making it uncomfortable for some of the crew. Women are particularly worried about walking in and seeing a dude peeing at the urinal.
Now this is interesting . we're told several crew members are too scared to complain, for fear they'll be labeled "transphobic," which would be the kiss of death on that set.
Note that crew members have unions that that they can complain to. I foresee a lot of hostile workplace lawsuits coming in the future over the new anything-goes bathroom policies.
And Who Loves Open Gender-Free Bathrooms? Perverts That's Who
Kean University racism protester to face jail time for tweeting fake death threats
No consciousness was raised but $200K worth of public resources were wasted .
Ukraine's New Prime Minister is Jewish
Historically Ukraine hasn't been a particularly Jewish-friendly place.
Proposal to Consider Restarting the F-22 Line in This Year's Defense Authorization Bill
"Boaty McBoatface" Wins Internet Poll; UK Science Minister Says No
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Part 4
When You Tell a Woman to Keep Her Clothes On, Are You Slut-Shaming?
48% Of People Who Buy Vinyl Don't Even Listen To It
The Yahoo group is for closers only.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:03 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:04 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:05 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:05 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:05 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:05 PM (jVvcc)
NO! let this be a safe space for a few minutes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (jVvcc)
Labor Unions have fought for, and won, a $15 minimum wage for everyone in many California... everyone except their own members!
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11567
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:06 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:08 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:09 PM (46G6B)
Fuck em. Let them wallow in their own shit downstairs. This ont is classy and luxurious, just the best. I mean, except for that puddle of...something...in the corner. That's not so classy.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 19, 2016 11:09 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:10 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:10 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:08 PM (pAlYe)
And I'm going downstairs to watch and laugh. Anybody that's coming with me, I've got popcorn and beer.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (Zu3d9)
I am so sick of the JEF and what his lack of leadership has wrought.
Posted by: ALH at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (Z56vq)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:08 PM (pAlYe)
So watching hockey is not as entertaining as the thread below?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:11 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: rexbatt at April 19, 2016 11:12 PM (woA40)
Posted by: Hiyoooo! at April 19, 2016 11:12 PM (dHVbM)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 11:12 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Hillary 2016 at April 19, 2016 11:12 PM (gwG9s)
Ukraine and Poland really lost the lottery when it came to geography and unpleasant neighbors.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:13 PM (J+n2j)
-- Hillary Clinton
Q: On what basis?
A: Nobody should have a gun.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 19, 2016 11:13 PM (T78UI)
That's what I was worried about andycanuck
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:14 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (Z58Xa)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (J+n2j)
Can't. Someone who definitely wasn't me broke into my house and drank all the gin. And used up all the lemons. That guy's a jerk.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Chupacabra at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (Lv0zB)
One of the biggest effects is on the children, who have trouble with abandonment, and there are huge stresses for no other reason than suddenly the broken up family has to support two households on one household worth of earning.
It is a series of somewhat useful case-histories, followed up, but rigorous only in light that it is a psychologist who was doing it. Unfortunately one of the findings was that divorcing "for the children" actually hurts the children less than if, for example, instead of a divorce, one of the parents died.
Now that was a blow between the eyes when I read that.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (46G6B)
But... there's something I failed to take into account. It's kind of hard to sit and chat while someone's singing. What's the point of a meetup, if not to chat amongst ourselves?
So, I officially retract that suggestion. If you see this comment, BTH and Emmie, I now agree with you guys that it was bad idea, and I fully retract the suggestion.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:08 PM (pAlYe)
No, no....take your time. Be thorough....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:16 PM (EzgxV)
That is almost exactly what happened to me!
Luckily I had half a case of Brokers Gin in the closet.
[What? Yes, I buy booze by the case. Don't you?]
Try it with grapefruit juice....but fresh. That makes all the difference.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:17 PM (Zu3d9)
I haven't read the Slate column that sparked the thread; I'm reading the comments first.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:17 PM (jVvcc)
Use the next sink, you pervert! I'm taking a dump in this one...
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 19, 2016 11:17 PM (OLNwX)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (J+n2j)
Posted by: Minnidel at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (mv76s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (ntObR)
Because who needs their Lipitor to work?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (voOPb)
Or she will get you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (AroJD)
LOL.
A year ago I bought a copy of Weird Al Yankovic's latest album, "Mandatory Fun," on vinyl at Fry's Electronics.
It came with a download code, so I've never had to haul out my vintage 1983 belt-drive Technics turntable, with P-mount phono cartridge, to listen to it. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:19 PM (ntObR)
seems like someone wants to tell a story as sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly as possible.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:20 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: edmundburkesshade at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (nUTvL)
Posted by: Beanie Babies at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (gwG9s)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (voOPb)
Heh....I think only one of the statins is effected by grapefruit juice, but for some reason everyone thinks that they all are.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (J+n2j)
They aren't competitors. They aren't meant to be substituted for each other. They are entirely different designs for entirely different missions, and are meant to be used together.
Posted by: try landing an F-22 on a carrier at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (dHVbM)
They are basically collector items that a person will never use.
Posted by: The Musical Hat at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Minnidel at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (mv76s)
yank anything useful out of the f35 and put it on the new f22s.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (J+n2j)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:18 PM (J+n2j)
I'm sorry to heat that. Mine died 11 years ago this month. My step mom. Nothing's ever kicked my legs out from under me worse than that.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (46G6B)
And that kids, it how properly be a Prepper. I usually go with Bulldog, but Brokers is very good.
I think next time I'm gonna add some club soda.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Chupacabra at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (Lv0zB)
-- Hillary Clinton
Q: On what basis?
A: Nobody should have a gun
-----------------------------
With the exception of her bodyguards, of course.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (3Mimg)
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (heN73)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:08 PM (pAlYe)
Souls go to the barrel, corpse to the Elks Lodge dumpster.
*morbidly ponders if Maet has a tally mark for all those he has reaped on the wall next to the computer*
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: try landing an F-22 on a carrier at April 19, 2016 11:21 PM (dHVbM)
yeah but the Navy does not really want a single engine fighter do they?
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (vb33c)
I say, everyone run to her Twitter feed and scream back at her: why isn't she upset Bernie isn't paying his fair share?
Honestly, I think that woman is even more of a hateful narcissist than Hillary.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (ntObR)
Heh....I think only one of the statins is effected by grapefruit juice, but for some reason everyone thinks that they all are
I love grapefruit. My doc & the prescription bottle say no grapefruit. I also love gin but the world says no gin. I manage
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2016 11:12 PM (0mRoj)
I'd love to see the tax returns of all those super rich super liberals in Hollywood. Ya know, those humanitarians who blubber about income inequality, and then have their agents negotiate for obscene salaries for making a stinking movie that will probably tank?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (+lVUW)
Lena Dunham (say) didn't have to make her likewise-mediocre body an issue, yet she did. We are doing her a *kindness* when we tell her to cover up and to keep on topic of... all that... other intelligent stuff... she has to share...
Oh hell.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:24 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:24 PM (J+n2j)
"This is an issue only for lovastatin and simvastatin and is only problematic at the highest dosages," says Dr. Nissen, Cardiovascular Medicine Department Chair at Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:24 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (vb33c)
What if I have a $25,000 tube amp? (I actually know someone who did that. I pray that he always hears the difference.)
Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:23 PM (vb33c)
As long as it has the glide-slope of a brick it's all good.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (T78UI)
Long ago someone, (possibly he ont) linked a blog that had a bunch of photos from the 70's, and said that they all looked like they were about to have an orgy. But they used a euphemism of "about to make pancakes," or waffles or something.
Does anyone remember what blog that was? I thought it was James Lileks, but could not find it on his site.
Anyone remember this?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (LWu6U)
Hat, I also agree. The thing about vinyl is, you don't have to necessary play the vinyl to enjoy it. The object itself is a work of art IMHO, particularly the center label design, outer jacket, and inner sleeve.
Back in 1984 when I bought my first copy of "The Crossing" by Big Country, I immediately fell in love... with the pitch-black Mercury logo label in the middle of the LP. I'm not kidding, I thought it was beautiful. It made the whole thing look like a slice of carefully grooved obsidian.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:26 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:26 PM (zOTsN)
I'm thinking about getting a home base, then maybe one for my car later for the annual Dallas to Detroit and back romp.
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:26 PM (heN73)
Public floggings. Period.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:26 PM (pUDQf)
-- Hillary Clinton
The democrats used to pretend to believe in controlling spending, limiting regulations, and they used to pretend that they didn't want to take your guns (at least when they campaigned in Michigan).
They're no longer pretending. They've gone full batshit crazy lefty.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Josephistan at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (7qAYi)
I wouldn't call telling Lena Dunham to put on her clothes, slut shaming. I would call it being sensible.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: ALH at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (Z56vq)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:26 PM (heN73)
dallas to detroit and back sounds less like a romp and more like a rescue mission.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:10 PM (jVvcc)
They serving that stuff in colleges now? People don't need chemical help to go off the rails.
Posted by: Splunge at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (iMxBJ)
Another blow against democracy.
Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (heN73)
as I hunker down, trembling in the darkness, hoping that the vengeful banhammer will pass me by, yet again.
Let me live, I pray, I have oceans of snark, and potential puns to compose . . .
Well, maybe compose is the wrong term. It would be better put to say I have potential puns to impose.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (46G6B)
When this becomes the norm, all is lost.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (vb33c)
Expendables IV plot, go!
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at April 19, 2016 11:30 PM (Ojki1)
I wiped bacon on the lintels of my monitor.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:30 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 19, 2016 11:30 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (KlVdw)
Clear case of self-defense.
Posted by: Splunge at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Mikey at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: ALH at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (Z56vq)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:27 PM (+lVUW)
The house of cards they're standing on is collapsing, but they think they're close enough to reach for the brass ring and lock everything up before the collapse. It's on us to prove them wrong.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (J+n2j)
(I'm sure it's been said before but probably worth a repeat)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (39g3+)
--------------
Appropo of very little, when I was buying my stereo twenty plus years ago the salesman compared a $500 and a $2000 turntable, switching the cartridge/needle between the two. The difference between the two was astonishing.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (3Mimg)
I think I'd rather see Marie Osmond back when she was porker nekkid -- and pissing herself as she did on that cruise ship stage, than that.
Well, the list of things I'd rather see over nekkid Lena, or just Lena in general is exhaustive.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:32 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:32 PM (Bgg2j)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of
equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (rwI+c)
Trayvon was Obama's son he never had.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at April 19, 2016 11:32 PM (T78UI)
Dunham is fat and out of shape. That's the truth. But we can't say the emporer has no clothes. The truth is blasphemy.
When this becomes the norm, all is lost.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
At times like this, the phrase "the truth will set you free" takes on entirely new shades of meaning. In their web of lies, in their funhouse mirror bizarro world is the soul and essence of slavery.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 19, 2016 11:32 PM (HalrA)
So would Cthulhu apparently.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (46G6B)
Crew of Transparent not so thrilled about having to use a trans-friendly bathroom.
This is like when it was pointed out that professional, liberal hypocrit Micheal Moore was shown to have not had union crews for his movies.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (KlVdw)
"This is an issue only for lovastatin and simvastatin and is only problematic at the highest dosages," says Dr. Nissen, Cardiovascular Medicine Department Chair at Cleveland Clinic's Heart and Vascular Institute.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 19, 2016 11:24 PM (Zu3d9)
Doc: dammit MH what happened to your cholestrol levels?
Me: maybe I've been partaking of grapefruit
Doc: what the hell are you doing? I told you no grapefruit
Me: but Charlie Browns Dildo told me it's ok
Doc: the food guy is a doc too? Huh, didn't know that
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Splunge at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (pAlYe)
Also, do you remember the brands? I remember back in the 1980s, Technics had a good rep for affordable quality, and they also supposedly had a top-quality arm mechanism.
OTOH, the prestige brands were Denon, Dual, Bang & Olufsen, and McIntosh.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:32 PM (DW+jj)
Wait, what???
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (heN73)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (Ozsfq)
In 1990, yes. The SH and -35 are far superior today.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (Bgg2j)
Yesterday somebody made fun of my legwarmers. :-(
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:35 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (vb33c)
yeah don't hold your breath....especially if an "R", any "R", doesn't win the next Election
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:35 PM (Ozsfq)
I'd put my little SET tube system against most anything in a normal room for pure audio pleasure. But most audiophiles would absolutely hate how much fun it is to listen to.
Posted by: Chupacabra at April 19, 2016 11:36 PM (Lv0zB)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (zOTsN)
No, no, no. Just no. "Who is phone?"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:36 PM (46G6B)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:36 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:24 PM (pUDQf)
Bring back dueling. It'd solve 99%.
Posted by: Aaron Bthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (iQIUe)
http://tinyurl.com/jhxcxsh
Posted by: Thrawn at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (LlaxB)
Posted by: Zombie Ted Stevens at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (J+n2j)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (k4M/B)
I can (usually) tell the difference.
I can also tell the difference between $100, $1000, and $10000 amps, but it isn't worth paying for to me, I can listen to a pocket mp3 player and be relatively happy.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (wB8Tg)
Our problem in a nutshell.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (rwI+c)
I admit I think I got a defective model, only four years later it had burnt out its pre-tune memory. But, wouldn't mind having another one of them, if I can find one that's in good condition, affordable and still works okay.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (ntObR)
In 1990, yes. The SH and -35 are far superior today.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (Bgg2j)
A) it remains to be seen what kind of a platform the F35 is or will be, if it ever will be in all it's various forms
B) The F-22 is ONLY an Air Force Air Superiority Frame and nothing else. It does NOTHING to solve the server shortfall in the Navy or Marines Air Needs
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (9mTYi)
Went to an audio show once. There was a large room with the ultimate stereo in it. Huge speakers. Huge tube amps that didn't look like a one-person lift. Turntable with a giant heavy disk of aluminum for a platter, with a visible belt driven by a motor that was at least a foot away. That rig must have been 6 figures.
They played some piano music, and damn if it didn't sound like there had to be a real piano in the room. The notes radiating from distinct points and everything. But...is that so important?
Posted by: Splunge at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (iMxBJ)
Well, there aren't such things. They have hi-bypass turbo-fans, with re-heat. I like the English term.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (Bgg2j)
Vinyl is inherently better than MP3, sure. It also wears out, as the needle scratches over those same grooves. Did the Pina Colada Song teach you nothing?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (6FqZa)
You know how the left always starts these stupid petitions that carry no
weight and are useless? I'd like to start one demanding that Hills
gives up all her armed guards. See how many lefties would sign it.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (iQIUe)
Guns are bad and the government needs to set an example for the people. Start banning firearms at the government level!
Posted by: Starflower Moonchild at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (DW+jj)
Did any get on her feet? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dick Morris at April 19, 2016 11:39 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (zOTsN)
what do yu mean?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:39 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at April 19, 2016 11:39 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:34 PM (Bgg2j)
A) it remains to be seen what kind of a platform the F35 is or will be, if it ever will be in all it's various forms
B) The F-22 is ONLY an Air Force Air Superiority Frame and nothing else. It does NOTHING to solve the server shortfall in the Navy or Marines Air Needs
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (Ozsfq)
well that's what you Navy guys get for not going with the Super Tomcat instead of the Super Hornet.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (vb33c)
The spendy one was far superior, it was as if I could hear into the music while the cheaper one was presenting just the surface sound.
Those were the brands but who can remember that far back.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (3Mimg)
If they were 1980s-era fluorescent legwarmers, you should have got compliments from the hipsters.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (6FqZa)
------
Who says you can't annoy them back with some fire?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Blano at April 19, 2016 11:22 PM (heN73)
as I hunker down, trembling in the darkness, hoping that the vengeful banhammer will pass me by, yet again.
Let me live, I pray, I have oceans of snark, and potential puns to compose . . .
Well, maybe compose is the wrong term. It would be better put to say I have potential puns to impose.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (46G6B)
At AoSHQ, everyone will have their 15 minutes of bannination....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (EzgxV)
That sumbitch Alexander Hamilton annoyed the hell out of me, and I shot that mothereffer dead right there.
Annoyin' people need killin'.
Posted by: Arron Burr at April 19, 2016 11:40 PM (DW+jj)
Sheesh, no wonder I avoid election threads now...
Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (D0J8L)
Then CDs came out and that kind of went out the window. And I still remember how the record companies absolutely panicked when DAT recorders showed up; it was great technology and I wish it could have caught on, but no. That was a classic example of something being made scarce, only because idiots in industry had too much control over government resources and licensing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (ntObR)
When this becomes the norm, all is lost.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 19, 2016 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
Rectification of names, bitchez!
Posted by: cthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (EzgxV)
that had a bunch of photos from the 70's, and said that they all looked
like they were about to have an orgy. But they used a euphemism of
"about to make pancakes," or waffles or something.
Does anyone remember what blog that was? I thought it was James Lileks, but could not find it on his site.
Anyone remember this?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (LWu6U)
Was it this?
http:// www. retrospace. org / search?q=pancakesmax-results=20by-date=false
Posted by: Armando at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (1cff1)
But for the Sec of State it is just dandy I guess?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (Bgg2j)
only because we have not made them, yet.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:41 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (J+n2j)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:25 PM (vb33c)
If slut shaming is such a problem, why isn't Kate Upton having problems with it?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (39g3+)
Sure, I'd love if I could have a system approaching that level someday, but I've since realized if you never have that kind of money... you're not missing *that* much.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (ntObR)
NAVAIR is working that out. USAF and Marines are training on them. Seem to be happy. Navy is last.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (Bgg2j)
her so tickled, she was laughing so hard, she just pissed herself right
there in front of God and everybody as one of my old aunts used to say.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:38 PM (DW+jj)
Pregnancy is hard on women, especially regarding the bladder and various sphincters. Apparently young mothers aren't told these things.
"Mom, why do you have a pair of panties in your purse?"
"Well, honey, when I was young and I had panties in my purse, it meant I got excited and maybe did some things. Now it means when I was out with my friends I laughed so hard I peed a little."
"Uh, don't tell me these things, OK?"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (46G6B)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (+lVUW)
Because anyone who asked her to put her clothes back on would get whaled on?
Posted by: Splunge at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (iMxBJ)
President of bombed country said we can handle a little terrorism.
Posted by: t-bird at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (Z58Xa)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (J+n2j)
the times, they are a changing
Sigh
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:44 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 19, 2016 11:33 PM (pAlYe)
Might we inquire which nics?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 19, 2016 11:44 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (+lVUW)
heh
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:44 PM (vb33c)
-- Hillary Clinton in a campaign appearance this week
The woman who gave birth to Chelsea should never have had a cooch in the first place.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 11:44 PM (oKE6c)
If slut shaming is such a problem, why isn't Kate Upton having problems with it?
She seems very loyal to Verlander.
...dammit
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:45 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:45 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:43 PM (Bgg2j)
Not so sure "happy" is the term I would use and they are coming on line so slowly that it is severely effecting combat readiness and air worthiness across the Fleet and the Air Force
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:45 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 19, 2016 11:45 PM (fC9RO)
Unfortunately I have found it's next to impossible to find decent new-model cassette tape decks anymore. And the Dolby HX Pro and dbx noise reduction systems are long gone.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:45 PM (ntObR)
E's have the latest avionics. A is a n F-35 is a revelation.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:46 PM (Bgg2j)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:46 PM (39g3+)
https://tinyurl.com/jhg5jb6
It's an entire album of songs previously recorded by Frank Sinatra.
A musical legend paying sincere tribute to another musical legend. What's not to like about that?
Bob will turn 75 next month. He's like Honey Badger. He don't give a shit. He ain't no sixties nostalgia act, that's for sure.
I'm hoping that the new album, "Fallen Angels", which *also* consists entirely of Sinatra songs, will be more swinging. From the titles, I strongly suspect that will be the case. I am very much looking forward to it, and also to the concert in July.
https://tinyurl.com/jjc9bl2
Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 11:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (46G6B)
Well, Dick, if you like, there's some websites out there that might interest you, I think. There are some nice gals out there who can hit your feet, from 15' away.
I mean, they're gonna win any pissin' contest you want.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (DW+jj)
but it isn't worth paying for to me, I can listen to a pocket mp3
player and be relatively happy."
Back when Dr. Jerry Pournelle was cranking out computer hardware reviews for the likes of _Byte_ magazine, including sound cards and speakers, an acquaintance of mine said to him at an L.A. science fiction fandom get-together, "Hey, Jerry, with all due respect -- maybe you ought to quit reviewing audio gear."
Pournelle, a former artilleryman, said "What?"
Posted by: torquewrench at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (noWW6)
I've wondered if he's actually still a Christian.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (AroJD)
I would love to see a new F-15 with the same engines and vectored thrust as the F-22, and at a cheaper price. no stealth, but high performance.
And I do wonder if the F-22 could be engineered to be able to land on a carrier, and be cat-shot launched (heavier frame and landing gear?). It is really a fantastic airplane. We just don't have enough of them.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....tortured American at April 19, 2016 11:49 PM (+1T7c)
Posted by: redridinghood at April 19, 2016 11:49 PM (7GQM/)
Didn't Frank then later on cover the same song? I think he did.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:49 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:50 PM (zOTsN)
NGU, thirty year old C/D's have better awareness and SW?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:50 PM (Bgg2j)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:42 PM (39g3+)
****
Hey now........
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 19, 2016 11:50 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:51 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:51 PM (ntObR)
Keep 'em clean as you can, replace your needle every 1,000 hours or so, and store them carefully. Then just enjoy them. I have no plans on having a bunch of once-played records be bought at my estate sale by some pony-tailed dweeb just to be flipped on Discogs.
Posted by: Chupacabra at April 19, 2016 11:51 PM (Lv0zB)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 19, 2016 11:52 PM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:50 PM (Bgg2j)
No but the F35s are not coming on line fast enough
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:52 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: ALH at April 19, 2016 11:31 PM (Z56vq)
Yeah, but most people have the good taste to not inflict their naked flabbiness on the public.
No one should have to look at some stranger's cottage cheese butt.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 19, 2016 11:52 PM (+lVUW)
of our Israeli friends) couldn't bring to a swift resolution."
Hottest air to air F-15s in the skies are the ones which are in the hands of... our "trusted allies", the Saudis. Fly-by-wire, composite wings, activation of stores stations prohibited on earlier variants.
The U.S. could be flying those itself today, no problem. But instead, all efforts are directed towards the amazing new F-35 Faceplant.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 11:46 PM (39g3+)
She's my age, looks good today, and yes I would hit her for 2:30 minutes
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: torquewrench at April 19, 2016 11:48 PM (noWW6) fnord (noWW6)
Heh.
People with no taste frequently have strong opinions on food as well (and by "no taste" I mean inability to taste certain chemicals, not "unrefined taste"). See the "bay leaf" miniversy the other day.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (fC9RO)
Had a neighbor who got in the same fix, but slowly. It wasn't cancerous, just benign. They had to ream it out, but there was complication after complication. It ended up where he had lost control of his urinary sphincter completely and would just constantly piss himself.
The fix was an artificial sphincter. He had a little pump and release that they hung down in his scrotum. To pee, he had to release it, then pump it back up. It took a while to get the hang of it and not piss all over his hands when he hit the release.
Then, he had a stroke.....
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....tortured American at April 19, 2016 11:49 PM (+1T7c)
the short answer is no...which is why in the past the old "one plane to fill all roles" has always been a bad idea.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (Ozsfq)
I'd like to think my niece, nephew and other young'uns I'm related to by the time I pass, will take those CDs and listen to them. Most are classic rock, pop and jazz from about 1955 to 1990. I will be sure to tell my niece and nephew especially, I hope they listen to them.
But who knows. They might just sell 'em all for a nickel each at the estate sale.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:54 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:55 PM (voOPb)
No, could not. It would be heavier and more expensive. That's the nature of carrier-borne aircraft. The F-35 is the navalized F-22.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:55 PM (Bgg2j)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....tortured American at April 19, 2016 11:49 PM (+1T7c) fnord (+1T7c)
*cough* ASF-14 *cough*
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 19, 2016 11:56 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 19, 2016 11:53 PM (voOPb)
****
2:30 minutes with current Marie? Are you some kinda sexual Marathon guy?
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 19, 2016 11:56 PM (YLidQ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:56 PM (ntObR)
No, could not. It would be heavier and more expensive. That's the nature of carrier-borne aircraft. The F-35 is the navalized F-22.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:55 PM (Bgg2j)
how difference was the performance of the Air Force F4 and NavyF4?
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:56 PM (vb33c)
http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (6FqZa)
F-35s have no better avionics and missiles? 35 years later?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (Bgg2j)
It's nice that Maet has a hobby he enjoys.
Posted by: mindful webworker - staring into oblivion at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (5a8XA)
She looks great now, and is indeed a "GILF". But she did get to be sort of a porker before.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (DW+jj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (vb33c)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 11:44 PM (oKE6c)
Why do you think she uses a strap-on on me...
Posted by: Huma at April 19, 2016 11:58 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 11:57 PM (Bgg2j)
I am not sure what point your trying to make? I am not arguing with you, just pointing out that the F-35 is so far behind schedule that it is putting The Navy between a rock and hard place?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 19, 2016 11:59 PM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 19, 2016 11:59 PM (wDUlv)
The F-35A has far more radar and missiles. It has the same engine power as the F-15A.
It's not going away.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:00 AM (Bgg2j)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 19, 2016 11:51 PM (ntObR)
I don't have a link, but I read that Frank invited Bob to his 80th birthday party, which was a small and intimate gathering. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were also there, and I'm not sure who else. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall in that room.
Posted by: rickl at April 20, 2016 12:01 AM (sdi6R)
She was always pretty even when chubby.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 20, 2016 12:01 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 20, 2016 12:02 AM (YJmuy)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722470798426910720
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722471248492515328
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722471630681735168
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722472409861783552
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722473047119122434
Posted by: kbdabear at April 20, 2016 12:03 AM (wDUlv)
Not arguing either. The F-35 can see so far much farther, react so much quicker, and, launch so much farther than any F-14 or SH. It supplants the SH as fleet defense as it enters service.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:03 AM (Bgg2j)
Hey, I asked L' elle out for drinks and dinner and haven't heard back so if you see her...
*!SMACK, POW, BIFF, KNEE TO BALLS, HIGH HEEL COMBAT BOOT STOMP!*
...
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 20, 2016 12:04 AM (KId5h)
Physics 101 indicates that raw aperture size matters in radar resolution.
Aperture size in an aircraft is gated by the physical dimension of the nose, where the radar itself is installed.
What the F-35 has squeezed into it is an advanced AESA radar. Of small aperture, because the dimensions of the rest of the jet inexorably dictate a small nose.
There's no reason that a considerably bigger and better AESA could not be installed in an F-15, and in fact the Air Force's own interim fleet update plan calls for exactly that, with "Golden Eagles" which are meant to benefit from a bunch of advanced technology inserts.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 12:04 AM (noWW6)
http://tinyurl.com/jhxcxsh
Posted by: Thrawn at April 19, 2016 11:37 PM (LlaxB)
Sadly, these people really believe that we care about their personal lives. As long as they aren't killing people in drunk driving accidents or spreading aids, I don't much care what they do.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 20, 2016 12:05 AM (+lVUW)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722481423349891072
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722481738891534336
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722481995448770560
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722482689450905601
Posted by: kbdabear at April 20, 2016 12:05 AM (wDUlv)
The F-35A has far more radar and missiles. It has the same engine power as the F-15A.
It's not going away.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:00 AM (Bgg2j)
i don't think that is the question he was asking. he was asking how the F4 was able to be both an Air Force Air Superiority Fighter and an Navy Carrier Jet at the same time. And the answer is, although I am NOT an expert on these things, that it was not a very dog fighting Air Superiority Air Force Fighter and the smaller more agile Russian Jets presented some problems
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 20, 2016 12:05 AM (Ozsfq)
Bbc radio had a guy on today. He is color blind. Said he is "Trans species". He has had an antenna surgically attached to his skull. It emits some kind of noise when someone sends him a color "message" so he "hears" color. Says he believes he has merged with the Internet. The U.K. Let him take his passport picture with the antenna
Posted by: ThunderB
Is this the guy?
http://tinyurl.com/ztlf4y5
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 20, 2016 12:05 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 11:28 PM (vb33c)
I have failed at my mission to rescue my kids from that hellhole. They aren't as adventurous as Daddy, plus they both have a significant other.
Posted by: Blano at April 20, 2016 12:05 AM (3eoPa)
*!SMACK, POW, BIFF, KNEE TO BALLS, HIGH HEEL COMBAT BOOT STOMP!*
...
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 20, 2016 12:04 AM (KId5h)
****
Your timing may have been a little bad. Console yourself with that thought....
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 20, 2016 12:06 AM (YLidQ)
I'm a butt man, but her boobage, well, those are some divine mammaries, and all natural. I mean, well, *damn*.
That will get you in NSFW territory, so be warned. I don't know about anything like that. I'm as pure as the wind driven snow. A friend told me, of course.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 12:06 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 12:07 AM (DW+jj)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722482839359500292
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722483286820450304
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722483583257022464
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722483790837374977
Posted by: kbdabear at April 20, 2016 12:07 AM (wDUlv)
Could. Big airframe is gonna flame in the radar screen.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:08 AM (Bgg2j)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722484054914965509
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722484557279268864
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722484815254188032
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/722485515786809345
Posted by: kbdabear at April 20, 2016 12:09 AM (wDUlv)
I'll tell you right now, any trick in the book baby that I can find...
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 20, 2016 12:10 AM (ntObR)
She has always been cute, so I never noticed.
Posted by: t-bird at April 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ZxmMG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 20, 2016 12:13 AM (ntObR)
The F-4 was never an Air Superiority Fighter. It was a Fleet Defense fighter. An Interceptor. Not a dogfighter.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:13 AM (Bgg2j)
She has always been cute, so I never noticed.
Posted by: t-bird at April 20, 2016 12:11 AM (ZxmMG)
Even at her heaviest she was always cute and made the effort to look good.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 20, 2016 12:13 AM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:13 AM (Bgg2j)
yes that is what it was originally designed for, but then it was coopted by the Air Force and forced into the role of a dog fighter
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 20, 2016 12:14 AM (Ozsfq)
Posted by: Ti at April 20, 2016 12:16 AM (uz/Pv)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 12:16 AM (DW+jj)
The F-15A dates to the Gerald Ford administration. Are there any other comparisons of 1975 to 2016 on the table?
The F-35 has a lot of engine power for its size, but it is also stubby, draggy, and has a ridiculously high wing loading for a modern fighter jet. It takes a comparative eternity to accelerate to supersonic speed. It bleeds energy at hemophiliac rates in a turn. Last I looked, the entire fleet was still under strict G limits in turns, too.
Mind you, if someone had come to me and said, hey, would you please design a single-engine fighter jet, and make it stealthy, or sort of stealthy against radar at least, and also make it marginally supersonic, and oh, by the way, we want a variant that is short-takeoff and vertical-landing capable, and oh, also, it should cost no more than an F-16 does, I would have said something about crack and the smoking thereof.
LockMart and Boeing at least _tried_ to meet that insane spec. And with an absolutely massive infusion of money from Uncle Sugar, LockMart did get something that vaguely, distantly resembles what the spec calls for. After a lot of relaxation of standards and performance parameters.
Oh, and it doesn't work. But apart from that, bravo! Encore! Encore!
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 12:17 AM (noWW6)
The Empire State Building went blood red for Trump victory in the New York primary and kind of freaked everyone out.
https://goo.gl/MXen6W
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 12:17 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 20, 2016 12:17 AM (BYJ2T)
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 20, 2016 12:13 AM (pAlYe)
*****
Agreed, she has always been a classy lady. Her stepping it up lately is just a bonus, as she looks great now.
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 20, 2016 12:17 AM (YLidQ)
Noticed at the gym tonight I am the only one...well, a few others, that speaks English.
Yay. Fucking. Diversity..
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 20, 2016 12:17 AM (hlMPp)
Parents suddenly divorcing when a kid never suspected they ever had anything but love for one another, then going through a terrible dragged-out legal dispute about who gets what kids, then mom remarries former uncle who is dad's worst enemy and dad remarries a black widow with three horrible offspring and mom moves you away from the only home town you've ever known and dad dies not long after that can be kinda hard, too. I imagine.
Posted by: mindful webworker - speaking for an acquaintance at April 20, 2016 12:19 AM (5a8XA)
That was an AF thing. They built the F-105 first for the same role. It coulnd't dog-fight either because it was never designed for it. Just like the F-4.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:19 AM (Bgg2j)
Rose and Violet are now officially 1 year old. I remember when they were the size of sandbags. Now, they are all bulked up and still growing. As you can see, they really like camera wire:
https://twitter.com/GoatsLive
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 12:20 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: garrett at April 20, 2016 12:21 AM (tR4f2)
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That's what it comes down to. Fly farther. Carry more. Be more invisible. Do jobs for multiple services. In the works since the 90's.
I have a hard time with that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:24 AM (Bgg2j)
I "skipped class" yesterday, and missed the Return of Cake Girl!
So never, EVER, skip class!!!
Posted by: Optimizer at April 20, 2016 12:27 AM (/q6+P)
Instead of killing 'em, can you just sorta test to see if they can land the thing with one wing blown off?
Posted by: mindful webworker - oops - missed at April 20, 2016 12:27 AM (5a8XA)
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That's what it comes down to. Fly farther. Carry more. Be more invisible. Do jobs for multiple services. In the works since the 90's.
I have a hard time with that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 12:24 AM (Bgg2j)
Sigh, I am afraid it all may not matter soon. With the way things are going we might have to get some old Mustangs out of mothballs to defend against white privilege
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 20, 2016 12:28 AM (Ozsfq)
Cake is overrated had it been pie girl you might have had a point
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 12:29 AM (voOPb)
I am sure Cake Girl's pie is moist and delicious.
Posted by: garrett at April 20, 2016 12:30 AM (tR4f2)
Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2016 12:30 AM (tR4f2)
invisible. Do jobs for multiple services. In the works since the 90's. I have a hard time with that."
See also, apart from the "jobs for multiple services": A-12 Avenger.
If the F-35 did what it said on the tin, I'd be ecstatic. Sadly, no.
Now we're really in a pickle. Also, on the other link upthread about restarting the F-22 production line: dood, has anyone done the math on the number of component subcontractors for that jet who literally no longer exist?
Out of business? Chapter Eleven? Gone fishin'? Folded their tents? Joined the choir invisible? Pining for the fjords? Dead parrots?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 12:32 AM (noWW6)
I don't need prompting to pour out drinks for the ettes. Lessee, Tito's, dry vermouth, lemon twist. Stirred, not shaken, because Bond is a fucking ponce what don't know his liquor. Add two olives on a spear and pour.
Posted by: DC in River City at April 20, 2016 12:33 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: goon at April 20, 2016 12:33 AM (WCaSy)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 20, 2016 12:34 AM (BYJ2T)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 20, 2016 12:35 AM (LWu6U)
I am sure Cake Girl's pie is moist and delicious.
Posted by: garrett at April 20, 2016 12:30 AM (tR4f2)
Without an over abundance of yeast
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 12:36 AM (voOPb)
Nothing will be done about Carter/Clinton 2.0's draw-down (or spend-down) of military assets until/unless someone with a different philosophy takes charge.
We go through this periodically, with more or less dire circumstances.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 20, 2016 12:36 AM (wB8Tg)
Out of business? Chapter Eleven? Gone fishin'? Folded their tents? Joined the choir invisible? Pining for the fjords? Dead parrots?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 12:32 AM (noWW6)
LMAO... Maybe we could contract out to Airbus?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 20, 2016 12:37 AM (Ozsfq)
Yeah. Much better outcome.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 20, 2016 12:38 AM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 20, 2016 12:39 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 20, 2016 12:40 AM (hlMPp)
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Heh. I have a roll-around engine stand that I made using a jig discarded by Lockheed. I've often wondered what it was used for.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2016 12:40 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: Piercello at April 20, 2016 12:41 AM (RXfvh)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 12:41 AM (voOPb)
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Yep. When precision construction on your strike fighter is Job One, hand it over to the Irish.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 20, 2016 12:43 AM (sl+zA)
They looked a whole lot different than the USAF version. They had canards. Shock horror! Bye-bye manufacturing commonality and shared purchasing costs.
However, that was also 25 years ago. The state of the art in digitally mediated flight control is worlds apart today from what it was back then. It may be that the same basic airframe could be made to board the ship gracefully with 2016-plus control laws.
Plenty of hard to track incidental costs in making the jet robust versus the structually grueling cat and trap cycle on the carrier, plus dealing with salt water corrosion issues. But not out of the question.
This presupposes (per comment above) that the F-22 production line is even plausibly restartable.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 12:44 AM (noWW6)
http://bit.ly/time-bandit
In the future, everyone will get food by manhandling restaurant managers and then stealing a handful of chicken and bacon.
So said an Oklahoma City man, 36-year-old Dante Rashad Anderson, who told police when he was arrested Friday for robbery that he comes from a time four years into the future...
Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight:... "He was possibly under the influence of some sort of narcotic or intoxicant or suffering from some type of break with reality..."
No, d'ya think?
Posted by: mindful webworker - blog heap o'links? at April 20, 2016 12:48 AM (5a8XA)
Inventing. I meant inventing.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 20, 2016 12:49 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 12:52 AM (iQIUe)
or maybe bequeath them to a Community College with a Music Department ...
Posted by: Adriane the Pop Psychology Critic ... at April 20, 2016 12:53 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 20, 2016 12:55 AM (k4M/B)
Well, that was one thing I could get behind Ford on.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 12:59 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 20, 2016 01:00 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at April 19, 2016 11:15 PM (0OG8D)
Good thought, PW. Karaoke is fun to watch for a few minutes, and to point and laugh, but after a while it just gets painful.
Posted by: The Penguin at April 20, 2016 01:00 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 01:01 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 20, 2016 01:06 AM (vb33c)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 19, 2016 11:50 PM (zOTsN)
Now there's a guy who desperately needs a pair of Jack-in-the-Box bobbleheads for his antennas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2016 01:17 AM (UsLZp)
No one won MegaMillion tonight. So, Fri's jackpot is a mere $38,414,400 after federal taxes.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 01:19 AM (iQIUe)
The reason: (and I predicted this!) men make bathrooms look like ape cages. Men are animals.
Posted by: RKae at April 20, 2016 01:21 AM (EwZ/b)
kind of noise when someone sends him a color "message" so he "hears"
color.
He'll have to run a Level 2 Diagnostic, and then reconfigure that thing to emit an inverse tachyon beam if he wants to get out of next week's pickle.
Posted by: Captain J.L. Picard at April 20, 2016 01:22 AM (dHVbM)
Women don't hold no stinking championship on neat & orderly bathrooms
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 01:23 AM (voOPb)
The reason: (and I predicted this!) men make bathrooms look like ape cages. Men are animals.
Posted by: RKae at April 20, 2016 01:21 AM (EwZ/b)
bs women will even tell you how disgusting women's bathrooms are - far worse than men. has to do with the hover method. my guess is the women were embarrassed by how the men were getting disgusted.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 20, 2016 01:24 AM (vb33c)
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I hope he remembers to remove it when he drives his convertible through the car wash!
Posted by: RKae at April 20, 2016 01:24 AM (EwZ/b)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 20, 2016 01:24 AM (vb33c)
Wide lapels. Wider ties. WIN buttons. Quaaludes. Original SNL. Disco. Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld in the White House -- in the 20th century.
Sherman, set the WABAC machine for 1975!
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 01:25 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 20, 2016 01:26 AM (voOPb)
lutefish
30 day long films
rapey refugees
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 01:26 AM (iQIUe)
bs women will even tell you how disgusting women's bathrooms are - far worse than men. has to do with the hover method.
I guess that's better than the Hoover method.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 20, 2016 01:28 AM (k4M/B)
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Women SAY that women's bathrooms are messy, because they haven't been in the men's room.
I used to clean public restrooms during my restaurant days. Women don't piss all over the floor. They don't go ape-shit insane and beat the holy hell out of stall doors. They don't save up a week's worth of crap and then shit it all over the seat like they were hanging ten feet over the toilet, pile a bunch of paper on it... and then just leave it there.
I used to have to clean feces out of the urinals.
Men are apes.
Posted by: RKae at April 20, 2016 01:29 AM (EwZ/b)
Racking my brains here. Was it Rita Rudner who said that bachelor men live like "bears, with furniture"?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 01:30 AM (noWW6)
Less dangerous to Leo DiCaprio, though!
Posted by: more dangerous to pic-a-nic baskets at April 20, 2016 01:37 AM (dHVbM)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2016 01:38 AM (UsLZp)
Depends how they were raised. I had older sisters, so there was some real enforcement of proper bathroom treatment. OTOH, a friend of mine, who'd anyone who'd never been to his home or shared a hotel room with him, would be assumed to be a Felix. But he is in fact an Oscar. Grew up with just brothers and to this day has never picked up on the idea of making sure nothing was left behind on the seat. It's a serious caveat to whenever we've worked together out of town.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 20, 2016 01:42 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 20, 2016 01:45 AM (Sda6L)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 01:45 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 01:45 AM (DW+jj)
For the daywalkers, the Slow News Day Gorn has become a tradition.
Whaddaya do for a slow ONT?
A loris?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 01:48 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Epobirs at April 20, 2016 01:50 AM (IdCqF)
I've got about 100 old vinyl records from the 70s mostly; I've checked prices on ebay a few times and didn't see any #s for the ones I have that screamed to me 'sell sell sell'. I could get a couple of grand for them, which ain't too shabby I guess.
On the road today. Mom's sister died after a long illness so we are in El Dorado AR; this former city of 35k is dying. Moose out front sez the current population is 19k and everything just looks old and grimy.
The place would make an excellent stage setting for a zombie apocalypse flick though.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 01:50 AM (D2tDz)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 20, 2016 01:52 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Baldy at April 20, 2016 01:55 AM (1SCTq)
A loris?
Has to be alien.
Maybe the Sarlacc. It digests comments over a span of thousands of years.
Posted by: David Attenborough at April 20, 2016 01:58 AM (dHVbM)
Dicogs dot com is the place to chase down the real value of what you have. But, condition is everything.
I buy / collect / sell / buy Vinyl. It's kind of an obsession.
Posted by: garrett at April 20, 2016 01:58 AM (tR4f2)
Posted by: garrett at April 20, 2016 01:59 AM (tR4f2)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 02:04 AM (iQIUe)
Plus, Kojak is on one of the antenna channels.
Rockford Files just ended, and Columbo is up next.
Posted by: Chi at April 20, 2016 02:04 AM (Te2JU)
I've got about 100 old vinyl records from the 70s mostly; I've checked prices on ebay a few times and didn't see any #s for the ones I have that screamed to me 'sell sell sell'. I could get a couple of grand for them, which ain't too shabby I guess.
On the road today. Mom's sister died after a long illness so we are in El Dorado AR; this former city of 35k is dying. Moose out front sez the current population is 19k and everything just looks old and grimy.
The place would make an excellent stage setting for a zombie apocalypse flick though.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 01:50 AM (D2tDz)
Evidently, it nearly has -- from Wikipedia: "The cult classic horror movie, "Psycho from Texas" (Originally released as "Wheeler") was filmed in and around El Dorado in the early seventies. Interior and exterior shots of notable El Dorado locations, including the Court House, Hills Recreation Pool Parlor, Crab Apple Point, Ebbys Cafe, The Townhouse Restaurant, and many older El Dorado homes. A hired Texas outlaw comes to El Dorado to kidnap a retired oil man, his psychopathic ways are unleashed on the sleepy town folk of El Dorado."
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:05 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 20, 2016 02:06 AM (ntObR)
Plus, Kojak is on one of the antenna channels.
Rockford Files just ended, and Columbo is up next.
Posted by: Chi at April 20, 2016 02:04 AM (Te2JU)
Howdy, howdy -- pickin' up pieces from tax scramble earlier this month. How've you been?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:07 AM (EzgxV)
That's hard to compute...
Posted by: Chi at April 20, 2016 02:12 AM (Te2JU)
Thanks for the tip, garrett. Except for the earliest few, they were always cleaned with a Discwasher before play, but I never bagged them like you'd do if you were just into collecting them.
Snap crackle and pop is okay in a cereal bowl, but sucks for music.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 02:12 AM (D2tDz)
I'll admit to having over 500 albums. Probably more.
Most from the 70's. There are prabably a few that I haven't listened to yet, but Ive spent many hours cleaning & listening to those things.
Yeah, I'm a hipster. So what?!?!
Posted by: Chi at April 20, 2016 02:16 AM (Te2JU)
movie, "Psycho from Texas" (Originally released as "Wheeler") was filmed
in and around El Dorado in the early seventies...
Posted by: cthulhu
Yeah, I've been here several times over the decades, and in the 70s this place was rockin' compared to now. Lots of abandoned buildings.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 02:18 AM (D2tDz)
movie, "Psycho from Texas" (Originally released as "Wheeler") was filmed
in and around El Dorado in the early seventies...
Posted by: cthulhu
Yeah, I've been here several times over the decades, and in the 70s this place was rockin' compared to now. Lots of abandoned buildings.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 02:18 AM (D2tDz)
Having lived the majority of my life in Silicon Valley, I just don't get this. You've got cheap space, power, and internet. Why don't you airdrop-in something that currently is in Palo Alto that doesn't need to be? And, BTW, I don't mean within city limits -- too many cities have baked-in pension costs that exceed current payroll and need to file bankruptcy.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:24 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
Speaking of that, what is with these little dinky speakers, now, anyway. Back in my day, a good set of speakers were honkin' huge. Big bass cones and resonant cabinets and all that.
Now it seems to be just some microscopic thing and they have "subwoofers" that are smaller than a woofer by a long shot in my day.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:31 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Epobirs at April 20, 2016 02:34 AM (IdCqF)
Speaking of that, what is with these little dinky speakers, now, anyway. Back in my day, a good set of speakers were honkin' huge. Big bass cones and resonant cabinets and all that.
Now it seems to be just some microscopic thing and they have "subwoofers" that are smaller than a woofer by a long shot in my day.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:31 AM (DW+jj)
If I had to throw a random guess, I'd look at that New York place that does cameras and electronics. 38th Street or something. The fiancee buys camera lenses there.
You can get serious deals on vintage speakers.....and they do seem more pleasant to my ears. But they may be on the verge of replacing the material around the cone. I'm partial to Infinity RSb's
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:36 AM (EzgxV)
Hahahahahahahahhahahhahaha
Shaun King, fake black man (aka white man who posed as a black man) has been FIRED from his job at the Daily News for plagiarism. Who could have seen that coming. Him being a liar. Anyway, story at the NYPost
Posted by: ThunderB at April 20, 2016 02:37 AM (zOTsN)
More difficult are vacuum tubes.
Posted by: navybrat at April 20, 2016 02:38 AM (8QGte)
Home late. Rain here has been gentle, not flooding as anticipated. Wet enough that the dog smells like a wet dog, though.
In my day, vinyl went from almost 78rpm-stiff to almost magazine-insert "floppy"
I haven't even looked at my vinyl collection in years. Most should be in good shape. I did the whole handle-by-the-edges, wipe-clean, lightweight tonearm, play-once-and-tape thing.
However...
In High School, a cousin asked to borrow some LPs for a party. When I went to retrieve them, I realized we had different philosophies about records. I think hers derived from 1950s 45RPMs. She'd stacked my LPs on the changer-spindle! There were finger smudges on the discs!! Some were still lying around, out of the sleeves, on the floor!!! A Doors album I think, and I know my then-brand-new Beatles -- Abbey Road, IIRC.
Did not ask her to buy replacements. But never lent out an LP to heathens again!
Posted by: mindful webworker - going... at April 20, 2016 02:39 AM (NstOx)
Hahahahahahahahhahahhahaha
Shaun King, fake black man (aka white man who posed as a black man) has been FIRED from his job at the Daily News for plagiarism. Who could have seen that coming. Him being a liar. Anyway, story at the NYPost
Posted by: ThunderB at April 20, 2016 02:37 AM (zOTsN)
This is merely a circumstance. When the rectification of names happens, it will be decided whether he is really white or black -- and those who maintain otherwise will end up in the camps.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:43 AM (EzgxV)
That was sort of an exotic item. Calling these I see now "subwoofers", well it's a joke. I mean the woofers in my speakers were 14", the a midrange and a tweeter.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:43 AM (DW+jj)
I didn't read the story well. King blamed his editor for the plagerism and they fired the editor
Boo
Posted by: ThunderB at April 20, 2016 02:44 AM (zOTsN)
Home late. Rain here has been gentle, not flooding as anticipated. Wet enough that the dog smells like a wet dog, though.
In my day, vinyl went from almost 78rpm-stiff to almost magazine-insert "floppy" thickness thinness. The later type seemed to degrade more quickly.
I haven't even looked at my vinyl collection in years. Most should be in good shape. I did the whole handle-by-the-edges, wipe-clean, lightweight tonearm, play-once-and-tape thing.
However...
In High School, a cousin asked to borrow some LPs for a party. When I went to retrieve them, I realized we had different philosophies about records. I think hers derived from 1950s 45RPMs. She'd stacked my LPs on the changer-spindle! There were finger smudges on the discs!! Some were still lying around, out of the sleeves, on the floor!!! A Doors album I think, and I know my then-brand-new Beatles -- Abbey Road, IIRC.
Did not ask her to buy replacements. But never lent out an LP to heathens again!
Posted by: mindful webworker - going... at April 20, 2016 02:39 AM (NstOx)
Had a lot of classic albums before I went away to college and converted to the Church of Discwasher. Newer acquisitions fared much better -- but, yeah: record changers, leave on spindle until dusty, handle like dinner plates....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:46 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue dba Ylva of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at April 20, 2016 02:47 AM (bIGOo)
Posted by: Euro at April 20, 2016 02:49 AM (180CZ)
A rapper on Chicago's South Side was shot and killed early Tuesday morning while rapping about guns for a music video in a local park.
AWR Hawkins, Breitbart
http://bit.ly/1Sa1HqH
Posted by: mindful webworker - going... at April 20, 2016 02:51 AM (NstOx)
Seriously, I've done that, quite a few years ago. I want to go old school, retro. Analog. The way it was done in my day. The way it ought to be done.
Fuck this sampling waveforms into bits then recreating that discrete shit. Nature is quantitized, but at a much, much more micro, nano, femto, level that this.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:52 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 20, 2016 02:54 AM (EzgxV)
And he showed graphs of high order behavior and frequency response and all that crap to "prove it".
And now, yeah, he was probably right....
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:55 AM (DW+jj)
Daily Beast accused Shaun King of plagerism. And he tweeted that it was Chelsea Clinton's fault
Oh I hope this continues
Posted by: ThunderB at April 20, 2016 02:59 AM (zOTsN)
The company was called SovTek.
Posted by: navybrat at April 20, 2016 03:00 AM (8QGte)
Let me tell you about my quadrophonic setup... some other day. Time to retire now. Been fun.
♥
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Posted by: mindful webworker - gone! at April 20, 2016 03:01 AM (NstOx)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 20, 2016 03:02 AM (iQIUe)
In that same time, speaker technology (and microphone technology) has made great strides. You can buy much more efficient speakers that sound better, weigh less and cost less than those of 30 years ago.
Posted by: navybrat at April 20, 2016 03:03 AM (8QGte)
And now, yeah, he was probably right....
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 02:55 AM (DW+jj)
But 98% of people can't tell the difference, which is what the tweeks never seemed to understand or care about. Normal CD quality music is better than necessary for most people. And the fact is that it doesn't matter what your music is coming from or what your amp is - most of the quality of music being played depends on your speakers.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 20, 2016 03:05 AM (zc3Db)
I'm at the nod/wink blind horse stage myself.
Can you define: newfangled transistor shit ?
Are you talking about discrete components or circuitry/application ?
Posted by: dDan at April 20, 2016 03:07 AM (hwYmz)
publius is on an anti-digital rant. He thinks that woods should be wood - which is fine with me, since the metal woods are just to help people who can't drive think they can.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 20, 2016 03:09 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: ThunderB at April 20, 2016 03:11 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Euro
Yeah, not the same. The sister that died lived near El Dorado; she has two surviving sisters counting my mom; we drove up from south MS and her other sister was too ill to make the trip from wherever she lives, but it's not El Dorado.
Sorry for your loss.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 03:16 AM (D2tDz)
Appreciate response.
Understood that part.
I admire the ambition and think it'll make a good project.
Posted by: dDan at April 20, 2016 03:18 AM (hwYmz)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:20 AM (1D4Ef)
And yes, I'm pretty sure these audiophiles are hearing things that exist only in their minds. The human ear, well most human ears, aren't capable of hearing such minute little differences, if the speakers even pass it and all that.
I remember something that struck me as ridiculous. It was about speaker wiring. They wanted deoxygenated copper for the wires. Oxygen acts as "scavenger", and regular copper is going to have some it.
But if you get down to the nitty-gritty, and look at the fine details of some behavior, "pure copper" without that oxygen in it has some "better" electrical properties.
And some nuts claimed they could tell the difference.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 03:29 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:20 AM (1D4Ef)
How goes it?
Posted by: The Knitted Hat at April 20, 2016 03:31 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Euro at April 20, 2016 03:31 AM (180CZ)
Here is "Been Down So Long" by The Doors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI_VPpYKWec
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 20, 2016 03:36 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: The Knitted Hat at April 20, 2016 03:31 AM (vBeA5)
Late night volunteer work. Typed up minutes for a meeting from last Thursday.
Next up. Prep Friday night speech.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:37 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:37 AM (1D4Ef)
But I do photography, and can say that film beats digital imaging cold.
Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at April 20, 2016 03:39 AM (A305J)
Next up. Prep Friday night speech.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:37 AM (1D4Ef)
What's the speech for?
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 20, 2016 03:40 AM (vBeA5)
Dog A: refused to go outside when even the most occasional gentle and mild raindrop might possibly land upon her coat.
Dog B: barked wildly at the door to go outside while a potentially lethal heavy storm-driven inundation rushed by only twenty feet from the doorstep.
Not doing too well with this dog-whisperer business. Nor with the cat-whisperer, horse-whisperer, et al. Also: humans are incomprehensible. When will the saucer return to whisk me back from exile?
Posted by: torquewrench at April 20, 2016 03:41 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: Epobirs at April 20, 2016 03:46 AM (IdCqF)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2016 03:48 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 20, 2016 03:40 AM (vBeA5)
Church youth group. Talking about faith. Gonna focus on my high school -> college -> young adult experience, hope it'll give them an idea of what to expect.
Bearing in mind my school years didn't have half the PC nonsense theirs has and will have.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 20, 2016 03:52 AM (1D4Ef)
transistor "thing". It said, IIRC, that if there were any detectable
differences, it was really about how they distorted.
IOW,
older vacuum tube stuff, when it was driven to the edge of its envelope
or whatever in some range would distort differently than the newer
transistor equipment. And this was for the "common" equipment, not some
exotic high dollar stuff that only a fool would spend money on.
So he was arguing that the purists were just preferring one type of
distortion behavior over another, and the newer stuff may distort
actually less in a objective sense in the same range at the same levels
they were used to and all that. And that was the difference.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 20, 2016 03:56 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2016 03:58 AM (Dpy/y)
But black and white is another matter. I've never seen digital to match the results of a good, silver-content film used in a decent medium or, better yet, a large format camera. My Minoltacord TLR and old 4x5 press camera are capable of superb B and W images. Heck, my old mechanical Pentax SLR gear can do a fine job.
Damn! Now I'm thinking about getting the dark room going again. And I have too many hobbies as it is.
Posted by: JTB at April 20, 2016 04:08 AM (V+03K)
Democrat votes - 1,796,843
Republican votes - 853,422
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2016 04:41 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 20, 2016 05:03 AM (J+mig)
Democrat votes - 1,796,843
Republican votes - 853,422
Yikes. But but but NY is in play if Trump is our nominee, as I was reliably informed by a Trump fan yesterday.
Suuuuure it is.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 05:09 AM (D2tDz)
They will line up like good little fascists and accept the decision of their betters.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2016 05:11 AM (Zu3d9)
Speaker technology today is excellent and much better than the past if you know what you're doing. Older speakers with huge bass drivers required wide boxes. The wider the front baffle, the narrower the sound dispersion of the speaker. The narrower the baffle, the wider the dispersion and the better the ability of the speakers working together to reproduce the soundstage. That's a simple way of describing it.
A quality, powered subwoofer 12" or larger is great because it relieves the main amp/receiver the job of having to power the lower frequencies which require a lot of energy to reproduce. The main amp is then free to more efficiently power the mids and highs. Also, below about 100Hz frequencies combine or negate each other to create peaks and nulls, like ripples in water. These areas will sound boomy or thin, respectively, and are dependent upon room dimensions. A subwoofer allows for a placement separate from the front speakers that can help optimize the bass for the main listening position(s). By using multiple subwoofers you can even out the frequency response of the bass throughout the room, mostly. This is especially useful for home theatre applications.
Hope this makes sense. It's allergy season here and I'm on Benydrool.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 05:15 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at April 20, 2016 03:39 AM (A305J)
The major difference, though, is that film was super expensive and time consuming while digital photos are now free and instantaneous. Add to that the fact that you can have a cheap 1/60,000th of a second electronic shutter versus an expensive 1/4000th physical shutter and you can shoot a thousands of digital frames a second ... for as long as you want for, once again, no cost - something that was impossible for all but the very well funded, highly specialized professionals.
It's really a whole new world of photography.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 20, 2016 05:15 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 05:17 AM (sZAiE)
Nice name. I think you'll fit in fine here.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 20, 2016 05:19 AM (J+mig)
Hay, Hertz. Glad you stopped lurking.
Idunno squat about speakers except that my son bought me a new set for the computer with some kind of woofer thing. Office sounds like Carnegie Hall now.
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 05:19 AM (sZAiE)
Makes sense. Thanks.
I have a separate powered sub, and a few weeks ago I screwed up a setting and switched to one that did not send a signal to the sub.
I knew something was wrong immediately, but it took me a few minutes to figure out that the lows were crappy.
I never noticed them until they they weren't there!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2016 05:21 AM (Zu3d9)
Probably Altec-Lansing. They make some damn fine speakers, I've been using a set I got in the early 00s ever since. Simply haven't ever needed an upgrade.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 20, 2016 05:21 AM (J+mig)
Box they cam in says "blackweb GUNNER PC speaker". The woofer thingy is a separate unit. Lotta pieces but great sound.
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 05:24 AM (sZAiE)
What if it's your birthday ?
Posted by: JT at April 20, 2016 05:26 AM (7e7aZ)
I've been an audiophool on and off since about 1979 or so. As my wife says, "it never ends...."
.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 05:27 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 05:29 AM (sZAiE)
And when he gets on an airplane, the other passengers run screaming into the night.
After they shit their pants.
Posted by: JT at April 20, 2016 05:29 AM (7e7aZ)
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 05:31 AM (no0Da)
Where on earth did that come from? {scrolls frantically through comments to see what she missed}
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 05:31 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 05:34 AM (D2tDz)
The only possible reason for buying one of these hugely expensive tube amps is that they will take over-driving more than transistors before they fail. But in both case driving any amp into overload and distortion is likely to blow out your speaker system, especially the tweeters.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 05:42 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 05:46 AM (vvmPQ)
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Posted by: JT at April 20, 2016 05:51 AM (7e7aZ)
Interesting.
Do you know the model number of the Infinities?
Just curious.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 05:56 AM (no0Da)
With the incredible advances in materials, it seems like speakers should be getting better and better.
I just upgraded a center channel speaker, and the difference is amazing.
Now of course I will have to upgrade the mains...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2016 05:57 AM (Zu3d9)
Just curious.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 05:56 AM (no0Da)
Infinity Studio Monitor 150. BTW, I used to have a pair of speakers built from a baffle kit and having 15" Altec Lansing woofers. But those have been long gone now.
You can not get the 150's anymore BTW.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:02 AM (vvmPQ)
I just upgraded a center channel speaker, and the difference is amazing.
Now of course I will have to upgrade the mains...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 20, 2016 05:57 AM (Zu3d9)
The problem is that the advanced upgrades are warring with the desire to keep things cheap for competition and sales. It used to be unheard of for cone suspensions to rot out but now it is common.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
They sounded pretty damn good too.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 06:09 AM (D2tDz)
I once listened to a pair of $20,000 high end speakers at an audiophile place in Atlanta and I could not hear $20,000 sound.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:10 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2016 06:11 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 06:11 AM (D2tDz)
The old 70s model McIntosh tube amps are truly a thing of beauty.
They sounded pretty damn good too.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 06:09 AM (D2tDz)
My uncle had one of those. When he died I wonder who got it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:11 AM (vvmPQ)
Installed it, and tried it last night.
Too early to tell, but I think that I like it.
so.....thanks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2016 06:12 AM (ptqRm)
They sounded pretty damn good too.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 20, 2016 06:09 AM (D2tDz)
Clinging to my 1979 Pioneer tube amp. It was getting a little fuzzy but I found someone who could work on it. Sounds great again. I'm electronically challenged but I know what every dial on it does. It's in a pretty wooden case. Why switch?
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 06:16 AM (sZAiE)
Cake girl and Ryan are octogenarians. That's a really, really old picture. Those lovely tits are now hanging down around her waist.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 20, 2016 06:17 AM (1ijHg)
NOOOOOOOoooo!!!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2016 06:18 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:18 AM (no0Da)
So plaster walls and hardwood floors are a no-no?
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 06:20 AM (sZAiE)
a little fuzzy but I found someone who could work on it. Sounds great
again. I'm electronically challenged but I know what every dial on it
does. It's in a pretty wooden case. Why switch?
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 06:16 AM (sZAiE)
That is one of the problems with tube amps. Tubes do deteriorate over time and fail like incandescent light bulbs. That "fuzzy" sound was most likely due to a failing output tube.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:23 AM (vvmPQ)
A little-known fact:
Cake girl and Ryan are octogenarians.
That's a really, really old picture. Those lovely tits are now hanging
down around her waist.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at April 20, 2016 06:17 AM (1ijHg)
Damn Jimbo, you have spoiled it for us. I can never look at that pic again the same.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:24 AM (vvmPQ)
Room dimensions, flooring, carpet, furniture, window coverings, etc.
have a huge effect on the sound of your audio system. If there's a major
problem (e.g. lots of flat hard surfaces) buying expensive speakers
likely won't help. You gotta fix the room first.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:18 AM (no0Da)
Yes, that is so and could have been one of the reasons those $20,000 speakers in Atlanta did not impress me. It is hard to determine what a pair of speakers will sound like in your home when you listen to them in a store.
The major room problems that you see are hardwood floors and bare walls with few pieces of "soft" furniture. That can be cured.
When I bought those Infinity speakers though, the store had them located in a special listening room which allowed you to make a better judgement. Unfortunately that store is no longer in buisness.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:28 AM (vvmPQ)
Some folks buy fancy audio panels that help kill reflections. They work, but I always try to do it with things I already own. Hard surfaces create reflections that bounce around and muddy the sound.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:30 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:28 AM (vvmPQ)
So, basically, you have to move into the store to get your speakers to really work.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 20, 2016 06:35 AM (zc3Db)
There are some really nice internet-only speaker manufacturers that will let you try their stuff out for 30 days so you can hear how they sound in your room. Some even pay for return ship if you decide they're not right for you.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:36 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 06:37 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 20, 2016 06:35 AM (zc3Db)
Unfortunately it is the opposite of that. You really will not know how a set pf speakers will sound in your home until you take them home. That listening room was better than what most stores have but it still wasn't ideal.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:39 AM (vvmPQ)
manufacturers that will let you try their stuff out for 30 days so you
can hear how they sound in your room. Some even pay for return ship if
you decide they're not right for you.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:36 AM (no0Da)
What I try to do when buying speakers now is to stick with speaker systems that I have had in the past and liked. Right now that is Infinity and Klipsch. I used to have a couple of pairs of AR speakers but their quality has really gone downhill and their prices were getting outrageous.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:42 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 20, 2016 06:44 AM (10hEu)
Understood. Just offering general info.
My listening room has concrete floors and plaster walls (desert southwest). It was a challenge. At some point I determined it was good enough and stopped moving things.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:45 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:47 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Gmac-Just observing the oncoming times at April 20, 2016 06:48 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 06:48 AM (sZAiE)
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Taprstries on the walls and rushes on the floor.
Posted by: Medieval Audiphile Society at April 20, 2016 06:51 AM (nbrY/)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:42 AM (vvmPQ)
That's a sound strategy. I've had Infinity in the past, and KEF. I'm running NHT Classic Threes (3-way stand mount) and an Outlaw sub for 2.1 audio right now. They're nice.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:51 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: @votermom at April 20, 2016 06:52 AM (nbrY/)
I bought a Crown D-150 amp and preamp along with a pair of ESS Heil
monitors back in the 80's and have stuck with that rig. It's all sitting
out in the garage up on a shelf because the set of $10.00 speakers fits
on my computer desk. Loud concerts, guns and fireworks killed my
hearing.
Posted by: Gmac-Just observing the oncoming times at April 20, 2016 06:48 AM (4pjhs)
Those used Crown D-150's are selling for around $180 - $200 on e-bay right now. You could probably get some money for that stuff if you don't plan on ever using it again.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:52 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Medieval Audiphile Society at April 20, 2016 06:51 AM (nbrY/)
Yes, very good suggestion. I've never been able to find tapestries I like, though. Plus we have a ton of photography hanging.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 06:54 AM (no0Da)
I'm sure they will be given a couple of options.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Won't somebody please think of the socialists!!! at April 20, 2016 06:55 AM (WVsWD)
Democrat votes - 1,796,843
Republican votes - 853,422
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2016 04:41 AM (Dpy/y)
I was looking at that too. But NY is a very closed state primary - to vote yesterday you will have had to gave registered in your party at least 6 months ago.
A general election is open.
So, theoretically, a GOP candidate has a chance.
Posted by: @votermom at April 20, 2016 06:57 AM (nbrY/)
I also have a Macintosh 60 I need to refurbish and I'm angling for a trade.
Posted by: Gmac-Just observing the oncoming times at April 20, 2016 06:57 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 06:58 AM (vvmPQ)
Good Morning Morons. Today is Wednesday, April 20, 2016. On this day in 1985 the ATF raided The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas. Their rational for the raid was searching for illegal weapons and evidence for acts of terrorism. The far left and the MFM identify this group as "far right" however they were associated with the Neo-Nazi group Aryan Nation. Since the Nazis were socialists they were indeed a racist far left outfit.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:01 AM (vvmPQ)
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Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:02 AM (vvmPQ)
Lately, the EMT has lasted about 20 minutes before being stomped by the Dump.
Maybe Acecorp is phasing out the EMT?
Posted by: Mortimer at April 20, 2016 07:02 AM (O3LY4)
Democrat votes - 1,796,843
Republican votes - 853,422
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2016 04:41 AM (Dpy/y)
I was looking at that too. But NY is a very closed state primary -
to vote yesterday you will have had to gave registered in your party at
least 6 months ago.
A general election is open.
So, theoretically, a GOP candidate has a chance.
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.I wouldn't put too much stock into the raw numbers from last night. As said above it is a true closed Primary State and you had hillary who claims NY as her "home" state running against sanders promising ever increasing amounts of free $hit and that is going to drive turnout higher in the Primary but not in the General I don't think. Trump actually might be able to win NY when push comes to shove. They love him there.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 20, 2016 07:02 AM (iONHu)
When it comes to pandering nobody does it better than Hillary Clinton, who is desperate to become the nation's first black female president.
Well Todd, it is amazing because she really doesn't need to do that unless she is trying to swing a huge FSA turnout like Obama got. She already has the black vote in the bag. Personally if I were black I would be insulted by her bad phony black accent.
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Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:05 AM (vvmPQ)
NASHVILLE, Tennessee: On Tuesday, the Tennessee General Assembly declared it would sue the federal government over its refugee resettlement program on Tenth Amendment grounds. The State Senate passed a resolution authorizing that lawsuit in a 29 to 4 vote one day after it passed the Tennessee House by a 69 to 25 margin.
I guess they haven't heard, the 10th amendment has been essentially nullified by SCOTUS using a bad interpretation of the 14th amendment.
http://tinyurl.com/juc9n5r
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:06 AM (vvmPQ)
Mother of the young woman who was killed by an illegal drunk street racing sounds off. ICE declined to hold him under Obama's catch and release no borders program.
Eswin spent four days in jail and is believed to have fled the country, Michelle Root said. He posted $5,000 bond, which was less than the cost it was to bury my daughter Sarah. Because of the lack of controls, the police, immigration, U.S. Marshals and law enforcement have little or no information on his whereabouts.
Frankly I am really surprised by a $5K bond for what would be felony DUI or possibly even reckless homicide here in SC. And where is MADD in this case?
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Posted by: Mortimer at April 20, 2016 07:08 AM (O3LY4)
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One of the things I learned from the 538 elections tool is how important turnout of the African American vote is for Hilldogger. She has no shot (or, at least, a greatly reduced chance) if she can't get great turnout.
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:09 AM (/m8T6)
Do I have to feel sorry for Gub'nor Snyder? He played the apology game instead of telling the donktards to fuck off.
Just another effen rino/diablo. Get bent Snyder. You too Peetee King. I'm not a Cruz person but if he offends you so much maybe you should quit Congress and do something else.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Won't somebody please think of the socialists!!! at April 20, 2016 07:14 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Trump/Cruz 2016. Count on it. at April 20, 2016 07:17 AM (WVsWD)
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There really should be a forced retirement age for these Senate dinosaurs. At nearly 80, this bag of bones should long ago have left Washington to go live out the remainder of his life like most normal people would. He certainly has the money to live the rest of his life in luxury and rest. I guess the almighty power and perks are just too much to give up. Amazing.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 07:18 AM (+FSld)
And I like VNN on the ONT. Your links always seem to get stomped on when they're on the EMT.
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:22 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: Gem at April 20, 2016 07:23 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:24 AM (sZAiE)
these Senate dinosaurs. At nearly 80, this bag of bones should long ago
have left Washington to go live out the remainder of his life like most
normal people would. He certainly has the money to live the rest of his
life in luxury and rest. I guess the almighty power and perks are just
too much to give up. Amazing.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 07:18 AM (+FSld)
He loves being a backstabbing RINO so much he will stay until they plant him.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:26 AM (vvmPQ)
If the Founding Fathers could've seen the bunch of crooks we have in
office now they'd have written term limits into the first Article of the
Constitution.
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.And I think they would have had a hell of a lot more to write in the 10th Amendment regarding States Rights and how the Fed can bugger off.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 20, 2016 07:27 AM (iONHu)
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 07:28 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 20, 2016 07:30 AM (j2xmV)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:22 AM (sZAiE)
The stomping of the EMT and the erratic nature of the EMT is a relatively new phenomena. That is what caused me to initially decide to stop the news links.
It generally takes me between 2.5 to 3 hours to go through all those sites for links every day that I have not been hit by the rocking chair. When they get stomped in less than an hour that is frustrating.
I may start posting them at 6 am on the ONT without waiting on the EMT. The problem with posting on the ONT though is that right now we have an auto delete that erases any post that mentions the current Trump/Cruz war.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:31 AM (vvmPQ)
I'm not normally up reading this early.
Well done, sir.
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 20, 2016 07:28 AM (no0Da)
__________________________
I'm normally up all the time,, except when I'm at a Trump rally, then I'm down.. Like flat on my face, broken and bleeding down....
~sniff-sniff~
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 20, 2016 07:32 AM (HSmrB)
Hop on the #CruzCannal, first stop the #CruzCharismaConnection
Posted by: Teddy Bear Cruz at April 20, 2016 07:33 AM (10hEu)
I'm normally up all the time,, except when I'm at a Trump rally, then I'm down.. Like flat on my face, broken and bleeding down....
~sniff-sniff~
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 20, 2016 07:32 AM (HSmrB)
Get off yer computer and back on the corner. Money ain't making itself
Posted by: Pimpin' Lewandowski at April 20, 2016 07:35 AM (10hEu)
Get off yer computer and back on the corner. Money ain't making itself
Posted by: Pimpin' Lewandowski at April 20, 2016 07:35 AM (10hEu)
________________________
Okay, Okay,, just please don't beat me down again!!!!
~sniff-sniff~
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 20, 2016 07:37 AM (HSmrB)
The stomping of the EMT and the erratic nature of the EMT is a relatively new phenomena. That is what caused me to initially decide to stop the news links.
It generally takes me between 2.5 to 3 hours to go through all those sites for links every day that I have not been hit by the rocking chair. When they get stomped in less than an hour that is frustrating.
I may start posting them at 6 am on the ONT without waiting on the EMT. The problem with posting on the ONT though is that right now we have an auto delete that erases any post that mentions the current Trump/Cruz war.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:31 AM (vvmPQ)
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Thanks for all you do Vic!!!
Posted by: TeamRawDog at April 20, 2016 07:37 AM (10hEu)
Gee, I wonder why that doesn't get more attention.
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:39 AM (/m8T6)
The
stomping of the EMT and the erratic nature of the EMT is a relatively
new phenomena. That is what caused me to initially decide to stop the
news links.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:31 AM (vvmPQ)
I appreciate the time and effort you put into your news links and synopsis. In cases of enstompenings, I do go back and look for them in previous posts and I'm sure others do the same.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 20, 2016 07:40 AM (jV8Mq)
Everyone of those people involved in that should have been prosecuted by the DOJ for bribery and corruption but our illustrious government takes care of its own.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:42 AM (vvmPQ)
Well, however you're doing it, you make an excellent job of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:44 AM (sZAiE)
That's our money at work folks. Well, Chinese money we borrowed for the purpose anyway.
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:44 AM (/m8T6)
There we go. Another lifelong politician/public servant. All mouth and no action.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Trump/Cruz 2016. Count on it. at April 20, 2016 07:46 AM (WVsWD)
For all intents and purposes, the 10th amendment has been written out of the constitution.
Anything a state can do can be undone by 5 votes on the SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court nullified the will of 30 states and the federal government using nonsensical and illogical readings of the 14th amendment.
The 14th amendment was created to remedy a specific inequity but has become the progressives catch all to constitutionalize their agenda without the pesky task of actually amending the constitution.
This transgender shit is going to be constitutionalized using the 14th, mark my words.
In fact when the ban guns I fully expect them to use some idiotic reading of the 14th.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 20, 2016 07:46 AM (035GJ)
Every conservative I know wants us out of the UN. It has been taken over by the muzzies and the communists because the third world shit holes are able to vote in what they want. And if we have a Demo-commie in the WH they will agree with them.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:46 AM (vvmPQ)
For all intents and purposes, the 10th amendment has been written out of the constitution.
Anything a state can do can be undone by 5 votes on the SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court nullified the will of 30 states and the federal government using nonsensical and illogical readings of the 14th amendment.
The 14th amendment was created to remedy a specific inequity but has become the progressives catch all to constitutionalize their agenda without the pesky task of actually amending the constitution.
This transgender shit is going to be constitutionalized using the 14th, mark my words.
In fact when the ban guns I fully expect them to use some idiotic reading of the 14th.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 20, 2016 07:47 AM (035GJ)
"Trey Gowdy......."
There we go. Another lifelong politician/public servant. All mouth and no action.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Trump/Cruz 2016. Count on it. at April 20, 2016 07:46 AM (WVsWD)
Boy, ain't it the truth? Gowdy and Paul Ryan were cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:47 AM (sZAiE)
There it is in a nutshell, folks: America needs a guy with personal charisma, a smooth speaking voice and a way with the ladies.
A whole nation of idiots, armed with half-wits and voting machines, is about to elect an old entitled and dumb Democrat to confront the Progressive challenge. This won't end well.
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:49 AM (/m8T6)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 20, 2016 07:49 AM (j2xmV)
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:51 AM (/m8T6)
My state, Alabama, is toying with the idea of adopting a referendum model. Maybe we should have referenda, with the stipulation that a secession proposal should ALWAYS be included.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 20, 2016 07:51 AM (eHpnh)
Posted by: creeper at April 20, 2016 07:47 AM (sZAiE)
Straight talk there.
I would love to go back to the day that Gub'nor Walker stepped on his penis during that staged illegal alien stunt. Could you imagine where he would be today if he had told that little girl,
"Why yes we are going to deport your mnom and dad, you can go with or we will find you a new home.
But no, that damned $$$ from the gopE was just too attractive.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Trump/Cruz 2016. Count on it. at April 20, 2016 07:52 AM (WVsWD)
And it just might be that in Gowdy's case the House leadership is threatening him and marginalizing him. Remember the Boner policy of kicking Republicans off of committee assignments if they strayed from the RNCe plantation.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 07:53 AM (vvmPQ)
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Yeah, thanks for noticing. Does he remember his support for a "pathway" a couple years ago?
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 07:56 AM (+FSld)
"What will happen to all the western socialists that cater to muslims when muslims no longer have any need for them.
I'm sure they will be given a couple of options."
Refer to what happened after the Iranian revolution in 1979 when socialist and Muslim fundamentalists teamed up to oust the Shah. It did not go well for the socialists afterward. Few lived to tell about it.
Posted by: Ripley at April 20, 2016 07:56 AM (1BQGO)
I wouldn't really say it's losing any, either.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 07:56 AM (eAZif)
Posted by: Jean at April 20, 2016 07:58 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:59 AM (/m8T6)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 20, 2016 08:02 AM (ZQfW9)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 20, 2016 08:02 AM (j2xmV)
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In a game of what if...wouldn't that mean essentially that the remainder of the US would fall utterly and finally under "progressive" control? Without TX and their electoral votes, the Dems would never lose another presidency. Maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 08:02 AM (+FSld)
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 07:56 AM (+FSld)
I don't remember that. He has generally been anti-illegal and anti-amnesty which is what "pathway to citizenship" is. In fact, the pro-illegal groups in the US hate his ass.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 08:03 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 20, 2016 08:04 AM (eAZif)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 20, 2016 08:05 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at April 20, 2016 08:06 AM (j2xmV)
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 20, 2016 08:08 AM (JO9+V)
My Bookie in Vegas still giving better odds that Alaska goes first.
Ask him why, not me. I have no clue!
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Rebellion or Insurrection. Pick your poison. at April 20, 2016 08:08 AM (WVsWD)
Can we at least rewarm the hell before serving?
Posted by: Brother Cavil at April 20, 2016 08:09 AM (D0J8L)
Posted by: Jean at April 20, 2016 08:16 AM (cXiMR)
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It was something he said a few years ago. I can't find the quote now, but I remember it honked me off, since he's my rep. I was surprised he said it, too.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 20, 2016 08:17 AM (+FSld)
There it is in a nutshell, folks: America needs a guy with personal charisma, a smooth speaking voice and a way with the ladies.
A whole nation of idiots, armed with half-wits and voting machines, is about to elect an old entitled and dumb Democrat to confront the Progressive challenge. This won't end well.
Posted by: MTF at April 20, 2016 07:49 AM (/m8T6)
That and remember as first reported on this very blog - Romney lost b/c Obama had better "Cares about people like me" numbers despite having a yuuuge advantage on every substantive issue, like the economy.
And nobody *NOBODY* screams to the LIV "I empathize w/ you" like this xtra-loveable Teddy Bear
#CruzCharismaConnection
Posted by: Teddy Bear Cruz at April 20, 2016 08:26 AM (10hEu)
Fixed it
Posted by: Willy at April 20, 2016 08:29 AM (Ffw22)
Posted by: xyncpeasant at April 20, 2016 08:58 AM (k8tEg)
Well look at it this way, the political reality we currently live in was created by a handful of Democrats, FDR, LBJ, et al.
We've created an enormous welfare state and a fully weaponized carnivorous federal leviathan that services at least 47pct of our population.
What would Conservstive governance and welfare state look like?
Well at its base it would reduce the size scope
and reach of the federal leviathan and devolve power, money and control back to the states.
But there are at least two problems.
Problem one: You have an entrenched federal bureaucracy that will fight this tooth and nail.
Problem two: Most states would fight this as well as they would have to provide these services that is currently being funded and supported by federal dollars and infrastructure.
Ultimately people do not want to live in a system that would give the maximum amount of autonomy and control because the nub is people do not mind control because if that were the case we would have that society, and we don't.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 20, 2016 09:06 AM (035GJ)
Wirklich, Sie sind in vielerlei Hinsicht mein Prüfstein zu Hause.
Simply said, dude, thanks a hell of a lot. I more than appreciate it.
scb
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