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Overnight Open Thread (4-21-2016)
When thinking about why it's so expensive to build in many American cities just remember that the deal of the year is when you build 31,000 square feet of space and only have to destroy 4,000 square feet of space to do it.
Over the past three decades, there has been a massive transfer of authority from parents to kids. Along with that transfer of authority has come a change in the valuation of kids' opinions and preferences. . . . what kids think and what kids like and what kids want now matters as much, or more, than what their parents think and like and want. . . . These well-intentioned changes have been profoundly harmful to kids.
-- Leonard Sax
The essence of conservative thought.
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox.There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.
A Victory Against Political Intimidation in California
Does Your First Name Signal Your Politics?
Possibly yes.
First, they looked at the most Republican and Democratic names, according to Federal Election Commission donor data. They created a massive table that ranks names by the ratio of Democratic to Republican donors with that name. The data shows that Dylans, Hillaries and Krishnas who have made recent political donations are more likely to be liberals, while Donalds, Brittanies and Dentons are disproportionately conservative.
Head Park Ranger Mocks Constitution While Leading a Tour of Independence Hall
Quotas Come to the USAF Thunderbirds
Attention Perverts/Rapists: Get Your Ass to Target Right Now - Your Dream Has Come True!
The French Government Promises a 20 Minute Massacre Response, Or Your Next One is Free
Charlie Murphy Recounts His Prince Experience
"You want some grapes........bitches!"
Where Have All The Ear Infections Gone?
A new childhood pneumococcal vaccine in 2010 seems to have caused a big drop in ear infections.
The 'Magnificent Seven' Remake Teaser Trailer
But why watch a remake of a remake when you can watch the original: Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.
If you've never watched it, I highly recommend it. It's long by today's standards but not much longer than Gone With the Wind. And it truly is an epic with time enough to develop each of the characters, strategy, massive fight scenes, as well as humor, love, and a pretty damn good soundtrack. And American filmmakers have been remaking it and mining from it in various forms for decades. As one critic put it every director ultimately wants to make his own version of The Seven Samurai.
In fact you've probably already seen bits and pieces of it in various movies over the years without ever realizing it.
I looked for a complete version of the movie on the internet but all the ones I found were such low quality that they're not worth it. So you'll have to just rent it.
Related: 16 Epic Facts About 'Seven Samurai'
19 Survivors Of Suicide Reveal Their First Thoughts After Realizing They Hadn't Succeeded
I decided to hang myself with an extension cord in the rafters of my garage. I decided to do a quick test run to make sure the beam would hold before saying my goodbyes to my family. During the test run, I slipped off my chair and actually hung myself. The panic I felt during those few moments I was dangling was all it took to convince myself I should live. I needed desperately to tell my mother I loved her before I went. My father too. I could only think of getting out of it, so I could give them their well deserved goodbyes, and let them know how much I loved them. When I luckily managed to get my footing back on the chair, I realized I wasn't ready to go. I had so much love left in me. I felt like it gave me a second chance to realize I didn't want to go through with it. I'm doing well now. I have two beautiful girls, and a man who would give me the moon. I'm happy I had a botched run, because I'm sure I wouldn't have realized how i really felt if I got to text my final goodbyes.
Amateur astronomer Gary Hug with his homemade telescope has discovered over 300 asteroids.
Ronald McDonald Sculpture Arrested In China
Yahoo group. That is all.
Come on be a smartie and join the yahoo group party! For the children.
And my lo-fi Twitter spew.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at April 21, 2016 11:42 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 21, 2016 11:43 PM (zxeJt)
Posted by: French Jeton at April 21, 2016 11:43 PM (WMvHw)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Fritz at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (+E2Y7)
I've also been thinking about "Start from zero".
Posted by: cthulhu at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (EzgxV)
There, I said it. Someone had to.
Posted by: Johann Sebastian Bach at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (CUk0C)
Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM (Kucy5)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM (5DDGl)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM (OSOcC)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM (voOPb)
Such as...
a commenter after the TMZ released the Prince died of a drug overdose
As a registered nurse, it makes total sense. He died of an accidental drug overdose. Actually, I'm changing my cause of death to accidental drug overdose. There was a mid-air emergency and they had to land the plane and rush Prince to the hospital where here received naloxone and was released. Naloxone is the reversal agent we use to reverse opiate and heroin overdose. But it blocks the drug's effect for up to a few days and the patient is thrown into immediate withdrawal. Sings of opiate withdrawal are essentially really bad flu-like symptoms. The only thing that stops the withdrawal symptoms is a big old dose of the opiates. He likely took too much and stopped breathing and died. He may have been dead hours before anyone found him and rigor mortis had set in. He was probably stiff and purple when the ambulance found him and pronounced him dead at his house instead of transporting him to the hospital.
sad
Posted by: artisanal 'ette
Posted by: andycanuck at April 21, 2016 11:47 PM (jVvcc)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 21, 2016 11:47 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 21, 2016 11:47 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2016 11:47 PM (OSOcC)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:48 PM (5DDGl)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 21, 2016 11:49 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 21, 2016 11:49 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:49 PM (CHRg6)
Posted by: Farmer at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (voOPb)
' sith Chi-Town on Prince
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (DN9jO)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723208710013759488
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723208851147755520
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209060657586176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209229981650944
Posted by: kbdabear at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (ZiS0i)
His real first name was "Prince"
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (5DDGl)
Posted by: Farmer at April 21, 2016 11:51 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: PabloD at April 21, 2016 11:51 PM (GP2ST)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:52 PM (5DDGl)
Posted by: Drill Thrawl at April 21, 2016 11:52 PM (DN9jO)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209380196323328
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209565291089920
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209742286381057
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/723209926550511616
Posted by: kbdabear at April 21, 2016 11:52 PM (ZiS0i)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (VdICR)
Drive a friend a bit bonkers when they say 'Damn you computer!' when it balks. I ask them why are trying to consign to Hell an inanimate object?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (CHRg6)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: kbdabear at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (ZiS0i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (CHRg6)
Posted by: NCKate at April 21, 2016 11:54 PM (O46jc)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:55 PM (5DDGl)
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I hit the ground and just yelled out loud 'OH FUCK' because 1. The belt broke and I was still here, and 2. Thank god the belt broke and I was still here.
I've found something I am truly passionate about (comic books and animation) and things have been on a steady uphill climb.
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Good on ya sir.
*so the 500 error will never be fixed I am guessing
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 21, 2016 11:56 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 21, 2016 11:57 PM (zxeJt)
28 "Agreed RK as you recently said, Maet gives the best ONT"
The. Best. Ever.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:52 PM (5DDGl)
Long Cat is in your future. Just sayin'.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 21, 2016 11:58 PM (hlMPp)
57 too young to go.
Not a fan but not a hater either.
If HW wants to make movies that's ok
Better than being subjected to Michelle Obama on an upcoming episode of NCIS
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 21, 2016 11:58 PM (voOPb)
I was never a big fan. Always thought he was a bit creepy. An adventurous musician, decent guitarist, but I just wasn't much of a fan. Purple Rain was ok but a bit over the top and I used to love Pink Floyd and RUSH so go figure.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 21, 2016 11:58 PM (GfbnD)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 21, 2016 11:59 PM (OSOcC)
Posted by: Agnes Moorhead at April 21, 2016 11:59 PM (nckx1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:00 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 22, 2016 12:00 AM (5DDGl)
Hope it gets widely spread thru the web
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (EZebt)
There is an interview where Charliesaid he was at a concert and Prince stopped his act and just gave him the stink-eye....and then resumed playing,
Whether he was pissed/upset it got out/just having fun remains to be seen.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (GfbnD)
Fence....because of all the ignorant assholes running around saying, "I
know of no reason why men and women, boys and girls, shouldn't share
bathrooms and changing areas...."
I've also been thinking about "Start from zero".
Posted by: cthulhu at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (EzgxV)
Breitbart had it correct about politics and culture. We wouldn't be here except that for decades now popular culture has portrayed men and women unrealistically.
How many movies show a tiny woman beating up a horde of muscle-bound dudes? It falsely minimizes the danger women face.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:02 AM (voOPb)
I expect he's clinking glasses with Bowie tonight.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:02 AM (zxeJt)
Hope it gets widely spread thru the web
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (voOPb)
I thought it would be. Too much to read tonight though but definitely saved.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (KId5h)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (/ciMI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (CHRg6)
At my High School, one of the instructors was named "King Wisdom". He was reputedly a lush.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (/ciMI)
It was just the donors, not the candidates.
Posted by: Baron bon Mot at April 22, 2016 12:04 AM (J3UIw)
Now I have this freaky idea I can't afford. There is a ZZ Top concert around my B-day in Vegas.(7 months off) The other daughter that I put up for adoption has found me.
I think it would be fun for all of us to meet in Vegas for a long weekend for the concert. Adopted daughter and are on contact several times a week. ;-)
Would it be tacky for me to ask? Would a go fund me be tacky too? I'm not swimming in $.
Posted by: Infidel at April 22, 2016 12:04 AM (Uek7X)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 21, 2016 11:44 PM (EzgxV)
I want a divorce. And a restraining order. Red states can stay red. Blue states can stay blue.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:05 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 12:05 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at April 21, 2016 11:46 PM
He wasn't exactly in my field of particular interest, either. However... it became obvious early on that he actually kicked ass and excelled at what he did. Prince was a gale of fresh air in the early 80's and sounded terrific with catchy songs. It was at a time when the harder edge of punk rock had dissolved into overly serious, angsty synth new wave and Prince's brand of "fuck it, let's dance and rock out" was welcomed by me wholeheartedly.
Posted by: otho at April 22, 2016 12:05 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:06 AM (hlMPp)
Drive a friend a bit bonkers when they say 'Damn you computer!' when it balks. I ask them why are trying to cogot into the the top twenty and you took 20.nsign to Hell an inanimate object?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM
Twas just a joke Anna. I posted I made the top 20 and you beat me to it and made 21.
I've no idea what your second paragraph refers to. I'm guessing it's not me.
be well.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 12:06 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:06 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2016 11:53 PM (CHRg6)
At my High School, one of the instructors was named "King Wisdom". He was reputedly a lush.
The Fox 5 (DC) anchor guy is named Wisdom Martin. Always thought that was a pretentious first name.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 22, 2016 12:06 AM (GfbnD)
I think us conservatives could take California back. No problem. I like the weather.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:07 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:07 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:01 AM (egOGm)
Your name is Donald?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:07 AM (0mRoj)
The second PowerLine story is stunning/ho-hum, in that new old-fashioned way.
I mean, really. Official public tour guides at a site commemorating one of the most important positive developments in all human history ..... trash the actual history, spout NPR-level idiocy and fantasy and hate, and trash-talk the country that was based on it.
Of course after 2013, there shouldn't be many illusions about the Park Service (who, in their darkest pessimistic projections, ever thought THE PARK SERVICE would be one of the more repugnant domestic agencies, once the degradation of the country really got rolling?).
Wow.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:08 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 22, 2016 12:08 AM (CHRg6)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:08 AM (0mRoj)
The Fox 5 (DC) anchor guy is named Wisdom Martin. Always thought that was a pretentious first name.
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 22, 2016 12:06 AM (GfbnD)
I have the name of the billionaire on Knight Rider. (First and middle)
I weed out the dummies when I tell them I was named after him
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:09 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 12:05 AM (fC9RO)
I intellectually agree, and emotionally feel even more so. "We must act!"
Of course, we win in the end, so it's probably not going to actually happen.
Posted by: "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" at April 22, 2016 12:09 AM (J3UIw)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gpsvym2
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2016 12:10 AM (OSOcC)
Posted by: have movies been lying to me? at April 22, 2016 12:10 AM (qG9uQ)
The Fox 5 (DC) anchor guy is named Wisdom Martin. Always thought that was a pretentious first name.
Posted by: Puddleglum
I like that name. Been thinking of changing mine.
Posted by: Dumbass McCoy at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (k4M/B)
And here I was thinking you avoided serious drug use.
There are some islands of sanity - you're sort of in one, certainly by comparison to all urban areas - but as you well know they are dwarfed by the drones of the coasts and cities.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (J3phO)
And were I considering such a career move, I'd have to wonder whether such a debased credential was worth the risk to my life.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:09 AM (hlMPp)
People are naming their kids Daenerys, Sansa, and Arya.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:12 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 22, 2016 12:12 AM (KId5h)
People are naming their kids Daenerys, Sansa, and Arya.
Posted by: Colorado Alex
Yahoo Serious named his daughter Arya.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:13 AM (k4M/B)
I assume you will not keep us hanging for long.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:13 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (zxeJt)
I love your optimism. But you can't even elect a GOP state senate or assembly. Eventually sanity has to over rule weather & natural beauty
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: big SanDisk fan at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (qG9uQ)
And then there was King Vidor, movie director.
Posted by: Tonight's Final Jeopardy Category... at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (J3UIw)
Posted by: eman at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (MQEz6)
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Wow.
Posted by: rhomboid
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They fell into line during the sequester theater. Everywhere the Park Service was closing stuff, like parking lots, the locals got a taste of Altruistic Punishment.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (J3phO)
I had an instant negative opinion of his parents.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (OSOcC)
The second PowerLine story is stunning/ho-hum, in that new old-fashioned way.
I mean, really. Official public tour guides at a site commemorating one of the most important positive developments in all human history ..... trash the actual history, spout NPR-level idiocy and fantasy and hate, and trash-talk the country that was based on it.
Of course after 2013, there shouldn't be many illusions about the Park Service (who, in their darkest pessimistic projections, ever thought THE PARK SERVICE would be one of the more repugnant domestic agencies, once the degradation of the country really got rolling?).
Wow.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:08 AM (QDnY+)
Last I checked, Article I, section 8 of the Constitution didn't say anything about National Parks. Devolve them to the states by executive order on Day 1.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Colorado Alex
Don't doubt that at all.
Thing is with my name I think I was 12 or so when the show was on. So definitely not named after it. And I still don't know how they came up with my name.
They said they didn't use drugs????
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Will Smith at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (nckx1)
he had a heart attack today.
he is doing better, but mom is very scared.
i am going to visit them tomorrow and spend the weekend there.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (uAvJJ)
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It does indeed Mike.
Maet beat me to the punch I put it in news dump for tomorrow
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:16 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:16 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: Colorado Alex
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Tercel
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:16 AM (J3phO)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/gpsvym2
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2016 12:10 AM (OSOcC)
Good luck with that. I suppose the blue helmets will go to Brazil and face the torches and pitchforks for her.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:16 AM (EzgxV)
I intellectually agree, and emotionally feel even more so. "We must act!"
Of course, we win in the end, so it's probably not going to actually happen.
"We win in the end" in what universe is that assured?
The only way we win if there's no divorce will be if we kill about 100 million people in this country.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 12:16 AM (fC9RO)
I had an instant negative opinion of his parents.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (OSOcC)
Elric the Enchanter?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:17 AM (0mRoj)
*snap*
It just came to me... perhaps there will be a wave of people naming their kid's 'Harriett'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:17 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:18 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:18 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (QDnY+)
There will eventually, as in all things, be a swing the other direction...
Its inevitable... and the longer it goes, and the more Left Calif goes... the more that pendulum will swing...
and we are soooooo far to the Left, the correction will be horrendous...
Posted by: Don Q at April 22, 2016 12:18 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:18 AM (zxeJt)
I thought Aethelred was the unready one.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (hlMPp)
My nephew and wife named their kid 'Skye'. I wanted to scream.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
It just came to me... perhaps there will be a wave of people naming their kid's 'Harriett'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
They will marry guys named Ozzy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:20 AM (0mRoj)
They were speaking of the Baffrooms Without Borders. Angle seemed to think "self-identify" means whats on your birth certificate, when it's the opposite and said what is happening couldn't possdibly be happening.
Ingraham said it was a Gotcha Question for her beloved [], it wasn't. Then she implied it was a joke which is what they said about gay marriage. Then she said it was for states, even tho federal judges are ruling on it and the White House is threatening to withhold funds, etc.
Krauthammer said it started with the NC legislature; forgetting that the Charlotte ordinance was the spark. And that trans were a tiny population, not understanding that the law would allow anyone and everyone to self-designate their own permission to use any facility.
Nor is it a local NC issue, with 22 states considering legislation.
Even [] "leave it the way it is" was confused. Leave it like it's always been our whole lives? Too late for that. Leave the Charlotte ordinance in place and repeal the state of NC's response?
And Bret Bair found the whole thing mildly distasteful, something the Left counts on to get their way.
Posted by: Donald F. Troop, Small Businessman at April 22, 2016 12:20 AM (Ndje9)
https://archive.org/details/eric-the-unready-1997-cdrom
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:20 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:11 AM (J3phO)
....and means nothing without the rule of law. How 'bout, "ask anyone else for that schedule and you will be disbarred and held in a box for contempt until you rot."? But, no -- she's a favorite lefty. She'll be Senator, then Governor before she finishes her term, then be a Presidential candidate in 2020, all the while leaving a slimy trail of lawlessness behind her.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:20 AM (EzgxV)
Toyota?
I knew a couple who named their daughter Fleming. Eh gadz, what do you call her for short, Flem?
Parents today are selfish. Looking for a cool name and a BFF. Ffs it's your kid.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:21 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:21 AM (zxeJt)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 22, 2016 12:21 AM (KId5h)
https://archive.org/details/eric-the-unready-1997-cdrom
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:20 AM (zxeJt)
That's Eric, not Elric.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:21 AM (0mRoj)
I think you meant "shutdown", not sequester.
If the US weren't already a sort of ridiculous parody of its former self (sorry irongrampa), the Park Service outrages in 2013 would seem impossible, made up. Trying to block vista spots along scenic highways (WTF?). Soviet, really, in their contemptibility, and their buffoonery.
But of course expending effort, and $$$, to block a public/open space (WWII Memorial) that had been built with private funds, so that elderly WWII vets on their last/only trip to visit the Memorial could *not* see it ...... and the country (and the GOP) just TOOK IT ..... yet most just avert their eyes, inertia is the greatest force in nature - besides comfort.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:21 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
I actually like that. Is it short for something,my best buds daughter is Skyler but I call her Sky.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:22 AM (hlMPp)
I was thinking by force, we have plenty of chalk.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:22 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Infidel at April 22, 2016 12:22 AM (Uek7X)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
I actually like that. Is it short for something,my best buds daughter is Skyler but I call her Sky.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:22 AM (hlMPp)
Ugh. I was never a fan of the name Skyler, but Breaking Bad ruined it completely for me.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:23 AM (0mRoj)
98 well, my dad is in the hospital.
he had a heart attack today.
he is doing better, but mom is very scared.
i am going to visit them tomorrow and spend the weekend there.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (uAvJJ)
Hang in there, dude.
Speedy recovery for your Dad.
Posted by: eman at April 22, 2016 12:23 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 22, 2016 12:24 AM (zxeJt)
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called life
Are we gonna let the elevator bring us down
Oh, no let's go crazy
Pills, and thrills and daffodils will kill
Take me away.
57 years is too short..RIP Prince
Posted by: bossybarb at April 22, 2016 12:24 AM (7czoZ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:24 AM (voOPb)
Angle seemed to think "self-identify" means whats on your birth certificate
He also predicted Hillary will go full "single payer" for the election.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:24 AM (k4M/B)
Pretty funny.
https://youtu.be/lGV8oKGbp6s
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 22, 2016 12:24 AM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:25 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at April 22, 2016 12:25 AM (KId5h)
You can die at 15 years old, and it happens, pretty much all the time.
Posted by: navybrat at April 22, 2016 12:25 AM (8QGte)
I'm praying for you and your family.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:25 AM (egOGm)
I haven't forgotten. The Park Service showed that it was basically a fascist paramilitary wing in waiting. If I ever get the opportunity, I intend to fuck them over for it.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Love Hertz at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (no0Da)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:17 AM (0mRoj)
Elric of Melnibone, I read it.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (OSOcC)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Larry Curlimo at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (nckx1)
Our neighbor has a dog named Skyler
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
And all the other doggies would laugh at him and call him names.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (k4M/B)
he had a heart attack today.
he is doing better, but mom is very scared.
i am going to visit them tomorrow and spend the weekend there.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM
Be well and be strong. Best to you chemjeff.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 12:27 AM (o/90i)
I haven't forgotten. The Park Service showed that it was basically a fascist paramilitary wing in waiting. If I ever get the opportunity, I intend to fuck them over for it.
Posted by: Maetenloch at April 22, 2016 12:26 AM (pAlYe)
Thread winner, hands down
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:27 AM (voOPb)
he had a heart attack today.
he is doing better, but mom is very scared.
i am going to visit them tomorrow and spend the weekend there.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (uAvJJ)
I'm sorry to hear that, cj. Please keep us informed of his status -- there are no "good heart-attacks", but there are those which can be recovered from and which point out previously-unknown weaknesses that built gradually over time. He has already passed the first hurdle, making it to the hospital. Best wishes from this moron, and guarded optimism.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:27 AM (EzgxV)
I actually like that. Is it short for something,my best buds daughter is Skyler but I call her Sky.
Posted by: RWC
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Yes... it is short for, 'We're trendy hipsters'. They had dozens of family names to choose from. People who worked and labored to bring about their comfortable, secure lives, but, no. 'Skye'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:28 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:28 AM (voOPb)
In any case, what sort of "swing" results in people becoming, say, practically intelligent, or economically literate, or ditching their deeply fixated bigotries - or "learning" from disaster?
A friend's sister in another state, a sort of Platonic ideal of a clueless nasty lib, was incensed when her health insurance tripled or something thanks to You Know What. What was the target of her ire?
"The insurance companies!".
(and no, the quite alarming and correct perspective that in fact the despicable oligopoly/rent-seeking behavior of the companies partly enabled this debacle in the first place is light years beyond her possible comprehension - she meant "the insurance companies just raised our premiums, the greedy demons! eleventy!)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: eman at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (xq1UY)
Well isn't that pretentious as hell.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 22, 2016 12:29 AM (0mRoj)
"The insurance companies!".
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Well, they hold it against us anymore.
Posted by: United Healthcare. at April 22, 2016 12:31 AM (J3phO)
My nephew and wife named their kid 'Skye'. I wanted to scream.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
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UNC had a baseball player named Skye Bolt.
Catchy and memorable.
Also corny, but......hey, if you're good, it works.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 12:31 AM (T/5A0)
I must know your friends sister. I've heard the same complaint.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:32 AM (egOGm)
Do let us know how things are.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:32 AM (QDnY+)
The focus this time: I am become a Leftist, destroyer of worlds.
http://politicalhat.com/?p=11571
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 12:32 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: United Healthcare
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'Can't', dammit, can't hold it against us..
Posted by: United Healthcare. at April 22, 2016 12:32 AM (J3phO)
My nephew and wife named their kid 'Skye'. I wanted to scream.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
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UNC had a baseball player named Skye Bolt.
Catchy and memorable.
Also corny, but......hey, if you're good, it works.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 12:31 AM (T/5A0)
I think he and Mjolnir need to have a little chat.
Posted by: Thor Odinsson at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM (AoK0a)
It's "Schuyler."
Posted by: Stringer Davis
Out of the clear blue of the Western sky comes Sky King!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM (k4M/B)
As I understand it, five characters is plenty for a name in Japanese, so the localization would carry that over since it meant not having to change any code. It also presented challenges for games that stored not just character sets but oft used phrases to save space, which could mean the English version would need to use a specific set of words saved as a dictionary and each word assigned a number of however many bits was the minimum needed. If 512 unique symbols/words were used in the Japanese version, it would be a 9-bit number and the localization would have to get by with that many words as well. In those days, if the game's binary ran over a specific size, it would raise the cost of the cartridge substantially. They had the choice of trying to trim it down to fit or come up with more content to use the greater capacity since it would cost them whether it was used or not. This is why CD-ROM was such a huge change.
Posted by: Epobirs at April 22, 2016 12:34 AM (IdCqF)
Your job will be to make sure plenty of excellent Santa Maria Valley pinot and SB Country syrah are on hand as "provisions".
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:34 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:34 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Larry Curlimo at April 22, 2016 12:35 AM (nckx1)
Take tomorrow off. Seriously.
The snowflakes will survive.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:37 AM (hlMPp)
There is a quadrupling down.
CA's economy/society are awash with conspicuous damage from (obviously) idiotic policies, from "environmental" paganism to whatever pejorative can encompass things as stupid as "bullet trains" and stem-cell research institutes (to pursue unpromising lines of research that icky Dubya declined to fund, after actually serious scientific and ethical examination of the question).
Result? 10,000 times more of the same.
Yes, you see a pattern here.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:39 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Larry Curlimo at April 22, 2016 12:35 AM (nckx1)
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Ugh.
Friend of mine has a new grand-daughter named Brinkley.
Ugh.
These sound like dog names to me.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 12:39 AM (T/5A0)
Listen to him chemjeff take tomorrow off
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:39 AM (voOPb)
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As much as I despise Garrison Keillor, I was always amused by the Lake Woebegone character who had been named by his parents 'Senator K. Thorvaldson'
Posted by: United Healthcare. at April 22, 2016 12:39 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: Donald F. Troop, Small Businessman at April 22, 2016 12:40 AM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:40 AM (J3phO)
If not in policy or statute, in the decency and humanity of your institution's administration?
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:41 AM (QDnY+)
Ive got you covered.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:41 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.
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Today, his niece would be named Penne.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:43 AM (J3phO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:43 AM (k4M/B)
The O-care thing was not Obama's, in any sense of the word. An agglomeration of facially unconstitutional unsound and unworkable "ideas" many of which had been around for decades. And recall that the president revealed in his pathetic (and completely failed) "barnstorming" tour for the disastrous law that he literally doesn't even know the difference between liability and comprehensive insurance for autos.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:44 AM (QDnY+)
it is kinda nuts right now.
don't know how I'm gonna focus on my classes tomorrow.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM
Seriously, I'd say F**k your classes tomorrow. Call someone NOW and tell them you can't make it and have a family emergency.
This happened to me twice, when I thought work was the most important, F*** that. I'd feel a lot better if I was there for my grandmother and my mother when they died.
Not to say this is a fatal situation but just the F**k go. You never know and your mother needs you.
I pray he will be fine, but just go and cancel the classes, please.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 12:44 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: A Boy Named Sue at April 22, 2016 12:46 AM (8aOqE)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 22, 2016 12:47 AM (1D4Ef)
As to Chesterton's brilliance about getting rid of cultural institutions, the left has their answer to him at the ready: the fence was put up by "raaaaaaaayyyyycisssssssts". Game over.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 12:48 AM (zc3Db)
Johnny Cash, the forefather of transgender names
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:48 AM (voOPb)
We often see discussions of "national divorce" here. Problem is, what exactly (concretely) is that supposed to mean? And why would anyone thing it would ever happen?
It happens to some extent already in self-segregation, voting with feet (move to another city, county, state), social disintegration (and especially racial, entirely in reaction to the racism that has replaced an open society as a guiding principle of official and fashionable orthodoxy).
But I don't see the tiniest chance of anything like a real divorce happening, ever. Beyond that noted above.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:48 AM (QDnY+)
178 thank you all.
it is kinda nuts right now.
don't know how I'm gonna focus on my classes tomorrow.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:33 AM
Seriously, I'd say F**k your classes tomorrow. Call someone NOW and tell them you can't make it and have a family emergency.
This happened to me twice, when I thought work was the most important, F*** that. I'd feel a lot better if I was there for my grandmother and my mother when they died.
Not to say this is a fatal situation but just the F**k go. You never know and your mother needs you.
I pray he will be fine, but just go and cancel the classes, please.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 12:44 AM (o/90i)
Chemistry has room to catch-up later. Comforting your mom doesn't. Get on a plane, or whatever it takes, and go.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:48 AM (EzgxV)
The health care law was designed to fail. Who was the designer who said on camera, it's right there in the bill?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:49 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 22, 2016 12:49 AM (1D4Ef)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (voOPb)
Last time the GOP won the Assembly was in 1995 (after recalling two Assembly members who sold out to Willie Brown). Last time the GOP won a U.S. Senate seat was Pete Wilson in 1988 (same last year GOP won California's electoral votes). Last time they won the state Senate was in... 1968.
The GOP won't win there ever again due to demographics... so, unless L.A. amd S.F. get hit by Nukes, it'll be Democrat forever (or until a racialist La Raza political party takes over).
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 12:49 AM (vBeA5)
Not to say this is a fatal situation but just the F**k go. You never know and your mother needs you.
I pray he will be fine, but just go and cancel the classes, please.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 12:44 AM (o/90i)
Bingo.
I am assuming the work ethic of the horde is like mine...need me, I'm there. Don't need me...I'm there. We set up a contractual obligation....I work and you pay me.
Why is my staff getting sicker and sicker on Mondays and Friday's now that the weather is nicer.
Yes, yes there will be a talking to.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 12:50 AM (hlMPp)
It's too late. We're doomed.
Drove up from far SW NM yesterday, state highways the whole way to ABQ. There's a beautiful landscape feature below Magdalena named the Plains of San Agustin, a few hundred square miles of ancient lakebed, grassland, an angus beef every few thousand feet or so. Didn't see a vehicle for 60 miles.
Might be a good place to move when H is inaugurated, no cell, no dish, just us and the dogs. Think about something else for a while.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at April 22, 2016 12:51 AM (d7ycQ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 12:52 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:53 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2016 12:48 AM (QDnY+)
Think "Czechoslovakia". We should be so lucky.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 12:53 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 22, 2016 12:53 AM (sqHNm)
I'm sad to say you are correct. I'll say it again. We are going to be a state that has super rich people, super poor people and government workers.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:54 AM (egOGm)
The health care law was designed to fail. Who was the designer who said on camera, it's right there in the bill?
Posted by: CaliGirl
Hans Gruber. Or one of those other Grubers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 12:55 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: The Midnight Chalkening at April 22, 2016 12:55 AM (VZj72)
I hope we can last ten more years and sell our business and retire someplace warm like here. With no humidity. But not too hot.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:56 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:14 AM (voOPb)
Last time the GOP won the Assembly was in 1995 (after recalling two Assembly members who sold out to Willie Brown). Last time the GOP won a U.S. Senate seat was Pete Wilson in 1988 (same last year GOP won California's electoral votes). Last time they won the state Senate was in... 1968.
The GOP won't win there ever again due to demographics... so, unless L.A. amd S.F. get hit by Nukes, it'll be Democrat forever (or until a racialist La Raza political party takes over).
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 12:49 AM (vBeA5)
A major issue is that bond issues are literally, "we promise to tax the ever-loving shit out of anyone stupid enough to live here in XX years for some dubious benefit we can screw-around-with now"....and with projects like the highspeed train to nowhere, the dubious benefits aren't even projected to occur before the hypertaxation kicks in.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:57 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: donna at April 22, 2016 12:57 AM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Donald F. Troop, Small Businessman at April 22, 2016 12:59 AM (Ndje9)
If I were you I would consider selling now and getting out while the going is good. I know it's hard to leave a ohysical location you love. I wish you & Mr. Caligirl the best
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 12:59 AM (voOPb)
I'm sad to say you are correct. I'll say it again. We are going to be a state that has super rich people, super poor people and government workers.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:54 AM (egOGm)
Government workers that have pensions guaranteed by promises to tax the ever-loving crap out of people who live in this state in the future -- and the rich can easily leave.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 22, 2016 01:00 AM (hlMPp)
My husband calls that the Friday, Monday syndrome. We've had employees who had that illness.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:01 AM (egOGm)
I hope we can last ten more years and sell our business and retire someplace warm like here. With no humidity. But not too hot.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:56 AM (egOGm)
There is nowhere in the US that has as nice a climate as California. But there are few places in the US with as ugly a political climate as California.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
<<<
Radio said had ...he did something - wrote a song/donated to/for that Ferguson/Baltimore thing.
So, BLM.
Posted by: Ralph at April 22, 2016 01:03 AM (7amCf)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:54 AM (egOGm)
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That will be the fate of the whole country eventually.
You're just ahead of the curve.
The most we can hope to do is slow it down a bit.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 01:03 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: Low Information Worker at April 22, 2016 01:04 AM (qG9uQ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:56 AM (egOGm)
Sell now while you still got something to sell. You can start another business somewhere that won't get to the point of confiscating it for privilege or some other invented pretext. California's headed to full jackboot territory at a breakneck pace.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 01:05 AM (J+mig)
We will leave, just not yet. Husbands prime earning years. We can't quit now.
But if the right offer comes, we are done.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:05 AM (egOGm)
So, BLM.
Posted by: Ralph at April 22, 2016 01:03 AM (7amCf)
He was such a has-been that I hadn't even heard about that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 01:05 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Ralph at April 22, 2016 01:06 AM (7amCf)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 01:07 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 01:07 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 12:54 AM (egOGm)
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That will be the fate of the whole country eventually.
You're just ahead of the curve.
The most we can hope to do is slow it down a bit.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 01:03 AM (T/5A0)
It all comes down to enumerated powers, and being allowed to fail.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:08 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 22, 2016 01:08 AM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 22, 2016 01:03 AM (T/5A0)
I'll do more than slow it down! It'll just take a while to stop. Like a train when you pull the brakes.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
Born and raised in CA save about 15 years out seeing the world. Fortunate enough to have 16 years of Reagan but, it's become intolerable now. The moving van is coming tomorrow morning and the wife and are abandoning/escaping CA for TN.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: Farmer at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: mullingthingsover at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (L6jDH)
Not farming. We could not start a new business someplace else, with the business climate the way it is now.
I just don't think it's possible.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:11 AM (egOGm)
We will leave, just not yet. Husbands prime earning years. We can't quit now.
But if the right offer comes, we are done.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:05 AM (egOGm)
A lot of CalPERS data is public. Look it over, both of you -- then decide when it is prudent to run.
In my case, the fiancee has been stuck on the first D of DANDA for a while.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:11 AM (EzgxV)
Good for you.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:12 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 01:07 AM (uAvJJ)
Where are the 'rents, cj? There may be morons nearby.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:12 AM (EzgxV)
Not bad. Quite sour, but it has a fluffy consistency like an orange Julius.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:14 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:14 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:02 AM (EzgxV)
Born and raised in CA save about 15 years out seeing the world. Fortunate enough to have 16 years of Reagan but, it's become intolerable now. The moving van is coming tomorrow morning and the wife and are abandoning/escaping CA for TN.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (KBjNt)
Excellent choice -- it's in my top 6. Whereabouts in TN?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:14 AM (EzgxV)
the world. Fortunate enough to have 16 years of Reagan but, it's
become intolerable now. The moving van is coming tomorrow morning and
the wife and are abandoning/escaping CA for TN.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (KBjNt)
Best of luck. Hope it all goes well.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 01:14 AM (J+mig)
Good luck in TN
Had a cousin relocate there 3 years ago
He loves it
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 01:15 AM (voOPb)
Someone on a previous thread asked if the rates of suicide are higher for people who have been deployed in Iraq/Afghanistan vs other wars.
I wonder if accurate figures are available?
Suicide has always been a hush-hush thing.
Especially before the 1970s.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 01:15 AM (k4M/B)
Clarksville for now. We have dear friends nearby. We will decide where we want to buy once we know the region better.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:16 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 21, 2016 11:50 PM (5DDGl)
Popular name for collie dogs, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:16 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 01:17 AM (voOPb)
Not farming. We could not start a new business someplace else, with the business climate the way it is now.
I just don't think it's possible.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:11 AM (egOGm)
The business climate is better than you might expect outside of California.....but only if you have the right outlook. Tons of "investments" under BS like TARP and QE are going to be liquidated -- how can they be repurposed into productive assets if you purchase them pennies on the dollar?
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:18 AM (EzgxV)
What is DANDA?
on retirement, my MIL and step father in law retired at 49. Sold his farm. Very comfortable. Now they are running out of money. He retired too soon. That was a tough lesson. They aren't broke, but he retired too soon.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:19 AM (egOGm)
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Exactly. Big difference between cant & wont
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 01:19 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:14 AM (KBjNt)
Open your own taco stand when you get there and pitch it to expats. That's what the free market does.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:20 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (EzgxV)
Any relation to King Pleasure? (yes, there really was a jazz singer by that name)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:20 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:16 AM (KBjNt)
I seem to recall that Google was planning to open a datacenter there, soon. Might be a good place to find work if you're the tech-savvy type.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 01:20 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:09 AM (KBjNt)
Excellent!!
Posted by: Blano at April 22, 2016 01:21 AM (3eoPa)
Yeah they are and as luck would have it, I'm a system administrator. So I will be looking at it when they are up and running.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:24 AM (KBjNt)
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 22, 2016 01:24 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:25 AM (egOGm)
Clarksville for now. We have dear friends nearby. We will decide where we want to buy once we know the region better.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:16 AM (KBjNt)
Nice. Haven't made it there, myself -- tried to check out a wide range of metropolitan areas, but only got to Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville (Memphis being right out). Best of luck to you, and I just know you'll find yourself breathing more freely once stuff is out of boxes.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:25 AM (EzgxV)
he had a heart attack today.
he is doing better, but mom is very scared.
i am going to visit them tomorrow and spend the weekend there.
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 12:15 AM (uAvJJ)
Condolences, Chemjeff. Good friend of mine, his father had a stroke last week. Recovering in hospital, last word I had.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:26 AM (UsLZp)
What is DANDA?
on retirement, my MIL and step father in law retired at 49. Sold his farm. Very comfortable. Now they are running out of money. He retired too soon. That was a tough lesson. They aren't broke, but he retired too soon.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:19 AM (egOGm)
DANDA is from the Kubler-Ross "stages of grief" -- Denial, Anger, Negotiation, Depression, Acceptance.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2016 12:19 AM (J3phO)
Yeah, stripper name, if ever there was one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:28 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 12:03 AM (EzgxV)
Any relation to King Pleasure? (yes, there really was a jazz singer by that name)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:20 AM (UsLZp)
Not that I know, but I never had him for a class.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 01:29 AM (k4M/B)
Clarksville is the main town for Ft. Campbell and the wife and I are both ex-Army and like military communities. I also wisely sent my wife ahead to secure housing and such while finish up my last project at my job over the next couple weeks. Should unpacked by the time I get there. Of course packing was real chore too. I frequently considered an insurance fire while packing.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:30 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 22, 2016 01:30 AM (uAvJJ)
I'm in denial that I could ever leave my beloved California.
The $100,000 club pisses me off. That which can't go on, won't.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:31 AM (egOGm)
Again, prayers for your father.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:32 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Davy Jones, counting large stacks of cash at April 22, 2016 01:33 AM (qG9uQ)
Gettin' pretty sick of PR companies writing the news.
Posted by: Muslim in a Speedo at April 22, 2016 01:34 AM (OmS1o)
Clarksville is the main town for Ft. Campbell and the wife and I are both ex-Army and like military communities.
Spent some time at WKU in Bowling Green and listened to a radio station out of Clarksville.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 22, 2016 01:34 AM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:35 AM (KBjNt)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:35 AM (egOGm)
Prince will stage a *Rally 4 Peace* in Baltimore on Sunday to honor Freddie Gray.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z76k5mf
Posted by: Ralph at April 22, 2016 01:38 AM (7amCf)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 22, 2016 01:38 AM (/f6Nd)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 22, 2016 01:38 AM (/f6Nd)
You do know that we don't use the metric system here, right?
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:40 AM (KBjNt)
If anyone gives a rats ass.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 22, 2016 01:42 AM (FtrY1)
Clarksville is the main town for Ft. Campbell and the wife and I are both ex-Army and like military communities. I also wisely sent my wife ahead to secure housing and such while finish up my last project at my job over the next couple weeks. Should unpacked by the time I get there. Of course packing was real chore too. I frequently considered an insurance fire while packing.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:30 AM (KBjNt)
Three years ago, I went through an evaluation in a spreadsheet named "statesorter" to come up with acceptable states. I, then, drilled down into metropolitan areas using a different spreadsheet. TN looked like a great state -- and the only metropolitan area that wasn't good was Memphis. Clarksville is going to be great for you.
One thing to brace yourself for -- there is no income tax in Tennessee, and all the locals will tell you this while being apologetic about their sales tax.....which is no higher than California's sales tax, while California's income tax is one of the highest in the country's. And, BTW, if you live on a property you purchase for $200,000....your property tax in TN will be $1,000.....while your property tax in CA would have been $2,000 -- except to find a property where you can live for $200,000, you have to be on the outskirts of Klamath Falls.....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 22, 2016 01:43 AM (/f6Nd)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:40 AM (KBjNt)
Bada bing!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2016 01:44 AM (UsLZp)
I'm in SoCal near the water so the price of housing here is absurd. When we do buy there, we will be able to pay cash and still have a lot left over
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:46 AM (KBjNt)
I'm in denial that I could ever leave my beloved California.
The $100,000 club pisses me off. That which can't go on, won't.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2016 01:31 AM (egOGm)
I wish you could drive around Silicon Valley with me. They're building 4-story housing everywhere there used to be 1-story industrial/research tilt-ups. Land-intensive businesses like plant nurseries are being steamrollered. They're importing people like gangbusters -- and many of them will vote.....against your interests. Tons of them are H-1B's....which the SCOTUS just said could add to the weight of votes that supposedly only citizens can cast -- and a bunch of the rest are illegal, who have no qualms about casting votes with their counterfeit paperwork.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
Luckily, it's only for a year, two at the most. Then off to Texas, or somewhere else reasonable.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 01:49 AM (fC9RO)
Was waiting for that one. The Horde never disappoints.
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 01:35 AM (KBjNt)
It gets even more amusing....David Bowie was originally going to record using a variation of his birth name -- except it was already taken. Yeah, he got pre-empted by Davy Jones.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:51 AM (EzgxV)
Luckily, it's only for a year, two at the most. Then off to Texas, or somewhere else reasonable.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 01:49 AM (fC9RO)
I'm not escaping fast enough.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 01:53 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 22, 2016 01:58 AM (9PLuA)
Posted by: Beer Ninja at April 22, 2016 02:03 AM (KBjNt)
That Citizen Kane poster looks like The Human Centipede.
And I have to get up for work in 4 hours.
Posted by: iforgot at April 22, 2016 02:03 AM (5o5ek)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 22, 2016 02:20 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: sinalco at April 22, 2016 02:21 AM (yODqO)
Hello.
The only important thing I said: Prayers for chemjeff's dad.
Posted by: mindful webworker - did it work? at April 22, 2016 02:35 AM (Yf6eY)
Time Traveling Bong
I may be the author of Head Shop Comix,* but I don't much go for stoner comedy - Cheech & Chong pretty much covered it in their early years. And Child's Garden of Grass LP. But, this was... amusing and bizarre.
* http://mindfulwebworks.com/head-shop/original
Posted by: mindful webworker - have another hit.. of sweet air at April 22, 2016 02:40 AM (Yf6eY)
Luckily, it's only for a year, two at the most. Then off to Texas, or somewhere else reasonable.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 22, 2016 01:49 AM (fC9RO)
Rent in Kallyfornia, then come to Texas. Plenty of places to hide here: east Texas, Hill Country, etc.
On that note, 'night all. Take care.
Posted by: Blano at April 22, 2016 02:41 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Rbastid at April 22, 2016 02:51 AM (XwTyM)
Posted by: Rbastid at April 22, 2016 02:51 AM (XwTyM)
The style was Samuri Steampunk.
Posted by: The Samuri Hat at April 22, 2016 02:53 AM (vBeA5)
Milady is baking cookies. Chocolate chocolate-chip. MMmmm.
Speaking of two in a row...
♥
Thirty-one years ago this night - no, last night in the 24rd hour, - Milady was a bit busy.
We were rolling down Lake Shore Drive in a taxi, her sister in the front seat, me in the back with Milady, heading for the hospital. Imminent childbirth.
Cabbie radioed in that he was on his way with a woman about to give birth to twins. Hospital heard it as having twins in the taxi, so when we got there, a whole bunch of folks were lined up to help. (I seem to recall the taxi driver had just had a birth in the cab the day before.)
We got inside, I changed to greens, and caught up with Milady before the births. Unlike with our firstborn, I got to just hold her hand and let others do the work.
Ten minutes from the time we got to the hospital, we had a son. Ten minutes later, we had another son. The hospital personnel didn't have much to do, at that pace.
Most amusing, Milady's sister was a high-ranking nurse at that hospital, and she became Dictator of the birthing theater. Figured out later she was ordering doctors about. In the panic of the moment, all was forgiven, though.
It's been... an interesting three decades since then. We had lunch with daughter and one son tonight, more festivity this weekend when other son gets to town.
Childbirth is terrifying. Women are phenomenal.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dad at April 22, 2016 03:01 AM (Yf6eY)
Posted by: mindful webworker - so lonnnneely at April 22, 2016 03:08 AM (Yf6eY)
Nothing more than bruises, but...
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 03:10 AM (EzgxV)
Milady is baking cookies. Chocolate chocolate-chip. MMmmm.
Speaking of two in a row...
*heart*
Thirty-one years ago this night - no, last night in the 24rd hour, - Milady was a bit busy.
We were rolling down Lake Shore Drive in a taxi, her sister in the front seat, me in the back with Milady, heading for the hospital. Imminent childbirth.
Cabbie radioed in that he was on his way with a woman about to give birth to twins. Hospital heard it as having twins in the taxi, so when we got there, a whole bunch of folks were lined up to help. (I seem to recall the taxi driver had just had a birth in the cab the day before.)
We got inside, I changed to greens, and caught up with Milady before the births. Unlike with our firstborn, I got to just hold her hand and let others do the work.
Ten minutes from the time we got to the hospital, we had a son. Ten minutes later, we had another son. The hospital personnel didn't have much to do, at that pace.
Most amusing, Milady's sister was a high-ranking nurse at that hospital, and she became Dictator of the birthing theater. Figured out later she was ordering doctors about. In the panic of the moment, all was forgiven, though.
It's been... an interesting three decades since then. We had lunch with daughter and one son tonight, more festivity this weekend when other son gets to town.
Childbirth is terrifying. Women are phenomenal.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dad at April 22, 2016 03:01 AM (Yf6eY)
What a wonderful....and stressful....memory! Thank you for sharing both the wonder and the worry. Prithee, give us a nightcap as to how the sons prosper today.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 03:15 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 22, 2016 03:15 AM (EzgxV)
Why does Monty Python's "Life of Brian" suddenly come to mind...
Posted by: The Hat that goes BING! at April 22, 2016 03:34 AM (vBeA5)
Ok I don't make films,
but if I did they would have samurai
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:05 AM (Dpy/y)
Well, what have the Romans done for us lately?!?
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:06 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:14 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:21 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at April 22, 2016 04:31 AM (3Mimg)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:36 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:21 AM (Dpy/y)
I want the guy with teh wimminz on his shirt to tell me about it. After all, a guy who can hit an asteroid with a spaceship has to be credible.
Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 22, 2016 04:37 AM (vbvxt)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Not outraged at all. at April 22, 2016 04:38 AM (WVsWD)
But if him hitting the asteroid, loosens the rock, which hits the ice, which knocks the comet, which disrupts the Kuplier object, which becomes the SMOD, then he ain't saying anything, cause, you know, lawsuits!
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:42 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 04:42 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:43 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 04:44 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:44 AM (Dpy/y)
take a look see as Mars passes above Antares. 2 red eyes staring down at you ...
If you squint and use your imagination ...
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:44 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the Burmashaving Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:46 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 04:46 AM (AoK0a)
Was out with the Kids yesterday doing some urban mining in the area of the University. Found a nice Backpack in a dumpster.
It had someones kit in it. Everything was wrapped in plastic to keep it dry. 2 Blankets. A nice sweater. Some new socks.
It had to belong to a Homeless person before it ended up in that dumpster. Now somebody probably has to replace that stuff.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Not outraged at all. at April 22, 2016 04:48 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 04:48 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 04:54 AM (WVsWD)
And all those businesses that like to give away food to people with a sticker on election day - if they really wanted to do something virtuous they would send platters of food to the poll workers, who are sequestered at the polls for 15-16 hours. (Big thanks to Chik-fil-A, who brought us a platter of chicken nuggets and gift cards for a free breakfast sandwich.)
Posted by: biancaneve at April 22, 2016 04:58 AM (sjq9T)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 05:00 AM (WVsWD)
They are now.
Sometimes they surprise me. Dumpster diving girls? They caught the bug.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 05:01 AM (WVsWD)
Be safe.
I hit the dorms post finals and usually scored enough half full bottles of laundry detergent, fabric softener, dish soap to last through the next 2 semesters ...
Never found any money in unopened Christmas cards, but some said they had ...
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomy Critic ... at April 22, 2016 05:07 AM (AoK0a)
I just thought of something, as it's part of what I do ( installing bathroom accessories) how soon until places like Target will be forced to put a "Free peeing zone" sign outside every bathroom.
Seriously some cross gender sign warning will be required, especially after many lawsuits that will happen. I go to Target often but really hope stupid ass hat ideas like this cost them dearly.
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 05:16 AM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 22, 2016 05:17 AM (2RBkF)
We find money quite often. The Chinese kids will save coins. They get tossed out when they go back to China.
The most I have found was about $25.00. The average haul is around $10.00.
Don't forget to look in the pockets of clothes you find. Sometimes they forget to check.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 05:17 AM (WVsWD)
That paid for gas plus some left over.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 05:20 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2016 05:21 AM (Dpy/y)
Thanks, Maet. And good morning, 'rons and 'ettes.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:32 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:36 AM (sZAiE)
Tim, if you're into scavenging and there's a firing range nearby your could gather the brass.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:36 AM (sZAiE)
When I first started reloading many years ago I used to pick up brass at the shooting range. .38, .357, and 30-30 were plentiful. The others not so much. However, as reloading became more and more popular that source of brass dried up.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 05:42 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:42 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:44 AM (sZAiE)
Vic, our shooters pick up the 9 mil and bigger but all the .22 brass just lies there.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:44 AM (sZAiE)
.22 brass unless you pick up enough to sell for scrap is pretty much worthless. That's why there is always some of that. Nobody wants it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 05:46 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: zombie Prince at April 22, 2016 05:47 AM (H9MG5)
Tim's got a couple of kids. Good job for them.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:49 AM (sZAiE)
Obama Not Greeted At Airports
http://tinyurl.com/hn4wgp8
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:53 AM (sZAiE)
Have a good morning everyone and remember, trashing the place is half the fun. The other half is avoiding the clean up detail.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Plain and Simple at April 22, 2016 05:55 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 05:56 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 05:57 AM (vvmPQ)
Good Morning Morons. Today is Friday, April 22, 2016. On this day in 2008 the United States Air Force retired the remaining F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft then service. This was based on the production start of the F-22. In 2009 as part of his war on the military and need for spending money on worthless social programs Obama killed the F-22. He cited the start of the F-35, which was supposed to be cheaper. Instead the F-35 which tried to be all things to all people has been a massive failure with cost overruns and a lot of problems. Our military procurement process is a massive fail.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/zkhkdod
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:01 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/hzd5nhw
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:02 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/z4fg95q
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:02 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:02 AM (sZAiE)
http://tinyurl.com/zees4sj
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:02 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/h4m4zyr
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:02 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/hxrn28g
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:03 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/jg82lha
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:03 AM (vvmPQ)
The founder of the Weather Channel (before Comcast) slams the AGW scammers. Money, politics and ideology have replaced science.[/] he says.
http://tinyurl.com/zdwqbh8
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:03 AM (vvmPQ)
Will anybody go to jail for this? No. Will anybody even be held in contempt for this? No. The corrupt Obamanites can do anything they want while giving congress a raspberry and farting in their general direction and congress will do nothing.
http://tinyurl.com/hjhntpr
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:03 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/gls6cvb
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/zrxx2dy
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/hfvz5lz
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/gqm5a68
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/jr2qdpd
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:05 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/j32zpz8
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/jnmu35n
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/jy5autv
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)
http://tinyurl.com/hn9mw3j
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:06 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:11 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:14 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:14 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:18 AM (sZAiE)
Abbott's no fool. I really wish the rest of the country would take up his Texas Plan. An Article V convention couldn't hurt, and his ideas for new Amendments sounded like a good start to me.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 06:22 AM (J+mig)
Further on Prince's Moline stop: It's reported that doctors recommended
he remain overnight but that they could not provide him a private room
as he had requested so he left AMA. We're not experiencing any raging
epidemics around here and there's been no shortage of hospital beds that
I know of. This is curious.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:18 AM (sZAiE)
If its like the hospitals around here it isn't the rooms that are the problem. Its a shortage of staff to take care of the rooms so rooms go empty.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:22 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 06:25 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 22, 2016 06:28 AM (22uju)
muzzie migrant centers in Europe are allowing child brides contrary to
their own local law. How long will it be before European Law is replaced
by sharia law due to the flood of these fake refugees?
http://tinyurl.com/gls6cvb
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:04 AM (vvmPQ)
That's the Leftists goal in a nutshell. Their plan looks like this:
1. Destroy Western Civilization by any means possible.
2. ?????
3. Profit is abolished, comrades!
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 22, 2016 06:29 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 05:46 AM (vvmPQ)
Someone posted a link, here, a little while ago about 22LR reloading. I looked at the site but haven't tried it yet. I think you have to cast your own bullets because I haven't found 22 bullets at any of my reloading spots.
http://sharpshooter-22lr-reloader.myshopify.com/collections/all
It's really a shame what happened to 22LR ammo. The rest of the ammo has rebounded but 22 is still nowhere to be found at sane prices. I know that people claim they find it at Walmart ... but the ones around me never have any and anyone who pays 10 cents @ is just insane.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 06:32 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at April 22, 2016 06:33 AM (n2GmV)
I can not see any way you could reload a rim-fire cartridge.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:34 AM (vvmPQ)
rest of the ammo has rebounded but 22 is still nowhere to be found at
sane prices. I know that people claim they find it at Walmart ... but
the ones around me never have any and anyone who pays 10 cents @ is just
insane.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 06:32 AM (zc3Db)
Someone on here posted a while back that what was happening was that Walmart employees were buying it up as soon as it came in the door before it was even put on the shelves.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:36 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:34 AM (vvmPQ)
Like I said, I haven't tried it (and I would guess that the precious strikes on the rims would be a problem) but they sell the primer compound and claim you can reprime the brass - which is the only bothersome part about reloading rimfire.
I can't vouch for this but I'm just throwing it out there. I'm not into casting bullets, otherwise I would have picked up some of their stuff and given it a whirl.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 06:39 AM (zc3Db)
http://tinyurl.com/jbggh86
Hey, Europe...can you hear them now?
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:46 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: @votermom at April 22, 2016 06:47 AM (nbrY/)
Muslims in London Scream "This is our country now! Get out!"
http://tinyurl.com/jbggh86
Hey, Europe...can you hear them now?
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:46 AM (sZAiE)
Proving once again that the muzzie death cult is incompatible with Western civilization and should be banned.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:49 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 06:50 AM (ptqRm)
I have also talked to the manufacturer reps when they come to a local event put on here and they are balls to the wall 24/7 and only stop the lines for major holidays or maintenance. The have added new production lines but would need to build new facilities to meet demand as it is now.
Posted by: Gmac-Just observing the oncoming times at April 22, 2016 06:51 AM (4pjhs)
It sort of explains one of hen many weaknesses of the modern Progressive movement in a minimum of words.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 06:52 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 06:53 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2016 06:54 AM (gUoN4)
they come to a local event put on here and they are balls to the wall
24/7 and only stop the lines for major holidays or maintenance. The have
added new production lines but would need to build new facilities to
meet demand as it is now.
Posted by: Gmac-Just observing the oncoming times at April 22, 2016 06:51 AM (4pjhs)
With Obama regulatory empire it is extremely expensive to build new facilities. The only people who are building new facilities are those abandoning the already expensive States of MA and CT and moving South.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:54 AM (vvmPQ)
Should be some sort of sweet government subsidies available for that..yes?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 06:57 AM (ptqRm)
All those government subsidies that Obama was pumping out have gone away now since the Republicans took away their 60 vote majority in the Senate. That is why those green places who major product was government money are going bankrupt left and right.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 06:59 AM (vvmPQ)
So this could be an opportunity to reach across the aisle then, right.
The Dems want a solar panel factory.
The Right wants to increase ammunition manufacturing capacity, creating more jobs, and supporting the american construction trade.
*Offered tongue in cheek*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 07:02 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 07:04 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: CrustyB at April 22, 2016 07:05 AM (Hnglq)
Does anyone know where I can download a video clip of Jodie Foster in
Silence of the Lambs declaring that transsexuals are passive? I want to
mash that with a clip of that CNN tranny threatening Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: CrustyB at April 22, 2016 07:05 AM (Hnglq)
Any youtube video about homos that doesn't worship them would have been remove long ago.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 07:08 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 07:13 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 22, 2016 07:13 AM (vBeA5)
Looks like I need another spinal tap this morning,, I've taken a turn for the worse.... Has anyone seen my lawyer around lately?
~sniff-sniff~
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 22, 2016 07:15 AM (HSmrB)
I'm pretty much done with Target. Adios, jackwads.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 22, 2016 07:19 AM (+FSld)
has rebounded but 22 is still nowhere to be found at sane prices. I
know that people claim they find it at Walmart ... but the ones around
me never have any and anyone who pays 10 cents @ is just insane.
.
.
.
.Plenty of 22 ammo around here in Kentucky. For some reason Walmart seems to sell out the minute they get some in but Cabelas and the other places have plenty.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 22, 2016 07:21 AM (iONHu)
Pricing seems to be reset at around 6.2 cents per round as the new "Good price" though.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 07:24 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 22, 2016 07:25 AM (22uju)
reason Walmart seems to sell out the minute they get some in but
Cabelas and the other places have plenty.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 22, 2016 07:21 AM (iONHu)
There is a Walmart store in just about every one-horse town in America. Unfortunately Cabela's is only found in large urban areas. There are only three in SC and none close to me.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 07:26 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Meaningless Symbol at April 22, 2016 07:28 AM (g6yUI)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 07:24 AM (ptqRm)
The best I see on gunbot is 9 cents@.
And even the 6.2 cents you mention is a total rip-off. I have nothing against people making money on something in great demand - good for them - just that I wouldn't buy 22 for anything over 5 cents apiece.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 07:30 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Meaningless Symbol at April 22, 2016 07:28 AM (g6yUI)
I'm still alive ... dammit!
Posted by: ⚧ at April 22, 2016 07:32 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 07:32 AM (vvmPQ)
I just checked local availability for 22 ammo at the SC Cabela's - none available at any store.
.
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.I can send you some for a slight markup. Cabelas and Buds Guns have a bunch here. Cabelas still has the 200 rounds per customer limit but Buds removed that a couple of months ago.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 22, 2016 07:36 AM (iONHu)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 07:37 AM (sZAiE)
That is my target price delivered as well.
But, two separate discussions.
Availability, and cost.
Availability on the internet is climbing, but you still need to be aggressive in your online tracking.
Or, they will be sold out by the time you see the notice.
Price?
Whole 'nuther kettle of fish.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 22, 2016 07:38 AM (ptqRm)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 07:38 AM (sZAiE)
I must be about the only person who cares not a whit about Prince. Did not care for any - I mean any of his music. So get off my lawn.
Here's a Boris Karloff story: after his career at Universal wound down, he did a lot of summer stock performances, often with the down-on-his-luck Peter Lorre. It so happened that one year he was doing a double bill; one week the 1931 play Springtime for Henry and the next week the classic Arsenic and Old Lace.
In the middle of Act 2 of Springtime, a bat suddenly flew out of the eaves and brushed Karloff's face. The actor calmly shooed the bat away, and in his rich, sepulchral voice, said very clearly, "No, no you fool. Next week. Next week."
The bat flew away and the audience broke out in applause.
Looks like a busy day today, so probably won't be able to hang around. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 22, 2016 07:39 AM (X6fMO)
http://tinyurl.com/jbggh86
Hey, Europe...can you hear them now?
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 06:46 AM (sZAiE)
Well little Davey Cameron will be happy to not see all of those white Christian faces any more.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 22, 2016 07:39 AM (45oDG)
and Buds Guns have a bunch here. Cabelas still has the 200 rounds per
customer limit but Buds removed that a couple of months ago.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 22, 2016 07:36 AM (iONHu)
I don't need any right now. I was just checking. BTW, wifey got half a dozen boxes of 50 38's from Walmart here a few months ago but I don't know what their status is now.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 22, 2016 07:40 AM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: CrustyB at April 22, 2016 07:43 AM (Hnglq)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 07:38 AM (sZAiE)
Sorry about that. But you learned an important lesson: Don't try to paste strange symbols.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 22, 2016 07:43 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 22, 2016 07:39 AM (45oDG)
There's a Neville Chamberlain joke in here somewhere butt damned if I can tease it out.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 07:44 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: Gem at April 22, 2016 07:44 AM (c+gwp)
This seems odd to me as the RNC has broken record after record so far this year in fund raising as has raised over $135 million so far this cycle, the most raised ever.
Talk about some over the top propaganda from the NYT. It's either that or they are denying reality and simply wish casting.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 22, 2016 07:45 AM (iONHu)
probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen. RIP, Prince. A
true original.
Posted by: Gem at April 22, 2016 07:44 AM (c+gwp)
See the vid NDH linked to at 131.
Posted by: Golfman at April 22, 2016 07:48 AM (jIgQw)
Well, I figured since he (hehe) got away with it it must be okay. Shoulda known better. The last time I goofed I wound up embarreled. But that was an honest mistake. I admit to pushing the envelope on this one.
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 07:48 AM (sZAiE)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2016 07:48 AM (V/InG)
So who's up for wastefully burning some hippies to create some carbon offset offsets on this sunny Erf Day?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2016 07:53 AM (bzd8I)
Posted by: Chris at April 22, 2016 07:53 AM (7F2Fj)
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 22, 2016 07:55 AM (ZQfW9)
Every day coming to work I see at least 30 Amigos that yu can rent for the whole day on a couple of corners and in front of the local deli? Do you need one or 2 or a million?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 22, 2016 07:56 AM (V/InG)
Fake but Accurate (H/T Insty + Maggie's Farm)
http://tinyurl.com/jxq6wmk
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 22, 2016 07:57 AM (wYnyS)
As much as I liked Prince, somehow I find that a bit juvenile for a business to portray some kind of Tiger Beat mentality with respect to his passing.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at April 22, 2016 08:00 AM (+FSld)
is purple rain. Bottom corner says, "In memory of Prince."
Purple Rain is causing Climate Change!!!
Posted by: Bruce at April 22, 2016 08:02 AM (6Fek3)
Posted by: HH at April 22, 2016 08:02 AM (DrCtv)
Thanks, MP4, I needed something like that to start my day!
Posted by: Hrothgar at April 22, 2016 08:03 AM (wYnyS)
Posted by: creeper at April 22, 2016 08:11 AM (sZAiE)
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