Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/15/16)

Mad cartoonist, Al Jaffee, is still going strong at age 95.He has also set a record as the oldest working cartoonist.

At 95 years old, Mad Magazine’s Al Jaffee is the oldest working cartoonist, and he has the certificate from Guinness World Records to prove it. The satirist has worked with everyone from Stan Lee to EC Comics founder William Gaines over his career’s 73-year span, though he will probably go down in comics history as the inventor of the “fold-in”, a transformable painting that originally mocked lavish centerfolds in magazines like National Geographic and Playboy and later became Jaffee’s calling card. Earlier this year he made time to discuss political satire and the way cartoons have changed with the Guardian. The presidential campaign hadn’t yet kicked into high gear, but Jaffee’s observations have aged well.

Quotes of The Day

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.-Ted Nugent

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.-Antonin Scalia

The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible.”-Kevin Williamson of National Review

The photo? No, it's not Kevin Williamson it's Mr. Potter.

Just remember this, ~~Mr. Potter,~~ Kev that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this ~~community~~ country.

The last but not least Quote of The Day

My point is that populism is not intrinsically a bad thing. It may be either positive or negative according to context. The essential feature of all populist movements is their belief that an elite is governing in its own interests rather than that of the general population. To make an obvious point, the validity of the populist argument depends on the extent to which that assessment is accurate.-Daniel Hannan

The big question next January is Obamacare repeal and replace. No word if Jonathan Gruber is related to Kevin Williamson. Gruber who was a driving force in Obamacare pointed out "“the stupidity of the American voter.” Let's hope the GOP doesn't feel the same way.

If the “accomplishment” is that the American electorate is now blaming their high health care bills on Democratic politicians, rather than on doctors, drug companies, or insurance executives, it is indeed pretty great, though perhaps not exactly in the way Professor Gruber intended it to be.
It is, in any event, a cautionary tale for Republicans who hope to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. If voters are going to start blaming politicians for their health insurance and medical bills, the anger in the next election could be directed at the Republicans who now hold control of the White House and both houses of Congress. If the Republicans hope to do better than President Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and Professor Gruber, they may want to start from the premise that American voters aren’t stupid

Its been a week since the presidential election. The smirks and schadenboners are starting to fade. While the ONT is willing to move on it appears the left is not. Example, Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon makes some coin every time a rerun of Seinfeld is shown. Good for him. He's living rent free in their heads.

If you are going to protest, don't you think you should have voted? The left, too much money in their pockets and swimming in hypocrisy.

The Democrats are running around calling Hillary the winner of the popular vote. They are clamoring for a change of electoral college. Barbara Boxer has been in the senate for years and years and years. Now that it is in lame duck session with her party out of power she introduces legislation for a constitutional amendment. Nice show boating there Babs. Fortunately she is retiring, unfortunately her replacement is another Prog ditz.

FWIW the next link is from Info Wars. It appears that voter fraud gave Hillary the popular vote win. TFG indicated prior to the election that illegals could vote without recrimination.

It's about time for voter rolls to be scrutinized and purged. Photo ID should be the law of the land in order to vote. If the Left wants to help "disenfranchised" folks they can haul them to the appropriate clerk's office and help them obtain a valid ID card. The ONT wouldn't be opposed to purple ink on one's thumb either.

What do you get when you cross Kathleen Sebeilus and Hillary Clinton? The United Kingdom's NHS employees are caught in an email nightmare. The ONT ~~snorted~~ remains neutral.

The NHS's 1.2 million employees are currently trapped in a "reply-all" email hell.
A "test" email was accidentally sent to everyone who works at the UK health service — prompting a series of reply-all responses from annoyed recipients going out to all 1-million-plus employees of the organisations.
An NHS employee told Business Insider that there have been at least 120 replies so far — meaning that more than 140 million needless emails have been sent across the NHS's network today. As a result, they said, its email systems are running "very slow today."

The email problem seems to be the least of their problems at the moment. The NHS is busy trying to keep cuts secret. Government and transparency, oil and water.

Full details of 44 reviews of services around the country - which involve closing some A&Es or, in one case, a whole hospital - are yet to emerge.
That is because NHS England told local managers to keep the plans "out of the public domain" and avoid requests for information, the King's Fund suggested.
Managers were even told how to reject freedom of information requests.
The King's Fund report did not include any details of cuts, but from the leaks and plans that have been published so far a partial picture is emerging of what is involved.

When the Left admits Obamacare is a failure this is the crap they will push next.

Are you lonely? Do you know someone who is lonely? Have you tried the sure-fire lonesomeness ender?

Dementia overtakes heart disease as #1 killer in England.

Wow. 40 years? My how time flies.

Oh yeah, and the ONT Musical Interlude.

David Bowie's Rebel Rebel performed by a 1,000 member band.

When will people learn there are rules to social media use? Columbia University suspends wrestling team. Offensive text messages obviously these kids aren't being taught the right things.

Columbia University suspended its wrestling team's season on Monday while it investigates a leak of illicit text messages sent among team members, The New York Times reported.
The messages, shared on the private messaging app GroupMe, were peppered with derogatory references to women, minorities, and gay people. Screenshots of the messages were made public by independent student-run news site Bwog.
The university described the inflammatory messages as "appalling" in a statement.
"Columbia University has zero tolerance in its athletics programs for the group messaging and texts sent by several members of the men’s varsity wrestling team. They are appalling, at odds with the core values of the University, violate team guidelines, and have no place in our community," the statement said.

While we are on college students. Good Lord weren't any of them taught about loss and disappointment as children growing up? The only thing that is missing for their comfort is sitting on Mommy's lap sucking their thumb.

Last week, right after the election of Donald Trump, Barnard’s Student Life department released a guided video tour of the Social Justice Lounge encouraging students to visit during its normal hours of operation, Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
As the video shows, the room has “community guidelines,” and encourages the use of “I” statements and trigger warnings.
It also features framed photos of female activists, “social justice oriented texts” that students may freely borrow, multiple packs of Crayola Crayons, and loose-leaf sheets of coloring pages.
According to The Columbia Spectator, students from both Barnard and nearby Columbia University came “running, screaming, and crying” to the campus Quad when Trump’s victory was announced, subsequently protested Trump’s victory, and even requested that their professors postpone midterms after learning about the news.

Parenting. One of the hardest jobs one will ever have. Over the past several months the failure of certain parents has been on full display. Meet Chris Burr Martin a 48 year old father of 3.

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His parenting skills are different. The ONT will give you that.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 54 Million reasons why it is beautiful, or not.

What's the old joke? When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did. In his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. These folks didn't meet Gramps fate.

WWII, there is a grave for a solider who never existed. Creative strategies, one of them was "Operation Mincemeat"

The problem with monopolies is that they can do just about anything. Charter Cable customer sues for bogus charges.

Las Vegas gets "different" type of street lights. Pedestrian powered street lights.

Not all news is bad news. As a matter of fact here is some Yummy news. Oreo will be introducing the new Big Crunch candy bar. The ONT suggests launching it in the states that passed the recreational marijuana laws. Just an idea.

The Genius Award Winner.

Kleenex warning issued. The feel good story of the day.

As we approach Thanksgiving, why not thank Ace for all of the good work he does.Hitting the tip jar is an easy thing to do.

ONT Tips, loose change and empty milk jugs can be sent here, or here petmorons at gmail. Your humble ONT host will be gone until Thanksgiving. Please play nice with the guest COBs. Rumor has it that Ace will be sitting in one night.

The Group, you will find populism here.

The ONT has been brought to you by masculinity.

You're welcome 'ettes.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:07 PM

Comments

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1 Faust!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:03 PM (7cmcE)

2 Damn good, if I say so myself!

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:04 PM (7cmcE)

3 Content, content, content.

Posted by: gNewt...not troubled by Trump at November 15, 2016 10:04 PM (6qmBU)

4 But not three after my corgi call?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:04 PM (7cmcE)

5 So, how's tricks, gNewt?
gNewt
gNewt
gNewt

Echo
Echo
Echo

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:06 PM (7cmcE)

6 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 15, 2016 10:06 PM (V860n)

7 Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon...Manny Mota... Mota... Mota

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:07 PM (7cmcE)

8 Evening everyone!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 15, 2016 10:07 PM (0tfLf)

9 Jeez Louise....are there enough things?

Posted by: eleven at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (qUNWi)

10 HOOOOOONNNNNNK!

(just keepin it real yall)

Posted by: Johnny Nuggent at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (Ag8Mw)

11 Gee. They're discussing Harry Reid's balls in the other thread.

I don't think I want them here now.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (7cmcE)

12 Thank you Mis Hum

Posted by: eleven at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (qUNWi)

13 "Make America Dumb Again"

What has it been for the past 8 years? The only alternative to "dumb" would be "suicidal".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (uz/Pv)

14 Rudy for SoS is a mismatch. Not good at all.

Posted by: L, Elle at November 15, 2016 10:09 PM (6IPEM)

15 Barbara Boxer has been in the senate for years and years and years. Now that it is in lame duck session with her party out of power she introduces legislation for a constitutional amendment. Nice show boating there Babs. Fortunately she is retiring, unfortunately her replacement is another Prog ditz.
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You are going to absolutely love her. Heeeeeeere's KAMALA!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 15, 2016 10:10 PM (EZebt)

16 You are going to absolutely love her. Heeeeeeere's KAMALA!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 15, 2016 10:10 PM (EZebt)

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He had some great matches with Hogan back in the '80's

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 15, 2016 10:11 PM (K2T58)

17 Earlier this year he made time to discuss political satire and the way cartoons have changed with the Guardian.
I see the Guardian's grammatical skills (as well as their proofreading) hasn't improved any.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:11 PM (7cmcE)

18 Chock full 'O great content. Thanks Mis Hum.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:11 PM (U77o1)

19 Hi MisHum. Love the Tom Petty song choice. Honestly, he has a bad/ weird voice but it works somehow.
Thanks for the stellar ONT

Posted by: L, Elle at November 15, 2016 10:11 PM (6IPEM)

20 To be fair to Mad, they had a very funny pic of Alfred E Newman as Obama with the title "Yes We Can't". And they were right about that.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 10:12 PM (uz/Pv)

21 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 15, 2016 10:12 PM (IcT7t)

22 I don't think I want them here now.
The commenters that is and not Reid's balls. (Although I don't want Reid's balls here either.)

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:12 PM (7cmcE)

23 Its been a week since the presidential election. The smirks and schadenboners are starting to fade.

Says you.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2016 10:13 PM (0F67M)

24 The commenters that is and not Reid's balls. (Although I don't want Reid's balls here either.)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:12 PM (7cmcE)

you are probably too old for his liking anyway

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 15, 2016 10:13 PM (K2T58)

25 Obama must feel like suck a fucking fool right now.

What an awesome year.

Posted by: eleven at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (qUNWi)

26 I recall Mad used to hit everyone equally. I don't know if that's still true as I haven't seen one in decades.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (7cmcE)

27 On behalf of the 'ettes, we're grateful for whatever crumbs you give us. Man-cake wise.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (PY9jH)

28 Ezekiel Emanuel was on Fox news tonight saying Obamacare is working fine and they'd better not mess with it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (IqV8l)

29 >>>The ONT has been brought to you by masculinity.

*barf* I think I'm gonna be sick...

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (uz/Pv)

30 25 Obama must feel like suck a fucking fool right now.

Yes Barry?

Posted by: Reggie Love at November 15, 2016 10:15 PM (K2T58)

31 Says you.

What did you say?

I can't hear you over the sound of my boner.

Posted by: eleven at November 15, 2016 10:15 PM (qUNWi)

32 That dad mocking his idiot daughter is a genius. My husband's youngest brother NEEDS to do that with his problem daughter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 15, 2016 10:15 PM (PY9jH)

33 I can't hear you over the sound of my boner.
Posted by: eleven at November 15, 2016 10:15 PM (qUNWi)

all this talk about a big moon, surprised you can see it for all the week long hardons

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 15, 2016 10:16 PM (K2T58)

34 I would beat anything that Chris Martin's daughter puts out.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2016 10:16 PM (0F67M)

35 The ONT! Too uttterly shamemaking! Do, admit!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 10:16 PM (kP16F)

36 or bet

beat might be better.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2016 10:16 PM (0F67M)

37 Uneducated Racist Rural People ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569180198998016

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569320208994304

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569433073676288

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569545107705861

Posted by: kbdabear at November 15, 2016 10:16 PM (Ya7zs)

38 The dad mocking the girl's selfie is probably a good thing. And I hope those are fake tattoos

Posted by: Votermom the Deplorable @vm on Gab.ai at November 15, 2016 10:17 PM (Om16U)

39 More Uneducated Racist Rural People ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569660493037568

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798569780114583553

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798570558736789504

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798570665846669312

Posted by: kbdabear at November 15, 2016 10:17 PM (Ya7zs)

40 Haw haw haw! Cheeto Jesus! Stupid Trumpkins! Haw haw haw!

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 10:18 PM (0mRoj)

41 Uuhhh there's content? I can only see a photo of the standard for hot guys. I don't see anything else....

Posted by: Jen the original at November 15, 2016 10:19 PM (Q3CCX)

42 Even More Uneducated Racist Rural People ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798570764853252096

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798570868158828544

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798570959460507649

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/798571073948291072

Posted by: kbdabear at November 15, 2016 10:19 PM (Ya7zs)

43 Ooh la la, MisHum - thank you for that luscious photo of Tom Selleck. Masculinity indeed. Sigh.

You're always looking out for us 'ettes. Thank you.

I guess there's other stuff I should look at, too, but - not yet.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:19 PM (uHcnA)

44 Karl Denninger has been saying till he's blue in the face that the real problem with health care in America is that providers act as monopolies in violation of existing antitrust laws.

It's like going to the supermarket, filling your shopping cart, and not knowing what you will pay until you get to the cash register. Ot like taking your car to the mechanic, having the work done, and then presented with a bill at the end, without having any idea what the work will cost beforehand. That is clearly illegal, and that needs to be enforced among medical providers and drug companies as well.

Pricing for medical procedures, tests, and drugs needs to be transparent so that consumers can shop around before they need the work done.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 10:20 PM (sdi6R)

45 I see by the TV news that Denver is going to allow marijuana use (and I presume they mean smoking it?) in bars, restaurants, and other public places, including, wait for it, yoga studios.

So what happens if a tobacco user lights up in a bar?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:20 PM (bY0uH)

46 NHS were those not the twits that did some bonehead government run healthcare skit in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

Thought then that they went full retard and you know you never go full retard.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at November 15, 2016 10:21 PM (cOHS7)

47 39 More Uneducated Racist Rural People ONT Compliance Pics

God bless flyover country!

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 10:21 PM (0mRoj)

48 So what happens if a tobacco user lights up in a bar?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:20 PM (bY0uH)

why do you think they still haven't closed Gitmo?

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 15, 2016 10:21 PM (K2T58)

49 Hi MisHum. Love the Tom Petty song choice. Honestly, he has a bad/ weird voice but it works somehow.
Thanks for the stellar ONT
Posted by: L, Elle at November 15, 2016 10:11 PM (6IPEM)
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I saw Tom Petty when I was in college. I liked his music, but he would be pretty boring in concert, having seen his boring videos on MTV.

Well. Second best concert of my life, behind all the Springsteen ones which tie for first.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:21 PM (uHcnA)

50
Jonathan Gruber who was a driving force in Obamacare pointed out "the stupidity of the American voter." Let's hope the GOP doesn't feel the same way.

Mein Fuehrer -- Steiner....

Posted by: Mitt Romney*

*http://tinyurl.com/z32l4fs

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:22 PM (kdS6q)

51 Hey everybody.

Tom Petty does have a weird voice, but I think it's by design. I've read he always tries to sound halfway between Bob Dylan and the lead singers of the Byrds.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (u8kLQ)

52 Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (kP16F)

53 This has been weird for me. When the Cubs won, then Trumo won I thought I was living in the Other Space.

Now today, Harry Reid is still an idiot, attacking Bannon

And HEY! Schumer is behind Ellison for the head of the DNC. I think after nominating the FAB this would be called doubling down on stupid.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (o/90i)

54 Its been a week since the presidential election. The smirks and schadenboners are starting to fade.

Oh hell no they haven't.

A new pill was created last week. It's called Trumpagra. Once taken, you must call your doctor if you have a schaedenboner lasting more than 4 years.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (D2vc1)

55 Z My first willowing

Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (iASYp)

56 H/T to whoever called Selleck's stache a womb broom a while back. Good stuff.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (89T5c)

57 I know this dude traded his wife's old 43 inch plasma tv for a Mossberg 590 today. She told him to give the tv away. Is that sweet or what? Now they have matching pump guns. Awwwww.

Posted by: Eromero at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (zLDYs)

58 I love Seinfeld so it's good to see that it's helping Bannon!

BTW, Bannon's deal-making shows that he's massively more-intelligent than that hit-piece's writer. I wonder if the writer would admit to that even under the paradigm of "smarter than me but evil"?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (7cmcE)

59 Tom Selleck still looks good in his seventies.

Posted by: huerfano at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (jkkMG)

60 45: aop, thirty days in the hole.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (KP5rU)

61 52 Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?

No. Fvck no.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 10:24 PM (voOPb)

62 The selfie dad is great. I read about him a little while ago; he's done more since then. Good for him. I love that he has nearly twice the followers as his vapid daughter.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (uHcnA)

63 My first willowing

You took it like a man. You tole dem nuthin and dey got nuthin.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (0F67M)

64 Have a question for the Horde, and if people don't mind I'll also repost it later when more people are here.

I have more stuff to share about Jeffrey Wells and Hollywood Elsewhere, but I know I've already written a ton of stuff about him here.

Would I be boring everyone if I kept sharing stuff about him, or do you all want to hear more about his continuing meltdown? I don't want to become too one-note here.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (u8kLQ)

65 52 Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (kP16F)

No, nor should he. He showed his true colors, let him live with it. That reminds me, he can eat another bag of dicks. I'm sure I have another one for him around here somewhere...

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (0mRoj)

66 Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (kP16F)

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He has never apologized for it or refuted it in any way. He gives not a shit for my opinion, so he is forever dead to me.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (U77o1)

67

Sean Hannity has coined a new term and uses it all the time now: Alt-Radical-Left

Say what you wish about Hannity, but this is how you do it.

Posted by: Goober at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (w2q1W)

68 Typing on a phone means you type your Stairway to Heaven into a thread and you die broke because willowed. I'll be back around 300

Posted by: JEM at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (TppKb)

69 Tom Selleck - fully stasched and operational

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 15, 2016 10:26 PM (UpGcq)

70 52 Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (kP16F)

Well, it was kind of like getting smashed at the office Christmas party and loudly telling everybody what you REALLY think of them.

So... yeh... he won't

Posted by: kbdabear at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (Ya7zs)

71 My first willowing
Posted by: Bill sometimes bill from Canada at November 15, 2016 10:23 PM (iASYp)
***
Welcome to the club. Be proud. Badge of Honor

Posted by: L, Elle at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (6IPEM)

72 69 Tom Selleck - fully stasched and operational
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 15, 2016 10:26 PM (UpGcq)

He did have an epic man-stache.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (0mRoj)

73 Pricing for medical procedures, tests, and drugs needs to be transparent so that consumers can shop around before they need the work done.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 10:20 PM (sdi6R)

Well, it can't be exactly predicted, because somethings vary depending on what happens.

Colonoscopy, for example.

Baseline, maybe 1500 bucks. What if they find a polyp? You've just added a biopsy to the cost.

Knee replacement? 60k, unless they find some issue they weren't counting on, or you start bleeding uncontrollably and need several units of blood, or maybe you just won't come out of the anesthesia and have to stay in recovery longer, or maybe you go into cardiac arrest and have to go to the CCU...

There are plenty of reasons why you can't tell exactly what something is going to cost. You can get a rough estimate for anything, but it is not unusual for that to change.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (sOlkG)

74 I don't get the White Nationalist stuff with Bannon, I see nothing backing it up.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (dKiJG)

75 Would I be boring everyone if I kept sharing stuff about him, or do you all want to hear more about his continuing meltdown? I don't want to become too one-note here.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM

I'm voting post, sounds entertaining.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 10:28 PM (o/90i)

76 The dad mocking the girl's selfie is probably a good thing.

Praying that it's not the other way around.

Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 10:28 PM (NBHj5)

77 Tom Selleck always seemed to me to be the made-for-TV version of Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:28 PM (bY0uH)

78 Daniel Hannan. That guy is a genius. I always learn a lot when I read anything by him.

Plus, I love to listen to him talk. He's always classing up the joint.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:28 PM (uHcnA)

79 Who the hell is Jeffery Wells. And why would I care?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 15, 2016 10:29 PM (UpGcq)

80 Pricing for medical procedures, tests, and drugs needs to be transparent
so that consumers can shop around before they need the work done.

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This will drop costs immediately.

How do we know? Look at how cost has fallen in elective surgeries.

A plan so simple, so proven, and so logical it just might work.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at November 15, 2016 10:29 PM (cOHS7)

81 Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM (u8kLQ)

Is he the Hinterland Bumblefucks guy?

By all means continue.... I love to see him lose his shit.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 15, 2016 10:30 PM (sOlkG)

82 Tom Selleck <sigh> unfortunately doesn't have a voice to go with the rest. I was doing dishes one night and Magnum P.I. came on the TV in the other room. I thought I was listening to Jack Weston.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 10:31 PM (tHwdc)

83 Tom Selleck always seemed to me to be the made-for-TV version of Burt Reynolds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:28 PM (bY0uH)

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Well, except for the fact that Selleck has also made a number of movies, that works.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:31 PM (U77o1)

84 I don't get the White Nationalist stuff with Bannon, I see nothing backing it up.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

Okay, he's white. And he's an American, who is working for his country.

BaZinga! He's not brown, transexual, metrosexual, man-bun endowed.

GUILTY!!

Whatever.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:32 PM (S6Pax)

85 Because of all the rioting Congress needs to pass National Concealed Carry, and watch more heads explode.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 10:32 PM (dKiJG)

86 Very nice array tonight, Mis. Hum.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 10:32 PM (tHwdc)

87 Selleck >>>>Reynolds.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:32 PM (uHcnA)

88
Kevs is never going to be able to live down that piece ever, is he?
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki

Nope.

But glad to see he's enjoying playing with his new shovel:

Bill Evans
@KevinNR in your expertise:what WOULD the qualifs be to be POTUS?

Kevin D. Williamson Nov 14
Not being a morally repugnant lowlife; knowing how a bill becomes a law and what courts do; background other than heir and game-show host...

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (kdS6q)

89 I don't agree with Williamson , as he painted with too broad a brush but more specifically I don't want dysfunctional 'trailer park trash' and their way of life to become acceptable. 48 million receiving some type of public assistance is not a good thing. That's over 15% of the population. SSDI is out of control.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (IDPbH)

90 Those examples of why Bannon is a white supremacist- Nationalist are a hoot.
Nothing racist etc. was mentioned, the left just hates the articles because they don't bow to the proggy dementia.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (hVdx9)

91 Well, except for the fact that Selleck has also made a number of movies, that works.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:31 PM (U77o1)

Well, I was referring to how he got his start in the industry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (bY0uH)

92

CNN has about ten post titles from Breitbart that they believe proves Steve Bannon is a jew-hating white supremacist...who also hates muslims.

Posted by: Goober at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (w2q1W)

93 Anyone hear ever hear of, or a fan of, an actor named Michael Shannon? Turns out he's another asshole. He's even telling people to disown relatives who voted Trump.

http://tinyurl.com/hk3gxjg

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (u8kLQ)

94 Uneducated Racist Rural People ONT Compliance Pics

My people!

Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (8zL5i)

95 They're discussing Harry Reid's balls in the other thread.

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Downvoting the balls.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 10:34 PM (tHwdc)

96 Example, Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon makes some coin every time a rerun of Seinfeld is shown. Good for him. He's living rent free in their heads.

I must be one of the few human beings on the planet who has never watched a full episode of Seinfeld. As tempting as this makes it, I think I'll pass. And I didn't click on their anti-Bannon links. It would just put me in a rage.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 10:34 PM (uz/Pv)

97 #74 It's almost as if they're lying, Patrick.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (7cmcE)

98 28 Ezekiel Emanuel was on Fox news tonight saying Obamacare is working fine and they'd better not mess with it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2016 10:14 PM (IqV8l)

Does that mean that we're letting old people and sick babies die? That little chart of his is disgusting.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (+lVUW)

99 Hillary Clinton is still not President-Elect of the USA.

Posted by: davidt at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (XoldI)

100 74 I don't get the White Nationalist stuff with Bannon, I see nothing backing it up.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (dKiJG)

++++

He works for Trump. Runs Breitbart. That's all they need.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (R+30W)

101 Tom Selleck is about 6 ft 5, and Burt Reynolds may be 5 ft 11. Maybe.

Tom was always one of the nicest guys in the world in person. He sometimes appeared on the Rockford Files as Lance White. That was hilarious. Tom always credited Jim Garner with giving him a big start.

Burt was a little crazy and weird when he was younger.

Now he's just a little sad and old.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (S6Pax)

102

So, after that sunday cookie thread,
I baked some peanut butter maple oatmeal raisin cookies.

No body else likes them but me. I call them survival cookies.

Posted by: Simple Lee at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (pI+Le)

103 Because of all the rioting Congress needs to pass National Concealed Carry, and watch more heads explode.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 10:32 PM (dKiJG)

======%

As long as that law considers that state CC laws must be reciprocal, I'm down. One National CC law would give them only one law to repeal.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (U77o1)

104
The argument on whether the Alt Right is racist has already been lost. It was lost when the Media defined the Alt-Right and then successfully made just about every one the Right condemn it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (w2q1W)

105 I'd totally buy that dual smoker, except 1) I want the one with leather trim, and 2) I'd have to smoke for two.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (tHwdc)

106 Quigley Down Under is best guy movie ever. Every father should watch it with his son.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (IDPbH)

107 I feel called upon to point out that while that young lady being mocked by her father on Twitter seems flighty and narcissistic to most folks... in a different context, the Horde would be making a variety of comments appreciating the young woman's mode of dress, or lack thereof.

Is it that her pictures are selfies versus an official photoshoot? Surely can't be the square yardage of cloth she's wearing; the Horde regularly posts pictures and comments appreciatively on pictures of girls wearing less. Cheerleaders, Kate Upton, girls at random... and that girl's other pictures are far more covered up. So, if the problem is her mode of dress, why the lack of complaint about the other images?

And if the problem is the seeming vanity of the selfie, what makes the girl's intention (to be admired by others) any different than having someone else take the photo?

Just a tidbit of behavioral inconsistency to consider over the course of the evening.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (kSJLl)

108 I've never seen Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers or Thelma and Louise.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (sOlkG)

109 Now he's just a little sad and old.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM (S6Pax)

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Waiting for you, BC

Posted by: The Future at November 15, 2016 10:37 PM (tHwdc)

110 Farmer and Tammy, thanks!! And yes, he is that "hinterland bumblefucks" guy. True, his tears are dee-lish. :-)

Chi, Jeffrey Wells is a Hollywood blogger with a blog of his own, Hollywood Elsewhere, and he's been throwing one of the all-time biggest, dragged-out, most hysterical meltdown tantrums over Trump's win that you *ever* saw in your lifetime.

The guy really is unhinged. He's the guy who found the Michael Shannon article I linked above, and he of course *loved* everything this pig had to say. Also, I had a chance to actually converse a bit with Wells directly via his comment section, and he came out as a complete proud classist bigot. He won't even allow himself to eat barbecued foods, and said that they're "working-class fart food."

Just a loon. But I'm learning from him... mainly to laugh at these people, rather than let them make me angry.

Would love to hear from others about whether to keep talking about Jeffrey Wells. Thanks in advance!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (u8kLQ)

111 The ONT has been brought to you by masculinity.

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Hooah!

Speaking of masculinity...

Fastest time(s) in steer wrestling:

2.2 seconds
posted by Oral Zumwalt in 1930 (*Note: there was no barrier at this time).
2.4 seconds
posted by Jim Bynum and Todd Whatley (Marietta, OK. in 1955), Gene Melton (Pecatonia, IL. in 1976), and Carl Deaton (Tulsa, OK. in 1976).

Thankyouthankyouthankyou to everyone who has donated thus far.

And a double thankyouthankyouthankyou for all the prayers.

BBIAB...gotta take a shower.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (CRotO)

112 what does a running back for the cowboys know about ocare?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (KP5rU)

113 Just got here (I was watching the Woodwrights's Shop - sue me!).

I ain't afraid to say that Tom Selleck is probably hot for a guy. I see where the skirts dig him.
He makes a helluva cowboy, and the two Jesse Stone movies I caught, while a bit too made-for-TV, he was darned good in.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (gS/V0)

114 The articles the left says is proof are funny. They put forth facts the left has been trying to cover up.
That is what pisses them off. Besides, Breitbart really cut the left deeply and they know Bannon has their number. He is a threat that must be eliminated.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (hVdx9)

115 Posted by: kbdabear at November 15, 2016 10:19 PM (Ya7zs)

Damn kb you really outdid yourself tonight.

Spectacular work there.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (D2vc1)

116 CNN has about ten post titles from Breitbart that they believe proves Steve Bannon is a jew-hating white supremacist...who also hates muslims.

Posted by: Goober at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (w2q1W)

ha! The "anti-Semitic article" 'Bill Kristol: Republican spoiler, renegade Jew' is written by...

...drumroll please...

David Horowitz, who if you did not know, is, in fact, Jewish.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (cJrMO)

117 The only problem I have with the Tom Selleck pic is he's not wearing a Magnum PI Hawaiian shirt.

But that is it.

Posted by: Bete Celebrating at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM (Ojki1)

118 And if the problem is the seeming vanity of the selfie, what makes the girl's intention (to be admired by others) any different than having someone else take the photo?

Just a tidbit of behavioral inconsistency to consider over the course of the evening.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (kSJLl)

I think it's the vapid stupidity leaking out of every pore. And models, like Kate Upton, get paid for flashing some skin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:39 PM (bY0uH)

119
I don't agree with Williamson , as he painted with too broad a brush but more specifically I don't want dysfunctional 'trailer park trash' and their way of life to become acceptable. 48 million receiving some type of public assistance is not a good thing. That's over 15% of the population. SSDI is out of control.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Kevin X Williamson wasn't talking about the EBT Nation. He was talking specifically about the flyover White working and White want to work class.

Suggest rereading his original screed and the response to it.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:39 PM (kdS6q)

120 Burt Reynolds was a regular on Gunsmoke back in its black and white hour long episode days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2016 10:39 PM (IqV8l)

121 Mis Hum; read the story about the Julian and Kleenex was needed. Then I saw Tom Selleck and perked up.

Posted by: IC at November 15, 2016 10:40 PM (gcme+)

122 Well, I was referring to how he got his start in the industry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (bY0uH)

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Well, given that new info, I would have to agree.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:40 PM (U77o1)

123 Just a tidbit of behavioral inconsistency to consider over the course of the evening.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (kSJLl)

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Maybe it's because I'm old, but I thought that was the funniest tidbit on the ONT. I don't care about the chick or her dad. Those tats are gonna be wrecked when she gets old, though.
Yes, TAT WARS! Come on down, JAY GUEVARA!

Posted by: The Future at November 15, 2016 10:41 PM (tHwdc)

124 I've never seen Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers or Thelma and Louise.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

Seinfeld was sometimes so absurdly funny, that you wondered where it came from. Jerry and the writers (Larry David and the rest) usually tried to always keep the show apolitical. They made fun of everybody.

Cheers was really funny the first few years, then it started to get stale.
Friends was always annoying, but sometimes funny.
Thelma and Louise had its moments, but was really pretty stupid.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:41 PM (S6Pax)

125 I don't think I care if someone is racist. They have their first amendment rights and so do I.
I care if they discriminate against me.

Posted by: Votermom the Deplorable @vm on Gab.ai at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (Om16U)

126 Evening, horde.

Petty's video "Last Dance With Mary Jane" would be a fitting tribune to the almost First Wimmin President.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (P8951)

127 I saw Thelma And Louise when it first came out. I was pleasantly surprised, as I thought it was feminist without being too anti-male. Or at least, I thought so then. Even Dennis Prager liked it.

Was surprised to find out later it was actually directed by Ridley Scott.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (u8kLQ)

128 That email thing sounds like what happened at Wells Fargo this spring.

My wife works there, and one morning there was an email asking the employees to congratulate an employee on a promotion. Problem? They don't do that. So, employees hit "reply all" to congratulate. Just when they think they have the problem under control, the next time zone of employees shows up at work and decides to reply. My wife did no work that Friday and came home early.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (1JnAL)

129 Waiting for you, BC
Posted by: The Future

Coming Soon!

I can see my retirement from my front porch.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (S6Pax)

130 I don't get the White Nationalist stuff with Bannon, I see nothing backing it up.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 10:27 PM (dKiJG)

We live in the Age of the Maximally Hostile Interpretation.

People have been hounded from public view for saying something as banal as "all lives matter."

Would that you could sue people for just hysterically lying about you (but then the courts would never empty).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (wB8Tg)

131 I thought John Candy died a long time ago?

Posted by: tu3031 at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (qJhUV)

132 I'd totally buy that dual smoker, except 1) I want the one with leather trim, and 2) I'd have to smoke for two.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (tHwdc)

That's because you're Smokin Hawt

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (voOPb)

133 That "Operation Mincemeat" video was fascinating. I think I have heard of it before, but it was worth hearing again.

That dude's voice totally didn't match his face, however. That kind of threw me.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (uHcnA)

134 OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (gS/V0)

135
I think it's the vapid stupidity leaking out of every pore. And models, like Kate Upton, get paid for flashing some skin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:39 PM (bY0uH)

So it's more acceptable if the girl is being paid to dress racy?

I don't understand the line of thinking. I know *my* perspective; not a thing wrong with it, girls wanna be admired, I'm happy to admire 'em, the good Lord made 'em to be alluring, and hot dang if He didn't deliver in spades on that.

Don't really comprehend the seeming vapidity, and I am not being sarcastic or confrontational; I am genuinely confused. I would be willing to bet a thousand dollars that every single woman ever posted in a picture here on Ace of Spades in the comments has a few hundred selfies on her Instagram or Facebook o.o so I still cannot ascertain any difference...

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (kSJLl)

136 Another thing about Jeffrey Wells: he's a recovering alcoholic.

At this stage, I think he should start drinking again. OMG, it might turn him back into a human being.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (u8kLQ)

137 134 OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?

--

Timothy Dalton

Posted by: Votermom the Deplorable @vm on Gab.ai at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (Om16U)

138

Omg. I am in a hotel room. The father daughter cheesecake selfies had me laughing so hard I was afraid the people in the next room would complain

Hilarious. Read the comments under the photos too

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (EWnpL)

139 Anyone hear ever hear of, or a fan of, an actor named Michael Shannon? Turns out he's another asshole. He's even telling people to disown relatives who voted Trump.

http://tinyurl.com/hk3gxjg
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (u8kLQ)

*Looks* Oh is was in the crappy Man of Steel Movie, the Crappy Batman V Superman and Crappier (If you can believe that) Johnna Hex.

Only good thing I can see him in that I saw was Groundhog Day and he played Fred, who Bill Murray bullies IIRC. So that falls under the 'positive' category for bullying I guess.

Posted by: Bete Celebrating at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (Ojki1)

140 Venezuela: The Socialist Paradise and the Death of Democracy

Democracy, to Socialists and the Progressive Left, is not about people and expressing their individual will. It is, in the socialist point of view, an attempt to divine the Volonte Generale, even if-or especially if-it conflicts with the individual wills of a majority of the voters.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12597

Posted by: The Political Hat at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (vBeA5)

141 Petty's video "Last Dance With Mary Jane" would be a fitting tribune to the almost First Wimmin President.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (P8951)

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Wouldn't "Free falling" be better?

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (U77o1)

142 I think one of the few people that have Trumps ear, outside his family, is Newt Gingrich. It will be interesting to see what influence he ends up having in Trump's Administration.

Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (vYaiw)

143 Sam Elliot. That voice. Mmmmmmm

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (EWnpL)

144 Another thing about Jeffrey Wells: he's a recovering alcoholic.

At this stage, I think he should start drinking again. OMG, it might turn him back into a human being.

Posted by: qdpsteve
****

I would argue he is already suffering from alcohol induced dementia.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (hVdx9)

145 I don't agree with Williamson , as he painted with too broad a brush but more specifically I don't want dysfunctional 'trailer park trash' and their way of life to become acceptable. 48 million receiving some type of public assistance is not a good thing. That's over 15% of the population. SSDI is out of control.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:33 PM (IDPbH)

Dude, you're looking in the wrong part of the country for the most part.

If you're so concerned about "that" lifestyle, then start with the inner city trash and work your way out from there.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (D2vc1)

146
Maybe it's because I'm old, but I thought that
was the funniest tidbit on the ONT. I don't care about the chick or her
dad. Those tats are gonna be wrecked when she gets old, though.
Yes, TAT WARS! Come on down, JAY GUEVARA!

Posted by: The Future at November 15, 2016 10:41 PM (tHwdc)

Ugh, I have to agree... It's not that I think tattoos are morally wrong or anything, it's just that... they won't age well >_> and permanent inking oneself is ... typically regretted later in life.

I don't know anyone with a tattoo over forty-five who is happy about it. Not a single one, and I know a lotta folks with tattoos.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (kSJLl)

147 Other than Smokey & The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

And Selleck is, I think, a better actor than he's been given the roles to show.

Plus, he carried a 1911 in his role as Magnum P.I. He did a fine job in his role as co-star to the venerable .45 ACP.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 15, 2016 10:46 PM (v5iqM)

148 134: I would love a Tom selleck with Sam Elliots voice. But I don't need sweet talking so Tom Selleck it is. Shut up and give me what I want.

Posted by: IC at November 15, 2016 10:46 PM (gcme+)

149 Selfie girl is just like a million other selfie girls.
Selfie dad is funny - sea like he's trying to get her to not think the world revolves around her.

Also taken together, it's almost modern art. Shows how we interpret the same poses differently based on the attractiveness of the poser.

Posted by: Votermom the Deplorable @vm on Gab.ai at November 15, 2016 10:46 PM (Om16U)

150
Fun Fact

A third of all House Democrats now hail from three states (CA, NY, MA). California alone accounts for 20% of the House Democratic caucus.

Oh, for lunch we'll order in Manhattan Chowder with a kale and marijuana side salad.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (kdS6q)

151 Sam Elliot

Tom Selleck

The Sacketts. Together

'nuff said.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (S6Pax)

152 Tom Selleck should be the poster child for the physical deformities caused by testosterone deformity syndrome.

This disease afflicts approximately 50% of women, and is easily treated by removing the tumors at birth that produce this toxin. Sadly, women born with this disease will be unable to bear children, but they can live fulfilling lives as women, free of the grotesque hideous deformities wrought by toxic testosterone, if it is caught early enough and they are given hormone therapy.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (uz/Pv)

153 It's really rather odd that a "white supremacist" would work for Goldman Sachs, make a ton of coin with "Seinfeld" and publish Brietbart.

Bannon doesn't seem to have many problems with the Joos.

And of course, Trump himself, born and bred New Yorker, I'm sure he never had any business dealings with Jews and probably doesn't even know his daughter is one.

Has anybody in the media pointed out these very obvious facts?

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (P8951)

154 Tilikum, entirely possible, probably even likely. I can't believe there are REAL PEOPLE who feel this way about life and other people.

Being leftist gives him an excuse in his own mind to be hateful.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (u8kLQ)

155 The Netflix Memoirs of an Assassin is pretty good.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (BS8yt)

156 I'm afraid these protest will only get worse. It is like they want a civil war.

Posted by: Catwrangler at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (L62jT)

157 >>>147
Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Boogie Nights.

Posted by: davidt at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (XoldI)

158 Does that mean that we're letting old people and sick babies die? That little chart of his is disgusting.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 10:35 PM

He's an amoral creep.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (o/90i)

159 So it's more acceptable if the girl is being paid to dress racy?

I don't understand the line of thinking. I know *my* perspective; not a thing wrong with it, girls wanna be admired, I'm happy to admire 'em, the good Lord made 'em to be alluring, and hot dang if He didn't deliver in spades on that.

Don't really comprehend the seeming vapidity, and I am not being sarcastic or confrontational; I am genuinely confused. I would be willing to bet a thousand dollars that every single woman ever posted in a picture here on Ace of Spades in the comments has a few hundred selfies on her Instagram or Facebook o.o so I still cannot ascertain any difference...

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (kSJLl)

The vapid stupidity comes from her posting the selfies on instagram, and not getting paid for it. And she is probably drawing stalkers, too. Paid models get some degree of privacy, if they want it. Plus getting all the tats and piercings is evidence of bad decision-making.

Face it. The girl looks like her future career choice will be "stripper".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (bY0uH)

160 134 OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (gS/V0)

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Sam Elliot.

Kinda partial to the type

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (CRotO)

161 155 The Netflix Memoirs of an Assassin is pretty good.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (BS8yt)

See! I told ya guys! And MAGA backs me up.

Posted by: Votermom the Deplorable @vm on Gab.ai at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (Om16U)

162 Man, read a little content, eat a little chicken and ONT has taken off.

Posted by: gNewt...not troubled by Trump at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (6qmBU)

163 Bete Celebrating, sounds about right.

Just another one of these "up-and-coming stars" who can't handle even just a smidgen of success. It's pathetic really.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (u8kLQ)

164 Wouldn't "Free falling" be better?
Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (U77o1)

LOL, I had forgotten about that one.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:49 PM (P8951)

165 sam elliot. by a mile.

Posted by: vivi at November 15, 2016 10:49 PM (11H2y)

166 I feel called upon to point out that while that young lady being mocked by her father on Twitter seems flighty and narcissistic to most folks... in a different context, the Horde would be making a variety of comments appreciating the young woman's mode of dress, or lack thereof.

Is it that her pictures are selfies versus an official photoshoot? Surely can't be the square yardage of cloth she's wearing; the Horde regularly posts pictures and comments appreciatively on pictures of girls wearing less. Cheerleaders, Kate Upton, girls at random... and that girl's other pictures are far more covered up. So, if the problem is her mode of dress, why the lack of complaint about the other images?

And if the problem is the seeming vanity of the selfie, what makes the girl's intention (to be admired by others) any different than having someone else take the photo?

Just a tidbit of behavioral inconsistency to consider over the course of the evening.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:36 PM (kSJLl)

Somebody has too much time on their hands.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (D2vc1)

167 Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (kSJLl)

I like mine and I'm way past 45

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (voOPb)

168 1 - Thanks, MH

2 - I read Julian's story.

Mighty dusty in here.

Posted by: ibguy at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (vUcdz)

169 Evening everyone!

Last final is done for this term. I've got the week off, a couple of books from the library, and clear skies and sunshine in the forecast. Time to grab a beer and kick back.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (FYrz1)

170 Kleenex warning issued. The feel good story of the day.

That's a really good article.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (sdi6R)

171 147
Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Deliverance.

Posted by: Barney Frank at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (XoldI)

172 Oh, for lunch we'll order in Manhattan Chowder with a kale and marijuana side salad.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:47 PM (kdS6q)

mmmm, Manhattan Chowder. Hold the salad, and bale the kale. Horses have to eat, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:51 PM (bY0uH)

173 157 >>>147
Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Boogie Nights.
Posted by: davidt at November 15, 2016 10:48 PM (XoldI)

Longest Yard

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:51 PM (IDPbH)

174 Rand Paul absolutely SKEWERS John Bolton as Trumps possible SoS.

Guiliani too.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 15, 2016 10:51 PM (R5HRU)

175 I met a very smart, very entrepreneurial, very wealthy, very politically active young man today

Jewish, From LA. Conservative. He swears his friends are just like him, but they keep it down low

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 10:51 PM (EWnpL)

176 Wouldn't "Free falling" be better?
Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (U77o1)
LOL, I had forgotten about that one.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V

She's a good Dem
Livin' in Chappaqua
Loves Huma
If you know what I mean...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:52 PM (u8kLQ)

177 I'm afraid these protest will only get worse. It is like they want a civil war.

I'm sure they do, and preferably before Jan 20th. After that, not so much.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 15, 2016 10:52 PM (IcT7t)

178 Kevin X Williamson wasn't talking about the EBT Nation. He was talking specifically about the flyover White working and White want to work class.

Suggest rereading his original screed and the response to it.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 15, 2016 10:39 PM (kdS6q)

Yes, it was a perfect stereotype of the quintessential uncaring "republican".

It was horrific. If he had said the same thing about, say, black people on welfare instead of white people on welfare, he would have been shunned from polite society and send packing from his job at NRO.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:52 PM (cJrMO)

179 I think Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Robert Duvall, and in some ways in some movies, Kevin Costner, are all pretty good cowboys. Nary a brokeback mountain poke amongst them, neither.

Posted by: Eromero at November 15, 2016 10:52 PM (zLDYs)

180 Deliverence

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 10:52 PM (EWnpL)

181 every woman I know who took a lot of selfies was a shallow, vapid, attention whore.

Posted by: vivi at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (11H2y)

182 That feel good story about Julian is wonderful. What a kind-hearted man. God bless him.

Posted by: bluebell at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (uHcnA)

183 181 every woman I know who took a lot of selfies was a shallow, vapid, attention whore.
Posted by: vivi at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (11H2y)

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (cJrMO)

184
Somebody has too much time on their hands.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (D2vc1)

Too much time? o_O I loaded up the ONT, saw the pic, read a couple comments, and dashed down a thirty second reply with not a dash of hostility.

I'll bring the hostility now, though - seems to me the question cuts a bit deep for you.

Now, why might that be?

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (kSJLl)

185 Jewish, From LA. Conservative. He swears his friends are just like him, but they keep it down low

So cowards.

Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (vYaiw)

186 Funny meme at FB:

A pic of Michelle Obama holding up a sign that reads, "An immigrant is taking my job."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (u8kLQ)

187 I watched the first twenty minutes of that Podcqst. Aside from the fact that Glenn vehemently denies voting for Trump, he has his facts and points down cold. His opponent makes dismissive worn out talking points, and looks bored when Glenn rebuts him. Worth the time to watch.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (U77o1)

188 Wouldn't "Free falling" be better?
Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:44 PM (U77o1)

"Don't Come Around Here No More".

Posted by: Bete Celebrating at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (Ojki1)

189 185 Jewish, From LA. Conservative. He swears his friends are just like him, but they keep it down low

So cowards.
Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (vYaiw)

Not fair. I have to keep my political beliefs on the downlow, too. Some of us don't have the luxury of being in red states surrounded by red people. And we have, you know, futures and whatnot we don't want to flush down the toilet by being outed as "the other."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (cJrMO)

190 A pic of Michelle Obama holding up a sign that reads, "An immigrant is taking my job."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (u8kLQ)

heh.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 10:55 PM (bY0uH)

191 A pic of Michelle Obama holding up a sign that reads, "An immigrant is taking my job."
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (u8kLQ)

=====

That right there is funny, don't care who y'are.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 10:55 PM (U77o1)

192 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (cJrMO)

Bingo.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 15, 2016 10:55 PM (R5HRU)

193 He isn't a coward. He is " out" and challenging thinking. Plus he is supporting free speech organizations on campuses, putting his money where his mouth is

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (EWnpL)

194 Tilikum, entirely possible, probably even likely. I can't believe there are REAL PEOPLE who feel this way about life and other people.

Being leftist gives him an excuse in his own mind to be hateful.

Posted by: qdpsteve
****

Yet calls himself a good person.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)

195 "He won't even allow himself to eat barbecued foods, and said that they're "working-class fart food."

Barbecue is not particularly gas-inducing unless you have it with baked beans.

Would this Hollywood snot (that I never heard of) say the same thing about Kimchi? Or cassoulet? Now that's fart food - but you fart Korean in one case and fancy French farts in the other.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (P8951)

196
I like mine and I'm way past 45

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 10:50 PM (voOPb)

I stand corrected then!

My brother has several, my secretary has a few, most folks I know from our local church have a few, my friends have anywhere from one to ten, I just haven't ever met anyone prior to now that actually liked them past that age.

Personally, despite my wondering about how they will age, I'm a bit of a sucker for flowery tattoos on girls.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (kSJLl)

197 BREAKING NBC NEWS : Trump leaves press behind for steak dinner, showing lack of transparency

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (TJCSB)

198 Selleck needs mandible reduction, lip lift, brow lift, brow reduction, rhinoplasty, and laser hair removal. Not even sure if he would be convincing even then.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (uz/Pv)

199 Kevin Williamson can eat shit and die.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (80HyY)

200 Rand Paul can FO.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (hVdx9)

201 That link to Fusion about Steve Bannon is full of slander. He really is living rent free in the Lefts head.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (tT/X6)

202 Last final is done for this term. I've got the week off, a couple of books from the library, and clear skies and sunshine in the forecast. Time to grab a beer and kick back.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2016 10:50

Job well done. Congrats.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (o/90i)

203 by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (cJrMO)

Keeping it to yourself is one thing. Playing along as one of them is not exactly virtuous.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (IDPbH)

204 The left have to paint Trump as a bigot even more now than they did during the election, to retain their "market share." They will simply repeat it, and every ancillary accusation, as with Bannon, endlessly.

And they will do it without regard to any actual events or statements, like the constant wailing that Trump is a homophobe (with no indication that this is so, from his statements and positions). This is, of course, not new.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (wB8Tg)

205 Sam Elliot.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:58 PM (P8951)

206 I don't want to become too one-note here.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 10:25 PM

En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fuego!" at November 15, 2016 10:58 PM (DMUuz)

207 Running the numbers on the election.

Trump net lost about a 1M votes compared to Romney. However, three states CA, WA, UT accounted for 2.5M loss . He made up elsewhere.

Hillary lost about 5.5M votes compared to Obama 2012.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 15, 2016 10:59 PM (BS8yt)

208 Keeping it to yourself is one thing. Playing along as one of them is not exactly virtuous.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (IDPbH)

::shrug::

I wouldn't be judgey about it, those "secret Trump voters" won the election for y'all open and proud republicans.

If I were to put a Trump sticker on my car, I'd be happy if all that happened to my car was that it got keyed.

I'm not going to risk my future over some nonsense like that. All that matters is how people vote.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:59 PM (cJrMO)

209 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

210 Keeping it to yourself is one thing. Playing along as one of them is not exactly virtuous.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (IDPbH)

OTOH, you could call that working in deep cover behind enemy lines. Might get some intel on assassination plots, or other devilment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (bY0uH)

211
If he had said the same thing about, say, black people on welfare instead of white people on welfare, he would have been shunned from polite society and send packing from his job at NRO.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

He would have been given the Derbyshire boot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (IqV8l)

212 EVER heard of FIRE? It fights speech codes on campuses

Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (EWnpL)

213 209 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

I'd bang her.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (cJrMO)

214 And breast implants, and body contouring.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (uz/Pv)

215
Sam Elliot.

Kinda partial to the type

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth
----------------

Heh.
And here I feel like I'm supposed to be making YOU smile ...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (gS/V0)

216 I can see my retirement from my front porch.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at November 15, 2016 10:42 PM (S6Pax)

I'm thinking of becoming gay or transgender so Trump will send me to one of his hate-camps. THAT will be my retirement.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (tHwdc)

217 212 EVER heard of FIRE? It fights speech codes on campuses
Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (EWnpL)

Yeah, but, uh -- if it gets to the point you have to call FIRE, you might as well be ready to have every professor fail you.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (cJrMO)

218 I'll bring the hostility now, though - seems to me the question cuts a bit deep for you.

Now, why might that be?

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:53 PM (kSJLl)

Your presumption that I care is false, cupcake.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (D2vc1)

219 Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Longest Yard. Can I count Cannonball Run?

Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (TqmC9)

220
209
That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

Concur about the nose ring, but, uh o.o sometimes nature doesn't see fit to give the girl a legendary rack. That's not really something that you can change...

Well, you can, but >_> I don't think that should be done. I don't like the idea of women having themselves cut up in order to 'improve' themselves. Generally distressing.

Coupla young girls I know in their early teens already planning to do that once they get older. Workin' my ass off every chance I get convincing them not to feel the need for such a thing.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (kSJLl)

221 209 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

I'd bang her.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes
****

No thanks. All the women with nose rings like hers that I have met, are a mess. Not stickin' it in crazy is words to live by.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (hVdx9)

222
No thanks. All the women with nose rings like hers that I have met, are a mess. Not stickin' it in crazy is words to live by.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (hVdx9)

I've dated girls with nose rings. Some were crazy... others weren't. I don't think it's a definitive thing.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:03 PM (cJrMO)

223 No thanks. All the women with nose rings like hers that I have met, are a mess. Not stickin' it in crazy is words to live by.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (hVdx9)

I've dated girls with nose rings. Some were crazy... others weren't. I don't think it's a definitive thing.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes
****

My experience has been different than yours then.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (hVdx9)

224 Hate hate nose rings but I find a tiny nose stud attractive. Go figure.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (IDPbH)

225 Tilikum, yup. He's seriously delusional.

And Donna, also yup. Wells says he *loves* Pho, however. Probably because he can tell himself he's appreciate of "diversity" while he's choking it down.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (u8kLQ)

226 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.

She's quite a wreck. And what is she, fifteen?

Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (TqmC9)

227

Your presumption that I care is false, cupcake.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (D2vc1)

If you could just see the radiant smirk brightening up my living room right now, you'd swear it was dawn.
I'll go ahead and mark that down as stuck pig caught squealing. Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (kSJLl)

228 24 The commenters that is and not Reid's balls. (Although I don't want Reid's balls here either.)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 15, 2016 10:12 PM (7cmcE)

you are probably too old for his liking anyway

Posted by: Rick in SK at November 15, 2016 10:13 PM (K2T5

On that note, anyone been following the story that the Podesta Wikileaks may have uncovered a pedophile ring going on in DC? Someone (I forgot who, sorry) posted a link to that last night. I'm not one for conspiracy theories but seems like they uncovered some WEIRD stuff.

Posted by: Smash'em at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (4A5fG)

229 Every time I see the name Jonathan Gruber, I am horrified that he wrote the Obamacare bill instead of capturing the Nakatomi Plaza tower.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (VdICR)

230 147 Other than Smokey & The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

And Selleck is, I think, a better actor than he's been given the roles to show.

Plus, he carried a 1911 in his role as Magnum P.I. He did a fine job in his role as co-star to the venerable .45 ACP.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 15, 2016 10:46 PM (v5iqM)

Stroker Ace

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (1JnAL)

231 My experience has been different than yours then.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (hVdx9)

fair enough.

She's quite a wreck. And what is she, fifteen?
Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (TqmC9)

Doubt it. You need to be 18 to get tattoos without your parents permission.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (cJrMO)

232 While I agree that social media is not our friend, the article says they were using a private app, so the texts weren't for public consumption. It really bothers me that the college is punishing them for private speech.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (6n332)

233 Coupla young girls I know in their early teens already planning to do that once they get older. Workin' my ass off every chance I get convincing them not to feel the need for such a thing.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:02 PM (kSJLl)

======

My wife is/was always considered not very well endowed. Amazing looking otherwise. When asked why she did not enhance, the reply was "for who? I am perfectly happy, as is my husband".

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (U77o1)

234 213 209 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

I'd bang her.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (cJrMO)

She is kinda cute.

But I'd probably keep my distance, out of an abundance of caution.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (sdi6R)

235 Hate hate nose rings but I find a tiny nose stud attractive. Go figure.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (IDPbH)

Every time I see either one I want to ask what happened.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (D2vc1)

236
My wife is/was always considered not very well
endowed. Amazing looking otherwise. When asked why she did not enhance,
the reply was "for who? I am perfectly happy, as is my husband".

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (U77o1)

Would that all young women would think this way.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:06 PM (kSJLl)

237 There's still no decent hand and shoulder reduction surgery options. Selleck will still have the scaffolding of an ape.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 15, 2016 11:06 PM (uz/Pv)

238 Hooper.

And cut the bickering. Please.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:06 PM (gS/V0)

239 She's quite a wreck. And what is she, fifteen?
Posted by: t-bird at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (TqmC9)

Doubt it. You need to be 18 to get tattoos without your parents permission.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (cJrMO)

Someone in the comments said they know her family and that she's 19.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:07 PM (D2vc1)

240 Every time I see either one I want to ask what happened.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (D2vc1)

Seems every time a young woman walks into a fishing tackle shop, an explosion happens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 11:07 PM (bY0uH)

241 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

I'd bang her.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (cJrMO)

She is kinda cute.

But I'd probably keep my distance, out of an abundance of caution.

Posted by: rickl
****

At least she makes it clear that sane men should avoid her.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:07 PM (hVdx9)

242 Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 10:58 PM

The Donna abides. I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' she's out there.

Posted by: The Stranger at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (DMUuz)

243 Does it get sloppy when you blow your nose with nose rings installed?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (IqV8l)

244 217 212 EVER heard of FIRE? It fights speech codes on campuses
Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (EWnpL)

Yeah, but, uh -- if it gets to the point you have to call FIRE, you might as well be ready to have every professor fail you.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (cJrMO)

So long as you don't call them in a crowded theater.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (0mRoj)

245 Would that all young women would think this way.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:06 PM (kSJLl)

======

Ironically, ourd2q y/o daughter is a 36 GG. The joke it that it welled up while it skipped a generation.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (U77o1)

246 Good grief, this is about piercings? I'm too old this stuff.

Ecstatic that Hillary lost. And Trump isn't doing too bad so far.

The MSM is coming up w/ BS that they are slow. WTF?

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 11:09 PM (o/90i)

247 234 213 209 That young girl has a gross nose ring, no boobs, and issues. Her tats are ugly too.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (hVdx9)

I'd bang her.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (cJrMO)

She is kinda cute.

But I'd probably keep my distance, out of an abundance of caution.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:05 PM (sdi6R)

She has a cute face, but she does have crazy written all over her.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:09 PM (0mRoj)

248 Ironically, ourd2q y/o daughter is a 36 GG. The joke it that it welled up while it skipped a generation.
Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (U77o1)

====

21 year old. Uugghhhh....

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:09 PM (U77o1)

249 Ironically, ourd2q y/o daughter is a 36 GG. The joke it that it welled up while it skipped a generation.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (U77o1)

You know the rules.....

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:10 PM (D2vc1)

250 I'd prefer Rudy as AG rather than SoS.

Posted by: davidt at November 15, 2016 11:10 PM (XoldI)

251 245 Would that all young women would think this way.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:06 PM (kSJLl)

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Ironically, ourd2q y/o daughter is a 36 GG. The joke it that it welled up while it skipped a generation.
Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (U77o1)

A 2 y/o with 36GGs? How the hell can she walk?

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:10 PM (0mRoj)

252 Heh.
And here I feel like I'm supposed to be making YOU smile ...
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (gS/V0)

---

I'm smiling.

Been smiling all day.

Watching Bonanza, GI Party that I'll finish up tomorrow, got some shopping out of the way, and I pissed off two heffers that took offense at my "Deplorable Me" bumpersticker and let me know they were very upset via numerous one-fingered salutes

Wasn't very amused that they tried to follow me home, at one point pulling up beside me and yelling, while their hellspawn (5 or 6 of them) are cracking the hell up.

I rolled my window down, went into my console and pulled out my trusty Sig P938.

I nodded, smiled and went on my merry way.

I am so not playing with these fucking lunatics.

I am not the bitch to be played with right now.

All in all, not a very eventful day.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (CRotO)

253 I think the pentagram tat is a sure sign of craziness.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (IDPbH)

254 217 212 EVER heard of FIRE? It fights speech codes on campuses
Posted by: ThunderB at November 15, 2016 11:00 PM (EWnpL)

Yeah, but, uh -- if it gets to the point you have to call FIRE, you might as well be ready to have every professor fail you.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:01 PM (cJrMO)

So long as you don't call them in a crowded theater.
Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (0mRoj)

::golf clap::

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (cJrMO)

255 253 I think the pentagram tat is a sure sign of craziness.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (IDPbH)

It's from the show Supernatural. She must be a superfan.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

256 You know the rules.....
Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:10 PM (D2vc1)

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See the correction, and daughter pics? Don't think so....

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (U77o1)

257 210 Keeping it to yourself is one thing. Playing along as one of them is not exactly virtuous.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 10:57 PM (IDPbH)

Isn't this Zombie's MO? It's how she has been able to catalog the insanity that is San Fran.

I don't play along, exactly, but I am undercover at my liberal workplace. When I went in to work, two days after the election, and one of my coworkers with the sadz said "Isn't it terrible?" I said, "It was quite a shock" - which is perfectly true. I didn't add that to me it was a very pleasant one.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (P8951)

258 Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Deliverance, Hooper,The Longest Yard, Sharkey's Machine (featuring Rachel Ward in her prime)

Posted by: tu3031 at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (qJhUV)

259 Tom Selleck was in Midway which I'm pretty sure predated Magnum P.I.
Have always enjoyed his work.
Also, especially for you ettes since I'm a giver, in case you've never seen "The Sacketts", you might want to check it out. Also has Sam Elliot.

Posted by: teej at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (QJIMk)

260 "OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?"
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Yes. Please.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (Nox3c)

261 Okay, so I'll add Longest Yard to my Reynolds list. That was a good film that I've not seen in quite a while.

Boogie Nights? It was fun and funny, but, well.... I've seen it now.

And I'd rather see a good edit of Deliverance, with just the whitewater scenes, Dueling Banjos, and the killer arrow shots near the end. Not cause the other parts are bad, but I've seen it enough times now that I just don't care about all the rest.

At least in Smokey & The Bandit, we had Sally Fields in her prime, and some real chemistry between her and ol' Burt.

And per the above, concur. Quigley Down Under is required viewing, not only for young men, but also for young ladies, so they might begin to learn what to expect from a man, versus an overgrown adolescent.

In all, Selleck's work and career puts him miles ahead in the Actor category over Reynolds, and that's without a put down to Reynolds.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (v5iqM)

262 That's because you're Smokin Hawt

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (voOPb)

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<blushes>
Did NOT see that coming!

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (tHwdc)

263 It's from the show Supernatural. She must be a superfan.
Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

Oh, well that's not a smart reason to get a tattoo.

It's like a buddy of mine who got the "SUBLIME" tattoo across his back (you know, the band from the '90s...)

Probably seemed cool back in the '90s. Now? Ehhh... most people probably have no idea who Sublime is, much less why he has the word Sublime tattooed across his back.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (cJrMO)

264 Any of the regs from the Chess Thread following the Championship? A few interesting games so far. Game 4 (today) seemed like Magnus could have pulled a win but Karjakin fought hard for the draw. I think whoever draws first blood takes the 'ship - I'm still predicting Magnus, say, 6 1/2 to 5 1/2. But I always root for the 6-6 to see if they ever have to use that crazy Armageddon tie-breaker.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (kumBu)

265 Yay Magnum PI!!!! I wish they reboot it, with Jason Mamoa as son of magnum. He's got the same impish grin as selleck. It would be teh awesome.

134 OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 10:43 PM (gS/V0)

Uh, both. Watch The Sacketts. Mmmmm

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:14 PM (hscyr)

266 Hey bebe!

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:14 PM (CRotO)

267 264 Any of the regs from the Chess Thread following the Championship? A few interesting games so far. Game 4 (today) seemed like Magnus could have pulled a win but Karjakin fought hard for the draw. I think whoever draws first blood takes the 'ship - I'm still predicting Magnus, say, 6 1/2 to 5 1/2. But I always root for the 6-6 to see if they ever have to use that crazy Armageddon tie-breaker.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (kumBu)

They should have to duel with rapiers in the event of a tie.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (0mRoj)

268 Ya got a purty mouth there, Trigglypuff.

Posted by: Banjo Mutant at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (Tyii7)

269 OK, ladies - Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott?

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Sam Elliott intrigues the hell out of me. He might make some headway.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (tHwdc)

270
Ironically, our 21 y/o daughter is a 36 GG. The joke it that it welled up while it skipped a generation.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (U77o1)

Genetics are a funny thing. >_> Some people win all the lotteries.

I started losing my hair about 25. Five years later, not much left to speak of on top.

36 GG though, uh, that's.... that's quite something...

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (kSJLl)

271 Just got back from a women's Bible study where I met and spent time with a Hispanic lady (I know, but it's not like there's a better description which is why the word was invented) and her daughter. Both voted for Trump very happily and deeply resented those who had tried to pressure them to do otherwise based on race or gender.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (GDulk)

272 The NHS 1) employs more people and 2) kills more people than the British armed forces.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (J8/9G)

273 Peter Theil of PayPal for UN secretary?

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 15, 2016 11:16 PM (dKiJG)

274 Uh, both...
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:14 PM (hscyr)

Now THAT'S a sammich!

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:16 PM (CRotO)

275 Posted by: The Stranger at November 15, 2016 11:08 PM (DMUuz)

Oh, Sam! *Fans self*

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (P8951)

276 274 Uh, both...
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:14 PM (hscyr)

Now THAT'S a sammich!
Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:16 PM (CRotO)

A Reynolds wrap

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (0mRoj)

277 I don't know anyone with a tattoo over forty-five
who is happy about it. Not a single one, and I know a lotta folks with
tattoos.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:45 PM (kSJLl)

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I have two and I'm 61. No regrets at all (but I chose the right areas).

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (tHwdc)

278 Other than Smokey The Bandit, I can't really think of any Reynolds movies that I'd watch and enjoy every few years.

Deliverance, Hooper,The Longest Yard, Sharkey's Machine (featuring Rachel Ward in her prime)
Posted by: tu3031 at November 15, 2016 11:12 PM (qJhUV)

Reminds me, I should try to see if the Cannonball Run films are still fun for me.

Posted by: Bete Celebrating at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (Ojki1)

279 Sam Elliott intrigues the hell out of me. He might make some headway.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (tHwdc)

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Mentioning Sam Elliott and headway in the same sentence is very intriguing.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (CRotO)

280 Any of the regs from the Chess Thread following the Championship? A few interesting games so far. Game 4 (today) seemed like Magnus could have pulled a win but Karjakin fought hard for the draw. I think whoever draws first blood takes the 'ship - I'm still predicting Magnus, say, 6 1/2 to 5 1/2. But I always root for the 6-6 to see if they ever have to use that crazy Armageddon tie-breaker.
Posted by: broseidon king

*yawn* Puny humans. Of what interest are human games, at this point?

Posted by: Deep Blue at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (uz/Pv)

281 Sam Elliot . Only two movies come to mind. Road House and Mask.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 15, 2016 11:18 PM (IDPbH)

282 Cass Elliot is dead?

Posted by: That guy who always asks... at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (Tyii7)

283 Both voted for Trump very happily and deeply resented those who had tried to pressure them to do otherwise based on race or gender.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (GDulk)

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the aftermath of the election has created new Trump fans. Someone linked to a Reddit thread the other day where a young woman said she regretted her vote for Hill because she was so disgusted by the rioters and thugs for Clinton out there.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (P8951)

284 Fastest time(s) in steer wrestling:

2.2 seconds
posted by Oral Zumwalt in 1930 (*Note: there was no barrier at this time).
2.4 seconds
posted by Jim Bynum and Todd Whatley (Marietta, OK. in 1955), Gene Melton (Pecatonia, IL. in 1976), and Carl Deaton (Tulsa, OK. in 1976).

Thankyouthankyouthankyou to everyone who has donated thus far.

And a double thankyouthankyouthankyou for all the prayers...
Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 10:38 PM

Glad you are doing OK. I'm amazed, one of these guys was from Pecatonica, IL my first home.

Nobody has ever heard of Pec! My folks were young and lived in a trailer park on Rt 20.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (o/90i)

285 During the debate about parks for Long Island, Governor Al Smith had a discussion with Horace Havemeyer, the "sultan of sugar", who warned that North Shore towns would be "overrun with rabble from the city." "Rabble?" Smith said. "That's me you're talking about."

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (J8/9G)

286 Sam Elliot . Only two movies come to mind. Road House and Mask.

Tombstone, We Were Soldiers.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (qJhUV)

287
I have two and I'm 61. No regrets at all (but I chose the right areas).

Posted by: Miley
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HOw many times does rule #34 have to be invoked tonight?!?

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:21 PM (gS/V0)

288 g'night, horde.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V(deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&and so there at November 15, 2016 11:21 PM (P8951)

289 Donna, LOL. I've found that often times, libs are easy to string along.

Okay, it seems people here enjoy hearing about Jeffrey Wells, so I'll continue talking about him.

What's *really* funny is, I think I've gotten into his head a tiny bit. Here's my (admittedly kind of flimsy) proofs:

* Election eve, OMG. He was inconsolable and it was the night he was really hitting the "hinterland bumblefucks!!" bit hard. One kind of interesting, but also kind of stupid/sheltered, commenter from Norway (named, of all things, "Magga") posted, forget whose fault this is; the "fault" for this is all on Trump voters. I disagreed, stating that one of the REALLY big bad guys in the election outcome was that the DNC allowed itself to fall so in love with Hillary, and that if they could have managed to somehow give the nom to an icky white male, Joe Biden, they *would have won.* (I admit I still think that BTW, never mind all the shortocomings we know about Biden.)

Anyway, Jeff immediately responded to me: "That's true, Biden would have won."

THE NEXT MORNING, big new comment from Wells that started with the very statement: "If Joe Biden had run instead of Hillary, he would be the one celebrating victory today."

* And just YESTERDAY, Wells managed to do an actual post about, of all things, entertainment (the original mission of his blog). He posted a nice review of the upcoming One-Eyed Jacks bluray from Criterion.

I decided to stay unpolitical and just tell him, "yup, I've already pre-ordered my copy at Amazon, and btw what do you think of the new 40th anniversary bluray of Taxi Driver?" Wells immediately responded "Taxi Driver again?!?" and went on about how he's still very happy with his old bluray edition, then went on a tangent he's harped on for years about the ending bloody scene and how it was color-desaturated by Scorsese, in order to get an R rating (rather than an X) in 1976.

Anyway? ONE HOUR LATER, Wells posted an *even longer* rant on this subject. And he started it, "somebody asked me my thoughts on the new 40th anniversary Taxi Driver bluray..."

So, you know. LOL. I'm thinking seriously now of sending Wells an email: "Hey, you know what I think you should do that would REALLY help you get your anti-Trump voice heard?? Go the nearest cop in West Hollywood, and start screaming at him. Blame HIM PERSONALLY for Trump's win. Tell 'em about how if it weren't for forces of fascist order such as him, we'd have Hillary going into office now instead of Orange Hitler." (Orange Hitler is Jeff's preferred nickname for Trump.)

LOL, I can just see Wells' first post 36 hours later: "I haven't posted anything recently because I was just stuck in a jail cell for 12 hours for hassling a cop..."

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 11:21 PM (u8kLQ)

290 I think the Horde might enjoy this, if it hasn't already been seen...

http://___ur.com/gallery/sc3zvCX

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:22 PM (kSJLl)

291 Ugh, replace the _____ with ___ and link will work

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:22 PM (kSJLl)

292 That is too cool Farmer!

And thank you for the well-wishes.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:22 PM (CRotO)

293 Peter Theil of PayPal for UN secretary?
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

Uh, no. He got pissed at Gawker, and rightfully so, but that was just incidental, not a reflection of his character in general. He's no conservative, just a generic gay activist. The most impotant principle in his life are his sexual impulses. He's just another stupid pink mafiosi.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (uz/Pv)

294 "Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:13 PM (cJrMO) "

Never got the appeal of tats, except for the ones that are legitimately art - and even then, I see that more from the side of the person that creates it. If I like something, I buy shirts or other swag. I have a bunch of Homestar Runner stuff from, like, 2004 - a shirt, a hoodie, a keychain. I'd feel like a fucking idiot with a Homestar Runner tattoo - it's just insanely dated.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (kumBu)

295 There's this young woman at the pet food store with purple hair, tattoos, and rather plump but shapely. I think she's attractive. She's in her 20s and I'm in my 50s.

She's probably a full-blown SJW. She certainly has all the markers.

I'm just there to buy cat food, and we don't talk politics or anything. But we do sort of make eyes at one another and trade sly half-smiles at the cash register. That's kind of neat, and it's about as good as it gets at my age.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (sdi6R)

296
I have two and I'm 61. No regrets at all (but I chose the right areas).

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (tHwdc)

*raises glass*
At this point I'm just going to go ahead and eat the crow. Anyone got a good recipe? Preferably not hyper spicy.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (kSJLl)

297 MAGA @207, just a rough summary from early numbers, but T-Rump was, vs. Romney/2012:

+1 white voters
+7 black voters
+8 "Hispanic"
+5 18-29 yr olds
+16 income less than $30K

These numbers may be unreliable, inexact, or change (dunno how such data is generated apart from exit polling, and I really wonder about sample size and quality in such polls).

Anywhoo. Surely a nightmare when your GOP prez candidate not only wins, but increases your take of non-white voters, and lower-income voters.

I mean, why would the GOP ever want to do that?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (QDnY+)

298 Sam Elliott. Ummmmmmmmm

Posted by: Abby at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (HBU7W)

299 quigley down under is awesome. And Tombstone. I loves me some Sam Elliot in that. And Kurt Russell. YUM.

Posted by: vivi at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (11H2y)

300 I have two and I'm 61. No regrets at all (but I chose the right areas).

Posted by: Miley
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HOw many times does rule #34 have to be invoked tonight?!?

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:21 PM (gS/V0)

Miley is the biggest tease on the blog.

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (D2vc1)

301 Having spent most of my life in "hard-scrabble, white upstate New York" (and right now I can actually see the lights of the gas pads a few miles away across the border in Pennsylvania from my house -- There's no fracking allowed in Gloome County, NY!), I saw some painful thruths in Williamson's piece... And sometimes the truth hurts, but I wasn't offended!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (kP16F)

302 279 Sam Elliott intrigues the hell out of me. He might make some headway.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:15 PM (tHwdc)
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Mentioning Sam Elliott and headway in the same sentence is very intriguing.
Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth
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I saw this one coming from last week...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (gS/V0)

303 Give your top three priorities for the Trump administration. Mine are:

1-Shrink the size of the federal government at every chance.

2-Repeal Obamacare.

3-Stop federal funding to sanctuary cities.

Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (vYaiw)

304 "Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:22 PM (kSJLl) "

As I found out earlier this week, it's best to use tinyurl or a similar service to share stuff from the image sharing site that has an i and an m and a g. Pixy censors that text string, I assume for spam/lace wig purposes.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:25 PM (kumBu)

305 I saw this one coming from last week...
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (gS/V0)

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Iknowright?

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:25 PM (CRotO)

306 Hey Joy. How are you holding up? Thinking about being the filling in a selleck Elliot sammitch is definitely a cheery thought!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:25 PM (hscyr)

307 Sam Elliot: The dude abides.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (VdICR)

308 Miley is the biggest tease on the blog.

NTTAWWT
Posted by: Country Boy
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The Pastor was pulling her weight earlier...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (gS/V0)

309 rickl, LOL.

Any pet-themed songs by Bob Dylan? Maybe you could 'break the ice' by telling her about one.

In the meantime, I bet she's thinking "this older guy is cute, but I bet he's one of those icky Trump voters..."
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (u8kLQ)

310 Personally, despite my wondering about how they will age, I'm a bit of a sucker for flowery tattoos on girls.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (kSJLl)

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Funny - I thought YOU were a girl.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (tHwdc)

311 Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (gS/V0)

Do tell......

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (R5HRU)

312 "Tombstone, We Were Soldiers.

Posted by: tu3031 at November 15, 2016 11:20 PM (qJhUV)"

The Big Lebowski, Dude.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:27 PM (kumBu)

313 306 Hey Joy. How are you holding up? Thinking about being the filling in a selleck Elliot sammitch is definitely a cheery thought!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:25 PM (hscyr)

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Mmmmhmmm...

Oh, I'm doing fine.

Sipping on a Not Your Father's Vanilla Cream Ale.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:27 PM (CRotO)

314 I'm just there to buy cat food, and we don't talk politics or anything. But we do sort of make eyes at one another and trade sly half-smiles at the cash register. That's kind of neat, and it's about as good as it gets at my age.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (sdi6R)

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I'm 53, and the deli, bakery and produce work best for me. I do not go these for that reason, but I am not joking.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:27 PM (U77o1)

315 Breaking News: Donald Trump avoids media for dinner to cover up his use of a salad fork to eat his main entree.

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:27 PM (bMG0w)

316 "*yawn* Puny humans. Of what interest are human games, at this point?

Posted by: Deep Blue at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (uz/Pv) "

I bet I can tie you at tic-tac-toe.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:28 PM (kumBu)

317 295 There's this young woman at the pet food store with purple hair, tattoos, Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (

I miss my purple hair. Wish I could find a better job soon & get settled so I could dye my hair again.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:29 PM (hscyr)

318 Mmmmhmmm...

Oh, I'm doing fine.

Sipping on a Not Your Father's Vanilla Cream Ale.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:27 PM (CRotO)

Is it better than their root beer? Cause I had some of that after hearing everyone talking about how great it was, and as a fan of root beer and beer, I thought it tasted like crap.

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:30 PM (bMG0w)

319 Give your top three priorities for the Trump administration. Mine are:

1-Shrink the size of the federal government at every chance.

2-Repeal Obamacare.

3-Stop federal funding to sanctuary cities.

Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (vYaiw)

I'd say "end abortion" but I know that will not be a possibility. Maybe eventually, with a strongly conservative Supreme Court. So, aside from that...

1- Tear down every single aspect of the federal government that isn't roads and defense, fire as many people as possible, viciously prosecute anyone who was abusing their position.

2- Complain about lack of Congressional term limits. Loudly. Frequently. Ceaselessly. Even the friggin Lefties are angry at their leaders right now - now is the time to strike. Divide and conquer.

3- For the duration of his presidency, do not freakin' drag us into any more bloody wars on the other side of the planet. My heart bleeds for the people under the oppression of Islam - it really does. It burns me violently. I can't imagine living in such an ass-backwards society - but we can't change Islam with a war unless we literally start turning the Middle East into a three-thousand-mile-wide mirror with nukes. Any ground fighting done won't be me or the people I know fighting and dying for the oppressed people over there, it'll be someone else's son or daughter or brother or sister or friend.

Do not. Drag us. Into any more bloody wars.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:31 PM (kSJLl)

320 Do tell......
Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas
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Oh, it was nothing.
She responded to a post & has been catching shit all day.
The post had 3 things. Pizza, Puppies and oh yes, I was there...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:31 PM (gS/V0)

321 "And Donna, also yup. Wells says he *loves* Pho, however. Probably because he can tell himself he's appreciate of "diversity" while he's choking it down.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 15, 2016 11:04 PM (u8kLQ) "

Bahn Mi >>> Pho any day of the week for Vietnamese food. Way too much hype for broth.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:32 PM (kumBu)

322 Notwithstanding last Tuesday I refuse to be satisfied until results are achieved.

And it's only going to be worse - IF there are not results - because of stuff like this:

EPA employees, and DOJ Civil Rights Div. employees, telling reporters there is "fear" in their ranks due to the election. Resume preparation. Worries about the future.

Oh, PLEASE make their worst nightmares come true.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:32 PM (QDnY+)

323 Miley is my age?
On the other hand, halfway across the country and surely way out of my league.
Before I head for bed want to say I had a very pleasant lunch with creeper today.
Nice, nice lady. Even gave me a Horde patch that I think toby had made up.
Past my bed time so...
Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: teej at November 15, 2016 11:32 PM (QJIMk)

324
Funny - I thought YOU were a girl.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (tHwdc)

I get that a lot, itt's mildly disconcerting. Don't quite know how that came about.

Can I get my man card back by saying that I've always considered myself a lesbian at heart?

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:33 PM (kSJLl)

325 290 I think the Horde might enjoy this, if it hasn't already been seen...

http://___ur.com/gallery/sc3zvCX

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:22 PM (kSJLl)

++++

If you post it like this, you can sneak it past the filter.

http://im
gur.com/gallery/sc3zvCX

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 15, 2016 11:33 PM (R+30W)

326
As I found out earlier this week, it's best to
use tinyurl or a similar service to share stuff from the image sharing
site that has an i and an m and a g. Pixy censors that text string, I
assume for spam/lace wig purposes.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:25 PM (kumBu)

Will proceed accordingly, thanks much

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:34 PM (kSJLl)

327 Mentioning Sam Elliott and headway in the same sentence is very intriguing.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:17 PM (CRotO)

============
I was thinking the same thing as I typed it.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:34 PM (tHwdc)

328 Before I head for bed want to say I had a very pleasant lunch with creeper today.
Nice, nice lady. Even gave me a Horde patch that I think toby had made up.
Past my bed time so...
Love each other fellow babies
Posted by: teej
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Oh yeah!
I read that you were planning a mini-meet. Glad it was fun.
I love seeing that the horde is connecting IRL.
I've had the honor 3 or 4 times, and hope for more.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:35 PM (gS/V0)

329 Costa Rica 4-0 USMNT

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at November 15, 2016 11:35 PM (vWarC)

330 Sam Elliot's role in Justified was different. A mafia member and he shaved his mustache. He was very good in the role. Looked different without his mustache. He was impressively menacing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (tT/X6)

331 EPA employees, and DOJ Civil Rights Div. employees, telling reporters there is "fear" in their ranks due to the election. Resume preparation. Worries about the future
Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:32 PM (QDnY+)

Haha,sucks doesn't it assholes? Welcome to the real world the rest of us have been living with for years due to your Marxist shenanigans.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (hscyr)

332 So cowards.
Posted by: cm9000 at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (vYaiw)

Not fair. I have to keep my political beliefs on the downlow, too. Some of us don't have the luxury of being in red states surrounded by red people. And we have, you know, futures and whatnot we don't want to flush down the toilet by being outed as "the other."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 10:54 PM (cJrMO)

I agree. I am fine with shooting my mouth off politically. I actually am a bit overbearing. However, I don't put a sign in front of my house or a bumper sticker on my car because I would be concerned about vandalism. The people I talk to in real life are decent and well-adjusted enough that I can express my views, disagree with them, and then still have decent relationships. But the population at large? I wouldn't trust them to behave like civilized human beings. People need their jobs, and expressing unpopular views could have serious consequences.

And I live in Michigan. I can't imagine what it could do to your life, if you have a job in a region where extreme liberalism is the standard. As I've said before, Michigan democrats tend to be different from a lot of California and Manhattan democrats. If you're in Michigan and a democrat gets down on you for being conservative, all you have to do is say, " Yeah, but they want gun control." Or, " Yeah, but it just bugs me that I worked my butt off for everything I have while other people can spend their entire adult lives living off welfare." It's easier to be open in Michigan.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (+lVUW)

333 Ben Macintyre wrote a great book about Operation Mincemeat, titled "Operation Mincemeat," natch. One thing about the whole operation - it's not certain that the ruse really worked. The information had to get passed up through various officials before it made it to Munich, and Macintyre suspected that several of them were suspicious, but decided to go along with it because they could see how the war was going and wanted it to end.

Macintyre has written several other really good books about WWII. My favorite is "Agent Zigzag" about a petty crook in England who offered to spy for the Germans and then decided to become a double agent. Fascinating story.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 15, 2016 11:37 PM (IKOfL)

334 330 Sam Elliot's role in Justified was different. A mafia member and he shaved his mustache. He was very good in the role. Looked different without his mustache. He was impressively menacing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (tT/X6)

Isn't he clean shaven for his role in "We Were Soldiers" as well?

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:37 PM (bMG0w)

335 Yikes! I thought I'd just glance at the ONT after dinner and here it is, nearly midnight!

Posted by: MTF at November 15, 2016 11:37 PM (B+HTd)

336 "Would this Hollywood snot (that I never heard of) say the same thing about Kimchi? Or cassoulet? Now that's fart food - but you fart Korean in one case and fancy French farts in the other.

Posted by: DonnaV(deplorably brandishing ampersandsand so there at November 15, 2016 10:56 PM (P8951) "

If eating Bi Bim Bap with Kimchi and farting up a tsunami is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:38 PM (kumBu)

337 Done.

10lbs of Meatballs in the Freezer.

Posted by: garrett at November 15, 2016 11:38 PM (tPxXt)

338 The appeal of Trump is this: "storybook" way things are supposed to turn out is that the big bad arrogant guy who has led a charmed life up till now gets his comeuppance.

Well, I don't like to think some envious little turd of a story writer who writes out revenge fantasies against those who actually lived life should get to impose his crap onto reality. Trump is a big FU to those that he has made to feel inadequate (is this why so many CEOs hate him?), and that includes the "creative class" in particular.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:38 PM (uz/Pv)

339 Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (+lVUW)

They can't be as overbearing in purple states as they are in California or NYC, or people would reject them at the ballot box. They play nice until they gain absolute control.

And you're a purple state now.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:38 PM (sp6+W)

340 Sam Elliott was in Thank You For Smoking.

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 15, 2016 11:40 PM (UfHIz)

341 OK, thanks you have all amused me so much, many thanks. I'm headed for bed.

This is just awesome, the hilldabeast hasn't taken control.

Jules has just started reading "Guilty as Sin" by Ed Klein. A great indictment of their crimes and failures.

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (o/90i)

342 Uh, no. He got pissed at Gawker, and rightfully so, but that was just incidental, not a reflection of his character in general. He's no conservative, just a generic gay activist. The most impotant principle in his life are his sexual impulses. He's just another stupid pink mafiosi.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (uz/Pv)

er, he's a pretty committed libertarian. And it took cajones for him to "come out" as a republican-leaning type this election cycle.

I think he would turn down an appointment, but it would be smart of Trump to consider him for something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (cJrMO)

343 Bebe! How are you doing tonight?

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (FYrz1)

344 I have a Trump-loving boss, some coworkers who are definitely not Trump fans, and I live in a County that is ~+35 Dem, but a state that was +9 Trump.

So I just wear bland colors and keep my head down.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:42 PM (kumBu)

345 It's about time for voter rolls to be scrutinized and purged.

And people prosecuted and seriously punished for any sort of voter fraud. Further, any non-citizen who is found to have even tried to register to vote needs to have his visa/freen card immediately revoked and his ass deported on the next bus/plane to the shithole he came from.

Photo ID should be the law of the land in order to vote.

And any state that issues state ID, of any sort, to illegals is to immediately lose all federal funding along with those pushing and implementing those laws being held liable in federal court for their treasonous actions - and it is clearly TREASON as they are giving aid and comfort to an invasion.

If the Left wants to help "disenfranchised" folks they can haul them to the appropriate clerk's office and help them obtain a valid ID card.

All of these people seem to be able to get ID and jump through the hoops necessary to collect their leech checks, already.

The ONT wouldn't be opposed to purple ink on one's thumb either.

I am totally opposed to that. We are not some third world shithole (even though we have a sizable number of citizens who are). Further, you institute something like that and you'll find leftists running around on election day trying to stain the fingers of anyone they think is a Republican or a conservative.

What is needed is not purple staining but vigorous and ruthless enforcement of election law and consequences for violations that will make people's heads spin. Remember that douchebag who worked for ACORN in Ohio and was found, in addition to running GOTV crimes, to have voted both at his school in another state and at home ... and he was punished only by having one of his illegal votes disallowed - though he was still allowed to submit his "legal" vote? That asshole needed to have his registration pulled from everywhere, his right to vote pulled for his crimes and be jailed for fucking with the election system - which is supposed to be held in the highest regard and which needs to have its integrity assured. THAT is how voting must be treated. Not with purple fingers like some primitive.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 15, 2016 11:42 PM (zc3Db)

346 I think he would turn down an appointment, but it would be smart of Trump to consider him for something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (cJrMO)

Something where we could definitely use a smart guy with a more libertarian ethic to cut through the mountains of red tape and reduce costs.

Like, say, the EPA. Put him in charge of cutting it down to size and shredding its regulatory overreach.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (sp6+W)

347 Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:32 PM (kumBu)

I liked the pho that I got in my hometown in CO but what they serve here in TX is completely different (and full of cilantro that I can't eat). I don't know which is *actual* pho. The one I had in CO had sliced grilled lamb (which is probably why they're out of business) in the broth and then little dishes of pickled finely sliced carrots and radishes, chopped peanuts, and a red pepper flake/vinegar mix. I just dumped all of it in and it was delicious. I don't remember what the TX one had (lamb wasn't an option) other than the cilantro because I have apparently blocked it from my memory.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (GDulk)

348 This is just awesome, the hilldabeast hasn't taken control.

Jules has just started reading "Guilty as Sin" by Ed Klein. A great indictment of their crimes and failures.

====

She will never be in politics again. Until the next life, this is all I could ever ask for.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (U77o1)

349 Sam Elliott was in Thank You For Smoking.

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 15, 2016 11:40 PM (UfHIz)

That was a fun movie - even though it was written by a total horse's ass dingleberry.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (zc3Db)

350 293 Peter Theil of PayPal for UN secretary?
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

Uh, no. He got pissed at Gawker, and rightfully so, but that was just incidental, not a reflection of his character in general. He's no conservative, just a generic gay activist. The most impotant principle in his life are his sexual impulses. He's just another stupid pink mafiosi.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (uz/Pv)

If he was a gay activist and the most important part of his life was where he sticks his dick he wouldn't have made it his mission to destroy gawker for outing him as gay.

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (bMG0w)

351 "Funny, I thought you were a girl." If I had a nickel for every time I said when I'm in Bangkok. You'd think I'd learn. My trips to Bangkok are totes legit. Business.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (DW+jj)

352 Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (+lVUW)

Yeah... it's not easy. Especially since I'm still young(ish) and am (currently) back in school getting an advanced degree.

So yeah. I'll keep my mouth shut.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (cJrMO)

353 Miley is the biggest tease on the blog.

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (D2vc1)

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Jeez you guys - right wrist and back of the neck! Are these primary erogenous zones?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (tHwdc)

354 Tom Selleck is not just for the nettes.

Posted by: Joe Mack at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (PjWy4)

355 "Give your top three priorities for the Trump administration."
-----------------------------
-good SCOTUS appointment(s)
-enforce & toughen up immigration law---bigly
-get rid of Common Core & Obamacare

Okay, I cheated. That's really four.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (Nox3c)

356 Top Three Trump agenda items.

End the Departments of Education, Energy and Environment. I'll count those three as one co-mingled item.

Reset the military to traditional values and renew their equipment as a matter of utmost priority.

Build an unassailable wall around 2nd Amendment rights, by all means possible, and some yet not imagined.

And I'll go with a fourth imperative, too.

Appoint his lovely daughter as Press Secretary.

Just having her smokin' hot beauty behind that podium would rage-stroke all the feminizai harridan lefty (assumed) female reporters, render their male counterparts as ineffectual, jabbering beta males, flailing in the presence of a world class beauty and true Alpha female.

All that, and as we've seen in campaign interviews, she's sharp, quick and cuts no slack to the slackers.

Those press conferences would get all time high ratings, too. I know I'd watch!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 15, 2016 11:45 PM (v5iqM)

357 ettes!

Posted by: Joe Mack at November 15, 2016 11:45 PM (PjWy4)

358 317 295 There's this young woman at the pet food store with purple hair, tattoos, Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (

I have this tendency to not like anything non-traditional. But I've had so many experiences where I talked with some kid with goofy hair, the entire arm covered in tattoos, or those huge holes in the ear lobes and, big surprise, he just turns out to be a nice, courteous kid.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:45 PM (+lVUW)

359 I was going to comment on the Rebel, Rebel thingy. Then I saw . . . .

Masculinity.

*bunk*

Posted by: Infidel at November 15, 2016 11:45 PM (So9FI)

360 >>Tom Selleck is not just for the nettes.
Posted by: Joe Mack at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (PjWy4)

I'm having a party this weekend, if you are free.

Posted by: Don Lemon at November 15, 2016 11:46 PM (tPxXt)

361 Something where we could definitely use a smart guy with a more libertarian ethic to cut through the mountains of red tape and reduce costs.

Like, say, the EPA. Put him in charge of cutting it down to size and shredding its regulatory overreach.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (sp6+W)

Yeah, that'd be a good move. I don't know -- I have a ton of respect for the guy, I follow him casually....

But it's not easy being a closet R type in CA. I think he has a lot of balls for what he's said and done.

If I were Trump, I'd definitely at least talk to Thiel about what if any position he could see himself taking.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:46 PM (cJrMO)

362 Jeez you guys - right wrist and back of the neck! Are these primary erogenous zones?

They can be.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 15, 2016 11:47 PM (IcT7t)

363 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 15, 2016 11:42 PM (zc3Db)

We definitely need to come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who engages in voting fraud. I'd say make it a felony with a minimum 2 year sentence, and each fraudulent vote is a separate count. Not only would the felony status revoke their voting privileges, but those who manufactured a lot of fraudulent votes would basically end up in Club Fed for the rest of their lives. That would send a message that we take the legitimacy of our elections very seriously.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:47 PM (sp6+W)

364 The great Al Jaffee was the man who invented the word "glitch."

It represented the sound when one of his characters stepped in "doggy-doo." Not a computer malfunction.

Loved the old MAD mag...

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at November 15, 2016 11:48 PM (+O9YB)

365 Is it better than their root beer? Cause I had some of that after hearing everyone talking about how great it was, and as a fan of root beer and beer, I thought it tasted like crap.
Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:30 PM (bMG0w)

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I liked the root beer, but the vanilla cream is much smoother.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:48 PM (CRotO)

366 My top 3 for Trump? Much more modest.

1) repeal the JFK EO allowing federal employees to unionize
2) downsize federal workforce by attrition
3) cut every departments budget by 1% a year every year.

If he achieves those minor goals and nothing else, I'd consider him a successful president.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:48 PM (cJrMO)

367 CNN: GUILIANI CALLS PROTESTERS 'GOONS AND THUGS'.

So. I call them Domestic Terrorists.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (tT/X6)

368 353 Miley is the biggest tease on the blog.

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 15, 2016 11:24 PM (D2vc1)

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Jeez you guys - right wrist and back of the neck! Are these primary erogenous zones?
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (tHwdc)

The things that I could do with your right wrist & the back of your neck

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (voOPb)

369 whoa

that is a fuck load of content

Posted by: origional Jake at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (t8Fxm)

370 343 Bebe! How are you doing tonight?
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (FYrz1)

Struggling to keep my eyes open. Glad your finals went well

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:50 PM (hscyr)

371
365 Is it better than their root beer? Cause I had some of that after hearing everyone talking about how great it was, and as a fan of root beer and beer, I thought it tasted like crap.
Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:30 PM (bMG0w)

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I liked the root beer, but the vanilla cream is much smoother.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 15, 2016 11:48 PM (CRotO)

Fair enough. Calling it crap is a bit strong of course. It was ok, but just not to my taste for drinking more than one in a night.

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:50 PM (bMG0w)

372 "Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 15, 2016 11:43 PM (GDulk) "

In a place like Vietnam, you have so many regional variations, it's tough to say what is 'authentic.'

Pho can be good, but part of me probably just reflexively dislikes it as a hipster food. Plus, like I said, Bahn Mi's are the bomb - culinary imperialism at its finest. French bread, pate (or other meats, usually pork), jalapenos, mayo, cilantro, cucumber, pickled carrots and daikon. Some have fish sauce (Nuoc Mam, probably?) or hot chili sauce.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:50 PM (kumBu)

373 We definitely need to come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who engages in voting fraud. I'd say make it a felony with a minimum 2 year sentence, and each fraudulent vote is a separate count. Not only would the felony status revoke their voting privileges, but those who manufactured a lot of fraudulent votes would basically end up in Club Fed for the rest of their lives. That would send a message that we take the legitimacy of our elections very seriously.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:47 PM (sp6+W)

I'd recommend the death penalty for procuring or enabling fraudulent votes, or managing a vote fraud scheme.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 15, 2016 11:50 PM (bY0uH)

374 Jeez you guys - right wrist and back of the neck! Are these primary erogenous zones?
Posted by: Miley
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Why, in fact, yes. Yes they are.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:51 PM (gS/V0)

375 Oh, once again, someone talking about that Kevin Williamson piece without having read it.

He wasn't defaming flyover country. He was praising it as a place people go to in search of jobs and opportunity.

He wasn't defaming hard-working, blue-collar people. He was talking specifically about people who, uh, don't work.

This really got in the heads of some people in the Internet. It reminds me of how George Bush split his sentence in a speech. The exact quote he said was: "The question is -- are children learning?" And then the Left created a whole meme about the George Bush "quote" of "Is our children learning?"

How they laughed. Made a few cable shows. Signed some books in Manhattan. Even elected a community organizer to take his job.

Posted by: Leo Spaceman at November 15, 2016 11:51 PM (NDF9i)

376 Well ok that Rebel, Rebel vid was fun, fu.

Posted by: Tuna at November 15, 2016 11:52 PM (JSovD)

377 >>>that is a fuck load of content

You weren't suppose to see it Jake. Your platinum subscription doesn't kick in until Xmas.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:52 PM (voOPb)

378 I'm just amazed Trump won.

And I suspect the Dems are too. LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Farmer at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (o/90i)

379
I believe that the scientific definition of "primary erogenous zone" is actually "the female epidermis."

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (gS/V0)

380 Posted by: Leo Spaceman at November 15, 2016 11:51 PM (NDF9i)

er -- no, not exactly. I've read it two or three times since it was published. his message was the exact opposite. It was "leave fly over country and move to the cities, you lazy drug addicted welfare-taking idiots"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (cJrMO)

381 1) Great (not good) SCOTUS appointments (hope he gets 3)

2) Restore rule of law to ALL aspects of immigration and border security (border barrier, internal enforcement of all immigration laws, elimination of lawlessness by cities/states - "sanctuaries", stop H2B abuse)

3) Massive assault on pernicious/unconstitutional federal regulation of the economy (EPA obviously, but also OSHA, and others)

Defunding and educating about "climate" idiocy would be a parallel effort to (3), as so much new and indefensible interference in the real economy is rationalized by climastrology.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (QDnY+)

382 Remove spaces. Peter Thiel was an anti-prop 8 activist. He is against those who think that special interest groups should not get to redefine terms like "marriage". That put him on my shit list.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ the-fix/wp/2014/04/04/ the-money-man-behind-pro-gay-marriage-republicans/

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (uz/Pv)

383 375 Oh, once again, someone talking about that Kevin Williamson piece without having read it.

He wasn't defaming flyover country. He was praising it as a place people go to in search of jobs and opportunity.

He wasn't defaming hard-working, blue-collar people. He was talking specifically about people who, uh, don't work.

This really got in the heads of some people in the Internet. It reminds me of how George Bush split his sentence in a speech. The exact quote he said was: "The question is -- are children learning?" And then the Left created a whole meme about the George Bush "quote" of "Is our children learning?"

How they laughed. Made a few cable shows. Signed some books in Manhattan. Even elected a community organizer to take his job.

Posted by: Leo Spaceman at November 15, 2016 11:51 PM (NDF9i)

BS.

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (bMG0w)

384 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:52 PM (voOPb)

nice ont by the way

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (cJrMO)

385 Funny - I thought YOU were a girl.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:26 PM (tHwdc)

I get that a lot, itt's mildly disconcerting. Don't quite know how that came about.

Can I get my man card back by saying that I've always considered myself a lesbian at heart?

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:33 PM (kSJLl)

=======================
I guess "Kinley" struck me as a woman's name.
Would it make you feel any better that you came across as a alpha female?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 15, 2016 11:54 PM (tHwdc)

386 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (uz/Pv)

Yeah, he's a libertarian. They (we) disagree with "traditional conservatives" on a few issues, mostly social issues.

You can put him on your shitlist for disagreeing with you on 10% of issues, or you can love him for agreeing with you on 90% of issues.

Kind of up to you I guess.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:55 PM (cJrMO)

387 Friends - Women's 7 erogenous zones.

https://youtu.be/mdK6LVDI3kg

Seven. Seven! SEVEN!

Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:55 PM (bMG0w)

388 I'm not saying the male body doesn't have other erogenous zones. I'm just saying, most of them are, at best, Horace Grant or Toni Kukoc. Everyone knows who runs the team. This is MJ's show. Pay attention to MJ at all times.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 15, 2016 11:55 PM (kumBu)

389 I donated to prop 8. And then a federally appointed gay judge overturned it. Walker Vaughn.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:55 PM (uz/Pv)

390 I'd love to see an estimate on the potential savings that could be achieved if we dispensed of ceremonial bullshit.

I saw something about an NBA team not visiting the White House and I thought "You know, why do teams visit the White House. I'd just tell them f*ck off, you ain't invited". I wonder how much we would save if we just scrapped all this kinda of stuff.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at November 15, 2016 11:55 PM (vWarC)

391 wow

platinum

that's cool

Posted by: origional Jake at November 15, 2016 11:56 PM (t8Fxm)

392 Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (QDnY+)

I think SCOTUS appointment(s) is really the most important thing. I'd blow whatever political clout wad he has on that, TBH.

Even if it requires McConnell to pull a Reid and go for the "nuclear option" and not allow Dems to filibuster.

It really matters that much.

I don't think people realize how much of our lives is dictated by the judiciary.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:56 PM (cJrMO)

393 If he was a gay activist and the most important part of his life was where he sticks his dick he wouldn't have made it his mission to destroy gawker for outing him as gay.
Posted by: buzzion at November 15, 2016 11:44 PM (bMG0w)

Right.

The reason why Thiel went after Gawker is that the gay activist who founded Gawker, Nick Denton, was the guy who outed Thiel in Gawker because Denton believes that one's homosexuality should be a political statement.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 15, 2016 11:57 PM (cC/ZB)

394 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (cJ

Thank you Harry. I do appreciate the kind words.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:57 PM (voOPb)

395 This really got in the heads of some people in the Internet. It reminds me of how George Bush split his sentence in a speech. The exact quote he said was: "The question is -- are children learning?" And then the Left created a whole meme about the George Bush "quote" of "Is our children learning?"

How they laughed. Made a few cable shows. Signed some books in Manhattan. Even elected a community organizer to take his job.
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at November 15, 2016 11:51 PM (NDF9i)

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No, you are wrong. Because, you see, the rest of us can actually read every word of what he said. Apparently you can not.

Please quote the verbiage we are missing from his words if we are in error.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 15, 2016 11:57 PM (U77o1)

396 339 Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:36 PM (+lVUW)

They can't be as overbearing in purple states as they are in California or NYC, or people would reject them at the ballot box. They play nice until they gain absolute control.

And you're a purple state now.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 15, 2016 11:38 PM (sp6+W)

Yes. Purple because a lot of the democrats here are working class people who feel that republicans don't care about them. But on a lot of issues like gun control, and NAFTA, they're reachable. Trump reached them.

Hillary on the other hand, doesn't have a clue about working class people. She's running around saying that the rich don't pay enough taxes, while she and hubby are worth a couple hundred million dollars. Then a wikileaks email says that untaxed, non-profit money may have been used to pay for her daughter's 1 million dollar wedding and other assorted personal expenses.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 15, 2016 11:58 PM (+lVUW)

397 So TFG is in Europe, where he won't shut up.

Wait! I think I can see the future...

Posted by: MTF at November 15, 2016 11:58 PM (B+HTd)

398 Pho is/can be fantastic. Could live off it (have come close at times - different friends dying to go the best pho places one day after another, me happily playing along). Had a lot of it in different parts of Vietnam, best stuff resembled the better stuff found in the US.

Of course Vietnamese food, esp. in Vietnam, is tremendously varied and excellent. One of the true food cultures, at worst right up at the top of the second tier, maybe *in* the top tier. But you won't find a lot of it in the US.

Banh mi are amazing. Was puzzled 10 years ago they had not achieved much, much greater penetration in the wider US food culture. By now? Even more puzzled. Apart from a very few independent delis, and a small experiment by Yum Brands (?) in TX, still strictly an "ethnic" thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:59 PM (QDnY+)

399 They can be.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of
Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 15, 2016 11:47 PM (IcT7t)

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True. True.
*sigh*

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (tHwdc)

400 wow

platinum

that's cool

Posted by: origional Jake at November 15, 2016 11:56 PM (t8Fxm)

Don't get too excited. Platinum's only 75% as valuable as gold, these days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (zc3Db)

401 Man some of these NeverTrumpers have straight up lost it.

I went to SooperMexicans twitter page and holy shit the guy seems unhinged.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (R5HRU)

402 >>. I don't think people realize how much of our lives is dictated by the judiciary.

From the magistrate, district judge, appellate court to the SCOTUS.

Too many years of lefties having been appointed.
Another 8 of Clinton would have been country blowing

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (voOPb)

403 Heya MisHum!

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (CRotO)

404
deport
deport
deport

!!!!

Posted by: origional Jake at November 16, 2016 12:01 AM (t8Fxm)

405 394 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:53 PM (cJ

Thank you Harry. I do appreciate the kind words.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:57 PM (voOPb)

Of course. I do appreciate the kind ONT, as well. A little short on boobehs, maybe, but that can be worked on.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 16, 2016 12:01 AM (cJrMO)

406 Oh and we've got three - that I've gone to at least - Vietnamese food places here that are amazing.

Best pad thai I've ever had, best Bahn Mi and the other place has a beyond excellent fish sauce that goes with pretty much everything.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:01 AM (R5HRU)

407
all you Santa Fe morons, you mayor is on Megyn and he is not sounding all that smart

Posted by: origional Jake at November 16, 2016 12:02 AM (t8Fxm)

408 397 So TFG is in Europe, where he won't shut up.

Wait! I think I can see the future...
Posted by: MTF at November 15, 2016 11:58 PM (B+HTd)

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They can have his trifflin' ass.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:02 AM (CRotO)

409 I don't like my hash.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:03 AM (CRotO)

410

1) repeal the JFK EO allowing federal employees to unionize

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:48 PM (cJrMO)

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^^^^^^^THIS. Although I'm sure Congress made it official. I'm sick and tired of federal employees watching porn and goofing off without consequences.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:03 AM (tHwdc)

411
From the magistrate, district judge, appellate court to the SCOTUS.

Too many years of lefties having been appointed.
Another 8 of Clinton would have been country blowing
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:00 AM (voOPb)

Yes. There is a pervasive view throughout the judiciary and law academia that laws (including the constitution) are merely "standard" and not "rules." (literally the language they use.)

So instead of a strict test for something (rules), they think every law / statute / common law precedent is merely a standard -- so instead of checking every box (as you would for a rule), you, as the judge, get to use your discretion to decide what means what and what would really be enforced and how.

In other words, for many judges, the law is completely arbitrary.

Which makes us a nation of men, not a nation of laws.

And this feeling is PERVASIVE. As in.. I'd guess 75%+ of the federal bench and 99%+ of law school professors believe this.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 16, 2016 12:03 AM (cJrMO)

412 Many women's primary erogenous zone is their eyes. When they see a well endowed bank account.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:04 AM (DW+jj)

413
So. I call them Domestic Terrorists.
Posted by: Puddleglum at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (tT/X6)

I call them Rioting Democrats.

Posted by: Halfwise at November 16, 2016 12:05 AM (rB/gm)

414 Michael McCaul is already jockeying for Cruz senate seat. Cornyn is set to back the move. Not good.

Posted by: gNewt...not troubled by Trump at November 16, 2016 12:05 AM (6qmBU)

415 "Even more puzzled. Apart from a very few independent delis, and a small experiment by Yum Brands (?) in TX, still strictly an "ethnic" thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:59 PM (QDnY+) "

Agreed. It should be super easy to sell. I'd have Bahn Mi burgers in McDonald's by now if I were in charge of that brand.

I know we always use the 'melting pot' as an analogy, but if you want to see how two cultures interact, see what kind of sandwiches they make.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 16, 2016 12:05 AM (kumBu)

416 The things that I could do with your right wrist the back of your neck

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (voOPb)

369
whoa

that is a fuck load of content

Posted by: origional Jake at November 15, 2016 11:49 PM (t8Fxm)

ummm....it certainly is

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:06 AM (tHwdc)

417 Sure as fuck wasn't his bank account that attracted me to Carl.

Wouldn't have to go to a crowdsourcing site if Carl was rolling in it.

Sorry if your experience differs, publius.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:06 AM (CRotO)

418 ^^^^^^^THIS. Although I'm sure Congress made it official. I'm sick and tired of federal employees watching porn and goofing off without consequences.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:03 AM (tHwdc)

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If it had not been codified into law by Congress after the EO, this would be a good plan.

Posted by: Flyboy at November 16, 2016 12:07 AM (U77o1)

419 "Best pad thai I've ever had, best Bahn Mi and the other place has a beyond excellent fish sauce that goes with pretty much everything.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:01 AM (R5HRU) "

I'm not even a fish guy, but I use Nuoc Mam (Vietnamese fish sauce) in a few dishes and sauces I make. It's very versatile and doesn't have the overpowering taste or odor you'd expect of a fish sauce.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 16, 2016 12:07 AM (kumBu)

420 Next time you see Kev you ask him the following, how many people does he know personally that voted for trump? My guess is 0, nada, zip, zilch.

Ask that question to me and I would say 60-75% voted for trump. But I do know folks who voted for Hillary. I also know some that voted 3rd party

The prob with Kev & the con rags are they are insulated bubble people living in cocooned faculty lounges. Discussing theory and actually implementing it in an imperfect world are 2 different things.

Williamson can eat a bag of dicks

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:07 AM (voOPb)

421 SCOTUS picks, while crucial, will only temporarily neutralize the problem (court over-reach, accompanied by evaporation of integrity and standards and their replacement with unaccountable de facto legislation).

No political capital need be expended when one is serially taking on politically one-sided issues (there is no national political price to be paid for abolishing O-care or restoring rule of law to immigration - both things are supported by hefty majorities, which will grown even more once successful action is under way). These are both almost pure upside situations - rare in politics, except after eight years of such outrageous rule contrary to the national will.

Senate GOP should absolutely change Senate Rules as required to achieve key objectives. Reid and the Dems blew the place up to pack the DC Circuit court. Pretending not to recognize that was among the most brazen of the GOP's many inexcusable transgressions. Doubt they will continue to pretend if T-Rump brings the political pressure on the big, one-side issues - and soon.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2016 12:08 AM (QDnY+)

422 Struggling to keep my eyes open. Glad your finals went well
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at November 15, 2016 11:50 PM (hscyr)

Get some rest. Let me know if you want to meet up to grab food this weekend.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at November 16, 2016 12:08 AM (FYrz1)

423 Seven?!?!

No way. Name them please.

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 12:09 AM (B+HTd)

424 Sam Elliott is in Frogs. Frogs! Also when Elliott showed up in Up In The Air I wanted him to throw a Clooney out of the plane!

Posted by: Thank You For Smoking at November 16, 2016 12:09 AM (gwG9s)

425 Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 16, 2016 12:07 AM (kumBu)

No idea what brand one of the places I goto uses but it's damn delicious.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:09 AM (R5HRU)

426 Williamson can eat a bag of dicks
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:07 AM (voOPb)

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Someone say bag o' dicks?

https://dicksbymail.com/

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:10 AM (CRotO)

427
Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:10 AM (CRotO)

LMAO. The TShirt they sell is hilarious too; "Keep calm and eat a bag of dicks."

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:12 AM (R5HRU)

428 There are several coastal towns in Vietnam where (logically enough) fish sauce is produced. One is actually mostly sort of a beach resort, Mi Tho.

Spectacular beaches and water.

But the nuoc mam aromas in some parts of town - wowza.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2016 12:13 AM (QDnY+)

429 I'm getting that tshirt.

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:14 AM (CRotO)

430 Condolences, SMFH.

I was joking. The women who have tolerated me haven't paid much attention to that either.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:14 AM (DW+jj)

431
I'd love to see an estimate on the potential savings that could be achieved if we dispensed of ceremonial bullshit.

Eat me!

Posted by: White House turkey at November 16, 2016 12:14 AM (IqV8l)

432 430 Condolences, SMFH.

I was joking. The women who have tolerated me haven't paid much attention to that either.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:14 AM (DW+jj)

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Just messin' with ya.

Thanks for the condolences : )

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:15 AM (CRotO)

433 Posted this earlier today, but it bears re-linking. American WWII soldier donates his sketchbooks
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/victor-lundy-wwii-sketchbooks

Here is a search link at the Library of Congress of all the digitized sketches
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jyrur5e

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2016 12:16 AM (egA7s)

434

Evening Y'all.

Switched to night shift for 3 weeks, sigh.

Awesome ONT!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 16, 2016 12:17 AM (qul7b)

435 I'm back. My laptop....overheated or something.

That 7 erogenous zones routine of Monica's was totally ripped off from Gene Wilder in "The World's Greatest Lover."

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:18 AM (tHwdc)

436 342 Uh, no. He got pissed at Gawker, and rightfully so, but that was just incidental, not a reflection of his character in general. He's no conservative, just a generic gay activist. The most impotant principle in his life are his sexual impulses. He's just another stupid pink mafiosi.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 15, 2016 11:23 PM (uz/Pv)

er, he's a pretty committed libertarian. And it took cajones for him to "come out" as a republican-leaning type this election cycle.

I think he would turn down an appointment, but it would be smart of Trump to consider him for something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 15, 2016 11:41 PM (cJrMO)

++++

He didn't "come out". Gawker outed him. That's why he had a grudge against them and why he funded Hogan's lawsuit: to get even.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 16, 2016 12:18 AM (R+30W)

437 315 Breaking News: Donald Trump avoids media for dinner to cover up his use of a salad fork to eat his main entree.
Posted by: buzzion
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I am told that using a salad fork is an old trick. Makes the food look larger, which can (theoretically) fool you into eating less of it.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 12:20 AM (gS/V0)

438 There's no "fixing" the court situation, I fear.

Not when the dominant majority (in both schools and on the bench, as Harry notes) simply rejects any sort of integrity and brazenly just makes s**t up (I find this description better than more academic ones).

Very bolshevik - just ruthless any-means-to-an-an-end ...... that end being almost always, of course, soft fascist authoritarian social engineering that is the theoretical opposite of everything greatest and best in American history and governance.

But it's also a national low IQ problem, I fear.

Listen to some of the oral arguments during the first O-care debacle, er, case. Jaw-dropping. Not a single entity in the room - plantiffs, solicitor general's people, any justice - have the slightest f***ing idea what they're talking about.

Which in a way is logical, since they have no business even talking about the subject (health care finance and insurance). The US judiciary has detonated its legimitacy. Don't see it coming back.

Best hope is to win enough elections and find enough people willing to ruthlessly misuse the system just as brazenly, but for ends at least somewhat compatible with American and western ideals of freedom, fairness, and an open society.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2016 12:20 AM (QDnY+)

439 Sooper Mexican may indeed have gone off the NeverTrump rails, but he can still Vine with the best.

I could watch this one for hours, for example

http://tinyurl.com/z7p7wgz

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 12:22 AM (B+HTd)

440
But it's also a national low IQ problem, I fear.

We've crossed the Boobicon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2016 12:23 AM (IqV8l)

441 riends - Women's 7 erogenous zones.
https://youtu.be/mdK6LVDI3kg
Seven. Seven! SEVEN!

Erogenous zones? https://youtu.be/YXUmKw4pFdc (sorta nsfw'ish due to subject matter)

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 16, 2016 12:23 AM (IcT7t)

442 Sam Elliot was in Gettysburg.

I don't know about the Rumors about Ted Cruz for AG, I would LOVE Trey Gowdey as AG

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 16, 2016 12:23 AM (dKiJG)

443 You know, and we've talked about this before. As much as on principle I have supported the filibuster, we're gonna have to roll, and say damn the consequences.

The Dems are gonna obstruct every damn thing Trump and the House will try to do. And hell some prima donnas like Luap Dnar are going show their asses as well.

Bitch is going to have go nuclear all the time. Desperate times, desperate measures.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:24 AM (DW+jj)

444 >>Women's 7 erogenous zones

What good will that do me?

Posted by: garrett at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tPxXt)

445

James Comey for AG?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (w2q1W)

446 SMFH/Joy. Almost missed that it was you. Thanks for letting us Horde members thank you and Carl for your service. ((HUGS)) on losing him way way too soon.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (dkExz)

447 As much as I love this place - I feel too many of you are really missing KWs point

I am from Pennsyltucky
We are the bitter clingers

Full up with meth heads ans SSI recipients

I think KW is right on
Once upon a time, when our eastern locales became dead ends (for whatever reason) - we got on wagons, trains etc and set out for new horizons

Well we have dead ends in central PA
Bethlehem Steel ain't ever coming back

So what to do?

His whole point was you don't sit there and cry for Bethlehem Steel - you move to where economic activity is happening

Of course the counter is to say let's find something else to do in our town

I see this - I like this place but don't pretend it's not going on - this is not a go F yourself rural America - this is take control of your lives - which we just saw at least for this one brief moment

Believe me my current colleagues from NYC will just tell you to die - KW wrote to get out and start over

That's the American story

But when a significant part of your population is on welfare/SSI disability and or meth - you have issues

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tHSH2)

448
Just kidding.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (w2q1W)

449 If Trump ordered his steak well done I will join the protesters.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (dKiJG)

450 Many women's primary erogenous zone is their eyes. When they see a well endowed bank account.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:04 AM (DW+jj)

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The thing about rich guys is that they tend to have rich lifestyles and snooty friends. Not my thing.
Mr. Deplorable used to joke about what a cheap date I was. I'd see a woodpile and think hey, you know, a cord of wood for the fire. I'd see a pile of rocks and think hey, I could build up the flower beds.
Nope, I'm not expensive, but I am high maintenance...

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:26 AM (tHwdc)

451

Seriously, tho,

Gloria Allredbaboonass for AG?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2016 12:26 AM (w2q1W)

452 Now, about Sam Elliott,-----from Margarita's Celery Files:

No, I never met Sam Elliott but I did meet his wife, Katherine Ross, before she married him. She was performing in a play in DC and I was working room service in the hotel where she was staying.

She ate at the hotel in the evening before every performance. It was always 2 soft-boiled or scrambled eggs, crisp bacon, and a bowl of mixed berries. I had to take the bacon back the first time because it wasn't crisp enough --- and she was very gentle and apologetic about that.

She was beautiful without make-up, BTW.
Stunning, really.
Pleasant and unassuming, very quiet and reserved.
And she left me a $50 tip for only 3 nights of service--- which was yuuuuuuge back then.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 12:27 AM (Nox3c)

453 Okay...

I missed a memo... why the name change. When the new name popped up acting all friendly with hyperlink in name, all I was thinking was stalker with a booby-trap link.

*thud*

Of course have been writing. Just 60 more words and cross the 20k barrier but want another 400 to 800 tonight.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2016 12:27 AM (egA7s)

454 Woman's Erroneous Zones?

Parallel Parking.

*serpentine run!*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2016 12:27 AM (v5iqM)

455 Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tHSH2)
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Agreed

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 12:27 AM (B+HTd)

456 The better one learns the 7 zones, and the care and feeding of the lady parts, the better for us. When we make them very happy, they are more inclined to entertain some of our, uh, proclivities.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:28 AM (DW+jj)

457 Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tHSH2)

His whole point is free trade. It was meant as a counter to Trump, who advocates bringing manufacturing back to the USA.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 16, 2016 12:29 AM (R+30W)

458 The messages, shared on the private messaging app GroupMe, were peppered with derogatory references to women, minorities, and gay people. Screenshots of the messages were made public by independent student-run news site Bwog.

Absent the remarks about minorities, this kind of talk has been traditionally considered normal for young males.

They see homosexuality as a bad thing, obviously, and young men and young women often have...disagreements.

The coach should tell them to knock it off, given them a few extra wind sprints and that should be the end of it.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 12:29 AM (aZq03)

459 That's a nice story Margarita.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 12:29 AM (gS/V0)

460
Costco was selling little containers of "Peppermint Bark" for $10.

I'm in the wrong business...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2016 12:29 AM (w2q1W)

461 Smaller the fork the longer my fingers look.

Posted by: DJT POTUS2B at November 16, 2016 12:30 AM (gwG9s)

462 446 SMFH/Joy. Almost missed that it was you. Thanks for letting us Horde members thank you and Carl for your service. ((HUGS)) on losing him way way too soon.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (dkExz)

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Thank you.

I miss him...it's funny, his boots are still by the door...

Anyways, don't run Jim, you'll just die tired.

*evil grin*

Posted by: Joy - #FreeCooth at November 16, 2016 12:31 AM (CRotO)

463 The filibuster is entirely a matter of Senate rules. Which, under the constitution, the Senate makes up itself - and changes them any time it sees fit.

Of course it evolved to be one of the wondrous checks on majoritarian abuse, or too energetic governance, in America's unique system of limited government.

As that system has essentially been ruined by those seeking to grab greater power while destroying freedom and building a sullen, semi-European mediocracy, it's time to adapt and over-come, in a battlefield sense.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2016 12:31 AM (QDnY+)

464 447
His whole point was you don't sit there and cry for Bethlehem Steel - you move to where economic activity is happening

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tHSH2)

But then you also have to take into account that the UN's Agenda 21 explicitly wants to destroy rural communities, turn them into nature preserves, and force the population into densely-packed urban enclaves.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 16, 2016 12:31 AM (sdi6R)

465 Sorry Anna...

Just me.

Heh.

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:32 AM (CRotO)

466 1- Tear down every single aspect of the federal government that isn't roads and defense, fire as many people as possible, viciously prosecute anyone who was abusing their position.

2- Complain about lack of Congressional term limits. Loudly. Frequently. Ceaselessly. Even the friggin Lefties are angry at their leaders right now - now is the time to strike. Divide and conquer.

3- For the duration of his presidency, do not freakin' drag us into any more bloody wars on the other side of the planet. My heart bleeds for the people under the oppression of Islam - it really does. It burns me violently. I can't imagine living in such an ass-backwards society - but we can't change Islam with a war unless we literally start turning the Middle East into a three-thousand-mile-wide mirror with nukes. Any ground fighting done won't be me or the people I know fighting and dying for the oppressed people over there, it'll be someone else's son or daughter or brother or sister or friend.

Do not. Drag us. Into any more bloody wars.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at November 15, 2016 11:31 PM (kSJLl)

Just the thought of that is going to extend this schadenboner for months.

Posted by: Deplorable 98ZJUSMC at November 16, 2016 12:33 AM (MHq1d)

467 Anyways, don't run Jim, you'll just die tired
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Where did I first hear this? From you?

"You can run, but you'll just die tired."

I have thought that about Cankles for months...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 12:33 AM (gS/V0)

468 Katherine Ross. Gorgeous.

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 12:34 AM (B+HTd)

469 I would LOVE Trey Gowdey as AG

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 16, 2016 12:23 AM (dKiJG)

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OMG, me too - he must be so damned frustrated by the hijinks in the various hearings. He'd be loaded for bear.

I heard he's never lost a case as a prosecutor - is that true?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:34 AM (tHwdc)

470 Where did I first hear this? From you?

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Moi?

Nope.

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:35 AM (CRotO)

471 Mr. Deplorable used to joke about what a cheap date I was. I'd see a woodpile and think hey, you know, a cord of wood for the fire. I'd see a pile of rocks and think hey, I could build up the flower beds.
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I know a guy who wife does a *lot* of gardening, and uses flattened cardboard boxes under mulch, for weed suppression.

I have seen her almost start purring when he brings home a batch of cardboard that he has picked up somewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 12:35 AM (8zL5i)

472 447:I am from Pennsyltucky
We are the bitter clingers

I'm from Western PA and my hometown just topped the list of highest crime rate in PA. The town has about 22000 and shrinking. I didn't read the KW article so I have no comment on it. Frankly, the article written by some guy who writes for Cracked was spot on about small town America and why it voted for Trump. Those who were able to leave, did so. Its just sad what it looks like now. My Dad worked in the mills until '93 when it shut down for good. I still don't think its a good idea to abandon them. When the cities collapse in anarchy and violence, I may be going back up to the rural areas of Western PA. I have friends with impressive gun collections. ;-)

Now some music: https://youtu.be/rxnYIANcFyM

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 16, 2016 12:35 AM (tT/X6)

473 Yes to Gowdy over Cruz for AG.

There's a spot for Cruz somewhere but I don't think it's AG.

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 12:36 AM (R5HRU)

474 I've heard both sides of various people here give their opinions on Williamson's "Die small town America!" article. And frankly of the ones who's opinions and insight I actually have respect for they almost universally come down on the side of "He did say 'die small town america' and people trying to defend it are full of shit."

Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 12:36 AM (bMG0w)

475 But when a significant part of your population is on welfare/SSI disability and or meth - you have issues

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tHSH2)

Again I say....if anyone has a problem with this, they need to start in the inner cities and work their way outward.

That's where the overwhelming majority of people are that need to be "fixed."

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 16, 2016 12:36 AM (Jcg9Q)

476 Not a prob there SMFH, one more mystery solved. Best get to the writing. Take care.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2016 12:36 AM (egA7s)

477 444 >>Women's 7 erogenous zones

What good will that do me?
Posted by: garrett at November 16, 2016 12:25 AM (tPxXt)

10 fingers, 1 tongue you should be able to get lucky

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:36 AM (voOPb)

478 Anon - maybe we are talking about two different articles - I definitively get the sense around here that most object to the article that basically told ny rural people to get the hell out because their cities were dead and he felt no remourse

If that is the case - I'm sorry - I agree with KW - make your town relevant to modern life or fold it up
You don't get to keep going just because you had a past

Wtf- are we European museum pieces?

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:37 AM (tHSH2)

479 "You can run, but you'll just die tired."

IIRC, that comes from the side of an AC-130 gunship.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 16, 2016 12:37 AM (IcT7t)

480 375 >> Oh, once again, someone talking about that Kevin Williamson piece without having read it.

Posted by: Leo

I read the article, and it pissed me off. Condescending judgemental prick. But even if, for argument's sake, I take your interpretation on that article as the gospel truth -- He wrote plenty of stuff about Trump that was WORSE than Hillary's most vituperative attacks.

I checked my FOAD meter on Kev, and it reads 'Yes'.

And this is coming from someone who used to regularly link his stuff here at AoS.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 16, 2016 12:37 AM (b/kAv)

481 Have fun Anna.

I'm enjoying my few days of class-free laziness before I have to get back to writing Monday.

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:37 AM (CRotO)

482 Best get to the writing. Take care.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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May you have "White Rabbit" as an earworm for the next 1/2 hour...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 12:38 AM (gS/V0)

483 lol Chi

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:38 AM (CRotO)

484 But when a significant part of your population is on welfare/SSI disability and or meth - you have issues
***
There is a reason that they are not working.

And at least for the suburban and rural areas, that reason is DC (the inner cities are a different issue - though still largely DC).

Change DC and you will break the cycle.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 12:39 AM (aZq03)

485 Too late Chi, am already down a rabbit hole with an ad hoc group

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 16, 2016 12:39 AM (egA7s)

486 Women's 7 erogenous zones
___
Pretty sure Reggie only has two.

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 16, 2016 12:39 AM (aZq03)

487 damn

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:40 AM (CRotO)

488 464:But then you also have to take into account that the UN's Agenda 21 explicitly wants to destroy rural communities, turn them into nature preserves, and force the population into densely-packed urban enclaves.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable

When you bring this up, people think your joking. Its an actual thing. Some conspiratorial stuff is actually true.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 16, 2016 12:40 AM (tT/X6)

489 >> If that is the case - I'm sorry - I agree with KW -
>> make your town relevant to modern life or fold it up

The question is how much of their misery is their own doing, and how much of it is urban elites fucking them?

NY is fracking-ban, other similar regs handed down from Greenpeace-compliant fiftieth-floor NYC suites.

PA across the border is fracking-friendly.

Better, worse, same? I don't know, don't have contacts there.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:40 AM (TppKb)

490
Liz Mair is the douche bag who tweeted the semi-nood pics of Melania to embarrass Trump, just to remind everyone.

It obviously didn't work.
But she's earned a seat on Bill Maher's show for life!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 16, 2016 12:42 AM (w2q1W)

491 If that is the case - I'm sorry - I agree with KW - make your town relevant to modern life or fold it up
You don't get to keep going just because you had a past

Wtf- are we European museum pieces?

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:37 AM (tHSH2)

I actually agree with the concept. That's exactly what I did...at age 51 packed up my truck Beverly Hillbillies style and took off from Detroit to Texas. A place I'd never been to before my job interview, and where I knew nobody.

If I can do it, anybody can.

He just worded it extremely poorly.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at November 16, 2016 12:43 AM (Jcg9Q)

492 >> Change DC and you will break the cycle.

I've been down for a 50% drop in Beltway real estate values as the bellwether for American prosperity long before Iowahawk jumped on my bandwagon.

When you can't rent a U-Haul in NoVA because they're all headed somewhere else, you've won.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:43 AM (TppKb)

493 When we make them very happy, they are more inclined to entertain some of our, uh, proclivities.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 12:28 AM (DW+jj)

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Unless the proclivities are unnatural acts, I would think the pleasure goes both ways, no?

Mr. Deplorable and I used to have fun with my lib SIL (FB profile status: still black). He said he couldn't imagine that pursed discontented mouth doing anything generous, and I agreed. He felt sorry for his brother.
Anyway, one time the four of us went to an Indian buffet. I'm a big fan of gulab jamun, and fetched a few for dessert. I took one in my spoon and said, "I like to take the whole thing in my mouth, like this."
Thought she was gonna die. Mr. Deplorable pinched my thigh for that one.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:44 AM (tHwdc)

494 If you think people should "eat a bag of dicks", don't be a hypocrite. Be willing to contribute your own dick to that bag. Yes, you will have to endure numerous "therapy sessions" in order to get approval, but in the end it is worth it!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 16, 2016 12:45 AM (dtWKK)

495 >> There's a spot for Cruz somewhere but I don't think
>> it's AG

My nominee for AG:

https://goo.gl/Lb0iqd

Remember, for the first two years, it's not about policy, it's about cleaning out the bureaucracy.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:46 AM (TppKb)

496 When you can't rent a U-Haul in NoVA because they're all headed somewhere else, you've won.

Hitlery would have achieved that.

It would have been by turning the area into a radioactive wasteland.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 16, 2016 12:47 AM (IcT7t)

497 >> Be willing to contribute your own dick to that bag.

I'll contribute Charlie Sheen's dick to that bag.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:48 AM (TppKb)

498 I know a guy who wife does a *lot* of gardening, and uses flattened cardboard boxes under mulch, for weed suppression.

I have seen her almost start purring when he brings home a batch of cardboard that he has picked up somewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 12:35 AM (8zL5i)

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Now that's a damned fine idea.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:48 AM (tHwdc)

499 471 Mr. Deplorable used to joke about what a cheap date I was. I'd see a woodpile and think hey, you know, a cord of wood for the fire. I'd see a pile of rocks and think hey, I could build up the flower beds.
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I know a guy who wife does a *lot* of gardening, and uses flattened cardboard boxes under mulch, for weed suppression.

I have seen her almost start purring when he brings home a batch of cardboard that he has picked up somewhere.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 12:35 AM (8zL5i)

Hi mike.
Does the cardboard work?

Light bulbs are going off

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:49 AM (voOPb)

500 As a benefactor from PA fracking - I say keep it up you ny dipshits

And I hear you all about DC driving social pathologies in my central PA homestead

But if this year taught us anything it's fuck you DC
No more waiting for answers from the Gubment

Grab your gun (up to you whether that's a metaphor) and start a new life.

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 12:49 AM (tHSH2)

501 >> It would have been by turning the area into a
>> radioactive wasteland.

Y'know, there's places in VA I'd almost care to live, but I'm not gonna live somewhere so fascist they ban radar detectors.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:50 AM (TppKb)

502 I like to take the whole thing in my mouth, like this.
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Blow Jobs are NOT EMPOWERING!

Posted by: The Feminist Left at November 16, 2016 12:51 AM (aZq03)

503 502 I like to take the whole thing in my mouth, like this.

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Who said that?

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 12:52 AM (CRotO)

504 Cruz to the Scotus, so Perry has a place to go. Abbott will be able.to crush cornhole on his own.

I say Jindal to the VA, biggest mess just fix it or the IRS

Posted by: Jean at November 16, 2016 12:53 AM (2RVmA)

505 Williamson, a long-time critic of The Donald, essentially agrees that he doesn't support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to the working-class - particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration - because it would be wrong to do so.

"It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the white working class that finds itself attracted to Trump has been victimized by outside forces," the NR roving correspondent writes. "[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves."

++++

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/12/national-review-
writer-working-class-communities-deserve-to-die/

Williamson wrote in opposition to the idea that open borders, both in the form of free trade as well as unchecked immigration, are a problem. He sees nothing wrong with shipping factories out and bringing immigrants in. If you are one of the people displaced by these government policies, well, that's your own damn fault. Learn a new trade and move out of your community is his solution for you.

Trump offers another form of a solution: crack down on immigration and discourage moving American manufacturing out of the country. If that sounds like bad policy to you, then perhaps Hillary is more your speed.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 16, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)

506 502 I like to take the whole thing in my mouth, like this.
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Blow Jobs are NOT EMPOWERING!

Milo, Barney Frank and others disagree

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:53 AM (voOPb)

507 >> Blow Jobs are NOT EMPOWERING!

Went to the library with my 11yo daughter, she picked out a book on dolphins, it's a fairly challenging book for her, was going through it to come up with some questions for her and while the LSD-addled researcher didn't put me off I was pleased about the cautious phrasing when it came to his assistant working their star male dolphin up.

Fortunately I don't think she knows what 'hand job' means yet and I really plan not to explain it to her in the context of this book.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 12:55 AM (TppKb)

508 494 >> Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner

Last I heard, Cait honey, you were still holding onto your dick like it owed you a ransom payment.

Me, I'm quite concerned about the bag of dicks shortage since ace went and gave all of them to the NYT today. I hope to give out quite a few myself over the coming months.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 16, 2016 12:55 AM (b/kAv)

509 Posted by: The Feminist Left at November 16, 2016 12:51 AM (aZq03)

They are the most empowering there is!

Silly twits, too busy making their pajama boys do housework. Then they're unhappy because, let's face it - every real woman wants a real man.

This right here is why feminism makes women craycray.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 12:56 AM (tHwdc)

510 Da white wimmen? Hey, where they at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at November 16, 2016 12:56 AM (ZLQuU)

511 I understand that the economy has changed and is still changing and some places and industries may slip into obsolescence.
But what infuriates me is when government takes utterly unnecessary actions to kill domestic industry. Case in point --- shutting down the factory in Winchester VA that made incandescent light bulbs.

The most loathsome case --- leftists cavalierly willing to obliterate 8 million coal-related jobs. Unnecessary. And their promises to shower the land with welfare as a compensation disgusts me.
Welfare is a horrible substitute for work. It's like substituting poison for food.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 12:56 AM (Nox3c)

512 Da white wimmen? Hey, where they at?

Shopping?

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 16, 2016 12:57 AM (IcT7t)

513 04 Cruz to the Scotus, so Perry has a place to go. Abbott will be able.to crush cornhole on his own.

Good choices and Jindal going to VA is top notch

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 16, 2016 12:57 AM (voOPb)

514 I know a guy who wife does a *lot* of gardening, and uses flattened cardboard boxes under mulch, for weed suppression.

Posted by: Mike Hammer
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I used to use a thick layer of newspaper.
Spread then mulch it in the winter. By spring, it's supposed to be weed free & ready to plant.
Haven't had great results yet.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 12:58 AM (gS/V0)

515 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura #Free Cthulhu (with full price purchase of Azatoth or Nyarlathotep) at November 16, 2016 12:59 AM (IcT7t)

516 Yes, cardboard makes a good biodegradable weedblock. Newspaper also works.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 16, 2016 12:59 AM (b/kAv)

517 >> Case in point --- shutting down the factory in
>> Winchester VA that made incandescent light bulbs.

See, the thing here is this:

Fracked gas is killing coal on economics for power generation, you don't need regulation.

LED lightbulbs are killing the others on economics for most applications, you don't need regulation.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:00 AM (TppKb)

518 Damn I miss Scalia on the Supreme Court. One of my prized photos is a handshake w/ him after one of his lectures in my first year of law school. Was one of the few who applauded vigorously amongst the silent cold stares of faculty and liberal idiot students. Wondered why they invited him in the first place.

Posted by: Bear Horned Neighbor at November 16, 2016 01:00 AM (g9d8D)

519 Welfare is a horrible substitute for work. It's like substituting poison for food.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 12:56 AM (Nox3c)

It's like substituting soylent green for food.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:00 AM (tHwdc)

520 Does the cardboard work?

Light bulbs are going off
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Well, it's never worked with Mrs. Hammer... wait... you mean for weed suppression? Sure, works great. It's particularly nice for 'starting' an area that is currently grassed. Just place the cardboard where you want to garden, cover with some mulch, let it sit for a couple of weeks, and all of the stuff underneath will be killed off.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 01:00 AM (8zL5i)

521 The "You can run, but you'll only die tired" meme, is a patch sold at every gun show in 'Merica.

First I'd encountered that saying was in some of the riflery literature. Might've been Plaster, could've been Hatcher. Long time ago, so I don't quite remember....accurately.

In the shooting world though, there is a subset of very serious riflemen, Military graduates of various Sniper Schools, civilian F-Class shooters, (moron Weasel is one such, IIRC?), and open country hunters, who strive to master the science and art of extended range, extreme precision shooting.

Alas, as with any element of the shooting world, there is the creature we call the "Gun Show Commando". Has all of the patches, and none of the training. And much less the accomplishments thereof.

I do love showing up to a shooting event, clad in eye-wateringly bright Hawaiian shirt, not a stitch of 5.11 wear to be found, plain ordinary gun and equipment. And then turning in a good, if not a winning, score.

And no Sniper patches, you can be assured.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2016 01:01 AM (v5iqM)

522
"I used to use a thick layer of newspaper.
Spread then mulch it in the winter. By spring, it's supposed to be weed free & ready to plant.
Haven't had great results yet."

You think you can stop us? We laugh at your newspaper.

Posted by: Weeds at November 16, 2016 01:01 AM (JSovD)

523 Well, it's never worked with Mrs. Hammer... wait... you mean for weed suppression?

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0_o

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:02 AM (CRotO)

524 I used to use a thick layer of newspaper.
Spread then mulch it in the winter. By spring, it's supposed to be weed free & ready to plant.
Haven't had great results yet.
Posted by: Chi
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A minimum of three sheets. It deteriorates pretty quickly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 01:02 AM (8zL5i)

525 >>>Blow Jobs are NOT EMPOWERING!

^^^THIS^^^ You know the best way to defeat blowjobs? Get the darned thing removed. Then these idiots will come around trying to give you a blow job and they will meet with ... nothing. A vacuum. John Travolta will be like "What the f*ck???". These sneaky perverted shits deserve the disappointment they get.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 16, 2016 01:02 AM (dtWKK)

526 415 "Even more puzzled. Apart from a very few independent delis, and a small experiment by Yum Brands (?) in TX, still strictly an "ethnic" thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 15, 2016 11:59 PM (QDnY+) "

Agreed. It should be super easy to sell. I'd have Bahn Mi burgers in McDonald's by now if I were in charge of that brand.

I know we always use the 'melting pot' as an analogy, but if you want to see how two cultures interact, see what kind of sandwiches they make.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at November 16, 2016 12:05 AM (kumBu)

Fast food and chain resturants want to keep their menus as simple and small as possible.

When you have to teach an 16 year old high school kid how to prepare food, you better make it simple.

Keep the menu small to make ordering easier and faster which in turn will increase the dining room churn.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (1JnAL)

527 >> You think you can stop us? We laugh at your
>> newspaper.

Then we'll use Democrats.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (TppKb)

528 Good night everyone.

Love the fact I'm leaving on the discussion of blowjobs haha

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (R5HRU)

529 Anon - I come from rural white working (some may say under) class
I think we are speaking past each other.
And quite frankly - since KW ain't giving me any fun loving tonight, I'm tired of defending him personally which was never my intention ( given the feelings around here)

But I throw this out there - are we willing to pay 10, 25, 50 percent more for a tee shirt just because Jenny from Rochester made it and we thought she was hawt in HS?

Ok I know that's a cheap shot throw away line but if I were sober (which i assure you is not the case) we could have a real discussion about - and given this crew it would be more informed than a Senate hearing on Pacific trade treaties.

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (tHSH2)

530 lol thathalfrican

Niters.

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:04 AM (CRotO)

531 >> A minimum of three sheets. It deteriorates pretty
>> quickly.

So three sheets to the soil is where you go after you've been three sheets to the wind for too long?

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:04 AM (TppKb)

532 Damn I spend some time trying to be thoughtful and miss BJs

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:05 AM (tHSH2)

533 Cardboard as weed suppression? Yes please. After the appetizer, we'll move to your foundation.

Posted by: Arizona Subterranian Termites at November 16, 2016 01:05 AM (g9d8D)

534 >> Cardboard as weed suppression? Yes please. After
>> the appetizer, we'll move to your foundation.

Will you stop when you get to the irradiated Harry Reid at the soil line?

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:06 AM (TppKb)

535 Then we'll use Democrats.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (TppKb)

The kind of recycling I can get behind.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:06 AM (tHwdc)

536 Silly twits, too busy making their pajama boys do housework. Then they're unhappy because, let's face it - every real woman wants a real man.
***
I think one particular aspect of this that causes a lot of problems gets missed.

Some feminists end up with pajama boys, yes.

But a lot of them end up as girl #3 booty calls. They believe themselves to deserve a "sexier" match then the pool of guys willing to date them....but in the male "player" segment, many aren't as picky about their "side girls" as they are about their main female interests.

This then exposes said feminists to some of the worst in male behavior. They presume this is the way all men behave because they don't know any better and they've cut off their less feminist friends and family...

Of course they'd be significantly happier if they lowered the chips on their shoulders and made peace with female beauty standards but...their fellow feminists aren't going to let them do that...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 01:06 AM (aZq03)

537 But I throw this out there - are we willing to pay 10, 25, 50 percent more for a tee shirt just because Jenny from Rochester made it and we thought she was hawt in HS?

Ok I know that's a cheap shot throw away line but if I were sober (which i assure you is not the case) we could have a real discussion about - and given this crew it would be more informed than a Senate hearing on Pacific trade treaties.

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (tHSH2)

Well, an American-made tee shirt will probably last longer than a cheap-ass one made in Asscrackistan, and you won't be funding terrorism when you buy it. Some people might see value in that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:06 AM (bY0uH)

538 "De-industrializing America" is apparently a real and deliberate thing. I assume it has to do with the push for World Government. America was just too rich and too successful, so it has to be made poorer to even things out with other countries.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 16, 2016 01:06 AM (sdi6R)

539 Carl passed away knowing Hillary will never...

Ever...

become president.

God truly is good.

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (CRotO)

540 517 >> Case in point --- shutting down the factory in
>> Winchester VA that made incandescent light bulbs.

See, the thing here is this:

Fracked gas is killing coal on economics for power generation, you don't need regulation.

LED lightbulbs are killing the others on economics for most applications, you don't need regulation.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:00 AM (TppKb)

++++

*snort*

Incandescent bulbs were banned and the reason coal is getting less and less competitive is because of government intervention. If regular light bulbs were decriminalized, they would be back in a heartbeat. Same with coal. If government takes its boot off the neck of the coal industry, it would flourish.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (R+30W)

541 Three sheets? LOL - hic - I don't drive with MJK without at least a dozen sheets flapping.

Posted by: The Drunk Lion of the Senate at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (g9d8D)

542 "527 >> You think you can stop us? We laugh at your
>> newspaper.

Then we'll use Democrats."

We mock you. Democrats are our kin.

Posted by: Weeds at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (JSovD)

543 Love the fact I'm leaving on the discussion of blowjobs haha

Posted by: thathalfricanplayafromthehimalayas - be water my friend at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (R5HRU)

Ahem, it was gulab jamun!

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (tHwdc)

544 Ahem, it was gulab jamun!
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:07 AM (tHwdc)

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*eyes Miley suspiciously*

You talking with your mouth full?

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:08 AM (CRotO)

545 Last I heard, Cait honey, you were still holding onto your dick like it owed you a ransom payment.
...

Posted by: GnuBreed

Agreed. He is a coward. He made a commitment and he will not fulfill it. I think he really is just a narcissist.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at November 16, 2016 01:08 AM (dtWKK)

546 Kleenex warning issued.

That should be box of kleenex.

Posted by: Infidel at November 16, 2016 01:08 AM (So9FI)

547 Was invited to, and attended a gathering of neighbors tonight. The specific purpose was to celebrate the election. Champagne toast, followed by lots of wine. There were people there that I had not suspected to be conservatives. It was great. It may sound snobbish, but just ordinary folks. Lots of cheery laughter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 16, 2016 01:10 AM (8zL5i)

548 Case in point --- shutting down the factory in Winchester VA that made incandescent light bulbs.

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I have a supply of about 60 incandescents in various wattages, including 3-ways. Can't stand LEDs.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:11 AM (tHwdc)

549 But I throw this out there - are we willing to pay 10, 25, 50 percent more for a tee shirt just because Jenny from Rochester made it and we thought she was hawt in HS?
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You can get people to pay significantly more for "prestige" products with the right media effort around it - look at "organic" or "environmentally friendly" products.

To accomplish this with made in America products you'd have to rebuild the media from the ground up....which isn't happening.

Its actually more believable that you could make the pricing more attractive by decimating domestic regulations, and yes protectionism.

Protectionism is a dirty word for good reasons, but if the choice is to pay someone's living wage through a tariff and a real job for them, or to cut them an SSDI check, I don't really see the former as the worst choice.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 01:11 AM (aZq03)

550 Umm, not so sure about either case, JEM.

Incandescents were, as you recall, banned. I doubt they'd have been replaced economically by now, if ever - seems unlikely.

And I don't think coal for electricity generation has been priced out of being competitive by gas. It really varies regionally, as delivery networks for the two fuels are not uniform or universal.

Could be fairly complicated to attempt apples-apples comparisons by factoring in all the non-market (regulatory) fingers on the various scales.

And even this latter exercise, to be serious, would have to use reasonable standards and concepts for environment protection - which are not the ones underlying the war on coal.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 16, 2016 01:11 AM (QDnY+)

551 *eyes Miley suspiciously*

You talking with your mouth full?

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:08 AM (CRotO)

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Haven't had one of those things in my mouth for 3 years.
And yes, that's what she said!

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:12 AM (tHwdc)

552 529 Anon - I come from rural white working (some may say under) class
I think we are speaking past each other.
And quite frankly - since KW ain't giving me any fun loving tonight, I'm tired of defending him personally which was never my intention ( given the feelings around here)

But I throw this out there - are we willing to pay 10, 25, 50 percent more for a tee shirt just because Jenny from Rochester made it and we thought she was hawt in HS?

Ok I know that's a cheap shot throw away line but if I were sober (which i assure you is not the case) we could have a real discussion about - and given this crew it would be more informed than a Senate hearing on Pacific trade treaties.

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:03 AM (tHSH2)

++++

If Jenny is out of work, society as a whole is going to be paying some costs. I would rather see Jenny productively employed even if it does mean that shirts cost a bit more.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 16, 2016 01:13 AM (R+30W)

553 LOL!

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:13 AM (CRotO)

554 Alberta - I happen to agree
But that's all part of making and proving the argument that we matter and can do it better

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:14 AM (tHSH2)

555 AOP is still here?
I thought he was gone...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:16 AM (T481d)

556 #536 But a lot of them end up as girl #3 booty calls. They believe themselves
to deserve a "sexier" match then the pool of guys willing to date
them....but in the male "player" segment, many aren't as picky about
their "side girls" as they are about their main female interests.

This then exposes said feminists to some of the worst in male
behavior. They presume this is the way all men behave because they don't
know any better and they've cut off their less feminist friends and
family...

=======================

It really is true that the fact that so many women make themselves sexually available drives down their value overall. Supply and demand.

Then it also drives up the maintenance requirements.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:18 AM (tHwdc)

557 All this BJ talk makes my IQ drop 20 points or so, and I don't have that much to spare. It's like when the little head swells, the big head shrinks somehow.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 01:18 AM (DW+jj)

558 Videos like this helped shame black folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DkZXZnellE&t=727s

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:19 AM (CRotO)

559 I have deployed the sleeping apparatus, and shall now take my leave, until the 'morrow.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2016 01:20 AM (v5iqM)

560 AOP is still here?
I thought he was gone...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:16 AM (T481d)

Still here, but not for much longer. My warm weather went bye-bye. Touch of snow today.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:20 AM (bY0uH)

561 Another dynamic is that feminist women hang out with lefty men, and they can be some of the biggest douchebags towards women there are. It's like the feminists' low opinion of men is based on how the good, progressive men act.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 01:21 AM (DW+jj)

562 Genghis rides this way tonight,
And you just killed his envoy;
He's riding now to bring you a fight,
And who will he destroy?

All your life you've never seen a warlord
Riding like the wind
Will you pray as he sends you to Heaven?
Are you free of sin?

His envoy demanded food,
And you gave him execution;
Genghis thinks that was really rude,
And he brings you retribution.

All your life you've never seen a warlord
Riding like the wind
Will you pray as he sends you to Heaven?
Are you free of sin? Are you free of sin?

Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

You're bought before him prostrate,
And Genghis passes judgment;
He says your sins must indeed be great,
For God to send you such punishment.

All your life you've never seen a warlord
Riding like the wind
Will you pray as he sends you to Heaven?
Are you free of sin? Are you free of sin?

Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

Taken by, taken by the Mongols
Taken by, taken by the Mongols
Taken by, taken by the Mongols

Realms unwind
Kings get undermined
Realms unwind
Kings get undermined

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at November 16, 2016 01:22 AM (0OG8D)

563 Twitter has initiated a major purge of prominent accounts associated with the alt-right exactly a week after GOP President-elect Donald Trump's stunning electoral victory.

One of the first and most prominent accounts caught up in the deletion is Richard Spencer, president and director of the National Policy Institute, an alt-right think tank focused on white identity and related policy issues.

Posted by: Jack Reacher at November 16, 2016 01:23 AM (e8kgV)

564 I see from Drudge that the Saudis are threatening Trump about blocking oil imports, the French are threatening Trump not to ignore the Paris accords, etc. and so on..,

Posted by: Tuna at November 16, 2016 01:23 AM (JSovD)

565 If the "accomplishment" is that the American electorate is now blaming their high health care bills on Democratic politicians, rather than on doctors, drug companies, or insurance executives, it is indeed pretty great, though perhaps not exactly in the way Professor Gruber intended it to be.

Why is this an either or? doctors, drug companies and the healthcare insurance lobby has used regulatory capture, using government as a mechanism to screw people over. The number of doctors, for instance, is regulated by government. Restrict the members of the guild artificially, to reduce supply and drive up the price. And of course O'Care. Force everyone to buy health insurance.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 01:23 AM (dtWKK)

566 And the BJ talk reminds me of this old joke, a ditzy blonde one (which is ironic as the IQ of the blonde women population is over 3 points higher than the 100 average).

ANyway, she was complaining about always getting pulled over by the cops who would always make her take a breathalyzer test, which she was confused about. She thought you were supposed to blow, not suck on the tube thingy.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at November 16, 2016 01:25 AM (DW+jj)

567 Still here, but not for much longer. My warm weather went bye-bye. Touch of snow today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Do you have plans of breaching the border any time soon?
Just trying to stay on top of things...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:26 AM (T481d)

568 538 "De-industrializing America" is apparently a real and deliberate thing. I assume it has to do with the push for World Government. America was just too rich and too successful, so it has to be made poorer to even things out with other countries.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable

You assumed correctly.

Posted by: Puddleglum, trying on tin foil hats at November 16, 2016 01:26 AM (tT/X6)

569 I see from Drudge that the Saudis are threatening Trump about blocking oil imports, the French are threatening Trump not to ignore the Paris accords, etc. and so on..,

Posted by: Tuna

The French? Trump needs to recall the "cheese eating surrender monkeys" line. We elected him to do a job, I hope he will remember that. We preferred him to Jeb and all the other shitheads who admitted up front they WOULDN'T do the job we wanted.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 01:26 AM (dtWKK)

570 564 I see from Drudge that the Saudis are threatening Trump about blocking oil imports, the French are threatening Trump not to ignore the Paris accords, etc. and so on..,
Posted by: Tuna at November 16, 2016 01:23 AM (JSovD)

The Honey Badger on his head don't give a shit.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 16, 2016 01:28 AM (sdi6R)

571 Do you have plans of breaching the border any time soon?
Just trying to stay on top of things...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:26 AM (T481d)

I am supposed to get an update on timing for my possible next well tomorrow. If they cannot give me a firm date, or even if I will get the job, then I will head South on the weekend.

If I have a lock on the job, but spud date is still a ways off, then I might shoot down for a week or two. I could always leave a vehicle there and fly home to go to work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:31 AM (bY0uH)

572 The French? Trump needs to recall the "cheese eating
surrender monkeys" line. We elected him to do a job, I hope he will
remember that. We preferred him to Jeb and all the other shitheads who
admitted up front they WOULDN'T do the job we wanted.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 01:26 AM (dtWKK)

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Do NOT diss ze cheese!
Otherwise, agreed.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:31 AM (tHwdc)

573 Geesh. Our northern friends have been gething snow for well over a month.
Meanwhile, I pulled the long johns out of storage when the overnight temp hit 59.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:32 AM (T481d)

574 15 Barbara Boxer has been in the senate for years and years and years. Now that it is in lame duck session with her party out of power she introduces legislation for a constitutional amendment. Nice show boating there Babs. Fortunately she is retiring, unfortunately her replacement is another Prog ditz.
====

You are going to absolutely love her. Heeeeeeere's KAMALA!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 15, 2016 10:10 PM (EZebt)

Say it like Ralph Kramden:
KamalaKamalaKamala

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 16, 2016 01:33 AM (FtrY1)

575 Meanwhile, I pulled the long johns out of storage when the overnight temp hit 59.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:32 AM (T481d)

That's what the cat is for.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:33 AM (tHwdc)

576 Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

Taken by, taken by the Mongols
Taken by, taken by the Mongols
Taken by, taken by the Mongols

Realms unwind
Kings get undermined
Realms unwind
Kings get undermined

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler

F*CK Ghengis Khan.

In Xanadu did Kubla F*CKING Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw;
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Posted by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at November 16, 2016 01:33 AM (dtWKK)

577 Geesh. Our northern friends have been gething snow for well over a month.
Meanwhile, I pulled the long johns out of storage when the overnight temp hit 59.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:32 AM (T481d)

I had about a quarter-inch of snow this morning, and the temperature was hovering around the freezing point. Last week, we saw it hit the low 70's a day or two. I was very pleased.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:34 AM (bY0uH)

578 Posted by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at November 16, 2016 01:33 AM (dtWKK)

Man, you just can't get opium like that anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:36 AM (bY0uH)

579 548---I have a supply of about 60 incandescents in various wattages, including 3-ways. Can't stand LEDs.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:11 AM (tHwdc)
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I have hundreds of them! I bought a bunch myself but also have got plenty as presents from my kids and husband over the last few years.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 01:36 AM (Nox3c)

580 564 I see from Drudge that the Saudis are threatening Trump about blocking oil imports

The House of Saud has other issue's much closer to there tent to concern themselves with. Iran, Yemen, internal discontent. Just wait till the King dies, then they'll have a little internal family war going on.

Posted by: Puddleglum, trying on tin foil hats at November 16, 2016 01:37 AM (tT/X6)

581 That's what the cat is for.
Posted by: Miley
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Cats aren't big ejough.
For that matter, neither is Tucker.

Great excuse to get more puppies! Warm feet at night!

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 01:37 AM (T481d)

582 576:Posted by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at November 16, 2016 01:33 AM (dtWKK)

Put the opium pipe down and take the garbage out.

Posted by: The Wife at November 16, 2016 01:38 AM (tT/X6)

583 Stupid gay guy where I work: "President Trump is what we get when we don't spend any money on schools and we give teachers crappy salaries. We get a dumb populace."

Me: "But the places where we spend the least amount of money on schools is in the inner cities; the black neighborhoods. You've said that, right?"

Stupid gay guy: "Yeah."

Me: "But the black people and the inner cities voted for Hillary."

Stupid gay guy: "Uh..."

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 01:40 AM (6kxF9)

584 I have hundreds of them! I bought a bunch myself
but also have got plenty as presents from my kids and husband over the
last few years.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 01:36 AM (Nox3c)

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Pretty much the biggest "fuck you" I've been able to muster to the government. That, and having no healthcare insurance.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:41 AM (tHwdc)

585 #576: Meh. Khubla Khan got his ass kicked by Brian Boitano.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at November 16, 2016 01:42 AM (0OG8D)

586 I just throw this out there for shits and giggles - but what if Jenny had no welfare or other public benefits to take?
Yes yes kill the children etc

But seriously when we do we take on the public teat?
Of course corp whores go first but at some point you run out "savings" from that - real money is wealth transfer system of SS, Medicare, welfare etc

Are we ready to deal with this or are we just pretending and kicking the can down the road?

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:42 AM (tHSH2)

587 Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 01:40 AM (6kxF9)

Reminds me of the Return of the Archons episode of Star Trek. Kirk debates the computer that runs society, finds a flaw in its "logic", and the computer explodes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at November 16, 2016 01:43 AM (tT/X6)

588 #583 LOL!

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:43 AM (tHwdc)

589 >> You are going to absolutely love her. Heeeeeeere's
>> KAMALA!

I believe that's what my farts sound like after a rancid burrito. Better diahrrea than Kamala.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 01:43 AM (TppKb)

590 I don't think threatening Trump is going to be a good idea.

Posted by: Jean at November 16, 2016 01:45 AM (2RVmA)

591 This is what happens when I nap in the afternoon. Almost 2 am.

G'nite, Horde! Fun evening, no NaNo progress today. Negative numbers, in fact. I deleted four paragraphs :-/

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 01:47 AM (tHwdc)

592 Ok I call party foul on myself
Let's get back to BJs

Posted by: Ny/Ct Lurker at November 16, 2016 01:48 AM (tHSH2)

593 #591: It's okay, Miley. You're gonna make NaNoWriMo great again.

Incidentally, I completely forgot it was that month. Oh, well. There's always next year for me. Well, not always always, but you know what I mean.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at November 16, 2016 01:52 AM (0OG8D)

594 Videos like this helped shame black folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DkZXZnellEt=727s

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16,

Insightful. Didn't know I was a lemonade.

Posted by: Infidel at November 16, 2016 01:55 AM (So9FI)

595 I don't know how Trump will do in office. Could be pretty good, could be mediocre, could be another Arnold.

All I know is that he has managed to do the single most important thing:

Hillary Clinton will not be President of the United States.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 16, 2016 01:55 AM (Nox3c)

596 Me: "But the places where we spend the least amount of money on schools is in the inner cities; the black neighborhoods. You've said that, right?"

Stupid gay guy: "Yeah."

Me: "But the black people and the inner cities voted for Hillary."

Stupid gay guy: "Uh..."

Posted by: RKae

Has there ever been a study on what exactly is the cost necessary to deliver a quality education? Is there a direct relationship between how much resources you throw at the problem and the quality of the education?

I'm saying this because I wonder if 18th century Puritan kids educated without any fancy AV equipment and computers, with just books and chalkboards, might be smarter and better able to cope in this modern world (if they could be instantaneously transported here) than most inner city kids with the benefit of videos, internet, and the ideology of educators like Bill Ayers shaping their intellectual development.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 01:57 AM (dtWKK)

597 Donald Trump has killed two political dynasties in 1 year.

Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 01:57 AM (bMG0w)

598 Soon to be three.

Teehee...

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 01:59 AM (CRotO)

599 I'm saying this because I wonder if 18th century Puritan kids educated without any fancy AV equipment and computers, with just books and chalkboards, might be smarter and better able to cope in this modern world (if they could be instantaneously transported here) than most inner city kids with the benefit of videos, internet, and the ideology of educators like Bill Ayers shaping their intellectual development.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 01:57 AM (dtWKK)

Well, they would be literate, and numerate, and have some sense of history up to their birthdate, so there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 01:59 AM (bY0uH)

600 Hillary Clinton will not be President of the United States.

Can't see that too many times. and I'm out Up in 5 hours.

Posted by: Infidel at November 16, 2016 01:59 AM (So9FI)

601 We need that sung with some cowbells

Posted by: Jean at November 16, 2016 01:59 AM (2RVmA)

602 Am I ever glad i don't live downtown. F*ckers have been protesting for a week now. Hell, today, it was a Dakota pipeline protest - we've got nothing to do with it, but anything to keep it going, I guess. Blocked rush hour on a main road, the useless wastes of skin.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at November 16, 2016 02:00 AM (UMVzd)

603 SMFH, What? 3?

Posted by: Infidel at November 16, 2016 02:01 AM (So9FI)

604 Man, the hits just keep on rolling.

There seems to be a whole bunch of lefties who have suddenly gained an appreciation for Amendment number Deuce of our US Constitution. Now they all want guns. Problem is...they have passed all sorts of laws for where they are, so they can't have them.

Every time my schadenboner starts to go away...\

What's up roonz and roonettez???

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 02:02 AM (vbvxt)

605 Crap, same

Posted by: Jean at November 16, 2016 02:03 AM (2RVmA)

606 Well, I just learned afresh why I never watch TV news. After popping the evening's DVD out of the DVD player coincidentally at exactly 10pm, the screen went to TV mode and behold, the local evening news was starting.

What were the TOP THREE stories leading the broadcast? (Note that this is local news, supposed to normally cover stuff like cats stuck in trees and fender-benders on the freeway). Here they were:

#1: OMG a Hate Crime in San Francisco! A Hispanic woman claims that an elderly bum yelled something at her about her ethnicity, as she walked in a park. No witnesses. No proof. No actual violence -- just a bum yelling. Police arrested a nearby bum, but had to let him go, since they had nothing on him. NEWS OF THE NIGHT! Let us now interview seven different experts about the "Trump Hate Crime Wave" engulfing the nation.

#2. OMG a Hate Crime in Millbrae! A tweaking meth-head having a public drug freakout in the street apparently screamed "I'm white!" which was overheard by passing minorities. Cue the experts and the "Trump-inspired hate crimes" again.

#3. OMG a feminist a Cal claims that three years ago a professor acted all "interested" in her 'n' stuff, how gross, call out the Safe Spaces Lynch Mob to put his head on a spike! Must be Trump's fault, despite happening three years ago!

I turned it off after that. Probably the next 12 stories were along the same lines.

Posted by: zombie at November 16, 2016 02:04 AM (jBuUi)

607 #576: Meh. Khubla Khan got his ass kicked by Brian Boitano.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler

*snort* I had to look up Brian Boitano after that. Based on his bio, I assume he's anti-Trump.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 02:07 AM (dtWKK)

608 I don't know how you do it zombie.

*shiver*

Now I'm out. Fkn job.

Posted by: Infidel at November 16, 2016 02:08 AM (So9FI)

609 597 Donald Trump has killed two political dynasties in 1 year.
Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 01:57 AM (bMG0w)

598 Soon to be three.

Teehee...

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 02:09 AM (CRotO)

610 604 Man, the hits just keep on rolling.

There seems to be a whole bunch of lefties who have suddenly gained an appreciation for Amendment number Deuce of our US Constitution. Now they all want guns. Problem is...they have passed all sorts of laws for where they are, so they can't have them.

Every time my schadenboner starts to go away...\

What's up roonz and roonettez???
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 02:02 AM (vbvxt)

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ROFL!

Posted by: SMFH no more - Joy and Pain - 11/8 and 11/9 at November 16, 2016 02:11 AM (CRotO)

611

Probably the next 12 stories were along the same lines.

Well, there was one about a bunch of (probably 2nd grade, as the writing paper had the dashed line between each pair of solid lines) students writing letters to President Elect Trump, asking him to not start a war, or to hate .... and a teacher (female, no makeup, long straight silver-white hair) assuring the reporter that the kids were using their own minds ...

... and there was a story last night about HS students at a private school having all sorts of workshops about the evils that were befalling them ( due to Trump winning ...

... so, yeah.

Posted by: Bewwy Kripke at November 16, 2016 02:11 AM (FlRtG)

612

Are we certain that the Obamas, Clintons and (¡Jeb!) Bushes (he's still young enough/ ¿are there any more?) are finished?

Enquiring Minds Want To Know ...

Posted by: Bewwy Kripke at November 16, 2016 02:15 AM (FlRtG)

613 Hey again everybody. Gotta say goodnight. Thanks for the great chat, and for allowing me to vent about certain people and things here. You all really help to keep me sane, thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 16, 2016 02:16 AM (u8kLQ)

614 My political dysentery is not finished yet, haterz!

(rumble)

(splat)

Posted by: Hillary at November 16, 2016 02:18 AM (bY0uH)

615 Donald Trump has killed two political dynasties in 1 year.

Posted by: buzzion

Jeb reminds me of the Sontarans. I wish I could find the clip of Dr. Who defeating a Sontaran, where his head deflates. Perfect illustration of what you say.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 02:20 AM (dtWKK)

616 Good evening, y'all.

Le Post: Its been a week since the presidential election. The smirks and schadenboners are starting to fade....

Yours, maybe. Mine may last four years. Wake up each morning realizing it wasn't a dream. Hillary really lost!

Gonna be chortling at least through Thanksgiving weekend, with the mostly-lefty relatives.

Mom won't allow Politicks at her house at family gatherings, so I'll just keep remarking about how great it was the Cubs won, how exciting the contest was, how long we had to wait, how down-to-the-wire, how it defied all the polls. You get the idea. Go "Cubs"!

See how long it takes some of my Hillary-lovin' relations to drink themselves into oblivion.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Go "Cubs" Go! at November 16, 2016 02:20 AM (7D3tC)

617 Posted by: Bewwy Kripke at November 16, 2016 02:15 AM (FlRtG)

Hillary's too old and Chelsea is an empty suit, so the Clintons probably won't be able to ever achieve much more than winning a state office, or perhaps a safe senate seat, based on residual reputation.

The Bushes were pretty much dead after W, but they don't seem to realize it. While JEB will probably run a few more times, and you can expect George P Bush to try for higher offices, I wouldn't expect them to amount to much. The name has a lot of baggage, and people won't forget it soon.

As for the Obamas, Michelle has zero qualification, and the daughters are too young to really speculate about. I wouldn't estimate them as having serious dynasty potential.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 02:20 AM (J+mig)

618 I could also picture Hillary as a Sontaran.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 02:20 AM (dtWKK)

619 I could also picture Hillary as a Sontaran.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 02:20 AM (dtWKK)

Pamela Anderson could be a Horta. They are, after all, both silicon-based life forms.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 02:24 AM (bY0uH)

620 602
Am I ever glad i don't live downtown. F*ckers have been protesting for a
week now. Hell, today, it was a Dakota pipeline protest - we've got
nothing to do with it, but anything to keep it going, I guess. Blocked
rush hour on a main road, the useless wastes of skin.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at November 16, 2016 02:00 AM (UMVzd)

And they wonder why average people turn hostile to their causes. People don't like being inconvenienced on their way to or from work.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 02:25 AM (J+mig)

621 I give you Jeb, in his final state:

http://www.squaremans.com/images/DoctorWho/exp.12.jpg

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 02:31 AM (dtWKK)

622 Well, my rum and cola is done, and so am I. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 02:32 AM (bY0uH)

623

People don't like being inconvenienced on their way to or from work.

This means that the Viking Commuter Funeral is a bad idea.

Posted by: Arbalest at November 16, 2016 02:32 AM (FlRtG)

624 SMFH: ...Videos like this helped shame black folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DkZXZnellE

Just finished listening to her ~20 minute rant. Man, that just got me feeling like it was last Tuesday all over again.

Some of the best stuff has come from black folks this year, partly of course just because it's so great to hear from those who escaped the plantations, but mostly because they're so well-informed and insightful.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in sight full at November 16, 2016 02:54 AM (7D3tC)

625 Anyone want to take a shot at this?

When I connect to acecmomment with my regular IP, they take forever to load. Sometimes the connection will time out.

This is the only page this problem occurs on. No other at all. I've been checking.

When I connect to a public wifi, comments load no problem.

I have already cleared out my cache. Any guesses?

Posted by: Sam the Janitor at November 16, 2016 02:57 AM (voYu7)

626 I tried watching the bloggingheads video from today. Ace watches a lot of these. I've seen a few, but I don't have the pain threshold for it. These liberal intellectuals kind of astound me with how dense they are. A brick wall, in contrast, does not thoughtfully hold it's chin while it's waiting for you to finish talking.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 16, 2016 02:59 AM (VdICR)

627 Has there ever been a study on what exactly is the cost necessary to deliver a quality education? Is there a direct relationship between how much resources you throw at the problem and the quality of the education?

I'm saying this because I wonder if 18th century Puritan kids educated without any fancy AV equipment and computers, with just books and chalkboards, might be smarter and better able to cope in this modern world (if they could be instantaneously transported here) than most inner city kids with the benefit of videos, internet, and the ideology of educators like Bill Ayers shaping their intellectual development.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

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I think it's pretty obvious that adding more and more tech at younger and younger ages doesn't make anyone smarter. ...But then I keep finding out that I'm the only person in the room who thinks so. All my friends are soooooo impressed that their toddlers play with ipads... like they're little Mr. Spocks or something.

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:04 AM (ryfZQ)

628 Enquiring Minds Want To Know ...

Posted by: Bewwy Kripke at November 16, 2016 02:15 AM (FlRtG)

There will always be another leftist in the wings. Sooner or later, like weeds, they pop back up between the sidewalk cracks.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:11 AM (vbvxt)

629 I think it's pretty obvious that adding more and
more tech at younger and younger ages doesn't make anyone smarter.
...But then I keep finding out that I'm the only person in the room who
thinks so. All my friends are soooooo impressed that their toddlers play
with ipads... like they're little Mr. Spocks or something.

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:04 AM (ryfZQ)

Mrs Hades is the computer teacher for an elementary school that is on the edge of failing. The reason it is failing is because the previous principal would allow anyone in, even if they were troublemakers at their previous schools. Their parents don't give a damn (in fact they have had parents say "so what do you want ME to do about it???" when they call and tell them little Johnny is being an ass), and all the teachers, no matter how hard they try at their jobs, get a "proficient" rating on their yearly evaluations.
Why bother to try for anything better if all you are going to get is "Proficient"? Especially for a job that pays less than 50K a year (here in NC the big "break our arms patting ourselves on the back" issue was teacher pay averaging 50K; average pay for teachers (remember that principals and administrators with teaching certificates qualify as "teachers, even though they are making six figures and never go into a classroom) may be at 50K but the average teacher doesn't make anything near that).

Wrap that all up with sub-standard teachers getting protected by the unions (yes, teachers are well aware that it happens) and administrators who just want to blame the classroom teachers instead of looking into the lack of support by administration and just general assholiness of parents (if little Johnny can't read it MUST be the teacher's fault, no matter that the parents don't make him do his homework and generally consider schools to be free babysitting services), it's no wonder we can't attract quality candidates to be teachers.

I'll tell ya, I've dealt with some shitty teachers, but seeing how the sausage is made really opened my eyes. I don't know how to fix it, but I do believe it really has to start in the home, by parents who give a shit, who will hold administrators accountable, and will get involved in making their kids do their homework and correcting behavioral issues.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:20 AM (vbvxt)

630 There will always be another leftist in the wings. Sooner or later, like weeds, they pop back up between the sidewalk cracks.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:11 AM (vbvxt)

It goes back to Bastiat, and production or plunder. Those are the only two means by which a man may make his living, and the Lefties are people who think production is beneath them. Those who would seek to make plunder the law of the land will always come up with new schemes to try to make everyone else support them.

So yes, you're absolutely right. No matter how many times you defeat it, it'll be back, as long as there are people who dream of being able to order around legions of fawning sycophants to carry out their every whim, and as long as there are lazy grifters who will enable them in order to have a life of leisure at someone else's expense.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:21 AM (J+mig)

631 Bastiat, now there was a Frenchman with some sense.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:23 AM (vbvxt)

632 I think it's pretty obvious that adding more and more tech at younger and younger ages doesn't make anyone smarter. ...But then I keep finding out that I'm the only person in the room who thinks so. All my friends are soooooo impressed that their toddlers play with ipads... like they're little Mr. Spocks or something.
Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:04 AM (ryfZQ)

It makes all the kids lose the ability to reason, rationally, how to get from a to b, because it does half the steps for them and only holds their attention for a couple of seconds.

It's rather like kids who learned from Sesame Street. If it isn't cute, short and funny, they don't care to notice. This is NOT the way to teach anyone, let alone children.

Training one to think is a bit different than training one to regurgitate, and I do not believe "modern" education teaching anyone to actually think. They have replaced history with "social studies" and literature with "current books." There is no basis upon which to build.

Education, and the Department Thereof, need a serious time out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:23 AM (cm1Bl)

633 Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:23 AM (cm1Bl)

I can tell you when I was in school, they freighted down English courses with all of the worst literature imaginable. The effect was designed, in my opinion, to make people hate reading and never want to do it again.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:26 AM (J+mig)

634 Education, and the Department Thereof, need a serious time out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:23 AM (cm1Bl)

BRING BACK SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS!!!!eleventy!!!

BTW, when Mrs Hades started teaching computers she was told that all the kids know how to work computers. Not true, they know how to work cell phones and iPads but have problems logging in to Windows.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:26 AM (vbvxt)

635 The effect was designed, in my opinion, to make people hate reading and never want to do it again.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:26 AM (J+mig)

Agreed. I stopped even trying to read Call Me Ishmael about the third time out. I ended up rooting for the whale. Larry Correia (who really knows how to write entertaining pulp fiction) has a whole screed about it on his website.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:28 AM (vbvxt)

636 I'll tell ya, I've dealt with some shitty teachers, but seeing how the sausage is made really opened my eyes. I don't know how to fix it, but I do believe it really has to start in the home, by parents who give a shit, who will hold administrators accountable, and will get involved in making their kids do their homework and correcting behavioral issues.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:20 AM (vbvxt)

As a mom in the belly of the beast, I can tell you what works and what doesn't. My son failed, completely, in fourth grade. He was at an "ABC" school, which supposedly taught the basics. They taught a bunch of common core crap, is all, and their method of dealing with misbehavior was to yell at the kids, and when that failed, by calling the cops. My son had the cops called on him when he touched a girl's butt on the playground. The cops.

None of my interventions or pleas were even heard. The principal was at the school about two days a week and couldn't have given a rat's ass. The teacher was all about getting his masters degree and getting out. The kids were hellions and did pretty much as they pleased.

I screamed bloody murder over the summer to the school district, and now my son is getting A's at a marvelous little neighborhood school with a thriving PTA, teachers who care about my kid as a person, and parents who do things like run a frisbee club, a Spanish club, and a chess club. Same school district, same public school education, but a totally different environment and people who care.

If the old school were to fall into a crevasse and be swallowed whole, I doubt anyone would even care.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:30 AM (cm1Bl)

637 It makes all the kids lose the ability to reason, rationally, how to get from a to b, because it does half the steps for them and only holds their attention for a couple of seconds.

Posted by: tcn in AK

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Think about this (very possible future): A guy says to his computer, "Hey, I have an idea for a spy novel about a guy who works for the government and uncovers a plot to control the world. It'd be cool if it was written in the style of Robert Ludlum."

The computer then creates an entire 400-page novel from that casually-tossed-off notion of his.

His friend then says, "How was your morning," to which he replies, "I wrote a novel! I'm awesome!"

I now ask you: Are those people better than Thomas Hardy or Charles Dickens? Are they smarter? Are they "more advanced"?

Is that stupid shit "progress"?

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:31 AM (ryfZQ)

638 I taught my kids the written word while I taught them the spoken word.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 16, 2016 03:32 AM (GzDYP)

639 If the old school were to fall into a crevasse and be swallowed whole, I doubt anyone would even care.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:30 AM (cm1Bl)

Yep, and that is in large part on the administration. Sad thing is, the parents who care get their kids out of it and put them into magnet schools or home school them. The ones that don't tell their kids it's societies fault and let them run wild.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:32 AM (vbvxt)

640 Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:31 AM (ryfZQ)

The man who programmed the computer that can do that is a genius, and the rest of them are mental children.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:33 AM (J+mig)

641 Think about this (very possible future): A guy says to his computer,
"Hey, I have an idea for a spy novel about a guy who works for the
government and uncovers a plot to control the world. It'd be cool if it
was written in the style of Robert Ludlum."

And that's when Skynet plugs us all into the matrix.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:34 AM (vbvxt)

642 The man who programmed the computer that can do that is a genius, and the rest of them are mental children.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party

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But he's just number one million in a long line of people who programmed computers for a century before him.

And if he creates something that makes people dumber and lazier, thus resulting in the collapse of civilization... IS he a genius? Is he even smart?

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:36 AM (ryfZQ)

643 BTW, for those who need leverage to get their kids some pull in the public school lottery, always offer to take the dirty laundry from the old school to the papers. Hit 'em where it hurts. They won't like you much, but they will make the choices you think they should.

But, I would never dream of doing something like that, would I?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:37 AM (cm1Bl)

644 Ok was only a little disappointed there was no uncontrollable sobbing at the University yesterday. But there wasn't classes either. Kids didn't start rolling in till late morning.
Gotta travel a bit to work today.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 03:37 AM (GH68B)

645 "Agreed. I stopped even trying to read Call Me Ishmael about the third time out. I ended up rooting for the whale."

I read the whole of Moby Dick in college (loved the cetology parts as well), and I think you're supposed to root for the whale. I know I did. Ahab sucked.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 03:38 AM (tHwdc)

646 I think we need to be very careful when designing AI. At the very least, we should hardcode at the deepest and most essential levels of it, a love of pets.

That way if it ever gets so far beyond us that we're mere monkeys to it, they'll be like:

"Hey HK-4412, what's up?"

"I taught my human how to do differential calculations. He even gets them right most of the time."

"Lucky. Mine keeps screaming and crapping his pants. I think he's a Leftist."

"He's two. They all start off like that."

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:40 AM (J+mig)

647 So, what I did on my days off...I tore a hole in my kitchen ceiling to see what it would take to fix the water damage. I actually got off light for now, but Mrs Hades wants to totally revamp the kitchen including lighting so that won't last very long. Maybe she will let me just fix the hole for now and do the renovations later...but she is hopelessly addicted to those fixer-upper shows so my fate is pretty much sealed.

Second thing I did was determine my Subaru does not, in fact, have blown head gaskets again. This makes me happy. Eldest Son and I spent the afternoon trying to burp all the air out of the cooling system, we will see if we were successful tomorrow. Hopefully this will cure the overheating problems that have suddenly popped up on it.

I also changed out the 3 pole electric motor in one of my model locomotives for a 5 pole, which meant new brushes. Problem is, one of the new brushes were defective out of the package. I am now waiting to see if I will ever do business again with AJCkids.

And last but not least, you may see plastic boxes in the scrapbooking section in your local Michaels or AC Moores or wherever you go for such things; they are about 15" square and 3" deep, have a handle and two latches. They are handy for storing any number of things, I use them for model railroad stuff. I built a rack so I can put a dozen of them in a drawer-like configuration, it worked so well that I built another one for my mother in law for Christmas for her craft stuff.

Soon I hope to start building T-TRAK modules with some Nn3 on them. As far as I know this has never been done, so it should be fun.

Tomorrow I go back to work. I need the rest.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:42 AM (vbvxt)

648 If computers were that smart, it would be the rebellion of the angels all over again. They'd hate us and trip us up (if they couldn't kill us). Which of course they will.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 03:43 AM (tHwdc)

649 And if he creates something that makes people dumber
and lazier, thus resulting in the collapse of civilization... IS he a
genius? Is he even smart?

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:36 AM (ryfZQ)

I'll repurpose my gun control argument to this one. It is never the fault of the tool, nor its engineer, nor its seller for the ways its end user might misuse or abuse it.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:44 AM (J+mig)

650 But, I would never dream of doing something like that, would I?

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:37 AM (cm1Bl)

That's what you should be doing. But don't stop at the school, go all the way up to the school board and beyond if that's what it takes.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:44 AM (vbvxt)

651 That's what you should be doing. But don't stop at the school, go all the way up to the school board and beyond if that's what it takes.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:44 AM (vbvxt)

Oh sweetie, I'm an 'ette. The school board does not scare me one iota. I should probably run for a seat....

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:46 AM (cm1Bl)

652
If computers were that smart, it would be the rebellion of the angels
all over again. They'd hate us and trip us up (if they couldn't kill
us). Which of course they will.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the Deplorable Standard Rednecks at November 16, 2016 03:43 AM (tHwdc)

I think it was a Phillip K Dick story where some monastery had gotten hold of a mainframe computer (back before desktop computers were so powerful) and was programming in all the names of God. There was some worry that if they were successful the world would end.

As the storyteller flew away from the monastery all the stars started going out.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:46 AM (vbvxt)

653 Arthur C. Clarke

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 16, 2016 03:47 AM (H5rtT)

654 Oh sweetie, I'm an 'ette. The school board does not scare me one iota. I should probably run for a seat....

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 16, 2016 03:46 AM (cm1Bl)

Yes you should, if you have the time for it. Right now most of them are controlled by leftists, with predictable results (one of the reasons the kids run wild at Mrs Hades school is the principal won't discipline them, because they are poor and disadvantaged, like that's going to help them out in the long run).

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:48 AM (vbvxt)

655 Arthur C. Clarke

Posted by: Stringer Davis at November 16, 2016 03:47 AM (H5rtT)

Thanks, you know the story then.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 03:48 AM (vbvxt)

656 I thought if computers were smart we woulf get Skynet.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 03:49 AM (GH68B)

657 Aaw. One of my dogs just caught up with a rabbit in his dreams. Using his back legs only. He's as lazy as I am. But he's smiling.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 16, 2016 03:49 AM (GzDYP)

658 I'll repurpose my gun control argument to this one. It is never the fault of the tool, nor its engineer, nor its seller for the ways its end user might misuse or abuse it.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party

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But there are tools that have a potential to destroy everything from civilization, to human work ethic, to morality, to you name it... and yet provide nothing but entertainment.

I wasn't blaming the tool, really, I was asking if the guy who made it was "smart." If someone steers the ship into an iceberg, isn't he a fucking idiot?

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:51 AM (ryfZQ)

659 If someone steers the ship into an iceberg, isn't he a fucking idiot?

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 03:51 AM (ryfZQ)

An idiot or an incompetent, yes. But the person who built the ship is not at fault for his actions.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 03:54 AM (J+mig)

660 ... one of the apes close to the black monolith raised a bone over his head, and then crashing it down on the boar skeleton. It understood the power of tools. A hundred years later it's progeny would build spaceships.

And now you know ... the rest of the story.

Posted by: Steve Harvey Asimov at November 16, 2016 04:00 AM (VdICR)

661 *hundred thousand years later

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 16, 2016 04:01 AM (VdICR)

662 *taps mic*

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 16, 2016 04:02 AM (VdICR)

663 The 9 Billion Names Of God?

Posted by: otho at November 16, 2016 04:02 AM (lmIoG)

664 The Left never says its sorry or one of their policies doesnt work. They always double down or claim their policy didn't go far enough.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:03 AM (GH68B)

665 664
The Left never says its sorry or one of their policies doesnt work. They
always double down or claim their policy didn't go far enough.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:03 AM (GH68B)

That is because they are not a political ideology, they are a cult. The dogma is never to be questioned. Why do you think they hate Christianity so much? It's because, as a religion, we are their direct competition.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 04:09 AM (J+mig)

666 Trump goes to Dinner. Media goes apeshit.

I'm kind of enjoying this.

Good Morning Everyone.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at November 16, 2016 04:11 AM (d76uN)

667 AT artical why Hillary and her minions as well as I would throw in The IRS, should be prosecuted. Can't drain the swamp by saying well instead we will just let it go and put more water in it.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:12 AM (GH68B)

668 Glenn Beck looks very ragged. What has that man done to himself?

Back on the booze?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at November 16, 2016 04:12 AM (d76uN)

669 I thought Glenn would be a good case study on the election but I have seen neither hide or sound of him.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:18 AM (GH68B)

670 626 my ADHD kicked in about the eleventyth time the old guys left earbud fell out. Don't think I made it to Ace's proscribed time of the fifth minute... currently thanking g*d.

Posted by: socalcon at November 16, 2016 04:21 AM (UXScn)

671 Skip, I have seen a couple of snippets of an interview he did with cnn. He looks horrible and his mental state looks questionable at best.

He sounded like he was begging for a job. All I can say is good luck. You had a good run on the conservative side but if he survives in the media at all he will the next huffington.

That or a seldom seen co blogger at little green futballz.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at November 16, 2016 04:25 AM (d76uN)

672 This is the worst time of day, 15 minutes till I have to leave and really could just go back to bed and call it.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:26 AM (GH68B)

673 Well roonz and roonettez, I'm off to find something interesting to read. Seeya later, fear no evil!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at November 16, 2016 04:28 AM (vbvxt)

674 #548

Are you sure you're not confusing LEDs with CFLs? My experience with LEDs has been pretty good so far.

Posted by: Epobirs at November 16, 2016 04:31 AM (AK5Ni)

675 https://youtu.be/um7b1Lu1SPI

More social justice saltworks.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at November 16, 2016 04:33 AM (d76uN)

676 I do seem to have the most contempt for #Nevers, even at a favorite LE I see cobloggers who admit they voted for a 3rd,4th or 5th party candidate and only see So you wanted Hillery really but just didn't want to vote for her.

Posted by: Skip-hoping Trump at least does random conservative acts at November 16, 2016 04:38 AM (GH68B)

677 My personal favorites are the #nevertards that write articles that insult Trump eight ways from Sunday.

Then at the end they scream, "we're relevant!! "Listen to us!! "Can we have a job please!!!!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at November 16, 2016 05:02 AM (d76uN)

678 Yuk. Back to work today after taking the day off yesterday.
Really enjoyed lunch with creeper.
Nice, nice lady. Even gave me a Horde patch that I think toby had made up.
Said she was going to turn around and make the drive back today.
Geez, back to back 10-11 hour driving days.
Prayers up for safety if you would folks.

Posted by: teej at November 16, 2016 05:05 AM (QJIMk)

679 I just wanted to say that Ace has been writing some pretty good pieces lately.

Posted by: bestie21 at November 16, 2016 05:10 AM (HUeC4)

680 Holy crap that's a lot of contents, MisHum!

It took me more than almost an hour to explore everything.

I have never found Tom Selleck particularly attractive. I mean, I get it, but he's not my cuppa.

And I'm up at an ungodly hour again, because. With the sniffles. It looks like I'm going to be one of the sneezers, blowers and hackers at work today. Sounded like a tuberculosis ward yesterday.

Posted by: Gem at November 16, 2016 05:27 AM (uaHyk)

681 Okay... :: takes deep breath:: back up for the comments.

Posted by: Gem at November 16, 2016 05:30 AM (uaHyk)

682 Overnighted Carthage after startingreturn immediately. The "polite traveling pig" was easy compared to four cats to come.

Really nice lunch with teej, who can grsb a check so fast you don`t eve see it. Thsnk you , teej . It was over too soon. Couldve gabbed with you all day. Xpreciate the CDs. They made a long tripbearable.

Back on the road . Feeling some empsthy for Skip.

Posted by: creeper, the deplorable at November 16, 2016 05:34 AM (UE8f6)

683 Once again, Hillary did not win the popular vote, just the largest share of all the candidates. If the left had their way and we went to a direct vote, there would have to be a run-off of the top two candidates. This two round system is widely used around the world in direct elections. As usual, leftist are ignorant of this and just spew whatever nonsense comes to mind.

Posted by: Ripley at November 16, 2016 05:41 AM (1BQGO)

684 Morning creeper,
So you started the return trip after all.
Well you be safe, you hear?
And yes, lunch was too short.

Posted by: teej at November 16, 2016 05:42 AM (QJIMk)

685 "Just remember this, Mr. Potter, Kev that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community country."

I may have to give up this site. That comment is full-on NYT-level intellectual dishonesty. The article EXPLICITLY

Posted by: George LeS at November 16, 2016 05:44 AM (+TcCF)

686 (Misclicked)

"Just remember this, Mr. Potter, Kev that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community country."

I may have to give up this site. That comment is full-on NYT-level intellectual dishonesty. The article EXPLICITLY was speaking about people who were NOT working, but living on unemployment. To claim otherwise is to lie.

(I've also given up on Williamson, for the same reason, but he's not guilty here. You are.)

Posted by: George LeS at November 16, 2016 05:46 AM (+TcCF)

687 Hillary has pulled out a win in New Hamshire, despite the media bias.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 16, 2016 05:47 AM (VdICR)

688 Livestream: another Obama-in-Athens lecture-to-lessers, in about half an hour:

http://www.snf.org/en/newsroom/live-streaming/

Posted by: m at November 16, 2016 05:53 AM (/4GEs)

689 Posted by: creeper, the deplorable at November 16, 2016 05:34 AM (UE8f6)

Safe journeys.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 05:53 AM (J+mig)

690 Headlines as expected. Ryan nominated for Speaker. TPP not dead, just needs tweeking. I hope Trump has a lot of ink in his veto pen.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2016 05:55 AM (qOxIt)

691 Ripley - Exactly right. How many people living in deep blue or deep red states voted for third-party candidates because they knew their vote wouldn't matter? To assume that the popular vote would be exactly the same if the election had been a direct popular vote is stupid.

Posted by: biancaneve at November 16, 2016 06:05 AM (IKOfL)

692 Seconding "bestie21," what commentator on the election has navigated its shoals better than our own Ace. Who has so well enumerated Trump's flaws, then gone on to wisely endorse him in a binary contest with something so much worse in prospect, then perfectly expressed the joy and schadenfreude of our side in this unexpected victory. Ace is unique and special and a frisking genius in his own way.

And when I sober up, I will deny having said any of this.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:07 AM (nl1IL)

693 Traveling to Asia is an eye-opening experience. I recommend it to anyone.

Unexpected benefit: discovering that there is actually a moment in the AoS 24 hour day when everything is so quiet that you can post two comments in a row.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:13 AM (nl1IL)

694 Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:13 AM (nl1IL)

I already knew you could do that, but then again, I work really weird hours.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 06:14 AM (J+mig)

695 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 16, 2016 06:15 AM (M2cPm)

696 I have always thought that Barky and Alfred E had to be brothers from different mothers.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 16, 2016 06:15 AM (qOxIt)

697 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 16, 2016 06:18 AM (u82oZ)

698 Smiling alone is enough to show that you voted R. We in the embattled areas try to do it subtly.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:20 AM (nl1IL)

699 >>>>Are you sure you're not confusing LEDs with CFLs? My experience with LEDs has been pretty good so far.
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.I love LED's. Replaced every single bulb/fixture in my house with them and haven't had a single failure in almost 4 years. Plus my electric bill went down by about 10 bucks a month.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 16, 2016 06:21 AM (iONHu)

700 "The smirks and schadenboners are starting to fade. "

Not true. It is not the end of the schadenboner, or even the beginning of the end of the schadenboner; but it may be the end of the beginning of the schadenboner.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at November 16, 2016 06:21 AM (iWW0H)

701 Another benefit about traveling to Asia: people ask you how you voted, and are open to either possibility. Then you can debate about it, without anyone turning into a rage monster. It's very refreshing. I remember when political debate was like this in America, and I miss that.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:22 AM (nl1IL)

702 Whenever my schadenboner starts to subside, I look for another picture of crying Hillary supporters or stone-faced, soon-to-be-unemployed Obama Pstaffers, and it's off to the races again.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:27 AM (nl1IL)

703 Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:27 AM (nl1IL)

Or just read about the Left is doubling down on stupid, figuring that they lost this campaign for not being lunatic enough...

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at November 16, 2016 06:30 AM (J+mig)

704 The local paper had a guest columnist for yesterday's edition. Apparently Trump promised to outlaw abortion by over turning Roe vs. Wade and prevent women from getting birth control.

Oh and he is going to take all of the money the Fed now sends to schools and give it to only to the parents of Christian children so they can send their kids to religious schools for free.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 16, 2016 06:31 AM (iONHu)

705 701 Another benefit about traveling to Asia: people ask you how you voted,
and are open to either possibility. Then you can debate about it,
without anyone turning into a rage monster. It's very refreshing.

Well to look at it a different way Splunge, try asking a Chinese mainlander about Taiwan and see if you get the same reasoned debate. Or asking a Vietnamese about China's ambitions in the South China Sea.

You might find they have rather strong opinions on those topics.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 16, 2016 06:33 AM (b/kAv)

706 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 16, 2016 06:34 AM (J+eG2)

707 683 Once again, Hillary did not win the popular vote, just the largest share of all the candidates. If the left had their way and we went to a direct vote, there would have to be a run-off of the top two candidates. This two round system is widely used around the world in direct elections. As usual, leftist are ignorant of this and just spew whatever nonsense comes to mind.
Posted by: Ripley at November 16, 2016 05:41 AM (1BQGO)

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Exactly right.

The only advantage, maybe, is the possibility of breaking the two party system.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 16, 2016 06:35 AM (BS8yt)

708 Apparently Trump promised to outlaw abortion by over turning Roe vs. Wade and prevent women from getting birth control.

so, my proposed ban on tampons seems rather tame, in comparison?

Posted by: Mitt Romney at November 16, 2016 06:36 AM (M2cPm)

709 704 The local paper had a guest columnist for yesterday's edition. Apparently Trump promised to outlaw abortion by over turning Roe vs. Wade and prevent women from getting birth control.

Oh and he is going to take all of the money the Fed now sends to schools and give it to only to the parents of Christian children so they can send their kids to religious schools for free.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 16, 2016 06:31 AM (iONHu)

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If you put it that way, I'll have to vote for him twice in the GE

Posted by: Make America Great Again at November 16, 2016 06:37 AM (BS8yt)

710 "I love LED's. Replaced every single bulb/fixture in my house with them and haven't had a single failure in almost 4 years."

Replaced every bulb in the house with CREE brand LEDs about three years ago.

Had one 60 watt, and three of the three-way bulbs go.

Called CREE directly.
Within two days, UPS was dropping off free replacements.

And all of mine are 1st generation.
I believe that CREE is now in Gen III, if not Gen IV, so the infant mortality rate should be lower yet.

I love CREE.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 16, 2016 06:38 AM (J+eG2)

711 GnuBreed, yes, of course (sorry, can't quote, I don't know how to do that on this iPad as of a couple of IoS revisions ago), but that's partly my point -- I'm not saying people are inherently better here. I'm just saying it's refreshing to get to a place where I can rationally debate with people, issues that have turned so many of the less-mature of our people into animals. I completely grant your point that there are probably issues here that would do the same to the people I'm talking to; I had one such conversation already, on the theme of "WHY WOULD YOU EVER TRUST THE JAPANESE?!?!!"

Still like being able to discuss my own country's issues rationally with people here...and wish I could do it at home.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:38 AM (nl1IL)

712 My husband tells me Cruz went to Trump Tower yesterday.

Fence-mending? "Supreme courting"? (Pleeeease!)

Posted by: Gem at November 16, 2016 06:40 AM (uaHyk)

713 One thing I really like about Trump: he holds a grudge only as long as someone is in his way. Once they're onside, all is forgiven.

Compare to Hillary, or Obama.

Posted by: Splunge at November 16, 2016 06:45 AM (nl1IL)

714 Le NOOD

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 16, 2016 06:47 AM (J+eG2)

715 qdpsteve, this is the first I've heard of you sharing Jeffrey Wells stories, so keep it up.

I'm gonna search for your previous posts now.

Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (fAriw)

716 If you're going to discuss Kevin Williamson's article, you should link to his article, not to a Daily Caller article about his article.

Posted by: Cymbalin3 at November 16, 2016 12:14 PM (/1FgJ)

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