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Thursday Night Overnight Open Thread (1/5/17)

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Really, it is the Thursday Night Overnight Thread. Thank you for stopping by. Let's get into The ONT.


Quotes of The Day

Quote I

American men don’t hate Lena Dunham for being ugly. American men hate Lena Dunham for being a liar and a feminist (but I repeat myself).

Have you notice that no Canadian men want her in Canada, either? They’ve already got way too many ugly feminist liars in Canada. Robert Stacy McCain


Quote II

"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24)

Thanks Obama administration.

Over the last year, a Seattle school district in the throes of “restorative justice” experienced an alleged gang rape and several student deaths. Criminal charges, including murder, were filed against a group of students not yet out of middle school, reports the Seattle Times. Teachers’ unions in Fresno, Des Moines, New York City, and Indianapolis have all lodged complaints about the anti-discipline philosophy, according to Education Week. The Fresno teachers signed a petition pointing out that students are returned to class after cursing at teachers and physically assaulting them, without suffering any consequences. Fresno’s teachers have been injured trying to stop fights; some are retiring because teaching where severely disruptive students cannot be dislodged has become impossible. In Des Moines, students now hit and scream at each other and their teachers, reports the Des Moines Register.


Quote III

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato


Quote IV

PPS The real choking hazard is the vise-like grip of government. Mark Steyn


Quote V

"Our universities are now the most hostile place in the country to actual thought." - Ace.

*****


A Happy Birthday wish to an American wonder, The Golden Gate Bridge. Construction began this day in 1933.

Terrorists have given us insight into their playbook. Will we use this information to defeat them? Time will tell.

Mitchell is a psychologist who served twenty-two years in the Air Force and who helped develop the CIA’s interrogation program. He only dealt with the top-tier terrorists and has spent more time with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) than other interrogators.

Readers should have their eyes opened by what KSM told Mitchell. These KSM quotes support Donald Trump’s desire to have a new immigration policy. Mitchell recollects in the book, “The ‘practical’ way to defeat America was through immigration and by outbreeding non-Muslims. He said Jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their Jihadi message. They will wrap themselves in America's rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up and violently impose Sharia from within. He said the brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people eventually would become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want it to end. ‘Eventually America will expose her neck to us for slaughter.’"


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Solar potential for the world. They haven't been around The ONT office lately. Its been pretty gloomy.


Research continues on the use of solar power. Is solar pushing coal for the cheapest power source crown? Time will tell. Your humble Cob has his doubts about full time electricity from solar and wind.

In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power. Now, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Mexico are planning auctions and tenders for this year, aiming to drop prices even further. Taking advantage: Companies such as Italy’s Enel SpA and Dublin’s Mainstream Renewable Power, who gained experienced in Europe and now seek new markets abroad as subsidies dry up at home.


Don't let the door hit in you in the a$$ on the way out of the U.S.A. Here's hoping that you bleed the Canadian Student Loan program dry.

Hopefully they will go to Canada before they see what New York would like to do. Free College Education.*** (see fine lines)

As the New York Times notes, Cuomo's plan could apply to as many as 1 million New York families though it was not "immediately clear how the program would be paid for"...which is just a minor detail anyway.

Obviously Cuomo majored in pandering and not in economics.


The ONT Musical Interlude

Peace Train

Not enough Peace Train for you? How about another verse or two?


Minimum wage not good enough for you? Waiting on people is beneath you? Well, Special Snowflakes, be careful for what you wish for.

The age of automation is here.

The ONT thinks that young people should be introduced into automation, design, build and repair. These fields appear more lucrative than a major in Early American Lesbian Art with a minor in Gender Studies.

If you decide to go the route of an airline job, Be careful.


If these things are half as good as Thin Mints,
we have a problem. Girl Scouts introduce S’mores. 100 years of cookie sales.

S’mores come in two versions. The first is a chocolate-covered graham cracker with a thin layer of marshmallow; the other is sandwich-style — two vanilla wafers with chocolate and marshmallow in between. People.com said the first has very subtle S’mores flavoring while the second tastes more like marshmallow and is perfect for dipping in milk.


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Meet Painless Parker. The ONT has it on good authority that Nevergiveup is not related to him, America's most outrageous dentist.

Having a tooth pulled in the early 1900s was anything but awful. You’d climb up into the back of a traveling caravan, surrounded by a booming brass band, sparkling costumed women, and next to a bucket of pulled teeth carried by a dapper gentleman with a goatee. In time with the band's cheerful tune, out would come your tooth, guaranteed to be a painless—and even entertaining!—extraction.


Alcohol. The catalyst of many a Genius Award Winner.


Alcohol then sobriety. Also the catalyst of many a Genius Award Runner Up.


Here's hoping that this little bugger remembers Mother's Day with more than a card.
Feel Good Story of The Day.


Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Explicit Instructions

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Posted with permission by AceCorp, LLC. Adult supervision is recommended but not required.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:04 PM




Comments

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1 YAY!!!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:00 PM (tHwdc)

2 Ruh roh!

Posted by: ibguy at January 05, 2017 10:00 PM (vUcdz)

3 BOOYAH!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:00 PM (tHwdc)

4 Wut?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:00 PM (tHwdc)

5 1st

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 05, 2017 10:01 PM (b7fwp)

6 First!

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 05, 2017 10:01 PM (nvMvs)

7 hmmm. OK.

Posted by: Adriane the Shoemaker Critic ... at January 05, 2017 10:01 PM (AoK0a)

8 Erev tov, lekholam!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:01 PM (kP16F)

9 Formatting weird?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:01 PM (tHwdc)

10 Earl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 05, 2017 10:02 PM (nvMvs)

11 Damnit ibguy, you ROONED my hattrick!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:02 PM (tHwdc)

12 The comments section is so.....gray!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:02 PM (kP16F)

13
I can't help but notice I didn't make quotes of the day. Oh well. Better luck tomorrow.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 05, 2017 10:03 PM (tlaZQ)

14 Welcome to the land of Boxen!

Hello my pretty Hordelings.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:03 PM (EnKk6)

15 Whoah! I sent the ONT to the cornfield!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:04 PM (EnKk6)

16 Wha' happened?

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at January 05, 2017 10:04 PM (lRwmz)

17 Damnit ibguy, you ROONED my hat trick!

Now, now! No beret ting, people ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hatmaker Critic ... at January 05, 2017 10:04 PM (AoK0a)

18 I see that the House vote to condemn the UN action and vote as re Israel was YES except for 80 that voted NO.

I wonder how the CBC voted. They always go as a block, and are always totally with their half-black boyfriend, and so, did they all say NO?

I'm lookin at you, Elijah Cummings.

Not that a black D member would ever lose his or her seat over something like this.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 05, 2017 10:05 PM (U6f54)

19 yay!

Posted by: Sixkiller at January 05, 2017 10:06 PM (mFA3Z)

20 Like I said, so the ont will come up while I'm typing.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:06 PM (gJ3Vg)

21 I had trouble with the comments at first. who cares, let the Lena Dunham flow!

Posted by: mallfly on horseback salad at January 05, 2017 10:06 PM (b7fwp)

22 gotter goyter bed.


NOYT!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 05, 2017 10:07 PM (zu88C)

23 really Yusuf Islam !?

Posted by: Evilpens at January 05, 2017 10:07 PM (y3aQB)

24 I'm lookin at you, Elijah Cummings.
----

Never stare at him directly! That way lies madness.

Have I mentioned that this bloated tick is my "representative"?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:08 PM (EnKk6)

25 MITCHELL!!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 10:09 PM (IqV8l)

26 I knew Quote I was an RS McCain before I got to the second sentence. He has a defined panache.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:09 PM (1CroS)

27 Evening all.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:10 PM (JmjOe)

28 Restorative justice breeds Chicago Facebook thugs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 10:10 PM (IqV8l)

29 Now that I've got the "content" out of the way, I'm off to the "pithy commentary"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:10 PM (kP16F)

30 the danger sign should be required on anything operated by progs. dumbfucks can barely drive their prius'

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (KP5rU)

31 I stopped for all the shiny content.

Good ONT, MH.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (u82oZ)

32 Howdy, y'all!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (EzgxV)

33 "Fresno's teachers have been injured trying to stop fights; some are retiring because teaching where severely disruptive students cannot be dislodged has become impossible. In Des Moines, students now hit and scream at each other and their teachers, reports the Des Moines Register.

Time to arm the teachers?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (1CroS)

34
Restorative justice is neither restorative nor justice.

Virtue signalling at its most dangerous.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (JmjOe)

35 Anecdotal to the Quote 2 story.

The daughter taught "at risk" students in Texas for the last decade and loved it. Said the kids needed someone to show that they cared about them and give them some discipline/order. She recently moved to Ohio when her Army husband got re-assigned. She taught for 6 months and quit to be a full time mom saying the kids up there are animals. In Youngstown at least.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (v3DL/)

36 Re: Teachers Union complaining about monsters in the classroom? You're one of the Progressive Left's biggest backers in votes & money. The same Progressive Left that has been destroying American society & the family, and coddling criminals. Elections have consequences.

Posted by: josephistan at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (7qAYi)

37 Time to arm the teachers?
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:11 PM (1CroS)
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I am reminded of one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books in which a nice teacher was repeatedly set upon by a bunch of disruptive toughs in his class. He came in one day with a bullwhip and flayed the little bastards into submission.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:14 PM (EnKk6)

38 Pithy comment loading...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:14 PM (kP16F)

39 American men don't hate Lena Dunham for being ugly. American men hate Lena Dunham for being a liar and a feminist (but I repeat myself).

Have you notice that no Canadian men want her in Canada, either? They've already got way too many ugly feminist liars in Canada.

++++

He's partially right. We do hate Dunham's lying, feminist* ways. But, the ugliness is also a factor, if only because we are told we are haters if we don't find her attractive. It's not just her lies; it is the demand that we have to pretend (lie) to find her attractive. She is ugly.

*I have nothing against feminists who are only about equal rights. But, the feminists who are all about the patriarchy and all that other bullshit are Gila Monsters.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:14 PM (R+30W)

40 >>Time to arm the teachers?


What about the Media!?

Posted by: Michele Fields at January 05, 2017 10:15 PM (QAjcy)

41 Cold weather is coming for breakfast. And staying through the weekend.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 05, 2017 10:15 PM (JO9+V)

42 'defined panache'

I get that with rhomboid and alexthechick. i know they're the guilty party long before I read the posted-by

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (I4BmC)

43 >>>betimes

Now there's a word that you don't see often. I admit, I had to look it up.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (R+30W)

44 26 I knew Quote I was an RS McCain before I got to the second sentence. He has a defined panache.

I'll see your panache and raise you some swashbuckling elan.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (tr2D7)

45 Nothing coming from a box can beat thin mints.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (0tfLf)

46 Florida seems to have a lock on Genius Awards. BTW, anyone heard from B.C lately?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (eeTCA)

47
Thin Mints should be frozen to be properly enjoyed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (EZebt)

48 39; usually when you are ugly on the inside, you are hideous on the outside. rosie,hillary, whoopi, dws, pelousy, need i go on?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (KP5rU)

49 >>He that spareth his rod hateth his son:


Amen!

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (QAjcy)

50 Disturbing, but unsurprising:

Another journalist ran something by me she intended to publish. When I told her what she was saying was not even remotely true her response, " what I am going to write about you speaks to a larger truth that may not come across if I stick to the facts of the situation."

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (hVdx9)

51 On this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, absolutely nothing happened.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (0mRoj)

52 Michele Fields: "What about the Media!?"

You all we throw to the wolves.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (1CroS)

53 eris: farmer's boy, starring al Mansur I mean, Almanzo.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (I4BmC)

54 when i was a tyke my parents took me to a restaurant where you sat at a counter with a train track. you placed your order on a train car that took it into the kitchen. later, your order (burger & fries) came round on the train and stopped at your place.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (WTSFk)

55 Someone on the truck thread the other day called hybrid/smart/electric type cars, "pregnant roller skates". I'm still getting a kick out of that since I see so many of them in Austin. I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (JNDQi)

56 On umlilo!

Posted by: That Guy Who Shouts "En fuego!" in Zulu at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (DMUuz)

57 Cold weather is coming for breakfast. And staying through the weekend.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Single digits here the next day or so.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (eeTCA)

58 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:16

He was on Twitter Tuesday with a new scary black gun

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (voOPb)

59 >>> Time to arm the teachers?

Nuns with rulers

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (sM1uH)

60 ... i think variants of this "automated" restaurant idea have been around for some time.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (WTSFk)

61 Why does KSM's playbook remind me so much of Teh Lefft'z playbook?

Posted by: t-bird at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (/cksx)

62 Insomniac: "...absolutely nothing happened."

Well, actually, Hillary! yet again failed to be president.

So the day has already been a success.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (1CroS)

63 >>Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato


I never realized how enlightened Dana Plato was.
May she RIP.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM (QAjcy)

64 MH: Your Steyn link from Quote 4 is imperialistically expanding its territory. It has almost taken over Quote 5.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:20 PM (R+30W)

65 57; under zero here for awhile.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:20 PM (KP5rU)

66 Steyn link seems to spill over onto Ace quote.

Nice post. Thanks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - for a moment at January 05, 2017 10:21 PM (5a8XA)

67 Nice ONT, MisHum! I thought the Japanese sushi vid was particularly interesting.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2017 10:21 PM (EzgxV)

68 If Lena Dunham were a nice, normal person who took some pride in her appearance, she could be attractive enough. However, she's as crazy as a road chicken, nasty, and seems to go out of her way to look unattractive.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (nvMvs)

69 Lena is physically unattractive, but really not that bad. That is not the problem tho. She is hideous on the inside. That ugliness comes flooding out of her when she opens her mouth.
She is a feminist like Hitler was a supporter of Jews. Peas in a pod in a way. Power and control over others is and was the goal.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (hVdx9)

70 Sounds kinda like where I went to school.
MLK was assassinated when I was in 9th grade. That was last year of middle school back then. Okay,,, waaay back then.

After that, semi annual race riotsvfor the next couple years. We're talking cops with K-9's in the hallways. Around 2500 students in the school.
And as you can imagine, plenty of other fights besides the riots.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (gJ3Vg)

71 55;, why, do you want to "roll the coal?"

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (KP5rU)

72 You know who else agrees with KSM (in addition to Trump)?

Huma Abedin's (deceased) dad, whose Islamic journal was/is all about how to subvert non-Muslim countries from within. His daughter did that quite effectively - was this close --> <-- to attaining the ultimate goal: inside the WH.

But recognizing that is racist or something, so nevermind....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2017 10:22 PM (NOIQH)

73 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:20 PM (R+30W)

The hamsters & I fought. They haven't won.

Yet

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (voOPb)

74 we are in the grey land

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (I4BmC)

75 Having a grey period

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (hVdx9)

76 I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.
Posted by: lindafell
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A friend has an Excursion. Diesel. What a beast. I think a fuel fill-up cost something like $200. What's even more interesting is the 15 qts. of oil per change.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (ZO497)

77 Oh, that's nice!

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (QAjcy)

78 Yeah, the writers never gave me much to work with because all the public wanted was to hear Gary say "Whu chu talkin bout Wilis?"

Posted by: Dana Plato at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (v3DL/)

79 In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour.

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Im walking on sunshine yeah yeah

I'm walking on sunshine yeah yeah

I'm walking on sunshine....and dont it feel GOOD!

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (JmjOe)

80 And now, Circa in a rare ONT appearance.

I will take my honorarium in bearer bonds and hookers, please.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (F0ZHr)

81 *I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban*

I had a 1988 Chevy Suburban Diesel, back in the day.

Posted by: tbodie at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (ZjHNW)

82 My eyes! My eyes! Somethings wrong!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (ZO497)

83 >>> Time to arm the teachers?



Shaolin Nuns with rulers

Posted by: concrete girl


FIFY

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Cylon without a basestar at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (vyqqu)

84 Bad Food at School; Virtually Safe Space at School; The New Scarlet Letter

The focus this time: Politically Correct School

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12894

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 05, 2017 10:24 PM (vBeA5)

85
Something absolutely and completely abhorrent and repellant showed up in my Yahoo mail account today. I shall say no more, as there is not sufficient eye bleach to counteract the horror.

Rest assured, however, that if I encounter it again I will, not even for one second, hesitate to share it with you.

My friends!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2017 10:25 PM (BK3ZS)

86
"gotter goyter bed. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncjcjpQzceQ

Posted by: Lieutenant Stone Phallus at January 05, 2017 10:25 PM (W6Ch1)

87 If these things are half as good as Thin Mints, we have a problem.

The Girl Scout thin mints used to be some of the best cookies out there, but they changed the recipe. I don't know what they did but those cookies pretty much have sucked for the last decade, if not longer. There are some cookies that they sell that are okay ... but none of them are worth the money and I don't like giving money to the Girl Scouts to have them indoctrinate young girls into the idiocy of leftism. Still, I end up having to buy a box or two eventually, because some friend has to be selling the cookies her daughter is supposed to sell ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (zc3Db)

88 Students who have less to fear from their teachers than a stranger passing by will not be inventing anything worth a Nobel prize.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (VdICR)

89
not, not

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (BK3ZS)

90 53 eris: farmer's boy, starring al Mansur I mean, Almanzo.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:17 PM (I4BmC)
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Ah, yes. Saved by El Manzoor, like Robin Hood!

More weirdness: he was played by Walter Goggins, a.k.a. Boyd Crowder, in a telepic about the Wilders.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (EnKk6)

91 Steyn's illegal incursion has been beaten back. Alas, Ace's link was lost in the skirmish.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (R+30W)

92 "In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour. "

****

Wish I'd come up with that one.

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (hVdx9)

93 >> 63 May she RIP.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:19 PM

DANA PERINO IS DEAD ?????!?

Posted by: AL SHARPTON at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (DMUuz)

94 teej- still going on in diverse schools. Jared Taylor, "white identity" is full of hispanic/black, hmong/black, armenian/Hispanic , you name it. just total riots in these schools. all taken from local news that doesn't get to the majors.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (I4BmC)

95 Oh, shit. I keep forgetting to ask you morons and moronettes...
I need teapot suggestions.

Stovetop. 2 Quart. Whistle and ergonomic handle (for my parents).

They've been complaining about theirs.
Doublle bonus for something I can buy through Amazon to add to Ace's coffer.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (QAjcy)

96 Nice ONT, Mis Hum.

I liked "Peace Train" back in the day, before Cat became Yusaf Islam and his ideas about peace changed dramatically.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (P8951)

97 >>Lena is physically unattractive, but really not that bad. That is not
the problem tho. She is hideous on the inside. That ugliness comes
flooding out of her when she opens her mouth.

A lot of the hideousness comes from A] Her insistence upon forcing her flabby, intentionally unkempt, naked or near-naked body into public view *constantly*, and then B] Making the reaction to this exhibitionist compulsion a discussion about what is wrong with us.

Really think she has been abused/at minimum, suffering from mental problems. Nevertheless, she needs to just go away along with the Kardashians (who have at least had the good sense to properly monetize their exhibitionist tendencies).

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (NOIQH)

98 really Yusuf Islam !?

Posted by: Evilpens at January 05, 2017 10:07 PM (y3aQB)

Yeah. Not listening to that dirtbag's shitty music. He can DIAF.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:28 PM (bG+ug)

99 Posted by: AL SHARPTON at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (DMUuz)

Resist we Much !

Posted by: Evilpens at January 05, 2017 10:28 PM (y3aQB)

100 "In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour. "

****

Wish I'd come up with that one.

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (hVdx9)


You'd be just a piker, these days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 10:28 PM (zc3Db)

101 I loved Kinder Eggs!
So sad.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (Om16U)

102 Students who have less to fear from their teachers than a stranger passing by will not be inventing anything worth a Nobel prize.

It's time for vouchers and real choice. And I think it's going to happen. Added benefit: Strangling the teacher unions and their incoming and outgoing cash flow as Scott Walker showed us.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (F0ZHr)

103 Dentistry in the days of yore was accompanied by LAUDENUM.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (1/I/y)

104 Restorative justice breeds Chicago Facebook thugs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 10:10 PM (IqV8l)

I wonder if those thugs know that they made the best recruiting video the Klan will ever have?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (bG+ug)

105

A friend has an Excursion. Diesel. What a beast. I think a fuel fill-up cost something like $200. What's even more interesting is the 15 qts. of oil per change.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:23 PM (ZO497)

You don't change oil as often as you do with a car and in the Winter the Diesel can freeze and become like jelly. That is if the fueling station doesn't have a winter mix, which happened to a friend when they filled up in the south and drove north in their RV.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 10:29 PM (dKiJG)

106 "In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour. "

****

Wish I'd come up with that one.

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at January 05, 2017 10:27 PM (hVdx9)

You'd be just a piker, these days.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
****

Madoff did that to me.

Posted by: Ponzi at January 05, 2017 10:30 PM (hVdx9)

107 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817068681314312193

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817068770153865216

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817068866211815424

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817068961779027968

Posted by: kbdabear at January 05, 2017 10:30 PM (Ya7zs)

108 96: last time i saw cat, he was on some cbs fake news show. they couldn't kiss his ass enough. because, muslim. that charlievrose is one hell of a journalist. barf city.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:30 PM (KP5rU)

109 Stovetop. 2 Quart. Whistle and ergonomic handle (for my parents).

They've been complaining about theirs.
Doublle bonus for something I can buy through Amazon to add to Ace's coffer.
Posted by: garrett
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Classic Revere?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:30 PM (ZO497)

110 I need teapot suggestions.

Ernest Moniz.

He'll need a gig in a couple of weeks.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM (F0ZHr)

111 Really think she has been abused/at minimum, suffering from mental problems

==

her dad is an artist whose specialty is hideous paintings of women's genitals

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM (Om16U)

112 ahh the good old days...teapots that whistled.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM (sM1uH)

113 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817069064279519233

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817069228058615808

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817069320626966529

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/817069422766657536

Posted by: kbdabear at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM (Ya7zs)

114 Off to bed with visions of brisket fairies dancing in my head.

I have one in the slow cooker and the delicious scent wafting around my apartment is driving me mad in slavering anticipation.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM (EnKk6)

115 I can't help but notice I didn't make quotes of the day. Oh well. Better luck tomorrow.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite at January 05, 2017 10:03

I've never found myself on quotes of the day, but then I never look much. That would be funny to find, because I'm not that profound or funny.

Usually just want to read an interesting post and maybe comment, then when I might get tanked, comment a lot.

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (o/90i)

116 I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 10:18 PM (JNDQi)

They used to make Diesel Suburbans. Sniff.

(cries in beer)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (bG+ug)

117 Really think she has been abused/at minimum, suffering from mental problems

==

her dad is an artist whose specialty is hideous paintings of women's genitals

Posted by: @votermom @vm
****

So he only paints the genitals of dem women? Ick.

Posted by: Ponzi at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (hVdx9)

118 I love my whistling teapot, wish I knew what kind it was so I could link it.

Posted by: josephistan at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (7qAYi)

119 112 ahh the good old days...teapots that whistled

==

my kettle whistles

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (Om16U)

120 Nothing coming from a box can beat thin mints.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 05, 2017 10:16 PM (0tfLf)

When I was a Girl Scout, clambering over filthy snowbanks on a road that had no sidewalks, clutching my sign-up sheet in the winter, Thin Mints were 50 cents a box. The others were all 35 cents.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (tHwdc)

121 35:She taught for 6 months and quit to be a full time mom saying the kids up there are animals. In Youngstown at least.


Parts of Youngstown are a mash up of Mad Max and The Wire. Its PA neighbor to the East (New Castle) is actually worse.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (6Dmwc)

122 I didn't even know Medium had a suspension policy but RS McCains page is already suspended when you click that link. What do they think this is, Twitter Facebook Google+ YouTube Reddit ...

Posted by: Cjw at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (/NSUP)

123 Stovetop. 2 Quart. Whistle and ergonomic handle (for my parents).

They've been complaining about theirs.
Doublle bonus for something I can buy through Amazon to add to Ace's coffer.

Posted by: garrett


My recommendation:

Skip the teapot replacement and buy them an induction burner, instead. It'll boil their water in less than half the time and for less energy. Induction burners are the best things since sliced bread. No joking.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (zc3Db)

124 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:26 PM (R+30W)

Sometimes it's best to go back to the drawing board

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (voOPb)

125 Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.

The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.

Haha this is going to be fun.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (nDcc3)

126 I haven't heard of anything like it in my old school Bth.
I know it's not as many students as back then but still a 5-A status.
Same general make up too.
NaCly might see em if he goes to his local high school's games.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (gJ3Vg)

127
So he only paints the genitals of dem women? Ick.
Posted by: Ponzi at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (hVdx9)

google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (Om16U)

128 my kettle whistles

...
...
...

First giant hanging curveball of 2017....

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (F0ZHr)

129 116 I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.


Perhaps the Wanker engine will make a cumback?

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (1/I/y)

130 >>>my kettle whistles

I bet it does

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (voOPb)

131 125 Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.

The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.

Haha this is going to be fun.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (nDcc3)
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She wants a Park Avenue penthouse and you want to live on a farm?

Oh, and congrats!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (EnKk6)

132 125; that halfrican! good luck. it's a big step.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:36 PM (KP5rU)

133 I need teapot suggestions.

If you're a computer graphic guy, you can't go wrong with the traditional Utah teapot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:36 PM (DMUuz)

134 >>google "lena dunham father art"

breitbart has examples

Ugh, don't!!!
Unless you're a fan of zombie's pictorials....

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2017 10:36 PM (NOIQH)

135 The Robert Stacy McCain link seems to be offline. Funny quote.

Posted by: Bill at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (FbFKQ)

136 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (voOPb)

++++

You changed up! I was kind of amused to see you link to John Hawkins for an Ace quote that pointed back here, but now you just link here. I figured you wanted to show off Hawkins' Ace-love.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (R+30W)

137 127; not a chance in hell. i have a wife and kids and shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (KP5rU)

138 "Research continues on the use of solar power. Is solar pushing coal for the cheapest power source crown? Time will tell."

Forget it, Jake. It's Bloomberg.

They're talking their book.

The sprawling Bloomberg organization includes an outfit specifically dedicated to structured finance for large "renewable energy" projects. And Mike B has absolutely no ethical qualms about having the Bloomberg "news" arm run uncritical puff pieces about exactly such projects. As we see here.

Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of Bloomberg's gun control initiatives. His "green energy" initiatives are no more honest than that.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (noWW6)

139 Girl Scout cookies have declined in quality, but I've been boycotting them anyway since their cozy relationship with Planned Parenthood was exposed. The GSA can FOAD as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (0mRoj)

140 Perhaps the Wanker engine will make a cumback?

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (1/I/y)

The ride was always jerky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (bG+ug)

141 He said the brothers would relentlessly continue their attacks and the American people eventually would become so tired, so frightened, and so weary of war that they would just want it to end. Eventually America will expose her neck to us for slaughter.

---------

Aw heck Achmed. We aint played Cowboys and Muslims yet.

* Just the Punchline

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (JmjOe)

142 She wants a Park Avenue penthouse and you want to live on a farm?

Dibs on the Hank Kimble role.

I'm going to update him with a Hyman Rickover vibe. And by that, I mean lots of shouting and profanity.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (F0ZHr)

143

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (EnKk6)

Ha, not quite. She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so. That first outer ring, but, to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (nDcc3)

144 >google "lena dunham fart"

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (QAjcy)

145 Re: Teachers Union complaining about monsters in the classroom? You're
one of the Progressive Left's biggest backers in votes money. The
same Progressive Left that has been destroying American society
the family, and coddling criminals. Elections have consequences.

What will solve this is MORE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOLS! IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!!!

Posted by: The Teachers Union: We Know What's Best For "The Children" at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (qJhUV)

146 I bought an electric water kettle. Boils water in about two minutes. One of the handiest things I've ever bought.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (Lqy/e)

147
Teapot. Just make sure it is short and stout.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (ZO497)

148 You know who else deserves a medal (and a pardon)? Anybody who gives me a medal...

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (29QcC)

149 thanks chavez.

Side note; I know Michael Medved is frowned upon here - for good reason - but his American Miracles book? Absolutely a wonderful read.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (nDcc3)

150 >>to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.


Also, it is more closer to The Paolo's apartment.

Posted by: Paolo at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (QAjcy)

151 google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (Om16U)


Holy Shit!!

That's some funny stuff he does. He might be a bit of a weirdo but I think the people who would pay for that shit and hang it on their walls are the real demented loons. I would have a blast if I ever went to someone's house who some of that crap hanging up. I wouldn't be able to contain myself.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (zc3Db)

152 >>125 The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.

Checking out what the morning/evening commute is like for a potential place is a good idea. I've done a mock commute as an additional data point in deciding between potential new homes.

Posted by: bananaDream at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (Ag8Mw)

153 ahh the good old days...teapots that whistled.
Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:31 PM
*******
I have a teapot that whistles.
I think concrete girl just called me old.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (6IPEM)

154 >google "lena dunham fart"
Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (QAjcy)


You go to hell.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (F0ZHr)

155 my kettle whistles
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM


And nobody on the ONT has stepped up by now with ".mp3s or it didn't happen"?

It's like I don't even know you anymore ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (DMUuz)

156 Posted by: Paolo at January 05, 2017 10:39 PM (QAjcy)

Whatever gives me more free time player!

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (nDcc3)

157 Speaking of a McCain, I wish I could think of vile enough things to compare John McCain to without insulting said vile things.

Posted by: Javems at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (yOqwj)

158 I liked him too Donna. Had Teaser & Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman in high school.
He was a lot fine singer/songwriter back in the day.
Wish he hadn't gone all screwey.
Same can be said for JT.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (gJ3Vg)

159 Posted by: bananaDream at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (Ag8Mw)

Hmmm, good idea.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (nDcc3)

160 Get one of those Zojirushi hot water boilers. Keeps almost 2 liters of water at perfect tea temp for pennies.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (Ntak+)

161 OK. I left out one important piece of information.

Stovetop.

They are old. They don't want anything 'new' or 'newish'. It would confuse and intimidate them.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (QAjcy)

162 google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (Om16U)

---
I knew I shouldn't, and yet I did.

Good Lord, it's like The Cooch of Sauron - it burns, it burns, yet you cannot look away.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (EnKk6)

163 I liked Cat Stevens' music from back in the day. Too bad he became a GFM.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)

164 lena dunham's mom is an art photographer that is fascinated by dolls, originally small dolls in doll houses, more recently by lifesize mannequins and blow-up sex dolls

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (Om16U)

165 I discovered this joint via theothermccain.com...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (kP16F)

166 162 google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (Om16U)

---
I knew I shouldn't, and yet I did.

Good Lord, it's like The Cooch of Sauron - it burns, it burns, yet you cannot look away.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (EnKk6)

The Whispering Eye of Sauron

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)

167 So he only paints the genitals of dem women? Ick.
Posted by: Ponzi at January 05, 2017 10:32 PM (hVdx9)

google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm
*****

Tilikum thinks- no way in hell.
Suddenly he notices his hand opening a window and bringing up Google. Before he can stop it, it's entered :dunham father art
Desperately Tilikum uses his left hand to try and stop the right hand from engaging the search, but the right hand gouges his eyes. By the time his vision clears, he is greeted by the horror of his "art work"....then promptly gouges his eyes again.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (hVdx9)

168 Perhaps the Wanker engine will make a cumback?
Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (1/I/y)



-----

The ride was always jerky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM


It's not master of its domain.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (DMUuz)

169 She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so.

You could always compromise and live 40 minutes out of the city.

Posted by: t-bird at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (29QcC)

170 My electric kettle looks like an old school coffee pot. Brand is Chefs Choice.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (Lqy/e)

171 t-bird, hahaha I'm sure she'd appreciate that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (nDcc3)

172 162 google "lena dunham father art"
breitbart has examples

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:34 PM (Om16U)

---
I knew I shouldn't, and yet I did.

Good Lord, it's like The Cooch of Sauron - it burns, it burns, yet you cannot look away.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:41 PM (EnKk6)

The Whispering Eye of Sauron

Posted by: Insomniac
****

Don't look directly into the cooch!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (hVdx9)

173 Well the "brothers" (jihadis) in Iraq had had their a**es pretty well kicked, albeit a few years late due to bizarre war-fighting concepts popular in the Army, yet the American people still tired (and whined) and abandoned the field to them. Non-chalantly. So they may misunderestimate *some* Americans, but not what seems close to a working majority.


But that 45ACP's not gonna load itself, almost to the end of one production run, so off I go.


One week to go til the Flouncerdammerung of the Jug-ears. Hang on.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (QDnY+)

174 Same can be said for JT.
Posted by: teej
---------
JT's been a mental case since high school.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (ZO497)

175 Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of Bloomberg's gun control initiatives. His "green energy" initiatives are no more honest than that.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM (noWW6)

Yep, you can probably cook the books to make it seem that solar panels can generate electricity at 3 cents/kWh, but what do you do when the Sun is obscured by clouds? Or at night? The usual solution is to bring on natural gas-fired turbines, which can spin up very quickly. But are not cheap to run.

If you look at overall life cycle costs, "green" power is neither cheap, nor "green".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:43 PM (bG+ug)

176 I liked him too Donna. Had Teaser Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman in high school.

He was a lot fine singer/songwriter back in the day.

Wish he hadn't gone all screwey.

Same can be said for JT.



Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:40 PM (gJ3Vg)

I saw him at the Providence Civic center in 1972, I think it was. Opened with the 'Moonshadow' video. I just adored him. Now he can go FOAD. Friggin' muzzie.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (tHwdc)

177 169 She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so.

You could always compromise and live 40 minutes out of the city.
Posted by: t-bird at January 05, 2017 10:42 PM (29QcC)

Heh. Or be prepared for a whole lot of sulking.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (0mRoj)

178 I discovgrand ered this joint via theothermccain.com...


Stacy is a Galactic Grand Viceroy Honorary Moron with platinum sprinkles.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (F0ZHr)

179 Electric kettle?

Notsothoreau is just making up stuff

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (6IPEM)

180
Im beginning to think that putting rocks in her sister's hoohah isnt the worst thing that has happened in the Dunham clan. Probably doesnt even make the top five.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (JmjOe)

181 Perhaps the Wanker engine will make a cumback?
Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 05, 2017 10:35 PM (1/I/y)



-----

The ride was always jerky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM

It's not master of its domain.


Posted by: Duncanthrax
****

I found it's performance rather impotent.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (hVdx9)

182 That first outer ring, but, to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (nDcc3)


I'm with her. You want land. The larger house and less taxes are just an added bonus. It's all about land, though - and a community that doesn't have insane zoning laws and wants to crawl up your ass for every little thing. I was surprised to find out that I had to get a permit to put a friggin garbage disposal in. I had never even contemplated such a thing. Some places have just gone apeshit with their local controls over everything and you really have to check that out, first. But lower taxes are a good indicator for less busybody regulations at the local level.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (zc3Db)

183 nope
just remembering how nice it sounded when it was ready.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (sM1uH)

184 google "lena dunham father art"

That took zero willpower to resist.

Posted by: t-bird at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (hBig8)

185 >> I liked Cat Stevens' music from back in the day


Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman are generally, excellent sounding recordings. Original LPs that can be found Used everywhere for next to nothing prices.


Bonus : No Royalties for that piece of shit muzzie scum.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (QAjcy)

186 congrats thathalfrican!

buying a house is an emotional step - be patient with each other, talk things out

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (Om16U)

187 Lena Dungham is butt ugly and whoever it was up thread that said "she's not bad" should lay off the drugs.

Posted by: JROD at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (KjEi7)

188 google "lena dunham father art"



People fall for this stuff?

Next you'll be telling me that you use the word "password" for you password.

Posted by: PMRich at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (w5Qj0)

189 Can't believe nobody's made a Norwegian Wood joke.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (EnKk6)

190 I've always appreciated quite a bit of RSMs insight even if it's accurate he's not necessarily a big fan of interracial mixing.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (nDcc3)

191 Reading about "Painless Parker" reminds me that there are things that were NOT better 100 or even 40 years ago. Dentistry is Exhibit A.

You know, from an evolutionary POV, teeth are a puzzle. How many thousands of years of intense suffering before people were even capable of caring for their teeth properly? Yeah, I know people didn't eat as much sugar as we do, but still - crack that tooth on something and you're in for a shitload of pain without the capability of calling Dr. Molar for an emergency visit. And basic care, like flossing, wasn't done until the 20th century. No wonder people in the old days were proud of still having their teeth if they lived to be old. And before braces, there had to be a lot of buck-toothed people.

Just seems odd that teeth are the one part of everyone's body that is always high maintenance. Other parts of your body might not give you grief until middle or old age if you're from good stock, but teeth will.

I raise a glass to our resident tooth-puller and cavity-filler.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (P8951)

192 105. Howell's diesel treat. Prevents gelling of the fuel in the cold. I use it all the time because I have an older engine and super low sulfur diesel for the childrens.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 05, 2017 10:45 PM (BQOhu)

193 She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so.

That 20 minutes of saved commuting time will give you even more time to not have sex.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:46 PM (F0ZHr)

194 Thanks votermom I/we will.

Also, I keep reading that as "Lena dunham fart"

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

195 >>> I wish they made a diesel version of a Suburban or YukonXL or they still made Excursions.

"They used to make Diesel Suburbans. Sniff."

Several aftermarket vendors will offer you a modern Burb with a modern Duramax diesel powertrain transplanted into it from another GM truck product. If properly done, this can be a rock solid vehicle. That any GM tech in any service bay should be able to deal with.

I have thought about this at times. There is, however, my instinctive dislike of Government Motors. There's also the thought that if the Trump era is only a brief interregnum on America's long march into eco-Marxist madness, diesel is doomed.

Note that in the UK and EU, there was a huge official push for dieselization of ordinary passenger vehicles, because diesel emits less of that horrific substance, carbon dioxide, per passenger-kilometer. So: diesel vehicles got subsidized. A bunch of people bought diesel cars.

Now, though, officialdom in the UK and EU have decided that diesel emissions particulates are a risk to health and safety. So all of the suckers who bought these cars are stuck with punitive new regulations, fines, fees, taxes, and impaired resale value. Don't think that can't happen here, too.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (noWW6)

196 Take a look at all of the ridiculous, unfactual crap that spews out of
Bloomberg's gun control initiatives.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:37 PM


Looks like the $20Mil he spent in Nevada to pass a private-party background check initiative there is pissed away, since the Feds won't cooperate!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)

197 Damn Circa way to uplift me

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (nDcc3)

198 Oh, yeah, one more quickie before the reloading bench: beholding the spectacle of CA teachers' union members complaining about insane, destructive policies from their allies ......


I'm banging on this Give-a-F**k-Ometer here with a framing hammer, pretty solidly.


Nope, needle isn't moving.


Posted by: rhomboid at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (QDnY+)

199 193 She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so.

That 20 minutes of saved commuting time will give you even more time to not have sex.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:46 PM (F0ZHr)

*snort*

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (0mRoj)

200 40 minutes out the city, might as well move to hudson and becomeva cheesehead.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (KP5rU)

201 >>Damn Circa way to uplift me


Yeah, you are married now.

You are going to have to learn to uplift yourself, again.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (QAjcy)

202

I know you guys are all telepathically raping me right now.

Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (lmIoG)

203 Get one of those Zojirushi hot water boilers. Keeps almost 2 liters of water at perfect tea temp for pennies.

Yeah, verily ...

Posted by: Adriane the Mad Tea Party Critic ... at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (AoK0a)

204 Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (KP5rU)

You shut your whore mouth.

Not about the cheesehead thing, but moving to Hudson thing.

*shudders*

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (nDcc3)

205 Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (QAjcy)

Et tu?

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:49 PM (nDcc3)

206 anyway, I kind of pity lena dunham & her sister
they were doomed from the start

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:50 PM (Om16U)

207 Damn Circa way to uplift me

Joel Osteen has nothing on me.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:50 PM (F0ZHr)

208 207 Damn Circa way to uplift me

Joel Osteen has nothing on me.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:50 PM (F0ZHr)

Except giant porcelain veneers.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:50 PM (0mRoj)

209 That first outer ring, but, to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.



Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:38 PM (nDcc3)

I don't know you and your wife, but even being able to look at houses is something you both should be grateful for. Moving into a new home should be a venture filled with love and hope.

Do not allow it to become a sore spot.

And I hope your wife is sexually generous. I prefer not to assume that she is poised to hold out on you any time she doesn't get her way.

But, WTF do I know.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (tHwdc)

210 >>Posted by: thathalfrican


You've been around here long enough to know HordeBrandLove.

It's a tough love.

Like Duck Love.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (QAjcy)

211 All Hail Eris, the little house books had great illustrations. i think one of them was with the whip.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (sM1uH)

212 Looks like the $20Mil he spent in Nevada to pass a private-party background check initiative there is pissed away, since the Feds won't cooperate!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)

++++

That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the times to change.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (R+30W)

213 Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:48 PM (nDcc3)

St Croix Falls

Future cheesehead

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (voOPb)

214 thathalfrican, avoid an HOA if at all possible.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (DMUuz)

215 210 >>Posted by: thathalfrican


You've been around here long enough to know HordeBrandLove.

It's a tough love.

Like Duck Love.
Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (QAjcy)

Hard and screwy.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (0mRoj)

216 True Hammer but he was still a great singer/songwriter.

I saw him at the Waikiki Shell Miley. Great show. I think he might have flipped by then but I didn't know it at the time. Didn't know anything about the death cult either.

L, Elle? You? Old?
That. Is. Highlarious.
I think cg knows better.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (gJ3Vg)

217 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (tHwdc)

Appreciate the perspective and kind words.

Sex isn't an issue, we had a looooooooooooong discussion about that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (nDcc3)

218

I'm not ugly. I'm memorable and striking.

Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (lmIoG)

219 211 All Hail Eris, the little house books had great illustrations. i think one of them was with the whip.
Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (sM1uH)

Kinky.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (0mRoj)

220 Like Duck Love.
Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (QAjcy)
(Jump to top of page)

------

Well.... He's married now. Duck love replaces dick love.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (JmjOe)

221 I liked Joel's father better.

"Get your shit together or burn."

I guess that's not quite as marketable as "Becoming a Better You."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (F0ZHr)

222 The solar potential isn't looking good? Whatever!


Wind power as well!

Posted by: Ontario and Alberta at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (exyD+)

223 >>That first outer ring, but, to be fair the house she's looking at gives us more square footage, more yard and less taxes.


And more closet space in the master bedroom --- which will be ALL hers! You can use the one in the guest room. Ha ha ha!

Posted by: Literally every woman on "House Hunters" at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (NOIQH)

224 when hubby and I were house hunting we couldn't agree - until we found the place we both liked

sometimes you just have to keep looking

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (Om16U)

225 217 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (tHwdc)

Appreciate the perspective and kind words.

Sex isn't an issue, we had a looooooooooooong discussion about that.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (nDcc3)

A nice long talk during which you weren't having sex?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (0mRoj)

226 Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (QAjcy)

Yeah but it's still like wiping yourself with a brillo pad type love.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (nDcc3)

227 218

I'm not ugly. I'm memorable and striking.

Posted by: lena dunham
****

Like a fatal car crash where someone is ejected, but even less sexy.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (hVdx9)

228 "She wants to be 40 minutes out of the city and I'm more along the lines of 20 minutes or so."

Which city? This is material.

I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf the place where they now lived. Oops.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (noWW6)

229

I'm not fat. I have an upsized serving of love flesh.

Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (lmIoG)

230 8
Erev tov, lekholam!

That's a reference to Bored of the Rings, isn't it?

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (Oi5b2)

231 Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:53 PM (0mRoj)

That's pretty good right there.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (nDcc3)

232 I'm not ugly. I'm memorable and striking.

Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (lmIoG)

I have had clocks like that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (bG+ug)

233 * blows kisses to concrete girl *
* blows kisses to teej *

Make the best of that. Maybe you both could share.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (6IPEM)

234 210 >>Posted by: thathalfrican


You've been around here long enough to know HordeBrandLove.

It's a tough love.

Like Duck Love.
Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (QAjcy)

Hard and screwy.

Posted by: Insomniac
****

And involves multiple males at the same time.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (hVdx9)

235 That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the times to change.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (R+30W)


There are other problems with the initiative as written, particularly when it comes to taxes.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (vBeA5)

236 Posted by: torquewrench at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM (noWW6)

Cottage Grove

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (nDcc3)

237 Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if you've taken initiative to follow up?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (0mRoj)

238 If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.

Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:56 PM (QAjcy)

239 Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (Ih4ii)

*lights cigarette*

You blew me so good, baby.

Posted by: The margins at January 05, 2017 10:56 PM (0mRoj)

240 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM (tHwdc)

Appreciate the perspective and kind words.

Sex isn't an issue, we had a looooooooooooong discussion about that.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (nDcc3)


I always like to approach big decisions like this by taking a piece of blank paper and making the longest possible list of pros and cons, then weighting them by importance. 20 minutes is a bigger deal than it may seem. Thinking about how it will be when you come home. Picking up items at the store? Dinner prep? Chilling time before "getting on top of chores" etc.
Remember that the most important consideration is quality of life, and love. And there are many components to that. It depends on how you each weigh your priorities. The closer you are to a match in those priorities, the better the prospects.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (tHwdc)

241 KANE!

Hawks Win!!

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (QAjcy)

242 That's true as long as the GOP is in charge of the
federal government. The reason the FBI said no is they are not funded or
authorized to do the extra checks. But, if the Dems even get control of
DC like they were in 2008, you can bet they will find the money for the
FBI. And, that Nevada law is on the books, patiently waiting for the
times to change.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 10:51 PM


True, but the "No" came from TFG's admin.

The Nevada of my youth would have said not just no, but HELL NO to such initiative foolishness.

Kaliforniaistan has private background checks. Are those state run and/or funded?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (DMUuz)

243 Hey horde. Just want to share that my wife and son avoided being t-boned by a red-light running plumber's truck today. Would have hit my son on the rider's side, but my wife hesitated for no particular reason when the light turned green.

Guy to her left, who took off on the green, was hit. Driven across the intersection into a guardrail. Seemed to be okay--was walking around.

Grateful for mercies small and great.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (yL25O)

244 I'm about to get emails from teej and concrete girl telling me to stop.

Just funning.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (6IPEM)

245 Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:56 PM (QAjcy)

FREE CANDY

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (nDcc3)

246 "getting on top of chores"...

Aaand we are back to Lena...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (hVdx9)

247 Curious thing: for years I never knew the "blogosphere" existed -- I knew nothing but what I read at Drudge, never followed the links at all the sites that have blogrolls... I'd thought blogs were only random people writing about cats, badly!

Then one day, I read a story at Breitbart that piqued my interest and I GoOgled for more information on that story and TheOtherMcCain was at the top of the list... And that's rather why I'm here tonight!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (kP16F)

248 >>I'm not fat. I have an upsized serving of love flesh.


That's my line

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (voOPb)

249 239 If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.

Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.
Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:56 PM (QAjcy)

Make sure it's one of those windowless models. You don't want the wrong element able to look into your van.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (0mRoj)

250
Barrel.

My phone hates you.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (JmjOe)

251 "I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas
outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that
all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general
dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf
the place where they now lived. Oops."

And they sold at a tidy profit? Since the city moving out to you generally is profitable if you are 10years ahead on the buy.

Posted by: Lieutenant Stone Phallus at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (W6Ch1)

252 wow TexasDan

their guardian angels were on point

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (Om16U)

253 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (tHwdc)

I've brought that up but certainly not that elegantly.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (nDcc3)

254 >>Yeah but it's still like wiping yourself with a brillo pad type love.


More like the Bactine Rinse.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 10:59 PM (QAjcy)

255 I think I need several dozen of those signs like that one on the wire welder shown above.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:00 PM (w+Jhj)

256 178 I discovgrand ered this joint via theothermccain.com...


Stacy is a Galactic Grand Viceroy Honorary Moron with platinum sprinkles.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 10:44 PM (F0ZHr)

And he's a riot to hang out with at CPAC.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 05, 2017 11:00 PM (R5EqA)

257 I have known people who carefully bought in exurban or semi-rural areas outside of boomtown cities, and a decade later woke up to realize that all of the crime, traffic, noise, crowding, bad manners, and general dysfunction which they had fled had simply expanded outward to engulf the place where they now lived. Oops.
Posted by: torquewrench
--------

Almost every major metro area. I lived in what was almost rural GA, but close to Atlanta. 20 years later, it was over developed.

A friend in IN lives where there used to be a cornfield. Now, houses as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (ZO497)

258 250 Make sure it's one of those windowless models. You don't want the wrong element able to look into your van.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (0mRoj)


Step out of your van from time to time, and talk to young boys. They know what's going on. And if they don't, you can take them somewhere in your van, and teach them.

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (iMxBJ)

259 She also brought up school district but I told her we can also send kids to a charter school.

SHe comes home from work and says everyone at her job said to avoid charter schools, because the sports program sucks. LOL, I love sports like the left loves SCIENCE YO but that's not enough for me.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (nDcc3)

260 Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.

The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.

Haha this is going to be fun.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (nDcc3)

Was this discussed in advance of said wedding (location that is).

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (D2vc1)

261 The fundamental hurdle for solar is storage capacity. Battery technology is still clunky.

Now, if some modern Edison or Tesla could figure out how to make a regulated capacitor...we're in business.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (F0ZHr)

262
It's a tough love.

Like Duck Love.
Posted by: garrett


You're despicable!!

Posted by: Daffy Duck at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (IqV8l)

263 When the minimum wage was increased here I felt justified in lowering the amount of my tip. Most of the restaurants here have a menu near the front door. If it says a gratuity is included in the price, I won't eat there.
I had dinner once at the restaurant in one of the hotels near Kennedy airport. The waiter slid my dinner plate to me from across the table. I left two pennies in the water glass for his tip.

Posted by: Hank at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (JzPCB)

264 Right now there are around 9,000 Americans studying in Canadian post-secondary schools. Any increases aren't going to be that much. Of course, the reporters trumpeting the possible Trump effect usually don't mention the low Canadian dollar and relatively low tuition fees.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (exyD+)

265 So today Homeland Security was here in Asheville doing an investigation, and had a bomb disposal truck with them....

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (w+Jhj)

266 Screw the girl scouts and their cookies.
When they stop supporting PP, I'll buy their average cookies again.

Y'all will hate me, but last time two cute little GS came hawking their cookies at my door, I told them "I'd love to buy ten boxes, but I cant. GS partners with PP, who kills babies. When that stops, come back & I'll buy 100 boxes from each of you."

I bet there were some interesting talks at dinner that night...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (Mr60C)

267 Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.
The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.
Haha this is going to be fun.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33

Good luck to you both. Congrats.
It took us 8 yrs to find the right home, but that in the Jimmy Carter yrs of 18% interest.

You are buying at a good time, congatd.
T

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (o/90i)

268 Was this discussed in advance of said wedding (location that is).

SECOND BIG HANGING CURVEBALL OF 2017.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (F0ZHr)

269 thx Farmer

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (nDcc3)

270 I'm not fat. I have an upsized serving of love flesh

------

Fupa Fupa Fupa dee doo.

Ive got another wrinkle for you.

Fupa Fupa Fupa Dee Dee

Ive really want you to dream about me.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (JmjOe)

271 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (tHwdc)

I've brought that up but certainly not that elegantly.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:58 PM (nDcc3)


Elegance goes a long way. I was blessed with a patient and loving hubby who set a great example when it came to affection and lack of strife being priority #1. He chose to look at the positive and disregard the negative as much as possible. If that helps, you're welcome.
Now I miss him like hell. Gonna take a long shower and wash my hair.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (tHwdc)

272 @230, Anachronda

That's the Hebrew for "Good evening, everyone!" -- I think...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (kP16F)

273 Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 05, 2017 10:57 PM (DMUuz)
I think it's a state background check. I could be wrong.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (IgBFP)

274 This kitty is a glutton for affection. Very clingy; a Velcro cat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (bG+ug)

275 218 I'm not ugly. I'm memorable and striking.
Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:52 PM (lmIoG)


Well, I roast a lot of potatoes. They're all different, technically, but a lot of them are pretty interchangeable.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (iMxBJ)

276 Yeah but it's still like wiping yourself with a brillo pad type love.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:54 PM


I can order a coarser grade of steel wool, if needed.

Posted by: The Barrel at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM (DMUuz)

277 Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

Now look at that map. The places that are optimum for generating the electricity are so far away from where it would be used, it makes very little sense.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (1JnAL)

278 Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if you've taken initiative to follow up?
Posted by: Insomniac

Yes, their are too many applicants and their are some legal/HR bs issues, too.

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (2RVmA)

279 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 05, 2017 11:01 PM (D2vc1)

No, wedding location is on lock down and has been for about a year.

The house thing has been in the works for a few months max.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (nDcc3)

280 So today Homeland Security was here in Asheville doing an investigation, and had a bomb disposal truck with them....

Just taking away remnants of that "Miss Sloane" movie.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (F0ZHr)

281 Hey it looks okay on my phone. I have to live dangerously every once and awhile.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (Lqy/e)

282 260 She also brought up school district but I told her we can also send kids to a charter school.

==

the place she likes has lower taxes and a better school district? that's unusual

my kids go to a charter school
they can vary wildly
check if the area actually has a good one, and how long the waitlist is
also check catholic schools

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (Om16U)

283

All these democrats saying the Russians 'hacked' the 2016 election need to be asked, 'where were you in the sixties when anti-war protesters were giving aid and comfort to enemies of the US.

Where were you democrats in the seventies when you set up the Church commission and stopped CIA investigations into possible foreign involvement in anti-nuke, anti-war protests in the US. Where were you while the environmentalists where trying to shut down industry in the US?

Oh, that's right. You were on their side, giving aid and comfort to enemies of the US in the hope it would advance your political career.

I remember.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (FtRIb)

284


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:02 PM (tHwdc)

Thanks Miley, enjoy your evening.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (nDcc3)

285 Well, I roast a lot of potatoes. They're all different, technically, but a lot of them are pretty interchangeable.


Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:03 PM


You can stick your yam into my oven anytime, big boy.

Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (lmIoG)

286 Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (2RVmA)

At least it's not just me, then.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (0mRoj)

287 a friend of mine drove by my old house and said it's being remodeled.

good on them but jeeze they purchased in july?!!
they're going to get rained out.

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (sM1uH)

288 a Seattle school district in the throes of restorative justice

Liberal educators HATE school vouchers, schools of choice, charter schools, and private schools, because they know very well that any parents with brains are going to get their kids the hell out of the filthy pits that liberal policies have given us.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (+lVUW)

289 Catches blown kiss, eyeballs it carefully.
Aw, what the hell. nom nom nom.
Hey. Not bad.
Nah. Not gonna email ya on that one.
Just hate to see ya waste the effort on me.
Cause I guarantee if she sees what you've seen of me she'd be grabbing rocks to throw at her moniter.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 11:06 PM (gJ3Vg)

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:06 PM (iMxBJ)

291 Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (Om16U)

She wants the kids to goto a good public school, which I'm generally fine with. I went to religious schools from 6th grade on, personally speaking it's not a deal breaker if he doesn't goto one.

I did say that if the school goes down or starts teaching bullshit, then what?

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:06 PM (nDcc3)

292
The barrel dines tonight.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (JmjOe)

293 Barrel

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (voOPb)

294 The places that are optimum for generating the electricity are so far away from where it would be used, it makes very little sense.

Look man, mansplaining in a threatening man-way to Mother Gaia is just typical patriarchy bullshit disguised as science.

Yep, I scare myself sometimes.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (F0ZHr)

295 191: re: dentistry:

the greatest advances in dentistry have occurred over the past 20 years or so. real advances in diagnosis and treatment.

i highly recommend the oral b automatic toothbrush. dentists recommend using it, mine did and i finally got one, and it makes a huge difference. truly.

in the ruins of herculaneum buried by vesuvius that buried pompei, they found port-side warehouse chambers with the remains of families huddled inside. they represented every age and station in life, from children to old age, from slave to patrician, and one thing they all had was excellent teeth. remarkable.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (WTSFk)

296 Nerdygirl?

Posted by: The Barrel at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (DMUuz)

297 253

Yes indeed votermom.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (kD732)

298 Cottage Grove
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (nDcc3)


I dunno, that is a long commute in the winter to Eugene. I'd really suggest Pleasant Hill or Dexter if you'd rather be off I-5.

I'm not surprised you don't want to be towards Coburg the way things are sprawling North right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (9MInk)

299 I hate to say it, but nerdygirl,

Barrel.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (6IPEM)

300 NerdyGirl is gettin' some sweet, sweet Barrel.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (QAjcy)

301 285 You can stick your yam into my oven anytime, big boy.
Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 11:05 PM (lmIoG)


I'd forgotten how satisfying a good round of projectile vomiting can be.

P.S. nerdygirl, I tried, but no. Enjoy the barrel. Don't drink anything that's on offer in there.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (iMxBJ)

302 Don't worry nerdygirl, there's lots of "Twilight" fiction to read while you're doing your time in the Barrel

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (6FqZa)

303 I think I need several dozen of those signs like that one on the wire welder shown above.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
---------

http://tinyurl.com/zzkaf6g

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (ZO497)

304 Paging Michelle Fields.

http://www.fox8live.com/story/34193160/fisherman-finds-severed-arm-in-st-john-parish

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (n18bY)

305 Come to me...

Posted by: Barrel at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (QAjcy)

306 Posted by: Kindltot at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (9MInk)

LOL I don't know any of those places

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (nDcc3)

307 ... if your dentist recommends oral b, some sell it to their patients, get one. you'll be glad you did.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (WTSFk)

308
@244

Never, ever be first into the intersection when the light changes. Make it a habit.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (FtRIb)

309 I think MisHum cheated and saved nerdygirl from the barrel by fixing her comment.

I approve.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:09 PM (6IPEM)

310 Friday! Just two workdays until Monday!

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:09 PM (J8/9G)

311 292
The barrel dines tonight.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 05, 2017 11:07 PM (JmjOe)

Awee ma weh
Awee ma weh

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 11:09 PM (0mRoj)

312 In the barrel, there is adequate time for scratching.

It's needed.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:09 PM (F0ZHr)

313
i highly recommend the oral b automatic toothbrush.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp


I don't think I've had a cavity since I started using one many many years ago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (IqV8l)

314 Barack Hussein Obama #148: You know who else deserves a medal (and a pardon)? Anybody who gives me a medal...

Evokes this great image of all the folks in the Obama administration running around pinning medals on each other 'til they all have enough hash on their chests they look like 3rd-world "military" dictators.

"And I got this one for pumping the Benghazi cover story. And I got this one for ... er... I'll tell you later...."

Posted by: mindful webworker - with justice and comments for all at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (TIFWI)

315 So today Homeland Security was here in Asheville doing an investigation, and had a bomb disposal truck with them....
--------

*!*

Where?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (ZO497)

316 >>If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.



Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.
---
I recommend you take some candy to give away to the little boys in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (/Nite)

317 "And I got this one for pumping the Benghazi cover story. And I got this one for ... er... I'll tell you later...."
Posted by: mindful webworker - with justice and comments for all at January 05, 2017 11:10 PM (TIFWI)

Pumping was also involved.

Posted by: Reggie at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

318 I think MisHum cheated and saved nerdygirl from the barrel by fixing her comment.

VAGINA PRIVILEGE!!!!

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (F0ZHr)

319 Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (w+Jhj)

320 307 ... if your dentist recommends oral b, some sell it to their patients, get one. you'll be glad you did.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (WTSFk)


The non-dentist version might be cheaper on Amazon. I got one some years ago, and I gotta endorse it, because...well, if you're ready for this. I had not been to a dentist in like 8 years. I bought this Oral B thing, and the first time I used it, there were chunks of tartar or plaque or something falling into the sink. That pretty much sold me.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (iMxBJ)

321
alrighty then @243 whatev

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (FtRIb)

322 >>If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.



Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.
---
I recommend you take some candy to give away to the little boys in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (0mRoj)

323 Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:09 PM (6IPEM)

Not me.
Someone beat me to punch

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (voOPb)

324 Never, ever be first into the intersection when the light changes. Make it a habit.
Posted by: Moran Mentat
----------

*takes notes*

Posted by: Googlemobile at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (ZO497)

325 I know you guys are all telepathically raping me right now.
Posted by: lena dunham at January 05, 2017 10:48

Nope, not in the least interested. And could you stop posting here? I never watch any thing you are on.

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (o/90i)

326 I'm needing an icepick to get rid of "the lion sleeps tonight" earworm...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (kP16F)

327 So what I'm hearing is that there's a secret nerdygirl fan club among those who have been granted Blog Powers.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (iMxBJ)

328 American men don't hate Lena Dunham for being ugly. American men hate Lena Dunham for being a liar and a feminist (but I repeat myself).
Speaking of which, Old Navy is still running that Amy Schumer commercial. There's just something about the shape off her face that pisses me off. The pointy chin, the little piggy nose, the little lips.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (+lVUW)

329 Insomniac, my advice is to always offer to start as a 1099 guy in the interview. If you make it to an interview, your qualified. The actual hiring process is so difficult they may need someone last week, and it's a lot less risk for them.

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (2RVmA)

330 Mooommm!!
Nerdygirl italicized me.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (gJ3Vg)

331 266

I'm right there with you Chi.

Even after they stop supporting PP I'm not buying. That organization uses child labor to sell its goods. It's a national office which sells cookies while masquerading as a character building organization for girls.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (kD732)

332 http://www.fox8live.com/story/34193160/fisherman-finds-severed-arm-in-st-john-parish

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (n18bY)

The cops seem puzzled. Sounds like they could use a hand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:14 PM (bG+ug)

333 See, this is why you punish offenders.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:14 PM (iMxBJ)

334 Barrel busy

Posted by: The Barrel at January 05, 2017 11:14 PM (ZO497)

335 Twenty car pileup in the Barrel tonight, looks like.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:14 PM (kD732)

336 Wtf.
Nerdygirl made us all italicans again???

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:15 PM (6IPEM)

337 Never, ever be first into the intersection when the light changes. Make it a habit.
Posted by: Moran Mentat
----------

*takes notes*

Posted by: Googlemobile at January 05, 2017 11:12 PM (ZO497) fnord (ZO497)


This is the future. Sitting behind four self-driving cars at a green light, forever.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:15 PM (wB8Tg)

338 Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (1JnAL)


The biggest problem with solar power is intermittence. Real electrical production has to be constantly available and predictable. As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage medium becomes practical and efficient solar will just be good for hobby electrical production. And the more people that put solar on their own houses will only serve to destabilize the electrical grid as demand will go through great fluctuations - meaning that tons of electricity that will have to be online "just in case" will end up being wasted and at other times draw from the grid will be large enough to take things down.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 11:15 PM (zc3Db)

339 "
*!*



Where?

Posted by: Mike Hammer"

Weaverville, at some trailer park.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (w+Jhj)

340 This is the future. Sitting behind four self-driving cars at a green light, forever.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord
------
.. engaging in fits and starts

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (eeTCA)

341 Don't worry nerdygirl, there's lots of "Twilight" fiction to read while you're doing your time in the Barrel


Oh, crap. That's worse than the bodily fluids.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (+lVUW)

342

'sup horde?

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (jrFgU)

343 Now you kids are just being silly

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (voOPb)

344 Someone get the Valurite stash away from nerdygirl.
This cannot continue

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:16 PM (6IPEM)

345 Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, nerdygirl gets the barrel.

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:17 PM (Mr60C)

346 Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:13 PM (+lVUW)

Wow....one "Get-Out-of-Barrel-Free" card isn't enough for you?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2017 11:17 PM (rF0hx)

347 Happy New Year y'all

Posted by: lousagirl at January 05, 2017 11:17 PM (AxDWG)

348 She di it again!
Tell her to quit picking on me!

Gotta try to sleep.
Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 05, 2017 11:17 PM (gJ3Vg)

349 "If you are considering a house, you should stakeout the neighborhood.




Rent a panel Van and spend a couple days watching the neighbors all stealth like.

---

I recommend you take some candy to give away to the little boys in the neighborhood.



Posted by: Amy Schumer"

Either that or a Ghillie suit and a good leafy location.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:18 PM (w+Jhj)

350 the place she likes has lower taxes and a better school district? that's unusual

Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (Om16U)


I have yet to see a school system that actually has been improved by onerous taxes and money flowing in - no matter how that district might be "ranked".

The fact is that K-12 education shouldn't really cost more than it used to - in fact the costs should be going way down since so much of what the school needs to use in order to teach has dropped in price or gone totally free. But ... for some reason the schools keep spending more money and teaching less.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 11:18 PM (zc3Db)

351 In the barrel, the deep deep barrel, the Moron sleeps tonight.
In the barrel, the oaken barrel, the Moron sleeps tonight....
awimoweh...

Posted by: JEM at January 05, 2017 11:18 PM (SY/Pc)

352 I like the Plato quote.

Thanks Mis Hum.

Posted by: Yodatopsis at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (qUNWi)

353 Never, ever be first into the intersection when the light changes. Make it a habit.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:08 PM (FtRIb)

++++

*Hooonnnnkkkkkkk! Hooonnnnnkkkk!*

Come on Grandma! I don't have all damn day.

Posted by: Guy Stuck Behind Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (R+30W)

354 Lost in the shuffle, Trump denies extension to Ambassadors past Inauguration Day.

Good. I can't believe I was against him the more he does this the more I really love him.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (dKiJG)

355 In the barrel, there is musical choice.

Yoko Ono or Bassoons Gone Wild.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (F0ZHr)

356 Michigan just banned banning plastic bags

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jhuadyd

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (vBeA5)

357 I bet that fisherman was sure glad to get his arm back.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (kD732)

358 I like the Plato quote.

Thanks Mis Hum.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (qUNWi)

359 Damn you, JEM! Damn you straight to Hell...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (kP16F)

360 Oh, it took the idiots at Yahoo Finance long enough to note the problem. That's one hell of an autocorrect mistake.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (E/ibL)

361
So if you blow your horn at one of those robot cars, does the robot get angry and run you off the road?

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (FtRIb)

362 Mmm, fudgy italicized goodness!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (u8kLQ)

363 Either that or a Ghillie suit and a good leafy location.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:18 PM (w+Jhj)

The cactus-style ghillie suits for use in Arizona were such poor sellers, they were discontinued. Pricks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (bG+ug)

364 I remember the descent into the barrel being much like Mickey Rourke's final elevator ride in Angel Heart.

Which you should probably see if you haven't, BTW. Once.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:21 PM (iMxBJ)

365 *Hooonnnnkkkkkkk! Hooonnnnnkkkk!*

Come on Grandma! I don't have all damn day.

Posted by: Guy Stuck Behind Moran
---------------

Bumper sticker seen in Texas, where many people are packing:

Honk If You Want To Meet Jesus

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:21 PM (ZO497)

366 "As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are
storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can
be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage
medium"

Our computer models show CO2 will be a great at electrical storage in 20 years.

Posted by: Al Gore at January 05, 2017 11:21 PM (W6Ch1)

367 Hey everybody.

Went apeshit again tonight, but not at Jeffrey Wells, but at FB. I have a conservative friend who unfortunately sometimes seems to enjoy being abused by libtrolls; I'll never understand why.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:22 PM (u8kLQ)

368 Posted by: Thrawn at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (E/ibL)

Yes...but you blew the margins for the phone readers!

Repost it with a tinyurl?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (rF0hx)

369 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

!!!


why do I repeatedly post this?


because it is real fun to say in front of of a crazed anti trumper

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (jrFgU)

370 TexasDan,
Was that accident at Brodie and Slaughter or Mopac and Slaughter?/// Seriously, I'm glad your wife and son are fine. I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (JNDQi)

371 Cold wind howling through Galveston, temps dropping rapidly.

*looks around for signs of ex-wife*

*shudders*



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (v5iqM)

372 >>I bet that fisherman was sure glad to get his arm back.


Like the story of those cats who hop in the wheel well of an airliner and come back home after 8 months...*sniff*

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (QAjcy)

373 In The Barrel there are bagpipe, viola and Jew's harp trios to sooth the tormented soul.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (J8/9G)

374 Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11

Very cool.

I think I'm off to bed now, freezing cold up here. Be well you Morons.
Down to 2 or 3 in NW IL

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (o/90i)

375 The very liberal OCWeekly, of all places, has a reporter who believes nuclear *has* to be on the table if the USA wants to adopt a serious alternative energy policy.

"Want a Clean Energy Future? 'The Nuclear Option' Argues We Need Nuke Power"

http://tinyurl.com/hk3eq4j

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (u8kLQ)

376

why do I repeatedly post this?


because it is real fun to say in front of of a crazed anti trumper


I think they're all gone. Probably.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:24 PM (qUNWi)

377 According to a Yahoo Finance tweet at 10:01

Trump wants a much n igger navy

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (e8kgV)

378 295
i highly recommend the oral b automatic toothbrush. dentists
recommend using it, mine did and i finally got one, and it makes a huge
difference. truly.



in the ruins of herculaneum buried by vesuvius that buried pompei,
they found port-side warehouse chambers with the remains of families
huddled inside. they represented every age and station in life, from
children to old age, from slave to patrician, and one thing they all had
was excellent teeth. remarkable.


Are you trying to say that the design for the oral b toothbrush was handed down from antiquity? Because I'm pretty certain I heard on Coast to Coast AM that it was reverse-engineered from the wreckage of the Roswell crash.

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (Oi5b2)

379 368 Posted by: Thrawn at January 05, 2017 11:20 PM (E/ibL)

Yes...but you blew the margins for the phone readers!

Repost it with a tinyurl?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (rF0hx)

Oh dear.

Here's a screen cap in tinyurl:

http://tinyurl.com/gokxfza

Posted by: Thrawn at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (E/ibL)

380 why do I repeatedly post this?
because it is real fun to say in front of of a crazed anti trumper
Posted by: Original Jake
--------------
Not so fun for others. It's freakin' tedious. And played.

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (Mr60C)

381 I heard the author of "Enhanced Interrogation" on Hannity.

have not got a chance to read the book but int interview with Hannity was mother fuckin scary.

Islam does want to conquer the USA,
the future is war

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (jrFgU)

382 Good lord. Planned Parenthood commercial on hulu.

Posted by: josephistan at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (7qAYi)

383 "As mentioned above solar will be a good generator when there are storage possibilities. At that point solar will be great because it can be localized. But until battery technology or some other storage medium"
-----------------

Ah! My favorite Stimulus investment; Beacon Energy. The storage systems had a proclivity to physically explode. It was spectacular.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (ZO497)

384 Got Big Black Max washed for shows this weekend just before the front blew through.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (J8/9G)

385 And I haven't even been drinking.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (+lVUW)

386 Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for
potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if
you've taken initiative to follow up?

Posted by: Insomniac




Yes, utter rudeness is the order of the day.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (tHwdc)

387 319 Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (w+Jhj)

++++

I'm gonna remember that one.

Posted by: Hairy Reed at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (R+30W)

388 OK, folks, I do have to be semi-coherent in the morning.

Last one out please remember to dust Ace with the flea powder.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (F0ZHr)

389 Trump wants a much n igger navy
Posted by: SMOD
-----------
That escalated quickly!

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (Mr60C)

390 I bet that fisherman was sure glad to get his arm back.


Like the story of those cats who hop in the wheel well of an airliner and come back home after 8 months...*sniff*

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (QAjcy)

There's probably a gator in that Louisiana bayou, with a belly full of that arm's body.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (bG+ug)

391 Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (e8kgV)

LMFAO

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (nDcc3)

392 >>And I haven't even been drinking.



Posted by: nerdygirl

I think I see the problem...


Posted by: Aviator at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (/Nite)

393 Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:26 PM (Mr60C)

DONALD DRUMPF IS A RAYCISSSS

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (nDcc3)

394 Yes, utter rudeness is the order of the day.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
---------------

Oh, good!
You still here.

Are you supposed to get a bunch of snow tomorrow night/Saturday?

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (Mr60C)

395 365. Heh. Jewbilly story - door to door proselytizer comes to our home. Dude makes his pitch, my mother thanks him but declines and closes the door. Dude sticks foot into the door. Mother turns and shouts to me, 'Boy! Get my shotgun.' I comply. To dude she says, 'Mister, if you don't move your foot, you're gonna find out if you're right.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (Ntak+)

396 What ever happened to the small, ultra high speed flywheels for power storage. About 30gal trashcan sized, to be buried in yard.

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (2RVmA)

397 Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if you've taken initiative to follow up?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 05, 2017 10:55 PM (0mRoj)

I don't know, I can't even get an interview.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (D2vc1)

398 The Sun seldom shines in Upstate New York... We need backyard thorium reactors here!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (kP16F)

399 Michigan just banned banning plastic bags

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (vBeA5) fnord (vBeA5)


Yeah, we may still have San Francisco and a Bag Tax, but they still have Detroit.

I got to tell my "Soviet Russia" joke about the bags today.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (wB8Tg)

400
"Want a Clean Energy Future? 'The Nuclear Option' Argues We Need Nuke Power"

Liability insurance and waste disposal are problems.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)

401 I saw a video on some Actors house and he had Wind and solar but instead of powering the house he made Hydrogen and stored it in a large tanks and used a house generator, now that makes sense to me

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (dKiJG)

402 It's freakin' tedious. And played.

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (Mr60C)

Then don't read it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (rF0hx)

403 Lost in the shuffle, Trump denies extension to Ambassadors past Inauguration Day.

Good. I can't believe I was against him the more he does this the more I really love him.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (dKiJG)




Is it all ambassadors, career diplomats plus the political ones? It's normal that the ambassadors appointed for political reasons (ie. friends, donors) are done at the change of an administration.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (exyD+)

404
According to a Yahoo Finance tweet at 10:01

Trump wants a much n igger navy
Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (e8kgV)


Navy Lives Matter

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (J8/9G)

405 Insomniac: I've found employers seem to enjoy ignoring job seekers post-interview.

Yeah, it's extremely frustrating. I've learned the hard way, these people just have absolute zero empathy for people who aren't like them (i.e., have no job).

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (u8kLQ)

406 *facepalm*

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (6FqZa)

407 During the "Fukushima" tsunami, one of the best sites for discounting MFM fear-mongering was a pro-CO2-caused Global Warming site but that's pro-nuke. They're wrong but at least they're the tiny handful of Greens who aren't anti-nuke or using CAGW as an excuse to attack modern ("capitalist") society run on electricity. (Can't recall the site's name any more.)

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (lJXY3)

408 Islam does want to conquer the USA,

---

It was just on the 'net, the holy warriors of Islam aren't going to be doing any major attacks; they are switching to the local random lone wolf mass shooting.

Wasn't it Kerry who said we can absorb the little attacks like that. What's forty or fifty casualties? Chicago shoots that many every week.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (FtRIb)

409 The daughter taught "at risk" students in Texas for the last decade and loved it. Said the kids needed someone to show that they cared about them and give them some discipline/order. She recently moved to Ohio when her Army husband got re-assigned. She taught for 6 months and quit to be a full time mom saying the kids up there are animals. In Youngstown at least.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 05, 2017 10:13 PM (v3DL/)


That big of a difference.

Wow.... but, not really.

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (gMcji)

410 Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (Mr60C)


Yes, you're getting snow.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (exyD+)

411 The more intelligence one has the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. -Blaise Pascal

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute. -Blaise Pascal

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher. -Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. -John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -John Locke

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. -Lord Acton

An intellectual is somebody who thinks that ideas are more important that people. -Paul Johnson, Wall Street Journal, Saturday, March 5, 2011, page A13


Posted by: Locke Common at January 05, 2017 11:29 PM (cnNH/)

412 . I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)
Posted by: lindafell
--------------

There was an intersection close to my house in Atlanta. There were so many accidents, that I took to timing the interval of crash to the arrival of emergency vehicles as a form of entertainment.

"*smash!*

*glances at watch*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (ZO497)

413 Hey, hallfrican!
Still catching up on the comments - congrats on the house. And the sex. Mostry the sex.
(Homeownership can be overrated at times)

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (Mr60C)

414 hat ever happened to the small, ultra high speed flywheels for power storage. About 30gal trashcan sized, to be buried in yard.
Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (2RVmA)


The Mechanical Fougasse Corporation went public in 06 but there wasn't much action and they bought all the stock back.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (9MInk)

415 Yeah, it's bedtime for me as well. And we gots snow ice on the way tomorrow.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (w+Jhj)

416 Question for fellow job seekers out there. Is it now de rigeur for
potential employers to completely ignore you after an interview, even if
you've taken initiative to follow up?

Posted by: Insomniac




Count your blessings. I just got an actual job offer.

In Fairbanks, Alaska.

I've got a couple of weeks to decide. But, damn.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (v5iqM)

417 Maybe somebody did the math.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (bG+ug)

418 Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:30 PM (Mr60C)

Thanks! I consider myself very rucky!

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (nDcc3)

419
Are you supposed to get a bunch of snow tomorrow night/Saturday?
Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (Mr60C)

Of course, we are, and official Hampton Roads is going DEFCON 1.

Supposed to have Robotics build season kickoff at the High School Sat. morning but that's looking unlikely.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (R5EqA)

420 http://energystorage.org/energy-storage/technologies/flywheels

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (2RVmA)

421 It's snow... no... rain... no... snowing

I don't know what it's doing here.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (qUNWi)

422 326
I'm needing an icepick to get rid of "the lion sleeps tonight" earworm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Oi5b2)

423 Yes, you're getting snow.
Posted by: Vendette
------------------

Yesterday I heard 1 to 3 inches. Today I hear 8 to 12 - I hope they're as wrong as they usually are...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Mr60C)

424 414. Heh.... fougasse is one of those words that needs to be used more frequently.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Ntak+)

425 >>>Was making a delivery tonight and a little 3 yr old boy came to the door
and yelled "Pizza Man!" and asked if he could give me a hug. He was
really happy to get his pizza. I told him a hug was better than any tip.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at January 05, 2017 11:11 PM (w+Jhj)<<<




Bwahahaha! I stole that dumb fucker's wallet when I hugged him. What a dope.


And here's a tip... don't trust anyone.

Posted by: 3 year old pickpocket at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (WidQN)

426 Trump wants a much n igger navy
This week the liberal-left-Liberal shitrag, the Toronto Star, had the following frontpage typo on their Lifestyles section...

Where you from?
An event for the offspring of mixed-race families shits a chord as the difficult to 'identify' find their people.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (lJXY3)

427 Liability insurance and waste disposal are problems.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)

Problems only because nuke energy has been so demonized by the Left.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (bG+ug)

428 421 It's snow... no... rain... no... snowing

I don't know what it's doing here.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:31 PM (qUNWi)

++++

They call that sleet, don't they?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (R+30W)

429 Chicago shoots that many every week.

....

it is all about increasing the amplitude of the attacks.


look to Germany, Sweden, Belgium and France for out future if we keep importing fucking moslems.

islam is incompatible with the USA

The only reason Germany wasn't rape central this New Years eve was they profiled the shit out of nafirs(Africans)


Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (jrFgU)

430 OK, folks, I do have to be semi-coherent in the morning.
Last one out please remember to dust Ace with the flea powder.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 05, 2017 11:26

I also must be able to function tomorrow. Just checking, but hope you gave Ace the heartworm meds?

Posted by: Farmer at January 05, 2017 11:33 PM (o/90i)

431 According to a Yahoo Finance tweet at 10:01



Trump wants a much n igger navy

Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (e8kgV)


Whatchootalkinbout, SMOD?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:34 PM (tHwdc)

432
They call that sleet, don't they?


I don't think it's even that.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:34 PM (qUNWi)

433 Zis my corner, kid!!!

Posted by: russian mobster midget pickpocket beating up a 3-year-old at January 05, 2017 11:34 PM (lJXY3)

434 Everybody hates naggers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 05, 2017 11:34 PM (IqV8l)

435 Shits a chord

I figured this for an honest review of a Bon Jovi album.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:34 PM (6FqZa)

436 trump
trump
trump
deport
deport
deport
!!!
why do I repeatedly post this?
because it is real fun to say in front of of a crazed anti trumper
Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM
*****
You post it for me. That's why.
It doesn't get old for me ever.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (6IPEM)

437 Yvan Eht Nioj

Posted by: qdp "Simpsons fan" steve at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (u8kLQ)

438 I saw a video on some Actors house and he had Wind and solar but instead of powering the house he made Hydrogen and stored it in a large tanks and used a house generator, now that makes sense to me

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:28 PM (dKiJG)

It's almost as rewarding as earning money in dollars, changing it into pesos to bank it, and then changing it back into dollars to spend it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (bG+ug)

439 Evening Morons pardon my rant.
We've had 2 foster kids since July. We have made it abundantly clear to CPS from the day they were placed that we would absolutely, unequivocally adopt them. Were told by CPS we couldn't even SPEAK to an adoption lawyer until we had them 6 months. Every CPS visit "Can't wait until the end of Jan when we can move forward with the adoption!" Always the same CPS worker. She knew. Had long discussions about it. In Oct she announced that they had located the alleged father's sister through diligent hard work, made an effort to tell us how difficult it was locating her out of state because neither the kids mom or alleged father would cooperate. The sister named the brother of the great aunt's husband as a possible adoptive family. Basically nobody related to the kids at all. The sister had no idea her brother had kids until CPS called. CPS says that since it is the family's wishes, they have no choice but to transfer the kids. But, since it is an out of state transfer, it will take a couple of months. The transfer was approved and scheduled for Dec, but one of the kiddos got an ear infection and couldn't fly. Now has to see a specialist before he can get cleared to fly. We are approaching 6 months, so we decide to contact a lawyer. The lawyer says "Why didn't you contact me 3 months ago, we would have been able to have your adoption complete by now." Called the CPS worker and let her know our intentions. "We had no idea that you wanted to adopt, that is why I searched out other family." Fucking seriously? /rant off

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (dnWSK)

440 No, wedding location is on lock down and has been for about a year.

The house thing has been in the works for a few months max.


Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (nDcc3)

I must have misspoke, between this and the second hanging curveball comment.

Let me try again:

Was location of where to buy a house ever discussed before the wedding, or did it not come up til a few months ago when you started looking?

Sorry.

Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (D2vc1)

441 USA WINS GOLD @ WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP !!!!

Posted by: Evilpens at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (y3aQB)

442 ...hope you gave Ace the heartworm meds?
It's okay; we wrapped it up in a bacon wrap.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (lJXY3)

443 If you think I'm clicking your link, Anachronda,You've Got Another Thing Coming... (Oh, shit!)

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (kP16F)

444 I'd like to someone shave the ewok in the style of the husky from last night's ONT.

Let's call it a dare.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (R+30W)

445 I'll accept Trump deporting me back to London if May gets to deporting all those Islamist assholes back to Pakistan first.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:36 PM (6FqZa)

446 Problems only because nuke energy has been so demonized by the Left.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Here's hoping that 50 years from now, "The China Syndrome" will be taken exactly as seriously as "Reefer Madness." (In fact someone should probably do a mashup of the two flicks.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (u8kLQ)

447 Yesterday I heard 1 to 3 inches. Today I hear 8 to 12 - I hope they're as wrong as they usually are...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Mr60C)



Hate to say it, but prepare for the 8 to 12.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (exyD+)

448 TexasDan #243: ...Would have hit my son on the rider's side, but my wife hesitated for no particular reason when the light turned green....

So glad they didn't get hit.

I pretty much always hesitate when I get the green, until I'm sure cross traffic is really stopping. I'm old, but I'd like to keep getting older.

Posted by: mindful webworker - four on the floor at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (TIFWI)

449 Oh, good!

You still here.



Are you supposed to get a bunch of snow tomorrow night/Saturday?

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:27 PM (Mr60C)

It's nice to be greeted with enthusiasm!

We're expecting a dusting overnight, less than an inch. I can see that there is visible snow on the windshields below my balcony. Not much.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (tHwdc)

450 We have made it abundantly clear to CPS from the day they were placed that we would absolutely, unequivocally adopt them. Were told by CPS we couldn't even SPEAK to an adoption lawyer until we had them 6 months.

Bullshit on CPS. They have no right to refuse you the right to counsel.

Where's Alex? She's sicced velociraptors on idiots for less.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (6FqZa)

451 And if anyone is going to fly through Atlanta this weekend, call your airline right now and change your reservation.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (exyD+)

452 Trump's transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day.

From the NY Times, saying Trump breaks Precedent,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (dKiJG)

453 447 Yesterday I heard 1 to 3 inches. Today I hear 8 to 12 - I hope they're as wrong as they usually are...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Mr60C)



Hate to say it, but prepare for the 8 to 12.
Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (exyD+)


Which will be gone in 3-4 days?

I will take that over this sub 0 shit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (voOPb)

454 Chi, I didn't see anything for Friday/Saturday. Hope not, because I'm planning a day trip to PA on Saturday.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (tHwdc)

455 355 In the barrel, there is musical choice.

Yoko Ono or Bassoons Gone Wild.


In Akron, we have this:

http://www.tubachristmas.com

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 05, 2017 11:39 PM (di1hb)

456 Snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain... In my neck of the woods, we call that "Ithacation"!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:39 PM (kP16F)

457 401
instead
of powering the house he made Hydrogen and stored it in a large tanks


I'm guessing his address was 1313 Hindenburg Drive

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2017 11:39 PM (Oi5b2)

458 Yeah, we may still have San Francisco and a Bag Tax, but they still have Detroit.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith
It's not our fault. We offered to give it to Canada for free. They wouldn't take it. Those Canucks are smarter than you think.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:39 PM (+lVUW)

459 356 Michigan just banned banning plastic bags

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jhuadyd
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 05, 2017 11:19 PM (vBeA5)
-------------------------
Hallelujah!

To be honest, I still long for the days when we got paper bags in the grocery store --- (Get off my lawn!)--- and I remember how ticked off I was when the enviro-nuts forced the change to plastic.

Well, at this point I'm well-accustomed to the plastic and have found many uses for the bags, just as I did with those old brown paper ones.
And the eco-nazis are gunning for them now.

Good for Michigan!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (Nox3c)

460 Shark Shit Sandwich.

Posted by: Rolling Stone at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (lJXY3)

461 You're not really here for the apples, are you, nerdygirl?

Posted by: the barrel at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (6FqZa)

462 gets to deporting all those Islamist assholes back to Pakistan first.
.........
and
Moroccans
Algerians
Libyans
Egyptians
Syrians
Bangladeshi's
Iraquis
Saudis
Yemenis


well you can figure the rest out

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (jrFgU)

463 *giggle*

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (R+30W)

464 Smart enough to avoid the barrel.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:40 PM (lJXY3)

465 sigh.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (6FqZa)

466 Nerdygirl needs an intervention

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (6IPEM)

467 WOW! Thank you for an amazing quote. Sometimes you read something that snaps together several different running thoughts into one mega-thought and this did it for me. I freakin love this place!

>>> "Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato"

Posted by: Max Power at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (QCc6B)

468 hahahaha

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (QAjcy)

469 ITALICS !!!!!!




barrel

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (jrFgU)

470 447 Yesterday I heard 1 to 3 inches. Today I hear 8 to 12 - I hope they're as wrong as they usually are...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:32 PM (Mr60C)



Hate to say it, but prepare for the 8 to 12.
Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:37 PM (exyD+)

Words to live by.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (7qAYi)

471 It should be okay now because of my sock close-tags.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (lJXY3)

472 >>Nerdygirl needs an intervention



A Spanking!

Posted by: Wicked Naughty Zoot at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (QAjcy)

473 370 TexasDan,
Was that accident at Brodie and Slaughter or Mopac and Slaughter?/// Seriously, I'm glad your wife and son are fine. I have an intersection near my house that has accidents all the time, mainly due to dumbass drivers.
In Texas, every other truck is a diesel and 2 out of 3 vehicles are trucks/suv's.(I made that up but it's mostly true)
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:23 PM (JNDQi)


No, 290 and South Congress.

They should just close that intersection. It's like bad Frogger for the homeless, and traffic too. My friend got messed up by a cement truck there; my wife was hit from behind on the entrance ramp to 290 there last year.

I officed at Penn Field last year, which is right by that intersection, and people in my office saw two pedestrian fatalities in a year. One witnessed the actual impact.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (yL25O)

474 Which will be gone in 3-4 days?

I will take that over this sub 0 shit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (voOPb)



It won't be gone in 3-4 days, but it will be gone eventually. Sorry for the sub-0.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (exyD+)

475 Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 05, 2017 11:35 PM (D2vc1)

House came up literally a few months ago due to....very good luck let's say.

Anyway don't burn this place down Horde.

Later

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (nDcc3)

476 Of course, we are, and official Hampton Roads is going DEFCON 1.

Supposed to have Robotics build season kickoff at the High School Sat. morning but that's looking unlikely.
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen
------------------
That can shut this area down for quite a while. And we (Mom) have a pretty important appt Tuesday morning.

Shouldn't be that bad around here, but it usually is. It'll be the earliest in recent memory that we got dumped on so hard.

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (Mr60C)

477 Plato? I always liked Goofy instead. Probably because of that "fucking Goofy" joke though.

Posted by: joey biden at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (lJXY3)

478 >>House came up literally a few months ago due to....very good luck let's say.


Does it have a pool?

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (QAjcy)

479 I blame nerdygirl's beagle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (voOPb)

480 The Golden Gate bridge...

Suicide central. There are several articles online about the people who jumped. The worst I think was a 14 year old girl who skipped school, took a taxi to the bridge, and jumped.

There's also a documentary that actually captures some people jumping.

Interesting factoid: most people jumped on the side facing the city.

Supposedly the city finally authorized putting a safety net in place that's supposed to stop people. Not sure if it's in place yet though.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (4ErVI)

481 Three barrelings in one ONT.
Record, right?
Nerdygirl deserves an award

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:43 PM (6IPEM)

482 A Spanking!


I'll spank a nerd. A girl nerd.

Not that anyone axed.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:43 PM (qUNWi)

483 439
Evening Morons pardon my rant.
... /rant off


Line breaks are your friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLXZGTwQOg

Posted by: Anachronda at January 05, 2017 11:43 PM (Oi5b2)

484 Three and out: life imprisonment in The Barrel for nerdygirl.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 05, 2017 11:43 PM (J8/9G)

485 And on the right side of the Tour Bus, look out the windows and see that we've crossed over in to Italicy!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (v5iqM)

486 So...if someone leaves open italics tags in their nic, would that wreak havoc on the next commentor? Assuming they didn't put close tags in their own comment.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (yL25O)

487 >>Nerdygirl deserves an award


That comes after the spanking if I remember my Python correctly.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (QAjcy)

488 Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:41 PM (exyD+)

How long will it last Vendette? Curious about snow out your way

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (voOPb)

489 FREEEEEEEEEEE nerdygirl

!!!!!

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (jrFgU)

490 Nerdygirl deserves an award

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:43 PM (6IPEM)

She at least needs to have the hat trick recorded for her lifetime stats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (bG+ug)

491 I hate it when an ette crosses the line.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (qUNWi)

492 It's not our fault. We offered to give it to Canada for free. They wouldn't take it. Those Canucks are smarter than you think.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 05, 2017 11:39 PM (+lVUW) fnord (+lVUW)


Well, they're wily critters, but I think you might set a record regarding the barrel here.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (wB8Tg)

493 See, this is why i don't use the fancy text edit'n stuff. That and I don't know how. It is probably best left that way, too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (dnWSK)

494 Oh yeah, SoCo and Lamar are both train wrecks, South 1st ain't a party either. Remember that 290 was way worse before they added the flyovers.....

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (JNDQi)

495 Next week Friday is Carl's service at the Central Texas State Veteran's Cemetery at high noon.

Thank you all.

http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3bt/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (ahx2/)

496 "We had no idea that you wanted to adopt, that is why I searched out other family." Fucking seriously?"

From the rant I'm not positive you aren't in the running to adopt these kids. I pray for them and you things work out for the best. And since you are ranting here the best is they end up with you.

Posted by: Willy J. at January 05, 2017 11:46 PM (W6Ch1)

497 @439 Cat Ass Trophy-How old are the children, if you can say, why do the parents not want them? How are the children holding up with this rejection?

Posted by: JROD at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (KjEi7)

498 494 Oh yeah, SoCo and Lamar are both train wrecks, South 1st ain't a party either. Remember that 290 was way worse before they added the flyovers.....
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (JNDQi)


I'm at risk of dating both myself and my arrival to Austin, but I got to climb around on those 290 flyovers during grad school, as my research related to the way TXDoT builds those things.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (yL25O)

499 a LOL from the great Pacific NW:

http://theseattletribune.com/6-dead-after-truck- collides-with-anti-trump-protesters-on-freeway/

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (LeaWx)

500 Anyway don't burn this place down Horde.

You're not the boss of me.

Posted by: that guy who always says "you're not the boss of me" at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (wpC7C)

501 Veterans'...

*pours shot*

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (ahx2/)

502 Line breaks are your friends.



Hey, I been drink'n. Typesetting be damned.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (dnWSK)

503 Were told by CPS we couldn't even SPEAK to an adoption lawyer until we had them 6 months.



Do you by chance have that documented? I bet the lawyer would love to have that little bit from them.

Posted by: buzzion at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (cAnNx)

504 That comes after the spanking if I remember my Python correctly.

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (QAjcy)

THE ORAL SEX!!!!

Posted by: The chicks at Castle Anthrax at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (tHwdc)

505 Hahaha, nerdygirl.
You have a whole host of volunteer Morons to spank you for punishment.

That's sort of a compliment.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (6IPEM)

506 Is nerdy girl working from that fancy coworking space club or something???

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (JNDQi)

507 You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave.

Posted by: The Hotel Barrelfornia at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (WidQN)

508 I've been a bad girl too.

Posted by: dr. amy farrah-fowler at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (lJXY3)

509 >>>>See, this is why i don't use the fancy text edit'n stuff. That and I don't know how. It is probably best left that way, too.
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That's my line

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (voOPb)

510 Seriously, add the following to your nic (subtract the spaces inside the brackets):

[ /b ][ /u ][ /s][ /i ]

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (wB8Tg)

511 491 I hate it when an ette crosses the line.
Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (qUNWi)


You prefer non-ettes in the Barrel?

Posted by: TexasDan at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (yL25O)

512 Posted by: SMFH
....

best wishes

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (jrFgU)

513 494. And people think I am crazy for parking at Dan's on Manchaca & Ben White and taking a cab from there....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (Ntak+)

514 Next week Friday is Carl's service at the Central Texas State Veteran's Cemetery at high noon.



Thank you all.



http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3bt/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (ahx2/)


I wish I could be there, SMFH. I truly do.

Posted by: The chicks at Castle Anthrax at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (tHwdc)

515 Which will be gone in 3-4 days?

I will take that over this sub 0 shit
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
-------------------

We're just not prepared for it around here. I can't speak for Vendette's part of the state, but here, the major routes MIGHT get cleared in that ti.e, but side streets will be ignored.
So, a bit PITA for many to even get to an artery, just to see if you can make it to the Doctor's appt...

Posted by: Chi at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (Mr60C)

516 475 Anyway don't burn this place down Horde.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 11:42 PM (nDcc3)


Of course not. That's nerdygirl's job.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (iMxBJ)

517 http://theseattletribune.com/6-dead-after-truck- collides-with-anti-trump-protesters-on-freeway/


Whoopsie daisies.

It's only funny til someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (qUNWi)

518 Chi, I didn't see anything for Friday/Saturday. Hope not, because I'm planning a day trip to PA on Saturday.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:38 PM (tHwdc)



At this point, the further north you go the better it's going to be, but if you're in southern VA the first part of your drive may be difficult.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (exyD+)

519 >>>That's sort of a compliment.

yep

Posted by: concrete girl at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (sM1uH)

520 Alot of the morons date themselves.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (lJXY3)

521 Next week Friday is Carl's service at the Central Texas State Veteran's Cemetery at high noon.

Thank you all.

http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3bt/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (ahx2/)

So "Generosity" finally released the funds to you? Good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (bG+ug)

522 Hey, I been drink'n. Typesetting be damned.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:47 PM (dnWSK)

---

*fistbump*

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511 491 I hate it when an ette crosses the line.
Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (qUNWi)

---

You'd despise me then...

Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (ahx2/)

523 501. Indeed. To all who've served and to all who will serve.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (Ntak+)

524 Off with the Anthrax sock

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (tHwdc)

525 >>>Alot of the morons date themselves.


Posted by: andycanuck at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (lJXY3)<<<

Lots and lots of handbabies.

Posted by: the ghosts that watch you fap at January 05, 2017 11:51 PM (WidQN)

526 Pretty proud of US Blues

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 05, 2017 11:51 PM (M3DRt)

527 You'd despise me then...



Oh ...no way. Never.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:52 PM (qUNWi)

528
So if the freeway protesters block traffic and cause a chain reaction pileup...

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 05, 2017 11:52 PM (FtRIb)

529 Lots and lots of handbabies.


Handbabies>>>>>horseman babies.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (qUNWi)

530 510 Seriously, add the following to your nic (subtract the spaces inside the brackets):

[ /b ][ /u ][ /s][ /i ]



Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:48 PM (wB8Tg)



Also known as "The Coward's Way"

Posted by: buzzion at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (cAnNx)

531 How long will it last Vendette? Curious about snow out your way

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 05, 2017 11:44 PM (voOPb)



While this is a storm that will have an impact on the South, what happens here is kinda up in the air. But any accumulation will be finished by Saturday afternoon here.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (exyD+)

532 @439 Cat Ass Trophy-How old are the children, if you can say, why do the parents not want them? How are the children holding up with this rejection?


Kiddos are 23 mos and 13 mos (Irish twins). Mom is an unrepentant drug addict. Had 3 kids taken previously. Told CPS that there is nothing wrong with using Meth, and she has no intention of stopping. Dad is a rapper wannabe fucktwit. Luckily they have no memory of either, both have been in CPS custody for a year.
The couple CPS wants to send them to is 65 years old and lives 1000 miles from any other relative to the kids. But CPS still says it is most important that the kids maintain their family and cultural identity. Since they aren't being transferred to an actual relative, that is BS. The real issue is, I believe, the kids are Mexican, and we are not. Culture, you know. They need to be raised celebrating Cinco, not the 4th.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (dnWSK)

533 freeway protesters are weasel shit

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (jrFgU)

534 At this point, the further north you go the better
it's going to be, but if you're in southern VA the first part of your
drive may be difficult.

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (exyD+)

I'm about a half mile from the Potomac. Keeping my fingers crossed for Saturday, because if it's snowing, I won't get far in the Mustang. Mom will have to wait.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (tHwdc)

535 US Blues -- Aaarrggh! The Night of the Earworm...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 05, 2017 11:54 PM (kP16F)

536 TexasDan,
So you're "new" to Austin then.....

Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic misogynistic redneck at January 05, 2017 11:54 PM (JNDQi)

537 smfh: i am really happy things are starting to look up for you. closure is good. not pleasant, but good. i wish you the best.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 11:54 PM (KP5rU)

538 #422: Fun fact about that song... it first appeared in an Italian soft-core porno, about a bunch of gals going to a spa resort in (IIRC) Sweden and, you know, getting to know the other gals there.

I like to joke that this brings up the question of just what Jim Henson was doing with those socks before he turned them into Muppets...

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (0OG8D)

539 Pro Tip: if you go to the website for your local NWS office, there should be a map on the main page that you can use to drill down into the details, and, with a click of the mouse, get a very localized weather forecast for your house, office or what have you.

i have one for the FOB, and for the two local ranges we go to most often here in The Valley (no sense going skeet, trap or sporting clays if it's windy as F), as well as for the place out in Corona where we go pheasant hunting.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (LeaWx)

540 I admit it: this tweet really turned me on today. Cosplay by Alexandria the Red...

https://twitter.com/Alexandriathred/status
/817131815253078016

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (u8kLQ)

541 482. On the Moon, nerds are spanked with moon rocks. - ignignot.

And, of course, Talking Heads have a song for this:

https://youtu.be/8195fn_toLQ

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (Ntak+)

542 Also known as "The Coward's Way"

Posted by: buzzion at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (cAnNx)


Hey! There's nothing wrong with training wheels or diapers. If someone needs them you aren't supposed to make fun of them.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (zc3Db)

543 I'm about a half mile from the Potomac. Keeping my fingers crossed for Saturday, because if it's snowing, I won't get far in the Mustang. Mom will have to wait.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (tHwdc)



Which part of the Potomac?

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (exyD+)

544 Whoopsie daisies.

It's only funny til someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (qUNWi)

Not one, but two dumb grammar mistakes in that story:
"protester's", when it should have been "protesters' ", and "breaks" for "brakes".

Truck driver should get a medal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (bG+ug)

545 Can't figure out what's happened in Seattle. There are reports of shots fired at an Anti-Trump protest. There are reports of a truck driving into people in an Anti-Trump protest that was blocking a freeway. It's all very chaotic, and one of the reports comes from the "Seattle Tribune," which I don't seem to recall as being an actual paper.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)

546 347
Happy New Year y'all

Posted by: lousagirl at January 05, 2017 11:17 PM (AxDWG)


Happy New Year, lous!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (EzgxV)

547 smfh: i am really happy things are starting to look up for you. closure is good. not pleasant, but good. i wish you the best.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 11:54 PM (KP5rU)

I'm happy that Carl will get his memorial, but IMHO there is no closure when you lose the man you love.
My 2 cents.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (tHwdc)

548 Veterans'...

*pours shot*
Posted by: SMFH
------------

Places Wild Turkey bottle on the desk, pours shot.

To absent friends...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (ZO497)

549 Which part of the Potomac?
Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (exyD+)


I got this one, the wet part!



eleventy

Posted by: Original Jake at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (jrFgU)

550 Which part of the Potomac?

Posted by: Vendette at January 05, 2017 11:55 PM (exyD+)

About 6 miles east of Rt 15/Leesburg.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (tHwdc)

551 Talking Heads also have a song called "I'm Not In Love."

NOT a remake of the 10cc song.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (u8kLQ)

552 Also known as "The Coward's Way"

Posted by: buzzion at January 05, 2017 11:53 PM (cAnNx) fnord (cAnNx)


I once met a guy who felt that way about parachutes.

Once.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (wB8Tg)

553 517; gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. the left don't give a shit, why should i?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (KP5rU)

554 Not one, but two dumb grammar mistakes in that story:
"protester's", when it should have been "protesters' ", and "breaks" for "brakes".

Truck driver should get a medal.

---
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (bG+ug)



Them's the brakes.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (qUNWi)

555 Oh, this is rich, Charlie Rose interviewing Doris Kearns Goodwin

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2017 11:58 PM (ZO497)

556 Alot of the morons date themselves.
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i have to: no one else will.



Posted by: redc1c4 at January 05, 2017 11:58 PM (LeaWx)

557 441 USA WINS GOLD @ WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP !!!!


Groovy!! I was switching between that and the PGA Tour event in Maui, which looks lovely and warm.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 05, 2017 11:59 PM (6Dmwc)

558 Drive-by fist-bump.

Got snow this morning here, which is always nice for a transplanted Northerner.

TDS is in full swing, eh?

Posted by: Piercello, not on the road at January 05, 2017 11:59 PM (TOLnE)

559 I once met a guy who felt that way about parachutes.

Once.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (wB8Tg)


Speaking of which ... I just watched a documentary abou the guy who jumped from a plane at 10000 feet without a parachute. He jumped into a big net. Pretty fvcking ballsy.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 05, 2017 11:59 PM (zc3Db)

560 Those particular six freeway protesters are now raven shit :^)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:00 AM (6FqZa)

561 125 Evening horde, I'm looking to buy my first house.

The bride and I already are in disagreement of the location.

Haha this is going to be fun.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at January 05, 2017 10:33 PM (nDcc3)

Oh boy. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Pepe at January 06, 2017 12:00 AM (tPC7s)

562 Alot of the morons date themselves.
----------

In Vic's case that would require the carbon-14 method.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:00 AM (ZO497)

563 I understand a gang of F-150 trucks were torturing a Nissan while mocking it over Trumps win. Almost as bad as those trucks killing people in Nice and Berlin.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2017 12:00 AM (lJXY3)

564 jumped into a big net. Pretty fvcking ballsy.
......
the Norton bomb sight is 70 years old...

Posted by: Original Jake at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (jrFgU)

565 SMFH: Everybody else is wishing and praying for comfort and closure for you, I guess I'll wish you win the lotto.

Kind of a two boats and a helicopter thing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (wB8Tg)

566
It's all very chaotic, and one of the reports comes from the "Seattle Tribune," which I don't seem to recall as being an actual paper.
Posted by: Splunge


Hmmm, sounds like that bogus Boston paper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (IqV8l)

567 551. Talking Heads, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan can provide a song suitable for any occasion or purpose. The science is settled.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (Ntak+)

568 551: i like a few talking heads songs. that david byrne is a weird sumbitch, ya know?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (KP5rU)

569 Those particular six freeway protesters are now raven shit :^)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
------------

The Rachel Corrie Gambit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (ZO497)

570 Hmmm, sounds like that bogus Boston paper.
The Globe?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (lJXY3)

571 Respectful salute in SMFH's direction.


*break*


It was a traffic accident from hell on the 290 construction project in the mid-'80s, that caused the Texas Department of Public Safety to prohibit motorcycle escorts of oversized/overweight loads in highway transit.

Only local P.D. officers can now escort said loads in local jurisdictions and urban/semi-urban settings.

Such as escorting wind turbine parts from the Port of Galveston to the North side of Houston, for transit to other parts of the country.

Four-wheel pilot-cars/trucks must then take over the escort role, between cities.

The wreck on 290, a motorcycle cop tried to "wave-onward" a 39 y/o female driver, in order to clear the way for an oncoming truck, hauling a 119 ft. long precast concrete beam for one of the 290 overpass segments.

She, seeing "motorcycle cop", hit the brakes and was immediately run over by the truck and it's combined 191,000 lb. weight. Crushed her car between the truck and a concrete Jersey Barrier.

The recovery of the body was done with great care and respect, and square bladed shovels, hand-trowels and many absorbent towels.

Ordinary non-permit weight load for an 18 wheeler is 80,000 lbs, full-up.

That motorcycle officer, though not at fault, was haunted always by the event.

I'd escorted about fifteen loads to that project from San Antonio Precast, and about a hundred more to the Beltway 8 project that was then the new thing in Houston.

I think 290 and South Congress is still about one of the most inherently dangerous major intersections in Texas, hands down.

Even in the F-150, it's best not to take it for granted.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (v5iqM)

572 peace out

Posted by: Original Jake at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (jrFgU)

573 Can't figure out what's happened in Seattle. There are reports of shots fired at an Anti-Trump protest. There are reports of a truck driving into people in an Anti-Trump protest that was blocking a freeway. It's all very chaotic, and one of the reports comes from the "Seattle Tribune," which I don't seem to recall as being an actual paper.

Posted by: Splunge at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (iMxBJ)

Good eye, Splunge! It's fake news.

Disclaimer

The Seattle Tribune is a news and entertainment satire web publication. The Seattle Tribune may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within The Seattle Tribune are fictional and presumably satirical news - with the exception of our "list style" articles that include relevant sources. The content published on The Seattle Tribune is intended to be entertainment and is often intended to generate thought and discussion among its readers. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. The Seattle Tribune is not intended for children under the age of 18.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (bG+ug)

574 Steal your wife, run your life. Drink your health, share your wealth. Kind of subversive for hippy band lyrics

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (M3DRt)

575 >>>Those particular six freeway protesters are now raven shit :^)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:00 AM (6FqZa)<<<

That comment fell flat.

Posted by: zombie Rachel Corrie at January 06, 2017 12:02 AM (WidQN)

576 Yes they did, AOP.

Between the 'Horde, my dad, and my lawyer, they had no chance.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:03 AM (ahx2/)

577 @532 Cat Ass Trophy-Thank God there that young. Hope you get them. Cultural identity? F**king kidding. I was raised by a Mexican stepmother. She used to help host Reagan fundraisers when he ran both times. Cultural identity what a crock of shit.

Posted by: JROD at January 06, 2017 12:03 AM (KjEi7)

578 562: hammer i'm damn near vics' age, i aint sayin nothing. i remember helping him load stone tablets on a travois.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:03 AM (KP5rU)

579 Stone tablets on a travois?


Luxury.

Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2017 12:04 AM (qUNWi)

580 544 Whoopsie daisies.

It's only funny til someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious.

Posted by: eleven at January 05, 2017 11:49 PM (qUNWi)

Not one, but two dumb grammar mistakes in that story:
"protester's", when it should have been "protesters' ", and "breaks" for "brakes".

Truck driver should get a medal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:56 PM (bG+ug)

++++

Or better yet, a metal.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (R+30W)

581 About 6 miles east of Rt 15/Leesburg.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 05, 2017 11:57 PM (tHwdc)



If you're leaving in the morning, you'll be OK. Right now from what I'm reading if there is a storm impact in the DC area it will be midday. But if you want an update or two tomorrow shoot me an email at linseyziq at hotmail.

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (exyD+)

582 Talking Heads, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan can provide a song suitable for any occasion or purpose. The science is settled.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (Ntak+)


I don't remember ever hearing any Paul Simon or Dylan lyrics that meant much of anything. Talking Heads ... I don't even remember any words - but I was never a big Talking Heads fan. Good music ... but that's as far as it went for me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (zc3Db)

583 oh lovely, I got suckered by fakenews again.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (6FqZa)

584 >>think 290 and South Congress is still about one of the most inherently dangerous major intersections in Texas, hands down.
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Wisconsin will send our DOT down there. They will fucking round about you to death

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:06 AM (voOPb)

585 568. Yes, a weirdo. But a genius, all the same. I give the Horde 'Home (The Naive Melody),' one hell of a love-song, performed on strings, by way of an example:

https://youtu.be/cUEiMQfSrZw

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:06 AM (Ntak+)

586
So the Seattle story is fake?
Damn. I believed it. Mostly.
There was a little twinge of disbelief, but I suppressed it. I didn't buy the idea that the protesters would get out of the way once they had traffic stopped the first time.

Posted by: Moran Mentat at January 06, 2017 12:06 AM (FtRIb)

587 Talking Heads had several songs that have been the perfect soundtrack to this or that moment in my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gK2fOq4MY

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:07 AM (6FqZa)

588 hah Palpatine picked the same song

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:07 AM (6FqZa)

589 565 SMFH: Everybody else is wishing and praying for comfort and closure for you, I guess I'll wish you win the lotto.

Kind of a two boats and a helicopter thing.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 06, 2017 12:01 AM (wB8Tg)

---

I'd have to play the lottery first...lol.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:08 AM (ahx2/)

590 very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.

Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)

591 584; mh, we are the england of the north. whoever that cockholster was that visited london back in the nineties, needs to be shanghaied. i blame that fuckin diamond jim doyle. asshole.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (KP5rU)

592 #589: Well, go buy a ticket, then! We're all rooting for you.

And your Raiders made the playoffs! This could be your year!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 06, 2017 12:10 AM (0OG8D)

593 SMFH, I wish I were in central Texas.
I'd really like to go to the service and pay respects.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:10 AM (Nox3c)

594 The Raiders will be playing the Overpaid Bronco Rejects this Saturday, so it could well be your weekend at least

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (6FqZa)

595 Evening Horde!

Want to hear a secret no one knows but the parties involved?



Posted by: shibumi, who requires a cute kitty story stat! at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (EuOZL)

596 very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.

Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)

Well, vacuums do tend to suck in stuff that's not nailed down. Funny, i don't remember emptying the cat's litter box this morning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (bG+ug)

597 >>My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan.



Lodge Cast Iron.

A tiny bit of Bacon Fat and a tiny bit of butter. Too much and you won't get a good browning.

Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (QAjcy)

598 Real news: it's going down to 27 tonight here in the North Bay. That pretty much never happens. Just got back inside after harvesting a huge bowl of lemons from our lemon tree, and, at Mrs. Splunge's suggestion, covering the tree with a couple of horse blankets.

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:11 AM (iMxBJ)

599 587. Yes, of all their works, that's the one o keep going back to. There's a pathos and a depth to it that one would not expect at all. I met David Byrne once and thanked him for that song. And #1 son is named after him.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:12 AM (Ntak+)

600 SMFH. I've just poured a Bourbon for that salute, ma'am.

I hope Carl knows how much he was admired, respected, and even loved, by so very many who'd never met him.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 12:12 AM (v5iqM)

601 Nice weather down there

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (M3DRt)

602 How many points does one get for six Trump protesters, or was it just a "spare"?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (kP16F)

603 >>it's going down to 27 tonight


-16 this morning.

Posted by: garrett at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (QAjcy)

604 >>http://theseattletribune.com/6-dead-after-truck- collides-with-anti-trump-protesters-on-freeway/



Wow. Maybe now that there's a body count on the *protester's* side the police will stop this craziness? #BLM traffic protest like this have already resulted in other deaths by impeding ambulances.

The thing is, this will haunt the driver who was just doing his regular commute when a bunch of idiots jumped in front of him.

Posted by: Literally every woman on at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (NOIQH)

605 *****SMFH*****

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:14 AM (exyD+)

606 590 very first sous vide steak tonight. I don't think it is possible to screw it up much. My only hard part was the searing. I need a better pan. Oh, and sear with butter which I didnt do but it was perfectly cooked and if anything the damn steak got plumper than at the start.
Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (CL76w)


Hard to argue if it's perfectly cooked, but one possible point: I read an article about cast iron pans vs. stainless steel that pointed out that cast iron transmits heat by contact at a much higher rate. Apparently that's why they're so great for browning, and it would make them just the right tool for searing off a sous vide steak. Of course you could help yourself by using some oil/butter/ghee, and patting the sides of the steak with paper towels to dry its surface before putting it in the pan.

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:14 AM (iMxBJ)

607 Lemon tree very chilly, and the lemon flowers need heat,

And the roots of the poor lemon, are like tiny frozen feet.

Posted by: Splunge's lemon tree, shivering at January 06, 2017 12:15 AM (bG+ug)

608 600 SMFH. I've just poured a Bourbon for that salute, ma'am.

I hope Carl knows how much he was admired, respected, and even loved, by so very many who'd never met him.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 12:12 AM (v5iqM)

---

He does.

Click on my nic to see my response.

The area around Silver City, NM is gorgeous...and very spiritual.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (ahx2/)

609 521
Next week Friday is Carl's service at the Central Texas State Veteran's Cemetery at high noon.



Thank you all.



http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3bt/1



Posted by: SMFH at January 05, 2017 11:45 PM (ahx2/)



So "Generosity" finally released the funds to you? Good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 05, 2017 11:50 PM (bG+ug)


I'm a little miffed that generosity is supposed to differ from indiegogo by being more engaged for "emergencies"....and then using the same accounting department to disburse funds under the same strictures on the same timeframe with the same holiday shutdown. But I'll reserve any action until after the check clears.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (EzgxV)

610 277 Solar power is great and everything, but the big problem is that its transmission is shitty. To get the electricity from the location generated to where it is used causes a lot of it to be "lost". The longer the distance, the greater the loss.

Now look at that map. The places that are optimum for generating the electricity are so far away from where it would be used, it makes very little sense.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 05, 2017 11:04 PM (1JnAL)




Ummm.... no.

Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.

Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source.


Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (22if9)

611 588. You're a hobo of good taste and nice judgment.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:17 AM (Ntak+)

612 If you're leaving in the morning, you'll be OK.
Right now from what I'm reading if there is a storm impact in the DC
area it will be midday. But if you want an update or two tomorrow shoot
me an email at linseyziq at hotmail.

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:05 AM (exyD+)

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on that. This is a day trip. If anything dubious is going on, I'm staying home. It's not urgent. My destination is NW of Philly, also on the edge.

I follow Jay's Wintry Mix on FB. He specializes in Loudoun County weather (school/gov't closures). He's been pretty good for the past few winters.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:17 AM (tHwdc)

613 Wow. Maybe now that there's a body count on the *protester's* side the police will stop this craziness? #BLM traffic protest like this have already resulted in other deaths by impeding ambulances.

The thing is, this will haunt the driver who was just doing his regular commute when a bunch of idiots jumped in front of him.

Posted by: Literally every woman on at January 06, 2017 12:13 AM (NOIQH)

There's no body count. Seattle Tribune claims to be a satire site. Click on "disclaimer" at the bottom of the page. Satire is supposed to be funny, and they haven't achieved that.

Posted by: Splunge's lemon tree, shivering at January 06, 2017 12:18 AM (bG+ug)

614 592 #589: Well, go buy a ticket, then! We're all rooting for you.

And your Raiders made the playoffs! This could be your year!
Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 06, 2017 12:10 AM (0OG8D)

---

We'll see.

Rent and bills come first.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:18 AM (ahx2/)

615 According to a Yahoo Finance tweet at 10:01

Trump wants a much n igger navy
Posted by: SMOD at January 05, 2017 11:25 PM (e8kgV)


A tremendous improvement over the JEF, who's been working on our much-niggardly Navy.

Posted by: mikeski at January 06, 2017 12:18 AM (UzBQ4)

616 Evenin' everyone.

I miss anything?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:19 AM (IcT7t)

617 >>There's no body count. Seattle Tribune claims to be a satire site. Click
on "disclaimer" at the bottom of the page. Satire is supposed to be
funny, and they haven't achieved that.


D'oh!

Sh#tty satire.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2017 12:19 AM (NOIQH)

618 558
Drive-by fist-bump.



Got snow this morning here, which is always nice for a transplanted Northerner.



TDS is in full swing, eh?

Posted by: Piercello, not on the road at January 05, 2017 11:59 PM (TOLnE)


Where are you?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:19 AM (EzgxV)

619 Big Country's Chance is a beautiful song.

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 12:20 AM (M3DRt)

620 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:17 AM (tHwdc)



It won't be an imposition.



On that note, better get ready for bed. Good night, all!

Posted by: Vendette at January 06, 2017 12:20 AM (exyD+)

621 OK. Caught up on camments, I think.
I see that I am under CBD's skin yet again.
Out for now.

Posted by: Chi at January 06, 2017 12:21 AM (Mr60C)

622 Something seems to be happening in Seattle. Unless there's a Seattle Fire Department fake news twitter account.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zqe2j6z

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (iMxBJ)

623 Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:09 AM (KP5rU)


Round abouts in the middle of nowhere 70 & 35, 27 & 33 to mention a few rural boondoggles

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (voOPb)

624 adios everybody. -13 right now, off to bed and warm up a little.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (KP5rU)

625 #614: It only costs $2 to play Powerball. If you want help with that, I'm sure a GoFundMe page would result in some $2 donations from our Horde. I'd certainly pony up to get you a ticket or two!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (0OG8D)

626 616 Evenin' everyone.

I miss anything?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:19 AM (IcT7t)
--------------------------
Nerdygirl had a trifecta.
3 times in the barrel.
I'm not sure she can ever recover.
Sad.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (Nox3c)

627 The area around Silver City, NM is gorgeous...and very spiritual.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (ahx2/)




Indeed. One of the many, many places I've visited via Gold Wing, over the years.

Not but a few hours ride from Cloudcroft, N.M. One of my favorite places on Earth, that.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (v5iqM)

628 Never mind. It's from Nov 9.

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (iMxBJ)

629 546 cthulhu, hope you had a Wonderful New Years!
Hubby & I went to New Orleans, crazy fun New Years Eve, and then went to the Sugar Bowl, whooo hoo Sooners!!
Now I'm sick as a dog:/

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (9plvG)

630 Ummm.... no.

Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.

Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source.


Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (22if9)

There are always losses when transmitting power over long distances. Ohm's Law is the law around here.

But you can afford some losses when transmitting hundreds of megawatts from a cheap coal or nuclear power plant, which is a point source. With solar or wind, you have to first gather in the power from distributed generators, before you can distribute it. So your losses are at least doubled, and on a pricier product, to boot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (bG+ug)

631 623: you gotta be kidding.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (KP5rU)

632 Nerdygirl had a trifecta.

3 times in the barrel.

I'm not sure she can ever recover.

Sad.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:22 AM (Nox3c)

That viscous liquid sloshing around over her toes can't be good for her skin....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 06, 2017 12:24 AM (8iiMU)

633 Is this the first barrel hat trick?

Posted by: Splunge at January 06, 2017 12:25 AM (iMxBJ)

634 607
Lemon tree very chilly, and the lemon flowers need heat,



And the roots of the poor lemon, are like tiny frozen feet.

Posted by: Splunge's lemon tree, shivering at January 06, 2017 12:15 AM (bG+ug)


OMG, someone else remembers that!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:25 AM (EzgxV)

635 Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.
---------

Transmission losses are directly proportional to distance. Inescapable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:25 AM (ZO497)

636 Nerdygirl had a trifecta.
3 times in the barrel.
I'm not sure she can ever recover.
Sad.


That's so sad. I hope she gets well soon. Or at least gets out.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:25 AM (IcT7t)

637 Is this the first barrel hat trick?
Posted by: Splunge
-----------

I haven't been this excited since there was a quad post.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:26 AM (ZO497)

638 #632: What? Nerdygirl has been in the barrel three times?

And I apparently missed all of them. FML, I say. FML.

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 06, 2017 12:26 AM (0OG8D)

639 Hello Ms Miley

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 12:27 AM (50Zxu)

640 Vesania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcO4gFyvfK0

trigger warnings for Metal

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 06, 2017 12:27 AM (6FqZa)

641 Lemon tree very chilly, and the lemon flowers need heat,

And the roots of the poor lemon, are like tiny frozen feet.

Posted by: Splunge's lemon tree, shivering at January 06, 2017 12:15 AM (bG+ug)

OMG, someone else remembers that!!!


Papa Basura had the Kingston Trio version on vinyl.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:27 AM (IcT7t)

642 Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (KP5rU)

Nope not kidding
The 27 &33 one they ran power put up street lights in a rural setting
I wonder how much goddamn money they spent

The legislature doesn't know what to do about the dot being in debt.
Stop spending money that way is a start
Stop funding Milwaukees bull shit public transportation

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:28 AM (voOPb)

643 Papa Basura had the Kingston Trio version on vinyl.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Likely in Mono.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:28 AM (ZO497)

644 Miley!!

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:29 AM (ahx2/)

645 Your cookies are a hit with my daughter...lol.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:29 AM (ahx2/)

646 629
546 cthulhu, hope you had a Wonderful New Years!

Hubby I went to New Orleans, crazy fun New Years Eve, and then went to the Sugar Bowl, whooo hoo Sooners!!

Now I'm sick as a dog:/



Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (9plvG)


Sorry to hear you're under the weather, lous -- but great to hear you had a yuge, bigly good time!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

647 Cold. Gonna stay that wall all through tomorrow. I think I'll crawl under the covers 'til Saturday.

Good night, Gracies!

---♦---

clik nic for vid - last day of Christmas call

Posted by: mindful webworker - o sun where art thou at January 06, 2017 12:30 AM (TIFWI)

648 642: it's for the children. so, it's all good, i guess. fuckin progs.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:30 AM (KP5rU)

649 Sneezing like a m'fker

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:31 AM (9plvG)

650 All Time Low is an excellent widespread panic song

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 12:32 AM (M3DRt)

651 629
Hubby I went to New Orleans, crazy fun New Years Eve, and then went to the Sugar Bowl, whooo hoo Sooners!!

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (9plvG)
--------------------
Wow. That's a New Year's celebration to remember!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:32 AM (Nox3c)

652 648

Heh

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:32 AM (voOPb)

653 643
Papa Basura had the Kingston Trio version on vinyl.

Posted by: Blanco Basura

-----



Likely in Mono.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:28 AM (ZO497)

Even the CD releases are in mono. I should, BTW, mention that I've seen them in concert -- along with Barry McGuire and the New Christy Minstrels.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:32 AM (EzgxV)

654 Too much and you won't get a good browning.
---
just stick to the ones made in Belgium, back in the day.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 12:33 AM (LeaWx)

655 649
Sneezing like a m'fker

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:31 AM (9plvG)


Exactly how does that work?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:34 AM (EzgxV)

656 Hello Ms Miley

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 12:27 AM (50Zxu)

Hi guy!-------
Blanco, I grew up on Herb Alpert, the Kingston Trio and the Limelighters.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:36 AM (tHwdc)

657 Sneezing like a m'fker

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:31 AM (9plvG)


Exactly how does that work?
Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 12:34 AM (EzgxV)




like sneezing but it winds up all over her mother.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 06, 2017 12:37 AM (cPsPa)

658 651 Margarita, one of the best long weekends hubby and I have had, it rained the whole time, but it kept the crowds small, too much fun!
The sun came out the day we left, haha!

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (9plvG)

659 Blanco, I grew up on Herb Alpert, the Kingston Trio and the Limelighters.

Got all of that plus The Association, Fifth Dimension, Earth Wind and Fire. Papa Basura worked as a broadcast engineer for many years, got himself a lot of records that way. About a year after he died Mama Basura tossed it all.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (IcT7t)

660
Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:23 AM (9plvG)
--------------------
Wow. That's a New Year's celebration to remember!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:32 AM (Nox3c)

-------
Was there for Christmas day... definitely doing it next year..... the night audit chic knocked on my door at 5:30 am.. very cordial she was

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 12:39 AM (50Zxu)

661 Papa Basura had the Kingston Trio version on vinyl.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:27 AM (IcT7t)


We used to sing that in class in in the 2nd grade, in Fullterton, CA.


Cooth. Barry McGuire.

Saw him at Point Loma College, singing with the Gospel group, "Second Chapter of Acts."

Would have been 1973 or '74.

He, and they, were very, very good.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 12:39 AM (v5iqM)

662 658
The sun came out the day we left, haha!
Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (9plvG)
-----------------
It never fails!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 06, 2017 12:40 AM (Nox3c)

663 655 cthulhu, so had a wicked cold before we left for New Orleans, drank juice, vitamins, rest the whole nine yard, then felt great the whole weekend we were there!
Got home and I'm sneezing like a madwomen, haha.
At least I was feeling good for our trip!!

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:41 AM (9plvG)

664 635 Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.
---------
Transmission losses are directly proportional to distance. Inescapable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 06, 2017 12:25 AM (ZO497)



Yes. That is the reason for high voltage transmission lines.

Feeder lines are counted in the cost of building a power plant. A conventional power plant still makes a profit when all is said and done. A solar power plant only makes a profit with massive subsidies.

Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 12:42 AM (22if9)

665 Geronimo Country

http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3eh/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:43 AM (ahx2/)

666 http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3eq/1

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:43 AM (ahx2/)

667 All right.....Marlowe says its bedtime. Fat furry bastard has begun batting me with his paw.

G'night, Horde.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:45 AM (+XXjr)

668 Your cookies are a hit with my daughter...lol.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:29 AM (ahx2/)

I'm glad to hear that - hope she's saving some for you!
Simple recipe, tricky dough. Takes practice. I just made another batch for the PA branch of the family in anticipation of my drive up on Saturday, weather permitting. For some reason it kept sucking flour. A lot depends on the moisture content of the flour, so the amount varies. Too little and they're porous - too much and they're tough. They need to be soft but well-textured.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:45 AM (tHwdc)

669 666 http://tinypic.com/m/jpx3eq/1

Hell of a nice picture.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:45 AM (IcT7t)

670 smfh, beautiful country. always liked n.m.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 06, 2017 12:47 AM (KP5rU)

671 The cool thing I took from New Orleans, everyone has the perceived idea what it's gonna be like, and it was quite another.
I loved the people of New Orleans, true southern hospitality, and the beignets were really just so damn good! But I could've just been drunk, haha

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 12:47 AM (9plvG)

672 Yes it is, Blanco...lol.

Posted by: SMFH at January 06, 2017 12:47 AM (ahx2/)

673 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:45 AM (tHwdc)

Your cookies kick ass even Mrs MH agrees

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:49 AM (voOPb)

674 Got all of that plus The Association, Fifth
Dimension, Earth Wind and Fire. Papa Basura worked as a broadcast
engineer for many years, got himself a lot of records that way. About a
year after he died Mama Basura tossed it all.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:38 AM (IcT7t)

Sad!
We didn't have a lot of LPs, but I'm pretty sure almost everything was stereo. We had one of those great cabinets made of beautiful wood, with the built in speakers on either side. My brother had to drag my dad kicking and screaming into the CD era.
Hell, my ex had to drag ME kicking and screaming into the CD era.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:49 AM (tHwdc)

675 Your cookies kick ass even Mrs MH agrees

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:49 AM (voOPb)

Awesome! Grandma would be impressed that her cookies have made it into Texas and Wisconsin

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:53 AM (tHwdc)

676 brought home the accessories for the Steyr HS today... Ammomaster Kit from RCBS, various dies and such, ~500 rounds of factory ammo, some brass and two weights of projos, plus 4 large boxes of primers.

rifle can come home next Tuesday, after the weekly trip to the alergy clinic in Left LA.

on the upside, it's the next to last time i'll have to be there longer than 30 minuets after my shot.

down side, i'll be headed up the 4 or 5 hour freeway after 3 PM, which is after rush hour starts on that stretch.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 12:53 AM (LeaWx)

677 Putin handles corruption like a boss:

https://youtu.be/co8s0egftsc

'Give me back my pen.' :

https://youtu.be/VjrlTMvirVo

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 12:55 AM (+XXjr)

678 This is one of my favorites from the Kingston Trio. I sang it to Mr. D on our honeymoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Ms6sM9noY

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:55 AM (tHwdc)

679 Sad!
We didn't have a lot of LPs, but I'm pretty sure almost everything was stereo. We had one of those great cabinets made of beautiful wood, with the built in speakers on either side. My brother had to drag my dad kicking and screaming into the CD era.
Hell, my ex had to drag ME kicking and screaming into the CD era.


I was an early adopter of CD's. As soon as I could find a player under $200, I bought it. Then marvelled at the 20 or so choices of CD's I could buy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 12:56 AM (IcT7t)

680 Attention Mike Hammer:

http://www.gcsurplus.ca/mn-eng.cfm?snc=wfsav&nscn=R6VA0011225

Icom R7100 receiver, plus other telephony stuff in case. Offered as "parts".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 12:56 AM (bG+ug)

681 52. I mean 54 Bicycles on the wall. Jack is almost as good as a cards song as Scarlet.

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 12:56 AM (M3DRt)

682 did we get a copy of this awesome recipe?

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 12:56 AM (LeaWx)

683 Blanco: LOL.

I still remember the first CD section of a record store I ever saw, at Wherehouse in Lakewood. With a big shiny sign: "Compact Discs!"

I think they had about 30 titles to choose from, including The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 12:57 AM (u8kLQ)

684 Wild win

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:58 AM (voOPb)

685 And on that note, I'll say goodnight. ttyl tomorrow evening, Horde!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:58 AM (tHwdc)

686 Nite Miley

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 12:59 AM (voOPb)

687 did we get a copy of this awesome recipe?



Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 12:56 AM (LeaWx)

Nope, not yet. I'll put it on the food thread this weekend.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 01:00 AM (tHwdc)

688 Nite, MH. Sent you an email earlier.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 01:01 AM (tHwdc)

689 Too little and they're porous - too much and they're tough. They need to be soft but well-textured.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 06, 2017 12:45 AM (tHwdc)

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You make cookies??

I kneel and offer my sword ad a token of your awesomeness

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 01:01 AM (50Zxu)

690 I remember a few years ago, I showed my then 9-year-old niece and 13-year-old nephew my turntable with an LP playing on it.

They were fascinated. Unfortunately they also immediately tried to "scratch" with it... which is okay, they're kids. (I had to buy another phono cartridge though.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:03 AM (u8kLQ)

691 Anyone know when silver's gonna hit $40 an ounce again?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:03 AM (IcT7t)

692 Anyone know when silver's gonna hit $40 an ounce again?
Posted by: Blanco Basura


Run with the big boyz! Buy some bitcoin!!! :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:04 AM (u8kLQ)

693 Seal that silver mine

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 01:05 AM (M3DRt)

694 Ummm.... no.

Electricity is moved between States on a regular basis.

Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source.


Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 12:16 AM (22if9)


Conventionally generated electricity loses 4-6% here in the US. Solar loses 20%, and the distance at which it will travel to urban areas from the deserts will push that higher.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 06, 2017 01:05 AM (1JnAL)

695 Run with the big boyz! Buy some bitcoin!!! :-P

I was also advised to invest in weed futures.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:05 AM (IcT7t)

696 Blanco, LOL.

What's spooky is, is there *anything* controlling the price of bitcoin, besides pure demand? I don't think its value is indexed into anything solid anywhere.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:07 AM (u8kLQ)

697 If that's all you got to live for.

Posted by: Robert Hunter at January 06, 2017 01:07 AM (M3DRt)

698 ONT spends way to much effort trying to be my nan's email thread with pictures like the "friday" one.

Posted by: bskb at January 06, 2017 01:07 AM (uz1TO)

699 Vanguard should have a "church of what's happenin' now!!!" fund, where you can invest in all the fads if you want. Dispensaries, bitcoin, whatever.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:08 AM (u8kLQ)

700 I was also advised to invest in weed futures.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:05 AM (IcT7t)




You're a wise man. I invested heavily into Pixyware Alpha.


*weeping*



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 01:08 AM (v5iqM)

701 They were fascinated. Unfortunately they also immediately tried to "scratch" with it... which is okay, they're kids. (I had to buy another phono cartridge though.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:03 AM (u8kLQ)

No that's not OK. Should have made them pay for the ruined cartridge and the LP. If some fuckhead rapper/DJ/lout wants to scratch his own records and cartridge, let him do it. But your niece/nephew vandalized your stereo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 01:08 AM (bG+ug)

702 Well knock me over with a feather.

That "unprecedented" firing of ambassadors that Trump is doing?

Seems it is just unprecedented for the prior 7 years.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/12/obama-gives-political-ambassad.html

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 06, 2017 01:09 AM (1JnAL)

703 What's spooky is, is there *anything* controlling the price of bitcoin, besides pure demand? I don't think its value is indexed into anything solid anywhere.

Confidence in the blockchain algorithm. That's it as far as I know.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:10 AM (IcT7t)

704 AOP, a new phono cartridge isn't that expensive.

Plus, you haven't seen how adorable they are. And they love me back, which I can't say about everyone in my life. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:10 AM (u8kLQ)

705 You're a wise man. I invested heavily into Pixyware Alpha.

Could have been worse. You could have dumped all your money into the Beta release.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:11 AM (IcT7t)

706 Posted by: bskb at January 06, 2017 01:07 AM (uz1TO)

Platinum subscription removes all pictures & vids

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 06, 2017 01:11 AM (voOPb)

707 AOP, a new phono cartridge isn't that expensive.

Plus, you haven't seen how adorable they are. And they love me back, which I can't say about everyone in my life. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:10 AM (u8kLQ)

Sixty bucks or more for a good one? Still, they should be made to pay for it. Same as if they broke a window playing baseball. I concede they probably didn't know it was harmful to do that, but it was still a deliberate act.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 01:13 AM (bG+ug)

708 AOP, if I had told their dad, he would have bought me a new one. :-)

I found a new good one for $30 at Amazon.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:14 AM (u8kLQ)

709 Time for me to pull that yellow n' black, striped handle.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!


*ejects*



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 06, 2017 01:15 AM (v5iqM)

710 AOP, if I had told their dad, he would have bought me a new one. :-)

I found a new good one for $30 at Amazon.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:14 AM (u8kLQ)

Nevertheless, the point remains: kids have to learn actions have consequences. They should be made to do some service; wash dishes, mow the lawn, bonsai the dog.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 01:16 AM (bG+ug)

711 AOP, I hear ya.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:17 AM (u8kLQ)

712 G'night gents,
Seems the Ettes have ascended for the night so I shall labor elsewhere.... praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 01:18 AM (50Zxu)

713 Conventionally generated electricity loses 4-6% here in the US. Solar loses 20%, and the distance at which it will travel to urban areas from the deserts will push that higher.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 06, 2017 01:05 AM (1JnAL)



The difference in losses is the nature of Solar electricity. Because Solar is just a crappy, overly expensive, low density, irregular power source, It requires extra work to get it into a generally useful form. Even without storage considerations you have to assemble all the low density bits and bobs into a useful, transmittable chunk of juice.

Conventionally generated electricity loses are mostly just line losses, mainly in the transmission lines. They produce salable electricity 24 hours a day with no expensive storage required.

Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 01:19 AM (22if9)

714 I'm out for the evening, too. Good night, everyone!

Posted by: The Deplorable Prothonotary Warbler at January 06, 2017 01:19 AM (0OG8D)

715 I gotta call it a night too. Thanks for the great chat everyone! Goodnight!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:20 AM (u8kLQ)

716 .Ms Miley, *tips hat*

Posted by: The guy with the hair at January 06, 2017 01:24 AM (50Zxu)

717 This thread has absolutely zero girls dancing with swords! Permit me to correct this forthwith:

https://youtu.be/O2fynD7tLiY
https://youtu.be/AN3uhImuy6E
https://youtu.be/uepw8tlQcig

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 01:24 AM (+XXjr)

718 This thread has absolutely zero girls dancing with swords! Permit me to correct this forthwith:

https://youtu.be/O2fynD7tLiY
https://youtu.be/AN3uhImuy6E
https://youtu.be/uepw8tlQcig


Thanks for keeping the ONT on the cutting edge.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:27 AM (IcT7t)

719 696 Blanco, LOL.

What's spooky is, is there *anything* controlling the price of bitcoin, besides pure demand? I don't think its value is indexed into anything solid anywhere.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 06, 2017 01:07 AM (u8kLQ)



Just to be clear -- there are no modern currencies that are indexed into anything solid. Not dollars, bitcoins, Yen, Euros, Pounds, or Renmimbi.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 01:30 AM (EzgxV)

720 718. One more - this one has an etsatz barbarian in furs, with crappy Russian pop music, at no extra cost:

https://youtu.be/wTtJOWQTmKA

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 01:32 AM (+XXjr)

721 One of my biggest regrets in life is not going to see Metallica live when I had the chances. I always put it off since high school.

Posted by: Pepe at January 06, 2017 01:42 AM (tPC7s)

722 All right - Marlowe will permit no further delays.....

Fat furry sombitch wants me to throw another log in the stove and then turn in.

Enjoy the girls with shashkas, 'rons. 'Ettes - take note and learn to dance.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 06, 2017 01:52 AM (+XXjr)

723 Skimmed the comments and didn't see this mentioned so here's my take on Cat Stevens (Yousef Islam as he's now known) is a devout muslim and as time goes by seems to be getting more devout. He agreed with the death sentence given to Salmon Rushdie for example.

I used to like his music but I can't listen to it anymore, knowing what is now in his heart.

Posted by: Boots at January 06, 2017 01:54 AM (EBwPV)

724 Ok, still awake and just got to say why the hell does Padma and Gail Simmons get a say on who cooks good on Top Chef? Does either one of them cook?
Yeah, I don't think so, all they do is look pretty & yammer on about how their palate was offended, well fuck you girls, learn how to cook then you can dog on other peoples cooking, haha.
Night all, God Bless

Posted by: lousagirl at January 06, 2017 01:55 AM (9plvG)

725 He agreed with the death sentence given to Salmon Rushdie for example.


I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2017 01:57 AM (TRzoP)

726 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 06, 2017 01:58 AM (IcT7t)

727 When everyone else is starving a little bit of bait in a good sauce make one an expert on fine food.

Posted by: some Frenchie at January 06, 2017 01:59 AM (22if9)

728 Just to be clear -- there are no modern currencies that are indexed into anything solid. Not dollars, bitcoins, Yen, Euros, Pounds, or Renmimbi.

But a dollar is worth a dollar because the US Gov't says it is.

How many legions hath Bitcoin?

(It still feels like company scrip or arcade tokens to me.)

Posted by: mikeski at January 06, 2017 02:00 AM (UzBQ4)

729
Watching Mannix on MeTV, 3rd episode of the first season. There's a scene in a beatnik bar and some guy is singing. Hey, he sounds like Neil Diamond, I thought. Very much like Diamond.

I looked it up and lo and behold it was indeed a young Neil Diamond who did a cameo.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at January 06, 2017 02:09 AM (DW+jj)

730 Any Alaskan Morons going to DC for the inaguration? Love to meet up!

Posted by: AlaskaGal at January 06, 2017 02:10 AM (KQHPY)

731 I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

Those Mohammedans! Such a piker ...

Posted by: Adriane the 1st Amendment Critic Critic ... at January 06, 2017 02:14 AM (AoK0a)

732 I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?


I remembered the controversy from back in the 80's so just now went looking around the internet - Yusef's wiki page and a number of pages linked to it go into detail. Basically he was asked about the fatwa on Rushdie and said that he agreed, death was the punishment for blasphemy.

Once he started catching serious heat for it he claimed the whole thing was a joke. But he left the music world for quite a while, sold his guitars, and has only recently decided to get back in as 'Yusef".

Posted by: Boots at January 06, 2017 02:15 AM (EBwPV)

733 731 I dunno. There's something fishy about that. What tipped the scales for him?

Those Mohammedans! Such a piker ...



He must have been triggered by those moon SHADows...

Posted by: somejoe at January 06, 2017 02:17 AM (22if9)

734 If Tim in Illinois is around...

Thanks for chiming in last night. I'm not happy you've "been there too", but I am ever so grateful to have been acknowledged. Been unbearably sad, as of late.

Posted by: voiceover at January 06, 2017 02:18 AM (9QWo+)

735 Posted by: voiceover at January 06, 2017 02:18 AM (9QWo+)

Best advice I can give you is get busy. With anything. Whether it's a hobby or just chores around the house, get busy. Stay busy if you have to. Just to keep from thinking about something you can't change.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois Your not so secret Secret Policeman at January 06, 2017 02:25 AM (d76uN)

736 He must have been triggered by those moon SHADows...


---------

Ugh. Now I have a haddock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2017 02:27 AM (TRzoP)

737 Oh, Tim. I promise. I'll work on it. I know I need to stop looking inward (Christ, it's ugly there!), and to focus on some project.

Posted by: voiceover at January 06, 2017 02:32 AM (9QWo+)

738 Only wind power that works comes from cows.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 06, 2017 02:33 AM (FtrY1)

739 Tim, you have an email with information about why you may want to limit the correlation of your IRL information with this site in particular. Not that you should immediately become Elizabeth in Duluth, or anything....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 02:38 AM (EzgxV)

740 Posted by: voiceover at January 06, 2017 02:32 AM (9QWo+)

I think I should qualify that some. A small project to start off. Something that can be completed in a short amount of time. Then work your way up.

Be realistic and have a bit of fun in the mean time.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois Who has expertise in nothing. at January 06, 2017 02:39 AM (d76uN)

741 Cat Stevens drove a Brat. Like Reagan.

Posted by: Subaru Brat Pack at January 06, 2017 02:42 AM (bc2Lc)

742 Ugh. Now I have a haddock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 06, 2017 02:27 AM (TRzoP)

It's not surprising for a devout mussel-man like Cat Stevens to be bivalve-curious.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 06, 2017 02:43 AM (bG+ug)

743 Only wind power that works comes from cows.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 06, 2017 02:33 AM (FtrY1)

Imma gonna sail to the Doldrums. I hear you can get beclammed there.

Posted by: Caitlynn Jenner at January 06, 2017 02:47 AM (bG+ug)

744 Those Mohammedans! Such a piker ...
---
actually, moose slimes are more like remoras.

without western civilization, they've be reduced to eating sand sammiches, as they produce SFA on their own, and live off the efforts of others.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:07 AM (LeaWx)

745 Howdy, morons. Checking in after a long absence...how is everyone doing tonight?

Posted by: stpatrick_tn at January 06, 2017 03:09 AM (AaZLR)

746 Doing good trying to stay warm. Long time no see stpatrick.

Posted by: Catwrangler at January 06, 2017 03:12 AM (kapIh)

747 well, you missed a barrel hat trick up thread...

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:12 AM (LeaWx)

748 745
Howdy, morons. Checking in after a long absence...how is everyone doing tonight?



Posted by: stpatrick_tn at January 06, 2017 03:09 AM (AaZLR)


Wow, you've even changed the form (though not the substance) of your nic. Is the place where we ate still there?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:12 AM (EzgxV)

749 Glad to hear it. Lost my desire to be in the mix during the witch trials of 2015-16. Still read it every day and lurk, thoug.

Posted by: stpatrick_tn at January 06, 2017 03:13 AM (AaZLR)

750 Dread Lord, yes, it's still there. It's an institution at this point. Autocomplete changed the capitalization of the handle, but that's easily fixed.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:15 AM (AaZLR)

751 Has anyone been on twitter tonight for the big Yahoo! Finance typo and the hilariousness that followed?

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:16 AM (AaZLR)

752 Jenna Jameson is taking on Islime...

https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/
817121545071886338

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:17 AM (LeaWx)

753 751 Yahoo was too niggardly to shell out for proofreaders.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 06, 2017 03:20 AM (Kucy5)

754 Has anyone been on twitter tonight for the big Yahoo! Finance typo and the hilariousness that followed?
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not seeing it on Twitchy.... got a link?

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:22 AM (LeaWx)

755 754 Twitter has disappeared the #N*****Navy hashtag, but Black Twitter has taken the joke and run hard with it.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:24 AM (AaZLR)

756 Can't give the actual hashtag, as it gets filtered. Doubt Twitchy will touch it, as it's just funny. Yahoo meant to say "Bigger Navy" but ended up posting "N***** Navy", and it became a hashtag with thousands of responses.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:26 AM (AaZLR)

757 750 Dread Lord, yes, it's still there. It's an institution at this point. Autocomplete changed the capitalization of the handle, but that's easily fixed.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:15 AM (AaZLR)


Glad to see you. Still got the same job? I'm closer to leaving CA, but it's hard to say how close as the fiancee keeps wibbly-wobbling. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:28 AM (EzgxV)

758 Left the old job after 14 years a while back, felt like a divorce, but it was time to go. I'm looking for something new right now.

On the exciting front, I *did* get engaged just before Christmas, so there's that.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:35 AM (AaZLR)

759 #756, 757....

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:35 AM (LeaWx)

760 Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)

761 Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a
place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.
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true dat: Resident Evil and i are both LA natives...

part of us wants to move, because #Failifornia, but the ties that bind say else-wise.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 03:43 AM (LeaWx)

762 761 Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)



Only reason I'm here is the fiancee....the culture of this place sickens me. I should note, however, that the fiancee is reacting to the FUD that the media is spewing. Trump needs to curbstomp these guys.....luckily, he's just the guy I'd expect to do it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:44 AM (EzgxV)

763
763 761 Sorry you're still in Cali, but I get it. Anywhere else is a huge cultural change, and when your heart is tied to a place, the economics of a move probably don't mean as much to you.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:37 AM (AaZLR)



Only reason I'm here is the fiancee....the culture of this place sickens me. I should note, however, that the fiancee is reacting to the FUD that the media is spewing. Trump needs to curbstomp these guys.....luckily, he's just the guy I'd expect to do it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:44 AM (EzgxV)




I should also note that I'm a native Californian, while she moved here after college. I remember when being born in California was a birthright to the promised land.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (EzgxV)

764 That's the thing about Cali - Cthulhu and I have been chatting off and on for years about leaving Cali, since I live in Nashville, which is a common home for SoCal refugees. It's a great city, but if you love Southern California for what it is in terms of nature and culture, you can't get that anywhere else, no matter how much further your dollar goes elsewhere. I remember when Nissan USA moved their HQ here and the split that it created in the workforce. Those who love SoCal stayed, and those who didn't moved here and were delighted to get huge houses and better schools for 1/2 the price they were paying. It all came down to priorities and personal value.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (AaZLR)

765 I should also note that I'm a native Californian, while she moved here after college. I remember when being born in California was a birthright to the promised land.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (EzgxV)


We find new rights all the time, it seems, but birthrights rarely make it past a generation or two.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:50 AM (AaZLR)

766 Also, kudos to me for remembering how to format on this kludgy old site.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:51 AM (AaZLR)

767 765 That's the thing about Cali - Cthulhu and I have been chatting off and on for years about leaving Cali, since I live in Nashville, which is a common home for SoCal refugees. It's a great city, but if you love Southern California for what it is in terms of nature and culture, you can't get that anywhere else, no matter how much further your dollar goes elsewhere. I remember when Nissan USA moved their HQ here and the split that it created in the workforce. Those who love SoCal stayed, and those who didn't moved here and were delighted to get huge houses and better schools for 1/2 the price they were paying. It all came down to priorities and personal value.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:47 AM (AaZLR)




SoCal has a pretty-much optimal climate for humans. It's shared with Israel, parts of paraguay, bits of Australia, and so on. So, why would I desire to live in a suboptimal weather climate??? Because it'd be a better political/economic climate.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 03:58 AM (EzgxV)

768 767 Also, kudos to me for remembering how to format on this kludgy old site.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 03:51 AM (AaZLR)



Are you coming back bigly?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 06, 2017 04:00 AM (EzgxV)

769 for me it's the climate, the land and mother nature that bind me.

the traffic, the tourists (both visiting and squatters) and the political stupidity are the impetus to run away.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 04:02 AM (LeaWx)

770 Not likely, just dipping a toe in. Water's warm, so far, but I'm rarely up this late.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:02 AM (AaZLR)

771 So Red, is there any one thing in particular that makes you want to leave?

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:03 AM (AaZLR)

772 even the fires are part and parcel of living here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxboWAQ_YYI

we were down in the O-side area visiting family on the 2nd or 3rd day, and you could see the pyro-cumulus from there... driving back into Lost Angels that night was surreal... hot spots and flames all over the southern slopes of the San Gabriels.

there were ashes raining for days at our house in The Valley.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 04:08 AM (LeaWx)

773 shitty economy, the nanny state, high taxes, fascist gun laws, ridiculous traffic, over regulation...

so no, not just one thing.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 04:10 AM (LeaWx)

774 Well, I can't offer regular forest fires, but that's really a positive. The fires in the Smokies late last year were an anomaly, because those mountains normally stay very wet. Middle TN has no forest fires in spite of its many forests.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:12 AM (AaZLR)

775 Red, I build out rifles for myself and friends pretty regularly, no problem. ARs, AKs, whatever. Member of the most laid-back gun club ever, just a 25 minute drive. No state income tax, but a 9.25% sales tax that everyone, scumbag to saint, has to pay. If you have investments, the taxes on interest are very low as well. On the whole, the tax code is very pro-capital and getting moreso with each legislative session.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:15 AM (AaZLR)

776 I take it we have a snow coating out there but haven't looked yet.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2017 04:15 AM (5sOEp)

777 777 No snow in the Nashville depression (greatest natural umbrella ever), but reports of 1"+ on the plateau.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:19 AM (AaZLR)

778 Well, I can't offer regular forest fires, but that's really a positive.
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out here, the chaparral HAS to burn on a routine basis... but man stops it, so, when it DOES burn, there's so much fuel, even the top soil burns and the fires go all the way to the ocean in some places.

same for western forests, and the redwoods. if they don't have regular small fires every so often, brush and other flammables build up, diseased trees don't get killed off, and then, when you finally DO have a fire, everything goes up in smoke.

we're stupid like that.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 04:24 AM (LeaWx)

779 speaking of burn out, i need to hit the rack...

gotta drive all over LA county tomorrow, so i needs my Zs

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 06, 2017 04:26 AM (LeaWx)

780 we're stupid like that.

That's Federal Forest Management 101. Can't clear the brush, can't let it burn , and then it does anyway after years of buildup, then we're supposed to feel bad for the people losing property but not hold anyone responsible. It's become a ritual.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:28 AM (AaZLR)

781 Cast more bullets yesterday when I got home and 2 ingots 4 -5 lbs each. Too much fun, still have quite a few pounds of tire weights to clean.

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2017 04:38 AM (5sOEp)

782 Pj media has link to Led Zepplin at the Knebworth 1979 concert I saw.

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2017 04:41 AM (5sOEp)

783 Out. G'night, morons.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at January 06, 2017 04:49 AM (AaZLR)

784 The kidnapping and torture of a white man by four black youths is reminiscent of when several white councilmen blocked a black Chicago mayors proposals in the 1980's.

Posted by: My name is Barack and I love Cock at January 06, 2017 05:11 AM (FqgrG)

785 2 inches of snow, guess it could be worse. I hate winter.
342 1/2hrs of the Barak administration to go.

Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2017 05:17 AM (5sOEp)

786 Good Morning Morons


Research continues on the use of solar power. Is solar pushing coal for the cheapest power source crown? Time will tell. Your humble Cob has his doubts about full time electricity from solar and wind.


That 3 cents/kw-hr number is without a doubt absolute BS. Solar generation is very close to be most expensive electricity there is. It is also among the most unreliable there is.


The real "cheapest" electricity is hydro but you will never hear any watermelon going for that.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 05:23 AM (mpXpK)

787 All true, Vic.

I assume almost all numbers to be bs these days.
If I want good numbers, I do it myself, preferably from data I collect myself. Numbers from books more than 20 years old are usually okay.

But I feel a rant coming on ....

How you doing today ?

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 05:41 AM (rPwVA)

788 Good Morning Daywalkers, Vic!

TVA does Hydro power, absolutely the most dependable and cheapest as well as Nuclear which ain't so cheap but is rock solid dependable. My watermelon cousin keeps bleating about solar and wind power and I keep telling him that the earth spins on it's axis once every 24 hours with some days being cloudy and others totally windless.

Posted by: Gmac- Deplorable Conservative at January 06, 2017 05:42 AM (4pjhs)

789 Mornin'
T minus 39 hours and counting until we drop the first chord on em tomorrow.
Much needed diversion.

Posted by: teej - who gets off on 57 Chevys at January 06, 2017 05:55 AM (gJ3Vg)

790 Big difference between the big grid and personal use, though .... I've got 1000 watts of solar charging an array of batteries out back, and an 800 watt windmill on a pole I could run up if needed .... but that's me and my personal backup plan, without tax breaks or grid-ties of any kind. I don't expect to make money on it, and the three outages it's taken me through have been adequate ROI already.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 05:58 AM (rPwVA)

791 787
All true, Vic.



I assume almost all numbers to be bs these days.

If I want good numbers, I do it myself, preferably from data I
collect myself. Numbers from books more than 20 years old are usually
okay.



But I feel a rant coming on ....



How you doing today ?



G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 05:41 AM (rPwVA)


I'm OK except no coffee, no breakfast, and not even water. Going in for colonoscapy this morning.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 05:59 AM (mpXpK)

792 788 TVA does Hydro power, absolutely the most dependable
and cheapest as well as Nuclear which ain't so cheap but is rock solid
dependable. My watermelon cousin keeps bleating about solar and wind
power and I keep telling him that the earth spins on it's axis once
every 24 hours with some days being cloudy and others totally windless.


Posted by: Gmac- Deplorable Conservative at January 06, 2017 05:42 AM (4pjhs)

My old plant was 13 mils/kw-hr on a three year running average. That was the cheapest on our system outside of hydro. The last numbers I saw on solar were measured in dollars/kw-hr. Wind was about the same.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:03 AM (mpXpK)

793

Gosh Darn Cold outside.
Not leaving the man cave for no reason.
Interesting things happen when the temp falls below zero.

Posted by: Old Whizzer at January 06, 2017 06:04 AM (Qrm0v)

794 Going in for colonoscapy this morning.


Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 05:59 AM (mpXpK)


One of those rare times when 'pics or it didn't happen' does not apply.

Posted by: RickZ at January 06, 2017 06:06 AM (91AeI)

795 Ouch. Yeah, I remember you mentioning that earlier in the week.
Got no easy words for that, at all .... hope it's over soon so you can eat and drink again, and that the results are entirely negative, as in "nothing to see here".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 06:07 AM (rPwVA)

796 The roof-top solar arrays I have seen advertised costs around $20,000 installed. They do not provide enough power to run your house even in the day time if you are
running a heat pump for heating or cooling.


And their expected lifetime is only about 10 years. Now those numbers are oold because I have been gone from the industry about 10 years. But I don't suppose the have changed much.


At those rates you don't reach pay-off on them until about 15 to 20 years in the Southeast. IOW, you lose money. Now in Southern CA that payoff is reached much earlier. But that is because their electric rates used to be about triple ours.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

797 Also, the last time I was at "home" in GA I was going around with my little brother and we drove by the old HS. They had installed a huge field full of solar arrays for the HS. He said it was a huge boondoggle that was costing the city $500M per year. And was hundreds of thousands of dollars HIGHER than if they just paid standard GA Power prices. And they were locked in to a contract for 5 years and did they did not even own the solar arrays.


Said it was a huge scandal but never mentioned in the local paper because Democrat.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:14 AM (mpXpK)

798 "because Democrat"

So much meaning in just a few words.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 06:21 AM (rPwVA)

799 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:30 AM (u82oZ)

800 -3 ℉.

Colder that your wife after giving her a lump of coal for Christmas. Don't do that. No matter what other nice things you give her, guess which gift she remembers?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:32 AM (u82oZ)

801 Vic, have a good time.

My first time (Mmm a colin cancer survivor, so I went early) my female Gastroenterologist patted my hand after the procedure and told me I had a beautiful colon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

802 Not that bad here, only 42F but going to get much worse tonight and Sat. More on that in the links.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:36 AM (mpXpK)

803 I think the high is going to be around 10 degrees today. Yesterday I was late for the train and forgot hat, scarf and had to use crappy drug store emergency gloves. Mistake I won't be making today.

Posted by: Gem at January 06, 2017 06:39 AM (uaHyk)

804 Sub-freezing in my part of Texas, but not by much.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 06, 2017 06:40 AM (J+mig)

805 Morning all! Hey we're on the plus side this morning...barely. +4

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2017 06:41 AM (qKHgx)

806 When I tried to click on the Robert Stacy McCain link, I got an error message from something called "The Medium", stating "This page is under investigation or was found to be in violation of The Medium rules." What the heck is this and how do I get it off my computer?

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 feet CO at January 06, 2017 06:42 AM (JreH3)

807 801
Vic, have a good time.



My first time (Mmm a colin cancer survivor, so I went early) my
female Gastroenterologist patted my hand after the procedure and told me
I had a beautiful colon.



Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

Yeah, colon cancer here too. If this one turns out negative I can go back to a 5 year schedule. Had been getting them annually, then went to biannual.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:43 AM (mpXpK)

808 I'll fill you all in on how many Pussy Hat Marchers I see down in DC, I'll be leaving on the March Day....thank heavens...

Posted by: KWDreaming at January 06, 2017 06:44 AM (AkcYt)

809 42 degrees here in Brazoria County this morning.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 06, 2017 06:44 AM (J8/9G)

810 The act of saying "Fuck you" to any mortal man who would claim dominion and authority over you is the first act of a free man. Not a free man on paper, but a free man in fact.

Pure poetry. Best line the Ewok's ever written.

Vic - good luck.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 06, 2017 06:45 AM (fiGNd)

811 Vic, my best wishes for a clean prep and a "Come back and see us in 5 years" talk at the end of the procedure.

And may you have good drugs and smart nurses. Note: not fluffy bunny cute ones. Smart ones.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:45 AM (u82oZ)

812 Good Morning,

Cold & light snow now & steadily colder next few days until single digits Monday night. It's 21 now.

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 06:47 AM (sj3Ax)

813
799 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:30 AM (u82oZ)


I have always enjoyed this greeting of yours, ND

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at January 06, 2017 06:48 AM (BK3ZS)

814 42 degrees here in Brazoria County this morning.




26 here in Denton County.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2017 06:49 AM (dSqvH)

815 Gem,
I hate gloves. But I have enough to put a pair in each winter coat pocket. If you can, try that.

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 06:49 AM (sj3Ax)

816 Thanks all. They had originally called for single digits here Sun night. But have changed it to 13F now.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 06:52 AM (mpXpK)

817 I hate Cat Stevens, or Yusef Islam. I won't buy Jeeps because they use Islam as an advertisement theme and pay him a royalty.

Posted by: MTF at January 06, 2017 06:52 AM (X4ZNp)

818 Vic,
Good Luck!

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 06:53 AM (sj3Ax)

819 As Andrew B had it right when said about #War ... they hate us, we can not ever compromise, fight for everything, we are winning, ask DJT if you're not sure,, fuck them, never apologize, compensate or go half way.. it is war, we are winning, go forward, it's the only way forward

Posted by: Hansen pissed off at January 06, 2017 06:54 AM (HGPlp)

820 Thanks. Krebs vs Carnot. THe Horde inspires me to go out every day with a happy song in my heart. Collectively, the humor here makes an outrage meter a thing of the past

BTW, I always smile when I see your nic. Who will win, the biochemist or the physical chemist? I see the hot biochem grad students giving their cycle a push, and the p-chem students from the basement are aligning a laser.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 06, 2017 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

821 Well, the boy and his wife and their two dogs are driving from Knoxville to DFW today and it looks like snow along the route all the way to Little Rock, maybe Texarkana. Lucky, lucky him.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2017 06:56 AM (qKHgx)

822 Gmac,
Did Pixy ever fix it so that you can post from home?

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 06:57 AM (sj3Ax)

823 Morning, all. Just trying to settle in, so no pretty girl pic just yet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2017 06:58 AM (X6fMO)

824 Not doing much here in Alexandria, VA. No snow and its cold. Upper 20's I guess. I work all weekend and its going to snow tomorrow. That means it will be a light dusting here in DC and everybody will freak out. Because its what they do. DC is a silly place.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 06, 2017 06:58 AM (6Dmwc)

825 810

Dr. K calls "FU" the 'deuce,' & "GFY" the 'long form.'

Posted by: mnw at January 06, 2017 06:59 AM (taYhJ)

826 Mornin', Horde.

Awoke to four inches of snow. Had intended to drive to the county seat today to get my driver's license. Fat chance I'd set even one tire on these roads right now.

On the chaos currently reigning in our school systems...my stepdaughter is a downsized engineer in Iowa who decided to fill in the income gap by substitute teaching. On the days when she can actually bring herself to go in she returns home with a dazed look and struggles to try to explain what happened that day. It's as though she sees it but cannot comprehend it.

Posted by: creeper...Home on her hill at January 06, 2017 07:00 AM (FE+I8)

827 You might know on a day that I need to get my links in early JJ would be running late.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:03 AM (mpXpK)

828 Well, the boy and his wife and their two dogs are driving from Knoxville to DFW today

I used to live in Knoxville. Liked it.

East Tennessee is one of the prettiest places I've ever been.

Posted by: ScoggDog at January 06, 2017 07:03 AM (fiGNd)

829 Posted by: creeper...Home on her hill at January 06, 2017 07:00 AM (FE+I

I substitute taught around 1980 for a few months. I was a pretty good teacher; one principle wanted me full-time. But that short stint taught me teaching was not for me. But if you're in teaching for the love of teaching, I can see where there are some great personal rewards to be had.

Posted by: RickZ at January 06, 2017 07:05 AM (91AeI)

830 Well, got to go get ready so I m going to do my link dump here.


More noos. Today is Friday, January 06, 2017. On this day in 1974 in response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commenced nearly four months early in the United States. An incredibly stupid act from an all Democrat Congress and the most liberal Republican to ever occupy the WH, Richard Nixon. Daylight savings time is a fraud. It has never been shown to save one iota of energy and even if it did, how in the hell would this save "oil". DST is kept in place to make merchants happy and even any possible gain from that is dubious.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:07 AM (mpXpK)

831 As expected the ranchers out west are not happy with the Choom's latest "Monument" land grab. One hopes they all voted for Trump and that Trump AND congress are going to reverse this BS. The Antiquities Act needs to be either repealed or severely altered. A hog wild President should not be able to make such drastic changes on their way out the door.


http://fxn.ws/2iJ6TVt

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:07 AM (mpXpK)

832 More info from Scankles released emails shows she really was a criminal and an idiot.


http://fxn.ws/2iJ1n5c

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:08 AM (mpXpK)

833 Posted by: ScoggDog at January 06, 2017 07:03 AM (fiGNd)

*Fistbump*

Back in the late 80s while I was out in Eastern KY flying a forestry surveillance route I had a chance to fly a day trip into Knoxville. It was beautiful.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2017 07:08 AM (qKHgx)

834 The House in a bipartisan vote approved a measure to condemn the UN for its Israel resolution. They should have included Obama in the "condemnation" since he is the one who orchestrated that UN vote. And some Democrats recognized that and of course voted against the measure.


http://fxn.ws/2iW9UBq

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:08 AM (mpXpK)

835 More on the Hannity interview with Wikilinks.


"We're in the business of publishing information about power," Assange said. "Why are we in the business of publishing information about power? Because people can do things with power, they can do very bad things with power. If they're incompetent, they can do dangerous things. If they're evil, they can do wicked things."



I would say that pretty much sums up the Choom legacy that the MFM is looking for; incompetent and evil.


http://fxn.ws/2iXkCI1

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

836 Morons in the South, baton down the hatches and stand clear of the weather decks. There may not be any high winds and heavy seas but we here are about to get some really crappy weather. They have changed the forecast here again but they are still calling for a mix of rain, sleet, and snow tomorrow. That is the worst kind of weather for here because it will bring down heavy tree limbs on the power lines and cause widespread blackouts. And in the South most people use heat pumps for heating and cooling.


http://fxn.ws/2hX8Xfb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

837 Trump warns Toyota about building a proposed car plant in Mexico. He says stand by for some heavy taxes. He should promise he will get rid of a lot of the regulations that cause manufacturers to move to Mexico.


http://fxn.ws/2iIVapJ

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

838 TX is about to join NC in requiring people to use the correct bathrooms and locker room facilities. An action that should not be necessary.


http://fxn.ws/2jaWh0p

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

839 Vic,
Put links here. We will tell people to look at end of ONT.

I don't need J. J. for this-Inauguration Day in two weeks!

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (sj3Ax)

840 Speaking of incompetent idiots, Yahoo news tries to take a dig at Trump who has said he wants to get the Navy size back up. But they make a significant typo and evidently have no proofreaders.


http://bit.ly/2iPcxbb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:09 AM (mpXpK)

841 The latest on the DNC Russian hack. Get this; the FBI says they did not analyze the DNC servers because the DNC refused to give them to them to analyze. In effect, they knew the "Russian Election Hack" was BS.


http://bit.ly/2hXGD7K

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:10 AM (mpXpK)

842 RINO Ryan pinky swears they will defund PP this year.


http://bit.ly/2jaV1ub

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:10 AM (mpXpK)

843 A few sore losers in the House are saying they will challenge the certification of the Trump electors.


http://bit.ly/2hXjMhp

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:10 AM (mpXpK)

844 Black and Decker announces opening a new US plant after Trump win.


http://bit.ly/2iXvgyn

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:10 AM (mpXpK)

845 Ramirez - Finally a new one!


http://bit.ly/1qd89lF


That's it for today folks. I will be leaving early this morning to go to the hospital for a colonoscopy.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:11 AM (mpXpK)

846 -10 here.

" It's as though she sees it but cannot comprehend it." So much of life is like that these days. One of my greatest hopes for the incoming administration is not a specific policy as such, but a generalized cutting through the bs that encrusts everything .... a return to truth-telling.
"The Rectification of Names".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 07:11 AM (rPwVA)

847 Snow-Armageddon to arrive in Atlanta this evening. Have sleds ready for the kids and the Jeep all gassed up to go find some good hills. If this falls apart or just a dusting like other false alarms past couple years there is going to be hell to pay.

Posted by: The Left at January 06, 2017 07:11 AM (1BQGO)

848 Going to get ready now. May be back if I have time.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at January 06, 2017 07:11 AM (mpXpK)

849 I'm having trouble getting the links for Fox to work that Vic provided. Anyone else?

Posted by: Bruce at January 06, 2017 07:14 AM (8ikIW)

850 Now I'm hearing panicked reports about all the job losses (3million!) that will happen if Obamacare is repealed.

What will the left try next, a plague of locust? Three days of impenetrable darkness? Pestilence?

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2017 07:15 AM (1BQGO)

851 Sefton is late this morning. The yuuuge, opulent AoSHQ HQ must be snowed/iced in.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 06, 2017 07:16 AM (J8/9G)

852 MPPPP,
Are you feeling better?

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 07:17 AM (sj3Ax)

853 832 More info from Scankles released emails shows she really was a criminal and an idiot.
=========================

The linky no worky.

Posted by: MTF at January 06, 2017 07:17 AM (X4ZNp)

854 I know everyone in the Chicago area will want tickets to Obama's farewell address... Ticket distribution will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at McCormick Place. No lineup before 6am..Standing out in the cold would be worth it, right??

Posted by: Colin at January 06, 2017 07:19 AM (ogUTd)

855 Back in the late 80s while I was out in Eastern KY flying a forestry surveillance route I had a chance to fly a day trip into Knoxville. It was beautiful.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2017 07:08 AM (qKHgx)


The jeep and I spent a lot of time up in the Gorge mid-80's.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 06, 2017 07:20 AM (1/I/y)

856 Nood dump

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2017 07:22 AM (dSqvH)

857 Some aren't working for me either.

Posted by: Carol at January 06, 2017 07:22 AM (sj3Ax)

858 What will the left try next, a plague of locust? Three days of impenetrable darkness? Pestilence?


Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2017 07:15 AM (1BQG
all of the above!

Posted by: Colin at January 06, 2017 07:22 AM (ogUTd)

859 "The latest on the DNC Russian hack. Get this; the FBI says they did not analyze the DNC servers because the DNC refused to give them to them to analyze. In effect, they knew the "Russian Election Hack" was BS."

I kind of remember this from months ago when it first broke; private "security consultants" blamed it on "Russian hackers" based on a typo in the code somewhere .... so this crapola is all old news served up reheated, huh ?
What a surprise.

Gaslighting us 24/365.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 06, 2017 07:22 AM (rPwVA)

860 836

So now we can add "ranchers out West" to "disillusioned Jewish voters" among groups that Trump will be happy to add as prospective new supporters!

CO & NV need some GOP attention anyway. Both were disappointments in '16. HRC carried CO & the GOP should've picked up a NV senate seat.

Posted by: mnw at January 06, 2017 07:23 AM (taYhJ)

861 Morning, all.

This is Nan Patterson:

http://tinyurl.com/juuvjjj

One of the original "Florodora Sextette," she became the mistress of gambler Caesar Young. On the morning of June 4, 1904, she was in a hansom can with Caesar, driving down to the Hudson River pier, where Caesar was to meet his wife before taking her on a transatlantic trip.

At the intersection of West Broadway and Franklin, bystanders were shocked to hear a pistol shot ring out and Patterson wail, "why did you do this to me?" Police rushing to the cab found Caesar, his head in Patterson's lap, dying from a bullet to the chest.

A hysterical Patterson claimed that Caesar, despondent over her resolve to leave him, had committed suicide. The police, however, had their suspicions - not only had the bullet in the gambler's chest entered at an impossible angle for suicide, Caesar's gun was still in his pocket.

Patterson was put on trial for murder, twice, but both times got off because of a hung jury. And she went free.

In 1959, Newman Levy, son of Patterson's defense lawyer Abraham Levy, penned The Nan Patterson Case; I've never read it, so I don't know whether he thinks she was guilty or not.

Here's a link to a NYT article from December 24, 1904 concerning the first mistrial:

http://tinyurl.com/j3j3yyp

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 06, 2017 07:23 AM (X6fMO)

862 >>>A hog wild President should not be able to make such drastic changes on their way out the door.


First order of business for the new administration should be to conduct a thorough review of everything Obama has done since the election and undoing as much of it as possible.

Posted by: Anita Sarkeesian at January 06, 2017 07:29 AM (rH4JY)

863 I was on the Piss Train once thru the Urinals..they served free
"cakes" they leaked a little but were crunchy good...the scenery was hard to see outside the yellow windows and the aroma was San FransiCAN if you catch my drift.the WiFi was piss poor and all I could get was CNN....Cystitis Neuro Network
all in all a a bladder buster...recommended to Harry Reid and Nancy Prolapsi.

Posted by: saf at January 06, 2017 09:13 AM (+zN6H)

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