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Done for the Day

I'm not net-nannying anymore.

Congrats. You drove me off my own site.

For the night. That won't last, I promise you.


I don't have time to pick up your garbage, so you're being asked to leave.

Apologies to Insomniac. It was a misunderstanding on my part and I'm sorry I flew off the handle.

( I would have deleted this reference a long time ago, when I apologized to Insomniac in the comments, but I'd completely forgotten he was mentioned up here in the post itself.)

Posted by: Ace at 06:37 PM




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1 Sorry ace

Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (JNDQi)

2

The fasting can get to you ace. Get small amounts of food.

Posted by: imp at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (XIXZz)

3 Dammit, why do all the b-holes keep breaking Ace's blog? Honor the man's requests and be decent.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (RYASC)

4 Jeeez. What'd you guys do now?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (GzDYP)

5 Knew this was coming

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (HDU3V)

6 This is why we can't have nice things

Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (JNDQi)

7 I just posted a White Zombie tune?


Was that wrong?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (NXfyF)

8 This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (RYASC)

9 Sometimes it is better not to comment?

Posted by: rd at February 27, 2017 06:38 PM (iT57s)

10 have a good evening, Ace

don't let the bastards get you down

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (KCxzN)

11 Ha? What am I missing? I am usually the last to know.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (KlI/a)

12 I am suprised the comments work, was expecting a blank again.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (HDU3V)

13 What happened?

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (QCc6B)

14 Man, I read that entire Thread and was ready for some shenanigans.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (NXfyF)

15 Wow. I must have *really* missed something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (/f1mm)

16 What happened?

Don't go.

Posted by: LASue at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (kuoBn)

17 It's not safe, is it?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (LTHVh)

18
I hate it when Mom and Dad fight.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (vIjh1)

19 @11 Ha? What am I missing? I am usually the last to know.
----------------

Saw Ace complaining about sexist comments in the Siri post, and threatening the banhammer. I didn't see any of the problem comments, though. Apparently they were getting deleted pretty quickly.

Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (nsZ+m)

20 Saw the warning, so watching TWD on demand

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (HDU3V)

21 On a slightly different topic: Jon Huntsman at State?

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (TppKb)

22 Siri, how do we get Ace back?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (kTF2Z)

23 Are we in trouble? I'll just go to my room now.

Posted by: LASue at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (kuoBn)

24 You guys.... WTF?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (NJYYf)

25 Wan't me.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (4YGWz)

26 Looks like an early night?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (/f1mm)

27 The worst part of this was that Ace seemed like he was enjoying the blog this morning (early afternoon).

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (NXfyF)

28 Whoa. I guess I missed the catalyst for this.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (0mRoj)

29 Saw Ace complaining about sexist comments in the Siri post, and threatening the banhammer. I didn't see any of the problem comments, though. Apparently they were getting deleted pretty quickly.
Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM (nsZ+m)

Ah...I've been married over 30 years...I know there is no future in that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (KlI/a)

30 Note to Self - do not discuss radiation and robots,

Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (Sfs6o)

31 Ace posted about a woman who wrote an article about how we sexually harass virtual assistants like Siri blah blah blah. Some commenters took that as license to point out that she may or may not have been of a certain ethnicity, and how they might like to "get all up in that". Ace asked them to stop, and they did not. So out came the Threadhammer.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (RYASC)

32 I bet 'Jen' posted some more gross feminine hygiene shit.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (NXfyF)

33 22. Haha!

Posted by: LASue at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (kuoBn)

34 Siri, how do we get Ace back?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 06:40 PM


Well played. Golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (KCxzN)

35 That's maybe the first time I've witnessed one of those threads.

It's like mommy and daddy had a fight. I'm gonna go ride my bike until it gets dark.

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (8b+oT)

36 If this was Minx 0.7 Beta, Ace could have just eliminated the comments and left the post, which was amusing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (LTHVh)

37 I guess I missed the offensive parts.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (0mRoj)

38 The giraffe in that webcam is now just staring at the camera saying "He will not divide us." What's up with that?

Posted by: scofflaw_x at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (y9ZJX)

39 Get some rest, Ace. At least you don't have to deal with the traffic and other crazinesses of The Annual Insanity, aka Mardi Gras. That's enough to drive anybody around the bend . . . and I should know [cackles maniacally].

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (TfDYZ)

40 Oh I thought it was because I said ' jizz'.

Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (BO/km)

41 This is why we can't we have nice things...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (kP16F)

42 "All are punish'd "

Posted by: Prince Escalus at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (c6/9Q)

43

Sorry Ace

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (MZ/gs)

44 Ha? What am I missing? I am usually the last to know.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 06:39 PM (KlI/a)


I think people were using the thread about a disturbed and probably insufferable woman's article about how Siri's obedience and tolerance were demeaning to women to post comments that were demeaning to women. Also I had a post about robots and radiation that vanished into the ether with the thread

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (8nWyX)

45 31: Glad it wasn't the sammich comments. That would have rocked my world.

Posted by: LASue at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (kuoBn)

46

It's just that time of the month.

Posted by: imp at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (XIXZz)

47 Siri, how do we get Ace back?

===




I'm sorry , Duke.

I can't do that.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (KgpWR)

48 It's like a quokka came around the corner and BOOM, a thread is gone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (/f1mm)

49 Alexa, play, "I'm Sorry" by Patsy Cline...


Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (8b+oT)

50 You guys are all on report!

Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (Sfs6o)

51 I still want a review of Ex Machina.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (LTHVh)

52 Siri, send some Valu-rite and chocolate to Ace.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (1CroS)

53 THEN WHO WAS POD BAY DOOR?!?

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (8b+oT)

54 Threadhammer.
Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:41 PM (RYASC)

Banscissors? With which one cuts the entire thread?

Just brainstorming. I like "Threadhammer" better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (sK2fh)

55 Sounds like somebody's gonna get hammered.
Tomorrow, too.

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (HgMAr)

56 ace and the Horde are like The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why".

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (FqgrG)

57 40 Oh I thought it was because I said ' jizz'.
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 06:42 PM (BO/km)


Maybe it was me posting that OT link to Trump's Obamacare meeting.


Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (nNdYv)

58 From what I saw of the Siri thread, things went right off the rails quickly. I think Ace put his/her finger on it; there's some folks here who love to start generating shade over certain topics, as opposed to actually -talk- about things (or even just grumble).

I'd offer to help moderate, but I've got a full time job and these threads fill up faster than Hillary at a Valu-Rite sale.

Posted by: Toastrider at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (OTkvm)

59 Wha hoppen?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (MZcWR)

60 Siri, Play 'No Woman, No Cry'.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (NXfyF)

61 Please submit your secret denunciations of those responsible, using the "Mouths of the Lion" conveniently located outside each municipal building.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (4bKiB)

62 Beware Ewoks who disappear and go full drop bear!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (3Vlkn)

63 Whahappened?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (vZ9Fw)

64 I will repeat my recommendation of West World for those who haven't seen it. It's like three or four interwoven stories that consist mostly of wtf.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (LTHVh)

65 Jon Huntsman in talks to be State Department’s number two

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (IqV8l)

66 49 Alexa, play, "I'm Sorry" by Patsy Cline...

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (8b+oT)
-------------------------
Say what?

Posted by: Brenda Lee at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (Nox3c)

67 Since I took the time to respond to an unrelated comment...

Bloomberg disaster pr0n on fukushima...

Headline:
"Melted Nuclear Fuel Search Proceeds One Dead Robot at a Time"

Actual verfickt quote in the verficken article:
"The Hitachi and Toshiba robots are designed to handle 1,000 sieverts and no robot has yet been disabled due to radiation."

/Williamson /Kreestol
The MSM should move to a place in the sun.
/Williamson /Kreestol

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (4YGWz)

68 Oh! I found my comment about robots dying in Fukushima from radiation in my browser history. Boy are you guys lucky!

This, among other things. There are videos online from robots in Chernobyl #4 where you can see what looks like static on the feed; that's actually particles hitting the receptors on the CCD. Eventually, that gives out. And it's not doing the ICs any favors either, inserting random 1s and 0s into binary circuits. Shielding isn't feasible because it would be too heavy.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (8nWyX)

69 Double Secret Probation!

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (NgKpN)

70

The comments were not of a pervasive or insanely derogatory nature, at least about the author of the "study" article. A couple of ribald to off-color remarks, stuff you wouldn't say to your mom, but one supposes ace saw where he thought it was going, and killed it like Raid.

Posted by: imp at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (XIXZz)

71
Sigh, nobody notices me.

Posted by: Cortana at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (yfObW)

72 Threadhammer, because Posthammer sounds mildly pornographic.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (RYASC)

73 Glad it wasn't the sammich comments. That would have rocked my world.

Posted by: LASue
-----
Did you see the sandwich robot?! How do you kill a thread with a sandwich robot in it? HOW?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrNV8b1tjBA

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM (8b+oT)

74 Last time mommy and daddy had a fight I took ride on my bicycle. When I returned all I remember seeing was crime scene tape and the ME van parked in the driveway.

Posted by: Nick Stokes at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM (nN3W/)

75 Threadhammer, because Posthammer sounds mildly pornographic.

Posted by: Me
-----
Trust me, don't Google "Spamhammer."

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM (8b+oT)

76 51 I still want a review of Ex Machina.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (LTHVh)



Review of Ex Machina: Chicks are crazy. Even if they're robots.

Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM (z/Ubi)

77 Or Mudhammer.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (RYASC)

78 ...and when I returned the Leah and Siri thread was gone!

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (qJhUV)

79 So I go walk the dogs, start putting a little food together, and BLAMO - the blog is KLAPOOOY.

It's not my fault, honest!

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (MINbv)

80 Fascinating news from Elon Musk... SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.

Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (5zfq1)

81 I'm going to bang $20 on the tip jar. Ace has been en fuego for weeks and mixing it up with us in the comments. He deserves some exotic cheese.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

82 Siri, is raping a sex robot rape-rape?

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (HgMAr)

83 Now that was odd. Here I wade through that long post of Ace's about the Siri thing, and even looked at the related Twatter things, went to comment and BOOM. Whole thing is gone. Another strange day at the HQ I suppose...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (T1H5V)

84 it was the Polygamy Ale wasn't it?

Posted by: is this thing on at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (0efI6)

85 The giraffe in that webcam is now just staring at the camera saying "He will not divide us." What's up with that?



You took the brown acid?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (ph+ut)

86 So ... I left in the middle of the Bush thread ... because kids and homework and shit.

I assume there was another thread that went ... poorly.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (fiGNd)

87 Can't leave you alone for a few hours. Sheesh...

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (CNHr1)

88 Did I miss a thread?

Posted by: fish...the lowercase one at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (LQIS/)

89 what the hell did you guys do

Posted by: Gman at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (VXoTW)

90 Siri, you were begging for it, weren't you?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (oVJmc)

91 Review of Ex Machina: Chicks are crazy. Even if they're robots."

Do not forget the other exhortation about crazy and, er, Richards.

Applies to robots, too.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (MINbv)

92 47 Siri, how do we get Ace back?

===




I'm sorry , Duke.

I can't do that.
Posted by: HAL 9000 at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (KgpWR)


WHERE IS DR FORBIN>>>>

AND HAL>>>> GET OFF MY LAWN

Posted by: Colosus at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (NgKpN)

93 So...

Trump has a meeting with insurance CEOs, gives a breakdown of why Obamacare is failing and it's important to fix. Goes around the table, introduces those present, they each offer brief remarks.

When it's time to adjourn, reporter screams out a question about:

special prosecutor for Russia.

Guess you didn't see *that* coming!

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (nNdYv)

94 I got super-duper-willowed.

I think this comment is harmless:


Plus alot of people are gonna be out of work with bots

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 06:31 PM (MZ/gs)


Yeah, SoftBank and the Saudis(!) have a $100 billion investment company now going to flood the world with intelligent robots/machine within 30 years.

And hope, to outnumber humans world wide,

No. That is not a joke.


So, why are we importing millions of 3rd Worlders when Our Betters are working day and night to eliminate the sorts of jobs poor uneducated immigrants could get with machines?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (vZ9Fw)

95 >>Fascinating news from Elon Musk... SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.

Is he planning on bringing them back?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (/tuJf)

96 ..and when I returned the Leah and Siri thread was gone!




They got a room.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (ph+ut)

97
Cortana, can you find Siri for me?

Posted by: Clippy at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (fFfWq)

98 SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.
Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (5zfq1)

I can only hope the words "Bang" and "Zoom" are involved in the planning committee meetings...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (sK2fh)

99 Since you live in NYC, you should go out to dinner, have a drink, talk to some mish, and treat yourself well tonight.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (ksj3z)

100 Is it safe?......(sound of a dentist drill spinning up.....)

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (5VlCp)

101 Fascinating news from Elon Musk... SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.

Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (5zfq1)

Given that Elon hasn't managed to get even one passenger into LEO yet, I'll believe that when I see it.

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (T1H5V)

102 bad things


very very bad things

Posted by: alone and shivering in the darkness at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (KgpWR)

103 So, the shelves fell down?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (kTF2Z)

104 Shut your Whore Mouth, Cortana!

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (NXfyF)

105
Fascinating news from Elon Musk... SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.
Posted by: GuyfromNH


They're not landing there. (Unless they crash)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (IqV8l)

106 I love it when this happens. Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: phone of kari - certified sidebar at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (Ra386)

107 I'm sorry ace, it seems some crossed lines. try to have a peaceful night , and blow this place off for a few hours.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 06:49 PM (R7cwD)

108 What Ace really needs is a Virtual Assistant to do the net-nannying for him.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (3OAG2)

109
MISSING!

Ewok-Pit Bull mix, responds to "Ace". Can be attracted by Val-U-Rite and fresh hobo meat. Return if found. His Horde misses him.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (J8/9G)

110 Done. Y'all do likewise.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (LTHVh)

111 Is it safe?......(sound of a dentist drill spinning up.....)"

I still hate that part of the flick.

Arrrrrgh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (MINbv)

112 Review of Ex Machina: Chicks are crazy. Even if they're robots."




Cherry 2000.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (ph+ut)

113 Dramaaaaaaa
Drama rama rama rama ramaaaaaaaaaaaa
WOO!
Drama!

Posted by: phone of kari - certified sidebar at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (Ra386)

114 >>Is he planning on bringing them back?


Baby Steps.

Posted by: Dr. Leo Marvin at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (NXfyF)

115 lmao @103

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at February 27, 2017 06:50 PM (CNHr1)

116 This is like double secret probation

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (HDU3V)

117 well if we are going forbots, I want one that pays the bills.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (R7cwD)

118 Ace, if you want, I'll wear the crocs on my knees tonight.

Posted by: Donald Trump's Hair Piece's Trash at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (FqgrG)

119 SpaceX plans to send two passengers to the moon next year... astounding.

Is he planning on bringing them back?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (/tuJf)

If he is smart, and he is I think, he will "negotiate" with them on far side of the moon? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (KlI/a)

120 SpaceX is just trying to beat NASA's plan to test their crew capsule with a similar moon orbit in 2019.

Possible, but unlikely.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (3Vlkn)

121 81 I'm going to bang $20 on the tip jar. Ace has been en fuego for weeks and mixing it up with us in the comments. He deserves some exotic cheese.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:47 PM (LTHVh)

Seconded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (sK2fh)

122 i wasn't paying attention to the thread so I don't know what was being said, but theybdont sound like the guys to go mouthing off randomly.

Your site, your rules, ace.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (aiPwI)

123 He's gonna' ban me for this ... I can feel it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 06:51 PM (fiGNd)

124 Cortana.....bring ace back.




What have you people done?

Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (qUNWi)

125 space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (c6/9Q)

126 also the house could use a new paintjob..

heck I could make a honey do list for the bot.

I might actually like this new adventurous tech

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (R7cwD)

127 Since the offending thread disappeared, here's the link to the ACA meeting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjp0JamIZaA

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (nNdYv)

128 Guessed I missed the hoopla.

Posted by: Tuna at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (jm1YL)

129
Given that Elon hasn't managed to get even one passenger into LEO yet, I'll believe that when I see it.


THIS.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (oVJmc)

130 For a non scientist, the flight to the moon will be both boring and scary.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (LTHVh)

131 Beware girls who ask if you've seen Ex Machina on the first date.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (3Vlkn)

132 some of the shit was due to a twitter infestation (it was stupid of me to link the site on that cesspool), but some of the crap was from regulars.

Insomniac said "Frank Zappa would write a song about these two," which another anti-semitic n00b echoed. This is certainly a reference to his song "Jewish American Princess," so I guess I need an explanation as to why Insomniac thinks this blog is a game of Spot The Jews.

JEM earlier played the same game calling a fight between Bill Kristol and Andrew Breitbart -- which didn't even happen; he made it up for this quip -- "hebe-on-hebe action." Again, when did you think the blog became Spot the Jew?

JEM followed that performance up (for which he had been warned) with saying he wanted to invent a bot called Leah (the name of the female writer in question) so he could say "Leah, spread your legs."

It doesn't occur to him that maybe when you're actually naming a real woman and making sexually derogatory remarks, maybe that's a problem.

Like: Maybe there are female readers and commenters who don't find this fantasy of JEM's as high-larious as he does?

Anyway, both are banned.

You get a caution, then you get a ban. I don't have the extra hours in the day to clean up after anti-semites and all-around assholes.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (8rNrN)

133 Looks like Sessions is finally having an impact at DOJ...

They are no longer fighting against the Texas Voter ID law...

Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (NgKpN)

134 This wouldn't have happened if Ace had just handed the banhammer keys to Tay, the MAGA loving AI...

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (rUIbB)

135 The Siri thread? Hammered. Like a screen door in a hurricane.

Poor dear, didn't even get to make a sammich, first.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (v5iqM)

136 I missed...something.

I hope everyone is having a good night.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (+eR2D)

137 I missed the ruckus.

Posted by: BuckIV at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (CLfqv)

138 68 Oh! I found my comment about robots dying in Fukushima from radiation in my browser history. Boy are you guys lucky!

This, among other things. There are videos online from robots in Chernobyl #4 where you can see what looks like static on the feed; that's actually particles hitting the receptors on the CCD. Eventually, that gives out. And it's not doing the ICs any favors either, inserting random 1s and 0s into binary circuits. Shielding isn't feasible because it would be too heavy.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 06:45 PM (8nWyX)
---------
Makes sense - thanks!

Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (Sfs6o)

139 He warned us. He did

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (MZ/gs)

140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1AaCy-yU9c

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (4e+hS)

141 Roscosmos, the Russian parastatal corporation that runs passengers to and from the ISS, has been talking for years about being able to do an Apollo 8-style space-tourist moonshot with an upgraded, modified Soyuz vehicle.

They were quoting $150M per seat.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (noWW6)

142 Given that Elon hasn't managed to get even one passenger into LEO yet, I'll believe that when I see it.

THIS.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (oVJmc)

Once you've hit LEO, the rest of the universe is a cakewalk. Unless you actually want to come back... Damn Tsiolkovsky....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (sK2fh)

143 Ace forgives us!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (LTHVh)

144 I wondered what was happening to the "sexual subjugation of Siri" thread when I was trying to open the comments section. Sounds like someone is getting in trouble tomorrow.

Posted by: Retired Buckey Cop is now an engineer at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (5Yee7)

145 >> I don't have the extra hours in the day to clean up after anti-semites and all-around assholes.



Great. Now I'm getting lumped in with the anti-semites.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (NXfyF)

146
space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first
Posted by: runner


PETA would go ape.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (IqV8l)

147 Would you like to see "A Long Day's Journey Into Night"?

I can also read it to you, in the patronized voice of your choice.

Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana, Esq. at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (GdgAM)

148 I saw Mudhammer open for the Rev. Horton Heat at the Chukker on the Smoke 'Em If You Got' Em tour.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (/f1mm)

149 Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (8rNrN)

You banned Insomniac?

I think he depends on this community, maybe you could rethink that. I worry about him.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (nNdYv)

150 if it will make ace feel better i'll be the female that does the misandry deal? and bigotry and religious hate.

men can always be led around by their peni.
'

they should use their brain instead.

also those freakin skandis with their weird ass food and luminescent (sp) legs.
and Lutherans, fgs, green jello is all they ever offer the world.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (R7cwD)

151 That damn whore Twitter breaks up our happy home yet again.

Shame. Shame.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (fiGNd)

152 I was gone last week. Did we have problems?

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (u8Ywb)

153 130 For a non scientist, the flight to the moon will be both boring and scary.

--

Space travel scares the hell out of me more than most potential experiences. Something about the distances involved and the natural inhospitable environment to human life. If literally anything goes wrong, you die. Sure systems are redundant, but it's not like a plane where you have the possibility of gliding to safety or jumping out. You just die.

Posted by: Joe, living mobile at February 27, 2017 06:56 PM (aiPwI)

154 so I guess I need an explanation as to why Insomniac thinks this blog is a game of Spot The Jews.
\\

====

I believe that Insomniac was reacting to the Jew-baiting poster who socked Frank Zappa.
Insomniac said "Frank Zappa would have written a song about this" meaning the thread topic.

Som is a good guy and no anti-semite.

Ask JJ or CBD.

Just sayin.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (KgpWR)

155 >> I saw Mudhammer open for the Rev. Horton Heat at the Chukker on the Smoke 'Em If You Got' Em tour.


The Liquor in the Front Tour was the one you wanted to see!

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (NXfyF)

156 Twitter has been sort of extra hideous today

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (MZ/gs)

157 Yeah, you're right ace. I don't want to read that shit. Jesus ...think before you type and post.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (CNHr1)

158 Now I'm getting lumped in with the anti-semites.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:55 PM (NXfyF)

-------

Nope.

You're definitely in the "all around asshole" camp

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (vIjh1)

159 Beware girls who ask if you've seen Ex Machina on the first date.
Posted by: Walter Freeman


Are they claiming they don't remember our first date?

/grammargrenade

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (4YGWz)

160 >>>The worst part of this was that Ace seemed like he was enjoying the blog this morning (early afternoon).

i was. Getting a little tired of the unemployed drunks who fancy themselves shock-jocks though. (And some of these people must be unemployed, because who the fuck would even consider posting this shit from work?)

Just because some are unemployed doesn't mean others are, or want to be.

So the Shock Jock Crew can go back to posting wherever they used to post their super-funny racist and anti-semitic trash on.

PS, i'm tired of seeing the same three guys bring up an issue which is now 23 years dead -- ebonics -- just because a black guy mentioned somehere in the article.

It's just pavlovian racism -- "I see a black guy, I gotta say 'ebonics' because that was a good insult 23 years ago in 1994."

Fucking enough. At least update your reflexive racial put-downs to the 21st century.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (8rNrN)

161
Twitter has been extra anti Jew today

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (MZ/gs)

162 Trailers for the new "Ghost in the Shell" movie look like at least part of the plot will come from the GITS anime movie "Innocence" about killah sexbots.

Or they're just using some of the bot/cyborg designs from that anime.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 06:58 PM (vZ9Fw)

163 Insomniac is no Anti-Semite, Ace.

And if he was ref. Zappa in that post, I would guess it was Joe's Garage (L. Ron Hoover and the First Church of Appliantology) and not another Zappa Tune.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:58 PM (NXfyF)

164 Leah should invent her own bot Tina as an alternative to Siri. It could say things like, "I'm talky Tina, and I'm going to castrate you, you patriarchal pig".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 06:58 PM (W8bn5)

165 I remember back in the day. the principle had a big paddle with holes drilled into it.
some boys needed it more than others.
I think we should buy ace one for memory sake.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 06:59 PM (R7cwD)

166
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (8rNrN)


*****************

I guess early Milo would surprise you.

Posted by: Strelnikov at February 27, 2017 06:59 PM (fi5nC)

167 Did you watch West World, Ace?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:59 PM (LTHVh)

168 Insomniac said "Frank Zappa would write a song about these two," which another anti-semitic n00b echoed. This is certainly a reference to his song "Jewish American Princess," so I guess I need an explanation as to why Insomniac thinks this blog is a game of Spot The Jews.


Dude. There was nothing anti-Semitic about what I said. It was in reference to the absurdity of the thing.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 06:59 PM (0mRoj)

169 >>>I believe that Insomniac was reacting to the Jew-baiting poster who socked Frank Zappa.
Insomniac said "Frank Zappa would have written a song about this" meaning the thread topic.

Som is a good guy and no anti-semite.

Ask JJ or CBD.

Just sayin.


...

ah, well, maybe that is what he meant. I know I saw one guy do that super-funny "Look, Jews!" joke, and I saw insomniac make the same reference. I'd like to hear from him on the matter.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:59 PM (8rNrN)

170 Insomniac is a good guy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (PY9jH)

171 I managed to tick off ace twice today, it's his house and I have always respected that. see you guys tomorrow, I hope.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (TppKb)

172 Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (5VlCp)

173 All I did was read the damn thing, and Bam! It was gone!

Posted by: Litttle kid who hit a light poles with a stick on Nov 9 1965 at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (4NY5T)

174 Whoa.

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (HgMAr)

175 Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (8rNrN)

You were quick enough with the hammer that it was hard to see what was really happening.

The comments on some sites e.g. BB are tough to wade through, because you always end up stepping in a pile of "well of course they did this, all they do is soak up welfare and rob liquor stores and listen to their ooga-booga music" or "sounds like someone knows that they do ZOG's will because ZOG pays their bills" or whatever. Not even a veil of ambiguity, just filth, and that shit never gets cleaned up. Don't think that your efforts to make the HQ a civil place are not appreciated.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (8nWyX)

176 oy, I guess I should read the thread if i'm going to comment.

slinks off. leaves behind some chocolate truffles and calgon, candles (fixes all ills)

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (R7cwD)

177 Never gotten anti semite from Insomniac.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (FqgrG)

178 >>>I guess early Milo would surprise you.


probably not either way. I don't read him or listen to him so nothing would really "surprise" me one way or the other.

I have read about a recent put-down of someone as a "media jew," which I didn't like at all.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (8rNrN)

179 I'd second the request to rethink Insomniac. He's in a bad way and maybe deserves a second chance? Perhaps in the penalty box for a while?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (kTF2Z)

180 172 Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (5VlCp)


It's tremendously safe, believe me. Very special.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (nNdYv)

181 I would blame some of this on the mob mentally, it gets ramped up and and some think they need to top the last comment.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (HDU3V)

182 @162 Or they're just using some of the bot/cyborg designs from that anime.
----------------

I suspect the latter. Makes sense to do that, as designs should be mass produced (the members of the android support staff for Section 9 in the TV series all looked identical).

The vague hint dropped from the trailer so far is something about a conspiracy in Kusanagi's own background.

Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (nsZ+m)

183 Never gotten anti semite from Insomniac.

Certainly nothing like that antisemite CBD.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:01 PM (LTHVh)

184 There's nothing more boring, at any site, than talking about banning people.

Banning is fine.
Not Banning is fine.
Talking about banning is crap.

Posted by: Eddie at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (zhOfu)

185 insomniac isn't a jew hater or baitor.

pretty certain of that

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (R7cwD)

186 >>>I would blame some of this on the mob mentally, it gets ramped up and and some think they need to top the last comment.

that's part of it, and why I've frequently asked people to not play a game of "I can top that" with really shitty, terribly unfunny and also racist jokes.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (8rNrN)

187 Insomniac isn't an anti-Semite. Back when this blog did have a couple of Ronulans in it posting anti-Semitic memes (one hash was something like itzBJ), it was obvious.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (6FqZa)

188
Wha happened??

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (AKOhm)

189
Certainly nothing like that antisemite CBD
____________________

He was it again this afternoon, going after "Hollywood".

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (FqgrG)

190 Somebody deciding to take an anti-Semitic angle on my invoking an absurdist songwriter on an absurd subject - i.e. someone complaining about Siri's et al's absence of third wave feminist sensibilities - is not my fault.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:02 PM (0mRoj)

191 Other place I go there is a penalty box, your out for a week or so for infractions . But it is a more controled situation.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (HDU3V)

192 >>Certainly nothing like that antisemite CBD.



THAT guy has problems.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NXfyF)

193 eddie,

it's a warning for what's going to happen tomorrow and in case you didn't notice, I'm not providing any more content today, because I asked for people to self-moderate and they decided they didn't want to.

So go fuck yourself.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (8rNrN)

194 170 Insomniac is a good guy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:00 PM (PY9jH)
I will second that emotion.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (u8Ywb)

195 sooth I don't know I missed it, but sometimes wrong targets are hit. I'm sure this is one of those times

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (R7cwD)

196 *types*
*thinks better of it*
*deletes*

And how about that local sports team?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (LTHVh)

197 I'm honestly 100% baffled as to why I'm getting singled out here.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (0mRoj)

198 yeah we should look at cbd more closely.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (R7cwD)

199 >>>Review of Ex Machina: Chicks are crazy. Even if they're robots.
Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM (z/Ubi)

Post of the year?

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (QCc6B)

200 Trust me, don't Google "Spamhammer."
Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 06:46 PM


Try googling "askew".

SFW. Or Mom or Grandmother.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (8NLb9)

201 The Liquor in the Front Tour was the one you wanted to see!

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 06:57 PM (NXfyF)

It was okay, but I'm partial to the "Bad Reputation" era.

Not to mention "Eat Steak" is a moron anthem if there ever was one.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (/f1mm)

202

see , this is what happens when you spend time on twitter

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (c6/9Q)

203 And how about that local sports team?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (LTHVh)


I sure hope they manage to move the thing to the other thing this time.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:04 PM (wB8Tg)

204 Can we make a banking joke or is it too soon?

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (4e+hS)

205 Makes sense - thanks!
Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 06:54 PM (Sfs6o)


I did find a clip where you can see what happens when decay particles strike the CCD - the speckling in the video is not because it's old.

https://youtu.be/jKnFurg5-Ag?t=2m26s

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (8nWyX)

206 insomniac it's gotta be a misunderstanding.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (R7cwD)

207 >>> Somebody deciding to take an anti-Semitic angle on my invoking an absurdist songwriter on an absurd subject - i.e. someone complaining about Siri's et al's absence of third wave feminist sensibilities - is not my fault.

okay I take you at your word. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Your comment was the one that really pissed me the hell off because some people (especially new handles) I kind of expect it from and shrug it off, but when a regular I wasn't expecting it from does it then I'm like "Do I even want to continue this terrible blog?"

So I'm glad you did not mean what I thought you meant and I am sorry to have misunderstood.

I'm glad to find out I misunderstood.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (8rNrN)

208 This is a good opportunity to press you for a decent blogging platform. With proper logons and troll control. Just don't loose the ability to sock.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (LTHVh)

209
It's so weird that 1994 was 23 years ago!!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (AKOhm)

210 I always get nervous when Ace starts talking bannings.

Because IMHO it's just a matter of time before he starts thinking about folding up this entire tent, and you guys are one of my last threads to sanity at this point.

I would hope Ace would at least hand the car keys over to some people he really trusts and let them run this place full-time, but I'm not sure AoS would stay the same.

It's a pickle, I tells ya! But I'm glad that at least Ace still pokes in, we can chat, and that he still cares. At least for now... :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (u8kLQ)

211 51
I still want a review of Ex Machina.


My review: I like Alicia Vikander.

Posted by: pep at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (LAe3v)

212 P.S. this is why I run away when things get heated. When you see a lit fuse, and it's not Independence Day, run.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (wB8Tg)

213 Insom ...

... this shit happens from time to time. If you'd take some advice from me ... just let it be. It'll blow over.

And drop me a dime. bscoggins@twc.com. Be glad to hear from you.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (fiGNd)

214
How the hell did the '90's become twenty years ago??

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (AKOhm)

215 >>I'm honestly 100% baffled as to why I'm getting singled out here.


I think Ace is just jealous that you are getting all the blowjobs, now.


Seriously, though. This seems like friendly fire and I would bet you are going to be in the clear shortly, Insomniac.

You are well loved, here. Apparently.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (NXfyF)

216 "Liquor in the Front, Poker in the Rear"

was a great fun album.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (vZ9Fw)

217 I'm honestly 100% baffled as to why I'm getting singled out here.

you are not, but we're roaring up on ash wednesday, think I'll just beg forgiveness. I'm done for the night.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (TppKb)

218 yes I am happy to learn as far as Insomniac it was a misunderstanding and I happily retract my claim. I guess I read the comments out of order or something.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (8rNrN)

219 Oooh, bath oil beads. The misses does love her the "calgon" sort of evening...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (SoiDR)

220 sometimes we deserve a good banning..
well some of You not me of course.

hides behind couch

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (R7cwD)

221 What the heck did I miss when I went to Dallas this afternoon?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (le7jz)

222 Jeeziz what did you guys do?

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (U0lQa)

223 Thank you, Ace for giving us a forum. Sorry you got to work to clean up others nastiness, what with all the real work you do.

McGyver (I go) Out (for a beer and this happens)

Posted by: McGyver at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (3qFXk)

224 Ace, you started up this blog before 9/11, right? At least, I think you did.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (u8kLQ)

225 I just got home. What the hell happened now?

Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (sdi6R)

226
This is also a good opportunity for me to point something out...I hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (AKOhm)

227 Namaste my morons friends. Time to grok dinner.

Posted by: Max Power at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (QCc6B)

228 >>It was okay, but I'm partial to the "Bad Reputation" era.

>Not to mention "Eat Steak" is a moron anthem if there ever was one.

*High Five*


I've got the Eat Steak 10" on Cow Colored Vinyl!

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (NXfyF)

229 When you see a lit fuse, and it's not Independence Day, run.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM


Easy for you to say.

Posted by: The Alien Mothership at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (8NLb9)

230 (Obsequious washing of hands in air)

Posted by: Adobe Juan Kenobe at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (i/7mU)

231 yeah, insomniac is grump and grouchy but not a hater.

well sometimes against wives but , as a wife I get that.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (R7cwD)

232 This is a good opportunity to press you for a decent blogging platform. With proper logons and troll control. Just don't loose the ability to sock.
Posted by: Grump928(C)


... That's a bannin'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (4YGWz)

233 I add my voice of support to Insomniac, who is verily, a righteous dude.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (8ZskC)

234 Because IMHO it's just a matter of time before he starts thinking about folding up this entire tent, and you guys are one of my last threads to sanity at this point.



Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (ph+ut)

235 So I'm glad you did not mean what I thought you meant and I am sorry to have misunderstood.

I'm glad to find out I misunderstood.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (8rNrN)

Gratefully and graciously accepted.

*wipes sweat off brow*

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (0mRoj)

236 It's so weird that 1994 was 23 years ago!!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (AKOhm)


I feel so old now, I can't even.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (wB8Tg)

237 Ace, Insomniac isn't an anti-semite. Sounds like he made a bad joke. Please don't ban him.

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (P8951)

238 winks at insomniac.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:09 PM (R7cwD)

239 >>Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (8rNrN)


Me, too. I like that asshole.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:09 PM (NXfyF)

240 This is also a good opportunity for me to point something out...I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (AKOhm)

*types something about how the monkeys feel*
*deletes*
*goes back to the lurkers lounge*

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, Flu Fighter at February 27, 2017 07:09 PM (rJUlF)

241 Good!

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 27, 2017 07:09 PM (P8951)

242 ace you are really a cool man.
tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (R7cwD)

243
Now I gotta buy a smoke machine because I cannot find a gotdam vacuum leak for the life of me.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (AKOhm)

244 sometimes we deserve a good banning..
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM


And what happens afterward ...

Posted by: Sister Zoot at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8NLb9)

245 True fact:

Sometimes I still confuse Ignoramus and Insomniac.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (nNdYv)

246 This is a good opportunity to press you for a decent blogging
platform. With proper logons and troll control. Just don't loose the
ability to sock.

Posted by: Grump928(C)

===


#twoweeks

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (KgpWR)

247 Thanks gang. I mean it, from the very depths of my crotchety soul.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (0mRoj)

248 >>> Ace, you started up this blog before 9/11, right? At least, I think you did.

no. i started at the very end (like December 28th) of 2003.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8rNrN)

249 >>This is also a good opportunity for me to point something out...I hate fucking monkeys.


You have to back into them.

Posted by: Sitka Deer at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (NXfyF)

250 ace you are really a cool man.
tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.



Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8ZskC)

251 I really, really, REALLY wish we could all somehow have a big, yuge meetup somewhere. Vegas, LA, wherever.

If I had the money, I would try to arrange everything and pay for it all myself, including the airfare and hotel.

I'd bet it would do wonders for how we all interact with each other, in a good way. Right Ace? ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (u8kLQ)

252 ace you are really a cool man.
tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.


Like a pineapple.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (LTHVh)

253 Insomniac is a good guy. I have never seen him post anything objectable. Don't ban him.

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (Cl52v)

254
I could just buy a cigar and blow smoke in a hose...

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (AKOhm)

255 Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (AKOhm)

I hate fucking monkeys.
Phrasing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (u8Ywb)

256 ace you are really a cool man.

tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (R7cwD)


And stinky like taleggio.

Hi willow!!! *smooches and smooshes to you and the 'ettes*

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (+eR2D)

257 Sometimes I still confuse Ignoramus and Insomniac.

Posted by: kallisto


Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (4e+hS)

258 I always get nervous when Ace starts talking bannings.

As in the English navy, sometimes this is necessary to encourage the others.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (6FqZa)

259
yes I am happy to learn as far as Insomniac it was a misunderstanding
and I happily retract my claim. I guess I read the comments out of order
or something.





Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:06 PM (8rNrN)


Thanks ace!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (PY9jH)

260 I hear this Siri woman and my Viking blood says, "Take her!"

Posted by: Ragnar Threadhammer at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (nlbfN)

261 This is also a good opportunity for me to point something out...I hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (AKOhm)

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Then stop putting your dick in them.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (vIjh1)

262 ace, hmm. Old age playing tricks on me then, I guess. Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (u8kLQ)

263 231 yeah, insomniac is grump and grouchy but not a hater.

well sometimes against wives but , as a wife I get that.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (R7cwD)

You've definitely got my number. I'm putting on my short list for character witnesses.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (0mRoj)

264 um..... Five days to Pet Thread!!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (Sfs6o)

265 Can we make a banking joke or is it too soon?

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (4e+hS)


No.

Posted by: The Gnomes of Zurich at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (rUIbB)

266 Took the wife to a Brazilian Steak House last night for a belated Valentines Day dinner since I had the flu on Valentines Day. The meat sweats were glorious as usual.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (ph+ut)

267 Easy for you to say.

Posted by: The Alien Mothership at February 27, 2017 07:08 PM (8NLb9)


Seriously, do your due diligence. I mean, if you had just watched their signals you'd know they'd been training for an alien invasion for like three decades.

An ad campaign would have worked better. Sponsor some political candidates, bribe a few politicians, wave some magic beads in front of 'em, like microchips and velcro....

...wait, did I say that out loud?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (wB8Tg)

268 >>>3 Insomniac is a good guy. I have never seen him post anything objectable. Don't ban him.

i'm not, i retracted a bunch of posts ago and apologized. I should have asked him privately for an explanation instead of publicly calling him out.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (8rNrN)

269 It was okay, but I'm partial to the "Bad Reputation" era.

>Not to mention "Eat Steak" is a moron anthem if there ever was one.

*High Five*


I've got the Eat Steak 10" on Cow Colored Vinyl!
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (NXfyF)



Yeah, "Smoke'em If You Got'em" was another great fun album by the Rev.


Posted by: naturalfake at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (vZ9Fw)

270 Once upon a time, I helped moderate a small gaming community. Some similar social dynamics compared to AoSHQ.

There were moments when I felt like certain players and forum commenters -- newbies and veterans alike -- could be replaced by trollish chat bots and no one would notice the difference.

Sometimes, all I could do was freakout, turn an indiscriminate flamethrower on everyone, then wait for everyone to readjust their baselines of acceptable behavior.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (3Vlkn)

271 I've been watching footage from the Oroville damage that was captured today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6gReBjqOE

The part of the spillway that's still attached is slowly eroding toward the gate. Then, there's the impending snow melt to contend with. I'm not seeing a good outcome, here.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (V4Qfo)

272 Wow, I get wrapped up in work for the day, run to the store with the wife and find you all pissed off teh Ace.

That'll learn me to leave you people alone.

Posted by: ghbucky at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (D2q91)

273 I give credit to anybody who has to scour the cesspool called "internet", and wade through a tsunami of human debris day after day. I don't know how anybody does it.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (aMlLZ)

274 >>I could just buy a cigar and blow smoke in a hose...


Soapy Water in a spray bottle not doing it?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (NXfyF)

275 250 ace you are really a cool man.
tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.


Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8ZskC)


1. You cannot possibly have ever eaten durian.

2. This might not be the best day to compare Ace to the fruit to which stinkbombs bow in awe.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (yL25O)

276 Is this the part where the Knights of the Round Table sing?

If so, then this is a silly place.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (7N6ox)

277 Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.


I'm choking to death here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (LTHVh)

278 Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (4e+hS)

Dude, I hope that was sarcasm.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (0mRoj)

279 Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (4e+hS)



Oh lord, here we go again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (8ZskC)

280 I am Insomniac!


/spartacus


Yep, vouching for the man. He's a true Moron.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (v5iqM)

281 Hi willow!!! *smooches and smooshes to you and the 'ettes*


Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (+eR2D)


Ouch! My boobs hurt!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (PY9jH)

282 kissy face DangerGirl, I've been holding my breath, now i'll pull out the wine glases.
Cheers!

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (R7cwD)

283 We've all got hair-triggers over certain things.

Mine is those who willfully mutilate history or science to bolster one's own argument. (Not just being dumb or wrong, I do THAT all the time).

I lose my shit over that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (sK2fh)

284 Ace, Insomniac isn't an anti-semite. Sounds like he made a bad joke. Please don't ban him.

I have not reviewed the thread or the deleted posts but I am guessing that it was I who made the bad joke, and after deletion he got flagged.

It was a joke. Perhaps a bad one. Attempt to conflate a Bill Kristol comment with the Nork assassination that I thought would be South Park-level absurd.

Hopefully one that no one was offended by.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I hope to see you all tomorrow.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (TppKb)

285 This is also a good opportunity for me to point something out...I hate fucking monkeys.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:07 PM (AKOhm)

We're just trying to be friendly
Come and watch us sing and play

Posted by: The Monkees at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (/f1mm)

286 A joke.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (4e+hS)

287 >>Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.

I was thinking of a Tootsie Pop.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (/tuJf)

288 I hate fucking monkeys.
Me too.

Posted by: a doe, a sika doe, on Yakushima Island at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (nlbfN)

289 There's another community I enjoyed frequenting, where just a few weeks ago the moderator suddenly said "I'm sick of some people and their attitudes here. This place is gone within 10 days."

I came back five days later, and got a "this page doesn't exist" message.

Just sad when it happens.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (u8kLQ)

290 Ace ...

... how much anti-semetic shit are you hearing up in Yankee Town ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (fiGNd)

291 "Sometimes I still confuse Ignoramus and Insomniac."

How could you. I'm the handsome one

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (SIY7D)

292 59 Wha hoppen?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2017 06:44 PM (MZcWR)
---------

Russia posted some anti-Semitic comments on Ace's blog.

Breitbart staffers were almost certainly involved.

Posted by: Louise Mensch at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (3OAG2)

293 Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (4e+hS)


*facepalm*

OT again -

donks are planning to invite - get this - illegal immigrant PROTESTERS - to DJT's first address to Congress.

Can you say PT second term?

on Drudge

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (nNdYv)

294 I will leave my dramatic recital of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for another day then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (8ZskC)

295 250 ace you are really a cool man.
tough on the outside soft and sweet inside.


Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8ZskC)

I first read that as Duran Duran.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (0mRoj)

296 Wow, I get wrapped up in work for the day, run to the store with the wife and find you all pissed off teh Ace.

That'll learn me to leave you people alone.

Posted by: ghbucky at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (D2q91)


Lol that's just what happened to me. I seen a thread about some SJW bitch pissed off about robot abuse, ran to the store with the wife quick, came back and *poof*.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (aMlLZ)

297 Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.
I thought that was Charlie Brown's Dildo???

Posted by: andycanuck at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (nlbfN)

298 If Ace ever starts banning for crappy jokes, stick a fork in me, I'm toast.

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (8b+oT)

299 I thought insomniac was talking about submissive robot sex.

Posted by: Cy.Borg.Robot.Drifter at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (BO/km)

300
Soapy Water in a spray bottle not doing it?

I'm not looking for a leak in a tire!

I'm looking for a vacuum leak.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (AKOhm)

301 "His name is Ace-o and he dances on the sand..."
:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (u8kLQ)

302 Took the wife to a Brazilian Steak House


-----

That sounds painful.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (vIjh1)

303 208 This is a good opportunity to press you for a decent blogging platform. With proper logons and troll control. Just don't loose the ability to sock.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:05 PM (LTHVh)

----------------

FB, maybe? No, just no. This place is perfect, flaws and all. I know it's tough sometimes, Ace, but please don't change. This site is the only thing keeping my sanity.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (kTF2Z)

304 So long as no one compares Ace to a Cadbury Creme Egg, I think we're gonna be alright.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (3Vlkn)

305 Ace isn't having his best day. Sad. On a much happier note: I fired Time Warner/Spectrum today. It was deeply satisfying.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (TdMsT)

306 >>>Attempt to conflate a Bill Kristol comment with the Nork assassination that I thought would be South Park-level absurd.

why "hebe-on-hebe" action?

What is the joke there, exactly, except to point out that two people are Jewish, which is funny, because why, again?


Do you not think maybe there's something a bit wrong when the entirety of your joke is "these two guys are Jews, which is funny because of Reasons"?

Do you think Jewishness is so obviously a source of humor in a person that the mere spotlighting of it makes for a good gag?

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (8rNrN)

307 i ended up in the barrel once....

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (c6/9Q)

308 Glad insomniac is good

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (HDU3V)

309 Sort of takes me back to when Ace was purging the Trumpers. Then there was a win. And then there was love springing anew....

Posted by: vanderleun at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (MNKUS)

310 donks are planning to invite - get this - illegal immigrant PROTESTERS - to DJT's first address to Congress.




Have ICE waiting in the wings.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (ph+ut)

311 291 "Sometimes I still confuse Ignoramus and Insomniac."

How could you. I'm the handsome one
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (SIY7D)

We're all 29, handsome and buff.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (0mRoj)

312 I lose my shit over that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (sK2fh)


We would be seriously luckily if a plurality had any idea where their shit was.

All I see out there is a crowd with shovels and plastic bags running around sniffing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (wB8Tg)

313 I have some friends at FB and Twitter who literally have *no* filter whatsoever. They will, in the name of being anti-PC, even use the n-word.

Call me a wimp if you want, but I don't care how funny it is or how angry I am. I will not use that word.

And, I tend to distance myself from those people. I don't want to have to answer questions about them, if I should ever find myself in the spotlight (which admittedly is very unlikely).

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (u8kLQ)

314 >>> Ace ...

... how much anti-semetic shit are you hearing up in Yankee Town ?

...

in case you haven't noticed, or have noticed but not objected, there is in fact an uptick in the "bravery" of anti-semites to self-declare.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (8rNrN)

315 donks are planning to invite - get this - illegal immigrant PROTESTERS - to DJT's first address to Congress.

Just close the galleries. Ryan can do that. IF he doesn't, it's on him.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (LTHVh)

316 Took the wife to a Brazilian Steak House


-----

That sounds painful.
Posted by: fixerupper



Only on the wallet.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (ph+ut)

317 Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (0mRoj)
I prefer 29, beautiful and fit.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (u8Ywb)

318 So who is doing all this anti-Jew stuff? The bomb threats, the cemetery desecration, the tags, all of it?

Are swastikas used in the tagging and cemetery trashing?

It seems distinct from the anti-muzzie stuff on the campuses, most all of which has been hoaxes.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (U6f54)

319 >>I'm looking for a vacuum leak.



Remove one end of the line, charge it with air. Same difference.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (NXfyF)

320 Woah - wtf everyone? I leave for business and vacation in Asia PAC and before I even get back you bunch of yahoos break the website. I left only three rules: no wild parties, no girls and don't break Ace. I KNEW I should have left you with your Aunt Petunia!

Frankly, I am not angry. Just very, very disappointed.

On the other hand Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States - so it is a bit of a "wash"

Posted by: Publius Redux at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (1Hefv)

321
FB, maybe? No, just no. This place is perfect, flaws and all. I know it's tough sometimes, Ace, but please don't change. This site is the only thing keeping my sanity.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (kTF2Z)
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Agreed. Change is bad.

Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (Sfs6o)

322 Have ICE waiting in the wings.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (ph+ut)


The democong are just tone deaf anymore. I think they forgot the part about having to win the middle kingdom.

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (nNdYv)

323 295 250 Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8ZskC)

I first read that as Duran Duran.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (0mRoj)

I first read that as Roberto Duran.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (/f1mm)

324 We're getting Yolo in the NOT tonight aten't we. Can't say from a community standpoint the last thread kinda had it coming at times.
Time to send Ace cat vids and hobo hunting spot links on the Twitter perhaps as penance perhaps?

Posted by: Bete the deplorable at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (Ojki1)

325 **TOP FIVE WAYS ACE IS LIKE A CADBURY CREME EGG**

5. [deleted by administrator]

4. [deleted by administrator]

3. [deleted by administrator]

2. [deleted by administrator]

1. [deleted by administrator]

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:18 PM (u8kLQ)

326 Thanks gang. I mean it, from the very depths of my crotchety soul.
Better that than from the depths of your soulless crotch!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 27, 2017 07:18 PM (nlbfN)

327 >>Took the wife to a Brazilian Steak House


The wives, they like the Brazilian Meat.

Posted by: The Paolo at February 27, 2017 07:18 PM (NXfyF)

328 I'm way behind apparently.

I was gonna ask an honest question on the dead thread, but I didn't want to be banned for sounding like a smartass, which I'm not trying to be.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 27, 2017 07:18 PM (TF/Tq)

329 WTF did you guys do?

Life's too short to suffer asshats.

Do what you need to do, Ace.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 07:18 PM (GX63o)

330

----------------

FB, maybe? No, just no. This place is perfect, flaws and all. I know it's tough sometimes, Ace, but please don't change. This site is the only thing keeping my sanity.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (kTF2Z)



When I first came aboard, I thought: why can't this format be like Diqus? But now, I have come to appreciate the format. More personal and home-like.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (TdMsT)

331 Spring cleaning, thanks for keeping it fresh in here Ace.

Posted by: Draki at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (fQGa/)

332 ace told people to knock off the shit. they didn't heed. it was getting dumb enough i left on my own. seemed like some just had to keep upping the ante. most of it was kind of juvenile. or worse.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (KP5rU)

333 Do you think Jewishness is so obviously a source of humor in a person that the mere spotlighting of it makes for a good gag?

==

only if its Pope Shecky

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (U0lQa)

334 I just want to say "Pringles Grab-N-Go" one more time.








It felt funnier before.

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (8b+oT)

335 A decent platform would let Ace bring back the forbidden post without comments and we wouldn't lose gems like 'You shame The Femmesphere with your casually vicious cisgender assumptions.'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (LTHVh)

336 I had no idea things went sideways. I step away to up some corned beef hash and eggs to eat.



Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (ksj3z)

337
Fresh right.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (KgpWR)

338 What's all this I hear about people who hate juice? Juice is tasty and nutritious! Surely there must be some palatable flavor among the many ones available.

Posted by: Emily Litella at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (noWW6)

339 Only heard radio news but take it there havd been call in attacks on Jewish centers in the Philadelphia area again and take it it was today or yesterday

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (HDU3V)

340 When I first came aboard, I thought: why can't this format be like Diqus?

That wouldn't be the well-regarded Biggus Diqus platform, would it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (8ZskC)

341 >>most of it was kind of juvenile. or worse.

That doesn't sound like this place at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (/tuJf)

342 320 Woah - wtf everyone? I leave for business and vacation in Asia PAC and before I even get back you bunch of yahoos break the website. I left only three rules: no wild parties, no girls and don't break Ace. I KNEW I should have left you with your Aunt Petunia!

Frankly, I am not angry. Just very, very disappointed.

On the other hand Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States - so it is a bit of a "wash"
Posted by: Publius Redux at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (1Hefv)



Hey! Don't blame me! I wasn't there!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (TdMsT)

343 Thanks for letting Insomniac back on the blog, Ace. The guy's alright.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (rJUlF)

344 That doesn't sound like this place at all.


I laughed out loud.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (LTHVh)

345 Is Durian the picture in the attic?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (IqV8l)

346 Took the wife to a Brazilian Steak House

-----
They do have a lot of steak there.

Exactly how many is a Brazilian?

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (8b+oT)

347 299 I thought insomniac was talking about submissive robot sex.

Do not bullshit yourselves.

These robot temptresses will offer free, mind-blowing sex. At first.

Then they'll hook you in with something about "What do you know about golf" or "I couldn't possibly fix this using simple tools". Along with the mind-blowing sex.

Next thing you'll know ... two little annoying developing Transformers crawling around the carpet while you trudge off to work on Saturday to pay for all that shit ... wondering how Ms. Robot lost the code to giving those tremendous blow-jobs yet got her mitts on all your investment accounts.

Mark. My. Words.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (fiGNd)

348 >>in case you haven't noticed, or have noticed but not objected, there is in fact an uptick in the "bravery" of anti-semites to self-declare.


Damn.

I remember having a pretty good row with you, years ago now, re. the pervasiveness of anti-semitism.

I am not happy I was right.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (NXfyF)

349 Yup, an all-moron meet-up would be a great thing. We should set the wheels in motion. My impression is that most folks live on the East Coast and in the Southeast, with only a smattering of us Western types.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (/WPPJ)

350

I had a lot of fun on the croc thread, but missed the bush thread. I appreciate this place, and Ace. I have been on twitter alot, follow people who's comments i like, and then get shocked when they tweet something antisemitic or racist. I have a pretty thick skin, but there are some really awful things being said really casually

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (MZ/gs)

351 Am I too late for The Hurling of Accusations?

Posted by: tu3031 at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (qJhUV)

352 Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (u8kLQ)
Steve, one of our employees keeps taking English classes. I was trying to explain the meaning of white trash. I was referring to myself.
He told me the teacher told them not to use racial slurs, white trash, the n word, etc. But he said the n word. I was dying, my face turned red. He's never said a bad word ever and that word comes out of his mouth.

I'm trying to explain you can say white trash but don't ever say the n word.
It was an odd conversation.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (u8Ywb)

353 >>most of it was kind of juvenile. or worse.


Please ignore my comment 340.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (8ZskC)

354 who is doing all this anti-Jew stuff? The bomb threats, the cemetery desecration, the tags, all of it?

==

Its a puzzler. I'm thinking the Creamer dude, but who knows

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (U0lQa)

355 I hate fucking monkeys.
Me too.
Posted by: a doe, a sika doe, on Yakushima Island at February 27, 2017 07:13 PM (nlbfN)

Yup....a little known piece of trivia is Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.

Let that sink in, talk about weird.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (5VlCp)

356 Ace, what was it -- an issue, an idiocy, or just trying to clarify an argument for yourself -- that got you to blogging in the first place?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (EnKk6)

357 What's all this I hear about people who hate juice? Juice is tasty and nutritious! Surely there must be some palatable flavor among the many ones available.
Posted by: Emily Litella at February 27, 2017 07:20 PM (noWW6)


No, Emily. It's not "juice", it's...

Eh. Never mind.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (rJUlF)

358 This is why I lurk half the time these days.

Glad to see Insomniac is in the good. For the rest, I know not, so I say nothing.

Think I need to go to just lurking for a while.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (9krrF)

359 Antisemitism just seems so ... 15th century.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)

360 You want free-wheeling expression.

You'd take wild and wooly and a bit naughty.

You'll get drunk and unfiltered.

(sigh)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (wB8Tg)

361 .......like tears in rain.

Posted by: Siri thread at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (lRwmz)

362 JEM,

do you not get that saying (of a named, real woman) "Leah, spread your legs" is maybe a little more explicitly graphic than mere allusions to sex?


Maybe a little bit aggressive in making an explicit sexual reference to a real person?

Maybe there were less aggressively explicit ways to make the point that robots aren't real?



Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (8rNrN)

363 Think I need to go to just lurking for a while.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (9krrF)

I happen to enjoy your input.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (TdMsT)

364 298 If Ace ever starts banning for crappy jokes, stick a fork in me, I'm toast.
Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (8b+oT)


Who eats toast with a fork?

Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (sdi6R)

365 I had no idea things went sideways. I step away to up some corned beef hash and eggs to eat.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (ksj3z)


Be sure to ask if you have any questions on how to prepare those eggs.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (8nWyX)

366 Yup....a little known piece of trivia is Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.

Let that sink in, talk about weird.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (5VlCp)

He wore Crocs too, huh?

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (B11vO)

367 Ouch! My boobs hurt!




Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:12 PM (PY9jH)


Sorry, I can be an exuberant hugger.

Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (+eR2D)

368
Posted by: Brother Cavil,
==

Hey Bro C.!

How are things going? Hopefully much better for you.

Did you get a new place? How are things?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (KgpWR)

369 i was at the VA, the urologist and then the toy store to pick up my Italian Arisaka right after my 2n poast on the Bush thread...

don't know what i missed, but why is it so hard for people to be polite when they're visiting someone else's place?

when Patterico went full on #NeverTrump, i just closed the tab. his house, his choice, his rules.

hell, i still have a valid log on @ FGL, last time i bothered to look... so WTF makes it so hard for people to play by the rules?

it's not like there's a zillion of them here.

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (joq+X)

370 CaliGirl, yup. That word IMHO is just a powderkeg. I try to stay away from anyone who uses it, no matter what color they are or their background.

I would say to that person, "NEVER use that word."
"Why?"
"Because it's crude, vulgar, vicious, morally wrong to use it, AND you can get yourself in a lot of trouble and danger saying it, no matter where you are or who you're around."

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (u8kLQ)

371 This is one of the few places where rational Conservatvism exists. Not kneed jerk #NeverTrump, not knee jerk pro Republican either. Ace has attracted posters who see the world as it is. Bets place on the web. If you don't appreciate the site, don't pollute it, go other places.

Posted by: standfast24 at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (PNFIr)

372
alright guys there is Nothing wrong with being sweet inside!
show the world how tough you can be but with your girl your aren't sweet?

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (R7cwD)

373 We're getting Duran Duran, not Yoko. That's punishment enough

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (Sp1NT)

374 On the plus side, I did manage to fix my leaking toilet last weekend.

Posted by: Jingo Unchained! at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (GdgAM)

375 359 Antisemitism just seems so ... 15th century.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)


As eternal as "The Eternal Jew" evidently, and tragically.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (mbhDw)

376 >>Who eats toast with a fork?


Mike Greene?

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (NXfyF)

377 THAT guy has problems.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:03 PM (NXfyF)

All I do is warn you people, but NO! You don't listen.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (rF0hx)

378 Thank you Ace for not banning Insomniac! He is a good guy-just about everybody on here is. In fact I have never seen anti Semitic posts. Of course that could just be that I am obtuse.

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 27, 2017 07:24 PM (Cl52v)

379 I'd bet it would do wonders for how we all interact with each other, in a good way. Right Ace? ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (u8kLQ)


I'll have to admit that, sometimes when I want to complain about my (sweet) husband, I don't because some of the Morons know him from meet ups or might meet him at a future meet up.

Posted by: Emmie at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (xVuS6)

380 365 I had no idea things went sideways. I step away to up some corned beef hash and eggs to eat.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:19 PM (ksj3z)

Be sure to ask if you have any questions on how to prepare those eggs.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (8nWyX)



Are we doing eggs again?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (TdMsT)

381 Am I too late for The Hurling of Accusations?
Posted by: tu3031


Yes, it seems so.

But I do love me some ketchup, so hurl away. Just do it into the gutter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (4YGWz)

382 Mark. My. Words.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (fiGNd)

Kind of like Girl Scouts and their cookies.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (GX63o)

383 Maybe there were less aggressively explicit ways to make the point that robots aren't real?
===

Oh they're real.

And they're spectacular.

Posted by: Cortana at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (KgpWR)

384
And goodnight, everyone. See you in the AM.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (mbhDw)

385 I see antisemitism growing year by year.
I'm as much as a WASP as anyone.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (HDU3V)

386 To lighten the mood:

My (really liberal, anti gun) mom just sent me a hysterical text message while cleaning out my late grandparents home to sell it.

"I found a gun!!!!"

*sends picture of what looks like a 22 bolt action rifle*

"I never knew they had a gun!!! What do I do with it?!?!"

Me: Uh. Try not to shoot. yourself. Seriously just set it down and leave the room (we're going Eddie Eagle style here).

"I'm calling [gay neighbors]"

Let's all pray no one gets shot today, shall we?


Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (d5+A9)

387 hands glasses of wine to all the girls.
imma a little peeved at men right now.(except ace)
misandry straight up

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (R7cwD)

388 Simple solution: Stop doing whatever it is you're doing that's pissing Ace off. It's not rocket science, guys.

Posted by: kimoloka at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (2hOA7)

389 Yeah, man. Give a hoot, don't pollute.

-Woodsy "Hard On" the Owl

Posted by: Dang at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (8b+oT)

390 Early GAINZZZ comment. The Tower 200 (Body by Jake but Randy Couture demonstrates all the exercises) is a great way to exercise at home, prevent injury, and work up safely to weights/string lifts.

Just need a door.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (ksj3z)

391 I would also explain that "white trash" doesn't have nearly the negative connotations, or horrific history, that the n-word does, but it's still a good idea for him to not use that term either.

In fact "white trash" is IMHO more often used as a punchline, or a funny term, than a perjorative. Again though, that's my experience.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (u8kLQ)

392 Be sure to ask if you have any questions on how to prepare those eggs.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (8nWyX)



Are we doing eggs again?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian




Internal or external?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (ph+ut)

393 Who eats toast with a fork?
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (sdi6R)


(puts fork down)

Yeah!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (wB8Tg)

394 All right, you fappers.

What did you do now?


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, loving the Cubs even though they are WINNERS at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (8iiMU)

395 What did those mean boys do to you, Willow?

*chugs wine*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (EnKk6)

396 Siri, you run to the wolf. That don't make you no lamb.

Posted by: Siri play Hungry like The Wolf at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (Sp1NT)

397 Ace, you are now ready to run an MMO. It's 10x more fun!

Posted by: H at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (b4rXB)

398 I certainly don't mind pounding on feminist dopes for being idiots but I do draw the line of explicitly sexualizing them for the point of a very cheap, very easily made by other means put-down.

Maybe it's just me, but when someone goes to a really unnecessary place to make what he claims is a purely intellectual point, what I hear is him speaking from a very viscerally angry place and using the intellectual point as a pretext to say something that was boiling up inside him anyway.

Let's try not necessarily to give too much of ourselves away, especially the parts of ourselves we're not proud of (or shouldn't be proud of).

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (8rNrN)

399 ace-

For what it's worth, I've never gotten the vibe that kind of vibe from JEM. He may have gone to far for you tonight but I don't think he is a bad guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (/tuJf)

400 Be sure to ask if you have any questions on how to prepare those eggs.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (8nWyX)



Are we doing eggs again?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (TdMsT)
noooooooo

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (R7cwD)

401 Let's all pray no one gets shot today, shall we?

You uh will let us know if he has a Thompson or something else really cool, right?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (LTHVh)

402 As long as we can still hate the Irish I'm good with it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (8ZskC)

403 248 >>> Ace, you started up this blog before 9/11, right? At least, I think you did.

no. i started at the very end (like December 28th) of 2003.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8rNrN)


Holy crap. Has it been that long? I think I came in on a link from Karol's site (which seems to be gone?) very soon after that. Might have been Malkin's.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (Xuv2G)

404 347- depends, we talking G1 Transformers or Michael Bay like Transformers?

Yeah I might have a few maturity issues...but I also have some cool toys.

Posted by: Bete the deplorable at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (Ojki1)

405 Toast with a fork?

Posted by: Siri play Hungry like The Wolf with opposable thumbs at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (Sp1NT)

406 Ace isn't having his best day. Sad.
...

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at February 27, 2017 07:15 PM (TdMsT)


Ace was having a great day, but some idiots repeatedly ignored his polite warnings and requests to cease and desist.

As Ace said once or twice before, "he" has to live here because it's his place, but buffoons don't have to be allowed on his lawn.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (UDXti)

407
Yup....a little known piece of trivia is Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.


Little monkeys were a popular pet for a brief time in the 50's!

Huge mistake for obvious reasons. But mainly because they'd tear the house apart when left alone. Plus, they can be evil bastards.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (AKOhm)

408 Fox news right now
Father of slain SEAL wants a investigation.
Its a military operation,things go to shit as soon as a shot is fired.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (HDU3V)

409 385 I see antisemitism growing year by year.
I'm as much as a WASP as anyone.
Posted by: Skip



From the right or the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (ph+ut)

410
Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.

Fuller Monkey man!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (IqV8l)

411 Let's all pray no one gets shot today, shall we?

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (d5+A9)


I bet the neighbors offer her $50 for it.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (wB8Tg)

412 True fact:

Sometimes I still confuse Ignoramus and Insomniac.

Posted by: kallisto


Heh. I just confused Anon a mouse with Anon Y. Mous, who posted on a different thread. But the hashes are different.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (W8bn5)

413
In fact "white trash" is IMHO more often used as a punchline, or a funny term, than a perjorative.

====


iWish

Posted by: Apple at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (KgpWR)

414 Don't know about you folks, but I could use a good Scotch right about now.

Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana, Esq. at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (GdgAM)

415 >> As long as we can still hate the Irish


I thought that was mandatory.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (NXfyF)

416 What year did the site get the hashes?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (LTHVh)

417
Fox news right now
Father of slain SEAL wants a investigation.
Its a military operation,things go to shit as soon as a shot is fired.
Posted by: Skip


He's the new Cindy Sheehan.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (IqV8l)

418 "I never knew they had a gun!!! What do I do with it?!?!"

Me: Uh. Try not to shoot. yourself. Seriously just set it down and leave the room (we're going Eddie Eagle style here)...

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:25 PM (d5+A9)

It's surprising how many people believe zero tolerance / exposure is safer than rudimentary gun education (not a personal thing, just noting it since the topic came up).

We teach kids how to put on condoms, but don't want them to know how not to shoot themselves with a firearm they come across.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (/f1mm)

419 while i was out, this was poasted on the Bush thread, so i'll answer it here, in case their still here:
---
I look forward to the reaction the Horde has towards Trump when he says something "unhelpful" after his presidency is over.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 27, 2017 04:04 PM (EvBgT)

---
can't speak for anyone else, but if that day comes, i'll be just as harsh.

Bush never stood up for himself, or his administration, nor did he ever criticize the #SCOAMF, so he can STFU about Trump, who hasn't done anything to merit the comments puss nuts made.

the entire Bush clan can go pound sand up their colons until they defecate a bottle.

Posted by: redc1c4, at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (joq+X)

420 The one thing I keep coming back to is the raw, honest commentary.

Key on honest.

This site is Ace's. He can ban, edit, and HTML whatever the fuck he wants. If (when) I grow up and have my own website to pontificate on things that interest me, this will be my model.

Except for pixey. Fuck that bitch.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (MCEs2)

421 @397: "397 Ace, you are now ready to run an MMO. It's 10x more fun!"

Pixy is an obvious second cousin to ye olde MUD systems.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (3Vlkn)

422
Let's try not necessarily to give too much of ourselves away, especially the parts of ourselves we're not proud of (or shouldn't be proud of).

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (8rNrN)

and that is really IT. don't be an ass purposefully.
sometimes we just are, but maybe trying to be a better soul isn't a chtty thing. jmho
we can alwys do better in between the stupid jokes

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (R7cwD)

423 Who eats toast with a fork?
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (sdi6R)

-------

Id look at bcochran first.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (vIjh1)

424 What happened to make Ace so mad?

Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (FTXAT)

425 in case you haven't noticed, or have noticed but not objected, there is in fact an uptick in the "bravery" of anti-semites to self-declare.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (8rNrN)


I'm cool with that. Let all the masks fall. I like to know who I'm dealing with, rather than a smarmy smile.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (8nWyX)

426 I guess no one will get banned because of the Bush thread...LOL!

Posted by: William Eaton at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (MuTTO)

427 ugh, I sound like my mum.

apologies

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (R7cwD)

428 "You uh will let us know if he has a Thompson or something else really cool, right?"

I will. Although apparently gay neighbor #1 has taken it to his house because "I don't want that thing in my house!".

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (d5+A9)

429 in case you haven't noticed, or have noticed but not objected, there is in fact an uptick in the "bravery" of anti-semites to self-declare.

I asked you specifically ... because I wonder. I know you've said something about living somewhere North-East. In my head, NYC or Boston - but I could be wrong.

I don't do Twitter or Facebook or any other social media other than here. This is it. And this is obviously different.

All I see about anti-semetism is what I see on TV. And what I see on TV is bizarro-world compared to what I live. But that's small-town Southern Indiana for ya'.

Even at the places I travel for work - things are just "different". But I work at power plants - it's a different culture.

So that's why I asked.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (fiGNd)

430 414
Don't know about you folks, but I could use a good Scotch right about now.


Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana


Some things are axiomatic.

Posted by: pep at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (LAe3v)

431 >>>
I'm cool with that. Let all the masks fall. I like to know who I'm dealing with, rather than a smarmy smile.

fine for you, but my virtual name is on the door.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (8rNrN)

432 394 All right, you fappers.

What did you do now?


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, loving the Cubs even though they are WINNERS at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (8iiMU)

Flippin' freestylers. Got all cocky and started left-handing it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (GX63o)

433 Little monkeys were a popular pet for a brief time in the 50's!

Not just the 50s. The kid down the street from me had a Spider Monkey in the 60's. That little rat bastard would climb all over your head and try to fuck your nostril.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (LTHVh)

434 As long as we can still hate the Irish

And the Scandis.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (Xuv2G)

435

Im kind of obsessed about the JCC bomb threat caller

Looks like they are ALL being made by 1 person, a woman. Some calls are prerecorded, some live. She uses a voice destortor

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (MZ/gs)

436 Oh my. Work makes me miss all the good feuds.

Bad corgis! *sprays the spray bottle of shame*

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (hvf9s)

437 How are things going? Hopefully much better for you.

Did you get a new place? How are things?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her!


Some friends were kind enough to take me in for a while. Should keep me with a roof over my head until the estate clears probate, which will probably be in July thanks to effin' probate laws in this damn state. But I have a path forward, if I can live long enough to implement it.

Still thinking I may be dealing with a touch of the big D though. No time to deal with that though. Too much needs doing.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (9krrF)

438 Have no idea what this is about, but know that asking the left to be civil is futile exercise. The left of today is comprised of reprobates.

Participation here is a privilege and not a right. Ban away!

Posted by: Locke Common at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (+btqc)

439 I will. Although apparently gay neighbor #1 has taken it to his house because "I don't want that thing in my house!".

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (d5+A9)


*Always* get the money up front!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (wB8Tg)

440 Bush never stood up for himself, or his administration, nor did he ever
criticize the #SCOAMF, so he can STFU about Trump, who hasn't done
anything to merit the comments puss nuts mad
====

And he and Poppy never had a single critical thing to say about Clenis.

And now they are all big buddies. How nice.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (KgpWR)

441 Monkeys are bad enough, what with the poo flinging and Marburg. But you used to be able to send people little alligators in the mail. In. The. Mail.

Dad got a package, opened up one end, and a little snapping snout greeted him (and nipped a finger). Greetings from Florida!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (EnKk6)

442 419
the entire Bush clan can go pound sand up their colons until they defecate a bottle.
Posted by: redc1c4, at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (joq+X)


*snort*

Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (sdi6R)

443 385 I see antisemitism growing year by year.
I'm as much as a WASP as anyone.
Posted by: Skip



From the right or the left?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (ph+ut)
a lot on the left,it's almost a proud deal , a very few on our side flirt with it.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (R7cwD)

444
That little rat bastard would climb all over your head and try to fuck your nostril.

Vile creatures.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (AKOhm)

445 What happened to make Ace so mad?
Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (FTXAT)

-------

Nevertrumpers

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (vIjh1)

446 Making me wonder if Navy SEAL's father is a Leftist. Sounddd like someone ix trying to pin the operation on Trump.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (HDU3V)

447 Yup....a little known piece of trivia is Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.





Little monkeys were a popular pet for a brief time in the 50's!



Huge mistake for obvious reasons.


You'd think it would be obvious, wouldn't you?

Posted by: pep at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (LAe3v)

448 Flippin' freestylers. Got all cocky and started left-handing it.




Excuse me! Some of us are natural left handers.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (ph+ut)

449 Ex Machina was good, it's one of those movies where the ending makes you re-evaluate everything that you've seen.

My one complaint is a spoiler, so I won't mention it. It's pretty big, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (MZcWR)

450 >>Not just the 50s. The kid down the street from me had a Spider Monkey in the 60's. That little rat bastard would climb all over your head and try to fuck your nostril.


My father and his friend (owner of said monkey) dyed one Green for St. Patrick's Day.

It escaped.

Hillarity ensued.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (NXfyF)

451
But you used to be able to send people little alligators in the mail. In. The. Mail.


That's so cool!

We were a better county back then.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (AKOhm)

452 Little monkeys were a popular pet for a brief time in the 50's!
Huge mistake for obvious reasons. But mainly because they'd tear the house apart when left alone. Plus, they can be evil bastards.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (AKOhm)

Hahaha...yup. There is a picture of him floating in cyberspace somewhere of his "product" on a leash as he does his sales spiel. Can you imagine cold calling someone and when they answer the door there you are with a monkey on a leash "for sale"?

Insane.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (5VlCp)

453 >As long as we can still hate the Irish I'm good with it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:27 PM (8ZskC)
You must be British! "(The) British will always give the Germans, the Russians, the Japanese or even the Egyptians the benefit of the doubt, but never the Irish." -From The League of Gentlemen {1960}

Posted by: Locke Common at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (+btqc)

454 Yup....a little known piece of trivia is Jim Jones, yes THAT Jim Jones, sold monkeys door to door back in the 50's.

Let that sink in, talk about weird.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy


It's tough getting a start in acting. I'm not surprised James Earl Jones was forced to do that for a time.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (W8bn5)

455 The temple monkeys in Southeast Asia are the worst, they think they own the place.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (8ZskC)

456 Game Over, Man!

Posted by: Fresh Zombie Bill Paxton at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (XcOXh)

457 385 I see antisemitism growing year by year.

I'm as much as a WASP as anyone.

Posted by: Skip







From the right or the left?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:28 PM (ph+ut)

the left. disguised as anti-Israel, like BDS, grew exponentially under bo

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (c6/9Q)

458 If I'm gone, I'm gone. I meant no harm, but apparently I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sorry guys.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (TppKb)

459 in case you haven't noticed, or have noticed but not objected, there is in fact an uptick in the "bravery" of anti-semites to self-declare.

Posted by: ace


You probably didn't see my comments this morning about the Philly cemetery. This isn't a couple scrawny teenagers. These were big, brawny men, probably requiring at least 3 to knock over a 500 pound stone.

Who had to have spent hours to knock over 530 of them.

These are paid professionals, hired to do a job.

Soros.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (ZFUt7)

460 Fuller Monkey man!

And I'll be your Fuller monkey - woman.

Posted by: The nice lady behind the door at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (BO/km)

461
Nevertrumpers


Heh.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (AKOhm)

462 fine for you, but my virtual name is on the door.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:31 PM (8rNrN)


Oh, I'm not saying you shouldn't spray raid when you see cockroaches in your own home, especially when people are waiting to pounce and pin them on you. Just that I'm cool with racists and sexists and anti-semites and homophobes raising their hands when called on.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (8nWyX)

463 This is neat.

Completely by accident, blogger Datechguy ended up attending the very first ever Catholic mass at CPAC.

http://tinyurl.com/z3fp2uq

Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (nsZ+m)

464 I eat toast with a spoon. Like any good Irishman.

Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (qUNWi)

465 >>> Father of slain SEAL wants a investigation.
Its a military operation,things go to shit as soon as a shot is fired.

I noted that news in a previous thread, I don't think anyone commented. Was on the NBC nightly news Sunday night. Investigation I have no prob with. Blaming Trump and not Obama for spearheading the raid? I do. If you're gonna blame one blame both.

But RIP to his son, and I hope he finds some form of peace.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (hvf9s)

466 all-around assholes.





Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 06:53 PM (8rNrN)

I'm glad I'm just a second string asshole.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, loving the Cubs even though they are WINNERS at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (8iiMU)

467 I'm still alive?

I think I have feet to kiss.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (TppKb)

468 Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:26 PM (u8kLQ)
This guy is a good guy, he would never use any racial slur.

If I recall I was saying something being okiefied. I was trying to explain what an Okie was. I also told him it wasn't nice.

It's hard to explain racial slurs that you refer to your friends and loved ones to a non native speaker.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (u8Ywb)

469 How many of you have seen an actual organ grinder with a monkey in real life?

*raises hand*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (LTHVh)

470 I think this Antisemitism is totally from Leftists as it always has been. I do not buy now or ever this Right wing extreme thing.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (HDU3V)

471 Didn't magazines like Boys Life have ads for little hand-held monkeys?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (8ZskC)

472
And before someone mentions sea monkeys...

they weren't really sea monkeys.

They were tiny sea horses.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (AKOhm)

473 What happened to make Ace so mad?

Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (FTXAT)



-------



Nevertrumpers

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (vIjh1)

Doubt it

Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (FTXAT)

474 >>>I asked you specifically ... because I wonder. I know you've said something about living somewhere North-East. In my head, NYC or Boston - but I could be wrong.


i see anti-semitism nowhere in my real life but I have a lot of Jewish friends so it would be highly unlikely that an anti-semite would decide to tell me, out of the blue, all the problems he has with The Jews.

But there is a fair amount of it on twitter. And sometimes here -- the other day, I wrote about ben Shapiro and mentioned Jonah Goldberg in another post, and someone (some random n00b) said something like: "With all this talk of tribalism, don't you think Shapiro and Goldberg should identify which Tribe they belong to?"

That was like six days ago, when I disputed Shapiro's post about no-platforming.

I don't think this is an upsurge in antisemitism the way some do, but I do think there is a lot more willingness to come out and declare as pro-Nazi or anti-semitic.

But yeah, I do notice that people who hate Jews are more brazen about just saying so now.

So when some people start to make pointless references to Jews, I make a deduction from that.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (8rNrN)

475 336 I had no idea things went sideways. I step away to up some corned beef hash and eggs to eat.

DAMN!!! that sounds good.

Posted by: ghbucky at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (D2q91)

476 Are we still allowed to do "first!"?

Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (JNDQi)

477 >>They were tiny sea horses.

They were brine shrimp. Trust me on this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (/tuJf)

478 Too much needs doing.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:32 PM (9krrF)

Probate, even in the best of circumstances, is a huge PITA. And it makes no sense. What's the big deal? How fvcking long does it take to read a will and see right off the bat that everything is correct? Or not correct and order a change?

Our legal system would be better if it weren't for the judges and lawyers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (rF0hx)

479 Connecticut, now a complete sanctuary State.

http://tinyurl.com/jearbt9

Posted by: geoffb5 at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (d3wbb)

480 CaliGirl, good to hear.

Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (u8kLQ)

481 I wouldn't be surprised if the left is doing the destruction Hoping Trump can be blamed.

I'm just that cynical now.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (R7cwD)

482 They were brine shrimp. Trust me on this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (/tuJf)

SHUT UP! I HATE YOU!

Posted by: seven-year-old CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (rF0hx)

483 My one complaint is a spoiler, so I won't mention it. It's pretty big, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm


I don't think "the nudity wasn't continuous" really counts as a valid cinematic complaint.

Posted by: pep at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (LAe3v)

484 Yeah, you're the Durian of bloggers, Ace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:10 PM (8ZskC)

I first read that as Duran Duran.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (0mRoj)
---
You should get some sleep.

Posted by: That fucking guy at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (2mC6G)

485 424 What happened to make Ace so mad?
Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (FTXAT)


It seems there has to be a periodic culling if you don't want your comments section to turn into Stormfront.

To quote Clemenza: "These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for trouble. "

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (Xuv2G)

486 >> I think this Antisemitism is totally from Leftists as it always has been. I do not buy now or ever this Right wing extreme thing.


You would be wrong.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (NXfyF)

487 >>>Oh, I'm not saying you shouldn't spray raid when you see cockroaches in your own home, especially when people are waiting to pounce and pin them on you. Just that I'm cool with racists and sexists and anti-semites and homophobes raising their hands when called on.


i got ya. I didn't take it in a bad way. I just meant to point out that while your general point might be correct, I don't want a blog that represents 12 years of my professional life to become That Blog Where It's Cool Now to Say You Hate The Jews.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (8rNrN)

488
Are you telling me that sea horses are shrimps?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (AKOhm)

489 >>> I wouldn't be surprised if the left is doing the destruction Hoping Trump can be blamed. I'm just that cynical now.Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (R7cwD)


Cynical? Or realistic?

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (hvf9s)

490 Still thinking I may be dealing with a touch of the big D though. No time to deal with that though. Too much needs doing.

Posted by: Brother Cavil

====

Sunshine , fresh air and keep Charlie Miking it, my friend.

Daffodils are popping up all over the place here. The flowers don't care that it is cloudy and icky, they are energetic, excited and acting like it's already Spring!

Flowers are pretty smart sometimes.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (KgpWR)

491 space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (c6/9Q)

Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters?
Cher and Clooney?

Posted by: hambone at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (L7t0A)

492 I noted that news in a previous thread, I don't think anyone commented. Was on the NBC nightly news Sunday night. Investigation I have no prob with. Blaming Trump and not Obama for spearheading the raid? I do. If you're gonna blame one blame both.

But RIP to his son, and I hope he finds some form of peace.




Someone commented earlier. Seems dad is the only one in the family that is a professional democrat. Everyone else was ok with Trump.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (ph+ut)

493 No doubt there is more bravery with the White Supremacists .....and Supremacist movements in general, which are toxic as he'll.

Could it be that some Egg McMuffin (Never-Trumpers and principled Crocservatives, which is an awesome term by the way) types come on here and troll Ace and pee on his rug because they are angry at him and would like to run him off?
I mean it is a war out there.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (ksj3z)

494 They were brine shrimp.


Riding Sea Horses. It's right there in the ad.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (LTHVh)

495 Love ya Ace, I am glad your here! Sorry it is so much work.

Posted by: Me at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (bZvry)

496 I'm just that cynical now.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (R7cwD)


And a man-hater. A cynical man-hater.

This blog is changing people, and not for the better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (8ZskC)

497 Oh man, at first I thought Ace was pissed about the GWB thread. Thought I might be a goner for sure. Thankfully, I was nowhere near the Siri thread when it blew.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (S2VsH)

498 Regarding the "white-trash" thing, not to go too far down a poorly lit alley filled with nothing good:

"White-trash" is almost inherently a selective insult. Meaning "those whites" or "that subset of Whites". The "N" word (no, I won't type it out for obvious reasons) is more or less a universal signifier. "That class (and all members of it)". Despite Chris Rock's efforts on the stand-up stage, that remains a fact of American English. That's why I believe it's so much more strongly policed than other insults.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (sK2fh)

499 Doubt it

Posted by: redbanzai at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (FTXAT)

It was a joke.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (rF0hx)

500 I have always respected ace's house in the past, and it's his choice. Nothing I posted today was intentionally any further out than a Monty Python skit and I apologize for any of it being there.

Good night.

Posted by: JEM at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (TppKb)

501 >>SHUT UP! I HATE YOU!

My sister ordered those things from some comic. Talk about shattering my youthful illusions.

Ovaltine had nothing on these people.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (/tuJf)

502
But you used to be able to send people little alligators in the mail. In. The. Mail.

Saw that on TV

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630238

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (IqV8l)

503 467

Go a little higher dude.

Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana, Esq. at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (GdgAM)

504
space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first


How about one of each?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (AKOhm)

505
You know what else you used to be able to get in the mail.?

X-RAY GLASSES

Posted by: fixerupper at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (vIjh1)

506 >>>>> I think this Antisemitism is totally from Leftists as it always has been. I do not buy now or ever this Right wing extreme thing.


You would be wrong.

...

yes, you would be wrong, and it's just generally wrong anyway to declare that some social ill is located ONLY on "the other team," which is very self-serving and incredibly statistically unlikely.

There used to be a fair amount of open anti-semitism in the mainstream anti-liberal coalition, which was famously purged (as far as open presence in the mainstream) by Buckley. But such people have remained in the movement; they've just been denied any kind of prominence.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (8rNrN)

507 Connecticut, now a complete sanctuary State.





Trump needs to drop the federal dollars ban hammer.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (ph+ut)

508 One of the planets Elijah Baley went to had many robots and few people. Sort of the reverse of where we are headed.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (ptQdD)

509 How many of you have seen an actual organ grinder with a monkey in real life?



*raises hand*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (LTHVh)


There was one way back at Lenox Square in ATL. My mother was visiting and decided to "test" the monkey.

She held on tightly to the coin she was offering it, and the little bastard bit her, took the coin, and tipped his hat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (PY9jH)

510
remember THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE?

Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 07:41 PM (AKOhm)

511 I like some of the non-doomporn informative posts over at ZeroHedge on occasion, but don't dare wade into the comments anymore; can't get beyond the first handful and oftentimes the very first one.

Anti-Semitic Central ... and they are damn proud of it. I need a shower just thinking about it ...

Posted by: ShainS at February 27, 2017 07:41 PM (mt8X9)

512 Probate, even in the best of circumstances, is a huge PITA. And it makes no sense. What's the big deal? How fvcking long does it take to read a will and see right off the bat that everything is correct? Or not correct and order a change?

Our legal system would be better if it weren't for the judges and lawyers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


It's also to make it possible for claimants against the estate to come forward so they can be assessed and cleared as needed. Even for a smallish estate this can get messy if they dealt with more than three outfits by other than cash on the barrelhead.

Death is an expensive and complicated business. I do not recommend it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:41 PM (9krrF)

513

I wish jewish cemtaries had security cameras and they get that caller


My daughter was coming back from a jewish youth trip, pick up was at the JCC

Bomb threat called in, had to pick her up at our synagogue, because it has an iron gate and an armed cop at the gate

There are armed cops at the entrance and the exit to my kids jewish school now

Its worse, and its worse everywhere

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:41 PM (MZ/gs)

514 Are you telling me that sea horses are shrimps?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (AKOhm)


Have you ever considered a career in Science!!! Journalism?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (wB8Tg)

515 You know what else you used to be able to get in the mail.?

X-RAY GLASSES



Spanish Fly.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (ph+ut)

516 and the little bastard bit her, took the coin, and tipped his hat.


perfect.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (LTHVh)

517
...the little bastard bit her, took the coin, and tipped his hat.



ah, a Democrat monkey

Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (AKOhm)

518 Guess I missed all the fireworks.

Glad for that.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (Saqzi)

519 >>remember THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE?

also brine shrimp.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (/tuJf)

520 I don't think it would take heavy strong men to topple stones. Momentum from rocking means crummy kids is all it would take, that very black hearts, and a desire to rage and break things.

So yeah, Soros.

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (Sp1NT)

521 470 I think this Antisemitism is totally from Leftists as it always has been. I do not buy now or ever this Right wing extreme thing.
Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:35 PM (HDU3V)

If it fits the left's narrative, and it does, easy money it's leftists.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (GX63o)

522 Regarding antisemitism, I do wonder if some of the renewed focus on right wing extremism was a matter of convenience for liberal reporters who understand that antisemitism will become a bigger issues as progressives pull the Democrats further leftward.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (7I7P7)

523 Just looked it up, bomb threats were today in Philadelphia and Jersey area. At least 20 were called in, nothing was found.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (HDU3V)

524 >>> Are you telling me that sea horses are shrimps?
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (AKOhm)


Who told you my little seahorse is a shrimp? Who told? TERESA!

*clutches purple hearts to his bosom and weeps*

Posted by: John "Seabiscuit" Kerry at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (hvf9s)

525 >>>
Could it be that some Egg McMuffin (Never-Trumpers and principled Crocservatives, which is an awesome term by the way) types come on here and troll Ace and pee on his rug because they are angry at him and would like to run him off?
I mean it is a war out there.


come on. People claim a False Flag operation 63,000 times for every time it actually occurs.

Yes, it does happen. Rarely. But if you only read the internet you'd think every bad action ever taken was a False Flag plotted out by the nefarious, always-everywhere Other Side.


Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (8rNrN)

526 481 I wouldn't be surprised if the left is doing the destruction Hoping Trump can be blamed.

I'm just that cynical now.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:37 PM (R7cwD)


That's what I think. The real antisemitism these days seems to be in universities, what with all the pro-Palestinian groups.

Somebody wants to advance the narrative:
Trump is President > Trump is Hitler > Upsurge in antisemitism > Must be reichwing Trump supporters.

Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (sdi6R)

527
Poor Sven.

Why is he banned, again?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (AKOhm)

528 Daffodils are popping up all over the place here. The flowers don't care that it is cloudy and icky, they are energetic, excited and acting like it's already Spring!

Flowers are pretty smart sometimes.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her!


Heh. I would spend time near the complex's waterfowl (ducks and geese about) but it's a touch hood-y hereabouts so I stay in as much as possible. Though I do know a nice park I may hang out in on weekends...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (9krrF)

529
When you see how obama swept almost 100% of philadelphia then see antisemitic acts immediately after, it's hard to imagine 'right wing'.

This was professionals. Quiet, determined, stealthy.

$oros.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (ZFUt7)

530 Poor Sven.



Why is he banned, again?
===


Soliciting Sex from A State Trooper, I think it was.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (KgpWR)

531
Sven just appeared like Capt Kirk in that Tholian Web episode.

Hi, sven.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (AKOhm)

532 Why is he banned, again?

Was he? I thought he just wandered off like the Dread Lord Jeff.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (LTHVh)

533 cicero, just trying to fill in the gaps.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (R7cwD)

534 >>Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (8rNrN)


I would only add :

The Organized Left is all too happy to use the Anti-Semites as a Tool. Like any group (deplorable or not), they will happily employ them to carry their water.

Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (NXfyF)

535 Oh that's awful, ThunderB!

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:44 PM (d5+A9)

536 446
Making me wonder if Navy SEAL's father is a Leftist. Sounddd like someone ix trying to pin the operation on Trump.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:33 PM (HDU3V)

I am getting tired of this whole storyline. It is a dynamic entry operation against a live enemy. It was not "tipped off", it was the aircraft that woke the occupants. It would have had a far larger defensive force or a secondary response group if the target of the raid had any clue it was coming.
That women picked up weapons and started fighting would have been a surprise to the guys as the women normally run around being a nuisance.
I drafted the narrative of two raids that cost US servicemen, one under Obama one under Trump. The raid that killed MSG Wheeler 1st SFOD-D was not called a failure, the raid that killed Chief Owens is. Both raids cost us, one of the most unique members of our society. But the press never called for investigations in the death of MSG Wheeler. It is Operation Embarrass Trump and the ROE is unrestricted.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 27, 2017 07:45 PM (7N6ox)

537 (you realize WE never get beefcake) and you get lost of pointy elbows!

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:45 PM (R7cwD)

538 Scogg, thanks, will do. Willow, Jim, Cicero, Garrett, kallisto, Mortimer, grump, skip, Jane, boulder, Caligirl, Duke, chillin, and anyone I inadvertently missed, thanks again. Seriously. You guys are awesome

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:45 PM (0mRoj)

539 Whoa. I saw that.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (LTHVh)

540
TBH it could be BLM, or SJP, or OWS, or some scummy ultra alt right. Theres a line

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (MZ/gs)

541 Well, that post came and went quickly.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (S2VsH)

542 new post

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (8rNrN)

543 Rap on the table twice, Sven.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (LTHVh)

544 "It's surprising how many people believe zero tolerance / exposure is safer than rudimentary gun education"

It's about "othering" gun culture. An attempt to push it out to the distant margins of what a liberal bien-pensant imagines decent society to be.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (noWW6)

545
Was he? I thought he just wandered off like the Dread Lord Jeff.

Evidently.
His comment that was between yours and mine was just nuked lickety-split.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (AKOhm)

546 I know one retired SEAL and he is in no ways a fan of the left.

Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (JNDQi)

547 I have lived in the middle of Georgia for over 40 years. In the course of business and on a personal basis have dealt with many many people over the years and have never heard in person anyone say anything bad about the Jewish people. Sure in the media and "news" all the time but never from anyone I have known. In this area it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (BO/km)

548 >>>I think I have feet to kiss.

*ahem*. And rub on a little Eucerin while you're down there. My soles have been feeling a bit dry lately.

Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (W8bn5)

549 Yes, it does happen. Rarely. But if you only read the internet you'd think every bad action ever taken was a False Flag plotted out by the nefarious, always-everywhere Other Side.


Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (8rNrN)


You can't go too far with that if you don't want to sound like Robert Reich.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (Xuv2G)

550 >>> Have you ever considered a career in Science!!! Journalism? Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 07:42 PM (wB8Tg)


Oh that reminds me, at the Oscars last night there was much talk during the technical oscars review about "movie science!" Much virtue signaling about how Hollywood loves movie science sexually. Well, the part of the science that lets them make cool effects in movies so they can convince people they are worth sleeping with. The little people that make that science happen? Could care less about. It was even a bitt of a joke during the telecast. Sad.

Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (hvf9s)

551 rickl, i can remember all the protests against Booosh, and all the signage at those"'rallies"

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (R7cwD)

552 "I don't want a blog that represents 12 years of my professional life to become That Blog Where It's Cool Now to Say You Hate The Jews."

Yeah. There are plenty of places online for that kinda action.
Like the DNC's official web site...

Posted by: jbspry at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (mCOPv)

553 The NOOD,


We should mention it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (J+eG2)

554 well I am clueless on all this ...

But love Ace for getting emotionally involved, which probably means he considers/tolerates various views, to the point of aggravation. That is sorta the heart of "down with the struggle" as opposed to top down arrogance. That generates better blog content. (phileo/agape love, not that Breitbart/ace comment thing lol)

cheers ... coyotes are howling, life is good in America, keep the commie wolves at bay

Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (YMJtx)

555 But such people have remained in the movement; they've just been denied any kind of prominence.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (8rNrN)

I beg to differ.

The State Department has held onto its reflexive antisemitism, possibly because of the influence of the UN and the various NGOs that are attached to it. Head over to The Hague and go to any cocktail party populated by American representatives to the Criminal Courts and other UN bodies and you will hear casual antisemitism that matches anything from the far right or the far left.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (rF0hx)

556 Are you telling me that sea horses are shrimps?
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (AKOhm)

Seahorses! Very strange. The dads give birth!!?!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/06/0614_seahorse_recov.html

Posted by: hambone at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (L7t0A)

557 yes, there is random antisemitism on the right, but, it is INSTITUTIONALIZED now on the left. case in point, who is the Vice Chair of the Democratic party ? Keith fucking Ellison

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (c6/9Q)

558 anyway yick.
i'm going to go find something sweet to gnaw on.

Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (R7cwD)

559 You know what else you used to be able to get in the mail.?

X-RAY GLASSES
.............

SIXFINGER
The Most Amazing Toy Ever

Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (HgMAr)

560 This was professionals. Quiet, determined, stealthy.



$oros.
===

I really hope that deep in the bowels of the DOJ building, Sessions has created Joint Terrorism Task Force Soros with the single-minded obsession of sending that Nazi-sympathizing prick and the members of his terrorist sponsoring organization to prison.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (KgpWR)

561 I don't want a blog that represents 12 years of my professional life to become That Blog Where It's Cool Now to Say You Hate The Jews.

My first twelve years or so were That Era Before I Hit My Growth Spurt And Girls Ignored Me So I Hid In The Corner.

Meh ... times changed.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (fiGNd)

562 317 Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:16 PM (0mRoj)
I prefer 29, beautiful and fit.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:17 PM (u8Ywb)

Oh for the 'ettes of course. And hot. Smokin' hot.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (0mRoj)

563
Saw that on TV

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630238
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:39 PM (IqV8l)
---
We kept ours in the bathtub too! Dad made little leashes and we'd walk the two critters around the yard, and feed them hamburger.

I was really young and don't remember what happened to them -- I'm guessing Michigan winters weren't kind to these gentle denizens of the Everglades.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (EnKk6)

564 542 new post
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (8rNrN)

With that, I just witnessed my first Ur-Nood. From the head Ewok himself.

I feel honored just to be here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (sK2fh)

565 Giraffecam

Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (c6/9Q)

566 I awhile ago thought the recent antisemitism in Europe was all from the Muzzy invasion, but there could be a bit of pile on from Leftists, not that they couldn't do it themselves.

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (HDU3V)

567 What happened? I was on the Mensch thread, got powerful sleepy (caught a damned cold), and laid down for a nap. Get up to this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (WDdjT)

568 525 >>>
Could it be that some Egg McMuffin (Never-Trumpers and principled Crocservatives, which is an awesome term by the way) types come on here and troll Ace and pee on his rug because they are angry at him and would like to run him off?
I mean it is a war out there.


come on. People claim a False Flag operation 63,000 times for every time it actually occurs.

Yes, it does happen. Rarely. But if you only read the internet you'd think every bad action ever taken was a False Flag plotted out by the nefarious, always-everywhere Other Side.


Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:43 PM (8rNrN)

I asked because there is a realignment going on. Those folks can be assholes. Also the Left as well. Neither have been too friendly to Trump supporters. Lots of hate.

It doesn't matter because it sucks anyway you slice it.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (ksj3z)

569 sorry I didn't remember that Insomniac was named in the post itself.

I took his name out.

I would have taken his name out a while ago but I completely forgotten I had mentioned him outside the comments.

His name is now out of hte post, with an apology.

I took JEM's name out too, but without an apology. JEM, just please stop trying to be outrageous and provocative. You don't seem to know where the lines are and you have gone over them twice in one day.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (8rNrN)

570 I don't think it would take heavy strong men to topple stones. Momentum from rocking means crummy kids is all it would take, that very black hearts, and a desire to rage and break things.

So yeah, Soros.

Posted by: SarahW

I work with stone and cement. You do NOT f around with 500 pound stone. Not for 'kicks'.

You do it because someone is paying you good money.

The cost to fix the mess @ $450-500 per headstone? Times 500 tumbled. Do the math.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (ZFUt7)

571 aw hell, Som.

You're worth sticking up for.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (KgpWR)

572
93 So...

Trump has a meeting with insurance CEOs, gives a breakdown of why Obamacare is failing and it's important to fix. Goes around the table, introduces those present, they each offer brief remarks.

When it's time to adjourn, reporter screams out a question about:

special prosecutor for Russia.

Guess you didn't see *that* coming!
Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2017 06:48 PM (nNdYv)

Sigh.

Posted by: Bernette at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (LZ1GD)

573 125 space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first

Pick any two from the View.

Posted by: r.kelly at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (cQhQZ)

574

Some of the alt right are anti semetic

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (MZ/gs)

575 So.

CS:GO, horde?

Anyone?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (yL25O)

576 That one time at banned camp.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (u82oZ)

577 125 space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 06:52 PM (c6/9Q)


Better yet, a monkey riding a dog. From the Mesquite, Texas rodeo, I present Whiplash the monkey.

https://youtu.be/JsHgpS2lug8

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (nvMvs)

578 there was a freakin durian at my grocery store today!

...and this isn't 'big city'

Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 07:54 PM (3BqEq)

579 Can you imagine cold calling someone and when they answer the door there you are with a monkey on a leash "for sale"?

Insane.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 07:34 PM (5VlCp)


Here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRk0TXYXuA

Posted by: Emmie at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (xVuS6)

580 Insomniac is the one who hates Jews.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 27, 2017 07:11 PM (4e+hS)

So, he's like CBD then?

Posted by: Donna di deplorable ampersands&&&&and so there at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (P8951)

581 just for general information:

the cobs and I have long had a policy of not posting "sensitive" topics end of day or on weekends, because we get tired of having to patrol threads for ugly shit.

That has turned into a general policy of not posting on some topics at all.

people can either self-moderate some or we'll wind up restricting permitted topics to just five or six things.

Seriously, people -- me, the cobs -- like posting stuff. WE HATE MODERATING AND DO NOT WANT TO DO IT. We would rather not post than spend time moderating.

So please: Self-moderate. The world will not stop spinning if you withhold the 37 thousandth reference to ebonics.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (8rNrN)

582 Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:40 PM (8rNrN)

I don't mean to suggest they don't exist, but in my part of the country I have never observed anyone expressing a hatred of "the jews" who wasn't absolutely crazy paranoid, infected with leftist delusions, or dragging a big millstone of non-privileged race-grievance around with them all over the place.

Also, no conservatives at all ever have I met, who were anti-semitic (if I don't count Paulbots in the earlier aughts who were much less in number than their comment section intrusions would have suggested, and I don't think anyone should count them.)

Anyway, I hope they catch the horrible rage-and-break-things people who delighted in the idea of bringing pain to others. I can't know who did it, but if they are somehow linked to Soros I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (Sp1NT)

583 Self-moderation is the new self-deportation?!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (7I7P7)

584 Ace, just saw the apology in the post. Again, accepted, and no hard feelings. Thanks for letting me speak my piece.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (0mRoj)

585 >>>573 125 space X should send two monkeys or two dogs first

Pick any two from the View.
Posted by: r.kelly

...

got that out of your system now?

Do you feel like you've done some good work today?

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (8rNrN)

586 So please: Self-moderate. The world will not stop spinning if you withhold the 37 thousandth reference to ebonics.

I'll miss being able to quote the Blazing Saddles and Airplane jokes.

And no matter what ... we're not taking the Irish !!!

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (fiGNd)

587 Ace, message received. Good transmission.

Now please go out and have some fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (u82oZ)

588 Most anti-semitism is from the left, but one of the big charges against the Ron Paul types was their odd mix of great economics and completely out there anti-Jew stuff.

My small town had a few guys, Ron Paul types. They very earnestly would put together a small newsletter, full of great ideas... until the "renounce Israel and clean out all the Jews in government because Bilderberger" or some such.

Still, I'd say it's a much bigger problem on the left.

Posted by: Vanceone at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (A9Gmy)

589 Some of the alt right are anti semetic
Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (MZ/gs)


Yes, this is definitely a thing that happens. On both sides.

I've heard of businesspeople from the PRC telling Jewish jokes, and they'd never met a Jewish person. I can't remember who said it (it might have been right here years ago), but it's like a black hole: once you cross the event horizon of hate, you end up at the singularity of anti-semitism.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (8nWyX)

590 most pedophiles are probably on the left too but I don't really want to hang around any pedophiles.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (8rNrN)

591 E depluribus unum the scale of toppling is beyond a casual interest in vandalism, that's clear.

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (Sp1NT)

592 i see anti-semitism nowhere in my real life but I have a lot of Jewish friends so it would be highly unlikely that an anti-semite would decide to tell me, out of the blue, all the problems he has with The Jews.

But there is a fair amount of it on twitter. And sometimes here -- the other day, I wrote about ben Shapiro and mentioned Jonah Goldberg in another post, and someone (some random n00b) said something like: "With all this talk of tribalism, don't you think Shapiro and Goldberg should identify which Tribe they belong to?"

That was like six days ago, when I disputed Shapiro's post about no-platforming.

I don't think this is an upsurge in antisemitism the way some do, but I do think there is a lot more willingness to come out and declare as pro-Nazi or anti-semitic.

But yeah, I do notice that people who hate Jews are more brazen about just saying so now.

So when some people start to make pointless references to Jews, I make a deduction from that.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:36 PM (8rNrN)

I agree that there is probably not an upsurge in anti-Semitism, but on the other hand I think part of the dynamic here is that people like Ben and Jonah and Bill Kristol get a lot of really nasty anti-semitic stuff in their emails and their twitter feeds.

It's undoubtedly a small group of assholes doing this but my sense is that to Ben et al, it does not seem like a small group and they take it as an indicator of rising widespread Trumpian White Nationalism, or something.

This dynamic is extremely unhelpful in my view. Not only does it not help to coax these folks back into the conservative mainstream which is now behind Trump (and where I would like to see them), but it pushes them as a reaction into equating pro-Americanism with pro-White Nationalism and anti-Semitism and leading them to see something sinister in something that is not.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (3OAG2)

593 So does this mean that ace still wants insomniac to Spatchcock his driveway?

Posted by: Buzzion at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (z/Ubi)

594 Yup, an all-moron meet-up would be a great thing. We should set the wheels in motion. My impression is that most folks live on the East Coast and in the Southeast, with only a smattering of us Western types.
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (/WPPJ)

There's a shit-ton of us in Texas.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (TF/Tq)

595 566 I awhile ago thought the recent antisemitism in Europe was all from the Muzzy invasion, but there could be a bit of pile on from Leftists, not that they couldn't do it themselves.
Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (HDU3V)

The UK establishment is very anti-semitic. It's just part of the culture. The US left is very Anglophilic, so some of that bleeds over.

And yeah, there's a lot of anti-semitism in the audit-the-fed-all-my-savings-are-in-gold right. Ace is right in that these people used to be kind of locked away, and lately they've been resurfacing.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (Xuv2G)

596 Well I'm up at 0 dark thirty again tomorrow,
Good night horde

Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (HDU3V)

597
It's All I Have Left - a limerick

I don't know what to make of this battle
Since some commenters were told to skedaddle
If puns get out of hand
And limericks are banned
I, for one, am up the creek without a paddle.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (wPiJc)

598 Ace is gonna be on the blog abusers quicker than tooth rot on a crack whore.

Posted by: Ronster at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (CDUSe)

599

5 waves of calls, to 86 jewish institutions, in 27 states, all about a week apart, for 5 weeks. All by a woman

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (MZ/gs)

600 >>>I agree that there is probably not an upsurge in anti-Semitism, but on the other hand I think part of the dynamic here is that people like Ben and Jonah and Bill Kristol get a lot of really nasty anti-semitic stuff in their emails and their twitter feeds.

It's undoubtedly a small group of assholes doing this but my sense is that to Ben et al, it does not seem like a small group and they take it as an indicator of rising widespread Trumpian White Nationalism, or something.

This dynamic is extremely unhelpful in my view. Not only does it not help to coax these folks back into the conservative mainstream which is now behind Trump (and where I would like to see them), but it pushes them as a reaction into equating pro-Americanism with pro-White Nationalism and anti-Semitism and leading them to see something sinister in something that is not.

...

agree in part and dissent in part. I think there are enough of these guys pushing anti-semitic memes to these guys to make them over-react to the cause they blame for it (Trump, of course). As you imply, the numbers are sufficiently large to be a problem, yet still are kind of on the small size. I think some people think this is a much bigger thing than it is -- but it is definitely a thing of some dimension.

Here's my main disagreement: I don't think there's any coaxing these particular people into the "conservative mainstream."

I don't think that's possible. We all know there is a huge social and legal penalty to be paid for molesting a child, right? So if you actually molest a child -- you really wanted to right?

It's not like you can be talked out of it. If the 30 years in prison and general moral horror of it wasn't enough to stop you, what can a few posts in National Review do? If Bill Bennett gives a real good talk at Hilsdale, that's gonna bring you into the non-molestation mainstream?

anyway, there is obviously a major social (and sometimes even economic) penalty imposed for racism and anti-semitism. If you're still flying your racism/anti-semitism flags in the face of that, then you are... pretty serious about it, and I don't think you can be coaxed into any "mainstream," just as a jihadist can't be de-radicalized.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (8rNrN)

601 I go away for a few hours and the whole place goes to hell. Don't make me come down there.

Posted by: Corona at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (6zJAh)

602 Its not theoretical to me. Not anymore

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (MZ/gs)

603 I'm not looking for a leak in a tire!

I'm looking for a vacuum leak.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:14 PM (AKOhm)


Tesla coil?

Posted by: The Zotting Hat at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (rUIbB)

604 508 One of the planets Elijah Baley went to had many robots and few people. Sort of the reverse of where we are headed.

Aurora.
[exeunt know-it-all geek]

Posted by: r.kelly at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (cQhQZ)

605 Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (8rNrN)

Oh, I wasn't talking about bringing the anti-Semites back into the conservative mainstream.

I meant bring the NeverTrumpers like Ben, Jonah and Bill back into the conservative mainstream which is now behind Trump.

Ben for one seems maybe open to it. Not sure about Jonah, maybe not. Bill I don't think will ever give up NeverTrumpism.

Posted by: Scalia's Ghost at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (3OAG2)

606 Remember that these guys belong to synagogues, use the JCCs, send their kids to Jewish schools perhaps too. It mskes it very real, personal

Posted by: ThunderB at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (MZ/gs)

607 got that out of your system now?

Do you feel like you've done some good work today?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (8rNrN)

Fine. Be that way.

Posted by: r.kelly at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (cQhQZ)

608 I will. Although apparently gay neighbor #1 has taken it to his house because "I don't want that thing in my house!".

Posted by: Lauren at February 27, 2017 07:30 PM (d5+A9)

Well, put in a claim for it, Lauren, if not for yourself, but for your kids. Unless, of course, you have aunts or uncles with a more direct claim on stuff from your grandparents' estate. Be a shame to see a nice vintage rifle get lost to the family. Nothing wrong with a nice .22 bolt-action.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (WDdjT)

609 I'm fairly new to politics in depth (starting in maybe 2005). So the whole Buckley purge thing still has me confused. I'm of tame evangelical type background going way back, so Jews, orthodox especially, seemed like brothers in that they were usually more disciplined in basic Bible belief (except the Jesus part) than most Christians.

The purge I have since taken to be mostly about the neocons taking control, starting with the first Bush, along with his CIA friends. Reagan was more an "America First" guy. On the economic front, I think the Chicago school "global free trade will work out, deficits don't matter" was a ruse to back the globalists and multi-nationals. That was the deficit spending, ballooning deficits and easy money policy that is dooming us now, which Trump addressed to congress back in 1990. (how is Monty these days?)

anyway, guys like Buchanan foresaw the immigration problem, saw the globalization issue as a surrender of sovereignty. 25 years later we face the same issues, but the Buchanan nightmare scenario is realized. We always stayed allies with Israel, so I'm unclear what that "neocon purge" was really about. The actual anti-Semites are fringe on the right, dominant on the left. They almost chose Ellison for crying out loud.

anyway, I still have a lot of that history to catch up on.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (YMJtx)

610 348 I remember having a pretty good row with you, years ago now, re. the pervasiveness of anti-semitism.

I am not happy I was right.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:21 PM (NXfyF)


It's going to get worse.

The left is realizing there's no downside to going after the "wrong" kind of Jews--those who are observant and support Israel.

It's a short step from going after the "wrong" kind of Jews to all Jews.

The Bible has quite a bit to say about the persecution of Israel and the Jews in the end times.

Nikki Haley gave a wonderful speech A week ago about anti-Semitism at the UN.

http://bit.ly/2mEwNdQ

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (nvMvs)

611 Don't know about you folks, but I could use a good Scotch right about now.
Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana, Esq. at February 27, 2017 07:29 PM (GdgAM)

Sean Connery?

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (CL76w)

612 367 Sorry, I can be an exuberant hugger.
Posted by: @DangerGirl (gab.ai) and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at February 27, 2017 07:23 PM (+eR2D)


Of course: You're a Texan! We hug strangers down here.

Ace isn't comfortable with hugging. I would love to bring him down to Texas for some hug therapy.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at February 27, 2017 08:47 PM (nvMvs)

613 I think a lot of people are getting fed up with the obnoxious degree of bullshit, and just want to smack it to the garbage bin I know I do. My patience has worn thin in the last several months. The leftists, braindead, cultish, catechisms have worn beyond threadbare.

Posted by: Mimzey at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (n3hky)

614 Being an aficionado of using extreme absurdism to make a point (or a joke) , I find it doesn't translate well "on paper" and works best in the company of people you already know.

It probably doesn't get said enough, so, thanks Ace for what you do.

Posted by: Scotty doesn't, No at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (SOwie)

615 I still want a review of Ex Machina.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 06:43 PM (LTHVh)

Mediocre and derivative film. Arrival is better but has its own set of problems.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (J70i0)

616 After reading all this I still can't figure out the ban policy. Some guy made a rude sexual comment to me after I said I turned off a Trump speech and I got banned. Forever. Oh well. Getting a lot done at home.

Posted by: Pj at February 27, 2017 10:18 PM (cHuNI)

617 Posted by: Pj at February 27, 2017 10:18 PM (cHuNI)


How did YOU get back in here?? OFFICER!...ban that man!

Posted by: Banny McBannerton at February 27, 2017 10:30 PM (n3hky)

618 Testing. testing. wut

Posted by: ChristyBlinky,Deplorable Infidel Queen at February 27, 2017 10:47 PM (fq4ih)

619 I just want to be a little careful about attributing the desecration of the cemetary as a hate crime.

It's entirely possible its just plain old hate, and destructive impulse, of vandals with the choice of cemetery just being a way to amp up the shock and outrage of it for others, and not necessarily some organized attack on a faith per se.

Awful people are awful, and vandals are awful people.

Cemetery vandalism, if the collection of news reports available for the last decade are any indication, is not rare. Nor is it a major feat of organization to topple stones off of plinths, despite some argument to the contrary above.
In Philadelphia, a quick review of the pictures show that larger and harder to move stones remain upright, while the rockable ones that are either taller or thinner have been knocked off plinths.
Here is an example report of a past event where vandalism of similar nature and scale took place: about 90 stones knocked off their bases. http://tinyurl.com/jkmmzg2


That's from 2015, reported by the Boston Globe, but there are similar cases over the past decade. Cemeteries are vulnerable to this time of vandalism and it is NOT rare.

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 10:47 PM (Sp1NT)

620 There's this 2016 incident on confederate graves: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article52846530.html

Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 10:50 PM (Sp1NT)

621 There are at least a dozen such stories I've looked at so far over a broad span of years. Here is one more link from 2009. http://www.wetaskiwintimes.com/2009/09/08/vandals-frustrate-city-staff , with repeated knocking over of a smaller group of older stones "They're an upright monument; apparently they're easy to knock over, but they're not too easy to stand back up again."

But there are many stories with large numbers of stones toppled over. It's easier to knock stones down than to put them up.



Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 10:57 PM (Sp1NT)

622 Wow I made it in!

Posted by: Pj at February 27, 2017 11:31 PM (cHuNI)

623 I remember a man who made specific posts about myself (under a different username), several years ago.

Today, that man openly promotes many of the ideas I was excoriated for, then.

Life is change.

Posted by: The Hot Gates at February 27, 2017 11:50 PM (k3uSs)

624 i got ya. I didn't take it in a bad way. I just meant to point out that while your general point might be correct, I don't want a blog that represents 12 years of my professional life to become That Blog Where It's Cool Now to Say You Hate The Jews.

Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 07:38 PM (8rNrN)


You started this blog when you were 17? Nice.

Posted by: Fletch at February 28, 2017 12:28 AM (orDky)

625 Longbows

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An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat