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Thursday Overnight Open Thread (6/29/17) The Fourth Monday of The Week Edition

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(Lake Michigan)

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Quotes of The Day

Quote I

But of course what most Canadians like to do when we're not trapping beaver and huffing poutine is celebrate diversity. Mark Steyn


Quote II

“Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life.”
Bill Hicks


Quote III

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. Robert M. Gates


Quote IV

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne

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A look at the early American drug epidemic. An early look at opium dens.

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Bill Whittle and Gang discuss Nancy Pelosi.

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Paul Joseph Watson takes a critical look at CNN.


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When you think of sleaze from MO, who do you think of? If you said Claire McCaskill, you are a winner.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) used a personal foundation to pay for a dinner she attended at Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak's Washington, D.C., residence. The senator had failed to disclose her role in the foundation until earlier this month.

McCaskill came under fire this March after she told the Washington Post she never had a "call or meeting" with Kislyak even though she had publicly announced both a call and meeting with him. This week, CNN reported that McCaskill also attended a black-tie reception at Kislyak's D.C. residence in November 2015.

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Our science lesson for this evening. Attendance is mandatory except for AOP.

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Are you on Face Book? Taking a vacation this summer? Nobody gives a damn about your photos. Or so says a study.

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Illinois hurdles to bankruptcy.

The House Democratic spending proposal falls between the $36 billion budget outlined by Republicans and the $37.3 billion version passed by Senate Democrats but not taken up in the House. It is substantially less than the estimated $39 billion the state is spending now without a budget because of court orders and automatic payments required by law.


Of course they will come to us looking for a bailout. No, just hell no.

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Parental tips. 23 things you should let your kids do.

Parents are wary of anything involving sharp objects, sticks included. But letting your kid engage in some improvised swashbuckling is too fun an opportunity to pass up because of a negligible risk of injury.

Tinker Toys were great swords as kids. My younger brother still wears a scar over his left eye.


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The ONT Musical Interlude

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Because. That is why.


June 29, 1961, Del Shannon was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Runaway.' His only UK No.1 and the first of 14 UK Top 40 hits. via thisdayinmusic.com


June 29, 1979, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Lowell George died of a heart attack. The Little Feat front man was found dead at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. George joined Zappa's Mothers of Invention as rhythm guitarist in 1968, played guitar on John Cale's 1973 album Paris 1919, Harry Nilsson's Son of Schmilsson album and Jackson Browne's The Pretender.

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Ho-Hum, Yawn. 3 years to act on climate change.

(architect of the process that lead to the Paris Climate Agreement and now vice-chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy), says that we only have three years to act if we want a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy—the socio-economic equivalent of losing weight in a slow and steady manner.

If you were to spend the next 30 minutes researching, how many of these "warnings" would you find and how old would they be?

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Meet Michael Reed a man with authority issues.

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The ONT doesn't ask much of you. But we are tonight. C'mon and be a giver!


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Wonder if any of these will make the AoSHQ Moron Cookbook?

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When "Ethics" is in your title, well.....Genius Award Winner.

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Smart phone and an app. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

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Comments

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1 What do I win?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 09:49 PM (6gk0M)

2 Early on

Posted by: French Jeton at June 29, 2017 09:50 PM (WB4Me)

3 nd!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 09:50 PM (e9G8E)

4 Howdy, Horde!

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 09:50 PM (nvMvs)

5 Folks, you can't always be first. (That's Slap's job.)

But you can be next!

Posted by: Guru Radd Dadd Upanishadd (Smythe) at June 29, 2017 09:50 PM (hGZJP)

6 Thirnd! Yaaaaaas!!!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 09:51 PM (e9G8E)

7 Top ten. Thats pretty good end to an ok day.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 29, 2017 09:51 PM (k6kXg)

8 Top ten?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (mMeIQ)

9 Biological Reality is Now Unconstitutional

A birth certificate is a record and statement of accurate fact. Statements of accurate fact are now Unconstitutional.

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13619

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (vBeA5)

10 NINE!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (6gk0M)

11 European Court of Human Rights Sentences Baby to Death

Charlie Gard, a baby suffering from a horrible disease in the U.K., had a chance to receive experimental treatment, funded completely by private donations. Now, the European Court of (so-called) Human Rights has condemned the child to die based on the vague and nebulous idea of 'dignity'.

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13610

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (vBeA5)

12 You can't have it all... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (6gk0M)

13
trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

Posted by: original jake at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (TKT1H)

14 I love ElectroBoom Guy. I watched this episode last night.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 09:53 PM (nvMvs)

15 Yanking Illinois' statehood? In the words of Rorschach . . . dooo iiiiit

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 29, 2017 09:53 PM (6FqZa)

16 Generally speaking, "ethicist" is to ethics as "lawyer" is to law.

Interpret that as you will, for good or ill, etc.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 09:53 PM (wB8Tg)

17 What is the best bait for a Beaver trap?

Posted by: X-ray at June 29, 2017 09:54 PM (br7RH)

18 Nice ONT.

Almost bedtime for this old gal.

Posted by: ALH at June 29, 2017 09:54 PM (7vGuX)

19 RIP Bill Hicks

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (u4vFl)

20 What is the best bait for a Beaver trap?

Posted by: X-ray at June 29, 2017 09:54 PM (br7RH)


Money.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (wB8Tg)

21 Generally speaking, "ethicist" is to ethics as "lawyer" is to law.

And, increasingly, "scientist" to science.

Thank you so much, Mikey Piltdown Mann and Neil deGasse Tyson . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (6FqZa)

22 Runaway is one of my favorite hits from the 50s. Del Shannon had a hell of a voice, too. He was the choice to replace the incredibly gifted Roy Orbison for the Traveling Wilberries but he died too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (39g3+)

23 Is Ace here?

Somebody better tell me if he is.


Thanks for the ONT, Boss.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (Rsi2C)

24 Tina Weymouth was kinda hawt back in the day.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (sdi6R)

25 Evening ONT OGs.


So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)

26 ?NO
shit?

I'm an engineer too?



way cool

Posted by: original jake at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (TKT1H)

27 congratulations, thathalfrican

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (6FqZa)

28 >>>Illinois hurdles to bankruptcy.

Hurdles are much less painful now that my thingy no longs smacks into them while I'm in mid air.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (xAvrH)

29 >>>>23 Is Ace here?


He's everywhere

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (ZTRlp)

30 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (KCxzN)

31 Money.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (wB8Tg)

Is a $20 enough?

Posted by: X-ray at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (br7RH)

32 Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)

Congrats!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (ZTRlp)

33 Thanks boulder

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (IYHxL)

34 ...and RIP Lowell George.

Man, he went way too soon.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM (u4vFl)

35 That ethics commissioner should see an endocrinologist. dead ringer for acromegaly.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (CPk08)

36 Merovign- and a bring over from the last thread " As winging it is to chicken"

Posted by: Ben Had at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (zk6Eg)

37 "So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice."
-Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)

I don't remember hearing a *peep* about this.

*Throws Confetti*

Congratulations!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (6gk0M)

38 Halfafrican's a married man!

Do you feel different?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (Rsi2C)

39 didn't a beaver bite off someone's nipple off recently?


Posted by: original jake at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (TKT1H)

40 Thanks MisHum!

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (IYHxL)

41 *The Fourth Monday of The Week Edition*

^WORD^

Posted by: tbodie at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (Njtx4)

42 >>So, I got married


My sincere condolences.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (u4vFl)

43 congrats thathalfrican!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (hMwEB)

44 Evening Horde!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (tr2D7)

45 So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)
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Hey, that's wonderful! Congratulations! I hope you two have a long and happy life together.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Everything You Wanted to Know About Moron Cooking, But Were Afraid to Ask at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (sBOL1)

46 congrats thathalfrican.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (KP5rU)

47 didn't a beaver bite off someone's nipple off recently?

Posted by: original jake at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (TKT1H)


Still got all three of mine.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (wB8Tg)

48 getting married is the easy part.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (0wem/)

49 Grats, half

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (39g3+)

50 22 The version of "Runaway" that Del Shannon recorded in '86 as the theme song for the NBC series "Crime Story" is even better than the original, IMHO, because he had a more mature voice.

Posted by: Secret Square at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (9WuX0)

51 Florida city fighting 'butt graffiti' problem.

http://bit.ly/2tp3Auu

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM (vBeA5)

52 >>>Is Ace here?
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He's everywhere
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 09:57 PM

****
Not the comforting answer I was looking for.
:-)

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (Rsi2C)

53 Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (IYHxL)

Tomorrow is 33 years for me.

Had I shot her I would be getting out about now



J/K Mrs. Mis. Hum

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (ZTRlp)

54 so give us some details, thathalfrican!

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (hMwEB)

55 Nice ONT, MisHum. That Mark Steyn article is something - I can't believe that the Canadians can't figure out if that woman is a Canadian citizen or not. I mean, surely someone keeps tabs on these things, right? Right?

Posted by: bluebell ~ Everything You Wanted to Know About Moron Cooking, But Were Afraid to Ask at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (sBOL1)

56 I have always preferred the studio version of hit songs. Never like live versions. The magic is never the same.

Posted by: Joktan Wang Li at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (m9X4Y)

57 I need to sell my shit.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (Id9+8)

58 Slap, I spoke about it when I got engaged and Tammy would ask how we were doing every now and then.

Other than that I don't remember bringing it up personally.

L,Elle I guess I feel more grown up and more pressure on me to do well and excel. In fact the week leading up to the wedding I had an epiphany that I'll have two people looking to me for strength, guidance and protection.

I started working out again today and am really thinking about the next move for my career.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (IYHxL)

59 Wait, I thought we were past the point of no return re: "climate change"?

Or is this just a way to scare people?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac is like Pepperidge Farms, He remembers at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (1JnAL)

60 Tomorrow is 33 years for me.

Had I shot her I would be getting out about now


J/K Mrs. Mis. Hum
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (ZTRlp)
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Hey hey HEY! None of that!

Happy Anniversary to the MisHums!

Posted by: bluebell ~ Everything You Wanted to Know About Moron Cooking, But Were Afraid to Ask at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (sBOL1)

61 you know those shotguns at weddings are usually not loaded or, if they are, only with rock salt.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (0wem/)

62
Ace is always here. That is the safest working assumption.

Posted by: Joktan Wang Li at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (m9X4Y)

63 The version of "Runaway" that Del Shannon recorded in '86 as the theme song for the NBC series "Crime Story" is even better than the original, IMHO, because he had a more mature voice.

I agree, its an amazing song. I loved that show too, even though it got kinda weird there at the end.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (39g3+)

64 After being willowed in the last thread while defending my status as a Moron for having been a lurker since LGF kicked my nic out the door about nine years ago, here is my last post:

307
One last comment: Lurkers are people, too!

Remember that the Moron Horde is not just made up of all you frantic refresh button pushers (I have seen you compared to monkeys on crack) -- there are probably far more of us who prefer to merely watch and wait. Think about it.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (Cxofo)

65 "architect of the process that lead to the Paris Climate Agreement and now vice-chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy"

The individual thus described turns out to be Christiana Figueres. One of the transnational cabal of globalist climate apparatchiks.

She's never worked at a real job in her life, and her academic background is in cultural anthropology, but she's nevertheless issuing sweeping decrees relating to industry, science, and technology.

Yeah, no. They can piss off with that nonsense.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (ujwCG)

66 >>I need to sell my shit.



Good luck. It's a buyer's market.

Posted by: German Shit Salesman at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (u4vFl)

67 Are you on Face Book? Taking a vacation this summer? Nobody gives a damn about your photos. Or so says a study.
Exactly. Make all your friends and relatives come to your house and sit through a good, old fashioned slide show. The fu**ers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (+lVUW)

68 Happy Pre-Anniversary, Mr and Mrs MisHum!

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (Rsi2C)

69 Congratulations on the occasion of your nuptials.

May you have many happy years together and forget the unhappy ones.

And lots of little ones. Be fruitful and multiply!

Posted by: ALH at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (7vGuX)

70 Happy anniversary, Mis & Missus Hum !

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (hMwEB)

71 Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:00 PM (hMwEB)

What would you like to know?

And to all people thanking me now and in the future; thank you so much!

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (IYHxL)

72 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (9mOGz)

73 Exactly. Make all your friends and relatives come to your house and sit through a good, old fashioned slide show. The fu**ers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June




yep. that way you can brag about what you did while making them suffer.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (0wem/)

74 Watched Grace of Monaco on Netflix. Nicole Kidman played Grace Kelly. Not bad.

Posted by: Jmel at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (mXD4D)

75 The Crime Story version:

https://youtu.be/WhBM9xxkiFA?t=19s

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (39g3+)

76 Are you on Face Book? Taking a vacation this summer? Nobody gives a damn about your photos. Or so says a study.

==

yeah, it's annoying

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:04 PM (hMwEB)

77 Watching the news and seeing liberals crying at the airport over the travel ban which went into effect tonight.

Winning!

Posted by: ALH at June 29, 2017 10:04 PM (7vGuX)

78 Thanks bluebell & L, Elle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:04 PM (ZTRlp)

79 I saw where the USAF is putting on an Air Show along the entire South Carolina coast on Monday, that true?

Posted by: original jake at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (TKT1H)

80 there are probably far more of us who prefer to merely watch and wait. Think about it.


Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (Cxofo)


I like to watch.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (2DT4P)

81 Do you hurdle to bankruptcy or do you hurtle?

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (u4vFl)

82 Thanks for the cookbook plug, MisHum. We are winding down!

But Jersey can keep its deep-fried bubble gum. Blech.

Posted by: bluebell ~ Everything You Wanted to Know About Moron Cooking, But Were Afraid to Ask at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (sBOL1)

83 Phoebe Snow said she missed Little Feat like she missed being 8 years old. RIP Lowell George.

Posted by: Time Loves A Hero at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (bc2Lc)

84 so what kind of egomaniac do you have to be to have slides made of your vacation photos. I ask this thinking of the photos my dad had made of his and our vacations. I do not want to look at someone's photos on the internets or in email, much less go to their house and click through hundreds of slides in a group setting.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

85 I think quote number two is bilge water. Any number of things hurt other people. and to say "as long as I'm not hurting anyone don't get in my face about it" can be both naive and arrogant. Alcoholism destroys families and contrary to what the cron affidionados say, watching porn can hurt people-if people are obsessed with the perfect man/woman and not spending time/having sex with their spouses. Also, not all acts in porn are consensual and human trafficking often involved people forced into the porn industry.A ministry that deals with porn addiction is called "Every Mans Battle"

Am i suggesting banning porn,-no, but let's not pretend all the actresses in in are high paid and just having a consensual grand old time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (soOgU)

86 Mazel tov, thathalfrican!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (e9G8E)

87 "Florida city fighting 'butt graffiti' problem."


Sounds like there is a problem with a sedentary lifestyle bent over a fence there.

Posted by: X-ray at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (br7RH)

88 *Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 09:52 PM (6gk0M)*

1st and 9.

I bow before your greatness.

Posted by: tbodie at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (Njtx4)

89 Looking forward to watching Psycho Joe and Low IQ Mika tomorrow morning.

Those poor little dears.

Posted by: ALH at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (7vGuX)

90 What would you like to know?

==

any parts that you feel like sharing - wedding details (big fancy? eloped to vegas)
craziest moment
etc

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (hMwEB)

91 "If we don't act in the next three/five years" a vague doom is threatened. This article has been written almost every year since 2000.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (VdICR)

92
Florida city fighting 'butt graffiti' problem.

http://bit.ly/2tp3Auu
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 29, 2017 09:59 PM


Does the three boob woman in Total Recall have a butt with three cheeks?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (IqV8l)

93 I like to watch.

I believe you stole that line from Gardener, sir. Shame.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (Cxofo)

94 85-cron-=orn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (soOgU)

95 Regarding the Bill Hicks quote: when he winds up in my ER because of what he did or ingested, does he mind if I kick him the fuck out the door? Because I'd love to.

Posted by: Dr Alice at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (LaT54)

96 L,Elle I guess I feel more grown up and more pressure on me to do well and excel. In fact the week leading up to the wedding I had an epiphany that I'll have two people looking to me for strength, guidance and protection.
I started working out again today and am really thinking about the next move for my career.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (IYHxL)
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So, you do feel different then. That's good. It's a new station in life for you. Everything you just wrote tells me that you're rising to the occasion. Good luck and my prayers are with you both at this milestone in your lives together. I'm happy for you both.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (Rsi2C)

97 I get the impression that Bill Quick would be disappointed if nobody bothered him about what he doesn't want people to bother him about.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (W9gUg)

98 >>>Of course they will come to us looking for a bailout. No, just hell no.

This is my main trouble with a bailout. If they took one red cent from me to pay for such a bailout, I'd be paying into the pension of people who never did any work for me, because I do not live in Illinois. Same idea with bailing out GM. I'm paying pensions of employees of a company I never had any dealings with.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (xAvrH)

99 Congrats halfrican! It's about fucking time, brother.
Who's luckier? You or him?

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (FCGjy)

100 I haven't thanked Misanthropic for an ONT in a long time.

Thank you and Congratulations, Good Sir!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (6gk0M)

101 That Jacob's ladder video was hilarious. And very, very unsafe.

OSHA and Dr. Kevorkian may be interested in that video. I'd give him an F for Electrical Safety. No safety goggles and electrical elbow long linesman gloves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (u82oZ)

102 I need to sell my shit.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:01 PM (Id9+

=====

Whatcha unloading?

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (l9B1V)

103 >>Regarding the Bill Hicks quote: when he winds up in my ER because of what he did or ingested, does he mind if I kick him the fuck out the door?


Well, he's dead. So.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:08 PM (u4vFl)

104 Good evening, horde.

Thathalfrican, congrats and best wishes for a long and happy life together!

Posted by: April at June 29, 2017 10:08 PM (e8PP1)

105 This is my main trouble with a bailout. If they took one red cent from me to pay for such a bailout, I'd be paying into the pension of people who never did any work for me, because I do not live in Illinois. Same idea with bailing out GM. I'm paying pensions of employees of a company I never had any dealings with.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June




yep. even better, the people receiving pensions from illinois will be living in other states.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:08 PM (0wem/)

106 U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who is based in San Diego, issued a preliminary injuction Thursday that found the law was likely unconstitutional because it prevented people from using firearms that employed "whatever common magazine size he or she judges best suits the situation." The law would have barred people from possessing magazines containing more than 10 bullets.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at June 29, 2017 10:08 PM (e8kgV)

107 I saw the Talking Heads in college in 1979, around the time their third album came out, the one that looked like a manhole cover.

I was sitting second row center, and David Byrne was looking me straight in the eye for much of the time, which was a little disconcerting.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 10:08 PM (sdi6R)

108 81 Do you hurdle to bankruptcy or do you hurtle?

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (u4vFl)


Hurtle.

But it's confusing because you can hurdle a turtle, though turtles do not hurtle.

In makes my head hurtle.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (CPk08)

109 Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (hMwEB)

Bigger than I and my wife would have liked but overall it was awesome. No real snafus that I've been made aware of, although we did have a weird moment involving the cops.

So, for my garter toss I put the garter on a junior sized football and of course my friends ended up throwing the football. From what I've gathered instead of just asking the politely once or twice to stop they brought a cop up to ask us.

Very WTF.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (IYHxL)

110 "I bow before your greatness."
-Posted by: tbodie at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (Njtx4)

I didn't actually get "nine", but that's okay... lol.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (6gk0M)

111 So we are offering a lurker option for the Las Vegas Meetup.
You are invited to all of the events but have to hover silently around the periphery.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (0wem/)

112 So, morons, I just started a new job. Health insurance from the last job is good through tomorrow. I have to figure out what to do now.

I keep hearing about Medi-share on the radio. Any of you have that? Anyone have any advice about it? I don't really want to participate in "the marketplace."

Posted by: April at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (e8PP1)

113 Where is that lighthouse?


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (8iiMU)

114 Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (FCGjy

LOL

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (IYHxL)

115 "Regarding the Bill Hicks quote: when he winds up in my ER because of what he did or ingested, does he mind if I kick him the fuck out the
door?"

Bill sobered up in later life just in time to die from pancreatic cancer.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (ujwCG)

116 111
So we are offering a lurker option for the Las Vegas Meetup.

You are invited to all of the events but have to hover silently around the periphery.

Of course, we lurkers know our place. *tugs forelock*

Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (Cxofo)

117 There's a fat man in the bath tub.

That is all.

Posted by: Deplorable Deep State Agent at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (MCEs2)

118 If it's the Bill Hicks who was the stand up comedian, he doesn't sound like he was a very happy man it all despite his "It's not your f'ing business" bravado

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (soOgU)

119 Posted by: Dr Alice at June 29, 2017 10:06 PM (LaT54)

Bill Hicks died of cancer in his early 30s

It's a great quote because it makes one think

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (ZTRlp)

120 103
Hmmm. I don't know the circs of his death, so I don't know whether that illustrates my point or not.

Posted by: Dr Alice at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (LaT54)

121 Of course, we lurkers know our place. *tugs forelock*
Posted by: Ruthless at June




well, delurking is quick and mostly painless.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (0wem/)

122 Hey, that's not how that joke works.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (VdICR)

123 Posted by: April at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (e8PP1)

I empathize. We have the same problem.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (soOgU)

124 Sorry, but Bill Hicks is/was an overrated lib. The youtube videos that I've seen of him are quite unimpressive and too totalitarian lib for me.

His quote in the ONT is stupid-if someone does drugs, or alcohol, or porn on a regular basis, there isn't any way that person does not negatively affect society in some form or function.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (k6kXg)

125 Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (Rsi2C)

I really appreciate that! I just wish I had an applicable degree, I've been going back and forth between going back to college or joining the Reserves.


Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (IYHxL)

126 115 "Regarding the Bill Hicks quote: when he winds up in my ER because of what he did or ingested, does he mind if I kick him the fuck out the
door?"

Bill sobered up in later life just in time to die from pancreatic cancer.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (ujwCG)


Some things are often their own best punishment.......

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (CPk08)

127 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (soOgU)

I love stand up in general, and I'm a pretty libertarian/leave me alone minded person, but I've never liked Bill Hicks. A lot of inferior stand ups just try to rip off Hicks, like Russel Brand. Just because you're loud and intense and speak rapidly doesn't mean you're correct. Saying something mildly amusing based on patently false assumptions isn't good standup. it's hackery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (hcyUh)

128 I've got accustomed to Slap's summoning of demons to get firsties, but trying to steal ninesies is crossing a line...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (e9G8E)

129 Anybody have any good epileptic jokes?

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (mB0As)

130 Oops. Posted just a tad too late.

Posted by: Dr Alice at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (LaT54)

131 Do not find Bill Hicks funny at all. Fuck him.

10 commandments guy too.

Posted by: nip at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (28rfK)

132 Since Ace does not appear to be here in written words and in the form of his hash or a sock, I'm posting this again repeated from my comments on Sefton's morning post:

"I can't be on the blog much during the day bc I'm super busy lately. No time. I want to get Ace to the Vegas meetup bc I have an important question to ask him. Can we set up a gofund me or Paypal fundraising drive to pay for his trip? Can someone make this happen? Please help me make this happen."

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (Rsi2C)

133 OK, I am re-lurking to go grill a ribeye for my dinner. Sun is about to set here in lovely Moab, Utah.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (Cxofo)

134 Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 29, 2017 10:11 PM (k6kXg)

A nation full of fappers would like to have a word with you.

Oh yeah, the drinkers too, which could be the entire ONT.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (IYHxL)

135 >>It's a great quote because it makes one think


Which is why Bill Hicks is virtually unknown and the people who lifted his material and removed the thoughful stuff are household names.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (u4vFl)

136 and I do not mean Moses.

Posted by: nip at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (28rfK)

137 OK, I am re-lurking to go grill a ribeye for my dinner. Sun is about to set here in lovely Moab, Utah.
Posted by: Ruthless at June


have fun

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (0wem/)

138 ONT? Hell, the sun's still up here. And I'm tardy to the thread.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (dsK7Q)

139 Tina Weymouth was kinda hawt back in the day.
Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (sdi6R)


Go hit YouTube and check out Talking Heads introduction to the Hall of Fame in 2012.

And remember, at the time ... she was 61 then. Sixty friggin' one.

For 61 ... not too shabby.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (fiGNd)

140 "There's a fat man in the bath tub.
"

Is this abut me?

Posted by: President William Taft at June 29, 2017 10:13 PM (br7RH)

141 Damn, the ONT is doing it again; triggering long repressed memories from 60 years ago.

yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM

I could show you the slides I took in Japan, fifty years ago.

Posted by: Joktan Wang Li at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (m9X4Y)

142 So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican


Congratulations.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (+lVUW)

143 "I can't be on the blog much during the day bc I'm super busy lately. No time. I want to get Ace to the Vegas meetup bc I have an important question to ask him. Can we set up a gofund me or Paypal fundraising drive to pay for his trip? Can someone make this happen? Please help me make this happen."
Posted by: L, Elle at June




you should do it!

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (0wem/)

144
LOL
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:10 PM (IYHxL)



(Seriously, I couldn't be happier for you, man. God Bless)

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (mB0As)

145 "Anybody have any good epileptic jokes?"
-Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (mB0As)

From what I've heard, I know you don't.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (6gk0M)

146 Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (6gk0M)

You're welcome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (ZTRlp)

147 Whatcha unloading?

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:07 PM (l9B1V)

Swedish art glass, Waterford, a brass mortar and pestle. Just off the top.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (Id9+8)

148 I wish you and your wife the best, thathalfrican.

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (6Xf+s)

149 "I have an important question to ask him. "

Yes, it's real fur.

Posted by: f'd at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (BO/km)

150 Congratulations, thathalfrican!

May I request the info regarding the Vegas meetup, or where I can find it>

Posted by: Dr Alice at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (LaT54)

151 thathalfrican

Congratulations. May you grow to be one loving soul and stand together against adversity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (u82oZ)

152 "'If we don't act in the next three/five years' a vague doom is
threatened. This article has been written almost every year since 2000."

Before that. Consider the 1992 "Erf Summit" in Rio.

(Ever notice how they always hold these trendy international gatherings in places people like to visit, and would have to pay out of pocket to visit were someone else not picking up the tab for them to do so? Why aren't they ever held in places like Lagos, Nigeria?)

Anyway, the '92 confab was full of dark predictions about the HORRIBLE DOOM which would befall all of humanity BY THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND if their policy prescriptions were not heeded.

Womp, womp.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (ujwCG)

153 Swedish art glass, Waterford, a brass mortar and pestle. Just off the top.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June




so just how hot is this stuff?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:16 PM (0wem/)

154 Crime Story? Me, Joe Polito, Stephen Lang, Anthony Dennison, Ted Levine, etc. in an Michael Mann show. Doesn't get better than that.

Posted by: Zombie Dennis Farina at June 29, 2017 10:17 PM (bc2Lc)

155 I need Vegas MoMe info as well. Not saying I can make it but if I can.......I think Ace will ban me from the blog.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:17 PM (IYHxL)

156 Every time I hear someone pontificate about how we need to act or x doom will take place by y date I remember Ted Freakin' Danson on Letterman declaring without hesitation that the oceans would be DEAD by 2000. Dead, nothing alive, anywhere, without any hope, no later than 2000.

Ted Danson for crying out loud. Funny guy but really? Stick to your day job you knucklehead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:17 PM (39g3+)

157 Swedish art glass, Waterford, a brass mortar and pestle. Just off the top.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (Id9+

======

I would tell the most lovely and pleasant Mrs. GOULD about this, but I fear we would then come to own some of it while trying to downsize ourselves.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:17 PM (l9B1V)

158 I need Vegas MoMe info as well. Not saying I can make it but if I can.......I think Ace will ban me from the blog.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June




send me an email, me at gmail.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:18 PM (0wem/)

159 31 Money.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 09:55 PM (wB8Tg)

Is a $20 enough?
Posted by: X-ray


As I've learned from "Cops" and mentioned on this site, $15-$20 gets you an unattractive meth or heroin addict who is probably diseased.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:18 PM (+lVUW)

160

I keep hearing about Medi-share on the radio. Any of you have that? Anyone have any advice about it? I don't really want to participate in "the marketplace."
Posted by: April at June 29, 2017 10:09 PM (e8PP1)


Hi April! Long time, no see! I have heard the Medi-share ads on Christian Rock radio, and the program sounds intriguing.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 10:18 PM (TdMsT)

161 you should do it!
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM
***
Do what?
You misunderstood my comment maybe. I want someone to do what I can't. I want to go to Vegas but I need Ace there.
Or, at a bare minimum, a Cob in his stead. MisHum already used up his vacay time and can't. I'd like to meet LauraW if Ace cant make Vegas.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:18 PM (Rsi2C)

162 There's a fat man in the bath tub.

That is all.
Posted by: Deplorable Deep State Agent


With the blues.....

I hear you moan
I hear you moan

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:19 PM (S6Pax)

163 http://www.youngcons.com/star-wars-star-adam-driver- and-budweiser-beer-release-amazing-video-to-help-veterans/

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 29, 2017 10:19 PM (oVJmc)

164 Timothy Leary did an Amy Schumer with a lot of Bill Hicks' material. So if you find Leary funny, you should find Hicks funny.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:19 PM (xAvrH)

165 Do what?
You misunderstood my comment maybe. I want someone to do what I can't. I want to go to Vegas but I need Ace there.
Or, at a bare minimum, a Cob in his stead. MisHum already used up his vacay time and can't. I'd like to meet LauraW if Ace cant make Vegas.
Posted by: L, Elle at June




set up the gofundme page!

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:19 PM (0wem/)

166 cops at the wedding - that's gonna be a great story for the klds

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:20 PM (hMwEB)

167
From what I've heard, I know you don't.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:14 PM (6gk0M)[/]


C'mon. That was funny stuff.
Especially part two.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:20 PM (mB0As)

168 ust how hot is this stuff?





Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:16 PM (0wem/)

It's all legit. I have to take photos so I can sell it all, maybe on the FB local yard sale page. The Waterford was a gift from the MiL, the art glass I bought in Sweden. The brass mortar and pestle was a gift from a friend in Sweden. I gotta go naked into the future, more or less.
I'm off for the next five days, so I need to begin to compile a list. There's much more.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:20 PM (Id9+8)

169 * you know those shotguns at weddings are usually not loaded or, if they are, only with rock salt.*

Yes. Right. I really liked my father-in-law.

About 2 years after the wedding.

Posted by: tbodie at June 29, 2017 10:20 PM (Njtx4)

170 Yes, it's real fur.
Posted by: f'd at June 29, 2017 10:15 PM (BO/km)
****
That wasn't my question for him,
But Haha

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:21 PM (Rsi2C)

171 I've been warped by the rain
Driven by the snow
I'm drunk and dirty
And don't you know
That I'm still....

Willin'.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:21 PM (S6Pax)

172 Is that Linda Ronstadt in the pic with Lowell George? Kinda looks like her.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:21 PM (/ZEVC)

173 Timothy Leary did an Amy Schumer with a lot of Bill Hicks' material

The difference being that Tim Leary made it his. His delivery and style works to make old stuff fresh. So, more forgivable than Amy Schumer drawling through an identical delivery of someone else's work with piggy eyes staring in desperation for applause.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (39g3+)

174 Yes. Right. I really liked my father-in-law.

About 2 years after the wedding.
Posted by: tbodie at June




heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (0wem/)

175 re: Bill Hicks

I watched a Bill Hicks comedy special and a Bill Hicks movie.

Anger isn't what I usually experience during a documentary about a comedian.

The guy was a douche, until he got terminal cancer. At which point Hicks decided to Tell It Like It Is. To telemarketeers, et cetera.

Hilarity, as such, ensued.

Fuck him.

Dennis Wolfberg was 18.3% funnier. And was before he was dx'd with cancer.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (uBKPR)

176 So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican

Congratulations. May your marriage be blessed!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (soOgU)

177 >> Is that Linda Ronstadt in the pic with Lowell George


Yep.

Amazing the musical lives he touched.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (u4vFl)

178 The electronics guy is a hoot. No one could possibly be as inept as he appears.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:22 PM (/ZEVC)

179 Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:12 PM (IYHxL)

Trade school! Trade school! Check out Mike Roe's website. All the trades are desperate for honest, skilled help from truck driving to electrician to welder to mechanic.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (RHjCR)

180 Was that Mark Knopfler playing with the Talking Heads? Sure looks like him.

Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (lJW6d)

181 >>I watched a Bill Hicks comedy special and a Bill Hicks movie.


What movie, Ninja Bachelor Party?

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (u4vFl)

182 Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (lJW6d)

Adrian Belew who also played with Zappa

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (ZTRlp)

183 Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces




you should pick a career that pays a shitload but you really have no interest in and sometimes hate. you will find more time to hang out here.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (0wem/)

184 Lind Ronstadt is dumber than a bag of snakes, but she sure was pretty and she did have a great voice. I love the Trio albums she did with Harris and Parton.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (39g3+)

185 Stop it.
I'm not setting a gofundme for Ace.

You should do it.
Hey, you signed up to organize this meet-up. It's up to you to get Ace there.

Or not.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (Rsi2C)

186 That ethics commissioner should see an endocrinologist. dead ringer for acromegaly.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 09:58 PM (CPk0

Skeevy-looking fucker. But then, he is a Democrat, one presumes.

And, Hah! I actually have built a Jacob's Ladder. I used an oil burner ignition transformer to power it. And did another one using the HV supply out of an old 14" monitor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (XUcIQ)

187 I miss the sounds of Little Feat. No band has really captured that since.

Posted by: Deplorable Deep State Agent at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (MCEs2)

188 Yep.

Amazing the musical lives he touched.
Posted by: garrett
-----------

She told me (and about 4000 other people) that she got really pissed of with him, as he neglected to mention that he was married, until after a fling.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (/ZEVC)

189 That quote about missing Little Feat more than being 8 years old was not Phoebe Snow

It was Bonnie Raitt.
Bonnie appeared a lot with Little Feat back in the '70's.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (S6Pax)

190 The Feel Good Story of the Day is always a Good Thing.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (6gk0M)

191 Frank Zappa's band over the years trained up and fired out some unbelievable levels of talent. The guy seemed like a goofy hippy but he was a massive musical genius and creative storm. Disgusting, but talented.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (39g3+)

192 Congratulations half!! Wishes for a life time of joy and love.

Posted by: IC at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (Z5Z0x)

193 >> she sure was pretty


Her little sister was smoking hot. She used to date a buddy of mine.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (u4vFl)

194 I guess it was Knopfler. Very cool.

Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (lJW6d)

195 And, Hah! I actually have built a Jacob's Ladder. I used an oil burner ignition transformer to power it. And did another one using the HV supply out of an old 14" monitor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------

Me too, using a neon sign transformer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (/ZEVC)

196 I will always have a soft spot for Bill Hicks because of his standup routine describing Reginald Denny. You will perhaps remember that fellow.

The completely innocent and uninvolved trucker who during the early '90s L.A. riots had the path of his vehicle blocked by screaming street scum. He politely stopped for them.

Whereupon the mob forcibly pulled Denny out of the cab of his truck, sprawled him on the pavement, shattered his skull with a brick, and ecstatically danced around his insensate body afterwards.

The title of said routine being simply "Step On The Gas".

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (ujwCG)

197 Stop it.
I'm not setting a gofundme for Ace.

You should do it.
Hey, you signed up to organize this meet-up. It's up to you to get Ace there.

Or not.
Posted by: L, Elle at June




hey, you have an interest and you have a good idea so you should follow through, take the initiative and go after what you want. how hard can setting up a gofundme site be?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (0wem/)

198 Congratulations on your anniversary, Mis. Hum. - and to the newlywed, Thathalfrican.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (Id9+8)

199 The documentary about Bill Hicks done post mortem.

-

Not a Bill Maher "Avocado Jungles of Death" situation.

Hicks was singularly unfunny before he was dx'd with cancer. After the dx? Lenny Bruce going through the Kubler-Ross 5 stages was funnier in five minutes than Hicks was for the last year of his life.

-

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (uBKPR)

200 >>She told me (and about 4000 other people) that she got really pissed of with him, as he neglected to mention that he was married, until after a fling.


Bad Touches are Touches.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (u4vFl)

201 So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)

Congrats, that's wonderful.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (Ri/rl)

202 Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (RHjCR)

Will check out thanks.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:24 PM (0wem/)

Got any leads for a player?

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (IYHxL)

203 Frank Zappa's band over the years trained up and fired out some unbelievable levels of talent.

Zappa's live shows were a hoot. Saw him live 3 times. Each one with a different core group. All exceptionally talented musicians.

Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM (lJW6d)

204 Seriously, where is all the "talk of a federal bailout" for IL coming from outside of the blogosphere and talking heads? I live in IL, work for the state and monitor developments pretty closely, and I have yet to see any official, up to and including the governor, legislative leaders and Congresscritters, make any mention of a bailout. As I've mentioned before, the governor may be Republican but he's a hardcore Never Trumper who won't even mention PDT by name; the last thing he wants to do is go begging Trump for a bailout. My gut tells me they will patch something together and try to hold out until the 2018 election in hopes of defeating Rauner and maybe getting Congress back into Dem hands...

Posted by: Secret Square at June 29, 2017 10:27 PM (9WuX0)

205 I love Little Feat, they always were so much fun. Kind of an obscure band, really, even in the 70s. Great to see fans here. There was a time when country/bluegrass-driven rock was big in the USA. Good times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:27 PM (39g3+)

206 And to all people thanking me now and in the future; thank you so much!
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:03 PM (IYHxL)

Congrats young man!

And evening all.

Posted by: Country Boy at June 29, 2017 10:27 PM (JgLmf)

207 I keep trying to convince my son to go to trade school, but he's been so brainwashed by school that he thinks college is the way to go. I think we're going to have a lot of fights about this, because we don't have the money to send him to a school where he gets a useless degree. When he's being a lunatic-moderately speaking, I mean, I say to him "O.K. You want to leave the house. You need a good career to do that."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (soOgU)

208 Hey listen Y5.

I have some door prizes or raffle type items to donate to the meet up if I don't get to go bc Ace or a Cob doesn't show.

Keep that in mind and remind me a month before the date of the meet up so i can get them to you in time.

Please try to

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (Rsi2C)

209 77 Watching the news and seeing liberals crying at the airport over the travel ban which went into effect tonight.

Winning!
Posted by: ALH


Hell, yeah. And how old is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

210 There is a hill to die on. Please everyone not living in my home state, please, write your Representatives and Senators, early and often and loud.

No bail outs. A bail out will cost them your vote. The only way out, regrettably is for the goober'mint of my home state to collapse. Just like NYC did in the early 70's

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yc7rum6n

Write them and write them and write some more.

No Bailout.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (sf2BM)

211 Got any leads for a player?
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June




finance.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (0wem/)

212 191 Frank Zappa's band over the years trained up and fired out some unbelievable levels of talent. The guy seemed like a goofy hippy but he was a massive musical genius and creative storm. Disgusting, but talented.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (39g3+)

You say disgusting, I say thought provoking and funny

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:29 PM (ZTRlp)

213 "Timothy Leary did an Amy Schumer with a lot of Bill Hicks' material."

Denis Leary, surely.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 10:29 PM (ujwCG)

214 64 One last comment: Lurkers are people, too!

Remember that the Moron Horde is not just made up of all you frantic refresh button pushers (I have seen you compared to monkeys on crack) -- there are probably far more of us who prefer to merely watch and wait. Think about it.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 29, 2017 10:02 PM (Cxofo)


Yep. I probably made all of 5 comments from 2004 to 2015. I still mostly lurk.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:29 PM (nvMvs)

215
All the trades are desperate for honest, skilled help from truck driving to electrician to welder to mechanic.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen


That's why we need open borders.

Posted by: GOPe at June 29, 2017 10:29 PM (IqV8l)

216 On every road trip I have ever been on - 'Roll Right Through the Night' is played at sun up.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (u4vFl)

217 Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (0wem/)

I need to be able to get the job on a great smile, humor and some awkward charm tho

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (IYHxL)

218 Timothy Leary's dead
no, no, no, no, he's outside... looking in
-Moody Blues

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (39g3+)

219 It's all legit. I have to take photos so I can sell it all, maybe on the FB local yard sale page. The Waterford was a gift from the MiL, the art glass I bought in Sweden. The brass mortar and pestle was a gift from a friend in Sweden. I gotta go naked into the future, more or less.
I'm off for the next five days, so I need to begin to compile a list. There's much more.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:20 PM (Id9+

You can always sell it on etsy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (Ri/rl)

220 Congrats thathafrican!

Happy Anniversary Mis Hum and thanks for the excellent ONT.

Mr. WDS and I got married in November after 13 years together. And I do feel different. Love calling him my husband.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (mMeIQ)

221 Warm congratulations, MisHum and Mrs, MisHum!

Very best wishes to Halfrican!

May you all live long and joyfully.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (TdMsT)

222 I love Little Feat, they always were so much fun.
Kind of an obscure band, really, even in the 70s. Great to see fans
here. There was a time when country/bluegrass-driven rock was big in
the USA. Good times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:27 PM (39g3+)

They were the last concert I went to, maybe 6-7 years ago. Outdoors, picnic-type venue. It was great. Just love them.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (Id9+8)

223 But my fear is that Kagan and the wise Latina will pull a "Weekend at Bernies".

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:31 PM (+lVUW)

224 Hey listen Y5.

I have some door prizes or raffle type items to donate to the meet up if I don't get to go bc Ace or a Cob doesn't show.

Keep that in mind and remind me a month before the date of the meet up so i can get them to you in time.

Please try to
Posted by: L, Elle at June




seriously, I understand if you are too busy to help implement your ideas to meet Ace, but don't show up and try and push them off on others.

Not my job to help you hook up with Ace so you can jump his skull or do whatever it is you want to do.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:31 PM (0wem/)

225 >>>Wonder if any of these will make the AoSHQ Moron Cookbook?

Bummer. When I see wording like that, I expect something that's really out there, like peanut brittle dabbed with Yoko Ono's ear wax. Fried bubble gum doesn't cut it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:31 PM (xAvrH)

226 Washington DC had a music scene for a while in the late 70's - mid 80's. I recall a number of venues at the National Theater - Little Feat, George Thorogood, etc.

There was a pretty nice punk/new wave scene in Baltimore about the same time. Saw the Ramones at Hammerjacks.

Too bad it didn't last. But it was cool.

Posted by: Deplorable Deep State Agent at June 29, 2017 10:31 PM (MCEs2)

227 209; she's so fucking old, the cryptkeeper forgot about the old hag. i guess her ticket will never get punched.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (KP5rU)

228 My older son just got a 176 on his LSAT and missed a question (1) on the GMAT. He's working in his field, graduated with a total of $6K of debt after 4 years, graduated summa, is finishing up a grant.

sigh

... he's never going learn to weld the frame on my 1983 Dodge Aries.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (uBKPR)

229 Supposedly, Zappa really didn't like singing or lyrics, he just wanted his music. but the record companies insisted, because you know instrumentals don't sell as well and just flat jazz is not a big seller. So he wrote lyrics. Well, they asked for it.

Sometimes they were damned smart like I'm the Slime, Flakes, and Ugliest Part of Your Body. Sometimes well....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (39g3+)

230 180 Was that Mark Knopfler playing with the Talking Heads? Sure looks like him.
Posted by: Democrats Everywhere at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (lJW6d)



The dude dressed like Ronald McDonald and jumping around like Corky on meth? Not Knopfler by any means.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (mB0As)

231 need to be able to get the job on a great smile, humor and some awkward charm tho
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces



how good are you at employing the words "dynamic" and "proactive"?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (0wem/)

232 Linda Ronstadt is dumber than a bag of snakes, but she sure was pretty and she did have a great voice. I love the Trio albums she did with Harris and Parton.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


My older sisters saw Linda Ronstadt perform back in the '70's, and came home thinking HOW DUMB SHE WAS. She was constantly tuning her guitar, and dropped the pick inside the guitar once.
She did have a nice voice.

My older sisters both sang semi-professionally at one time. Meaning they cut demo tapes in a studio for a record company, but nothing ever came of it.
My older sister, at 66, still has a beautiful singing voice.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (S6Pax)

233
I keep trying to convince my son to go to trade school, but he's been so brainwashed by school that he thinks college is the way to go.

My Dad never forgave me (I think) for quitting college TWICE and going to trade school. In the end I made more money than he ever did. He just never lived to see it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (IqV8l)

234 >>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:28 PM (soOgU)


Stick to your guns.
If you can get him an apprenticeship / helper / laborer type job with a good tradesman, do it.
As soon as he gets a taste of real world learning, financial independence and the pride of a well done job he will see the light.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:33 PM (u4vFl)

235 You can always sell it on etsy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:30 PM (Ri/rl)

I thought Etsy is for handmade stuff.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:33 PM (Id9+8)

236 Watching the news and seeing liberals crying at the airport over the travel ban which went into effect tonight.

Enough salty tears to surf to Valhalla.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2017 10:33 PM (VdICR)

237 But my fear is that Kagan and the wise Latina will pull a "Weekend at Bernies".

Posted by: nerdygirl


If I the guy whose job it was hold up the dead person to make it seem as if they were alive, I think I'd rather do that with Ruth than with Elena and Sonya. I've already had one hernia.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:34 PM (xAvrH)

238 hey, you have an interest and you have a good idea so you should follow through, take the initiative and go after what you want. how hard can setting up a gofundme site be?
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:26 PM
****
I have limited interest. Interest limited to who shows up and who doesn't. I have an extremely busy life lately. It's time and money to attend that I have a limited supply of both on hand to make it possible for me to be there.

So, again. Can't do a gofundme. If you can't do it, enlist th help of others. Please?

I'd like to go. This would be my first one.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:34 PM (Rsi2C)

239 Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:32 PM (0wem/)

I can be very dynamic when the situation calls for it. In fact some would say I'm proactive to fault!

"thathalfrican is so damn dynamic and proactive I can't stand it!" - actual words by a human being

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:35 PM (IYHxL)

240 MH,

Happy Anniversary!

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:35 PM (Ri/rl)

241 I have limited interest. Interest limited to who shows up and who doesn't. I have an extremely busy life lately. It's time and money to attend that I have a limited supply of both on hand to make it possible for me to be there.

So, again. Can't do a gofundme. If you can't do it, enlist th help of others. Please?

Posted by: L, Elle at June




no.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:35 PM (0wem/)

242 So, in a strange twist of fate, I'm annoyed at ALL of my jobs right now.

Tired of part time job, which is ending in September. It's like being on work death row.

My editor is also getting on my nerves big time. I've worked with him forever and it's never been like this. Here is his new life:
1. Travel for a week or more on business
2. Return to office for a few days,catch up on everything in an utter panic
3. Take a bunch of personal days.

Rinse and repeat.

Him being out of town is good, since I don't hear from him and he doesn't piss me off.

However, he now doesn't want to make any decisions, because he's either too busy or not in the office. Which makes my life difficult, since I need him to make decisions so I don't have to rush around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

I think God is teling me to play the lottery.

Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:35 PM (aT+Bx)

243 85 Am i suggesting banning porn,-no, but let's not pretend all the actresses in in are high paid and just having a consensual grand old time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:05 PM (soOgU)


^^^^^
This.

I hate to sound like a kill joy, but porn is not harmless, either to the actresses or to the consumer. I'm not a prude, but I've seen marriages destroyed and guys lose well-paying jobs because of porn.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (nvMvs)

244 I expect something that's really out there, like peanut brittle dabbed with Yoko Ono's ear wax.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:31 PM


Where does one obtain this?

Posted by: Intragalactic Yoko Ono Appreciation Society, AoSHQ Colony at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (DMUuz)

245 I wouldn't even know how to get him an apprenticeship. He likes to read and has a whole lot of interests in things like philosophy and history semiotics, and I say "It's great to have those interests, Continue to have them but first get a job where you can make good money."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (soOgU)

246 156 Every time I hear someone pontificate about how we need to act or x doom will take place by y date I remember Ted Freakin' Danson on Letterman declaring without hesitation that the oceans would be DEAD by 2000. Dead, nothing alive, anywhere, without any hope, no later than 2000.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:17 PM (39g3+)


This is the judgment that led him to pork Whoopie-Cushion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (SRKgf)

247 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (nvMvs)

Did they have addictive personalities?

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:37 PM (IYHxL)

248 I can be very dynamic when the situation calls for it. In fact some would say I'm proactive to fault!

"thathalfrican is so damn dynamic and proactive I can't stand it!" - actual words by a human being
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June




well done.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:37 PM (0wem/)

249 >>>I think God is teling me to play the lottery.


Don't play in Illinois they aren't even paying the winners they ate so broke

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM (ZTRlp)

250 245 I wouldn't even know how to get him an apprenticeship. He likes to read and has a whole lot of interests in things like philosophy and history semiotics, and I say "It's great to have those interests hobbies, Continue to have them but first get a job where you can make good money."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (soOgU)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM (SRKgf)

251 242: shibumi, go to vegas, play roulette. put everything on the red nine. guarateed.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM (KP5rU)

252 Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:37 PM (0wem/)

Hire me.

Or hook a brotha up.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM (IYHxL)

253 I do not regret going to college, I just regret not going for Engineering like my Dad.

*stupid teenage rebellion* Chemistry is a wonderful thing Father!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (9mOGz)

254 Tucker Carlson was talking to Charles Krauthammer tonight about a legislator (I don't remember where) who proposed a two OD limit. That is, the paramedics would come to your rescue twice for opioid overdose but that was it. Krauthammer disagreed with the proposal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (IqV8l)

255 This is the judgment that led him to pork Whoopie-Cushion.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
-------

*feels gorge rising*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (/ZEVC)

256 I wouldn't even know how to get him an apprenticeship. He likes to read and has a whole lot of interests in things like philosophy and history semiotics, and I say "It's great to have those interests, Continue to have them but first get a job where you can make good money."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June




well trade school is fine but there is no point in hammering a square peg into a round hole. the whole " he likes to read thing" makes you think he may be more oriented to something more word oriented than hammer or wrench oriented. trade schools and colleges are options and the goal is to get the one best suited for you.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (0wem/)

257
Don't play in Illinois they aren't even paying the winners they ate so broke
---

LOL. I'm in Michigan, so I've got that going for me.

/looking at new career as Professional Gambler, or Person Who Picks Up Aluminum Cans and Redeems Them for Income.

Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (aT+Bx)

258 I thought Etsy is for handmade stuff.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:33 PM (Id9+

No, they sell everything on etsy. My last purchase from etsy was some vintage flower frogs, some metal ones and some glass ones.

The buyer pays the shipping too.

Depending on the price, I would buy the Waterford vase. The mortar and pestle sound cool too.

Take a look at the site for the things you want to sell. You can also look on eBay at sold listings only to see how much people are paying for the items you have to sell.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:40 PM (Ri/rl)

259 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (nvMvs)

You don't sound like a prude and as for me-I don't care if I get called that. I've had women come to me and tell me their husband spent hours watching porn-and yes, it messed up their marriage totally, and if you go on the internet with any kind of objectivity you will find videos by ex-porn stars (and no, they're not porn videos) talking about the coercion an drugs involved. Human trafficking is demonic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:40 PM (soOgU)

260 I do not regret going to college, I just regret not going for Engineering like my Dad.
----------

You could have been making Brush With Death videos, like guy above.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:40 PM (/ZEVC)

261 Hire me.

Or hook a brotha up.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June




send me an email, me at gmail.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (0wem/)

262 Watching the news and seeing liberals crying at the airport over the travel ban which went into effect tonight.

Enough salty tears to surf to Valhalla.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2017 10:33 PM (VdICR)

========

They have already aired from interviews from the Atl airport employees via radio.

Shockingly, from Union TSA Employees, Trump is an America hating, worse than Hitler real America land of "immigrants" Tyrannical bigot.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (l9B1V)

263 Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:39 PM (0wem/)

He needs a job where he can do things on his own.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (soOgU)

264 Okay. I can't stay here and argue with you, Y.

You dont have to do my bidding, of course, bc you have a free will of your own to exercise any way that you choose to direct it and toward what purpose you deem worthy.

Good luck with this whole endeavor. It seems to be a thankless, arduous task. I could not do it and would never take it on myself. If you're limited in what you're able to do by work and personal/family constraints, I understand entirely.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (Rsi2C)

265 They were the last concert I went to, maybe 6-7 years ago. Outdoors, picnic-type venue. It was great. Just love them.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess

This song is for you

https://tinyurl.com/y7yssukd

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (S6Pax)

266 Regarding the Bill Hicks quote, a 12 year old kid in Michigan stabbed a 6 year old boy to death on a playground. The 12 year old killer's mother was a heroin addict. The problem with substance abuse is that everyone else is left to pay for the consequences. I don't know what the solution is, but pretending that it isn't affecting others, particularly family and taxpayers, isn't useful.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (+lVUW)

267 In honor of being able to type two-handed again after a stroke a couple of weeks ago, I am briefly delurking (although I have been commenting infrequently here for years). I have to say, you have no idea how good you have things until you lose them. I lost the use of my right arm and hand when I had the stroke, and it is unbelievable how hard it is to do even very simple things with just one hand. Very simple as in: putting on pants in the morning.

Be happy for what you have people, it is pretty amazing.

Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100% within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write again.

David

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (5Rqpb)

268 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:40 PM (soOgU)

Did these men have addictive personalities? I only ask because all of those issues seem foreign and otherworldly to me.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (IYHxL)

269 On childhood toys and trials:

Has there ever been a home with two or more children where an orange Hot
Wheels track hasn't been wildly swung at a sibling?

Posted by: Captain Comic at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (iObDb)

270 College was a waste of time and money.

If I had it to do over I would have got my electricians license and retired at 35.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (u4vFl)

271 Shockingly, from Union TSA Employees, Trump is an America hating, worse
than Hitler real America land of "immigrants" Tyrannical bigot.
--

Translation:

"This SUCKS! We have to work!! We have to be responsible and not lazy do nothings!! Dad SUCKS and we HATE him!!!"

Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (aT+Bx)

272 shibumi, go to vegas, play roulette. put everything on the red nine. guarateed.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM


Always bet on black!

Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM (DMUuz)

273

Be happy for what you have people, it is pretty amazing.

Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100% within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write again.

David
Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (5Rqpb)


Immediate prayer for a fast and complete recovery.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM (TdMsT)

274 Okay. I can't stay here and argue with you, Y.

You dont have to do my bidding, of course, bc you have a free will of your own to exercise any way that you choose to direct it and toward what purpose you deem worthy.

Good luck with this whole endeavor. It seems to be a thankless, arduous task. I could not do it and would never take it on myself. If you're limited in what you're able to do by work and personal/family constraints, I understand entirely.
Posted by: L, Elle at June




wow, it is really easy to understand why you are still alone.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM (0wem/)

275 Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100% within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write again.


David
---

Best o luck on your ongoing recovery!

It's a lot of fun to look at your doctors and say "Yeah, I know you didn't think I could make a complete recovery, but I did, so SCREW YOU!!!"


Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM (aT+Bx)

276 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463050406588416

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463128668102660

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463215016251393

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463358285287424

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463454250971136

Posted by: kbdabear at June 29, 2017 10:45 PM (AOrEZ)

277 I have limited interest. Interest limited to who shows up and who doesn't. I have an extremely busy life lately. It's time and money to attend that I have a limited supply of both on hand to make it possible for me to be there.

So, again. Can't do a gofundme. If you can't do it, enlist th help of others. Please?

I'd like to go. This would be my first one.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:34 PM (Rsi2C)

=======


In the time that you have taken to ask others to set this up, you could have done this yourself. You know this, right?

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:45 PM (l9B1V)

278 halfrican, you're a lucky fellow. Congratulations, may your marriage be blessed, fruitful, and happy.

Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 10:45 PM (3wfnv)

279 FenelonSpoke, here's some food for thought about trades for your son

it's Mike Rowe's webpage about his scholarship program

http://profoundlydisconnected.com/

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 10:45 PM (6Xf+s)

280 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463824771526656

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880463923132211201

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880464013724979200

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/880464094800826369

Posted by: kbdabear at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (AOrEZ)

281 Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (IYHxL)

And Ii hope that it always something foreign to you. :^)

They didn't drink much or do drugs-they just got more and more addicted to it so that they didn't even bother covering up their browsing history.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (soOgU)

282 Dutch on the Duke: "In the 1940s, Duke was one of the few stars with the courage to expose the determined bid by a band of communists to take control of the film industry. Through a series of violent strikes and systematic blacklisting, these people were at times dangerously close to reaching their goal. With theatrical employee's union leader Brewer, playwright Morrie and others, he formed the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals to challenge this insidious campaign. Subsequent Congressional investigations in I947 clearly proved both the communist plot and the importance of what Duke and his friends did.

In that period, during my first term as president of the Actors' Guild, I was confronted with an attempt by many of these same leftists to assume leadership of the union. At a mass meeting I watched rather helplessly as they filibustered, waiting for our majority to leave so they could gain control. Somewhere in the crowd I heard a call for adjournment, and I seized on this as a means to end the attempted takeover. But the other side demanded I identify the one who moved for adjournment.

I looked over the audience, realizing that there were few willing to be publicly identified as opponents of the far left. Then I saw Duke and said, "Why I believe John Wayne made the motion." I heard his strong voice reply, "I sure as hell did!" The meeting and the radicals' campaign was over.".......

Until a communist took the presidency in 2008.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (Ndje9)

283 Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (5Rqpb)

Been there done that. I have had 3 that put into the hospital. Last one damn near killed me. That was 5 years ago this month.

I'm still recovering.

You will get there again.

Exercise my friend, exercise as much as you can.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (sf2BM)

284 shibumi, go to vegas, play roulette. put everything on the red nine. guarateed.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:38 PM


Always bet on black!
Posted by: Wesley Snipes at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM
--

I think I have a plan:

Roulette.

1/2 on black
1/2 on red

I.Can't. Lose!

Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (aT+Bx)

285
Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100% within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write again.

David
Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM


You are extremely lucky. I have an acquaintance who had a stroke ten years or more ago who hasn't recovered even a little bit. Some do an some don't.
He still can't type even a little and has extremely slurred speech.

Good luck.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (IqV8l)

286 191 Frank Zappa's band over the years trained up and fired out some unbelievable levels of talent. The guy seemed like a goofy hippy but he was a massive musical genius and creative storm. Disgusting, but talented.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:25 PM (39g3+)


The thing is, he was anti-hippie from the get-go. His third album "We're Only In It For The Money", which featured a parody of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, ruthlessly mocked everything about the hippies.

In 1968.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/frankzappa/flowerpunk.html

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (sdi6R)

287 Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 10:45 PM (6Xf+s)

Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (soOgU)

288 Every time I hear someone pontificate about how we need to act or x doom will take place by y date I remember Ted Freakin' Danson on Letterman declaring without hesitation that the oceans would be DEAD by 2000. Dead, nothing alive, anywhere, without any hope, no later than 2000.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Come on, where's your sense of humor? These people are hilarious.

"2020 is a hard deadline. There's no turning back if we don't bend the emissions curve within three years," says Sharan Burrow, The General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and a signatory on the article. "There are no jobs on a dead planet."

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 29, 2017 10:47 PM (xAvrH)

289 Roulette.

1/2 on black
1/2 on red

I.Can't. Lose!
Posted by: shibumi at June



you know that is wrong, right?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:47 PM (0wem/)

290 I read that Hawaii has already gone to court over the Travel Ban AGAIN

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2017 10:47 PM (fu//l)

291 David
Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable
-----------

In the thathalfafrican-recommended book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem', Prager points out that a key element of happiness is gratitude. Always feeling gratitude for what we have, as opposed to spending time brooding over what we do not have. Health is one of those things that many take for granted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (/ZEVC)

292 266 Regarding the Bill Hicks quote, a 12 year old kid in Michigan stabbed a 6 year old boy to death on a playground. The 12 year old killer's mother was a heroin addict. The problem with substance abuse is that everyone else is left to pay for the consequences. I don't know what the solution is, but pretending that it isn't affecting others, particularly family and taxpayers, isn't useful.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (+lVUW)

This. I am a personal liberty kind of guy, but I do wonder about drugs. Historical reaction to opium addiction was the whole monolithic drug enforcement regime we have now. Now was it an overreaction? In hindsight, probably. Unintended consequences are constant.

However, on the other hand, is doing nothing the right way to go? I don't know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (9mOGz)

293 I thought I had dreams. Then I learned that there was going to be a Las Vegas meetup, and my former dreams seemed as nothing.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (iMxBJ)

294 If I had it to do over I would have got my electricians license and retired at 35.
Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (u4vFl)

========

One of the wealthiest people I know joined the Electricians Union at 18. He is now 54 and just retired with not a financial or benefit care in the world.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (l9B1V)

295 Yeah Zappa had no patience with hippies, he didn't take drugs, he thought they were idiots. He was kinda odd in some ways but very brilliant and had a cutting wit about the culture around him. So much stuff now I wish he was around to comment on or write about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (39g3+)

296 wow, it is really easy to understand why you are still alone.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:44 PM
***
Not alone. Not by a long shot. You're wrong and I forgive you for your rash judgement bc you don't know me. You're ignorant. But that's only bc I've left you in the dark purposely bc you speak this way, the way you just did to me, frequently to others for little or no cause.

I am surrounded my love and prayers. More than I deserve:

And if you insist I keeping me here, I'll stay and argue with you bc I have the courage of my convictions and I'm not afraid of you. In fact, I'm better than you. You just proved it.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (Rsi2C)

297 In fact, I'm better than you. You just proved it.
Posted by: L, Elle at June




keep telling yourself that.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (0wem/)

298 I read that Hawaii has already gone to court over the Travel Ban AGAIN
Posted by: Nevergiveup
------

Yup. How they'll get around the SCOTUS is a mystery to me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (/ZEVC)

299 How they'll get around the SCOTUS is a mystery to me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (/ZEVC)

9th Cricuit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (fu//l)

300 This.

I hate to sound like a kill joy, but porn is not harmless, either to the actresses or to the consumer. I'm not a prude, but I've seen marriages destroyed and guys lose well-paying jobs because of porn.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (nvMvs)


Yeah, but you can say similar things about gambling, alcohol, smoking, drugs,...hell eating meat, having kids...everything has a downside. It's a matter of degree, collateral damage and how far outside your personal sphere the non-consensual damage extends. I'm not really disagreeing, its just that you follow this road too far and you get to Schopenhauer's anti-natalism: it would have been better if no one was born, because living always inflicts harm.

Better to try and cultivate your own garden IMHO. I don't lean libertarian because I think I don't hurt others. I lean libertarian because I think people should pick and develop their personal virtues, and not have them imposed.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (CPk08)

301 Right now the Hawaiian court is just asking for a specific definition of "close family" which in my guess is a method of trying to work out how to get around the ban.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (39g3+)

302 290; fuck hawaii. throw it out of the union and make samoa the 50th state. hawaii is full of window licking idiots.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (KP5rU)

303 >>One of the wealthiest people I know joined the Electricians Union at 18.


Yeah, I was 17 and just needed to take the test and do the time. Had been apprenticing under my uncle for 4 years at that point (vacations, weekends and summers).
My cousin, who is a complete idiot and a mediocre tradesman went that route and was insanely successful.
His older brother went to work for Con Ed and not so much.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:51 PM (u4vFl)

304 keep telling yourself that.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (0wem/)
***
You just did it again:

Come on now. You have my full attention. So show up and say every ugly thing you want to. I can answer them all. I know I can.

I suspect you're drunk. You sound like one. Are you?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (Rsi2C)

305 I'm not worried about Hawaiian courts. What I'm really worried about is that Salon is planning a Trump-free day. For one day, no Trump news, no Trump pictures -- they promise to not even mention his name! How will we ever recover from that??? It's Salon!.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (iMxBJ)

306 ed by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (/ZEVC)

9th Cricuit
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June




nah. they SCOTUS had language in their ruling spelling out who was and was not covered by the ruling. no judge is going to want to mess with that. rogue judge screwing Trump is one thing. Rogue judge screwing with SCOTUS is something else.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (0wem/)

307 302 290; fuck hawaii. throw it out of the union and make samoa the 50th state. hawaii is full of window licking idiots.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (KP5rU)

"Window Licking Idiots" would be a good name for a band.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (9mOGz)

308 I think I have a plan:
Roulette.

1/2 on black
1/2 on red

I.Can't. Lose!
Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM


Correct. Right up until 0 or 00 hit, unfortunately.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (DMUuz)

309 Right now the Hawaiian court is just asking for a specific definition of "close family" which in my guess is a method of trying to work out how to get around the ban.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (39g3+)

The Trump Admin defined it exactly for the purposes of the travel Ban...it is just Hawaii does not like that definition and feels they were elected president?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (fu//l)

310
How they'll get around the SCOTUS is a mystery to me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:49 PM (/ZEVC)

9th Cricuit
Posted by: Nevergiveup


The World Court in the Hague!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (IqV8l)

311 David - hope you heal fully and quickly!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (tr2D7)

312 You just did it again:

Come on now. You have my full attention. So show up and say every ugly thing you want to. I can answer them all. I know I can.

I suspect you're drunk. You sound like one. Are you?
Posted by: L, Elle at June




hooo boy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (0wem/)

313 And if you insist I keeping me here, I'll stay and argue with you bc I have the courage of my convictions and I'm not afraid of you. In fact, I'm better than you. You just proved it.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (Rsi2C)

=====

See# 277. FWIW, I think you are way out of line on this topic.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (l9B1V)

314 >>fuck hawaii. throw it out of the union and make samoa the 50th state.


Better yet, Guam.

Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (u4vFl)

315 I lean libertarian because I think people should pick and develop their personal virtues, and not have them imposed.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:50 PM (CPk0


Agreed.

Good evening, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (rJUlF)

316 Until a communist took the presidency in 2008.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (Ndje9)
***************************

That's a fine story. A link would be nice.

Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (3wfnv)

317 Dave I'm so happy that you are recovering

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (hMwEB)

318 they SCOTUS had language in their ruling spelling out who was and was not covered by the ruling. no judge is going to want to mess with that. rogue judge screwing Trump is one thing. Rogue judge screwing with SCOTUS is something else.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:52 PM (0wem/)

THAT was in the Old Amwerica...In the NeW America, The Left knows best...Just ask Comrade Stalin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (fu//l)

319 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:46 PM (soOgU)

Weird!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (/ZEVC)

HIASP!

You are so right.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (IYHxL)

320 147 ... a brass mortar...
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess


What caliber? Any ammo with it???

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (di1hb)

321 Yeah, but you can say similar things about gambling, alcohol, smoking, drugs,...hell eating meat, having kids...everything has a downside.

Some stuff has a much more immediate and likely downside than others. Having kids, not so much. Gambling, almost always. I mean going to sleep and jumping off a cliff both technically have "down sides" but come on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (39g3+)

322 Better yet, Guam.
Posted by: garrett at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (u4vFl)


Nope. Guam is waaay too unstable. Could flip over at any minute.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (CPk08)

323 Learn the art of card counting and play blackjack, shibumi! I've read that blackjack is the only game of chance where skill and strategy can make a real difference...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (e9G8E)

324 I want to invite everyone to Brattleboro (Soon to be Obamaboro) for the upcoming Fart-Tubing Festival on the 4th of July. Also the lucky winner of the day will receive a autograph picture of Presdent Obama....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (WmgTn)

325 See# 277. FWIW, I think you are way out of line on this topic.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (l9B1V)

Listen to him. He knows of what he speaks.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (sf2BM)

326 Depending on the price, I would buy the Waterford vase. The mortar and pestle sound cool too.



Take a look at the site for the things you want to sell. You can
also look on eBay at sold listings only to see how much people are
paying for the items you have to sell.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 10:40 PM (Ri/rl)

They're 4 wine glasses, not a vase. I just hate to be bothered with the whole shipping thing, which is why I don't even want to think about ebay.
That mortar and pestle cost $100 in Sweden. No idea what I'd get for it here, but I need to do some research.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (Id9+8)

327 Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (CPk0

Hank Johnson. Wassup?

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (IYHxL)

328
Nope. Guam is waaay too unstable. Could flip over at any minute.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM


It's where America's day begins!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (IqV8l)

329 25 So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)


What? That's huge! Congratulations, thathalfrican! May you grow ever closer.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (iMxBJ)

330 On every road trip I have ever been on - 'Roll Right Through the Night' is played at sun up.

Posted by: garrett

Late night driving song, in my old red car.

https://tinyurl.com/ybhc74yb

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (S6Pax)

331 Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (WmgTn)

Too much correct spelling.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:57 PM (IYHxL)

332 If the climate doesn't fold in 3 years, can we castrate you and every one of your friends?

Posted by: Left Coast dawg at June 29, 2017 10:57 PM (1Jmdq)

333 Hawaii should never have become a state.
They need to be free.

Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 10:57 PM (3wfnv)

334 295
So much stuff now I wish he was around to comment on or write about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (39g3+)


Yeah. He would have no shortage of material to work with today, that's for sure.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (sdi6R)

335
Hawaii should never have become a state.
They need to be free.
Posted by: gNewt


FREE BURG!!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (IqV8l)

336 Miley, I've also had some luck selling things on consignment at local auction houses. They take a percentage, but maybe they could get more for some of your things.

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (6Xf+s)

337 Okay. I'm done. I'm clearly making others uncomfortable so I'll stop.

You have the floor, Y.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (Rsi2C)

338 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 10:48 PM (/ZEVC)

That is wonderful. I like the ACTS method of prayer

A-doration
C-onfession
T-Thankgiving
S Supplicaton.

It's a handy acronym, but the ATCS would work just as well if not better, because right after adoring God you're thanking God for all the blessings-even simple ones-in your life

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (soOgU)

339 Now that I'm caught up with the thread...

Congratulations to thathalfrican on his marriage...

...and congrats to MisHum on his upcoming anniversary.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (rJUlF)

340 323 Learn the art of card counting and play blackjack, shibumi! I've read that blackjack is the only game of chance where skill and strategy can make a real difference...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (e9G8E)



That used to be true, back in the Thorpe/Revere era 40 years ago. But now casinos use four decks, and shuffle up regularly, long before exhausting the shoe, thereby destroying the rare swings in deck composition that really favor card counters.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (SRKgf)

341 Unlike weight loss, which is in many ways still a bit of a mystery to science, we already know how to fix climate change. We just have to lower emissions


I wish these geniuses had been around 65 million years ago.

Posted by: shivering brontosaurus at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (xAvrH)

342 25 Evening ONT OGs.

So, I got married. I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 09:56 PM (IYHxL)

Congrats! May your joy be just beginning!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (9mOGz)

343


you know that is wrong, right?
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:47 PM

IRL, Shibumi does not gamble.

/maybe the cat can become a model and I can retire off her income?

Posted by: shibumi at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (aT+Bx)

344 Better yet, Guam.

No, all the people going to the new state would cause it to turn over.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (5Rqpb)

345 This song is for you



https://tinyurl.com/y7yssukd

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:41 PM (S6Pax)

Thanks!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (Id9+8)

346 .....looking at new career as Professional Gambler, or Person Who Picks Up Aluminum Cans and Redeems Them for Income.
Posted by: shibumi


I dub thee.....Recycling Queen!

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (S6Pax)

347 FWIW, I think you are way out of line on this topic.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (l9B1V)



The is her M.O.
But, she's tight with MH so she gets away with it every time. Let it go, man.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (mB0As)

348 It was Knopfler in the TH video. Google it. 1978

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (lJW6d)

349 340 That used to be true, back in the Thorpe/Revere era 40 years ago. But now casinos use four decks,

Or 6, or 8

and shuffle up regularly,

Or use "continuous shuffle" machines.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (iMxBJ)

350 On every road trip I have ever been on - 'Roll Right Through the Night' is played at sun up.

Posted by: garrett

======

On all of mine, and I'm in Regional sales, REO "I"m on the Road Again" is a must.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (l9B1V)

351 I dub thee.....Recycling Queen!
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 10:59 PM (S6Pax)

That particular ABBA song never caught on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (9mOGz)

352 152,
"(Ever notice how they always hold these trendy international gatherings
in places people like to visit, and would have to pay out of pocket to
visit were someone else not picking up the tab for them to do so? Why
aren't they ever held in places like Lagos, Nigeria?)"

The Michigan Education Association, MEA, teachers union always, and may still, held their annual get together at the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (d3wbb)

353 Some stuff has a much more immediate and likely downside than others. Having kids, not so much. Gambling, almost always. I mean going to sleep and jumping off a cliff both technically have "down sides" but come on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 10:54 PM (39g3+)


Obviously its a matter of degree, and yeah, clearly some things are obviously mostly destructive, but the crappy stuff that happens to ordinary people out of the blue for doing something (usually) great like having kids happens to someone, and it really sucks when its you instead of the other guy.

Just a thought. No big deal.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (CPk08)

354 337 Okay. I'm done. I'm clearly making others uncomfortable so I'll stop.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (Rsi2C)


I must have missed something, but goodnight, L, Elle.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)

355 Or 6, or 8

and shuffle up regularly,

Or use "continuous shuffle" machines.
Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (iMxBJ)



Yes. Same principle: minimize the statistical fluctuations that so strongly favor those who are counting the cards.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 29, 2017 11:02 PM (SRKgf)

356 Dave I'm so happy that you are recovering

Thanks a bunch. Looking forward to hearing your take on the book.

David

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 11:02 PM (5Rqpb)

357 Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100%
within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write
again.



David

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 10:42 PM (5Rqpb)



Prayers for you, David - I've added you to the list.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:02 PM (Id9+8)

358 Oh, and don't worry about me, I will almost certainly recover 100%
within a few more weeks. I am almost at the point where I can write
again.

David

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable


Vaya con Dios, brother.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:04 PM (S6Pax)

359 347 FWIW, I think you are way out of line on this topic.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 10:53 PM (l9B1V)


The is her M.O.
But, she's tight with MH so she gets away with it every time. Let it go, man.
Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (mB0As)

I've let all of it go. Including you.

Perhaps Hot Air is looking for a new nanny
You are more than welcome to apply

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:06 PM (ZTRlp)

360 Recycling Queen:

Ooh
You take cans
You get high-fives
Having the time of your lives

Ooh
See that girl
Get that green
She's the Recycling Queen

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:06 PM (6gk0M)

361 Okay. I'm done. I'm clearly making others uncomfortable so I'll stop.

You have the floor, Y.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 10:58 PM (Rsi2C)

=====

No. You are upset that you can not get others to do that you want to see happen. Again, see #277 and please stop playing the victim.

You could have already set this up and posted a link in the time you have spent here whining about others not doing this for you.

Good Grief.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (l9B1V)

362 I must have missed something, but goodnight, L, Elle.
Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)


This is where falling towards one end of the autism spectrum is helpful. Just goes right by me, and have no urge to try to figure it out. . ..

Night all. Congrats on the wedding, glad your stroke is getting better. you know who you are.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (CPk08)

363 I must have missed something, but goodnight, L, Elle.
Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)
****
Thanks rickl. I'm still here. I just have to be the nice version of me.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (Rsi2C)

364 Also the lucky winner of the day will receive a autograph picture of Presdent Obama....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (WmgTn)


Second prize winner gets two pictures!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (XUcIQ)

365 247 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 10:36 PM (nvMvs)

Did they have addictive personalities?
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 10:37 PM (IYHxL)


None that I can recall. It's pretty easy for guys to get addicted to porn though. I use OpenDNS on my router and have purposely made it hard to bypass it. It's a temptation to me and I'm pretty sure it is for most guys.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (nvMvs)

366 Continuous shuffle in blackjack? That can't be much fun...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (e9G8E)

367 I think it is time to drop the Vegas MoMe conversations.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (ZTRlp)

368 Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (CPk0

MY STROKE IS THE BEES KNEES BRO!

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (IYHxL)

369 Things which have been on my mind lately so a too long comment.

It is my considered opinion that there are no real leakers. What there is is a new secret, very encrypted, listserv where certain journalists, Deep State Obama operatives and former IC and WH officials of the Obama administration meet to cook up stories to be run as "leaked" by anonymous sources.

They all know it's mostly fictional smoke with a leavening of factual, but fun house, mirrors that they are passing along as truth. Their only concerns are that it harm Trump and that the fish not stink too much too soon.

This is not the first time an "op" has been run to harm a President but AFAIK it is the first time that so many very high officials of the IC and the WH have been actively trying to bring down a successor President.

As to why, well.....

Hillary had, going back into the early 90s, blackmail type material on every Washington connected Republican and the rising stars from the States. She was locked and loaded to gun down 16 of the 17 Republicans who ran in the primary. The one she didn't have a big file on was Trump. He wasn't on anybody's radar as a candidate and even after he announces he was considered to be a clown act trying to make a buck somehow.

From July 2015 to July 2016 they worked, at first not too hard but as Trump moved closer to clinching the nomination the pace picked up, to find material that would destroy him and let Hillary coast to the win. She needed to coast through dirty tricks because she was not just a horrible candidate but her health made campaigning hard.

As time rolled on and Trump wasn't fading away desperation set in. They got sloppy, careless, even more than was usual with Hillary. I think they figured Comey was their firewall since he had many times in the past papered over Clinton problems. As FBI head he was well positioned to help again and was not an official that would be expected to resign or be fired.

There are more interesting times a coming. This poker game is one that to step away, to fold, is to lose all you have or ever will have. Whether the world knows it or not, we are all, all in, this time around.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (d3wbb)

370 Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (l9B1V)
***
Not the point at all, went way over your head bc you lack context. Not your fault. You weren't here for the background conversations. So, that's all I can say politely.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (Rsi2C)

371 You could have already set this up and posted a link in the time you have spent here whining about others not doing this for you.
-------

*?*

I don't think L,Elle asked anyone to do anything.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (/ZEVC)

372 G'Night, AASI.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (6gk0M)

373 366 Continuous shuffle in blackjack? That can't be much fun...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (e9G8E)


Depends on your perspective. When I sit down to a blackjack table, I am paying for entertainment. That means hovering for a long time, looking for a congenial and nearly full table. After that, the only thing in question is whether I'm entertained, and how much I have to pay for my entertainment. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. But I only get grumpy if I lose fast enough that I have to bail too early.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:10 PM (iMxBJ)

374 362 I must have missed something, but goodnight, L, Elle.
Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)

This is where falling towards one end of the autism spectrum is helpful. Just goes right by me, and have no urge to try to figure it out. . ..

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 29, 2017 11:07 PM (CPk0


That might be it in my case. Some forms of drama completely fly over my head.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:11 PM (sdi6R)

375 Bee, bonnet, some assembly required

Posted by: The Jackhole at June 29, 2017 11:11 PM (dULJN)

376 Man people are wrapped tight tonight. Take care all. Remember:

Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States of America.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 29, 2017 11:11 PM (39g3+)

377 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 11:08 PM (nvMvs)

I get it being hard to bypass checking out hot nekked chicks but a life crippling disease?

A bridge too far for me.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:11 PM (IYHxL)

378 >>>The ONT doesn't ask much of you. But we are tonight. C'mon and be a giver!

Ok, but what do I get in return?

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at June 29, 2017 11:11 PM (xAvrH)

379 Not the point at all, went way over your head bc you lack context. Not your fault. You weren't here for the background conversations. So, that's all I can say politely.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (Rsi2C)

======

I have read and been here for this entire thread, FWTIW.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:12 PM (l9B1V)

380
There are more interesting times a coming. This poker game is one that to step away, to fold, is to lose all you have or ever will have. Whether the world knows it or not, we are all, all in, this time around.
Posted by: geoffb5


How could it be worse?

It could be raining.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2017 11:12 PM (IqV8l)

381 you know that is wrong, right?
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 10:47 PM

IRL, Shibumi does not gamble.

/maybe the cat can become a model and I can retire off her income?
Posted by: shibumi at June




There are two green spaces on the wheel, 0 and 00.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:13 PM (0wem/)

382 life is too short for all this bullshit. damn.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:13 PM (KP5rU)

383 Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:13 PM (KP5rU)

Agreed.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:13 PM (IYHxL)

384 The is her M.O.

But, she's tight with MH so she gets away with it every time. Let it go, man.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (mB0As)

Hey Chi,

Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2017 11:13 PM (wYseH)

385 How you know that's Chi?

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:14 PM (IYHxL)

386 The is her M.O.
But, she's tight with MH so she gets away with it every time. Let it go, man.
Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 29, 2017 11:00 PM (mB0As)
Hey Chi,
Go fuck yourself.
*****
Could be the other guy. They're twinsies.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:16 PM (Rsi2C)

387 Good lord, wtf people? L' Elle, you are being so bitchy and bossy. Do for yourself and stop asking other people to do shit for you.

Good night, Horde!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:16 PM (Id9+8)

388 Trade school! Trade school! Check out Mike Roe's website. All the trades are desperate for honest, skilled help from truck driving to electrician to welder to mechanic.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 29, 2017 10:23 PM (RHjCR)


My idiot brother in law that can't keep a job is an electrician/welder/plumber. Dickhead gets fired all the time for being a smartass to the boss, stays unemployed for 12-18 months doing shit jobs, and then when he's pissed off every lifeline he has, he goes and gets a good paying job in the matter of a couple of weeks.

That's what being a tradesman will get you.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac is like Pepperidge Farms, He remembers at June 29, 2017 11:16 PM (1JnAL)

389 *inserts ronburdgundy wellthatescalated.gif*

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (IYHxL)

390 *types*

*deletes*

The engineering flow chart is quite funny.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (6gk0M)

391 I want to invite everyone to Brattleboro (Soon to be Obamaboro) for the upcoming Fart-Tubing Festival on the 4th of July. Also the lucky winner of the day will receive a autograph picture of Presdent Obama....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 29, 2017 10:55 PM (WmgTn)


My speed reading must be off. It looked like there is a festival to fart at an autographed picture of Obama.

Is there a beer tent?

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (aMlLZ)

392 Sorry for the apostrophe instead of comma, which I've never understood. But of course, I can't edit here. Only cobs gets to clean up their mistakes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (Id9+8)

393 L,Elle, please ignore y5. He stinks of troll again.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (W11rJ)

394 I don't think L,Elle asked anyone to do anything.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (/ZEVC)

===

Read upthread please.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (l9B1V)

395 Wheeeeeeeee, ont hi all

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (9plvG)

396 G'Night, Miley.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (6gk0M)

397 388 That's what being a tradesman will get you.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac is like Pepperidge Farms, He remembers at June 29, 2017 11:16 PM (1JnAL)


Of all the things I might have expected from the future, the idea that I would ever say "good for you" to a young person who decided to go into the trades instead of going to college seems like the least likely. But I would say it now, in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (iMxBJ)

398 g. This poker game is one that to step away, to fold, is to lose all you have or ever will have. Whether the world knows it or not, we are all, all in, this time around.
Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (d3wbb)


This makes a good deal of sense to me. If true, it has the bonus of creating an atmosphere of continuous distrust within Trump's inner circle.

That would make the Clintons, Obama, leftist leadership and the media complicit in the operation.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (TdMsT)

399 Oh, My!

Posted by: Georgie Takei at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (DMUuz)

400 Jayzus it takes a long time to drive to key West from Miami Beach and back...

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (n52SX)

401 Yes elle...we need you at vegas!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 29, 2017 11:19 PM (mMeIQ)

402 Listening to special for Allman brothers.
Good stuff
Yes, quite drunk

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:19 PM (9plvG)

403 I have read and been here for this entire thread, FWTIW.
Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:12 PM (l9B1V)
***
Not this thread. Last nights. I suggested that Y try to get Ace to the meet up to boost attendance and so I could properly propose marriage to him. The first half was an earnest suggestion. The second half was a joke which I continued throughout the day today. You didn't know that bc you weren't here. Context.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:19 PM (Rsi2C)

404 Can't we all just get along?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2017 11:20 PM (XUcIQ)

405 What? Ya'll really getting a Vegas meet-up??

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:20 PM (9plvG)

406 Sorry for the apostrophe instead of comma, which I've never understood. But of course, I can't edit here. Only cobs gets to clean up their mistakes.


Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM (Id9+


Oh hell, my grammar must keep you up at night. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2017 11:20 PM (aMlLZ)

407 Asking, online, who cares? Do or do not.

Now put a gun to my head, in real life, and make demands-or-else, that's a horse of a different color, or a government.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:20 PM (d3wbb)

408 What? Ya'll really getting a Vegas meet-up??
Posted by: lousagirl at June




yep. send me an email. me at gmail.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:20 PM (0wem/)

409 Please! Horde!

Little birds in their nest agree.

(Else they will fall out.)

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:21 PM (TdMsT)

410 Yay, I live quite near Vegas

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:21 PM (9plvG)

411 >>>>23 Is Ace here?


He's everywhere--

Ace is Chicken Man???

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 29, 2017 11:22 PM (CL76w)

412 ... instead of comma, which I've never understood.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:17 PM


I hope someday you'll join us,
and The World can punctuate as one.

Posted by: Oxford Comma at June 29, 2017 11:22 PM (DMUuz)

413 Thanks yankeefifth, will do

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:22 PM (9plvG)

414 Little Feat

"Trouble"

The footprints on the ceiling are starting to fade....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIE4FIwq70w

And yes, the song is actually about a heroin addict.

Lowell George had a heroin problem, which is why Frank Zappa kicked him out of the band (Mothers of Invention). Frank didn't stand for drugs and such.
Lowell died of a heart attack that was brought on by his new cocaine addiction.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:23 PM (S6Pax)

415 Not this thread. Last nights. I suggested that Y try to get Ace to the meet up to boost attendance and so I could properly propose marriage to him. The first half was an earnest suggestion. The second half was a joke which I continued throughout the day today. You didn't know that bc you weren't here. Context.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:19 PM (Rsi2C)

=====%

Ahhhh...gotcha.

My apologies for assuming it was a tonight thing.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:23 PM (l9B1V)

416 Good lord, wtf people? L' Elle, you are being so bitchy and bossy. Do for yourself and stop asking other people to do shit for you.
Good night, Horde!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 11:16 PM
***
I'm not being bitchy. You're being disingenuous, I think. You were here last night and knew the whole Ace thing was a joke. So does Y. I want to go to Vegas but I need Ace or a Cob there in order to attend. And, I suspect, that you know why.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:24 PM (Rsi2C)

417 333 Hawaii should never have become a state.
They need to be free.
Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 10:57 PM (3wfnv)

Weren't they a "Kingdom" before the US acquired them?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac is like Pepperidge Farms, He remembers at June 29, 2017 11:24 PM (1JnAL)

418 This. I am a personal liberty kind of guy, but I do wonder about drugs.
Historical reaction to opium addiction was the whole monolithic drug
enforcement regime we have now. Now was it an overreaction? In
hindsight, probably. Unintended consequences are constant.



However, on the other hand, is doing nothing the right way to go? I don't know.


Contrary to libertarian mythology, the temperance movement wasn't just a bunch of old ninnies upset that people were having fun. They were reacting to a real social problem caused by excess drinking. They started out not wanted to ban alcohol, but merely get people, especially men, to stop drinking so much that it was destroying families.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 29, 2017 11:24 PM (Tnhbr)

419 So much drama in da club...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:24 PM (e9G8E)

420 I could properly propose marriage to him.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:19 PM (Rsi2C)

Ace doesn't believe in miscegenation.

Ewok<-->Human marriages just don't fly with him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2017 11:25 PM (wYseH)

421 14 Lowell George had a heroin problem, which is why Frank Zappa kicked him out of the band (Mothers of Invention). Frank didn't stand for drugs and such.
Lowell died of a heart attack that was brought on by his new cocaine addiction.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:23 PM (S6Pax)


No doubt, but I think insane levels of alcohol use were also a factor. Not that I know anything, but I've seen videos of some really bad Little Feat shows, and it sure looked like mostly an alcohol thing to me. You could see Lowell sweating and red.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:25 PM (iMxBJ)

422 Just shared the shashlik recipe what won my angel's heart and the Colonel's blessings on our intended union.
I did my part, I did.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:26 PM (TwwWO)

423 >>>> Only cobs gets to clean up their mistakes.


Some just them fester.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:26 PM (ZTRlp)

424 Ahhhh...gotcha.

My apologies for assuming it was a tonight thing.
Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:23 PM (l9B1V)
****
Thank you for the apology. I knew you would do so once you had the details filled in where they were missing

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (Rsi2C)

425 am i the only dumbfuck here that has no idea what fart tubing is? and no, i'm not googling that. fuck google.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (KP5rU)

426 Of course they will come to us looking for a bailout. No, just hell no.



If the FAB won, you would be told hell yes. Do you want the elderly, children and gays to die??

(Not shown: the union school.administrator retiring to Florida with an guaranteed six-figure pension)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (mvbBS)

427 Hopefully we can avoid long fights between regular posters. It always rather distressing-to me anyway.

So to distract everybody-I have a problem. Oh one-not another one, Fenelon?!!, Sorry I have a friend-who's ignoring me right now-in a breezy way- (That is, they're not actively hostile) because I've made too many comments about his hubris. This person can be very charming and good at what they do-but a narcissist-which I haven't come out and said directly-because what would be the point? So the other day at a gathering-the friend's wife-who is also a friend-I actually like her personality better than I like his-said that I was a very intuitive person. She also told me that their daughter had broken up with her boyfriend and the mother is upset because he was a really nice guy, and she thinks her daughter is unable to accept love, I can't every well say to her-"Well, that's probably because her father is a narcissist and they tend to mess up their lives of their children." So I guess I just shut up and listen to her. After all, she married him. She knows what he's like. I guess feel bad for both she and her daughter, but I can't say what I really think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (soOgU)

428 425 am i the only dumbfuck here that has no idea what fart tubing is? and no, i'm not googling that.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (KP5rU)


Now, that's wisdom.

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:28 PM (iMxBJ)

429 IIRC, homosexual "marriage" was invented in Hawai'i...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:28 PM (e9G8E)

430 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 29, 2017 11:24 PM (Tnhbr)

I knew that. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:28 PM (soOgU)

431 am i the only dumbfuck here that has no idea what fart tubing is? and no, i'm not googling that. fuck google.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (KP5rU)


No, you're not alone. And yeah, not googling it either. Sounds like a gay thing.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2017 11:28 PM (aMlLZ)

432 Contrary to libertarian mythology, the temperance movement wasn't just a bunch of old ninnies upset that people were having fun. They were reacting to a real social problem caused by excess drinking. They started out not wanted to ban alcohol, but merely get people, especially men, to stop drinking so much that it was destroying families.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile


Somebody linked to something about this the other night.
In the revolutionary era of America, the annual per capita alcohol consumption was something like 5.3 gallons a year. A lot of people drank hard cider and wine because the water was so dirty (full of bacteria) in the cities.
By 1830, it had gotten to be 7.3 gallons per capita, and yes, there was a real drinking problem in America.

Today it is something like 2.4 gallons alcohol consumed per capita annually.

Of course, now a days we also have really strong MJ, meth, cocaine, heroin, and a lot of other goodies.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:29 PM (S6Pax)

433 Ace doesn't believe in miscegenation.
EwokHuman marriages just don't fly with him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2017 11:25 PM
****
I think I could convert him if I get the chance to make my case. We could be the trial test run for such a coupling.
Did you learn nothing from LOTR?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:29 PM (Rsi2C)

434 Misanthropic Humanitarian

Thank you for an insightful and drama filled ONT.

Good night everyone.

Practice electrical safety, always have duct tape nearby, and cherish the beauty in your life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 29, 2017 11:30 PM (u82oZ)

435 I picked the wrong night to quit sniffing glue and commenting on the ont!
But I really would Love to meet y'all!!

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:30 PM (9plvG)

436 Hey, that top picture is the view a block away from me (sans the lighthouse).

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:30 PM (P8951)

437 thanks, berserker. i'm in good company.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:31 PM (KP5rU)

438 G'Night, Salty Dog.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:31 PM (6gk0M)

439 436 Hey, that top picture is the view a block away from me (sans the lighthouse).
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:30 PM (P8951)

Hey Donna, are we still in 1st? And how many nights are you spending at Summer Fest?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:32 PM (ZTRlp)

440 It's been a grand week at work. I thought I was a mere swabbie on the ship, but it's infuriating to find out the big boys think I'm just the mop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2017 11:32 PM (mvbBS)

441 You could see Lowell sweating and red.
Posted by: Splunge

He was very overweight. Then started using a lot of coke, lost a lot of weight, then had a heart attack and died.

Yeah, like a lot of professional musicians have drinking and drug problems. Jim Morrison died because he was falling down drunk and died drowning in his own vomit.

Just before George died, he was thinking about firing everybody in the band (Little Feat) and starting over again.
Talented guy, but really tormented about a lot of things.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (S6Pax)

442 thanks, berserker. i'm in good company.
Posted by: chavez the hugo
---------

Yeah, I don't know either, and I suspect that I'm happier that way.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (OdK9v)

443 Ahhhh...gotcha.

My apologies for assuming it was a tonight thing.
Posted by: GOULD at June




it was not?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (0wem/)

444 Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (KP5rU)

I don't know; I don't want to know and I commend you for not checking Google. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (soOgU)

445 369 Things which have been on my mind lately so a too long comment.

It is my considered opinion that there are no real leakers. What there is is a new secret, very encrypted, listserv where certain journalists, Deep State Obama operatives and former IC and WH officials of the Obama administration meet to cook up stories to be run as "leaked" by anonymous sources.

They all know it's mostly fictional smoke with a leavening of factual, but fun house, mirrors that they are passing along as truth. Their only concerns are that it harm Trump and that the fish not stink too much too soon.

This is not the first time an "op" has been run to harm a President but AFAIK it is the first time that so many very high officials of the IC and the WH have been actively trying to bring down a successor President.

As to why, well.....

Hillary had, going back into the early 90s, blackmail type material on every Washington connected Republican and the rising stars from the States. She was locked and loaded to gun down 16 of the 17 Republicans who ran in the primary. The one she didn't have a big file on was Trump. He wasn't on anybody's radar as a candidate and even after he announces he was considered to be a clown act trying to make a buck somehow.

From July 2015 to July 2016 they worked, at first not too hard but as Trump moved closer to clinching the nomination the pace picked up, to find material that would destroy him and let Hillary coast to the win. She needed to coast through dirty tricks because she was not just a horrible candidate but her health made campaigning hard.

As time rolled on and Trump wasn't fading away desperation set in. They got sloppy, careless, even more than was usual with Hillary. I think they figured Comey was their firewall since he had many times in the past papered over Clinton problems. As FBI head he was well positioned to help again and was not an official that would be expected to resign or be fired.

There are more interesting times a coming. This poker game is one that to step away, to fold, is to lose all you have or ever will have. Whether the world knows it or not, we are all, all in, this time around.
Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:09 PM (d3wbb)


Don't forget all of the FBI files that Clinton operatives got their hands on during the 90's for the purpose of "vetting" White House employees and visitors. Included in that were files on a lot of people throughout DC that weren't Democrats.

I'm sure the Clinton people shared that info with the Obama folks when it came to leaking info on conservatives. Remember, Roberts was nominated by GHWB for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in 1992 but no vote was ever taken on his appointment.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac is like Pepperidge Farms, He remembers at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (1JnAL)

446 >>>Notice: Posted with permission by AceCorp, LLC. Ingredients: Shelving, Enriched Valu-Rite and Carpentry for Ewoks. <<<





Thought Ewoks were supposed to be pretty good carpenters. I mean, they built all them villages up in the trees.



Guess they have better tools than Ikea drills in that galaxy far, far away.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at June 29, 2017 11:33 PM (E2jsN)

447 That lighthouse will soon be swept away by the thawing of the great white north.

Posted by: Al Gore. at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (OdK9v)

448 I must be borderline autistic because all the interpersonal stuff just doesn't interest me at all.

I really want to see video of the June 23 Falcon 9 landing. That would harelip ever'body on Bear Creek.

Posted by: rickl at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (sdi6R)

449 At this time, however, I am not willing to share the dessert recipe what dropped my angel's panties and won her heart....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (TwwWO)

450 442; i feel the same, hammer.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (KP5rU)

451 Society will always have its vices -- trying to ban them only leads to more misery... That, and, as a matter of principle, no one should pretend to interfere with Brother Darwin's work!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (e9G8E)

452
Somebody linked to something about this the other night.

In the revolutionary era of America, the annual per capita alcohol
consumption was something like 5.3 gallons a year. A lot of people
drank hard cider and wine because the water was so dirty (full of
bacteria) in the cities.

By 1830, it had gotten to be 7.3 gallons per capita, and yes, there was a real drinking problem in America.



Today it is something like 2.4 gallons alcohol consumed per capita annually.



Of course, now a days we also have really strong MJ, meth, cocaine, heroin, and a lot of other goodies.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:29 PM (S6Pax)


I blame the industrial revolution. You had a concentration of people in the cities, which magnified negative effects of alcohol and destroyed the social cohesion which had in the past provided a support system to families in trouble. You added to that a layer of unmarried young men without strong family bonds who had money and time. Finally, you top it off with increasing mass production of hard liquor which meant people were getting drunk more easily, and you have a recipe for problems.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (Tnhbr)

453 That mortar and pestle cost $100 in Sweden. No idea what I'd get for it here, but I need to do some research.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 29, 2017 10:56 PM (Id9+

I would search eBay for the sold listings so you have an idea what people are paying. I wouldn't want to deal with the shipping either.

Good luck.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 11:35 PM (Ri/rl)

454 432 Today it is something like 2.4 gallons alcohol consumed per capita annually.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:29 PM (S6Pax)


2.4 gallons of alcohol is 6 gallons of 80 proof vodka
Divided by 365. 0.016 gallons per day
Times 64, about 1 oz of vodka per day

Posted by: Splunge at June 29, 2017 11:35 PM (iMxBJ)

455 Well shit since everyone seems to be pissing in each others Cheerios maybe I should just call it. FFS people let's just all chill out and be all zen like

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:35 PM (IYHxL)

456 I picked the wrong night to quit sniffing glue and commenting on the ont!
But I really would Love to meet y'all!!
Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:30 PM
***
And I would very much like to met you too, lou. You'll have to ignore tonight to make nit work though. That might be asking too much. I love your nic. Always have.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:35 PM (Rsi2C)

457 449
At this time, however, I am not willing to share the dessert recipe what dropped my angel's panties and won her heart....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:34 PM (TwwWO)


That wouldn't belong in a cookbook, anyway, would it, Palp? : )

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 29, 2017 11:37 PM (e9G8E)

458 >>>Yeah, like a lot of professional musicians have drinking and drug problems. Jim Morrison died because he was falling down drunk and died drowning in his own vomit.

Thought that Morrison died with a needle in his arm. Hendrix drown on his own puke as well as a couple of others.

No Coke, Pepsi

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:37 PM (ZTRlp)

459 Got in from feeding the dogs. Looks like reading the comments will be unedifying.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2017 11:37 PM (mvbBS)

460 454. If that had been a frontovik's vodka ration, they'd never have beaten Fritz.

Gentlemen, we must not allow a booze-gap!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:38 PM (TwwWO)

461 I got home late last night and posted late on the ONT, so I will shamelessly repost that I had the pleasure of meeting Weird Dave and Gingy for lunch yesterday. Very nice folks. They are en route to points north for a reunion of Gingy's family.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2017 11:38 PM (XUcIQ)

462 2.4 gallons of alcohol is 6 gallons of 80 proof vodka
Divided by 365. 0.016 gallons per day
Times 64, about 1 oz of vodka per day

Posted by: Splunge

Yeah, but some people don't drink at all. I have my work cut out keeping that per capita consumption up.

I think there are 128 fluid oz in a gallon, not 64

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:38 PM (S6Pax)

463 Well I need to say "hasta la vista" to everyone and get back to editing my book.

Night all.

David

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (5Rqpb)

464 dear Fenelon, you're so wise to just listen to your friend and not say what you think.

I wanted to mention that praying for her husband's happiness, progress, growth, prosperity etc, instead of naming his flaws, even mentally, will protect you against trouble. (because the Lord can hear our thoughts.)

just reminding you. I was just studying this a couple days ago.

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6Xf+s)

465 Reading and buying pornography creates a demand that actually does harm human beings. There is no moral dilemma in my head about that one.

And it is my fucking business now, because you're dead and I'm not.

Posted by: Davies at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (BoOqm)

466 457. Teh Ultimate Border is correct, of course. That would be for the relationship advice book.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (TwwWO)

467 L, Elle
Yes!
And pot becomes legal here tommorow night so we could all get stoned, but we can't do it anywhere but at home, so y'all gonna have to come to my house
Sheesh, hope it's ok i said that, if not
I was kidding

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (9plvG)

468 "Hey Donna, are we still in 1st? And how many nights are you spending at Summer Fest?"
-Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:32 PM (ZTRlp)

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp

The Brewers are in First Place by one game and their offensive production has led the way.

If they plan to stay in contention, they're going to need one starter and two Relief Pitchers.

With the Farm System they have, they may be able to achieve that goal, but I doubt that they would trade away "Blue Chips" for a "One-Night-Stand".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6gk0M)

469 455; that halfrican, that sounds like a plan. i'm out too. aint got time for jr. high no more.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:40 PM (KP5rU)

470 Wow. Looks like a shitstorm blew through here.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 29, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj)

471 Wow. Looks like a shitstorm blew through here.
Posted by: Insomniac at June



50/50 were are in the eye of the storm.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:41 PM (0wem/)

472 Well I need to say "hasta la vista" to everyone and get back to editing my book.

Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (5Rqpb) fnord (5Rqpb)


Good night, and me too!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:41 PM (wB8Tg)

473 Hey Donna, are we still in 1st? And how many nights are you spending at Summer Fest?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:32 PM (ZTRlp)

Amazingly still in first (basically because the Cubs and Cards have sucked and the division stinks - but the Crew has played some very fun baseball this season). It's been an unexpectedly long 10 minutes!

Few things will drain the money out of your wallet like Summerfest. I haven't gone at night in a very long time. It's OK during the day, but at about 6 pm the whole mood changes and suddenly there are a zillion drunken kids around and fights break out....

The ER physicians I know hate and dread Summerfest - the ER is filled with drunks and guys who had have bottles smashed over their heads.

Good musical selections tonight, especially Talking Heads and Del Shannon.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:41 PM (P8951)

474 Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 29, 2017 11:40 PM (KP5rU)

Later brotha

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:41 PM (IYHxL)

475 Just shared the shashlik recipe what won my angel's heart and the Colonel's blessings on our intended union.

I did my part, I did.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:26 PM (TwwWO)


I wonder what the policy will be for duplicate recipes.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2017 11:42 PM (mkDpn)

476 I've got a recipe for heartache.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (0mRoj)

477 Don't forget all of the FBI files that Clinton operatives got their hands on during the 90's for the purpose of "vetting" White House employees and visitors. Included in that were files on a lot of people throughout DC that weren't Democrats.
------------

1,000 FBI files. And no one seemed to know who hired Craig Livingstone, or why. We still don't. The Clintons are so nasty that it defies description.

Posted by: Al Gore. at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (OdK9v)

478 G'Night, David, thathalfrican and Merovign.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (6gk0M)

479 Going to hit the rack.... because tomorrow.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45Ljqgijiw

And let's all lighten up a little bit

Nobody gets out of here alive....

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (S6Pax)

480 I wonder what the policy will be for duplicate recipes.
Posted by: Kindltot at June




indian knife fight winner gets the byline.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (0wem/)

481 The smaller festivals like German Fest and Irish Fest and the street and church festivals are fun and much more affordable.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (P8951)

482 Wow. Looks like a shitstorm blew through here.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 29, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj) fnord (0mRoj)


I got a livestream of kittens here, bro, I ain't got time for that Malvolio shit.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (wB8Tg)

483 >>> Come on, where's your sense of humor? These people are hilarious.



"'2020 is a hard deadline. There's no turning back if we don't
bend the emissions curve within three years,' says Sharan Burrow, The General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and a
signatory on the article. 'There are no jobs on a dead planet.'"

The really fun thing is to pull up the CVs of these green zampolits.

Sharan Burrow has a degree in "teaching". And has been a teachers' union ward-heeler pretty much her entire adult life. She just took it international, connecting into the unionist movement abroad, and then hooked up with the climate hustle.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (ujwCG)

484 http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp

The Brewers are in First Place by one game and their offensive production has led the way.

If they plan to stay in contention, they're going to need one starter and two Relief Pitchers.

With the Farm System they have, they may be able to achieve that goal, but I doubt that they would trade away "Blue Chips" for a "One-Night-Stand".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6gk0M)


Don't start hanging that pennant yet, you are in 1st because you just played the Reds.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (1JnAL)

485 G'Night, Bossy Conservative.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (6gk0M)

486 475. My dude, you're the best!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (TwwWO)

487 1,000 FBI files. And no one seemed to know who hired Craig Livingstone, or why. We still don't. The Clintons are so nasty that it defies description.
Posted by: Al Gore.
---------

Oops. Sock fail.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (OdK9v)

488 G'night Slap. And other people who weren't stirring the pot.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (wB8Tg)

489 Not gonna climb out from under my lurking rock tonight.

*too scary*

Posted by: Calo at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (wUqCa)

490 About the Hicksian sham-position of "I'm not hurting anyone"... Ok, fine. I agree. Your drinking doesn't hurt anyone, directly. But if you act irrationally and do something illegal or immoral because of your drinking, NOW you are hurting someone, and I hold you accountable for that. Not for the drinking, but for the awful thing you did while drinking. Same with most other vices.

It's not a philosophical position, it's a sham designed to absolve the guilt they feel but can't figure out why. Hicks (and his comedic inheritors like Carlin and Brand) just wrapped a set of vulgar jokes around that central evasion of Pseudo-libertarian dandyism.

(I do like a lot of Carlin's non-Hicks material, however) (but that hacky pillock Russel Brand can give butterfly kisses to the dorsal facing side of my man-parts.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (hcyUh)

491 480 I wonder what the policy will be for duplicate recipes.
Posted by: Kindltot at June




indian knife fight winner gets the byline.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (0wem/)

Thunderdome!

Posted by: Don Q. at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (NgKpN)

492 Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6Xf+s)

Thanks

I do pray for that; I also pray for his healing. It is problematic because he is a pastor and is in many ways, remarkably good at what he does with many very fine qualities, but I have been around people who say things about him, "Well, we know you like to kid" when I don't think they interpreted it as a kidding, but as rather but some passive aggressive thing but didn't say that. I suppose his wife talks to me because I understand about church life, but it's hard.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (soOgU)

493 Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:41 PM (P8951)

Season is 1/2 over and The Crew still remains in 1st. Miracles never cease.

Last time to Summer Fest was Summer of 92 or 93 I think. Neil YOung and Crazy Horse just came out with Greendale. That took a while to sink in.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (ZTRlp)

494 "Don't start hanging that pennant yet, you are in 1st because you just played the Reds."
-Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (1JnAL)

I'm a Cleveland Indians fan, so I hang nothing anywhere.

I speak impartially of Baseball because that's my secondary church.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (6gk0M)

495 With the Farm System they have, they may be able to achieve that goal, but I doubt that they would trade away "Blue Chips" for a "One-Night-Stand".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6gk0M)

I hope not Slap. They're doing better than expected, but this was supposed to be a rebuilding year.

I recall Billy Beane traded away the A's farm a few years back, going for broke - and then they got knocked out in the Wild Card game by KC. Helluva game that was.

The A's haven't recovered yet.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (P8951)

496 491. Us suffer bad!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at June 29, 2017 11:47 PM (TwwWO)

497 The really fun thing is to pull up the CVs of these green zampolits.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (ujwCG) fnord (ujwCG)


Christiana Figueres already admitted her goal is to take over and remake economies all over the world to suit *her*, and screw you.

Just like the Control Freaks always do.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:47 PM (wB8Tg)

498 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (hcyUh)

But if I DO NOT do anything that does hurt anyone, why then should I be limited?

That's where you jump the shark... they punish a behavior that may or may NOT have had anything to do with stupidity....

For an act that may or may NOT lead to stupidity...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 29, 2017 11:48 PM (NgKpN)

499 Don't start hanging that pennant yet, you are in 1st because you just played the Reds.
Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 29, 2017 11:44 PM (1JnAL)

We aren't my friend. We are amazed that we weren't mathematically eliminated by April 21st.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:48 PM (ZTRlp)

500 Night all. Out.

Posted by: GOULD at June 29, 2017 11:49 PM (l9B1V)

501 I enjoy Electroboom and that Jacob's Ladder video was really good. The "flame creates plasma" thing was pretty interesting.

Posted by: t-bird at June 29, 2017 11:49 PM (ZIFyZ)

502 Fenelon, I feel for you pastors, because you're held to a higher standard. Your friend's lucky to have you in her life.

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 11:50 PM (6Xf+s)

503 "Hillary had, going back into the early 90s, blackmail type material on every Washington connected Republican and the rising stars from the
States. She was locked and loaded to gun down 16 of the 17 Republicans
who ran in the primary. The one she didn't have a big file on was Trump."

Note also that in 2008, Hillary had a big file on all possible Democratic primary opponents. Plenty of oppo. Nothing to worry about.

Except on Obama, who had come out of nowhere, and who was not really a plausible Presidential candidate, having been in the Senate less than two years at the time he declared, and having been an obscure state legislature backbencher before that.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 11:50 PM (ujwCG)

504 Oh and the court slapped an injunction on one of the new Mad Hatter gun laws in CA. I actually mean slapped, it was kind of brutal.

It's only an injunction, and it's only one, but hey, when you live in a shithole, any day no one shovels shit on you is a good day.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:50 PM (wB8Tg)

505 Night Gould

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:50 PM (0wem/)

506 I just wished my twin brother happy birthday on FB.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT)

507 I got home late last night and posted late on the ONT, so I will shamelessly repost that I had the pleasure of meeting Weird Dave and Gingy for lunch yesterday. Very nice folks. They are en route to points north for a reunion of Gingy's family.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------

Did you score any knit goods?

I envison the constant klic-klic of knitting needles wherever Gingy is, walking sitting, eating, probably while driving.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (OdK9v)

508 One of them kittens just laid itself down on the camera.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (wB8Tg)

509 HaHa, Happy Birthday, Lady Libertarian!

(But may you stay forever young.)

Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 11:52 PM (6Xf+s)

510 Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT)

Happy Birthday Young LadyLibertarian

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:52 PM (ZTRlp)

511 433 Ace doesn't believe in miscegenation.
EwokHuman marriages just don't fly with him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 29, 2017 11:25 PM
****
I think I could convert him if I get the chance to make my case. We could be the trial test run for such a coupling.
Did you learn nothing from LOTR?
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:29 PM (Rsi2C)


Frodo and Sam were both hobbits.

And gimli was a dwarf not an ewok. And Legolas was an elf not human.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (EnNcD)

512 "Hicks (and his comedic inheritors like Carlin and Brand) just wrapped a set of vulgar jokes around that central evasion of Pseudo-libertarian
dandyism."

The considerably older Carlin, a generational peer of Lenny Bruce, was doing the heavy-veneer-of-worldly-cynicism act while Bill Hicks was a spermatozoon hoping for a hookup.


"(I do like a lot of Carlin's non-Hicks material, however)"

Football v. baseball. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (ujwCG)

513 I'm really so sorry for hijacking this ONT. I apologize. Please forgive me for ruining your evening with unnecessary drama. There are others more culpable than me that need to step up and apologize. A lot of people in the background with axes to grind who are using this forum to vent and, put simply, becaue they can.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (Rsi2C)

514 I enjoy Electroboom and that Jacob's Ladder video was really good. The "flame creates plasma" thing was pretty interesting.
Posted by: t-bird
----------

Hmm. I wonder if there is a YouTube of a flame tweeter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (OdK9v)

515 Don't start hanging that pennant yet, you are in 1st because you just played the Reds.
Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper


Hey, the Reds beat the Brewers two out of three this week.

And now, really, really off the dream land.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (S6Pax)

516 Hey, Slap , a Brewers player sent out a tweet you'll appreciate. Went something like this:

When you start caring about a no-hitter:

Your team: Through 5
Opposing team: Through 6
All other teams: Through 7
Facing Kershaw : During the National Anthem

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (P8951)

517 I enjoy Electroboom and that Jacob's Ladder video was really good. The "flame creates plasma" thing was pretty interesting.
Posted by: t-bird at June 29, 2017 11:49 PM (ZIFyZ)


Hard UV will also extend a spark. The original Marconi spark gap transmitters used UV to facilitate the spark.

These were the really big spark gap transmitters, and I understood they had their own chamber.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (mkDpn)

518 506 I just wished my twin brother happy birthday on FB.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT) fnord (TdMsT)


(golf clap)

*subtle*

(sends imaginary birthday card, which is funny, trust me)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (wB8Tg)

519 513 I'm really so sorry for hijacking this ONT. I apologize. Please forgive me for ruining your evening with unnecessary drama. There are others more culpable than me that need to step up and apologize. A lot of people in the background with axes to grind who are using this forum to vent and, put simply, becaue they can.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (Rsi2C)

No apology necessary!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (TdMsT)

520 Happy Birthday!!
Today is the oldest you've ever been, And the youngest you'll ever be again.

Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:55 PM (9plvG)

521 Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (Rsi2C)

I'll just say this on the subject. Jocko Willink/Leif Babin - Extreme Ownership.


Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:55 PM (IYHxL)

522 yep, vast ont conspiracy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:55 PM (0wem/)

523
510 Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT)

Happy Birthday Young LadyLibertarian
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:52 PM (ZTRlp)

Thank you. If I want to horrify myself, I can simply reflect upon my age.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:56 PM (TdMsT)

524 Happy Bornaments LadyLibertarian!

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:56 PM (IYHxL)

525 That looks like Linda Ronstadt with Lowell George.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (lIZQs)

526
520 Happy Birthday!!
Today is the oldest you've ever been, And the youngest you'll ever be again.
Posted by: lousagirl at June 29, 2017 11:55 PM (9plvG)


Thank you!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (TdMsT)

527 Posted by: booknlass at June 29, 2017 11:50 PM (6Xf+s)ii

Thanks. I think I'm just a more empathetic person usually. That's not his style nor the style of a narcissist, but with everything going on in her life she needs some empathy and I guess it helps that I'm not a church member. He once said "Pastors wives have to do things they don't want to do" which I thought was inappropriate to say in public, even if it's true There's only so much she can say to them-but it's oblique, even to me. So much is unsaid. My opinion is that he ought to be on his knees every night thanking God he has such a wife. Maybe he does-I hope so and tells her sometimes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (soOgU)

528 Frodo and Sam were both hobbits.
And gimli was a dwarf not an ewok. And Legolas was an elf not human.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (EnNcD)
*****
I'm talking about Liv Tyler and Arrogon. That's miscegenation, isn't it?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (Rsi2C)

529 Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT)

Happy Birthday!

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (Ri/rl)

530 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (soOgU)

You're wise and I'm sure you're right about the man. I'm not that familiar with narcissistic behavior and how it affects other family members. Is it possible the daughter broke up with the guy for other reasons?

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (nvMvs)

531 "Hey, the Reds beat the Brewers two out of three this week."

Well, before that we swept them twice this season. It was a blowout tonight though - 11-3 Crew.

6 HR's for the Brewers tonight, although the fact that Great American Ballpark is a bandbox has to be taken into consideration. At least 3 of those HRs would have been doubles in any other park.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (P8951)

532
524 Happy Bornaments LadyLibertarian!
Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 29, 2017 11:56 PM (IYHxL)

Thank you, newlywed Sir!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:58 PM (TdMsT)

533 522 yep, vast ont conspiracy.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:55 PM (0wem/)

Let it go.

Please.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:58 PM (ZTRlp)

534 1,000 FBI files. And no one seemed to know who hired Craig Livingstone, or why. We still don't. The Clintons are so nasty that it defies description.
Posted by: Al Gore. at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (OdK9v)

Funny how nobody that was prominent in DC during the 90's ran for President in 2016.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puff Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 29, 2017 11:58 PM (1JnAL)

535 Happy birthday, Ladylibertarian !

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (P8951)

536 529 Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT)

Happy Birthday!
Posted by: CaliGirl at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (Ri/rl)


Thank you, owner of 200 pairs of shoes!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (TdMsT)

537 She knows what he's like. I guess feel bad for both she and her daughter, but I can't say what I really think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2017 11:27 PM (soOgU)


You tell her what you said and she will turn it on you.
She married him because what he is attracted her and still does.

The tether may stretch but it will always rebound.

Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (3wfnv)

538 477,
"1,000 FBI files"

That was what got to be the conventional wisdom. But Livingstone was seen in a room, with a big copy machine and stacks files going to the ceiling. That was apparently his real job and remember he was a former bouncer who owed his position completely to Hillary.

Also these were not just FBI files but they were the "raw" files that were put together in a FBI security background check. Every nasty story that anyone who ever held a grudge against you would be in them along with an anal exam of your entire life from childhood.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (d3wbb)

539 Big 29 for LadyL?

Take a deep breath and blow all 29 candles out.

Don't forget the wish part.

Happy BDay!

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 12:00 AM (Rsi2C)

540 Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (Rsi2C)

Don't apologize L,Elle. It's all good. Shit happens.

I'd like to meet all of you guys.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 30, 2017 12:00 AM (Ri/rl)

541 Ladylibertarian !
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (P8951)


Thank you!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:00 AM (TdMsT)

542 "I hope not Slap. They're doing better than expected, but this was supposed to be a rebuilding year.

I recall Billy Beane traded away the A's farm a few years back, going for broke - and then they got knocked out in the Wild Card game by KC. Helluva game that was.

The A's haven't recovered yet.
"
-Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (P8951)

Yes. Everything you said is true.

Billy Beane is not a genius, but the principles that Bill James set in-place are solid. It is simple mathematics.

Are his principles a predictor of future production? Hell, No! But when more people get on base, they tend to score. That is not speculation, that is Fact.

What the movie about Billy Beane failed to address is the fact that they had Zito, Mulder and someone else on the mound that dominated during that run.

The Brewers should not have been competitive this season, yet here they are.

I expect the Cubs will overtake them soon and the N.L. has better Wildcard teams, but they have future prospects that will take them to another level if they don't trade them away.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:00 AM (6gk0M)

543 539 Big 29 for LadyL?

Take a deep breath and blow all 29 candles out.

Don't forget the wish part.

Happy BDay!
Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 12:00 AM (Rsi2C)



Thank you! Gosh, I'll need a BIG CAKE for all the candles!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:01 AM (TdMsT)

544 I'm talking about Liv Tyler and Arrogon. That's miscegenation, isn't it?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (Rsi2C)



Arwen is part human. Her father is half human.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 12:01 AM (cAnNx)

545 I am happy to report, that a chiro-grade TENS unit offers great relief to sciatic nerve pain.

I am sad to report, that the damn thing will only run 20 minutes at a time, and I can't duct-tape aoo the wires securely to my carcass and let the thing run all night for a sound and peaceful sleep.

The duct tape thing, I can do. I need one of you 'Ettes to come over and attend to me through the night, hitting the "reset" button every 20 minutes.

Just think of it as being Slapweasel pressing the F-5 button like a buck-rabbit thumping it's leg to attract a doe in heat.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (v5iqM)

546 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (nvMvs)

Because she doesn't want to be married to a pastor? The boyfriend was in seminary. I wouldn't want to be married to a pastor if he were my father either. And seriously, narcissist can be at the top of their game and do really well in their work but there's always emotional fallout.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (soOgU)

547
Thank you! Gosh, I'll need a BIG CAKE for all the candles!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:01 AM (TdMsT)

I have just the blueberry pie for that adventure. Cake is so mundane.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (ZTRlp)

548 "I'm really so sorry for hijacking this ONT."

::: dons ski mask, bursts into flight deck :::

Turn this ONT to heading two seven zero! We're landing in Peruvia!!!

Posted by: torquewrench at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (ujwCG)

549 Happy Birthday.

Health & Happiness for another trip round the Sun!

Posted by: Adriane the Chronologically Challenged Critic ... at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (AoK0a)

550 I'm talking about Liv Tyler and Arrogon. That's miscegenation, isn't it?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (Rsi2C) fnord (Rsi2C)


Yeah, but half-elves get low light vision, immunity to sleep, *and* a bonus feat at 1st level.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (wB8Tg)

551 513 I'm really so sorry for hijacking this ONT. I apologize. Please forgive me for ruining your evening with unnecessary drama.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (Rsi2C)


I think you're fine, L, Elle. We all have our occasional bad nights here and there. You've always been very nice.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (nvMvs)

552 But Livingstone was seen in a room, with a big copy machine and stacks files going to the ceiling.
----------

I don't think anyone knows where Livingstone came from, or where he went. Internet search turns up essentially nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (OdK9v)

553 You know, I'm really glad Clinton called us all deplorables. I was just reading that some of us might have voted for her if she hadn't done so.

So, Great!

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (6Xf+s)

554 Yeah, like a lot of professional musicians have drinking and drug problems. Jim Morrison died because he was falling down drunk and died drowning in his own vomit.

Thought that Morrison died with a needle in his arm. Hendrix drown on his own puke as well as a couple of others.

No Coke, Pepsi

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 29, 2017 11:37 PM (ZTRlp)


yeah, a lot of musicians are pretty self destructive. Takes big will power to resist it all. My career started with me licking a line off a chicks boobs in between sets of one of the very first gigs I ever did (long but true story). I understood immediately, and knew the power of that moment, and knew right then to not go down that road. I watched more than a few go down in flames. Its a hard thing to explain what its like getting caught up in the moment.

I even kept the drinking to a very, very small minimum. My weakness was chicks bearing shots. I was never much of a drinker, but if a chick wanted to do some shots, or a drink, my mind went right to that line in ghost busters, "if a chick asks if you are a god you say YES". I survived with my ass intact by sheer will alone, because it sure isn't easy.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (aMlLZ)

555 "Hey, Slap , a Brewers player sent out a tweet you'll appreciate. Went something like this:
When you start caring about a no-hitter:

Your team: Through 5
Opposing team: Through 6
All other teams: Through 7
Facing Kershaw : During the National Anthem
"
-Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (P8951)

*HAH!*

So true!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (6gk0M)

556
518 506 I just wished my twin brother happy birthday on FB.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (TdMsT) fnord (TdMsT)

(golf clap)

*subtle*

(sends imaginary birthday card, which is funny, trust me)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (wB8Tg)


Thanks! When you are as old as I am, you learn more subtle ploys for attention!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (TdMsT)

557 Slappy Birthday, LadyLibertarian!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:04 AM (6gk0M)

558 At least Merovign does not sent large crates that shake and hiss.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:04 AM (Yl6kS)

559 553 You know, I'm really glad Clinton called us all deplorables. I was just reading that some of us might have voted for her if she hadn't done so.

So, Great!
Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (6Xf+s)


I have always believed it was her most catastrophic mistake. MAGA!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:04 AM (TdMsT)

560 Not gonna climb out from under my lurking rock tonight.

*too scary*

Posted by: Calo at June 29, 2017 11:45 PM (wUqCa)

Now there is a name long unheard from, if it be the same Calo. Welcome!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:05 AM (XUcIQ)

561 Posted by: gNewt at June 29, 2017 11:59 PM (3wfnv)

Of course, as I said he has many attractive qualities and not only will she turn it on me, he'll turn it against me..so I just shut up and empathize where I can.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2017 12:05 AM (soOgU)

562 I just wished my twin brother happy birthday on FB.

You are in SO much trouble if you ever forget!

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:05 AM (kUfFq)

563 Jim wrote:
I need one of you 'Ettes to come over and attend to me through the night, hitting the "reset" button every 20 minutes.

I really wish I could!

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (6Xf+s)

564
557 Slappy Birthday, LadyLibertarian!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:04 AM (6gk0M)


Thank you, fellow Buckeye!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (TdMsT)

565 This must be alternate universe ont.

Posted by: NCKate at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (dGSft)

566 About the Hicksian sham-position of "I'm not hurting anyone"...

The 10s of 1000s of peasants with guns to their heads to farm drugs instead of food for their children would like to have a word ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ethically Challenged Critic ... at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (AoK0a)

567 I'm talking about Liv Tyler and Arrogon. That's miscegenation, isn't it?
Posted by: L, Elle

Liv Tyler was Arwen Undomiel, the Evenstar of her people. Daughter of Elrond.
Elrond was Half -elven; he was given a choice of being Man or Elf. His parents were Earendil and Elwing, another union of Man and Elf (Elwing was Elven kind). Elrond's brother was Elros, and chose to be human, and was the first king of the Numenoreans (at the beginning of the 2nd Age).
So actually, Aragorn was descended through many generations, from Elros. 5000 years ago. Through the Second age (2000 years) and the Third age (LOTR takes place at the end of the 3rd Age, about 3000 years long or so).

Arwen (Liv Tyler) and Aragorn were actually very distant cousins (about 50 generations separated, at least, as the Numenoreans originally lived to be three times the life span of normal men).

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (S6Pax)

568 Rosario Dawson is so damn fine and Luke Cage is a great show.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (IYHxL)

569 You know, I'm really glad Clinton called us all deplorables.

It's the Democrats' feared silver bullet: an honest moment.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (TqmC9)

570 562 I just wished my twin brother happy birthday on FB.

You are in SO much trouble if you ever forget!
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:05 AM (kUfFq)


Ha!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (TdMsT)

571 Did you score any knit goods?

I envison the constant klic-klic of knitting needles wherever Gingy is, walking sitting, eating, probably while driving.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (OdK9v)

I guess Gingy doesn't cast purls before swine. Nary a knit, did I see.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (XUcIQ)

572 At least Merovign does not sent large crates that shake and hiss.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:04 AM (Yl6kS) fnord (Yl6kS)


(cancels shipping label)

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (wB8Tg)

573 You're quite welcome, Ma'am.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (6gk0M)

574 "I don't think anyone knows where Livingstone came from, or where he went."

Fort Marcy Park.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (ujwCG)

575 Oh and Aragon and Arwen are also a little bit incestuous in a rather odd creepy way. Elrond's brother is an ancestor of Aragon's.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (cAnNx)

576 @560 It is the same old me.

Glad to find an old pal here tonight.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (wUqCa)

577 What pisses me off Slap is that Aaron Judge plays for the Yankees. Of course. After losing Rivera and Jeter and sucking for a few years, their rookie turns out to be an instant superstar. "Cause the goddamned Yankees haven't had enough of those.

And they got him for cheap and long-term too.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (P8951)

578 495 With the Farm System they have, they may be able to achieve that goal, but I doubt that they would trade away "Blue Chips" for a "One-Night-Stand".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 29, 2017 11:39 PM (6gk0M)

I hope not Slap. They're doing better than expected, but this was supposed to be a rebuilding year.

I recall Billy Beane traded away the A's farm a few years back, going for broke - and then they got knocked out in the Wild Card game by KC. Helluva game that was.

The A's haven't recovered yet.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:46 PM (P8951)


As a longtime Reds fan, I just wish they had someone in the front office that would make sure that when they trade all the veteran talent for prospects that you don't go overboard on one phase.

A few years ago they had no hitting, but lots of live arms, so they traded all the arms for bats. Now they have the bats but no arms, and the arms they have are in the minors getting experience and are a couple years away. Just enough time for the Reds to clear out all that hitting.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puff Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (1JnAL)

579 Hmm. I wonder if there is a YouTube of a flame tweeter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:53 PM (OdK9v)

I tried that one time. Never could get a peep out of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (XUcIQ)

580 I really wish I could!

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (6Xf+s)



Supernova blushes so as to blot out the Sun.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:09 AM (v5iqM)

581 Craig Livingstone was just another of the Clinton's fall guys. They had scores of them at least.

Disposable political assets. Loyalty and willingness to take a fall the only required assets.

I sometimes wonder if Federal prosecutors are just numb over political criminality instead of incompetent or corrupt. Well, some of them.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:09 AM (wB8Tg)

582 Happy Birthday.

Health & Happiness for another trip round the Sun!
Posted by: Adriane the Chronologically Challenged Critic ... at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (AoK0a)


Thank you! All said, it was a pretty good orbit this year.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 30, 2017 12:10 AM (TdMsT)

583 I guess Gingy doesn't cast purls before swine. Nary a knit, did I see.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-----------

I'm telling Muldoon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:10 AM (OdK9v)

584 Hendrix suffocated because the ambulance attendant strapped him in upright, so he wouldn't vomit on the floor of the vehicle.

basically negligent homicide, and the med was an OTC one, not illegal.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 12:10 AM (joq+X)

585 I envison the constant klic-klic of knitting needles wherever Gingy is, walking sitting, eating, probably while driving.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2017 11:51 PM (OdK9v)

That woman is amazing. I talked to her for a bit at one of the meet ups. There is nothing she don't know about sewing or knitting. I think she stops just short of raising sheep for her wool. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2017 12:11 AM (aMlLZ)

586 I'm out for the evening, goodnight everyone.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 30, 2017 12:11 AM (Ri/rl)

587 Just enough time for the Reds to clear out all that hitting.
Posted by: Ashley Judds Puff Scamper


So negative. Such a Debbie Downer.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 12:11 AM (S6Pax)

588 "What pisses me off Slap is that Aaron Judge plays for the Yankees. Of course. After losing Rivera and Jeter and sucking for a few years, their rookie turns out to be an instant superstar. "Cause the goddamned Yankees haven't had enough of those.

And they got him for cheap and long-term too.
"

-Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (P8951)

It pisses-off the country, Donna. At least those of us in the A.L., which has the Designated Hitter Rule; which will never go away.

*Throws New Log on Fire*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:11 AM (6gk0M)

589 I don't think anyone knows where Livingstone came from, or where he went. Internet search turns up essentially nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (OdK9v)

Put Henry Stanley on the case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:12 AM (XUcIQ)

590 I tried that one time. Never could get a peep out of it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

I'm kind of assuming that it requires high voltage to work. Maybe a modified tube amp. I know the theory, but have never tried it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:12 AM (OdK9v)

591 525 That looks like Linda Ronstadt with Lowell George.
Posted by: bergerbilder at June 29, 2017 11:57 PM (lIZQs)


It is Linda Ronstadt. She and Lowell were an item for a while.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (nvMvs)

592 The 10s of 1000s of peasants with guns to their heads to farm drugs instead of food for their children would like to have a word ...
Posted by: Adriane the Ethically Challenged Critic ... at June 30, 2017 12:06 AM (AoK0a)

Yup. Hence "sham" position. If your vice really is victimless, fine, I don't particularly care what you do. But too many of these philosopher-comedians have popularized this shabby, lazy mode of thinking. Like they skimmed over the first chapter of 'Lautremont for Dummies' and now they're the high priests of morality. It's why i have a particular hatred of Hicks and Brand and their ilk. Other (better) comedians like Carlin, Leary, Ron White, etc. would "glorify" their vices, but would never/rarely get up on a pedestal and pretend they were anything but vices.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (hcyUh)

593 Oh and Aragon and Arwen are also a little bit incestuous in a rather odd creepy way. Elrond's brother is an ancestor of Aragon's.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 12:07 AM (cAnNx) fnord (cAnNx)


Well, there are a lot of generations between them.

Also, it's not like consanguinity isn't the historical norm.

There's even wild speculation that the long period of pre-civilization ended coincidentally when people had large enough groups to not constantly be breeding with siblings or first cousins. Or children.

We're probably living with a lot of genetic fallout from that. So are a lot of animals, it's odd to think.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (wB8Tg)

594 Supernova blushes so as to blot out the sun


Aw. I'd just be your buddy. no need for blushing.

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (6Xf+s)

595 Posted by: Ashley Judds Puff Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (1JnAL)

Scooter Gennett is working out well for you guys! I liked him when he was with the Crew, but he wasn't nearly as good then as he is with the Reds.

Of all the players I would have picked to have a 5 HR game, Scoots wouldn't have made the top 25.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (P8951)

596 G'Night, CaliGirl.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:14 AM (6gk0M)

597 589 I don't think anyone knows where Livingstone came from, or where he went. Internet search turns up essentially nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (OdK9v)

Put Henry Stanley on the case.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:12 AM (XUcIQ)

/spits....

Posted by: Alan Quatermain at June 30, 2017 12:14 AM (NgKpN)

598 Jim, about your TENS unit doodad thingymabober .... can you program a little Audrino unit to turn it on every 20 minutes or so while you sleep?

No 'etttes needed, sorry.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:15 AM (wUqCa)

599 516 Hey, Slap , a Brewers player sent out a tweet you'll appreciate. Went something like this:

When you start caring about a no-hitter:

Your team: Through 5
Opposing team: Through 6
All other teams: Through 7
Facing Kershaw : During the National Anthem
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 29, 2017 11:54 PM (P8951)


You know that the Reds' pitcher won't be throwing a no-hitter since he will give up a 3 spot when the managers exchange lineup cards.

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 30, 2017 12:15 AM (1JnAL)

600 For the Metal Hat

https://youtu.be/hHWkfvr9sCc

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:15 AM (Yl6kS)

601 @560 It is the same old me.

Glad to find an old pal here tonight.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:08 AM (wUqCa)

And nice to see you here, too, Calo. You are a real sweetheart, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:17 AM (XUcIQ)

602 I've just read that Germany is on the verge of legalising homosexual "marriage"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 30, 2017 12:17 AM (e9G8E)

603 redc1c4, I never heard how Jimi died. everybody makes a big deal about how old he was, but damn, that's awful. truly horrible. he was such a sweet person, from what I've seen.

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:17 AM (6Xf+s)

604 "Get your Sharpton on. Make this moment all about you."

Damn I love this show

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (IYHxL)

605 Of all the players I would have picked to have a 5 HR game, Scoots wouldn't have made the top 25.
Posted by: Donna


Well, he actually only had a 4 HR game. Scooter is happy with the Reds (and he was probably happy with the Brewers). He is originally from Southwest Ohio (Lebanon) but then moved to Florida where he went to High school (Sarasota).

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (S6Pax)

606 I think Cheetahs have the greatest genetic bottleneck from lack of diversity. Something like 98% commonality across the whole species. The furry speedsters apparently almost went extinct.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (Yl6kS)

607
Well, there are a lot of generations between them.

Also, it's not like consanguinity isn't the historical norm.

There's even wild speculation that the long period of pre-civilization ended coincidentally when people had large enough groups to not constantly be breeding with siblings or first cousins. Or children.

We're probably living with a lot of genetic fallout from that. So are a lot of animals, it's odd to think.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:13 AM (wB8Tg)



Well sure but that bit of thinking isn't good to make some silly comments about fictional characters.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (cAnNx)

608 "It pisses-off the country, Donna. At least those of us in the A.L., which has the Designated Hitter Rule; which will never go away"

Slap, I always hated the DH, but after seeing our best pitcher, Chase Anderson, injure himself in an at bat yesterday (sob!) - I am reconsidering my position.

That's the second time this season one of our starters have had to go on the DL after hurting themselves during an at-bat. I remember Wainwright was out for almost the entire season when he pulled something running to first.

It's a killer to see these guys get injured doing something most of them aren't any damned good at.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (P8951)

609 I need my Beauty Sleep, so I must bid you all farewell.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (6gk0M)

610 602 I've just read that Germany is on the verge of legalising homosexual "marriage"...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 30, 2017 12:17 AM (e9G8E)

Huh. I thought they did that long ago.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2017 12:19 AM (hcyUh)

611 goodnight, Slapweasel, who says goodnight to all of us.
with love

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:19 AM (6Xf+s)

612 I need my Beauty Sleep, so I must bid you all farewell.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel

YOU CERTAINLY DO!

and really, off to bed for reals, now

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 12:19 AM (S6Pax)

613 The first quote I ever read (in an edition of Reader's Digest as a 7-year-old) that made me realize I'm a libertarian:

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." -- William Hazlitt

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2017 12:20 AM (ZcAbN)

614 Sargon of Akkad has a video about Sarkeesian's powerplay at Vidcon - where she deliberately broke the rules to harass Sargon and to get him kicked off of Patreon, and Vidcon let it happen.

It is riveting. And - to me anyway - terrifying, how much power this sociopath has and how she uses it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vyvv7P6Ldo

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 30, 2017 12:20 AM (6FqZa)

615 Jim, about your TENS unit doodad thingymabober .... can you program a little Audrino unit to turn it on every 20 minutes or so while you sleep?

No 'etttes needed, sorry.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:15 AM (wUqCa) fnord (wUqCa)


Plug-in electrical timers are better than they used to be. I don't know the upper limit buy I know some can have several set times in a day.

Does the TENS unit require manual input or can it power on when you add power?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:20 AM (wB8Tg)

616 William Hazlitt
Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2017 12:20 AM (ZcAbN)


And could Hazlitt, with his great ability, be able to get a job in media today?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2017 12:21 AM (mkDpn)

617 I'm kind of assuming that it requires high voltage to work. Maybe a modified tube amp. I know the theory, but have never tried it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:12 AM (OdK9v)

IIRC, I used an output transformer hooked up backwards to put a fairly high audio voltage into a pair of carbon electrodes stuck into an acetylene torch flame. Maybe it would be better to use that setup directly as the plate load of a small transmitting tube like an 807, which I have a bunch of.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:21 AM (XUcIQ)

618 Calo....first, thank you. Second... ain't seen you much around here since my lurking/linking/running my own blog days? Damn good to see your nic once again!

Do tell me more about an Audrino unit? I got this gear about two years ago, and put it back into commission, today.

If you've got more advanced knowledge, I'd be most grateful, indeed!

'Cause this morning, I was pinned to the floor like a moth to a board. Immobile for over two hours, unable to even crawl to the bathroom.

Ask me what 10/10 pain is, and I can tell you of it. When even a mere sneeze is met with a howl of agony.

I do have to get on a track of finding a longer term solution to this problem though.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Jim, about your TENS unit doodad thingymabober .... can you program a little Audrino unit to turn it on every 20 minutes or so while you sleep?

No 'etttes needed, sorry.



Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:15 AM (wUqCa)

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:22 AM (v5iqM)

619 *unstatic*

"Slap, I always hated the DH, but after seeing our best pitcher, Chase Anderson, injure himself in an at bat yesterday (sob!) - I am reconsidering my position.

That's the second time this season one of our starters have had to go on the DL after hurting themselves during an at-bat. I remember Wainwright was out for almost the entire season when he pulled something running to first.

It's a killer to see these guys get injured doing something most of them aren't any damned good at.
"
-Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (P8951)

I know this argument and I take it into battle every day.

Plus, I was born when the DH rule went into effect. I know nothing other, beside Little League Baseball.

I let everyone else let their lids get uncapped over it, even though I think that pitchers hitting is the way that the game was supposed to be played.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:22 AM (6gk0M)

620 581 Craig Livingstone was just another of the Clinton's fall guys. They had scores of them at least.

Disposable political assets. Loyalty and willingness to take a fall the only required assets.

I sometimes wonder if Federal prosecutors are just numb over political criminality instead of incompetent or corrupt. Well, some of them.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:09 AM (wB8Tg)


The Clinton's were never going to get the Justice Department to investigate those raw files being copied. It's was the same convenient excuse that was used for the illegal email server: "Oopsie, we didn't think it was wrong".

And, from 1993-94, the Clintons had a pliant Democrat House and Senate, and both of those chambers plus the Clintons were hot to trot to pass Hillarycare. No way that they were going to rock that boat with an investigation into those files.

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac Remembers the Big Red Machine at June 30, 2017 12:22 AM (1JnAL)

621 I think Cheetahs have the greatest genetic bottleneck from lack of diversity. Something like 98% commonality across the whole species. The furry speedsters apparently almost went extinct.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (Yl6kS)

You know what they say, cheetahs never prosper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:23 AM (XUcIQ)

622 *flips switch*

-OUT!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:23 AM (6gk0M)

623 I think Cheetahs have the greatest genetic bottleneck from lack of diversity. Something like 98% commonality across the whole species. The furry speedsters apparently almost went extinct.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (Yl6kS) fnord (Yl6kS)


I think everyone is familiar by now about my pet hypothesis about why Cheetahs are relatively easy to domesticate (and why there are two nearly identical species of them, the King Cheetah being the other)... that the non-King Cheetahs are basically feral and not wild, descended from royal pets.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:24 AM (wB8Tg)

624 You know what they say, cheetahs never prosper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June



I knew what you typed after the second word but still laughed.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 30, 2017 12:24 AM (0wem/)

625 589 I don't think anyone knows where Livingstone came from, or where he went. Internet search turns up essentially nothing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:03 AM (OdK9v)

Put Henry Stanley on the case.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:12 AM (XUcIQ)

And yet the Clintons and Obamas have millions...

I, do not....

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q at June 30, 2017 12:24 AM (NgKpN)

626 I need my Beauty Sleep, so I must bid you all farewell.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (6gk0M)




"Beauty Sleep" for me, would require a coma. My own mirror is scared of me.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:24 AM (v5iqM)

627 when people had large enough groups to not constantly be breeding with siblings or first cousins. Or children.

Imagine having to get over that taboo during the period where we shrank down to 600 people living in, if I recall correctly, caves on the coast of South Africa.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:25 AM (kUfFq)

628 Submitted three recipes - a cookie recipe, a side (easy peasy) and beef ribs. Nothing like being early! *yawn*

I would submit more, like my celery root gratin recipe, but I do it by knowledge and haven't had a chance to make it and write down them damn quantities since this cookbook shenanigan started.

Love to all the Horde, can't wait to see the cookbook!

Posted by: atomicplaygirl (Gab: atomicplaygirl) at June 30, 2017 12:25 AM (Gim9y)

629 I think everyone is familiar by now about my pet hypothesis about why Cheetahs are relatively easy to domesticate (and why there are two nearly identical species of them, the King Cheetah being the other)... that the non-King Cheetahs are basically feral and not wild, descended from royal pets.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June




no pun intended.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 30, 2017 12:25 AM (0wem/)

630 That Jacob's Ladder video brought back fond memories of my teens, which I somehow managed to survive. Back in the 50s-60s, shoe stores often had these x-ray machines with a slot you could slip your feet into to see how the shoes fit your toes. I managed to get my hands on a high voltage transformer used to power one of them. This bad boy of a transformer was a little bigger than a 5 gallon pail, with a scary insulator electrode on top. My buddy and I went dumpster diving behind the grocery store and came home with a burned out 8-foot fluorescent bulb. I hung it from the garage rafters with baling twine, connected each end to the bad boy and turned it on. Voila! An eight foot long arc inside the tube - lit up the garage like the sun.
We also made Jacob ladders until we ran out of fuses. Fun times!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at June 30, 2017 12:26 AM (3pGfC)

631 when people had large enough groups to not constantly be breeding with siblings or first cousins. Or children.

Imagine having to get over that taboo during the period where we shrank down to 600 people living in, if I recall correctly, caves on the coast of South Africa.
Posted by: t-bird at June




well, that is when they started the gay sex thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 30, 2017 12:26 AM (0wem/)

632 Sargon of Akkad has a video about Sarkeesian's powerplay at Vidcon - where she deliberately broke the rules to harass Sargon and to get him kicked off of Patreon, and Vidcon let it happen.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 30, 2017 12:20 AM (6FqZa) fnord (6FqZa)


The cons and the lit and entertainment fan groups were a priority target for the SJWs.

And hopefully a few more people have now seen what they do with power EVERY TIME they get it.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:26 AM (wB8Tg)

633 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2017 12:02 AM (soOgU)

Interesting. I wish I knew more about the narcissistic personality disorder. I've mostly seen it in senior management in business and at least one of them did have a messed-up daughter.

On the other hand, I can think of a number of reasons why a young lady wouldn't want to be a pastor's wife. I'm one of those who believes it is a calling to be a pastor's spouse and God may be calling her to something else.

Being a pastor's wife imposes a lot of limitations--certainly in the Evangelical tradition that I'm a part of. There are a lot of time demands and the financial benefits just aren't there for most. Plus, constantly living under a microscope is hard.

Whatever the problem is, I know you'll handle it with Godly wisdom.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (nvMvs)

634 605 Of all the players I would have picked to have a 5 HR game, Scoots wouldn't have made the top 25.
Posted by: Donna


Well, he actually only had a 4 HR game. Scooter is happy with the Reds (and he was probably happy with the Brewers). He is originally from Southwest Ohio (Lebanon) but then moved to Florida where he went to High school (Sarasota).
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 12:18 AM (S6Pax)


It probably has to do with the Reds having some very lively bats surrounding him. Tends to get pitchers to pitch to a guy like him so that they don't pitch to Votto with a player on base.

I just hope he didn't get on the juice when he was released by the Brewers in hopes of impressing another team.

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (1JnAL)

635 Barak Obama is a coward shit. It disgust me that he is in the history books. By his own standards (not mine), he should have been aborted. It's one of my questions for God...why did he live?

Posted by: Ummmm at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (sPwat)

636 Jim, I think you live downwind from me, IIRC. About 45 minutes away from SW Houston.

I have a marsupial friend called ISTE from another blog who programs the things as a hobby nearby.

It distress me that you are in that much pain. Anyways, my email thing is denbar2 at the gmail doodad if we can help.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:31 AM (wUqCa)

637 Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (nvMvs)

That's kind of you. Thank you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 30, 2017 12:31 AM (soOgU)

638 Imagine having to get over that taboo during the period where we shrank down to 600 people living in, if I recall correctly, caves on the coast of South Africa.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:25 AM (kUfFq) fnord (kUfFq)


Hard to say, but it seems like that's a recent taboo.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:32 AM (wB8Tg)

639 480 I wonder what the policy will be for duplicate recipes.
Posted by: Kindltot at June
indian knife fight winner gets the byline.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 29, 2017 11:43 PM (

Wouldn't jello wrestling be simpler?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 30, 2017 12:32 AM (hscyr)

640 The buffet at the local Cheetah's Club is excellent -- or, so I'm told!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 30, 2017 12:32 AM (e9G8E)

641 A couple nights ago, there was a small moron discussion about punk rock bands.

What genre would Talking Heads fit?

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 12:33 AM (lIZQs)

642 It's one of my questions for God...why did he live?

So generations of flies would have a place to land.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2017 12:33 AM (9Q5BJ)

643 Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac

I am never happy to see Votto come to the plate.

And once Billy Hamilton was walked in the 8th inning last night, I thought "Game's over. Hamilton is not going to be at first base very long."

Man, can that sucker run.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:34 AM (P8951)

644 bedtime for this bonzo, too.

I'll read you tomorrow, good things wished for ya.

Posted by: booknlass at June 30, 2017 12:34 AM (6Xf+s)

645 Lowell George, the finest voice rock ever had. And to play rhythm guitar for the Mothers under Zappa, you had to be good.

I have probably played Little Feat's live album Waiting for Columbus a couple thousand times, and their Dixie Chicken album another couple thou.

Some of those great voices stay with you forever. Aretha. George Jones.

Did you know Vince Gill joined the Eagles tour and is doing all the vocals done by Don Henley? We heard Vince at a show he did with Lyle Lovett in Mesa this spring.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 30, 2017 12:35 AM (U6f54)

646 552,

Livingstone's mother and Hillary Clinton were friends. Everything I've read from that period shows that she was the one who ordered him hired, Hillary was described as the WH Chief Operating Officer, all hires went through her. Also his name is David Craig Livingstone. Some reports said that after he was fired from the WH he had a religious conversion. Judicial Watch, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, and World Net Daily had pieces about him that ran back in the late 90s.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 30, 2017 12:36 AM (d3wbb)

647 It's one of my questions for God...why did he live?
Posted by: It's one of my questions for God...why did he live?
Posted by: Ummmm at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (sPwat) at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (sPwat)

So God could put this country to the test.

The country chose stupidly.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:37 AM (P8951)

648 Barak Obama is a coward shit. It disgust me that he is in the history books. By his own standards (not mine), he should have been aborted. It's one of my questions for God...why did he live?

Posted by: Ummmm at June 30, 2017 12:27 AM (sPwat)


Not sure that one was god.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2017 12:38 AM (aMlLZ)

649 Back. Went outside to roll up the windows in the Suburban, in case it should rain tonight. Beautiful evening. Still a bright twilight, with a half-moon in the Western sky. No wind, no bugs. I walked out to the road, and picked up the gatepost light that had fallen off when I bumped it with the lawn mower. One of those solar jobs. It rattled. The battery had fallen out. Opened it up, replaced the battery and battery cover, and it lit right up. Back on the post with it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 12:39 AM (XUcIQ)

650 Night all, see you at the Vegas meet-up, gonna be so cool to meet you!!

Posted by: lousagirl at June 30, 2017 12:39 AM (9plvG)

651 P.S. I think it's fair to say that some people have problems running a TENS unit while they sleep.

Like ending up as bad off or worse in the morning, or not being able to move for hours.

Apparently muscles don't like overstimulation.

I think the proper limit would vary and a half-competent doctor would be a good accessory.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:40 AM (wB8Tg)

652 It distress me that you are in that much pain. Anyways, my email thing is denbar2 at the gmail doodad if we can help.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:31 AM (wUqCa)



Mail sent, with profound thanks.

See you all sometime tomorrow.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:41 AM (v5iqM)

653 Wow, a guy can't afford to spend $2 million on a real Spitfire so he builds his own Mk IX using a V-1710 engine and a DC-3 prop.

https://youtu.be/pzkoTulqA1U

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:42 AM (Yl6kS)

654 IIRC, I used an output transformer hooked up backwards to put a fairly high audio voltage into a pair of carbon electrodes stuck into an acetylene torch flame. Maybe it would be better to use that setup directly as the plate load of a small transmitting tube like an 807, which I have a bunch of.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------

Maybe. Whenever the topic has come up, the flame used was just a candle flame. I wonder if the velocity of the gases from a torch tip would kind of blow off audio frequencies? Heck, I don't know.

Kind of a moot point in my case, as my one good ear probably rolls off above 5 KHz.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:43 AM (OdK9v)

655 I am never happy to see Votto come to the plate.

And once Billy Hamilton was walked in the 8th inning last night, I thought "Game's over. Hamilton is not going to be at first base very long."

Man, can that sucker run.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 30, 2017 12:34 AM (P8951)


I think all but Votto will be traded by August 1.

If they trade Votto, the fans will burn down Great American. Especially after trading Brandon Phillips. (Who got a standing ovation when the Braves came to town)

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac at June 30, 2017 12:45 AM (1JnAL)

656 P.S. I think it's fair to say that some people have problems running a TENS unit while they sleep.

Like ending up as bad off or worse in the morning, or not being able to move for hours.

Apparently muscles don't like overstimulation.

I think the proper limit would vary and a half-competent doctor would be a good accessory.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:40 AM (wB8Tg)



Just let me have a unit that'll run 20 on, 30 or 40 off, then 20 on again, till I wake in the a.m.

I just have to know that it'll come back ON again, to be able to relax and know that it won't be such a long, painful, horrible night, after all.

Pity. They didn't make a TENS unit to hook up to my ex, either.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


p.s. zzzzzz

Posted by: Jim at June 30, 2017 12:45 AM (v5iqM)

657 Some people use the TENS a lot more, it seems. Q&A thread:

http://bit.ly/2t7q7ck

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:46 AM (wB8Tg)

658 I have *masterful* timing today.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:48 AM (wB8Tg)

659 Dark Lord, I understand your sentiments and hesitation.

I'm just proposing a solution to Jim.

*Always follow a doctors advice.*

I'm not a real doctor, I did stay at Holiday Inn Express last night, though.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:48 AM (wUqCa)

660 Not getting tired of the winning.

http://tinyurl.com/ycjjr7hq

Justice Department gives up fight over trademark of "Redskins"

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac at June 30, 2017 12:49 AM (1JnAL)

661 Well after SCOTUS' ruling on The Slants, only a fanatic of the Jihad type would press the Redskins case.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:50 AM (Yl6kS)

662 I want to know what Project Veratis brings to the table tomorrow about CNN. Anyone have the inside scoop?

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 12:51 AM (wUqCa)

663 The 4th of July fly-over in SC is going to be awesome. Wish I could be there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2017 12:52 AM (OdK9v)

664 650 Night all, see you at the Vegas meet-up, gonna be so cool to meet you!!
Posted by: lousagirl at June 30, 2017 12:39 AM (9plvG)

You're not coming back until September?!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 30, 2017 12:53 AM (kHQCY)

665 Now?!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 30, 2017 12:54 AM (hscyr)

666 Ugh

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at June 30, 2017 12:54 AM (hscyr)

667

Looks like it is going to be a movie night.

Posted by: Adriadic Small at June 30, 2017 12:56 AM (m9X4Y)

668 Beast Mode!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 30, 2017 12:57 AM (e9G8E)

669 I cane back to see if anyone replied to my comment/reply about Liv Tyler and the actor that played the King.

I wa wrong. Buzz and Bossy Conservative schooled me. They were right.

Everyone's happy now, right?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 12:57 AM (Rsi2C)

670 Justice Department gives up fight over trademark of "Redskins"

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac at June 30, 2017 12:49 AM (1JnAL) fnord (1JnAL)


Well they kind of had to after the court told them to pack the fuck up and fuck the fuck off.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:58 AM (wB8Tg)

671 Just got back here and first thing I see is bebe's has grabbed the devil by the horns.

Rassle that demon-boy, bebe's. Give 'im the full Trump treatment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - be cool at June 30, 2017 12:59 AM (59Jz1)

672 Well... I've still a shot at The Battle of Hastings post, right?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 30, 2017 12:59 AM (e9G8E)

673 Hey everybody.

I've gotta agree with the naysayers here about Bill Hicks. I remember seeing him at least once on Letterman way back when, and he struck me as basically a big-time anti-Christian bigot.

Basically he was someone who, because the Christians *he* happened to grow up with were less than greatly intelligent, automatically assumed that *all* Christians are dumbshits. I know it's a horrible thing to say but I'm glad he didn't live very long because he'd probably be even more of a hate-filled unfunny leftist shitbag by now, a la Sarah Silverman.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 30, 2017 01:02 AM (eMKNe)

674 Oh, and here's something I thought of while eating out tonight:

If you make some spaghetti and toss some cut-up hot dogs into it... does that make it a "weenie linguini"??

(*big cane sweeps qdpsteve off stage*)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 30, 2017 01:05 AM (eMKNe)

675 L, Elle, some of us weren't here last night.

"Raises hand"

I'm not sure what some of us missed, it seems like you are slowly filling us in while we are slowly drifting away to sleep.

Posted by: Calo at June 30, 2017 01:06 AM (wUqCa)

676 661 Well after SCOTUS' ruling on The Slants, only a fanatic of the Jihad type would press the Redskins case.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 30, 2017 12:50 AM (Yl6kS)


Well they kind of had to after the court told them to pack the fuck up and fuck the fuck off.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 30, 2017 12:58 AM (wB8Tg)


It's DC, they never will give up the fight. They will just change tactics.

One thing they have been holding over the team is a new stadium. The team thought about building a new stadium on the site where RFK is, but the Interior Department said that as long as the team had the name "Redskins", not dice. Well, now Trump is POTUS, but Elanor Holmes Norton still thinks that the Interior Department will do what she wants instead of POTUS.

Yeah, the current stadium is 25 years old, but by the time they get all their ducks in a row and get the thing built, FedEx Field will be about 35-40 years old.

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac at June 30, 2017 01:08 AM (1JnAL)

677 In the article on the destruction of the Ten Commandments monument:
They said 'erection'

Heh,heh,
Heh,heh
Yeah.

Posted by: socalcon at June 30, 2017 01:09 AM (WAnre)

678 IF IL goes to DC cap in hand begging for bailouts, the federal government should bail them out. At a price.

The price? The state loses its statehood and becomes a territory and is reorganized by the feds.

(You want bailed out for being incompetent? OK. But it's gonna cost you.)

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at June 30, 2017 01:10 AM (kcQyA)

679 qdpsteve #674: ...If you make some spaghetti and toss some cut-up hot dogs into it... does that make it a "weenie linguini"??...

Heh. qdpsteve's cookbook suggestion, eh?

We had hot dogs on tortillas tonight. Worked well. Trying to think of a culturally-appropriating name for it, but it all sounds like something that mooselimb ex-pres would order in Indonesia. Perrito Burrito?

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot dog! at June 30, 2017 01:12 AM (59Jz1)

680 669 I cane back to see if anyone replied to my comment/reply about Liv Tyler and the actor that played the King.

I wa wrong. Buzz and Bossy Conservative schooled me. They were right.

Everyone's happy now, right?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 12:57 AM (Rsi2C



Sure. I was just making jokes about gay hobbits and elf/dwarves because you mentioned LOTR. I actually didn't know that Arwen was only part elf until recently. I think it was because I was watching something about another planned LOTR prequel about Beren and Luthien. And that explained why Arwen could "choose a mortal life" in LOTR.

The movies cut out a lot of stuff. For instance you wouldn't know that Aragorn was 87 during it unless you had the extended cuts.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:13 AM (cAnNx)

681 Sitting in Calgary airport feeling tired and grumpy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:14 AM (WMKJZ)

682 mindful webworker, thanks! :-)

Actually I already made a contribution: Egg McMorons. The AOS version of that eggy-thingy-contraption at the clowny fast food place that has locations everywhere.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 30, 2017 01:14 AM (eMKNe)

683 Love the engineering flow chart.

Except don't use WD-40 as a primary lubricant. I think the name stands for "water displacement, formula 40", and I thing it was invented within walking distance of my junior high.

I am guilty of using it as a lubricant, but not for a long time. There are many better products for lubrication, depending on the machinery/item, and the situation.

Leaving WD-40 with a large and important role doing what it was designed to do.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 01:18 AM (L7t0A)

684 Really elle......we have been asking you to come to Colorado Morondevous and you wouldn't join us. So now unless we figure out a way to get Ace to Vegas you won't join us? Pout much?

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 30, 2017 01:19 AM (mMeIQ)

685 The state loses its statehood and becomes a territory and is reorganized by the feds.

Very important to territorialize California and Illinois simultaneously. So we can go back to the 48-star flag.

Posted by: mindful webworker - keeping focused at June 30, 2017 01:20 AM (59Jz1)

686
Basically he was someone who, because the Christians *he* happened to grow up with were less than greatly intelligent, automatically assumed that *all* Christians are dumbshits. I know it's a horrible thing to say but I'm glad he didn't live very long because he'd probably be even more of a hate-filled unfunny leftist shitbag by now, a la Sarah Silverman.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 30, 2017 01:02 AM (eMKNe)

How long would he have lasted with the "German Shepherd?" (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger)

Posted by: Fox2! at June 30, 2017 01:21 AM (brIR5)

687 Hey Buzz, if you're still here, I made (possibly) a real life friend. I had a lunch date that lasted 4 hrs! I sort of wanted to record the whole conversation and find a way to play it here so you guys could approve or disapprove and guide me going forward. But I'm. If that helpless thankfully.

I mentioned visiting Cleveland before on the blog, if I wind up visiting my brother, maybe we can meet up for a drink or have a mini-MoMee?

Please don't say no immediately. Humor the suggestion out of charity.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:22 AM (Rsi2C)

688 Fox2!, Hicks would be like all the other lib assholes. He's be yelping about "islamophobia."

It's hard for me to miss a voice that I think would only be adding to all the hate that's out there today, if it were still around.

There are a *few* people who, even though they at least seemed to lean left, would be contributing something positive today, if only they had survived. John Lennon comes to mind. But Hicks? I don't think so.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 30, 2017 01:24 AM (eMKNe)

689 I am guilty of using it as a lubricant, but not for a long time. There are many better products for lubrication, depending on the machinery/item, and the situation.

Leaving WD-40 with a large and important role doing what it was designed to do.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 01:18 AM (L7t0A)

I was gifted a can of "Gibbsoil" not long ago. Amazing stuff. Much better lubricant and penetrant than WD-40, and it works as a Diesel starting fluid, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 01:24 AM (XUcIQ)

690 Northernlurker #681: Sitting in Calgary airport feeling tired and grumpy.

Well, at least you can watch CNN, right?

Or is that not a thing Up North?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Down South at June 30, 2017 01:25 AM (59Jz1)

691 I'm on the wrong side of the state for Cleveland visits.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:26 AM (cAnNx)

692 I mean I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually gone to the Cleveland area.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:30 AM (cAnNx)

693 Really elle......we have been asking you to come to Colorado Morondevous and you wouldn't join us. So now unless we figure out a way to get Ace to Vegas you won't join us? Pout much?
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at June 30, 2017 01:19 AM
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You're guilting me.
Please don't take this personally in any way --- all my close, few (very few) blog friends don't live in-state. I'm not a people person as evidenced by my interaction here on the blog. I'm a dog person. I'd go to a dog show before a meet-up where people show up. Emmie asked me so nicely (SO NICELY) to come to a CO meet up, and I felt like the worst person in the world for turning down someone so nice as her.

I'd like to meet you and all the CO Morons and Ettes too. Maybe we could do a doggie meet-up? If so, I'm there!

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:30 AM (Rsi2C)

694 while reading elsewhere, i had a brilliant idea...

(why are you looking at me like that?)

Trump needs to have whoever is running his companies design, manufacture and market a collection of men's neckware, called "Russian Ties".

the usual suspects would completely lose their shit over that... ;D

(i wonder if his people still lurk here?)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:30 AM (joq+X)

695 WHY do I ever wander over to Drudge?

Drudgeline: POLL: 71% say tweets hurting agenda

Hahahahhaha. *gasp* hahshhdhahhahaha

71% of WHAT? Downtown DC? People in the polling business?

Looks like an early night for Puthygrabber McTwoScoops.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 99% agree with me at June 30, 2017 01:31 AM (59Jz1)

696 So,hey, Buzz.

You're doing a great job of humoring me chairitably.

The Cleveland trip for me will be all family bound obligations and duty that will drive me to drink.
I can not drink.
I'm just nicer when I do.

:-)

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:34 AM (Rsi2C)

697 690 Northernlurker #681: Sitting in Calgary airport feeling tired and grumpy.

Well, at least you can watch CNN, right?

Or is that not a thing Up North?
Posted by: mindful webworker - Down South at June 30, 2017 01:25 AM (59Jz1)

No televisions where I'm hanging out I'm hoping I can sleep but there are dozens of rug rats headed for the plane.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:35 AM (WMKJZ)

698 Oooo, Dish Network has allowed the enabling of auto-hop to jump over commercials. Nice.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:36 AM (cAnNx)

699 The Ace-Vegas thing was a joke.
I wish that I never made it. It seemed well received at the time, but it did not have longevity as evidenced by tonight's ONT

I'm sorry

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:37 AM (Rsi2C)

700 Hicks had some funny bits, but yeah, over all, he was a jerk.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:38 AM (joq+X)

701 691 I'm on the wrong side of the state for Cleveland visits.
Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:26 AM (cAnNx


I'm on the correct side of the state for Cleveland visits. Do you need a better reason to keep it on the south side?

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 01:38 AM (lIZQs)

702 696 So,hey, Buzz.

You're doing a great job of humoring me chairitably.

The Cleveland trip for me will be all family bound obligations and duty that will drive me to drink.
I can not drink.
I'm just nicer when I do.

:-)
Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:34 AM (Rsi2C)
En vino es veritas

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:39 AM (WMKJZ)

703 I'm bad at doing mini-meet ups L. Just ask Herr Morgenholz if you ever see him. He's been trying to get me to e-mail him so we can go out for a beer for a while now.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:39 AM (cAnNx)

704 I'm sorry
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never apologize: it's a sign of weakness.

Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at June 30, 2017 01:39 AM (joq+X)

705 'Nother Drudge link:

Cops accuse man of having sex with dead woman in public

Does this suggest that there wouldn't be a problem if it were in private?

and

Man trapped under 4-wheeler attacaked [sic] by fox -- holds by neck until help arrives

Let me try to parse this. A fox "attacaked" a 4-Wheeler that was trapping a man. The fox held the 4-Wheeler by the neck until help arrived. Brilliant critter. Saved that man.

Posted by: mindful webworker - regardlesslishly at June 30, 2017 01:40 AM (59Jz1)

706 Trump needs to have whoever is running his companies design, manufacture and market a collection of men's neckware, called "Russian Ties".

the usual suspects would completely lose their shit over that... ;D

(i wonder if his people still lurk here?)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:30 AM (joq+X)

Buy actual Russian-made ties, and market them yourself. Company tag line: "Trump doesn't have Russian ties, but we do."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 01:40 AM (XUcIQ)

707 I'm on the correct side of the state for Cleveland visits. Do you need a better reason to keep it on the south side?
Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 01:38 AM (lIZQs)
***
Hi.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:40 AM (Rsi2C)

708 400 Jayzus it takes a long time to drive to key West from Miami Beach and back...
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 29, 2017 11:18 PM (n52SX)

It's 156 miles, each way. At (FL) high way speeds, 2 hours. I don't think the speed limit goes above 40, and there are long stretches where it is 35, even less at night where the Key Deer roam. IIRC, it took about 5 hours. And you're still at Miami when you get back. It's most of a day's drive (JAX), an all day (Lake City) or more than a day's drive (Alabama) to get out of the state.

Posted by: Fox2! at June 30, 2017 01:42 AM (brIR5)

709 Sitting in Calgary airport feeling tired and grumpy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:14 AM (WMKJZ)

Don't feel Snow White, you might get busted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 01:43 AM (XUcIQ)

710

71% of WHAT? Downtown DC? People in the polling business?

Looks like an early night for Puthygrabber McTwoScoops.
Posted by: mindful webworker


Midol Medved assures us that polls are super-hyper-accurate now.

We must now obey our media betters... OBEY... OBEY... OBEY...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2017 01:43 AM (udajc)

711
709 Sitting in Calgary airport feeling tired and grumpy.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:14 AM (WMKJZ)

Don't feel Snow White, you might get busted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 01:43 AM (XUcIQ



Well now we know why Happy is smiling.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:44 AM (cAnNx)

712 never apologize: it's a sign of weakness.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at June 30, 2017 01:39 AM (joq+X)
****
Reconsider that.
Humility requires saying you're sorry when called for.

The inability to do so is a greater and fatal sign of weakness

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:44 AM (Rsi2C)

713 Alberta Oil Peon: Don't feel Snow White, you might get busted.

That's dopey!

Posted by: mindful webworker - disneyizing reality at June 30, 2017 01:45 AM (59Jz1)

714 i'm good for meetups in the Lost Angels area, for the most part.

i'd like to go to Vegas, even though Vegas doesn't do anything for me by itself, but just to meet people.

standing offer for any moron/ette coming here with free time: if i've got free time (i usually do) and i can get out of the house (not always possible) we'll meet*. with luck, i can even bring R35id3nT 3\/iL, just to prove she exists.

*especially if you want to go to the range and play with the few toys that weren't already lost in that tragically ill-fated trip to Catalina Island...

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:46 AM (joq+X)

715 On the Bill Hicks quote: When it comes to illegal drugs and legalization...

If you have the right to put any kind of damn fool poison hawked from some skeevy street dealer into your body in search of the ultimate high...

Then you have the right to suffer and die for your own stupidity without diving into my pockets for the medical expenses of saving your stupid, worthless, druggie ass when you overdose.

You want to play the libertarian game, fine, I'll play the libertarian game.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 30, 2017 01:49 AM (J+mig)

716 Buy actual Russian-made ties, and market them yourself. Company tag line: "Trump doesn't have Russian ties, but we do."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2017 01:40 AM (XUcIQ)

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would not garner the same level of OMG!!!! outrage, which is the whole point.

and sell them with the announcement that every cent of profit was going to Fishier House or the ilk.

wailing and gnashing of teeth as far as the Hubble telescope can see.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:50 AM (joq+X)

717 Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:46 AM (joq+X)
***
Hi.
Life and work will force me to travel almost against my will to your natural habitat.

Maybe we can have a mini- meet up thing? I like what you said about the boating accident

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:52 AM (Rsi2C)

718

Here's an unusually interesting link, from Drudge (right side, above the ads ):

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yddl69t4

The link is to The NY Daily News, and there are several photos.

Excerpt (selected for poignancy and hilarity, italics mine):

"They're being told to 'sell themselves' to the hiring committee people at a company they have successfully worked at for any number of years," Gates said.

"People are doing it with a stiff upper lip .... but there's a lot of stress and resentment.... It almost seems deliberately cruel," she added.


.... yeah, I'm chuckling ... and I expect it to be funnier tomorrow, and much more so over the weekend and into next week.

Posted by: Arbalest at June 30, 2017 01:56 AM (FlRtG)

719 *Twitches.*

Sorry, the type of libertarian that focuses on drugs and sexual license and ignores every actually important kind of liberty drives me up a f-ing wall.

I've had it up to my eyeballs with those yahoos.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 30, 2017 01:56 AM (J+mig)

720 Reconsider that.

Humility requires saying you're sorry when called for.

The inability to do so is a greater and fatal sign of weakness
Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 01:44 AM (Rsi2C)

---
as an old Cav Trooper myself, it would never occur to me to argue with Sabre 6, especially if it was The Duke, hisownself, but have at it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hY4iqMfGU4

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 01:57 AM (joq+X)

721 weft, man, I can only imagine Medved on a day like this.

The prez embarrassing him on Twatter (don't know if Medved had anything to say about Obama's jaw-dropping, consequential race-baiting from the presidential podium in that local FL crime story), then the House exhibiting its extremism by voting to make lawlessness illegal, and also to make violent murderous lawlessness by illegals extra special illegal.

Haven't been in the car much this week (house being painted, and me doing a zillion collateral things), which is the only time I hear Medved. Usually in 1 minute snippets (all I can take) - the basis for my occasional "Michael Medved Updates".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 01:59 AM (L7t0A)

722 I'm waiting to catch an AeroMexico flight. Is it racist to say I'm not shocked it's late?

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 01:59 AM (WMKJZ)

723 Life and work will force me to travel almost against my will to your natural habitat.

---
welcome when you do: we like in The Valley, like totally, fer sure, but that isn't an insurmountable problem. we only have kittehs in our home, but, if you desperately need a doggeh fix, i have a friend who volunteers at a rescue group in Left LA, and who makes her living walking dogs, etc.

she's a hopeless lieberal, but a good soul otherwise.

as for toys and the range, lets just say i'm a REALLY good free diver.

RL e-mail is live in the URL box, for future reference, and i have a reference or two here in the Horde, for your peace of mind.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:02 AM (joq+X)

724 "Humility requires saying you're sorry when called for."


Necrophilia means you never have to say you're sorry

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 02:03 AM (lIZQs)

725 I'm waiting to catch an AeroMexico flight. Is it racist to say I'm not shocked it's late?
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not to worry: at worst, it will be there maņana

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:04 AM (joq+X)

726 Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 02:03 AM (lIZQs)

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or "i love you", i'll call you", etc...

no paternity tests either.


Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:06 AM (joq+X)

727 Cato #719: *Twitches.*

Sorry, the type of libertarian that focuses on drugs and sexual license and ignores every actually important kind of liberty drives me up a f-ing wall.

I've had it up to my eyeballs with those yahoos.


Jeez, Cato, I'm long-time of the "with great freedom comes great self-responsibility so please if you must kill yourself don't land on me" school, so I appreciate your thoughts about the half-baked.

That said, it is possible to have an opinion on these matters without blowing a gasket. You're just not yourself. Here, have a hit on this funny cigarette. Or a Snickers bar.

Posted by: mindful webworker - drink responsibly, if you must, but drink! at June 30, 2017 02:08 AM (59Jz1)

728 Necrophilia means you never have to say you're sorry
Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 02:03 AM (lIZQs)
****
Left speechless after reading that.

Many others maybe thanking you for rendering me mute btw

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 02:08 AM (Rsi2C)

729 Northernlurker: ...Is it racist to say I'm not shocked it's late?

Of course it's not racist. Mexican is not a race, it is a wonderful land full of a diverse population, who will all get right on that project you hired them for … mañana.

Posted by: mindful webworker - aloha hola at June 30, 2017 02:11 AM (59Jz1)

730 Is it bad of me to be watching Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge and hoping that the all girl team fails?

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 02:11 AM (cAnNx)

731 new drone footage from the Oroville Dam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOL8hUSTiY

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:15 AM (joq+X)

732 Is it bad of me to be watching Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge and hoping that the all girl team fails?
Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 02:11 AM (cAnNx)
***
Wait. I thought we all did that.
We don't?

Like all things in that realm, doesn't matter.
You just find enjoyment in it somehow, and you're ahead of 3/4's of the populace surrounding you

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 02:16 AM (Rsi2C)

733 732 Is it bad of me to be watching Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge and hoping that the all girl team fails?
Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 02:11 AM (cAnNx)
***
Wait. I thought we all did that.
We don't?

Like all things in that realm, doesn't matter.
You just find enjoyment in it somehow, and you're ahead of 3/4's of the populace surrounding you

Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 02:16 AM (Rsi2C)


They're all Olympic level athletes. And they are crashing and burning.

Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 02:18 AM (cAnNx)

734 Milady is putting the polish on her cookies recipe submission to the moron cookbook - at the 11th hour, after weeks of my nagging and prodding gently reminding her of the deadline.

Were you a best-work-at the last-minute type in college?

Posted by: mindful webworker - me want COOKIES! at June 30, 2017 02:19 AM (59Jz1)

735 "Tinker Toys were great swords as kids. My younger brother still wears a scar over his left eye."

???

Tinkertoys are little 3-inch-long sticks + little circular wooden hubs with holes to put the sticks into. It'd be very difficult to make a sword with any tensile strength out of Tinkertoys, and most likely if you made one and then hit someone with it, the sword would pretty much fall to pieces and barely leave a bruise, much less a scar.

Did you have some kind of souped-up Mega-Tinkertoys With Action Grip?

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2017 02:20 AM (DQ4Fv)

736 red, probably have asked in the past, but what ranges do you frequent up there?

I used to do steel matches down in Chino at Rahaagues, but the organizer died and I think the matches along with him (plus, they raised their prices to sort of ridiculous levels).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 02:21 AM (L7t0A)

737 Well as I'm on board so buh bye

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 30, 2017 02:22 AM (iv4Bb)

738 zombie: Did you have some kind of souped-up Mega-Tinkertoys With Action Grip?

Geez, zombie, did you ever have them? At some point, one of the longer sticks will get snapped, and you've got a start on a shiv right there.

I remember these green cardboard windmill-panels that fit into the slotted end of a stick. You could slice somebody's eyeball with one of those. Although you'd have to work at it.

Ah, good-time remembories.

Posted by: mindful webworker - was never allowed erector sets, had to carve my own at June 30, 2017 02:25 AM (59Jz1)

739 "Tinkertoys are little 3-inch-long sticks + little circular wooden hubs with holes to put the sticks into. It'd be very difficult to make a sword with any tensile strength out of Tinkertoys, and most likely if you made one and then hit someone with it, the sword would pretty much fall to pieces and barely leave a bruise, much less a scar. "


You obviously weren't very resourceful as a child.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 30, 2017 02:26 AM (lIZQs)

740 Tinker Toys. There's something I hadn't though of, or heard, in ages.

Have an Erector Set (knock it off, morons) out in the garage, in its original wood box. Should check on it. Think there was some corrosion.

The Lionel (post-war) train cars (locomotives restored) are stored in my dad's WWII army foot locker. My own plastic foot locker, from a more recent international misunderstanding, just doesn't seem the same - though for a time I stacked one on the other, and that seemed kind of cool.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 02:27 AM (L7t0A)

741 Oh, yeah...

Tinkertoys are little 3-inch-long sticks

Those of us with the platinum kits got many longer sticks than that. Only poor kids with hand-me-down missing-pieces kits had only 3-inch-long sticks.... oh uh... sorry.

Posted by: mindful webworker - skyline! at June 30, 2017 02:30 AM (59Jz1)

742 724 "Humility requires saying you're sorry when called for."


Necrophilia means you never have to say you're sorry

You've never heard Slayer's "Necrophiliac".

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at June 30, 2017 02:31 AM (kcQyA)

743 Oh model trains. I wanna stay and hear about that. and stuff. but

but

bedtime for the weary webworker. 'Way past, actually, but it is a weekend night.

Isn't it?

Oops.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and with that, he exited at June 30, 2017 02:32 AM (59Jz1)

744 Webworker - I think either JJ or CBD are model train enthusiasts - even have articles published in geek magazines, that sort of thing.

Or all that drinking on the train from Kiev to Moscow all those years ago may be affecting my memory.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 02:36 AM (L7t0A)

745 im no longer a moron scofflaw i submitted a recipe. it was hard because i eyeball everything and converting my method to things with numbers is crazy. also since its a crisp you can use any fruit you like. that makes the whole cook time thing weirdly flexible. so i had to make this sort of a stream of consciousness thing

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at June 30, 2017 02:37 AM (YhV5r)

746 736
red, probably have asked in the past, but what ranges do you frequent up there?



I used to do steel matches down in Chino at Rahaagues, but the
organizer died and I think the matches along with him (plus, they raised
their prices to sort of ridiculous levels).





Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 02:21 AM (L7t0A)

No shit do you know what it costs to have a red key there now? neither do i. could not afford to keep that up. but i used to shoot skeet there. Grimmy still goes to use the outdoor range. thats not too bad. but i wish i could still afford a red key to drive in when i liked and shoot as much as i wanted.

Posted by: Gushka can has scary kittys what want hugs at June 30, 2017 02:42 AM (YhV5r)

747 Well now we know why Happy is smiling.
Posted by: buzzion at June 30, 2017 01:44 AM (cAnNx)

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he's given his last blow j*b?

O:

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:42 AM (joq+X)

748 741 Oh, yeah...

Tinkertoys are little 3-inch-long sticks

Those of us with the platinum kits got many longer sticks than that. Only poor kids with hand-me-down missing-pieces kits had only 3-inch-long sticks.... oh uh... sorry.
Posted by: mindful webworker - skyline!


I never actually owned any Tinkertoys myself -- I just occasionally played at other kids' houses where they were available.

What I had, instead, was a box of Legos -- a pretty substantial-sized shoebox, but they were all (to be frank) hand-me-downs -- a sort of accumulation of several abandoned half-lost sets.

The main problem? About one-third of the pieces looked like Legos to the untrained eye, but when you tried to snap them into real Legos, they didn't fit. I think they were part of a similar toy that never made it big in America, called "Rasti" or something like that. I guess these imposters were like the Kaboom of building-block toys -- only parents who didn't love their kids let them have Rastis. It was really frustrating, because I always ended up having two separate brick groupings which could not interact -- and I had no idea where these fake-ass bricks came from, nor where I could get more.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2017 02:47 AM (DQ4Fv)

749 we go to Rahaagues to shoot pheasant in the fall/winter/spring, when the stars align.

it's a long way from the SFV for regular shooting, albeit herself did sign us up for a shotgun (sporting clays) class there a few years back, when i was healthier and we got out more because i paid some of the bills.

we hit Angeles and Moore n Moore up in Tujunga, Oak Tree in Newhall, and can be induced to go shooting elsewhere in SoCal, all things being equal. (w*rk/traffic/funding)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:54 AM (joq+X)

750 Left speechless after reading that.

Many others maybe thanking you for rendering me mute btw
Posted by: L, Elle at June 30, 2017 02:08 AM (Rsi2C)

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not me: being/saying outrageous things is the penultimate reason for t3h Intarwebz to exi5t!

bring it on, young lady!

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 02:58 AM (joq+X)

751 Just who the fuck shoots peasants?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 30, 2017 03:00 AM (PXj2C)

752 Gushka I only ever went to that range for steel matches ("Steel Madness"), which were great - close to 250-round matches (at "shooting matches", I want to SHOOT), much more than is typical. They were done over in the berms to the west/right of the extensive shotgun complex.

Anyway, they were fun. You'd squad up with people as they came in, met some interesting people, former military and some law enforcement.

And - a tribute to Ron Jung, may he RIP - Ron used to do a night-shoot in October, close to Halloween. Only all-welcome action shooting night-shoot I've ever heard of.

It was hilarious. Searchlights. Movement. In one stage, he had a "borrowed" Anaheim PD cruiser (seriously), colored lights going - you started in the driver's seat, jumped out and picked up your pistol on a plastic barrel (the guy who'd boldly lent the cruiser didn't want any bullet holes in the car to write up), then blasted away.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 03:03 AM (L7t0A)

753
Just who the fuck shoots peasants?

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if you wait until they starve to death, they are too lean to cook, and come out dry.

/please clap

Posted by: Jeb Bush at June 30, 2017 03:04 AM (joq+X)

754 Posted by: Jeb Bush at June 30, 2017 03:04 AM (joq+X)

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and me

Posted by: Lennin at June 30, 2017 03:06 AM (joq+X)

755 and me
Posted by: Lennin at June 30, 2017 03:06 AM (joq+X)

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fool.

it's cheaper to starve them.

Posted by: Stalin at June 30, 2017 03:07 AM (joq+X)

756 fool.
it's cheaper to starve them.
Posted by: Stalin at June 30, 2017 03:07 AM (joq+X)

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tell me about it

Posted by: Pol Pot at June 30, 2017 03:08 AM (joq+X)

757 Thanks, red. I've not shot at any LA-area ranges other than Rahaagues. There's a C ampersand R shoot out at West End (?) something-or-other (forget the name right now) that's tempted me (all my rifles - for now - are C ampersand R).

Dropped by LAX Ammo range/store on the way back from a central coast trip recently. For some reason, they (like the Cabelas up in Reno) had low-recoil shotgun target loads for a price better than online prices. Nice store, though. Neat ammo displays, and a huge selection. Too much of a hurry to stop at the (apparently famous?) donut place nearby, though.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 03:10 AM (L7t0A)

758 tell me about it
Posted by: Pol Pot at June 30, 2017 03:08 AM (joq+X)

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no kidding!

Posted by: Kim Jong-un at June 30, 2017 03:11 AM (joq+X)

759 Signing off. Lots to do tomorrow, besides hockey.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 30, 2017 03:11 AM (L7t0A)

760 Too much of a hurry to stop at the (apparently famous?) donut place nearby, though.

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that would be Randy's and it was YOUR loss...

randysdonuts.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%27s_Donuts

po' me: HRH drives by there at least once a w*rk day, and doesn't bring any home, most days.

#FML

Posted by: Kim Jong-un at June 30, 2017 03:18 AM (joq+X)

761 Just who the fuck shoots peasants?
Posted by: Cicero


I told my guys to shoot pheasants, so phuck off.

Posted by: Pol Pot at June 30, 2017 03:18 AM (udajc)

762 Weird noises in the night

Something's not right.

Posted by: Jehoiakim Jacob Schmit at June 30, 2017 03:20 AM (m9X4Y)

763 noises outside the wire at night?

that's easy... use your STANO gear (old, i know) then indirect fires, emplaced munitions, then direct fires.


Posted by: redc1c4 at June 30, 2017 03:32 AM (joq+X)

764
Neighbor has his car/pickup stuck in back yard at 03:00. Finally got it out/moved/parked hooked up to the boat/trailer whatev. Now it's all quiet, no lights anywhere, inside or out.

Posted by: Jehoiakim Jacob Schmit at June 30, 2017 03:37 AM (m9X4Y)

765 Just who the fuck shoots peasants?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 30, 2017 03:00 AM (PXj2C)


*raises hands*

Posted by: Russian Noblemen at June 30, 2017 03:43 AM (vBeA5)

766 *raises hands*
Posted by: Russian Noblemen at June 30, 2017 03:43 AM (vBeA5)
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Fire!

Posted by: OGPU at June 30, 2017 03:50 AM (joq+X)

767
Submitted three recipes for the cookbook -- a tuna-noodle casserole, chicken bacon bites and Hudson's Bay Bread (kiss your GAINZZZ goodbye with the latter, kiddos). I hope to submit three more recipes later today.

Deadlines are for closers. Now, get off my lawn!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 30, 2017 04:02 AM (pNxlR)

768 Seth Rich was a peasant. hic! cough!

Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 30, 2017 04:02 AM (bc2Lc)

769
718 Here's an unusually interesting link, from Drudge (right side, above the ads ):

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yddl69t4

The link is to The NY Daily News, and there are several photos.

Excerpt (selected for poignancy and hilarity, italics mine):

"They're being told to 'sell themselves' to the hiring committee people at a company they have successfully worked at for any number of years," Gates said.

"People are doing it with a stiff upper lip .... but there's a lot of stress and resentment.... It almost seems deliberately cruel," she added.

... yeah, I'm chuckling ... and I expect it to be funnier tomorrow, and much more so over the weekend and into next week.
Posted by: Arbalest at June 30, 2017 01:56 AM (FlRtG)


Observation #1 -- There's a heapin' helpin' of "white privilege" on display in that article's opening photo.

Observation #2 -- The poor babies have to 'sell themselves' to the hiring committee? Welcome to the 90s for the rest of us, you whiners. If you cannot quantify what you bring to the table, then you deserve to be out on your cottage-cheesy asses.

Boo-freaking-hoo!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 30, 2017 04:09 AM (pNxlR)

770 Wait, What?

Posted by: Peter Petrovich Konovnitsyn at June 30, 2017 04:13 AM (Ot7+c)

771 Judge blocks California's high-capacity magazine ban

https://apnews.com/9b92b4952e524027bbd7dd86c9545053

Posted by: The High-Capacity Hat at June 30, 2017 04:23 AM (vBeA5)

772
I remember these green cardboard windmill-panels that fit into the slotted end of a stick. You could slice somebody's eyeball with one of those. Although you'd have to work at it.


And there, 'Rons and 'Ettes, is the genesis of the next AoSHQ publishing extravaganza, "Easy-Peasy Lethal Weapons from Children's Toys (Especially 'Old-Timey' Ones)"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 30, 2017 04:24 AM (skFw3)

773 676 Yeah, the current stadium is 25 years old, but by the time they get all their ducks in a row and get the thing built, FedEx Field will be about 35-40 years old.

Posted by: Ashley Judd Puffy Scamper aka MrCaniac


The Roman Colosseum is a couple of thousand years old. The Redskins can limp along in their current digs for a few hundred years more.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 30, 2017 04:35 AM (6jaju)

774 A 4 day weekend is upon me, if I can just get through today.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2017 04:42 AM (Ot7+c)

775 774 A 4 day weekend is upon me, if I can just get through today.
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2017 04:42 AM (Ot7+c)

I wish my day was over so my four day weekend was only a day away.

Good morning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 30, 2017 05:07 AM (9mOGz)

776 Sometimes you are ready to get some sleep.

Sometimes stuff takes longer to download than one thought... much, much longer.

*shrugs*

Posted by: The Downloading Hat at June 30, 2017 05:16 AM (vBeA5)

777 Going to get out the lethal lawn darts for 4th of July! 'Jarts' were taken off the market because: dangerous! Oh noes! May attach bottle rockets for nighttime fun & extra risk.

Posted by: '60s Kid: No Adult Supervision at June 30, 2017 05:24 AM (bc2Lc)

778 >>>Going to get out the lethal lawn darts for 4th of July! 'Jarts' were taken off the market because: dangerous! Oh noes! May attach bottle rockets for nighttime fun & extra risk.

Posted by: '60s Kid: No Adult Supervision

Launch sharts, not jarts.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 30, 2017 05:44 AM (xAvrH)

779 Launch sharts, not jarts.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 30, 2017 05:44 AM (xAvrH)


Not even the Germans would choose your sharts over the certain death of jarts...

Posted by: The Hat of Certainty at June 30, 2017 05:46 AM (vBeA5)

780 Hurtle as in, Illinois hurtles to bankruptcy.

Posted by: steve walsh at June 30, 2017 05:50 AM (clx/U)

781 Going to get out the lethal lawn darts for 4th of July! 'Jarts' were taken off the market because: dangerous! Oh noes! May attach bottle rockets for nighttime fun & extra risk.

Posted by: '60s Kid: No Adult Supervision at June 30, 2017 05:24 AM (bc2Lc)


All you need is a Slip 'N Slide to go full retro.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2017 05:52 AM (aSyaA)

782 Mornin'
happy Friday

Posted by: wing at June 30, 2017 05:54 AM (Ohl7S)

783 re: The Moron Cookbook

I was going to submit some recipes, then I got a look at the recipe submission form. The first recipe I was going to submit (a sauce for sauteed/roasted fish) has three ingredients but no measurements. That submission form looked like something the Census Bureau would send out. Thanks, but no thanks.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2017 05:57 AM (aSyaA)

784 I guess these imposters were like the Kaboom of building-block toys -- only parents who didn't love their kids let them have Rastis.Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2017 02:47 AM (DQ4Fv)



I thought Lincoln Logs held that crown.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at June 30, 2017 06:03 AM (h+eqa)

785 *Expletive rabbit hole of music*

Posted by: The Hole Hat at June 30, 2017 06:04 AM (vBeA5)

786 Firework is cultural appropriation! You want firework? Hah! Capitalist pig-dog, I have some firework for you!

Posted by: Kim Jong-Un at June 30, 2017 06:07 AM (xAvrH)

787 James O'Keefe's newest hit video on CNN is out.

Producer says that voters are, "stupid as sh*t."

He seems nice.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at June 30, 2017 06:08 AM (GzDYP)

788 What do you call that carpenter's tool with a hundred narrow steel sliding fingers that you push up against an irregularly shaped object to get a traceable silhouette? I've seen it used to get a profile of baseboards to cut an overlapping corner joint (as opposed to a mitered join)?

I can't buy it online without knowing what I'm searching for. The Morons are my go-to experts on manly tools.

It didn't leap out at me among the tools at Home Depot.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at June 30, 2017 06:11 AM (5xRXp)

789 I thought Lincoln Logs held that crown.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket


I never could figure out how those things fitted together. It's like you need a PhD from MIT to stack those things.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 30, 2017 06:12 AM (xAvrH)

790 Producer says that voters are, "stupid as sh*t."

He seems nice.

Posted by: OldDominionMom


For the past 8 years I would have agreed. But to my relief, it seems they're capable of learning.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 30, 2017 06:14 AM (xAvrH)

791 Wait a minute. You're attaching a flaming, sparking red-hot tail to a small handheld throwing toy? Where the flamey part passes by your hand on its may towards mayhem?

Hold my cider.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at June 30, 2017 06:14 AM (5xRXp)

792 Wish Maria B. had asked Podesta if his fav game show was 'Password.' How 'bout my widow Betty White still going strong in '17? National treasure!

Posted by: Zombie Allen Ludden at June 30, 2017 06:16 AM (bc2Lc)

793 What do you call that carpenter's tool with a hundred narrow steel sliding fingers that you push up against an irregularly shaped object to get a traceable silhouette?

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at June 30, 2017 06:11 AM (5xRXp)


This?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y9hphohz

A contour gauge.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2017 06:21 AM (aSyaA)

794 Wish Maria B. had asked Podesta if his fav game show was 'Password.' How 'bout my widow Betty White still going strong in '17? National treasure!

Posted by: Zombie Allen Ludden


Wonder if Podesta will submit any "spirit cooking" recipes to the Cookbook.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 30, 2017 06:22 AM (xAvrH)

795 For the past 8 years I would have agreed. But to my relief, it seems they're capable of learning.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 30, 2017 06:14 AM (xAvrH)

One of the best things about the election!

Well, that and the fact that Hillary Clinton will never be president.



Posted by: OldDominionMom at June 30, 2017 06:28 AM (GzDYP)

796 Oh, that rabbit hole.

BTW, here is "Vidage" by 1000 Mods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ysBMZSzpp8

Posted by: The Hole Hat at June 30, 2017 06:32 AM (vBeA5)

797 Mornin'

Are you on Face Book? Taking a vacation this summer? Nobody gives a damn about your photos.

I have no problem with one or two, with the caveat that there should be something interesting about the pic(s) other than the taker's stupid head.

For example, my mountain-climbing cousin is on top of a mountain in Idaho right now. He posted some very cool shots that yes, I did quite enjoy seeing.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 30, 2017 06:32 AM (ul9CR)

798 RickZ: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Once I read the name you provided, I knew that the link would be exactly the right thing. Bonus: Brightly colored plastic, so it won't rust or get lost in the tool box, and incredibly cheap.

And an excuse to travel the 8.9 miles to my Harbor Freight store! You've made my morning.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at June 30, 2017 06:32 AM (5xRXp)

799 787 James O'Keefe's newest hit video on CNN is out.

Producer says that voters are, "stupid as sh*t."

He seems nice.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at June 30, 2017 06:08 AM (GzDYP)

The producer also confirmed that the story is overblown.

It is Friday on a looong weekend. Is Project Veritas done? I think that Jame O. has at least one more video to go. When will he drop it? Will he be able to dominate the weekend news cycle?

Will he wait for CNN and Who I think is the big target, Jeff Zucker to spew a bunch of crap and set themselves up for the next video?

Posted by: rd at June 30, 2017 06:33 AM (4dz1m)

800 Morning, all.

Still sick as shit, with blocked sinuses and earache (my eye!). Eight damned hours to go and a look at the schedule shows it's going to be a full-throttle day. Which is good, I suppose, because it means I might look at the clock and realize with a start that it's almost 3. I hope.

And on-line competency training that I've been putting off comes due today.

I want to go home.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 30, 2017 06:36 AM (X6fMO)

801 You've made my morning.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at June 30, 2017 06:32 AM (5xRXp)


Boy, it sure is nice to get that Boy Scout 'Good Deed For The Day' out of the way early. Now it's surly asshole for the rest of the day!

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2017 06:37 AM (aSyaA)

802 The president hasn't commented on the new CNN tape yet. Latest tweet is about the Senate's lack of action on Obamacare. Nice to know he's up and working before I am.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2017 06:40 AM (jm1YL)

803 "A Quick Death in Texas" by Clutch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sj76eCy6ag

Posted by: The 10-gallon Hat at June 30, 2017 06:41 AM (vBeA5)

804 Nice to know he's up and working before I am.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2017 06:40 AM (jm1YL)


Trump's like that Army commercial: Trump does more before breakfast than reporters do all day. And I'm sure that pisses reporters off. Makes them look like the lazy, incompetent boobs they are.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2017 06:43 AM (aSyaA)

805 BTW,

Trump yesterday at the Energy Department show was doing his usual schtick of covering a few other topics. He talked about Energy, Immigration, and could not resist calling CNN -Fake News.

Then he stops, and says, did the red light just go out on their camera? Did they stop covering the presentation? OK, I promise not to call you fake news, you can turn the camera on. A few people actually got the joke and started laughing.

This is reason #3,506 why I love that SOB. But mostly because Trump fights. He may be an SOB, but Trump is our SOB.

Posted by: rd at June 30, 2017 06:44 AM (4dz1m)

806 Good Morning, the train is fixing to leave the station on MSNBC.

Psycho Joe and Low IQ Mika will be on in 6 minutes.

Listening to the lead up by the other morning anchors and they don't seem to be winning.

Trump is an evil genius.

Posted by: ALH at June 30, 2017 06:44 AM (7vGuX)

807 My kids and I went to Tokyo this past spring to visit my brother, we posted pics to FB the whole trip. A lot of our friends and family enjoyed seeing what we were up to. I myself like seeing pics of my family and friends trips on FB, you can click through them at your leisure or not.

Posted by: KWDreaming at June 30, 2017 06:44 AM (lLOfk)

808
Well, that and the fact that Hillary Clinton will never be president.

Posted by: OldDominionMom
_______________________

What are you trying to say here?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 30, 2017 06:45 AM (j/Mlu)

809 CNN International Live on FB: Are President Trumps Tweets a distraction?.....

Posted by: KWDreaming at June 30, 2017 06:50 AM (lLOfk)

810 CNN International Live on FB: Are President Trumps Tweets a distraction?.....
Posted by: KWDreaming


They're an attack on the 4th Estate!
He's attacking the Constitution!
It's....WORSE THAN HITLER!!


If Trump had everyone at CNN shot at sunset, there would be cartoons from Hell by breakfast.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 30, 2017 07:00 AM (S6Pax)

811 CNN International Live on FB: Are President Trumps Tweets a distraction?.....

Posted by: KWDreaming at June 30, 2017 06:50 AM (lLOfk)

It's almost July when they're thinking of this? Woo boy, aren't they quick?

And they think we're stupid. Ha!

Posted by: OldDominionMom at June 30, 2017 07:05 AM (GzDYP)

812 Didn't BRUCE Jenner win the Hermaphrodeathlon by a dicks length?..Half African which half? where the white wimmen at...sub saharan!

Posted by: saf at June 30, 2017 07:20 AM (cS/ge)

813 Charlevoix, Michigan, to be precise.

Posted by: ejo at June 30, 2017 10:16 AM (z1MNB)

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