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Thursday Night's ONT Has No Witty Title
“And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
And it turns out that the abyss is a kitten!
There's an AP for That
In case you missed it, Austin Petersen is running for Senate to replace the execrable
Claire McCaskill. He's got to make it through the Republican primary first, but his campaign is gaining momentum. Petersen is a former Libertarian candidate for President. I consulted with him when he was considering running, he asked me if he should run as a Libertarian or a Republican. I told him that it had to be as a Republican, that 9 out of 10 people, if they reacted at all upon hearing “Austin Petersen, Libertarian candidate”, would say “Libertarian....was he the one in the diaper?”. Guess he agreed with me, because he's running as a Republican, and IMO he'd be a good one. There aren't many people who want to get into government because they want to stop the government from doing something, but he's one of them.
Harvey Update
As always when something goes wrong, lots of leftists have been chattering about how more government or better government or different government or some damn government thing couldof/shouldof/wouldof made a difference. The fact that Houston is the least zoned city in America has them all a'flutter, but here is a really quite excellent Twitter thread that does a great job of explaining Houston's flood control system. It's well worth a read.
Of course, through it all, Texas is still Texas.
Police moving cattle to higher ground just outside Dayton, TX with team @contessabrewer @CNBC pic.twitter.com/yRuqvahPOw
— Harriet Taylor (@Harri8t) August 27, 2017
Some things are unspeakable, however. Shivering tot found clinging to drowned mom. I read another report that said that the mother was a very Christian woman, and that when they found the little girl she said “Mommy is praying for me now”. We all are sweetheart, we all are.
The Waffle House Index . It's really a thing used to gauge the impact of disasters on the south. Very interesting article. I'm not going to take the time to write out my defense of what a lot of people call price gouging as beneficial to areas suffering from a scarcity of some commodity (like generators after storms), but this is a good read: The Private Sector is Coming to Texas's Rescue That's a Pretty Shirt
Then again, how many folks do you know covered with Chinese character tattoos? Most of them have no idea what they say either.
No Mercy
MMA fighter surprises a car thief Musical Interlude Just goes to show that a great song rocks no matter how it's being played. I've seen many clips of this song by AC/DC over A-10 footage. I want to see this one as the soundtrack to a clip of Simo Häyhä in action.
I mentioned this a while ago. It extends to the coaches too.
Soccer coach hit by a paper plane...
— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) December 2, 2016
Hockey coach hit by a puck...
The reactions? Absolutely priceless. pic.twitter.com/QrdljGGYC5
Lots to unpack here, but only the Brewers have more wins than millions spent in payroll this season. Lots of graphs and stats (in baseball? Who wouldda thought?) at the link.
Fake News
First of all, today there were allegations that CNN may have faked an on-air rescue in Houston:
CNN faked rescue video where their anchor "saved a man in a truck"
— Red Pill (@IWillRedPillYou) August 31, 2017
Proof:
Video was edited
1st take: wearing shorts
2nd take: wearing pants pic.twitter.com/HIYDwNQ2hd
Gyrobus! This is a cool concept. Now, there's no way those street level tracks wouldn't be obscured by cars all the time, but it might be interesting to see if anything comes of this. This World Didn't Just Appear
One of the biggest frustrations I have as an historian is the utter and abject ignorance so many people have about HOW this world we live in got that way. Everybody just assumes that because we have technology, we're just so much smarter than anyone else in history. We're not. We're just the same smart. What we do have is the benefit of millennia of human social progress. This high trust society that we live in, one that cherishes the individual and enshrines freedom, that didn't just happen, and it is certainly not the human norm, even today. Try and tell that to kids today and they look at you like you just asked them to breathe water.
Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture
That culture laid out the script we all were supposed to follow: Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime. These basic cultural precepts reigned from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. They could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement. Adherence was a major contributor to the productivity, educational gains, and social coherence of that period.I know that's a big pull quote, but honestly, I had a hard time not quoting the whole thing. Go read it now, it's one of the most spot on op-eds I've ever read. Tonight's ONT brought to you by Texas:
Did everyone abide by those precepts? Of course not. There are always rebels — and hypocrites, those who publicly endorse the norms but transgress them. But as the saying goes, hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Even the deviants rarely disavowed or openly disparaged the prevailing expectations.
Was everything perfect during the period of bourgeois cultural hegemony? Of course not. There was racial discrimination, limited sex roles, and pockets of anti-Semitism. However, steady improvements for women and minorities were underway even when bourgeois norms reigned. Banishing discrimination and expanding opportunity does not require the demise of bourgeois culture. Quite the opposite: The loss of bourgeois habits seriously impeded the progress of disadvantaged groups. That trend also accelerated the destructive consequences of the growing welfare state, which, by taking over financial support of families, reduced the need for two parents. A strong pro-marriage norm might have blunted this effect. Instead, the number of single parents grew astronomically, producing children more prone to academic failure, addiction, idleness, crime, and poverty.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:01 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 31, 2017 10:01 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 31, 2017 10:02 PM (tbOMB)
https://youtu.be/m8qmm4uLO9I
Posted by: Zaklog the Great at August 31, 2017 10:03 PM (D0wNy)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2017 10:03 PM (0ReGO)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:04 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:05 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 10:05 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (hZ+us)
Except even smaller. And her eyes weren't open. I held her in my hand when she was about an hour old.
Posted by: rickl at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (sdi6R)
WTF!?
So, WD, just want to say thanks for the ONT. And for, hopefully, having a sense of humor.
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (OG7NC)
Posted by: Piglet at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (U0v/A)
This is because he took phatstaxx o' cash from the soi-disant "Chemistry" community in Texas - meaning the chemical industry - including that plant in Crosby that is currently on fire and, on occasion, blowing up.
Newsweek: http://tinyurl.com/yd5hxbzf
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: fluffy at August 31, 2017 10:06 PM (U0v/A)
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 10:07 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:07 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 31, 2017 10:08 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 31, 2017 10:08 PM (CNHr1)
He's going to lose anyway.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:08 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 10:09 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: f*ck Kuznetsov at August 31, 2017 10:09 PM (nR6qV)
I loved Joel Osteen in Galaxy Quest
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 31, 2017 10:09 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:10 PM (hZ+us)
That sucks. Why couldn't it have been NBC? No Brian Williams joke.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:10 PM (/qEW2)
I remember a Daily Mail (I think) article about a Brit who got a Chinese character tattoo. He showed it to some Chinese girls, and they giggled. Turned out it said "At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy." He was, too.
Posted by: Splunge at August 31, 2017 10:10 PM (iMxBJ)
I know we could look at the language development of the standard 19th century common man and see a vast disparity in vocabulary between him and some teen on their cell phone.
You are right though, I think what we are seeing in environmental factors rather than anything structural.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (jHrzU)
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No
No
No.
Take a farmer from America in 1817 and send him to the present and he takes his time getting used to stuff...but he does ok. Likely he'll get on the organic/artisan bandwagon...
Take a modern America cube farmer and send him to 1817 and...he dies.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:13 PM (3myMJ)
She's obviously a "throw-away" because she's totally cool with being redneck-handled.
Mrs. Redneck is pushing for adoption.
It's growing on me. As is that photo.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at August 31, 2017 10:13 PM (MCEs2)
*rant off*
Posted by: T at August 31, 2017 10:13 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:13 PM (XFue2)
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2017 10:14 PM (mknWS)
Maybe they're right- I certainly don't watch that piece of shit network- but catering to imbeciles while pretending to be the intellectual elite seems like a losing business model.
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:14 PM (hZ+us)
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Gacy 2018 - How many people could I eat in six years really?
Posted by: Gacy 2018 at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (8O3HH)
From the previous thread..... Mere and JTB.....yes, we have all Brooks on DVD.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: T at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:16 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:16 PM (3myMJ)
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The Iliad was memorized in its entirety by Greek story tellers. How many moderns could memorize say a Harry Potter book...no not the plot overview...but every line and intonation?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM (XFue2)
This is why if you are going to get tattooed in another script, you need to know that other script.
I could do Hebrew and Arabic, but it's blasphemy to get a Hebrew tattoo and I have no cultural affinity to the Arabs.
Kind of wonder about Berber tifinagh, but since I don't know any Berber languages, it would probably end up reading something like "turn over onto front for pleasure". And besides, Paul Ryan's probably already got that one
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM (6FqZa)
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Technically CA was for a very short period of time.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM (aZq03)
Hey, one of my favorite memories growing up was watching Joel Osteen in Home Improvement.
Posted by: T at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM
He was...the last man standing.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (IqV8l)
http://tinyurl.com/ybgw4hzd
Posted by: mallfly suPreme at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (ILitO)
"Steve'n'Seagulls". What kind of an idiot would think that a juvenile, retarded pun like that would be funny?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (/qEW2)
That black cat will explode in 3 seconds.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM
Do not hold in hand
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (IqV8l)
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No, the one on my stomach says the opposite.
Posted by: Paul Ryan at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (aZq03)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:19 PM (XFue2)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:15 PM (26wh7)
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Ahem.
Posted by: The Bear Republic at August 31, 2017 10:19 PM (efxf0)
Vermont was independent republic, assuming you're not counting the Californian republic-for-a-month.
There's also Deseret, but I'll concede that wasn't a republic. It was more like al-Madina By The Lake.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:19 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: ibguy at August 31, 2017 10:20 PM (vUcdz)
Main point there is:
given that roads & freeways food BY DESIGN, "stuck on the road" is the absolute worst, most dangerous place to be
He also mentions that in previous floods, *nobody* died staying put, while dozens of people (IIRC) died trying to relocate.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 31, 2017 10:20 PM (0JUQP)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:20 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:21 PM (XFue2)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:21 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 10:21 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: Vermont at August 31, 2017 10:21 PM (U0v/A)
Posted by: rickl at August 31, 2017 10:21 PM (sdi6R)
I liked the Twitter explanation of Houston's storm water drainage system. I remember when it was in the planning stages, many years ago.
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 31, 2017 10:22 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Lily (formerly fom HotAir now from AoSHQ) at August 31, 2017 10:22 PM (LKE3K)
Gacy 2018- There's a party in my attic and you're all invited.
Posted by: otho at August 31, 2017 10:22 PM (qGuLD)
Gacy 2018- There's a party in my attic and you're all invited.
Posted by: otho at August 31, 2017 10:22 PM (qGuLD)
You misspelled "crawlspace".
Posted by: rickl at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (sdi6R)
Just kidding! Hope those morons have an awesome time. One of the guys lives north of Houston and drove to Dallas just so he could go.
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (EZWNE)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (6FqZa)
But that's an uncertain proposition at best. And Joe Modern would *definitely* lose out to a number of medievals who didn't have that problem--Thomas Aquinas, for one, or Charlemagne. And I think it's inarguable that everyone in the Middle Ages did more with the brainpower they had than most people do today.
Posted by: T at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (/qEW2)
Heh.
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (OG7NC)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (LyU5V)
What is the second most famous line in Gone With The Wind?
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (3myMJ)
As God as my witness I'm never letting Rhett stick it in my pooper again?
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (mknWS)
I'm fresh outta the shower for tonight's ONT, so I look great *and* smell great.
(Also today was ridonkulously hot in SoCal. I think over 95 with something like 9000% humidity.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Meremortal
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"I don't know noth'n 'bout birthing no babies"
Butterfly McQueen
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (tr2D7)
Best to go with a familiar phrase like 'No Ragrets'.
Posted by: fluffy at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (U0v/A)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:17 PM
Do not hold in hand
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (IqV8l)
I learned that lesson the hard way.
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (OG7NC)
Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: rickl at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM
Nope. Attic first, crawlspace later. Crawlspace is the "after party"!
Posted by: otho at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (qGuLD)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (EZWNE)
Everyone would just bet on the black guys.
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (mknWS)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (MCEs2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: the guy across the street at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (sf2BM)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (hZ+us)
Butterfly McQueen
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (tr2D7)
WINNER!
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:28 PM (3myMJ)
I suspect that King Alfred was high-IQ though.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:28 PM (6FqZa)
We're good, but can't say the same for too many of our friends...
As to the ONT, all I can say is that we stand on the shoulders of giants...
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 31, 2017 10:28 PM (MINbv)
Posted by: proust at August 31, 2017 10:28 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: tu3031 at August 31, 2017 10:28 PM (O5Q3r)
Butterfly McQueen
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:26 PM (tr2D7)
WINNER!
Posted by: Meremortal
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Please deposit the PBJ into the USB at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (tr2D7)
I loved Joel Osteen in Galaxy Quest
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 31, 2017 10:09 PM (auHtY)
Funny. I re-watched Galaxy Quest this afternoon and noticed how Tim Allen was made up, hair especially, to look like Joel Osteen. The resemblance is uncanny.
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Meremortal
I just ... saw it in the window and I couldn't resist it.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (/qEW2)
Speak for yourself! I stand above the world economic trends like a colossus!
Posted by: Krugtron the Invincible!! at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (6FqZa)
I liked the Twitter explanation of Houston's storm water drainage system. I remember when it was in the planning stages, many years ago.
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 31, 2017 10:22 PM (nvMvs)
Millions of people adjacent to an ocean and 100 feet above sea level. Just what the fuck could go wrong?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:18 PM (/qEW2)
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Muldoooooon!
/jk. ISWYDT
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (EZebt)
we named him "Mijo", since he was obviously a descendant of the LBK who was living in the yard when we moved in, who had, equally obviously, been abandoned and/or abused by a previous resident.
LBK finally moved back in in time for the feline equivalent of hospice care with us.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (efxf0)
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Pioneers, too. Seems like you could give Average Joe of 1850 an axe, and he'd build himself a perfectly viable house and barn.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (0JUQP)
I don't know nuttin' bout birthin' 'em, but I know a thing or two about makin' 'em.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2017 10:27 PM (mknWS)
Yeah? What about the quarterbacks? I mean, ya gotta have a quarterback.
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (EZWNE)
That's a sign of a great movie.
Destroyers. They know not what they do.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear
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Sadly, the hugely funny SNL skit 'Their Eyes Were On Their Breasts' is not to be found on the 'net. Here's a still, but in the actual skit, the eyes moved and blinked. Funny as hell. http://tinyurl.com/y9le3ems
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (w1zJX)
"Think I can shoot that broad under the tree from 500 ft away?"
Union sniper said that in the uncut version.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (3AYSm)
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (pszv/)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (bY+8h)
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (hZ+us)
Mrs. Redneck is pushing for adoption.
It's growing on me. As is that photo.
--
The neighbors had an indoor/ outdoor cat that was mostly outdoors, and lived with three dogs (pit bulls) and two little kids. I honestly thought about stealing him, that's how adorable. Plus, he came into my house every chance he could.
Fast forward a year. I ask the neighbors about the cat; one day he never came home. They thought they found him, but the person never got back to them on Facebook.
This was the most awesome cat ever (overly affectionate in fact) and I suspect he found a better situation, and re-homed himself.
Mama cat may not have liked where she was living, ran away, and picked your house.
I hope you keep all of them.
Posted by: shibumi at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Sharkman
Didn't even know Chippendales was hiring ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton
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Not so much in Nebraska.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (w1zJX)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
This question has plagued mankind for decades. Who looks more like Joel Osteen? Tim Allen or Ed Grimley?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Born Free at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (MXiQW)
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (MCEs2)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM
*Word*
Port Arthur, Tx.
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:32 PM (OG7NC)
Vermont was independent republic, assuming you're not counting the Californian republic-for-a-month.
There's also Deseret, but I'll concede that wasn't a republic. It was more like al-Madina By The Lake.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:19 PM (6FqZa)
Well, AK was Russian, for heaven's sake. I guess we aren't supposed to brag about that anymore, though. At the time, there were no commies, but expecting today's SJW's to know history is like asking Lil Kim to go easy on the west.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 31, 2017 10:33 PM (NXsWM)
That's a sign of a great movie.
Destroyers. They know not what they do.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (3myMJ)
They know, all right.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 10:33 PM (TdMsT)
I'd prefer that Harvey never visited, but damn am I proud of my state.
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at August 31, 2017 10:33 PM (Uhdyg)
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I once had a roommate who dated a Chippendale dancer. When she was working, he'd come over and clean house. I don't think I ever had a conversation with him, which is almost impossible for me.
/he was decorative, like a vase. Not my type.
Posted by: shibumi at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (aT+Bx)
She did *not* like it there, legend has it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (18oN1)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 31, 2017 10:11 PM (/qEW2)
++++
Do we know she's a Chinese girl? Maybe she's an American.
English could be her first language.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (FUu/Z)
(Also today was ridonkulously hot in SoCal. I think over 95 with something like 9000% humidity.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (eMKNe)
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Mrs. Franpsycho is a wreck, it is 82 here right now and she is taking her 3rd shower.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (6FqZa)
Their Breasts' is not to be found on the 'net. Here's a still, but in
the actual skit, the eyes moved and blinked. Funny as hell.
http://tinyurl.com/y9le3ems
Posted by: Mike Hammer
****
They learned even less from the women with mattresses for backs...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (hVdx9)
What is the second most famous line in Gone With The Wind?
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:24 PM (3my
Fiddle dee dee?
I don't know nothin bout birthin no babies?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (hscyr)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM B(eMKNe)
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ccording to the billboard on the hill ABOVE VenturaBlvd, it was 104* just after 1700 here today...
then it threatened a thunderstorm, but the only rain fell in the south side of the hill.
we got jack AND shit. so still hot, and even MOAR humid.
Fuck My Life. (we has no AC)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (efxf0)
Posted by: Meremortal
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*?*
No, man. They were pretty damned good.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (w1zJX)
(We were actually born during the exact same month and year, btw.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (EZWNE)
Just find a good halfback and demote him?
Posted by: Robert doesn't really watch the foosball at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (mknWS)
my relatives a few generations back lived in a 'soddy' in Nebraska, and then became brickmakers. plenty of dirt out there, huh?
Posted by: proust at August 31, 2017 10:35 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2017 10:36 PM (3AYSm)
It really doesn't matter who fucking wins
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:36 PM (ZTRlp)
That sucks. Why couldn't it have been NBC? No Brian Williams joke.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
_________
Wrong!
I rescued six floating corpses today and brought them back to life.
Then I walked across the water into a burning house and saved a litter of very cute puppies.
And then I made Megyn Kelly likable, and her ratings will be stellar.
Posted by: Brian Williams at August 31, 2017 10:36 PM (2Omzf)
I loved Joel Osteen in Galaxy Quest
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 31, 2017 10:09 PM (auHtY)
Funny. I re-watched Galaxy Quest this afternoon and noticed how Tim Allen was made up, hair especially, to look like Joel Osteen. The resemblance is uncanny.
Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 31, 2017 10:29 PM (nvMvs)
Eh, more William Shatner.
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 10:36 PM (cAnNx)
My shower rinse was with cold water. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:36 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
Fashionably late and right on the beam!
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:37 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: proust
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That's how it works.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (w1zJX)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (Ull3l)
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (bY+8h)
Wonder no more! Went fine. It was another piece of an ongoing project with the same guy. It's looking like we'll be busy.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM
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Krakatoa?
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (AMIL/)
She did *not* like it there, legend has it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe)
Meh, you eventually get used to the smell
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (OG7NC)
English could be her first language.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
Wearing AtC's castoffs...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (66CWr)
Of course, given that she's the one who maneuvered Akin into being her opponent, that possibility shouldn't be ignored.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 10:40 PM (Q6qiA)
Posted by: Obamaisacommunist at August 31, 2017 10:40 PM (FSETn)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:40 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
Excellent.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (3myMJ)
It was a good thread. My neighborhood is one that floods the streets by design and in general it works very well. Not quite as well this time, but it's not like we will be dealing with this much rain often either.
It was pretty clear the leftists want Houston to stop all flooding entirely and when I tried to explain why that *couldn't* be done I was told my tweet was so wrong that the person couldn't begin to answer it. I think they really believe it's simply a matter of throwing *enough* money at the problem and that someone somewhere is just being stingy.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (tbOMB)
She did *not* like it there, legend has it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe)
Meh, you eventually get used to the smell
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (OG7NC)
Kaukauna, WI
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2017 10:41 PM (JO9+V)
shibumi, if you ever get to work with Shirley Manson, please slip in some kind words about me and give her my phone number ;-)
--
Yes, I most certainly will. However... that part of my life is coming to a quick close. I probably four, maybe five days left of working. The arena will probably get gutted, demolished and turned into a "technology park." As for the two amphitheaters... no one will tell us what's going to happen there. However, the company that's taking over is hiring people in every department but our department.
Posted by: shibumi at August 31, 2017 10:42 PM (aT+Bx)
F. CNN.
And extra F that Memphis theatre - in a bad way.
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2017 10:42 PM (hZ+us)
We need a little winter to kill the bugs. The mosquitoes were lethal this summer.
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:42 PM (26wh7)
Vermont was independent republic, assuming you're not counting the Californian republic-for-a-month.
There's also Deseret, but I'll concede that wasn't a republic. It was more like al-Madina By The Lake.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 10:19 PM (6FqZa)
Well, AK was Russian, for heaven's sake. I guess we aren't supposed to brag about that anymore, though. At the time, there were no commies, but expecting today's SJW's to know history is like asking Lil Kim to go easy on the west.
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And Hawaii was a kingdom.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 10:42 PM (Q6qiA)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 31, 2017 10:43 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Yes, I have an idea, you jerk. Could it possibly have been my PEPPER SPRAY?
Oh--and that thing you tried with the cigar? Pro tip: DON'T LIGHT THE CIGAR.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 10:43 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2017 10:43 PM (XoldI)
It's a port. Ports are like that. The reason Houston is a port but higher than sea level is because the Port of Houston is a *40 mile* long enormous canal.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
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Congratulations!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (EZebt)
Janis Joplin was from Port Arthur, Texas.
She did *not* like it there, legend has it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe)
Meh, you eventually get used to the smell
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (OG7NC)
Boy...was I snooty when talking about the smell.
Posted by: Janis Joplins warm canaver at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (n3hky)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2017
That is sobering.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (3myMJ)
Damn Polliwog! How could you deny "The Feelz"?
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (OG7NC)
Whew! Thanks for letting us know. Any news of Jack Sock?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (Ull3l)
(Also today was ridonkulously hot in SoCal. I think over 95 with something like 9000% humidity.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:25 PM (eMKNe)
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Mrs. Franpsycho is a wreck, it is 82 here right now and she is taking her 3rd shower.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (EZebt)
How yah'all doin?
Posted by: Louisiana at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 10:45 PM (ZTRlp)
I'd prefer that Harvey never visited, but damn am I proud of my state.
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at August 31, 2017 10:33 PM (Uhdyg)
I'd like to formally invite you to the CenTexMoMee at Ben Had's place in Corsicana on October 21st. Would be great if you could make it.
Food, booze, a horse and a possible video linkup with the Ohio MoMee.
Drop me a line if you'd like.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 10:46 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:46 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Yes, I have an idea, you jerk. Could it possibly have been my PEPPER SPRAY?
Oh--and that thing you tried with the cigar? Pro tip: DON'T LIGHT THE CIGAR.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Ummmm. . . . . ok.
Other than that, did you enjoy dinner?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:46 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:47 PM (rp9xB)
Boy...was I snooty when talking about the smell.
Posted by: Janis Joplin
You stunk on ice, lady!
Posted by: Port Arthur, TX at August 31, 2017 10:47 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Aviator at August 31, 2017 10:47 PM (/Nite)
Also a band called "The Dead South" with a song called "In hell I'll be in good company"
Posted by: Dick Cheneys' cat at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (u3li/)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Oooo, and you getting all fancy with the smoke rings.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (26wh7)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294182323879938
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294261784969217
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294343062093824
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294432195354624
Posted by: kbdabear at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (3i2nH)
Posted by: mindful webworker stuck on d'aaaww! at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (d/5DH)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Perhaps you touched an irritant with your hands and later touched or rubbed your eyes.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 10:48 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (t3kPl)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
You're supposed to GIVE the facial, not get it.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (D2vc1)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294510838493184
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294605055143936
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294686122692608
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/903294773867532288
Posted by: kbdabear at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (3i2nH)
Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:46 PM (tr2D7)
Oh sure, although subsequent meals have been eaten STANDING UP. GRRRR.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 10:50 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM (Ull3l)
No. Just got internet back earlier today. Have not been on here except very briefly. Now have relax time this evening.
The elementary school 2 blocks away that all my kids walked / biked to got 2 ft of water in it throughout.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2017 10:50 PM (JO9+V)
If the modern consensus is that the average human's intelligence is increasing, I disagree. Too often, arrogance and bluster cover up mediocrity.
Posted by: proust at August 31, 2017 10:52 PM (9OyZa)
Nice, but those authors are in for it. Hope they can play the gay card!
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2017 10:52 PM (kuiuS)
Posted by: Insomniac
Perfect!
Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2017 10:53 PM (bY+8h)
Whew! Thanks for letting us know. Any news of Jack Sock?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 10:44 PM
He was in the thread just below this one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 10:53 PM (IqV8l)
Also should turn George Bush Park into a giant retainer pond. I would though miss my shooting range.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 10:53 PM (LuKE7)
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!
Posted by: Rgallegos at August 31, 2017 10:53 PM (59GQk)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Play for some Sex?
Mom always said Masturbation would make ya go blind...
Find a partner?
Posted by: Don Q. at August 31, 2017 10:54 PM (NgKpN)
I know right? I just live here and to them it's all theoretical with no actual humans involved who will be affected and displaced *no matter* which decision is made.
I'm sort of cranky because the AC went out, thank God it was after the storm, and I really hope it isn't another compressor breach but suspect it is.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:54 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 10:54 PM (IqV8l)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y0dtmhEUCYY
Posted by: Jim Lahey at August 31, 2017 10:55 PM (t5m5e)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2017 10:31 PM (bY+8h)
Wonder no more! Went fine. It was another piece of an ongoing project with the same guy. It's looking like we'll be busy.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
Congrats! Pretty soon you will be neck deep in hookers and blow
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:55 PM (XFue2)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM (tr2D7)
Don't cum in your own eyes.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (t3kPl)
other evening and I noticed my eyes were itching and burning. Any ideas?
Wash her off before you inflate her.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (0otiP)
Seems some group hired him to play a gig at Mar-A-Lago on December 5th. Paid him $75k in advance.
Then Charlottesville happens and all of a sudden, after 40 years in the public eye, Trump is a racist.
So, the group decides to move their party to another venue, on another date, and expected that Paul Anka would agree to the change.
Mr. Anka had a family thing on the new date and said Sorry No Can Do.
The group asked him to refund the money they paid him, and Mr. Anka said Sorry Not Sorry.
He's keeping the money.
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (26wh7)
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (D2vc1)
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it's a chemical peel!
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (efxf0)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 10:57 PM (MyHEM)
Good to see you. Hopefully this means you house is okay so far?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:58 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2017 11:00 PM (dnWSK)
If the modern consensus is that the average human's intelligence is increasing, I disagree. Too often, arrogance and bluster cover up mediocrity.
Posted by: proust at August 31, 2017 10:52 PM (9OyZa)
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I have a theory that the total of human intelligence has always been a fixed amount. Assuming that human intelligence is normally distributed across the population, as the human population increases...there are by definition more and more dumb-asses every year.
(Maybe ZPG was the right answer 40+ years ago!)
Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2017 11:01 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 11:01 PM (LuKE7)
Well duh. He said sex, the presence of a woman was implied.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 31, 2017 11:02 PM (0otiP)
other evening and I noticed my eyes were itching and burning. Any ideas?
Wear goggles. The pepper spray won't burn your eyes.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (dnWSK)
Agreed. We even know their names.
Though there was a man who came along a few thousand years later who was "infinitely" more intelligent.
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (qifx9)
Posted by: Northernlurker, phillips screwdriver of the gods at August 31, 2017 10:49 PM (nBr1j)
Check out engrish.com. They have a ton of stuff like that.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (0mRoj)
they had two Barretts, two early ParaOrdnance 1911s and some other whiz-bang bolt action rifle built bull-pup style...
now, where to find ~$15K...
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (efxf0)
Posted by: aelfheld at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (Zy9Yy)
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (LuKE7)
"White House weighing a tax on remittances to fund border wall"
http://tinyurl.com/yad5j6su
Also Customs and Border Patrol announced four contracts for concrete and reinforced concrete prototypes of border wall and will also let four contracts for alternative material construction border walls. More than one design may be chosen as the wall goes through differing terrain.
Posted by: geoffb5 at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (zOpu5)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (smD62)
Congrats! Pretty soon you will be neck deep in hookers and blow
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:55 PM (XFue2)
One thing at a time, one thing at a time.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
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I think Petersen is one of about 12 R's running in the primary.
Also but unrelated, I see Sheriff Clark has resigned "to pursue other opportunities." Hmmm...
Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (Enq6K)
they had two Barretts, two early ParaOrdnance 1911s and some other whiz-bang bolt action rifle built bull-pup style...
now, where to find ~$15K...
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (efxf0)
The change holder in Moo Moo's car.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (XFue2)
For what it's worth, you just made my prayer list.
Lord, be with Polliwog and her family, may your grace, comfort and peace cover them in this time of trouble.
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 11:05 PM (OG7NC)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 10:55 PM (XFue2)
One thing at a time, one thing at a time.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Call me cray cray but I'm not convinced that being neck deep in hookers is a way I want to go.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:06 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 11:06 PM (26wh7)
This is for you, we just saw Garbage last month. Shirley is cool.
https://IMGur.com/a/EqMZA
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:06 PM (Ri/rl)
Good to see you. Hopefully this means you house is okay so far?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 10:58 PM (rp9xB)
Yes I was lucky and remained dry. I always wanted water front property though so I'll have that for another couple of weeks.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 11:07 PM (LuKE7)
my opinion about IQ and human history is that the first humans were perfect, physically and mentally, and it's been downhill ever since.
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I have a theory that the total of human intelligence has always been a fixed amount. Assuming that human intelligence is normally distributed across the population, as the human population increases...there are by definition more and more dumb-asses every year.
Are we not men?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:07 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (XFue2)
Grab one by surprise where the owner has pepper spray.
Posted by: Lessons one should't have to test to know at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (ZKWca)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (mMeIQ)
She did *not* like it there, legend has it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 10:34 PM (eMKNe)
Meh, you eventually get used to the smell
Posted by: tbodie at August 31, 2017 10:39 PM (OG7NC)"
Gary - Whiting Indiana, the place that "A Christmas Story" was set in. Sulfurous odor, yellow-brown clouds every time we drove through going to Chicago when I was a kid.
Posted by: geoffb5 at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (zOpu5)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
Go for the sports car and the sunglasses first, the rest will come naturally.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:06 PM (tr2D7)
Balls deep?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (0mRoj)
Oh and the cute nurse missed her period. We test this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (XFue2)
One thing at a time, one thing at a time.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Call me cray cray but I'm not convinced that being neck deep in hookers is a way I want to go.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:06 PM (tr2D7)
Tonypete--If you had ponied up a little cash things might have gone differently the other night.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (TdMsT)
i posted wearing my french novelist sock.
i agree with you about the superior mentality of J.C.
but he was no average "joe"--
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (9OyZa)
I spent the afternoon in the pool. Tomorrow I plan on doing the same when I get home from work.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (Ri/rl)
Idiot law enforcement guy apparently managed to make BLM look justified in a comment captured by a recording device.
Anyone happen to have any context on this? Or is the LE guy really just that stupid?
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (Q6qiA)
"White House weighing a tax on remittances to fund border wall"
Posted by: geoffb5 at August 31, 2017 11:03 PM (
98%. Recoup everything they take: welfare, housing, food stamps, medical, infrastructure wear & tear, crime.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (hscyr)
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I'm suddenly reminded of the opening of Gaiman's novel, "American Gods".
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:10 PM (Q6qiA)
Welcome to my world.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 31, 2017 11:10 PM (IcT7t)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUDmBXuS4s
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 31, 2017 11:10 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:11 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (XFue2)
Grab one by surprise where the owner has pepper spray.
Posted by: Lessons one should't have to test to know
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I believe that is where this sub-thread was kicked off.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:11 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 10:38 PM
Yeah, probably. Dude, you need to make sure SHE gets the glass with the "stuff" in it.
Posted by: otho at August 31, 2017 11:11 PM (qGuLD)
I never turn down prayer, it is appreciated. We got off very lightly here and are focusing on helping those who had it worse. Have to admit though that I *really* don't want it to rain here for a little while longer, mostly for selfish reasons since we have to have the windows open, but also because all the watersheds need a chance to drain.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:11 PM (rp9xB)
Anyone happen to have any context on this? Or is the LE guy really just that stupid?
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (Q6qiA)
My guess is he was being a sarcastic smart ass, trying to put the lady at ease.
He was still a dumbass for saying it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:12 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:12 PM (9OyZa)
Maybe they can't hang with Ohio State yet, but...they don't feel like the joke they have been for the past decade.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (smD62)
.Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
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well played...
did he go away, or was he helped?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (efxf0)
Idiot law enforcement guy apparently managed to make BLM look justified in a comment captured by a recording device.
Anyone happen to have any context on this? Or is the LE guy really just that stupid?
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (Q6qiA)
++++
LEO stopped a white guy. Wanted to see his cell or something. Guy was reluctant to reach for it in case LEO thinks he's going for a gun. LEO jokes not to worry, they only shoot Blacks. Dumb joke. Unprofessional. But still, no need for a national outrage or a week of riots.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (pvjTE)
That won't work, they'll just leave and stop coming!
..... O_O
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 11:14 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Tickled Pink
Decade is being kind.
Posted by: Aviator at August 31, 2017 11:14 PM (/Nite)
Hard to believe that Nietzsche's Abyss could be so adorable.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2017 11:14 PM (3AYSm)
Mexico went the other way. We marched all the way to Mexico City, took it over for a while and then said, "Nah, you can have it"
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2017 11:14 PM (pszv/)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:11 PM (rp9xB)
I am praying for all of you in the path of the water.
I'm very happy you all are safe. My friend that lives on the lake, Lake woodland, his house is okay and his business in downtown Houston never flooded and still had power as of yesterday. He was very fortunate.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:15 PM (Ri/rl)
Oh and the cute nurse missed her period. We test this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (XFue2)
Are these two comments related, or mutually exclusive?
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:15 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Note to self. . . .
How YOU do'in?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:15 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (efxf0)
He was shown the door, IIRC.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 31, 2017 11:16 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
He made you pay for your own dinner?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (hscyr)
Oh and the cute nurse missed her period. We test this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (XFue2)
Well, you did say you wanted to put a baby in her.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (pvjTE)
That's funny.
Not sorry.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (D2vc1)
F this shit: i signed up to live in an arid desert most of the year!
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (efxf0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
Were moo moo and MUMR the same person?
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Ri/rl)
Sorry I missed ya last night.
By the time I got done with all that one fj never typing on my phone telling Tammy about trying for a Fayetteville gig you had disappeared.
Said hi after that and didn't know you played guitar,,, so till me in.
So then proust was you and he/she was some French novelist?
Please pardon my lack of litirical knowledge.
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (qifx9)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
He made you pay for your own dinner?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
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Hey!!
I offered dessert.
IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (tr2D7)
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"Only" 107 in the afternoon where I was. Unfortunately, my current (very short term...) job involves lots of going in and out of doors. So I got hit with the worst of it.
The good news for me is that the Labor Day Weekend means that I probably won't have anything to do after lunch tomorrow. So I'll be able to avoid the worst of the heat.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Q6qiA)
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I would have assumed the context was something like:
LIBERAL DRIVER: Well, I'm *afraid* to open the glove box. You might see my flashlight in there and panic and shoot me.
COP, ROLLING HIS EYES: Oh, come on. We only kill black people, right? Isn't that what you people think? And you're white. So what are you afraid of?
Not sure he managed to get all of that out... but what else could he possibly mean?
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (0JUQP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (vZvre)
Oh and the cute nurse missed her period. We test this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (XFue2)
Well, you did say you wanted to put a baby in her.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)
And this is where TMI meets TMI
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (LuKE7)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 31, 2017 11:19 PM (Id9+8)
Not sorry.
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It is, but it's the kind of joke you want to be careful with. Telling it to people who know you is probably okay. Telling it if you're not a cop is probably okay.
Telling it as a cop, to people who don't know you from Adam, is probably not such a smart idea.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (Q6qiA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)
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Senor, about my payment?
Posted by: Paolo at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (efxf0)
Idiot law enforcement guy apparently managed to make BLM look justified in a comment captured by a recording device.
Anyone happen to have any context on this? Or is the LE guy really just that stupid?
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:09 PM (Q6qiA)
++++
LEO stopped a white guy. Wanted to see his cell or something. Guy was reluctant to reach for it in case LEO thinks he's going for a gun. LEO jokes not to worry, they only shoot Blacks. Dumb joke. Unprofessional. But still, no need for a national outrage or a week of riots.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (pvjTE)
It was directed at a female passenger who said she didn't want to reach for her cell phone out of fear from videos she'd seen. And it wasn't just that one statement. Here's the full quote:
"But you're not black. Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? All the videos you've seen, have you seen black people get killed? You have."
He went on and on. It was unprofessional and really fucking stupid.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (0mRoj)
264 261 Tonypete--If you had ponied up a little cash things might have gone differently the other night.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
He made you pay for your own dinner?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (hscyr)
Dinner?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (TdMsT)
my opinion about IQ and human history is that the first humans were perfect, physically and mentally, and it's been downhill ever since.
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I have a theory that the total of human intelligence has always been a fixed amount. Assuming that human intelligence is normally distributed across the population, as the human population increases...there are by definition more and more dumb-asses every year.
Are we not men?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
We are Devo!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (3AYSm)
Glad your friend made it through with everything dry. Every business that is still operable will make the recovery a little quicker.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (rp9xB)
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It actually rained here last night. Very briefly, but big fat noisy drops. The skies were overcast all last night, and I suspect that meant that things didn't cool off as much as they should have, which made the daytime heat worse than it otherwise might have been.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (Q6qiA)
I spent the afternoon in the pool. Tomorrow I plan on doing the same when I get home from work.
Posted by: CaliGirl
Something about frogs and slow boiling pots...
CaliGirl, are you a frog?
Posted by: Only after the first date! at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (knKQ1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Ri/rl)
Not to my knowledge.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:22 PM (0mRoj)
He meant it as absurd. But, some are around the bend and have lost any sense of humor. They think that if they are so upset, everyone else should be upset too, and no jokes!
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 11:22 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:22 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (qifx9)
Posted by: BK at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (eBjUq)
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at August 31, 2017 10:30 PM (EZWNE)
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Me! Me!
Pick me! Puh-leeeeeze! Me!
I'm black!!! I'm black!!! I'm black!!!
Okay. Part black.
Maybe taupe.
But I have an Afro and I hate you.
Posted by: Colin Kaepernick at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (IqV8l)
He went on and on. It was unprofessional and really fucking stupid.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (0mRoj)
Well, yeah, gonna have to concede that one.
Still shouldn't have his life ruined over it, but it probably will be. Plus all the race hustlers will be out of the woodwork again.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Meremortal at August 31, 2017 11:23 PM (3myMJ)
I spent the afternoon in the pool. Tomorrow I plan on doing the same when I get home from work.
Posted by: CaliGirl
Something about frogs and slow boiling pots...
CaliGirl, are you a frog?
Posted by: Only after the first date! at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (knKQ1)
I knew it was going to be warm, I turned the pool heater off.
I keep finding bullfrogs in the pool, I save them.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:24 PM (Ri/rl)
On the other hand: big, friggin' deal.
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2017 11:24 PM (OBJWS)
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Moo Moo was posting under his own name while MUMR was getting his weird spam turned into even weirder posts by the anti-MUMR bot that one of the cobs put together.
So probably not one and the same, though it is a possibility.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:24 PM (Q6qiA)
to Mexico City, took it over for a while and then said, "Nah, you can
have it"
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2017 11:14 PM (pszv/)
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too bad: if we had kept it, that part might actually be civilized by now...
either that or they would have just dragged us down earlier.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (efxf0)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Ri/rl)
No.
Monsieur Moo Moo
Mirror Universe Marco Rubio
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)
Plus all the race hustlers will be out of the woodwork again.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee
They never go away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (IqV8l)
Oh and the cute nurse missed her period. We test this weekend. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:08 PM (XFue2)
Well, you did say you wanted to put a baby in her.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)
And this is where TMI meets TMI
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (LuKE7)
She wants lots of babies. She was told it was a slim chance.... Like less than 5%.
Won't know until the tests this weekend.
Can't wait for my ex wife to find out and see I landed a baby in a pretty 23 year old girl.... With a trust fund.
Life is good.
Stay sexy Horde!
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (XFue2)
Plus all the race hustlers will be out of the woodwork again.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee
They never go away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (IqV8l)
Like herpes.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:26 PM (0mRoj)
Proust wrote Remembrance of Things Past. All I know of that novel is it started with the taste of a cookie reminding the main character of his past...I can't read French. wish I could!
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:26 PM (9OyZa)
Just going to shut up and listen now.
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:26 PM (qifx9)
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:20 PM (Q6qiA)
I'd agree it was a bad cop PR move (since he knows it's all on video). But my guess he was trying to deescalate a tense situation with humor. I wonder how many times he's heard "you shoot blacks for fun don't you?" off camera or read it?
Posted by: X-ray at August 31, 2017 11:27 PM (ZKWca)
.Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)
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well played...
did he go away, or was he helped?
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 31, 2017 11:13 PM (efxf0)
He was stomped by one of the Cobs (CBD?, IIRC) for baiting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:28 PM (K2SnJ)
Life is good.
Stay sexy Horde!
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (XFue2)
May I subscribe to your newsletter?
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:28 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:28 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
He made you pay for your own dinner?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
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Hey!!
I offered dessert.
IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (tr2D7)
Mmmmm. Dessert.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 31, 2017 11:28 PM (TdMsT)
All I can say is good luck, and I hope you haven't bought yourself a whole new heap of trouble.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:29 PM (0mRoj)
CaliGirl, are you a frog?
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I meant that in the nicest possible way, of course. I'm sure you are a beautiful, articulate, erudite, and lovely frog!
In very warm water.
Posted by: Only after the first date! at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (knKQ1)
Monsieur Moo Moo
Mirror Universe Marco Rubio
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)
I thought it was Mirror Universe Mitt Romney?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (K2SnJ)
Mirror Universe Mitt Romney, at one point at least. Seemed only slightly odder than the average 'Ron to begin with.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:21 PM (rp9xB)
He made it to work on Wednesday, I was shocked. He supplies produce to restaraunts and grocery stores. So that's a good sign. He said customers were buying.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (Ri/rl)
Just going to shut up and listen now.
Posted by: teej
you make me smile
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:31 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)
++++
I think it was MU Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 31, 2017 11:31 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (rp9xB)
To begin with. Then he blew a head gasket somewhere along the line.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:31 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 31, 2017 11:32 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Mirror Universe Amy Schumer at August 31, 2017 11:32 PM (K2SnJ)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk0n4XqDG5c
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 31, 2017 11:33 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Only after the first date! at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (
I know, the water is a nice 85 degrees. The cover can make it too hot.
It cracked me up you asked if I was a frog because I've saved a frog the past 3 days. I move the frogs to the bushes where there's more water. And a bird bath.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:33 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 31, 2017 11:34 PM (oVJmc)
other evening and I noticed my eyes were itching and burning. Any ideas?
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Wear goggles, dude. The babes will eat it up.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2017 11:35 PM (w1zJX)
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:35 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (K2SnJ)
Probably, I only knew it the other way. Little late to the party here.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:35 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:36 PM (Ri/rl)
Yeah. I know the cobs were messing with his posts eventually, but they were wacked-out trolling for a while before. On a blog with a history of spectacular flame-outs his was memorable. Wish I could remember when the comments changed.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:36 PM (rp9xB)
Sweet.
Shouldv I keep my eyes and ears open for an inexpensive but playable bass?
And a thought just hit.
Would I rather be able to play accoustic guitar like Tommy Emmanuel or the keys like Elton.
Neither could ever happen of course. Just barely adequate on drums. But if...
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:36 PM (qifx9)
Quack! Quack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
Posted by: andycanuck at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (mJ8mX)
Yes. He had an entire herd of tiny Giraffes.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (MyHEM)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable Ca at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (1vC3r)
So, remittance tax, plus some kind of specific tariff surtax (assuming NAFTA is kaputgemacht, or altered to allow such).
I've never cared at all about "Mexico paying for it" (I'm happy for us to pay for our own essential national security systems - do we expect others to pay for our carrier battle groups?). It's kind of a stupid distraction from the main issue, but whatever. It won't change anything, and it can be amusing as it drives the right people kookoobananas.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:36 PM (Ri/rl)
My guess was comfortably well off, but the hyperbole started there and went through the roof.
His parents never seemed to have taught him humility.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (K2SnJ)
Guitar.
The piano hides your dick.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (MyHEM)
Yes. He had an entire herd of tiny Giraffes.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (MyHEM)
Opulence. He has it.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:36 PM (Ri/rl)
My guess was comfortably well off, but the hyperbole started there and went through the roof.
His parents never seemed to have taught him humility.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (K2SnJ)
Or integrity.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (MyHEM)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (MyHEM)
Thanks! Just for clarification, it's still sporadic contract work, but it looks like it could get more regular.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (K2SnJ)
Or integrity.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (0mRoj)
Mr. Paul Anka weeps.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:40 PM (K2SnJ)
My work here is done for the evening then.
Besides, it's window fan time.
Love each other fellow babies
Posted by: teej at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (qifx9)
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (MyHEM)
Thanks! Just for clarification, it's still sporadic contract work, but it looks like it could get more regular.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj)
Something is better than nothing. I say this as I am bitching about working 60 hours a week on second shift.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:38 PM (K2SnJ)
Or integrity.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:39 PM (0mRoj)
Mr. Paul Anka weeps.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:40 PM (K2SnJ)
That's just the fuckin' way it is.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (0mRoj)
I think the correct terminology is : An Gigolo.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (MyHEM)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (oVJmc)
Deplorable lady, Singapore's smack dab on the equator. They've managed to turn "nothing into everything". Of course there was some European country that spent some time there as a colonial power, name slips my mind right now - that probably had nothing to do with it. Ditto for Hong Kong. (!!!)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2017 11:42 PM (QDnY+)
He sure claimed to be. Acted low rent, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 31, 2017 11:42 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (K2SnJ)
Oh it's much better than nothing. And 60 hour weeks on second shift? Ack!
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:43 PM (0mRoj)
Many passengers did disembark when the ships re-provisioned in New Orleans.
But most remained on board, and it'll be interesting to hear their take on whatever news reached them while they were at sea.
FYI, those ships only dial-up CNN for what passes as "news" on deck.
I'll report in on this on tomorrow's ONT.
Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 31, 2017 11:43 PM (MGCfm)
I think the correct terminology is : An Gigolo.
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (MyHEM)
At least people know the part I'm playing.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:43 PM (0mRoj)
I'd like to see some of that come down here, particularly if Google is becoming the American Purity Police...
Break up Android like ATT.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 31, 2017 11:44 PM (oVJmc)
Good to hear from you. Continue to stay safe.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:44 PM (0mRoj)
That's awesome
I told you being in top 10 doesn't pay that well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 11:44 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:30 PM (rp9xB)
To begin with. Then he blew a head gasket somewhere along the line.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:31 PM (0mRoj)
I've said it before that some people that others swear up and down aren't trolls seem to immediately set out to prove they are intent on becoming one.
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 11:45 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 11:45 PM (mMeIQ)
Nobody cares for me
Nobody, nobody cares for me
I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama
Come and take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:45 PM (0mRoj)
I told you being in top 10 doesn't pay that well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 31, 2017 11:44 PM (ZTRlp)
Now if I could only be in Top 40...
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:46 PM (0mRoj)
interesting remarks about western Europe, property, and North vs. south.
if you watch the path of Christianity, and by that, I mean protestant or Gospel belief in Christ, you can trace the prosperity following it. kinda cool.
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:46 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (0mRoj)
Hey! That's my song's line!
Posted by: Bruce Hornsby at August 31, 2017 11:46 PM (JO9+V)
348 Moo Moo was the guy that was super rich, billionaire rich?
He sure claimed to be. Acted low rent, though.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 31, 2017 11:42 PM (IcT7t)
Very intent on telling everyone how they should live their life like him, such as not celebrating any holidays.
Amazing how people don't like being told how they should behave about things by people acting superior and above it all huh.
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 11:47 PM (cAnNx)
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This. My current job pays crap, is extremely short term, and had me spending a notable amount of time today out in temperatures well over 100F.
But it's a job.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:48 PM (Q6qiA)
Of course they are. They committed the revolutionary act of telling the truth and must be destroyed before they can cause people to look beyond government for salvation.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 31, 2017 11:48 PM (rp9xB)
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Do you mean to imply the millions of illegal aliens living in this country illegally just might find a way around any method of imposing a tax on their transactions, such that they do not pay it, illegally?! Have you no compassion for these illegal aliens!
Posted by: Only after the first date! at August 31, 2017 11:49 PM (knKQ1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (K2SnJ)
Oh it's much better than nothing. And 60 hour weeks on second shift? Ack!
Posted by: Insomniac at August 31, 2017 11:43 PM (0mRoj)
Let's just say: I'm looking... when I can find the time.
Any other single dudes do this? I have a closet in my apartment full of clothes. We have a work polo and slacks combo we have to wear (except on Fridays when we have a 'white' polo and can wear 'Blue Jeans.') I find myself not even bothering to hang up the work clothes but just dig through the clean clothes basket and toss old stuff in the dirty clothes basket. The clothes in the closet hardly ever get touched.
I took vacation a couple of weeks ago though- it was Hawaiian shirts and shorts the whole damn time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:50 PM (K2SnJ)
drumming means you have strong arms, and i can tell you have a kind and faithfilled soul. great combo.
Yes, please...i would like another bass. maybe 3rd time's a charm. please do keep your eye out? it should be a smallish one.
let your light shine.
Posted by: booknlass at August 31, 2017 11:51 PM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Corona at August 31, 2017 11:51 PM (zIb93)
Are the Texan Morons faring well?
Heard rumours of outrageously rapist gas prices. Here they jumped about twenty cents a gallon overnight and my Wal-Mart is out of the plastic five gallon gas cans.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 31, 2017 11:51 PM (hvqfu)
That's the line they're hoping the RINO squishes bite on (after the pillow).
I'm an immigrant (legal), and to that I say, bugger off.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 11:52 PM (6FqZa)
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Given that a prosperous society all but requires the understanding that you don't cut someone's head off just because they looked at you funny, and given that a good-sized chunk of the Holy Bible (both Old and New Testament) revolves around telling people not to cut someone's head off because they looked at you funny...
... it's understandable.
Posted by: junior at August 31, 2017 11:53 PM (Q6qiA)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 31, 2017 11:53 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 31, 2017 11:53 PM (c8EhQ)
That's the line they're hoping the RINO squishes bite on (after the pillow).
The RINO squishes will bite on whatever the Chamber of Commerce and their wives tell them to.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2017 11:54 PM (IqV8l)
Amazing how people don't like being told how they should behave about things by people acting superior and above it all huh.
Posted by: buzzion at August 31, 2017 11:47 PM (cAnNx)
He liked to argue. Ace had thrown up a post about some superhero movie and he was denigrating the 'Superhero' genre. I pointed out that this was a more healthy thing for the culture to fixate on in it's story telling than the Vampire craze or the fifty third paranormal movie. He insisted it was childish.
It was sometimes hard to tell if he was just faux trolling, serious, or just a troll.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:54 PM (K2SnJ)
When we went to Ireland many moons ago.....I couldn't believe how fast Christianity had grown so fast
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 11:56 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Olson Johnson at August 31, 2017 11:57 PM (c8EhQ)
I first saw GWTW in 1970 in a theater. If you had told me then that it
would someday be banned I would have laughed in your face. smfh.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 31, 2017 10:08 PM (CNHr1)
I remember when, before cable tv, when it was one of the "big" movies that came on network TV every year.
The others being "The Ten Commandments" and "The Wizard of Oz"
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at August 31, 2017 11:58 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 11:59 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: biancaneve at August 31, 2017 11:59 PM (A/iod)
Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable Ca at August 31, 2017 11:37 PM (1vC3r)
Also, diseases aside, the living is somewhat easy; they don't need to get out and hustle to prepare, preserve food and build shelter for severe cold weather; food is relatively easy to come by year round, and you won't freeze to death in monsoons. They really don't build up much gumption or strong work ethic because there is no real need for any.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:00 AM (ihmYw)
So today, Rush was talking about Paul Anka.
Seems some group hired him to play a gig at Mar-A-Lago on December 5th. Paid him $75k in advance.
Then Charlottesville happens and all of a sudden, after 40 years in the public eye, Trump is a racist.
So, the group decides to move their party to another venue, on
another date, and expected that Paul Anka would agree to the change.
Mr. Anka had a family thing on the new date and said Sorry No Can Do.
The group asked him to refund the money they paid him, and Mr. Anka said Sorry Not Sorry.
He's keeping the money.
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (26wh7)
Pretty common for celebrities to do that.
It keeps the people putting the show on from booking them for one date and then trying to come back and move to a different date.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at September 01, 2017 12:00 AM (1JnAL)
*Waves to all, I'll prolly be up unable to sleep in a few hours.*
Posted by: Farmer at September 01, 2017 12:00 AM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 31, 2017 11:59 PM (mMeIQ)
He is also a published author.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:01 AM (ihmYw)
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BURN THE WITCH!!!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 01, 2017 12:01 AM (c8EhQ)
Were moo moo and MUMR the same person?
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Ri/rl)
No.
Monsieur Moo Moo
Mirror Universe Marco Rubio
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)
Wasn't it Mirror Universe Mitt Romney?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at September 01, 2017 12:01 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (K2SnJ)
So, young whippersnapper, you goof off on both days of the weekends? Sleep late weekdays, too? Where's your work ethic! Anything less than 12 hour days, six days a week is just being a slacker.
- Your Granpa
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:02 AM (knKQ1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 01, 2017 12:03 AM (c8EhQ)
my initial reaction is puzzlement. I guess I don't really understand this expression 'red pill.' more info, please?
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:04 AM (9OyZa)
In 1991, a community near me, Cerritos, was building their Center for the Performing Arts, and spending piles of cash to develop the thing.
Well, they wanted to open it up with a BIG splash. So they actually managed to book, for the very first act there...
Frank Sinatra. The city of Cerritos got him to sign a contract and everything.
So everyone at the city was mindbendingly excited... and then came the news, the Center couldn't be finished in time for Frank's performance dates, and it would take up to 6 months longer to finish the building and make it performance- and audience-ready.
So now the Cerritos people were scared shitless. They'd heard how difficult Frank could be, and figured if they asked him to push back his performance dates, he'd be super-pissed.
As it turns out... Sinatra was very understanding. His people simply asked, "well, when do you think he can perform?" They gave him a date they *knew* the construction crew etc could hit, and the show went on, on that later date. Sinatra also took the time during his performance to mention what a beautiful place he thought it was.
Anyway, wish I could have seen him then in Cerritos. All the shows were sold out in literally seconds.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:05 AM (eMKNe)
1. Fire ants make floating colonies when it floods
2. Streets in Houston are deliberately designed to hold water
I wonder what I don't know that's common knowledge for the rest of y'all. Probably stuff like what to do when there is snow (my assumption has always been that one simply dies).
(OK, so I did see some snow once and didn't die, but I wasn't a happy camper either.)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 01, 2017 12:05 AM (JPRju)
Posted by: Cicero
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He kind of devolved. It was like he began skipping his meds, then dropped off them altogether.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (5IJky)
- Your Granpa
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:02 AM (knKQ1)
You joke, but my grandfather worked every Saturday at the machine shop as a tool and die maker at 60 years old- although it was always half days on Saturdays, IIRC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (K2SnJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2017 11:41 PM (K2SnJ)
So, young whippersnapper, you goof off on both days of the weekends? Sleep late weekdays, too? Where's your work ethic! Anything less than 12 hour days, six days a week is just being a slacker.
- Your Granpa
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:02 AM (knKQ1)
Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (0mRoj)
One of the pills would kick you out of virtual reality while the other would keep you there.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (hvqfu)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (PUmDY)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at September 01, 2017 12:07 AM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:07 AM (5IJky)
Gertrude Himmelfarb is Bill Kristol's mother. So that's one in the minus column for her.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:07 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: AOSHQ Comm. for Prevention of Vice/Promotion of Virtue at September 01, 2017 12:08 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (5IJky)
Agree, I don't think he started off as such an ass. In fact I remember him being kind of funny.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:09 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:09 AM (eMKNe)
With a stick! With a stick!
Posted by: AOSHQ Comm. for Prevention of Vice/Promotion of Virtue at September 01, 2017 12:08 AM (QDnY+)
Oh, piss off.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 01, 2017 12:09 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 01, 2017 12:09 AM (hvqfu)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:09 AM (ihmYw)
and the Irish monks copied the Bible, keeping it alive when the rest of Europe was burning.
"the Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any 2 edged sword. . ."
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (9OyZa)
well, excepting maybe Tor Books.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (6FqZa)
Well, Houston isn't exactly known for its large amounts of snow so you're probably good there. It *can* get ice n the roads though, even that isn't common though, and if it does you *really* want to stay off the bridges since they are much too steep to be safe when icy.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: AOSHQ Comm. for Prevention of Vice/Promotion of Virtue
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You guys are real killjoys.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (5IJky)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:11 AM (eMKNe)
"And did those feet in ancient time..."
Beautiful song.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:12 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:12 AM (eMKNe)
"the Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any 2 edged sword. . ."
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:10 AM (9OyZa)
I suppose you could get a paper cut, but that really doesn't compare.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 01, 2017 12:13 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: AOSHQ Comm. for Prevention of Vice/Promotion of Virtue at September 01, 2017 12:13 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (eMKNe)
Spain and Portugal are something of its own story, on account of being stuck with Arab and Berber rule for so long.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (6FqZa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1OJBtU7a6w
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (/qEW2)
From Tucker's bio, he had a mother and a stepmom. His mother was Lisa McNear, and she left them when Tucker was 6.
Don't know much about the story, it didn't go into details. Some digging might find 'em.
His father remarried and the stepmother is Patricia Swanson, of the Swanson's frozen food empire.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (hvqfu)
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The Great European Fire of 1308?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 01, 2017 12:15 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at September 01, 2017 12:16 AM (hvqfu)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:16 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:16 AM (knKQ1)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at September 01, 2017 12:16 AM (mMeIQ)
At least they had whiskey.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:17 AM (6FqZa)
Speaking of which - Mrs Peel above was looking for inside tips, so. Used dryer sheets are outstanding in the brass cleaning process (for reloading). Put 'em in the walnut shell/corn cob medium you're using in the tumbler, they suppress dust and absorb lots of the residue/lead that comes off the cases.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 01, 2017 12:18 AM (QDnY+)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:19 AM (5IJky)
Oh, okay; that isn't who I'm thinking of. It must just be a same-name but no relation thing.
Thank you!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:19 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
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I've never figured out why they didn't develop vodka.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (5IJky)
I believe Klemperer was also actually Jewish.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:14 AM (eMKNe)
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His dad was Otto Klemperer, a Jew married to a Gentile and an orchestra conductor in Germany. He kept a fascinating diary of his life under Nazi rule.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (c8EhQ)
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2017 12:19 AM (5IJky
Do you think before paper people got scroll arm?
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (cAnNx)
Tonight after work, I went to one of those food stores with a super deli that makes italian, chinese, and great american food, and had some supper. Then i shopped for a few items.
5 or 6 times, this nice looking guy and i made eye contact. each time, he was expressionless. so i stayed that way too. He was walking out to his truck just after I did.
As I put my truck into reverse, I had this strong urge to put it back into park, fling open my door, and shout to him, "Is your name Insomniac?"
weird, I know. but true.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (9OyZa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:22 AM (eMKNe)
There is a Margaret Carlson, famous lefty hack who used to be on a lot of the talking head shows. I couldn't stand her.
I don't know what she's doing now.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:22 AM (8O3HH)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfKIq1Pmc8Q
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at September 01, 2017 12:23 AM (PUmDY)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at September 01, 2017 12:23 AM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 01, 2017 12:24 AM (QDnY+)
I don't know what she's doing now.
Managing WKRP in Cincinnati ...
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at September 01, 2017 12:24 AM (AoK0a)
Does she look kind of like Judith Miller? Because I used to confuse the two of them, I do remember that. ( I mean the one I thought was Tucker's mama and Judith Miller) Brb....
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:27 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 01, 2017 12:28 AM (QDnY+)
Well, there's worse howdya-do's you could use. I mean, if you wanted to get to know a guy...
HOWDY HORDELINGS and HORDELINGUS!
Wait, wha?
It's past my bedtime, but I'm a groan-up so I can stay up as long as I wanna. La la la la la.
Posted by: mindful webworker's third childhood at September 01, 2017 12:28 AM (4RRDi)
Funny, cuz she's younger than him!
But again, I think I thought she and Judith Miller were the same person.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:29 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:02 AM (knKQ1)
You joke, but my grandfather worked every Saturday at the machine shop as a tool and die maker at 60 years old- although it was always half days on Saturdays, IIRC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (K2SnJ)
I'm glad to read that. It means you understand what it meant to him. If he's still above the sod, tell him so.
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:29 AM (knKQ1)
She could. Just put Margaret Carlson in Google and her picture will show up. And Google Images will then get a bunch of 'em.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:30 AM (8O3HH)
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Given that a prosperous society all but requires the understanding that you don't cut someone's head off just because they looked at you funny, and given that a good-sized chunk of the Holy Bible (both Old and New Testament) revolves around telling people not to cut someone's head off because they looked at you funny...
... it's understandable.
It's more than that. Christianity gave us (tho it got it from Judaism) monotheism, from which the concept of absolute, objective right and wrong comes. That one of the 3 pillars responsible for modern western civilization (The other two are science/reason - the universe operates according to certain fixed laws that we can understand, and rule of law - laws apply universally to every human, king and commoner alike. We got those from the Greeks and English respectively.) No other civilization in the history of the world besides Western European/ American has incorporated all 3. It's the reason we're so successful.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 01, 2017 12:31 AM (zMICA)
So she probably IS old enough to be his mom and I just made the name connection.
But I did confuse her all the time with Judith Miller.
This was probably back when I was watching a lot of Hardball, and still liked Chris Matthews despite his politics.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:31 AM (ihmYw)
Margaret younger than who?
Tucker was born in 1969 according to his bio.
Margaret Carlson was born in 1944.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:32 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:33 AM (8O3HH)
See post right above you!
How are you feeling lately? Ol' Arthur (RA) behaving himself or is he acting up?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:34 AM (ihmYw)
and boulder terit hobo, my beliefs are these, that Western culture is Christian culture. The early church in Rome, then into Greece, across Europe (the mighty Luther) then fleeing to America. Those were Protestants. Western culture is Protestant not Catholic. The Catholics caused the dark ages, and nations who are predominantly Catholic, like Mexico, haven't prospered in the modern era as America has.
Nations who persecute Jews and Christians decline. We're at risk of declining now, but there is resurgence, thank God.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:35 AM (9OyZa)
...there are legends of the Lord Jesus Christ visiting Great Britain...
And visiting the AmerIndians, according to the Book of Mormon (IIRC). Presumably between resurrection and ascension, when he could travel light.
Which, regardless of the source of the idea, I always thought was a nice thought. I mean, the Son of God would like to touch all his earthly children, I would think.
Posted by: mindful webworker's theological conflations at September 01, 2017 12:35 AM (4RRDi)
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of uncertainty at September 01, 2017 12:36 AM (XKZwp)
The Muslims... sort of accepted that too. In places. Sporadically. Unfortunately there was always that temptation in Islam to promote God's Supreme Will over that.
So there were great Islamic scientists, but they tended to thrive very far from the centres of Islamic power. In places like Central Asia, and Umayyad Spain.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:36 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:37 AM (ihmYw)
Arthur is going steady as he goes, making his presence always known. But nothing really bad with him lately, just he steady constant attention seeking.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:37 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:39 AM (cAnNx)
Bastard treats me the exact same way.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:39 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:39 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:35 AM (9OyZa)
We're still declining, it just may have slowed down a bit. Whether it can be reversed remains to be seen.
Also remains to be seen whether Trump will be just a speed bump on the road to Prog scum Hell.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at September 01, 2017 12:40 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 01, 2017 12:40 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:40 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: The Gimp at September 01, 2017 12:41 AM (JlSFP)
I did not think I had it, but the doctors here say I do.
I will admit that my hands now look like I do!
But it's really only in my hands and feet, which I think is odd.
I have several other immunology issues, though, so what's one more, right???
God bless us, everyone.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:44 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:35 AM (9OyZa)
Identical circuitry, thought patterns there, ma'am.
Has nothing to do with race, region or origin.
Has EVERY thing to do with the hard-wiring of the human soul, mind and spirit.
That whole Born Again thing, doesn't just portend to salvation, but to the entire experience of existence on this here planet.
Western Civilization is the result.
And what you've seen in the Texas' response one towards another from the storm, is the PROOF.
Horde folk belong in Texas. It is your natural State.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:44 AM (MGCfm)
Were moo moo and MUMR the same person?
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2017 11:18 PM (Ri/rl)
No.
Monsieur Moo Moo
Mirror Universe Marco Rubio
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at August 31, 2017 11:25 PM (D2vc1)
Wasn't it Mirror Universe Mitt Romney?
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at September 01, 2017 12:01 AM (1JnAL)
Ok ok ok ok ok!!!!
/s
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at September 01, 2017 12:45 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of uncertainty at September 01, 2017 12:45 AM (XKZwp)
Posted by: NCKate at September 01, 2017 12:47 AM (QpIrM)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:47 AM (ihmYw)
Tammy, bless your heart. If your misery ever wants company, and the other Morons will tolerate it, we can have woe sessions or something.
Note to non-Southern morons. Above is the most sincere form of "bless your heart", expressing sympathy and empathy The sarcastic form derives from it. Some seem to always think it's an insult.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:48 AM (8O3HH)
As I put my truck into reverse, I had this strong urge to put it back into park, fling open my door, and shout to him, "Is your name Insomniac?"
weird, I know. but true.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:20 AM (9OyZa)
Wasn't me, but glad to know I was on your mind!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 01, 2017 12:49 AM (0mRoj)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:44 AM
We were stationed in San Antonio and I'm trying to convince Pooky to move back there, so I'm doing my part!
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of uncertainty at September 01, 2017 12:49 AM (XKZwp)
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I have been doing other, boring things...
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 12:49 AM (aT+Bx)
My prof is from Poland and seems a merry soul.
On Monday he mentioned the story about Macron's makeup expenses. I wonder if that story showed up in mainstream news or if perhaps my prof and I get our news i similar places.
This is at the same university where T9 was teaching.
I'm beginning to suspect he may not be a lefty. (There's at least one lefty in the math department. I've seen a sign on her door about being a hate-free zone, which makes me assume she must be pretty hateful.)
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 12:50 AM (ZapPq)
Gertrude Himmelfarb is Bill Kristol's mother. So that's one in the minus column for her.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:07 AM (8O3HH)
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Well, it just goes to show you.
One might think that the offspring of a great thinker like Irving Kristol and a brilliant scholar like Himmelfarb would be a bright light among the intellectualoids. But no.
Even before Billy Boy went off the rails, he was ...unremarkable. He was smart enough and could write well enough but he was nothing special. What would his fate have been had his parents been Joe and Martha Schmoe?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 01, 2017 12:50 AM (0jtPF)
What do you think Luther was talking about? and do you think it was a coincidence that Gutenberg invented the printing press just before Luther exemplified a believer reading the Bible himself and questioning the Catholic priests' status of keeper of the scripture?
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:51 AM (9OyZa)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:47 AM (ihmYw)
I love and fellowship with all of my JPII kinda Catholic Brothers n' Sisters in Christ.
And y'all need to effect a hostile takeover of your current CEO, and consign him to the Trump bin......"You're fired!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:51 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:52 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 12:54 AM (ZapPq)
What do you think Luther was talking about? and do you think it was a coincidence that Gutenberg invented the printing press just before Luther exemplified a believer reading the Bible himself and questioning the Catholic priests' status of keeper of the scripture?
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:51 AM (9OyZa)
Because Protestants definitely didn't kill anyone. Nope nobody. It was only those evil Catholics that did that stuff.
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:54 AM (cAnNx)
And y'all need to effect a hostile takeover of your current CEO, and consign him to the Trump bin......"You're fired!
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Yeah, we play the long game. He's old, and will eventually kick the bucket. That's the only benefit of having "elderly popes."
In the meantime, we starve the beast-- donate locally to our specific parish, but not to the things that the Archdiocese/ Vatican tell us we must support.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 12:54 AM (aT+Bx)
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 01, 2017 12:55 AM (/qEW2)
I'm a half-fast typist.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:55 AM (MGCfm)
Don't know if it helps any or not, but I'm looking at WGU for an online study for a computer security BS. Allegedly cheaper as they throw as much at you as you care to take on, and you can keep on truckin' year round. Last I looked it was about three grand every six months for tuition. There's options for testing out of stuff and for transfer credits.
My brother, Psycho, is attending American Military University, also online. He's going for their Cybersecurity BS.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 12:56 AM (IcT7t)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 12:44 AM (MGCfm)
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i will bitterly cling to the #GoldenState of our youth, and not the #Failifornia it has become, for as long as possible.
kindly keep my place at the table for me.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 12:56 AM (efxf0)
Posted by: God at September 01, 2017 12:57 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:02 AM (knKQ1)
You joke, but my grandfather worked every Saturday at the machine shop as a tool and die maker at 60 years old- although it was always half days on Saturdays, IIRC.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 12:06 AM (K2SnJ)
I'm glad to read that. It means you understand what it meant to him. If he's still above the sod, tell him so.
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 12:29 AM (knKQ1)
Sadly, no. He passed away a few years ago in his 90s. He was a good man. A tank driver in Patton's army. I miss him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 12:57 AM (K2SnJ)
With me, once the initial flares of onset were over, the damned stuff got in my knees, and destroyed my right hip. It's likely an injury I had from a fall gave it a head start on the hip.
It's everywhere, including my hands, but the damage is slower there.
The hand damage is very common, but I've been lucky there so far.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 12:57 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 12:56 AM (IcT7t)
So he's named Francis.
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:57 AM (cAnNx)
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He seems to be a Catholic who does not have a problem with the death penalty.
So... Old Testament guy.
Nice.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 12:57 AM (aT+Bx)
ALH and Ashley:
In 1991, a community near me, Cerritos, was building their Center
for the Performing Arts, and spending piles of cash to develop the
thing.
Well, they wanted to open it up with a BIG splash. So they actually managed to book, for the very first act there...
Frank Sinatra. The city of Cerritos got him to sign a contract and everything.
So everyone at the city was mindbendingly excited... and then came
the news, the Center couldn't be finished in time for Frank's
performance dates, and it would take up to 6 months longer to finish the
building and make it performance- and audience-ready.
So now the Cerritos people were scared shitless. They'd heard how
difficult Frank could be, and figured if they asked him to push back his
performance dates, he'd be super-pissed.
As it turns out... Sinatra was very understanding. His people simply
asked, "well, when do you think he can perform?" They gave him a date
they *knew* the construction crew etc could hit, and the show went on,
on that later date. Sinatra also took the time during his performance to
mention what a beautiful place he thought it was.
Anyway, wish I could have seen him then in Cerritos. All the shows were sold out in literally seconds.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 01, 2017 12:05 AM (eMKNe)
It was probably the 6 month delay that kept Sinatra under contract.
Plus, the Anka gig was in December, I'm betting he has a high demand level around the holidays.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at September 01, 2017 12:58 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 12:58 AM (K2SnJ)
Well, if you can't measure up to living in Oklahoma, I hear Texas (a/k/a South Oklahoma) is an acceptable substitute.
(Seriously, we've got too much Austin and Houston in our OKC and Tulsa, but otherwise...)
Posted by: mindful webworker's fifth generation Oklahoma roots at September 01, 2017 12:59 AM (4RRDi)
I am as Protestant a soul as you will ever find, sir; was raised a Holy Roller, though I suspect I was a Jew in prior lives and lean Buddhist in many ways!
But Thor is devoutly Catholic and I have come to understand them better now than I did when I was a child and terrified of them!
Frankly, I think a God Who created how many millions of species of creatures and such probably enjoys variety far more than we give Him credit for.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 12:59 AM (ihmYw)
not trying to insinuate one person is better than another. all of us are equally able to do wrong.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:59 AM (9OyZa)
No, Mama and Papa Basura actually used that on another brother. He changed it as soon as he legally could.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:00 AM (IcT7t)
My background is Disciples of Christ, the denomination that brought us Ronald Reagan AND Jim Jones. 'Course now they've gone completely off the rails -- we had some leader of the denomination breaking several commandments attending demonstrations trying to convince everyone that Zimmerman's self-defense was a racist crime.
Mr. Bassman and I don't even attempt to attend DoC churches anymore because they are likely to be anti-Scriptural.
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 01:00 AM (ZapPq)
not trying to insinuate one person is better than another. all of us are equally able to do wrong.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 12:59 AM (9OyZa)
You're talking ignorance and bias.
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 01:01 AM (cAnNx)
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don't look at me: i gave up being Catholic for Lent one year, and never went back. that being said, i'm not one to ignore fanciful history, as it were.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:01 AM (efxf0)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 12:56 AM (IcT7t)
Oh, I know there's options and Pooky had a website of over 400 colleges that would accept his CCAF degree. He was just spent after doing manual labor for 12 hours today, so I was willing to table the discussion.
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of uncertainty at September 01, 2017 01:01 AM (XKZwp)
Then on top of that he wants to legalize every drug possible, overtly give power to make laws (criminal punishments) to an out control judiciary, paralyze foreign policy by punting it to Congress even more than Obama did, and not even hint at border control and immigration policy among his priorities.
And that is better than Claire McCaskill because . . . he says he wants to do it so he can reduce regulations on business and balance the federal budget?
As with most "libertarians" masquerading as Republicans to get elected, there has got to be a better option.
Posted by: Sam at September 01, 2017 01:01 AM (J87Sn)
Drop me a line.
Buncha collector stuff, kosher, compliant, scarce and desirable.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (MGCfm)
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (9OyZa)
That makes sense. I"m grateful that mine isn't any worse than what it is, let me tell ya.
I broke all 10 toes at once in an unfortunate floor wax incident, and I am pretty sure that's partly to blame for my feet issues!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (ihmYw)
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Catholic here.
I suspect that Francis has the plan, which is something of an extension of a plan kind of started by Benedict.
It goes like this:
1. Get all Christian religions to reconcile and become Catholic
2. Fold in Islam. One BILLION violent retards, oh yeah.
3. New World Order/ One World Religion
4. Pope is Defacto Lord of the World
/which is why I think Francis panders to the Islam. One billion more people to rule over.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 01, 2017 01:03 AM (bIwZ6)
that would accept his CCAF degree. He was just spent after doing manual
labor for 12 hours today, so I was willing to table the discussion.
You'll someone a good wife someday.
Oh, wait, you already did.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:03 AM (IcT7t)
1. Get all Christian religions to reconcile and become Catholic
2. Fold in Islam. One BILLION violent retards, oh yeah.
3. New World Order/ One World Religion
4. Pope is Defacto Lord of the World
Evil to the core. from my studies of the Word, I know that God finds religion to be filthy.
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 01:06 AM (9OyZa)
I broke all 10 toes at once in an unfortunate floor wax incident, and I am pretty sure that's partly to blame for my feet issues!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (ihmYw)
Ow ow ow ow ow! Ow ow ow ow ow!
That must have been awful!
A dessert accident would have been less injurious.
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (ZapPq)
I don't know what this sub-thread is about, but I never saw any of those movies, anyway.
Posted by: mindful webworker's abject confusion at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (4RRDi)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (efxf0)
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (ZapPq)
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:54 AM (cAnNx)
Sure as Hell tried to make it so.
- Tomas de Torquemada: First grand inquisitor in Spain
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (knKQ1)
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 01:08 AM (9OyZa)
You'll someone a good wife someday.
Oh, wait, you already did.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:03 AM (IcT7t)
Hah, thanks! The child therapist who gave Pookette flying colors today was impressed that her first instinct when Daddy's stressed is to cuddle up to him. Some boy is going to be very lucky in the future.
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of uncertainty at September 01, 2017 01:08 AM (XKZwp)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:09 AM (efxf0)
I am partial to the mystics in any religion.
We are all God's children, people.
Some of them need to be sent straight back to their Maker for a good talking to, and I don't care if we use nukes to facilitate that meeting, but we ARE all God's children.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:10 AM (ihmYw)
YE GAWDS, TAMMY! I've broken L & R little toes, possibly, repeatedly, and ached for that for ages. My only bone-break experience, but sufficent.
I can't imagine. Floor wax incident must be classic.
Posted by: mindful webworker's sturdy skeleton at September 01, 2017 01:10 AM (4RRDi)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:07 AM (efxf0)
Linked in nic.
*break*
Hasta la nite nite, Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 01:11 AM (MGCfm)
All 10 toes at once? My Lord.
I've got a foot issue myself, a big one in the left front. It's a ginormous rheumatoid nodule between the second and third toe.
I was going to have it cut out a couple of years ago, but O-care screwed up the insurance, and the surgery center wasn't in the network, and so I'd have to get some other doc in network, blah, blah, blah.
I just got mad, said the hell with it, and have been living with it. I'll get it cut out if and when it becomes too unbearable.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:11 AM (8O3HH)
Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3v=sMmTkKz60W8
Might help a lot of leftys to listen to more Lynyrd Skynyrd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TgkCVDlrA
Posted by: X-ray at September 01, 2017 01:12 AM (ZKWca)
Posted by: booknlass at September 01, 2017 01:12 AM (9OyZa)
LOL!
It was, it was indeed very painful! For a few hours, and then it went numb,
And then it was back to being horribly painful for months. And then I took up ballroom dancing and they have hurt again ever since!
Well, until I had to quit dancing when I got the vestibular neuritis and couldn't walk for two years.
But that's when I finally delurked here after years and years, so I can't say as I regret it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:15 AM (ihmYw)
was impressed that her first instinct when Daddy's stressed is to cuddle
up to him. Some boy is going to be very lucky in the future.
Shows that you do good work.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:15 AM (IcT7t)
Oh God bless ya.
I too often find myself wondering, "how bad do I really need these toes anyway?"
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:17 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:02 AM (aT+Bx)
Putting other things aside, I think you think too much of him. He is a leftist liberation theology priest raised in a hard core communist country- but as a true believer. I hate to say this about the Holy Father, but I think that is his true religion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 01:17 AM (K2SnJ)
Dern toes HURT when you break the lil bastards, don't they?!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:18 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 12:54 AM (cAnNx)
We'll right that wrong in Civil War 2.0.
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at September 01, 2017 01:18 AM (Jcg9Q)
That's the line they're hoping the RINO squishes bite on (after the pillow).
I'm an immigrant (legal), and to that I say, bugger off.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Hmmm. 'immigrant' + 'bugger off' = Mongolian!!
We don't take YOUR kind around here!! Go back home you Yak jockey!!
:-)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 01, 2017 01:19 AM (3AYSm)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:09 AM (efxf0)
Sure. Before the current outbreak of 60 hour weeks and Saturdays, I had the gun bug to buy my first AR. Have not done it (the local gunshop- Bud's guns is closed on Sundays IIRC.) Still trying to decide what I want to get. My buddy suggested a S&W M&P 15 Sport II, I believe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 01:19 AM (K2SnJ)
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Mmmmmm...mmmm.mmmm...mmmmm!!!!!
Posted by: Pope Benedict XVI, Broadcasting from a broom closet in the Vatican at September 01, 2017 01:20 AM (c8EhQ)
Posted by: redc1c4
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mebbe.
Anyone have an informed opinion on a Remington 700 Long Range 4+1 30-06 SPRG 26"?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 01:20 AM (knKQ1)
Posted by: Sjg at September 01, 2017 01:20 AM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Country Boy - official AmbASSador to the CenTexMoMee at September 01, 2017 01:21 AM (Jcg9Q)
I'm not sure what to do. Their keyboardist is dead, and I've kind of hated them since Ritchie Blackmore left. Plus... they're in their 70's, and I have no doubt that Gillans voice is totally augmented, since it's been augmented since the first time I saw them in the 80's. I also kind of think that maybe I've outgrown them.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:21 AM (aT+Bx)
I don't care what anybody says, I know the nerds caused the dork ages.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:22 AM (IcT7t)
You do know how Oklahoma was founded, don't you? As the settlers were coming across the prairie, when they got to Oklahoma there was a sign that said "Texas, turn left". Those that could read....turned.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 01, 2017 01:22 AM (zMICA)
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Do you think that someone has to taste his food before he eats to to make sure it's not poisoned?
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:22 AM (aT+Bx)
Now for something really different. The cats were getting spooked, and there is some varmit lurking outside. It makes a strange cry. I think it's a fox, which I've seen around here. I listened to clips of various animal cries that I thought it might be a while back when I first heard it, and decided that was what it was.
I turned the lights on and made noise. But if anything gets after my babies, out comes the shootin' iron....
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:22 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Jim at September 01, 2017 01:11 AM
What Jim's nic link looks like:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/j_seigler@hotmail.com
which will, of course, net you a 404. It looks for a page on AOSHQ.
I THINK you have to put "mailto:" before the email address to make it work. May need more characters. Not sure. Let me know what you've found, if anything.
_____
The unofficial, unauthorized
Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide
still in need of updating
http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg
Posted by: mindful webworker's technical squeaking at September 01, 2017 01:23 AM (4RRDi)
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 01, 2017 01:23 AM (3AYSm)
OH hell, just go. Unless it's really expensive.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:23 AM (ihmYw)
I hate situations like that, the wild critter is probably scared or hurt or has babies of its own, but yet you can't let it hurt your own babies.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:25 AM (ihmYw)
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Toxic masculinity rips the living shit out of our fragile ecosystem, and Gaia weeps.
Posted by: Pope Benedict XVI, Broadcasting from a broom closet in the Vatican at September 01, 2017 01:26 AM (c8EhQ)
I have stubbed my toes enough to make all of 'em turn all shades of red, purple, yellow, and blue. I thought I had broken 'em, but not. I did that twice using a cane getting up to go pee in the middle of night. That was when the hip was getting really bad before I got it replaced.
I would stub my toes on the damn cane maneuvering in tight spaces in the dark.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:26 AM (8O3HH)
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I'm working after the show is over. I'll see it for free. I see everything for free.
However, I've been doing this a long time so after the first 15 years or so, you lose the ability to enjoy anything except a handful of bands.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:27 AM (aT+Bx)
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Are you one of the INTJ crowd publius? If yes, I can explain things, LOL.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:28 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:28 AM (efxf0)
From an outsider's perspective, it ain't him that you have to worry about, it's the cabal that broke with how many hundreds of years of tradition to install him.
That's some scary shit right there, because they figured he was the one least likely to rock the boat, so I reckon there's a lot more worse than him behind the scenes.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:29 AM (ihmYw)
That was how we weeded out the easily-distracted.
Posted by: mindful webworker's detour signs at September 01, 2017 01:29 AM (4RRDi)
Shibumi, I'm INTP(-T). You got me interested that stuff the other night and I took one of the tests.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:30 AM (8O3HH)
523: or Hank Williams Jr.
https://youtu.be/3cQNkIrg-Tk
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 01, 2017 01:23 AM (3AYSm)
Cajun Navy theme song?
Posted by: X-ray at September 01, 2017 01:30 AM (ZKWca)
That was most certainly my experience!!
Wore sandals for several years after the worst break. When I tried to go back to shoes, I found that I had to go up 1 or more sizes from the shoesize I'd had all my adult life, simply (I assume) because my foot bones were allowed to spread out more. IOW, I'd been wearing cramped shoes since I was 18.
Posted by: mindful webworker's dubious shoe size, ladies.... at September 01, 2017 01:31 AM (4RRDi)
The press conferences would be more fun!
I think he was mayor of Cincinnati at one time.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 01, 2017 01:31 AM (3AYSm)
Dang, he was great. Born for the part of JC Superstar, too.
Posted by: mindful webworker's musical mediocrity at September 01, 2017 01:33 AM (4RRDi)
Posted by: mindful webworker's jaded tastes at September 01, 2017 01:35 AM (4RRDi)
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given that the 700 platform has been adopted as a issue sniper rifle more than once, and they have been building them for decades, it the price point is competitive, and it has the features your friend wants, go for it. there ought to be some reviews on line, assuming it's been out a bit, so, if no one says "It's Shit!" it's likely a decent gun.
the 30.06 has killed more than its fair share of creatures over the years, and comes in a variety of flavors, so it oughta git'er done, no matter what the intended use.
having just picked up an FN action Weatherby (1961) in 300 Weatherby Magnum, i'm not in the market currently for another bolt action 30.06, of which i have several.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:36 AM (efxf0)
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I thought you were an "N."
That's what matters in this case, the "N."
Confession: I have always been somewhat of a klutz. I can work in dangerous situations and be fine ,but at home, I will trip on nothing. I run into the corner of the counter and I am forever stubbing my toes, or dropping something on them. Right now, both big goes have some sort of injury until the toenail.
N's live in their heads. They are so busy thinking that they can be klutzes.
In other words: thoughts can, at times, be more interesting than the external world, and doing things like "navigating the kitchen without running into something."
BTW... the "P" designation means you're fun!
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:36 AM (aT+Bx)
Well, as I was going on about in one of those threads the other night or two, I did remember I was INTP (well, thought so) from all sorts of tests we took in college. Damned psych elective, and at the time, I hated the social "sciences" crap. I had to take one of them.
Anyway, I wanted to be Mr. Spock at the time (majoring in Physics -- and a damn lot of good I did with it....:sigh
.
It surprised me that I scored off the charts on "empathy". I remember they said I "pegged the meter" on that metric, and to get a proper score would require scaled up tests.
I thought that was B.S., but the older and wise psych docs schooled me on it, describing me to a T, showing.
And reading that information on the INTP category had the same effect. Ringing bells about my own behavior and how others see and relate to me.
I'm not as dismissive of all that now, and it's sort of fun to read up on it.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:37 AM (8O3HH)
Ace of Spades Blog Commenters Survival Guide
still in need of updating
http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg
Posted by: mindful webworker's technical squeaking at September 01, 2017 01:23 AM (4RRDi)
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when i link my e-mail addy (one of them) i just put it in there, all by its lonesome.
that way the reader can simply copy and paste.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 01:39 AM (efxf0)
Now for something really different. The cats were getting spooked, and there is some varmit lurking outside. It makes a strange cry. I think it's a fox, which I've seen around here. I listened to clips of various animal cries that I thought it might be a while back when I first heard it, and decided that was what it was.
I turned the lights on and made noise. But if anything gets after my babies, out comes the shootin' iron....
Posted by: publius
Thanks for the warning.
Keep looking for that fox.
Hey, are you missing a laptop?
- Sneaky Raccoon, with little fingers, on a stolen laptop, in the shadows
Posted by: Only after the first date! at September 01, 2017 01:39 AM (knKQ1)
Hurts like a sonofabitch just to stub them.
I broke all 10 plus some bones in my left foot.
Mama had just waxed this little 3 foot patch of floor we had in front of the front door; the rest of the floor was carpeted, but they had to leave the floor bare right there so the door would open. The stairs ended at that bare patch.
I didn't realize she had waxed it and came running down the stairs to answer the phone before one of my brothers did and hit that wet floor at full speed. Slid right into the door. It happened so fast my feet stayed flat, too. Everyone heard it ; my youngest brother thought it was firecrackers.
My mama, who was a nurse practitioner and tough as nails, was tired and didn't want to go back to the hospital after working a double shift and then cleaning the house, decided I should be able to wait and see how it felt in a few days!
It was months before I could even wear shoes.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:40 AM (ihmYw)
>> laptop, in the shadows
Oh, you must have forgotten what I did to one of your little friends who picked a fight with one of my cats several years ago.....
Seriously, I'm such a pussy about animals, it's embarrassing. I felt bad about killing that raccoon, and have felt bad about every damned animal I've had to kill.
But don't mess with my cats. If I got another dog, they can be good about keeping varmits away like that.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:44 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 01:45 AM (ZapPq)
Posted by: Devotion at September 01, 2017 01:46 AM (QjxTy)
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Here's the thing. The first time I saw them was maybe '84 or so. When the bank reformed. Yes, it was a decade later than their heyday, but Gillan should have sounded good.
But.. he didn't. I knew NOTHING about things back then, but I did know that he sounded nothing like he did on the albums.
Which could mean that they've been processing him for years.
Or that after he left Purple in the 70's, his voice was trashed.
BTW... that's one of the reasons that Ritchie Blackmore left the band in the 90's; he felt Gillan sounded absolutely awful.
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:48 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Emmie at September 01, 2017 01:49 AM (ZapPq)
In other words: thoughts can, at times, be more interesting than the external world, and doing things like "navigating the kitchen without running into something."
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Oh yes, indeed. Back in college, some girl I was seeing to me, "How can you just sit there and stare at the wall?!"
"I'm thinking". She could not (and a lot of people) grasp how anyone could do that. IIRC, I was going over some deep part of the Maxwellian dance of EM Theory for some course, trying to something subtle to "click" in head.
My balance and all that has always been very good.
But what's messing me up is this damnable RA Tammy and I were discussing.
Because of the damage and the pain, I can't react lightning fast to keep my balance. I'm also getting the "dropsies". This is due to joint damage in the hands.
Holding on to things with normal pressure hurts, and so my brain tends to overestimate how tightly I'm holding something based on the pressure-pain threshold.
I can indeed get lost in thought, but this RA is a physical reason for stuff like this.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 01:49 AM (8O3HH)
Always felt the effort to deal with AoSHQ's peculiarities was worth it. Kind of a rite of passage, too.
Posted by: mindful webworker - tip your waitress not the cow at September 01, 2017 01:50 AM (4RRDi)
so, you lose the ability to enjoy anything except a handful of bands.
You must be a Strange Kind of Woman. If you don't go it will be a Black Knight.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:52 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: shibumi at September 01, 2017 01:54 AM (aT+Bx)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 01:55 AM (IcT7t)
I am one of those people who is very outgoing in social settings, but it exhausts me and I have to recuperate for days.
But I am definitely not as sensitive as they seem to rank.
I think Thor is an Isfj
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:58 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at September 01, 2017 01:59 AM (QMwOT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 01, 2017 01:17 AM (K2SnJ)
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I would not call Argentina a "hardcore communist country" by any stretch of the imagination. It's a leftish corruptocracy, rather like Chicago, but without the racial minorities.
If Francis had actually lived under totalitarian rule, as JPII and Benedict both did, he would likely have a much, much more skeptical view of the State.
As it is, he a faculty-lounge commie, as our own Left is, swooning over the Castros and Hugo Chavezes, imagining that they are using state power for good instead of for corruption. Because they aren't dirty capitalists!
And nothing, not the suffering in Venezuela now, not the fat offshore accounts of the dictators, not the persecution of the Church in Cuba or China, will shake his faith.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 01, 2017 02:00 AM (0jtPF)
Yotes will emit very weird random vocalizations. Then will eat any smaller animal that gets curious and comes to look.
Foxes have been comparatively quiet in my experience of them.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 01, 2017 02:02 AM (ujwCG)
Oh yes, Tammy. Me too. Having to interact in a big social event is *exhausting* to me. And the reasons why are interesting, as all this personality typology gets into.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 02:02 AM (8O3HH)
There *could be* coyotes around here, and a neighbor or two have thought they heard them.
However, I know for a fact that foxes are around here, because I've seen them with my own two peepers. One during daylight, and that made me wonder if he was rabid or something.
Listen to some of the audio of various fox sounds. To my ears, one of those is the closest to what I was hearing.
But I could be completely wrong, of course.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at September 01, 2017 02:05 AM (8O3HH)
http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1504244712651.jpg
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 01, 2017 02:06 AM (XFue2)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2017 02:09 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 01:40 AM (ihmYw)
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Holy carp.
Is it wrong if I immediately think of your mother and wonder if she EVER got over the guilt?!?
I mean, even if swift attention wouldn't have made much difference, I'd still be flagellating myself about it!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 01, 2017 02:09 AM (0jtPF)
My exhaustion tends to come afterwards; I am generally downright exhilarated by it as it happens. I dread the event, then when i walk into it, it's like a switch gets turned on; I feed off the energy. I am usually the life of the party, and it's not an act, I really do have a ball.
But once I get in the car, I'm all... "Jesus God Almighty, get me the hell HOME and away from all these damn people" and then I won't leave the house for days and it'll be literally years before I socialize beyond obligatory family functions like Christmas or important life events like a wedding!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:11 AM (ihmYw)
fresh dirt in the far back section. I thought it was a pain in the ass
ground hog that's here every day. Then just yesterday I saw 2 foxes in
the yard, and one made a dash to the hole.
Time to rig up some claymores.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 02:12 AM (IcT7t)
He's keeping the money.
Posted by: ALH at August 31, 2017 10:56 PM (26wh7)
Like a boss!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2017 02:13 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2017 11:00 PM (dnWSK)
Judging from the sat photo, the truck guy was never in any real danger. He was a dummy who apparently drove over a curb and into a swale in an effort to get from one parking lot to another. So his truck floated downstream a few yards until it took on enough water to sink. Guy was in waist-deep water and could have waded to shore.
I don't think you can call it a "rescue" unless the person being "rescued" is in, you know, actual peril. Not inconvenience, not discomfort, but peril.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2017 02:18 AM (2le8w)
Oh hell no, she never felt guilty. For one thing, I was a bit of a drama queen when I was a little kid, and she never forgot that.
But she is herself very,very strong. Like, her appendix burst at the supper table one night, and all she did was make a kind of weird face go "OH, umph". Daddy just scooped her up and ran her to the hospital.
Two ectopic pregnancies, just sat there sweating til one of my aunties made her get in the car. Blew her fallopian tube each time, barely whimpered.
And she had scleral buckles done on both eyes under local anesthesia.
So,no... she never felt too bad!
Both my parents have very high pain tolerance, and I do too. I have a pretty low pain threshold, but I tolerate pain very well as a rule.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:18 AM (ihmYw)
Austin Petersen wants to gut the military, impose a harshly recessive
income tax, and "reform" corporate tax by giving no consideration to the
costs of starting up a business versus the costs of maintaining a
large, dominant one (since he declares he wants to treat them EXACTLY
the same).
Then on top of that he wants to legalize every drug possible,
overtly give power to make laws (criminal punishments) to an out control
judiciary, paralyze foreign policy by punting it to Congress even more
than Obama did, and not even hint at border control and immigration
policy among his priorities.
And that is better than Claire McCaskill because . . . he says he
wants to do it so he can reduce regulations on business and balance the
federal budget?
As with most "libertarians" masquerading as Republicans to get elected, there has got to be a better option.
So, which campaign do you work for? Quite a dog's breakfast of scurrilous bullshit you have there. Let's take the biggest one first: Taxes. AP favors a flat tax, across the board, and I say amen. Govt's legitimate role has a cost, and a flat tax is the fairest way to meet them. If you make a dollar, you pay $.15. If you make a billion dollars, you pay 150 mil. Absolutely and completely fair. Calling it regressive (which was the word I think you wanted) is just a flat out lie. Regressive would be charging the poor more than the rich. Everyone paying the same isn't even close to that.
"Gut the military". If that's what you get from calling for no more nation building, then again, it's a lie. Now, I don't agree with libertarians on some stuff, and foreign policy is one of them. In fact, in my perfect world, we'd be willing to pay the monetary and human costs to maintain Pax Americana, and we'd actually DO it in the same way Rome maintained Pax Romana. But we're not willing to do that, so "No nation building" seems to me to be a good fall back from our current policy of wasting American dollars and lives for nothing.
Drugs? The war on drugs has been a complete and utter disaster, ruining lives and more importantly stealing liberty right and left. I don't like drugs and what they do, but I like the war on drugs less.
I'm not going to fisk your post point by point anymore, anyone who is interested can go to AP's page and decide for themselves, but I will say this: No politician is ever going to do exactly what I think should be done(read: The right thing.
) 100% of the time. Absent that, I want to know what their instincts are going to be in any given situation. They will all tell you anything to get elected, but then do differently when the next election is 6 years off (See, McCain, John; Obamacare, border wall, his whole career). I want someone whose instincts, when he is not vying for my vote, are towards less government and more individual liberty. I have no doubt that AP's run in exactly that course.Posted by: Weirddave at September 01, 2017 02:20 AM (0otiP)
You maybe getting some wee kits in a little while. Not sure if they only have one litter in the spring, or keep on til winter.
We have some now and then. They are damn cute, just adorable, like a cross between pups and kittens.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:21 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 01, 2017 02:12 AM (IcT7t)
I have no idea what to do with them. From what I hear they don't bother people, but will probably kill everything that comes into the yard. All this shit comes out of the woods and decides to use the yard as their personal estate.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2017 02:22 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:18 AM (ihmYw)
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Tough cookies in that family jar!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 01, 2017 02:24 AM (0jtPF)
Do y'all have outdoor pets?
Our foxes never caused any trouble at all, but we didn't have cats at the time, and we're on 12 acres, so they had plenty of space.
We haven't had any lately. (foxes)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:25 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: MAxIE at September 01, 2017 02:25 AM (9TR2V)
We have some now and then. They are damn cute, just adorable, like a cross between pups and kittens.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:21 AM (ihmYw)
They got balls that's for sure, making a nest where they did. I have a stream in back and I swear one of them was soaked, like he went for a swim. That's all I need, club fox. Well not this kind anyway. lol
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2017 02:26 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 01, 2017 02:26 AM (XFue2)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:26 AM (ihmYw)
You don't need the other kind, either! Even worse trouble...
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:27 AM (ihmYw)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:29 AM (ihmYw)
I asked how they were doing for food - she admitted they were running 'very low'. I gave her about 5 lbs. of granola that I had made up last week in anticipation of Harvey.
She was a very level-headed intelligent young lady before going off to University of Texas - Austin 4 yrs. ago. That's where she met idiot boyfriend about a year ago. She is now a vegan SJW under the sway of this jerk.I try hard to limit my overt dislike of this guy - BUT he makes no effort to get along with me. Consequently I find excuses not to attend when there is a family get-together where he is.
First met this guy last Christmas when they arrived with their 6 month old Rottweiler - named 'Bowie'. The conversation went like this.
Me - "Bowie! Alright! Call him Colonel for short!"
Him: 'Huh?"
Me: "Colonel Bowie! The Alamo!"
Him: "Huh?"
Me: "We're in San Antonio TEXAS, son, you named the dog after Jim Bowie right?"
Him: "Uh, no. The musician."
Me: "Huh?"
Him: "The musician."
Pause while I sort this out. Finally I figure who he's talking about.
Me: "The rock-star guy?"
Him: "Yeah!"
Me: 'What part of California you from, boy?"
Him:. "Uh, San Francisco. How'd you know?"
Me: "Wild ass guess, boy. Wild. Ass. Guess."
Later my grand-daughter told me I'd been rude to call him "boy".
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 02:29 AM (tUF5z)
Our foxes never caused any trouble at all, but we didn't have cats at the time, and we're on 12 acres, so they had plenty of space.
We haven't had any lately. (foxes)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 01, 2017 02:25 AM (ihmYw)
No pets. There are things that constantly come into the yard. The constant is the chipmonks. They have been around forever, and always come up on the back porch. Then there is a pain in the ass ground hog. There were a few rabbits, and it took probably 20 years before I ever saw a rabbit here, and now with the fox here who knows if I'll see the rabbits. There are 2 cats that come in separately and hang out. Occasionally a wild turkey, and even a stupid big turtle. If it floods the geese sail up to the yard like frigging Vikings. Deer, can't forget the deer, they come by every so often. Raccoons, frigging possum, squirrels, birds....
Pets no, but a frigging zoo? Probably. I'm waiting for a "the enemy is moving against each other" public event. Then I'm gonna wig.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2017 02:35 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: National Lampoon's Sally Quinn at September 01, 2017 02:43 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 02:29 AM (tUF5z)
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Now all you need is for the boy to step on your lawn!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 01, 2017 02:48 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 02:51 AM (tUF5z)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2017 02:51 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2017 02:56 AM (2le8w)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 01, 2017 03:00 AM (0LaWm)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 02:29 AM (tUF5z)
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you were polite not to rip off his head and shit down his neck, as he so well deserved. tell him i said so.
also tell them they are SOL on using your car and should take public transit or Uber. painful lessons are the best ones.
as a #Failifornia native, you have my permission mock him mercilessly for shaming our once great state with his idiocy.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 03:10 AM (efxf0)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 01, 2017 02:26 AM (XFue2)
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is this Lurking Cynic's problem GD's boy toy?
seems to fit.
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 03:16 AM (efxf0)
The way the boy pronounced "Bowie" was a hint as to what you were dealing with, no?
Posted by: FireHorse at September 01, 2017 03:21 AM (zkGZ8)
SJW FAIL! ... My grand-daughter woke me up an hour ago - she and her
boyfriend want to borrow my car tomorrow. No big thing EXCEPT I talked
with her Tues. A. M. and reminded her to fill up their cars while there
was still gas available in San Antonio. They didn't and now they can't
find gas. Why not? Boyfriend thought the 'Old fart' (his words) is an
over-reacting 'fool prepper'.
Unless it's life or death, I'd say no way in hell. I've done the same to my son who got infected with the Commie bug when he lived in Canada, and I'll do it again. Tell her your fool prepper self is hording the gas in the car.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 01, 2017 03:41 AM (0otiP)
Where was the House election a few years back where some commenter appeared doing the exact same thing? Using just regular names and shilling hard against/for a certain candidate. And then in a later thread with a new name said they worked for the campaign. But posts before and after that never disclosed it, and they were always drive bys.
Posted by: buzzion at September 01, 2017 04:10 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 04:12 AM (dqXSA)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2017 04:12 AM (pPKG5)
only ~2 minutes behind Left Coast time (+3 hours, of course)
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 01, 2017 04:14 AM (dqXSA)
0420hrs
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2017 04:19 AM (pPKG5)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2017 04:37 AM (pPKG5)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 01, 2017 04:43 AM (/qEW2)
She has already grown tired of his nasty comments about my military service and called him on it when I was around. Remaining a loving and helpful Grandpa seems - at this time - to be the best course. The granola surprised her. The fact I'd made it in advance made a visible impact. Knowing that I practice what I preach is a stark contrast to his whiney bitchiness.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 04:56 AM (tUF5z)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2017 05:02 AM (pPKG5)
I *may* have made a bit of that up.
Hurricane Irma is gonna be one nasty bitch, as she is expected to hit wind speeds up to 180 mph??!? Ho Lee Fuk sez hi. She's at 115 mph right now, and should smack into Puerto Rico somewhere around Tuesday. Zh has the skinny.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 01, 2017 05:14 AM (0ogQG)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 01, 2017 05:26 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 05:47 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2017 05:47 AM (SJJ4x)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 05:49 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2017 05:54 AM (SJJ4x)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 05:58 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: Skip at September 01, 2017 05:02 AM (pPKG5)
Yeah. If HC Sandy taught any lesson to the 200,000 homeowners flooded, it's that in the end don't expect the government to fix your home and pick up the tab. Get busy*. Despite Governor Christie pandering to Obama the state - a definite blue state - got the shaft in the end.
Will the 100,000 homeowners flooded in Texas receive better treatment under Trump? Just what position will Ted Cruz now take that it's the residents of his own state that are effected?
It's going to be interesting times. I hate living in interesting times.
* Most insurance policies require people to 'mitigate' damage. In other words don't let stuff get worse. If you have a hole in the roof, buy a tarp, or else they may not pay for further rain damage. It's important to remember.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 06:12 AM (EgwCt)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 06:25 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: Jean at September 01, 2017 06:28 AM (9TU00)
HC Irma? Early prediction of 950 mb ass kicker
https://mobile.twitter.com/garrettbastardi/status
/903413870387191809/photo/1
East Coast Morons might want to follow Joe Bastardi in the coming days...
https://mobile.twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 06:29 AM (EgwCt)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2017 06:31 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 06:32 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 06:32 AM (mxS7w)
Yup. Definite East Coast nightmare almost all models predict. Nightmare or nothing. Definitely turning north and east at some point. How far of each will determine impact.
Pretty clearly not heading into the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 06:37 AM (EgwCt)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 06:42 AM (UC5ui)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 06:42 AM (UC5ui)
Shhhh. Don't tell. The MSM will go into full hair-on-fire mode encouraging everyone to simultaneously fill up automobiles and gas cans and we'll be bone dry in days.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 06:47 AM (EgwCt)
Posted by: saf at September 01, 2017 06:48 AM (cS/ge)
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 06:47 AM (EgwCt)
Yeah. Fox four in Dallas last night tried to claim that we are not responsible for how you respond to our new stories. Bullshit, if you say there's a shortage, and there is no shortage, you made the shortage.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 06:57 AM (UC5ui)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 07:01 AM (mxS7w)
Update: Stations 4, 5, 7 & 9 were out of gas. Stations 6, 10, 11 & 12 had gas.
Thanks MSM for creating the "shortage".
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 07:13 AM (UC5ui)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 07:15 AM (mxS7w)
Six 'out of gas' and five 'with gas'. Not good going into Labor Day Weekend.
Might not be the best time for that cross-country trip.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 07:16 AM (EgwCt)
Might not be the best time for that cross-country trip.
That's just the Dallas area and the fucking media creating a crisis where none exists.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 07:18 AM (UC5ui)
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at September 01, 2017 07:18 AM (tUF5z)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 01, 2017 07:20 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 01, 2017 07:20 AM (J+eG2)
Good for you.
And with that, work preps commence.
Have a serene day everyone. May you have working traffic lights that turn green as you approach. Because the brave new world that the left wants has no electricity for the proles.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 01, 2017 07:21 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2017 07:18 AM (UC5ui)
It's bound to spread. The media will make sure of that.
It's all about the ratings. Pressing the panic button is always good for ratings.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 01, 2017 07:22 AM (EgwCt)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 07:22 AM (mxS7w)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 01, 2017 07:25 AM (iLJUQ)
That is all.
Posted by: Horde PSA at September 01, 2017 07:29 AM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Infidel at September 01, 2017 07:32 AM (mxS7w)
Christ is in you.
http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Indwelling-Of-Christ
Posted by: Mudd at September 01, 2017 09:59 AM (cfHE9)
None. I don't need to work for a campaign to oppose someone.
But since you were making a paid endorsement, I understand why you would be upset that I disagree with it.
"Govt's legitimate role has a cost, and a flat tax is the fairest way to meet them."
Or not. The more risk, the higher the percentage you pay to cover your property. That is fair. The rich have way more skin in the game than the poor.
And yes, I meant "regressive". Typos happen.
"If that's what you get from calling for no more nation building, then again, it's a lie."
That's what I get from that weasel wording, which is what "libertarians" love to wallow in.
"I don't like drugs and what they do, but I like the war on drugs less."
Which means dumping thousands of violent drug offenders back on the streets? Sometimes the cure for the cure is worse than the cure for the disease.
"No politician is ever going to do exactly what I think should be done(read: The right thing. ) 100% of the time. Absent that, I want to know what their instincts are going to be in any given situation. They will all tell you anything to get elected, but then do differently when the next election is 6 years off (See, McCain, John; Obamacare, border wall, his whole career)."
So do I.
Which is why I why I reject Petersen for the same old fatally flawed "libertarian" promises followed by suspicious support for the opposition (See, Paul, Rand; praise for OWS, sentencing reform, general grandstanding).
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