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Saudi King Abdullah Has Died, Replaced By Crown Prince Salman
Over at Bloomberg, just a news blurb at the top of the page so far.
Now, the way I heard it -- and who knows what the hell the truth is -- is that King Abdullah was more or less pro-Western and Not Insane but the many princes surrounding him were Pro Al Qaeda. What does his death do as far as Saudi Arabia's ugly game of playing Al Qaeda and the US off each other? I don't know. And Open Thread: Heading out for a bit before our podcast.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 22, 2015 06:23 PM (vgIRn)
Posted by: Eromero at January 22, 2015 06:24 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:24 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Eromero at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (sj3Ax)
Not to worry; Obama and his renowned team will handle this with their usual aplomb. I hope TFG is reading the papers today to find out about it, or should we put it on his website?
Posted by: PJ at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (cHuNI)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 22, 2015 06:26 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 06:26 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: King Abdullah at January 22, 2015 06:26 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at January 22, 2015 06:26 PM (0RdKg)
One has sweet fuckall to do with the other...
I'm more concerned with Salman's evangelical zeal than their production games.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:27 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 22, 2015 06:27 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 06:27 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: no good deed at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (w3a0Z)
Posted by: JEM at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Queen Barry I at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (GuwT9)
Posted by: King Abdullah at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (6/J77)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 22, 2015 06:28 PM (jhmla)
Posted by: LeBron Horowitz at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (2DVgX)
Posted by: Abdulla at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (AbFmZ)
I don't know what to make of this, so I'll just sit here quietly and let you all gather information for me.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (dFi94)
Guy's biggest impact will be in selecting his successor....
He has ~ 21 years give or take by genetics....
his dad reigned about a decade....
the BEST case would have been Bandar getting the nod BUT fate doesn't smile at the west much these days.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:29 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: despair at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (dcY7v)
Posted by: Luap Nor Etutitsni at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (LKBn6)
Posted by: Tommy Brady at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (klaU/)
will he bow and kiss hands?
will he take a selfie?
will he get down on his hands and knees on his prayer rug?
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (nFDNo)
Posted by: McAdams at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (yGD7t)
I'll stick to my prediction that the Saudi royal family will be high-tailing it out of the country by the end of the year, and ISIS will have spread into the Saudi cities. The collapse may not come for a couple of years, but we'll start to see it soon.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (OiH3z)
Posted by: Eromero at January 22, 2015 06:24 PM (go5uR)
Seventy-two crying women locking themselves in the bathroom on the phone with their mothers? No, thanks.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (vgIRn)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator
I can guarantee it.
Posted by: Reggie at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (3rrMW)
Posted by: Zombie Eddard Stark at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (PyRKS)
Posted by: Grecian Formula Inc. at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (OiH3z)
That won't happen! Just look at the success we've had keeping Yemen pro-Western!
Posted by: State Dept. Spokes-hole at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (zOTsN)
My, my, my. It's almost like the world is a dangerous and unpredictable place isn't it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (AbFmZ)
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:27 PM (/4AZU)Actually, the two are related. The Saudis have used oil money for decades to basically pay off the radicals to go elsewhere.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (OiH3z)
It's either gonna be that or Salman gets his Reza Palavi on and the Saudi Secret Police kills the right folks...
a *lot* of money at stake so we'll see.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (/4AZU)
I'm more concerned with Salman's evangelical zeal than their production games.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:27 PM (/4AZU)
_________
Oil has everything to do with it.
Cheap oil is less money, which leads to restless population which leads to interesting times.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: gastorab at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (FX38i)
Posted by: Kramer at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (XCD15)
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (PyRKS)
My, my, my. It's almost like the world is a dangerous and unpredictable place isn't it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (AbFmZ)
Interesting times, indeed...
Posted by: The Intresting Hat at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: McAdams at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (yGD7t)The problem is that the Saudis have been reliable US allies, so taking them out would have undermined other alliances in the region. Additionally, US troops occupying Mecca would have made Iraq look like a school-yard scuffle.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:34 PM (OiH3z)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:30 PM (sj3Ax)
*golf clap* well done
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 06:34 PM (6fyGz)
I'll stick to my prediction that the Saudi royal family will be high-tailing it out of the country by the end of the year, and ISIS will have spread into the Saudi cities. The collapse may not come for a couple of years, but we'll start to see it soon.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (OiH3z)
I could have given you an out, so now ya' gonna really suffer.
Posted by: Ebola at January 22, 2015 06:34 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (PyRKS)<<<
You think you got it bad **starts sobbing**
Posted by: Bugatti Dealerships at January 22, 2015 06:34 PM (LKBn6)
Queen Barry sock!
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:35 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2015 06:35 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:35 PM (AbFmZ)
a *lot* of money at stake so we'll see.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:33 PM (/4AZU)Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of faith in the Saudi state agencies. Too much nepotism and corruption. Too many people willing to switch sides in hopes of keeping a seat of power in the new Islamic caliphate.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:35 PM (OiH3z)
2. This year's Haj should be a real hoot.
3. If you think Syria is fcuked now you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Posted by: joncelli at January 22, 2015 06:36 PM (ENczY)
Nope....it is a decision matrix game...
personally the House of Saud gets more international power from cheap oil than expensive....they get (theoretical) domestic stability with high put price....
I always enjoy Donkey here rhapsodizing about the evils of trickle down...when it is their Arab buddies SOP....
My money is on the Sauds trying to shoot the gap and get price back to ~65 $BB
we'll see...or we won't....I'm past taking anything for granted.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:36 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:36 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 22, 2015 06:37 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Wm. Belichick at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (AbFmZ)
family will be high-tailing it out of the country by the end of the
year, and ISIS will have spread into the Saudi cities. The collapse may
not come for a couple of years, but we'll start to see it soon. Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (OiH3z)
So I have a few years to wait before the End Times? Good to know. In the meantime we shall live with Wars and Rumors of Wars to keep us occupied.
Posted by: LizLem at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (yRwC8)
He's always said he didn't know about it( whatever scandal) until he read it in the newspapers.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (sj3Ax)
That and probably the Majestic tapeworm...
Saud oil money is part of their vitality secret....
Hell the Soviets kept people "alive" a decade past their sell-by date in the Politburo
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (/4AZU)
Well, it wasn't like Iraq was exactly a cake walk. I think they easily could have surgically wiped out the heads in Saudi Arabia that were funding terrorism MUCH easier than actually invading a country like Iraq.
They would get the message real quick. Instead, we went out of our way with nonsense like flying all the Bin Laden family out of the country as a courtesy.
Posted by: McAdams at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (yGD7t)
Do the cobloggers take turns walking him, or is there a run in the yard?
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (PyRKS)
Do you know the real reason obama doesn't want to *appear* to be helping Netanyahu too close to the Israeli elections?
Because obama is probably secretly helping to defeat Netanyahu. At the very least, obama wants Netanyahu gone. Is he doing something to make that happen? Probably
Posted by: Reflective Alternate-Reality Soothsayer at January 22, 2015 06:40 PM (/GL5b)
If not, he'd better hop it over there and start groveling.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:40 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Wm. Belichick at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (5voqw)
Yeah, that's what I said.
Posted by: Joe Paterno at January 22, 2015 06:40 PM (klaU/)
Don't you have to be a terrorist for 72 virgins?
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM (sj3Ax)
I'm betting he was a HUGE fan so he's probably covered.
But you bring up more questions!
I'm wondering though, are the virgins tailored to each man's desires? If the King likes redheads, does he get all redheads? Or do the virgins come in a variety pack or redheads, brunettes, blondes and a couple of bald ones for more exotic tastes.
And what if the King really likes long legs and tiny breasts? Does he get all long legs and tiny breasts or is it like a variety pack at KFC?
And does the King get to name the virgins? It would kind of suck to get to eternal paradise and have un-sexy, non-stripper names like Esther and Mildred.
There ought to be some feminists we could ask about this....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 06:40 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: gracepmc at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (xvd51)
Posted by: dogfish at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (1vYi0)
I don't think that's much of a secret.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (dFi94)
Sounds vaguely like business as usual.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (AbFmZ)
Lucky! Am still waiting for mine so I can being poste haste on expounding on the greatest evil of our time, global warming...
Posted by: Prince Charles at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (yRwC8)
Salman's half a nutcase minimum....
which means either a bumpy ride or he has a defacto power behind the throne...
Personally I think Salman is King like Uncle Junior was Tony's "boss"
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Reggie Love at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (Qs8ZN)
Posted by: @votermom at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (cbfNE)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (sj3Ax)
Yes I know, your comment was excellent.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: dogfish at January 22, 2015 06:41 PM (1vYi0)
New guy is going to have to pass around a lot of bribes to get into position and stay there. I'm thinking up.
Posted by: joncelli at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (ENczY)
Posted by: Elvis roams the dessert at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (FGEvF)
>>Ace must be going for his walk?
Do the cobloggers take turns walking him, or is there a run in the yard?
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 06:39 PM (PyRKS)
I bet the poop cleanup is nasty.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (PXU5j)
A sane North America would be thrilled b/c it would allow us to undermine their play and open new markets.....
we have a sane Canada...America?
Not so much.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: cosmo kramer at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (L6/+u)
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Nah, the scroll on sportscenter at 10:50 AM should do it.
Posted by: JDub (was BunkerintheBurbs) at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (fWLrt)
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (PXU5j)
I think Obama will go himself.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: @votermom at January 22, 2015 06:42 PM (cbfNE)
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (vgIRn)
They are sending a mail clerk from the State Department and David Crosby.
Posted by: no good deed at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (w3a0Z)
Iran gets even more frisky
and the JEF announces a deal with Iran before Netanyahu even greets Congress
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Sockpuppet at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (7+T4e)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: McAdams at January 22, 2015 06:31 PM (yGD7t)The problem is that the Saudis have been reliable US allies, so taking them out would have undermined other alliances in the region. Additionally, US troops occupying Mecca would have made Iraq look like a school-yard scuffle.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:34 PM (OiH3z)
Also the KSA government has long been a target for bin Laden and al Qaeda, which hated them for being insufficiently religious. The Saudi government has been battling al Qaeda types tong and hammer for quite a while. While Wahhabi a-holes have a lot of support in KSA, including in high places, the government itself has viewed them as a mortal threat.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (oKE6c)
wonderful....
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (qh617)
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Nah, the scroll on sportscenter at 10:50 AM should do it.
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Well played sir.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (FcR7P)
They are sending a mail clerk from the State Department and David Crosby.
Posted by: no good deed at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (w3a0Z)
Aw shit, I just unpacked.
Posted by: James Taylor at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Jerry Sandusky at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (5voqw)
They'd be better off with a Malignant Narcissist like we have...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Cat Stevens at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (GuwT9)
wonderful....
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (qh617)
Eh, so and interregnum while everybody scrambles, or else a puppet.
Posted by: joncelli at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (ENczY)
Okay, dinner settled. Thanks Horde! And I guess Ace for the post.
Posted by: LizLem at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (N+Fis)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (PXU5j)
Al Gore needs to catch up in that area of the world...He says "Damn I told you! It's f'n hot here!
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (PXU5j)
I think Obama will go himself.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (dFi94)
Bet GW Bush goes as well....
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (qh617)
wonderful....
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (qh617)
Sounds like the Dems have found their candidate for 2016.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Nitting needles at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (FGEvF)
Leonid Brezhnev in later years was always accompanied by a discreet but elite medical re-animation team who swung into action when he had a stroke or a heart attack.
Apparently the old guy was clinically dead six or seven times but they always managed to get him back on his feet and kinda sorta functioning.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: joncelli at January 22, 2015 06:47 PM (ENczY)
Does he have to give up his Senate seat?
Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2015 06:48 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:48 PM (NHtMs)
Not a big deal.
Posted by: Df82 at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (cGN9+)
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (Bn6aD)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 06:44 PM (dFi94)
How do you know? Has the Danish PM has already announced she's going?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: @votermom at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (cbfNE)
Posted by: Zombie Strom Thurmond at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (fWLrt)
Time to send Biden. The two can cover themselves in pancake syrup before attending the funeral.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Bill in Chappaqua at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:48 PM
I'm thinking doggy.
Posted by: joncelli at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (ENczY)
King Abdullah should've walked more.
And got a fitness bracelet.Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (oFCZn)Crossfit. Then he would have lived forever.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (OiH3z)
Posted by: John Kerry at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (LoIJo)
Posted by: James Taylor, Serenader of the United States at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (PXU5j)
Like Ace is just "out walking."
We're being played here, folks.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (TPjwz)
"All the rotten eggs in one basket, eh" "Riyadh when it sizzles...'
Posted by: havildar-major at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (jpW6t)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (Qs8ZN)
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: The Clash at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (fWLrt)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (TPjwz)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:48 PM
They've got lawns in Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (oKE6c)
Yup the model for the Angry Red Bird gave himself another "Hero of the Soviet Union" every time he woke up...which was funny b/c Krushchev looked like Rambo mil career wise compared to him....
I miss the soviets....world was simpler and more stable then....
there are times I wonder if the cold war was a confidence trick we ran on the rest of the planet with Ivan's knowing help.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (XzRw1)
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Team Bush will have an entourage in a VIP booth.
Posted by: JDub (was BunkerintheBurbs) at January 22, 2015 06:51 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Salman Rushdie at January 22, 2015 06:52 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 22, 2015 06:43 PM (PXU5j)
Francisco Franco? Wait is he still...?
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 06:52 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:52 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 06:52 PM (fWLrt)
Posted by: Oedipus at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (z2f1n)
I've driven through the 'Saudi Arabia' sized field that runs through WV, PA, and up into NY. You're outside that field driving along all by yourself. Suddenly you have a tractor-trailer to your left and a tractor-trailer to your right. Help wanted signs stuck in every backyard. That's fracking.
People making money. Jobs everywhere for anyone.
The Sauds know this is a threat. Americans discovering Capitalism? They have the greatest accountants that money can buy who can tell them, to six decimal places, the optimum number of barrels to produce, which will reward them with the most dollars. But that's not what they want. They want to bankrupt the frackers, put 'em out of business for good.
Any new leader may see things differently.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (zxQ4h)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: true story at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (XCD15)
Let that be a lesson.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:54 PM (oKE6c)
Was that a command or an interjection?
//Confused at 1600 PA
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 06:54 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 06:54 PM (fWLrt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 06:55 PM (DXcH1)
Posted by: Oedipus at January 22, 2015 06:53 PM (z2f1n)
Nah.... I got this...
/sings..... 30,000 lbs.. of bananas....
Posted by: Harry Chapin... lookin for a gig at January 22, 2015 06:55 PM (qh617)
Posted by: FNC Cast of Clowns at January 22, 2015 06:55 PM (XzRw1)
Like Ace is just "out walking."
We're being played here, folks.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (TPjwz)
Are you suggesting that Ace is going to be the next king of Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 06:55 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Guy Fieri at January 22, 2015 06:56 PM (LoIJo)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 22, 2015 06:57 PM (2cS/G)
time, the people who really run things have been in charge for a long
time. Maybe the transition will be no big deal
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:49 PM (zOTsN)
You're probably right. While an Arab Game of Thrones style power grab is amusing in fiction, in real life it would probably make the middle east go Explode. Not in love with the House of Saud but they could use a little bit of stability over there right now.
Posted by: LizLem at January 22, 2015 06:57 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 06:57 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: Special U.S. Envoy James Taylor at January 22, 2015 06:58 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Miracle Musharif at January 22, 2015 06:58 PM (XweGt)
Posted by: YIKES! at January 22, 2015 06:58 PM (GnrLK)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
He wasn't just talking shiite either. He wasn't Saudi royalty but his father is one of the wealthiest men in the world.
What do you think they do on their yachts while they're parked off of the coast of Monaco? Monaco is like Euro Las Vegas.
Posted by: CozMark at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (JeBIy)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (FcR7P)
Do ya' wanna curb your Ewok, lady? I'm not givin' ya' a ticket this time but watch it after Deblasio's gone and we'ez back to ticketing.
And I'll ignore that hump violation too.
Posted by: new york cop at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (L6/+u)
Like Ace is just "out walking."
We're being played here, folks.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 06:50 PM (TPjwz)
Are you suggesting that Ace is going to be the next king of Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 06:55 PM (sdi6R)
Appalachian trail is that way, boys! *points*
Posted by: Mark Sanford at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (yRwC8)
at halftime, in the rain, just before scoring four touchdowns
Posted by: Florida or Germany?? at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (8CdUx)
I'm sure they'd love a full rack of Beef Ribs.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (0q2P7)
They'd line up just to see him,
I'd taken all my money
And bought me a museum.
Posted by: James Taylor, Serenader of the United States at January 22, 2015 06:59 PM (PXU5j)
Posted by: Reggie Love at January 22, 2015 07:00 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: State Dept. Spokes-hole at January 22, 2015 06:32 PM (0Ew3K)"
I am reminded of a Saturday Night Live skit from the early days when they were funny. Dan Akroyd played some hippy stoner trying to get his passport replaced in the American embassy in Teheran and John Belushi played a State Department/CIA guy who was saying how the crowd outside loved the Shah. When somebody informed Belushi that "Marcbar Shah" meant "Death to the Shah", the double take he did was priceless.
As Instapundit says, the Obama Administration being a rerun of the Carter years would be a best case scenario.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 22, 2015 07:00 PM (KDbAT)
Obama will probably bearing his best St. Bernard ribs.
Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2015 07:02 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Abdullah's Funeral at January 22, 2015 07:03 PM (MKLBv)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:04 PM (zOTsN)
This could be rel life Game of Thrones.
Posted by: YIKES! at January 22, 2015 06:58 PM (GnrLK)
Crap....
/cancels his reservation for Saudi Arabia...
Posted by: Ned Stark, oilman at January 22, 2015 07:04 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (oKE6c)
One could make the argument that 9/11 was simply the the opening salvo in a Saudi Civil War. Typical of mohammedans, they didn't shoot ANYWHERE near the target.
On the other hand, Pakistan has had their grubby little troublemaking hands in just about every conflict in the world for the past 60 years. And they've done it as a matter of National Policy, not as a case of their citizens getting frisky with their money, like the Saudis.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 22, 2015 07:04 PM (VB0Qs)
All we need now for President Snitbicth to say something positive about the KSA and watch an typical muslim caveman civil war break out.
Posted by: YIKES! at January 22, 2015 07:05 PM (GnrLK)
I say the JEF announces a deal with Iran before the Netanyahu visit in early March
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:05 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2015 07:07 PM (a0D7H)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 06:40 PM (AC0lD)
The Koran says they will be 'white eyed', pure, and perfect mates...
Sooo.... mute?
Posted by: Bb Wolf at January 22, 2015 07:07 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Reggie Love at January 22, 2015 07:08 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: MTF at January 22, 2015 07:08 PM (tt3kE)
Posted by: an old australian joke at January 22, 2015 07:08 PM (L6/+u)
Yup... Pakistan... and Iran....
Which is why we invaded Afghanistan... and Iraq...
/facepalm
Posted by: Bb Wolf at January 22, 2015 07:08 PM (qh617)
Posted by: ALH at January 22, 2015 07:09 PM (btTLZ)
Posted by: RioBravo at January 22, 2015 07:09 PM (z27Ny)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (sdi6R)
Good point. I'm no ingenue believing that the Saudi government is a bunch of fun-loving scamps, but I do believe that they feel seriously threatened by hard-core fundamentalists in general, and al Qaeda in particular. Given the pitched battles they've fought against al Qaeda cells in KSA, and the fact that their necks will be on the block if al Qaeda/ISIS takes over, I pretty much take their opposition to the former at face value.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Colonial Marine at January 22, 2015 07:11 PM (/WmRg)
So on Fox? Let's talk about deflated footballs! Thirty minutes so far.
Disgusting
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 07:12 PM (0FSuD)
The US President does not include the Prime Minister among the 645,000 people he follows on Twitter.
He does however, follow another David Cameron – a computer game lover from Oregon who tweets about Star Trek.
Mr Cameron, by contrast, follows 382 people, including Mr Obama.
Oregon’s Mr Cameron has issued tweets including:
"Any Oregon area friends who might be available tomorrow to help unload a moving van into a storage unit?"
— DavidCameron (@davidcameron) January 18, 2015
Top. Men.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:12 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:12 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: MTF at January 22, 2015 07:08 PM (tt3kE)
They also have their pawprints all over Iraq, Pakistan (originally part of the Raj), Egypt, and of course, the Israel/Palestine conflict (thanks, Arthur Balfour!).
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Colonial Marine at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (/WmRg)
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (Bn6aD)
So on Fox? Let's talk about deflated footballs! Thirty minutes so far.
Disgusting
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 07:12 PM (0FSuD)
Yeah, really. Can't we talk about Kim Kardashian's butt instead?
Posted by: LIV at January 22, 2015 07:14 PM (sdi6R)
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Yes, and in a plain brown wrapper I think.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:14 PM (NHtMs)
Yeah, really. Can't we talk about Kim Kardashian's butt instead?
Posted by: LIV at January 22, 2015 07:14 PM (sdi6R)
Well that is a huge story...
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (Bn6aD)
Posted by: Colonial Marine at January 22, 2015 07:11 PM
.....................Well it can't be that great, he's dead aint he? !
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (KBIDy)
don't know if the JEF will even be invited
looks to be an all islam affair
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (Bn6aD)
Before sundown, I think.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Colonial Marine at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (/WmRg)
Duh. That was written like, a hundred years ago.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: ntac at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (zAD0E)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 07:16 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM (sdi6R)
*balls rapidly deflate*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:16 PM (oFCZn)
looks to be an all islam affair
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator
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Nah....too easy.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:16 PM (NHtMs)
Before the "rebels' reduce them for us?
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 07:16 PM (Bn6aD)
don't know if the JEF will even be invited
looks to be an all islam affair
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM (zOTsN)
Um...
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: LIV at January 22, 2015 07:14 PM (sdi6R)
___________
I walked past a never-off TV earlier today, and apparently there's a big kerfuffle in the hen house because Ben Affleck was smoking on the set, and that after he'd announced that he'd quit. Smoking, I said, and on the goddamned set! Where the hell are your priorities, anyway? The man was smoking.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 22, 2015 07:17 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:18 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 22, 2015 07:18 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Colonial Marine at January 22, 2015 07:18 PM (/WmRg)
Posted by: new york cop at January 22, 2015 07:19 PM (L6/+u)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:19 PM (zOTsN)
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As if he's ever at work anyway. Interesting premise though.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:20 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 22, 2015 07:20 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at January 22, 2015 07:13 PM (Bn6aD)
Before sundown, I think.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:15 PM
Well since James is busy with the happenings in Yemen...........So I have prepared this.
"Sundown you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again"
Posted by: Spec U.S. Envoy Gordon Lightfoot at January 22, 2015 07:21 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 07:21 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: new york cop
Kong Fahd vs Muzzy Godzilla was a greatly underrated movie.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at January 22, 2015 07:21 PM (GuwT9)
Posted by: Gross Busters at January 22, 2015 07:22 PM (Up6g7)
Fun City!
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 22, 2015 07:22 PM (DLu2s)
Posted by: Weasel at January 22, 2015 07:22 PM (e3bId)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2015 07:22 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:23 PM (oFCZn)
It is great if wife gets the Butte assignment....
America is an oil economy for at least another three months...
(thanks EPA)
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 07:23 PM (/4AZU)
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As if he's ever at work anyway. Interesting premise though.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:20 PM (NHtMs)
Hello? Dirab Golf and Country Club? Riyadh? This is the White House and we'd like to reserve your championship course for....
Posted by: White House Travel Office at January 22, 2015 07:23 PM (qh617)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator
Yes it will. I've also always wondered how our relations with the Saudis are handled by President Jarrett. Her being a proponent of an omnipotent Nuclear Iranian menace in the region and all.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:24 PM (NHtMs)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:24 PM (NHtMs)
I seem to recall an article from some months ago that the Saudis weren't even talking to us anymore because Obama is such a fuck up.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:26 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Miracle Musharif at January 22, 2015 07:26 PM (XweGt)
They might think he's Miley Cyrus and lock him up.
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 22, 2015 07:26 PM (0xTsz)
Would barbeque ribs be an appropriate bereavement gift to the family?
Or Jack Daniels pulled pork?!!!
Posted by: Mary at January 22, 2015 07:27 PM (u5LFV)
Instead of James Taylor, can we send Justin Bieber?
They might think he's Miley Cyrus and lock him up.
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 22, 2015 07:26 PM (0xTsz)
So you're saying there's an up side.....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 22, 2015 07:27 PM (VB0Qs)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
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Are you sure it was the Saudis? I mean, that could describe anybody.
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:27 PM (NHtMs)
I know this bizarro world we are in is not a new thing and previous generations lived through worse nonsense or real daily miseries but I'm so tired of today's bizarro world.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 22, 2015 07:28 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 22, 2015 07:28 PM (fIv/H)
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballrooms
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
They're such big balls
And they're fancy big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all
And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody Comes and comes again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire!
Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night
Posted by: Spec U.S. Envoy Angus Young at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (LJcWW)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:27 PM (NHtMs) ---- That seems familiar to me too.
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 22, 2015 07:27 PM (NHtMs)
Good point.
The Saudis were (and presumably still are) pissed as hell about King Putt's Iranian adventure.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 22, 2015 07:30 PM (fIv/H)
the SeaHawks are our kind of people, bro. No need to be 'splainin'
Posted by: ESPN pajama-boy butt-suckers at January 22, 2015 07:30 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 07:31 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 07:31 PM (ucDmr)
Because Iran, mostly. Less because ISIS radicalism, though US fecklessness obviously played a role there too. But the Saudis have the $$$ and connections to play the dirty game, even though they made some major blunders early on in Syria. Remember the entire eastern Arab world of consequence (Egypt, Saudi, Jordan, UAE), minus Syria, plays on the same side against ISIS-style nuttery.
Saudis have already put their ducks in a row, AFAIK, re the oil price thinggy. They've got a strategy and are prepared to ride it out. Again: Iran, mostly. Russkis too, a bit, maybe - but Iran, mostly.
Question remains, not new, whether they can ride their own internal tiger, the one where the Wahhabi base and legacy of the regime are alternately rented, repressed, or exiled, without any domestic nuttery getting momentum. They've done very well in the past at this.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:31 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 07:31 PM (zauWW)
Women drivers? Not a problem in Saudi Arabia!
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:31 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 07:29 PM (LJcWW)
I don't think you understand how important ball-gate is, bro. Fo shizzle...
Posted by: ESPN pajama-boy butt-suckers at January 22, 2015 07:32 PM (8CdUx)
CNN speculating that since Obama is going to India anyway he most likely WILL attend the funeral
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:32 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 07:32 PM (L6/+u)
I thought they ddidn't have saudomy there -- or was that Iran?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 22, 2015 07:33 PM (fIv/H)
cant bring Carole King
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 06:46 PM (zOTsN)
Thread winner contender!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:33 PM (CMkNk)
interesting to see if that continues
the new crown prince is 69 and his name is
Prince Merkin
that delights me
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:34 PM (zOTsN)
Well since James is busy with the happenings in Yemen...........So I have prepared this.
"Sundown you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again"
Posted by: Spec U.S. Envoy Gordon Lightfoot at January 22, 2015 07:21 PM (KBIDy)
But you're Canadian.
Well, it's not like U.S. citizenship has any meaning anymore.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 07:34 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 07:34 PM (3rrMW)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 07:35 PM (ucDmr)
CNN speculating that since Obama is going to India anyway he most likely WILL attend the funeral
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:32 PM (zOTsN)
What's the Arabic word for "schvartze?"
My Syrian-Jewish friends in high school used to call them "ah-bids."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:35 PM (CMkNk)
Not to worry; Obama and his renowned team will handle this with their usual [strike]aplomb[/strike] incompetence.?
Posted by: PJ at January 22, 2015 06:25 PM
I'd usually think Abdullah just died of old age at 90/91. Lately the world is so f...ed up, maybe some of the more radicals in the family finally offed him to get control, w/ the fall of the Yemeni govt.
OK, I'll go get my tinfoil hat. BRB
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 07:35 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mistress Overdone at January 22, 2015 07:35 PM (2/oBD)
that delights me
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:34 PM (zOTsN)
Is his last name Muffley?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:35 PM (CMkNk)
*heeeshsheeehssheee hackhack COUGH COUGH*
Posted by: Saudi stoners at January 22, 2015 07:36 PM (fADgx)
Posted by: Madamex at January 22, 2015 07:36 PM (yoxJL)
If we send anybody to represent the
He'll put the fun back into funeral.
Posted by: YIKES! at January 22, 2015 07:37 PM (BG759)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:37 PM (oFCZn)
CNN speculating that since Obama is going to India anyway he most likely WILL attend the funeral
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:32 PM
Well shit, he was right by the AZ V.A. and couldn't be bothered so I don't think proximity factors into Barky's vacation/fundraising plans.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:37 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:37 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2015 07:38 PM (5voqw)
God is making a move. Keep your eye on Israel.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:38 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:38 PM (zOTsN)
And its oil futures that jumped at the news not the current price of a barrel although we'll have to see what happens in the near future about that.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 07:39 PM (L6/+u)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2015 07:39 PM (yxw0r)
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 22, 2015 07:39 PM (yxw0r)
Kilmeade always reminds me of the kid in grade school who disappeared for awhile after the teacher caught him killing small animals at recess.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 07:40 PM (oFCZn)
Posted by: Carly Simon at January 22, 2015 07:41 PM (5voqw)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:41 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:41 PM (zOTsN)
Never happen, but I'd pee my pants if Bibi got the invite and SCOAMF was told not to bother coming.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:42 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Carly Simon at January 22, 2015 07:41 PM
Hmm, we prefer women don't sing or drive, cover their faces and make sammiches.
Posted by: House Of Saud at January 22, 2015 07:42 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:43 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 22, 2015 07:43 PM (FUlNJ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:43 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:44 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 07:44 PM (L6/+u)
Oh no's! Take good care and speedy recovery.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:44 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:44 PM (afQnV)
for awhile after the teacher caught him killing small animals at recess.
Nah, Kilmeade reminds me of the really earnest, but not too bright brown=noser/teacher's pet wannabe.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:44 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 07:45 PM (ucDmr)
Yikes! Prayers for a successful surgery, and peace of mind for everyone. And also lots and lots of painkillers.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:45 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:43 PM
........No no, I tell you already, No Tits, no faces, no driving, just make sammiches. And I forget, to tell you, no how you say,,,,,,twerking! Or we send you to chop chop square!
Posted by: House Of Saud at January 22, 2015 07:45 PM (KBIDy)
Why? They need to make a statement.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM (zOTsN)
My first words were "Never happen but . . ."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM (CMkNk)
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There are some suspicions that ISIS was a Saudi project to put the Shiites back in their place. If true, then the plan was a bit too successful.
Posted by: junior at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM (UWFpX)
Won't be a proper Muslim funeral for a head of state with out a 21car bomb salute.
Posted by: YIKES! at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM (BG759)
Oh, my! Sending prayers for a speedy recovery! Glad the Pookette is OK.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:47 PM (ABcz/)
And yes, S.A. is one of two countries named for a family.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:47 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 07:45 PM (ucDmr)
Only if she emits one of her zhlub farts that seep upwards.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:47 PM (CMkNk)
Did the House of Saud get to where it is by being suicidal?
If they get in bed with Al Queda (or any of the other islamist outfits), there is no way they survive. Every single group they don't own (the Wahabist establishment) has said they are not qualified to be the guardians of Mecca, and it goes downhill from there.
So? Is Salman suicidal?
Posted by: Dianna at January 22, 2015 07:47 PM (X6oOY)
Posted by: The Magical Negro at January 22, 2015 07:47 PM (0FSuD)
I hope you have a quick recovery. If it's any consolation, my 90-year-old dad just took about 18 days to recover from a (clean) broken arm not including rehab that he hasn't started yet so maybe your recovery will go that quickly too. Take care.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 07:48 PM (L6/+u)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 07:10 PM
TY Baldy, I was going to reference that, Ibn Saud founder of the country. Not only the next king, but also his crown prince too, if he lives that long.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 07:48 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:48 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:49 PM (ABcz/)
the JEF isnt going
he is sending Biden
gag
littlest Thunder will be there representing young leaders
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:49 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Dianna at January 22, 2015 07:49 PM (X6oOY)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:49 PM (ABcz/)
Bono and Bob Geldof will come and sing "Keeel the World."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:50 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: DaveA at January 22, 2015 07:50 PM (DL2i+)
(. . . lived by the sea)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:48 PM (
Macarena in play? The Crown Prince love that one! Like I say, No womenz though and none of that twerking thing!
Posted by: House Of Saud at January 22, 2015 07:51 PM (KBIDy)
Hopefully with a helicopter to get them the hell out of there.
Why must the world keep disappointing President Sh1t-Midas....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 07:51 PM (AC0lD)
Just not "Do They Know It's Christmas?" song - that might make 'em extra head-choppy and church-burny.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:52 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 22, 2015 07:43 PM
Prayers out, so sorry to hear that.
T
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 07:52 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:52 PM (zOTsN)
But the Syrian civil war was/is organic and the real (very nasty) thing, arising from an abundance of good causes. Outside players affect it, but didn't start it.
ISIS as anti-Shi'a counterweight? Well, can't rule anything out. The Middle East, contrary to popular belief, isn't crazy. It's rational, and ruthless. And insane. But not crazy.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:52 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: Hillary 2016! at January 22, 2015 07:53 PM (5voqw)
My mother used to live right outside the embassy gates there.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:53 PM (dFi94)
Maybe the city of Oakland will send the Social Justice Brownie Troop and they can be sold into slavery.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:53 PM (CMkNk)
Some of the gospel songs might be nice at the funeral, but forbidden. Did Elvis have any songs about killing Jews for fun?
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 07:54 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:54 PM (zOTsN)
he is sending Biden
........................OMG!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine the headlines the next day. Oil shoots to $250.00 per barrel after Vice President Biden's remarks at the King's funeral. Biden: "I mean where I live in Scranton you can hardly walk into a 7-11 without seeing a towel head" And "man, do you guys know how to treat the ladies!"
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:54 PM (KBIDy)
Just not "Do They Know It's Christmas?" song - that might make 'em extra head-choppy and church-burny.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:52 PM (ABcz/)
Was goofing on that song and forgot that that was the title.
Ha.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:55 PM (CMkNk)
My mother used to live right outside the embassy gates there.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:53 PM (dFi94)
Wow, really!? That's very interesting.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 07:55 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: comanchepilot at January 22, 2015 07:55 PM (uRa8s)
Posted by: Badda Bing at January 22, 2015 07:55 PM (klaU/)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 07:54 PM (AC0lD)
. . . and profit.
Hey, wasn't Elvis' maternal grandmother a Joo?!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:56 PM (CMkNk)
Yeah, song is so, so very bad. More like "do they care it's Christmas?"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (ABcz/)
Why? They need to make a statement.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 07:46 PM
Great idea Nip Sip. Let him turn them down while Bibi appears.
Of course the axxhole might accept and bore them to death w/ his lies about support for Israel.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (o/90i)
no no
the JEF will prolly go t the Kings funeral. He loves him some call to prayer
no they are sending Biden to AIPAC
Netanyahu is also going to address AIPAC
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (KBIDy)
Mom lived in Yemen late 70s to early 80s. They were very strict there with their sharia law, but generally friendly to Americans. At least that was her experience at the time.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: wooga at January 22, 2015 07:58 PM (cEocI)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 22, 2015 07:58 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:58 PM (zOTsN)
no no
the JEF will prolly go t the Kings funeral. He loves him some call to prayer
no they are sending Biden to AIPAC
Netanyahu is also going to address AIPAC
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM
.....Joe will give them both barrels! Good grief, we are duly fcked.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:59 PM (KBIDy)
Don't forget Peruvia.
Posted by: wooga at January 22, 2015 07:58 PM (cEocI)
America is named for Amerigo Vespucci. Thankfully, we're not Vespuccia.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 07:59 PM (CMkNk)
Pookysgirl - EEK. I am sorry about that. I hope the recovery is as quick and painless as possible.
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 07:59 PM (+35FH)
The mere existence of Yemen, like the UAE, represents a defeat for the Saud clan. But the UAE, Gulfies, are all soft and meek and oil-rich. Yemenis still wear the dagger in the belt and their tribal dynamism is a trip back through time, or a trip to Somalia or Afghanistan, if you can't borrow ace's time machine.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 07:59 PM (afQnV)
very strict there with their sharia law, but generally friendly to
Americans. At least that was her experience at the time.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 07:57 PM (dFi94)
That's sad to see how the entire region has devolved into a craphole since then.
Most of us here have probably seen the older photos of uncovered women in Iran and Egypt. Lebanon was once the Paris of the Middle East and now Paris gets to be the new Lebanon of Europe.
Sad times. And it ticks me off too.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (AC0lD)
I was in Yeman a couple years ago. It aint the same as when Mom was there. Whole lotta US hatin going on now.
Posted by: Talibill at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (JiHh6)
Don't forget Peruvia.
Posted by: wooga at January 22, 2015 07:58 PM
........The 57th state is named after my Great Grandfather!
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (KBIDy)
I always got that Joo vibe from big E.
And he shot a TV. Which is cool.
Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (MDgS8)
Spent about a week in Dubai and then Bahrain on business back in early '08. Was very glad to get on the plane and back here.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:01 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:01 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2015 08:01 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 08:01 PM (vPh3W)
I meant a political/administrative entity named for a family.
The other one is Lichtenstein.
Oh, and, as pointed out above, Peruvia.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (afQnV)
just sort of turned a blind eye to the sort of Wahabbi terrorism they
were supporting still baffles me.
Look up the term "petro-dollar".
After Nixon was forced to abrogate the Bretton Woods agreement, the US dollar was allowed to float, and promptly sank to the bottom of the fiat currency cesspit. Remember Whip Inflation Now, and other forms of government panic?
Volcker's secret agreement with the Saudis, protection for requiring all oil to be paid for with dollars, propped the dollar back up.
Bush couldn't nuke the Saudis without risking the dollar.
Obama is too fucking stupid to realize just how dependent the dollar's status as the world reserve currency is completely dependent on Saudi stability, and seems unconcerned about Iranian puppets encroaching on them.
In my opinion, Bush should have taken the hit on the dollar, and nuked them anyway. We would have recovered by now, without 8 years of Obama's spending.
Posted by: Kristophr at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (6ROe1)
I was in Yeman a couple years ago. It aint the same as when Mom was there. Whole lotta US hatin going on now.
Posted by: Talibill at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (JiHh6)
I know. It's awful.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (zOTsN)
Trivia question.
Posted by: eleven
-------------
The Beatles? Stones?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (vPh3W)
Trivia question.
Posted by: eleven at January 22, 2015 08:01 PM (MDgS
Jimmy Carter
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 08:02 PM (oFCZn)
Well shit, he was right by the AZ V.A. and couldn't be bothered so I don't think proximity factors into Barky's vacation/fundraising plans.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 07:37 PM (KBIDy)
No shit. Saudi is a big fucking sand trap......in more ways than one.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 22, 2015 08:03 PM (VB0Qs)
Ach, so.
ALSO -
There once was a man from Norway,
who got his balls caught in a doorway.
(forgot the rest)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:03 PM (CMkNk)
For thousands of years, the Arab tribes lived on the Arabian peninsula, eking out a living through caravan-raiding and enslaving East Africans, and often going to war and slitting each other's throats.
Then Mohammed came along and unified them into a cohesive fighting force so they'd slit their neighbors' throats instead of each other's throats.
So they galloped around and killed their neighbors, raped their wives, and spread their language and culture that way.
And so it went for a millennium or more.
And through all that time, no one paid the slightest attention to the black tarry goop that would occasionally burble up in pools in the desert sand.
What did the nomadic Arabs so with it? They'd sometimes use it to coat the fabric of their tents to help keep out the sand. That's all.
And then in the 1920s American and British engineers showed up and said, "Hmmmm, that's some interesting black goop you've got in your sand there. Mind if we take a look at it?"
So the Arabs let them.
The Americans and the Brits realized that there was an ocean of oil under the peninsula. The Arabs didn't know, didn't care. But it was theirs.
So the Americans struck a deal with the Arabs: We pump out your goop, and give you most of the profits, and we keep the rest. Your role? Do nothing. Just step aside and let us pump.
The Arabs agreed.
Within a short number of years, the Arabs were fabulously wealthy beyond any imagining. And it was entirely due to us. If we hadn't discovered their oil, hadn't developed it, they'd still be galloping around on horseback flashing scimitars and raiding caravans.
We created the monster.
A true-life Frankenstein story.
Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2015 08:03 PM (K4YiS)
There once was a man from Norway,
who got his balls caught in a doorway.
You've met my Uncle Olie?
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 08:04 PM (dFi94)
Hey I knew the Peruv family and the house of Saud are ABSOLUTELY not the Peruvs...
#PeruviaUberAlles
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:05 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 08:04 PM (dFi94)
And as a result, he's now your aunt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:06 PM (CMkNk)
I'm not aware they spoke Hebrew at all day to day, but I'd believe that they retained a version of it for liturgical use. Like the Samaritans.
One thing the Yemeni Jews DID preserve was a treasure-trove of old Jewish tradition, independently of the Talmud(s). A lot of that ended up in the Islamic hadith. Some of it even ended up in the Qur'an (so it's said).
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:06 PM (AVEe1)
Nice golf. And still a hint, just a hint, of the old place down at the creek and the gold souk.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 08:06 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 08:06 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2015 08:03 PM (K4YiS)
Good thumbnail history, zombie.
And the Saudis have been using that money to build mosques, endow universities, and buy politicians in the West.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:06 PM (sdi6R)
Sad times. And it ticks me off too.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 08:00 PM (AC0lD)
There was a photographer a year or so ago who published photos of when they were a young girl living in Afghanistan with her family(I think father was either a professor or attache'). While certainly not a thriving metropolitan city, Kabul actually looked civilized. Some wore burka's but most of the women wore suits and were working western type jobs. School girls (yes, girls went to school and university) wore uniforms, but they were white shirts, modest skirts , knee socks, etc. I'll try to find the link. It is stunning what can happen when a city /country is taken over by a stone age religious cult
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:07 PM (kF3VB)
Frankenstein's monster was old yeller'd through psychobabble and kerosene....
I'm Sven J Olafson and I approve this message.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:08 PM (/4AZU)
It actually wasn't that bad, even for a slightly creeped out Jew. Actually, you forgot where you were until you heard that hideous call to prayer and the indicator on my hotel desk to tell me which way Mecca was.
I dropped my trousers and stuck my ass in that direction every so often.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:08 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 22, 2015 08:09 PM (rldyO)
Jake Tapper's report on our hip president's asinine post-SOTU YouTube interviews. Sounds like it was Epic Fail.
http://tinyurl.com/malqkjg
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:09 PM (ABcz/)
We created the monster.
Not exactly. They were already monsters. We just gave them money. Which they used to spread their monstrosities.
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 08:09 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Ralph at January 22, 2015 08:10 PM (hSk36)
Don't forget the 10 years of Soviet occupation, which killed off as much of that westernized, civilized, educated stratum as it possibly could.
We didn't help, with our support for the least-friendly groups we could find, in the aftermath. But the Soviets should bear a certain amount of the blame.
Posted by: Dianna at January 22, 2015 08:10 PM (X6oOY)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 08:10 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Airandee at January 22, 2015 08:10 PM (eHdI1)
That's why I tend to call it Saudi-run Arabia rather than Saudi Arabia. The Hijaz, for a start, was Hashimite like Jordan and Iraq until it was conquered.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:11 PM (AVEe1)
Jake Tapper's report on our hip president's asinine post-SOTU YouTube interviews. Sounds like it was Epic Fail.
http://tinyurl.com/malqkjg
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:09 PM (ABcz/)
I thought I saw something about SCOAMF talking to some fat fuck who's famous for trying to eat a bathtub full of Froot Loops and milk?
Dear Lord, it's a madhouse.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:11 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Ray Stevens at January 22, 2015 08:11 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 22, 2015 08:09 PM (dFi94)
One of the most salient descriptions I've heard or read in some time.
Posted by: Talibill at January 22, 2015 08:12 PM (JiHh6)
Posted by: Ray Stevens at January 22, 2015 08:11 PM (vPh3W)
"Let Hakim put you in the driver's seat!"
Hakim's Rent-a-Camel, from the Hal Brodax Beatles cartoons.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (CMkNk)
You gotta be careful with that in most inhabited parts of Israel, or if you're otherwise northwest of Jerusalem (or southeast of Mecca). You might be pointing your butt to the Temple...
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (AVEe1)
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afghanistan-1960s-photos/5846/
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (kF3VB)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (CMkNk)
You gotta be careful with that in most inhabited parts of Israel, or if you're otherwise northwest of Jerusalem (or southeast of Mecca). You might be pointing your butt to the Temple...
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (AVEe1)
Nah. My hotel room in Dubai.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:14 PM (CMkNk)
http://tinyurl.com/malqkjg
Posted by: Lizzy
-------------------------
The country is well and truly screwed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 08:15 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:15 PM (AVEe1)
So, you know, they at least have that going for them.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 08:16 PM (oFCZn)
There was a photographer a year or so ago who published photos of when they were a young girl living in Afghanistan with her family(I think father was either a professor or attache'). While certainly not a thriving metropolitan city, Kabul actually looked civilized. Some wore burka's but most of the women wore suits and were working western type jobs. School girls (yes, girls went to school and university) wore uniforms, but they were white shirts, modest skirts , knee socks, etc. I'll try to find the link. It is stunning what can happen when a city /country is taken over by a stone age religious cult
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:07 PM (kF3VB)
I remember that. It was a remarkable collection of photos. Afghanistan in the 60s and 70s was pretty friendly to the West, and at least the urbanites in Kabul were trying to modernize.
I remember that American and European stoners used to travel to Afghanistan in the 70s for the hashish. They were not menaced much as far as I know. (No, I didn't go myself.)
All that changed with the Soviet invasion in 1979.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:16 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Dianna at January 22, 2015 08:10 PM (X6oOY)
You are absolutely correct. And when the Soviet's pulled out, then the vacuum was filled by the Taliban. Just like the vacuum in Syria, Northern Iraq, and Libya has been filled by ISIS.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:16 PM (kF3VB)
well we're screwed....
I wouldn't say well screwed....Ogabe is a two pump chump.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:16 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 08:17 PM (FsuaD)
"The second, a woman with green lipstick, prefaced a questionabout
Cuba by noting Castro had "put the dick in dictatorship" and then
went on to accidentally refer to the first lady as "your first wife"
before giving Obama sticks of green lipstick for Mrs. Obama and his
daughters.
The final interrogator was a woman of 19 who acknowledged she'd never
really cared about politics until this very moment...asked him what his favorite super power would be -- it's flying --
and wanted to know what he could do to expand internet access in
China."
Well done, O. You have removed all dignity from the office.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:19 PM (ABcz/)
That's a theme with American interventions.
Diem's a Catholic bigot with no real support; let's get rid of him and not have a plan. Najibullah's a Commie stooge with no real support; let's support a ragtag bunch of Tajik tribes with (also) no real support, and let the Pakis clean it up. Assad sucks; let's support the Syrian democratic opposition. Sihanouk sucks; let's support a coup and bail when the Khmer Rouge gets too powerful.
I know, I know; the Democrats had a hand in all of this. Excepting maybe Afghanistan - Charlie Wilson was blameless.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 08:20 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:19 PM (ABcz/)
And yet this shit works like a charm with the retards.
We should try it to get total power and then just do everything that needs to be done.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 08:20 PM (oFCZn)
and WHO WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?
http://youtu.be/f8cNtH1mULo
Obamessiah Chronicles
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:20 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2015 08:21 PM (KBvAm)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2015 08:22 PM (KBvAm)
Posted by: ESPN pajama-boy butt-suckers at January 22, 2015 08:23 PM (8CdUx)
The thing is...like I said earlier on the T-4 program...
you should never trust yourself with a program you wouldn't allow an opponent to use...
Imagine the darker angels of *my* nature unfettered by morality or restraint of precedence....?
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:23 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 08:23 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:24 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2015 08:24 PM (mudlU)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 22, 2015 08:24 PM (4gN5w)
The thing is...like I said earlier on the T-4 program...
you should never trust yourself with a program you wouldn't allow an opponent to use...
Imagine the darker angels of *my* nature unfettered by morality or restraint of precedence....?
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:23 PM (/4AZU)
Yeah, I know.
But still...
Since we know the media are a sham I'd call the heads of the companies to the Oval Office and tell them I hear one fucking word out of their mouths about what's coming and the only media outlet they'll end up owning is a UHF station outside Bumfuck, Kansas.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 08:24 PM (oFCZn)
That's just ...... creepy
Posted by: grammie winger, waiting and watching at January 22, 2015 08:25 PM (dFi94)
we were told his mere existence was a self-fulfilling achievement of greatness unparalleled in mankind's history....
fucker had to be a letdown....
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:25 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:26 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:26 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Dave at January 22, 2015 08:27 PM (/iRd9)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:27 PM (IXrOn)
Oil Surges in New York After Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Dies
upsy daisy
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:26 PM (IXrOn)
A sucker bet. SA is not going to stop pumping, they need the cash and they want to fcuk Russia and Iran.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:28 PM (0FSuD)
now there's fewer women, and they're wrapped up loosely, sweating for Allah
Posted by: John of Salisbury at January 22, 2015 08:28 PM (8CdUx)
Posted by: Jean at January 22, 2015 08:28 PM (TETYm)
Well done, O. You have removed all dignity from the office.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:19 PM (ABcz/)
I didn't see a link in your comment. I normally avoid King Snitfit whenever possible, but I would be tempted to watch that.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:28 PM (sdi6R)
so more of the same or slightly worse is my guess...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:29 PM (/4AZU)
We created the monster.
A true-life Frankenstein story.
Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2015 08:03 PM
Ya know, I really like people who know history.
*hugs zombie* whether he's a dude or dudette.
Some people get it. 52% of the US voters, not so much.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 08:29 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: its blood was on the leaves at January 22, 2015 08:29 PM (7A/Jm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:29 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 08:23 PM (+35FH)
Well, I think you are just stunned to not read I, I, I, in the statement and therefore it sounds different than the normal inappropriate crap that suffices for a condolence out of this WH.
I actually think this statement is the most presidential in recent memory . For once, I don't feel embarrassed and concerned that the recipient will be discussing the merit of severing diplomatic relations with us after receiving it.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (kF3VB)
Posted by: Baldy
Maybe we can't tell from the statement, but I'm sure Obama is bowing on the inside.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (fADgx)
http://youtu.be/tFUDEmMjC-c
Emo "male" cries for trees
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (/4AZU)
Actually, Saudi Arabia is run by Jews.
Moo Moo said so.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:29 PM (CMkNk)
Of the communist variety, I presume.
Posted by: grammie winger, waiting and watching at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at January 22, 2015 08:31 PM (rldyO)
Posted by: grammie winger, waiting and watching at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (dFi94)
Under every bed, behind every burqa.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:31 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:28 PM (0FSuD)
not until they finish off our fracking industry
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:31 PM (IXrOn)
Through some strange process which doubtless some French sociologist
will soon explain,our vaunted secular society is progressively reviving
every taboo found in religions past or present as if we were
experiencing some global religious revival without even the benefit of
having a God. It's like a joke, and it's on us...
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:32 PM (ABcz/)
We (the west) did very well by the hydrocarbon energy we made valuable and exploited that was sourced in the Middle East, and, taking aview with historical perspective, have actually done quite well balancing a seemingly impossible set of shifting treacherous alliances, partnerships, frenemy-ships, and enmities while enjoying the economic benefits of petroleum.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 08:32 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:32 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:33 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:31 PM (IXrOn)
Won't happen. It's cyclical. Might go down and then up again but it won't be killed off entirely.
The EPA is working hard on that all by itself.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:33 PM (CMkNk)
There's a clip from Jake Tapper's report and a description at http://www.whitehousedossier.com/
I can't imagine sitting through the interviews after watching the clip...
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:34 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:33 PM (ws1Wn)
The House of Windsorberg.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2015 08:34 PM (CMkNk)
We (the west) did very well by the hydrocarbon energy we made valuable and exploited that was sourced in the Middle East, and, taking aview with historical perspective, have actually done quite well balancing a seemingly impossible set of shifting treacherous alliances, partnerships, frenemy-ships, and enmities while enjoying the economic benefits of petroleum.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 08:32 PM (afQnV)
It'd have been a lot simpler to have just conquered them and taken the oil. 20/20 hindsight, I realize.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:34 PM (sdi6R)
they can't finish it off they can make it lay dormant...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:34 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 22, 2015 08:35 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:37 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:30 PM (kF3VB)- The thing that always gets me is the bio parts that sound like they are a junior high essay.
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 08:38 PM (+35FH)
Just amateur hour over there.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:38 PM (ABcz/)
any imagining. And it was entirely due to us. If we hadn't discovered
their oil, hadn't developed it, they'd still be galloping around on
horseback flashing scimitars and raiding caravans.
We created the monster.
A true-life Frankenstein story.
Posted by: zombie
I like to point out to Arabs that they are lucky the West didn't understand the value of that oil twenty years earlier. We would have annihilated them, and built statues to the guys who did it.
Posted by: Jean at January 22, 2015 08:39 PM (TETYm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:39 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Ralph at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (hSk36)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:31 PM (IXrOn)
That won't happen because fracking is a quick in quick out deal. You can stop any time and pick back up.
Large oil wells, AKA Russia and Iran, require huge capital investment. They have to keep pumping even at a lost to try an cover their marginal expenses.
Cliff notes, you can bleed Russia and Iran to death. Fracking not a chance.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (FUlNJ)
Radical Islam could not exist without the stupidity of TE Lawrence and Post-Modernist leftoid shithead thinking....
Good Christian nations would have wiped the skillet clean.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade at January 22, 2015 08:41 PM (cmBvC)
they can't finish it off they can make it lay dormant...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:34 PM (/4AZU)
They can bankrupt as many as they can while keeping the ROI in the negative for them. Yes, the energy will still be there to be tapped, but halting it or slowing it still hurts.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:41 PM (IXrOn)
And it's a costume Cher would be proud to wear.
I only had a slight clue because of the red stripes.
Who designed that dreck?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 22, 2015 08:41 PM (RZzX3)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: votermom at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (37e9+)
Our country is no longer serious. It's ET and ESPN all the time.
Bread and Circuses
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (0FSuD)
It's not too late to clear out the varmints. We still have the technology to get the job done.
Posted by: ALH at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (btTLZ)
Large oil wells, AKA Russia and Iran, require huge capital investment. They have to keep pumping even at a lost to try an cover their marginal expenses.
Cliff notes, you can bleed Russia and Iran to death. Fracking not a chance.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (0FSuD)
if you can make a profit...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (IXrOn)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/21/ big-block-cheese-day-answering-nations-questions
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (ABcz/)
Thank you for short Arab history.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 08:43 PM (sj3Ax)
I know it was a slow news day, but it wasn't *that* slow.
Posted by: Fringe at January 22, 2015 08:44 PM (oWl4T)
The Sauds can't do anything to US production SCOAMF and EPA are not already doing ma'am...
no offense but it is healthy for the Sauds to play Marco Polo with the US break-even point....
not so healthy for that giggling fuck in DC to try to make most swamps natural superfund sites through methane emission idiocy....
The oil'll be there when we need it for WW3.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:45 PM (/4AZU)
I'm praying for you & family.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 08:46 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 22, 2015 08:46 PM (BYICK)
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:47 PM (/4AZU)
It's not too late to clear out the varmints. We still have the technology to get the job done.
Posted by: ALH at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (btTLZ)
We don't seem to have the will, though. And too many of our politicians have been bought and paid for.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:47 PM (sdi6R)
Quite....
King Pink Fish has more GOP reps than US conservatives do...
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:48 PM (/4AZU)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/21/ big-block-cheese-day-answering-nations-questions
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:42 PM (ABcz/)
404 Page Not Found
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 08:49 PM (sdi6R)
Cat Stevens. Not only did he convert to Islam. He has the perfect song for it.
Moonshadow.
If I ever lose my hands
If I ever lose my eyes........
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 08:50 PM (bXdYS)
Good Christian nations would have wiped the skillet clean.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:40 PM (/4AZU)
Not "good" Christian nations. No.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 22, 2015 08:50 PM (yxw0r)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:50 PM (ws1Wn)
Probably not much. But my real fear is a potentially virulent Islamophobic backlash against peaceful Muslims in this country, led by the likes of Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin.
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 08:51 PM (8zCR+)
Yup...and that is why the copts got bitch slapped into what you see now.
It's as tragedy really, the early faith split into three....
and we allowed Jihadi Jim to destroy our African presence to what gain?
It's like I taught Lad if the Count from Sesame Street were honest....
"no no muslims haha"
Zero is a powerful number.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:52 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:53 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Joe Balls Wilson at January 22, 2015 08:54 PM (XYKz+)
meatballs or hamburgers mmmm
Posted by: Joe Balls Wilson at January 22, 2015 08:55 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: toby928(C) at January 22, 2015 08:55 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:45 PM (/4AZU)
I'm not questioning our reserves. Or future reserves.
Just a war between energy producers. OPEC has an advantage, but if Saudi is in turmoil and jacks up oil to unknown figures, it could cause a ripple effect, or an earthquake.
Fracking Firms Get Tested by Oil's Price Drop
Further Declines Risk Making Expensive Shale Drilling Unprofitable wsj
The American Oil Boom Won't Last Long at $65 Per Barrel bloombergbusinessweek
this piece just above shows all of the US companies competing - nice details in numbers, etc
What I did not know:
The Bakken has been one of the primary engines of growth for the U.S. Since 2007, oil production there has risen from less than 200,000 barrels a day to more than 1 million. The boom happened so fast, pipeline companies didn't have time to build enough lines to the fields. The result has been a bonanza for railroad companies, which have quickly filled the gap. For the past two years, most of the oil that has left North Dakota has done so on a train.
We all know who owns/controls/profits from the train transport...
-off to bed
have a good one
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:55 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 08:55 PM (+35FH)
Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 08:55 PM (MQEz6)
Actually pretty boring - a lot of boilerplate answers.
Here's what they used to promote it, which demonstrates just how odd the WH staff are - think they want to live in the make-believe "West Wing" rather than the real one where there's icky work and success cannot be conjured by clever writers.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/p2jlkye
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:56 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:53 PM (ws1Wn)
Wonton wrappers, chives, garlic, a little sesame oil, & an egg. Make fried dumplings.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 08:56 PM (MbqmP)
Hey, ground veal? I don't know, I'll see if my pets like it.
Arab oil? Somebody put all that energy down there, we found a way to burn it, we are lovin' life!
Posted by: Rosie at January 22, 2015 08:56 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 08:56 PM (IXrOn)
Yup...and that is why the copts got bitch slapped into what you see now.
It's as tragedy really, the early faith split into three....
and we allowed Jihadi Jim to destroy our African presence to what gain?
It's like I taught Lad if the Count from Sesame Street were honest....
"no no muslims haha"
Zero is a powerful number.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 08:52 PM (/4AZU)
It is what it is, as awful as it is. His will be done.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 22, 2015 08:57 PM (yxw0r)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 08:57 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 08:57 PM (bXdYS)
Posted by: Rosie at January 22, 2015 08:58 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:53 PM (ws1Wn)
Check the expiration date....
Posted by: Tami at January 22, 2015 08:59 PM (v0/PR)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 08:59 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 09:00 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Rosie at January 22, 2015 08:58 PM (KG0mU)
Nah, their Supreme Court just stops all the recounts & *poof* you have a Bush in office!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:00 PM (MbqmP)
There was the march for life that no one ever covers ever.
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 09:00 PM (MYCIw)
And how did the voters in Saudi Arabia elect another King so dang fast? Must be a pretty efficient system.
Posted by: Rosie at January 22, 2015 08:58 PM (KG0mU)
I already counted the votes, yesterday.
Posted by: Zombie Mayor Daley, Sr at January 22, 2015 09:01 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 08:50 PM
Yep, it in threw it in the trash. Somebody on our side is going to have to prove it to me. I've not seen it so far.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 09:01 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 09:01 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 09:02 PM (zauWW)
I don't recall God's word saying "lay down and let all your flock be slaughtered"...
if he did then Christians were "fucking up the faith" pretty early no?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great
Islam was crafted in part b/c the Arabs were mortified of the strength and dutiful service of the last great days of the Roman legions...
Those Roman legions they feared were Christian.
Always offer peace first and if that hand is slapped away offer it again, and when Jihadi Jim offers to cut off your neighbor's head if he refuses to convert....devour him with holy fire.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:02 PM (/4AZU)
About That 20-Week Abortion Bill
By Kevin D. Williamson
NRO
http://tinyurl.com/mfdncju
(now, I'm really going to bed)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 22, 2015 09:03 PM (IXrOn)
I remember seeing those pictures 2-4 years ago of Afghanistan in a Powerline Blog daily email. I just don't remember when it was.
Thanks for link.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:03 PM (sj3Ax)
Even Fox didn't have it on their website when I checked this afternoon.
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 09:03 PM (MYCIw)
Well, he announced anyway that he wants carbon taxes and larger federal anti-poverty programs. Today's meeting with the Bush crowd must have been a big group hug, and Romney now knows the Jebster is just his kind of guy.
One RINO down. Jeb is next obviously, and then we can finally get down to finding a real candidate. One who can win.
Posted by: MTF at January 22, 2015 09:04 PM (tt3kE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:04 PM (ws1Wn)
Here's what they used to promote it, which demonstrates just how odd the WH staff are - think they want to live in the make-believe "West Wing" rather than the real one where there's icky work and success cannot be conjured by clever writers.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/p2jlkye
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2015 08:56 PM (ABcz/)
They know their audience. Their supporters are unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
In many ways, isn't this the story of Obama?
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 09:04 PM (sdi6R)
Something less than lips and assholes.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:04 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 08:51 PM
OK, who's sock is this? Very well done.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 09:05 PM (o/90i)
Yeah, I guess 1/2 a million is technically "thousands."
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 09:05 PM (MYCIw)
He is also born again hard on the Gaia Watermelon Kult...
I am SERIOUSLY wondering at this point what qualitative difference there is between the GOP and Donkey party?
It is just how much "wacky moonbat goodness" at what speed at this point.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:05 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:06 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 22, 2015 09:06 PM (0Ew3K)
we have idiots leading various depts & their minions, spokesmen, etc as just as imbecilic!!
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:06 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:07 PM (g6AX9)
Bird cam in my neighborhood:
http://landingsbirdcam.com/
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:07 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:07 PM (8zCR+)
The succession, interestingly, depends in reality on the interpretation of the the Scripture concerning the sons of Abraham.
I have a son named Abraham, whose wife is pregnant with a quickened child. PRAISE THE LORD!!! So, it's personal with me.
May they have sons who love Our Lord, I pray.
Posted by: way, way outarange guy, enjoying sweet mint tea in my goathair tent at January 22, 2015 09:07 PM (8QW8G)
who is the sock, anybody recognize the hash
points off for not mentioning the crusades tho
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 09:08 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:08 PM (sj3Ax)
Nothing a few million more here won't solve right comrade?
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:08 PM (/4AZU)
I just thought I'd throw the bird cam out there. This thread is old and stale.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:08 PM (FsuaD)
Mmm, french-fry & owl-egg omelets are the best!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:09 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:09 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:10 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 09:10 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:10 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:10 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:07 PM (8zCR+)
I'm confused. Do you mean "siren song"? & is that supposed to be good or bad in this context?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:11 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 09:10 PM (zauWW)
Bet they were nice and moist.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 09:11 PM (sdi6R)
Jane - Wow! That is a hell of a nest.
The owls took over an old bald eagles' nest. The male came a couple of times and kicked the owl's sticks out. Then left. It's believed the female eagle is dead.
The first egg was laid on New Year's Day. The two chicks should hatch around Feb. 1.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:11 PM (FsuaD)
I couldn't see any eggs.
She came back. She only leaves for a few minutes for the male owl to feed her. It's cold here tonight. Hope she keeps the eggs warm.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:12 PM (FsuaD)
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Not possible. All of the eagles were killed off by DDT.
Posted by: Rachel Carson at January 22, 2015 09:13 PM (vPh3W)
Jane we have a nest in the lot next to us, Barred Owls. Professor left town and turned off the cam, but they still wake my ass up most mornings when they are mating. We named our owl Percy. When he is horny, he is crazy as shit. Won't get out of my driveway.
http://tinyurl.com/72lrvbv
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:13 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:13 PM (8zCR+)
wonderful....
Posted by: BB Wolf at January 22, 2015 06:45 PM (qh617)
He'll hit it off beautifully with Joe Biden.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Nip Sip
He likes you.
Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (3rrMW)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (g6AX9)
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We have a rabbit named Jasper, and a woodchuck named Churchill.
Posted by: Rachel Carson at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:06 PM (sj3Ax) - We are lucky that our enemies have not attacked us more often, especially now with Barry, who is not there...
Posted by: Baldy at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (+35FH)
Scared the hell out of him.
I love to hear them hooting. It's eerie and kind of pretty.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:15 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:15 PM (vPh3W)
... wow .. Permanently blind in one eye ?
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 22, 2015 09:15 PM (e8kgV)
It is, when a whole family's collective neck is on the line. You have seen the first season of Game of Thrones, yes?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 09:16 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 09:17 PM (NeFrd)
Ok, I found the link. It was a young man, not girl.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afghanistan-1960s-photos/5846/
Posted by: Jen the original at January 22, 2015 08:13 PM (kF3VB)
Thanks so much Jen. That was a great pictorial.
There was a similar one from several years back of South Africa, then and now. Or heck, Detroit images are just as devastating.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at January 22, 2015 09:17 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: ThunderB, Professional Ball Deflator at January 22, 2015 09:17 PM (zOTsN)
This is probably more true than we knew at the time.
TPTB. They saw through Gore II and through Bush II.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 09:17 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 09:14 PM (3rrMW)
He once attacked one of my sons fake wind up planes, which he thought was a dying bird I guess. So he on my roof with the plane in his craws and then he realizes, that he's holding a fake bird.
He was pretty embarrassed, if owls can be embarrassed.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:17 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (ws1Wn)
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I had one make a pass, at night, at my cat while I was out walking him. I felt the whoof of air on my cheek as he realized that there was a big animal there also and broke off. I never saw it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (nzKvP)
Isn't that terminally outdated in the internet age, when ideas (whether I'm smarter than you, or I think this is tasteful, here's why) really should trump marketing.
What age do we live in? What, after antibiotics and imaging technology = medical records, should trump your grandchildren? Hmm?
NOT THE EFFIN' GOVERNMENT.
Grandchildren, and a full stomach today of healthy food, and the promise of LIBERTY.,
Liberty, the key to a future YOU decide.
Posted by: way, way outarange guy, enjoying sweet mint tea in my goathair tent at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (8QW8G)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (g6AX9)
Now why the hell would anybody want to do that with Froot Loops? If it was Kaboom I could see it...
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 09:16 PM (AVEe1)
Uh, let me check by browser history...
Hrm, Gay of Throats, Game of Holes, Game of Toes, Gays on Thrones, Game of Stoats... no, is it the one with the guys who do that thing? You know which thing I'm talking about.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (MbqmP)
.But in the aftermath of a grisly New Year's Day exercise accident,
which gave him four broken ribs and may leave him [Harry Reid]
permanently blind in one eye, the 75-year-old Nevada Democrat ...
That nine year old boy had quite the left hook. Must have shoved the old bastard down the basement stairs as he made his escape.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: The Devil at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (vPh3W)
Sometimes the little scamps shake off the chloroform and zaniness happens....
//Harold from Primm
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:21 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 22, 2015 09:15 PM (e8kgV)
Yeah, I don't him more KY, but the asshole never listens, so I had to smack him.
Posted by: #littlejohnnyfightsback at January 22, 2015 09:22 PM (0FSuD)
First grand-kid? I got my first coming up. Welcome to the demographic.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:22 PM (KG0mU)
557 Jane doh,
Sometimes the little scamps shake off the chloroform and zaniness happens....
heh
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:22 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: The Devil at January 22, 2015 09:19 PM (vPh3W)
****
My! That's a tad harsh doncha think?
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 09:23 PM (NeFrd)
That's what feeding the little buggers plenty of Kaboom does for 'em.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:23 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:24 PM (KG0mU)
Of all the youtube celebrities, you'd think Obama would pick this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 22, 2015 09:24 PM (0Ew3K)
Are you from Boston area?
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (KG0mU)
I had one make a pass, at night, at my cat
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:18 PM (vPh3W)
He wasn't my type.
Posted by: Mike Hammer's cat at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (MbqmP)
NO mention of Democrat Speaker of the NY House being arrested for bribery.
NONE.
Wonder if they would have mentioned it if he wasn't Jewish and was a Republican???
Posted by: #littlejohnnyfightsback at January 22, 2015 09:26 PM (0FSuD)
Any DC Peeps here. I need a good food joint near Andrews AFB.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:25 PM (nzKvP)
Michelle knows a good taco place.
Posted by: President for Life Obama at January 22, 2015 09:26 PM (FsuaD)
Yeah all well and good but most of them still think Germany will not invade Poland
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:27 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:27 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:28 PM (FsuaD)
Actually, that there was the best pun around here in weeks.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:28 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: #littlejohnnyfightsback at January 22, 2015 09:26 PM (0FSuD)
Drudge's Headline mentioned he was a Jew bastard or words to that effect.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:28 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:28 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:28 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (nzKvP)
Must be a local story. Well, you fuckers you are all IN NY.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Miracle Musharif at January 22, 2015 09:30 PM (XweGt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:30 PM (ws1Wn)
Incremental-ism means (a) your daughters get their clitorises cut off in a GOVERNMENT-paid Islamic ritual, and (b) b/c you believe in moral equivalency, you die SOON from those bad idea STDs.
Posted by: way, way outarange guy, enjoying sweet mint tea in my goathair tent at January 22, 2015 09:30 PM (8QW8G)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 22, 2015 08:57 PM (bXdYS)
That's good. I was thinking Bella Abzug. She used to make me want to shoot the TV and I was a Dem at the time.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:30 PM (+XMAD)
Must be a local story. Well, you fuckers you are all IN NY.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (0FSuD)
well it might not stay that way because Cuomo had an ethics investigation that he disbanded with out any explanation and then the Feds stepped in. Very Strange indeed
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (2cS/G)
587 Bribes?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 09:30 PM (ws1Wn)
Yep, that's what the Feds are calling it.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (0FSuD)
Must be a local story. Well, you fuckers you are all IN NY.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (0FSuD)
C'mon, that's like 40 minutes of rent in the Village.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:31 PM (KG0mU)
Well she is but she still kicks my ass
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: way, way outarange guy, enjoying sweet mint tea in my goathair tent at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (8QW8G)
Meh.
Let's see what you got.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (g6AX9)
Did that that get him a few Victoria's Secret models?
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (s0ICk)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (/mTq0)
They threaten to sue Cumo over the committee. Separation of powers, blah blah.
Now, looks like Cumo might get indicted
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (0FSuD)
My wife walks one of our cats sometimes. The other 2 it would more accurately be classified as out for a drag
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM (nzKvP)
I'm picturing the cats dragging your poor wife up a tree.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (PyRKS)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (0FSuD)
I did not read that, but I would not lose any tears over that.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:34 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:34 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: JohnDoe@AnotherQuidam fka eureka! at January 22, 2015 09:34 PM (SMyjc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:34 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:33 PM (FsuaD)
They would never do anything to the hand that feeds them
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:35 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:35 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:35 PM (MbqmP)
One of the things I really regret about my party is its tendency to see
things in black and white. An appreciation of nuance, and an ability to
see shades of grey, would go a long way to reaching sensible compromises
with President Obama.
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I hate to break it to you oh Moderate Republican, but Obummer can ONLY see the issues as Black and White.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:35 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:35 PM (vPh3W)
Sounds like he underperformed. A grifting pol' in that position in a state like NY should have done waaay better than that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:36 PM (g6AX9)
With sprinkles
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:32 PM (s0ICk)
Yeah, right.
The second I get over there and pick one up, Mooch will slap it out of my hand and give me a stick of celery instead.
I know you guys...
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:36 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:36 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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And that is what makes Mike Hammer's Cat different.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:36 PM (vPh3W)
So does a King automatically get the hot 72 virgins if he didn't go out Jihad style?
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No, he didn't get them, since he never went all Jihadi. Don't feel bad for him though, he got plenty enough during his life.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:37 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:38 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:38 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 09:38 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 09:38 PM (PyRKS)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
You must have the species of cat known to most of us as "dog."
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (+XMAD)
Tomorrow is going to be cold, windy and rainy. Poor thing.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (FsuaD)
Every decision she's ever made in her entire life has been wrong
Posted by: H. Rap Brown at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (e8kgV)
I guess people try to sell shit instead of giving it to Good Will?
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (0FSuD)
Wait...Mike...you were walking your cat?
o_O
Posted by: Jane
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Just..., don't ask.
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He's doing it as a cat chaperone, because Mrs. Hammer is tired of getting phone calls from neighbors complaining that the cat whipped their little yappy dogs again.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Johnny
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You don't know me that well.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:40 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 09:40 PM (8MjqI)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:41 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 09:41 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 09:41 PM (NeFrd)
I'm expecting them to try to pull off something big here in the states, especially with Law Enforcement men & women have been repeatedly threatened, protested violently & killed. I think most LE are probably not working as usual to prevent more of that BS! Arrest, jail & print every single name that protests violently or disrupts public safety daily in National Newspapers every day for 3 months so everyone can see that you, or your trust fund white kid contributed!
It's time to stop it! I was hoping some would get frostbite & lose a few fingers or toes.
I'd be horrified if I was found without makeup, etc out in public. I cannot imagine wearing adult diapers as many did last week when they effectively ruined commute for thousands going in & out of Boston!
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:42 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:42 PM (/mTq0)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:39 PM (+XMAD)
She buys chinese take out food just for them. I mean these are jewish cats after all. And they literally eat out of her hand. Me--they look at and with that " so change the liter look"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:42 PM (nzKvP)
Urban owls can be a little gamey though. Jane, where's that cam?
Ricardo, how'm I doin' so far?
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:42 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:43 PM (sj3Ax)
http://landingsbirdcam.com/
It's in my neighborhood on an island just outside Savannah.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:44 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 09:44 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Nip
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Nip - I kinda doubt that we will get enough of anything here to be a problem. I never participate in the grocery store rushes. We have plenty on hand if we can't get out. That's never happened, though. Blizzard of '93 was the last nasty storm, and it only collapsed the system for 3-4 days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:44 PM (vPh3W)
Yeah all well and good but most of them still think Germany will not invade Poland
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:27 PM
I'm thinking you have a better grasp of history than our current "leaders".
I'd vote for you for Congressman or Senator over my current idiots.
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 09:45 PM (o/90i)
I look at it as "Hellraiser 2". The movie was shit, but it had some decent moments.
The damned get an eternity of what pleasures they sought out in life. They won't like it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 09:45 PM (AVEe1)
Clown in Chief was just shown on Kelly File with woman with green lipstick.
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It's nice to see that the fashions predicted 30 years ago by MTV, Blade Runner, and Heavy Metal magazine have come to pass.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:45 PM (/mTq0)
Still in freezer.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:45 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Null at January 22, 2015 09:46 PM (xjpRj)
I have a felony in my freezer at the beach. Son ran into an owl and
brought the dead thing back. He wanted to mount it. I explained
possession was a felony, no one would stuff it, throw it away.
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Taxidermists in KY would stuff it.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:46 PM (/mTq0)
Just messing with you. Going to be a typical NC winter day, 35 and wet rain.
Perfect for duck hunting, going tomorrow.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:47 PM (0FSuD)
OMG what a a knockout line!
Can I use that sometime?
Posted by: SoCal Jeffy Dahmer at January 22, 2015 09:47 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 09:48 PM (8zCR+)
In 10 years, the president will be wearing green lipstick.
No matter what gender the president happens to be.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:48 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: exdem13 at January 22, 2015 09:46 PM (/mTq0)
Yeah, perfect. He puts it up at beach house and one of my judge friends comes over.
How's that going to work out? Not that good.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:49 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:49 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:49 PM (/4AZU)
Must be a local story. Well, you fuckers you are all IN NY.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:29 PM
I told the wife this...her response...oh well happens all the time.
BTW, she's from Chicago!
Posted by: Farmer at January 22, 2015 09:50 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:50 PM (vPh3W)
The Vet wears a leather welders apron, and welders leather gloves when
handling the cat. Sometimes they just have to tranq him. Just bringing
him in to the Vet's office in his transporter causes any dogs in the
waiting area to whine and crawl under the chairs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:49 PM (vPh3W)
LOL!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:50 PM (FsuaD)
VP Biden: "But I don't wanna go to some stupid King's funeral in the desert!!! It's hot and last time I got sand in my Play Dough and ruined it!!! I don't wanna go!!
Preezy Teh Won: "They got big army tanks and I'll bet you could ride in one."
VP Biden: "Really?! That's neat. What else do they have that's neat like that?"
................
Posted by: JohnDoe@AnotherQuidam fka eureka! at January 22, 2015 09:50 PM (SMyjc)
I don't know about Boston, but this has been a pretty wimpy winter in the Philly area. Our biggest snowfall so far was about an inch.
The prediction is 1-3 inches on Saturday. Whoop de doo.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (sdi6R)
Crap, I'm sorry. At what?
Momma owl seems to laid in for the night but I've buffering issues, so.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: CM at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (MbqmP)
She's not a happy camper.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (0FSuD)
By small govt and fiscal restraint you mean "1 less civil servant at a dollars' savings o'er donkey" yes?
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (/4AZU)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 22, 2015 09:52 PM (nzKvP)
I think progress has been reversed & JEF has made the USA a super wimp instead of Superpower.
Rescue USA! Please? A sunny smile on a true conservative is our only hope. Scott Walker was on Kelly earlier but I missed most of it because I was in & out of the kitchen & didn't hear all of it.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 09:52 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 09:52 PM (ucDmr)
Still in freezer.
Why did you keep it?
Posted by: CM at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (0NdlF)
I didn't he did. I haven't throw it away because I am an idiot.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:52 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: CM at January 22, 2015 09:53 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 09:53 PM (PyRKS)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (g6AX9)
Yeah. She left the nest briefly to either go kill her dinner, or be fed by the male.
I can't wait for the owlets to hatch in the next couple of weeks.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:53 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:54 PM (s0ICk)
When the scandal about Marion Barry smoking crack was going on in DC, I asked a friend what she thought.
"What's the big deal?" she said. She was from New Orleans.
If Chicago is the most corrupt city in the country, New Orleans certainly gives it a run for it's money.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:54 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:54 PM (/4AZU)
650: Good luck Nip. I used to duck hunt every day. Then the old man in me kicked in.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 09:52 PM (ucDmr)
Yeah, like skiing, it gets harder every year. Fcuking broken knee cap doesn't help. Getting up at 4:30 hung over is also starting to wear me out.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:54 PM (0FSuD)
I had to clean my drawers after that one
Scratched my roof too the feathery fag
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (s0ICk)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:53 PM (FsuaD)
Jane, Percy and his mate had three last year. Look out for the fcuking crows they will pester the shit out of the little ones.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: CM at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (/4AZU)
How's that going to work out? Not that good.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:49 PM (0FSuD)
Just say it's faux feathers.
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (8MjqI)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (0FSuD)
She certainly is camping though, isn't she?
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 09:57 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Democrat
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Screw the guns..., I want the Porch.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:57 PM (vPh3W)
Le sigh
That's the south side....we don't claim that
The north side, home of the soon to be world champion cubbies btw, is the land of greatness
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:58 PM (s0ICk)
What's special about the porch? Good view of a beach or something?
Posted by: CM at January 22, 2015 09:58 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 09:58 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 22, 2015 09:58 PM (BZN39)
At the link there's video of the mother being harassed by crows a couple of weeks ago.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 09:56 PM (8MjqI)
Ha ha, the sad thing is they know me and would know it was real.
They also wouldn't say shit, unless someone we didn't know was there.
It's the self righteous assholes (can you say bitch) you don't know that turn you in.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (0FSuD)
I had to clean my drawers after that one
Scratched my roof too the feathery fag
Posted by: Democrat
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Could be worse. I collided with a buzzard once.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (vPh3W)
So is King Pinkeye Salman susceptible to the wily charms of #hashtag diplomacy?
The power of #hashtag compels you!
The power of #hashtag compels you!
The power of #hashtag compels you!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (bWFHa)
Moderate Republican,
By small govt and fiscal restraint you mean "1 less civil servant at a dollars' savings o'er donkey" yes?
Posted by: Sven10077
Nope.
We just mean a constant rate of eternal increase -- after any adjustment for inflation of course. Linear, rather than geometric.
Posted by: Moderate Republicans
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (kdS6q)
How'm I doing at BEING A COMPLETE ASSHOLE?
Middling fair, I'd guess.
(you said "Meh" I took it as a challenge)
I was rude to Jane and her owl.
Posted by: SoCal Jeffy Dahmer at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 09:58 PM (s0ICk)
True! Pajama Boy is from Wilmette!
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:00 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: CM
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It's a Made in Germany porch.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 09:59 PM (vPh3W)
Yikes! Me too. Ick. It crashed into my windshield and flew off.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (s0ICk)
By small govt and fiscal restraint you mean "1 less civil servant at a dollars' savings o'er donkey" yes?
Posted by: Sven10077 at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (/4AZU)
What I fear is that by letting the most extreme voices like Boehner speak for our party we could lose invaluable opportunities to reach consensus with President Obama.
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (8MjqI)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (NeFrd)
Gotta work at it. Take lessons from Moo Moo, he's got it down pat. He does it without breaking a sweat.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:02 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Mohamed, the goat fucker at January 22, 2015 10:02 PM (0FSuD)
I don't know about Boston, but this has been a pretty wimpy winter in the Philly area. Our biggest snowfall so far was about an inch.
The prediction is 1-3 inches on Saturday. Whoop de doo.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 09:51 PM (sdi6R)
There was some snow predicted on Wednesday. In the morning I took my car to the dealer for inspection. They inspected it and also washed it.
I then drove about 10 miles to work, over roads that were heavily salted in anticipation. By the time I arrived, the car needed washing again.
The roads were whiter from the salt than they were from the slight dusting of snow we got later that day. FML.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: SoCal Jeffy Dahmer at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Jane
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Probably the stupid offspring of the one that I got. It would only have been about 20 miles north of you..., as the buzzard flies.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (vPh3W)
Aaahhh, I see!
It's im-porch-ed!
Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (t//F+)
speak for our party we could lose invaluable opportunities to reach
consensus with President Obama.
I love the comments at this place.
Posted by: Methos at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (A6vWB)
I once, just once, fcuked a goat.
Posted by: Mohamed, the goat fucker at January 22, 2015 10:02 PM (0FSuD)
Lying asshole. Yeah, once. I wish.
Posted by: The Chicken at January 22, 2015 10:04 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:04 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at January 22, 2015 10:04 PM (GFmII)
Posted by: SoCal Jeffy Dahmer at January 22, 2015 10:03 PM (KG0mU)
But he's a natural.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:05 PM (+XMAD)
Co-starring Tom Brady?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 10:06 PM (AVEe1)
One hour of live television news has reignited my rage meter.
I don't care about football. And I especially don't care if the footballs weren't exact same size as they were when tested.
I have & am now on my fourth BMW since 1986 & either I haven't figured the damn cars out by now but if it's rainy & cool or freezing out every windshield has fogged up all winter long. Two weeks ago when we had single digit temps it looked like I had snow on my windshield. When I got in car & turned wipers on nothing happened to it. The "snow" was frost inside the windshield.
Things sometimes happen & there isn't an explanation. I've had this one since November 2011 & that's first time it's happened to any car.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:06 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:07 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: SoCal Jeffy Dahmer sock that won't go away at January 22, 2015 10:07 PM (KG0mU)
If your balls hit the water in the toilet, are they deflated?
Any doctors out there?
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:07 PM (0FSuD)
All of the above should get rid of the moist air inside the car. Most important is NOT recirculating the inside air.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:09 PM (vPh3W)
****
Cremasteric reflex
I hear there are videos but can't vouch for that.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 10:09 PM (NeFrd)
Jane: A few years ago we had horned owls in our yard. Wife and I would
be in the hot tub and around 11 pm they would be at the top of our pine
trees hooting back and forth to each other. Amazing birds and fun to
watch. Never saw a rodent in our yard all those years. Efficient
predators.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:07 PM (ucDmr)
I love them. I was on a walk one day a couple of years ago, and heard hooting. Looked up in a tall pine and saw a pair of great horned owls looking down at me. They're beautiful.
We also have a number of bald eagles around us. A pair sit on a utility pole on the Moon River as we're going and coming off our island.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:09 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:11 PM (8MjqI)
Two weeks ago when we had single digit temps it looked like I had snow on my windshield. When I got in car & turned wipers on nothing happened to it. The "snow" was frost inside the windshield.
Things sometimes happen & there isn't an explanation. I've had this one since November 2011 & that's first time it's happened to any car.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:06 PM (sj3Ax)
I used to get frost inside my windshield in my old Toyota. I think it was because the body was rusted so badly that moisture got inside and froze.
It doesn't sound like that is the case with your car, which is newer.
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 10:11 PM (sdi6R)
I just got a call to take a "masseuse" to work near waikiki
I feel bad for her cause she is insanely hot
But it's an easy Cnote and my car smells great for hours
Posted by: Democrat with a gun at January 22, 2015 10:11 PM (s0ICk)
Posted by: Brady II at January 22, 2015 10:12 PM (vRNwc)
"Police wanted to arrest former NBC 'Meet the Press' host David Gregory for showing an illegal high-capacity gun magazine in a TV showdown with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, according to newly uncovered documents."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 10:12 PM (fADgx)
The key is to cheat a lot.
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 10:12 PM (MYCIw)
I feel bad for her cause she is insanely hot
release... me...
Posted by: al gore's 2nd chakra at January 22, 2015 10:13 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at January 22, 2015 10:13 PM (NeFrd)
either I haven't figured the damn cars out by now but if it's
rainy cool or freezing out every windshield has fogged up all
winter long. Two weeks ago when we had single digit temps it looked like
I had snow on my windshield. When I got in car turned wipers on
nothing happened to it. The "snow" was frost inside the windshield.
Things sometimes happen there isn't an explanation. I've had
this one since November 2011 that's first time it's happened to
any car.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:06 PM
Probably a dumb question, Carol, but do you run your a/c in the winter?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2015 10:13 PM (a0D7H)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (ucDmr)
I spent time in my job at the Chrysler proving grounds in Chelsea, MI,
near Ann Arbor. The wildlfe there was incredible. And the roadkill was
tragic (turklets, raptors, pilleated woodpeckers, sandhill cranes, eg.)
They had a 10' fence around the entire ~800ac. complex. The local joke
was that it was there to keep the deer in.
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:11 PM (8MjqI)
I rescued about eleven terrapins out of the streets of my neighborhood this year. They move to new lagoons during breeding season. It kills me to see one squished in the road.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Lois Lerner, enjoying her giant pension at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (XCD15)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (8zCR+)
A few years ago we had horned owls in our yard. Wife and I would be in the hot tub and around 11 pm they would be at the top of our pine trees hooting back and forth to each other. Amazing birds and fun to watch.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo
And an omen of bad luck. Like a basket of black cats levels of personal misfortune.
Posted by: Apache Indians
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:15 PM (vPh3W)
They would be on the same branch on the tree in the front lawn at the same time every day. I'd get up and take my coffee out to the porch and look at them. Two big majestic birds. Eventually they'd leave and go flying out over the water.
We missed them when they stopped coming around.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:15 PM (+XMAD)
Poor bunnies.
Posted by: New Phone at January 22, 2015 10:15 PM (L+JIu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:16 PM (vPh3W)
I just wrote comment # down & date & put note on my Mac to copy & put in Word doc to print.
Thank you.
At first I thought you were trying to tell me how to stop rage after one hour of Kelly File & our country being led by bottom of barrel imbeciles.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:16 PM (sj3Ax)
Things sometimes happen & there isn't an explanation. I've had this one since November 2011 & that's first time it's happened to any car.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:06 PM (sj3Ax)
Smear a cheap shampoo (the expensive shampoos have too much greasy shit in them) on the inside of your windshield.
I mean, hell, if it worked for the first airplane to go supersonic, it should work on a German Pontiac, right?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 10:16 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Regis Kill at January 22, 2015 10:17 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (ws1Wn)
Posted by: Regis Kill
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Is that your final answer?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (t//F+)
http://landingsbirdcam.com/
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (FsuaD)
We have so many around that they talk all night to each other. Get's old after a while. Then we have the damn crows that show up every now and then to fcuk with them and the Red Tailed hawk.
The hawk actually took out a crow one day. He'd had enough of their shit.
The rest left ASAP.
Crows by the way, are smart as shit. They use to come around and bug the shit out of me. I killed three one year, 22lr. They won't come near my house now.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 10:19 PM (oFCZn)
And an omen of bad luck. Like a basket of black cats levels of personal misfortune.
Posted by: Apache Indians
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 10:14 PM (kdS6q)
When I lived in an apartment (actually a duplex house), my neighbor had a female black cat. She had a litter of three kittens, all black. I adopted two of them, and my neighbor kept the other one.
A few months later the mother cat got pregnant again, and this time had six kittens, again all black.
So for a short time we had no fewer than *ten* black cats in the house. I told her after the second litter was born, "If black cats are really bad luck, we'll both be dead by morning."
Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (sj3Ax)
I now denounce myself.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:18 PM (0FSuD)
Yup, even three generations later, all the crows still know who the crow killer is. Creepy.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (MbqmP)
Red Mind Blue State,
I do not turn air conditioner on in my car in the winter.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:21 PM (sj3Ax)
Some times needed to defrost.
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:22 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Regis Kill at January 22, 2015 10:22 PM (g6AX9)
A damned crow had one of their babies up on a limb, eating it. Poor things.
Crows are fascinating, though. I watched one slamming an acorn on the pavement to crack it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:23 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:23 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:24 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:24 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 10:24 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: New Phone at January 22, 2015 10:15 PM (L+JIu)
We hardly see any bunnies here any more. Plenty of foxes and coyotes. Also no pheasants or turkeys. Raccoons are now the roadkill of record.
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:24 PM (8MjqI)
Carol, my truck has a setting for floor and defrost together. The defrost is using the a/c though I can set the temp to warm.
The cabin gets warm and dry air which clears the windows and keeps the passengers comfy. Its really needed when we get those cold, damp, rainy days like today and people get in with wet outerclothes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
Even when it's at the warm of the day at 7 degrees?
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: davidt at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (fBxC6)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (+XMAD)
No reason to denounce thyself. Crows, and their couisin the grackle, are trash birds.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (g6AX9)
The little 5 lb tom can outfight me when it is time to go to the vets' though.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (t//F+)
I don't believe he ever comes to the nest.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:27 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 10:27 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 10:27 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
/looks nervous
Ya aint kidin...
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at January 22, 2015 10:28 PM (qh617)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:28 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Carol
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Sometimes that is necessary. In fact, in some cars the A/C will automatically be switched (along with heat) ON when the windshield defrost is selected. The object is to get all of the moisture out of the interior of the car.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:28 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
You're telling me!
Posted by: Jimmy Carter, mighty warrior in the fight against bunnies at January 22, 2015 10:28 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Raylan Givens at January 22, 2015 10:29 PM (LKBn6)
Tool-users, too. Tool-makers, if my memory serves me correctly.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 22, 2015 10:29 PM (5ESHp)
That day I didn't get in my car the day before & it was in single digits & I had just come from my home & I was dry.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:29 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:29 PM (g6AX9)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
Oh, yes...
Posted by: Torg at January 22, 2015 10:30 PM (t//F+)
9000 calories for 9 bucks.
I am a horrible parent.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 10:30 PM (KG0mU)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
That wascally wabbit fcuked me up...
Posted by: Elmer Fudd at January 22, 2015 10:30 PM (+XMAD)
I tried to warn them! But did they listen? Noooo!!! Stupid gits.
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at January 22, 2015 10:31 PM (JO9+V)
...4 hours later...
Posted by: Reflective Alternate-Reality Soothsayer at January 22, 2015 10:31 PM (/GL5b)
What she doing?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:29 PM (g6AX9)
She left the nest, came back, and kind of re-adjusted the eggs. I wonder if she turns them? Anyhow, she's settling back down. I can't wait to see her during the day. The nest overlooks the eastern marsh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:31 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Anya at January 22, 2015 10:25 PM (XCD15)
Let it go.
Posted by: Xander at January 22, 2015 10:31 PM (nFdGS)
Posted by: Regis Kill
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I'll take Exocet Missiles, for $1000, Alex
Posted by: The Sheffield at January 22, 2015 10:32 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:32 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 10:32 PM (kdS6q)
They really are the yutes of the bird world.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:34 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:34 PM (9BRsg)
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True
http://tinyurl.com/ookkd5s
Posted by: Cat Shit One at January 22, 2015 10:34 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: zombie Brandon Lee at January 22, 2015 10:34 PM (LKBn6)
I missed Romney isn't running, thank you.
It lightened my mood. MA candidates do poorly in national elections & is why I'd like Warren to stomp Mrs Clinton in primary.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:35 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:35 PM (ucDmr)
Ooh, Jane, thanks for that link to the owl cam!
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:34 PM (9BRsg)
My pleasure! Can't wait to see the fuzzy owlets in a couple of weeks.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:35 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 22, 2015 10:16 PM (MbqmP)
Running AC in winter helps dehumidify the cabin air. The Rain-X people made an anti-fog wipe (sort of like the cheap shampoo idea) for the interior windows/windshield. I tried it and didn't seem to have any fogging problems but that may have just been the weather and is obviously not a comprehensive test. Don't know if it really worked or is if its still available.
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 22, 2015 10:36 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: The Sheffield"
Heh. You may get knocked around. Just saying.
And then the Brits tucked their balls under there skirts,
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:37 PM (g6AX9)
Well, he announced anyway that he wants carbon taxes and larger federal anti-poverty programs.
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If only the first sentence was true.
Haven't seen anything in the Utah news yet.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:37 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 22, 2015 10:38 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: hector (on an earlier thread today) at January 22, 2015 10:38 PM (AVEe1)
Nip Sip,
Even when it's at the warm of the day at 7 degrees?
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:26 PM (sj3Ax)
Yep, most defrosters will automatically turn on the A/C to remove the moisture.On a manual defrost, turn heat all the way up an then on the a/c. It works
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:38 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:35 PM (ucDmr)
Maybe crows are reincarnated Bloods, Crips and Aaron Hernandezes. Or it could be vice versa. In a past life, Hernandez was sitting in a tree eating bugs and keeping an eye out for bling someone had dropped on the ground.
Posted by: Elmer Fudd at January 22, 2015 10:39 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 10:39 PM (MYCIw)
Had a great experience last weekend. As I was coming home and turned into the driveway I thought there was something wrong with the fence line. I slowed to a stop and thee was a really large owl sitting on the top rail of the fence about ten feet away. We stared at each other for a minute and then he shook his head and took off into the field. I felt privileged to have seen one so close!
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 22, 2015 10:39 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 22, 2015 10:39 PM (W5DcG)
I think this thread is officially older than Abdullah was.
Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 10:39 PM (MYCIw)
Yep.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:40 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 22, 2015 10:40 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: New Phone at January 22, 2015 10:15 PM (L+JIu)
We hardly see any bunnies here any more. Plenty of foxes and coyotes. Also no pheasants or turkeys. Raccoons are now the roadkill of record.
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:24 PM (8MjqI)
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I don't know why there have been so many bunnies the last few years but I never see them as roadkill. A few weeks ago I saw a coyote eating one on the side of the road before it hopped the fence as I drove past. In the last week or three I' ve seen coyotes, opossum, a cat and raccoons dead. I was driving on the highway eating a pizza when I saw a big buck dead on the side of the road. At that moment I noticed out of the corner of my eye an even bigger buck skidding to a stop on the other side. I was going 80 and if he had not stopped his run I would not be here as I wasn't in the truck but in my little kia. Deer season.
Posted by: New Phone at January 22, 2015 10:41 PM (FFzCP)
Posted by: Cat Shit One at January 22, 2015 10:41 PM (vPh3W)
Bats, yes. Owls, no.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:41 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 22, 2015 10:41 PM (g6AX9)
He turned to get his pipe, and a young barn owl was sitting over it. And hissed at him and wouldn't let him get his pipe. He loved animals and thought it was cute.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:42 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Cat Shit One at January 22, 2015 10:42 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:42 PM (+XMAD)
I wish the Speaker would find a way to work with President Obama for the good of all Americans instead of only the 1%.
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 10:42 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Cat Shit One at January 22, 2015 10:42 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:43 PM (8MjqI)
I've put comment numbers on my Mac & will copy to word doc & print.
I never thought to ask The All Knowing Horde.
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:43 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at January 22, 2015 10:43 PM (GFmII)
Posted by: Donna
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Same problem here
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:43 PM (vPh3W)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:43 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:44 PM (ucDmr)
Oh, Hey, I saw a Western Meadowlark last weekend. Just before we got seriously rained on.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2015 10:46 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 10:46 PM (vPh3W)
I take it that Idiocracy is rollin' forward. EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 10:47 PM (AVEe1)
I want to go back to fiction ( more or less) & watch Boardwalk Empire on demand
Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:47 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:47 PM (9BRsg)
he has over 20 kids
he married one wife when she was 15 and he was in his 40s. when the wifey was about 25 he kicked her to the curb and kept the kids
when the four daughters got uppity, he placed them under house arrest. which they have been in for over 10 years. They are in their 40s now
Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:49 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 22, 2015 10:49 PM (t//F+)
I did something really stupid a few years ago. When I take breaks at work I usually go for a short walk. I was walking and saw an big gray owl perched on a branch in front of a house.
I was so excited. I went back to work,told my co-workers and even emailed a few people about it. "I just saw a beautiful owl!"
The next day, the owl was still in the same place. And the day after that. I was standing there looking at it and I said to a woman getting out of her car, do you see that owl over there? I've never seen an owl in the city.
She looked and said, I don't see an owl. I see a bunch of branches and walked away.
I walked across the street and got closer. It was a f'ing bunch of branches.
That's when I knew I needed glasses. I felt like Mr. Magoo. I was seeing nonexistent owls - and worse telling people about it.
I felt too stupid to tell anybody. A few months ago, I heard my boss say, "Donna saw an owl in a tree near here a few years ago.."
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 10:50 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 10:51 PM (8zCR+)
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We had a pair visit for a few days. They were so cool, but I didn't get to see much of their behavior.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:51 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 09:54 PMWe
Be well Donna.
Our love from IL area.
T & J
Nite, all. I must work tomorrow.
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