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Isaak Brodsky, "Early Spring" (1906)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 10:35 AM

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1 Foist

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 04, 2015 10:36 AM (vSxTY)

2
A tad cold for skinny dipping.

Yes, that's shrinkage, dammit, I'm really quite...

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 10:37 AM (JtwS4)

3 Yay! Open Thread!

Posted by: EC at February 04, 2015 10:38 AM (doBIb)

4 Waldo's drowning.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 10:38 AM (Spluw)

5 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:38 AM (kff5f)

6 Needs water lilies.

Posted by: Monet at February 04, 2015 10:38 AM (WbRgK)

7 I don't care how many paintings you put up, ain't no way I'm gonna have any culture.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (WNERA)

8 You see that water right there? And snow? Proof of GLOBULL WARMENING!

Posted by: anon a mouse at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (/jpU8)

9 Reminds me of Frodo falling into the death pond. That's him on the left.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (0FSuD)

10 Yup, there's ol' Puxatony Phil, in the leg trap down in the stream.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (RzZOc)

11 Does Viagra cause autism? I gotta read the fine print.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (vSxTY)

12 So what's with the fence? Seems kind of odd, just in that one spot.

Posted by: HH at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (Ce4DF)

13 I see tire tracks on the surface of the water. Was Jesus driving?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2015 10:40 AM (WbRgK)

14 Smilies is giving me a swirly, unless it's Verizon's failure to complete. Or Goggle Chrome.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 10:40 AM (CSal+)

15 That pic of hill drunk on drudge is to die for. How the fcuk did she ever let that happen?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (0FSuD)

16 I don't care how many paintings you put up, ain't no way I'm gonna have any culture.
Posted by: Bob from table9

Leave a cup of yogurt in the back of your fridge and forget it. Wait one month.

Ta da!

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (Spluw)

17 No feces or vaginas. Meh

Posted by: NYC Parent Now With Added Bile for Freshness at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (HEo6y)

18 That ain't no real crik. There ain't no alligator in it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (0HooB)

19 Okay, now, this is a little different.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (LA7Cm)

20
Oh, this is interesting. NYT:

Zacarias Moussaoui, a former operative for Al Qaeda, testified that members of the Saudi royal family were donors in the 1990s, and he claimed that he discussed plans to shoot down Air Force One with a staff member at the Saudi Embassy.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 10:42 AM (JtwS4)

21 Dammit! I can't find Waldo!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:42 AM (kff5f)

22 That pic of hill drunk on drudge is to die for. How the fcuk did she ever let that happen?
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM

Revenge of the pissed off staffer?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (knoK7)

23 I betcha there are crawdads there in the spring...

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (LA7Cm)

24
So what's with the fence?

I think it's a dike, ocean beyond.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (JtwS4)

25 So what's with the fence? Seems kind of odd, just in that one spot.

You can't tear it down until you can tell me why it was there in the first place.

Posted by: GK Chesterton at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (kff5f)

26 I feel like I am living in a nightmare. Watching Hannity last night (yeah, yeah.. I know) he mentioned the prisoners executed by Jordan and we need to stay tuned.. will there be more? Continuing coverage.. blah blah.. I am sitting there in bed thinking this just can't be happening.. it's surreal.

Posted by: jewells45tryingtokeepfromgoingcrazy at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (l/N7H)

27 So what's with the fence? Seems kind of odd, just in that one spot.

Oh. There he is.

I FOUND WALDO!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:44 AM (kff5f)

28 alt title: "Before White Privilege Created Climate Change"

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 04, 2015 10:44 AM (7RXcs)

29 I think I like the Japanese guy better.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 10:45 AM (LA7Cm)

30 I clicked the picture and it was still the same picture. How disappointing.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 04, 2015 10:45 AM (2Ojst)

31 So, my daughter went to an American Heritage Girls meeting last night, to check it out. I think we're going to enroll her (apparently AHG starts in Kindergarten, instead of 1st Grade for Cub Scouts).

It's weird, because the closest troop is hosted by a Catholic Church, and does a lot of Catholic things (they opened with an Our Father and closed with a Hail Mary, for instance- definitely new for me).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:45 AM (kff5f)

32 11 Does Viagra cause autism? I gotta read the fine print.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 04, 2015 10:39 AM (vSxTY)

BLUE PILL MAKE BABY!!!
BLUE PILL MAKE BABY!!!
BLUE PILL MAKE BABY!!!

Posted by: Raymond Babbitt at February 04, 2015 10:46 AM (vgIRn)

33 Love this picture.

Posted by: Moderate Salami at February 04, 2015 10:46 AM (/Ho8c)

34 Revenge of the pissed off staffer?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 04, 2015 10:43 AM (knoK7)

Copyright says AP. She was REALLY fcuked up.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 10:46 AM (0FSuD)

35
Always a painting thread. Here is a painting I actually like.
http://tinyurl.com/ldtmqbs

Posted by: maddogg at February 04, 2015 10:46 AM (xWW96)

36 Those blue thingies are Bruce Jenner's discarded pole vaulting poles.

Posted by: fly gal at February 04, 2015 10:47 AM (8TdcF)

37 (reposted from below because I typed all this out....and Obama is incompetent....and most Canadians are too stupid to live and like the guy..)

Obama's proposed budget is $4 Trillion, eh....?

Meanwhile,
Canada will pay to build the $250 million US Customs Plaza ON AMERICAN
SOIL in addition to paying for the entire NEW BRIDGE across the Detroit
River. We've even pitched in $550 million to pay for the US access roads
to the bridge on the US side.

http://tinyurl.com/l633rfb

I
personally don't care except it's funny because a major international
bridge is actual INFRASTRUCTURE which the liberals get all orgasmic
over. And all of those hundreds of Billions of dollars from a few years
back for SHOVEL READY JOBS are apparently mysteriously gone.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at February 04, 2015 10:47 AM (AC0lD)

38 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice Clinic think President Obama should raise taxes on anyone that makes more then $30,000 a year. Their are still lots of people here in our grate city and across America that are still suffering because of Bush. Bush lied to these people and bought weapons to kills persons of some color in the Middle east because he is a ex-confederate from TEX-ASS and still fighting a war that ended over 200 years ago when Lincoln was Presdent. Bush lied andpersons of color has been paying for cheap oil.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 10:48 AM (Sd++4)

39 "I think it's a dike, ocean beyond."

No, in the foreground. The parallel white lines.

Posted by: HH at February 04, 2015 10:48 AM (Ce4DF)

40 36 Those blue thingies are Bruce Jenner's discarded pole vaulting poles.
Posted by: fly gal at February 04, 2015 10:47 AM (8TdcF)

I have only one more pole vaulting pole to discard...

Posted by: Bruce/Bridgette Jenner at February 04, 2015 10:48 AM (2Ojst)

41 maddog that's high art there.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at February 04, 2015 10:49 AM (TPjwz)

42 That pic of hill drunk on drudge is to die for. How the fcuk did she ever let that happen?

Bwaaa-haaaaa.

It doesn't mean anything of course, 'cause who cares, but it's funny.

Also, I think we need a caption contest.

"And then I said, 'Here's a Reset Button!'"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:49 AM (kff5f)

43 Don't do it Bruce, you are to f'n ugly to be even an ugly woman. You will end up killing yourself.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at February 04, 2015 10:50 AM (WNERA)

44 Copyright says AP. She was REALLY fcuked up.

WC Fields tried to warn us about never trusting a man who doesn't drink, but that pic makes me wonder...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 10:50 AM (0HooB)

45 Why the hell isn't Raqqa a pile of dust by now.

http://tinyurl.com/lqefoxz

Isis set up giant screens in Raqqa showing Jordanian pilot burning to death cheered on by crowds

Posted by: RWC at February 04, 2015 10:50 AM (fWAjv)

46
No, in the foreground. The parallel white lines.

Ah.

Um, they're those things. And the bottom one has a thing that goes up.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 10:50 AM (JtwS4)

47 Why the hell isn't Raqqa a pile of dust by now.

We haven't finished cooking up the Bacon-fat Napalm yet.

Posted by: King Abdullah II at February 04, 2015 10:51 AM (kff5f)

48 "Webb might look like a frog, but I figured, what the heck, I have sex so infrequently, there's no way I'll get pregnant!"

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 10:51 AM (vgIRn)

49 Seven months until football.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 10:52 AM (evdj2)

50 This Brodsky dude--I like the colors he uses.

Posted by: stace at February 04, 2015 10:52 AM (ImzkZ)

51 Isaak Brodsky, "Early Spring"

Alternate title: "Damn Beavers"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 10:52 AM (p9FjL)

52 Seven months until football.

Heh. Just Monday I was thinking, "How long until the draft?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:52 AM (kff5f)

53
Why the hell isn't Raqqa a pile of dust by now.

It may be soon. Did you read the Abdullah link earlier? Said he loves his own son no more than he loved that pilot and they're going to start flying sorties until they run out of fuel and ammo.

And we'll probably give him some more.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 10:52 AM (JtwS4)

54 That is very lovely. Quite evocative of the scene and the season.

*heads for more tea*

Posted by: alexthechick - Go. Listen. You know you want to. at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (mf5HN)

55 Alternate title: "Damn Beavers"

FIFY.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (kff5f)

56 Seven months until football.

I want to see who our Beloved Crimson Tide signs today.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (0HooB)

57 Seven months until football. Heh. Just Monday I was thinking, "How long until the draft?"

That won't be enough time to inflate my balls.

Posted by: Bill belichek at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (Spluw)

58 That pic of hill drunk on drudge is to die for.
How the fcuk did she ever let that happen?

Drunk or acid.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 10:54 AM (p9FjL)

59 At least he didn't spell it Sprin.

Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2015 10:54 AM (zoehZ)

60
I can't find the sniper kitteh.

Be afraid.

Posted by: Jordan at February 04, 2015 10:54 AM (TIIx5)

61 "Oh. There he is.

I FOUND WALDO!"

Whew! I was worried there for a minute...

Posted by: HH at February 04, 2015 10:56 AM (Ce4DF)

62 After studying that a while it strikes me that this guy was not very skillful.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 10:57 AM (wlDny)

63 It's the scene of a terrible, terrible rape.

Posted by: Sabrina Rubin Erdely at February 04, 2015 10:57 AM (9GG/0)

64
Off me, revengy sock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2015 10:58 AM (TIIx5)

65 Imperial One - I finally got to listen to the podcasts. Very nice. But somehow, I expected you to have a southern drawl. Suprising to hear you sound like Mila Kunis. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 10:58 AM (zF6Iw)

66 I want to see who our Beloved Crimson Tide signs today.

I have no doubt it will be another five star class. One of these days we will have to have a "rebuilding year" and start some freshmen.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 10:58 AM (evdj2)

67 I mentioned this yesterday, but it was buried among a mix of other conversations.

What is the likelihood that the ISIS leaders are the remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime and that they are more likely being driven by their innate depravity rather than by radical Islam?

If that were the case, and it were talked about that way, wouldn't it be easier to obtain the support of the moderates in the region?

The debauchery of these people was well know while Hussein was in power, and the same wickedness was seen in the 2006 timeframe (IIRC) in Iraq. It led to the eventual alliance between Coalition forces and the local tribes who had become fed up with the attrocities that were being committed then.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 04, 2015 10:58 AM (zpZLP)

68 Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 10:57 AM (wlDny)

And, yet, people still know his name and his work 109 years later.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 10:59 AM (kff5f)

69 Izaak Brodksy was a good Socialist according to the Wikipedia.

Got the Order of Lenin.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 10:59 AM (LA7Cm)

70 Meanwhile, President Putt frees 5 GITMO terrorists for an American deserter so that they can go back to the battlefield and kill more.

It seems that King Abdullah knows better than to confer with President Doesn't-Give-A-Shit.

Posted by: Cheri at February 04, 2015 10:59 AM (ZFPMM)

71 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (g1DWB)

72 The debauchery of these people was well know while Hussein was in power, and the same wickedness was seen in the 2006 timeframe (IIRC) in Iraq. It led to the eventual alliance between Coalition forces and the local tribes who had become fed up with the attrocities that were being committed then.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes

It would explain the butchery among the Sunnin villages north of baghdad. ISIS doesn't want a repeat of that.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (Spluw)

73 Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (g1DWB)

And MattY continues his unbroken string of idiotic statements.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (kff5f)

74 Photoshop?

Posted by: Necrocrat at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (7u7u7)

75
That pic of hill drunk on drudge is to die for. How the fcuk did she ever let that happen?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 10:41 AM (0FSuD)

Shut your whore mouth!!!!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (HSmrB)

76 I want to see who our Beloved Crimson Tide signs today.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (0HooB)

More mathletes and science olympians, no doubt.

Posted by: Random Dude at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (vgIRn)

77
Drunken Shrillary: "This carpet burn is from when I face-planted - for reals!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (bWFHa)

78 On the plus side, BB, I will bet money that Eddie Jackson will move to safety next year, and we will have a new QB, obviously.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:01 AM (evdj2)

79 Drunken Hillary Caption:

"What difference, at this point, does it make!?!?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (kff5f)

80
71 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (g1DWB)

To whom is he giving his?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (bWFHa)

81 A bit garish for my taste, but here's a painting of Jean Harlow:

http://goo.gl/snG38Y

Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (zF6Iw)

82 >>And MattY continues his unbroken string of idiotic statements.

Well in all fairness his dad did give him a multi-million dollar condo so it was the most cost effective way for him.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (g1DWB)

83 71 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (g1DWB)

It's working in Salt Lake City, of all places. Just saying.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (vgIRn)

84 Imperial One - I finally got to listen to the podcasts. Very nice. But somehow, I expected you to have a southern drawl. Suprising to hear you sound like Mila Kunis. NTTAWWT.
Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 10:58 AM (zF6Iw)

Thank you. I will happily accept the Mila Kunis comparison, oh, yes, I will.

Posted by: alexthechick - Go. Listen. You know you want to. at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (mf5HN)

85 I want to see who our Beloved Crimson Tide signs today.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 10:53 AM (0HooB)

More kids that won't graduate. Or read.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 04, 2015 11:03 AM (S+el1)

86 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people

Smug and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (zF6Iw)

87 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias

The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people

a) When is Lil' Matty giving away his home?

b) There are a hell of a lot of abandoned homes in Detroit. Let 'em all move there!

Posted by: Joey Fuckin' Biden, bitchez!!! at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (wtvvX)

88 Absolutely gorgeous painting, rd; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (DXzRD)

89 @71: Has anyone ever seen Matt Yglesias and Neil deGrasse Tyson in the same room together?

Posted by: bananaDream at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (UU4EV)

90 Those blurred lines in that painting empower me!

Posted by: Emily Ratajkowski at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (l3vZN)

91 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people

The bestest thing to do after a housing bubble and during the formation of yet another housing bubble is to hand out housing to people who have no stake in what they're being given.

Wh yes, I'm a leftist. How did you guess?

Posted by: Matty the moron (not in the Horde sense) at February 04, 2015 11:06 AM (Spluw)

92 "After studying that a while it strikes me that this guy was not very skillful. "

I thought similar but I searched some of his work online. Check out "Alley in Park" by him.

Pretty darn nice IMO.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 11:06 AM (LA7Cm)

93
Jean Harlow, pre-fame, NSFW

http://bit.ly/1KcJO4D

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 11:06 AM (JtwS4)

94 83 71 Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias
The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people
Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:00 AM (g1DWB)

Imagine how many homeless people Detroit could help?

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at February 04, 2015 11:06 AM (oDCMR)

95 I liked that they changed the GSR to account for players turning pro.

The Alabama football and men's basketball teams both ranked second in the SEC with scores of 80 and 87, respectively. Men's track and field was also second in the SEC with a score of 95. Football jumped seven points from a year ago while men's basketball jumped 10 points. In addition to having all 16 programs scoring 80 or above, 13 Alabama squads ranked in the top five in the SEC.

The GSR measures graduation rates at Division I institutions and includes student-athletes transferring into the institutions. The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation, as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (evdj2)

96 "The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people"

No, the most cost effective way to fight homelessness is for people like Mr Yglesias to invite the homeless to move in with him. He has room to spare, more than he needs, and the country wouldn't have to build more. It would make better use of the inventory of homes we already have.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (CSal+)

97 So riddle me, this, Matty -

Let's suppose we give homes to the homeless.

1.) how do they pay for the upkeep?
2.) how are they encouraged to take any pride in keeping a clean and tidy house?

Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (zF6Iw)

98 On the plus side, BB, I will bet money that Eddie Jackson will move to safety next year, and we will have a new QB, obviously.

Yeah, I can't even remember the QB that spelled Simms for a couple of quarters last season. He had some potential, but Simms seemed more like a leader and the team seemed to respond to him much better.

Overall, Saint Nick needs to instill just a bit more of a killer instinct in the team. Early in his tenure, they had a bad habit of letting their foot off the gas towards the end of a game, which it appears they started doing again in the Ohio State game.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (0HooB)

99 The picture of Hillary looking very drunk while on a flight has been around since 2008, I believe. It was given out by someone who was a supporter of BO, I expect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (DXzRD)

100 In "Believer: My 40 Years in Politics," former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod writes that the GOP candidate implied on the call that Obama had won because of his popularity in black communities, according to the New York Daily News, which acquired an advance copy of the book.

Obama was "unsmiling during the call, and slightly irritated when it was over," according to Axelrod.

"'You really did a great job of getting out the vote in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people. That's what he thinks this was all about," Obama said after he hung up with Romney.

... Axelrod is such a racist

Posted by: Ben Bernanke at February 04, 2015 11:08 AM (e8kgV)

101 Posted by: alexthechick - Go. Listen. You know you want to. at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM

Listened to the podcast last night, myself. Just my $0.02, but you are correct re: rubbers/galoshes. But they're hell on a good shine. That is all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 04, 2015 11:08 AM (knoK7)

102 Jean Harlow, pre-fame, NSFW

Never saw that one before. Thanks!

Posted by: Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing at February 04, 2015 11:08 AM (zF6Iw)

103 It's working in Salt Lake City, of all places. Just saying.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains

And mortgages and utilities are being paid by panhandling?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 11:09 AM (p9FjL)

104 So, ISIS and their supporters like to see people burned alive?

Then here, kids: Fat Man and Little Boy would like to come over for a visit.

Welcome to the burning times, fvckers.

Posted by: Joey Fuckin' Biden, bitchez!!! at February 04, 2015 11:09 AM (wtvvX)

105 Well, it seems ISIS has pissed off most of the muslim world with their burning of the Jordanian pilot. The clerics are calling for their crucifixion and referring to them as a satanic terrorist group. Even other islamic radicals are pissed. PR is not their strong point.

Posted by: maddogg at February 04, 2015 11:09 AM (xWW96)

106 Early in his tenure, they had a bad habit of letting their foot off the gas towards the end of a game, which it appears they started doing again in the Ohio State game.

In fairness, State physically beat the crap out of our defense. By the fourth quarter, our starting safety and two starting LB's were out of the game. Hard hitters they were.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:10 AM (evdj2)

107 The city of Wilmington did a "homesteading" program, selling properties for token sums, with the provision that the buildings be refurbished and lived in.

it largely worked. But....There was a market for housing, they were bought by people who gentrified regions of the city and some of the properties were flipped by pros (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).
What did NOT happen? Decent housing was not handed out to people based upon need or skin color.

my bet is that Matty the moron is angling for the latter.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 11:10 AM (Spluw)

108
96 "The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people"

No, the most cost effective way to fight homelessness is for people like Mr Yglesias to invite the homeless to move in with him. He has room to spare, more than he needs, and the country wouldn't have to build more. It would make better use of the inventory of homes we already have.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 11:07 AM (CSal+)

But then, where would Matty's "fact checkers" live?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 04, 2015 11:11 AM (bWFHa)

109
Never saw that one before. Thanks!

My pleasure. There are others of that series that are real. I think it was a book for artists to *cough* draw from.

I haven't seen anything that's not from that shoot that looks real.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 11:11 AM (JtwS4)

110 90 Those blurred lines in that painting empower me!
Posted by: Emily Ratajkowski at February 04, 2015 11:04 AM (l3vZN)

Stick to showing us your tits, darlin'. We're not interested in your pontifications on feminism.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 04, 2015 11:11 AM (2Ojst)

111 "Zacarias Moussaoui, a former operative for Al Qaeda, testified that members of the Saudi royal family were donors in the 1990s"

Alex, I'll take Things That Would Have Been A Shocking New Revelation Twenty Years Ago for a thousand, please.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 11:12 AM (noWW6)

112
And mortgages and utilities are being paid by panhandling?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 11:09 AM (p9FjL)

http://tinyurl.com/pboeqoa

It's a prog website, so take it with salt, but I know a former Army officer slightly right of Attila the Hun who works on the program, and swears by it.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:12 AM (vgIRn)

113 "Well, it seems ISIS has pissed off most of the muslim world with their burning of the Jordanian pilot."

What a conundrum for ol' Barry. He can't call them "Islamic" terrorists but if other Muslim countries in the region start after them what's an-anti Western Muz sympathizer to do?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 11:12 AM (LA7Cm)

114
As many coastal SoCal communities have found, good weather and leftist asskissing of the homeless attracts bums, drug addicts and filthy street people like a pile of dog shit attracts flies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2015 11:13 AM (TIIx5)

115 "The clerics are calling for their crucifixion and referring to them as a satanic terrorist group. "

Gosh; It's one time I actually agree with Muslim clerics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2015 11:13 AM (DXzRD)

116 Now, now, now, maybe MattY was just jealous he wasn't in the lead for Vox Of The Day. I mean, it is difficult to top this:

http://bit.ly/1Asxyv7

Posted by: alexthechick - Go. Listen. You know you want to. at February 04, 2015 11:14 AM (mf5HN)

117 "Early Spring"
What kind of sick bastard are you

It's snowing again here in the great white north(Boston), we already have over three feet of global warming as it is. geeesh

Posted by: RonUSA at February 04, 2015 11:15 AM (EaqMa)

118 Just how effing nuts do you have to be to have Islamic clerics calling you out as a "satanic" terrorist???

Posted by: Joey Fuckin' Biden, bitchez!!! at February 04, 2015 11:15 AM (wtvvX)

119 Criminals who committed crimes in the past are to be paid for committing the crimes, by the IRS:

http://tinyurl.com/ncu23c4

Schweeet!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 04, 2015 11:15 AM (BZAd3)

120 Not the crucifixion part although I think the perps should be tried and if found guilty should be executed-just the idea that they are a Satanic group but I think all Muslim terrorists are Satanic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2015 11:15 AM (DXzRD)

121 So riddle me, this, Matty -

Let's suppose we give homes to the homeless.

1.) how do they pay for the upkeep?
2.) how are they encouraged to take any pride in keeping a clean and tidy house?

Seems to me a few years ago we tried subsidizing homes for people who couldn't afford them.

That was kind of a disaster, I think.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 04, 2015 11:16 AM (PFy0L)

122 "'You really did a great job of getting out the vote in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee,' in other words, black people. That's what he thinks this was all about,' Obama said after he hung up with Romney."

Considering that there were precincts in Cleveland in 2012 with the extremely statistically improbable outcome of _zero_ Republican votes despite nearly all of the registered voters in the district purportedly having shown up -- yes, Virginia, there still are Republican voters in places like Cleveland -- it is more likely that Romney was giving a tip of the hat to the urban Democratic vote fraud apparatus.

Apparently the newly installed sarcasm module in the Mittbot 3000 was working that day. Seems to have startled Obama.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 11:17 AM (noWW6)

123 Charlotte never had a "Homeless" problem until a liberal Republican Mayor decided to find one. The "in" cause.

It you give food away at McD's people will show up. If you give free housing away, people will show up. They did, now 30 years later we have bums everywhere

It's like the Norfolk and Southern RR guy told me. All these bums are homeless until they fall asleep on our tracks and we run them over.

Relatives come out of the wood works wanting to sue.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 11:17 AM (0FSuD)

124 92 I thought similar but I searched some of his work online. Check out "Alley in Park" by him.

Pretty darn nice IMO.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 11:06 AM (LA7Cm)

Yeah, that one is better.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 11:18 AM (wlDny)

125 "As many coastal SoCal communities have found, good weather and leftist asskissing of the homeless attracts bums, drug addicts and filthy street people like a pile of dog shit attracts flies."

Don't forget the stoner surfers buying sushi and lobster with EBT.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 11:18 AM (noWW6)

126 Here's the background music this morning.

A little Kansas, America's only prog rock band (at least that I know of) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWfiWtROs0

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 11:18 AM (0HooB)

127 It's snowing again here in the great white north(Boston), we already have over three feet of global warming as it is. geeesh

Posted by: RonUSA at February 04, 2015 11:15 AM (EaqMa)

Call me when you reach 7 ft

Posted by: Buffalo NY at February 04, 2015 11:18 AM (S+el1)

128 Really like today's painting! Love all of the blue.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 11:19 AM (ABcz/)

129 DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT
NEW RULES: FCC Chair Unveils 'Net Neutrality'... http://drudge.tw/1Dy9NiK

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 11:19 AM (ZPrif)

130
Think not of them as "homeless".

Instead, think of them as "romantic street people".

-- Central Committee for Tourism, Berkeley Commune

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 04, 2015 11:20 AM (bWFHa)

131
Something to think about while grieving the Jordanian pilot:

Jessica Chambers, 19, was beaten up and burned to death in her car in MS. Killer poured gas in her mouth n nose before setting her on fire, and she managed to exit the car and walk a little. Just Godawful.
No suspects.

Posted by: Justamom at February 04, 2015 11:21 AM (Sptt8)

132 The "homeless" problem was caused by emptying out all the mental hospitals under a suit by the ACLU commies. Make them take care of the homeless.

As for buying them houses, what in the hell does he think section 8 housing is? And that has been a dismal failure.

If you give people who don't give a damn free shit they will destroy it. The FSA did not get that way because of lack of opportunity.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 11:22 AM (wlDny)

133 It's working in Salt Lake City, of all places. Just saying.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:02 AM (vgIRn)

Define "working" and how long-term has it been working?

The problem with just giving homes to the homeless is that it does not address *why* they're homeless. Certainly, as we've shown, usually just buying people things instead of "setting up a program" is cheaper, but the problem with "just buying people things" is that it doesn't do anything to address why they didn't have whatever thing in the first place.

Even Habitat for Humanity at least requires that people who move into their homes "improve them" over the first 3 years- making it less likely they'll end up homeless later.

Giving someone a home does not give them the qualities of a home owner.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:22 AM (kff5f)

134 >>The most cost effective way to fight homelessness is to give homes to homeless people

Oh, Matty! So many homeless people are homeless by choice. The ones who are homeless for years because they don't quite fit into society (maybe because we're no longer institutionalizing the mentally ill) and they enjoy the freedom of that lifestyle combined with the handouts that they have available to them (homeless shelters when cold, food banks, soup kitchens, ect,).

Not everyone wants a home and your lifestyle, sweetie, but if you'd like to privately find a "homes for the homeless" feel free to do so.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 11:23 AM (ABcz/)

135 DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT
seems kinda vague

NEW RULES: FCC Chair Unveils 'Net Neutrality'... http://drudge.tw/1Dy9NiK

Congress wisely gave the FCC the power to update its rules to keep pace with innovation. Under that authority my proposal includes a general conduct rule that can be used to stop new and novel threats to the internet. This means the action we take will be strong enough and flexible enough not only to deal with the realities of today, but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 11:23 AM (ZPrif)

136 I was gonna call it "Late Winter", but it didn't seem catchy enough.

Posted by: Isaak Brodsky at February 04, 2015 11:23 AM (hHFOx)

137 >>It's a prog website, so take it with salt, but I know a former Army officer slightly right of Attila the Hun who works on the program, and swears by it.

My problem comes from this in the article you linked:

>Well, in addition to being effective, it saves a lot of money. Salt Lake City has calculated that it costs about $20,000 a year to serve homeless people the traditional way and only $8,000 a year to give them housing.

It only "works" if you assume that all the spending we do on the homeless issue is a given and all things must be measured from that baseline.

Here's a thought, lets start spending less money on the homeless. Utah is spending $20K on top of whatever the feds are contributing? No wonder we have a homeless problem.

If you want more of something, subsidize it. Most of the msm seems to have missed the inconvenient fact that when long term unemployment started ending, unemployment started going down. Funny that.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:24 AM (g1DWB)

138
but also to establish ground rules for the as yet unimagined

Behold, the awesome powers of the unrestrained bureaucrat!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at February 04, 2015 11:25 AM (bWFHa)

139 Got harassed just the other day by homeless black dude. Clearly schizo. He wanted to let me know that Princess Diana had just died.

But I was in suburbia. Was he really homeless?

There was a low income apartment complex not far from where we were. Guarantee he lived there in some group home the country paid for. Schizos don't like sitting at home, boring. So they wander around the neighborhood.

Guy was agitated and will probably commit some violence at some point and be sent to jail.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 11:27 AM (ZPrif)

140 "The clerics are calling for their crucifixion and referring to them as a satanic terrorist group. "

Time for the oh so smug militant anti-theists to whine about this. They've been raving about satanic statues and other crap.

Please note that I did NOT use the term 'athiest'.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 11:28 AM (Spluw)

141 The scary thing about Mary Cloggenstein (and imitators or intentional misspellings) is that what "she" writes is pretty much indistinguishable from what acquaintances on Facebook from long, long ago post.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at February 04, 2015 11:28 AM (0RdKg)

142 Geez, I don't know why all you guys are so down on immigration. You're harshing my buzz. I mean look at the contribution of latino women. I mean there's even one on the Supreme Court. And what about that Civil Rights icon Rosetta Stone? I mean she knew like all these languages but refused to speak English in the back of the bus. Now people all over the world come to her and pay good money. That's like the definition of entrepreneur man.

Posted by: Toked Up Low Information Voter at February 04, 2015 11:29 AM (zxQ4h)

143 The problem with just giving homes to the homeless is that it does not address *why* they're homeless.

Duh! They are homeless because they don't have homes!

(Actual finding by Utah State rocket surgeons. Yeah, I read the story)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 11:29 AM (p9FjL)

144
King Abdulla is a personal friend, and infrequently calls me for advise as a white hair with credentials. You would think Barack would also call, but no, he's got all the answers and it shows.

Posted by: Clint Eastwood at February 04, 2015 11:30 AM (P330y)

145 In the last 27 months, the US Government has paid $965,090,331,659.50 in interest on our Debt Outstanding.

Boned to the bone we are.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:31 AM (evdj2)

146 (Actual finding by Utah State rocket surgeons. Yeah, I read the story)

My brain hurts.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:31 AM (kff5f)

147 The scary thing about Mary Cloggenstein (and imitators or intentional misspellings) is that what "she" writes is pretty much indistinguishable from what acquaintances on Facebook from long, long ago post.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at February 04, 2015 11:28 AM (0RdKg)

It's kind of like STTOS Mirror, Mirror. We can act like them but they cannot act like us. Because ultimately we understand them better than they understand us.

Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2015 11:32 AM (Rx8ML)

148 Salt Lake City has calculated that it costs about $20,000 a year to serve homeless people the traditional way and only $8,000 a year to give them housing.

Would love to see the breakdown on the $8k.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 11:32 AM (p9FjL)

149 If you give people who don't give a damn free shit they will destroy it. The FSA did not get that way because of lack of opportunity.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 11:22 AM (wlDny)

Years ago I had to do a job in jersey city, and if jersey needed an enema that's where they would put it. There were low income houses going up, and the things weren't even finished yet and windows were broke, the siding had holes in it from people throwing rocks at it, and it had graffiti. They looked like a bombed out shithole before they were even finished. Frigging waste.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2015 11:32 AM (FMbng)

150 This little ditty might make a good bumper tune for someone's podcast...just sayin'

More Kansas, this one's pretty patriotic - Can I Tell You Something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0H_anNJE4

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 11:33 AM (0HooB)

151
King Abdullah has brass balls, kills terrorists, quotes Clint Eastwood, and is flying home to this:

http://bit.ly/1zKmwQB

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 04, 2015 11:34 AM (JtwS4)

152 It only "works" if you assume that all the spending we do on the homeless issue is a given and all things must be measured from that baseline.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:24 AM (g1DWB)

And that's a fair point.

But I don't think we can convert from what we have today to churches and charities completely taking over overnight.

I don't think simply cutting government funding all at once is the answer - a lot of folks will die.

So saving money while genuinely helping people in a better way than we are now is a at least a good first step.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:34 AM (vgIRn)

153 Let's suppose we give homes to the homeless.

1.) how do they pay for the upkeep?

By giving them taxpayer-subsidized maintenance checks every month. Duh.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 04, 2015 11:35 AM (2Ojst)

154 Since we have a Democrat administration, there are no homeless people. As soon as there is a Republican administration, homelessness will be an epidemic, a scourge, a human tragedy of epic proportions and WE MUST DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at February 04, 2015 11:37 AM (2Ojst)

155 Giving someone a home does not give them the qualities of a home owner.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:22 AM

The left, once again demonstrating its bassackwards cargo cult thinking.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 04, 2015 11:37 AM (knoK7)

156 Salt Lake City has calculated that it costs about $20,000 a year to serve homeless people the traditional way and only $8,000 a year to give them housing.

I'll bet that it ranks right there with the assholes claiming that paroling criminals is cheaper than keeping them in prison.

Sure it is.

For their budget. As if they don't still need medical care, housing, food, transport the list goes on. The needs get shoved onto the budgets of a half-dozen different agencies, instead of the bureau of corrections. And that's if they don't decide to attack someone.

Posted by: Blue Hen at February 04, 2015 11:37 AM (Spluw)

157 I'll bet that it ranks right there with the assholes claiming that paroling criminals is cheaper than keeping them in prison.

Sure it is.

For their budget.

Not to mention the budgets of their future victims.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:39 AM (evdj2)

158 >>So saving money while genuinely helping people in a better way than we are now is a at least a good first step.

Maybe. I lived in an urban environment for a good part of my life, both before we started emptying out institutions and after, and I think there is a very large portion of the homeless that aren't going to be helped by giving them a house. Some of these people would be challenged to make toast let alone keep a house. This might help ameliorate the problem in the short run but in the long run I think we will end up throwing them $20K and a house.

The homeless problem is like most government problems. We never get around to actually doing what is necessary and just keep throwing money at the problem instead. Liberals think every problem is a nail and money, our money, is the hammer.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 11:40 AM (g1DWB)

159 Wouldn't killing them, skinning them and eating them be the most cost effective way to handle the homeless? Add a bounty and we could solve homelessness tuite suite.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at February 04, 2015 11:41 AM (oDCMR)

160 "By giving them taxpayer-subsidized maintenance checks every month. Duh."

The checks would have to be cut to third parties.

I talked with a retired lady who had bought a couple of duplexes as retirement income rental properties. She made the mistake of going Section 8 with them.

By her experienced account, Section 8 tenants do not do ANY maintenance or ANY cleaning.

Period. Full stop. End of story.

They won't even change burned out light bulbs even if the property owner provides an onsite stock of bulbs free of charge. They expect someone to come do it for them.

She eventually had to evict all of "the Eights" due to crime and drug problems, and the damage to carpets and curtains being done by indoor smoking, which wasn't permitted under the lease agreement but which of course the Eights contemptuously did anyway.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 11:42 AM (noWW6)

161 I don't think simply cutting government funding all at once is the answer - a lot of folks will die.

You're making an assumption--that that's not eventually what will happen as a result of uncontrolled collapse of the current system. Many of us assume that's exactly what's coming and would, if possible, like to find ways to transition to something else before that happens, thus reducing the body count.

But some folks just won't see the wall, up to the moment they hit it.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented at February 04, 2015 11:43 AM (DT3rQ)

162 149 If you give people who don't give a damn free shit they will destroy it. The FSA did not get that way because of lack of opportunity.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 11:22 AM (wlDny)

No, but sh*t happens, Vic. People get sick, or lose jobs, or have greedy spouses divorce them, any number of things.

Sometimes they even make bad decisions. I know none of the comfortable folks here have ever made bad decisions.

Meh, I sense this is turning into a pissing match.

Peace out, folks. No animosity intended to anyone.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:43 AM (vgIRn)

163 So saving money while genuinely helping people in a better way than we are now is a at least a good first step.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at February 04, 2015 11:34 AM (vgIRn)

Except that, unless you're addressing the actual foundational issues of their homelessness, you're not actually helping them. In some ways you're harming them, because you're enabling whatever behaviors or issues they had that were preventing them from having a home in the first place.

That's the problem with the "just give them stuff" model. Some small percentage of homeless (small as in "miniscule") are ONLY "victims of circumstance." That is, it is true that there are *some* who are homeless because everything went to sh*t all at once, and now they're in a hole from which they can't dig out.

But the vast majority of the homeless are homeless because of deeper issues, and they will forever be on the government dole- and, indeed, may be actively bad home owners.

In short- basically what you're (not necessarily "you" you, just generic you) saying is that the only way to help these people is give them money forever- and that's bad for lots of reasons.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 04, 2015 11:46 AM (kff5f)

164 I wish you would tell us where we can buy prints of the pics you post. They are great choices but I cannot find a print. I thought Allposters would have them but no.

Posted by: TrickleUpPolitics at February 04, 2015 11:48 AM (qw3Sq)

165 The Lefty used to murmur that a "Rich country such as ours" could afford to throw money at the unfortunate. Newsflash, we're not a rich country anymore.

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at February 04, 2015 11:48 AM (evdj2)

166 Ace up!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 11:48 AM (p9FjL)

167 Beautiful painting.

Posted by: elliot m at February 04, 2015 11:56 AM (vPhnb)

168 Several points:

1. What is it with Asian airlinesand the sudden inability to fly?

2. If Biden doesn't show up for Netanyahu's speech to Congress, it will create a prominently featuredempty chair just like the one Clint Eastwood used as a metaphor for Obama. Go ahead, Joe. Give us an empty chair.

3. Speaking of Clint, I'm moving to Jordan and starting a Clint Eastwood Film Festival.

4. Sorry, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, Obama is the first female president.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 04, 2015 01:35 PM (iAUf+)

169 That Presiden Guy from Jorddan is out of control making such threats. He should talk to Presdent Obona about this situation so both them can solve the problem toogether. First thing would be Presdent Obama to arrest Bush for War Crimes and turn him over to the UN. Bush lied to the UN to start two illegal wars and should be pinished accordingly.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 02:14 PM (Sd++4)

170 Google "Riff Raff from Rocky Horror."

Then Google"Jesse Ventura."

Spooky.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 04, 2015 04:44 PM (iAUf+)

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