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Overnight Open Thread (3-9-2015) - Cop Out Edition
Due to hard deadlines and me feeling under the weather you'll get the highly-condensed-but-legally-still-a-contractual ONT. And early to boot!
Because even a lesser piece by Kipling still has more hard-won human wisdom in it than most of what's published in any given year. This comes via Moe Lane.
The Truce of the Bear
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go
By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below.
Yearly by Muttianee he follows our white men in -
Matun, the old blind beggar, bandaged from brow to chin.
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless - toothless, broken of speech,
Seeking a dole at the doorway he mumbles his tale to each;
Over and over the story, ending as he began:
"Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a Man!
"There was a flint in my musket - pricked and primed was the pan,
When I went hunting Adam-zad - the Bear that stands like a Man.
I looked my last on the timber, I looked my last on the snow,
When I went hunting Adam-zad fifty summers ago!
"I knew his times and his seasons, as he knew mine, that fed
By night in the ripened maizefield and robbed my house of bread.
I knew his strength and cunning, as he knew mine, that crept
At dawn to the crowded goat-pens and plundered while I slept.
"Up from his stony playground - down from his well-digged lair -
Out on the naked ridges ran Adam-zad the Bear -
Groaning, grunting, and roaring, heavy with stolen meals,
Two long marches to northward, and I was at his heels!
"Two long marches to northward, at the fall of the second night,
I came on mine enemy Adam-zad all panting from his flight.
There was a charge in the musket - pricked and primed was the pan -
My finger crooked on the trigger - when he reared up like a man.
"Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer,
Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear!
I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing,
And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
"Touched witth pity and wonder, I did not fire then . . .
I have looked no more on women - I have walked no more with men.
Nearer he tottered and nearer, with paws like hands that pray -
From brow to jaw that steel-shod paw, it ripped my face away!
"Sudden, silent, and savage, searing as flame the blow -
Faceless I fell before his feet, fifty summers ago.
I heard him grunt and chuckle - I heard him pass to his den.
He left me blind to the darkened years and the little mercy of men.
"Now ye go down in the morning with guns of the newer style,
That load (I have felt) in the middle and range (I have heard) a mile?
Luck to the white man's rifle, that shoots so fast and true,
But - pay, and I lift my bandage and show what the Bear can do!"
(Flesh like slag in the furnace, knobbed and withered and grey -
Matun, the old blind beggar, he gives good worth for his pay.)
"Rouse him at noon in the bushes, follow and press him hard -
Not for his ragings and roarings flinch ye from Adam-zad.
"But (pay, and I put back the bandage) this is the time to fear,
When he stands up like a tired man, tottering near and near;
When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise,
When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes;
"When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer
That is the time of peril - the time of the Truce of the Bear!"
Eyeless, noseless, and lipless, asking a dole at the door,
Matun, the old blind beggar, he tells it o'er and o'er;
Fumbling and feeling the rifles, warming his hands at the flame,
Hearing our careless white men talk of the morrow's game;
Over and over the story, ending as he began: -
"There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like a Man!"
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 09:13 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:14 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:14 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (z+4T3)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (6n332)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (60Vyp)
So, Michael Caine is carrying around Sean Connery's head, again? What was the purpose of that? So the muzzies woldnt use it as a soccer ball?
Posted by: Bruce J. at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (9BRsg)
Courts in the United States have struck blows against duo-normative oppression, and the vanguard against duo-normative oppression has been from the United States... but the true victory for non-duo-normative values comes from... Thailand!
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8616
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Restaurant Owner at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (LoIJo)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (6n332)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: People Corp at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (TzeLs)
Posted by: Average Guy at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (KPgOB)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Beary Obama at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (c+Y7q)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:15 PM (60Vyp)
*****
Mmmmm...Beer....
Evening all. Holy Stompy ONT.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (XrHO0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (EgOr3)
Adamzad is, then, TS Eliot's "son of man".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:17 PM (AVEe1)
I LOVE the version of that song when Buffet and Alan Jackson sing it together.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:18 PM (60Vyp)
Posted by: fluffy at March 09, 2015 09:18 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Bruce J. at March 09, 2015 09:18 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:18 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at March 09, 2015 09:19 PM (SXYle)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:19 PM (60Vyp)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:19 PM (EgOr3)
I never really followed Jimmy Buffet (but I have friends who do), so I didn't realize at first that the song was Alan Jackson's brainchild. I thought it was a Jimmy Buffet standard.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:20 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: fluffy at March 09, 2015 09:20 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:20 PM (KuU4f)
Though I seriously doubt anyone's actually allergic to glucose.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 09:21 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Molon Labe at March 09, 2015 09:21 PM (IU5o4)
More likely an American attempting to sound sophisticated and European.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:21 PM (AVEe1)
Spring is coming! I plan on making more this year. We're just about out of apricot and I absolutely have to make more strawberry this year too, with spring berries.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:21 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: no good deed at March 09, 2015 09:22 PM (ZKGnj)
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 09:22 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:22 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2015 09:23 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:23 PM (EgOr3)
Too late. *files nails*
I really should wash my hands, though.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:23 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Peaches
NICE!
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 09:23 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:24 PM (60Vyp)
Posted by: SMFH
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A bag of gluten-free dicks?
And, hi, beautiful.
And Hi to you too, Peaches!
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:24 PM (hQhus)
Posted by: Bubba Clinton at March 09, 2015 09:24 PM (qbJK5)
Posted by: BJ Clinton at March 09, 2015 09:25 PM (c+Y7q)
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 09, 2015 09:25 PM (QqWOP)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarroland at March 09, 2015 09:25 PM (lY1vf)
Posted by: Megan isn't allergic to Science at March 09, 2015 09:25 PM (Q819Q)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (+Fae7)
Too late. *files nails*
I really should wash my hands, though.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
HEH! You fucking hobo's.... God Love Ya!
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: PaleRider at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: The waiter and/or the cook at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (fFLZP)
Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer 4m
Black/white arrest ratios: Ferguson is Averageville, USA http://www.unz.com/isteve/blackwhite-arrest-ratios-ferguson-is-averageville-usa/
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2015 09:26 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Buzzion at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (YSfx4)
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade, stranded with the fruits and nuts in Krazyfornia at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (cmBvC)
Posted by: Harlan Pepper at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Buzzion at March 09, 2015 09:28 PM (YSfx4)
Megan on the other hand is nuts
Posted by: lurking grandma at March 09, 2015 09:28 PM (gpW36)
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 09:28 PM (sdi6R)
She does, but only when her girlfriend isn't around to find out.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 09, 2015 09:28 PM (eClkt)
I thought Ebola was going to be all the rage but people lost interest.
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 09, 2015 09:29 PM (QqWOP)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:29 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Deadeye Dick at March 09, 2015 09:29 PM (ZKGnj)
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 09:29 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade, stranded with the fruits and nuts in Krazyfornia at March 09, 2015 09:27 PM (cmBvC)
We're making a comeback baby!
Posted by: AIDS in the gay community at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (eClkt)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (i7JE3)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Meremortal at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (1Y+hH)
Yeah. DST year round would suit me. Hell, we barely have 4 months of standard time as it is.
Posted by: toby928(C) at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (QqWOP)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Deadeye Dick at March 09, 2015 09:29 PM (ZKGnj)
Nice one hit wonder.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:30 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:31 PM (EgOr3)
"WTF? Who's this for? Who the fuck is Megan?"
"Oh, that's from table 9."
"Well, it should read... Hi, I'm the frizzy haired bint from table 9."
Posted by: otho at March 09, 2015 09:31 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Hillary! at March 09, 2015 09:31 PM (EDYaR)
Heh! Now the Grumpy Grandma wants to know why I need a refill on the scotch and a new monitor.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2015 09:32 PM (60Vyp)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:32 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: Eromero at March 09, 2015 09:32 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:32 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:33 PM (fIzos)
Up till now, I'd only heard of the rumors of it's existence.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2015 09:33 PM (RzZOc)
A member of Planet Fitness gym was purged from membership for being insufficiently enlightened with proper thinking. What was the throughtcrime that Yvette Cormier committed? Simply expressing concern that a man was using the women's and she felt unsafe that a "penis person" could stroll around naked with unwilling naked women.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8637
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2015 09:33 PM (0Ew3K)
I had a friend who would only eat sea creatures that had distinct eyes.
I thought that was a pretty funny category to choose. Why not just say: I don't eat mollusks.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Roger Oveur at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Peaches
-------------------------
You have a lot to catch up on, but I feel like we need to catch up with you - I'm almost afraid to ask the two questions on my mind...
I'll start. SMFH has a MAJOR crush on me. I know - crazy, right? Really, just ask her...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (hQhus)
Uh, we didn't exactly invite her here. She was sort of introduced, I guess, by an acquaintance who's long gone now. Now she just won't LEAVE.
Posted by: the mutants at table 9 at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (AVEe1)
Well that explains everything, her brain is starved for fuel
Posted by: chemjeff at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (ama0L)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (fIzos)
"gluten allergies" is perplexing at best.
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade, stranded with the fruits and nuts in Krazyfornia at March 09, 2015 09:35 PM (cmBvC)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:35 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:35 PM (fIzos)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (lhyNL)
Ugh, Vince. Everything about him made me cringe. Enjoy your career as a coconut salesman, creep.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (KuU4f)
This ONT is just wrong--I'm still at work.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (VAsIq)
Start drinking anyways....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (ama0L)
Posted by: the mutants at table 9 at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (AVEe1)
*****
"Have you met Sidney, Jugdesh and Clayton? You have? Well then, you should have lots to talk about, eh!"
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (cIoI4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Dave S. at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (hQhus)
well, honestly, chi, who doesn't?
so very happy for you guys and, please, don't hesitate to name the first-born "peaches" Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March
Jay Curler?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (fIzos)
brb...gotta go get something...sharp.
I seem to feel an urge for some head-stabbing...
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (OsWis)
That's why, even though I suspect she's American, I know she doesn't live in Boulder.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (fIzos)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (T1005)
https://tinyurl.com/p4t3xf6
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:14 PM (OsWis)
So pantyhose is right out, then?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:38 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Anyone with any problem ostensibly addressed by more government at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Edmund Burke's Shade, stranded with the fruits and nuts in Krazyfornia at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (cmBvC)
Posted by: no good deed at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (ZKGnj)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:14 PM (OsWis)
******
That guy Rachel Maddow?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (cIoI4)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:36 PM (KuU4f)
Oh, DG! When I saw the first one and he said he was a coconut *vendor* (get it right, eh?), I figured he lived in Hawaii. Later it said he was from Santa Monica. I have lived in and around Santa Moronica for over 35 years and I have NEVER seen a "coconut vendor." He probably hangs out with Cahrles Jhonson. They seem like they could be friends.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Peaches
-------------------------
Well, if that were possible, I would fight for that name (a boy named Sue just came to mind).
And, I would pass out Parlies in the hallway.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:41 PM (hQhus)
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I like Brown Cow Yogurt.
Some of the yogurts made with sheeps milk is fun, too.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:41 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:41 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:42 PM (9BRsg)
"Flesh like slag in the furnace, knobbed and withered and grey..."
Huh. I was expecting more.
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 09:42 PM (xOu6p)
Whoops, my bad. Coconut "vendor". AKA LOOOOOOOOSEEEERRRRRRRRRRR.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:42 PM (KuU4f)
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Gogurt!
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at March 09, 2015 09:42 PM (VAsIq)
I saw that clip a few days ago, looks cool (well, kinda cute), but what the heck does one *do* with it?!
Posted by: speedster1 on the (new) ipad at March 09, 2015 09:43 PM (1brdf)
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 09, 2015 09:43 PM (JgQLj)
Also, someone asked about the owls...er...6 hours ago?
landingsbirdcam.com
Fuzzballs look suspiciously like owls now
Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at March 09, 2015 09:43 PM (m9V0o)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:44 PM (OsWis)
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Huma lost one of those in my....cave one time. It flew for over an hour without hitting anything.
Posted by: Hillary(!) at March 09, 2015 09:44 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:40 PM (92L+g)
I don't know you but that is quite possibly the skeeviest thing I have ever read on this blog.
You got a newsletter?
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:44 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 09:44 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 09, 2015 09:43 PM (JgQLj)
probably not soon enough
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:44 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: Wisen Heimer at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (RF++Q)
ignore that email, because, well - too late, I guess.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (hQhus)
Posted by: The Allergic Hat at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:31 PM (EgOr3)
Fuck the white collar tribe. Bunch of unethical stupid bastards. And they voted out the hottest girl on their tribe. All the tribes aren't that likable right now. The post worker on the blue collar needs to go.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 09, 2015 09:46 PM (YSfx4)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:46 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 09:46 PM (ThxKk)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:46 PM (EgOr3)
**looks right**
**coast seems clear**
That tiny drone could totally be like Marine One in Alextopia.
Posted by: Moron living in fear the rest of the night at March 09, 2015 09:47 PM (c+Y7q)
*zaps milk, egg, and sucrose from fingertips*
Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at March 09, 2015 09:47 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM (9BRsg)
Octopi and squid have very distinct eyes, and they are molluscs, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:47 PM (Gm0Ay)
I'm allergic to the truth, men, republicans, most women and kids
Posted by: Father Jones at March 09, 2015 09:47 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:47 PM (fIzos)
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I think the thing a lot of us object to is her making it OUR problem.
I'd also add that per the Mayo Clinic link, it sounds as if rarely they are actually allergies.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (m9V0o)
Just asking, there.....
Posted by: GLUTEN at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (xOu6p)
150 Not to be too contrary, but while it's 99% probably that this Mega girl(?) is just making stuff up, there are people with these types of deadly allergies.
Posted by: The Allergic Hat at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (0Ew3K)
Oh absolutely. But I bet those that really do have it don't have a cutesy business card made up.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (YSfx4)
DAMN YOU AND YOUR SCIENCE!!! :-)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (9BRsg)
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Bastards won't even let me dance.
Posted by: Kevin Bacon at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (VAsIq)
Now I feel the urge to go to the store. At ten o'clock at night, when I should be asleep.
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (ThxKk)
Posted by: Bubble Boy at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (92L+g)
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omg you are like, so rude. my cousin's roommate's sister's friend gets, like, real sick
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (VAsIq)
She just needed to collect them all.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (lhyNL)
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (ThxKk)
Gosh, it's only 5:50 here.... But please, no yoghurt. If I wanted my milk rotten, I'd just leave it on the counter. Pour that maple syrup over your bacon instead.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (+YMhA)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (AVEe1)
Now I feel the urge to go to the store. At ten o'clock at night, when I should be asleep.
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (ThxKk)
Yes! Hard to find, but Trader Joe's carries it. Don't buy the little puny ones, it comes in a big size. That's the ticket right there. I hate everything remotely good for me and I like that yogurt.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:51 PM (EgOr3)
Ooh, thanks for that tip. I've never tried the maple or coffee ones. Now, I shall!
Posted by: Bubble Boy at March 09, 2015 09:51 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (0NdlF)
So, what in hell DOES she eat?
I'm guessing not any guys, to start with....
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 09, 2015 09:51 PM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:51 PM (9BRsg)
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 09, 2015 09:52 PM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (Gm0Ay)
Word.
Posted by: Civet who is poopiing out your hoity-toity coffee at March 09, 2015 09:52 PM (0Ew3K)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2015 09:53 PM (RzZOc)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:53 PM (KuU4f)
It's safe for work (no pics), but sometimes words are even more disgusting.
This is one of those times.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:53 PM (lhyNL)
Because patriarchy: http://tinyurl.com/phtcfg4
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:50 PM (lhyNL)
The mere presence of that link is contaminating the blog.
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 09:54 PM (ThxKk)
Having seen this happen in my life, I'll reserve judgement!
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 09, 2015 09:54 PM (ftVQq)
----
omg you are like, so rude. my cousin's roommate's sister's friend gets, like, real sick
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (VAsIq)
Many, many people each year die of gluten poisoning, but Big Wheat has cooked the books, and the deaths are recorded as "old age".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM (Gm0Ay)
Hiya, cooth!
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:39 PM (KuU4f)
Howdy, DG!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM (T1005)
I just bought one of those.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 09:41 PM (OsWis)
Cool! It looks like fun.
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM (sdi6R)
Last night, I asked for prayers for my BIL. The show of support, love and prayers was truly overwhelming.
I want to thank each and every one of you, and the horde as a whole. What a wonderful bunch of Morons...
It meant the world to the family, and your continued prayers would be greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately, I have nothing no real updates. The biopsy machine was down down today, so tests have been rescheduled 'til tomorrow.
Spirits are high, and Lynn's faith is stronger than I ever could have imagined. She asked that I thank you for your prayers, and I'm asking now for a continuation. ..
Lewis is scared but fine. Had Chik-fil-a for lunch (jealous!) and we'll know more tomorrow.
Agan, thank you, and God bless you all.
Now - back to the dick jokes & puppy pics...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM (hQhus)
Posted by: eman at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (MQEz6)
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I think the thing a lot of us object to is her making it OUR problem.
I'd also add that per the Mayo Clinic link, it sounds as if rarely they are actually allergies.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (9BRsg)
Most of these allergies are mental defects
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (fIzos)
This is one of those times.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:53 PM (lhyNL)
******
The big question here is: How could you possibly have known that link even existed?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (cIoI4)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (m9V0o)
Make a run to Dothan: http://www.folklorebrewing.com/
Looks like they're about to add mead to their lineup.
Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (nL0sw)
I'd also add that per the Mayo Clinic link, it sounds as if rarely they are actually allergies.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:48 PM (9BRsg)
I have friends and family who really do have serious allergies (i.e. merely touch them with a nut and they go into instant anaphylactic shock).
Sometimes letting a restaurant your allergies and how they cook their food is not crazy if you have an actual diagnosed allergy.
Posted by: The Anaphylactic Hat at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Civet who is poopiing out your hoity-toity coffee at March 09, 2015 09:52 PM (0Ew3K)
Not my hoity-toity coffee, thankew very much. (opens can of Tim Horton's coffee)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:56 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 09:57 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:57 PM (EgOr3)
Kidney beans aren't kidneys...
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 09:57 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09
Enjoy.
You guys are still in my prayers
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 09:57 PM (fIzos)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 09:58 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 09, 2015 09:58 PM (+FyX1)
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I'll let the morons here who've owned restaurants comment on that.
If *I* could die from a bee sting, I wouldn't become a bee keeper. Similarly, if I had such severe food allergies, I would not go out to eat.
Posted by: Y-not at March 09, 2015 09:58 PM (9BRsg)
Hey, cth.
ignore that email, because, well - too late, I guess.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (hQhus)
Lotta that goin' around lately....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 09:58 PM (T1005)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (ahBY0)
Strauss family creamery has full fat, vanilla flavored yogurt. Yum. Mix in some trader joe granola cereal with almonds.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (z3HBe)
A good friend sent me a link to the story. I assume it was to help me with my weight loss efforts.
It worked. The was no eating after reading that story.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (lhyNL)
a company here in NJ makes Italian ice called Yum Yum. We used to push a barrel of it on a wagon and sell scoops in the summertime.
Posted by: Father Jones at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (z+4T3)
but Big Wheat has cooked the books, and the deaths are recorded as "old
age".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM (Gm0Ay)
Heart failure kills a lot of people too! It is always fatal!
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 09, 2015 09:59 PM (ftVQq)
*******
Evening. You may want to let the American Conservative Party know their site has been proudly hacked by some douchebag.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:00 PM (cIoI4)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 10:01 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2015 10:01 PM (nL0sw)
I hope you are doing well sugar!!!
I have food allergies, but dayum. I just eat at home or check the menu ahead of time to see if I can eat anything. Giving out a card is just pretensious as hell.
Posted by: Moki at March 09, 2015 10:01 PM (bAB8f)
It's part of the fat-is-bad-for-you fad, which I hope is going out of style.
I buy my yogurt at ethnic stores or make my own. Indian groceries have good yogurt at great prices, but if you like flavored yogurt, you'll have to do it yourself.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at March 09, 2015 10:01 PM (0RdKg)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 09:45 PM (KuU4f)
I like their fig yogurt too.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (+XMAD)
Hey, bebe!! No, that apartment was tiny and tawdry and super-overpriced. After 9 days at the dadster's I was overjoyed to be back here in the luxury shithole. And, they must have known I was coming - there was a ghetto-bird hovering overhead when I arrived. Home sweet home.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (EgOr3)
Allergies for that
Allergies for everything
Why when we were growing up we didn't have such things. I think all the medications and antibiotics started this....
Posted by: Father Jones at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (XYKz+)
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 09:49 PM (VAsIq)
I'm sorry, Liv! (Can I call you Liv? That's so awesome! Like Liv Tyler and shit!)
Anyway, sorry about that, you know, me asking for facts and stuff. Cray cray! Just me bein' all weird and shit. Hey, you see that latest Kardashian Instragram! That the SHIIIIIIIIT!!!!!! Right?
OK, truth! I was just asking because, you know, I was just keepin' it real when I asked about the fact that, hey, I been in wheat for like, I dunno, a million years? And I don't recall hurtin' anyone til like, last year.
So I'm just sayin'? Hey, I know there's about a hundred million of you out there Liv! You ROCK! You Da Bomb!
I was just kinda wonderin'...you know, where you gettin' yo 411!!
Yeah, pretty awesome slang to close it out.... PEACE!
Posted by: GLUTEN at March 09, 2015 10:03 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: DC in River City at March 09, 2015 10:03 PM (e+1S5)
"Teen Burglars Mistook Remains For Cocaine"
http://tinyurl.com/prwy7ga
Related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Qc1yAcpyg#t=4m06s
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 10:03 PM (AVEe1)
Can we shove it into the Barrel or something?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:04 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:04 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:04 PM (0NdlF)
I'm afraid the Barrel would spit it back out at us.
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 10:04 PM (ThxKk)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (EgOr3)
Yeesh. You still trying to find something down there?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (EgOr3)
I am, unfortunately, extremely allergic to the kittehs. As in eyes swell shut, can't breathe allergic.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March 09, 2015 10:06 PM (+XMAD)
Sorry the apartment was so small and so pricey Peaches. Hope things get better.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:06 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:06 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (OsWis)
I figured there was ONE form you might not like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbD6czlVNU
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: moose61 at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (KqnY1)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (KuU4f)
Allergies for this
Allergies for that
Allergies for everything
Why when we were growing up we didn't have such things. I think all the medications and antibiotics started this....
Posted by: Father Jones at March 09, 2015 10:02 PM (XYKz+)
Hygiene hypothesis says that when people stopped letting kids just play in the dirt, their little immune systems didn't get healthy amount of challenges -- and, like a government department that isn't challenged, their immune systems started mission creep into "firing" on all sorts of otherwise tolerated things....like food.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (T1005)
There are tests for celiac. Everybody else is full of shit
Posted by: ThunderB, PinUpWhoreBabyMachine at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (zOTsN)
The auto-immune response damages the villi in the small intestines and inhibits the ability to absorb nutrients.
Posted by: no good deed at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (ZKGnj)
Who sings it?
Freight train
Each car looks the same, all the same
And no one knows
The gypsy's name
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (z3HBe)
No, bebe. My dad probably has 6 mos, maybe a year. I need to find work and all my connections are here, so here is where I need to do that. It's amazing, though, how much cleaner and more bucolic it is in SD as compared to LA. He's got an old, tired, probably soon to be demolished place in a little geezer village in University City just east of La Jolla. The location is divine - right on the edge of a box canyon, coyotes and even a bobcat. But I'd kill myself in no time if I had to live there. Which is not really in The Plan!
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (+XMAD)
I recognize each of these words. Now try putting them in an order that makes sense.
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (ThxKk)
No, it's thanks to the helicopter parents who must protect their little angels from anything that might potentially cause the slightest discomfort.
The kids don't get exposed to the same variety of germs and foods that kids otherwise would and they end up developing allergies.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (lhyNL)
Since finding out that there's a type of yogurt that can just be left on the counter overnight to culture (called mesophilic) I've been making my own all the time. Aldi milk here in Houston(ish) is only $2/gallon so it's *a lot* cheaper and full fat.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2015 10:09 PM (GDulk)
For real. Painful. Not fun.
But, no other typical "allergic" reactions.
I can cut onions all day, sautee' 'em in the skillet for you and am told that my seasoning of 'em is sublime.
About the only way I use onion, is when making a 15 quart pot of chicken soup, I'll dice about a tablespoon of onion extremely fine, and then let that cook into the soup a day or more before serving.
In other words, as a seasoning, and not an ingredient.
Pain in the ass, 'cause there's some things that just ain't right without onion. Sour Cream & Onion potato chips. Onion dip.
I can take a nibble, time to time.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 09, 2015 10:09 PM (RzZOc)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 09:16 PM (ucDmr)
Oh man this cracked me up. Nice.
Posted by: weew at March 09, 2015 10:10 PM (0tmLY)
Gloryholes are our friend.
Posted by: david brock at March 09, 2015 10:10 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: ThunderB, PinUpWhoreBabyMachine at March 09, 2015 10:10 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:07 PM (OsWis)
Are you in LA, SMFH?
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:10 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: the restaurant manager at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (+FyX1)
letting kids just play in the dirt, their little immune systems didn't
get healthy amount of challenges -- and, like a government department
that isn't challenged, their immune systems started mission creep into
"firing" on all sorts of otherwise tolerated things....like food.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (T1005)
Interesting personal factoid. I have two aunts who are nurses and were very paranoid protective of their children. I have two aunts who are not nurses and were not paranoid. The nurses' children all grew up with horrible allergies, were allergic to "everything" and were on nebulizers. The non-nurses' children (including myself) grew up and were fine.
Granted, I have some mild environmental allergies that I seemed to have developed as an adult, but nothing like the crazy stuff my cousins experienced.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (KuU4f)
Remember: she was told to be sec of state. She, from apparent red faced anger at the announcement, did not want to do this. They had the goods on each other and, whoops, the machine did not function as planned. She thought she would simply jet around getting ff miles until she felt like running for president. Then, Benghazi and "what does any of this matter anymore?"
Why is this showing up this week? Bibi. A sort of wag the dog which had already been thrown under bus. Blunderbuss.
Posted by: ChristyB would not wear a tunic at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (TIGDR)
Agan, thank you, and God bless you all.
Now - back to the dick jokes & puppy pics...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 09:55 PM
I cashed in early last night, missed this. My prayers go out tonight. Best wishes.
T
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (EgOr3)
******
My BIL developed a fairly severe dairy allergy in his late 40s. He did not know what was going on.
An incident involving liquefied ...matter...exiting the wrong portal while giving a speech to potential investors. So, yeah, it can get pretty severe. And, I'm going to hell for both telling that story here and laughing about it for months After hearing it from my sister. BIL is an insufferable, pompous douchebag.
I'll save y'all a seat at the Cool Kids table there.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:11 PM (XrHO0)
That and the overuse of antibiotics.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at March 09, 2015 10:12 PM (0RdKg)
Posted by: moose61 at March 09, 2015 10:12 PM (KqnY1)
Posted by: Thrawn at March 09, 2015 10:12 PM (+cRgA)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (EgOr3)
I'm sorry. The cancer double whammy is a whole special level if teh suck. Let me know if you need anything.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (ucDmr)
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/selection-du-weekend-130-15.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 09:34 PM
Hope all is well w/ your move and you Dad. Yall are in my prayers also.
T
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (o/90i)
Each car looks the same, all the same
And no one knows
The gypsy's name
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (/Wi/Y)
Allman Bros. Duh.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:14 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 09, 2015 10:14 PM (KuU4f)
Posted by: irongrampa at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (jeCnD)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (MYCIw)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:08 PM (EgOr3)
Thoughts and prayers.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Moki at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (bAB8f)
Posted by: Mushroom Liberation Front at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (Gm0Ay)
241 I can't believe David Brock hasn't gotten laughed out of gay bars with that hair.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March
Laughed Straight
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:16 PM (4ka5+)
I have to take a break for a minute...
I expect some kbdabear pics & bad puns by the time I get back...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 10:16 PM (hQhus)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March 09, 2015 10:16 PM (+XMAD)
Posted by: Moki at March 09, 2015 10:16 PM (bAB8f)
Posted by: Mushroom Liberation Front at March 09, 2015 10:15 PM (Gm0Ay)
Shut-uppa-yo-mouth and get in-a-our-bellies!
Posted by: Mario and Luigi at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (MYCIw)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 10:13 PM (z3HBe)
Thanks, sweetie! He's 88, this is not a tragedy, just kinda sad. And if everyone keeps on the current meme about the celiac and all that, I'm gonna throw down trumps and regale the horde with the brand-new-colostomy stories. But, I've already killed one thread today and I mostly just want to watch tv.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Mushroom Liberation Front at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (92L+g)
Almond brothers, bro. Almond.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (/Wi/Y)
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/selection-du-weekend-130-79.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: ThunderB, PinUpWhoreBabyMachine at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (zOTsN)
I can't make the second floor...
I steal garbage from you.....
Yeah, I think you've smelled me before.
If you hear treason. late at night,
Some kind of Un-,
Patriotic delight....
Just don't ask me...
Who it was
Just don't serve me...
Subpoenas...
Just don't ask me...
Who I am.
Posted by: Dirty Randy at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (xOu6p)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:18 PM (4ka5+)
Posted by: Navycopjoe aka everyone's favorite democrat at March 09, 2015 10:19 PM (Z0Bd1)
Posted by: Dr. No at March 09, 2015 10:19 PM (+4uXG)
Still chilling out in an office somewhere at Ft Sam Houston down in San Antonio under constant guard and supervision.
Feel sorry for the poor bastards with that duty.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:20 PM (OsWis)
Posted by: right wing whippersnapper at March 09, 2015 10:21 PM (ThxKk)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:21 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:21 PM (4ka5+)
Posted by: Navycopjoe aka everyone's favorite democrat at March 09, 2015 10:19 PM (Z0Bd1)
Oh, bless your heart, NCJ!! I know they're gonna go to the show this year. And, fuckity fuck, you see my boyz lost Darrell Revis today? Good thing we don't need him, see ya, suckah.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:21 PM (EgOr3)
It's really only 9:22
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:21 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Navycopjoe aka everyone's favorite democrat at March 09, 2015 10:22 PM (Z0Bd1)
I haven't heard of mesophilic yogurt but will look into it. I've been making yogurt the same way for 25 years and need to learn some new tricks.
I use whole milk, add powdered milk to provide more food for the critters and make it thicker, bring it to a quick boil, then let it cool in an oven set to 115 degrees. Then I add a good yogurt brand (sometimes a probiotic capsule) and let it sit overnight in the oven. The next morning I have a load of tasty yogurt.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at March 09, 2015 10:22 PM (0RdKg)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Killerdog at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (vntmB)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (ahBY0)
Howie Long, who looks like an old dyke, hs kid was cut today by the Rams.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:24 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at March 09, 2015 10:17 PM (OsWis)
*****
Find me at the Inferno Grill. When not standing on my head, I'll be at table two nearest the serving trolls.,
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:24 PM (XrHO0)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 10:24 PM (92L+g)
I just get to exploit it
293. Didn't see that
We got rid of marshall to the Jets
Damn colorblind is still there
Posted by: Navycopjoe aka everyone's favorite democrat at March 09, 2015 10:24 PM (Z0Bd1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:25 PM (Gm0Ay)
Not a fan of cheese?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:25 PM (0NdlF)
When they are ready I'm flying home just to relive my days as a bleacher bum
Posted by: Navycopjoe aka everyone's favorite democrat at March 09, 2015 10:26 PM (Z0Bd1)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:23 PM (ucDmr)
word
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:26 PM (EgOr3)
My best to you and your family. Sad to hear, but that is the course of life.
MY Mom had a heart attack at 67, had 10 more years of varying health till she died last yr 3/15.
You know they had a good run, it's just hard to deal w/ the loss/potential loss.
Be well.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (o/90i)
I am, unfortunately, extremely allergic to the kittehs. As in eyes swell shut, can't breathe allergic.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at March 09, 2015 10:06 PM (+XMAD)
I adopted two of my neighbor's kittehs back in 2000.
Within a couple of months, I began to notice that I was waking up in the middle of the night gasping for breath. One night it was so bad that I went outside and sat on the porch for awhile. I seriously considered calling 911.
I made an appointment with the doctor, and he told me that I was allergic to the cats and I needed to get rid of them. I found another doctor instead. The new one didn't think that such a drastic step would be necessary, and prescribed an asthma inhaler. We tried a few different kinds and they eventually got things under control. Later he tried giving me Advair, and that was the ticket. One puff twice a day, and no more asthma attacks. I haven't had to use a rescue inhaler in years.
Kira is 15 now. Leo unfortunately died in 2007, but I adopted Reggie, and he will be 8 next month.
An interesting coda: Occasionally I would forget to take a dose, and I'd start wheezing again. About a year ago I noticed that I could skip a dose and not feel any ill effects. I started experimenting to see how long I could go without taking the medication. Now I only take it occasionally when I feel a little short of breath. I think I might have developed an immunity to the cats.
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
Speaking of milk I mightve mentioned I finally tried Almond Milk. I'm hooked.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:25 PM (0NdlF)
But cheese is augmented milk. Yogurt is spoiled milk. Basically cheese that didn't make the grade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:28 PM (Gm0Ay)
Within a couple of months, I began to notice that I was waking up in the middle of the night gasping for breath. One night it was so bad that I went outside and sat on the porch for awhile. I seriously considered calling 911.
I made an appointment with the doctor, and he told me that I was allergic to the cats
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
The cats were just stealing your breath and life force...
Posted by: The Soul-Stealing Hat at March 09, 2015 10:29 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 10:29 PM (92L+g)
307 If God had intended us to eat spoiled milk, He wouldn't have given us refrigerators.
Not a fan of cheese?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 09, 2015 10:25 PM (0NdlF)
Crying over spilled milk. The morons have lost it
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:30 PM (4ka5+)
Farmer, I am so sorry . . . that's a tough, tough road to walk. I am more and more convinced that the best thing for any of us is to just go to sleep one night and not wake up. The rest of it is just fuckin' brutal. But, we don't get to choose.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:30 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:30 PM (WjcKy)
Shit is organic so it's okay.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:28 PM
Yogurt is fermented milk. Is whiskey spoiled grain?
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2015 10:32 PM (4gN5w)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (ucDmr)
Glad our guys don't have to face him twice a year. Cheap player. McCarthys butt boy Philbin can put up with him. Good riddance
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:33 PM (4ka5+)
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:31 PM (qyomX)
It's distilled spoiled grain. Makes all the difference in the world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:33 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:33 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 10:34 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:34 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Hillary2016 at March 09, 2015 10:35 PM (wHD/C)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:35 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (/Wi/Y)
***********
Where are the Almonds Nipples?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM (4gN5w)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM (jeCnD)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM (fLKzW)
right over there next to the Soy Nipples!
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM
I'm going to guess the pointy end.
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM (UVfht)
Posted by: W.J. Clinton at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM (wHD/C)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (/Wi/Y)
***********
Where are the Almonds Nipples?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:36 PM (fLKzW)
*****
True dat. This is like the myth of Soy Milk. It is Almond or Soy juice, not Milk.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:38 PM (3F6F8)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:35 PM (ucDmr)
it ain't far, though . . . not talking mileage here.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:38 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:39 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:39 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:39 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: SarahW at March 09, 2015 10:39 PM (Lbv/k)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2015 10:39 PM (W5DcG)
Well since PP inserted politics here...I've got a question for the Horde.
The letter to Iraq telling them Congress may vote on any "agreement" was signing by 47 Rep Senators. Anyone know who the apostates where who didn't sign?
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:40 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:40 PM (ucDmr)
A toast of the Champagne of Bottled Beer in a Can to you Sir, I know mine is rotten.
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 10:41 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March
20-22 million dollars a year, less taxes, less agent fees, yeah look out South Beach
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 10:41 PM (4ka5+)
Mesophilic yogurt is generally thinner but still quite tasty (and I don't have to worry about getting the temperature correct). I like it on granola or other cold cereal and mix it with water and a little flavored syrup for a fairly healthy drink.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2015 10:42 PM (GDulk)
Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Dan Coats, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, and Thad Cochran.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:42 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:42 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:43 PM (fLKzW)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/574981133357727744
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/574981277452992513
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/574981518969430018
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/574981882175164416
Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2015 10:44 PM (GrXXa)
"I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran," Obama said a few hours after the letter was made public. "It's an unusual coalition."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:45 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
From across the room? - Oh, "ALE". NEVERMIND.
/EmilyLitella
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 09, 2015 10:45 PM (XvsbD)
Spoiled milk
Spoiled grain
Spoiled Garbage Farts
Prolapses
Allergies
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 10:46 PM (qyomX)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/575009776410759169
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/575009935437795328
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/575010444940808192
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/575011267573911552
Posted by: kbdabear at March 09, 2015 10:46 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:47 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Country singer at March 09, 2015 10:47 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:43 PM (fLKzW)
****
I've Got a 90 lb. lab/mastiff mix like that. She will fire one off, look surprised, act disgusted and then leave. Kinda fitting that the Ex Spawn of Satan wanted me to keep this one, I guess.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:48 PM (XrHO0)
tonight. She actually gets up and walks away from her own farts....
they are that bad. She must have gotten into the trash.
Posted by: Truck Monkey
Yeah right. Blaming the dog is the oldest trick in the book.
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 10:48 PM (sQzB6)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:49 PM (ucDmr)
I used to suddenly get it every spring when I was in my 30s. Doc said it was just a thing that people develop and then just stopped. I used to get it so bad I had to get the shot.
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 10:49 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:27 PM (o/90i)
Farmer, I am
so sorry . . . that's a tough, tough road to walk. I am more and more
convinced that the best thing for any of us is to just go to sleep one
night and not wake up. The rest of it is just fuckin' brutal. But, we
don't get to choose.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:30 PM (EgOr3)
Wow, I do concur though
Posted by: Killerdog at March 09, 2015 10:49 PM (vntmB)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
90lbs? So she's 3 months old.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 09, 2015 10:50 PM (XvsbD)
Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Dan Coats, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, and Thad Cochran.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:42 PM
TY Peaches. Just glad my RINO Mark Kirk wasn't on that list.
I think this needs to on the record, nobody in the MFM seems to mention it.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:50 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Country singer at March 09, 2015 10:47 PM (nL0sw)
******
Cool. Tried to use it as an example here last night, and saw the douchebag hack.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:50 PM (XrHO0)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 10:51 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:51 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:51 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:53 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 10:53 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:43 PM
Lately our elder dog is worse. We had to switch her to a grain-free diet, it was causing an allergy that kept her getting ear infection, yeast type. Once on the new diet the ear cleared up, but she farted much more.
She turns around and smells her azz, like it's a big surprise!
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 10:54 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:55 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 09, 2015 10:50 PM (XvsbD)
*****
Nope, thankfully 4 y/o and full grown. A total ball of psychosis if not exercised properly, but a sweeter dog you will not meet.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 10:55 PM (XrHO0)
I admire Senator Cotton, and UCMJ prohibits me from giving my candid opinion of this President. But this has managed to make him look even weaker and sillier than he did in his negotiations.
Did he have it coming? Yes, by making it clear he would negotiate a treaty in all but name, so he wouldn't have to get approval from that pesky Senate. Still, this would have been better communicated to the president, in secret, not to the fucking mullahs in public.
Posted by: JPS at March 09, 2015 10:56 PM (9ziuC)
A vanilla bean and a soybean don't have much in common that I know about.
Weird factoid: Raw cashews contain the same toxin as poison Ivy. Also found in mangoes. Cashews are related to pistachios and poison sumac.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1374/
Posted by: KT at March 09, 2015 10:56 PM (qahv/)
or something? forgive me if this is insensitive but I can only work
with what the good lord gave me . . .
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (EgOr3)Internal bleeding, eventual destruction of the intestine, endpoint is usually intestinal cancer or septic organ failure, usually after decades of irregular and increasing pain.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 10:57 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 10:57 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: Kentucky Kid at March 09, 2015 10:58 PM (1weFB)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:59 PM (ucDmr)
However this President has operated from Day One with the attitude of "I won so suck it up biotches" when it comes to Republicans. How many times must one 'work' with someone who refuses to negotiate before one is forced to nail to a door all the reasons why the negotiations have failed?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:59 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: JPS at March 09, 2015 10:56 PM (9ziuC)
I get what you're saying but we all know that Fredo don't give a rat's ass what anybody thinks.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:00 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 09, 2015 11:00 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:00 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: DC in River City at March 09, 2015 11:01 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: President Prolapse at March 09, 2015 11:01 PM (92L+g)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:02 PM (ucDmr)
"I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran," Obama said a few hours after the letter was made public. "It's an unusual coalition."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:45 PM
I'm hoping that the latest reactions to his limp-wristed approach to Iran might move him. I doubt it, I think he's such an Islamic sympathizer it's hopeless.
I liked the Senate Reps firing off that letter. Hey, even McConnell signed it. Maybe he can find that missing backbone.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:02 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (jwcHC)
I stand corrected, Mero, and I don't think it's the first time. A thousand pardons, that sounds dreadful. I think I may not be the only one who kind of downplays the gluten thing now that all the merry band-wagoners have jumped on and decided for themselves, for no real reason, that they must adopt a gluten free diet. Being in California, I know many of these people. Do forgive.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: G. Rodger Aimes at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (6OfiT)
Posted by: Truck Monkey
-----------------
I recall that when they made the movie 'Entebbe', there was a scene where the Israelis landed at the airfield in a couple of C-130's (?). On board were Mercedes which were the same cars as used by Idi Amin, intended to flummux the the kidnappers.
After the plane landed, they couldn't get one of the cars to start. The guy at the wheel turned to the others and said, "goddamned German car".
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Former FireFox user at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (ucDmr)
found in mangoes. Cashews are related to pistachios and poison sumac.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1374/
Thanks KT, I never knew that, and many things you post on the garden thread, if you're one and the same.
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 11:04 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 10:37 PM
You tried Fraoch Heather Ale aop? It's tasty
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 11:05 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 11:06 PM (fLKzW)
doesn't gluten just give the sensitive types bad gas
or something? forgive me if this is insensitive but I can only work
with what the good lord gave me . . .
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 10:05 PM (EgOr3)Internal
bleeding, eventual destruction of the intestine, endpoint is usually
intestinal cancer or septic organ failure, usually after decades of
irregular and increasing pain.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 10:57 PM (bLnSU)
Hey, Mero -- how go the wars???
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 11:06 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:06 PM (YOPoU)
That is why you will never, ever see them anywhere in the shell.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:06 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:59 PM (WjcKy)
I think its time congress beats on him with iron fists. Then again, I'm not the diplomatic type when it comes to tyrants.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2015 11:07 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 11:05 PM (z3HBe)
Where do they make that, and where is it sold? My little local liquor store doesn't have a huge selection of beers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:07 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (/Wi/Y)
"
That's not possible.
Posted by: Lauren at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (MYCIw)
to a grain-free diet, it was causing an allergy that kept her getting
ear infection, yeast type. Once on the new diet the ear cleared up, but
she farted much more.
Posted by: Farmer
If you have more of those type ear problems a spoonful of yogurt on the dog's food every day seems to help quite a bit.
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (sQzB6)
Posted by: JPS
While it's never a good bit of rhetoric to justify one's own 'bad' behavior by citing another's, the Left's sudden concern over Congressional contact with rival powers pales in comparison to a letter from some GOP.
Consider, that Teddy Kennedy was actively soliciting the Soviets' support in exchange for real, honest to your Maker treason.
Letter vs. Treason. Somehow I'm not feeling the letter ranks anywhere near that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (XvsbD)
Posted by: ThunderB, PinUpWhoreBabyMachine at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (zOTsN)
This little guy can nuke a 15×20 room, walk away, and leave you in tears before you can say "what in the name of all that is is Holy..."
It's how I know he's been next door before dinnertime.
It's also how he has learned to answer to the name "stinkbutt" when called.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 11:09 PM (hQhus)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:03 PM (EgOr3)It's not a you problem. I do get tired of the jokes, since I *can't* eat out with people (except very rarely) because I *can't* trust restaurants - or cooks in general, for that matter, to get it right, and they don't want to anyway.It's a laughing matter unless you're sick all the time or your kid suffers because of something someone else thought was safe - or more likely didn't care. I admit it's one of those "my ox is being gored" things.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 11:09 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:11 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 10:51 PM
I'm ready. My email is in my nic, where should we meet up?
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:11 PM (o/90i)
The wars are warlike, Cooth. Kind of spent the last week half dead and still recovering. I hope.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 11:11 PM (bLnSU)
andycanuck, on the other hand: That's fighting dirty.
Posted by: JPS at March 09, 2015 11:11 PM (9ziuC)
The smell that's around you..
To what is Lynrd Skynrd referring?
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (/Wi/Y)
"..that smell of death surrounds you..."
Posted by: Country singer at March 09, 2015 11:12 PM (nL0sw)
Cocks head, curls lip on one side of snout and gives you the look, did I do that?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:12 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 11:13 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: the talking dog at March 09, 2015 11:13 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:13 PM (ucDmr)
But, since the pool is full of shit, it's not that big a deal.
Kind of like a the enemy of my enemy may be a jerk, but right now they're opposing my enemy... thing.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 11:14 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 11:15 PM (ahBY0)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 11:15 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 09, 2015 11:16 PM (IdCqF)
Dang it Merovign, we really need a 23rd Century Star Fleet medical unit.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 11:15 PM (WjcKy)
Or a Known Space autodoc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:16 PM (Gm0Ay)
Was up late last night watching bits and pieces of "Whacked Out Sports" and it reminded me of... Evel Knievel. Anybody else remember him?
I think he actually had a TV series about him for a short time back in the early or mid-1970s.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:16 PM (elbY7)
Yeah, pretty much that "what're you looking at me for?" look...
I guess you're familiar with it.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 11:17 PM (hQhus)
http://tinyurl.com/n4aebow
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 11:17 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:17 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:18 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 11:15 PM (WjcKy)"Doctor gave me a pill I got a new kidney! Doctor gave me a pill I got a new kidney!"
Wait, does this mean I should be hanging around a park in the Bay Area looking for a Vulcan and a bunch of people in red uniforms?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 09, 2015 11:18 PM (bLnSU)
The smell that's around you..
To what is Lynrd Skynrd referring?
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at March 09, 2015 11:08 PM (/Wi/Y)
***
Context. This is a song about addiction. Correct verbiage is something like "The smell of death surrounds you".
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015 11:18 PM (XrHO0)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:18 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 09:37 PM (Gm0Ay)
Dried berry pits. Speaking of which, today I had a breath-taking idea:
We all know about Kopi Luak, which is coffee beans that have passed through the digestive tract of a type of Palm Civet--because civets force-fed coffee berries is so much more humane and fair trade than...anyways...
And we all know about Black Ivory, the coffee that is made by feeding coffee berries to elephants and digging them out of the resulting manure, because elephants are too special to exploit....well, anyways....
I plan to introduce Coffee Kindltot!
Coffee Kindltot is made from chocolate covered espresso beans that I suck the chocolate off and spit out because I get too wired crunching on coffee beans. I mean, I am more sanitary that something that is kept in a cage, am I right?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2015 11:19 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: JDub (was BunkerintheBurbs) at March 09, 2015 11:19 PM (X3xYu)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 10:53 PM
LMAO, you are a sick, funny MOFO.
I found out a few yrs ago one line of my family is probably Jewish. Makes one take a different look at Holocaust when you discover it might have been some of your family.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:19 PM (o/90i)
Yeah, pretty much that "what're you looking at me for?" look...
I guess you're familiar with it.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 09, 2015 11:17 PM (hQhus)
The little girl/runt who has had digestive probs all her life. Eh gadz the farts & burps
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:20 PM (YOPoU)
"Everyone remember where we parked"
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2015 11:20 PM (4gN5w)
"I don't like the "pissing in the pool" letter to Iran, in theory.
"But, since the pool is full of shit, it's not that big a deal."
Thank you for the best foreign policy metaphor since Team America.
Posted by: JPS at March 09, 2015 11:20 PM (9ziuC)
And I should toddle off to write and edit. So far pared short story by about 1,500 words.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 11:21 PM (WjcKy)
Posted by: andycanuck
Well, you tell me now...
Posted by: Aristotle at March 09, 2015 11:21 PM (XvsbD)
"I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran," Obama said a few hours after the letter was made public. "It's an unusual coalition."
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 09, 2015 10:45 PM
I'm hoping that the latest reactions to his limp-wristed approach to Iran might move him. I doubt it, I think he's such an Islamic sympathizer it's hopeless.
I liked the Senate Reps firing off that letter. Hey, even McConnell signed it. Maybe he can find that missing backbone.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:02 PM (o/90i)
This dumbass has wanted to sit down at the table with every enemy of the US, even if it gives legitimacy to them.
No time for our long time allies, all the time in the world for our enemies.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2015 11:22 PM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:07 PM
Scotland. I get it at beverage warehouse.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 11:22 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 11:23 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lambda Lambda Lambda at March 09, 2015 11:23 PM (/Wi/Y)
Similar thing happened with either Columbus or Cortez, from what I've read. One of them called anything that was spicy-tasting "peppers" as they were used to black pepper.
Of course, today's proper term for most spicy-tasting plants is "chile."
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:23 PM (elbY7)
Not all of us were born in the last 20 minutes, whippersnapper! I remember when he tried the Snake River thing. IIRC, it was shortly after I'd left my first husband.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:24 PM (EgOr3)
Think the role of Russia in WWII. Afterwards they gobbled up land and we let them. I think a quid pro quo is in effect. They fight ISIS. They get to control what they take, and get the bomb. They get control over Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen. With designs on Jordan, Egypt, Saudi, Qatar
Posted by: ThunderB, PinUpWhoreBabyMachine at March 09, 2015 11:25 PM (zOTsN)
Now she'd probably get put in jail for that.
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 09, 2015 11:25 PM (ftVQq)
From what I've read, it seems like Knievel's track record for successful jumps and other feats of derring-do was... not that great, even though it also sounds like he was quite and interesting and decent person.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:25 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:23
I guess that is shorter than, Fuck, that was fucking hot.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:25 PM (YOPoU)
I jumped Snake River.
Posted by: Brian Williams at March 09, 2015 11:25 PM (/Wi/Y)
Traitorin' ain't easy.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2015 11:26 PM (UVfht)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:26 PM (ucDmr)
Sorry, we'll still have to keep you in a cage.
Posted by: eman at March 09, 2015 11:26 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: The Civet's Hat at March 09, 2015 11:26 PM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:26 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Brian Williams at March 09, 2015 11:27 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:19 PM (o/90i)
**********
In-Laws are survivors. They are part of the permanent exhibit at the US Holocaust Museum in DC. Haunting to hear my Father in Laws voice since he has passed.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 11:27 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 11:27 PM (ahBY0)
Not all of us were born in the last 20 minutes, whippersnapper! I remember when he tried the Snake River thing. IIRC, it was shortly after I'd left my first husband.
Posted by: Peaches
So, in a round about way, you are saying you are Vic's little sister?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (YOPoU)
Wikipedia says Evel has the all-time record for one person with the most broken bones in his lifetime.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (ucDmr)
Aren't we all kinda descendants of the First Jews?
I mean the First Jews who financed the Big Bang, of course.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:29 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 09, 2015 11:29 PM (fLKzW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:29 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:30 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (YOPoU)
Not sure, and never wanted to get into it, but we might have dated.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:30 PM (EgOr3)
Remember when there was an Astrodome?
Good times...
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2015 11:30 PM (4gN5w)
Cochran is "owned" by the black community in his state. They said as much:
http://tinyurl.com/m3h4oc4
What percentage of this community holds to the tenets of Judaism?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 11:31 PM (AVEe1)
Celebrity Bowling is on, this episode has on, get this, "Grady" from Sanford & Son!
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:31 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:28 PM (YOPoU)
= : O
Runaway! Runaway!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 09, 2015 11:31 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:32 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 11:32 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:33 PM (KBR3U)
But Cochran proved himself a pretty savvy operator in what Mississippians think. He knows his base.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 11:33 PM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:31 PM (/Wi/Y)
Andy Warhol proved right again. The fifteen minutes of fame thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:33 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 11
10 Commandments? Never heard of them
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:33 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: HAL at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (OmBeX)
I just got out my SW 357 mag. What a piece of work.
Heavy, but hell, it needs to be
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (0FSuD)
Then again, Psych ( that was a TV Show for you oldsters...) did a parody episode based on his ass.
Posted by: Aristotle at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (XvsbD)
But Cochran proved himself a pretty savvy operator in what Mississippians think. He knows his base.
It kinda shows me that the Republican Machine knows how to win when it *wants* to.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: HAL at March 09, 2015 11:35 PM (OmBeX)
Posted by: HAL at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (OmBeX)
He looks like what you'd see if the guy being fried in the electric chair didn't have a helmet on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:35 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:32 PM
Not yet, but we're forming an exploratory committee...
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 09, 2015 11:35 PM (4gN5w)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:34 PM (/Wi/Y)
Mitt Romeny in 2012 Primaries didn't convince you? They only really fight like Democrats against other Republicans - that is a problem.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:36 PM (KBR3U)
I dunno, "Grady" is indelible, ...whatever that means. He lives in my memory forever.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:36 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM (KBR3U)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:36 PM (/Wi/Y)
"Indelible" is the opposite of "inedible". Hillary Clinton is inedible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM (Gm0Ay)
There are lots of examples. Allen West was driven out of Congress by...Republicans.
Same with Dan Quayle's son.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2015 11:22 PM
It's almost like he's working against America's best interests. Go figure.
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:38 PM (o/90i)
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of PC Stalinist thugs.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:38 PM (elbY7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:38 PM (EgOr3)
With a collar. A big, honkin' bad-guy collar.
Posted by: HAL at March 09, 2015 11:35 PM (OmBeX)
With all this talk of flatulent canines, are you sure you don't mean, "with a collie"?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (/cvEu)
If you are going to pull out a gun, don't fcuk around.
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (Z3S8c)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM
Uhhhh...
Posted by: Huma at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (z3HBe)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:40 PM (/cvEu)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:40 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:41 PM (/Wi/Y)
If you are going to pull out a gun, don't fcuk around.
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 09, 2015 11:39 PM (0FSuD)
Umm, you've heard of a Derringer right?
Why F around with a 357?
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:41 PM (/cvEu)
Not since she discovered Hot Pockets pizza snacks...
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: meeeghan mccain at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (JCdoo)
Perry Mason is on, (which I never liked). The Skipper is in this episode. Alan Hale Jr was a handsome man.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:40 PM (EgOr3)
Poor little extra special snowflake.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (/cvEu)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: dartist at March 09, 2015 11:43 PM (ahBY0)
I saw at another site (Hot Air?) that Firefox is dying.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of PC Stalinist thugs.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 09, 2015 11:38 PM (elbY7)
That was happening well before the CEO kerfluffle. I tried writing a plug in for firefox a few years ago... what a mess. They changed the browser architecture a few years back, but the documentation pages were all outdated. I went back a year later - same story. What took me a few hours in Google Chrome I couldn't figure out in Firefox at all, and their online IDE was more trouble that it was worth.They were in trouble before they fired their CEO for thought crimes - it is obviously a very distracted organization...
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:43 PM (KBR3U)
I saw Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal speak. Neat stuff.
If these two were smart, they'd team up and campaign together all the time.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:43 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:43 PM (/cvEu)
Posted by: Farmer at March 09, 2015 11:19 PM (o/90i)
I know what you mean. My grandmother's sister was tattooed, and she was roman catholic Italian. The silly thing is my grandmother was born here, but went back to Italy when she was 1 year old. She came back in '38 when she saw the writing on the wall, but her sister stayed behind because she couldn't get all her family over here at once, and got way screwed. My grandmother left my grandfather there and came here 9 months before he could with half the kids, and 7 months pregnant with my father. Her sister's family ended up in one labor camp somewhere, but managed to escape by hiding in a truck among some dead bodies. From what I understood, they were fairly sympathetic to the anti Mussolini forces, and granny's 16 year old niece did threaten to kill some Nazi if he tried to conscript her brother. I would imagine they were viewed as a royal pain in the ass. They survived though.
They were also life long republicans.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 09, 2015 11:44 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 09, 2015 11:44 PM (ZPrif)
( * Y * )
Posted by: meeeghan mccain at March 09, 2015 11:42 PM (JCdoo)
except then nobody could see your tattoos, dear.
Posted by: Peaches at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM (KBR3U)
Get Pale Moon. It is basically the old version of Firefox, without all the PC baggage. You can copy your Firefox profile and bookmarks over to it, and they will work. I am happy with it. And the screen layout is just like FF.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (2yngH)
Anyone remember when Tony Robbins was a joke?
I have no idea how it happened, but in the last 10-15 years Robbins has become a legit guru. This clown has absolutely nothing original to say and yet...
Right now, WE are paying for him to be on the taxpayer-funded tv sitcom that Charlie Rose hosts on PBS.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (/Wi/Y)
Firefox, without all the PC baggage. You can copy your Firefox profile
and bookmarks over to it, and they will work. I am happy with it. And
the screen layout is just like FF.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (Gm0Ay)
I looked at it today, and the bookmark transfer is good to know about. Thanks!
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (KBR3U)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:43 PM
Those are explosive tracers, right?
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (4gN5w)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (KBR3U)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:49 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:49 PM (KBR3U)
Posted by: meeeghan mccain at March 09, 2015 11:49 PM (JCdoo)
I think he just died.
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 11:49 PM (sQzB6)
Posted by: Infidel at March 09, 2015 11:49 PM (jwcHC)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 09, 2015 11:50 PM (AxABj)
I haven't been to Chicago since Rahm took office, but apparently the little shit decided to shake the citizens down by plastering the place with speed cameras.
Ergo he deserves to be thrown out on general principles and if I were a Chicago voter I'd vote for anyone else just to send Twinkletoes a message.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2015 11:50 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:51 PM (/Wi/Y)
Gilligan croaked a few years ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:51 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Slight caveat is warranted here: Pale Moon is the product of one dedicated coder.
He may be the nicest guy in the world, but a perfect, untargetable human he is not.
And, no, there is no 'perfect' browser, but forewarned is forearmed ... or forelegged ... foreeyed?
Posted by: Aristotle at March 09, 2015 11:51 PM (XvsbD)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (KBR3U)
Not just bookmarks, but profiles, passwords, the whole nine yards. It basically is the old FF engine, minus a bunch of the cruft. I imported the profile by copying the {yadayada} profile from FF, renaming to the name of the default profile from the new install of Pale Moon, and pasting it in. If it doesn't work, you aren't destroying anything.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:52 PM (Gm0Ay)
Yeah, and I read that when one of his challengers was campaigning on getting rid of the abominable things, his retort was "and how are you going to replace the revenue?"
They're not even pretending anymore.
Posted by: Splunge at March 09, 2015 11:52 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 11:47 PM (4gN5w)
Even worse. 1132 grains of Gaia hating lead moving at 1800fps.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:53 PM (/cvEu)
Posted by: Aristotle at March 09, 2015 11:51 PM
foreskinned?
Posted by: Hey, someone had to say it at March 09, 2015 11:53 PM (4gN5w)
Cute. I meant on the Perry Mason episode.
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 11:53 PM (sQzB6)
He may be the nicest guy in the world, but a perfect, untargetable human he is not.
And, no, there is no 'perfect' browser, but forewarned is forearmed ... or forelegged ... foreeyed?
Posted by: Aristotle at March 09, 2015 11:51 PM (XvsbD)
Well, it works for me now. I used to use Opera, but there were issues with that, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:54 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, looking for Billy The Mountain at March 09, 2015 11:55 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:55 PM (/cvEu)
Oh I stopped watching Perry Mason.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:55 PM (/Wi/Y)
The other night a great episode of Alfred Hitchcock was on starring Telly Savalas and Darren McGavin. It was brilliant.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:56 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:56 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:56 PM (/cvEu)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:53 PM
Just as long as they're not extended capacity bullet-holder thingies what go up
Posted by: LIV at March 09, 2015 11:56 PM (4gN5w)
speaking of...
has Megan McCain said anything stupid lately?
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:41 PM (/Wi/Y)
Probably.
But since her daddy wasn't running in 2012, the left no longer needs her as their useful idiot.
Funny that from 2008 to 2012 she was every where, and even had her own TV show. Since 2012, not a peep.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at March 09, 2015 11:57 PM (+Fae7)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:55 PM (/Wi/Y)
So that's why they aren't producing it anymore. That, and Raymond Burr croaked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:57 PM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 09, 2015 11:57 PM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot
I get a kick out of these old shows. Everybody wears a coat and tie, smoke like chimneys.
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 11:57 PM (sQzB6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Lv0wAvCHM
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2015 11:58 PM (AVEe1)
I was raised by the men and women on these old shows.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:59 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2015 11:59 PM (o+SC1)
Do you know how badly I wanted to be a Clampett?
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:59 PM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: redbanzai at March 10, 2015 12:00 AM (afouc)
Posted by: Aviator at March 09, 2015 11:57 PM (sQzB6)
There was definitely more class and style evident back in the day. And Barbara Hale (Della Street) was teh Hawt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:00 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 10, 2015 12:00 AM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 09, 2015 11:59 PM
I'd have settled for being the guy what cleaned the Clampett's cement pond
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 10, 2015 12:01 AM (4gN5w)
Posted by: Infidel at March 10, 2015 12:01 AM (jwcHC)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 10, 2015 12:02 AM (/cvEu)
Link to story at Breitbart.
http://tinyurl.com/nf7fbb4
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 10, 2015 12:03 AM (/cvEu)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 10, 2015 12:03 AM (JCdoo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And how. My minor complaint has always been Opera's mouse options; they suck.
The scroll settings never stuck.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:03 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I remember my parents watching the show on TV when I was a little kid. I also remember dressing up to fly on the airlines.
Posted by: Aviator at March 10, 2015 12:04 AM (sQzB6)
Hello? The Internet? F@cking gopher had that shit available even before 1995.
Censorship is damage; the Internet routes around it, and makes what's censored more popular.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:05 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: redbanzai
Know what I'm allergic too?
SOLID WALLS OF TEXT WITHOUT CARRIAGE RETURNS
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:06 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 12:06 AM (wQ7l/)
Have to take the little one out.
Missed you last night rich, she's a Chocolate Lab, 7 weeks old yesterday. Just a lot of entertainment.
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2015 12:07 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: qdp "easily misunderstanding" steve at March 10, 2015 12:08 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: president o'bumbles at March 10, 2015 12:08 AM (JCdoo)
Have to take the little one out.
Heh, funny euphemism about having to urinate, but damn that's a harsh way to refer to one's penis.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:09 AM (/Wi/Y)
This is my last machine with firefox... off to opera to fix that.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at March 09, 2015 11:37 PM (KBR3U)
Get
Pale Moon. It is basically the old version of Firefox, without all the
PC baggage. You can copy your Firefox profile and bookmarks over to it,
and they will work. I am happy with it. And the screen layout is just
like FF.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (Gm0Ay)
......and FF plugins still work, like Do Not Track (now Blur), Greasemonkey, and AdBlock+.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 12:09 AM (T1005)
Posted by: White House Server Staff at March 10, 2015 12:10 AM (elbY7)
Youtube flashed a message on the screen telling me they won't be supporting my versions of firefox for much longer.
I'm pretty sure I can't upgade FF anymore because I'm still running XP. So...it's a conspiracy.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:11 AM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2015 12:11 AM (MYCIw)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:12 AM (AxABj)
Censorship is damage; the Internet routes around it, and makes what's censored more popular.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:05 AM (AVEe1)
They has a copy of Mein Kampf in the library at my high school in Vancouver in 1966 or thereabouts. I tried reading it (it was English translation). Totally tedious crap. Nothing edgy or dangerous about it. I'm sure people in Germany didn't buy it to read it. They bought it so as to be seen to own it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:12 AM (Gm0Ay)
*types*
*deletes*
tomorrow night, mi amigos
g'night, Andrew
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 10, 2015 12:12 AM (4gN5w)
For those that missed it earlier, the American Conservative Party site got hacked by some Indonesian neckbeards. I guess they didn't like our criticisms of their boy Obumbles.
Link to our party page in nick.
Posted by: Country singer at March 10, 2015 12:13 AM (nL0sw)
Old Sailor's Poet was here today, that was nice.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:13 AM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2015 11:41 PM (/cvEu)
Actually I put a snub nosed detective SW special 38 in car with P+ ammo.
About the same as a 357
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 10, 2015 12:13 AM (0FSuD)
Doesn't it get rather silly when we reach the point when we treat a frikkin book like it contains black magic and was printed in Hell?
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM (T1005)
For those that missed it earlier, the American Conservative Party site got hacked by some Indonesian neckbeards. I guess they didn't like our criticisms of their boy Obumbles.
Link to our party page in nick.
Posted by: Country singer at March 10, 2015 12:13 AM (nL0sw)
******
Uummm, just looked. Still spazzed out.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 10, 2015 12:16 AM (cIoI4)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM (/Wi/Y)
Whatever do you mean?
Posted by: The DNC Handbook at March 10, 2015 12:16 AM (nL0sw)
Yes, I know what "vitriol" is. 'Cause I'm a chemist, dammit!
As for Megan, the card-carrying brainiac -- all sugars' names end in "-ose", last time I checked.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at March 10, 2015 12:16 AM (bWFHa)
Doesn't it get rather silly when we reach the point when we treat a
frikkin book like it contains black magic and was printed in Hell?
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM (/Wi/Y)
Sssst! They're onto us!
Don't be silly, Adolf -- and make sure the margins are correct.
Posted by: Hell's Printshop at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (T1005)
Speaking. Of:
Piketty wants backsies on his book:
http://tinyurl.com/mu7djrx
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM
We see it as a cautionary tale.
Others see it as an instruction manual
g'night, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (4gN5w)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 10, 2015 12:16 AM (cIoI4)
LOL, look closer. Yeah, the graphic is still there. read the actual words, though.
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (nL0sw)
when we treat a frikkin book like it contains black magic and was
printed in Hell?
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:15 AM (/Wi/Y)
Well, some would state that the koran, in fact, fits that description. But Mein Kampf is just plain tedious; several hundred pages of Schicklgruber feeling sorry for himself.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (Gm0Ay)
Which would explain a lot, actually.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 09, 2015 11:45 PM (2yngH)
Chemistry is just a social construct...
Posted by: Critical Chemical Studies Major (with a minor in THC) at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (0Ew3K)
I'm curled up with the NyQuil bottle until I feel better or until I'm out of NyQuil, whatever happens first.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (6fyGz)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:05 AM (AVEe1)
Not anymore!
Posted by: The FCC at March 10, 2015 12:18 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2015 12:11 AM (MYCIw)
You don't get it. Men don't give a rat's ass about options. We're perfectly happy to wear blue shirts and chinos in perpetuity.
My older son bought half a dozen identical shirts before he went off to college. Proof positive that he's my boy.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:18 AM (oKE6c)
They're calling it the feel-good fantasy read of the summer. :-(
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2015 12:19 AM (elbY7)
I never read either Mein Kampf or Marx's Communist Manifesto, but I'm gonna assume they're similar and tell people so.
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:19 AM (/Wi/Y)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at March 10, 2015 12:16 AM (bWFHa)
Megan's last words: "Oooh, vitriol! Ends in "ol" just like alcohol, and alcohol is real good. Bottoms up!"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:20 AM (Gm0Ay)
SOLID WALLS OF TEXT WITHOUT CARRIAGE RETURNS
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:06 AM (XvsbD)
LOL... I did hit enter. Just not enough times for it to add a blank line, apparently:-P
Posted by: redbanzai at March 10, 2015 12:20 AM (afouc)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:21 AM (AVEe1)
Wasn't there something a while back about a local news anchor that wore the exact same thing for a year and no one noticed, then the female co-anchor wore something twice in a row and everyone freaked out?
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:21 AM (nL0sw)
"
Haha, oh I get it. My grandpa wore the same outfit every day that I was alive. Brown dockers and a pink shirt. There were a few shades of pink in there, but that was as varied as it got.
He was a mechanic though, so poor grandma had a hell of a time getting the grease out of those shirts. She somehow managed due to some sort of laundry voodoo.
Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2015 12:21 AM (MYCIw)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (Gm0Ay)
I have to disagree, I'm afraid. I expected an anti-Semitic tub thumper, and while God knows that's in there, there's a lot of abstract consideration of geopolitics (which I'm not endorsing, mind you, but it's light years above confusion about which nation speaks which language).
In many respects, it's reminiscent of Das Kapital; clearly the product of a superior but seriously misguided intellect, and intrinsically hopelessly flawed.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:22 AM (oKE6c)
But Mein Kampf is just plain tedious; several hundred pages of
Schicklgruber feeling sorry for himself.
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After the National Socialists took control of the government, people getting married were automatically given a copy of Mein Kampf. Every good German was supposed to know the thoughts of the Fuehrer. He even had some thoughts on why syphilis was a bad thing and probably brought to Germany by the Jooos!
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:22 AM (AxABj)
So, is he really supporting his thesis by using facts from 19th century novellas?
If fiction is OK to use as source material in seminal works of economics, shouldn't he be going to the original materials like Raymond Lull and the Troubadours before him about the true meaning of economics?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2015 12:23 AM (t//F+)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:17 AM (nL0sw
*****
Sure, got that. Access to anything they Have to say is gone, but they do have a smartass graphic up. Cool.....
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 10, 2015 12:23 AM (cIoI4)
Posted by: redbanzai
S'all good. I was just harrassing the new nic.
Lurker, or?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:24 AM (XvsbD)
No mention of the co-anchor wearing something twice in a row, though. Just commentary that people always noticed her hair and clothes, but not his.
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:24 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Soothsayer And The Mysterious Zionist Plot at March 10, 2015 12:19 AM (/Wi/Y)
I've read them both, and the Communist Manifesto is a page turner compared to Das Kapital.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:25 AM (oKE6c)
Link to our party page in nick.
Posted by: Country singer at March 10, 2015 12:13 AM (nL0sw)
The image is of Yuno Gasai, a teenage psycho-stalker girl from the anime/manga Mirai Nikki (未来日記
.
It's about how Deus, with his little demon buddy Murmur wants to find a godly replacement for Deus.
So, they find twelve obsessive diary writers and gives them the power to see diary entries of future events. The one surviving becomes the new Deus.
It's worth a watch or read.
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at March 10, 2015 12:25 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:25 AM (nL0sw)
clearly the product of a superior but seriously misguided intellect, and
intrinsically hopelessly flawed.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:22 AM (oKE6c)
Well, in my defense, it's been a while since high school. I never read the damn book through; it was that tedious.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:25 AM (Gm0Ay)
There's only so much time one gets on this planet, and I've spent too much of mine on one rotten book in particular - in my case, the Koran. I'm not sure I'd be improving the rest of my time here by studying Uncle Addie's deep-thoughts as well.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:26 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:22 AM (AxABj)
I don't remember that, but would appreciate a reference. The salient question that I took away from reading it was whether Hitler's anti-Semitism arose from his hatred of Bolshevism, or vice versa.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:28 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Lauren
Is this some new england thing? Nantucket?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:28 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:28 AM (AxABj)
and I've spent too much of mine on one rotten book in particular - in my
case, the Koran. I'm not sure I'd be improving the rest of my time here
by studying Uncle Addie's deep-thoughts as well.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:26 AM (AVEe1)
Yeah. Why read Mein Kampf when you could be parting your hair with a Skilsaw? Or watching cement cure?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:29 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (nL0sw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:26 AM (AVEe1)
I tried reading the Koran, but it reads like a transcript of the ravings of a schizophrenic, a genre with which I'm only too familiar from my time in Berkeley (which, thanks to the Supremes O'Connor v. Donaldson decision, featured a raving schizophrenic on every street corner). So I gave it up.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (oKE6c)
He wrote it in 1923-5, right? That was a decade before he took over. Roughly.
He might not have known either by that point.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2015 12:32 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:25 AM (Gm0Ay)
The book is far above the level of a high school student, again, just like Das Kapital. Both are much too abstract for an adolescent; it'd be like a high school student reading Thomas Pynchon.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:32 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Old Blue
Ok, Random Guy.
No. Hitler was not 'The East, against Communism'
Mussolini, and Hitler and your 2ndary voodoo doll, Franco, were socialists.
Sorry, again, nice try, but Fascism is a foul beast borne of the Left's malicious dreams.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:33 AM (XvsbD)
Ha, no grandpa was a Missouri boy. I'm not sure where that particular style quirk came from. Apparently it was what he adopted after he retired. It was the 70s. That's the only explanation I can offer. To really complete the look, he wore a truckers hat. He especially liked the one I made at the mall that had my picture on it.
Posted by: Lauren at March 10, 2015 12:35 AM (MYCIw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:36 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (oKE6c)
Yeah that was my take as well. I gave up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 12:36 AM (FMbng)
Do some research. He did leave it to his Generals quite a bit. His Generals were not always right either. If the Generals would have had their way they would have suffered the same fate as the French in the winter of 41/42.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 12:36 AM (6yehy)
Lurker, or?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:24 AM (XvsbD)
Long time lurker finally taking the plunge toward actual (digital) interaction.Ace of Spades, Instapundit and Breitbart are all in my daily search for sanity during this time when politics is liable to send you round a bend.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 10, 2015 12:37 AM (afouc)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 10, 2015 12:39 AM (ZbCKc)
Posted by: Puzzled Dolphin at March 10, 2015 12:39 AM (Z/irl)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (AVEe1)
That was kind of the sense I got. He hated the Jews because of their involvement with Bolshevism, and he hated the Bolsheviks because they were heavily Jewish. Which took precedence, and drove the other, just wasn't clear, certainly to me, as a reader, and perhaps not to the author either. I still haven't figured out which was the chicken, and which the egg, if indeed any resolution of the question is possible.
The curious thing is the Hitler (at least at that time, pre-cult of the personality), despite being virulently anti-Bolshevik, was also clearly a socialist, because he rants against "stock jobbers," "capitalists," and "international financiers," the latter leading into another rant against Jews.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:39 AM (oKE6c)
Any logician can tell you:
1) if you start with flawed data the results will be really flawed
2) Fascism would and did devolve into socialism, and from there to dictatorship, since any organization not devoted to freedom will become, step by step, socialist and dictatorial.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2015 12:40 AM (t//F+)
Posted by: Puzzled Dolphin at March 10, 2015 12:40 AM (Z/irl)
Of the Leftists' dreams; and of the Rightists' fears (of Leftists).
The Left wanted paradise on earth. The old European Right - which is not the American Right - wanted ANYTHING that would thwart the Left's vision of paradise.
So, fascism it was.
... I'm not normally anti-white / anti-European, since ancestry, but, yeesh. We can come up with some STUPID ideas sometimes.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:41 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:41 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 10, 2015 12:42 AM (ZbCKc)
Posted by: redbanzai
Cool, cool. Welcome.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:42 AM (XvsbD)
Nazism did not need to evolve into socialism. It is socialism.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 12:43 AM (6yehy)
Fascism is just another form of socialism.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:45 AM (5pg79)
interesting passages in Mein Kampf. Much medical or pseudo-
medical speculation has been built up round about it, with
which we do not associate ourselves. The essential point is
that syphilis and Rassenschande (i.e., cohabitation between a
German and a person of impure blood) are placed on the same
level. The first can be cured, however. The second is irre-
parable.
Jay, this if from archive.org.
He was paranoid about it.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:45 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo
Which is why the European Right (original) can't be compared to the US Right. The Continental Right were Monarchists; a label only applicable to RHINOS in the US.
Lookin' at you Poppin'Fresh, Hewitt, etc.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:46 AM (XvsbD)
There's only so much time one gets on this planet, and I've spent too
much of mine on one rotten book in particular - in my case, the Koran.
I'm not sure I'd be improving the rest of my time here by studying Uncle
Addie's deep-thoughts as well.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:26 AM (AVEe1)
I
tried reading the Koran, but it reads like a transcript of the ravings
of a schizophrenic, a genre with which I'm only too familiar from my
time in Berkeley (which, thanks to the Supremes O'Connor v. Donaldson
decision, featured a raving schizophrenic on every street corner). So I
gave it up.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:30 AM (oKE6c)
I always suspected it might have better "flow" if it hadn't been intentionally scrambled.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 12:46 AM (T1005)
See y'all tomorrow night.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 10, 2015 12:47 AM (elbY7)
Thanks for all the fun here. I'm off to bed w/ the wife and the new puppy.
Be well all.
T
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2015 12:32 AM (o/90i)
Kinky!
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at March 10, 2015 12:47 AM (T1005)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:48 AM (XvsbD)
If it were organised by the sequence in which the suras were composed, it would look like a series of sermons delivered over a century or two of Arab imperial dominance (and resistance).
Or, at least, so a kafir would assume.
Assume that a koran (not yet THE Koran) were out and about in 630 AD. Understand that there are a LOT of various religious factions running around, with ambitions to the whole Caliphate. Realise that there's not a whole lot of formal literacy in this time and place. Might not at least ONE faction figure that their cause MIGHT be improved by the "discovery" of a sura...?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:49 AM (AVEe1)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2015 12:40 AM (t//F+)
Fascism arose from socialism; Mussolini had been a socialist of considerable standing, and was highly regarded by Lenin as a theorist. He was transformed by his experiences in WWI, where he saw that Italian peasants identified more with their Italian middle- and upper class officers than they did with with Austrian peasants. From that he deduced that international socialism (which held class solidarity as its central tenet) was hopelessly flawed, and that the way forward was socialism within one country (organized vertically, across the classes within one nation, rather than horizontally, between the same class in different nation) - hence "national socialism."
Several books on this:
"The Fascist Movement in Italian Life," by Gorgolini,
"Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches," by Mussolini,
"Mussolini's Italy," by Finer, and
"Talks with Mussolini," by Ludwig,
all available on Project Gutenberg and/or Archive.org.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:49 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:45 AM (5pg79)
Yeah, but it was supposed to be socialism-lite, you know, peoples control over the tools of production, but less bloody destructive riots: that sort of thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2015 12:50 AM (t//F+)
Mussolini, and Hitler and your 2ndary voodoo doll, Franco, were socialists.
Sorry, again, nice try, but Fascism is a foul beast borne of the Left's malicious dreams.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:33 AM (XvsbD)
There were differences.
Classical Fascism wasn't about race. In fact, there were many Jewish fascists in Itally up until the late '30's. Heck, Franco saved many Jews.
Classical Fascim was about how the "nation", as a collective entity, was to rule, and that experts and best men were to devine the intention of the collective. They denounced democracy because it didn't include the voices of the minority of voices in the country.
They believed in corporatism.
Corporatism is when labor, business, farmer, &c. is brought into the fold of the state for the aims and benefit of the state, and where said labor, business, farmer, &c. is benefited in turn by the state for their service.
Corporatism is a way of organizing the economic life of a country under the direction of the state. It is the state that creates a corporatist economy, not the free market.
Franco, Moussolini, the Lebanese Phelangists, and to a degree the Ba'ath party followed these lines.
The early NAZIs stressed more direct nationalization of industries, rather than co-option and direct control with ownership dependent on doing the will of the nation.
The Strasser Bros. reflected the "beafsteak" approach while Hitler was the "moderate," who eventually won out, in this regard. Unlike classical fascism, the NAZIs made Jews the official scapegoat.
Ironically enough, classical fascism was actually one of the most actual egalitarian veins of Leftism.
Read Mussolini's "What is Fascism" or the NAZI's 25-point program.
Both Marxism and Fascism were based on Hegelian thinking.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 12:50 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 12:46 AM (T1005)
Organizing the suras in order of increasing length, as Cicero mentioned, might make some sense if the purpose of the book was to stuff mo's ravings most efficiently into the minds of rote memorizers.
"You don't need to understand it, little Achmed, you just need to recite it."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 12:51 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:51 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 12:45 AM (AxABj)
Fair enough. I didn't remember that.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:51 AM (oKE6c)
Classical Fascism wasn't about race. In fact, there were many Jewish fascists in Itally up until the late '30's. Heck, Franco saved many Jews.
Both Marxism and Fascism were based on Hegelian thinking.
Posted by: The Political Hat
What possible succor to the proponents of a 1000 year Reich do you find interesting enough to fisk my ad-hoc comment?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:53 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:53 AM (AVEe1)
Yep. Mussolini didn't even bring up the subject, so far as I can tell from my readings. His view of Fascism was essentially of a nation as a "big family," as in the metaphor so beloved of shithead corporate managers.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:54 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:55 AM (5pg79)
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It would also show a revealing transition in the pedo prophet's opinion of the Jews. Early on, he needed their support and was very tolerant of their apostasy. Later, when he gained the upper hand in Mecca, he wanted to kill them all.
Nice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 10, 2015 12:55 AM (ZbCKc)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2015 12:55 AM (t//F+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Former FireFox user at March 10, 2015 12:56 AM (F2IAQ)
In Italy, he really couldn't. Sicilians? Sardinians? ... Libyans? These have very little in common with some businessman in Genoa, or a farmer in Tyrol.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:56 AM (AVEe1)
But that's not an indictment of FDR. There were LOTS of fans of Fascism in the 1922-mid 1930s era. "We're all just a big family." Just as now we hear "Government is what we do together."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 12:57 AM (oKE6c)
OK, this may piss some of you off, but I think this letter to Iran was a bad idea.
I admire Senator Cotton, and UCMJ prohibits me from giving my candid
opinion of this President. But this has managed to make him look even
weaker and sillier than he did in his negotiations.
Did he have it coming? Yes, by making it clear he would negotiate a
treaty in all but name, so he wouldn't have to get approval from that
pesky Senate. Still, this would have been better communicated to the
president, in secret, not to the fucking mullahs in public.
Posted by: JPS at March 09, 2015 10:56 PM (9ziuC)
First, I am fairly sure the Senator's thoughts on the matter were communicated to President I Won McTantrumpants before they wrote this letter.
Second, is there any conceivable way that anyone could possibly make him appear weaker than he makes himself look with his Muslim apologetics and Jew-hatred?
Posted by: redbanzai at March 10, 2015 12:58 AM (afouc)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 12:53 AM (XvsbD)
Huh?
I just wanted to point out that National Socialism and Fascism aren't pure synonyms. IIRC, for years Mussolini didn't consider National Socialism to be fascism. Heck, there were different at first and seemed to merge as Italy and Germany grew closer.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 12:58 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 12:59 AM (5pg79)
frikkin book like it contains black magic and was printed in Hell?
Probably shouldn't mess around with that.
Posted by: Ash J. Williams at March 10, 2015 01:00 AM (A6vWB)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:00 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: The Political Hat
...henh?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:00 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: The Political Hat
Yep. And the ultimate progenitor of the Leftist rubbish: Rousseau, who has SO much to answer for, not least that "noble savage" in the state of nature, corrupted by society crap, so if we only change/destroy society ....
Rousseau thereby provided a major impetus both for Hegel and Marx (and thereby Marxism and Fascism), and for Bakunin (and thereby anarchism).
Thanks a bunch, Jean-Jacques!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:02 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: speedster1 on the (new) ipad at March 10, 2015 01:02 AM (1brdf)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 12:58 AM (0Ew3K)
That's true of National Socialism in the sense used in Germany, but he considered Fascism to be national socialism, i.e., socialism within one country. (The use of capitalization is done advisedly.)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:04 AM (oKE6c)
Yep. Mussolini didn't even bring up the subject, so far as I can tell from my readings. His view of Fascism was essentially of a nation as a "big family," as in the metaphor so beloved of shithead corporate managers.
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Here's where I provide some pointless counter-argument: Mussolini didn't hate jews; he hated slavs. Not the biggest thing in his government, but he still hated him some easterners.
The thing here is that Slavs are only a 'race' in some weird ipso-facto 18th century frenological description.
Down with the Slavs, up with the ... Corsicans?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:04 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: The Political Hat
...henh?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:00 AM (XvsbD)
Mussolini was into corporatism. The Early NAZI's were far more into direct nationalizations of large businesses. In contrast Mussolini was happy to let people "own" their businesses just as long as they swayed by the hand of the state.
Hitler was closer to Mussolini than the Strasser Bros. and he understood that to gain power, he couldn't scare off the businesses.
Also, the NAZIs were anti-army. Again, Hitler curbed the SA (which were originally supposed to be revolutionary party that would seize power, like with the Beer Hall Putsch), to placate the army so he could gain power.
Hitler didn't like big businesses on principle, or the army, but he wanted to coopt them or supplant them slowly.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:06 AM (0Ew3K)
... Libyans? These have very little in common with some businessman in
Genoa, or a farmer in Tyrol.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 10, 2015 12:56 AM (AVEe1)
Maybe I missed something, but in my readings on Mussolini I didn't get any sense that he burned to address race, but was restrained by circumstances. If I had to bet, I'd bet the issue hadn't occurred to him; it seems largely orthogonal to his thinking, as judged from his speeches and published work.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:06 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 10, 2015 01:08 AM (W53WK)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:08 AM (AxABj)
The thing here is that Slavs are only a 'race' in some weird ipso-facto 18th century frenological description.
Down with the Slavs, up with the ... Corsicans?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:04 AM (XvsbD)
Didn't see that in my readings, but maybe I missed it. It would be fair to say Mussolini was no fan of Austrians (some of whom at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would also be Slavs), but that would only make him a garden variety Italian.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:09 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Did you bring your armor-plated underwear?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, Former FireFox user at March 10, 2015 01:09 AM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:11 AM (AxABj)
The "Generals" did not listen.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 01:12 AM (6yehy)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:13 AM (oKE6c)
Mussolini I didn't get any sense that he burned to address race, but was
restrained by circumstances. If I had to bet, I'd bet the issue hadn't
occurred to him; it seems largely orthogonal to his thinking, as judged
from his speeches and published work.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:06 AM (oKE6c)
And it is my recollection that Mussolini did not have a program to round up and eliminate Jews, and in fact Italian Jews were safe until Mussolini was deposed and the Germans took over Italy. Mussolini's big mistake was throwing in his lot with Hitler and his gang. Had he stayed neutral, which should have been easier for him than for Franco, seeing as he didn't owe his success to Hitler, he likely could have remained Il Duce until his natural death.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:15 AM (Gm0Ay)
*sniff*
You don't normally I appreciate our comments
but it seems like tonight you're being....and I'm trying to be polite....rather contrary. What I'd like to know is who pissed in your Post Toasties? And yes, I did not hit the F*cking enter key on my last post.
Hi. MMA!, Please invite me to your 4th of The Internationale parte!
Would so be cool.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:16 AM (XvsbD)
And weft, normally I appreciate your comments Posted by: Old Blue
*sniff*
You don't normally I appreciate our comments
but it seems like tonight you're being....and I'm trying to be
polite....rather contrary. What I'd like to know is who pissed in your
Post Toasties? And yes, I did not hit the F*cking enter key on my last
post.
Hi. MMA!, Please invite me to your 4th of The Internationale parte!
Would so be cool.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:16 AM (XvsbD)
Isn't that something like, "I got a reacharound so this must be True Love"?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 01:19 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:15 AM (Gm0Ay)
I believe that that's correct. Mussolini largely resisted Hitler's efforts to round up Jews until Hitler knelt on him to do so.
Recall that Mussolini assumed power in 1922, at about which time Hitler was cooling his heels in Landesberg Prison. So for a long time Mussolini was the senior party, both by time in office and by virtue of having been the progenitor of national socialism.
The interesting figure here is Franco. While vilified by the Left, he actually pulled some rather deft statesmanship. He managed to wangle support from first Mussolini, then Hitler, and in return gave them ... bupkis, and then kept Spain out of WWII. That's some pretty fancy footwork for a guy leading a weak country.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 01:12 AM (6yehy)
---------One of the most fascinating things about WWII, is that even at the end of the war, Germans still relied on horse drawn mobility. Studebaker trucks, through Lend/Lease, moved the Soviets, and the Allied armies had more trucks than you could shake a stick at. I never really understood why the Germans, with all their technology, didn't build more trucks. They had rockets (V2), guided munitions, personal automatic weapons, and the V1. But they didn't build a crap load of trucks. And the rail systems were too busy transporting Jews to the death camps. They had the world by the balls, and they let go.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:15 AM (Gm0Ay)
A history where fascism survived would be an interesting one... it'd probably look today as almost indistinguishable from America today...
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:24 AM (5pg79)
vilified by the Left, he actually pulled some rather deft statesmanship.
He managed to wangle support from first Mussolini, then Hitler, and in
return gave them ... bupkis, and then kept Spain out of WWII. That's
some pretty fancy footwork for a guy leading a weak country.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (oKE6c)
Yeah, that's what I was alluding to, when I said that, unlike Franco, Mussolini did not owe his success to Hitler. Had he wanted Italy to remain neutral, he surely could have done it. But he had visions of empire, and saw an alliance with Germany as a way to achieve that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:24 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:26 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (0Ew3K)
Yep. It actually sounds rather appealing; let's all put aside our differences and work together for the common good, that sort of thing. No wonder FDR bought it hook, line, and sinker: it was pretty much in his wheelhouse.
The problem arises when things don't go well, and/or someone doesn't go along with the program. Then the tendency is to assume that things didn't go well because someone didn't go along with the program, and that if we just ... deal ... with that person, everything will be wonderful. Heaven on earth! Now we just need to sort out the naysayers ...
Next stop, the camps. Where I have already called top bunk. Just want to remind everyone of that.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:27 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:29 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 10, 2015 01:30 AM (W53WK)
WWII, is that even at the end of the war, Germans still relied on horse
drawn mobility. Studebaker trucks, through Lend/Lease, moved the
Soviets, and the Allied armies had more trucks than you could shake a
stick at. I never really understood why the Germans, with all their
technology, didn't build more trucks. They had rockets (V2), guided
munitions, personal automatic weapons, and the V1. But they didn't build
a crap load of trucks. And the rail systems were too busy transporting
Jews to the death camps. They had the world by the balls, and they let
go.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM (AxABj)
I think the explanation is simple. Germans, then and now, were/are Europeans. And railroads were entrenched there as a means of mass transportation. And automobiles, and by extension, trucks, were viewed with suspicion as being too egalitarian. And Mussolini was famous for vowing to make the trains run on time. How many of us here would give a particular shit if the trains did, or did not, run on time? We have cars, don't we?
And those Studebaker trucks were damn fine trucks for their day. They still have fans in Russia to this day. There are Russian Web sites dedicated to them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:30 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:31 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: The Political Hat
Thanks for feeding DailyKos' feed for the next 2 years.
I'm sure you meant differently , but that short, blip, looks like an agreement with fascism.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:31 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:26 AM (9GG/0)
I'm not sure to what extent that was just bullshit to rouse Italian patriotism. Yeah, he invoked the Roman Empire all the time, and cast himself as a latter-day Cincinnatus, and while I'm sure he enjoyed the play-acting, I'm not clear on how much he believed it himself. Mussolini was no fool; he was highly intelligent.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:31 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:32 AM (9GG/0)
I'm sure you meant differently , but that short, blip, looks like an agreement with fascism.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:31 AM (XvsbD)
Yet if you submitted the Fascists' platform to them without attribution I have no doubt you'd get their enthusiastic support.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:24 AM (5pg79)
Watch "Gabriel over the White House"
Total fantasy of a President going full totalitarian dictator.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (0Ew3K)
Franco did, however, crush the Spanish Republicans, who held views similar to American Republicans. So, yeah, he did sort of suck.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:34 AM (XvsbD)
Total fantasy of a President going full totalitarian dictator.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (0Ew3K)
Scary, isn't it? I bet it would be a major hit with the Daily Kos. Think of Thomas Friedman, of the NYT, yearning for the US government to exercise the power of the Chinese government "to get things done."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:35 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: President Obnoxious at March 10, 2015 01:35 AM (5pg79)
Just did not happen. The man responsible for that fiasco was Hans Jeshonnok. Luftwaffe CoS IIRC.
Göring was not even in Berlin when that subject came up.
Jeshonnok said it could be done and schiklegruber ran with it.
Hansie later committed suicide.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 01:35 AM (6yehy)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (5pg79)
Huh? The Spanish Republicans were Communists. You know that, right?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:36 AM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Provided some thin credentials, of course!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:36 AM (XvsbD)
who held views similar to American Republicans. So, yeah, he did sort of
suck.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (5pg79)
So that's why Communists from all over North America, and other countries flocked to support the Republican side in the Spanish civil
war?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:36 AM (Gm0Ay)
Oh, Ch4Jd4ff, you so know how to seduce.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:34 AM (XvsbD)
umm... okay?
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:36 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:37 AM (oKE6c)
Same or not, the Germans also seemed to maximize engine production for tanks, planes, ships, subs, etc. For whatever reason, the truck was not viewed as a "strategic asset" by them. Could be the same.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 10, 2015 01:37 AM (W53WK)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:38 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:38 AM (AxABj)
I don't know. But, it is worth noting that American Republicans of that time weren't exactly what we'd describe as conservative, any more than they are now.
In other words, I don't think I actually have a dog in that particular fight.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:40 AM (5pg79)
He was, IIRC, a Labour MP and early was though of as a possible future PM.
His speeches as a British Fascist candidate for the House of Commons was all about how Labour wasn't Leftist enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_SepgAf4rE
Unlike Mussolini (early on) and Franco, he did have a thing against Jews... but then anti-Semitism was pretty popular amongst various crowds back then. Still his attempts to hide his anti-Semitism later in life were pathetic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd7LcaXZzUs
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:40 AM (0Ew3K)
engine production for tanks, planes, ships, subs, etc. For whatever
reason, the truck was not viewed as a "strategic asset" by them. Could
be the same.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 10, 2015 01:37 AM (W53WK)
Totalitarians have a fascination with railways. If you have a planned, centrally-controlled economy, railways are all you need to get the goods to the proles. Trucks are too free, too anarchic. Why do you think today's leftists are all fascinated by "light rail transit". And look who's peddling the high-speed train to nowhere in California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:41 AM (Gm0Ay)
She lists three foodstuffs which in English have been assigned some variant of the word "bean" -- but none of which are actual beans!
coffee beans -- not actual beans ("coffee beans" are a fruit)
soy beans -- not actual beans (they're "oil seeds")
green bean -- the immature casing of the beanpod before the bean begins to develop
So her "bean allergy" consists of three unrelated foods, none of which are beans.
And I GUARANTEE you Megan is a progressive who "believes in science" and who hates conservatives for being "anti-science."
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (K4YiS)
there are russian web sites dedicated to all sorts of crazy shit, including studebakers
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:32 AM (9GG/0)
One of the gems of St. Petersburg is the Singer Building -- http://tinyurl.com/o4459au -- and, yes, that's the sewing-machine company.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (T1005)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (UVfht)
That was a very time consuming process on both accounts.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (6yehy)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:33 AM (5pg79)
Huh? The Spanish Republicans were Communists. You know that, right?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:36 AM (oKE6c)
Hardcore communists. So hardcore, vicious, and evil that George Orwell went full anti-Soviet.
Heck, so bad that, IIRC, Dali remained living in Franco's Spain because commies raped his sister.
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (0Ew3K)
Hindsight being all that it is, I've often thought I a Euro in '39-'40 I'm hauling it for Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, or, Portugal. Get to a neutral country and then a way west.....N.A., S.A., etc.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 10, 2015 01:44 AM (W53WK)
Posted by: Roman Polanski at March 10, 2015 01:45 AM (2oDEG)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (9GG/0)
Word.
Posted by: Gov. Alf Landon at March 10, 2015 01:45 AM (0Ew3K)
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The Republicans at that time were actually the "Workers of the World Unite" kind of guys. They were compromised of Communists, anarchists, and other socialists. They even had an Abraham Lincoln brigade of Americans fighting for the Socialist cause. Toward the end, the Socialists were fighting the Anarchists as well as Franco's Fascists. They couldn't keep their shit together and they lost.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:45 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:45 AM (5pg79)
was based on Germany building railroads to Belgium to move troops and
material to the front. They couldn't get enough troops and material to
the front fast enough.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:38 AM (AxABj)
At the time of WWI, everybody used railroads for hauling freight. The trucks of the day filled the gap between the railyard and the end user, as horse-drawn wagons had done before. They were not meant for long-distance hauling on highways, which did not exist as we know them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:46 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:45 AM (AxABj)
I remember many a year ago taking a class on Spain and Portugal by an elderly professor who wan't an SJW.
He mentioned one of the commie factions were vegetarian nudist Trotskyist from Catalonia.
It was actually a very good class, and introduced students to the classical Spanish paintings and a non-Leftist overview of Iberian history.
Posted by: The Iberian Hat at March 10, 2015 01:48 AM (0Ew3K)
Heck, so bad that, IIRC, Dali remained living in Franco's Spain because commies raped his sister.
Posted by: The Political Hat
I recenly started to watch (but eventually fell asleep) the movie "There Be Dragons," which got atrocious reviews from mainstream film critics. I soon discovered why: The film depicts the Spanish Civil War, and accurately shows how the "Republicans" tortured and killed any Catholic priests they encountered.
No no no, showing the atrocities of the Far Left is Not Allowed! Bad review for you!
(Aside from that, the movie was pretty boring and I never finished it.)
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 01:50 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:50 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:21 AM
It was a matter of priority of manufacturing/resources combined with doctrine in tactics (which was itself shaped by the former, to a large extent). The Germans could only build so much. For every factory you devote to trucks or half tracks, you're down one you could use or convert for tanks etc and as impressive as their production was, they were always short on tanks. They funnelled their truck and half track production into relatively small numbers of mech infantry for rapid movement, while basic infantrty caught up later. It worked well enough often enough to not force a rethink. They wanted more trucks to make more mobile infantry units, they pressed captured light vehicles of all kinds into the role, but it was never enough.... but to ramp up truck production meant fewer tanks/assault guns etc.
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 01:50 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Old Blue
Thank you for this accurate summary, so I didn't have to write it.
This ^^^
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 01:51 AM (K4YiS)
Total fantasy of a President going full totalitarian dictator.
Let's hope it remains a fantasy.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 01:43 AM (UVfht)
I think that train has left the station. The open question is whether the institutions designed to thwart this behavior will operate as planned. Right now "Team Republic" is down a few points.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 01:51 AM (T1005)
"Over the past few weeks, dozens have been arrested in the Wisconsin state capitol for the simple act of singing, under new protest restrictions Walker's administration put in place. Just yesterday, Walker shocked many of his former political allies by suggesting expanding his union-busting Act 10 to include police officers and firefighters as well.
All this, and Scott Walker is not-so-secretly laying the groundwork for a presidential run."
GASP!
http://bit.ly/1nSeTTW
Posted by: mr_jack at March 10, 2015 01:52 AM (M59SC)
It's a tax!
Posted by: Mystical Berobed Druid John Roberts at March 10, 2015 01:53 AM (2oDEG)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 01:54 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 01:55 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 01:55 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 01:55 AM (6yehy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:56 AM (Gm0Ay)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 01:58 AM (5pg79)
Suck my dick, anarchist.
Posted by: J. McPharland, Pinkerton at March 10, 2015 01:59 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 10, 2015 01:13 AM (oKE6c)
A modern synonym for totalitarian would be comprehensive.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 10, 2015 01:59 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: J. McPharland, Pinkerton at March 10, 2015 02:00 AM (XvsbD)
Wow, I just saw this. It is so scary. Someone save us from Scott Walker!
"Over the past few weeks, dozens have been arrested in the Wisconsin
state capitol for the simple act of singing, under new protest
restrictions Walker's administration put in place. Just yesterday,
Walker shocked many of his former political allies by suggesting
expanding his union-busting Act 10 to include police officers and
firefighters as well.
All this, and Scott Walker is not-so-secretly laying the groundwork for a presidential run."
GASP!
http://bit.ly/1nSeTTW
Posted by: mr_jack at March 10, 2015 01:52 AM (M59SC)
MAIN STREET -- A project of WORKING AMERICA -- Community Affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Yeah, there's a solid info source.... *rolls eyes* Still didn't see anything about the singing, though.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 02:00 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 02:01 AM (5pg79)
So far that is not in evidence. Come Jan 21st, 2017, we shall see what, if any, safeguards remain.
I'll have to stop there, lest my speculating be "mistaken" for advocating.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 02:02 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 10, 2015 01:56 AM (Gm0Ay
Yeah, after seeing all that cool p-38 and P-51 train strafing footage you would probably want to think twice about using a mode of transportation whose tracks leave a nice pre determined route that can be seen from space.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 02:04 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
The possibilities for Science Fiction are infinite!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:05 AM (XvsbD)
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German production even very late in the war was incredible. Even with the Allies dropping thousands of tons of bombs on the Fatherland every week, production under Albert Speer rose until late in 1944. I think the problem was with what they chose to produce. Undoubtedly, the Tiger was the best battle field tank of the war. The ME-262 was the best aircraft. They had just developed a submarine that was capable of 17 knots submerged and that was a game changer. The Germans had so many technological aces that had they deployed them earlier, when they could have, it would have given them the edge. But everything had to go through the Fuehrer. Adolph was the choke point. And he failed.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:06 AM (AxABj)
Teleportation would cut down on the number of pedestrians struck by automobiles. It would, however, lead to a drastic increase in the number of pedestrians fused with automobiles.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 02:09 AM (UVfht)
you would probably want to think twice about using a mode of
transportation whose tracks leave a nice pre determined route that can
be seen from space
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Yeah, and all those bushes driving down the road. Quite frankly, I wouldn't want to be a bush driving down a country road with all the Typhoons in the world flying around in the sky. They would probably think that a bush driving down the road would be suspicious.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:11 AM (AxABj)
Your facts I will rebut
Until your arguments resemble
A ludicrous kazoo ensemble.
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 02:12 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 02:12 AM (tBSrv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvMNLhJrb0
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 02:13 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 10, 2015 02:14 AM (5pg79)
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 02:15 AM (K4YiS)
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Nah. You're thinking the Philadelphia Experiment where they wind up part of the ship. Pfffft. I'm thinking I can get up the hill to the casinos, instead of an hour drive I could be up there in seconds. And if I come in as an F150, no problem.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:15 AM (AxABj)
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Not to mention the partisans blowing everything up every chance they got.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:17 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:15 AM (AxABj)
That was also a ST:TNG episode
Posted by: To boldy go where no hat has gone before... at March 10, 2015 02:18 AM (0Ew3K)
German production after Speer took over from Todt rose largely due to efficiencies and improvements intro'd by Speer (I think). Some have claimed that the rising production charts meant Allied bombing was ineffective, but I think that is baseless. Aside from the devastating impact of bombing on the transport network (noted by others), the bombing almost certainly prevented even *better* German numbers from being achieved.
It struck me, reading the last volume of Richard Evans' trilogy (Third Reich at War), that in the final two years of the war, the Allied bombing comes up constantly in connection with almost every development. And the book was general, not focused on logistics or industry per se.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:19 AM (afQnV)
of the ship. Pfffft. I'm thinking I can get up the hill to the casinos,
instead of an hour drive I could be up there in seconds. And if I come
in as an F150, no problem.
There is precedent: http://youtu.be/9kz3hfJweE0 (Yes, it's SFW. Annoying, but safe.)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 02:22 AM (UVfht)
And speaking of material aid to the USSR in the war, during that same few months I spent over there, I noted that the little trailers they used for the big tanks of "kvas", a summer beverage that was sold in parks and on street corners, were actually Willy's jeep trailers (I checked them out up close and saw the identifying marks, I believe).
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:23 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:26 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:19 AM
The bombing was crucial in ensuring that the Type XXI u-boat was not in full production in time to make a difference and the Type XXI was potentially the biggest game changer they had, more so than the ME-262. A relatively small number of those (compared to the number of 262's required to make an impact) could've altered things quite a bit.
Speer is a weird element in the production side of things. He was very good at what he did, but, at least in some critical developments, he acted as a brake on new designs that should have been built in higher numbers and/or earlier. Speer was obssessed with numbers and influenced Hitler to large degree in the same view.
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 02:28 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: rhomboid
I am a kvas-oholic, and occasionally will make a pilgrimage to the Russian and Ukrainian food markets in SF's Outer Richmond District, which carry various brands of Ukrainian kvas which are otherwise completely unavailable in the USA.
People think I'm crazy, but I just love that stuff! (I'm sure the home-brewed kvas can be pretty dodgy, but the professionally made and bottled stuff is safe and tasty!)
Posted by: zombie at March 10, 2015 02:28 AM (K4YiS)
Because, think about it. Hillary (or anyone else) would, fairly rationally, calculate that they can get away with literally anything, without consequences (even political costs).
I seriously don't recognize or even feel any connection to the civic culture that has emerged in under two decades.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:29 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:31 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:31 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:26 AM (AxABj)
It didn't win the war, but perhaps it won the peace.
Posted by: Hat waved by Col. Kong at March 10, 2015 02:33 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:29 AM (afQnV)
And that's the most dangerous thing to America possible. We are not a nation of ethnicity, or a nation of culture, but a nation of laws. When those laws no longer mean anything thanks to the decay of civics, nothing holds us together.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 10, 2015 02:35 AM (J+mig)
zombie - wow, didn't know kvas was bottled and sold. And it's beena few years, but I used to explore the Russian places out in the Richmond district.
Recall seeing amovie - damn, even remember it was the original Rush Hour! - at a theater in the Richmond. Friend's wife is Chinese-American. Lots of chatter in the theater during the flick. Friend's wife tried to translate the Cantonese she was hearing, while I did my best with the Russian-speaking guys in the back ..... friend was amused.
Kvas out of these huge tanks on jeep caissons was the only available drinkable drink (Soviet mineral water was nasty - very salty - years later I actually got down to the sources in Borjomi, Georgia, where I had the run of Stalin's dacha for an afternoon). Shared glasses, of course. Yikes! I'd skip lunch at the cafeteria (cabbage, bread, butter, bread, cabbage, butter, cabbage .... and this was summer time) and eat the mystery-meat pirozhiki from street vendors. Amazing I never got sick and didn't come away with giardia.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:37 AM (afQnV)
The car would be nice, but I could do without the factory equipped nagging.
G'night everyone!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 10, 2015 02:38 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:38 AM (AxABj)
Skimming through the comments after... *shortened* insomnia-stuff, I noticed this...
..."And, I'm going to Hell for both telling that story here and laughing about it for months after hearing it from my sister. BIL is an insufferable, pompous douchebag."
"I'll save y'all a seat at the Cool Kids table there."
-Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015
Somewhere in that is a Metal Tune about the "Cool Kids' Table in Hell."
John F. Kennedy would be there, right next to Woodrow Wilson and every other miscreant with a "D" burned into their Damned foreheads.
Maybe they'd discuss -The Right Way To Do Things- with Karl Marx and Adolph Hitler. Perhaps you'd see Margaret Sanger playing chess with Osama Bin Laden.
You could throw 'Muppets' creator Jim Henson in there for Comic Relief. You could play-act their anticipation of Neil Young, Cat Stevens and Barack Obama. You could describe the 'Activity Pit' for lawyers, KKK members and telemarketers.
...maybe not. I should be asleep.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 02:41 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: rhomboid
yeah. where's the trust?
Where's the continental trust.
We as Arrogant Westerners, have a sense or threshold of, hmm...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:42 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 02:44 AM (16bOT)
Cato - exactly, brother, exactly. America is an idea, a mindset, a way of doing things. Not lines on a map. But it requires Americans (mindset). Seems those are out-numbered by those who cavalierly and cluelessly degrade and vandalize the civic culture today, and the voters who keep electing them.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:45 AM (afQnV)
I missed Peaches and Merovign?!? %$#*!!!
Skimming through the comments after... *shortened* insomnia-stuff, I noticed this...
..."And, I'm going to Hell for both telling that story here and
laughing about it for months after hearing it from my sister. BIL is an
insufferable, pompous douchebag."
"I'll save y'all a seat at the Cool Kids table there."
-Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 09, 2015
Somewhere in that is a Metal Tune about the "Cool Kids' Table in Hell."
John F. Kennedy would be there, right next to Woodrow Wilson and
every other miscreant with a "D" burned into their Damned foreheads.
Maybe they'd discuss -The Right Way To Do Things- with Karl Marx and
Adolph Hitler. Perhaps you'd see Margaret Sanger playing chess with
Osama Bin Laden.
You could throw 'Muppets' creator Jim Henson in there for Comic
Relief. You could play-act their anticipation of Neil Young, Cat
Stevens and Barack Obama. You could describe the 'Activity Pit' for
lawyers, KKK members and telemarketers.
...maybe not. I should be asleep.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 02:41 AM (16bOT)
You should be asleep, experiencing the sweet repose of the Blessed.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 02:47 AM (T1005)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:47 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:38 AM
Yes, production was delayed. Partly due to faffing around with it's role and partly due to turbine problems. Whatever the case, the ME-262, as brilliant as it was, had no real hope of impacting the air war... short of being produced in MASSIVE numbers, which the Germans could not have managed anyway. It was a fantastic and effective fighter, but, it wasn't ALL that much better at what counted most, shooting down heavy bombers. The FW-190 was much better equipped to do that than the ME-262. It's real value lay in fighter vs fighter and the numbers needed to acheive fighter superiority was beyond them, even as early as 1943. Don't forget, that as good as it was, it wasn't 1 vs 10 good.
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 02:47 AM (tBSrv)
765 Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:26 AM (AxABj)
Although strategic bombing did not shorten or end the war, it certainly messed them up.
If you look at German armament production numbers, mostly tank and aircraft, and then do a bit of extrapolation to remove the disruption caused by strategic bombing, the Germans have far more in 1943, 1944 and 1945. WW2 would have been much longer and bloodier. The Soviets might have been held to a stalemate post-Kursk. An atomic bomb or two would have likely been necessary. The end might have been in '46 or '47.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 10, 2015 02:47 AM (FlRtG)
Thanks for all the fun here. I'm off to bed w/ the wife and the new puppy.
Be well all.
T
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2015 12:32 AM (o/90i)
Kinky!
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at March 10, 2015 12:47 AM
You sir/madam are a very sick individual.
Nice to see you here.
The new pup, Kahlua, is sleeping well. I hope you do too.
Posted by: Farmer at March 10, 2015 02:49 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: rhomboid
Not worth it really.
US V. EU
http://youtu.be/ag-G8yDfsjk
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:49 AM (XvsbD)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:50 AM (AxABj)
And imagine the conversations in Tokyo. Actually probably wouldn't have changed much, Hiroshima still would have been needed. Japanese Army was convinced it could slog on, and make Olympic so painful that unconditional surrender could be avoided.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:53 AM (afQnV)
Why? Rail lines are busted. Cant travel at day due to Allied Tac Air. Bridges are out and you have to wait for Engineers to repair or find barges to floa across on.
Tanks are sitting at the factory because there is no transport to front lines. Tanks are sitting on the assembly line because the rail that carries the engines to the factory have been bombed out.
ETC ETC
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 10, 2015 02:54 AM (C8x6r)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:55 AM (afQnV)
You seem angry. Like obscenely angry.
What gives, amigo?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:56 AM (XvsbD)
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That basically was the plan. The Japanese still had a huge number of soldiers under arms, that if they could have brought them back to the home islands could have been huge. They had every beach zeroed in with artillery and they had every man woman and child ready to give their life to the Emperor. It was estimated that US casualties would number over one million and Japanese casualties would have been at least double that.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:58 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:37 AM
He was an excellent manager, but, he didn't have a clue about what he was making and had much more influence with Hitler than just about everybody else when it came to production. Speer fell into the trap of high numbers at the expense of everything else, so old relatively surpassed (if not outright obsolete) designs were favoured instead of shutting down factories and converting them to the new weapons. Hitler ended up in a sort of schizo back and forth over these things, one day demanding the new designs be mass produced pronto, then the next, allowing Speer to delay things so production would not be interrupted. Speer was also a huge fan of the M4 Sherman and wanted that sort of tank... but with things the way they were, Germany could never produce those sorts of numbers and they really needed tanks that were much better than the allies... there's no point producing 100 "Shermans", or even Mk 1V's, instead of 60 Tigers or Panthers. Trained tank crews were in short supply, they would have been fodder anyway. etc etc...
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 03:00 AM (tBSrv)
And imagine the conversations in Tokyo. Actually probably wouldn't have changed much, Hiroshima still would have been needed. Japanese Army was convinced it could slog on, and make Olympic so painful that unconditional surrender could be avoided.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 10, 2015 02:53 AM (afQnV)
Read an interesting Alt. History where Halifax becomes PM instead of Churchill and the Germans do better in the East. Basically there is a de facto armistice in the West and Stalin is killed in a bombing raid (thus fracturing the Soviets and allowing Germany to take everything up to the urals).
Well, the Americans are able to convince the Germans that nuclear bombs are "Jewish science" which means Japan ends up total "Operation Downfall"... which resulted in Japan being kept in a nearly pre-historic level of technology.
The war flares back-up in the 1950's with a pathetic long range hit on New York. The allies refrain from WMDs until Germany launches poison gas attacks on Britain... which manage to kill the Queens children.
Germany isn't only nuked, but a couple of cities are laced with anthrax.
War ends after a couple years of fighting, northern France petitions to join the UK as "Normandy", and the US/UK/ANZAC (but not India) exlude everyone else from space and build a giant mass driver which they use against a rioting Germans city with the force of an a-bomb.
Interesting read.
Posted by: The Alternate Hat at March 10, 2015 03:04 AM (0Ew3K)
-Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 02:47 AM (T1005)
My call went straight to Voice-Mail.
*squints*
I've jumped in during a discussion of the complex alliances, facets and diversions of National Socialism, Communism, Naziism, anarchy and their nearly sole connection to The Left.
I have not the energy, nor the gumption to delve into such intricacies. As an aside, I'd rather watch the debate and learn something because I don't know what I don't know.
(That is a Lost Art at times. Saying "I don't know" can be a scoff-worthy endeavor when amongst those who believe so much that just is not so.)
I actually enjoy being corrected when my facts aren't straight. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Cite sources and treat others as you would have them treat you.
...except Trolls.
-Beat them about the head and neck with the bludgeoning object you have on-hand. Personally, I prefer a 36", 30oz Louisville Slugger. YMMV.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:05 AM (16bOT)
I see that Slap is here - did anyone mention that my Sis could use one of his wonderful prayers?
Ok. Confirmed.
I'm fucking drunk...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2015 03:05 AM (OmYAr)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 02:58 AM (AxABj)
That is why we are still using to this day Purple Hearts intended for expected casualties from the Japanese invasion.
Posted by: The Striking Hat at March 10, 2015 03:07 AM (0Ew3K)
What gives, amigo?
------
Like I said earlier, normally I enjoy your commentary. For some odd reason or another, you want to call me a communist, or a fascist or a troll. I'm not really sure why. I've commented here before and never had the invective that you've thrown at me tonight. If you want to be a dick, fine, be a dick. I'm not sure if you've had too much to drink and you just want to pick a fight, or what. I don't care. Right now you're being the typical keyboard warrior, just like a monkey throwing crap. You'd be doing great over on Kos right now. You'd fit right in.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:09 AM (AxABj)
Weft cut, why don't you just fuck off and die? You're being an absolute asshole tonight. Posted by: Old Blue
You seem angry. Like obscenely angry.
What gives, amigo?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2015 02:56 AM (XvsbD)
Not that I have a dog in this fight, AT ALL -- but the symptoms would seem to indicate that you are tossing around terms as teases or polite insults that Old Blue would take as existential threats and/or insults against personal experience.....the sort of thing where you might label someone a "communist" because they'd lived on a commune, where they had actually lost large swathes of their family to Communism and "kill all the motherfucking Communists" is built into their DNA.
Again, this is a surface observation and not a thorough analysis.
But it would be best for both sides to remember the "Comity of Moronhood" rules and try to avoid escalation into banhammering -- 'cause, after all, it's generally better to eat a little crow than have a bannination shoved down your throat. Not that I have my finger on a banhammer or all that.....just have been observing for a while.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:09 AM (T1005)
Your BIL needs a biopsy or something? I had to speed-read the ONT, (over an hour), and I am surprised that I even checked-in.
(I've been running baseball numbers since 4:00 am yesterday morning.)
What is the situation, Sir?
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:10 AM (16bOT)
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The US built huge medical facilities on Saipan for the expected number of casualties. Fortunately, they were never needed. The US troops scheduled to go ashore in Japan were grateful for the bomb.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:14 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:14 AM (16bOT)
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Thank you. I shall refrain from responding to any further insults from weft.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:18 AM (AxABj)
FW-190 and the ME 262:
Wiki lists several variants of each AC ... Bottom line, the 262, with typically 4 30mm low-velocity cannon (but with excellent high explosive projectiles) has a much greater chance of knocking down any bomber than just about any FW-190 variant ... and the 262 is about 150 mph faster, so yes, it could have been a game changer as late as Summer 1944.
The new U-boats could also have been game changers, but they were much too late.
rhomboid: Offing Berlin ... I think that if the Normandy breakout had failed, and France was still a battlefield in August '45, and the Soviets were stalled in Poland, then Berlin would have been targeted. But had the Rhine been crossed, even as late as July, there would have no longer been a need.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 10, 2015 03:20 AM (FlRtG)
Might despair within her soul be comforted by His love, as those around her show hope and light within the unknown darkness.
I ask of Thee, Oh Lord. Grant that our joy through our small family be buoyant of her spirit.
Might our prayers find this gentleman well in body, mind and spirit.
In Jesus' Name, I Pray...
*amen*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:25 AM (16bOT)
You know, that got me thinking. I don't think there was ever such a song. There might have been a few that might be close. Not sure they ever had a genuine breakfast club in hell for metal heads though. Valhalla yes, but not hell. Hell's afraid we'll take over. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 03:27 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:29 AM (AxABj)
Exactly. There's a lot of fun to be had with that tile alone. My head went into overdrive when I saw it.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:30 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:30 AM (16bOT)
-Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 03:27 AM (FMbng)
Oh, shit. I hadn't even considered that angle! *HAH!*
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:32 AM (16bOT)
-Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2015 03:05 AM (OmYAr)
Your BIL needs a biopsy or something? I had to speed-read the ONT, (over an hour), and I am surprised that I even checked-in.
(I've been running baseball numbers since 4:00 am yesterday morning.)
What is the situation, Sir?
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:10 AM (16bOT)
Chi's BiL has a tumor on his pelvis that they caught fairly early on. Unfortunately, (a) a pelvis is not something you want to do without, and (b) bones don't generally develop cancers spontaneously, it's more usual for them to get it from somewhere else....and there's no guarantee that the somewhere else is "fairly early on" since it's obviously malignant and spreading.
Which leaves us with a great deal of uncertainty and concern. In addition, the BiL has a new grandson that I have seen pictures of Chi holding.
This news has, as you might well imagine, ripped through Chi's family.
While it would be facile to pray that this is minor and a little Dremel-work on the pelvis might take care of everything, a more reasonable expectation is that things are at the beginning of a journey -- and there will be triumphs and setbacks, horrors and joy, relief and despair.....with an end that will be clear only well after arrival.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:33 AM (T1005)
Maybe I can email you?
Yeah, not good news, but we're hoping for the best.
The collective prayers of the Horde have been amazing, but yours in particular has been missed.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2015 03:34 AM (OmYAr)
Posted by: otho at March 10, 2015 03:34 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:09 AM (T1005)
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Thank you. I shall refrain from responding to any further insults from weft.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:18 AM (AxABj)
You're quite welcome. I feel like you've been puttin' me some knowledge over the course of the thread, and I appreciate it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:35 AM (T1005)
All are souls that Satan devours.
Unstable, disabled
JFK is at the same table.
You never get over the wretched smell.
Sitting at the Cool Kids' Table in Hell.
*meh*
Did I mention that I haven't slept?
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:39 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:32 AM (16bOT)
Hell-hound, hot leather on your legs
that smoking powder keg
you're riding on is hell-bound
and you're the one they claim
its going down on flames
you're riding hades rails
\mm/ \mm/
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 03:39 AM (FMbng)
Huffinton Post implies, via a Iranian diplomat, that future administrations are bound to negotiations of the Obama administration due to "international law"?
http://huff.to/1E7ZsLL
Any bets that Obama will go after Cotton?
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 03:40 AM (0Ew3K)
Thank you for filling me in. I was caught unawares.
-Posted by: shredded chi at March 10, 2015 03:34 AM (OmYAr)
I would not mind at all, but I may slump in my chair soon.
Thank you for the kind words about my meager efforts for comfort. May they suffice in lieu of a Professional.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 03:45 AM (16bOT)
BTW, Huffington Post is basically accusing Sen. Tom Cotton of treason and other are saying he violated the Logan Act.
Huffinton Post implies, via a Iranian diplomat, that future
administrations are bound to negotiations of the Obama administration
due to "international law"?
http://huff.to/1E7ZsLL
Any bets that Obama will go after Cotton?
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 03:40 AM (0Ew3K)
He's already going after Clinton and Menendez, why not?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:47 AM (T1005)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 03:40 AM (0Ew3K)
Like I said in an earlier thread. Obama can go fuck himself. When he was running for president and wasn't even elected yet he was flying all over the planet on his bullshit fake airforce one sticking his fucking face in all of Bush's foreign affairs, including trying to cut deals with the Iraqis. Fuck him.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 03:50 AM (FMbng)
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Thank you as well for being a calm voice of reason. Prayer for Chi's BiL. I had a good friend at work and we had both been there for many years, both with the same insurance and everything. I was two months older than him. Every year I go and have my doctor do the manual prostate exam. He didn't. Last year he told me that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and it had metastasized into his bones. I was so angry with him for not getting checked. It was a free test. I checked with him just before I retired, and he is responding well to chemo and radiation. I wished him well and I hope for as many years as he can gather.
We all do the best that we can do. I'm hoping that shredded chi's BiL has many many more years to live and it is something that a little Dremel work can fix and that he has a lifetime to live with his grandson.
God bless the family. Here's hoping he lives to see his grandson graduate college.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:50 AM (AxABj)
administrations are bound to negotiations of the Obama administration
due to "international law"?
--------
If the JEF pulls this off, it will have the same force of law that Clinton's "agreement" with the Ukraine will have. In other words, it ain't worth the piece of paper it's written on.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:54 AM (AxABj)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 03:35 AM (T1005)
--------
Thank
you as well for being a calm voice of reason. Prayer for Chi's BiL. I
had a good friend at work and we had both been there for many years,
both with the same insurance and everything. I was two months older than
him. Every year I go and have my doctor do the manual prostate exam. He
didn't. Last year he told me that he had been diagnosed with prostate
cancer and it had metastasized into his bones. I was so angry with him
for not getting checked. It was a free test. I checked with him just
before I retired, and he is responding well to chemo and radiation. I
wished him well and I hope for as many years as he can gather.
We
all do the best that we can do. I'm hoping that shredded chi's BiL has
many many more years to live and it is something that a little Dremel
work can fix and that he has a lifetime to live with his grandson.
God bless the family. Here's hoping he lives to see his grandson graduate college.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 10, 2015 03:50 AM (AxABj)
Amen.
I did some research, and if it has spread to the bone, it's generally from the prostate, lungs, thyroid, or kidneys. Rapidly tracing it back to the source and assessing it there will be key -- and it can only help that half of these have 100% redundancy while the other half have reasonable workarounds if lost. There is much to hope for, much to pray for.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:02 AM (T1005)
Go to sleep, troubled Morons.....
Lay you down now, and rest,
May your slumber be blessed!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:09 AM (T1005)
He's a Character. A well-read, provocative Character!
The best way to deal with him is to act as if he is a Bull. Hold out your cape and let him charge. Say something funny and let him run through the red cape.
He rarely charges twice, but when he does, he's not as aggressive.
Horde Rule: Sometimes, even "Slapweasel" is drunk. He charges and bites your ankle, avoiding the cape. Your best course of action is Not to Respond.
"Witty" is the dispersal of many a charging Bull. Avoidance is the black hole for misdirected or sudden aggression.
Weft is, indeed, a valued member of the Horde. I love the guy. He's "got a way about him" and I don't give a shit if he ever changes.
If he did? It wouldn't be the same around here.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 04:10 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:12 AM (T1005)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 04:16 AM (16bOT)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 04:16 AM (16bOT)
I just go with it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 10, 2015 04:18 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 04:18 AM (16bOT)
"SHOO!!!"
-Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:12 AM (T1005)
You misunderstand insomnia.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 10, 2015 04:16 AM (16bOT)
I understand it fine.
Rock-a-bye, and goodnight,
Go to sleep, troubled Morons.....
Lay you down now, and rest,
May your slumber be blessed!
....or, if you insist on the "Greatest Hits" version of Cthulhu Sings....
I sang this a capella to Rum while driving her through San Francisco -- http://tinyurl.com/neamw4d .
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:36 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)
Speaking of which, here's an example of the subversive and libertine
music I listened to when I was very young (being from an album released
four years before my birth) -- http://tinyurl.com/la7z7f8
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)
====perhaps we should scurry away in horror before you pollute us further.
Posted by: jc at March 10, 2015 04:47 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:50 AM (T1005)
830
Speaking of which, here's an example of the subversive and libertine
music I listened to when I was very young (being from an album released
four years before my birth) -- http://tinyurl.com/la7z7f8
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)
====perhaps we should scurry away in horror before you pollute us further.
Posted by: jc at March 10, 2015 04:47 AM (iRJ+A)
Well, y'know -- could be worse.....could involve moose.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:51 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:51 AM (T1005)
====and that means ....... jerky. which really is worth it all in all.
Posted by: jc at March 10, 2015 04:57 AM (iRJ+A)
Posted by: NativeNH at March 10, 2015 05:05 AM (u0C8U)
Well, y'know -- could be worse.....could involve moose.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 04:51 AM (T1005)
====and that means ....... jerky. which really is worth it all in all.
Posted by: jc at March 10, 2015 04:57 AM (iRJ+A)
Trying to cross-index mousse and jerkin' got me here -- http://tinyurl.com/m3auyuo -- but I'm not sure if I may have gone astray....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:08 AM (T1005)
-- http://tinyurl.com/m3auyuo -- but I'm not sure if I may have gone
astray....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:08 AM (T1005)
===might have made more sense with a hair band, but nobody should be subjected to any of that again.
Posted by: jc at March 10, 2015 05:26 AM (iRJ+A)
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Political hat, can you give me the title and author of this alternate history?
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 10, 2015 05:37 AM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 10, 2015 05:42 AM (lG2E3)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:42 AM (T1005)
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Political hat, can you give me the title and author of this alternate history?
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 10, 2015 05:37 AM (KH1sk)
It was the "Anglo/American - Nazi War" by CalBear origionally on the alternatehistory forums.
I don't have the links to the original forums, but a link to the collected text can be found here:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/258236548/The-Anglo-American-Nazi-War
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 05:48 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:42 AM (T1005)
That band = hipster, according to Glove & Boots
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 05:50 AM (0Ew3K)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 05:51 AM (0Ew3K)
OK, something a little more likely to get a grin -- http://tinyurl.com/ny6elxr
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:42 AM (T1005)
That band = hipster, according to Glove Boots
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 05:50 AM (0Ew3K)
I found 'em through Insty a couple of years back. I wouldn't look to them to discuss Constitutional law.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:55 AM (T1005)
And alas, so must I, so I'll read it tonight.
Go forth with a song in your heart and a shiv in your boot, Gentlefappers!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 10, 2015 05:59 AM (KH1sk)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 06:01 AM (T1005)
That is a powerful message in that poem by Kipling. Beware, I suppose, is the best take-away. Or maybe it is saying "act like Han!".
Posted by: goon at March 10, 2015 06:01 AM (gNTQS)
Posted by: goon at March 10, 2015 06:08 AM (gNTQS)
Posted by: Adam-Zad Obama at March 10, 2015 06:14 AM (rQe9y)
(p.s. I have never understood why F*ck'em never throws an error in my spell checker. Life is strange, but giving money to people that hate our guts is even stranger!)
Posted by: goon at March 10, 2015 06:16 AM (gNTQS)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 10, 2015 05:55 AM (T1005)
Sadly, I would respect them far more reagrding "law" than some "international law" student who insists that the shenanigans of a President must be respected by all future adminstrations!
For example, my discussion between myself and https://twitter.com/CEs_Mustache
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 10, 2015 06:16 AM (0Ew3K)
Huffinton Post implies, via a Iranian diplomat, that future
administrations are bound to negotiations of the Obama administration
due to "international law"?
Yes, just look at the precedent of the League of Nations which has been in force since... oh wait...
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World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)