Early Morning Thread 4/18/15: Got the wings of Heaven on my shoes edition [krakatoa]

Surviving another mass layoff is better than the alternative.

I think.

TFG's economy just gives and gives.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:14 AM

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1 Time machine-ON

Posted by: Alf767 at April 18, 2015 06:03 AM (VtSj9)

2

DAY 892

571 to go (644 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microagressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:04 AM (St6BJ)

3 Well I'm just sitting here like a dumbass while the wife shoots the shit with the nurses. Relegated to ice chip duty...thankfully they have plenty of coffee.

Almost as helpful as the wife's epidural.

Posted by: H badger at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (Gv3Tw)

4
There is another "M" I can add to the list, and he inhabits this very blog.

Should I do's it?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (St6BJ)

5 3 Posted by: H badger at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (Gv3Tw)

In the immortal words of Paul Anka, are you having your baby?????

I hope you at least get a shirt out of the deal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:06 AM (St6BJ)

6 Almost as helpful as the wife's epidural.
Posted by: H badger at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (Gv3Tw)
________________________

Good luck, Hb. Hope everything goes well for you and Mrs. Hb.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 18, 2015 06:19 AM (lmdHn)

7 The media's been covering up a borderline depression for 6.25 years now...

you have to figure they'll keep on doing so if the Wicked Witch gets elected.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:20 AM (/4AZU)

8 Epidurals are a blast H Badger...

she'll be done in no time.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:21 AM (/4AZU)

9 Fellow soldiers dropping like flies around you, eh?

All the while you're waiting for the bullet (or in this case, pink slip) that turns you into a casualty or a corpse.

Do they still have pink slips?

I've never got one. It's usually "get your ass outta here".

Mostly I've left before the axe fell. I saw that thing coming a mile away usually.

Mass firings are very bad for a company. Better to do layoffs or buyouts. But some places don't have the cash so . . .

So. Other than that How's it goin'?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:25 AM (zRby/)

10 4
There is another "M" I can add to the list, and he inhabits this very blog.

Should I do's it?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (St6BJ)

Not moi!

Posted by: m at April 18, 2015 06:25 AM (WIUGG)

11 4 There is another "M" I can add to the list, and he inhabits this very blog.

Wouldn't that just reward the attention-seeking?

Posted by: m at April 18, 2015 06:26 AM (WIUGG)

12 10 Not moi!
Posted by: m at April 18, 2015 06:25 AM (WIUGG)

Nope. Unless you're the bastard who recorded "Pop Music" back in '79.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:27 AM (St6BJ)

13 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM (St6BJ)

Go ahead, he's sleeping the sleep of the undeserving and totally clueless.
(I'm assuming it's iterative noun concerning our bovine food sources?)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:27 AM (zRby/)

14 11 4 There is another "M" I can add to the list, and he inhabits this very blog.

Wouldn't that just reward the attention-seeking?
Posted by: m at April 18, 2015 06:26 AM (WIUGG)

Like Obama, he doesn't seem to get out of bed much before a boat 1:30-2:00 in the afternoon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:28 AM (St6BJ)

15 13 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:27 AM (zRby/)

"Very good, Fisher! You win a cookie."

- - Crap Game.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:28 AM (St6BJ)

16 OH. You're referring to someone quite different that what I presumed.

Go ahead. You know you want to.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:29 AM (zRby/)

17 About to load into the van for a 3.5 hour drive to do my first college broadcast. Been looking forward to this for a long time, now just have to be sure I don't screw it up. Which I won't, just have to say it to ward off the jinx. Been watching some old matches on Youtube, Rugby's not a hard sport to call, not a lot of inside lingo. Well, wish me luck, I've got 3.5 hours to sit and stew about it now.

Posted by: LincolnTf at April 18, 2015 06:30 AM (2cS/G)

18
Yeah, but then again, why give him the fame he so richly does NOT warrant. He's merely a passive aggressive concern-trolling irritant.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:31 AM (St6BJ)

19 Say his name 3 times and he's liable to appear.

That's pretty common with most ghouls, banshees, vampires, troglodytes and other assorted orcs and trolls.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:31 AM (zRby/)

20 You get a cookie and YOU get a cookie and YOU get a cookie...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:31 AM (/4AZU)

21 17 Posted by: LincolnTf at April 18, 2015 06:30 AM (2cS/G)

Play it safe. Use your seatbelt after you get liquored up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:31 AM (St6BJ)

22 He's like a really rank fart in an elevator.

Everyone knows who did it but they're all too polite to say anything about it. Everyone just hopes to get off the elevator before another one gets dropped and that he's not getting off on your floor.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:32 AM (zRby/)

23 Hello, morning.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 18, 2015 06:32 AM (hNvdN)

24
I really hate that son of a bitch if for no other reason than his nic is what I call one of cats.

Prick.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:33 AM (St6BJ)

25 So who's the pop singer?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:33 AM (zRby/)

26 OH. HIM.

Hey bumblegum is nice now and then.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:35 AM (zRby/)

27 9 Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:25 AM (zRby/)

I'm pretty sure after Mocha Jesus unilaterally commits to Al Gore's wet dream in Paris later this year we'll have even BIGGER economic doldrums by 2018.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:36 AM (/4AZU)

28 I try to substitute "bovine excrement" for his name whenever I see it.

I usually just slide by any of his comments as they're either full of snark, snide or shit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:36 AM (zRby/)

29 You're assuming he has a Mother.

Supposition is not supported by the evidence.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:38 AM (zRby/)

30 You know the saying, "do not feed ...", and it's pretty clear he's deliberately obtuse, just to get a rise out of people.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 18, 2015 06:38 AM (XrHO0)

31 What? Am I talking to myself here?

(not that that's so unusual but I try not to do it in public.)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:38 AM (zRby/)

32 Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 18, 2015 06:38 AM (XrHO0)

Sometimes you just have to swat the gnat no matter what.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:39 AM (zRby/)

33 Morning already!

What fresh hell will this day bring?

Posted by: Kreplach at April 18, 2015 06:39 AM (D9OaR)

34
Naw, 'You are not alone'

Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at April 18, 2015 06:41 AM (qry2M)

35 Oom Oom is even more off the chain?

Man miss a few months miss a lot.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:41 AM (/4AZU)

36 Here, just reading along... since I can.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 06:42 AM (7UCSd)

37
Mister cow seems to be having multiple nipple infections.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at April 18, 2015 06:44 AM (qry2M)

38 25 So who's the pop singer?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at April 18, 2015 06:33 AM (zRby/)

"Pop Music" M 1979

Big crossover/"new wave" hit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:45 AM (St6BJ)

39 The library must open later in Yector's rest stop...

I notice he seldom graces us on the weekend EMTs.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:47 AM (/4AZU)

40 Morning all. (I learned a while back not to preface with good)

JJ. Might be best to keep the EMT's MooMoo doo-doo free.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 18, 2015 06:48 AM (iVjJr)

41 39 The library must open later in Yector's rest stop...

I notice he seldom graces us on the weekend EMTs.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 06:47 AM (/4AZU)

50 quadrillion porn sites but he/it has to come here. Oh well, maybe I shouldn't have said anything because even when he's not here we're getting all moo-moo'd up.

Day-ay-nu! Genucht mit der momzer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:49 AM (St6BJ)

42 Snarky. V. snarky on trolls * their just rewards.

Posted by: Doan' Taze Me Bro at April 18, 2015 06:49 AM (aXCDY)

43 New York, London, Paris, Munich everybody talk about mm pop music, talk about

That one?
And you're welcome for the earworm.
If I could do links I'd drop something like, oh, Two Lane Highway on ya to help you be rid of it.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 06:50 AM (7UCSd)

44 43 Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 06:50 AM (7UCSd)

That's the one. I think I still have my package of Chew Bops with that album and Get the Knack.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:51 AM (St6BJ)

45
Mercifully, my stomach pain seems to have subsided and I actually braved a half cup of coffee this morning. It had the desired laxative effect.

So of course tonight I think I will make some sort of braised lamb stew.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 06:53 AM (St6BJ)

46
Good morning troops

Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at April 18, 2015 06:55 AM (qry2M)

47 ...aand goodnight.

Posted by: Ira Weatheral, man of few words at April 18, 2015 06:56 AM (qry2M)

48 Wait, you're admitting to buying the album?
Hope none of the metal heads around. I mean, I understand appreciating a wide variety of tunes, big bands to Zeppelin, Carole King to Motown to Hank Sr but..

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 06:57 AM (7UCSd)

49 He's still attached to the milker.....twice a day isn't it?

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2015 06:57 AM (j7iSn)

50 "Outrunning cheetahs"

An "Our Daily Bread" devotional.

http://odb.org

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:00 AM (DXzRD)

51 ...are around.
Aw hell you all knew what my finger meant.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 07:01 AM (7UCSd)

52 'morning all.

Posted by: seamrog'morning at April 18, 2015 07:02 AM (LOpzC)

53 So, FenelonSpouse-my better half-works in grocery store in the produce section. So I always ask when spouse comes home," How was work today? "Yesterday was exciting. They opened up a crate of limes (from Mexico) and there was a huge hairy spider with an egg sac. Somebody said it was a wolf spider, but nobody was sure. Because it was in the refrigerated section it was torpid and they trapped it under something. They have to call someone in the State Dept of something to check it out. So lots of people were coming over to the produce dept to look at the spider except for one of FenelonSpouses co-workers who was freaking .
out. We live in an old house. It would not be a good place to live if you had any fear of spiders and I really don't mostly, but big hairy ones-no, I don't think I would have wanted to find that. The kid who did is, I think, on the autism spectrum and seems pretty unflappable about things-just works very very hard and doesn't have a lot to say.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:08 AM (DXzRD)

54 Posted by: LincolnTf at April 18, 2015 06:30 AM (2cS/G)

Good luck. Don't stew. I don't think a Lincoln stew would be very tasty ;^) and have a good time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:11 AM (DXzRD)

55 just works very very hard and doesn't have a lot to say.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:08 AM (DXzRD)

******

Doesn't sound like he has much of a future in politics.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 18, 2015 07:13 AM (cIoI4)

56 49
He's still attached to the milker.....twice a day isn't it?

Posted by: BignJames at April 18, 2015 06:57 AM (j7iSn)

Bob Dole does not think its a milker he gets attached to!

Posted by: Bob Dole at April 18, 2015 07:15 AM (vntmB)

57 Watching the radar. If it looks like I can get in an hour or so gonna see if the crappie are making any feeding runs into the bank.
Will have to decide if crappie only or have a pole out for blue cats too. Different spots you see.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 07:17 AM (7UCSd)

58 The day might bring us some hell-but I won't know about if I mostly not here. ;^) What is has brought me so far is a lovely sunrise, a woman jogging followed about a quarter of a while back by some adorable shepherd type dog running who looked like he was having the time of his life and some Latino guy in the Wawa-(equivalent to 7/11 if you don't have that where you are) who was wearing a large cross and I had a nice conversation with him. His English needed work but when I said the persecution of Christians will be getting worse, so I admire your courage in wearing a cross he said, "I don't care; I am who I am" So, not a bad start to the day at all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:17 AM (DXzRD)

59
Black Scientist: Push to Colonize Mars is Racist

Dr. Danielle N. Lee*, who writes for the Scientific American blog network and calls herself "the Urban Scientist" believes that the push to visit Mars and eventually inhabit it is "white colonialism."

http://tinyurl.com/mg9ueh2

*https://about.me/DNLee

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:18 AM (kdS6q)

60 Doesn't sound like he has much of a future in politics.

LOL. Good point. However, "silent" Calvin Coolidge: seemed to do alright for himself but I don't know how he's fair as a candidate today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:19 AM (DXzRD)

61 59 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:18 AM (kdS6q)

Guilty as charged... I do want to get the fuck away from people like her.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 07:20 AM (/4AZU)

62 So the Russians put a jet engine on a tractor to clear FOD off their carrier decks? When I was at Halliburton, talked to this guy who worked for the oil well firefighting division once, who talked about a job he had in Russia. Seems the Russians did something similar there. Had a jet engine mounted on the body of a tank, in place of a turret and gun. The tank would roll up to the burning oil well and they'd try to put it out with the jet engine's exhaust. Apparently it did help.

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - SMOD is inbound at April 18, 2015 07:21 AM (yTMXB)

63 Oh, and glad you weren't laid off, Krkato. FenelonSpouse was laid off during Obama's first reign and hasn't been able to get a job of the same type at same level.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:21 AM (DXzRD)

64 59: Wait till she finds out the JOOOOOSSSS are funding it.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at April 18, 2015 07:22 AM (VQYzU)

65
Okay, fellow rape-shifters. It's a beautiful day here in HymieTown.

Later. Keep it IS-real.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 18, 2015 07:26 AM (St6BJ)

66 I think that is Pop Musik with a k.

Posted by: Scanner Dan at April 18, 2015 07:28 AM (SBnDO)

67 61 59 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:18 AM (kdS6q)

Guilty as charged... I do want to get the fuck away from people like her.
Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 07:20 AM (/4AZU)

I'm sure a Mars colony based on affirmative action will work out wonderfully.

Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2015 07:29 AM (sdi6R)

68 I hope martin dempsy rots in someplace hotter than Hell.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 18, 2015 07:32 AM (vMibM)

69 Rain gonna get here too soon to get minnows at 7, get to spot for crappie.
Blue cat cut bait in fridge though so...
Would like to get a 5 pounder or so but all I seem to catch are 20+ Pounders and don't feel like cleaning one of those this morning.
Fun to wrestle with though.
Love each other fellow babies.

Posted by: teej at April 18, 2015 07:32 AM (7UCSd)

70 67 Rickl,

I think a buy in/indentured servitude model would work...

I'd sign away 15 years happily to get away from Pbama/Sharpton/Jackson.

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 07:34 AM (sJ55D)

71 Morning all. Just heard Carly Fiorina say on Fox that she will announce her presidential candidacy late April or early May.

She did get some great knocks in Hillary.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 07:34 AM (3eZI/)

72 Good luck teej!
I love catching and eating catfish. They give the pole a good bend and when washed and cleaned properly, taste fantastic.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at April 18, 2015 07:35 AM (i7JE3)

73
M-A-R-S, Mars bitches.

Red rocks!

https://youtu.be/N-NkX86uPI0

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:35 AM (kdS6q)

74 62 Oort Cloud,

Yeah they used Mig-21 engines...

Ivan America together can skin any cat imho...

Pity donks are too weak to earn respect enough to make an alliance work.

Posted by: The Smiling Bandit@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 07:37 AM (sJ55D)

75 Guilty as charged... I do want to get the fuck away from people like her.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 07:20 AM (/4AZU)

************

We must curb white flight to Mars. Those inner city FSAs aren't going to fund themselves.

Posted by: Dr. Danielle N Lee at April 18, 2015 07:37 AM (cIoI4)

76 No way Fiorina gets the nomination but wish that whomever does and wins the election hires her or someone like her as the White House spokesman.

She at least has the balls to tell Hillary to f&$% off.

That's what we need more of.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 18, 2015 07:37 AM (1jJbj)

77 I managed to make it through the whole winter without getting sick once. Then I came down with something on Thursday night. Yesterday I had chills, aches and pains, lightheadedness, and a ringing in my ears. Last night I had no energy, couldn't stop yawning, and went to bed by 10:30.

I got up at 6:30 this morning. The other symptoms have lessened, but I still have no energy. Also I keep throwing my back out when I sneeze.

Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2015 07:37 AM (sdi6R)

78 I haven't gone fishing in a while -Spouse who likes to fish too works on Saturday. I have church stuff on Sunday and I can never seen to get out there dying the week. Sounds great, teej. Enjoy yourself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:39 AM (DXzRD)

79 Apologies to all for disturbing the decorum here... but Breitbart is calling this from Senator Bambi a 'shocker':
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pdlvzzg
Not to me. Senator Bambi seems like a nice man, and that may be his problem. (So often, people mistake public figures who are rational and Catholic for conservatives. You need just a little more than Faith and Reason to be a conservative. A mag-fed weapon, for example....) He wouldn't get my vote except in extremis.

Posted by: Outarange Guy at April 18, 2015 07:39 AM (GJWxV)

80 Sorry that you're not feeling well, RickL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:40 AM (DXzRD)

81 Who is Senator Bambi?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:40 AM (DXzRD)

82 Mmmm, fried catfish. I haven't had it in decades. The best I ever had was in Biloxi, Ms. (Keesler AFB if you would believe).

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at April 18, 2015 07:41 AM (VQYzU)

83 Greetings, pixel people.

Do they deliver fresh hell on the weekends? I hope not.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 18, 2015 07:42 AM (0HooB)

84 They don't deliver it if one doesn't go on the internet, look at the papers or TV unless it's some fresh hell that is unrelated to politics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:44 AM (DXzRD)

85 71
Morning all. Just heard Carly Fiorina say on Fox that she will announce her presidential candidacy late April or early May.

She did get some great knocks in Hillary.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 07:34 AM (3eZI/)

************
As a throwaway attack dog against Hillary!, fine, but I don't want Fiorina near the vice presidency or a cabinet position, let alone the Oval Office. Make her ambassador to Malta or something.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 07:44 AM (yxw0r)

86 81
Who is Senator Bambi?

Rubio.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 07:44 AM (3eZI/)

87 Testicles! Get your testicles here!

Posted by: Entrepreneur in DC, seeing a need at April 18, 2015 07:45 AM (MYPM9)

88 Rubio hasn't learned anything. He's done. Next!

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at April 18, 2015 07:47 AM (1jJbj)

89 He wouldn't get my vote except in extremis.

If it comes down to him or teh Hildabeast, I'll vote for him.

I guess.

If I have to.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 18, 2015 07:47 AM (0HooB)

90 A "Reverend Fun" cartoon:

http://tinyurl.com/qb2eyow

Grace and peace be with you, everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:48 AM (DXzRD)

91 As a throwaway attack dog against Hillary!, fine,
but I don't want Fiorina near the vice presidency or a cabinet position,
let alone the Oval Office. Make her ambassador to Malta or something.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 07:44 AM

*********
I'm fine with that. Or how about head of the USPS and she can negotiate sale to FedX?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 07:49 AM (3eZI/)

92 It is much easier to list every case where Emperor Ten Putt has told the truth about something than it is to list his lies. The unemployment rate is one of his lies of course.

The day any Republican replaces The Doper in the White House will be the first day of the Greater Depression. The media will be ripe with stories of the plight of the unemployed and how the burden is falling mainly on Blacks, Womenz, and Yutes.

Suddenly the true unemployment figures will emerge, along with daily casualty reports from Afghanistan. Of course the fact that combat deaths have been greater during Obama's term than during Bush's somehow never makes the nightly news.

Remember how we were constantly told how many soldiers were dying in Iraq? It was never mentioned that more of our soldiers there died from traffic accidents than from enemy action. In other words we killed more of our military by accident in Iraq than the enemy could kill intentionally.

Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2015 07:49 AM (PZAKW)

93 We must curb white flight to Mars. Those inner city FSAs aren't going to fund themselves.
Posted by: Dr. Danielle N Lee

Okay, that's a probing.

Posted by: The Greys at April 18, 2015 07:49 AM (YCG8H)

94 Thanks, Fenelon.

I was hoping to get some house cleaning done this weekend, but at the moment just getting up out of the chair requires an enormous effort of will.

Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2015 07:50 AM (sdi6R)

95 Newish here. I don't know where to put this...

Here:
http://sdgln.com/commentary/2015/04/16/gay-man-starts-bottom-hillary-campaign

Posted by: Legalizehazing at April 18, 2015 07:51 AM (ewzsW)

96 @82 Keesler's a real garden spot. I like Biloxi, and I don't even gamble.
But I've only seen it after The Hurricane.

Best catfish I ever had was just outside Benning, but anywhere from Biloxi to Eglin is seafood nirvana. Freshwater, saltwater, kosher shellfish, no matter.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 18, 2015 07:51 AM (xq1UY)

97
Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.

http://tinyurl.com/k8qasqo

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:51 AM (kdS6q)

98 H badger at April 18, 2015 06:05 AM

Best of luck to you and the better half! It's always an amazing experience; even more so if its your first one. Your entire perspective on life will change the instant you see the baby for the first time.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 07:53 AM (60Vyp)

99 And speaking of Fiorina, Krakatoa, glad you didn't get the ax.

The company that laid me off three years ago just got bought, so my remaining friends there are about to face it again. Who knows, maybe the C-levels will actually face some retribution this time.

Forgiveness is difficult.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 07:54 AM (yxw0r)

100 @91 So a female Marvin Runyon, then? Her nose is going to look even funnier on the mailboxes, just sayin'.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 18, 2015 07:54 AM (xq1UY)

101 The day any Republican replaces The Doper in the White House will be the first day of the Greater Depression. The media will be ripe with stories of the plight of the unemployed and how the burden is falling mainly on Blacks, Womenz, and Yutes.

And President Boy, or failing that, a President Cruz, should be right there with the stats that the MFM has ignored for 8 years.

The presstitutes need a good slapdown. Their many examples of double standards aren't difficult to find.

In fact, any candidate would do well to have a flunky with an iPad handy with a few of those examples. "Oh, you want to talk about the economy now? After 8 years of this? *points to any number of declining economic indicators on giant screen* Where were you then?"

Rinse, repeat. Don't wuss out.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 18, 2015 07:56 AM (0HooB)

102 97
Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus.

http://tinyurl.com/k8qasqo
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 18, 2015 07:51 AM (kdS6q)

Made in China.

Posted by: Hangover fist at April 18, 2015 07:57 AM (YCG8H)

103 96: When I was at Keesler AFB, there were no casinos. The last time I was there was the summer of 1990. I was surprised how good the food was on base (I was staying in the billeting in 1990). They had this creole shrimp-rice concoction that was amazing. I do miss the food. MMmmmm Fried Catfish...... Dammit, I'm getting hungry. I have to go to bed. I work tonight.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at April 18, 2015 07:58 AM (VQYzU)

104 17 About to load into the van for a 3.5 hour drive to do my first college broadcast. Been looking forward to this for a long time, now just have to be sure I don't screw it up. Which I won't, just have to say it to ward off the jinx. Been watching some old matches on Youtube, Rugby's not a hard sport to call, not a lot of inside lingo. Well, wish me luck, I've got 3.5 hours to sit and stew about it now.
Posted by: LincolnTf at April 18, 2015 06:30 AM (2cS/G)

Trust me on this....almost NOBODY understands the rules and strategy of Rugby. Both of my sons played in high school, and we hosted lots of tournaments and teams. VERY few people ever had a clue. You should be safe!

Posted by: TX ette at April 18, 2015 07:59 AM (sUJHF)

105 A lot of women have vaginas.

Posted by: Dogstar at April 18, 2015 08:00 AM (rgt5b)

106 Gah. What they call country music these days sucks. Earth Day indeed. More like pussified horse hockey. Plop musik.

Posted by: freaked at April 18, 2015 08:02 AM (JdEZJ)

107 92 Posted by: An Observation at April 18, 2015 07:49 AM (PZAKW)

Absolutely, the media and civil service has gotten so brazen about their bias that they will revert to classical economic measures on the fly and pretend they didn't make it "Preznit Ezy Mode" for 8 fucking years or more if Hillary! wins...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:02 AM (/4AZU)

108 17: could be worse. You could try calling a Cricket match. If you have too, get drunk first. Won't help, but you'll be drunk. Thats something.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at April 18, 2015 08:02 AM (VQYzU)

109 105 A lot of women have vaginas.
Posted by: Dogstar at April 18, 2015 08:00 AM (rgt5b)

Apparently a lot of Congressmen do too.

Posted by: Hangover fist at April 18, 2015 08:03 AM (YCG8H)

110 Let's not say bad things about Barack or Hillary or John today, so say we all?

Nah, me neither.

Posted by: goon at April 18, 2015 08:03 AM (A53Jp)

111 102>> I read a really interesting book by a guy who was submarine (?) commander in the Royal Navy. He theorized that the Chinese emperor had sent a 'plate fleet' out to obtain tribute from neighboring kingdoms and to observe and record details of an eclipse and during that voyage one of the fleets had come as far as North and South America.

There was a copious amount of reference material cited in the bibliography, and some pretty astounding observations from geneticists, botanists and linguists that made it a compelling theory.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:03 AM (60Vyp)

112 102 Posted by: Hangover fist at April 18, 2015 07:57 AM (YCG8H)

Why not?

Of course this sorta brings into focus the entire "racism and genocide are uniquely white things" lie intrinsic to Critical Race Theory...

dirty little secret is there were whites in China going back at least 4000 years, and somehow they were gone by the 1000s....

well that or there were a lot of Blonde/Auburn Hazel/Grey eyed Chinese....

anyway mankind didn't live like a lot of folk think, and I am jealous of if not the biotic deaths they suffered the space they had to get the hell away from busybodies.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:05 AM (/4AZU)

113 101 Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 18, 2015 07:56 AM (0HooB)

Media bias has been extant and snowballing since 1996.... if the gop had ANY interest in combating it it'd have happened.

Quite the contrary the GOP seems bent on suppressing the voices who wish to do so and pushes assholes like McCain and Romney who refuse to confront it.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:07 AM (/4AZU)

114 I'm fine with that. Or how about head of the USPS and she can negotiate sale to FedX?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 07:49 AM (3eZI/)
*******
Maybe. I really don't like her. She ruins everything she touches, yet manages to get filthy rich.

The sale idea is great, though.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 08:07 AM (yxw0r)

115 114 Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 08:07 AM (yxw0r)

At least she is destroying the private sector not getting rich grafting the public one...

A smart GOP would nominate Nikki Haley or Susan Martinez...

of course you have to go to Earth 17,786 to find a Smart GOP.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:09 AM (/4AZU)

116 Fuck the GOP.

Buying ammo may not have real survival value, but it's cheap entertainment while I wait to get killed.

Bulk Ammo has 9MM for .22 a round.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 18, 2015 08:11 AM (QRz0C)

117 So, besides Fiorina announcing in a few weeks, Huckabee wants us to come to Hope, AR on May 5th. Hmmm, wonder what the final number of R candidates is going to be? Has Santorum mentioned a date yet?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 18, 2015 08:12 AM (3eZI/)

118 I read a really interesting book by a guy who was submarine (?) commander in the Royal Navy
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:03 AM
I read that book about 2 yrs ago. He really did a lot of research, and one of the conclusions was that Columbus had a copy of a map showing the New World.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2015 08:15 AM (FIrEF)

119 55
just works very very hard and doesn't have a lot to say.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2015 07:08 AM (DXzRD)

******

Doesn't sound like he has much of a future in politics.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 18, 2015 07:13 AM (cIoI4)Actually sounds like the kind of politician we need!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 18, 2015 08:17 AM (ftVQq)

120 Inspirational effort by grieving father. He's trying to turn the loss of his wife and diagnosis of his daughter with autism into something positive. Please share the link as you see fit. http://tiny.cc/udf8wx

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 18, 2015 08:18 AM (BLFGI)

121 http://sdgln.com/commentary/2015/04/16/gay-man-starts-bottom-hillary-campaign

Posted by: Legalizehazing at April 18, 2015 07:51 AM (ewzsW)

*********

That's kind of redundant, isn't it? If Hillary's elected, it's bohica time for us all.

Posted by: Dr. Danielle N Lee at April 18, 2015 08:20 AM (3F6F8)

122 118>> It does make a compelling story. I just find it difficult to believe that Europeans 'discovered' the Americas. Especially given that the Norse and the Pacific island civilizations were capable of traversing huge distances in both directions.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:21 AM (60Vyp)

123 @96 Best catfish I ever had was just outside Benning, but anywhere from Biloxi to Eglin is seafood nirvana. Freshwater, saltwater, kosher shellfish, no matter.

Biloxi does have some good seafood eats...I particularly recommend trying the deep water reds...some sort of deep gulf shrimp that has a lobstering taste to them - fantastic.

Being a New Englander I must object to catfish being put in seafood category...it is a mud sucking, dung eating pond/river fish. Not bad eats, but not "seafood"' but I nitpick with my white priviledge, you guys.

Posted by: Mongo, Pawn in Game of Life at April 18, 2015 08:23 AM (dxZgK)

124 At least she is destroying the private sector not getting rich grafting the public one...

A smart GOP would nominate Nikki Haley or Susan Martinez...

of course you have to go to Earth 17,786 to find a Smart GOP.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:09 AM (/4AZU)
**************
Don't think for a second she wouldn't find a way to get rich by grafting the public sector. I suspect she already has, and this "run" is Phase 1.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 08:25 AM (yxw0r)

125 122 118>> It does make a compelling story. I just find it difficult to believe that Europeans 'discovered' the Americas. Especially given that the Norse and the Pacific island civilizations were capable of traversing huge distances in both directions.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:21 AM (60Vyp)

The Europeans had a better PR department.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at April 18, 2015 08:25 AM (YCG8H)

126 122 Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:21 AM (60Vyp)

"Europeans" in the sense of Russo-Siberian nomads *maybe* of course there's a part of me that thinks "which time they were discovered?"

I have a theory that these two continents are cursed and the civilizations on them eventually commit suicide.

South American Indians look to have some Polynesian on the woodpile, the Aleut and Inuit both have Sino-Nip-Hongul features and the Plains indians favor the aforementioned Russso-Siberian proto nomads...

I try not to get too wrapped up in "the racial lines of migration" b/c frankly political correctness rears its head and says "YOU ARE ENGAGED IN RACIAL SUPERIORITY GAMES" and at the end of the day I am more wrapped up in creeds and commerce than skin color/culture.

I'm a history guy at heart, and were Ace's time machine available for general use I'd be like a kid in a candy store going back in time and figuring out who did what when really.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:27 AM (/4AZU)

127 Some of the earlier voyages may have been only one way so no word got back to be recorded.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at April 18, 2015 08:28 AM (YCG8H)

128 118 Posted by: Cicero Skip at April 18, 2015 08:15 AM (FIrEF)

I read it I was oddly unimpressed, and not b/c of cultural narcissism.

Maybe Crisco had a map, of course I'd expect this thing called "proof"...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:28 AM (/4AZU)

129 Away three day old sock.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at April 18, 2015 08:30 AM (iVjJr)

130 127 Posted by: Hanoverfist at April 18, 2015 08:28 AM (YCG8H)

My read as well, and let's be honest would say a Roman who went to the Caribbean and brought back say Vanilla have been THAT much more noteworthy than one who went to China and brought back silk?

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:31 AM (/4AZU)

131 Carrie Fisher as Princess Lea is a good start to the day.

Posted by: MTF at April 18, 2015 08:31 AM (FCsIb)

132 There is also a theory that Ice Age Europeans made it to North America, possibly seal hunters following the edge of the ice sheet in small boats. Apparently stone tools have been found in sites on the East Coast that resemble European stone tools of the time.

Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2015 08:32 AM (sdi6R)

133
Being a New Englander I must object to catfish being put in seafood category...it is a mud sucking, dung eating pond/river fish.

Oh, so a DoJ lawyer.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 18, 2015 08:32 AM (ynQIy)

134 I'll vote for him.

I guess.

If I have to.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at April 18, 2015 07:47 AM (0HooB)

******

If he's going to betray us on immigration, then as far as I'm concerned he's worthless, and whatever marginal benefit he might bring is offset by the need to stop enabling the GOPe from conning people into believing they're the only game in town. If Rubio gets the nomination and Cruz bows out, I'll still write in Cruz, just for shits and giggles.

Posted by: Sunni LeBeouf at April 18, 2015 08:33 AM (3F6F8)

135 132 Posted by: rickl at April 18, 2015 08:32 AM (sdi6R)

"which time and where"...

exactly...

our genotyping can only tell us so much....

Look at the genetic diversity between AmerInd tribes here in Canada and the US alone let alone Central and South America...

there's a helluva story there that sadly did not get written down to be retold.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:34 AM (/4AZU)

136 The Europeans had a better PR department.

They actually settled...The Chinese fleet theory hasn't stood up investigation, if I recall correctly. In any case, there were Europeans here before Columbus - the Norse, most famously, but also fishermen who were fishing off the grand banks possibly as far back as the thirteenth century, I think. It is certainly a LOT easier to reach the Americas from Europe than from Asia.

I strongly suspect that Columbus was so very certain that the world was only a fraction of the size that his contemporaries (and modern science) claimed was that he knew there was land out there from some unofficial sources and couldn't conceive of the possibility that it was anything but the Indies. Ergo, the experts had to be wrong...

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2015 08:35 AM (OBj9M)

137 136 Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2015 08:35 AM (OBj9M)

What a great epoch that was...

if you were pissed off enough/ambitious enough you could go start over...

now people'd be up your ass and trying to rule you from 10,000 miles away.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at April 18, 2015 08:37 AM (/4AZU)

138 128>> I agree that 'proof' in the form of some tangible hasn't been provided yet. I also think that the book makes a pretty good argument for the case that Columbus did not 'discover' the new world as much as he successfully crossed the Atlantic and returned. 3 times.

There had to have been plenty of knowledge exchanged between Marco Polo's time and Magellan's voyages regarding the Indo/Asian region. I'd bet that Magellan had access to or had studied any available maps of that region before he pulled anchor.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:38 AM (60Vyp)

139 127
Some of the earlier voyages may have been only one way so no word got back to be recorded.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at April 18, 2015 08:28 AM (YCG8H)

***********
Which makes me wonder what "discover" really means.

From the Latin root discooperire, it's the opposite of "cover." Makes sense.

So is there an implied second party in there? Does one "discover" something if he doesn't share it with another person? Or does it extend to third parties? If a new piece of knowledge doesn't make it to the world at large, is it a "discovery?"
Sorry. I'm a word nerd, and didn't sleep well last night.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at April 18, 2015 08:39 AM (yxw0r)

140 Gah. What they call country music these days sucks. Earth Day indeed. More like pussified horse hockey. Plop musik.

Posted by: freaked at April 18, 2015 08:02 AM (JdEZJ)

Looks like Tim McGraw is poised to jump the shark, but Billy Currington has decided not to follow him:
http://tinyurl.com/p3cy4wy

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 18, 2015 08:39 AM (/2KMt)

141
"discooperire"

verbum quod suus ' a nice

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 18, 2015 08:42 AM (hNvdN)

142 Testicles! Get your testicles here!
Posted by: Entrepreneur in DC, seeing a need

I'll take a pair, son.

Posted by: Senator Lindsay Graham at April 18, 2015 08:42 AM (VAsIq)

143 I'll take a pair, son.

Posted by: Senator Lindsay Graham at April 18, 2015 08:42 AM (VAsIq)

If you had a pair you'd have to spit them out cause they ain't yours.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 18, 2015 08:44 AM (/2KMt)

144 I'll take a pair, son.

Posted by: Senator Lindsay Graham at April 18, 2015 08:42 AM (VAsIq)

Clearly a straw buyer.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 18, 2015 08:45 AM (60Vyp)

145 NOOD

Posted by: Y-not at April 18, 2015 08:46 AM (9BRsg)

146 I'll take a pair, son.
Posted by: Senator Lindsay Graham

I'll take the west of them!

Posted by: Senator Bawney Fwank at April 18, 2015 08:46 AM (VAsIq)

147 "Looks like Tim McGraw is poised to jump the shark"

Toby Queef isn't much better.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 18, 2015 08:46 AM (hNvdN)

148 >>I'll take a pair, son.

Posted by: Senator Lindsay Graham

On you chin as usual, sir?

Posted by: Testicle Vendor at April 18, 2015 08:50 AM (sQzB6)

149 The ACA will require restaurants to list how many calories are in a glass of wine. Another thing that we found out about after it was passed.

Ya know someone could make a big deal out of repealing this piece of crap.

Posted by: freaked at April 18, 2015 08:51 AM (JdEZJ)

150 Cardinal George died yesterday, in his bed, as predicted. Much sadness. He was one of the last of the good ones, I think, as far as Catholicism is concerned. Extremely intelligent, who saw the way the world was going and tried to slow the decline.

I don't think his successor will die in jail, though. His successor is pretty much onboard the prog party train.

And, incidentally, just now the screen of the open window got smacked by the biggest bumblebee I've ever seen. Criminy. I guess it really is spring.

Posted by: Gem at April 18, 2015 09:33 AM (c+gwp)

151 WOFYWIS

Watch Out For Your Wallet - It's Science.

Posted by: Mongerel at April 18, 2015 12:35 PM (YqWfw)

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