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Overnight Open Thread (6-22-2015)
Versus the one we're not. (thanks to John E.)
Twitter != public opinion. (via Moe Lane and Daniel Hannan)
"You failed utterly and totally," said committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican. "They recommended it was so bad that you shut it down and you didn't."Archuleta, stumbling occasionally under withering questions from lawmakers, sought to defend her tenure and portray the agency's problems as decades in the making as its equipment aged. She appeared to cast blame on her recent predecessors, one of whom, John Berry, is the U.S. ambassador to Australia.
Offered chances to apologize and resign, she declined to do either.
Kevin D. Williams: The Art of the Con, by Donald Trump
I'm rather mixed on having Trump as a candidate - he's an unserious clown alright but then he could potentially be a useful clown in the debates. But as entertaining as he might be everyone should understand that he's really a crony capitalist/populist dilettante rather than a conservative. So be prepared for the Disappointment. That is if Trump ever actually files any FEC paperwork. Which he hasn't to date.
Whatever Trump's appeal is to the Right's populist elements, it isn't policy. He is a tax-happy crony capitalist who is hostile to free trade but very enthusiastic about using state violence to homejack private citizens - he backed the Kelo decision "100 percent" and has tried to use eminent domain in the service of his own empire of vulgarity - and generally has about as much command of the issues as the average sophomore at a not especially good college, which is what he was (sorry, Fordham) until his family connections got him into Penn.
The value of speaking one's mind depends heavily on the mind in question, and Trump's is second-rate. If it's not the issues, it's certainly not the record of the man himself. Never mind that he's a crony capitalist, he's not even an especially good crony capitalist: The casino racket is protected from competition by a strict cartel-oriented licensing regime, but Trump, being the type of businessman who could bankrupt a mint, managed to be the biggest loser in Atlantic City, which is no small feat. He is a lifelong supporter of Democratic politicians, including Chuck Schumer and, awkwardly, the woman against whom he is pretending to run: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Not only did the DoJ subpoena the identity of commenters on Reason's website but a judge imposed a gag order that prevented them from writing or talking about it. And note that the comments while hotheaded should still be protected under the First Amendment.
As Velamoor repeated his allegations of a violation of the gag order, the impact was more and more chilling. They knew they hadn't done anything wrong, but also knew that didn't matter. "Being innocent doesn't mean you're safe," point out Alissi. Alissi and Gillespie both viewed the subpoena, and the gag order, and the purported investigation of a leak as ridiculous and bizarre - a preposterous waste of resources. Gillespie called the accusations "comical" and admitted his first response was incredulity, building to rage. But what was both deeply concerning and infuriating was that it really didn't matter whether Velamoor was proceeding from malice, from bias, from indifference, from kissing up to a judge, or from sheer incompetence. He had the power to destroy lives no matter how or why he exercised it. The notion that he might launch investigations and prosecutions out of stupidity was, Gillespie said, more frightening than the prospect that he was some sort of Machiavellian genius.
(Which he isn't.)
Perhaps AoSHQ should put a warrant canary in a terms of service page in case this site ever catches the DoJ's eye.
Kasich Reportedly Getting Testy as He Fails to Attract Donors
All of this just reinforces the impression I got from his show on Fox that if you scratched his surface, you'd find a rich vein of jerk.
During one meeting, which took place about two weeks ago, the governor grew angry when a major Republican Party contributor pointed out that others had already formally launched their campaigns and built expansive teams of political advisers. "You don't know what you're talking about," Kasich snapped at the donor, who wished to remain anonymous because the meeting was private. It was still early, Kasich insisted, and Bush, who had endured a rocky rollout, was "losing steam."Kasich's temper has made it harder to endear himself to the GOP's wealthy benefactors. Last year, he traveled to Southern California to appear on a panel at a conference sponsored by the Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch. At one point, according to accounts provided by two sources present, Randy Kendrick, a major contributor and the wife of Ken Kendrick, the owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, rose to say she disagreed with Kasich's decision to expand Medicaid coverage, and questioned why he'd expressed the view it was what God wanted.
The governor's response was fiery. "I don't know about you, lady," he said as he pointed at Kendrick, his voice rising. "But when I get to the pearly gates, I'm going to have an answer for what I've done for the poor."
Note to future dead John Kasich: Giving other people's money to the poor does not count as charity on your part.
Red State Families vs. Blue State Families
While the numbers indicate that both very red states and very blue states come out ahead, when education and race/ethnicity is adjusted for the red states have a slight edge. But even then the differences between the two aren't all that great.
Since self-identification seems to trump objective reality these days.
Sun God Angry: Possible Aurora Over CONUS
Three coronal mass ejections over the past few days have erupted and have made their way to Earth to cause a G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm on Monday afternoon. G4 storms are the second-highest on the five-point severity scale. Effects here on Earth include potential voltage control issues in power systems, high- and low-frequency radio issues, and orientation adjustments may be required for satellites.
The last time a G4-severe storm occurred was on St. Patrick's Day, when a beautiful, green aurora was seen far south as Tennessee, Oklahoma and even New Mexico.
And earlier today the K-index hit 8 which means that Boston and the mid-west might see an aurora late tonight. Update: Since then it's fallen to 5 so probably no auroras tonight but several more storms are on the way.
Should CPS Have Arrested Your Parents When You Were a Kid?
I think most of us over a certain age did all 25 of these activities which means our parents by today's standards were all guilty of neglect and abuse.
And yet parent-less time is key to kids' personal development:
In Homesick and Happy, Michael Thompson writes about a study where people were asked about their happiest childhood memory; more than 80 percent name a parent-free moment. Thompson explains that kids are better off when they accomplish something without having to think about how their parents would view it.
General Mills To Drop Artificial Colors, Flavors From Their Cereals
So get ready for the grayification of your bowl.
General Mills cereals such as Trix and Reese's Puffs will now be made with fruit and vegetable juices and natural vanilla. Trix will lose some colors in the process. The company began reformulating it about three years ago, and when the new version rolls out this winter, it will have just four colors instead of six. Blue and green didn't make the cut because the company hasn't identified a suitable natural alternative.
"We're continuing to work on them, but they didn't deliver on that vibrant color that we expect from Trix," says Kate Gallager, a General Mills cereal developer. Reese's Puffs, also rolling out this winter, will no longer be artificially colored, but Gallager says the difference is barely noticeable. The recipe changes will only affect cereals sold in the U.S. and Canada.
The expensive mechanical shark rarely worked, and the director had to get creative by "implying" the shark's presence, on the timeless suspense principle that we're more afraid of what we can't see than what we can. It worked: people were frightened by Jaws because they never knew when the shark was coming, and the underwater shots of bathers emphasize how vulnerable we are when we leave dry land.From its chaotic birth, Jaws became a landmark in Hollywood, widely credited with (or blamed for) creating the summer blockbuster. It did all this without a website, a Twitter feed, or downloadable clips from YouTube. When you walked out of the theater, the only way to see Jaws again was to pony up for another ticket. In the age before on-demand everything, movies had to be sought out, at least in comparison with today. And somehow, this relative scarcity-like the scarcity of the shark in the movie-fixed them in the mind. I've carried scenes from Jaws in my head since 1975, and I've never put a foot into salt water without thinking of sharks.
Perhaps this has to do with the tender age (nine) at which I first saw Jaws, at a theater in the Golf Mill shopping center in Niles, Illinois. It proved to be the movie-going thrill of my life. Of course, young minds are famously impressionable; as adults, we struggle to remember what happened yesterday, or to reconstruct even vivid conversations, while events from decades past are imprinted on our memories. Last weekend, I watched Jaws for the first time in many years, on DVD. My wife, a few years younger than I, didn't grow up with Jaws and had never watched it all the way through. Yet I noted how she flinched at all the same scenes-and her unease reminded me of how my mother and father twitched, too, in that movie theater long ago. Near the end, she turned to me and said, "This is really pretty good."
"You should have seen it on the big screen," I said. Forty years? Jaws is ageless.
You can watch the famous USS Indianapolis scene here and the complete movie here (slanted to avoid copyright claims apparently).
The Yahoo AoSHQ group - it's got electrolytes and shit.
And my twitter thang.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 22, 2015 10:32 PM (2jnZk)
Posted by: the Left, that's not wrong about everything all the time at June 22, 2015 10:33 PM (kivUY)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 22, 2015 10:33 PM (EzgxV)
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Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at June 22, 2015 10:34 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Infidel at June 22, 2015 10:36 PM (1jFir)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 22, 2015 10:36 PM (KCxzN)
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=60501
Your chance to play golf with Sal Giunta, Ryan Pitts, and Kyle White, Medal of Honor winners all. The event is the 173rd Airborne Assn Foundation fund raiser in New Hampshire in August.
Posted by: Country Singer at June 22, 2015 10:37 PM (nL0sw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 22, 2015 10:37 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Vendette at June 22, 2015 10:38 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: The Donald at June 22, 2015 10:39 PM (4+T+s)
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Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at June 22, 2015 10:39 PM (yeyeF)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 22, 2015 10:39 PM (2jnZk)
Posted by: Vendette at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (TEpA2)
Posted by: Vendette at June 22, 2015 10:38 PM (TEpA2)
--Uh oh, that may conflict with Hell on Wheels.
Posted by: logprof at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (4+T+s)
Posted by: chi's sandwIch at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (h6Xwq)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (2jnZk)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Infidel at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (1jFir)
Posted by: mynewhandle at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (AkOaV)
In San Diego, we had a thing called 6th grade camp. It was wonderful. We went to a place and saw the archery targets, but no. That was for the Summer people.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (baR5c)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2015 10:41 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: donna at June 22, 2015 10:41 PM (Bn6aD)
Heh. The New York Times got punked. Like that never happened before.
https://tinyurl.com/qzwzqpd
/hat tip Insty
Posted by: rickl at June 22, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R)
I mostly ignore the MSM, has it been "breaking news" on fox and cnn all day?
Posted by: mynewhandle at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (AkOaV)
Warrant canaries may be illegal? Isn't everything?
I can't have ice cream in the house. If I do, it's all I eat until it's gone.
Jaws. I had not yet seen it and was at a friend's house. They all laughed at me when I was startled. I don't handle scary movies well. I'm too willing to believe them to be true. I am also a sucker for news headlines.
Posted by: Quotous Loo at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (IZoNo)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at June 22, 2015 10:34 PM
And how are the the cheesehead Morons? Tpns of rain here today, tornado warning in another part of our county.
Posted by: Farmer at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Infidel at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (1jFir)
Posted by: eman at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: OG Celtic-American at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (y/p2Y)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Yeah, but do you have any turnovers?
Posted by: chi's sandwIch at June 22, 2015 10:42 PM (mwg7N)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at June 22, 2015 10:43 PM (+1T7c)
Actually, it'll be our only flavor, because America doesn't need choices!
Posted by: Ben and Jerry at June 22, 2015 10:43 PM (66Dev)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at June 22, 2015 10:43 PM (baR5c)
Posted by: logprof at June 22, 2015 10:43 PM (4+T+s)
Posted by: logprof at June 22, 2015 10:43 PM (4+T+s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 22, 2015 10:44 PM (F3WrY)
I hope that when I'm at home in Canuckistan I'll see some Northern Lights. It's been too long.
Posted by: Vendette at June 22, 2015 10:40 PM (TEpA2)
I've always wanted to see them -- but due to some unfortunate oversight, they don't seem to be available in places with a nice climate.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 22, 2015 10:44 PM (EzgxV)
*sigh* Never let a crisis go to waste.
Posted by: Hank at June 22, 2015 10:44 PM (y0s0q)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:46 AM (2yngH)
Posted by: The Great Satans Ghost at June 23, 2015 12:47 AM (xMU3a)
Posted by: The Great Satans Ghost at June 23, 2015 12:48 AM (xMU3a)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 12:48 AM (MQEz6)
Ugh. Think I had too much ice cream... CherryPy ice cream.
Posted by: Pixy's Hamster at June 23, 2015 12:49 AM (66Dev)
Posted by: buzzion at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: The Great Satans Ghost at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (xMU3a)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: self.kwargs at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (Irq+K)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 12:51 AM (2XMpf)
Playing "Wrath of Khan" soundtrack right now, and "Rocketeer" is next.
Damned sad.
Posted by: RKae at June 23, 2015 12:51 AM (7Sr/D)
I'm not always on Twitter, though I check in when I can. The best way to reach me quickly is by email at help@mu.nu.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (2yngH)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (MQEz6)
Awesome chamber music concert this evening, by the way. It was a pleasure to be a part of it.
Posted by: Piercello at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (QhryY)
Posted by: gm at June 23, 2015 12:53 AM (K0tm3)
One of the “promises” made by “Right to Die” advocates is that it will only apply to people in pain and suffering a terminal illness, and then only with the patients consent. Suggestions that this will lead to doctors killing patients who don’t ask for it or can’t give consent are dismissed with invocation of þe olde Slippery Slope Fallacy.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9302
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 23, 2015 12:53 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Gem at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (2yngH)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 23, 2015 12:55 AM (KpAcJ)
Posted by: NCKate at June 23, 2015 12:55 AM (+83oc)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 12:55 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: OPM IT Worker at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (TWXpK)
(Check out LifeNews.com)
Posted by: RKae at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (7Sr/D)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (QDnY+)
Just realised that Twitter would notify me, except that I turned off all email notifications because my inbox was full of crap from Twitter.
Can't win.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (2yngH)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (MYPM9)
Posted by: Gem at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: OPM at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (66Dev)
Posted by: Blano at June 23, 2015 12:58 AM (heN73)
Posted by: Blano at June 23, 2015 12:58 AM (heN73)
I'm currently at "Battle in the Mutara Nebula." Wallace will have to court Murron later for me.
Posted by: RKae at June 23, 2015 12:58 AM (7Sr/D)
Posted by: Gem at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (c+gwp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (F3WrY)
Posted by: Steck at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (5i94q)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:54
Huh huh uh huh
Posted by: Beavis & Butthead at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (Vm8WO)
Posted by: derit at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (jT+gh)
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (FDfVQ)
Just a note:
Unless I am the only one who can stop your bleeding before passing out... NEVER CALL AFTER TEN P.M.
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at June 23, 2015 01:00 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2015 01:00 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 01:00 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: Adriane the Chronologically Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:00 AM (nSOh+)
Grampa Jimbo, if you're still here, which camp did you go to in 6th grade?
Most in my time went to Camp Marston. We went to Camp Palomar, which was nice because of course we got to spend time at the famous observatory, at night (is the Meatball about? he'd be jealous). "Star hikes" with astronomers.
Which reminds me, in my elementary school we had "enrichment" or some such thing after hours, usually early evenings, for certain kids, geeks I guess. I remember the one on rockets and space - taught by a Convair rocket scientist, Mr. Vega (still remember the name). Very cool. Got all the basics of propulsion in space, the basics on the most common rocket motors and their fuels, etc. Sixth grade.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:01 AM (QDnY+)
Hey Bob! What's the password for the mainframe again? ABC123? Okay thanks!
Posted by: OPM IT Geniuses at June 23, 2015 01:01 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 01:01 AM (MYPM9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:01 AM (F3WrY)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:01 AM (MQEz6)
I like Hans Zimmers' Man of Steel ...
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:02 AM (nSOh+)
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:02 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Steck at June 23, 2015 12:59 AM (5i94q)
It was a good gig for us. The webhosting business was pretty slow in the late 70s.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 01:02 AM (2yngH)
Wait, let me correct that: Automated software update decided to fail
with a 16,000 line error message 90 minutes into the process because one package couldn't be downloaded from the repository.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:54 AM (2yngH)
Yum or apt-get?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: eman
My money's on the EPA being the most depraved.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 01:03 AM (MYPM9)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 01:04 AM (2yngH)
I'd hate to be a telephone operator for a crisis center there
Posted by: derit at June 23, 2015 01:04 AM (jT+gh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:04 AM (F3WrY)
Posted by: Gem at June 23, 2015 01:05 AM (c+gwp)
Dr. Baltar is that dumb fuck hack the Dems put in charge.
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (10ydV)
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (TWXpK)
Too bad for him that Mr. TiFW answered the phone.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (KpAcJ)
Posted by: Pixy's Hamster at June 23, 2015 12:49 AM (66Dev)
Pixy's Hamster on a 2-hour journey of discovery in places best left unmentioned?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:07 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: freaky EPA employees at June 23, 2015 01:08 AM (66Dev)
Wasn't tonight the annual Hamster Dance?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2015 01:08 AM (UVfht)
Dr. Baltar is that dumb fuck hack the Dems put in charge.
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (MQEz6)
Heh. I bet China could shut down most of our power plants right now. Hillary would blame it on the CMEs.
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 01:09 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 01:09 AM (hxAur)
http://neveryetmelted.com/2015/06/09/american-pharaoh-versus-secretariat/
Watch it full screen, of course.
Posted by: rickl at June 23, 2015 01:09 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:10 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:07 AM (GA3ji)
Please do. We were trying to be discrete.
Posted by: Richard Gere at June 23, 2015 01:10 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (2yngH)
Been meaning to ask, how is life in Nauru?
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:10 AM (o/90i)
Too bad for him that Mr. TiFW answered the phone..."
-Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 23, 2015 01:06 AM (KpAcJ)
You expect that out of stupid kids. You'd think adults would have better judgment.
LOL@ the kid getting "The Man of the House".
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at June 23, 2015 01:10 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:10 AM (F3WrY)
I'm not always on Twitter, though I check in when I can. The best way to reach me quickly is by email at help@mu.nu.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (2yngH)
I understand that Richard Gere also went to the emergency room for an "Automated Software Update".
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at June 23, 2015 01:11 AM (Z7G74)
Wrath of Khan as Khan brings the Defiant around for the first attack ...
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:11 AM (nSOh+)
-----
Those are both John Kerry!
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 01:11 AM (NM/GS)
Posted by: otho at June 23, 2015 01:12 AM (d8udV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsxXued784
The Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia is really, really fun to play. If I can get hold of our recording from tonight, I'll post it.
Good night, all!
Posted by: Piercello at June 23, 2015 01:12 AM (QhryY)
100
98 cthulhu - yum.
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 01:04 AM (2yngH)
Thank you. I've been out of the scene for years and those two words have me feeling that I'm not complete roadkill.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:13 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at June 23, 2015 12:52 AM (2yngH)
But coconut laden swallow is still OK, right?
Posted by: The Unladen Hat at June 23, 2015 01:14 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 01:15 AM (TWXpK)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 01:16 AM (NM/GS)
Posted by: Maetenloch at June 23, 2015 01:17 AM (wqVD1)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at June 23, 2015 01:17 AM (OQ9R7)
Momma ain't nice at 2:00 in the mornin' :-)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 23, 2015 01:17 AM (KpAcJ)
Posted by: CDR M at June 23, 2015 01:15 AM (TWXpK)
People getting offended triggers me and I find that offensive...
Posted by: Snowflake at June 23, 2015 01:17 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:18 AM (MQEz6)
A Hamster Dance sounds like the kind of thing not even Lovecraft allowed to enter his febrile brain.
Checking the Occult Calendar, dividing by A, and finding the limit as x -> Christopher Lee, I think today was the Zombie Zoo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PigPb8j1y4
Posted by: look like Boris Karloff at June 23, 2015 01:18 AM (u/dSe)
Posted by: Jay Cutler at June 23, 2015 01:19 AM (66Dev)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:19 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:19 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: Doc Emmitt Brown at June 23, 2015 01:20 AM (u/dSe)
a 1 a lira
a 2 a lira
a 3 a lira
a 4 a lira
a 5 a lira
Posted by: Adriane the Currency Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:21 AM (nSOh+)
Posted by: look like Boris Karloff at June 23, 2015 01:18 AM (u/dSe)
The original hamster dance:
Posted by: The Dancin' Hat at June 23, 2015 01:21 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: Jed & Matt's Dad in Red Dawn at June 23, 2015 01:21 AM (TWXpK)
good night all
er, rather, I hope you rot in hell for offending me so
Posted by: chemjeff at June 23, 2015 01:21 AM (2XMpf)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:22 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (MYPM9)
It's not insomnia for me. Need to relax because Pooky drank himself into oblivion, threw up on the carpet after I repeatedly tried to get him to the toilet, and got mad at me when I enlisted his help in the cleanup. I know why he got drunk (epic failure of another unit that's causing a colonel to get demoted to 1st Lt and possible axing of said unit after 4 years of screw-ups), but his alcohol privileges are about to be revoked......
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:23 AM (FDfVQ)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:22 AM (EzgxV)
Wahhh!
I need me safe space and some hot cocoa...
Posted by: A Precious Little Snowflake who is the most specialist ever! at June 23, 2015 01:24 AM (7YlUk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PigPb8j1y4
Posted by: look like Boris Karloff at June 23, 2015 01:18 AM (u/dSe)
Or perhaps a Zombie Jamboree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4k5XftdTMs
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:24 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: Santa at June 23, 2015 01:24 AM (TWXpK)
The thing about totalitarianism is that it's TOTALitarianism. There isn't a safe zone or a compromise.
The thing about freedom is that it's not something you can possess, it's a *process*. It's a battle.
And it's exhausting. And sometimes you lose.
And unfortunately that frustration isn't just discouraging, that anger turns to the closest target and discourages them.
I'm still learning to keep putting one foot in front of the other, though I guess I'm okay at that since I'm still here. It's hard not to be pulled into the wrong fight.
The bigger trick is, if you don't put one foot in front of the other today, to do it tomorrow.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:25 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Robinson at June 23, 2015 01:25 AM (+1K+6)
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (MQEz6)
Hooray insomnia! Entertain me into boredom, Horde.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 23, 2015 12:57 AM (MYPM9)
It's not insomnia for me. Need to relax because Pooky drank himself
into oblivion, threw up on the carpet after I repeatedly tried to get
him to the toilet, and got mad at me when I enlisted his help in the
cleanup. I know why he got drunk (epic failure of another unit that's
causing a colonel to get demoted to 1st Lt and possible axing of said
unit after 4 years of screw-ups), but his alcohol privileges are about
to be revoked......
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:23 AM (FDfVQ)
That hurts in so many ways. You have my deepest sympathy -- and so does Pooky after a kick in the shin for putting you through things. So let's talk about better subjects -- how are you walking and how's the kid doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (EzgxV)
I can't believe the good people of South Carolina didn't see this coming. All it took was the simple removal of a flag from all your stupid war memorials.
Looking at you, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Texas. Y'all are going to have blood on your hands if you don't take down your flag. /sarc
Oh, but 4 dead, 22 wounded in Chicago shootings over the June 20-21 weekend.
Take care of each other out there, lovable jackwagons.
Posted by: fly gal at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (pDXil)
A few people mentioned the idea earlier, but the Gadsden Flag has *already* been targeted as offensive.
The thing about totalitarianism is that it's TOTALitarianism. There isn't a safe zone or a compromise.
The thing about freedom is that it's not something you can possess, it's a *process*. It's a battle.
And it's exhausting. And sometimes you lose.
And unfortunately that frustration isn't just discouraging, that anger turns to the closest target and discourages them.
I'm still learning to keep putting one foot in front of the other,
though I guess I'm okay at that since I'm still here. It's hard not to
be pulled into the wrong fight.
The bigger trick is, if you don't put one foot in front of the other today, to do it tomorrow.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:25 AM (bLnSU)
Yay, Mero!!!! Well said.
How are you doing today?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:29 AM (F3WrY)
Posted by: eman
awfully detailed *COUGH*
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 23, 2015 01:29 AM (KoT6c)
Didn't accomplish anything today, maybe tomorrow.
You?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:29 AM (bLnSU)
Watch the video of Andrew Breitbart vs. Martin Bashir.
Andrew shows what to do.
This Confederate flag thing is a huge win for the Left.
Do not fall for their shit.
Posted by: eman at June 23, 2015 01:30 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Robinson at June 23, 2015 01:25 AM (+1K+6)
"He raped me on a coaster at TGI Fridays. Of course, I was a bit skinnier then."
Posted by: Lena Dunham at June 23, 2015 01:30 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:30 AM (F3WrY)
I'll leave you with a Canadian commie shithead:
https://youtu.be/t1iwJOYTSTw
(sfw)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2015 01:31 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:31 AM (bLnSU)
You could have joined us for the stripping of the shut off valve after I turned the water back on ...
Posted by: Adriane the IDK DIY Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:35 AM (nSOh+)
being part of a political debate. Walmart is interested in selling
billions of dollars of merchandise. Getting rid of the minute amount of
Confederate merchandise in some stores is nothing, and the nice press
and good feelings are a boon. Easy call.
Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (MFkhJ)
Heh. The old "forbidden fruit" effect is bound to kick in. If mass merchandisers like Walmart stop selling Stars and Bars knickknacks, the QuikTrips and Quickie Marts will, and at higher prices. More confederate flags sold, and at higher prices, and the manufacturers in China will make more dollars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:36 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
Looking at you, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Texas. Y'all are going to have blood on your hands if you don't take down your flag. /sarc
Oh, but 4 dead, 22 wounded in Chicago shootings over the June 20-21 weekend.
Take care of each other out there, lovable jackwagons.
Posted by: fly gal at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (pDXil)
What flag do they keep flying in Shitcago that causes all these shootings?
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (kmtse)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (EzgxV)
I can walk about 10-20 yards forwards, backwards, and sideways. My balance is becoming less of an issue, but my ankle and leg still need to be elevated and iced after every PT session.
Pookette, after speaking in unintelligible paragraphs for monrhs, is now more understandable. She was echoing her daddy tonight and said, "Like a boss!" very clearly. We read 15-30 books a day, and her favorite author is still Dr. Seuss. She can almost read Fox in Socks better than I can... and she's not yet two and a half.
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (FDfVQ)
Posted by: chi's sandwIch at June 22, 2015 10:42
No turnovers sadz face
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 23, 2015 01:38 AM (u/Asb)
The 2nd Amendment White Flag ...
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:38 AM (nSOh+)
Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 23, 2015 01:30 AM (MFkhJ)
Exactly. The Pathetic Left is already looking for their next target. Now they've got Walmart turning into a shill for them too.
It's never enough. Next might be Jefferson Davis statues, then JD schools, then JD highways, then military bases named after Confederates, etc. etc. etc.
Pathetic Left smells blood, and the piece of shit GOP is gonna go along. I'll support the GOP when one of them stands up and tells the Left to go fuck themselves. In those exact words. Until then, I'm out.
Posted by: Blano at June 23, 2015 01:38 AM (heN73)
159 A HUGE win. Now not only do they control our speech (ever notice that EVERYONE is allowed to say ni**er except white people?) but they can direct us which flags we're allowed to fly.
FTS. Knowing what goes on inside seeing the Planned Parenthood sign outside the abortion building offends the livin' sh$t outta ME.
What's MY recourse?
Everybody always talks about their admiration for Andrew Breitbart but nobody ever wants to fight
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 01:39 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (o/90i)
Bears. Da Bears
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 23, 2015 01:39 AM (u/Asb)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 23, 2015 01:41 AM (u/Asb)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 01:41 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:41 AM (F3WrY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2015 01:29 AM (F3WrY)
Just remember to spend the ill-gotten gains before nationalization fully kicks in... or move to Nauru to be protected the rabid hamsters...
Posted by: The Hat-kin at June 23, 2015 01:41 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 23, 2015 01:43 AM (KoT6c)
Posted by: thathalfrican at June 23, 2015 01:43 AM (R5HRU)
JoeDirt, if your grandparents were Japanese and "interred" by federal troops, then they were in Saipan? (first point of contact between US forces and Japanese civilians)
Just kidding, couldn't resist. I see what you're doing with your "offended" list.
Oh, and were those grandparents Japanese subjects, or dual nationals? If they were - and a very large portion of the internees were - then compliance with Geneva mandated internment/separation of enemy aliens.
The constitutional problems with the executive order are of course familiar, but I've always wondered how the direct conflict between Geneva and the US constitution WRT enemy aliens would have been resolved. I do not believe the US interned any Axis enemy alien civilians (who were residents - some fortunate Italian merchant seamen found themselves in the "wrong" port when war was declared on the US).
Just last week at the museum we had a visitor who recounted the story of her Japanese-American neighbors who welcomed relocation (though probably not dispossession) because they had been subject to serious harrassment and threats from local yahoos after Dec. 7. Exactly the sort of situation those Geneva provisions were meant to address.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:43 AM (QDnY+)
Well, Cooth, still putting one foot in front of the other.
Didn't accomplish anything today, maybe tomorrow.
You?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:29 AM (bLnSU)
Cleaning-lady hell. It's like in Harrison Bergeron where there's a blast of noise to disrupt any coherent thought -- once a month, all the countertops and floors get cleaned, but leave undersink water-sensors, gas cooktops, and tea-makers inoperable -- as well as shuffling every piece of paper, including all the post-its with enhanced passwords I've been using since my security problem.
Let me know if there's anything I can do. I'm worried about you.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:44 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 01:44 AM (YJeFl)
The 2nd Amendment White Flag ...
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at June 23, 2015 01:38 AM (nSOh+)
Funny how those gun restrictions don't stop criminals from killing each other and random innocent folks. Geez, we need moar lawz...
/sarc
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:45 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 23, 2015 01:45 AM (KoT6c)
https://youtu.be/t1iwJOYTSTw
(sfw)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 23, 2015 01:31 AM (UVfht)
Heh. Commie shithead is right. Bruce CocKburn (he hates it when you pronounce the "cK"; he says it "Coburn") has had one or two good, non-political songs, but most of his catalog is raving lefty lunacy. And having been to Nicaragua several times, I'd have to say the government of Daniel Ortega is "socialist" in name only. I'd describe it as a moderately benign kleptocracy. They banned abortion, to pick up the Catholic vote, for one. I chatted with a lawyer there, a dyed-in-the-wool Sandinista (and also a fine gentleman, for all that) who described Ortega as "Somoza lite."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:46 AM (GA3ji)
I don't think anyone is going to do anything about the progressive progression toward Total Control. I have to worry about other things now. By the time I'm done, I expect I will be left with little to do but try to secure the least obnoxious and least attention-getting place for my friends and family to go. I may not have that luxury.
Most of this was anticipated, I admit I did not expect the "mob justice" to be as diffuse as it seems to be - though it has become obvious that the street mobs have tighter ties than most realize, and the online mobs are starting to look more coordinate than most are willing to accept.
They are still more subtle than I expected. My experience with the Soviet model led me to expect a heavier academic influence, they largely seem to be depleting their resources and the online mob has found other sources of income.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:46 AM (bLnSU)
Mero, I'm a nobody; you'll never know me, and I'll never know you, but every day, any day, I see you post, it lifts me up.
Thank you for lifting me up.
Posted by: thanks at June 23, 2015 01:46 AM (u/dSe)
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:46 AM (EzgxV)
So let's talk about better subjects -- how are you walking and how's the kid doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:26 AM (EzgxV)
I can walk about 10-20 yards forwards, backwards, and sideways. My
balance is becoming less of an issue, but my ankle and leg still need to
be elevated and iced after every PT session.
Pookette, after speaking in unintelligible paragraphs for monrhs, is
now more understandable. She was echoing her daddy tonight and said,
"Like a boss!" very clearly. We read 15-30 books a day, and her favorite
author is still Dr. Seuss. She can almost read Fox in Socks better than
I can... and she's not yet two and a half.
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:37 AM (FDfVQ)
Fox in Socks is Teh Awesomesauce!!!!! And 20 yards is a serious distance. Gotta keep pushin' it, but 20 yards is a good way towards living a normal life.
Posted by: cthulhu at June 23, 2015 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: bill-o at June 23, 2015 01:51 AM (AWwDY)
Goodnight Morons
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at June 23, 2015 01:41 AM (u/Asb)
Have a nice trip, be well yourself MH.
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:51 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Dave M at June 23, 2015 01:54 AM (T1Fev)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:43 AM (QDnY+)
Do you also work at a museum...where?
T, from N IL
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 01:54 AM (o/90i)
And thanks, umm, thanks person. (Looks at post right above that, thinks it's kind of depressing...)
Maybe sometime I will become more active here again, for now it's very occasional.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:56 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 01:46 AM (bLnSU)
Don't remember specifics, but I remember people posting online about participating in various riots and getting away with it. I thought it was the FBI's job to arrest people publicly admitting to destroying property in several states, but that's probably the raaaaacism talking.
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:56 AM (FDfVQ)
Agree with all here who recognize what a pathetic and important setback this Confederate flag thing is.
In Tucson, slimy local Dem political types are literally directly responsible for the possibility of Loughner doing what he did (mother and Sheriff). A Republican judge is killed. A beyond-absurd and outrageous allegation is made that a graphic on a political website (never seen by the perp) was a factor. The president makes a disgraceful, stupid speech. A (probably doomed and useless) Navy ship is named for the wounded Dem member of Congress, who is paraded around as a puppet for the usual idiotic "gun control" nonsense.
No response. No adults in the room. No Americans in America. No shame, no sense, no pride, no backbone, no nothing.
It builds. It matters.
This time, Romney (WTF?) and now even Gov. Haley of SC submit to the orwellian insanity.
Intelligent, common sensical, historically literate Americans with any sort of American mindset simply have no representation at any level - in elected offices obviously, in academia, popular culture, media - nowhere.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:56 AM (QDnY+)
Must get sleep when I can find it!
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel (Cold1) (T) at June 23, 2015 01:56 AM (OQ9R7)
Even if that were all true, he's still better than the collection of sewer rats, traitors and dipshit dorks who comprise the rest of the GOP field.
The fact that Trump - former Clinton cheerleader and big-time Dem - is better at identifying what the conservative base thinks and what the obvious truth about the Indonesian, dog-eating 84 IQ America-hater is than pretty much anyone else in the GOP says something.
Of course, it's all irrelevant to me. My last vote for any GOP turd (after decades) was in 2012. After the GOP morons in the House re-elected that loser douchebag as Weeper in 2013, I was finished. I can only take so much and that was it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 01:57 AM (MYSVz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 23, 2015 01:58 AM (GA3ji)
Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at June 23, 2015 01:58 AM (G3txG)
jackie wilson's "your love keeps lifting me) higher and higher"
Posted by: steinmetz at June 23, 2015 01:58 AM (CrYC8)
Posted by: steinmetz at June 23, 2015 01:59 AM (CrYC8)
Farmer, I cherish my anonymity, so let's leave it at a military history museum in CA. Volunteer, not there much any more.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:59 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Garrett at June 23, 2015 02:00 AM (G3txG)
1) Raisin Farmers won (SCOTUS)
2) Baby kangaroos not recognized as service animals ...
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at June 23, 2015 02:01 AM (nSOh+)
Personally I only know a few of them. But they have a lot more official unofficial support now. And it's not all domestic.
We're in incredibly dangerous times. It looks like the administration is ignorant of that, but you'd have to be too stupid to tie your shoes.
And Slap, get some sleep!
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:02 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Arson Wells at June 23, 2015 02:03 AM (UnJ7w)
One day, the guys running the camp decided we'd been working hard, and they took us into the little town to see a movie.
Naturally, the movie was Jaws.
The next day, of course, it was back into the water....
It's hard to think of a more perfect way to see that movie.
Posted by: Null at June 23, 2015 02:04 AM (xjpRj)
Gonna go finish The Great Terror (revised edition) by Conquest. It's depressing but not in the way one might guess. The unbelievable moral inversion and idiocy of western leftist elites in the face of the monstrous evil of Stalin's USSR is surveyed in the new last chapter. It's simply jaw-dropping.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 02:05 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 01:56 AM (FDfVQ)
IIRC, there were several people identified from social media postings as having been in Ferguson and Baltimore. Also there was some evidence they were paid by a MO group that was a spinoff of Acorn or some such group.
I always wondered how these yahoos showed up to protest and paid their motel bills, etc.
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 02:06 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: buzzion at June 23, 2015 02:08 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 01:59 AM (QDnY+)
Understood, rhomboid. Good on you for helping out w/ the history. BTW I always find your posts very well done. Cogent, intelligent, whatever...I can't find the right word I'm searching for, but I appreciate them.
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 02:10 AM (o/90i)
Was it ever retitled as _I Told You So, You Fucking Fools_, as Conquest said he was contemplating doing?
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 02:10 AM (noWW6)
Yeah, I know the FBI works for the DoJ, and I know they won't do anything about people who need "space to destroy" or whatever, but enforcing the law is their job, whether they like it or not.
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 02:11 AM (FDfVQ)
Then I remember the Repubelican party is headed up by that crying little bitch Boehner in the House, that Koopa Troopa turd in the Senate and that pissy little fuck Reince Priebus(what kind of name is that?).
This country is sooo fucked right now, it's not even funny. God help us.
Posted by: Arson Wells at June 23, 2015 02:11 AM (UnJ7w)
One last bit. Summer '75, "Jaws" summer, August I think. Hanging out at a friend's house, we were watching TV local sports towards the end of the 11PM news. Just as sports ended, they teased a "shark attack in Santa Barbara" story for the closer. During the commercial we snickered about "damn, ANOTHER hoax or false report, this is ridiculous".
Story opens with footage of the victim in a hospital bed, his leg in a cast.
My brother's college roommate! Real attack. I recall the icthyologist estimated from the bite radius that it was a 15-foot female great white (people on the boat, a 17-foot Boston Whaler, said the fish surfaced briefly alongside after gumming their buddy, and was almost as long as the boat, so that tracked). Very lucky, only minor injuries, cut femoral would have been the end, esp. in that remote location.
Happened to be visiting the area the next week, the guy was relaxing in a lounge chair in front of his apartment building, receiving the masses who were paying homage (often passsers-by - "you the guy who got attacked by the shark??!").
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 02:12 AM (QDnY+)
It's still depressing how it's all not being handled. Someone should have lost their metaphorical head over the team arson thing in Baltimore, those were almost certainly BB/Team Chicago, though I only had a clear look at one in a photo and it wasn't someone I'd seen before.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:15 AM (bLnSU)
1) Raisin Farmers won (SCOTUS)
2) Baby kangaroos not recognized as service animals ...
Posted by: Adriane the History Critic ... at June 23, 2015 02:01 AM
True, I think the raisin farmer's victory was great, the SCOTUS isn't totally lost yet.
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 02:15 AM (o/90i)
Farmer, you are too kind. I'd simply call my comments verbose, and too careful (odd mix).
Torque, that's a great quote, didn't know it - but no, it's titled The Great Terror still! It was pretty amazing. In this edition he gets to include info about ex-Soviets working with him, and basically it's clear the guy was "the" expert on the topic, and viewed as such,long before the USSR collapsed.
We'll see whether he shares my single speculation/thesis about the sickness of Russian society (includes most former Soviet republics): that the massive, pervasive evil that transpired between the 1920s and the death of Stalin, having never been dealt with, poisons the civic culture there beyond repair. Not just the evil and violence themselves, but the fact that there was never any iota of investigation, justice, or punishment for any of it.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 02:20 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2015 02:06 AM (o/90i)
Yeah, there's always some "non-profit organization" that gets its money through tax deductions and polical kickbacks that funds the professional protestors and rioters. The corruption irritates me, obviously, but so does the shell game.
Goodnight, and sweet dreams of AlextheChick's raptors ripping apart the tax code......
Posted by: pookysgirl can walk (a few yards) at June 23, 2015 02:21 AM (FDfVQ)
That's the kind of think that doesn't get a rise out of me, even though odds are the person in that situation is a tax sponge - I'm more worried about huge scammers and corrupt government and a crushed economy.
Actually my threat level from someone cuddling an immature kangaroo is about zero.
Gila Monster? Yeah, we got a problem.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:22 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 23, 2015 02:22 AM (QDnY+)
There are probably a few hundred of them. There was a huge push around the turn of the century that some people called "the purchase of the Democrat Party." Among other things, McCain-Feingold made the Democrats a lot more dependent on these organizations (though they still get a lot from corps and unions).
It sounds all conspiracy-ey, but it also happened.
Ironically, reform in the form of openness and transparency might have made this all less disastrous, but that was never going to happen, not with the closets full of compacted skeletons in DC.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:31 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Jakee308 at June 23, 2015 02:31 AM (x3GpS)
More to it than that, as always, but the other part of the equation is investment in politics here making that topic taboo on the news, and backing his huge moneymaking schemes off the backs of poor Mexicans.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:33 AM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 23, 2015 02:22 AM (bLnSU)
The whole "emotional support animal" idea is a fraud. An intellectually offensive scam.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 02:34 AM (MYSVz)
The people growing up now and in the future will NOT have the same experiences we did growing up.
It's the reason for the dissonance in politics right now.
All those bending little twigs finally paying off for the socialist/communists of the '60's, '70's.
And this country will never be the same because we were the last to be raised pretty much like everyone else had for a hundred or so years.
That all changed in the '70's.
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing will take time to be discovered.
Personally from my perspective it's not good and neither will it get better very soon.
Posted by: Jakee308 at June 23, 2015 02:37 AM (x3GpS)
sickness of Russian society (includes most former Soviet republics):
that the massive, pervasive evil that transpired between the 1920s and
the death of Stalin, having never been dealt with, poisons the civic
culture there beyond repair."
Noteworthy hypothesis.
Plays hand in glove with the idea that Stalin nostalgia in today's Russia means that the societal failure to deal with the "massive, pervasive evil" can be overlooked and excused, via the convenient fiction that there was no massive, pervasive evil in the first place.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 02:38 AM (noWW6)
The Ventura that dropped down was actually making a bombing run- depth charges because the Indy's oil slick was a sign to the pilot who was sub-hunting that a sub might have just dived. He'd been trying to fix a radio antenna on a faulty reel for the second time that day. Pure miracle he spotted anything as he was leaning out of his plane.
The "Big Fat PBY" was based out of Peleliu- that island many argued would been better if left off the Island Hopping list. They voted to land in the open ocean after witnessing sharks attacking some of the survivors- again, they had no idea who the men bobbing in the ocean were or their nationality. And landing in that spot in the ocean was against Navy regs.
This is a great monologue from an actual survivor- Edgar Harrel. He was part of the Marine detachment aboard the Indy assigned to guard the box on the stern of the ship that contained the Little Boy and fat Man components. Apologies for the slightly loud music.
http://tinyurl.com/nzunngp
Posted by: Rex B at June 23, 2015 02:39 AM (OXzvH)
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 02:38 AM (noWW6)
I think you have to take into account the fact that there has always been "massive pervasive evil" in Russia and that that is what Russian society has always preferred. Stalin was nothing new, there.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 02:40 AM (MYSVz)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 02:40 AM (MYSVz)
If Clinton had just gone in and given Yelstin a purple-nurple now and then, I'm sure the Russians would have, by proxy, felt oppressed enough to chillax...
Posted by: The Nerple Hat at June 23, 2015 02:49 AM (7YlUk)
But it ate my baby.
Then I needed even more emotional support, so also had to get a kangaroo.
Posted by: If at first you don't succeed... at June 23, 2015 02:52 AM (66Dev)
Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 23, 2015 02:49 AM (MFkhJ)
Only if the stars on the flag are rainbow colored and the rest of it is dyed with a trans-man's menstrual blood... and "Dixie" is performed by a chorus-line of she-males...
Posted by: Ernst Röhm at June 23, 2015 02:55 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 23, 2015 02:49 AM (MFkhJ)
Only if the stars on the flag are rainbow colored and the rest of it is dyed with a trans-man's menstrual blood... and "Dixie" is performed by a chorus-line of she-males...
Posted by: Ernst Röhm at June 23, 2015 02:55 AM (7YlUk)
What if it's at a nudist camp?
Posted by: Adriane the Conundrum Critic ... at June 23, 2015 02:56 AM (nSOh+)
>>>If I wear my Confederate flag t-shirt at my bi-racial gay wedding will I be OK?
Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 23, 2015 02:49 AM (MFkhJ)<<<
Only if you're bringin' the pizza.
Posted by: everyone at the reception at June 23, 2015 02:57 AM (66Dev)
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Posted by: The Compromising Hat at June 23, 2015 03:08 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: Adriane the Conundrum Critic ... at June 23, 2015 03:08 AM (nSOh+)
But it also has middle-class areas. And even several hoity-toity wealthy neighborhoods.
But that ghetto is the squeaky wheel that gets all the attention. 90% of the crime -- and there is a lot of it -- happens in the ghetto. 90% of the poverty -- ghetto. 95% of the blight and litter and ugliness -- ghetto.
The ghetto started around 1946 (when workers from the south drawn to the port and dockyard for war work found themselves unemployed after the war ended), and ever since the social problems there have only grown worse and worse and worse every year.
In the interim, Oakland has has white mayors, black mayors, Asian mayors, progressive mayors, liberal mayors, socialist mayors and yet more progressive mayors.
A gazillion dollars and a jillion man-hours of effort have gone into fixing the problems of Oakland's ghetto over the decades. And yet the ghetto persists, impervious to any attempts top lessen, fix or alleviate its problems.
But wait! Tonight, a solution has been found!
For tonight, the Oakland City Council just voted to establish an entire new layer of municipal bureaucracy:
The Department of Race and Equity!!!
http://tinyurl.com/obgqcjz
"Supporters of a controversial department of race and equity packed a special Oakland City Council meeting Monday, ultimately persuading the council to establish the department permanently.
Council members voted unanimously to pass an ordinance that would create the race and equity department..."
Budget: $1 million/year for more bureaucrats!
Problem: Solved!
Poverty: Kiss our ass! You lose!
Crime: Poof! No crime!
Because MOAR KAFKA-ESQUE BUREAUCRACY will always solve every intractable problem!
First crisis to be addressed (for real): Why are the lawns in the ghetto browner than the green lawns in the better part of town?????!!?!??!??
(Think I'm kidding? Think again: "Brooks pointed to a litany of issues that she said reveal the city's "systemic" inequalities. Among them was the color of the grass in East Oakland.
"It looks like we stopped watering our parks in the east," Brooks said, pointing out that grass in the city's downtown remains green and lush.")
The Department of Race and Equity to the rescue! Green lawns for everyone!
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:18 AM (jBuUi)
Damn thing kicks like a mule.
Hey Walmart, you know what offends me? That in 2013, your stores rang up $14 billion in taxpayer provided EBT sales; your profit that year was $17 billion. About 18% of all EBT sales goes into your coffers.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2015 03:19 AM (su3Ib)
Note that is isn't the Dept. of Race and equality, but of equity.
Keep your eyes out for that.
They don't care about treating people "equally", but of dividing up the spoils "equitably" along racially proportional lines.
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 23, 2015 03:21 AM (7YlUk)
Is that related to "profit AND earnings ratios"?
I've been trying, for years, to find out what the hell barky was talking about ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 03:25 AM (MYSVz)
fixing the problems of Oakland's ghetto over the decades. And yet the
ghetto persists, impervious to any attempts top lessen, fix or alleviate
its problems."
Croakland is where a very nasty street criminal named Lovelle Mixon shot and killed several police officers, and the local community held memorial marches afterwards.
To honor Mixon.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (su3Ib)
Here is "The Pits of Wydah" by Skinflint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOBNrMQouk
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (7YlUk)
Posted by: The Political Hat
Hahahahahaha!! You are so funny!
Seriously, do you think that want to divvy up the money "equitably along racially proportional lines"???
Dream on. Every dime spent on a "white" or "Asian" (or even "Hispanic") neighborhoods will be decried as sheer racism.
It already is, in fact. Only now, it will be exponentially more abrasive and accusatory.
These activists (who now have a stronghold in City Hall) want 100% of the spoils, not some namby-pamby "proportional" split.
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (jBuUi)
No!
Is that real?,
Or are you just pulling the hat over my eyes.
Posted by: Joe Dirt
It's for real -- check out the link:
http://tinyurl.com/obgqcjz
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:28 AM (jBuUi)
Well -- hope you people are happy. Your disagreeing with Drew in the Civil War flag thread gave him a sads:
Drew McCoy DrewMTips
That thing where you want to block someone and then you realize it's a comment thread and you can't ban them for being an asshole.
He's been up in his room all night just crying. Didn't even eat dinner. And it was his favorite - Spaghetti-Os with a hot dog in them.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 23, 2015 03:28 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (jBuUi)
You're certainly correct about the 100% but they don't really care about distributing any of the money. They just want to make sure that whitey doesn't have it. They'd be just as happy to destroy it as to steal it ... many of them even happier.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2015 03:30 AM (MYSVz)
Dream on. Every dime spent on a "white" or "Asian" (or even "Hispanic") neighborhoods will be decried as sheer racism.
It already is, in fact. Only now, it will be exponentially more abrasive and accusatory.
These activists (who now have a stronghold in City Hall) want 100% of the spoils, not some namby-pamby "proportional" split.
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:26 AM (jBuUi)
Of course not. But that will be the boldfaced lie of an excuse whenever they pull any scheme.
They will claim redistribution in the name of "equity", and then blame institutioinal racism when the poor get poorer while stuffing the $$$ into their pockets.
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 23, 2015 03:31 AM (7YlUk)
To honor Mixon.
Posted by: torquewrench
Hey, I witnessed it!
And when I went to the Occupy Oakland camp in 2011, I found plenty of Lovelle Mixon love:
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=1814
[Photo of Occupy sign saying "In the Spirit of Lovelle Mixon -- Bang for Freedom"]
"Remember Lovelle Mixon, the serial rapist, child molester and murderer who single-handedly committed one of the worst mass killings of police officers in American history? Yeah, that guy. Well, the anti-police sentiment at Occupy Oakland is so intense that they regard Lovelle Mixon as a hero!! Whatever other crimes he may have committed, if he offed some pigs, then all is forgiven. Fuck the Po-lice! Power to the people!"
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:32 AM (jBuUi)
mayors, progressive mayors, liberal mayors, socialist mayors and yet
more progressive mayors."
Including even the current Governor of Commiefornia!
And also burned-out old progressive stalwart Ron Dellums.
I thought I had seen cases of tired corrupt pols phoning it in, but Dellums was amazing. It was as though he were phoning it in via a SETI dish connection to Alpha Centauri, with the associated time lag. Just completely disengaged from the job, and uncomprehending of the basic tasks of the mayoralty.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 03:34 AM (noWW6)
Obligatory --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qaHyvyr43c
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2015 03:40 AM (su3Ib)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 03:50 AM (YJeFl)
Another time I didn't take a turn and drove out of Oakland airport straight into hell again.
Posted by: Joe Dirt
It's not that bad.
Really, the majority of the city, geography-wise, is fairly decent. Parts are actually quite ritzy.
Only maybe 1/3 of Oakland is ghetto-tastic. And a lot of that is in "out of the way" areas that a random casual visitors wouldn't just accidentally stumble into.
So there's no need to always avoid all of Oakland. One only needs to avoid certain parts of Oakland.
But sadly, yes, some of the area near the airport isn't so nice. Pretty dicey. (But not nearly the worst part of the city.)
I guess it all depends on your frame of reference. Even the semi-slum would likely look like "hell" if you're used to suburbia.
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 03:57 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at June 23, 2015 03:59 AM (kmtse)
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2015 04:01 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:04 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 23, 2015 04:05 AM (XHihg)
Posted by: SMFH at it all at June 23, 2015 04:07 AM (kmtse)
Posted by: Nancy Reagan at June 23, 2015 04:09 AM (MYSVz)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:09 AM (YJeFl)
Nuclear wessels!
I still fondly recall big flattops making port calls, after standing in through the fog through the Gate. Elephants in the mist.
And having the living shit scared out of me driving west on the Bay Bridge and having Navy jet jocks departing NAS Alameda in full burner 200 feet above the bridge deck.
Alameda has never been quite as bad crime-wise as Oakland, even with the departure of the military presence, because of the geographic choke points. Criminal perps are quite aware that if they are made, it's hard for them to get out of Alameda without interception.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 23, 2015 04:11 AM (noWW6)
There is nothing great about being eaten by an effin fish!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 23, 2015 04:11 AM (iQIUe)
One of my fondest memories were the family cruises on my dad's ship.
And the regular sounds of jets taking off was always soothing to me.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at June 23, 2015 04:14 AM (kmtse)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 23, 2015 04:14 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:27 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:31 AM (YJeFl)
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Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:35 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:44 AM (YJeFl)
Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2015 05:30 AM (btTLZ)
Posted by: MAx at June 23, 2015 04:09 AM (YJeFl)
Or what's parked at the projects.
Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2015 05:32 AM (btTLZ)
Snark does it for now. Watching those chickens coming home to roost does, too.
Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2015 05:35 AM (btTLZ)
And every day the paperboy brings more... "
When I read that, I "heard" it in Jame Gumb's voice.
Posted by: Agent J at June 23, 2015 05:36 AM (9Mtv3)
The Communists are now the Capitalists.
We are so doomed.
Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2015 05:40 AM (btTLZ)
Posted by: Gmac - Driving into the future from the past at June 23, 2015 05:56 AM (4pjhs)
Posted by: fluffy at June 23, 2015 06:05 AM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 23, 2015 06:06 AM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 23, 2015 06:14 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Pixy's hamsters at June 23, 2015 06:18 AM (66Dev)
Posted by: Pixy's hamsters at June 23, 2015 06:21 AM (66Dev)
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Posted by: Y-not on the phone at June 23, 2015 07:22 AM (O6j88)
A neighbor who I would otherwise respect, but who is apparently afflicted with political brain damage, posted a change in her Facebook "status" indicating that she wants everyone to Sign the Petition to remove Confederate flags, etc. It was, of course, sent to her by Move On.org.
It makes me think of the Google daily theme. I think that Move On/Soros etc have five years worth of daily themes stacked away, and anytime they want to change the subject or agitate in front of the next election, they roll out another one.
Last time around it was all Occupy in advance of the election, to shift the electorate into "equality" issues and demonize the presumptive R candidate Romney. This time around its all Race and Wimmens all the time to prep the battlefield for Hillary + Minority VP To Be Named Later.
Pro tip: next time someone mentions "like Ferguson" you must respond: "Yes, the problem of young black criminals attacking the police. Something does need to be done. "
Posted by: NYC Parent adding lead shielding to his bunker at June 23, 2015 09:10 AM (HEo6y)
The Left is always trying to stir something up, because while there's always an opportunity to make this country a better place, in the context of the world, it is generally the best place to live for people of any race, gender, or creed. And they can't have that!
Posted by: Nutsy the Buzzard at June 23, 2015 09:41 AM (lJJaE)
Take Down The Stars and Bars!
Raise the Wage!
Equal Marriage!
etc etc etc!!!!
Meanwhile, Iranian scientists are finishing up their nukes, China takes control of the sea lanes, Russia eats up more Europe, ISIS is on the march and our entire economy floats on a bubble of unsustainably low interest rates and inflated stock prices.
But hey, priorities.
Posted by: NYC Parent adding lead shielding to his bunker at June 23, 2015 09:54 AM (HEo6y)
I got about halfway through the post and then skipped down. Yup, the Amazing Zombie. Long may you wave!
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