Open Thread for Politics and Misery [Y-not]

Apparently, some of you cannot take even Sunday off, bless your hearts.

Here's your thread for doing things like this:

Open thread.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:54 AM

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1 Who watches the watchers? Nobody, because it just says "Error".

Posted by: Yes means Maybe at June 28, 2015 01:24 PM (7wyDO)

2 999th!!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:26 PM (91eZY)

3
You scolded someone in YOUR thread for making a comment.

With this simple and easy Open Thread you no longer have to scold commenters, drive away visitors, and take food out of Ace's kid's mouths.

Wasn't that easy?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 28, 2015 01:26 PM (5jPLo)

4
and thank you.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 28, 2015 01:27 PM (5jPLo)

5 >>Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 28, 2015 01:26 PM

It is very clear that what drives traffic away from this blog is (1) no content and (2) a-holes commenters.

Have a nice day.

Posted by: Y-not at June 28, 2015 01:28 PM (RWGcK)

6 Friends, friends. Let's not bicker an argue about 'oo killed 'oo.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 28, 2015 01:29 PM (rwI+c)

7
You did something that even Ace never does, which is give a commenter -- a visitor to the blog -- a hard time for making a comment in a comment thread. And I'm the bad guy.

All I said was put up an open thread and then Everyone will be happy. But noooo, I get this.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 28, 2015 01:30 PM (5jPLo)

8 So that is a Gorn?

Looks he had some kind of weapon on its belt. Why didn't it use it?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:31 PM (91eZY)

9 So Greek banks will be closed until after the vote because they have used all the EU emergency funds.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 28, 2015 01:34 PM (CxEX+)

10 Sheesh. We wuz way over the 100-comment limit.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 28, 2015 01:35 PM (oVJmc)

11 I still think Merkel will cave. Can't risk Italy or Spain getting the same idea.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:35 PM (91eZY)

12
Looks he had some kind of weapon on its belt. Why didn't it use it?

It's a recorder/communicator provided by the Metrons.

/protracted virginity

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 28, 2015 01:36 PM (oVJmc)

13
Apologies for my own contribution to "politicizing" the stereotypes thread.

Of course, not being able to find refuge from "politics" - actually, from your neighbors running your life via illegitimate state power - is kind of the reality in post-constitutional America, so the inability to keep threads politics-free is, can we agree, very appropriate and symbolic?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2015 01:37 PM (QDnY+)

14 I have virtually no knowledge of Star Trek that I did not learn here. I have seen some of the original and some of the TNG series and som of DS9

Didn't care much for any of them.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:38 PM (91eZY)

15 Friends, friends. Let's not bicker an argue about 'oo killed 'oo.

Huge tracts of land. For peace. And the children.

Posted by: Methos at June 28, 2015 01:39 PM (ZbV+0)

16 Obama Voter:

http://tinyurl.com/p8mbrdk

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 28, 2015 01:40 PM (oVJmc)

17 So Greek banks will be closed until ~~after the vote because they have used all the EU emergency funds.~~ they have enough drachmas printed to reopen.

FIFY

Posted by: Methos at June 28, 2015 01:41 PM (ZbV+0)

18 Didn't care much for any of them.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:38 PM (91eZY)

* points vigorously *

BURN THE HERETIC!!!

Posted by: Not Loved Time to be Feared at June 28, 2015 01:41 PM (nRvEn)

19
Hmm, gottasmall position in a leveraged short against the Euro (exchange-traded fund or ETF). Wonder if she's gonna pop on Monday? It's done OK the last year, for the same reason (Eurozone instability).

But I wonder if such a mechanism is going to face some problems delivering its value as/if things get worse for the Euro. Complicated derivatives can collapse, like a company stock going to zero, not because they lack value but because the mechanisms they rely on cease to function on the edges of the curve.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2015 01:41 PM (QDnY+)

20 I'm still marveling over this hi-res image of the SC Capital.

http://tinyurl.com/p3ruoop

Find ~~Waldo~~ the CBF.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 28, 2015 01:42 PM (rwI+c)

21 The episode is based, I believe, on a Frederick Brown short story. Basically, Kirk and the Gorn have to fight to decide which of their species will win. In the short story, there is no happy ending unlike in the episode.

Posted by: Not Loved Time to be Feared at June 28, 2015 01:43 PM (nRvEn)

22
So, gun thread??!

(sorry, but someone pulled that yesterday and it was funny, maybe not this time)

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2015 01:44 PM (QDnY+)

23 So, can we talk about regional preconceptions?

Posted by: OG Celtic-America at June 28, 2015 01:44 PM (W2CpM)

24 "BURN THE HERETIC!!!"

There were certain episodes that I liked. Not to mention that WoK in my opinion was very good.

There was one episode of TNG I think, an alternate history where the Federation was continuously at war with the Klingons? that was very good.

Much of the rest of it?

That empath character. Agauman of space? The list of ST annoyances is too large to post here.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:45 PM (91eZY)

25 I have virtually no knowledge of Star Trek that I
did not learn here. I have seen some of the original and some of the TNG
series and som of DS9

Didn't care much for any of them.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2015 01:38 PM (91eZY)

I liked the original Star Trek as a kid. Watching it as an adult, the acting is as wooden and as hell and there is way too much lefty politics. Fuck it who needs it.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 28, 2015 01:45 PM (DiZBp)

26 At least Kirk never sucked a dick.

Posted by: OG Celtic-America at June 28, 2015 01:50 PM (W2CpM)

27 At least Kirk never sucked a dick.

Says you.

Posted by: Orion Slave 'Girl' at June 28, 2015 01:52 PM (ZbV+0)

28
At least Kirk never sucked a dick.

*whistles casually*

Posted by: Spock at June 28, 2015 01:52 PM (oVJmc)

29 "Be logical Jim, my penis will not fellate itself."

Posted by: OG Celtic-America at June 28, 2015 01:53 PM (W2CpM)

30 I put this in the thread above just as an FYI before going out to the garage to fix the car. I apologize to Y-not for injecting politics into what is and was an entertaining thread.

"Barack Obama meets David Attenborough" at 5:30 eastern 4:30 central. They will be lecturing us on climate change from what I gather from the promo.

On BBC America.

Posted by: Robinson at June 28, 2015 01:53 PM (1SHv1)

31
Rottenberry had several other tv series, too.

Earth: Final Conflict is one. Never watched but I might soon. Andromeda is another; which I liked.

Shatner wrote a bunch of scifi books. They even made a tv series based on his books in the early 90's called TekWar. I never bothered watching because it looked dumb. But I'm gonna watch a couple of episodes this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 28, 2015 01:54 PM (5jPLo)

32 Kirk should've painted his log-gun black so it would be more cool and tactical.

Posted by: Old Hob at June 28, 2015 02:04 PM (T1Jm0)

33 Well, just as we predicted. Ministers ordered NOT to refuse to perform gay marriages by Idaho officials under threat of jail time or fines.

http://tinyurl.com/qc9pmww

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 28, 2015 03:24 PM (tAoev)

34 Well, just as we predicted. Ministers ordered NOT to refuse to perform gay marriages by Idaho officials under threat of jail time or fines.

Jackpot time for the ministers, misery for the taxpayers.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 28, 2015 03:29 PM (rwI+c)

35 If we're thinking about the same Fredric Brown story (he said to the dead thread), it does have a happy ending. The human race wins against a murderous xenophobic race with no casualties, because a godlike race intervenes and rules on the basis of a single combat between them.

Not the pussified bullshit ending Roddenberry wrote.

Posted by: Xenophon at June 28, 2015 05:50 PM (52PHA)

36 Democrats keep herping and derping like there's no tommorrow. And we keep dancing all night. But come Monday, we go full Sun Tzu on their sorry hides. The Bible ain't the only good book in town, son.

Incoherent, much?

Posted by: Carlos at June 28, 2015 07:34 PM (G0zje)

37 Did I mention that Tsipras can go suck eggs today?

Posted by: Carlos at June 28, 2015 07:35 PM (G0zje)

38 By the way did the same douchebags who keep making the "Courts ordered States to not treat blacks as property." knew that Supreme Court ruled against abolishment of slavery in 1857.

Posted by: Carlos at June 28, 2015 07:44 PM (G0zje)

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