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François Charles Cachoud, "A Village in the Moonlight; The Road at Night" (n.d.)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 01:17 PM

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1 Premiere?

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:17 PM (0LHZx)

2 Helloooooooooo

Posted by: @votermom at July 28, 2015 01:17 PM (cbfNE)

3 Premier that is. Fuck I hate those masculine feminine rules in French which I always forget.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:18 PM (0LHZx)

4
is Cecil a good name for a cat?
or a lizard?

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:18 PM (h0PFb)

5 Someone left a light on.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2015 01:18 PM (6xtq3)

6 Cecil is good for a cat. So is Mr. Wiskers.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2015 01:19 PM (6xtq3)

7 How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?

http://t.co/ESQ3chflaW

Posted by: Mr Wolf at July 28, 2015 01:19 PM (cjgnX)

8 Late night negotiations over baby parts, and highway funding.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at July 28, 2015 01:20 PM (zauWW)

9 Is anyone up for a round of golf? I don't have anything to do, so lets play 18!

Posted by: Barack at July 28, 2015 01:20 PM (TxJGV)

10 The scenes of horror that have occurred in that isolated farm house are not fit for a family blog.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 28, 2015 01:21 PM (rwI+c)

11 Abortions are a great business decision.

Plus it means revenue for billionaires like me.

Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:21 PM (QuNQQ)

12 Insomnia!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2015 01:21 PM (NOIQH)

13 Could be, could be.

Very wasteful - leaving all those lights on. If I were an environmentalist, I'd give a shit.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2015 01:21 PM (6xtq3)

14
If Trump, right now, would get serious and act presidential, he'd run away with the nom.

Mr. Trump, you have arrived. Now cut the bombast and act like a president.

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:21 PM (h0PFb)

15 All sorts of bad juju gonna happen on that dark road next to the house.

AND IS THAT IVY GROWING ON THE WALL?!?!

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (6xtq3)

16 How much for that hooker in the window?

Posted by: Sphynx at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (OZmbA)

17 It is 3 a.m. in the farmhouse and the phone just rang.

Huma is calling H to say she will be a little late and to tuck in without her.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (U6f54)

18
remember the cute little FOTOMAT booths in parking lots?

think they were air conditioned?

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (h0PFb)

19 Someone left a light on.

They're in there separating out the little tiny livers to ship them on the morrow.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (/kI1Q)

20 I have a cat named Cecil.

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:23 PM (EgOr3)

21 Wonder if they've got any wine or cheese?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:24 PM (LA7Cm)

22 is Cecil a good name for a cat?
or a lizard?

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:18 PM (h0PFb)

A seasick sea serpent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdReHP9cb0

Posted by: naturalfake at July 28, 2015 01:24 PM (KUa85)

23 Does Trump really want to be prezzie?

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:24 PM (0LHZx)

24
First

to say Fuq Jaun McLame...

Posted by: CSMBigBird at July 28, 2015 01:24 PM (jsWA8)

25 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 28, 2015 01:24 PM (kff5f)

26 Someone left a light on.

Tom Bodet.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:25 PM (jTo7g)

27 >>How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?

Obama can play up his Kenyan heritage, no one else can.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2015 01:25 PM (NOIQH)

28
As the #BLM nutters say: This Must Stop Now!

Hand over Ace! We demand proof of life!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 01:25 PM (iQIUe)

29 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (kff5f)

30 I have a cat named Cecil.
Posted by: Peaches

Where?

Posted by: Minnesota Dentist channeling his inner Robert Ruark at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (l3vZN)

31 7 How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?

http://t.co/ESQ3chflaW

Posted by: Mr Wolf at July 28, 2015 01:19 PM (cjgnX)

Link goes to a china site I believe.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (fWAjv)

32
Maybe that's where I got the idea for Cecil the cat...

HR's cats are named Smokey and Blackie, or Smokey and Trampie.

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (h0PFb)

33 Is Ace taking some time off?
He deserves it - he's been on fire lately.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (NOIQH)

34 Baby chopping is a civil right.

/DOJ

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:27 PM (QuNQQ)

35
Cats Named Cecil would be a great name for a band.

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:27 PM (h0PFb)

36 I didn't scroll down. Oops.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 28, 2015 01:27 PM (fWAjv)

37 HR's cats are named Smokey and Blackie, or Smokey and Trampie.

Smokey and You Fuzzy Bastard! (aka Satan's Little Helper).

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 28, 2015 01:28 PM (/kI1Q)

38 I had a band director named Cecil.

He'd give you detention if you ever called him that, though.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 28, 2015 01:28 PM (kff5f)

39 Okay, okay.....now I get the "Cecil" references.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:29 PM (LA7Cm)

40 My brother and I always thought our names were "Dammit!" and "Jesus Christ!"

Posted by: Bill Cosby at July 28, 2015 01:29 PM (kff5f)

41 François Charles Cuckold, "A Village in the Moonlight; The Road at Night"

FIFY

Posted by: Marcus T at July 28, 2015 01:29 PM (GGCsk)

42 An artist named Choad, huh?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:30 PM (VAsIq)

43 Oh. There he is.

I found Waldo.

Always the last place you look, isn't it?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 28, 2015 01:30 PM (kff5f)

44 Brothers. Ernest and Julio...cats. just sayin'.

Posted by: Badda Bing at July 28, 2015 01:31 PM (BjKDP)

45 I have a cat we call "Weasel". His real name is "Flurry", but when he was a kitten, he'd always "weasel" his way under the sheets, into your lap while you're eating, so that became his nickname. Other two cats are "Duke", who I usually call "Dookie" or "Fluffy Face" and "Omaha", who goes by "Ha Ha".

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 28, 2015 01:31 PM (2cS/G)

46 Had Tanya and Tyrone.

Posted by: Badda Bing at July 28, 2015 01:31 PM (BjKDP)

47 Hunting lions makes you a real man.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:31 PM (0LHZx)

48 Compared to Reggie this is nothin'

http://tinyurl.com/nksyzqd

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (fWAjv)

49 so anyone know what happened to ace?

If he was kidnapped by terrorists, it's now legal in the US to pay the ransom.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (AkOaV)

50 How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?
http://t.co/ESQ3chflaW
Posted by: Mr Wolf

Link goes to a china site I believe.

Wouldn't it be "lacist" then?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (jTo7g)

51 Here goes Barack with the race stuff again...

oh wait.

The United States must acknowledge a "painful, complicated" history of
racial discrimination that still affects many minorities, Republican
presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said Monday between campaign speeches
in South Carolina.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (QuNQQ)

52 "A Village in the Moonlight; The Road at Night"

-----

The subject is a lot clearer in "A Village in the Sunlight; The Road at Noon"

Posted by: Obvious Art Critic at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (VAsIq)

53 so, is Ace ever coming back?

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (RiMtm)

54 There is more outrage over the name Cecil.

Cecil the lion was a beloved tourist attraction at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. A hunter paid 50k to someone to help lure Cecil out of the park and then used a bow and arrow to kill him. Afterwards, he was beheaded and skinned.

Authorities are looking to press criminal charges against the hunter who has been reported to either being a Spaniard or a dentist from the USA.

Asshole.

Posted by: Cheri at July 28, 2015 01:33 PM (oiNtH)

55 Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (QuNQQ)

Reparations for Irish Catholics!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at July 28, 2015 01:33 PM (kff5f)

56 I have a cat named Cecil.

Posted by: Peaches

Where?

Posted by: Minnesota Dentist channeling his inner Robert Ruark at July 28, 2015 01:26 PM (l3vZN)
In the bedroom. Right by my gun. You stopping by?

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:33 PM (EgOr3)

57 >>Smokey and You Fuzzy Bastard! (aka Satan's Little Helper).

Heh. Have a friend who jokingly refers to her hubby's german sheppard as "homewrecker" because he spends so much training her for search and rescue.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2015 01:34 PM (NOIQH)

58 "A Village in the Moonlight; The Road at Night"

---------

Have you seen the artist's "A Village at Night with no Moon and there are, like, Clouds 'n' shit, and the People in the House Turned Off the Light"? Cuz that's a good painting.

It's just a black canvas. Made me think, man. Made me think.

Posted by: Hipster Art Critic at July 28, 2015 01:34 PM (VAsIq)

59 Did Ace's paymasters realize he really was our secret racist friend?

Posted by: Paolo's Sack Washer (still better than a cuck) at July 28, 2015 01:34 PM (W12LB)

60 How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?

Considering President Pantload is IN AFRICA it's topical and timely.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 28, 2015 01:34 PM (oVJmc)

61 Does anyone remember The Beany and Cecil Show? Good times.

Posted by: Cheri at July 28, 2015 01:35 PM (oiNtH)

62 Cecil the lion was a beloved tourist attraction at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. A hunter paid 50k to someone to help lure Cecil out of the park and then used a bow and arrow to kill him.

Afterwards, he was beheaded and skinned.

How much for his liver?
Um, asking for a friend.
-Cecile Richards

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (jTo7g)

63
Right Click
Save Page As

Juuuuuuuust in case......

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (kdS6q)

64 Ok just got it. My report on Cecil the lion was waaaay late as you folks already knew about it. Duh.

Posted by: Cheri at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (oiNtH)

65 The United States must acknowledge a "painful, complicated" history of

racial discrimination that still affects many minorities, Republican

presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said Monday between campaign speeches

in South Carolina.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (QuNQQ)

He knows he will not do shit in SC. Cruz most likely will take SC but thanks to shitty GOP it will be a split vote. Makes SC a waste of time.

Posted by: Vic - Republicans help Obama commit treason at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (GpgJl)

66 Does anyone remember The Beany and Cecil Show? Good times.

Yeah!I also liked Rocky and Bullwinkle...

Posted by: donna at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (hUdMz)

67 O! Master Ewok!

Why hast thou forsaken us?

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (/Ho8c)

68 I get hunting animals to eat. But what the fuck is the point of hunting a lion just for the hell of killing it? That's some fucked up shit. I have a feeling the good Dr. is about to lose a shit ton of patients.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (0LHZx)

69 Where is Ace, anyway, and how long has he been missing? This is the first I've heard of it . . . should I be concerned?

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (EgOr3)

70 "In the bedroom. Right by my gun. You stopping by?"

Yikes!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (LA7Cm)

71 Christian the Lion had a much happier story.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (VAsIq)

72

I see a Trump behind that house!!!

- GOPe bien pensants collectively losing their shit

Posted by: imp at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (XIXZz)

73 I called my last cat 'dog food'

Posted by: Killerdog at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (lT+fL)

74 I guess you've got to wake up pretty early to stay ahead of you folks.....or at least by 12 noon.

Posted by: Cheri at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (oiNtH)

75 In the bedroom. Right by my gun. You stopping by?
Posted by: Peaches

Call me crazy, but that doesn't sound like a friendly invite.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (jTo7g)

76 How is this 'racist', as claimed by WaPo?
http://t.co/ESQ3chflaW

-
Jeez. They've got ebony and ivory horses. What more do they want?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (XUKZU)

77 O! Master Ewok!

Why hast thou forsaken us?

Posted by: Moderate Salami

Batin'!

Posted by: Master Ewok! at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (VAsIq)

78 That village was thriving until Trump opened the borders, raised taxes, ate the babies and burned it to the ground!!!111!!

And you idiots love him? What kind of topsy-turvy world is this?

btw... We'd like to remind everyone that purity tests are dumb.

Posted by: GOP sources say... at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (Ui7Rt)

79 "In the bedroom. Right by my gun. You stopping by?"

Yikes!
Posted by: Ricardo Kill

Scares me!

Posted by: Lippy the Lion at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (l3vZN)

80 Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:32 PM (QuNQQ)

is it just me or does it make anyone else uncomfortable when politicians make statements like that?

Especially the "still affects" part.

Because if you believe there is still institutional racism, then you must work to "change the system" even more, right?

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (AkOaV)

81 I see the rape room.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (qYhqx)

82 " But what the fuck is the point of hunting a lion just for the hell of killing it?"

Trophy hunting. Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (LA7Cm)

83 So this one is appropriate for Rapey Tuesday, it seems to me.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (RD7QR)

84 Dead babies - good.

Dead lions - bad.

easy peasy.

Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (QuNQQ)

85
The United States must acknowledge a "painful, complicated" history of racial discrimination that still affects many minorities, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio

Gee, how is a great conservative candidate like this at a statistical zero in the polls?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (kdS6q)

86 Where is Ace, anyway, and how long has he been missing? This is the first I've heard of it . . . should I be concerned?

Posted by: Peaches

His last twitter activity was July 24.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (VAsIq)

87 Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.

Cecil wasn't managed, he was poached.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (/kI1Q)

88
Ah, I was waiting for the art thread to do a trip report.

GETTYSBURG, or My Weekend Among the Octo-Ds*

First off, thanks to whichever Moron suggested Confederate Trails dot com for booking a horseback tour of the battlefield. It's a two hour ride for not much money, they give you little radios with an earbud so everyone can clearly hear the guide, and the guides are highly educated about the war and the battle. They are paid, but are amateurs in the sense of the word which is rooted in love.

So Alex the Magnificent, All Hail Eris, and I mounted steeds and trotted off in a line of a dozen or so horses to the southern approach of the third day battlefield. Culp's, Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge, the two Roundtops, and got a nice narration about both the battlefield movements and the actual facts of living that battle in uniforms made of wool blankets in July, how much feed the horses consumed, and all sorts of sundry goodness.

Also, both 'Ettes mounted daintily and no one fell off a horse.

That and the driving around was most of the Gettysburg part of the Gettysburg trip. The town itself is largely unchanged. The wheelspoke roads are in the same places. It all lends itself very well to the imagining.

This was Saturday. The frivolity commenced on Friday, when we all arrived at a state park for the purpose of staying, get this, Outside. Yes. Well, the modified version of Outside wherein tents keep the spiders at bay and air mattresses protect the Callypigian. I built a roaring fire. Eris brought champagne and cigarillos. Hilarity ensued.

Also, if I get a witness at some point today, I will claim to make a pretty damn good camp breakfast.

A new element has been added to the canon. Eris believes "The Rack" to be accurate but insufficiently specific, so she named the constituent parts "Lefty" and "Scamp". For instance, "which way should we go?" "Scampward".

And I ain't tellin' no more.

* Octo-Ds is the mathematical expression for the company of two women who sport DDs, each of whom has two thereof. So eight Ds.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (JtwS4)

89 Mr. Trump, you have arrived. Now cut the bombast and act like a president.
Posted by: Soothsayer
-------------------

Unpossible. Trump may be a negotiator, but that is different than having true diplomatic/philosophical awareness/experience.

Trump is a bomb-thrower. They may be insightful bombs, they may be timely bombs, they may be welcome bombs, but they remain bombs. They have no true intellectual or philosophical substance.

Making such absolute declarations will rankle some, so I'll add that those are simply my thoughts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (9mTYi)

90

Really? Who gives a fuck about a lion?

There's like 50,000+ more of them.

Posted by: imp at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (XIXZz)

91 je vois la salle de viol.

Posted by: @PeeteySDee at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (qYhqx)

92 Call me crazy, but that doesn't sound like a friendly invite.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:37 PM (jTo7g)
It's being reported that a Minnesota dentist (Walter Palmer) was the asshole who paid $55,000 to lure the beloved Cecil the lion off his protected area and then shot him with a crossbow. Cecil was then tracked wounded for 2 days until they shot him and finished him off. They found his skinned body in the bush. So, no, it's not a friendly invite. Sincere, though.

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (EgOr3)

93 69 Where is Ace, anyway, and how long has he been missing? This is the first I've heard of it . . . should I be concerned?
Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:36 PM (EgOr3)

I don't think he was around at all yesterday.

Might be on a bender. Or getting taken to the woodshed by his paymasters. Or maybe he found a female ewok.

Or he could be sick, I suppose.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (AkOaV)

94 So President Obama says he'd win again if he ran for a 3rd term. I believe him. He'd win until he died in office if he kept running. That's where we are as a country, it doesn't matter how much he sucks or how insanely extremist he is. He's the black guy. He wins.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (39g3+)

95 It's not really a baby until they put the name on the birth certificate, you Socon losers.

Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (QuNQQ)

96
Amazing how many people get upset over cecil the lion, yet ISIS beheadings and PP selling baby parts just news of the day.

I realize being upset about all of these things can be held in the mind at the same time, but criminal charges for the lion killer, but not the baby part farmers and the extermination of Christians in the middle east just allowed to fester by our feckless president boggles me.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (ODxAs)

97 Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:40 PM (EgOr3)

Well thats kind of dicked up.

I do not approve.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (AkOaV)

98 45 I'll allow this use of Weasel since it involves a kitteh.

We have Lucy and Maggie. Lucy goes by LuLu and Maggie is generally called Biggie because she was here first and was Lucy's big sister.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (6xtq3)

99 Ace didn't own a lion costume, did he?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (oVJmc)

100 But what the fuck is the point of hunting a lion just for the hell of killing it?

There's a certain draw in hunting something significantly more deadly than yourself and killing it. And sometimes they have to be hunted down because they've got a taste for human.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (39g3+)

101 Trophy hunting. Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.

I get that. I honestly do. As long as there IS a program in place.
But if you have to pay $50k to have someone "lure" it out, it doesn't sound like this was part of the program.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (jTo7g)

102 >>> so anyone know what happened to ace?

We could always light up the Ewok signal, for old time's sake...

Posted by: LizLem at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (hvf9s)

103 >>>But what the fuck is the point of hunting a lion just for the hell of killing it?

It proves you have a big dick even if you don't.

Posted by: rdbrewer at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (Iyg03)

104 His last twitter activity was July 24.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (VAsIq)
wow . . . hope he's okay

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (EgOr3)

105 86
Where is Ace, anyway, and how long has he been missing? This is the first I've heard of it . . . should I be concerned?

Posted by: Peaches

His last twitter activity was July 24.

Defending Malor's tweet calling us neo-Nazi white supremacists was likely the straw that broke the camel's back.

Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (QuNQQ)

106 Trophy hunting. Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
------------------

So, similar to Russian mail-order brides, right?
Not sure which poses the greater risk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (9mTYi)

107
Also, both 'Ettes mounted daintily and no one fell off a horse.

How many steps were required on the ladder?

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (/Ho8c)

108 The stars at night

Are big and bright

[clap clap clap clap]

Deep in the heart of Texas!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (JO9+V)

109 There's a certain draw in hunting something significantly more deadly than yourself and killing it. And sometimes they have to be hunted down because they've got a taste for human.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (39g3+)

First one sounds like the beginnings of a serial killer. Second one, uh yeah, duh. There could be a variety of legit reasons to put a wild animal down. But I don't think that was this guys rationale.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (AkOaV)

110 So, no, it's not a friendly invite. Sincere, though.

If you're ever in Indy, I'll buy you a beer.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (/kI1Q)

111 Meh--I don't see the problem with Rubio's remarks. Race was a serious issue in our history, and for many it continues to be. That doesn't mean that things aren't better now than they were, nor did he say racism was unique to America.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (VAsIq)

112 /billionaire pro baby butcher sock off

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (QuNQQ)

113 And I ain't tellin' no more.

Posted by: Bandersnatch[/i[

Now I'm even more jealous about not getting to go on The Trip.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (/Ho8c)

114
"The saddest part of all is that now that Cecil is dead, the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho, will most likely kill all Cecil's cubs."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (kdS6q)

115 WTH? Did the painting change? That is not what was up at first.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (9mTYi)

116
Yeah I dont see Trump playing it smart, but that tells me that he really doesnt want to be president. He's just having fun, and I'm enjoying the show.

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (h0PFb)

117 Oopsie.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (/Ho8c)

118 " it doesn't sound like this was part of the program. "

I have no idea about this. Just in general.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (LA7Cm)

119 Defending Malor's tweet calling us neo-Nazi white supremacists was likely the straw that broke the camel's back.
Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (QuNQQ)

yeah I thought the cuckservative post was his last one, but I wasn't sure.

Maybe he thinks we're all racist now and doesn't want to hang out anymore.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (AkOaV)

120 Defending Malor's tweet calling us neo-Nazi white supremacists was likely the straw that broke the camel's back.

Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:42 PM (QuNQQ)

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:44 PM (EgOr3)

121 Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 28, 2015 01:39 PM (JtwS4)

Sooo, how much was bail for the 3 of you?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 28, 2015 01:45 PM (S+el1)

122 Rubio continues:

"Discrimination on the basis of race is already illegal in America," he
told The Associated Press in an interview. "We will enforce those laws
through the civil rights division" of the Justice Department.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:46 PM (QuNQQ)

123 Listening to Jay Sekulow show.... women were admonished to putt off the abortions until the Fetus was larger for "safety issues".... Dr on the show was explaining PP gets loads more for "specimens" over 12 weeks....

Posted by: Mr Wizard at July 28, 2015 01:46 PM (eOpVe)

124 Posted this link to Fiorina's comments at the Reagan library in the previous thread.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/pxonreg

In the attached video, the last question (around 54 minutes in the video on page 5) comes from one of Moo Moo's friends. The questioner goes after SoCon values, by claiming that they inhibit "personal choices". Fiorina uses the question to push school choice, attack Planned Parenthood, reaffirm that she's pro-life (in contrast to the questioner), and go after crony capitalism.

Nicely done, imo. Too bad more of our candidates can't seem to do this.

Illegal immigration is handled very well in one of the earlier questions.

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 01:46 PM (3m3mw)

125 There's a certain draw in hunting something significantly more deadly than yourself and killing it.

Unless you are going bare handed, the only thing more deadly is Man.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2015 01:46 PM (jTo7g)

126
Obama can play up his Kenyan heritage, no one else can.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 28, 2015 01:25 PM (NOIQH)

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Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder,, the bartender says "WOW,, that's pretty cool,, where did you get him". The parrot says "Kenya, hell they're everywhere over there!"

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (HSmrB)

127 Posted by: Peaches

You miss a Friday, you miss a lot.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (QuNQQ)

128 There's a certain draw in hunting something
significantly more deadly than yourself and killing it. And sometimes
they have to be hunted down because they've got a taste for human.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (39g3+)

First one sounds like the beginnings of a serial killer. Second one,
uh yeah, duh. There could be a variety of legit reasons to put a wild
animal down. But I don't think that was this guys rationale.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:43 PM (AkOaV)
Cecil lived his life in a protected national park in Zimbabwe. He was a tourist fave. They LURED him out of the park so they could kill him.

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (EgOr3)

129
Trophy hunting. Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.

It wasn't a cull. It was poaching.

Also, looks like the Deadly Dentist is on the run:

http://tinyurl.com/ok6khll

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (kdS6q)

130

It proves you have a big dick even if you don't.

Well, dentist, so...

Posted by: Cecil the Lion at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (oVJmc)

131 There's a certain draw in hunting something significantly more deadly than yourself and killing it. And sometimes they have to be hunted down because they've got a taste for human.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 28, 2015 01:41 PM (39g3+)

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Oh this lion, in Africa, was threatening the life of a dentist in Minnesota? Ahh, well OK, totally justified then.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:47 PM (0LHZx)

132 New Gabe post. His number one favorite topic.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (GDulk)

133 Also, both 'Ettes mounted daintily and no one fell off a horse.

Did you remember on the horse request form to cross out the line "donkey cart" and writing "my little pony" for AtC?

Posted by: wrg500 at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (S+el1)

134 " it doesn't sound like this was part of the program. "

Damn.

This is no ordinary evil.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (LA7Cm)

135 It's not really a baby until they ~~put the name~~ assign a gender on the birth certificate, you Socon losers.
Posted by: Upchuck/Fakin 2016
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Edited for correctness.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (9mTYi)

136 Listening to Jay Sekulow show.... women were admonished to putt off the abortions until the Fetus was larger for "safety issues

You had to know this was coming.

Posted by: Lea at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (lIU4e)

137 I swear, Your Honor, he was coming right at me!

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (2cS/G)

138 "Discrimination on the basis of race is already illegal in America," he
told The Associated Press in an interview. "We will enforce those laws
through the civil rights division" of the Justice Department.
Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:46 PM (QuNQQ)

Yeah, I don't like that. Justice department (feds) should not be involved in "racial discrimination" cases except under the most rare of circumstances.

Plus, Goldwater was right about the CRA of 64. We opened a fucking pandoras box by calling any business open to the public a "public accommodation".

I have to wonder what percentage of civil rights claims are really just shitty employees or shitty customers who happened to be in a protected class so they decided to sue a store they either got fired from or just don't like.

Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (AkOaV)

139 Shit, that was for the PP "specimen size" post.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:49 PM (LA7Cm)

140 "We will enforce those laws
through the civil rights division" of the Justice Department.

Posted by: some random meathead

Oh. Screw that--get rid of the "civil rights division"; what a racist abomination that's turned into.

Fortunately, I was never a Rubio booster, so I'm okay with him disappearing into the Florida bogs.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at July 28, 2015 01:49 PM (VAsIq)

141 Ace just went into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at July 28, 2015 01:49 PM (02oLK)

142 New Gabe post. His number one favorite topic.

Himself?

Us low life blue collar conservative racists?

Oh . Great.
Moar faggotry.

Think I'll stay here.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:50 PM (QuNQQ)

143 I have to wonder what percentage of civil rights claims are really just shitty employees or shitty customers who happened to be in a protected class so they decided to sue a store they either got fired from or just don't like.
Posted by: mynewhandle at July 28, 2015 01:48 PM (AkOaV)

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Somewhere between 99.8% and 99.9%

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at July 28, 2015 01:50 PM (0LHZx)

144
The 50K is going price for lion hunts in Africa, even the legal ones.

It is part of the program. It sounds like the guide might have been the unethical one, but who knows. That lion isn't any more or less valuable than any other, just came off the reserve is why its a story.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 28, 2015 01:50 PM (ODxAs)

145 Us low life blue collar conservative racists?

Don't forget "crude".

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:51 PM (/Ho8c)

146 God, I love this place.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our Republic at July 28, 2015 01:51 PM (/Ho8c)

147 Posted by: some random meathead at July 28, 2015 01:50 PM (QuNQQ)

I plan to as well. Or I could go fill out the paperwork that's been needing done desperately for 3 weeks.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 01:52 PM (GDulk)

148 Don't forget "crude".

Well, we *are* glorifying the poaching of endangered species from national parks.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 28, 2015 01:52 PM (/kI1Q)

149 Afternoon morons. Any of you morons had a knee replacement?

I am looking to have one and trying to figure out how much of a pain in the ass, knee, it's going to be.

Posted by: Nip Sip at July 28, 2015 01:53 PM (0FSuD)

150 Defending Malor's tweet calling us neo-Nazi white supremacists was likely the straw that broke the camel's back.

Gabe was notably missing from the Buck Dharma podcast, and at the end Ace said something like "we'll see you whenever" instead of the usual "next week". Did the Dread BK manage to legally catch up with him or something?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2015 01:54 PM (B/VB5)

151 Posted by: Nip Sip at July 28, 2015 01:53 PM (0FSuD)

I thought MisHum had one fairly recently, but could be mistaken. I've heard they're a lot less invasive than in the past (my m-i-l has been looking into getting one).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 01:56 PM (GDulk)

152 Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2015 01:54 PM (B/VB5)

I was under the impression that the Creature Not Worth Naming got slapped down mightily for a change and things were looking up for the furball. Hope that wasn't incorrect.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 01:57 PM (GDulk)

153
Defending Malor's tweet calling us neo-Nazi white supremacists.....

Bible-clutching rustics.....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 01:58 PM (kdS6q)

154 Cats Named Cecil would be a great name for a band.

Posted by: Soothsayer II at July 28, 2015 01:27 PM (h0PFb)

Five guys named Moe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EaUqLrfEMU

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2015 01:59 PM (DAtNG)

155 @152: There was a major win for the good guys, but my understanding is that it didn't *completely* clear the decks.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 28, 2015 01:59 PM (B/VB5)

156 Why would you illegally kill a celebrity lion? Doesnt the guy know they will come down on him hard? I dont think these other countries will grant him visas.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 01:59 PM (iQIUe)

157 NGU said he was off to Okinawa. How do we know he really wasnt off to Zimbabwe?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 02:00 PM (iQIUe)

158 Why would you illegally kill a celebrity lion?
Doesnt the guy know they will come down on him hard? I dont think these
other countries will grant him visas.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 01:59 PM (iQIUe)
The guy also has a conviction for poaching a bear in Wisconsin, then driving the carcass 40 miles and lying about where he killed it. Total scum, this guy.

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 02:02 PM (EgOr3)

159 I just finished the To Kill a Mockingbird sequel, Go Set a Watchman and I quite liked it (although not as good as TKAM). The only positive review I read was from the NYT who said it ripped apart the myth of the South, created in part by TKAM, that only the white trash were racist scum but instead all southerners were racist scum. Now we see that Atticus himself is racist scum. Not the book I read. Scout, now 26, comes back from NYC to visit her dad, apparently in the mid 1950s. She finds that racial relations have deteriorated badly which Atticus, and too an extent Scout also, view as caused by a recent Supreme Court decision (never expressly stated but I suspect it's Brown v. Board of Education). Both are offended by the court's disregard of the 10th amendment (and by the NAACP) but they react differently. Atticus joins a citizens committee intended to resist federal intrusion into local affairs and Scout, while offend by the court, believes that the change should be accepted. Atticus and Scout have a big fight and eventually learn to accept each other. Atticus is definitely a racist by today's standards but he is present as a good, decent, wise, honest, and honorable man.

This book was, apparently, written in the 50s and it is interesting to look back at this depiction of southern attitudes from a perspective of 60 years. It is a moron-friendly book and I found the confrontation between Scout and Atticus to be very moving.

I thought this was relevant to the allegations of racism as reported in this thread.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 28, 2015 02:03 PM (XUKZU)

160 Every time a black employee was fired at my old job site the first place they stopped at was the local NAACP office. The company would then pay them off to get rid of them.

Posted by: Vic - Republicans help Obama commit treason at July 28, 2015 02:03 PM (GpgJl)

161 The guy also has a conviction for poaching a bear in Wisconsin, then driving the carcass 40 miles and lying about where he killed it. Total scum, this guy.
Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 02:02 PM (EgOr3)
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There shd be a publihed list of poachers so these countries can use it to determine whether to grant entry. If he wd go thru such great lengths to poach a bear, he was a bad risk to allow entry to Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 02:04 PM (iQIUe)

162 Trophy hunting. Many don't like it but it's part of a standard wildlife management program.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 28, 2015 01:38 PM (LA7Cm)

Agreed, absolutely. But luring a beast out of a protected area, so that it can be killed in a non-protected area is not in any way sporting. It's like hunting over bait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2015 02:04 PM (DAtNG)

163 Gabe was notably missing from the Buck Dharma podcast, and at the end Ace said something like "we'll see you whenever" instead of the usual "next week".

-
And if you play it backwards is says, "Ace is dead. Ace is dead."

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 28, 2015 02:06 PM (XUKZU)

164 If the NYT wants to see racism, they didnt have to look any farther than NYC and their own racist class.

Those were different times back then. People had different beliefs - not all unfounded. Non blacks were afraid of black crime which was real.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 02:06 PM (iQIUe)

165 A rock band is reuniting to support Planned Parenthood.

http://tinyurl.com/orq9y46

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 28, 2015 02:10 PM (XUKZU)

166 The Ace of Spades is dead! Long live the Ace of Spades!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 28, 2015 02:11 PM (iQIUe)

167 Those were different times back then. People had different beliefs - not
all unfounded. Non blacks were afraid of black crime which was real.

How is that different from now?

Btw, the lynching capital of America? NYC. Thought we forgot about the Draft Riots of 1863, didn't ya? There's a reason - a VERY good reason - why liberals always start counting lynchings from 1870 on.

Posted by: Daniel Ellsberg at July 28, 2015 02:14 PM (oKE6c)

168 Sock off.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 28, 2015 02:14 PM (oKE6c)

169 Yahoo! headline that Huckabee has clarified his comments about (O and Israel? I only caught inferences, never saw the original). Hope he's not apologizing for being correct.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:19 PM (GDulk)

170 Twiddling my thumbs, waiting for a non-Gabe thread.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:21 PM (GDulk)

171 Me, too, Polli. Not going to participate in that one for fear of bannination at something I say. But some of the intrepid morons are really giving him some shit over there.

Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 02:24 PM (EgOr3)

172 @171 Me, too, Polli. Not going to participate in that one for fear of bannination at something I say. But some of the intrepid morons are really giving him some shit over there.
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'Moron', singular. some random meathead keeps posting anti-Gabe stuff, most of which isn't even tied in to topic of Gabe's post. But he(?) is pretty much the only one. One poster even apologized because he attacked Gabe before reading the post (Gabe thinks that the decision by the national BSA organization to allow gay scoutmasters is the wrong one).

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:31 PM (3m3mw)

173 Posted by: Peaches at July 28, 2015 02:24 PM (EgOr3)

I'm sure I probably agree with them, but at this point I just don't want to read even a well-justified smacking around. It's not that I don't have plenty to do, I'm just avoiding it because it looked difficult and annoying.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:31 PM (GDulk)

174

170 Twiddling my thumbs, waiting for a non-Gabe thread.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

you are not alone.

Posted by: imp at July 28, 2015 02:35 PM (XIXZz)

175 Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:31 PM (3m3mw)

Which is great, but what the hell did he expect would happen? Of course they caved and, for all his snottiness the past year about how a couple (extra-legal) tweaks wouldn't change anything for the rest of us, his attitude multiplied by a small number of very loud people is why they did.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:35 PM (GDulk)

176 @170 Twiddling my thumbs, waiting for a non-Gabe thread.
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Personally, if you want to kill time, I'd advise you to go check out the Fiorina link that I posted above.

But I might be just a bit biased.

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:38 PM (3m3mw)

177
Gabe thinks that the decision by the national BSA organization to allow gay scoutmasters is the wrong one.
Posted by: junior

Not quite accurate. GM's expressed position, in that article and ala tweet, is that the BSA saying it has to allow gay scoutmaster because of public accommodation laws is wrong. Case law is on their side if they wanted to continue the ban.

Doesn't mean he agrees with or approves of the exclusion.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 28, 2015 02:39 PM (kdS6q)

178 Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:38 PM (3m3mw)

I have to admit that she's growing on me, which is a kinda big deal since as a Coloradoan I hold her very much responsible for HP's collapse as an employer there.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:43 PM (GDulk)

179 @165

Nature vs Nuture is irrelevant, all that matters or should matter is what society, localities and the people themselves wish to give their imprimatur too.

Homosexuality is a deviancy and caustic to society and here a corrupt bankrupt political urchin substituted his judgement to that of the wider organization.

If I actually believed in hell I'd hope this prick would burn in it for all eternity.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 28, 2015 02:49 PM (7mKz/)

180 Nice, thanks for sharing. I've seen light like.

Posted by: bverwey at July 28, 2015 02:50 PM (zOLq+)

181 @177 Not quite accurate. GM's expressed position, in that article and ala tweet, is that the BSA saying it has to allow gay scoutmaster because of public accommodation laws is wrong. Case law is on their side if they wanted to continue the ban.

Doesn't mean he agrees with or approves of the exclusion.
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I stand corrected.

orz

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:52 PM (3m3mw)

182 Nood nood.

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 02:56 PM (3m3mw)

183 $10 to the first person who shows up with a tool capable of giving a mild electric shock and applies it to my person at 5 minute intervals until I finally give in and start this lease paperwork.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 02:57 PM (GDulk)

184 @183 $10 to the first person who shows up with a tool capable of giving a mild electric shock and applies it to my person at 5 minute intervals until I finally give in and start this lease paperwork.
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I don't think I'm close enough to your location to do that. Could I send you nude Michael Moore pics every five minutes instead?

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 03:02 PM (3m3mw)

185 Posted by: junior at July 28, 2015 03:02 PM (3m3mw)

Uhm..I need to be uncomfortable, not catatonic.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 28, 2015 03:05 PM (GDulk)

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