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Father of Thalys Train Hero Alex Skarlatos: "This PC Crowd" Needs to "Recognize Terrorism for What It Is"

"It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

MSNBC's very PC Tamron Hall doesn't know quite what to make of this.

via @mrussRSF

(Had to run an errand that took longer than I thought, which is why I was doing these quick nothing posts... I'll try to do some real news.)

Posted by: Ace at 02:38 PM




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1 First

Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:40 PM (Vf5rR)

2 The gal he was talking to seems to understand.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 24, 2015 02:40 PM (1ijHg)

3 Fcuk yeah!
*fist pump*

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 02:40 PM (NOIQH)

4 Shhhhh let's leave _Dave_ down there complaining about Ace

Posted by: bunkerintheBurns at August 24, 2015 02:41 PM (WDySP)

5 Lol. Everyone's still staring at the big cansin the last post.

Posted by: Bosk at August 24, 2015 02:41 PM (n2K+4)

6 I can sort of get into the whole sheep thing. I mean there are a lot worse things than being a sheep.

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 02:41 PM (8ZskC)

7 Tamron Hall is/was dating admitted socialist Lawrence O'Donnell.

'Nuff said.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 02:41 PM (NOIQH)

8 The first and only thing you need to know about the term "Politically Correct" is that it was coined by a Commie and that to be PC is to be a Commie.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 24, 2015 02:42 PM (1ijHg)

9
10th

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at August 24, 2015 02:42 PM (0x/TW)

10 So was he, Skarlatos, Marine or Air Force?

Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:42 PM (Vf5rR)

11 What did he get? Stopped. If convicted he will spend a few year in prison and then released.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 24, 2015 02:43 PM (iQIUe)

12 Y'all do understand what Islamic's do with sheep don't ya? It ain't killing first...

Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2015 02:43 PM (jsWA8)

13 I'm all in, baby.

Posted by: Joe Biden Pick-up Lines at August 24, 2015 02:43 PM (8ZskC)

14 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 24, 2015 02:43 PM (kff5f)

15 Did MSNBC call the three racist or anti-Muslim yet?

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:43 PM (0LHZx)

16 That's my dad.

Posted by: Brian Williams at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (8ZskC)

17 Yeah, some things will gnaw on a man worse than death.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (Z58Xa)

18 Mohammedanism is an evil death cult.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (kff5f)

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

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (kff5f)

20 Is this from today? Skarlatos us a soldier, not a marine. I realize it was first thought they were both Marines but that was cleared up a couple days ago.

Posted by: Bill R. at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (HOye3)

21 Amen

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at August 24, 2015 02:45 PM (0O7c5)

22 RE: PC

Isn't what the SJWs did to the Hugos just a carbon-neutral form of book-burning?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 24, 2015 02:45 PM (oVJmc)

23 Is a soldier, not us a soldier. And Stone is an airman.

Posted by: Bill R. at August 24, 2015 02:45 PM (HOye3)

24 Good dad!

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2015 02:45 PM (RWGcK)

25 (Had to run an errand that took longer than I thought, which is why I was doing these quick nothing posts... I'll try to do some real news.)

"Run an errand"? Is that what they're calling it now?

Sure, we all enjoyed the Hot Chick post but there's work that needs to get done.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (8ZskC)

26 Yeah, some things will gnaw on a man worse than death.

-
But enough about sex with Michelle.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (XUKZU)

27 Aaaaand...we're back down 500

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (659DL)

28 Dying like a sheep is better than dying like a lion, and Here's Why

Posted by: Matt Yglesias at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (PcQQD)

29 Help me out on this, Morons of the smart military blog. Why is it incorrect to refer to marines as soldiers?

I think of soldiers as being generally members of an armed forces branch, to which the Marines fall into.

Clearly there's a degree of nuance that I'm not understanding.

Posted by: joe at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (KUaJL)

30 20
Is this from today? Skarlatos us a soldier, not a marine. I realize it
was first thought they were both Marines but that was cleared up a
couple days ago.

Posted by: Bill R. at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (HOye3)

I thought so, but that vid still lists him as a Marine, "Father of Hero Marine."
Whatever the case, he is an American badass.

Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (Vf5rR)

31 Hey, come on, I beat my sword into a plowshare already!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (8ZskC)

32 ... I'll try to do some real news

=====


Real news?!?

F**k that sh**! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!1!

Posted by: Frank Booth at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (3ZtZW)

33 The Dow has a case of the Mondays.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (XUKZU)

34 Seems I only see one group trying to shoot up trains full of innocents, engaging in mass rapes, and blowing up archaeological treasures.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (659DL)

35 27 Aaaaand...we're back down 500
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (659DL)

You dumb stupid cousin-humping redneck inbred panicky idiot! I'm making BILLIONS!!!!

Posted by: MOO MOO/CECILE RICHARDS 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (2Ojst)

36 The first and only thing you need to know about the term "Politically Correct" is that it was coined by a Commie and that to be PC is to be a Commie.




Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at August 24, 2015 02:42 PM (1ijHg)


Da - is true, comrade.

Posted by: Josef "Mustache Daddy" Stalin at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (hLRSq)

37 Emmanuel Skarlatos knows whereof he speaks.

The Progressives should take note.

Also, the Iranians announced today they have no intention of living up to any part of the "Agreement" that burdens their military development.

So there's that.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (TxJGV)

38 But enough about sex with Michelle.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (X


*snorts*
BTW did you see her outfit on WZ? If not, looks like a black Hefty bag with fringes. No summer drapery for her today.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (Z58Xa)

39 if you be in the Army, you be a soldier; if you ain't, you ain't

Posted by: himself at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (8CdUx)

40 BTW did you see her outfit on WZ? If not, looks like a black Hefty bag with fringes. No summer drapery for her today.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (Z58Xa)

That entire family has Resting Bitch Face.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (2Ojst)

41 But if someone is trying to harm you and you fight back you could escalate the situation!

Posted by: D.C. Councilman at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (HstNY)

42 34 Seems I only see one group trying to shoot up trains full of innocents, engaging in mass rapes, and blowing up archaeological treasures.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (659DL)

Lutherans!!! And you will all eat jello salad

////

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (Z58Xa)

43 Clearly there's a degree of nuance that I'm not understanding.

"Soldier" in American English means "Army."

A Marine is not a soldier.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (659DL)

44 But my Prius says COEXIST right on the back!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (8ZskC)

45 Help me out on this, Morons of the smart military blog. Why is it incorrect to refer to marines as soldiers?



I think of soldiers as being generally members of an armed forces branch, to which the Marines fall into.



Clearly there's a degree of nuance that I'm not understanding.

Posted by: joe at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (KUaJL)

Members of various branches prefer to refer to themselves in their own terms out of a sense of pride. It's also a matter of accuracy. "Soldiers" refers to the Army. Just like "Sailors" refers to the Navy.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (OiH3z)

46
Lutherans!!! And you will all eat jello salad

////
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (Z58Xa)

If I had to choose between rape and jello salad...I'd take...um, let me think a minute.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (2Ojst)

47 Vox hasn't explained this event to us yet...weird?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (NOIQH)

48 >>>> Aaaaand...we're back down 500

*posts Love Rollercoaster by The Ohio Players here*

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (3ZtZW)

49 It's been clear for a long time that King Putt and his elitist enablers do NOT want American men like those who saved the passengers. They want Pajama Boys who hide under seats and shit themselves while desperately texting for help

If Americans hold onto the idea that they can take action rather than hide and wait for the authorities, they might discover that they can do things without the authorities. Why, they might even want the right to carry GUNS!

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (PcQQD)

50 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (q+zA9)

51 Don't call my bravery into question until you've walked a mile in my shoes.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (E5UB0)

52 30
20

Is this from today? Skarlatos us a soldier, not a marine. I realize it

was first thought they were both Marines but that was cleared up a

couple days ago.



Posted by: Bill R. at August 24, 2015 02:44 PM (HOye3)

I thought so, but that vid still lists him as a Marine, "Father of Hero Marine."
Whatever the case, he is an American badass.


Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (Vf5rR)























it is possible he was prior USMC who moved to another branch. this is not unheard of. that would explain the confusion. why would someone do this? there are a few MOS who are locked out of advancement until someone dies or retires so in this new "Move up or out" military you have to switch branches to keep going. There. Explained.

Posted by: gushka can has Kittys what plays fetch! at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (f858s)

53 I like the "shelter in place" stategy the best. Then, there's always peeing myself.

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (8ZskC)

54 "I think of soldiers as being generally members of an armed forces branch, to which the Marines fall into. "

Pro Tip.

Not many Soldiers on submarines.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (VPLuQ)

55 Help me out on this, Morons of the smart military blog. Why is it incorrect to refer to marines as soldiers?



I think of soldiers as being generally members of an armed forces branch, to which the Marines fall into.



Clearly there's a degree of nuance that I'm not understanding.

Posted by: joe at August 24, 2015 02:47 PM (KUaJL)


No nuance. Only Army personnel are Soldiers. Enlisted AF are Airmen, Marines are... Marines.

And of course Navy dudes are Seamen <snicker> Get it? Seamen?


Fine, Sailors. Whatever.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (TOk1P)

56 I can beg for my life. Would you like to see me to beg?

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (8ZskC)

57 Colloquially solider refers to anyone in the armed forces. It's not meant as an insult. You guys sound like an SJW who just got micro-aggressed.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (0LHZx)

58 Vox hasn't explained this event to us yet...weird?


Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (NOIQH)


Little Matty has not received talking points. He will speak when he knows what to speak.

Posted by: Josef "Stallion" Stalin at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (hLRSq)

59 Geronimo!

Posted by: DJIA at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (ZbV+0)

60 Courage my ass! Let them see them walk up to an awards podium with a loose heel strap

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (PcQQD)

61 Army => soldiers
Marines => Marines
Air Force => airmen
Navy => squids









I keed, I keed!!!









Navy => crabs

Posted by: Joey Gump, a running man at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (NeFrd)

62 Isn't Skarlatos Greek?

I think those Greek dudes had some up close and personal interaction with the Islamic Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire.

So I'd listen closely to what this guy says.

Posted by: rd at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (a/sAS)

63 Don't call my bravery into question until you've walked a mile in my shoes pumps.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at August 24, 2015 02:52 PM (XUKZU)

64 If Marines are Marines, then who are the jarheads?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (8ZskC)

65 Sock off. I'll own the jibe at our good friends of the Navy.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (NeFrd)

66 "Tamron Hall is/was dating admitted socialist Lawrence O'Donnell."

I thought he was married to some actress.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (OD2ni)

67 Never ask a military man if he's a Marine. If he is, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him like that?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (WiU5D)

68 I can sort of get into the whole sheep thing. I mean there are a lot worse things than being a sheep.


Being a sheared sheep, a dead sheep, ......

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (4dbPD)

69 I thought he was married to some actress.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (OD2ni)

With that crowd, it's possible that both are true.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (OiH3z)

70 Colloquially solider refers to anyone in the armed
forces. It's not meant as an insult. You guys sound like an SJW who just
got micro-aggressed.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (0LHZx)


Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (TOk1P)

71 Colloquially solider refers to anyone in the armed forces. It's not meant as an insult.

Apparently you've forgotten you're on a smart military blog

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (ZbV+0)

72 Grunts
Jarheads
Squids
Zoomies

Posted by: SMFH at it all at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (zyIlW)

73
Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (TOk1P)

He's indefagitable.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (2Ojst)

74 And of course Navy dudes are Seamen <snicker> Get it? Seamen?


Fine, Sailors. Whatever.


Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (TOk1P)

There are also firemen and airmen in the Navy, so it's not all that you hoped for.

Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (Vf5rR)

75 27 Aaaaand...we're back down 500

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:46 PM (659DL)

TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!!!

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (PcQQD)

76 A Marine is not a soldier.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 02:49 PM (659DL)


-------------------------------------


Heh. You can say that again.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (P25Hh)

77 66 "Tamron Hall is/was dating admitted socialist Lawrence O'Donnell."

I thought he was married to some actress.
Posted by: Benji Carver at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (OD2

Aren't all news babes actresses?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (Z58Xa)

78 29 Help me out on this, Morons of the smart military blog. Why is it incorrect to refer to marines as soldiers?

I think of soldiers as being generally members of an armed forces branch, to which the Marines fall into.
--

I make the same mistake often, so I'm trying to make myself use "servicemen" which I assume is a good generic term.

Posted by: Y-not at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (RWGcK)

79 "And of course Navy dudes are Seamen <snicker> Get it? Seamen?"

I get it everyday.

Posted by: Barney Frank at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (OD2ni)

80 If Marines are Marines, then who are the jarheads?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2015 02:53 PM (8ZskC)


Those are the guys with your wife's bloomers wrapped around their heads.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (TOk1P)

81 Hodor!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (OGm46)

82 (snark goes here)

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (q+zA9)

83 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."


Potato, potahto, as long as they're dead.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 02:55 PM (evdj2)

84 It's better to die as a woman than live with manjunk.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (E5UB0)

85 Don't call them Jarhead's. You can put stuff in a Jar.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (jsWA8)

86 >>74 And of course Navy dudes are Seamen Get it? Seamen?


Long, hard, full of seamen, a submarine.

Yes, the horde = 6th graders

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (Z58Xa)

87 Wow, the doj really effed up. Not only did they go online, using phony names to bash the defense and the defendant, they were actually assigned to make sure the case was not "tainted".

http://goo.gl/FC7ZCr

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (iQIUe)

88 And Colonial Marines are Colonial Marines

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (fWAjv)

89 I thought so, but that vid still lists him as a Marine, "Father of Hero Marine."

It is MSNBC, they are still the worst name in News.

Posted by: rd at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (a/sAS)

90 It's better to die as a woman than live with manjunk.

No one's stopping you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (YEelc)

91 God bless that father.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 02:56 PM (C891K)

92 There goes -600.

But it's no big deal, right, Moo Moo?

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (ZbV+0)

93 Fine, Sailors. Whatever.




Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (TOk1P)

There are also firemen and airmen in the Navy, so it's not all that you hoped for.


Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (Vf5rR)


Who cares, guys on boats. Full of seamen.


And gals, too!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (TOk1P)

94 Dyeing like a sheep? Well, I do admit wool can achieve a much deeper, clearer hue than any Lion pelt - but then again, why would one wish to alter the natural colors of such a noble creature to begin with?

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (3ZtZW)

95 He's indefatigable.


******


Highly conditioned, nay, almost world-class.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (NeFrd)

96 Lutherans!!! And you will all eat jello salad

But only the Missouri Synod//

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (R8hU8)

97 Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:54 PM (TOk1P)

_______

Dude just get the fuck over yourself. Solider = guy in uniform for the vast majority of the public. You sound like a little why bitch.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (0LHZx)

98 The news media is so full of BS that they can't even get a simple story about a bunch of brave Americans tearing up a muzzie's ass and stopping his terrorist assault correct.

Kinda like me in 1968 with the Tet Offensive but you know commies gotta commie.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkite at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (D0NZx)

99 Technically I think its airman, sailor, marine, soldier by branch: Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army.

But... in common parlance and use, "soldier" covers all of them, even if technically not accurate. There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (39g3+)

100 As a group of soldiers stood in formation at an Army Base, the Drill Sergeant said, "All right! All you idiots fall out."
As the rest of the squad wandered away, one soldier remained at attention.
The Drill Instructor walked over until he was eye-to-eye with him, and then raised a single eyebrow. The soldier smiled and said, "Sure was a lot of 'em, huh, sir?"

Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (C278+)

101 Who cares, guys on boats. Full of seamen.


And gals, too!
Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (TOk1P)

Of course they are. Close quarters, long deployments, folks start getting lonely and horny...

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (2Ojst)

102 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

I hate the dentist.

Posted by: Cecil at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (ma/2m)

103 Grunts
Jarheads
Squids
Zoomies Busdrivers

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (3ZtZW)

104 Funny STILL no one mentioning the men's deep religious faith and the fact that the Black guys father, Sadler, is a Baptist pastor. The middle school the three went to? Freedom Christian Middle School. See that anywhere




Gee, wonder why?

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (0FSuD)

105 92 There goes -600.

But it's no big deal, right, Moo Moo?
Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (ZbV+0)

__________

Not really, no.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (0LHZx)

106 Dow -650, and falling

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (VPLuQ)

107 I hope Ace gives us a good post about the Hugos and just doesn't put up the Hitler Reacts video: http://tinyurl.com/nqwo7gh

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (C891K)

108 I just got back from France after a week there and it was all national News there. This morning the PM Hollande awareded 5 medals to those brave men. The 3 Americans and 1 British passanger were on camera with the PM, but RTE News mentioned the french national WANTED TO REMAIN ANNONYMOUS (with no specifics why that might be).

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (BSS7/)

109 Grunts
Jarheads
Squids
Zoomies


Technically accurate as well

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (39g3+)

110 "Real news?!? F**k that sh**! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!1! "

Heh. I wonder what Frank Booth would have thought about hipster doucbeags liking his beloved PBR.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (OD2ni)

111 Dude just get the fuck over yourself. Solider = guy in uniform for the vast majority of the public. You sound like a little why bitch.


I can see the spittle flying from here.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (fWAjv)

112 First rule of Muzzlethump Club is tell all the world about Muzzlethump Club.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (JtwS4)

113 I can see the spittle flying from here.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (fWAjv)

That's the chopped up baby organs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (2Ojst)

114 Use soldier like the LiVs dummy!

Posted by: Mau Mau at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (HstNY)

115 Vox hasn't explained this event to us yet...weird?


Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 02:50 PM (NOIQH)


Agree, comrade. When I use word way I want to use word then everyone uses word that way. Much easier.

Posted by: Josef "Love Tank" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (hLRSq)

116 Solider = guy in uniform for the vast majority of the public.

Except for the half of the country that actually knows the difference, fuckface.

I get that you're an ignorant ignormaus what ignorances, but give it a rest.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (659DL)

117 The numbers of the Dow's plunge aren't alarming but its direction and continuous trend is something to be aware of.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (39g3+)

118 That's the chopped up baby organs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (2Ojst)

THAT'S PROFIT!!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (fWAjv)

119 Skarlatos was brought up right.

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (vsbNu)

120 I would throw my hot cocoa right in their face!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (YFFpo)

121 87
DOJ "taint team" in this case.

Taint that's the area between...

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (tf9Ne)

122 He's indefatigable.





******





Highly conditioned, nay, almost world-class.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at August 24, 2015 02:57 PM (NeFrd)


Trolls gotta troll. It would be sad, but clearly he gets off on the abuse.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (TOk1P)

123 Moo Moo has turned his stupid dial to eleven.

His arrogant dial goes to twelve.

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (MQEz6)

124
"Well," snarled the tough old Navy Chief to the bewildered Seaman.
"I suppose after you get discharged from the Navy,
you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and piss on my grave."

"Not me, Chief!" the Seaman replied.
"Once I get out of the Navy, I'm never going to stand in line again!"

Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (C278+)

125 There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (39g3+)

Bad Asses that will kill you the day after Christmas in your sleep since 1776

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (R8hU8)

126 >>Gee, wonder why?


Shhhhhhhh!
The only Christians we like are clowns like Whashisname Duggar.

Posted by: MSM at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (NOIQH)

127 He's indefagitable.
Posted by: Insomniac



I thought he was married. To a female.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (4dbPD)

128
Die like a lion?
Someone will lure me with steak and then shoot me with an arrow.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (0x/TW)

129 Updated my nick

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (NeFrd)

130 96 Lutherans!!! And you will all eat jello salad

But only the Missouri Synod//
Posted by: Velvet Ambiti

Hate to correct you, but so does the Wisconsin Synod

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (J3phO)

131 snorts*
BTW did you see her outfit on WZ? If not, looks like a black Hefty bag with fringes. No summer drapery for her today.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 02:48 PM (Z58Xa)

What in the hell was she wearing??? Unlike most of you, I think her body isn't bad at all for someone her age (face is another matter), but honestly, she needs fashion counseling. How did she imagine that that dress didn't look ridiculous?

I still maintain that she's probably often mean to her stylists and they take it out on her when they dress her.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (SEFXb)

132 I wonder what Frank Booth would have thought about hipster doucbeags liking his beloved PBR.

When I was young, Pabst was what rednecks drank. The beer of choice for my reprobate drunken step-grandfather. A hilarious, but clearly hellbound man. Hearing him go on a rant about how you can't find a good morphadite whore any longer was a gem for a 12 year old boy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (39g3+)

133 "Not me, Chief!" the Seaman replied.

"Once I get out of the Navy, I'm never going to stand in line again!"



Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 03:01 PM (C278+)
I'm stealing that.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (C891K)

134 129 Updated my nick
Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (NeFrd

Bionic dick go tits up?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (J3phO)

135 >>First rule of Muzzlethump Club is tell all the world about Muzzlethump Club.


Sounds like a sausage party. LOL
*tee hee*

Posted by: Jessica Valenti at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (NOIQH)

136 The military is for poor suckers, not rich people like me.

Posted by: Mr. Doo Doo at August 24, 2015 03:03 PM (OD2ni)

137 Bah. Pixy hamsters will report to Hamster Fun Camp, which is the name of my cat.

Posted by: Josef "Mr. Comedy" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:03 PM (hLRSq)

138 116 Solider = guy in uniform for the vast majority of the public.

Except for the half of the country that actually knows the difference, fuckface.

I get that you're an ignorant ignormaus what ignorances, but give it a rest.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (659DL)

_________

Do you guys really not understand you are acting just like the SJWs you mock? Seriously, get the fuck over yourselves.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:03 PM (0LHZx)

139 Lutherans!!! And you will all eat jello salad



But only the Missouri Synod//

Posted by: Velvet Ambiti

Hate to correct you, but so does the Wisconsin Synod

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (J3phO)
Oh Gott, they're multiplying......

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:03 PM (C891K)

140 127 He's indefagitable.
Posted by: Insomniac



I thought he was married. To a female.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (4dbPD)

So he claims.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:03 PM (2Ojst)

141 The Dow is doing fine compared to the Chinese and European Indices.

.






And that is what has me scared.

Posted by: rd at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (a/sAS)

142 Bad Asses that will kill you the day after Christmas in your sleep since 1776

Again, while technically accurate, that's still a bit long for common parlance. Badasses is a bit too broad, as it includes a lot of civilians.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (39g3+)

143 It is good to show your ignorance, and here's why.

Posted by: MooMoo@Vox.com at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (Vf5rR)

144 57
Colloquially solider refers to anyone in the armed forces. It's not
meant as an insult. You guys sound like an SJW who just got
micro-aggressed.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:51 PM (0LHZx)

No, Moo Moo, you are full of shit. You probably can't pronounce Corpsman ether. He's NOT a soldier either.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (0FSuD)

145 I still maintain that she's probably often mean to her stylists and they take it out on her when they dress her.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (SEFXb


Mean? That bitch has a chip on her shoulder the size of Mt. Rushmore. If you worked for her I bet you would pray that she became mean.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (J3phO)

146 119 Skarlatos was brought up right.

Posted by: logprof at August 24, 2015 03:00 PM (vsbNu)

I think they all were. Even the grandfather Chris Norman.

http://tinyurl.com/qzr6ld2

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, shortly after the attack, the grand-father of three phoned his wife of 35 years and explained why he had put himself in danger: 'You either sit and get shot, or you get angry and do something,' he told her.





Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (fWAjv)

147 On some air bases the Air Force is on one side of the field
and civilian aircraft use the other side of the field, with the control tower in the middle.

One day the tower received a call from an aircraft asking, "What time is it?"
The tower responded, "Who is calling?"
The aircraft replied, "What difference does it make?"
The tower replied "It makes a lot of difference.
If it is an American Airlines flight, it is 3 o'clock.
If it is an Air Force plane, it is 1500 hours.
If it is a Navy aircraft, it is 6 bells.
If it is an Army aircraft, the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand
is on the 3.
If it is a Marine Corps aircraft, it's Thursday afternoon and 120
minutes to "Happy Hour."

Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (C278+)

148 if we were SJWs, we'd have doxxed you by now and gotten you fired / bankrupted, etc

Posted by: himself at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (8CdUx)

149 Do you guys really not understand you are acting just like the SJWs you mock? Seriously, get the fuck over yourselves.

I would say vets have earned the right to no get over themselves.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (ZbV+0)

150
102 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

Wait. . . what?

Posted by: Sheep at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (4AVeu)

151 Eh, Ms Hall seemed to handle his awesome statement ok.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (SEFXb)

152 Hate to correct you, but so does the Wisconsin Synod

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (J3phO)

You can't trust anybody anymore

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (R8hU8)

153 Updated my nick
Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:02 PM (NeFrd

Bionic dick go tits up?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Tits not happy?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:04 PM (4dbPD)

154 Dah fuq is a 'solider?'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (fWAjv)

155 New to Cedar Point the roller coaster Capitol of the world. It's our scariest coaster ever! The Obama Stock Market!

Posted by: Buzzion at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (z/Ubi)

156 >>> There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."



There is. Serviceman.

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (3ZtZW)

157 The stock market isn't going to drp by 10,000 in one day.

The real issue is why is this happening and is the drop the beginning of something very bad.

The things happening in China suggest a financial SMOD is on the way.

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (MQEz6)

158 Oh Gott, they're multiplying......


I was told there would be no math on this blog.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (JtwS4)

159 57: "Colloquially solider refers to anyone in the armed forces."

It would seem that ethics are not the only thing you know nothing about.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (UPYPp)

160 I am too busy counting my piles of cash Scrooge McDuck style to give a toss about the markets.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (BSS7/)

161 And it's also about time the media stop wondering what on earth the motive could be of these killers.

Posted by: PJ at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (cHuNI)

162 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

Wait. . . what?
Posted by: Sheep


C'mere lambchop.
*Turns oven to 400.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (4dbPD)

163 Is the Tomb of the Unknown Solider only for "soldiers" or for all members of the armed forces?

Hmmmm.....

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (0LHZx)

164 Yes, Moo--we know you don't know dick about the military. We get it. That makes us as bad as the SJWs.

Logical leap much, asshole?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (659DL)

165 Do you guys really not understand you are acting just like the SJWs you mock? Seriously, get the fuck over yourselves.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:03

Says the man who spends more in dry cleaning in a week than any of us make.

Talk about getting the fuck over yourself, why don't you go back to your original nick? And why don't you fuck off and malinger.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (J3phO)

166 I would say vets have earned the right to no get over themselves.

Yeah, its not the reaction that matters, its the targets and why. Getting upset that your baby was run over with a train is proper and just. Getting upset that someone whistled at you - or DIDN'T whistle at you as you walked by the construction site? Get a life.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (39g3+)

167 156 >>> There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."



There is. Serviceman.
__________________________________

Really?

Posted by: Two Female Rangers at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (4AVeu)

168 125
There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."



Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (39g3+)

Try US Servicemen, see if that works for you and get back with us.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (0FSuD)

169 When I was in the 82d ABN, the commanding general used to say, "The Marines are looking for a few good men, because most of them are in the paratroopers."

But yeah, interservice rivalries are fun, but we spent most of our time shitting on non-Airborne qualified soldiers. They are referred to as "legs."

Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (1TUV/)

170 I can see the spittle flying from here.

*****


Like a Golden Retriever fresh out of the pool.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (NeFrd)

171 Dah fuq is a 'solider?'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:05 PM (fWAjv)
A marine with unusual spelling skills.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (C891K)

172 Solider = guy in uniform for the vast majority of the public. You sound like a little why bitch.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 02:58 PM (0LHZx)


Moo Moo will next explain the technical aspects of modern firearms design, beginning with the history if "that thingie that goes up."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (8ZskC)

173 Christopher:

There needs to be a word that describes "United States member of the armed forces."

How about superior?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (WjXce)

174 There is. Serviceman.

You're right that is a perfectly adequate word. Even cromulent.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (39g3+)

175 Yes, yes, but does the Legion of Honor come with its own honeypot?

Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (UzPAd)

176 Wow. Captain Baby-bits has gone into full-on spittle-flecked raging lunatic mode.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (2Ojst)

177 The stock market isn't going to drp by 10,000 in one day.

It literally can't. The whole things gets halted for a while at 7% and 14% drops, and they close shop for the day if they're down 20%.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (ZbV+0)

178 >>I still maintain that she's probably often mean to her stylists and they take it out on her when they dress her.

I suspect they prefer not to tell her when she looks bad in an outfit she's picked out because they don't want to incur her wrath.

Michelle often wears spandex or yoga pants when leading some "Let's Move" event, and that's just not right. I don't want to see any FLOTUS in yoga pants (maybe Sakozy's wife could pull it off, but not for any other politician/political spouse - ever).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (NOIQH)

179
I am too busy counting my piles of cash Scrooge McDuck style to give a toss about the markets.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (BSS7/)
LOL, if you had money anywhere you'd be giving a toss and be making money off of it like me. You ain't got any significant money in the market and you just proved it.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (C891K)

180 Malignant narcissist tells others to get over themselves. Priceless.

Posted by: Dick Bilson at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (TwjuU)

181 You can't trust anybody anymore
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:04 P

I know sad isn't it.
Church picnic was yesterday and all the standard goodies were there.
Umpteen hamburger casseroles
Umpteen desserts
And several jello salads!!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (J3phO)

182 Being a sheared sheep, a dead sheep, ......

Posted by: rickb223 a


....a Mooselimb sheep...

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (/Ho8c)

183 I like "servicemen" because it includes a huge finger to the SJWs who get faint when something isn't gender inclusive.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (39g3+)

184 So I guess next to the Tomb of the Unknown **SOLDIER** there is a sign that says "no Airmen, Marines or Sailors need apply" huh?

Oh there isn't? You mean the term solider encapsulates all members of the armed forces? Interesting.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (0LHZx)

185 Poor Moo Moo has no money in the market. Guess we need to bankrupt SS to make his lifesavings go away.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (C891K)

186 I'm an innorant furrinur and I always assumed soldiers referred to people in the Army.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (SEFXb)

187 106 Dow -650, and falling

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 02:59 PM (VPLuQ)

-587 now, the Plunge Protection Team isn't waiting until 3:30

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (I34cf)

188 Bionic dick go tits up?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

*****



Put on a sock for one single joke and forever after you're known as "Muldoon, a man with a bionic penis"

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (NeFrd)

189
"Dah fuq"

RWC, you're complaining about spelllling?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (WjXce)

190 Dah fuq is a 'solider?'

It's not meant to be taken literally. It applies to any congealer of gelatin products.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (evdj2)

191 Even a guy with most of his money in bonds would be paying attention to the stocks and be happy when prices on bonds go up. Moo Moo doesn't have money or bonds, lol.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (C891K)

192 Oh crap, missed the joke completely.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (WjXce)

193 >>> Do you guys really not understand you are acting just like the SJWs you mock?



Yeah....I've noticed that for awhile. Its not everybody. There is a reason for it, though. Most have simply declared war on everything to the left of themselves and have given up on civility. Plus, its a blog so no big deal.

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (3ZtZW)

194 184
So I guess next to the Tomb of the Unknown **SOLDIER** there is a sign that says "no Airmen, Marines or Sailors need apply" huh?



Oh there isn't? You mean the term solider encapsulates all members of the armed forces? Interesting.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (0LHZx)

Who's bitch this is?

Posted by: rebel flounder at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (Vf5rR)

195 LOL, if you had money anywhere you'd be giving a toss and be making money off of it like me. You ain't got any significant money in the market and you just proved it.
Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:08 PM (C891K)

___________

No doofus. I learned long ago you can't time the market. You may get luck every now and then, but long term you can't do it. Which is why I don't give a fuck about short term fluctuations. Only amateurs do. Smart money doesn't panic. Only stupid money does.

But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)

196 @169 David, infamous sockpuppet

"They are referred to as "legs."



And constantly hearing it from a "5 jump chump" got old real quick.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (BSS7/)

197 -587 now, the Plunge Protection Team isn't waiting until 3:30

They got out on a big thin limb this morning. Best of luck doing it again the same day.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (ZbV+0)

198 175
Yes, yes, but does the Legion of Honor come with its own honeypot?


Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (UzPAd)

I'll bet it does, but these guys are suppose to be very religious so I doubt they will be having any of it.

Ha ha, I make joke.

Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (0FSuD)

199 Dah fuq is a 'solider?'It's not meant to be taken literally. It applies to any congealer of gelatin products.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (evdj2)

A solider jell-o salad is called an arms race in some places.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (C891K)

200
Put on a sock for one single joke and forever after you're known as "Muldoon, a man with a bionic penis"
Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:09 PM (

Ha Ha.
Good thing you didn't suck one either once.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (J3phO)

201 There is. Serviceman.

__________________________________



Really?

Posted by: Two Female Rangers at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (4AVeu)


He's talking about REAL Rangers, and other servicemen, hon.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (TOk1P)

202 There is. Serviceman.

You're right that is a perfectly adequate word. Even cromulent.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:07 PM (39g3+)

----

We may no do math on the blog.

But we do the shit out of vocabulary.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (8XRCm)

203 Michelle Obama is holding up really well for her age, although I've noticed a lot of black women do that. She would be a lot better off if she didn't sculpt her eyebrows into that arch, too. Helps make her look very angry.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (39g3+)

204 In all seriousness, "soldier" is a commonly-accepted term in civilian circles for persons in the military. It is, as Smart Military Blogger-types above have noted, not an accurate term when used that way with respect to the US Armed Forces. In that context, "Soldier" = member of the US Army, as opposed to other branches.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (/Ho8c)

205 Moo Moo doesn't have money or bonds, lol.

Moo Moo has more money in bonds then you and all your ancestors ever earned, including all those apes in Africa.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (8ZskC)

206 >>>It's not meant to be taken literally. It applies to any congealer of gelatin products.<<<

Carrots in jello is wrong. Some would say sinful.

Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (UzPAd)

207 What in the hell was she wearing??? Unlike most of you, I think her body isn't bad at all for someone her age (face is another matter), but honestly, she needs fashion counseling. How did she imagine that that dress didn't look ridiculous?

I gave up on her fashion instincts when they had all those dresses shown for the first inaugural and she ended up with the one that looked like it should be worn to junior prom, not by a grown woman.

I think she must like this stuff, because I can't see her taking the advice of her stylists if she hated something.

Posted by: Lea at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (lIU4e)

208 I feel very sorry for the Frenchman who feels that he cannot publicly accept the Legion of Honor medal. Fear of ....um..."multicultural" reprisal, no doubt.

Incidentally, I read somewhere that Stone, Sadler, and Skarlatos were old friends who went to the same rightwing, Christofascist, Bible-thumping school in SoCal.
Bigots!!!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (cN9Sk)

209 He's talking about REAL Rangers, and other servicemen, hon.


Posted by: BurtTC


Wow. Not touching that.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (/Ho8c)

210 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

Well, you're apparently as competent as any of the other banksters.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (ZbV+0)

211 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (NeFrd)

212 And several jello salads!!!!

http://is.gd/0ZFrlu

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (/kI1Q)

213 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

Debate over.

*mic drop*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (8ZskC)

214 I've noticed a lot of black women do that.


So, they all look the same to you?

Posted by: GuyWhoDoesntGiveAShit at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (7ObY1)

215 Yeah....I've noticed that for awhile. Its not everybody. There is a reason for it, though. Most have simply declared war on everything to the left of themselves and have given up on civility. Plus, its a blog so no big deal.
Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:

Seems to me there is only one person who has declared a "war" on the general theme of this thread. But, then again, he is always at the center of controversy.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (J3phO)

216 Oh dear, we've given someone the vapors.

Civility ends at condescension's edge, OK?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (659DL)

217 I believe that decorum calls for ALL females to wear tops that cover their butts while in leggings or yoga pants. But it seems most are allergic to doing so. Including quite overweight women whom you would hope would be more self conscious about it.

Sigh.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (SEFXb)

218 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

You worked for the Iron Bank of Bravos?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (n6Omg)

219 Back when the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was built, there weren't no Air Force, for starters

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (39g3+)

220 No doofus. I learned long ago you can't time the
market. You may get luck every now and then, but long term you can't do
it. Which is why I don't give a fuck about short term fluctuations. Only
amateurs do. Smart money doesn't panic. Only stupid money does.



But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.



Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)
Oh, I agree, I'm an index investor too. But to say you have too much money to care about a near 1,000 drop in the stock market is dumb. If I had more money, I'd be excited about it and be ready to re-balance.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (C891K)

221 worked in IB.

Instant broth isn't very impressive.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (2Ojst)

222
Really?

Posted by: Two Female Rangers

====


Yes.

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (3ZtZW)

223
hey getting shot really hurts

but thumpin a muzzie unconcious is kinda fun

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (q+zA9)

224 Helps make her look very angry.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor


Ummm, I don't think that's just a "look", bro.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (/Ho8c)

225 I think any objects in Jell-O are sinful.


Of the Devil.

Posted by: eleven at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (ykfyK)

226 and she ended up with the one that looked like it should be worn to junior prom, not by a grown woman.


The one with the used kleenex hot-glued to the skirt?

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (/kI1Q)

227 212 And several jello salads!!!!

http://is.gd/0ZFrlu
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (/kI1Q)

Yay Heather!!!!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (J3phO)

228 You can tell who understand stocks and who doesn't by their reaction today.

MSM - clueless about everything so they're freaking out

Small time investors - freaking out

Managers of portfolios with $5B....not freaking out.

Idiots who think they understand stocks because they watch Cramer every night......freaking way the fuck out.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (0LHZx)

229 I am a credentialed idiot and occasionally ask for Uncle Sugar to bail me out because bad luck and all.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (659DL)

230 Or maybe he meant Infant Brutalization? I'd believe that.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 24, 2015 03:15 PM (2Ojst)

231 I recently lost something very valuable to me. I used to be worth $6 million, but since I lost a certain bionic part, my value is now $4.32. And the bionic woman has become somewhat distant and aloof. What's more, the bitch can hear anything I say.

Can anyone help me?

Posted by: Steve Austin, former astronaut at August 24, 2015 03:15 PM (4AVeu)

232 >>The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.

Why did you have to go an spoil it? I was anticipating much more stupid before finally getting to that simple fact.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2015 03:15 PM (OGm46)

233 Really?

Posted by: Two Female Rangers at August 24, 2015 03:06 PM (4AVeu)


He's talking about REAL Rangers, and other servicemen, hon.
Posted by: BurtTC



I'll be over here >>>>>>>

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:15 PM (4dbPD)

234 I believe that decorum calls for ALL females to wear tops that cover their butts while in leggings or yoga pants. But it seems most are allergic to doing so. Including quite overweight women whom you would hope would be more self conscious about it.

Sigh.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (SEFXb)


All fat women enemies of the people and sent to Fun Diet Camp, also known as Siberia.

Posted by: Josef "Life Coach" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (hLRSq)

235 "WAC"
"WAVE"
"SPAR"
"WAF"

"WOMAN MARINE"

And now, what?
Rangerette?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (xq1UY)

236 Moolin Steele always sells at top and buys at the bottom.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (evdj2)

237 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

You worked for the Iron Bank of Bravos?

Benny the loan shark.

Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (C278+)

238 Managers of portfolios with $5B....not freaking out.


Idiots who think they understand stocks because they watch Cramer every night......freaking way the fuck out.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (0LHZx)

So do you agree with Moo Moo that the managers don't care about today's movements and aren't trying to find ways to make money off of it?

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (C891K)

239 Oh, I agree, I'm an index investor too. But to say you have too much money to care about a near 1,000 drop in the stock market is dumb. If I had more money, I'd be excited about it and be ready to re-balance.
Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:13 PM (C891K)

_________

I never said I have too much money to care. I said in the grand scheme of things a 3% drop is not a big deal. We've had 3% drops before and we'll have many again in the future.

And freaking out over it every time it happens is stupid.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (0LHZx)

240 They got out on a big thin limb this morning. Best of luck doing it again the same day.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (ZbV+0)

The Plunge Protection Team uses the High Frequency Trading computers, so they had those options bought and sold at a nice profit on the rebound quicker than you can think about hitting the sell button

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (I34cf)

241 Including quite overweight women whom you would hope would be more self conscious about it.

Funny story. So my buddies and I are out cruising looking for a good place to eat. We pull into a steak joint and are about to get out when this.. woman... who weighs about as much as all four of us combined waddles past toward the door. She's wearing leotards (what they used to call yoga pants) stretched so tight you can hear the cloth straining, and its showing all every pock mark of her mottled fat.

As one we settled back in to the truck and drove away, no longer hungry.

I mean, okay some people get really heavy. That happens, and while I am sure they could do more to lose weight, I'm not exactly the most disciplined man on earth either.

But... at least cover it up a little. Please?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (39g3+)

242 @195 HUCK / AKIN


"But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB."


Alot of them living in basements these days?

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (BSS7/)

243 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)


---------------------------------------


Here we go.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (P25Hh)

244 I am glad there are dad's like the father of that Hero in France. Unlike Dad's who teach their kids to lie and cheat

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (gf8BH)

245 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (NeFrd)

---

The sarcophagus does.... but the remains of three (I think) other soldiers are interred onsite.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (8XRCm)

246 Anyone else remember when a 700 point loss in the Dow was an excuse ton funnel taxpayer dollars to the crooks running the banking industry?

Yet today is just another day.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (ZbV+0)

247 >>The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.

Can't they just do a DNA test on him?
How hard is it to call up those CSI dudes?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (GdFQh)

248 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.

====


STFU dude - he was married!

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (3ZtZW)

249 "WOMAN MARINE"

I've also heard WM's referred to as "walking Mattresses"

Posted by: wrg500 at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (C278+)

250 Funny how all mention of who is buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington keeps referring to them as servicemen. Gee it's almost as if that is the proper way to do so.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (z/Ubi)

251 All fat women enemies of the people and sent to Fun Diet Camp, also known as Siberia.

Posted by: Josef "Life Coach" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (hLRSq)
Petersburg is a perfect example of this successful program. Thank you comrade for making the world beautiful.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (C891K)

252 "I recently lost something very valuable to me. I used to be worth $6 million, but since I lost a certain bionic part, my value is now $4.32. And the bionic woman has become somewhat distant and aloof. What's more, the bitch can hear anything I say. Can anyone help me?"

Call Rudy.

Posted by: Oscar Goldman at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (OD2ni)

253 @195

Oooooooh. He has a MBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

Oh, and a solider is someone who served in the army and not a generic term like "douchenozzle" for ignorant, message board jockeys with MBA's.

Posted by: Foul Harold at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (FGvan)

254 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)


----

Honest Cloud????

Is that you????

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (8XRCm)

255 Doh. Soldier

Posted by: Foul Harold at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (FGvan)

256 Michelle Obama is holding up really well for her age, although I've noticed a lot of black women do that. She would be a lot better off if she didn't sculpt her eyebrows into that arch, too. Helps make her look very angry.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:11 PM (39g3+)

Yeah, you should see my 70 year old mom. Not a single line on her face and nice smooth skin. In fact, I don't think any of my aunties our mom's friends have any wrinkles. But my mom looks especially good, if I may say so.

She also doesn't shave her actual eyebrows and paint on fake ones in their place. I don't understand why women do this.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (uz/Pv)

257 So do you agree with Moo Moo that the managers don't care about today's movements and aren't trying to find ways to make money off of it?
Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (C891K)

__________

A prudent manager would not make rash moves today. You're confusing money managers with traders. Managers think long term. People who have no idea what they're doing think short term and react to short term blips.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (0LHZx)

258 Think of Wall Street as the Vegas casinos when the Mob owned them, with the difference being the Mob had to be mindful of laws

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (I34cf)

259 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.





Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (NeFrd)


And the Tomb is not actually of the Unknown "Soldier," it is simply the Tomb of the Unknown(s). Difference branches are represented, for different wars. In fact, now that they have started to identify some of the entombed members, at least one of them was Air Force, I believe.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (TOk1P)

260 Whither shall my remains go whenst I shuffle off this mortal coil and slip the surly bonds of earth?

Posted by: The Unknown Comic at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (4AVeu)

261 And now, what?
Rangerette?


Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (xq1UY)


Female missile shooters are "Rockettes".
Get it, comrade?

Posted by: Josef "Funny or Die" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (hLRSq)

262 Here we go.
Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at Aug

Surprised he didn't graduate magna cum laud with a cherry on top

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (J3phO)

263 Can't they just do a DNA test on him?

I think they did but at this point the tomb is kind of sacred so best to leave things as is.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:19 PM (39g3+)

264 Dow was at -666 a minute ago

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:20 PM (I34cf)

265 I never said I have too much money to care. I
said in the grand scheme of things a 3% drop is not a big deal. We've
had 3% drops before and we'll have many again in the future.



And freaking out over it every time it happens is stupid.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:16 PM (0LHZx)

Can we agree that I wasn't freaking out and was making fun of stoopid Moo Moo? If one has lots of money, you generally care about what's happening in the world securities market. I don't think I said freak out/panic, there is a difference between freak out and care/concern.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:20 PM (C891K)

266
Can't they just do a DNA test on him?

How hard is it to call up those CSI dudes?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 24, 2015 03:17 PM (GdFQh)

He's deliberately kept anonymous.
The original Vietnam unknown was identified years ago and his family sued to have his remains moved to their hometown.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (OiH3z)

267 We have all our money invested in Commodities........Like food....

Posted by: donna at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (hUdMz)

268 204

Thanks to you and the others. Didn't intend to chum the waters in the thread with the initial question.

Posted by: joe at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (34w2E)

269 Dow was at -666 a minute ago



Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:20 PM (I34cf)

SATAN! Call in the jell-o salads!

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (C891K)

270 So this -670 is nothing but a thing, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (VPLuQ)

271 I don't know what is so hard about accepting that if you are a certain shape or size, some things are not flattering for you to wear.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (v9gSJ)

272 @229 Circa

"I am a credentialed idiot and occasionally ask for Uncle Sugar to bail me out because bad luck and all."



Didn't you hear what the man said?! MBA! MBA! He got credentials and shit.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (BSS7/)

273 Wall Street just brought a couple of AKs onto the train and nobody has stepped up to tackle them. Crap.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (zoyKY)

274 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

/Cecil (who died while licking his balls)

Posted by: maddogg at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (xWW96)

275 Fox Business: orders through the close are 80% to the sell side

Whheeeeeee

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (ZbV+0)

276 15,779.45 -680.30(-4.13%)

A passing fad.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (evdj2)

277 In November 2011 there were 2 big loss days, one 4.3% and another 5.5%.

And just like now, the same lunatics were out these screaming that the end of the world was here.

How did that work out?




Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (0LHZx)

278 A prudent manager would not make rash moves
today. You're confusing money managers with traders. Managers think long
term. People who have no idea what they're doing think short term and
react to short term blips.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:18 PM (0LHZx)

Agreed, but that's not what Moo Moo is saying.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (C891K)

279 Yeah, moop sounds like Honest Cloud.

Full of shit and full of himself.

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (MQEz6)

280 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)


---------------------------------------


Here we go.
Posted by: Soona



And THAT'S when the fight started.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (4dbPD)

281 The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a single unknown soldier from World War I.



Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:12 PM (NeFrd)

And guarded by Army personnel 24 hours a day seven days a week in all weather conditions

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (R8hU8)

282 @211 The American monument, unlike many others, is called "The Tomb of The Unknowns," NOT "Unknown Soldier."

And it contains three (formerly four) sets of remains.
They kicked out the Unknown Airman. He got known.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (xq1UY)

283 From the Arlington Cemetery website:

"The remains of the Vietnam Unknown were exhumed May 14, 1998. Based on mitochondrial DNA testing, DoD scientists identified the remains as those of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie, who was shot down near An Loc, Vietnam, in 1972."

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (NeFrd)

284 Moo-Moo trying to understand inter-service jokes, rivalry and military camaraderie is akin to PajamaBoy explaining heterosexual sex acts.


You can read books about it.
You can even watch movies about it.


Don't mean you understand it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (VPLuQ)

285 Didn't you hear what the man said?! MBA! MBA! He got credentials and shit.



Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (BSS7/)
Those credentials didn't save Lehman Brothers. Political connections saved AIG.

Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (C891K)

286 >>Agreed, but that's not what Moo Moo is saying.

I think you are having an out of body experience. That is moo moo.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (OGm46)

287 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep."

/Cecil (who died while licking his balls)



If ya gotta go, what better way?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (4dbPD)

288 Never take market advice from a guy who lives in van down by the river.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (evdj2)

289 She also doesn't shave her actual eyebrows and paint on fake ones in their place. I don't understand why women do this.


If you've plucked viciously enough, after a couple decades the hairs stop growing back. (Not me, I look like Bert.)

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (/kI1Q)

290 But hey what do I know? I only have an MBA and worked in IB.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:10 PM (0LHZx)


Yet have trouble spelling 'soldier.' Multiple times.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (fWAjv)

291 Someone mentioned China's and Europe's markets not doing as well as the US. That should worry everyone. Economies are so entwined right now that bad news in one place is bad news in all places. I'm predicting a really bad outcome soon.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (P25Hh)

292
>>> He's deliberately kept anonymous.


They "disappeared" him, Comrade

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (3ZtZW)

293 I learned long ago you can't time the market.

Well dickless, you too deserve an ESPN courage award.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (ODxAs)

294 She also doesn't shave her actual eyebrows and paint on fake ones in their place. I don't understand why women do this.
Posted by: chique d'afrique
------------------------------
I have always been baffled by this practice. I don't get it...

But then again, women are just amazing, confusing creatures to me anyway. I stopped trying to understand y'all a long time ago.

Posted by: Chi at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (LqrJL)

295 And just like now, the same lunatics were out these screaming that the end of the world was here.

Who said anything about the end of the world.

I see economic justice. Of the sort we get every seven years like clockwork.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (ZbV+0)

296 And THAT'S when the fight started.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (4dbPD)

Remember the days in the IB trenches fighting of the Hun junk bond waves? A lot of good men didn't come back.

Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (C891K)

297 Thanks to you and the others. Didn't intend to chum the waters in the thread with the initial question.

Posted by: joe at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (34w2E)


No problem, your question was fine. It was worth asking, and it's not yours or anyone else's fault that moo moo chooses to troll around here.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (TOk1P)

298 I did not know they gave out MBAs in lying and cheating?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (gf8BH)

299 The American monument, unlike many others, is called "The Tomb of The Unknowns," NOT "Unknown Soldier."

****

Arlington Cemetery's website refers to it as "The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier". Could be that is a reference to the sarcophagus itself and the accompanying unknowns are collectively called the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (NeFrd)

300 Can we agree that I wasn't freaking out and was making fun of stoopid Moo Moo? If one has lots of money, you generally care about what's happening in the world securities market. I don't think I said freak out/panic, there is a difference between freak out and care/concern.
Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:20 PM (C891K)

___________

You generally care, sure. But if you have a general clue about how things work, you don't find the nearest window ledge when you lose 3% in one day.

And especially not after having 5 years of 15% yearly gains.

That's my point.



Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (0LHZx)

301 And just like now, the same lunatics were out these screaming that the end of the world was here.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (0LHZx)

I'm just getting excited, because I want to buy more stocks as they get cheaper.

Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (C891K)

302 And guarded by Army personnel 24 hours a day seven days a week in all weather conditions

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:22 PM (R8hU

Thank G*d that TFG administrations shit touch hasn't touched them.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (fWAjv)

303 You can read books about it.
You can even watch movies about it.


Don't mean you understand it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (VPLuQ)


You do when I explain things. Or somebody else will be there to understand in your place.

Posted by: Josef "No Repeats" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (hLRSq)

304 >>>Didn't you hear what the man said?! MBA! MBA! He got credentials and shit<<<

The Krugtron has a fricking Nobel! Doesn't mean he isn't a horse's ass though.

Posted by: Fritz at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (UzPAd)

305 They kicked out the Unknown Airman. He got known.

Isn't that just like a flyboy, always gotta show off.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (39g3+)

306 298 I did not know they gave out MBAs in lying and cheating?


I'm struggling to think of what else an MBA would learn that would be useful to them in the corporate world.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (n6Omg)

307 Those credentials didn't save Lehman Brothers. Political connections saved AIG.
Posted by: Draki at August 24, 2015 03:23 PM (C891K)

_______

Sure, but those with an MBA made all the money. They walked away rich men. Which is kind of the whole point of it all.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (0LHZx)

308
Sorry I was gone.... ran to the little boys room.

All those international flights have left me a little loose..... but my poop is solider today than it was yesterday.

Posted by: BUTT ACHING - 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:27 PM (8XRCm)

309 You generally care, sure. But if you have a general
clue about how things work, you don't find the nearest window ledge when
you lose 3% in one day.


And especially not after having 5 years of 15% yearly gains.


That's my point.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (0LHZx)

You're point ain't what I'm saying. I'm not putting pies on window ledges or anything. Just making fun of Moo Moo who proved he ain't got any wealth in the securities market, prolly not real estate either.

Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:27 PM (C891K)

310 When we finally have the Big Kahuna, the true across the board massive global financial crash which governments and central bankers will prove unable to stop -- something which hasn't happened yet in modern history -- there are going to be self-proclaimed experts braying all the way to the bottom that there's no cause for alarm.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 24, 2015 03:27 PM (noWW6)

311 Dow -671: #BlackMondayLivesMatter

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (4AVeu)

312 There is a lesson here for all of us. And by us, I mean us. When your opportunity comes, and it will come, you need to have the decision to fight or die already made. Talking is not an option. It really never has been. These 'people' understand only force. Even though Texas is a relatively safe place, FT Hood and Garland notwithstanding, I go armed at all times. And I made my decision long ago.

Posted by: Eromero at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (go5uR)

313 "It's better to die like a lion than to be slaughtered like sheep." /Cecil (who died while licking his balls) If ya gotta go, what better way?"

Q Why does a dog lick his balls?
A Because he can.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (OD2ni)

314 Heh. Who wouldn't want these fine folks on their side?

http://goo.gl/iySxZO

Posted by: maddogg at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (xWW96)

315 I think you are having an out of body experience. That is moo moo.

Posted by: Joe Biden


Yeppers.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (/Ho8c)

316 A Correspondence MBA from Phoenix School of Business doesn't count.

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (zoyKY)

317 Show us yer tits, Tamron.

Posted by: wth at August 24, 2015 03:28 PM (wAQA5)

318 They "disappeared" him, Comrade

Posted by: Bigby's Signifying Hands at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (3ZtZW)


Da is true - just like magic.

Posted by: Josef "Here today; Gone Tonight" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (hLRSq)

319 I'm just getting excited, because I want to buy more stocks as they get cheaper.
Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (C891K)

__________


Which is a good thing. But buying or selling during a period of panic is not a good idea. Tomorrow we could be down another 500 or up another 500. During times like this, rational trading goes out the door and mania sets in.

The prudent move is wait for the dust to settle and then figure out what the long term strategy is.

Bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered. The best saying ever because it is so succinct and accurate each and every time.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (0LHZx)

320 @285 Draki

I left off the sarc tag as I thought my mockery would shine through. I will work on that a bit.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (BSS7/)

321 For those keeping score, FB just corrected those rules on the halts. After 3:25, the 7% and 13% halts do not apply. We can go all the way to -3200 or so if that's what Mr. Market wants to do.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (ZbV+0)

322 The one with the used kleenex hot-glued to the skirt?
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at August 24, 2015 03:14 PM (/kI1Q)


Yes, that one. That is not an adult dress.

Also, Moo Moo's talking about a 3% drop, but it's gone from 18k a month or two ago to under 16k today. That is significant.

Posted by: Lea at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (lIU4e)

323 Moo² would be better off if he dumped that deliberately insulting and idiotic nickname, stopped being so colossally arrogant and condescending, and was not so viciously insulting when any topic involving morality arose.

Because he does have good stuff to say once in a while. Its just a bad noise to signal ratio. Like the point about the drop not being catastrophic - yet. He's right, in terms of total volume its not very significant at this point.

But the trend is something to be paying attention to, and combined with the far east markets, cause for some concern.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (39g3+)

324 Sure, but those with an MBA made all the money. They walked away rich men. Which is kind of the whole point of it all.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (0LHZx)
I don't know how the MBA holders at Lehman did. The brokers probably could find new jobs. The people calling the shots to buy more sub-prime AAA rated securities might not have succeeded so well afterwards. How's John Corzine's holdings looking after he collapsed MF Global? You gonna give him or Bernie Madoff money?

Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:30 PM (C891K)

325 I'm not putting pies on window ledges or anything.

Drat!

Posted by: Yogi Bear at August 24, 2015 03:30 PM (/kI1Q)

326 Arlington Cemetery's website refers to it as "The
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier". Could be that is a reference to the
sarcophagus itself and the accompanying unknowns are collectively called
the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:25 PM (NeFrd)


I believe there is A tomb of an unknown soldier among the Tomb of the Unknowns. That's what causes some confusion. The first guy so interred was a WWI (I think) soldier, and so unofficially he's buried in the tomb of the unknown soldier (lower case) because, of course, he was/is.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:30 PM (TOk1P)

327 Is that a quote? I can't find a source. I have a hard time believing that wasn't first said 2000 years ago and uttered by Alexander the Great or something.

Did he coin that?

Posted by: .87c at August 24, 2015 03:30 PM (BuczT)

328 And guarded by Army personnel 24 hours a day seven days a week in all weather conditions
Posted by: Velvet Ambition


And may God Bless them.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:30 PM (4dbPD)

329 The Ashley Madison honchos must have got PhDs in cheating.

OT, They're now offering half a mil bounty for the guys who hacked 'em.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 24, 2015 03:31 PM (jlcQk)

330 I left off the sarc tag as I thought my mockery would shine through. I will work on that a bit.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (BSS7/)
LOL, you got me good. You win.

Posted by: A humble solider at August 24, 2015 03:31 PM (C891K)

331 What the fuck would the administration of Arlington know about it? They're all unknown, as far as they're concerned. Just shove 'em in a hole, the directory is wrong, hundreds in the wrong graves, there was a big scandal. One guy retired early IIRC. Then it got real quiet. Would not take their word for anything.

Plus it's Bobby Lee's back yard, so expect them to move everyone soon. CBF.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:31 PM (xq1UY)

332 I disagree about Teh Mooch. Fifty is NOT old! I'm the same age as her, and I am in much better shape than she is. In fact, most of my friends who are that age and older who run look far better than her! As far as I can tell, she only works out her arms--the lower half of her body is a big, old cottage cheese mess (just Google the pics of them at the Grand Canyon and look for the ones of her in her short shorts several years ago). She is a very odd pear shape with absolutely no boobs. I am sick and tired of her being foisted upon the American public as a style icon and fashionita. She is neither. I also think that she wears a lot of clothes that are truly unflattering to her shape because she likes them. Like her husband, she is extremely arrogant--in the Kim Il Sung/Kim Jung Ill mode where they think they know better and can do better than everyone else. I'm sure that staffers (she has over 25 of them) have tried to tactfully steer her away from some of her terrible fashion choices, but she just plows ahead because she knows better. (Although, given their penchant for surrounding themselves with sychophants, perhaps no one on her vast staff is willing to speak up, so perhaps there is that emperor's new clothes kind of thing going on.)

Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (sUP4M)

333 Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (BSS7/)

Please tell us your secret for impersonating Moo Moo. I need to improve my camouflage for the great IB war of 2015.

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (C891K)

334 Wow. Someone bought a lot just short of -700.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (ZbV+0)

335 Burt TC is correct that there is only one soldier in the tomb.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (R8hU8)

336
OT
the 14th ammendment has special powers apparently
It can produce....
gay marrage
Obamma-care
birth right citizenship


that is covering alot of poilitcal turf right there

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (q+zA9)

337 Dollar cost indexing...boring but effective. I buy SPY 3 times a month on the 1st, 10th and 20th. It's on auto-pilot and has been for 6/7 years. And that's why I don't concern myself with short term fluctuations. In the long run, it all balances out.

Oh and re-invest the dividends. That shit adds up nicely as well.

Or....try to do the impossible and time the market, as well as paying an obscene amount of money in trading fees.

Your choice....

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (0LHZx)

338
Everything moo moo said, everybody already knows, you don't need an MBA to know that. He just likes to play with himself.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (ODxAs)

339 Is moo now saying that we are supposed to be impressed by his MBA, quite possibly the most overrated thing in modern academia right ahead of womyn's studies but we members of the various armed services are somehow whiny SJWs for wanting to have the distinction they earned noted properly?

My irony meter is out for repair but I'm pretty sure this would have cratered it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (OGm46)

340 271 I don't know what is so hard about accepting that if you are a certain shape or size, some things are not flattering for you to wear.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:21 PM (v9gSJ)
-----------
Yep.
I'm one of those --- so shoot me! --- who thinks Michelle Obama can look very attractive and stylish when she wears the right sort of thing. (Okay, except for the painted on eyebrows, but...)

It's when she wears twee and fluffy nonsense that she looks silly... or tacky... or huge. And there are times when her choices are inappropriate, like bright floral cocktail dresses at solemn events or mini skirts when sitting on an elevated stage.

But when she chooses well and SMILES, she can look really good. IMO.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (cN9Sk)

341 @295 Methos


"I see economic justice. Of the sort we get every seven years like clockwork."


Yup. One could say it is almost "cyclic."

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (BSS7/)

342 And once again I end up learning something new.


God bless the military, whatever you choose to call them. Thanks to the Horde, even the occasional dickheads. Later.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solider man at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (NeFrd)

343 It is possible to have a top school MBA and not make much money.

A commitment to the AoS Lifestyle helps.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (JtwS4)

344 We're saved....

-595

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (VPLuQ)

345 Thank G*d that TFG administrations shit touch hasn't touched them.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at August 24, 2015 03:26 PM (fWAjv)


-----------------------------------------


Yet. His term ain't over. He's going to be on a marxist rampage until he leaves.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (P25Hh)

346 Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (sUP4M)


We need pics, RN. Preferrably nekkid, and in color. Will settle for little French maid outfit, or Japanese schoolgirl.

Posted by: maddogg at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (xWW96)

347 But then again, women are just amazing, confusing creatures to me anyway. I stopped trying to understand y'all a long time ago.
Posted by: Chi at August 24, 2015 03:24 PM (LqrJL

Two, to go to the restroom.
Yes, I gave up years ago as well.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (J3phO)

348 Heh. Who wouldn't want these fine folks on their side?

http://goo.gl/iySxZO
Posted by: maddogg
--------------------------------------------------
Isn't that special? Why are there no minority Satanists? Are Satanists racists or something?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 24, 2015 03:35 PM (E5UB0)

349 MBA = Maximum Bullshit Ability

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at August 24, 2015 03:35 PM (oVJmc)

350 Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (sUP4M)

First Lady is fashion icon of what not to do.

Posted by: Josef "Stylin' Joe" Stalin at August 24, 2015 03:35 PM (hLRSq)

351 194
184

So I guess next to the Tomb of the Unknown **SOLDIER** there is a sign that says "no Airmen, Marines or Sailors need apply" huh?



Your point is well taken. The tomb was built in 1921 for unknown SOLDIERS that fought in WWI.




I believe that is because then Airman then were part of the Army, the Navy had no causalities, except for Marines. All of the Navy casualties were identified.




Posted by: Nip Sip at August 24, 2015 03:35 PM (0FSuD)

352 I'll take your word for it. I don't think I will be googling for Michelle's thighs on this computer or, really, any computer

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 24, 2015 03:36 PM (D0UyM)

353 Dollar cost indexing...boring but effective. I buy
SPY 3 times a month on the 1st, 10th and 20th. It's on auto-pilot and
has been for 6/7 years. And that's why I don't concern myself with short
term fluctuations. In the long run, it all balances out.


Oh and re-invest the dividends. That shit adds up nicely as well.


Or....try to do the impossible and time the market, as well as paying an obscene amount of money in trading fees.


Your choice....
Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (0LHZx)

Sounds like we have a similar plan, but I'll be rebalancing bonds after the dust settles with this drop and I'll be happy. We're happy about the drop, because we've been arguing that this is not a recovery summer.

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:36 PM (C891K)

354 Two, to go to the restroom.
Yes, I gave up years ago as well.


I don't know why this reminded me of a joke a Kraut friend posted on FB today, but here:


Q: How many Germans does it take to screw in a light bulb.

A: One. We're very efficient and don't do humor.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:36 PM (JtwS4)

355 Will settle for little French maid outfit, or Japanese schoolgirl.

Posted by: maddogg at August 24, 2015 03:34 PM (xWW96)
Yup

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 24, 2015 03:36 PM (R8hU8)

356 What the fuck would the administration of Arlington
know about it? They're all unknown, as far as they're concerned. Just
shove 'em in a hole, the directory is wrong, hundreds in the wrong
graves, there was a big scandal. One guy retired early IIRC. Then it got
real quiet. Would not take their word for anything.

Plus it's Bobby Lee's back yard, so expect them to move everyone soon. CBF.


Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:31 PM (xq1UY)


Also worth remembering, these are the same folks who were burying Clinton buddies without any military experience in there, if they donated enough cash to the Clintons.


Further, the National Cemetery is part of the VA, the same folks who prematurely put people in these graves in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:36 PM (TOk1P)

357 I'm one of those --- so shoot me! --- who thinks Michelle Obama can look very attractive and stylish when she wears the right sort of thing. (Okay, except for the painted on eyebrows, but...)

I never thought she looked bad. Just angry. She seems like a very miserable person.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (n6Omg)

358 Wow. Someone bought a lot just short of -700.
Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (ZbV+0)


-----------------------------------


You mean the fed reserve bank just bought a lot. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (P25Hh)

359
moo moo you should post more stuff you read at motley fools or dave ramsey.

How about pay off your credit cards monthly. That's always a good one. Or have a plan for savings. Also a good one. You are so smart and everything.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (ODxAs)

360 What do you think really is the cause of today's market sell-off?

a. The Chinese Market Meltdown.
b. Obama is back from vacation.
c. A lot of Wall St. brokers' names were on the Ashley Madison webpage and they need alimony money.
d. George Bush.
e. The opening episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" last night really sucked.
f. The Mets are in first place in August.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (4AVeu)

361 Dollar cost indexing...boring but effective. I buy SPY 3 times a month on the 1st, 10th and 20th. It's on auto-pilot and has been for 6/7 years. And that's why I don't concern myself with short term fluctuations. In the long run, it all balances out.

Oh and re-invest the dividends. That shit adds up nicely as well.

Or....try to do the impossible and time the market, as well as paying an obscene amount of money in trading fees.

Your choice....

------

Sounds like a waste of an MBA to me.

Buy and hold long term.

Most MBA's I know would be writing covered calls against their position on something as widely held as SPY. You'd have REALLY cleaned up if you had sold some calls a couple of strikes above market value.

But... then again.... you have no idea what Im talking about do you.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (8XRCm)

362 Has anyone figured out yet how this mighty correction is Bush's fault?

Posted by: Cruzinator at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (zoyKY)

363 Also, Moo Moo's talking about a 3% drop, but it's gone from 18k a month or two ago to under 16k today. That is significant.
Posted by: Lea at August 24, 2015 03:29 PM (lIU4e)

_________

Yes. It's a a correction. The amateurs out there act as if we've never had one before. We have them all the time. They're healthy and needed. Only a food thinks prices only go up in a straight continuous line.

Put things in perspective. In 2011 there was a 16% correction. And did the world end? No.






Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (0LHZx)

364 You mean the fed reserve bank just bought a lot. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (P25Hh)
Maybe, but I thought QE3 was over. It's hard to keep all of the IB campaigns together. I'm just a grunt.

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (C891K)

365 Two, to go to the restroom.

Yes, I gave up years ago as well.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
------------------------------
What's up with that, anyway?
You think it has something to do with the eyebrows?

Posted by: Chi at August 24, 2015 03:39 PM (LqrJL)

366 You mean the fed reserve bank just bought a lot. Just sayin'.

They had it up to -450.

Briefly.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:39 PM (ZbV+0)

367 The stock market action is absolutely crazy today. It it whiplashing up and down violently on a minute-by-minute basis. I go check it at one minutes and the market it down 600 points. Refresh the page two minutes later and it's now shot up 100 and is only down 500 for the day. A minute later -- it's now down 612. It is rising and falling as much every few minutes as it normally does in a entire day.

Extreme volatility. panic. Crazy risk-taking. Anything could happen. By the end of the day, it could be have dropped 1,000 points -- or it could have recovered all losses and gotten back to where it started.

Are you all buckled in?

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2015 03:39 PM (jBuUi)

368 How about pay off your credit cards monthly. That's always a good one. Or have a plan for savings. Also a good one. You are so smart and everything.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (ODxAs)

_________

I am smart, that is true.

Yes pay your credit cards every month. I have always done. Dave Ramsey is entertaining sometimes, although his advice about having no debt is laughable. Credit card debt at 18%....not a good idea.

Mortgage debt at 2.5%.....fucking amazing idea. Same with car loans at 0% or 1%, etc.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:40 PM (0LHZx)

369 It's hard to keep all of the IB campaigns together. I'm just a grunt.

Yep. It's all smoke, right oblique, left oblique, double time, halt and fire at will.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 24, 2015 03:40 PM (evdj2)

370 Ladies and Gents!

I offer you the joys of modern science. '

Not only is our new Muldoon 3000 bionic penis fully posable, it is also DETACHABLE!

http://tinyurl.com/nadpcol

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at August 24, 2015 03:40 PM (UPYPp)

371 c. A lot of Wall St. brokers' names were on the Ashley Madison webpage and they need alimony money.

That's a possibility worth looking into.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (ZbV+0)

372 I never thought she looked bad. Just angry. She seems like a very miserable person.

I agree, she seems very miserable and unhappy inside and looking to blame someone else for everything. Its not like she's had a hard life or reason for complaint, really. She just seems like one of those people that just rolled out of the crib miserable and angry and taking it out on everyone else.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (39g3+)

373
I thought there was no math here?

??

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (q+zA9)

374 e. The opening episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" last night really sucked.

Did you think so?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (JtwS4)

375 The Ashley Madison honchos must have got PhDs in cheating.

OT, They're now offering half a mil bounty for the guys who hacked 'em.



Been 3 suicides due to the exposure. 1 was a San Antonio police captain.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (4dbPD)

376 Most MBA's I know would be writing covered calls against their position on something as widely held as SPY. You'd have REALLY cleaned up if you had sold some calls a couple of strikes above market value.

But... then again.... you have no idea what Im talking about do you.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (8XRCm)

_____________

I did all that. And I realized it's no better than just long term dollar cost averaging. You'll figure it out eventually as well.

What yuo're trying to do is time the market. And it doesn't work long term.

You, and all the other Cramer wanna-be day traders think you can time the market better than everyone else. You can't. You never will be.

But oh well, a fool and his money.....

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (0LHZx)

377 @333 IB solider

No secret. I have hired people like Moo Moo in the past to take on junior manaement roles. A lot of guys with MBAs looking to get in foot in the door as they have no actual experience, but an over abundance of ego.



*Note: I don't have a MBA.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (BSS7/)

378
I am smart, that is true.

No. You're dumb. See how easy it is to put stuff in a comment box? No, probably not.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (ODxAs)

379 Thanks, runningrn.
Any other 'ettes wanna post a beauty report?
We really are an appreciative bunch!

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (WjXce)

380 Famed short seller Jim Chanos, who has been short on China for nearly a year and must have made a lot of money over the last month or so (and today!), says China is far worse than we know.

That's not good for peace in Asia. Obama should surrender now, and save us all a lot of redlines and other such bullshit.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (TxJGV)

381 The opening episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" last night really sucked.


It improved a bit toward the end, but-

Big Meh.


I predict one season if no improvements made.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 24, 2015 03:42 PM (0cMkb)

382 Maybe, but I thought QE3 was over. It's hard to keep all of the IB campaigns together. I'm just a grunt.
Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:38 PM (C891K)


---------------------------------------


They told us QE was done. BUT, they told us if you like your health insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (P25Hh)

383 Newd

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (WDySP)

384 Put things in perspective. In 2011 there was a 16% correction. And did the world end? No.

The world didn't end in 2008-2009. Or 1987. Or 1929.

It became somewhat less pleasant.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (ZbV+0)

385 'I don't know what is so hard about accepting that if you are a certain shape or size, some things are not flattering for you to wear."

Ah, Chique Afrique, it's because there is absolutely no shame in America any more. Although, I must come clean and admit that when I wear running tights, I don't have a long top covering up my butt--I don't want to have any excess fabric flapping around when I run. It's about aerodynamics! I also wear yoga pants with a t-shirt too. I don't even think of it as lacking decorum but being comfortable. If my butt was too big and offensive, I would cover it up.

Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (sUP4M)

386 I am smart, that is true.



Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at August 24, 2015 03:40 PM (0LHZx)
Don't get me started on all the stoopid MBA butter bars. They're as bad as the ones in the navy.
Really, why reply with that? Ego much?

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (C891K)

387 And constantly hearing it from a "5 jump chump" got old real quick.

Fair enough. I was with the 82d for three years, did a combat jump into Grenada and then spent 8 years with a NG Special Forces Group. So I think I am a little more than a "5 jump chump" :-) (Actually not sure how many I have. More than 50, but probably less than 100. I never really counted.)

Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (1TUV/)

388 Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:32 PM (sUP4M)

She's not in athletic shape and she's no model but I still think her body looks ok.

Granted, I don't think women need to be particularly slim to look good. Also, I'm a 36 year old who recently put on a decent amount of weight and looks at pics of her old much skinnier self with some humorous horror. I think I look healthier and happier with the weight (plus I finally have boobs!). And looking super fit is just not a priority for me.

Of course, this may be strong self_-deception, LOL. Plus I don't think anyone would call me fat even now, which makes me wonder how skinny I actually was.

But, it's Michelle of Let's Move All You Disgusting Fat Proles, so you do have a point.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (uz/Pv)

389 The opening episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" last night really sucked.



Did you think so?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (JtwS4)


It was fine. Gimple, among others, has noted that part of the "fun" is going to be showing their cast of characters learning what we already know.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (TOk1P)

390 >>I don't know what is so hard about accepting that if you are a certain shape or size, some things are not flattering for you to wear.

THIS.

The teeny tiny cardigans + bug poufy skirt makes he look like an overgrown child dressed for a holiday party. Sometimes includes big belt to strap the poor cardi in place. Not a good look, especially for someone her height.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (NOIQH)

391
nood >>>
Joe B.

Posted by: Yo! at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (q+zA9)

392 Since I wrote comment #367, the market has skyrocketed from -506 to -289 -- up 217 points in just seven minutes!!

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (jBuUi)

393
What yuo're trying to do is time the market.

----

You have no earthly idea what a covered call is do you.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (8XRCm)

394 I'll take your word for it. I don't think I will be googling for Michelle's thighs on this computer or, really, any computer



You'd need an I-MAX screen.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (4dbPD)

395 "But, then again, he is always at the center of controversy."

Leave me out of this.


Posted by: ohmybuttz/achin! at August 24, 2015 03:45 PM (y1PKa)

396 I agree, she seems very miserable and unhappy inside and looking to blame someone else for everything. Its not like she's had a hard life or reason for complaint, really. She just seems like one of those people that just rolled out of the crib miserable and angry and taking it out on everyone else.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 24, 2015 03:41 PM (39g3+)


-------------------------------------


No. She's seems like a "studies" graduate from college.

Posted by: Soona - Army soldier at August 24, 2015 03:46 PM (P25Hh)

397 A1C Stone, "Captain America," will receive the Airman's Medal.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 24, 2015 03:46 PM (xq1UY)

398 -331 ... the Plunge Protection Team is back in

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:46 PM (p/5SA)

399 Any other 'ettes wanna post a beauty report?


http://is.gd/0gJueJ

I may have gained some weight since this photo was taken.

Posted by: Yogi Bear at August 24, 2015 03:47 PM (/kI1Q)

400 357
I never thought she looked bad. Just angry. She seems like a very miserable person.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 24, 2015 03:37 PM (n6Omg)
------------
I have actually used pictures of her to teach my kids (and to remind myself, BTW!) how big a difference expression makes in how we look.
The contrast between angry-face Mooch and smily Mooch is yuuuuuuuge.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 24, 2015 03:47 PM (cN9Sk)

401 Since I wrote comment #367, the market has skyrocketed from -506 to -289 -- up 217 points in just seven minutes!!

And now -455. Totally. Healthy. Market.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:47 PM (ZbV+0)

402 It is better to put the lotion in the basket than it is to get the hose again.

Posted by: General Zod at August 24, 2015 03:48 PM (Bdeb0)

403 Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:43 PM (sUP4M)

I want talking of people who were actually exercising, in which case, freedom and comfort are paramount. I would even give an pout of shape person a pass on that.

I was talking about people wearing stretch pants as their walking around attire.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:48 PM (SEFXb)

404 I think I look healthier and happier with the weight (plus I finally have boobs!)


So there's a nood.

But here is where chique is talking about her boobies. Hmmm.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at August 24, 2015 03:49 PM (JtwS4)

405 "374 e. The opening episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" last night really sucked.

Did you think so?"

__________________________________

It dragged. It was almost an after-school special about an alienated teenager who is misunderstood by grownups and resorts to drugs. Gee, what unique story line.

The nerd who figured out the problem on the internet is interesting, but don't tease me. Get him into the storyline. Don't hide him on the bus. We know what eventually happens.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 24, 2015 03:49 PM (4AVeu)

406 -474 ... PPT milking the muppets one more time

Posted by: kbdabear at August 24, 2015 03:50 PM (p/5SA)

407 just for reference, the Shanghai stock market is down 38% since June 12, while the S&P is down 10% from it's high in May 21 and about 4% from the beginning of the year.

Once again, rather be us than China right now.

Posted by: MTF at August 24, 2015 03:50 PM (TxJGV)

408
Since I wrote comment #367, the market has skyrocketed from -506 to -289 -- up 217 points in just seven minutes!!

Posted by: zombie at August 24, 2015 03:44 PM (jBuUi)

Dead broker's land is littered with post it notes and smashed monitors.

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:50 PM (C891K)

409 And now -455. Totally. Healthy. Market.


Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:47 PM (ZbV+0)
Quick call in the Federal Printed Money Strike! I'm being overrun!

Posted by: IB solider at August 24, 2015 03:51 PM (C891K)

410 My husband always says to me (when I'm mad at him, of course, haha!) "Anger makes a face look ugly." I think Michelle Obama is angry--a lot. I think she is pissed off because she thinks she is entitled to nice thing because she "made sacrifices" to be the wife of Barak and the mother of two children. I think she grew up quite spoiled, probably a "daddy's girl". I think she gets mad because people love who they think her husband is, and she "knows the real truth about him". They were in huge debt before he made it big with his stupid book. They bought homes that they could not afford (I'm sure because she thought she deserved it), and I think that they spent money on expensive things as well. Remember, they had to get help from Tony Rezko to buy their house (and how they qualified for that loan was definitely underhanded). I think she is a profligate spender because she is unhappy--why she needs to go on nice vacations and buy expensive outfits. And she really does think that she deserves everything she gets.

Posted by: runningrn at August 24, 2015 03:55 PM (sUP4M)

411 And now -455. Totally. Healthy. Market.

Posted by: Methos at August 24, 2015 03:47 PM (ZbV+0)

The economy is fundamentally sound and this is a fantastic buying opportunity!

Here, let me read you this email I got from Tim Cook which contains data that would be illegal outside a quarterly report if the SEC laws actually applied to gay CEO's of a huge tech company and a well connected TV pitchman

Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 24, 2015 03:56 PM (p/5SA)

412 @387 David, infamous sockpuppet

You were assigned to an active airborne unit-- congrats. I did all my time abroad, but would get stuck with guys rotating out of the 82nd and the "leg" thing got annoying, but you go with what you have to bust balls.


Spent some time at Bragg and liked it. Was close to re-upping to get direct assignment but walked away.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at August 24, 2015 03:58 PM (BSS7/)

413 But when she chooses well and SMILES, she can look really good. IMO.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 24, 2015 03:33 PM (cN9Sk)

I agree. She is far from pretty but she can look nice with skillfully applied makeup (as can almost any woman) if she's not scowling.

My mom often speaks pityingly of her fashion sense.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at August 24, 2015 03:58 PM (SEFXb)

414 "I see economic justice. Of the sort we get every seven years like clockwork."

Jubilee?

Posted by: Oh who cares at August 24, 2015 03:59 PM (8nJ78)

415 The difference between the services can be summed up by what happens when a Marine, a Soldier, a Sailor and and Airman are told to "secure a building" as their objective.

With the Marines the Marine leads his platoon to bring sufficient firepower against the building, destroying it in order to effectively neutralize it as any threat to friendly forces.

The Soldier will bring in a Company to establish a perimeter surrounding the building with Observation Posts set up at elevated, defend-able locations.

The Sailor will, at the end of the work day, turn off all the lights and lock the doors.

The Airman will secure a building by signing a five year lease with an option to buy.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 24, 2015 03:59 PM (KH8nb)

416 1 Thessalonians 5:1~3 come to mind any time I read a post by Moo Moo.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at August 24, 2015 04:01 PM (6JL3d)

417 Turn those machines back on ....

so old grizzly trader said last Friday all signs were we are in bear market now, and things would look worse if we don't recover well after a black Monday start (which was anticipated).

We didn't recover very well ... could be a long slog on the downside, not just the "needed correction" the bubbleheads are talking about. But we shall see.

Posted by: Illiniwek at August 24, 2015 04:01 PM (6zZ5y)

418 "Bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered. The best
saying ever because it is so succinct and accurate each and every time."

That's because it's a definitional tautology, you idiot. It can't NOT be true. Anyone who makes money in any situation is either a bear or bull, and anyone who gets 'slaughtered' is a pig.

And to think, I once pondered getting an MBA.

Posted by: Oh who cares at August 24, 2015 04:02 PM (8nJ78)

419 FWIW, there's a new Hindi anti-terrorism action movie opening this weekend, Phantom, with Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif. Trailer with subtitles at the link, shout-out to America about halfway through. (Re: complaints about the actors in the linked reviews, Khan is the Nawab of Patuadi in real life, and Kaif is half-British and grew up in Hong Kong, her English sounds American, so presumably her Hindi sounds non-native, critics are always complaining about it. I like them both, usually.) Indian movies about killing terrorists tend to be satisfyingly non-morally-conflicted, I've found.

Posted by: DoraSuarez at August 24, 2015 04:19 PM (0/Svj)

420 There is a 'Tomb of the Unknown Airman'.

It's in the back of the Langley, VA 'Hooters'...

Posted by: Old Tom at August 24, 2015 04:25 PM (w/w6M)

421
I know someone who was on a boomer sub who assured me that derogatory term for sailors, at least at one point, was -


Anchor Clankers.

And I believe the joke was -
What is long and hard and full of seamen?

Posted by: GBruno at August 24, 2015 04:43 PM (u49WF)

422 They be what the BOR say they be, the militia.

Posted by: ceraphym at August 24, 2015 04:47 PM (Mhneo)

423 Posted by: Old Tom at August 24, 2015 04:25 PM (w/w6M)

That is a fine joke!

Of course, you probably already know that the remains of a Vietnam airman were once entombed in the "Tomb of the Unknowns" at Arlington but later identified.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at August 24, 2015 07:10 PM (laMCB)

424 Greetings:

Go tell the Americans...the real Americans.

Posted by: 11B40 at August 24, 2015 07:32 PM (evgyj)

425 423-

A joke, of course. Full disclosure: I'm retired Air Force, and one of my uncles was shot down over Germany and sat out the war in a Luftwaffe P.O.W. camp. So yes, I'm aware that airmen have been in harm's way.

Interservice rivalries are just good fun, and I've always embraced that.

Posted by: Old Tom at August 25, 2015 12:41 PM (w/w6M)

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