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Overnight Open Thread (9-21-2015)

Quote of the Day I - A Crack in the College Industrial Complex

One of the UK's biggest graduate recruiters is to remove degree classification from the entry criteria for its hiring programmes, having found "no evidence" that success at university was correlated with achievement in professional qualifications.

Accountancy firm Ernst and Young, known as EY, will no longer require students to have a 2:1 degree and the equivalent of three B grades at A level to be considered for its graduate programmes.

Instead, the company will use numerical tests and online "strength" assessments to assess the potential of applicants.

Quote of the Day II

The migrants are largely young men from rough, tough parts of the Muslim world. There is now a queue of them that stretches all the way east to Bangladesh and beyond, and deep down into sub-Saharan Africa. People have sold cattle, abandoned houses, robbed employers, left wives and children, and burned all sorts of bridges to come. There are now hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of them. Many are war-hardened. They are looking for money, food, and female companionship, and they are convinced that Europeans are gullible sissies. This is where Frau Merkel's Willkommenskultur has led: With the impending closure of the Croatian border, hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men are about to hit a brick wall in Serbia. Serbia!

-- Christopher Caldwell in Europe Gets Borders

Quote of the Day III

Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

-- Pulp Fiction (1994)

Comment of the Day

136 The internet faster
than alcohol can
shows the jackass
that is man.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Stock up on Trumpian Terrors from the Outrage Outlet! at September 21, 2015 02:13 PM (hLRSq)

On Celebrities, CEO, Politicians, and Charisma

From a commenter at Tyler Cowan's Marginal Revolution. I added paragraph breaks to make it easier to read.

Some thoughts from a pseudonymous political consultant:

1) The filter for politicians hardly selects for spontaneous television charisma at all until the very highest levels. Typically the types of offices one holds prior to being a Governor or a Senator (Congress, lesser statewide office, Mayor of a medium-sized but not too big city) are offices that select for skill-sets like working a room of a handful of insiders, and avoiding making mistakes; not spontaneously debating on camera. Let's say at any given point in time there are 1,000 people in the country in one of these "feeder" offices (Congress, Statewide elected officials, mid-city mayors, etc).

2) Governor and Senator positions select a little bit more for charisma and media presence, but not much, and usually they only do so in big expensive contested Senate Races - not in the safe blue or safe red states that most Senators and Governors represent. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that no more than 50 out of 150 Governors and Senators were elected in the sorts of elections that test a person's debating mettle and television presence. This doesn't seem like a process where one is going to end up with tremendously charismatic TV personalities running for president. But it does pose an interesting puzzle, because it would seem to me that professional entertainers could wipe the floor with politicians.

3) Very rarely do celebrities or CEOs run for offices that are "to scale," or things that they could easily win. If Carly Fiorina had run for an open Republican seat in Congress instead of Senate on her first shot, she'd be a shoo-in. Ben Affleck would be iffy for Senate, but he'd coast to a victory in Congress (and then Congressman Ben Affleck could easily rise up the ranks and build a political career from there, if he had the patience). When they do run for things that are "to scale" - like Kevin Johnson running for Mayor of Sacramento - they tend to win. When they do things not to scale - Chris Dudley running for Governor of Oregon - they tend to lose.

4) Being an entertainer/CEO is generally a better life than being a politician. This selects for second tier CEOs and entertainers running for office, not first tier ones. Al Franken was an entertaining guy, but he was hardly a first-tier celebrity prior to running for office. For him, running for Senate was a step up in status. For somebody like John Stewart or Stephen Colbert, not so much. Similarly, Bill Gates and Tim Cook have nothing to gain by running for office, so the businessperson candidates we get are generally not first-tier. No offense to Carly Fiorina, she has "succeeded" more than the vast majority of people ever will in her field, but she has dedicated her life singularly to making money, and there's thousands of people who have done a better job than her. She's the businessperson equivalent of a State Attorney General, not a Governor or a Senator. Trump fares a little better, but still, there are dozens of more successful businessmen in the U.S. than him. If you were to rank all the politicians in the U.S. in terms of electoral success, all the legitimate presidential contenders would be in the top 150. Would anybody make the case that Carly Fiorina is one of the top 150 businesspeople in the U.S.?

5) This leads to the interesting observation that CEOs and entertainers may be so much more talented at some aspects of charisma than politicians are that a C-list CEO or entertainer might still be more compelling than an A-list politician. And if an A-list entertainer or CEO ever decides to run for major office (like Arnold running for Governor), they'll have a real shot at winning.

Well personality and charisma do go a long way.

The Sweet Tweet Agonies of the Left

Start here:

agoniestw1

CDR Salamander On What's Really Going on in the Great Syrian Game

Well it's complicated - as in Game of Thrones-level complicated. But he makes a very good point about who's 'to blame' for the Syrian civil war. We may have ineffectually dabbled in the conflict but we - the US and Europe - did not cause it nor are we responsible for it.

A final note, Lewis can't help himself with a little political Tourette syndrome that otherwise sullies some solid pondering in his article;
And there is surely more we can do to shelter the millions of refugees now fleeing the conflict. Having helped create this mess with the invasion of Iraq and subsequent failure to stop the bloodshed in Syria, the United States and its European allies have an obligation to assist these people. This is especially true of those countries that were the loudest supporters of the invasion of Iraq. Coalition of the Still Willing, right? That includes you, Hungary.

Why? We helped create this no more than the Soviet Union, Ba'ath Party, the Nassarites, the Ottoman Empire, the Arab armies of Mohammed, the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire, the ancient Egyptians or any of the gaggle from the Old Testament.

Who is responsible? The Arabs, that is who. Who has the primary obligation to take refugees? The Arabs. Similar culture, religion, and "civil" society.

Satellite Imagery Shows Russian Military Buildup in Syria

russian-aircraft-satellite

Gay Marriage > Kids With Cancer

Or how the US Park Service and the Secret Service stopped a pre-scheduled candlelight march for children with cancer in Lafayette Park.

The candlelight vigil came about partly because of the group's inability to persuade the White House to light up the mansion in gold as a symbol of support for the cause, as it has done for other causes, organizers said. So they decided to hold a candlelight vigil of their own. Last year was the first.

The group had a permit to stage an event from 7 to 9 p.m., Stoddard said. They had already set up a stage for speakers and an acoustic musical performance, and welcoming music had started to play, when authorities ejected them.

US Soldiers Disciplined For Stopping Rape of Children by Afghan Police

On The Plus Side We'll Finally Get Some Decent Syrian Restaurants I Guess

How Volkswagen Cheated on the Auto Emissions Rules

Okay what they did was wrong but I love them for trying.

This isn't a case of any sort of trick carburetor or jury rigged catalytic converter. The vehicle's onboard computer could sense when it was hooked up to a diagnostics machine for an emissions test and would conveniently turn on all of its emission control features. (It's being referred to as a "defeat device.") Then, when the test was completed and it was unhooked from the computer it would simply shut them off again, boosting performance but also increasing emissions. You almost have to admire the sheer audacity assuming this is true. And given the initial responses from the company they don't seem to be claiming that they didn't do it.

Neo-neocon Reviews The Emmy Fashions

A reminder: Pale people shouldn't wear pale colors. Also you'll be surprised at who had the classiest dress.

emmypale

Reviewing Heat 20 Years Later

While Heat has existed in my mind as this high-octane, balls-to-the-wall shoot-em-up, it may exist differently in reality than it does in memory, especially watching it start to finish on 35 mm film in a big auditorium. The reality of Heat is that it's a 170-minute movie with only about four big action pieces. It's at least as much a meditative character study as it is an action film. The action scenes have a way of drowning out the rest in retrospect because they brought an intensity and realism that I don't think we'd ever seen up until that point. De Niro and Pacino running through downtown LA shooting assault rifles in the middle of the day is an image that's hard to forget. Heat's gun sound effects are powerful, and probably more important to the realism of the film as a whole than we give them credit for. Heat's sound design has a Pixies-esque loud/soft dynamic the entire way through. It mirrors Pacino's acting.

As Mann explained it, the shootout scene was shot using the natural sound of the gunfire recorded on set. And with no visual effects. Even the beginning sequence, with the armored car, was done for real, weighting the car to make sure it'd flip over.

"Choreography has to tell a story," Mann told the audience, in his flat-voweled, arrr-heavy Chicago accent. "Otherwise it's just gratuitous actions."

Interestingly most of the main characters in Heat were based on real-life people. You can watch the full movie here.

Why Girls in This Dominican Republic Town Become Boys at Puberty

Chinese Fire Drill Results in 190 Injured

The Yahoo AoSHQ group - it's got electrolytes and shit.

And my twitter thang.

Tonight's post brought to you by number of people actually deterred: 0

NGPd3v5

Notice: Posted by permission of AceC0rp LLC. Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 10:54 PM




Comments

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1 let it burn

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 21, 2015 10:55 PM (0O7c5)

2 It would be interesting to know what Brad Dayspring did for Walkers campaign. Perhaps he was responsible for the foolish fundraiser attack on Trump. If Dayspring was a GOPe operative who intended to sabotage Walker to clear the path for Jeb! he did his job well. It only took him two months to ruin Walker. Who will The Destroyer work for next?
now to read the content

Posted by: delurk ergo sum at September 21, 2015 10:55 PM (Q8y6V)

3 I even read the content. I'm outta here nightstalkers.

Posted by: dogfish at September 21, 2015 10:57 PM (jWtyG)

4 4th place? That's about right.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 10:57 PM (c+gwp)

5 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 21, 2015 10:58 PM (KCxzN)

6 Young men are not refugees. They are enemy combatants.

Posted by: Lauren-Team Cruz at September 21, 2015 10:59 PM (LzzEz)

7 They are looking for money, food, and female companionship, and they are convinced that Europeans are gullible sissies.

1) Gullible sissies.
2)?
3) Die, infidels!

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:00 PM (c+gwp)

8 ONT! And since my comment is now willowed in the previous thread, I present a homage to it in this thread:

It seems I read somewhere that little Ahmed had commented that students
at school had previously called him terrorist and bomb-maker. You know,
becuz muzzie.

And if you doubt that a 14 year old could form
intent, recall the 11 and 13 year old boys sitting outside of school in
AR taking potshots at students with a stack of rifles, killing 5. They
pulled the fire alarm to get them all outside.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 21, 2015 11:00 PM (gyKtp)

9 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:00 PM (YJmuy)

10 Hi all
thanks again Maetenloch for great ONT

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:00 PM (uZNvH)

11 Also you'll be surprised at who had the classiest dress.



Bruce Jenner?

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:00 PM (zt+N6)

12 I have one pale kiddo who can pull off pale colors, but she has very dark hair.

Posted by: Lauren-Team Cruz at September 21, 2015 11:01 PM (LzzEz)

13 >> ...They are looking for money, food, and female companionship, and they are convinced that Europeans are gullible sissies.

Aaaand they would be right.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 21, 2015 11:02 PM (gyKtp)

14 Oh crap I got that FBI notice screen again. Time for a virus scan.

Posted by: Dr freakenfurter at September 21, 2015 11:05 PM (BO/km)

15 ONT woot woot

So Maet how much time do you slack away by doing the ont?,damn fine

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 21, 2015 11:05 PM (OMXTD)

16 Okay, another Jets TD
This game is over

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:05 PM (uZNvH)

17 I think I've figured out why the Colts have been playing so bad tonight. Its probably not very easy for Luck to play with Gruden constantly sucking his dick.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:05 PM (zt+N6)

18 Without looking at the captions, I could ID the planes as Su-25 Frogfoots. And the SU-27 Flankers are sporting their usual air superiority scheme.

Maybe next time, an overhead of a Grumble SAM site?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:06 PM (LLwAy)

19 >> But it does pose an interesting puzzle, because it would seem to me that
professional entertainers could wipe the floor with politicians.

Not really, as most of the actors are only good at reading lines that someone else wrote. Sorta like chocolate jesus.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 21, 2015 11:06 PM (gyKtp)

20 Is Los Angeles Hell-bent on Becoming the World's Biggest Urban Hell-hole?

Los Angeles is a very horizontal city which spreads out rather than builds up. For decades it was illegal to build a building taller than the L.A. city call. It is, and remains, a car culture where you need a car to get around, at least get around safely and when you want.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=9891

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 21, 2015 11:06 PM (vBeA5)

21 Howdy ONT!

Posted by: Sixkiller at September 21, 2015 11:07 PM (bfpzm)

22 Woo Hoo ONT Thread! Yeah Baby! Let's get fired up! Let's get fired up!

*rips off pants*

Posted by: Let your fan out at September 21, 2015 11:07 PM (zt+N6)

23 My Summa Cum Laude kid applied for a job at Chipotle. She did well enough that she will be called in for a second interview. The job market is apparently bad enough that a fast food restaurant can be very particular about who it hires. Obamanomics, is there anything it cant do? When it is this bad, who needs illegals anyway?

Posted by: delurk ergo sum at September 21, 2015 11:07 PM (Q8y6V)

24 Ooohhh, Chiefs vs Packers next Monday, that should be good

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (uZNvH)

25 I created a late night thread, with lots of interesting content, that anyone can post on.

I callnit the Open Overnight Thread

Posted by: Ahmedenloch at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (S7x7a)

26 Paint another E. Winning content.

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (Duw3/)

27 " It is, and remains, a car culture where you need a car to get around, at least get around safely and when you want.
"
Cuz only a nobody walks in LA...

Posted by: Missing Persons at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (LzzEz)

28 Ahmed you misspelled - Open Overnight Ka-koom or OOK

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (LLwAy)

29 2 >> It would be interesting to know what Brad Dayspring did for Walkers campaign.

He worked/works for Walker's SuperPac, not for the campaign. At least that's how they are all claiming a distinction between the two types of entities.

But every time Dayspring falls on his dick, I get a woodie.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (gyKtp)

30 What about gay kids with cancer?

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (6n332)

31 Ont hello

Posted by: lou'sagirl at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (4k7+3)

32 23
My Summa Cum Laude kid applied for a job at Chipotle. She did well
enough that she will be called in for a second interview. The job
market is apparently bad enough that a fast food restaurant can be very
particular about who it hires. Obamanomics, is there anything it cant
do? When it is this bad, who needs illegals anyway?

Posted by: delurk ergo sum at September 21, 2015 11:07 PM (Q8y6V)

does she have tats, gages and unconventional piercings? because that is a job requirement at chipotle...........

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (0O7c5)

33 25 I created a late night thread, with lots of interesting content, that anyone can post on.
I callnit the Open Overnight Thread
Posted by: Ahmedenloch at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (S7x7a)


With a handy count-down timer?

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (pAlYe)

34 I created a late night thread, with lots of interesting content, that anyone can post on.

I callnit the Open Overnight Thread

Posted by: Ahmedenloch at September 21, 2015 11:08 PM (S7x7a)


LOL

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2015 11:10 PM (7MWCL)

35 See Hector got a job with Little Seizures selling pizzas with all his cats. Pizza,cats, and Hector, a winning combo. Maybe the next one they could do at the gloryhole he works with his mom.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 21, 2015 11:11 PM (ucDmr)

36 Raiders baby

Posted by: lou'sagirl at September 21, 2015 11:11 PM (4k7+3)

37 does she have tats, gages and unconventional piercings? because that is a job requirement at chipotle...........

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (0O7c5)


Heh. The gal working as an industrial medic on this location looks like she is a survivor of a dreadful fishing accident.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (7MWCL)

38 Good evening, fellow 'Rons and 'Ettes!

ICYMI, we're planning a reprise of last year's SW Ohio MoMe:

Saturday evening, October 17, 7-10 (ish), Beavercreek (I've also locked down a better venue).

Interested parties please let me know: swohmome @ mail.com (no spaces).

Thanks!

Posted by: speedster1 at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (1brdf)

39 "does she have tats, gages and unconventional piercings? because that is a job requirement at chipotle"

So funny story. We were in Round Rock (a northern suburb of Austin) last weekend at the outlets and decided to go to the Kerby Lane Cafe up there. KLC is an Austin place that's expanding. In Austin, it is waited on exclusively by hipsters.

Round rock is different though. For one, they have an outlet mall. People wear fanny packs in Round Rock.

Well, not at Kerby Lane. They clearly import their weird directly from Austin. I felt bad for our server. It was clearly his first day and he was a nerdy Mexican kid. He looked normal, except for ridiculous socks. We believe he was forced to wear the stupid socks. Assimilate. Assimilate.

Posted by: Missing Persons at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (LzzEz)

40
24 Ooohhh, Chiefs vs Packers next Monday, that should be good
Posted by: chemjeff at September 21,

Go Pack Go

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (OMXTD)

41 lou! How are ya??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (4zDs/)

42 Wth

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (4k7+3)

43 Colts are a turnover machine tonight.

Posted by: logprof at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (vsbNu)

44 I Can #Science Too ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/646011247104802816

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/646011428160294912

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/646011932974186496

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/646012414874517504

Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (GrXXa)

45 AoP... a medic...

"We got massive trauma here, guy bleeding like a stuck pig!"

Medic, "Hold on, let me untangle myself!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (LLwAy)

46 Colts qb, Jay Cutler?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (OMXTD)

47 HA yet *another* turnover

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (uZNvH)

48 41: Tammy!

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 21, 2015 11:13 PM (ucDmr)

49 I invented a culinary delicacy this evening.

In the "smart, military" tradition, I shall call my invention Sammich, Cheese, Grilled.

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (KCxzN)

50 Well, not at Kerby Lane. They clearly import their weird directly from Austin. I felt bad for our server. It was clearly his first day and he was a nerdy Mexican kid. He looked normal, except for ridiculous socks. We believe he was forced to wear the stupid socks. Assimilate. Assimilate.

Posted by: Missing Persons at September 21, 2015 11:12 PM (LzzEz)


Little Ahmed wears gargoyle socks. With digital clocks on them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (7MWCL)

51 /sock

Posted by: Lauren at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (LzzEz)

52 32 does she have tats, gages and unconventional piercings? because that is a job requirement at chipotle
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 21, 2015 11:09

Maybe that is a problem. She has none of that. She was raised Baptist and is a very straight shooter, very levelheaded. She got her ears pierced a year ago. That's it.

Posted by: delurk ergo sum at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (Q8y6V)

53 Hi Tammy, had to put my name in & forgot it, haha

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (4k7+3)

54 Dear Horde:

Sorry for the way this letter will appear in the ONT, but I need to tell this story, just for my own sake. I know that it will be broken up over the thread, but so be it. I went to a visitation today for Steve Bridges, a man that I met very briefly last winter, he made me see my life differently.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM (QnQ+g)

55 Hi lou! How are you? LTNS

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:15 PM (uZNvH)

56 Where Ahmed and Family are really rolling the gullible lefties and tech CEO's are all the scholarship offers and free shit they're sending him

Here he's photographed at home with the free shit, and judging from the home it doesn't look like Ahmed's family is hurting for cash

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/645711109559750656

Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2015 11:15 PM (GrXXa)

57 In the late fall of 2014 my middle son wanted to try out for the JV Basketball team at his school. He had never played, never really shown any interest, but he went to the tryouts and made the team. I got him the shoes and whatever else he needed.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:15 PM (QnQ+g)

58 I actually get to read an ONT in the evening, instead of the morning. Hasn't been that way lately. Almost feels like I'm here.

number of people actually deterred: 0

Heh.

Thanks, Maet.

Gonna read some of the linked articles, and fold for the night, now.

Remember, friends, unity in spirit, not uniformity of thought.

Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker wearing my sunglasses at night at September 21, 2015 11:15 PM (ACs58)

59 32 does she have tats, gages and unconventional piercings? because that is a job requirement at chipotle

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at September 21, 2015 11:09


Heck, yesterday when I was at BWW, I got the impression that the management hired their staff directly from the prison, everyone was tatted and pierced up

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (uZNvH)

60 Hi chemjeff, how are you? Been working super early & can't get drunk & hang out anymore

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (4k7+3)

61 Chipotle did something that pissed me off and made me not want to eat there, but I can't remember what it was. I've lost track of my outrages. It's not a hardship...their food is way too salty for me. Puzzling, since I love salt more than a fawn getting washed into the sea on OBX.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (c+gwp)

62 I am Hooked On 'Tronics

or is it Hooked On Bombics?

I forget.

Posted by: Ahmed at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (gyKtp)

63 Miss Tammy and Miss Lou on the same thread.

What year is this again?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (YJmuy)

64 Blanco, are you doing the Time Warp again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:17 PM (LLwAy)

65 Good nite morons.
Be well

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, Model Citizen at September 21, 2015 11:17 PM (OMXTD)

66 Hi Blanco

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:17 PM (4k7+3)

67 Doesnt matter how beautiful her dress is, all I see are Lady Gaga's nasty looking tattoos. They do distract.

Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2015 11:18 PM (JSovD)

68 Also you'll be surprised at who had the classiest dress.

Not surprised at all. She's a very attractive woman when she decides to look normal.

Posted by: rickl at September 21, 2015 11:18 PM (sdi6R)

69 Nite MH.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 21, 2015 11:18 PM (ucDmr)

70 60
Hi chemjeff, how are you? Been working super early can't get drunk hang out anymore

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (4k7+3)

Reasonably well I suppose, got lots of deadlines on my plate right now, unfortunately

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:18 PM (uZNvH)

71 "If Carly Fiorina had run for an open Republican seat in Congress instead of Senate on her first shot, she'd be a shoo-in."

Except that there are damn few open Republican seats in Commiefornia where that supposedly easy trick could have been pulled off. The gerrymandering here is just amazing.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (noWW6)

72 I have absolutely no experience with basketball, I ran Cross Country, Wrestled, and ran Track and Field in high school, so I was athletic but no basketball skills

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (QnQ+g)

73 Someone should tell neo-neocon that its Tatiana Maslany. Yea, I watch Orphan Black. Its a crazy stupid little show on BBC America.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (NGd+i)

74 61 Chipotle did something that pissed me off and made me not want to eat there, but I can't remember what it was. I've lost track of my outrages. It's not a hardship...their food is way too salty for me. Puzzling, since I love salt more than a fawn getting washed into the sea on OBX.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (c+gwp)



Its probably a couple things. They do love their forward thinking progressivism at Chipotle. From their claims of organically raised meat or whatever they claim (that they ditch
as soon as there's a supply shortage) to their bullshit "We're Non-GMO!" claim. Oh yeah? What about the High Fructose Corn Syrup in your soft drinks? Is that Non-GMO?

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (zt+N6)

75 61
Chipotle did something that pissed me off and made me not want to eat
there, but I can't remember what it was. I've lost track of my
outrages. It's not a hardship...their food is way too salty for me.
Puzzling, since I love salt more than a fawn getting washed into the sea
on OBX.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:16 PM (c+gwp)

They kicked out the CCW permit holders from their stores

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (uZNvH)

76 >>>With a handy count-down timer?


Posted by: Maetenloch at September 21, 2015 11:09 PM (pAlYe)<<<

The counter counts up. And when it reaches 66 past 600... something special happens.

Posted by: Ahmedenloch at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (S7x7a)

77 67 Doesnt matter how beautiful her dress is, all I see are Lady Gaga's nasty looking tattoos. They do distract.
Posted by: Tuna at September 21, 2015 11:18 PM (JSovD)


What about his "tuck job"?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 21, 2015 11:20 PM (Z7G74)

78 Blanco, are you doing the Time Warp again?

I have a sock for that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:20 PM (YJmuy)

79 After the first practice my son came home, and said I do not like it Dad, they just sent me and a few others to shoot baskets on the other side of the court.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (QnQ+g)

80 I saw Gulible Sissys open for Culture Club at the Rainbow West back in 83..

Posted by: Elton John at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (3+E+K)

81 The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog

Some of the comments were not conservatives at their best, let me put it that way.

And prayers to MKH and her family

Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (GrXXa)

82 Colts look like a 5 -- 11 team at best.

Posted by: eleven at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (rjtGa)

83 You are always busy chemjeff!

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (4k7+3)

84 Needless to say after a quick e-mail, just kind of bully/announcing that Hey coach, I have some free time in the afternoon, I WILL come help you with practice. Probably any coaches worst nightmare, but hey it is my son, and he had three adults to wrangle 15 5th graders so the next practice I suited up in some shorts and became the worst 3rd string assistant coach ever.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:22 PM (QnQ+g)

85 I do like Lady Gaga's dress. Heidi Klum....is that some "winning" design from Project Runway?

It's a hot yellow mess, girl! ::snaps a zee::

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:22 PM (c+gwp)

86 The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog

It got ugly.

AOSHQ has been invaded by LGF commenters.

I'm not sayin....I'm just sayin.

Posted by: eleven at September 21, 2015 11:23 PM (rjtGa)

87 I quit watching Orphan Black after that tirade about how awful the Thatcher Years were. BBC America thinks Americans are stupid. Shit, they think Brits are stupid.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 21, 2015 11:23 PM (AVEe1)

88 >>>Someone should tell neo-neocon that its Tatiana Maslany. Yea, I watch
Orphan Black. Its a crazy stupid little show on BBC America.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (NGd+i)<<<

Mmm... Sarah and Cosima.

Posted by: Clone Club Sandwich at September 21, 2015 11:23 PM (S7x7a)

89 On Celebrities, CEO, Politicians, and Charisma


A bullshit comment on so many levels.

First, and foremost, is the assumption that charisma is desirable/necessary in a politician, which begs the question. We are - or should be - looking for an effective CEO, i.e., an effective decision maker, not a fucking guru or prom king. Depak Chopra need not apply.


Second, no matter who you are, or what you've done, there's always somebody who's done more. It's a corollary to saying that no matter how smart you are, or how dumb you are, there's always somebody, somewhere, who's smarter or dumber than you.


Consider Nobel Laureates in the sciences (the real sciences, not the bullshit "sciences"). There's not a one - not one - who's a patch on Isaac Newton. Not even within hailing distance. Heisenberg, Borh, Schroedinger made huge contributions, but ... still, not a patch on Newton. And Watson and Crick are baby shit by comparison with Heisenberg, Bohr, and Schroedinger. (For that matter, so is Einstein, despite the PR. Quantum mechanics >> relativity.) But that doesn't mean they didn't make massive contributions.


So a simplistic rank-ordering of human achievement does violence to any rational perspective on human affairs. If you want to restrict consideration only to the very best, we're talking about a group that is just big enough to play half-court basketball. And they're all white males. Chew on that, SJWs.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:24 PM (oKE6c)

90 HOOOORDE TAMMY AND LOU'S

*snoopy dances*

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:24 PM (XVBCD)

91 That is when I met Steve Bridges, he was a slightly stocky build he looked pale and gaunt. But he knew basketball in and out, and yes he was all coach. He demanded the boys full attention, and he got it, and if you did not pay attention, you did some push-ups. I got the playbook and reviewed it as much as possible, not just for my son but for me as well.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:24 PM (QnQ+g)

92 "Chipotle did something that pissed me off and made me not want to eat there, but I can't remember what it was."

I stopped in one because of having been caught in insane freeway congestion and being late for a very needed dinner. I can go a long time between meals in a pinch, but I had already done that.

The setup required me to order via a tableside touch screen that hadn't been cleaned after the previous patrons. Someone else's greasy fingerprints all over it. Bon appetit!

I need to stow more MREs in the car trunk. They don't taste great, but also won't give me dysentery. The problem is that the hot climate here will ruin even an MRE in fairly short order.

The services came up with "cold weather" MREs with extra calories to sustain troops on snowy deployments. How about hot weather versions that last longer in 150F stowage?

Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (noWW6)

93 If this stays here it's a temporary proxy because I didn't download iPad app. I have had trouble with this since mid August & wont add more apps.


Maetenloch,
Thank you for posting Tyler's Guife about political consultants. I will come back & read later.

I'm trying to watch same stupid show I half watched last night & will probably half watch again.

Posted by: Carol at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (M5tqK)

94 I can't believe this Colts team made the AFC Championship game last year.

Posted by: logprof at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (vsbNu)

95 Anyone else seeing the Scott Walker ad?

Posted by: Positive Waves at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (MQEz6)

96 Just like in the movie The Blindside I got the spices down and laid them out where they were and where they needed to be. Unlike The Blindside I just never really got the playbook down. Now you know why I ran Track, my strategy was to run faster than the other guy

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (QnQ+g)

97 Oh my gosh, hi DC

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (4k7+3)

98 I'm done with any BBC programming since they fired Clarkson.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:26 PM (3+E+K)

99 Unfortunately I kinda sorta lied about all that free time that I had. I help run three Breeder Layer Chicken houses, with my father, and while we were slowing down, we would also start doing some extra cleaning work. One nice February morning I found myself with a power washer, washing the inside of an empty chicken barn. We do not wash things but once a year, so they will get quite dusty, muddy, and nasty with everything chicken, and I found myself wearing the wrong clothing, I was warm enough, but I was covered in mud, crap, feathers, S&*t, and anything else that was in a barn.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:26 PM (QnQ+g)

100 I saw Heat!

Posted by: Jim Gaffigan at September 21, 2015 11:26 PM (UnJ7w)

101 Walker was this campaign's Pawlenty. He wasn't the worst candidate on the stage. But you can't run on being not the worst candidate on the stage.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 21, 2015 11:26 PM (AVEe1)

102 I know that this is part of my job, but all I really wanted was just a little bit of Sympathy/Empathy from my wife, or whoever. Unfortunately everyone was fresh out of anything for me. So I finish up in time for a shower and get ready to go pick up my kids from school, and I check my e-mail, and there is a quick note about JV practice being canceled.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:26 PM (QnQ+g)

103 *hugs lou with only moderate groping*

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:27 PM (XVBCD)

104 What about the high fructose corn syrup [correcting the 18th century orthography] in your soft drinks?


The "controversy" over high fructose corn syrup is bullshit. High? It's 55% fructose. Sucrose is 50% fructose. BFD.


I'm thinking about doing a post on this on Cut.Jib.Newsletter.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:27 PM (oKE6c)

105 The letter reads something like this.
Dear Parents
Due to my last treatment leaving me a little under the weather, I will need to cancel tonights practice. See you next week.
Coach Bridges

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:27 PM (QnQ+g)

106 >>> Instead, the company will use numerical tests and online "strength" assessments to assess the potential of applicants.

Yeah, disparate impact and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. IQ tests for employment purposes are illegal in the USA.

It's one of the handful of reasons for the USA being a generally shitty place to live, nowadays.

Posted by: Phinn at September 21, 2015 11:28 PM (DLUnW)

107 Its probably a couple things. They do love their forward thinking progressivism at Chipotle. From their claims of organically raised meat or whatever they claim (that they ditch
as soon as there's a supply shortage) to their bullshit "We're Non-GMO!" claim. Oh yeah? What about the High Fructose Corn Syrup in your soft drinks? Is that Non-GMO?

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (zt+N6)

Buzzion, is that you? I swear I'm not moving this planchette.

Yeah, they are proggies, and like all proggies, hypocrites.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:28 PM (c+gwp)

108 Treatment, I thought, what kind of treatment are you getting. I asked around and turns out he was going through his last round of treatment of Chemo for Leukemia. I found that out, and just sat down stunned, and everything just fell into place.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:28 PM (QnQ+g)

109 Thanks for the ONT Maet.

Posted by: Farmer at September 21, 2015 11:28 PM (o/90i)

110 Hey everybody.

Enjoying hard-bitchslapping the abortion-loooving feminazis at Twitter tonight. I encourage everyone to join me.

Sister Toldjah and Aaron Worthing are doing especially good jobs.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 21, 2015 11:28 PM (ntObR)

111 They kicked out the CCW permit holders from their stores


Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:19 PM (uZNvH)

Ah, that was it. Thanks, chemjeff.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:29 PM (c+gwp)

112 Uh... the Jets were messing with the balls too. That's why we played like shit.

Posted by: Indy Colts at September 21, 2015 11:29 PM (S7x7a)

113 He had been fighting for his life, taking three rounds of drugs that are designed to be just short of killing you, and your Doctors hoping the cancer cells die first. He had done this while coaching basketball, and his son was not even on the team, and here I was bitching about being smelly and wet. I had an epiphany that day, all of my family and my wifes family are and continue to be in good health, now buck up, and shut up and be thankful for what you have.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:29 PM (QnQ+g)

114 *pauses*

Next Paranormal Activity who will Buzzion possess at the Ouija board?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:29 PM (LLwAy)

115 "The gal working as an industrial medic on this location looks like she is a survivor of a dreadful fishing accident."

The local academic medical center have issued a decree against neckties being worn in clinical medicine, because of them being an infection vector.

Can't imagine how much worse an array of elaborate body piercings must be in terms of places for germs to lurk. At least a damn tie can be sent in for dry cleaning.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:29 PM (noWW6)

116 The next week Coach Bridges was back at practice and never missed a beat the rest of the season. My son really did not enjoy his time on the team, he had a real disadvantage when it came to getting the plays and where to be, but Coach was always very supportive to him and always told him that he was doing a good job and was a quick study.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (QnQ+g)

117 Something the guys here might want to consider if they get an invitation to a Bills game *assuming this is true - YMMV*:

Bills Fan Is Looking For The Guy She Gave A Handjob To While Her Boyfriend Was Away Getting Beers

http://tinyurl.com/nwutlgz

Posted by: Thrawn at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (wZ2hu)

118 104 What about the high fructose corn syrup [correcting the 18th century orthography] in your soft drinks?


The "controversy" over high fructose corn syrup is bullshit. High? It's 55% fructose. Sucrose is 50% fructose. BFD.


I'm thinking about doing a post on this on Cut.Jib.Newsletter.


Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:27 PM (oKE6c)


Oh I don't care about the stupid claims that its bad for you. I just high doubt that its Non-GMO. I also find the GMO obsession to be largely bullshit as well of course.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (zt+N6)

119 *dramatic De Niro stare at DC*

Posted by: fly gal at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (po08c)

120 Between CEO, celebrity, and politician, the sweet spot is the A-List trial lawyer. Someone who has the ability to lie to your face and you want to believe them anyway because they are so damn charming. I'm not talking about just "lawyer" - which are generally paper shufflers - but the kind of litigator who his a professional debater. A master debater.

Posted by: wooga at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (XK0dn)

121 103 DC, right back at you, mwaaaa

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (4k7+3)

122
"Hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men are about to hit a brick wall in Serbia. Serbia!"




That's terrible!


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (kdS6q)

123 The season ended and the team dispersed to other sports, but I made sure to always say Hello to the Bridges family whenever I saw them. I knew that I will never be a gifted basketball coach, but glad I had spent the time with both the team and my son.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (QnQ+g)

124 Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:24 PM (oKE6c)

A politician is a salesman.

None of those guys could sell.

It is the system in which the pols work that is most important.

Sadly, no system is fully resistant to human mischief.

Posted by: Positive Waves at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (MQEz6)

125 87: Dr. Who does the occasional pot shot at Thatcher too. Meh. I judge a politician by the seething of there enemies. Thatcher was AWESOME!! :-)

I still like Orphan Black.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (NGd+i)

126 81 >> The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog

Yeah, Maet discovered the same thing last night, and had about the same attitude towards the whole affair, kb.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 21, 2015 11:31 PM (gyKtp)

127 It turns out though that Chemo, and Radiation treatment may be the best thing right now to treat cancer, but they really wreck the brain chemistry. Late last week Steven Bridges committed suicide, from a combination of side effects of the drugs, and survivor guilt.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:31 PM (QnQ+g)

128 109: Farmer! How are things in central Illinois?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 21, 2015 11:31 PM (ucDmr)

129 88: Thats a tasty sandwich.

;-)

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:31 PM (NGd+i)

130 Picric, wow quite a story
it's stories like that that make your own troubles seem trivial

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (uZNvH)

131 I had always wanted to tell Coach Bridges that story, about the day I had been covered in crap and how his bad day had made me realize that my bad day was nothing, and be thankful for what I had.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (QnQ+g)

132 Serbia has plenty of rustic unpopulated areas where a mass grave can be dug quickly. And they have recent practice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (LLwAy)

133 Dear various members of the Horde, thanks for warning me off Chipotle.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (oKE6c)

134 Oh my gosh, Picric! I was not expecting that ending. Prayers for you and all who knew him.

Posted by: Lauren at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (bYGAR)

135 holy cow

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (uZNvH)

136 Honestly if you want giant burritos I'd rather go to Hot Head Burritos. They're Ohio based, but have been slowly expanding. And I would say their quality is a bit below chipotle. But they have actual options in flavor sauces to add to your burritos. As well as deals and specials. So if they're in your area and you like Chipotle food they are at least worth checking out.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (zt+N6)

137 Saw a woman running a jackhammer for the county highway department today while hot blonde with the nice ass was holding the flag, grinning, watching her work.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 21, 2015 11:32 PM (Q7RIU)

138 Unbelievable. I roar back from a huge deficit, only to get the stale consolation of my first (and my 15 year old league's first) tie in fantasy football. Un-fucking-believable.

Posted by: logprof at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (vsbNu)

139 But I never did, because I never really wanted tell him or anyone else Hey remember that truly shitacular day you had last February really made realize how good I have it. Thanks for doing it. It just sounds so petty even reading it now.

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (QnQ+g)

140 I've eaten at Chipotle.

For the life of me I can't figure out why they're so popular. Blandest Mexican food ever. And their hot sauce is... Tabasco. Don't get me wrong, I love Tabasco, but it's *not Mexican," it's cajun/creole (which traces back to the French).

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (ntObR)

141 I went to the visitation today, I knew absolutely no one there, I recognized no one, and I went willingly to pay respects to the man who inadvertently taught me to look at the big picture. Tomorrow I will put on a suit and drag my family to the funeral in Greensboro NC. I ask you to remember that tomorrow you may say something or do something so small or insignificant in your life, but it might touch someone in ways that neither you or any else can ever know.

Goodnight Horde.
Denny Kerns

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (QnQ+g)

142 "Yeah, disparate impact and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. IQ tests for employment purposes are illegal in the USA. It's one of the handful of reasons for the USA being a generally shitty place to live, nowadays."

_Griggs_ also is directly responsible for the post-1970s boom in expensive higher education in America. Can't use workplace IQ testing any longer as a sorting tool? Use university diplomas instead.

As a second-order effect, _Griggs_ is also responsible for the post-1970s decline in the quality of college graduates. The bar had to be lowered to accommodate all the people flooding in.

I remember when functionally illiterate high school graduates began to be numerous enough to be remarked upon. Today, functionally illiterate university degree holders are the norm.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (noWW6)

143 Colts/Jets game has finally been put out of it's misery.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (VviqM)

144 >>>Bills Fan Is Looking For The Guy She Gave A Handjob To While Her Boyfriend Was Away Getting Beers

I can verify this wasn't me. I wouldn't be caught dead at a Bills game.

Also, handjobs are lame. I've been doing it myself since I was 13, I think I've got my technique down a little better than you (you random chick, not you Thrawn).

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:34 PM (XVBCD)

145 Even though Tony Romo is out for at least 8 games I'm very optimistic about the season and backup Qb Weeden. I lived through Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchison, Vinny Testaverde, and Drew Bledsoe (these are the ones I remember anyway).

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:34 PM (UnJ7w)

146 g'night', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 21, 2015 11:34 PM (KCxzN)

147 Picric, what a lovely and horrible story all at the same time. Bless the coach and his family.

Posted by: Infidel at September 21, 2015 11:35 PM (K0fOn)

148 Shit. I have three season premieres tonight. And still have to watch Fear the Walking Dead.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:35 PM (zt+N6)

149 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 21, 2015 11:36 PM (75uvI)

150 Oh I don't care about the stupid claims that its bad
for you. I just high doubt that its Non-GMO. I also find the GMO
obsession to be largely bullshit as well of course.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (zt+N6)
Oh I don't care about the stupid claims that its bad
for you. I just high doubt that its Non-GMO. I also find the GMO
obsession to be largely bullshit as well of course.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:30 PM (zt+N6)

As a scientist, I don't get the shitheads getting the vapors over GMO foods. All foods are digested into their basic parts - amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids - and then reassembled. Throwing a wobbly over where those constituents came from strikes me as being as irrational as getting pissy because the used bricks so beloved of hipsters came from a whorehouse instead of a church. (Or vice versa.)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:36 PM (oKE6c)

151 "Trump fares a little better, but still, there are dozens of more successful businessmen in the U.S. than him."

This sentence, and other like it is why Trump is doing so well. Trump may be an unreliable blowhard, but is relatively reasonable in comparision to this guy.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 21, 2015 11:36 PM (sJuWI)

152 Also, handjobs are lame. I've been doing it myself since I was 13, I think I've got my technique down a little better than you (you random chick, not you Thrawn).

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:34 PM (XVBCD)



Hey, we're not here to judge. Whatever you two want to do in private is just fine.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:36 PM (zt+N6)

153 The setup required me to order via a tableside touch screen that hadn't been cleaned after the previous patrons. Someone else's greasy fingerprints all over it. Bon appetit!


Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:25

Ew. I have not seen this yet. I know automated ordering is coming to everywhere, soon enough, though. Maybe it's not a bad idea to always carry a little canister of anti-bacterial wipes in my huge-ass crazy purse. A non-smoker, I also carry a lighter because I like the thought of being able to make fire at a moment's notice. In a crisis, find some middle-aged lady and grab their purse. You could probably survive for days on the contents.

Posted by: Gem at September 21, 2015 11:37 PM (c+gwp)

154 Sorry Arson, my Raiders are going to win the Super Bowl, hahaha

Oh who the fuck am I kidding

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:37 PM (4k7+3)

155 Re declining educational outcomes, etc.: "We used to teach Latin in high school, now we teach remedial English in college"

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2015 11:37 PM (QDnY+)

156 Jay there you go again talking science. The ones screaming about GMO are disciples of the Cult of Fear.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:37 PM (LLwAy)

157 Lou!!!! Ms Tammy!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (Vm8WO)

158 Why would anyone have a problem with MKH or her husband?

LGF fans? I thought there was only 2 of them left?

Disturbing.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (3+E+K)

159 Da Raidas!

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (UnJ7w)

160 well good night all, time for me to hit the hay I think
have to get up early myself
but it's good to see lou around

Picric that is quite a story, so sad yet so meaningful
it's kinda like the butterfly effect I suppose, you never know what you might do to change someone's life in a small way

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (uZNvH)

161 MKH was never on the radar screen for me. I knew of her existence as a pundit, and maybe read excerpts of here stuff here or elsewhere. Can't have been anything too memorable, or I would remember, I guess. Not a slam at her; her stuff may be great writing, but if it doesn't seize my imagination, I won't remember it. And I never heard of her husband or kids.


So, basically a total stranger had a family tragedy. That happens countless times a year. And they don't seem to be very needy. What she lost money can't replace, only time. So, no, I won't donate to the Jake Brewer Gofundme. My resources are limited, and I cannot donate to total strangers, especially those who do not appear to be terribly needy.


What giving I can do, and do do, I want to go to those who are truly in need, or to people with whom I share some sort of connection.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (7MWCL)

162 Oh, Picric. Such a sad story, but also an important one.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (4zDs/)

163 Looks like SMFH, lousagirl and I are all wallowing in the same boat.

Posted by: Infidel at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (K0fOn)

164 Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (noWW6)


Well said.


It's rather like saying stopwatches discriminate against white people in the 100 yard dash.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (oKE6c)

165 The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog


Yea, saw that earlier and decided to skip that thread. The night before (ONT I think) was headed in some pretty bad territory when Brewer's death was brought up. Politics is not life. If it is, then you need to get one.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (NGd+i)

166 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)

167 It's almost like teaching to the lowest common denominator brings everyone else down but I know that can't possibly be the case.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (+W1gD)

168 81 The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog

Some of the comments were not conservatives at their best, let me put it that way.

And prayers to MKH and her family
Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2015 11:21 PM (GrXXa)


Yeah. We topped the Robin Williams thread today.

(And by "we" I don't include "me" because I stayed far away from that thread.)

Posted by: rickl at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (sdi6R)

169 JarvisW, why was there a problem?

Some felt it far better to fly the A$$hole flag than be polite. From last night's ONT. I actively avoided today's thread, but the reports from survivors were grim with a Vengeful Ace on the loose.

And I am going to drop it again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (LLwAy)

170 156 Jay there you go again talking science. The ones screaming about GMO are disciples of the Cult of Fear.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:37 PM (LLwAy)



Yeah. In my next reincarnation, I hope to be a nitwit, or at least to be susceptible to peer pressure. It'd be nice to fit in for a change.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (oKE6c)

171 Su-27 is partially correct. The first four are identified as Su 30 which is a redesign of the Su 27.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (dOD0J)

172 166 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)

That and mandatory $15/hr minimum wage for minimum skills

Posted by: kbdabear at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (GrXXa)

173 Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:27 PM (XVBCD)

If I don't get the fully inappropriate groping I am going to be mightily offended.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (4zDs/)

174 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.

Talk to the special snowflakes that want $15 an hour for flipping burgers.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (YJmuy)

175 Night chemjeff, God Bless

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:40 PM (4k7+3)

176 163 Looks like SMFH, lousagirl and I are all wallowing in the same boat.

Posted by: Infidel at September 21, 2015 11:38 PM (K0fOn)



Hey, you're 1-1. That's better than the Seahawks, Giants, Ravens and the Colts.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (zt+N6)

177 Evening horde.

'Heat' featured Puffy Face as Bad Skin Face.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (9jeGC)

178 Heh. What's going on? Lady Gaga actually appears to be the more civilized of the bunch

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (9mTYi)

179 When I sweep a floor, I s

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (75uvI)

180 If I don't get the fully inappropriate groping I am going to be mightily offended.

I'm not risking the wrath of the Mighty Thor!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (YJmuy)

181 166 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)

I would say it's the touch-screen computer phone things the goddam waitstaff can't seem to put down on the clock.

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (UnJ7w)

182 My little high school band is practicing, Love traditions!

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (4k7+3)

183 142 "Yeah, disparate impact and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. IQ tests for employment purposes are illegal in the USA. It's one of the handful of reasons for the USA being a generally shitty place to live, nowadays."

So anyone with a high IQ should be sure to include that on a resume or something to be seen by the employer. Or would that cause other problems?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (u5gzz)

184 Buzzion, you're alive!

Yeah, it's early in the season yet. Not holding my breath.

Posted by: Infidel at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (K0fOn)

185 >>>tomorrow you may say something or do something so small or insignificant in your life, but it might touch someone in ways that neither you or any else can ever know.

Well said. You're blessed for the experience, and now we are as well.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (XVBCD)

186 " they are basically putting wait staff out of a job."

Which I believe is whole point. The touch screens may break down but calling in sick on a Friday Night? Not showing up on time? Wanting $15 an hour?


Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (dOD0J)

187 Chavez! bebe! LOU!

It's so lovely to see y'all, but honestly, the ugliness of politics is just getting to me. I just about can't stand coming here much, not even so much the asshole comments, just the constant onslaught of crappy news, ya know?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:43 PM (4zDs/)

188
By the way, I also invented a computer and I call it a Compaq.

Posted by: Ahmad Mohammad at September 21, 2015 11:43 PM (OiFtZ)

189 I'm not risking the wrath of the Mighty Thor!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (YJmuy)


I won't tell him if you don't!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (4zDs/)

190 Night AJ, night chemjeff.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (9jeGC)

191 Oh, an actual Chinese fire drill. I thought it was the Chinese Fire Drill where you run around the car at a stop light. Was curious how so many people could get hurt.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (FcR7P)

192 So anyone with a high IQ should be sure to include
that on a resume or something to be seen by the employer. Or would that
cause other problems?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (u5gzz)

For every job there is an optimum IQ, so higher is not necessarily better. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (oKE6c)

193 Awww Tammy, I so get it

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (4k7+3)

194 >>>If I don't get the fully inappropriate groping I am going to be mightily offended.

Listen missy, you'll get the groping when I'm good and ready.

Ok, I'm ready.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (XVBCD)

195 And not to mention that it was in Serbia that WWI started with the assassination of the Archduke. The Balkans have always been a powderkeg.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (9iR5/)

196 Which I believe is whole point. The touch screens may break down but calling in sick on a Friday Night? Not showing up on time? Wanting $15 an hour?


Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (dOD0J)



Yep.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (4zDs/)

197 Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (FcR7P)

You're thinking of a Mexican fire drill.

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (UnJ7w)

198 "I quit watching Orphan Black after that tirade about how awful the Thatcher Years were."

Since the primary vector for what passes as "history" in the Anglosphere these days is via the schools and universities, and since the Long March Through The Institutions has turned the schools and universities into leftist indoctrination centers, this crap will persist forever.

What you won't ever see on the BBC are realistic depictions of just how incredibly awful the pre-Thatcher years of the 1970s were in the UK. Americans think that Jimmy Carter was bad? As bad as his economic mismanagement was, Carter didn't have to go hat in hand to the IMF to rescue the country.

To say nothing of the "Winter Of Discontent", when Britain nearly ceased to exist as a functioning modern society.

No fuel on the petrol station forecourts. No food in the stores. No goods in the shops. Electricity rationed to where factories might operate two or three days per week. Public transit paralyzed. The military deputized to provide (sporadic) fire and ambulance services. Huge piles of uncollected trash rotting on the sidewalks of the cities. Mortuaries spilling over with the unburied dead. And a LOT of unburied dead thanks to the National Health not working any better than anything else was working.

Due to not remembering any of this, the Brits are due to eventually recapitulate all of it.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (noWW6)

199 Speaking of wait staff: ate at a restaurant a while ago, the waitress was absolutely gorgeous but she had those retarded-ass big plugs in her earlobe. WTF is up with that.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (awspb)

200 Speaking of the angry feminists, The New England Journal of Medicine decided to piss away their credibility by going all in for the baby killers at PP.

Posted by: Lauren at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (LzzEz)

201 I saw enough of the asshole-flag at the Hugo Awards.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (AVEe1)

202 Howdy, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at September 21, 2015 11:45 PM (EzgxV)

203 I went to the visitation today, I knew absolutely no one there, I recognized no one, and I went willingly to pay respects to the man who inadvertently taught me to look at the big picture. Tomorrow I will put on a suit and drag my family to the funeral in Greensboro NC. I ask you to remember that tomorrow you may say something or do something so small or insignificant in your life, but it might touch someone in ways that neither you or any else can ever know.

Goodnight Horde.
Denny Kerns

Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:33 PM (QnQ+g)


Thank you for that story. And my condolences for the loss of a friend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2015 11:46 PM (7MWCL)

204 Ok, I'm ready.
Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (XVBCD)


Atta boy!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:46 PM (4zDs/)

205 I won't tell him if you don't!

Now you make it sound like the stands at a Bills' game.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:46 PM (YJmuy)

206 "Heat" had an extended and interesting cast. Good flick. Yes, it's more a story of intersecting lives, than an action flick. Though the action is used to great effect.

Posted by: otho at September 21, 2015 11:46 PM (EWg9n)

207 I would say it's the touch-screen computer phone things the goddam waitstaff can't seem to put down on the clock.

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (UnJ7w)

Damn things should be banned in gyms. Use it or lose a-hole. You ain't that important. (At the very least speak English so I can listen in)

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:46 PM (9jeGC)

208 186 " they are basically putting wait staff out of a job."

Which I believe is whole point. The touch screens may break down but calling in sick on a Friday Night? Not showing up on time? Wanting $15 an hour?


Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (dOD0J)


I don't go to restaurants much, but I always use the self-checkout lines in supermarkets.

A. I can pack my bag the way I want to.

II. I don't have to worry about getting stuck behind someone who wants to have a long, detailed conversation with the cashier.

Posted by: rickl at September 21, 2015 11:47 PM (sdi6R)

209 Well, my old feller is looking at me like, come on, time for bed! I work super early.
God Bless you guys!

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:47 PM (4k7+3)

210 Screw it

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 21, 2015 11:47 PM (75uvI)

211 What you won't ever see on the BBC are realistic depictions of just
how incredibly awful the pre-Thatcher years of the 1970s were in the UK.
Americans think that Jimmy Carter was bad? As bad as his economic
mismanagement was, Carter didn't have to go hat in hand to the IMF to
rescue the country.



A colleague told me his experience finishing up his doctorate in Oxford, where the power was on - every other day. Good times. Thanks, mine workers' union!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:47 PM (oKE6c)

212 And it was an unsanitized phone that killed off a whole planet after Ark B left.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:47 PM (LLwAy)

213 Asshole Flag. Is it in the shape of a TP square with an asterisk in the center?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (JO9+V)

214 HAahahahaha! Replay of A-rod failing!!

52million mistake = Priceless

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (3+E+K)

215 >>>the waitress was absolutely gorgeous but she had those retarded-ass big plugs in her earlobe.

Ahhhh, gauges. It's cheaper than getting a tattoo that says "I do heroin. And anal"

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (XVBCD)

216
A shame what happened to all those buggy-whip workers, way back.

On this topic, I've told this one before. Qualcomm tycoon Jacobs cut a radio commercial for a failed local min. wage initiative. In it he says he was a teenage employee of his family's NY restaurant.

OK. And ...... so? Oh, right Irwin. You just unwittingly made a point against the idiocy you are promoting. What economists call "informal" labor such as family labor is often a make/break element for survival of low-margin small business (ahemm, restaurants and other hospitality). A min. wage for you back then might have made your family's business untenable, or pushed it that direction. Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (QDnY+)

217 If I can pull "Excalibur" back out of my goat "Stone", Daddy said I'll be King of Texas!

Posted by: Ahmad al-Einstein at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (FcR7P)

218 Hi & bye cthulhu

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (4k7+3)

219 G'night, Miss Lou!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (YJmuy)

220 184 Buzzion, you're alive!

Yeah, it's early in the season yet. Not holding my breath.

Posted by: Infidel at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (K0fOn)



Hey at least its not going 0-10 like last year.

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (zt+N6)

221 G'night, lou. Don't stay away too long.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:49 PM (XVBCD)

222 Modern art simplified

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/modern-art-simplified.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:49 PM (LLwAy)

223 Evening Cthulhu

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:50 PM (9jeGC)

224 Night Lou

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:50 PM (9jeGC)

225 I won't dc, will come back Friday, drunk & ready to make no damn sense as usual!

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:50 PM (4k7+3)

226 198: Very good point. Nobody remembers the PM before Thatcher. I wonder why??

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 21, 2015 11:50 PM (NGd+i)

227 Damn. Saying 'night and evening so far.


FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT !!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:51 PM (9jeGC)

228 re Syria, flexible Obama will let Putin have Syria. It really works for both of them. Putin gets ME influence and Obama gets to distance himself from another failure. Narcissists cannot accept responsibility for failure. If Putin succeeds we can expect Obama to declare You didn't do that yourself.
Now I need to go find an original thought. I'm sure I had one around here somewhere.

Posted by: delurk ergo sum at September 21, 2015 11:51 PM (Q8y6V)

229 Yeah, the pre-Thatch years are what inspired my parents in '74 to drag me off to a more First World country... Algeria.

I am not kidding.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 21, 2015 11:51 PM (AVEe1)

230 Ahhhh, gauges. It's cheaper than getting a tattoo that says "I do heroin. And anal"
Posted by: DC in River City

That tattoo would've raised her score in my book. Teach her to go the cheap route.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (awspb)

231 Lol Rhomboid, I saw a local bar OWNER say he was glad about a new smoking ban in the city he was in. "Because the waitstaff and himself would be healthier than sitting in all that smoke"

Hey, dumbass.. YOU OWN THE BAR, YOU COULD HAVE SET THE RULE YOURSELF!!! (now you have o choice in the matter)

Geezse..

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (3+E+K)

232 You're thinking of a Mexican fire drill.

We called it Chinese. This was years before anyone in the Northeast had seen a Mexican.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (FcR7P)

233 So, Maet. I read the Ace's MKH thread on lunch break at work, so I couldn't really comment. Before I take off the safety & indiscriminately fire at Bruce & his inaccuracy spewing wang (which was a cover for attacking thunder b & 'states) & Max has no rocks for saying I wished death on logprof last night, I just wanted to check & see if you are looking for a lighter tone tonight. Cause I'm totally good with just cracking a beer & letting DC & blanco inappropriately touch me if you are. If buzzion wasn't a ghost he could inappropriately touch me too, but I guess he'll have to settle for watching & fapping.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (6TXFe)

234 So, my sister is an officer at a big entertainment/movie renting/etc company and I'm trying to get her on board with a Christopher Walken Batman. I told her to bring it up in the next meeting. I've successfully converted her from a feminist/Obamayte so cross your fingers.

Posted by: ryukyu at September 21, 2015 11:53 PM (j29PP)

235 Bebes; I would more worry about Buzzion and his Ghost Fapping ways...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:53 PM (LLwAy)

236 195 And not to mention that it was in Serbia that WWI started with the assassination of the Archduke. The Balkans have always been a powderkeg.
Posted by: Old Blue at September 21, 2015 11:44 PM (9iR5/)


--It actually took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, then a recently annexed province of Austria-Hungary. The assassin was a Serb, though.

Posted by: logprof at September 21, 2015 11:53 PM (vsbNu)

237 I believe the GOPe is going to coalesce around Rubio. Saw some talk that some of Walker's chairmen are going with Rubio. So, they may have thrown Yeb! under the bus.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 21, 2015 11:54 PM (dvuhZ)

238 I invented earlobe guages.

Posted by: Ahmed the Modifying Mohammedan at September 21, 2015 11:54 PM (S7x7a)

239 *beep* *beep*

That's me inappropriately touching bebe.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 21, 2015 11:54 PM (+W1gD)

240 Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (6TXFe)

Just think of me the next time you feel a cold chill

Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:54 PM (zt+N6)

241 Princeps was a Serb working for the Black Hand... a real sinister conspiracy

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:55 PM (LLwAy)

242 I had an epiphany that day, all of my family and my wifes family are and continue to be in good health, now buck up, and shut up and be thankful for what you have.
---------------

In an affluent, complacent society, it is very easy to forget that. We would like this, we would like that. Every night I go to bed and ask myself exactly what it is that I have done to deserve a warm dry bed, a secure home, the food that I have had that day, etc., etc., in short an infinity of blessings.

I have no answer.

One thing is quite certain, a great deal of 'being happy' has to do with appreciating what we have.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2015 11:55 PM (9mTYi)

243 Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (FcR7P)

We call'em Chinese fire drills too, here in Texas. It's mind boggling how many times I'll see Mexicans piling out of a single cab pickup truck. Always reminds me of the clown car at the circus.

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (UnJ7w)

244 Hey, dumbass.. YOU OWN THE BAR, YOU COULD HAVE SET THE RULE YOURSELF!!! (now you have o choice in the matter)

Geezse..
Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (3+E+K)

To paraphrase Loki...

Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of liberalism, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (9jeGC)

245 >>>Cause I'm totally good with just cracking a beer & letting DC & blanco inappropriately touch me if you are

I totally approve of those plan, with that one little change

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (XVBCD)

246 " they are basically putting wait staff out of a job."

Which I believe is whole point. The touch screens may break down but calling in sick on a Friday Night? Not showing up on time? Wanting $15 an hour?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 21, 2015 11:42 PM (dOD0J)


At In n' Out, htye pay their workers more... but then they expect more out of them.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (vBeA5)

247 Sup Horde. Watching Hackers, enjoying a beer.

How're yall?

Posted by: thathalfrican at September 21, 2015 11:57 PM (R5HRU)

248 Princeps was a Serb working for the Black Hand... a real sinister conspiracy
Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm not saying that banksters paid the Bush family to frame Gavrilo Princip, I'm just asking questions.

Posted by: Jesse "The Derp" Ventura at September 21, 2015 11:57 PM (awspb)

249 --It actually took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, then
a recently annexed province of Austria-Hungary. The assassin was a
Serb, though.

Posted by: logprof at September 21, 2015 11:53 PM (vsbNu)
-----------I stand corrected. For some odd reason or another, I was thinking Sarajevo was in Serbia.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 21, 2015 11:57 PM (9iR5/)

250 Sheesh. I'm good at groping. Spelling, not so much.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 21, 2015 11:57 PM (XVBCD)

251 241 Princeps was a Serb working for the Black Hand... a real sinister conspiracy
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:55 PM (LLwAy)


Wait. I thought there were no such things as conspiracy theories.

Posted by: rickl at September 21, 2015 11:58 PM (sdi6R)

252 Princeps was a Serb working for the Black Hand... a real sinister conspiracy

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2015 11:55 PM (LLwAy)


#BlackHandLivesMatter

Posted by: Princeps, who was a promising young minority... at September 21, 2015 11:58 PM (vBeA5)

253 Ahhhh, gauges. It's cheaper than getting a tattoo that says "I do heroin. And anal"
Posted by: DC in River City


Heroin via suppository.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 21, 2015 11:58 PM (W5DcG)

254 187. I just about can't stand coming here much, not even so much the asshole comments, just the constant onslaught of crappy news, ya know?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:43 PM

Aw, I know what you mean. Been doing it myself. But then I thought, why not try to make it more fun in here again. You are an integral part of ont fun!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 21, 2015 11:58 PM (6TXFe)

255 Sorry for the way this letter will appear in the ONT, but I need to tell this story, just for my own sake. I know that it will be broken up over the thread, but so be it. I went to a visitation today for Steve Bridges, a man that I met very briefly last winter, he made me see my life differently.
Posted by: Picric at September 21, 2015 11:14 PM

Sorry for your loss.

We had a much less important loss today, just sad for some other folks.

Had been involved w/ others that owned siblings of our 8 month old chocolate lab. Turns out one nearby was sick and they couldn't figure it out w/ the vet.

Unfortunately she died today at 8 months. Feel really bad for her owners.

Posted by: Farmer at September 21, 2015 11:58 PM (o/90i)

256 lol RWC. I'm behind on Avengers/Thor. Hardly go to the theater anymore, then I forget to catch it on video later.

At least I DID see Guardians of the Galaxy last month. AND I added Thor to my recordings, so I'll get to it eventually...

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:59 PM (3+E+K)

257 #BlackHandLivesMatter
Posted by: Princeps, who was a promising young minority...

Except black hand babies.

Posted by: Planned Infanticide at September 21, 2015 11:59 PM (awspb)

258
Enterprise-D Virtual Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK9ijZeHWjI

Take a short walk through a few decks of Star Trek's USS Enterprise from ST: The Next Generation. The ship is being created in the Unreal Engine, and is Oculus Rift ready

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 21, 2015 11:59 PM (kdS6q)

259 We call'em Chinese fire drills too, here in Texas.
It's mind boggling how many times I'll see Mexicans piling out of a
single cab pickup truck. Always reminds me of the clown car at the
circus.

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (UnJ7w)


Old joke: why were there 5000 Mexicans at the Alamo?
Because they only had five vans.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 21, 2015 11:59 PM (oKE6c)

260 Picric

Thank you for sharing that story. Your family is lucky to have you, and I know you are and will bring comfort to Coach Bridges survivors.


Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 12:00 AM (zOTsN)

261 We called it Chinese. This was years before anyone in the Northeast had seen a Mexican.

Posted by: t-bird at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (FcR7P)


Yep. It was a "Chinese Fire Drill" in Vancouver where I grew up, too. I had an Econoline van with cargo doors on both sides. You could do awesome Chinese fire drills with that, because you could pass through it at a run.


Another classic car stunt: stall the car in the middle of traffic. Cursing a blue streak, get out and open the hood. Continue cursing, and start throwing parts out on the road, generator, carburetor, distributor cap and wires, fuel pump, whatever. Guy behind you gets visions of being stuck there until the tow truck comes. Then you slam the hood shut, curse some more, and drive off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:00 AM (7MWCL)

262 HA!

Posted by: Arson Wells at September 22, 2015 12:00 AM (UnJ7w)

263 248
Princeps was a Serb working for the Black Hand... a real sinister conspiracy

Posted by: Anna Puma
------------
Either way, what happened next was not...good.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 22, 2015 12:01 AM (9iR5/)

264 All right, better call it a night. Stay well, y'all!

Posted by: logprof at September 22, 2015 12:01 AM (vsbNu)

265 Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:52 PM (3+E+K)



Presumably his concern was that doing so unilaterally would have hurt his business vis a vis competitors.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 22, 2015 12:01 AM (oKE6c)

266 FWIW it was Chinese fire drills here in N Texas too.

Never heard of a Mexican version till tonight.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:02 AM (3+E+K)

267 @242

Well, Mike,you could do what I learned to do--ask yourself if you did the best you could.

Sometimes that's the best answer possible.

Posted by: irongrampa at September 22, 2015 12:02 AM (jeCnD)

268 Oh cool, this hotel has HBO and Gojira is on. Yay, giant monsters destroying San Francisco! Boo, alarm clock!

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:03 AM (XVBCD)

269 Farmer! How are things in central Illinois?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at September 21, 2015 11:31 PM

Good here, weather is great at the moment. How's it going in WI?

Posted by: Farmer at September 22, 2015 12:03 AM (o/90i)

270 Jay, if that were the case, he's have the edge in the market by being the ONLY bar in town w/o smoking.

I'd think that'd be a great selling point myself.

But some people don't play Chess, and barely checkers.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:04 AM (3+E+K)

271 My god, it smells like sex in here. I mean, more than usual.

Posted by: fly gal at September 22, 2015 12:04 AM (po08c)

272 240Just think of me the next time you feel a cold chill
Posted by: buzzion at September 21, 2015 11:54 PM (zt+N6)

Dammit, it's been YOU giving me high beams!!!!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 12:04 AM (Vm8WO)

273 At least I DID see Guardians of the Galaxy last month. AND I added Thor to my recordings, so I'll get to it eventually...

Posted by: JarvisW at September 21, 2015 11:59 PM (3+E+K)

*nudge nudge wink wink*

Amazon Fire Stick hacked with with Kodi.

Easy to do. You didn't hear it from me

I'm assuming you don't want to pay for content and aren't one of those filthy productive members of society.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:04 AM (9jeGC)

274 I got a kick out of Guardians of the Galaxy. Favorite character? Groot.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 22, 2015 12:06 AM (9iR5/)

275 >>>My god, it smells like sex in here. I mean, more than usual.

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:06 AM (XVBCD)

276 Thx RWC, I'll look into it!

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:06 AM (3+E+K)

277 Jay, if that were the case, he's have the edge in the market by being the ONLY bar in town w/o smoking.

I'd think that'd be a great selling point myself.

But some people don't play Chess, and barely checkers.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:04 AM (3+E+K)


That might work in a big city, or a place with a big entertainment district, but in a small town, it would kill the bar's business. Non-smoking bar patrons (and I am one) are definitely in the minority. Just the way it is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM (7MWCL)

278 Yeah, Groot was cool. Must have been modeled on Stan Laurel's face! lol

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM (3+E+K)

279 >>>Dammit, it's been YOU giving me high beams!!!!

This comment is worthless without pics

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM (XVBCD)

280
274 I got a kick out of Guardians of the Galaxy. Favorite character? Groot.
Posted by: Old Blue at September 22, 2015 12:06 AM (9iR5/)

Groot/Rocket tie for me.

Love Rocket's joke about getting the prosthetic leg.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:08 AM (9jeGC)

281 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 21, 2015 11:43 PM

Oh Tammy we need you here. You are one of the bright lights here sometimes for me.

Be well and keep on keeping on.

Posted by: Farmer at September 22, 2015 12:08 AM (o/90i)

282 >>>Dammit, it's been YOU giving me high beams!!!!



This comment is worthless without pics

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM (XVBCD)


Seconded!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2015 12:09 AM (JO9+V)

283 mmmm, listening to Derek and The Dominoes do "Key to the Highway" with Duane Allman on slide guitar. tasty

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:09 AM (7MWCL)

284 I'd say his market was big enough. prob 100k at least around it. I'm just sick of the nanny state and people bending backwards for it (or grabbing ankles)

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:09 AM (3+E+K)

285 166 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.


Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)



Local pub offers one buck tacos (hard corn or soft flour) and dollar twenty-five pints. Meh, tacos are ok with enough tabasco. Pints are ice-cold and they sometimes offer a micro-brew at that price.

The last three weeks the bartendress could not get my food order right. ???? Three hard tacos and one soft one. Hello? Touch screen: I could order myself with no mistakes after ten pints!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 22, 2015 12:10 AM (Q7RIU)

286 Never heard of a Mexican version till tonight.
Posted by: JarvisW
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A friend has described the Vietnamese Navy casting-off a vessel. It was amazing, he said. The entire crew scrambles from one end of the boat to the other, heaving lines off the bow, then running as a small mob to cast off the lines aft.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2015 12:11 AM (9mTYi)

287
The thing about Serbia being a main route for this mass Muslim migration (it is migration, not a "refugee" problem to any great degree) cracked me up. Because I've got a fully intact dark sense of humor (if little else, any more).

The thing about the US and Syria is just a typical massive distortion and myth replacing fact. As if rickety, decades-old familydictatorships in the most unstable part of the world don't fall apart from natural causes. Right, the Alawite clans use Syria as a tool of lunatic anti-Israeli Arab nationalism, then rent themselves out to the Persians, and to the Russians, while maintaining (barely) control through brutal violence and $$$$, and eventually even piss off their Gulf subsidy sugar daddies, and after decades this flaming wreck flies off the rails, but it's the US that's responsible for their civil war.

Which in turn has nothing to do with the mass non-refugee migration (noted above) into Europe. Even the few actual Syrians in the migrant wave are sketchy as refugees - under refugee laws and normal practices,you don't get any special status to just move anywhere you'd like if you are already safely out of harm's way (as nearly all the Syrians involved already were, for years in most cases).

But there's little fact or sense involved in most people's understanding of the world any more. And that's not confined to "left wing" types.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 12:11 AM (QDnY+)

288 I heard something today I had not heard before

There is a business woman from Houston who traveled with a trade delegation from the mayors office (?) to China last spring


And the Chinese seized her, accused her of being a spy, and will not release her. They still have her.

Did these sorts of things happen so frequently before, and go basically unreported? Or is the world so unafraid of us that they hold us in contempt?

Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 12:12 AM (zOTsN)

289 Either way, what happened next was not...good.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 22, 2015 12:01 AM (9iR5/)


Ugh! All that overtime...

Posted by: Grim Reaper at September 22, 2015 12:13 AM (vBeA5)

290 "FWIW it was Chinese fire drills here in N Texas too. Never heard of a Mexican version till tonight."

I remember vehicular "Chinese fire drills".

The modern Mexican version in NorCal involves taking a small house with a safe max overnight occupancy of 5 to 8 people, and packing 60+ people into it, where they do things like try to run charcoal grills indoors.

This often ends badly. Especially the tiny, painted-shut windows part.

Some Anglos don't get this either. I stayed at a friend's place, and she was baffled by why I was trying to get the ancient sash window in her guest room to open larger than a hand's-breadth. Why, what other function would a window possibly have other than viewing, and admitting a tiny amount of fresh air?

Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:14 AM (noWW6)

291 282 >>>Dammit, it's been YOU giving me high beams!!!!
This comment is worthless without pics
Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM
Seconded!
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2015 12:09 AM

Yeah, just got home from a 4 mile forced march with a 40lb pack. It's 72 with 80% humidity. There are no high beams, there is a serious sweaty mess. Tell 'em Buzzion!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 12:14 AM (Vm8WO)

292 Or is the world so unafraid of us that they hold us in contempt?
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That question answers itself. Sadly.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 22, 2015 12:15 AM (9iR5/)

293 276 Thx RWC, I'll look into it!

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:06 AM (3+E)

You're welcome. Although I'm spoiled now. I won't watch movies until they're HD. I've watched Age of Ultron multiple times at home when it was in theaters but it looks so much better now that it's HD/1080.

But sometimes it can suck. Was watching 1984 version of 1984 and paused it last night to come back to it today and it wouldn't stream.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:15 AM (9jeGC)

294 218 Hi & bye cthulhu

Posted by: lousagirl at September 21, 2015 11:48 PM (4k7+3)



Good ta see ya, lou's -- wish we had more time to interact!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 12:15 AM (EzgxV)

295 How about laser high-beams?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oljyver

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 12:15 AM (LLwAy)

296 I read that the term Chinese Fire Drill came from a British navy where they were training a crew of Chinese sailors for fire suppression: One group was supposed to get water up from the side, another was to throw it into the engineering spaces, and the last crew was supposed to bail it out of the engineering spaces and throw it overboard.

What happened was they hauled water up, ran through the engineering spaces and dumped it overboard over the other side.

This is a story equal to the story in Gerald Durrell's book, My Family and Other Animals, where he talked about the fire department of Corfu, and their new American style fire engine.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 22, 2015 12:16 AM (3pRHP)

297 >>>Yeah, just got home from a 4 mile forced march with a 40lb pack. It's 72 with 80% humidity. There are no high beams, there is a serious sweaty mess.

I know I'm not the only one thinking HAWT.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:16 AM (XVBCD)

298 How about laser high-beams?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/oljyver


That's how imagine most 'ettes would react to inappropriate touching.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 22, 2015 12:17 AM (YJmuy)

299 Why, what other function would a window possibly have other than viewing, and admitting a tiny amount of fresh air?
Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:14 AM

e are in that short period where we cankepp windows open in N IL for a few days. No running heat or air, it is heavenly.

We have about week of it right now. It's wonderful.

Posted by: Farmer at September 22, 2015 12:19 AM (o/90i)

300
ThunderB, 1) dunno, and 2) yes.

Recall the extraordinary thing where Chinese business students laughed at our Treasury Secretary (the ridiculous Geithner) during his address there (specifically I believe in response to his assertion the US would regain fiscal balance). A jaw-dropping thing to anyone even slightly familiar with Chinese culture and norms for treating foreign dignitaries.

Of course that paled next to Obama's Cairo speech, easily the most insanely stupid and misguided thing ever done by a president on foreign soil. The late Fouad Ajami had a devastating and enlightening critique of it at the time.

Funny how to many who fancy themselves worldly and sophisticated - and, absurdly, are treated as such by our degraded civil society - are of course incredibly ignorant. Reverse Darwinism (triumph of the least able and worthy) is now in full-bore testing mode in the US .... how long can it last?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 12:19 AM (QDnY+)

301 I'll tell you one thing about that article on entertainers and CEOs, who would have a real leg up-salesmen. Real salesmen. Good salesmen, not the stereotypical used car guy or the Alec Baldwin Glengary Glenross character (although that level of confidence would be vital), but good, honest salesmen. The trick is to translate the one on one charisma to groups, but if you can do that.....gold.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 22, 2015 12:20 AM (WvS3w)

302 LMAO "Pizza Rat had more yards rushing than D'Marco Murry!"

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:20 AM (3+E+K)

303 >>>"FWIW it was Chinese fire drills here in N Texas too. Never heard of a Mexican version till tonight."

It's an Islamic invention, thus an, "Islamic Fire Drill," infidels.

Posted by: Ahmed at September 22, 2015 12:21 AM (v8PiA)

304 Jon Voight's character in "Heat" is based on Eddie Bunker? I did not know that.

Posted by: otho at September 22, 2015 12:24 AM (EWg9n)

305 WD, did you get my e-mail re Oldsmobubbles?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:24 AM (7MWCL)

306 Evening all.

With all of these people out of work, I have to believe many of them quite bright, who ordered to Idiot factory to produce their best and newest at warp speed?

Been training new people the last 2 weeks, young ones, and the results are heroin in the eyeball worthy. Ugh....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 22, 2015 12:25 AM (hmd6D)

307 The services came up with "cold weather" MREs with
extra calories to sustain troops on snowy deployments. How about hot
weather versions that last longer in 150F stowage?
Posted by: torquewrench at September 21, 2015 11:25 PM (noWW6)


The Brits did a 24 Hr ration for the far east. Though I understand the corned beef is liquid at those temperatures.

I keep a bag with cans of vienna sausages, mini-cans of spam, life-boat crackers and not very tasty candy in the car. Sometimes I can throw some of those single serving fruit cocktail and instant coffee and lemon powder packets. Most of it is canned at between 212 and 240F so it will age quickly but it won't be spoiled by being in your car in July

(I used to have a GF that would get grumpy and mean when she got hungry.
She also got much more relaxed driving logging roads when she realized I kept 2 days of food and coffee making kit in the car.)

Posted by: Kindltot at September 22, 2015 12:26 AM (3pRHP)

308 181 166 oh and I hate those touch-screen automatic ordering computer things, they are basically putting wait staff out of a job.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 21, 2015 11:39 PM (uZNvH)

I would say it's the touch-screen computer phone things the goddam waitstaff can't seem to put down on the clock.
Posted by: Arson Wells at September 21, 2015 11:41 PM (UnJ7w)



I have no problem with the touchscreen ordering devices. Most waiters/waitresses want to "impress" you by not writing down your order so you end up with nothing close to what you ordered.

At least I know that my order going into the kitchen will be right. Coming out......

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 22, 2015 12:26 AM (Z7G74)

309 About a week or two ago, somebody linked a video of the Australian singer Lenka. I had never heard of her before.

I have become quite smitten. This is good stuff.

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

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2015 12:26 AM (sdi6R)

310 G'night y'all. Tomorrow starts the fun commute brought on upon some dude in a Popemobile. Should be fun.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:27 AM (9jeGC)

311 I just read dear Ahmed was the guest of honor at the google science fair. They asked him to bring his clock. I wonder what they did when they saw it was a fraud?

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2015 12:27 AM (bYGAR)

312 Here's what the other kids did:

Olivia Hallisey, 16, from Connecticut. Moved by the lives lost in Africa to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, she devised a rapid, portable and inexpensive diagnostic test for the detection of the virus
lso receiving awards were Girish Kumar, 17 of Singapore, who came up with a way to automatically generate review questions for students from online textbooks; Krtin Nithiyanandam, 14 of Surrey, England, who designed a diagnostic tool to detect Alzheimer's at earlier stages in the disease; Pranav Sivakumar, 15 of Aurora, Illinois who invented an automated method for finding and characterizing gravitationally lensed quasars; Anurudh Ganesan, 15 of Clarksburg, Md., who designed a more reliable way to transport vaccines to remote locations in developing countries; Deepika Kurup, 17 of Nashua, NH, devised a filtration system to remove toxins from drinking water; Lalita Prasida Sripada Srisai, 13 from India, came up with an inexpensive way to clean waste water by flowing it through corn cobs; and Eliott Sarrey,14 from Maron, France, who built a robot that when controlled by a smartphone can tend vegetable gardens.

But Ahmed took a clock out if its casing so...

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2015 12:30 AM (bYGAR)

313 I wonder what they did when they saw it was a fraud?
Posted by: Lauren
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To them, it is not a 'fraud'. To them, it means that he is bright and creative.

To us, it means that he had access to a screwdriver.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (9mTYi)

314 244 To paraphrase Loki...

Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of liberalism, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 21, 2015 11:56 PM (9jeGC)


Well done.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (gyKtp)

315 81> "The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog "

Now, why would you trying to reignite this? Bored?

Posted by: Lily at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (yj/Rg)

316 309: Well, she is rather adorable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (NGd+i)

317 ....video of the Australian singer Lenka....

Lenka is featured in the mid 2000's Disney vids.
If you have a 10yo you know " As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox".....

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (fA0lE)

318 But Ahmed took a clock out if its casing so...

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2015 12:30 AM (bYGAR)

Let's invite him to the Whitehouse!!!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (9jeGC)

319 G'night y'all. Tomorrow starts the fun commute brought on upon some dude in a Popemobile. Should be fun.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:27

Be well RWC. GL w/ the socialist Pope.

Nite all.

Posted by: Farmer at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (o/90i)

320 The Jake Brewer/MKH thread today was one of those where I thought it was coming close to Ace threatening to shut down the blog.

I missed it and apparently it was deleted.

I don't care whether Jake Brewer worked for the White House. As a Christian, I am obligated to help widows and orphans. I'm not supposed to test widows for their husbands' ideological purity.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (dPpmC)

321 "The Brits did a 24 Hr ration for the far east. Though I understand the corned beef is liquid at those temperatures."

I wonder how the brie, Bordeaux and pate de fois gras in the French military field rations stand up to hot weather storage?

Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (noWW6)

322 310: take the metro. You'll have a 57% chance of getting to work without choking to death on smoke. You'll be late regardless.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 22, 2015 12:33 AM (NGd+i)

323 I missed it and apparently it was deleted.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (dPpmC)

It's right there on the home page, unless it's a different thread about MKH.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 22, 2015 12:34 AM (sJuWI)

324 I missed it and apparently it was deleted.

I don't care whether Jake Brewer worked for the White House. As a Christian, I am obligated to help widows and orphans. I'm not supposed to test widows for their husbands' ideological purity.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (dPpmC)

*****

It is still there, and nobody here tonight was trying to reignite anything. It was simply an observation.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 22, 2015 12:34 AM (hmd6D)

325 "But Ahmed took a clock out if its casing so... "

Well, the Emperor has no cloths, so it fits that his clock has no case..

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:35 AM (3+E+K)

326 Well done.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (gyKtp)

Thanks. Just changed one word but it fits.

Alright. Night all. Better tomorrow.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:35 AM (9jeGC)

327 I wonder how the brie, Bordeaux and pate de fois gras in the French military field rations stand up to hot weather storage?

Posted by: torquewrench
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Live frogs and snails keep for a long time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2015 12:35 AM (9mTYi)

328 ....Yeah, just got home from a 4 mile forced march with a 40lb pack. It's 72 with 80% humidity. There are no high beams, there is a serious sweaty mess.....

pics? or it didn't happen, we gots rules y'know

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:36 AM (fA0lE)

329 #198

You might like Dominic Sandbrook's series of UK modern histories. 'State of Emergency:The Way We Were Britain 1970-1974' goes into good detail about the era. The author attributes his own birth in 1974 to a three day work week resulting in an excess of leisure time without funds to make anything of it.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 12:36 AM (IdCqF)

330 "I just read dear Ahmed was the guest of honor at the google science
fair. They asked him to bring his clock. I wonder what they did when
they saw it was a fraud?"

What Google did was to say, "Please please please please please don't let anyone in power in D.C. start looking into the absolutely massive tax evasion being conducted by Google corporate and by every one of the Google C-suite executives. We don't care what kind of a circus we have to sign on to."

If you made them swear under oath that shit was in fact bona fide Shinola, they would grin widely and positively attest to it, just so long as their dubious financial arrangements were left to avoid official scrutiny.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:37 AM (noWW6)

331 the absolutely massive tax evasion being conducted by Google corporate and by every one of the Google C-suite executives.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:37 AM (noWW6)

which is...?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 22, 2015 12:38 AM (sJuWI)

332
I wonder how the brie, Bordeaux and pate de fois gras in the French military field rations stand up to hot weather storage?

Posted by: torquewrench at September 22, 2015 12:32 AM (noWW6)


Algeria and Viet Nam were considered hardship posts and left to the FFL?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 22, 2015 12:39 AM (3pRHP)

333 277 That might work in a big city, or a place with a big entertainment district, but in a small town, it would kill the bar's business. Non-smoking bar patrons (and I am one) are definitely in the minority. Just the way it is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:07 AM (7MWCL)


New Orleans passed a no smoking law for the entire city, including their one and only casino, Harrahs. The law went into effect July 1; for the month of July, business was down 26% over last year. August was projected to be down another 15%. Atlantic City tried this too, they reversed course in just a few months as their casino gravy train was coming to a sudden and abrupt stop. That was a few years ago though.

History. How does that shit work, anyways?

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 12:40 AM (gyKtp)

334 Night Farmer. Have a great one tomorrow.



*now to fall asleep listening to 'Animal Farm'

Seriously, did that last night and had a great night sleep.

Perhaps I didn't have insomnia but it was me listening to WWZ Unabridged where the little spot commercials were 5 levels higher in volume. Go figure.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:41 AM (9jeGC)

335 Well, time for me to hit the sack. 0700 comes pretty early in the morning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2015 12:41 AM (7MWCL)

336 Night Alberta

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2015 12:43 AM (9mTYi)

337 233
Why do DC and Blanco get all the fun?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at September 22, 2015 12:44 AM (rJUlF)

338 Why do DC and Blanco get all the fun?

'Cause we're pervs that dig pretty women.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 22, 2015 12:45 AM (YJmuy)

339 If you like Lenka, try Bitter:Sweet.


Posted by: Kindltot at September 22, 2015 12:45 AM (3pRHP)

340 Jake in MDT is here to represent, until I get really tired.


...

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:46 AM (fA0lE)

341 338 Why do DC and Blanco get all the fun?

'Cause we're pervs that dig pretty women.

Well, that's my problem, then. I'm only one of those.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at September 22, 2015 12:46 AM (rJUlF)

342 'Cause we're pervs that dig pretty women.

Well, that's my problem, then. I'm only one of those.


DC and Blanco like Julia Roberts?????!!!??

Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at September 22, 2015 12:48 AM (qOsoH)

343 8 pics? or it didn't happen, we gots rules y'know
Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:36 AM (fA0lE)

Sports. Bra. The boulders are well &truly holstered. I am not posting pics of a sweat drenched tshirt.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 12:48 AM (6TXFe)

344 That article from "The Weekly Standard" is very good. I guess there's very little reporting on the fact that the there are a lot of rapes among the refugees in Germany. "Female companionship" (as in they're looking for female companionship) must be a euphemism.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of these countries go to war. Being told that you must take a certain number or that you're not moral if don't-knowing full well that it will destroy your cultural identity- can't lead to positive feelings among nations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 12:48 AM (1+XCd)

345 DC and Blanco like Julia Roberts?????!!!??

Eh, could do worse.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 22, 2015 12:49 AM (YJmuy)

346 It's right there on the home page, unless it's a different thread about MKH.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at September 22, 2015 12:34 AM (sJuWI)


I see it. Thanks.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at September 22, 2015 12:49 AM (dPpmC)

347 >>>Well, that's my problem, then. I'm only one of those.

The boobehs are there. All you need to do is reach out give em a little honk honk.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:49 AM (XVBCD)

348 I thought the title to that movie was Ironic?

Hmm... never saw it tho, just took it from the poster.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 12:50 AM (3+E+K)

349 It's a short visit tonight, folks. I'm getting up early Tuesday morning so I can fit in all the exercise my doc keeps bugging me to do.

Ya'll be good to each other.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at September 22, 2015 12:50 AM (rJUlF)

350
Sports. Bra. The boulders are well &truly holstered. I am not posting pics of a sweat drenched tshirt.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 12:48 AM (6TXFe)

*wakes up

Wait, whut?

Oh yeah, morons are against such pics.

*pretends to be asleep with one eye open

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:51 AM (9jeGC)

351 317
Lenka is featured in the mid 2000's Disney vids.
If you have a 10yo you know " As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox".....
Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:31 AM (fA0lE)


I don't have any kids so I completely missed that.

But yeah, that was the video that I first saw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE9tV1WGTgE

She's gorgeous and I really like her music. She sort of reminds me of Kate Bush, only lighter and more playful. And from what I've seen, she's not the least bit slutty, which is a breath of fresh air in this day and age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsh3J5lJ6g

Posted by: rickl at September 22, 2015 12:52 AM (sdi6R)

352 'Night again.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 22, 2015 12:53 AM (9jeGC)

353 Heat was a great film, one of the best action films of all time. Michael Mann is really hit and miss. For every Heat he makes a Legend, but when he's good he's really, really good:
Gladiator
Manhunter
Thief
Heat

Its hard to believe the guy that created the Miami Vice TV show could do such an awful job with the Miami Vice movie. But while Public Enemies was meh, the TV show Crime Story was excellent.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 22, 2015 12:54 AM (39g3+)

354 343 8 pics? or it didn't happen, we gots rules y'know
Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:36 AM (fA0lE)

Sports. Bra. The boulders are well &truly holstered. I am not posting pics of a sweat drenched tshirt.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 12:48 AM (6TXFe)




Would it help if they said "pretty please"? -- asking for another Moron......

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 12:54 AM (EzgxV)

355 >>>Sports. Bra. The boulders are well &truly holstered. I am not posting pics of a sweat drenched tshirt.

Oh sure. I would just hate a pic of sweaty boobs in a sports bra. That would just be awful in some universe that isn't this one.

Posted by: DC in River City at September 22, 2015 12:55 AM (XVBCD)

356 The west is not responsible for Syria, but we're responsible for not stopping their invasion into the lives of gullible westerners. And our civilized culture is responsible for engines that need oil, and for developing their fields.

Hillary and Obama ARE responsible for kicking our Mubarak and Qaddafi, and for the hasty retreat from Iraq. Many/most of those alleged Syrian refugees are from other places. The west should take none ... build them camps in the world their people are destroying ... rather than give them aid in taking over our developed countries.

Or give them nothing and let the wonderful UN force those countries to take care of their own. Surely the UN could do that? ha

Posted by: Illiniwek at September 22, 2015 12:55 AM (I6695)

357 A 16 year old in Israel developed an ID card with a microchip in it so the IDF can find you

Like if you are kidnapped for some strange reason

Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 12:57 AM (zOTsN)

358 Never mind I'm confusing Ridley Scott and Michael Mann: same kind of uneven career: Legend and Gladiator, Blade Runner and Black Hawk Down, but Prometheus, Thelma & Louise, and Robin Hood.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 22, 2015 12:57 AM (39g3+)

359 305 WD, did you get my e-mail re Oldsmobubbles

I did, thanks. It told me just what I wanted to know.

Posted by: Weirddave at September 22, 2015 12:57 AM (7TK5d)

360 Lenka had a baby a few years ago, I don't know if she has recorded any music since then

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 12:59 AM (fA0lE)

361 A 16 year old in Israel developed an ID card with a microchip in it so the IDF can find you

Well they can find your card, at least.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 22, 2015 01:00 AM (39g3+)

362 Oh, and Heat is one of my favorite movies. Even The Puffy Scamper does a decent job in that flick.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:02 AM (gyKtp)

363 Would it help if they said "pretty please"? -- asking for another Moron......
Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 12:54 AM (EzgxV)

Sweat-drenched sacks of flesh and fat coupled to a mammary gland.

Sounds so sexxxy now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (wZ2hu)

364 Heya cooth and bebe

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (aYrkW)

365 I always think To Live And Die in LA was done by Mann, but that was a Friedkin project. Has a strong Mann feel to it though. Great flick.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (39g3+)

366 The Packers won yesterday, so sorry Seahawks fans.

Next week, KC

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:06 AM (fA0lE)

367 Someone related a story here one day that a military drill instructor uses the shootout scene in Heat to demonstrate that a civilian (Val Kilmer) can change out a magazine and resume firing in under 3 seconds.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:08 AM (gyKtp)

368 364 Heya cooth and bebe

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (aYrkW)




Howdy, howdy!!! Been havin' fun???

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:08 AM (EzgxV)

369 363 Would it help if they said "pretty please"? -- asking for another Moron......
Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 12:54 AM (EzgxV)

Sweat-drenched sacks of flesh and fat coupled to a mammary gland.

Sounds so sexxxy now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (wZ2hu)




Well, by comparison, I got shoggoths....so, yeah.....

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:09 AM (EzgxV)

370 All we are is dust in the wind brains in a vat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2015 01:10 AM (JO9+V)

371 363 Sweat-drenched sacks of flesh and fat coupled to a mammary gland.

Sounds so sexxxy now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (wZ2hu)

Kratos, is that you?

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:10 AM (gyKtp)

372 At Gateway Pumdit there is a video

Young muscled Muslim man is at the fountain in a town square in Scotland. Screaming, literally screaming, verses from the Koran into a mega phone, intimidating passers by.

In the distance, off camera you hear something else. Bagpipes. Someone is playing bagpipes. It's a thin teenage boy, and he slowly marches to the square playing as though he is in a parade. He is playing The Flower of Scotland, the national anthem.

As he approaches a crowd gathers and they begin to cheer. The young piper slowly marches around the fountain and the Islamic radical, playing. Which he does until the police arrive and cart the radical away.

Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 01:11 AM (zOTsN)

373 cooth,

It should be illegal to have such fun.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 22, 2015 01:11 AM (aYrkW)

374 Brave German Christian woman confront's Islam's lies. Short video (about 10 minutes) but very powerful.

God bless and protect her:

http://tinyurl.com/ngzh3q2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:12 AM (1+XCd)

375 Another damn fine flick along the lines of Heat is LA Confidential.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:14 AM (gyKtp)

376 Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 01:11 AM (zOTsN)

That sounds great; I'll have to look for it. I love bagpipe music too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:14 AM (1+XCd)

377 371 363 Sweat-drenched sacks of flesh and fat coupled to a mammary gland.

Sounds so sexxxy now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:03 AM (wZ2hu)

Kratos, is that you?


Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:10 AM (gyKtp)



You didn't know that?

Posted by: buzzion at September 22, 2015 01:14 AM (zt+N6)

378 Posted by: ThunderB at September 22, 2015 01:11 AM

ThunderB, when that was first reported in the UK Daily Mail, the moslem was labeled an 'anti-gay activist'


serious

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:15 AM (fA0lE)

379 Late night talk show host, Charley Jones just posted this from a Gallup poll:

"CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."
When this question was first asked in 2003,
LESS THAN 1/3 of Americans held this attitude."

Gee, wonder what would have changed that so dramatically??

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 01:16 AM (3+E+K)

380 Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:10 AM (gyKtp)

Who is that?

I have had many names throughout the millennia, young prodigal. (Kudos if you get that reference).

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:16 AM (wZ2hu)

381 God bless and protect her:

http://tinyurl.com/ngzh3q2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:12 AM (1+XCd)


She'll fetch a high price at the slve markets...

Posted by: The Islamic State at September 22, 2015 01:16 AM (vBeA5)

382
Illiniwek, each case has its own dynamic, butno, unlikely either regime survived regardless of US policy.

Mubarrak was finished, even the Army had had enough of his delusions of family dynasty. The brief flirtation with Brotherhood nonsense may/may not have occurred without US pressure, but the ultimate outcome (return to Army dominance) was a near certainty anyway.

Libya, no again. Brother Colonel was finished. He leaves the way he did, or 6 mos. later, no difference.Tribal/geographic dynamics were no more permanently changed than the Alawites accomplished in Syria, both regimes rode different tigers and their fate is no surprise.

US policy in each case was indefensibly stupid and of course has led to much reduced US influence and options, but that's not the same thing as causing the demise of tired and doomed autocracies. Iraq was of course a complete and indefensible about-face, nothing the least bit inevitable about everything there.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 01:17 AM (QDnY+)

383 SMFH!!!!!! So have you bruised parts of Chi that one would never expect to bruise

Posted by: bebe's boobs dedyroy at September 22, 2015 01:18 AM (Vm8WO)

384 so I've decided on a new nic.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, the artist formally known at mynewhandle at September 22, 2015 01:18 AM (AkOaV)

385 She'll fetch a high price at the slve markets...

Well she might, although she's a middle aged woman but she doesn't seem intimidated and she quite clear about where she goes if she dies and she clearly doesn't think the soldiers of Allah will be going with her.

Germany and Scotland and every single country in Europe needs thousands and thousands of these folks before they turn into Sweden-rape capital of Europe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:21 AM (1+XCd)

386 Ok, bed time for boobehs. Already nodded off once. SMFH: don't do anything I wouldn't do! BWwwaaaahhhhh

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 22, 2015 01:23 AM (Vm8WO)

387 374
Brave German Christian woman confront's Islam's lies. Short video (about 10 minutes) but very powerful.



God bless and protect her:



http://tinyurl.com/ngzh3q2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:12 AM (1+XCd)

Thanks for sharing, definitely worth the watch.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 01:23 AM (J+mig)

388 Germany and Scotland and every single country in
Europe needs thousands and thousands of these folks before they turn
into Sweden-rape capital of Europe.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:21 AM (1+XCd)

A lot of people don't rise up until their backs are against the wall, but we're getting to that point. This thing that's been done to us by our "leaders", who think they can control the chaos they've wrought is slipping out of their grip.
Let's hope there's enough good people left in the world to put a stop to this evil before it's too late.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 01:27 AM (J+mig)

389 almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses "an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."

The number will be even higher when and if Obama leaves office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:27 AM (1+XCd)

390 Heh bebe!

Been on my best behavior, actually.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 22, 2015 01:28 AM (aYrkW)

391 373 cooth,

It should be illegal to have such fun.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 22, 2015 01:11 AM (aYrkW)




No, it should be illegal to try and thwart such fun. I'm glad things worked out for you guys, and hope you continue to make the best of your opportunity.




I just hope you've allotted enough time for miniature golf.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:29 AM (EzgxV)

392 Let's hope there's enough good people left in the world to put a stop to this evil before it's too late.

You've heard of hope and change? I hope and pray. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:29 AM (1+XCd)

393 Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:16 AM (wZ2hu)

No, I don't get the reference. Anyhow, I did recognize that patented Kratos disdain for the American males' infatuation with the boobies.

Glad to know you're still around.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 22, 2015 01:31 AM (gyKtp)

394 Since this is a Smart Military blog....

The Europeans can't absorb this latest influx of moslems

In the near term it is collapse or war


I can't war game any other solution

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:32 AM (fA0lE)

395 thx rhomboid ... yeah, Mubarak was probably going to go, but Obama pushing the Muslim Brotherhood hurt our standing there. Hard to know the details of Libya, but obviously any transition was not handled well. Qadaffi's armories were not protected so we have all those shoulder fired rockets out there loose, as I hear it.

The ISIS development seems responsible for much of the massive exodus of "refugees" and migrants. That seems to no small degree to Obama's pentagon gang rewriting intel to show "al Qaeda is on the run" and that ISIS is the JV team.

In that sense, I still think Hillary/Obama deserve a lot of the credit for the European invasion. Not for the general unrest of the region, but for not containing it, and maintaining some stronger alliances. Of course ending our hegemony in the region (and the world) was an Obama goal from day one, it seems.

Posted by: Illiniwek at September 22, 2015 01:32 AM (I6695)

396 Nil Butron is a pud.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 22, 2015 01:33 AM (GdFQh)

397 Ted Cruz just went up a notch in my book saying basically that Obama is an apologist for radical islam:

http://tinyurl.com/nuvt6ku

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:33 AM (1+XCd)

398 "In the near term it is collapse or war "

Yeah, we've gone from "if Obama wanted to destroy the US what would he do differently?" to "if Obama wanted to destroy the world what would he do differently?"

Posted by: Lauren at September 22, 2015 01:34 AM (GZ6Pf)

399 Since this is a Smart Military blog....

The Europeans can't absorb this latest influx of moslems

In the near term it is collapse or war


I can't war game any other solution
Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:32 AM (fA0lE)


Ultimately, Europe has two choices: Learn to speak Arabic, or learn to Speak Russian.

Posted by: The Hammer Hat at September 22, 2015 01:35 AM (vBeA5)

400 Is "bebe's boobs destroy" on a forced march because she's in the military or because she has a particularly hard personal trainer?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:35 AM (1+XCd)

401 " (Kudos if you get that reference)."

Starcraft. I think. One of the story lines?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:36 AM (dOD0J)

402 Starcraft. I think. One of the story lines?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:36 AM (dOD0J)

Yep, it was said by Samir Durin in the secret mission during the Zerg campaign in SC: Brood War.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:38 AM (wZ2hu)

403 *Samir Duran*

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:38 AM (wZ2hu)

404 Ultimately, Europe has two choices: Learn to speak Arabic, or learn to Speak Russian.

What would Putin do about radical Islam in Europe?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:38 AM (1+XCd)

405 374 FenelonSpoke

That was a very powerful video of a brave German woman. This should be shown to a wider audience further. I will do my part in my local circle.

Thank you for that link.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2015 01:38 AM (u82oZ)

406 399 Since this is a Smart Military blog....

The Europeans can't absorb this latest influx of moslems

In the near term it is collapse or war


I can't war game any other solution
Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:32 AM (fA0lE)

Ultimately, Europe has two choices: Learn to speak Arabic, or learn to Speak Russian.

Posted by: The Hammer Hat at September 22, 2015 01:35 AM (vBeA5)



Three choices -- learn to speak Arabic, learn to speak Russian, or tap into what has been suppressed for generations and become genocidal zealots.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

407 Been a long time since I have played that game. Where did "Ghost of Sparta" come from?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:40 AM (dOD0J)

408 You're welcome, NaCly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:42 AM (1+XCd)

409 406 Well you can be damn sure the US under Obama and Hillary/Jeb/Bernie will not ride to Europe's rescue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2015 01:42 AM (u82oZ)

410 407 Been a long time since I have played that game. Where did "Ghost of Sparta" come from?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:40 AM (dOD0J)

Ghost of Sparta was the game showing the events between GoW1 and 2. Story was okay, much better than *sigh* Ascension.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:42 AM (wZ2hu)

411 Three choices -- learn to speak Arabic, learn to speak Russian, or tap into what has been suppressed for generations and become genocidal zealots.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

Since this is Europe, somebody's ending up in a cattle car.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:43 AM (wZ2hu)

412 404 Ultimately, Europe has two choices: Learn to speak Arabic, or learn to Speak Russian.

What would Putin do about radical Islam in Europe?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:38 AM (1+XCd)




What did Ivan the Terrible do about the Byzantines on his flank? What did Peter the Great do about the forces of the European Enlightenment?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:43 AM (EzgxV)

413 I just hope you've allotted enough time for miniature golf.

Miniature golf is fun, isn't it? ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:43 AM (1+XCd)

414 #407

One of the PSP entries in the franchise. Can also be had on PS3.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 01:45 AM (IdCqF)

415 411 Three choices -- learn to speak Arabic, learn to speak Russian, or tap into what has been suppressed for generations and become genocidal zealots.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

Since this is Europe, somebody's ending up in a cattle car.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:43 AM (wZ2hu)




It's not just the cattle car, which is unpleasant.....it's the fertilizer factory at the destination that is downright insulting.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:45 AM (EzgxV)

416 I think there is kinda of a reason Europe is carved into a lot of smaller countries compared to other continents.


It is a cultural thing, I guess we'll find out if the peasants revert back to form, cuz the elites can't control EVERYBODY, if everybody disobeys.......

If islam conquers europe who will the USA trade with?

I mean islam without oil=poverty...., see Bangladesh

Posted by: Jake at September 22, 2015 01:46 AM (fA0lE)

417 En taro Tassadar, Thrawn

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (bLnSU)

418 413 I just hope you've allotted enough time for miniature golf.

Miniature golf is fun, isn't it? ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:43 AM (1+XCd)




It's very conducive to the sort of bonding one does just by hanging-out together.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (EzgxV)

419 I'll take your word for it since I have no clue what GoW is. Another Starcraft Extension?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (dOD0J)

420 412. I see no leader in power or close to power in Europe today that can bring it like Ivan IV (the Terrible) or any of the '30s villain leaders.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2015 01:48 AM (u82oZ)

421 Since this is Europe, somebody's ending up in a cattle car.

My bet is that this time it's the politically correct, weak
secularists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:48 AM (1+XCd)

422 417 En taro Tassadar, Thrawn

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (bLnSU)



I'm starting to pull things together from the Great Escape. How have you been doing?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:49 AM (EzgxV)

423 421 Since this is Europe, somebody's ending up in a cattle car.

My bet is that this time it's the politically correct, weak
secularists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:48 AM (1+XCd)



That'd be my guess -- whichever way it goes.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:51 AM (EzgxV)

424 Three choices -- learn to speak Arabic, learn to
speak Russian, or tap into what has been suppressed for generations and
become genocidal zealots.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

Choice Four: Re-learn that nationalism is not a sin and save their goddamned countries. I hope that's the one they go with, but I have my doubts.
The biggest lie that the Left ever convinced everyone of was that nationalism was the sinful and broken part of Nazism, conveniently forgetting the role of the Socialism... while the regime got exactly the same effects as Stalinist, Maoist, Bolivarian, Khmer, Cuban, Vietnamese, and every other brand of socialism ever invented.
I say that the Socialism is what was broken, and was broken all along and that nationalism in reasonable doses is a very healthy thing. Just look at how the globalists have wrecked our society, and I think it becomes even more self-evident.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 01:52 AM (J+mig)

425 I'm starting to pull things together from the Great Escape. How have you been doing?

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:49 AM (EzgxV)


Entirely ****, but getting somewhat better since I started ignoring my doctors again. I had a "can barely move" crisis a month ago, but it was a while coming. And drs were ignoring me, so I self-medicated, they panicked, and lo and behold my abuse of medicine worked better than their use of it. And they admitted it.

They just have no idea what to do with me.

(if I fall asleep, I'm not ignoring anyone, I'm asleep)

I hope your recent travails went well. Err, travels.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 22, 2015 01:53 AM (bLnSU)

426 419 I'll take your word for it since I have no clue what GoW is. Another Starcraft Extension?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (dOD0J)

GoW - God of War, where the Kratos character came from. No connection to Starcraft.

417 En taro Tassadar, Thrawn
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 22, 2015 01:47 AM (bLnSU)

Speaking of Starcraft, how convoluted will the explanation be in SC2: Legacy of the Void for Tassadar being "alive"?



Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:53 AM (wZ2hu)

427
Illiniwek, to some degree I'm picking nits, and we both understand how disastrous US policy has been in the region under our current management.

I'm wondering about the actual causes (well, timing more than anything) of the current migration wave (again, mostly not refugees). Not obvious, and I have not seen any good explanations. As the commentary Maet cites above notes, this is a migration from a broad area. The actual refugee flows due to Syria mostly occurred several years ago, and stopped in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey (mostly).

Unlike others, I have no confidence that this will be the straw breaking any camel backs in Europe. Sure, many of the more sane smaller countries (central Europe, Denmark) are furious - but they're trapped. Russia to their east, a dysfunctional EU/Pax Germanica to their west. America - far away in any case, but essentially gone/poof/disappeared as a force for good.


Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 01:54 AM (QDnY+)

428 And on a completely unrelated note that nobody cares about but me-

My son who hates school in now in Latin (after being excused from another class) -and he loves the quirky, funny teacher and the history that goes along with the language. Since mostly my son hates everything in public school this is a good thing. The teacher has a small lending library. He says "I've never had a student borrow The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire before. Son had read it before; He was just borrowing the shortened version.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:56 AM (1+XCd)

429 Anyone else think Walkers admonishment for "others" to get out of the race so "someone" can beat Trump means...

Others = Cruz/ Carson

Someone = Jeb!

??

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 01:58 AM (3+E+K)

430 Because I keep telling him that I think most people either hated or just tolerated high school. It's only if you're able to find some little niche such as doing sports or music or drama or finding one of two classes you like and some friends that are o.k. that you don't feel like pulling out your hair. My son doesn't have friends so if he finds a teacher he likes that's a good thing. Small class too-only 12 kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:00 AM (1+XCd)

431 Speaking of Starcraft, how convoluted will the explanation be in SC2: Legacy of the Void for Tassadar being "alive"?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 22, 2015 01:53 AM (wZ2hu)


When last we saw him, wasn't he a Ghostly Ghosty Ghost, Spirit of the Light and the Void, who has Never Tasted Death?

So, continued ghostitude seems fairly certain.

Maybe he will merge with the Grand Poobah of Dark Templars to form the World's Biggest Ball of Archon.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 22, 2015 02:01 AM (bLnSU)

432 Nobody walks in Los Angles.

Well, I have walked in LA. and after dark too.
I am that nobody.

Drivers thought I was a carjacker.

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 02:01 AM (BJ2lY)

433
Hope I'm wrong - hmm, this may sound weird - but I don't see any dramatic or kinetic goings-on in Europe due to this mass migration (or the breath-taking display of top-down near-autocratic rule by the EU and Germany in trying to force its acceptance).

We've seen the re-appearance of borders and the quick reform of refugee benefits and asylum policies in a few smaller places. But overall? I don't think Europeans have it in them to do much about it (that's a broad brush, obviously, but net-net I think Brussels and Berlin get their way here).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 02:02 AM (QDnY+)

434 Europe finds borders but according to the U.S.Government we don't have any.

Posted by: skip at September 22, 2015 02:02 AM (7L6zt)

435 "Someone = Jeb!"

I'm kind of thinking that something was offered to Walker for his next try.

I'm a bit jaded though.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Evil SoCon at September 22, 2015 02:02 AM (dOD0J)

436 424 Three choices -- learn to speak Arabic, learn to
speak Russian, or tap into what has been suppressed for generations and
become genocidal zealots.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

Choice Four: Re-learn that nationalism is not a sin and save their goddamned countries. I hope that's the one they go with, but I have my doubts.
The biggest lie that the Left ever convinced everyone of was that nationalism was the sinful and broken part of Nazism, conveniently forgetting the role of the Socialism... while the regime got exactly the same effects as Stalinist, Maoist, Bolivarian, Khmer, Cuban, Vietnamese, and every other brand of socialism ever invented.
I say that the Socialism is what was broken, and was broken all along and that nationalism in reasonable doses is a very healthy thing. Just look at how the globalists have wrecked our society, and I think it becomes even more self-evident.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 01:52 AM (J+mig)




Sorry, Cato, but embracing any sort of nationalism is a fast track to genocide.....because so much has been given away for so long to those who had so little to do with its creation -- it's going to be clawed-back, with interest.




It's not the sort of genocide where, for example, all French Muslims will suffer. There will be many highly successful French Muslims that will do fine, and many assimilated French Muslims will get by -- but the banlieues will burn, and not from within.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:04 AM (EzgxV)

437 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:00 AM (1+XCd)


I think you're right about that. I absolutely hated high school, and I only did my work to the best of my ability to make sure I wouldn't have to do it again. It felt like a gulag, full of people I'd never want to be around, who were all either in the same boat or part of the system, and the propagantastic teachers didn't help. Not having many/any friends can be a blessing and a curse. It's better to be alone than it is to have horrible people dragging you down, but that's a cold comfort. Loneliness and alienation always eats at you.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:06 AM (J+mig)

438
Yeah Jarvis, that Walker statement is a real doozy. Not only does one of the few solid names in the race never get out of the starting blocks, but as he stumbles he calls (in effect) for the others to make sure that the party stop anyone outside the mushy middle. Pathetic, really.

Kind of fascinating, of all people Kasich has (maybe even twice?) publicly said that Trump is a result of GOP failures, and that people ought to consider why he is riding high. This remains the only acknowledgement I'm aware of that there is good cause for intense dissatisfaction among GOP voters.

Walker's farewell statement sort of confirms that he, like most (all??) of the GOP hopefuls, are simply not adequate for this moment in US history.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2015 02:08 AM (QDnY+)

439 I'm kind of thinking that something was offered to Walker for his next try.

I'm a bit jaded though.


That's my thinking too, hard to believe that Walker wouldn't ride out the tough patches after doing fairly well in the polls if the money men hadn't told him they were pulling their $ and made some promises for another time.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 22, 2015 02:09 AM (VviqM)

440 Good for him FS! Tell him "It WILL end someday!"

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 02:09 AM (3+E+K)

441 428 And on a completely unrelated note that nobody cares about but me-

My son who hates school in now in Latin (after being excused from another class) -and he loves the quirky, funny teacher and the history that goes along with the language. Since mostly my son hates everything in public school this is a good thing. The teacher has a small lending library. He says "I've never had a student borrow The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire before. Son had read it before; He was just borrowing the shortened version.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 01:56 AM (1+XCd)




If I might make a suggestion.....The Golden Bough, in the longest edition you can find. [The usual volume is highly abridged. There is a commonly available 2-volume set that is much abridged. There is a rare 13-volume set that is generally regarded as complete, but there are rumors of a larger edition that is as rare as the Necronomicon......]

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:11 AM (EzgxV)

442 Yeah, he did great at the start, but then when asked substance questions said something like "Im not answering those now" and instantly turned off the heat he had going. Then Trump took over from there.

Posted by: JarvisW at September 22, 2015 02:12 AM (3+E+K)

443 That's my thinking too, hard to believe that Walker
wouldn't ride out the tough patches after doing fairly well in the polls
if the money men hadn't told him they were pulling their $ and made
some promises for another time.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 22, 2015 02:09 AM (VviqM)

The money men probably want to go all-in on a singular squish and are cutting the funding to everyone else. They're in pants-shitting mode over Trump. All of the right people hate him.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:12 AM (J+mig)

444 And it doesn't help that my son in a conservative in a very liberal environment. I'm sure there are conservatives there (There are kids who drive around with big flags on their trucks) but since he doesn't talk to anyone, he won't find them. And he writes things down like, "The English teacher said today, 'We're starting to get a new definition of rape' What do you think she meant by that?" and shoes it with me Poor kid. In a system where you question things and nobody to take your side in school.

And Cato-I hope you have various places where you're not lonely and isolated-here for instance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:14 AM (1+XCd)

445 Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:11 AM (EzgxV)

Thanks; I think he's read the two volume set but I will look for the other. He had so many books from "Interlibrary loan" loan last year that he exceeded the limit and he got cut off-like a bibliophilic version of the drank that isn't served anymore alcohol at the bar

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:17 AM (1+XCd)

446 #441

I'll chime in and mention that I'm working on an ebook edition of C.Northcote Parkinson's 'The Evolution of Political Thought.' First published in 1960 and regarded as something in need of revival by Jerry Pournelle. He should be producing a new introduction when I've got most of it done.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 02:17 AM (IdCqF)

447 shoes it with me

meant "Shares it with me." uggh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:18 AM (1+XCd)

448 Okay what they did was wrong but I love them for trying.

Actually, it seems that VW broke no part of any law. They followed it to the letter.

I agree with you on the love. The emissions tests are some of the biggest piles of bullshit around. I'd rather have the government just beat me up and physically steal my money than hand me some ridiculous bullshit about "emissions". And tickets for not having these ridiculous "emissions" tests are pretty ungodly in my neck of the woods - a $30 fine .... but finishing up at $125 when all the other thieving for fees and this and that are all added to it. And all for a pile of shit "test" that is nothing but highway robbery, to begin with.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 22, 2015 02:19 AM (zc3Db)

449 Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 02:17 AM (IdCqF)

Congratulations; It sounds like an interesting book.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:20 AM (1+XCd)

450 And Cato-I hope you have various places where you're not lonely and isolated-here for instance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:14 AM (1+XCd)

These days, I have a small number of very good friends that I'd trust with my life, and I have the Horde. When I was in school, it was a different story. I changed schools a lot (3 primary schools, 3 different high schools), so I was pretty much always the outsider.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:21 AM (J+mig)

451 The money men probably want to go all-in on a singular squish and are cutting the funding to everyone else.

This election really is kind of amazing in that both parties don't like the candidates that are being put out there by the usual suspects, Dems don't like Hillz and want the Bern, Repubs don't like any of theirs (for the most part anyway) and want Trump. Seems that 8 years of Obama made the left and right agree they were sick of the establishment Washington insiders.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 22, 2015 02:21 AM (VviqM)

452 Wow; That's a lot of moving around, which I think is always hard for kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:24 AM (1+XCd)

453 Seems that 8 years of Obama made the left and right agree they were sick of the establishment Washington insiders.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 22, 2015 02:21 AM (VviqM)

To the point where anything that makes the Beltway types cringe is seen as a plus, no matter how outlandish it is.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:24 AM (J+mig)

454 Good night, everyone. Thx for the conversation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:25 AM (1+XCd)

455 Good night, Fenelon. Pleasant dreams, and God bless.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:26 AM (J+mig)

456 Night all. Work starts early.

Thanks for the interesting medley of information and points of views, as always.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2015 02:27 AM (u82oZ)

457 445 Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:11 AM (EzgxV)

Thanks; I think he's read the two volume set but I will look for the other. He had so many books from "Interlibrary loan" loan last year that he exceeded the limit and he got cut off-like a bibliophilic version of the drank that isn't served anymore alcohol at the bar

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:17 AM (1+XCd)




BTW -- I'm not kidding about the extended versions -- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143311.The_Golden_Bough [for a 15-volume, 5614 page version]




Just to keep him happily amused, he should note track #4 on The Doors' album "Waiting For The Sun" -- "Not to touch the earth; not to see the sun" are two chapter titles for menstruation purification rituals in TGB.


Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:30 AM (EzgxV)

458 450 And Cato-I hope you have various places where you're not lonely and isolated-here for instance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2015 02:14 AM (1+XCd)

These days, I have a small number of very good friends that I'd trust with my life, and I have the Horde. When I was in school, it was a different story. I changed schools a lot (3 primary schools, 3 different high schools), so I was pretty much always the outsider.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:21 AM (J+mig)




I feel for you -- I didn't have two years at a school until grades 5/6.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:32 AM (EzgxV)

459 Remember those Rainbow doritos?

Lefty H8 trolls gotta troll:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nb9e6qg

Posted by: The Cool Ranch Free Hat at September 22, 2015 02:43 AM (vBeA5)

460 At one point, I'd counted out all the places I'd lived by the time I was 30 and come up with 30, so I haven't done much with that since. I've been in this house for about 17 years.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:44 AM (EzgxV)

461 460
At one point, I'd counted out all the places I'd lived by the time I was
30 and come up with 30, so I haven't done much with that since. I've
been in this house for about 17 years.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 22, 2015 02:44 AM (EzgxV)

Wow, that's a lot of moving.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 02:56 AM (J+mig)

462 The mention of 'The Golden Bough' reminded me of the project, as it is referenced frequently in the chapters I've proofed thus far.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 02:58 AM (IdCqF)

463 I've been thinking about the refugees trying to walk to Germany and I think that I have a solution.


When there has been something that people around the world really wanted a lot of, like McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Disneyland did we force people to come to the United States to get it? No. Of course not. We franchised it out and allowed foreigners to participate in the creamy goodness by guiding them in the construction of thousands of restaurants as well as Euro Disney and a Disneyland somewhere in Asia.


Germany is obviously a product that is ripe for franchising. As in the case of franchises like Kentucky Fried Chicken, the hard work of building and operating the local franchises will be done by the locals but they have to do this building in accordance with the franchise agreement and subject to the corporation taking away their franchise if they add too much local ambiance or do not keep up with the cleanliness standards.


Many corporations will help new franchisees get established and Germany should be no exception. I suggest that the tens of thousands of military age men trying to get into Germany should be offered to opportunity to enlist in the Bundeswehr Franchise Army which will be modeled somewhat along the lines of the French Foreign Legion including the bit about all the officers being native born Germans. Initially I would have all the NCOs be Germans as well.


One variation from modern day Germany where almost everybody is an atheist (Look at their ID card. It says right there.) is that I would require all aspiring Germans to be baptized as Lutherans or Catholics and require them to attend church services while they are in the military. This is to make them apostates in the Muslim world and make them less willing to surrender, run away or desert. I would also require that they all get at least one prominent Christian religious tattoo. An image of the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe covering their entire back like some Mexicans have would not be required but a tasteful Sacred Heart of Jesus tattoo or a staid Lutheran cross would be acceptable. At least one Christian tattoo should be visible when wearing a short sleeved shirt.


In any event, there ought to be plenty of areas in Syria where the Franchise Germany idea would be very popular and once it catches on, I can see enormous growth potential.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 03:00 AM (QHgTq)

464 "Chinese Fire Drill Results in 190 Injured"

I can't figure out how they got all those people in a car...

Posted by: mojo at September 22, 2015 03:02 AM (OmBeX)

465 In any event, there ought to be plenty of areas in Syria where the Franchise Germany idea would be very popular and once it catches on, I can see enormous growth potential.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 03:00 AM (QHgTq)


Word.

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 22, 2015 03:03 AM (vBeA5)

466 FFS, #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag is trending on Twitter...

Posted by: @ThePoliticalHat at September 22, 2015 03:04 AM (vBeA5)

467 466 FFS, #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag is trending on Twitter... Posted by: @ThePoliticalHat at September 22, 2015 03:04 AM (vBeA5)

Most of the time I'm in agreement with John C. Wright's observation that Leftism is the sin of pride masquerading as compassion.
Then I see something like that, and remember that sometimes, it's just the sin of pride being its usual asshole self.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 03:08 AM (J+mig)

468 Well, the Arabs did buy into a previous German franchise offering. Pretty how the Baath party got its start.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 03:09 AM (IdCqF)

469 As fucked as the world is, I'm starting to wonder if a little imperialism might not be a good thing...

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 03:16 AM (J+mig)

470 "468
Well, the Arabs did buy into a previous German franchise offering. Pretty how the Baath party got its start.


Posted by: Epobirs at September 22, 2015 03:09 AM (IdCqF)"

Good point. IIRC Assad and the remaining Syrian government are remnants of the Baathis movement. And Baathism was popular across the Middle East and persisted for decades after the originators in Germany were long gone. Just think how well it might have done if there had been continual guidance from a German home office with the power to take away the franchise for getting too wacky.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 03:17 AM (QHgTq)

471
So... Is there a GoFundMe account set up for picric's coach friend?

Posted by: Somebody Had To Ask at September 22, 2015 03:17 AM (4DCSq)

472 "469
As fucked as the world is, I'm starting to wonder if a little imperialism might not be a good thing...


Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 03:16 AM (J+mig)"

The problem with imperialism is that it requires a whole lot of long term effort and dedication on the part of the Imperialist country. That is something that Americans have never been very good at. Franchising, on the other hand, allows people to use a proven model and to get assistance from a large corporate entity for those issues that are difficult for a small organization to handle.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 03:23 AM (QHgTq)

473 Project Gutenberg seems to have the 12 volume set of The Golden Bough. The additional volumes are, IIRC, supplemental works added after Frazer's death.

This is Volume III Part II of XII that starts with Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41832/41832-h/41832-h.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:26 AM (LLwAy)

474 Interesting ways of choosing a leader. But it sounds tempting. From the Golden Bough.

"To take examples. In a previous part of this work we saw that in Cambodia it is often necessary to force the kingships of Fire and Water upon the reluctant successors, and that in Savage Island the monarchy actually came to an end because at last no one could be induced to accept the dangerous distinction. In some parts of West Africa, when the king dies, a family council is secretly held to determine his successor. He on whom the choice falls is suddenly seized, bound, and thrown into the fetish-house, where he is kept in durance till he consents to accept the crown. "

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:34 AM (LLwAy)

475 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:26 AM (LLwAy)

Donated to the ISIS sequal and snatched up a dead tree edition of the original.

Posted by: The Readin' Hat at September 22, 2015 03:36 AM (vBeA5)

476 Hat, please don't type that word in all caps. I really don't want GoFundMe twitching again.

But thank you for both. I do hope it entertains.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:37 AM (LLwAy)

477 After is term of office is over, the colony eats him. Sanest political system I ever saw. - Sirocco Jones ...

Posted by: Adriane the Literary Critic ... at September 22, 2015 03:38 AM (qOsoH)

478 Incredulous tourist, "You mean all your politicians really go to the dogs?"

Sirocco Jones, "Oh no, the dogs get the scraps."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:40 AM (LLwAy)

479 Hat, please don't type that word in all caps. I really don't want GoFundMe twitching again.

But thank you for both. I do hope it entertains.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:37 AM (LLwAy)


Just joking with ya.

Posted by: The Joking Hat at September 22, 2015 03:41 AM (vBeA5)

480 But thank you for both. I do hope it entertains.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:37 AM (LLwAy)


I just with more moron authors had dead tree editions, or even non-Amazon digital copies (not on Amazon, and ain't planning to be).

Posted by: The Non-Amazonian hat at September 22, 2015 03:43 AM (vBeA5)

481 I don't find any humor in the fact GoFundMe said they might have to report me to the Feds for the wording of the original campaign. Sorry but that completely removed any vestige of a funny bone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:43 AM (LLwAy)

482 I don't find any humor in the fact GoFundMe said they might have to report me to the Feds for the wording of the original campaign. Sorry but that completely removed any vestige of a funny bone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:43 AM (LLwAy)


My bad. Didn't realize GoFundMe flipped out that badly.

Posted by: The Non-Flipping Hat at September 22, 2015 03:45 AM (vBeA5)

483 Yeah, personality and charisma go along way. They count for a lot more in this country than say, oh, a production record. See, we'd take an articulate, inexperienced radical in a Zegna suit in the white house before we'd put a rather inarticulate, experienced, successful, and accomplished businessman in there.

Facts are stubborn things, and the fact of the matter is Trump actually has a record of outstanding production (i.e., success, accomplishment). Who would would you trust more when it came to handling economic or trade issues? Clinton? Biden? Rubio? or Trump?

Fiorina probably woulnd't be bad either, but let's face it, at lest Trump would do something about this immigration mess.

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at September 22, 2015 03:48 AM (2S9xy)

484 Their software flipped that warning at me, thus preventing campaign from going live.

Then next Friday, after their 'review,' they said but never specified I violated their terms and they deleted the campaign. I asked politely how did I violate their Terms and Rules.

Created the second campaign that night.

And then last Saturday got an email from a 'human' and I use that term advisedly since they said they had reviewed my campaign and cleared it. The link they provided went to the second campaign and not the first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 22, 2015 03:50 AM (LLwAy)

485 Night all.

Here is "To Forget" by Kylesa fromthe Violitionist Session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MrkRTzqE4I

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 22, 2015 03:58 AM (vBeA5)

486
It's kinda funny that ISIS is such a 'dirty' word when O' and the administration so scrupulously use ISIL as their term of endearment...

Posted by: Somebody Had To Ask at September 22, 2015 04:11 AM (4DCSq)

487 He may not be a Muzzy but he sure has a soft spot for them.
Good morning horde

Posted by: skip at September 22, 2015 04:49 AM (7L6zt)

488 but let's face it, at lest Trump would do something about this immigration mess.

No, he wouldn't, he'd do exactly what Republicans have done for years, talk tough and then do nothing because his biz pals want their cheap labor. Trump supporters can't keep holding up his history as a businessman and then ignoring the fact his biz cronies want their cheap labor, not to mention that Trump himself has taken advantage of that cheap labor. Repubs spent most of the Bush Jr years promising to build a wall, it was a lie then and it's a lie now with Trump.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at September 22, 2015 04:53 AM (VviqM)

489 Resident black block militant Norwegian comment: I know a lot of SF people, and come the fuck on, what is this Trumpism?

I know personally many US military folks, and they like that perspective, the outsider view. (We were right about Iraq. Van Riper)

Posted by: fnord at September 22, 2015 04:54 AM (G7lIZ)

490 Oh look, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey learn the hard way that throwing massive wads of money at inner-city schools achieves exactly ZILCH:

http://tinyurl.com/oxx38dp


5 years after Facebook pledge, Newark schools struggle

"NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show five years ago this week to announce a $100 million donation to remake education in Newark, it was presented as an effort to make a struggling city a national model for turning around urban schools...."

The audience oohed and ahhed and everybody wept with joy and give each other smugness-affirming hugs of progressive righteousness.

Five years and $100 million later, the schools are basically no better off than they were before. Sure, the article does its best to hem and haw and muddle the facts with idiotic anecdotes, but the real "metrics" don't lie: overall, not only have test scores not gone up -- they've gone DOWN despite the massive cash infusion.

Furthermore, bad teachers are still protected for life by the unions. Except now, they are kept out of the classroom, and instead are assigned do-nothing back-offce jobs AT FULL PAY FOR LIFE because union rules forbid firing any teacher no matter how bad.

The salaries of these ghost-teachers just on their own sucks up all of Zuckerberg's cash and much more besides.

I'd say "ain't that a shame," but frankly I just don't give a shit any more. Zuckerberg and Winfrey will in reality not learn jack doodle from this fiasco -- they'll just repeat the same feel-good gesture so as to earn their progressive brownie badges.

The problem is not money, the problem is the "social justice curriculum" and all the bullshit they teach kids instead of hard cold facts and knowledge.

Unions and Gramscian brainwashers have destroyed public education, and they can just choke on their cash and continue to fail forever as far as I care any more.

Get your kids out of public school. Period. That's the only solution. Escape.

Posted by: zombie at September 22, 2015 04:57 AM (jBuUi)

491 Kathleen Kane lost her law license in P.a.. She thought she could do a Holder and prosecute only who she wanted but got a little ambitious in doing it.

Posted by: skip at September 22, 2015 05:08 AM (7L6zt)

492 And the Pope is coming to Philadelphia this week-end so if you have no reason to go suggest staying away from the crowds and mayhem.

Posted by: skip at September 22, 2015 05:17 AM (7L6zt)

493 Some news sifting out from behind the Sugar Curtain, so to speak.

When the Pope held those giant masses in Havana, there weren't enough Catholic liturgy books to go around. Not hard to believe, in a country that's been officially godless for over 50 years.

So they had to put out a call for books from all over the Spanish speaking world.

Yes.

It was a regular Cuban Missal Crisis.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2015 05:41 AM (xq1UY)

494 Posted by: zombie at September 22, 2015 04:57 AM (jBuUi)


There was a story recently about a New Jersey school teacher who had won a court case so that he could not be fired from his $90,000 a year job for being late more than 200 times.


I appreciate that the cost of living is higher in New Jersey than in most other places in the country but seriously, I never want to hear anybody complain that teachers are not paid enough.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 05:42 AM (QHgTq)

495
Independent.co.uk
world news - middle east


Syrian Kurdish leaders plan to capture the last border crossing point between Syria and Turkey held by Isis, making it impossible for jihadist volunteers from Europe and elsewhere to reach Isis-held territories.



That seems a little odd to me. Refugees by the tens of thousands are fleeing Syria into Europe to escape the war while at the same time jihadist volunteers from Europe, in the tens of thousands, are going to Syria to fight for the Islamic State?

Ok, so the refugees aren't from Syria. The volunteer fighters don't know what they are getting into, and the people who do know are getting out. Ok, I guess that works.

Turkey doesn't like the Kurds, and wouldn't like them taking control of a border town. Apparently Turkey would rather have the Islamic State forces in control of the border?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/p22wwcw

Meanwhile the US gives support to the Kurds much to the annoyance of Turkey. The Kurds the US is supporting apparently are linked to Kurdish Communists.

(Al Jeezria link which explains the YPG connection to the Kurdistan Workers Party)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qhgv7og

In providing air support, the US destroys the city it is trying to save.

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 05:55 AM (wYR59)

496 The reason why Turkey doesn't like the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

In eastern Turkey, two bombs injure twenty four soldiers.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nn8n2fb

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 06:18 AM (wYR59)

497 G'morning, all.



So the refugees are demanding that Munich end Oktoberfest ?

Imagine that.

Now if I could remember where I left my Shocked Face.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:21 AM (VPLuQ)

498 Does anybody else find it odd that Republicans in congress are gung-ho about deposing Assad with no follow up plan but terrified of a shutdown because there is no plan?

You can tell where they actually risk something, can't you?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 22, 2015 06:22 AM (PcOiY)

499 Maybe a link to go with the Oktoberfest item....yes?

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/?p=5655

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:22 AM (VPLuQ)

500 Nice article from the Hill, about Carson, Islam, and his understanding of it's inherent conflict with American culture


http://thehill.com/node/254330

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:25 AM (VPLuQ)

501 "In providing air support, the US destroys the city it is trying to save.

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 05:55 AM (wYR59)"

I can't say that I have any problem with blowing up any Arab cities under any circumstances for any reason or no reason.

Maybe the Air Force could use some of those MOAB that were claimed to be the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in the world at the time. Since then I have heard that the Russians have developed conventional bombs that are more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. Certainly this would make for some entertaining youtube video.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 22, 2015 06:26 AM (QHgTq)

502 Well, looks like there's a bunch of new faces on the ONT...

Posted by: Gmac - IP banned at home - #twoweeks at September 22, 2015 06:27 AM (4pjhs)

503 499 Maybe a link to go with the Oktoberfest item....yes?

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/?p=5655
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:22 AM (VPLuQ)


It sounds like its some muzzie from the Netherlands and he only has two hundred signatures right now.

I suspect it'll be a few years before the Syrian 'refugees' begin proving out why a Muslim president would be a dosaster. Right now they all need to get food, houses, and new wives (and boys and girls) to rape.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 22, 2015 06:27 AM (PcOiY)

504 Interesting coverage during the national evening tv coverage last night.

Open investigative discussion concerning the identity of "Bill", who made the statement to Trump about Obama and Muslims.

No one can find this guy.
No one knows this guy.
No one can identify this guy.


And open speculation on national tv that he was a Democrat plant, sent to do exactly what he did.

I thought that was interesting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:29 AM (VPLuQ)

505
Special makeup to make your selfies better.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/puvhwoa

There was a SciFi short story back when video phones were soon to be common about how women would spend hours at the makeup table getting ready to talk on the vid phone with friends.

Even the men had to look right over the vid phone when talking to the boss or clients.

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 06:29 AM (wYR59)

506 >>> Maybe a link to go with the Oktoberfest item....yes?

I went off to Bing and on to Moonbattrry and Gatewaypundit.

Didn't see CNN up there.

Posted by: fluffy at September 22, 2015 06:29 AM (2iV3X)

507 And open speculation on national tv that he was a Democrat plant, sent to do exactly what he did.

I wouldn't rule out the RNC either.

All the establishmentarians gave 'proper' answers.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 22, 2015 06:43 AM (PcOiY)

508 Jail time for executives for shipping contaminated peanuts.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/pqycwkl

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 06:44 AM (wYR59)

509 Was interesting to hear Amy Schumer at the awards show.
When asked if she would vote for Trump, she responded that even if Hillary were to have a lobotomy, she was voting for Hillary.


Stated to get a "How did he win, I don't know anyone who voted for him" vibe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:45 AM (VPLuQ)

510 Stated=Started

F'n autocucumber

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:46 AM (VPLuQ)

511 >>>>I'm kind of thinking that something was offered to Walker for his next try.



I'm a bit jaded though.



That's my thinking too, hard to believe that Walker wouldn't ride
out the tough patches after doing fairly well in the polls if the money
men hadn't told him they were pulling their $ and made some promises for
another time.
.
.
.The GOP elites got to Walker. That pissy childish exit statement he made was made at the request of the Party. I loved his work against the Unions in his home State, but in the end, he turned out just like the others. Pathetic.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 22, 2015 06:57 AM (iONHu)

512 the Facebook story linked above is going to be my latest go-to evidence that spending vast amounts will have zero impact on improving educational outcomes in poor cities. Let's see my lefty brother deal with that one!

Posted by: MTF at September 22, 2015 06:57 AM (TcePY)

513 @508 "So whaddaya in for?"
"Poison peanuts."
Gonna be a long 28 years.

@509 even if Hillary were to admit to getting a lobotomy, FIFY.
She's obviously going for the Lobotomized-American vote already.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 22, 2015 06:57 AM (xq1UY)

514 And open speculation on national tv that he was a Democrat plant, sent to do exactly what he did.



I thought that was interesting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 06:29 AM (VPLuQ)

Wouldn't be the first time they used plants to cause havoc. The people we're up against are very organized, very determined, and they are NOT good or honest people.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 06:59 AM (J+mig)

515 The GOP elites got to Walker. That pissy childish
exit statement he made was made at the request of the Party. I loved his
work against the Unions in his home State, but in the end, he turned
out just like the others. Pathetic.


Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 22, 2015 06:57 AM (iONHu)

It's the money. They hold your campaign, thus your future, by the short and curlies and start making demands of you. Oh, sure, you can go your own way... but you lose your funding. So everyone ends up getting sucked into the collective in the end.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:00 AM (J+mig)

516 Why is Rubio skating away from press vetting? Carson, Trump, even Fiorina, but Rubio (alone among what the Propaganda Press keeps calling the "top tier" candidates) seems to avoid being caught up in vetting mistakes.

Posted by: MTF at September 22, 2015 07:03 AM (TcePY)

517 516
Why is Rubio skating away from press vetting? Carson, Trump, even
Fiorina, but Rubio (alone among what the Propaganda Press keeps calling
the "top tier" candidates) seems to avoid being caught up in vetting
mistakes.

Posted by: MTF at September 22, 2015 07:03 AM (TcePY)

Their last attempt to vet him uncovered the secret of his "luxury yacht" and they've been hiding their shame ever since.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:04 AM (J+mig)

518 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:05 AM (gf8BH)

519 "Wouldn't be the first time they used plants to cause havoc. "

No, that wasn't what I found interesting.


What I found interesting was the fact that the MSM was suggesting that he was a plant.

The reportage itself was the abnormality.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 07:06 AM (VPLuQ)

520 The GOP elites got to Walker. That pissy childish exit statement he made was made at the request of the Party. I loved his work against the Unions in his home State, but in the end, he turned out just like the others. Pathetic.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 22, 2015 06:57 AM (iONHu)


That's how I see it, too. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Now he can go back to Wisconsin and continue ignoring the "John Doe" SWAT team assholes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 22, 2015 07:06 AM (zF6Iw)

521 What I found interesting was the fact that the MSM was suggesting that he was a plant.



The reportage itself was the abnormality.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 07:06 AM (VPLuQ)

Once in a while they slip up and do actual reporting.
Or maybe they've got another agenda. I've been working on a theory that they might be trying to throw this election to JEB, just so that when the economy collapses when all the Fed tricks run out, they can blame it on him. There's still a lot of things that don't jive with it though, so it's just a partly constructed idea that isn't really ready to be launched yet.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:08 AM (J+mig)

522 UK Museum Calls Jews Who Fought Nazi Germany Terrorists

Londons Imperial War Museum removes offensive display, which labeled legendary Jewish Brigade fighters terrorists.


Sigh. I am not sure how much longer Winston Churhill's Britain can last

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:10 AM (gf8BH)

523 Sigh. I am not sure how much longer Winston Churhill's Britain can last

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:10 AM (gf8BH)

It's already dead, but it's not completely dead. It could still pull the whole rise from the ashes trick, but the window's closing if they don't start getting things really right. Exiting the EU would be a great start.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:11 AM (J+mig)

524 It's already dead, but it's not completely dead. It could still pull the whole rise from the ashes trick, but the window's closing if they don't start getting things really right. Exiting the EU would be a great start.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:11 AM (J+mig)

With THIS President, THIS Pope, And THIS EU it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. I mean unless it's that bright flash of light from a nuclear device?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:16 AM (gf8BH)

525 Kim Davis, the KY county clerk who refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples is in trouble with the ACLU. She changed the form and her name and signature does not appear on the form.

The ACLU wants the court to force her to sign the license.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oeabmae

Posted by: Harcourt Guggenklamber at September 22, 2015 07:18 AM (wYR59)

526 With THIS President, THIS Pope, And THIS EU it's
hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. I mean unless it's that
bright flash of light from a nuclear device?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:16 AM (gf8BH)

The good news is that there's only two real ways we can go from here, and that's either Thunderdome or Reform. These assholes may control the world now, but either way, they can't make it last. What can't go on forever never does, and the world they want to create is simply unsustainable.
And, well, just remember how the book ends. Spoiler alert, the good guys win.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:19 AM (J+mig)

527 The good news is that there's only two real ways we can go from here, and that's either Thunderdome or Reform. These assholes may control the world now, but either way, they can't make it last. What can't go on forever never does, and the world they want to create is simply unsustainable.
And, well, just remember how the book ends. Spoiler alert, the good guys win.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:19 AM (J+mig)

I hope your right.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:20 AM (gf8BH)

528 With THIS President, THIS Pope, And THIS EU it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. I mean unless it's that bright flash of light from a nuclear device?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:16 AM (gf8BH)
=============================

There really is a theme running through all these institutions isn't there? And you could add the more to the list. Western institutions are pretty well exhausted of vitality.

Posted by: MTF at September 22, 2015 07:21 AM (TcePY)

529 Wow.

An AR-15 at under $450.00.

I knew prices were dropping, but even for entry level, that's pretty good.

http://www.deguns.net/dealoftheday.asp

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 07:21 AM (VPLuQ)

530 An AR-15 at under $450.00.

I knew prices were dropping, but even for entry level, that's pretty good.

http://www.deguns.net/dealoftheday.asp
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 07:21 AM (VPLuQ)


Yeah I am going to concentrate more on weapons in the coming year. Not only do I belong to a range where I live, but we found a range on Base where we can shoot also and my Buddy and I are arriving a whole day early just to partake of the opportunity.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:24 AM (gf8BH)

531
With THIS President, THIS Pope, And THIS EU it's

hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. I mean unless it's that

bright flash of light from a nuclear device?



Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:16 AM (gf8BH)


Remember a President, a Pope, and a GB PM what brought down an Evil Empire? Good times.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Sans-Culottes at September 22, 2015 07:25 AM (JO9+V)

532 Remember a President, a Pope, and a GB PM what brought down an Evil Empire? Good times.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Sans-Culottes at September 22, 2015 07:25 AM (JO9+V)

Those were the days my friend

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 22, 2015 07:27 AM (gf8BH)

533 An AR-15 at under $450.00.

I knew prices were dropping, but even for entry level, that's pretty good.



Everyone and their brothers are manufacturers.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2015 07:29 AM (FZxI4)

534 We thought they would never end.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 22, 2015 07:30 AM (1ijHg)

535 Everyone and their brothers are manufacturers.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2015 07:29 AM (FZxI4)

Supply's starting to meet demand, but the demand is still there.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 22, 2015 07:31 AM (J+mig)

536 "Yeah I am going to concentrate more on weapons in the coming year."

I think this is the year that I move into 80% lower territory.

Something to do with my spare time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2015 07:33 AM (VPLuQ)

537 L@@k at their p[rice on AR-10's!!: http://tinyurl.com/osc3d6j

Posted by: MAx at September 22, 2015 07:34 AM (LAliD)

538 Supply's starting to meet demand, but the demand is still there.

Sunday I talked to a guy who is looking into starting a new gunshop here in Asheville, and he said that the number of guns sold each month has been increasing for years.

Seems to be a good time to by buying older bolt-actions - I've seen a bunch for sale at the local flea market. There is also a guy selling small AR parts and tactical accessories that shows up fairly regularly. Haven't seen a whole AR for sale yet.

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 22, 2015 07:36 AM (bZ7mE)

539 Seems to be a good time to by buying older bolt-actions"

Shh. Don't give away secrets, 'k?

Of course, I've been stocking up...

Posted by: anon a mouse at September 22, 2015 07:37 AM (C9pBZ)

540 nood

Posted by: Count de Monet, Sans-Culottes at September 22, 2015 07:41 AM (JO9+V)

541 Morning all! Nood

Posted by: RedDish at September 22, 2015 07:41 AM (5eXg1)

542 One thing I don't get about AR-15s: Why is there such a demand for 16" barrels, and so little for 18 and 20" barrels? The length difference seems pretty minimal to me, and I kind of get the impression that the 20" barrels may be a bit more reliable than shorter ones, at least with less-than-stellar ammo.

I get the use of a shorter barrel for indoor defense work, but it seems like the longer barrel has the edge in every other way...

Posted by: Grey Fox at September 22, 2015 07:42 AM (bZ7mE)

543 542 Longer barrels are heavier and less manueverable, and often no more accurate

Posted by: MAx at September 22, 2015 08:00 AM (LAliD)

544 Euro women are gonna love all the young Omar sharifs
Lock your daughters the Muslim barbarians are here!!

Posted by: John at September 22, 2015 11:28 AM (nHbAq)

545 "Londons Imperial War Museum removes offensive display, which labeled legendary Jewish Brigade fighters terrorists."

King David hotel, the bombing.

Posted by: fnord at September 22, 2015 11:37 AM (G7lIZ)

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