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Henri Martin, "La Pergola" (n.d.)

Posted by: rdbrewer at 09:23 AM




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1 Hmm.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 15, 2015 09:24 AM (evdj2)

2 There's a fucking ghost sitting there!

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 09:26 AM (8HTq1)

3 That's a nasty astigmatism.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 09:26 AM (CGjum)

4 There's Waldo!

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at October 15, 2015 09:28 AM (HalrA)

5 Ugh. Reminds me of poison ivy in the fall months...

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 09:28 AM (wxDT3)

6 test

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:29 AM (E+yET)

7 The third potted plant is missing because the artist just plinked it with his .45.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Team Lefty and Scamp at October 15, 2015 09:29 AM (JtwS4)

8 8th?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:29 AM (g0dZ5)

9 Who knew Waterlogue was around during Henri Martin's time?

Posted by: creeper at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (GVsYM)

10 From the sidebar:

State Police Drag Radical Screaming Black-Latino Activists From Trump Rally in Richmond

Good, say I. Stomp them until their ears bleed. Punch back thrice as hard.

And no, I'm not feeling very charitable today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (X6fMO)

11 The colors are nice, but the thirds seem a little strange to me?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (CGjum)

12 Holy crap I got through. Hallelujah

Colorful painting. I'm not sure about the poison ivy tho.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (E+yET)

13 'Taking A Break From Watching You Fap'

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (0dcbp)

14 Ok, not bad for an impressionistic painting. Cheerful.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:30 AM (g0dZ5)

15 My goodness! It's pixelated!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 09:31 AM (mvenn)

16 La Macaroni

Posted by: Fritz at October 15, 2015 09:32 AM (UzPAd)

17 A follower of Seurat?

Pointillism looks like it takes so much time.

I like the light coming through the leaves.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:32 AM (GERXL)

18 Holy crap I got through. Hallelujah

Colorful painting. I'm not sure about the poison ivy tho.




I am. Trust me. Grrrrrr

Posted by: rickb223 at October 15, 2015 09:32 AM (rj3Mq)

19 One of the girls in the bushes left her teddy on the bench.

Posted by: dirks strewn at October 15, 2015 09:32 AM (kfcYC)

20 Mother of God I hate pointillism. It reminds me of what I see when I take off my glasses and that's something I'd rather forget.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 09:32 AM (RD7QR)

21 DOTS

Posted by: blaster at October 15, 2015 09:33 AM (2Ocf1)

22 A new 'Peanuts' movie? Good grief! My kids must be burning through the cash.

Posted by: Zombie Charles M. Schulz at October 15, 2015 09:33 AM (gwG9s)

23 State Police Drag Radical Screaming Black-Latino Activists From Trump Rally in Richmond Good, say I.

Stomp them until their ears bleed. Punch back thrice as hard.

And no, I'm not feeling very charitable today.

---

Charity doesn't come into it. They are spoiled children. They will only get worse if the adults don't make it exceedingly clear that they will not tolerate this bullshit.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (g0dZ5)

24 http://tinyurl.com/pvmaj8m
"I think I'm going to kill myself."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (xq1UY)

25 For some reason, the texture of the painting reminds me of the Coral Castle in Florida, the product of the eccentric Edward Leedskalnin:

https://goo.gl/YkpYWo

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (X6fMO)

26 Lovely painting. Lots of hiding places for spiders, though.

Posted by: fly gal at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (SIUG+)

27 "There's a fucking ghost sitting there!"

No...there are two ghosts sitting there, fcuking.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (VPLuQ)

28 Is this the daily King Kong thread?

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 09:35 AM (9KqcB)

29 In a last statement before being executed, Escamilla said: "To my family, I love them and everybody that showed support...From California to New York thank you for all of your support. Pope Francis, God's children has asked the State of Texas to switch my death sentence to life in prison. But the State of Texas has refused to listen to God's children, they will have to take that up with God. Let everyone know it's not over."

==========
Cop was working security so he and his bride could buy a house. Gang banger shoots him twice and then puts another 5 bullets in the cops head. Fk all these murderer fappers!

http://goo.gl/1DG125

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 09:36 AM (iQIUe)

30 I only learned of "pergolas" at a fall fair at Bayard Cutting arboretum a few weeks ago. Really, what is it except a lateral gazebo?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:36 AM (g0dZ5)

31 29 Now he goes before the ultimate judge.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 09:37 AM (8HTq1)

32 Oh very lovely.

Posted by: alexthechick - Hair rays activate! at October 15, 2015 09:38 AM (mf5HN)

33 Is this the daily King Kong thread?
Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 09:35 AM (9KqcB)

What drinking game could we make for that movie? I loved taking a shot everytime they said jager in Pacific Rim... the bottle did not survive.

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 09:38 AM (MY1T9)

34 It's that damn AFLAC duck again! Prick gets all the good gigs. I useta be huge! Bigger than Daffy!

Posted by: The Real The Donald at October 15, 2015 09:38 AM (gwG9s)

35 We're seeing Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet tonight. Taped live at the Barbican in London this evening and replayed one time only in cinemas worldwide.

I'll wait until it comes to Netflix.

Posted by: V the K at October 15, 2015 09:38 AM (O7MnT)

36 Correction, jäger

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 09:38 AM (MY1T9)

37 dammit!!! I want umlaut privileges!!!!

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (MY1T9)

38 Re: Girl Rangers

I think that Obama's next target should be the NFL. Skip the combine which is patriarchal and unfairly biased against womyn , and just put obviously equal womyn in helmets and pads on each of the NFL's practice squads.

Inclusiveness!

Ready, set hike !



Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (0dcbp)

39 I was informed that there would be artistic nudes here.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (O0koj)

40 ==========
Cop was working security so he and his bride could buy a house. Gang banger shoots him twice and then puts another 5 bullets in the cops head. Fk all these murderer fappers!

http://goo.gl/1DG125
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 09:36 AM (iQIUe)


But, but, but for God's children and his loving family

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (E+yET)

41 Now he goes before the ultimate judge.
Posted by: steevy

Nope. Slap an express label on his ass and send 'em South

Posted by: Ultimate Judge at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (326rv)

42 >>Cop was working security so he and his bride could buy a house. Gang banger shoots him twice and then puts another 5 bullets in the cops head.



Yeah, I'd be more focused on what *you* have to take up with God than the people of TX who are executing you.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (NOIQH)

43 Let everyone know it's not over.


It's over.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 15, 2015 09:40 AM (evdj2)

44 That picture has been photo-shopped.

I can tell.

Posted by: Ran Dather at October 15, 2015 09:40 AM (qjyQp)

45 @30 There is a difference. A gazebo can keep rain off your head.
A pergola shows your neighbors that you can afford a structure with no purpose.
Many times I have offered to improve them with two sheets of plywood and a roll of mineral tar. Handful of nails, and you've got something.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (xq1UY)

46 Colonialism. Fun until computers came along and then it just seems like rounded pixellation.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (cbfNE)

47 For some reason, the texture of the painting reminds me of the Coral Castle in Florida, the product of the eccentric Edward Leedskalnin:

https://goo.gl/YkpYWo
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:34 AM (X6fMO)



Aliens. Obvs aliens. DUH.

Posted by: alexthechick - Hair rays activate! at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (mf5HN)

48 What's good about today? Speaking for myself, I mean.

I have a spouse who loves me and is extraordinary help in helping me set up a website for my drama ministry and is great with our son.

I have a sometimes grumpy son (well, that's not the good part. ;^)) who's doing pretty well at school and loves cross country, and says things that make me laugh and sometimes gives me a hug and says "I love you" out of the blue.

We are struggling but currently can pay our bills and have a house two cars that work reasonably well and food on the table without having to go to a food pantry or get an EBT card

I have some great friends and know people who pray. and love the lay people I work with at the church we serve.

The fall leaves changing color are lovely. and the temperatures have been nice

I have a faith that gives me great joy and a pastoral role which gives me great happiness is speaking of Christ and celebrating holy communion which is one of the things I love to do best.

I enjoy the people at Ace headquarters-except for some of the trolls-the less than amusing ones.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (GERXL)

49 32 You missed a Godzilla thread!

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 09:42 AM (8HTq1)

50 45 @30 There is a difference.
-------------------------

Unless it is screened I don't want it. We have 2 seasons here,

Winter & Mosquito season

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:42 AM (E+yET)

51 Can someone who knows something about Art tell me if that picture is an example of "Pointillism"?

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 09:43 AM (TxJGV)

52 29 Now he goes before the ultimate judge.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 09:37 AM (8HTq1)


In the words of Sherlock Holmes (from "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"), "You are yourself aware that you will soon have to answer for your deed to a higher court than the Assizes."

And, for Her Imperial Malevolence, Goya's Nude Maja:

https://goo.gl/UkTCFJ

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:44 AM (X6fMO)

53 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (GERXL)

^^This^^

Thank you for putting it all into perspective FS

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:44 AM (E+yET)

54 @48 And so to sum up. Spouse, son, house, friends, weather, faith.
Now put those all in a pergola and you're golden.
No pergola, no peace.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:45 AM (xq1UY)

55 dammit!!! I want umlaut privileges!!!!

No Umlauts, no peace!

Posted by: Umlaut Liberation Front at October 15, 2015 09:45 AM (JtwS4)

56 Colonialism

--
Jeeze, even autocucumber is an SJW.
Pointillism. How does pointillism turn into colonialism?

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (cbfNE)

57 I'd prefer to be in a vat of pierogies under a pergola.

Posted by: Michael Feed Me Moore at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (gwG9s)

58 Oops, I see Fenelon has already described it as Pointillism, so I guessed right! Thanks FS.

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (TxJGV)

59 I don't know a lot about art, but it sure looks liken pointillism

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (GERXL)

60 Yes, thank you, FS. Needed that.

Posted by: fly gal at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (SIUG+)

61 We wouldn't be having this war on cops if we legalize drugs. (The libertarians say.) We wouldn't have this war on cops if the white patriarchy wasn't oppressing the poor black man. (The liberals say.)

So I say, 'ok fine'. Just give me a designated areas somewhere on the planet where I can go and live according to my white male puritanical beliefs and you will leave me alone. Anywhere, on or off the planet, where I can go and let you live the lifestyle of your choice.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (O0koj)

62 Today will be a good one. Perfect clear autumn day, exactly like our wedding day. We're meeting for lunch at Reynolda Mansion (I like to walk the grounds and spot turtles, nutria, etc.) and then back home to exchange Anniversary gifts.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 15, 2015 09:47 AM (2cS/G)

63 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (GERXL)

It's good to be reminded of the things to be thankful for.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 09:47 AM (RD7QR)

64 Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:45 AM (xq1UY)

I don't think I had ever heard that word before-pergola

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:47 AM (GERXL)

65 @52 Awfully pointed elbows for Goya.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (xq1UY)

66 32 You missed a Godzilla thread!

Nah. I told her about it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (JtwS4)

67 "No Umlauts, no peace!"

Splitters!!

Posted by: The Front for Umlaut Liberation at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (VPLuQ)

68 If you look at it from just the right distance and cross your eyes slightly you can see Waldo in 3D!

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (2Ojst)

69 Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 09:47 AM (RD7QR)

I always enjoy those "what are you grateful/thankful for?" threads that ace puts up from time to time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (GERXL)

70 A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure. New climate, recreation facilities...

Posted by: The Voice from the Blimp at October 15, 2015 09:48 AM (evdj2)

71 48-Amen and amen!!

I forget to truly count all my blessings, which I should do each and every day. Because they far outweigh the bad i have to deal with. Thank you for reminding me!

Posted by: Moki at October 15, 2015 09:49 AM (x303I)

72 Though the Virginia State Police may look askance at Trump supporters spitting on the scum protesting at his event, I say good!

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 09:49 AM (TxJGV)

73 Gee, North Dakota sure is pretty this time of year.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 09:49 AM (LUgeY)

74 No Umlauts, no peace!
Posted by: Umlaut Liberation Front at October 15, 2015 09:45 AM (JtwS4)

Where do I sign up? I'll make reubens and hand out beer for the men!

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 09:49 AM (MY1T9)

75 At least it's almost Friday

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 09:50 AM (VPLuQ)

76 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM (GERXL)

I think I would like your church!

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 15, 2015 09:50 AM (ftVQq)

77 Just give me a designated areas somewhere on the planet where I can go
and live according to my white male puritanical beliefs and you will
leave me alone.



I believe that is the rationale behind 'Happy Fun Camp'.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:51 AM (0dcbp)

78 The roof... the roof... the roof is on fire.

Posted by: The Bloodhound Gang at October 15, 2015 09:51 AM (lqmAz)

79 http://goo.gl/1DG125
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!
---
Always amazes me how these creatures can be so shameless. No remorse only a grotesque display of self pity. Soulless, like an animal.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:51 AM (g0dZ5)

80
So I say, 'ok fine'. Just give me a designated areas somewhere on the planet where I can go and live according to my white male puritanical beliefs and you will leave me alone. Anywhere, on or off the planet, where I can go and let you live the lifestyle of your choice.
Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (O0koj)

I fear their point is they don't want any white male beliefs at all. Their rhetoric and their actions certainly indicate that. Since I love my white male husband, and my white male son, and my ginger daughter, I take very great exception to that.

Posted by: Moki at October 15, 2015 09:51 AM (x303I)

81 @64 Heh. I had to master it recently. One of my scouts made Eagle by developing one for an "institution." I admit I paused in my speech before saying it with my fwont toof mithing.

@50 I feel for you MH. Once I improve the pergola into a gazebo, I'm always offering to tarp that up for them. A little lashing, some eyelets...

Why didn't you just put up a shed in the first place?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (xq1UY)

82 Every 10th comment better be "Yes" or else the thread is rape.

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (jsBV6)

83 (((FenelonSpoke)))

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (cbfNE)

84 78 The roof... the roof... the roof is on fire.
Posted by: The Bloodhound Gang at October 15, 2015 09:51 AM (lqmAz)

We don't need no water let the motherf*cker burn
Burn motherf*cker, burn

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (2Ojst)

85 It's time for our party to change...

Instead of banging our collective heads against a wall, we need to take a clue and make our conservative values appealing to the masses.

I propose we have a new "Contract with America" style election cycle where everyone on the right signs on to a certain set of goals.

First - Promise we won't mention "tax cuts" for the next 4 years.

Second - Pledge that education will be our primary focus. Of course to us, education means kids actually learning instead of just funneling money to the teachers union. Totally privatized school.

Third - Income equality. Build a national campaign on envy and outrage by publicizing the vast difference between private and public workers. Show how little a paper-shuffling federal employee does for $98,000 plus big retirement benefits compared to the average private industry cubical dweller. Hammer this until thousands appear in Washington with torches and pitchforks.

Third - Free electricity. At every stage of human history, as energy became more abundant and less costly, the standard of living increased. To bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and to spur innovation, we need to build 500 identical reactors spread across the country. Have private industry charge for carrying the power to the customer, but a steel mill located near a reactor would pay virtually nothing.

Change up the narrative. We need bold ideas to grab the imagination of the country.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (Zs4uk)

86 48-Amen and amen!!

Thank you for that, FS. I try not to let the anger and depression overwhelm me, but it's so very difficult.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (X6fMO)

87 No Umlauts, no peace!

Stimmt!

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (vn2q2)

88 Man, that guy really needs to adjust the color convergence on his television set. And Henry's spelt with a Y. Only the French and the fags spell it "Henri".

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 15, 2015 09:54 AM (wKcQA)

89 Cop was working security so he and his bride could buy a house. Gang banger shoots him twice and then puts another 5 bullets in the cops head. Fk all these murderer fappers!

http://goo.gl/1DG125
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 09:36 AM (iQIUe)

Some people just need killin'.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:54 AM (2Ojst)

90 Pergola's fine, but you can't beat hardwood.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 15, 2015 09:55 AM (hsCpX)

91 >>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 09:41 AM

Thanks for bringing some sunshine to the thread

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 09:55 AM (NOIQH)

92 86 48-Amen and amen!!

Thank you for that, FS. I try not to let the anger and depression overwhelm me, but it's so very difficult.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (X6fMO)

I feel you. Depression is the air I breathe; anger is my lifeblood.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (2Ojst)

93 I was informed that there would be artistic nudes here.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim

---

Who needs Playboy, or Miley Cyrus for that matter? I just look at myself naked in the mirror.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (g0dZ5)

94 >>>Re: Girl Rangers
I think that Obama's next
target should be the NFL. Skip the combine which is patriarchal and
unfairly biased against womyn , and just put obviously equal womyn in
helmets and pads on each of the NFL's practice squads. Inclusiveness!
Ready, set hike !
Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (0dcbp)<<<




I'm in, but dudes better have women's sized jerseys!!!!eleventy!!

Posted by: Kavitha A. Davidson at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (lqmAz)

95 @85

You forgot "Free Government Poptarts and Meth."

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (0dcbp)

96 I'm in, but dudes better have women's sized jerseys!!!!eleventy!!

Posted by: Kavitha A. Davidson at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (lqmAz)

Don't make me have to high stick a bitch.

Posted by: Wayne Brady, now playing hockey at October 15, 2015 09:57 AM (2Ojst)

97 95 @85

You forgot "Free Government Poptarts and Meth."
Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (0dcbp)


Hey, they tried to give out government cheese years ago. That didn't work out so well.

Posted by: Moki at October 15, 2015 09:57 AM (x303I)

98 Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (Zs4uk)


I'll give you twice as much shit as that guy is offering.


Oh, and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

BOOM!

*drops mike*

Posted by: Hillary! Regina at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (0cMkb)

99 Leaving 5000 troops in Afghanistan is such bullshit...That means about 1000 combat and 4000 support or there abouts....not enough to anything but be targets...What a load of crap and very dangerous to those who go...Fuckers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

100 Wankers. All of you.

Posted by: The Peoples Popular Front for the total liberation of oppressed Umlauts at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (kLrYQ)

101 @94 Careful what you ask for. I know the Troopers QB. Perfect season.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (xq1UY)

102
What was Henri's point?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (BK3ZS)

103 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

104 103 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH

Is there anyone who wants to see her naked?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:59 AM (E+yET)

105 Yeah FS, that was nice.

Thanksgiving is coming...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 09:59 AM (LUgeY)

106 jwest, I do think that we need constructive solutions, not simple rage, that is for sure

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 09:59 AM (lVU49)

107 @104 I have the MileyBlok app. Works, so far.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (xq1UY)

108 We don't need no water let the motherf*cker burn
Burn motherf*cker, burn
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (2Ojst)

Come SMOD cleanse this world!

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (MY1T9)

109 103 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

*raises hand*

I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (2Ojst)

110 Don't make me have to high stick a bitch.
Posted by: Wayne Brady, now playing hockey



Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/n_w4MV_LwMw?t=3s

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (JtwS4)

111 Blah blah, freakin' blah...

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (Zs4uk)


Good lord, do people around here still read the tripe this clown writes?

Posted by: BurtTC at October 15, 2015 10:01 AM (Dj0WE)

112
Who needs Playboy, or Miley Cyrus for that matter? I just look at myself naked in the mirror.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (g0dZ5)

-1

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:01 AM (MY1T9)

113 61
So I say, 'ok fine'. Just give me a designated areas somewhere on the planet where I can go and live according to my white male puritanical beliefs and you will leave me alone. Anywhere, on or off the planet, where I can go and let you live the lifestyle of your choice.
Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 09:46 AM (O0koj)


There used to be such a place. It was called the United States of America.

But Americans so far outstripped the rest of the world in inventiveness and wealth creation that we became a threat to the established order. So neo-Feudalists calling themselves Progressives decided that America had to be destroyed and Americans needed to be taken down a peg.

Posted by: rickl at October 15, 2015 10:01 AM (zoehZ)

114 I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.

Better to see her than The Dumpling nekkid.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 10:01 AM (LUgeY)

115 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

*raises hand*

I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (2Ojst)

She has a decent body

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (gf8BH)

116 >>>We don't need no water let the motherf*cker burn

Burn motherf*cker, burn

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (2Ojst)<<<

Heh. Figured AllenG would be all over that line.

Posted by: The Bloodhound Gang at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (lqmAz)

117
You'll be hearing from my lawyers soon, monsieur.

Posted by: Zombie Georges Seurat at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (u093l)

118 thank you FenelonSpoke for that inspirational post

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (lVU49)

119 My son came home from school the other day and said that "Inherit the Wind" (which they are reading in English lit) is very sententious, wouldn't you say? The description made me laugh (I guess having a parent who's a pastor he knows sententious. LOL) but he's right about the play. The religious guy whose name escapes me right now is a blowhard and my son informed me that the story of the Scopes trial is given much dramatic license in the play. i suspect his teachers know less about the actual tria and situation that prompted itl than he does. He likes to read about the law

We sometimes have a struggle in our house because of the political indoctrination in school If he writes about what he really thinks (Next week he has an essay due on the First Amendment) will he have points taken off because it's not progressive group think, or if he argues well will it not make a difference?

And just FTR, I haven't read "Inherit the Wind in years, but don't see any problem with believing in evolution and also believing that God created the world.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (GERXL)

120 The now deceased murderer wanted life in prison. However, life does not mean life and there was no lwop before 2005. So, they could only hold him for 40 and he wd be eligible for parole in 15 years. The max they could hold him is 40.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (iQIUe)

121 Sounds like a good plan jwest, but Paul Ryan and GOPe won't listen.

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:03 AM (MY1T9)

122

the freak out by black/latino activists at the Trump rally in Richmond? Its in the sidebar


that is a dress rehearsal to the shannaigans planned for the last Republican Presidential Debate in Houston hosted by Telemundo

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:03 AM (zOTsN)

123 Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (lVU49)

You're most welcome. I can read things here and get downhearted as well, so I try to keep perspective on what's good in my life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:04 AM (GERXL)

124 >>>Just give me a designated areas somewhere on the planet where I can go and live according to my white male puritanical beliefs and you will leave me alone.


Has New Zealand drunk the Koolaid? Otherwise it's learn Russian. Or perhaps go Amish.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:04 AM (g0dZ5)

125 Pergolas only make sense if you have some plant that needs support, like wisteria, or climbing roses.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at October 15, 2015 10:04 AM (aVYsC)

126
How does pointillism turn into colonialism?

When the artist has motor control issues and each dot (periods) becomes two (colons)?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (BK3ZS)

127 And just FTR, I haven't read "Inherit the Wind in years, but don't see any problem with believing in evolution and also believing that God created the world.

Me neither. Critters had to have been created in order to evolve.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)

128 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?

Add me to the list.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (GERXL)

129 115 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

*raises hand*

I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (2Ojst)

She has a decent body
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (gf8BH)

If you like that no-muscle-tone, keeps-her-weight-down-by smoking-and-drug-use look.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (2Ojst)

130 I would take a guess and hazard an opinion that Milky Virus' body would be like Dunham's, an approximation of a human female body. An impression as it were.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (kVLm4)

131 I'm using that word sententious for every liberal who goes on a moral rant now.....

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:06 AM (MY1T9)

132 That was Jerry Pournelle's idea instead of the stimulus,to build 500 nuclear reactors.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 10:06 AM (8HTq1)

133 131 I'm using that word sententious for every liberal who goes on a moral rant now.....
Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:06 AM (MY1T9)

Oooo, that's a great word of the day.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:07 AM (2Ojst)

134 The hard part about sententious is remember how to pronounce it without unlauts.

Sen-ten-chess, sen-ten-chess, sen-tin-cyrus

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:07 AM (MY1T9)

135 It is a truth universally acknowledged that what makes AoS unique in all the world is that both FS and Insomniac have made people feel better...with rants.

Counting blessings, and
Some people just need killin'.

We have made our bedlam, and now must lie in it. With a pergola over head.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 10:07 AM (xq1UY)

136 Fenelon, thanks for the perspective. For all my carping about IL gov't retirees, I am so grateful for my little, affordable hovel in the country, our good health, and the delicious fact that I am NOT married to a modern man. I'd take all that over a fat gov't pension without all that, esp the modern man part.

Posted by: Lizabth at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (L3Rsz)

137 500 nuclear power plants,they may have more than 1 reactor.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (8HTq1)

138 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?

That would be me. The thought never occurred to me. But with photoshop, how can one be certain that the image being served up really is the fem in question?

Anyway, at my age, once you have seen one or two they all start to look alike.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (O0koj)

139 Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 10:05 AM (LUgeY)

We had a geologist who's a member of the church come to speak to one of the confirmation classes and bring rock samples and talk about them. He said when he reads the account of creation in Genesis, he thinks of a orderly creation-that in order for their to plants there had to be a sun first, etc and so its not a handicap for his faith. It was one of the most interesting confirmation classes we had.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (GERXL)

140 >>>Paul Ryan and GOPe won't listen.
----------------------------

You are correct. And you would think what happened to Cantor would have made them stop and think about WTF they are doing. Obviously not.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (E+yET)

141 106 jwest, I do think that we need constructive solutions, not simple rage, that is for sure

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 09:59 AM (lVU49)


You need that little piece of rage to get them out of their chairs.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (Zs4uk)

142 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

*raises hand*

I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (2Ojst)

She has a decent body
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (gf8BH)



Just checked it out.

Yeah, decent body. A big part of that is that she's young and fit.

But, give her some years and she'll look a lot like Madonna-

a puppet made out of jerky.


Right now though - Rated: D for Doable.

Be sure to wrap it up though, cuz...well, you know...

Posted by: naturalfake at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (0cMkb)

143 Bedlam? So Hillary! in the Boris Karloff role?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (kVLm4)

144 I saw her, nothing to get excited over. Just think of a ironing board.

Posted by: Draki at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (MY1T9)

145 >>Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?


I'd like to just not see her - every picture of her (especially ones from her "performances" like MTV award show host - scream that she is headed for a melt-down. She's obviously on drugs, mixing with the wrong people and making all sorts of bad decisions. It's creepy, not sexy.

So tired of our culture creating these trainwrecks (see: Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, etc.) and then gleefully watching the very public psychotic breakdown.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

146 Heard one of the VW CEOs resigned. Wd have been better if he had gone out Breaking Bad Style!

No, not at all. The restrictions they put on emmissions in this country are ridiculous.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (iQIUe)

147
Anyway, at my age, once you have seen one or two they all start to look alike.
Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (O0koj

well, there isn't much to look at it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (E+yET)

148 Change up the narrative. We need bold ideas to grab the imagination of the country. Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 09:53 AM (Zs4uk)

--

I like the bold thinking. Clear narrative. Also part of the new narrative (especially after the Dem debate): Democrats want European budgeting in the U.S. Here's what it will cost... Democrats will need a Value Added Tax, they just won't tell you.

I don't know about privatizing education. We'd waste a lot of political capital on that. Reagan couldn't even close the Dept. of Ed and that was 35 more-conservative-America years ago.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (9KqcB)

149 So, kid the younger, who is in 9th grade, has been spouting a lot of pro-gay talking points lately, since school started. I have been listening and gently pointing out counter points and fallacies. Anyway, She confided in me recently that her best friend in school has decided she is gay. I guess that is where it is coming from. Sigh.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (cbfNE)

150 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH)

*raises hand*

I have no desire to see her naked, not even out of morbid curiosity.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:00 AM (2Ojst)

She has a decent body
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (gf8BH)


She's actually pretty too, when you get past the intentional mutilation of her hair, and the bizarre facial expressions (with tongue protrusion) she does in public.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (Dj0WE)

151 little, affordable hovel in the country

LOL. I have a decrepit old house in the suburbs, but it's home and although the taxes are terrible I don't have a mortgage or rent for which I am grateful

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (GERXL)

152 Instead of linking to Trashy again.

http://www.ufunk.net/insolite/halloween-girl-costumes/

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (kVLm4)

153 Love the fall. Looks like that painting around here right now.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (/tuJf)

154 Miley Cyrus makes me miss Hannah Montana.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (cbfNE)

155 VW should have Trumped that whole emission scam.

I actually admired the balls they had to do it, but their trying to throw a few engineers under the bus for it ensured I wouldn't buy a car under the VW aegis.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (CGjum)

156 152 Instead of linking to Trashy again.

http://www.ufunk.net/insolite/halloween-girl-costumes/
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:10 AM (kVLm4)

It's a little creepy juxtaposed with the little girls' costumes. Too much like Evolution of a Slut.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (2Ojst)

157 I feel you. Depression is the air I breathe; anger is my lifeblood.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 09:56 AM (2Ojst)


I wish I didn't feel like this; contrary to the apocryphal story about Lorenz Hart, I'm not "glad to be unhappy." I'm simply sick to death of getting up at 5 every morning to go to a job a hate surrounded by people I can't stand, then going home feeling as though I've flushed nine hours of my life down the toilet. I'm sick of being a chump, playing by the rules, when this rotten sinkhole of a state subsidizes - on my dime illegals, "handicapped" and parasites. I'm tired of spending my weekends lying in bed doing nothing because I haven't the energy toget up and then spending most of Sunday in a deep depression because I have to go to work the next day.

And that's not even scratching the surface. I haven't even talked about politics and my own rotten self.

Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

158 She has a decent body
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:02 AM (gf8BH)

A fight about her body, lol.
So much for crossbows/long bows, Navy/Army FB

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (E+yET)

159 >>>Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH) <<<



What... er... uh... yeah... sure... I haven't. No siree. Not at chance.

Posted by: Billy Ray at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (lqmAz)

160 Well privatizing education, and banning public sector unions, are the only real way to break the back of the Democrat Party. Those two sets of unions are the largest contributors by far to the Demonrats.

Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 10:13 AM (lVU49)

161 So neo-Feudalists calling themselves Progressives decided that America
had to be destroyed and Americans needed to be taken down a peg.


It's amazing what the leftists have accomplished. It could not have been easy to engineer the depression of the world's greatest economy and the simultaneous blackmail of the livelihood of their ideological enemies as a means to further their vacuous agenda. Who could have foreseen that the ones protesting for 'freedom' 10 years ago would so quickly advocate ending the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

But darned if they didn't pull it off.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 10:14 AM (0dcbp)

162 FYI - you should check out W. Bradford Wilcox on Twitter. He was a major mover on welfare reform, and is now passing on huge new studies on the link between marriage and fathers on kids and poverty (and schools).

This is one of those areas where the stats are on our side, the left is anti-science, and the inability for government money and programs (the entire Democrat platform) to make up the difference is clear. Might be worth touting.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:14 AM (9KqcB)

163 103 Is there anybody in this country with a computer who has not seen Cyrus naked?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 09:58 AM (gf8BH

Is there anyone who wants to see her naked?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 09:59 AM (E+yET)


Her dad.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:14 AM (X6fMO)

164 Oh FFS:

Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour.

http://bit.ly/1LvD58j

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (JtwS4)

165 "I don't know about privatizing education. We'd waste a lot of political capital on that. Reagan couldn't even close the Dept. of Ed and that was 35 more-conservative-America years ago. "

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (9KqcB)


Once the real cost per pupil per year is known, it will be relatively easy to make the change.

Over $30,000 in Baltimore, DC and NY.


Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (Zs4uk)

166 Insomniac, well duh? Nothing can be left alone from the march of over-sexualization... it's when the adult type costume starts being pushed on the junior miss crowd that well whoah Nelly...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (kVLm4)

167 The guy who gave us "Achy Breaky Heart" deserves that hell spawn.

Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (8HTq1)

168 Well privatizing education, and banning public sector unions, are the only real way to break the back of the Democrat Party. Those two sets of unions are the largest contributors by far to the Demonrats. Posted by: chemjeff at October 15, 2015 10:13 AM (lVU49)
___

As a school board member, I agree 1,000%. But you can defang public sector unions without privatizing schools.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (9KqcB)

169 So, kid the younger, who is in 9th grade, has been spouting a lot of pro-gay talking points lately, since school started. I have been listening and gently pointing out counter points and fallacies. Anyway, She confided in me recently that her best friend in school has decided she is gay. I guess that is where it is coming from. Sigh.


Posted by: @votermom



so hubbys former boss is super duper prog man, to the max. His kid went to school. Wifey insisted he go to boarding school. So he has a gay experience and announces he is gay. Family appears delighted by said announcement

a year later the kid is talking about bringing a girl home. The prog Dad says, "I thought you were gay?"

Prog son says, "Dad I was only 15, what did I know?"


well. a weird story. militates a bit against "born this way". who knows, he may swing back

another aquaintance had a daughter, with other issues like tourettes. Daughter when very young declared she wanted to be a boy and be treated like a boy and dress like a boy. She is pretty sporty, and pretty independent In the old days such a girl would be described as a "tomboy". Mother was convinced daughter was transgender. Saw girl ast month. Its been a couple of years. She i about 12 now. Long pretty hair. Dress. Makeup. Girly shoes


Parents would do their children a favor to take these phases a bit less seriously

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (zOTsN)

170 Psssst! Hey buddy! Wanna buy some lightly used umlauts? I got these here, fell of a truck down by the docks, yeah, that's it. They fell off a truck. Three for a dollar or if you buy in bulk you can get 10 for five dollars.

üüüüüü
üüüüüü

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (mvenn)

171 164 Oh FFS:

Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour
------------------------
That tactic worked out so well for John Mc Lame in 2008.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (E+yET)

172 >>>Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour.



http://bit.ly/1LvD58j

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (JtwS4)<<<

Excellent strategy.

Posted by: Juan McCain, 44th Preside... oh wait at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (lqmAz)

173
149 So, kid the younger, who is in 9th grade, has been spouting a lot of pro-gay talking points lately, since school started. I have been listening and gently pointing out counter points and fallacies. Anyway, She confided in me recently that her best friend in school has decided she is gay. I guess that is where it is coming from. Sigh.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (cbfNE)


Well, all "entertainment" creators appear to have embraced a "mandatory 20% ghey characters" mindset, thereby rendering their output way out of sync with reality.

When the memes and jokes about the ghey lifestyle become trite and boring to the masses this, too, will die.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (BK3ZS)

174 More lies -- First, from AP:

The footage also came a day after Iran's parliament approved the country's July 14 nuclear deal with six world powers.

Why is this a lie? It's a lie of omission. Now, from Breitbart we find out much more:

The Iranian parliament has rejected the formal, legal text of President Barack Obama's nuclear deal, negotiated in July by the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the Tehran regime.

Instead, the majilis approved their own version of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), creating a situation where the Iranian government simply hasn't signed on to the accord that Obama and Democratic Senators obligated the United States to uphold.


The Iranian parliament altered the deal further. Recall that our Congress could only override a veto of the deal with a 2/3 vote; no changes were allowed. But apparently the Iranians can pick and choose what they like of the deal, and that's before they start violating the parts they did agree to.

I guess the worst deal ever goes into effect Friday.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (gyKtp)

175 Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (cbfNE)

I know that people struggle with this and I have dear cousin who says he knew from the time he was young that he was gay. However, I do think that there are kids who just don't date and are not particularly all that interested in the opposite gender in a romantic way who probably would grow up to be straight without all the talk in school. I never went on a date until I was in college (i was never very good about picking up signals from people, I guess) but if I had decided that I was gay based on my lack of high school dating that would have been a problem.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (GERXL)

176 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing


I feel you. And you are not alone.
Find what you love and love it hard, brother. Even better if it loves you back.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (0dcbp)

177 Ben Carson was never a serious candidate. It was foolish of the Republicans to let him on the stage

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (HCx2I)

178 ...It was one of the most interesting confirmation classes we had.

Being a machinist for as long as I was, rocks have always held a certain interest for me, since that's where all the metal I worked came from.

Especially the ones in my head.

This planet is a truly wondrous thing. How some people can not look around and marvel at it is a mystery to me. So many way kewl things...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (LUgeY)

179 As a school board member, I agree 1,000%. But you can defang public sector unions without privatizing schools.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (9KqcB)


When the parent has a check in their hand every year that can be spent anywhere they want, the free market will take care of everything else.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (Zs4uk)

180 Anyway, She confided in me recently that her best friend in school has decided she is gay. I guess that is where it is coming from. Sigh.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:09 AM (cbfNE)
----------------------------------------------------

How in all that is holy does a 9th grader know something like that? Give yourself a chance kid!

Do your homework, stay out of trouble, have a little fun and see where you land at about 25 years old. Sheesh.

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (TxJGV)

181 Parents would do their children a favor to take these phases a bit less seriously

Very well said.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (GERXL)

182 The guy who gave us "Achy Breaky Heart"


****


I've had that particular ear worm since 1992. Make it stop!!!!!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (mvenn)

183 Morning all. Here's an overly long comment I just need to get out there.
Q. What's the fundamental difference between a true free market, freedom loving conservative and a dedicated leftist/progressive/socialist?
A. I propose that conservatives are driven by facts, and leftists are driven by emotion. I'm not saying any this is absolute, but, in general, this is the crux of the divide.
Assuming the above is true, why do we as conservatives, continue to try to argue facts to emotion based bots? The facts will be disputed by the academic "experts," ignored or misinterpreted by the media, and answered with emotional based appeals by the leftists. And, they win doing this.
Why can't we play that game?
By some accounts, the TV commercial that got Ronnie elected was "There's a bear in the woods" ad. It was pure emotion. Never called the USSR out by name, didn't give a bunch of stats about the tyranny and poverty of Communism. But it worked. Because that's what the cultural takeover has taught the sheep: Don't let facts get in the way. If it feels good, do it. If it looks bad, do something, OR, enable the government to do something. Anything. At any cost.
It seems like we need to play that game if we have any hope of recapturing what this nation stood for.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (5buP8)

184 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

It helps to get it out of your system. I can relate to most of what you say here. You're NOT just spinning your wheels, believe it or not, but your direction might not be clear. Take time off. Center yourself. Think about where you are and where you want to be and who you want to go with you. Set feasible goals and set out to accomplish them. Don't let the exhaustion overwhelm you.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (RD7QR)

185 I didnt mean you voter mom. But while I think some gay people are "born this way", I think a lot are not but instead are shaped by experience.

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (zOTsN)

186 Bay Bridge in Oakland Ca rusting 6.5 Billion China rust bucket,
so they got that to deal with now..

Posted by: ACE ADvertising cookies co at October 15, 2015 10:19 AM (S1WrL)

187 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.

You'll always have the Horde.

Serious advice: get moving. Take hikes on weekends. Hit a gym if you can. Flowing blood clears cobwebs out of the brain.

Progress starts a positive reinforcement loop.

You've been talking like this for a while, bra. Shake things up.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 10:19 AM (JtwS4)

188 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

First of all, (((hugs))))

Second, try prayer. A trick of mine, when battling negative emotions, is to pray mentally with slow measured breathing - example:
Our (inhale)
Father (exhale)
Who (inhale)
And so on. By the time you go thru the Lord's Prayer you will be in a calmer, more peaceful state.
If you don't like prayer, you could try it with a favorite poem.

I will pray for you also.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:19 AM (cbfNE)

189 dots!

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 15, 2015 10:20 AM (0O7c5)

190 And thanks, thunder.B for those stories about teens . They are very instructive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:20 AM (GERXL)

191 Parents would do their children a favor to take these phases a bit less seriously

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (zOTsN)
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Totally agree, except for the "law breaking" or "druggie" phases. Those, you have to get right on I suppose.

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 10:20 AM (TxJGV)

192 Hey everyone, go and buy Mary Poppin's book!

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/0982770944

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (kVLm4)

193 >>Parents would do their children a favor to take these phases a bit less seriously


Amen!


My super-progressive cousin did this with her painfully shy son - she kept telling him "It's OK if you're gay, I'll love you no matter what, do you want to take a boy to prom? etc."
Finally his older sister screamed at her, "He's not gay, mom, he's just SHY!"

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (NOIQH)

194 Once the real cost per pupil per year is known, it will be relatively easy to make the change. Over $30,000 in Baltimore, DC and NY.
Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (Zs4uk)

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PAis in the top 10 of per pupil spending yet a Democrat was still elected governorrunning on "lack of funding for schools."Most people still think more money = better schools. We have a huge awareness-raising job ahead of us, but I'd be for it. Politicians are quite nervous about making this argument and that needs to change.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (9KqcB)

195 @167 Not fair. The guy who wrote "Achy Breaky Heart" went to my high school, and served in Vietnam. Lives a quiet life in southern Tenn.

Billy Ray don't write no songs.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (xq1UY)

196 Hah!

I knew that if I was just patient, and lurked quietly, that someone would give away the secret.

ü

[fingers crossed, breathing suspended, agonizing over clicking 'post', remembering the Jurassic park movie quote "hang onto your butts"]

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (O0koj)

197 "I don't know about privatizing education. We'd waste a lot of political capital on that. Reagan couldn't even close the Dept. of Ed and that was 35 more-conservative-America years ago. "

It would only be a waste if we failed.

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (KUaJL)

198 Telegraph 13 Feb 2014 - being homosexual is only partly due to gay gene. (It's 40%)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 15, 2015 10:22 AM (HCx2I)

199 Being a machinist for as long as I was, rocks have always held a certain interest for me, since that's where all the metal I worked came from.

I used to call on a mining equipment company. They had a sign in their reception area: "If you can't grow it, you have to mine it." That always made me think.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:22 AM (5buP8)

200 174 I guess the worst deal ever goes into effect Friday.


Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (gyKtp)
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From your post it sure doesn't sound like a "deal". It sounds like a White House press release gone wrong.

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (TxJGV)

201 Who volunteers for all of these studies where they mess with your brain?

"Sign right here and by the time we're done, you'll be an unthinking, feel good Leftist."

Posted by: WOPR at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (LTDSy)

202 at the risk of offending some people I do think that some girls without experience with boys may think they must be gay

I know boys who have been homosexually molested think they might be gay

what I am trying to say is that sexuality is a bit more fluid than just "born this way"

sometimes the tree grows as it is bent

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (zOTsN)

203 >>I didnt mean you voter mom. But while I think some gay people are "born this way", I think a lot are not but instead are shaped by experience.


And recruited while still forming their sexual identity. Zombie has written about that.
There's a lot of pressure to be gay/bi-sexual - generally open to all options to show that you're "tolerant."

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (NOIQH)

204 If anyone thinks that finding the gay gene coupled with abortion on demand won't destroy the gay community, they're fooling themselves.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (CGjum)

205 How in all that is holy does a 9th grader know something like that? Give yourself a chance kid!

--

The friend first thought herself bi, then decided she was actually gay. I have no idea. She is a quiet, very brainy young girl, really advanced in Math, so she may be an over-thinker.

I am selfishly glad my own kid moons over cute pop star boys right now.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:24 AM (cbfNE)

206 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

Sorry for your troubles, MPPP. You do have people to confide in. You have us and I'm sure others can relate.

I will pray that rough places are made smooth for you.

Is there any chance you have underly depression that is exacerbated situationally?. I am affected by Seasonal Affective Disorder so this time of year is always a bit hard for me

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:24 AM (GERXL)

207
So, Viagra is a vasodialator and cocaine is a vasoconstricter? If Odom had laid off the crack he wouldnt have needed the herbal viagra?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:24 AM (iQIUe)

208 >>The Iranian parliament altered the deal further. Recall that our Congress could only override a veto of the deal with a 2/3 vote; no changes were allowed. But apparently the Iranians can pick and choose what they like of the deal, and that's before they start violating the parts they did agree to.

As I've been saying all along, pretending the US Congress ever had a say in what was going on with this deal was a waste of time. Obama's goal was to crash the international sanctions agreement because the sanctions only mattered if all of the Security Council powers kept up their end of the sanctions.

This is why Obama had the negotiations with the p5+1 and took the agreement to the UN before going to congress. Once they voted to agree to the terms, which was it's own form of kabuki since they helped negotiate the deal, the game was over.

Before the ink was even dry on the agreement Russia was making arms deals with Iran and particularly with the Quds Force. And now we have Iranian soldiers fighting side by side with Russian soldiers in Syria.

Obama told Vlad he would have more flexibility after the election and he delivered.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (/tuJf)

209 MP...yup, many feel that way. That bitterness. Ugh. I fight it fairly often. Some days are better than others, but sometimes that feeling of injustice just lopes up and smacks you in your head, hard. It's debilitating on those days..it saps your strength and your motive to do anything.

Posted by: Lizabth at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (L3Rsz)

210 And from Washington Free Bacon comes this gem re the latest intifada in Israel:

"Individuals on both sides of this divide are - have proven capable of, and in our view, are guilty of acts of terrorism," State Department Spokesman John Kirby told reporters following questions about the spike in violence.

Those damn Israelis, daring to thrust their necks into the paths of knives and thus hurting the wrists of innocent Palis.

Fuck this Administration in particular.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (gyKtp)

211 Hell, some people are more asexual looking for a best friend.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (CGjum)

212 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

No apology necessary. If you ever want to talk about it in confidence, my email is (hopefully) linked below. I've had similar feelings about work, and definitely about feeling like a chump for playing by the rules and doing right, only to get f*cked for it in the end.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (2Ojst)

213 sometimes the tree grows as it is bent

Exactly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (GERXL)

214 Hey Oregon, a dead mouse found in the spinach on a guy's Subway sub? Geez, like totally yuck!

And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)

215 Damn, didn't work. Let me try again.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:26 AM (2Ojst)

216 OK this is winning - Povitica bread. Never heard the name before, though the idea is familiar.

http://is.gd/a5u8TM

Posted by: Bigby's High Five at October 15, 2015 10:27 AM (3ZtZW)

217 Finally his older sister screamed at her, "He's not gay, mom, he's just SHY!"

Good point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:27 AM (GERXL)

218 And so on. By the time you go thru the Lord's Prayer you will be in a calmer, more peaceful state.

I thot MP3 was of the Tribe? (Not that they don't probably have a prayer that would work for that.)

Seriously, I feel ya. Ten years ago and change I lost my longest job at a place that shut down, after years of fighting shit I see writ large on the nation now. It was futility, I hated it, I hated myself...that place closing down and letting me move on was, in a real sense, the best thing that could have happened to me. (Though with everything else at the time, I could hardly have understood...)

The Horde is here for ya. You Are Not Alone.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 15, 2015 10:27 AM (9krrF)

219 When the parent has a check in their hand every year that can be spent anywhere they want, the free market will take care of everything else. Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (Zs4uk)

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That's great but, right now, you won't getelected making such a libertarian argument. We're not there yet.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:27 AM (9KqcB)

220 PAis in the top 10 of per pupil spending yet a Democrat was still elected governorrunning on "lack of funding for schools."Most people still think more money = better schools. We have a huge awareness-raising job ahead of us, but I'd be for it. Politicians are quite nervous about making this argument and that needs to change.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (9KqcB)


School districts skillfully lie about how much is spent per pupil. They obscure the books, don't include property and maintenance, hide money coming from grants and other programs and generally bullshit to keep the figure as low as possible.

The Washington Post reported on the work the Cato Institute did on researching what a number of school districts around the country were actually spending. If parents had the same amount of money in a voucher, they could send their kid to the most expensive private schools available.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (Zs4uk)

221 sometimes the tree grows as it is bent

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (zOTsN)
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Agree. Gore Vidal, a famously gay man, wrote extensively in his memoires about this, and he also agreed.

Posted by: MTF at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (TxJGV)

222 If anyone thinks that finding the gay gene coupled with abortion on demand won't destroy the gay community, they're fooling themselves.

They'll switch out to "in utero influences". (Which to be honest, I suspect to be closer to the truth anyway.)

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (9krrF)

223 "Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour "



Umm. I don't think that's how this works.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (LA7Cm)

224 166 Insomniac, well duh? Nothing can be left alone from the march of over-sexualization... it's when the adult type costume starts being pushed on the junior miss crowd that well whoah Nelly...
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (kVLm4)

From what I've seen, it's already been moving in that direction.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (2Ojst)

225 @MPPP

I would concur with Joncelli. You have a core set of beliefs, that you have shown us here on this site. Trust in that core. You will be surprised at the peace that you can find in that. Keep the job in perspective.

Endeavor to persevere, because at the end of the day that is what life is about.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 10:29 AM (mvenn)

226 Ben Carson was never a serious candidate. It was foolish of the Republicans to let him on the stage
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo

Cause it woulda gone over soooo well not "letting him on the stage".

And Kaisch is? Trump? Santorum?

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 10:29 AM (326rv)

227 167 The guy who gave us "Achy Breaky Heart" deserves that hell spawn.
Posted by: steevy at October 15, 2015 10:16 AM (8HTq1)

It's too bad because his other songs / albums are pretty good.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 10:30 AM (D/1P4)

228 Yeah, I'd be more focused on what *you* have to take up with God than the people of TX who are executing you.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 09:39 AM (NOIQH)


That's how you know he isn't sorry...

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 10:30 AM (lIU4e)

229 It seems like we need to play that game if we have any hope of recapturing what this nation stood for.Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:18 AM (5buP

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Start with the premise that the U.S. in 2015, culture and government, is the sum total of progressive politics over 40 years. Make them own it. They should never be allowed to portray themselves as the agents of change. We are, believe it or not, the counter-culture.

Posted by: CJ at October 15, 2015 10:31 AM (9KqcB)

230 Lizabeth, replying to yours last thread...we're right across the river in Iowa.

Posted by: creeper at October 15, 2015 10:31 AM (GVsYM)

231 It would only be a waste if we failed.
Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (KUaJL)

It won't work because a lot of middle class people who have spent a small fortune on picking a neighborhood with good schools for their kids, don't want a bunch of kids from bad schools. I've seen it happen and it doesn't take many kids to ruin a school. Most bad schools are bad for a reason and changing surroundings won't help unless schools are able to pick-and-choose.

Posted by: WOPR at October 15, 2015 10:31 AM (LTDSy)

232 Looks like a couple of sniper scope flashes just above the pots.

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 15, 2015 10:32 AM (ck8TA)

233 Re the education thing, I find myself having to deprogram my kids sometimes. I've tried pretty hard to inoculate them from the idiotic liberal bullshit that gets taught. Most of the time it has seemed to work, especially on things like global warming, but I have to stay vigilant.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:33 AM (2Ojst)

234 Suspend Campaign? What does that even mean?
Carson will get more publicity on his book tour than he will on the campaign trail. Much to do about nothing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 10:33 AM (gf8BH)

235 Ben Carson was never a serious candidate. It was foolish of the Republicans to let him on the stage

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 15, 2015 10:17 AM (HCx2I)


Define "serious."

Weathercock Graham is certainly not a "serious" candidate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:33 AM (X6fMO)

236 I watched the first episode of a canadian show that got good reviews called Romeos. It's about the people they use for honey pots in the espionage biz. Some of the actors I have see before. But if you are going to hire good looking actors, why make them look sleezy? I felt like I was watching porn with not the best looking people. Odd.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:34 AM (iQIUe)

237
Umm. I don't think that's how this works.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 15, 2015 10:28 AM (LA7Cm)


He's running a strong second.

How's your campaign going?

Posted by: blaster at October 15, 2015 10:34 AM (2Ocf1)

238 I thought all Canadian honeypots looked like Fred Garvin: male prostitute.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM (CGjum)

239 Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:15 AM (kVLm4)

I was thinking the other day that this would be a good business-costumes for kids that are not "Young Miss slut". Costumes based on outstanding historical figures, or people could pay you to design a costume based on someone in their family tree who was admirable. The problem is I don't sew and you need lots of people in a factory to do that. I think this would be a niche market.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM (GERXL)

240 The show is actually called: The Romeo Section

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM (iQIUe)

241 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.
I feel you, man. I'm in sales, and I have a really good, (great) job. I literally have 4 opportunities right in front of me where I can truly MAKE $$ for me and my company. And it's taking every ounce of motivation to engage. I feel utterly defeated by circumstances beyond my control. This description of depression always gets me: "People say, snap out of it, come out of the darkness. They don't understand, I am the darkness."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM (5buP8)

242 I only skimmed the povitica bread recipe but seems like it would need some type of sticky sweet sauce topping.

Seems like it might be good (warm) with ice cream.


I am so fracking hungry...

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 10:36 AM (O0koj)

243 Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:23 AM (zOTsN)

I agree with you. I don't believe in "born this way" except maybe for a very few where there is genetic anomaly or exposure to some bad chemical / drug in utero.

I have a dear nephew who is gay - I totally blame his dad, my POS BIL - stereotypical macho rage guy.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:36 AM (cbfNE)

244 It won't work because a lot of middle class people who have spent a small fortune on picking a neighborhood with good schools for their kids, don't want a bunch of kids from bad schools. I've seen it happen and it doesn't take many kids to ruin a school. Most bad schools are bad for a reason and changing surroundings won't help unless schools are able to pick-and-choose.

Posted by: WOPR at October 15, 2015 10:31 AM (LTDSy)


I don't think you're grasping the concept of privatized schools.

The one you may pick for your kid might be a total of 12 pupils, run in a storefront at the corner of your street. Another might have 300, housed in a former public school facility. It's up to the parents.

Of course, there is also home schooling.

As long as the kid passes a standardized test at the end of the year, the voucher keep coming. If not, a public supervisor uses the voucher on behalf of the kid.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:36 AM (Zs4uk)

245 I'm guessing that Blackface, carrying a #BLM sign would not be seen as paying a positive tribute to protestors.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:37 AM (VPLuQ)

246 Barky's foreign policy is lackofpointalism.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 15, 2015 10:37 AM (lKSyl)

247 FenelonSpoke, you do like everyone else. Do the design work here in the US and a couple test samples. Then find a company in the PRC to outsource to since the labor, material, and shipping costs would be cheaper. And hope your PRC supplier does not cheat you and sells the same costume on eBay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:37 AM (kVLm4)

248 Re my #245.

I guess I should have mentioned that the topic was halloween costumes.


Moor Coffee!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (VPLuQ)

249 or if a gay gene is isolated it could be that people like Sally Kohn would select an embryo for homosexuality


I think gender selection of children and all other manners of designer babies are missing the point of becoming a parent


I never learned more about my strengths and weaknesses as a person than I did when I became a parent

I never knew how patient I could be, or how flexible or how strong

I believe everything happens for a reason and that God puts these people and these children in my life to teach me, stretch me, move me

If all the people in my life were exactly like me, this growth prolly would not occur.

If I could take away some of the struggles of my Aspie son would I? Yes, it would be irresistible. But then I would change who he is. There are things we need to learn from each other. We do not grow in the easy times, but in the challanging ones

so whether your kid is gay or straight or has tourettes or is an aspie or has won the genetic lottery they are here for a reason

and it shouldnt be up to us to decide what that is

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (zOTsN)

250 A man's gotta eat.

Posted by: Randy at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (2cS/G)

251 I feel utterly defeated by circumstances beyond my control. This description of depression always gets me: "People say, snap out of it, come out of the darkness. They don't understand, I am the darkness."
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM (5buP

Someone made a cartoon along those lines - if people treated other illness like depression:

http://tinyurl.com/o2y352f

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (2Ojst)

252 And yes I am being snarky, but I think the point is that the guys who are running their campaigns the way that campaigns are run are not doing so well.


Posted by: blaster at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (2Ocf1)

253 Finally his older sister screamed at her, "He's not gay, mom, he's just SHY!"

Same parents that will encourage their little mush-heads when they want tattoos and tunnel-plugs.

"Are you sure that you don't want to stick your tongue in another boy's mouth, Johnny? Because stuffing you into a convenient PC 'gay' box would make my life as a parent SO much easier!'

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (0dcbp)

254 Aaaand for my final outrage of the day so far, I found this blurb:

A just-released inspector general report found that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is conducting a massive consumer data-mining operation without the security safeguards to protect the sensitive data from cyberattacks.

The CFPB is collecting and stockpiling more than 600 million credit card accounts, along with personal data from millions of mortgage loans,...


from Investors Business Daily

http://tinyurl.com/njj33as

Now, the IG report is about lack of cyber security for this data mining operation; but my freakin' concern is the data mining itself. The Feds are hoovering all our credit records and personal data.

Just fucking great. I'm sure that will turn out okay.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (gyKtp)

255 Mornin' horde. So, my mom and I have had a long standing agreement to not talk politics, because frankly, she's to the left of Bernie Sanders. Anyhoo, the other day she sends me the NYT article by David Brooks "The Republicans' Incompetence Caucus." A particularly hilarious line: "Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism." Oh, David, David, David....To be regarded as such an expert on what's happening on the right, and be so incredibly off....but yeah, I know he gets invited on shows like PBS's Newshour because he says crap like that.

Posted by: Mainah at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (659DL)

256 Well, thanks for the advice; It's good advice and I did think about the PRC, but I don't have the capitol to start that right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (GERXL)

257 Tom Wolf is the devil.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (cbfNE)

258 Speaking of Presidential candidates, John Cox gets in on the act with a cartoon.

http://www.johncoxart.com/2015/10/uber_potus.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (kVLm4)

259 "Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour "

Ya, that's a mistake. He should make the book tour part of his campaign, and the campaign part of selling the book, because what he has written in the book is part of why he is running for president.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim at October 15, 2015 10:40 AM (O0koj)

260 today i had perfectly planned down to the last detail...which is not how i usually do things....it's the one day i don't have time for anything extra to be added to my plate....i've already been hit with three extras.....i have a feeling it's going to be a long day......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 15, 2015 10:40 AM (0O7c5)

261 Pretty, but a bit pixilated for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 10:40 AM (9mTYi)

262 258 Speaking of Presidential candidates, John Cox gets in on the act with a cartoon.

http://www.johncoxart.com/2015/10/uber_potus.html
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (kVLm4)

Of the late great Cox and Forkum?

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:40 AM (2Ojst)

263 Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (zOTsN)

Great post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:40 AM (GERXL)

264 Never did get around to seeing his tv show- Doc Cyrus, Medicine Mullet

Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 10:41 AM (zxnPQ)

265 Insomniac, yes of Cox and Forkum.

FenelonSpoke what you could do is look around locally. Bet someone is also doing the niche market thing with the PRC. Ask them for advice and see if they are willing to discuss costs. Heck you might find someone willing to bankroll you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:42 AM (kVLm4)

266 Posted by: WOPR at October 15, 2015 10:31 AM (LTDSy)

When you say it won't work, do you mean to say that we'd never be able to get something like that passed or that if we did, it wouldn't improve things much?

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 10:43 AM (KUaJL)

267 >>>Barky's foreign policy is lackofpointalism.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 15, 2015 10:37 AM (lKSyl)<<<



More like disappointalism.

Posted by: fixed for accuracy at October 15, 2015 10:43 AM (lqmAz)

268 FenelonSpoke what you could do is look around locally. Bet someone is also doing the niche market thing with the PRC. Ask them for advice and see if they are willing to discuss costs. Heck you might find someone willing to bankroll you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:42 AM (kVLm4)

What about kickstarter or gofundme?

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:43 AM (2Ojst)

269
Oh FFS: Ben Carson suspends his campaign for his book tour.
http://bit.ly/1LvD58j
Posted by: Bandersnatch



No, not quite -- but Lord knows that's the GOPe spin this morning.

He's suspending public events ala rallies, but still doing fundraising and free media -- the chat shows and such.

Not saying I agree with his strategy, unless the Feds have told him he has a co-mingling problem with his book/campaign, but it's not Mccain acting like he had to get back to the War Room to save the county.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 10:44 AM (kdS6q)

270 Fenelon, another idea would be just to start selling on Etsy, if you sew?

ThunderB, what a great post.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:44 AM (cbfNE)

271 I kind of wonder if, twenty years hence, the current mania for celebrating "transgenders" will be seen as a silly fad like coonskin caps and goldfish swallowing.

Posted by: V the K at October 15, 2015 10:44 AM (O7MnT)

272
HI-HO-

Posted by: Silver at October 15, 2015 10:44 AM (HSmrB)

273 Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:43 AM (2Ojst)

Well, I'm trying t get this drama ministry going right now (which is an attempt to make some income as well as being a ministry) so I don't know how many things I can do at the moment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:45 AM (GERXL)

274 Well, I'm trying t get this drama ministry going right now (which is an attempt to make some income as well as being a ministry) so I don't know how many things I can do at the moment.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:45 AM (GERXL)

Fair enough. Only so many hours in the day, as they say.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:46 AM (2Ojst)

275 "will be seen as a silly fad like coonskin caps and goldfish swallowing."

*squints*

*Re-reads*

Oh, you said Goldfish swallowing.


Never mind.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:46 AM (VPLuQ)

276 Bedlam? So Hillary! in the Boris Karloff role?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:08 AM (kVLm4)


And Brian Dennehy as The Beaver.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 15, 2015 10:46 AM (wKcQA)

277 271 I kind of wonder if, twenty years hence, the current mania for celebrating "transgenders" will be seen as a silly fad like coonskin caps and goldfish swallowing.

--

I suspect it will be seen more like old fads like elective lobotomies and radium infused tonics.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (cbfNE)

278 Mrs. Chupacabra just picked up 15 lbs of Halloween candy at BJ's. Hopefully that'll do; the last couple years that was barely enough.

While it's nice to have that many trick-or-treaters, I sometimes do miss my suburbs Halloweens with 20ish kids.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (CGjum)

279 Just fucking great. I'm sure that will turn out okay.


Believe it or don't: this is the end game of Common Core. Big.(f'ng). Data. With the goal in mind of centralized, work force planning. Because that worked out so well for China and USSR* et al. That's one thing that always get me about progs: They think they can make the unworkable work. because they're *this*much smarter. They're not.
*I have a good friend who is Russian. Her father, then a mechanical engineer was forced to emigrate to Kazakhstan. To drive a cab. They made it to America. he owns his own cab company now and employs about 10 drivers.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (5buP8)

280 *pauses*

Etsy? Fenelonspoke would still have to find someone to sew until they learned how to.

GoFundMe or Kickstarter? "Hi I need to raise moolah to pay the Chinese to make Halloween costumes because Made in America is way too expensive."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (kVLm4)

281 The 911 operator sounded very nice (who spoke with "Too High" 22 year old). I bet she is a good person. /completely serious, no sarcasm

Posted by: Baldy at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (sEXjW)

282 Fenelon, another idea would be just to start selling on Etsy, if you sew?

Nope; I can sew on a button, darn socks and sew up a hem manually. That's it.

So someone else let me know if you like this idea and we can do it together maybe.

Or if someone steals it I'm going to come over and break your kneecaps. J/K. I'm a fairly peaceful person mostly

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:48 AM (GERXL)

283 >>Ben Carson was never a serious candidate. It was foolish of the Republicans to let him on the stage


I'm glad Carson was/is in the race - it's shows that the GOP thinks outside of the box - that people who are not career politicians can have a voice and are appreciated (based on poll #s).

I don't want Carson as president, but I've enjoyed him being in the race - especially more recently when he's managed to get really feisty over PP, guns (finally got a clue), and Islam - all while maintaining his zen-like clam.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:48 AM (NOIQH)

284 Telegraph 13 Feb 2014 - being homosexual is only partly due to gay gene. (It's 40%)


Wouldn't you need to identify a ghey gene before you could make that determination?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 15, 2015 10:49 AM (evdj2)

285 Gots to run

Got assigned a guy with ocular gonorrhea -- I'm thrilled, actually, since I never get to see such a thing...

Posted by: Bigby's High Five at October 15, 2015 10:49 AM (3ZtZW)

286 long dong

Posted by: silver at October 15, 2015 10:50 AM (m1pMI)

287 Joe Rogan had this bit where he was of the opinion that there are gay guys, but then there are also a lot of straight guys that were fooled by really crafty gay guys.

Surprisingly he's never had any SJW backlash for that, but I don't think they really listen to him, anyways.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:50 AM (CGjum)

288 >>Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM


Very well said, ThunderB!

There's such delight in kids as the express their own personality, right from the get-go. They will not be molding into what you want or expect (which is a good thing)!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:50 AM (NOIQH)

289 We'll keep an eye out for you, Bigby.

Posted by: just the punchline at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (m1pMI)

290 how on earth?

ocular gonorrhea?

I dont want to know

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (zOTsN)

291 -
Got assigned a guy with ocular gonorrhea -- I'm thrilled, actually, since I never get to see such a thing...

Posted by: Bigby's High Five at October 15, 2015 10:49 AM
---------------

Tell him he doesn't need to stick his head in that far.

Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (pMGkg)

292 ocular gonorrhea??

Oh dear, where has his hand been?

No, really. Don;t answer that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (kVLm4)

293 "all while maintaining his zen-like clam."

Is there some other type of clam?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (VPLuQ)

294
And because polls are getting scant attention because the wrong guy is still ahead:

Donald Trump is holding double-digit leads over Ben Carson in the early-voting states of Nevada and South Carolina, according to a CNN/ORC poll released on Wednesday.

The GOP White House front-runner has 36-percent support from Republican voters in South Carolina, the third state to vote in the presidential primary. He is followed by retired neurosurgeon Carson with 18 percent support, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at 9 percent, former business executive Carly Fiorina at 7 percent, and former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.) with 6 percent support.

In Nevada, the fourth state to vote, Trump garners 38-percent support, followed by Carson at 22 percent, Fiorina with 8-percent support, Rubio with 7 percent, and Bush with 6-percent support.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (kdS6q)

295 One day I will conquer tiny.url but in the mean time if you want to expand your knowledge google up European map quiz and take the lizard point quiz.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (D/1P4)

296 214
And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)



There is a bear in the mall...

Posted by: rickl at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (zoehZ)

297 "today i had perfectly planned down to the last detail...which is not how i usually do things....it's the one day i don't have time for anything extra to be added to my plate....i've already been hit with three extras.....i have a feeling it's going to be a long day......-- phoenixgirl"

That will teach you to plan.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at October 15, 2015 10:52 AM (uhftQ)

298
Kosovo MPs stage second tear gas protest in parliament

http://f24.my/1OEZ8KX

heh

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:52 AM (iQIUe)

299 Ugh - I can't type today. SO many typos!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:52 AM (NOIQH)

300 Has he tried, you know, not having ocular gonorrhea?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:52 AM (CGjum)

301 Homosexuality may just be exposure to female hormones in utero, or maybe there's a genetic component, and there's certainly a nurture component. It's probably a combination of all of the above. I wonder if there's been a study correlating homosexuality with birth order?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 10:52 AM (RD7QR)

302 293 "all while maintaining his zen-like clam."

Is there some other type of clam?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:51 AM (VPLuQ)

Bearded.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:53 AM (2Ojst)

303 There is a bear in the mall...

Damn you Thunder Stealer!!

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:53 AM (5buP8)

304 If you think you are having a bad day, you could be Lamar Odom.

Guy just wanted to take some viagra, snort some blow and hangout with some hookers for a few days and now he's in a coma with a Kardashian making his life and death health care decisions.

Now that is a bad day.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 10:53 AM (/tuJf)

305 My super-progressive cousin did this with her painfully shy son - she kept telling him "It's OK if you're gay, I'll love you no matter what, do you want to take a boy to prom? etc."

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

It's amazing how liberals can insult and humiliate people, and they think they're being compassionate. That sort of thing can be demoralizing.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:53 AM (E5UB0)

306 "zen-like ocular gonorrhea"???

maybe I should re-read the thread...

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2015 10:53 AM (ZQfW9)

307 PAis in the top 10 of per pupil spending yet a Democrat was still elected governorrunning on "lack of funding for schools."

-
Our policies haven't worked but give us more money to pursue the same policies and then, boy howdy, look out!

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (lKSyl)

308 >>Is there some other type of clam?

*Blinks. Points at Hillary*

Clam --> CALM

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (NOIQH)

309 Nope; I can sew on a button, darn socks and sew up a hem manually. That's it.

--

Me too!
I have mental block about sewing machines. Maybe I should give it another try.

Maybe we can sub-con the Amish.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (cbfNE)

310 I hope MPPP is saying...

"I hate my work, but at least I don't have ocular gonorrhea."

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (Zs4uk)

311 GoFundMe or Kickstarter? "Hi I need to raise moolah to pay the Chinese to make Halloween costumes because Made in America is way too expensive."
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM (kVLm4)

I don't see the need to get into detail about offshore manufacture...

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (2Ojst)

312 Hastert has pleaded guilty to giving out hush money to "someone he has wronged in the past".

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (E5UB0)

313 Remain clam, all is shell.

Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (pMGkg)

314 The clams are not calm.

I repeat the clams are not calm.

Posted by: AOSHQ codespeak at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (lqmAz)

315 Someone made a cartoon along those lines - if people treated other illness like depression:
http://tinyurl.com/o2y352f
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:38 AM (2Ojst)


Yes. But if you have mild depression, something like exercise really can help. If you have a stronger form you probably need medication, therapy, or preferably both.

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (lIU4e)

316 MPPP-that could have been my husband writing that. Prayers for you, both for peace in your job now, and for a new direction-what hubby and I are praying for, and what I am praying for my best friend, as well. It seems like there is greater dissatisfaction in work now, than ever before.

So vent here all you like. We don't seem to be a judgy group, more like a (sometimes) foul-mouthed support group. Who pray.

Posted by: Moki at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (x303I)

317 313 Remain clam, all is shell.
Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (pMGkg)

The world is your oyster! Dead, cold, slimy, and damn near impossible to open...

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (2Ojst)

318
BUY

Posted by: Silver at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (HSmrB)

319 ocular gonorrhea?


Stinkeye

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (evdj2)

320 312 Hastert has pleaded guilty to giving out hush money to "someone he has wronged in the past".
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (E5UB0)

Interesting to see if he gets jail time.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (RD7QR)

321
-
Hastert has pleaded guilty to giving out hush money to "someone he has wronged in the past".

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM
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What law did he break?

Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 10:56 AM (pMGkg)

322 And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)

The Bear is on the Loose!

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (WDySP)

323 You know what they say, "You can take the Daddy out of the trailerpark..."

Posted by: Fritz at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (UzPAd)

324 *bangs head into keyboard* RETOIUWRTVGY(TEDG

Bill Murray is having a Christmas special on Netflix. Milky Virus and George Clooney will also be in it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (kVLm4)

325 Anyhoo, the other day she sends me the NYT article by David Brooks "The Republicans' Incompetence Caucus." A particularly hilarious line: "Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing radicalism."

Here's what I would do (but, remember, I'm a reich-wing monster who lives the honey badger lifestyle). Tell Mom, "Hey, Mom, I got that David Brooks article you sent me. Do you know what he admitted impressed him the most about Obama? His pant creases! Yes, really! He admitted that in public! Now, if you're willing to take the word of somebody who thinks the only qualification for the presidency is a well-pressed pair of pants, that's your problem. I'd prefer to read a more serious thinker. Pee Wee Herman, for example."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (X6fMO)

326 >>What law did he break?

Structured payments which is a bullshit law.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (/tuJf)

327 "so whether your kid is gay or straight or has tourettes or is an aspie or has won the genetic lottery they are here for a reason

and it shouldnt be up to us to decide what that is"

Amen. Sometimes my aspie son drives me crazy, but then so do all my "normal" kids at some point or another.

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 10:58 AM (GZ6Pf)

328 >>I wonder if there's been a study correlating homosexuality with birth order?

There will be no studies because incorrect results will get you shunned from polite society. Just ask the people who have studied families w/ gay parents vs. heterosexual parents.

Knew a guy whose uncle was a twin. The identical twin was gay. The straight twin had four kids - 3 of them are gay. Made me wonder about nature/genetics in that case.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:58 AM (NOIQH)

329 http://f24.my/1OEZ8KX

The separatists are mad because of a new set of separatists want to separate from
them.

Posted by: The Peoples Popular Front for the total liberation of oppressed Umlauts at October 15, 2015 10:58 AM (kLrYQ)

330 Not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but does anyone remember the period right before AIDS really hit, when many gay activists were saying that gay men should wear STD's with pride?

Whenever I ponder that, all I can think of is: butthole herpes.

I've dealt with cold sores my entire life, and those things hurt like a son-of-a-bitch.

But I don't have to poop across them.

So there's a bright point in life.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 10:58 AM (CGjum)

331 " Bearded."

So a friend of Mrs VIA finally opened a waxing Salon.

She was struggling with a name for it.

She finally settled on "The Pink Taco"

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 15, 2015 10:58 AM (VPLuQ)

332 Remain clam. All is well.

Posted by: Hillary! at October 15, 2015 10:59 AM (gyKtp)

333
Me too!
I have mental block about sewing machines. Maybe I should give it another try.

Maybe we can sub-con the Amish.
Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (cbfNE)


Wow, I thought I was the only one who is terrified of sewing machines-almost phobic. When I was little, I put my hand on the fabric when my mother was sewing, and sewed through my finger. I love quilting, and hand quilt, but it's so slow, I want to learn how to use a machine. But it's scary.

I also like the idea of sub-coning Fenelon's idea to the Amish. Those costumes would be treasured hand-me-downs.

Posted by: Moki at October 15, 2015 10:59 AM (x303I)

334 The straight twin had four kids - 3 of them are gay. Made me wonder about nature/genetics in that case.

or what Uncle has been up to.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 15, 2015 10:59 AM (evdj2)

335 My gay nephew is the oldest kid.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 10:59 AM (cbfNE)

336 I kind of wonder if, twenty years hence, the current mania for celebrating "transgenders" will be seen as a silly fad like coonskin caps and goldfish swallowing.
Posted by: V the K


What the...
Oh yeah. I mean, I see what you mean. Nobody does that old stuff.

*Clutches cap behind back*

Posted by: Daybrother at October 15, 2015 10:59 AM (hqrfH)

337 -
Structured payments which is a bullshit law.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM

--------

Agreed. Another damn law that just needs to go away.

Posted by: irright at October 15, 2015 11:00 AM (zxnPQ)

338 The identical twin was gay. The straight twin had four kids - 3 of them are gay. Made me wonder about nature/genetics in that case.
Posted by: Lizzy
-----------------------------------
A lot of homosexuals were sexually abused as children. I'd like to see some studies on that.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:00 AM (E5UB0)

339 >>The world is your oyster! Dead, cold, slimy, and damn near impossible to open...


...unless you have big mussels!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:00 AM (NOIQH)

340 What law did he break?



Structured payments which is a bullshit law.

That and diddling students when he was a wrestling coach in Yorkville. I don't think any charges have been brought against him on that one though.

Posted by: dartist at October 15, 2015 11:00 AM (kDYa9)

341 I do think some gays really are born gay. I just dont think its the majority

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (zOTsN)

342
My super-progressive cousin did this with her painfully shy son - she kept telling him "It's OK if you're gay, I'll love you no matter what, do you want to take a boy to prom? etc."
Finally his older sister screamed at her, "He's not gay, mom, he's just SHY!"

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 10:21 AM (NOIQH)


Kudos to the daughter.

I think there are some parents who would love nothing more than to accrue social cachet among their smart set friends by having an openly gay child. Their heads should be examined -- did you become a parent for your own benefit or for that of your child?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (BK3ZS)

343 >>A lot of homosexuals were sexually abused as children. I'd like to see some studies on that.

That, too.
But that won't happen.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (NOIQH)

344 330 Not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but does anyone remember the period right before AIDS really hit, when many gay activists were saying that gay men should wear STD's with pride?

There were - and probably still are - so called "bug chasers" in the ghey community who have unprotected sex with HIV positive men.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (2Ojst)

345 Structured payments which is a bullshit law.

That and diddling students when he was a wrestling coach in Yorkville. I don't think any charges have been brought against him on that one though.
Posted by: dartist
-----------------------------------------
Yes, structured payment laws are bullshit, but he deserves to go to jail, so it's hard to get worked up over it.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (E5UB0)

346 Wouldn't you need to identify a ghey gene before you could make that determination?
Posted by: Grump
------------------

Hater.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (9mTYi)

347 I bet he can't be charged for the diddling for a very simple reason - statue of limitations.

So they went foraging and pillaging in the law books for something to charge him with.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:02 AM (kVLm4)

348 I hope MPPP is saying...
"I hate my work, but at least I don't have ocular gonorrhea."

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 10:54 AM (Zs4uk)


Now that made me laugh. Thanks, jwest.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:02 AM (X6fMO)

349 339 >>The world is your oyster! Dead, cold, slimy, and damn near impossible to open...


...unless you have big mussels!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:00 AM (NOIQH)

Well that was a real steamer.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:02 AM (2Ojst)

350 Hastert can burn in the Hell he created for his victims.

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 11:03 AM (zOTsN)

351 I've hated my job with a passion for twenty years now. They pay me just enough to keep me from quitting and I work just hard enough to keep from being fired. Actually that's a lie I work my ass off but I like saying that.

I had though come to terms with my station in life a decade ago and concentrate on what I do outside of work as the important part of my life.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 11:03 AM (D/1P4)

352 and it shouldnt be up to us to decide what that is

Posted by: ThunderB


So, you think people should just be punished with babies, huh?

Posted by: Barrac Insane O'Bama at October 15, 2015 11:03 AM (/Ho8c)

353 341 I do think some gays really are born gay. I just dont think its the majority
Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (zOTsN)

--

My nephews cousin (dad's side) who was born a couple years older was an effeminate kid, even as a toddler. Grew up gay. These days if it were here they'd probably label him transgender kid.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:04 AM (cbfNE)

354 >>I think there are some parents who would love nothing more than to accrue social cachet among their smart set friends by having an openly gay child.


That's what my cousin was unintentionally doing. She really meant well, but she's soooo progressive and was just trying sooooo hard to find a way to solve the "problem" that was her quiet, pensive son, and him possibly being gay would have provided her the greatest opportunity to be the loving, tolerant, cutting-edge parent. She was able to laugh at herself about it later. Glad her kids could push back.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:04 AM (NOIQH)

355 So they went foraging and pillaging in the law books for something to charge him with.
I died in prison from syphilis.

Posted by: zombie al capone at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (m1pMI)

356 Obama is now announcing that we are leaving troops behind in Afghanistan despite his promise that we would have no troops in the country at the end of last year. He's doing this because pulling all troops out would allow the terrorists to take over the country. Lie Iraq.

What a complete failure. So again, if you are having a bad day just remember you aren't Lamar Odom or TFG.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (/tuJf)

357 There were - and probably still are - so called "bug
chasers" in the ghey community who have unprotected sex with HIV
positive men.

Posted by: Insomniac


Ummm....what?

Posted by: Barrac Insane O'Bama at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (/Ho8c)

358 A54.30-- unspecified gonococcal infection of the eye.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (mvenn)

359 Pfft, gay kid. I'm gonna adopt a handicapable black girl.

Once I do that, I can tell any joke I want without looking around.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (CGjum)

360 "I have mental block about sewing machines. Maybe I should give it another try. "


When you're ready, let me know.

Early on in my business, I would need canvas carrying bags to hold my products with the company logo embroidered on it. My wife would sew the bags and I took them to local place for the logo.

Later on, I couldn't wait the week or so the local source took to embroider, so I bought a computer controlled sewing machine and a group of lessons for the wife.

That didn't go over too well.

So now, I've got inventory of the canvas items brought in China and a dusty, unused, really expensive sewing machine.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (Zs4uk)

361 358 A54.30-- unspecified gonococcal infection of the eye.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (mvenn)

Heh heh. "Coccal." Heh heh heh.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (2Ojst)

362 Huma, I expect you to clam up when you appear before the Benghazi committee tomorrow.

Afterwards, too. heheheheh

Posted by: Hillary! at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (gyKtp)

363 I bet he can't be charged for the diddling for a very simple reason - statue of limitations.

That and calling in a few favors owed to him from when he was in office.

Posted by: dartist at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (kDYa9)

364 I think a lot of kids are growing up ghey because they are started on speed when they are 8 and continue all through their teens into their twenties.
Not a medical opinion, just a gut feeling.

Posted by: Daybrother at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (hqrfH)

365 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at October 15, 2015 11:06 AM (GwIKd)

366 DeBlasio to be turned into swiss cheese, hopefully.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nkfg2o5

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:07 AM (E5UB0)

367 Now that you're Gonorrhea
I think of you every time I urinate

Posted by: hard of hearing country & western singer at October 15, 2015 11:07 AM (m1pMI)

368 Posted by: zombie al capone at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (m1pMI)

Come on Al, you know you were in your Florida beach house when you died.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 11:07 AM (D/1P4)

369 You clingers are just being shellfish

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:07 AM (mvenn)

370 Huma, I expect you to clam up when you appear before the Benghazi committee tomorrow.

Afterwards, too. heheheheh
Posted by: Hillary!
----------------------------------------------------
I expect she'll get off with aiding and Abedin.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:08 AM (E5UB0)

371 369 You clingers are just being shellfish
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:07 AM (mvenn)

You're such a crab this morning.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:08 AM (2Ojst)

372 Obama is now announcing that we are leaving troops behind in Afghanistan despite his promise that we would have no troops in the country at the end of last year. He's doing this because pulling all troops out would allow the terrorists to take over the country. Lie Iraq.

What a complete failure. So again, if you are having a bad day just remember you aren't Lamar Odom or TFG.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 11:05 AM (/tuJf)




He also said, the combat mission is over. So 10,000 troops will be there to stand around and get shot at? I feel awful for anyone in the military with this commie POS as commander and chief

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 15, 2015 11:09 AM (OE2ur)

373 o I bought a computer controlled sewing machine and a group of lessons for the wife.

That didn't go over too well.

--

LOL

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:09 AM (cbfNE)

374
they went foraging and pillaging in the law books for something to charge him with.
Posted by: Anna Puma




Not an obscure statute and he clearly knowing manipulated his payments. Guilty.

Besides, Republican law he insisted on helping renew and extend, so sucks to be him.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 11:10 AM (kdS6q)

375 I feel sorry for the troops now stuck in Afghanistan. This President and his lackeys have done everything in their power to lose the war. They have alienated Kharzi. And now they are saying "Well guys you get to stay and be targets under the stupid ROE we created for you."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:10 AM (kVLm4)

376
Their heads should be examined -- did you become a parent for your own benefit or for that of your child?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (BK3ZS)







Somewhat along those same lines, I've always been annoyed by the public service commercials pointed at teen mothers that always refer to a child as a "baby". The way it's stated, the implication is that the baby is like a puppy you buy at the local PetSmart rather than a fulfilling, lifelong commitment to raising a family.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 15, 2015 11:10 AM (u093l)

377 But insider trading is totes cool.

Screw 'em all.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (CGjum)

378 Huma was spotted in Vegas Tuesday wearing a designer dress that costs $381,000 per Daily Mail.

Methinks we are paying our State Department aides a leeetle too well.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (gyKtp)

379 There were - and probably still are - so called "bug chasers" in the ghey community

****

Yep, there's a code for that


Z72.52-- High risk homosexual behavior

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (mvenn)

380 Trying not to gag listening to this SOB

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (gf8BH)

381 So again, if you are having a bad day just remember you aren't Lamar Odom or TFG.

I checked out in a cathouse. See how well YOU finish.

Posted by: future zombie Lamar Odom at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (9krrF)

382 Oh I see, our troops will be there "to focus on training Afghans." Because the real world is like some class room excerise

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (OE2ur)

383 if a gay gene is isolated it could be that people like Sally Kohn would select an embryo for homosexuality

That gives progtards too much credit. When nobody's looking and it's their kid, they'll abort every time if there's a whiff of ghey.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (S+N7W)

384 >>So again, if you are having a bad day just remember you aren't Lamar Odom or TFG.


I have trouble feeling too bad for Odom because it was self-inflicted. Yes, it sounds like he's got some emotional issues, by geez - not like he's dealing with cancer or another serious malady, or unemployment, etc.. You've made some poor choices, buddy, and you need to clean up and start making to some better ones.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (NOIQH)

385 Methinks we are paying our State Department aides a leeetle too well.


****

Me thinks someone else is paying our State Department aides a leeetle too well.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:12 AM (mvenn)

386 That sidebar story about turning dreams on and off is fascinating. And kind of terrifying. It needs to be used in a horror movie...

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:12 AM (lIU4e)

387 >>>She was able to laugh at herself about it later.

Realizing she was engaging in gay Munchausen by proxy. She must have made him feel awful. I hope she at least apologized.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:13 AM (E5UB0)

388
Heroic Hollywood has claimed on the Collider Heroes Podcast that Marvel are intending to introduce the comic hero Moon Knight in their run of Netflix shows in a back door pilot akin to The Punishers appearance in Daredevil season 2.




Moon Knight being the Marvel Batman that makes Batman look well adjusted to that whole secret idenity thing.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 11:13 AM (kdS6q)

389 You clingers are just being shellfish
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that

You're such a crab this morning.

Posted by: Insomniac


Still debating if I should mussel in on this.

Posted by: future zombie Lamar Odom at October 15, 2015 11:13 AM (9krrF)

390 Is Huma still on the State Department payroll? Or is she now openly CCCP?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:13 AM (kVLm4)

391 Me thinks someone else is paying our State Department aides a leeetle too well.

****


In fact, there's an ICD10 code for that as well


D89.813-- graft versus host disease


(SWIDT?)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:14 AM (mvenn)

392 >>Huma was spotted in Vegas Tuesday wearing a designer dress that costs $381,000 per Daily Mail.


Is it woven out of gold?

Considering Huma held four jobs simultaneously at one point recently, I'm thinking that A LOT of employers are paying her too much. However, if I had to guess, I think the dress is either a loaner from the designer OR it was paid for by the Clinton foundation.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:14 AM (NOIQH)

393 386 That sidebar story about turning dreams on and off is fascinating. And kind of terrifying. It needs to be used in a horror movie...
Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:12 AM (lIU4e)

Ever watch Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid?

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 11:14 AM (D/1P4)

394
Moon Knight.......back door.

Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 15, 2015 11:14 AM (u093l)

395
With Ace's Time-Life books on the American West, it could have been Ace who spotted that Billy the Kid photo worth $5 million bucks. Try harder, Ace!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:15 AM (iQIUe)

396 Training Afghans is like reasoning with Liberals.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 11:15 AM (gf8BH)

397 Humas dress was 381$. by LK Bennet

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 11:15 AM (zOTsN)

398 That sidebar story about turning dreams on and off is fascinating. And kind of terrifying. It needs to be used in a horror movie...

Dreams as horror fodder? Don't be silly...wait, where did this glove with the knives come from...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at October 15, 2015 11:15 AM (9krrF)

399 Is Barry keeping troops there out of weakness? Because real leadership is talking about global warming with the UN

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 15, 2015 11:16 AM (OE2ur)

400 >>I hope she at least apologized

She has.
He's a happy, outgoing, heterosexual adult now, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:16 AM (NOIQH)

401
There were - and probably still are - so called "bug chasers" in the ghey community who have unprotected sex with HIV positive men.


There are entire websites devoted to this subculture; though I suspect many are fantasy.

Posted by: V the K at October 15, 2015 11:16 AM (O7MnT)

402
Yep, there's a code for that


Z72.52-- High risk homosexual behavior
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (mvenn)

Just wait until the Gaystapo hears about that one...

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:17 AM (2Ojst)

403
Shoppers at a Target in San Jose were browsing the aisles in search of bargains early Wednesday morning when they heard the sounds of loud porn over the PA system.

The inappropriate audio track included sexually explicit language and profanities and the sounds of people moaning and groaning with pleasure.

The store made an announcement apologizing and then the X-rated recording began playing again.

Target said in a statement the store is investigating the situation.

http://tinyurl.com/oxqhmuz

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 11:17 AM (kdS6q)

404 We had a real shot at having a stable Iraq had Obama not pulled our troops out too soon strictly for political reasons. We have no shot at ever seeing a stable Afghanistan but he wants to leave troops there for political reasons.

People can say whatever they want about Bush but he didn't make foreign policy decisions for political reasons. And he got excoriated daily in the msm for being a dope but Obama is a light worker.

The whole thing is a farce.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 11:17 AM (/tuJf)

405 I keep trying to think of a Huma/human joke, but it's not presenting itself.

Keep going back to a South Park reference of future robots K-10, Cocka-3, etc, but can't quite get that thread to come loose.

Also, one of the greatest South Park throw-away jokes was Jimmies parents telling him he was born handicapped as a way for God to punish them for making fun of retarded kids.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:17 AM (CGjum)

406 Lea. Thank you for sticking another story idea into my mind...

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:18 AM (kVLm4)

407 Here's what I would do (but, remember, I'm a reich-wing monster who lives the honey badger lifestyle). Tell Mom, "Hey, Mom, I got that David Brooks article you sent me. Do you know what he admitted impressed him the most about Obama? His pant creases! Yes, really! He admitted that in public! Now, if you're willing to take the word of somebody who thinks the only qualification for the presidency is a well-pressed pair of pants, that's your problem. I'd prefer to read a more serious thinker. Pee Wee Herman, for example."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 10:57 AM (X6fMO)

Hahha! I might send that word for word. BTW- I'm with you on the job stuff. And I work in a .gov interagency center. Can't go into details, but the level of stupid at the leadership level is mind boggling.

Posted by: Mainah at October 15, 2015 11:18 AM (659DL)

408 Treadle sewing machines.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 15, 2015 11:18 AM (MIKMs)

409
The inappropriate audio track included sexually explicit language and profanities and the sounds of people moaning and groaning with pleasure.

*****


Are you sure it wasn't just a live feed from a women's tennis tournament?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:18 AM (mvenn)

410 I checked out in a cathouse. See how well YOU finish.

Posted by: future zombie Lamar Odom at October 15, 2015 11:11 AM (9krrF)


Amateur.

Posted by: Nelson Rockefeller at October 15, 2015 11:19 AM (X6fMO)

411 >>I keep trying to think of a Huma/human joke, but it's not presenting itself.

Maybe a riff on the Rob Zombie song "More Human than Huma(n)"?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:19 AM (NOIQH)

412 I keep trying to think of a Huma/human joke,


*****


Huma! She's almost human.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:19 AM (mvenn)

413 That's one thing that always get me about progs: They think they can make the unworkable work. because they're *this*much smarter. They're not.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:47 AM

It is vanity on display. From that comes their self-righteousness and ability to disregard morality because satisfying their vanity justifies the means, including lying. Because they are serving the father of lies.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at October 15, 2015 11:20 AM (zetif)

414 Maybe model number Huma-N.

But it's still a reach.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:20 AM (CGjum)

415 He's a happy, outgoing, heterosexual adult now,


****


Oddly enough, I can't find a code for that.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (mvenn)

416 373 o I bought a computer controlled sewing machine and a group of lessons for the wife.

That didn't go over too well.

--

LOL


If you liked that, you'll love this...

She likes St. John's knits, so she thought it would be fun to have a knitting machine. A short while later, she got a Swiss made computer controlled knitting machine.

Which she tried to work a couple of times and lost interest.

Then, after sitting in our basement for a few years, a friend of a neighbor who owned a second hand store asked to put it in his shop on consignment.

A few months later, the store was gone and so was he.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (Zs4uk)

417 397 >> Humas dress was 381$. by LK Bennet

Ah, DM changed the story then. The original version said the dress cost $381k.

I just checked, and they have changed that number to $381. Just a typo, then.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (gyKtp)

418 Well Dreamscape was about injecting yourself into someone's dreams. Inception was about stealing info from dreams. There is also The Cell or the Nightmare franchise. Japan gave us the movie Paprika in which someone starts abusing dream technology to get revenge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (kVLm4)

419 415 He's a happy, outgoing, heterosexual adult now,


****


Oddly enough, I can't find a code for that.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (mvenn)

That's because ICD-10 is a product of the cis-gendered heteronormative patriarchy!

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:22 AM (2Ojst)

420 Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die. That's such a waste for what was likely a spur of the moment decision for a wild weekend. SO sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:23 AM (NOIQH)

421 Obama is eight years of failure.

Eight years.

He never learned. Did a lot of damage he wanted to do, but never learned how to do the job well, and to be worthy of it.

Disgraceful, how people voted for this clown.

Posted by: Feh at October 15, 2015 11:23 AM (UzsPv)

422 Lea. Thank you for sticking another story idea into my mind...
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:18 AM (kVLm4)


Ha. I have ideas all the time! Help yourself

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:24 AM (lIU4e)

423 If Huma is a Nexus 6 skin-job, the Tyrell Corporation needs to fix things.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:24 AM (kVLm4)

424 >>The Cell

I did see that movie! Creepy.

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:24 AM (lIU4e)

425 A few months later, the store was gone and so was he.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 11:21 AM (Zs4uk)

Ugh. That's awful.
I guess he's an ex-friend now.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:25 AM (cbfNE)

426 if I had to guess, I think the dress is either a loaner from the designer OR it was paid for by the Clinton foundation.
Posted by: Lizzy
-----------------

Perhaps a gift from The Clinton Foundation, for her 'Contributions'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:25 AM (9mTYi)

427 I couldn't link this last night when it was topical

http://fee.org/freeman/the-creative-destruction-of-nudity-in-playboy-magazine/

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 11:25 AM (3pRHP)

428 Pretty impressed with Ivanka Trump. Classy, beautiful girl who clearly loves her Dad.

Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:25 AM (xWW96)

429 >>Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die. That's such a waste for what was likely a spur of the moment decision for a wild weekend. SO sad.

Sad, but likely not all that spur of the moment. He's had drug problems for a long time. He's had a lot of chances and he always chose poorly.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 15, 2015 11:26 AM (/tuJf)

430 I am also a fan of Ivanka.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:27 AM (cbfNE)

431
Have I mentioned today just how awesome I am?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 11:27 AM (HSmrB)

432 428 Pretty impressed with Ivanka Trump. Classy, beautiful girl who clearly loves her Dad.
Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:25 AM (xWW96)

She's a classy, terrific gal, big time. She's amazing, absolutely amazing, you're gonna love her!

Posted by: Donald Trump at October 15, 2015 11:27 AM (2Ojst)

433 hey Insomniac, if you haven't fallen asleep yet, There are a lot of people (like me) that are in the same boat. Sometimes knowing that helps. Being around a lot of morons helps too.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 15, 2015 11:28 AM (TPjwz)

434 >>Oddly enough, I can't find a code for that.


Heh!

How about H-8R?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:28 AM (NOIQH)

435 420 Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die. That's such a waste for what was likely a spur of the moment decision for a wild weekend. SO sad.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:23 AM (NOIQH)

==========
I dont know if it was spur of the moment. Not sure what caused the strokes. Looked up herbal viagra and the recommended dose was 2 pills in 60 hours. He took 10 in 24-72 hours. Or the strokes could have been caused by the cocaine. Unfortunately, he has a long history of cocaine use.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:28 AM (iQIUe)

436 Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Rick James at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (CGjum)

437 Hastret has made his plea on the money laundry lying to federal agents charges. Can we forgive him ?

Posted by: rightre at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (yvYC/)

438 Sorry for the abrubt thought about treadle sewing machines.

PBS has a show about woodworking using old machines -- treadle-powered for the most part and I want one of those with a rather sick covetousness. Lifelong coordination problems have put me in the fearing machines running away with me.

Treadle power allows control over the speed and is much more comfortable to do smaller projects, especially with small coordination issues, than buying and attempting to avoid injury with speed.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (MIKMs)

439
I am also a fan of Ivanka.
_____________________

Yeah,, I'd hit it...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (HSmrB)

440 Time has H "basking in the afterglow" of the debate.

Secession.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (U6f54)

441 What. Nobody would Hit It?

Just to me Modern, a Trump son had a few words to say this morning. He seemed like a squared-away individual. Who said it the other day?: Romney had a lovely family. Trump has several.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (xq1UY)

442 433 hey Insomniac, if you haven't fallen asleep yet, There are a lot of people (like me) that are in the same boat. Sometimes knowing that helps. Being around a lot of morons helps too.
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 15, 2015 11:28 AM (TPjwz)

Thanks man, it does help. Around New Years I commented here that the Horde has helped keep me from going off the edge of the cliff, and I meant it.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (2Ojst)

443 "Oddly enough, I can't find a code for that."

Not a reason to be taken to a medical facility... yet anyway.

Probably will be by the time ICD11 rolls around.

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (KUaJL)

444 I couldn't link this last night when it was topical


Germany wants you to know that its Playboy will remain nude.

NSFW



http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/playboy/bleibt-nackt-43001598.bild.html

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (JtwS4)

445 Have I mentioned today just how awesome I am?


****


F22-- Delusional dysmorphophobia

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (mvenn)

446 "The original version said the dress cost $381k."


A close friend and business associate was down in Columbus with my wife and I for an industry charity event. We went to Neiman Marcus for a new dress.

While trying on gowns, she came out in one that obviously had a lot of room on the top. My friend asked how much the dress was.

"$1400"

"For that much, you can buy her the tits to go with it".

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (Zs4uk)

447 My Mom had an old Singer cast-iron treacle sewing machine. Beautiful. No idea what happened to it.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (cbfNE)

448 "People say, snap out of it, come out of the darkness. They don't understand, I am the darkness."
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 10:35 AM
----

Yep. That's a start on describing it. I've certainly never found suitable words.
I saw this little comic the other day and thought it was a good illustration:

http://tinyurl.com/o7eg99q

Posted by: TJ Camper at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (g30B6)

449 Ivanka can polish my undercarriage any day. If you know what I mean.

*Bleep*Blop*Bloop*

Posted by: Hill-Ary at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (CGjum)

450 >>Or the strokes could have been caused by the cocaine. Unfortunately, he has a long history of cocaine use.

So Odom's been messed up for a while. So self-destructive. Sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (NOIQH)

451 Germany wants you to know that its Playboy will remain nude.

NSFW



http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/playboy/bleibt-nackt-43001598.bild.html
Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 11:30 AM (JtwS4)

Yeah but it probably includes scheisse porn too.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:31 AM (2Ojst)

452 Posted by: mustbequantum at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (MIKMs)

The Woodwright's Shop.

Posted by: Golfman at October 15, 2015 11:32 AM (G9ihG)

453 The Cell

I did see that movie! Creepy.
Posted by: Lea
---------------------------------------------------
Vaughn was good in that. Proved he could do more than just manic comedy.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:32 AM (E5UB0)

454
Heh. Didnt have time to put on his pants:

https://goo.gl/wYqAUa

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:32 AM (iQIUe)

455 Treadle power allows control over the speed and is much more comfortable to do smaller projects, especially with small coordination issues, than buying and attempting to avoid injury with speed.
Posted by: mustbequantum at October 15, 2015 11:29 AM (MIKMs)


I have an old treadle (which I actually thought was 'trendle' but apparently not?) singer that I inherited from my great grandmother. It's pretty cool but I don't actually use it for anything...

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:32 AM (lIU4e)

456 Time has H "basking in the afterglow" of the debate.



****

T66.XXXS-- radiation sickness, unspecified, sequela

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (mvenn)

457 Treadle power allows control over the speed and is much more comfortable to do smaller projects, especially with small coordination issues, than buying and attempting to avoid injury with speed.
Posted by: mustbequantum
--------------

I have a permanently-injured forefinger, as a consequence of getting wound up in a cable-spooling machine. I'm lucky to still have the finger at all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (9mTYi)

458 WAKE UP ACE!

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (TPjwz)

459 I think there are some parents who would love nothing more than to accrue social cachet among their smart set friends by having an openly gay child.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at October 15, 2015 11:01 AM (BK3ZS)




A liberal acquaintance allowed as how his marginally employed daughter was off traveling to Europe with her "friend," but they weren't wasn't "married." Yet.


Meanwhile, Junior is also marginally employed, both kids I strongly suspect living at least in part off of Mom and Dad, so two "fail to launch" kids. With any luck Junior will come out of the closet too, and give my acquaintance a liberal exacta.


On the bright side, they will be giving the gene pool a break.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (oKE6c)

460 >>"For that much, you can buy her the tits to go with it".


Heh.

My new addiction is the show "Say Yes to the Dress" about brides shopping for a wedding dress. It's is fascinating - not only some of the dress options (Corsets! Bling!! So much exposed skin!) but the cost of some of these things. A $1400 wedding dress would be a steal!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (NOIQH)

461 458 WAKE UP ACE!
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (TPjwz)

Seems he's been showing up a little earlier since he finished Batman.

Posted by: Golfman at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (G9ihG)

462 There is a thing about treadle sewing machines. If you know any woman old enough to have worked in a treadle shop (mostly shoes and purses, in the last half-century), ask about it. There was a little something-something they'd eventually tell the new girls about, and then they'd be one of the gang. It's all in how you hold your leg.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (xq1UY)

463 Got assigned a guy with ocular gonorrhea -- I'm thrilled, actually, since I never get to see such a thing...
Posted by: Bigby's High Five at October 15, 2015 10:49 AM (3ZtZW)


Guess it's true, that old adage: Never look a gift whore in the mouth.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (wKcQA)

464 My new addiction is the show "Say Yes to the Dress" about brides shopping for a wedding dress. It's is fascinating - not only some of the dress options (Corsets! Bling!! So much exposed skin!) but the cost of some of these things. A $1400 wedding dress would be a steal!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (NOIQH)

Nudist colony wedding. Problem solved.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:34 AM (2Ojst)

465 Saw Get the Gringo last night while Mrs. Chupacabra was on a girls-night.

It's a Mel Gibson movie, so I knew there'd be torture. What surprised me is he wasn't the recipient for once.

Good movie, I liked it a lot; a shame Mel's such a pariah. Though when Hollywood was welcoming to him he was making movies like What a Woman Wants. So, on the whole, I think I like outsider Mel better.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:35 AM (CGjum)

466 Modern technology has rendered obsolete many wonderful aphorisms.

My favorite was
"don't get your tit in the wringer"

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at October 15, 2015 11:35 AM (TPjwz)

467 T66.XXXS-- radiation sickness, unspecified, sequela
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
-------------------

AKA, Alexander Litvinenko Syndrome?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:35 AM (9mTYi)

468 320 312 Hastert has pleaded guilty to giving out hush money to "someone he has wronged in the past".
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 10:55 AM (E5UB0)

Interesting to see if he gets jail time.

_________________________

It will be interesting considering that Democrats are always screaming about incarceration for non-violent crimes.

Will Hastert be part of the "mass incarceration" they are always lamenting?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 15, 2015 11:35 AM (KCQo0)

469 Obama is eight years of failure.

Not to the Democratic-Socialists:
- State-run health care
- Expanded welfare
- Common Core
- Military cuts
- American defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Higher taxes on 'the rich'
- Amnesty

Everything about Obama we think is a failure, they think is a triumph. They consider Detroit a triumph because of 50 yrs of unbroken Democrat rule.

Posted by: V the K at October 15, 2015 11:35 AM (O7MnT)

470 For those with little boys 5 and under, this is suppose to be a big hit:

Truck Tunes 2 - More Truck Videos for Kids

https://goo.gl/rgkTrF

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:36 AM (iQIUe)

471 My older kid used to watch Say Yes To The Dress.
The prices are unreal!

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:36 AM (cbfNE)

472 I have a permanently-injured forefinger, as a consequence of getting wound up in a cable-spooling machine. I'm lucky to still have the finger at all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:33 AM (9mTYi)

I got a shirt sleeve caught up in the a dog bolt of a large metal turning lathe. Luckily, another guy walked into my area and saw that the machine was about to dismember me without losing one rpm. He kicked it out of gear. I still have the scars on my arm.

Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM (xWW96)

473 Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die. That's such a waste for what was likely a spur of the moment decision for a wild weekend. SO sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:23 AM (NOIQH)





At least he has Jesse Jackson there making official statements. Not sure how the Rev. is part of this but then again there are camera crews there

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM (493sH)

474 Is anybody else having a problem refreshing the site?

Thanks for the thoughts, advice and prayers, 'rons and 'ronettes. Sometimes the unhappiness just spills out, even when I try to keep it under wraps. Frankly, I feel embarrassed when I complain, because I think of Grandfather Poppins, who worked 30-odd years in the mill (cue Python skit), then another 10 or so as a hospital janitor and then a grocery bagger until a stroke killed him. And he never complained (or, at least, I never heard him), even though I'm sure he preferred to be pounding the keys in Benny Vic's dance band like he did in his younger days. So by what right do I sit here whining like Obama?

I appreciate you all and thank you.

**shoves bottles of Veuve Cliquot and boxes of Ghiradelli chocolates through everyone's USB ports**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM (X6fMO)

475 470 For those with little boys 5 and under, this is suppose to be a big hit:

Truck Tunes 2 - More Truck Videos for Kids

https://goo.gl/rgkTrF

Boys? You sexist! what about the girls! whine,whine,whine...

Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM (/dSsq)

476 *looks at picture*

COOL! A Space for me to destroy!

Kill Whitey! Death to the JOOOOOOOZ!

Posted by: #BlackLiesMatter Goon at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (YdOYw)

477
There was a wood chipper parked in front of a neighbor's house for a week and parents with kids were all coming to see it. I remember that fascination, too.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (iQIUe)

478 473 Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die. That's such a waste for what was likely a spur of the moment decision for a wild weekend. SO sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:23 AM (NOIQH)





At least he has Jesse Jackson there making official statements. Not sure how the Rev. is part of this but then again there are camera crews there
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM (493sH)

Fuck that guy in particular. Odom screwed up his life, sure, but let him die in peace. Fucking ghoul.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (2Ojst)

479 I got my pecker caught in a soda machine.

Posted by: Bad Grandpa at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (KCQo0)

480 Hmmmm. While looking for sewing machine related diagnosis codes I ran across this:



W33.13-- accidental malfunction of a machine gun



Does that lead to the inference that there such a thing as an intentional malfunction of a machine gun?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (mvenn)

481 @454 Hoo ah. 'Ette-alert on that one.
Guy rocks that look. Makes it look easy.
Plus, pantsless. One of The Horde.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (xq1UY)

482 I got my pecker caught in a soda machine.

****


There had better be a code for that. Let me go check.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (mvenn)

483 I got a shirt sleeve caught up in the a dog bolt of a large metal turning lathe. Luckily, another guy walked into my area and saw that the machine was about to dismember me without losing one rpm. He kicked it out of gear. I still have the scars on my arm.
Posted by: maddogg
-----------------------------------

Long sleeves around machinery are a nasty danger, but so bad as a ponytail.

Then, there are the PTO's on tractors....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (9mTYi)

484 Seamus, so are procedure codes also standard and are they also new? Or is it just diagnosis codes?

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (cbfNE)

485 Long sleeves around machinery are a nasty danger, but so not so bad as a ponytail.

Then, there are the PTO's on tractors....
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Edited

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:40 AM (9mTYi)

486 485 Crap. I give up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (9mTYi)

487 The Garbage Truck Song is pretty cool.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (iQIUe)

488 Now THERE is a Stephen King novel idea...

Demonic combine + stoned hippies in a corn field that is actually an old Native American burial ground.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (kVLm4)

489 There's a theme park in New Jersey called Diggerland. All it is, is great big earth movers.

They have the best billboards in the universe: little boys losing their shit in the cabs of giant backhoes. It's fun for the whole family, If you have a family full of little boys.

I don't know who would even bother taking their son to Disney.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (CGjum)

490 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (9mTYi)

Heh.

Posted by: Golfman at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (G9ihG)

491 Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (cbfNE)

ICD10 is brand-spankin' new. ICD9 has been the standard diagnostic code set for years. The CPT manual gets updated annually.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (2Ojst)

492 484

ICD10 only changes the diagnosis codes. Procedure codes are usually either CPT or HCPCS code sets.

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (KUaJL)

493
don't get your tit in the wringer
_______________________

Been there,, done that...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (HSmrB)

494 489 There's a theme park in New Jersey called Diggerland. All it is, is great big earth movers.
-----------------------------

That's where the dark limos pull up and drop off things that look like body bags.

Posted by: Roy at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (VndSC)

495 Long sleeves around machinery are a nasty danger, but so bad as a ponytail.

Then, there are the PTO's on tractors....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (9mTYi)


I have a 1956 John Deere 420 tractor. Number of safety devices = 0. That is one machine I don't drink beer while operating. It will fucking kill you in a heartbeat.

Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (xWW96)

496 At least he has Jesse Jackson there making official statements. Not sure how the Rev. is part of this but then again there are camera crews there
--------------------

Intimidating the whorehouse, seeking money.

Lot of irony there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (9mTYi)

497 I got my pecker caught in a soda machine.
Posted by: Bad Grandpa at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM
------------

Advice from a boss back when I work around construction machinery:
"Don't put yer hands where you wouldn't pout yer pecker."

Posted by: TJ Camper at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (g30B6)

498 There's a theme park in New Jersey called Diggerland. All it is, is great big earth movers.

The most juvenile delinquent thing I did as a kid was to borrow huge dump trucks at a quarry.

The things didn't have keys, just a pushbutton to start.

Wheee!

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 11:43 AM (JtwS4)

499 I got my pecker caught in a soda machine.
Posted by: Bad Grandpa
-------------------------------------------
Better call Dr. Pecker.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:43 AM (E5UB0)

500 **shoves bottles of Veuve Cliquot and boxes of Ghiradelli chocolates through everyone's USB ports**


*****


Cool! I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds like it'll come in handy when President Bernie Sanders gets rid of all the other deodorant choices.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (mvenn)

501 That is one machine I don't drink beer while operating. It will fucking kill you in a heartbeat.
Posted by: maddogg
------------------

Machines are remarkably devoid of conscience.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (9mTYi)

502 You clingers are just being shellfish

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that



You're such a crab this morning.



Posted by: Insomniac



Still debating if I should mussel in on this.

Posted by: future zombie Lamar Odom at October 15, 2015 11:13 AM


Oh, for goodness hake, people....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (KrAjA)

503 They should have an automated transgender machine: just stick in your pecker, insert quarters, come away with a vagina.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (E5UB0)

504 Machines are remarkably devoid of conscience.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (9mTYi)

I know, right?

Posted by: Hillary! at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (KUaJL)

505 503 They should have an automated transgender machine: just stick in your pecker, insert quarters, come away with a vagina.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (E5UB0)

The getting hit in the crotch with a hatchet part must really sting.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:45 AM (2Ojst)

506
503 They should have an automated transgender machine: just stick in your pecker, insert quarters, come away with a vagina.

They do, it's called a ColChester Lathe

Posted by: CSMBigBird at October 15, 2015 11:45 AM (jsWA8)

507 Crew member on the backside of the furnace kicked the ejector sprockets into gear just as I was adjusting the air-feed pinch bars on the front side. 34 stitches and a chip on the elbow. Luckily I had my breaker bar in my off-hand as I saw the 34x76 lite coming. And he looked me right in the eye as he did it. Didn't hurt until I looked down and saw all those bones in the back of my hand. Glass sharp.

Dangerouser than a pony-tail? Leather shoelaces. Especially around a roto-rooter.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:45 AM (xq1UY)

508 Machines are remarkably devoid of conscience.

Just ask a T-1000 or Hillary!

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:45 AM (kVLm4)

509 503 They should have an automated transgender machine: just stick in your pecker, insert quarters, come away with a vagina.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner
-----------------------

That would also have another setting to give you an addadicktome.

Posted by: Roy at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (VndSC)

510 >>I don't know who would even bother taking their son to Disney.


We haven't - all he wanted was to go to Lego Land. We even offered to take a day trip to Disney after spending a day at Lego Land and he wanted a second day at Lego Land instead.

Then two years later, back to CA for vacation, and it was Universal Theme parks!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (NOIQH)

511 489 There's a theme park in New Jersey called Diggerland. All it is, is great big earth movers.
----------------------------
There is a place in North GA where adults can drive tanks and dozers and crush junk cars...

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (WDySP)

512 A few weeks ago some kids went through the fences at a local warehouse and started playing crash-up-derby with the forklifts. Killed one of them.

Even though there was a guard, fences, and barbed wire, still the "community" was trying to go after the business.

So kids, don't screw around with other people's heavy machinery, even if Bandersnatch and I did it when we were kids.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (CGjum)

513 Hey, ya think Trump can beat H in the general?

And if it turns out that way, are we really better off?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (U6f54)

514 Now THERE is a Stephen King novel idea...
Demonic combine + stoned hippies in a corn field that is actually an old Native American burial ground.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (kVLm4)


Maximum Overdrive Children's Corn Semetary?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:47 AM (X6fMO)

515 **shoves bottles of Veuve Cliquot and boxes of Ghiradelli chocolates through everyone's USB ports**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:37 AM


You're good people, MP4.

*noms*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 15, 2015 11:47 AM (KrAjA)

516 514 Now THERE is a Stephen King novel idea...
Demonic combine + stoned hippies in a corn field that is actually an old Native American burial ground.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (kVLm4)

Maximum Overdrive Children's Corn Semetary?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:47 AM (X6fMO)

With a touch of Lawnmower Man.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:48 AM (2Ojst)

517 Hippy!

Hippy!

We have your patchouli, Hippy!

The bottle will spill!

Posted by: Malachai at October 15, 2015 11:48 AM (CGjum)

518 I have a 1956 John Deere 420 tractor. Number of safety devices = 0. That is one machine I don't drink beer while operating. It will fucking kill you in a heartbeat.

Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (xWW96)


I've got all the time in the world. . .

Posted by: Maddog's tractor at October 15, 2015 11:49 AM (X6fMO)

519 Seamus, so are procedure codes also standard and are they also new? Or is it just diagnosis codes?


***

Procedures are a whole different set-
CPT = Current Procedural Terminology

They were not completely revamped this year. I'm sure there is some multistory building filled with technocrats grinding away at a revision.


I play around with these codes here, but they have really gotten insane, to the point that by trying to account for every possible permutation of a particular condition they have become nonsensical. I have reverted to coding the lowest (simplest) code allowable, e.g. chest pain, nonspecified.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon-- there's a code for that at October 15, 2015 11:49 AM (mvenn)

520 Youthful exuberance? A case of beer, an AR-15, and a bulldozer. Cruise around bulldozing stuff, drinking beer, and shooting at the empties. I recall looks of horror from younger workmates when recounting that story.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:49 AM (9mTYi)

521 Now THERE is a Stephen King novel idea...

Demonic combine + stoned hippies in a corn field that is actually an old Native American burial ground.



Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:41 AM (kVLm4)



Maximum Overdrive Children's Corn Semetary?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:47 AM (X6fMO)



With a touch of Lawnmower Man.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:48 AM


The Mangler Wurzel?


Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 15, 2015 11:49 AM (KrAjA)

522 Machines are remarkably devoid of conscience.>>>

That is why we want to ban guns and SUVs.

Posted by: Dems at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (aVYsC)

523 >>Maximum Overdrive Children's Corn Semetary?

>>With a touch of Lawnmower Man.


Don't forget his short story "The Mangler"!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (NOIQH)

524 519

Funny how a change that was supposed to result in better accuracy and more specific reporting actually had the opposite result.

Posted by: joe at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (KUaJL)

525 Ever watch Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid?

-
It drove him crazy. Well, maybe not that role but something sure as hell did.




Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (lKSyl)

526
Truck Tunes has everything. Even better it is free. Download it, convert it to mp and you can watch on tv or your little kid can.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (iQIUe)

527 MPPPP, yep. As I said Stephen King...

But the sheer visual terror of a combine with all its choppers going at ground level. Freaky deaky hippies in Birkenstock sandals running and screaming. And the screams turn blood chilling when they are chopped off at the ankles and then sucked in to be spat out in the collection bin as gooey gore.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:50 AM (kVLm4)

528 Secession.

Posted by: the littl shyning man


Yeah, about that....

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Davis at October 15, 2015 11:51 AM (/Ho8c)

529 Randy's the crazy one, Dennis still seems to be hanging in there.

Posted by: Malachai at October 15, 2015 11:51 AM (CGjum)

530 479 I got my pecker caught in a soda machine.

Posted by: Bad Grandpa at October 15, 2015 11:38 AM (KCQo0)

CHEATER!

Posted by: The Couch at October 15, 2015 11:51 AM (ck8TA)

531 Can't wait to see what happens after the SJWs get done whizzing (and wheezing) all over the proposed "Godzilla v. Kong" project.

Actually, maybe I can.

Posted by: dissent555 at October 15, 2015 11:51 AM (VFhMt)

532 /sock

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:51 AM (CGjum)

533 73 Oh---Just saw that Odom is on life support. Ugh, I do feel bad for him, didn't realize he might die.

Consequences for choices are so non-Inclusive.

Have that coma stopped immediately!

Posted by: Barky the Perfessor at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (0dcbp)

534 491 Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (cbfNE)

ICD10 is brand-spankin' new. ICD9 has been the standard diagnostic code set for years. The CPT manual gets updated annually.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (2Ojst)

ICD code talk is making my stomach upset . It's just part of my job I hate. Providers trying to find ways to submit as many as possible and as many combos as possible and my auditors having to catch it.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (D/1P4)

535 They should have an automated transgender machine: just stick in your pecker, insert quarters, come away with a vagina.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 11:44 AM (E5UB0)


https://goo.gl/tSpTya

Posted by: Maddog's tractor at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (X6fMO)

536 Soda machine. Pfft. Pickle cutter!

Ken Purdy (who wrote about cars -- in Playboy!) said the safest car he ever drove was a Mercer Raceabout. It took 100% of your attention. You were not even tempted to be distracted. Non-safety, monocle glass windshield mounted on steering column, 18" from your face.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (xq1UY)

537 I hope no morons are affected but zerohedge has stories that Illinois can't pay its bills. Lottery winners are only getting the first $600. And PENSIONS are delayed.



It sucks when Santa Claus has to take the freaking presents back.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (AC0lD)

538 415 He's a happy, outgoing, heterosexual adult now,


You don't happen to have his contact information, do you?

Posted by: The President's Council of Social justice, Enforcement Division at October 15, 2015 11:54 AM (5buP8)

539 For years, they used unguarded belts and augers on farms to weed out the stupidest people.

Then, by chance, they found the same machinery could move grain.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 11:54 AM (Zs4uk)

540 Dangerouser than a pony-tail? Leather shoelaces. Especially around a roto-rooter.
Posted by: Stringer Davis
----------------

That incident I mentioned with my finger was with a Roto-rooter. The cable 'wound up' and knotted over my hand.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:54 AM (9mTYi)

541 Whoops - mechanical sock off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 11:54 AM (X6fMO)

542 I just know they're going to screw up Ash Vs. Evil Dead, but I hope at least the first episode will be good.

Bruce Campbell's one of the few actors I put on the same scenery-chewing level as Robert Downey Jr.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:54 AM (CGjum)

543 "...but you'll have to pry him off of his daughter first."

Posted by: Fritz at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (UzPAd)

544 Sorry I meant CPT codes .

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (D/1P4)

545 Then, by chance, they found the same machinery could move grain.
Posted by: jwest
-----------------

*lots* of silo accidents.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (9mTYi)

546 Providers trying to find ways to submit as many as possible and as many combos as possible and my auditors having to catch it.


****

Everything that coder just coded is Bullsh*t!

Posted by: Cousin Vinnie at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (mvenn)

547
Hey, ya think Trump can beat H in the general?

And if it turns out that way, are we really better off?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (U6f54)
_____________________________

No and no....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (HSmrB)

548 So kids, don't screw around with other people's heavy machinery, even if Bandersnatch and I did it when we were kids.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (CGjum)


My brother and I were talking a while back about how helpful the GIJoe little PSA's they used to do about not playing in a construction site and not locking yourself into an open refrigerator in the middle of nowhere actually were...

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (lIU4e)

549 508
What's with the "or"?

I don't put anything past our new nefarious machine overlords.

Posted by: dissent555 at October 15, 2015 11:55 AM (VFhMt)

550 Perhaps AoSHQ exists only as a lesson in life for others?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:56 AM (9mTYi)

551 Hmmm. Looks like the pergola is finished with stucco, which is OK. Also stucco: the lawn, the garment, the vines, the table, and the mountain in the distance.



I think this is pointillism carried too far?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 11:56 AM (0yhH4)

552 Now Bruce Jenner is heading for Vegas.

Doctors are hopeful that Odom can recove now. Not sure what that really means. He is in dialysis.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 11:57 AM (iQIUe)

553 The only thing white girls love more than pumpkin spice is pergola's.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:57 AM (CGjum)

554 Can you imagine... Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. William Shatner as Captain Kirk. And Bruce Campbell as Ash. All tossed onto a set to resemble Stark's lab and told to ad-lib for the camera.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 11:57 AM (kVLm4)

555 I hope no morons are affected but zerohedge has stories that Illinois
can't pay its bills. Lottery winners are only getting the first $600.
And PENSIONS are delayed.>>>

What about the EBT cards?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (aVYsC)

556 Sorry Anna, bunk.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (CGjum)

557 H-> Why does her arrow point to the right? Or, is it a hard left from her vantage point?

Posted by: The President's Council of Social justice, Enforcement Division at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (5buP8)

558 To sleep, pergola to dream...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (mvenn)

559 I hope no morons are affected but zerohedge has stories that Illinois
can't pay its bills.
---------------

Same thing in PA, I think.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (9mTYi)

560 I "safely" used a full-sized roto-rooter in June. Nothing went actually wrong at all. Got over the "stinger" from it about 3 weeks ago. Tendon hyperextensions, right up through the shoulder "process." Don't know my own strength, as Bulwinkle said.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (xq1UY)

561 Impending nude. I cnafeelit.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 11:59 AM (5buP8)

562 I'm curious about the procedure codes because when I call to ask my insurance if they will cover something, the sometimes ask me what the procedure code is and I usually don't know. I really need to get in the habit of asking the doctor's office what it would be.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 11:59 AM (cbfNE)

563 What about the EBT cards?


Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 15, 2015 11:58 AM (aVYsC)


They must be alright or else I'd see the smoke even here in my little part of Canada. But still, let it burn.

Illinois. You know what they could use. A freaking Community Organizer.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 15, 2015 11:59 AM (AC0lD)

564 Ken Purdy (who wrote about cars -- in Playboy!) said the safest car he ever drove was a Mercer Raceabout. It took 100% of your attention. You were not even tempted to be distracted. Non-safety, monocle glass windshield mounted on steering column, 18" from your face.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 11:52 AM (xq1UY)


Jay Leno owns one of the few Mercer Raceabouts still in existence. He did a "Jay's Garage" episode showing it off on the highway. Here's a 1912 model:

https://goo.gl/L1lLwk

If I ever manage to start writing again, I'm giving one to my narrator.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 12:01 PM (X6fMO)

565 You know, Wolf ran on more education spending. And now PA hasn't had a budget for half-a-year because of it.

I wonder what it feels like, your elected official doing what they promised?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:01 PM (CGjum)

566 Sorry for the cri de coeur. I don't really have anyone to confide in.

I don't have an answer. I was in a similar place, the only thing that penciled out was that I was still making money. I got laid off and that made me review a lot of things. The situation was ruining my health, my relationships, and my friends didn't want to deal with me and my black moods.
If you are alone, everything is worse.

Become and Elk, or a Mason, or some similar fraternal organization.
Get involved with your church. Make a vow to talk to 5 people every day that has nothing to do with your job or shopping.

If you are alone you are limited by your point of view, or your physical strength or your wallet and free time.
You also have nothing to fall back on.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 12:02 PM (3pRHP)

567 I really need to get in the habit of asking the doctor's office what it would be.

Yeah, check those. I went to my doc, got a physical, prostate exam, and asked for a refill on a pain killer.
They coded the visit for "erectile dysfunction."
Which is not covered.
I got it switched, after an animated conversation w/my wife.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 12:02 PM (5buP8)

568 So, you call it a "conversation" do you?

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:03 PM (CGjum)

569 So, you call it a "conversation" do you?

That's what I told the cops. Just an animated conversation, officer. The black eye? No, I did that myself.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 12:06 PM (5buP8)

570 About 20 years ago, the Great American Race came through my county, and I prevaricated my work schedule to be at the check point for a while. A Mercer and a Stutz Bearcat came off the Turnpike at the speed limit, and then raced for a mile to the shopping-mall lot, and braked for the turn the only way they brake -- by broadsliding. Parallel, at 65 MPH. It was a horrific, awesome and beautiful sight, that I expect I'll never see again. Enzo said it: terrible joys.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:06 PM (xq1UY)

571 " I was informed that there would be artistic nudes here.

Posted by: Nathen Filgrim"

My understanding is that they aren't contractually available until April, 2016 at the earliest.

Buzzion might have more precise information, but isn't among the living anymore, alas.

Posted by: Modernist Man at October 15, 2015 12:09 PM (nSW/N)

572 Sorry for the cri de coeur.

___________

I'll second whomever said to get moving. It's amazing the power of movement. Seriously. Walk, hike, run, jump around the house. It helps a lot.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 12:09 PM (0LHZx)

573 Just read an article that Twitter is dying because normal people don't like getting yelled at by crazies. Seems about right.

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 12:10 PM (LzzEz)

574 The Ballad of Paunchy and Lefty
(an homage to Hillary and Bernie)


Paunchy was a bandit boys
Her Hoverround was polished steel
She wore her gums outside her teeth
For all the honest world to feel
Paunchy met her match you know
At the debates down in Nevada-oh
Nobody heard her closing words
Ah but that's the way it goes

Lefty he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The lies that Paunchy spewed down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Paunchy low
Lefty split for New Hampshire...oh!
Where he got the bread to go
There ain't nobody knows

CHORUS
All the federales say
They could have had her any day
They only let her slip away
Out of kindness I suppose.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 12:10 PM (mvenn)

575 Just read an article that Twitter is dying because normal people don't like getting yelled at by crazies. Seems about right.
Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 12:10 PM (LzzEz)


One of the many reasons I never joined...I also hate the layout. HATE it.

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 12:10 PM (lIU4e)

576 In the 19th cent., "conversation" meant sex. "Intercourse" meant talking.
You can get in a lot of trouble with them archaisms. Good trouble though.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:11 PM (xq1UY)

577 Willow!

Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 12:12 PM (/dSsq)

578 570 About 20 years ago, the Great American Race came through my county,

That stopped over in my home town this summer. (They were running 66 Chicago to Cali.) i didn't know it was happening, and out running that morning, saw all the vintage cars running around. I grabbed the girls and ran down to the starting line. talked to a bunch of the drivers. If it ever comes near you, go. It's so cool and pure, it felt like America did.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 12:12 PM (5buP8)

579 that is a dress rehearsal to the shannaigans planned for the last Republican Presidential Debate in Houston hosted by Telemundo

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 10:03 AM (zOTsN)


Maybe Trump should hire some outlaw bikers (sans colors) to be amongst the crowd to lay down a whuppin' on any protesters. Assuming none of the others would have the stones to do that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 12:12 PM (0yhH4)

580
Sadly, I'm sure the Progs will bail out Chicago and therefore all of Ill Annoyed. They found a way for Detroit.

In a reality based universe, this would certainly qualify as "taxation without representation". Yes? Our tax dollars used to conveniently pay off the bad deals made for corrupt politicians union buddies?

Even though I got the hell out of Chicago 15 years ago, I suppose I will still have to pay for the crap I didn't agree with then.

Posted by: GBruno at October 15, 2015 12:14 PM (u49WF)

581 I wouldn't pronounce twitter dead just yet. Facebook was dead a couple of years ago and today its stock is in the $100 range.

I have never and probably will never get the appeal of twitter, but as I have learned many times over, what I like isn't always what the masses like.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 12:15 PM (0LHZx)

582 Who here is looking forward to Humas "testimony" tomorrow? You know between this and Hillarys! testimony the media is gonna be playing the poor little girls meme.... Those mean old Republicans...

Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 12:16 PM (/dSsq)

583 So why am I getting ads for slutty maternity clothes?

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 12:16 PM (RD7QR)

584 565 You know, Wolf ran on more education spending. And now PA hasn't had a budget for half-a-year because of it.


--

Turns out raising taxes is harder than he expected.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 12:16 PM (cbfNE)

585 >>>> A Republican Presidential Debate in Houston hosted by Telemundo . . .


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Whose brilliant idea was that? A real "party killer" and not in the way you might think.


Posted by: GBruno at October 15, 2015 12:17 PM (u49WF)

586 582 Who here is looking forward to Humas "testimony" tomorrow? You know between this and Hillarys! testimony the media is gonna be playing the poor little girls meme.... Those mean old Republicans...
Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 12:16 PM (/dSsq)

$5 says she takes the Fifth. What are they going to do? She won't roll on Hillary. So to speak.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 12:17 PM (RD7QR)

587 Ah, Veuve. The perfect ending to a cri de coeur.
MPPPP, I had you pegged as a Grey Widow man, right from the start.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:17 PM (xq1UY)

588 Maybe Trump should hire some outlaw bikers (sans colors) to be amongst the crowd to lay down a whuppin' on any protesters. Assuming none of the others would have the stones to do that.
Posted by: Alberta
----------------

The Altamont Gambit?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 12:18 PM (9mTYi)

589 Greetings, fellow 'Rons and 'Ettes!

Last call for this 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!

Bonus: OffspringOfMystry has RSVP'd. How 'bout you?

Posted by: speedster1 at October 15, 2015 12:19 PM (xfE5u)

590 All this talk of ICD and CPT reminds me that I need to go do some work. Later y'all.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 15, 2015 12:19 PM (mvenn)

591 "Anyhoo, the other day she sends me the NYT article by David Brooks 'The
Republicans' Incompetence Caucus.' A particularly hilarious line: 'Basically, the party abandoned traditional conservatism for right-wing
radicalism.'"

I sourly remember that sack of shit Brooks, during one of the Shields and Brooks segments on PBS, referring to the "alleged" problems at the VA during Obama's tenure.

He is one of those people where if I ever run across him in person I'm going to have to think long and hard about the civil and criminal penalties of unleashing a haymaker right with no warning. It would damage the hell out of my own life, but my God, would it be both satisfying and just to deck that smarmy little prick.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 15, 2015 12:20 PM (noWW6)

592 592nd!

Posted by: rdbrewer at October 15, 2015 12:21 PM (Iyg03)

593 Denny Hastert is pleading guilty to trying to spend his money privately while Hillary Clinton walks free.

This world is really fucked up.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 12:21 PM (Zs4uk)

594 ere is a place in North GA where adults can drive tanks and dozers and crush junk cars...
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 15, 2015 11:46 AM (WDySP)

*****

I sense a road trip coming up.....

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at October 15, 2015 12:22 PM (1eYr7)

595 "that is a dress rehearsal to the shannaigans planned for the last Republican Presidential Debate in Houston hosted by Telemundo"

Just wait for the Republican *convention*, which the geniuses at the RNC have decided to have hosted in... CLEVELAND.

It's going to be an utter fiasco.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 15, 2015 12:22 PM (noWW6)

596 $5 says she takes the Fifth.

Sucker bet.

What are they going to do? She won't roll on Hillary. So to speak.

If they were men instead of posturing, water-spined homunculi, they'd throw her bony Islamist ass in the House jail on a diet of pork rinds and salt water. See how long the appeal of Scankle's cooch lasts after a couple of months of that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 12:23 PM (X6fMO)

597 I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early? What does the chip do?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:23 PM (iQIUe)

598 So, Viagra is a vasodialator and cocaine is a vasoconstricter? If Odom had laid off the crack he wouldnt have needed the herbal viagra?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 10:24 AM (iQIUe)


Did Odom croak, or is he still in a coma in the hospital?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 12:24 PM (0yhH4)

599

This morning thread is about to become an ABC Afterschool Special.....



Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 12:25 PM (kdS6q)

600 Let's make sure none of the republican members of the Benghazi committee are talking to each other, coordinating how Hillary is going to be questioned.

We want to show people it's not a conspiracy, it's a total clusterfuck.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 12:25 PM (Zs4uk)

601 But the sheer visual terror of a combine with all its choppers going at ground level. Freaky deaky hippies in Birkenstock sandals running and screaming. And the screams turn blood chilling when they are chopped off at the ankles and then sucked in to be spat out in the collection bin as gooey gore.

You're out of your favorite coffee this morning, aren't you...

Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at October 15, 2015 12:25 PM (qOsoH)

602 573
Just read an article that Twitter is dying


From your keyboard to God's ears.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 12:27 PM (0dcbp)

603 I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early? What does the chip do?



Pass a strong magnet over the card repeatedly to deactivate the spy chip!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 15, 2015 12:27 PM (rj3Mq)

604 Odom condition update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFXGwHsD_A

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:27 PM (xq1UY)

605 Did Odom croak, or is he still in a coma in the hospital?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 12:24 PM (0yhH4)

=======
He's in a coma but the docs reportedly said they were hopeful. They took him to dialysis this morning. He's in kidney failure. Unless a doctor is making these statements in a press conference, I take it all with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:28 PM (iQIUe)

606
I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!





Yessssssss.

Posted by: The Space Lizards

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at October 15, 2015 12:28 PM (kdS6q)

607 Gotta go through Baltimore Saturday pm, must stay off the streets around city hall! Lots of protests, just wait until the Freddy Gray trials start...

Posted by: Colin at October 15, 2015 12:29 PM (Espnc)

608 "I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume
it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early? What does the
chip do?"

Among other things, it does authorization for unattended point of sale.

I talked with a couple who were heading for Europe. I noted that they should have at least one chipped card so that they could transact at fueling station forecourts: lots of pumps there won't authorize for a card without the chip.

They applied for a card with a chip but it didn't arrive before they departed, and yes, they had some logistics hassles with getting gas into their rental car in some locations.

I expect the same systems will slowly percolate into the American economy.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 15, 2015 12:29 PM (noWW6)

609 Just read an article that Twitter is dying

From your keyboard to God's ears.
Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 12:27 PM (0dcbp)

=========
I like twitter. If you are a history, art, archeology buff - it is a wealth of info.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:29 PM (iQIUe)

610 @Bruce

The stated reason for the chip is fraud protection, in that the chip makes it harder for criminals.

The real reason for it is it shifts some of the fraud responsibility to the consumer.

You may as well activate it. All cards are going to be chip very, very soon.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:30 PM (CGjum)

611 I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early? What does the chip do?



Pass a strong magnet over the card repeatedly to deactivate the spy chip!
Posted by: rickb223 at October 15, 2015 12:27 PM (rj3Mq)


Don't tell people that. The new chip is required for all the new terminals and is a further security requirement. If that chip is damaged or "deactivated" it will not register and the card will be rejected. And all businesses are required to have the new terminal or be 100% responsible for any fraud

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 12:30 PM (gf8BH)

612 Denny Hastert is pleading guilty to trying to spend his money privately while Hillary Clinton walks free.


Sometimes I think that Illinois just announces various 'investigations' in a kind of tradeoff. Which party was the last big indictment? Okay, it is the other party's turn.

None of it seems to mean anything.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 15, 2015 12:30 PM (MIKMs)

613 Hungary built a fence along its entire border with Croatia in a couple of months. Granted the border is only 100 miles or so, but still, 2 months, 100 miles.

The border with Mexico is 1500 miles....quick math here, carry the 2....30 months. Add in a 50% increase for union no show jobs, and we're still in the 4 year ballpark.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 12:30 PM (0LHZx)

614 >>> We're seeing Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet tonight. Taped live at the Barbican in London this evening and replayed one time only in cinemas worldwide.

Our local theater showing it sold out in two seconds. They are hoping for an encore presentation to be permitted , I will see it then.

With the National Threatre Live presentations, they are just printing money. But good for them! I like I pay a litle extra and don't have to schlep all the way to London to see it. Same wiht the Met Live.

Posted by: LizLem at October 15, 2015 12:31 PM (hvf9s)

615 So seeing as how the Iran nuclear deal is about to become the proverbial dog sh*t stuck to bottom of every single member of the senate's shoes, anyone out in reality land that can explain to me this response I received from my senator as to why he signed the Corker Bill?

And I quote . . . "Unfortunately, Senate Democrats voted against moving to end debate so a vote on the actual resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal could not occur. I still believe that the Congress should have held an up or down vote on the resolution."

This was from Sen. Blunt. Of course he didn't answer the question, but in trying to tease something out of his response, I'm assuming he's just claiming "deer in the headlights".

Posted by: GBruno at October 15, 2015 12:32 PM (u49WF)

616 In Canada the chip is everywhere and if you have a chipless card, sales clerks, waiters, etc look at you funny. For the most part the old cards still work, but I suspect that won't be for long.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 12:32 PM (0LHZx)

617 I expect the same systems will slowly percolate into the American economy.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 15, 2015 12:29 PM (noWW6)
========
Thanks. I heard on the radio there was some law the system had to be enforced by Oct 1 but not all cards got out. My old one still works. Guess I will just activate it.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:33 PM (iQIUe)

618 Well, thanks for the advice; It's good advice and I
did think about the PRC, but I don't have the capitol to start that
right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (GERXL)


Do you have patterns? Are they good patterns that a seamstress could follow?

Have you considered following the FTD/UBER business plan?

"Hey Mom, wanna classy non-slutty costume?
Choose a costume, send us specs and your location and we will get the costume to you!"

There are a lot of wedding/quincenero/formal seamstresses around that only work part of the year, because what they do is seasonal.
You source the seamstress, provide the pattern, give the deadline, set the cost, and the seamstress sources the material and zips them off.
You get the handling and pattern fee, and the seamstress gets the labor.

Eventually the seamstress may go into business for herself. This is not a bad thing, well - except for you - but to be honest she has limited geographical scope unless she competes with you on the internet. But she will also get your business, and even more important, still want more patterns probably.

And the seamstress is not your employee and you don't have to pay tariff/import fees.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 12:33 PM (3pRHP)

619 Hamlet's still available at a theater near me, but it's not a place known for, how should I put it, faggy limey shit?

If you want a theater to see the next installment of Big Momma's House, this is your jawn.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:33 PM (CGjum)

620 Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:30 PM (CGjum)

Thanks.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:35 PM (iQIUe)

621 597 I received a new bankcard a year before my present one expired. I assume it has that new chip in it. Shd I activate it early? What does the chip do?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:23 PM (iQIUe)

I got one of those. The chip is supposed to enhance security but there's no knowing what kind of data it sends back to the bank. You also have to memorize another PIN to use the security features properly. I suspect it's just the banks protecting themselves against being sued for lax security.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 12:35 PM (RD7QR)

622 I'm hungry.

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:36 PM (2oWD2)

623 The cost of the Target breach is really what drove the US into the chip cards.

If it weren't for that, they'd still be dragging their feet on it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:36 PM (CGjum)

624 a combine with all its choppers going at ground level

This was an actual scene in Caligula. I took a first date to that movie.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:37 PM (xq1UY)

625
Now I fear that the chip will easily be damaged so card will be rejected. I remember when back cards were routinely being rejected back in the 80s.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (iQIUe)

626 https://goo.gl/tSpTya
Posted by: Maddog's tractor
---------------------------------------------
That looks awesome. The feel good movie of the year.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (E5UB0)

627 We're seeing Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet tonight. Taped live at the Barbican in London this evening and replayed one time only in cinemas worldwide.

I mentioned it in yesterday's morning thread, but for those who might have missed it - this is the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie My Fair Lady, and it is being shown in limited big-screen release across the country starting October 18. Go to www.myfairlady50.com to find a theater near you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (X6fMO)

628 When sent to me, there was no mention of another PIN #.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:40 PM (iQIUe)

629 Now I fear that the chip will easily be damaged so card will be rejected. I remember when back cards were routinely being rejected back in the 80s.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (iQIUe)


So far no chip/card has been rejected in my Office, nor has my chip card been rejected anywhere

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 12:40 PM (gf8BH)

630 625
Now I fear that the chip will easily be damaged so card will be rejected. I remember when back cards were routinely being rejected back in the 80s.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (iQIUe)

What's a back card?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 12:40 PM (J4OwT)

631 Now I fear that the chip will easily be damaged so card will be rejected. I remember when back cards were routinely being rejected back in the 80s.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (iQIUe)

__________

I've had an Amex with a chip for 2 years or so. Never had a problem. No need to worry about it. The chips will last a lot longer than the stripes which war out really fast when cared are used a lot.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 12:41 PM (0LHZx)

632 Don't tell people that. blah blah
Posted by: Nevergiveup

blah blah = all the reasons to tell people that!

Posted by: Guy who suggests you DEL c:\* at October 15, 2015 12:42 PM (Yf6eY)

633 They really do wear out when you use them a lot...

Posted by: Harry Reid at October 15, 2015 12:42 PM (CGjum)

634 618 Well, thanks for the advice; It's good advice and I
did think about the PRC, but I don't have the capitol to start that
right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 10:39 AM (GERXL)


My take on this idea is that it could work, but you should stick to the carriage trade (upper end).

Use your computer to research PRC companies that do theatrical costumes. Email them and say you're willing to try to open up a new market for them, but you need their help. Pick a dozen costumes, get them to send you professional pictures, settle on price and lead times and go with a website.

Use social media to spread the word.

Hopefully, you will get your first orders without any outlay for inventory.

Pay quickly, smooth over any problems and build the business. I think there are a lot of women who would pay $120-$400 for a great costume.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 12:43 PM (Zs4uk)

635 628 When sent to me, there was no mention of another PIN #.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:40 PM (iQIUe)

That might just be my bank then.

Posted by: joncelli, Boned like You at October 15, 2015 12:44 PM (RD7QR)

636 I don't understand why progressives hate Jews so much but then I don't understand why Jews love progressives so much so it all balances out.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 15, 2015 12:44 PM (lKSyl)

637 rdbrewer posted 6 sidebar links and this post. Where can I buy xisr a beer?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 12:45 PM (J4OwT)

638 How 'bout getting serious about prison sentences for identity theft. A friend had two credit card accounts activated using his name and address. Cops didn't really care. He even found the items bough on the fraudulent cards for sale on Cragg's List. The CC companies must be really lax on who gets a card.

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:45 PM (2oWD2)

639 But can your costumes cover... treads?

*Bleep*Blop*Bloop*

Posted by: Hillar-Y at October 15, 2015 12:45 PM (CGjum)

640 >>> this is the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie My Fair Lady

No doubt Milo Yiannopolis has the lyrics to "A Hymn to Him" memorized.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 12:46 PM (g0dZ5)

641 >>> I mentioned it in yesterday's morning thread, but for those who might have missed it - this is the 50th anniversary of the release of the movie My Fair Lady


Nice MPPP! Will do. (Also, add hugs and prayers from me to add to the rest of the Horde's.)


There are also Back to the Future screenings in honor of its 30th anniversary. My local one has titled it "Where's My Hoverboard," hah. Is on the 21st.

http://saltlakefilmsociety.org/what-s-happening/item/107-back-to-the-future-trilogy

Posted by: LizLem at October 15, 2015 12:47 PM (hvf9s)

642 Meanwhile, for the last several months there has been burgeoning demand for antique credit card imprinters -- the ones that went ka-Chunk-a as they swept over the raised letters on the plastic -- because they work when the power is off or the System Is Down.

The Twenty-First Century: A self-driving car with a socket for the buggy whip.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:47 PM (xq1UY)

643

Huma is gonna go all "Have You No Shame Sir!" and then flounce off without answering any questions OR taking the fifth, daring them to arrest her for contempt

bank on it

Posted by: ThunderB at October 15, 2015 12:48 PM (zOTsN)

644 There are two types of depression - one occurs when external events cause it. The other type - which is the clinical depression to worry about - is when there are no external events which are causing it. The latter is a serious brain chemistry problem. The former is the brain under attack from external sources. That is not a clinical problem. Anyone who isn't distressed by our current situation is insane. Here is how to alleviate the kind of stress we are all feeling; Take martial arts training from a reputable instructor - learn how to protect yourself. You are feeling helpless. That will help keep you from feeling helpless. Almost any physical activity will help to a degree. If nothing else, get a heavy bag and beat the crap out of it.

By the way, the insane people on the left feel this way all the time even when things are going well, they are just trying to drag us all down to their miserable level of existence. Don't let them get away with that.


Posted by: An Observation at October 15, 2015 12:48 PM (JmE0x)

645 Good, the power came back on.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 12:49 PM (LUgeY)

646
Wow,, I've been out and got a bikini wax, made it back and this thread is still going.....

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 12:49 PM (HSmrB)

647 In before willow is willowed.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 15, 2015 12:49 PM (1DH1V)

648 593
Denny Hastert is pleading guilty to trying to spend his money privately while Hillary Clinton walks free.



This world is really fucked up.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 12:21 PM (Zs4uk)

Meanwhile the black mailer goes free and keeps the money.
Justice bitches!

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 12:49 PM (jJRIy)

649 635 628 When sent to me, there was no mention of another PIN #.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:40 PM (iQIUe)

It might ask you to pick a pin when you activate it.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 12:50 PM (cbfNE)

650 "antique credit card imprinters -- the ones that went ka-Chunk-a as they swept over the raised letters on the plastic"

Except, the next step after chips is to eliminate the numbers from the card altogether, raised or otherwise. Srsly.

Posted by: Old cash is your friend at October 15, 2015 12:50 PM (Yf6eY)

651 "
So seeing as how the Iran nuclear deal is about to become the proverbial
dog sh*t stuck to bottom of every single member of the senate's shoe"

Tom Cotton is clean on this. He is literally the only one who opposed Corker.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (noWW6)

652 Good, the power came back on.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 12:49 PM (LUgeY)


Chris Plante this AM:
Q: What did progressives use for light before candles?

A: Electricity!

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (ftVQq)

653 Hamlet comes off as kind of a dick, to me. Especially the way he treated Ophelia.

More of an anti-hero than a hero.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (r9tFS)

654 And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)

#BearLivesMatter

Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (GrXXa)

655 Denny Hastert is pleading guilty to trying to spend his money privately while Hillary Clinton walks free.



This world is really fucked up.

Posted by: jwest Meanwhile the black mailer goes free and keeps the money.
Justice bitches!
Posted by: Nip Sip

____________

I don't want to waste my outrage on a pedophile, but that case was so messed up. If anyone should be imprison, it should be the person doing the blackmailing. What they nailed Hastert on was completely absurd.

Posted by: Coolio at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (ifLF+)

656 654
And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.



Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)



#BearLivesMatter



Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (GrXXa)


#BearPepperoniSticksMatterMore

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM (1DH1V)

657 I got a new card with a chip and no pin was needed. Takes a little longer for the machine to read the chip at the checkout.

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM (2oWD2)

658 Ophelia, hell. What about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM (xq1UY)

659 [iJust read an article that Twitter is dying

Faster, please.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM (LUgeY)

660 Posted by: Old cash is your friend at October 15, 2015 12:50 PM (Yf6eY)

after going through an extremely invasive mortgage loan process earlier this year.....i've gone cash for everything but my utility auto and home loans......had a super creep commenting on where i spent my money as if it was any of his fucking business.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (0O7c5)

661 Okay... I have to vent.

The back-story for this is too long even for a decent summary, but most of the IT Morons will cringe even without it.

My current client runs their *production* environment with a SQL Table which tells their server what day it is to a given store.

They are a) proud of this fact, and b) mad that we did not do the same thing with the new system we're developing for them.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (kff5f)

662 654 And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 10:25 AM (kVLm4)

#BearLivesMatter
Posted by: kbdabear at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (GrXXa)

Apologize for appropriating our cultural outrage.
#BlackBearLivesMatter

Posted by: Black Bears Lives Matter Activist at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (J4OwT)

663 Ace should change the name of this blog from "Ace of Spades HQ" to "Ace's Well-Rested Afternoon Blog."

Posted by: Kensington at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (7Kbxu)

664 Well if there's no news today maybe I can interest people in my screenplay "Death by Dildo" where hot, sexy young women on American campuses are mysteriously killed by someone using their own sex toys.


Tagline: "Strangled with her own 12 inch dildo. If only she'd been carrying a gun....."




Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (AC0lD)

665 What they nailed Hastert on was completely absurd.

Posted by: Coolio at October 15, 2015 12:51 PM (ifLF+)

Not really: D. Hastert (R).

Posted by: DoJ at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (ftVQq)

666 Twitter can not die fast enough.

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:54 PM (2oWD2)

667 Link to Kickstarter page, SI.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:54 PM (CGjum)

668 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 12:53 PM (kff5f)

You mean the actual day, not some calculated business day?

Posted by: Black Bears Lives Matter Activist at October 15, 2015 12:55 PM (J4OwT)

669
Lamar Odom SQUEEZES Kim Kardashian's hand: 'Comatose' NBA star showing signs of recovery as it's revealed he blew $75k on four-day brothel, Viagra and cocaine bender before collapse

And they almost got El Chap, aka Ace, but he slipped away...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:55 PM (iQIUe)

670 " Just read an article that Twitter is dying.


Faster, please."

=========

I hope it's a communicable disease, and I hope Facebook catches it, too.

Posted by: Kensington at October 15, 2015 12:55 PM (7Kbxu)

671 Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:55 PM (iQIUe)


I cannot imagine a pseudo-news topic I could care less about!

Posted by: Hrothgar at October 15, 2015 12:56 PM (ftVQq)

672 Uh, oh. Might have left an open tag. Sorry!

Posted by: Kensington at October 15, 2015 12:56 PM (7Kbxu)

673 Twitter can not die fast enough.
Posted by: Dang

Iowahawk is about the only good thing on Twitter.

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 12:57 PM (326rv)

674 Lamar Odom SQUEEZES Kim Kardashian's hand: 'Comatose' NBA star showing signs of recovery as it's revealed he blew $75k on four-day brothel, Viagra and cocaine bender before collapse


The things I could do with $75K. That would solve every problem I have right now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 12:57 PM (LUgeY)

675 For $75k, you think they'd deliver.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:58 PM (CGjum)

676 Humma will take the fifth, count on it.




Hillary might. It would be the kiss of death, but she is a lawyer. I have a good feeling the committee has smoking gun material.




This line of attack, thanks to that asshole from CA, that it's all politics will only go so far.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 12:58 PM (jJRIy)

677 Iowahawk is about the only good thing on Twitter.
Posted by: Blue Hen
--------------------------------------------
Yep. That's pretty much my only use for it. Once a day, checkout iowahawk's feed, Malkin's feed, Oh darn Elfwick's still hasn't resurfaced, close tab.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (E5UB0)

678 For $75k, you think they'd deliver.>>>

But that would be illegal.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (aVYsC)

679 675 For $75k, you think they'd deliver.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 12:58 PM (CGjum)

He's in a coma; I'd say they did.

Posted by: Black Bears Lives Matter Activist at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (J4OwT)

680 What about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?


Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM


Dead. Moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (KrAjA)

681 The things I could do with $75K. That would solve every problem I have right now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 12:57 PM (LUgeY)


I remember when I said the same thing about $750K.

Problems just get more expensive.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (Zs4uk)

682 Well if there's no news today maybe I can interest people in my screenplay "Death by Dildo"



Yeesh. It happens...

http://tinyurl.com/l5wof9x

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (2oWD2)

683 So seeing as how the Iran nuclear deal is about to become the proverbial
dog sh*t stuck to bottom of every single member of the senate's shoe"

Tom Cotton is clean on this. He is literally the only one who opposed Corker.


Wait, what? My smarter than me boss told me yesterday that there had to be a 2/3 majority of the house for that to pass.

Posted by: Infidel at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (Z1SI2)

684 =======

He's in a coma but the docs reportedly said they were hopeful. They
took him to dialysis this morning. He's in kidney failure. Unless a
doctor is making these statements in a press conference, I take it all
with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:28 PM (iQIUe)

So it's true if you are banging hooks for three days and your erection lasts more than four hours, you should call a doctor?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:00 PM (jJRIy)

685 Uh, oh. Might have left an open tag. Sorry!
Posted by: Kensington
--------------------------------
If you want to barrel, you need to leave 2 open tags.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 01:00 PM (E5UB0)

686 Lamar Odom SQUEEZES Kim Kardashian's hand: 'Comatose' NBA star showing signs of recovery as it's revealed he blew $75k on four-day brothel, Viagra and cocaine bender before collapse



Soooooo, What do we get to hear about first?
The evils of the the 1% and how they burn through money?
That only black lives matter?
objectification of women?
How legalizing drugs would solve this?
Or, celebrity squirrel ?

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 01:00 PM (326rv)

687 You mean the actual day, not some calculated business day?

Yes. For the store to know that today is "today," they have to ask SQL. And SQL does not reply with GetDate(). No, it looks it up in a table.

Now, honestly, there were decent reasons for this (ish) in the old system. For instance, if something weird happened and they needed the store (for a while) still to think it was yesterday, they could do that. Those reasons no longer apply.

Their problem is that they were leveraging that idea to allow them to do training - entering data in a quasi-live environment, and then updating the table to make the system pretend that the data (payday loans) was aging. They use it in stores to train new employees.

Problem is... that's completely unnecessary. A register monkey (no offense to register monkeys, I've been one myself) does not need to know *how* the loan works. They need to know how the system works - that is, how to originate a loan, how to take payments, how to refinance (yes, this is a thing you can do with payday loans), how to void loans or payments, etc. None of that requires adjusting dates, but they've gotten so used to it that the very idea of not makes them nuts.

So now they want us to rewrite a good chunk of our code to read the date from a table even in production so they can make stores believe that the date is whatever they want.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:00 PM (kff5f)

688 Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:37 PM (xq1UY)

I was going to mention that ... but then she did say hippies & not some poor sods buried up to their necks in sand so I went with the coffee joke ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cowardly Lion Movie Critic ... at October 15, 2015 01:01 PM (qOsoH)

689 Well if there's no news today maybe I can interest people in my screenplay "Death by Dildo"



Yeesh. It happens...

http://tinyurl.com/l5wof9x
Posted by: Dang

I'm gonna go with, we should definitely NOT go near this if we're at work?

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 01:02 PM (326rv)

690 @682 Ramon Navarro, with his Oscar.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 01:02 PM (xq1UY)

691 669


Lamar Odom SQUEEZES Kim Kardashian's hand: 'Comatose' NBA star showing signs of recovery as it's revealed he blew $75k on four-day brothel, Viagra and cocaine bender before collapse



And they almost got El Chap, aka Ace, but he slipped away...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:55 PM (iQIUe)


Nobody out-Ace-of-Spades-Lifestyles the master. Nobody.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (1DH1V)

692 I have a 1956 John Deere 420 tractor. Number of
safety devices = 0. That is one machine I don't drink beer while
operating. It will fucking kill you in a heartbeat.
Posted by: maddogg at October 15, 2015 11:42 AM (xWW96)


There is a Steam-Up locally every year, it is old steam and farm equipment collectors coming out to show off and run their equipment for fun.
All of that equipment will kill you in a second of inattention... Scalds, burns, pinch points, PTOs dragging you through gears...

I get the same feeling I used to get throwing apples into the chipper when I was a kid.
That Ewww! Followed by a ghoulish chuckle.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (3pRHP)

693 AllenG, seems like a huge risk if they ever get audited.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (cbfNE)

694 Yeesh. It happens...

http://tinyurl.com/l5wof9x


Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:59 PM (2oWD2)


Well that wasn't sexy at all....Unlike my casting couch...

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (AC0lD)

695 Ophelia, hell. What about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 15, 2015 12:52 PM (xq1UY)


There's a book called Who Wrote Shakespeare? by the late John Michell (an interesting read) who notes that "Gyldenstyrne" was the name of a courtier in the Danish court and that the name would have been known to one of the aristocratic claimants to "shakespeare."


Well if there's no news today maybe I can interest people in my screenplay "Death by Dildo" where hot, sexy young women on American campuses are mysteriously killed by someone using their own sex toys.

Submit it to the networks. I've seen ads for some silly show called "Scream Queens" where the members of a sorority are being knocked off one by one. Jamie Lee Curtis stars.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (X6fMO)

696 my mil who prides herself on being oh so high tech saavy....and oh so mrs. soooooper sekrit clearance.....was running our family business off the non password protected neighbors wireless internet connection......for 5 yrs.....and had no clue until the neighbor moved office buildings and her internet stopped working.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 15, 2015 01:04 PM (0O7c5)

697 AllenG, seems like a huge risk if they ever get audited.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:03 PM (cbfNE)


Yeah, that's one problem.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:04 PM (kff5f)

698 @682

I had a friend in college, worked in ER. A guy came in in pain, cause he had a three D battery flashlight shoved up his ass.



He showed me the x ray. WTF?

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:04 PM (jJRIy)

699 So now they want us to rewrite a good chunk of our code to read the date from a table even in production so they can make stores believe that the date is whatever they want.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:00 PM (kff5f)

Legacy DB issues are the *worst*.

Posted by: Black Bears Lives Matter Activist at October 15, 2015 01:05 PM (J4OwT)

700 Drudge:















Panic strikes school after student says 'gum'


Just imagine if one of the little darlings used the word "trifle".

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 01:06 PM (0dcbp)

701 Legacy DB issues are the *worst*.>>>

DB=Dumb Bosses?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (aVYsC)

702
Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their sisters as surrogates

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (iQIUe)

703 And won't you guys be liable if their date table gets corrupted or hacked?

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (cbfNE)

704 686
Lamar Odom SQUEEZES Kim Kardashian's hand: 'Comatose' NBA star showing
signs of recovery as it's revealed he blew $75k on four-day brothel,
Viagra and cocaine bender before collapse




So I shouldn't feel too bad about blowing $5K in Costa Rica?



Course, your money goes a lot farther down there, I've been told.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (jJRIy)

705 There is a Steam-Up locally every year, it is old steam and farm equipment collectors coming out to show off and run their equipment for fun.
All of that equipment will kill you in a second of inattention... Scalds, burns, pinch points, PTOs dragging you through gears...


Milling machines, grinding machines, CNC machines, spinning cutters, open flames. All this and much more were the types of dangers I managed to avoid daily for many many years. Somehow I still have both eyes and all my fingers. Sense, however, is another story altogether.

Situational awareness: I haz it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (LUgeY)

706 Then, there are the PTO's on tractors....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 15, 2015 11:39 AM (9mTYi)


Lost a friend at work to that. RIP, Lyle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (0yhH4)

707 698 @682

I had a friend in college, worked in ER. A guy came in in pain, cause he had a three D battery flashlight shoved up his ass.



He showed me the x ray. WTF?
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:04 PM (jJRIy)

Good Lord. I knew an ER doc once who worked in a designated trauma center, so they got all the GSWs, stabbings, ODs, and the weird cases. He'd occasionally tell us some of the things he'd had to remove from people's asses, some of which you'd think were impossible to fit in there in the first place.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (2Ojst)

708 702
Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their sisters as surrogates
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (iQIUe)

Those ain't surrogates.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:08 PM (J4OwT)

709 Thanks everybody for the great thoughts/advice on the costume idea; I appreciate it. I think i will have to be after some unknown wealthy relative dies and leaves me the capital to invest in it. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 15, 2015 01:09 PM (GERXL)

710 Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their sisters as surrogates
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!

That's not a family tree; that's a thicket.

And the gay marriage cheerleader will be here to tell us how marvy this all is in 3...2...1....

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 01:09 PM (326rv)

711 And won't you guys be liable if their date table gets corrupted or hacked?

Nope. We're just the contractor. Their business decision. Their compliance department.

That doesn't change the fact that it's f*cking stupid and a waste of time and money when we're already over budget and behind schedule.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:10 PM (kff5f)

712 Well if there's no news today maybe I can interest people in my screenplay "Death by Dildo" where hot, sexy young women on American campuses are mysteriously killed by someone using their own sex toys.
---------------------------------------------------------

Here's an idea for a "Death by Dildo" scene: Kris Jenner agrees to strap on a dildo and sleep with Bruce after his operation, as a peace offering.

Unbeknownst to him, however, she's out for revenge. It's a switchblade dildo and he dies of internal bleeding.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 01:10 PM (E5UB0)

713 701 Legacy DB issues are the *worst*.>>>

DB=Dumb Bosses?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 15, 2015 01:07 PM (aVYsC)

DataBase.

But your answer works, too.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:10 PM (J4OwT)

714 How 'bout getting serious about prison sentences for
identity theft. A friend had two credit card accounts activated using
his name and address. Cops didn't really care. He even found the items
bough on the fraudulent cards for sale on Cragg's List. The CC companies
must be really lax on who gets a card.


Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 12:45 PM (2oWD2)

There is a little something about identity theft that the banks and credit card companies don't want you to know; if they accept a forgery, THEY are on the hook for it. The financial institutions do everything they can to try to convince you that it is YOUR problem. For example thief takes out a credit card in your name THE BANKS LOWER YOUR CREDIT RATING. Pretty cute huh? The banks know they are the ones on the hook for excepting a forgery, they just treat you like a red headed step child in the hopes that you won't figure that out. Its all just a bluff on their part. The more brazen ones will even try to get you to cover their losses.

Posted by: An Observation at October 15, 2015 01:10 PM (JmE0x)

715 Don't tell people that. The new chip is required for
all the new terminals and is a further security requirement. If that
chip is damaged or "deactivated" it will not register and the card will
be rejected. And all businesses are required to have the new terminal or
be 100% responsible for any fraud

Posted by: Nevergiveup


What I'm wondering about all this is how it helps with internet purchase fraud, which has been by far the most prevalent, in my experience.

Posted by: Zombie Jeff Davis at October 15, 2015 01:11 PM (/Ho8c)

716 Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their sisters as surrogates

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!
--------------------------------------------------
Harry Lime is gay?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 15, 2015 01:12 PM (E5UB0)

717 Legacy DB issues are the *worst*

Which we were hoping to avoid by having a whole new database.

But - joy of joys - during roll-out, they "don't want to duplicate maintenance effort," which means we have a whole lot of stuff which is forced to call their legacy systems...

If I get too far down this road, it my drive my teetotaler self to drink.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:12 PM (kff5f)

718 That doesn't change the fact that it's f*cking stupid and a waste of time and money when we're already over budget and behind schedule.

and missing a requirements document ?

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:12 PM (qOsoH)

719

This is so marvy!!!


Posted by: gay marriage cheerleader at October 15, 2015 01:13 PM (HSmrB)

720 T18.5XXA Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter

Posted by: Umlaut Liberation Front at October 15, 2015 01:14 PM (JtwS4)

721 and missing a requirements document ?

Requirements document? Ha. It is to laugh.

I'm pretty sure our Statement of Work says, "Yeah, we'll do some stuff."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:14 PM (kff5f)

722 Don't tell people that. The new chip is required for
all the new terminals and is a further security requirement. If that
chip is damaged or "deactivated" it will not register and the card will
be rejected. And all businesses are required to have the new terminal or
be 100% responsible for any fraud

Posted by: Nevergiveup

What I'm wondering about all this is how it helps with internet purchase fraud, which has been by far the most prevalent, in my experience.
Posted by: Zombie Jeff Davis at October 15, 2015 01:11 PM (/Ho8c)


THAT I don't really know but supposedly they have been using this in Europe for years and their fraud rate is lower than ours? But what do I know. All I know is what it means from my end as a Merchant

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 01:14 PM (gf8BH)

723 This is so marvy!!!


Posted by: gay marriage cheerleader

hey there marv.

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 01:15 PM (326rv)

724 700
Panic strikes school after student says 'gum'

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 01:06 PM (0dcbp)


Well, if the schools still taught proper diction, that wouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: rickl at October 15, 2015 01:15 PM (zoehZ)

725 This reminds me of the time I went to Kohl's to buy a sweater and they had a sign for batteries on sale. So I asked the clerk where they were and she replied, "If they were up your ass you'd know it."

I didn't back down.

Posted by: Scott Walker at October 15, 2015 01:16 PM (Ui7Rt)

726 Europeans also use cards less, so it'll be interesting if the chips can actually do anything here.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:16 PM (CGjum)

727 I'm just hoping there's no Math today.

Posted by: wth at October 15, 2015 01:16 PM (wAQA5)

728 Never again is what the ewok swore the time before

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:17 PM (bYGAR)

729 727
I'm just hoping there's no Math today.

Posted by: wth at October 15, 2015 01:16 PM (wAQA5)


Soon.

Posted by: Math at October 15, 2015 01:18 PM (1DH1V)

730 I'm pretty sure our Statement of Work says, "Yeah, we'll do some stuff."

Good luck with the T-totalin'

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:18 PM (qOsoH)

731 The cards reduce fraud in Europe because the EU requires 2-factor authentication. The first auth is the chip in the card, and the second auth is a PIN number known only by the cardholder.

For some stupid reason, the US banks decided to forgo the PIN.

Posted by: johnd01 at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (ukNFU)

732 T18.5XXA Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter

Posted by: Umlaut Liberation Front at October 15, 2015 01:14 PM


Initial encounter?

O_o

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (KrAjA)

733 718 That doesn't change the fact that it's f*cking stupid and a waste of time and money when we're already over budget and behind schedule.

and missing a requirements document ?
Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:12 PM (qOsoH)

They should be using a Training server for training anyway.

VMs in the cloud are cheap these days.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (J4OwT)

734 What would help with internet fraud is the temporary single use card numbers that my cc used to offer but they dropped it. Bleh.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (cbfNE)

735 I had a chip card rejected when I tried to use it to order pizza. I don't know if this was an error at the pizza place or something related to the chip though..

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (lIU4e)

736 There is a reason store brand salad dressing are cheap.



They taste like shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (jJRIy)

737 Never again is what the ewok swore the time before

null & void.

He has a time machine, remember ...

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (qOsoH)

738 Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a
THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their
sisters as surrogates



Posted by: Bruce With a Wang!


These wierdos will be super-heros to the libs if they go ahead and abort the children.

Posted by: Dang at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (2oWD2)

739 The good news is that something works...

Leaves are falling around the palatial west estate and although we have a yard person, unless you keep up you'll get buried in the leaves.

I modified a Cub Cadet RZT-50 zero turn with a Peco collection box and 6 HP vacuum motor.

It kicks ass and takes names.

Even with leaves deep enough to push with the front bumper, this thing never bogged down, missed a step or thought about plugging up.

Happy happy happy.

Posted by: jwest at October 15, 2015 01:20 PM (Zs4uk)

740 Yikes.

This thread smells like old compost, barf, and Carling's Black Label Beer.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 15, 2015 01:21 PM (0cMkb)

741 "Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a
THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their
sisters as surrogates
"

There way is just as good as yours, h8r!!11!

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:21 PM (bYGAR)

742 The cards reduce fraud in Europe because the EU requires 2-factor authentication. The first auth is the chip in the card, and the second auth is a PIN number known only by the cardholder.

For some stupid reason, the US banks decided to forgo the PIN.
Posted by: johnd01

We believe that not requiring a PIN makes things easier and safer.......Somehow. And we don't do it. But that ain't the reason.

Posted by: Visa and MasterCard at October 15, 2015 01:21 PM (326rv)

743 740 Yikes.

This thread smells like old compost, barf, and Carling's Black Label Beer.


Posted by: naturalfake at October 15, 2015 01:21 PM (0cMkb)

Black Label Ice

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:22 PM (J4OwT)

744
They taste like shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 15, 2015 01:19 PM (jJRIy)
________________

That shit taste is desired in gay marriage!

GO GAY MARRIAGE!!!

Posted by: gay marriage cheerleader at October 15, 2015 01:22 PM (HSmrB)

745 "Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a
THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their
sisters as surrogates
"

There way is just as good as yours, h8r!!11!

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:21 PM (bYGAR)



What about me?

Posted by: The Turtle at October 15, 2015 01:22 PM (0cMkb)

746 "This thread smells like old compost, barf, and Carling's Black Label Beer"

But you still know there's no place that you'd rather be than right here.

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:23 PM (bYGAR)

747 "Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a
THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their
sisters as surrogates

I bet that if their names were like Duggar or they were from a compound in Utah, they'd get a different reception from the Beautiful people.

Posted by: Blue Hen at October 15, 2015 01:23 PM (326rv)

748 Their*****

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:24 PM (GZ6Pf)

749
A few months ago I went to GoDaddy to try and get Gaydivorcecourt.com but it was already taken. You snooze, you lose.

Posted by: wth at October 15, 2015 01:24 PM (wAQA5)

750 The cards reduce fraud in Europe because the EU requires 2-factor authentication. The first auth is the chip in the card, and the second auth is a PIN number known only by the cardholder.

For some stupid reason, the US banks decided to forgo the PIN.
Posted by: johnd01


I have a pin number for some

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 15, 2015 01:24 PM (gf8BH)

751 We don't need no stinkin' content!

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 01:25 PM (wxDT3)

752 The cards reduce fraud in Europe because the EU requires 2-factor authentication. The first auth is the chip in the card, and the second auth is a PIN number known only by the cardholder.

How does this work? PINs have to be authenticated, meaning some one / thing has to have a copy of the PIN.

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:25 PM (qOsoH)

753 I don't like the chip because it takes so much longer to read the card than it does to swipe it.

And the machine at Target honks at you like you're a criminal.

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:25 PM (GZ6Pf)

754 "Gay married couple who got divorced after just one year to include a THIRD man in their relationship now plan to have children with their sisters as surrogates "

I'm reminded of the old adage about being so open-minded your brains fall out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 15, 2015 01:26 PM (X6fMO)

755 Let me guess: Ace got up so early he posted today's threads yesterday. Or, he's working so far ahead of his usual pay that today's posts won't show up until tomorrow.

Or, he did the podcast on Tuesday, so he thinks its the weekend and has buggered off.

Or, he posted something while I was tying this.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:26 PM (J4OwT)

756 I need some red meat

Posted by: Ducky Davis at October 15, 2015 01:27 PM (8R8mX)

757 In a real chip n pin card, the pin is actually held on chip, so there isn't an external authentication IIRC.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:27 PM (CGjum)

758 "'m reminded of the old adage about being so open-minded your brains fall out."

I read an article the other day from a formal radical liberal who had backed off the koolaid a bit.

Basically she was saying that there was a culture of fear among her former radicals that you didn't want to say that *anything* was too radical for fear you would be shunned from the group.

Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (GZ6Pf)

759
How does this work? PINs have to be authenticated, meaning some one / thing has to have a copy of the PIN.
Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer

There has to be a switching platform that authenticates the PIN. They would hold the keys, the data required to read the card, and decrypt the PIN. This can be done either 'from the track" (validating the PIN presented with the offset on the magnetic stripe/chip) or working from an offset file.

Posted by: I do not do this for a living at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (326rv)

760 Does the chip card prevent skimming?
When a crook puts their own reader on top of an actual reader at a gas station or atm?

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (cbfNE)

761 He needs his clock to reset, and staying up 24 hours one day rarely cuts it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (CGjum)

762 761 He needs his clock to reset, and staying up 24 hours one day rarely cuts it.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (CGjum)

I'm great with clocks!

Posted by: Achmed the "inventor" at October 15, 2015 01:30 PM (2Ojst)

763 Basically she was saying that there was a culture of fear among her former radicals that you didn't want to say that *anything* was too radical for fear you would be shunned from the group.
Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (GZ6Pf)

too radical or not radical enough?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:30 PM (J4OwT)

764
And the machine at Target honks at you like you're a criminal.
Posted by: Lauren

The entire industry moved away from ATMs that held the card. POS terminals never did.

Now, all of them have to. And people are forgetting to take their cards. Which is one of the reason why motorized card readers were discontinued.

So some merchants are doing things to remind cardholders.

Posted by: I do not do this for a living at October 15, 2015 01:31 PM (326rv)

765 The traditional story is that chip-and-PIN authentication provides a level of authentication in places where you have a lot of terminals that have no real-time data connection back to the payment processor.

Many US chip-and-signature cards have a PIN issued with them but this PIN is not usable for credit transactions, only cash advances at an ATM, so it's not the same thing.

Posted by: JEM at October 15, 2015 01:32 PM (o+SC1)

766 Now I fear that the chip will easily be damaged so card will be rejected. I remember when back cards were routinely being rejected back in the 80s.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 12:38 PM (iQIUe)


There are chips, and there are chips. My cards all have chips, as evidenced by a pattern of gold marks on the front of the card. These are contact points, and make a connection to the card reader. The old magnetic stripe readers are seldom used any more, although the cards still bear the stripe. So, I insert the card in the reader, key in my PIN, and the bill gets paid.


Now there is also an RFID chip in my new bank cards, that needs only pass near the reader to activate, and it doesn't require keying in the PIN. I found that out when I accidentally paid for my groceries before i could slip the card into the reader. I said, "Huh" What happened. It says transaction complete, and I never even put the card in the reader?" Clerk said, "Oh you have the new card with the RFID chip. You can go to your bank and have that deactivated, if you wish." So, I did. I want to remain in the loop. I want to see the purchase total on the screen of the card reader, and authorize the debit with my PIN, to ensure that the bill I am paying is mine, and not someone else's, and not padded (which might happen if the merchant in question, or an employee, knew I was from out of area).

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 01:33 PM (0yhH4)

767 Does the chip card prevent skimming?
When a crook puts their own reader on top of an actual reader at a gas station or atm?

With chip transactions, yes. The chip and the authentication switch conduct a dynamic cryptography session. Skimming doesn't help here, but they are capturing a snapshot of a moving target.

Mag stripes are by their nature static.

Posted by: I do not do this for a living at October 15, 2015 01:33 PM (326rv)

768 Looks like Bernie Sanders is the choice of the younger people for president. I guess old and outdated is hip and new now. Just promise more free stuff than your opponents and you win! Its the Huey Long path to power.

Apparently young people are so foolish, so ignorant in mathematics and economics, and so unaware of history that this seems like a great idea.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 01:33 PM (39g3+)

769 762
761 He needs his clock to reset, and staying up 24 hours one day rarely cuts it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:28 PM (CGjum)



I'm great with clocks!

Posted by: Achmed the "inventor" at October 15, 2015 01:30 PM (2Ojst)


And I'm great with resets!

Posted by: Hillary! at October 15, 2015 01:34 PM (Mz/Zg)

770 In a real chip n pin card, the pin is actually held on chip, so there isn't an external authentication IIRC.

but then wouldn't it be the same security breach as the pseudo PIN readers people attach at gas pumps and the like ...

Read number, Read PIN stored on card, sell combo on black market ...

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:34 PM (qOsoH)

771 Well.... this is really cheery.

It seems my bathtub has a leak.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:34 PM (kVLm4)

772
Being a drug kingpin has it's drawbacks. You have to stay on the move, cant travel, cant use banks, have to pay cash for everything which isnt easy, etc. You have may be a good run for about 10-20 years and most of that is clawing your way to the top.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 01:35 PM (iQIUe)

773 Black Label Ice

JAX FTW!

Featuring the voices of Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKYmfpsL5I

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 01:35 PM (LUgeY)

774 And the machine at Target honks at you like you're a criminal.
Posted by: Lauren at October 15, 2015 01:25 PM (GZ6Pf)


I know!!! that's so weird.

Posted by: Lea at October 15, 2015 01:35 PM (lIU4e)

775 It seems my bathtub has a leak.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:34 PM (kVLm4)


Well *now* where are you going to put your gin?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:35 PM (kff5f)

776 Apparently young people are so foolish, so ignorant in mathematics and economics, and so unaware of history that this seems like a great idea.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor


Are those subject taught these days?
Maybe the history of oppression is taught.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 15, 2015 01:36 PM (9Fc79)

777
Looks like Bernie Sanders is the choice of the younger people for president.
__________________________

Shut your whore mouth...

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 01:36 PM (HSmrB)

778 775 It seems my bathtub has a leak.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:34 PM (kVLm4)

Well *now* where are you going to put your gin?
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at October 15, 2015 01:35 PM (kff5f)

Or make your meth? This is bad!

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 01:36 PM (2Ojst)

779 not refreshing fast enough. Many apologies ...

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:36 PM (qOsoH)

780 Ok, so a skimmer would read the pin from the keypad, but would only read a one time transaction number from the chip, so he can't use that pin without the actual chip.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:37 PM (cbfNE)

781 I see bourbon in that painting. *hic*

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at October 15, 2015 01:37 PM (Jj/2n)

782 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 01:33 PM (0yhH4)

Ooooo! I need to stand in line next to you!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 15, 2015 01:37 PM (iQIUe)

783 #214


And in Russia a bear took a midnight shopping trip to a mall. Police killed the bear.

========

Trouble's bruin. I blame Putin.

Posted by: mrp at October 15, 2015 01:38 PM (JBggj)

784 Hello, my friends.

Posted by: John McCain at October 15, 2015 01:38 PM (VAsIq)

785 776 Apparently young people are so foolish, so ignorant in mathematics and economics, and so unaware of history that this seems like a great idea.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

Are those subject taught these days?
Maybe the history of oppression is taught.


The young'uns are absolutely convinced, due to non-stop MFM propagandizing, that Globull Warmening is about to cause the end of the world as we know it.

One of the reasons they are feeling the Bern.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat at October 15, 2015 01:39 PM (r9tFS)

786 Weird leak. Pulled the cover away from back of tub where the faucets and drain are. Turned on water to fill tub. And after a bit started to see a trickle of water drip drown from the overflow.

So I guess replace the O-ring?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:39 PM (kVLm4)

787 Ok, so a skimmer would read the pin from the keypad, but would only read a one time transaction number from the chip, so he can't use that pin without the actual chip.
Posted by: @votermom

The PIN has to remain constant, since the cardholder isn't using more than one PIN.

But the chip and the authorizing switch establish a session and exchange credentials, as well as the PIN/offset. That's what sets it apart from mag stripe transactions.

Posted by: I do not do this for a living at October 15, 2015 01:39 PM (326rv)

788 It seems my bathtub has a leak.

Heavy duty tarp & no high heeled stomp boot showers should get you through a couple of weeks ...

J&B weld bond if the leaky is small & obvious ...

Take care, though. Fixing plumbing is messy business.

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:40 PM (qOsoH)

789 How is the tub leaking, Anna? At the drain, at the grout?

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:40 PM (cbfNE)

790 Looks like Bernie Sanders is the choice of the younger people for president.


Free Panera! Yay!

Posted by: Hipster Douchebags at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (Jj/2n)

791 You know how low my expectations have become for the R-brand? I consider it a MASSIVE victory if Bush/Graham ________________(insert RINO here) are NOT the nominee.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (5buP8)

792 Trouble's bruin.

ain't that the grizzly truth

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (ZQfW9)

793 So I guess replace the O-ring?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:39 PM (kVLm4)

May need some photos of the tub in use to accurately diagnose. Suds/No suds, your call.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (J4OwT)

794
Weird leak. Pulled the cover away from back of tub where the faucets and drain are. Turned on water to fill tub. And after a bit started to see a trickle of water drip drown from the overflow.

So I guess replace the O-ring?


Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:39 PM (kVLm4)
_________________________

Yeah,, but did you already have your clothes off?

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 15, 2015 01:42 PM (HSmrB)

795 Free Panera! Yay!

It's already free at many of their "urban" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) locations: They have a, get this, "Pay as you feel" policy. I. Shit. You. Not.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 01:43 PM (5buP8)

796 It seems my bathtub has a leak.


A guy notices the sink in his Alabama hotel room has water under it. He calls the front desk and says, "I gotta leak in the sink."

Guy at front desk says, "Um, ok, go ahead."

*rimshot* I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 01:43 PM (LUgeY)

797 Trouble's bruin.

ain't that the grizzly truth


Oh God, STOP!!!

I can't bear another round of puns ...

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (qOsoH)

798 votermom, it is leaking on the backside where the overflow drain is as the faucet is running.

Probably should take it apart to see if there is a clog first. That could be ugly and nasty and messy and really gross.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (kVLm4)

799 I know it's hip to hate Apple stuff, but I can't get over just how amazing the fingerprint scanner on the new phone is. It's something incredible doing something fairly mundane. Just the sheer speed of it blows my mind.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (CGjum)

800 No Ace? Should We send out a search party?

Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (/dSsq)

801 Anna, start by cleaning the drain with one of those long drain hair remover thingies.
Sometimes a clog way down will cause a leak instead of a back up.

Posted by: @votermom at October 15, 2015 01:45 PM (cbfNE)

802 Odd, I'm getting the
"long string of broken
text" rejection, I wond
er what is causing that
today?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 01:45 PM (3pRHP)

803 Anna,
You sure it's not leaking from the valve and just dripping down onto the overflow?

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 01:45 PM (wxDT3)

804 Apple will need to sell a lot of the iWatches to help settle that patent lawsuit they lost to Wisconsin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:45 PM (kVLm4)

805 795 Free Panera! Yay!

It's already free at many of their "urban" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) locations: They have a, get this, "Pay as you feel" policy. I. Shit. You. Not.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 15, 2015 01:43 PM (5buP

Gravity remains constant:

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/ after-15-weeks-panera-shelves-lsquopay-what-you-wantrsquo-meal-plan/

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:45 PM (J4OwT)

806 The thing is, its only wealthy white people who support Bernie. I'm not sure he can peel enough women away from Hillary either, because you can guess how the Democrat woman mind works (female = gets my vote, no matter who she is) and I doubt he has much of the minority vote right now. If he wins the nom of course he gets the "not Republican" minority vote, but how many?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 01:46 PM (39g3+)

807 I know it's hip to hate Apple stuff, but I can't get
over just how amazing the fingerprint scanner on the new phone is. It's
something incredible doing something fairly mundane. Just the sheer
speed of it blows my mind.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (CGjum)


I wonder how long it will be before someone can 3-d print latex gloves or finger-cots with someone's fingerprints?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 15, 2015 01:46 PM (3pRHP)

808 Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (CGjum)

Now if only Apple could do something about the million of fingerprints hacked from DoD ...

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:47 PM (qOsoH)

809
"So I guess replace the O-ring? "

Yes. For the love of god, yes.

Posted by: NASA Engineer (Retired), Space Shuttle Challenger at October 15, 2015 01:47 PM (KCQo0)

810 Free huge dildos! Yay!

Posted by: Hipster Douchebags at October 15, 2015 01:47 PM (Jj/2n)

811 Dildos, not guns!

Posted by: Hipster Douchebags at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (Jj/2n)

812 *sniffs*

Did something die in this thread?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (8ZskC)

813
So what's it going to be today, dildos and global warming, or breakfast sandwiches and Playboy?
Whatever, I'm getting excited.

Posted by: wth - what I learned today at AoS at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (wAQA5)

814 Is Ace cheating on us with that whore Twitter again?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (LUgeY)

815 Yet another horror story idea - It Came from the Drain

Well going to scoot, occupy space at library, and write.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (kVLm4)

816 This is America. Dildos AND guns!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 15, 2015 01:48 PM (8ZskC)

817 596

It was my understanding that Hillary would take a fifth of just about anything. With both hands.

Posted by: dissent555 at October 15, 2015 01:49 PM (taYhJ)

818 799 I know it's hip to hate Apple stuff, but I can't get over just how amazing the fingerprint scanner on the new phone is. It's something incredible doing something fairly mundane. Just the sheer speed of it blows my mind.
Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (CGjum)

There is a lot that grates about Apple, its CEO, and its fanboys, but they do make some great stuff. I just got a new MacBook. It's amazing. Thin, great battery. Love it.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:49 PM (J4OwT)

819 Chupacabra,
My Note 4 has a fingerprint scanner. And a pen. And this is what, two years old?

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 01:49 PM (wxDT3)

820 Can we go back to old thread with beer and Playboy?

Good times. Good times.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 15, 2015 01:49 PM (KCQo0)

821 Apple will need to sell a lot of the iWatches to help settle that patent lawsuit they lost to Wisconsin.

Yeah, good luck with that. There's a reason Steve Jobs vetoed that idea when he was alive.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (39g3+)

822 At 7 PM the main hatchway gave in...

Posted by: Gordon Lightfoot Plumbing at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (Ui7Rt)

823 I miss anything. I just woke up from my Tuesday night Cubs Win binge?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (/HC6x)

824 Oy.

The front yard garden will not winterize itself.

Take care, Anna.

Thanks for the lesson, I do not do this for a living.

Everybody stay sane.

Posted by: Adriane the Out of Work Tech Writer ... at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (qOsoH)

825 I wonder how long it will be before someone can 3-d print latex gloves or finger-cots with someone's fingerprints?


Please give us a call when you get this going.

Posted by: The Clinton Evil Initiative at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (5buP8)

826 My Note 4 has a fingerprint scanner. And a pen. And this is what, two years old?

Android stores your fingerprint on the filesystem, where any process on the system can access it and send it to NSA/KGB/LGF. Apple keeps the fingerprint data on a physically separate area of the chip that the CPU cannot access, so even a virus would be unable to get to the data.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (S+N7W)

827 809
"So I guess replace the O-ring? "

Yes. For the love of god, yes.
**************

*fistbump*

Posted by: Morton Thiocol Contractor at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (WDySP)

828 Plumbing, did you say? I'll just leave this here whilst I go do stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a97J7j84gWY

bbl

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (LUgeY)

829 "See Lamar? It does hurt"

/punchline

Posted by: Bigby's Fistful of Dice at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (AuWKR)

830 821 Apple will need to sell a lot of the iWatches to help settle that patent lawsuit they lost to Wisconsin.

Yeah, good luck with that. There's a reason Steve Jobs vetoed that idea when he was alive.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 01:50 PM (39g3+)

Trademark, not patent, right?

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (J4OwT)

831 I wonder how long it will be before someone can 3-d print latex gloves or finger-cots with someone's fingerprints?

Christmas 2015, coming to a theater near you!

Posted by: Tom Cruise at October 15, 2015 01:53 PM (8ZskC)

832 CONTENT: You get what you pay for folks.

Posted by: CozMark at October 15, 2015 01:53 PM (CbGSW)

833 It seems my bathtub has a leak.
I told you to use a plastic tub!

Posted by: zombie walter white at October 15, 2015 01:53 PM (m1pMI)

834 800
No Ace? Should We send out a search party?

Posted by: donna at October 15, 2015 01:44 PM (/dSsq)


I'll round up a few bait hobos. Somebody fetch some valu-rite and a poking stick.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (1DH1V)

835 Bernie reminds us of our rich uncle who gave us whatever we wanted.

Posted by: Hipster Douchebags at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (Jj/2n)

836 Trouble's bruin.

ain't that the grizzly truth
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (ZQfW9)
*******
I can no longer bear your puns

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (fLKzW)

837 This thread smells funny, like mothballs and cats.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Debate Tailgate Supplies at the Outrage Outlet! at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (hLRSq)

838 Chupacabra,
My Note 4 has a fingerprint scanner. And a pen. And this is what, two years old?
Posted by: Chi



Had it on the Samsung S5. BFD.
Piece of sh*t could only read it if it was drawn across EXACTLY they was it was when it was set up. No deviance. Not one iota. Turned it off after two days.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (rj3Mq)

839 Did something die in this thread?


Hopes, dreams, aspirations. Visions of grandeur. Delusions of grandeur. The pastoral America of good will toward one's fellow man.

And a mouse. Definitely smells like mouse.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (JtwS4)

840 836 Trouble's bruin.

ain't that the grizzly truth
Posted by: AltonJackson at October 15, 2015 01:41 PM (ZQfW9)
*******
I can no longer bear your puns
Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (fLKzW)

This seems to be a polarizing subject.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (2Ojst)

841 The wisconsin stuff is over ARM processor tech for phones and tablets. Maybe the watch too, I dunno, but it is broader than that.

Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (J4OwT)

842 I don't believe that it is too late for Condoleezza to change her mind about serving this hateful nation again. She would be fighting up hill against a poisonous media machine, for sure, but who isn't. Yeah, you're right, I can hear you thinking and you're right; she's too good for the job and too good for the weak pukes that she would be tasked to herd, so I'll just tuck this fantasy away and go drink.

Posted by: goon at October 15, 2015 01:55 PM (gy5kE)

843 Android stores your fingerprint on the filesystem, where any process on the system can access it and send it to NSA/KGB/LGF. Apple keeps the fingerprint data on a physically separate area of the chip that the CPU cannot access, so even a virus would be unable to get to the data.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2015 01:52 PM (S+N7W)


Which raises a question? Why the Hell does a smartphone need to have the user's fingerprint stored, anyway? And why does anyone need to have a smart phone? This a rabbit hole nobody needs to go down.


(trims wick in oil lamp)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (0yhH4)

844 I was making a joke, that they would need to sell a lot of those tech turkeys the iWatch. As in, no they won't be able to move them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (kVLm4)

845 Afternoon, all.

*looks around*

Is ace in a Nevada whorehouse?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (FsuaD)

846 Hit the home button, and the phone's almost instantly unlocked on the new 6s. It was pretty fast on the 5s, but with this one it's unlocked before the screen even comes up. I doubt the Note 4 is anything like that.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (CGjum)

847 Whatever you do don't double dip the chip

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (0LHZx)

848 Hopes, dreams, aspirations. Visions of grandeur. Delusions of grandeur. The pastoral America of good will toward one's fellow man.
You missed "youth".

Posted by: andycanuck at October 15, 2015 01:57 PM (m1pMI)

849 Anyway, see ya later.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 15, 2015 01:57 PM (kVLm4)

850 And sadness. It smells of mothballs, and cats and sadness.

And hand lotion, mixed with desperate loneliness.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Debate Tailgate Supplies at the Outrage Outlet! at October 15, 2015 01:57 PM (hLRSq)

851 Wow- http://tinyurl.com/p8o4xcw

The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.
When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements, including the taking and passing of assessments to ensure adequate academic progress. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.

The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.The Association further believes that local public school systems should have the authority to determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 01:58 PM (0dcbp)

852 Is ace in a Nevada whorehouse?

Yes. Bob Dole gave him Bob Dole's famous Viagra and blow cocktail.

Posted by: Bob Dole at October 15, 2015 01:58 PM (Jj/2n)

853 And don't forget the sadness.

Posted by: Chupacabra at October 15, 2015 01:58 PM (CGjum)

854 Is ace in a Nevada whorehouse?

A Nevada whorehouse would be too upscale. A New Jersey whorehouse, possibly.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 15, 2015 01:58 PM (8ZskC)

855 PUN OFF

https://tinyurl.com/ohl7rho

Posted by: CozMark at October 15, 2015 01:59 PM (CbGSW)

856 Our long commenting nightmare is over.

Nood.

Posted by: Gerald R. Ford at October 15, 2015 01:59 PM (8ZskC)

857 NEA - for the children



Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 01:59 PM (0dcbp)

858 Is ace in a Nevada whorehouse?


Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 15, 2015 01:56 PM (FsuaD)


Yes, if by Nevada whorehouse you mean a hobo jungle, passed out on the ragged clothes of his prey.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Debate Tailgate Supplies at the Outrage Outlet! at October 15, 2015 01:59 PM (hLRSq)

859 There is a lot that grates about Apple, its CEO, and its fanboys, but they do make some great stuff. I just got a new MacBook. It's amazing. Thin, great battery. Love it.

My iPhone 6 has seemingly reverse battery memory. If I keep Bluetooth and wireless turned off, it will go multiple days on a single charge.

Posted by: The Clinton Evil Initiative at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (5buP8)

860
Bernie reminds us of our rich uncle who gave us whatever we wanted.
Posted by: Hipster Douchebags at October 15, 2015 01:54 PM (Jj/2n)
........................

But then he died, the government swooped in and you were left with nothing. The end.

Posted by: wth - what I learned today at AoS at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (wAQA5)

861 The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.

The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.

So statement #1 has some validity if the thugs can get away with statement #2.

Posted by: I do not do this for a living at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (326rv)

862 851
Wow- http://tinyurl.com/p8o4xcw

The National Education Association believes

Posted by: Mortimer at October 15, 2015 01:58 PM (0dcbp)


The classic we're taking our ball, and we're going home retort. Not transparent at all.

Posted by: rebel flounder at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (1DH1V)

863 And why does anyone need to have a smart phone? This a rabbit hole nobody needs to go down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----------------------
Why does anyone need a dozen Studebakers?
The answer to both questions is obvious, of course...

And the fingerprint thing is an option, btw. Simply unlocks the phone.

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (wxDT3)

864 For example thief takes out a credit card in your name THE BANKS LOWER YOUR CREDIT RATING.
Posted by: An Observation at October 15, 2015 01:10 PM (JmE0x)

_______

Banks don't lower or increase credit ratings. That's done by companies like Equifax, Experian, etc. I know what your point is, but your beef is with the credit companies, not the banks.

Posted by: Monsieur Mew Mew at October 15, 2015 02:01 PM (0LHZx)

865 I wonder how long it will be before someone can 3-d print latex gloves or finger-cots with someone's fingerprints?

Mission Impossible 1968

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 15, 2015 02:01 PM (9Fc79)

866 Basically the Democrats are a stand with a guy in a floral shirt throwing candy all over for free next to the Republican who has nutritious, healthy vegetables. Fools will flock to the free candy no matter how awful it is for them. Then when they get a gutache, they complain that the Republicans didn't give them medicine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 02:01 PM (39g3+)

867 The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools.



Then remove their parents from the property tax rolls.

Oh, and when a home schooled student runs rings around a publik skool stoodent on assessment tests, a union teacher loses their job. Deal?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 15, 2015 02:02 PM (rj3Mq)

868 The wisconsin stuff is over ARM processor tech for phones and tablets. Maybe the watch too, I dunno, but it is broader than that.

Weirdly, it's over branch prediction. Which was a feature of the original Intel Pentium in 1993, 5 years before the patent was filed. So, your federal government atwerk once again.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 15, 2015 02:03 PM (S+N7W)

869 The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.

The parents might not know how to teach about butt plugs and stuff.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 15, 2015 02:03 PM (9Fc79)

870 Hey, Obama isn't going to pull all of our troops out of Afghanistan. He is going to leave a token force of targets behind for his successor to deal with. What a guy!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Debate Tailgate Supplies at the Outrage Outlet! at October 15, 2015 02:04 PM (hLRSq)

871 "And sadness. It smells of mothballs, and cats and sadness."

That would be me.

Sorry.

Posted by: Hillary at October 15, 2015 02:04 PM (KCQo0)

872 "I wonder how long it will be before someone can 3-d print latex gloves or finger-cots with someone's fingerprints?"

I think Heinlein used this in a story fifty or sixty years ago. He missed on credit cards. He envisioned only one card per person and had the card-reader melt the card if you were on the capture list.

Posted by: old SF reader at October 15, 2015 02:05 PM (jN+3o)

873 Anna, I say, if you gotta leak in the tub, go on, I don' need to know.

Posted by: Kindltot - channeling a redneck joke at October 15, 2015 02:06 PM (3pRHP)

874 Why does anyone need a dozen Studebakers?
The answer to both questions is obvious, of course...

And the fingerprint thing is an option, btw. Simply unlocks the phone.

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 02:00 PM (wxDT3)


You got me there. But, if the fingerprint thing is an option, then why complain about it? Shut it off.


Remember when personal computer towers had actual physical keys? A key switch on the front panel of the tower? Maybe one of the smart phone manufacturers should bring that back as an option, for all functions other than answering incoming calls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 15, 2015 02:06 PM (0yhH4)

875 I start in on the gin on Friday evening and keep guzzling until Sunday afternoon.

Makes the rest of the week almost bearable.

Posted by: Patrick Carroll at October 15, 2015 02:12 PM (bpn7O)

876 Well, I wasn't complaining about it at all. I think it's a neat, but almost useless feature.
And, fwiw, my smartphone is my only working computer these days. My one source of Internet access, email, etc.
But I know many people don't have a use for them. Fine by me. Live and let live, y'know?

Hell, i tried to GIVE my old galaxy S3 to cthulhu, but he'd rather go get a "new" flip phone for the rare occasion he needs a phone in his pocket.

Posted by: Chi at October 15, 2015 02:16 PM (wxDT3)

877 Reading the debate quotes its kind of amusing to me. Each candidate complained about the last 2 terms of presidency and pointed out problems with the economy etc and how they'd do better. Do they not remember that a Democrat was in charge then? That the Democrats have controlled at least one house of congress for 8 of the last 10 years? And both houses for 6 of them?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 15, 2015 02:22 PM (39g3+)

878 I didn't realize you would get so many comments on your beautiful picture. I have been enjoying your posts for many years without commenting, so now I just want to say Thank You for these interludes which provide a sane counterpoint to the insanity of the political landscape. Please continue providing them.

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