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Overnight Open Thread (7-21-2016)
Know Your Enemy Part XXVI: The Ginger
Moar below the fold.
Just fucking kidding - it's Yokopalooza time assholes.
Yahoo group. That is all.
Come on be a smartie and join the yahoo group party! For the children. Why do you hate children?
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 22, 2016 12:01 AM (6gk0M)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 12:01 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:02 AM (0OG8D)
Of course, there is a non-bringing photo with this post...
http://tinyurl.com/jnrolu3
Honest injun.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 22, 2016 12:02 AM (bc7LP)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 22, 2016 12:02 AM (fwj47)
Posted by: mindful webworker - ooohhhh yoooo koooo at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (a2vo1)
Posted by: orangebreath at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (F5zRG)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (LQE71)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Donald Trump at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (nFdGS)
Posted by: long time lurker at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (u+OQ1)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (bc7LP)
Posted by: Buzzion at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (Y/5qL)
Posted by: someassholestolemypen at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (XfJV2)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (kXoT0)
The difference is that the ginger steals it and Yoko killed it.
*Goes off to plot a way to drop a bucket of water on the Happy Fun Ball.*
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hahaha ugh thud at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (a2vo1)
Pretty sure Uncle Bob's Old Fashioned Lye Eye Wash is.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (0OG8D)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (q7T0y)
You all know what you did.
Posted by: Maetenloch at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (n0xPv)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (Y/5qL)
She also looks waaaaay too young.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Outside Adjitator at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (hbvkG)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: everybody at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (XfEYT)
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (oQQwD)
Posted by: Country Singer at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (GUBah)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (ejB0r)
I'm blind now.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ooohhhh yoooo koooo at July 22, 2016 12:03 AM (a2vo1)
I only lost the will to live.
Granted it was on its last legs anyway, but still.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (Ojki1)
The focus this time: Everything is triggering! *Goes to Safe Space*
http://politicalhat.com/?p=12131
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:06 AM (0OG8D)
25GB of yoko
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (n0xPv)
Your sight will return. The blindness is just your mind trying to deal with the horrors it has seen.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Valiant at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (3MiF8)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (kumBu)
Posted by: tbodie at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (xkaSw)
Posted by: Maetenloch at July 22, 2016 12:05 AM (pAlYe)
Was it all the "Yes, please" requests. I am a bad, bad, bad girl.
But as I always say, "A Bad Good Girl is the Best There Is."
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima having that drink! at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Ian Galt at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (8iiMU)
I had a conversation with a friend today, and he said he thought the bulk of the R convention was silly, since it was just centered around bashing Hillary and had no real substance, especially the first few days.
I, of course, had a different opinion.
Am I wrong? Or is it was just lots of silliness?
Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (tvyXw)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: Hillary! at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (Z58Xa)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Fritz at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (vXmOS)
Same sound I made when I saw those photos of Yoko.
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (s7hQ/)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (Cz05v)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: irongrampa at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (X35Yt)
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (6IPEM)
I, of course, had a different opinion.
Am I wrong? Or is it was just lots of silliness?
Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at July 22, 2016 12:07 AM (tvyXw)
Your friend is an idiot. Of course, the Republican Convention is going to bash the opponent--it's what the damn thing is for after all.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima having that drink! at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (wZxsP)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:09 AM (nK3L9)
I feel like the guy forced to go through the tutorial in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
"Oh, you fucking asshole."
"Ah for fuck's sake."
http://tinyurl.com/h27x7a8
"Running is like walking, only faster."
Posted by: Thrawn at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (cC/ZB)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (Z58Xa)
I hope you people are proud of youselves...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: CMU VET at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (ejB0r)
This may be the least commented ONT ever.
Posted by: tbodie at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (xkaSw)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: Old Blue at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: fairweatherbill at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (Q7D8N)
'Course it is difficult to speak when you're projectile vomiting.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: Donald J. Trump at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (5xDis)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (IqV8l)
http://www.virginialiving.com/culture/peacenik-meets-cadets/
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (wZxsP)
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: "Y.O." at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: IC at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (KTFfX)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (1JnAL)
In turn, she fucked up the Beatles.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima having that drink! at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (kXoT0)
https://youtu.be/lo09U0w-tLM?t=1m49s
10 Amazing Facts #25
Today I Found Out @1:49
Redheads are harder to sedate than any other group. Need 20% more anesthesia. Also have a higher tolerance for pain than normal people.
Posted by: mindful webworker - redheads are the aliens among us at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (a2vo1)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik is totally not Iceman at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (jV8Mq)
WOOT WOOT ONT
THANKS MAET
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (voOPb)
Now this is how to not read the content!
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Kalneva at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (vhW1R)
Posted by: Mark in Sandy UT at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (xGX1p)
Yes, that pic disturbed me in a similar way.
Posted by: Ian Galt at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (8iiMU)
You get a seeing eye dog!
And you get a seeing eye dog!
Posted by: derit at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (ewfUZ)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Lauren at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (JZXq5)
Same sound I made when I saw those photos of Yoko.
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (s7hQ/)
It was the same scream I made after passing a Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich 3 days after my colonoscopy.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: IC at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (KTFfX)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: The fact that you can get it together for a while and then you can be found on the phone at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (ZedYY)
So that's why we can never keep any chloroform around here.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (T/cxb)
Yes, it's difficult, but that's the point of debate.
First I want to know who the ginger is.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (1xUj/)
For this relief, much thanks.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (RmrGn)
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (n0xPv)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima having that drink! at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (P/kVC)
This may be the least commented ONT ever.
Posted by: tbodie at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (xkaSw)
Ctrl + F to last number before you commented on.
All you see is the ginger trying to steal your soul, not all the pictures that are trying (more than a little effectively) to make the argument that God is dead.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 22, 2016 12:14 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (0OG8D)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (EZebt)
5. Promise from zombie that the next time he sees that horrible liberal who keeps coming to his house, he'll spray him with Raid
4. Ultra-rare 1964 Dylan bootlegs from rickl
3. Complete ban on mentions of anything Pokemon-related
2. HoHos in the breakroom EVERY morning, not just Fridays
1. Leg shaving tips from qdpsteve
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (q7T0y)
As a moronette, I am impervious.
Posted by: iforgot at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (5o5ek)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (pUDQf)
Give her 10 years though and she'll be devastating.
And since the alarm clock lights it up in 5 hours, nite all.
Posted by: teej at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (4aVpH)
Same sound I made when I saw those photos of Yoko.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Welcome to the pit of despair.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (m1x3q)
Hometown girls looked like that (with really big hair, the times), or Kate Upton scandies... but the scandies were cousins.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Daisy Cutter at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (IgbJ1)
Posted by: Pick Baggerly at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (7oN1i)
Maet, you are one heartless, evil, pitiless bastard in league with The Devil.
Yeah, I'm jealous. Fucker.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (LuZz8)
Unless it gets out of control
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (6IPEM)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (RmrGn)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (v3DL/)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:16 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:17 AM (kumBu)
Posted by: CarlK at July 22, 2016 12:17 AM (IeysS)
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2016 12:17 AM (6IPEM)
But trending has totes been fixed.
Posted by: Oedipus at July 22, 2016 12:17 AM (CXLVd)
WOOT WOOT ONT
THANKS MAET
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (voOPb)
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Figures.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2016 12:17 AM (EZebt)
All you see is the ginger trying to steal your soul, not all the pictures that are trying (more than a little effectively) to make the argument that God is dead.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:13 AM (Ojki1)
Thanks, did not know that. Sadly, I'm on a tablet.
Posted by: tbodie at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (xkaSw)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: JROD at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: Pick Baggerly at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (7oN1i)
Give her 10 years though and she'll be devastating.
And since the alarm clock lights it up in 5 hours, nite all.
Posted by: teej at July 22, 2016 12:15 AM (4aVpH)
How does one accurately age the soulless?
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:19 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes Ima having that drink! at July 22, 2016 12:11 AM (kXoT0)
They were at their "sell by" date by that time.
Bands and singers have about a 7-10 year run where they make decent music and are relevant. The Beatles were at that point.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at July 22, 2016 12:19 AM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 22, 2016 12:19 AM (P/kVC)
Ok, gonna go bask in the euphoria from that speech.
Remember, y'all,we are Americans, so that head is held HIGH--especially tonite.
Cherish our country as you know it to be under the filth laid on it by the left.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 22, 2016 12:19 AM (X35Yt)
No Mo Yo Ko Oh NO
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:12 AM (pUDQf)
I think I might actually volunteer for a phone call center for this.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:19 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Anachronda at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (Oi5b2)
Prior previous thread...
Thats an Awesome start. But animation with WICKED Cool streaming flames of HellFire trailing down as Unworthy Comments are oblitorized (sp? Blame High Octane) in a Mushroom Cloud/Epic Death Star Dying Payoff.... in a loop. Slow mo every 3rd cycle.
Thats my starting point.
Epic Scale. The Powers That Be deserve it.
Can anythin like that be done without a budget? Seriously. I'm web design illiterate... so I defer to the Honorable Techno Nerds among us....
Posted by: Hillbillyking at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (LQE71)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (ucDmr)
Just an hour?
*clinks glasses*
Dude, you're a hoss. Need any tape or pop-sickle sticks?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: TexasDan at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (TqXWc)
Posted by: tbodie at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (xkaSw)
You sir, are a son of a bitch!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (pUDQf)
But he's OUR son of a bitch!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (EzgxV)
Here are mine:
- The president will claim that he is *so* confident Hillary will be elected, he's already written her Oval Office greeting letter to be read on January 20, 2017
- The favorite phrase of ALL the DNC speakers, especially the far leftists? No less than from Ted Cruz himself, "Vote your conscience." They will do everything they can to throw that phrase around Trump's neck like a tire fire, and light it on fire.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (q7T0y)
Keep those pics a rolling.....
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:21 AM (n0xPv)
Was this about last night?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2016 12:21 AM (EZebt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:21 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:21 AM (zOTsN)
The ginger was delicious, then... the burning.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 22, 2016 12:04 AM (bc7LP)
She is but looks so very young. I'm just going to tell myself she's 18. I lie to myself a lot. It's one of the prerequisites to being an optimist in the US in this day and age.
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Can we get the first picture in a larger size?
Posted by: Pick Baggerly at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (7oN1i)
Life size in a tiny bikini perhaps? We all promise to be very very good and quiet except for the drool.
Posted by: AdamPM at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (SXVyF)
Without a budget? Maybe. Without talent? No.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (T/cxb)
Let me be clear. This is not the ONT we strive to be.
Posted by: Barack Obama at July 22, 2016 12:08 AM (pUDQf)
I was expecting something more along the lines of "if I had an ONT, it would look like this."
Posted by: Anachronda at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (Oi5b2)
Posted by: lousagirl at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (9plvG)
Are you kidding? Check out 'Hansel and Gretel Get Baked.' She is very hot. I've seen her around Studio City a couple times and she looked great IRL too.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: mikesixes at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (hTayP)
she sure does like to flash the clevage for an old broad
didn't she recently have a stroke and get admitted to a hospital
havent heard a word about her since
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:23 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:23 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 12:23 AM (ucDmr)
Why have you done this thing?
Posted by: mikesixes at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (hTayP)
The Horde knows your sins and punishes accordingly. Or so I am told.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:23 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:23 AM (Ag8Mw)
I feel better.
Thanks for listening.
Posted by: The fact that you can get it together for a while and then you can be found on the phone at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (ZedYY)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (nK3L9)
Herewith my Yoko defense.
John was brilliant. He was not always right about things, so things he was wrong about are not a counter-argument.
He was a seeker. He was always trying to grow and learn.
Yoko is screechy. There is no excuse for any of her pretensions at music.
John chose her. And he left her and came back to her. So whatever her external merits one of the best people of our lifetimes chose her, so she must have something going on.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (q7T0y)
I will give her 3 letters for when things go bad. The first will read blame Bush.
The second will also read blame Bush.
If that stops working she can open the third.
That one says that if you even think of blaming me I'll be on CNN dismissing you as a typical white grandma, so go back to blaming Bush.
Now go away, Sportscenter is on peons.
Posted by: The Won at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (Ojki1)
Feb 26 she was hospitalized for stroke, and they never said if or when she was released
I think she is not well
she looks a bit like the gal in "The Ring"
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: vivi at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (11H2y)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756174901459890176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175033739776000
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175186806706176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175365379280896
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175535336632320
Posted by: kbdabear at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (IqV8l)
Because I Still Love You Guys Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756174901459890176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175033739776000
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175186806706176
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175365379280896
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175535336632320
Posted by: kbdabear at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (GrXXa)
Doing the Lord's work, fine sir. Unlike that other guy.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: TedCruzLegThrill at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (6KmLf)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175766941896706
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756175988581474304
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756176174976344064
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756176337597890564
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/756176500097818624
Posted by: kbdabear at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (GrXXa)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:26 AM (n0xPv)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:27 AM (zOTsN)
Well, who are we?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:25 AM (nK3L9)
Probably something more along the lines of the first picture.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:27 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (kumBu)
- The president will claim that he is *so* confident Hillary will be elected, he's already written her Oval Office greeting letter to be read on January 20, 2017
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One of those thug-mamas will call someone "retarded."
Posted by: iforgot at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (5o5ek)
*clinks glasses*
Dude, you're a hoss. Need any tape or pop-sickle sticks?"
I'm losing my tolerance in my old age, can't quite drink Jack like I used to...
Posted by: CarlK at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (IeysS)
Posted by: Pick Baggerly at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (7oN1i)
++++
Not only a bigger size, but it shows more of her. Interesting tats.
http://tinyurl.com/gomaqvz
(i*m*gur)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
Have you heard the lyrics to "Don't Let Me Down?"
I guess nobody ever really done me
Like she done me
She done me good
Posted by: Splunge at July 22, 2016 12:29 AM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: YatYas at July 22, 2016 12:29 AM (5v4w4)
Democrats are scared shitless. They think Trump could really take this thing.
Of course in exactly one week, and after the DNC, they'll all be back to their usual hyperoverconfident propagandist shithead selves.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:29 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:29 AM (29KZY)
also
bit worried about Maet
this reeks of Yoko obsession. collecting photos
putting them in chronological order
its....troubling
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:30 AM (zOTsN)
Been mercifully unplugged from most of the RNC dumpster fire. Sounds like Sheriff David Clarke gave a really good speech, Cruz is playing the long game and Trump's people set him up, and I haven't actually heard anything substantial about Trump's speech tonight.
I hope and pray that in 2 decades I'm going to look back from a still free country and see that Cruz's 2016 is the redux of Reagan's 1964/1976 trajectory.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (b2cFu)
150 #119
Are you kidding? Check out 'Hansel and Gretel Get Baked.' She is very hot. I've seen her around Studio City a couple times and she looked great IRL too.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (IdCqF)
During the last season she was starting to lose the baby fat in her face.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (dULJN)
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 12:22 AM (IdCqF) "
Hey, everyone has an opinion. I don't think she aged very well. Nor did my angel, Lily Cole.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (kumBu)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (T/cxb)
havent heard a word about her since
Posted by: ThunderB
---------------------
You must be lucky enough to be gone when Maet is really pissed.
Hey,
I saw a post from you earlier today.
My BIL just finished up treatments that sound exactly like what you described. Took his own bone marrow, chemo treatmentS for him, then replant his own marrow. Long, painful process.
Only, not for MS, but for a rare bone cancer (maybe blood? - I know leukemia is not it).
Anyway, so far, word is he is doing great. More tests in a day or so, but as of now, the treatment sounds like cutting edge stuff with positive results. Zero cancer detected so far.
I wish nothing but the best for you and yours, and will pray.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (m1x3q)
bit worried about Maet
this reeks of Yoko obsession. collecting photos
putting them in chronological order
its....troubling
Posted by: ThunderB
NOTHING a nice "visit to the doctor" and a wire coat hanger can't fix!!!
Posted by: Joe Kennedy Sr at July 22, 2016 12:32 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 22, 2016 12:32 AM (1CroS)
I just killed Greedo.
Fuck yeah I fired first.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:32 AM (nK3L9)
Posted by: Zombie Sally Fields at July 22, 2016 12:32 AM (iMxBJ)
I hope and pray that in 2 decades I'm going to look back from a still free country and see that Cruz's 2016 is the redux of Reagan's 1964/1976 trajectory.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (b2cFu)
was more or less a good convention. surely better than the romney ryan disaster.
you will never hear from cruz, ever, again.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 12:33 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: Pick Baggerly at July 22, 2016 12:18 AM (7oN1i)
++++
Not only a bigger size, but it shows more of her. Interesting tats.
http://tinyurl.com/gomaqvz
(i*m*gur)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (R+30W)
Ugh. I hate seeing a beautiful girl like that sullied in such fashion.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:33 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:33 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (b2cFu)
Its Trump's fault... he gave a good speech...
Posted by: Don Q. at July 22, 2016 12:33 AM (qf6WZ)
Maet went Full Yoko.
You NEVER go Full Yoko.
Isn't it against the Geneva Convention or something??
Posted by: Joe Kennedy Sr at July 22, 2016 12:33 AM (q7T0y)
I have indeed.
I thought I was taking a risk to make a pro-Yoko case here.
So now I'll point out that I scrolled through all the Maet pics and there was the murder and it broke my heart all over again.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (zOTsN)
Maet went Full Yoko.
You NEVER go Full Yoko.
Isn't it against the Geneva Convention or something??
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (n0xPv)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (q7T0y)
John was brilliant. He was not always right about things, so things he was wrong about are not a counter-argument.
He was a seeker. He was always trying to grow and learn.
Yoko is screechy. There is no excuse for any of her pretensions at music.
John chose her. And he left her and came back to her. So whatever
her external merits one of the best people of our lifetimes chose her,
so she must have something going on.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
Herewith my rebuttal. John Lennon was a wanker of the first order. Trying to grow and learn only speaks to slope; his intercept was pitifully low. He wrote "Imagine" to sell records, then left the UK to live in NY to avoid the confiscatory taxes. "Imagine no possessions" - indeed.
One of the best people of our lifetimes? Really? Chapman DSAF.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 22, 2016 12:34 AM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT Hobbit at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:31 AM (T/cxb)
Luckily the solution for both is the same: A Welfare check from the local 50.
Just that if it is the later the Happy Fun Ball is going to be shanking people that mess with it.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Fletch at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (orDky)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (zOTsN)
Thanks to Cruz, "vote your conscience" will be the theme of the DNC next week.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (q7T0y)
It was much better than I anticipated despite the Cruz distraction. Today (or yesterday depending on time zone) was a very good day.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (1CroS)
Posted by: Capt. Bligh at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (qf6WZ)
My thumb
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (n0xPv)
http://tinyurl.com/gomaqvz
(i*m*gur)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (R+30W)
The tats are a disappointment.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (fC9RO)
Thanks to Cruz, "vote your conscience" will be the theme of the DNC next week.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (q7T0y)
heh, maybe she will invite him to speak. is she vetting him for veep?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 12:37 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: Little Boomer at July 22, 2016 12:37 AM (ZuVs9)
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2016 12:37 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (fC9RO)
Ya, not a tat person myself.
Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 22, 2016 12:38 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Capt. Bligh at July 22, 2016 12:38 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at July 22, 2016 12:38 AM (nK3L9)
It was much better than I anticipated despite the Cruz distraction. Today (or yesterday depending on time zone) was a very good day.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (1CroS) "
The CPD definitely earned their keep. The 'ship parade was good practice, I'm sure.
And hey, now that the Cavs won, we know that something from Cleveland can actually win, so Trump can do this!
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:39 AM (kumBu)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:39 AM (29KZY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:39 AM (q7T0y)
How's SOC? How are you?
Hope all is well on the homefront. And "battlefield."
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:39 AM (m1x3q)
The horror...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 12:40 AM (9mTYi)
I'll have a full and complete response to this, after I get back from being waterboarded while having my genitals shocked with electric current and being repeatedly shot with dum-dum bullets.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 22, 2016 12:40 AM (noWW6)
July of 2013. So however old she was at the time, she's legal now.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (kumBu)<<<
Karen Gillan. Amy Pond from Dr. Who.
(feel like Poster Who 'cause I keep disappearing... Help, Maet?)
((maybe someone else can copy and post this so it doesn't disappear, and people know who she is))
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 12:36 AM (H9MG5)
++++
I was looking for your post and it disappeared. Not sure I agree with you about the ginger's id. There is a similarity, but I don't think this ginger is Karen Gillan.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:40 AM (R+30W)
I typed this long message about what I thought about Trump's speech, then I thought better of it and deleted it.
But I was sad to hear about Ace possibly giving up blogging. That is sad. This place really is unique among the dextrosphere, I think. Ace has amazing tolerance for all of his guests. Most places on the right, it seems, will not hesitate to ban you if you say something even a little bit crosswise about whomever is the site's patron daddy figure, whether it be Trump, Cruz, Rubio, whomever. Ace isn't like that at all. But I can see how it can also be frustrating when others come here with that same tribal mentality and don't get along that well. And yes I include myself in that statement from time to time.
Anyway, Maet, well played with the Yokopalooza.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 12:40 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 12:41 AM (ucDmr)
I decided to stop reading his blog again, but Jeffrey Wells kept saying last week: "If Hillary chooses Tim Kaine (i.e., not a firebrand lefty) for VP, my soul will die."
I kept wanting to respond (but didn't), "silly goose. You don't have a soul."
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:41 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Don Q. at July 22, 2016 12:41 AM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2016 12:42 AM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:42 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: Yo! at July 22, 2016 12:43 AM (n0xPv)
Mr. Blanc....
High Octane incentives for some of my WebBilly Inclined brethern. I do know a few that have some skill and they like to barter.
Should have thought of that. +1 for pointin out the obvious. Appreciate it.
Thank you for providing a starting point, too.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at July 22, 2016 12:43 AM (LQE71)
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2016 12:43 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (x9c8r)
Personally, I've missed you. Good to see you around. Don't stay away.
I will burn a steak in your honor tomorrow morning. I assume the eggs should be black, too?
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (m1x3q)
In 1985 an actor named Mark Lindsay Chapman was cast to play John Lennon in the made-for-TV biopic John and Yoko: A Love Story.
Posted by: ShainS at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (a6Ff7)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (zOTsN)
You're welcome, sir. Only did that to see if I could.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (T/cxb)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (Kucy5)
Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (oBJsb)
Not tattoo, body spray paint I think. Because she "sports" multiple designs if you do an image search.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:45 AM (Ag8Mw)
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2016 12:45 AM (6IPEM)
geez
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (zOTsN)
given nbc's ownership of law & order that is an interesting comment. entire series of series base on racism.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Ask not for whom The Donald Trumps. at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (0OG8D)
I'd like to echo the sadness at ace possibly stepping away permanently. I'm hoping it's just a phase.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (b2cFu)
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (AoSQU)
HA!
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:47 AM (zOTsN)
geez
Posted by: ThunderB
-------------------
Well, it is.
Just ask Richard "I apologize on behalf of my people" Belzer.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:47 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (LQLeS)
Herewith my Yoko defense.
John was brilliant. He was not always right about things, so things he was wrong about are not a counter-argument.
He was a seeker. He was always trying to grow and learn.
Yoko is screechy. There is no excuse for any of her pretensions at music.
John chose her. And he left her and came back to her. So whatever her external merits one of the best people of our lifetimes chose her, so she must have something going on.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
++++
As a musician, he was brilliant. As a thinker, philosopher, political guru, he was a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (R+30W)
First I lost net. Thought maybe Maet's Yokofest had broken the site.
Then I came back but on a banned IP number.
Once I figured this out and got back a zillion potential replies were too late for me to make. Okay, two or three.
But, Hi back, Sherry!
Posted by: mindful webworker - ARGH at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (hTPJO)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (b2cFu)
What?
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (d6TTt)
geez
Posted by: ThunderB
-------------------
Well, it is.
Just ask Richard "I apologize on behalf of my people" Belzer.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:47 AM (m1x3q)
Dick Wolf hardest hit...
Posted by: The DUN DUN Hat at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:39 AM (29KZY
Globalism has been taught as the cure for the world's ills forthe last 5 decades. So they will run with racist and mean exclusionary towards foreigners/illegals.
Also, it was not Sharia Compliant.
Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at July 22, 2016 12:49 AM (oBJsb)
Posted by: Cactus of Liberty at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (oBJsb)
******
Yoko is a bigger booby than I thought.
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 12:49 AM (LQLeS)
geez
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (zOTsN)
given nbc's ownership of law & order that is an interesting comment. entire series of series base on racism.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 12:46 AM (AoSQU)
Entire series based on leftist masturbation fantasies.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:49 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 12:49 AM (LQLeS)
Good to see you!!!!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 12:49 AM (T/5A0)
It's perplexing, because I can see that being her but not quite.
In short, Maet is being mean to us.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:50 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: ShainS at July 22, 2016 12:44 AM (a6Ff7)
I remember that movie. John Lennon was a philandering shit and Yoko was all Innocence Wounded and Betrayed. Then I found out that the movie was made under her auspices, if not actual direction. Ah. That explains it.
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:50 AM (29KZY)
No matter how I try to resist, somehow, those links get clicked.
Remember, they take 20% more anesthesia!
*
The bigger picture of the redhead at the top - yeah, preferred the one with the tats not showing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so he says at July 22, 2016 12:50 AM (hTPJO)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 12:50 AM (LQLeS)
Kaine? Why not Fauxahautas?
I guess because MA's gov is a Republican and would replace her if Hill-dawg won, but Kaine seems a bit prog weak-sauce (outspokenly, that is). Maybe it's a head-fake?
Posted by: Thrawn at July 22, 2016 12:50 AM (cC/ZB)
CNNs OWN unscientific poll
73% said Trump would take the country in the right direction
bwahahahahahaha
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Alf767 at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (qGI+A)
If making white conservative males the bad guy is racism they are right.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (Ag8Mw)
For THEM, it is. THEIR version of "law and order" means police brutality against black citizens in Democrat-controlled cities. At least that is the narrative they are going with, right? right?
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 12:52 AM (uAvJJ)
"Que??:
The fact checkers at all the TV networks -- and liberal newspapers like the New York Times & the Washington Post -- are doing a fantastic job poring over every word spoken at the Republican National Convention. They're just great, and they're working really long hours. In fact, I just heard where, as a reward, their bosses are giving them next week off."
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:52 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (yODqO)
They gave away a pearl (their objectivity and reputation) greater than all their tribe. And for what? A chair at the crony capitalist DNC table, a table whose legs are wobbling and worm-eaten?
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (LQLeS)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 12:41 AM (ucDmr)
++++
I know, right. What the hell is the matter with this place? It's getting so that a guy can't even stop by, drop off a few troll-worthy posts and get a decent reaction.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (Ag8Mw)
Is she available by mail order?
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (0mRoj)
The truth is Wells wants a VP who will literally order nuclear strikes at red states.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:48 AM (R+30W)
And raging asshole to his first wife.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (0mRoj)
I guess because MA's gov is a Republican and would replace her if Hill-dawg won, but Kaine seems a bit prog weak-sauce (outspokenly, that is). Maybe it's a head-fake?
Posted by: Thrawn
----------------------
Kaine is a shitweasel (bonus for Cankles), but considered centrist, or at least moderate.
And as someone noted earlier this week (Ms. DeVille?), His senate seat will then be available for Terryble McAuliffe since he can only serve one term as Va gov.
Makes sense. And may help her some. At least in Va.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (29KZY)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:55 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (29KZY)
Don't give him any ideas.
Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2016 12:56 AM (x9c8r)
Posted by: OregonMuse at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (29KZY
I'm always looking for ideas when I guest host. Thanks OM that should keep the ONT hopping
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:56 AM (voOPb)
The truth is Wells wants a VP who will literally order nuclear strikes at red states.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:54 AM (q7T0y)
That's the only way Utopia can be reached, of course, get rid of all the "h8ers", particularly the ones in the South.
Posted by: Thrawn at July 22, 2016 12:56 AM (cC/ZB)
Chi, I have actually gotten better at cooking. I got the Bittman cookbook and he has step-by-step recipes for really simple dishes that are obviously simple once you are done, and you realize, "hey I didn't really need a recipe for this, I understand what the different parts do..." and it is really helping me.
I made meatloaf, and it didn't burn! I know, right?
Sadly the Fapplebee's in my area has gone downhill. The wait staff just looks bored and useless on most days, except the bartender, who knows me by name. (And no the bartender is not Woody.) They've blocked ports on their router that don't allow me to do work at the same time as procrastinating here, so it's more inconvenient. And the food really isn't all that great. Except the Fiesta Lime Chicken. That one is pretty good.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 12:57 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 12:57 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: timor at July 22, 2016 12:57 AM (hy43O)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (jO7js
Be careful for what you ask/wish for Mr. Hammer.
Thanks for the kind word. Appreciated.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:58 AM (voOPb)
Good Gawd, O'Muse, what part of "don't give him any ideas" is unclear to you??
Posted by: mindful webworker - eventually at July 22, 2016 12:58 AM (hTPJO)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (1xUj/)
Golf ball, hundred feet of garden hose?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2016 12:58 AM (GSdpU)
The model info states she's available for: Reality-show, fashion show and creative photosessions.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:59 AM (Ag8Mw)
Thanks for sparing me the beating.
Posted by: Dead Horse at July 22, 2016 12:59 AM (0mRoj)
Maybe I can catch the EMT tomorrow.
Good night, Gracies!
Posted by: mindful webworker - passed tense at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (hTPJO)
And thats when the fight started.
Best people of our lifetime? No, not fucking really
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (voOPb)
- The president will claim that he is *so* confident Hillary will be
elected, he's already written her Oval Office greeting letter to be read
on January 20, 2017
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:20 AM (q7T0y)
I will give her 3 letters for when things go bad. The first will read blame Bush.
The second will also read blame Bush.
If that stops working she can open the third.
That one says that if you even think of blaming me I'll be on CNN
dismissing you as a typical white grandma, so go back to blaming Bush.
Now go away, Sportscenter is on peons.
Posted by: The Won at July 22, 2016 12:24 AM (Ojki1)
The classic "three letters" joke has a CEO cleaning out his office after the Board fires him. The new CEO comes in, and the old CEO says, "you're thinking you're on top of the world now, but let me show you this." The old CEO demonstrates that one of the pictures on the wall is on a hinge, and behind it is a wall-safe. He hands the new CEO a slip of paper and says, "this is the combination. Within this safe are three letters. When things get out of control and you can't figure a way forward, open the safe." He then picks up the box with the rest of his stuff and walks out the door. The new CEO laughs it off as bullshit and sticks the slip of paper in his wallet.
Things go swimmingly for about a month -- and then the unions go apeshit and start talking about a strike, the stock price tanks, the SEC reveals that it's been investigating the company, and the company's main product line is found to cause disfiguring burns whenever there's a lunar eclipse. The Board calls a special session to discuss the CEO's plan, and he realizes that he doesn't have one.
After tearing his wallet apart and finding the slip of paper, he moves the painting and opens the safe, finding three envelopes bound together with a red ribbon. Separating them, he finds they are numbered "1", "2", and "3". Shaking a bit from the stress, he opens number one.....
....and finds a piece of paper that says only, "Blame the previous administration." So he goes into the Board meeting and explains that everything was much worse than originally believed because the old CEO was monstrous and horrible and had totally FUBAR'd things. His sensible management would soon turn things right. Sure enough, the unions caved, the SEC started chasing the former CEO, the Board relented, and scientific papers were published that seemed to link the disfiguring burns to "the solar plasma", and the stock rallied.
About six months later, the CEO again found himself under pressure -- there was a "white mutiny" among his senior management, the EPA issued a determination that the CO2 from his employees' exhalations was especially contributing to global warming, the company's main product was rated a "total ripoff" by Consumer Reports, and, of course, the stock price was tanking. The Board summoned him to another "executive session".
With no hesitation, he sprinted to the safe, pulled out envelope #2, opened the paper, and found the single word: "Reorganize." He drew up plans and charts and charts and plans -- everything that was done at the head office would be done at the branches; everything previously done in the branches would be done at HQ....
They'd reincorporate in Ireland and license their IP through Luxembourg. Their direct sales channels would go through distributors, but they'd open their exclusive distributor products to eBay.
And, just like before, the CEO's actions successfully beat back the chaos and the challenges....
As an experienced and grizzled CEO, despite his 29 years, it was another year before another round of crises laid siege to his company. The government had determined that hardwoods used by the company infringed some local law in Kazakhstan and seized them, he was personally named in a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former PR agent, the company's most profitable product was banned in California because it failed workplace diversity standards for trans bathrooms, and the stock price -- magnificent plumage!
So he strides confidently to the safe in his office, opens the door, and rips open the final envelope.....and reads: "Prepare three envelopes....."
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersands and &&& so there) at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (P8951)
The model info states she's available for: Reality-show, fashion show and creative photosessions.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:59 AM (Ag8Mw)
I'd love to show her some reality. Oh yes I would.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Cornfed at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (7U9RM)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (zOTsN)
Off to pop another painkiller.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersands and &&& so there) at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (P8951
How ya doin' Cutie?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (voOPb)
The model info states she's available for: Reality-show, fashion show and creative photosessions.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:59 AM (Ag8Mw)
yeah, the "creative photosessions" are the wiggle room, literally, where the fun comes in.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (LQLeS)
http://tinyurl.com/gomaqvz
(i*m*gur)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:28 AM (R+30W)
Looks like she got wet, and rolled on the funny papers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (GSdpU)
So fresh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2016 01:01 AM (VY8H5)
Consider where most of the USA's massively reduced nuclear arsenal is based.
And where it is maintained and overhauled.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (noWW6)
ha! I wonder if there is a professor analogue of that joke out there
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: JTB at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (V+03K)
Off to pop another painkiller.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersands and &&& so there) at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (P8951)
Hey Donna. Did you mark the bad knee for the Doc like I suggested? You doing okay?
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (d6TTt)
I thought it was Stalin and Khrushchev in the original version, at least as I heard it.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (b2cFu)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (uAvJJ)
Best people of our lifetime? No, not fucking really
Dude. I'm taking the pro-Yoko side. You must recognize the challenges.
On the other hand, I will stand by the "one of the best people of our lifetime" thing about John.
I'll also make the case about Bobby Kennedy.
You don't have to have Barry Goldwater's ideology to be good and interesting and important.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (1xUj/)
The model info states she's available for: Reality-show, fashion show and creative photosessions.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:59 AM (Ag8Mw)
further, if you are trying to get her, you can use stamps, but she gets there all messed up.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (AoSQU)
Have you looked at Sous Vide cooking at all? Great for cooking perfect steaks. An investment in equipment is required though.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/h382y7d
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (mRvs9)
Blonde. Great curves. Extremely sexy. Nice singing voice.
https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:04 AM (q7T0y)
Yay! Maet delivers a a ticket to Yokoville. Hopefully, future Yoko ONT's
will feature a jukebox of Yoko music videos, examples of her art and
some boob shots.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2016 12:37 AM (EWg9n)
OK, maybe it's otho on the shit list....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:04 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller
-----------------
Wait - I'll light some sparklers for you & turn on the jukebox...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:04 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Donna
-----------
Knee update?
Inquiring minds and all that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (jO7js)
ha! I wonder if there is a professor analogue of that joke out there
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (uAvJJ)
I heard it for a college head coach about 40 years ago.
Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (x9c8r)
Posted by: yankeefifth
You mean like Proctor and Gamble stamps or like the US Post Office stamps?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (VY8H5)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (mRvs9)
Oh I appreciate it, but that is out of my budget for the time being.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller
well, everyone is wasted from the earlier threads. very nice to see threads in the 1000s again.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: smackdab at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (sO6CM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (jO7js)
Hi all, just popping in briefly to say hi.
I typed this long message about what I thought about Trump's speech, then I thought better of it and deleted it.
But
I was sad to hear about Ace possibly giving up blogging. That is sad.
This place really is unique among the dextrosphere, I think. Ace has
amazing tolerance for all of his guests. Most places on the right, it
seems, will not hesitate to ban you if you say something even a little
bit crosswise about whomever is the site's patron daddy figure, whether
it be Trump, Cruz, Rubio, whomever. Ace isn't like that at all. But I
can see how it can also be frustrating when others come here with that
same tribal mentality and don't get along that well. And yes I include
myself in that statement from time to time.
Anyway, Maet, well played with the Yokopalooza.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 12:40 AM (uAvJJ)
You are missed.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: tubal at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (d6TTt)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (VY8H5)
rubber
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (AoSQU)
The most horrifying night of my entire life was sitting on a mountain top overlooking the Mekong Delta and being rocketed repeatedly by the Viet Cong - I would rather spend every night of the rest of life under that rocket attack than spend one single night under a Trump presidency. If you cannot see that this guy might actually be Hitler on steroids I am sorry for you. For my true believer friends in the Republican Party I am truly sorry and sympathetic for you, I respect your position and actually agree with you on more than you might think - but, this guy is a fraud, a bigot, a liar, and the most likely person to impose martial law on our country than anyone we have seen in history, all the while saying "it's good for us." I'd rather go back to 1968 and lose my life in that stupid misspent and ridiculous loss of life than see this complete self-absorbed narcissistic bigot gain the White House. You can hold me to that pledge! - he's a Pig, a liar, and the snake that tempted Eve in the Garden of Paradise in Genisis."
I guess I'll just "hide" his posts 'til after the election.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (q7T0y)
On the other hand, I will stand by the "one of the best people of our lifetime" thing about John.
I'll also make the case about Bobby Kennedy.
You don't have to have Barry Goldwater's ideology to be good and interesting and important.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:03 AM (1xUj/)
Lennon, interesting and talented? Yes, perhaps. One of our best people in our lifetime? Sorry don't see it your way.
Bobby Kennedy one of our best? Little fucking power hungry creep. But, Yeah whatever.
And it has nothing to do with politics either. You would be surprised at how many people i find interesting and entertaining that would despise me because of my politics.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (voOPb)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (VY8H5)
Who is this actress playing a blind chick? Best description I can come up with is " a super attractive Sandra Locke."
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:08 AM (m1x3q)
I guess I'll just "hide" his posts 'til after the election.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (q7T0y)
buy him some meds
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:08 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:09 AM (0mRoj)
Wow, that is so overwrought, even by my standards. That sounds like the whole Daily Kos overwrought essay back in 2006 or so, with the mother talking to her kid, what was the kid's name?
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:09 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:09 AM (q7T0y)
Thanks for they Yokopaloosa. Awesome.
And on that note. That damn dump comes early.
Nite morons
Be well
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 01:09 AM (voOPb)
place? It's getting so that a guy can't even stop by, drop off a few
troll-worthy posts and get a decent reaction.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)<<<
I
think that's what happened to me earlier. Socked a character with GOPe
initials, like Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Klein. Got sent to Banned Camp.
Need help! Hope Maet is listening, but he's even probably fearful of seeing the horror that is the YokoNT.
I feel like a coked up MUMR, posting like mad, hoping he'll catch it before it vanishes into the ether.
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:10 AM (H9MG5)
What's frustrating is this guy is sane about other stuff. And I don't post much about politics on FB but when I do... he never butts in. He seems to accept that he's preaching to the choir, but he's not changing anybody's mind.
I also happen to know he's a devout Catholic. (Make of that what you want.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:10 AM (q7T0y)
You Thrawn?
There are a lot of socks with that hash and few real people so it's hard to know if we should be on your side.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:11 AM (1xUj/)
Best people of our lifetime? No, not fucking really
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (voOPb)
Damn straight. Lennon wrote some good songs but his value ended there. He ended up a drug-addled waste of a utopian dreamer who had little attachment to reality ... though it was nice that he sang about sharing things from inside his uber-expensive fortress in The Dakota.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 01:11 AM (zc3Db)
You know what's also creepy? John Lennon in his granny glasses with the full beard, a Marxist Jesus look in the robe things. And the transition from the original Men in Black look to that horid bearded version of himself.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 01:12 AM (DW+jj)
What's frustrating is this guy is sane about other stuff. And I don't post much about politics on FB but when I do... he never butts in. He seems to accept that he's preaching to the choir, but he's not changing anybody's mind.
I also happen to know he's a devout Catholic. (Make of that what you want.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:10 AM (q7T0y)
I don't know that the Catholicism factors in much, but I do know that otherwise seemingly reasonable people have gone batshit, banana-balls crazy WRT Trump.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:12 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:12 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (q7T0y)
Why? They seem pretty funny.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 01:13 AM (zc3Db)
They say, but the sample skews R.
Got news for them - Rs don't watch CNN.
Posted by: George Tirebiter at July 22, 2016 01:13 AM (/zyrl)
Is it confirmed he really was a Vietnam combat vet?
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at July 22, 2016 01:13 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:13 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 01:14 AM (sdi6R)
There are a lot of socks with that hash and few real people so it's hard to know if we should be on your side.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:11 AM (1xUj/)<<<
No. But I do remember when he was a certain Spartan warrior. Been around for a quite a while. Never really adopted an official nic.
One of my more memorable (maybe that's not a good thing) has been Art Mullen's Marshal stiffy. But my hash has been steady since December. And often hit the top of the sockpuppeting list.
Was posting fine in the RNC thread, think I got caught up in a purge.
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:14 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
ha! I wonder if there is a professor analogue of that joke out there
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (uAvJJ)
Wouldn't doubt it. Glad to see you here and laughing.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:14 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ace's liver at July 22, 2016 01:14 AM (+azJs)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:05 AM (uAvJJ)
I bought the sous vide machine but you could do similar with a little math and science with a slow cooker on low and ziploc freezer bags. I mostly use mine for steaks because thickness is never the same so cook time on the grill is a crapshoot for perfect medium rare.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 01:15 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:15 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:15 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2016 01:15 AM (GSdpU)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
I thought it was Stalin and Khrushchev in the original version, at least as I heard it.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (b2cFu)
It is quite extensible -- I learned it as the Silicon Valley version.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:15 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Some creep at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (wOKJp)
I've seen the pics of him in uniform. And he got sent to Nam while he was in a band that had just gotten a contract from Mustang Records, the band was called Opus I. He actually knew Bobby Fuller for a bit.
Opus I never made it obviously, but here's one of the songs they released. They had an early psychedelic sound, and this single actually made its way onto at least one Rhino obscure-hits-of-the-60s box set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT51lpRKDp0
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)
I thought it was Stalin and Khrushchev in the original version, at least as I heard it.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:02 AM (b2cFu)
And, BTW, I'm really happy to see you here tonight. Any recent SoC pix?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:17 AM (EzgxV)
I do know one of Lennon's sons got a royal screwing.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (MNgU2)
No sir, that was Lennon that got the screwing, not his song! Want me to demonstrate how? It started with a sing, AI YAI YAI YAI YAIIII
Posted by: Yoko Ono at July 22, 2016 01:17 AM (uAvJJ)
Posted by: smackdab at July 22, 2016 01:06 AM (sO6CM)
This!
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 01:17 AM (sdi6R)
Seems like a few posts are being disappeared tonight...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:13 AM (q7T0y)
Don't know if it's you-know-who related but yeah. I have an in-law who becomes nigh-unhinged at the very mention of you-know-who, so I make a conscious choice not to discuss the presidential race when he's around. It gets tiresome in a hurry.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:18 AM (0mRoj)
Thanks to Cruz, "vote your conscience" will be the theme of the DNC next week.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 12:35 AM (q7T0y)
Let it; Bernie fans will take it as a reason to sit out the election (which is going to be very necessary for victory this year).
Btw, the more you try to blackball Cruz instead of going after Hillary, the less likely it is that conservatives will be able to stick with a NeverHillary mindset instead of a SMOD mindset. People are emotional creatures, and everyone has limits. Just ask Ace.
Night ya'll.
Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 22, 2016 01:20 AM (KF8B+)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at July 22, 2016 01:16 AM (MNgU2)
Julian, from his first marriage. He pretty well shat on Julian and his mother.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:20 AM (0mRoj)
Think I might take a voluntary hop in THE Barrel, just so it's seared into my memory in case I experience the sheer terror of bannination ever again.
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:21 AM (H9MG5)
Yes, recent pics, but may not get to post them tonight. Just busy enough at work to skim through comments but not do deep commenting/posting.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:21 AM (b2cFu)
Anyway, goodnight.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:22 AM (q7T0y)
----
Mountain tops in a river delta...
yeah, pull the other one: it's got bells on it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 22, 2016 01:22 AM (wIatL)
---------------
Don't get too comfortable. That hash is obviously on the Usual Suspects List, and may or may not get whacked again at a later date. Ask me how I know this.
None the less, it seems that Maet has issued you a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (jO7js)
He looked so much like his Dad, it was eerie.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (oe/FT)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (Y/5qL)
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 22, 2016 01:25 AM (SXa8W)
Chi: Julian looked *and* sounded so much like his dad, it was scary. His one big album, from 1984, was "Valotte."
There was even a rumor in the 1980s the Beatles would reunite... with Julian in John's role. Good grief.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:25 AM (q7T0y)
Anyway, goodnight.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:22 AM (q7T0y)
Fair enough, and I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
And now it really is good night, I need to wake up in 3 hours.
Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 22, 2016 01:25 AM (KF8B+)
place? It's getting so that a guy can't even stop by, drop off a few
troll-worthy posts and get a decent reaction.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 12:53 AM (R+30W)<<<
I
think that's what happened to me earlier. Socked a character with GOPe
initials, like Susan Olivia Cuthbertson-Klein. Got sent to Banned Camp.
Need help! Hope Maet is listening, but he's even probably fearful of seeing the horror that is the YokoNT.
I feel like a coked up MUMR, posting like mad, hoping he'll catch it before it vanishes into the ether.
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, stuck at Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:10 AM (H9MG5)
++++
In your case, the posts are (or were) disappearing. But in the post you quoted, I was responding to a guy whose posts are still there. It's just that everyone ignored him so he cried and then left. I just thought it was funny. It's a cold world sometimes.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:25 AM (R+30W)
Did her head ever stop spinning completely around??? ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (q7T0y)
Julian, from his first marriage. He pretty well shat on Julian and his mother.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:20 AM (0mRoj)
-------------------------------
I read somewhere that Paul McCartney wrote "Hey, Jude" for Julian as a comfort to him back then. He changed the original "Jules" to "Jude" for privacy's sake.
Don't know if it's really true but it's a nice story.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:07 AM (q7T0y)
<<<
You're friends with Lurch Kerry?
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, home from Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (q7T0y)
Cooth--
Yes, recent pics, but may not get to post them tonight. Just busy
enough at work to skim through comments but not do deep
commenting/posting.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:21 AM (b2cFu)
Not having a permanent link to the book of faces or bird droppings, or any of the rest of social media, I'll miss it if you don't link on an ONT. Please do so. I remember our godkids -- we'd get busy (last month we had flooding/floor repair/dishwasher replacement) and the next time we saw 'em they'd be a foot taller!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)
He looked so much like his Dad, it was eerie.
He did on the first album. I don't know what happened after that.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:28 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille
--------------
Now, if we can just decipher Don McClean, then the order of the universe will be explained.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:29 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:29 AM (q7T0y)
I thought Julian had a decent start in a music career. I have an old CD around here somewhere... did he make anything of it?
He looked so much like his Dad, it was eerie.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:24 AM (m1x3q)
His production sound was also very polished.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:29 AM (EzgxV)
-------------------------------
I read somewhere that Paul McCartney wrote "Hey, Jude" for Julian as a comfort to him back then. He changed the original "Jules" to "Jude" for privacy's sake.
Don't know if it's really true but it's a nice story.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (T/5A0)
I've heard that as well.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:30 AM (0mRoj)
So it was 1984 when Julian first hit the scene. I remember some of his tunes, and one or two I liked, but couldn't remember the exact time frame. I graduated from HS in '85, and that sounds about right.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 01:30 AM (DW+jj)
Blanco,
Just because, huh? +1, Indeed. Wellspring of American Awesomeness right there. It's in Our DNA.
Imagine, (no Yoko intended) the possibilities of a Bitchin NPBH graphic...
Exceedingly Rare in application.....yet Legendary, Mythical even, in its Powers....A Sight to Behold.
A Worthy Endeavor....... Until the Endorians Deify the fuckin thing like they have "The Y to The O".... Then shit just gets weird for while.... It'll become part of the Mystique of the AoSp.
In the End....., as long as it's animated with Mushroom Clouds.
Mission Accomplished.
Thanks again..... I'm gonna see where this leads.... just because... +1B
Posted by: Hillbillyking at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (LQE71)
Night ya'll.
Posted by: lowtech redneck at July 22, 2016 01:20 AM (KF8B+)
well, even though you are going to bed, you should know you are missing the point. Cruz was my first choice and he was a moron for doing what he did. even worse he began by justifying his decision on the basis of his conservative principles then decided it was because trump hit his wife and dad. he should have announced during the primary that he was going to renege on his pledge if he is so principled.
he is in the same pile as christie for his obama hug.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (AoSQU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (q7T0y)
But in the post you quoted, I was responding to a guy whose posts are
still there. It's just that everyone ignored him so he cried and then
left. I just thought it was funny. It's a cold world sometimes.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:25 AM (R+30W)<<<
It is. It. is. Think I'll refrain from doing fake concern-troll spoofs for a while. Don't wanna be on the outside again. Like AtC says, "outside is scary, and wants to kill you."
Posted by: just a sock-puppeting menace, home from Banned Camp at July 22, 2016 01:32 AM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:32 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (q7T0y)
I believe he was cut out of John's will and sued the estate.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:33 AM (0mRoj)
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*!*
I keep forgetting that there are children here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:32 AM (jO7js)
I was 3 in 85.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2016 01:34 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:34 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:34 AM (jO7js)
Jim Rockford is the Little Joe of the late 70's.
If he ain't getting laid on this episode, it's because he turned down the chance.
*sorry, ladies. I didn't write the scripts.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:35 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Clemensa at July 22, 2016 01:36 AM (FtrY1)
>>>I was 3 in 85.
Posted by: buzzion
------------
I keep forgetting about the dead people too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:34 AM (jO7js)<<<
Sadly, the good die young.
Posted by: Abe Vigoda, what must've been the ultimate evil at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (H9MG5)
Julian, from his first marriage. He pretty well shat on Julian and his mother.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:20 AM (0mRoj)
-------------------------------
I read somewhere that Paul McCartney wrote "Hey, Jude" for Julian as a comfort to him back then. He changed the original "Jules" to "Jude" for privacy's sake.
Don't know if it's really true but it's a nice story.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (T/5A0)
++++
That's mostly the way Wikipedia tells it, except they have McCarthy changing Jules to Jude just because he thought it sounded better. Which makes sense, since the heightened concern about privacy with things like this is fairly recent.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (AoSQU)
Good grief man, he's the only politician actually advocating constitutional conservative principles to a national audience (There are a few other good senators and congresscritters, but they're not out there every day the same way). I think you're off-base here Y5. Think long game. And if a man goes out of his way to insult you and your family's honor, not to mention he announces he's no longer bound by the same pledge, there's nothing unprincipled in proportional response.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (b2cFu)
cm9000: DWS was actually at the RNC?!?!?
Did her head ever stop spinning completely around??? ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:26 AM (q7T0y)
She was there. I saw her two days in a row. First day at the MSNBC site. Second day walking down the street with some aides. That is when I handed her the button from sheshouldntbeallowedrun.com. Hillary in a prison suit with a ball and chain. She got pissed and handed the button to one of her flunkies.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (Y/5qL)
Posted by: buzzion
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OMG. I had no idea. I have underwear older than you!
And, you died so young - tragic, that.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (m1x3q)
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*!*
I keep forgetting that there are children here.Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:32 AM (jO7js)
My first daughter was born in 87.
I now have 5 grandkids from that daughter and the one born in 89.
I'd feel old if I had the time.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 01:38 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:38 AM (uAvJJ)
It is an odd time of my life, sons all gone for good, and geriatric pets to show you what awaits.
It hits me when I have a chore to do that requires two people.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 01:40 AM (wZxsP)
Just a stock photo model, forever anonymous -- or somebody whose name we're supposed to know?
Don't leave us wondering.
As someone wise once noted:
Red -- do we even need any other hair color?
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:40 AM (jBuUi)
Yes you can drink now at the Chumash. They're on Secret probation, so they charge you for every drink and check your ID every drink. I didn't bring my ID. so I had to sweet talk my drinks.
I am down $100.00. My husband is down 600.00, Jerry Seinfeld was funny though.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:40 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 22, 2016 01:41 AM (3ZoRf)
Posted by: Aarradin at July 22, 2016 01:41 AM (+7Wfv)
What's up Chemjeff? Goodnight. I missed you.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:41 AM (eU/yZ)
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*!*
I keep forgetting that there are children here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:32 AM (jO7js)
I was 3 in 85.
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2016 01:34 AM (bMG0w)
My lawn. Get off it.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:41 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Clemensa at July 22, 2016 01:36 AM (FtrY1)
It's like they say about North Dakota: The climate keeps the riff-raff out.
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 01:42 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: buzzion
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OMG. I had no idea. I have underwear older than you!
And, you died so young - tragic, that.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (m1x3q)
I was a bit disturbed to hear that Muldoon died today too. Buzzion might be too since he will have to listen to bad puns for all eternity. Did Fen strike again? That woman is a menace.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersands and &&& so there) at July 22, 2016 01:42 AM (P8951)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:43 AM (q7T0y)
It hits me when I have a chore to do that requires two people.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat
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Well, you should still have my number. Just sayin'
I may not be able to keep up with you, but I'll blame 96 degrees.
G'night, Chem. Nice surprise to see you. Be well.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:43 AM (m1x3q)
Not tattoo, body spray paint I think. Because she "sports" multiple designs if you do an image search.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:45 AM (Ag8Mw)
++++
The bananaDream nailed her down.Russian model.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:43 AM (R+30W)
well, even though you are going to bed, you
should know you are missing the point. Cruz was my first choice and he
was a moron for doing what he did. even worse he began by justifying
his decision on the basis of his conservative principles then decided it
was because trump hit his wife and dad. he should have announced
during the primary that he was going to renege on his pledge if he is so
principled.
he is in the same pile as christie for his obama hug.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 22, 2016 01:31 AM (AoSQU)
That is hypocrisy of the first order... Trump sure as shit had long ago announced that he would not be bound by any pledge so why would he, or anyone expect others to do what he would not?
Additionally, fuck that noise... Trump does not get to be the uncivil, lying douche he was and is and expect that it does not change any promises made.
Posted by: redbanzai at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (9dfKD)
I lost it in one hand. It was the only table open. Oh well.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (eU/yZ)
Ah geez. I was 19.
*And* spending a lot of time at Federated Group drooling over the latest-model cassette decks, wish I had bought one.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (q7T0y)
Just a stock photo model, forever anonymous -- or somebody whose name we're supposed to know?
Don't leave us wondering.
As someone wise once noted:
Red -- do we even need any other hair color?
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:40 AM (jBuUi)
271 Olesya Kharitonova, 22, a Russian model It seems
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (Ag8Mw)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 22, 2016 01:38 AM (uAvJJ)
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Goodnight, CJ!
Don't be a stranger!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (T/5A0)
This travesty of a post brought me out of 10 years of lurking.
For shame, for shame.
Posted by: Maureen the lurker at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM (3htdE)
Stick to the $5 blackjack tables and like everyone else does, bet small until you can get ahead a significant amount. If you can try to do a bit of simple counting, that helps too.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:45 AM (q7T0y)
Somehow I got the impression you were a little bit younger than me, by a few years. Don't know why.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 01:46 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 01:37 AM (Y/5qL)
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Hah!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:46 AM (T/5A0)
I think now all they do is office equipment.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:47 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Buffalbob at July 22, 2016 01:47 AM (wYtsh)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:47 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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I felt that way about the Advent Model 200 (?). But that was in 1970 or so, and I was already somewhat older than you were in '85.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:48 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 01:48 AM (Y/5qL)
Posted by: Denk at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (PXlKS)
But wait -- who is the ginger at the top of the page?
Just a stock photo model, forever anonymous -- or somebody whose name we're supposed to know?
Don't leave us wondering.
As someone wise once noted:
Red -- do we even need any other hair color?
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:40 AM (jBuUi)
I'm thinking it was the young Amy Pond during the time loop episodes where young Amy Pond had to let old Amy Pond out of the time chamber.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
I think now all they do is office equipment.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:47 AM (q7T0y)
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They make budget smartphones.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (R+30W)
This travesty of a post brought me out of 10 years of lurking.
For shame, for shame.
Posted by: Maureen the lurker at July 22, 2016 01:44 AM
Don't diss Maet. He has good taste and Maet gets Yoko's art and milfy-ness. Her avant garde genius goes right over the heads of the squares.
Posted by: otho at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (EWg9n)
All of the kids, for that matter, but especially her.
Posted by: Wonk with Pigtails at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (0sLvz)
I think now all they do is office equipment.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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They also made their own version of the Tandy Model 100 computer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (jO7js)
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How's the knee doing?
It ust be nice to have it over with.
Any good painkillers?!?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (T/5A0)
5. Promise from zombie that the next time he sees that horrible liberal who keeps coming to his house, he'll spray him with Raid
Posted by: qdpsteve
I'm hoping I may never be forced to see him again. His wife, who is the person who is my actual friend (he just tags along), has an "intellectual crush" on a guy at work, and I'm hoping this leads to marital disintegration. This will avoid the Raid dilemma altogether.
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:50 AM (jBuUi)
I follow my husband into the high roller room. The only table open was the $100 one. We had may drinks. So maybe that wasn't the smartest. But I drank night with no ID and money.
So there's that.
There was 4 couples. We had fun. I was the only girl to try to gamble. My bad hand put a damper on it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:50 AM (eU/yZ)
Ah geez. I was 19.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Why did I always think you were a kid? You've got a little time on me!
Not much, but a little.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:50 AM (m1x3q)
I think now all they do is office equipment.
Weren't they Konica? (Looking things up is cheating)
My first camera that wasn't a Brownie was a Konica T-2 that I saved up for about a year for.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (1xUj/)
Kyocera is big in the base materials for high end ceramics. Including really nice knives.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (mRvs9)
I ended up, finally, in 1986 with a Yamaha R-9; I wanted something ridiculously powerful (though what I thought I would do with it, I have no idea). Unfortunately only three years later its memory went completely haywire and I couldn't really use any station presets on it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
I was thinking Karen Gillian at first too, but the face is not quite right. Of course, if we saw the legs that would help.
Either way.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (3ZoRf)
Proud square here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (eU/yZ)
I know Kyocera is partners with someone else nowadays but not sure who.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:52 AM (q7T0y)
I don't miss film at all now.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 01:52 AM (wZxsP)
So are we saying how old we are?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (eU/yZ)
Not tattoo, body spray paint I think. Because she "sports" multiple designs if you do an image search.
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:45 AM (Ag8Mw)
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The bananaDream nailed her down.Russian model.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
Noted...permanently.
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: bananaDream at July 22, 2016 12:51 AM (Ag8Mw)
Posted by: Insomniac
Got it! Thx.
Posted by: zombie at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (jBuUi)
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Still have my full-sized Advents. I've had to replace the cone surrounds, but otherwise, just as good as they were in 1970 when I bought them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:54 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
I was thinking Karen Gillian at first too, but the face is not quite right. Of course, if we saw the legs that would help.
Either way.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 22, 2016 01:51 AM (3ZoRf)
++++
Olesya Kharitonova
http://tinyurl.com/h43clfb
(Google Images)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:54 AM (R+30W)
Supposedly some of those giant 1970s-era Realistic receivers from Radio Shack are still alive and kicking.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:55 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:55 AM (q7T0y)
Then I'm just a just a tad older than you. Just a few months.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:55 AM (eU/yZ)
And Willy J., I forgot about those smartphones, thanks for the info.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:56 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (eU/yZ)<<<
All 'Ettes are 21.
Posted by: the AoSHQ Style Guide at July 22, 2016 01:56 AM (H9MG5)
Harmon Kardon tuner & amp. and Cerwin Vega D9s. Kyocera tape deck. Bang & Olsen turntable. Akai reel to reel.
Yes, I made more money than an 18 yr old had a right to.
And I had a lot of fun.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:57 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 01:57 AM (Y/5qL)
http://tinyurl.com/h43clfb
(Google Images)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:54 AM (R+30W)
Thanks. Very pretty but she has the look of the "Damn she is hot... wait is she 18? Oh no."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 22, 2016 01:57 AM (3ZoRf)
I think you and I are the same age.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:57 AM (eU/yZ)
We will see. I mentioned this some time ago, but Kodak is supposedly actually coming out later this year with a *new,* digitally-assisted Super 8 camera. I know they're manufacturing Super 8 film again, believe it or not.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:58 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 01:58 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 01:59 AM (R+30W)
Ah... a rangefinder....
#2 daughter got one of those for her birthday last week. A Kodak Retinette.
Girl loves her some film cameras.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 22, 2016 01:59 AM (mtl5g)
And an Akai reel-to-reel? It wasn't a GX-4000D, was it? That's what I had... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:59 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:59 AM (q7T0y)
Thanks for noticing my youth.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:00 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:00 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:47 AM (q7T0y)
All I remember is that it was too expensive for me.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 02:00 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:01 AM (q7T0y)
I also had a thing for Yamaha, don't ask me why. I think I just liked the name.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:01 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 01:50 AM (m1x3q)
So are we saying how old we are?
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 01:53 AM (eU/yZ)
We can hint.
I was wearing a t-shirt that had a giant walrus surrounded by anthropomorphic eggs running around on little feet at the supermarket the other day. The checkout bagger said that she liked my shirt but wasn't sure she "got it". I said, "y'know -- goo-goo-g'joob" and left.
I was halfway home when I realized how incomprehensible and condescending that probably sounded. Just last week, I tried to explain to her how the Beatles had created a "Magical Mystery Tour" special on the BBC in about 1966, that featured a psychedelic music video called "I am the Walrus" that was spectacularly weird, that "goo-goo-g'joob" was the chorus to the song, and that she should watch it on YouTube.
But, seriously.....when we're talking booze and boobs and freedom, we're all good -- but there's no end to the cultural references that fall between the cracks when Moron talks to Moron without knowing the era.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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I was a factory rep for them for a while. Still have crossed tuning fork cufflinks and tie tack.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 02:03 AM (jO7js)
So are we saying how old we are?
Posted by: CaliGirl
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If'n you want.
I imagine the ettes to all be as beautiful as the sunset. And eternally young.
Personally, I'm 49, but only look like I'm in my early 60's. So I think I'm doing OK.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:04 AM (m1x3q)
- Fedco
- Fed-Mart
- The Treasury
- Gemco
- White Front
I was also going to say Ben Franklin, but I realized they're actually still around in some parts of the USA.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:04 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:05 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:05 AM (q7T0y)
When you think about it, it's amazing. The Trump children were thrown into the political arena and they can carry themselves as though they're pros who've been at this game for years.
Ivanka got up there and made a crucial speech before millions across the nation, at a presidential convention, and she made it look easy.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (jO7js)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (q7T0y)
I want not say how old I was but at least I get your references.
I am the walrus.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 02:06 AM (wZxsP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:07 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:07 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:05 AM (q7T0y)
++++
You called...
Posted by: Fred Rated at July 22, 2016 02:07 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 01:52 AM (q7T0y)
Mita.
It was one of the many mergers that happened in the late 90s/ early 00s when the copier companies all merged and consolidated following the analog to digital transition.
I used to work in that biz. It was funny. There were giant warehouses in Mexico where all the copiers from Japan got sent. There were about 5 brands that got their stock from them. Once Mexico got the shipping order, they'd pull a machine and stamp one of the 5 names on the door and send it on. Meanwhile, as a sales jerk, you were telling customers that your machine was entirely different and better than the other guy's, when the only difference was what got stamped on the door.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (71OEY)
Thanks. Very pretty but she has the look of the "Damn she is hot... wait is she 18? Oh no."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 22, 2016 01:57 AM (3ZoRf)
I clicked "more images" and thought, "Damn, I hope she's 16".
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (q7T0y)
I only recognize Gemco. It's now a target.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 22, 2016 02:09 AM (wZxsP)
I'll just go ahead and say it...
August 8 is my 50th birthday.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:00 AM (q7T0y)
Lawn....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:09 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (Saqzi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (Y/5qL)
I'm the same age but I was carded today. Yay! I got drinks with no ID or money and took cuts in the line because I still have the gift of gab.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (eU/yZ)
And I was there a few years ago, the building is falling apart. Icky.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:11 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:07 AM (q7T0y)
And after them when 1 hour photo development was cutting edge tech.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:11 AM (mRvs9)
Cerwin-Vega was the name to have in the 1980s if you wanted to be able
to literally BLAST your neighbors to death, kinda expensive and big but
OMG what a sound. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:01 AM (q7T0y)
Cerwin-Vega had monstrous woofers -- 14" or some such. The stationary equivalent to those D+B cars driving down the road vibrating while they emitted noise pollution.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:11 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:12 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (q7T0y)
++++
I didn't even know the guy was still around as a personality. I even blew his name. Left out the middle initial. Looking at Wiki, he had a whole career after the wacky commercials I remembered him for.
Posted by: Fred R. Rated at July 22, 2016 02:12 AM (R+30W)
Is Ritz Camera still around?
Oh yeah: I also remember VideoConcepts.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:13 AM (q7T0y)
Primordial, LOL. Same here.
I also had a thing for Yamaha, don't ask me why. I think I just liked the name.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:01 AM (q7T0y)
Yamaha speakers were tight in the bottom and mid, but turned to splattery distortion in their high-end. I found them almost unlistenable.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:13 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:13 AM (eU/yZ)
Pull my finger.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:14 AM (mRvs9)
Even some of the supposedly 'unfunny' commercials were hilarious.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:14 AM (q7T0y)
Ok I'm no audiophile but even I remember cerwin vega's.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:15 AM (eU/yZ)
They also actually came out with a VCR at one point.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:16 AM (q7T0y)
Let me guess: the names were Konica Minolta, Xerox, Oce, Kodak and Mita?
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (q7T0y)
Lanier, Ricoh, and Savin were three of 'em. Kodak was sold through Lanier but Poloroid did them in before all the copier craziness went down. Lanier also had a Konica product.
Now, all those are Ricoh. Konica Minolta merged along with Kyocera Mita. I think Sharp got sucked up in there too somewhere, kinda sorta. Xerox was all but bankrupt and I'm shocked they survived. We used to get clients who ran from Xerox when they couldn't even afford coffee in their offices anymore. Not a joke. Actually went out as a Corp memo.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:16 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:13 AM (eU/yZ)
++++
Do you mean the letter 'b' or a bumble bee?
Posted by: Fred R. Rated at July 22, 2016 02:18 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 02:10 AM (Y/5qL)
You must have not been around yesterday evening. It was the Battle of Verdun in the Trump/Cruz War. I was desperately trying to change the subject to anything else.
Also see this. Be sure to read all the way to the end.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/364871.php
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 02:18 AM (sdi6R)
Even some of the supposedly 'unfunny' commercials were hilarious.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:14 AM (q7T0y)
Here's a classic - Wendy's Soviet Fashion Show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 02:19 AM (zc3Db)
Big? Bigly.
Kyocera == Kyoto Ceramics.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 22, 2016 02:19 AM (noWW6)
You may choose.
Actually, that should have been just spell I don't know where the extra b came from.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:20 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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You know the damn rules! Pics, or...
Really, good for you. I was carded last year for cigarettes.
But, I haven't shaved since last September, so that ain't happening these days. Yeah, I look a bit like the guy that fixes the a/c on Duck Dynasty.
Mom is appalled, and begs me almost daily to shave.
I keep asking her why I have more red hairs in my beard than grey hairs. I have never met a blood relative with red hair. And every pic I have of my father is pre-1971, hence b&w.
I think I'm funny, anyway.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:20 AM (m1x3q)
I actually used to work in the faculty duplicating room at Long Beach City College as a student assistant, back in the 1980s. The copiers were huge; we had two of them, one of them was self-serve, and they both filled most of the room.
The copiers could collate, staple and even bind; *but* this was in the pre-digital, pre-memory days. If you wanted 30 copies of a document, the originals would circulate in the feeder basket 30 times.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:20 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Kristophr at July 22, 2016 02:21 AM (jLXo8)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:21 AM (mRvs9)
I was just thinking the other night about how record stores' photo places, and video stores where on every corner along with 3 VCR and TV repair shops in between. Good luck finding any of those now.
I bought one of those waterproof cameras when I was in Puerto Vallarta so I could get some pictures from the hidden beach and snorkeling. I drove around to 3 or 4 different Walgreens when I got home before I got to one that still developed film in house.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:21 AM (71OEY)
And we were discussing the Best Stores and Service Merchandise here a few weeks ago...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:08 AM (q7T0y)
SITE [architects] made some awesome, audacious, and fun buildings for BEST [retailers] back in the '70s -- http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/content/best-products [be sure to scroll down -- the Sacramento one with the corner that comes out, that's how they locked it up every day].
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:21 AM (EzgxV)
Funny that they were all actually the same company/factory.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:21 AM (q7T0y)
Joke in the 1980s: Leica introduced an introductory model, called the Leica Virgin.
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Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:23 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 02:23 AM (Y/5qL)
Too bad no one is that creative now. Sure there's Gehry and his wavy lines, but that's getting old already IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:23 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 02:24 AM (sdi6R)
Primordial, the Wendy's commercials were incredible. Made by the same guy who did a lot of the FedEx commercials of the time, Joe somebody.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:25 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:26 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:26 AM (q7T0y)
The "list price" of all of it was about $84K. And the knee surgery and the stay in the rehab facility and you get close to that much again. So medical care for my mother, for roughly 2 months total in various facilities cost about $150K.
This is just ridiculous and shows the ridiculous inflation in the health care sector. Now, I'm sure Medicare and her supplemental won't pay that, some big contracted discount (this practice is itself a fraud, concealing true price discovery in the medical system), but it's still just mind boggling.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 02:26 AM (DW+jj)
Ha! I remember those monsters! It was cool as hell watching them work and even funnier now.
Xerox amazes me. They invented virtually every core technology at the foundation of everything that we now take for granted in every day life... but stepped on their dick with all of it while upstarts grabbed it and ran.
Heck, without Xerox, there would likely be no Apple.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:26 AM (71OEY)
cthulhu, don't think I ever noticed Yamaha's speakers, but I liked their receivers, tape decks and CD players.
They also actually came out with a VCR at one point.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:16 AM (q7T0y)
Their electronics and tape decks were top-notch. It's just that their speakers were horrific. If you listened to their stuff through Sennheisers, it was totally horrorshow -- but if you put it into a room through their speakers, it was dreck.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:27 AM (EzgxV)
They were cardeding everybody. I just went and talked to the head guy. He gave me and my friends the drinks and gave us cuts. It helps to be female.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:27 AM (eU/yZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:28 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 02:29 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 22, 2016 02:29 AM (eU/yZ)
Xerox had a fantastic R&D department... and no marketing skills whatsoever.
If they had taken the lead on the GUI-based PC back in the late 1970s, instead of literally *giving away* the tech to Apple, OMG, who knows where they'd be today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:30 AM (q7T0y)
The Akai reel to reel is a GX625. Yes, is. I still have it. It could use a complete run-through, though. I also still have a couple boxes of great music on memorex reels.
And for speakers, I'm more of a Polk fan these days. Clean, tight. With a powered sub and a basic Onkyo, my neighbor's 125' away hate me.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:30 AM (m1x3q)
Would like to get a Yamaha receiver with some kind of surround sound for my blu-ray player. Per Amazon they still have some good systems out there.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:31 AM (q7T0y)
These days, given I do most of my audio listening on my PC, I'm happy with a good set of desktop speakers. Right now I have the Bose Companion 20 set sitting next to me.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:33 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:33 AM (mRvs9)
FML.
Posted by: Gem at July 22, 2016 02:33 AM (uaHyk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:34 AM (q7T0y)
I think they're still around, but not sure if their quality has kept up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:35 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Him at July 22, 2016 02:35 AM (2PHJ8)
cthulhu, I saw those. Like those designs.
Too bad no one is that creative now. Sure there's Gehry and his wavy lines, but that's getting old already IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:23 AM (q7T0y)
Believe it or not, Westfield Valley Fair (that I can walk to in Silicon Valley) is going Googie -- http://www.spaceagecity.com/googie/ .
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:35 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Him at July 22, 2016 02:36 AM (2PHJ8)
Then Canon came along with their original laser printing engine that changed everything. Companies working with Canon, most importantly HP, could build copiers and laser printers that went for years without needing major maintenance. Suddenly you could own a copier/printer for a lot less in the long term than a Xerox lease and that army of service guys soon dwindled along with Xerox's revenues. The last time I saw a Xerox branded printer, it was a consumer model actually made entirely by Samsung, before Samsung felt they could cut it with their own brand in the US market. This was in in the late 90s when I was working at a place that did testing for printer drivers and other contract work.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:36 AM (IdCqF)
Leica is still out there. They've gone digital, but I think they still make real cameras.
For the money, though, you're better off getting a Fed - Russki copy of the Leica - every bit as good, and a damned sight cheaper. They're such good copies, you can even use Leica lenses on them, if you want.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 22, 2016 02:37 AM (mtl5g)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:37 AM (mRvs9)
550
steve,
The Akai reel to reel is a GX625. Yes, is. I still have it. It could
use a complete run-through, though. I also still have a couple boxes of
great music on memorex reels.
And for speakers, I'm more of a Polk fan these days. Clean, tight.
With a powered sub and a basic Onkyo, my neighbor's 125' away hate me.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:30 AM (m1x3q)
I like old Infinity's....but most of the good ones are past at least one re-cone. Their recent stuff is.....no surprise.....crap.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:38 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:38 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Hilary! at July 22, 2016 02:38 AM (RKwmm)
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:39 AM (IdCqF)
Yup. I could understand the mistake that ended up being Mac/ Windows. No one had any conception of a personal computer back then. IBM dropped the ball similarly on lots of stuff. Xerox though... wow. They invented practically everything and had so many things right up to a go-to-market product... then sat there.
IBM. There's another giant that completely lost its way when it should have owned the world. I have no idea how they're still around either.
HP also. They still do okay business with their PCs but wow... they're nothing like they used to be. It's one of the reason I could never get behind Carly Fiorina. She didn't hammer the first nail but she went out and bought a nail gun for the rest of them. They went from some of the best products in the world to absolute shit that they get from discount shops in China.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:39 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:41 AM (q7T0y)
foundation of everything that we now take for granted in every day life"
cough Bell Labs cough
Posted by: torquewrench at July 22, 2016 02:42 AM (noWW6)
I have a $800 Zeiss lens on a $250 Cannon Rebel body that takes amazing macro pictures. So yes the chips are kinda all the same but lenses can make a big difference.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:42 AM (mRvs9)
Cleanup on isle 557 you guys!
Posted by: Him at July 22, 2016 02:36 AM (2PHJ
Just as a side note....it caused me a bunch of grief that Ira was getting banned regularly, because bannination doesn't just remove the part where the guy was an asshole -- it also removes any of the stuff where the guy may have been pretending to be a nice guy. It removes anything on Pixy related to the guy. It drops him into the Memory Hole. So if you ever do anything truly awful, you hope to be subsequently banned because your previous sins are forever erased.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:43 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 02:44 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:38 AM (q7T0y)
Yes only ever saw/heard Blaupunkt on a salesfloor though.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:45 AM (mRvs9)
Yup. You nailed it.
All the copier companies struggled with that change though. When I was a Lanier, they had built the best training center in the business. They hire techs that were reasonably handy with a screwdriver for about $30K/ year and train them up on an ongoing basis. Then digital came along. Now you had to hire network engineers starting at $70k. The entire revenue model and cost structure went to shit while everyone kept swapping out leased boxes like nothing had changed.
Now they all pretty much give away the hardware at break even and the revenue stream is service/ supply contracts.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:45 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: Kid Tyrone at July 22, 2016 02:45 AM (i8wjc)
I dONT have the money to keep up with it, but I was partial to PPI (Precision Power) amps and Polk speakers. Believe it or not, Pioneer Super tuners were great - at least back when I cared enough to pay attention.
Back in 85 or 6, Sony actually made a 8" round 3 way speaker that blew any Infinity out of the parking lot. Fuck a 6x9. I don't know why they stopped making those...
*lost in herbal memories of blasting "Last Chance" by Shooting Star...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:47 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:47 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:35 AM (q7T0y)
++++
His post Yes, #NeverTrumpers, You Are In Fact Morally Responsible for the Hillary Clinton Presidency You're Agitating For was linked by both Instapundit and Breitbart. Commenters at both sites debated vigorously the merits of Ace's smackdown.
http://tinyurl.com/zca76zc (Bretbart)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/239312/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 02:47 AM (R+30W)
They did, actually. There were Xerox systems in the Reagan White House during the first administration, before most people had ever heard of laser printers and the ability to set fonts and types sizes was like magic.
The Alto and Star were just far too costly and even at those price resources were so dear that they could be a hassle to use in the days when even plain text word processing ran into severe limits due to lack of memory. A cheap Android phone with a Bluetooth keyboard is immeasurably more usable than what those systems offered. But the promise they hinted at was amazing. Xerox just didn't have the patience to keep the development fed until they could deliver something that could break into the mainstream in terms of both price and functionality.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:48 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Him at July 22, 2016 02:36 AM (2PHJ
What a bad troll. Referencing your own post? You're going to have to work harder to get banned here.
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 02:48 AM (Y/5qL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 22, 2016 02:48 AM (mtl5g)
To me being an audiophile just means having an appreciation for better-made audio and stereo equipment.
I know for me personally, I'm probably never going to be able to afford a McIntosh or Bang & Olufsen system; I think most mid-priced stuff you can find nowadays is probably more than good enough for most people, including me.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:48 AM (q7T0y)
The big failure of Xerox was complacency in their core business. (For
how they blew other stuff there is a good book called 'Fumbling the
Future.') Way back, you didn't own a Xerox copier. You leased it and the
lease included regular maintenance visits. This is because Xerox gave
up on making the mechanism reliable and instead created a standing army
of service guys who went to different customers sites every day to make
sure the machines kept going another month.
Then Canon came along
with their original laser printing engine that changed everything.
Companies working with Canon, most importantly HP, could build copiers
and laser printers that went for years without needing major
maintenance. Suddenly you could own a copier/printer for a lot less in
the long term than a Xerox lease and that army of service guys soon
dwindled along with Xerox's revenues. The last time I saw a Xerox
branded printer, it was a consumer model actually made entirely by
Samsung, before Samsung felt they could cut it with their own brand in
the US market. This was in in the late 90s when I was working at a place
that did testing for printer drivers and other contract work.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:36 AM (IdCqF)
Xerox and Lucent are cuss words in my house. I bought them when they had a decent yield, rode them down to where they sucked donkey dongs, sold them, saw them bounce a bit and bought them thinking they had a future (and yield), rode them to new lows and sold them, had them "get their shit together" and bought them again, only to ride them lower once more. It's like I managed to capture 21 to 18, 9 to 7, and 5 to 3 of their continuous declines. Yeah, I didn't ride it all the way down from 21 to 3 -- yay, me! -- but I got burned three different times by the same stupid assholes.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:49 AM (EzgxV)
.....
It used to drive me nuts when I was a lot younger. I was out at this horrible yet wonderful little hole in the wall strip club that a buddy and I used to frequent. After too many drinks and getting to know everyone, I finally got fed up one night and told the manager that I was going into their audo room to fix the EQ. It was a sad place that played the same tape on a loop all the time rather than pay a DJ.
Ended up grabbing music from my car and playing DJ that night. Ended up pretty popular with several of the strippers.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 02:50 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:50 AM (q7T0y)
Willy J -
Leica is still out there. They've gone digital, but I think they still make real cameras.
For the money, though, you're better off getting a Fed - Russki copy
of the Leica - every bit as good, and a damned sight cheaper. They're
such good copies, you can even use Leica lenses on them, if you want.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 22, 2016 02:37 AM (mtl5g)
IIRC, Ricoh had a reputation for good lenses.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:50 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: kimoloka at July 22, 2016 02:51 AM (Ra8VF)
WOOT WOOT ONT
THANKS MAET
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 22, 2016 12:10 AM (voOPb)
???
Posted by: m at July 22, 2016 02:51 AM (/7Lfc)
I know Bob Brinker calls that stock phenomenon a "dead cat bounce," i.e. even a company on its absolute deathbed can have a lucky day or two right before the end comes.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:51 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:52 AM (q7T0y)
ANY aftermarket head unit was probably better quality and cleaner power.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 02:52 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:49 AM (EzgxV)
++++
I like the way you refused to get roped into that buy-low-sell-high tyranny. You charted your own course.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 02:53 AM (R+30W)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:55 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 22, 2016 02:26 AM (DW+jj)
Why can't the medical profession be required to provide a cost estimate like auto shops, and then be required to prove why they overran it? Would it really be that difficult?
Hell, they code everything from bandaids to brain surgery. They know the prices.
Guess they also know that folks would scream bloody murder beforehand and tell them to go blow, but hey, fair is fair.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2016 02:55 AM (+YMhA)
Altec Lansing used to make speakers dreams were made of in the 80s too.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 02:47 AM (mRvs9)
My gramps managed the Altec Lansing speaker production line for a bit in the 50s. I've got a couple of vintage "Voice of the Theater"s stashed away -- cones probably dried out and crumbled. Some day, I hope to have space and resources to bring them back to life.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:56 AM (EzgxV)
Yep. Ricoh made good glass. Ahh...there was a time when cameras and camera equipment were the pride of production for a company/nation.
Any fool can make a tractor. But a really good camera tests the limits of design, engineering, quality.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 22, 2016 02:57 AM (mtl5g)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 02:57 AM (VGNs+)
I worked for Xerox for a couple of years (99'-01'). They were burning cash with flame throwers. I came in when their stock was trading at $50 a share and left when it hit $7.
Posted by: Distant Observer at July 22, 2016 02:58 AM (E8UjU)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 02:58 AM (VGNs+)
The there was the overwhelming arrogance. A favorite Story of Jerry Pournelle's is the Comdex where IBM proudly announced a developer's package for OS/2 for a mere $600. IBM thought it was stunningly generous of them to have it well below $1000. Meanwhile, Microsoft had people walking around the show floor handing out CD-ROMs of the Windows SDK. Although MS had been founded as a programming languages and tools company, they knew that getting people interested in developing for Windows shouldn't be treated as a profit center in of itself.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 02:58 AM (IdCqF)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/239312/
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 02:47 AM (R+30W)
A. It annoys me no end that if you link an Instapundit post, the comments do not appear.
II. So I went to Instapundit, found the post, and began reading the 426 comments. I got through about a dozen before throwing in the towel.
What the hell is it about Disqus comment sections that attract drooling retards?
*smooches Pixy*
*I'm totally not gay*
Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2016 02:58 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 02:59 AM (VGNs+)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 03:01 AM (VGNs+)
That's likely a gross oversimplification...
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:02 AM (q7T0y)
If you really want to shoot at distance good glass is important. And money high end scopes are expensive.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:02 AM (mRvs9)
Hell, they code everything from bandaids to brain surgery. They know the prices.
Guess they also know that folks would scream bloody murder beforehand and tell them to go blow, but hey, fair is fair.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2016 02:55 AM (+YMhA)
Because when you roll into my ER and say you have chest pain, I don't know if you are a) having the big one and about to literally die right in front of me, b) just have some heartburn from trying to eat 2 racks of ribs, or c) are a lying piece of sh*t who just said that to get to the head of the line so you can try to get your Percocet fix. The cost estimate for those 3 situations are all wildly different, and people would have a holy cow if their loved one went into cardiac arrest while waiting for the doc to hand them an estimate because sometimes, it really is scenario a).
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 03:02 AM (b2cFu)
cthulhu, OMG.
I know Bob Brinker calls that stock phenomenon a "dead cat bounce,"
i.e. even a company on its absolute deathbed can have a lucky day or two
right before the end comes.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 02:51 AM (q7T0y)
You live and you learn. Both Xerox and Lucent had a metric fuckton of value locked up in their IP vaults -- that neither managed to license nor exploit. Similarly, they were both on preferred vendor lists all across government/academia/Fortune 500....until they weren't. They managed to dwindle past several "surely someone can see the value here" points, until they were essentially worth nothing.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:03 AM (EzgxV)
And to show how much of total loser Sears was they tried to take its name away from the once-tallest building in the world. I still call it the Sears Tower (even though Sears doesn't deserve it) because I'm more offended by the pricks who think you can just change the name of a landmark by selling the sign on the front.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:04 AM (zc3Db)
But, if I found a great thrift store deal, I would grab that Denon receiver & amp in a heartbeat.
I was maybe 18 the first time I heard a pair of Bose 901s. That change your prespective on "listening to music, " Willy - you're into the realm of "experiening" it. Super clean power and transfer is a world apart from a loud stereo. Especially with the right soundtrack.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:05 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:06 AM (q7T0y)
593
Xerox and Lucent are cuss words in my house. I bought them when they had
a decent yield, rode them down to where they sucked donkey dongs, sold
them, saw them bounce a bit and bought them thinking they had a future
(and yield), rode them to new lows and sold them, had them "get their
shit together" and bought them again, only to ride them lower once more.
It's like I managed to capture 21 to 18, 9 to 7, and 5 to 3 of their
continuous declines. Yeah, I didn't ride it all the way down from 21 to 3
-- yay, me! -- but I got burned three different times by the same
stupid assholes.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 02:49 AM (EzgxV)
++++
I like the way you refused to get roped into that buy-low-sell-high tyranny. You charted your own course.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 22, 2016 02:53 AM (R+30W)
Yeah, thanks. I did better with other companies (and, yeah, worse with others).
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:06 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:06 AM (m1x3q)
Knew a guy there, last name Alighieri, nice guy though.
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 03:07 AM (VGNs+)
But after so many years of just doing the same thing, and then to suddenly in the 1990s be faced with such new and, to them, likely frightening new technology... it was easier for them to just stick their heads in the sand. I'd bet a lot of their Board at the time could barely even figure out how to use a computer.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:07 AM (q7T0y)
Because hospitals don't bill for individuals - they bill for insurance companies and Medicare. They intentionally inflate the "list" price so that they get what they really wanted on the insurance/Medicare payments.
and then be required to prove why they overran it? Would it really be that difficult?
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 22, 2016 02:55 AM (+YMhA)
Again, because hospitals don't have to worry about dealing with 'customers". They almost always deal with third-party payers. That's one of the main problems.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:08 AM (zc3Db)
They could if the regulatory environment encouraged it. There are places in the world where you can shop for a surgical procedure in a way that is largely reserved for cosmetic procedures or LASIK here. This has created a medical tourism industry that caters to the more affluent citizens of nations who don't want to settle for the government's version of medical care.
The biggest obstacle is that so often these things need to happen RIGHT NOW. Which is why health insurance would be fine if it were reserved for catastrophic situations. An example that has been used is to imagine what car maintenance would cost if it were part of your car insurance and as extensive as health care policies. Instead of picking the place with a good coupon for the latest oil change, you're told who you can go to and don't have a direct retail relationship with the service provider. Instead, your car insurer is the payer and wants to push the price down as low as they can to make money on your policy. The oil change place doesn't want to do it that cheap, so they'll inflate their claimed cost at every opportunity to make the percentage the insurer pays something they can actually live with.
Every place the free market has been applied to health care the results have been pretty good but it is so incredibly touchy it's impossible to convince many people that their care will likely improve if they're more directly involved in the purchase.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 03:08 AM (IdCqF)
Like everything else, the blame goes to government, in the case, by way of insurance companies.
Wind the clock back a ways. Doctors used to come to your house and make your prescription on your nightstand. If you didn't have money, they came anyhow and you'd give them a pie or a chicken if you got well.
Then government stared regulating the crap out of everything and the barn door opened up to giant compliance costs and endless lawsuits.
I know a doctor who had several occupational health clinics and wanted out entirely. We got to taking and he told me that a pack of sutures costs some outrageous amount. My response was, "I can get that at the craft store for less than a buck!". But, govenment mandates say you have to buy the individually packed, certified stuff. As if sterilizing a needle in China and marking it up 5000% for a government inspector makes it more sterile than a doctor in a lab.
There's a reason minute clinics, private ERs, and other cash driven healthcare is exploding. It's way cheaper, far better service, no bullshit and easier on everyone involved.
The core problem is the concept of actually paying for stuff is now discriminatory and hateful. The result is everyone cost 100x what it should, there is less off it, and the cost is born for many by increasingly few.
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 03:08 AM (71OEY)
@cthulhu
I worked for Xerox for a couple of years (99'-01'). They were
burning cash with flame throwers. I came in when their stock was
trading at $50 a share and left when it hit $7.
Posted by: Distant Observer at July 22, 2016 02:58 AM (E8UjU)
I have a particular point of interest with Xerox around 1984....a woman I knew went to work for them in El Segundo. I'd helped her through her Computer Science degree.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:11 AM (EzgxV)
and transfer is a world apart from a loud stereo. Especially with the
right soundtrack.///
Yeah The big part of what you pay for that Walmart clearance wont do even for me who has wrecked his hearing is loud without distortion. Still have some of my 80s stuff for that.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:12 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 03:08 AM (71OEY)
Remember kids, anything you subsidize, you get more of. And Sh*t Midas thought the government should subsidize 1/6 of the economy and take it over, because the hidebound, euthanizing British model of medical care is so much better than the aggressive and innovative American model.
*Looks for gas stove to stick head in before Obama ruins those, too*
Posted by: Conservative Crank at July 22, 2016 03:14 AM (b2cFu)
Line on Columbo -
Lady: " in your condition, I should call the police!"
Drunk - "in your condition, I should call a plastic surgeon."
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:18 AM (m1x3q)
I may be an audio snob, but being 50 and poor, I understand the "Walmart " at tide 100%.
But, if I found a great thrift store deal, I would grab that Denon receiver amp in a heartbeat.
I was maybe 18 the first time I heard a pair of Bose 901s. That
change your prespective on "listening to music, " Willy - you're into
the realm of "experiening" it. Super clean power and transfer is a world
apart from a loud stereo. Especially with the right soundtrack.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:05 AM (m1x3q)
The dorms at the University of Casual Sun-Bathing are interspersed with groves of eucalyptus trees, which can reflect sound in a variety of ways. One of the most amazing things I've ever experienced is Dark Side on 901's into a eucalyptus grove.....the trees throb, then sing.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:18 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 03:19 AM (VGNs+)
1. You have to pay for a living wage lifetime benefits for Shanaynay, Offical Government Inspector 12 and Public Union Employee to not look at form 1001B
2. You have to pay for an administrative employee who has received her government required certification to fill out form 1001B, then pay again to send it to Shanaynay 5 times because she lost it
3. You have to pay for the aspirin that the 5 people ahead of you got for free because they are disenfranchised and you're a racist who wants grandma to eat dog food
4. Your aspirin need to offset the cost of everyone's free pap screen and birth control
5. You have to cover the accrual for the inevitable lawsuit that 2 out of the 5 people in front of you will file because the aspirin they got for free didn't cure their headache a week later.
6. What, you think that $3000 value website that the goverment paid $3 billion for is going to pay for itself?
7. Muslim outreach
Posted by: Damiano at July 22, 2016 03:20 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: Bernie supporters full of gas at July 22, 2016 03:21 AM (VGNs+)
Posted by: cthulhu
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OK. This sounds like a good Moron short story...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:21 AM (m1x3q)
Lady: " in your condition, I should call the police!"
Drunk - "in your condition, I should call a plastic surgeon.
Winston Churchill to Lady Astor:
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:22 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:18 AM (EzgxV)
You forgot the part about the two hits of window pane.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:24 AM (zc3Db)
Why do you hate us?
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 03:24 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 03:25 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:26 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:26 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 03:27 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:28 AM (q7T0y)
Extremely gross. The simple fact is that Gates and others of his generation outside the big iron companies were more able to see what this technology could really mean to people on the individual level. DEC got it a little, being the upstarts who pushed what was then interactivity to make their mark on the world. The idea of real time interfaces was once considered a bit radical and terribly wasteful. Why would you want to give so much of the system to a single user, even th guy doing most of the coding?
If anything, Gates took a lot of crap from IBM before finally accepting they were never going to get it and the new young companies had to forge their destiny without the support or approval of the big iron makers. For several years, the amount of work put into OS/2 and Windows was very one-sided. OS/2 was the future while Windows was just a short term thing to let existing systems be useful as smart terminals to bigger systems. Eventually there would be desktops that were strong enough to fulfill all of the GUI dreams under OS/2.
But IBM didn't see it that way, outside of a small group within the Entry System division. They saw OS/2 as a way to keep the pesky micros from taking over and instead keeping them bound as extensions of the big iron. Just nicer terminals. The small computer business was caught between two extremes. IBM wanted to have boring terminals everywhere, where Apple wanted highly personal machines that were too pricey to ever reach the broader market and as Steve Jobs was dead set against licensing the platform to create a direct opponent to the PC, there was a gaping hole waiting to be filled. Microsoft resisted that for a long time, as it was hard getting the best devs interested in OS work when all of the glamour was regarded as being in applications. But somebody had to do it. Everybody else trying kept stumbling badly and not hitting the target. Companies like Commodore and Atari made stuff that was fun to mess with but couldn't reach enough to make the needed critical mass.
As Woody Allen once said, 90% of success is showing up. Any number of companies might have done it but all too often there was a failure to understand it needed doing. So a lot of it happened by default, giving the prize not for excellence so much as getting the least amount of things wrong.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 03:28 AM (IdCqF)
I have a particular point of interest with Xerox around 1984....a woman I knew went to work for them in El Segundo. I'd helped her through her Computer Science degree.
Posted by: cthulhu
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OK. This sounds like a good Moron short story...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:21 AM (m1x3q)
It's complicated -- I helped her with CompSci homework after my ex moved on; her ex slept with my ex; I slept with her; my buddy ended up with her as a gf while she worked at Xerox....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:26 AM (mRvs9)
Heh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:29 AM (zc3Db)
I have 3 tv shows to go by.
Maybe not in the Bonanza days, but surely by the Columbo days, no?
Criminals didn't seem to care on Rockford or Columbo...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:29 AM (m1x3q)
The dorms at the University of Casual Sun-Bathing are interspersed
with groves of eucalyptus trees, which can reflect sound in a variety of
ways. One of the most amazing things I've ever experienced is Dark Side
on 901's into a eucalyptus grove.....the trees throb, then sing.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:18 AM (EzgxV)
You forgot the part about the two hits of window pane.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:24 AM (zc3Db)
That's the weird bit -- totally straight, that's what it sounded like.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:30 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: cm9000 at July 22, 2016 03:30 AM (Y/5qL)
So like picking a wife.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:30 AM (mRvs9)
You forgot the part about the two hits of window pane.
Is this where we get a lesson on glazing?
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:26 AM (mRvs9)
Mayyyyyybeeeeee.....
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:31 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:32 AM (q7T0y)
I don't know the things. I thought the origin story was simple.
Bill Gates said "use my O/S" and IBM said "sure, hardware matters and software doesn't".
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 03:32 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:32 AM (q7T0y)
I have 3 tv shows to go by.
Maybe not in the Bonanza days, but surely by the Columbo days, no?
Criminals didn't seem to care on Rockford or Columbo...
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:29 AM (m1x3q)
According to Wikipedia: "Fingerprint analysis, in use since the early 20th century, has led to many crimes being solved."
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2016 03:34 AM (bMG0w)
Maybe we should try and get it developed... :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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If you could set it in the right time period.
It sounds like Three's Company meets Too Close For Comfort.
I'd probably watch.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:36 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:36 AM (mRvs9)
I know modern-day forensics really have revolutionized police detective work... but it's ridiculous how it's portrayed in TV shows today, where it's treated like it's *magic.*
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:37 AM (q7T0y)
The wife, her IT tech, his student, and what the parrot saw ...
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at July 22, 2016 03:37 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:37 AM (q7T0y)
Don't forget the pesky landlord who's always butting in, and the brusque-but-oh-so-loveable boss.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:38 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:36 AM (mRvs9)
https://youtu.be/y_Ey3AucXFc
Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2016 03:39 AM (bMG0w)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:39 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:41 AM (mRvs9)
According to Wikipedia: "Fingerprint analysis, in use since the early 20th century, has led to many crimes being solved."
Posted by: buzzion
----------------------
Really... Really?
Go know. I'm afraid to throw a water balloon full of roundup across the street because of DNA evidence, but 30 years ago they were shooting guys in the back and dropping the gun .
Life ain't fair.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:42 AM (m1x3q)
It would be best if you know the person and the person knows acid. Otherwise, I think it's healthy to be very wary. Acid is serious stuff.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 03:44 AM (zc3Db)
cthulhu, sounds like a great TV series!!
Maybe we should try and get it developed... :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:32 AM (q7T0y)
It reminds me of that brief window when I was young and stupid and went "all-in" on sexual relationships. It is true that I haven't been as giddily ecstatic since, but I also have not been as reckless.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:45 AM (EzgxV)
Go know. I'm afraid to throw a water balloon full of roundup across
the street because of DNA evidence, but 30 years ago they were shooting
guys in the back and dropping the gun .
Life ain't fair.///
Disposable Nitrile gloves are cheap.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:46 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:46 AM (q7T0y)
Posted by: Willy J.
----------------
You never missed much, believe me. It's straight up poison.
You should've had the placard on your dash - "gas, grass or ass - nobody rides for free"
Did you drive a van?
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:48 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:48 AM (q7T0y)
As long as they took the cannoli, it's all good.
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at July 22, 2016 03:50 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at July 22, 2016 03:50 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at July 22, 2016 03:50 AM (AoK0a)
Otherwise, I think it's healthy to be very wary. Acid is serious stuff.///
I knew who was making it for her to sell. Didn't trust him and after that didn't trust anybody. I wasn't against the high just wanted to survive it.
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:50 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:52 AM (mRvs9)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 03:55 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:57 AM (mRvs9)
cthulhu, so it's official. We'll get Charlie Sheen to play you... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 22, 2016 03:46 AM (q7T0y)
More like Michael Douglas -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
Posted by: cthulhu at July 22, 2016 03:57 AM (EzgxV)
If you had that windowpane, you'd be up 'til Sunday afternoon.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:02 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 03:50 AM (mRvs9)
I've had bad trips. You get through them. They're no fun (until you look back on them) and they just seem to go on forever ... but you get through them.
Frankly, the most intense trip I ever had was on shrooms. A friend brought a couple of bags of dried shrooms to us in New York. I asked her how many we should eat and she just shrugged, "I don't know, eat them." and I just ate handfuls and handfuls .... That was some night. The visuals were just out of this world. Literally.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 04:02 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Willy J. at July 22, 2016 04:03 AM (mRvs9)
I did acid a small handful of times. It's different from other drugs where you can pass out or just talk too much.
It's a train and when you're on it it keeps going until it decides to stop.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 04:05 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 22, 2016 04:05 AM (1xUj/)
Yep. And it goes a long time. It's a real commitment, to paraphrase what the surfer dude said in "Point Break".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 22, 2016 04:10 AM (zc3Db)
So Democracy is a bad acid trip, ya?
Posted by: Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... at July 22, 2016 04:10 AM (AoK0a)
Rest well, and dream of large women.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:12 AM (m1x3q)
Naw, it was almost entirely IBM's spec on OS/2. Some of the people involved have written books about their time in the trenches. One area that involved some major battle was trying to get IBM to make OS/2 more appealing to consumers. All IBM really cared about was having something they could easily use as a target to port stuff from the minis and mainframes in order to sell to the existing customers rather than the far greater market that was still largely untapped then. They tried to turn things around with OS/2 3 Warp but by then the other division had taken notice and were actively seeking to undermine the Entry System people at any opportunity, putting the future of their division ahead of the fortunes of the entire company.
The smart thing to do would have been to shift some types of development to the smaller systems while seeking new roles for the higher end machines. But that just wasn't the way they thought and the people whose job it was to defuse this kind of situation were alternately clueless or even encouraged the behavior in the belief that this infighting was somehow good for the company in the long term.
Posted by: Epobirs at July 22, 2016 04:15 AM (IdCqF)
Good morning, Skip.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:21 AM (m1x3q)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2016 04:24 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 04:26 AM (pFp74)
{note to self} Buy mouse with faster scroll button.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 04:28 AM (pFp74)
maybe the hamsters are allergic to Yoko?
lord knows any other sane creature is.
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 22, 2016 04:40 AM (wIatL)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:40 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 04:42 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:43 AM (m1x3q)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 04:44 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Adriane the Ornithology Critic ... at July 22, 2016 04:44 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 04:46 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Adriane the Good Day Critic ... at July 22, 2016 04:47 AM (AoK0a)
Of couse, on the right coast we only get the ruby throated hummer. Any other is a rare visitor.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 04:48 AM (m1x3q)
Just looking in from the wilds of my week at Scout camp, which has another day to run.
I'll stick with the homesick eleven-year-olds and daily reports of a bear sighted in camp reports, thank you.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2016 04:49 AM (m74A9)
Posted by: JROD #NeverTrump/GOPe at July 22, 2016 04:51 AM (wnwJC)
1 cup of cheerios
1 cup of 5 min oatmeal in milk with raisins and cinnamon
2 cups coffee
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2016 04:54 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 22, 2016 04:58 AM (gyKtp)
they also harvest spider webs to build nests with, along with other material.
(we have hundreds of them in our yard year round, as we have numeri feeders, as well as other attractants)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 22, 2016 05:00 AM (wIatL)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters at July 22, 2016 05:22 AM (2yngH)
BS!! You had to take a massive Hillary and hit the hold button until it was over.
Posted by: Bruce at July 22, 2016 05:26 AM (8ikIW)
Thank you for this.
I have a bumper crop of spiders this year and no flowers that hummers would be interested in, yet I have a steady parade of birds past the evergreens where the spider webs are. Now I know why.
If you're lucky, you learn something new every day.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 05:28 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Pixy and the Hamsters
---------------------
I thought it was just on my end.
Hey - I don't say it enough-
Thank You, Pixy. You rock. Throw another hamster on the barbie - this one's on me.
Posted by: Chi at July 22, 2016 05:29 AM (tzSAX)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 05:29 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Adriane the Good Day Critic ... at July 22, 2016 05:34 AM (AoK0a)
I didn't know that, either ...
Had some come by in spring for the penstemon flowers, but the flowers have gone to seed & stems are starting to scorch.
Posted by: Adriane the Good Day Critic ... at July 22, 2016 05:36 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2016 05:37 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 22, 2016 05:38 AM (XNdCd)
Rosebuds are red,
And I gathered them while I may'd,
But they made me put them back,
& promise to stay away ...
Good Night / Morning, all
Posted by: Adriane the Good Day Critic ... at July 22, 2016 05:38 AM (AoK0a)
Stay safe horde
Posted by: Skip at July 22, 2016 05:39 AM (bksJQ)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at July 22, 2016 05:40 AM (XNdCd)
Posted by: fluffy at July 22, 2016 05:41 AM (eiFlk)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 05:41 AM (0MKRD)
Right now, of course, we have plenty flowers with nectar that they like.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 05:44 AM (0MKRD)
To Grandmother's house we go. . .
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 05:45 AM (0MKRD)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 05:45 AM (0MKRD)
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Lady Ivanka or Princess Chelsea in your dreams? You only get one.
Posted by: Hank at July 22, 2016 05:46 AM (wv7Zv)
Gathering daisies is politically incorrect now. Daisies have feelings too, you know.
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Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:08 AM (pFp74)
So, I've been away for a while, but judging from your nic you are left uneasy buy our binary choices as I am, I gather, Vic.
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Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at July 22, 2016 06:08 AM (E8UjU)
Toy truck = gun? That's going to be a hard sell.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:10 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:10 AM (0MKRD)
Vic, I've shut out the NBA anyway. At least until the Lakers are good again.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:04 AM (0MKRD)
I gave up on the NBA before I graduated from HS long ago. I gave up on college BB soon after that too.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:13 AM (0MKRD)
A friend took a six-month-old lab puppy in last week to have her spayed. The puppy' heart stopped after anesthesia was administered. They got it going again but she never came back out of it. She was euthanized day before yesterday.
RIP, Adam. Clearly, you were loved.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:14 AM (pFp74)
Re: the North Miami cop shooting the guy with hands up...I don't think
this one is going to turn out well unless there's a heluva lot more to
this story than we're seeing now.
Toy truck = gun? That's going to be a hard sell.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:10 AM (pFp74)
From the article the escapee guy was playing with the truck. The guy who was trying to catch him to return him to the "hospital" was the one shot.
And like the previous shootings you have to be wary of the initial press reports. They are often inaccurate, if not outright lies. he LA shooting is a prime example. They are still not reporting that one accurately.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 06:15 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Drider at July 22, 2016 06:18 AM (6Xbsz)
Trying to reserve judgment but at this point there doesn't seem to be much working in the cop's favor.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:20 AM (pFp74)
But there is someone who always has a harder burden to bear. As bereaved as I still am, I cannot imagine the horror of losing a six-month-old puppy to anaesthesia---especially because we have three former puppies too. All my empathy and sympathy to your friend's loss.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:22 AM (0MKRD)
I ask little of God.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:27 AM (0MKRD)
As it turned out, the vet couldn't bring himself to do it. He gave her a whopping steroid shot that has bought her three good weeks so far.
I wish they could have done the same for Adam. Sorry you had to go through that but I know the love was worth it.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:28 AM (pFp74)
Q: What do [certain starving third world types] and Yoko Ono have in common?
A: They both live off dead beatles.
Posted by: Shecky at July 22, 2016 06:31 AM (PIDPV)
We had no choice. Adam passed away at home, with us, unaided, brave to the very end. If he had not been so very brave, perhaps we could have done something for him.
I love poodles. We had small standard poodles (knishes) growing up. I cannot convince my wife that poodles are actual dogs, but with two Malamutes and a Coonhound, I have little reason to whine.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:34 AM (0MKRD)
But then, our Travis wouldn't be common anywhere.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:36 AM (0MKRD)
Posted by: Madxmom at July 22, 2016 06:39 AM (Ii5dF)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:41 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:43 AM (pFp74)
Speaking of pets, I have Jay Cost locked in a trunk over here. We call him the gimp and only bring him out on special occasions.
Posted by: Drider at July 22, 2016 06:44 AM (6Xbsz)
Posted by: Kafiroon at July 22, 2016 06:44 AM (XC73B)
When my faith is questioned, I think of Rainbow Bridge and I think to myself, that makes sense. God is good that way.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:45 AM (0MKRD)
Creeper, that's PRECISELY it. If I were ruled by pain, I would never ever again get another pet. But all I want to do now is get another Maine coon kitten in honor of Adam's memory. God gave us dominion over the animals so that we might understand a little of his perspective. . .
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:51 AM (0MKRD)
Awesome - they did an excellent job. Thought for sure it was going to be a sh#tshow.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 06:51 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:52 AM (0MKRD)
Unenforced irony should burn.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 22, 2016 06:53 AM (iONHu)
I suspect you mean unforced irony, but yes. Exactly. And let it burn!
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at July 22, 2016 06:55 AM (0MKRD)
So, next segment they go back to the comfort of bashing Ted Cruz.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 06:56 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 06:57 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:00 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:00 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:02 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:03 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:03 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:00 AM (pFp74)
Todat is the one day hwew rain was not forcast. So give it a few minutes.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:03 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: sven10077 at July 22, 2016 07:04 AM (SzZnW)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:05 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:06 AM (pFp74)
Don't worry. Vic had lots...all of it bad.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:03 AM (pFp74)
Lots of what?
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:06 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:07 AM (WVsWD)
MSNBC, CNN, Dems
Dark, bleak, fearing, speech.
MSNBC: "It's not a speech for us. It's a speech for those that are hurting." No shit.
They keep showing their elite lines. They don't feel it. They don't see it.
No shit.
Bubble.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:07 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:08 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:09 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:09 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2016 07:09 AM (HQP2c)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:09 AM (pFp74)
The MSM can't allow anything to break the LIV's happy bubble.
Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2016 07:10 AM (1BQGO)
Love that the same people who have been hyping the OMG GUN VIOLENCE!!! story to push for gun control are suddenly lecturing us that Trump is wrong, crime is down. Funny how that works.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:10 AM (NOIQH)
No shit.
Bubble.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:07 AM (qCMvj)
Good. May they be blindsided in November.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:11 AM (pFp74)
OMG GUN VIOLENCE!!! story to push for gun control are suddenly lecturing
us that Trump is wrong, crime is down. Funny how that works.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:10 AM (NOIQH)
Logic has never been a strong point for liberals.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:12 AM (mpXpK)
I even like how the MSM media is phrasing the tone..
Angry Savior.
People should be angry after 8 years of this crap.
As the saying goes, If you ain't angry, you haven't been paying attention.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 22, 2016 07:13 AM (1J8Kd)
Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2016 07:13 AM (HQP2c)
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.Vic you don't spring that kind of news on people without some sort of buildup.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 22, 2016 07:14 AM (iONHu)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:12 AM (mpXpK)
Lib sis informed me the other day that the Koran does not order Muslims to "kill the infidel".
I have every confidence that if I'd quoted her chapter and verse where it says that her response would have been, "But that's not what it means!"You can't get through that shell of ignorance and denial.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:14 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:16 AM (NOIQH)
WSJ, Peggy Noonan
Trump and the Unknowable Moment
His speech was neither eloquent nor lofty, but it was powerful.
She covers the highs and lows and ends with:
...It was not an eloquent speech, not lofty, very plain and blunt. It covered a lot of territory and went too long. It had no leavening humor. It is strange to see a New Yorker so uninterested in wit. It was at points too hyped and declarative, and it was sometimes grandiose.
But it was powerful. After reading a copy of the speech leaked in advance by a mischief maker, an anti-Trump conservative intellectual emailed me. "He's going to win," he said. The moment at least was not unknowable to him.
I got the sense he would win too, but that might be the convention "high." Anything can happen from now until election day, and the debates might be tough for him. We'll see. He'll have to be fast on his feet with Clinton. She will lie with ease, and he needs to know she's lying, with facts, to fight back.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:16 AM (qCMvj)
That was an excellent speech last night and it was delivered with some real passion. Plus not one damn word about you know who.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:16 AM (WVsWD)
The MSM can't allow anything to break the LIV's happy bubble.
Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2016 07:10 AM (1BQGO)
Morning Joe Joe was blaming social media for the fear and dark events. "They've always been there, but now there is social media."
BS, yes there has always been bad events, but not like this.
They did, to their credit, admit they are the ones that feed the fear on the news 24/7. That was a shocker.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:18 AM (qCMvj)
I suspect you mean unforced irony, but yes. Exactly. And let it burn!
,.
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.Yes that's what I meant. Not sure I can blame that one on auto correct, but it is worth a try.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 22, 2016 07:18 AM (iONHu)
orange-hued heathen who, after months of battering conservatives with
divisive, xenophobic and often nonsensical rhetoric, dropped the
once-proud party of Lincoln to its knees by accepting its nomination for
president
Ahhh, the poetry of the CT....
Chicago Tribune
Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2016 07:18 AM (HQP2c)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:10 AM (NOIQH)
You nailed it. And they admitted it in general.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:20 AM (qCMvj)
CNN had some idiot on earlier denying all of the stats Trump was stating last night.
But he was right. She was tooling around with the years and time frames to fit her agenda.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: CrothetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (DIhU5)
A once proud newspaper that any self respecting filthy hobo would not use as a blanket.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (WVsWD)
I think it is obvious. At least as a Trump supporter, that nobody is going to get everything that they want. Hell, we may not get half of what we want with Trump but what is clear to me is that the man will give his all to give me that 1/4 or 1//2 of what I want and that is a solid 1/4 and 1/2 of what we are getting now.
Trump 2016
There is no substitute.
Posted by: Drider at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (6Xbsz)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (mpXpK)
As the saying goes, If you ain't angry, you haven't been paying attention.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 22, 2016 07:13 AM (1J8Kd)
just look at the polling for where the country is going, the congress, etc
all time lows across the nation
those in the bubble don't feel it, they eat off of the rest of us
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:22 AM (qCMvj)
"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But
fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline. When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet
Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who
gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real
problems. Who cares?"
Amen!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:22 AM (NOIQH)
"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But
fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline. When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet
Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who
gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real
problems. Who cares?"
Amen!!!
Right on. That guy rocks.
Posted by: Drider at July 22, 2016 07:23 AM (6Xbsz)
What hasn't changed is the MSM sensationalizing crime for their profit and purposes.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 22, 2016 07:25 AM (1J8Kd)
Posted by: CrothetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (DIhU5)
many do not know that she voted for tfg
my very conservative brother didn't know until I told him
she's still the most read on that oped page in the wsj, don't know why, but it's true - she has millions of followers all over the world
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:25 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 22, 2016 07:25 AM (ZQfW9)
What hasn't changed is the MSM sensationalizing crime for their profit and purposes.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 22, 2016 07:25 AM (1J8Kd)
Trump pointed out the recent uptick.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:26 AM (qCMvj)
That's the word they use to describe anyone/anything that is effective for the other side.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:26 AM (NOIQH)
Union. And we won."
We won the big picture war but the undercover KGB war on our culture took on a life of it's own and it is on the verge of destroying the country.
Posted by: Ripley at July 22, 2016 07:26 AM (1BQGO)
Posted by: CrothetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2016 07:21 AM (DIhU5)
This comment is why we need up-arrows.
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:27 AM (pFp74)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:28 AM (mpXpK)
heh
joe talking about tfg's "moses" statement vs trump wanting to fix infrastructure and how the Dems thought the "oceans receding" crap was so brilliant, and he's showing them bowing down to him
lol
oh yea
so true
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:28 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at July 22, 2016 07:29 AM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2016 07:29 AM (zp+j1)
before I went to bed, I checked the first few minutes of hannity
laura ingraham, rudy, hannity = giddy!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:30 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: creeper at July 22, 2016 07:27 AM (pFp74)
With up arrows, comes great responsibility
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2016 07:30 AM (zp+j1)
I viewed that as them getting ready for a Republican winning the WH instead of Scankles.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party
Battlefield prep.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at July 22, 2016 07:30 AM (OKpu1)
Up too late last night, awake too early this morning. Gonna be a long work day.
We political junkies pay for our addiction.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Some People Call Me Maurice at July 22, 2016 07:30 AM (WlGX+)
You are stealing somebodies line there. Give me a minute and I'll remember who.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 22, 2016 07:30 AM (WVsWD)
of dropping had leveled off and may actually be increasing again now. I
viewed that as them getting ready for a Republican winning the WH
instead of Scankles.
Yep. Or to sell gun control.
Just like Obama whining that 13 year olds can more easily buy a gun than a book as the perfectly formed tear falls down his cheek.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 22, 2016 07:31 AM (NOIQH)
Agreed with Trumps point.
What I'm echoing is others points is the MSM and the Donks seizing on and sensationalizing gun crime in an effort to frighten people into enacting gun control.
I fully expect the MSM and the Donks to similtaneously try to say crime is down and any fear of it is a racist dog whistle and to hype certain crimes to push for more gun control.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 22, 2016 07:33 AM (1J8Kd)
Or in other words-they are parasites. Everybody in the Federal Government should be fired or thrown in jail. That goes for the MFM too.
Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at July 22, 2016 07:33 AM (SXa8W)
Just the (R) after the name, at this point.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Some People Call Me Maurice at July 22, 2016 07:36 AM (WlGX+)
If you can read this --- by Charles Koch
The Closing of the American Mind
There are dangerous signs that the U.S. is turning its back on the principles of a free and open society that fostered the nation's rise.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-closing-of-the-american-mind-1469141624
Despite our enormous potential for further progress, a clear majority of Americans see a darker future. Some 56% believe their children's lives will be worse off than their own, according to a January CNN poll. A Rasmussen poll released the following month found that 46% believe America's best days are behind it. Little more than a third believe better days lie ahead.
I empathize with this fear. The U.S. is already far down the path to becoming a less open and free society, and the current cultural and political atmosphere threatens to make the situation worse: Growing attacks on free speech and free association, hostile rhetoric toward immigrants, fear that global trade impoverishes rather than enriches, demands that innovators in cutting-edge industries first seek government permission.
it goes on and on as to why the future is dark and bleak, and why people are angry.
wow
He never mentions anyone, but this is a Trump stamp.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:36 AM (qCMvj)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 22, 2016 07:37 AM (qCMvj)
Actually, this is how it ends.
Last night the GOP died. At least the GOP I knew.
What we have left is the anti-capitalists academics, and the anti-american minorities who make up the progressive party, and the new democrate party that the GOP has become.
And where have the conservatives gone? Died, apparently. Evangellicals have become just another crony special interest group lobbying the new democrat party (a.k.a. the GOP) for a few special favors. Christians? Driven out, purged, by the howling mad new democrats who have found their place in the new democrat party (a.k.a. the GOP).
Where have the old fashion conservatives gone? Into hiding, apparently. Speak up and the howling mad new democrats will drive you into exile.
Reagan's Americe no longer exists other than the pale imitation new democrat - reagan democrats wing of the new democrat party.
Posted by: James Littletan at July 22, 2016 07:38 AM (gZ6kA)
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Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 22, 2016 07:40 AM (mpXpK)
Last night the GOP died. At least the GOP I knew.
What we have left is the anti-capitalists academics, and the anti-american minorities who make up the progressive party, and the new democrate party that the GOP has become.
And where have the conservatives gone? Died, apparently. Evangellicals have become just another crony special interest group lobbying the new democrat party (a.k.a. the GOP) for a few special favors. Christians? Driven out, purged, by the howling mad new democrats who have found their place in the new democrat party (a.k.a. the GOP).
Where have the old fashion conservatives gone? Into hiding, apparently. Speak up and the howling mad new democrats will drive you into exile.
Reagan's Americe no longer exists other than the pale imitation new democrat - reagan democrats wing of the new democrat party. "
Actually the party is at the point where the Pheonix is now rising from the ashes.
What party are you so enamored with over the last 20 years where when you sent political leaders to go to bat for you, fight for you and govern for you that has you in a place where you can say. I love that, I love that party?
Your thrilled that the party signed into law every item that Obama tossed in front of them, thats the party that you loved?
Truth be told we are now on the upswing. Many have lost sight of what real leaders can bring to the table when they actually do as they say and lead.
If you want the same old garbage that the media is about to unpack on you then I guess you can eat it up and call it a day but please. Don't for one second tell us that "The party is now dead".
The choices in front of you is stark regardless of what some CNN stooge is going to tell you. All you have to do is use common sense and logic and the party will steadily get back to more of what you really wanted from it compared to what you have now.
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One of the best ONTs. Evah!
We await the Lena and Trigglypuff versions with baited* breaths.
* not a typo
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2016 03:50 PM (U/b2O)
Imagine there's no Yoko
It isn't hard to do
The Beatles still together
And still sounding like poo......
Posted by: Badd mamma jamma at July 22, 2016 07:26 PM (0cUlH)
Crime is down but not by anything like what the numbers claim. Police departments have learned how to pencil-whip their stats.
It started in big metros like LAPD and NYPD. Now it's down to the level where little nowhere burgs are playing statistical and classification games with offense categories. Or just quietly omitting to take reports and write stuff up.
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