Support




Contact
Ace:
aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
CBD:
cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
Powered by
Movable Type





Mid-Morning Open Thread [CBD]


Melting clocks.jpg

Melting Clocks
Salvador Dali

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:45 AM




Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 About time!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at the vet. at August 25, 2016 09:44 AM (wPiJc)

2 Good morning.

Posted by: HH at August 25, 2016 09:45 AM (DrCtv)

3

So if Chelsea Clinton had a fake email name/pseudonym of Diane Reynolds what was Bill's?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:45 AM (qCMvj)

4 Well hello, Dali!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at the vet. at August 25, 2016 09:46 AM (wPiJc)

5 Man, and I thought it was a hot day here in VA.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 25, 2016 09:46 AM (PFy0L)

6 Well,it has been a hot summer.No doubt they will claim it was the hottest ever and caused by you know what...

Posted by: steevy at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (fA75F)

7 Son, you left your homework assignment in the car!

Posted by: Clockmed's mother at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (wPiJc)

8 Well Hello, Dali...

Posted by: V the K at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (O7MnT)

9 Welcome to Texas in August!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (19RKp)

10 That reminds me. I'm supposed to call my mom.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (dFi94)

11 Dali could realistically depict unreal things. I would have loved to have seen him do an illustrated Lovecraft.

Posted by: josephistan at August 25, 2016 09:48 AM (7HtZB)

12 I'll bet Dali had some interesting dreams.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 25, 2016 09:48 AM (+wjl1)

13 Just caught up by reading the anxiety/dream thread and boom... Dali. Are we all going mad?

Posted by: gapoz at August 25, 2016 09:48 AM (thyJJ)

14



Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.


~ Shakespeare

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:48 AM (qCMvj)

15 Not on my watch!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (+wjl1)

16 Dali could realistically depict unreal things. I would have loved to have seen him do an illustrated Lovecraft.

Or Hillary Clinton successfully navigating a flight of stairs by herself.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (PFy0L)

17

That reminds me. I'm supposed to call my mom.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 09:47 AM (dFi94)


ditto

and it reminded me to change a battery in one of my clocks

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (qCMvj)

18 I'll bet Dali had some interesting dreams.




I'll bet he had some wild trips!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (19RKp)

19 Dali clearly foresaw global warming....

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (u0lmX)

20 Well hello Dali!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (+wjl1)

21
Melting Clocks by Salvador Dali



It's "The Persistence of Memory".

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (kdS6q)

22

Lost time is never found again.


~ Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:50 AM (qCMvj)

23 Looks like it's half past a federal indictment for Hillary and her coven.

Posted by: Fritz at August 25, 2016 09:51 AM (2Mnv1)

24 Hey! I see the water. Where is my ship?

Posted by: JTB at August 25, 2016 09:51 AM (V+03K)

25
Isnt there a piece of "art" thats a paintng of fruit in a bowl?

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:51 AM (0IkTk)

26

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.


~ William Gibson

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:52 AM (qCMvj)

27 At least there's yellow.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 25, 2016 09:52 AM (+wjl1)

28 So Ace's time machine he totally doesn't have is in the shop again?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 09:52 AM (9krrF)

29 It's "The Persistence of Memory".
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (kdS6q)

Actually, that's a different Dali melting watch painting.
http://tinyurl.com/z6v5u7s

Posted by: josephistan at August 25, 2016 09:52 AM (7HtZB)

30

Drives me nuts when someone is late. Or if I have to be somewhere and the person I'm going with doesn't get ready on time. Makes me nuts. I always try to arrive ten minutes early to any appointment or event. If I have to wait forever on someone, I generally want to strangle them. If someone doesn't show up when they say they'll be there, I tend to want to set them on fire.



Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 09:53 AM (dFi94)

31

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield


yeah, I gotta get going. Gotta call my parents.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:53 AM (qCMvj)

32 Alternate title: "Michelle's Mirror"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 25, 2016 09:53 AM (1ZOkK)

33 Bob Dole has a treatment for that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at August 25, 2016 09:54 AM (4HySM)

34 I like the little Pac Man in the center of the watch face

Posted by: josephistan at August 25, 2016 09:54 AM (7HtZB)

35
Quick, name all the songs about "time."

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:55 AM (0IkTk)

36
Time's On My Side by I forget who.

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:55 AM (0IkTk)

37 Alternate Title: Tempus Flopit

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 25, 2016 09:55 AM (4HySM)

38
That Chicago song, 25 or six to Four.

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:56 AM (0IkTk)

39 Hold my beer and watch!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 09:56 AM (wPiJc)

40 Not a Dali fan.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2016 09:56 AM (0tfLf)

41 Does anybody really know what time it is?

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at August 25, 2016 09:57 AM (QM5S2)

42 "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Time"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 09:57 AM (wPiJc)

43


How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

~ Dr. Seuss

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:57 AM (qCMvj)

44
You know what's weird, tho? That broken clock is still right twice a day, which is more than Joe Biden.

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:57 AM (0IkTk)

45 I only see one clock(s).

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 09:58 AM (IqV8l)

46
Isnt it 'thyme?'

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:58 AM (0IkTk)

47 I always get Dali, Joyce (Bloomsday) and Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) confused, confuzzled and conflated. I enjoy Dali's Heironymous Bosch takes.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 09:58 AM (MIKMs)

48 Well, hello, Dali!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 09:58 AM (NOIQH)

49 That bee wants to kick some ass on the moth, but the clock won't let him.

Posted by: Fritz at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (2Mnv1)

50 It would be fascinating to get a glimpse inside his mind. Maybe scary, as well. Many people know of Dali's weirdscapes. (Maybe I should patent the term.) But then he goes and does something like his "Last Supper" which approaches a painterly realism. I saw it at the National Gallery. It is breathtakingly beautiful and evocative.

The contrasts in the man's vision is both interesting and disturbing.

Posted by: JTB at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (V+03K)

51
Edit:

"Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosions"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (kdS6q)

52 Time has come today.

Posted by: The Chambers Bros. at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (4HySM)

53 Damn Lizzy. I'd just thought of that.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (0tfLf)

54 Not a Dali fan.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2016 09:56 AM (0tfLf)

i thought he was pretty good in

Animal Crackers
&
A Night at The Opera

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (zp+j1)

55
Haulin' oats.

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (0IkTk)

56 52 Time has come today.

Posted by: The Chambers Bros. at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (4HySM)

Great song.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (u0lmX)

57 ♫♪♫


"It's about time, it's about space.
About two men in the strangest place."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (wPiJc)

58 Good times, bad times, you know I've had my share

Posted by: Robert Plant at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (4HySM)

59 The Manchin story is disappointing because it shows how much we've lost control of the discussion.

We, the talking right, adopt liberal (non-)values - arguing that medical stuff should be less profitable than the market will bear and that guilt by association is a thing - to call out hypocrisy.

Frankly I'd respect it more if the right raised the issue by defending the guy by saying 1) private companies can price things however they want, 2) excessive government involvement is what skews medical pricing, and 3) Manchin is not his daughter and is in no way culpable for her acts or omissions.

But no, we've let the left drive us to essentially imply that healthcare should be free and people making it less so are bad.

Stupid.

Posted by: 0302 at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (wx6iv)

60 Avida Dollars

Posted by: Mr Anagram at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (m/Gc2)

61 Or maybe it's a timefly?

Posted by: Fritz at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (2Mnv1)

62
The Zombies -- Time of the Season

?? I dunno

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (0IkTk)

63 I've been crushed by tumbling tide
and my soul has been psychedelicized.

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (QM5S2)

64 Hey, kids, what time is it?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (u0lmX)

65 Not a Dali fan.
Posted by: Diogenes

*****


Perhaps you could forgive him just this once.







You know, a Dali pardon...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (wPiJc)

66 Whatt's weird for me is that growing up, our minister had a yuuge Dali reprint hanging behind his office desk - this one:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2553/4126943655_95730a394d_b.jpg

Never knew it was Dali, because: not a cracked-out dreamscape.
Well, it is sort of cracked out, but it was the 70's, so this fit in the era's aesthetic...

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (NOIQH)

67 Time in a Bottle....Jim Croce

Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (Enq6K)

68 Better never than late.

Oscar Wilde

Posted by: Patrick Henry at August 25, 2016 10:01 AM (lszt0)

69 "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. I like the song but can't play it if son is around. He says it makes him want to stab himself in the eye.


Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (dFi94)

70 Time waits for no one, no favors has he...

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (u0lmX)

71 When it's time to change, then it's time to change.

Posted by: The Brady Bunch at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (X6fMO)

72 "It's about time, it's about space.

About two men in the strangest place."

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (wPiJc)
=====
That one goes with the Hawaiian Punch childhood memory. It's about time, it's about space, it's about time to punch your face.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (MIKMs)

73 Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (wPiJc)

74 He says it makes him want to stab himself in the eye.




Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (dFi94)

I agree with your son.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (u0lmX)

75 "Time waits for no man."

--Reginald Perrin

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (cEPdm)

76 That reminds me, I have a 'Two Minutes of Hate' speech to give today. I have to paint a dark foreboding picture of a sinister conspiracy against me, while mocking those who question my mental and physical health.

Good thing the MSM has my back, jack.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 10:02 AM (ZFUt7)

77 Time has come today.

Posted by: The Chambers Bros. at August 25, 2016 09:59 AM (4HySM)

Great song.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:00 AM (u0lmX)

Yup, but I think our age is showing

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (zp+j1)

78 grammie beat me by =><= that much

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (wPiJc)

79
Time in a Bottle -- Jim Croce

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (0IkTk)

80 16 Dali could realistically depict unreal things. I would have loved to have seen him do an illustrated Lovecraft.

Or Hillary Clinton successfully navigating a flight of stairs by herself.
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (PFy0L)

Or go for the real horror and depict a nude Hillary attempting to navigate a flight of stairs.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at August 25, 2016 10:04 AM (RD7QR)

81 "It's Five O'clock Somewhere"

(Because one should be drunk when viewing Dali - might even appreciate it while inebriated)

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:04 AM (NOIQH)

82
grammie beat me by =><= that much

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (wPiJc)
================================================
Beating people is one of my favorite hobbies.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:04 AM (dFi94)

83 Well, we're nothing if not original!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:04 AM (wPiJc)

84
Yup, but I think our age is showing
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM


It cannot be hidden.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (IqV8l)

85 Oddly enough, last night was just reading about Rick Wakeman booting Salvador Dali off the stage...

Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (o+SC1)

86 "Time waits for no man."

--Reginald Perrin




"Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (19RKp)

87
[Time For A] Cool Change
Little River Band....and Jim Croce

Posted by: M Magoo's at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (0IkTk)

88
Time keeps on slipping
Into the future
Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping
Into the future

Posted by: Steve Miller at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (9mTYi)

89 @65
You know, a Dali pardon...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
- - - -

Well played sir!

But it is interesting that this piece of art will accurately provide the time twice each day.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (r65B3)

90 Half past a dog's ass,
and quarter-to his balls,
lift up his hind leg,
and see Niagara Falls.

Posted by: Farmer Joey's Nursery Rhymes at August 25, 2016 10:05 AM (DHDiP)

91 South Carolinas Democratic Party will no longer use the name of two former presidents who were slave owners in its name for an annual fundraiser.

The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept. 30, will be renamed after this years event, according to a spokesman for the SCDP. It was named after former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

Weasel Zippers

The Left: Rewriting American History one word at a time.

Stalin would be proud

ALT-LEFT!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (zp+j1)

92 The Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time

/Mickey Gilley

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (wPiJc)

93 >>> Avida Dollars

Posted by: Mr Anagram


Preferable to being a crap artist that needs an NEA grant. Those who do stuff like use their own urine, etc. are just as much panderers as the commercially successful artists. They just pander to a different crowd.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (+wjl1)

94 The Canada Department of Employment believed a boat owner wasn't paying proper wages to his help. An agent was sent to the fishing village of Burin to investigate the boat owner.

GOVT AGENT: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them".

Boat Owner: "Well, there's Clarence, my hired hand. He's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board.

Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, and pays his own room and board. I buy him a bottle of Lamb's rum and a dozen Labatt Lite every Saturday night so he can cope with life. Also, he gets to sleep with my wife occasionally".

GOVT AGENT: "That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one".

Boat Owner: "That'll be me. What'd you want to know?"

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (cEPdm)

95 Tiiiiiiime
Flowin' like a riverrrrrrrr
Tiiiiiime
For more coffeeeeeeee

Posted by: Alan Parsons Project (paraphrased) at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (RD7QR)

96 Time, time, time

See what's become of me

While I looked around

For my possibilities

I was so hard to pleaseLook around

Leaves are brown

And the sky

Is a Hazy Shade of Winter

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (NOIQH)

97
Of Time and the River

Posted by: Thomas Wolfe at August 25, 2016 10:07 AM (9mTYi)

98 And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at August 25, 2016 10:07 AM (QM5S2)

99 Time flies like an arrow.





Fruit flies like a banana.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:07 AM (wPiJc)

100 Rosemary said, "Hello, there Basil, cumin and pay me a visit. It's been quite some thyme since I've seen you."

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (u0lmX)

101 Time FLIES like a banana split.............Sunny Sundae afternoon.

Posted by: saf at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (+zN6H)

102 >>But no, we've let the left drive us to essentially
>> imply that healthcare should be free and people
>> making it less so are bad.

No, not at all.

The issue is regulatory capture.

The Epipen is an ancient design. It's long off patent - or should be.

The problem is that its would-be clones and competitors have been constrained by the FDA and HHS in a manner that creates a de-facto monopoly.

Either you have a monopoly and you regulate it as such, or you establish and encourage a level playing field.

Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (o+SC1)

103 Time for me to fly.

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (X6fMO)

104 Shouldn't there be a picture of Hillary wearing a quilted parka in that painting?

Posted by: major major major major at August 25, 2016 10:09 AM (mICVL)

105 grammie beat me by =><= that much
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (wPiJc)
================================================
Beating people is one of my favorite hobbies.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:04 AM (dFi94)


We could tell you stories.

Posted by: grammie winger's kids and other people's kids in her neighborhood at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (cEPdm)

106 Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (zp+j1)

The Dems sure are ashamed of the founder of the Democrat Party, aren't they?

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (u0lmX)

107 I have my lost weekends in the middle of the week! Healthy, ready & steady! That's me! hic

Posted by: Hillary 2016! at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (gwG9s)

108 My vertigo is back. It's a metaphor for something or other.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (RD7QR)

109 WASTF:

An email in WikiLeaks' Hillary Clinton archive shows Huma
Abedin served as the Director of Nap Time while working at the State
Department.

Abedin sent the email in question to Clinton on January 11, 2013, ahead of a meeting with the French Foreign Minister. The email did not contain a message in the body, yet the subject line reads "Reminder fabius at 3:30. Take a nap [sic]."


She wants to be the leader of the free word, command the best military ever assembled, but can't manage her own nap time.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (NOIQH)

110 The Epipen is an ancient design. It's long off patent - or should be.


they keep "tweeking" the design to keep in on patent.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:10 AM (zp+j1)

111 Time has come today

Posted by: Chambers Brothers at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (9mTYi)

112 Time's fun when you're having flies.

Posted by: The Frog at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (QM5S2)

113 The Epipen is an ancient design. It's long off patent - or should be.

The problem is that its would-be clones and competitors have been constrained by the FDA and HHS in a manner that creates a de-facto monopoly.

Either you have a monopoly and you regulate it as such, or you establish and encourage a level playing field.

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

So instead of insisting that a company should sell something cheaper because we don't think they should be "gouging" people, maybe we should demand less regulation by the government.

Posted by: SH at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (FJDuC)

114 Rosemary said, "Hello, there Basil, cumin and pay me a visit. It's been quite some thyme since I've seen you."




Sounds like old Basil was trying to curry some favor.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (19RKp)

115 Posted by: Alan Parsons Project (paraphrased) at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (RD7QR)
===============================================


I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Discovering that made me feel dumb.


Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (dFi94)

116
The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept. 30, will be renamed after this years event, according to a spokesman for the SCDP. It was named after former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

So what will be the menu at next year's dinner, the Obama-Clinton Dinner.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (IqV8l)

117 EpiPen effectively has no competitors. It has an 85% market share and its main alternative had to be recalled last year and hasn't recovered.

If it wasn't so dominant (a position achieved by shameless rent-seeking) it wouldn't be able to be marked up like that...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (9krrF)

118 Rosemary said, "Hello, there Basil, cumin and pay me a visit. It's been quite some thyme since I've seen you."




Sounds like old Basil was trying to curry some favor.

Posted by: rickb223


*****


Well, that's only parsley true.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (wPiJc)

119 78
grammie beat me by =><= that much

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:03 AM (wPiJc)

Ok, now I'm positive my posts are only appearing to me.....


Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (Enq6K)

120 Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle

Posted by: Fritz at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (2Mnv1)

121 >> So instead of insisting that a company should sell
>> something cheaper because we don't think they
>> should be "gouging" people, maybe we should
>> demand less regulation by the government.

Or at least an even level of regulation not subject to the whims of lobbyists employed by companies that can afford to pay their politically-connected CEOs $18M a year.

Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (o+SC1)

122 Time Stand Still

Posted by: Rush at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (rgKyI)

123 The Epipen is an ancient design. It's long off patent - or should be.


they keep "tweeking" the design to keep in on patent.



What's to tweak?
It's a spring loaded auto-injector syringe preloaded with a med.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (19RKp)

124 My vertigo is back. It's a metaphor for something or other.
Posted by: joncelli,
-------

Heh. You too, eh?

My current bout seems to be passing. Started a week or ten days ago.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (9mTYi)

125 When Dali collaborated with Disney, it was beautiful:

http://tinyurl.com/of8legq

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (oQQwD)

126 If it wasn't so dominant (a position achieved by shameless rent-seeking) it wouldn't be able to be marked up like that...

-----------

I guess who do we blame? The company for rent-seeking or a government that fosters the rent-seeking?

Posted by: SH at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (FJDuC)

127 Jesu, listening to Kaplan of the the Dallas Fed spin with Fedspeak will not only melt your clock, it will melt your face.

Posted by: Crossfit Addict at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (GPKDB)

128 I read somewhere that you can buy the epi-pen in Europe for 20 or 30 bucks. But, due to US laws, you cannot go there and buy them to bring back into the country.

Posted by: Bruce at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (8ikIW)

129 I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?

I knew he produced Dark Side, did not know about Abbey Road

Discovering that made me feel dumb.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (dFi94)


Welcome to old age.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (cEPdm)

130 The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept. 30, will be renamed after this years event, according to a spokesman for the SCDP. It was named after former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.

So what will be the menu at next year's dinner, the Obama-Clinton Dinner.



Dog & cigars.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:14 AM (19RKp)

131 Speaking of time, in 1835 the NYC paper New York Sun utterly fabricated and attributed to a scientist the claim that there was a Lunarian civilisation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:14 AM (NKXpn)

132 Or at least an even level of regulation not subject to the whims of lobbyists employed by companies that can afford to pay their politically-connected CEOs $18M a year.

-----------

I'd argue that more regulation is not the best way to combat the evils of excessive regulation.

Posted by: SH at August 25, 2016 10:14 AM (FJDuC)

133 Welcome to old age.


Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (cEPdm)
==============================================

Yay us.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:14 AM (dFi94)

134 No time Toulouse.

Posted by: eleven at August 25, 2016 10:15 AM (qUNWi)

135 I learned something about Alan Parsons recently.

Not to mention that kick-ass laser he built for Dr. Evil.

Be careful, grammie. Learned some really eye-opening shit last nite on the dreams thread. There's some sketchy folks here. Really twisted in the head.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 25, 2016 10:15 AM (qoKAm)

136 Baby,baby,baby you're out of time.....

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (u0lmX)

137 118,
That's sage advice.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (C9pBZ)

138 Well, that's only parsley true.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:12 AM (wPiJc)


I'll bet you think peppering these threads with your lame puns makes you the salt of the earth, eh?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (cEPdm)

139 Has anybody seen my Rolex?


It cost me a meellion dollars.

Posted by: eleven at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (qUNWi)

140 It was time for Prince. Fentynal is a helluva drug.

Posted by: The Time at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (hUjgJ)

141 Tiiiimmmme is on my side, yes it is...

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (u0lmX)

142 Be careful, grammie. Learned some really
eye-opening shit last nite on the dreams thread. There's some sketchy
folks here. Really twisted in the head.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 25, 2016 10:15 AM (qoKAm)
=============================================

Oh gee - I'm sorry I missed that thread. My head looks like a corkscrew inside. I would have enjoyed the company.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:17 AM (dFi94)

143
25 O'Clock

https://youtu.be/xGF7o_I4mAw

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:17 AM (IqV8l)

144 It takes a licking and then melts. Sounds like Millennials to me.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 25, 2016 10:17 AM (oDCMR)

145 According to Weasel Zippers not only is Dope Frankie a leftist whore, he's a cheap buy. With all the wealth of the Vatican it cost Soros less than a million dollars to get what he wanted.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 25, 2016 10:17 AM (GDulk)

146 I found the sniper. Looks kinds weird....

Posted by: MacGruber at August 25, 2016 10:18 AM (kQBSd)

147 Lovecraft illustrated by Dali.

Wow.

Just wow.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 25, 2016 10:18 AM (Z8DIA)

148 Wake up!! Its time to die!!! - Leon

Posted by: Crossfit Addict at August 25, 2016 10:18 AM (GPKDB)

149 I'll bet you think peppering these threads with your lame puns makes you the salt of the earth, eh?


Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:16 AM (cEPdm)

Take some sage advice and don't mess with Muldoon, because it might cost you a mint.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:19 AM (u0lmX)

150 115 I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Discovering that made me feel dumb.

He was a recording engineer on AR and the chief engineer on DSOTM. Different job, but dude has mad skills.

George Martin produced all the Beatles stuff and Pink Floyd produced their own stuff, meaning that they shared the residual $ associated with that title but Roger Waters and David Gilmore did most of the production work.

Posted by: major major major major at August 25, 2016 10:19 AM (mICVL)

151 128 I read somewhere that you can buy the epi-pen in Europe for 20 or 30 bucks. But, due to US laws, you cannot go there and buy them to bring back into the country.
----------------
How about Mexico and Canada? Mexico has full flush toilets and Freon. They are civilized down there.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 25, 2016 10:19 AM (oDCMR)

152 Mornin' Rons. The clock looks my brain, it's been so hot lately.

Posted by: willy at August 25, 2016 10:19 AM (Ffw22)

153 Speaking of time, in 1835 the NYC paper New York Sun utterly fabricated and attributed to a scientist the claim that there was a Lunarian civilisation.


The 2008 book The Sun and the Moon is a look at that piece of history:

goo.gl/bnAUWm

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 10:20 AM (X6fMO)

154 There is only one Dolly. Like Highlander.

Posted by: Carol Channing at August 25, 2016 10:21 AM (hUjgJ)

155 Welcome to old age.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (cEPdm)
==============================================
Yay us.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:14 AM (dFi94)


Yeah. Isn't it time for a drink?
( *hic* )

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:21 AM (cEPdm)

156 Okay:


Tami beat Grammie
Grammie beat Seamus
Seamus beat MMagoo
MMagoo beat Fritz
Fritz I assume, will beat Amy Schumer



All by =><= this much.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:21 AM (wPiJc)

157 Thanks for the book link MPPPP. I think I would take Lunar man-bats over what is now running around.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:22 AM (NKXpn)

158 >> I'd argue that more regulation is not the best way
>> to combat the evils of excessive regulation.

I didn't say 'more regulation', and if we're gonna have an FDA to deal with drug safety and efficacy at all then you're going to have some regulation, but you've got to have a system that does not defer to the entrenched interests.

Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:22 AM (o+SC1)

159 Tempest Fugit---Yes

Posted by: Semilitterate at August 25, 2016 10:22 AM (cx0HL)

160 Meh. I've not much use for Dali. Or Dolly either.

Posted by: David Paulk at August 25, 2016 10:22 AM (lx0oz)

161 Well I'm not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don't last
Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There's something back here that you left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:23 AM (NOIQH)

162 I didn't say 'more regulation', and if we're gonna have an FDA to deal with drug safety and efficacy at all then you're going to have some regulation, but you've got to have a system that does not defer to the entrenched interests.

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

My preference would be to eliminate the FDA. I posted my thoughts on the FDA on last thread, but I'll post it here.

I'm not sure why the FDA is necessary, and believe it probably causes more harm than good. State governments, litigation, and public oversight are likely to be much better actors in keeping drug companies in line.

Posted by: SH at August 25, 2016 10:23 AM (FJDuC)

163 I'll bet you think peppering these threads with your lame puns makes you the salt of the earth, eh?
Posted by: OregonMuse


*****


I have never cinnamon with such an astute sense of humor as you.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:24 AM (wPiJc)

164 There is only one Dolly. Like Highlander.


Posted by: Carol Channing at August 25, 2016 10:21 AM (hUjgJ)



Move over, bitch.

Posted by: Dolly Parton at August 25, 2016 10:24 AM (X6fMO)

165 The Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, which is scheduled for Sept. 30, will be renamed after this years event, according to a spokesman for the SCDP. It was named after former presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.
----

Went through the same thing here in NC. The large, state-wide Democrat fundraiser was called the Vance-Aycock Dinner. Aycock was a former Democrat governor, with strong white supremacist ties.

Anyhow, there are buildings at several state schools that bear his name, as well as this dinner. They've either been renamed, or are under pressure to be re-named.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:24 AM (oFSUK)

166 Speaking of time, in 1835 the NYC paper New York Sun utterly fabricated and attributed to a scientist the claim that there was a Lunarian civilisation.

-
The second novel of the Map of Time Trilogy by Brian J. Palma, The Map of the Sky, deals, in part, with that hoax.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 10:24 AM (Nwg0u)

167
My preference would be to eliminate the FDA. I posted my thoughts on the FDA on last thread, but I'll post it here.

I'm sure Hillary will get right on that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:25 AM (IqV8l)

168 It takes a licking and then melts. Sounds like Millennials to me.
Posted by: Puddin Head
--------------

We do not wear watches.

Posted by: Millennials at August 25, 2016 10:26 AM (9mTYi)

169 129 I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon?

I knew he produced Dark Side, did not know about Abbey Road

Discovering that made me feel dumb.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (dFi94)

Welcome to old age.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (cEPdm)

My "duh" enlightening was when Freddie Mercury died of AIDS. In spite of his band being Queen it never registered that he was gay!

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 25, 2016 10:26 AM (Cl52v)

170 What time is it?
What time is it?
What time is it?

Posted by: The Bubble Guppies at August 25, 2016 10:27 AM (QM5S2)

171 My "duh" enlightening was when Freddie Mercury died of AIDS. In spite of his band being Queen it never registered that he was gay!



'zactly! At first, it was, "Oh. Queen - Brit band. Ok. I can see that".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (19RKp)

172 *bangs head into keyboard*

Trudeau the Lesser strikes again. Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab. Diversity uber alles after all.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37173669

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (NKXpn)

173 Do I dare set forth here the most important , the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it!

Posted by: Crossfit Addict at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (GPKDB)

174 I'll bet you think peppering these threads with your lame puns makes you the salt of the earth, eh?
Posted by: OregonMuse


*****

*looks back at comments*

Posted by: Lot's wife at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (9mTYi)

175 Whoa! I'm going to kill these old farts! Shat-ner first!

Posted by: The Fonz at August 25, 2016 10:30 AM (hUjgJ)

176 Back in olden days which was more fashionable,

The pocket sundial or the pocket hourglass?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:30 AM (wPiJc)

177 Trudeau the Lesser strikes again. Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab. Diversity uber alles after all.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37173669
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (NKXpn)


Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 10:31 AM (zp+j1)

178 Back in olden days which was more fashionable,

The pocket sundial or the pocket hourglass?




Olden days? Sundial.

Olden nights? Hourglass.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:31 AM (19RKp)

179 Hmm.
Seems as if a few are stalking Muldoon.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (C9pBZ)

180 Nudist Mounties to the Yukon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (IqV8l)

181 Posted by: Lot's wife

*****


Heh!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (wPiJc)

182 Trudeau the Lesser strikes again. Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab. Diversity uber alles after all.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37173669
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:29 AM (NKXpn)


Sigh
Posted by: Nevergiveup


Le sigh.
-Québécois

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (19RKp)

183 What's to tweak?
It's a spring loaded auto-injector syringe preloaded with a med.


Newer versions have a sound chip to issue voice instructions for use.

It literally talks its users through how to use it.

I just want y'all to think about that fact.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (9krrF)

184 Olden days? Sundial.

Olden nights? Hourglass.

Posted by: rickb223


*****


Hah! Well played!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:33 AM (wPiJc)

185 Just got notified that Medical Mutual is not longer going to be offering insurance in my area in Ohio. This is going to suck.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 25, 2016 10:33 AM (Ee2nz)

186 Onion belts were quite in fashion. Back when people had style & panache.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at August 25, 2016 10:34 AM (hUjgJ)

187 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 10:34 AM (Nwg0u)

188 I have never cinnamon with such an astute sense of humor as you.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:24 AM (wPiJc)


He's a seasoned opponent.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:34 AM (u0lmX)

189
It's a spring loaded auto-injector syringe preloaded with a med.
Newer versions have a sound chip to issue voice instructions for use.
It literally talks its users through how to use it.


Do you get a choice of 47 different languages?
Might take a while to step through all of them.
Press 29 for Esperanto.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (IqV8l)

190 Just got notified that Medical Mutual is not longer going to be offering insurance in my area in Ohio. This is going to suck.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 25, 2016 10:33 AM (Ee2nz)


Obama: Doing his best to eff up the medical market since 2008!

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (cEPdm)

191 I prefer the Persistence of Mammaries.

Posted by: Dali Parton at August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (+wjl1)

192 Back in olden days which was more fashionable,

The pocket sundial or the pocket hourglass?



Ask Vic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (X6fMO)

193 115 Posted by: Alan Parsons Project (paraphrased) at August 25, 2016 10:06 AM (RD7QR)
===============================================


I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Discovering that made me feel dumb.


Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (dFi94)

It's really knowledge for audio geeks, grammie, so there's nothing to feel dumb about. I only know it because I'm an APP/Alan Parsons fan.

(Also obscure: Rumor has it that Alan Parsons himself set up, synced, and recorded all the alarm clocks on the Pink Floyd track with all the alarm clocks, whose name escapes me.)

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:36 AM (RD7QR)

194 Olden days? Sundial.

Olden nights? Hourglass.

Posted by: rickb223
------

Clock candles. Easy to wear on wrist.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:36 AM (9mTYi)

195 Either you have a monopoly and you regulate it as such, or you establish and encourage a level playing field.
Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (o+SC1)

Bingo. If you read the article, you can see it is a crony capitalist scam all the way through and it is happening with most drugs which have soared in pricing.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (Ee2nz)

196 Must be that wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff Dr. Who mentioned.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (0mRoj)

197 Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab.

-
Dudley Do-Right weeps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (Nwg0u)

198 I'm mellllllllllting!1!

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (Tyii7)

199 Clock candles on the wrist proved who was the drip.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (NKXpn)

200 I learned something about Alan Parsons recently. Did everybody but me know that he was the producer of the Beatles' Abbey Road album, as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Discovering that made me feel dumb.


Posted by: grammie winger at August 25, 2016 10:11 AM (dFi94)




Wasn't George Martin was the producer of Abbey Road. I believe he was for every Beatles album except Let It Be

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 25, 2016 10:38 AM (493sH)

201 A "pocket sundial"?

Is that anything like pocket pool? Or are you just happy to see me?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:38 AM (C9pBZ)

202 ♫♪♫

My grandfather's clock was too big for my wrist...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:38 AM (wPiJc)

203 Now this I like.

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Kevin-Hong-illustrations-5.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (NKXpn)

204 Clock candles on the wrist proved who was the drip.
Posted by: Anna Puma
---------------

What a dippy thing to say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (9mTYi)

205 We're so boned.

Posted by: What was once Canada at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (Tyii7)

206 Cyndi Lauper
Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick, and think of you
Caught up in circles confusion is nothing new
You say go slow; I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you; I'll be waiting
Time after time

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (dQJCS)

207 Back in Time - Huey Lewis and the News

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Time to Move On - Tom Petty

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (TDal4)

208 Clock candles. Easy to wear on wrist.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:36 AM (9mTYi)


However, it is a good thing to remember to take them off before baling hay. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (u0lmX)

209 My grandfather's clock was too big for my wrist...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon


Is that to the tune of "The Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End"?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (9krrF)

210 199 Clock candles on the wrist proved who was the drip.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (NKXpn)

Well look who's waxing eloquent about timepieces!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (0mRoj)

211 Wasn't George Martin was the producer of Abbey Road. I believe he was for every Beatles album except Let It Be



According to Wiki he was.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:39 AM (19RKp)

212 Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time

Posted by: Crossfit Addict at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (GPKDB)

213 (Also obscure: Rumor has it that Alan Parsons himself set up, synced, and recorded all the alarm clocks on the Pink Floyd track with all the alarm clocks, whose name escapes me.)

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:36 AM (RD7QR)


"Time".

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (cEPdm)

214 Obama: Doing his best to eff up the medical market since 2008!
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:35 AM (cEPdm)

I'm trying to determine if by area they mean county. If that is the case, why in hades do you design a system that allows medical carriers to determine coverage participation by county? Really, it is time for some...................****banned actions****

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (Ee2nz)

215
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (493sH)

216 >>Trudeau the Lesser strikes again. Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab. Diversity uber alles after all.

Obama has Jarrett
Hillary has Huma

Trudeau has Omar Alghabra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Alghabra

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (NOIQH)

217 124 My vertigo is back. It's a metaphor for something or other.
Posted by: joncelli,
-------

Heh. You too, eh?

My current bout seems to be passing. Started a week or ten days ago.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:13 AM (9mTYi)

Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

218 Morris Day and the Time?

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (PFy0L)

219 Nerd fact. In ancient Rome, hours varied in length. The sundial divided the day up into twelve equal parts but there was more sun to divide in June than in December.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (Nwg0u)

220 215
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 25, 2016 10:40 AM (493sH)

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for something or someone to show you the way

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (0mRoj)

221 "He's a seasoned opponent."




He's pretty salty.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (qDT3f)

222 I'm melting! Mellltttinnnnng!


/The Wicked Watch of the West

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:42 AM (wPiJc)

223 221 "He's a seasoned opponent."




He's pretty salty.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (qDT3f)

And he's always cumin after you.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:42 AM (0mRoj)

224 Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time


Got that right, Jack. True feminine beauty absolutely sends me into a depressive tailspin.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 10:42 AM (X6fMO)

225 Right, I stand corrected, Parsons was an engineer on those albums rather than the producer.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:42 AM (RD7QR)

226 Stu! Jinx - you owe me a Coke

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (dQJCS)

227
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;

Posted by: The Bard at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (9mTYi)

228 Time
Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (cEPdm)

229 Alan Parsons was an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he earned his first credit on the LP Abbey Road.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (19RKp)

230 Dali's melting clock is a total metaphor for the meltdown of the United States. You know what, I almost don't care who wins the election anymore. Hillary's election will only speed up what is now nearly inevitable in the long run - #Texit. And honestly that's looking like a better option all the time. So if electing the HillBilly will speed it up, so be it.

Posted by: Texas Zombie at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (SUtNI)

231 Speaking of thyme, I must depart for that thing which keeps roof over head - the job.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (NKXpn)

232 If I Could Turn Back Time-Cher

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (qDT3f)

233 Mounties to allow female officers to wear the hijab.


*****


New motto: We always get our imam.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (wPiJc)

234 He's pretty salty"

Sodium or Potassium chloride?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:44 AM (C9pBZ)

235 Dudley Do-Right weeps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 10:37 AM (Nwg0u)

Updated Dudley Do-Right cartoon. Snidley Whiplash ties Nell to the train tracks. Along comes Mountie in hijab. Helps Snidley tie up Nell because Nell's hair is uncovered. Then kills Snidley's little dog because unclean.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:44 AM (u0lmX)

236 "And he's always cumin after you."




ewwwwww..........

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:44 AM (qDT3f)

237 Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.
Posted by: joncelli
-----------

Do you have any hearing problems?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (9mTYi)

238 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center think Hilllary Clinten's Pant suits are so lovely. Does anyone know where she buys them because we want t0 wear the same style too. Once again last night Trump lied just as bad as Bush did....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, Vt at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (NuElX)

239 To everything
Turn Turn Turn
There is a season
Turn Turn Turn
And a time to every purpose under Heaven

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (TDal4)

240 Time to make the donuts!

Posted by: The Donut Guy at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (QM5S2)

241 Closing Time, by Leonard Cohen

Posted by: French Jeton at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (WMvHw)

242 What exactly does an album "producer" do anyway?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (IqV8l)

243 Crap, Roger Waters wrote those lyrics with a gun in his mouth

Posted by: Crossfit Addict at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (GPKDB)

244 237 Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.
Posted by: joncelli
-----------

Do you have any hearing problems?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (9mTYi)

No, just dizziness and general instability. I start walking in curves.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (RD7QR)

245 Time, time
It's so sublime

Well they say it's nonexistent
But it's playing with my mind

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (oAY8z)

246 237 Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.
Posted by: joncelli
-----------

Do you have any hearing problems?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (9mTYi)

Well if he does, he can't tell what you're saying right now.

JONCELLI, DO YOU HAVE ANY HEARING PROBLEMS?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (0mRoj)

247 Is that to the tune of "The Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End"?

I'm not going near your staff.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (C9pBZ)

248 Today Hillary Clinton is going to present how the infamous "alt-right" communicated French military secrets to the German embassy in Paris. She will also remind everyone that there are a series of protocols, available widely on the internet, that support the long held DNC theory that Breitbart News is at the center of nefarious global domination plot.


Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (c6/9Q)

249 What exactly does an album "producer" do anyway?


He helps the engineers communicate with the customers.

Posted by: eleven at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (qUNWi)

250 (Also obscure: Rumor has it that Alan Parsons himself set up, synced, and recorded all the alarm clocks on the Pink Floyd track with all the alarm clocks, whose name escapes me.)

----------

The absolute worst night I ever spent was after a Halloween party many years ago. My best friend & I crashed at some dude's place whose mother collected clocks. And the clocks were all just a bit out of sync with each other. You try getting to sleep after drinking too much & lying in a living room surrounded by off-sync clocks, which would start chiming every few minutes.

Posted by: josephistan at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (7HtZB)

251 246 237 Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.
Posted by: joncelli
-----------

Do you have any hearing problems?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:45 AM (9mTYi)

Well if he does, he can't tell what you're saying right now.

JONCELLI, DO YOU HAVE ANY HEARING PROBLEMS?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:46 AM (0mRoj)

Eh? Why are you muttering?

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (RD7QR)

252 No, just dizziness and general instability. I start walking in curves.
Posted by: joncelli
----------

Well, severe attacks can lead to falls, so be careful.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (9mTYi)

253 249 What exactly does an album "producer" do anyway?


He helps the engineers communicate with the customers.
Posted by: eleven at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (qUNWi)

I never understood what a cartoon director does. Give instructions to the animator's wrists?

Posted by: josephistan at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (7HtZB)

254 So we're doing depressing songs? I submit for consideration Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Leon Russell's Baby Jane.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (0mRoj)

255 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Groucho Marx

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (hKmCD)

256 "He helps the engineers communicate with the customers."



ISWYDT

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (qDT3f)

257 249,
So keeps the booze, drugs, and hookers, er, groupies in supply?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (C9pBZ)

258 No Time (left for you)

Posted by: Guess Who at August 25, 2016 10:49 AM (RfzVr)

259
232 If I Could Turn Back Time-Cher

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:43 AM (qDT3f)

Believe me, she tries. She's paid my kid's way through Harvard.

Posted by: Cher's plastic surgeon at August 25, 2016 10:49 AM (u0lmX)

260 Back from Walmart. And no, the people of Walmart have not changed. Still fat ugly and rude. Still like to congregate in the aisles and discuss their entire family history.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 10:50 AM (mpXpK)

261 There is an experiment that shows mechanical clocks will eventually sync up with each other. They still though don't quite know how .

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 25, 2016 10:50 AM (hKmCD)

262 Pink Floyd's Time and Money songs have some of the best lyrics.



Money, get back
I'm all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit



I'm looking at you Beast, Barry and Comrade Bernie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 25, 2016 10:50 AM (493sH)

263 If you lop both hands off, you're left with a Watch-owski.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 25, 2016 10:50 AM (+wjl1)

264 "JONCELLI, DO YOU HAVE ANY HEARING PROBLEMS? "



Garrett Morris, everyone.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:51 AM (qDT3f)

265 263,
Golf clap...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 25, 2016 10:51 AM (C9pBZ)

266 "Well hellooooooo Dali!
Yes helloooooo Dali!
It's so nice that my sons' head is full of crap!"

Posted by: Corona at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (ragzU)

267 Missed the dreams thread last night, but read through the comments this morning. Interesting stuff. Funny how people tend to have similar dream experiences. Dali painting open thread seems like a decent place to put mine.

I had the falling dream, but it wasn't scary. I rather liked the sensation of weightlessness. On occasion I'd hit the ground and just sort of lay there in disbelief, realizing that it was extremely weird that I am completely OK after having fallen from the sky. I'd then get up and walk around for a bit, and the dream would usually end.

As a kid, I'd have dreams that weren't quite nightmares, but could turn into them. I somehow understood the rules of the dream I was in, and that there was certain things that I could do to "stay safe" if that makes any sense. One that I remember recurred many times was I'd be in a department store. My mother would be like out at the registers, and I'd be wondering around the aisles. These particular dreams were always black and white, and the lighting of the building would be really weird. The aisles were really well lit, but if I strayed off (it's usually a clothes store with many many racks of clothes) among the clothes, it'd become really dark and I'd really quickly get that creeping sense of dread until I got back to the aisle.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (KUaJL)

268
Time's Up - Living Color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qtino0v9EU

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (xxSK3)

269 249 What exactly does an album "producer" do anyway?


He helps the engineers communicate with the customers.
Posted by: eleven at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (qUNWi)

I have people skills, dammit! What the hell is wrong with you people!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (0mRoj)

270 Biden says Obama will close GITMO on his way out the door

Posted by: ThunderB at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (XUVQE)

271 the people of Walmart have not changed. Still fat ugly and rude

Spandex and butt cracks.

Posted by: People of Walmart at August 25, 2016 10:53 AM (Tyii7)

272 Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding?

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (c6/9Q)

273 Biden says Obama will close GITMO on his way out the door

A final, defiant "fuck you" to the American people.

Posted by: People of Walmart at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (Tyii7)

274 254 So we're doing depressing songs? I submit for consideration Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Leon Russell's Baby Jane.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 10:48 AM (0mRoj)

Nothing is more depressing than Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat."

Sung in low mournful tone:

"It's 4 in the morning, the end of December, I'm writing this letter to see if you're better....

You treated my woman to a flake of your life, and when she came home, she was nobody's wife...."

I like Cohen but jeez, he makes you want to break out the safety razors sometimes....

Posted by: Cher's plastic surgeon at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (u0lmX)

275 100 Years by Five for Fighting
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live


7 years by Lukas Graham

Soon I'll be 60 years old, my daddy got 61
Remember life and then your life becomes a better one
I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once
I hope my children come and visit, once or twice a month

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (dQJCS)

276
Posted by: Cher's plastic surgeon at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (u0lmX)

Off, wealthy, wealthy sock!

Posted by: Cher's plastic surgeon at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (u0lmX)

277 Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

joncelli, look up BVVP. Could be that. A Physical therapist can correct it.

Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (Enq6K)

278 Whatever happened to Eddie Offord?

Posted by: Corona at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (ragzU)

279 " the people of Walmart have not changed. Still fat ugly and rude"


The people that go there..........or work there?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (qDT3f)

280 270 Biden says Obama will close GITMO on his way out the door
Posted by: ThunderB at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (XUVQE)

And pardon thousands of federal prisoners, probably. It doesn't take a Nostradamus to predict that there's going to be a spike in crime in 2017.

Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (RD7QR)

281 Ugh!!!!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands and coffee at the present time) at August 25, 2016 10:56 AM (u0lmX)

282 "Today Hillary Clinton is going to present how the
infamous "alt-right" communicated French military secrets to the German
embassy in Paris.



Posted by: runner"

What she needs to do is expose the alt-right connection to EpiPen. That will get the LIV's worked into a frezy.

Posted by: Ripley. at August 25, 2016 10:57 AM (1BQGO)

283 Hoping that "THE ONE" is defiled at some point by the barbed cock of Satan.
Just received notice that my insurance company is dropping individual health plans due to the expense of the ACA.
Will be shopping again for a new health plan.
Lying shit. I couldn't keep my health plan, again!

Posted by: never enough caffeine at August 25, 2016 10:57 AM (iLoHX)

284 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 25, 2016 10:57 AM (ZQfW9)

285 "Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding? "


I believe he can. Per the agreement that created Gitmo more than a century ago, both sides have to agree on the base's status in order for anything to change. If Cuba says "get out" and we say "sod off" well then we don't have to leave. But, if we agree to give it back.......it goes back.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 10:58 AM (qDT3f)

286 Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding?




Don't think he can legally.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:58 AM (19RKp)

287 So we're doing depressing songs? I submit for consideration Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Leon Russell's Baby Jane.
-----------

Tom Waits, 'Martha'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 10:58 AM (9mTYi)

288 272
Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding?


Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (c6/9Q)

Not legally.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 10:58 AM (mpXpK)

289 "Hi, Tide."
" 'lo, Bridge!"

Posted by: Corona at August 25, 2016 10:58 AM (ragzU)

290 So we're doing depressing songs? I submit for consideration Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Leon Russell's Baby Jane.


There's a book about depressing songs - I Hate Myself and Want to Die:

goo.gl/P9p9gE

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (X6fMO)

291
248 Today Hillary Clinton is going to present how the infamous "alt-right" communicated French military secrets to the German embassy in Paris. She will also remind everyone that there are a series of protocols, available widely on the internet, that support the long held DNC theory that Breitbart News is at the center of nefarious global domination plot.


Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 10:47 AM (c6/9Q)






And blame it all on Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Who will cheerfully accept culpability as a contribution to the cause.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (xxSK3)

292 285 "Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding? "


I believe he can. Per the agreement that created Gitmo more than a century ago, both sides have to agree on the base's status in order for anything to change. If Cuba says "get out" and we say "sod off" well then we don't have to leave. But, if we agree to give it back.......it goes back.



I thought it was under treaty and congress would have to deal with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (19RKp)

293 "Biden says Obama will close GITMO on his way out the door


Posted by: Thunder:

I'm still going with "conversion to Islam" in the final days, just to flip the bird to to America. And tolerance of course.

Posted by: Ripley. at August 25, 2016 11:00 AM (1BQGO)

294 Not legally.

No worries there.

Posted by: Prez'nit Pigpen at August 25, 2016 11:00 AM (Tyii7)

295 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center think Hilllary Clinten's Pant suits are so lovely. Does anyone know where she buys them because we want t0 wear the same style too.

You know the shopping carts that old homeless women push around? *That's* where you'll find Hillary's style and size.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:00 AM (ZFUt7)

296 "Not legally. "



So........Congressional approval?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:00 AM (qDT3f)

297 3

So if Chelsea Clinton had a fake email name/pseudonym of Diane Reynolds what was Bill's?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 09:45 AM (qCMvj)
------------

Burt.

Although I love participating in the comments in real time, sometimes when I've been away for a few hours, like today, it's a lot of fun reading through them all at once. This thread is one of those times. Thanks for all the laughs.

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:01 AM (805dc)

298 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center think Hilllary Clinten's Pant suits are so lovely. Does anyone know where she buys them because we want t0 wear the same style too.



Yes. She gets them from Bob's House of Couch Coverings and Drapes.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:02 AM (19RKp)

299
Biden says Obama will close GITMO on his way out the door
Posted by: ThunderB at August 25, 2016 10:52 AM (XUVQE)






Actually, I have my doubts on that. Why take away an issue that your fellow commies can use to beat up on the GOP?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 25, 2016 11:02 AM (xxSK3)

300 292 I thought it was under treaty and congress would have to deal with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (19RKp)

It was and is.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 11:02 AM (mpXpK)

301 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at August 25, 2016 11:02 AM (B8wOn)

302 200 Wasn't George Martin was the producer of Abbey Road. I believe he was for every Beatles album except Let It Be

Oh right! That was Phil Spector on Let It Be.

Posted by: major major major major at August 25, 2016 11:02 AM (mICVL)

303 Can he give GITMO to Cuba as Cubans demanding?
Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 10:54 AM (c6/9Q)


he means closing the Prison, not the Base. And no he does not have the authority to close the Base on his own.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 11:03 AM (zp+j1)

304
It doesn't take a Nostradamus to predict that there's going to be a spike in crime in 2017.
Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM


Not if Hillary's people write the crime statistics.
Like Stalin's people counting the votes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 11:03 AM (IqV8l)

305 Did no one yet say As Time Goes By?

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:03 AM (805dc)

306 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2016 09:49 AM (kdS6q)

The clock is just a portion of the work, so I didn't use the title.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (eCH5Y)

307 I wrote Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (Tyii7)

308 Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails. Damn depressing.

Also, I can't believe Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989. God, I'm getting old.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (0mRoj)

309 It doesn't take a Nostradamus to predict that there's going to be a spike in crime in 2017.
----------

They're not supposed to do that.

Posted by: John Kerry at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (9mTYi)

310 I do not see a sniper or any sweater puppies in that painting


??

Posted by: Yo! at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (B8wOn)

311 Hillary Clinton has a new target in her campaign against Donald Trump: Breitbart News. Her goal is not just to use Breitbart as a political foil, but to shut the site down entirely.

Censorship at it's best. AND AND AND is what this alt-right crap is all about.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (zp+j1)

312 Nothing is more depressing than Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat."

Posted by: Cher's plastic surgeon
________

"Seasons in the Sun" -

Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky ...

... etc. Geez!

Posted by: FireHorse at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (EUDLj)

313 307 I wrote Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (Tyii7)

Don't lie. If you had, Maxwell would have banged his sister.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (0mRoj)

314 >> So we're doing depressing songs?

Ben Folds "Brick"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (NOIQH)

315
Hilllary Clinten's Pant suits are so lovely. Does anyone know where she buys them because we want t0 wear the same style too.
Yes. She gets them from Bob's House of Couch Coverings and Drapes.


Furniture pads from a U-Haul truck.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (IqV8l)

316 Any update on grammie's bee problem?

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:06 AM (805dc)

317 I'm still going with "conversion to Islam" in the final days, just to flip the bird to to America. And tolerance of course.
Posted by: Ripley. at August 25, 2016 11:00 AM (1BQGO)

----

Eh. I think spiritually he's an atheist.

Culturally he's a Muslim tho.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (8XRCm)

318 Nothing is more depressing than Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat."




Monica's blue dress.
That's when the country died.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (19RKp)

319 Time never takes a holiday.

Time is the one thing we all know, but have a terribly difficult time defining.



In general, of the moderns, Dali is interesting, and talented.

Posted by: simplemind at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (xVRrG)

320 Don't lie. If you had, Maxwell would have banged his sister.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (0mRoj)

----

Thread.
Winner.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (8XRCm)

321 This is the most depressing song I've heard in a while

Brick
Ben Folds Five

6 a.m., day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs to her apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me, "Son, it's time to tell the truth"
And she broke down, and I broke down
'Cause I was tired of lying
Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we're alone
But she's alone
And I'm alone
And now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (cEPdm)

322 Eh. I think spiritually he's an atheist.

Culturally he's a Muslim tho.
Posted by: fixerupper
----------

That.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (9mTYi)

323 Culturally he's a Muslim tho.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (8XRCm)


Culturally he is a left winger/socialist...THAT is his religion

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (zp+j1)

324 >>Hillary Clinton has a new target in her campaign against Donald Trump:
Breitbart News. Her goal is not just to use Breitbart as a political
foil, but to shut the site down entirely.


Yup - in a recent campaign email:

Breitbart
is something different. They make Fox News look like a
Democratic Party pamphlet. They're a different breed altogether --- not
just conservative but radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic
conspiracy peddlers who never have been and never should be anywhere
near the levers of power in this country.


...



It
goes without saying that we have to beat these people. But I want to
beat them so decisively that their kind never rises again.



Hillary as POTUS = No more 1st Amendment

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (NOIQH)

325 Ben Folds "Brick"
Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:05 AM (NOIQH)


Heh. Great minds think alike.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (cEPdm)

326 OM - Jinx!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (NOIQH)

327 Bang, bang Hillary's Silver Hammer came down upon my head.

Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:09 AM (Tyii7)

328 Too Much Time On MY Hands

Posted by: Steve McCroskey at August 25, 2016 11:09 AM (uhftQ)

329
Depressing.???


Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:10 AM (8XRCm)

330 And blame it all on Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Who will cheerfully accept culpability as a contribution to the cause.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 25, 2016 10:59 AM (xxSK3)



I'm not really following any threads on this post, but wanted to say I always wondered if Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the inspiration for the character, Cheryl, on Archer.


Like Cheryl, JLD is insanely wealthy, and therefore does not NEED to work for a living. And like Cheryl, she's... well, she's not necessarily mentally healthy. Let's leave it at that.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:11 AM (TOk1P)

331 Sheesh, recurring nightmares last night, depressing songs today.

Think I'll go put my farmer's market stuff away.

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:11 AM (805dc)

332 The most depressing song is Itsy Bitsy Spider. Almost gets to the top of the downpipe then gets wash back down again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 11:11 AM (Nwg0u)

333 Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:07 AM (cEPdm)

About taking his girl to unplan the parenthood.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:12 AM (ZFUt7)

334 Supposedly some chat logs have been found that show conversation among the "victims of GamerGate were actually hoaxes - they had people sending fake hate tweets and whatnot to blame it on gamers and build up their cred as victims. A lot of the "victims" became media darlings and raised a lot of money online by people who believed they needed assistance to flee/hide form the online "harassers."

These are the people Hillary is aligning with today in her anti alt-right speech today.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:12 AM (NOIQH)

335 Hillary Clinton has a new target in her campaign against Donald Trump:
Breitbart News. Her goal is not just to use Breitbart as a political
foil, but to shut the site down entirely.


Yup - in a recent campaign email:

Breitbart
is something different. They make Fox News look like a
Democratic Party pamphlet. They're a different breed altogether --- not
just conservative but radical, bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic
conspiracy peddlers who never have been and never should be anywhere
near the levers of power in this country.


...



It
goes without saying that we have to beat these people. But I want to
beat them so decisively that their kind never rises again.


Hillary as POTUS = No more 1st Amendment


Posted by: Lizzy
****

MAJOR projection there...

Posted by: Steve McCroskey at August 25, 2016 11:12 AM (0x/TW)

336 ok, no authority. thx. you never know with that guy.

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 11:12 AM (c6/9Q)

337
To Mary.... It is part of the Chairman Mao collection from JC Penny...


Posted by: Anti-Mary Clogginstien Not From Vermont at August 25, 2016 11:13 AM (sPR4R)

338
Billy.... dont be a hero....

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:13 AM (8XRCm)

339 Ugh.

Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks" where students are protesting open carry laws on some college campus because it's illegal to carry a dildo around, but it is legal to carry a gun.

Idiots.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 25, 2016 11:14 AM (KUaJL)

340 Depressing? I can't even responsibly put the title up, but it's by Loudon Wainwright. Lyrics:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jydzz33

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 11:14 AM (9mTYi)

341 Hillary as POTUS = No more 1st Amendment


And assholes like McStain would be perfectly happy with that. He'd never have to hear an angry word from a "wacko bird" again.

This country is long overdue for a Reign of Terror.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (X6fMO)

342 326 OM - Jinx!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:08 AM (NOIQH)


Getting an abortion the day after Christmas - I can't imagine a worse experience.

Actually, I know a woman, big time feminist in her early years, who did get an abortion during the holiday season. And even after all these years, the pain doesn't go away. I know most women eventually "get over it", but she never has. The holidays remind of what she did those many years ago and she really can't celebrate.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (cEPdm)

343 332 The most depressing song is Itsy Bitsy Spider. Almost gets to the top of the downpipe then gets wash back down again.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With More Je Ne Sais Quoi! at August 25, 2016 11:11 AM (Nwg0u)

Inspired by the myth of Sysiphus, and an allegory for the futility and lack of control in our own lives.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (0mRoj)

344 Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks" where students are protesting open carry laws on some college campus because it's illegal to carry a dildo around, but it is legal to carry a gun.



Yeah sugartits. Next campus shooter shows up, you throw your dildo. I'll throw lead.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (19RKp)

345 Ugh.

Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks" where students are protesting open carry laws on some college campus because it's illegal to carry a dildo around, but it is legal to carry a gun.

Idiots.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 25, 2016 11:14 AM (KUaJL)




The next time Mohammed shows up to shoot the place up they can wave their dildos at him.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (493sH)

346 Saddest song ever:

To Love Is To Bury, by Cowboy Junkies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4hKmQpcT1k

It's like they sat around and said "hey, let's write the saddest song we possibly can! Music AND lyrics."

And then they did.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:16 AM (TOk1P)

347 BreitbartNews is after global domination, they have a Jerusalem office-get it?

Posted by: Hillary's Brain Damage at August 25, 2016 11:17 AM (c6/9Q)

348
Dill dough???

You mean like pickle bread???

Posted by: Hillary at August 25, 2016 11:17 AM (8XRCm)

349 Dali was a brilliant craftsman, but his pictures almost always seem really obvious. There's rarely a mystery to them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 25, 2016 11:17 AM (AroJD)

350 206 Cyndi Lauper
Lying in my bed, I hear the clock tick, and think of you
Caught up in circles confusion is nothing new
You say go slow; I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you; I'll be waiting
Time after time
------------------
Miles Davis did a version of this song that was stunning. But stunning and Miles Davis is the norm.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 25, 2016 11:17 AM (oDCMR)

351 "ok, no authority. thx. you never know with that guy."


Admittedly HuffPo, but interesting none the less.


http://tinyurl.com/jz6xk9d

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (qDT3f)

352 >>Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks"

Think it's hilarious - the idiots are self-identifying as targets.
"Look at me, I'm too stupid to learn how to defend myself!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (NOIQH)

353 Makes me nuts. I always try to arrive ten minutes early to any appointment or event.
Posted by: grammie winger Tom Coughlin at August 25, 2016 09:53 AM (dFi94)

Heh,I was born early, been making up for it ever since.

Posted by: random lurker at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (WF5ei)

354 Supposedly some chat logs have been found that show conversation among the "victims of GamerGate were actually hoaxes - they had people sending fake hate tweets and whatnot to blame it on gamers and build up their cred as victims. A lot of the "victims" became media darlings and raised a lot of money online by people who believed they needed assistance to flee/hide form the online "harassers."

These are the people Hillary is aligning with today in her anti alt-right speech today.


Posted by: Lizzy
****

Not surprised in the least. Ends justify the means...

Posted by: Steve McCroskey at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (m3iiU)

355 Wow. "Brick" sure sounds like a bad way to spend the day after Christmas. King Wenceslas did it better, in my humbles.

Best version of "GKW" is by Blackmore's Night:

https://youtu.be/GKVU8BoKLMQ

Posted by: FireHorse at August 25, 2016 11:19 AM (EUDLj)

356 "Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks" where students are protesting open carry laws on some college campus because it's illegal to carry a dildo around, but it is legal to carry a gun. "


University of Texas


Austin


Enough said.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:19 AM (qDT3f)

357 Sad song? Bohemian rhapsody.

I think he's revealing he has Aids.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:19 AM (ZFUt7)

358 Saddest song to me but one of my favorites is Almost Home by Craig Morgan.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 25, 2016 11:20 AM (hKmCD)

359 Heh,I was born early, been making up for it ever since.
Posted by: random lurker at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (WF5ei)




+1. Two months early!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:20 AM (19RKp)

360
At my age???

"Happy Birthday" is pretty damn depressing.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:22 AM (8XRCm)

361 The pictures of the Austin protests with sex toys are hilarious...some of these young ladies have no idea how long a memory the interweb has - will be great for job interviews, prospective mates, etc. Their parents must be so proud.

Posted by: Patrick Henry at August 25, 2016 11:22 AM (B/hiE)

362 Will they be passing out cock holsters in Austin?

Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:22 AM (Tyii7)

363 >>>307 I wrote Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (Tyii7)

I thought it was Jim Gordon?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (7qWQe)

364 Queen, Who wants to live forever? From Highlander

Posted by: Patrick Henry at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (B/hiE)

365 Their parents must be so proud.

Understandably so.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (Tyii7)

366 I've always thought "Dream On" by Aerosmith was a very depressing song. I always flip to another station when I hear it come on in the car.

Posted by: Independent George (or the commenter formally known as Serenity Now!) at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (BDZWU)

367 362 Will they be passing out cock holsters in Austin?
Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin





They'll just open their mouths.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (19RKp)

368
Saw on facebook somebody posted a protest called "cocks not glocks"

They could go Folsom Street style and let it hang out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (IqV8l)

369 Getting an abortion the day after Christmas - I can't imagine a worse experience.

Actually, I know a woman, big time feminist in her early years, who did get an abortion during the holiday season. And even after all these years, the pain doesn't go away. I know most women eventually "get over it", but she never has. The holidays remind of what she did those many years ago and she really can't celebrate.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:15 AM (cEPdm)


Never heard this song before, but I guess that's pretty bad.


Reminds me of the Pogues song, "Fairy Tale of New York," which I'm not sure I'm supposed to find sad, but I do. Good grief, opening lyrics:

"It's Christmas eve, babe, In the drunk tank, an old man says to me 'won't see another one..."


Lovely. No really, it's about as lovely a song as anything, but abject vulgarity and soaring strings.


Chokes me up (or worse) every freakin' time I hear it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:23 AM (TOk1P)

370 357 Sad song? Bohemian rhapsody.
I think he's revealing he has Aids.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:19 AM (ZFUt7)


I don't think so. If so, he would have been close to being the very first AIDS victim, ever.

BH came out in what year 1975? 76?

The AIDS epidemic didn't really start until 1979-80.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:24 AM (cEPdm)

371 Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:18 AM (qDT3f)

thx; sounds like he can unilaterally transfer control, by abrogating on payment or by executive order

Posted by: Hillary's Brain Damage at August 25, 2016 11:24 AM (c6/9Q)

372 Enough depressing time lyrics! Give Canada's other power trio a listen.

The B side of Thunder 7 is all Time related. Favorite track is "Follow Your Heart" and Emmitt's pleasant "midsummer's daydream" acoustical is awesome. "Stranger in a Strange land" comes in 2nd...

This album, like much of Triumph's work, is under appreciated IMHO.

Posted by: Cooldawg at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (DwZvw)

373 BH came out in what year 1975? 76?

The AIDS epidemic didn't really start until 1979-80.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:24 AM (cEPdm)

---

Beat me to it.

Also.... being HIV positive was NOT the cause celeb it is today.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (8XRCm)

374 The AIDS epidemic didn't really start until 1979-80.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:24 AM (cEPdm)

It started January 20, 1981.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (0mRoj)

375 ouch ! that was...not hillary

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (c6/9Q)

376 Heh,I was born early, been making up for it ever since.
Posted by: random lurker
---------

Conversely, my dad always said that my mother was 20 minutes late to their wedding, and never caught up.

It follows that I was born 20 minutes late, and was therefore doomed to be late for the rest of my life.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 11:26 AM (9mTYi)

377 Anyone who thinks we can survive a President Hillary is a fool. She will shut down all dissent under the guise of "hate speech" and outlaw all parties except the Democrats. This is the end game. It should be clear as the noses on our faces.

PC is not a sideshow. It is, always was, the main event.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 11:26 AM (9krrF)

378 One less bell to answer, one less egg to fry...

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at August 25, 2016 11:27 AM (Tyii7)

379 Sad song? Bohemian rhapsody.

I think he's revealing he has Aids.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:19 AM (ZFUt7)



I understand that as a retrospective interpretation, but at the time it was written nobody knew what AIDS was. And Mercury would have been the very picture of health, f**king everything that wasn't nailed down.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:28 AM (TOk1P)

380 I know laws don't mean anything anymore, but can a President "close" a military installation without Congressional approval?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:28 AM (GL9+L)

381 It started January 20, 1981.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (0mRoj)



Heh, but of course. Along with the beginning of homelessness. And greed.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:28 AM (TOk1P)

382 I don't think so. If so, he would have been close to being the very first AIDS victim, ever.BH came out in what year 1975? 76?The AIDS epidemic didn't really start until 1979-80.Posted by: OregonMuse 

Yeah, you're right. I was just reading on wiki it's when Freddy first went gay, allegedly. Left 'Mary' who he referred to as 'Momma' in song.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 11:29 AM (ZFUt7)

383 Depressing lyrics? You're breaking my heart.

http://tinyurl.com/oc7gpba

Posted by: Javems at August 25, 2016 11:31 AM (yOqwj)

384 Sadz Song - Elvis doing Ole Shep.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 25, 2016 11:31 AM (oDCMR)

385 It started January 20, 1981.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:25 AM (0mRoj)


Yeah! As well as the threat of nuclear war/winter/etc.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:31 AM (cEPdm)

386 NPR had some sort of science podcast about the AIDS epidemic, I was actually surprised they were willing to talk about how a gay flight attendant played a huge role in spreading AIDS in the US.

They were able to track it back to him and the guy actually got a kick out of giving it to as many gay men as possible. He flew all over and went to bath houses, etc.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:31 AM (GL9+L)

387 Thunderbolts and lightning, catchers mitts are frightening.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo Rhapsody at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (Tyii7)

388 Morning all... Are we still screwed?

Posted by: donna at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (O2RFr)

389 How does one do italics on this smart blog, using Chrome?

How is it done using an iPhone or iPad?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (5wezn)

390 Thunderbolts and lightning, catchers mitts are frightening.

Galileo

Posted by: donna at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (O2RFr)

391 Crap. Norton DNS *still* thinks tinyurl is a malicious site.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (cEPdm)

392 "He flew all over and went to bath houses, etc."



What?!?

Posted by: Barry O. at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (qDT3f)

393 How is it done using an iPhone or iPad?
Posted by: the littl shyning man
-------------

Platinum Membership.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (9mTYi)

394
gay flight attendant played a huge role in spreading AIDS in the US.

----

Gaeten Dugas

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (8XRCm)

395 Figaro

Posted by: Hope's Rolo Rhapsody at August 25, 2016 11:34 AM (Tyii7)

396 Assange is saying there is another email drop coming: "...game changer..." If someone is in London, could you check the Ecuadoran Embassy for ninjas crawling all over the facade?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 25, 2016 11:34 AM (SeD0w)

397 And pound for pound, the saddest, most depressing music ever created is the entire catalog of Joy Division.

I mean, even when the music wasn't poundingly somber, the lyrics were always at least cryptically fatalistic.

And then the guy went ahead and let everyone know he was serious when he hanged himself in his kitchen, so his wife could find him there.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:34 AM (TOk1P)

398 Galileo
Posted by: donna at August 25, 2016 11:32 AM (O2RFr)


Mama mia, let me go.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:34 AM (cEPdm)

399 377 PC is not a sideshow. It is, always was, the main event.

Agree, that's how they will isolate their target. This country will not survive Hillzabub.

And most explainations of how we do begin and end with "we've survived worse in the past".

Posted by: Cooldawg at August 25, 2016 11:34 AM (DwZvw)

400 gay flight attendant played a huge role in spreading AIDS in the US.

----

Gaeten Dugas
Posted by: fixerupper



Isn't it funny how much shit Ronald Reagan got for the AIDS epidemic when really it had far more to do with a self-loathing gay man.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:35 AM (GL9+L)

401 277
Seems to be closely related to stress for me and there's tons to be stressed about these days.



Posted by: joncelli, Sans Stability at August 25, 2016 10:41 AM (RD7QR)

joncelli, look up BVVP. Could be that. A Physical therapist can correct it.


Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2016 10:55 AM (Enq6K)

Ooops....sorry, that should be BPPV.

Posted by: Tami at August 25, 2016 11:35 AM (Enq6K)

402 reminds me of white rabbits time piece from alice in wonderland. was that peter?

Posted by: willow at August 25, 2016 11:35 AM (A1MMY)

403 Gaeten Dugas

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (8XRCm)


Patient Zero. Something like 200 of the first AIDS cases can be attributed to him.

Gives you some idea of the promiscuity of male homosexuals in those days. I wonder if that's still true?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (cEPdm)

404 Ah, some art related to The Chambers Brothers. ( An obscure reference, no one will get).

Hint: they were not gay flight attendants.

Posted by: tubal at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (d6TTt)

405 can a President "close" a military installation without Congressional approval?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:28 AM (GL9+L)



No!


Unless his name is Obama, and Lyin' Ryan and Turtle McConnell are the putative leaders of the majority GOP Congress.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (wCEn4)

406 "Gaeten Dugas"



Two words I've never heard before in my life. What a FUBAR name.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (qDT3f)

407 NittyGritty Dirt Band 'Mr Bojangles' always gets me choked up.

Guthrie City of New Orleans is a close second.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (MIKMs)

408 "Happy Birthday" is pretty damn depressing.

Posted by: fixerupper
________

Especially the way it's always performed: Someone always starts solo - have to decide on the key, of course, which everyone ignores - but the tempo is like a dirge - 50 bpm - and regardless of whether I'm singing or being "honored" I just want the song to end.

Then in the penultimate verse, "Happy Birthday, dear " the people singing can't agree on the name. Everyone knows this person, and everyone uses the same name - the exact same word - in address and reference, but when it comes time to sing it, everyone sings something different. "John." The line goes "Happy birthday, dear John." Not Johnny or Jack or Skipper. If you forget, it's written on the cake. I realize the octave jump makes it the hardest line in the song, but get the name right, for crying out loud.

By the end, half the people are just mumbling anyway.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (EUDLj)

409 404 Ah, some art related to The Chambers Brothers. ( An obscure reference, no one will get).

Posted by: tubal at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (d6TTt)


You think no one else knows 'Time Has Come Today'?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:37 AM (cEPdm)

410 can a President "close" a military installation without Congressional approval?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:28 AM (GL9+L)


No!


Unless his name is Obama, and Lyin' Ryan and Turtle McConnell are the putative leaders of the majority GOP Congress.
Posted by: Hrothgar



Didn't even Harry Reid pass some legislation that was signed by Obama that actually roadblocked him from closing GITMO?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:37 AM (GL9+L)

411
Elvis doing Ole Shep.

I didn't think Elvis was that kind of guy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 11:38 AM (IqV8l)

412 gay flight attendant played a huge role in spreading AIDS in the US.
----
Gaeten Dugas

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (8XRCm)


It's a convenient origin story, because we apparently need origin stories, but really, by the time he got around to banging his way around the world, the virus was already working its magic.


It can be traced back to actual patients in the 50s and 60s, and has a likely origin as far as the epidemic is concerned, in 1930s Dutch/German/Portuguese African colonies.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:38 AM (TOk1P)

413 I saw the picture of FAB at the fundraiser hosted by Cher. Good Lord - what was that she was wearing?? A 12 year old aspiring designer would have been a better choice. Oven mitt huge coat that would make a sofa jealous.

Posted by: Cheri at August 25, 2016 11:38 AM (oiNtH)

414 Platinum Membership.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2016 11:33 AM (9mTYi)


It's really the only way to gö!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 25, 2016 11:38 AM (wCEn4)

415 You think no one else knows 'Time Has Come Today'?
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:37 AM (cEPdm)

Well, not any more.
I assumed I was the last dinosaur standing.
It was getting lonely in Jurassic Park.

Posted by: tubal at August 25, 2016 11:39 AM (d6TTt)

416 407 NittyGritty Dirt Band 'Mr Bojangles' always gets me choked up.

Oh yeah:

The dog up and died
He up and died
After 20 years, he still grieves.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:39 AM (cEPdm)

417 413 I saw the picture of FAB at the fundraiser hosted by Cher. Good Lord - what was that she was wearing?? A 12 year old aspiring designer would have been a better choice. Oven mitt huge coat that would make a sofa jealous.


She's blimped up nicely in the last couple months...

Posted by: donna at August 25, 2016 11:39 AM (O2RFr)

418 Two words I've never heard before in my life. What a FUBAR name.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (qDT3f)



His photo is out there somewhere. He looks pretty much like you'd expect him to look.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:40 AM (TOk1P)

419 "I didn't think Elvis was that kind of guy. "




He also liked peanut butter and banana sammiches. Dude had his kinks.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:40 AM (qDT3f)

420 It's a convenient origin story, because we apparently need origin stories, but really, by the time he got around to banging his way around the world, the virus was already working its magic.


It can be traced back to actual patients in the 50s and 60s, and has a likely origin as far as the epidemic is concerned, in 1930s Dutch/German/Portuguese African colonies.
Posted by: BurtTC




I'm not saying AIDS would have never happened, but I do think had this individual not been involved, it could have probably been better contained in the US.

It was basically purposely spread around a VERY promiscous population that supercharged the transmission rates.

The prevailing theory is something like a "cut hunter" in Africa getting it from a monkey in like the 1950's.

Still, it basically took 30 years for it to become an epidemic.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:41 AM (GL9+L)

421 Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (cEPdm)

I'm sure you've seen the most recent stats on the increase of Syphilis cases.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 25, 2016 11:41 AM (hKmCD)

422 Didn't even Harry Reid pass some legislation that was signed by Obama that actually roadblocked him from closing GITMO?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:37 AM (GL9+L)


I think so, but Obama, clever pseudo-Constitutional lecturer that he is, is just going to remove the rationale for Gitmo to exist by freeing even the most insane rabid islamic terrorists currently residing there.

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 25, 2016 11:42 AM (wCEn4)

423 She's blimped up nicely in the last couple months...

Posted by: donna

What I don't understand is there are plenty of plus size people in the public eye that still wear well designed, fashionable clothing without resorting to Tents-R-Us.

Posted by: Cheri at August 25, 2016 11:42 AM (oiNtH)

424 It's a convenient origin story, because we apparently need origin stories, but really, by the time he got around to banging his way around the world, the virus was already working its magic.

-----

So ..... you're saying he DIDNT do that???? Youre implying the story is made up.

He's not patient zero in the world, but he did bring and spread the disease in the States.

Its not a judgement, its not an opinion.

Its a fact.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:42 AM (8XRCm)

425 Well my dog died just the other day
And left me all alone.
Finance company came by today, and repossessed my home........

Posted by: Seeds and Stems Blues at August 25, 2016 11:43 AM (QM5S2)

426 Depressing?
"Christmas Shoes"

And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight


I don't want to know what song is a bigger tear jerker than that.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 11:43 AM (ZFUt7)

427 Good Lord - what was that she was wearing??

I'm thinking it was a prototype outfit w/an active exoskeleton device built in. Little gyroscopes help her keep balanced, while sensors offset her tremors/seizures. Since it was a prototype, the engineers weren't concerned about the outer fabric covering.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (SeD0w)

428 He also liked peanut butter and banana sammiches. Dude had his kinks.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 11:40 AM (qDT3f)
===

Wilt Chamberlain's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and mayonnaise.

Posted by: Independent George (or the commenter formally known as Serenity Now!) at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (BDZWU)

429 Testing

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (X6fMO)

430
At my age,Happy Birthday means I won again.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (X35Yt)

431 I'm not saying AIDS would have never happened, but I do think had this individual not been involved, it could have probably been better contained in the US.

It was basically purposely spread around a VERY promiscous population that supercharged the transmission rates.

The prevailing theory is something like a "cut hunter" in Africa getting it from a monkey in like the 1950's.

Still, it basically took 30 years for it to become an epidemic.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:41 AM (GL9+L)



Tracing it to one person, and suggesting he's responsible for the spread is an unrealistic understanding of how/when and where the virus was spread.


The less glamorous assumption to make is that when Africans started finding their way into contact with Europeans, it got spread a million times over, by a million different people.


So rather than blaming one flight attendant, we can more accurately blame the mixing of humans from different parts of the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (TOk1P)

432 Especially the way it's always performed: Someone always starts solo - have to decide on the key, of course, which everyone ignores - but the tempo is like a dirge - 50 bpm - and regardless of whether I'm singing or being "honored" I just want the song to end.

Then in the penultimate verse, "Happy Birthday, dear " the people singing can't agree on the name. Everyone knows this person, and everyone uses the same name - the exact same word - in address and reference, but when it comes time to sing it, everyone sings something different. "John." The line goes "Happy birthday, dear John." Not Johnny or Jack or Skipper. If you forget, it's written on the cake. I realize the octave jump makes it the hardest line in the song, but get the name right, for crying out loud.

By the end, half the people are just mumbling anyway.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (EUDLj)
-----------------

Hmm. Well. You must be a lot of fun at birthday parties.

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (805dc)

433 Good Lord - what was that she was wearing??

-----

Harkonnen Battle Smock.

Hides the antigravs....

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (8XRCm)

434 NittyGritty Dirt Band 'Mr Bojangles' always gets me choked up.

Guthrie City of New Orleans is a close second.



I love both and grew up with them. I think the Nitty Gritty...wait...I was going to say I think they're both cover versions but that doesn't really matter does it?

I love both of those songs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 25, 2016 11:45 AM (mgbwf)

435 407 NittyGritty Dirt Band 'Mr Bojangles' always gets me choked up.

Guthrie City of New Orleans is a close second.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (MIKMs)




Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.
Those 29 sailors are still gone.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 11:45 AM (19RKp)

436 It's a convenient origin story, because we apparently need origin stories, but really, by the time he got around to banging his way around the world, the virus was already working its magic.
It can be traced back to actual patients in the 50s and 60s, and has a likely origin as far as the epidemic is concerned, in 1930s Dutch/German/Portuguese African colonies.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:38 AM (TOk1P)


According to 'And the Band Played On' by Randy Shilts, the first recorded case was probably a Danish social worker in Africa (Zaire, I think) in the late 60s.

Dugas was the one who injected it into the male homosexual population, where it went nuts. So 'Patient Zero' is an appropriate appellation for him.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:46 AM (cEPdm)

437 ...it was especially bulky because of the local/remote controlled diazepam pump device.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 25, 2016 11:46 AM (SeD0w)

438 This picture may be more appropriate for the gun thread (except every thread is a gun thread!) and, besides, others here may be like me and need a happy picture of the day.

The IDF has great looking rifles.

http://tinyurl.com/zyqaase

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2016 11:46 AM (/m8T6)

439
So rather than blaming one flight attendant, we can more accurately blame the mixing of humans from different parts of the world.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM


There is "strength" in diversity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 25, 2016 11:46 AM (IqV8l)

440 Wilt Chamberlain's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and mayonnaise.

Posted by: Independent George (or the commenter formally known as Serenity Now!) at August 25, 2016 11:44 AM (BDZWU)
=====
Our family's favorite is peanut butter, miracle whip and dill pickles.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (MIKMs)

441 So ..... you're saying he DIDNT do that???? Youre implying the story is made up.

He's not patient zero in the world, but he did bring and spread the disease in the States.

Its not a judgement, its not an opinion.

Its a fact.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:42 AM (8XRCm)


Didn't do what? Have sex with a bunch of men in different parts of the world?


No, I'm not saying that. Of course he did. What I am saying is, while he was doing that, so were millions of other men. To consider him the "first" is silly.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (TOk1P)

442 426 Depressing?
"Christmas Shoes"

And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight


I don't want to know what song is a bigger tear jerker than that.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 11:43 AM (ZFUt7)
-------------

That is the stupidest song ever. What a howler. As a woman, I assure you that if I were lying on my deathbed, about to meet my maker, the last thing my kids would think to do for me would not be to buy me a new pair of shoes. At least they'd better not.

Get your fanny home from the shoe store, kid, and go sit with your mom.

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (805dc)

443 So rather than blaming one flight attendant, we can more accurately blame the mixing of humans from different parts of the world.
Posted by: BurtTC



No, I'm going to put some serious blame on Patient Zero in the US that admitted he wanted to infect as many people as possible.

He probably killed 100 times as many Americans as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor did.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (GL9+L)

444 Our family's favorite is peanut butter, miracle whip and dill pickles.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (MIKMs)
-------------------

Oh sweet mother of a badger, you really do need to get someone to show you how to turn on the oven, mbq.

Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:48 AM (805dc)

445 Most depressing song?
Motorhead's only slow song
"Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me"
:::takes shower after listening:::

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 25, 2016 11:48 AM (7qWQe)

446 HRC's outfits hide the control rig. She actually died in 2013 and has been fitted with actuators and remote control apparatus, operated from somewhere deep in Soros' headquarters.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 11:49 AM (9krrF)

447 According to 'And the Band Played On' by Randy Shilts, the first recorded case was probably a Danish social worker in Africa (Zaire, I think) in the late 60s.

Dugas was the one who injected it into the male homosexual population, where it went nuts. So 'Patient Zero' is an appropriate appellation for him.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:46 AM (cEPdm)


Shilts very accurately recorded what was happening in the U.S., in those early days, but there has been quite a bit of science done since he wrote his book (and subsequently died from AIDS).

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:49 AM (TOk1P)

448 Oh sweet mother of a badger


If it's a honey badger, she doesn't give a shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:49 AM (0mRoj)

449 No, I'm going to put some serious blame on Patient Zero in the US that admitted he wanted to infect as many people as possible.

He probably killed 100 times as many Americans as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor did.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (GL9+L)



If it makes you feel better, go ahead. I'm not going to try to stop you.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:50 AM (TOk1P)

450 One of the creepiest things I ever saw was a movie by Salvador Dali. The image of a woman getting her eye ball sliced still fills me with horror.

Posted by: California Girl at August 25, 2016 11:51 AM (Pt5D1)

451 Who'da ever thought having gay anal sex with 10-20 anonymous partners a weekend would be bad for you?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 11:51 AM (0mRoj)

452 I think this iteration of the Gam-Gam ISS* also features the self cleaning colostomy bag. She just pulls up to an RV dump station, hooks up, and 3 minutes later, fresh as a daisy.
*Internal Support System

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (SeD0w)

453 >>He also liked peanut butter and banana sammiches. Dude had his kinks.


Everyone know the proper accompaniment to PB (if not jelly) is bacon. Particularly when the bread is toasted.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (NOIQH)

454 The less glamorous assumption to make is that when Africans started finding their way into contact with Europeans, it got spread a million times over, by a million different people.

Because that's not exactly what happened.

--AIDS first appeared in Africa, specifically Zaire

--Lots of UN workers in Zaire were from Haiti

--Coincidentally, Haiti was a big vacation destination for male homosexuals in the late 70s

--So it was only a matter of time before what happened eventually did happen.

'And The Band Played On' has a quote from some doctor at a conference in San Francisco, pre-AIDS, noting that the STD rate among male homosexuals was something like 20 *times* the national average. The doctor said "if anything really serious gets loose in here, there will be hell to play."

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (cEPdm)

455 No, I'm not saying that. Of course he did. What I am saying is, while he was doing that, so were millions of other men. To consider him the "first" is silly.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (TOk1P)

----

No.


Infectious diseases do NOT start with millions.

They start with ONE. Always one.

Doesnt matter if its the plague, tubercluosis, AIDS, or measles.

Some where sometime, the virus jumped from primates to humans. probably as a result of a bite.

But ...It ALWAYS starts with one.

Gugan wasnt the first in the world. But he was HIV's Typhoid Mary in the States.

If that makes you uncomfortable....too bad... bu that doesnt change the facts.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (8XRCm)

456 One of the sickest things about the LGBTQ freakshow is how they blame Reagan for the spread of AIDS, while they revere Barney Frank, who operated a gay brothel for years during the explosion of AIDS in the U.S.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (2cS/G)

457 >>>451 Who'da ever thought having gay anal sex with 10-20 anonymous partners a weekend would be bad for you?

Your colon.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 25, 2016 11:53 AM (7qWQe)

458
By the end, half the people are just mumbling anyway.
Posted by: FireHorse at August 25, 2016 11:36 AM (EUDLj)

Oh, Fire Horse! You NAILED it!

I don't know who this guy is, but he sure came up with an uplifting and sweet birthday song. He's all over youtube inserting various names in the part where he says, Have fun." ( beware: ..uh, it's also an earworm.)

http://tinyurl.com/mnhehd4

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at August 25, 2016 11:53 AM (oQQwD)

459 Somehow a Hillary sock resurrected itself. I blame pixy.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 25, 2016 11:53 AM (ZFUt7)

460 Hillary's outfits, Aids, sad songs and sammichs... We cover it all here...

Posted by: donna at August 25, 2016 11:54 AM (O2RFr)

461 How does it feel to feel?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 25, 2016 11:55 AM (GdFQh)

462 Let's make sure we go out of our way to defend a gay man that purposely spread AIDS in the US.

AIDS would have been a much different disease in the US had it not been introduced into the gay population in such a premeditated way.

Oh well, I tell you what, people started rethinking morality in those days from the 1970s Studio 54 type attitude.

Posted by: Trolly at August 25, 2016 11:55 AM (nq/J2)

463 >>I think this iteration of the Gam-Gam ISS* also features the self cleaning colostomy bag.


I can see that.

Also would not be surprised if she wears some sort of back brace to keep her from slumping. Would explain the pillows - if she can't bend her back (because brace keeps it straight) then she needs pillows to reinforce her straight-back position while sitting.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:55 AM (NOIQH)

464
Our family's favorite is peanut butter, miracle whip and dill pickles.
Posted by: mustbequantum




A Kallikak Family* favorite!

*wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 25, 2016 11:55 AM (kdS6q)

465 Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

I shudder to think of the hardware that she must have under all that padding. NFL players don't wear that much protection.

Posted by: Cheri at August 25, 2016 11:55 AM (oiNtH)

466 I've got it! "Time in a Bottle"!

Posted by: RI Red at August 25, 2016 11:59 AM (JZKh0)

467 My wife buys Creamy Peanut Butter, but I prefer Crunchy. I think she hate me.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 25, 2016 11:59 AM (oDCMR)

468 Didn't even Harry Reid pass some legislation that was signed by Obama that actually roadblocked him from closing GITMO?





Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 11:37 AM (GL9+L)


He can close GITMO prison all he wants but he can not transfer the terrorists to prisons in the US. Several laws have been passed which prohibits that.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 11:59 AM (mpXpK)

469 That is the stupidest song ever. What a howler. As a woman, I assure
you that if I were lying on my deathbed, about to meet my maker, the
last thing my kids would think to do for me would not be to buy me a new
pair of shoes. At least they'd better not.

Get your fanny home from the shoe store, kid, and go sit with your mom.
Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (805dc)


Agree
100%. When my kids and I are driving around the Christmas season and
that song comes on the radio, we always groan and laugh.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 11:59 AM (cEPdm)

470 AIDS would have been a much different disease in the US had it not been introduced into the gay population in such a premeditated way.


----

I think if had had not been introduce to the gay community, today we would be viewing AIDs as a subsaharan African disease and not too concerned about it.

And.... if you REALLY want to get Machiavellian.... AIDS did alot to garner sympathy for the gay community and went a long long way to mainstreaming ideas like gay marriage and acceptance for the lifestyle.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 12:00 PM (8XRCm)

471

having problems getting on this site today...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 12:00 PM (qCMvj)

472 Also would not be surprised if she wears some sort of back brace to keep her from slumping. Would explain the pillows -

We've got that covered with the new carbon fiber exoskeleton. We're trying to overcome the unnatural position this keeps her in while tribbing.

Posted by: Gam-Gam ISS 2.0 Engineering Team, a division of the Clinton Global Health initiative at August 25, 2016 12:00 PM (SeD0w)

473 Hillary's outfits, Aids, sad songs and sammichs... We cover it all here...


Oh, I'm late to the thread. I've sort of caught up with the other topics, but what are we saying about sammiches?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 25, 2016 12:01 PM (mgbwf)

474 Most depressing song for me is "To Fro" by He Said (Graham Lewis).

There are no lyrics other than the title, but the atmosphere is just dark and gloomy.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 25, 2016 12:01 PM (AroJD)

475 Everyone know the proper accompaniment to PB (if not jelly) is bacon. Particularly when the bread is toasted.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 11:52 AM (NOIQH)
===

Bacon and peanut butter cups sandwich? Thought?

Posted by: Independent George (or the commenter formally known as Serenity Now!) at August 25, 2016 12:02 PM (BDZWU)

476 So it must be "Suicidal Depression Thursday"...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 12:03 PM (9krrF)

477 476 So it must be "Suicidal Depression Thursday"...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 12:03 PM (9krrF)

Or just a day ending in "y".

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 12:03 PM (0mRoj)

478 From the wiki entry on Dugas:

Genetic analysis of HIV provides some support for the Patient Zero theory. Dugas is now believed to be part of a cluster of homosexual men who traveled frequently, were extremely sexually active, and died of AIDS at a very early stage in the epidemic.[7]

However, a number of authorities have since voiced reservations about the implications of the CDC's Patient Zero study and characterizations of Dugas as being responsible for bringing HIV to cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. In the Patient Zero study, the average length of time between sexual contact and the onset of symptoms was 10 1/2 months.[2]

While Shilts's book does not make such an allegation, the rumor that Dugas was the principal disseminator of the virus became widespread. In 1988, Andrew R. Moss published an opposing view in the New York Review of Books.[8]

A November 2007 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that HIV was introduced to Haiti from Africa in 1966, and from Haiti to the United States in 1969.[9] These findings appear to dismiss the Patient Zero hypothesis as it is popularly conceived - e.g. that Dugas was responsible for introducing the HIV virus to North America.[citation needed]


As the poet says, it's complicated.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 12:03 PM (cEPdm)

479 having problems getting on this site today...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 12:00 PM (qCMvj)


Just now I got a couple of "gateway" errors trying to load this page.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 12:05 PM (cEPdm)

480 Oh, depressing songs.

Is it the song itself that counts, or the circumstances?

Whenever I've had a bad breakup I always go to Warren Zevon's "Accidentally Like a Martyr" and then I wallow in it for a while.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 25, 2016 12:05 PM (mgbwf)

481 Did everyone just disappear?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 12:05 PM (cEPdm)

482 479 having problems getting on this site today...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 12:00 PM (qCMvj)

Just now I got a couple of "gateway" errors trying to load this page.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 25, 2016 12:05 PM (cEPdm)

So did I. One of the hamsters must have passed out.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 12:05 PM (0mRoj)

483 I've got it! "Time in a Bottle"!



-Amy Schumer

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 12:06 PM (19RKp)

484

The 3 good men.

https://www.billwhittle.com/right-angle/rright-angle-obama-legacy

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 12:06 PM (qCMvj)

485 However, a number of authorities have since voiced reservations about the implications of the CDC's Patient Zero study and characterizations of Dugas as being responsible for bringing HIV to cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. In the Patient Zero study, the average length of time between sexual contact and the onset of symptoms was 10 1/2 months.

-----

Reservations about implications is not science.


Reservations about implications is politics.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 12:06 PM (8XRCm)

486 >>Bacon and peanut butter cups sandwich? Thought?


Oh, that sounds sinful!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2016 12:06 PM (NOIQH)

487 468 He can close GITMO prison all he wants but he can not transfer the terrorists to prisons in the US. Several laws have been passed which prohibits that.
==========================


Hahahaha! Good one!

Posted by: President For Life Barack the Magnificent at August 25, 2016 12:08 PM (/m8T6)

488 Just because I can't figure out how to program my oven (or my microwave, or my car clock, or my player thingie for the TV) is no excuse for name-calling.

See, I was keeping with the time theme anyways. So there. Probably am a honey badger, come to think about it.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 25, 2016 12:08 PM (MIKMs)

489 Did everyone just disappear?

You weren't supposed to notice. Please remain where you are.

Posted by: The Adjustment Team at August 25, 2016 12:08 PM (T/cxb)

490 Talk about depressing, that turncoat CAC has written off Pennsylvania. In August. Maybe it's just a clickbait article that y-not (who else) fell for. If Florida is +2 Trump, Pennsylvania is not lost.

Somebody buy him a calendar, please.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 25, 2016 12:09 PM (ZFUt7)

491 Did everyone just disappear?

You weren't supposed to notice. Please remain where you are.




Always knew I'd miss the Rapture.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 12:09 PM (19RKp)

492 Reservations about implications is not science.


Reservations about implications is politics.
Posted by: fixerupper



Yea, just like anything else, the Left is going to have a revisionist history on anything that doesn't fit their narrative.

A gay man deciding to infect as many gays as possible and a very promiscous culture spreading it doesn't jive with the idea that Republicans are responsible for all of the problems of the gay community.

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 12:10 PM (GL9+L)

493 The IDF has great looking rifles.

http://tinyurl.com/zyqaase
=========================

OK, you caught me: It's really the soldier.

Posted by: MTF at August 25, 2016 12:10 PM (/m8T6)

494 Site was locked out for a while.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 12:10 PM (mpXpK)

495 Always knew I'd miss the Rapture.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 12:09 PM (19RKp)

-----

Fab Five Freddie told me everybodys high
DJ spinning are saving my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas.... Flash no do
And you dont stop... sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 12:11 PM (8XRCm)

496 Always knew I'd miss the Rapture.


Oh, I never questioned that I'd be left behind.

How long until we can start going through their stuff?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 25, 2016 12:11 PM (mgbwf)

497 "Always knew I'd miss the Rapture."


Crap. Did that start today? I was going to mow the yard.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 12:11 PM (qDT3f)

498 Talk about depressing, that turncoat CAC has written off Pennsylvania. In August. Maybe it's just a clickbait article that y-not (who else) fell for. If Florida is +2 Trump, Pennsylvania is not lost.

Somebody buy him a calendar, please.
Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative


I've pretty much given up on polling telling me much and I am cynical about this election, but it does amaze me how "our side" goes out of the way to cherry pick data to make the case that this election is hopelessly lost.

How many recent nationwide polls have come out showing its a 2-3 point game? Or a state like PA is even close when usually its a written off blue state?

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 12:13 PM (GL9+L)

499 Ace is awake.

Posted by: HH at August 25, 2016 12:13 PM (DrCtv)

500 "The IDF has great looking rifles. "



That's quite the, um........uniform.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 25, 2016 12:13 PM (qDT3f)

501 Everyone has AIDS! AIDS AIDS AIDS!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 25, 2016 12:13 PM (0mRoj)

502 The last PA poll was a long time ago and it had Clinton at +11.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 12:14 PM (mpXpK)

503 Ace up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 12:15 PM (mpXpK)

504 Sorry for that little outage there. We're preparing the internet for January, 2017. There will be changes then.

Some further amendments to the first amendment. Temporary inconvenience, permanent fix.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 25, 2016 12:16 PM (ZFUt7)

505 The last PA poll was a long time ago and it had Clinton at +11.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party


I've seen several PA polls where Trump was tied or even winning, but it was like 3 weeks ago

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 12:16 PM (GL9+L)

506 A gay man deciding to infect as many gays as possible and a very promiscous culture spreading it doesn't jive with the idea that Republicans are responsible for all of the problems of the gay community.
Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 12:10 PM (GL9+L)

-----

Its not even that.

Going around denying root causes to protect certain classes of people with something as cut and dry as biology is in the long run going to get more people killed than if you look at the course of a disease objectively because you cant warn of behaviors that help spread the disease.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 25, 2016 12:16 PM (8XRCm)

507

Calling Reince Priebus
Calling Reince Priebus

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 25, 2016 12:16 PM (qCMvj)

508 This week I've been answering the poll calls I get. Two or three per day. I've told each one that I'm voting for Clinton. So I definitely don't trust the polls. And I'm doing everything to make it look like Clinton is doing well in my part of NC. If they keep calling, Ima keep fucking with them.

Posted by: nckate at August 25, 2016 12:17 PM (v8s6L)

509 505 I've seen several PA polls where Trump was tied or even winning, but it was like 3 weeks ago

Posted by: Maritime at August 25, 2016 12:16 PM (GL9+L)

The last one listed by RCP was Aug 10 and had Scankles at +11.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 25, 2016 12:18 PM (mpXpK)

510 219
Nerd fact. In ancient Rome, hours varied in length. The sundial divided
the day up into twelve equal parts but there was more sun to divide in
June than in December.

*
*
They started counting at dawn, so 6 am (approx.) was First Hour and so on. I happened to run across that years ago, but missed the first part. I thought the Roman day began at midnight like ours, so Third Hour was 3 am. Duh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 25, 2016 12:19 PM (txdEq)

511 The last PA poll was a long time ago and it had Clinton at +11.Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

At which time they oversampled democrats - they are not going to get those kind of turnout numbers again - and basically ignored independent voters.

Worst poll I've seen. Not sure why CAC is falling for it.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 25, 2016 12:19 PM (ZFUt7)

512 think if had had not been introduce to the gay community, today we would be viewing AIDs as a subsaharan African disease and not too concern

-
And would have missed out on some really great jokes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 25, 2016 12:21 PM (YO9G6)

513 My favorite Dali is:

Gala and the Angelus of Millet Immediately Preceding the Arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses

I guess I just dig the title.

Posted by: Soulpatchtony at August 25, 2016 12:23 PM (m40v5)

514 At which time they oversampled democrats

1
That's to account for the vote fraud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 25, 2016 12:23 PM (CkABk)

515 At which time they oversampled democrats

-
That's to account for the vote fraud.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at August 25, 2016 12:24 PM (BIsNn)

516 The Epipen is an ancient design. It's long off patent - or should be.

The problem is that its would-be clones and competitors have been constrained by the FDA and HHS in a manner that creates a de-facto monopoly.

Either you have a monopoly and you regulate it as such, or you establish and encourage a level playing field.

Posted by: JEM at August 25, 2016 10:08 AM (o+SC1)


The Mylan Epi-pen sells for $225 in Canada ($CDN). Still outrageously high for a product that probably costs a buck to manufacture.


I wonder what they use in China, or Japan, or India?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2016 12:29 PM (oqkO3)

517 The first time i saw this as a kid, i thought it was from Mad magazine.

Posted by: rusty at August 25, 2016 12:30 PM (pHVJG)

518 "No Time", by the Guess Who.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2016 12:32 PM (oqkO3)

519 Newer versions have a sound chip to issue voice instructions for use.

It literally talks its users through how to use it.

I just want y'all to think about that fact.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at August 25, 2016 10:32 AM (9krrF)


And probably come with a 32-page leaflet, printed in 40 languages, explaining how to select which language you want the sound chip to play its instructions in...


Possible future dialog:


"Ack, ack, ack (thinks) gotta get a shot of epinephrine right now!"


"Thank you for choosing Epi-pen. Press 1 for French, 2 for Spanish, 3 for Mandarin.....39 for English..."


"Clunk."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2016 12:43 PM (oqkO3)

520 Will they be passing out cock holsters in Austin?

Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:22 AM (Tyii7)


I think Austin already has its full quota.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2016 12:58 PM (oqkO3)

521 Get your fanny home from the shoe store, kid, and go sit with your mom.





Posted by: bluebell at August 25, 2016 11:47 AM (805dc)
Thank you, bluebell! I thought I was the only one who thought this was a stupid song. I have banned it from my Pandora stations, and when it comes on at Christmas time, the radio goes off. Icky, stupid song!

Posted by: California Girl at August 25, 2016 01:07 PM (Pt5D1)

522 Always knew I'd miss the Rapture.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2016 12:09 PM (19RKp)
Couldn't have. I'm still here.

Posted by: California Girl at August 25, 2016 01:14 PM (Pt5D1)

523 307 I wrote Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Posted by: George R. R. R. R. Martin at August 25, 2016 11:04 AM (Tyii7)


Bullshit. You know how I know? They finished it!

Posted by: major major major major at August 25, 2016 03:44 PM (SAqv1)

(Jump to top of page)






Processing 0.05, elapsed 0.0582 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0202 seconds, 532 records returned.
Page size 244 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.



MuNuvians
MeeNuvians
Polls! Polls! Polls!

Real Clear Politics
Gallup
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat