TGIF News Dump (9/02/16) [Mis. Hum.]

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1 **looks around**

First?

May as well get comfy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 07:46 AM (X6fMO)

2 Good morning!

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 07:49 AM (Om16U)

3 Good morning everyone. I'm enjoying a carby blueberry muffin and coffee in the cool New England air. It's lovely.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:49 AM (A4pxH)

4 Yum, fresh links!

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 07:50 AM (/m8T6)

5 No school for kid today, so I was looking forward to sleeping in since I've been feeling sleepy all week. My body still hasn't adjusted from my lazy summer schedule.

So I wake up one hour later. Really, body, that's all you wanted, one more hour?

smh

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 07:51 AM (Om16U)

6 MisHum, pulling the graveyard and early morning shifts again. Do you ever sleep? Thank you for taking care of us.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:51 AM (A4pxH)

7 Dems will readily be back in the BLM terrorists' good graces as soon as they grovel on bended knee even more, and promise reparation$ and all sorts and forms of other "payments" to atone for our sins.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 02, 2016 07:52 AM (+FSld)

8 3 Good morning everyone. I'm enjoying a carby blueberry muffin and coffee in the cool New England air. It's lovely.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:49 AM (A4pxH)

*looks at butter coffee*
*gives bluebell the stink eye*

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 07:52 AM (Om16U)

9 Votermom, school already started and they already have a day off?

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:52 AM (A4pxH)

10 6 MisHum, pulling the graveyard and early morning shifts again. Do you ever sleep? Thank you for taking care of us.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:51 AM (A4pxH

Thank you bluebell.
Feeling rough this morning.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2016 07:53 AM (voOPb)

11 From the complaint in Allen v. English:

Plaintiff Yvonne Allen is a devout Christian woman who covers her hair with a headscarf as part of her religious practice. In December 2015, Ms. Allen sought to renew her driver license at the Lee County driver license office, where officials demanded that she remove her head covering to be photographed. When Ms. Allen explained her religious beliefs, the County officials responded with a remarkable claim: They admitted that there was a religious accommodation available for head coverings, but contended that it applied only to Muslims.

Then the ACLU steps in ...

Posted by: undocumented Dhimmi at September 02, 2016 07:53 AM (e8kgV)

12 Votermom, I wish I had my coconut oil and heavy cream here! It's going to be a long and carby weekend here, it always is. Don't worry, I'll feel like crap later.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:54 AM (A4pxH)

13 MisHum, you'd better take care of yourself. I don't want Mrs. MisHum to get mad at us. Seriously, don't overdo it.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:55 AM (A4pxH)

14 TFG just phoned and penned a change in status for Midway from sand spit to "National Monument", so people "one hundred years from now can visit". That's what the idiot actually said. Hopefully someone pointed out it is a desolate island in the middle of the Pacific and hardly worth the effort, except as a naval base.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 07:57 AM (/m8T6)

15 I clicked on something and then clicked on something else, sooooo.......I hope "Sully" is a good film. I don't go to the movies very often. but I like Tom Hanks and the subject is certainly very interesting. I think it's also cool that Clint Eastwood is still directing films and he's what.....86? I was watching a documentary about the "Miracle on the Hudson" and an interview with Sully. He said from years of flying he was trained to remain calm, but knowing what had happened (engines ability blown out) it was the most sickening feeling he ever had in his life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2016 07:59 AM (6HqlZ)

16 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 02, 2016 08:00 AM (ZQfW9)

17 Mis Hum, I really enjoyed the ONT and all the work you put into it, but that many embeds caused an intolerable slowdown of the thread (and the main page).

So I added a youtube embed block filter for now to my ad blocker.

Others may not have (or know how to) this feature.

In the future, instead of a pile of embeds, just offer links. Please.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:00 AM (gyKtp)

18 I'm sorry for the relatives of victims of the cinema shooting, but I think it was stupid for people to sue the cinema.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2016 08:02 AM (6HqlZ)

19 Re: the Jared Fogle suit - whether or not his victim was a drug-addled sex fiend will likely be irrelevant. We take our victims as we find them and pay the full price as the last source of vile wickedness and the victim (or family) then collects hoping the last source has deep pockets like Subway.

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:02 AM (g9d8D)

20 Good morning, Horde!

It's that time of year again: ramping up for the 3rd Annual Southwest Ohio Moron Meetup.

Scheduled for October 22nd in the Dayton area.

Want to be kept in the loop?

Drop me a line at swohmome@mail.com (and please include your nic).

Posted by: ibguy at September 02, 2016 08:03 AM (vUcdz)

21 In the future, instead of a pile of embeds, just offer links. Please.Posted by: GnuBreed

Turn off JavaScript and quit your bitchin'. :-)

Seriously, JavaScript being turned on in a thread you're going to spend any time in is a huge waste of time.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:03 AM (ZFUt7)

22
In #NeverTrump news, over at RedState Ben "Weekend Dad" Howe, he of "Halloween Pranks" fame, is trying to raise $30k for a TrumpSux documentary he wants to make called "The Sociopath".

Since Howe's career, as such, is assembling free creative commons clips into little viewed youtube videos, guess where that money is going.. He should have called it, "Ben's late with the child-support check again -- what to do".

http://tinyurl.com/jpcwkm9

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:05 AM (kdS6q)

23 9 Votermom, school already started and they already have a day off?

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:52 AM (A4pxH)

LOL yes. They started last Thursday (1.5 day week) and this week they have a 4 day weekend.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:05 AM (Om16U)

24 I clicked on something and then clicked on something else, sooooo.......I hope "Sully" is a good film.

I wonder if Captain Sully will have a cameo in the movie, just as Jim Lovell did at the end of Apollo 13.

And I can never think of Tom Hanks without thinking of his Bosom Buddies co-star Peter Scolari. One's a multimillionaire Hollywood star and the other's an answer to a trivia question. I'm glad I'm not Scolari, because I would most likely have hung myself years ago.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 08:05 AM (X6fMO)

25 Mis Hum, don't get sick! Take care of yourself.

Here, have some of my butter coffee.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:06 AM (Om16U)

26 I think a cold virus is going around.

Kid in college has it and she's miserable and this AM hubby is going thru his salt gargling routine which he only does if he has a sore throat.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:07 AM (Om16U)

27
It is definately not August anymore.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 08:07 AM (iLUWQ)

28 21 >> Turn off JavaScript and quit your bitchin'. :-)

Posted by: free range

Another good option, and with that choice you even get ampersands!

I wasn't bitchin' for me; I've already solved the problem.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:07 AM (gyKtp)

29
In the future, instead of a pile of embeds, just offer links. Please.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:00 AM (gyKtp)

As a rookie novice amateur OB I'm learning. It will be a while before I do something like that again. Maybe during Sweeps Week!!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2016 08:08 AM (voOPb)

30 ....it was the most sickening feeling he ever had in his life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2016 07:59 AM (6HqlZ)
* * * *
Such is life hurtling thru the air in a hundred thousand pound tube with wings and no power. And rightfully the odds were stacked a hundred thousand to one that Sully would see another day. Better to have the feeling, fight thru it and survive than run screaming thru the cabin and doing a cannonball into the hudson as most of us would have done.

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:08 AM (g9d8D)

31 So, Iran wants to blow up the world and Obama's Democrats want to help them. Is that about right?

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:08 AM (/m8T6)

32 25 Mis Hum, don't get sick! Take care of yourself.

Here, have some of my butter coffee.
Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:06 AM (Om16U

Make it black and I'll have a mug or 3.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2016 08:08 AM (voOPb)

33 MP4, don't forget that Peter Scolari had a long and successful run in Newhart too. Didn't he also direct?

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 08:10 AM (A4pxH)

34
In "there's a law against that?" news, after Melania Trump called out her lawyers yesterday, the Daily Mail and blogger Webster G. Tarpley have both shown their bellies and retracted their allegations that she worked as an escort/whore.

Hopefully a few more bloggers and the odd poster will be getting letters too.

DM retraction:

http://tinyurl.com/z7h2lrf

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:10 AM (kdS6q)

35 Mis Hum, I loved the ONT links. Especially liked hearing some of the covers I didn't know existed. Thanks!

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:11 AM (/m8T6)

36 And I can never think of Tom Hanks without thinking of his Bosom Buddies co-star Peter Scolari. One's a multimillionaire Hollywood star and the other's an answer to a trivia question. I'm glad I'm not Scolari, because I would most likely have hung myself years ago.

Kind of like the first season of American Idol. There was Ryan Seacrest and....that other guy.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at September 02, 2016 08:11 AM (PFy0L)

37 31 So, Iran wants to blow up the world and Obama's Democrats want to help them. Is that about right?
________________

If Barry had any actual smarts or skills, he'd offer to build the bomb for Iran himself. That's how much he wants them to have it.

As it is, he's had to settle for just funding it for them (with billions of our dollars).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 02, 2016 08:11 AM (NnYnv)

38 Such is life hurtling thru the air in a hundred thousand pound tube with wings and no power. And rightfully the odds were stacked a hundred thousand to one that Sully would see another day. Better to have the feeling, fight thru it and survive than run screaming thru the cabin and doing a cannonball into the hudson as most of us would have done.

And then to be dinged by gov agencies because simulators suggest he could have made it back to an airport.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:11 AM (4Utw1)

39 *makes moar coffee for horde*

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:12 AM (Om16U)

40 In #NeverTrump news

You think Nixon had an enemies list? Some of the NeverTrumpers don't seem to think that people have memories. Either way, either Hillary wins, or Hillary loses.

I'm looking at first and second amendment rights, the economy, the nations security, and the supreme court as primary concerns.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:12 AM (ZFUt7)

41 Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:08 AM (g9d8D)

Sully seems like a nice man; He was glad that what he was able to do offered people some hope and he was glad that he offered some credit to his profession as a pilot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2016 08:12 AM (6HqlZ)

42 Good morning, Horde. It's Friday, so you only have to fake it for a few more hours before the weekend, and it's going to be a long weekend at that!

The girlfriend is running a 12 mile race tomorrow morning, so I'll be down there cheering. If you've never spectated one of those long races (half marathon/marathon level), they're actually pretty fun to watch. When the racers see and hear people cheering for them, you can visibly see that it helps give them that last bit of energy to finish.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 02, 2016 08:13 AM (KUaJL)

43 Daily Mail has some pretty good hurricane coverage. They say 132k without power right now and quite a bit of flooding.

DM is also in hot water, with a big ole RETRACTION on their main page about a smear piece they ran on Melania Trump, hinting that she worked for an escort service.

Gee, being sued for $150 million by Trump might have had something to do with their non-apology.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:14 AM (gyKtp)

44 And then to be dinged by gov agencies because simulators suggest he could have made it back to an airport. Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:11 AM (4Utw1)

* * * * *

Also saw the co-pilot was dinged for not hitting the "ditch" button. Funny how govt asswipes have all the answers post-accident. Turns out we're all just gonna do what our minds allow once the sh-t (or birds) hits the fan.

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:16 AM (g9d8D)

45 In "there's a law against that?" news, after Melania Trump called out her lawyers yesterday, the Daily Mail and blogger Webster G. Tarpley have both shown their bellies and retracted their allegations that she worked as an escort/whore.
______________________

Interesting, isn't it, that the media is willing to print thinly-sourced rumors about distant-past whoring by candidate wife Melania Trump, yet the same media pointedly ignores the abundance of evidence of the recent-past (and present) whoring by candidate Hillary Clinton.

And Hillary's whoring has cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, harmed millions of desperately poor people (just ask the Haitians), and endangered U.S. national security.

So which should be the bigger story?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 02, 2016 08:17 AM (NnYnv)

46 If illegals get deported, will California stop getting electoral votes and congressional representation based on their inflated population numbers?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 08:17 AM (iLoHX)

47
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has released an outline of the GOP's upcoming Fall agenda.

They are, passing another stopgap spending bill because new fiscal year starts Oct 1, another sham Iran vote and -- umm -- another billion in Zika spending.

Bout it. No impeachments or much else. Vote Republican!

http://tinyurl.com/za3mnyu

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:18 AM (kdS6q)

48 Mornin', fappers.

39 *makes moar coffee for horde*
Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:12 AM (Om16U)

Oh, yes please. I'll take cream and sugar. Butter is for toast.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2016 08:18 AM (0mRoj)

49 MP4, don't forget that Peter Scolari had a long and successful run in Newhart too. Didn't he also direct?

Oh, I remember Newhart, but I was thinking more about Hanks' Hollywood fame and riches. I just looked Scolari up on wiki and see that he's currently playing the Wizard in Wicked.

And frankly, I'm projecting my own emotions off on Scolari. I couldn't deal with Hanks' success, so I don't know how he does, but more power to him.

It's like the old adage, It is not enough that I succeed; others must fail.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 08:19 AM (X6fMO)

50 MisHum, you are going above and beyond. Kudos.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2016 08:19 AM (0mRoj)

51 The Judicial Watch email release shows the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation acted as one entity, even to the extant of granting Diplomatic passports to Foundation staffers.

Can't wait for the NYT outcry {/sarc}.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:19 AM (/m8T6)

52 will California stop getting electoral votes and congressional representation based on their inflated population numbers?

Maybe it's time for a new 3/5 Compromise!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Buying a Venti Crappacino at September 02, 2016 08:19 AM (97XyN)

53 I loved the ONT links. Especially liked hearing some of the covers I didn't know existed. Thanks! Posted by: MTF

+ + + + + +

Yeah, thanks MIS HUM!! I woke up at 2 am AZ time unable to sleep only to then listen to originals and covers you posted and then try to find my own until 5 and now I'm exhausted but time to get up. Thanks!

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:20 AM (g9d8D)

54 And then to be dinged by gov agencies because simulators suggest he could have made it back to an airport.Posted by: rickb223

The man needed a ten mile long runway which the Hudson River provided. At a certain airspeed the plane would no longer fly, but drop. As a seasoned glider pilot he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly what that airspeed was, brought the plane just over the surface of the water, held it steady and waited.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:20 AM (ZFUt7)

55 37 If Barry had any actual smarts or skills, he'd offer to build the bomb for Iran himself. That's how much he wants them to have it.
==========================

I'll bet you right now it will later come out that the U.S. is providing technical consulting with them on this very thing.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:21 AM (/m8T6)

56 Looks like someone just picked a whole bouquet of whoopsie-daisies.

http://tinyurl.com/jj52axk

Millions of honeybees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:22 AM (O7MnT)

57
In business model news, Change.org, the online petition site, laid off 30% of its staff on Thursday affecting roughly 100 employees across all departments.

The move follows news earlier this month that Change.org was in the midst of laying off 58 employees largely focused in business development and recruiting. At least 124 employees in total have been laid off this summer.

Until now, Change.org has been relying on a financially unsuccessful revenue model around sponsored petitions paid for by nonprofits. Change.org announced in late June it was moving to a crowdfunding model where petition signers can donate cash with the company taking a 5% cut.

Yahoo Finance

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:22 AM (kdS6q)

58 Sarkozy says the burkini sh*t in France is a 'provocation' of political Islam.

Says if we French allow this, soon the French women on the beach without burkinis will be viewed as the offenders.

He wants France to get some balls and stop this crap.

http://tinyurl.com/zpw77zx

Posted by: McCool at September 02, 2016 08:23 AM (TQxRy)

59 You can also find on the internet talks with Jeff Skiles who was the co-pilot who obviously played a big part in the plane being able to land on the Hudson as well, but his story seems to get neglected in interviews

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 02, 2016 08:23 AM (6HqlZ)

60 I do appreciate your kind words this morning Horde.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 02, 2016 08:24 AM (voOPb)

61 Turns out we're all just gonna do what our minds allow once the sh-t (or birds) hits the fan.
Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:16 AM

The wisdom contained in the saying "You fight like you train."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 02, 2016 08:25 AM (OF/aZ)

62 The man needed a ten mile long runway which the Hudson River provided. At a certain airspeed the plane would no longer fly, but drop. As a seasoned glider pilot he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly what that airspeed was, brought the plane just over the surface of the water, held it steady and waited.

Exactly.
Fuck government. Either the NTSB or whomever was in charge.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:25 AM (4Utw1)

63 Having been lucky enough to fly in a glider exactly once I have a huge admiration for Sully's ability to bring that monster safely down in the Hudson. What a pro.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:25 AM (/m8T6)

64 I have noticed that since Brexit the bureaucrats in Brussels seem to be doubling down on their arbitrary and capricious dictats to those they control. Since the British repeatedly said that they wanted an economic union, tot a political union and the Brussels bureaucrats seem to be determined to impose an unaccountable political union, perhaps the British will propose an alternative economic union to anybody else who wants to say goodby to the EU.

Switzerland might well be ready to join and Norway is likely to follow. Soon it might result in two European alliances with one gradually growing and the other gradually shrinking.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 02, 2016 08:25 AM (+QFqi)

65 Sully seems like a nice man Posted by: FenelonSpoke

* * *
He's definitely nice to a whole nuther level. I used him as a model for my young daughter at the time to show her how when we stay calm, good things happen, whether it's an airliner crashing into the Hudson or a bee flying around your head in the pool.

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:26 AM (g9d8D)

66 On the topic of giving it to them good and hard:

Teachers in my town are fighting for a new contract and are complaining that they are required to pay more for their health insurance and the % increases as their salary increases. They're crying bc the increases in health insurance costs are eating into to any pay raises they get.

Well welcome to the friggin' world of Obamacare that all you MF-ers created and rammed down everyone else's throat !

Posted by: McCool at September 02, 2016 08:27 AM (TQxRy)

67 You can also find on the internet talks with Jeff Skiles who was the co-pilot who obviously played a big part in the plane being able to land on the Hudson as well, but his story seems to get neglected in interviews

As it would be if it had all went to shit.
Yay or nay all goes to the captain in this.
Rightly or wrongly.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:27 AM (4Utw1)

68 47 >> House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has released an outline of the GOP's upcoming Fall agenda.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix

Surrender they much. They will save the important stuff for the lame duck sessions. Like the new internet sales tax they are currently plotting.

And gee, no mention of blocking the donation of the internet control to the UN? They only have until Oct. 1 to do that.

And so it goes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:28 AM (gyKtp)

69 I gotta admit- if I were the victims parents being sued by Fogle I'd consider offering a part of my estimated legal costs to be incurred to his fellow prisoners to persuade him to drop the suit and STFU. A good economic decision, with satisfaction as a side dish.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:28 AM (/m8T6)

70

And then to be dinged by gov agencies because simulators suggest he could have made it back to an airport.Posted by: rickb223

The man needed a ten mile long runway which the Hudson River
provided. At a certain airspeed the plane would no longer fly, but drop.
As a seasoned glider pilot he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew
exactly what that airspeed was, brought the plane just over the surface
of the water, held it steady and waited.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:20 AM (ZFUt7)

Not to mention the fact that taking the plane to one of the airports would put an unpowered, heavy, shitty glider full of jet fuel over tens of thousands of people on the ground. FAA can go suck elephant cock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:29 AM (LuZz8)

71 So let me get this straight. Global warming causes more hurricanes which are in turn more destructive because they are more intense due to human influenced global warming.

How do they square that round hole in their heads when this is the first hurricane to actually hit the US mainland in over a decade? That plus the fact that it has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm before it even hit the coast.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at September 02, 2016 08:29 AM (iONHu)

72 I think a cold virus is going around.

Kid in college has it and she's miserable and this AM hubby is going
thru his salt gargling routine which he only does if he has a sore
throat.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:07 AM

Definitely. Boss is sick again. I feel like carp. Great way to start a long weekend. Hope y'all stay healthy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:30 AM (bzd8I)

73 Swearing in "Swiss"?

Hey, you've got four options. French, German, Italian or Romansh.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at September 02, 2016 08:31 AM (EMi53)

74 I think it's cute the way the Dems pretend to care about the cost of the wall and bleat about how we can't afford $10 billion or whatever it is and won't stop Mexicans big ladders anyways. If it were $100 billion and was 80% effective it would be worth it. Hell, the Dems would spend that on water stations, emergency clinics, rescue teams and ladders for the illegals without batting an eye.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:31 AM (1BQGO)

75
Definitely. Boss is sick again. I feel like carp. Great way to start a long weekend. Hope y'all stay healthy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:30 AM (bzd8I)

Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (LuZz8)

76 Watched "JAWS" in it's entirety last night on Netflix. Still my favorite movie of all time. Starting JAWS 2 this morning, one of my least favorite sequels of all time, but I'm going to try to watch it all.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (2cS/G)

77 Fuck government. Either the NTSB or whomever was in charge.

IIRC, an NTSB bureaucrat criticized Sullenberger afterwards for not doing enough to keep the passengers calm or some such bullshit.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (O7MnT)

78 EU is EU'ing again, and the Swiss (while being patient) can only be expected to take so much before telling Brussels to take a hike.

Much like Texas and Washington.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (/m8T6)

79 Millions of honeybees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.

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If only we could get rid of the kudzu as easily. Still, it's really a shame nobody knew they'd be killing millions of honeybees. Geez...

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 02, 2016 08:33 AM (+FSld)

80 I know Peter Scolari's pain of being the forgotten and left behind 2nd banana.

Posted by: Andrew Ridgeley at September 02, 2016 08:33 AM (JO9+V)

81 So did the NY harbor patrol race thru the Hudson clearing out Sully's path or was it sheer luck that he didn't skip off a tug, ferry, or some other putz out on the water?

Posted by: Smitteh at September 02, 2016 08:33 AM (g9d8D)

82 Brussels and Washington both seem to be determined to put the voters' heads on the block to pander to non-citizens.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 08:34 AM (iLoHX)

83 77 Fuck government. Either the NTSB or whomever was in charge.

IIRC, an NTSB bureaucrat criticized Sullenberger afterwards for not doing enough to keep the passengers calm or some such bullshit.
Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (O7MnT)

He might have been a little busy with, I dunno, LANDING THE FUCKING PLANE!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2016 08:34 AM (0mRoj)

84 51 The Judicial Watch email release shows the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation acted as one entity, even to the extant of granting Diplomatic passports to Foundation staffers.
___________________________

It's the money part that sickens me. Hillary's State Dept. treated the Haitian earthquake disaster as an ATM for the Clintons.

The U.S. gov't poured $45 million of our money into building a luxury hotel in Haiti (because that's what dirt poor Haitians needed most, right?). The hotel isn't used by Haitians (who can't afford it), but by executives of the Clinton crony-operation who operate the cell phone monopoly in Haiti (also largely funded by U.S. taxpayers -- we paid for the "free" phones given to the Haitians, so they could then be charged for cell phone service provided by the Clinton-crony owned cell phone company, which has a monopoly there.).

Then there is the $10 million State Dept. loan that was fast-tracked for another Clinton donor, Claudio Osorio. He was a securities fraudster who had already driven one company into bankruptcy. Clinton green-lighted his loan app. -- even though he failed to provide an independent financial audit, as gov't regs reguire -- and the loan got approved in just two weeks (the approval process normally takes months to years). Osorio defaulted on the loan, never built any Haitian houses, but did use our taxpayer millions to buy himself a big Miami mansion and a Maserati. (But hey, the Clintons got their kickback, so it's all good. Who cares that the U.S. taxpayers and the Haitians got screwed?)

There is also the Laureate Education quid-pro-quo. Laureate is a Soros-backed scam; it's a for-profit "university" that operates mainly in third-world countries and Latin America, selling diplomas to anybody foolish enough to fork over the cash. Laureate Education paid Bill Clinton over $16 million to function as a non-working figurehead. In exchange, Hillary Clinton steered over $55 million in taxpayer grants to Laureate Education.

Meanwhile, our idiot "representatives" in government continue to pretend that there is no evidence that Hillary Clinton was anything other than a dedicated public servant (with a peculiar need for secrecy) as Secretary of State . . . .

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 02, 2016 08:35 AM (NnYnv)

85 All these news stories are triggering my tendencies toward micro agression.

Disclaimer : I am not responsible for what comes off this keyboard until after the pain meds kick in.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 08:35 AM (iLUWQ)

86 IIRC, an NTSB bureaucrat criticized Sullenberger afterwards for not doing enough to keep the passengers calm or some such bullshit.
Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (O7MnT)

He might have been a little busy with, I dunno, LANDING THE FUCKING PLANE!!!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2016 08:34 AM (0mRoj)

Well there's his problem. They'd have been better off if the passengers just didn't know what was happening.

Posted by: John Kerry at September 02, 2016 08:35 AM (KUaJL)

87 Looks like someone just picked a whole bouquet of whoopsie-daisies.

http://tinyurl.com/jj52axk

Millions of honeybees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.

I read the comments. Gov better get their act together. F'n quick.
Go long on torches & pitchforks. The public mood is getting ugly.
About time for Dr. Guillotin to make an appearance.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:36 AM (4Utw1)

88
83
77 Fuck government. Either the NTSB or whomever was in charge.

IIRC, an NTSB bureaucrat criticized Sullenberger afterwards for not
doing enough to keep the passengers calm or some such bullshit.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (O7MnT)

He might have been a little busy with, I dunno, LANDING THE FUCKING PLANE!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 02, 2016 08:34 AM (0mRoj)

Sully's lucky the EPA didn't jump his shit for illegally dumping jet fuel into the pristine waters of the Hudson.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:37 AM (LuZz8)

89 73 Swearing in "Swiss"?

Hey, you've got four options. French, German, Italian or Romansh.
Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at September 02, 2016 08:31 AM (EMi53)

I wasted my time focusing on the Romansh.

Posted by: Sterling Archer at September 02, 2016 08:37 AM (7HtZB)

90 Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM

At least I'm not running a tempurature yet...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:37 AM (bzd8I)

91 Isis executes 9 teens using a electric chainsaw in Mosul If it twere me I'd execute the whole lot at once.

Posted by: freaked at September 02, 2016 08:37 AM (BO/km)

92 "How do they square that round hole in their heads when this is the first
hurricane to actually hit the US mainland in over a decade?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman"

I read in a climate blog last night that climate scientists actually predicted less hurricanes but of greater strength so it correlates perfectly with what we have seen the past 10 years: no hurricanes. This was written by some liberal climate nerd in complete seriousness

I almost fell out of my chair when I read that.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (1BQGO)

93 I know I've mentioned the lovely Seraphic Secret blog, which is well worth your time.

Fridays are picture days, so here's a rather unsettling one of a girl and a flying saucer:

goo.gl/dvaUKs

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (X6fMO)

94
90
Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM

At least I'm not running a tempurature yet...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:37 AM (bzd8I)

Cod you cool it with the puns, please?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (LuZz8)

95 75
Definitely. Boss is sick again. I feel like carp. Great way to start a long weekend. Hope y'all stay healthy.

Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (LuZz

He's probably got a haddock.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (VSenK)

96 95 75
Definitely. Boss is sick again. I feel like carp. Great way to start a long weekend. Hope y'all stay healthy.

Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (LuZz

He's probably got a haddock.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (VSenK)

The telltale sign is fishbreath.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 08:39 AM (Om16U)

97 Cod you cool it with the puns, please?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM

Relax, for Pete's hake...it's Friday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:40 AM (bzd8I)

98
Pollock is a type of weasel, I believe.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 08:40 AM (iLUWQ)

99 Millions of honeybees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.

Thank goodness the government did it...there's nobody to blame!

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2016 08:40 AM (OLNwX)

100 I'm glad I'm not Scolari, because I would most likely have hung myself years ago.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 08:05 AM (X6fMO)

Just looked on IMDB. His current gig is on Girls. Being on that hideous show should cause suicidal tendencies.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 02, 2016 08:41 AM (Ee2nz)

101 obama's Iran deal, the worst deal since chamberlain's deal with the nazis, except of course chamberlain did not pay the nazis 400 million pounds sterling to get adolf to sign it

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (c6/9Q)

102 Millions of honeybees dead after South Carolina sprays for Zika mosquitoes.

Thank goodness the government did it...there's nobody to blame!

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2016 08:40 AM

I dunno...has anyone seen grammie winger lately?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (bzd8I)

103 Could be worse. You could feel like pollock.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 02, 2016 08:32 AM (LuZz

So he'd start throwing paint at canvases?

Posted by: josephistan at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (7HtZB)

104
In Dude in a Dress news:

This week's announcement that Matt Bomer, a cisgender gay male actor, will play a transgender woman in the upcoming film "Anything" has ignited outrage among transsexuals over the casting of transgender female characters in movies.

For example, in a string of tweets Jen Richards, a transgender actress and writer who who co-wrote "Her Story" claimed cisgender males playing transgender women "denies actual trans women opportunities" and makes for lesser art. Most importantly, Richards tweeted, it "will result in violence in trans women." "Cis men playing trans women leads to death," the writer/actress/dude in a dress tweeted.

http://tinyurl.com/z742oaa

I can sympathize. I feel the same way about Bewitched replacing Dick Sargent with Dick York.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (kdS6q)

105 So did the NY harbor patrol race thru the Hudson clearing out Sully's path or was it sheer luck that he didn't skip off a tug, ferry, or some other putz out on the water?

I believe pure luck. I don't know if there was enough time for a coordinated effort.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (4Utw1)

106 pollock is a type of dance, i think swords are involved

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (c6/9Q)

107 I read the comments. Gov better get their act together. F'n quick.
Go long on torches & pitchforks. The public mood is getting ugly.
About time for Dr. Guillotin to make an appearance.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:36 AM (4Utw1)
========================

Democrats and Republicans alike seem to think this increasing sentiment is merely a passing adolescent national mood swing. It's amazing to watch, what with GOPe Senators getting ready to push through the Garland nomination, McCarthy getting ready to push the Obama legislative slate through the House and Clinton sometimes emerging from her nap room to collect bribes.

The conditions that gave rise to Robespierre and the Terror were, up until recently, a complete mystery to me but it's all becoming more clear now.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (/m8T6)

108 In the final NTSB report, the bureaucrats determined that Sullenberger could have gotten the plane back to LaGuardia based on the results of simulations at Airbus.

So, based on the word of the aircraft manufacturer based on controlled tests conducted in simulators where the pilots knew exactly what was going to happen... the NTSB concluded that he may have screwed up.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:42 AM (O7MnT)

109 It was previously related on these very pages that in simulations run after Sully successfully landed the plane on the Hudson, other pilots who knew the scenario in advance were sometimes able to make it back to the airport. In simulations where the pilot had no idea what the scenario was about, none of them made it to the airport.

It seems those few seconds of decisive action taking, because one knew in advance what was going to happen and had gamed out the necessary steps, were very, very precious.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 02, 2016 08:44 AM (JO9+V)

110 Speaking of "you fight like you train" I notice that GOP legislators are writing more and more sternly worded letters to TFG these days. Hold the phone while I change my underwear!

Why can't they make him as miserable as he makes us? Like, bust his git for pot? Or send him a billion dollar bill for golfing? Ooh ooh - a sternly worded letter! Let's hit him again! That'll work!

Posted by: Orestes at September 02, 2016 08:44 AM (EIJH/)

111 I think it's time to genetically modify mosquitoes into extinction. Their only purpose appears to be that of spreading disease, or as bat food.

Skinnier bats might upset some people, but I think they'll get over it.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:44 AM (ZFUt7)

112 The conditions that gave rise to Robespierre and the Terror were, up until recently, a complete mystery to me but it's all becoming more clear now.

I have come to accept national collapse and dissolution as inevitable. Through that prism, I see the actions of our Governing Class as those of birds desperately feathering their nests before winter comes.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 08:44 AM (O7MnT)

113
In This Should be Fun news:

Penn State's athletic department on Thursday announced plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Joe Paterno's first game as coach, a move that sparked backlash on social networks by people critical of Paterno's role in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

The university announced plans Thursday to mark the anniversary when the Nittany Lions football team hosts Temple on Sept. 17.

Cue the Nittany Alumni Defense Force.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:45 AM (kdS6q)

114 Gorgeous cool morning here, finally. Leaves are starting to fall too.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (jR7Wy)

115 Chiraq wrapped up the month of August with 91 homicides and another 400 wounded, per HeyJackass.com

I called up my friend there, and asked him there was some kind of a sale going on in Chicago; you know, like 'Shoot one, get one free'.

Hey, it got a laugh.

So the liberal geniuses have figured out a solution to this grave problem -- Serial #s on bullets.

Yep, that'll fix it alright.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (gyKtp)

116 Posted by: GnuBreed at September 02, 2016 08:28 AM (gyKtp)

The GOP Establishment is almost as corrupt as the Democratic Establishment, I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (wCEn4)

117 the NTSB concluded that he may have screwed up
----------------------

any landing you walk away from, without injury, is not a screw up.

These are just bureaucrats doing what they do best.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (iLUWQ)

118 Hey, you've got four options. French, German, Italian or Romansh.

I had just assumed he meant Schwyzerduits, because that is unintelligible to German speakers.

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (oFSUK)

119 "This week's announcement that Matt Bomer, a
cisgender gay male actor, will play a transgender woman in the upcoming
film "Anything" has ignited outrage among transsexuals over the casting
of transgender female characters in movies.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix"

Wait, are they saying that males can't just put on a dress, make up, change his voice and become a female because they are still males? Sounds hateful to me.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (1BQGO)

120 Wait, are they saying that males can't just put on a
dress, make up, change his voice and become a female because they are
still males? Sounds hateful to me.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (1BQGO)

I know, right!

Posted by: Zombie Milton Berle at September 02, 2016 08:49 AM (JO9+V)

121 Watched an interview with Sully-- reporter asked about his wife's reaction to the crash, his survival, his "fame". He said they had the best "hero" and "survival" sex ever.

I hope the film does well, too.

Posted by: Far Post at September 02, 2016 08:49 AM (l7KGZ)

122 3 Good morning everyone. I'm enjoying a carby blueberry muffin and coffee in the cool New England air. It's lovely.

Posted by: bluebell at September 02, 2016 07:49 AM (A4pxH)

*looks at butter coffee*
*gives bluebell the stink eye*
Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 07:52 AM (Om16U)
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Me too, but mine is a bran muffin and I'm having it with coconut and butter coffee, so it's like I'm sinning but I bought indulgences from the Carb Pope.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 08:49 AM (jR7Wy)

123 the man who won citizens united is now joining the trump campaign to help with turnout; judging by the reaction from the usual suspects it is a good move

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 08:49 AM (c6/9Q)

124 Cue the Nittany Alumni Defense Force.Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix�

It's going to trial eventually, in a real courtroom. Where the people who should pay are going to pay. You're welcome to conjecture all you want, that's your right.

Doesn't going to make your opinion count to the people who matter, the jury.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:51 AM (ZFUt7)

125
In millianal news, Duke University has opened up a new "Safe Space" room for the fragile to cower in.

The room, called the "Sanford Safe Space", will be an experiment in helping people heal and a social worker will also be present. The door will be open to all groups, the college said, ranging from minorities to military members to conservatives.

http://tinyurl.com/hu8lbd7

Conservatives too? Okay, someone remember to bring the poker chips and a roll of singles to tip the "social worker".

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:53 AM (kdS6q)

126
I like that flying saucer picture in #93. Nothing unsettling about it. Just a poor little orphan annie alien waif waiting for a tow truck.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 08:53 AM (iLUWQ)

127 The room, called the "Sanford Safe Space", will be an experiment in helping people heal

Victimism Uber Alles.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 08:54 AM (iLoHX)

128 Cue the Nittany Alumni Defense Force.

Don't ever bullshit yourself into believing that only Democrats pledge blind faith and unwavering loyalty to their favorite institutions.

Apparently Penn State is some kind of damned cathedral, and JoePa just shy of a saint. Who knew ?

Shit seems mighty creepy to me.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 08:55 AM (RKJF2)

129 The room, called the "Sanford Safe Space", will be an experiment in helping people heal and a social worker will also be present. The door will be open to all groups, the college said, ranging from minorities to military members to conservatives.

---

The first thing I thought of when I saw the name was the Stanford Prison Experiment. I predict that the Sanford Safe Space Experiment will be about as successful.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 02, 2016 08:57 AM (KUaJL)

130 93 I know I've mentioned the lovely Seraphic Secret blog, which is well worth your time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 08:38 AM (X6fMO)
=============================

Fantastic suggestion MPPP- thanks!

Here is a story from that blog, "Rudolf Valentino and the Rabbi's Beautiful Daughter", that shows why this blog is so appealing.

http://tinyurl.com/gtvurx6

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 08:57 AM (/m8T6)

131 Joe Paterno was a Great American!

Posted by: Hairy Reed at September 02, 2016 08:57 AM (97XyN)

132 No farting!

Posted by: Sanford Safe Space at September 02, 2016 08:58 AM (ZxmMG)

133
No farting!

Posted by: Sanford Safe Space at September 02, 2016 08:58 AM

Shut up, dummies!

Posted by: Fred Sanford at September 02, 2016 08:58 AM (bzd8I)

134 For example, in a string of tweets Jen Richards, a transgender actress and writer who who co-wrote "Her Story" claimed cisgender males playing transgender women "denies actual trans women opportunities" and makes for lesser art. Most importantly, Richards tweeted, it "will result in violence in trans women." "Cis men playing trans women leads to death," the writer/actress/dude in a dress tweeted.

This shit is just like Algebra or Geometry. As soon as they start talking about cis this and transgender that, all I hear are the adults on Charlie Brown: wanh wanh wa wa.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 08:59 AM (4Utw1)

135 Don't ever bullshit yourself into believing that only Democrats pledge blind faith and unwavering loyalty to their favorite institutions.

Apparently Penn State is some kind of damned cathedral, and JoePa just shy of a saint. Who knew ?

And Ace wonders why people don't simply turn off the NFL and bankrupt the bastards.

This is why.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 09:00 AM (X6fMO)

136 Does anyone still speak Romansch? I thought they'd all switched to Italian or French when I was a kid

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 02, 2016 09:00 AM (14Ghu)

137 121 Watched an interview with Sully-- reporter asked about his wife's reaction to the crash, his survival, his "fame". He said they had the best "hero" and "survival" sex ever.
======================

That good woman is a definite keeper.

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 09:00 AM (/m8T6)

138 My boycott of the NFL will be painless, since I never watched their stupid shit anyway.

Roll Tide!

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 02, 2016 09:01 AM (97XyN)

139 Wait, are they saying that males can't just put on a
dress, make up, change his voice and become a female because they are
still males? Sounds hateful to me.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (1BQGO)

I know, right!
Posted by: Zombie Milton Berle

Well F me!
-Caitlyn Jenner

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:01 AM (4Utw1)

140 They should let Fogle out to give a speech on Paterno Appreciation Day

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (14Ghu)

141 any landing you walk away from, without injury, is not a screw up.

A good landing is any landing you can walk away from.

A great landing is when you can use the airplane again.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (O7MnT)

142 It was tried in the simulator. Only 6 out of 10 made it back to LGA. And this was under controlled conditions and expecting the birds to flame the engines out.

So more than 50% of very skilled pilots did not make it back in. I'm assuming the loading of the airplane's wings with induced drag causing further and quicker descent was the culprit. Probably what was on Sully and Skile's mind that day.

Imagine if this was an IFR day with the river being obscured?

Posted by: Citation X Driver at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (ABJy3)

143
Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.

But lets piss all over the grave of some 80 year old dude who died of cancer after the cowards in the liberal administration at PSU threw him under the bus, refusing to accept their own responsibility -- knowing it would ruin their own defense against prosecution.

Don't defend liberal cowards. It's unseemly.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (ZFUt7)

144 My husband's coworker was on Sully's plane and he saw him standing on the wing in the Hudson. The entire trading floor starting calling the guy giving him shit for missing the meeting he was headed to. Lots of laughing.

Posted by: NCKate at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (/6xSK)

145 cisgender males playing transgender women "denies actual trans women opportunities" and makes for lesser art.

Non-method actors denying method actors opportunity? Depends who's better at it, doesn't it?

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2016 09:03 AM (w35Hj)

146 This week's announcement that Matt Bomer, a cisgender gay male actor, will play a transgender woman in the upcoming film "Anything" has ignited outrage among transsexuals over the casting of transgender female characters in movies.
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The key word here is "actor", and he's a good one. Are we going back to segregated casting? He's not claiming to be one, he's portraying one FFS.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 09:04 AM (jR7Wy)

147 The man needed a ten mile long runway which the Hudson River provided. At a certain airspeed the plane would no longer fly, but drop. As a seasoned glider pilot he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew exactly what that airspeed was, brought the plane just over the surface of the water, held it steady and waited.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 08:20 AM (ZFUt7)

A bit like the "Gimli Glider" incident but instead of running the tanks dry, the engines didn't like ingesting a flock of birds. For those unfamiliar, the "Gimli Glider" was an Canadian airliner that ran out of fuel due to an Imperial to metric conversion error. Either the pilot or copilot had extensive glider experience and successfully brought his a/c down on an improvised landing area.

Didn't know Sullenberger had glider experience; it explains a lot. Mrs. Cop and I both plan to see the movie.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 02, 2016 09:04 AM (5Yee7)

148 That dude in a dress story deserves a good fisking.

What does 'transgendered woman' mean?

It would mean a dude in a dress, right? So how can a dude in a dress be taking an acting position away from an transgendered woman? Unless you are trying to say that a transgendered woman is a woman pretending to be a man who is pretending to be a woman by looking like a dude in a dress.

I feel like I am drowning in a sea of gender fluid.

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 09:04 AM (iLUWQ)

149 They should let Fogle out to give a speech on Paterno Appreciation Day

To be held at the Congressman Gerry Studds Memorial Convention Center.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:05 AM (O7MnT)

150 It was previously related on these very pages that in simulations run after Sully successfully landed the plane on the Hudson, other pilots who knew the scenario in advance were sometimes able to make it back to the airport. In simulations where the pilot had no idea what the scenario was about, none of them made it to the airport.

It seems those few seconds of decisive action taking, because one knew in advance what was going to happen and had gamed out the necessary steps, were very, very precious.

Ahhhh. The old Kobayashi Maru gambit! Brilliant!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:05 AM (4Utw1)

151 the cowards in the liberal administration at PSU threw him under the bus

Don't forget the Commonwealth, as well.

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2016 09:06 AM (w/iDp)

152
Non-method actors denying method actors opportunity? Depends who's better at it, doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird

One would think an actor portraying something he isn't would take more skill and be a greater achievement than playing something he already is.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 09:06 AM (kdS6q)

153 Wait, are they saying that males can't just put on a
dress, make up, change his voice and become a female because they are
still males? Sounds hateful to me.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 08:47 AM (1BQGO)

I know, right!
Posted by: Zombie Milton Berle

Well F me!
-Caitlyn Jenner

"Tootsie"

"Mrs Doubtfire"

Posted by: Hack Hillies Grillies at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (iLUWQ)

154 I feel like I am drowning in a sea of gender fluid.

Remember to get your gender fluid levels checked when you get your oil changed!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (4Utw1)

155 For those unfamiliar, the "Gimli Glider" was an Canadian airliner that ran out of fuel due to an Imperial to metric conversion error. Either the pilot or copilot had extensive glider experience and successfully brought his a/c down on an improvised landing area.

It was actually brought down on the runway of a former Canadian Air Force Base where the pilot had trained when he was in the military.

Thing is, the based had been shutdown years before. On the day the Gimli Glider came in, it was being used for drag racing.

The cars were off the runway because things were wrapping up for the day; but there were two little boys riding their bikes down the runway as the plane came in. It stopped short of hitting them, Thank God.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (O7MnT)

156 So Paterno had lots of help in suborning pedophilia. That makes him above criticism?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (97XyN)

157 "If Barry had any actual smarts or skills, he'd offer to build the bomb for Iran himself. That's how much he wants them to have it."

They will never get the bomb. B. O. stinks.
Everything he tries to do fails.
We are lucky he is trying to help Iran.

Posted by: Ok at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (K8FS4)

158 Well, as Mel Brooks likes to say, "Boys it's time to work, work, work, work"

http://tinyurl.com/ktoy3tg

Posted by: MTF at September 02, 2016 09:08 AM (/m8T6)

159 Good morning. Sorry I'm late. I thought it was Saturday.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:08 AM (dFi94)

160 The MFM really seized on the whole "He could have made it back to airport" thing because that kind of heroism must not be allowed in our culture.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:10 AM (O7MnT)

161 Good morning. Sorry I'm late. I thought it was Saturday.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:08 AM (dFi94)

you may have to put in some overtime

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:10 AM (c6/9Q)

162 I remember when acting was, y'know, about 'pretending', not 'representing.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:10 AM (iLoHX)

163 Good morning. Sorry I'm late. I thought it was Saturday.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:08 AM (dFi94)

I wish it were Saturday. I'd be in bed. Or on the porch reading the morning paper. Either way, I wouldn't be at work, which is the important thing.

**looks at clock**

MOVE, damn you!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 09:10 AM (X6fMO)

164 https://mises.org/blog/impeachment-un-democratic-lefts-odd-definition-democracy

Leftist engage in special pleading

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2016 09:11 AM (e9hKK)

165 They will never get the bomb. B. O. stinks.
Everything he tries to do fails.
We are lucky he is trying to help Iran.

The irony is that when they do get the bomb, DC is probably their main target. Karma is a bitch served at 5000 degrees C.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:11 AM (O7MnT)

166 The MFM really seized on the whole "He could have made it back to airport" thing because that kind of heroism must not be allowed in our culture.

Individual achievement is bad.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:11 AM (iLoHX)

167 The MFM really seized on the whole "He could have made it back to airport" thing because that kind of heroism must not be allowed in our culture.

It didn't bleed so it didn't lead.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:12 AM (4Utw1)

168 Individual achievement is bad.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:11 AM (iLoHX)
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Except military teamwork, which is worse!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (jR7Wy)

169 you may have to put in some overtime

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:10 AM (c6/9Q)
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I have an excuse. I was exploring my Dental and Vision coverage.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (dFi94)

170 'Sup MP4 ?

This JoePa worship pisses me right off. I read the State Police indictment. McQueary admits he caught Sandusky raping a boy and didn't stop it. Admits to waiting a day before telling Paterno. That old fuck then, by his own admission, waits through the weekend before making one phone call to the president ... then washes his hands of the whole affair.

And sees Sandusky at board mettings for at-risk boys, sees him on campus, for years after. Never asks a question. Never says another peep. Real great guy.

My ass.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (RKJF2)

171 >>Good morning. Sorry I'm late. I thought it was Saturday.

Ha. You were in South Carolina, we know.

(see comment 56)

Posted by: Barrel Bees at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (gTQoY)

172 MISES: Thus, by this logic, when Richard Nixon was impeached and forced from office, this constituted a "soft coup"

Uh....

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (iLoHX)

173 In other news, some guy in Japan fought a bear with karate

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (14Ghu)

174 Another cop stabbed in Paris

http://tinyurl.com/ha7moo3

Venn diagram of 'What ISIS wants' and 'What BLM wants' intersects at dead cops

Posted by: McCool at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (TQxRy)

175
(see comment 56)

Posted by: Barrel Bees at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (gTQoY)
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Yikes

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:15 AM (dFi94)

176 Don't forget the Commonwealth, as well.Posted by: t-bird

We got even with one, the fucking republican Governor of the state of Pennsylvania got voted out of office in a republican 'wave' election year.

Nobody outside of Pennsylvania seems to know - or care - who the real culprits were. Piss all over the 80 year football coach who did exactly what he was required to do, relay an incident of child abuse, which he did not witness, up the chain of command, directly into the lap of the liberal administration. For them to investigate and deal with.

Direct the hatred there. They deserve every drop of it.

It's like blaming Hillary's emails and server troubles on the guy who plugged the server into the wall socket.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 09:15 AM (ZFUt7)

177 Mis Hum - i'm sorry I missed your ONT last night. I really would have enjoyed the conversation about songs and covers. Very cool. I'll have to go back and read the comments.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:17 AM (dFi94)

178 I have an excuse. I was exploring my Dental and Vision coverage.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (dFi94)

newlyweds are so kinky

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:17 AM (c6/9Q)

179 170

I'll never understand why McQueery, after seeing Sandusky molesting a kid, told Paterno & not the police. If you caught a co-working raping someone at work, would you call HR instead of 911?

Posted by: josephistan at September 02, 2016 09:19 AM (7HtZB)

180 BLM activists are upset that Democrats are just placating them.

Well of course they are - did you seriously think they were going to meet all of your demands? Placating and hoping you go after the other guys is how they plan on using you BLM people. If you refuse to go along with it, then the plan will be to crush you. You will know when the MSM starts to call you some pretty nasty names and shows the footage of you behaving badly.

Seriously BLM people - try to keep up, you are tolerated so long as a political party finds you useful and no further.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Get Your Campaign F.U.D. Fix at the Outrage Outlet! New Shipments Arrive Daily! at September 02, 2016 09:19 AM (hLRSq)

181 It was actually brought down on the runway of a former Canadian Air Force Base where the pilot had trained when he was in the military.

Thing is, the based had been shutdown years before. On the day the Gimli Glider came in, it was being used for drag racing.

The cars were off the runway because things were wrapping up for the day; but there were two little boys riding their bikes down the runway as the plane came in. It stopped short of hitting them, Thank God.

Posted by: V the K at September 02, 2016 09:07 AM (O7MnT)

I was thinking "race track" but forgot it was an abandoned runway. I was more interested in performance data on the Boeing 767 when I came across the "Gimli Glider" during my research.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 02, 2016 09:19 AM (5Yee7)

182 I'll never understand why McQueery, after seeing Sandusky molesting a kid, told Paterno & not the police.

If you caught a co-working raping someone at work, would you call HR instead of 911?

I'd call H & K.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:20 AM (4Utw1)

183 newlyweds are so kinky

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:17 AM (c6/9Q)
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When you're our age, it takes longer because you can't see worth crap and you can't remember where you put your glasses, so you have to resort to the Braille method.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:20 AM (dFi94)

184 BLM activists are upset that Democrats are just placating them.

Well of course they are - did you seriously think they were going to meet all of your demands? Placating and hoping you go after the other guys is how they plan on using you BLM people.

Bad #BLM!
Back on the plantation!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:21 AM (4Utw1)

185 Grammie's on fire!

There's an ointment for that rash...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 09:23 AM (jR7Wy)

186 ok, so the debate moderators are now officially announced; all ok except Chris Wallace - that guy is dumb

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:23 AM (c6/9Q)

187 When you're our age, it takes longer because you
can't see worth crap and you can't remember where you put your glasses,
so you have to resort to the Braille method.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:20 AM (dFi94)

LOL you crazy kids. Keep putting pennies in that jar.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 02, 2016 09:24 AM (JO9+V)

188 Good morning. The weather is actually tolerable here for a change. I'd forgotten what that felt like.

Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2016 09:24 AM (zoehZ)

189 So Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:25 AM (dFi94)

190 Good morning. The weather is actually tolerable here for a change. I'd forgotten what that felt like.
Posted by: rickl at September 02, 2016 09:24 AM (zoehZ)

*****
It's going to be a high of 81 in the Atl burbs today. Been waiting for this for 2 1/2 months.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2016 09:27 AM (oMHfm)

191 'Sup MP4 ?

This JoePa worship pisses me right off. I read the State Police indictment. McQueary admits he caught Sandusky raping a boy and didn't stop it. Admits to waiting a day before telling Paterno. That old fuck then, by his own admission, waits through the weekend before making one phone call to the president ... then washes his hands of the whole affair.

And sees Sandusky at board mettings for at-risk boys, sees him on campus, for years after. Never asks a question. Never says another peep. Real great guy.

My ass.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:13 AM (RKJF2)

'Morning, ScoggDog.

I'm not a sports fan, so the personal failings of JoePa don't interest me. But I had made the comment a couple of days ago that too many people abet the SJ warrioring of sports because their time, their friends and - in some cases - their identities are wrapped up in "my team!" cheerleading and they either agree with or do their best to ignore the leftist agenda being pushed.

But as we know, an unopposed agenda soon becomes enshrined tradition and, soon enough, settled law. A clown like Kaepernick could be tossed to the street by Monday if every NFL fan in the country called their cable providers and canceled their Sunday ticket or super sports package and made it quite clear why they were doing it.

If you like sports, if you're a team booster - hell, if you bleed Patriot white and blue, I don't care - then that's fine. But realize at the same time that your support comes with a price, and that price is Kaepernick.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 09:27 AM (X6fMO)

192 If you caught a co-working raping someone at work, would you call HR instead of 911?

911, because they will need the ammalance.

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (QM5S2)

193 So Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:25 AM (dFi94)

*****
Delaying, I believe. They are proving to be a little troublesome due to Splodey tendencies.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (oMHfm)

194 189 So Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7?

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What?

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (Om16U)

195 And Samsung Galaxy 7 is getting recalled because it keeps exploding. Rev just got a new Galaxy phone. I think it's a 7 because he just got it a couple of weeks ago. I hope it doesn't blow up in his face.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:30 AM (dFi94)

196 193 So Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:25 AM (dFi94)

*****
Delaying, I believe. They are proving to be a little troublesome due to Splodey tendencies.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (oMHfm)

194 189 So Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7?

--

What?
Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (Om16U)

Samsung is recalling their new phone due to explosion issues, not heard anything about the iPhone.

Posted by: josephistan at September 02, 2016 09:30 AM (7HtZB)

197 What?

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:29 AM (Om16U)
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Ya, Forbes has the story.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:31 AM (dFi94)

198 I sit corrected, it is Samsung, not Apple.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2016 09:31 AM (oMHfm)

199 I'll never understand why McQueery, after seeing Sandusky molesting a kid, told Paterno & not the police. If you caught a co-working raping someone at work, would you call HR instead of 911?Posted by: josephistan�

He said to Paterno what? (Multiple choice)
1. I just saw Sandusky butt raping a boy
2. I just saw Sandusky taking a shower
3. I just saw Sandusky 'fooling around' in the shower

Correct answer is #3

In answer to your question, teachers, coaches, janitors, assistant coaches, etc ARE REQUIRED TO PASS SUCH INFORMATION UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. McQ told his own father, who is in the medical field, and could have made the call to police. In fact, if he believed his sons story, should have reported it.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 09:32 AM (ZFUt7)

200 Apple is cancelling the iPhone 7 because they can't figure out how to make it gay enough.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:32 AM (OkKDg)

201 22 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 08:05 AM (kdS6q)

Good old Bennie...

There are a lot of "center-right" commentators who are in for a shock after their tantrum.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:32 AM (SzZnW)

202 I sit corrected, it is Samsung, not Apple.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at September 02, 2016 09:31 AM (oMHfm)
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Basically just stay away from any phone that has a 7 in it.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:32 AM (dFi94)

203 Kyle Holsclaw Jr. learned to shoot an AR-15 assault rifle competitively at the age of 16 while attending a clinic run by the U.S. Army.

"It was a fantastic experience," said Holsclaw, an experienced competitive target shooter who said he had never learned to compete with the AR-15 before the seminar he attended in 2014. "I learned a tremendous amount about how to move with the gun."

Holsclaw is among the children, aged 9 to 18, who come to an annual clinic run by the elite U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning, Georgia. The workshop -- which will be held this year from October 21 to 23 -- focuses on practical shooting, a sport that simulates combat shooting conditions. The Army workshops highlight the growing popularity of assault rifles among civilians. Once reserved for soldiers, assault rifles like those used in the marksmanship clinic have been purchased by millions of private citizens.

As assault rifles have moved from armories to family homes, a subculture of sporting competitions that use these weapons has emerged. The Army clinics train children to compete in the hundreds of contests held around the countrywhere participants wield assault rifles. But critics of practical shooting say the sport encourages violence and should not be taught to children -- especially at a time when recent mass shootings have reignited debate over gun violence.

Posted by: undocumented assault at September 02, 2016 09:34 AM (e8kgV)

204 MP4 ... Well said.

I do not get the "gotta' support the team" mentality. I watch Kentucky basketball from time to time. But I swear, if that Sandusky shit happened in Lexington, I'd volunteer to fill Rupp Arena with concrete, and bring twenty bags myself.

Not bullshitting in the slightest.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:34 AM (RKJF2)

205 It's the Galaxy 7 Note that is being recalled.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 02, 2016 09:34 AM (Ee2nz)

206 204 Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:34 AM (RKJF2)

The right loves two things.

1) the NFL

2) being kneed in the groin by Roger Goody and licking his taint.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:36 AM (SzZnW)

207 No one at Mises caught that Nixon wasn't impeached??

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 02, 2016 09:36 AM (OkKDg)

208 Try the SpaceX smartphone.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 02, 2016 09:37 AM (IqV8l)

209 The Bureau of Prisons will decline to renew any expiring contracts with private companies that house federal prisoners, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced on Thursday.

"We now have approximately 195,000 inmates in bureau or private contract facilities, down from a high in 2013 of approximately 220,000," she wrote in a blogpost accompanied by a memo to the bureau's acting chief Thomas Kane. "This decline in the prison population means that we can better allocate our resources to ensure that inmates are in the safest facilities and receiving the best rehabilitative services -- services that increase their chances of becoming contributing members of their communities when they return from prison."

Yates linked the action to the Obama administration's two-year-old Smart on Crime initiative for sentencing reforms, but also cited a recent Justice inspector general's report showing that the contract prisons risk inmate and staff health. Private prisons "simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs and resources," she wrote. "They do not save substantially on costs . . . and they do not maintain the level of safety and security."

Posted by: undocumented Attorney General at September 02, 2016 09:38 AM (e8kgV)

210 191 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 09:27 AM (X6fMO)

The price is higher than just Colon Kaspernaski.

You support the NFL?

Great, you also support Boob Costas' attack on the 2d and 1st amendments, with a garnish of CNN censoring a Trump Fan's shirt while celebrating Colon's idiocy.

I am not buying Madden this season, and I am not watching a single game.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:38 AM (SzZnW)

211 Has anyone asked for but not gotten a GAB invite yet?

I suggest you try again with a different email address.

My first email request never got an invite but my second one did.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:38 AM (Om16U)

212 >>I'll never understand why McQueery, after seeing Sandusky molesting a kid, told Paterno not the police.

Because he'd be fired?

Another coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014 was fired for reporting a rape to the police after the victim informed him that one of his athletes had done it.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jeu3v73

Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2016 09:39 AM (NOIQH)

213 212 Posted by: Lizzy at September 02, 2016 09:39 AM (NOIQH)

Shhh SHHHHHHH

//Campus Rape Culture Hysteria

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:40 AM (SzZnW)

214 It's that time of the year again ...

Federal agencies could be heading for yet another short-term, stopgap measure to start off the fiscal year in October, as signaled by the Democratic leader in the Senate on Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters his party would accept a continuing resolution through Christmas, but not into 2017. Such a measure would avoid a government shutdown come Oct. 1 by funding agencies at their current levels for the length of time the CR is in place.

Agencies have required at least some form of a CR every year since 1997. Congress has a long way to go to pass each of the 12 annual appropriations bills, and an increasingly short timeframe to complete them. Before lawmakers went on recess in mid-July, just one of measures had gone through the conference committee process. Even that bill, which set funding for military construction and veterans affairs, failed to clear the Senate.

Posted by: undocumented budget at September 02, 2016 09:42 AM (e8kgV)

215 >>Has anyone asked for but not gotten a GAB invite yet?

Me too. Tried email #2 and we'll see.

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 02, 2016 09:42 AM (gTQoY)

216 Everyone forgets that the District Attorney had information of Sandusky's crime long before the shower and report to Paterno and chose not to pursue.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 02, 2016 09:44 AM (Xrson)

217 3. I just saw Sandusky 'fooling around' in the shower

Per Paterno's own statement to a grand jury ...

reported to him that the graduate assistant had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.

It's right there on page 7 of the indictment. Copy available at WSJ. Not hard to find.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:46 AM (RKJF2)

218 *reads Arrival review in sidebar and goes eh*

If the writer is merely willing to make terse allusions to 2001 and no mention of Close Encounters of the Third Kind while showing their ignorance on how art and science in the West became such an artificial dueling duality of their preconceptions then why should I bother to watch the movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 09:46 AM (ldPei)

219 First presidential debate:
Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Monday, September 26, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Vice presidential debate:
Elaine Quijano, Anchor, CBSN and Correspondent, CBS News
Tuesday, October 4, Longwood University, Farmville, VA

Second presidential debate (town meeting):
Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and Co-Anchor of "This Week," ABC
Anderson Cooper, Anchor, CNN
Sunday, October 9, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Third presidential debate:
Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday
Wednesday, October 19, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Posted by: undocumented debate at September 02, 2016 09:48 AM (e8kgV)

220 Has anyone asked for but not gotten a GAB invite yet?

I suggest you try again with a different email address.

My first email request never got an invite but my second one did.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:38 AM (Om16U)

i got an invite...not there yet, still thinking up a cool handle

Posted by: runner at September 02, 2016 09:48 AM (c6/9Q)

221 218 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 09:46 AM (ldPei)

We REALLY< REALLY NEED YOUR MONEY!?!

//Cinemark and Whore E Wood

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:48 AM (SzZnW)

222 Because he'd be fired?Another coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2014 was fired for reporting a rape to the police after the victim informed him that one of his athletes had done it.
Posted by: Lizzy

Exactly. The coach was reporting heresay evidence to the police. The university had every right to dismiss him.

Paterno was presented with heresay evidence and reported it up the chain of command, exactly as the employers rules demand.

Don't know why some people refuse to accept that, instead they engage in social justice warrior style virtue signaling about 'what they would have done'.

It's tedious and boring and libelous.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 09:49 AM (ZFUt7)

223 Never imagined I'd hear and read so much commentary by liberals singing the praises of Reagan and longing for reasonable, moderate Republican like him. Why, they would even vote for him if he was running today!

It's almost like support all that cutting the budget of sick children to build mega-death rays and hand over pallets of cash to rich people they used to accuse him of.

Posted by: Ripley at September 02, 2016 09:51 AM (1BQGO)

224 artificial dueling duality of their preconceptions

Anna ... I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:51 AM (RKJF2)

225 Third presidential debate:
Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday
Wednesday, October 19, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

What happened to Matt Lauer?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:51 AM (4Utw1)

226 222 Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 09:49 AM (ZFUt7)

I understand and accept that THAT is the system, but I also revel in holding the university system to its own standards.

They aid and abet and grace the College Rape Hysterics their little star chambers over "campus rape" but when the chips are down they absolutely protect college rapists when "Sports U" needs it.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:52 AM (SzZnW)

227 Good morning! Labor Day weekend is almost here...life is good right now.

Posted by: IC at September 02, 2016 09:52 AM (KTFfX)

228 *reads Arrival review in sidebar and goes eh*

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So it's about the difficulties of trying to communicate with an alien race? In other words, 2 hours of "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."

Posted by: josephistan at September 02, 2016 09:53 AM (7HtZB)

229 a moron posted this in the lifestyle page...it's a pretty cool tool for when we are hunting and foraging

http://tinyurl.com/jcqb4yk

Posted by: phoenixgirl, whatever at September 02, 2016 09:53 AM (0O7c5)

230 Switzerland might well be ready to join and Norway is likely to follow. Soon it might result in two European alliances with one gradually growing and the other gradually shrinking.

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Cool! We could call one the Entente Cordiale and the other the Central Powers.......... on second thought perhaps not.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 02, 2016 09:53 AM (dIc3Q)

231 so the family is contemplating going to Seattle o'er the weekend.... of course I am wondering if there is anything to do in Seattle not involving the risk of getting perforated.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:54 AM (SzZnW)

232
*reads Arrival review in sidebar and goes eh*
Posted by: Anna Puma

The award winning story that the movie is based on, Ted Chaing's Story of Your Life, is based on a pretty much discredited linguistic theory:

wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life

SapirWhorf hypothesis

wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

So, fully expect the movie to completely skip that little problem.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 09:54 AM (kdS6q)

233 I missed it. Switzerland and Norway are thinking about joining what?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:56 AM (dFi94)

234 My blog post is up

Couch Potato reviews The Jungle Book and Hail, Caesar!

Link in nic

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 09:57 AM (Om16U)

235 233 Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:56 AM (dFi94)

The National Football League....

their socialist tendencies will find a home there.

No a European economic alliance which is what the monstrosity known as EUtopia began as...

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:57 AM (SzZnW)

236 Morning y'all. Not much storm activity here, just a lot of rain so far. Hope Jane D'oh et al are doing OK to the southeast of me.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 02, 2016 09:57 AM (GUBah)

237 Not to mention the fact that taking the plane to one of the airports would put an unpowered, heavy, shitty glider full of jet fuel over tens of thousands of people on the ground. FAA can go suck elephant cock.

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Betcha if he were .. um, er, 'melanin enhanced' he'd get no grief from the feds.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 02, 2016 09:57 AM (dIc3Q)

238 En la landa del Maduro ou los tenebras lie.

Posted by: Y.R.R. Tolkienez at September 02, 2016 09:58 AM (mBYZv)

239 Maybe I can convince Ms10077 to go to Vegas instead.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 09:58 AM (SzZnW)

240 ScoggDog from the why the writer gushes over the concept that art and science are two distinct camps seeming to never be able to understand each other I can perceive how shallow their thinking is. Under that kind of mind set the writer proves they are a victim of a version of the Sapir-Whorf concept. For they are saying there is no beauty in a Mandelbrot set of fractals just as there is no science buttressing that stone arch. So I guess that is why they are gushing over Arrival since the story still sees how art and science are as intertwined as a strand of DNA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 09:59 AM (ldPei)

241 It's tedious and boring and libelous.

Oh ... so Paterno thought McQueary was making that "something of a sexual nature" stuff up ?

So THAT'S why he was promoted from Grad Asst to Asst Coach two years after the incident. Because JoePa didn't 100% believe the report. Got it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 09:59 AM (RKJF2)

242 a European economic alliance
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So, exiting the EU like Britain?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:59 AM (dFi94)

243 I understand and accept that THAT is the system, but I also revel in holding the university system to its own standards.They aid and abet and grace the College Rape Hysterics their little star chambers over "campus rape" but when the chips are down they absolutely protect college rapists when "Sports U" needs it.Posted by: sven10077

Sure they did. No argument there. There will be a trial. They will pay with some portion of their lives for that, in the end.
But the coach did exactly what was required of him.

But some people enjoy pissing on the deceased. Easy target, but unseemly.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 10:00 AM (ZFUt7)

244 You know what's ironic? The hippies love the Swiss because they're all peaceful and shit. I love them 'cause they're bad ass.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 02, 2016 10:01 AM (CmaFG)

245 E.U. really pushing their luck after Britain set a precedent.

They are stiff necked and irreformable.

They deserve a hard kick, right in the Juncker.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 02, 2016 10:01 AM (mBYZv)

246 What happened to Matt Lauer?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 09:51 AM (4Utw1)

Ideally it should involve fire, a savage animal attack, and a swarm of insects; however I think it just emphasizes that early reports are to be taken with a grain of salt.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Get Your Campaign F.U.D. Fix at the Outrage Outlet! New Shipments Arrive Daily! at September 02, 2016 10:01 AM (hLRSq)

247 Anybody else getting Hemp for Health ads up top?

Was there a weed thread earlier of which I am unaware?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 10:01 AM (jR7Wy)

248 Posted by: undocumented debate at September 02, 2016 09:48 AM (e8kgV)

Worthless, leftist shills, everyone of them.

Were I advising Trump, I would begin at this moment to track down every contribution those nickelfuckers have made to Scankles or any other Democrat politician and make sure he had those numbers on a note card right at the podium.

Then, when Holt begins with, "why are you so racist, Mr. Trump?" Teh Donald can reply, "Well, first of all, Lester, before I answer your question, let me just congratulate Mrs. Clinton here, since it looks like your $5000 contribution to her foundation has given her the chance to plant loaded, biased nonsense right in your hands to vomit out in front of a national audience.

"So now that we know you're a bought and paid for shill, I don't see any point in pretending you're anything else. Next question."

Of course, were I advising Trump, none of those assholes would be "moderating" debates at all. Where the hell is the Art of the Deal when you need it?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 02, 2016 10:01 AM (X6fMO)

249 Posted by: undocumented debate at September 02, 2016 09:48 AM (e8kgV)

Looks to me like the GOP intends to maintain the label "Stupid Party" for life.

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 02, 2016 10:02 AM (wCEn4)

250 242 Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 09:59 AM (dFi94)

Pondering leaving EUtopia yes.

The EU is the notion that the will of the people is best served by non-representative unaccountable assholes making edicts....

you know a lot like the US is devolving into?

*Some* nations like controlling their own affairs through rule of law and elections.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 10:02 AM (SzZnW)

251 Sven go see the Space Needle and see if an alien Elvis is there?

Josephistan, could always reread Piper's Omnilingual you know.

Laurie yeah but in some ways Sapir-Whorf is right. Look at how the PC speech codes are trying to reshape things.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 10:02 AM (ldPei)

252 Does anyone have any tips for making a Springer Spaniel less insane? I'm not looking for bulldog calm, just not tasmanian devil like.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 02, 2016 10:04 AM (1H9ox)

253 *waves to All Hail Eris*

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 10:04 AM (ldPei)

254 251 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 10:02 AM (ldPei)

Eh yeah maybe, I am bidding on an A-8 3870k APU for an HTCP/Light gaming build.....

*if* I win I need to go to Fry's there in Seattle or Lost Wages or take a drive to MN/St Paul or Denver...

of course my bid is ridiculously low.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 10:05 AM (SzZnW)

255 253 *waves to All Hail Eris*
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 10:04 AM (ldPei)
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*waves back, sloshes bong water*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at September 02, 2016 10:05 AM (jR7Wy)

256 True confessions time

Kid the younger, my wee Bernite, says she's joining the Co-Exist club in school.

Kill me now.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 10:06 AM (Om16U)

257
The August jobs number sucked, the labor participation rate is still awful, no wage growth, GDP is on life support but the economy has never been better comrades.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 02, 2016 10:06 AM (493sH)

258 Nood.

Posted by: HH at September 02, 2016 10:07 AM (DrCtv)

259 ... and per Page 8 of the indictment, the Athletic Director Curley used the term "horsing around" ... NOT Joe Paterno.

I do not give a damn that Paterno died at 80. He's an 80 yr old dead son of a bitch who helped cover for a serial child molester ... with the approval of a fan base that rivals cult status addicted to a stupid fucking game.

They Are ... Ped State.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 10:07 AM (RKJF2)

260 Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2016 10:02 AM (ldPei)

If you are not allowed to have a word for a concept, does the concept exist.

There's a line in Michener's "Chesapeake" something like:

"You can't proceed to build a boat unless you can name all its parts!"

Say, Anna, can you hand me that thinga-ma-jig? No, not not that one, the other thinga-ma-jig!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 02, 2016 10:07 AM (wCEn4)

261 256 Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 10:06 AM (Om16U)

She's been brainwashed.

You might explain to her politely that to "Coexist" the "-oexist" has to submit to the C.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 10:08 AM (SzZnW)

262 >>Anybody else getting Hemp for Health ads up top?

Oh good it's not just me.

Posted by: Mama AJ at September 02, 2016 10:09 AM (gTQoY)

263 Kid the younger, my wee Bernite, says she's joining the Co-Exist club in school.

Kill me now.

Let her. Make her stay in it until it hurts.

Only way some people learn that the door is closed is to walk into it.
I did. Then I learned and got smarter.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 02, 2016 10:10 AM (4Utw1)

264 So more than 50% of very skilled pilots did not make it back in. I'm assuming the loading of the airplane's wings with induced drag causing further and quicker descent was the culprit. Probably what was on Sully and Skile's mind that day.

Imagine if this was an IFR day with the river being obscured?

Posted by: Citation X Driver at September 02, 2016 09:02 AM (ABJy3)

A great "trainer" plane for this, (both literally and figuratively), is the Grumman Tiger/Cheetah series of airplanes.

Low and slow is their coffin corner, the opposite of your Citation's corner way up there at the upper right of the envelope.

The induced drag~increased angle of attack, feedback cycle of that little plane at speeds within 5kts of the stall, are responsible for more than a few wadded up piles of aluminum somewhere short of various runway thresholds.

Even practicing stalls at +5,000 agl, you can really feel the thing enter into that phase where the increase in AoA, ceases to pay dividends, and begins to extract penalties. Nose down and throttle to the 'wall recovers it of course.

The Grumman is a much more responsive plane to "feel" as a trainer than the usual '152. But, it'll bite, too. That "DO NOT SPIN" placard on the panel? I believe they mean it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 02, 2016 10:10 AM (v5iqM)

265 Does anyone have any tips for making a Springer Spaniel less insane? I'm not looking for bulldog calm, just not tasmanian devil like.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 02, 2016 10:04 AM (1H9ox)

a) Post this on the Pet Thread ~2:30 PM on Saturday;

b) Exercise and wear it out!

Posted by: Hrothgar at September 02, 2016 10:10 AM (wCEn4)

266 121 Watched an interview with Sully-- reporter asked about his wife's reaction to the crash, his survival, his "fame". He said they had the best "hero" and "survival" sex ever.

_________________

LOL. Well he certainly deserved it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 02, 2016 10:12 AM (NnYnv)

267 I asked her - are they hippy dippy gun-haters?

She is getting brainwashed but I don't want to be directly banning her from doing it because I remember being a teen and that never works.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 10:12 AM (Om16U)

268 Okay, you've virtue signaled your strong social justice warrior stance by pissing on the grave of an 80 year old coach dying of cancer.

Feel better now snowflake?

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 10:14 AM (ZFUt7)

269 I asked her - are they hippy dippy gun-haters?

She is getting brainwashed but I don't want to be directly banning
her from doing it because I remember being a teen and that never works.

Posted by: @votermom at September 02, 2016 10:12 AM

Get one of those Coexist bumper stickers made up of firearms and put it on your fridge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 10:15 AM (bzd8I)

270 Get one of those Coexist bumper stickers made up of firearms and put it on your fridge.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2016 10:15 AM (bzd8I)

On her book bag

Posted by: weirdflunky at September 02, 2016 10:16 AM (OUbS+)

271 A Springer Spaniel is a hunting dog, which means it needs a job, preferably in the field. Work the dog to near exhaustion with fetching exercises, hunting and finding games, long walks at a fast pace, etc. They are high energy and made for outdoor work, not for laying about the house. Dogs are genetically programmed to do certain things. Springer Spaniels are meant to do field work, so you have to set up mock field expeditions and tasks to satisfy their genetic tendencies. Otherwise they will drive you mad.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 10:16 AM (dFi94)

272 271 Posted by: grammie winger at September 02, 2016 10:16 AM (dFi94)

My poor Lab/Chow was a borderline nut because of his directly competing genetic programming....

diametrically opposed breeding.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 02, 2016 10:19 AM (SzZnW)

273 BLM act like babies, are treated like babies, then whine about their treatment.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 02, 2016 10:21 AM (mBYZv)

274
William Shakespeare comes to mind, 'methinks thou doth protest to much'.

Something you want to tell us?

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 02, 2016 10:22 AM (ZFUt7)

275 So, fully expect the movie to completely skip that little problem.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 02, 2016 09:54 AM (kdS6q)

I don't know if it is discredited as much as controversial and probably unprovable. Let's assume the theory is true. How can you know it is true when the language you use to describe it influences what you believe to be true? It is one vicious circle.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 02, 2016 10:27 AM (Ee2nz)

276 What I don't understand is why illegal immigrants aren't flooding the workers' paradise of Venezuela.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 02, 2016 10:27 AM (CmaFG)

277 Does anyone have any tips for making a Springer Spaniel less insane? I'm not looking for bulldog calm, just not tasmanian devil like.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 02, 2016 10:04 AM (1H9ox)

You have a Spaniel. They want to chase and retrieve. You'll get bulldog calm when it hits about 10 years old. Although our 15 year old Cocker Spaniel, though almost blind, spends her time, when not sleeping, roaming the kitchen looking for treats. You have a high energy dog.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at September 02, 2016 10:31 AM (Ee2nz)

278 Don't many Swiss speak Austrian?

Posted by: George LeS at September 02, 2016 10:31 AM (+TcCF)

279 268 Okay, you've virtue signaled your strong social justice warrior stance by pissing on the grave of an 80 year old coach dying of cancer.

Facts. I gve facts. That you can't refute.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 02, 2016 10:55 AM (RKJF2)

280 WOPR - there is a natual pet product called Rescue Remedy, used for dogs with anxiety or just a little crazy. It has herbal ingredients to help calm your dog. I use it for when mine get upset about fireworks, the vet, thunder, etc. It works well but does not "tranquilize" them - just a little calmer.

Posted by: Anti-Hill at September 02, 2016 11:32 AM (3aBcq)

281 They also have a Resuce Remedy for humans - I use it after watching the news! LOL!

Posted by: Anti-Hill at September 02, 2016 11:32 AM (3aBcq)

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