Thread below the Gardening Thread: The Ants of Christmas Island [KT]

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How to Keep Ants Off your Christmas Tree

Yesterday, Ace posted a piece on refugees, many from terrorism-prone countries, whom Obama has agreed that the USA will take so Australia doesn't have to. If you followed the link, you discovered that these are:

illegal aliens intercepted at sea by Australia and held in camps outside that country, on two Pacific islands.

Not long ago, Australia kept a lot of these intercepted-at-sea immigrants in a detention center on a far island outpost called Christmas Island. This got to be too much for the 2,000 residents of the island to handle.

But Christmas Island is plagued by another kind of refugee, the Yellow Crazy Ant. Despite the saying "communism never works", these ants have formed supercolonies on the island while living a communist lifestyle.

The ants first came to the island in the 1940s, apparently. They did not start forming supercolonies until the 1990s. These colonies threaten native wildlife, especially crabs, the island's big claim to wildlife fame.

Speaking of ants, while rummaging around in the AoSHQ blogroll earlier this week, I ran across a piece at Enter Stage Right by Samuel Chan. It is about why socialism never evolves into communism. I think this piece is suitable for sharing with young people currently undergoing progressive indoctrination.

As myrmecologist (ant entomologist) E.O. Wilson said,
"Wonderful theory, wrong species."

I am apparently not the only one who has been thinking about Marxism lately. Last Sunday, CBD worked Marxist labor theory into the Food Thread. And Oregon Muse noted in the Book Thread that:

The rat bastard commies figured out long ago that as long as they proclaim they good intentions, people will believe them. And I think that religious types are especially vulnerable to this line of baloney because of the biblical admonitions to help the poor and needy.

Marxism, labor theory and helping the poor and needy all make at least cameo appearances in AntZ. Remember Chip and Muffy?

Hope your weekend turns out better than Muffy's. Have a great one.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:36 AM

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1 damned commies

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at December 10, 2016 11:34 AM (Tyii7)

2 First time I've ever beat the corgis.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at December 10, 2016 11:36 AM (Tyii7)

3 Well, smear me with honey.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 10, 2016 11:40 AM (RCRTc)

4 Scoreboard!

Posted by: Zombie Joe McCarthy at December 10, 2016 11:41 AM (5PYMG)

5 It's quiet in here...
Almost too quiet.

Posted by: Zombie Joe McCarthy at December 10, 2016 11:45 AM (5PYMG)

6 Right now at Yahoo "News" (actually main page), an example of why the country is in trouble.

The highlighted "stories" - GOP to slash Social Security! Trump Attacks on Private Citizens Cause Worry! The Many Generals of Trump's Cabinet! Obama Seeks Investigation of Election "Hack"!

"fake news", almost certainly, in each case.

The Trump attacks on private citizens one is new - and is one more entry in the chutzpah award race for the press. Recall the first sitting president in memory to single out private Americans for public scorn and pressure - through his campaign, personally from the podium. Uh huh. One of the little-noted but jaw-dropping and repulsive lows of the last eight years.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 11:48 AM (QDnY+)

7 "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
This truth should be inscribed on Hillary's ass and the Social Justice Wankers made to eat off it.

Posted by: MeMyselfandI at December 10, 2016 11:49 AM (qX6Q9)

8 What is amazing is how lazy the left has become.

It's true!

Essentially everything they do is barely disguised marxist nonsense. Because enough people fell for it, I guess, but as they tried to consolidate their gains, people started realizing it doesn't work.

And that's how you get Trump. And Brexit. And Australia saying "F-no, F-off, you hairy c**nts."

Yes, they really talk like that, so...

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2016 11:49 AM (Pz4pT)

9 I understand Bruce Lee had a yellow crazy aunt

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 11:53 AM (39g3+)

10 Ant super colonies? Sounds like the movie "Phase 4".

Posted by: HH at December 10, 2016 11:54 AM (DrCtv)

11 Jazz legend Dave Brubeck died December 5, just one day before his 92nd birthday. The pianist and composer was an innovator, especially when it came to combining rhythms and meters in new ways. "He sort of tired of the traditional patterns of jazz," says Patrick Langham, a saxophonist and faculty member of the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2016 11:54 AM (LtG+N)

12 We feed the aliens to the 'roos.

Posted by: The Aussies at December 10, 2016 11:55 AM (Tyii7)

13 "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Shovel ready jobs!

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 10, 2016 11:55 AM (oZEJt)

14 The latest big false news story is "CIA says Russia tried to help Trump win!"

Except when you dig deeper, it says "we have no evidence, just analysts figure that's who was behind the email hacks"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 11:56 AM (39g3+)

15 Supposed to be more weight of ants on the planet than humans

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 11:56 AM (5sOEp)

16 keep in mind, one favorite line from the left is "that's not real socialism!" It's only real socialism when it seems to work, but when things (as usual) turn sour the lefties promptly start looking for another example of a place where socialism works. It's like talking to the street preacher who has been yelling (for the past forty or sixty years) that all the prophesies show that Jesus is about to return.

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 11:58 AM (b7fwp)

17 Formication triggers me.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 11:59 AM (tHwdc)

18 keep in mind, one favorite line from the left is "that's not real socialism!"

Yeah, like the people who said Obama isn't really that left wing and isn't socialist at all. Why? He didn't do all the stuff on their checklist, only some of it.

Its a "no true scottsman" fallacy where socialism cannot be bad, so if they did anything bad, then clearly they aren't true socialists. If they aren't as extreme and radical as the leftist demands, they aren't true socialists.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (39g3+)

19 Funny texting error. Sure, it may require years of therapy to correct the damage but what's that compared to a good laugh?

http://tinyurl.com/jhgnhoj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

20 Communism copied some of the underlying admonitions of Christianity without the notion of s spiritual uplift, and the redemption of the spirit that comes with faith and belief.

Christianity asks for generosity and benevolence toward the poor as an outward aspect of their acceptance of Jesus and his teachings. To accept Jesus as God's Son, means accepting what he preached, and trying to live a life in Christ. It doesn't justify that array of cruelties that travel with communism

Communism demands this as a showpiece of their class war, and it is only a showpiece. It looks similar on the outside to the naive and childish, but is totally different in nature. What communism ultimately offers is the suffering and deprivation of all to support the vanguard of the revolution. And all that claptrap, so support the cruelty of the elite.

Foolish and cruel people have used this charade for generations now to dupe the simple minded, and Christians should call out the profound differences.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at December 10, 2016 12:02 PM (S6Pax)

21 And speaking of religion, and religious sorts being vulnerable to scams under color of compassion and responsibility, Drudge links a sickening story about new Catholic clergy being instructed in - wait for it - "climate change".

The excerpted parts (linked at WattsUpWithThat) are mind-boggling in their pristine orwellian inversion. The "poor" are more "vulnerable" to "climate change" (WTF? completely illogical and baseless, of course). "Skeptics" (why is that even a word in real scientific discussions?) are funded by EVIL FOSSIL FUEL INTERESTS! eleventy!!

Sadly the comments at the WUWT link devolved instantaneously into irrelevant mud-wrasslin' about the Church in general (of course). Kind of surprising, as often one gets a very serious, nerdy, incomprehensibly technical discussion in the comments there.

In that spirit, I strongly implore anyone wishing to divert this topic (if it's discussed at all) into a nutcase anti-Catholic/butthurt Catholic taffy yank to reconsider. Maybe a good healthy ketchup on hot dogs conversation instead?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:04 PM (QDnY+)

22 Funny texting error. Sure, it may require years of therapy to correct the damage but what's that compared to a good laugh?

http://tinyurl.com/jhgnhoj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

Oh. My. God.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 12:06 PM (tHwdc)

23 >>Maybe a good healthy ketchup on hot dogs conversation instead?

For it!

Surprised by the ants on Christmas Island - only knew about the crabs, which are cool, though I wouldn't want to walk around there with all of them scurrying about!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2016 12:07 PM (NOIQH)

24 ROFL!

Just sent that to my dad and bro.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:07 PM (CRotO)

25 Maybe a good healthy ketchup on hot dogs conversation instead?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:04 PM (QDnY+)

That would be a pretty short conversation.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 10, 2016 12:09 PM (8nWyX)

26 re 18: also, leftists like to insist that some policy they pushed didn't work because we didn't go far enough (eg, gun control or the "stimulus" -- didn't Krugman say it would have worked if it had been twice as large?) or we didn't give it enough time (as I recall, Pres LBJ declared 'war on poverty' in 1965. Just need a few more decades and a few more tax hikes and you'll see.)

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:09 PM (b7fwp)

27 Surprised by the ants on Christmas Island - only knew about the crabs, which are cool, though I wouldn't want to walk around there with all of them scurrying about!
Posted by: Lizzy

It's very uncomfortable when the crabs scurry about.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 10, 2016 12:09 PM (5PYMG)

28 Ants in the non-gardening thread? What, they chase the pests out of the gardening thread into here?

It just ain't right.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 10, 2016 12:10 PM (R+30W)

29 Surprised by the ants on Christmas Island - only knew about the crabs

Uh, oh...

Posted by: Sandra Flook at December 10, 2016 12:10 PM (Tyii7)

30 PROTECT THE QUEEN!!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:10 PM (p6El1)

31 Foolish and cruel people have used this charade for generations now to
dupe the simple minded, and Christians should call out the profound
differences.

I drunkenly had this very conversation with a lib friend of mine a couple of years ago. I told her there is no redemption or expression of faith in forcing others to take care of people through government coercion. It is neither merciful or just when discretion is removed. Sometimes, saying no is actually the most appropriate course of action.

Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:11 PM (hJamr)

32 http://tinyurl.com/jhgnhoj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

What passes for urban legends these days. Fake text conversations on the internet.

Shame of it is, they tend to involve incest, rather than escaped maniac killers.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 10, 2016 12:11 PM (Pz4pT)

33 18
Yeah, like the people who said Obama isn't really that left wing and isn't socialist at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (39g3+)

I remember during the 2008 campaign that calling Obama a socialist was racist.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:12 PM (sdi6R)

34 PROTECT THE QUEEN!!
Posted by: Grump928(C)

That's been our job since 2008.

Posted by: Secret Service at December 10, 2016 12:13 PM (5PYMG)

35 The gumbo is done, and I am quite pleased with my first effort, except for the sausage. I cannot find a good smoked sausage here. They are all like kielbasa. It was fatty, and I had to skim it three times. I should have rendered it before I added it.

Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:13 PM (hJamr)

36 re 33: calling Obama "Obama" was racist, unless you were saying something really good about him.

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (b7fwp)

37 Oh. My. God.

How do you even have an accidental dick pic on your phone? I would never be able to look at my Dad again.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (p6El1)

38 Except when you dig deeper, it says "we have no evidence, just analysts figure that's who was behind the email hacks" Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 11:56 AM (39g3+)
=====

'Analysts' from the 17 intelligence agencies that supported HRC (as she boasted about in a debate).

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (MIKMs)

39 11 Jazz legend Dave Brubeck died December 5, just one day before his 92nd birthday. The pianist and composer was an innovator, especially when it came to combining rhythms and meters in new ways. "He sort of tired of the traditional patterns of jazz," says Patrick Langham, a saxophonist and faculty member of the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

Posted by: SMOD at December 10, 2016 11:54 AM (LtG+N)

++++

Dave Brubeck
Time Out
https://youtu.be/vKNZqM0d-xo?list=PLB35C44F2FB28E90A

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (R+30W)

40 36 re 33: calling Obama "Obama" was racist, unless you were saying something really good about him.
Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (b7fwp)

Pointing out that his middle name was Hussein was also racist. Which was why Mark Levin started calling him "Barack Milhous Obama".

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:16 PM (sdi6R)

41 re 35: I sometimes wonder what the Marx Brothers would have been like if Gumbo had stayed in the act. And don't any of you DARE to...

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:16 PM (b7fwp)

42 Anyone ever had one of those night?

http://tinypic.com/m/jpaicp/1

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:18 PM (CRotO)

43 "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
This truth should be inscribed on Hillary's ass and the Social Justice Wankers made to eat off it.
Posted by: MeMyselfandI at December 10, 2016 11:49 AM (qX6Q9)

Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence, to with that Hillary or Social Justice Wankers have anything that could be considered "good intentions."

Posted by: Bete stays up at December 10, 2016 12:18 PM (Ojki1)

44 I cannot find a good smoked sausage here.

Gotta use andouille for proper gumbo, IMHO. I'm sure yours will be tasty, tho.

Posted by: The Duke of Mish at December 10, 2016 12:18 PM (Tyii7)

45 How many of these jihadroaches do you think will actually make it to the USA before Trump takes office and turns off the tap? And why would he not deport those who do make it, on the grounds that they are not technically refugees as determined by the UNHCR?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 12:18 PM (MiBfH)

46 19 Funny texting error. Sure, it may require years of therapy to correct the damage but what's that compared to a good laugh?

http://tinyurl.com/jhgnhoj
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

OMG. I'm dying over here!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:19 PM (ywNoU)

47 41
I sometimes wonder what the Marx Brothers would have been like if Gumbo had stayed in the act.
Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:16 PM (b7fwp)

Good thing they ditched Karl, though. He was never very funny.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:19 PM (sdi6R)

48 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

This was funny, even if fake I was thinking as I read...still made me laugh.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:20 PM (jkmtt)

49 I wonder, how longer before some bug specialist discovers a new parasite and wants to name it after Trump?

Hillary lost. hurray!

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:20 PM (b7fwp)

50 Or "to wit". Stupid brain and fingers.

Posted by: Bete stays up at December 10, 2016 12:20 PM (Ojki1)

51 Gotta use andouille for proper gumbo

I don't like to use andouille because I can't control the heat level. I have to keep it spicy enough to eat, but not too spicy for the kids and the hubby. Conecuh is my preferred sausage.

Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (hJamr)

52 Good thing they ditched Karl, though. He was never very funny.

Bastid. Always redistributing my punch lines.

Posted by: Zombie Groucho at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (Tyii7)

53 Grease Ants while we don't get them every year are a pain in the ass. Little bastards can get through a lid on a can of Crisco and ruin the whole can.

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (5sOEp)

54 Leftism as religion is a pretty common thing these days. Consider ideas like Portland, Oregon is working on implementing: an extra tax on any business owner that makes more than 100% higher than their lowest paid worker.

That's not about any concept of rights or justice, its just a religious thing: I believe it is a sin to make too much money, it is right to take money from those who earn more than I believe they should.

And they've been doing it more and more every year. A burning determination to impose their religious code on the world, but without calling it religion.

And all the while, accusing Christians of trying to impose theocracy taliban-style.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (39g3+)

55 Ramsey Lewis - The In Crowd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40gly7OG20

Every time I get fed up with some of the self-indulgent crap by some jazz musicians, this cheers me up. Theme and variations.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2016 12:22 PM (MIKMs)

56 16 keep in mind, one favorite line from the left is "that's not real ~~socialism~~ Islam!" It's only real ~~socialism~~ Islam when it seems ~~to work~~ peaceful, but when things (as usual) turn sour the lefties promptly start looking for another example of a place where ~~socialism~~ Islam works. It's like talking to the street preacher who has been yelling (for the past forty or sixty years) that all the prophesies show that Jesus is about to return.
Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 11:58 AM (b7fwp)

The Progs are like the scorpion. It's who they are.

Posted by: random lurker - commenting randomly at December 10, 2016 12:22 PM (WF5ei)

57
I sometimes wonder what the Marx Brothers would have been like if Gumbo had stayed in the act.
Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:16 PM (b7fwp)

They would have rouxed the day that happened.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Gob-Smacked Rage Monkeys (Suck It, NR!) at December 10, 2016 12:22 PM (BK3ZS)

58 How do you even have an accidental dick pic on your phone? I would never be able to look at my Dad again.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (p6El1)

I would lose all respect for my father. I'd be reeling.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 12:22 PM (tHwdc)

59 I don't like to use andouille because I can't control the heat level.

Yeah, that is indeed to be taken into consideration.

Posted by: The Duke of Mish at December 10, 2016 12:23 PM (Tyii7)

60 19 Funny texting error. Sure, it may require years of therapy to correct the damage but what's that compared to a good laugh?

http://tinyurl.com/jhgnhoj
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 10, 2016 12:01 PM (Nwg0u)

21st Century Problems

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:23 PM (sdi6R)

61 53 Grease Ants while we don't get them every year are a pain in the ass. Little bastards can get through a lid on a can of Crisco and ruin the whole can.
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (5sOEp)

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Put the can in a ziplock bag.

If the little fuckers can open the bag...

Move.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:23 PM (CRotO)

62 re 47: he could have lit a cigar and set his beard on fire. I would have laughed at least once or twice

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:23 PM (b7fwp)

63 61 53 Grease Ants while we don't get them every year are a pain in the ass. Little bastards can get through a lid on a can of Crisco and ruin the whole can.
Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (5sOEp)

---

Put the can in a ziplock bag.

If the little fuckers can open the bag...

Move.
Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:23 PM (CRotO)

And burn the entire house down, just to make sure.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:24 PM (ywNoU)

64 My mom's recipe specifies kielbasa, because it works and andouille is hard to find anywhere but Louisiana. She got it from another Navy wife, and I don't know if it's authentic at all, but if you get the roux right, you'll knock it out of the park even if the other ingredients aren't perfect.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 10, 2016 12:25 PM (8nWyX)

65 Conecuh is my preferred sausage.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:25 PM (p6El1)

66 58 How do you even have an accidental dick pic on your phone? I would never be able to look at my Dad again.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:14 PM (p6El1)

I would lose all respect for my father. I'd be reeling.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 12:22 PM (tHwdc)

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Fortunately for me, my dad doesn't text all that often...

Except today.

GO ARMY!
BEAT NAVY!

*Please GOD, no dick pics from my Dad. I have enough to deal with. Thanks*

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:26 PM (CRotO)

67 I have to keep it spicy enough to eat, but not too spicy for the kids and the hubby.

Yeah its tough to balance that. I love spicy food and can handle way hotter food than my brothers, so I have to tone it down constantly.

You can make your own pickled sausage to use in gumbo and stuff like beans and rice. Alton Brown has a pretty good recipe.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pickled-pork-recipe.html

I want to whip up a batch then smoke it, my brother got a nice little smoker he set up in the back porch, and has been experimenting with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:26 PM (39g3+)

68 Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:18 PM (CRotO)

i like that, will make "swim bitches!" my alt-nic.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (jkmtt)

69 Insomniac,

Yep.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (CRotO)

70 In that spirit, I strongly implore anyone wishing to divert this topic (if it's discussed at all) into a nutcase anti-Catholic/butthurt Catholic taffy yank to reconsider. Maybe a good healthy ketchup on hot dogs conversation instead?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:04 PM (QDnY+)

I would say that such is not evidence of a defect in Christian teachings, or of the RC church in general, but is more likely a case of the Church having been subverted by Leftists. RC's have this bad right now, but some Protestant denominations are riddle with
Commies, too. United Church of Canada (aka Methodists), hello?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (MiBfH)

71 35 I cannot find a good smoked sausage here. They are all like kielbasa. It
was fatty, and I had to skim it three times. I should have rendered it
before I added it.

Slice the sausage about 3/16" thick ngd, and cook them on medium high heat in a skillet until you get some browning. Drain off the grease and let them sit for a bit on paper towels to remove even more of the grease before adding to the gumbo. Gumbo has plenty of fat from the roux; no need to add more from the sausage.

And use at least 50% more sausage than the recipe calls for. These words have never been heard -- "There's too much sausage in my bowl of gumbo."

Posted by: GnuBreed, gumbo eatin' expert at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (oZEJt)

72 One way to avoid this is to not have photos on your phone that are embarrassing. Is this too much to ask?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (tHwdc)

73 I don't remember ever having ants when we used to get real trees. We must have had cold enough temps to freeze them before the trees got taken inside. But that article makes me happy we went with a plastic tree several years ago all the same. If I would get ambitious and put it up. Last time I did even the cat was not all that excited about the giant temporary cat toy. Guess I need a kitten to get the real "Whee new toy" effect.

I need to stop being a couch potato today and get the snow tires on my car. The good news is I still remembered how to compensate for slick roads with worn all-season tread this past week.

Posted by: PaleRider, link to funeral expense fund for SMFH's Carl at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (Jen0I)

74 thank you Rhomboid. That climate garbage is the brainchild of Podesta's disgusting effort to have a "Catholic Spring" that encourages lefty Catholics to confuse people by presenting lefty talking points as doctrine. The only source of doctrine is the Magisterium, period, full stop. And the only infallible doctrine that requires the full assent of faith is when the Pope, and the Pope alone, speaks ex cathedra. The last time that happened was 1950.

Posted by: vivi at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (11H2y)

75 72 One way to avoid this is to not have photos on your phone that are embarrassing. Is this too much to ask?
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 12:27 PM (tHwdc)

Exactly. What's wrong with the good old days of Polaroids taped to the underside of your sock drawer?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:28 PM (ywNoU)

76 One way to avoid this is to not have photos on your phone that are embarrassing. Is this too much to ask?
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR

Word. That's what government laptops are for.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at December 10, 2016 12:29 PM (5PYMG)

77 some Protestant denominations are riddle with Commies, too

A profoundly disturbing trend, at least here in my neck of the woods.

Posted by: The Duke of Mish at December 10, 2016 12:29 PM (Tyii7)

78 One way to avoid this is to not have photos on your phone that are embarrassing. Is this too much to ask?

Yeah I just don't... I taped over the camera on my laptop for crying out loud. No pics of yourself you wish others don't see, ever. My dad would never ever have taken a pic of himself naked, let alone sent it to anyone, anywhere, ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:30 PM (39g3+)

79 I cannot find a good smoked sausage here.
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It hasn't been the same since Anderson Cooper left.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2016 12:30 PM (ZO497)

80 I'm off.

If Navy wins, I rejoice.

If Army wins, I say "Aw, let them have this one. They needed it so much!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (EnKk6)

81 These words have never been heard -- "There's too much sausage in my bowl of gumbo."

amen

Posted by: The Duke of Mish at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (Tyii7)

82 but is more likely a case of the Church having been subverted by Leftists. RC's have this bad right now,

Yes, along with everything else in the universe.

A few days ago there was a discussion about LinkedIn on the HQ. That networking site, ostensibly to match job-seekers with employers, has now morphed into commie propaganda 24-7 complete with Amy Schumer goodness.

Here's one of the links they sent me:
Amy Schumer: There's Nothing Like Your First Bomb
"I Felt Like a Human Being Who Had Just Been Dropped Into a Shark Tank" - Megyn Kelly

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (jkmtt)

83 I found some Andouille in the local grocery store, but I don't think it was authentic. It wasn't very spicy or smoked in flavor, just kinda like a kielbasa.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (39g3+)

84 If Army wins, I say "Aw, let them have this one. They needed it so much!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (EnKk6)

---

Yes. I. Do.

After losing to the queefs Thursday night, I need this win.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:32 PM (CRotO)

85 What do the articles in 82 have to do with anyone conducting a successful job search?

The propaganda machine has infected everything. I can't even page through a woman's magazine that's supposed to feature home decor and recipes without getting hit with leftist SJW bullshit.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:33 PM (jkmtt)

86 85 What do the articles in 82 have to do with anyone conducting a successful job search?

The propaganda machine has infected everything. I can't even page through a woman's magazine that's supposed to feature home decor and recipes without getting hit with leftist SJW bullshit.
Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:33 PM (jkmtt)

You will be MADE to care!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:34 PM (ywNoU)

87 One of the most annoying noises in the world to me is packing tape coming off the roll. Just FYI.

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2016 12:36 PM (Sfs6o)

88 16 keep in mind, one favorite line from the left is "that's not real socialism Islam!" It's only real socialism Islam when it seems to work peaceful, but when things (as usual) turn sour the lefties promptly start looking for another example of a place where socialism Islam works.
Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 11:58 AM (b7fwp)

It takes true Scotsmen to make socialism work. And Islam peaceful.

Otherwise, pffft.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2016 12:37 PM (SRKgf)

89 kallisto, my data on so much of this is suspect as I exiled myself from almost all "press" and media years ago (because of the cretinization), but one of my favorite benchmarks was back then, when right after the calamity of 2008, RESTAURANT REVIEWS in the local free paper all had stupid celebratory references to Obama.

Jeebus.

So is LinkedIn really progtarded, TOO? Are there any actual professional work-search websites that aren't?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:37 PM (QDnY+)

90 Another article from LinkedIn:

"What Do You Do To Look Confident?"

any suggestions?

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:37 PM (jkmtt)

91 Dress in black, with silver accessories.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:38 PM (CRotO)

92 necklace of skulls of your previous victims, slung non-chalantly over your shoulder?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:38 PM (QDnY+)

93 Modesty has disappeared from modern America.

Posted by: madamemayhem (goddess of brownies) at December 10, 2016 12:38 PM (yTnCT)

94 So is LinkedIn really progtarded, TOO? Are there any actual professional work-search websites that aren't?

I had downloaded resume templates from an outfit that was UK based, they seemed legit. I'll see if I can locate the link in my mail, if I do, will post it.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:38 PM (jkmtt)

95 any suggestions?

Since they have to ask, I would recommend stuffing their trousers with a sock.

Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (hJamr)

96 Durban and Ms Lindsey are putting together a Dreamers bill to let 3/4 million stay here legally.
What if we all next election use Vic's adress and sign up for voter mail in and help SC get rid of that sorry excuse for a senator?

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (5sOEp)

97 75
Exactly. What's wrong with the good old days of Polaroids taped to the underside of your sock drawer?
Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:28 PM (ywNoU)

Back in my day, we carried our Polaroid dick pics inside the hollowed-out onion on our belts. And we liked it!

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (sdi6R)

98 "Massive $450-million turf rebate program plagued by poor planning and oversight, audit finds"

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-turf-rebate-program-audit-20161209-story.html

_________

Let's face it, we should have a template for news about government programs:

"________" program plagued by "________"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (SRKgf)

99 Another article from LinkedIn:

"What Do You Do To Look Confident?"

any suggestions?
Posted by: kallisto

Wear the Depends with the heavy-duty elastic leg holes, for the bigger bottomed gals.

Posted by: Hillary! at December 10, 2016 12:41 PM (5PYMG)

100 So a super-colony of AntZ is the prequel to Phase IV then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2016 12:41 PM (+bQch)

101 91 Dress in black, with silver accessories.

Have Gun-Will Travel.

Posted by: HH at December 10, 2016 12:41 PM (DrCtv)

102 It hasn't been the same since Anderson Cooper left.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2016 12:30 PM (ZO497)

Hi Mike. I tore apart the motor on the HF table saw. (went into on the ONT last night). Bottom line: small ball bearing on commutator end of armature seized and spun in the plastic endframe. What I smelled was burned plastic. I think it's fixable; got bearings ordered from Amazon. Also ordered one of those mp3 players. Will issue report upon getting it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 12:41 PM (MiBfH)

103 I have to say that Donald Trump does use Twitter quite well (when he isn't going on and on about Meghan Kelly or something) and can be quite entertaining:

Reports by @CNN that I will be working on The Apprentice during my Presidency, even part time, are ridiculous & untrue - FAKE NEWS!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 10, 2016 12:41 PM (tOcW/)

104 If I looked like Channing Tatum, then maybe I might consider having naughty pics of my self to send out, but as I look like a 51-year-old man who doesn't exercise... no.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:42 PM (39g3+)

105 If there were a press of any sort, they might ask the "senior intel officials" claiming the Russian hack role why it would be, on its face, helping Trump to leak DNC emails.

What, is there something repugnant, unpopular, suspect, or otherwise dubious about DNC actions, or the thoughts and words of its senior officials?

Otherwise there's no reason to expect such a leak to have an effect, right, Mister "senior intel official"?

Wonder if any of these "senior intel officials" are the same ones who should be in the 15th year of their life sentences for Espionage Act violations in connection with the two outrageous revelations of surveillance activities in the first few years after 9/11?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:42 PM (QDnY+)

106 These words have never been heard -- "There's too much sausage in my bowl of gumbo."

This needs a Sandra Fluke sock.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:42 PM (p6El1)

107 37 - Oh. My. God.

How do you even have an accidental dick pic on your phone? I would never be able to look at my Dad again.

A few weeks ago, step-daughter sent me a pic of her mommie parts - accidentally I hope.

When I told GF she asked me "are you sure it was a pic of her?"

What the hell do you say to that?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 10, 2016 12:42 PM (tr2D7)

108 *standout-cv.com*

So far the objective of the articles they send is to actually secure employment.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:43 PM (jkmtt)

109 Morning... The Russians did it or something.... That's the fake news for today....

Posted by: deplorable donna at December 10, 2016 12:43 PM (O2RFr)

110 I love how Trump is going to the Army-Navy game. I love the impotent rage he causes in the MSM and the Narrative Class - Hollywood, Academe, The Punditariat, etc.

Posted by: vivi at December 10, 2016 12:43 PM (11H2y)

111 NYT reports from a "senior official (probably Barak) that the Russians haked the Republicans but didn't publish it to help Trump .
(Althouse )

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:44 PM (5sOEp)

112 In socialism you need people to produce more than they consume. That is not human nature. Even on my Air Force flight crews, the bigger the crew, the fewer people participate loading crew bags because "I have something else to do, surely there are enough left to get the job done". Eventually socialism has to resort to two things. Force people to work at the barrel of the government gun, or eliminate those physically incapable of work. George Bernard Shaw said it best 100 years ago: "Every 5 years all citizens should be put before a board to explain their existence. If you don't produce as much as you consume, perhaps a bit more, we have no use for you".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 10, 2016 12:44 PM (dnWSK)

113 Can you just sign up to just see one persons stuff on Twitter, or does it come with extra shit like FB?

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2016 12:45 PM (Sfs6o)

114 re LinkedIn -- Bookworm has a list of 150 companies that, like Kellogg's, thinks we are all fascists. LinkedIn isn't on that list, but more are being added every day. I did notice Career Builder on the list:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/h236opq

So if you're looking for a handy list of places to avoid doing business with, this list is a good start.

Posted by: GnuBreed, gumbo eatin' expert at December 10, 2016 12:45 PM (oZEJt)

115 Can you just sign up to just see one persons stuff on Twitter, or does it come with extra shit like FB?

You don't have to sign up to view twitface.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (p6El1)

116 21 "Skeptics" (why is that even a word in real scientific discussions?) are funded by EVIL FOSSIL FUEL INTERESTS! eleventy!!

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:04 PM (QDnY+)

My response to such prattle would be: climate alarmism is funded by BIG GOVERNMENTS. Ya know, big governments have had dismal track records during the past 100 years what with their sometimes murdering many millions of their own citizens and what not...

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (jV8Mq)

117 Speaking of Corgis, the Royal type. Well except for that two-legged one on the left in the red and white sweater and her ditz of a companion...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ho3baoe

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (+bQch)

118 Paul Krugman has lost it. Go to twitchy for the story.

Trump was elected by a conspiracy of the FBI, CIA, and Putin's Russia. Hillary had 2% more votes and should have won.

Posted by: rd at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (Rtl0g)

119 Skip - see my earlier comment on this.

What "damaging" leaks could have come from GOP emails? At the RNC, Preibus's email isn't likely to have been too exciting or controversial.

And the Trump campaign, in the person of its candidate, more or less did its most controversial stuff in public, in everyone's face, so to speak.

Try to imagine a Trump email that was any redder meat for the airheads of the NYT or NPR or their vast brain-dead following than what Trump actually did and said, on TV or social media.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:47 PM (QDnY+)

120 are funded by EVIL FOSSIL FUEL INTERESTS! eleventy!!

Years back I wrote about an article that showed how there's significantly more money from oil companies going to AGW hysteric research than "skeptic" funding. BP alone was dumping millions in.

I'm not sure any longer, that was years ago, but at least at one point it was true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:49 PM (39g3+)

121
My response to such prattle would be: climate alarmism is funded by BIG GOVERNMENTS. Ya know, big governments have had dismal track records during the past 100 years what with their sometimes murdering many millions of their own citizens and what not...
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (jV8Mq)

And add on question for those in a position of responsibility/power in leading a church: In how many of those countries has free religious expression been encouraged/supported?

Posted by: Bete stays up at December 10, 2016 12:50 PM (Ojki1)

122 Come on, dick pics can be done artistically and tastefully.

Text me and I'll show you.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 10, 2016 12:50 PM (ZKlDy)

123 Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 10, 2016 12:46 PM (p6El1)
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Got it. Thanks Grump.

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2016 12:50 PM (Sfs6o)

124 109 Morning... The Russians did it or something.... That's the fake news for today....
Posted by: deplorable donna at December 10, 2016 12:43 PM (O2RFr)

A blast from the past (the 1980s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVf7m_YZ2zY

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 12:51 PM (sdi6R)

125 re 96: didn't that putz threaten to become a Dem if Trump got the nomination (or something like that)?

Another true Blue Republican, that Lindsey... well:

Sen. Lindsey Graham is disgusted with the GOP's embrace of Donald Trump: "My party has gone batshit crazy."

In no-holds-barred remarks at a celebratory dinner Thursday night, the South Carolina senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate said the GOP has lost all semblance of sanity and predicted the party will suffer irrevocable losses in November if it backs Trump.

US News last February
http://tinyurl.com/gu4e9zq

[why oh why didn't we listen to him??? oh yeah, because we're not that kind of moron]

same article has this quote from Graham:
"A good Republican would defend Ted Cruz after tonight. That ain't happening. If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you."

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (b7fwp)

126 Former Enron Financial Adviser Paul Krugman

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (p6El1)

127 Posted by: GnuBreed, gumbo eatin' expert at December 10, 2016 12:45 PM (oZEJt)

OMG I can't believe how many are on that list.

I'm on the email list of some of those companies, such as Harry and David. Can't wait to unsubscribe and then get the little pop-up that wants to know the reason why.

Craftsy. CRAFTSY??? What are they going to do, deny me access to the ONE video I bought about bread-baking?

How are they going to enforce their boycott against us. ACCOUNTEMPS is one of them. So when applicants submit resumes, they will ask who their wannabe talent voted for?

This is just out of control and very ill-considered. I don't think these companies realize what a can of worms they opened.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (jkmtt)

128 I don't see what is so bad about dick pics.

Posted by: Brett Favre at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (Ojki1)

129 justice beatnik, you greatly under-state the case.

"Climate change" research is entirely funded by govts. and organizations whose relentless, 24/7 effort consists of bringing more and more aspecs of life under external control.

But even that's indulging the logical fallacy of the eco-fascists far too much.

Their crap is conjecture, it doesn't even rise to the level of a hypothesis, in most respects. There propositions are mostly non-falsifiable, there is not near enough data to even opine logically on their conjectures, there has been massive and telling distortion and corruption of data, and the only proxy data of importance (the geologic one) tells an unambiguous tale of glacial/inter-glacial cycles in "recent" planetary history which needs to be fully and satisfactorily explained before these idiotic, sophomoric atrocities against logic of theirs are even entertained.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (QDnY+)

130 Years back I wrote about an article that showed how there's significantly more money from oil companies going to AGW hysteric research than "skeptic" funding. BP alone was dumping millions in.

I'm not sure any longer, that was years ago, but at least at one point it was true.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:49 PM (39g3+)

Big Oil knows that the world will continue to need and buy their product, regardless of the level of taxation. And climate-change policies enacted by stupid governments tend to make things more difficult for small competitors, so Big Oil can then scoop up their assets when they get into financial distress.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 12:53 PM (MiBfH)

131
Their crap is conjecture, it doesn't even rise to the level of a hypothesis, in most respects. There propositions are mostly non-falsifiable, there is not near enough data to even opine logically on their conjectures, there has been massive and telling distortion and corruption of data, and the only proxy data of importance (the geologic one) tells an unambiguous tale of glacial/inter-glacial cycles in "recent" planetary history which needs to be fully and satisfactorily explained before these idiotic, sophomoric atrocities against logic of theirs are even entertained.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (QDnY+)

My man.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2016 12:55 PM (SRKgf)

132 >>>But Christmas Island is plagued by another kind of refugee, the Yellow Crazy ~~Ant~~Aunt

Who you calling crazy?

Posted by: Margaret Cho, your mother's sister at December 10, 2016 12:56 PM (rH4JY)

133 Catwoman attacks boyfriend

http://tinyurl.com/zcdbtvl

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (CRotO)

134 But Christmas Island is plagued by another kind of refugee, the Yellow Crazy Ant. Despite the saying "communism never works", these ants have formed supercolonies on the island while living a communist lifestyle.

The only way to deal with these commie ants is just like that scene in the movie Barcelona. Chris Eigeman asks, Which one are the Red ants? Lifts a brick and smashes them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (auHtY)

135 Gardening Thread is up, for all you gardeners.

Posted by: KT at December 10, 2016 12:58 PM (qahv/)

136 >> I don't see what is so bad about dick pics.

It's the Crocs.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2016 12:59 PM (c8Ctg)

137 AOP that's the pernicious dynamic already running amok in banking (Dodd-Frank) and other areas where "regulation" is merely suppressing market dynamism and leading to greater concentration.

Unwise to be too hopeful, but the next few years could be very beneficial if it sees the federal govt. reversing the climate idiocy and thereby disrupting the malignant cycle of govt. $$$/crony "research"/crony stupid subsidized fake products and industries/idiotic pop culture and social embrace of climate fantasy.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 01:00 PM (QDnY+)

138 Grease Ants while we don't get them every year are a pain in the ass. Little bastards can get through a lid on a can of Crisco and ruin the whole can.

Posted by: Skip at December 10, 2016 12:21 PM (5sOEp)

They get really annoying when they start singing - Grease ants are the time, are the place, are the motion Grease ants are the way we are feeling

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 10, 2016 01:00 PM (auHtY)

139 >>>95
any suggestions?

Since they have to ask, I would recommend stuffing their trousers with a sock.

Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (hJamr)<<<

Just make sure you put it in front.

Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2016 01:01 PM (yOqwj)

140 Dude.... Dah Crazy is literally carved on every part of her face. Sheesh. Unless Monsieur Klein is a cat fancier, but then again perhaps a nice Bengal tiger with a sore tooth would be a better companion.

Nyah! Humans are so crazy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2016 01:01 PM (+bQch)

141 http://preview.tinyurl.com/h236opq

So if you're looking for a handy list of places to avoid doing business with, this list is a good start.
Posted by: GnuBreed, gumbo eatin' expert at December 10, 2016 12:45 PM (oZEJt)

Or not so good - they suggest Grammarly which has no statement on anything other than to have been used to analyze the grammar on Reddit of Tump supports which was worse than the grammar of Hilary supporters.

Being butt-hurt about grammar isn't a reason to suggest or support a boycott.

Posted by: Batterup at December 10, 2016 01:02 PM (mtGE/)

142 112
George Bernard Shaw said it best 100 years ago: "Every 5 years all citizens should be put before a board to explain their existence. If you don't produce as much as you consume, perhaps a bit more, we have no use for you".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 10, 2016 12:44 PM (dnWSK)

Or, you know, we could just have free-market capitalism.

Things would sort out naturally, and nobody would have to "explain themselves" before a "board".

You either produce or you don't. And those who don't don't get an automatic safety net.

Posted by: rickl at December 10, 2016 01:02 PM (sdi6R)

143 "Lets play Sailor!" said no kid ever.

Go Army. Beat Navy.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (0tfLf)

144 Catwoman attacks boyfriend

http://tinyurl.com/zcdbtvl

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (CRotO)

God, that is positively hideous. If I ran over it on the street, I'd stop and back up several times, just to be sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (MiBfH)

145 the companies on the Bookworm list are those who have agreed to withhold advertising on Breitbart.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (jkmtt)

146 Dude! Johnny Cash is on a re-run of Little House on the Prarie!

Posted by: Batterup at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (mtGE/)

147 The only way to deal with these commie ants is just like that scene in the movie Barcelona. Chris Eigeman asks, Which one are the Red ants? Lifts a brick and smashes them
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (auHtY)

Nuke them from orbit, its the only way to be sure...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 10, 2016 01:04 PM (qf6WZ)

148 144 Catwoman attacks boyfriend
http://tinyurl.com/zcdbtvl
Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (CRotO)
God, that is positively hideous. If I ran over it on the street, I'd stop and back up several times, just to be sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (MiBfH)

She's as sane ... as sane as ... well ... certainly as sane as ... uh ... [jump in any time here] ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 10, 2016 01:05 PM (SRKgf)

149 143 "Lets play Sailor!" said no kid ever.

Go Army. Beat Navy.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2016 01:03 PM (0tfLf)

Actually... I had a whole fleet of model WW2 Ships, that often got sunk in the swimming pool...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 10, 2016 01:05 PM (qf6WZ)

150 There propositions are mostly non-falsifiable, there is not near enough data to even opine logically on their conjectures,
...
Posted by: rhomboid

If we do not stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, this planet will be much MUCH warmer than it would otherwise been.

I've commissioned Slartibartfast to whip up another Earth, so I can verify my hypothesis.

Posted by: Michael E. Mann at December 10, 2016 01:05 PM (rH4JY)

151 Obama was a marginal politician and a terrible president.He was elected by voters who saw him as new and exciting but his piss poor oratory was only impressive when it was compared to old boring white farts with nothing new to say.

Obama is also the epitome and result of the 'soft bigotry of low expectations'

" oh what a GOOD president you are! Isn't him such a GOOD president? Yes him IS!".

He basically was an experiment in the formulation
"we could do better picking someone at random out of a phone book" but the only problem with that is that we could, in fact, have done better pulling someone at random out of the phone book.

Veni, Vidi, Hooverus

He came, he saw, he sucked.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 10, 2016 01:07 PM (zu88C)

152 Vanguard Investment Group is on that list. I have a portion of my IRA invested there. I called them and they said that their policy is not to advertise on any overtly-political site, and to remain politically neutral. Apparently, they say, their ads got through their filter and started appearing on sites that they normally would not approve under their political-neutral policy. So they are tightening their filters so their ads won't show up on any political sites, not just Breitbart.

From what I've read on the internet, that looks to be the case. I'll probably leave my money with them unless I see something more.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 10, 2016 01:09 PM (dFi94)

153 129 justice beatnik, you greatly under-state the case.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (QDnY+)

Oh, abso-freakin'-lutely; I concur with your response. Nevertheless, a couple of the Pavlovian responses of leftists to rational discourse are ad hominems and re-direction. So, if I were to find myself in that situation, I figure that I would use their tactics against them. heh

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 10, 2016 01:09 PM (jV8Mq)

154 Anyone see the takedown of Rubin on Tucker last night? ''Twas a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 10, 2016 01:11 PM (kTF2Z)

155 just like the IRS -- from Ingraham's lifezette
(drudge has a link)

The Department of Homeland Security told members of congress Friday that a rogue federal employee may have been responsible for a November hack-attack that targeted the Georgia secretary of state's system, LifeZette has learned.

Posted by: Mallfly who's busy now at December 10, 2016 01:11 PM (b7fwp)

156 This past week I received an over-the-top email from the city. I printed a portion of it here, and I do so again:
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Dear Community Leader,

During its annual retreat in January 2016, the City Council developed a 2036 vision in which it articulated the community as it is and as it strives to be in 2036. One of the eight focus areas of the vision articulated below – A Diverse Community – encompass the equity lens through which the City seeks to achieve its goals, deliver services and programs, and maximize the quality of life for all.

In an effort to create a framework, develop resources, and achieve meaningful progress towards this component of the Vision, the Fiscal Year 2017 budget approved in June 2016 included funding for the development of diversity and equity initiatives. The development of such efforts includes evaluation of the City’s efforts to equitably engage with and deliver services to the community and will include areas of study such as representation on boards and commissions, public input opportunities, and contracting and infrastructure investments.
----------------

Today I sent a note to the city's IT manager letting them know that their email address had apparently been hijacked by a spoofer, as the above could not possibly be real. It will be interesting to see if I get a reply

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2016 01:11 PM (ZO497)

157 Actually Duke I asked (lazy, worthless type that I am) last night on a thread that was running during Carlson's show for a moron executive summary of the Rubin thing.

Highlights?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (QDnY+)

158 Heh AOP,

Makes you wonder how "sane" the bf is for sticking his pecker in that.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (CRotO)

159 Exactly. What's wrong with the good old days of Polaroids taped to the underside of your sock drawer?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 10, 2016 12:28 PM (ywNoU)

Right. That will only be seen by the people going through your stuff after you die.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (tHwdc)

160 Has to be the money.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (CRotO)

161 95

Since they have to ask, I would recommend stuffing their trousers with a sock.
Posted by: no good deed at December 10, 2016 12:39 PM (hJamr)

A cucumber works, too, but you should remove the foil wrapping before passing through airport security.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (jV8Mq)

162 A rogue federal employee?

Not to be confused with the likes of Sandy Burglar? Or that guy caught with the FBI documents on 300 Republicans?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2016 01:13 PM (+bQch)

163 One way to avoid this is to not have photos on your phone that are embarrassing. Is this too much to ask?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR

Word. That's what government laptops are for.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at December 10, 2016 12:29 PM (5PYMG)

Right. That will only be seen by the people who find them after you've left them in a coffee shop.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:13 PM (tHwdc)

164 SMFH, I think Klein views her as an exotic pet that gets him attention.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2016 01:14 PM (+bQch)

165 How are they going to enforce their boycott against
us. ACCOUNTEMPS is one of them. So when applicants submit resumes, they
will ask who their wannabe talent voted for?
This is just out of control and very ill-considered. I don't think these companies realize what a can of worms they opened. Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:52 PM (jkmtt)
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Over the past 7 years of not being able to find full-time employment (not even picky about it, but I am 60yo), the worst is that the vast majority of the 'job' sites are data-mining operations. This includes the State websites. In Illinois, the 'retraining' spam is intolerable. Who the heck is going to pay for this so-called 'retraining' in the new, exciting, and expanding field of [fill in the blank].

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2016 01:15 PM (MIKMs)

166 What do a Navy Midshipman and a West Point Cadet have in common?

They both got accepted to West Point.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 10, 2016 01:15 PM (zu88C)

167 Or not so good - they suggest Grammarly which has no statement on anything other than to have been used to analyze the grammar on Reddit of Tump supports which was worse than the grammar of Hilary supporters.

Being butt-hurt about grammar isn't a reason to suggest or support a boycott.

Posted by: Batterup at December 10, 2016 01:02 PM (mtGE/)

Physician, heal thyself!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 01:15 PM (MiBfH)

168 A rogue federal employee?

Not to be confused with the likes of Sandy Burglar? Or that guy caught with the FBI documents on 300 Republicans?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Craig Livingston, former bar bouncer and Clinton WH Security Chief (who no one would admit hiring). 1000 FBI files.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 10, 2016 01:16 PM (ZO497)

169 Mike that's nauseating. And it's everywhere. Not sure I can even think of a way in which this idiocy can be flushed from society. I know middle-aged people who actually talk in terms of "diversity" - people who experienced the real thing decades ago, but never thought to think about it as something in itself back then. They've "de-evolved" to the level of a sad, ignorant 20something.

One reason I don't have much hope.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 01:16 PM (QDnY+)

170 Has to be the money.
Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (CRotO)

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Yep. I read that she took an Ex for 2.5 Billion and 100 million a year in alimony. Dude probably felt like he got off easy in getting rid of cray cray.

Posted by: Flyboy at December 10, 2016 01:16 PM (hmroL)

171 Makes you wonder how "sane" the bf is for sticking his pecker in that.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (CRotO)

He's a fashion designer. I'd say sanity left the room a few decades ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 01:18 PM (MiBfH)

172 Yep, Flyboy. He got off real easy.

Anna, a very expensive pet.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:18 PM (CRotO)

173
How come the Army football team doesn't have a website?

They can't string three "W's" together.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 10, 2016 01:18 PM (zu88C)

174 Yeah I just don't... I taped over the camera on my
laptop for crying out loud. No pics of yourself you wish others don't
see, ever. My dad would never ever have taken a pic of himself naked, let alone sent it to anyone, anywhere, ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 12:30 PM (39g3+)

Me too. It was the first thing I did when Mr. Deplorable bought me my laptop. I'd never had a webcam before. I've only used it once, for a video interview. Put the double layer sticky note back as soon as it was over.
In fact, I think it was James Comey who recommended doing that, this past summer.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:19 PM (tHwdc)

175 Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 01:12 PM (QDnY+)

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She wrote a column stating that Trump won because racist white males were afraid of immigration. Tucker asked her for proof and she kept going on about how there are polls that show Trump supporters were more hostile to blacks. What does that have to do with immigration, he asked. She came across as a blithering idiot.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 10, 2016 01:20 PM (kTF2Z)

176 Thanks, Duke.

Well she's definitely an idiot. Problem is, so are about 90% of the "elite", and arguably 70% of the masses.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 01:22 PM (QDnY+)

177 A few days ago there was a discussion about LinkedIn
on the HQ. That networking site, ostensibly to match job-seekers with
employers, has now morphed into commie propaganda 24-7 complete with Amy
Schumer goodness.

Here's one of the links they sent me:

Amy Schumer: There's Nothing Like Your First Bomb

"I Felt Like a Human Being Who Had Just Been Dropped Into a Shark Tank" - Megyn Kelly

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:31 PM (jkmtt)

I'll do as Mr. Deplorable did - when I have something I'm proud of, I'll use it to share my joy. I'm not in the group of people whose career will benefit from it. Until then, what's the point?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:23 PM (tHwdc)

178 The propaganda machine has infected everything. I
can't even page through a woman's magazine that's supposed to feature
home decor and recipes without getting hit with leftist SJW bullshit.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 12:33 PM (jkmtt)

Glenn Reynolds has been saying for years that conservatives should start buying women's magazines to expose them to an alternate way of thinking. We can't keep ceding the "soft" battlefield to the left.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:25 PM (tHwdc)

179 Catwoman attacks boyfriend

http://tinyurl.com/zcdbtvl

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 12:57 PM (CRotO)

God, that is positively hideous. If I ran over it on the street, I'd stop and back up several times, just to be sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
****

She used to be attractive, but wanted to look like her cat and had herself done up that way.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 01:26 PM (hVdx9)

180 I think she's HOT.

Posted by: Ron Perlman at December 10, 2016 01:26 PM (ZKlDy)

181 One of the most annoying noises in the world to me is packing tape coming off the roll. Just FYI.

Posted by: Weasel at December 10, 2016 12:36 PM (Sfs6o)

The sound of stickiness. Not the same as lifting your foot from the floor of a fraternity taproom. Nor as gross.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:27 PM (tHwdc)

182 Over the past 7 years of not being able to find
full-time employment (not even picky about it, but I am 60yo), the worst
is that the vast majority of the 'job' sites are data-mining
operations. This includes the State websites. In Illinois, the
'retraining' spam is intolerable. Who the heck is going to pay for this
so-called 'retraining' in the new, exciting, and expanding field of
[fill in the blank].

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 10, 2016 01:15 PM (MIKMs)

The irony being that "retraining" 60-year-olds being is not part of their plan.
Maybe in the camps, but not for the job market. I'm right there with you.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:29 PM (tHwdc)

183 Posted by: Ron Perlman at December 10, 2016 01:26 PM (ZKlDy)

Now that's funny...

Posted by: HH at December 10, 2016 01:30 PM (DrCtv)

184 She used to be attractive, but wanted to look like her cat and had herself done up that way.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 01:26 PM (hVdx9)

So, hideous, then. I quite like cats. They are pretty animals. But she is a gross caricature of a cat, and any woman who would deliberately alter her natural features into such an abomination is cray-cray in the membrane.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2016 01:32 PM (MiBfH)

185 173
How come the Army football team doesn't have a website?

They can't string three "W's" together.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 10, 2016 01:18 PM (zu88C)

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*Climbs into turret*

*Enters Mortimer's coordinates*

*smiles*

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:33 PM (CRotO)

186 >>Catwoman attacks boyfriend

http://tinyurl.com/zcdbtvl

Ugh, looks like she's not the only one in that relationship getting too much plastic surgery. What an awful woman.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 10, 2016 01:34 PM (NOIQH)

187 The Bride of Wildenstein is what she was nic'd.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 01:37 PM (hVdx9)

188 http://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/gcs-m1-abrams-main-battle-tank/

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:37 PM (CRotO)

189 I can respect any business or corporation that intends to remain politics- neutral, as Nissan did in a statement released shortly after the election.

But Ben and Jerry's has published its SJW manifesto, directed expressly to the President Elect.

B&J have always been clowns, their ice cream is not all that, now so many products are better. I can't really boycott them because I don't buy their crap.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 01:38 PM (jkmtt)

190 173
How come the Army football team doesn't have a website?

They can't string three "W's" together.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 10, 2016 01:18 PM (zu88C)

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*Climbs into turret*

*Enters Mortimer's coordinates*

*smiles*

Posted by: SMFH
****

(gets popcorn)

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 01:38 PM (hVdx9)

191 Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:37 PM (CRotO)

How are you holding up lately?

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 01:39 PM (jkmtt)

192 Hmmm...

HE or the sabot...

Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:40 PM (CRotO)

193 112 In socialism you need people to produce more than they consume. That is not human nature. Even on my Air Force flight crews, the bigger the crew, the fewer people participate loading crew bags because "I have something else to do, surely there are enough left to get the job done". Eventually socialism has to resort to two things. Force people to work at the barrel of the government gun, or eliminate those physically incapable of work. George Bernard Shaw said it best 100 years ago: "Every 5 years all citizens should be put before a board to explain their existence. If you don't produce as much as you consume, perhaps a bit more, we have no use for you".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 10, 2016 12:44 PM (dnWSK)

"You are ... obsolete."

Posted by: Fox 2! at December 10, 2016 01:40 PM (brIR5)

194 I'm ok kallisto.

Kind of a Black Friday for me yesterday (Carl's passing one month ago and my Raiders loss to the queefs), so I spent some quality time at the VFW in Cove.

The Patriot Guard will be at Carl's service.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:42 PM (CRotO)

195 189 I can respect any business or corporation that intends to remain politics- neutral, as Nissan did in a statement released shortly after the election.

But Ben and Jerry's has published its SJW manifesto, directed expressly to the President Elect.

B&J have always been clowns, their ice cream is not all that, now so many products are better. I can't really boycott them because I don't buy their crap.
Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 01:38 PM (jkmtt)

All their flavors are either too busy or unappealing to me. Their New York Super Fudge Chunk was not bad. Still I can do without Vermont Ice Cream hippies.

If I get "premium" ice cream, I usually go for Graeters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2016 01:43 PM (YqO0E)

196 Oh,

The young troops are HYPED about Maddog taking over.

Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:43 PM (CRotO)

197 Hi Miley,
I read down through the thread the next morning where you 'ette'splained the DSR and other stuff to me.
Thanks for taking the time to do that.
If I wasn't so old I might remember what you said.

And yes, I had a really rough time find work a bit over 3 years ago at 58. If I hadn't got a call back to the old place I'd probably still be looking.
And being hunted by some folks around here.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 01:44 PM (gJ3Vg)

198 192 Hmmm...

HE or the sabot...

Decisions, decisions.
Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:40 PM (CRotO)

Like... it matters?

Posted by: USS New Jersey at December 10, 2016 01:46 PM (qf6WZ)

199 Go with the depleted uranium SMFH.
Don't be half-steppin'.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 01:46 PM (gJ3Vg)

200 Ugh. Was following some links and landed on Slate. The deliberately dishonest portrayal of Salvador Allende was sickening.
Short version: the courageous man of the people was cut down by evil right wingers.
I hate the left.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 01:47 PM (hVdx9)

201 Posted by: SMFH at December 10, 2016 01:42 PM (CRotO)

As you know, life does present its challenges and unhappy times. I texted my cousin the other nite that I felt like taking a baseball bat and vandalizing the universe because a dear friend of ours is not doing well.

But I eventually calmed down. You sound as though you are coping well. You've posted about your daughter, thank God for her presence in your life.

Be well. I've been using my employer's resources to hang out on this here space, going to sign off now.

Posted by: kallisto at December 10, 2016 01:48 PM (jkmtt)

202 Not enough dudes named Rex these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2016 01:49 PM (YqO0E)

203 >>"Lets play Sailor!" said no kid ever.

Go Army. Beat Navy.

Posted by: Diogenes

I like to play sailor.

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 10, 2016 01:49 PM (/Nite)

204 Rex Ruthor

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2016 01:49 PM (IqV8l)

205 RE Sleeping Giants list:
sadly found NewEgg on it.
WAS my go to electronics source.
Sad, very sad

Posted by: random lurker - commenting randomly at December 10, 2016 01:50 PM (WF5ei)

206 https://tinyurl.com/jbjhqqh

Trump picks Exxon CEO Tillerson for secretary of State: report

Oh Yeah LEFTARDS/FAKE NEWS will love a Oil Exec. being SoS

Posted by: Evilpens at December 10, 2016 01:50 PM (y3aQB)

207 SMFH, just wanted to fill you in on something. I now live here in the KC area, and this game was hyped since Mon. morning. Every local station was doing story after story about it, plus hyping how cold it was going to be.

Come game day, every local station was broadcasting from Arrowhead Stadium. I've never seen anything like it. It literally was the Superbowl of the season for the Chiefs.

But I've always liked the Raiders. I lived in L.A. when they moved down and won the SB against the Redskins. Great team who had fallen on hard times for a number of years.

Anyhoo, just wanted to let you know what a BFD it was here. Sorry your team lost.

Posted by: HH at December 10, 2016 01:52 PM (DrCtv)

208 Hi Miley,

I read down through the thread the next morning where you 'ette'splained the DSR and other stuff to me.

Thanks for taking the time to do that.

If I wasn't so old I might remember what you said.

And yes, I had a really rough time find work a bit over 3 years ago
at 58. If I hadn't got a call back to the old place I'd probably still
be looking.

And being hunted by some folks around here.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 01:44 PM (gJ3Vg)

Hi teej - as I recall, you didn't get the "26 times" reference I made (that there are 26 "I knows" in the middle of "Ain't no Sunshine" by Bill Withers.
Good to see you! Well, "see" you :-D

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 01:54 PM (tHwdc)

209 I'm just sorry that that #@*&^! Marcus �&$$# Peter's didn't get knocked on his backside and run over a few times.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 01:56 PM (gJ3Vg)

210 Like... it matters?
Posted by: USS New Jersey at December 10, 2016 01:46 PM (qf6WZ)

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Bitch.

Gotta find me first.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 01:57 PM (CRotO)

211 Muslim NYPD officers request meeting with Trump after spike in hate crimes

He has better things to do than listen to phony hate crimes. And while he's at it he can tell deCommio to fvck off too

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 10, 2016 02:00 PM (auHtY)

212 207 SMFH, just wanted to fill you in on something. I now live here in the KC area, and this game was hyped since Mon. morning. Every local station was doing story after story about it, plus hyping how cold it was going to be.

Come game day, every local station was broadcasting from Arrowhead Stadium. I've never seen anything like it. It literally was the Superbowl of the season for the Chiefs.

But I've always liked the Raiders. I lived in L.A. when they moved down and won the SB against the Redskins. Great team who had fallen on hard times for a number of years.

Anyhoo, just wanted to let you know what a BFD it was here. Sorry your team lost.
Posted by: HH at December 10, 2016 01:52 PM (DrCtv)

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It's a BFD, alright.

Out of all the division rivals, the queefs are the most annoying.

It is probably the most intense rivalry of the NFL.

Fortunately, it's a good-natured rivalry.

Though some fans on both sides truly hate each other.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:01 PM (CRotO)

213 Is it Saturday outside already?
The threads make me think it is, but it's too freaking cold to open the door and actually verify that.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 10, 2016 02:01 PM (CgVmu)

214 Good to see you now too lady.
Hah! Remember it now.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
I really miss the old R&B. Really glad we're doing At This Moment now which is a throwback to those days.
We do a couple of others that Gary wrote that are the same way.
Listened to The Four Tops Millennium Collection this morning.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:01 PM (gJ3Vg)

215 *Waves to Chi*

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:01 PM (CRotO)

216 i'm very, very busy, but

pretty entertaining div. II playoff game between north dakota state and south dakota state.

otherwise, i'm really too busy to be here.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:02 PM (WTSFk)

217 ... busy, busy, busy...

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:03 PM (WTSFk)

218 But I eventually calmed down. You sound as though you are coping well. You've posted about your daughter, thank God for her presence in your life.

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To be fair, there have been times I've wanted to go all Negan on her the past month.

Sanity prevailed.

Barely.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:04 PM (CRotO)

219 I really miss the old RB. Really glad we're doing At This Moment now which is a throwback to those days.

We do a couple of others that Gary wrote that are the same way.

Listened to The Four Tops Millennium Collection this morning.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:01 PM (gJ3Vg)

Mr. Deplorable was a musician, too, but he hated to perform. Knew every name and every band they'd ever been in. Remarkable memory.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 02:04 PM (tHwdc)

220 PeterRoff
BREAKING NEWS: Source tells me former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor hiring staff for a 2018 U.S. Senate bid. #Virginia #2018 #TCOT

HAHAHA
HAHAHA
HAHAHA

Posted by: Evilpens at December 10, 2016 02:08 PM (y3aQB)

221 mrs. deplorable was a musician...

well.

looking up n. & s. dakota state on wiki, i came upon a link to the univ. of south dakota, which has the national museum of musical instruments, one of the finest collections in the world, including very rare examples of a guitar and a mandolin by stradivarius!

fancy that.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:09 PM (WTSFk)

222 ... you see, it's all to the good.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:10 PM (WTSFk)

223 ... no wasting time for me...

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:11 PM (WTSFk)

224 the musical instrument museum has a fascinating website. worth a visit.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 10, 2016 02:12 PM (WTSFk)

225
*Waves back to the pretty lady dressed in Silver & Black.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 10, 2016 02:12 PM (CgVmu)

226 Ah so this is the thread below the gardening thread? So confusing.

So Tillerson is State and The Stash is Deputy Sec of State

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:13 PM (6bivb)

227 Ok.

Which one of you is this?

http://tinyurl.com/j3lh4v8

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:13 PM (CRotO)

228 I just love playing music with those two guys. Doesn't matter if it's practice or playing out.
Thing is, when you're playing out it dials you in more. Sometimes you end up doing things, spur of the moment like, that you never even thought of doing before. And sometimes those things are what you'd been searching for on that song the whole time.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:13 PM (gJ3Vg)

229 Ok.

Which one of you is this?

http://tinyurl.com/j3lh4v8

Posted by: Abrams
****

W.....T.....F?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 02:14 PM (hVdx9)

230 Just think, next year we'll get to see President Trump at the Army-Navy Game!

--and Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 02:15 PM (NpyQC)

231 roflmmfao

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:15 PM (CRotO)

232 TKAW,

That's exactly what that poor kid was thinking.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:16 PM (CRotO)

233 re. Tiller as SOS. Wait for confirmation. But my first response is laughing at exploding heads all over. Clean up on aisle....

NBC reports that Tiller has a close business relationship with Putin. Don't know if they threw that in to add fuel to the current Russia/Trump hysteria or is a fact. Either way, it's a good thing. And same piece also says Bolton will his Deputy in charge of State -- day to day -- ops. Big grin.

Posted by: gracepc at December 10, 2016 02:17 PM (OU4q6)

234 Tea for the Tillerson

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 10, 2016 02:18 PM (IqV8l)

235 HE or Sabot?

===

heh.

How much down-angle you got on that gunwagon?

Also?

Thermonuclear.

Posted by: Ohio Class at December 10, 2016 02:18 PM (zu88C)

236 "Oh Yeah LEFTARDS/FAKE NEWS will love a Oil Exec. being SoS"
Prediction...

Old and busted: Too many Generals in the cabinet!!

New hotness: Too many CEOs in the cabinet!!!!

(Everyone knows the cabinet should be full of lawyers and senators and lifelong policy wonks and other people who are innately leftist!)

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2016 02:20 PM (lO+tS)

237 FYI: it is so cold today that my testes have retracted up into my throat, which means you can throat punch me and punch me in the mouth simultaneously.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 10, 2016 02:20 PM (hJrjt)

238 . Tiller as SOS. Wait for confirmation. But my first response is laughing at exploding heads all over. Clean up on aisle....

NBC reports that Tiller has a close business relationship with Putin. Don't know if they threw that in to add fuel to the current Russia/Trump hysteria or is a fact. Either way, it's a good thing. And same piece also says Bolton will his Deputy in charge of State -- day to day -- ops. Big grin.
Posted by: gracepc at December 10, 2016 02:17 PM (OU4q6)

All this hysteria over Putin...Yeah he is a tyrant so? We know that. BUT he is the guy running Russia. So better we have an Admin that knows that and him and can deal with him appropriately. Ya got to know your enemy to crush your enemy if he is your enemy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:21 PM (6bivb)

239 @234-
Well that takes me back to my Cattin' around days in high school.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:21 PM (gJ3Vg)

240 I means punch me in the nuts, not the mouth.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 10, 2016 02:21 PM (hJrjt)

241 235 HE or Sabot?

===

heh.

How much down-angle you got on that gunwagon?

Also?

Thermonuclear.
Posted by: Ohio Class at December 10, 2016 02:18 PM (zu88C)

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Better hope your semen, er, I mean Seamen, don't go down with the ship if shit goes sideways for you.

That blue camo will be hell to see.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:22 PM (CRotO)

242 I hate Vermont Ice Cream Hippies!

Posted by: Jake Blues at December 10, 2016 02:22 PM (kTF2Z)

243 Feels like it's getting on towards nap time.
Be good to each other

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:24 PM (gJ3Vg)

244 243 Feels like it's getting on towards nap time.
Be good to each other
Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:24 PM (gJ3Vg)

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Do we have to?

Have a nice nap.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:25 PM (CRotO)

245 @227

Makes me glad I don't leave the house very often.
I doubt I could've tolerated more than 2 seconds of that shit. I'd probably be in jail still.
You want attention? Here some fuckin' attention, freak...

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 10, 2016 02:26 PM (CgVmu)

246 243 Feels like it's getting on towards nap time.
Be good to each other
Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:24 PM (gJ3Vg)

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Do we have to?

Have a nice nap.

Posted by: Abrams
****

(Punches Northernlurker in the nuts.)

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 02:27 PM (hVdx9)

247 Radical feminist Gloria Steinem says she will send the portion of her income tax that would normally go toward funding Planned Parenthood directly to the organization if the Trump administration strips the abortion group of its funding.

Ah Gloria you may want to rethink that...after all there is a new Sheriff in town

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:29 PM (6bivb)

248 230
Just think, next year we'll get to see President Trump at the Army-Navy Game!

--------
PE Trump is supposed to be there today. One half on Navy side, one half on Army side. Didn't hear if TFG was going to the game?

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 10, 2016 02:30 PM (Dhht7)

249 If the Russians helped Trump win, it's because they want a strong US to counter Chinese expansion. The Russians can't afford China deciding to send a couple hundred thousand troops to sit across the Trans-Siberian railroad. A US radically weakened by the corruption and incompetence of the Clinton administration would leave the Russians to worry about their western borders.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 10, 2016 02:31 PM (FYrz1)

250 247 Radical feminist Gloria Steinem says she will send the portion of her income tax that would normally go toward funding Planned Parenthood directly to the organization if the Trump administration strips the abortion group of its funding.

Ah Gloria you may want to rethink that...after all there is a new Sheriff in town
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:29 PM (6bivb)

How is that a threat? In any way? Wow , Gloria will donate to PP!?!? Alert the media!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2016 02:31 PM (YqO0E)

251 >>Didn't hear if TFG was going to the game?

Posted by: olddog in mo

I think they found a spot for him selling hot dogs at a concession stand.

Posted by: Aviator at December 10, 2016 02:37 PM (/Nite)

252 All this hysteria over Putin...Yeah he is a tyrant so? We know that. BUT
he is the guy running Russia. So better we have an Admin that knows
that and him and can deal with him appropriately. Ya got to know your
enemy to crush your enemy if he is your enemy
---
So the SoS, the good cop, is friendly with current Russian leadership while the National Security Advisor and, I think I read somewhere, SoD are somewhere from skeptical to hostile regarding Russia.

That sounds like the epitome of "trust but verify"

Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2016 02:38 PM (3Liv/)

253 245 @227

Makes me glad I don't leave the house very often.
I doubt I could've tolerated more than 2 seconds of that shit. I'd probably be in jail still.
You want attention? Here some fuckin' attention, freak...
Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at December 10, 2016 02:26 PM (CgVmu)

---

Freaks gonna freak.

Unfortunately, some of them have no clue about propriety.

Posted by: Abrams at December 10, 2016 02:39 PM (CRotO)

254 But Ben and Jerry's has published its SJW manifesto, directed expressly to the President Elect.

B&J have always been clowns, their ice cream is not all that, now so many products are better. I can't really boycott them because I don't buy their crap.

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About 20 years ago I was in VT and toured their plant and saw a poster on a company bulletin board promoting a company sponsored trip up into Quebec to protest some logging or hydro thing or somesuch. I remember thinking "What fucking business is it of yours?"

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at December 10, 2016 02:40 PM (FeQVL)

255 I just love playing music with those two guys. Doesn't matter if it's practice or playing out.

Thing is, when you're playing out it dials you in more. Sometimes
you end up doing things, spur of the moment like, that you never even
thought of doing before. And sometimes those things are what you'd been
searching for on that song the whole time.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:13 PM (gJ3Vg)

He loved to play. He was keyboards and took care of the bass too. Things happened, the band broke up. He was trying to get things together again, but the guitarist/vocalist was too distracted by other toys.
Things happen for a reason, I guess. He put his time into his painting, but continued to write and play daily in his studio.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 02:41 PM (tHwdc)

256 Ya got to know your enemy to crush your enemy if he is your enemy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:21 PM (6bivb)

Friends close, enemies closer. Right?

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 02:42 PM (tHwdc)

257 And to think, with a Jeb! Admin, we would have had a cabinet full of Bush era retreads. Maybe a couple from Clinton just to be all bipartisan & shit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 10, 2016 02:44 PM (kTF2Z)

258 @234-

Well that takes me back to my Cattin' around days in high school.

Posted by: teej at December 10, 2016 02:21 PM (gJ3Vg)

I saw Cat Stevens at the Providence Civic Center, I think it was 1972.
What a terrible waste.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 02:44 PM (tHwdc)

259 So far Trump winning is turning out to be much better than hoped for.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at December 10, 2016 02:45 PM (hVdx9)

260 Radical feminist Gloria Steinem says she will send
the portion of her income tax that would normally go toward funding
Planned Parenthood directly to the organization if the Trump
administration strips the abortion group of its funding.

Ah Gloria you may want to rethink that...after all there is a new Sheriff in town

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:29 PM (6bivb)

Let all of the abortion-lovers send their own money to PP. That's the way it should be done. Ditto with all charity.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 10, 2016 02:47 PM (tHwdc)

261 It does look to be a pretty ugly building.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2016 02:48 PM (YqO0E)

262 Got a rare Saturday Fed Ex delivery, today.

Diana Krall's, 'Love Scenes' on ORG 45rpm Vinyl.

What an amazing record.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2016 02:50 PM (c8Ctg)

263 So, the Secretary of defense is going to Afghanistan, meanwhile Obama is going on the Daily Show.

Yeah, seems about right. The guy does have his priorities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2016 02:52 PM (YqO0E)

264 Sounds like Christian McBride is playing in my living room.

Posted by: garrett at December 10, 2016 02:53 PM (c8Ctg)

265 Check out the pet morons on the Nood.
Hi!

Posted by: L, Elle at December 10, 2016 03:02 PM (6IPEM)

266 Yoos-May rah rah - a limerick

Patriotic songs, flags so wavy.
An Army win? That would be gravy.
Let's win just one more
Go Cadets! For the Corps!
Go Army! Beat the hell out of Navy!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 10, 2016 03:06 PM (wPiJc)

267 Who the heck is Rex Tillerson? I mean besides being an ex Exxon exec? Ex ex ex ex... sorry got stuck

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 03:28 PM (39g3+)

268

Bolton Deputy Sec State

Bwhahhahahahahhahaa

Tillerson has relations with all the heads of oil producing states. He knows who to button

Posted by: ThunderB at December 10, 2016 03:32 PM (FNegc)

269 Yeah its good to see Bolton in there working with him. He should have the chops to know how to run diplomacy, better than Bobby Valentine at least (I mean, I love the guy but ambassador to Japan?).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 03:35 PM (39g3+)

270 realDonaldTrump
23 Jan 2013
Exxon donated $250g to Obama's inaugural bit.ly/XzHytP I guess the Democrats have no problem accepting money from 'big oil.'

Posted by: Evilpens at December 10, 2016 03:44 PM (y3aQB)

271 I don't think this is off topic. Just discovered that my fairly small town has thirty refugees on the FBI watchlist. Did I just read the other day that the metropolis of DC has only taken in ten, and I doubt any are on the FBI watchlist.

I loathe the Obama administration.

Posted by: jazzuscounty at December 10, 2016 03:45 PM (qXNMu)

272 Tillerson and Bolton would be a perfectly acceptable outcome.

Many thinking people who have been appalled by the past eight years might be surprised at all the little things that get better - the US not apologizing, the US not dumping on true allies, either in a practical or political sense, the disappearance of this surreal and idiotic ignorant moral relativism ("but the Crusades!") nonsense, etc.

On actual policy issues I fear America itself is rather dumbed down (that includes many "conservative" types), reducing our ability to secure out interests. But that's an unavoidable price to pay if it means we get return to sanity on key domestic issues, and at least a pause in the annihilation of the civic culture by the racist authoritarian nutjobs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 03:46 PM (QDnY+)

273 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 10, 2016 03:35 PM (39g3+)

Bobby Valentine spent a lot of time in Japan as a Manager & was very helpful to people trinbg to get a hold of loved ones after Fukushima Earthquake/Nuclear Reacrtor stuff

Posted by: Evilpens at December 10, 2016 03:47 PM (y3aQB)

274 Not sure who Valentine is, but rest assured he will be welcomed by the large minority of Japanese with a clue. The embarrassment of the idiot Caroline Kennedy has become an ongoing, though of course very discreet, topic of ridicule and distress among Japanese who pay attention to such things.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2016 03:49 PM (QDnY+)

275 PE Trump is supposed to be there today. One half on Navy side, one half on Army side. Didn't hear if TFG was going to the game?
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 10, 2016 02:30 PM (Dhht7)

--Awesome. He's already being presidential.

And damn, Army sure is playing like a well-reasted team.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:00 PM (bpK+P)

276 "The embarrassment of the idiot Caroline Kennedy has become an ongoing, though of course very discreet, topic of ridicule and distress among Japanese who pay attention to such things."

Well, I mean, you know, fuck, you know, them!

Posted by: Caroline Kennedy at December 10, 2016 04:00 PM (97XyN)

277 If the only place I can say it is 2 threads down, I'm ok with it. GO ARMY!

Posted by: dartist at December 10, 2016 04:01 PM (Cf0i2)

278 277 If the only place I can say it is 2 threads down, I'm ok with it. GO ARMY!
Posted by: dartist at December 10, 2016 04:01 PM (Cf0i2)

--They're playing like they're really, really sick of hearing about the streak.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:06 PM (bpK+P)

279 277 If the only place I can say it is 2 threads down, I'm ok with it. GO ARMY!
Posted by: dartist at December 10, 2016 04:01 PM (Cf0i2)

--Oh, and aren't you supposed to say "Beat Navy!"?

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:07 PM (bpK+P)

280 They have bullet proof barrier in front of Trump at the game

https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/807685968488697861/

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 10, 2016 04:10 PM (Om16U)

281 https://tinyurl.com/jm6odsn

YEAH ! I think Laura Ingraham would Kick ASS as Press Secretary

Posted by: Evilpens at December 10, 2016 04:10 PM (y3aQB)

282 And North Dakota State keeps on winning.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:13 PM (bpK+P)

283 --Oh, and aren't you supposed to say "Beat Navy!"?

This place is shitty with Navy, you think I'm crazy?

Posted by: dartist at December 10, 2016 04:14 PM (Cf0i2)

284 Fumble by Army!

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:16 PM (bpK+P)

285 Oops, back-to-back turnovers!

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:17 PM (bpK+P)

286 BTW on the radio I heard the pre-game prayer by the chaplain. One of the best non-denominational prayers I've heard. He even invoked the three Greek Transcendentals.

On a related note, It'll be nice having a president who doesn't hate Christianity, the Navy, the Army, and football.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:23 PM (bpK+P)

287 Oh sweet, Trump is going to visit the booth!!

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:32 PM (bpK+P)

288 This place is ~~shitty with Navy~~ so far a head, given all the current & former members of the Nation's finest Service, you think I'm crazy?
Posted by: dartist at December 10, 2016 04:14 PM

FIFY.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 10, 2016 04:43 PM (DMUuz)

289 Nice to see a President-elect in the booth who isn't making it All About Me, or pretending to be a Yuge Fan of one of the teams.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:46 PM (bpK+P)

290 247 Radical feminist Gloria Steinem says she will send the portion of her income tax that would normally go toward funding Planned Parenthood directly to the organization if the Trump administration strips the abortion group of its funding.

Ah Gloria you may want to rethink that...after all there is a new Sheriff in town
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 10, 2016 02:29 PM (6bivb)

She is more than welcome to send her OWN money to Planned Parenthood...

She is not however, going to send MY MONEY, through the TAX SYSTEM, to it...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 10, 2016 04:47 PM (qf6WZ)

291 Awesome, people in the crowd chanting Make America Great Again.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:47 PM (bpK+P)

292 Heh, a whole section in the stands turning away from the game to point their phones at Trump.

The Trumpening is well underway!!

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:48 PM (bpK+P)

293 OT/

Can anyone here help proof-read a cover letter I'm working on?

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 04:49 PM (Uy6ri)

294 293 OT/

Can anyone here help proof-read a cover letter I'm working on?
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 04:49 PM (Uy6ri)

--There is no OT in this thread.

Sure, go ahead --are you going to post as a comment?

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:51 PM (bpK+P)

295 TD Navy.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:52 PM (bpK+P)

296 Newd

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:55 PM (bpK+P)

297 test post.

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 05:03 PM (Uy6ri)

298 Sure, go ahead --are you going to post as a comment?
Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 04:51 PM (bpK+P)

----

ok, thanks. Here it is...

(background, this is asking the owner of a server hosting company for leads.)

Hi Jim,

My name is Brendan and I used to work for one of your customers, [name withheld]. I was the lead ColdFusion developer from 2007-2011 and I remember being pleasantly surprised at the lengths you and your staff would go to help us debug our CF applications.

I'm currently on the market for a job as a ColdFusion developer and was wondering if you know of any companies in the Baltimore area that use ColdFusion and might be open to bringing on additional talent at this time? I'm looking for leads outside of the normal job postings and thought you would be an excellent source. Any names or contacts you could provide would be a big help in my job search and greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

- Smapty Jones

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 05:05 PM (Uy6ri)

299
Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 05:05 PM (Uy6ri)

--I'm not 100% sure about your situation, but here goes:

"Hi Jim,"

--Are you on a first name basis? If what you're writing is the body of an e-mail, then it's fine to be more informal. However, if it is a separate document/attachment, "Dear Jim" would seem better IMO.

My name is Brendan and I used to work for one of your customers, [name withheld]. I was the lead ColdFusion developer ~~from~~ 2007-2011

--"from" would be redundant.

I'm currently on the market for a job as a ColdFusion developer and was wondering if you know of any companies in the Baltimore area that use ColdFusion and might be open to bringing on additional talent at this time?

--Replace ? with period.

Otherwise, no serious fixes needed.

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 05:18 PM (bpK+P)

300 Thanks logprof for the suggestions. I'll use them and send it off. Its actually a LinkedIn message; he's already in my network.

Posted by: Serious Cat at December 10, 2016 05:25 PM (Uy6ri)

301 You're welcome and good luck!

Posted by: logprof at December 10, 2016 05:47 PM (bpK+P)

302 >>>247 Radical feminist Gloria Steinem says she will send the portion of
her income tax that would normally go toward funding Planned Parenthood
directly to the organization if the Trump administration strips the
abortion group of its funding.
>>>

Withholding money owed to the govt is frowned upon by the IRS, right Lois?

Posted by: Javems at December 10, 2016 07:31 PM (yOqwj)

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