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Slate Publishes FObituary of Alan Colmes, Calling Him A Weakling

Class.

Repeating the obvious:

1. People are inherently cruel. They enjoy inflicting cruelty on others. It makes them feel good to be cruel to others.

2. People are self-deluding and believe themselves good. It makes them feel good to think themselves good.

3. These two things are hard to reconcile, but not impossible, because people are also good at making up Reasons to justify doing bad things and even praise themselves for doing those bad things. As they say, you are the easiest person in the world for you to fool. You want to be fooled, after all. And why would you have reason to lie to yourself? As far as you know, you're the most reliable, honest person in the world, and you've never given yourself any reason to doubt your word before.

4. The Reason usually offered to reconcile points one and two and is that there is a Higher Obligation to Something or Other which justifies cruelty on a (self-serving) philosophical, quasi-religious or actually religious basis. People tell themselves they are doing good by doing evil, and then this lets them feel both good about being "good people" and also lets them feel good about being cruel to innocuous nobodies. Not only can you do tremendously cruel things which would normally be completely unjustifiable and cause you to feel slightly bad for not being as good of a good person as you previously deluded yourself, but you can actually feel even better about yourself being an even better person than you previously thought, because you have the Bravery and Integrity to say cruel things which need saying, which many of the fussy-pants polite people just are too cowardly or too stupid to say.

5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster. (Also: The tougher someone attempts to present himself on social media, the more confident I am that he is a physical and emotional weakling.)

6. People frequently insist to me how good and noble they are. The entire purpose of Twitter sometimes seems to be to provide a forum in which committed sociopaths can tell the world about their enormous hearts and pure spirits and noble intentions and grand ideals.

7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

Actually... Just to extend this: I have long believed that people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen. I noticed some time ago that all the people I'd had failed relationships with told me within the first hour why the relationship would fail -- but I of course wasn't listening. I'm not saying they were bad people. I'm just saying they were pretty upfront about the reasons we were a bad match. I just didn't pick up on it.

I noticed a long time ago that anyone who claims to be "witty" in their Twitter profile is never witty, and is usually pretty dull.

When people describe themselves, they are not describing themselves. They are describing the self they aspire to be, what they aspire to be generally points out what they are currently failing to be.

It does seem to me a general rule that whatever someone bangs on about the loudest as a putative reason to recommend him is almost certainly actually telling you about his deepest insecurities and darkest failings.

Posted by: Ace at 03:21 PM




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1 st?

Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (ukNFU)

2 Wahoo!

Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (ukNFU)

3 I shall summon the Corgis.

Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at February 24, 2017 03:22 PM (ukNFU)

4 all art must be in service to the state and to progressivism. If you fail at that, you must seek to atone.

Will Ferrell wasn't sufficiently anti-George W when he portrayed him on SNL in 2000. He has spent decades apologizing.

Jimmy Fallon did make sin of letting trump appear as good guy on show while guest. Fallon is now try hard anti-Trump.

Colmes didn't "win" enough while on Fox. He failed to atone.

Posted by: Joe Inaugurating 45 in DC at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (eClek)

5 You gotta be cruel to be kind

In the right measure

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at February 24, 2017 03:23 PM (icT6u)

6 Is there anyway to just cut to the chase and have the civil war now? I would really like to fight it now so my kids do not have to. They are unredeemable...

Posted by: catman at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (5H2BV)

7 When I heard about Colmes' death, I thought to myself "Hundred bucks says nobody at Fox who worked with him gonna badmouth him now that he's gone"


That bet panned out well, but apparently I also should have bet myself that the Left would take an opportunity to rip into him. Hot damn.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (6JL3d)

8 "People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them"

Yup.

I didn't get to comment on the last (hilarious) thread about door-holders, but I wanted to mention that when I was enormously pregnant I still held doors open for other people. One day some dude just breezed thru the door and didn't even acknowledge me holding it for him.

"You're welcome, your Highness!"

People suck. In Connecticut, they suck more.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (f31Us)

9 Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ... it will torment us for our own good, and will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience...

CS Lewis

Posted by: Astro Mike at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (UgF8H)

10 Colmes was the brains behind Hannity & Colmes.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (QQ+il)

11 And don't forget he had a conservative SIL. That's even more reason to go low.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 24, 2017 03:26 PM (QgJPg)

12 By "they" I mean the Dems, not my kids.. heh..

Posted by: catman at February 24, 2017 03:26 PM (5H2BV)

13 Circa's rules of life Number One: For a bazillion weeks in a row...Some people just need Pusser stickin'.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:26 PM (B+qrE)

14 5. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

Not ALL people, mostly just the commies among us. Now they're even worse due to their inner demons all pumped up to eleventy due to TDS.

RIP Allan Colmes.

Damn.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2017 03:26 PM (nNdYv)

15 5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.

6. People frequently insist to me how good and noble they are.

7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

Posted by: Ace at 03:21 PM

=====================

Does it help my case by saying that I'm dead on the inside and I feel for no suffering?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:26 PM (EvBgT)

16

Douchbags gonna douchebag.

So....

FOX the evil conservative news outlet honors liberal Alan, but the liberal rag Slate savages liberal Alan.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (8XRCm)

17 Eh, I don't know that I'm jaded enough to agree with your #1.

But I can get to mostly the same conclusion if instead, I substitute the belief that "people are lazy, and introspection is HARD."

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (KUaJL)

18 People in general are monsters

Maybe the search for content is biasing your perspective.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:27 PM (8J/Te)

19
5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.

6. People frequently insist to me how good and noble they are.

7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.







This is a truth to bank on and live by.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (6JL3d)

20 Tough week over at Fox...Brenda Buttner and now Alan Colmes. Terry Keenan died really young too.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (hqZPQ)

21 Colmes was the brains behind Hannity & Colmes.

That means Hannity was the looks

Posted by: Bigbys Cellphone at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (icT6u)

22 "One can tell the morals of a culture by the way they treat their dead."

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (qU2ch)

23 I have always depended on the kindness of strangers


so there's that...

Posted by: Blance duBois at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (ihtYN)

24 RIP. Thoughts for the family.

I reserve my spite for people like Pelosi, Reid, Hillary, hitler, child predators, etc. Colmes was not my cup of tea, but he was not spite-worthy.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (GX63o)

25 To my knowledge, Alan Colmes never drove a car off a bridge and drowned his mistress.

And yet, I have never spoken in ad hominem terms about Ted Kennedy since his death.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (B+qrE)

26 OTOH

Jackson
http://tinyurl.com/h4ofohz

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (8J/Te)

27 My mood was middling to okay today until reading the article on the mandarin class and this latest post. Ugh.

Posted by: 13times at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (WHVu+)

28 ""People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them"
"Yup."

Nope. If you believe this you need to change up who you're hanging with.

People in general aren't angels either, but the like the fat lady and the door holding, I wouldn't extrapolate too much.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (SIY7D)

29 Colmes was all wrong but he seemed like a decent guy, and a polite one. He had my respect for his attitude and behavior. I don't mind if you disagree with me. I mind if you're insane or a jerk about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (39g3+)

30
Is that faux-bitchuary or F'ing Obituary?

Either way. Besides, I thought Slate was just some adolescent webzine, slightly less informative than Highlights.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (mbhDw)

31 Part of it is the venue. Twitter isn't about anything but ego massage and getting 'validation'.

I think there are still more decent people than monsters. The assholes are just louder.

Posted by: adampm at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (8OMky)

32 To my knowledge, Alan Colmes never drove a car off a bridge and drowned his mistress.



And yet, I have never spoken in ad hominem terms about Ted Kennedy since his death.





Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (B+qrE)


Don't worry, I've got that covered for a lot of folks.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (6JL3d)

33 Jackson
http://tinyurl.com/h4ofohz
Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:28 PM (8J/Te)

-----

**seethes**

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (8XRCm)

34 like an F-O bituary, like f*** off

hey man i didn't think of anything better. but OhBitchuary is kinda good.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (8rNrN)

35 "Blanche" oh, well


it means "white wood"

Posted by: Blanche duBois at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (ihtYN)

36 That means Hannity was the looks


That's pretty inarguable considering.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (QQ+il)

37 People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

THIS.

I wasn't a fan of Colmes, but really? To disparage anyone in an obituary is beyond the pale.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (J5mC3)

38 "People" is far to general. Use "leftists" and the hammer is square on the nail.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (cOHS7)

39
I will admit to chuckling, years ago, when Colmes was referred to as Skeletor.

Does that make me a bad person? Because I'm not the least bit
[x] concerned
[ ] not concerned

if it does.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (ZFUt7)

40 I don't buy into the "never speak ill of the dead" concept. I don't fear ghosts and I don't care if they can defend themselves or not. A terrible person doesn't negate the things they did and were by dying. They just stopped being terrible any longer.

Ted Kennedy was a scumbag rapist traitor who deserved hanging. He's burning in hell right now unless God was very merciful to him at some very late date. And he had it coming.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (39g3+)

41 This is the lesson of the Left, they always eat their own.

Posted by: Jean at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (5HQnh)

42 Ace- thanks for reminding me what we all already should know. (especially #7)


By the way- regarding your epic post yesterday about destabilization and panic, I think you were spot on. Over the last few years I have seen a definite shift in the presenting complaints of teenagers to our clinic- lots of vague woozy, dizzy, swooning, palpitations, free floating somatic symptoms. I have a suspicion that since 9/11 and over the 8 years of the Obama presidency that society suffers from a very profound sense of dysphoria, and generalized anxiety. Nobody knows what to believe on a factual basis and lots of folks are turning to tribal identity politics, only to find there is no solid anchor there.

This needs a name, perhaps something like Societal Anxiety Disorder (SAD).

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (wPiJc)

43 37 People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

THIS.

I wasn't a fan of Colmes, but really? To disparage anyone in an obituary is beyond the pale.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:30 PM (J5mC3)

===================

How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (EvBgT)

44 7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

The heteronormative experctation that people are somehow imperfect is what I am here to tell you, as an engineer, and a woman, is at the bottom of the misogyny and prejudice that is poisoning our political culture. As a woman, and aas an engineer, I do not wish to dwell on the struggles that my engineering womanhood has had to overcome. We all know the way the patriarchal expectations of the heteronormative patriarchy are expectations of the most oppressive heteronormative patriarchalism. We, women, engineers, and others on this journey through misogynistic heteronormativity, will work together to build a world in which patriarchal herteronormative expectations are a thing of the past, and all women, and especially women who are engineers, get the dignity and rights we deserve, as women and as engineers.

I know we can do it. And I know I can do it. and do you know why? I'm an engineer, dammit. And a woman. So don't mess with me. Because I'm an engineer.

I'm also a woman AND an engineer.

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (CPk08)

45 "One can tell the morals of a culture by the way they treat their dead."

Hmm. I judge the morals of a culture by who they kill.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (QQ+il)

46 It doesn't make any difference what Slate said; Alan Colmes is beyond caring, but it does bot surprise what Slate said. They are terrible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (fDdVG)

47 I'm not saying the Horde has never danced on the grave of a departed lefty (we are, as ace rightly points out, monsters that stupidly think ourselves righteous), but we've been very civilized re: the departed Mr. Colmes. Anyone think similar left-wing sites will show that kind of decorum when his old TV partner Hannity passes on?

Yeah, me neither.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (oZ6kz)

48 41 This is the lesson of the Left, they always eat their own.
Posted by: Jean at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (5HQnh)

=====================

"What do you mean?"
-Robespierre

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (EvBgT)

49 I know way more decent, caring people than assholes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (PY9jH)

50 Rest in Peace, Alan Colmes. Prayers for your Loved Ones.

The guy didn't even look sixty-six.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (6gk0M)

51 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Former American War Hero Dies.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (QQ+il)

52 Juan Williams is getting nervous.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (8b+oT)

53 only SOME people are monsters


we have lots of data on that; LOTS and lots of data....

Posted by: United States Census Bureau at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (ihtYN)

54 It's just virtue signaling, as in "I am virtuous because I vote for people with a D after their name". You are somehow virtuous these days if you go on Amazon and bad mouthed Ivanka's perfume (which you didn't buy and have never smelled).

There was a time when people were virtuous boycotting grapes. Now they are virtuous by supporting the illegals that put Cesar Chavez's unionized pickers out of business. And the worst is saved up when someone they don't like dies.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (+wjl1)

55 7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.


People are the worst.

This is related somewhat to the last post. Basic common decency appears to have gone out the window and I am aware that I am heaving all rocks out of all the glass houses.


Basic common decency would have waited until next week to post that. But basic common decency doesn't get you clicks. Also, it's doesn't get you credit for Speaking Truth Man and the blah.

But mainly the clicks. A hate click is still a click.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (mf5HN)

56 Of course, there are no similar left-wing sites, because we're funny and good and noble and they're all, let's just cut the malarkey and be honest, doody heads.

Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (oZ6kz)

57 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Unexpectedly, Elderly Man with Medical Problems Dies.

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (CPk08)

58 *sharts*

Posted by: Bob Beckel at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (8b+oT)

59
Completely unrelated - found a DVD of The Hunger Games in the discount bin.









Of course, now I'm jonesin' for another courageous underdogs rebel against the tyrannical oppressive government of Trump movie like the The Hunger Games sequels, Mocking Jay, and Divergent, and Insurgent.

But I need someone to explain to my how the modern progressive Hollywood knew to make those movies while Obama was president? How did Hollywood know Trump would be elected and heroic movies about a small band of freedom fighters fighting tyranny would be needed to motive the masses?

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (KdllV)

60 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

In a snowbank?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (QDr6b)

61 57 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Unexpectedly, Elderly Man with Medical Problems Dies.
Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:33 PM (CPk0

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How eloquent, coming from an engineer, who is oh so female. And Asian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (EvBgT)

62 People ...

who need people ...

are the ...

luckiest PEOPLE ...

in the world ...

Posted by: Barbra Streisand, perennial Horde favorite since 2003 at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (DMUuz)

63 Dear Slate, wait until you die, I have Bates Combat boots for dancin' shoes. Just point me to the grave site.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (7N6ox)

64 I would like to prove to all progressives how classy I will be when I write their obituary.

Posted by: Mega at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (EdXI9)

65 I didn't read the obit but I assume they call him a weakling because he worked for Fox and didn't vomit up blood on Hannity on a nightly basis.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (ZM2xo)

66 Off, Off, Sock of Bostonian Annoyance

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (CPk08)

67
To be honest, I called Alan Colmes names mostly to mock his ludicrous positions. In fairness, I remember him from a gentler age as a local NYC radio personality with fondness.

For this Chotiner character to write such a despicable attack on someone after he is gone and cannot defend himself, is just beneath contempt. This "writer" is a hack and a tool and deserving of "a good talking to" if you follow my meaning.

Scumabg.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (mbhDw)

68 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I dunno, but we'd fuck up the formatting of the blog when we did it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (KUaJL)

69 oh, my self-checkout story got willowed

*sobs into cold coffee*

Posted by: @votermom @vm at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (Om16U)

70
That obit from slate is the very definition of morally reprehensible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (ODxAs)

71 Bad sock with Slow Joe.

How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

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

Senile man that has done lots of damage to the USA, passes.


Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (cOHS7)

72 What a bunch of fucking assholes. I didn't care for Colmes' politics, obviously, but good grief.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (0mRoj)

73 This is the lesson of the Left, they always eat their own.

Posted by: Jean

-----

Who? Where? When? I just don't see it.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (8b+oT)

74 Lefists are a mean nasty bunch, I never liked his points of view but he wasn't mean about it.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (HDU3V)

75 59 Of course, now I'm jonesin' for another courageous underdogs rebel against the tyrannical oppressive government of Trump movie like the The Hunger Games sequels, Mocking Jay, and Divergent, and Insurgent.

But I need someone to explain to my how the modern progressive Hollywood knew to make those movies while Obama was president? How did Hollywood know Trump would be elected and heroic movies about a small band of freedom fighters fighting tyranny would be needed to motive the masses?
Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (KdllV)

=====================

I remember when those movies were at their height, some lefty writer was anxious about their popularity because they didn't want children growing up thinking that rebelling against the government was a good thing, but it had a strong female character.

Their pieties were at a crossroads.

It was amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (EvBgT)

76 Dear Left... please continue on with attacks like this...

Please continue to see everything through the lenses of political bitterness.

I'm sure it will really help in the next few election cycles...

Posted by: The Incorrigible Don Quixote! at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (qf6WZ)

77 I never cared for Colmes politics (to put it mildly), but the first thing I thought when I learned he'd died yesterday, was sympathy for any suffering he endured, and his grieving widow and SIL.

May he rest in peace.

I won't be so kind whenever Nancy Pelosi assumes room temp.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (PY9jH)

78 How eloquent, coming from an engineer, who is oh so female. And Asian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:34 PM (EvBgT)


YoU F*CKin' RaCISt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (CPk08)

79 When Mary Katherine Ham husband died, I saw some, lets just call them disappointing posts, right here on this normally fine board. Politics brings out the worst in people.

Alan Colmes died way to young. It was sad to hear. What was the cause of death anyways? Cancer?

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (Gl9DN)

80 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?


Morning in America.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (QQ+il)

81 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Former American War Hero Dies.


I'm never going to dance on the grave of another American. Possible exception for the rat fuck Charles Manson.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (B+qrE)

82 68 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I dunno, but we'd fuck up the formatting of the blog when we did it.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (KUaJL)

===================

The only time MY text gets italicized is when someone does something wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (EvBgT)

83 Between this and the idea that the French people want to elect Obama as their president, I am thoroughly through with people. I want to blast off to one of them thar new planets that have been newly discovered.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM (Ivjge)

84 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM
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It depends. If it was random commenters on the blog, it would probably be brutal.

However, if it was Ace or one of the Cobs, it would probably be pretty low key and not overtly cruel.

From what I understand, Slate, like Huffo and Yahoo is a general interest site. If you have that sort of site, its more mainstream, and consequently, I think you should err on the side of kindness, no matter your personal opinion.

This is more of a special interest blog, so the rules are somewhat different I think.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (J5mC3)

85 This is the lesson of the Left, they always eat their own.

Posted by: Jean

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Who? Where? When? I just don't see it.
Posted by: Dang

YMMV comrade.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (QDr6b)

86 Liberals are wonderful people. The "Hate Has No Home Here" yard signs out front should have told you.

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (7HtZB)

87 Nyah?

Of course some simply have zero self control ...

Exhibit A just happened to me at Wally World
So an elderly woman wants some exercise equipment. Says it was on sale at another store that was sold out. Guy there said we would honor sale price.

See the problem?

So my boss says no we can't honor it. Lady wants to talk to management. Drag exercise equipment to check-out and customer talks to management who says no we can't honor it.

She still buys the equipment. Take it out to her car. We get it in and then it gets weird.

Woman starts waving a hand at store and says she is putting a curse on the store.

o.O;;;

Happy to be an android cat-grrl.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (qpXD6)

88
And the writing was so puerile and simplistic. To say that Alan Colmes helped bring about the massive GOP victories culminating in last November lacks is risible. It's your policies, politics and lack of civility displayed in that "obituary" that tip you off.

Predictable, putrid hackery. No more, no less.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (mbhDw)

89 5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.
6. People frequently insist to me how good and noble they are.


Yeah, usually in about the fourth year of psychology the class is confronted with a truth-ism that Noah should have had engraved in the 10 Commandments -- 'self-report is notorious for inaccuracy'.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (ZFUt7)

90 Someday, it will be necessary to write the obituaries for David Brooks. I hope that at least some of them mention what a tool he is. If it's ok to notice that he is the kind of conservative that the NYT is happy to publish, why shouldn't it be noted after he passes? Even if his obit in the NYT doesn't read that way, I do hope that there are some publications that will be willing to publish a more clear-eyed perspective.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (R+30W)

91 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (EvBgT)

If it did not contain the word ratfuck, it would be incomplete.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (GX63o)

92 I don't particularly mind a negative obituary, but only if you're writing about someone objectively awful. Nobody has to write a glowing hagiography about Idi Amin or Charles Manson. Or John McCain.

But Colmes, an all-around nice guy? The worst thing you could say about the man is he didn't understand economics or human nature and seemed incapable of learning.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (39g3+)

93 Rest in Peace, Alan Colmes. Prayers for your Loved Ones.

The guy didn't even look sixty-six.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (6gk0M)
.............

That's what I thought. "He's older than me?".
Good grief, I'm in trouble.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (HgMAr)

94 Levin had Hannity on yesterday to talk about Colmes having passed away, and Hannity was incredibly gracious, friendly, and fair regarding a guy with whom he disagreed on 99 out of 100 substantive points.

Posted by: Barbara Boxer, D-Senile Dementia at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (noWW6)

95 Liberalism is a disease.



Posted by: Sam at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (Lat75)

96 This is the lesson of the Left, they always eat their own.

Posted by: Jean

-----

Needs salt.

Posted by: Idi Amin at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (7HtZB)

97 People are the worst people ever.

Posted by: Roland THTG at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (QM5S2)

98 30
Is that faux-bitchuary or F'ing Obituary?

Either way. Besides, I thought Slate was just some adolescent webzine, slightly less informative than Highlights.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (mbhDw)


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


Slate is Hustler Magazine's residue.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (Fmupd)

99 We are at war and liberals have no use for decorum or propriety.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg for intents and purposes said it was a good thing her "friend" Antonin Scalia was dead.

The left are evil monsters and must literally be destroyed.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (Gh/jd)

100 Pencil dick is just upset that Colmes was successful while pencil dick works for Slate.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (FqgrG)

101 Ace, though I agree with you far more often than not, it's unusual for me to agree with every word of one of your posts. This one is an exception.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (zSMr0)

102 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM


Good question. I'd be honest about the man's record in DC bit WITHOUT any rancor, snark or thinly veiled hatred.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (mbhDw)

103 "People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them"


Most people are a lot nicer when they're not on the InterWebzz

Posted by: Sphynx at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (OZmbA)

104 Careful, Ace... you are on the slippery slope to Christianity, if you really believe that people really are irredeemable....

(full disclosure: I'm a Christian)

As for your point, even as a Christian I can't say that I mourn Alan Colmes. I never met the man, for one thing. For me to have an opinion on him as a human being, either way, is wrong.

My opinion, of course, is in the deep minority today. Today everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has to have an opinion on Everything... including strangers.

Do I mourn the passing of his opinions? No. Those I know - I've read and listed to him many times, and I view his opinions as wrong and corrosive to freedom.

I cannot mourn the loss of those, but just those.

I don't have to pretend to be good or bad, mean or nice. Evil? I'm a Christian - that's the daily battle, baby.

But mean? If I openly dislike and discredit someone I know, I certainly risk that - but only if I'm wrong or intentionally spin. If I don't know the person, the best path forward is just to say "I don't know him, so how can I have an opinion on his life? It's not like he's a major figure whose every move was documented."

Kim Jong Un? Him I dislike. Him I know, by his actions.

Alan Colmes? I can't tell you even where he lived. Why should I have an opinion on his life?

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (V1z4W)

105 Remember how compassionate the Progs were when Andrew Breitbart died? They even spewed hate about his family.

Liberalism is a disease.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (PY9jH)

106 ..."Anyone think similar left-wing sites will show that kind of decorum when his old TV partner Hannity passes on?

Yeah, me neither.
"
-Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM

I'm not a Hannity fan, but incivility and callousness is more prominent on the 'Online Left'.

I qualify that in order to separate the Normal Human Beings from the Savage Keyboard Warriors, whose idea of "normalcy" includes destruction that they will eventually regret.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (6gk0M)

107 For this Chotiner character to write such a despicable attack on someone after he is gone and cannot defend himself, is just beneath contempt. This "writer" is a hack and a tool and deserving of "a good talking to" if you follow my meaning.

Scumabg.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (mbhDw)



If I'm reading it correctly, that that that waste of electrons of an article was published on the day he died. Which is just vile.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

108 You are in the wrong business.


(Also: The tougher someone attempts to present himself on social media, the more confident I am that he is a physical and emotional weakling.)

Dude .....remember your early days. Jeezuz.

Posted by: Strelnikov at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (fi5nC)

109 Between this and the idea that the French people want to elect Obama as their president, I am thoroughly through with people. I want to blast off to one of them thar new planets that have been newly discovered.
--
I'm going through this phase where I've sort of cut out almost all personal friends/ relatives and only deal with business relationships somewhat from afar.

It's absolutely amazing. I have very little stress, and I'm no longer everyone's emotional dumping ground.

I highly recommend re-thinking all extra relationships, ie, "low vaule friends and relatives."

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (J5mC3)

110 I'm an engineer, dammit. And a woman.
Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM


Oh, an engineer told me before she died

(a rum tiddy rum tiddy rum tiddy aye!)

An engineer told me before she died,
and I've no reason to believe she lied

(a rum tiddy rum tiddy rum tiddy aye!)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (DMUuz)

111 I was wondering what killed him as well, there were no announcement beforehand and saw him on Fox a few weeks ago it seems.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (HDU3V)

112 Right after Ted Kennedy died, I made it a POINT to not insult him online for at least a week. It was hard w/ all the hagiographies, but I did it b/c a man was DEAD, and people actually cared about him and deserved to grieve w/ some dignity. I'm glad he's rotting in hell, but I have STANDARDS.



Slate is a dumpster fire of human waste.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (4df7R)

113 It is also a substitute religion and those that are not pure enough go to liberal hell.

Posted by: Sam at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (Lat75)

114 The Reason usually offered to reconcile points one and two and is that there is a Higher Obligation to Something or Other which justifies cruelty on a (self-serving) philosophical, quasi-religious or actually religious basis. People tell themselves they are doing good by doing evil, and then this lets them feel both good about being "good people" and also lets them feel good about being cruel to innocuous nobodies.

You are talking about white Western Christians, correct?

Posted by: Osama Bin Laden at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (W8bn5)

115 97 People are the worst people ever.
Posted by: Roland THTG at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (QM5S

"People, people stomping people,
are the fuckingest people . . ."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (mbhDw)

116 No matter how much I disliked someone in life, I wouldn't stoop to attacking him in an obituary. The bar for lefties is appallingly low.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (7ZVPa)

117 102 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM


Good question. I'd be honest about the man's record in DC bit WITHOUT any rancor, snark or thinly veiled hatred.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM (mbhDw)

John McCain, POW in Vietnam, yada yada yada, rest in peace.

Posted by: Idi Amin at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (7HtZB)

118 @111

I think it has been agreed it was lymphoma.

Posted by: Sam at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (Lat75)

119 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison



In a snowbank?


Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable

He's so crooked they'll have to screw him into the ground

Posted by: Beto Ochoa (@Beto_In_Austin) at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (hCdMd)

120 Off cannibal dictator sock

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 03:40 PM (7HtZB)

121 Seeing how I have a list of people that I want to outlive just so I can piss on there graves, I will recuse myself from this debate.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (qJhUV)

122 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?

That's how you got Trump.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (8J/Te)

123 It depends. If it was random commenters on the blog, it would probably be brutal.

However, if it was Ace or one of the Cobs, it would probably be pretty low key and not overtly cruel.

From what I understand, Slate, like Huffo and Yahoo is a general interest site. If you have that sort of site, its more mainstream, and consequently, I think you should err on the side of kindness, no matter your personal opinion.

This is more of a special interest blog, so the rules are somewhat different I think.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (J5mC3)


If ace gave me the keys to the blog to do an obit, I'd definitely be more muted than how I'd do it here in the comments section. Likewise, it wouldn't surprise me that the comments on that Slate article would be as bad as they predictably are, but I'd still expect the actual obituary to be more measured.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (KUaJL)

124 112 Right after Ted Kennedy died, I made it a POINT to not insult him online for at least a week. It was hard w/ all the hagiographies, but I did it b/c a man was DEAD, and people actually cared about him and deserved to grieve w/ some dignity. I'm glad he's rotting in hell, but I have STANDARDS.



Slate is a dumpster fire of human waste.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (4df7R)

=====================

Eh...Ted Kennedy actually killed someone and got "punished" by never becoming president.

I would have been okay with scorn coming the second he expired.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (EvBgT)

125 "If I'm reading it correctly, that that that waste of electrons of an article was published on the day he died. Which is just vile."
-Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (mf5HN)

^Stutterer^

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (6gk0M)

126 Salon is calling someone...anyone... weak?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (BB1en)

127 Slate, Salon, Buzzfeed, MSNBC, now The Atlantic (holy crap how that has fallen), these guys are just a suppurating boil on the face of the internet. They are trolls unworthy of response or commentary, useless for all but an object lesson for others on how not to behave. All should be sued out of existence when they are not being completely disregarded and starved of advertising clicks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (39g3+)

128 Oh Slate...I'm a tard. Whatev.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (BB1en)

129 We announce the passing of former Senator John McCain, who during his 30+ years in the U.S. Senate filled a much needed void...



(wait for it)

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (wPiJc)

130 reminds me of Hillary and ambassador stevens, if this is how you treat your friends and those with you, how would you treat those not your friends.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (R7cwD)

131 94 Levin had Hannity on yesterday to talk about Colmes having passed away, and Hannity was incredibly gracious, friendly, and fair regarding a guy with whom he disagreed on 99 out of 100 substantive points.

Posted by: Barbara Boxer, D-Senile Dementia at February 24, 2017 03:37 PM (noWW6)
----------------------------

It's actually not that rare. Or didn't used to be at least. G. Gordon Liddy was good friends with both Hunter Thompson and Timothy Leary.

I had a friend, sadly passed away now, with whom I disagreed about most everything. And I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking music, movies, whatever. But we could always talk about it, and even though we never agreed, he was a great guy.

It's not impossible, or even all that hard to be friends with someone you disagree with. It's the toxic tone of politics right now combined with the 24/7 in-your-faceness of social media that makes it seem that way.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (zSMr0)

132 ^Stutterer^

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (6gk0M)


You can't outrun a flamethrower. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (PY9jH)

133 107 If I'm reading it correctly, that that that waste of electrons of an article was published on the day he died. Which is just vile.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (mf5HN)


His death was announced yesterday, so that's 24 hours.

Despicable. I can't even craft the words in my head to describe it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (mbhDw)

134 Weakling? I think not. For crying out loud the poor guy listened to Hannity's broken record for years!

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (HgMAr)

135 Hannity and Communist

Posted by: R. DUKE at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (ONH2e)

136 126 Salon is calling someone...anyone... weak?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (BB1en)

I'll fight those homos in the Octagon!!!

Posted by: Tim Milkcarton at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (7HtZB)

137 If I had to say something for David Brooks or Frum on their passing, both would get blank pages.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (qpXD6)

138 The only time MY text gets italicized is when someone does something wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:36 PM


Today is the first day of the rest of your AoSHQ life.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (DMUuz)

139 People are people, so why should it be that you and I should get-along so awfully?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (6gk0M)

140 >>>It doesn't make any difference what Slate said; Alan Colmes is beyond caring, but it does bot surprise what Slate said. They are terrible.

i don't think it hurts Colmes. I just think it reveals something about the writer.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (8rNrN)

141 131 It's not impossible, or even all that hard to be friends with someone you disagree with. It's the toxic tone of politics right now combined with the 24/7 in-your-faceness of social media that makes it seem that way.
Posted by: Farmer Joe at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (zSMr0)

===================

Oh, it's not just politics.

You should see fights between Marvel vs. DC fanbois.

(Please don't turn this thread into a Marvel vs. DC discussion...I'm serious...Please don't do it)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (EvBgT)

142 @124

He also set in motion the destruction of this country through immigration.

So I'd say we and Mary Joe have suffered greatly.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (Gh/jd)

143 Maybe it's a simple as this:

Many conservatives are Christian, and perhaps in public, Christians seem kinder.

Many liberals are not religious at all, and have no problem being brutal and hateful in public.

*note: not all Christians are kind, and not all atheists are cruel.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (J5mC3)

144 I have long believed that people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen.

This is absolute truth. If they don't say it, its in their eyes. You can see the crazy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (39g3+)

145 138 Today is the first day of the rest of your AoSHQ life.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (DMUuz)

=================

I feel so...unclean.

Make it go away!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (EvBgT)

146 121 Seeing how I have a list of people that I want to outlive just so I can piss on there graves, I will recuse myself from this debate.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (qJhUV)

What was that gangster movie where the guy goes up to the casket and spits on the corpse? i loved that scene.

'I hated you when you were alive...'

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (BB1en)

147 One thing we can say of the dead, at the very least, is that they are no longer a problem for anyone (except in their absence, for those who loved them).

It's not like Alan Colmes is now, in death, some kind of threat to True Progressivism. He's not a threat to anything at all.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (8rNrN)

148 What is the point of an obituary? The people who knew the person already knows all of that stuff. The people who don't know the person probably don't care.

Somebody, somewhere dies everyday. Look at Chicago.

What do you write when a gang banger gets shot by another gang banger?

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (KdllV)

149 ^Stutterer^
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (6gk0M)


It was accompanied by flailing.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (mf5HN)

150 i don't think it hurts Colmes. I just think it reveals something about the writer.
--

THIS.

However, it might hurt his family, and they certainly don't need that at this point in their lives. It's cruel and unnecessary, like kicking an injured dog.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (J5mC3)

151 "You can't outrun a flamethrower. Just sayin'."
-Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (PY9jH)

-Can.
-Have.
-Will.

*flaunts and dances*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (6gk0M)

152 they found a temple to Mithra on Corsica

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (ra7k7)

153 What do you write when a gang banger gets shot by another gang banger?

He died doing what he loved.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (QQ+il)

154 124
Eh...Ted Kennedy actually killed someone and got "punished" by never becoming president.

I would have been okay with scorn coming the second he expired.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:41 PM (EvBgT)


There are ways to write something that are honest and critical without being hateful and cruel.

Slate is evidently unaware or incapable of same.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (mbhDw)

155 When people describe themselves, they are not describing themselves. They are describing the self they aspire to be, what they aspire to be generally points out what they are currently failing to be.

I am Woman, hear me roar!!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (hA1V+)

156 152 they found a temple to Mithra on Corsica
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (ra7k7)

=====================

*gets excited...rereads...hangs head in sadness*
-Mothra

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (EvBgT)

157 "It was accompanied by flailing."
-Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:44 PM (mf5HN)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (6gk0M)

158 I didn't hold back on Fat Teddy because he was a murderer, a traitor, and quite possibly a serial rapist. That disgusting tub of lard should have been burned, his ashes pissed on, and then fed to pigs.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (0mRoj)

159 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain
====

"Well..."





"bye."

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (qU2ch)

160 *gets excited...rereads...hangs head in sadness*

-Mothra
---

HAHAHAAHHAAHA!

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (J5mC3)

161 Not a big fan. Indifferent. RIP
I'm saving my grave dancing for RGB and McCain.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (6LwXe)

162 9 Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ... it will torment us for our own good, and will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience...

CS Lewis
Posted by: Astro Mike at February 24, 2017 03:25 PM (UgF8H0


Typical heteronormative male Christian paranoia, obsessing about the evils of transexuals.

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (CPk08)

163 >>>Dude .....remember your early days. Jeezuz.


it was a put-on though. It was an act. I was upfront about that.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (8rNrN)

164 152 they found a temple to Mithra on Corsica
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (ra7k7)


"Pffft."

- - Mothra on Monster Island

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (mbhDw)

165 they found a temple to Mithra on Corsica


That's a long way from Japan. Where the tiny twins there?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (QQ+il)

166 were


FMK

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (QQ+il)

167 As they say, you are the easiest person in the world for you to fool. You want to be fooled, after all. And why would you have reason to lie to yourself?

I learned that playing poker. It's so much easier to fool yourself than the other guys at the table.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (Xuv2G)

168 Odd, on wikipedia, neither Brianna Wu nor his husband are tagged as LGBT. Wikipedia is usually scrupulous about such things.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (W8bn5)

169 137
If I had to say something for David Brooks or Frum on their passing, both would get blank pages.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 24, 2017 03:42 PM (qpXD6)

Eloquence and excellence in unwritten words. Their memories, their influence reflected in blank pages of empty paper. Not worth the time nor effort to recall.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (7N6ox)

170 158 I didn't hold back on Fat Teddy because he was a murderer, a traitor, and quite possibly a serial rapist. That disgusting tub of lard should have been burned, his ashes pissed on, and then fed to pigs.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (0mRoj)

====================

"I notice that you didn't include "Had different opinions than me" or "Was not sufficiently agreeable to my politics". I'm confused."
-Slate

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (EvBgT)

171 When people describe themselves, they are not describing themselves. They are describing the self they aspire to be, what they aspire to be generally points out what they are currently failing to be.


---

Brianna Wu, please pick up the courtesy phone...

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (KUaJL)

172 but... in actual fact, now that you mention it: I began blogging when I was wracked by panic disorder and had become nearly a shut-in.

So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

173 It was accompanied by flailing.

If you keep that up people will quit holding the doors open, except for the horrible ones who want to ride the elevator and see the second act.

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8J/Te)

174 159 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain
====

"Well..."

"bye."

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:46 PM (qU2ch)

Actually just today i wished him a speedy reunion with the Lord.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (BB1en)

175 I'm going through this phase where I've sort of cut out almost all personal friends/ relatives and only deal with business relationships somewhat from afar.

It's absolutely amazing. I have very little stress, and I'm no longer everyone's emotional dumping ground.

I highly recommend re-thinking all extra relationships, ie, "low vaule friends and relatives."
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 03:39 PM (J5mC3)

+++

I am actually lucky in this regard. All of my immediate relatives and friends are extremely conservative and I never have to endure any nonsense. It is only when I read/hear about these left-tard lunatics that I seethe with anger.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (Ivjge)

176 Unfortunately so sad but true - about humans being so cruel, I would like to see this change in our society - teach compassion and kindness to our children, instill morals and values and basic moral foundation. There should be more groups to support the moral growth of our youth, enjoyed the article thank you.

Posted by: JC at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (sRCmF)

177 New Scientist has an article about Neandertal DNA. there is a gene ADAMTSL3 that can cause schizophrenia. the Neanderthal DNA can guard against this and has the side effect of making people taller.

I guess this explains Paul Krugman.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (ra7k7)

178 so the rule works!

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:48 PM (8rNrN)

179 as far as being cruel to people I don't care for, I suppose I will have to put my last comment into evidence. because fuck him, he's Paul Krugman.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (ra7k7)

180 177 New Scientist has an article about Neandertal DNA. there is a gene ADAMTSL3 that can cause schizophrenia. the Neanderthal DNA can guard against this and has the side effect of making people taller.

I guess this explains Paul Krugman.
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (ra7k7)


"Ooh! Ooh! Down here!"

- - Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - uh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (mbhDw)

181 172 but... in actual fact, now that you mention it: I began blogging when I was wracked by panic disorder and had become nearly a shut-in.

So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

====================

So...you weren't a secret agent working for a spy agency in New York with impeccable taste in scotch and women?

I swear...I thought Archer was based on you.

And now I find out it's not!!! What am I to do...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (EvBgT)

182
"Ooh! Ooh! Down here!"

- - Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - uh.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (mbhDw)


Ninja'd. Damn you!

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (Xuv2G)

183 I've always believed that if you fake being someone long enough, you are.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (QQ+il)

184 like an F-O bituary, like f*** off


Hmmm. I read it as "fauxbituary" and wondered why the boss had chosen the other spelling.

Colmes made Hannity watchable. Even when they were a pair the deck was stacked. Hannity controlled the time clock and the cameras and you knew that Colmes' role was to be a foil and mostly to lose.

But it was interesting and I watched it. I can not watch Hannity qua Hannity.

That said, if Hannity were to drop dead tomorrow I would say "gosh, I feel bad for his family and friends. I know that many millions got great pleasure out of watching him".

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at February 24, 2017 03:49 PM (gIRsn)

185 So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

Next thing you're going to tell us that you're not really 29.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (KUaJL)

186 George Michael had that interesting quote about the lies we tell in presenting ourselves. He said something like, "Even the lies you tell about yourself are the true you, aren't they? After all, the mask you wear points out exactly who you'd like to pretend to be, and gives a strong hint about what you actually are."

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (8rNrN)

187 Even bigger than McCain, how about Hillary? Little dance maybe?

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (HDU3V)

188 Slate is Hustler Magazine's residue.
Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:38 PM


At last. Something I can aspire to!

Posted by: The Barrel at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (DMUuz)

189 >>>Next thing you're going to tell us that you're not really 29.


*almost* 29. I'll be 29 in November.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (8rNrN)

190 "It does seem to me a general rule that whatever someone bangs on about the loudest as a putative reason to recommend him is almost certainly actually telling you about his deepest insecurities and darkest failings."
---

I need to work on my LinkedIn page this weekend. It missing ... diffidence.

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (5JlYa)

191 It's not you; it's me, Ace.

Posted by: george costanza at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (nlbfN)

192 But WE'RE the H8Rz.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (oVJmc)

193 Williams is getting nervous.
Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (8b+oT)

====

Bob Beckel recently had a gun to his head in bar and the guy pulled the trigger. No bang.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:51 PM (qU2ch)

194 >>>183 I've always believed that if you fake being someone long enough, you are.

i'd be interested to know if that's true or if that works.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:51 PM (8rNrN)

195 Alan Colmes reminds me of one of my favorite 'walks in a bar' jokes

A skeleton walks into a bar and orders a beer and a mop.

RIP former liberal comedian turn commentator.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 03:51 PM (ODaO0)

196 Regarding Twitter... No good comes of it it's a liberal echo chamber were the "right"(tm) people are punished. Twitter is useless.

Posted by: Usntakim at February 24, 2017 03:51 PM (hMqvx)

197 So ,,, Bonjour.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:51 PM (QQ+il)

198 I usually wait until a politician or leftist pundit is buried, or at least room temperature before I say anything.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 03:52 PM (Fmupd)

199 189 >>>Next thing you're going to tell us that you're not really 29.


*almost* 29. I'll be 29 in November.
Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (8rNrN)

+++

What day, Ace? 'Cause you just had one and kept it a secret.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:53 PM (Ivjge)

200 i'd be interested to know if that's true or if that works.


My old minister once told me that even if I didn't really believe, I should act like I do, and that would be enough.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:53 PM (QQ+il)

201 172 but... in actual fact, now that you mention it: I began blogging when I was wracked by panic disorder and had become nearly a shut-in.

So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)


But you were really f'n funny.

Posted by: Brianna Wu at February 24, 2017 03:53 PM (CPk08)

202 I noticed a long time ago that anyone who claims to be "witty" in their Twitter profile is never witty, and is usually pretty dull.

I've always felt the same way when someone called themselves "crazy," i.e. in a fun or goofy way that people would like. If they have to say it themselves, they aren't.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 24, 2017 03:53 PM (Jcg9Q)

203 My twitter profile says that I like pudding.

Posted by: lauraw at February 24, 2017 03:53 PM (D+nQH)

204 *gets excited...rereads...hangs head in sadness*
-Mothra
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:45 PM (EvBgT)



Me too.

All my hopes and dreams. Crushed. Like Tokyo under Gojira's foot.

Sniffle.

At least watching this will make me feel better:

https://youtu.be/wfYmTJYdeTw

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (mf5HN)

205 Between this and the idea that the French people want to elect Obama as their president, I am thoroughly through with people. I want to blast off to one of them thar new planets that have been newly discovered.

No, this makes sense. The French have suffered a number of horrific terrorist attacks, and if they elect Obama as President, the Muslims will see that the French have nothing but goodwill towards them, their Muslim hearts will be melted, and they will no longer commit terrorist attacks. Just like it was here when ... hmmm.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (W8bn5)

206 "but... in actual fact, now that you mention it: I began blogging when I was wracked by panic disorder and had become nearly a shut-in.

So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.
"
-Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

I've never though about punching ace until this little post.

C'mere...

You Take That Back or Else I'll...

...Keep typing things about berating you until I am banned or something!

You poop-head. You're poop-headed and nobody understands why you said that.

*cries and runs away*

(Storyline): Never have Heroes.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (6gk0M)

207 Off, Wu-some Sock. OFF

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (CPk08)

208 Eh...Ted Kennedy actually killed someone and got "punished" by never becoming president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Same could be said for Hillary

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (FZYNt)

209 you know, when i started blogging in 2003/2004, which, according to the math, made me... what, 11 years old?

I was very precocious, but obviously very insecure about my terribly young age.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (8rNrN)

210 159
How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain

====

Here lies Senator McCain
Boy, he sure was a pain
He ran for office in 2008
As a presidential candidate
He ran with Sarah Palin
With the left a-wailin
He couldn't carry enough states
cause he was lacking conservative traits
Years later he is still was a senator
The left a hero, the right a traitor
We now lower him into the ground
Telling him to find the sand he can go pound.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (jxbfJ)

211 172 but... in actual fact, now that you mention it: I began blogging when I was wracked by panic disorder and had become nearly a shut-in.

So yeah, actually, I was at my physical and emotional weakest -- and the mask I chose to wear was that of the swaggering tough-guy.

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

But you slowly revealed yourself to your readers which must have been very therapeutic.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (ODaO0)

212 So Colmes was just an Uncle Tom.

Posted by: Golfman at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (48QDY)

213 I can cheer this place up. Any of your daughters want to see my penis?

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (HgMAr)

214 I'd like to return this thread out of spite.

Posted by: jerry seinfeld at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (nlbfN)

215 I have a suspicion that since 9/11 and over the 8 years of the Obama presidency that society suffers from a very profound sense of dysphoria, and generalized anxiety. Nobody knows what to believe on a factual basis and lots of folks are turning to tribal identity politics, only to find there is no solid anchor there.

This needs a name, perhaps something like Societal Anxiety Disorder (SAD).

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (wPiJc)

People know something very bad is coming. They can sense it, feel it. Read newspapers--the whole copy and not just the headlines--prior to WWII. Lots of anxiety and uncertainty.

Posted by: troyriser at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (Fw5cQ)

216 162 a tyranny sincerely exercised
--

*This* tyranny was at one time considered the World's Greatest Athlete.

Posted by: Caitlin Jenner at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (10LGw)

217 I know absolutely nothing about the guy, never saw him on air, seldom paid attention to his press coverage. I certainly have nothing negative to say, and I'll wish his loved ones the best. May he have a chance to argue his positions in another, better life.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (TppKb)

218 I'll be 29 in November.


*****


What year?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (wPiJc)

219 I was very precocious, but obviously very insecure about my terribly young age.

But you had the ass of a young Kiefer Sutherland.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (QQ+il)

220 i'd be interested to know if that's true or if that works.

Haven't you ever faked being a non-smoker til the smoker went away again?

Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (8J/Te)

221 174: i wished him a reunion, but, the lord wasn't mentioned. that's just how i roll. fuck that two bit phony.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (KP5rU)

222 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain




"If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything"

Mic

Drop

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (WFe5M)

223 >>My twitter profile says that I like pudding.

Eating or dipping?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (/tuJf)

224 218 I'll be 29 in November.


*****


What year?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (wPiJc)

+++

I tried to get a day out of him. He went mute.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (Ivjge)

225 My twitter profile says that I like pudding.

I like pudding my dick in hot chicks

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (FZYNt)

226 Even bigger than McCain, how about Hillary? Little dance maybe?
Posted by: Skip

She will never die. Like Lo Pan, she'll just continue to age and deteriorate, but unable to die.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (QDr6b)

227 224 218 I'll be 29 in November.


*****


What year?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (wPiJc)

+++

I tried to get a day out of him. He went mute.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (Ivjge)

======================

He must hate surprise parties.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (EvBgT)

228 I can cheer this place up. Any of your daughters want to see my penis?

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (HgMAr)
No, no, no! You're the governor, not the CNN guy!!!

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (qJhUV)

229 I'll admit that I'm screwed up. I spent years growing learning to control my temper, to the point where I actually have problems nowadays getting angry and that's not healthy. Also, I tend to be insecure and every once in a while I drink far more than is reasonable and make an ass of myself.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (Tnhbr)

230 I very often watched Hannity and Colmes.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (HDU3V)

231 From: CNN Headquarters
To: Human Resources
re: Coumo's vacation

To xhom it may concern;

We think it's time Chris took his annual 'Coumo Sure Has a Lot of opinions About 12-year old Girls for a Fully-Grown Man"-paid vacation.

Make it happen.

Xincerely,

Posted by: The Globalist Corporatist etc., etc. at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (gJ3Q3)

232 George Michael had that interesting quote about the lies we tell in presenting ourselves. He said something like, "Even the lies you tell about yourself are the true you, aren't they? After all, the mask you wear points out exactly who you'd like to pretend to be, and gives a strong hint about what you actually are."

Posted by: ace


I think Jean-Paul Sartre would disagree. He thinks you have absolute freedom, and that we lie to ourselves that we are this or that. The past does not guarantee what you will be in the future, because at every moment you are free. The consciousness of this freedom is anguish.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (W8bn5)

233 Here's a little backgrounder on Isaac Chotiner, the greasy little pud that wrote the obit:

http://tinyurl.com/z3ch7ty

Uber-punchable face, typical lefty wet discharge accumulation.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 03:57 PM (nd1zx)

234 187 Even bigger than McCain, how about Hillary? Little dance maybe?
Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 03:50 PM (HDU3V)

=====================

The idea was to use an example of someone who's nominally on our side like Colmes was on theirs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:58 PM (EvBgT)

235 I don't fear ghosts and I don't care if they can defend themselves or not.
Easy to say when buzzion hasn't dropped a cast-iron skillet on your head from its holding hook on the wall. I didn't wake up for 2 hours after although that might have been the Valu-Rite too.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 24, 2017 03:58 PM (nlbfN)

236 At least Colmes didn't have any kids. That would read this thing , I mean.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 03:58 PM (qU2ch)

237 "I like pudding my dick in hot chicks."
-Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 03:56 PM (FZYNt)

THIS IS FUNNY BECAUSE IT IS A PLAY ON WORDS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHISBERGER at February 24, 2017 03:58 PM (6gk0M)

238 That said, if Hannity were to drop dead tomorrow I would say "gosh, I feel bad for his family and friends. I know that many millions got great pleasure out of watching him".

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad


Nah. Not me. I'd still be pissed off, that at his age, he *still* had a great head of hair. I can be very shallow when I want to be, which is sometimes once in a while always .

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (ZFUt7)

239 I'm crazy. I AM.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (OeQ/D)

240 I would agree with this 100% if you substitute "assholes" for "people". Not all people are assholes.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (mpXpK)

241 40 I don't buy into the "never speak ill of the dead" concept. I don't fear ghosts and I don't care if they can defend themselves or not. A terrible person doesn't negate the things they did and were by dying. They just stopped being terrible any longer.

Ted Kennedy was a scumbag rapist traitor who deserved hanging. He's burning in hell right now unless God was very merciful to him at some very late date. And he had it coming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 03:31 PM (39g3+)

Is that what it is? Superstitious? I am from a very ethnic family Russian Orthdox, and they have a firm rule about that. They might litteraly detest a person, and then if the person dies, nothing. I never understood the reason!

Posted by: Chilling the most at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (Cl52v)

242

Base human nature is "Lord of the Flies".

We have to work to overcome our nature.

Posted by: Frankly at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (pLvh9)

243 241 Is that what it is? Superstitious? I am from a very ethnic family Russian Orthdox, and they have a firm rule about that. They might litteraly detest a person, and then if the person dies, nothing. I never understood the reason!
Posted by: Chilling the most at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (Cl52v)

====================

I don't think it's superstition but deference to the pain in the people they left behind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (EvBgT)

244 I think Jean-Paul Sartre would disagree. He thinks you have absolute freedom, and that we lie to ourselves that we are this or that.

I don't think these positions differ.

You can pretend to be something, and you are to others either (a) what you pretend to be or (b) what you are seen as for pretending, depending on their view of things.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (TppKb)

245 Oh, it's not just politics.

You should see fights between Marvel vs. DC fanbois.

(Please don't turn this thread into a Marvel vs. DC discussion...I'm serious...Please don't do it)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 03:43 PM (EvBgT)

Oh God besides Teen Titans all of DC-

*reads last sentence*

*shuffles away slowly*

*Not so patiently awaits TJM movie/review thread*

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (WuRdh)

246 So, I just bounced Ace's idea that we describe ourselves as how we would like to be and I think he's right. I just checked out how I describe myself somewhere: crazy metalhead. Yup, I try to be that.

Posted by: Draki at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (bWRgW)

247 Here's a little backgrounder on Isaac Chotiner, the greasy little pud that wrote the obit:

http://tinyurl.com/z3ch7ty




Omg. He looks like a hairy big toe.


I see he worked on Kerry's highly successful presidential campaign. And he plays frisbee.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (PY9jH)

248 242

Base human nature is "Lord of the Flies".

We have to work to overcome our nature.
Posted by: Frankly at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (pLvh9)

=====================

"No! We'll make people completely change! It'll work! We just need the right people in charge!"
-The Left, through the ages

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (EvBgT)

249 I don't fear ghosts

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




Those strange sounds in the night are a little unsettling.

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 04:01 PM (KdllV)

250 This needs a name, perhaps something like Societal Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
PPM. Progressive Pussy Myopia.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 24, 2017 04:01 PM (nlbfN)

251
Trump goes after the media.
Sabo goes after Hollywood (fab new posters!)
and the left eat their own.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2017 04:01 PM (nQgx9)

252 What will we say when the Allen Colmes of msnbc, Joe Scarborough, dies?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 24, 2017 04:01 PM (wTSvK)

253 245
*Not so patiently awaits TJM movie/review thread*
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:00 PM (WuRdh)

===================

Ace, you hear that?

It's demand for a weekly movie thread!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (EvBgT)

254 The idea was to use an example of someone who's nominally on our side like Colmes was on theirs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
-----
I do wonder if they will turn on her for being stupid, corrupt and lazy to the point of losing the election. Maybe when all that Trump has done had a chance to settle in. When they see what opportunities they've lost. That could be a beautiful thing.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (8b+oT)

255 It's not like Alan Colmes is now, in death, some kind of threat to True Progressivism. He's not a threat to anything at all.


Fuck him! He's dead.

Posted by: R. DUKE at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (ONH2e)

256 I think the idea of not speaking ill of the dead was to prevent grudges from continuing on. Badmouth a man after he dies and you might draw a response from his clan. More generally, once a man is dead he can't affect you, so why bother obsessing over him?

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (Tnhbr)

257 Those strange sounds in the night are a little unsettling.


Opossums.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (QQ+il)

258 Just looking around another blog is sayinb he had a short bout of cancer, don't see what kind so wonder if it was something not detected or could have been treated if caught.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (HDU3V)

259 242 Base human nature is "Lord of the Flies".

We have to work to overcome our nature.
Posted by: Frankly at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (pLvh9)

As many may know, Momma Sefton survived the camps and a death march. She saw the very worst in human behavior and occasionally the very best.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (mbhDw)

260 Joe Scarborough died?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (OeQ/D)

261 Mmm. Pudding Hump Singles.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (nlbfN)

262 I see he worked on Kerry's highly successful presidential campaign. And he plays frisbee.

Here's his hot take on the 2016 election:

"but if you are asking me to predict who the Republican nominee will be, I
think either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio will run. And I think either of
them has a better chance than anyone else."

Boy, just charging up against the conventional wisdom there, aren't we, Ike?

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (nd1zx)

263 But you had the ass of a young Kiefer Sutherland.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:55 PM (QQ+il)

He wasn't the only one. My ass was passed around like donkey reefer at a Denver pot festival.

Posted by: Kiefer Sutherland at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (hA1V+)

264 254 I do wonder if they will turn on her for being stupid, corrupt and lazy to the point of losing the election. Maybe when all that Trump has done had a chance to settle in. When they see what opportunities they've lost. That could be a beautiful thing.
Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (8b+oT)

======================

Some of them already have.

Others seem to be tied to her in some way. The Clintons still do have large sway over the Democratic donor pool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (EvBgT)

265 252 What will we say when the Allen Colmes of msnbc, Joe Scarborough, dies?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

I didn't even know Joe was sick

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (FZYNt)

266 What will we say when the Allen Colmes of msnbc, Joe Scarborough, dies?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Would anyone here even notice?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (QDr6b)

267 Hey, Hitler! Let us in!

Posted by: CNN at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (w7KSn)

268 Marvel vs. DC discussion

How 'bout a "I haven't read a fucking comic book since the barber shop when I was nine years old, and haven't given a shit since about any of it, especially the movies" discussion?

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (TppKb)

269
Joe Scarborough died?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (OeQ/D)


No, just a former female *cough* intern.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (PY9jH)

270 30
Is that faux-bitchuary or F'ing Obituary?

Either way. Besides, I thought Slate was just some adolescent webzine, slightly less informative than Highlights.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:29 PM (mbhDw)


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


I am God's gift to women.

Okay, I'm really going to have to work on this.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (Fmupd)

271 What will we say when the Allen Colmes of msnbc, Joe Scarborough, dies?


Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

-----
Who? *looks at picture of Joe*[/]i Oh, yeah. Looks familiar. You want to write his obit? Well, I don't.



Did you write it yet?

I though you were gonna do it!

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (8b+oT)

272 More generally, once a man is dead he can't affect you, so why bother obsessing over him?

---

Well ... Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin have been dead for a long time.

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (KdllV)

273 speaking ill of the dead, judgment etc.

I had read something several years ago, mystical sure but whatevs.
when you stand at judgment those who you dmagaed stand there in spirit soulness with you?

anyway the idea was that they could accuse you but if you stood in their judgement and didn't open your mouth it got you some points for good LOL
anyway I kinda take that to heart it might be bupkis but . hey i'll take every thing I can get.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (R7cwD)

274 268 Marvel vs. DC discussion

How 'bout a "I haven't read a fucking comic book since the barber shop when I was nine years old, and haven't given a shit since about any of it, especially the movies" discussion?
Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (TppKb)

======================

I believe that takes place in the old folks home.

The young 'uns like Seawolf, Ace (not yet 29!), and me are taking over!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (EvBgT)

275 256 I think the idea of not speaking ill of the dead was to prevent grudges from continuing on. Badmouth a man after he dies and you might draw a response from his clan. More generally, once a man is dead he can't affect you, so why bother obsessing over him?
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (Tnhbr)


For Choadiner, it's petty jealousy knowing that no matter how long he may live he can never ever achieve what Colmes has and more importantly be the kind of decent guy he was. Ever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (mbhDw)

276 I HATE IPHONES!!

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (Fmupd)

277 Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do.

Because their fast!

Posted by: Christopher Walken at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (qU2ch)

278 People spoke highly of Alan Colmes. The conservatives at Fox News were happy to call him a friend.

No. Conservatives will not get the same treatment at other sites. Let them show themselves for what they are.

Call it "uncovered", "discovered" or "reality". Hatred relies on uninformed individuals lashing out against a perceived evil.

I will not personify that "evil".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (6gk0M)

279 276 I HATE IPHONES!!
Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (Fmupd)

=====================

They hate you too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (EvBgT)

280 A few examples Sartre gave of our perception of our freedom:
* if you stare into the abyss, and there is a guardrail so that you could not accidentally fall in, you still feel vertigo, because you have the freedom to climb over and jump.

* if you are a soldier who has committed acts of bravery in the past, you will still feel anguish about upcoming battles, because the past does not guarantee that you will be brave in the future, because we are condemned to be free.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (W8bn5)

281 Slate Publishes FObituary of Alan Colmes, Calling Him A Weakling

I can never tell if ace is making a subtle joke that I'm missing, or did he just typo the headline?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (U+9Zc)

282 268 Marvel vs. DC discussion

How 'bout a "I haven't read a fucking comic book since the barber shop when I was nine years old, and haven't given a shit since about any of it, especially the movies" discussion?
Posted by: JEM

Betty or Veronica?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (FZYNt)

283 people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen. I noticed some time ago that all the people I'd had failed relationships with told me within the first hour why the relationship would fail


My ex-wife.

Posted by: gNewt at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (khWYc)

284 Others seem to be tied to her in some way. The Clintons still do have large sway over the Democratic donor pool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (EvBgT)

Those FBI files came in handy.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (wTSvK)

285 277 Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do.

Because their fast!
Posted by: Christopher Walken at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (qU2ch)

======================

I read that like Walken would.

You're like a wizard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (EvBgT)

286 I didn't even know Joe was sick


He will be missed.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (QQ+il)

287 I will think myself 29
I will think myself 29
I will think my self 29 with a nice chest. and perhaps a few more working synapses.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (R7cwD)

288 267 Hey, Hitler! Let us in!
Posted by: CNN at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (w7KSn)

++

LOL.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (Ivjge)

289 1. Flesh
2. Blind
3/4. Self-righteous + doing what is right in their own eyes. + Making ourselves judge. + Thinking of ourselves as higher than we ought.

Preach it, brother!

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (2mC6G)

290 I saw Swaggering Tough Guy open for Ted Nugent at the Cotton Bowl in 85.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (kTF2Z)

291 I believe that takes place in the old folks home.

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (TppKb)

292 What will we say when the Allen Colmes of msnbc, Joe Scarborough, dies?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Mika woke up next to a stiffy this morning?

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (HDU3V)

293 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you. That isn't always a negative. If you pretend to be confident or brave or charming...it gets easier.

If you can't make it, fake it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)

294 291 I believe that takes place in the old folks home.

Get off my lawn.
Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (TppKb)

=====================

We're going to put you in a home and sell your house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (EvBgT)

295
"After graduating, he
worked on the Kerry campaign, and decided to come to Washington D.C.
with the hopes of working in their administration."

First hopes. And then change.

Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (8b+oT)

296 Betty or Veronica?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (FZYNt)


Based on the latest TV show... both. At the same time.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (Tnhbr)

297 FObituary?

I'm guessing, "Fuck Off" Obituary maybe?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (OeQ/D)

298 And isn't that really a F-U-bituary?

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (2mC6G)

299 293 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you. That isn't always a negative. If you pretend to be confident or brave or charming...it gets easier.

If you can't make it, fake it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)

===================

Case study:

Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (EvBgT)

300 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you.


That was a great Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (QQ+il)

301 The Clintons still do have large sway over the Democratic donor pool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:03 PM (EvBgT)

The Democratic Party is also bare inches away from selecting 9-11 Truther Keith 'The Joos Did It' Ellison as DNC Chair.

Their thinking has become alien and strange. It's like they're speaking Venusian nowadays.

Posted by: troyriser at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (Fw5cQ)

302 Betty or Veronica?

You HAD to go there. You HAD to go there.

Betty. Now fuck off.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (TppKb)

303 "We're going to put you in a home and sell your house."
-Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (EvBgT)

Summary.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (6gk0M)

304 So Ace self identifies as a 29 year old, many have done worse.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (HDU3V)

305 Opossums.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (QQ+il)
________________________________


Which are actually a type of weas... er.. marsupi-sumthin

Posted by: IP at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (yV4wg)

306 301 The Democratic Party is also bare inches away from selecting 9-11 Truther Keith 'The Joos Did It' Ellison as DNC Chair.

Their thinking has become alien and strange. It's like they're speaking Venusian nowadays.
Posted by: troyriser at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (Fw5cQ)

===================

I hope they chose him and Alan Dershowitz's prediction of the Democratic Party following Corbin's Labour party into obscurity is true.

Fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (EvBgT)

307 Here's a little backgrounder on Isaac Chotiner, the greasy little pud that wrote the obit:

Anybody read the interview? Sound like his choices after college were Slate columnist or signing in trash trucks at the dump. Not the brightest bulb.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (qJhUV)

308 Base human nature is "Lord of the Flies".

We have to work to overcome our nature.
Posted by: Frankly at February 24, 2017 03:59 PM (pLvh9)
................

I'm reading Shadow Divers right now. It's about deep wreck divers and tells about the crazy things they do when in trouble, like tear regulators out of other divers mouths at 200 feet.
They work hard and train to overcome these instincts.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (HgMAr)

309 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you. That isn't always a negative. If you pretend to be confident or brave or charming...it gets easier.

If you can't make it, fake it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)



Much of our lives and our behaviors are habit. If we want to change, then we have to unlearn old ways of doing things.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (Tnhbr)

310 Betty or Veronica?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (FZYNt)

And.

With extra-virgin coconut oil...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (NdM46)

311 We're going to put you in a home and sell your house.

My heirs will be doing appleseed soon enough. So you better be prepared.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (TppKb)

312 Kevin Pollak gets the credit.

Here is my all time fav Walken quote.

"I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering."

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (qU2ch)

313 Daphne or Velma?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (QQ+il)

314 And ironically, I just bought 3 comics (graphic novels) at lunch time. Good old Half Price Books...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (NdM46)

315 I believe that takes place in the old folks home.

The young 'uns like Seawolf, Ace (not yet 29!), and me are taking over!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:04 PM (EvBgT)

*dons Bravehart paint*

(But seriously, I love you guys. The paint is to just scare off the people who think Return of the Jedi ISN'T the greatest movie of all time.)

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (WuRdh)

316 When Clinton goes are they going to parade his pine box down Pennsylvania Ave in the astroturfed bed of a rusty 1970 Chevy pickup followed by a crowd of weeping women?

Posted by: torabora at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (aHSNJ)

317 I'm reading Shadow Divers right now. It's about deep wreck divers and tells about the crazy things they do when in trouble, like tear regulators out of other divers mouths at 200 feet.

---------

A practical joke that never gets old.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (OeQ/D)

318 299 293 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)


Yeah, I saw a Twilight episode about this once. It did not end well.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (U+9Zc)

319 313 Daphne or Velma?
Posted by: Grump928(c)

Velma likes butt secs

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (FZYNt)

320 I can cheer this place up. Any of your daughters want to see my penis?

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 24, 2017 03:54 PM (HgMAr)
No, no, no! You're the governor, not the CNN guy!!!

Posted by: tu3031


Hey, any 12 year old girls want to see my junk, I can still get it up. I raised my boys well.

Posted by: Mario Cuomo at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (W8bn5)

321 When people describe themselves, they are not describing themselves. They are describing the self they aspire to be, what they aspire to be generally points out what they are currently failing to be.

Errr......

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (CPk08)

322 Velma has the sweater puppies. I think Daphne is frigid.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (QQ+il)

323 Bam-Bam or Pebbles?

Posted by: andrew cuomo at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (nlbfN)

324


Mika woke up next to a stiffy this every morning?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (IqV8l)

325 Velma likes butt secs
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (FZYNt)
_________________________


uh, raggy?

Posted by: scooby at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (yV4wg)

326 It was funny that the girl they cast for Velma in the movies was cuter than the girl for Daphne. They knew their audience.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (39g3+)

327 Betty or Veronica?

You HAD to go there. You HAD to go there.

Betty. Now fuck off.
Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (TppKb)

Still hot

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:10 PM (NdM46)

328 Betty or Veronica?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (FZYNt)

Based on the latest TV show... both. At the same time.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (Tnhbr)



Both simultaneously is always the correct answer.

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (mf5HN)

329 5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.

There's an old business adage that the more a prospective business partner tells you about their strong Christian faith is the tighter you should hold on to your wallet and the more carefully you should check all the contract terms.

I've also seen the same thing among Latina girls I know when it came to guys. A lot of sketchy semi-thuggish Latino guys when they're trying to win over a girl have a patter about how they'll forever be respectful and true to her and will always treat her like the queen she is, and so on. It's surprisingly effective even on girls who should know better. I'd warn them that when a guy has to make the case that he will treat you like a decent guy who's actually into you, it means that a) it's doubtful in the first place and b) he won't - after the first few weeks or you sleep with him, whichever comes first.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (pAlYe)

330 315 *dons Bravehart paint*

(But seriously, I love you guys. The paint is to just scare off the people who think Return of the Jedi ISN'T the greatest movie of all time.)
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (WuRdh)

=======================

*throws down gauntlet*

It's on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (EvBgT)

331 313 Daphne or Velma?
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (QQ+il)

Daphne looks very high maintenance, and Velma cleans up real nice.

Velma. Smarts are also attractive.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (KUaJL)

332 fgs I don't want Ellison chosen to be their candidate.
just think Obama but worse.
don't tell me the media the dnc hellywood and jerks everywhere won't bury deeply anything he has said or done.

you would pull up his comments from last week and they would be called lies.
just like anything Obama wrote in his book.

Posted by: willow at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (R7cwD)

333 uh, raggy?
--

Here we go.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (10LGw)

334 Dorothy, Rose or Blanche?

Posted by: Dang, not understanding the game at all at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (8b+oT)

335 The Left are assholes and never fail to live up to my expectations.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (SjImc)

336 Thelma or Louise?

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (nd1zx)

337 TV Daphne
Movie Velma

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (NdM46)

338 What was the name of the movie where the ghost was raping the woman when she slept and they set her up in a sleep study?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (ODaO0)

339 deserving of "a good talking to" if you follow my meaning.

Scumabg.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 03:35 PM (mbhDw)


At the woodshed.

Posted by: gNewt at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (khWYc)

340 309 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you. That isn't always a negative. If you pretend to be confident or brave or charming...it gets easier.

---------

They're the faces of The Stranger but we love to try them on.

Ba-da bump!

Posted by: Billy Joel at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (OeQ/D)

341 Mika woke up next to a stiffy this every morning?

Look, frankly, who WOULDN'T do her?

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (TppKb)

342 Based on the latest TV show... both. At the same time.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM
--
Both simultaneously is always the correct answer.
===

If I had a million dollars...

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (qU2ch)

343 Amateur Webzine Slate per Ace of Spades style guide

Posted by: Zeta Male Leftist with a carrot up his ass at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (xudgf)

344 When people describe themselves, they are not describing themselves. They are describing the self they aspire to be, what they aspire to be generally points out what they are currently failing to be.


+++

It is one of the most difficult things to do. You can either come off over-confident or under-done.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (Ivjge)

345 Actually... Just to extend this: I have long believed that people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen.

I've seen this. I believe it to be true.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (FVvBL)

346 You know there's nothing Blanche isn't into.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (QQ+il)

347 Well, my days of not giving the slightest crap about Isaac Chotiner are certainly coming to a middle.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 04:13 PM (nd1zx)

348 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?



Former American War Hero Dies.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 03:32 PM (QQ+il)

If I were being nice and channeling Dick Solomon: Like all men, John McCain
was governed by the laws of physics. It is a scientific fact that hearts
and clocks slow down as they approach the speed of light. John McCain's
heart reached that speed at xx pm last night, according to the
coroner, transforming his matter into energy, into pure white light.
Though he is no longer with us, he is all around us.

Posted by: redbanzai at February 24, 2017 04:13 PM (9nCnN)

349 318 299 293 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)

Yeah, I saw a Twilight episode about this once. It did not end well.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (U+9Zc)

Directed by the lovely Ida Lupino

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 04:13 PM (7HtZB)

350 329 5. The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.

There's an old business adage that the more a prospective business partner tells you about their strong Christian faith is the tighter you should hold on to your wallet and the more carefully you should check all the contract terms.


"The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:13 PM (U+9Zc)

351 Both simultaneously is always the correct answer.

there's an oil for that.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:13 PM (TppKb)

352 Marcia, Jan, Cindy... or Bobby?

Posted by: Harry Reid at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (8b+oT)

353 An armed man who threatened to jump off the George Washington Bridge, forcing the closure of all upper level lanes, was detained on Friday, according to a police source.

Sources said the man was armed, and handed over the firearm to on-scene officials.

NOT me, and I don't think it was CBD either.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (SjImc)

354 The better someone tells me he is, the more certain I become that he is a monster.

There's an old business adage that the more a prospective business partner tells you about their strong Christian faith is the tighter you should hold on to your wallet and the more carefully you should check all the contract terms.

I've also seen the same thing among Latina girls I know when it came to guys. A lot of sketchy semi-thuggish Latino guys when they're trying to win over a girl have a patter about how they'll forever be respectful and true to her and will always treat her like the queen she is, and bla bla bla. It's surprisingly effective even on girls who should know better. I'd warn them that when a guy has to make the case that he will treat you like a decent guy who's actually into you, it means that a) it's doubtful in the first place and b) he won't after the first few weeks or you sleep with him, whichever comes first.
Posted by: Maetenloch at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (pAlYe)

It's the push-pull that hooks them. The girls think they're getting the total package: a bad boy who's secretly good to them. It makes them think they're special, that they can change him.

It's a solid con. And damn does it work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (NdM46)

355 341 Mika woke up next to a stiffy this every morning?

Look, frankly, who WOULDN'T do her?
Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (TppKb)

She's a one.

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (7HtZB)

356 "Terry Keenan died really young too."

Dang.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (dZ756)

357 Posted by: Maetenloch at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (pAlYe)

+++

Sound advice.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (Ivjge)

358 Slate has decreed that anyone ever having anything to do with conservatives, the right or even neutral will be punished and pilloried even after death. Or more likely, especially after death when they could not reply in their defence.

Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (+JsGm)

359 338 What was the name of the movie where the ghost was raping the woman when she slept and they set her up in a sleep study?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (ODaO0)

"The Entity", Barbara Hershey, based on the novel/"true" story by Frank DeFelitta.

Posted by: moviegique at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (7zeA4)

360 This goes along with one of my favorite quotes: "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Posted by: jix at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (Xx3z8)

361 Maybe you ought to check the sidebar before getting too high up on that horse. "Liberal goof dies..."

Posted by: Jeff at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (EvVvG)

362 I want Ellison as DNC chairman

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (HDU3V)

363 Dorothy, Rose or Blanche?
Sue-Ann Nivens.
Or Mona Robinson.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (nlbfN)

364 "It does seem to me a general rule that whatever someone bangs on about
the loudest as a putative reason to recommend him is almost certainly
actually telling you about his deepest insecurities and darkest
failings."

So my penis isn't the mombo-tastic piece of love meat I make it out to be??


Oops, My bad.




Posted by: dananjcon at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (WLK0w)

365 The left are not just classless, they are vile.

Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (+JsGm)

366 I'll be 29 in November.


For the seventeenth time.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (oVJmc)

367 When you play golf for fun you see guys who claim to be better than they are before you start. It coincidentally also turns out to just be one of those bad days according to them after you finish.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (ODaO0)

368 360 This goes along with one of my favorite quotes: "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."

--------

Pure solipsism, man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (OeQ/D)

369 Women are the worst. In my youth I was good looking, and I could not get out of earshot before the women who just told me they "loved my shirt, etc" were talking bad about me. I hate people. end of story. I have a bunch of dogs.

Posted by: Pamazon at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (NNdb5)

370 Based on the latest TV show... both. At the same time.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM
--
Both simultaneously is always the correct answer.
===

If I had a million dollars...
Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:12 PM (qU2ch)

5 to 7 hundred is all you need in Seattle....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (NdM46)

371 alan colmes might have been a liberal, but, i really don't remember him being a total dick about it. i never really had a problem with the guy. he didn't pretend to be somebody else. unlike that sucker of cock juan mclame. who i fucking loathe.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (KP5rU)

372 She's a one.

I peg her at maybe an 7.75.

Not quite an 8.

Until I get off, then she's a 10.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (TppKb)

373 Posted by: moviegique at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (7zeA4)

Yeah that one was freaky.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (ODaO0)

374
An armed man who threatened to jump off the George Washington Bridge, forcing the closure of all upper level lanes, was detained on Friday, according to a police source.

He wasn't feeling groovy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (IqV8l)

375 "I see he worked on Kerry's highly successful presidential campaign"

If Teh-RAH-sa Heinz hadn't opened her trap and called herself (a wealthy white socialite who happened to have been born in colonial Mozambique) "an African-American", then John Kerry might have had another 50K or so black voters show up at the polls in Ohio during the general election, and he'd have been sworn in as President in January of 2005.

You want to know how crummy Dubya was? He came *that* close to being unseated... by Lurch.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (noWW6)

376 Josie or Melody?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (W8bn5)

377 I'm glad I missed it-"The entity" How can a ghost-which if you believe in them-has a non corporeal existence-rape somebody? Some weirdos(s) just wanted to see Barbara Hershey get raped but no "Rape" raped..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (fDdVG)

378 Here is my all time fav Walken quote.

"I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering."

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (qU2ch)


I like this Walken cat quote better (from Poolhall Junkies):

You watch those nature documentaries on the cable? You see the one about lions? You got this lion. He's the king of the jungle, huge mane out to here. He's laying under a tree, in the middle of Africa. He's so big, it's so hot. He doesn't want to move. Now the little lions come, they start messing with him. Biting his tail, biting his ears. He doesn't do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him. Coming over, making trouble. Still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this. They start to move in. The jackals; hyenas. They're barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes, and eat the food that's in his domain. They do this, then they get closer and closer, bolder and bolder. Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind, eats everything in his path. Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (zc3Db)

379 I'm the humblest man on Earth. No one else even comes close. When it comes to humility, I got this shit dicked.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (97XyN)

380 330 315 *dons Bravehart paint*

(But seriously, I love you guys. The paint is to just scare off the people who think Return of the Jedi ISN'T the greatest movie of all time.)
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:09 PM (WuRdh)

=======================

*throws down gauntlet*

It's on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (EvBgT)

Fair point. Infinty War(s) COULD take the top spot from Jedi.

Hopefully it's at least close

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (WuRdh)

381 There's a story at Newsmax that Soros has a $500 million bet that the US economy is going to crash.

Isn't he the same guy that broke the Bank of England and profited?

/not really understanding the details of the story, but it seems to me Soros wants to collapse America

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (J5mC3)

382 It is worse than lack of class, it is lack of human decency. It is also a complete lack of empathy on display for the world to see. It demonstrates the ill will the writer and publish harbor for their fellow man. The writer and publisher are either so self-absorbed that they have no idea how painful such a hit piece must be to his family and friends, or they don;t care. I am not surprised by the piece having seen such behavior from leftists my entire life. Everyone should take heed, leftists are filled with hate and they will exploit anything and anyone on their march to power, including the emotions that common people feel.

Posted by: Locke Common at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (a/dj+)

383 alan colmes might have been a liberal, but, i really don't remember him being a total dick about it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 04:16 PM (KP5rU)
---
It's not like he didn't do cheap shots and talking points though. But you really have to appreciate the way he was sold out for the troops in Bush's wars.

There were times I wanted somebody to counter him, but it's not like Hannity was up to the job.

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (2mC6G)

384 380 Fair point. Infinty War(s) COULD take the top spot from Jedi.

Hopefully it's at least close
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (WuRdh)

====================

*charges while screaming*

"Duck Soup!!!!!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (EvBgT)

385 359 They used air jets on her tits to make it look like they were grabbed by an invisible being.Barbara Hershey was pretty damn hot.

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (r/0kC)

386 She's a one.
Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (7HtZB)


Always good to see a follower of the True Scale.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (FVvBL)

387 How did we get from obituary of Alan Colmes to whether Velma does butt sex? Oh, I forgot; It's the horde.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (fDdVG)

388 When you play golf for fun you see guys who claim to
be better than they are before you start. It coincidentally also turns
out to just be one of those bad days according to them after you finish.


Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:15 PM (ODaO0)

**
My fave is, the third person admonition; "Damn it Bill! You weren't hookin them last week!!"

Posted by: dananjcon at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (WLK0w)

389 377 I'm glad I missed it-"The entity" How can a ghost-which if you believe in them-has a non corporeal existence-rape somebody? Some weirdos(s) just wanted to see Barbara Hershey get raped but no "Rape" raped..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (fDdVG)

How can a non-corporeal thing be seen? How can it interact with the physical universe at all? Well, it can, or we ain't got no ghost stories.

Ebert gave it a thumbs up.

I didn't care for it, particularly.

Posted by: moviegique at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (7zeA4)

390 Right. uh-huh. That first hour stuff is very interesting. Are they drunk, or what? Otherwise you are out of luck. People are such good liars these days that you are going to be bamboozled and/or hypnotized by their bullshit 99% of the time. Unless they happen to have their scrapbook out in the trunk of the car. Which is not a bad idea. But, anyhow, here is a hope for salvation from being abused by your run of the mill troll.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hyk6bez

Posted by: goon at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (EaQ6/)

391 whichever comes first.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (pAlYe)


Howdy, stranger.

Posted by: gNewt at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (khWYc)

392 For the TWD fans
Lori Grimes, Andrea, Carol, Michonne, Maggie, Sasha, Rosita?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (jxbfJ)

393 306 301 The Democratic Party is also bare inches away from selecting 9-11 Truther Keith 'The Joos Did It' Ellison as DNC Chair.

Their thinking has become alien and strange. It's like they're speaking Venusian nowadays.
Posted by: troyriser at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (Fw5cQ)

===================

I hope they chose him and Alan Dershowitz's prediction of the Democratic Party following Corbin's Labour party into obscurity is true.

Fingers crossed!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:08 PM (EvBgT)


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


Rush talked about this a couple of days ago. He said that the dems don't really care about winning anymore. They expect obscurity as a political party. What they've always wanted and got during the Fredo years was a large and deeply entrenched DC and judiciary substructure. It will from these that the leftists will exert their power.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (Fmupd)

394 281 Slate Publishes FObituary of Alan Colmes, Calling Him A Weakling

I can never tell if ace is making a subtle joke that I'm missing, or did he just typo the headline?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:05 PM (U+9Zc)

++++

I wondered the same thing. Then I decided it was intentional, but I don't know if he was playing off of Foe or Faux. I think the latter.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (R+30W)

395 383: hannity was unarmed.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (KP5rU)

396 "1. People are inherently cruel. They enjoy inflicting cruelty on others. It makes them feel good to be cruel to others.

2. People are self-deluding and believe themselves good. It makes them feel good to think themselves good."

------

Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day. Being a Christian is very hard with none of that "kill unbelievers to get into heaven".

Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)

397 Till one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind, eats everything in his path. Cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is.

I approve this message.

Posted by: Donald J Trump, Warcock In Chief at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (TppKb)

398 I'm glad I missed it-"The entity" How can a ghost-which if you believe in them-has a non corporeal existence-rape somebody? Some weirdos(s) just wanted to see Barbara Hershey get raped but no "Rape" raped..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (fDdVG

It's a spooky movie.
And if you can move objects after you're dead, it's not impossible to 'do more', I guess. Though sexual assault is usually more indicative of demonic activity, usually invited by the victim, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (NdM46)

399 Carole or Paula?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (W8bn5)

400 But seriously, I love you guys. The paint is to just scare off the people who think Return of the Jedi ISN'T the greatest movie of all time

-----------

You shut your whore mouth!

Posted by: Lone a wolf McQuade at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (kTF2Z)

401 I forgot; It's the horde.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:18 PM (fDdVG)
_____________________________________


To be fair it wasn't a direct connection. That's the ONT.

Posted by: IP at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (yV4wg)

402 How can a ghost-which if you believe in them-has a non corporeal existence-rape somebody?

He slimed me.

Posted by: Peter Venkman at February 24, 2017 04:21 PM (oVJmc)

403 Yoo-hoo, just desocking

Posted by: JEM because I need more socks at February 24, 2017 04:21 PM (TppKb)

404 393 Rush talked about this a couple of days ago. He said that the dems don't really care about winning anymore. They expect obscurity as a political party. What they've always wanted and got during the Fredo years was a large and deeply entrenched DC and judiciary substructure. It will from these that the leftists will exert their power.
Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (Fmupd)

======================

100+ open federal judicial seats are going to affect that potentiality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:21 PM (EvBgT)

405 Some weirdos(s) just wanted to see Barbara Hershey get raped but no "Rape" raped..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I first read that as Barbara Billingsley. Very disturbing.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (QDr6b)

406

Actually... Just to extend this: I have long believed that people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen. I noticed some time ago that all the people I'd had failed relationships with told me within the first hour why the relationship would fail -- but I of course wasn't listening. I'm not saying they were bad people. I'm just saying they were pretty upfront about the reasons we were a bad match. I just didn't pick up on it.

tmi

Actually... not enough information. Do tell?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (nQgx9)

407 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (jxbfJ)

Who are all these women-porn stars?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (fDdVG)

408 Cognitive dissonance is the most enjoyable aspect of this blog.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (dylA9)

409 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Posted by: Caliban at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (DrC22)

410 When Clinton goes are they going to parade his pine box down Pennsylvania Ave in the astroturfed bed of a rusty 1970 Chevy pickup followed by a crowd of weeping women?

Posted by: torabora


El Camino. Bill once famously bragged about the car.

Which made the ending of 'Breaking Bad' so ironic to me. Bad guy drives away while someone else saves his ass.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (ZFUt7)

411
Demons are just science that we don't yet understand.
---Kneel De Gasious Tyoneon.

Posted by: Leslie Dumore at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (KdllV)

412 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)


I like to get mine out of the way in the morning; frees up the rest of the day.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (8nWyX)

413 407
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (jxbfJ)



Who are all these women-porn stars?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (fDdVG)

Characters from Walking Dead

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (jxbfJ)

414 And if you can move objects after you're dead, it's not impossible to 'do more', I guess. Though sexual assault is usually more indicative of demonic activity, usually invited by the victim, sadly.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (NdM46)

+++

I had one inexplicable experience 3 days ago. It was nothing sexual.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Ivjge)

415
"The Entity", Barbara Hershey, based on the novel/"true" story by Frank DeFelitta.
Posted by: moviegique at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (7zeA4)

===================

Queued.

#399. 7-8 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (EvBgT)

416 What they've always wanted and got during the Fredo years was a large and deeply entrenched DC and judiciary substructure

But they have to MAINTAIN it, and Trump and his appointments are the first real threat to that environment that the Dems have seen since maybe the first Reagan term.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (TppKb)

417 Pathetic lady Ghostbusters coming soon to cable.Might invite some friends and mock it MST3K style.

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (r/0kC)

418 Ghosts watch you fap.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (qU2ch)

419 With pieces like this--really outside the mainstream of civility or accepted norms--I like to go tothe site and scan the comments. I want to see if the unwashed masses, at Slate hardcore progressives all, are that far gone or is it just the tool blogger.

It seems like 90% or more are calling the blogger a tool over this. Though there might be some conservative carpet beggars in attendance following in a link.

Not so oddly many try to make this about trump as in--strop trying tout trump trump.

Posted by: Keith at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (USf3s)

420 "but if you are asking me to predict who the Republican nominee will be, I
think either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio will run. And I think either of
them has a better chance than anyone else."

Boy, just charging up against the conventional wisdom there, aren't we, Ike?
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 24, 2017 04:02 PM (nd1zx)


Can't fault someone for thinking the same thing I was thinking. That was conventional wisdom because it made sense. I still can't believe DJT was the Republican candidate, let alone that he won.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Xuv2G)

421 400 But seriously, I love you guys. The paint is to just scare off the people who think Return of the Jedi ISN'T the greatest movie of all time

-----------

You shut your whore mouth!
Posted by: Lone a wolf McQuade at February 24, 2017 04:20 PM (kTF2Z)


That's tell'in 'em! Speaking truth to power!

Posted by: goon at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (EaQ6/)

422 I hope they chose him and Alan Dershowitz's prediction of the Democratic Party following Corbin's Labour party into obscurity is true.

Fingers crossed!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


you want: a democrat rump party
you'll settle: a slightly less demanding democrat party
you'll get: a GOP picking up their agenda

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (4YGWz)

423 420 Can't fault someone for thinking the same thing I was thinking. That was conventional wisdom because it made sense. I still can't believe DJT was the Republican candidate, let alone that he won.
Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Xuv2G)

===================

Hands up: Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (EvBgT)

424 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)

I like to get mine out of the way in the morning; frees up the rest of the day.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (8nWyX)

Strengthens the wrists, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (NdM46)

425 "I have long believed that people tell you exactly who they are, right up front, if you bother to listen."

This is true of my ex-wife. No, I didn't bother to listen.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (97XyN)

426 People lie to themselves to rationalize evil actions. But they also lie to themselves to rationalize venial sins, such as lying about their age. And then to feel better about themselves, they post blog posts denouncing rationalization.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (W8bn5)

427 8: Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (dylA9)

428 >>Rush talked about this a couple of days ago. He said that the dems don't really care about winning anymore. They expect obscurity as a political party. What they've always wanted and got during the Fredo years was a large and deeply entrenched DC and judiciary substructure. It will from these that the leftists will exert their power.

I didn't hear Bannon speak at CPAC but I did hear a couple clips. He said one thing I really liked, well I liked all that I heard but I really liked this one.

He claimed that one of the 3 major pillars they are focused on is completely is deconstructing the administrative state. It moved a little when it heard that.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (/tuJf)

429 Alright. I'm out for the day.

Have a great weekend you beautiful people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (EvBgT)

430 392 For the TWD fans
Lori Grimes, Andrea, Carol, Michonne, Maggie, Sasha, Rosita?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (jxbfJ)

I've been watching "Supernatural" on the netflix & Lauren Cohan is a recurring guest - sweet crap in the Congo, she is gorgeous.

Posted by: josephistan at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (7HtZB)

431 418
Ghosts watch you fap.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (qU2ch)

Those pervy bastards!

Posted by: Chris Cuomo, Pedosmile Purveyor at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (GX63o)

432
large and deeply entrenched DC and judiciary substructure. It will from these that the leftists will exert their power.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (Fmupd)


Letter of Protest at State signed by 100s?, Tillerson should fire them all.
Trump should be setting traps.

Posted by: gNewt at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (khWYc)

433 I had one inexplicable experience 3 days ago. It was nothing sexual.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Ivjge)

Ick. Hope you're ok. I've only bumped into the edges of the supernatural and I quickly moved away.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (NdM46)

434 Just looked up The Entity haven't seen it in a long time. Remember it to be pretty scary and seems to be on YouTube

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (HDU3V)

435 Wait, so Joe Scarborough died?

Posted by: Crusader at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (ewSN2)

436 Jennifer Marlowe or Bailey Quarters?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (FZYNt)

437 Ghosts watch you fap.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER!


Bruce, you never fap. Know what that tells me about you?

Posted by: Haley Joel Osment at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (W8bn5)

438

Oh Ace. There are good people out there. I wish I could majik up somebody for you

Posted by: ThunderB at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (t2UJr)

439 Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.

Not buying this.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (QQ+il)

440 I love myself.
I think I'm grand.
I go to the movies
Just to hold my hand.
I put my arm
Around my waist
And when I get fresh
I slap my face.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (LQLeS)

441 435 Wait, so Joe Scarborough died?
Posted by: Crusader

only his soul

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (FZYNt)

442 I've been trying to buy a new truck.....don't remind me about human nature, dealerships are generally hives of villainy.

I have officially given up and will just keep the old Dodge running.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (XMhQP)

443 Barbara Hershey was pretty damn hot.

True, but...what's Jo Ann Harris up to these days?

Many things...readily adaptable to the passing of years...come to mind.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (TppKb)

444 Isn't reading Slate one of those decadent animal-brain stimulating faux problem exercises? Just don't.

Posted by: goodluckduck at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (yqvys)

445 439
Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.



Not buying this.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (QQ+il)


not talking about tits

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (dylA9)

446 >>>Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.

Not buying this.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (QQ+il)


I'm with Grump.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (zc3Db)

447 Hands up: Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?

Not me. Not by a long shot.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (FVvBL)

448 Hands up: Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I figured it out on my TI calculator.

Posted by: Isaac Asimov at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (W8bn5)

449 "People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them. "

Jesus, Ace, you need to get out more. I propose the theory that your attitude is the result of spending to much time on the Internets.

Posted by: West at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (1Rgee)

450 Posted by: Billy Joel

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

Posted by: T.S. Eliot at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (gIRsn)

451 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf


That was before PornHub was in HD, right?

Posted by: Basement Dweller at February 24, 2017 04:29 PM (ZFUt7)

452 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)


Even more than that, I would say.

Posted by: 4450 federal offenses and counting at February 24, 2017 04:29 PM (Xuv2G)

453 Posted by: West at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (1Rgee)

I agree.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:29 PM (fDdVG)

454 https://tinyurl.com/jrcjeaz

_______________________________


White House blocks news organizations from press briefing

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

HAHAHAHA THE WINNING IT BURNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 24, 2017 04:29 PM (y3aQB)

455 I had one inexplicable experience 3 days ago. It was nothing sexual.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Ivjge)


One morning a few years ago, I distinctly felt my cats jump up on the bed while I was barely awake, first one, then the other. When I finally woke up, I realized that the bedroom door was shut and both kitties were sacked out on the couch downstairs. I was a little unnerved about it until I heard on the news that one of those New Madrid earthquakes that are just barely noticeable had happened at 5am that morning.

Basically what I'm saying is that my cats are ghosts that can cause earthquakes.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (8nWyX)

456 "Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?"

Certainly not me. Early adopters that come readily to mind are Jeff Sessions and Ann Coulter.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (97XyN)

457 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf

The internet shot that stat totally to hell

Thanks Algore

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (FZYNt)

458 Am i remorseful he passed?

- Sure.

Do I care? Or rather does it affect me in anyway shape or form?

- Not really.

Posted by: Fox at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (DVC2D)

459 442
I've been trying to buy a new truck.....don't remind me about human nature, dealerships are generally hives of villainy.



I have officially given up and will just keep the old Dodge running.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (XMhQP)

There are some sweet deals out there. Agree - the trick is to find a dealership that isn't about treating you like a cheap Saturday night date. I have a 14 Silverado 1500 CC 4WD and absolutely love it. Bought it new. Was looking at the F150 and was ready to pull the trigger but the dealership pulled a bait/switch move on me so I walked out shaking their dust from my shoes. Went straight to the Chevy dealership.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (jxbfJ)

460 It's a solid con. And damn does it work.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:14 PM (NdM46)


A friend of mine cultivated a "bad boy" persona. Got him more ass than Captain Kirk. Women are funny that way.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (U+9Zc)

461 Not 7 times a day at my age.But usually twice and sometimes three times....

Posted by: steevy at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (r/0kC)

462 427 8: Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (dylA9)


The problem is it doesn't look like it did when I was first attracted.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (Xuv2G)

463 Hands up: Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (EvBgT)


I thought, back in 2012, that Trump could have won if he had stayed the course. He was the only one with the balls to address issues about Barky that everyone else was trying so studiously to ignore and pretend away.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (zc3Db)

464 Barbara Hershey is still with us at 69 years old

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (HDU3V)

465

You tend to find what you are looking for

Posted by: ThunderB at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (t2UJr)

466 I think this cat-earthquake connection is deserving of further investigation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (OeQ/D)

467 "To say that Alan Colmes helped bring about the massive GOP victories culminating in last November lacks is risible. "

That doesn't even make friggin' sense. I am sure that nobody voted one way or the other in November because of anything Colmes did or said.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (ZM2xo)

468 456 "Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?"

Certainly not me. Early adopters that come readily to mind are Jeff Sessions and Ann Coulter.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed

So Bill Maher DNA allows you to see into the future?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (FZYNt)

469 I always suspected that Ace was a fellow misanthrope. And that's what I love about him.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (LQLeS)

470 377 I'm glad I missed it-"The entity" How can a ghost-which if you believe in them-has a non corporeal existence-rape somebody? Some weirdos(s) just wanted to see Barbara Hershey get raped but no "Rape" raped..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (fDdVG)

++++

There are some that want to see Dennis Hopper giver Barbara Hershey a Coca-Cola enema. And so, Paris Trout was made.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (R+30W)

471 Ex-Friends, Norman Podhoretz
I got nowhere with her and she got nowhere with me, and though the both remained polite throughout the evening and parted with the usual hugs and kisses, I knew as I walked through the door that it was just about all over between us and that I might well never hear from her again.
About this I was both right and wrong. It was all over between us, but i did see her again a few years later coming toward me on the street. Before i could decide what to do, she settled the issue by saying, "Hello, Normie" (no one except the people I had grown up with in Brooklyn ever called me that, but Lillian always had), and then, with a slight shrug and a wistful hafl-smile, speeding up her pace when I started slowing down. After another ten years or so, shortly before she dies, i saw her yet again, and for the very last time, being carried in the arms of a young man into her building on park Avenue from a car. The pity of it hit me hard, and I had a powerful impulse to run over and plant a kiss on her forehead. Thy this point, however, we had become not just estranged friend who retained a lingering fondness for each other but passionate and bitter enemies, and I had long since forfeited the right to make any such tender or affectionate gesture. Besides, i was pretty sure that if i were foolish enough to try, she would have summoned enough strength, even in the moribund contition she was clearly in, to tell me to go fuck myself.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (VdICR)

472 445
439

Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.





Not buying this.



Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (QQ+il)


not talking about tits


Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:28 PM (dylA9)

See, 30 years later they are no longer staring at you, but the floor.For physical traits - the eyes first.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (jxbfJ)

473 I have officially given up and will just keep the old Dodge running.



Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 24, 2017 04:27 PM (XMhQP)

The problem with a Ram isn't keeping it running. It's keeping it from dissolving in the rain.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (dylA9)

474 464 Barbara Hershey is still with us at 69 years old
Posted by: Skip

69?

yes please

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (FZYNt)

475 Ick. Hope you're ok. I've only bumped into the edges of the supernatural and I quickly moved away.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (NdM46)

+++
I'm fine. This is what happened: Tues. morning I drove my son and DIL to the airport for their trip to Hawaii. I am staying at their house and watching their two dogs. Before we left, we put the dogs in their kennels. I returned, fed them, let them sleep on their bed in the living room. I then took a shower. Afterwards, I walked into the living room and saw the two dogs fast asleep. Right next to their bed on the floor was an unopened Reeces Pieces Easter Egg. It was not there before and I have no idea where it came from. The dogs, especially the lab, are ferocious about trying to grab food out of the trash, anywhere. And they certainly would not have left a chocolate candy right next to them unmolested. No teeth marks, nothing. No one in the house has bought this type of candy.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (Ivjge)

476 456 "Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?"

Certainly not me. Early adopters that come readily to mind are Jeff Sessions and Ann Coulter.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (97XyN)


I still can't figure out if Coulter was doing it for attention or if she's the luckiest horse picker in the world.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (Xuv2G)

477 I have officially given up and will just keep the old Dodge running.

The GMT800 family ('00-06ish?) GM trucks are my favorite, maybe just a devil-you-know kind of thing but the powertrains are simple, lots of room to work on them, the electronics are not great but can be sussed.

Might go look at a newer Suburban soon, the chassis on the GMT900 is arguably better but I don't know them as well.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (TppKb)

478 408 Cognitive dissonance is the most enjoyable aspect of this blog.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM (dylA9)

An example would be appreciated. And hypocrisy doesn't make the cut.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:33 PM (ODaO0)

479 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:17 PM (zc3Db)
====

Walken literally just read the phone book and I would be entertained.

"Aardman, Jon"
"Aalopolis, Geno"
"Aachmal, Terence......Why?"
"Aakuritan, Jim....knew a Jim once. great guy. A hoofer"
"Aagssmiythe, Ethel"

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:33 PM (qU2ch)

480 Basically what I'm saying is that my cats are ghosts that can cause earthquakes.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM

I am interested in your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:33 PM (J5mC3)

481 The problem with a Ram isn't keeping it running. It's keeping it from dissolving in the rain.
Posted by: DFCtomm

Rams are easy to keep running, provided your route has lots of gas stations spaced regularly.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at February 24, 2017 04:34 PM (QDr6b)

482 467 "To say that Alan Colmes helped bring about the massive GOP victories culminating in last November lacks is risible. "

That doesn't even make friggin' sense. I am sure that nobody voted one way or the other in November because of anything Colmes did or said.

----------

You never heard of chaos theory? It says that Alan Colmes' lips flapping in the Amazon jungle have the potential to cause a massive electoral realignment in the U.S.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:34 PM (OeQ/D)

483 Only my opinion but sale deals at end of month could work for you, Memorial day weekend the year I bought my truck but didn't then could have had a fully loaded one for less than I paid in October.

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:34 PM (HDU3V)

484 I remember my first date with my wife. Went to dinner and found her so obnoxious I couldn't wait for the dinner to end--I was done. Later we got to talking about something serious, and I fell in love.

There has been some rough water--especially early on--but going a decade now, there's been disappointments--there will always be disappointments--but nothing that approaches thinking that she "showed me who she was" on the first date. She's the love of my life.

I can see that if I ever broke with her, I would be tempted to bring that first date up in my mind--but the indications are anything but inconclusive at this point.

Sure you could center on the flaw the person couldn't help hide when you they should have been on their best behavior, and sure that's probably part of them--but "who they are"? That's kind of over-stated.

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (2mC6G)

485 >>Jesus, Ace, you need to get out more. I propose the theory that your attitude is the result of spending to much time on the Internets.

I also think it's largely influenced by where you live. I've lived in big cities, traveled to many more and also lived in the burbs and beyond. I don't think I'm breaking a lot of new ground by saying people seem genuinely nicer in their daily encounters the further you get from big cities.

People weren't meant to live on top of each other the way they do in big cities.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (/tuJf)

486 The Dead Zone is not your normal Walken movie but one of his best. Best Stephen King movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (ODaO0)

487 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)

I like to get mine out of the way in the morning; frees up the rest of the day.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (8nWyX)

Strengthens the wrists, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


Thinking of sins as only consisting of sexual perversion is an evasion. Another rationalization.

The worst sins are spiritual. Covetousness, envy, sloth, pride. They infect the intentions of everything that you do to some degree. Therefore every action that you do is sin. No matter how righteous it is in your eyes and the eyes of the world, it cannot absolve you of anything.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (W8bn5)

488 464 Barbara Hershey is still with us at 69 years old
Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:30 PM (HDU3V)


Nee Segal. Nice Jewish girl. Always had a thing for her.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (mbhDw)

489 423 420 Can't fault someone for thinking the same thing I was thinking. That was conventional wisdom because it made sense. I still can't believe DJT was the Republican candidate, let alone that he won.
Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (Xuv2G)

===================

Hands up: Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:24 PM (EvBgT)


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


I didn't specifically predict DT, but I'd said numerous times that what the US needs as a prez is an asshole that loves this country.

Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (Fmupd)

490 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.

And then there was that cute Colombian chick on Chaturbate, so now we're up to 12.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (TppKb)

491 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?


*****

We've experienced the sum of our fears
Now we forthrightly wipe off our tears
Senator McCain has passed away
And his wife had this to say:
"The old coot ain't been this stiff in years!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (wPiJc)

492 So how did Slate talk about Castro's death? For a baseline.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (VdICR)

493 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (jxbfJ)

Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)

494 Ghosts watch you fap.

It's the ones that "Over Pet" that disturb me.

Posted by: Ceiling Cat at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (8J/Te)

495 I hope the person who wrote that at Slate lives a very long life.

And is as miserable as they are today until the end.

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (uPgEZ)

496 Cognitive dissonance is the most enjoyable aspect of this blog.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM


What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: The Elbows at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (DMUuz)

497 436 Jennifer Marlowe or Bailey Quarters?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:26 PM (FZYNt)


Bailey. No doubt. YMMV.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (mbhDw)

498 I was hoping to buy a Chevy during their sale month, and even had a signed deal, but they didn't actually own the truck they sold me and could not get it.

Meanwhile the clock and the inventory ran down and in the end I just wasted a lot of time.

It really should be a happy time.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (XMhQP)

499 And then there was that cute Colombian chick on Chaturbate, so now we're up to 12.

Posted by: JEM

an hour?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (FZYNt)

500 @washrivergal

Sounds like a ghost or pretty minor entity. Ignore it, giving attention lets it feed off you.

Just fill the house with music and positive thoughts. Dogs help with that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:37 PM (NdM46)

501 Best Stephen King movie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth


That's not saying a lot. Tommyknockers, Pet Semetary - all total crap.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:37 PM (W8bn5)

502
I still can't figure out if Coulter was doing it for attention or if she's the luckiest horse picker in the world.
--

I'd say a bit of both.

I was on the Trump train from the beginning due to all the repeal Obamacare lies I was told. I would not vote for a Democrat, or a republican politician. My only choices were Trump and Carson, and Carson was too nice.

Perhaps Coulter knew a lot of people early on who felt like I did, and went out and made a bold declaration. My thought is that it wasn't just a wild ass guess for attention, since I've seen her humiliated on TV due to that prediction.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:37 PM (J5mC3)

503 And then there was that cute Colombian chick on Chaturbate, so now we're up to 12.

Posted by: JEM

an if she is Colombian she likely does/did have a dick

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:37 PM (FZYNt)

504 You never heard of chaos theory? It says that Alan Colmes' lips flapping in the Amazon jungle have the potential to cause a massive electoral realignment in the U.S.

We discovered the alter-ego of The Monarch from the Venture Brothers.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (VdICR)

505 Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)


Significantly taller. Much broader shoulders.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (FVvBL)

506 427 8: Whatever first attracts you to a person is what you eventually come to hate about them.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:25 PM (dylA9)

++++

The philosophers known as Nickelback spoke to this.

https://youtu.be/FIjRo-gMlKE

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (R+30W)

507 Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (Ivjge)

Oh! That reminds me, I had something like that too. Bought a house from 1938, spent a weekend cleaning up and waxing the hardwood floors before moving in the furniture. The first night I'm about to go to bed, there's a small old-fashioned key right in the middle of the master bedroom floor. There are a few interior doors that have the old locks, but there's no way I could have missed it after cleaning and waxing the floor in that room. I actually said out loud "aw, this better not be some ghost bullshit". Nothing like that has happened since though.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (8nWyX)

508 Best Stephen King movie.

Maximum Overdrive?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (oVJmc)

509 I remember my first date with my wife.

I'm not quite sure where we went, but I think she was wearing this top with buttons down one side, and there was this short unlit street in Golden Gate Park that's now been closed to car traffic...

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (TppKb)

510 Both simultaneously is always the correct answer.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 04:11 PM (mf5HN)


Have you seen the show. It's basically an excuse for hotassery.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (Tnhbr)

511 Jesus knew something about human nature and said that even a righteous man sins seven times a day.
Posted by: Decaf at February 24, 2017 04:19 PM (+JsGm)

I like to get mine out of the way in the morning; frees up the rest of the day.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:23 PM (8nWyX)

Strengthens the wrists, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Thinking of sins as only consisting of sexual perversion is an evasion. Another rationalization.

The worst sins are spiritual. Covetousness, envy, sloth, pride. They infect the intentions of everything that you do to some degree. Therefore every action that you do is sin. No matter how righteous it is in your eyes and the eyes of the world, it cannot absolve you of anything.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (W8bn5)

True, but the worst sins are less fun to joke about.

Now, two Calvinists walk into a bar...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (NdM46)

512 Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (2mC6G)

It seems to me, that primary traits are often too strong. They overpower, but they're also the first noticed. Thus you eventually come to hate them, maybe not enough to leave a spouse, but they are those little things that drive you mad, for seemingly, no reason, and to be honest there is no reason other than years of exposure have rubbed your nerves raw.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (dylA9)

513 Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)
===
Well I am no longer swimming in amniotic fluid.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (qU2ch)

514 Best Stephen King movie.


Hello! The Shining! Carrie!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (QQ+il)

515 Here lies John McCain.


That double meaning about sums it up.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (ODaO0)

516 Usually rude stuff published about the deceased waits, I dunno, a month, a year, maybe even a week.

Posted by: navybrat at February 24, 2017 04:40 PM (w7KSn)

517 Note to self: when dealing with supernatural entities, use the phrase aw, this better not be some ghost bullshit" to remove said entities.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:40 PM (J5mC3)

518 an if she is Colombian she likely does/did have a dick

There are those, but not ALL are those.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:40 PM (TppKb)

519 496 Cognitive dissonance is the most enjoyable aspect of this blog.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:22 PM

What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: The Elbows at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (DMUuz)


No, but you are unattractively pointed.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:40 PM (Xuv2G)

520 513 Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)
===
Well I am no longer swimming in amniotic fluid.
Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (qU2ch)

-------

I think we have a threadwinner

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:40 PM (OeQ/D)

521 Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (QQ+il)

#2 and #3

Sorry it's been listed as a fact in the book of facts.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (ODaO0)

522 >>>Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?
>>>Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)
===
Well I am no longer swimming in amniotic fluid.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (qU2ch)



LOL.

That's an instant classic.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (zc3Db)

523 Best Stephen King movie.




Hello! The Shining! Carrie!
---

The Shining is a Stanley Kubrick movie.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (J5mC3)

524 466
I think this cat-earthquake connection is deserving of further investigation.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:31 PM (OeQ/D)

OK, who let us out of the bag?

Posted by: Cats at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (GX63o)

525 No one in the house has bought this type of candy.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM


Sometimes you feel like a nut.
Sometimes you don't.

Posted by: WAY and The Almond Joys at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (DMUuz)

526 I was on the Trump train from the beginning due to all the repeal Obamacare lies I was told. I would not vote for a Democrat, or a republican politician. My only choices were Trump and Carson, and Carson was too nice.





Same here. Same reasons. We needed a knife fighter, not a gentleman.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (WFe5M)

527 Thinking of sins as only consisting of sexual perversion is an evasion. Another rationalization.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (W8bn5)


I said nothing about sex. President Barack Obama said that sin is being out of alignment with his values, so I do what I can to be out of alignment with his values whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:41 PM (8nWyX)

528 514 Best Stephen King movie.


Hello! The Shining! Carrie!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (QQ+il)

++++

Yep. Also, Creepshow, Shawshank Redemption.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (R+30W)

529 I think the first folks I saw praising/predicting President Trump was over at Return of Kings. They were all into his Alpha Male vibe. Then the site got pretty racist and vile.

Bill Whittle had some brilliant insights years and years ago. He said that the next president would come from the popular culture.

He was 100% right. Probably the next one will, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (NdM46)

530 The Shining is a Stanley Kubrick movie.


If that's the criteria, there are no Stephen King movies.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (QQ+il)

531 "People are inherently cruel. They enjoy inflicting cruelty on others. It makes them feel good to be cruel to others." This is what so many people fail to grasp about rational human beings. The SS who worked in the death camps of the Third Reich were not insane, if they were, they could never have organized the holocaust. No, for the most part, they were sane individuals who loved the wives and children; and that is what was really scary about them.

Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (gbWkA)

532 There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

Posted by: T.S. Eliot


I wish he had written more. And I only like a few of his poems. Prufrock, Rhapsody on a Windy Night, Sweeney Agonistes.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (W8bn5)

533

Goodness. Ace needs a good woman


Look outside NY. You can do this job anywhere. Somebody nice

Posted by: ThunderB at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (t2UJr)

534 493
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:32 PM (jxbfJ)



Do you look the way you did thirty years ago?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2017 04:36 PM (fDdVG)

Nope. and it doesn't watch me shave but points to the floor so we are even.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (jxbfJ)

535 I've never seen a Stephen King movie that didn't make me feel like an asshole for having watched it, at the end ... for those I made it to the end for.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (zc3Db)

536

If that's the criteria, there are no Stephen King movies.


Maximum Overdrive.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (oVJmc)

537 How would the Horde write the obituary for John McCain?
..............

We have nothing to fear with John in a pine box.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (HgMAr)

538 Goodness. Ace needs a good woman

Wrong type ...

Posted by: Pink Floyd at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (FVvBL)

539 Bailey.

Ginger.

Rhoda (there I said it--Mary Tyler Moore wasn't really hot)

Joanna Louden (rather than Emily Hartley)

Posted by: Crusader at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (ewSN2)

540 No, for the most part, they were sane individuals who loved the wives and children; and that is what was really scary about them.

Agreed. Human nature is not necessarily virtuous.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (TppKb)

541
The Shining is a Stanley Kubrick movie.




If that's the criteria, there are no Stephen King movies.
---

The reason I called that one out is because Kubrick made significant changes from the book. I'm not sure if all the other King movies did so, but, IMHO, Kubrick made it into something different in theme and context from what King had in his book.

Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (J5mC3)

542 I've never seen a Stephen King movie that didn't make me feel like an asshole for having watched it, at the end ... for those I made it to the end for.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (zc3Db)



Shawshank Redemption.

*micdrop*

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (mf5HN)

543 Maximum Overdrive.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles


with a kick ass soundtrack

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (FZYNt)

544 Btw, I think that Doctor Sleep was surprisingly good, though very hard to adapt as a screenplay.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (QQ+il)

545 Whatever you want to say about Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies ever made.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (OeQ/D)

546 I've never seen a Stephen King movie that didn't make me feel like an asshole for having watched it, at the end ... for those I made it to the end for.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (zc3Db)

Even Stand By Me, Carrie and Christine?

His stuff doesn't translate to screen well (and the guy can't write a good ending to save his life) but there have been some good ones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (NdM46)

547 515 Here lies John McCain.


That double meaning about sums it up.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 24, 2017 04:39 PM (ODaO0)


Underneath, add:

"There Lied John McCain" ---->

*arrow pointing to DC*

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (mbhDw)

548

I thought my husband was pushy when I first me him. So glad he was

Posted by: ThunderB at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (t2UJr)

549 299 293 If you wear a mask long enough, it bonds to you. That isn't always a negative. If you pretend to be confident or brave or charming...it gets easier.

If you can't make it, fake it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:06 PM (NdM46)

===================

Case study:

Teddy Roosevelt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 24, 2017 04:07 PM (EvBgT)

Many in AA swear by the axiom "Fake it 'till you make it", and it works for many.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (tapYd)

550 >>Best Stephen King movie.


>>Hello! The Shining! Carrie!

I'd go with that order but if it had been done well It should have been great. Creeped me right the hell out when I read it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (/tuJf)

551 Shawshank Redemption.

*micdrop*

Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (mf5HN)


I didn't like it. It annoyed the heck out of me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (zc3Db)

552 Nood, Tucker

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2017 04:46 PM (HDU3V)

553 Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:38 PM (8nW++++

My son bought this house about 8 years ago. He said when he first moved in (by himself) there were a few events that led him to believe a ghost was present. But since then, nothing. A few weeks back I was here by myself and walked into the kitchen. The salt shaker that normally sits in the middle of the table, along with the pepper, was sitting at the very edge of the table.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:46 PM (Ivjge)

554 I had a weird brush with the supernatural when we lived in OK. Weird sounds in the house. Things make vine when they shouldn't be. Then one day I was outside and it hit me. I could see clearly in my mind the trail of tears. So we figured the house was built on top of a burial ground. We were a bit scared of the Indian until he somehow revealed that he was protecting us from an evil presence. We moved shortly thereafter. Never experienced anything like that before or since.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2017 04:46 PM (kTF2Z)

555 Goodness. Ace needs a good woman

Look outside NY. You can do this job anywhere. Somebody nice
Posted by: ThunderB at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM


^^^^^
THIS

Ace, here's the secret to life which we only share with a select few:

Clean livin' and Texas women.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2017 04:46 PM (DMUuz)

556 Even Stand By Me, Carrie and Christine?

His stuff doesn't translate to screen well (and the guy can't write a good ending to save his life) but there have been some good ones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (NdM46)


Aha! You got me. Stand By Me was good.

I hated Carrie and Christine. Christine, especially. Someone should burn that film.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (zc3Db)

557 The worst sins are spiritual. Covetousness, envy, sloth, pride. They infect the intentions of everything that you do to some degree. Therefore every action that you do is sin. No matter how righteous it is in your eyes and the eyes of the world, it cannot absolve you of anything.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 24, 2017 04:35 PM (W8bn5)



George Spiggott: What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (493sH)

558 535 I've never seen a Stephen King movie that didn't make me feel like an asshole for having watched it, at the end ... for those I made it to the end for.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:43 PM (zc3Db)


The most overrated writer in pop culture. When I was a kid my brother bought a couple of his books, and I read 'em. The Stand was the only one that was the slightest bit interesting, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "good".

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (Xuv2G)

559 Rhoda (there I said it--Mary Tyler Moore wasn't really hot)

Posted by: Crusader at February 24, 2017 04:44 PM (ewSN2)

++++

I wouldn't call Mary not-hot, but Rhoda seemed like more fun. Phyllis was smoking hot.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (R+30W)

560 I never enjoyed listening to Colmes. But, that doesn't mean that I thought he was a horrible person. I hope he rests in peace and his family and friends have my deepest sympathies.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (kXoT0)

561 537; here lies john mccain.

who gives a fuck?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (KP5rU)

562 The SS who worked in the death camps of the Third
Reich were not insane, if they were, they could never have organized the
holocaust. No, for the most part, they were sane individuals who loved
the wives and children; and that is what was really scary about them.


Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (gbWkA)

Naw, that shit is easy to figure out. Everybody seems to get that wrong. They thought they were doing God's work. People imagine that every villain is in love with evil, and the truth is that almost none are. They've simply convinced themselves that they're doing God's work and if you're doing God's work then any means can be justified by the ends.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:48 PM (dylA9)

563 Even Stand By Me, Carrie and Christine?

His stuff doesn't translate to screen well (and the guy can't write a good ending to save his life) but there have been some good ones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (NdM46)

Aha! You got me. Stand By Me was good.

I hated Carrie and Christine. Christine, especially. Someone should burn that film.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (zc3Db)

Well fair enough. Folks like different things. Me and my buddies can only agree on like a dozen films that we ALL like.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 24, 2017 04:48 PM (NdM46)

564 Whatever you want to say about Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies ever made.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 24, 2017 04:45 PM (OeQ/D)


The best ones are the ones where you find out later who wrote it and think "that was Stephen King? huh."

See also: Stand By Me.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:48 PM (8nWyX)

565 554 I had a weird brush with the supernatural when we lived in OK.

I think there's a whole lot of shit about where we come from and where we go that we just don't understand.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:49 PM (FVvBL)

566
Here lies John McCain.

...and while he spent many years in the military was never able to ignite the spark behind his ultimate goal, world war three.

Seriously, I was kind of McCain, shit damnit okay, but when he seemed so freakin excited about telling the story, week or so before the election, of sitting on a plane on a carrier in the Cuban missile crisis with a 'payload and a target' he completely lost my vote.

Posted by: Basement Dweller at February 24, 2017 04:49 PM (ZFUt7)

567 I don't believe in ghosts

Posted by: Not the Cowardly Lion; OZ at February 24, 2017 04:49 PM (gbWkA)

568 554 I had a weird brush with the supernatural when we lived in OK. Weird sounds in the house. Things make vine when they shouldn't be. Then one day I was outside and it hit me. I could see clearly in my mind the trail of tears. So we figured the house was built on top of a burial ground. We were a bit scared of the Indian until he somehow revealed that he was protecting us from an evil presence. We moved shortly thereafter. Never experienced anything like that before or since.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2017 04:46 PM (kTF2Z)


A ghost from the times of the great Oklahoma crab herds.

Posted by: Fauchahontas at February 24, 2017 04:50 PM (Fmupd)

569 Posted by: T.S. Eliot

I wish he had written more. And I only like a few of his poems. Prufrock, Rhapsody on a Windy Night, Sweeney Agonistes.



If you're open to trying more of him I'd recommend Gerontion and (duh) Wasteland.

I've come to love Dry Salvages. When I was a landlocked high school person I thought it was just a bunch of nautical allegory and symbolism, but when I grew up to be an ocean person I understood that it was very closely observed.

I like Prufrock so much that I used to post here as Prufrock or Prufrock's Mermaid, but that was maybe ten years ago so I was about 19.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at February 24, 2017 04:50 PM (gIRsn)

570 Shawshank Redemption.
...........

Mexico should have deported their asses.

Posted by: wth at February 24, 2017 04:50 PM (HgMAr)

571 I think there's a whole lot of shit about where we come from and where we go that we just don't understand.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2017 04:49 PM (FVvBL)

+++


Yup.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:51 PM (Ivjge)

572 The most overrated writer in pop culture. When I was a kid my brother bought a couple of his books, and I read 'em. The Stand was the only one that was the slightest bit interesting, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "good".

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:47 PM (Xuv2G)

Oh my God. I was foolish enough to buy the stand with the 200 or so pages put back in, and I was even more foolish than that because I actually read the whole thing. Those pages that were cut out deserved it, and probably 100 more. It was a dark time.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:51 PM (dylA9)

573 Naw, that shit is easy to figure out. Everybody seems to get that wrong. They thought they were doing God's work. People imagine that every villain is in love with evil, and the truth is that almost none are. They've simply convinced themselves that they're doing God's work and if you're doing God's work then any means can be justified by the ends.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:48 PM (dylA9)


They didn't believe in God. They believed they were doing God's work if by that you mean they were advancing the interests of Aryian race. By the time the camps were turned from jails for political opponents to slaughterhouses, Hitler had suborned the Churches.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:52 PM (Xuv2G)

574 McCain was and is still an ass. He almost sank his ship and killed a lot of his fellow sailors. He was a crappy pilot.

Posted by: Thinks he's Acrher at February 24, 2017 04:53 PM (gbWkA)

575 Seriously, I was kind of McCain, shit damnit okay, but when he seemed so freakin excited about telling the story, week or so before the election, of sitting on a plane on a carrier in the Cuban missile crisis with a 'payload and a target' he completely lost my vote.
Posted by: Basement Dweller at February 24, 2017 04:49 PM (ZFUt7)


As little as I think of Obama I have to believe we dodged a bullet by failing to get McCain elected. He never ran across a country he didn't want to bomb. You'd think a guy who'd been a POW would be a bit more reluctant to take us into war.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:54 PM (Xuv2G)

576 I googled Christopher Walken lion, and I knew I would like whatever came up.

https://youtu.be/cfHAiIq-Yeo

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 24, 2017 04:54 PM (VdICR)

577 They didn't believe in God. They believed they were
doing God's work if by that you mean they were advancing the interests
of Aryian race. By the time the camps were turned from jails for
political opponents to slaughterhouses, Hitler had suborned the
Churches.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:52 PM (Xuv2G)

Everybody has their own God(s) even if they claim to be atheist.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 24, 2017 04:55 PM (dylA9)

578 I believe in God, Angles and the pure evil of Satan and demons. I don't believe in ghosts, I think that people are really perceiving demons.

Posted by: Thinks he's Acrher at February 24, 2017 04:57 PM (gbWkA)

579 McCain was and is still an ass. He almost sank his ship and killed a lot of his fellow sailors.


Do you never tire of playing the gullible rube?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 04:58 PM (QQ+il)

580 McCain was and is still an ass. He almost sank his ship and killed a lot of his fellow sailors. He was a crappy pilot.
Posted by: Thinks he's Acrher at February 24, 2017 04:53 PM (gbWkA)


The fire wasn't his fault, it was expedients, cutting corners, and ignoring failsafes to increase the number of sorties that actually touched it off. After that, a ton of other little error-chain factors made it the disaster it was.

He might have been a lousy pilot though, I haven't heard much to the contrary.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:59 PM (8nWyX)

581 no, not really

Posted by: Thinks he's Acrher at February 24, 2017 04:59 PM (gbWkA)

582 Yea, it really wasn't the wet start.

Posted by: Thinks he's Acrher at February 24, 2017 05:00 PM (gbWkA)

583 The fire wasn't his fault

I would expect not, since his plane was the victim rather than the instigator. I mean guys, there's video and an investigation and everything on the Forestall Fire. It's not like it's not known what happened.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 24, 2017 05:01 PM (QQ+il)

584 The ends/means justification is the most powerful force in the universe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at February 24, 2017 05:03 PM (Nwg0u)

585 They didn't believe in God. They believed they were doing God's work if by that you mean they were advancing the interests of Aryian race. By the time the camps were turned from jails for political opponents to slaughterhouses, Hitler had suborned the Churches.

Posted by: Ace's liver at February 24, 2017 04:52 PM (Xuv2G)
---
Yeah, I was going to post about that. Nazi theory came out of Volkism. You are your heredity. Only survival proves mettle. Your strain of genetics of is who you are, and proven by the survival of your "race".

They believed that ethnic Jews living among ethnic Germans was "unnatural" and since the Jews controlled a good bit of the wealth (in the stunning hyper-inflation of the Wiemar) and the newspapers, that ethnic others were living like parasites on the German people--it all makes a sort of sense, if you follow down the genetic nihilist line of reasoning.

The Jews place was akin to parasites on a host --why else would a genetic race be strewn about other genetic populations?

But it's all nihilistic. Hitler believed that Germans could suspend "aesthetic" considerations for "survival" imperatives--since Aryans made up "aesthetics" in the first place. He even said that because nature didn't know human aesthetics (laws, ethics, etc.) that only man could keep them, and so if "aesthetics" were that important than the survival of its keepers was vital.

You also have to understand that quasi-pagan Germans were convinced that there would be some Malthusian catastrophe that threatened propagation of all races. (Similar to the Green Party which grew out of the post-war Nazis, btw).

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 05:04 PM (2mC6G)

586 #10 If Colmes was the brains behind Hannity and Colmes, then it was the dumbest show on cable.Colmes was the token meat-headed doofus liberal that spat out ridulously insane "facts" for the gullible to ponder.I hated his smirky attitude and I am glad he is gone.Torment Satan Alan.

Posted by: Mike at February 24, 2017 05:07 PM (vGFvO)

587 The best ones are the ones where you find out later who wrote it and think "that was Stephen King? huh."

See also: Stand By Me.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 24, 2017 04:48 PM (8nWyX)

The Green Mile

Shawshank Redemption (better than The Green Mile)

The Running Man (although that was *heavily* changed)

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at February 24, 2017 05:10 PM (tapYd)

588 456 "Who predicted Donald Trump as POTUS in 2014?"

One of my online chess playing buds did. And it wasn't a stunt, he bet some progtard a bottle of scotch that Trump would win.

And he collected.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at February 24, 2017 05:16 PM (U+9Zc)

589 #44 Help is available but not psychiatric in your case.That rant was amazing. I suggest drugs to alter your sense of reality.Who in their right mind would hire you?Shit!

Posted by: Mike at February 24, 2017 05:18 PM (vGFvO)

590 562 The SS who worked in the death camps of the Third
Reich were not insane, if they were, they could never have organized the
holocaust. No, for the most part, they were sane individuals who loved
the wives and children; and that is what was really scary about them.
Posted by: Thinks he's Archer at February 24, 2017 04:42 PM (gbWkA)


The SS by its nature attracted Nazi true believers, and the ambitious, as well as sociopaths and others of a similar ilk. But even among these enthusiasts many who worked directly in the nuts and bolts of the Holocaust found it rather ugly work. There was a LOT of drinking and other issues among SS camp guards and extermination crews. Over time this tended to winnow them down to just sociopaths and sadists. So while the death camp guards may have been able to behave like normal people in certain aspects of their lives, it does not follow that a normal person could be turned into a death camp guard.

People often point to Milgrim's experiments but today many believe that he overstated and overgeneralized his results. In the actual 'prison' study most guards were never cruel to the prisoners and in the fake medical study among those who believed the study was a real a majority still refused to administer painful shocks to the 'patients'. So the idea that just the right psychological pressure and appeals from authority can turn anyone into a cruel camp guard is simply wrong.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 24, 2017 05:31 PM (pAlYe)

591 #44 Help is available but not psychiatric in your case.That rant was amazing. I suggest drugs to alter your sense of reality.Who in their right mind would hire you?Shit!

Posted by: Mike at February 24, 2017 05:18 PM (vGFvO)
---
#44's a sock post. A pretty funny one, though.

https://www.google.com/search?nord=1&q=brianna+wu

Posted by: Axeman at February 24, 2017 05:40 PM (2mC6G)

592 7. People in general are monsters and I have very little use for them.

"People are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling" - Dr. Kelso, "Scrubs"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 24, 2017 05:48 PM (FftaI)

593 The money quote: Chotiner went on to call Colmes' career "something less than morally reprehensible" but still "pretty gross."

You know, when your snark and condescension is too much for Ace, you've probably jumped the shark.

And this is how Progressives memorialize one their own. There is no honorable peace to be had with these people. Eventually, it will be war, and not war of the hashtag variety.

Posted by: Zon Toro at February 24, 2017 05:56 PM (82s/V)

594 No one in the house has bought this type of candy.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 24, 2017 04:32

Give someone here your info, or better let someone you know nearby what the situation is. You need someone that will check in on you on a regular basis.

Posted by: Farmer at February 24, 2017 08:19 PM (o/90i)

595 Regarding the comparison between Alan Colmes vs. David and David:

Colmes went before a mostly conservative audience in a vain attempt to convince them to become liberals.

David and David go before radical left audience in a successful attempt to convince them that conservatives are subhuman and should be actively persecuted at best, and exterminated at worst.

Colmes was a modern day Norman Thomas. David and David are modern day Joseph Goebbels's.

Posted by: Ken at February 24, 2017 08:40 PM (gzP8c)

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