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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (7/23/17)
(Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. Les Brown)
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan ThomasNo shit.
Quote II
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quote III
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seem to be in short supply.
Was Mary Magdalene a feminist icon?
“Mary Magdalene’s story is the story of modern women everywhere,” Petula Dvorak complained in a Washington Post editorial this Easter. According to Dvorak, Christianity’s tradition of considering Mary Magdalene a former prostitute who repented and received absolution from Christ—an interpretation that identifies her as the sinful woman of Luke 7:36–50 who washes Christ’s feet with her hair—is nothing more than a “2000-year-old slut-shaming,” the result of a bigoted male hierarchy that sexualizes and demeans women. To malign Mary as a former prostitute, Dvorak says, is to engage in an act of sexualization comparable to that of male Marines who circulate nude photos of their female colleagues.
Comparing The USA to the rest of the world and health insurance. Why doesn't the USA have universal health insurance?
So why does the US, the only industrialized nation without universal health coverage, also have not only the highest health-care spending in the world—both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP—but also one of the highest levels of government spending on health care per person? And how did it come to be this way?
The answer is that the lack of universal coverage and high costs are intimately linked—both economically and historically.
Sweden, is it a failed state or is there time to turn it around?
Currently, a 70-year-old Swedish pensioner is being prosecuted for "hate speech", for writing on Facebook that migrants "set fire to cars, and urinate and defecate on the streets".The truth is "hate speech". Sweden currently has 61 "no-go zones". And an 88 year old granny welcomes immigrants with sex.
The "happy" ending doesn't appear to be pretty for Sweden.
Obviously, Norway has never learned the meaning of It's none of your Goddamned business.
This week the British papers revelled in news about how much the BBC's on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid - and it rarely causes problems.
In the past, your salary was published in a book. A list of everyone's income, assets and the tax they had paid, could be found on a shelf in the public library. These days, the information is online, just a few keystrokes away.
Actor John Heard, RIP.
Buyer beware. And maybe do some homework? Subprime car loans. The next financial crisis?
“At the time I got it, I did some numbers in my head, and I thought I could make it work,” he said. “I thought it was a little high... but right now it’s the only place that’s willing to give me a chance to get a car. So I said, ‘I’ll make it work.’” Woodrum put his $4,000 down that day. But in the end, thanks to the double-digit interest rate, the loan agreement called for him to pay a total price of roughly $45,000, more than double the car’s original price, for a seven-year-old Dodge Ram with 66,000 miles.
July 23, 1955, Slim Whitman was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rose Marie.' The single stayed at the top of the charts for eleven weeks. Whitman held the record for the most consecutive weeks at No.1 (11 weeks), until 1991. via thisdayinmusic.com
July 23, 2011, Amy Winehouse was found dead at her north London home, she was 27. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained. London Ambulance Service said it had been called to the flat at 1554 BST and sent two vehicles but the woman died. The troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs which overshadowed her recent musical career. via thisdayinmusic.com
July 23, 1994, The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter after Frank Zappa who had died the previous December. via thisdayinmusic.com
Deplore the cry of "Fake News" while being the high priestess of it. It is impossible to shame Katie Couric.
Katie Couric, who still faces a $12 million defamation lawsuit stemming from a deceptive edit in a film she produced, decried the effect of fake news on America during an interview on Thursday. Couric told the New York Daily News she believes fake news is "tearing [America] apart at the seams" while discussing her latest effort cohosting a music and politics event in New York City. "I remember I got sent a lot of stories from friends who were quite educated and were like, ‘Did you see this?'" Couric said. "And I would say, ‘Come on, you're kidding, right? This is BS.'"
They won't be criminally charged for their apathy. Will they face civil consequences for their cruelty? Will Karma give them a rude awakening?
A group of Florida teens who laughed as they recorded on video a disabled man drowning had no obligation to rescue him, it has emerged. Jamel Dunn, 31, died on 9 June in a pond. Police in the city of Cocoa discovered later that five teenagers, ages 14 to 16, had made a video of the drowning, which was published on Friday by Florida Today. The teenagers can be heard laughing at Dunn, telling him he’s going die and that they weren’t going to help him as he struggled and screamed.
The sheriff is attempting to help Karma.
The alleged culprits range from ages 14 to 18 years old. Florida law does not require intervention to save a citizen in mortal danger. But the teens have made an enemy of Police Chief Cantaloupe, who is spearheading an effort to make sure they receive justice for their behavior. He's charging them with violating Florida Statute 406.12: Failure to report a death.
Kid Rock looking like he's running against Debbie Stabenow.
Looking to take an early jab at Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the potential candidate took to social media with an epic tweet that you just know is foreign ground in the elitist upper chamber. Sharing a photo of a delicious looking burger, a couple of ears of corn and a beer, in this case Detroit-made Stroh’s straight from the bottle, Kid Rock added: “Dinner time at my house. What do you think Schumer is spoon-feeding Stabenow tonight?”
Finally. Federal government does something right.
The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement that the ban would be published next week in the Federal Register, to come into effect 30 days later.
US officials linked the move to the death of jailed American student Otto Warmbier.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Patient Bear at July 23, 2017 09:44 PM (5if8g)
Life must be heartily tasted!
Original, not cut and pasted!
With much gusto imbibe,
Dance with those of your tribe,
But try not to get $#!+faced wasted!
Posted by: mindful webworker - in time for breakfast at July 23, 2017 09:44 PM (hGZJP)
Posted by: GOULD at July 23, 2017 09:44 PM (vj/UE)
* obligatory comment about everything being in a big gray box which will mean nothing in a minute, when it's corrected *
Posted by: mindful webworker - not a top-tenner, again at July 23, 2017 09:45 PM (hGZJP)
And that's where we get such twaddle as "Freedom from want" -- unless, of course, you wish to live in poverty.
Posted by: CayleyGraph at July 23, 2017 09:46 PM (s/BxM)
Oh, look! There's content!
Um, since it's the New Moon right now, what, exactly, are we looking at in the first pic? SMOD on final approach, I'm guessing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so he says at July 23, 2017 09:48 PM (hGZJP)
Without oxygen, drifting forever toward stars always receding from you. But otherwise, hey, inspirational!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 09:49 PM (RZXSp)
Posted by: mindful webworker - luckish at July 23, 2017 09:50 PM (hGZJP)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at July 23, 2017 09:50 PM (3JQ/p)
Posted by: Infidel at July 23, 2017 09:50 PM (gDoff)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 23, 2017 09:51 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: JT at July 23, 2017 09:51 PM (84e7L)
https://youtu.be/elSVlLCZDZQ
Posted by: Zaklog the Deplorable at July 23, 2017 09:52 PM (gY8o2)
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 23, 2017 09:52 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: mindful webworker - yikishly at July 23, 2017 09:52 PM (hGZJP)
One aggressive up-in-the-face panhandler, and at least 2 or 3 every block. On a positive note, the summer reading program posters at the Harold Washington Library feature Rahm as a cartoon superhero.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 23, 2017 09:53 PM (JyFLk)
When people no longer aspire to achievement, and instead aim for victimhood, and obtain rewards this way, then yes, we are doomed.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2017 09:53 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: JT at July
all of you or just your timbers?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:53 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: ALH at July 23, 2017 09:54 PM (ZHOOB)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:54 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 09:56 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: ALH at July 23, 2017 09:56 PM (ZHOOB)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 09:56 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 23, 2017 09:56 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 09:57 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: JT at July 23, 2017 09:57 PM (84e7L)
Posted by: Ralphy at July 23, 2017 09:57 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: JT at July
nuke it
from orbit of course
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:57 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 09:57 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (0wem/)
I am your sofa.
Posted by: Astro FZ at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (BO/km)
Game of Thrones is a big hit because it's charachter-driven. Many bad, some good.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (pV/54)
Surely some here recall how US passports had a list of "no-go" countries up at the front, up until the early 80s (?). Libya, Cuba, North Korea, maybe a few others.
Thought a SCOTUS decision found that the USG had no authority to ban travel. Of course I may be misremembering, subsequent laws or decisions may have changed that, or the new NK travel ban will use the indirect controls mentioned above.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (iynDC)
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (smD62)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (0wem/)
The prose is rather turgid.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (IqV8l)
If 'u' bring 'i' into it, the relationship ship is going to have an imaginary component.
Posted by: Not Having Any Part of the Patient Bear's Slick Mathematical Pick-up Lines at July 23, 2017 09:41 PM
Being with you is like switching to polar coordinates: complex and imaginary things now have a magnitude and direction.
Posted by: The Patient Mathematical Bear, after another cooler of camper beer at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 09:58 PM (0wem/)
Would you say the ONT has a plethora of content?
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: Deep Purple at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Eromero at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: unsure if deplorable, moron at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (Eynls)
It's a tax.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (OBJWS)
Posted by: kraken at July
maybe mishum erected a raging turgid thread bursting with content.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:01 PM (0wem/)
Game of Thrones is a big hit because it's charachter-driven. Many bad, some good.
But what about the bewbs ?
Is it because some viewers want to get to
know them ?
Posted by: JT at July 23, 2017 10:01 PM (84e7L)
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:02 PM (OBJWS)
"Conservative" National Review Senior Editor Reihan Salam was on Tucker calling for single-payer.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 10:02 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (pL6Vz)
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A Cornucopia, if you will.
Posted by: GOULD at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (vj/UE)
The big growth in AIDS cases comes in Eastern Europe (which I'm never too sure about what it includes) and Central Asia (which are the 'stans, right?)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - public menace at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (G8B7r)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: kraken at July
maybe mishum erected a raging turgid thread bursting with content.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:01 PM (0wem/)
If you add throbbing, you've got a Romance Novel..
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:04 PM (0wem/)
My newsfeed informed me that "draconian" budget cuts by the Trump
administration are being decried worldwide. Why? Because we fund 2/3 of
global AIDS research and health care.
The big growth in AIDS cases comes in Eastern Europe (which I'm
never too sure about what it includes) and Central Asia (which are the
'stans, right?)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - public menace at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (G8B7r)
In DC there is no such thing as a 'budget cut'....only a decrease in the increase.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:04 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 10:05 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: kraken at July
more like a letter to hustler or playboy.
surely some moron has sneaked off to his bunk with his laptop and the ont.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)
Comparing The USA to the rest of the world and health insurance. Why doesn't the USA have universal health insurance?
Because the US didn't have a larger, richer nation basically paying for 90% of our national defense for the last 70+ years.
You know, like all of those fucking ingrates in Western Europe.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 23, 2017 10:05 PM (iFZVz)
He left off rape
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:05 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:06 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 23, 2017 10:06 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 23, 2017 10:06 PM (DMUuz)
global AIDS research and health care.
I think we fund 2/3 of everybody except us.
Posted by: JT at July 23, 2017 10:06 PM (84e7L)
The United States also has the best care in the world and the most medical breakthroughs.
The healthcare system just needed a few tweaks but instead they took a jackhammer to a 8 penny nail.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (IDPbH)
In a sense it's hard to blame them for what they are. They are the products of liberalism, born broken.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:06 PM (+lVUW)
GOT, or Sweden... it gets confusing..
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (pL6Vz)
They can. 1) Passports are US Government property, its not yours 2) they can make it illegal to go there, spend money there, or enter into contracts there (like buy airline tickets)
Posted by: Jean at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (9TU00)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:08 PM (0wem/)
"I should know. We aired it!"
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:08 PM (OBJWS)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 23, 2017 10:08 PM (vBeA5)
You can bet the talking heads wanted to call him a Wartime Consigliere but had been warned by their producers.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 10:09 PM (pV/54)
Lack of government dictate (aka universal healthcare) means grandma can, and may very damn well, spend her entire life accumulation of wealth doing whatever she can to stay alive for a few more months. This drives a lot of companies to spend a lot on r&d to come up with medicine with almost trivial incremental improvements over the competition. Just to get grandma to sign over her house to them.
A significant portion of the legislature show their compassion for those without a home to sign over to big medicine by taking from those who can afford a home to get the poor a similar level of treatment.
Single payer systems have no competition for incremental improvements in medicine and, in the end, send everybody to the Liverpool pathway.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 23, 2017 10:09 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 23, 2017 10:10 PM (RrhD2)
The healthcare system just needed a few tweaks but instead they took a jackhammer to a 8 penny nail.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (IDPbH)
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U.S. citizens fund the drug company R&D so the rest of the world can get new drugs cheap.
You would think they would be thankful, but nooooo....
Posted by: GOULD at July 23, 2017 10:10 PM (vj/UE)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 23, 2017 10:08 PM (vBeA5)
Drop it. And fucking drop it now.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
How to become a pirate: YIIIIIIIKES!
I'm hoping there's no video
That appears to be a break-barrel, spring action air rifle. Springers are notoriously hard on scopes because the initial recoil motion is opposite of normal firearms. So, in short, Miss Tank Top is probably not going to be getting a shiner.
See, every thread can be a gun thread.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (7oUUT)
Posted by: kraken at July
maybe mishum erected a raging turgid thread bursting with content.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:01 PM (0wem/)
If you add throbbing, you've got a Romance Novel..
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:03 PM (pL6Vz)
A tumescent ONT?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (TdMsT)
I was under the impression that Good Samaritan laws protect people who render aid from being sued by the people they help, not make it a crime for the average citizen to not respond during a crisis.
Posted by: no good deed at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (hsb2w)
Rumour has it he has a third niffle.
Posted by: Bond, James Bond at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (BO/km)
Yes. Just looking at his IMDB page. I didn't see all that he did or even remember him in all the stuff I recognized, but the stuff I did remember was all good. He really nailed the cop battling depression in The Sopranos.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: kraken
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But since the ONT lasts more than four hours, should I seek the advice of a medical professional?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (iynDC)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:07 PM (TdMsT)
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STUPENDOUS!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:04 PM
Well, this seems to be one of PDT's decisions that other countries should pay their fair share to make up the difference. Hence the panic because no other countries will.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - public menace at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (G8B7r)
Someone can top this. C'mon folks, think hard!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (IcT7t)
Really really hard.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:13 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:13 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 23, 2017 10:13 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Bond, James Bond at July 23, 2017 10:13 PM (BO/km)
Great. BLM is gonna burn down Cocoa.
/s
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 23, 2017 10:14 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual
You know, I've tried to explain this to a friend of mine but he just doesn't get it. A program wants 10 billion $$ but only gets 8 billion $$. The budget still increased. No cut. I've been working down deep in the Federal Leviathan for a while so I get it. I also get that government programs never go away. They just move somewhere else and get a name change. Its like 'wack a mole'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 23, 2017 10:14 PM (Oylu9)
If that is a direct quote, ol' Katie needs to stop talking as if she's a rather dull-witted middle school student.
And I'm like, "Gee Katie, did you go to college and everything?"
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:14 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:00 PM (pL6Vz)
Guapo, could it be that once again, you are mad about something else, and are taking it out on me?
Posted by: Jefe at July 23, 2017 10:14 PM (TuRs5)
And so it shall remain!
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (iynDC)
Posted by: kraken
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But since the ONT lasts more than four hours, should I seek the advice of a medical professional?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:12 PM (tr2D7)
Oh no! Did you take the blue pill? It should have been the RED pill!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Bond, James Bond at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: freaked at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (IDPbH)
I was under the impression that Good Samaritan laws protect people who render aid from being sued by the people they help, not make it a crime for the average citizen to not respond during a crisis.
Posted by: no good deed at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (hsb2w)
I think that was the purpose- because people would stop and render aide to someone injured, and if the person died, their family would sue the person trying to help.
That's actually the law in Saudi-even ambulances would arrive at an accident, and if the people were severely injured, would wait until they died before they loaded them up, because if they touched the injured person, and then the injured person died at the hospital, the family would be owed blood money from the ambulance employees.
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:16 PM (V+V48)
On it's fifth installment. It may be trash, but it's money making trash.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: JTB at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (V+03K)
That's antipathy. The legal term might be jackass-ery with malice aforethought.
If they were to be placed in a cell, I see no need to feed them. Giving them a single knife and fork would be giving them more consideration than they showed.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (zEjuG)
You know, I've tried to explain this to a friend
of mine but he just doesn't get it. A program wants 10 billion $$ but
only gets 8 billion $$. The budget still increased. No cut. I've been
working down deep in the Federal Leviathan for a while so I get it. I
also get that government programs never go away. They just move
somewhere else and get a name change. Its like 'wack a mole'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 23, 2017 10:14 PM (Oylu9)
You can thank college professors and the MSM for that.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Ummmm 'pill' as in one?
Dammit!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:15 PM (IDPbH)
John Heard, John Hurt, William Hurt....it was all confusing back then.
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (pL6Vz)
Surely some here recall how US passports had a list of "no-go" countries up at the front, up until the early 80s (?). Libya, Cuba, North Korea, maybe a few others.
Thought a SCOTUS decision found that the USG had no authority to ban travel. Of course I may be misremembering, subsequent laws or decisions may have changed that, or the new NK travel ban will use the indirect controls mentioned above.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 09:59 PM (iynDC)
You can't travel directly from the US to the countries that are "banned", you have to go to another country and book the travel there.
I know that you can take day trips to Cuba from the Cayman Islands in which the Cuban govt won't stamp your passport, or they used to do it. I haven't been there since Bush was President.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 10:18 PM (1JnAL)
A priapistic ONT
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:05 PM (+lVUW)
He'd have been in real trouble with the authorities if he had told the truth about "rape", which really is "rape-rape" in Sweden!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM (gwPgz)
I hope their parents are ashamed of the job they've done.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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Ummmm 'pill' as in one?
Dammit!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:17 PM (tr2D7)
Tonypete: those are NOT candy!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Martian at July 23, 2017 10:20 PM (XoldI)
They really should have done a movie together. It would have kept their names alive long after they're gone.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:20 PM (IDPbH)
Just hope someone gives her some helpful pointers before she ever tries something with more oomph than a .22 LR.
Even that would give her a tickle, given her horrid form with the "Gamo".
Oh, and if that was a spring-piston air rifle? Yeah, that'd do a bit more than tickle, air rifle or not.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM (T
Protip... never store your erection meds in the TicTac box.
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (pL6Vz)
Charlie gard couldn't be reached for comment
Posted by: Mst3k at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (MWGj1)
I hope this presentation is at least mildly entertaining but I'm not a professional at this.
So lets get this show started shall?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:20 PM (sf2BM)
You are scaring me.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (TdMsT)
The left has made this country so freakin stupid.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (GzDYP)
A subprime loan has no collateral besides the vehicle itself, can have a small down payment compared to total value, and is generally made on new cars to folks with poor credit ratings. The loan company, frequently a part of the car company or the dealer, does stand to lose significantly if the loan isn't paid. The interest charged is also substantially lower than the tote-ur-note outfits.
Two different critters.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (6jaju)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (ZTRlp)
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It is amazing how accurately one can judge how close they are to the target by the amount of flak sent their way.
Posted by: That Guy at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (ip5El)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (TdMsT)
One will be for lasting over 4 hours, looks like...
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: kallisto at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM (7l5V0)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 23, 2017 10:11 PM (ZTRlp)
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It is amazing how accurately one can judge how close they are to the target by the amount of flak sent their way.
Posted by: That Guy at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (ip5El)
In days of yore, we used to say "This is why we can't have nice tings!"
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM (gwPgz)
You know what we need, it's to be like every shithole on the planet. Grant full power to the government. Make everything suck and that will cut down on immigration.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM (OBJWS)
But US health outcomes (consumer welfare, in economics terms) could be identical or better to today's with a dramatically smaller expenditure with simple fixes to the regulatory environment.
Get the fed govt. out of it - eliminate differential tax treatment of employer plans vs. any other kinds of policies, and somehow repair the damage done by state-level misregulation. Remove oligopolistic and other anti-competitive features that prevent price discovery.
There are areas of health care where there is very little "insurance" - and these areas have cost curves that have risen only at general inflation levels, or even remained flat - even as care and technology in those areas has reached Star Trek levels, as in other, core areas.
When normal economic dynamics are allowed to work, price discovery occurs, competition occurs, and cost increases generally reflect only advances in services and technology. In medicine as in any other area.
The pharmaceutical cost thing may have its own issues.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM (iynDC)
BTW, what...
Never mind, I'm not going to go there.
Posted by: RM at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (eP+dt)
Posted by: Eric Clapton at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM (sf2BM)
Um--given to a member of the Horde or an "opinion leader?"
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (ILitO)
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM (gwPgz)
...or nice things either!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (gwPgz)
Now you tell me.
Posted by: Eric Clapton at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (DMUuz)
I thought you said we can shake our tambourines?? What gives?
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (0wem/)
He just stuck it home in one confident thrust.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: RM at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (eP+dt)
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Projectile posting
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (PXj2C)
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert...
didn't she work for Fox news some time ago?
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (ILitO)
Yeah, she did. Didn't know she went to State.
Wiki says she started at State in April.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:27 PM (nBr1j)
Damn, that's awful.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:28 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
Oh that's horrible! Prayers sent.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:28 PM (Enq6K)
Prayers up my friend!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:28 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (GzDYP)
Will do. A friend of mine's mother died in her sleep suddenly just yesterday. It wasn't an accident but it wasn't expected either. Peace to your family, and to everyone else mourning a loved one tonight.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (3C9q2)
Will do. I have seen too many of these on the job injuries in my line of work. You never get used to it.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (IDPbH)
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Projectile posting
There was some very nice, ahem, foreplay, in the previous thread.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: That Guy at July 23, 2017 10:22 PM (ip5E
You care to comment at Hot Air or Little Green Footballs.
The Cobs put in a lot of time to come up with topics to talk about other than who was banned who wasn't banned who said what.
And I'm Goddamn sick of the drama. I'm Goddam sick of the cliques.
You want drama leave. You want to discuss non-dramatic topics
Stay
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (iynDC)
Posted by: John Hurt at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July
keyboard deep
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:30 PM (0wem/)
Now you tell me.
Posted by: Eric Clapton at July 23, 2017 10:25 PM (DMUuz)
Bravo. Well played sir.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at July 23, 2017 10:30 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July
keyboard deep
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:30 PM (0wem/)
Trackballs bouncing.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:30 PM (0mRoj)
You know, I've tried to explain this to a friend of mine but he just doesn't get it. A program wants 10 billion $$ but only gets 8 billion $$. The budget still increased. No cut.
I remember Sam Donaldson saying to George Will:
"If it doesn't meet the need then it's a cut."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 10:31 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (sf2BM)
Are you looking for nominations? If so, I will nominate MisHum.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:32 PM (TdMsT)
Baseball still okay? Teh Phillies actually took a series from the Brew Crew. That's some drama right there.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 23, 2017 10:32 PM (3C9q2)
What an awful thing to have happened. Bless you and yours.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:32 PM (GzDYP)
Our daughter-in-law's brother-in-law was killed in a farming accident
yesterday. Apparently he was working in a pit when a concrete slab fell
on him and crushed--38-years-old.
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
Will pray for them.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (89T5c)
Now that's what I call courage.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:31 PM (sf2BM)
++++
This comment doesn't seem designed to lower the amount of drama.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: cerveza fria aqui at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (g9AWj)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (iynDC)
It may not be a travel ban, per se, but if we do not have a diplomatic presence in a particular country, US citizen travel there is discouraged, because we do not have a consulate in place to provide American Citizen services: passport assistance, location of a missing person, notification of relatives if something occurs, etc. Such "bans" were in place for Beirut, Cuba, North Korea and Iran, until recently. If an AmCit traveled to those places and got in trouble, he/she was on their own.
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (V+V48)
Sigh.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (GzDYP)
Your family had tings--what luxury!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (0mRoj)
This won't end well. Later...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (xF3iA)
However, "diversity" exists everywhere. Was having a really nice conversation with a gal about her son wanting to play lacrosse and then this "dude" shows up and........my husband had to pull me away.....that "dude" is not a guy. How messed up must that kid be and no wonder he wants to play lacrosse!
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (mMeIQ)
Just hope someone gives her some helpful pointers before she ever tries something with more oomph than a .22 LR.
Even that would give her a tickle, given her horrid form with the "Gamo".
Oh, and if that was a spring-piston air rifle? Yeah, that'd do a bit more than tickle, air rifle or not.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 23, 2017 10:21 PM (v5iqM)
If she doesn't lose an eye to a rifle, she looks like she may lose one to her boyfriend's lovegun. IYKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 10:34 PM (1JnAL)
Now that's what I call courage.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:31 PM (sf2BM)
Well that went a direction I'm not familiar with.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:34 PM (IDPbH)
Make everything suck and that will cut down on immigration.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 10:24 PM
No more truckloads of steaming immigrants in the Walmart parking lot.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 10:34 PM (IqV8l)
I get enough drama at work and elsewhere in meatspace. I lurk and sometimes comment on the ONT in an attempt to get away from that.
No one will give a damn if I leave. But if things like what happened a couple of nights ago continue, I'm out.
"And that's all I have to say about that."
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:34 PM (rJUlF)
In at least two different posts accusing me of being a coward, because I
banned cthulu, Mr F*uck wouldn't use the name he normally goes by.
Now that's what I call courage.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:31 PM (sf2BM)
Not sure this is going to correct what MisHum wants stopped.
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (xF3iA
Yeah, same here. This is going sideways, so later gators.
Posted by: kraken at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July
rodeo clown?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: JT at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (84e7L)
http://tinyurl.com/y7susykd
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (TdMsT)
I never - never - even so much as hint anything negative about whatever it is people want to talk about, or ace or cobs want to post about. I figure I can just ignore, skip the post, skip the thread, whatever.
Yep - revolutionary, astonishing idea - just don't participate if something doesn't interest you.
Last night was jaw-droppingly juvenile and pointless, and I can only say that because for once the silliness exercised a car-wreck tractor beam on my curiosity.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (iynDC)
Is this feasible? Any ideas? I do know that there will be Wifi at my destination. I'm used to using an Android so don't really want the learning curve of an Iphone. This is not a foreign trip. Will be in Kansas.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at July 23, 2017 10:35 PM (sf2BM)
This is about Average Joe, isn't it?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (rJUlF)
Very nice looking young man. Very gracious remarks made in his prize acceptance speech. His parents must be proud.
Posted by: Tuna at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: kraken
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"Protip" kraken?
Nicely played Sir!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (tr2D7)
Honestly, shut the fuck up and get me a beer, Mzzzzzz. Petula Dvorak.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 23, 2017 10:37 PM (pGb63)
Posted by: Alana at July 23, 2017 10:37 PM (IaTIY)
So simple, and yet...
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:37 PM (rJUlF)
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These things gotta happen every ten years or so. Clears out all the bad blood.
Posted by: Clemenza at July 23, 2017 10:37 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:37 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (D2vc1)
Lessons in Life:
1. Don't let some 20 year old douchebag have nekkid photos of you that he can use later, perhaps after the "relationship" goes down the toilet.
2. Don't loan money to your boyfriend/girlfriend, because after you break up, they won't pay you back.
3. Don't marry a drunk, drug addict, or woman beater thinking that they will change.
4. Don't buy your boyfriend/girlfriend a car. They'll probably dump you.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: kraken
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"Protip" kraken?
Nicely played Sir!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (tr2D7)
Just the protip?
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Alana at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (IaTIY)
I have commented and lurked for since the wicked pinto days.... I really appreciate the care and feeding of Ace and his place by the cobs. And, if some of these fuckers that call themselves "morons" can't take a joke or to "lighten up francis" when told to... they can fuck the right off.
It is hard to be a conservative in NYC. Ace is one of the most visible and been doing it for many years now.
Don't make his life harder, hobos are getting harder to chase everyday!
Posted by: catman at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (5H2BV)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:38 PM (RfzVr)
Buy insurance for your phone and take it with you.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (IDPbH)
Another hole in a family to mourn.
Peace, indeed.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: cfo mom at July
go to wmt, get a trac fone, buy some minutes, use cash, smash it with a hammer when you get home.
do not turn it on until you get to Kansas and do not use it outside of Kansas.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (mMeIQ)
All pretty good advice. Don't get involved with anyone who's abusive, male or female.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)
I can see the CNN interview now.
(family member) "If Trump wasn't so busy colluding with the Russians, we would have known it was dangerous."
Posted by: JTB at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: irright at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (85f6P)
Posted by: kallisto at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM
There was a conflagration of Mary Magdalena with the sinful woman because her story follows that of the repentant sinner. The Talmud says the town Magdala was destroyed because prostitution was practiced openly there.
But it's like these dipshits never read the Bible but got their idea of Mary Magdalena from The Davinci Code or something.
Posted by: NaughtyPine - public menace at July 23, 2017 10:40 PM (G8B7r)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 23, 2017 10:40 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Just another Troll at July 23, 2017 10:40 PM (CfjIy)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: The Chicken at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (XoldI)
I was merely commenting, from the outset, that a "ban", a legally binding prohibition on travel to specific countries that had legal liabilities to go with it, is (I think) a power the USG does not have, per a SCOTUS decision of the late 70s or early 80s.
"I think". Could be wrong, but nothing raised so far is on point. And as I said, I'll drop it, since it's fairly academic anyway. And I passed on my one chance to travel to North Korea a while back, anyway!
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (iynDC)
To those that remain but feel contentious, please respect your friends and associates here and drop this point-counter point!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (gwPgz)
Jim
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Um, well, most spring/piston rifles recoil forward , no? That being on account of the sudden stop of the forward moving piston. Beeman makes a big point about that, in that their scopes are designed with that in mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (OdK9v)
Is this feasible? Any ideas? I do know that there will be Wifi at my destination. I'm used to using an Android so don't really want the learning curve of an Iphone. This is not a foreign trip. Will be in Kansas.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (RfzVr)
At present, I'm using a $29 Alcatel phone from Wal-Mart, with a $30 prepaid card.
Damn phone works nearly as well as the pricey LG-3G that crashed on me a couple months ago.
And "works well", means that I'm using it an a commercial, revenue streaming, time and location demanding work environment, with credit/debit card processing via Square.
Hie thee forth to yon Wal-Marte, and do so with my full encouragement, and expectation of your success, ma'am.
Jim
Sunke New Dawnne
Galvestoon, Tejas
Posted by: Jim at July 23, 2017 10:41 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: Michael McKean at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 10:18 PM (1JnAL)
As I've mentioned before, an uncle of mine in Michigan went to Cuba all the time for several years. The Mexicans didn't give a shit if some American was going there.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July
Yeesh. Now I feel like I need a shower and it is not even Saturday.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 23, 2017 10:33 PM (gwPgz)
Well yes, but they were all lost to the past. I only heard wistful stories of tings long gone.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (GzDYP)
Is this feasible? Any ideas? I do know that there will be Wifi at my destination. I'm used to using an Android so don't really want the learning curve of an Iphone. This is not a foreign trip. Will be in Kansas.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (RfzVr)
You can get a cheap smart phone (under $200) at Walmart and sign up for one of their plans. The plans don't have contracts.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (TdMsT)
twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/889191917166235648
And I was so looking forward to his manga review column.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (6FqZa)
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Then what's left?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (PXj2C)
Magdalene was a former demoniac, the woman at the well was a slut.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:43 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:43 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:19 PM
Don't choke on those blue pills, you'll end up with a stiff neck.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at July 23, 2017 10:43 PM (eIuOT)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (pGb63)
How much has government interference increased the cost of new and used cars?
Where it used to be the norm for people to get a 2 or 3 year car loan, 5 and 6 year loans are more and more common.
All that government crap has consequences.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (+lVUW)
I'm involved in three productions at the community theatre this year.
The one I talked about auditioning for here is a musical called "Rest In Peace", based on the life of a funeral director with an -- unorthodox -- method of keeping a small-town funeral home open. It's funny and something you could take the whole family to. That runs in early October.
Before that, I'm in a farce called "Moon Over Buffalo", about a pair of aging stage stars who might finally get their big break in Hollywood -- if they don't blow it. Carol Burnett starred in this on Broadway years ago, and it plays like some her best TV sketches. That starts a short fun less than a month from now.
THIS week (whew) -- I'm a sound technician for a children's version of "Shrek". All the cast members are 18 and under.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (rJUlF)
And Jordan Speith's last six or so holes were.. well, let's just say an incredible display of golf at the very highest level (following a total wtf shot that would have demoralized most).
Golf and baseball, you gotta love it!
Posted by: RM at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (eP+dt)
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Then what's left?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (PXj2C)
Jackin' it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)
Also, why doesnt the dude just take the $4k hes saved and use it to BUY A CAR FOR CASH? Sympathy killer #2.
Posted by: miked at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (uKJIC)
Damn phone works nearly as well as the pricey LG-3G that crashed on me a couple months ago.
And "works well", means that I'm using it an a commercial, revenue streaming, time and location demanding work environment, with credit/debit card processing via Square.
Hie thee forth to yon Wal-Marte, and do so with my full encouragement, and expectation of your success, ma'am.
Jim
Sunke New Dawnne
Galvestoon, Tejas
Posted by: Jim at July
I have a Samsung smart phone and, usually, a cheap flip phone. The flip phone is my preferred phone because it is smaller and better for calls. Someone keeps absconding with my flip phones.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Abusive Non-Cis Weirdo-Normative Goofy-Freak at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (85f6P)
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Who is this young lady? I'd like to meet her and shake her cans.
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! 2016 at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (PXj2C)
Imaginary lovers?
https://youtu.be/G6Z-DQGqM90
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: miked at July 23, 2017 10:45 PM (uKJIC)
Because TFG's cash for clunkers program destroyed those cars.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)
The big growth in AIDS cases comes in Eastern Europe (which I'm never too sure about what it includes) and Central Asia (which are the 'stans, right?)
Posted by: NaughtyPine - public menace
So let the liberal, soft socialist, humanitarian European countries make up the difference.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (pGb63)
Watched one of her gigs on TV. She was like a car wreck that I could not look away from. Unique voice that seem effortless.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Country Boy
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Neither did Venezuela!
Posted by: Hugo Chavez at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (IcT7t)
It was kind of weird and I wasn't expecting it, but it at least made me feel that if things don't work out with my Frenchy, I won't be a crazy cat lady.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (smD62)
The Talmud in Iraq was basically full of sh!tposting. The Christians were doing the same to the Jews at the time, so it's understandable. Just paste a big green frog sticker on every Talmud passage with a parallel to Christian scripture and you're good.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Alana at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (IaTIY)
your welcome! I did AMCit services for a number of years, and that was the reason CON gave for the "bans". Legally, you are probably correct, the US government cannot force a citizen NOT to travel somewhere.
But from experience, there are idiots who think it would be cool to go to a 'critical country' and then get into trouble, and their family demands that the USG bail them out. That is a serious cost of money and manpower, that the family/person never pay back. It's paid for by we the taxpayer.
I'm not trying to bust your chops or anything, I've just (sadly) had to deal with this very thing as a consul, and it's difficult and heartbreaking, and frustrating. Especially when your own life becomes endangered trying to help the person who got into the mess.
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:48 PM (0wem/)
But I think it will be overturned on appeal, or it should be.
But she should be welcomed anywhere in life as Casey Anthony at a baby shower, or DeBlasio at a NYPD funeral.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 23, 2017 10:48 PM (6jaju)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)
CW Jr. can't find an old beater to buy, either.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)
I wouldn't rule anything out just yet.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (0mRoj)
I'm not trying to bust your chops or anything, I've just (sadly) had to deal with this very thing as a consul, and it's difficult and heartbreaking, and frustrating. Especially when your own life becomes endangered trying to help the person who got into the mess.
Posted by: moki at July
Happened in Lebanon several years ago. The clowns not only expected the U.S. to arrange for their travel back to the U.S. but to pay for it too.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 23, 2017 10:50 PM (yKB8T)
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:50 PM (Enq6K)
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
I just saw this and am so very sorry. Of course I will pray for the family. I just wish I could find the right words right now.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:50 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 23, 2017 10:51 PM (6FqZa)
Kid Rock will run.
Kid Rock will win.
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 23, 2017 10:50 PM (yKB8T)
And de lamentaions of de girly-men.
Posted by: Conan at July 23, 2017 10:51 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:51 PM (smD62)
I've been here for at least a dozen years and probably said things that could get me arrested or sued in at least half the countries in the world, and I never got banned. (OK, Ace yelled at me once.)
It's not hard. You can be nasty without being a complete schmuck.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 10:51 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (cct0t)
Spitballing, but they probably think there's a reason. Think the BART attacks in San Fran.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 10:51 PM (D2vc1)
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He didn't have an app for that.
Which reminds me. I was having lunch the other day, and this guy walks in and asks for directions to a National Park area up in the mountains. He waves a Mapquest display on his phone, and says, "I tried to follow this, but it put me on a gravel road somewhere."
My reply was, "You're not from around here, are you?"
Posted by: Hugo Chavez at July 23, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)
She was, indeed, a prostitute, according to Church Tradition, which was passed down from the Apostles through the bishops, so rather a reliable source. No, it isn't explicit in the Bible, but neither is the Trinity or several other particularly Christian ideals.
But, she was no feminist. Didn't need to be. Jesus loved her, and that finished it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2017 10:52 PM (NXsWM)
Of course just as with everything else, most Americans (almost all "liberals" or NPR-stupid sorts) and of course virtually all Europeans have not the slightest understanding of any of this.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:52 PM (iynDC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable cats at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (lMsBz)
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (nBr1j)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175147726372865
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175237400694785
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175340349890561
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175451037556736
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175550107017216
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (3i2nH)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (mMeIQ)
It is bad that they thought it was hilarious when he did die, but maybe this too can be interpreted as proper scorn for the guy's committing suicide. Not reporting it is bizarre. Maybe they did have some guilty consciense and did not want their callousness to come under question. But they were far better than "jump" shouters, and actually did try to deter the suicide.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (5SpNa)
Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 23, 2017 10:50 PM (Enq6K)
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Do you have a favorite yet? Cuz I think Cesare is dreamy.
Posted by: Shep Smith at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Hugo Chavez at July 23, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)
Holy cow, in these parts, a GRAVEL road is an improvement.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (NXsWM)
Absolute genius. I hope the locals slapped a "BEAR CHOW" bumpersticker on his car while he was asking.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (6FqZa)
Happened in Lebanon several years ago. The clowns not only expected the U.S. to arrange for their travel back to the U.S. but to pay for it too.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (0wem/)
They aren't the first. You would be amazed at what AMCits thing the USG should do for them overseas.
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 23, 2017 10:29 PM (iynDC)
The bans on travel to a country are based on using a US passport. If you are traveling under a US passport, you cannot enter into certain countries on that passport. Because you cannot legally enter that country on a US passport, you cannot legally us the US passport to leave that country. Basically, any country that wants to have travel privileges with the US would abide by this edict.
You can travel to anywhere you want, but if the SHTF, the US government is under no obligation to protect or rescue you.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 10:54 PM (1JnAL)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175653244964864
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175752872165377
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175859457904646
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889175939699159040
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/889176026756112386
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2017 10:54 PM (3i2nH)
New hotness: Swedish Bursa Team
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (Nwg0u)
Knee, hip or elbow?
Posted by: moki at July 23, 2017 10:54 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 23, 2017 10:53 PM (mMeIQ)
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I'm sure your son is perfectly normal.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:54 PM (PXj2C)
It was kind of weird and I wasn't expecting it, but it at least made me feel that if things don't work out with my Frenchy, I won't be a crazy cat lady.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:47 PM (smD62)
Did you say yes?
And if not, why not?
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 10:54 PM (D2vc1)
twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/889191917166235648
And I was so looking forward to his manga review column.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 23, 2017 10:42 PM (6FqZa)
He is terribly obnoxious, but he is also pathetic, and I feel sorry for him on that account.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at July 23, 2017 10:55 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 23, 2017 10:55 PM (PMDjU)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 10:55 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:34 PM (rJUlF)
I lurk more than post here, but I know that that statement is just not true!
And the production with the kids sounds like a whole lotta fun!
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0wem/)
Has the suicide side of the story been reported with a national news source or just locally. I know the guy was disabled.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (IDPbH)
Buy insurance for your phone and take it with you.
My husband suggested that. No way. The insurance costs too much and the deductible is too high. And won't include "loss".
214
go to wmt, get a trac fone, buy some minutes, use cash, smash it with a hammer when you get home.
do not turn it on until you get to Kansas and do not use it outside of Kansas.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (0wem/)
That's a good plan. I do intend to destroy it when I return home.
227 At present, I'm using a $29 Alcatel phone from Wal-Mart, with a $30 prepaid card.
Damn phone works nearly as well as the pricey LG-3G that crashed on me a couple months ago.
And "works well", means that I'm using it an a commercial, revenue streaming, time and location demanding work environment, with credit/debit card processing via Square.
Hie thee forth to yon Wal-Marte, and do so with my full encouragement, and expectation of your success, ma'am.
Thank you for that info.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (RfzVr)
http://fxn.ws/2vzEhny
He did have a unique track record, zero broken campaign promises. Also, no rats in his office.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 10:57 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 23, 2017 10:55 PM (PMDjU)
I hope not to.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:57 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:57 PM (smD62)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:48 PM (0wem/)
They are in Latham, Massachusetts!
Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at July 23, 2017 10:58 PM (3i2nH)
And if not, why not?
Posted by: Country Boy at July
she has a boyfriend ?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0wem/)
"He" is European so that's debatable.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:58 PM (0mRoj)
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Guys who can do that voice fill the parking lots at Home Depot. He should have understood the market better.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 10:58 PM (PXj2C)
And if not, why not?
Posted by: Country Boy at July
she has a boyfriend ?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0wem/)
"He" is European so that's debatable.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July
well then significant other
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:59 PM (0wem/)
And if not, why not?
Posted by: Country Boy at July
she has a boyfriend ?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0wem/)
She has a guy who she's never met that she talks to on Skype and might meet once this fall.
In no universe does that qualify as a boyfriend.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 10:59 PM (D2vc1)
And...I have a guy. Hopefully.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:57 PM (smD62)
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Mazel tov!
*clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Bite the hand that feeds me at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (0m0zi)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 10:57 PM (smD62)
See 307.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (D2vc1)
And if not, why not?
Posted by: Country Boy at July
she has a boyfriend ?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (0wem/)
She has a guy who she's never met that she talks to on Skype and might meet once this fall.
In no universe does that qualify as a boyfriend.
Posted by: Country Boy at July
is that still on?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (PMDjU)
cfo mom,
I'm involved in three productions at the community theatre this year.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (rJUlF)
Dang!! You're one busy beaver. Glad you have some fun stuff goin' on. I used to do a bit of that and it was a lot of fun even though very time consuming.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken
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Hmm. Sounds like Mike Hammer's Cat.
*purr, purr, purrrrr*
*CHOMP*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2017 11:01 PM (OdK9v)
Ask the millions of American men in arrearage on child-support payments if they can be prevented from travelling anywhere overseas.
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 23, 2017 11:01 PM (yKB8T)
You know, because it's DIFFERENT when they do it!
Posted by: kbdabear at July 23, 2017 11:01 PM (3i2nH)
Posted by: Bite the hand that feeds me at July
there ya go. that is going to make everything better.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:01 PM (0wem/)
twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/889191917166235648
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I don't see it. Obviously, Newsweek doesn't fire for incompetence and I detect no hint of competence.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:02 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (e8kgV)
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Proving once again that it's not easy
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 23, 2017 11:02 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:44 PM (rJUlF)
Dang!! You're one busy beaver. Glad you have some fun stuff goin' on. I used to do a bit of that and it was a lot of fun even though very time consuming.
Posted by: cfo mom at July
he runs the casting couch
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:02 PM (0wem/)
Okay well...what he is called is semantics.
There is a guy I am committed to and I consider my guy. If you don't want to say boyfriend, fine.
Whatever you wanna call it.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:03 PM (smD62)
RE: Why doesn't the US have universal health insurance?
The metric, cost of health care, is the wrong measure. Cuban has a very low-cost health care system.
This is why we always lose the argument. The foundation of that entire piece is flawed.
Posted by: Jonny Twelve at July 23, 2017 11:03 PM (m9X4Y)
Posted by: NCKate at July 23, 2017 11:03 PM (E4p3I)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 23, 2017 11:03 PM (PMDjU)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (lIZQs)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (Lqy/e)
do not turn it on until you get to Kansas and do not use it outside of Kansas.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 10:39 PM (0wem/)
said like a man who has used burners before, except for one little thing.
Smash it with a hammer and leave it in a dumpster (not one connected to a gas station you used your card at) BEFORE you go home!
Smart phones can be tracked even when off right back to your house, so if security is the thing, that's right out.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (GzDYP)
It is. There are some really talented singers in the cast, too.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (rJUlF)
I'm over the halfway point...nearly 4 months into it, with just over 2 months left till we meet.
Hopefully, it will be worth it.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (smD62)
farming accident yesterday. Apparently he was working in a pit when a
concrete slab fell on him and crushed--38-years-old.
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
On the prayer list, Northernlurker. My heart goes out to the family. What a terrible loss.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (Id9+8)
Smash it with a hammer and leave it in a dumpster (not one connected to a gas station you used your card at) BEFORE you go home!
Smart phones can be tracked even when off right back to your house, so if security is the thing, that's right out.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July
you are correct. I was too lazy to go back and correct the error. besides, it is not like she is moving kilos of coke anymore.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (0wem/)
are you hot?
are you rich?
answer the second question first.
(old Groucho Marx bit)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 11:06 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 10:56 PM (GzDYP)
oops
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:06 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:07 PM (smD62)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:00 PM (RfzVr)
I do wonder from time to time "What have I got myself into?" There'll be practically no time for a social life for the next 10 weeks. Which works out fine, since I don't have one anyway.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:08 PM (rJUlF)
Actually it was the National Lampoon, not the Harvard Lampoon. You might have seen some of the content transfered to the big screen via "Animal House."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 23, 2017 11:08 PM (MZcWR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July
you mean because of the 5 foot hole in the port bow?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:08 PM (0wem/)
No ambition.
Posted by: ALH at July 23, 2017 09:54 PM (ZHOOB)
I made the sock puppet list once.
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at July 23, 2017 11:09 PM (lIZQs)
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Larry Kroger was the fictional owner of the yearbook, IIRC
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 11:09 PM (PXj2C)
said like a man who has used burners before, except for one little thing.
Smash it with a hammer and leave it in a dumpster (not one connected
to a gas station you used your card at) BEFORE you go home!
Smart phones can be tracked even when off right back to your house, so if security is the thing, that's right out.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July
you are correct. I was too lazy to go back and correct the error. besides, it is not like she is moving kilos of coke anymore.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:05 PM (0wem/)
Yep. Statute of limitations done run out on me.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:09 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:10 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Glenn Greenwald at July 23, 2017 11:10 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 23, 2017 11:10 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July
you mean because of the 5 foot hole in the port bow?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:08 PM (0wem/)
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Limit your trips to three-hour tours and you'll be fine.
Posted by: The Skipper at July 23, 2017 11:10 PM (PXj2C)
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That rules out everybody except Caitlyn Jenner.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:10 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:08 PM (0wem/)
Which can never be repaired.
Posted by: Gilligan, Skipper, The Professor at July 23, 2017 11:11 PM (yKB8T)
Posted by: #neverskankles at July 23, 2017 11:11 PM (vyHiq)
Posted by: Heywood Jablome at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (PXj2C)
The moon is right there! Your navigator really screwed up. He should feel bad.
Posted by: Captain Comic at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (RjySP)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:03 PM (smD62)
Ok, so you gonna go out with American guy then?
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)
Where?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 11:13 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:06 PM (0wem/)
Lol & you're right.
Forgot where I was for a minute.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 11:13 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 11:14 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 11:04 PM (IDPbH)
Like the guy who was the Minnesota Viking mascot that wanted a huge raise. Nobody else can dress in fur and a hat with horns?
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 11:14 PM (D2vc1)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:14 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (cct0t)
Cheap, no contract, pay as you go.
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 11:14 PM (0mRoj)
Tickled Pink - Is the boyfriend you have been discussing the guy in France? How can a guy you have never met be your boyfriend? I've been following your story for months and I just don't get how a guy you have never met in meatspace can be a boyfriend. I am not meaning to disparage this relationship in any way. People have lived happily ever after despite meeting in unconventional ways. I am truly wanting to understand.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:14 PM (RfzVr)
https://youtu.be/J2P9Cgh3H50
"De Kulture!"
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (PMDjU)
Posted by: cfo mom at July
Were you more Smuggler's Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawk5PbYZuM
Or
Welcome to the Boomtown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wvwuHUMCw
?
Funny line from Smuggler's Blues - "Every name's an alias in case somebody squeals"
seems familiar
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (0wem/)
He asked me to dinner.
I suggested maybe he could come help me pick out clothes for my niece and nephew while I shop for them.
I think that's a good compromise.
He gets a date, er sort of. I don't have to be a jerk about it and tell him no. And, I am sure my personality will turn him off completely so...alls well that ends well.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (smD62)
I got a burner phone after I left my phone in a place I couldn't get until the next day. I realized I needed a back up .
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 11:16 PM (IDPbH)
So, here's the easy way.
Buy a 1 gal. plastic bottle of Muriatc Acid, aka Swimming Pool Acid.
Pour off about 1/4 of the bottle into the hotel pool where you're staying. That wee bit won't affect the pool chemistry but for a couple hours, at most.
Now, with the remaining 3/4 bottle of acid, with the cap firmly affixed, cut a 3 in. slit into the bottle, above the "water line" of the remaining acid.
Pop the Sim Card chip out of the phone, and push it through the slit, and into the acid. Then, do the same with the phone.
Finally, using a length of string which you'll have tied around the neck of the bottle, lower the bottle with phone and chip, gently into a dumpster in some back alley somewhere.
By time the Waste Management truck comes to hoist the bin, there won't be much phone in there to be of any remaining interest. And there absolutely will not be any data remaining on the device.
Remember, chips are manufactured and etched into their very existence via use of similar, but much stronger acids. They can be destroyed in much the same way.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
p.s. added benefit. The acid will kill any fingerprints or DNA which went into the bottle. Your fingerprints on the outside of the bottle though, are YOUR problem.
You did remember to always wear rubber gloves when working with any acids, yes?
Then, all is well. Carry on.
Posted by: Jim at July 23, 2017 11:16 PM (v5iqM)
Posted by: The Chicken
What was Super Chicken, a cartoon? 'The Chicken' just reminded me of a song from my early youth.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 11:16 PM (zEjuG)
Posted by: RM at July 23, 2017 11:16 PM (eP+dt)
yesterday. Apparently he was working in a pit when a concrete slab fell
on him and crushed--38-years-old.
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26
So sorry to here of that, prayers up from here.
T
Posted by: Farmer at July 23, 2017 11:16 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 23, 2017 11:17 PM (ILitO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:17 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 23, 2017 11:17 PM (Mcvvl)
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Don't sell yourself short. I've done pretty well with a personality that turns everyone off.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 23, 2017 11:17 PM (PXj2C)
Is this feasible? Any ideas? I do know that there will be Wifi at my destination. I'm used to using an Android so don't really want the learning curve of an Iphone. This is not a foreign trip. Will be in Kansas.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 10:36 PM (RfzVr)
TracFone, Straighttalk, or Total Wireless are the ways to go. Straighttalk offers Androids with monthly service of $45 for unlimited text/talk and IIRC about 5GB of data.
Total Wireless has Android phones, and the service is $35 for unlimited text/talk and 5GB of data.
Tracfone has Androids with $20 for 120 minutes of talk, or 120 texts, or the equal in data.
All 3 are part of the TracFone company, and all use the Verizon/US Cellular network, so you get great coverage.
Last month, the Mrs and I switched from Verizon to Total Wireless, and after buying our phones, in month 2 we are already in the break even range, and in month 3 we start saving $100 a month, and that savings includes the Verizon discount my wife got through her company.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (1JnAL)
I haven't ever watched Winehouse's "Back to Black" video before tonight.
Youth romances death. Beautiful cinematography. music recalls to mind Motown. great work, but damn sad, since she was taken too soon by her disease.
Was that her heart in the black box? I think so.
Posted by: booknlass at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (6Xf+s)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 10:46 PM (0mRoj)
You can find them again. My last two cars were $1500 clunkers, 20 years old, and basically disposable.
You can find them, but they won't be fancy. They probably will have bondo, primer or electrical faults.
Granted, I don't have local emission standards to live up to.
Generally, if you know the signs, they will last a bit with care. I'm saving up for a nice car.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (mkDpn)
Central Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City. He's been looking around our town, and hasn't tried anywhere in the metro yet.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (rJUlF)
He asked me to dinner.
I suggested maybe he could come help me pick out clothes for my niece and nephew while I shop for them.
I think that's a good compromise.
He gets a date, er sort of. I don't have to be a jerk about it and tell him no. And, I am sure my personality will turn him off completely so...alls well that ends well.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (smD62)
With all due respect, that was a lousy compromise.
Let me give you a pro tip ladies:
SHOPPING FOR ANYTHING IS NOT A DATE.
It's the best way to put a guy to sleep early.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 11:19 PM (D2vc1)
Aside from cheating on your spouse or dealing drugs, what is the point of using a burner phone?
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (cct0t)
I will be traveling and do not want to risk losing/breaking my expensive phone. I won't need anything but a phone number and internet access for keeping up with the Horde so it seems like a good plan..
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:20 PM (RfzVr)
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Tell Mad Max Waters we can't do single payer. Too much like Russian roulette.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:20 PM (Nwg0u)
Caaaaaaalllllll
For Super Chicken! Ba-kaw!
On with George of the Jungle, I believe.
Posted by: I had a name, but I forgot at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (jY+fp)
It's time spent together, and if that's not a date, I dunno what is.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Gilligan, Skipper, The Professor
Ginger, Mary Ann.... Do I really want to be rescued?
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (kuiuS)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (rJUlF)
Oh. If it were the Northeast I could help. I have my mom's car...a 2003 Avalon with 130k miles, but in great mechanical and good cosmetic condition.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (lIZQs)
So, here's the easy way.
Buy a 1 gal. plastic bottle of Muriatc Acid, aka Swimming Pool Acid.
Pour off about 1/4 of the bottle into the hotel pool where you're staying. That wee bit won't affect the pool chemistry but for a couple hours, at most.
Now, with the remaining 3/4 bottle of acid, with the cap firmly affixed, cut a 3 in. slit into the bottle, above the "water line" of the remaining acid.
Pop the Sim Card chip out of the phone, and push it through the slit, and into the acid. Then, do the same with the phone.
Finally, using a length of string which you'll have tied around the neck of the bottle, lower the bottle with phone and chip, gently into a dumpster in some back alley somewhere.
By time the Waste Management truck comes to hoist the bin, there won't be much phone in there to be of any remaining interest. And there absolutely will not be any data remaining on the device.
Remember, chips are manufactured and etched into their very existence via use of similar, but much stronger acids. They can be destroyed in much the same way.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
p.s. added benefit. The acid will kill any fingerprints or DNA which went into the bottle. Your fingerprints on the outside of the bottle though, are YOUR problem.
You did remember to always wear rubber gloves when working with any acids, yes?
Then, all is well. Carry on.
Posted by: Jim at July
If I am ever abducted by aliens I hope they let me pick more than two people to drag along with me because you, I and AOP are going to get sick of looking at each other real fast. On the upside if anyone can build a sex robot it is you and AOP. She may have a stampunk vibe but she would be great, save for the sharp edges.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (0wem/)
Even if you make it to the moon you'll still be as far away from the stars as you were when you started.
Just sayin' ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:22 PM (rZ+mb)
I just bought a Sony Xperia XA ultra for 250.00 that is great for the money. No not as nice as the notes but, man easier on the wallet!
Posted by: catman at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (5H2BV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (rJUlF)
It's the best way to put a guy to sleep early.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 23, 2017 11:19 PM (D2vc1)
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Word.
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (s5Kql)
For Super Chicken! Ba-kaw!
On with George of the Jungle, I believe.
Posted by: I had a name, but I forgot at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (jY+fp)
Yep, and Tom Slick.
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (lIZQs)
Sounds about right, thanks. And you remembered more of the song for me.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (pszv/)
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I just kept hitting London.
Posted by: Werner von Braun at July 23, 2017 11:23 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:24 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 23, 2017 11:24 PM (lIZQs)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 23, 2017 11:24 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Hillary 2020! at July 23, 2017 11:24 PM (bc2Lc)
It's the best way to put a guy to sleep early.
Posted by: Country Boy at July
Well, that is what dressing rooms are for.
Hey, babe, let's see if this fits.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:25 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Little Kim at July 23, 2017 11:26 PM (5H2BV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 11:26 PM (RZXSp)
Posted by: SMFH at July
Well, hello there, what's a nice lady like you doing in a place like this.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:26 PM (0wem/)
Yeah...that was his idea too. (eyeroll)
It's a child clothing store. I cannot fathom why they would even have adult sized dressing rooms, and also...how two fully grown people going into a dressing room wouldn't seem odd.
Also...how romantic.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (cct0t)
I do.
It's easier to buy a burner phone to use for a couple of months when customers that owe you money start to avoid your phone calls because they see your number on the caller ID.
It's funny how I can call from my office or my cell phone and they don't answer, but the second I call on that burner phone they answer.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (Id9+8)
TracFone, Straighttalk, or Total Wireless are the ways to go.
Straighttalk offers Androids with monthly service of $45 for unlimited
text/talk and IIRC about 5GB of data.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 23, 2017 11:18 PM (1JnAL)
Thanks for this info. I am clueless about "gigs of data". Do you think that 5GB would be enough for a week of just looking at websites like AoS and WZ? No streaming movies or anything like that?
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: catman at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (5jdSv)
That should be plenty.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (rJUlF)
First of all, because of our Constitution and the fact that Americans have always cherished the individual liberty that defined our nation. Secondly, because our system is the one that pays for pretty much all of the R+D in medicine which the rest of the world then drafts off of. Systems with universal health insurance don't tend to do much in the way of introducing new drugs, procedures and tools. They spend their time rationing the tools available (usually because they let someone else develop and perfect them and then just jumped on the bandwagon for nothing) not looking for any new ones.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (smD62)
Yeah, no.
And you said this was his idea?
Well, it's your date, not mine.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (Id9+8)
Would like to apologize to the 'Horde for my less-than-exemplary behavior the other night, though.
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (s5Kql)
Also...how romantic.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July
really? how much easier is it to build child sized dressing rooms? what would those look like? lower walls, shorter doors, lower ceilings, higher floors? Not enough room for mom to help them try the clothes on? what is a child sized dressing room?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (0wem/)
just looking at websites like AoS and WZ? No streaming movies or
anything like that?
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (RfzVr)
Yes...absolutely.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (wYseH)
No.
No streaming movies or anything like that?
No.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (RZXSp)
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (pszv/)
Thanks for this info. I am clueless about "gigs of data". Do you think that 5GB would be enough for a week of just looking at websites like AoS and WZ? No streaming movies or anything like that?
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:27 PM (RfzVr)
Pretty sure most smart phones have a way to follow your usage of data. Just check it now and in a few days of "normal" usage and extrapolate.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (z79tQ)
And you said this was his idea?
Well, it's your date, not mine.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
Want to see what a child sized dressing room is like?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:30 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:31 PM (RfzVr)
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The novelty wears off pretty fast.
Posted by: Hairy Reed at July 23, 2017 11:31 PM (PXj2C)
Posted by: Hairy Reed at July 23, 2017 11:30 PM (0wem/)
fify
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 23, 2017 11:31 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 11:31 PM (IqV8l)
health coverage, also have not only the highest health-care spending in
the world -- both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP -- but also one of
the highest levels of government spending on health care per person?"
A few thoughts on this. We in the US are where most of the cutting edge developments in healthcare and drugs take place. This is because we are to place where individuals and companies can profit from their advances and cover the RD costs that are very large, especially in drug development.
These other countries, since their governments don't want to pay those costs, they demand that only the manufacturing costs and a modest profit are to be paid. They are leaches, parasites on American healthcare as they are on American military too. Not that they are alone in this as every large entity works to shift costs to some other. Medicare, Medicaid, and insurers do it too in a constant game of musical chairs.
The other thing is just what is the problem if Americans want to spend more on healthcare that Zimbabwe or, for worse yet care, England? We spend more on our military too - to the benefit of those leaches again. And the same whiny death-cult complains about both even as they enjoy the benefits that flow to all the world from both because the US pays the freight for everyone.
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: Toad-O at July 23, 2017 11:12 PM (cct0t)
That's the same argument the government uses about why you shouldn't be able to hold cash.
Perhaps I want a burner phone just because I don't feel like the world having my phone number with a simple internet search? Perhaps I just want a simple phone without any contracts, hassles or bullshit? THere are tons of reasons why people like burner phones.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (rZ+mb)
Yeah, just pop it in the microwave and stand back.
Posted by: t-bird at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (pszv/)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (s5Kql)
We all reach our breaking points, babe. So glad to see you back.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (Id9+8)
"And that's all I have to say about that."
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:34
Contrary to what you say I would give a DAMN if you leave. Hang around, I always enjoy your contributions.
I know the ONT has gone wonky IMO. I'll leave it at that or I might be banned.
Be well Capt.
T
Posted by: Farmer at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: cfo mom at July
yeah like witsec would ever let you in here.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)*
CW, there is a lot of older cars sold on lots in NW OKC. Either 36th or 39th street, can't remember. It has been a while since i was there.
Posted by: 2018 at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (oZe0I)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 11:29 PM (RZXSp)
I have been away for a week and been a heavy user of my smart phone...posting and reading AoSHQ and several other sites, checking several email accounts, and I didn't come close to 5gb. It was more like 1.25gb.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 11:33 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:33 PM (s5Kql)
Hannnndddd....Salute!
Readddy, Two![/]
*aaaattt EASE!*
*AttttennnSHUN!*
*FALL OUT!*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 23, 2017 11:33 PM (v5iqM)
The carrier who gives you your data is the same one who tells you how much data you use. I would not put it past any of them to chew it up for you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 11:33 PM (4FTuS)
Perhaps I want a burner phone just because I don't feel like the world having my phone number with a simple internet search? Perhaps I just want a simple phone without any contracts, hassles or bullshit? THere are tons of reasons why people like burner phones.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July
yep. you should have one because if you ever need one, or a dozen, it will be too late to get them.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:34 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:35 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2017 11:35 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:30 PM (0wem/)
Silly, they're regular size. Everyone knows that Mom has to go in there with you and force you to try things on while you whine like a little bitch.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:35 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: NCKate at July 23, 2017 11:36 PM (E4p3I)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:36 PM (0wem/)
http://tinyurl.com/y7fhuea2
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 23, 2017 11:36 PM (d3wbb)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July
well, only way to know for sure is to go in there and try things. on.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:37 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: tbodie at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (oZe0I)
Yes, so good to SMFH back. What a relief.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (8O3HH)
cfo mom,
The carrier who gives you your data is the same one who tells you
how much data you use. I would not put it past any of them to chew it
up for you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 23, 2017 11:33 PM (4FTuS)
I don't understand. This is a phone I will only use for about 10 days and then never again.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: NCKate at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (E4p3I)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:37 PM (0wem/)
One wants to assure oneself of a good fit.
Mmmmmhmmm.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)*
Just ask anyone who knows someone who launders money.
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 23, 2017 11:39 PM (lIZQs)
"The Slut Walk of Chicago is under fire tonight after saying it will stand in solidarity with the organizers of the Chicago Dy[k]e March and ban 'Zionist displays' at their upcoming march as well:"
They don't want any Zionists lowering the high class of the sluts.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:39 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (RfzVr)
administration member quit and there was only one Russian intelligence
leak scandal per day. ROTFL!
Posted by: Bill Wynn at July 23, 2017 11:38 PM (Ntnpb)
In Russia, intelligence has YOU!
Posted by: Jakov Smirnov at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Farmer at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (yJ1e6)
Mmmmmhmmm.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July
the only sweet nothing I know how to whisper I learned at the hq.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:41 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (0wem/)
"But first...?"
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:39 PM (Nwg0u)
As a Zionist, I'm very happy about that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (0wem/)*
"Pics, or it didn't happen?"
Posted by: tbodie at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (oZe0I)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (0wem/)
"But first...?"
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July
Brace yourself
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: freaked at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: tbodie at July 23, 2017 11:43 PM (oZe0I)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July
Good luck, you deserve it.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:43 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:42 PM (0wem/)
Ah, right - to avoid those unpleasant surprises.
You're a true gentleman, Y5. Ace is proud, I'm sure.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:44 PM (Id9+8)
He asked me to dinner.
I suggested maybe he could come help me pick out clothes for my niece and nephew while I shop for them.
I think that's a good compromise.
He gets a date, er sort of. I don't have to be a jerk about it and tell him no. And, I am sure my personality will turn him off completely so...alls well that ends well.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (smD62)
Yeah... no. He asked you on a date. If you don't want to date him then say 'no'. If you're willing to date him, give him the courtesy of an actual date.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 11:44 PM (Tnhbr)
You're a true gentleman, Y5. Ace is proud, I'm sure.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July
Thanks.
How is the terrace? Plans for Mileyville in FL?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:45 PM (0wem/)
You know what? They are right. It is easy to write him off as a dumb fuck, because he is. He had $4000 cash savings. There are plenty of perfectly serviceable $2000 cars out there. They won't be new, they won't be pretty, but the owner won't have to carry mondo-expensive collision insurance on them, either. He could have stuck $2000 into a beater, and used the other two grand as a contingency fund to cover unexpected repairs, which, granted, a $2000 beater might need. And that $2000 beater could have lasted him a year or two, until he was on his feet again, credit-wise, and able to buy a new(er) car with affordable financing.
But, noooo, Mr. Bad Credit had to have a flashy late-model truck, didn't he?
Santander sounds like a scummy company. But then, since a fool and his money are soon parted, it has to fall on somebody to ensure that said parting happens expeditiously.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2017 11:45 PM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: By For Of at July 23, 2017 11:45 PM (qYCgM)
Posted by: Alana
Is that you, Betty Draper?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 23, 2017 11:45 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: cfo mom at July 23, 2017 11:47 PM (RfzVr)
How is the terrace? Plans for Mileyville in FL?
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:45 PM (0wem/)
Balcony flowers, you mean? Still alive.
Mileyville lies in the mists of the future. Not sure how to get there yet.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:48 PM (Id9+8)
"The Slut Walk of Chicago is under fire tonight after saying it will stand in solidarity with the organizers of the Chicago Dy[k]e March and ban 'Zionist displays' at their upcoming march as well:"
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We have allowed the country to go insane.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 23, 2017 11:48 PM (OdK9v)
He asked me to dinner.
I suggested maybe he could come help me pick out clothes for my niece and nephew while I shop for them.
I think that's a good compromise.
He gets a date, er sort of. I don't have to be a jerk about it and tell him no. And, I am sure my personality will turn him off completely so...alls well that ends well.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:15 PM (smD62)
I think that's perfectly fine. He wants to spend time with you and he gets that. And it doesn't cost him anything.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:49 PM (rZ+mb)
Mileyville lies in the mists of the future. Not sure how to get there yet.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July
I thought you were having work done on your terrace.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:49 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:41 PM (s5Kql)
No Ma'am, thank you.
For your service abroad & at home.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 11:49 PM (GzDYP)
She also used it as a good camera too
She did rent a phone in Korea to call the US and around to friends there in Korea.
I use a TracFone too. I don't do a lot on a phone, and I don't particularly want a smart phone besides texting.
If you don't do much in calls or other than texting, it is very cheap
Posted by: Kindltot at July 23, 2017 11:50 PM (mkDpn)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July
well, the dignity and self respect.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:50 PM (0wem/)
And yes, my sunburn is peeling. No, I never learn
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 23, 2017 11:50 PM (Id9+8)
Fewer now than previously.
Everyone thinks of Cash For Clunkers as having been a huge taxpayer giveaway to the autoworkers' unions, which of course it was.
But it also ultimately helped line the pockets of the predatory auto loan sharks, as millions of perfectly good older cars were removed from the market entirely, including as spare parts. Straight to the crusher.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 11:51 PM (ujwCG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:49 PM (0wem/)
Where are your manners?
A lady never tells.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 23, 2017 11:51 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:51 PM (0wem/)
I've been trying to get up to speed on the USS Gerald Ford. Is it true the new EM catapult system has not yet launched it's first aircraft.
I was reading Trump said something about "you're going to go back to goddamned steam, the digital cost hundreds of millions more and it's no good."
"Digital" is presumably our god-emporer's term for the EM system.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 23, 2017 11:52 PM (8O3HH)
Please pray for the family as it crosses your mind.
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 23, 2017 10:26 PM (nBr1j)
Condolences to the family. That sort of accident sure sounds like some safety rule was breached.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: NCKate at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (E4p3I)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 23, 2017 11:54 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:50 PM (0wem/)
Shows how much he wants to spend time with her, tho. So she has that going for her.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 23, 2017 11:54 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:50 PM (0wem/)
Heh.
Pretty funny ... but I really don't see any problem with it. He gets a chance to work his way in and he'll probably enjoy the shopping. It's a low-stress, high-potential situation for him. What's the worst that can come of it ... he ditches Tickled in the kids' section and goes to watch the 60" 4K screens.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:54 PM (rZ+mb)
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Twitchy features Jenna Jameson on a semi-regular basis. She seems conservative and not stupid.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at July 23, 2017 11:54 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July
sure it does
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:54 PM (0wem/)
Quick in and out to say hello (heya, SMFH) and exhort all to remember you are Americans, so hold that head HIGH. Y'all live in a first world country--the most exceptional one on the planet.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 23, 2017 11:56 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 23, 2017 11:56 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:56 PM (s5Kql)
But it also ultimately helped line the pockets of the predatory auto loan sharks, as millions of perfectly good older cars were removed from the market entirely, including as spare parts. Straight to the crusher.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 11:51 PM (ujwCG)
Yep. The cars had to be certified "destroyed" before money was disbursed for them. I remember seeing some report on what HAD to be done to the cars to insure that they could NEVER be on the road again or used for much of anything. It was an insane program that only a leftist could love. And they really do love stuff like that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 23, 2017 11:57 PM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July
Well, the implication seems to be that this was a one off because she has a boyfriend, who she was not cheating on by going on a date with a guy. But the guy shopping for kiddie clothes with her, in a store with child sized dressing rooms, probably thought this was some sort of first date hell he had to suffer through to get to the second date, which is not going to be, unless she is stepping out on her boyfriend, again.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:57 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 23, 2017 11:58 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at July 23, 2017 11:59 PM (Tnhbr)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:59 PM (s5Kql)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July
some sort of silica something or other that JSND or AOP will know, had to be poured into the engine. then it had to be sent to five years of inner city public education.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:00 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: NCKate at July 24, 2017 12:00 AM (E4p3I)
Posted by: NCKate at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (E4p3I)
Citi was going to be gifted Wachovia. It was worked out over a weekend by Hank Paulson. It was announced the Monday morning, and by Wednesday, Wells Fargo announced they would buy Wachovia for more than what the Feds were giving to Citi to buy Wachovia.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at July 24, 2017 12:01 AM (1JnAL)
Oh ... I had no idea. I only jumped in in the middle.
But the guy shopping for kiddie clothes with her, in a store with child sized dressing rooms, probably thought this was some sort of first date hell he had to suffer through to get to the second date, which is not going to be, unless she is stepping out on her boyfriend, again.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:57 PM (0wem/)
I don't want to address specifics, here ... but any time a girl accepts spending time with a guy there's a chance ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:02 AM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:00 AM (0wem/)
LOL.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:02 AM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July
heh. your optimism is admirable.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:02 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (w7U7L)
Shut up, fool!
Posted by: Pedro the Cruel at July 24, 2017 12:03 AM (PXj2C)
Posted by: yankeefifth
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Which is why they can't deal with algebra.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 12:03 AM (OdK9v)
What a sad story.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2017 12:04 AM (pGb63)
Posted by: aethelraed the unready at July 24, 2017 12:05 AM (6FqZa)
They have a shoreside installation of EMALS. At Pax River, I think. It's hucked a bunch of jets and drones into the air there. Apparently damaging some of them in the process.
A bunch of sleds, weighted to simulate aircraft of various sizes, have been catapulted off of the _Ford_ into the water with the actual production EMALS integrated into the ship. They may have launched a car as a joke.
But the builders were leery of letting any actual aircraft catapult testing occur until such time as Big Navy had signed the formal acceptance documents for the _Ford_. (Which has just been done.)
I have a suspicion that, like its namesake who famously couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time, that the _Ford_ is going to have real troubles with launching aircraft in the underway environment.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 24, 2017 12:07 AM (ujwCG)
Posted by: NCKate at July 24, 2017 12:07 AM (E4p3I)
Posted by: torquewrench at July 24, 2017 12:07 AM (ujwCG)
That was just SNL bullshit. Ford was one of the best athletes to ever sit in the Oval Office.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:08 AM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: torabora at July 24, 2017 12:10 AM (J1dEm)
Posted by: Just another Troll at July 24, 2017 12:11 AM (CfjIy)
So yeah, if you're sticking hard to that idea, don't let this guy (who's right here, right now) think there's a chance to have a meaningful relationship with you.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 24, 2017 12:11 AM (GzDYP)
I can suck cock and chew gum at the same time.
Except when I get mixed up and chew cock and suck gum.
Posted by: Sheppy Smith at July 24, 2017 12:12 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
Well, you're dead so there is that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 24, 2017 12:12 AM (ZTRlp)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:08 AM (rZ+mb)*
Yep, though the bad knee produced some stumbles.
And that got played and replayed endlessly.
Don't know why,
Posted by: tbodie at July 24, 2017 12:14 AM (oZe0I)
Good to see you back, SMFH.
Good night, all!
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 24, 2017 12:15 AM (rJUlF)
It's a hole in the wall, kind small, but people are real nice."
Kid Rock.
What will they play at his campaign rallies?
Should he hold Trump-like rallies?
What name should he be giving to Debbie? Or is it Debi? We had Trump doing Crooked Hillary, but Kid needs to get dirtier than that. His voters expect more.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at July 24, 2017 12:16 AM (U6f54)
NCKate, you're right. what a sad song. tragic.
and that's all I can do tonight. to sleep, perchance to dream.
good nite all. (nitol?) no.
Posted by: booknlass at July 24, 2017 12:16 AM (6Xf+s)
Posted by: SMFH at July 24, 2017 12:17 AM (s5Kql)
There were some infamous incidents of Ford falling, such as coming down the steps of Air Force One, that got that klutz image started. It was reinforced by Chevy Chase on SNL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz0he9rtKw
He also famously hit some woman on the head with a golf ball, I think.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 24, 2017 12:17 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 24, 2017 12:18 AM (0jtPF)
Posted by: torquewrench
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I'm reminded of the A-1 Skyraider that dropped a toilet bowl on NVA in Viet Nam.
http://tinyurl.com/2zzmeg
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 12:19 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: publius
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Pffft.
Posted by: Dick Cheney at July 24, 2017 12:20 AM (OdK9v)
And there's some problem with the new arrestor system on the _Gerald Ford_, too isn't there?
So can't throw 'em, can't catch 'em?
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 24, 2017 12:20 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)*
CW, there is a lot of older cars sold on lots in NW OKC. Either 36th or 39th street, can't remember. It has been a while since i was there.
Posted by: 2018 at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (oZe0I)
Whitebread Jr. needs to befriend a good independent mechanic, and pay that person to scout out a car for him, and to vet any cars that me might find himself. Car lots are one source, but the dealers won't be giving them away. Craigslist is a good resource. Another idea is just to cruise decent neighborhoods, and if you see a car/pickup of the right age on lawn with grass grown up under it, and with expired plates, knock on the door of the house and ask if the car might be for sale. Be respectful. Often you will get the brush-off, but once in a while, you will hit paydirt. Network, network, network.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:21 AM (XUcIQ)
It's time spent together, and if that's not a date, I dunno what is.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (smD62)
Sorry, just got home.
Time spent together on a date is typically doing something you both want to do.
Trust me, no man wants to go shopping on a date unless he's gayer than a 3 bill.
Dinner was fine, or even a lunch. Worst that happens is you blow an hour or two.
My ex always wanted to stop at a store or two before we went somewhere. I hated that. I was usually yawning before we even got to the women's section.
Blech.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:21 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: SMFH at July 24, 2017 12:22 AM (s5Kql)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at July 24, 2017 12:22 AM (Ndje9)
And he expected perfection from every instrument and voice. A tyrant in rehearsal and the studio.
Even in those early days with the Mothers.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at July 24, 2017 12:22 AM (U6f54)
http://tinyurl.com/2zzmeg
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 12:19 AM (OdK9v)*
Heh.
Posted by: tbodie at July 24, 2017 12:23 AM (oZe0I)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:49 PM (0wem/)
The management of this apartment complex is doing a chaotic makeover, presumably in an effort to sell it before all of the windows have to be replaced. And the balcony garden has been provisional and at risk throughout. They haven't done the railings yet.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 12:23 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: phreshone at July 24, 2017 12:24 AM (DpOmP)
521 *CW Jr. can't find an old beater to buy, either.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 23, 2017 10:49 PM (rJUlF)*
CW, there is a lot of older cars sold on lots in NW OKC. Either 36th or 39th street, can't remember. It has been a while since i was there.
Posted by: 2018 at July 23, 2017 11:32 PM (oZe0I)
Whitebread Jr. needs to befriend a good independent mechanic, and pay that person to scout out a car for him, and to vet any cars that me might find himself. Car lots are one source, but the dealers won't be giving them away. Craigslist is a good resource. Another idea is just to cruise decent neighborhoods, and if you see a car/pickup of the right age on lawn with grass grown up under it, and with expired plates, knock on the door of the house and ask if the car might be for sale. Be respectful. Often you will get the brush-off, but once in a while, you will hit paydirt. Network, network, network.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:21 AM (XUcIQ)
My dad managed to find a decent older car for my niece who just got her license. It probably doesn't hurt to have people with decent connections to search for cars.
One of my dad's friends ran a body shop and has helped to find cars that are ok or maybe need a bit a work. Its how my parents got their 2 primary vehicles. Not sure if he helped with my niece's car.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:25 AM (cAnNx)
I think we should encourage and draft porn stars to run for office (orifice). Just think of the fun you could have with campaign slogans, and if elected, committee chairmanship names and legislative titles.
For instance. Roxy Raye. Just imagine the possibilities.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 24, 2017 12:25 AM (8O3HH)
Hasta la nite nite, Horde!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 24, 2017 12:26 AM (v5iqM)
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (s5Kql)
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Never apologize, Mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July 24, 2017 12:26 AM (ogGku)
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:26 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: SMFH at July 24, 2017 12:26 AM (s5Kql)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 23, 2017 11:53 PM (w7U7L)
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Oh?
What about all of the Cheetos?
Posted by: Charles the Fat at July 24, 2017 12:27 AM (0jtPF)
I think we should encourage and draft porn stars to run for office (orifice). Just think of the fun you could have with campaign slogans, and if elected, committee chairmanship names and legislative titles.
For instance. Roxy Raye. Just imagine the possibilities.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 24, 2017 12:25 AM (8O3HH)
Secretary of the Interior
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 24, 2017 12:27 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Emmie at July 24, 2017 12:28 AM (ZapPq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 23, 2017 11:40 PM (0wem/)
Taint painting?
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:29 AM (Jcg9Q)
But it also ultimately helped line the pockets of the predatory auto loan sharks, as millions of perfectly good older cars were removed from the market entirely, including as spare parts. Straight to the crusher.
Posted by: torquewrench at July 23, 2017 11:51 PM (ujwCG)
I'm sure it had an effect, as thousands of perfectly good cars were literally murdered in cold blood. But that was a few years ago, and cars that were not then clunkers have now achieved that status. And there are still many older cars, from the '60's and '70's, that are there if you seek them out. And some of those old "granny cars" have amazingly low miles on them. I was getting gas this evening in Calgary, and young guy drove up in a '62 Chev Impala, running real fine. No showpiece, but a perfectly serviceable car. I said, "Nice car, dude", and got a big grin in return.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:29 AM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 12:30 AM (Id9+8)
It's time spent together, and if that's not a date, I dunno what is.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 23, 2017 11:21 PM (smD62)
Sorry, just got home.
Time spent together on a date is typically doing something you both want to do.
Trust me, no man wants to go shopping on a date unless he's gayer than a 3 bill.
Dinner was fine, or even a lunch. Worst that happens is you blow an hour or two.
My ex always wanted to stop at a store or two before we went somewhere. I hated that. I was usually yawning before we even got to the women's section.
Blech.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:21 AM (Jcg9Q)
Yup.... in the Men Going Their Own Way community, this is what known as a SHIT test.
How much shit will this guy put up with.
If he said yes to this, he needs to turn in his Man card.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 24, 2017 12:31 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:29 AM (XUcIQ)
A black '67 would have been better.
Posted by: Dean Winchester at July 24, 2017 12:32 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 24, 2017 12:32 AM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Deacon Blues at July 24, 2017 12:36 AM (dZGNV)
Posted by: kallisto at July 23, 2017 10:23 PM (7l5V0)
This!
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 24, 2017 12:36 AM (QMwOT)
Posted by: ibguy at July 24, 2017 12:36 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 24, 2017 12:32 AM (H5knJ)
What am I, chopped liver? Oh, wait, I'm not in the Senate, am I?
Posted by: John Effin' Kerry at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (XUcIQ)
Would like to apologize to the 'Horde for my less-than-exemplary behavior the other night, though.
Posted by: SMFH at July 23, 2017 11:28 PM (
Honey, the insults thrown at you were beyond the pale. You were pretty damned restrained. Glad to see you.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: ibguy at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
So do I. I'm all outta gum anyways.
Posted by: Duke Nuke'm at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (QMwOT)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 24, 2017 12:32 AM (H5knJ)
Abso-fvcking-lutely!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 24, 2017 12:38 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:38 AM (0wem/)
How much shit will this guy put up with.
If he said yes to this, he needs to turn in his Man card.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 24, 2017 12:31 AM (NgKpN)
I never even heard of Shit Tests until a few months ago both here and from a guy on Youtube.
That would explain a few things.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:38 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
So do I. I'm all outta gum anyways.
Posted by: Duke Nuke'm at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (QMwOT
You also have trouble putting out a decent game in a timely manner.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:39 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
So do I. I'm all outta gum anyways.
Posted by: Duke Nuke'm at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (QMwOT
You also have trouble putting out a decent game.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:39 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July
Well, there is Paola Saulino, the girl who promised everyone that voted one way on a particular referendum a blow. She is on her pompa tour now. Likely just a stunt to suck start her porn careet.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:40 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: ibguy at July 24, 2017 12:40 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
So do I. I'm all outta gum anyways.
Posted by: Duke Nuke'm at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (QMwOT
You also have trouble putting out a decent game in a timely manner.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:39 AM (cAnNx)
555 550 505 I find it hard to kick ass and chew gum at the same time.
Posted by: rowdy roddy piper at July 24, 2017 12:09 AM (6FqZa)
So do I. I'm all outta gum anyways.
Posted by: Duke Nuke'm at July 24, 2017 12:37 AM (QMwOT
You also have trouble putting out a decent game.
You also have trouble putting out a decent game.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 24, 2017 12:42 AM (oZe0I)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:42 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 12:42 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (cAnNx)
"The Senate is the saucer into which we pour legislation to cool"
The “Senatorial saucer” conversation between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson is part of U.S. Senate legend. Jefferson had returned from France and was breakfasting with Washington. Jefferson asked Washington why he agreed to have a Senate.
“Why,” said Washington, “did you just now pour that coffee into your saucer before drinking it?”
“To cool it,” said Jefferson; “my throat is not made of brass.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Sid the Insufferable at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (PXj2C)
Trust me, no man wants to go shopping on a date unless he's gayer than a 3 bill.
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hey Sailor !
not sure how they do things on your planet, but, on my world, if my woman wants to shop for clothes she looks good in, or the delightful bits that go underneath, i'm her huckleberry.
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (ogGku)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:45 AM (cAnNx)
Dude ... That Men Going Their Own Way stuff is ... well, 'nuff said.
this is what known as a SHIT test.
How much shit will this guy put up with.
If he said yes to this, he needs to turn in his Man card.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 24, 2017 12:31 AM (NgKpN)
This is just incorrect. It is what the guy makes of it.
You know, this reminds me of people who think that good poker players win because they get good hands. They win because they know how to play the person, not the hand.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:46 AM (rZ+mb)
Posted by: ibguy at July 24, 2017 12:46 AM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:29 AM (XUcIQ)
A black '67 would have been better.
Posted by: Dean Winchester at July 24, 2017 12:32 AM (cAnNx)
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Was getting gas last night at a Chevron when this beat up Ford Focus came in. The car was ugly. The babe driving it had a really nice rack hiding behind a low cut, tight fitting cocktail dress.
Didn't say anything. Just drooled.
Posted by: MAGA is Right! at July 24, 2017 12:46 AM (QMwOT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:47 AM (0wem/)
http://tinyurl.com/yc97cju6
Maybe they helped smash Hillary's blackberrys too.
Posted by: geoffb5 at July 24, 2017 12:48 AM (d3wbb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July
You will never make an enemy complimenting a man's dog or his car.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:48 AM (0wem/)
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (ogGku)
On a first date?
You might be her huckleberry, and her gay friend to boot.
/s
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:48 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:47 AM (0wem/)
Portajohn.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:48 AM (cAnNx)
not sure how they do things on your planet, but, on my world, if my woman wants to shop for clothes she looks good in, or the delightful bits that go underneath, i'm her huckleberry.
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (
She wants to shop for children's clothes. Not something mirnak heterosexual men find delightful underneath.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (hscyr)
You enter by way of a house built onto a century-old homesteader cabin built of squared logs. The annex to the house has a conical dome with a narwhal weathervane on top. A large weathervane. Inside the dome, it's pivot shaft hangs down, and sports a harpoon that indicates the wind direction; directly above a twelve-foot round table made from the rear wheel of a steam tractor.
Then you down a staircase into a series of underground rooms, linked by tunnels. First two rooms contain African tribal metalwork, a huge collection. Then you emerge upon a balcony that overlooks a very large stationary steam engine. The back wall of the balcony is a library. The steam engine runs a number of overhead line shafts that carry power to a great many machine tools from the nineteenth and early twentieth Century: lathes, shapers, planers, milling machines, drilling machines, trip hammers, you name it.
And several classic automobiles, and a Vincent HRD motorcycle.
I was blown away by it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (XUcIQ)
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July
well, she was shopping for kiddie clothes so.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (hscyr)
Better hope not.
Posted by: buzzion at July 24, 2017 12:50 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:50 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:50 AM (rZ+mb)
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
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I agree. Especially if she wants to model them for you later.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 24, 2017 12:51 AM (QMwOT)
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
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I agree. Especially if she wants to model them for you later.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 24, 2017 12:51 AM (QMwOT)
Pffft. Don't get me started.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 24, 2017 12:53 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July
on a house with chris hansen in the foyer.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:53 AM (0wem/)
As Charlie Gard demonstrates, health "coverage" is not the same thing as healthcare.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 24, 2017 12:56 AM (/qEW2)
not sure how they do things on your planet, but, on my world, if my woman wants to shop for clothes she looks good in, or the delightful bits that go underneath, i'm her huckleberry.
YMMV, but, be warned, carpel tunnel is a bitch.
Posted by: CPT Natahn Brittle, US Cavalry at July 24, 2017 12:43 AM (
She wants to shop for children's clothes. Not something mirnak heterosexual men find delightful underneath.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (hscyr)
She's telling you the "protection" you used was faulty.
If it's your first date, probably a good idea not to go on date #2.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 24, 2017 12:57 AM (QMwOT)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 12:47 AM (0wem/)
Chamber pot
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:58 AM (hscyr)
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Posted by: Anthony Weiner at July 24, 2017 12:58 AM (rR8J5)
Er ... not the best name in the world ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
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I once stopped in Elberton, GA, which bills itself as 'The Granite Capital of the World'.
The have a museum there called...wait for it... The Granite Museum.
Inside there are lumps of granite. Kind of a low key place.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 12:58 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 12:49 AM (hscyr)
"Mirnak"? Is that the latest cool Russian slang?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:02 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 24, 2017 12:50 AM (rZ+mb)
I can sort of see how it came to be, though. Here is a Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8SkMi_g2g
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 01:04 AM (XUcIQ)
Inside there are lumps of granite. Kind of a low key place.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 12:58 AM (OdK9v)
Sounds gneiss.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 01:06 AM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: ibguy at July 24, 2017 01:06 AM (vUcdz)
AOP that museum sounds incredibly awesome!
I traded in my Ram Friday for a Ranger, thinking it would be smaller in width, and I could do the mail in it.
I was so frustrated yesterday. there's space behind the two front seats, but the mail trays won't fit between the seats and the hard wall on the side. so in went packages, but there's not enough f'n room over the top of each seat, with the head rest to reach through and fish out the packages. super frustrating.
I've got to buy a tonnau for the bed, because the mail has to be locked up when I leave the vehicle. But I'd like to take out the passenger seat or something. don't have a clue what to do.
Posted by: booknlass at July 24, 2017 01:07 AM (6Xf+s)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:08 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:02 AM
I typed normal. Hmmm, autocucumber has been hacked by the Russians?!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 01:09 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 24, 2017 01:09 AM (0wem/)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:09 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:10 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 01:11 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:11 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 01:12 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: booknlass at July 24, 2017 01:12 AM (6Xf+s)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:11 AM
Me too. Who wants to lull us to sleep?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 01:13 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Brahms at July 24, 2017 01:15 AM (OdK9v)
I have missed all the bannings, SMFH's thing, and much contentious infighting amongst the commentariat.
I hate missing a good flame war.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 24, 2017 01:18 AM (pGb63)
Posted by: Brahms at July 24,
Not EXACTLY what I had in mind, but ok cause 04:30 will be here all too soon.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at July 24, 2017 01:18 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2017 01:12 AM (OdK9v)
Pretty much. It is hard to get a booking to see it. Our local Studebaker club brought them 87 visitors, the most they'd ever had in a day. We did it in three batches.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 01:19 AM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:19 AM (Id9+8)
Granite Museum - the place rocks. Hard. Got stoned there. It was heavy.
Posted by: Nobody cares who you are at July 24, 2017 01:20 AM (kDUUX)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:20 AM (Id9+8)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 24, 2017 01:23 AM (0jtPF)
Sweden's government is AIDS. The Muslim immigrants are ebola. The prognosis is not good.
Posted by: Marion Cobretti at July 24, 2017 01:25 AM (/qEW2)
Have another cuppa. A bon mot. A fleur de leia.
ALas. Sayonara, amigos.
Posted by: Nobody cares what you said at July 24, 2017 01:29 AM (kDUUX)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 24, 2017 01:31 AM (Id9+8)
Breitbart.com
http://bit.ly/2eGIVfJ
I love our little brothers in Texas... but... when did Texas become a city?
Posted by: Houston, we have a plobrem. at July 24, 2017 01:33 AM (kDUUX)
Posted by: Google Translate Breakdown at July 24, 2017 01:34 AM (kDUUX)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 24, 2017 01:35 AM (WTSFk)
Linked by somebody today, probably here?
https://youtu.be/prVRwXAWFeA
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Posted by: Anthony Weiner at July 24, 2017 12:58 AM (rR8J5)
Threadweiner.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 24, 2017 01:47 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 24, 2017 01:47 AM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Morons to be identified later at July 24, 2017 01:50 AM (kDUUX)
Just sayin' ...
Motivational speakers are as weird a phenomenon as professional mourners. Doesn't make sense how anyone could value something like that.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 24, 2017 01:53 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Marion Cobretti at July 24, 2017 01:25 AM (/qEW2)
Islam is memetic syphilis, a disease spread by language that attacks the mind and leaves its victims as drooling, irrational, violent nutcases.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at July 24, 2017 01:57 AM (J+mig)
* sets beer bottle up on the wall *
* fires bb gun *
* satisfying crash *
Looks like leftisms t'me, mate.
Posted by: Tanto come here I need you at July 24, 2017 02:03 AM (kDUUX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 02:16 AM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 24, 2017 02:22 AM (XUcIQ)
Posted by: Fortunato at July 24, 2017 02:23 AM (MzFJT)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
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I can explain that, for a modest fee.
Posted by: Tony Robbins at July 24, 2017 02:25 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
In particular, I think they both take envy, which most humans recognize is evil, and turn it into a virtue.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 24, 2017 02:25 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 24, 2017 02:28 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at July 24, 2017 02:31 AM (PMDjU)
Tonight is a new moon, you can't see it. Someone must have photoshopped this one.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 24, 2017 02:39 AM (gIRsn)
Posted by: :twisted: at July 24, 2017 02:44 AM (Rjw0c)
Posted by: ONT at July 24, 2017 03:03 AM (SEclx)
Posted by: Hillary 2020! at July 24, 2017 03:07 AM (bc2Lc)
There were some infamous incidents of Ford falling, such as coming down the steps of Air Force One, that got that klutz image started. It was reinforced by Chevy Chase on SNL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz0he9rtKw
He also famously hit some woman on the head with a golf ball, I think.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at July 24, 2017 12:17 AM (8O3HH)
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That's not an easy shot to make.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 24, 2017 03:10 AM (pvjTE)
Posted by: Bill C at July 24, 2017 03:33 AM (9TU00)
Posted by: Shep Smith at July 24, 2017 03:40 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2017 04:07 AM (9g/6M)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2017 04:46 AM (MSffI)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
And a top 'o the morning to ya, Ben Had and Skip.
Bong Dong, Bong Dong
Daywalker, Arriving
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2017 05:26 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: David Dwyer at July 24, 2017 06:11 AM (DPhwq)
Posted by: Robert Sendler at July 24, 2017 06:14 AM (4N6Cu)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2017 06:31 AM (4FTuS)
Glad to see SMFH has been rehabilitated and returned to the Commentariat!
I've read at 4chan that something/someone called "Swordfish" maybe of some significance today with a big reveal at 1900Z (curiously, at the same time PDT is expected to give an announcement on healthcare), or this could all be just another nothingburger...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at July 24, 2017 06:32 AM (e9G8E)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2017 06:34 AM (Bd48Y)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 24, 2017 06:37 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 24, 2017 06:39 AM (FYe3W)
"Comparing The USA to the rest of the world and health insurance. Why doesn't the USA have universal health insurance?"
You fall into a language trap with this. There is no such thing as "universal health insurance," only "universal health coverage." Insurance is a contract to indemnify harm from a possible hazard. While it has the effect of spreading losses among a larger pool, this is a secondary effect, not its primary purpose. If it is not a risk but a known expense, it's not insurance.
If you're perfectly healthy, you wouldn't walk up to a guy who know he has stage 4 cancer and say "You know what, let's bundle our healthcare costs and split them down the middle this year." You're going to get hosed. That's what universal coverage does, though. It takes services with a private benefit for one party, insulates them from the cost of the services with a third party payer (thereby decreasing their interest in making rational economic decisions), and imposes the bill paid on people with no input on the economic decisions and no benefit from the services.
And it's not insurance. It's just collectivism. And by letting people call it "insurance," we're hiding that fact, and also letting them deny to themselves what they're involved in. There are a lot of right-leaning voting blocs - old people, veterans (I'm talking 4 years of desk service vets, not combat wounded guys) - who feel very much entitled to their "insurance." But it's not insurance, it's coverage, and it's robbing their neighbors and the taxpayer because they're using the shit out of a system that they could never afford if they had any connection to the bills themselves. People who voted for Trump are behaving like communists.
I believe this is a linguistic/definitional hill we need to hold if there's going to be any hope of having a healthcare system informed by individual choice and that does not cause a massive drain on our national wealth.
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