Pity The Poor White Man
Shorter George Picard, The American Genius:
How Obama Betrays Martin Luther’s King’s Dream
To celebrate Martin Luther King day, here are five incompetent niggers and two worthless spicks that Obama hired just because of their skin color.
Of course, no Martin Luther King holiday would be complete without some poor oppressed white guy doing the tried and true schtick about how it’s the niggers that are the real racists, particularly the colored usurper in the White House who has spent the last four years taking America away from true Americans and giving it to his black buddies. Meet George Picard, who writes under a pseudonym at The American Genius for obvious reasons
President Obama has mocked Martin Luther King by policies and actions that judge people by the color of their skin and not by the content of their character. … Among his dreams was an America where his four children would be judged not “by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
You might be forgiven for imagining that King was expressing a desire that his children could eat at any lunch counter and sit anywhere on the bus, but only if you are a Negro-oppressed white man will you realize that King was in fact expressing a prophetic condemnation of affirmative action and that he lived in abject terror that his children might get into college with lower SATs than their white counterparts.
The man who campaigned on the theme that there was no “white America” or “black America” has used his powers as President to practice identity politics on a scale never before seen in America. Barack Obama has overtly chosen top officials on the basis of their skin color and not on the content of their character.
Because no president before Obama has ever chosen a white person of low character for public office and even if they had it was purely coincidental that they were white.
Of course, first stop on Picard’s white outrage tour is that wild-eyed, Black Panther loving Eric Holder whom
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer has called him one of the most incompetent attorney generals in American history
Both Kraphammer and Picard have apparently forgotten all about John Mitchell, which would, of course, have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Mitchell was, you know, white.
And don’t forget, while we’re being outraged, that uppity Negress at the EPA, Lisa Jackson:
She is blithely unconcerned that Congressmen have taken her to task for performance.
If she were truly competent (and white), she would immediately step down the moment someone in the opposition party criticized her.
When Obama went looking for a Supreme Court Justice is was so obvious that he had a very narrow filter of who would “qualify” that Time’s Mark Halperin wrote that “White Men Need Not Apply.”
And, of course, like Martin Luther King, George Picard and Mark Halperin, I too have a dream that I will live to see the day when there is finally a white man on the Supreme Court.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court purely on merit, and not because he was the only black conservative judge that GHWB could find.
Dammit! Why do you always put up a new post just when I’m making an insightful and cogent comment in the last thread? ARGARARAGHAGARAGH
identity politics on a scale never before seen in America.
I can’t imagine someone stupid enough to write that without a sense of irony.
Cry, the beloved whitey.
Yeah, Kraphammer’s indictment settles it – I’m sure he gave an extensive and exhaustive not to mention objective analysis to support that conclusion. And what about Gonzalaez? Oh, right – he ain’t exactly white.
For an appropriate comment on MLK Day and how conservatives still completely and spectacularly fail to get it, just as they did back then, click here: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/perlsteins-greatest-hits-6-conservatives-and-martin-luther-king
Also,
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer has called him one of the most incompetent attorney generals in American history
We have an attorney general Charles Krauthammer thinks is bad? Feature, not bug.
Cry, the beloved whitey.
Are we talking about sex again?
Cry, the beloved whitey.
A thing of beauty, I tells ya.
Barack Obama has overtly chosen top officials on the basis of their skin color and not on the content of their character.
I did not realize Joe Biden was black.
Cry, the beloved whitey.
Are we talking about sex again?
Wouldn’t that be “Whine, the beloved hubby”?
That is awesome. PEOPLE OF PALLOR. A quick run to the dictionary is in order.
Speaking as a Person of Pallor, I must lie down for a while.
I prefer to think of you as a pallor-bearer.
PEOPLE OF PALLOR
This is why I always call on Gondor when I need a favor. Those Pallorians just can’t be trusted.
I can understand the Republican dilemma when it comes to King’s speech.
When all you have to offer the world are hollow, empty, vacuous shells desperately attempting to resemble real live human beings and failing, it’s troublesome if they’re going to be judged on content. Therefore, because everything is projection, they have to assume everyone else is as hollow and devoid of being as they are; and as a result, the only justification for why someone would select a woman or minority over the cold emptiness of their souls is because the person making the selection is prejudiced against them.
Because hey, we’re all empty on the inside, but I’m a white male on the outside, so that means I’m superior, right?
I prefer to think of you as a pallor-bearer.
Paul Bearer was truly a person of pallor.
I “love” how their whines always devolve into “no black man is qualified for any position*” to show how its “always affirmative action” and “they’re always so incompetent and unqualified.” Yeah, those Obama appointees are so incompetent, we have so many “Heckuva job Brownie” moments to look upon. Oh wait, no, they are doing a competent job even when handling a broken system given to them by Bush, but see, they are black and thus incompetent. Because it’d be a tremendous blow to their self-esteem and their view of self-superiority over all black people if it turns out that black people can be competent and just as good.
Of course, this is just a long way of saying that people who recognize that competent individuals need not be white are the real racists.
*Except Clarence Thomas and the handful of tokens the right chooses because of their skin color because they think it will serve as a counter to all charges of racism.
Hey conservadicks: We DO judge you on the content of your character and find it wanting. You suck at everything so you should shut the hell up.
Not just America, folks We gottem too!
Speaking as a person of Pallor, I must say that I am not offended in any way that none of my people have been chosen for high office in the U.S, government. As I would certainly never appoint any people of the United States to high (or any) office in the government of Pallor.
Paul Bearer was truly a person of pallor.
Parlor pallor, no less.
tsam-
Well, that’s basically what they really object to. They’ve gotten a great ride because everyone else has been shut out and they’re looking around at who the least competent suckers who’ll be in trouble if there’s an actual fair assessment of ability and are starting to cotton to the fact that “holy shit, it’s me”.
Hence all the screaming about how anyone with a vagina or melaninated skin is inherently inferior. It’s the only thing protecting their overpaid, underqualified employments. And thus their right to sneer at anyone further down the ladder.
John Mitchell is worse than Holder only if you consider being convicted for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury for acts taken while holding office to be worse than being a negro.
Let’s see…
Joe Biden
Rahm Emanuel
Bill Daley
Jack Lew
Hilary Clinton
Robert Gates
Leon Panetta
Tim Geithner
Tom Vilsack
Kathleen Sebelius
Shaun Donovan
Ray Lahood
Janet Napolitano
Arne Duncan
Are these all the black people to whom this fuckstick is referring?
Via wikipedia an excellent list of possible causes of pallor:
Say, you know who else talked about people of pallor?
Ah…vampirism. Us vampires often suffer discrimination at the hands of mortals and Hollywood film directors.
hypopituitarism
Damn cultists.
Well, that’s basically what they really object to
Well maybe they should stop sucking at stuff instead of crying about it. Just a friendly suggestion…
OH NO. What did he do, denounce Dr. King as a Communist philanderer? ‘Cause I’m pretty sure there’s a major US political party that habitually does that.
I like how in that list, there’s a whole bunch of valid medical reasonings and then, “vampirism”. Oh Wikipedia, never change.
I like how in that list, there’s a whole bunch of valid medical reasonings and then, “vampirism”. Oh Wikipedia, never change.
That’s so awesome. It will probably end up on a research paper or two. You know…some kid in Alabama with real Americans for parents…
Pallorful Me.
It will probably end up on a research paper or two. You know…some kid in Alabama with real Americans for parents…
Extract from an Auburn U Med School paper:
I do indeed pity the poor white man, and the poor black woman, and the poor Hispanic child. I do not pity affluent white, racist conservative hacks writing for troglodyte websites.
identity politics on a scale never before seen in America.
That is absolutely correct and I really wish all those rich, white, Christian conservative assholes would just knock it off.
I do not pity affluent white, racist conservative hacks writing for troglodyte websites.
You don’t pity the fool?
Pallorful Me.
I think of pallor as an absence, so perhaps “Colorless Me” works better.
You don’t pity the fool?
That word! How did you get it past the censoring filter???
I think of pallor as an absence, so perhaps “Colorless Me” works better.
She is on the shallow end of the pallor palette, to be sure.
WHITE WHITE WHITE. Split me up with a prism and I represent ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW. Also OUCH.
Split me up with a prism
Can we go on a “women’s prism movie” tangent?
Can we go on a “women’s prism movie” tangent?
Chained Heat, starring Linda Blair and Roy G Biv
You don’t pity the fool?
I do not suffer fools at all, especially not, as in this case, self-made fools.
Oh the pail plainting pallorites.
Pity their pathetic projection.
Picard pilloried, probably by prancing periwinkles.
Your mom’s a whore.
Oh the pail plainting pallorites.
Pity their pathetic projection.
Picard pilloried, probably by prancing periwinkles.
Your mom’s a whore.
Poopie will perform at the poetry slam at the Prancing Pony in Passaic.
Chained Heat, starring Linda Blair and Roy G Biv
Bravo.
A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man’s brain
But he can’t be blamed
He’s only a pawn in their game
A South politician preaches to the poor white man
“You got more than the blacks, don’t complain.
You’re better than them, you been born with white skin,” they explain.
And the Negro’s name
Is used it is plain
For the politician’s gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool
He’s taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
’Bout the shape that he’s in
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game
From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoofbeats pound in his brain
And he’s taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide ’neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain’t got no name
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game.
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He’ll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game
Sucks to be a white right-wing hack who can’t get a government job he’s not qualified for just because Democrats have an old boy network, too. Tell you what, if Obama ever starts hiring fresh-outs from unaccredited bible colleges or feather-brained former horse show mid-level execs to head agencies we can revisit this topic.
Obama did appoint a nice whitemaleconservative to be ambassador to China. He tried to appoint a couple other whitemaleconservatives but they all refused to work for a
niDemocrat.No citations again, I see.
So, semi-progressive President appoints semi-progressive people to posts, where they enact lukewarm progressive policies. This, of course, means they’re incompetent.
Because they do things he doesn’t approve of that means they’re incompetent.
I can only imagine what poor MLK would’ve thought of people like Sarah Palin or George Bush. I mean, clearly incompetent. Yet, WHY WERE THEY PICKED?
Does anyone have anything new and exciting to do with potatoes? I’ve got, like, 4 or 5 things in my repertoire and I’m pretty bored with them all.
Does anyone have anything new and exciting to do with potatoes?
Smut: trebuchet.
Subby: goatse.
Me: vodka.
Does anyone have anything new and exciting to do with potatoes?
Yes, but first you need two wetsuits.
Can I say that the American Stinker post was foisted by their own Picard?
Does anyone have anything new and exciting to do with potatoes?
Smut: trebuchet.
Subby: goatse.
Me: vodka.
vs: dildo
Which I presume was among the four or five things in her repetoire.
I’m really late to the party here, but I just had to see that again.
Tell me what’s in your rep then I’ll expand your culinary horizon.
*Don’t even try to make a V_R out of that. I mean, lady bits – eeewwww.
Paul Bearer was truly a person of pallor.
Dr. Paul Bearer was a regular “feature” around my home on Saturday Afternoons in the 1970’s… RIP, Dr. Paul!
Now I have An Idea.
Also:
💡
Aww, the Unicode light bulb doesn’t work.
I mean, lady bits – eeewwww.
Hey, I’ll take that if you’re not gonna eat it.
*Except Clarence Thomas and the handful of tokens the right chooses because of their skin color because they think it will serve as a counter to all charges of racism.
Yes, but let’s give the conservatives full credit for being able to find the least competent black people to fulfill the needed role of token. It would be unfair to fail to point out that Republicans are every bit as dedicated to advancing the careers of incompetent black conservatives as they are the careers of incompetent white conservatives. Michael Steele, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas…
Indian tater dish. If you don’t have mango powder add a splash of lemon juice at the end. Aloo chole is also good.
First of all, LOL, N_B. And, actor, you’ve mistaken me for someone not lazy. Carve my own dildos? Phbbbbhpt
OK, I usually just roast potatoes, or make a gratin, or smash or mash them. Yeah, I’m pretty bored.
It works in Safari. Looks fine on my ippuhdee.
That sounds delicious. Whew. I love Indian food.
It showed up on my iPhone. I was like, “awwwww, NEAT!”
Subby: goatse.
The concept of “Mr Potato Head” has been corrupted beyond recognition.
Good – tigris took care of it. The Ho is giving me a hard time about not pitching into the cleaning so I hazta go.
Also rösti, Spanish potato tortilla, and colcannon are all good. Plus cooked potato bits are nice fondue dippers. Potatoes are also great on pizza, either sliced thin and fried in rosemary/garlic/pepper oil, or mashed with scallions, cilantro, etc for a kind of open face bolani. And of course, soup. Potage Parmentier is what I usually do, or roasted cauliflower/leek/potato.
Slice potatoes thin and make ’em a sandwich for a nice piece of salmon. Fry/bake.
Tig’s list is excellent UNTIL PIZZA which is just wrong. Latkes are good, especially if you can make them look like bird’s nests. Røsti is fantastic but is pretty specific about the kind of potato you use and you have to have cold leftover cooked potatoes. Colcannon is improved by fresh greens (sorrel, claytonia, ramps, things unlikely to be available at this time of year). I like to make duchess potatoes but that’s a job (papas duquesas!).
Kenji Lopez-Alt, over at Serious Eats has a terrific step by step workshop on making McD’s fries at home.
I use cabbage or kale, both of which can be gotten this time of year. Dissing the pizza makes me think you are an insane person, though, so I emphasize that I say all this in a soothing voice. There. There now. *pat pat pat*
Tartiflette – potatoes, onions, cheese, bacon, cream
What’s not to like?
Tig’s list is excellent UNTIL PIZZA which is just wrong.
It doesn’t sound like it would work, but it does for some reason. It has to be a “white” pizza (no tomato).
AWESOME, thanks, everybody. I was actually looking for side dish recipes, but IMO you can’t have too many potato recipes in the queue. I will be adding all these to mine.
Also, weighing in on the starch on top of starch thing…I’m pretty aginit except on rare occasions.
Taking a break. LaRousse, IIRC, has 99 preps for spuds.
Spuds savoyarde (no autocorrect, I did NOT mean sabotaged) made with some nice herbs and good stock are nice. What’s dat Indian dish with spuds and cauli… aloo gobi? That’s very good. Do you have a small cast iron skillet? If so you can make potatoes Anna on the stovetop. Oh man, potatoes Anna! Potato gallettes are nice. Cube smallishly and saute in butter/oil then add fresh parsley. French fried potatoes persillade are to fucking die for. Kick up your scalloped by making a pave. Slice thinly on a mandoline, lay on a buttered sheet pan, sprinkle with salt and lay a bit of fresh herb – parsley leaves, tender thyme sprigs, tarragon – and top with another slice; brush tops with melted butter and put into a hot oven for chic potato panes. Potato fucking salad? French or American style, both are great. Basic Leek and potato soup or creme vichysoisse glace are equally easy and delightful. Spanish omelet. Garlic mashed potates. Pommes de terre Macair which you can glaze for potatoes Byron. German fried. German potato salad. Savonnette. Pommes de terre soufflées are fascinating, a real tour de force. Twice baked – add some lemon to the mashed part. Homemade loyal chips! Easy, deefuckinglicous, magical even.
Umm, along with the other suggestions (but most definitely NOT pizza) that’s all I can think of right now. And I hafta get back to house cleaning.
Homemade “potato” chips. FY autocorrect.
Incidentally…
The next wingnut who trots out that “content of his character” line as proof that we should ignore race should be kicked until the contents of his stomach come out.
I have a really good middle eastern potato salad recipe that uses red onion, black olives, paprika and olive oil.
Even my in-laws in Appalachia like it.
Of course it doesn’t have sauce, it has the rosemary/garlic/pepper oil. And only Parmesan, and not too much at that. The bolani one also doesn’t have sauce because the potatoes are the sauce, and no cheese but it’s drizzled with yogurt/mint/garlic sauce. Also too no thick crusts, more like a flat bread.
but most definitely NOT pizza
Pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s good.
When it’s bad, it’s still pretty damn good.
Back on topic for a second.
This isn’t a dog-whistle. More like an air-raid siren:
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2011/11/22/why-do-you-hate-america/
Potato pancakes – a little work intensive but perfect winter comfort food. Approx proportions: 1# grated potatoes, 1/4 cup flour, 2 eggs. Fry in an ample amount of Crisco, serve as a side to chicken/apple sausage or good kielbasa, prepare to be happy and listless for remainder of evening, watch Big Bang Theory. Actually, I’ve just made tonight’s plan for sweetie and me!
Sounds better than the box-lunch I’ll be eating somewhere between Casper and Memphis tonight.
Juses Major! How do you find that stuff? I worry about and for you.
Someone over at ginandtacos had linked to it.
When [pizza]’s bad, it’s still pretty damn good.
Alas, it is possible to have bad pizza that just plain isn’t good at all.
One time I was some place where the sauce maker must’ve had a cold or something, because there was far, FAR more anise in the sauce than needed. I like black licorice, but when I bite into a slice of pizza I don’t expect or want it to taste like black licorice…
Possibly the best shorter ever. Certainly the best in at least a year.
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2011/11/22/why-do-you-hate-america/
Ha, I love how (mostly imaginary) blacks who don’t work but rely on others for a living are “idle” but real slaveholders who didn’t work but relied on others for a living were ““liberated” from a life of labor and toil.” The “Gone with the Wind” pic makes me think he’s taking the piss, in which case the obvious self-contradictions are deliberate. Funny as heck, either way.
Major Kong, I am mad at you for that link.
Pup, I’m gonna file all those potato ideas away–thank you!!!
I am mad at you for that link.
Sorry. I should have warned you to put on a hazmat suit before clicking on it.
I’ll send you a case of brain-bleach via first overnight.
Thanks for the Shorter, TinTin!
Just arrived. I’m about 95 comments behind y’all.
That Occidental Dissent dude has some weapons grade butthurt going on.
That Occidental Dissent dude has some weapons grade butthurt going on.
They all do. It pretty much defines conservatism.
I dunno, that OD guy smells a little Poe-like. A little too much actually understanding what terms mean going on.
I didn’t read it carefully but i did catch a bit of the flavor Cerbs is having. If Bagoas allows me, I will look at some others of his product.
Here is wisdom, grasshopper.
I have to two cents the pizza thing and add that I’ve had some pretty crummy pizza in my time.
I didn’t look too extensively but I’m pretty sure he’s sincere. A commenter with the somewhat familiar nym “c u n d gulag” and I are encouraging them to secede. Stop whining and secede already.
When I see racist trash like what Picard crapped out, and realize how prevalent this type of thinking is, it reminds me why George Lucas (the guy who said, “Fuck it; I’m making these Star Wars prequels, damnit!”) had trouble getting people to help back the new Tuskegee Airman movie he’s producing.
There. There now. *pat pat pat*
OK, I’ve calmed down now. Thanks. As a peace offering I will admit that I’ve had great pisaladiere with new potatoes, olives, onions and all the rest and it was really good. NOT PIZZA.
Food pr0n and lots of it!
Potato pancakes – a little work intensive but perfect winter comfort food.
I had a meal-sized potato pancake on the Kurfurstendamm (Berlin), topped with sour cream and sprinkled with caviar. Unbelievably fine combination of textures and tastes.
Latkes. Shred your potatoes, reds or whites, not bakers, shred half a yellow onion while you’re at it. Soak in salted water with a pinch of baking soda for 15-20 minutes. Drain and press all water out in a clean towel. Beat an egg and add a couple of tablespoons shmaltz or butter, thoroughly mix with shredded spuds and onion, salt and pepper. Heat griddle, flat-top or large skillet to very low heat, ~265F. Form bird’s nests from the shredded veg, form lightly into discs and place on greased (shmaltz! or butter) griddle. Cook on griddle, very low heat for 10 minutes, flip. They should be golden brown on the bottom and hold together. Cook for 8-10 minutes and turn off heat. Make whatever you’re going to serve with them.
Suggestion: latkes benedict/florentine, cook 60g bacon or pancetta, add 1/4kilo spinach, cover and turn off heat. Press liquid from spinach/pancetta mixture. Serve each latke with a blanket of spinach, a poached egg and cover with hollandaise.
Homemade pizza happening at our place. Italian sausage, mushrooms and onions on one, the other I’m using some of last night’s roast chicken breast and some BBQ sauce to do a Barbecue chicken pizza. With red pepper and onions.
just wanted to kick in that not only does Paula Deen have type 2 diabetes but she’s signed up to hawk some diabetes drugs.
not only does Paula Deen have type 2 diabetes but she’s signed up to hawk some diabetes drugs.
I didn’t know they made butter-dipped drugs.
For the latest in sociopaths: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/22/83337/disabled-abortion/
Holy frakkin shite! The GØP “debate” is turning my stomach. I do wish they would pan the audience because the Newtster just got a standing O for, basically, saying “shut it, boy” to Juan Williams and I can’t see a single black person in the audience.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
the Newtster just got a standing O
Did they give a close-up view of his O face?
They just had the “time to destroy Rno Plua” moment. The Murdoch primary indeed.
destroy Rno Plua
Call in James Bond!
Sitting on the ramp in Casper. Memphis is on weather hold. Even the control tower crew has gone home.
Yesterday I was in “don’t gibe a shit” mood and we came near to ordering out for pizza. I manned up and took some chix this out of the freezer, defrosted, tossed ’em in a pan with a we’e bit of Olivia and a handful of garlic cloves. After a decent sautéing I added some honey and preserved lemons. A bit more cooking led to removing the thighs then adding some white wine (vermouth, yeah) and a big-ass dollop of butter. Served over rice cooked in some leftover roasted chix broth. Tasty.
Tonight we got stuffed green peppers, Classic eastern euro food, slightly jazzed for American tastes, and a lovely salad salad with roasted golden beets.
No connection whatsoever to the thread or any strand in it. Just a thought that has bubbled up in mah haid while reading S,N today….
God love ’em, I miss George Carlin and Molly Ivins.
Me too.
Well, that don’t sound like much fun, Major. Hope your box lunch has some tasty grub … or at least enuff to get you to breakfast in Memphis.
Does the tower really and for true shut down in Casper? How will you get take-off clearance?
Oh, it just registered: Must be the Memphis tower, if that’s where the weather hold is.
Casper tower closes at 9:00 local. We get a clearance from Denver center. We broadcast on a common frequency to let other aircraft know what we’re doing. We can turn the runway lights on by clicking the transmit button 5 times.
Fenwick, I agree. And Major – may your flights all be very boring.
A lot of smaller airports have no control tower, or only man the tower at certain times.
Cool! Can you make the PA system play songs?
Memphis is open. There’s some weather that limits how many planes can come in at one time. It’s a lot cheaper to hold us on the ground than in a holding pattern, burning gas.
Wait, wait, wait…please to be essplaining the ‘fry in ample amounts of Crisco’ statement. Seriously great food ideas in this thread (right up there with grilled flank steak with chipotle/lime chimichurri and greek potato salad with dill and feta from a few threads ago – relevant to this thread tangent because, well, potatoes).
Do you, like, just scoop Crisco into the pan (donotthinkofGermanfistingporn, donotthinkofGermanfistingporn…) and wait for it to liquify or what?
Effing cooking, how does it work?!?!?
Can you sync the landing runway to Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and the take-off runway to dubstep? That’d probably take a few clicks.
Dull and boring with no excitement whatsoever. (Also, hiya S. cerevis…ah, fuckit…hiya Beer Ingredients!)
So how does the ATC work on this flight? Is Denver Center an ‘en route’ control? How many ‘en route’ centers will handle your flight from Casper to Memphis? A barrage of Fenwick Questions might be a good way to kill time, if yer still waiting for clearance.
When I worked as a training consultant, I wrote seven videoscripts for the FAA. Once we got to shoot inside the Leesburg En Route Center. Some of the projects were fascinating subjects (to me, anyway).
We can turn the runway lights on by clicking the transmit button 5 times.
Kewl.
Kewl.
Calibre: You must be another Night Hawk flying tonight in Sadlyville.
The Major is the cockpit, S. cerevisiaeiou (Beer Ingredients of some sort) is in Corvallis (OR), and I’m in Baltimore. Where are you flying tonight? Watcha doin’?
PENIS.
Sadly unemployed in Raleigh, a transplant from San Jose, CA. I do have a phone interview on Thursday so there’s hope, but til then, it’s Internet at Night for me!
All that’s missing from that, DKW, was a hearty BABA BOOEY TO Y’ALL!
Good luck with teh interview, or break a leg, or your idiom of choice.
Thanks. I’ll take it. Time to get some sleep now. G’night y’all (oh lawd, I’m starting to SPEAK like them!).
Hey-hey-hey, DK.
I don’t follow hockey, so I’m curious about how this season is going. Do the Leafs Suck for real?
Oh hey, some good life news, I’ve got pay-the-bills levels of employment! And I’ll be teaching kids at a science museum, getting them all excited about science so I’m even employed in a kickass job.
Just thought I should share.
Major — thanks (I think) for the OD link. Comedy gold, intentional or not:
You live in a society … where Herman Cain can be taken seriously as a presidential candidate
(Two hazmat suits and a, um, respirator are strongly suggested for entry.)
Sitting on the ramp in Casper. Memphis is on weather hold. Even the control tower crew has gone home.
During a test flight last Summer, we had our test airplane all nice and crippled, per Extended-Range (ETOPS) test requirements, and were approaching a certain airfield (which I will not identify) at twilight. This also happened to be that tower’s closing time. While we were turning, in our crippled state, to make approach, the tower voice announced he was going home, and passed us to sector control. (He kindly warned everyone else up there to watch for our heavy experimental jetliner, without noting we were having self-inflicted problems.)
I hope it will be a nice, long time before I again have to rely so much on the skills of both our test pilots, and of any other of you flyboys up there.
listen, flyboys, i just read that fucking popular mechanics article about air france 209. it makes me sad in SO MANY WAYS. it’s a like a 2 page movie. insane.
practice, you bastards, PRACTICE!!!!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877
Just wanted to jump back to the list of pallor – no notice of the obvious one?
Pretty much an apt description of today’s paint-chip eating right wing noise machine.
Just wanted to jump back to the list of pallor – no notice of the obvious one?
Pretty much an apt description of today’s paint-chip eating right wing noise machine.
fuckin wp!! sorry for double posts…
As a seriously Pallor-American guy (Saltine crackers* can get better tans than can I), I salute our great heritage. Despite being a numerical minority on earth, we’ve succeeded in FUBARing pretty much everything we’ve touched. Truly a record of which we can be proud, or something.
Cerb — congrats on your educational endeavor!. Let’s hope this does not mean less of you here on teh Sadlytron.
listen, flyboys, i just read that fucking popular mechanics article about air france 209. it makes me sad in SO MANY WAYS. it’s a like a 2 page movie. insane.
I had one of our most senior test pilots almost burst into tears at the very mention of AF 447. “All of those people died, when the pilots could so easily have recovered the aircraft,” he said. That disaster has ignited a huge debate in our ranks, on the subject of human factors and automation in the flight deck. (And when I read that transcript, I was almost yelling, “Stall warning, NOSE OVER!” since that is what my own flight instructor has
taught memercilessly pounded into my little pea-brain.)*Yep, intentional
Potato towers. Slice a few handfuls of nice substantial taties, soak them down with olive oil, finely chop a truckload of garlick, throw in some loads of dried herbs, salt and black pepper, stir all up for awhile, leave in fridge half an hour while the oven gets up to 220 (450 for you primitive foreigners), then carefully stack the slices in towers on a greased baking-tray and bake for however long you want depending if you want squishy towers, toasted towers or the burned topless potato towers of Ilium.
Either way, delectable.
So how does the ATC work on this flight? Is Denver Center an ‘en route’ control? How many ‘en route’ centers will handle your flight from Casper to Memphis? A barrage of Fenwick Questions might be a good way to kill time, if yer still waiting for clearance.
Made it to Memphis, over an hour late.
All “Centers” control en route traffic above a certain altitude (which I’d have to look up). We talked to several Denver sectors, then Kansas City before we got to Memphis’ airspace.
As you descend towards the airport you get handed off to Approach control for vectors to the final approach. Shortly before landing you’re switched to the tower controller, who owns the runways. Then a ground controller and finally the company’s ramp controller to get to a parking spot.
Whichever pilot isn’t flying that leg spends a lot of time switching radio frequencies and talking on the radio.
Calibre, two words – bacon grease. You can take the boy outta the rez but you can’t take the rez outta the boy.
Cerb, congrats! The best questions come from the kindergarten age kids – they will come totally out of left field, have fun!
What’s the vector, Victor?
Cerb, sounds like a great job. I know when I was a lad and the NY Science Center had just opened, my school sent us there regularly.
Probably to clear the lead paint off the walls, but you know, anything to get out of the classroom.
you haven’t lived till you’ve had buttercrack
I guess I’m just a butterdope.
BTW, blogwhore. Thundra’s not the only one who can post landscape pix.
Cerb, congratulations, that job sounds fabulous!
Congratulations are indeed in order, Cerberus, especially at pay-the-bills levels. Been 2 years since I had that, but the new year finally getting started seems to be making more and more things available.
From all that gourmet talk of last night, to pop tarts this morning. What a world. (hey, at least it’s a choc. fudge AND a cherry filled…you know, together, for multicultural unity).
Cerberus said,
January 17, 2012 at 8:50
Way to go! I can’t think of a better job: teaching kids science. (I did that for a while until some jerk principal decided to ruin my career. I now write science tests, which is almost as fun.)
you haven’t lived till you’ve had buttercrack
Or its redneck cousin, oleometh
Yes, but let’s give the conservatives full credit for being able to find the least competent black people to fulfill the needed role of token. It would be unfair to fail to point out that Republicans are every bit as dedicated to advancing the careers of incompetent black conservatives as they are the careers of incompetent white conservatives. Michael Steele, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas…
Unfortunately for the GOP all of the competent persons of color are Democrats.
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All “Centers” control en route traffic above a certain altitude (which I’d have to look up).
I have a buddy who jocks for Southwest. I think he told me it was 29,000, but I could be mistaken
This isn’t a dog-whistle. More like an air-raid siren:
I caught sight of the larger than life stars and bars and the picture of the drive leading to a restored antebellum Plantation and had to admit that I ran screaming…
The tab is still there so i may check back later when I can steel my resolve to deal with the open hatred that must be contained therein.
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I might suggest a stars and bars warning, not that your description did not have me somewhat prepared for what to expect. I just have,
on occasion, a visceral reaction to that image. When I see it plastered on the back of a truck or on a hat or belt buckle, my person def-con level is raised.Fuckin haters.
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That last should read “personal def-con level”.
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I might suggest a stars and bars warning
There’s some guy here in Ohio who has the whole roof of his barn painted like one. You can very plainly see it from I-71, just north of Cincinnati.
Drives me nuts every time I go by it. Of course, this is Cincinnati we’re talking about. The center of all that is right-wing in Ohio.
Or its redneck cousin, oleometh
Back in the days when I was a wee Willy in Wisconsin, my old man used to make the run to Illinois to get Oleo. (Oleo had coloring added to make it look like butta, the adding of colorants WI had outlawed at the time.) It had all the look and feel of a drug run, including evading police who were intent on inspecting cars returning from IL with illegally-colored vegetable resin contraband.
Legalization of coloring additives to oleo ended the rampant cross-border smuggling.
From Major Kong’s link above
Ya’ think Sherlock?
Apparently we are living in Black Run America and under African Despotism. As mush as I would like to think that this shit is parody, Jonathan Swift would headfor the fainting couch in awe.
I think my people should round of these Anglo-Saxon freedom lovers and move them to some special reservations we (the NAACP and other Black Barbarian organizations) are building in the Mohave desert.
Them would be some just desserts.
We really are Done Ruined and Fucked!
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Legalization of coloring additives to oleo ended the rampant cross-border smuggling
Now, if I could only get Cuban cigars that easily.
The Gorge it rises today as I witness the fact that the mouthbreathers can’t get back to Nigger, Nigger, Nigger quickly enough, as if they were personally assaulted by having to pretend to be nice for a day…
In any event Major, I take it that you have an opportunity to check into the ‘ No! while at work from time to time? I mean while waiting on the tarmac to take off or taxiing to the ramp? If so, very cool.
Thanks for the link BTW, though it might cause me to bust into the lichor cabinet cause i’m feeling like having a bit of rageahol right about now.
🙂
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If he then used the barn to run moonshine, race at a clay track and frustrate the ambitions of a local corrupt politician, it could be cool in a retro kind of way. Especially if he jumped the barn over a pond every week.
There’s some guy here in Ohio who has the whole roof of his barn painted like one. You can very plainly see it from I-71, just north of Cincinnati.
There are times I wish I had carried through with my diabolical plan to train woodpeckers.
Edroso has made my day by dragging one of my comments into the update on his latest post.
Also, too, I am reminded of Cerbs happy news…Huzzah!
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I take it that you have an opportunity to check into the ‘ No! while at work from time to time?
We were on a 90-minute ground hold, so we were just sitting out there waiting. We could have shut everything down and gone into the ramp office, but then we would have had to redo everything when we got back out to the plane. Plus, sometimes they’ll end the ground hold early so it’s best to be ready to go just in case.
Especially if he jumped the barn over a pond every week.
I would be really impressed if he could put the barn on water skis, and jump a shark!
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We were on a 90-minute ground hold, so we were just sitting out there waiting
I hope, at least, that the cargo didn’t make too much of a fuss about the delay.
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I hope, at least, that the cargo didn’t make too much of a fuss about the delay.
Sometimes center will ask us for ride reports so the passenger haulers will know which altitudes have smooth air and which ones to avoid.
Some smart-ass will inevitably say “The boxes aren’t complaining”.
1) If the White Southerners of the nineteenth century could be resurrected to witness BRA, they would be horrified to the marrow of their bones
Like I said yesterday about Krauthammer: feature, not bug. NSDAP voters resurrected in the year 2012 would be equally horrified at the decayed state of Western Civilization. Those are good things.
2) WAY TO GO, CERBERUS!!!
I hope, at least, that the cargo didn’t make too much of a fuss about the delay.
But I’m still waiting for my overnight express delivery of those 49er golf club head covers that I need so desperately!!!
But I’m still waiting for my overnight express delivery of those 49er golf club head covers that I need so desperately!!!
You mean the ones I was using to keep my feet warm up in Casper?
Good morning, everyone.
Some smart-ass will inevitably say “The boxes aren’t complaining”.
LOL.
Yeah, I would be that smart-ass. Although I am sure that the gag has gotten very old, not unlike one of my favorite shopworn gags: Jeffraham has cats?
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Cerberus, congrats! Good luck to the other job-seekers here too. The last couple of years have been brutal.
You either have really tiny feet or enormous golf-clubs. I actually do have something I could use golf-club head covers to keep warm, but they would still need to be “oversize” IYKWIM
I swear the thread was alive when I left!
Since I appear to be alone, I would like to point out that I am endeavoring to join the ranks of self-righteous former smokers. I have now gone 6 full days without so much as a puff. 146 hours and 47 minutes, to be painfully exact. Tell me how proud you are of me!
I am very proud of you. Now all you need to do is quit the heroin, the meth, the weed and hash, LSD, shrooms, PCP, oxycontin, valium, and the booze and the other pills, and you will be clean as a whistle!
Wow. Bragging? From you? Really?
Some smart-ass will inevitably say “The boxes aren’t complaining”.
Now I’m thinking I need to send off lots of packages with recorded messages and big speakers that will be set to go off after a set time or at a particular altitude and suddenly blurt out things like “Hey, where’s the damn stewerdess on this joke of an airline!” or “What the hell’s the delay! I have an important meeting in the morning” or “Where the hell did you get you’re pilot’s training, Mr. Toad’s wild ride?”
TB, you can call them “whine boxes.”
Now I’m thinking I need to send off lots of packages with recorded messages
There’s been more than one instance of a ramp worker taking a siesta in the back and waking up to find themselves halfway between Memphis and points beyond.
Unfortunately after 9-11 it’s not as funny as it once might have been.
Name that web site!
“Gay Inc.”? What happens when Bain Capital gets ahold of that?
in Stalinist NYC this morning[…]
That place with the billionaire mayor?
I see the “race card” card has been played. I guess “class warfare” was last week’s talking point.
Oh, well done, Cerb. You really needed and deserved this.Good luck handling all the kids – should be fun.
Now, if we can just find a job for Jeffraham, ..
They’ll give new meaning to the term “leveraged buyout” IYKWIMAITYD
Post Nuevo.
New Post.
Name that web site!
I would guess Freeperland, but the fomatting of the comments seems somewhat sane.
‘ts all I got.
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Remember, kids. The problem is never the racist. The problem is the guy who points out that the first guy’s a racist. If it wasn’t for that guy, there’d be no controversy.
Sorry about teh delay Fenny. Yeah, teh Leafs do suck. Miraculously, they are sucking less this season. Kessel-Lupul is a great combo, if a bit slack in teh last few. Optimus Reim is starting in net against teh Sens tonite, but he’s been a bit shaky since coming back from teh “not a concussion”.
It’s a bit weird that they’re still doing this not-crappy all teh way into January.
Also, Congratulations Cerb! Like tigris says, sounds like a fabulous job. That tigris fellow sure is a smart guy.
I see the “race card” card has been played.
Gin!
I see the “race card” card has been played.
I usually play Swords of Revealing Bullshit to counter.
Hey, Jeffraham, you still around? Heads up on your GMail if you are.
Another potato recipe — skordalia: Pretend like you’re going to make regular old boring mashed potatoes, and then instead of making them the usual way, boil a bunch of garlic cloves in with the water, mash them up into the potatoes, and add lemon juice, sea salt, and olive oil. Eat cold on pita or with Greek food, yum yum yum.
Meet George Picard, who writes under a pseudonym at The American Genius for obvious reasons
Picard is French for “Peckerwood”.
Hey, that sounds like it would make a good pizza, maybe with feta. YOINK!
Peckerwood pizza? NO. Not even with feta. Or haloumi.
Oh jesus. Why did you make me do this? Picard!! Get away from that launcher! NOW!!!