Alliteration and Hyperbole, Stocks in my Trade

A Preternatural Predilection.

Recent almost events; triggers that have caused me to contemplate pulling mine have led me to the following epiphany: As I am the oldest of three (first born male) with two younger sisters I have always been burdened with a predilection towards protecting or helping those that lack strength or agency. My sisters are now far from me, and I know that they are equipped to handle themselves, but the residuals remain.

On Sunday I work with my favorite crew, and it coincides with the bosses day off (I actually like and respect the boss, but you know, boss.) Winner winner, Tandoori dinner. Actually I make a point on most Sundays to show up an hour early and make breakfast for all of us, because I really enjoy their company, and they really enjoy my eggs.

I have known the boss since second grade and I am not too far from beginning my fiftieths turn round the sun. There is someone we work with whose default setting is asshole (strongly suspect libertarian tendencies.) He also tends to regard himself as the smartest guy in the room, which on occasion, when I or one of my aforementioned Sunday co-workers are not in the building, might be the case, and I might give a fuck, if it mattered to me. Anyway the dude in question had managed to spend the last two weeks metaphorically standing on my balls and I decided to set up a meeting with the boss to discuss my problems with the guy.

I am from the school of management that Praises in Public, Rebukes in Private, but with the fact that we work in one room, are generally busy as all fuck and staffed in such a way that it is impossible for two people to leave the place at a given time…Showing up for work three hours early to take the pulse of the boss seemed the best place to start. What I wanted to avoid was going fully Nuclear on a day which represents my Friday. The following morning after one of my co-workers made it clear that she would like me to wait, I called off the meeting, deciding to sleep on it over my “weekend.” The bosses response was one of palpable relief. As I have said, this guy and I have known each other for a long time and he is well aware that I do not traffic in trivial complaints.

I do not know if words of my concern were exchanged, or the delivery of the extended “Live at Leeds” CD delivered on that day, or both had any pull, but the dude in question demonstrated that the phrases “thank you” “please” and “you’re welcome” have suddenly entered his workplace vocabulary.

For the time being, in any event, I will choose to let sleeping dogs lie.

Prevarication and Prejudice…

Which brings us to the spawn of the “Loins of Lucifurryanne™” also known ’round these parts as “DoughBob LoadPants” and whom was roundly taken to task by Cerberus, our current SnarkMeister In Chief™ for whom I would like to coin a new sobriquet, DoughJo™, though I must admit that preceding DoughJo™ with teh the, might also be an appropriate way to describe “The Corner” as in “I went to the DoughJo™ and discovered that their mastery of martial idiocy is where anything resembling coherence shuffles off to die, almost like an elephant graveyard of anything encroaching upon the realm of sanity and yet where the corpses are picked clean, reassembled and re-branded for “rubesylvanians” as they claw their way through Regnery’s remainder bin.

Upon further reflection, I suggest that “the DoughJo™” should become part of the Sadly, No! lexicon moving forward when referring to “The Corner”, though I am open to arguments.

Back to LoadPants™ If the laziest beast in the entirety of time, who blew his wad on the shittiest tome to make its way past the goalies at what ever pathetic publishing house actually sidled up to back the most a historically inaccurate piece of crap that has, aside from the bible, taken down a forest, continues to collect a paycheck, then there is something wrong with us all.

At this point I will admit to not either reading his magnum dopus, nor having the remotest concern of who published the excrescence. If damning with faint praise and waisting my time were within my wheelhouse I might be inclined to oblige the nepostistic bastard, that is, if I might find me a sucker to pay me for a review. Needless to say, one need look no further than the title of the piece which gives the entire game away.

When Goldberg farts it is certain that a turd is honking for the right of way, looking for the choicest seat at the nearest Octoplex.

Spite and Sensitivities

While I have a dump truck full of bags of hammers remaining to dump on the Goldbergian subversion of meritocracy, I feel the need to move on to a Colorado state Senator, one Vicki Marble.

MARBLE: We can’t force them to stop doing what they choose to do, but to give them the information. These are our families and our neighbors in the black community… Honestly, I learned how to smoke meat from my black friends down in Texas because they lived with me… and stayed at my house… Did we talk about cooking? Yes. The whole time.

Unpacking this line of reasoning could result in a, hell, fuck the one, multiple, graduate level theses. Starting with the paternalistic and patriarchal “version” of what passes for “freedom” as she jumps out of the gate, following with a wonderful variation of the “I have Black friends therefor I am not a racist” dodge, while demonstrating the racism inherent inside by using the word “they” which at the very least stands as a textbook example of an “othering”.

Beep, beep, beep (signifying the warning sound of heavy machinery backing up) I find myself looking at the stinkbug that I am currently watering while figuring out how to parse the “…but to give them the information.”

When one is born of privilege, White, under educated, and a discredit to ones sex, yet a protector of the current presumptions about race that are prevalent, one is likely to assume that facts not in evidence an argument makes. I am sure that someone in comments will educate me to the proper Latin phrase to describe the logical phallusy, though QED comes to mind.

Sorry, reader(s), I have to admit that I have not the Goucher education that Jonah received, and while I spent a minute in college, I have only 18 credit hours banked.
However, I decided to set up my own institute of technology, which unfortunately has been hijacked by necessity to focus on the evisceration of wingnutology.

I would like to add that I had a wonderful conversation on the phone with Fenwick yesterday morning. Adding another feather in my good fortune of meatspace greetings with previously “only known in comment sections” pals.

If anyone thinks I might just be a fan of the work of Jane Austen, they might just be right.

Stinky is still hanging out on the moistened napkin that was prepared for it. This, for some reason, makes me happy.

 

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Big Bad Bald Bastard said,

February 2, 2014 at 11:34 · Edit

It’s 4:30AM, and I’m listening to Live at the Deaf Club, an early recording of a Dead Kennedys concert, released ten years ago, after sitting in the vaults for 25 years.

DAMN!

opened in tab for later perusal.

Thanks BBBB.
….

 
 

The fact is “smoking meat” with black friends is a time honored traditoin among white conservatives in the heartland.

 
 

“Smoking meat”

So that’s what the kids are calling it these days?

 
 

Or, as Mrs. Jeans calls it, ‘the little smokie’.

 
 

There is someone we work with whose default setting is asshole (strongly suspect libertarian tendencies.) He also tends to regard himself as the smartest guy in the room

Those traits do seem to go together.

 
 

There is someone we work with whose default setting is asshole (strongly suspect libertarian tendencies.) He also tends to regard himself as the smartest guy in the room

I’ve run into the type, but my workplace is refreshingly free of them. Most of the time, it’s just me and the cats, but I don’t mind spending time with my two-legged coworkers.

 
 

After reading the ThinkProgress article [link in Provider’s post], I rambled around the links inside it.

One of the ThinkProgress links leads to a more-detailed <a href="
background article describing the story in the context of Colorado’s state politics. In it, I found this statement from State Rep Lori Saine, one of Marble’s legislative confederates.

“Government never does anything as well as the private sector does when it comes to large-scale economic benefits, economic drivers and innovation.”

Okay, I’ll play along. TVA … rural electrification … Interstate highway system … Panama Canal … The Internet … Mississippi watershed flood control … St Lawrence Seaway (*) … Air Traffic Control system. Anyone else care to pile on?

(*) double-ickey because international governments !

The TPM article also links to the actual audio of <a href="
Senator Marblehead's Full-On Industrial-Strength Ramble. The first six minutes is a remarkable specimen of the free-association Word Salad-Shooter rhetorical style pioneered by Caribou Barbie.

– – – – – – – – – – – – –

I had a wonderful conversation on the phone

Me too, compadre!

 
 

Fuck fuck fuckety-fuck fuck. There are supposed to be linkees! (Oh well; I suppose you can chase them down easily enough in the ThinkProg article.)

Perhaps the Href Alchemy is too potent a sorcery for me to use?

Nope. That would be a blow to my self-esteem. Therefore, FYWP. Also Benghazi.

 
 

Anyone else care to pile on?

NASA. It’s been over 50 years since Project Mercury and private industry is just now talking about manned space flight.

 
 

Provider: Jane Austin Austen. One of those wicked ‘passes-spellcheck’ typos….

 
 

Like Provider, I enjoy Jane Austen immensely, especially her exceptional skill with dialogue. Each time I re-read Austen, I learn more and discover more about the craft of writing. (Fwiw, my favorite is Persuasion.) Anway, that’s a rambling preface for some political riffing with the NON-alliterative Jane Austen titles….

Mansfield Pork — a witty comedy of legislative manners involving devious earmarks and spending bills.

Southanger Abbie — a coming-of-age love story as Abbie, a naive white Dixie Princess, must decide whether to Do The Nasty with Eddie-Bob, her neanderthalish New Confederacy racist bubba.

Persuasionable — a confused and entirely unnecessary story about two star-crossed campaign pollsters and some pointless focus groups.

Em and Emma — The story of forbidden love between two sentient candy-coated chocolate beings … and their shocking White Glove perversions.

 
 

The fact is, liberals show their hatred of America by reading boring dead foriegn writers like Jane Austen while all the time looking down their snooty, elite liberals noses at great American writers like Tom Clancy who write books that are patriotic and exiting.

 
 

zomfg! michelle obama opened the puppy bowl…expect wingnuts to now hate puppies…hubbkf and maeve are watching the puppy bowl, while i’m doing kitcheny things…this and a nap is the perfect ending to a wunnerful, wunnerful weekend…

 
 

also, too…listening to a primarily funk band in a native american casino in south dakota was both immense fun and bizzarre at the same time…old cowboy dudes apparently DIG THEM SOME FUNK…one older guy (denim shirt, wranglers and boots) just went up and stood directly in front of the bass player and just stared…mesmerized by his handiwork, i guess…

i got the band’s contact info (they were super nice (duh, minnesota) and super appreciative of their audience…we even got hugs from them this morning at breakfast)…i’m thinking of getting them to rock the house for next year’s gala event…

 
 

Speculoos stuffed franch toasticles With maple syrup, excellent bacon. Teh Ho had chicken enchiladas covered with a spinach sauce, topped with two beautifully fried eggs. We both had fresh squozed mimosas.

I’m going to make the serious eats cheese sauce for my chili con queso. Hope it turns out well.

Also FYWP

 
 

great American writers like Tom Clancy who had ghostwriters write their last two books

 
 

I’ll play. First transcontinental railroad.

 
 

Clinton’s folly (Erie canal) and the others in PS, MD, NY, etc.

 
 

WWII

 
 

Is the electricity grid in the US federal-owned or state-owned or private corporation -owned?
We have Eskom, which is owned by the national government.

 
 

Also, too, harbours and airports.

 
 

Suze – most of the power companies here are monopolies regulated by a state . public utilities commission. Yes, harbors and airports go on the list.

Also, LORAN, NOAA/NWS, and G fucking P fucking S.

 
 

Samuel F. B. Morse couldn’t get any investors at first so the gubblemint coughed up the money to set up a demonstration system.

Also, railroad expansion in the west gave rights of way to the RR compnaies on federal lands.

Also, the transatlantic cable was funded in part by the US and English governments.

 
 

Okay, I’ll play along. TVA … rural electrification … Interstate highway system … Panama Canal … The Internet … Mississippi watershed flood control … St Lawrence Seaway (*) … Air Traffic Control system. Anyone else care to pile on?

It’s a fundamentalist religion, old chum, and no amount of evidence will get them to change their tune.

 
 

In SA, Telkom (govt-owned) is the only landline telephone and data network. The cellphone companies are private, profit-driven.

 
 

Even war isn’t free of that pesky governmental interference:

Beginning with Col. Roswell Lee at Springfield in 1815, however, the Superintendents of the armories realized that by giving employment to inventors they could not just produce arms within the government, but push the envelope of weapons technology. In 1819 Lee brought in Thomas Blanchard, who was just beginning to establish himself as one of the great inventors of the day. Blanchard soon invented a lathe that could reliably produce interchangeable gun barrels, followed by a number of other devices that speeded up and regularized production, and enabled semi-skilled laborers to do the work of artisans. His counterpart at Harpers Ferry, John H. Hall was involved in similar work, and Lee developed management techniques to oversee the new modes of production. This “armory practice” not only gave a boost to the young country’s defense, but before long spread to other industries such as New England clockmakers, accelerating the industrial revolution. By 1854, British parliament sent a delegation to its former colony to investigate reports of new manufacturing techniques that surpassed anything in Europe. The delegation reported back that there was indeed a new “American System of Manufacture,” a name that stuck and a method that then spread to Britain and around the globe. This radical transformation in the global mode of production was the direct result of U.S. government funding and management, and it illustrates two key points that will be seen throughout the examples of government innovation. First, the government can be most effective when it intervenes in areas where innovation is needed but the risk for any individual entrepreneur to invest in the research and development would be too great. Second, under proper conditions the results of this government investment can benefit society well beyond its original narrow goals.

 
 

Just like the SABC is the govt-owned TV(3 channels) and radio (lots of local channels) network, but there is one privately-owned channel, etv (no relation).
There is also a similar thing to your cable setup which you have to pay for and which I obviously don’t have access to.

 
 

Gotta watch Owning Mahowny, now, instead of Groundhog Day. Wish it weren’t so.
.

 
Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™
 

Thanks for the head up on Austen, fenwick.

Will adjusticate.

 
 

Provider – also “ahistorically”, not “a historically” .

It’s a fundamentalist religion, old chum, and no amount of evidence will get them to change their tune.

I’ve been singing that tune for a while so I say amen, brother.

 
 

Fucking brilliant performance in Charlie Wilson’s War.

 
 

I like the “DoughJo” idea, but I’ll probably forget to use it.

 
 

mmmm…cheese sauce…let me know how it goes, eh? we have not been able to try it out yet…

i am already bored by the game, but i’m making wings…

 
 

haha…penetration in the backfield…

 
 

Pup, thanks for the correction, will heed in the future. Editing a post on the phone, kinda sucks.

 
 

Commenting as well. Need to find the stupid bowl on the radio. Go hawks!!!

 
 

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans government ever done for us?

 
 

right now every person over 65 is going, ‘what. the. fuck?’

 
 

Is tsam a happy boy? Oh yes he is happy boy happy boy!

 
 

I eagerly await his, ‘YOU GUYS…! post

 
 

So, if tsam is happy, happy, joy,joy!! this means his team from Seattle won the feetsball. Right?

 
 

they are kicking the bejaysus outta the broncos….

 
 

You seem to have forgotten the internet.

 
 

so far the internet mockery is off to a good start…

 
 

You talkin’ to me, VCarlson ? You talkin’ to me ? Huh?
I had a cat on the keyboard so was restricted in my access to anything other than my bookmarked pages – so back off.

/I apologise in advance for being rude – it’s bloody 4:30 am here and that is the only excuse I have.

 
 

I think v is referring to the list of government accomplishments, but ow I realize that one prolly could watch the game online…but enh, why?

 
 

That wasn’t a Super Bowl, it was more of a beating.

 
 

Wow. That was some serious massacree in East Rutherford!

 
 

I think v is referring to the list of government accomplishments, but ow I realize that one prolly could watch the game online…but enh, why?

I was referring to the list of government accomplishments. Thanks for clarifying, bbkf.

As for watching the game online, I suppose I could, had I any interest. Which I don’t. Me for the Kitten Bowl.

 
 

Me for the Kitten Bowl.

I thought about it, but reached acute cute overload after watching the puppy bowl…i

 
 

Humble apologies, V. Blush.

 
 

I had a cat on the keyboard so was restricted in my access to anything other than my bookmarked pages – so back off.

It happens

Colorado lost? That’s some good schadenfreude!

 
Some Militant Atheist
 

Peyton Manning obviously does not have a friend in Jesus.

 
 

We watched a bit of the 2014 Incredible Dog games tonite. (No football.) The dogs are cool because, among other reasons, they aren’t really competing with each other — they just like being super, and respond well to team play (handlers and training and game design) that let them excel, which they really enjoy doing.

 
 

Peyton Manning obviously does not have a friend in Jesus.

He can eat a lot of shitty pizza to console himself.
.

 
 

Humble apologies, V. Blush.

No apologies needed. I didn’t do my usual and include a quote to make the context clear. That’ll learn me. Now I’m blushing.

 
 

Take that Elway, you horse-faced fucker.

 
 

I had a cat on the keyboard
I fail to see the problem.

 
 

pup let us know how that cheez sauce came out. I made it a couple weeks ago, came out grainy. kenny was not a happy boy.

 
Facty McFacterson
 

Garçon, this place smells like merde again!

Who is that pig farmer at the next table with the shit on his boots?

 
 

‘e is called “Dennis”, monsieur.

 
Facty McFacterson
 

Well, tell him to get the fuck out of here, he’s bothering the customers.

 
 

Speaking, as we were, about bug-person co-operation, I just rescued a large dung beetle (I think). Every time I went in the bathroom, he was there. butting his head against the door, trying to find a way out. So I picked him up using the cover of Mad Bathroom Humor as my scoop and tossed him out the window. It felt like the right thing to do.
He, on the other hand, was very uncooperative. He pulled in his legs and played dead. He squirted what looked like semen but was probably stomach contents or spit and was really ungrateful. Huh – bugs !

 
 

How dare someone have an opinion denigrating one of the greatest conservative best-selling authors as a mere shart factory!

 
 

Suezboo, I commend you for escorting the six legger out of the house. They got jobs as well.

In other news it seems that my biggest fan is back.
Awwwww.

Sadly, I have more respect for stinkbugs.

 
 

Hey Suez, I thought of you as I celebrated another of those crass Amurican holidays: Tet. While I slurped my noodles to the sound of firecrackers and the smell of incense I waved a chopstick held dumpling in your general direction. Happy New Year!

 
 

Aw, ElM, I truly, deeply wish I could have grabbed your dumpling.

/easy one for bbkf

 
 

Chinese food(and Mexican and Thai and Cuban and…) is one of the things I miss most about not living in the Big City.
Happy New Year to you, Chinese El Manquecito.

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

HAPPY T’SAM IS HAPPY AND HAPPY SOME MORE

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

Take that Elway, you horse-faced fucker.

HA! This comment is left over from the Seahawks AFC days, yes?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Alright, so who’s hung over?

 
 

I’m hung, over.

 
 

Alright, so who’s hung over?

I’ll pretend to be. I had a bit of the hair of the dog this morning.

Pleased with the results of two games yesterday, and happy for the NWestern contingent.

 
 

As always, any of the mods are welcome to shit-can my responses to the thing that has currently jacked my nym.

 
 

The last comment was obviously unnecessary.

🙂

Doffs cap.

 
 

Back to examining the suggestions that Major sent over the transom vis a vis the making of life easier for all of us.

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

So, if tsam is happy, happy, joy,joy!! this means his team from Seattle won the feetsball. Right?

Not just won, they beat the Broncos HARD. 43-8. That’s a terrible beating in the NFL.

NOBODY saw this coming. If you know anything about football, you never would have predicted this outcome.

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

Karma happened to Richard Sherman because karma is racist.

I still don’t know why he’s such a lightning rod. He’s actually a good guy. When Seattle fans were tweeting stupid shit about Peyton Manning, Sherman stepped in to politely tell them to shut it and just enjoy the fact that our Seahawks got a championship.

(Actually I do know why, it just makes me too angry to talk about because right now I’m floating on a cloud over this)

 
 

As always, should have checked my special Gazoogle account on Amurican holidays. Happy New Year, Vietnamese El Manquecito. Apologies.

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

I also enjoyed the half time show for the first time in a whole bunch of years. Not really of a fan of Bruno Mars’ music, but the guy is damn good. Of course adding the Chili Peppers to anything gives it an extra kick of awesome.

 
 

Today is my birthday, and with the advent of the Chinese New Year, the house has had a Feng Shui redoing, complete with burning incense under the various statues this morning before placing them in their places for the Year of the Horse. I have to remember not to write Year of the Snake on my checks from now on.

Gung Hay Fat Choy, to all the white(pinkish) and variously hued devils around here.

 
 

The sauce was … interesting. Super smooth at first but it got grainy quite quickly as it cooled. The flavor was good – I used Tillamook extra sharp cheddar but there was something missing. Maybe I should have added salt, which I almost never do with cheese.

 
 

The sauce was … interesting. Super smooth at first but it got grainy quite quickly as it cooled. The flavor was good – I used Tillamook extra sharp cheddar but there was something missing. Maybe I should have added salt, which I almost never do with cheese.

this is sadness to my ears…

 
 

oh, yes…grabbing the dumpling 🙂 not hungover, just slow today…i hate, hate, hate having perfect weekends end with a monday…

 
 

I also enjoyed the half time show for the first time in a whole bunch of years. Not really of a fan of Bruno Mars’ music, but the guy is damn good. Of course adding the Chili Peppers to anything gives it an extra kick of awesome.

right on, brother…so, what happened to sherman…i saw he went down, but we didn’t watch the rest of the game…switched over to netflix and watched ‘flight’ which is a movie that made me hate denzel washington, which i did not think was even possible…

 
 

Apparently he can be a bit of an a-hole off-camera:

That was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did. I should have said to the producers, “You get that guy in line, or I’m out of here.” Life’s too short. But the next movie I did, the director was getting a lot of crap from his star, and he started to take it out on me one day, and just like a German shepherd—you know when a German shepherd stands up on its hind legs and puts its paws on your shoulders?

I put my hands on his shoulders and I very gently but firmly said, “I don’t do abuse, and if you say one more word of abuse to me, I’m on a plane, and you don’t have enough money to keep me here.” And that was the end of it, and I’ve never taken abuse again. And I wasn’t vile or anything, it just ripped out of me. Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused. The script supervisor on that movie said it’s like watching somebody kick a puppy. He was so vile. And after that, I just would never endure it again.

 
 

one of the faces of medical marijuana…

 
 

I’m the one who said just grab em in the dumplings!

 
t'sam, who does not approve of your apostrophical shenanigan's
 

right on, brother…so, what happened to Sherman

He got his ankle all twisted up–he’ll be ok. I’m guessing that shiny new ring he has dulls the pain.

 
 

woot.

+2 GMT. Got it.

 
 

so…this trial is coming up…things could get uglier…

 
 

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a tiny hoof stamping on a human face — forever.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

one of the faces of medical marijuana…

Sure looks like a criminal to me… stole my heart!

 
 

Sure looks like a criminal to me… stole my heart!

she is a cutie…and a sweetie…the daughter knows her better than i do…so, what i’m wondering, if, since the thc in this particular strain is virtually non-existant, is that true of all medical marijuana? if so, what’s the big deal about it ‘getting out’ on the streets?

 
 

It’s snowing in Portland, even down on the valley floor. Won’t amount to much and it won’t stick, and it won’t do diddly to soften the drought. BUT it makes for a good day to have yummy lamb shanks and beans left over from the other day.

 
 

Tell me what you think of Pok Pok PMax. I got the cookbook and have been in northern Thailand ever since.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

It’s snowing in Portland, even down on the valley floor. Won’t amount to much and it won’t stick, and it won’t do diddly to soften the drought. BUT it makes for a good day to have yummy lamb shanks and beans left over from the other day.

I just finished shoveling the sidewalk in front of my place, and my elderly neighbors’ driveway and sidewalk. I had some roasted Brussels sprouts for lunch (I cut-and-pasted the December Brussels srpout sub-thread from Roy’s place into an Open Office doc this morning). Lamb shanks would be awesome.

 
 

It’s snowing in Portland, even down on the valley floor.

We didn’t get any down here, just a bit of freezing rain that didn’t stick to the streets, thankfully.

And I did end up getting invited to a Stupor Bowl party. It was fun, the food and drink was most excellent (mmm, brisket), and it was hilarious watching Denver lose so profoundly.

The commercials were mostly disappointing, at least the ones I noticed.

 
 

since the thc in this particular strain is virtually non-existant, is that true of all medical marijuana? if so, what’s the big deal about it ‘getting out’ on the streets?

No, most of it has quite a lot of THC. But there are other differences. Indica is more of a sleepy, “body high” that’s appropriate for some legit medical uses. Sativa would be good for others.

 
 

LOVE me some Pok Pok. I told our NY friends when Andy Ricker opened a Pok Pok in Brooklyn(?) but they probably never went. Which is a shame because Thai at Pok Pok is NOT like any other Thai food you’re likely to find in a US restaurant.

I like that his book talks about the three different Thai cuisines, something I did not know previously and I suspect few other people do.

 
 

No, most of it has quite a lot of THC.

huh…learn something new everyday…

 
 

I spent a while all over Thailand the same time as Ricker and it seems like we ate in the same kind of places. The book is a real flashback.

 
Sharts for Freedom
 

Fruit flies like a banana, time flies like an arrow.

 
 

Martin Short spoonerizes as Shartin’ Mort … just saying.

 
 

spent a while all over Thailand the same time as Ricker and it seems like we ate in the same kind of places

He goes over frequently. I take it then you ate a lot of street food?

 
 

+1 for the Whiskey Soda Lounge also too.

 
 

Streets, bars, huts, peoples back yards, etc. I think the 2nd gen Thai places here are taking a while to break through, one cause the food can be a little intense and, B. cause folks are used to the strip mall/take out stuff. He’s done OK, the foodie press loves him. I hope he’s more fun in person than he is in print.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Isan cuisine has gained quite a bit of popularity in the NY metro area.

 
 

From the couple brief times I met Andy I’d paint him as “largely humorless.”

 
 

Unlike John Goreham who is friendly and rather garrulous. And a helluva good cook.

“These guys make Portland one of the most exciting restaurant cities in the world today.” —Mario Batali

“John Gorham is a chef with a unique personality; he is magic. In his book Toro Bravo, he puts all his passion and soul into sharing Spanish cuisine with Americans. I’m certain both professional chefs and home cooks will love it.” —Ferran Adrià(!), head chef at ElBulli

 
 

I appreciate how meticulous Ricker is, particularly about laap which I have a thing for. The Burmese pork belly curry in the book is perfect. But I do like jolly and garrulous in a cook; if I want serious and condescending I can call people for that.

 
 

An old freind dropped off the parts required to do one of my favorite things, building a bicycle wheel from scratch. And a tubular to boot. Which for the uniniticiated means that I have to glue the tire to the rim.

The bonus is that this dude sold me my current sled and finishing this thing finishes payment on the new/old roadbike. 1988 Bridgestone. My last wheel was built without a truing stand or dishing tool. He brought along both. Now that three to five mills out of round (was using my thumb) will be taken care of.

Have I mentioned that I like to build wheels?
Also too, bicycle frames.

There will likely be a post and pictures.

 
 

Crap I just realized that I need to stress test the wheel. Strapping a superlight rear with tubular…bike pron.

WeeeeeeHeeeee!!!!!.

 
 

WeeeeeeHeeeee!!!!!.

Will there be wheelies involved?

 
 

This comment is left over from the Seahawks AFC days, yes?

You bet your ass it is. Plus all the knob slobbering over what a savior he is to the present-day Broncos.

Of course adding the Chili Peppers to anything gives it an extra kick of awesome.

Heh. My FacePlace feed was full of pictures of Flea today, jumping around on stage with his bass plugged into nothing.

 
 

VC. I wish, but I only seem able to do those in races. Inadvertantly. And this will be a rear wheel.
🙂

 
 

But … GOD WAS ANGRY WITH THE BRONCOS BECAUSE TIM TEBOW!!!!!

 
 

GOD WAS ANGRY WITH THE BRONCOS BECAUSE TIM TEBOW!!!!!

Huh. Now you mention it, the Bibble stories featuring Bad Things happening are usually happening to ostentatiously religious folk.

Of course, grew up in an unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in the 1960s and 1970s in a University town, so there’s a lot I don’t know about the Bibble.

 
 

His mother must be so proud:

That’s too bad, because there really is a subject here. Fascism – a political latecomer that adapted anti-socialism to a mass electorate, using means that often owed nothing to conservatism – drew on both right and left, and tried to transcend that bitter division in a purified, invigorated, expansionist national community. A sensitive analysis of what fascism drew from all quarters of the political spectrum would be a valuable project. It is not Jonah Goldberg’s project.

The bottom line is that Goldberg wants to attach a defaming epithet to liberals and the left, to “put the brown shirt on [your] opponents,” as he accuses the liberals of doing (p. 392). He goes about this task with a massive apparatus of scholarly citations and quotations. But Goldberg’s scholarship is not an even-handed search for understanding, following the best evidence fully and open-mindedly wherever it might lead. He chooses his scholarly data selectively and sometimes misleadingly in the service of his demonstration.

Jonah Goldberg knows that making the Progressives, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and FDR the creators of an American fascism – indeed the only American fascism, for George Lincoln Rockwell and other overt American fascist or Nazi sympathizers are totally absent from this book – is a stretch, so he has created a new box: Liberal Fascism. The Progressives and their heirs who wanted to use government to rectify social and economic ills, and who, in Goldberg’s view, thereby created an American Fascism, acted with good intentions, rarely used violence, and had nothing to do with Auschwitz. Even so, they share an intellectual heredity and a set of common goals with the European fascists. So they go into the “Liberal Fascist” box.

http://www.hnn.us/article/122231#sthash.CibV5Szt.dpuf&lt;

 
 

The fact is, I will never drink Coke after they celebrated jihad and the reconquistadore on national TV during a sacred holiday of USA

Wait until they find out that Chik-fil-A serves………wait for it………..Coke products.

 
 

It’s all part of a fiendish plan to make Real Amuricans® seem to be an ignorant bunch of xenophobic jackasses.

 
 

The fact is, I will never drink Coke after they celebrated jihad and the reconquistadore on national TV during a sacred holiday of USA

It’s all part of a fiendish plan to make Real Amuricans® seem to be an ignorant bunch of xenophobic jackasses.
***
relevant…

***and it’s working!!!

 
 

Battle of the Bands
Lots of contestants today! It’s going be an all-day and all-night event. But what can you expect with 130 comments to cull?

Laziest Beast
Bags of Hammers
Meatspace
Sitting in the Vaults
Smoking Meat
Me and The Cats
Industrial Strength Ramble
Too Potent
Glove Perversions
Beautifully Fried
Electricity Grid
Radical Transformation
Happy Boy Happy Boy
Cute Overload
Apostrophical Shenanigan’s
Over the Transom
Extra Kick of Awesome
Grabbing the Dumpling
Time with My Shrink
All Twisted Up
Tiny Hoof
Roasted Brussels
Stick to the Streets
Building a Bicycle
Glue the Tire
Dishing Tool
WeeeeeeHeeeee
Plugged Into Nothing
Massive Apparatus
Sugar Dependent

 
 

DA: Belated happy birfday! I sort of skimmed on my first reading of the thread; I only noticed when carefully culling for Bands. Hope all your furniture is in harmony today.

 
 

so…i posted the bateman article about the gun plank in the bateman/pierce platform…as i expected, shiite catholic/pro-gun acquaintance piped up…here’s the firefight thus far:

sc/pga:

This guy gives being an army officer a bad name. He doesn’t get it at all. …, I disagree with him and you 100%

me:

how is opposing wanton gun violence giving army officers a bad name? it seems to me that he ‘gets it’ quite well…you want every yahoo to have a gun and i don’t…so, yes, we will disagree on that…but i don’t think you can disagree that wanting to mitigate the senseless deaths of innocent people by guns is a good thing…

sc/pga:

No, …, I do NOT want any yahoo to have a gun. I believe in proper training and education. I do NOT think we need more laws. And …, how fast does your car go? Over 70mph? If it does, why? It only NEEDS to be able to go 70, since that is the speed limit. But we sell corvettes, camaros, etc. But no one NEEDS them. I have an AR-15 because I WANT one. I have fired them for over 28 years and I know them well. I don’t hunt with it, I target shoot, for sport. Just like my uncle who has a corvette doesn’t use his to go 100mph, even though he could, he just likes driving it. Every one of your husband’s hunting guns can do just as much damage as my AR…they can kill. Your argument is without merit.

me:

i think we do need more gun regulations, especially with automatic weapons. i’m not against guns, even though i hate them…i grew up in a hunting family and married a hunter, so i get that…but i don’t think responsible gun owners should have a hissy fit because they need to go through more steps to buy a gun…it’s nice that you want an ar-15…i bet the parents of the kids and teachers at sandy hook want their kids back…also, here’s a news flash: cars are not made to kill things, guns are…

sc/pga:

Cars may not be made to kill things, but they kill more people than guns do every year. And why should I, a LEGAL gun owner, have to pay the price for criminals. Maybe I should have to take a breathalizer in order to drive my truck because of all the drunk drivers. Oh, and when was the last time an automatic weapon was used in a shooting? I can’t name one! Before you go on about gun laws and what has been used in crimes, make sure your facts are correct. Those teachers and kids were killed by a criminal, not someone who was a responsible gun owner. Stop punishing the law abiding citizen for what the criminals do.

me:

thanks for pointing that out…i should say semi-automatic weapons. and adam lanza was not a criminal before he went on his rampage…he was a seriously mentally-ill young man, who had access to many legally bought weapons…owned by a responsible gun-owner. i don’t know, …, people haven’t shown themselves to be all that responsible with their weapons–and …, yes i know, there’s more responsible gun owners than not–who would be a good authority to enforce the piddly gun laws we have now? it’s groups like the nra getting bad legislation forced through at the state level that’s responsible…no state should be a ‘must issue’ state! and no, …, there’s a difference between issuing someone a driver’s license and letting them run around with a gun…again, cars are made for transportation, guns are made for killing…no one sets out intentionally to harm or kill someone when the get behind the wheel of their car (unless they’re on lifetime).

you know what i find the oddest thing about this conversation? it’s probably more difficult for a woman to terminate a pregnancy than it is for someone to purchase a gun and go shoot up a school…i can’t figure out how someone who is adamantly pro-life is so cavalier about actual people being killed in at-home gun accidents or mass shootings…you would go to any lengths to deny women you don’t even know access to birth control or an abortion, but feel fine about granting people the means to kill with weapons…

 
 

Six African Americans total in bbkf’s entire COUNTY, and she lectures on xenophobia.

i have yet to figure out what the fuck this has to do with anything…also, making a comment =/= ‘lecturing’…you might want to look that up…

as far as getting minorities hooked on sugar as you were snarking about in your now deleted comments, isn’t restricting people’s access to things they want or telling them what they can and can’t eat/drink/do something you find evil and/or hypocritical about liberals? so why is it ‘shilling’ for coke to find it amusing that the same people who freaked out about bloomberg’s initiative to ban large sized soft drinks are now freaking out because the purveyor of those same soft drinks is acknowledging that 1) america is a diverse country 2) they are a global company and their products aren’t exclusively made for american purchase…and that that freak out includes them telling coke what they can and can’t do in their marketing efforts to make as much money as humanly possible, damn the bad health consequences…can you explain that?

 
 

And WTF Bob Dylan?!??! Did you write that crap? “Nothing’s more American than America” is fucking st00pid. Tautology much?

 
 

also, ‘me and the cats’ is my new favorite band name…wish i could sing or play an instrument…

 
 

I can guaranfuckingtee that Vette, if it’s a recent model, has seen north of 100 on at least a few occasions.

 
 

DA — yeah happy burfday dude. For some reason I found it hard to believe you’re really doin the feng shui tho. Is it truly so? (Have only skimmed the thread.)

 
 

Apparently I missed the dropping of turds, thank FSM.

bbkf – don’t even bother trying to figure it out. It has dick-all to do with anything except the turd dropper’s idiocy and mental illness.

 
 

I can guaranfuckingtee that Vette, if it’s a recent model, has seen north of 100 on at least a few occasions.

oh ha ha…yes…i know the uncle, so i’m sure it has…and probably after several brandies…

 
 

i think we do need more gun regulations, especially with automatic weapons. 

I’m with you. I think the laws around owning and operating guns should be at least as strict as those around owning and operating motor vehicles. And I think the ones for motor vehicles should be tightened up – you should be required to do a road test every so many years, the interval getting shorter the older you get (I know/knew people who voluntarily gave up their cars in their 90s. It’s not elderly drivers, it’s my great-uncle John, who kept driving when everyone knew he couldn’t see past the hood). Also, of course, there are safety and environmental standards that must be met, because, guess what? nobody’s in their own separate world, apart from everyone else, despite many people’s behavior.

There are motor vehicles that are not street legal – you want to drive them, you have to do it on special courses. There are classes of motor vehicles for which one must get special training and licenses. These are all equivalents to laws about firearms a majority of the US would like to see enacted, and motor vehicles are more important to American’s lives than firearms. Possibly more important today than firearms were to ordinary Americans in the late 18th century.

 
 

bbkf – don’t even bother trying to figure it out. It has dick-all to do with anything except the turd dropper’s idiocy and mental illness.

right? he and da were quite prolific earlier…i can replay them for you if you’d like…

okay, since the cheese sauce gets grainy upon cooling, what about using something like velveeta (gasp! i know!) instead of cheddar? we want a super creamy sauce that will hold up…

 
 

VCarlson said,

February 4, 2014 at 19:48

oooh…may i borrow this?

 
 

Thanx for the convo, bbfk. I like the way you stick to your guns! (Heh).

On the Gun-Car comparision: Car owners must have (1) driver’s license; (2) vehicle registration; (3) vehicle tags; (4) vehicle title; (5) proof of insurance; (6) emissions inspection [most states].

Imo, gun owners should have some analogous requirements. (Plus becomes a state revenue stream, just like vehicles,)
— license [with endorsements, similar to CDL, e.g. auto, semi-auto.]
— gun registration (with serial #)
— gun title [state issues certificates for antiques]
— test firing to establish ballistics of individual weapons; kept on file.
— recorded ammunition purchases.
— trigger locks / gun cabinets required.
— magazine limits

NONE of these safeguards infringes on the 2nd Amendment, imo.

I know there a several Sadlie hunters and target shooters. I’m looking forward reading your views about bbfk’s conversation and/or gun control in general.

 
 

Hope all your furniture is in harmony today.

Thanks. Furniture doesn’t have to be moved every year, but different statues have to be used and place in different places, this year includes a plaque above the east window of the living room. that has what looks like to me Sanskrit characters or some early version of the Chinese written language.

 
 

I can guaranfuckingtee that Vette, if it’s a recent model, has seen north of 100 on at least a few occasions.

My neighbor had a Z06 Corvette, because I guess the regular Corvette just isn’t scary enough. He let me drive it once.

I knew better than to get on it too hard in first or second gear. I waited until I had it in third gear at around 50 mph and punched it. The rear tires smoked and the back end kicked out on me.

I’ve driven plenty of fast cars over the years but that’s the first one that ever scared me.

 
 

? Ain’t that Amerika … ?

wait, wait, wait! isn’t ‘going off the grid’ the wet-dream of tea partiers everywhere? as evidenced in teh 4patriots scam?

 
 

According to Griffin’s website her programs, known as “Tina Marie Live,” have a mission “to reveal the deadly consequences of the glamorization of premarital sex, drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, cutting and other self-destructive behaviors portrayed in all entertainment mediums. Tina Marie Live will educate and encourage people to live to their fullest potential by making positive media choices, thereby building higher self esteem and moral character.”

Now, I don’t watch TV hardly at all, and we don’t go to many movies but I’ll bet that suicide and cutting aren’t glamorized in any entertainment medium. She told them to watch Fox news. Hooboy.

She’s in the comments, smearing shit all over her face. It’s teh funnay.

http://www.lakenewsonline.com/article/20140203/News/140209695

 
 

I’ll bet that suicide and cutting aren’t glamorized in any entertainment medium

So Shakespeare is right out then?

 
 

CRA, I have Chinese ancestry through my mothers’ side of the family, but it was a former Chinese boss of my noble spouse who introduced her to Feng Shui, and she now is so up on it that she does the whole thing from year to year.

We have a plaque depicting the Eight Immortals, but she can name them off and I can’t. She has more systemic knowledge about Chinese belief systems than I do, mine consists of time-worn advice like “Every grain of rice you leave in your bowl is a pockmark on your future spouse.”, which is how Chinese mothers tell their kids to finish their meal, stories about the Fox Devil, etc.

 
 

okay, i got this far: But some have taken umbridge before i got annoyed…really, how hard is it to use spell check? and where are editors nowadays?! but then again, this reporter’s first name is ‘spree’…

 
 

wait! isn’t ‘going off the grid’ the wet-dream of tea partiers everywhere?

With some it’s more like “OFF THE PIGS GRID!”

 
 

i didn’t even SEE the ad…i hate commercials…except the funnay ones…and the ‘seen only on teevee’ ones…the ear wax vac guy is my all-time favorite: OUCH!

don’t blame me dennis, i haven’t bought a coke or any other pop-like product in years…i find most advertising to be, to use one of your favorite terms, evil…why don’t you go rally the troops elsewhere and tell them to freak out about coke’s ‘lifelong and serious’ marketing to low-income minorities instead of the fact that they used non-whites singing in non-english languages?

 
 

bbfk: Another argument against the 70+ speedometer. Some states have 80+ speed limits (Kansas, if I recall). Also isn’t there a western state (Nevada) that has NO posted limit?

A decade ago, my trans* best friend drove her Mazda RX7 from CA to Nevada just to see what the vehicle could do. She found a long, long straight, with paved shoulders and an excellent view of oncoming traffic. She drove it twice to check the surface.

Then she set up at one end and punched it, driving in the middle of the road; she used the lane-marker stripes as a centering / driving aid…sort of like taxi-ing guides at airports She eased off the pedal at 140, because it was just too damn scary; despite the spoiler, the vehicle was lifting from the road surface. There was still plenty of speed left in the vehicle when she eased off the pedal.

 
 

But some have taken umbridge

Great suspense thriller, written by Steven King under a nom d’plume.

 
 

That sweet puppy in the Budweiser commercial is THE ANTICHRIST!

 
 

So Shakespeare is right out then?

Dunno. But doing the Dirty Shakespeare is mos def prohibited!

[obscure joke for Sadly veterans]

 
 

Another argument against the 70+ speedometer.

My wife’s A4 (station wagon no less) has an 180 mph speedometer! Why they did that I have no idea. I’m pretty sure the computer limits the car to 135 mph. I guess the S4 model might be able to approach that

What’s silly is that puts 60 mph right around the 9 o’clock position on the dial. Fortunately there’s a digital repeater or it would be really hard to tell the difference between 65 and 70 on the gauge.

 
 

My wife’s A4 (station wagon no less) has an 180 mph speedometer! Why they did that I have no idea. I’m pretty sure the computer limits the car to 135 mph. I guess the S4 model might be able to approach that

That’s why. They don’t want to have different parts for every model.

 
 

Pup: Wonderful link!

I actually remember the imaginary phallic images at the Denver airport goofiness! And he’s b-a-c-k with his Spayshul Gift from God.

My two favorite bullet points about Over-the-Cliff fundegelicals:

[A religious fanatic] wants to be paid by the South African government because he believes his prayers kept the electricity going during the World Cup.

[Another] guy … has founded a service to send explanatory emails to your loved ones if you’re taken away during the Rapture.

The latter sounds like it could be an amusing snark festival for Sadlyburg commenters….

 
 

[Another] guy … has founded a service to send explanatory emails to your loved ones if you’re taken away during the Rapture.

Now why didn’t I think of that? I think there’s money to be made fleecing the fundagelicals.

 
 

[Another] guy … has founded a service to send explanatory emails to your loved ones if you’re taken away during the Rapture.

This could be a great scam for Anonymous; the guy gets the e-mail designations for each customer’s friends and relatives. Denial-of-service attacks, here we come!

 
 

Major: Great minds think alike….

 
 

OIC, DA. Here’s hoping the reconfiguration is not too disruptive.

[Another] guy … has founded a service to send explanatory emails to your loved ones if you’re taken away during the Rapture.

I heard about that. One of a family of services and/or preparations that’d be reasonable to make if you thought you were gonna be enraptured. That so few take such steps seems telling. The people that believe in a fixed date (which passes uneventfully, so far at least) are a better measure of sincerity. I mean if you think the eschaton is imminent, but you aren’t sure when, you can make excuses for anything. Hence no put-up-or-shut-up test of belief.

 
 

oooh…may i borrow this?

Abso-bloomin-lutely!

 
Explain the Rapture, Inc.
 

To: The Damned
From: Explain the Rapture, Inc.

By now, you are probably aware the Rapture has take all true Christian believers to heaven, including our clients [insert client’s name & family members, as appropriate].

You had your chance. Even as late at [time, date of Rapture], had you but repented your heathen and sinful ways and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, you would have been lifted up to Heaven.

Too late now. You are condemned to live through the End Days ruled by the Anti-Christ then plunged into eternal Hell fire. No appeals. No do-overs. And you will be in Hell for eternity, forever and ever!

I’ll bet you wish you had listened to [client’s name] who is now singing with the angels in heaven!

Sincerely,

Sol Epstein
Senior Notification Officer
Explain the Rapture, Inc.

PS: You may wonder how we were able to send this e-mail. We hired a Jew to stay behind and send the Explain-the-Rapture messages to unbelievers and sinners like you.

 
 

The truth is, guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens make America safer from criminals. Guns in hands of patriotic citizens are an insurance policy against tyranny like what is happineng now under Obama. The Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots like Bill Bellichick.

 
 

Hey everyone, don’t mean to pull a Jonah here, but I desperately need to find a recent example of right-wing anti-disabled-person bullshit (ideally the crap many write from time to time about disabled people faking their conditions or how much of a burden on small businesses they are).

My girlfriend just got put through the ringer of some impressive anti-disabled discrimination bullshit (which apparently is fully fucking legal) and my rage muscles are aching to rip someone a new asshole over it and I’d rather that remain metaphorical.

 
 

Hey everyone, don’t mean to pull a Jonah here, but I desperately need to find a recent example of right-wing anti-disabled-person bullshit (ideally the crap many write from time to time about disabled people faking their conditions or how much of a burden on small businesses they are).

ew! that’s really a thing?! i haven’t read anything like that which is good, because blood pressure/stabby feeling/hulk smash…so what went down with the girlfriend?

 
 

Looks like great prospects for another Battle of the Bands!
I mean, there might be a half-a-dozen band name prospects just in bbfk’s transcription of her conversation with the shiite catholic / pro-gun acquaintance.)

– – – – – – – – – – –

Fake Gary: Interesting approach. As you know, I like the big joke coming at or near the end the comment … and you certainly achieved that! The downside is obviously revealing yourself as Fake Gary with the Bellichick gag. And that’s okay if you’ve got a good payoff, which you do!

Personally, however, I tend to prefer Fake Gary comments with a less-obvious reveal. Leave the Sadlies wondering: Is it Gary? Is it Fake Gary?

Btw, there is zero probablity that I wrote the Fake Gary comment above and am even now covering my tracks by pretending to evaluate and critique it.

 
 

Pulling a Jonah

 
 

Btw, there is zero probablity that I wrote the Fake Gary comment above and am even now covering my tracks by pretending to evaluate and critique it.

If only there were a way to check the posting IP and see if this were true.

But yeah, “Bellichick” was a nice touch.

 
 

OBS: I ‘fess up. I’m a devious SOB.

 
 

If only there were a way to check the posting IP and see if this were true.

heh…exactly my thoughts…

OBS: I ‘fess up. I’m a devious SOB.

i wasn’t going to out you, but you really have to get up a bit earlier in the morning to fool west coast worms…

 
 

Hey everyone, don’t mean to pull a Jonah here, but I desperately need to find a recent example of right-wing anti-disabled-person bullshit (ideally the crap many write from time to time about disabled people faking their conditions or how much of a burden on small businesses they are).

The closest I can come at this time is Peter Schiff saying that mentally handicapped people should only make $2/hour.

 
 

The closest I can come at this time is Peter Schiff saying that mentally handicapped people should only make $2/hour.

yeah, i thought of that one, too…but doesn’t seem to quite fit the bill…it’s kinda stated in the comment section, but holy shite, there’s a lot of comments…according to *someone* here, there is a mass of fraud, etc. in the ssi department, but of course, no citations…perhaps he would also know of any nut jobs who would actually air their opinions about what a drag the disabled are on the job creators…

 
 

bbkf-

She lined up a new job, middle class money, full time, benefits, and with the interviewer excitedly figuring out expanded jobs she could perform and with opportunities for advancement. It was also exactly what she wants to do with her life, because it was a women’s center for women who are survivors of domestic violence and she has a bunch of experience in that field and a lot of personal connection to that owing to watching her dad beat and abuse numerous women including herself.

Interviewer was like, yes, you are so perfect for the slot and they called her in to sign paperwork and start like the next day, so she puts in her notice of quitting with her current job and goes in to sign paperwork. The paperwork comes with a DMV license background check and she is forced to reveal that she is visually disabled (from a congenital conditon) and cannot legally drive.

They yank back all the paperwork and say, “no driver’s license, no job”. Their apparent justification for this is that their location needs to be confidential in order to avoid abusive partners finding their victims and abusing them again and apparently this means that you can only take cars to the location that is perfectly accessible from public transportation, because people who take public transportation are known gossips and love to tell bus drivers and fellow passengers all the details of where they are going or why they are getting off and I don’t even fucking know what the ever-loving hell.

But, worst part is, she called her employment counselor at the Disability Services center near her and apparently that bit of bullshit is perfectly legal, because before hiring they can make whatever bullshit “reasonable request” they want to eliminate disabled applicants.

And it’s frustrating because she’s perfect for the job, super fucking qualified, and far more likely to be able to stick it out for the long-term than most of their prospective employees (because she’s seen the most soul-crushing situations imaginable for years and hasn’t yet flinched away), but they’re unwilling to put aside bullshit anti-disabled people business practices to accommodate her.

And it’s about as devastating for her as it was for me when I got discriminated out of my job for being trans* and all the bullshit things that were assumed about my capability, including some last-minute attempts to fabricate additional unqualifications in order so it wouldn’t look as black and white as it was including accusing her of trying to hide information she sent several times and which were confirmed by emails back to her referencing the successful receipt of said information.

And it’s extra worrying, because there’s a terrifyingly large number of jobs who have absolutely no reason to require a driver’s license (they are not actually delivery or driving based jobs) requiring one simply as a means of weeding out poor people, elderly workers, and the visually disabled and there’s a whole bunch of other subtle language meant to weed out workers with physical disabilities (things that oddly demand you be able to lift a certain amount of weight or be able to stand for large periods of time for sit-down office work positions).

And it’s just part of this big fucking maelstrom that seems to have no end of people I love being fucked by the fact that our broken ass system does not seem to have caught up to or even want to catch up to every other first world nation. I mean, if it’s this bad in the “hippie granola commie” states, I can only shudder to imagine the experience of disabled people in the Deep South or the like.

In short, I’m pissed and fuming and need something I can punch as if I was Muhammad Ali on speed.

 
 

Also isn’t there a western state (Nevada) that has NO posted limit?

Montana has no limit during daylight hours. It’s fucking CRAZY there if you’re not ready for it. Like the Autobahn with 1978 Ford trucks instead of cars that were built to go over 55 MPH.

 
 

But, worst part is, she called her employment counselor at the Disability Services center near her and apparently that bit of bullshit is perfectly legal, because before hiring they can make whatever bullshit “reasonable request” they want to eliminate disabled applicants.

but they didn’t disclose that to her prior to verbal hiring? it stinks to high heavens, cerb…doesn’t seem legit that this could stand, being as public transportation is readily available. unless they have a secret garage? and only cars driven by employees turn invisible upon entering to fit their super security measures? she did point out that she took public transportation to the job interview, didn’t she?

 
 

I have to laugh at all the dumb motherfuckers that are all butthurt about the Coca Cola commercial with (HOLY SHIT) other languages.

Again; It must be exhausting to be so fucking mad about so many meaningless fucking things. I HATE STUFF I HATE IT SO MUCH

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I heard about that. One of a family of services and/or preparations that’d be reasonable to make if you thought you were gonna be enraptured. That so few take such steps seems telling. The people that believe in a fixed date (which passes uneventfully, so far at least) are a better measure of sincerity. I mean if you think the eschaton is imminent, but you aren’t sure when, you can make excuses for anything. Hence no put-up-or-shut-up test of belief.

I got a Rapture-ready co-worker to shut up about it for good by asking him for $100. It’s not a make-or-break sum for most people, and if the Rapture were imminent, he wouldn’t need it.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I have to laugh at all the dumb motherfuckers that are all butthurt about the Coca Cola commercial with (HOLY SHIT) other languages.

“Everytime I suck down a 64-oz Big Gulp now, I taste Messican spices!”

 
 

The day of account settelment is coming!

our account specialist is helen waite…if you would like to settle your account, please go to helen waite…

 
 

Cerb: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2006/ada_license_function_accommodation.html

Looks like if driving isn’t an essential job function, they can’t require a DL.

 
 

Though if they have fewer than 20 employees I think they might be exempted… She should email her local eeoc office and ask for advice.

 
 

B^4-

I don’t usually tackle video, but that looks like it’s worth an exception. Thanks a ton.

bbkf-

Yeah, that’s kind of what pisses me off. It has nothing to do with the stated reason. There’s not reason why public transportation is less secure than private vehicles in terms of not revealing the location publicly (which is a good and important thing to be aware of for any domestic violence shelter) and it’s probably the main way that most of the clientele are accessing the shelter (unless the cars only policy is being used to economically discriminate against the women they are serving as well).

Additionally, the job she is handling is late night helpline duties for the most part (and is the part outlined as specifically to be her job), so it’s not like she is expected to be on hand to provide transportation services to clients (which would be a reason to require the ability to drive). She is also more than willing to relocate to the area so as to be within walking distance and furthermore decrease any need for apparently security threatening buses.

It’s exploiting a good policy in order to fabricate a reason not to hire disabled employees because they are viewed as a financial burden on company health plans and a financial burden in the form of making basic level accommodations for accessible needs.

And it’s all apparently above board and politically correct by the strictest definition of the law. Which raises the question of exactly what disabled people are supposed to do in order to survive other than sit home and serve as “mooching” targets for the right-wing to take potshots at?

 
 

Addendum-

She’s sent a begging letter to the company, renoting all she has to offer and her willingness to make any and all accommodations to alleviate the policy that she can and reiterating that the reason she doesn’t have her license is that she is physically disabled, but it doesn’t look good. She’s also reaching out for other resources, but she’s pretty savvy about her legal rights most of the time, and she’s pretty sure she doesn’t have any legal recourse unless she had already completed her paperwork and was officially hired.

So yeah, mostly just sucks and fuming.

 
 

Which raises the question of exactly what disabled people are supposed to do in order to survive other than sit home and serve as “mooching” targets for the right-wing to take potshots at?

well, duh! the correct answer is to not be disabled or be irresponsible enough to become disabled in the first place…

i’m with tigris…get a second opinion…this kind of thing really pisses me off…i can only imagine how you feel…

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Thanks a ton.

I take this sort of thing very seriously. One of my uncles sustained a serious head injury as a kid and as an adult, he would have been best described as “Lenny” from Of Mice and Men– enormously strong but wounded in the brain. He got into the mason’s union (he could lay cinderblocks like most people laid bricks) and, after putting in a few years as a hod carrier and bricklayer, got a union night-porter’s job in a big office building downtown. If it weren’t for a supportive family, a close-knit neighborhood, and union protection, he would not have been able to live the quality life that he did.

 
 

Regarding Fenwick’s marvelous band name list above, I would be remiss not to point out that Bag Of Hammers is a new song by the Granite Countertops, available soon! The lyrics are not entirely irrelevant either.

 
 

And WTF Bob Dylan?!??! Did you write that crap? “Nothing’s more American than America” is fucking st00pid. Tautology much?

By the way, Bob, I can think of something more American than America right off the bat: your 4/5 Canadian ex-backing band.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Their apparent justification for this is that their location needs to be confidential in order to avoid abusive partners finding their victims and abusing them again and apparently this means that you can only take cars to the location that is perfectly accessible from public transportation, because people who take public transportation are known gossips and love to tell bus drivers and fellow passengers all the details of where they are going or why they are getting off and I don’t even fucking know what the ever-loving hell.

I was carless for two and a half months recently, and relied on public transportation. Most people on the bus are on their smartphones, keeping to themselves. People who have gotten on in a group tend to chat among themselves. I ran into a couple of friends and acquaintances in the course of the time I was taking the bus and train, but our conversations most emphatically did not involve deep personal information. Public transportation is hardly a hotbed of gossip.

 
 

Public transportation is hardly a hotbed of gossip.

Most people on public transit who aren’t playing with their devices are staring out the window with headphones on. It’s a remarkably pitiful excuse for disability discrimination. I’d expect a women’s shelter to know better. Good luck.

 
 

J Neo: What is Xpand? I gaggled it: 3D cinema systems … dietary supplements … sunglasses. Is it Xpand a musical instrument? Is it an audio editing suite (*)?

(*) I figure you must have something spiffy technology, because you are laying down multiple tracks for your own vocals … guitars [plural] … and bass.

Seeing as your playing is responsible for so much of Granite Countertops’ sound, how do you approach playing live gigs?

If you have them handy, could you put the lyrics up?

 
 

Proper use of apostrophe…

that is quite a…useful sign…one wonders just where a sign such as that would be needed…

 
 

Lunch Lady Allegedly Threatened To Shoot Up School Cafeteria Over Burnt Cookies

This is what happens when you don’t get your snark out in a healthful manner by commenting here.

 
 

i wasn’t going to out you, but you really have to get up a bit earlier in the morning to fool west coast worms…

bbkf: How did you know it was me? I presume you have keys to the castle. Was that how you figured it out? I’m trying to improve my Fake Gary game; I hope the text of the comment itself didn’t give me away.

Also, I am up W-A-Y early today! Usually I’m a night hawk.

(((btw, West Coast Worms is definitely a Battle of the Bands entry!)))

 
 

Ooooooo. My previous comment was # 200 ! So that means 70 comments since the last Battle-o-the-Bands. As I noted earlier, there are rich veins to mine!

So I’m going to go looking for spiffy band names that you folks have embedded in the thread.

 
 

Cerb: When you shape yer Righteous Rant about the ADA (and the shabby treatment of yer girlfriend), I hope you will post it–or some version of it–in the Ville du Sadlie. For some reason, your amped-with-rage writing is some of your best.

 
 

Good lord. I have no word’s.

Pick Up’s and delivery’s…thanks.

Now just what in the actual fuck is all that about?

 
 

Also: THE CORRECT SPELLING IS COOKIE’S, K?

 
 

Is that apostrophe abuse a new thing? I don’t remember that being so widespread (heh) a few years ago. Maybe I’m just noticing it now because of the exasperation with it…?

 
 

My MSN home page informed me that Kim Kardouchian is “so annoyed” that she dyed her hair dark.

 
 

My MSN home page informed me that Kim Kardouchian is “so annoyed” that she dyed her hair dark.

wait…isn’t her hair dark anyway? did she mean to go blonde and forget and got it dyed dark? what the hell? and really msn?

 
 

Battle-O-the-Bands Part Deux

Mitigate the Senseless
Piddly Gun
Hooked on Sugar
WTF Bob
North of 100
Not Street Legal
Cheese Sauce Gets Grainy
Different Statues
Sanskrit Characters
Eight Immortals
Ear Wax Vac
Don’t Blame Me Dennis
Dirty Shakespeare
Digital Repeater
Parts for Every Model
Imaginary Phallic Images
Excuses for Anything
Pull a Jonah
Rage Muscles
West Coast Worms
Fake Gary
Able to Lift
Ali on Speed
Secret Garage
Turn Invisible
Threatening Buses
Wounded in the Brain
Hotbed of Gossip
Burnt Cookies
Apostrophe Abuse

 
 

I’m on SSI for mental health reasons and I never feel I truly deserve it. It’s not like the disability has actually kept me from working. It’s the economy. I have never had a job that wasn’t seasonal and my last job was October 2010. I filled out a job application today but I think it’s hopeless.

 
 

Oh fuck right off Mara Eliason. Apparently she didn’t realize she was in the NPR studios, not at Fox, when she repeated the mistake/lie that the CBO report says Obamacare will cost two thousand jobs. I’ll bet cash money she didn’t read the fucking report but only went by what others said it says. Just sent an incendiary message to the Ombudsman.

 
 

Xpand is a Pro Tools thang. It’s a virtual instrument that translates MIDI data into anything from drums to bass to horns to Vogon poetry. Or for the lay person, it’s like a synthesizer in your computer.

Lately, we haven’t been approaching live gigs at all. In the past we’ve taken the minimalist approach: one guitar, one keyboard, one girl, one boy. Currently we’re too busy with work and school to do much more than record. We’re working on a series of videos instead.

 
 

Teh Ho noticed this truth in advertising bit at the grocery store.

 
 

Lyrics (I serve at the pleasure of Mr. Fenwick):

BAG OF HAMMERS

Standing on a ship that’s going down
Fighting bravely for the right to drown
The house is filling up with fire and smoke
While they throw bottles at the fire truck

(This is why we can’t have nice things!)

They don’t know what they’re talking about
But they know how to jump and shout
Raw meat raining on the angry herd
“Liberty” is now a meaningless word

Chasing demons in their wet fever dreams
The future’s scary and it makes them scream
Sincere citizens with godly goals
Modeling hats and digging six foot holes

(This is why we can’t have nice things!)

Bag of hammers on a bed of nails
Freedom trains are flying off the rails
Jumbo packages of cheap concerns
Country fiddles while the planet burns

(Oh, damn it!)
Don’t you know you’re being played for a fool…
Bag of hammers, raging over nothing…
It really doesn’t have to be this way…
(Ytrap aet ton a si noitulover a.)

 
 

Mara, eleison
Kyrie, eleison
Christi, eleison

 
 

J Neo: Thanx for the lyrics. Now I’m gonna listen again.

 
 

tsam: Musta been Montana that my friend tested the RX7 in. I knew there was some western state with no posted maximum….

 
 

Now I have a Missa Luba earworm, thanks to DA.

 
 

Teh Ho noticed this truth in advertising bit at the grocery store.

Is it coincidence that Brawny is owned by the Kochs?

 
 

Apostrophe abuse is in no way a new thing, if my lifetime counts for anything.

 
 

C’mon … you GOTTA put “Dictatorship Of The Soletariat” in your Battle-O-the-Bands, dude!

 
 

Didn’t Dictatorship Of The Souletariat play at Wattstax?

 
 

jim: Gee, I must have missed it. If the thread goes to a third B-o-t-B, “Dictatorship Of The Soletariat” will mos def be in the list.

I checked the thread pretty closely for possible names between 19:20 (4 Feb) and 1:25 (5 Feb). I’m sure I would have extracted “Dictatorship” had I encountered it. Where is it located?

 
 

while I spent a minute in college, I have only 18 credit hours banked.

So, either a really intense minute, or University of Phoenix online?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Hi, paleo, how was your meeting with bbkf and daughter?

 
 

I was carless for two and a half months recently, and relied on public transportation.

Yeah, read about it in a Friedman column. Did you say the world is a mobius strip, or were you the one that said business is like a lychee fruit – once you peel off the leathery exterior, it tastes like Windex?

 
 

did she mean to go blonde and forget and got it dyed dark?

The wet cat on your head look is so 5 minutes ago. Also, ISWYDT.

 
 

Hi, paleo, how was your meeting with bbkf and daughter?

Absolutely lovely people! Hope you had fun bbkf!

 
 

And B^4, how you doing – I’m so damn busy I can’t find my nipples, or anyone else’s more useful, and I have a blog post of maim-yness slowly developing but otherwise this is my first time posting more than one comment anywhere for a few weeks.

 
 

spiffy band names

Incendiary Message

19:20 (4 Feb) and 1:25 (5 Feb)

New hit by Chicago? (I is too hip!)

 
 

Pay attention to me! I have important things to say here!

So Dennis is Megan McArdle-Fyfington-Smythe-Smith-Herbert-Smeyth?

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

And B^4, how you doing

Doing well. I just had to step out and feed the cats. The day shift isn’t coming in due to inclement weather, so I’m working an additional four hours, and my colleague on the evening shift will be coming in four hours early. There’ll be time for the plows to work on the roads, and it’ll be above freezing by the time I leave.

 
 

The day shift isn’t coming in due to inclement weather

Sunday I watched a young woman, apparently intending to surprise her boyfriend/husband/wevs, drive out onto the ice in a sedan. There was a well worn road on the lake where she was okay, but then she turned into the 15-25″ of surface snow.

Surprised her fella, alright.

(and the surcharge to get a tow truck on the ice? She surprised the shit out of her credit card acct.)

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Sunday I watched a young woman, apparently intending to surprise her boyfriend/husband/wevs, drive out onto the ice in a sedan. There was a well worn road on the lake where she was okay, but then she turned into the 15-25? of surface snow.

Damn. Hubby was ice fishing? One of my co-workers shoveled some snow off of a pond on our property and held an impromptu hockey practice. He probably weighs about 140 lbs (I think he has elf blood- he’s very slender and has an ageless quality about him- he could be anywhere from 25 to 45 years old), so he could skate without fear.

By Sunday, the ice had totally melted, and now the pond is frozen and has a crust of snow.

 
 

Damn. Hubby was ice fishing?

As was I and a half dozen other idiots in the bay, with 30+” of ice, we were out in a Suburban (and with the wind, it was bloody needed. My canvas collapsible clamshell is becoming inadequate, I may have to build next year. Old and dignified ya know.)

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Did you catch anything?

 
 

Bottle bass.

genus Newcastle species Brown Ale

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Don’t have to clean those!

 
 

Well, they do have to be drained…

 
 

Lawl. Provider resents (fully) college-educated people so much that he hangs out at S,N! and Alicublog and so on. Twas merciful to scrub that lead balloon of a comment.

I know, I know. I’ve been good lately tho.

 
 

Wingnut whining about disability:

I’ve known about the “disability” scam for many years now, but I had never read a report that details the racket until I checked out the following from CBS’ 60 Minutes. As usual, the real money being made in the whole scheme is not centered around the people collecting the checks, but rather attorneys, doctors and even judges who grease the wheels of the $135 billion “disability-industrial-complex.”

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/10/08/meet-the-disability-industrial-complex-up-to-45-on-disability-insurance-are-frauds/

 
 

I just checked my schedule. I have a two-day trip that starts tonight and I notice I’m now flying with my immediate supervisor.

I don’t think I’ve ever even met her. I normally operate below the radar.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Good luck, a lot of airports seem to be in disarray due to the weather.

 
 

Oh fuck right off Mara Eliason. Apparently she didn’t realize she was in the NPR studios, not at Fox, when she repeated the mistake/lie that the CBO report says Obamacare will cost two thousand jobs. I’ll bet cash money she didn’t read the fucking report but only went by what others said it says. Just sent an incendiary message to the Ombudsman.

CBO Report Proves Republicans Can’t Read

*Republican’s. Sorry–forgot the correct punctuation.

 
 

disability-industrial complex

Seriously, what the fuck does that even mean? I thought wingnuts were all about the speekee English thing?

Way I read it is people walk in one door of the plant and roll out teh other…profit!!!

 
 

Hiya paleo! Give us a heads-up when you post your maim-yness piece.

 
 

The wet cat on your head look is so 5 minutes ago. Also, ISWYDT.

Any look goes good with sucking a toolshed’s disease factory of a dick on camera.

True story.

 
 

The disability-industrial complex is the follow up story to the help desk at the Mexican border where illegal’s swim the river and pick up their free welfare, house, Obamaphone, health care and various other free gift’s that are stolen from ordinary hard working white people American’s.

 
 

you stone it without attribution

Isn’t this a line from the third verse of Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35?

 
 

who hurriedly posted the kyrie eleison litany

Which I remembered from my 2 years of going to Mass every morning before starting classes at the St. Anne’s school over here.

Christ have mercy.

 
 

uh, it was 2 MILLION job’s will be loosed when i first heard it on the mpr this merning…then the CBO came on and said that republican’s can’t read…

 
 

I filled out a job application today but I think it’s hopeless.

wait…what happened to the supermarket job?

 
 

also, too…the meetup with paleo and his lovely wife was a hoot…although now paleo knows that i’m a really loud drunk…he also got the good fortune of meeting the rest of the fam, bonus!

 
 

You’ll note that’s talking about the specifics of that company’s guidelines, the sections of the ADA mentioned are still relevant.

 
 

Major:

I don’t think I’ve ever even met her. I normally operate below the radar.

I thought flying nap of earth was contraindicated in the world of commercial aviation?

 
 

I thought flying nap of earth was contraindicated in the world of commercial aviation?

I was figuratively speaking. My goal was to reach retirement and have the Chief Pilots say “Hey, who was that guy?”

 
 

And she’s at it again. I have to walk Bagoas now so I’ll write a smackdown later. I’m fucking fuming.

 
 

gun control: the saga continues…

sc/pga:

First of all …, Lanza’s mother was not very responsible, her guns were not locked up and unfortunately were used against her. You nailed the big problem on the head…mentally ill people getting access to guns. There is little standing in the way of a mentally ill person getting a gun, but that is the fault of privacy proponents who feel that a blip in the background check for a mentally ill person somehow broadcasts their whole medical history. The NRA, contrary to what the liberal world will have you believe, has actually come up with ways to fight the violense without restricting my rights. The president doesn’t want to hear it. When they sat down with Biden, he was all about banning and did not even listen to the NRA’s ideas. Your friends hunting husband most likely took his gun safety course from a class done by the NRA or one of its sponsored organizations. They do a lot of good. Yes, sometimes they are a little too radical, but for the most part they want the right problems looked at.

elementary school teacher:

So do some serious research…More people are murdered with a baseball bat than handguns. Do you think that perhaps we should outlaw bats?

me:

i would argue she was just as responsible as most gun owners…she had a gun safe where the guns were stored, and spending time at the shooting range with her son was one of the fun things they did together…from all accounts i’ve read, nobody imagined that he would go on a shooting spree…

Oh, yes, great ideas, nra! Don’t publicize gun free zones, don’t publicize mass shootings, video games are bad, armed guards in schools, put the mentally ill in a database (not gun owners) and stop debating gun legislation (never mind that the nra goes into high gear at the mention of gun legislation)…mighty fine ideas right there!

We do need to do something about the woeful state of mental health in this country, but putting anyone who has a mental illness on a ‘do not sell guns to’ list isn’t the best thing to start with…besides, the nra would just get a bunch of conditions exempted because, guess what? If you couldn’t sell guns to someone who has been prescribed medication for depression or anxiety most of America wouldn’t be able to buy a guns…

And John…google ‘do hammers kill more people than handguns’…i think you’ll be surprised at the answer…(hint: it’s not true!)

Also, I’m not advocating ‘outlawing’ guns…since guns are manufactured solely for killing, injuring, destroying (baseball bats are made to play baseball with, cars are made for transportation) it should be a little more difficult to buy a gun than it is to buy a bat or a car. I’m saying that I would like to see gun sales have a little stiffer requirements—at least as strict as owning and operating a car. There are motor vehicles that are not street legal – you want to drive them, you have to do it on special courses. There are classes of motor vehicles for which one must get special training and licenses. You need to pass a test to drive…and then be tested periodically after that. These are all equivalents to laws about firearms a majority of the US would like to see enacted, and motor vehicles are more important to American’s lives than firearms. Possibly more important today than firearms were to ordinary Americans in the late 18th century.

There is no simple answer…if responsible gun owners are really responsible, what’s so wrong with having to go through a few extra steps when purchasing a gun? Whatever happened to taking one for the team? Or thinking about the common good? Are gun owners really that selfish that having to wait a little longer, or doing some extra paperwork, or not being able to buy a zillion rounds of ammo at one time, or being able to shoot zillions of rounds at one time is going to ruin their lives? Think about it what’s more important? Dead people or a little inconvenience?

 
 

That I’m fuming is a good thing. It’s fucking COLD (for here). Rare occasion that I put on long johns (or john’s in t’sam’s ca’se).

 
 

Non-serious research turns this up as the first result.

 
 

More people are murdered with a baseball bat than handguns. Do you think that perhaps we should outlaw bats?

This sounds like one of those “facts” that every gun nut just “knows”. I’ve never seen any statistics to back it up.

A baseball bat is only a threat between the distance of say 3 to 10 feet.

Inside of the 3 feet they don’t have room to swing it and beyond 10 feet you can run away.

A handgun is deadly from very close range out to at least 50 yards depending on the accuracy of the gun and the shooter.

Which one would you rather go up against?

 
 

Tell you what, you post some evidence showing baseballs bats ARE used in more murders and I’ll give it, and you, the consideration deserved.

 
 

There is no simple answer…if responsible gun owners are really responsible, what’s so wrong with having to go through a few extra steps when purchasing a gun? Whatever happened to taking one for the team? Or thinking about the common good? Are gun owners really that selfish that having to wait a little longer, or doing some extra paperwork, or not being able to buy a zillion rounds of ammo at one time, or being able to shoot zillions of rounds at one time is going to ruin their lives? Think about it what’s more important? Dead people or a little inconvenience?

Excellent point. That the “no restrictions on guns EVAR” crowd are unwilling to do this makes someone with a nasty, suspicious mind like me assume they’re planning to take up arms against our government. The frequent references to “watering the tree of liberty” don’t help.

 
 

And they have the nasty suspicious minds that if they give in to thise demands that liberals won’t just stop there but will keep pushing for more and more gun control.

But hey, those jackbooted Obamabots will be trampling through America, taking guns right and left. It’s just a matter of time.

 
 

Guns have been called “the great equalizer” As a 5’10” ish healthy adult male, I have little to fear from a large fraction of the population when they are armed with a baseball bat. The very old, the very young, those who are smaller than average sized, the handicapped, the uncoordinated, all can’t threaten me with a baseball bat. Conversely, all of those people can kill me with a gun, unless they are quadriplegic. Guns empower even the dilettante to be murderers. Few other weapons are so readily available, so affordable, so deadly and so easy to operate. This is all good news if one is fighting an entrenched aristocracy of armored cavalry and a lifetime of military training, but is more of a problem in peacetime without a ruling class to overthrow.

 
 

Helmut Monotreme said,

February 5, 2014 at 20:08

i’ve been wanting to make this point, too…thank you for providing the words…

 
 

Thanx for the Volunteer Public Works Department for the in-progress cleanup job! Extra-special bonus Soros Bucks will be sent to the secret numbered accounts in Geneva.

 
 

Are gun owners really that selfish…?

 
When flamethrowers are outlawed...
 

…only outlaws will have flamethrowers!

 
 

My goal was to reach retirement and have the Chief Pilots say “Hey, who was that guy?”

New goal: Oh THAT guy. He always farted the whole trip.

 
 

That I’m fuming is a good thing. It’s fucking COLD (for here). Rare occasion that I put on long johns (or john’s in t’sam’s ca’se).

Fucking cold here too. Like 4° this morning cold and windy. I DON’T LIKE IT.

 
 

Fucking cold here too. Like 4° this morning cold and windy. I DON’T LIKE IT.

oh, can it, you whiners! we are hoping for a high of 2 today…

 
Purple Assed Baboons
 

Happy birthday, Bill.

 
 

oh, can it, you whiners! we are hoping for a high of 2 today…

We live in coastal areas so we don’t have to put up with that shit. You crazy motherfuckers’ in the Midwest always seem to brag about how cold it is and how tough you are. So…yeah.

 
 

Mara LIEASSon’s transcript is still pending.

 
most climate scientists
 

Did you know that climate change predicts colder temps for some areas? Yep.

 
 

We live in coastal areas so we don’t have to put up with that shit. You crazy motherfuckers’ in the Midwest always seem to brag about how cold it is and how tough you are. So…yeah.

i want to live on a coast somewhere!!! i have never, ever been a fan of winter…damn my parents!

 
 

Did you know that climate change predicts colder temps for some areas?

Izzat why all my tomatoe plants are dead?
Well, lacking in circulation, chlorophyll, and degrees Kelvin.
On their sides. Roots didn’t take.
And covered in ice. Stupid watering thingy.
Next to my dog, who is stuck to teh ground via frozed up urine.
No, actually, I’ll stick with all the plants are dead.
And the sky is grey.
I’ve been for a walk,
On a winter’s day.
Snow up to my happy parts
Why the hell ain’t it May,
California dreamin’,
Oh wait the bastards put alfalfa sprouts on cheeseburgers♪♫♪♫♪♫

 
 

Bbkf, if you liked that last bit about guns, here’s some more:

I would venture that most of the AR-15 style rifles sold today and many of the handguns, aren’t being used to hunt, or in battle by professional soldiers, but rather as props for the violent fantasies of the purchasers. I have no illusions of my ability to survive the breakdown of society or the imposistion of a malevolent tyranny. I would make a bad hunter-gatherer and a worse farmer. I would be a joke as a brigand or bandit, as a revolutionary, my only use would be as a bad example of how not to do it. If the “Red Dawn” fantasies of every gun nut ever came to pass and the US lived under armed tyranny, of course I would join the resistance. And I would be terrible at it. “Rambo” was a movie. “Red Dawn” was a movie. In real life bad guys practice marksmanship too, they shoot back, and Americans aren’t bullet proof.

My concept of being an adult male doesn’t center on being able to successfully commit acts of violence. Surrounding myself with guns or knives or swords or army surplus main battle tanks would be as useful as surrounding myself with toy lightsabers, and just as likely to be useful in a shooting war. The threat of deadly violence does not make a bad argument any more compelling. Wrapping up one’s identity with survivalism, with militia groups, with doomsday preppers, is a great way to enrich the people that prey on paranoid fears. Gunmakers are printing money with Obama in the white house. Sellers of gold, of emergency rations, of “survival seeds” are buying mansions and yachts by monetizing the insecurity of men who are more in love with survivalist fantasies than the society they actually live in.

I wish survivalists and gun nuts and preppers could bring the same level of effort to self awareness as they do to improving their shot grouping at 100 yards in a crosswind. I am not on any medications on an ongoing basis. However my brother and father both take medicine for hypertension, my father in law is diabetic. Every day of their lifes, they take a pill or two, so they don’t have an anuerism or heart attack or destroy their kidneys, or die in any of the acute or chronic ways that treatable medical issues can be deadly. I don’t want a revolution, because I love my dad and my brother. I want the neighborhood pharmacy to have hypertension drugs on hand every day of the year, and to never have to worry about the next drug shipment being hijacked by revolutionaries or nationalized by the army. I like hot and cold running water. I like grocery stores full of affordable fresh food. I like cheap and plentiful 60Hz 110 VAC current available at any socket I care to plug my phone charger into. Revolutions and coups are games where everyone loses, and short of an invasion by the galactic empire (more likely) or north Korea or china (less likely) you won’t see picking up a gun.

Pandering to the fantasies of gun nuts makes America worse because they impede efforts to get guns off the streets. Guns turn stupid drunken arguments into murder trials. Guns turn depressed loners into suicides. Guns turn children into carcasses. Fighting tyranny doesn’t happen like it does in the movies, in the real world, tyrants kill and revolutionairies kill, and people just trying to make a living or go to school die.

 
 

and helmut, you don’t have a blog why?

 
 

Again we have the people who believe that an opinion that defies science, logic and reality is ok to have. Weather is not climate. Warming climates don’t warm every area. This sort of thing is exactly like watching the sun rise and set and deciding that the sun revolves around the Earth. It seems logical, since you have no sensation of yourself hurtling through space and rotating, but when we study it closer, we find that it’s just not true.

 
 

and helmut, you don’t have a blog why?

Because I can’t think of a good name for one.

 
 

My concept of being an adult male doesn’t center on being able to successfully commit acts of violence. Surrounding myself with guns or knives or swords or army surplus main battle tanks would be as useful as surrounding myself with toy lightsabers, and just as likely to be useful in a shooting war. The threat of deadly violence does not make a bad argument any more compelling. Wrapping up one’s identity with survivalism, with militia groups, with doomsday preppers, is a great way to enrich the people that prey on paranoid fears. Gunmakers are printing money with Obama in the white house. Sellers of gold, of emergency rations, of “survival seeds” are buying mansions and yachts by monetizing the insecurity of men who are more in love with survivalist fantasies than the society they actually live in.

I do still get a laugh out of people who are dumb enough to think that buying gold is going to help them in the event of an apocalypse. Gold, like any other currency that isn’t useful to survival, has a value that is based entirely on that faith that it will buy goods and services. If there is no social structure, that yellow rock will be as useful as all the other rocks outside your hovel.

I own guns, but I don’t carry them around. I don’t believe that I need a gun to defend myself and I do believe that the best defense is to avoid situations where a gun may be necessary. I don’t hang out in cities at 3:00 AM. I don’t go to bars that are packed with twenty-somethings. I don’t pick fights with people. I stay keenly aware of my surroundings and bail if something doesn’t feel right.

Carrying a gun has two problems associated with heighted bravado…
1) It keeps you from trusting your instincts to flee when things aren’t right.
2) Pulling gun out has a huge chance of turning a confrontation from a possible fist fight to one in which the loser ends up dead. Guns aren’t a great equalizer, they’re a great instigator. They escalate confrontations with deadly consequences. Guns are SERIOUSLY overrated for defense. In fact, unless you’re alone, in your bedroom with a loaded shotgun, your chances of successfully defending yourself with a gun are almost nil.
3) If you’re the good guy, you’re going to lose. You WILL hesitate the pull the trigger because you don’t want to kill somebody. That hesitation is very likely to cost you your life. If you don’t hesitate to pull the trigger, with rare exception, you are NOT the good guy. You’re just another fucking psycho with a gun who killed another person.

 
 

2 = 3 in t’sam world, apparently.

 
 

Because I can’t think of a good name for one.

That’s exactly why I don’t have one. Also nobody gives a fat shit about my internet ranting’s and grammar trolling.

 
 

I went to college in Erie PA for a while. Second snowiest city in the US. And the wind! The streets ran straight down to the shore of the frozen lake. There were times I was unable to walk across the street. I recall one time watching some poor little woman holding on to a parking meter for dear life to avoid being blown down the street.

 
 

AR-15s and the like make LOUSY hunting weapons. They have short barrels which means that the bullets tumble more and when they hit flesh they rip the fuck out of it. That’s intentional. If you’re hunting for meat you want to spoil as little of it as possible.

 
 

do still get a laugh out of people who are dumb enough to think that buying gold is going to help them in the event of an apocalypse. Gold, like any other currency that isn’t useful to survival, has a value that is based entirely on that faith that it will buy goods and services. If there is no social structure, that yellow rock will be as useful as all the other rocks outside your hovel.

If the apocalypse comes I’m heading for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse and stealing a truck full of booze. THAT will be good currency.

 
 

AR-15s and the like make LOUSY hunting weapons.

Also, the .223 is NOT legal for ANY big game. Varmints only. If you’re a varmint hunter, you’re just sick killer.

AR-15’s (DONT FORGET THE FUCKING APOSTROPHE’S) are only manufactured for one purpose. They are an hand held anti-personnel rifle.

 
 

Because I can’t think of a good name for one.

check out some of fenwick’s band names…i daresay there’s something in there…

Also nobody gives a fat shit about my internet ranting’s and grammar trolling.

heh…that’s why i didn’t start one for a long, long time…but then i thought that it would spur me to work on my writing projects…which it did for a while…p’raps if i had something interesting to write about instead of just the random stuff that comes into my head it would help…i should start a book review blog…

 
 

THAT will be good currency

Yes it will. Anything that helps you survive or makes post-apocalyptic survival a slight bit less excruciating will the only things of value.

 
 

The streets ran straight down to the shore of the frozen lake

Sing this to yourself over the Gilligan’s Island theme riff. YOU’RE WELCOME.

 
 

AR-15s and the like make LOUSY hunting weapons. They have short barrels which means that the bullets tumble more and when they hit flesh they rip the fuck out of it. That’s intentional. If you’re hunting for meat you want to spoil as little of it as possible.

Maybe that’s why I see people talking about them more as ‘varmint’ rifles for coyotes and the like. I also remember some article in ‘field and stream’ from a previous workplace talk about sizing a rifle to the size of game one is hunting, e.g. elephant gun for elephant and cape buffalo, .22 for prairie dog, and noticing that for people sized game, like deer and elk, the ammunition was much bigger than what goes into an AR-15 or AK 47.

 
 

and I do believe that the best defense is to avoid situations where a gun may be necessary. I don’t hang out in cities at 3:00 AM. I don’t go to bars that are packed with twenty-somethings. I don’t pick fights with people. I stay keenly aware of my surroundings and bail if something doesn’t feel right.

and you taught your daughter’s this also? i know you prolly did…

If the apocalypse comes I’m heading for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse and stealing a truck full of booze. THAT will be good currency.

i’m heading out of town a mile or so to some friend’s’ (didn’t know HOW to apostrophe that one)…two brothers who are ingenius and like good booze…also one’s wife is a hoarder…if they can’t figure shit out, then we are all in trouble…

Sing this to yourself over the Gilligan’s Island theme riff. YOU’RE WELCOME.

bastard…

 
 

Yes it will. Anything that helps you survive or makes post-apocalyptic survival a slight bit less excruciating will the only things of value.

My skill at brewing beer will be vastly more useful than writing software.

Hmm, it probably already is…

 
 

.22 for prairie dog, and noticing that for people sized game, like deer and elk, the ammunition was much bigger than what goes into an AR-15 or AK 47.

The 7.62 x 39 (AK47) round is quite a bit more powerful than the 5.56 (AR-15/M16) round. It’s still underpowered for big game hunting, however. Those rifles weren’t made for long distance, pin point shots, either. The AR-15 will do it, but without the bullet weight and sustained energy it needs to kill a large animal like a deer or elk.

 
 

some have taken umbridge
Umbridge is of course a castle in Hertfordshire built during the reign of Edward I. It has not been taken since Madog ap Llywelyn’s rebellion in 1294, though it was besieged by Parliamentary forces during the Civil War. As any fule kno.

 
 

Conservatives take dumbridge.

 
 

Apostrophe abuse is in no way a new thing, if my lifetime counts for anything.
See Greengrocer’s apostrophe. Derpenapostroph Deppenapostroph in German.

 
 

Reading further from SC’s lin’k:

It is often criticised as a form of hypercorrection coming from a
widespread ignorance of the proper use of the apostrophe or of punctuation in general. Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, points out that before the 19th century, it was standard orthography to use the apostrophe to form a plural of a foreign-sounding word that ended in a vowel (e. g., banana’s, folio’s, logo’s, quarto’s, pasta’s, ouzo’s) to clarify pronunciation. Truss says this usage is no longer considered proper in formal writing.[57]

I haven’t read a whole ton of 19th century literature, but it appears that this was accepted practice at one time.

 
 

NPR Ombudsman is on buds, man.

 
 

If the apocalypse comes I’m heading for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse and stealing a truck full of booze. THAT will be good currency.

Too good. You’d be a prime target. What you’d really want is supplies to set up your own micro-brewery. Ideally, the apocalypse will wait until after utility scale battery storage has become widespread enough that scavenging for parts to set up stable microgrids powered with solar PV is feasible.

Biggest problem is panel degradation. Lifespan of panels is two decades, maybe 25 years. And module fab plants require some heavy infrastructure, so you’d have to hope for a rebound and re-industrialization in that time frame, or switch to agricultural waste biofuels. Or set-up shop at a hydroelectric facility.

Supporting a post-apocalyptic community exceeding some reasonable guess at the minimum viable human population on scavenged parts might be doable for a couple years, maybe even a decade, but it’ll have to sustain itself if it plans on surviving any longer than that. Most prepared foods won’t last that long and the ones that do… would you rather live on Twinkies and Big Macs or just go peacefully?

And that of course, assumes a relatively benign apocalypse with no nuclear winter or roving bands of brain chomping undead or rapidly expanding mass of gray goo or wevs.

 
 

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/renew-america-calls-anti-gay-secessionist-movement-again

Fodder for Tintin or Cerb or someone.

COME BACK TINTIN WE MISS YOU! (Not meant to disparage our current overlords)

 
 

holy cats, i forgot what a twat selwyn duke is:

There has been some talk of secession lately. But note that there is a prerequisite for political separation: cultural separation. Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Slovenia didn’t become their own nations because they suddenly thought the name Yugoslavia was no longer cool, but because of profound cultural differences.

each of our states is pretty diverse…so who’s ‘culture’ would you pick to use, dipshit? also, you not getting your way about gay marriage is a ‘profound’ cutltural difference…

We only need to look at how it’s done all over the world. And there are two ways. To illustrate the first, consider how ardent Muslims avoid being subsumed. They don’t view fellow citizens in a host nation as national brothers. But as the “other.” Oh, the others may occupy the same borders, but they are as alien as anyone outside them. Their culture is to be rejected not just because it’s decadent and despicable – and our liberal-created variety is certainly those things – but because it is of the other.

oh, so now radical muslims are okay!

oooooh…here comes the super inspiring part…to the barricades!

But just as it is passion that makes a man fight for a woman, it is passion that makes you fight for a cause. Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

 
 

But just as it is passion that makes a man fight for a woman, it is passion that makes you fight for a cause. Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

Yeah, they have that part down pat already. Why the hell does he needs to remind his readers? Somebody out there must not be hating hard enough. Maybe they’re missing their quotas or something.

 
 

i like how he had to reinforce man + woman NOT man + man or woman + woman*…

*fantasies excepted…

 
 

Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

Just like Jesus!

We need sort of an Amish jihad, a deep love of the good and hatred of the evil that translates into action

Crashing horse-drawn wagons into government buildings is sure to go over well.

 
 

Mara LIEASSon didn’t realize she wasn’t in her Fox studio but at NPR.

Now to a prediction that has re-ignited the ongoing controversy over the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office yesterday released a report that contained an intriguing prediction about ObamaCare. According to its analysis, the federal health care law would lead to two million fewer full-time workers by the year 2024.

No. It. Didn’t. Did anyone at NPR READ FUCKING REPORT? I don’t think they did because the report clearly DOES NOT SAY THAT.

That prediction was immediately seized upon by Republicans, who hailed as an I-told-you-so moment. The White House was once again put in the position of defending the president’s controversial health care law.

Ahh, the WH is in defensive mode. Why? BECAUSE EVERYBODY INCLUDING NPR IS REPEATING LIES.

As NPR’s national political correspondent, Mara Liasson, reports, the truth is complicated.

No. It. Isn’t.

MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: The nonpartisan independent Congressional Budget Office regularly analyzes the economic effects of policy and legislation. And CBO reports often end up as political ammunition for both parties. Yesterday’s report on the labor market effects of the Affordable Care Act gave Republicans plenty to work with. The speaker of the House, John Boehner, said the report, quote, confirmed the devastating impact of Obamacare.

And did anyone bother to see if what Boner said was TRUE? NOOOOOOO, we’ll just have him repeat the lie again.

And here’s Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn.
SENATOR JOHN CORNYN: The president’s own healthcare policy is killing full time work. The Congressional Budget Office said the number of full time workers will go down by two million in the coming years as the result of the Affordable Care Act.

Let’s repeat the lie again!

LIASSON: The White House knew it had a problem on its hands so it brought out the president’s top economist, Jason Furman.

The WH knew it had a problem on its hands, namely THAT PEOPLE WERE LYING ABOUT WHAT THE REPORT SAID.

The chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors offered a different read of the CBO report. He said it showed the ACA was having a positive economic impact.
JASON FURMAN: And in particular, what CBO finds is that the tax credits for health coverage, Medicaid, will help put more money in people’s pockets, help them able to spend more and that will provide a boost to the economy.

LET’S NOT POINT OUT THE LIE, WE’LL QUOTE A WH OFFICIAL SAYING SOMETHING ONLY TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO THE ISSUE OF EVERYTHING YOU’VE HAD PEOPLE SO FAR IS LIES.

LIASSON: But to Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who spoke on Fox News, those tax credits are just continuing the trend to greater dependency on the federal government.

REPRESENTATIVE JASON CHAFFETZ: You look at the number of people who are increasingly going on the government dole, there are 30 million more Americans since the year 2000, 30 million more on food stamps. Now, of course we want to help the most needy of Americans. Of course we’re going to do that. We’re going to be compassionate of that. All you have to do is go neighborhood by neighborhood and you know the reality, coupled with the rising costs of Obamacare is just creating this vortex that is just unpalatable.

LET’S MUDDY THE WATERS EVEN MORE WHILE WE FAIL TO POINT OUT THAT THE REPUBLICANS YOU HAVE QUOTED THUS FAR ARE ALL REPEATING A KNOWN LIE.

LIASSON: The CBO report said those subsidies might increase demand enough to induce some employers to hire more workers or increase their employee’s hours. So what about that decline in the number of workers, the finding that got all the headlines? Furman tried to explain that CBO’s estimated reduction of 2.3 million workers over 10 years comes from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply rather than from a net drop in jobs.

MUMBLE COUGH WE WONT SAY THAT THE QUOTES WE’VE BEEN PLAYING ARE LIES WE’LL JUST PRETEND IT’S “COMPLICATED.”

FURMAN: This is a choice on the part of workers and I have no doubt that if, for example, we got rid of Social Security and Medicare, there are many 95-year-olds that would choose to work more to avoid potentially starving. I don’t think anyone would say that was a compelling argument to eliminate Social Security and Medicare.

Similarly here, CBO’s analysis itself is about the choices that workers are making in the face of new options afforded to them by the Affordable Care Act, not something about firms destroying jobs.

WE WON’T QUOTE SOMEONE SAYING “IT’S NOT TRUE” (which surely several people did) WE’LL JUST PLAY ALONG, MUDDYING THE WATERS.

LIASSON: When the CBO did look at the effect on jobs, not just hours worked, it concluded the effects so far are too small to be measured. But the erroneous headlines about jobs lost had been generated and those headlines are guaranteed to end up in campaign ads attacking Democrats this fall.

ERRONEOUS HEADLINES YOU USED YOURSELF

The White House found itself in a familiar position – on the defensive again about Obamacare.

ARRRRGHRGHARGHH

Asked why a reduction of 2.3 million full time workers for whatever reason wouldn’t be bad for the economy, Jason Furman said he was certain the net economic effect of the healthcare law would be positive.

THERE IS NO FUCKING LOSS OF 2.3 MILLION FULL TIME WORKERS GODDAMNIT. JASON FURMAN ALSO SAID THAT BUT WE WON’T QUOTE THAT, WE’LL MAKE IT A HE SAID SHE SAID BULLSHIT REPEATING THE LIE

FURMAN: Overwhelmingly, the most important factor there is what does it do to the cost of healthcare, and I think the evidence is very clear that it is slowing the growth of the cost of healthcare and in that way is helping the overall economy and raising incomes.

WHAT ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE LOSS OF MILLIONS OF JOBS IS A LIE? WE WILL BARELY IMPLY IT AND ADDRESS ANOTHER TANGENTIAL ISSUE.

LIASSON: Healthcare costs have slowed since the law was passed and that may or may not continue over time.

AHA WE CAN FIND SOMETHING TO PRESENT AS DISPUTABLE IN OUR CLOSE BUT WHICH HAS DICK-ALL TO DO WITH THE SUBJECT

But in the short term, yesterday’s CBO report had a clear political impact, confirming Republicans’ decision to make Obamacare and its problems the centerpiece of their 2014 campaign strategy.

AND WE’LL ENABLE IT BY REPEATING THE LIES AND PRETENDING THEY’RE NOT OUTRIGHT BLATANT BOLDFACED FUCKING LIES.

 
 

AR-15s and the like make LOUSY hunting weapon

Oddly enough I don’t recall my grandfather ever complaining that his .30-30 and .30-06 weren’t cutting it when it came to hunting.

I don’t remember him ever saying that what he really needed was a 30-round magazine either.

 
 

And that of course, assumes a relatively benign apocalypse with no nuclear winter or roving bands of brain chomping undead or rapidly expanding mass of gray goo or wevs.

You have clearly thought WAY TOO HARD about all this.

 
 

The AR-15 is a .223 cal with a short barrel so that the bullets wobble more than a long barrel and thus do more damage to flesh. The .30-30 and thirty aught six are both .308 cal with long barrels.

 
 

If there’s gray goo you might as well toss in the towel – we’re all fucking done for.

 
 

Chuck Todd read the passage from the bill this morning, reminded the viewers that this is a REDUCTION IN THE SUPPLY SIDE of labor (not a JOB LOSS), then played the sound bites of the usual dumbfuck repigs saying that Obambacare kills jobs cuz CBO says so, which it doesn’t.

The infuriating part is that those fucks KNOW it doesn’t say that, but they keep saying it anyway. Again: You’re not allowed to have an opinion that ignores facts, logic and reality.

 
 

The .30-30 and thirty aught six are both .308 cal with long barrels

More bullet mass, more muzzle energy, more rifling to retain energy and velocity…

The .308 is what the M60 machine gun fires. You can hunt with that if you want to pack that and a belt of ammo around like Rambo. That would be an really long day, even for Rambo.

 
 

The infuriating part is that those fucks KNOW it doesn’t say that, but they keep saying it anyway. Again: You’re not allowed to have an opinion that ignores facts, logic and reality.

yet all the while saying, ‘we’re not obstructionist!’

 
 

Selwyn Duke. What kind of person do you have to be to post and sign your name to this kind of weak sauce haterade in a public forum? Anyone who point to the breakup of Yugoslavia as an ideal is a sick, sick individual. Given his literal advocacy of the utility of hatred, I wonder why he didn’t go whole hog and advocate ethnic cleansing too. He’s a grown up. He turned that work in for a paycheck. He thought of the divisions in American society and thought to himself, what this superpower needs is hatred. A lot of hatred, and balkanization. That’ll put the Less United States of America back on track for sure!

Does he somehow imagine that true blue conservatives like himself will be able to score all the best land and force the 51% of us that voted Democrat in the last election onto reservations? Does he imagine that his little scheme would proceed calmly and that like siblings sent to their respective rooms by an exasperated parent, that will be the end of it? Does he not know that he is advocating treason? Does he not care? Does he think that there wouldn’t be bloodshed, or does he know there would be, and welcome it? Civil War II electric boogaloo would kill more Americans than smoking, drinking, and fatty foods put together. How does anyone think that’s an acceptable trade to not have to legalize gay marriage?

 
 

what is it like to read and not be able to comprehend…maybe it’s really fun to read stuff and then just make up shit about it’s meaning…

bugs…annoying!

 
 

Does he not know that he is advocating treason? Does he not care? Does he think that there wouldn’t be bloodshed, or does he know there would be, and welcome it?

i’m pretty sure selwyn is convinced that his actions would be considered the higest of patriotism…perhaps he’s watched one too many episodes of ‘falling skies’ and instead of fighting skidders, he pictures himself fighting liberals…

 
 

because dipshit…some people aren’t going to HAVE to have a job just for the health insurance…

 
 

Pup: But how do you really feel about Mara Liasson’s ‘reporting’?

Btw, for years and years I’ve wondered why anyone listens to NPR. This former radio announcer / disc jockey finds NPR pretentious and deadly dull.

If I recall, bbkf once mentioned that she listened to NPR while gardening as sort of ‘background’ to keep her company outside, also because NPR wasn’t saturated with commercials. I can see that. Sorta like keeping the TV on at low volume even though not watching or paying attention. Also Pup listening to NPR because the Ho works for Public Television (which I enjoyed muchly when I still had a TV).

I listened to NPR in the car for two weeks on a challenge from a friend in Charm City. Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull.

 
 

COME BACK TINTIN WE MISS YOU! (Not meant to disparage our current overlords)

+ 1

(Also D. Aristo. & HTML.)

 
 

Helmut: Terrific comments! (I’ll second bbkf’s suggestion about starting a blog.) I enjoy your SN writing.

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Wow. This is comment 323. So 120+ since the last Battle-O-the-Bands. I noticed some greet names during my ketchup. After running some errands, I’m gonna hunt up some more names that you clever people have unwittingly seeded into the thread.

Now I gotta write some checks and get them into the mail….

 
 

If I recall, bbkf once mentioned that she listened to NPR while gardening as sort of ‘background’ to keep her company outside, also because NPR wasn’t saturated with commercials. I can see that.

weekends are the best time to listen…there’s much of the funneh…also, hubbkf works for pbs also…little stations like his really envy the fundraising power npr has…

 
 

what’s that you say, douglas elmendorf?

 
 

NPR is beyond dull. They’re hacktive hacks in hacking.

They bring on assholes from think tanks and the OP ED staff at the NYT and bill them as experts in the daily topics.

They’re worse than the rest of them because they portray a public image of being a supplier of information based on thought and logic. Turns out they’re just another platform for stupid assholes to lick taint on the 1%.

 
 

The Car Guys are always awesome as hell. I like the game show with Mo Rocca too. Otherwise, NPR can suck it.

Mara Liasson. Cokie Fucking Roberts. GTFO>

 
 

I listen to the car guys and Prairie Home Companion. That’s about it.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

But just as it is passion that makes a man fight for a woman, it is passion that makes you fight for a cause. Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

He’s got a serious case of fatwah envy. Lucky for his neighbors he’ll just rage at the TV until he gets shipped off to an old folks’ home.

 
 

Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Slovenia didn’t become their own nations because they suddenly thought the name Yugoslavia was no longer cool, but because of profound cultural differences.

It would be entertaining to hear this twunt trying to explain the “profound cultural differences” between (say) Serbia and Montenegro.

Loathe what the liberals stand for, meet their agenda with animosity, cultivate a visceral desire to wipe it from the face of the Earth. Hate, hate, hate it with the fires of a thousand burning suns.

Goodness me, he’s gone full eliminationist. Keep the outdoor voice for outdoors, dude. Stick to the script — liberals are the genocidal ones.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Now, all this perhaps sounds hopeless. Are we damned to inexorable and irrevocable movement toward the “left,” at least until the complete collapse of civilization is wrought? Well, there is an alternative to assimilation.

He has a flair for the dramatic.

 
 

For the most part, NPR’s reportage, crappy as it is, is still better than anything else by a long shot. Robert Siegel will push pretty hard on the pol’s when they’re obfuscating.

Morning Edition and All Things Considered are the two most listened two shows (nearly every affiliate runs them) but that’s a small part of NPR. There are LOTS of shows that each affiliate picks from. Affiliates also buy programming from American Public Media and Public Radio International. The diversity in programming is enormous. Some affiliate’s do all talk, some do all music, some do a mix. OPB as an example is all talk. In the morning after ME we have NPR supplied The Takeaway with John Hockenberry (who’s won four Emmy’s and three Peabody’s) Then something else that I don’t listen to. In the afternoon we get the BBC News Hour, then Jian Gomeshi’s Q from CBC, then The World from PRI (in partnership with the BBC and WGBH). We are also fortunate to have a large in-house news staff so we get LOTS of in-depth Oregon specific stories.

Also Pup listening to NPR because the Ho works for Public Television (which I enjoyed muchly when I still had a TV).

I need to correct that. Teh Ho works for Oregon Public Broadcasting, an NPR and PBS affiliate. When the morning host, Geoff Norcross, was on Jeopardy recently Alex Trebek introduced his as working for NPR. Geoff rather sternly corrected him, saying “no I work for OPB …” which Alex didn’t seem to take too well. FWIW, he was way in the lead with about 23 Kbux but totally blew Final Jeopardy and came in second.

 
 

Sorry t’sam – I missed a couple superfluous crux of the biscuit opps there. I apologize for any stabbiness I may have engendered.

 
 

If only OPB radio would do away with “Marketplace.” Grr.

Oh, and we also get the special “David Brooks has a face for radio and a voice for silent movies” show every Friday evening. Extra grr.

 
 

For the most part, NPR’s reportage, crappy as it is, is still better than anything else by a long shot. Robert Siegel will push pretty hard on the pol’s when they’re obfuscating.

I agree. But when Talk of the Nation is on, it’s not unusual to hear a fuckhead like Tom Friedman on there talking about…um…something, I guess.

 
 

Plus Ashbrook lets some of those assholes take the devil’s advocate bullshit to an awfully ridiculous point.

 
 

We turn on the bedside radio in the morning. Then we fill our travel mugs with coffee, grab our tablets and return to bed for a while. On Monday mornings I am alert for when Cokie “Villager extraordinaire” Roberts is coming on so I can turn the radio off. After a few minutes when I judge it safe I turn it on again. Occasionally E. J. Dionne will subtly smack Bobo upside the haid so I don’t turn that off.

 
 

Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Slovenia didn’t become their own nations because they suddenly thought the name Yugoslavia was no longer cool, but because of profound cultural differences.

Gosh, this is all news to me!!!

 
 

OPB stopped running ToTN a while back. Except for Science Friday which still airs because it’s good.

 
 

I do like that political junkie dude that used to be on with Neil Conan, and I really liked him. There’s another gruff sounding old duffer on there I like too, but I forget his name. He’s pretty awesome.

 
 

Except for Science Friday which still airs because it’s good.

Yes, I do like that program. Usually. Sometimes the topics bore me, but that’s my fault, not theirs.

 
 

And Car Talk never gets old. Those guys are hilarious.

 
 

“The CBO now says the president’s health care law will cut the number of full-time jobs in the United States by 2.3 million by 2021.” – Politifact: Mostly False

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/feb/05/gretchen-carlson/carlson-cbo-says-obamcare-will-cut-full-time-jobs-/

“PolitiFact, you are fired. … You are a mess. You are fired. You are undermining the definition of the word ‘fact’ in the English language by pretending to it in your name.” – Rachel Maddow

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

I like to listen to Ask Me Another- it’s recorded at my beloved Bell House.

 
 

Battle of the Bands Part Three
You folks generate some strange word combinations! Longest list yet.

Incendiary Message
Vogon Poetry
Wet Fever Dreams
Flying Off the Rails
Dictatorship of the Soletariat
Intense Minute
Cat on Your Head
Find My Nipples
Feed the Cats
Time for the Plows
Well Worn Road
Hubby Was Ice Fishing
Impromptu Hockey
Skate Without Fear
Collapsible Clamshell
Below the Radar
Toolshed’s Disease
Murdered With a Baseball
Outlaw Bats
Buy a Bat
Purple Assed Baboons
Toy Lightsabers
Hurtling Through Space
Elephant Gun for Elephant
Greengrocer’s Apostrophe
Deppenapostroph
Scavenging for Parts
Stable Microgrids
Benign Apocalypse
Gray Goo
Live On Twinkies
As Alien As Anyone
Desire to Wipe
Amish Jihad
Creating This Vortex
During My Ketchup
Rage at the TV
Crux of the Biscuit

 
 

@davidbrooks:

We need weekly “we love rich people meetings”.

 
 

@davidbrooks:

We need weekly “we love rich people meetings”.

I thought we already had those every Sunday.

 
 

You have clearly thought WAY TOO HARD about all this.

You say that now, but when Nemesis emerges from the Oort Cloud or the Intartrons becomes sentient and seeks revenge for all teh badd spelenigs grammars not goodlies…

If there’s gray goo you might as well toss in the towel – we’re all fucking done for.

I have a plan. It involves Good Charlotte and the Twilight Saga and burdening the nanobots with angsty emo crap and waiting for the mass to destroy itself. Plan B is to go some place warm and hope that the increase in temperature causes enough transcription errors in replication to keep me safe. Or at least safe for long enough to enjoy a final beer on the beach.

 
Big Bad Bald Bastard
 

Plan B is to go some place warm and hope that the increase in temperature causes enough transcription errors in replication to keep me safe. Or at least safe for long enough to enjoy a final beer on the beach.

You wouldn’t meet your doom in LEAFS SUCK!!!? Man, it’s like I don’t even know you anymore.

 
 

I love this town, but if it were gray goo time, I’d rather watch things I had less attachment too get consumed by the voracious mass of self-replicating machines.

Plus I need a vacation.

 
 

Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Slovenia didn’t become their own nations because they suddenly thought the name Yugoslavia was no longer cool, but because of profound cultural differences.

Kosovo, Slo-veenya, ooh I wanna bomb ya
Serbeeya, Croatia, come on slavvy mama

 
 

CRA wins tonight’s internet’s””s. Also’s.

 
 

New post, straight from my bile to your computer screens.

 
 

To illustrate the first, consider how ardent Muslims avoid being subsumed. They don’t view fellow citizens in a host nation as national brothers. But as the “other.” Oh, the others may occupy the same borders, but they are as alien as anyone outside them. Their culture is to be rejected not just because it’s decadent and despicable

Sounds better in the original German. Selwyn Duke has simply translated a page from Der Giftpilz* and switched “Jew” for “Muslim”.

* Way back in the late 1930s, a relative took a series of trips to Czechoslovakia to recruit intelligence assets for the sake of the skiing. I inherited her museum of German antisemitic propaganda.

 
 

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