I can’t wait* to hear what Sean Hannity has to say about this.

*yes, I can.

WHOA! I’m on top of the comment board! THANKS, PROVIDER!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(That’s me squeaking my giddiness, k?)

Fucking white supremacists…

“The Negro Problem”. Oddly reminiscent, dontcha think?

They simply can’t resist, can they?

Richard Mack, a right-wing former sheriff who helped organize the militia that gathered at Bundy’s ranch, said the rancher and his supporters were like “Rosa Parks refusing to go to the back of the bus.” National Review correspondent Kevin D. Williamson wrote that the Bundy’s struggles with the law paralleled those of Mahatma Gandhi.

Was this guy who gleefully told the media that their plan was to hide behind unarmed women if the “rogue agents” started shooting? If so, YOU ARE A MIGHTY WARRIOR. I kneel before thee**

**So I punch the fuck out that junk.

tsam, No problem.

It was funny that as I was just about to launch a broadside into the graph in question that I discovered yours, so…

Work smarter not harder, I say.

So, Thank You, Sir!
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Oh dear FSM, there’s video (via MMFA) of the racist asshat.

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I knew Dana Loesch was a piece of work, but I’m still kind of surprised she’s doubling down on this hot potato.

Damn you for me not having nice things! But help yourself to all the white women you want – I don’t much care about that.

Bundy, on the other hand, thinks them “Spanish people” are a “model minority:”

“Now let me talk about the Spanish people,” Bundy said in a new video unearthed by New York magazine, right after he concluded his thoughts on “the Negro.”

“I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders,” he says. “But they’re here and they’re people. I worked side-by-side a lot of them. Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structures than most of us white people.”

“When you see those Mexican families, they’re together. They picnic together. They’re spending their time together,” he said. “I’ll tell you, in my way of thinking, they’re awful nice people. We need to have those people join us and be with us.”

Is there anything in the actual Constitution about immigration? Or is that just more proof of his ignorance?

What? A Link? Ahhhh …

Via ThinkProgress:

Bundy, meanwhile, is reportedly asking the New York Times to retract his musings on black America, insisting, “I’m not racist,” but was just “wondering” if they are better off without slavery. The Bundy Ranch Facebook page agreed: “Cliven is a good man, he loves all people, he is not a racist man. He wants what’s best for everyone.”

He’s just wondering, see. Wants what’s best for everyone, like maybe slavery for blacks. The jury’s still out on that one. Freeing the slaves may have been impetuous, not done in the spirit of love that animates St. Cliven.

This makes for a serious logistical dilemma for us:
Do we sign up Kelsey Grammar or Jon Voigt as Cliven Bundy for the made-for-TeeVee movie?

Decisions, decisions …

(To the tune of ‘Wasted Rock Ranger’ by Great White)

He’s a white welfare ranger
He lives a life of danger
A sovereign independent all his life
His eyes are blue his neck is red
his cattle are freedom fed
He don’t see why he should pay a dime

Been on the land for twenty years
grazin’ cattle in arrears
Raisin’ beef fed by you and me
A Cowboy’s life is tough work
Ain’t easy being a racist jerk
and standin’ up for guns and liberty

He’ll stand proud and have his say
about the problem blacks and gays
with true Wingnut honesty
Some will bolt, some join in,
and when he’s in the Federal Pen
He can watch himself on Hannity

(Repeat 1st 2x as chorus)

Bundy, meanwhile, is reportedly asking the New York Times to retract his musings on black America,

Hey! The line’s back here, buddy!

On a semi-serious note, here, this is one of the reasons I have a problem with the BLM just leasing land out to people. Sooner or later, they start thinking of it as theirs, not something of ours they’re being allowed to use, often for far less than “market value.”

Of course, since this entitled asshole is also demonstrably dumb as a stump, he’s let all the naked racism just spill out, rather than using the polite disguises generally accepted by the group of trained seals presently standing in for real journalists.

a last name that reminisces the last name of an early ’90?s analog of Archie Bunker.

And a college Republican serial killer…

As a “Negro,” I have come to the conclusion that I and my family are better off not being slaves. Thanks for your consideration of my plight, though, Cliven. I appreciate that you were “wondering” whether I’d be better off if I were owned. 1814, 2014, what’s the diff….

They can call any gatherings in the Nevada desert by Bundy’s ranch Burning Cross Man.

The strange thing is that this was an unforced error on Bundy’s part- he didn’t have to drag race into the discussion, but he couldn’t help himself.

insisting, “I’m not racist,”

Always love it when someone demonstrates beyond question they’re [racist | homophobic | misogynist | whatever] then immediately says “I’m not [racist | homophobic | misogynist | whatever]

OT, irony or message?

OFFS. Remember when the Prop 8 fuckwads and all the teabilly types were bitching that Judge Vaughn couldn’t be fair because he’s gay? Theyr’e at it again.

Besides speculating on different courses of action he might take, McShane didn’t indicate how quickly he is inclined to rule. He is also considering whether to allow the National Organization for Marriage – which opposes same-sex marriage – to intervene in the case. He’s scheduled a May 14 hearing on that issue.

The marriage organization’s chairman, John Eastman, has questioned whether McShane should hear the case because the judge is raising a child in a same-sex relationship. Eastman said that puts McShane in the same position as the plaintiffs, who include four same-sex couples seeking the right to marry.

The judge referred to that in court, saying that it was a surprise to him and his partner to hear that they wanted to marry. “We have no plans to get married,” he said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/04/gay_marriage_judge_michael_mcs.html

Someone wasn’t paying attention.

OFFS. Remember when the Prop 8 fuckwads and all the teabilly types were bitching that Judge Vaughn couldn’t be fair because he’s gay? Theyr’e at it again.

Oh, c’mon! Why, everyone knows the default human is “straight white male.” The rest of us are supposed to just accept everything done to for us as the kindly, knowledgeable, gift it is.

And yes, I know there are more and more straight white males (swm) who don’t buy into it, and there are also a significant number of non-swm who are obnoxious assholes. But it’s the loudmouths who get attention. And the ones who already have a leg up get more.

On a semi-serious note, here, this is one of the reasons I have a problem with the BLM just leasing land out to people. Sooner or later, they start thinking of it as theirs, not something of ours they’re being allowed to use, often for far less than “market value.”

I personally think grazing rights permits are even worse than leasing. With grazing rights he literally just gets to let his herds of cattle roam all-the-fuck-over the “open range” that is a huge chunk of Nevada (Oregon has lots too). The cattle wander all over, fouling creeks, wandering across small rural highways (occasionally getting themselves and drivers killed in the process), eating anything they feel like and completely disrupting the natural ecosystem. All for a tiny pittance of permit fees. And then the “rancher” just goes out and rounds them up, loads them into trucks and turns them into burger for massive profit.

Until I drove through parts of it, I didn’t comprehend just how vast some of our Western open rangeland is. You see a “Warning: Open Range” sign along the highway out by Denio Junction and you drive for fucking ever until it ends. And you’ll (hopefully) notice a big cloud of dust in the air off in the distance before you come across the giant herd of cows crossing/milling around in the highway, with not another human in sight for miles in any direction.

We shouldn’t subsidize these assholes.

OT, irony or message?

That 100-ft crucified Jesus looks unspeakably sad laying on his face like that. I mean he woulda looked pretty forlorn hanging on the cross, but this is a whole nother level

A Certain Person’s reaction to Provider.

VCarlson’s link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtpBt_DK5G0

PROTIP: if you elide the “http://” bit wordpress munges the link for you.

he cattle wander all over, fouling creeks, wandering across small rural highways (occasionally getting themselves and drivers killed in the process),

There’s a section of open range on NF-48 (which I take south to Tygh Valley on most Fossil runs) where I have to SLOW FUCKING DOWN THROUGH SOME SWEET SWEET CORNERS BECAUSE COWS. That open range shit should go away immediately.

PROTIP: if you elide the “http://” bit wordpress munges the link for you.

Dagnabbit. That’s what I get for trying to avoid going to the clip on a suddenly-cranky tablet and just copying the url from the results.

Kicks cowflop (a dry one, because I know better).

Based on his metriculous research of black people done by driving past some houses he’s decided black people are lazy. Can’t people sit on their porches without being lazy? You can’t work 24/7. Even slaves got time off to sit in on their porches. Is he complaining about little children not having jobs? Wow.

I want to take a candid photo of him sitting on his porch and pass it around as proof he doesn’t deserve government land.

Is he complaining about little children not having jobs?
Just the ones they didn’t abort.

The NYT may block you, but enjoy how C.B. thinks (19:00) those colored people would rather be “growing turnips” than sitting around on concrete sidewalks in their “gummint houses.”

Sooner or later, they start thinking of it as theirs, not something of ours they’re being allowed to use, often for far less than “market value.”

I think it’s a huge discount. Something like $1.98 per head of cattle on BLM land versus $16 per head on private land.

I heard, read in a comments section, or some equally reliable source that the State of Nevada wants something like $12.00/head, & private landowners may go as much as $25.00-30.00 for a cow & her calf. Per mo., I assume.

If Lil’ Clivey wants to hide behind teh womynzes, use mortars or A10s. Hell, Dauntless dive bombers, I ain’tn’t partial. They’s rebels and thieves, and its our land. Concussive dismemberment is a fine solution, and worms and buzzards gotta eat too.

Per mo., I assume.

“Mo” is a term we reserve for ourselves. You breeders don’t get to use it.

FYWP

“I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders,” he says. “But they’re here and they’re people. I worked side-by-side a lot of them. Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structures than most of us white people.”

In other words, he hires them to do tough jobs for less than minimum wage.

“Mo” is a term we reserve for ourselves. You breeders don’t get to use it.

Whoa, so Moe’s Tavern is a gay bar? And here I was thinking that Moe and Barney were “heterosexual life partners”.

Uh, you can mentally insert a link to the appropriate “Electric Six” video in my last comment.

“Mo” is a term we reserve for ourselves. You breeders don’t get to use it.

Now just a sec., pedant, note the period in “mo.” Entirely different.

And don’t call me no breeder, ’cause I ain’t never, & won’t neither!

Eckshully, as someone opposed to the whole reproduction thing, I’ve more than once called breeders just that, to their faces. (And in real life too.)

And ‘BO is reserved for hobos to use in reference to one another.

They are so very busy that the preceding syllable was dropped for efficiency’s sake.

OT, irony or message?

Is that still a thing? I mean, Imperial Rome had the whole ‘apotheosis’ process where Emperors ascended from their funeral pyres and joined the celestial pantheon, and we can smile at their mixture of naive superstition and political cynicism, but that was 2000 years ago forfex ache. It just seems odd for the Catholic Church to steal the whole concept.

OK, it’s their religion… and if they want to arrogate the power to tell God who’s been promoted to sit beside him in Heaven, then let their freak flag fly, sez I. But when the new saints all turn out to be ex-Popes, doesn’t that look a little like if the winning ticket in the parish raffle always turns out to be in the hands of the pastor?

But when the new saints all turn out to be ex-Popes, doesn’t that look a little like if the winning ticket in the parish raffle always turns out to be in the hands of the pastor?

Yeah, but one of the popular candidates seems to have a case of gay cooties.

OK, it’s their religion… and if they want to arrogate the power to tell God who’s been promoted to sit beside him in Heaven, then let their freak flag fly, sez I. But when the new saints all turn out to be ex-Popes, doesn’t that look a little like if the winning ticket in the parish raffle always turns out to be in the hands of the pastor?

It’s my understanding that JPII is being fast-tracked to sainthood to give his regressive policies more oomph, as it were.

Not my religion, neither. Glad of it.

And don’t call me no breeder, ’cause I ain’t never, & won’t neither!

Me neither. No telling what sort of demonic little hellspawn I might have produced.

It’s my understanding that JPII is being fast-tracked to sainthood

But all I do is post cat pixels!

Oh.
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It looks like he has swung back to standing by his comments after asking to have them retracted, however the fuck he thinks that would work. Maybe he should spend some of that money he owes on an image consultant.

Damn New York Times, quoting him accurately.

Damn New York Times, quoting him accurately.

This proves that liberals are the real racists.

I am a breeder. I’ll not apologize for my life choices. Except for liking a few stupid TV shows. But other than that, FEH.

I would propose that “Entitled Racist Shitbag” be the only way that we refer to this clown in future. A frigging hypocrite who’s also an ignorant, bigoted old man. Luckily for the rest of us, Mother Nature will soon rid us of this shitbag. Unfortunately, he has already reproduced; wonder what his children think of this “great American.” They should be ashamed, but I bet they are not. The apple does not fall far from the tree, etc. If not dead, I would dearly like to see this animal put in handcuffs and marched off to prison. It’s what he wants, after all; just like “the Negro.”

Proof that morality comes from godJEHOVAH JEHOVAH JEHOVAH

WRT the post headliner, Epicurus said

I would propose that “Entitled Racist Shitbag” be the only way that we refer to this clown in future.

Mr. Pierce, at his place, calls him “Dead Calf Necrophiliac” and quotes him on CNN:

BUNDY: I took this boot off so I wouldn’t put my foot in my mouth with the boot on. Let me see if I can say something. Maybe I sinned and maybe I need to ask forgiveness and maybe I don’t know what I actually said. But you know, when you talk about prejudice, we’re talking about not being able to exercise what we think and our feelings. We don’t have freedom to say what we want. If I call – if I say negro or black boy or slave, I’m not – if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offended, then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done then yet. They should be able to – I should be able to say those things and they shouldn’t offend anybody. I didn’t mean to offend them.

Although Mr. Pierce has a way with names (“Continent-Spanning Death Funnel,” “Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver”), I feel Epicurus’ version is more accurate. The guy’s so deep in his separate universe he has no idea …

I would propose that “Entitled Racist Shitbag” be the only way that we refer to this clown in future.

I like that one. I think driftglass’ The Grand Dragon of the Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair also works. Too, also.

“Clueless Privileged Twatwaffle” works for me.

Patterson said he was jumped by about 20 Hasidic men, who allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs—”Stay down, faggot!”—as they beat him.

Holy crap!

Witnesses said the men all appeared to wearing similar uniforms, leading to speculation that they may have been members of Williamsburg Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group that patrols the area.

This vigilante group really needs to be disbanded- there are all sorts of allegations that they interfere with real police investigations in order to shelter malfeasors within their community.

I’m fixin to ta tell ya whut: You see anyone, ever, who says he’s part of a “neighborhood watch”, either run like hell or gun his ass down IMMEDIATELY.

I’m fixin to ta tell ya whut: You see anyone, ever, who says he’s part of a “neighborhood watch”, either run like hell or gun his ass down IMMEDIATELY.

Oh, fuck yeah! My “neighborhood watch” is the retired lady who lives next door and the mother of two young boys who holds court on her porch when she gets home from work.

The other things I noted were that two of them fled to Israel and also hate crime charges weren’t put up.

Uh, what I mean is that, instead of a neighborhood watch, one should cultivate a close-knit community in one’s neighborhood, and the pillar of such a community should be quiet, observational people- not authoritarian hotheads with an inferiority complex they assuage with dreams of violence and the possession of weapons.

Patterson said he was jumped by about 20 Hasidic men, who allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs—”Stay down, faggot!”—as they beat him.

Impossible. Everyone knows that only Muslims are violent.

According to Josh Marshall, the Republicans are on the verge of passing through the absolute Derp Horizon.

But as the Simpsons once cartoonicly opined about Fox News: The GOP is not racist. But it sure is popular with racists. In fact, I think this is one of those cases where the story is best understood through the prism of the seminal 2005 oped in The Onion entitled “Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?”

Why indeed? Why does this keeping happening?

It’s sort of like a really bad run of luck in which people spring up who espouse a lot of Republican positions, quickly get endorsed and trumpeted by a lot of Republican politicians and then suddenly turn out to be, well … really racist.

Indeed, why do all these homosexuals …

Now, let me be clear: this isn’t the GOP isn’t racist but … hell, wink, wink, yeah it’s pretty racist. It’s not. But a substantial number of its core supporters have views that are most generously described as retrograde on racial matters and simply not remotely suitable for public airing. And like any political party that seriously constrains its freedom of action on a whole variety of issues which touch on race – which is to say, about half of everything.

Now there’s another thread of this which I believe Ed Kilgore recently discussed which is that you don’t need be racist to be racist. Or to put it less double-takingly you don’t need to have any animus or prejudice against non-whites to exploit racial divisions and fears or passively benefit from them. Indeed, not only is it possible, I would say it approaches the norm.

In any case, when the bed is delivered and the the sheets put on and and the comforter and the special chocolate on the pillow set just right, it’s hard not to sleep on it. And if you don’t and you have to say who keeps delivering and spiffing up these beds it is kind of like that epic plaint: Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?

Yes, Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was that white people would finally be free to call black people nigger. Jeez, that’s the dumbest evocation of MLK jr. I’ve ever read.

, that’s the dumbest evocation of MLK jr. I’ve ever read.

I’m pretty sure ol’ Cliven ain’t never gonna win no, uh, smart contests.

No matter what brains he was born with, he just hasn’t been using them. Nor his empathy.

Yeah … he’s dumb as fuck, but more importantly he’s incurious, self-absorbed, uncritical, and lacking in empathy.

If it’s possible to be stupid but also curious, open, observant, reflective, sensitive to others etc., then by all means let’s have more of that kind of stupid.

Rarely is the question asked— is Cliven Bundy a polygamist?

What’s that? Not enough CUTE in your life?

I miss the meez, but he’s very happy with his new sitch.
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I miss the meez, but he’s very happy with his new sitch.

I see his collar matches his new person’s phone. Very fetching. I’ve also seen the Curly under the covers shots. Hope he’s settling in.

I see his collar matches his new person’s phone. Very fetching.

Gah! She re-named him “Flowers,” for JiminyChristmas.

I’ve also seen the Curly under the covers shots. Hope he’s settling in.

He’s pretty damned happy with the farmhouse, and being the sole Target of Human Affection, methinks.
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Still in lurker mode here, because the writing is going well. Soaring up on a good thermal, as it were. Fun thread to read; y’all keep it rolling, y’hear? Also thanks to the great Public Works volunteers.

Far be it for conservatives learn anything from the Tragedy of the Commons.

During my News Scan timeout–which always begins and ends in Sadlyville–I discovered this headline on the Huffogriffin:

Spanish Mediterranean Threatened by Seismic Airguns. No lynx, tho. Mainly I think Seismic Airguns is a natural for BOtB.

I’ll check into the net (*) in a few hours to see what the night hawks are up to.

(*) Old groundpounder military phrase, especially in recon units. Brief check-ins to the radio network let other units (esp HQ) know that the unit is continuing its mission, even though it has Nothing Significant to Report. Usually the message was little more than callsign-to-callsign, with “N S R” (((or ‘November Sierra Romeo’ in poor reception))). The unit waited for acknowledgment, then described how clearly the unit heard the radio signal, followed by an end to the transmission:

“Copy you five-by (((the clearest reception; or four-by, three-by, etc))). Out.”(**)

(**) Pet peeve: Movie or teevee shows that use “Over and Out” to end a transmission. ‘Over’ means that one operater declares s/he has finished speaking, and turns the dialogue over to the operator. ‘Out’ means ‘End of transmission. Nothing follows.’ So ‘Over and Out’ is an absurd phrase.

And don’t get me started on ‘1800 HOURS‘. That just sets my teeth on edge everytime I hear it in a movie or twee-vee (***) program. It’s simply ‘1800’, you morans.

(***) This was a typo I made, but decided not to correct. I don’t have a twee-vee.

Gee, betcha old Fenwick is really stoked right now, huh? Must make coffee and return to the Twelve Princes of Harad and the subtleties of an elective Kingship. (Vague echos of Electors and Holy Roman Emperors … but on steroids: Devious intrigues at court. Shifting alliances-of-convenience over bedrock of ancient tribal loyalties and conflicts. Assassination as an instrument of policy; poisons the weapon sof choice. Okay, I’ll hit the Submit Comment button, the fire up the coffee.

Additional radio chatter foot-note: ‘Five-by’ (etc) is itself a truncation of ‘five-by-five’ (best reception, clear) … four-by five … etc.

One more tactical radio-chatter footnote, while I sip my coffee: I left out net ‘authentication’ procedures. These make sure that an imposter (e.g. the bad guys) is not pretending to be the unit(s) in questions.

Our unit was capable of doing that to Soviet units, btw. It was called ICD — Immitative Communications Deception. Okay. Back to the Harad.

Fenwick, love the radio chatter!
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One more tactical radio-chatter footnote

We were once tasked to simulate communications jamming for a signal unit.

We were over one of the ranges down on the Florida Gulf Coast.

We had awesome radar jammers but our comm jammers were pretty short ranged. We turned them on and they had no effect.

“Doom 61 are your jammers on?”
“Yeah, they’re on.”
“We’re not getting anything down here.”

After about 10 minutes of this I got an idea. A B-52 cockpit is a very noisy environment. It’s so loud we couldn’t even talk without using the intercom.

I tuned one of our UHF radios to the frequency they wanted jammed, took off my oxygen mask and held it up to the noisy air vent and then held down on the transmit button.

Voila! One very narrow frequency comm jammer.

They came back and told us that was some of the best jamming they’d ever seen.

Now you’re giving me flashbacks to traffic-analysis training. STOP IT.

Roger
Wilco
Over
Out

None of these need ever be said together

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

I think my favorite part of this rant is “they put their young men in jail.” Right. Right. THEY put their young men in jail. Not, you know, a justice system that was intentionally set up to give the authorities the power to jail people for life for a few victimless crimes, and then chooses to enforce that law selectively so that middle class suburban white kids (to say nothing of the rich) practically never pay that price for it. Nope, black parents are the ones who put their kids in jail. Right.

Fucking white supremacists…

“The Negro Problem”. Oddly reminiscent, dontcha think?

People on liberal blogs, myself included, often bemoan the number of idiots who think that if you’re not an out and out cross-burning Klansman pining for the days of slavery, then you can’t possibly be a racist.

And, you know. It’s true.

But it’s also important to remember that there are plenty of idiots out there who really are out and out cross-burning Klansmen pining for the days of slavery.

None of these need ever be said together

What if the copilot’s name is Roger?

10-4.

None of these need ever be said together

What if the copilot’s name is Roger?

And if they are discussing their favorite albums, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot comes up?

None of these need ever be said together

What if the copilot’s name is Roger?

Wasn’t that done in Airplane!?

Checks database. Yes.

You can’t use roger for a call sign

Airplane scene

And make sure you’re not holding down the transmit button when you’re chewing out your student pilot.

No reason, just sayin’

“The Negro Problem”. Oddly reminiscent, dontcha think?

Yeah, and the dude’s son is on the wingnut welfare gravy train.

“The Negro Problem”. Oddly reminiscent, dontcha think?

Yeah, and the dude’s son is on the wingnut welfare gravy train.

Followed the link, started to read the article, got PO’d by the odor of sanctimony and condescension, quit reading. It’s weak of me, I know.

Public Works: Please hose off the Copy Pasta vomit above this comment. Thanks.

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Major: Groundpounders would call your elegant jamming solution a ‘field expedient’ … spur-of-the-moment improvisation using whatever is at hand. Using ambient B-52 cockpit racket to blow voice comms off the air was very nifty, sir! Tip-o-the-hat for such an imaginative solution.

Mr. Clyde: I had no formal training in traffic analysis … but I picked up the essentials by working very closely with 98-Charlies trained at Fort Devens. Indeed, most of the unit’s operational personnel came from Devens–we also had crypies and Elint types–or from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. (We mostly had Russian and German; if we needed Polish or Czech, we used Field Station Augsburg’s linguists.) I was one of only three 96-Bravos (Intel Analysts) in the units, trained in straight MI at Fort Huachuca’s Intel School.

I collaborated closely with a TA in designing and controlling Deep Freeze a highly-detailed 4-day tactical SIGINT FTX. Essentially Doug and I wrote a minute-by-minute script depicting ‘Aggressor’ [Soviet] radio traffic during a notional division-size attack across the Danube between Regensberg and Straubing. We scripted traffic for eleven command nets. Bales and bales of double-sides pages; the script filled a 4-inch binder.

Cleared MPs and Comsec guys drove around in jeeps to specificed coorid

Yeah yeah, one Democrat making a racist statement proves that all “Democrat Party” voters, liberal and otherwise, are the only real racists in the entire space-time-probability continuum and that the “Democrat Party” remained and remains the party of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms forever and ever world without end amen. Cool story, bro.

Oh fudge and crap-a-roonie: Punched the Submit Comment button prematurely! (I think this may be my ‘signature’ as much as bbkf’s epic tagfails.) I didn’t even get to fix the italics in the third para. Ah screw it, I’ll go ahead and finish the Deep Freeze story….

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We gave the script-binders to cleared teams in radio-equipped jeeps. They drove to specified locations–the exercise included direction-finding, of course–and at the specified times and freqs, they opened up the mic and read the dialogue. (((The FTX, by the way, was my very first experience at writing extended (!!!) fictional dialogue.)))

Basically, I ‘designed’ the battle’s storyline on 1:50,000 map overlays, based on US and Soviet doctrine; then Doug and I set about to ‘translate’ the battle in appropriate radio chatter. (((Mr. Clyde: This was how I learned the basics of Traffic Analysis; Doug was an experienced hand, about to rotate out.) We also had to build-in enough clues in ‘security lapses’ so that the players could extract useful intel. We had such a blast! We double-shifted, worked weekends, whatever: If we were awake, we were workin’ on Deep Freeze. It was such fun.

In addition to co-authoring the exercise, I served as the Control briefer for VIP observers: Deep Freeze was a high-profile exercise; it demonstrated the utility of tactical Sigint at a time (1974) when some US European theater commanders were still skeptical. After its success, Doug and I were awarded ARCOMs(*).

Most of my live-mission work was in garrison at Field Station Augsburg, but altogether I participated in six major field exercises either as a player or controller. Spent more time in the field than any other soldier in my unit.

(*) Army Commendation Medal. It comes it two flavors: for Service (simply put in a enough time); or, for Achievement, the rarer form. Sure ain’t no Distinguished Flying Cross like the Major’s … but not altogether shabby for a peacetime SP4 in his first year of active duty….

(((The creature under the bridge, on the other hand, is on active dooty.)))

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I see what you do there, Helmut. Definitely a most excellent album name.

Sounds like you’ve got the makings of a book there Fenwick.

That’s a part of Cold War history that hasn’t had much written about it.

self-absorbed, uncritical, and lacking in empathy.

Well at least I’m very critical.

Well at least I’m very critical.

Heh. I’m fairly self-absorbed, insensitive, and un-empathetic. We might be better off if I could trade some of my strengths in, but I cannot.

With Bundy, it’s not a question of intelligence vs. wisdom — he has neither.

FUCK TREVOR ARIZA AND THE WASHINGTON WIZARDS

That is all.

Speaking of wisdom, I just broke my promise to myself that I wouldn’t order steak in a diner again. How many times do I have to regret it before the lesson sticks? “I’m hungry,” I said. Not so hungry as to finish that steak, it turns out.

Yeah yeah, one Democrat making a racist statement
Steve M. at NoMoreMisterNiceBlog observes that before announcing someone’s political affiliation on the basis of his political donations, you need to be sure that you have the right name on the political-donation list:

Several Donald Sterlings have appeared on the FEC’s list of campaign contributors, but none seem to be Donald Tokowitz Sterling of California:

No eggs Benny hunt today. Made some English muffkins this morning. Tried Kenji’s stick blender hollandaise – had to add a good bit of water as it came out quite thick. Still , the easiest method yet, hands down.

All of those Donald Sterlings are, in reality, actor212 Teh Donalde will soon reveal.

And I’m not a socialist, I have only the best interest of the wealthy in mind when I say we need to start redistributing most of their money. Obviously tending to all that money is a is just too heavy a burden. Have you ever met a happy, healthy and kind rich person? No, they’re usually mean, paranoid and stressed out. A ninety percent tax rate would be a lot better for them, Hell, they may even get to experience the joy and dignity of actual work. Lord knows it would be good for them, they have nothing to do these days but lazily jet-set about, go to galas and buy elections. And i don’t think it’s offensive to say that if all that wealth hasn’t trickled down at all yet then Reagan didn’t do his job.

Tried Kenji’s stick blender hollandaise

Must…….have…….recipe

It’s just hollandaise only you use an immersion whizzer. It’s how I do it unless someone is paying to watch me use a whisk. Shirley Corriher has the explanation I learned it from.

‘Blender stick hollandaise site:seriouseats.com’
Find a jar or large cup or whatever just larger than the bidness end of your immersion blender. Put an egg yolk in there along with a pinch of salt and a tsp. (I used two) lemon juice and a tsp water. Melt one stick unsalted butter in a small saucepan, get it really hot – just shy of browning. He says to transfer the butter to a measuring cup but my saucepan has a pouring lip so fuck that. Slowly pour the butter in while whizzing away (you can go a bit faster than like with the oil when making mayo). Taste for seasoning and add spice – cayenne or hot sauce – if you like. It turned out quite thick (as it always does with the blender method) so I had to thin it. Much easier than hauling out the blender. I sometimes find it satisfying (and impressive when having guests) to whisk up a quick hollandaise or Bearnaise (and the rarely seen sauce Maltaise) but the stick blender method makes it so easy I’ll probably use a whisk only rarely from here on.

That hollandaise recipe will be handy to have in this season of asparagus.

Obviously tending to all that money is a is just too heavy a burden.

They don’t feel overly burdened. They hire people to help tend every aspect of their estates.

The problem I’ve been thinking about (among others) is that the wealthier you are, the less capable you are of making efficient and moral use of your power.

Hiring agents doesn’t solve this problem, because their livelihoods depend not on the efficient and moral use of property, privilege, etc., but on their employers’ satisfaction. They cannot truly be proxies, either for their employers, or for the public good. Hierarchical layers exacerbate such dilemmas. (But here I’m getting into problems that are not exclusive to autocracies forced to delegate authority.)

The inefficiencies and moral lapses I’ve alluded to are obscured, left unexamined, when they don’t harm certain interests. It is a shallow truism that capitalism weeds out inefficiency, but no: it is unconcerned with waste that does not accrue to the specific capitalist’s accounts. The same applies to moral failings. Waste and evil are not only ignored, but encouraged to the degree that they aid in accumulation of capital — not generally, but to as narrow a set of beneficiaries as possible, with the least exposure.

Poor folks are often scrutinized for their use of their limited resources. The consensus from on high is that the poor should become superhuman. They should make the most efficient use of their labor, their wages, their possessions, their social networks, etc. If they don’t, they deserve roughly the worst a society can offer. They should grovel for a bit more … These expectations are fanciful and cruel. The rich do not meet these expectations — their property stands in for their failings in 9/10 areas, so to speak. The talented professionals and creators do not meet these expectations — their exponentially-superior utility makes up for their inefficiencies and moral failings.

Only the poor are expected to tend to their money, and their labor, and their morals all at once in equal measure, without the capacity to farm out this or that by means of hiring or legal bullshit or sheer usefulness.

Funny … I swear I just saw a “Controversy Over Our Steroid Alternative Ad [Article]” that juxtaposed a random picture of a fat shirtless Greek dude with a heroic still from the movie 300

Can you use the same technique for Bearnaise?

I get Bearnaise right maybe 1 out of 4 tries.

Returning to the topic. Recall that Cliven Bundy drove past some black people living in N. Las Vegas. (I won’t say living in that city’s “projects,” because that was his obviously flawed description.)

A guy like Bundy takes it to another level. Black people have to labor while he’s watching, whenever that might be, and he has to deem their efforts sufficient, at a glance. If they are not obviously doing virtuous things, he is entitled to decide they’re doing wrong. Etc., etc. They’re basically fucked, and therefore should be slaves, because how is this type of judgment supposed to work in their favor when the Bundys’ discretion is sacrosanct.

His view is not a whit different from Columbus & Co. encountering Carribeans and — surprise, surprise — deciding that they weren’t using their lives and land and stuff properly.

All this talk of Bernaise sauce has me wondering if I should plant tarragon… now onto the foraging talk:

The stinging nettles are finally coming up at work- it’ll be a couple of months of subsisting largely on nettles, delicious nettles. I like creaming them like spinach and serving the creamed nettles with an egg on toast (thanks, pup!).

The obnoxious Japanese knotweed is also making its appearance. I usually eat it as soon as I pick it, but I might try cooking it like rhubarb (to which it is related, and bears a slight flavor resemblance).

B4, if it’s like rhubarb, maybe you could make a knotweed crumble. My mom’s rhubarb crumble lives on in happy memory.

Yeah, I was thinking of making a knotweed compote. Seriously, the stuff is ubiquitous. I could conceivably eat it with every meal until the cold kills it off.

When you visit NZ, BBBB, you can eat Sea Spinach* every night.

* Tastes like vine rhubarb, with the oxalate and such as, but in fact a form of iceplant.

That’s some geographic distribution- Gondwanaland plus Japan!

Ooooof- I just looked up relative oxylate content and found that purslane, one of my favorite vegetables, is loaded with the stuff, considerably more than spinach, which is saying a lot.

had to add a good bit of water as it came out quite thick. Still , the easiest method yet, hands down.

now when I get back to this comment I figger I’ll find the clues I need, because idiot…but I have been meaning to treat the lovlies that I work with on sundays, to some benedict.

….

BBBB, Given the greater NY city metropolitan area’s 300+ years of continuous intense human settlement, do you know the history of the places you are foraging for herbs? I’d hate for you to be eating a dioxin salad because the nettles were growing over an old landfill or something.

All of those Donald Sterlings are, in reality, actor212 Teh Donalde will soon reveal.

This whole thing was one of weirdest “things” I’ve seen on the internet. Man, that actor dude could start a war like no other man.

Black people have to labor while he’s watching, whenever that might be, and he has to deem their efforts sufficient, at a glance.

Yoosta be that you’d just tie that n…. to a tree and whup him right in fronta all the others.

I’ve often wondered if the negro wishes those good old days were back.

Sure you can make Bearnaise that way. Bearnaise is just Hollandaise with an attitude so I don’t see why not.

I like Bearnaise with authority so YMMV. Put 1/4 cup or so white wine vinegar and 1/2 cup white wine in a small saucepan with a diced shallot, couple few peppercorns and some dried tarragon or a sprig of fresh tarragon. Boil it until it’s reduced to something under 1 Tbsp. Strain it into the container you’ll blitz it in. Blitz it briefly with the egg yolk then add the hot hot hot melted butter as in the Hollandaise. Whisk in finely minced tarragon and salt if needed. You might be able to just throw the tarragon in pre-whiz but I think it might become tarragon puree which you don’t want.

FWIW sauce Maltaise is Hollandaise with orange instead of / in Etion to lemon. I once made “Bennies” using duck breast in place of ham, duck eggs, the Maltaise. Duck l’orange Benedict.

This android keyboard is goofy. Very buggy. That should be “in addition to” above.

About fucking time! Finally, some clergyfolk I can respect. And take THAT you fucking haters.

I know this is way back in the thread but the Tragedy of the Commons was made up by rich people to justify stealing the peasants’ communal lands. Commons worked fine for centuries before that.

Commons worked fine for centuries before that.

Enclosure meant that sheep were a better investment then the peasants who sought to wrestle a living from the land.

About fucking time! Finally, some clergyfolk I can respect. And take THAT you fucking haters.

I’ve been pointing out for years in missives to my Congresscritters. Except my branch of Quakerism doesn’t have any clergy (or we all are, depending on how you define it).

I’ve also been pointing out that the 40% or so of my taxes going toward the waging of war (I have no problem with paying for things like the VA, other obligations to thowe who served) goes against my deeply-held religious and moral beliefs, so the folks claiming the minuscule part of their taxes going towards women’s health can just go to the end of the line. That hasn’t had much any effect I can see, though.

I’m not just a pretty boy with a Meathead-era Rob Reiner hairstyle, I’m also smarter than Cliven Bundy.

I’m also smarter than Cliven Bundy

My cat is smarter than Cliven Bundy and I have a couple houseplants that might be willing to give it a go.

I’m also smarter than Cliven Bundy

My cat is smarter than Cliven Bundy and I have a couple houseplants that might be willing to give it a go.

Given my definition of “stupid” (refusal to use your mind or heart – Little Boots being a prime example), I’ll agree with you – except about the houseplants, as I don’t have any.

Well, some concerns were expressed earlier. I held off, but ultimately had to toot my own horn.

DA skrev:

Enclosure meant that sheep were a better investment then the peasants who sought to wrestle a living from the land.

As a descendant of Scotsmen and Scots-Irish, I know that story not as well as I probably should, but still much better than I like. (See: Highland Clearances.)

Yeah, and Robert Byrd was in the KKK!

And the Southerners who seceded from the Union were all Democrats.

And Jews owned slaves, too. It says so right in the Old Testament. Plus they killed Christ. How come we never see anything about that on this site, huh huh huh?

Well you see little troll it’s like this. We thought Clive Bundy was a dangerous lunatic before we found out he’s a racist shitbag on top of it.

The racist shitbag part was just icing on the cake.

Donald Sterling is just a racist shitbag. Democratic politicians and liberal talk-show hosts weren’t tripping over themselves in their rush to support him (prior to his racist shitbagness being revealed).

So once again you’ve failed in your quest for an “Ah ha! Liberals are all hypocrites!” moment. Thanks for playing.

DID YOU GUYS KNOW STROM THURMOND WAS A DEMONRAT UNTIL 1964?? TOLDJA LIBS IS RACITS!

And what about that white guy that was beaten up by those black guys? Why haven’t you denounced them? Is it because YOU’RE the REAL racist??!?!

Two words: southern strategy

BBBB, Given the greater NY city metropolitan area’s 300+ years of continuous intense human settlement, do you know the history of the places you are foraging for herbs? I’d hate for you to be eating a dioxin salad because the nettles were growing over an old landfill or something.

I mainly forage and scrump at work, the sites are mainly undeveloped, with some ancient apple trees on a couple of the properties. My neighborhood has been residential for many decades, and before that it was farmland, with a polo grounds owned by Boss Tweed taking up much of the region in the late 19th Century. My mulberry orchard is the remnants of a failed silk-production scheme that went under a century ago. I’ve got a pretty good handle on the history of the area, and the only really bad contamination is from a couple of riverfront sites- the old GM plant in Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown, until 1996) and the Anaconda Copper Plant in Hastings-on-Hudson.

I’ve got a bone in my leg.
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Just one?

the only really bad contamination is from a couple of riverfront sites- the old GM plant in Sleepy Hollow

Explains a great deal about Irving Washington.

Not that it matters, but Donald T. Sterling, despite making a contribution to a Democrat 22 years ago, is registered as a Republican.

According to the LA Times he’s been registered as a Republican since 1998.

According to the LA Times he’s been registered as a Republican since 1998.

Yes, but only to vote for Dr. Paul. Either one.

His middle name is Tokowitz, but he doesn’t sound very chill.

Roughly 0% of black citizens voted for Romney — in spite of their knowing that some racists are (or were) registered democrats. They know all the zingers that the wingers find so damning. Let the wingers go on in this manner, winning over a very few black cranks. Dial it up, 2% is not out of the question!

Something senseless happens
They assign it meaning
Shake it at us like a glow stick
Shiny objects blind your eyes…

Whee! I just figured out how to copypasta on this dumbphone!

All of those Donald Sterlings are, in reality, actor212 Teh Donalde will soon reveal.
This whole thing was one of weirdest “things” I’ve seen on the internet.

The Donalde Douglas — noted for literally describing opponents like TBogg and Thers as ‘demonic’ — is now complaining that someone metaphorically demonised Bundy by tweeting his first name as ‘Cloven’. The dude is quite a case study.

Barstow by Harry Partch.

http://www.corporeal.com/lyrical.html#barstow

I’d rather be chthonic than demonic, or diabolical.

I’d rather be chthonic than demonic, or diabolical.
It looks uncomfortable.

It’s important to remember that just because you have a thing for Pakistani snuff porn, it doesn’t mean everybody else shares your interests.

Shorter CNN: Watch, WATCH that people suck enormously, oh, this is terrible, the beatings in the streets in the Ukraine! Now, a close-up…

Everyone in the news and in world politics needs to be run through an industrial conduit bender.

is now complaining that someone metaphorically demonised Bundy by tweeting his first name as ‘Cloven’. The dude is quite a case study.

A case study in just how little self awareness a guy can have. Seems like there should be a punishment for being an embarrassment to the human race.

there should be a punishment for being an embarrassment to the human race.

Such as life under a bridge?

Such as life under a bridge?

That would make life even more distressing for the people already living there thanks to the policies of St. Ronnie and his followers.

there should be a punishment for being an embarrassment to the human race.

“Stupidest person on the Interwebs” is a hotly-contested title, but Donalde Douglas appears to be using performance-enhancing drugs.

Thanks to suckers just like you, shitbird, I make a VERY good living bilking the rubes!

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How come you’re not out in Nevada with your hero Cliven Bundy, the welfare moocher lunatic racist?

Please do not feed that which should not be named.

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