1 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:05:10pm

Oooo! An untouched thread — my very first.

2 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:10:28pm

re: #1 wheat-dogghazi

Oooo! An untouched thread — my very first.

Putting in ‘first’ like that is traditionally frowned upon here.

3 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:13:59pm

My bad. I had nothing else to say. Though I wonder why every reference to Erika Harald has to mention she was a former Miss America. That doesn’t seem to be the most pertinent characteristic considering the remarks made about her.

4 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:15:43pm

re: #3 wheat-dogghazi

My bad. I had nothing else to say. Though I wonder why every reference to Erika Harald has to mention she was a former Miss America. That doesn’t seem to be the most pertinent characteristic considering the remarks made about her.

It’s about relating a person to the reason for their initial fame, IMO.

5 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:18:27pm

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

I suppose, but I’d refer to it later in the story, unless the writer is suggesting that attacking a former Miss America is as bad as making racist remarks about African-Americans.

6 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 10:42:19pm

Miss America is a cultural institution, a showcase of American values and aspirations. To cast aspersions on her is like criticizing the Free market.

8 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 11:43:00pm

You see? Untreated Gay has killed the thread!

9 Kragar  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 11:48:22pm


10 Cheechako  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 11:50:57pm

Well, a few minutes ago it was the summer solstice, 18 hours and 18 minutes of daylight along with 5 hours and 42 minutes of twilight here in my home town. Now the days start getting shorter. A few seconds a day for the first week or two, then a few minutes shorter per day for several weeks leading to each succeeding day being 5-8 minutes shorter in a few months.

Just a normal part of the cycle of life.

I do prefer the winter solstice more than the summer solstice as looking forward to more daylight is much better for the spirit than looking at more darkness in the coming months.

11 Targetpractice  Thu, Jun 20, 2013 11:58:27pm

re: #9 Kragar

Yeah, uh, bullshit.

Salmon Chase wrote that line as Chief of the Maryland General Court in 1796, when the state of Maryland was still under its own Constitution which did in fact have Christianity as the state’s established religion. The state constitution was not rewritten until 1851, when the establishment of Christianity as the state religion was removed. And that was rendered moot by the 14th Amendment, which applied the 1st Amendment to the states as well as the federal government.

In short, Bryan’s talking out of his ass…again.

12 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:12:02am

re: #9 Kragar

1st Amendment: “All sects and denominations of CHRISTIANS are placed upon the same equal footing.” Salmon Chase, SCOTUS

But that would not be enough for Bryan.

he would insist that his own personal version of the CHRISTIAN faith is the only valid one, and exclude Mormons and any church that ordains women or gays.

13 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:19:58am

re: #11 Targetpractice

Yeah, uh, bullshit.

Salmon Chase wrote that line as Chief of the Maryland General Court in 1796, when the state of Maryland was still under its own Constitution which did in fact have Christianity as the state’s established religion. The state constitution was not rewritten until 1851, when the establishment of Christianity as the state religion was removed. And that was rendered moot by the 14th Amendment, which applied the 1st Amendment to the states as well as the federal government.

In short, Bryan’s talking out of his ass…again.

You’re talking about a guy who thinks 2000 year old folktales beats generations of scientific studies and observations.

14 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:23:24am

re: #13 Kragar

You’re talking about a guy who thinks 2000 year old folktales beats generations of scientific studies and observations.

Bryan Fischer, never met a bullshit quote he wouldn’t repeat without a second thought…or a first one for that matter.

15 prairiefire  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:23:25am

Great set!

16 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:46:39am

re: #10 Cheechako

Perhaps they timed it to coincide with the solstice, but here is a video from China’s Shenzhou 10 crew now in orbit. They answered questions from students and did some simple physics demos. It’s a lot less entertaining than Chris Hadfield’s work, but still interesting to watch.

v.qq.com

17 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:49:31am

re: #16 wheat-dogghazi

Ground control to Major Wong…

18 Single-handed sailor  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:57:04am

That is a pretty big module. I’m impressed. They are advancing quite fast.

19 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 1:03:52am

re: #17 Sol Berdinowitz

Ground control to Major Wong…

Ouch!

In fact, the woman giving the lessons is Wang* Yaping, China’s second woman in space. The others are Nie Haisheng, her props manager, and Zhang Xiaoguang, the cameraman.

* Pronounced “wong”. She’s a captain in the Chinese air force.

20 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 1:13:10am

re: #18 Single-handed sailor

That is a pretty big module. I’m impressed. They are advancing quite fast.

Ditto. They’re on a fast track, benefiting from the experience of the USA, Russia and the European Space Agency. The module is Tiangong 1 (“heavenly palace”), and this is the last visit to it. China will let its orbit decay and it will burn up on descent. A larger Tiangong 2 is scheduled to be launched later this year, and another two years later — the first module of a full-fledged space station to be completed by 2020.

Next up, a noodle shop at Tranquility Base.

/ only partly joking on that last part

21 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 2:15:40am

Wikileaks has a private jet fueled up and waiting for Snowden to flee to Iceland, assuming Iceland wants him.

scmp.com

“We have really done all we can do. We have a plane and all the logistics in place. Now we are only awaiting a response from the [Icelandic] government,” added the boss of Datacell, which handles donations to WikiLeaks.

The private jet belongs to a Chinese firm and has been chartered at a cost of more than US$240,000 thanks to individual contributions received by Datacell, he said.

22 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 2:26:57am

Snowden in Iceland? Somehow fitting…

23 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 2:51:09am

Flooding may force 100,000 from west Canada homes

As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway, isolating the mountain resort towns of Banff and Canmore.

Torrential rains and widespread flooding throughout southern Alberta on Thursday washed out roads and bridges, left at least one person missing and caused cars, couches and refrigerators to float away. Communities were hit hard just south of Calgary, a city of more than a million people that hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics.

24 sagehen  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:00:11am

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

25 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:02:14am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

Child number 2 will be named Northwest, so they can seat North by Northwest at the table.

{sorry}

26 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:03:36am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

North Kardashian? That’s a funny-sounding name.
/

27 sagehen  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:05:12am

The best tweet response read off on msnbc’s morning show…

What? “Key” and “Wild” were already taken?

28 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:26:56am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

The real question:

I should give a flying fuck what these 2 morons name their kid because?

29 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:29:49am

re: #28 Kragar

Will Smith style, they’ll probably spend millions at some point creating a vanity project for the kid to be in.

Reason #20004 not to be famous: your kids will almost definitely be fucked up unless you’re an amazing human being (aka Jeff Bridges).

30 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:30:23am

re: #28 Kragar

The real question:

I should give a flying fuck what these 2 morons name their kid because?

24/7 news cycle needs a break from latest political scandal.

meanwhile an ad that really jumps the shark

31 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:38:40am

re: #30 Sol Berdinowitz

24/7 news cycle needs a break from latest political scandal.

meanwhile an ad that really jumps the shark

In Russia, shark jumps you.

32 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:43:44am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

In Russia, shark jumps you.

Yes, especially if you use wrong feminine hygiene product

33 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:46:45am

Maybe next they’ll do a riff on Brick Tamland’s line in “Anchorman” about bears.

34 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 3:49:42am

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

Maybe next they’ll do a riff on Brick Tamland’s line in “Anchorman” about bears.

It’s mentioned in the comments to the site.

35 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 4:44:28am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

I thought all Kardashians have to have a K name?

36 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:02:10am

Well, last night I downloaded the “Complete Bach Organ Works” and also an album of Bach works that have been repurposed for full orchestra (the Stowkowski arrangements)

I have to say there is something about the “Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor” that just sends chills when played on the pipe organ. When it’s orchestrated, it’s like somebody said “Let’s play Bach like it was Wagner!”

37 Stoatly  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:04:54am

I, for one, welcome our new French robotic feline overlords
Youtube Video

38 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:19:42am
39 compound_Idaho  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:38:46am

re: #10 Cheechako

Well, a few minutes ago it was the summer solstice, 18 hours and 18 minutes of daylight along with 5 hours and 42 minutes of twilight here in my home town. Now the days start getting shorter. A few seconds a day for the first week or two, then a few minutes shorter per day for several weeks leading to each succeeding day being 5-8 minutes shorter in a few months.

Just a normal part of the cycle of life.

I do prefer the winter solstice more than the summer solstice as looking forward to more daylight is much better for the spirit than looking at more darkness in the coming months.

Sunset will continue to get later for a few more days. Unless you rise before the sun, it will seem like the the day is getting longer for a few more days.

40 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:41:45am
41 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:48:38am

I was born in Salisbury, just 8 miles from Stonehenge, 64 years ago today.

I’ve mentioned before that I briefly dated a New Age type girl who thought being born on the solstice so close to Stonehenge must have endowed me with great paranormal powers. She was very disappointed to learn that I didn’t believe in such powers. She once announced that she was going to Peru for a big meeting or conclave or whatever they call it at a magnetic convergence on a sacred Inca landing pad for alien spacecraft. She said there were rumors that Jesus Christ himself would return on the first craft to land. I told her to be sure and get pictures.

42 Mattand  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:52:21am

re: #9 Kragar

I actually say this all time: most Americans interpret “freedom of religion” as “freedom to be some form of ONLY Christian”.

What’s also funny about Fischer’s derps is that for a good chunk of our history, other forms of Christianity were considered suspect/shit upon.

The man understands history the way an amoeba understands particle physics.

43 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:53:56am

re: #42 Mattand

I actually say this all time: most Americans interpret “freedom of religion” as “freedom to be some form of ONLY Christian”.

What’s also funny about Fischer’s derps is that for a good chunk of our history, other forms of Christianity were considered suspect/shit upon.

The man understands history the way an amoeba understands particle physics.

Jewish magazine (1850): The United States is Not a Christian Nation.

44 Mattand  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:54:32am

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

re: #41 Occam’s Guillotine

For the rest of my days, I will only think of one thing when I see Stonehenge:

Youtube Video

45 Mattand  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:55:22am

re: #43 Vicious Babushka

Jewish magazine (1850): The United States is Not a Christian Nation.

LOL, I’m sure that went over well back in 1850.

46 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:57:05am

re: #45 Mattand

LOL, I’m sure that went over well back in 1850.

Actually there were Christian subscribers and contributors to The Occident. Although its primary audience was Jewish readers it did engage in interfaith conversation.

47 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 5:59:30am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

I read they wanted Easton (Easton West), but I suppose that was more of a boys name.

But how much worse is that than Apple or Suri or … or … or ….

Celebs. They’re just like us.

48 Mattand  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:00:19am

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Actually there were Christian subscribers and contributors to The Occident. Although its primary audience was Jewish readers it did engage in interfaith conversation.

That blows my mind. I’m just so used to reading about the systemic discrimination this county has had since its founding, it’s amazing to find out about stuff like that.

49 Political Atheist  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:01:01am

Good Morning! Today I take a swim in the jury pool. Every time my name comes up I get bounced to civil court. Civil duty and interesting. I just hope if I get picked it’s a short trial.

50 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:01:02am

re: #29 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Will Smith style, they’ll probably spend millions at some point creating a vanity project for the kid to be in.

Reason #20004 not to be famous: your kids will almost definitely be fucked up unless you’re an amazing human being (aka Jeff Bridges).

Yeah, Kanye West is a self-centered dick. That kid should be wrapped loosely.

51 A Mom Anon  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:09:35am

re: #50 Joanne

Kim Kardashian is just as self centered. I wonder how much attention they’ll pay to the kid once that new baby smell wears off? What disgusts me is the bidding wars over the first published photos. It’s gross. In a country where a big share of kids go to bed hungry, it nauseates me that people like this acquire the wealth of hundreds, if not thousands. Barf.

52 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:09:46am

re: #41 Occam’s Guillotine

I remeber the hullabaloo surrounding the Harmonc Convergence in 1987: all the crystalheads in and around Flagstaff, Arizona were totally worked up over it.

I even made up special necklaces for my friends: Fruit Loops strung on dental floss.

You see, harmonically balanced. the tooth-rotting sugar in the Fruit Loops was balanced by the cleansing powers of the dental floss…

53 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:09:59am

re: #24 sagehen

Kim Kardiashian and Kanye West have named their child (drumroll please)….

North.

(I think I just threw up a little)

Plenty of regular folks name their kids odd stuff. Heck, there’s that family in NJ that decided to name their kids after Nazi leaders.

Some countries have to authorize the use of a name (Iceland comes to mind).

Kardiashian and West can name their kid whatever they want. Wont matter to me. I’m not the one who has to live with the name (and consider changing it once I get old enough). But I’m surprised they didn’t go with Key… West.

54 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:11:35am

re: #51 A Mom Anon

Well, the only reason she’s famous is because she made a sex tape, that begat a reality show, which began another couple of ones, but she’s transformed that notoriety in to a sizable fortune.

I’m frankly surprised they didn’t get paid for naming rights.

55 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:13:38am

re: #53 lawhawk

I foresee years of “Where’s North?” followed by “That way!” and random finger pointing in one cardinal direction or another.

56 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:16:23am
57 A Mom Anon  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:16:41am

re: #54 lawhawk

I know. It’s just gross. It’s not like this family wasn’t doing ok before all that. I’m pretty sure Robert Kardashian didn’t die broke. I suppose I could give Kim(or most likely her mom) credit for being savvy enough to make something out of crapola, but I am pissed off I even have to know what the hell a Kardashian is.

58 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:16:50am

re: #55 wheat-dogghazi

They’re no Cary Grant, (or Eva Marie Saint, or James Mason) that’s for sure. /

59 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:21:50am

re: #56 Joanne

Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

No question, American politics has become a bad caricature of itself.

60 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:21:52am
61 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:22:29am
Well, the only reason she’s famous is because she made a sex tape, that begat a reality show, which began another couple of ones, but she’s transformed that notoriety in to a sizable fortune.

I’m frankly surprised they didn’t get paid for naming rights.

I think the real threat is the mother (Kris Jenner?). She has been the driving force behind popularizing her kids and has essentially gotten each one worked over in turn through their 20s (and they sort of disappear once they pass 30). And you can already see her hooks starting to work on Bruce’s teenage daughters (from an earlier marriage I believe.)

62 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:23:11am

re: #51 A Mom Anon

Kim Kardashian is just as self centered. I wonder how much attention they’ll pay to the kid once that new baby smell wears off? What disgusts me is the bidding wars over the first published photos. It’s gross. In a country where a big share of kids go to bed hungry, it nauseates me that people like this acquire the wealth of hundreds, if not thousands. Barf.

Thousands, to be sure. Kardashian’s net worth is in the low double digit millions. West’s is surely much, much higher.

And exactly what Lawhawk said @54. It’s disgusting.

63 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:25:01am

LOL

64 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:29:27am

Personally, I think Christie is screwed no matter what. He’s not going to get through a primary. Period.

Although…is NJ an open primary? He might make it through if dems can vote in the GOP primary. Off to Google.

65 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:30:30am

re: #64 Joanne

Nope, closed primary in NJ. Christie is done until, or rather if, the GOP ever gains sanity.

Doesn’t look good.

66 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:44:15am

re: #47 Joanne

I read they wanted Easton (Easton West), but I suppose that was more of a boys name.

But how much worse is that than Apple or Suri or … or … or ….

Celebs. They’re just like us.

Celebs (esp of mediocre talent) are industrially popular. Mass adulation is their stock in trade. It would be a surprise if the naming of pop culture babies didn’t involve as much research and development as Ford Motors put into the Edsel.

67 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:45:14am

re: #47 Joanne

I read they wanted Easton (Easton West), but I suppose that was more of a boys name.

But how much worse is that than Apple or Suri or … or … or ….

Celebs. They’re just like us.

Suri is not a weird name. I have known some girls named Suri, years before Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes knew each other.

As for Apple, I understand Gwyneth had to go to court to fight Steve Jobs and Paul McCartney for the rights to use that name. //

68 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:45:54am

DERP

69 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:46:57am

More inanities from Paul this AM:

70 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:48:05am

re: #69 lawhawk

More inanities from Paul this AM:

If Rand Paul was in the Senate in 1938, he would have warned against accepting Jewish refugees because they will take welfare and are probably Communists.

71 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:52:16am

re: #70 Vicious Babushka

If Rand Paul was in the Senate in 1938, he would have warned against accepting Jewish refugees because they will take welfare and are probably Communists.

Aren’t they grateful for the democracy we helped install there?

72 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:52:44am

re: #49 Political Atheist

Good Morning! Today I take a swim in the jury pool. Every time my name comes up I get bounced to civil court. Civil duty and interesting. I just hope if I get picked it’s a short trial.

Got that earlier this year. Homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle plus hit & run. They were planning for a week long trial but the guy plead out the day before the trial was to have started.

73 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 6:59:30am

re: #70 Vicious Babushka

If Rand Paul was in the Senate in 1938, he would have warned against accepting Jewish refugees because they will take welfare and are probably Communists.

He’d probably have wanted the navy to sink the S.S. St. Louis.

74 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:00:05am

re: #72 William Barnett-Lewis

Got that earlier this year. Homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle plus hit & run. They were planning for a week long trial but the guy plead out the day before the trial was to have started.

Been through voir dire three times, bounced each time. My friend is one of the town’s few defense lawyers.

75 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:06:09am

My experience as a alternate a year or so ago for a criminal trial actually soured me a bit to a jury trial since I wonder that if you did a non-jury trial in front of just a judge (or panel of judges?) the lawyers would cut out all the b.s. emotional tricks and just present the evidence - and hopefully do it competently.

76 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:07:19am

So……hopefully, around the first week of July, I’ll be moving into a new apartment. It’s not much - a studio with a kitchenette, about 310 sq.ft., but it has a stunning view of the Beskydy Forest and on a clear day, you can see the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy Mountains, a part of the Western Carpathians. It’s in a quiet neighborhood, and all the neighbors are mostly middle-aged folks, with a few young families thrown into the mix.

Can’t complain about the price; $175.00 per month including utilities. The view is awesomesauce.

Today was hazy, but on a clear day, I can see a mountain called ‘Lysá Hora’, which translates into English as…..get this; “Bald Mountain”.

Sweet.

77 Stoatly  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:12:32am

re: #75 Feline Fearless Leader

They would have to use different tricks and tactics, yes
But they’d still try to game the result

78 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:26:45am

Has Greenwald opined on this yet?

79 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:30:07am

re: #78 Vicious Babushka

Has Greenwald opined on this yet?

Surprised Snowden hasn’t piped up and gone “Oh yeah, we hacked Brazil too.”

80 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:33:11am
81 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:34:04am

Lawhawk just tweeted that the picture was actually taken in 1983, and the Wiki page has a disclaimer that the people may be Pakistanis pretending to be Afghani.

82 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:39:48am

re: #11 Targetpractice

Yeah, uh, bullshit.

Salmon Chase wrote that line as Chief of the Maryland General Court in 1796, when the state of Maryland was still under its own Constitution which did in fact have Christianity as the state’s established religion. The state constitution was not rewritten until 1851, when the establishment of Christianity as the state religion was removed. And that was rendered moot by the 14th Amendment, which applied the 1st Amendment to the states as well as the federal government.

In short, Bryan’s talking out of his ass…again.

Salmon Chase was Chief Justice from 1864-1873. He was born in 1808, so he could not have been Maryland General Court chief in 1796.

83 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:39:48am

re: #81 Vicious Babushka

Lawhawk just tweeted that the picture was actually taken in 1983, and the Wiki page has a disclaimer that the people may be Pakistanis pretending to be Afghani.

Close enough, though I don’t know if Talis would have a woman on a high-level delegation.

84 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:42:16am

re: #83 Decatur Deb

Close enough, though I don’t know if Talis would have a woman on a high-level delegation.

they were going for the publicity effect - just because they are fundamentalists does not mean they are not media savvy

85 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:45:27am

re: #84 Sol Berdinowitz

they were going for the publicity effect - just because they are fundamentalists does not mean they are not media savvy

Trying to envision Bryan Fischer with a gay ASL interpreter.

86 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:45:54am

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

Salmon Chase was Chief Justice from 1864-1873.

Apparently I didn’t even read my own link last night, because the Chase in question is Samuel Chase, who was an Associate Justice from 1796 to 1811 and one of the signers of the DOI. In other words, Bryan is not only quoting a totally irrelevant case, he’s attributing the quote to the wrong man.

87 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:46:52am

re: #86 Targetpractice

Apparently I didn’t even read my own link last night, because the Chase in question is Samuel Chase, who was an Associate Justice from 1796 to 1811 and one of the signers of the DOI. In other words, Bryan is not only quoting a totally irrelevant case, he’s attributing the quote to the wrong man.

LOL FAIL

88 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:47:00am

re: #86 Targetpractice

In other words, Bryan is not only quoting a totally irrelevant case, he’s attributing the quote to the wrong man.

So he is talking both into and out of his ass at the same time…

89 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 7:48:00am

re: #88 Sol Berdinowitz

So he is talking both into and out of his ass at the same time…

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

90 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:00:03am

Glenn is still Derping that NSA is totally LISTENING IN on everybody’s phone calls.

I want to know how they even have the sheer number of employees required to do that, especially if they are being paid $62/hr.

91 sagehen  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:03:46am

re: #69 lawhawk

More inanities from Paul this AM:

Aren’t the Iraq refugee applications from people who became refugees because they’re in danger from their neighbors who hate them for helping our troops?

92 Stanghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:08:06am

Does someone here have that whacky why we hate Obama list they can repost? The one that included seals?

93 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:14:02am
94 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:15:48am

re: #91 sagehen

Aren’t the Iraq refugee applications from people who became refugees because they’re in danger from their neighbors who hate them for helping our troops?

Yeah, that pool of applicants would include those who are endangered because they helped US forces and reconstruction efforts. Screw those folks now, and if the US embarks in future conflicts or nation building efforts, you’re going to see a reluctance to help if things may go sour into the future because we’re simply going to turn out backs on those who we made commitments to. Not good for long term foreign policy.

95 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:16:37am
96 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:34:22am
97 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:35:55am

re: #93 lawhawk

The Faux Outrage Over Obama’s Belfast Comments

These people ahve no idea of what is going on in Northern ireland: Catholic and Protestant kids go to separate schools, where they are indoctrinated in the “us-versus-them” mentality from the very start.

Just the way Jesus would have wanted it

98 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:40:04am

IT’S JUST A CARTOON!

99 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:40:21am

Crud. My power cord for this beast is broken and when the battery dies that’s it till I can get another one from Amazon. I don’t think my even more antiquated Powerbook 3400 can pull this web site up - I’ll see what class-zila does with it but if not, back when I can.

100 BigPapa  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:44:01am

Sockholm Syndrome

Being hostage to the incessant need to create sock puppets for validation or other trollish motivations.

101 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:45:14am

re: #99 William Barnett-Lewis

Crud. My power cord for this beast is broken and when the battery dies that’s it till I can get another one from Amazon. I don’t think my even more antiquated Powerbook 3400 can pull this web site up - I’ll see what class-zila does with it but if not, back when I can.

I lost internet yesterday from 2 PM until late at night. It was interesting doing business over the phone that I would have done at least partly on the computer. I think it worked to my advantage in one case, generating a little sympathy that caused a guy to help me more than he might have.

102 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:45:21am
103 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:47:31am

re: #102 Vicious Babushka

Ted Cruz says he wants to abolish the IRS and have a flat tax. And who do plan to have collect your “flat tax” you dumb ass

Sovereign Citizens should be able to decide how much their government deserves.

104 Dr. Matt  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:47:51am

Report: Michigan families to receive average of $138 in insurance rebates

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that 222,051 Michigan residents will benefit from $18,609,808 in rebates from insurance companies this summer, averaging $138 per family, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

clickondetroit.com

105 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:49:49am

re: #102 Vicious Babushka

You send a check to Congress, C.O. Ted Cruz. I’m sure he’ll make sure it gets to the right place.

///

106 RadicalModerate  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:59:46am

re: #95 lawhawk

Jezebel ✔ @Jezebel

Hundreds of pro-choice Texans took over a b.s. abortion hearing last night bit.ly

They had over 300 women show up to testify against the bill, which would have effectively banned abortion statewide with the exception of two or three clinics. Republican legislators tried to force the bill through during a special session which would require only a simple majority vote to pass versus a 2/3 majority that failed during the regular legislative session.

Emotional 10-hour abortion hearing ends without a vote on bills

After more than 10 hours of testimony, and one loud protest that led to a brief recess so order could be restored, the House State Affairs Committee closed its hearing on two abortion bills at 3:40 a.m. Friday without taking a vote on either measure.

Around midnight, as the hearing that began around 4:45 p.m. continued without a break, Chairman Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, announced that the committee would receive only one more hour of testimony on House Bill 60, a sweeping abortion regulation measure, saying the comments had become repetitive and unhelpful to the committee’s decision.

The news was greeted with increasingly angry shouts from several hundred people in the audience, most of them opponents of the bills. Several shouted that that they had been waiting to speak since 1 p.m., the original start time of the hearing that was delayed about four hours by extended House debate on three redistricting bills.

107 bratwurst  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 8:59:55am

Glenn Beck: Tea Party Rally ‘Is Going to be Written About in Future History Books’

Youtube Video

(Personaly, I think his “jeans and bow tie” look is more likely to go down in infamy.)

108 Dr. Matt  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:01:58am

re: #107 bratwurst

99.9% of America didn’t even know it happened or has already forgot that it did happen.

109 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:09:40am

re: #99 William Barnett-Lewis

Crud. My power cord for this beast is broken and when the battery dies that’s it till I can get another one from Amazon. I don’t think my even more antiquated Powerbook 3400 can pull this web site up - I’ll see what class-zila does with it but if not, back when I can.

Look for an iGo. You can get tips for it for a multitude of electronic devices. It usually comes with 10 or so of the most popular and there are dozens upon dozens of tips for varied computers and devices.

And you can get it at Radio Shack or the like.

Good luck!

110 jaunte  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:10:11am

Today’s essential conservative legislation, municipal division:

111 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:22:03am

re: #109 Joanne

Look for an iGo. You can get tips for it for a multitude of electronic devices. It usually comes with 10 or so of the most popular and there are dozens upon dozens of tips for varied computers and devices.

And you can get it at Radio Shack or the like.

Good luck!

Found a new one at Amazon for $13 with expidited shipping so I ordered that. About to log out so I can try to see how badly my old Powerbook misshandles this web site.

112 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:23:41am
113 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:23:55am

re: #110 jaunte

Today’s essential conservative legislation, municipal division:

Is “sagging” still even a style? I thought Obama said PULL UP YOUR PANTS AMERICA!

114 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:24:38am

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

It’s falling somewhat out of favor, but I still see the pants that are actually made to be worn around your knees and they’re just frickin’ hilarious. It’s like a fashion for stilts, but in reverse.

115 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:26:01am

Sagging won’t be a problem ‘til they do it with kilts.

116 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:26:47am

re: #114 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

It’s falling somewhat out of favor, but I still see the pants that are actually made to be work around your knees and they’re just frickin’ hilarious. It’s like a fashion for stilts, but in reverse.

MC Hammer could actually dance in his silly pants. I don’t see how it’s possible to dance wearing saggy pants, but I’m sure there must be videos out there.

117 jaunte  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:27:28am

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

It’s not for me, but I think whoever is behind this is probably also worried about ‘big government telling us what to do.’

118 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:29:57am

re: #110 jaunte

All of St. Louis’ other outstanding problems have been solved, so they’re moving on to sartorial choices. /super … and likely unconstitutional (attire covered as free speech so long as genitals are covered and not in violation of obscenity laws), and likely also likely to be abused by police in unequal enforcement (relying on common sense to impose the fines may lead to some groups being unfairly targeted - particularly minorities).

119 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:31:39am

White people have an irrational fear of young Black men wearing saggy pants. But think about it: if somebody wearing saggy pants snatched your purse or iphone, how fast do you think he could run?

120 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:33:51am

re: #116 Vicious Babushka

Tight jeans would actually be harder to dance in. I think all you can do in tight jeans is the white boy point.

121 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:36:29am

re: #120 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Tight jeans would actually be harder to dance in. I think all you can do in tight jeans is the white boy point.

Well yeah but they now make tight jeans of stretchy material (jeggings?) to make it easier to move around in.

122 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:36:50am

NB: I do not wear tight jeans or jeggings.

123 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:37:20am

re: #121 Vicious Babushka

I’m not even wearing pants.

124 efuseakay  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:38:03am

re: #88 Sol Berdinowitz

So he is talking both into and out of his ass at the same time…

Human Centipede 3!

125 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:38:37am

re: #123 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

I’m not even wearing pants.

Finally! Someone who realizes that Hitler Wore Pants!

126 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:47:06am

re: #111 William Barnett-Lewis

Found a new one at Amazon for $13 with expidited shipping so I ordered that. About to log out so I can try to see how badly my old Powerbook mishandles this web site.

Nope. Can’t even get the login screen to pop-up. It claims JavaScript is enabled but nothing that requires it works right. Perhaps if there were a mobile version as Classilla tries to mimic those? The boss is letting me use her laptop for now while she’s at work for the weekend so hopefully the new adapter will get here soon.

127 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:48:08am

Good response to a shitty idea that should never have been allowed:

128 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:53:29am

More link bait. “FBI Director acknowledges that surveillance drones have been used against US citizens.” See what they’re doing here?

129 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:55:50am

Mornin’ everyone…

130 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:56:36am

Apparently putting Crystal glasses against the wall is not longer in vogue.

131 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:58:36am

GOHMERT!

132 jaunte  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 9:59:15am

re: #130 darthstar

“Mastering The Internet” sounds like an adult education course.

133 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:00:01am
134 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:00:08am

GOP War on Poor continues

135 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:00:58am

Collapse feared in Bensalem communication tower fire

BENSALEM, Pa. - June 21, 2013 (WPVI) — Officials are on the scene of a communications tower that caught on fire in Bensalem, Bucks County.

Crews were dispatched shortly after 11:00 a.m. Friday to the 2200 block of
The tower is located in the rear of the Bensalem Public Works building.

Chopper 6 is over the scene where a clearly weakened tower can be seen leaning to one side. Officials fear the tower may collapse.

Impossible. Fire does not melt steel!
//

136 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:01:13am

I knew that fucker lied on his resume! I said it! On the twitter!

And now, look!

137 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:03:31am

re: #136 darthstar

I knew that fucker lied on his resume! I said it! On the twitter!

He coached someone to lie at Ars Technica. Wasn’t anything major but someone asked what to do if they never finished college (earn a degree) and he told them to just put “pursing bachelors in _________.”

138 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:03:59am

re: #136 darthstar

I knew that fucker lied on his resume! I said it! On the twitter!

LYING COCKSUCKER!!!

Snowden, who disclosed top secret documents about U.S. surveillance of telephone and Internet data after leaving his job as a systems administrator at an NSA facility in Hawaii, was hired this spring after he convinced his screeners that his description of his education was truthful, said the source, who is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
…snip…

According to sources familiar with the matter, Snowden, a high school dropout who later passed the high school equivalency test known as the GED, stated on his resume earlier this year he attended computer-related classes at Johns Hopkins University, a Tokyo campus of the University of Maryland and the University of Liverpool in Britain.

According to the sources, the resume stated that Snowden “estimated” he would receive a master’s degree in computer security from Liverpool sometime this year.

139 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:04:46am

Writing my first resume, how can I make a college dropout look ok?

TheTrueHOOHA
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Registered: Dec 29, 2001
Posts: 773

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:52 am
“Pursuing Bachelor’s in…”

Then say two years completed.

140 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:05:33am

Beck: Tea Party Rally ‘Is Going to be Written About in Future History Books’

As we noted yesterday, Glenn Beck now believes that Tea Party and 9/12 activists are the new leaders of the civil rights movement, so it only stands to reason that the anti-IRS/anti-immigration rally they held outside the Capitol earlier this week “is going to be written about in future history books.”

Beck understood that this pronouncement might sound far-fetched, but so did his warnings of an economic collapse and the rise of the caliphate … but that is only because Beck is just too far ahead of everyone else and so it takes time for things to develop as he predicted and people to realize that he was right all along.

And so it will be with this new civil rights movement, which everyone will understand maybe in a year from now as it becomes “a movement that our great, great grandchildren and their children will read about”:

141 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:06:12am

I hope Booz Allen is inundated with resumes from unemployed IT workers with authentic degrees and 20 years of industry experience, who then send copies of their resumes and applications to the news media.

142 Flounder  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:06:19am

World War Z starts today, daughter and I can’t wait to see it, anyone else?!

143 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:06:59am

re: #142 Flounder

World War Z starts today, daughter and I can’t wait to see it, anyone else?!

Don’t get me started.

144 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:07:28am

re: #140 Kragar

Beck: Tea Party Rally ‘Is Going to be Written About in Future History Books’

Phantasts.

145 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:08:15am

Yikes. Near miss between two airplanes over NYC last week.

The Embraer jet flying out of LGA had a near miss with a 747 which had a missed approach on JFK - putting the near miss over Queens. A few sources claim that the planes were within a few hundred feet - normal separation is 3 miles.

146 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:08:48am

re: #143 Kragar

Don’t get me started.

My advice is to start drinking heavily.

147 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:09:31am

re: #145 lawhawk

Yikes. Near miss between two airplanes over NYC last week.

The Embraer jet flying out of LGA had a near miss with a 747 which had a missed approach on JFK - putting the near miss over Queens. A few sources claim that the planes were within a few hundred feet - normal separation is 3 miles.

I’ll bet some passengers on the Embraer had to spend the rest of the flight sitting in crapped pants.

148 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:11:13am

re: #138 darthstar

LYING COCKSUCKER!!!

In other words he lied his ass off to get the job for the purpose of digging through classified files. Remind me again how this guy is a “hero”?

149 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:12:34am

re: #148 Targetpractice

Remind me again how this guy is a “hero”?

Because freedom! And no gubmint seekrits!

150 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:12:49am

re: #148 Targetpractice

In other words he lied his ass off to get the job for the purpose of digging through classified files. Remind me again how this guy is a “hero”?

I want to know why BAH even gave him the time of day when there are more educated, qualified candidates who are unemployed.

151 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:13:17am

re: #150 Vicious Babushka

I want to know why BAH even gave him the time of day when there are more educated, qualified candidates who are unemployed.

His dad.

152 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:13:57am

Just had a nice customer in here. Fresh haircut, clean clothes (somebody starched and ironed his shirt to within an inch of its life), nice turquoise rosary around his neck, shirt unbuttoned just enough to see the praying hands tattoo, and REEKING OF PATCHOULI.

WHY?!?

He was here for over an hour. It will take at least that long to get the aroma out of here.

153 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:16:17am
154 Flounder  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:16:22am

re#143 Kragar

I’ve heard it will be a flop, but my daughter thinks Brad Pitt is hot. I tell her I think Brad Pitt is hot too, but it creeps her out.

155 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:16:50am

re: #152 wrenchwench

I hate the smell of patchouli. It reminds me of the dreadlocked hippies and college students who think that dousing themselves in patchouli beats taking a shower.

156 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:17:32am
157 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:17:55am

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

Is “sagging” still even a style? I thought Obama said PULL UP YOUR PANTS AMERICA!

I’ve seen it here in the Czech Republic, which is insanely humorous when you see a bunch of pasty 20-something Central Europeans proving their street cred by greeting each other with, “What is up, my n****r?”

Makes me laugh everytime.

158 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:19:28am

re: #136 darthstar

I knew that fucker lied on his resume! I said it! On the twitter!

As long as you do not say you got the degree, a potential employer cannot obtain your school records. Schools only confirm whether you received the degree or not (possibly GPA, not sure about that).

When I went to work for a company, they asked me about the “discrepancy” as my U had no record me - not just of my not yet graduating - and I pointed to the bullet on my resume that said roughly “near completion of BA in blah with a 3.8/4.0 GPA, member of multiple national honor societies, etc.” because I would never say I had graduated when I had not.

As to how BAH handled it, they could have done a verbal (like a defense of a dissertation) to determine if he had knowledge and then said FTW as to the actual degree.

I take issue with this approach, though, because if the federal government requires a degree, so should contractors.

159 Interesting Times  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:21:44am

re: #156 darthstar


…a title worth about as much as “chief employee background checker at Booz Allen”

160 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:23:02am

re: #158 Joanne

As long as you do not say you got the degree, a potential employer cannot obtain your school records. Schools only confirm whether you received the degree or not (possibly GPA, not sure about that).

When I went to work for a company, they asked me about the “discrepancy” as my U had no record me - not just of my not yet graduating - and I pointed to the bullet on my resume that said roughly “near completion of BA in blah with a 3.8/4.0 GPA, member of multiple national honor societies, etc.” because I would never say I had graduated when I had not.

As to how BAH handled it, they could have done a verbal (like a defense of a dissertation) to determine if he had knowledge and then said FTW as to the actual degree.

I take issue with this approach, though, because if the federal government requires a degree, so should contractors.

Still, he’s claiming to have been in the process of obtaining a master’s when we’ve not even seen proof that he obtained an associate’s degree, let alone a bachelor’s.

161 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:23:22am

re: #155 Lidane

I hate the smell of patchouli. It reminds me of the dreadlocked hippies and college students who think that dousing themselves in patchouli beats taking a shower.

Exactly. Why would someone who obviously bathed within the last 6 hours and looks like he just stepped out of the confessional do that to himself (and me)?

162 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:23:32am

re: #160 Targetpractice

Still, he’s claiming to have been in the process of obtaining a master’s when we’ve not even seen proof that he obtained an associate’s degree, let alone a bachelor’s.

I guess he thought he could take a GED for those degrees?

163 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:25:30am

re: #151 Kragar

His dad.

Something that would at least be illegal in a Military or Civil Service hire.

164 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:26:26am

re: #163 Decatur Deb

Something that would at least be illegal in a Military or Civil Service hire.

Is there still a Civil Service exam requirement? Or is that obsolete because of contracting?

165 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:26:42am

re: #163 Decatur Deb

Something that would at least be illegal in a Military or Civil Service hire.

Why do you think we’ve been getting so much push to privatize everything?

166 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:27:01am

re: #164 Vicious Babushka

Is there still a Civil Service exam requirement? Or is that obsolete because of contracting?

Haha, you’re so funny.
/

167 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:29:23am

re: #164 Vicious Babushka

Is there still a Civil Service exam requirement? Or is that obsolete because of contracting?

Depending on career field and level, exams have been de-emphasised since the Carter administration. They were discriminatory (in both good and bad ways).

168 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:29:36am

re: #159 Interesting Times

…a title worth about as much as “chief employee background checker at Booz Allen”

A title that reads “Making shit up based on the barest sliver of fact” would assuredly be far more honest, but somehow, not as catchy.

It’s like a lot of young American women like to say they’re models, because they’ve posted photos of themselves on Instagram or Facebook. I met one the other day here, a 22-year old English teacher. My lady friend and I were out shopping (my lady friend is 28; yeah, I know, she’s sorta youngish for me) and she overheard us talking English and started talking to us.

My lady friend (who’s better looking, btw) said, “Model? Interesting profession. I just started working as an engineer for the European Space Agency”.

Heh.

169 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:29:46am

Great. Some other leak.

170 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:33:43am

re: #160 Targetpractice

Agreed. Apparently no one sought to verify any educational claims. Which means that no one did any verification at all. For companies accessing top secret (higher) clearances.

Seriously, if there are to be private firms in intelligence (which, sorry, I am completely against), they should be checking each other’s work in verifying clearances, background, etc. Outsourcing the background checks to the same firm who initially did it, well, fox, meet hen house.

171 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:35:16am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

(my lady friend is 28; yeah, I know, she’s sorta youngish for me)

I don’t care how old you are. If she’s 28, she’s old enough to decide whose lady friend she wants to be. She sounds pretty smart.

I was 26 when I met my gentleman friend who happens to be 19 years older than me (and 7 years older than my stepmother).

172 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:35:35am

re: #170 Joanne

Agreed. Apparently no one sought to verify any educational claims. Which means that no one did any verification at all. For companies accessing top secret (higher) clearances.

Seriously, if there are to be private firms in intelligence (which, sorry, I am completely against), they should be checking each other’s work in verifying clearances, background, etc. Outsourcing the background checks to the same firm who initially did it, well, fox, meet hen house.

I still remember a recruiter last year who was asking me about gaps in my resume, asked what I was doing “between 3/1987 and 9/1987”

My youngest daughter was born in March 1987.

173 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:36:48am
174 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:38:02am

re: #173 darthstar

Brother is there to translate Jive.

175 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:38:17am

re: #171 wrenchwench

I’m only 43, so it’s not that huge of an age difference; 15 years.

She is smart, and intelligence is something I find a desirable trait. I once dated a young woman who, will stunningly beautiful, was dumber than the proverbial bag of hammers.

176 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:38:17am

re: #173 darthstar

How can you tell which ones are gay?

177 Kragar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:38:26am

Off to a picnic, see you all later.

178 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:39:17am

Seriously, GOP, you love your tax breaks so much, how about a tax break for hiring someone who has been unemployed for minimally six months - and retaining them for minimally six months? That way, if a firm needs a specific skill set they can still hire it, but if there is someone out there who can’t get a job due to must-be-currently-employed bias, that helps alleviate the backlog of people who fall into that bias.

But that would never happen because it would actually help Americans. Can’t have that.

179 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:39:21am

re: #177 Kragar

Off to a picnic, see you all later.

Is this a family lynching or an office lynching?

180 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:39:43am

re: #173 darthstar

White linen suit dude is rockin’ it. Even with dark socks. He don’t give a fuck.

181 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:40:35am

re: #174 Decatur Deb

Youtube Video

182 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:40:52am

re: #180 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

White linen suit dude is rockin’ it. Even with dark socks. He don’t give a fuck.

Henry James or Colonel Sanders—you decide.

183 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:41:11am
184 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:45:06am

Good afternoon Lizards! Warm (low 80s) and sunny (as always) here in Philly.

Have four friends from Pittsburgh arriving on a train in a few hours to visit for the weekend. Just got done returning from a grocery and booze shopping trip in order to stock the fridge for the evenings. Daylight will be used for touristing and visiting various eateries within walking distance.

The two Scotch drinkers will be pointed to a nearby state liquor store so that they can select their own brand.

185 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:46:25am

re: #161 wrenchwench

Exactly. Why would someone who obviously bathed within the last 6 hours and looks like he just stepped out of the confessional do that to himself (and me)?

“My nostrils flared at the scent of his cologne - Pyramid Patchouli. There was only one joker in LA sensitive enough to wear that scent, and I had to find out who he was…”

186 Decatur Deb  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:47:32am

BBL

187 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:47:47am

re: #142 Flounder

World War Z starts today, daughter and I can’t wait to see it, anyone else?!

I’m interested in reading the book. Not sure if I will see the movie.

188 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:48:13am

re: #171 wrenchwench

I don’t care how old you are. If she’s 28, she’s old enough to decide whose lady friend she wants to be. She sounds pretty smart.

I was 26 when I met my gentleman friend who happens to be 19 years older than me (and 7 years older than my stepmother).

This. My dad was 18 years older than my mom.

Hi, everyone. *waves*

189 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:48:31am
190 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:49:36am

::head meet desk::

‘Highly Questionable’ Method: Bra Searches by Lakeland Police are Criticized by State Attorney

191 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:49:44am
192 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:49:46am

re: #188 CuriousLurker

This. My dad was 18 years older than my mom.

Hi, everyone. *waves*

My daughter is 1 year older than her husband. Is this bad?

193 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:50:23am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

::head meet desk::

‘Highly Questionable’ Method: Bra Searches by Lakeland Police are Criticized by State Attorney

Bra searches? Sounds like something thought up by some college guys.

194 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:50:47am

DERP

195 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:51:10am

re: #188 CuriousLurker

This. My dad was 18 years older than my mom.

Hi, everyone. *waves*

My friend Sally, who just sent me back excellent notes on my novel, is 18 years younger than her husband. They’ve been married for 20+ years now.

196 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:51:53am

re: #189 darthstar

Socky McSockpuppet:

But except when a US citizen is specifically targeted, the court orders used by the NSA to obtain that information as part of Prism are these general FAA orders, not individualized warrants specific to any individual.

Once armed with these general orders, the NSA is empowered to compel telephone and internet companies to turn over to it the communications of any individual identified by the NSA. The Fisa court plays no role in the selection of those individuals, nor does it monitor who is selected by the NSA.

The NSA’s ability to collect and retain the communications of people in the US, even without a warrant, has fuelled congressional demands for an estimate of how many Americans have been caught up in surveillance.

197 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:51:55am

re: #192 Vicious Babushka

My daughter is 1 year older than her husband. Is this bad?

Nope, works both ways as far as I’m concerned. ;)

198 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:52:33am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

::head meet desk::

‘Highly Questionable’ Method: Bra Searches by Lakeland Police are Criticized by State Attorney

Are balloons being smuggled?
//

199 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:53:17am

re: #198 GeneJockey

Are balloons being smuggled?
//

One was yellow, and the other one was blue!

200 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:53:35am

More from Socky:

The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (known as the Fisa court), signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and stamped 29 July 2009. They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target “non-US persons” under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.

201 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:54:26am

re: #171 wrenchwench

I don’t care how old you are. If she’s 28, she’s old enough to decide whose lady friend she wants to be. She sounds pretty smart.

I was 26 when I met my gentleman friend who happens to be 19 years older than me (and 7 years older than my stepmother).

My first husband was 13 years older than me and we were married 19 years when he died.
My current husband is three years younger than me.
Both lovely men. Age is just a number.

202 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:55:02am
203 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:55:31am

OT: In other news, I have Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter and graham crackers. Nom, nom, nom…

204 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:55:34am

*FACE PALM*

205 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:55:45am

re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg

Bra searches? Sounds like something thought up by some college guys.

The cop’s rationalization? “LAPD does it!”

206 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:55:54am
207 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:56:15am

re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth

Age is just a number.

I’ll tell myself that the next time I wake up feeling like I did today - I was feeling all 132 of the 55 years I’ve been alive.
//

208 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:56:54am


It was never about facts. If it was, then the TIGTA report would have barely received a fraction of the coverage that it did, and the real question would be why the IRS isn’t closely checking every single entity that seeks the nonprofit status to avoid fraud or tax evasion. But Issa and others have turned it into a political football despite absolutely no evidence that the WH was ever involved in any fashion in the IRS “targeting” of TP entities, which made up only a fraction of all entities checked for compliance on their applications for nonprofit status under 501(c)(4).

209 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:57:28am

re: #203 CuriousLurker

OT: In other news, I have Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter and graham crackers. Nom, nom, nom…

I hope you brought enough for EVERYONE, missy!!!

210 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:58:19am

re: #192 Vicious Babushka

My daughter is 1 year older than her husband. Is this bad?

I had a situation in 2009 where I was six months older than my then-girlfriend’s mother.

Awkward.

211 William of Orange  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:58:49am

And this is why we don’t patent human genomes.
Otherwise the doctors would be bound with their hands to stay away from the patents and miracles like this one cannot happen!!

Major kudos to the doctors!!

Youtube Video

212 A Mom Anon  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:58:55am

re: #119 Vicious Babushka

I think people should realize that today’s teenagers really don’t have a ethnic or racial component to how they dress, musical tastes, etc. The saggy pants thing was/is a thing here in mostly white suburbia too. My son went through that crap for a couple of years and every time I went to his school I saw more than one kid wearing their pants like that, none of them black, even though is was against the dress code.

My mom is such a freaking racist it’s insane. Yesterday she was lamenting that Underground Atlanta is overrun by blacks and that the stores only cater to “them”. I asked her what the hell she meant by that and she complained about the loud music and all the stores selling brightly colored clothing and nothing that catered to white people. I think she meant old white ladies who are racist like herself. I told her that her grandkids generation honestly mostly could give a damn about race, they date each other, befriend each other, like the same music, same cars same clothes. It’s a generation gap, not a race thing.

It’s stupid to pass laws about modes of dress, this is America for fuck’s sake. Aren’t there much bigger fish these politicians could be frying?

213 makeitstop  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:59:37am

re: #195 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

My friend Sally, who just sent me back excellent notes on my novel, is 18 years younger than her husband. They’ve been married for 20+ years now.

I’m 22 years older than my wife, and 2 years younger than my mother-in-law.

But the family likes me, I like them, and my wife and I also kinda like each other, so it’s all good. :)

214 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 10:59:42am
215 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:00:06am
216 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:01:20am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope you brought enough for EVERYONE, missy!!!

You know what’s missing? A jar of Marshmallow Fluff—instant s’mores.

217 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:01:25am

Well, my commute home tonight might well be screwed.

A tanker truck collided with a NJ Transit train, and there’s no service on the Main/Bergen Line with no ETA on restored service.

abclocal.go.com

218 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:02:02am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope you brought enough for EVERYONE, missy!!!

You made me do this.

Youtube Video

219 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:02:59am
220 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:03:39am
221 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:04:03am

So we can’t have anymore top secrets? Heh?

222 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:04:04am

re: #219 Gus

So he’s admitting that he has his paws on Top Secret documents, isn’t that like a major felony?

223 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:04:41am

re: #212 A Mom Anon

It’s stupid to pass laws about modes of dress, this is America for fuck’s sake. Aren’t there much bigger fish these politicians could be frying?

Like defunding the nonexistent ACORN again, or fruitlessly voting to repeal Obamacare, for example?
//

224 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:04:49am

re: #221 Gus

So we can’t have anymore top secrets? Heh?

Not since the movie Sneakers.

225 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:05:11am

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

You made me do this.

[Embedded content]

bwahahahaaa! Loved that scene.
I was actually thinking of the nuns during my Catholic grade school days, and that scene made me laugh out loud the first time I saw Blazing Saddles.

226 wrenchwench  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:05:39am

re: #219 Gus

Prediction: @lawscribe to be blocked by 5 PM eastern.

227 makeitstop  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:06:26am

re: #226 wrenchwench

Prediction: @lawscribe to be blocked by 5 PM eastern.

I’ll give him a half hour.

228 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:06:28am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

bwahahahaaa! Loved that scene.
I was actually thinking of the nuns during my Catholic grade school days, and that scene made me laugh out loud the first time I saw Blazing Saddles.

I always wondered what Miss Harper (Six Foot Two, Shotgun Sue) would have done if a student actually DID have enough gum for everyone.

229 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:07:18am

re: #228 GeneJockey

I always wondered what Miss Harper (Six Foot Two, Shotgun Sue) would have done if a student actually DID have enough gum for everyone.

My dad made sure to bring gum for the whole class in 1928!

230 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:09:18am

re: #219 Gus

Glenn, the only person who claims it’s marked “Top Secret” is you.

231 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:09:55am

re: #219 Gus

232 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:11:36am

Mental health break:

233 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:12:09am
234 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:12:21am

Snowden lied about everything else, why wouldn’t he lie that the docs he stole are “Top Secret.” He could add a bogus “TS” header with his Sooper Seekrit Admin Privileges.

235 Stanghazi  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:12:37am

re: #215 NJDhockeyfan

Blah blah blah, thought he said it was in the Kremlin museum?

236 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:15:13am
237 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:19:05am

re: #236 Lidane

This is good news for John McCain.

238 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:19:46am
239 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:19:50am

For my developer friends out there.

240 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:20:51am

re: #239 darthstar

For my developer friends out there.

My supervisor has that hanging on the wall in his cubicle.

241 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:22:15am
242 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:23:40am

This is an exercise program I can do…

picture

243 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:24:44am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is an exercise program I can do…

picture

How about this one?

Youtube Video

244 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:24:54am

re: #236 Lidane

Accurate Title: “Christie Sheds Thin Veneer Of Non-Partisanship.”

245 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:25:28am
246 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:26:25am
247 Targetpractice  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:26:43am

re: #245 Vicious Babushka

Bad part is that most folks tuned out 2 weeks ago, so as far as they’re concerned, the original “revelations” are still valid.

248 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:26:54am

re: #243 Lidane

How about this one?

[Embedded content]

Not if anyone is watching…that includes the dogs and cats who already find me altogether too amusing.

249 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:27:17am

re: #243 Lidane

How about this one?

I totally want to see all the guys do this. I am right behind ya, boys! ;-)

250 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:27:25am

re: #234 Vicious Babushka

Oh, it’s entirely possible that the docs were TS, and that they haven’t been reclassified to a lower level or declassified altogether.

Socky is just moving goalposts and ignoring that his so-called blockbuster breaking news is rehashing news from a decade ago. And we’re supposed to act shocked and surprised that governments are putting taps on undersea fiber cables?

251 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:27:43am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is an exercise program I can do…

picture

When I tell people that I own Greyhounds, they assume they have to be walked long distances every day. Little do they know that they prefer to spend most of their time like this…

Lazy bastards.

252 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:29:14am

re: #247 Targetpractice

Bad part is that most folks tuned out 2 weeks ago, so as far as they’re concerned, the original “revelations” are still valid.

Wingnuts are still Tweeting the meme that “ZOMG NSA IS LISTENING IN TO EVERY PHONE CALL!!11!! READING EVERY TWEET & EMAIL!!11!!” but they still post their obsessive Obama hate even though IN AN ACTUAL TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP IT WOULD GET THEM KILLED.

253 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:29:56am

re: #243 Lidane

How about this one?

I love the Prancersize LLC bit. Does she sell the jacket, pearls or the camel-toe leggings? Inquiring minds and all.

254 darthstar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:30:38am
255 Gus  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:33:27am
256 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:34:52am

re: #251 GeneJockey

When I tell people that I own Greyhounds, they assume they have to be walked long distances every day. Little do they know that they prefer to spend most of their time like this…

Lazy bastards.

Like my American English Coonhound when she gets the sofa all to herself.

257 Joanne  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:35:52am

This story is…uhm…nuts.

258 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:37:37am

re: #257 Joanne

This never happened and I never saw it. Not real. Look over there. I think I saw a duck. I’m going to go look at the duck.

259 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:38:23am

re: #250 lawhawk

Oh, it’s entirely possible that the docs were TS, and that they haven’t been reclassified to a lower level or declassified altogether.

Socky is just moving goalposts and ignoring that his so-called blockbuster breaking news is rehashing news from a decade ago. And we’re supposed to act shocked and surprised that governments are putting taps on undersea fiber cables?

Not to mention that the big deal was spying on Americans and tapping undersea fiber cables is not quite domestic spying.

260 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:39:48am
261 jaunte  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:40:28am

re: #260 Lidane

Leahy:

“…it is an understatement to say that this is not the amendment I would have drafted. It is a disappointment to me and to many. The modification to my amendment reads like a Christmas wish list for Halliburton. I am sure there are federal contracting firms high-fiving at the prospect of all of the spending demanded by Senate Republicans in this amendment. The litany of expensive services, technology, and hardware mandated by this package is combined with an inexplicable waiver of many normal contracting rules. This is a potential recipe for waste, fraud and abuse. It is astounding to me how far in the past the hard lessons we learned in Iraq appear to be. All of us should remember the disgraceful conduct demonstrated by some private companies in Iraq which was uncovered by the work of the Special Inspector General for Iraq. These border provisions will require significant congressional oversight. “

262 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:42:41am

re: #260 Lidane

GOP: Party of big spending as long as it’s on really useless shit.

263 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:43:43am

*FACE PALM*

264 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:45:12am

re: #252 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts are still Tweeting the meme that “ZOMG NSA IS LISTENING IN TO EVERY PHONE CALL!!11!! READING EVERY TWEET & EMAIL!!11!!” but they still post their obsessive Obama hate even though IN AN ACTUAL TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP IT WOULD GET THEM KILLED.

Indeed.

In an actual dictatorship, these folks would all be either dead or incarcerated.

To restore my sanity, I’m spending some time with an old childhood friend.

Jonny Quest.

265 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:45:14am

Wingnuts are Tweeting this silly turd CONFIRMED. FACT. pulled out of somebody’s rear end.

266 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:47:17am

Is there someplace to see “Fun Facts” 1-300?

267 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:50:07am

re: #266 Vicious Babushka

Is there someplace to see “Fun Facts” 1-300?

It’s just “He’s Nigerian!” repeated 300 times only they don’t say Nigerian.

268 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:51:59am

re: #267 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

It’s just “He’s Nigerian!” repeated 300 times only they don’t say Nigerian.

Those who Tweeted “Fun Facts” 1-300 have been disappeared into FEMA camps.

Oh wait.

269 EPR-radar  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:54:13am

re: #262 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

GOP: Party of big spending as long as it’s on really useless shit.

“Deficits don’t matter”. Also, the GOP has no problem with big spending that ends up in the coffers of its big business backers.

270 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:57:05am

re: #268 Vicious Babushka

Those who Tweeted “Fun Facts” 1-300 have been disappeared into FEMA camps.

Oh wait.

I can’t remember who posted that graphic the other night, so I tried the google machine…couldn’t find the graphic but I did find this:

barack-obama.100factsabout.com

So much to like in this list.

271 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 11:57:59am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

I can’t remember who posted that graphic the other night, so I tried the google machine…couldn’t find the graphic but I did find this:

barack-obama.100factsabout.com

So much to like in this list.

I posted that graphic from Twitter but I can’t find it now. But I’m sure it will be reTweeted, this Derp does not die.

272 lawhawk  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:02:31pm

re: #265 Vicious Babushka

Seeing how there were a couple of million jobs created by the President since he took office (recouping the jobs lost in the recession, plus new job growth), if we assume that 75 went on Food Stamps for each new job created, then nearly 1/3 of the nation is now on SNAP (the successor to the food stamps program). Clearly false. But as you say - the derp will not die.

273 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:03:32pm

re: #272 lawhawk

Seeing how there were a couple of million jobs created by the President since he took office (recouping the jobs lost in the recession, plus new job growth), if we assume that 75 went on Food Stamps for each new job created, then nearly 1/3 of the nation is now on SNAP (the successor to the food stamps program). Clearly false. But as you say - the derp will not die.

I think it’s also listed on the “100 Reasons to Impeach!” graphic that’s been going around, but which I can’t find now.

274 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:03:57pm

re: #255 Gus

Nice looking jets but they were some of the noisiest things ever flown. The only thing worse when I lived under the approach to the Madison airport was when the Air Force would bring in C-5’s.

276 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:08:55pm

DERP

277 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:09:00pm

re: #257 Joanne

This story is…uhm…nuts.

I wonder if he knows Randy Marsh?

Youtube Video

278 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:09:33pm
279 Lidane  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:10:07pm

re: #277 NJDhockeyfan

That episode of South Park had my crying with laughter, especially when Randy and the other men started bouncing around town. XD

280 Varek Raith  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:10:34pm

re: #276 Vicious Babushka

DERP

Uh, yeah, sure chief.
Has nothing to do with the fact that she is kind of famous. Or somesuch.
Nope!

281 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:11:03pm

Holy cow!

282 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:12:06pm

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

Indeed.

In an actual dictatorship, these folks would all be either dead or incarcerated.

To restore my sanity, I’m spending some time with an old childhood friend.

Jonny Quest.

Not Rusty Venture?

283 Weet  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:13:56pm

re: #139 Gus

Writing my first resume, how can I make a college dropout look ok?

TheTrueHOOHA:
“Pursuing Bachelor’s in…”
Then say two years completed.

Good to know.
Sowdum lies, and teaches others how to. Great source there Greenbeck!

284 A Mom Anon  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:14:41pm

re: #276 Vicious Babushka

Someone needs to get out of the house more. I can show him some stuff that might make him rethink that idiocy. Good lord, the conversation I just had with my mom yesterday was my dose of racism for the rest of the next few months. He should come on down to GA, I could take him on a very revealing guided tour.

285 GeneJockey  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:15:57pm

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

Like my American English Coonhound when she gets the sofa all to herself.

When we got our first Greyhound, my wife tried to coax her up onto the couch. I said, “Are you NUTS? Do you ever want to use your couch again?”

286 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:16:38pm

re: #282 GeneJockey

Not Rusty Venture?

I like Venture Bros. as well, but Jonny Quest is, in my book, one of the greatest toons of all time. And the music, especially the theme music!! Epic fusion jazz.

287 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Jun 21, 2013 12:19:47pm

re: #279 Lidane

That episode of South Park had my crying with laughter, especially when Randy and the other men started bouncing around town. XD

Heh.

Youtube Video


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