1 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 4:51:18pm

Recently I was discussing Bonnie Raitt with a friend, and how she can make a cover song her own. My perfect example is her cover of Richard Thompson’s “When the Spell is Broken.”

Here’s Raitt’s version:

Youtube Video

and here’s Thompson’s version:

Youtube Video

3 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:00:16pm

re: #2 klys

My weekend is not being spent here, and this makes me sad.

My weekend is being spent sans Mrs. Jockey, which makes me ambivalent.

On the plus side, I can eat, drink, and watch whatever I want. I can do nothing but fix watches tomorrow if I want.

On the minus side, I’ll miss her. And I’ll have to deal with the aging Eskie and her incessant whining for things she then decides she doesn’t really want.

4 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:10:14pm

Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!

5 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:11:04pm

re: #4 GeneJockey

Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!

Haha.

First run yielded a core dump.

Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.

I *think* I have just tracked it down.

6 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:14:30pm

re: #5 klys

Haha.

First run yielded a core dump.

Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.

I *think* I have just tracked it down.

This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.

Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.

“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.

Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!

7 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:16:10pm

re: #4 GeneJockey

Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!

Was skimming over French Indochina and mah teeth hurt.

8 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:17:56pm

re: #6 GeneJockey

This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.

Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.

“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.

Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!

Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.

Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.

9 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:25:23pm

re: #8 klys

Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.

Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.

You are bringing back memories.
Frustrating memories.

10 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:26:06pm

re: #9 b_sharp

You are bringing back memories.
Frustrating memories.

Here to serve!

11 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:26:18pm
12 wrenchwench  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:29:22pm

re: #1 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Recently I was discussing Bonnie Raitt with a friend, and how she can make a cover song her own. My perfect example is her cover of Richard Thompson’s “When the Spell is Broken.”

Here’s Raitt’s version:

[Embedded content]

I was going to compose another example, with a John Hiatt song, but in every version I found of him doing it, he introduces it by thanking Bonnie for recording it. So here’s both of ‘em:

Youtube Video

13 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:29:30pm
14 dog philosopher  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:30:19pm

re: #4 GeneJockey

Amazing. I’ve simultaneously killed two threads!

use critical sections

15 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:32:36pm

I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.

I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.

Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.

RBS

16 ObserverArt  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:34:14pm

in the other thread (where I was still lingering) Curious Lurker was talking about her browser connection being slow. I had posted this and then realized everyone had moved up. So, I shall quote myself…

I think the NSA installed a new policy today. Instead of capturing your data and storing it, they now need to come in to your phone/pad/pc/laptop to all emails, comments, conversations, browsing and posts and read them all in real time. The only way that can be achieved is if they slow everything down to allow reading and saving the meta data by hand on a notepad.

That and the pens run dry real quick and the pencil tips break. This will not go well. /

17 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:34:37pm

re: #11 FemNaziBitch

If terrorists poisoned the W Va water supply the right wing would be ready for war. But it was a company, so what the hey.

THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIME THIS!!!

18 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:09pm

re: #10 klys

Here to serve!

Can I get some of those rolls, then? And maybe a glass of ice water?

19 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:27pm

re: #6 GeneJockey

This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.

Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.

“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.

Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!

I remember that. I did fortran w/ cards. I remember we were supposed to write a program to take grades, compute a GPA, format and print the results. Each student was to print on a separate sheet.

Many many Fatal Error messages later, I came back and there was a HUGE stack of the good old green fanfold in my bin. Turns out I had put a “New Page” INSIDE the loop that was printing the results, not outside.

RBS

20 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:35:56pm

re: #8 klys

Fix typo. make clean. make. Run program.

Goddammit, I just fixed that typo. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

DAMMIT I FIXED THAT. Fix it again. make clean. make. Run program.

Finally realize typo is in that other spot where I’m calling newline.

These days the most I usually have to do is compile sources downloaded off the web. There the problems are usually the idiotic assumptions that the world is x86, linux and compiling under GCC are usually what bites me. That and compiler flags that turn warnings into errors that compound the idiocies that GCC inflicts on code.

21 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:36:13pm

That moment where you thank the gods that the initial file you tried to run triggered one of the nasty edge case bugs in how you coded shit.

Now if I could just figure out how to *fix* it…

22 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:36:38pm
23 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:36:45pm

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.

I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.

Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.

RBS

Where’s the duct tape?

24 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:34pm

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.

I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.

Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.

RBS

I totally misread ‘car’ as ‘cat’ (and I’m even wearing my glasses, so this is bad) and was trying to figure out how a cat could have a head gasket leak.

25 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:41pm

re: #23 b_sharp

Where’s the duct tape?

And, if the duct tape doesn’t work?

26 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:37:54pm

re: #23 b_sharp

Where’s the duct tape?

well, the stuff is silvery like duct tape, and it seems a bit sticky too. maybe it’s some type of liquid heat / pressure activated duct tape

RBS

27 wrenchwench  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:01pm

re: #22 FemNaziBitch

Happy Birthday Betty White!

[Embedded image]

She didn’t really say that, though, but this….

28 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:03pm

re: #24 klys

I totally misread ‘car’ as ‘cat’ (and I’m even wearing my glasses, so this is bad) and was trying to figure out how a cat could have a head gasket leak.

Cat would be easy, just wrap it in duct tape. :)

RBS

29 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:05pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

And, if the duct tape doesn’t work?

Crazy glue.

30 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:39:52pm

re: #26 RealityBasedSteve

well, the stuff is silvery like duct tape, and it seems a bit sticky too. maybe it’s some type of liquid heat / pressure activated duct tape

RBS

In the good old days replacing a head gasket on an inline 6 was a two hour job.

31 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:42:18pm

re: #30 b_sharp

In the good old days replacing a head gasket on an inline 6 was a two hour job.

yep… first engine I ever rebuilt was the slant 6 in my Dads Dodge Dart. We did it at the base hobby shop (Lots of tools you could borrow). Didn’t have any parts left over, it started, and I think we got another 100.000 miles out of it before he finally got rid of it. (Think the body was rusting out by then).

On my Impala, I’m not even sure where to begin to get TO the engine, and I don’t have the time or place to do it any more. :(

RBS

32 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:42:49pm
33 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:43:30pm

re: #29 b_sharp

Crazy glue.

MOAR DUCT TAPE!

34 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:44:46pm
35 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:45:07pm

re: #16 ObserverArt

I think the NSA installed a new policy today. Instead of capturing your data and storing it, they now need to come in to your phone/pad/pc/laptop to all emails, comments, conversations, browsing and posts and read them all in real time. The only way that can be achieved is if they slow everything down to allow reading and saving the meta data by hand on a notepad.

That and the pens run dry real quick and the pencil tips break. This will not go well. /

in the other thread (where I was still lingering) Curious Lurker was talking about her browser connection being slow. I had posted this and then realized everyone had moved up. So, I shall quote myself…

Hum… maybe I can get a gig making pens for the NSA? Something in a Red White and Blue with stars? Or perhaps a stealth black in carbon fiber.

RBS

36 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:45:47pm

re: #31 RealityBasedSteve

yep… first engine I ever rebuilt was the slant 6 in my Dads Dodge Dart. We did it at the base hobby shop (Lots of tools you could borrow). Didn’t have any parts left over, it started, and I think we got another 100.000 miles out of it before he finally got rid of it. (Think the body was rusting out by then).

On my Impala, I’m not even sure where to begin to get TO the engine, and I don’t have the time or place to do it any more. :(

RBS

Now it takes longer to move all the cables, hoses and unknown boxes than it does to remove the head.

37 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:46:37pm

re: #34 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Bill Murray Does A Reddit AMA. What Happened Next Will Surprise You.

38 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:47:22pm

39 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:47:42pm

re: #35 RealityBasedSteve

Hum… maybe I can get a gig making pens for the NSA? Something in a Red White and Blue with stars? Or perhaps a stealth black in carbon fiber.

RBS

It’s been marked as a set-aside. You’re not a woman, so you could only get that gig if you are a minority or a service-disabled veteran.

/semi-kidding

40 prairiefire  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:48:20pm

Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.

41 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:48:29pm

re: #32 FemNaziBitch

Face Stretcher - aka most of Hollywood.

42 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:48:54pm

One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.

43 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:49:11pm

re: #40 prairiefire

Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.

Glad to hear it’s gone well! Had both of you in my thoughts today. I had mine removed in the middle of grad school applications - not fun!

44 Stanley Sea  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:49:36pm

re: #40 prairiefire

Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.

Everything went well? I responded to your (daughter’s) trauma in a really dead thread.

45 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:09pm

re: #36 b_sharp

Now it takes longer to move all the cables, hoses and unknown boxes than it does to remove the head.

and since it’s a cross mounted V6, I’m willing to bet big bucks that it would take undoing the engine mounts and at least tipping it forward to get at the back one.

Worst car I ever saw in that regard was a friend when I was in the Army, Buick Regal Turbo. (their muscle car). Since it was all pre-electronic control, the entire engine was totally hidden under a maze of vacuum hoses, wires, tubes and brackets for it all. I think you could see 1/2 of one of the valve covers.

We decided to palm that one off on a real shop.

RBS

46 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:10pm

And speaking of Richard Thompson, this is freaking awesome…

Youtube Video

47 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:21pm

re: #40 prairiefire

Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.

(((((prairiefire and daughter)))))))

48 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:50:49pm

49 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:19pm
50 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:24pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.

Although the NSA testified it very rarely made a third hop. It’s still a good limit, but I don’t think its a big as you might think.

51 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:51:35pm

re: #39 Dark_Falcon

It’s been marked as a set-aside. You’re not a woman, so you could only get that gig if you are a minority or a service-disabled veteran.

/semi-kidding

well, I do get a bit twitchy around stupid 2LT’s, does that count?

RBS

52 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:52:18pm

re: #40 prairiefire

Happy Friday, lizards! I am sitting here with my daughter at Children’ Mercy with one less appendix between the two of us.

DIBS!!!!!

How is she doing?

RBS

53 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:54:01pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

One of the biggest changes the President said he was ordering in NSA practices today: only two “hops” are allowed when investigating connections instead of three. That may not sound like much but that third hop potentially involves a lot more people in the search.

Yea. it’s that whole geometric progression thing kicking in.

RBS

54 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:54:31pm

Evidently, there were signs that were pretty much ignored.

Arapahoe High security guard says officials stifled threat concerns

“Cameron Rust, who has been placed on paid administrative leave, said Friday he worries about future violence and danger at the school because administrators refuse to acknowledge problems as they are brewing.

“Arapahoe is still a very unstable environment,” Rust told The Denver Post, a day after he posted a lengthy message on Facebook accusing administrators of ignoring warning signs before the Dec. 13 attack. “Something bad is going to happen, and they aren’t doing anything about this.”

“Rust said school officials knew Karl Pierson was a threat well before he entered the school armed with a shotgun, a machete, Molotov cocktails and 125 rounds of ammunition and fatally shot Claire Davis. Claire, 17, died eight days later. Pierson also killed himself.”

Read more: Arapahoe High security guard says officials stifled threat concerns - The Denver Post denverpost.com

55 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:55:18pm

Shari Lewis too!

Lambchop came along later.

56 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:55:38pm

re: #49 Lidane

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shouldn’t they be human slippers?

57 b_sharp  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:11pm

re: #45 RealityBasedSteve

and since it’s a cross mounted V6, I’m willing to bet big bucks that it would take undoing the engine mounts and at least tipping it forward to get at the back one.

Worst car I ever saw in that regard was a friend when I was in the Army, Buick Regal Turbo. (their muscle car). Since it was all pre-electronic control, the entire engine was totally hidden under a maze of vacuum hoses, wires, tubes and brackets for it all. I think you could see 1/2 of one of the valve covers.

We decided to palm that one off on a real shop.

RBS

I have a 98 Grand Cherokee and an ‘07 Subaru, both have easily accessible engines. I’ve gotten back into repairing my own vehicles in a small way.
I changed both diffs in the Cherokee a couple of years ago.

58 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:14pm

re: #32 FemNaziBitch

59 More Slang Phrases From The 1920s We Should Start Using Again

#7
#16
#21

#5 “Banana oil!” I have heard once or twice in China. Apparently, it’s in some dictionary of American idioms. One of my students introduced it to the class one time, as part of a speaking assignment. I had never heard it before, so I figured it was a literal English translation of a Chinese expression.

Now I know.

59 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:56:32pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Shouldn’t it be wearing humans slippers?

60 GlutenFreeJesus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:58:45pm

Did I hear it right? On ABC Nightly News, the WV chemical company that’s caused all that mess has declared bankruptcy? Assholes.

61 wrenchwench  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:59:10pm

It’s gotta be from Easter.


Later, lizards.

62 GlutenFreeJesus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 5:59:30pm

re: #59 GeneJockey

Shouldn’t it be wearing humans slippers?

I call them “shoes”.

63 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:00:03pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

It’s gotta be from Easter.

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Later, lizards.

She was an adorable child, too. : )

64 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:08pm

Yes, Please:

65 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:21pm

re: #59 GeneJockey

Shouldn’t it be wearing humans slippers?

GMTA!

66 ObserverArt  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:01:39pm

re: #55 FemNaziBitch

Shari Lewis too!

Lambchop came along later.

Awww, Lambchop! That goes a long way back. Wow.

67 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:02:05pm

re: #17 GeneJockey

THIS! THIS! A THOUSAND TIME >THIS!!!

How do we know they didn’t? Wouldn’t the greatest cover corporation name ever be “Freedom”?

And they declare bankruptcy right after the plot unfolds. How convenient.

68 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:04:04pm

Oh, for fuck’s sake, Slate.

Here Are the Unretouched Photos of Obama’s Big NSA Speech

slate.com

Jeremy Stahl is an unmitigated asshole. Fucking “social media editor” indeed.

69 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:04:40pm

re: #10 klys

Here to serve!

I’d like a one way ticket to Maui and a year in a furished, pre-paid hut on the beach.

70 EPR-radar  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:05:51pm

re: #68 Justanotherhuman

This pinhead Stahl should know that his promotion of stupidity gives aid and comfort to the most regressive elements in US politics.

71 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:06:00pm

re: #64 FemNaziBitch

Yes, Please:

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72 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:07:02pm
73 EPR-radar  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:02pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Sensible points. The impression I have is that this idea is meant to die in Congress in due course.

74 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:25pm

re: #71 Dark_Falcon

“Rape her at will” refers to the misogynist abusers who don’t think spousal rape is a crime. She married him, so she said a blanket yes to everything.

75 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:08:46pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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Edward Snowden proves that private contractors are the obvious way for the NSA to protect their data.
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76 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:09:06pm

Evening Lizardim.

77 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:14pm
78 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:15pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

This is where, at least to me, the idea of homomorphic encryption starts to look good. (At least as well as I understand it, which is at the big picture concept level).

You can do analysis on the encrypted data while it’s encrypted, and only if a match or item interest is found, then you decrypt only the required data to see the raw values.

It sounds about a close to magic as computing gets.

RBS

79 EPR-radar  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:11:50pm

re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus

Did I hear it right? On ABC Nightly News, the WV chemical company that’s caused all that mess has declared bankruptcy? Assholes.

That is correct.

In the Book of Mammon (see Propserity Gospel Bible) it is said that blessed are the socializers of their losses, for theirs will be the un-earned profits.

80 ObserverArt  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:12:06pm

So, watching some C’bus Blue Jackets hockey and they just have taken a 5-1 lead with 15 minutes left in the third period against the Washington Capitals. Good stuff. If they hold on (hey this is the Blue Jackets) this could be 5 games in a row they’ve won. This franchise so needs to get into the playoffs this year. They have a nice competitive young team going and some confidence for the youngsters, the fans and the whole organization is much needed.

81 Usually refered to as anyways  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:14:02pm

re: #5 klys

Haha.

First run yielded a core dump.

Two fixes later and it runs, but there’s a bug in how I laid out the overlap code.

I *think* I have just tracked it down.

Do you use make -d

82 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:14:58pm


I didn’t check the source-I like the idea.

83 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:15:03pm
84 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:17:32pm
85 Political Atheist  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:17:41pm

Okay this looks awful whatever is really going on. Many have said this union has too much power and influence, way beyond looking out for the employees.

DWP Union Boss to Fight Controller’s Subpoena for Financial Records
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

Is this an aberration?

DWP chief Ron Nichols resigns as controversies mount
latimes.com,0,6149808.story#ixzz2qiDkC2GE

Judge not inclined to let DWP keep salaries and names secret
latimes.com

Full tab for troubled billing system was $162 million, DWP confirms
latimes.com,0,5290943.story#ixzz2qiEad6LN

86 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:18:17pm

re: #83 Killgore Trout

Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
Windows 8 does stink.

It could have been worse, they could have called it “Microsoft Bob”.

Or even worse, “Packard Bell Navigator”

RBS

87 klys  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:53pm

re: #85 Political Atheist

Ah, the Department of Water and Power.

The people who wrote the book on arrogance and the screw you, we got ours.

88 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:54pm

re: #84 FemNaziBitch

Guess who this is?

don’t have a clue, but I’m sure I should.

RBS

89 Political Atheist  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:19:56pm

re: #83 Killgore Trout

Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’
Windows 8 does stink.

They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22

For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)

90 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:20:38pm

Taliban got a big score
IMF and UN officials killed in Kabul restaurant attack

A senior IMF official and three UN employees were among 14 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul, officials say.

Wabel Abdallah, the head of the IMF’s Afghanistan office, and the UN civilian staff died in the capital’s popular Taverna du Liban, in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon said was a “horrific attack”.

The other victims were Afghans, a Briton and another Lebanese national.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack late on Friday.

91 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:20:50pm

re: #74 Lidane

“Rape her at will” refers to the misogynist abusers who don’t think spousal rape is a crime. She married him, so she said a blanket yes to everything.

I see that now. It seems to conflate statements made by two different men and that kind of threw me. Thanks for the clarification.

93 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:22:53pm

re: #88 RealityBasedSteve

don’t have a clue, but I’m sure I should.

RBS

It’s Armistad Maupin.

A blast from the past.

94 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:23:03pm

re: #89 Political Atheist

They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22

For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)

Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 8 is going to be around very long.

95 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:23:41pm

I’m sure the bigots are having a cow over this:

96 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:24:16pm

re: #94 Killgore Trout

Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 6 is going to be around very long.

The fun part: In order to develop for Windows Phone 8, you must have a Windows 8 development environment.

97 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:24:47pm

re: #91 Dark_Falcon

I see that now. It seems to conflate statements made by two different men and that kind of threw me. Thanks for the clarification.

It also means that “certain” women are available for sex at the man’s perogative.

What qualifies as “certain” women varies according to the man wanting sex.

98 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:26:18pm

re: #92 FemNaziBitch

Healthcare.gov website faces massive security breach - its name is Congressman Darrell Issa

WTF??

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this server.

Something is seriously wrong with you link FNB.

99 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:28:36pm

re: #97 FemNaziBitch

It also means that “certain” women are available for sex at the man’s perogative.

What qualifies as “certain” women varies according to the man wanting sex.

Wingnut Foreplay; Brace yourself Martha…

Dudebro Foreplay: Hey, You Awake?

RBS

100 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:29:17pm
Precursor to future cigarette smoking and drug use - although there is no addictive piece to Smarties, the concern is this behavior may lead to cigarette smoking or snorting of drugs.

kids are snorting and smoking Smarties?

Are we going to have to require a driver’s license to purchase candy?

101 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:26pm

re: #98 Bubblehead II

WTF??

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this server.

Something is seriously wrong with you link FNB.

looks like there is a comma in the url… Right after /weblog/however
[code]littlegreenfootballs.com,%20Rep.%20Issa%20prefers%20to%20believe%20a%20private%20security%20consultant,%20David%20Kennedy%20of%20TrustedSec%20LLC,%20who%20has%20no%20relationship%20with%20the%20Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Human%20Services%20or%20any%20access%20to%20the%20website%20that%20the%20average%20citizen%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20have.%20He%20told%20the%20panel,%20%E2%80%9CHealthCare.gov%20is%20not%20secure%20today%E2%80%A6It%20is%20insecure%20%E2%80%93%20100%20percent.%E2%80%9D[/code]

102 dog philosopher  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:43pm

re: #93 FemNaziBitch

It’s Armistad Maupin.

A blast from the past.

and here i thought it was captain kangaroo

103 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:30:59pm

re: #98 Bubblehead II

WTF??

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this server.

Something is seriously wrong with you link FNB.

try this

104 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:32:29pm

ARGH!!!! stupid page is trying to parse the URL. How do you do a code tag?

105 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:37:39pm
106 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:37:50pm

re: #99 RealityBasedSteve

Wingnut Foreplay; Brace yourself Martha…

Dudebro Foreplay: Hey, You Awake?

RBS

I don’t think the word “foreplay” is even in their dictionaries. Remember, women don’t have sex for fun.

107 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:39:44pm

re: #106 thedopefishlives

I don’t think the word “foreplay” is even in their dictionaries. Remember, women don’t have sex for fun.

Being married to or even knowing the woman isn’t required. Usually, these women have or display some attribute that labels them as “whore” and therefore not protected by a more powerful man and objects of fair game.

108 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:41:47pm
109 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:43:27pm

re: #107 FemNaziBitch

Being married to or even knowing the woman isn’t required. Usually, these women have or display some attribute that labels them as “whore” and therefore not protected by a more powerful man and objects of fair game.

My newest sister-in-law linked the following picture.

Rape: Never the victim’s fault

110 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:43:46pm
111 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:46:04pm

re: #108 Gus

WANTED

Thank you Gus. When I saw the original with VINDICATED across it, I kept waiting for you to pop up and say “Gotcha”.

RBS

112 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:47:30pm

re: #111 RealityBasedSteve

Thank you Gus. When I saw the original with VINDICATED across it, I kept waiting for you to pop up and say “Gotcha”.

RBS

113 Political Atheist  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:48:12pm

re: #94 Killgore Trout

Yeah, I think I’m going to have to buy a second computer as a backup. I’ll just get a cheap laptop with windows 7. I don’t think 8 is going to be around very long.

I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.

114 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:50:11pm
115 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:51:19pm

re: #113 Political Atheist

I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.

Windows 8 is not that great either as a desktop OS or as a touchscreen OS. Microsoft tried to accomplish a hybrid OS and botched it miserably.

116 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:51:35pm

Is it me, or does Snowden look like a ferret?

Ferret (weasel with a press agent)

RBS

117 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:52:27pm

re: #116 RealityBasedSteve

Is it me, or does Snowden look like a ferret?

Ferret (weasel with a press agent)

RBS

I think weasels and ferrets have more use in the environment than Snowdens.
/

118 The War TARDIS  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:52:39pm

re: #115 thedopefishlives

Probably because they should be two different things.

119 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:54:53pm

re: #118 The War TARDIS

Probably because they should be two different things.

Totally agreed.

120 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:06pm

from my part of the world

121 The War TARDIS  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:39pm

re: #120 FemNaziBitch

Huh.

That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.

122 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:55:41pm

re: #116 RealityBasedSteve

Is it me, or does Snowden look like a ferret?

Ferret (weasel with a press agent)

RBS

you are doing a disservice to the ferret.

123 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:56:33pm

re: #121 The War TARDIS

Huh.

That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.

Platinum.

124 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:56:48pm
125 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:57:21pm

I’m sure that Snowden is missing some of the comforts of the US. Maybe we should all pitch in a buck or two, get him a nice big bag of sugar-free Gummy Bears. Probably have to wrap them in regular GB wrappers, otherwise Russian Customs might take ‘em since they are so special.

RBS
evil grin

126 Single-handed sailor  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:57:33pm

re: #121 The War TARDIS

Huh.

That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.

Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.

127 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:58:12pm

re: #120 FemNaziBitch

from my part of the world

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In Illinois, we have to have our cars tested for emissions violations. I think this may have something to do with it.

128 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:00pm

re: #126 Single-handed sailor

Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.

I did not know about the platinum.

I do know it can be expensive if your car doesn’t pass testing.

129 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:01pm

re: #89 Political Atheist

They just did not learn the lesson DOS 4.0 gave then. And us poor users that had to roll back to DOS 3.22

For you kids out there that’s before you or windows was born. :-)

I remember when for each release it was “DOS isn’t done til Lotus won’t run.”

130 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 6:59:14pm

re: #126 Single-handed sailor

Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.

yep, i’ve seen the vids of how fast they can pop under a car, cut it loose with a battery operated grinder w/ metal cutting disk, and be gone again.

RBS

131 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:02:58pm

re: #129 William Barnett-Lewis

I remember when for each release it was “DOS isn’t done til Lotus won’t run.”

I almost flunked a computer class when I was stationed in Alaska. I had already started programming macros and scripts, and the class was an Intro to Data Processing. (it was actually an intro to Lotus 123). The first week of the class I did all the labs / exercises and challenges with my copy of “As Easy As” (shareware clone of Lotus 123), and turned in my floppy disk. The instructor wasn’t impressed.

Now I’m in the instructors shoes. Life goes around with a vengeance.

RBS

132 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:03:10pm

re: #121 The War TARDIS

Huh.

That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.

Theft[edit]

Because of the external location and the use of valuable precious metals including platinum, palladium, rhodium, and gold, converters are a target for thieves. The problem is especially common among late-model trucks and SUVs, because of their high ground clearance and easily removed bolt-on catalytic converters. Welded-in converters are also at risk of theft, as they can be easily cut off.[31][32][33] Thieves’ techniques for fast removal of a converter, for instance using a portable reciprocating saw, can often damage other components of the car. Damage to components like wiring, or a fuel line, can have dangerous consequences. Rises in metal costs in the U.S. during recent years have led to a large increase in converter theft.[34] A catalytic converter can cost well over $1,000 to replace

133 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:03:58pm
134 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:00pm

re: #113 Political Atheist

I’m starting to regret not learning Linux. Windows 8 is ok as an emerging OS on touch screen machines. Of course it can’t hold a candle to Android or IOS but hey it’s Microsoft after all. What gets me is the upgrade old computers to 8 pitch. Total scam. And they know it.

Linux is ok. The 64bit version of Xubuntu I’m using is almost as good as a real Unixen but those have all gone away… :( I miss Ultrix, SunOS, Solaris, Irix, DG/UX, heck even SCO Xenix/Unix because having a solid system with a real support is worth the money over searching for weeks in Google to make a commodity laser printer play nice with a new version of CUPS (common unix printing system).

135 Political Atheist  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:01pm

re: #126 Single-handed sailor

Not really, about $1000 per converter and they’re easily accessible. If they can’t sell the unit they can recover the platinum.

No that much surely….

136 Mattand  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:04:16pm

re: #34 Lidane

re: #37 Gus

Bill Murray seems like he’d be an awesome guy to party with.

He also strikes me as someone who’d push you down a flight of stairs if he thought it’d amuse him.

137 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:08:24pm

re: #6 GeneJockey

This takes me back to when Mrs. Jockey and I were in college, back in the mid 70s. She took Computer Science 1, which included Basic on a teletype terminal, and Fortran on punchcards. She’d type up her cards, hand them to Charlie, come back later and get “Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 3”.

Typo. Fix that and hand Charlie the cards again.

“Failed to compile. Fatal error on card 6”.

Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear!

I took a half a semester of computer programming. I was going to go into immunology but I knew computer were going to be really important and I figured I should understand them, a little.

About that time the first home/hobby computers started to come out. I remember reading a Scientific American that had ads for IMSAI, Commodore PET, Compucolor and Apple II. I was very excited. I hadn’t known we were so close to the possibility of having your own computer.

I asked my computer prof what he thought of these new machines.

His answer, and I quote, “Eh. They’re just toys. They’ll never amount to anything.”

I left shortly thereafter. Any one that cloistered has nothing to offer me.

138 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:09:14pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Any time RT plays that song is awesome!

139 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:10:45pm

re: #33 FemNaziBitch

MOAR DUCT TAPE!

Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.

140 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:11:59pm

re: #139 Romantic Heretic

Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.

Redneck engineering: If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape.

141 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:12:05pm

re: #132 Bubblehead II

Theft[edit]

Because of the external location and the use of valuable precious metals including platinum, palladium, rhodium, and gold, converters are a target for thieves. The problem is especially common among late-model trucks and SUVs, because of their high ground clearance and easily removed bolt-on catalytic converters. Welded-in converters are also at risk of theft, as they can be easily cut off.[31][32][33] Thieves’ techniques for fast removal of a converter, for instance using a portable reciprocating saw, can often damage other components of the car. Damage to components like wiring, or a fuel line, can have dangerous consequences. Rises in metal costs in the U.S. during recent years have led to a large increase in converter theft.[34] A catalytic converter can cost well over $1,000 to replace

So if a photo of President Obama firing a shotgun means that both he and Joe Biden want to use shotgun-armed drones on Edward Snowden, does that mean we can blame Glenn Back for the theft of catalytic converters because Beck shills for gold-selling companies?

/Turning wingnut/dudebro logic against itself.

142 sagehen  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:12:06pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

It’s gotta be from Easter.

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Later, lizards.

I bet I even would have recognized her, she looks exactly the same. (Sasha looks a lot like her too… Malia takes more after her dad.)

143 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:13:30pm

re: #138 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Any time RT plays that song is awesome!

‘52 Vincent Black Lightning

That’s just freaking unreal. He’s gotta have a couple of extra invisible fingers on each hand.

RBS

144 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:17:42pm
145 bratwurst  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:18:49pm

Bill Maher didn’t totally softball Greenwald just now, pointed out that a sizable percentage of what Snowden says is “fucking nuts”.

146 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:20:37pm
147 prairiefire  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:22:36pm

re: #44 Stanley Sea

Thanks, folks! She is doing well. Not sure when we get to go home as her surgery was late in the day. Just the usual hayride at my house.

148 prairiefire  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:25:49pm

re: #136 Mattand

Bill Murray seems like he’d be an awesome guy to party with.

He also strikes me as someone who’d push you down a flight of stairs if he thought it’d amuse him.

Bill Murray was my old boss’s brother’s roommate at college in CO for a short time. Bill sold a lot of weed, story goes.

149 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:26:04pm

I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.

The Frugal Gourmet Jeff Smith

I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.

RBS

150 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:32:08pm

A story about WWI in the Alps and the human cost of the Great War:

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

In 1914 both Trentino - the province in which Peio lies - and the neighbouring South Tyrol were Hapsburg domains. Italy, recently unified and eager to settle her frontiers permanently, looked on the two provinces, along with Trieste, as ‘unredeemed lands’. In May 1915, with the aim of reclaiming them, she entered the war on the side of the Allies. Conflict was already raging on the western and eastern fronts; now a third front opened up. It stretched from the Julian Alps, which Italy now shares with Slovenia in the east, to the Ortler massif near the Swiss border further west - some 250 miles.

As much of the front was at altitudes of over 6,500ft, a new kind of war had to be developed. The Italians already had specialist mountain troops - the Alpini with their famous feathered caps - but the Austrians had to create the equivalent: the Kaiserschützen. They were supported by artillery and engineers who constructed an entire infrastructure of war at altitude, including trenches carved out of the ice and rudimentary cableways for transporting men and munitions to the peaks.

In the decades that followed the armistice, the world warmed up and the glaciers began to retreat, revealing the debris of the White War. The material that, beginning in the 1990s, began to flood out of the mountains was remarkably well preserved. It included a love letter, addressed to Maria and never sent, and an ode to a louse, ‘friend of my long days’, scribbled on a page of an Austrian soldier’s diary.

151 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:32:38pm

152 prairiefire  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:34:09pm

re: #149 RealityBasedSteve

Yeah, that was very disappointing.

153 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:36:08pm

re: #143 RealityBasedSteve

‘52 Vincent Black Lightning

That’s just freaking unreal. He’s gotta have a couple of extra invisible fingers on each hand.

RBS

I have an iPad app where he teaches how to play that song and three others. (The Musicians Path, IIRC) At the beginning of his section on 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, he mentions that there were only like 23 ever made, and they’re (obviously) very rare, and “if you ever come across one for sale, let me know.” :)

154 thedopefishlives  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:36:59pm

re: #151 Gus

At this point, it’s a toss-up whether A-Rod or Snowden is a bigger media circus.

155 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:37:40pm

re: #151 Gus

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There’s a sucker born every minute.

156 GeneJockey  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:38:33pm

re: #149 RealityBasedSteve

I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.

The Frugal Gourmet Jeff Smith

I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.

RBS

Yeah, talk about celebrity implosion. He had been one of those guys the PBS stations use to get money during Pledge Week, and they’d give away his books and aprons and shit. All of a sudden he just VANISHED.

157 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:38:40pm

re: #149 RealityBasedSteve

I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.

The Frugal Gourmet Jeff Smith

I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.

RBS

The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”

Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?

158 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:42:07pm

re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling

The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”

Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?

Wiki page
en.wikipedia.org

Looks like sexual abuse charges in 1998 - settled out of court. He died in 2004, so this coming up now seems a little odd and dated.

159 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:42:46pm

re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling

The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”

Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?

Accused of at least seven counts of sexual abuse, settled out of court. en.wikipedia.org(TV_personality)

Beat me to the punch, FFL!

160 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:43:16pm

re: #157 Rev_Arthur_Belling

The only times I ever saw his show, he was adding a lot of wine to all the recipes. I thought, “hmm, that doesn’t seem very frugal.”

Guess now we know the rest of the story. What did he do, exactly?

A lot of reports that he was pretty much a jerk on the set, but on the other hand usually did his shows in one take. The more serious allegation:

In 1997 seven men filed a civil lawsuit against Smith, charging him with sexual abuse. Six alleged that they were molested as teenagers in the 1970s while working at Smith’s deli and catering service in Tacoma; the seventh claimed that he was assaulted in 1992, at age 14, after Smith picked him up as a hitchhiker.[12][13] Smith denied the accusations, but settled the suits for an undisclosed amount in 1998.[14] The litigation ended his television career, though he continued his writing and charitable work.[15] (Wikipedia)

RBS

161 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:43:22pm

This for one. From July 27, 1998.

Cooking star pays plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits

Four days before he was to face trial in Tacoma, Wash., Jeff Smith, host of the popular PBS cooking show, agreed July 1 [1998] to pay an undisclosed sum to seven young men who had accused him variously of groping, kissing and raping them when they were teenagers.

162 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:44:47pm

re: #158 Feline Fearless Leader

Wiki page
en.wikipedia.org

Looks like sexual abuse charges in 1998 - settled out of court. He died in 2004, so this coming up now seems a little odd and dated.

No, nothing is coming up, I had just learned this, and like I said, he was kind of a somebody that I admired. It just makes me feel bad.

RBS

163 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:45:59pm
164 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:46:30pm

Mmkay. Mary Matalin. Drunk enough?

165 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:46:44pm

re: #162 RealityBasedSteve

No, nothing is coming up, I had just learned this, and like I said, he was kind of a somebody that I admired. It just makes me feel bad.

RBS

Ah. I recall him being on PBS and since I wasn’t cooking as serious as I do now I don’t think I watched cooking shows. I think I do have a copy of “Three Ancient Cuisines” around here somewhere that I got as a gift, but I don’t recall if I ever cooked any of the recipes.

166 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:47:11pm

re: #163 Gus

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Damn you Gus! :p
j/k

167 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 7:52:43pm
168 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:00:25pm

re: #165 Feline Fearless Leader

Ah. I recall him being on PBS and since I wasn’t cooking as serious as I do now I don’t think I watched cooking shows. I think I do have a copy of “Three Ancient Cuisines” around here somewhere that I got as a gift, but I don’t recall if I ever cooked any of the recipes.

The first cooking show I remember was “The Galloping Gourmet” with Graham Kerr. I was only 11 or 12 at the time, but I do recall it.

Youtube Video

RBS
Who might have gone into culinary arts if his life had taken a different twist or two. Who knows?

169 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:01:37pm

re: #167 Lidane

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That’s just nuts.

170 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:08:05pm

re: #168 RealityBasedSteve

I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.

171 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:15pm

re: #170 wheat-dogghazi

I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.

Your Google Fu has failed you.

Jeff Smith, 1939 - 2004: “Frugal Gourmet” was popular on PBS

172 sagehen  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:26pm

re: #149 RealityBasedSteve

I just learned that somebody I watched on TV all the time, bought his books, really thought highly of turned out to be, at best, a real jerk, and very possibly worse.

The Frugal Gourmet Jeff Smith

I was reading one of his cookbooks just the other night.

RBS

Do I want to know what he did (or said) that was so awful?

173 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:12:42pm

re: #170 wheat-dogghazi

I remember watching his show, too. I remember he was quite fond of clarified butter, and of drinking wine while he cooked on stage. I just googled him, and he’s still with us, living in Washington State somewhere.

yea, he always came across as being about half sloshed. But he made cooking fun.

RBS

174 prairiefire  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:13:56pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

Mmkay. Mary Matalin. Drunk enough?

Where?

175 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:16:42pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

Mmkay. Mary Matalin. Drunk enough?

I don’t know, if she’s still with James Carville, I don’t think there is drunk enough.

RBS

176 blueraven  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:19:45pm

re: #174 prairiefire

Where?

She was on “Real Time” with Bill Maher. I think she is heavily medicated.

177 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:21:52pm
178 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:21:57pm

re: #176 blueraven

She was on “Real Time” with Bill Maher. I think she is heavily medicated.

ah… thanks. I’ll have to check it out later.

RBS

179 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:22:49pm

re: #177 jaunte

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Calf with snow on the ground?

Aren’t they usually born in the Spring and by winter are a little bigger?

180 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:24:32pm

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

Calf with snow on the ground?

Aren’t they usually born in the Spring and by winter are a little bigger?

Maybe it was born early.

181 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:25:25pm

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

I have zero knowledge of reindeer.

182 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:25:39pm

Snow in Spring not uncommon. :D

183 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:26:13pm

Could be a mongoose.

184 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:26:50pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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Didn’t Snowden work for a third party contractor?

185 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:26:56pm

Though antlered mongeese are quite rare.

186 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:38pm

re: #121 The War TARDIS

Huh.

That’s an oddly specific target for a theft ring.

Platinum screens.

187 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:46pm

re: #184 austin_blue

Didn’t Snowden work for a third party contractor?

Yes, he did, though Booze Allen Hamilton never would have hired him if another contractor hadn’t fudged his background check.

188 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:30:55pm

Please tell me this is a parody

189 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:02pm

re: #185 jaunte

Though antlered mongeese are quite rare.

Rare, yes, but not unheard of. Ones that have been released into the US southwest have also been know to crossbreed with jackalopes, producing jackageese.

/possibly true fact awaiting verification.

190 Killgore Trout  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:25pm
191 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:40pm


Think Green!

192 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:33:56pm

re: #188 FemNaziBitch

Please tell me this is a parody

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I’m afraid not. Boehner stopped letting them grind the government to halt and slammed the budget compromise through the House. The House is also about to vote out a farm bill that doesn’t cut SNAP as much as the TPP wants. So the supposed “patriots” are banging their spoons on their hi-chairs.

193 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:36:24pm

re: #191 FemNaziBitch

I wish I had known about this sooner.

194 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:36:30pm

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

Yes, he did, though Booze Allen Hamilton never would have hired him if another contractor hadn’t fudged his background check.

Yep, from what I’ve seen there were some SERIOUS shortcuts and paper-whipping of his clearance check. I never had to go through it, but I’ve had friends who have for Top Secret / SCI clearance (they were network admins at Ft. Campbell)

The form is pretty basic, list everything you’ve done, everywhere you’ve been, everybody you’ve ever know for the last 10 years. Include details. Use extra sheets if needed. /only_slight_truth_stretching

195 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:38:48pm
196 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:38:49pm

Grist:
California is now really, truly, officially screwed by drought

Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is at a perilously low
17 percent of its usual level this time of year.

197 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:39:08pm

re: #190 Killgore Trout

Chechen warlord Doku Umarov who threatened Sochi Olympics is ‘killed by Russian special forces’

His head will look nice mounted over Putin’s fireplace.

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

198 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:39:09pm

re: #188 FemNaziBitch

Please tell me this is a parody

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Maybe not? They certainly have turned up the tannage factor to a tangerine orange, haven’t they?

RINO, obviously. Real Republicans get their skin cancer honestly, by sitting in duck stands.

199 Bubblehead II  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:41:44pm

Night Lizards.

200 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:41:45pm

re: #196 jaunte

Grist:
California is now really, truly, officially screwed by drought

If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.

201 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:43:32pm

re: #171 Bubblehead II

I was referring to RBS’ comment about Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet.

202 jaunte  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:43:32pm
203 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:43:48pm
204 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:44:07pm
205 bratwurst  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:44:43pm

re: #198 austin_blue

Maybe not? They certainly have turned up the tannage factor to a tangerine orange, haven’t they?

We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:

206 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:45:17pm
207 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:49:26pm

re: #205 bratwurst

We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:

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Well, they have already gone Wonka on him…

208 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:50:25pm

re: #204 Gus

Momma bear.

Caribous and momma grizzlies. Sergey Gorshkov takes photos you might otherwise expect to find associated with Sarah Palin. Though I’m sure he’s smarter and more honest than she is. He’s clearly a better photographer.

209 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:50:43pm

re: #205 bratwurst

We’ll know they are serious when they start using this:

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Chelsea/Man U on Sunday. No Van Persie or The Thug, though, for Big Red. Should be interesting.

210 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:51:45pm

Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?

211 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:53:53pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?

You mean if he hadn’t been a complete load of pecker snot since he became Speaker?

212 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:54:37pm

213 Stanley Sea  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:54:43pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?

You HAD to laugh at the orange M&M

214 Belafon  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:56:14pm

re: #212 Gus

Don’t insult Annoying Orange like that.

215 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:56:16pm

re: #212 Gus

John Boehner is the Annoying Orange!

216 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 8:56:50pm

re: #214 Belafon

2 seconds. Argh!

217 Stanley Sea  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:01:58pm

Signing off here. Take care everyone.

218 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:02:57pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?

Your party is a goddawful, dysfunctional mess, and praising Boehner for finally doing his job is setting the bar awfully low.

I keep waiting for the establishment GOP to stop playing nice, to stop pretending that they aren’t at war with the Tea People for future control of the party. I also keep waiting for y’all to stop supporting bigots, stop thinking in the most cynical, dickish terms, and actually care about the citizens of this country.

It’s some seriously tragic and pathetic shit going on in the modern GOP, and for the life of me, beyond an iron clad gang mentality, I can’t figure out why people like you continue to support those assholes.

220 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:11:16pm

re: #218 goddamnedfrank

Your party is a goddawful, dysfunctional mess, and praising Boehner for finally doing his job is setting the bar awfully low.

I keep waiting for the establishment GOP to stop playing nice, to stop pretending that they aren’t at war with the Tea People for future control of the party. I also keep waiting for y’all to stop supporting bigots, stop thinking in the most cynical, dickish terms, and actually care about the citizens of this country.

It’s some seriously tragic and pathetic shit going on in the modern GOP, and for the life of me, beyond an iron clad gang mentality, I can’t figure out why people like you continue to support those assholes.

But, but, it’s the Party Of Saint Ronnie! And Abraham Lincoln! The Democrats were the Segregationists! Obviously, you have no grasp of history.

221 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:22:20pm

bbl

222 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:23:41pm
223 BeenHereAwhile  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:25:48pm

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

I’m a bit concerned. My car has developed a very small head gasket leak. I’m going to try using the really good quality BarSeal sealer. I’m hoping that will be enough to fix it. Not overheating, just getting a little bit of coolant into the oil and a little rough running.

I’ve added it to the cold radiator, and ran it just like the directions say. Tomorrow morning I run it for 15 minutes at high idle (1200-1300) rpm, let it cool and hopefully I’ll be good to go.

Really don’t need the problems of a major car repair right now.

RBS

If the BarSeal doesn’t fix the leak:

CRC 401232 - Permanent Head Gasket & Block Repair w/Nanotechnology, 32 Fl Oz

It’s more labor intensive, (RTFM) but it fixed a leaking head gasket on a friend’s Diesel engine 40,000+ miles ago.

224 darthstar  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:30:16pm

re: #222 Gus

I told you not to park there.

225 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:31:31pm

re: #224 darthstar

I told you not to park there.

Crunch.

226 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:33:19pm

Wait for it!

Liveleak Video

227 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:33:53pm

Samir, you’re breaking the car!

Youtube Video

228 austin_blue  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:36:48pm

Night all. Sweet dreams.

229 BeenHereAwhile  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:43:50pm

re: #32 FemNaziBitch

59 More Slang Phrases From The 1920s We Should Start Using Again

#7
#16
#21

Surprised “Viper” wasn’t included.

My mother’s oldest sister was a viper in NYC in the late 1920s.

en.m.wikipedia.org‘re_a_Viper

230 wheat-dogghazi  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 9:59:02pm

re: #229 BeenHereAwhile

Surprised “Viper” wasn’t included.

My mother’s oldest sister was a viper in NYC in the late 1920s.

en.m.wikipedia.org‘re_a_Viper

Mangled link, there.

231 Lidane  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:19:53pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Aw, come on guys. Those teabaggers are pissed with Boehner for making a budget deal. Can’t you defend him a little instead of just ragging on him?

Not when his budget deal sucks.

232 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:35:14pm
233 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:38:04pm
234 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:41:41pm
235 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 10:50:24pm
236 Gus  Fri, Jan 17, 2014 11:03:07pm
237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 1:46:56am

re: #236 Gus

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Can we arrange to send the Westboro Baptist folks there to protest there, perhaps indefinitely?

238 simoom  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 3:49:56am

Has anyone noticed that most of the time, when the actual documentation is posted for Snowden-leak derived stories, that those docs all have a very similar style? They mostly look like bad power-point presentation slides, with goofy smiley faces in the diagrams, and very generalized, conversational language.

The other day, I was reading through that Guardian story on foreign SMS collection. That article had the same goofy slides we’ve seen going back to the PRISM stories, with the same smiley faces & conversational writing style. But what was different about this story is that it explicitly said where the slides came from:

theguardian.com

The documents seen by the Guardian were from an internal Wikipedia-style guide to the NSA program provided for GCHQ analysts, and noted the Dishfire program was “operational” at the time the site was accessed, in 2012.

This wiki has been mentioned in past stories, more generally, as something the British gov’t thinks Snowden essentially scraped a copy of:

independent.co.uk

Information about the project was contained in 50,000 GCHQ documents that Mr Snowden downloaded during 2012. Many of them came from an internal Wikipedia-style information site called GC-Wiki. Unlike the public Wikipedia, GCHQ’s wiki was generally classified Top Secret or above.

Just speculating, but perhaps many of the more salacious stories have been derived from copied pages of this British wiki and maybe these are their own second hand summaries and diagrams?

239 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 3:54:45am

What was the US involvement in Iraq about, again?

Islamist militants strengthen grip on Iraq’s Falluja

reuters.com

“In an embarrassing setback for a state that has around a million men under arms, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its tribal allies overran Falluja and parts of the nearby city Ramadi on January 1.

“Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking a third term in a parliamentary election in April, deployed troops and tanks around the city of 300,000 and funneled weapons to anti-Qaeda tribesmen, but has ruled out a full-scale military assault.

(snip)

“Ramadi, the provincial capital of the vast western province of Anbar, is mostly back under state control, but Maliki’s calls on local tribesmen to evict the militants from Falluja, just 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, have so far come to nought.”

(I found that variant spelling of “naught”, as well as its usage, a bit odd until I realized that the reporter’s first language may not be English.)

240 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:15:12am

re: #239 Justanotherhuman

What was the US involvement in Iraq about, again?

Islamist militants strengthen grip on Iraq’s Falluja

reuters.com

“In an embarrassing setback for a state that has around a million men under arms, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its tribal allies overran Falluja and parts of the nearby city Ramadi on January 1.

“Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seeking a third term in a parliamentary election in April, deployed troops and tanks around the city of 300,000 and funneled weapons to anti-Qaeda tribesmen, but has ruled out a full-scale military assault.

(snip)

“Ramadi, the provincial capital of the vast western province of Anbar, is mostly back under state control, but Maliki’s calls on local tribesmen to evict the militants from Falluja, just 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, have so far come to nought.”

(I found that variant spelling of “naught”, as well as its usage, a bit odd until I realized that the reporter’s first language may not be English.)

Heh…..you’re right. grammarist.com

241 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:35:07am

re: #238 simoom

I’m just wondering if there are any more “Snowdens” working at the NSA that might have been overlooked.

While the NSA needs some tweaking, the fact that operational secrets have been revealed is unsettling to me because it gives an advantage to those who want plans for their terroristic actions or bad deeds against the US to go undetected.

When “profiling” is an unacceptable practice, it means everyone is suspect.

Yet, personally, I try to avoid anyone who sports a confederate flag or insipid RW bumper stick on their vehicle and I don’t cultivate relationships with those who hold such reactionary viewpoints like racism and sexism; it’s hard enough to deal with in your own family. Personal charm and bonhomie is certainly no draw for me when that person may wish me harm for my own views. “Evil” really can have charisma.

242 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:45:05am

Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.

littlegreenfootballs.com

243 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:49:33am

re: #242 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.

littlegreenfootballs.com

My surprise, etc.

244 ObserverArt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 4:56:16am

re: #242 Dr Lizardo

Looks like Freedom Industries, the company behind the West Virginia chemical spill, has gone belly-up.

littlegreenfootballs.com

Corporate responsibility in action.

This Saturday morning in Ohio is cold…and it looks like we have a cold week coming. Single digit low temps are in the forecast. Yuk.

245 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:00:09am
246 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:04:13am

re: #244 ObserverArt

Corporate responsibility in action.

This Saturday morning in Ohio is cold…and it looks like we have a cold week coming. Single digit low temps are in the forecast. Yuk.

A balmy 26 here in NC, rising to 41. I’m so tired of being housebound; other than forays to the store, appts and such, it’s not healthy, but playing outside in the cold isn’t much of an option either, not at my age. : )

247 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:13:01am

Mali is cracking down.

Mali arrests Islamist judge who ordered amputations and stonings

trust.org

BAMAKO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Mali’s army has arrested a hardline Islamist judge who ordered floggings, amputations and the stoning of women for adultery during a 10-month occupation by rebels linked to al Qaeda.

“Houka Houka Ag Alfousseyni, who held court in the Timbuktu region, was detained on Friday as part of a military operation against armed Islamist groups that are plaguing local communities, the government said in a statement.

“Alfousseyni was one of the rebel movement’s most influential and well-known figures, and his arrest is part of a government campaign to bring to justice radical Islamist leaders like him.”

Stopping sharia law in its tracks.

248 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:33:27am

Why, pacifically, is this funny?

249 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:38:56am

re: #248 Shiplord Kirel

Why, pacifically, is this funny?
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There’s no grammatical mistakes.

250 BongCrodny  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 5:45:32am

Dear Google:

I like your Google Chrome browser — I really do. It’s easy to navigate, has functionality even a moron like me can understand and, for whatever reason, does not seem to be susceptible to that stupid “funmoods” plague that both my Internet Explorer and Firefox are stuck with.

But whichever of your dorky engineers came up with the idea of removing the top and bottom arrows from the right side scroll bar should be given a one-way ticket to some remote desert island so they can no longer spring their *wonderful* technological advancements upon us.

I hope you won’t consider this a threat, but I’m about to go all Opera on your ass.

Regards,

Bong

251 Flounder  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:34:30am

re: #248 Shiplord Kirel
re: #250 BongCrodny
It’s okay, here’s my shoulder, their, they’re, there.

252 BongCrodny  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:43:09am

re: #251 Flounder

It’s okay, here’s my shoulder, their, they’re, there.

As it stands right now, your shoulder would make a better browser than Google Chrome.

253 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 6:43:50am

re: #252 BongCrodny

As it stands right now, your shoulder would make a better browser than Google Chrome.

Yeah, they seem to be going the stupid route like FF did.

254 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:10:44am

It’s time Britain got rid of the monarchy.

William and Kate set up firms ‘to protect their brand’

itv.com

The British public support these people; it’s about time they cut it out the privilege. Ungrateful, greedy wretches, these royals.

255 Dr. Matt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:14:42am
256 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:23:17am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

Billy Joel….not aging well

Aging normally, I’d say. He can get Medicare after he turns 65 on May 9.

257 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:27:28am

My twitters are blasting about this:

258 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:28:54am
259 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:29:40am
260 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:32:12am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Christie is sounding more and more like a waste mgmt owner.

261 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:34:59am

WTF LOL OMG:

262 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:35:47am
263 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:37:50am

re: #261 Ryan King

WTF LOL OMG:

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Whaddaya expect? They’re still selling “Bush Cheney ‘00” t-shirts.

264 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:38:59am

re: #263 Justanotherhuman

Whaddaya expect? They’re still selling “Bush Cheney ‘00” t-shirts.

Lol.

265 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:57:19am
266 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 7:58:37am

Morning Lizardim.

267 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:01:05am

WTF? Yeah, you’ve got no privacy. None at all.

OfficeMax Sends Letter to “Daughter Killed in Car Crash”

Source: nbcchicago.com

Office Max blamed it on “third party mailing lists”.

268 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:03:20am

Preibus has a madz at O’Donnell:

269 Targetpractice  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:13:43am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Corrupt politics? In NJ? Surely you jest!

270 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:14:41am

re: #268 Ryan King

Preibus has a madz at O’Donnell:

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271 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:15:57am

re: #268 Ryan King

It’s nice to see that Reince has priorities. All the allegations against Christie? A-OK. Negative things being said about Christie? Bad.

272 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:16:31am

Mental health break from all the GOP failure:

273 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:17:25am

Looks like Gellman has thrown in his lot with Greensnow, but I’d like for him or them to point out where any ordinary person has been harmed by the collection of metadata? Do they have any evidence it does harm of any sort to the random person? More people have been harmed by these kinds of hackers through commercial sites than ever by the NSA, I would venture to guess. Where is their protection?

This is the sort of hysteria that starts when someone has their hands and eyes where they don’t belong, people who steal information based on their own judgment, and who think they know much more than those who have studied and worked on a system that is governed by laws and oversight, like a govt agency.

274 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:26:33am

re: #271 Lidane

It’s nice to see that Reince has priorities. All the allegations against Christie? A-OK. Negative things being said about Christie? Bad.

Of course. The real problem is the MSM helping to create attack ads (cue POOR UNFAIRNESS WHINY WHINE). Not the bully thug politician.

275 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:26:41am

re: #273 Justanotherhuman

Looks like Gellman has thrown in his lot with Greensnow, but I’d like for him or them to point out where any ordinary person has been harmed by the collection of metadata? Do they have any evidence it does harm of any sort to the random person? More people have been harmed by these kinds of hackers through commercial sites than ever by the NSA, I would venture to guess. Where is their protection?

This is the sort of hysteria that starts when someone has their hands and eyes where they don’t belong, people who steal information based on their own judgment, and who think they know much more than those who have studied and worked on a system that is governed by laws and oversight, like a govt agency.

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He’s not going to do that, because that’s not the main point of latching on to Greenwald’s bandwagon. The point is to ‘view with alarm’ and scare people enough to get them to buy newspapers or web subscriptions. it’s about popularity and money, not truth.

277 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:35:33am
278 Targetpractice  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:40:10am

And on the same day that the mayor of Hoboken’s story gets press notice, Wildstein’s lawyer again begs for immunity for his client from NJ, NY, and US charges. Why? He says his client has a “story” to tell.

Considering the story out of Hoboken, I’m beginning to wonder if the “story” his client has to tell is one of widespread corruption.

279 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:40:16am

My alma mater on Cracked. Entry #8; while it’s not nearly as crazy as the rest of the list, I can certainly see how others might think so.

280 piratedan  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:43:05am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wonder if this has a connection to the land development issue with the parcels right off the Ft. Lee bridge access that were discussed on TRMS last week. One of those situations where you get more bang bang for your buck,

some kickback and cash from developers… check, with the added benefit of screwing over your political opponents by “sending a message”.

As always, follow the money.

281 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:44:01am

re: #275 Dark_Falcon

He’s not going to do that, because that’s not the main point of latching on to Greenwald’s bandwagon. The point is to ‘view with alarm’ and scare people enough to get them to buy newspapers or web subscriptions. it’s about popularity and money, not truth.

Well, just get really tired of those people who gin up fear and mistrust of govt by calling every single thing govt does as “fascist” or “communist”, no matter what ideology they embrace. They seem to forget that we have checks and balances, ways to draw attention to wrongs, instead of resorting to criminal activity which is a kind of blackmail on the very govt which protects our rights. It’s the kind of govt we have in which we participate to make things better for all, not to line the pockets of those who would try to bring it down or destroy it.

They can call me naive all day long, but I’ve never made a dime from any of my political activities over the years in trying to right some of society’s wrongs—in fact, it’s cost me, but I was happy to help lay the groundwork for those who came after me. And I never would profit from those activities today, either.

I have nothing but contempt for the Greensnows of the world.

282 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:44:21am

Looking forward to Christie handling this well to improve his Presidential aspirations.

283 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:52:25am

This is really, really fucked up, TV Guide.

First of all, they call him the “first person of color” to star in the franchise. Then it goes downhill from there.

Juan Pablo Galavis Says Gay People Shouldn’t Be Allowed on The Bachelor

tvguide.com

Does anyone really watch this shit?

284 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:54:39am

re: #279 thedopefishlives

My alma mater on Cracked. Entry #8; while it’s not nearly as crazy as the rest of the list, I can certainly see how others might think so.

I am amused at all the hockey entries. I know a guy who does the whole playoff beard thing every damn year and he doesn’t play hockey. He’s just a fan.

285 Mattand  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:54:46am

re: #270 Dark_Falcon

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Republicans have a 24 hour, 7 day a week public relations machine that comes with every basic cable TV subscription in America.

Please. Fox News is main stream media. Spare me the effing vapors over “We must be ready”.

286 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:57:30am

re: #283 Justanotherhuman

My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant

287 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:58:57am

re: #286 sattv4u2

My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant

Haha, I don’t see them because I don’t watch Trash TV.

288 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 8:59:39am

re: #283 Justanotherhuman

I watch it with my wife while I’m on the laptop posting on FB and LGF or reading news.

I would never watch it otherwise.

289 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:00:28am

re: #284 Lidane

I am amused at all the hockey entries. I know a guy who does the whole playoff beard thing every damn year and he doesn’t play hockey. He’s just a fan.

I can remember doing the beard thing as a hockey player as far back as my high school days (albeit,,,, most of us could only muster peach fuzz at the time)

290 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:01:31am

re: #287 Justanotherhuman

Haha, I don’t see them because I don’t watch Trash TV.

I’ve never seen an entire episode of either, but being in the broadcast business for over 35 years as I have been, you hear things

291 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:04:43am

Egypt: 98.1 Percent of Voters Approve Constitution

Egypt’s High Election Commission said 38.6 percent of the country’s more than 53 million eligible voters took part in the two-day poll Tuesday and Wednesday. Judge Nabil Salib, who heads the commission, said 20.6 million voters cast ballots, with some 20.3 million votes counted after eliminating those voided.

Salib called the vote an “unrivalled success” and “an unprecedented turnout.” However, a similar referendum in 2012 supported by Morsi’s government saw a 32.9 percent turnout.

292 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:05:19am

re: #288 Ryan King

I watch it with my wife while I’m on the laptop posting on FB and LGF or reading news.

I would never watch it otherwise.

“That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it!!!”

///

293 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:06:57am

re: #291 Killgore Trout

I’m surprised the turnout wasn’t much higher. With all the changes and recent events I expected upwards of 50 percent

294 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:12:22am

Haha. The newly adopted Younger Feline Overlord is enraptured by the show Too Cute on Animal Planet. She’d been running around playing when I put the show on to see how she’d react. She immediately stopped playing and is sitting quietly in front of the TV, even through the commercials.

I know her off switch. Heh.

295 Targetpractice  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:12:30am

Three mayors now saying they did something contrary to the desires of the Christie admin and found themselves suddenly out in the cold. Once is happenstance, twice a coincidence, but three times? I get the feeling that whoever wins immunity from state and federal charges is gonna be the lucky one.

296 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:21:23am

re: #293 sattv4u2

I’m surprised the turnout wasn’t much higher. With all the changes and recent events I expected upwards of 50 percent

Me too but even the last election only got 32% turnout. I don’t know why turnout in these elections is so low but maybe it’s the boycotts and public skepticism of the parties (military/Muslim Bros).

298 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:25:30am

re: #267 Justanotherhuman

WTF? Yeah, you’ve got no privacy. None at all.

OfficeMax Sends Letter to “Daughter Killed in Car Crash”

Source: nbcchicago.com

Office Max blamed it on “third party mailing lists”.

What in the fuck.

299 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:25:56am

re: #296 Killgore Trout

Me too but even the last election only got 32% turnout. I don’t know why turnout in these elections is so low but maybe it’s the boycotts and public skepticism of the parties (military/Muslim Bros).

But thats the point! The MB was “boycotting” this one, so you would think those pro-military would come out in huge numbers

300 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:30:37am

re: #297 Killgore Trout

Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords

Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)

301 BeenHereAwhile  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:32:03am

re: #230 wheat-dogghazi

Mangled link, there.

Mangled by handheld.

302 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:33:16am

re: #300 sattv4u2

Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)

And the corresponding loss in Netflix stock.

303 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:35:20am

re: #300 sattv4u2

Hence the spike in Verizons, Comcast (et al) stock the next day(s)

I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.

304 Lidane  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:36:36am

re: #303 Killgore Trout

I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.

No shit. What did you think a ruling pushing back against Net Neutrality would do?

305 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:38:46am

re: #303 Killgore Trout

I’ve also noticed a severe slowdown in some of the streaming video sites for me recently. Some of them are almost useless now.

Capacity issues

My company is constantly upgrading equipment out in the field to handle higher and higher demands for both capacity and speed. As soon as all the “old” stuff is replaced by the “new” equipment , THAT stuff is almost obsolete for the demand and has to be re-replaced

306 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:38:49am
307 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:40:29am

re: #297 Killgore Trout

Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords

The ruling affirmed the FCC’s right to determine net neutrality, and even offered a number of paths for them to do it. People are freaking out way too early.

308 ObserverArt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:48:00am

re: #270 Dark_Falcon

[Embedded content]

You know why it is so easy Dark? Christie is writing the ads on his own. His type of character and the bluster that goes with it will continue to write them.

I think many in the GOP realize it, which is why you are seeing even the latest Presidential loser group distancing themselves from him. Chris Christie seems to not be liked by his own party. The Tea Party types do not like him. So, where the heck is he going to draw support, they already seem to be cutting him at the knees?

Right now RNC PRBS is trying to let the GOP hopeful down easy because only a month ago he was seen as the man of the future. Pretty hard to see that future while the present is in flames. If he is doing anything at all, Priebus is just trying to mitigate the bleeding by applying lipstick.

309 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:51:11am

Here’s from the DC courts ruling:

the Commission, we further hold, has reasonably interpreted section 706 to empower it to promulgate rules governing broadband providers treatment of Internet traffic

In other words: The FCC can enforce net neutrality.

Because the Commission has failed to establish that the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules do not impose per se common carrier obligations, we vacate those portions of the Open Internet Order.

However, since ISPs are not common carriers, that order isn’t valid.

At oral argument, however, Commission counsel asserted that ‘it’s not common carriage to simply have a basic level of required service if you can negotiate different levels with different people.’ … Viewed this way, the relevant “carriage” broadband providers furnish might be access to end users more generally, not the minimum required service. In delivering this service, so defined, the anti-blocking rules would permit broadband providers to distinguish somewhat among edge providers, just as Commission counsel contended at oral argument. … Whatever the merits of this view, the Commission advanced nothing like it either in the underlying Order or in its briefs before this court.

And the court says “This is a better argument, so use it next time and we’ll rule in favor of you.”

They even cite other cases (cell phones) where they already accepted this argument.

Edit: That original hyperbolic article notes this in one sentence:

The court did leave it up to the FCC or Congress to refashion a net neutrality regime.

310 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:55:28am

re: #297 Killgore Trout

Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords

What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.

Image: original.jpg

311 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:57:47am

re: #310 Romantic Heretic

What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.

Image: original.jpg

Yeah, that looks like the business model the companies are working towards.

312 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:58:24am

re: #310 Romantic Heretic

What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.

Image: original.jpg

Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.

313 Ryan King  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:59:37am

re: #312 Uncle Obdicut

Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.

Hysterical Freakouts are very Merican.

314 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 9:59:53am

re: #310 Romantic Heretic

What your internet will look like in the future. Have fun.

Image: original.jpg

prOn,,,,,, where’s the prOn !?!!?!
//

315 Eclectic Cyborg  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:02:04am

re: #297 Killgore Trout

Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords

Does this mean Republican and right leaning websites are going to load faster than left leaning sites? Will LGF be crippled?

Half /

316 Varek Raith  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:03:59am

Trolololo.

317 jaunte  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:04:44am

Hysterical Freakouts (also available for $5 additional to your monthly access fee).

318 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:05:46am

re: #317 jaunte

Hysterical Freakouts (also available for $5 additional to your monthly access fee).

PREMIUM NAKED Hysterical Freakouts for $10 more !!!

319 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:06:53am

re: #314 sattv4u2

prOn,,,,,, where’s the prOn !?!!?!
//

imgur.com

320 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:07:02am

I’ve returned from snowblowing out our driveway. Apparently, fish country received a surprise snowstorm overnight. Seems we’re in the clear for now, but we’re due to receive some extreme cold (again) this week. Seems we can’t buy a break around these parts.

321 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:04am

re: #307 Uncle Obdicut

First world problems. Some of the following is, because it affects the west, too, but it could get much, much worse and make “net neutrality” look like a stroll in the park.

Extreme Weather Wreaking Havoc on Food as Farmers Suffer

bloomberg.com

We seldom eat beef anymore, because it’s gotten so expensive, even ground beef. I look for pkgs marked down (usually expires the next day) and throw it in the freezer. Instead, we use ground pork for tacos (I eat bean burritos), and ground turkey burgers, ground turkey in chili, and so on. Meat loaf, formerly a frugal dish made w/beef, is now a luxury, and I combine it w/ground pork when I find beef on sale. I don’t eat mammals of any sort, but others do, they don’t mind if it’s not on the menu, though. What I don’t want to do without are vegetables and fruits and even those are getting pretty dear, as well, so most non-salad veggies are bought frozen or dried beans are used with leftovers thrown into chili or a casserole. I’m not a “purist” cook by any means; canned tomatoes are fine for most cooked dishes and I use a lot of canned tomato products to make red sauces.

There’s a lot of math involved in menu planning, considering nutrition and prices and keeping within your food budget, yet having variety. Not much room for experimenting with unknown dishes or exotic herbs and spices, or buying something people aren’t going to eat and it winding up in the trash.

Or I could just buy bags of Cheetos, I suppose, which really is expensive junk. ///

322 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:20am

A subsidiary effect of this ruling is that, if the providers did go to the lengths of carving up some ridiculous palette of ‘channels’ that you could buy, when the FCC offers the new formal argument it previously only offered in oral argument, those plans will be unenforceable junk.

323 ObserverArt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:09:25am

re: #312 Uncle Obdicut

Please read my post above. The hysterical freakout about this is incredibly premature.

Hysterical freakout is all the rage these days.

Two things still control all things in entertainment. Customers and technology. If Comcast and Verizon are seen as getting too big for their britches, both the public and new technology can bring change.

Big things fall hard too.

By the way, a few years ago there was a fear that Facebook would take a big part of the ‘net as far as social meeting places and how they could be the place you’d have to go to get to other places on the ‘net. Now it is known that the younger demo is moving away and the older folks are their big market. How is a future built on that?

Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?

324 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:10:07am

re: #309 Uncle Obdicut

Here’s from the DC courts ruling:

In other words: The FCC can enforce net neutrality.

However, since ISPs are not common carriers, that order isn’t valid.

And the court says “This is a better argument, so use it next time and we’ll rule in favor of you.”

They even cite other cases (cell phones) where they already accepted this argument.

Edit: That original hyperbolic article notes this in one sentence:

I love net neutrality as much as the next guy, but hyperventilating about every little perceived “setback” in the process is not helping our cause any. It’s one thing I don’t like about the EFF, Stallman, and their ilk. Keep the arguments sane and logical, and people might just take them seriously.

325 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:13:49am

re: #323 ObserverArt

Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?

They’re doing okay. True, they don’t dominate the way they once did, but they (unlike some others) have evolved. From scanners/ printers to photo kiosks, their still a market player

326 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:15:52am

Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com

327 ObserverArt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:20:05am

re: #325 sattv4u2

Kodak dominated a market in America for many a year. Where are they now?

They’re doing okay. True, they don’t dominate the way they once did, but they (unlike some others) have evolved. From scanners/ printers to photo kiosks, their still a market player

But you must admit, they were forced to make changes by the market (customers) and the technology (they no longer make film and all the things like chemicals and photo paper) which is the point.

328 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:21:56am

re: #326 PhillyPretzel

Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com

Excellent link, much thanks.

329 Uncle Obdicut  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:24:40am

re: #326 PhillyPretzel

Net Neutrality clarified from The Wall Street Journal. blogs.wsj.com

Yeah, that’s basically what I said. Surprised to see the WSJ actually having a solid article. Must be a full moon.

330 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:25:17am

re: #327 ObserverArt

But you must admit, they were forced to make changes by the market (customers) and the technology (they no longer make film and all the things like chemicals and photo paper) which is the point.

But that goes with just about everything

My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whips

Not too many of either around nowadways

331 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:28:43am

re: #330 sattv4u2

But that goes with just about everything

My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that mad buggy whips

Not too many of either around nowadways

That’s just because the Cobble-Buggy Industrial Complex was defeated!

332 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:29:16am

re: #331 Killgore Trout

That’s just because the Cobble-Buggy Industrial Complex was defeated!

I’m sure the Koch brothers are behind it

333 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:30:22am

re: #331 Killgore Trout

re: #332 sattv4u2

I’m sure the Koch brothers are behind it

Or was that OSB
(Occupy Shoes and Barns)

I’m so confussled !!!

334 Decatur Deb  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:31:52am

re: #330 sattv4u2

But that goes with just about everything

My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whips

Not too many of either around nowadways

Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?

335 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:32:12am

re: #333 sattv4u2

Or was that OSB
(Occupy Shoes and Barns)

I’m so confussled !!!

The only thing we can be certain of is people powered grass roots activism always wins.

336 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:32:41am

re: #334 Decatur Deb

Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?

…Maybe…

337 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:34:13am

re: #334 Decatur Deb

Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?

Gimp Suits R Us has some good deals.

338 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:39:45am

re: #334 Decatur Deb

Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?

HEY ,,,,, what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom ,,,,,,,,,,,,

339 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:40:51am

re: #338 sattv4u2

HEY ,,,,, what I do in the privacy of my own bedroom ,,,,,,,,,,,,

Fun fact: Being raised in a right-wing religious bubble can sometimes bring out some … interesting sexual fetishes. Just sayin’.

340 blueraven  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:41:40am

re: #335 Killgore Trout

The only thing we can be certain of is people powered grass roots activism always wins.

Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.

mediaite.com

341 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:42:00am

And on that note,,,,,

from scratch sauce is simmering on the stove
meatballs made and added
Too cold to golf,,, SO,,,, off on a Honey Do errand

342 sattv4u2  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:44:21am

re: #339 thedopefishlives

Fun fact: Being raised in a right-wing religious bubble can sometimes bring out some … interesting sexual fetishes. Just sayin’.

I have found in my decades on this planet that is not limited in any way shape or form to right-wing religious bubble-ists

343 piratedan  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:45:24am

re: #340 blueraven

Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.

mediaite.com

works for me, they’ve already pretty much abdicated any responsibility for doing their jobs as Congressmen and Senators….

344 Killgore Trout  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:46:50am

re: #340 blueraven

Speaking of activism…Mark Levin is calling for the GOP to boycott the State of The Union.

mediaite.com

I’ll just add that to the pile of “things that ain’t gonna happen”.

345 thedopefishlives  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:48:49am

re: #342 sattv4u2

I have found in my decades on this planet that is not limited in any way shape or form to right-wing religious bubble-ists

Oh, of course not. Not that I was trying to say as much.

346 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:50:53am

re: #341 sattv4u2

And on that note,,,,,

from scratch sauce is simmering on the stove
meatballs made and added
Too cold to golf,,, SO,,,, off on a Honey Do errand

Fixing salmon with kiwi and homemade mandarin orange/cranberry sauce, baked in parchment. Wild and long grain rice along with seasoned green beans for sides.
House should start smelling really good in a short while…

347 blueraven  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 10:54:42am

re: #344 Killgore Trout

I’ll just add that to the pile of “things that ain’t gonna happen”.

Probably not wholesale, but I wouldn’t doubt there are some tea party types who would gladly follow his plan. Or perhaps one of them could just shout out “You Lie”, or something equally as embarrassing to the party.

348 Joanne  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:05:05am

re: #283 Justanotherhuman

Does anyone really watch this shit?

Too many people. People who apparently believe that true love and eternal devotion comes from a 16 week reality competition. And we thought Princess fantasies were bad.

349 Joanne  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:06:35am

re: #286 sattv4u2

My guess. It’s a “plant” interview to gin up ratings for the coming season.
Like American Idol, or Dancing With The Stars, these shows have (basically) run their courses. Thats why you see “NEW” judges on Idol and DWTS tries to have at least one current controversial “star” as a “contestant

I love American Idol. That talented kids have a chance to change their lives by having a platform they never would have otherwise…well, it makes me smile.

And Harry Connick Jr. is HOTHOTHOT!

350 Joanne  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:07:36am

re: #294 Lidane

Haha. The newly adopted Younger Feline Overlord is enraptured by the show Too Cute on Animal Planet. She’d been running around playing when I put the show on to see how she’d react. She immediately stopped playing and is sitting quietly in front of the TV, even through the commercials.

I know her off switch. Heh.

I used to have a dog who loved Animal Planet. She would watch it during the shows and then ignore the commercials. She cracked me up.

351 ObserverArt  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:15:18am

re: #330 sattv4u2

But that goes with just about everything

My grandfather worked as a cobbler when he was young
His brother worked for a company in Boston that made buggy whips

Not too many of either around nowadways

Oh, I agree. By the way…got any dogs in this hunt?

352 Single-handed sailor  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:17:14am

re: #350 Joanne

I used to have a dog who loved Animal Planet. She would watch it during the shows and then ignore the commercials. She cracked me up.

My previous dog chased animals on our rear projection TV. He seemed to have a particularly violent reaction to sharks and attacked the TV so hard it cracked the screen. That poor TV screen had scratches all over it. I had to block animal planet because just flipping across the channel would cause the dog to attack the TV.

353 Joanne  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 11:46:42am

re: #352 Single-handed sailor

Wow. That’s incredible. Would have made me none too happy. Poor guy!

354 Eventual Carrion  Sat, Jan 18, 2014 12:24:47pm

re: #334 Decatur Deb

Both became boutique industries. Have you priced a buggy whip recently?

Not separately, usually it packaged with ball gag included.


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