Tuesday Night Acoustic: Antoine Dufour in Berlin, Full Set

From the 2012 “Guitar Masters Tour”
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Here is my full set at the Astra in Berlin, Germany on November 15th 2012. Part of The Guitar Masters Tour, November 2012.

Since I’ve got loads of questions on my live set-up, here it is:

I go out of my guitar (K&K trinity mini) stereo. Send the pure pick-up into my Tonebone pz-pre preamp (made by Radial). The mic goes in the K&K blender for giving it the batterry power. Then the outputs of those goes into a small sound card (I use a Native instruments Komplete Audio 6), into my laptop with Mainstage (I used Logic pro as well before) . I did some eqs on both signal in the studio to get rid of some crap. I put some preamp simulators and a good lexicon verb plugin. Then, on the master out, I put some more eqs that I use to make a room eq with my guitar for each concert and room I’m playing in. I go over all the frets during sound check for notching more or less some frequency bumps. When I feel everything is pretty much even and flat, I let the PA guy do the rest.

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443 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2014 6:13:05pm

Antoine Dufour is really, really good. One of the best in this style.

2 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 6:15:55pm
3 Bubblehead II  Apr 22, 2014 6:26:32pm

Night Lizards. May the Deity of your choice smile down a pawn you.

4 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 6:27:29pm
5 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 6:33:01pm
6 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 6:37:34pm

I really don’t give a crap what Fox pundits think but since this was a topic this morning…..
O’Reilly to Bundy Supporter: What’s the Difference Between Bundy and Occupy Wall Street?

7 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 6:47:03pm

re: #6 Killgore Trout

I really don’t give a crap what Fox pundits think but since this was a topic this morning…..
O’Reilly to Bundy Supporter: What’s the Difference Between Bundy and Occupy Wall Street?

Tu quoque. Straw man. This isn’t about OWS which is worthy of criticism. Cliven Bundy is on the stand here not OWS.

8 Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2014 6:49:05pm
9 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 6:56:02pm

More proof that Texas Republicans are goddamn morons:

My state is run by idiots.

10 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 6:57:10pm

re: #7 Gus

Tu quoque. Straw man. This isn’t about OWS which is worthy of criticism. Cliven Bundy is on the stand here not OWS.

Agreed, the movements really aren’t even similar enough to draw much of an analogy from but I was asked about the comparison this morning. Interesting that O’rielly doesn’t seem like much of a Bundy fan and says all the Fox news legal experts agree what Bundy’s doing is illegal. I was under the impression that Fox was shilling for the militias.

11 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 6:57:36pm

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

12 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 7:00:10pm

re: #11 sattv4u2

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

i’m sure the medals are very nourishing when things get a little tight foodwise up there

13 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:01:02pm

re: #12 dog philosopher

i’m sure the medals are very nourishing when things get a little tight foodwise up there

Maybe they have chocolate inside!!!

14 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:03:47pm

Beautiful set of acoustic guitar.

I love the music aspect of LGF, really acts as a nice balance to the bad craziness and endless barrage of stories of humans being dipshits (though the stories are necessary so we are ever vigilant against teh stupid).

15 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:05:05pm

Karen Hudes is a nut.

16 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 7:10:08pm

re: #11 sattv4u2

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

lol

17 palomino  Apr 22, 2014 7:12:50pm

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Agreed, the movements really aren’t even similar enough to draw much of an analogy from but I was asked about the comparison this morning. Interesting that O’rielly doesn’t seem like much of a Bundy fan and says all the Fox news legal experts agree what Bundy’s doing is illegal. I was under the impression that Fox was shilling for the militias.

Nope, Fox shills for the establishment GOP. They’re a bit more wary now of the TP monster they helped create.

And this Bundy affair has “Constitutional Patriot Second American Revolution” tea party trash written all over it. While Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and most Texas state pols are masturbating over Bundy, the remaining “moderates” in the party probably don’t want anything to do with it. I doubt if Jeb Bush or what’s left of Chris Christie looks favorably on Bundy and his wild west band of outlaws.

18 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:15:28pm

re: #11 sattv4u2

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

I just tweeted this picture.

19 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 22, 2014 7:17:04pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

I just tweeted this picture.

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When you have to start pinning them onto your pants leg, you probably have too much bling.

RBS

20 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 7:19:24pm

re: #9 Lidane

More proof that Texas Republicans are goddamn morons:

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My state is run by idiots.

Yes, let’s sell all the federal land in Texas to private entities. We’ll start with the Alamo.
Texas must have the lowest percentage of federal land anywhere in the west, so this shouldn’t really be a problem for them.

21 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 7:20:26pm

re: #11 sattv4u2

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

Hell, give ‘em each another couple medals and they’ll just tip over and be unable to move.

22 palomino  Apr 22, 2014 7:20:47pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

I just tweeted this picture.

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What did those guys do to earn all those medals? Other than never question Kims Song Il, Jong Il, and Jong Un?

23 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:21:20pm

re: #22 palomino

What did those guys do to earn all those medals? Other than never question Kims Song Il, Jong Il, and Jong Un?

Boggles the mind.

24 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:22:10pm

Worth reading: The Interpreter

25 freetoken  Apr 22, 2014 7:22:30pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Jewelry as a performance art.

26 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:23:40pm

re: #25 freetoken

Jewelry as a performance art.

That is all a cult of personality is, a huge production. At the expense of endless human suffering and death, in the case of the Hermit Kingdom.

27 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:23:53pm
28 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 7:25:08pm

re: #22 palomino

What did those guys do to earn all those medals? Other than never question Kims Song Il, Jong Il, and Jong Un?

Starving children, bashing in the heads of dissidents, the usual stuff

29 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 7:28:29pm

Wingnut extremists want to poison your tastebuds with Koch sauce!
Calif. Republicans rally behind Sriracha in fight against city

30 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:29:43pm

31 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:31:47pm

re: #30 Gus

Wait

I thought you said she was a nut??

Story seems plausible to me!!!!!!
/

32 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 22, 2014 7:32:22pm

re: #30 Gus

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Lizard-Men?

RBS

33 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 7:33:17pm

re: #30 Gus

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Is that a David Icke lizard people thing?

34 Killgore Trout  Apr 22, 2014 7:35:04pm

Louis CK asks Donald Rumsfeld (repeatedly) if he’s a lizard
Youtube Video

35 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:36:53pm

Ski Rant!

So, on Sunday, the last day the lifts spun, at 3 p.m. local time, my indestructible telemark binding proved destructible.

instagram.com

The binding lasted well in excess of 500 days of skiing, maybe even 600. Basically I’ve tele-skied on these bad boys since Dec. 2007 and they didn’t break. Well, a critical lug nut in the system just finally snapped off in the middle of a turn, something I said to myself upon inspection of the binding last November was an inevitability if I didn’t fix it.

Fortunately, it’s the end of the ski season, I can possibly get this fixed if I find the part, or I can just spring for the brand new Bishop 2.0 bindings which just went back into production this last winter.

For all you incredibly serious telemark skiing lizards, this binding is the shizzle.

bishopbindings.com

36 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:37:00pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Wingnut extremists want to poison your tastebuds with Koch sauce!
Calif. Republicans rally behind Sriracha in fight against city

sgvtribune.com

37 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:38:14pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

The binding lasted well in excess of 500 days of skiing, maybe even 600. Basically I’ve tele-skied on these bad boys since Dec. 2007

Well,, that because tele-skiing isn’t like,,, you know ,, real skiing!!!

38 bratwurst  Apr 22, 2014 7:38:41pm
39 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:40:37pm

re: #30 Gus

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Crap, busted…

40 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:41:07pm

re: #37 sattv4u2

The binding lasted well in excess of 500 days of skiing, maybe even 600. Basically I’ve tele-skied on these bad boys since Dec. 2007

Well,, that because tele-skiing isn’t like,,, you know ,, real skiing!!!

Heh! I Get it all the time. “Lock yer heel, ski for real!” “Hey, you fuckin hippy!” “Half a binding, half a brain.” etc.

Then those guys that say that shit to me go skiing with me. Then they don’t say those things - to me, anyways - ever again. :)

41 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:42:36pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

Heh! I Get it all the time. “Lock yer heel, ski for real!” “Hey, you fuckin hippy!” “Half a binding, half a brain.” etc.

Then those guys that say that shit to me go skiing with me. Then they don’t say those things - to me, anyways - ever again. :)

Been There
Done That

S’okay,,, but nothing beats a good downhill cruising run

42 bratwurst  Apr 22, 2014 7:42:58pm

(I happen to think it is pretty fucking disgusting that the New York Post “comedy” columnist is attacking the Clintons via an unborn grandchild no matter what he wants to call it.)

43 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:43:13pm

re: #39 Varek Raith

Crap, busted…

That’s just for starters. She has a shit load of other theories.

On Michelle Obama…

…because she has fallen for some, what they call “honey traps” in a hotel with two-way mirrors. She has been compromised. … And there are other things involving him. His mother was a CIA agent, and he was raised, he was raised in a way that made him a person who would trap people with “honey traps.” That was his job.

44 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:44:47pm

re: #43 Gus

That’s just for starters. She has a shit load of other theories.

On Michelle Obama…

…because she has fallen for some, what they call “honey traps” in a hotel with two-way mirrors. She has been compromised. … And there are other things involving him. His mother was a CIA agent, and he was raised, he was raised in a way that made him a person who would trap people with “honey traps.” That was his job.

So, we’re talking weapon’s grade crazy here.
Yeesh.

45 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 7:45:55pm

re: #41 sattv4u2

Been There
Done That

S’okay,,, but nothing beats a good downhill cruising run

I just bought our shop’s Wagner Custom skis with a Marker Griffon binding. I’m keeping the clamp on the skis, first workable alpine ski I’ve owned in 10 years!

46 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:46:05pm

re: #44 Varek Raith

So, we’re talking weapon’s grade crazy here.
Yeesh.

Yep.

47 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:47:32pm

re: #46 Gus

Yep.

I suspect she buys in to every conspiracy that comes across her view.
What a shitty way to live a life.

48 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:47:53pm
49 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:50:15pm

50 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 7:50:22pm

re: #30 Gus

51 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 7:50:50pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Wingnut extremists want to poison your tastebuds with Koch sauce!
Calif. Republicans rally behind Sriracha in fight against city

i object to the addition of any more words to the english language with silent letters, be they ‘r’s or any other supernumerary alphanumeric accretions

52 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:50:58pm

re: #49 Gus

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I don’t see me on that list.
I am disappoint.

53 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:51:22pm
54 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:51:47pm

re: #49 Gus

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I’ll take the modern Knights Templar for $1,000, Alex!

55 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 7:52:22pm

re: #30 Gus

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LOL!

…Hudes says that she was fired by the World Bank after her 21 years of work there because she spoke out about issues related to “massive, massive, massive corruption” which the World Bank wants kept quiet. Just how massive is this corruption? Hudes says that the US gold reserves have been stolen by the Jesuits under the direction of a person she calls “the Black Pope” and that the US gold now resides in the Vatican. Oh, and she says that the “Black Pope” is not a human, but is of what she calls “a second species”. As she recently explained on a podcast:

“There’s a second species on this planet. They’re not extraterrestrials. They’re very much with us. They made maps in the previous ice age. The remnants of their civilizations are all over the place - a lot of times along the coast. It’s submerged because the sea level has gone up by 400 meters. This group has large brains. They’re very distinct from homo sapiens. Their DNA is so different, that if the two species mated, their offspring would be infertile, and we know this because their DNA was just tested. They have skulls all over the place because they have been on earth with us. But after the ice age, there weren’t that many of them, so they’ve been hiding, and one of the places that’s they’ve been hiding is in the Vatican. That’s why the Vatican are wearing those miters. It turns out that that’s what the high priest wore in the early beginnings of Judaism. Moses was actually Akhenaten, who was a pharaoh. They know this because the papyra that was taken from one of the pyramids talks about this. The people who are doing archeology in Israel know this. And the reason is, not only is homo capensis (?) trying to keep human beings under control by divide and conquer using our money system, they’ve also been doing this with our religions - organized religions - trying to get human beings to hate people of different religious faiths so that they will kill each other off, so that the people who are manipulating human beings could … use us like cattle. That’s what’s been going on through our history.”

Hudes goes on in the interview to explain that she learned of the existence of this world-controlling, large-brained, non-human species from “a retired neurologist named Edward Spencer,” and that his views were confirmed to her by an unnamed email correspondent in Portugal who, she says, attended a meeting of large-headed hominids with inhuman blue eyes. Hudes also claims to be part of a network of whistleblowers from various financial institutions who have taken their concerns to the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. Hudes and Spencer have also sent emails about this conspiracy to a long list of US military and government officials. (Another Hudes podcast interview on this subject is available here. More details about Hudes’ and Spencers’ beliefs are available here.)

She qualifies for a job at GG’s new rarely-used new website.

56 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 7:52:22pm

re: #52 Varek Raith

Have an upding. Maybe it will make you feel better.

57 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:53:23pm

re: #55 NJDhockeyfan

LOL!

She qualifies for a job at GG’s new rarely-used new website.

She be clown.

58 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 7:54:26pm
59 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:54:33pm

We are, in fact, extraterrestrials. We just want you to think otherwise.

60 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:54:38pm

re: #56 calochortus

Have an upding. Maybe it will make you feel better.

Don’t so that
You’ll spoil him.
Then he’ll expect one every time he whines!!!

//

61 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 7:55:27pm

re: #60 sattv4u2

Don’t so that
You’ll spoil him.
Then he’ll expect one every time he whines!!!

//

*Puts Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator in satt’s mailbox*

62 Stanley Sea  Apr 22, 2014 7:55:49pm

re: #42 bratwurst

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(I happen to think it is pretty fucking disgusting that the New York Post “comedy” columnist is attacking the Clintons via an unborn grandchild no matter what he wants to call it.)

Bag Men NYP. I hope they lose many millions.

63 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 22, 2014 7:55:53pm

re: #55 NJDhockeyfan

LOL!

She qualifies for a job at GG’s new rarely-used new website.

That’s not even crazy… that’s the kind of delusions that you can only start to believe after many years of abuse of mexican meth, washed down with absinthe.

RBS

64 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 7:56:07pm

re: #60 sattv4u2

Have an upding yourself. I’m feeling generous tonight. ;)

65 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 7:58:40pm

re: #61 Varek Raith

*Puts Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator in satt’s mailbox*

Jokes on you

That one was made by ACME!!

Image: wile-e-coyote.jpg

66 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:00:15pm
67 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 8:00:27pm

re: #65 sattv4u2

Jokes on you

That one was made by ACME!!

Image: wile-e-coyote.jpg

There was an episode of Family Guy where Wile E. tried to get a refund from ACME.
Amused, I was.

68 kirkspencer  Apr 22, 2014 8:00:55pm

re: #49 Gus


They’re not playing it right.

69 Political Atheist  Apr 22, 2014 8:03:27pm

So would one of you guitar players please help me understand open tuning and how it helps?

70 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:03:45pm
71 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 8:04:37pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

So would one of you guitar players please help me understand open tuning and how it helps?

Jesuits.
/No help

72 GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 22, 2014 8:04:54pm

re: #11 sattv4u2

North Korea problem???
Easy to solve

Just place a giant magnet on the border
All their officers will be captured!!!
Image: 1392564566181.jpg

I count way more than 37 pieces of flare.

73 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 8:05:15pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

So would one of you guitar players please help me understand open tuning and how it helps?

Open tuning allows you to strum all 6 strings and get a nice sounding chord. I like Open G myself, that’s a nice open tuning to play the song “Fearless” by Pink Floyd.

74 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 22, 2014 8:05:58pm

OH HAI

Teh Passover has passed over. Now we will eat Teh Traditional Pizza.

75 Single-handed sailor  Apr 22, 2014 8:06:02pm

re: #72 GlutenFreeJesus

I count way more than 37 pieces of flare.

Well, 15 pieces is the minimum.

76 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 8:06:25pm

re: #74 Pie-onist Overlord

OH HAI

Teh Passover has passed over. Now we will eat Teh Traditional Pizza.

GET HER!

77 Political Atheist  Apr 22, 2014 8:07:40pm

re: #73 teleskiguy

Open tuning allows you to strum all 6 strings and get a nice sounding chord. I like Open G myself, that’s a nice open tuning to play the song “Fearless” by Pink Floyd.

How is it different from the other kind of tuning? I’m so uneducated in music.

78 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:08:10pm

Heh.

…RT had Hudes back in October for a 24 minute in-depth interview on Sophie Shevardnadze’s program, giving Hudes an opportunity to flesh out her theories. (Video and transcript available here.) Unfortunately for everyone involved, this interview is notable for largely being so incoherent as to be virtually impossible to summarize.

79 kirkspencer  Apr 22, 2014 8:08:42pm

re: #9 Lidane

More proof that Texas Republicans are goddamn morons:

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My state is run by idiots.

And since it’s election season the freak flag is flying.

80 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:09:03pm

Oldie.

81 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:09:30pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

So would one of you guitar players please help me understand open tuning and how it helps?

open tuning generally is whenever you tune the guitar to a regular chord or some other set of notes that sounds nice when you strum the instrument without putting any fingers down. it changes up the kind of chords you can get and makes some kinds of styles easier to play

slide blues players often tune to an open e major chord, and also some singer songwriter tunes such as ‘chelsea morning’ are usually played using that kind of tuning. i think it’s

E B E G# B E

iirc

also, see ‘hawaiian slack key’…

82 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:10:02pm

re: #80 Gus

Oldie.

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Don’t worry Gus. When you drop dead I ain’t spittin on your grave

((I hate standing in lines!!!))
//

83 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 8:10:33pm

re: #77 Political Atheist

How is it different from the other kind of tuning?

It’s different in that you can tune the strings in such a way that when you strum all six string without fretting them (an “open” chord) you hear a specific chord. I think Antoine was playing in Open C Sharp in the second tune in the video. So when he plays an open chord, it’s a C Sharp.

I dunno, Charles knows waaaay more about guitar than I do, I feel a little weird commenting on it. *chortle*

84 GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 22, 2014 8:10:57pm

re: #75 Single-handed sailor

Well, 15 pieces is the minimum.

Are you ok with just the bare minimum?

85 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:13:36pm

re: #77 Political Atheist

How is it different from the other kind of tuning? I’m so uneducated in music.

normal guitar tuning is

E A D G B E

this does not make a chord that would normally be used in a normal piece of music played by normal people who are not frank zappa or alberto ginastera

how normal are you feeling tonight?

86 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 8:15:03pm

Here’s Open G, which I use to play “Fearless” by Pink Floyd fearlessly.

G B D G B D

(that’s 6th string to 1st)

87 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:15:54pm

ya nye psükh, ya normalye

88 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:17:54pm

re: #74 Pie-onist Overlord

OH HAI

Teh Passover has passed over. Now we will eat Teh Traditional Pizza.

on other days we eat teh untraditional pizzas, but on this night we eats only regular pizzas

89 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:17:59pm
90 goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2014 8:18:06pm

#BundyRanch supporters advocating murder of a federal officer.

91 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 8:18:55pm

re: #77 Political Atheist

re: #85 dog philosopher

normal guitar tuning is

E A D G B E

this does not make a chord that would normally be used in a normal piece of music played by normal people who are not frank zappa or alberto ginastera

how normal are you feeling tonight?

Normal guitar tuning requires you to perform some magic with your fingers on the frets to make a nice sound. Open tuning allows you to change chords just by sliding a bar, bottle neck or your finger up and down the neck. Of course, you can still finger the fret board with open tuning, too, but the fretting is different from what you’d use with standard tuning.

92 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 22, 2014 8:19:12pm

Ended up watching a 2006 German film tonight called “Lives of Others”.

en.wikipedia.org

Subject matter and such sort of fits in that if the whiners wanted to see of the pettiness and depression of what a police state was like they should watch it and get a small clue.

93 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:19:58pm

re: #91 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Normal guitar tuning requires you to perform some magic with your fingers on the frets to make a nice sound. Open tuning allows you to change chords just by sliding a bar, bottle neck or your finger up and down the neck. Of course, you can still finger the fret board with open tuning, too, but the fretting is different from what you’d use with standard tuning.

i just fret and strut my hour on the stage

94 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:22:08pm
95 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 8:22:23pm

re: #90 goddamnedfrank

Charming. Oh wait-it’s stupid, dangerous and criminal.

96 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 8:24:31pm

re: #90 goddamnedfrank

If anything happens to that officer, whoever sent those tweets should be held liable for incitement.

97 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:24:40pm

That badge came out really nice.

98 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:24:51pm

re: #90 goddamnedfrank

re: #95 calochortus

Charming. Oh wait-it’s stupid, dangerous and criminal.

Moronic internet hero

99 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 8:24:54pm
100 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 8:25:44pm

re: #93 dog philosopher

i just fret and strut my hour on the stage

Are you full of sound and fury?

101 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:26:03pm

Groovy…

102 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:27:08pm

re: #101 NJDhockeyfan

Groovy…

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Oooohhh

I love color by numbers!!!
/

103 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:28:05pm

re: #90 goddamnedfrank

#BundyRanch supporters advocating murder of a federal officer.

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104 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:28:17pm

re: #101 NJDhockeyfan

Groovy…

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Ayep.

105 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:29:01pm
106 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:29:35pm

re: #102 sattv4u2

Oooohhh

I love color by numbers!!!
/

The last time I saw something like that it was after eating some mushrooms in the Rocky Mountains.

107 Political Atheist  Apr 22, 2014 8:29:41pm

re: #91 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Normal guitar tuning requires you to perform some magic with your fingers on the frets to make a nice sound. Open tuning allows you to change chords just by sliding a bar, bottle neck or your finger up and down the neck. Of course, you can still finger the fret board with open tuning, too, but the fretting is different from what you’d use with standard tuning.

Thanks that makes sense, along with the above responses. Sure is a nice set.

108 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 22, 2014 8:29:51pm

re: #86 teleskiguy

Way back about 2.7 million years ago, I tried Robert Fripp’s “New Standard Tuning” (low to high: C-G-D-A-E-G) for about 6 months. It was certainly very interesting. It required you to unlearn all the scales, chords, and other autopilot stuff you had stored in muscle memory. I suspect that was the primary point of the tuning. The main reason I gave it up was that I finally realized that I didn’t have any real talent to speak of (after 30+ years), and that there were already too many guitarists in the world anyway.

109 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:30:34pm

re: #106 NJDhockeyfan

The last time I saw something like that it was after eating some mushrooms in the Rocky Mountains.

I’ve had Rocky Mountain Oysters, but never Rocky Mountain Mushrooms (that i’m aware of)

110 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:31:30pm
111 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:32:02pm
112 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 8:32:37pm
113 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:32:38pm
114 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:32:45pm

re: #109 sattv4u2

I’ve had Rocky Mountain Oysters, but never Rocky Mountain Mushrooms (that i’m aware of)

I never had Rocky Mountain Oysters and I can live with that.

115 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:33:58pm
116 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 8:37:18pm

re: #108 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I’ve owned an acoustic guitar since I was 24, and can’t play any better than when I was 25. My problem is the lack of self-discipline to practice the bloody thing every day. Too many other things to keep me busy.

My son picked up my guitar when he was like 10, and played with his uncle and cousins. He can seriously jam now, acoustic or electric.

Moral of story: start young.

117 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:37:27pm

BTW. That guy just did a felony.

118 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 22, 2014 8:37:27pm

re: #110 Gus

That’s some pro-level trolling by BNSF there.

119 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 8:38:35pm

And now ADVENTURE TIME!

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

Youtube Video

120 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:40:56pm

Not an Onion story…

121 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:41:52pm

re: #118 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

That’s some pro-level trolling by BNSF there.

It’s a beautiful pic.

122 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:42:28pm

Planes, trains, and automobiles. And guitars.

123 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 8:44:31pm

re: #120 NJDhockeyfan

I can’t tell if he’s being serious, or laying on sarcasm so thick you’d need a chainsaw to cut it.

124 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:44:56pm

re: #122 Gus

Planes, trains, and automobiles. And guitars.

and Rocky Mountain Oysters!

125 Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2014 8:45:16pm

re: #68 kirkspencer

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They’re not playing it right.

Always liked the Orbital Mind Control Lasers. Very handy for taking over difficult groups.

126 dog philosopher  Apr 22, 2014 8:45:23pm

re: #100 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Are you full of sound and fury?

that, and people tell me i’m full of other things too…

127 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:45:24pm

re: #124 sattv4u2

and Rocky Mountain Oysters!

No. No, no, no.

128 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:45:57pm

re: #127 Gus

No. No, no, no.

That does it

I AM standing in that line!!!

129 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 8:46:36pm

re: #128 sattv4u2

That does it

I AM standing in that line!!!

Let’s get it out of the way, in all caps. FRIED BULL BALLS

130 Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2014 8:48:05pm

re: #105 Gus

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I think he should just drop the ‘Liberty’ from the title of his store.

131 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:48:55pm
132 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:50:35pm
133 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:51:55pm

re: #132 NJDhockeyfan

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I guess one baseball bat is okay, but not two !?!?!

134 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 8:52:46pm

re: #133 sattv4u2

I guess one baseball bat is okay, but not two !?!?!

I think those are oars.

I’m surprised I can’t take what looks like a tub of drywall compound.

135 Dark_Falcon  Apr 22, 2014 8:53:23pm

re: #117 Gus

BTW. That guy just did a felony.

That “Melon Label!” dirtbag? I’m not surprised. He has deleted his Tweet, but thanks to Frank we’ve got it saved for posterity.

136 sattv4u2  Apr 22, 2014 8:54:07pm

and on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons

137 Gus  Apr 22, 2014 8:55:42pm

re: #132 NJDhockeyfan

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JG is pretty cool.

138 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 8:57:08pm

re: #134 calochortus

I think those are oars.

I’m surprised I can’t take what looks like a tub of drywall compound.

No spackling in business class!

139 Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2014 8:57:08pm

re: #132 NJDhockeyfan

They forgot the magazines. You can do a lot of damage to a human being with a rolled up magazine.

140 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 8:59:39pm

re: #134 calochortus

I think those are oars.

I’m surprised I can’t take what looks like a tub of drywall compound.

I guess I’m going to rethink my plans of putting a gallon of paint in my carry on luggage.

141 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 9:01:00pm

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

I suppose they don’t want us redecorating their planes in flight. You’d think they’d ban upholstery fabric and tacks.

142 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:01:04pm
143 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 9:01:56pm

re: #142 jaunte

Well. I will sleep soundly tonight knowing that. (rolls eyes)

144 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:02:13pm

re: #143 calochortus

They’re still recruiting suckers.

145 GeneJockey  Apr 22, 2014 9:02:19pm

re: #142 jaunte

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Pay up, deadbeat.

146 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 9:02:46pm

re: #140 NJDhockeyfan

I guess I’m going to rethink my plans of putting a gallon of paint in my carry on luggage.

Paint is a liquid. The TSA would confiscate it, anyway. Heck, they confiscated two unopened jars of Nutella from me one time.

147 freetoken  Apr 22, 2014 9:03:51pm

re: #146 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Paint is a liquid. The TSA would confiscate it, anyway. Heck, they confiscated two unopened jars of Nutella from me one time.

Nutella is a known lethal weapon.

148 GeneJockey  Apr 22, 2014 9:04:07pm

re: #146 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Paint is a liquid. The TSA would confiscate it, anyway. Heck, they confiscated two unopened jars of Nutella from me one time.

They confiscated a tiny model of a civil war cannon from me once. “It’s a model of a gun!”

149 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 9:05:39pm

re: #144 jaunte

They’re still recruiting suckers.

I just can’t believe they’re going on and on about Bundy without the least effort at fact-checking.
It’s almost as though they were just looking for an exciting story line that fits their preconceived notions of sovereign rights and the evil gub’mint.

150 freetoken  Apr 22, 2014 9:06:18pm

re: #132 NJDhockeyfan

Well, at least they didn’t put poison darts on that poster, so all’s good for my next trip.

151 GeneJockey  Apr 22, 2014 9:07:42pm

re: #149 calochortus

I just can’t believe they’re going on and on about Bundy without the least effort at fact-checking.
It’s almost as though they were just looking for an exciting story line that fits their preconceived notions of sovereign rights and the evil gub’mint.

The best cons are the easiest.

152 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 22, 2014 9:08:48pm

re: #147 freetoken

Nutella brownies

153 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 9:09:15pm

re: #148 GeneJockey

They confiscated a tiny model of a civil war cannon from me once. “It’s a model of a gun!”

Some 4 decades ago a friend had his handlens (little teeny magnifying glass) put in baggage rather than carry on because you might be able to start a fire with it. This was when you could still smoke on planes and bring on lighters and matches.

People can develop amazing tunnel vision.

154 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 22, 2014 9:09:54pm

re: #150 freetoken

Well, at least they didn’t put poison darts on that poster, so all’s good for my next trip.

They left off power drills and ban saws too.

155 GeneJockey  Apr 22, 2014 9:13:34pm

re: #154 NJDhockeyfan

They left off power drills and ban saws too.

I think they DO ban saws.
//

156 goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2014 9:15:24pm

re: #135 Dark_Falcon

That “Melon Label!” dirtbag? I’m not surprised. He has deleted his Tweet, but thanks to Frank we’ve got it saved for posterity.

He has not deleted that tweet. It’s still there, still on his timeline.

157 Ming  Apr 22, 2014 9:17:32pm

re: #96 Lidane

If anything happens to that officer, whoever sent those tweets should be held liable for incitement.

Reminds me of Sandra Fluke: an ordinary person suddenly becomes a target. I hope this motivates the BLM to take care of business. What are they waiting for?

158 GeneJockey  Apr 22, 2014 9:18:35pm

re: #157 Ming

Reminds me of Sandra Fluke: an ordinary person suddenly becomes a target. I hope this motivates the BLM to take care of business. What are they waiting for?

Interest to die down.

159 palomino  Apr 22, 2014 9:23:15pm

re: #34 Killgore Trout

Louis CK asks Donald Rumsfeld (repeatedly) if he’s a lizard
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If you’re talking to Rumsfeld, you might as well waste time asking if he’s a lizard. You’re not gonna get a straight answer anyway.

160 goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2014 9:24:34pm

re: #157 Ming

Reminds me of Sandra Fluke: an ordinary person suddenly becomes a target. I hope this motivates the BLM to take care of business. What are they waiting for?

Rain maybe. So they can safely deploy tear gas en masse without risking a wildfire. Anyway that’s what I’d do, get a couple hundred agents with night vision gear and just roll down on them hard at around 3 AM, blanket the area with tear gas and smoke then drag all their asses to jail.

161 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:29:30pm

re: #160 goddamnedfrank

Some Bundy supporters are fantasizing that they’ll ‘kick the BLM out of Nevada” and “a whole lot of other states.” They’re going to be very disappointed.

162 teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2014 9:29:52pm

re: #159 palomino

If you’re talking to Rumsfeld, you might as well waste time asking if he’s a lizard. You’re not gonna get a straight answer anyway.

This YouTube - I think - boils down the essence of Donald Rumsfeld. He’s a cold, calculating fuck.

Youtube Video

163 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 9:31:25pm

re: #122 Gus

Planes, trains, and automobiles. And guitars.

Trains win.

164 Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2014 9:34:06pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Apparently Kim Jong Un requires 137 pieces of flair.

165 calochortus  Apr 22, 2014 9:34:22pm

Good night lizards. Hasta mañana.

166 palomino  Apr 22, 2014 9:35:41pm

re: #162 teleskiguy

This YouTube - I think - boils down the essence of Donald Rumsfeld. He’s a cold, calculating fuck.

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Larger

Rumsfeld doesn’t really answer questions. He just talks about what he wants to, evading all along the way.

After spending all that time with him, Errol Morris thinks Rummy is insane, for whatever that’s worth. Then again, maybe Morris was insane to think he could penetrate someone as stubborn and calculating as Rumsfeld.

167 goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2014 9:38:21pm

re: #161 jaunte

Some Bundy supporters are fantasizing that they’ll ‘kick the BLM out of Nevada” and “a whole lot of other states.” They’re going to be very disappointed.

This is likely to end in a massive RICO indictment, with several Oathkeepers chapters and various militias being destroyed. When they detained those BLM agents at the hotel against their will they committed kidnapping according to federal law. Add in the flagrant and ongoing obstruction of justice and there’s just no way that can be allowed to go unanswered.

168 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 9:38:27pm

re: #34 Killgore Trout

Louis CK asks Donald Rumsfeld (repeatedly) if he’s a lizard
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Unknown unknown.
Or something.

169 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:41:54pm
170 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 9:45:24pm

re: #149 calochortus

It’s almost as though they were just looking for an exciting story line that fits their preconceived notions of sovereign rights and the evil gub’mint.

That’s because they are. You can debunk the same talking points (Harry Reid solar farm! Ancestral land! Nevada owns the land!) over and over and over and these people are like brick walls. None of it gets through.

171 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 9:46:36pm

re: #170 Lidane

That’s because they are. You can debunk the same talking points (Harry Reid solar farm! Ancestral land! Nevada owns the land!) over and over and over and these people are like brick walls. None of it gets through.

politicsforum.org

172 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:50:50pm

re: #171 Varek Raith

173 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 9:52:22pm

re: #172 jaunte

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Whut.

174 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 9:52:45pm

re: #172 jaunte

Marx was a known tyrant.
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175 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 9:54:25pm

Good grief. Obama would nationalize big agri and he’d have the supply.
Some jackass with feral cow in the middle of the desert? Not so much.

176 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:55:18pm

re: #173 Varek Raith

Whut.

Total wackjob:

177 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:57:32pm

I should go get some sleep but this bundy ranch timeline is like an alien zoo.

178 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:58:50pm

That’s just sad.

179 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 9:59:33pm

‘Preppers’ running out of gas.

180 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 10:01:56pm

re: #179 jaunte

‘Preppers’ running out of gas.

Fools.

181 Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2014 10:02:46pm

re: #178 jaunte

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That’s just sad.

Real Americans shouldn’t need handouts!!

182 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 10:04:18pm

re: #178 jaunte

Logistics failure.

183 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 10:05:14pm

re: #182 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

We got us a convoy.

184 jaunte  Apr 22, 2014 10:10:39pm

Interstate 40.

“…In the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, the Congress acted on these recommendations. The act called for designation of a National System of Interstate Highways, to include up to 40,000 miles “… so located, as to connect by routes, direct as practical, the principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centers, to serve the National Defense, and to connect at suitable points, routes of continental importance in the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of Mexico.” fhwa.dot.gov

185 Varek Raith  Apr 22, 2014 10:14:35pm

They want to fight and beat the government but they can’t plan a cross country trip without running out of gas funds.
Seems legit.

186 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 10:14:48pm

re: #184 jaunte

I am pretty sure the feds exercised eminent domain to acquire the land for the interstate system.

Federal overreach! Tyranny! We need to seize the interstates from federal control and bring the highways back to the people! 11ty!!

187 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 10:22:35pm

So, after decades of making the US spend countless billions on defense, demanding the government get “tough on crime”, and championing the militarization of police forces after 9/11, conservatives now freak out when the government buys ammo.

Grow up, for fucks sake.

188 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 10:32:57pm
189 3eff Jeff  Apr 22, 2014 10:35:52pm

re: #108 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Way back about 2.7 million years ago, I tried Robert Fripp’s “New Standard Tuning” (low to high: C-G-D-A-E-G) for about 6 months. It was certainly very interesting. It required you to unlearn all the scales, chords, and other autopilot stuff you had stored in muscle memory. I suspect that was the primary point of the tuning. The main reason I gave it up was that I finally realized that I didn’t have any real talent to speak of (after 30+ years), and that there were already too many guitarists in the world anyway.

If you enjoyed it for 30+ years, does anything else really matter? I can’t imagine giving up my guitars. I’m a decent player, but there are plenty of guitarists who I doubt I’d be able to match, even if I were to quit my day job and play 4-8 hours a day.

190 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 10:39:27pm
191 3eff Jeff  Apr 22, 2014 10:44:37pm

re: #77 Political Atheist

How is it different from the other kind of tuning? I’m so uneducated in music.

As pointed out, E A D G B E is standard tuning, and you have to contort your hand to make chords, but the relationship between the strings is: 4th, 4th, 4th, Maj 3rd, 4th. This means that scale patterns are compact, and 4-5 frets wide for diatonic (western) scales. That makes running up and down a scale in order convenient. So it can be good for lead guitar (but open tunings can be used for lead as well).

I like to use hybrid tunings where the upper strings form a chord and the lower strings are either in standard tuning or all offset by the same interval. Drop D (D A D G B E) is a fun one for rock and metal. I’ve also been playing with D G D G B E a lot lately, which I don’t think has a name.

192 Single-handed sailor  Apr 22, 2014 10:47:48pm

re: #190 Kragar

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The Postal Police use our PD shooting range on a regular basis.

193 Kragar  Apr 22, 2014 10:55:04pm
194 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 10:59:24pm
195 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 22, 2014 11:06:21pm

re: #194 Lidane

If the government really had a Gestapo-like force, Bundy and his buddies would already be dead or in prison. That’s how a police state operates. Shoot first, ask questions later.

196 Lidane  Apr 22, 2014 11:09:47pm

re: #195 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

If the government really had a Gestapo-like force, Bundy and his buddies would already be dead or in prison. That’s how a police state operates. Shoot first, ask questions later.

True, but we’re talking about the same dipshits who think that Harry Reid is going to build a Chinese solar farm on the Bundy Ranch, and that the Bundy family has been farming land they bought in 1948 for over 100 years. They’re not very bright.

197 3eff Jeff  Apr 22, 2014 11:11:33pm

re: #196 Lidane

True, but we’re talking about the same dipshits who think that Harry Reid is going to build a Chinese solar farm on the Bundy Ranch, and that the Bundy family has been farming land they bought in 1948 for over 100 years. They’re not very bright.

1948 was a lot of years ago. Gotta be more than a hundred by now.

/

198 Cheechako  Apr 22, 2014 11:26:37pm

Why Is the Post Office Buying Bullets? t.co @Gbowhit

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2014

It’s for the rabid dogs the mail carriers keep coming across on their routes.

199 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 2:16:26am

I really should thank Cliven Bundy for showing us just how big a pack of hypocrites that the wingnuts of this country have become. That in the future, when I hear one of them tell me that they oppose “amnesty” because someone should not be rewarded for breaking the law, I’m going to laugh in their face and then ask them why they supported Bundy but not Martinez. Except I already know the answer: Their patriotism is as pale as their skin.

200 Alyosha  Apr 23, 2014 2:43:59am

The contortions conservatives have gone through ideologically, just to antagonise the President and his supporters, is really quite incredible. It is a level of unintentional self-parody that is impossible to understand without first acknowledging the hatred they harbour against this effigy of mad delusions they’ve built of Barack Obama.
It’s hard to prove racism as a motivation in political opposition but the extremes the RWNJs seem willing to go to and the fictions they’re willing to believe, especially when it undermines core beliefs they held in 2008, leaves me with little else to fig leaf their sour, hoary and vile bigotry for them.
I think that makes me the racist now.

201 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 3:19:00am

re: #6 Killgore Trout

Were OWS people grazing cattle for profit on public land and threatening authorities with guns??

202 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 3:26:27am

I had to take my daughter & her husband & their baby to the airport and then I went straight to work because I didn’t feel like going all the way home and then back to work (which is closer to the airport than to home)

I didn’t have teh morning coffee and since nobody else is here, there is no coffee.

I could be a good citizen and make the coffee but fuck that.

203 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 3:30:22am

re: #202 Pie-onist Overlord

I had to take my daughter & her husband & their baby to the airport and then I went straight to work because I didn’t feel like going all the way home and then back to work (which is closer to the airport than to home)

I didn’t have teh morning coffee and since nobody else is here, there is no coffee.

I could be a good citizen and make the coffee but fuck that.

I overdid it on coffee this morning, zipped through my second 90-minute English lesson in less than an hour and had to scramble for more material

204 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 3:47:13am

My grandson learns how to open the fridge by himself.

205 freetoken  Apr 23, 2014 4:29:13am

MP3 Audio

206 A Mom Anon  Apr 23, 2014 4:43:44am

re: #204 Pie-onist Overlord

What a beautiful kid. Love that pic.

207 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 4:48:31am

re: #206 A Mom Anon

What a beautiful kid. Love that pic.

Waiting for follow-up shot of kid sitting in a puddle of grape juice…

208 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 4:54:07am
209 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 4:56:12am

re: #208 NJDhockeyfan

Done with CNN. love my editor at cnn.com , but I’m done. Network works to scare viewers & hype nonsense & ignore news for hits

We still labor under the illusion that we are the consumers and that the news/programming is the product.

Commercial broadcasters sell advertising, their customers are advertisers. Programming is just window dressing to attract more viewers, raising the market value of their product.

210 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 4:56:12am

re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Waiting for follow-up shot of kid sitting in a puddle of grape juice…

At least he is guzzling the grape juice and not the wine.

211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 4:57:04am

re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord

At least he is guzzling the grape juice and not the wine.

Mini-schewitz?

212 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 5:17:38am
213 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 23, 2014 5:18:28am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Were OWS people grazing cattle for profit on public land and threatening authorities with guns??

Please don’t feed the Troll.

214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 5:22:08am

re: #213 William Barnett-Lewis

Please don’t feed the Troll.

The entire Bundy “debate” is a massive trolling frenzy, and the fact that it is an ongoing topic shows the dire state of political discourse in this country.

These armed fellows with penis inadequacy issues were waiting for a rallying point, Bundy was happy to merge his economic interests with their ideological ones.

Expect more to come…

215 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:23:05am

re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord

At least he is guzzling the grape juice and not the wine.

Or the milk - that looks a lot like a Tnuva milk carton I see on the right side (which leaves much to be desired IMO)…

216 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 5:24:17am

Seems Sean “Thin Skin” Hannity spent part of his show last night throwing a tantrum because John Stewart called him out as the hypocrite he is. After trying his latest attempt to spin his support of Bundy as being against the presence of armed federal agents, he then of course went on a tear about the President and Bill Ayers.

217 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 5:24:39am

re: #215 Archangelus

Or the milk - that looks a lot like a Tnuva milk carton I see on the right side (which leaves much to be desired IMO)…

Yes, they are in Israel.

218 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:24:49am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Expect more to come…

Oh you can bet on it. I don’t see this kind of BS coming to an end until one incident ends BADLY - which seems to be like what that crowd is hoping for (so long as they’re not the ones to pay the price, as can be seen in the “women up front” human shield tactic they went for)…

219 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 5:26:53am

re: #218 Archangelus

Oh you can bet on it. I don’t see this kind of BS coming to an end until one incident ends BADLY - which seems to be like what that crowd is hoping for (so long as they’re not the ones to pay the price, as can be seen in the “women up front” human shield tactic they went for)…

I’m pretty convinced that they’re gonna keep pushing the rhetoric until we get another McVeigh who thinks the war’s not coming fast enough and decides to take matters into his own hands.

220 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:28:57am

re: #217 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes, they are in Israel.

Figured as much - i know those milk cartons far too well by now :D
Tnuva may be the most common milk companies in the country, but I dislike the taste compared to Yotvata (another popular brand). Also, their old insistence on “oh there’s no such thing as ‘Lactose free’ milk, best anyone can do is ‘Latcose lite’” (which is a joke for the lactose intolerant) is just downright ridiculous considering I drank quite a lot of the “imaginary” stuff back home…

221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 5:33:31am

re: #218 Archangelus

Oh you can bet on it. I don’t see this kind of BS coming to an end until one incident ends BADLY - which seems to be like what that crowd is hoping for (so long as they’re not the ones to pay the price, as can be seen in the “women up front” human shield tactic they went for)…

Which is why the BLM was right to back down from the initial confrontation, the last thing it needs to do is to provide the “movement” with any martyrs.

I am also worried what will happen if there is a major natural and/or man-made catastrophe that requires the government to declare martial law and send out armed forces to restore and maintain order and basic emergency services.

I can imagine that these same over-armed and under-dicked asshats will see it as their chance to play Wolverines against the “occupying forces” and turn entire stretches of the country into something resembling Somalia…

222 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:38:01am

re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yeah except that in the event of a showdown between these terrorists (and yes, that’s what I’ll ALWAYS call anyone who uses women and/or children as human shields - no different than Hizballah or Hamas, with which I’ve had some experience) going fully unhinged and a military task force, I don’t think it’ll go anywhere near whatever fantasy they might be harboring in their poor diluted skulls..

223 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 5:38:20am

re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Which is why the BLM was right to back down from the initial confrontation, the last thing it needs to do is to provide the “movement” with any martyrs.

I am also worried what will happen if there is a major natural and/or man-made catastrophe that requires the government to declare martial law and send out armed forces to restore and maintain order and basic emergency services.

I can imagine that these over-armed and under-dicked asshats will see it as their chance to play Wolverines against the “occupying forces” and turn entire stretches of the country into something resembling Somalia…

Unless they run out of gas on the way to the “battlefield.” Pack all their ammo and camp supplies, forget the gas cans and the credit cards. They make F Troop look professional.

224 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:38:35am

re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It wouldn’t be Somalia - it’d be a mismatch on the scale of Bambi vs. Godzilla. Granted, Bambi in this scenario has rabies and a submachine gun but Godzilla is Godzilla in the end…

225 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 5:40:31am

re: #224 Archangelus

It wouldn’t be Somalia - it’d be a mismatch on the scale of Bambi vs. Godzilla. Granted, Bambi in this scenario has rabies and a submachine gun but Godzilla is Godzilla in the end…

Point is, it will get ugly and result in an unnecessary loss of human life and limb. And make it harder for the authorities to restore order and maintain basic services and supplies. Just like Somalia…

226 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 5:41:44am
227 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 5:43:08am

re: #226 NJDhockeyfan

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228 Archangelus  Apr 23, 2014 5:48:29am

re: #226 NJDhockeyfan

229 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 5:51:52am

Morning Lizards. Live streaming video of today’s space walk this morning

230 Flounder  Apr 23, 2014 6:00:25am

I thought I would show off my artistry. I know, engineers make terrible artists. Give me a house to design, I will give you a rectangle.
Good Morning!

New York Street Sign

231 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 6:05:26am

Very polite pig…after we finish this salad we should talk about tomorrow’s breakfast…

Youtube Video

232 Flounder  Apr 23, 2014 6:09:19am

re: #231 darthstar

Now I have to run out and get some bacon bits for my salad!

233 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 6:11:34am
234 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 6:12:03am

re: #230 Flounder

I thought I would show off my artistry. I know, engineers make terrible artists. Give me a house to design, I will give you a rectangle.
Good Morning!

New York Street Sign

That’s OK. Physicists would represent the house as a mathematical point.

235 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 6:13:02am

re: #233 darthstar

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Keep wondering how long before Ailes dumps his ass like he did Beck.

236 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 6:13:45am

re: #235 Targetpractice

Keep wondering how long before Ailes dumps his ass like he did Beck.

As soon as he teaches another blonde to read the teleprompter.

237 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 6:16:14am
238 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:17:20am

re: #229 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards. Live streaming video of today’s space walk this morning

Did CNN hire them to go looking for the missing jet in orbit?
///

239 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 6:18:21am

re: #238 Feline Fearless Leader

Did CNN hire them to go looking for the missing jet in orbit?
///

Nope. The are replacing a failed computer this morning.

240 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:19:13am

re: #239 Bubblehead II

Nope. The are replacing a failed computer this morning.

Just hope that HAL is willing to open the pod bay door for them!
;)

241 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 6:20:02am

re: #238 Feline Fearless Leader

Did CNN hire them to go looking for the missing jet in orbit?
///

I’d like to see Wolf Blitzer in a space suit, drifting ever further away from the camera…

242 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 6:21:34am

re: #241 darthstar

I’d like to see Wolf Blitzer in a space suit, drifting ever further away from the camera…

Why waste a good space suit?

243 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 6:22:14am

Now sealing the airlock.

244 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:22:53am

re: #241 darthstar

I’d like to see Wolf Blitzer in a space suit, drifting ever further away from the camera…

Up here, floating in my tin can. Far above the world.

245 Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2014 6:23:20am

re: #241 darthstar

I’d like to see Wolf Blitzer in a space suit, drifting ever further away from the camera…

“I’m sorry, Dave Wolf; I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

246 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 6:23:26am

Daaaaaaaaaais-y Daaaaaaaaaaaaaais-y giive meeee yourrr answerrrrrrrr doooooo….

247 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:24:10am

re: #245 Dr Lizardo

“I’m sorry, Dave Wolf; I afraid I can’t do that.”

Not even for higher ratings! What kind of crazed computer are you!

248 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 6:24:19am

re: #242 Bubblehead II

Why waste a good space suit?

Good question. Must be why they sent him to the beach…

249 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 6:25:39am

Meanwhile CNN has a new simulator…

250 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:25:42am

re: #223 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Unless they run out of gas on the way to the “battlefield.” Pack all their ammo and camp supplies, forget the gas cans and the credit cards. They make F Troop look professional.

They’ll have to form a foraging column and start living off the land. And then lay siege to a small refinery they stumble upon - demanding fuel in exchange for the occupants “just walking away”.

251 lawhawk  Apr 23, 2014 6:26:37am

One of the coolest things I’ve seen was the night sky out in Bryce a few years back. It’s got one of the darkest night skies in the country, since it’s far from the light pollution of major cities and towns. There was a ranger-led night sky program, and if you ever have the opportunity to do one of these, jump at the chance.

They had put out a bunch of telescopes of different types, and they pointed out different constellations, galaxies, and also indicated when different satellites would go overhead.

One of the highlights was pointing out the ISS. That was most cool - watching it speed across the sky with the Milky Way rising behind it.

The best I could do is the photos out at Arches earlier this year. Don’t get to play enough with the technique back in New Jersey since the sky is considerably brighter with all the light pollution here.

I marvel at those who take astrophotography to the next level, like the folks that Phil Plait highlights regularly.

252 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 6:28:07am

re: #251 lawhawk

I recall staring up at the night sky at Mesa Verde, Colorado (also in the Four Corners region). As a kid who grew up around Chicago, it was a mind-boggling experience.

253 Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2014 6:32:05am

re: #244 Feline Fearless Leader

Up here, floating in my tin can. Far above the world.

Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.

254 Eventual Carrion  Apr 23, 2014 6:36:37am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I recall staring up at the night sky at Mesa Verde, Colorado (also in the Four Corners region). As a kid who grew up around Chicago, it was a mind-boggling experience.

Felt that way sitting out at night at the fishing camp in nowhere Quebec. Amazing nighttime sky. Then there was the one night a bat flew right into my chest as dad and I were sitting watching the sky, dad about fell off his chair laughing.

255 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 6:39:52am

re: #254 Eventual Carrion

Felt that way sitting out at night at the fishing camp in nowhere Quebec. Amazing nighttime sky. Then there was the one night a bat flew right into my chest as dad and I were sitting watching the sky, dad about fell off his chair laughing.

We were at a campground at the Chiracauhas in SW Arizona on a moonless night, we could follow the median stripe on the middle of the road by starlight.

And the campground was abandoned at that time of year (late October), the local spotted skunks were hungry for lack of trash to pick through, and getting very pert, one of them walked right over my feet as I sat at the picnic table.

256 Alyosha  Apr 23, 2014 6:41:42am

It wasn’t until almost a week after the Bundy ranch brouhaha kicked off that I realised that the man at the centre of it is actually named Cliven. I assumed the rogue ‘n’ at the end was a case of mass typo-ism.

257 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 6:43:01am
258 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 6:43:01am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We were at a campground at the Chiracauhas in SW Arizona on a moonless night, we could follow the median stripe on the middle of the road by starlight.

And the campground was abandoned at that time of year (late October), the local spotted skunks were hungry for lack of trash to pick through, and getting very pert, one of them walked right over my feet as I sat at the picnic table.

Skunk I saw in a campground in SE New Mexico came out of a prickly pear patch every night to hang out by a bulletin board next to the washroom. It went there to munch on all the moths that were flying around the bulletin board light.

The skunk pretty much ignored the campers going to and fro to the washroom, but it was interesting to watch someone come out of the washroom nonchalantly and then suddenly jump when their cerebral cortex yelled “skunk!”

259 freetoken  Apr 23, 2014 6:43:50am

re: #256 Alyosha

It wasn’t until almost a week after the Bundy ranch brouhaha kicked off that I realised that the man at the centre of it is actually named Cliven.

Cliven
is driven
to enliven
livin’.

260 Political Atheist  Apr 23, 2014 6:44:57am

re: #259 freetoken

Cliven
is driven
to enliven
livin’.

“Craven ‘Cliven”

261 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 6:45:51am

re: #258 Feline Fearless Leader

Ours, btw were desert spotted skunks.

262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 6:46:23am

re: #259 freetoken

Cliven
is driven
to enliven
livin’.

Cliven on the Edge…

263 freetoken  Apr 23, 2014 6:48:41am

re: #260 Political Atheist

“Craven ‘Cliven”

Cliven’s craven
for the men who go a’ cavin’,
like searching for raven
to be a’ braisin’
in Hannity’s raisin.

264 lawhawk  Apr 23, 2014 6:50:37am

Well, the same yahoos who gummed up my twitter yesterday are back at it claiming that the Constitution prohibits the feds and BLM from owning land. Except that if that was the case, then all the courts since the 1845 decision that they argue proves their point would invalidate the BLM and all the land use/ownership cases thereafter.

Except…. they haven’t. They don’t quite seem to get that the law doesn’t support their claims, which are just that - a claim unsupported by the Constitution or the courts or federal or state law since. Nevada isn’t seeking ownership of the land, since they gave it to the feds as a condition of entering the Union during the Civil War. It’s a rather unique situation in American history, and trying to explain this in 140 characters is, well, vexing. Hard concepts don’t translate to soundbites, which is why the Bundy nuts seem to have the support of those who don’t understand the law, or the history behind the development of the West.

265 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 6:56:22am

Airlock decompression complete. Opening outer hatch.

266 prairiefire  Apr 23, 2014 6:57:00am

re: #264 lawhawk

They are also spinning rumors about Harry Reid and his son profiting from the selling of a Wind Mill farm somewhere in that area. How, I dunno.

267 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 7:00:06am

re: #264 lawhawk

Hard concepts don’t translate to soundbites, which is why the Bundy nuts seem to have the support of those who don’t understand the law, or the history behind the development of the West. Twitter is useless for anything except letting us know what you had for lunch and what you think of Kate’s latest baby outfit.

FTFY

268 lawhawk  Apr 23, 2014 7:00:10am

Looks like Israel might have someone to negotiate with after all. Maybe.

Hamas and Fatah seem to have settled their long running disputes over who speaks for the Palestinians. They’ll be holding elections this fall, and Abbas will operate a caretaker government until then.

At that point, it might be worth talking about a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, but until then, it’s a holding pattern. Hamas, if they win the election, may well continue to hold to their no recognition of Israel, which would effectively kill the process such as it is.

If Fatah wins, Hamas could well do what they did after the last election and refuse to cede control, and the resulting civil war split control between Gaza and the West Bank. Might be interesting to see if Fatah gains ground in the election in Gaza (a sign of possible moderation of views), or if Hamas gains in the West Bank (sign of radicalization).

In any event, Israel knows that the current situation doesn’t help them economically and reducing the military costs would free up funds for use elsewhere in the country.

A peace deal can’t be forced on the parties, so a deal can only come when both sides are ready for it. Israel’s at that point, even though there’s a realization that land for peace alone will not secure peace - the Gaza disengagement is a vivid reminder that withdrawing from territory is no panacea for peace. It takes a leadership to draw away from incitement and violence, and the Palestinian leadership has to make that a priority. Fatah has done this to some extent, but Hamas uses violence, including by splinter groups and rivals in Gaza to solidify power and as a threat against Israel since 2007.

269 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 7:01:32am

littlegreenfootballs.com

Have used up all my luck for the day. The cellphone I ran through the wash/spin/rinse/spin cycles has survived. (See above.) Pulled the battery, left it in the Alabama sun for an hour (It was ‘on’ through the wash). Then I gave it 36 hrs in an ammo can full of silica gel. It came back up when I put the battery back in, and is taking a charge. The screen is a little washed-out, but it works and has that fresh, clean smell.

270 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 7:03:15am

re: #264 lawhawk

If the feds can’t own land, then who owns the White House, Camp Pendleton, Fort Knox, and federal penitentiaries, among other places? That premise make no damned sense.

271 Alyosha  Apr 23, 2014 7:03:21am

Which kind of makes me want to introduce a new verb to the lexicon.

Cliven: v. To engage in an act of pointless self-victimisation whilst threatening violence in trying to prevent a court order being carried out with the expressed goal of making federal law recognise and enshrine one’s petty entitlement complex.

Example: ‘Me and Jim-Bob went Cliven’ down at the ranch to stand in the way of Obummer’s tyranny till he shot hisself in his junk while doing a keg-stand.’

272 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 7:05:34am

re: #270 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

If the feds can’t own land, then who owns the White House, Camp Pendleton, Fort Knox, and federal penitentiaries, among other places? That premise make no damned sense.

HURR HURR!!!! THET LAND BELONGS TO WE TEH PEEPLE!!!!!! IT’S ARE LAND & WE CAN RUN OFF TEH OBUMMER & MOOCHELLE FROM ARE LAND, WITH ARE GUNZ!!!!!!! HURR HURR MOLON LUBE!!!!

273 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 7:07:22am

re: #272 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!! THET LAND BELONGS TO WE TEH PEEPLE!!!!!! IT’S ARE LAND & WE CAN RUN OFF TEH OBUMMER & MOOCHELLE FROM ARE LAND, WITH ARE GUNZ!!!!!!! HURR HURR MOLON LUBE!!!!

WHO LEAKED THE OP PLAN FOR THE MAY 16 AMERICAN SPRING RALLY?

274 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 23, 2014 7:09:40am

re: #273 Decatur Deb

WHO LEAKED THE OP PLAN FOR THE MAY 16 AMERICAN SPRING RALLY?

I am SO looking forward to that…. it’s going to be Derparoo, Burning Derp and Derpstock all rolled into one.

RBS

275 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 7:11:02am

re: #274 RealityBasedSteve

I am SO looking forward to that…. it’s going to be Derparoo, Burning Derp and Derpstock all rolled into one.

RBS

This time I want high-angle photos of the whole turnout. No more Dozen-Trucker victories for these dimwits.

276 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 7:13:10am

re: #272 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!! THET LAND BELONGS TO WE TEH PEEPLE!!!!!! IT’S ARE LAND & WE CAN RUN OFF TEH OBUMMER & MOOCHELLE FROM ARE LAND, WITH ARE GUNZ!!!!!!! HURR HURR MOLON LUBE!!!!

If that’s so, then can I stay in the White House whenever I visit DC? And, if I need money, can I just swing over to the Federal Reserve Bank and take what I need? I mean, it’s mine, right?

//

277 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 7:14:13am

re: #276 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

If that’s so, then can I stay in the White House whenever I visit DC? And, if I need money, can I just swing over to the Federal Reserve Bank and take what I need? I mean, it’s mine, right?

//

Ancestral rights and all, my family has been here since 1898…

278 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 7:17:08am

re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Ancestral rights and all, my family has been here since 1898…

Shoot! Mine’s been here since afore 1740. I got dibs over you’n!

279 Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2014 7:18:20am

re: #149 calochortus

I just can’t believe they’re going on and on about Bundy without the least effort at fact-checking.
It’s almost as though they were just looking for an exciting story line that fits their preconceived notions of sovereign rights and the evil gub’mint.

Well, reality is so boring and contrary to expectations. They’d never be regarded as heroes in a sane world.

280 ObserverArt  Apr 23, 2014 7:18:36am

Good morning all.

Has Justanotherhuman been heard from since she let the LGF members know her son was having heart issues? I was off and on yesterday and may have missed her. I hope she, her son and family are going to get through it all and be okay.

281 Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2014 7:19:16am

re: #153 calochortus

Some 4 decades ago a friend had his handlens (little teeny magnifying glass) put in baggage rather than carry on because you might be able to start a fire with it. This was when you could still smoke on planes and bring on lighters and matches.

People can develop amazing tunnel vision.

It’s easier than thinking.

282 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 7:19:37am

re: #278 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Shoot! Mine’s been here since afore 1740. I got dibs over you’n!

If you ain’t Clovis, yer a squatter. Paleo Power !!!

283 lawhawk  Apr 23, 2014 7:20:49am

re: #270 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

They claim that Art 1, Sec. 8, Cl 17 governs, even though that’s for the District of Columbia alone. Context matters, except to them. They then point to Pollard’s Lessee, which is a pre-Civil War case stemming from land use issues in Alabama, which never had any federal land ownership.

Heck, even Heritage understands that this relates to the District of Columbia, and the formation of a seat of government, and that it doesn’t apply to situations like out West.

That distinguishes itself from the Nevada case, where the land was federally held before the Civil War, and a condition of statehood (and enshrined in the NV constitution) that lands would stay in federal control.

It also ignores Art 4, Sec. 3, Cl 2, which gives Congress the power to control lands and make laws concerning new states:

The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.

In other words, this provision of the US Constitution is the authority under which the federal government can own lands, especially out West, which was largely granted statehood after the Civil War, often with land grant conditions written into the state constitutions.

If these states want to revisit this provision, and shift ownership back to the states, they’re welcome to try, but the law is sound on federal ownership of the land.

284 prairiefire  Apr 23, 2014 7:21:15am

re: #278 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

1650’s, over here!

285 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 7:21:59am

re: #282 Decatur Deb

If you ain’t Clovis, yer a squatter. Paleo Power !!!

Somehow, I doubt Bundy & Co. are going to cede land rights to the Native Americans who used to live there.

286 Timothy Watson  Apr 23, 2014 7:22:24am

re: #272 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!! THET LAND BELONGS TO WE TEH PEEPLE!!!!!! IT’S ARE LAND & WE CAN RUN OFF TEH OBUMMER & MOOCHELLE FROM ARE LAND, WITH ARE GUNZ!!!!!!! HURR HURR MOLON LUBE!!!!

Youtube Video

287 lawhawk  Apr 23, 2014 7:22:39am

re: #278 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Own the land you say? We were here before you even knew the land even existed.

288 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 7:25:21am

Again, this has nothing to do with laws, rights or regulations. It is about giving the gun-toting assholes a poster child. They know that people are ill-disposed towards the federal government and open to any sort of hare-brained arguments against it.

289 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 7:28:29am

re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Again, this has nothing to do with laws, rights or regulations. It is about giving the gun-toting assholes a poster child. They know that people are ill-disposed towards the federal government and open to any sort of hare-brained arguments against it.

It’s time to get some honest metrics on their numbers—looks like a lot of noise coming from a very small and redundant part of the Intertubes and RW media.

290 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 7:29:24am
291 Ian G.  Apr 23, 2014 7:32:34am

re: #290 NJDhockeyfan

The St. Louis Cardinals are easy to hate, and not just for Cubs fans. They win a lot, they’ve had jackasses like LaRussa and Pujols and Chris Carpenter on recent winning teams. Their fans are everywhere across the country, and have waaaay too high an opinion of themselves. The Cardinals are like the Steelers of MLB in a lot of ways.

292 freetoken  Apr 23, 2014 7:33:46am

re: #285 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Somehow, I doubt Bundy & Co. are going to cede land rights to the Native Americans who used to live there.

The Bundy’s certainly wouldn’t allow Spaniards, first Europeans to claim the land in which Nevada now sits.

And the Bundy’s would never dare to accept Mexican’s living on their land, even though Mexico could claim it as part of their land upon freedom from Spain.

293 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 7:33:54am

re: #290 NJDhockeyfan

This #Cubs fan really doesn’t like the #STLCards

WOW

I do not take it that far, but one of the greatest days of my youth was attending a double header at Wrigley field where the Cubs beat the Cardinals twice…

294 Alyosha  Apr 23, 2014 7:37:01am

‘Boat people’ problems

295 Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2014 7:37:19am

re: #274 RealityBasedSteve

I am SO looking forward to that…. it’s going to be Derparoo, Burning Derp and Derpstock all rolled into one.

RBS

Ultimate Derpapalooza.

297 Fineday  Apr 23, 2014 7:40:58am

re: #280 ObserverArt

Good morning all.

Has Justanotherhuman been heard from since she let the LGF members know her son was having heart issues? I was off and on yesterday and may have missed her. I hope she, her son and family are going to get through it all and be okay.

Good morning.

I don’t think there has been any updates. I am worried, but I hope her son is going to be fine.

298 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 7:46:03am

What could possibly go wrong?

299 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 23, 2014 7:48:28am

re: #298 Lidane

What could possibly go wrong?

Guns in bars. When throwing darts and punches is not enough.

300 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 7:49:28am

Bashar al-Assad’s Deadly Loophole in Syria Deal

Earlier this month, the Assad regime allegedly used chlorine gas — a weapon Syria is not required to relinquish — against civilians in the town of Kafr Zita, causing victims to suffocate, choke, vomit, foam at the mouth and develop hypertension, according to a letter from the head of the Syrian Coalition, a Western-approved opposition group, to the United Nations Security Council.

In the letter, Syrian Coalition representative Najib Ghadbian urged investigators from the joint mission between the U.N. and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to inspect a research center in Damascus that allegedly produces Syria’s chlorine gas.
…
But so far, said Oubai Shahbandar, spokesman for the Syrian Coalition, the Security Council hasn’t discussed inspecting production sites or punishing for the regime for its alleged use of chlorine weapons.

Any Security Council decision would also have to get the approval of Russia, a permanent member and ally of Syria. Because that’s unlikely to happen, Shahbandar said, the onus falls on the United States to hold the regime accountable.

“Assad continues to press his luck because he believes he can get away with it,” Shahbandar said. “It is now time that he does not.”

301 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 7:51:03am
303 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 7:52:20am
304 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 7:56:43am

re: #301 NJDhockeyfan

Snowden would answer, but he’s too busy kissing Putin’s ass in order to keep a roof over his head.

305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 7:57:25am

re: #303 Lidane

facts be damned. our conservative principles will see us through!

306 A Mom Anon  Apr 23, 2014 7:58:26am

re: #298 Lidane

This makes me scared and sad. I do know this though, if I walk into a bar or any other place and people are carrying, I’m walking the fuck back out. If you have to carry a fucking gun into church or to have a drink, you’re too insecure to leave the house. Stay the fuck home you scared little brat.

307 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 7:59:00am
308 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 7:59:04am

This should help his chances in the 2016 GOP primaries:

309 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 8:00:43am

re: #306 A Mom Anon

I do know this though, if I walk into a bar or any other place and people are carrying, I’m walking the fuck back out.

Oh, absolutely. I used to work in a bar. The LAST thing I’d want is to have a bunch of openly armed yahoos doing Jaeger bombs then sorting out their problems. Fuck that. I’d stay at home.

310 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 8:01:53am

This is the creepiest thing you will see all day:

311 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 8:02:36am

Checking.

312 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 8:03:23am

re: #309 Lidane

Oh, absolutely. I used to work in a bar. The LAST thing I’d want is to have a bunch of openly armed yahoos doing Jaeger bombs then sorting out their problems. Fuck that. I’d stay at home.

There will be blood spilt as a result of this law. I just hope that the collateral damage is minimal…

313 b.d.  Apr 23, 2014 8:03:50am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

This is the creepiest thing you will see all day:

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oh dear.

314 prairiefire  Apr 23, 2014 8:04:06am

re: #306 A Mom Anon

My daughter’s friend who is a boy was wearing a T shirt Saturday night that said “Keep Calm And Carry On” with two glocks below the writing. I said “is it legal to wear that shirt?” And he said “yes!!”

315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 8:04:44am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

This is the creepiest thing you will see all day:

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How about a new acronym - WINO: Wingnut in Name Only

316 GunstarGreen  Apr 23, 2014 8:05:59am

re: #298 Lidane

What could possibly go wrong?

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As a reminder: this new bill will allow you to carry your gun pretty much anywhere here in Georgiastan. Anywhere, that is, except for the state house.

Funny little exception, that. NIMBY, in its most egregious form.

317 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 8:07:52am

re: #316 GunstarGreen

As a reminder: this new bill will allow you to carry your gun pretty much anywhere here in Georgiastan. Anywhere, that is, except for the state house.

Funny little exception, that. NIMBY, in its most egregious form.

I am almost looking forward to seeing armed wingnuts challenging that exception…

only almost.

318 b.d.  Apr 23, 2014 8:08:19am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

This is the creepiest thing you will see all day:

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So Rand Paul will raise taxes, cut and run and grant amnesty like Reagan?!?!

Sounds like a winning ticket.

319 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 8:10:01am
320 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 8:10:14am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

This is the creepiest thing you will see all day:

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No thanks.

321 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 8:14:18am

Putin’s pivot towards Asia
Ukraine crisis seen speeding Gazprom deal with China

322 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 8:16:56am

Very cool! I can’t wait to hear these songs…

323 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 8:20:12am

re: #319 Gus

324 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 8:25:54am

LOL….dumbest criminal of the day…

325 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 8:29:16am

re: #324 NJDhockeyfan

LOL….dumbest criminal of the day…

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just change it to read “mother”

326 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 8:36:05am
327 Bubblehead II  Apr 23, 2014 8:36:58am

EVA completed. 1hr 36min. MDM computer successfully replaced and under going diagnostics.

328 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 8:37:34am

Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya

A camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda.

329 A Mom Anon  Apr 23, 2014 8:38:19am

re: #316 GunstarGreen

I believe you can however carry in any OTHER government building, like the DMV or unemployment offices. So that ought to make life an adventure. Awesome.

What’s going to be interesting is when African Americans start showing up in the allowed places with guns. White people will freak the fuck out down here. I live in a pretty affluent area, lots of educated people, but you’d be amazed at the number of Confederate Battle Flags you see down here, it’s amazing. There are open white supremacist groups here, no one bats an eyelash.

330 A Mom Anon  Apr 23, 2014 8:39:40am

OK, sun is out, it’s lovely day and the garden is calling. Have a great day all.

331 Slap  Apr 23, 2014 8:41:35am

re: #85 dog philosopher

Nice combo reference there. There’s not too many folks who can mention both in the same sentence knowledgeably!

332 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 8:42:00am
Prosecutors: Cuckolded husband’s tape proves Dinesh D’Souza knew he broke campaign laws

Furthermore, the cuckolded husband of Denise Joseph — D’Souza’s mistress in the affair that ended his marriage and another straw donor to Long’s campaign — made audio recordings in October, 2012 of his wife discussing D’Souza’s plans should he get caught making the illegal donations.

Excuse my ignorance, but does this mean D’Souza was screwing Denise Joseph while her husband watched?

333 wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2014 8:43:06am
334 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 8:43:56am

Gardening gone wrong
Terror trial witness: Farm turned into jihad training camp

The wife of the owner of an alleged jihad training camp in Oregon testified at the trial of radical British Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday that she hoped to teach Muslims about canning and raising lambs, but ended up instead hosting a cadre of armed militants.

Eva Hatley said that in addition to practicing knife-throwing, shooting rifles at a deer target and discussing plans to kidnap truckers, visitors sent by Abu Hamza to her Bly ranch boasted of terror skills and one claimed to be a “hit man” for Osama bin Laden.

“It wasn’t anything like I had envisioned for the property,” said Hatley, who spent time in the federal witness protection program.

335 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 8:46:14am
Hatley said she grew up in Idaho, “bagged” her first deer at 12, converted to Islam at age 38, and married the owner of the Bly ranch after a brief courtship based on his promise to convert and her hopes of using the 160-acre ranch as a “teaching farm” for Muslims.

After moving there, however, she learned that her mostly absent husband — whom she had married over the telephone — had four previous wives and 18 children, and came to believe that he had suffocated his previous wife to death and planned to kill her, she said.

Yikes!

336 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 8:49:45am

re: #328 Killgore Trout

Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya

Someone took Gaddafi’s nose off that mural

Wonder if it’s for sale on E-Bay !?!?!

337 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 8:50:05am

re: #334 Killgore Trout

Gardening gone wrong
Terror trial witness: Farm turned into jihad training camp

Terror Bundy trial witness: Farm Ranch turned into jihad militia training camp

338 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 8:50:25am
339 GunstarGreen  Apr 23, 2014 8:51:04am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

I believe you can however carry in any OTHER government building, like the DMV or unemployment offices. So that ought to make life an adventure. Awesome.

What’s going to be interesting is when African Americans start showing up in the allowed places with guns. White people will freak the fuck out down here. I live in a pretty affluent area, lots of educated people, but you’d be amazed at the number of Confederate Battle Flags you see down here, it’s amazing. There are open white supremacist groups here, no one bats an eyelash.

Yeah, They specifically only disallow weapons in government buildings that have security checkpoints. Which was pretty explicitly targeted at allowing guns into government facilities that the smallfolk use while keeping them out of the state house.

And yeah. We may not have (as many) open KKK-style groups in this country anymore, but racism is far from over. In Georgiastan, it’s more of the “subtle and assumed” style. You, as a “fine upstanding citizen”, don’t go to those places because you might run into those people.

Back in college, living around midtown Atlanta, I ordered a pizza once. The delivery guy was substantially late, and basically pleaded with me to get a tip anyway. As a pretty laid-back guy, I told him that I understood how it could be around that time of day on a college campus and that I had no problem still tipping him. He then informed me that he was glad, as a lot of people wouldn’t tip him under such circumstances. He then glanced around a bit, leaned in, and lowered his voice. “Honestly, it’s because they’re blah.”

The money had already changed hands, or I’d have had a change of heart about the tip.

340 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 8:51:32am

re: #337 Gus

Terror Bundy trial witness: Farm Ranch turned into jihad militia training camp

But, but, but…. they’re Patriots

341 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 8:51:48am

re: #335 Killgore Trout

whom she had married over the telephone — had four previous wives and 18 children, and came to believe that he had suffocated his previous wife to death and planned to kill her, she said.

He seems nice!

342 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 8:52:54am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

But, but, but…. they’re Patriots

Yep. Apparently wanting to kill law enforcement officers is the new patriotism.

343 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 8:53:42am

re: #342 Gus

Yep. Apparently wanting to kill law enforcement officers is the new patriotism.

…..and not acknowledging the existence of the US Government.

344 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 8:55:11am

re: #338 NJDhockeyfan

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No wonder there’s a lot of guys that age with only one ear!!!
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345 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 8:55:34am

One these days Sean Hannity is going to have to sleep in the bed that he made.

346 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 8:55:57am

re: #344 sattv4u2

No wonder there’s a lot of guys that age with only one ear!!!
/

How they invented Axe aftershave.

347 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 8:56:42am

re: #346 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

How they invented Axe aftershavebeheading.

ftfy

348 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 8:57:12am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

Meanwhile CNN has a new simulator…

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Oh for fuck’s sake…

349 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 8:57:35am

It’s racist Christmas today thanks to the SCOTUS.

350 Timothy Watson  Apr 23, 2014 8:58:02am

re: #345 Dr. Matt

One these day’s Sean Hannity is going to have to sleep in the bed that he made.

Unfortunately, it probably won’t be until after he finally mans up and submits to that waterboarding.

351 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 8:59:24am

re: #350 Timothy Watson

Unfortunately, it probably won’t be until after he finally mans up and submits to that waterboarding.

I volunteer to pay the airfare and water bill.

352 darthstar  Apr 23, 2014 8:59:54am
353 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2014 9:01:55am
354 Slap  Apr 23, 2014 9:02:16am

re: #191 3eff Jeff

As pointed out, E A D G B E is standard tuning, and you have to contort your hand to make chords, but the relationship between the strings is: 4th, 4th, 4th, Maj 3rd, 4th. This means that scale patterns are compact, and 4-5 frets wide for diatonic (western) scales. That makes running up and down a scale in order convenient. So it can be good for lead guitar (but open tunings can be used for lead as well).

I like to use hybrid tunings where the upper strings form a chord and the lower strings are either in standard tuning or all offset by the same interval. Drop D (D A D G B E) is a fun one for rock and metal. I’ve also been playing with D G D G B E a lot lately, which I don’t think has a name.

There are so many variations! I think your D G D G B E would be an open G6. True open G is that configuration with the high E dropped to D (the “classic” slack-key tuning). I finally figured out, while watching Jorma Kaukonen recently, that Hot Tuna’s “Water Song” is played in open G…. I believe Keith Richards uses the standard open G with the guitar strung with 5 strings. Dropped-D is great (watch Chris Cornell play sometime, and Collective Soul’s “Shine” is a recognizable example), also highly useful in acoustic folk-type settings (Stills’ “4+20”). Neil Young is a frequent user of double dropped-D — “Cinnamon Girl” and “Cortez the Killer” come to mind. THAT tuning is just pure fun to play with.

Then there’s my personal fave, D A D G A D. It’s neither major nor minor — is an open suspended 2. Great for Irish tunes, and gives a delightful mid-eastern sort of tonal color (see: Davy Graham, John Renbourn, Richard Thompson).

355 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 9:04:55am

Stay classy, Donald.

356 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 9:05:17am

re: #336 sattv4u2

Someone took Gaddafi’s nose off that mural

Wonder if it’s for sale on E-Bay !?!?!

For sale: 1 used Q’daffy nose, smells like new

357 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2014 9:05:28am
358 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2014 9:06:13am

re: #355 Pie-onist Overlord

Stay classy, Donald.

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359 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 9:06:20am

Is Justice Roberts a racist?

360 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 9:06:28am

re: #356 Killgore Trout

For sale: 1 used Q’daffy nose, smells like new Spring

ftfy

361 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 9:09:43am

re: #354 Slap

check out this whacked tuning for a Joni Mitchell song, “Cold Blue Steel” .

362 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 9:13:38am

re: #359 Gus

Is Justice Roberts a racist?

Depends on which cable network you watch

363 iossarian  Apr 23, 2014 9:14:17am

re: #359 Gus

Is Justice Roberts a racist?

Probably not consciously, but his decisions help perpetuate institutional/societal disadvantage for racial/ethnic minorities.

364 Gus  Apr 23, 2014 9:15:51am

re: #363 iossarian

Probably not consciously, but his decisions help perpetuate institutional/societal disadvantage for racial/ethnic minorities.

Like the ones that helped Justice Thomas along the way?

365 iossarian  Apr 23, 2014 9:17:10am

re: #364 Gus

Like the ones that helped Justice Thomas along the way?

The advances made by the likes of Thomas (and Obama) have occurred in spite of, not thanks to, policies and interpretations of the Constitution espoused by the likes of Roberts.

367 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 23, 2014 9:18:57am

re: #366 Killgore Trout

Outrage!
Obama Ate At Tokyo Restaurant That Serves Endangered Tuna Sushi

Expect a seething PETA tsunami within the hour.

368 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 9:19:08am

This is breathtaking stupidity. How are they going to know who any random customer voted for? Or does this mean they will just turn away all African-Americans?

369 Slap  Apr 23, 2014 9:19:44am

re: #361 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

lol….Joni is in an entirely different league when it comes to tunings! That one is pretty “normal” as such things go. Her website claims to include tabs for over 180 songs — with 96(!) different tunings.

370 Killgore Trout  Apr 23, 2014 9:20:18am

re: #367 NJDhockeyfan

Expect a seething PETA tsunami within the hour.

PETA had some stupid hissy fit last week about the White House Easter egg hunt. Idiots.

371 iossarian  Apr 23, 2014 9:20:27am

re: #368 Pie-onist Overlord

Gunsense!

It’s like nonsense, but with guns.

372 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 23, 2014 9:23:28am

re: #369 Slap

lol….Joni is in an entirely different league when it comes to tunings! That one is pretty “normal” as such things go. Her website claims to include tabs for over 180 songs — with >96(!) different tunings.

again, proof that a “musicians” brain process and understands music on a way that mine simply doesn’t.

RBS

373 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 9:24:14am

re: #367 NJDhockeyfan

Expect a seething PETA tsunami within the hour.

In parallel with a new #tcot faux outrage meme.

374 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 9:24:52am

re: #366 Killgore Trout

Outrage!
Obama Ate At Tokyo Restaurant That Serves Endangered Tuna Sushi

The tuna was unavailable for comment!!

375 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 9:26:42am

Erick son of Erick thinks MORE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING=RACE WAR.

376 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 9:27:45am

re: #368 Pie-onist Overlord

This is breathtaking stupidity. How are they going to know who any random customer voted for? Or does this mean they will just turn away all African-Americans?

They’ll turn away everyone who isn’t a white, Duck Dynasty looking yokel with Gadsden flags and Tea Party stickers on their car.

377 iossarian  Apr 23, 2014 9:29:19am

re: #375 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick son of Erick thinks MORE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING=RACE WAR.

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White people voting = the natural order of things

Black people voting = RACE WAR

Contemporary Republican thinking on diversity in a nutshell

378 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 9:30:37am

re: #376 Lidane

They’ll turn away everyone who isn’t a white, Duck Dynasty looking yokel with Gadsden flags and Tea Party stickers on their car.

If I pull up in the NATO surplus LandRover, they’d fill the back with 9 ball buck. Could be a bad mistake.

379 Bulworth  Apr 23, 2014 9:34:19am

GOPTeabag: Always Be Rebranding:

Although the troubles have intensified this semester, they began when the college (The College of Charleston) announced “Fun Home,” a memoir with themes that include sexual orientation, as the selection for a voluntary book experience last fall. For $52,000, the college bought thousands of copies of the book to distribute and arranged for its author, Alison Bechdel, to speak here.

But the selection angered religious conservatives. The Palmetto Family Council condemned the work as “pornographic,” a characterization its author disputes, and a state legislator, Garry R. Smith, ultimately led an effort to cut the college’s state budget allocation by $52,000. (Mr. Smith also targeted the University of South Carolina Upstate for a smaller reduction because of a different book selection.)

nytimes.com

380 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 9:34:22am

re: #377 iossarian

White people voting = the natural order of things

Black people voting = RACE WAR

Contemporary Republican thinking on diversity in a nutshell

Because it is a foregone conclusion to the GOP that black people are not going to vote for them. Do they ever stop to wonder why?

Oh yeah, free government stuff.

/

381 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2014 9:34:31am
382 Ian G.  Apr 23, 2014 9:35:35am

re: #375 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick son of Erick thinks MORE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING=RACE WAR.

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black people exercising their right to vote = “race war” to the GOP. But the Dems are the “plantation owners” according to geniuses like Ben Carson.

383 Ian G.  Apr 23, 2014 9:36:15am

re: #380 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Because it is a foregone conclusion to the GOP that black people are not going to vote for them. Do they ever stop to wonder why?

Oh yeah, free government stuff.

/

Free government stuff is fine if you’re an old, white ranch owner. Everyone else who takes free government stuff is a moocher.

384 Bulworth  Apr 23, 2014 9:39:07am
Erick son of Erick thinks MORE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING=RACE WAR.

DATA=PrUF. Confirmed. FACT.

385 Bulworth  Apr 23, 2014 9:42:35am

Fighters for Freedom and Libertee in SC legislature now to deduct cost of college textbooks it doesn’t like from state budget. Because Freedom.

386 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 9:44:58am

STAY CLASSY TCOT.

(I’m not embedding that shit here)

387 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 9:47:37am
388 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 9:52:03am

STAY CLASSY TCOT.

(Secret Service needs to see that Tweet)

389 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2014 9:53:43am

This is nonsense. I live in Kentucky and have ALWAYS paid sales tax on my Amazon purchases.
Any purchases I make that don’t have sales tax included, I have to report and pay the sales tax when I file my annual state income tax return.

390 Bulworth  Apr 23, 2014 9:54:12am

Lidane posted:

Gary Bauer mocks gays for not pushing a “national referendum” … a mechanism that doesn’t exist

After state courts approved teh gay marriage—

No valid, Activist Judgest!! legislature elected by the peoples must approve!

After state legislatures pass pro marriage freedom legislation—

Tyranny! every vote on teh gay must be made directly by people in states through referendum!!

After states approve gay equality via direct voter referendum—

Ur argument invalid—if you really love Freedom you would demand national universal worldwide referendum just like in the Constitution!!!

391 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 9:55:18am

WHY is this idiot in the Senate? WTF. I weep for my state:

392 Political Atheist  Apr 23, 2014 9:56:42am

Well, that happened.

NYPD Launches #myNYPD Photo Contest, Backfires as Badly as You Might Expect

Optics

HT Petapixel

393 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:01:30am

re: #391 Lidane

WHY is this idiot in the Senate? WTF. I weep for my state:

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Geez that’s pathetic even for a wanker like Cruz.

394 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:02:37am

re: #375 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick son of Erick thinks MORE BLACK PEOPLE VOTING=RACE WAR.

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Yeah how dare those black people vote Democratic, Erick, they should be voting for a bigoted party like yours.//

395 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 10:03:08am

re: #388 Pie-onist Overlord

STAY CLASSY TCOT.

(Secret Service needs to see that Tweet)

already deleted. anybody screenshot it?

396 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:03:43am

re: #382 Ian G.

black people exercising their right to vote = “race war” to the GOP. But the Dems are the “plantation owners” according to geniuses like Ben Carson.

Black people should vote for the GOP because of what the GOP was 150 years ago but ignore the actual hostility that is exhibited to them by the GOP today.

397 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 23, 2014 10:05:17am

re: #396 HappyWarrior

Black people should vote for the GOP because of what the GOP was 150 years ago but ignore the actual hostility that is exhibited to them by the GOP today.

They appear to keep forgetting that they should owe the GOP unending loyalty and subservience for that. Rand Paul should be sent out again to remind them of that.
//

398 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 10:06:51am

re: #395 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

already deleted. anybody screenshot it?

Screenshot:

399 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:06:56am

re: #397 Feline Fearless Leader

They appear to keep forgetting that they should owe the GOP unending loyalty and subservience for that. Rand Paul should be sent out again to remind them of that.
//

Yes, where is Rand Paul to remind all the black people that they don’t know that the Republican Party used to champion civil rights and then embraced people like himself who oppose civil rights.

400 GunstarGreen  Apr 23, 2014 10:10:11am

re: #389 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is nonsense. I live in Kentucky and have ALWAYS paid sales tax on my Amazon purchases.
Any purchases I make that don’t have sales tax included, I have to report and pay the sales tax when I file my annual state income tax return.

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People just don’t understand that yes, they were supposed to be paying sales taxes on all those online purchases all along. Just that if the seller doesn’t automatically collect them, you have to report and pay directly to the state. Non-existent enforcement has caused them to believe that it was perfectly legit to be ducking sales tax for decades.

Not that it matters in my case. Even with the sales tax back in, Amazon’s selection and convenience (“free” shipping via prime which just works out to be very, very cheap shipping) trumps 99% of brick-and-mortar retail for me. The only reason I ever use anything else to buy things is for food, or some other thing that I want/need to have “today”.

401 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 23, 2014 10:10:29am

re: #397 Feline Fearless Leader

They appear to keep forgetting that they should owe the GOP unending loyalty and subservience for that. Rand Paul should be sent out again to remind them of that.
//

Especially the subservience.

402 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 10:10:51am

re: #399 HappyWarrior

Yes, where is Rand Paul to remind all the black people that they don’t know that the Republican Party used to champion civil rights and then embraced people like himself who oppose civil rights.

He is in negotiations to speak to the next NAACP convention. The chairwoman finds him interesting.

politico.com

403 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:11:35am

re: #402 Decatur Deb

He is in negotiations to speak to the next NAACP convention. The chairwoman finds him interesting.

politico.com

Well he is interesting in the same way his father was. I find kooks very interesting.

404 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 23, 2014 10:13:15am

re: #398 Pie-onist Overlord

Screenshot:
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I believe this guy got some ‘splainin’ to do…

405 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 10:13:58am

re: #403 HappyWarrior

Well he is interesting in the same way his father was. I find kooks very interesting.

Two trolls clashing head-to-head.

406 Kragar  Apr 23, 2014 10:15:47am
407 Skip Intro  Apr 23, 2014 10:17:17am

Is it Stupid Wednesday already?

1: North Carolina’s GOP Nominees Want To Make Rising Sea Levels Illegal

esquire.com

2: “I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”

esquire.com

408 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:17:28am

re: #406 Kragar

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Horowitz has no room to talk about anti-semitism when the right has embraced it for centuries and of course that pathetic little weasel Hannity goes along with it because Hannity would side with anyone including Hitler himself over Obama.

409 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:18:17am

re: #407 Skip Intro

Is it Stupid Wednesday already?

1: >North Carolina’s GOP Nominees Want To Make Rising Sea Levels Illegal

esquire.com

2: >”I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”

esquire.com

I’m afraid so. Sigh.

410 Kragar  Apr 23, 2014 10:18:53am

re: #407 Skip Intro

Is it Stupid Wednesday already?

1: >North Carolina’s GOP Nominees Want To Make Rising Sea Levels Illegal

esquire.com

2: >”I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”

esquire.com

“Come and Take It” is this generation’s “I’m with Stupid”

411 jaunte  Apr 23, 2014 10:19:41am

re: #406 Kragar

On his Tuesday radio show, Hannity pointed to the president’s “support” of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and asked if it meant that “anti-Semitism is on the rise with the potential of resulting in a modern-day Holocaust.”

There’s no slope Hannity isn’t willing to describe as potentially slippery if it will excite his audience.

412 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:19:55am

I hope Wendy Davis’ opps research team is doing their homework. Abbott seems to care more about catering to the whims of the lunatic fringe than being an actual leader.The guy makes Rick Perry look like a leader. Rick Perry.

413 Skip Intro  Apr 23, 2014 10:20:23am

re: #406 Kragar

Paged.

littlegreenfootballs.com

414 Kragar  Apr 23, 2014 10:20:46am

re: #411 jaunte

There’s no slope Hannity isn’t willing to describe as potentially slippery if it will excite his audience.

The Sean Hannity Show has the potential to convince alien life forms that no intelligent life exists on Earth, so might as well destroy it.

415 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:21:05am

re: #411 jaunte

There’s no slope Hannity isn’t willing to describe as potentially slippery if it will excite his audience.

Obama is so much like Hitler that he even had a Passover seder and has had many Jewish advisers because you know Hitler did that too. And I completely mean it when I say Hannity would side with actual Hitler over Obama. I’ve seen nothing about Hannity’s lack of character that suggests otherwise.

416 kirkspencer  Apr 23, 2014 10:23:06am

re: #412 HappyWarrior

I hope Wendy Davis’ opps research team is doing their homework. Abbott seems to care more about catering to the whims of the lunatic fringe than being an actual leader.The guy makes Rick Perry look like a leader. Rick Perry.

The problem is, this is Texas.

417 Skip Intro  Apr 23, 2014 10:23:32am

re: #412 HappyWarrior

I hope Wendy Davis’ opps research team is doing their homework. Abbott seems to care more about catering to the whims of the lunatic fringe than being an actual leader.The guy makes Rick Perry look like a leader. Rick Perry.

To think that there are still some GOPers who think the GOP will become more moderate.

No way, folks. They’ve already blasted through the John Birch Society barrier and have set the speedo on the DeLorean to around 500 BCE.

418 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:23:39am

re: #416 kirkspencer

The problem is, this is Texas.

Yep. Same state that elected Ted Cruz and it wasn’t even really close.

419 wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2014 10:24:16am
420 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:24:28am

re: #417 Skip Intro

To think that there are still some GOPers who think the GOP will become more moderate.

No way, folks. They’ve already blasted through the John Birch Society barrier and have set the speedo on the DeLorean to around 500 BCE.

I gave up hope of that a long time ago. I just don’t know who I blame more- people like Abbott who enable a base that hates anything Obama and Democratic or the base itself for being such hateful pricks.

421 Ian G.  Apr 23, 2014 10:24:28am

cnn.com

Obummer’s America, everyone. Sons of the 1% busted for drugs like they’re some lowly minorities from the ‘hood. RACE WAR!!!! CLASS WARFARE!!!!

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422 Timothy Watson  Apr 23, 2014 10:24:33am

re: #398 Pie-onist Overlord

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Is that the same rope all the conservatives wanted to use on Ronald Reagan for selling weapons to terrorists?

Oh, wait…

423 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:25:06am

re: #422 Timothy Watson

Is that the same rope all the conservatives wanted to use on Ronald Reagan for selling weapons to terrorists?

Oh, wait…

See, that was different because Reagan made them feel better about themselves.

424 Kragar  Apr 23, 2014 10:25:27am
425 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:26:09am

re: #424 Kragar

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of right wing shit.

426 jaunte  Apr 23, 2014 10:28:31am
427 Ian G.  Apr 23, 2014 10:28:36am

re: #406 Kragar

David Horowitz is an absolutely lunatic and always has been, but this is ridiculous even by his standards. Does he not have one aunt/uncle/grandparent who had to flee Poland? Does he not understand what the Holocaust was at all?

I’ve often said that people who compare Obama to Hitler deserve to be hit in the head with the cane of a Holocaust survivor. Horowitz deserves 2 hits to the head, for trivializing his own peoples’ suffering.

428 nines09  Apr 23, 2014 10:29:14am

re: #15 Gus

Karen Hudes is a nut.

No. She is a huge bag of nuts. HUGE.

429 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 10:29:35am

re: #407 Skip Intro

2: >”I am about ready,” General Abbott told Breitbart Texas, “to go to the Red River and raise a ‘Come and Take It’ flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas.”

esquire.com

And this is the Texas Attorney General, y’all.

We are a state run by hopeless idiots. The Texas GOP are fucking stupid.

430 kirkspencer  Apr 23, 2014 10:30:01am

re: #421 Ian G.

cnn.com

Obummer’s America, everyone. Sons of the 1% busted for drugs like they’re some lowly minorities from the ‘hood. RACE WAR!!!! CLASS WARFARE!!!!

/////////////////////////////////////

The article had me alternately yelling and laughing. Laughing? The obvious play by one of the participants for state’s witness. And the concern about mandatory minimums.

The yelling? all the idiots who think the rich don’t do that sort of thing.

431 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:30:52am

re: #427 Ian G.

David Horowitz is an absolutely lunatic and always has been, but this is ridiculous even by his standards. Does he not have one aunt/uncle/grandparent who had to flee Poland? Does he not understand what the Holocaust was at all?

I’ve often said that people who compare Obama to Hitler deserve to be hit in the head with the cane of a Holocaust survivor. Horowitz deserves 2 hits to the head, for trivializing his own peoples’ suffering.

What makes it really bad is Horowitz ignores that his own side has been embracing neo-fascist movements in Europe. Blaming Obama who is about as far of being Anti-Semitic as you can get for Anti-Semitism is just disgusting. Then again Horowitz’s whole schitick is Mr. Disillusioned Lefty. He in his day was more left wing than Obama ever will be but Dave thinks just because he got disillusioned that everyone to the left of him is an Anti-Semite. He’s a disgusting pos.

432 sattv4u2  Apr 23, 2014 10:31:16am

re: #419 wrenchwench

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Simplest way to keep your bike’s chain rings from chewing up your pant leg

Actually, the simplest way is to not wear pants!!

433 Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2014 10:31:22am

re: #406 Kragar

Sean Hannity guest: Liberals inspired Kansas shooter, Obama causing ‘modern Holocaust’ | The Raw Story t.co
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2014

Is it FINALLY time to roll out our FEMA guillotines?! Mine is collecting dust and is prohibiting me from parking my Soros company car in the garage, FML.

434 Kragar  Apr 23, 2014 10:32:43am
435 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:33:46am

re: #434 Kragar

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436 Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2014 10:34:57am

re: #419 wrenchwench

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I always used one of those large rubber bands. Works fine for me.

437 Skip Intro  Apr 23, 2014 10:35:10am

re: #429 Lidane

And this is the Texas Attorney General, y’all.

We are a state run by hopeless idiots. The Texas GOP are fucking stupid.

Soon to be governor, you lucky bastards.

438 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 10:35:21am

re: #433 Dr. Matt

Is it FINALLY time to roll out our FEMA guillotines?! Mine is collecting dust and is prohibiting me from parking my Soros company car in the garage, FML.

Can’t use the guillotines until all the coffins are distributed, and right now the neighborhood MRAPs have priority on the transporters.

439 Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2014 10:36:48am

re: #438 Decatur Deb

Can’t use the guillotines until all the coffins are distributed, and right now the neighborhood MRAPs have priority on the transporters.

I’m still waiting to use my UN/FEMA/DHS AC130H gunship. It’s a real pain in the butt to dust.

440 Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2014 10:38:08am

re: #439 Dr Lizardo

I’m still waiting to use my UN/FEMA/DHS AC130H gunship. It’s a real pain in the butt to dust.

Puff the Magic Lizard.

441 Lidane  Apr 23, 2014 10:38:53am
442 HappyWarrior  Apr 23, 2014 10:48:54am

re: #441 Lidane

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Wow, quite a rant he had there but he’s right on. Good for him. Never been much of a wrestling fan but he always struck me as a decent guy. Glad he called out the hypocrisy too.

443 JustMark  Apr 23, 2014 10:53:40am

re: #429 Lidane

Spotted on the north bank of the Red River…


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