I see we had another idiotic right wing "goodbye cruel Chuckie" message last night. They've become parodies of themselves, reciting their dumb talking points like parrots, with exactly the same amount of intelligence.

That was so stupid I think it lowered my I.Q.
Utterly inane but dryly funny.

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I see we had another idiotic right wing "goodbye cruel Chuckie" message last night. They've become parodies of themselves, reciting their dumb talking points like parrots, with exactly the same amount of intelligence.

I didn't know there were still any here.

re: #3 Tigger2

I didn't know there were still any here.

Old "sleeper" accounts from years ago, this one was from 2007. He really missed his shot at a big audience, he should have waited till election night. Guess the pressure of all the bad polls for Romney got to him and he shot his load early... :p

@mittromney - FYI: you can say "Fuck you, Mitt" while voting for Obama and still vote "for love of country."Just sayin... #p2 #tlot

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) November 3, 2012

"Yesterday, the president said something you may have heard by now that I think surprised a lot of people. Speaking to an audience he said, you know, voting is the best revenge. He told his supporters, voting for revenge. Vote for revenge? Let me tell you what I’d like to tell you: Vote for love of country," Romney said, and the crowd of more than 1,000 cheered. "It is time we lead America to a better place."

re: #4 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

Old "sleeper" accounts from years ago, this one was from 2007. He really missed his shot at a big audience, he should have waited till election night. Guess the pressure of all the bad polls for Romney got to him and he shot his load early... :p

I was able to piece together some of the flounce-ee's comments from the various replies.

"Captain Teleprompter"? I actually asked a wingnut online why this is such a big deal, when their Lord and Savior St. Ronnie use one. No answer, obviously.

What's amusing is the smug self-satisfaction they get from using that stupid line, as if they're in on something the sheeple are missing.

BREAKING MEME: RW bemoaning "Liberals are clinging to data, facts & statistics" like Nate Silver's @fivethirtyeight model. Yes. Yes we are.

— Bill Talley (@Political_Bill) November 3, 2012

Daily Kos: Mitt is "creeping out" voters in Wisconsin dailykos.com/story/2012/11/... via @dailykos

— BWD (@theonlyadult) November 3, 2012

Wow: LA Times: Romney surrogate jokes about rising seas and NYC. (Because rape was already covered?) mojo.ly/Us6Msg #ArturDavis #sigh

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) November 3, 2012

The seven-year old survived having to wait until the 31st for Halloween.

It was touch and go.

I think 7 is the peak of Halloween, really. Old enough to read a calendar and anticipate, young enough to not yet be jaded.

Dis you see this??

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re: #11 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

Dis you see this??

[Link: mobile.twitter.com...]

That. Is. Awesome.

I have that book more or less memorized.

re: #7 darthstar

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"BREAKING MEME", oh that's good.

My mother said that what she loves about Halloween is that it is the one night a year that the power structure is reversed. Adults cower in their houses, while children demand, and get, candy from them.

re: #8 darthstar

I'd be creeped out to.

Took 16 kids out to re-enact Gettsyburg with nerf guns yesterday. Today I have to go be guard mom* in the rain. I've made a panookie for them.

I hope at least one of my kids lives nearby with his family, or I'm going to be very lonely. Kids are fun. Well, I could live without the rain, but she's going to be more miserable than I am.

*This is like band mom for the colorguard.

Climate change doesn't exist, but President Obama is to blame for not stopping the nonexistent rise of sea levels that we just legislated in North Carolina that we're not allowed to talk about.

Of course you're not supposed to take revenge at the voting booth. You're supposed to nurse that sweet, sweet joy of retaliation so that it's always with you. Because when your "love of country" means hate and fear of gays, women, blacks, Latinos, foreign countries, Muslims, immigrants, liberals, poor people, and just anybody who has a different opinion, there's always somebody that needs to be retaliated against or kept in line.

re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea

Of course you're not supposed to take revenge at the voting booth. You're supposed to nurse that sweet, sweet joy of retaliation so that it's always with you. Because when your "love of country" means hate and fear of gays, women, blacks, Latinos, foreign countries, Muslims, immigrants, liberals, poor people, and just anybody who has a different opinion, there's always somebody that needs to be retaliated against or kept in line.

Sounds exhausting.

I slept better than I though I would last night. I did wake up a lot and jumped at every bump in the night but even my cheapo alarm system gave me enough peace of mind to get back to sleep. I'm pretty sure the intruder(s) were looking for pot plants in the greenhouse and I'm also pretty sure they'd done this before. It seemed well thought out, professional and very risky. I'm a regular visitor to Portland's "indoor garden" centers which are mostly for pot growers. Since I'm just growing vegetables I talk freely about my greenhouse and pay with a debit card thinking I have nothing to hide. I suspect it might be a common scam for employees, some of whom seem pretty scummy, to collect info on local pot growers and share the info with thieves.

re: #18 allegro

Sounds exhausting.

It's a lot of work to be a wingnut. lol

re: #20 Tigger2

It's a lot of work to be a wingnut. lol

None of that work involves critical thinking.

re: #10 Mostly sane, most of the time.

The seven-year old survived having to wait until the 31st for Halloween.

It was touch and go.

I think 7 is the peak of Halloween, really. Old enough to read a calendar and anticipate, young enough to not yet be jaded.

My 10 year old decided he didn't want to go this year... after, of course, we'd dropped $70 on a Halo Master Chief costume for him [facepalm] but at least it's way big for him so next year he can wear it to parties or if he feels the urge to trick or treat again.

Now, for him, waiting for Christmas can be physically painful.

OK, I just saw the latest right wing freak-out, about Obama saying "Don't boo ... vote. Voting is the best revenge."

They're on a unison fainting binge over this. It's so brain-dead it's giving me a headache.

re: #23 Charles Johnson

OK, I just saw the latest right wing freak-out, about Obama saying "Don't boo ... vote. Voting is the best revenge."

They're on a unison fainting binge over this. It's so brain-dead it's giving me a headache.

And this one will work, just like 'You didn't build that' worked!

re: #23 Charles Johnson

OK, I just saw the latest right wing freak-out, about Obama saying "Don't boo ... vote. Voting is the best revenge."

They're on a unison fainting binge over this. It's so brain-dead it's giving me a headache.

He's been using the 'Don't boo,vote' thing for weeks now. I guess their getting upset about his using the word 'revenge' is due to their feeling that they somehow own that word.

"Living well is the best revenge."
-- George Herbert, 1593-1633

re: #19 Killgore Trout

Honestly I'd think more about the builders who built the place and people who have access to those records.

I have never had the sitzfleisch or the interest to sit through a Ted talk.

"Success is the best revenge."
-- Don Williamson

(Williamson resigned as mayor of Flint MI, in 2009 just before he was about to be recalled.)

Former Flint Mayor Don Williamson erects statue of himself outside new Davison Township home

Creationists should hire the Onion to write their scripts.

re: #26 jaunte

"Living well is the best revenge."
-- George Herbert, 1593-1633

Be nice if the guy who said that had lived a wee bit longer, eh? /// Would that we could do to TB what we have done to Smallpox...

re: #23 Charles Johnson

OK, I just saw the latest right wing freak-out, about Obama saying "Don't boo ... vote. Voting is the best revenge."

They're on a unison fainting binge over this. It's so brain-dead it's giving me a headache.

This one will definitely be the nail in Obama's coffin, I can feel it. Sure, the previous 973 times it didn't quite stick, but this time it will definitely work!

It has to work...right?

re: #23 Charles Johnson

OK, I just saw the latest right wing freak-out, about Obama saying "Don't boo ... vote. Voting is the best revenge."

They're on a unison fainting binge over this. It's so brain-dead it's giving me a headache.

Romney Seeks Vengeance For Obama’s ‘Revenge’ Remark

Another quote clipped of context, inflated into an outrage.

re: #8 darthstar

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So Obama said something which could be taken out of context and used by the Romney campaign to prove that he is a threat to America.

In other words, Obama opened his mouth.

re: #19 Killgore Trout

I'm pretty sure the intruder(s) were looking for pot plants in the greenhouse and I'm also pretty sure they'd done this before

Huh ,, whaddImiss?? You got broken into !?!?!

re: #30 Achilles Tang

Creationists should hire the Onion to write their scripts.

I think it happens the other way around.

re: #29 jaunte

"Success is the best revenge."
-- Don Williamson

Former Flint Mayor Don Williamson erects statue of himself outside new Davison Township home

Read that article and the Wiki of him...what a fucking crook.

re: #36 sattv4u2

I'm pretty sure the intruder(s) were looking for pot plants in the greenhouse and I'm also pretty sure they'd done this before

Huh ,, whaddImiss?? You got broken into !?!?!

Yeah. I had a break in 2 nights ago in the middle of the night.Seems like someone thought my greenhouse might have pots plants, They were disappointed but it scared the fuck out me. Luckily there was no confrontation, they ran when I woke up.

re: #39 Killgore Trout

Yeah. I had a break in 2 nights ago in the middle of the night.Seems like someone thought my greenhouse might have pots plants, They were disappointed but it scared the fuck out me. Luckily there was no confrontation, they ran when I woke up.

I'd advise you to see what your options are on putting a glassbreak detector in the greenhouse if you go the professionally-installed/monitored route.

Thing is, the newer types of glassbreak detectors use sound to trigger, not a physical contact on the glass (though I'm sure that you can probably still get those type of sensors); you don't want stuff to cause it to trip falsely.

re: #39 Killgore Trout

Yeah. I had a break in 2 nights ago in the middle of the night.Seems like someone thought my greenhouse might have pots plants, They were disappointed but it scared the fuck out me. Luckily there was no confrontation, they ran when I woke up.

Did they at least take enough stuff to make a decent salad???

//

Getting broken into leaves a scar. Decades ago I had my work van broken into. Hundreds of dollars worth of power and manual tools, gone. Two months ago the house next to me and the one next to that got broken into in the middle of the day

re: #39 Killgore Trout

If you're still looking for home security ideas, you could watch the Home Alone movies. It's been awhile, and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to recall them being pretty successful.

re: #42 Sophist, Gingham Style (AKA Bronco Bama)

If you're still looking for home security ideas, you could watch the Home Alone movies. It's been awhile, and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to recall them being pretty successful.

True, as long as you have to incompetent thieves!!

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Katy Perry opening for Obama!

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re: #40 MittDoesNotCompute

I'd advise you to see what your options are on putting a glassbreak detector in the greenhouse if you go the professionally-installed/monitored route.

Thing is, the newer types of glassbreak detectors use sound to trigger, not a physical contact on the glass (though I'm sure that you can probably still get those type of sensors); you don't want stuff to cause it to trip falsely.

I'm still thinking about my options for security systems.Glass break detectors might be a good idea.

re: #41 sattv4u2

Did they at least take enough stuff to make a decent salad???

//

Getting broken into leaves a scar. Decades ago I had my work van broken into. Hundreds of dollars worth of power and manual tools, gone. Two months ago the house next to me and the one next to that got broken into in the middle of the day

I've had 4 vehicles broken into and 2 stolen.
Only 1 involved adults. I wouldn't mind breaking their knees, but it wouldn't do me any good, or replace the thousands of dollars for repairs I had to put out.

re: #45 Killgore Trout

I'm still thinking about my options for security systems.Glass break detectors might be a good idea.

Large dog.

re: #46 b_sharp

I've had 4 vehicles broken into and 2 stolen.
Only 1 involved adults. I wouldn't mind breaking their knees, but it wouldn't do me any good, or replace the thousands of dollars for repairs I had to put out.

I had a large job box bolted to the floor of the van, locked, with all the power tools in it

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The crawled under the van and undid the bolts and took the whole box, probably to pick the lock back at their own place

re: #47 b_sharp

Large dog.

As long as the dog doesn't eat all the veggies in his hot house!!

re: #49 sattv4u2

As long as the dog doesn't eat all the veggies in his hot house!!

Our Greyhound eats the strawberries in the garden, but leaves the 'maters and squash alone.

re: #50 GeneJockey

Our Greyhound eats the strawberries in the garden, but leaves the 'maters and squash alone.

My two just eat grass when they have upset tummies, although they both eat carrots

re: #49 sattv4u2

As long as the dog doesn't eat all the veggies in his hot house!!

Leave the dog outside.
That way the bad guys can see it and its sharp pointy teeth.

re: #52 b_sharp

Leave the dog outside.
That way the bad guys can see it and its sharp pointy teeth.

he could build a mote and stock it with gators ,,, OR ,, sharks , with laser beams on their foreheads!!

re: #53 sattv4u2

he could build a mote and stock it with gators ,,, OR ,, sharks , with laser beams on their foreheads!!

Both are good ideas, but are they legal?
Dogs and cats are legal. Cats are too self serving to be good guard animals.

re: #45 Killgore Trout

I'm still thinking about my options for security systems.Glass break detectors might be a good idea.

My security is provided Mr. Horace Smith and Mr. Daniel Wesson...

Love your dress, Katy Perry! ustream.tv/cbsnews@katyperry #Obama2012 twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/...

— The Obama Diary (@TheObamaDiary) November 3, 2012

re: #56 Gus

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A hollow-body Telecaster with F holes in the background, nice. Those are terrifically resonant.

Katy looks good too.

Searching for a user's most recent comments is still disabled - incredibly frustrating when I was trying to find out what CuriousLurker last said about Sandy's effect on her area. I did manage to find this on her most recent Page:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

...which made it seem as if she'd escape the worst, so I wasn't too worried at first. But now, according to the only article I've been able to find (so far) about Sandy's effect on that county:

Hurricane Sandy leaves Essex County a mess

That doesn't sound good at all :( Anyone else able to find more recent info on what's happening there? Google-fu is failing me big-time today.

re: #54 b_sharp

Both are good ideas, but are they legal?
Dogs and cats are legal. Cats are too self serving to be good guard animals.

Lessee

You can build a mote

You can buy a shark
[Link: www.ehow.com...]

Not sure about a gator though

Oh yeah I am totally wrong about climate change existing. What was that you were saying about Hurricane Sandy being caused by gay marriage?

— Meghan McCain (@McCainBlogette) November 3, 2012

re: #54 b_sharp

Both are good ideas, but are they legal?
Dogs and cats are legal. Cats are too self serving to be good guard animals.

Depends on the cat...I bet a jaguar would do a pretty good job as a guard animal. As long as it didn't eat you first.

re: #48 sattv4u2

I had a large job box bolted to the floor of the van, locked, with all the power tools in it

Image: job-box.png

The crawled under the van and undid the bolts and took the whole box, probably to pick the lock back at their own place

In my T-10 Blazer I had a small box of computer parts in the front and a large toolbox in the back full of tools and parts. The kids threw the box of parts out somewhere, but ignored the stuff in the back so I didn't lose anything from there. I lost a couple of hundred bucks on the parts and about 700 bucks on damage they did smashing into fences.

Your guys were focused and specific, my guys were just kids out for a lark.

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re: #57 b_sharp

A hollow-body Telecaster with F holes in the background, nice. Those are terrifically resonant.

Katy looks good too.

I was checking the Antiqua P-Bass on the left. Semi-hollow Teles never did it for me for some reason.

New York is now 26.2% post-apocalyptic (down from 27.7% on Friday).

— Nate Silver (@fivethirtyeight) November 3, 2012

re: #58 Interesting Times

damn

re: #53 sattv4u2

he could build a mote and stock it with gators ,,, OR ,, sharks , with laser beams on their foreheads!!

Pfft, gators? Everyone knows shit moats are where it's at.

re: #61 danarchy

Depends on the cat...I bet a jaguar would do a pretty good job as a guard animal. As long as it didn't eat you first.

That's what I mean by self-serving.

Live now.

President Obama campaigns in Milwaukee

re: #63 Varek Raith

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Climate change is a hoax! Sandy was God's revenge for teh gays!!

Derp.

Funny. They're big on God taking REVENGE aren't they?

re: #64 makeitstop

I was checking the Antiqua P-Bass on the left. Semi-hollow Teles never did it for me for some reason.

If you've ever owned a solid Tele and had to stand with it for any length of time you'd want something lighter. The solid and semi also sound different.

I'm not a bass player, even though I own one, so I didn't even notice the P-bass.

re: #70 Gus

Climate change is a hoax! Sandy was God's revenge for teh gays!!

Derp.

Funny. They're big on God taking REVENGE aren't they?

God doesn't take revenge. He just punishes us for our own good. You know, like a parent punishes a recalcitrant child. Only apparently when god does it there is a whole lot more death and destruction...

Man, Stuyseveant Town apartments are nice. Probably nicer when they have working heat, gas, electricity, and that jazz, though.

Just got back from delivering a bunch of food and stuff to the more elderly residents. And informational packets, which are less nutritious.

A lot of the donated food were MREs. I've never had one. I've heard rather mixed reviews of them, but they make sense for places without the ability to cook.

Anyway, they've restored power and stuff to a lot of the buildings there, and people seemed in generally good spirits.

I wonder what conservative America is making of the whole lack of looting, and all the eager community volunteering and stuff going on in Lie-beral NYC.

re: #71 b_sharp

If you've ever owned a solid Tele and had to stand with it for any length of time you'd want something lighter. The solid and semi also sound different.

I'm not a bass player, even though I own one, so I didn't even notice the P-bass.

I own two Teles and an Esquire. The weight has never bothered me at all.

I own a couple of Les Pauls that definitely earn the title 'boat anchor,' though.

re: #70 Gus

Climate change is a hoax! Sandy was God's revenge for teh gays!!

Derp.

Funny. They're big on God taking REVENGE aren't they?

For somebody who can defy time and space, and is all powerful and omnipotent, God sure is big on collateral damage.

Maybe he's a sadist and gets off on punishing the innocent as well as the guilty.

re: #45 Killgore Trout

I'm still thinking about my options for security systems.Glass break detectors might be a good idea.

I'd value a deterrent over a detection system, especially if you're living on the premises. I think you said before that you don't have time for dogs, but a pair of pooches with sufficiently baritone singing voices will do a lot more to dissuade shenanigans than a window sticker reading "PROTECTED BY FOOBAR SECURITY ALERT INC."

re: #73 Obdicut

Man, Stuyseveant Town apartments are nice. Probably nicer when they have working heat, gas, electricity, and that jazz, though.

Just got back from delivering a bunch of food and stuff to the more elderly residents. And informational packets, which are less nutritious.

A lot of the donated food were MREs. I've never had one. I've heard rather mixed reviews of them, but they make sense for places without the ability to cook.

Anyway, they've restored power and stuff to a lot of the buildings there, and people seemed in generally good spirits.

I wonder what conservative America is making of the whole lack of looting, community volunteering and stuff going on in Lie-beral NYC.

From what I know, MREs range from fairly decent to "you can live on it, but it tastes like shit" (as was said in Crocodile Dundee).

re: #57 b_sharp

A hollow-body Telecaster with F holes in the background, nice. Those are terrifically resonant.

Katy looks good too.

I suspect those are painted-on f-holes.

I have an arguably pathological disdain for Telecasters. I think they're ugly as ugly can be. Even the furniture-guitar versions made out of exotic birdseye quilted petrified ancient swamp Martian dinosaur bonewood.

AND, even more irrationally, I automatically assume that anyone playing a Telecaster is an extremely annoying guitarist, at least for the duration of the playing of the Telecaster.

re: #74 makeitstop

I own two Teles and an Esquire. The weight has never bothered me at all.

I own a couple of Les Pauls that definitely earn the title 'boat anchor, though.

I've owned a Tele clone but never a Les Paul. The Les Paul clone I owned was semi-hollow so the weight was not bad.

I've never owned a Gibson although I've owned a couple of Epiphones. I tend to buy the unusual like Peavey (American), Jackson (American), and Danelectro.

re: #78 Our Precious Bodily Fluids

I suspect those are painted-on f-holes.

I have an arguably pathological disdain for Telecasters. I think they're ugly as ugly can be. Even the furniture-guitar versions made out of exotic birdseye quilted petrified ancient swamp Martian dinosaur bonewood.

AND, even more irrationally, I automatically assume that anyone playing a Telecaster is an extremely annoying guitarist, at least for the duration of the playing of the Telecaster.

Why would you think the f-holes are painted on?

[Link: www.fender.com...]

I used a tele-clone in a rock band.

re: #79 b_sharp

I've owned a Tele clone but never a Les Paul. The Les Paul clone I owned was semi-hollow so the weight was not bad.

I've never owned a Gibson although I've owned a couple of Epiphones. I tend to buy the unusual like Peavey (American), Jackson (American), and Danelectro.

I've got 4 Les Pauls - a Custom, a Standard, a Special and a Junior. The Custom and Standard are ridiculously heavy, but they sound amazing. I usually opt for playing the Special, because it weighs next to nothing.

If you really want to talk heavy - I landed a '75 Fender Twin Reverb last week, with factory-installed JBLs. I dread moving it, but it sounds so good I bite the bullet. Thing's got to weigh about 100 pounds.

Chris Rock has a message for white people

re: #82 moderatelyradicalliberal

Chris Rock has a message for white people

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re: #81 makeitstop

I've got 4 Les Pauls - a Custom, a Standard, a Special and a Junior. The Custom and Standard are ridiculously heavy, but they sound amazing. I usually opt for playing the Special, because it weighs next to nothing.

If you really want to talk heavy - I landed a '75 Fender Twin Reverb last week, with factory-installed JBLs. I dread moving it, but it sounds so good I bite the bullet. Thing's got to weigh about 100 pounds.

I have a couple of Peavey amps, a stereo and an acoustic. I think they weigh about the same as your amp. I hate lugging them about.

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re: #84 b_sharp

I have a couple of Peavey amps, a stereo and an acoustic. I think they weigh about the same as your amp. I hate lugging them about.

[Link: www.rebootcomputers.ca...]

Those Peaveys are brutes, for sure. I used to own a single 12" combo that weighed a ton. You need the weight to get the tone, though.