Mid-Day Open Thread
Been running around town a bit today, taking care of some meat world business, so here’s a quick no-frills open thread for the lizard army to bivouac in.
Been running around town a bit today, taking care of some meat world business, so here’s a quick no-frills open thread for the lizard army to bivouac in.
1 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:06:29pm |
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
2 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 3:08:21pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
i just tell people i’m working on my self-improvement goals of becoming more immature and irresponsible
3 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 3:34:45pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
Take her out for a test drive in one (pick one, they’re all hot). Halfway through, tell her that she’s your midlife crisis, but if you’re too old for one, you can always leave her at the side of the road and return the car to the dealership.
4 | EmmaAnne May 12, 2014 3:38:53pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
If you have a midlife crisis when you are 70, does that mean you will I’ve to be 140? I say go for it!
5 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 3:39:10pm |
One of the more depressing aspects of Russia today is that the people you used to respect undergo some unexplainable transformations, as if some sort of an alien left his eggs inside their bodies and they have hatched, or some body snatchers have replaced the person with a body double with an entirely different personality.
You’ve certainly heard of Dmitry Kiselev, that modern day Fr. Coughlin - or Streicher, as that may be - the current architect of Putin’s propaganda machine. His crazy and bigoted rants are almost the stuff of legends now, but he used to be a very rational, liberal journalist in the 1990s.
Here’s him giving a master class on journalism, explaining that a journalist doesn’t have a right to be an “agitator”, that the “plank” must not be lowered, because otherwise one day “we will discover ourselves bathing in dirt, like pigs. And the society will be like that - we’ll be devouring each other, together with dirt … and it won’t be possible to go lower than that.”. How prophetic.
6 | goddamnedfrank May 12, 2014 3:39:36pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
Sporty cars are kind of gay at any age. Sprinter Van camper conversions are where it’s at.
7 | Backwoods_Sleuth May 12, 2014 3:41:04pm |
When it snows, then melts rapidly in CO, this is what can happen. Cool “snowslide” pics from @MidwifeOfChange. pic.twitter.com/8ekWmZ2svt
— 7NEWS Denver Channel (@DenverChannel) May 12, 2014
8 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:41:17pm |
re: #4 EmmaAnne
If you have a midlife crisis when you are 70, does that mean you will I’ve to be 140? I say go for it!
Not 70 yet by 14 years, but another 14 years of this, and I’ll be REALLY PISSED!!!
9 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:41:59pm |
re: #6 goddamnedfrank
Sporty cars are kind of gay at any age. Sprinter Van camper conversions are where it’s at.
Feh.
10 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 3:43:00pm |
Ahem. for my 70th, in July, I’m getting a new flatslide carb for my 500cc thumper.
11 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 3:45:04pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Maybe a little something with just two wheels, lots of carbon fiber, hmmm, electronic shifters, only weighs 15 lbs., she couldn’t object to that, could she?
12 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 3:45:30pm |
re: #10 Decatur Deb
Ahem. for my 70th, in July, I’m getting a new flatside carb for my 500cc thumper.
I think I’m going to have my midlife crisis early. My project - should I manage to come up with the cash for it - is a ‘79 Lincoln Continental sitting in my father-in-law’s fencerow. “It ran when he parked it,” although I’d imagine that it’ll need all new rubber parts after sitting in that fencerow for over 12 years. Probably going to do a carb rebuild, new plugs/wires/cap+rotor, etc. Only other work it needs is 4 new tires and a new vinyl top. Plus a nicer home to keep it in.
13 | ssn697 May 12, 2014 3:46:08pm |
I left my garage open and froze my tomato plants. So much for 3 weeks of early indoor planting…
14 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 3:46:40pm |
re: #13 ssn697
I left my garage open and froze my tomato plants. So much for 3 weeks of early indoor planting…
A mid-spring crisis. ):
15 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:47:53pm |
re: #10 Decatur Deb
Ahem. for my 70th, in July, I’m getting a new flatside carb for my 500cc thumper.
See, what’s insulting about ‘Midlife Crisis’ is that it assumes you’re trying to recapture your lost youth, a pathetic old has-been trying to seem cool
I don’t give a fuck about being cool, or my ‘lost youth’.
16 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 3:48:23pm |
re: #12 thedopefishlives
I think I’m going to have my midlife crisis early. My project - should I manage to come up with the cash for it - is a ‘79 Lincoln Continental sitting in my father-in-law’s fencerow. “It ran when he parked it,” although I’d imagine that it’ll need all new rubber parts after sitting in that fencerow for over 12 years. Probably going to do a carb rebuild, new plugs/wires/cap+rotor, etc. Only other work it needs is 4 new tires and a new vinyl top. Plus a nicer home to keep it in.
If you pimp a Lincoln enough, it becomes a Democrat.
17 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:48:54pm |
re: #13 ssn697
I left my garage open and froze my tomato plants. So much for 3 weeks of early indoor planting…
Oh, ‘eck. Usually ‘hardening off’ means something else for tomato plants.
18 | b.d. May 12, 2014 3:50:38pm |
So Glenn retweets a link talking abut the NYTimes review of his book.
From the review:
In one passage, Mr. Greenwald makes the demonstrably false assertion that one “unwritten rule designed to protect the government is that media outlets publish only a few such secret documents, and then stop,” that “they would report on an archive like Snowden’s so as to limit its impact — publish a handful of stories, revel in the accolades of a ‘big scoop,’ collect prizes, and then walk away, ensuring that nothing had really changed.” Many establishment media outlets obviously continue to pursue the Snowden story. Further, many of Mr. Greenwald’s gross generalizations about the establishment media do a terrible disservice to the many tenacious investigative reporters who have broken important stories on some of the very subjects like the war on terror and executive power that Mr. Greenwald feels so strongly about.
19 | b.d. May 12, 2014 3:51:51pm |
20 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 3:52:50pm |
re: #10 Decatur Deb
Ahem. for my 70th, in July, I’m getting a new flatslide carb for my 500cc thumper.
Mr. w, for his 75th in Feb., got two pairs of Levi’s 501s in the same size he wore in has been wearing since 1958. (Along with a few other things.)
21 | b.d. May 12, 2014 3:53:39pm |
re: #19 b.d.
NOBODY TELLS GLENN WHAT TO DO!!111!
According to Mr. Greenwald, Mr. Snowden would later describe his frustration: “Here am I ready to risk my liberty, perhaps even my life, to hand this guy thousands of Top Secret documents from the nation’s most secretive agency — a leak that will produce dozens if not hundreds of huge journalistic scoops. And he can’t even be bothered to install an encryption program.”
22 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 3:53:41pm |
‘The Hitch’- Christopher Hitchens documentary
Vimeo
23 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 3:54:27pm |
re: #15 GeneJockey
See, what’s insulting about ‘Midlife Crisis’ is that it assumes you’re trying to recapture your lost youth, a pathetic old has-been trying to seem cool
I don’t give a fuck about being cool, or my ‘lost youth’.
I’ve driven a 5 spd for over 40 yrs now. That satisfies any need for real car driving, when most today just jump in, start one up and point it.
And too many don’t even do that very well. If I had that little to do, I’d probably fall asleep doing it. Having to shift gears (even if it’s second nature now) and paying real attention to traffic and where I’m going is very satisfying. I don’t use the phone, don’t fiddle with the radio, and if the munchkin doesn’t behave, he’s going to be left at home and he knows it. The fewer distractions I have, the better the experience. : )
24 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 3:54:59pm |
re: #20 wrenchwench
Mr. w, for his 75th in Feb., got two pairs of Levi’s 501s in the same size he
wore inhas been wearing since 1958. (Along with a few other things.)
(Digs through wardrobe)
Nope. Best I can do is a scarf a girl made for me in 1966. I can still wear it, though.
25 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 3:55:01pm |
re: #16 Decatur Deb
If you pimp a Lincoln enough, it becomes a Democrat.
Mrs. Fish drives a newer one for her mom car. I am pleased; she will be the most feared mom in the neighborhood. She can fit the other moms’ bodies easily in the trunk.
26 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 3:55:40pm |
re: #25 thedopefishlives
Mrs. Fish drives a newer one for her mom car. I am pleased; she will be the most feared mom in the neighborhood. She can fit the other moms’ bodies easily in the trunk.
She can probably fit their CARS in the trunk.
27 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 3:56:08pm |
re: #25 thedopefishlives
Mrs. Fish drives a newer one for her mom car. I am pleased; she will be the most feared mom in the neighborhood. She can fit the other moms’ bodies easily in the trunk.
Get it used from Paulie’s Motors, LLC?
28 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 3:56:40pm |
re: #26 GeneJockey
She can probably fit their CARS in the trunk.
Quite possibly; the most popular car around these parts is a VW Jetta. Mrs. Fish’s Town Car could eat one of those for breakfast. Probably good for about 50 miles at the fuel efficiency it has.
29 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 3:57:28pm |
So, kaiju buffs; a review of Godzilla from the UK Daily Telegraph.
Caution - perhaps some minor spoilers in the article, but nothing too significant, in my opinion.
Godzilla 2014 embodies a roughly equivalent present-day fear: that the planet, exhausted by its ill-treatment at humankind’s hands, is about to start wiping the slate clean. Tsunamis, earthquakes, rising tides, nuclear meltdowns: these are the very recognisable threats posed by this new monster. The result is a summer blockbuster that’s not just thrilling, but that orchestrates its thrills with such rare diligence, you want to yelp with glee.
30 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 3:57:36pm |
re: #27 Decatur Deb
Get it used from Paulie’s Motors, LLC?
It’s black, of course. Unfortunately, it does not have suicide doors, so it was most likely not a mobster car. Also, a distinct lack of bullet holes. It was most likely a limousine in a previous life.
31 | ssn697 May 12, 2014 3:57:49pm |
32 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 3:58:16pm |
re: #18 b.d.
So Glenn retweets a link talking abut the NYTimes review of his book.
From the review:
At least they’re plastering him all over the Times. Isn’t that his objective, to get attention?
33 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 4:00:26pm |
re: #30 thedopefishlives
It’s black, of course. Unfortunately, it does not have suicide doors, so it was most likely not a mobster car. Also, a distinct lack of bullet holes. It was most likely a limousine in a previous life.
That wounded Russian mobster missing in the Pine Barrens still bothers me.
34 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:02:18pm |
re: #32 Justanotherhuman
At least they’re plastering him all over the Times. Isn’t that his objective, to get attention?
Bad press is better than no press, I guess.
Super Mario Snowden saves the world:
Mr. Snowden also confided “with a hint of embarrassment,” Mr. Greenwald writes, that video games had taught him certain lessons. As Mr. Snowden put it: “The protagonist is often an ordinary person, who finds himself faced with grave injustices from powerful forces and has the choice to flee in fear or to fight for his beliefs. And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.”
35 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 4:03:48pm |
re: #34 b.d.
Bad press is better than no press, I guess.
Super Mario Snowden saves the world:
Preparing the “Pac Man” defense for when he’s rendered.
36 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:04:38pm |
re: #30 thedopefishlives
It’s black, of course. Unfortunately, it does not have suicide doors, so it was most likely not a mobster car. Also, a distinct lack of bullet holes. It was most likely a limousine in a previous life.
I think you need to go back to the 1970s at the latest to get suicide doors.
My personal favorite for the best looking Lincoln of all time - the 1961 Continental hardtop. After the manic fins and all, culminating in the gigantic ones on the 1959 Cadillacs, the ‘61 Continental is so clean and modern, it’s breathtaking.
37 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 4:04:59pm |
re: #34 b.d.
Bad press is better than no press, I guess.
Super Mario Snowden saves the world:
Some people are too stupid egotistical to be embarrassed when it’s clearly called for.
38 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 4:05:58pm |
Since it’s devolving into a car thread….
39 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 4:06:35pm |
New “interview” w/Snowden. Wonder who actually provided these answers? Although I doubt very much this was an interview proper; no doubt these “answers” were gleaned by some other method.
Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Why He Partnered With Glenn Greenwald
“Though he remains in exile in Russia, Edward Snowden still chats with Glenn Greenwald most days. Here, Snowden shares his thoughts on his partner. (You can read our Q+A with Greenwald here.) “
One thing that stands out here (seems minor, but WTH) because Greenwald said in another piece that Snowden was able to go to bed about 10:30 and sleep for a good 7 hrs. So how would Snowden know how long Greenwald slept?
“I don’t think I saw him [GG] stay down for more than two hours a night, but it made sense, because he was working under extraordinary pressure.” Snowden
40 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:06:35pm |
re: #35 Decatur Deb
Preparing the “Pac Man” defense for when he’s rendered.
Your Honor, Duke Nukem made me do it.
41 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 4:08:26pm |
re: #34 b.d.
And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries
only on some channels
42 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 4:09:29pm |
The New York Times review of Greenwald's book takes note that he's an asshole http://t.co/xZ475XxAFs— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 12, 2014
43 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:09:39pm |
re: #3 thedopefishlives
Take her out for a test drive in one (pick one, they’re all hot). Halfway through, tell her that she’s your midlife crisis, but if you’re too old for one, you can always leave her at the side of the road and return the car to the dealership.
It was after the test drive that she pronounced it an MLC Car. To be fair, the dealer had hidden all the base models with their lack of stripes and simple cloth interiors, and rolled out one with a big red stripe and red leather interior. I think they’re having difficulty selling it, for reasons that should be obvious, and they were hoping I was dumb enough to buy before thinking.
We don’t do that. We don’t buy the same day we testdrive. That’s why.
44 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 4:09:59pm |
45 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 4:10:54pm |
re: #36 GeneJockey
I think you need to go back to the 1970s at the latest to get suicide doors.
My personal favorite for the best looking Lincoln of all time - the 1961 Continental hardtop. After the manic fins and all, culminating in the gigantic ones on the 1959 Cadillacs, the ‘61 Continental is so clean and modern, it’s breathtaking.
you guys better watch it or imma start posting kar pichurs
46 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:13:26pm |
I can’t wait for Glenn’s book to come out so someone please tell me now, does Snowden end up saving Princess Zelda?
47 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 4:13:45pm |
According to Mr. Greenwald, Mr. Snowden would later describe his frustration: “Here am I ready to risk my liberty, perhaps even my life, to hand this guy thousands of Top Secret documents from the nation’s most secretive agency — a leak that will produce dozens if not hundreds of huge journalistic scoops. And he can’t even be bothered to install an encryption program.”
Oh, Eddie, tell us what you really think…
48 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:14:18pm |
re: #42 Charles Johnson
Watch it Charles! That book has its own twitter account!
Has it blocked you yet?
49 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 4:14:48pm |
Whaddaya say, Glenn? Oh right, you’re in Brazil most of the time, so we can just go fuck ourselves, right?
NSA’S Michael Rogers, at Reuters summit, says he expects a destructive cyber-attack on US infrastructure during his tenure - @Reuters
end of alert
50 | aagcobb May 12, 2014 4:16:53pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
Tell Mrs. Jockey she should be glad your midlife crisis is a muscle car and not a twenty something blond.//
51 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:17:00pm |
re: #8 GeneJockey
Not 70 yet by 14 years, but another 14 years of this, and I’ll be REALLY PISSED!!!
So buy the damned car. You need her permission?
52 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:17:27pm |
Typical wingnut sneering at minimum wage employees. But they can’t explain why Walmart is open during school hours!
Each #Walmart store gets $900K in SNAP benefits 4 workers, these r not teens working after school @StepfamilyTalk @jilevin #tcot #UniteBlue— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 12, 2014
53 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:17:51pm |
re: #11 wrenchwench
Maybe a little something with just two wheels, lots of carbon fiber, hmmm, electronic shifters, only weighs 15 lbs., she couldn’t object to that, could she?
Shit, that’d cost as much as the car! And you can’t finance it!
Plus, I can’t picture 15 lbs holding up my 210 lbs (used to be 240!)
54 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 4:17:58pm |
re: #36 GeneJockey
I think you need to go back to the 1970s at the latest to get suicide doors.
My personal favorite for the best looking Lincoln of all time - the 1961 Continental hardtop. After the manic fins and all, culminating in the gigantic ones on the 1959 Cadillacs, the ‘61 Continental is so clean and modern, it’s breathtaking.
We watched Saving Mr. Banks last night. I believe the car depicted was a ‘61 Lincoln. A beautiful machine to be sure. My father-in-law’s ‘79 has a very different sort of look to it; less elegant, more beastly, in a I-rule-the-road-now-get-off sort of fashion.
55 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:18:31pm |
Also what “valuable work experience” do you gain at Walmart that you can put on your resume to get a better jrrb somewhere else. Like at Target?
56 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:18:37pm |
re: #51 FemNaziBitch
So buy the damned car. You need her permission?
That’s how we roll. We don’t do major purchases without it.
57 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:20:03pm |
re: #50 aagcobb
Tell Mrs. Jockey she should be glad your midlife crisis is a muscle car and not a twenty something blond.//
She knows me too well to think she has anything to worry about. I’ve been irretrievably smitten since I met her in 1975.
58 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:21:05pm |
re: #56 GeneJockey
That’s how we roll. We don’t do major purchases without it.
Tell her you want to take her out on a date in it.
In reality, you’d keep the car—what? a year or two?
I really don’t see why its a big deal, but I generally don’t care about such things. As long as it works and makes hubby happy … .
59 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:21:13pm |
re: #55 Pie-onist Overlord
Also what “valuable work experience” do you gain at Walmart that you can put on your resume to get a better jrrb somewhere else. Like at Target?
The ability to eat shit on a daily basis and not come to work with a lot of guns. The ability to do that is often underrated.
60 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 4:23:09pm |
Oh god, Lindley’s wearing the same outfit in this one. In broad daylight.
61 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 4:23:17pm |
re: #58 FemNaziBitch
In reality, you’d keep the car—what? a year or two?
…snip… .
The State of Alabama has just charged me 1/3 its value to re-register my truck. They assessed it at $60.
62 | Lidane May 12, 2014 4:23:52pm |
So apparently, getting a job is easy. I can just waltz into Target or Wal-Mart or Best Buy and fill out an application and walk out with a job. Who knew? And why didn’t I think of that months ago? I mean, it’s just so simple. I mean, it’s not like I’m just going to be wasted on those companies, since they can take one look at my job history and education and know I’d be gone the instant something better came along.
Oh, and apparently it’s a crime for me to close the bedroom door because I want to be alone for a while. Wanting time to myself to fill out applications and de-stress is a terrible thing.
UGH. Just…UGH. Today is one of the most frustrating, annoying days I’ve ever had. Tyrion Lannister has more fucks to give than I do right now. :p
63 | blueraven May 12, 2014 4:23:54pm |
re: #56 GeneJockey
That’s how we roll. We don’t do major purchases without it.
What does Mrs J want? Make her a deal she cant refuse.
64 | darthstar May 12, 2014 4:25:28pm |
The hips don't lie. Watch out for “creeping shakira” pic.twitter.com/0f7PelkHMJ— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) May 12, 2014
65 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 4:26:36pm |
66 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:28:23pm |
re: #63 blueraven
What does Mrs J want? Make her a deal she cant refuse.
Hells bells, I already got her the goats! What more does she want from me?
///
67 | A Mom Anon May 12, 2014 4:28:56pm |
re: #55 Pie-onist Overlord
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
What’s happening is that the multinationals have given up on the American middle class because China and India have a growing middle class that already outnumbers the population of the entire US by at least double. So now we get to be the cheap labor and our idiot legislatures are passing laws and easing regulations to make it happen faster. So a big hearty “thanks a lot you assholes” for doing nothing to help stop it.
So sick of stupid, so very sick of it.
71 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 4:32:21pm |
re: #62 Lidane
So apparently, getting a job is easy. I can just waltz into Target or Wal-Mart or Best Buy and fill out an application and walk out with a job. Who knew? And why didn’t I think of that months ago? I mean, it’s just so simple. I mean, it’s not like I’m just going to be wasted on those companies, since they can take one look at my job history and education and know I’d be gone the instant something better came along.
Oh, and apparently it’s a crime for me to close the bedroom door because I want to be alone for a while. Wanting time to myself to fill out applications and de-stress is a terrible thing.
UGH. Just…UGH. Today is one of the most frustrating, annoying days I’ve ever had. Tyrion Lannister has more fucks to give than I do right now. :p
Does your expertise lend itself to NGO volunteer work? It could provide sanity, keep you current, and a serve as a network.
72 | Dave In Austin May 12, 2014 4:32:30pm |
re: #62 Lidane
Take heart…….
It’s going to rain tonite. Rain. Lots of rain. And this is a good thing..
73 | b_sharp May 12, 2014 4:33:00pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
I feel your pain.
74 | Good Morning May 12, 2014 4:33:07pm |
The Jester Speaks-Slams WikiLeaks, Snowden, Etc
75 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 4:33:11pm |
OK. Time for a little bit of Star Wars sacrilege. Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby give you Darth L. Jackson.
76 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:33:24pm |
Glenn Greenwald points out that Snowden’s ideals are based upon a fantasy world that has no foundation in reality.
Shocked, I am.
//
77 | b.d. May 12, 2014 4:34:31pm |
re: #62 Lidane
I am sorry Lidane and truly hope that easier times and peace find you soon.
78 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:34:41pm |
79 | aagcobb May 12, 2014 4:35:11pm |
re: #57 GeneJockey
She knows me too well to think she has anything to worry about. I’ve been irretrievably smitten since I met her in 1975.
AWWWWWWW! Good answer!
80 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:35:43pm |
re: #67 A Mom Anon
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
What’s happening is that the multinationals have given up on the American middle class because China and India have a growing middle class that already outnumbers the population of the entire US by at least double. So now we get to be the cheap labor and our idiot legislatures are passing laws and easing regulations to make it happen faster. So a big hearty “thanks a lot you assholes” for doing nothing to help stop it.
So sick of stupid, so very sick of it.
HURR HURR!!!!!
@viciousbabushka @jilevin Then they need to improve their skills to move up in salary or out of @Walmart for more income. #Tcot #UniteBlue— Tricia Powe (@StepfamilyTalk) May 12, 2014
81 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 4:37:21pm |
re: #67 A Mom Anon
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
This is why we need to elect Republicans.
As Willard Romney just said the other day, Our party is all about more jobs and better pay,” Romney said,
And Willard also says it’s also about increasing the minimum wage, except that Willard was against that back in 2012, and 99.9999999999999999999% of his party still is.
82 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:37:49pm |
Greg Abbott Desperately Tries to Slander Wendy Davis by Linking Her With Socialists, Fails Miserably http://t.co/hGJ0iFqHTz— Doc Hamrick (@mch7576) May 12, 2014
83 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 4:37:50pm |
Image: BnamJqHCYAE6Qvr.jpg:large
“We remember the glorious victories…
Over Germany in 1945
Over Khazaria 1045 years ago
Over China over 7500 years ago”
Don’t ask.
85 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 4:40:07pm |
86 | Kragar May 12, 2014 4:40:13pm |
re: #80 Pie-onist Overlord
Because when you work at Wal-mart, you obviously have an open schedule and money it takes to get the training to get a better job
87 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:40:43pm |
So they “improve their skills” & then work where? Target? @StepfamilyTalk @jilevin #RaiseTheWage #UniteBlue— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 12, 2014
88 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:41:21pm |
I wonder what Tricia does for a living or if she’s just another retired Country Club tennis princess like JJAuthor.
89 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 4:41:41pm |
re: #85 thedopefishlives
Me too. But I wouldn’t know what to reply.
90 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 4:42:00pm |
re: #67 A Mom Anon
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
What’s happening is that the multinationals have given up on the American middle class because China and India have a growing middle class that already outnumbers the population of the entire US by at least double. So now we get to be the cheap labor and our idiot legislatures are passing laws and easing regulations to make it happen faster. So a big hearty “thanks a lot you assholes” for doing nothing to help stop it.
So sick of stupid, so very sick of it.
When stuff made in the USA is cheaper than the stuff made here in China, then I’ll know the USA is on the ropes, if not KO’d on the world markets. But right now, American (and European) stuff are the bling that middle- and upper-class Chinese want to own — anything with a Western brand name, even if it’s manufactured in China*. The prices for such items match the market.
China has no comparable brand names, other than Lenovo or maybe Moutai, that Chinese or anyone else MUST have. That aspect of the American economy is still on solid ground.
* Chinese consumers will willingly pay considerably more for items that are physically made in America or Europe, because they have more panache. In other words, if Nike, Adidas, or GM sold their American-made merchandise in China for elevated prices, there would be a market for them. The nouveau riche in China are no smarter or sophisticated than any of that class in the USA. They would cheerfully pay $300 - $500 for a pair of athletic shoes physically made in the USA, because they can.
91 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:43:36pm |
re: #67 A Mom Anon
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
What’s happening is that the multinationals have given up on the American middle class because China and India have a growing middle class that already outnumbers the population of the entire US by at least double. So now we get to be the cheap labor and our idiot legislatures are passing laws and easing regulations to make it happen faster. So a big hearty “thanks a lot you assholes” for doing nothing to help stop it.
So sick of stupid, so very sick of it.
Yes, the globalization of commerce uncouples the corporation from the population of the nation where it arose.
However, I think it’s got a limited shelf-life. At some point, every country will have been dragged up or down to the same level. You’ll no longer be able to build things cheaply by exploiting some new workforce to sell to a richer population that either can still afford it or thinks it can still afford it.
Ten years ago, I said that the US had to be able to be smarter, more efficient, and more inventive than the rest of the world to keep ahead. It might have been possible then. Now? not so much. Too many people have too much invested in the population of the US being ignorant and ill-informed, and they can make their money without the rest of the nation doing well.
92 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:44:10pm |
I just looked at Tricia’s time line, she’s BFF’s with Country Club Janie.
93 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:45:02pm |
re: #86 Kragar
Because when you work at Wal-mart, you obviously have an open schedule and money it takes to get the training to get a better job
My standard response, “Are there 150,000,000 jobs out there that pay better than $75K/year and have good benefits? No? Then you’re just being an asshole, aren’t you?”
94 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 4:46:05pm |
HURR HURR U CAN’T CRITICIZE UNLESS UR ANOTHER $MULTI BILLION BUSINESS!!!!!!
I haven't outsourced manufacturing to Asian sweatshops or paid a CEO 27 million. @StepfamilyTalk @jilevin— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 12, 2014
95 | Swift2991 May 12, 2014 4:46:14pm |
re: #33 Decatur Deb
I knew a priest from Chicago who had a very big black Lincoln. He acquired it as a gift from a parishioner, and he just was waiting to figure out how to patch the sizable bullet holes in the driver’s side door.
96 | thedopefishlives May 12, 2014 4:46:15pm |
re: #89 Sergey Romanov
Me too. But I wouldn’t know what to reply.
I was thinking something along the lines of, “HURR DURR DEEEEERP!” But I don’t think that’d get us any answers.
97 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:47:05pm |
re: #84 Charles Johnson
need to photoshop same picture with #bringbackourgirls and really piss-off Coulter.
98 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:47:47pm |
re: #97 FemNaziBitch
need to photoshop same picture with #bringbackourgirls and really piss-off Coulter.
Nah. Someone would use it to prove Conservatives aren’t heartless shitheads.
99 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:48:32pm |
re: #67 A Mom Anon
What these morons don’t get is that in a few years, if something doesn’t change, is that half the open jobs out there will be in retail, food service, hospitality and housecleaning. All the lowest paying sector openings are increasing in numbers and the skilled, better paying jobs are disappearing. Half the workforce isn’t entry level, no matter how much they say so.
What’s happening is that the multinationals have given up on the American middle class because China and India have a growing middle class that already outnumbers the population of the entire US by at least double. So now we get to be the cheap labor and our idiot legislatures are passing laws and easing regulations to make it happen faster. So a big hearty “thanks a lot you assholes” for doing nothing to help stop it.
So sick of stupid, so very sick of it.
IIRC, the projections have been that the majority of jobs will be service jobs for some time. AS usual, no one pays attention until it is reality.
100 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 4:48:40pm |
re: #62 Lidane
So apparently, getting a job is easy. I can just waltz into Target or Wal-Mart or Best Buy and fill out an application and walk out with a job. Who knew? And why didn’t I think of that months ago? I mean, it’s just so simple. I mean, it’s not like I’m just going to be wasted on those companies, since they can take one look at my job history and education and know I’d be gone the instant something better came along.
Oh, and apparently it’s a crime for me to close the bedroom door because I want to be alone for a while. Wanting time to myself to fill out applications and de-stress is a terrible thing.
UGH. Just…UGH. Today is one of the most frustrating, annoying days I’ve ever had. Tyrion Lannister has more fucks to give than I do right now. :p
On the other hand, the squall line is entering Llano and sinking southeast at 15 MPH, dropping a shitpot of rain. Finally. So join me in 4 hours as I sit on my South Austin front porch and listen to the cracks in my lawn slamming shut.
Not a solution, but a much appreciated delay of Stage 3 water restrictions.
How are you Californians doing? Any relief? Sucks to live in the greenhouse, doesn’t it?
101 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 4:49:36pm |
This is good too; the Emperor as voiced by Mark Hamill’s Joker - meta gag, and it’s actually pretty good. And Vader voiced by Tom Hardy’s Bane to boot!
102 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:51:02pm |
I feel like zoning out in front of the TV. Any mindless fantasy, sci-fi, action series or movie you recommend?
104 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:53:11pm |
re: #99 FemNaziBitch
IIRC, the projections have been that the majority of jobs will be service jobs for some time. AS usual, no one pays attention until it is reality.
So, at the same time a wingnuts bitch about the lack of jobs, they get to piss on people for working at low-wage jobs AND for not having the “better jobs” they were just complaining don’t exist.
I think the most loathsome think i’ve seen recently was Conservatives cackling with glee over the idea that fast food workers might be replaced with machines if they ask for more money. They’ve now become Mr. Bumble from “Oliver Twist” - MORE?!? You want MORE?!?!?!?
105 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 4:53:20pm |
re: #96 thedopefishlives
I was thinking something along the lines of, “HURR DURR DEEEEERP!” But I don’t think that’d get us any answers.
At least they don’t seem to be YECs. /
106 | A Mom Anon May 12, 2014 4:53:41pm |
re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord
Honestly, I think most people over age 35 or so do not get at ALL how the job market has changed. Especially if they managed to keep their jobs through the mess that started in 2007-08.
I am 54 now. My first decent job was a few months out of high school. I worked for Goodyear in a factory. I made enough money to take care of myself, put money in the bank, had healthcare etc. I was 19. By the time I was 21 that job was shipped overseas. I was never able to afford a college education because I had no family support and had to work to provide for myself. I never got another job that paid that well. And it wasn’t for lack of experience or trying either. I worked in retail(not my chosen thing for my life at all, btw) for the better part of my adult life and I watched that business go from providing a decent wage and pretty good health insurance, paid vacations, etc. to slashing and burning and shitting on the workers. I worked my way up into dept managing and buying, the chances of a kid being able to do that now are not nearly as good as they were back then.
People who spout off about this shit either are rich and have no clue what it is to work like crazy just to survive or they are completely detached from what’s happened because none of it has happened to THEM. (of course for some it’s both)
107 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 4:53:53pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Once again, pontificating downstairs. So here, let me share my pontification:
O-whatever the T has become, but I now know why 70 year old men are angry.
Let me start years ago, when I was just 9 years old, in 1966. I bought my first car magazine, Road & Track, with a picture of the then-new Jaguar E-type 2+2 coupe. OMG, what a beautiful car! I have been obsessed with sporty cars, basically all my life, but the American muscle cars of the late 60s through 71 - those I REALLY loved..
When you’re a kid, you can’t have one because you can’t drive. When you’re a young man, you can’t have one because you can’t afford it or the insurance. When you get married, you can’t have one because you’re supposed to be responsible. When you have kids, you can’t have one because you need a family car, AND you can’t afford it.
So, here I am, middle aged. The Big 3 started making muscle cars again, only now they don’t fly off the road when it bends gently, they get >20 mpg, they’re comfy, and even the base models have more power than most of the muscle cars did back in the day. I’ve been waiting 40 years, and I thought ‘Finally! I can get the car I’ve been wanting forever.’
Nope. Now, according to Mrs. Jockey, “It screams “Midlife Crisis!”
So there you go, why men at 70 are so pissed. Because they put off getting things they wanted for years, to be responsible family men, and when finally the kids are grown up, and you’re more financially stable, now you’re considered too old for it. You should buy a nice sedan.
I believe ‘Midlife Crisis’ is a ruse, and I think it’s as insulting as telling a woman “Don’t you worry your pretty head about that, little lady!”
/rant. Now get off my fucking lawn.
A Louisville judge of my acquaintance drove a cherry-red Mazda Miata around town at the age of 75. He didn’t give an ounce of fuck what other people thought of it, because, hey, he was a judge and probably knew more unsavory stuff about them than they did about him. His wife rode shotgun, so I guess she was cool with the whole sports car thing.
As for me, I’d like a sports car, but not right now. My midlife crisis — if you want to call it that — was to chuck teaching high school and come to China to teach university students English. It’s a lot of fun! Seriously. It’s rewarding work, but not especially in the financial sense. Plus, I get to hang out with young people. The day I have to quit teaching will probably be the same day I tell y’all to get off my lawn.
108 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:54:04pm |
re: #102 FemNaziBitch
I feel like zoning out in front of the TV. Any mindless fantasy, sci-fi, action series or movie you recommend?
Well, Pacific Rim was pretty much mindless, predictable Sci-Fi with lots of stuff that blowed up real good.
110 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:55:40pm |
re: #106 A Mom Anon
Honestly, I think most people over age 35 or so do not get at ALL how the job market has changed. Especially if they managed to keep their jobs through the mess that started in 2007-08.
QFT
I cringe when I hear some of the advise my son was given by “well-meaning” people.
I told him to be prepared to work anywhere on the globe. I tried to explain that the days of being able to depend on making a living in the USA are over.
The only one of his friends from grade school I don’t worry about is the one that became an electrician.
111 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:56:21pm |
112 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 4:56:25pm |
I just took a poll conducted by someone in the sociology dept at UNC-CH, asking about political opinions, science, etc.
Heh.
113 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:57:21pm |
re: #107 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Hubby had an retired aunt and uncle that tooled around the country in an RV towing a little red sports car. That way when the parked the RV they could get around the area in a car.
HA!
114 | NJDhockeyfan May 12, 2014 4:58:02pm |
RT @USNATO US releases new imagery - Russian troops still near Ukrainian border on May 12 pic.twitter.com/E80pVoOyhd— Jerry Popowicz (@JerryPopowicz) May 12, 2014
115 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 4:58:06pm |
re: #111 FemNaziBitch
I always saw her as more of a coke-head.
I knew a girl who looked a lot like her back in high school, and she was always flying.
If Ann had bad skin, I’d say meth.
117 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 4:58:34pm |
re: #115 Skip Intro
I knew a girl who looked a lot like her back in high school, and she was always flying.
If Ann had bad skin, I’d say meth.
Coke is more her “social set” if you know what I mean.
118 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 4:59:15pm |
re: #113 FemNaziBitch
Hubby had an retired aunt and uncle that tooled around the country in an RV towing a little red sports car. That way when the parked the RV they could get around the area in a car.
HA!
On Top Gear one time they showed this ultra-ritzy RV which had a fancy 2-seater sports car slung underneath, which would deploy when needed. The car itself was something that went for >100 grand.
119 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:00:32pm |
re: #115 Skip Intro
I knew a girl who looked a lot like her back in high school, and she was always flying.
If Ann had bad skin, I’d say meth.
Not everyone with bad skin and/or bad teeth is a meth head. It has become probable cause, however. Sucks to be poor.
120 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:02:05pm |
re: #117 FemNaziBitch
Coke is more her “social set” if you know what I mean.
I’ve never pictured her as a drug addict. I think she’s an ATTENTION addict, and she has difficulty generating much traction anymore since there are younger, prettier, more overtly crazy people who say more outrageous stuff than she does on a regular basis.
121 | b_sharp May 12, 2014 5:02:17pm |
re: #115 Skip Intro
I knew a girl who looked a lot like her back in high school, and she was always flying.
If Ann had bad skin, I’d say meth.
Bad teeth too.
122 | Lidane May 12, 2014 5:05:13pm |
re: #84 Charles Johnson
Poor Ann. She hasn’t been the same since a librul in Kansas dropped a house on her sister. :(
123 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:05:17pm |
re: #92 Pie-onist Overlord
I just looked at Tricia’s time line, she’s BFF’s with Country Club Janie.
Maybe they’ll let you join their sorority.
124 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 5:05:45pm |
re: #120 GeneJockey
I’ve never pictured her as a drug addict. I think she’s an ATTENTION addict, and she has difficulty generating much traction anymore since there are younger, prettier, more overtly crazy people who say more outrageous stuff than she does on a regular basis.
Coulter’s flame has nearly burned out. Her books will soon end up in the remainder bins at Wal-mart and Target, marked $1 each.
125 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:05:45pm |
re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord
I wonder what Tricia does for a living or if she’s just another retired Country Club tennis princess like JJAuthor.
She shills this site: stepfamily.webs.com
Already a failure at one marriage, she sets up a cottage industry about step-families and “co-parenting”.
126 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 5:05:49pm |
OK. This is weird. And sad, as well.
A judge on Monday ordered an investigation into the whereabouts of Casey Kasem after an attorney for the ailing radio personality’s wife said the former “Top 40” host had been removed from the country.
Casey Kasem’s children have complained that they have been unable to see their father in accordance with an agreement with their stepmother. Daughter Kerri Kasem had sought a temporary conservatorship and was appointed her father’s temporary caretaker on Monday. Her attorney, Troy Martin, said the family believes the entertainer has been taken to an Indian reservation in Washington state.
[Judge] Murphy’s order came after Craig Marcus, an attorney who appeared on Jean Kasem’s behalf at Monday’s hearing, said he did not know where the radio personality was but knew that he had been removed from the country.
“I have no idea where he is,” Marcus said.
The revelation brought stunned protests from Murphy and two of Casey Kasem’s daughters, two of the entertainer’s three children from a previous marriage.
129 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 5:07:29pm |
re: #125 Justanotherhuman
She shills this site: stepfamily.webs.com
Already a failure at one marriage, she sets up a cottage industry about step-families and “co-parenting”.
She’s still whining about HOW TERRIBLE HER LIFE IS, but I put her on mute.
130 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:07:45pm |
re: #72 Dave In Austin
Take heart…….
It’s going to rain tonite. Rain. Lots of rain. And this is a good thing..
I’m on the Joint Subcommittee for Austin Water Utility Financial Planning (2014 edition, I also did this two years ago). You have no idea how bad the situation is for that utility. “Drought Rates” are the least of it. Everybody is screaming because they believe they are being punished for conserving water. They are being punished for years of neglect by the City Manager and Council.
131 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 5:08:10pm |
132 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:08:20pm |
re: #124 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Coulter’s flame has nearly burned out. Her books will soon end up in the remainder bins at Wal-mart and Target, marked $1 each.
That’s what happens when you keep writing the same book again and again. She’s probably running low on one-word titles too.
133 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 5:08:30pm |
135 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:09:28pm |
136 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:09:38pm |
re: #102 FemNaziBitch
I feel like zoning out in front of the TV. Any mindless fantasy, sci-fi, action series or movie you recommend?
Finally saw “Jarhead” on HBO. Very impressive, and the scene where the 1990 marines are watching “Apocalypse Now” is just spooky.
137 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:10:14pm |
138 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 5:10:15pm |
re: #132 GeneJockey
That’s what happens when you keep writing the same book again and again. She’s probably running low on one-word titles too.
There are plenty more.
ASSHOLE
SHITHEAD
DOUCHEBAG
CRAPWEASEL
FUCKBALL
140 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:10:55pm |
re: #138 Pie-onist Overlord
There are plenty more.
ASSHOLE
SHITHEAD
DOUCHEBAG
CRAPWEASEL
FUCKBALL
People would start thinking realize they’re autobiographical.
143 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:12:08pm |
re: #120 GeneJockey
I’ve never pictured her as a drug addict. I think she’s an ATTENTION addict, and she has difficulty generating much traction anymore since there are younger, prettier, more overtly crazy people who say more outrageous stuff than she does on a regular basis.
I never pictured Nixon as a cokehead, either, until a friend who used to work for Bebe Rebozo (who Nixon visited quite a bit at his place in Key Biscayne) told me about a time his wife found a small amt of coke in a pocket in Nixon’s suit when taking it for dry cleaning. T and his wife took care of the house and grounds at the time, and T often had boat duty as well.
144 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 5:12:12pm |
145 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:12:25pm |
146 | FemNaziBitch May 12, 2014 5:14:16pm |
I’m off to let a bit of my brain rot in front of the TV
Have a great evening all!
147 | Single-handed sailor May 12, 2014 5:14:45pm |
re: #100 austin_blue
On the other hand, the squall line is entering Llano and sinking southeast at 15 MPH, dropping a shitpot of rain. Finally. So join me in 4 hours as I sit on my South Austin front porch and listen to the cracks in my lawn slamming shut.
Not a solution, but a much appreciated delay of Stage 3 water restrictions.
How are you Californians doing? Any relief? Sucks to live in the greenhouse, doesn’t it?
I’m 25 miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge and it’s 90F here today, possibly 100 on Wednesday. Maybe El Nino will help next winter.
148 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:14:54pm |
149 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:14:56pm |
re: #138 Pie-onist Overlord
There are plenty more.
ASSHOLE
SHITHEAD
DOUCHEBAG
CRAPWEASEL
FUCKBALL
FUCKWIT
(care of my sister-in-law, describing her company’s new CEO).
150 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 5:14:56pm |
152 | William Barnett-Lewis May 12, 2014 5:15:42pm |
153 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:16:26pm |
154 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:17:02pm |
156 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:18:03pm |
157 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:19:11pm |
re: #147 Single-handed sailor
I’m 25 miles east of the Golden Gate Bridge and it’s 90F here today, possibly 100 on Wednesday. Maybe El Nino will help next winter.
I’m two miles inland from the ocean and it’s pushing 90 here now. Going to be close to 100 for the next few days, and this will be the third time since January that’s happened.
Normal would be mid 60s.
158 | Bubblehead II May 12, 2014 5:19:17pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Muscle cars never did anything for me. Now a tricked out van (interior) on the other hand. Comfort, privacy, reliability and if you didn’t got to outrageous on the paint job, anonymity.
A moving bedroom that didn’t draw unwanted attention.
It’s a wreck now.
Yep I still have it. 225 slant 6, 4 speed Xmission (1st, 2nd 3rd.&OD) Interior now shot to hell and all 4 tires flat. Paint job (basic red) is faded.
Maybe restoring it should be my mid-life crisis. The Mrs. and I had some god time in it.
159 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 5:19:33pm |
re: #152 William Barnett-Lewis
Ruh, Ro! Wheres Raggy?
Good question; apparently, he has Parkinson’s Disease and is unable to speak, and I would imagine he requires fairly intensive care. If Jean Kasem’s attorney doesn’t know where Mr. Kasem is, it’s certainly a bizarre mystery.
I recall Jean Kasem from Cheers and The Tortellis, a short-lived spin-off.
160 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:20:22pm |
BOOK? WHAT BOOK?
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who helped publish Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks, blasted Hillary Clinton in an expletive-laden interview as being too hawkish, offering a critique from the left of her approach to defense issues.
161 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:20:37pm |
re: #156 GeneJockey
Are you referring to that pair of Devil’s Dumplings?
Why, yes. Yes I am. Phil Mickelson has the jealous sads.
162 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:21:44pm |
re: #157 Skip Intro
I’m two miles inland from the ocean and it’s pushing 90 here now. Going to be close to 100 for the next few days, and this will be the third time since January that’s happened.
Normal would be mid 60s.
Good thing that climate report is a big bag of shit, innit?
163 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:22:15pm |
re: #160 b.d.
BOOK? WHAT BOOK?
So what does GG think of that whole Russia thing? I don’t believe I’ve seen anything he’s posted about it.
164 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 5:23:04pm |
Nigeria kidnaps: Prisoner swap ‘not on the table
Nigerian Interior Minister Abba Moro has said that swapping prisoners in exchange for girls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is an option that is “not on the table”.
165 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:24:05pm |
re: #158 Bubblehead II
Muscle cars never did anything for me. Now a tricked out van (interior) on the other hand. Comfort, privacy, reliability and if you didn’t got to outrageous on the paint job, anonymity.
A moving bedroom that didn’t draw unwanted attention.
It’s a wreck now.
Yep I still have it. 225 slant 6, 4 speed Xmission (1st, 2nd 3rd.&OD) Interior now shot to hell and all 4 tires flat. Paint job (basic red) is faded.
Maybe restoring it should be my mid-life crisis. The Mrs. and I had some god time in it.
Ah, the good ol’ days!
Bumper Sticker:
“If This Van’s Rockin’, Don’t Come Knockin’!”
166 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:24:09pm |
Oh dear.
Sterling just asked Anderson Cooper if he's ever liked a girl. #AC360— Jorge Rivas (@thisisjorge) May 13, 2014
“I think you are more of racist than I am,” Sterling to @andersoncooper #AC360— Jorge Rivas (@thisisjorge) May 13, 2014
Sterling: Michael Johnson is no good role model because he went out and got AIDS #AC360— Jorge Rivas (@thisisjorge) May 13, 2014
I think I’ll quit there.
167 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 5:24:29pm |
US says deploys surveillance aircraft over Nigeria to find girls
The United States has deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria and is sharing satellite imagery with the Nigerian government to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents, a senior Obama administration official said on Monday.
“We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned … assets over Nigeria with the government’s permission,” the official said.
168 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:24:39pm |
re: #162 austin_blue
Good thing that climate report is a big bag of shit, innit?
“So, Skip, why don’t you quit bitching and just go swim in the ocean, huh?”
Because of the general weirdness of the weather and these non-stop off-shore winds, the water temperature is a hypothermia-inducing 49 degrees.
169 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 5:25:11pm |
HURR HURR!!!! I’M TEH VICTIM HEAR!!!!!!!
FAR LEFT HATEMONGERS Threaten Murder for Pointing Out the Nigerian Girls Were Shipped Off to Chad http://t.co/2FnXUxpiXz via @gatewaypundit— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) May 13, 2014
170 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:25:31pm |
re: #158 Bubblehead II
Muscle cars never did anything for me. Now a tricked out van (interior) on the other hand. Comfort, privacy, reliability and if you didn’t got to outrageous on the paint job, anonymity.
A moving bedroom that didn’t draw unwanted attention.
It’s a wreck now.
Yep I still have it. 225 slant 6, 4 speed Xmission (1st, 2nd 3rd.&OD) Interior now shot to hell and all 4 tires flat. Paint job (basic red) is faded.
Maybe restoring it should be my mid-life crisis. The Mrs. and I had some god time in it.
Holy shit, god time? Fabulous!
171 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:26:35pm |
re: #160 b.d.
BOOK? WHAT BOOK?
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who helped publish Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leaks, blasted Hillary Clinton in an expletive-laden interview as being too hawkish, offering a critique from the left of her approach to defense issues.
Left field, maybe. From the left, no. He’s an anti-interventionist, like the rest of the dudebros.
172 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:26:57pm |
re: #170 Justanotherhuman
Holy shit, god time? Fabulous!
Well, maybe there was a lot of invoking of deities involved.
///
173 | austin_blue May 12, 2014 5:27:41pm |
174 | aagcobb May 12, 2014 5:28:51pm |
re: #166 wrenchwench
Oh dear.
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I think I’ll quit there.
I guess being a billionaire means no-one can tell you when to stop digging your own grave.
175 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:28:54pm |
re: #158 Bubblehead II
Muscle cars never did anything for me. Now a tricked out van (interior) on the other hand. Comfort, privacy, reliability and if you didn’t got to outrageous on the paint job, anonymity.
A moving bedroom that didn’t draw unwanted attention.
It’s a wreck now.
Yep I still have it. 225 slant 6, 4 speed Xmission (1st, 2nd 3rd.&OD) Interior now shot to hell and all 4 tires flat. Paint job (basic red) is faded.
Maybe restoring it should be my mid-life crisis. The Mrs. and I had some god time in it.
I flirted with the whole van idea back in the 1970s, but that was also when I was subscribing to no less than FOUR car magazines; Road & Track, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, and Sports Car Graphic.
176 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:29:14pm |
re: #166 wrenchwench
Looks like the Sterling’s Forgiveness Tour Bus has run off the road.
177 | Gus May 12, 2014 5:29:28pm |
178 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:30:00pm |
re: #176 Skip Intro
Looks like the Sterling’s Forgiveness Tour Bus has run off the road.
“Sir, the question was, ‘Is this your handwriting?’”
179 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:30:16pm |
re: #171 wrenchwench
Left field, maybe. From the left, no. He’s an anti-interventionist, like the rest of the dudebros.
To be fair, Glenn is only an anti-interventionist when a democrat is president.
Glenn’s greatest trick is convincing some people that he is left wing.
180 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:30:33pm |
re: #172 GeneJockey
Well, maybe there was a lot of invoking of deities involved.
///
Well, a couple of times having sex, I thought I saw god.
I was just high on pot, though.
181 | A Mom Anon May 12, 2014 5:31:26pm |
re: #162 austin_blue
In GA the temps have hit 90 (not officially, but the thermometer on my back porch read 92 this afternoon, the official number was 87 I believe) about 10 -12 degrees above normal. I have had to turn the ac on, which I try really hard not to do til at least mid June. We’ve also had air quality alerts, if we have them it’s usually not until we’ve had lots of hot days with no rain, like in July.
I can assure you that anyone who has kept a garden for the last decade can see the changes, I know I have, and it’s not for the better either. Not helping is massive construction around here again, lots of dirt and dust and who knows what is in the air. I cannot go out without feeling the grit on my skin and seeing it on my plants. It’s mostly I’d almost bet the people who spend all their time in buildings who swear there’s no climate change. Or people who simply see nature as a utility for their own use, they don’t give a shit either.
182 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 5:31:54pm |
Whole lotta griftin’ goin’ on at teh TCOTs
No movie will be made, there will be some whining HURR HURR!!!! NO STUDIO WANTS TO TOUCH THIS PROJECT!!!! NO ACTORS WANT TO ACT IN IT!!!! NO CAMERA OPERATORS WANT TO FILM IT!!!!!! then the grifter will head to Brazil with all teh moneys.
NOW is the time, nearly 26K funders & growing! Pls give just $1 to http://t.co/TaDulrfNit & get others to join in! Pls RT #tcot #prolife— Gosnell Movie (@GosnellMovie) May 13, 2014
183 | freetoken May 12, 2014 5:32:01pm |
Another hot, dry, and very windy day here. The poor trees are having a terrible time. I found a few loquats yesterday, not very good.
Predictions are to hit 99F on Wed. Ack…
185 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 5:33:04pm |
re: #177 Gus
One of the things I like about HRC is that she’s “hawkish.”
Well, she certainly correctly assessed Putin.
186 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 5:33:13pm |
re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord
Whole lotta griftin’ goin’ on at teh TCOTs
No movie will be made, there will be some whining HURR HURR!!!! NO STUDIO WANTS TO TOUCH THIS PROJECT!!!! NO ACTORS WANT TO ACT IN IT!!!! NO CAMERA OPERATORS WANT TO FILM IT!!!!!! then the grifter will head to Brazil with all teh moneys.
Who is Gosnell, and why should I care?
187 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:33:41pm |
re: #178 GeneJockey
“Sir, the question was, ‘Is this your handwriting?’”
The faces of Anderson Cooper whilst interviewing #Sterling pic.twitter.com/EdR9xbE93E— Jorge Rivas (@thisisjorge) May 13, 2014
188 | NJDhockeyfan May 12, 2014 5:33:51pm |
WOW.
@edshow Care to explain this tweet? pic.twitter.com/speiCV0W1b— Elefante (@Calle_Elefante) May 12, 2014
189 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:34:08pm |
re: #183 freetoken
Another hot, dry, and very windy day here. The poor trees are having a terrible time. I found a few loquats yesterday, not very good.
Predictions are to hit 99F on Wed. Ack…
Got a feeling it’s going to be a scorcher this summer. Will be 90 here tomorrow in NC, but Wed thunderstorms, and it’s back down to the 70s for 5 whole days, if it lasts.
I hope I’m wrong.
190 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:34:25pm |
re: #184 Gus
I understand that after 57 years of marriage to Donald, his wife has been thinking of maybe divorcing him for the last 20.
You’ve been warned, Donald.
191 | Dave In Austin May 12, 2014 5:34:51pm |
re: #130 austin_blue
Everybody needs to go look at LT….. Getting scary and more entities want to drop more straws in. I fish it twice a week and launch off the dirt. It’s a 1/2 mile from the high water mark to the bank. You ask people to conserve but downstream, LCRA Board members are flooding rice fields 4 inches deep. At least thats the word on the lake.
We’ll get good rain tonite but it’s all down stream tomorrow.
192 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:35:10pm |
Is it too late to pull off a crowdsourcing scam about getting a BENGHAZI movie made?
193 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:35:26pm |
re: #180 Justanotherhuman
Well, a couple of times having sex, I thought I saw god.
I was just high on pot, though.
Most memorable sleep-out was with wife-to-be in a Cessna 182 on a dropzone in Kentucky. The seats were out for the next day’s jumps, and we were wrapped up in a ‘chute. There was no little sex, but it was rockin’ all night through a tremendous thunderstorm.
194 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:35:59pm |
re: #179 b.d.
Left field, maybe. From the left, no. He’s an anti-interventionist, like the rest of the dudebros.
To be fair, Glenn is only an anti-interventionist when a democrat is president.
Glenn’s greatest trick is convincing some people that he is left wing.
I think Greenwald’s been fairly consistently anti-interventionist. He hates government, not just Obama.
I could be wrong though.
195 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 5:36:32pm |
re: #193 Decatur Deb
Most memorable sleep-out was with wife-to-be in a Cessna 182 on a dropzone in Kentucky. The seats were out for the next day’s jumps, and we were wrapped up in a ‘chute. There was
nolittle sex, but it was rockin’ all night through a tremendous thunderstorm.
Uhhh, who was flying that bird?
196 | aagcobb May 12, 2014 5:36:52pm |
re: #192 b.d.
Is it too late to pull off a crowdsourcing scam about getting a BENGHAZI movie made?
That is an awesome idea, and now is definitely the time to grift the rubes.
197 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:37:40pm |
The man has the rebranding skills of the republican party
“When he had *those AIDS*, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him!” #DonaldSterling STOOOOOPPPPPP, JESUS!! #AC360 #MagicJohnson
— Ms. Williams (@MsWilliamsWorld) May 13, 2014
198 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 5:38:15pm |
199 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 5:38:45pm |
re: #196 aagcobb
That is an awesome idea, and now is definitely the time to grift the rubes.
They may be a little tapped out. They’re still saving up to buy their $58 Benghazi shower curtains from cafepress.
200 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 5:39:01pm |
201 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 5:39:10pm |
re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord
Whole lotta griftin’ goin’ on at teh TCOTs
No movie will be made, there will be some whining HURR HURR!!!! NO STUDIO WANTS TO TOUCH THIS PROJECT!!!! NO ACTORS WANT TO ACT IN IT!!!! NO CAMERA OPERATORS WANT TO FILM IT!!!!!! then the grifter will head to Brazil with all teh moneys.[Embedded content]
The Gosnell matter would certainly make an interesting documentary film, particularly how in the world he was still in practice. If I were going to make a documentary on the subject, that would be the focus of it. Certainly, blatant medical malpractice, and it’s not as though this all came out of the blue; there were several previous complaints dating back to 1989. He had over 40 lawsuits filed against him over the course of three decades.
It would certainly make for a good cautionary tale; a complete and utter failure by regulators who chose to look the other way, with horrifying consequences.
202 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:39:28pm |
re: #195 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Uhhh, who was flying that bird?
We were cutting each other out of the Army club, so it was our private crashpad for the night. Happy it didn’t fly itself.
204 | b_sharp May 12, 2014 5:40:24pm |
re: #165 austin_blue
Ah, the good ol’ days!
Bumper Sticker:
“If This Van’s Rockin’, Don’t Come Knockin’!”
“Come on in”
205 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:40:49pm |
re: #194 wrenchwench
I think Greenwald’s been fairly consistently anti-interventionist. He hates government, not just Obama.
I could be wrong though.
Glenn was all for Bush invading Iraq & Afghanistan:
I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country.
That was different though, a republican was president.
206 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:40:50pm |
re: #203 Skip Intro
He needs an intervention by Cliven Bundy.
It does lend credence to his wife’s thought, blaming it on dementia.
207 | b_sharp May 12, 2014 5:42:21pm |
re: #175 GeneJockey
I flirted with the whole van idea back in the 1970s, but that was also when I was subscribing to no less than FOUR car magazines; Road & Track, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, and Sports Car Graphic.
I was like you, sort of. I didn’t read the mags, I built a few street-strip engines - ‘70 Camaro SS and a ‘57 Chevy for me, a ‘70 Camaro SS with a brother.
208 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 5:42:39pm |
re: #196 aagcobb
That is an awesome idea, and now is definitely the time to grift the rubes.
Tell them to donate using bitcoins — almost anonymous and irreversible.
Bitcoins for Benghazi!!
209 | Gus May 12, 2014 5:42:48pm |
R.I.P. Ed Gagliardi, you will be missed pic.twitter.com/TDj7hAPptN— Foreigner (@ForeignerMusic) May 12, 2014
210 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:43:45pm |
re: #205 b.d.
Glenn was all for Bush invading Iraq & Afghanistan:
That was different though, a republican was president.
Thanks for that. He’s a wingnut/dudebro hybrid, depending on prevailing conditions. Not even consistent.
I’d withdraw my last shred of respect for him, if I’d ever had one.
211 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 5:44:52pm |
Man, it’s hot in LA. The dry desert weather is on us full force. Strange winds out of the east.
212 | Gus May 12, 2014 5:44:57pm |
Donald Sterling (pictorial representation) pic.twitter.com/H4Si2sVlxI— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 13, 2014
213 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:45:33pm |
re: #207 b_sharp
I was like you, sort of. I didn’t read the mags, I built a few street-strip engines - ‘70 Camaro SS and a ‘57 Chevy for me, a ‘70 Camaro SS with a brother.
I read the mags, and I bought model cars, which my Perfectionism Paralysis prevented me from ever building.
BUT, I did memorize the displacement and horsepower of all the GM, Ford, and Mopar engines, the cars you could get them in, what transmissions they came with.
214 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 5:46:38pm |
This is the kind of weather that makes mild law-abiding citizens suddenly commit hideous crimes.
215 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 5:47:55pm |
@gatewaypundit I will fight the left with all my heart and soul. I will never give up until their ideology is soundly defeated in public.— Thomas P. Krepelka (@Singerman2000) May 13, 2014
lol
216 | Eclectic Cyborg May 12, 2014 5:48:10pm |
217 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:48:22pm |
“I'm no PR expert, but I'm pretty sure this isn't helping things.” - @jaketapper on #DonaldSterling #AC360 pic.twitter.com/WoenNriqt1
— CNN (@CNN) May 13, 2014
218 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:48:32pm |
re: #214 Charles Johnson
This is the kind of weather that makes mild law-abiding citizens suddenly commit hideous crimes.
Those winds out of the east are something to be reckoned with. Always made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
220 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:49:37pm |
221 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 5:49:49pm |
The jihad against underwear and mannequins continues
Mannequins banned from shops in Syrian jihadist stronghold
Syria’s most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women’s underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said.
The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also bans men and women shopping together unless he is her husband, father or brother, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
223 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:50:10pm |
More Bad Craziness, and perhaps the worst reporting job in history:
New Hampshire House Explodes as Police Respond to Shooting
224 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:50:33pm |
re: #218 wrenchwench
Those winds out of the east are something to be reckoned with. Always made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Mistrals. I read ‘A Year In Provence’, and they talked about the Mistrals and how they would drive normally sane people to commit desperate acts.
225 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:51:14pm |
Donald Sterling keeps invoking Judaism into the interview. Jackass. On behalf of all Jews, we'll gladly trade you for Amare Stoudemire.— Marc Hochman (@MarcHochman) May 13, 2014
Donald Sterling really stretching the limits of Gotta Hear Both Sides— Desus (@desusnice) May 13, 2014
226 | Sergey Romanov May 12, 2014 5:51:40pm |
I wonder what kind of laws the Orthodox State of Luganda and Dombabwe will introduce.
227 | wrenchwench May 12, 2014 5:52:19pm |
re: #224 GeneJockey
Mistrals. I read ‘A Year In Provence’, and they talked about the Mistrals and how they would drive normally sane people to commit desperate acts.
Santa Anas in So. Cal. See the Raymond Chandler Skip linked in #219.
228 | psddluva4evah May 12, 2014 5:52:39pm |
WTF is Donald Sterling’s problem with Magic Johnson? What the hell has Magic ever done to him? And to make it bad, dude actually was in Magic’s presence often and smiling in his face.
Man, Donald Sterling, this is for you. The O’Jays had it right!
“Smile in your face, all the time want to take your place…”
229 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 5:53:03pm |
re: #217 b.d.
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Right about now, Mr. Sterling should only be less than a dozen feet from the planet’s outer core.
230 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 5:53:18pm |
Donald Sterling shut the fuck up already, you're making me want to convert to Islam.— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 13, 2014
231 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 5:54:01pm |
re: #226 Sergey Romanov
I wonder what kind of laws the Orthodox State of Luganda and Dombabwe will introduce.
Polyphony might be outlawed?
232 | Bubblehead II May 12, 2014 5:54:27pm |
re: #169 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!! I’M TEH VICTIM HEAR!!!!!!!
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Fuck you Hoft. Your scum
233 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:55:12pm |
“She's a street person, but inside she is a good person” #DonaldSterling on #VStiviano. #AC360 Exclusive.
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 13, 2014
[sterling] I THINK THIS IS GOING WELL [/sterling]
234 | GeneJockey May 12, 2014 5:56:14pm |
re: #227 wrenchwench
Santa Anas in So. Cal. See the Raymond Chandler Skip linked in #219.
It’s funny - up here in the Bay Area, we’re used to winds constantly blowing in off the ocean, sometimes gently, sometimes really not gently at all. When we get winds blowing from the east - offshore flow - its’ generally not very windy at all. Just fucking hot, like today.
235 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 5:56:16pm |
Meet Vito Cammisano, Michael Sam’s Boyfriend.
236 | b.d. May 12, 2014 5:57:26pm |
Is there a Buy it Now option fro the Clippers on Ebay?
237 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 5:59:18pm |
Iranian women post pictures of themselves without hijabs on Facebook
Thousands of Iranian women are taking off their veils and publishing pictures of themselves online, igniting a debate about the freedom to wear or not wear the hijab.
A Facebook page set up by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad 10 days ago has attracted more than 130,000 likes, with women across Iran sending unveiled pictures taken in parks, at the seaside and in the streets.
238 | Gus May 12, 2014 5:59:34pm |
re: #215 Charles Johnson
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lol
Plural. Leftists. Was just one Tweet. Which I would add is highly objectionable.
239 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 5:59:46pm |
Greenwald on Colbert tonight - I’ll be curious to see if Stephen does anything to puncture the Mighty G’s egomaniacal bubble or if he just helps promote the book like a good media tool.
240 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 6:00:02pm |
re: #211 Charles Johnson
Man, it’s hot in LA. The dry desert weather is on us full force. Strange winds out of the east.
iphone says 90s in the bay area this week
technically this is against the law
241 | Rightwingconspirator May 12, 2014 6:00:28pm |
re: #183 freetoken
Another hot, dry, and very windy day here. The poor trees are having a terrible time. I found a few loquats yesterday, not very good.
Predictions are to hit 99F on Wed. Ack…
The heat is on for the week. Driveway eggs anyone?
242 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 6:01:26pm |
re: #237 Killgore Trout
Iranian women post pictures of themselves without hijabs on Facebook
At the same time, the religious police are often deployed on the streets, cracking down on those with “bad hijab” or arresting those who defy the rules.
i call band name
243 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 6:03:32pm |
re: #240 dog philosopher
Oh, joy.
Prolonged period of hot and very dry conditions this week with potential record heat Tuesday through Thursday…
…Gusty Santa Ana winds and extreme fire danger to impact southwest California at times through Thursday…
A strong upper level high pressure system will build off the California coast California on Monday and edge closer to the region over the next few days. This in combination with a persistent offshore flow pattern near the surface will bring periods of gusty Santa Ana winds along with an extended period of hot and very dry conditions this week. In fact…record high temperatures will be possible Tuesday through Thursday.
Warmest coastal and valley locations are expected to climb into the lower to mid 90s on Monday…nudging upward into the mid to upper 90s by Tuesday. The hottest days of this early season heat wave are expected to be Wednesday and Thursday…when warmer coastal and valley locations are forecasted to reach 100 degrees.
244 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 6:05:29pm |
Large corporations are expecting to make serious money from Greenwald’s book. There’s going to be a lot of pressure on all the media’s blow-dried spokesholes to do their jobs and help everyone make a nice profit from the marketing of stolen top secret documents.
245 | Gus May 12, 2014 6:06:18pm |
Oy. Donald Sterling…
“Jews get rich and want to help ppl. I'll get in trouble for this but black ppl get rich and don't always want to help their own” WTF— Tender Buns (@KittyLamont) May 13, 2014
246 | Lidane May 12, 2014 6:06:44pm |
Not only won't Donald Sterling sell the Clippers, he now wants to buy Cliven Bundy's herd.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 13, 2014
247 | Bubblehead II May 12, 2014 6:07:24pm |
re: #175 GeneJockey
I flirted with the whole van idea back in the 1970s, but that was also when I was subscribing to no less than FOUR car magazines; Road & Track, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, and Sports Car Graphic.
Mine was in the 90s. Just felt it was more classier than a wam/bam and thank you mam that the sport crowd crowd projected.
248 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:07:47pm |
re: #245 Gus
Oy. Donald Sterling…
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Needs a joint appearance with Bundy on The Daily Show.
249 | Dr Lizardo May 12, 2014 6:08:19pm |
re: #245 Gus
Oy. Donald Sterling…
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And Donald Sterling breaches the outer core of the Earth! And keeps going!!
250 | b.d. May 12, 2014 6:08:43pm |
re: #244 Charles Johnson
Matt Lauer also started his interview by saying that NBC News and First Look Media had a collaboration agreement on the Snowden documents, any ruffling of Glenn might have slowed that cooperation down.
251 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 6:09:12pm |
Bundy will make a fine new GM for the Clippers. Why doesn’t Donald just announce it?
252 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 6:09:16pm |
I'll just point out that large corporations and 1% investment firms are expecting to make serious money from Glenn Greenwald's book.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2014
253 | Lidane May 12, 2014 6:09:19pm |
Donald Sterling is the Joffrey Baratheon of the NBA.— Matt Besser (@MattBesser) April 30, 2014
254 | b.d. May 12, 2014 6:11:14pm |
re: #252 Charles Johnson
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Greenwald is a pawn of the 1%ers, I am glad that Anonymous is picketing him.
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255 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 6:12:28pm |
In a way, Glenn Greenwald is the parasitic wasp of journalism.
256 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:13:21pm |
Better photos of the fire/explosion at the standoff. Something in there was pretty energetic.
(And to continue the story the reporter forgot, someone was taken out for treatment.)
257 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 6:15:39pm |
258 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 6:16:00pm |
259 | wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window May 12, 2014 6:17:01pm |
re: #258 Justanotherhuman
Hah! beat you by 21 seconds!
261 | Bubblehead II May 12, 2014 6:17:39pm |
Night Lizards. Sleep restless and may the Deity of your choice scowl down upon you.
Wonder how many I caught with that one?
264 | Charles Johnson May 12, 2014 6:23:16pm |
Insanely dry & hot. Strange winds out of the east. The sort of weather that makes mild law-abiding citizens suddenly commit hideous crimes.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2014
265 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:26:11pm |
266 | b.d. May 12, 2014 6:27:01pm |
Unsavory characters being associated with Bitcoin!?!? Unpossible!
The Bitcoin Foundation appears to have stepped in it, again. Days after the foundation appointed a pair of new board members - Bobby Lee and Brock Pierce - nearly a dozen individual and corporate members are now resigning their association and withdrawing their sponsorship in protest.
At the heart of the situation are decade-old allegations against Pierce, a former child actor and failed dot-com entrepreneur, of child pornography, sexual misconduct, and embezzlement.
267 | William Barnett-Lewis May 12, 2014 6:27:38pm |
re: #265 Decatur Deb
Optimists. That or a small quantity of powder. Don’t know that town, but NJ towns allow up to 5 lbs of smokeless powder. A buddy of mine was almost killed when his VFD walked in on 10 lbs.
VFD?
268 | Justanotherhuman May 12, 2014 6:28:11pm |
Going to watch Murder So Foul in Midsomer on Netflix, with a 70-something Honor Blackman in a starring role. Still fab after all these years, too.
Have a great time watching Colbert…will check in the am. : )
269 | Stanley Sea May 12, 2014 6:28:14pm |
California Highway Patrol officers rescue Chihuahua from freeway median — http://t.co/49QtHoJKPq pic.twitter.com/vpRzSlfD1e
— RTV6 Indianapolis (@rtv6) May 13, 2014
From an Indy feed I follow. ha
270 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 6:28:42pm |
There is a Flash Flood warning in effect for my location.
FLASH FLOOD WTF we live on the high ground.
The bad thunderstorms & tornadoes couldn’t find anything in Detroit that wasn’t already destroyed so they went to Cleveland.
271 | Gus May 12, 2014 6:29:01pm |
“Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people,” said Sterling. “Some of the African Americans, they don’t want to help anyone.”
272 | Gus May 12, 2014 6:30:04pm |
re: #269 Stanley Sea
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From an Indy feed I follow. ha
Original Tweet:
This little dog needed some help off I-680 freeway today. We're glad he's safe. #CHP #Safe #Dog #DogTreats pic.twitter.com/RTuyB6fdPg— CHP Contra Costa (@320PIO) May 10, 2014
273 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:30:04pm |
re: #267 William Barnett-Lewis
VFD?
Volunteer Fire Department, putting out the idiot’s fire. The illegal weight invalidated his insurance.
274 | jaunte May 12, 2014 6:30:21pm |
re: #271 Gus
“Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people,” said Sterling. “Some of the African Americans, they don’t want to help anyone.”
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” Part 2.
275 | William Barnett-Lewis May 12, 2014 6:32:15pm |
re: #273 Decatur Deb
Volunteer Fire Department, putting out the idiot’s fire. The illegal weight invalidated his insurance.
Ah. I should find out what the limit around here is… O_O
276 | Skip Intro May 12, 2014 6:32:25pm |
re: #272 Gus
Looks like it’s in Dublin/San Ramon.
What kind of an asshole leaves their dog on top of a freeway median barrier?
Ah, I see it’s Walnut Creek. If possible, that’s an even worse place to dump the dog.
277 | dog philosopher May 12, 2014 6:33:42pm |
re: #271 Gus
“Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people,” said Sterling. “Some of the African Americans, they don’t want to help anyone.”
(moron + zillions of dollars) + internet and cable =>
278 | TedStriker May 12, 2014 6:36:01pm |
re: #271 Gus
“Jews, when they get successful, they will help their people,” said Sterling. “Some of the African Americans, they don’t want to help anyone.”
279 | Single-handed sailor May 12, 2014 6:38:15pm |
re: #276 Skip Intro
Looks like it’s in Dublin/San Ramon.
What kind of an asshole leaves their dog on top of a freeway median barrier?
North Main, Walnut Creek.
281 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 6:39:40pm |
re: #276 Skip Intro
Looks like it’s in Dublin/San Ramon.
What kind of an asshole leaves their dog on top of a freeway median barrier?
Donald Sterling.
282 | b.d. May 12, 2014 6:39:45pm |
So The Weather Channel decided to get into a Twitter war today with the Ft. Worth City Council member who did that heart felt It gets better speech:
Dear @weatherchannel I SWEAR I'm deleting your aggravating app if you don't STOP SHOWING DALLAS pics for Fort Worth pic.twitter.com/Rx36gZoI2K— Councilm. Joel Burns (@JoelBurns) May 12, 2014
@JoelBurns Sorry to see you go. Good luck on ending bullying.— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) May 12, 2014
Douchebags, I’m deleting their app.
283 | Pie-onist Overlord May 12, 2014 6:40:28pm |
284 | William Barnett-Lewis May 12, 2014 6:40:34pm |
re: #275 William Barnett-Lewis
Ah. I should find out what the limit around here is… O_O
National fire code is 25 lbs or less in original containers. 25 to 50 lbs in a wooden magazine. Beyond that the requirements get interesting.
285 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:44:12pm |
re: #275 William Barnett-Lewis
Ah. I should find out what the limit around here is… O_O
Often set by the town fire marshal—the insurance co. might have it’s own standard. Quantity/Distance Is Our Friend.
286 | teleskiguy May 12, 2014 6:47:38pm |
re: #1 GeneJockey
Buy the muscle car! BUY IT! And take it to some straightaway highway in Nevada and let ‘er rip!
Signed, a hopeless ski bum
287 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:50:59pm |
re: #284 William Barnett-Lewis
National fire code is 25 lbs or less in original containers. 25 to 50 lbs in a wooden magazine. Beyond that the requirements get interesting.
Neat if you live in a wooden magazine. It will all be subject to local rules, inside Fed standards. NFPA is ‘voluntary’ guidance unless written into something with teeth.
288 | teleskiguy May 12, 2014 6:51:24pm |
Hello Lizards!
I went skiing today. I know, big shock. In the last 3 days a little over two feet of snow fell at the Continental Divide in Colorado, and today didn’t disappoint at Arapahoe Basin. I had to remind myself occasionally that it is mid-May.
289 | Killgore Trout May 12, 2014 6:53:27pm |
re: #244 Charles Johnson
Large corporations are expecting to make serious money from Greenwald’s book. There’s going to be a lot of pressure on all the media’s blow-dried spokesholes to do their jobs and help everyone make a nice profit from the marketing of stolen top secret documents.
That’s show business. Publicists won’t book their clients on shows who ambush guests and gusts that ambush guests don’t get bookings. It’s how they keep the advertisers happy.
290 | Decatur Deb May 12, 2014 6:54:29pm |
291 | teleskiguy May 12, 2014 7:01:01pm |
If I go skiing tomorrow (if I can’t get anyone to go, that is, I’m not going by myself) it’ll be 80 ski days since 15 Nov. 2013.
And this year in Colorado was a good’un! Deep powder!
I’m at the (exactly) 1 minute mark on this video. That was a good day!
292 | teleskiguy May 12, 2014 7:12:07pm |
10 days ago today we went skiing up above Vail Pass. No chairlifts up there, but we did have mechanical transport.
293 | teleskiguy May 12, 2014 7:17:33pm |
And I have to say, I WANT one of these! I saw this guy tootling around on this and it looked like so much fun! It’s a 400 cc 4-stroke converted, the kit is like six and a half G’s. The owner wanted me to try it, and I wanted to so baaad! But I had ski boots on and it’s kind of hard to operate a dirt (ahem) snow bike transmission with ski boots on.