Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Grab the beverage of your choice (coffee, Earl Gray tea, box wine and Jager are right over there) and scroll through this week’s offering.
A little music for you.
We start off with James Denton. Haven’t seen “Desperate Housewives”. I just liked this pic.
In a belated celebration of Carin’s birthday, I present a new redhead.
We go multi-cultural with Akihiro Sato, a Japanese-Brazilian model.
Paulo Quevado. Looks like a smarter version of George Clooney.
Simon Baker of “The Mentalist”.
And last but not least, Jason Brooks, who was in the last Star Trek movie.
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Wakey wakey
I switched to Earl Grey tea this week. I’m worried about my caffeine intake.
Mostly because I want to make sure I’m not fatiguing my adrenals and causing a cortisol imbalance.
Rawr
Leon has lost it.
11 more days until I cut my cable. I wonder if they’ll come take my boxes away.
Leon has lost it.
60 lb? Why yes, yes I have.
Leon subsits on sweat and fear.
He should work on those girly adrenals.
I clicked on MJ’s song in the last poat, and had this gif in another window.
I have to take rage baby with me today. I tried to get him into the Lutheran day care by my house but they took one look at him and pointed toward the door.
*sigh
Shopping for Mrs MJs Christmas loot is going to be difficult.
I’m just hacking biology with every tool at my disposal. Inputs, outputs, measurements and records.
I have no idea what to get Mrs. Caruthers either, I think we ditched the couch plan.
There is no freaking way Garmin is getting THAT much of a return on all of these commercials.
I clicked on MJ’s song in the last poat, and had this gif in another window.
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That’s perfect.
Hello, this is dog.
Just riding a Wave Runner.
Leon has lost it.
^^^this
coffee is a gift from GOD.
Speaking of which, I finally got a new percolator. My mil sent me one for my birfday. YEA. I get coffee in 2 min or so. YEA!!!
*shuns Leon for his heathen ways
That was a perfect mash, Pups.
coffee is a gift from GOD.
So is beer, but God still expects us to use it responsibly. 6 cups of coffee a day may not have been responsible use, so I’m bringing my caffeine intake down from 800mg to 160mg by switching.
I have no idea what to get Mrs. Caruthers either, I think we ditched the couch plan.
KINDLE FIRE.
I really like it. Don’t know how to use it all, but it’s so nice and shiny.
I just need a few little things this year. The washer and dryer are being delivered next week.
If I was smart I’d just grab a few things from her closet and wrap them.
She already has a Kindle, I see no reason to set it on fire.
From yesterday:
The odds of it happening again are……close to zero.
. . .
She’s been pre-disastered….
. . .
Once you’ve had a plane fly into your car that pretty much never happens again.
Not so. The purported “law of averages” is a myth, despite its persistence. After a plane flies into your car (or you get T-boned) the probability that it will happen again is the same as before the event.
Put another way, if you flip heads 100 times in a row, which has a probability of .0000000001%, the probability of heads on the next coin toss is still 50/50.
My iPhone is a tad jealous of my Kindle FIRE I think.
I still love you iPhone.
*cooes at iPhone and caresses it’s screen.
*winks at KINDLE FIRE
its
Leon, in my experience (I worked for a CATV company not too long ago) cable companies may expect you to return the box to your nearest office if you don’t want to pay for it (as agreed in the fine print of your service agreement). They usually don’t roll a truck to terminate your service. They can do that automatically from the headend, and leave drop, network interface, and inside wire in place, in case you (or the next resident) want to resume service. You should call the company about this if you don’t want to get dinged.
Is Michigan cold this week?
I have to take rage baby with me today. I tried to get him into the Lutheran day care by my house but they took one look at him and pointed toward the door.
Your fault dude. You should have been nicer to me.
40-50F, so pretty warm, really.
There are only two outcomes from flipping a coin, but the amount of variables introduced in driving a car to the grocery store and getting hit by plane are basically infinite.
It’s sort of attribute vs continuos data. There are 200 seats on a plane, of which you’ll be assigned one. On the next flight you have the same chance of being assigned the same seat.
Having the flight crash due to sucking a flock of birds through the engine while the pilot is passed out due to food poisoning is another matter all together. Having it happen twice would be the same only if the variables were exactly the same.
oh good!
Q) What are the chances that we’ll ever meet mare?
Show your work.
Put another way, if you flip heads 100 times in a row, which has a probability of .0000000001%, the probability of heads on the next coin toss is still 50/50.
Wrong again, Bats.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/31/AR2009073104170.html
The cable company here wants their box back, but you don’t need to go to the store. They’ll ship you a packing box and return label and you just put the packing together, slide in the old box, and slap on a label. But you have to drop it off at UPS.
Which is right next to the cable company’s office.
Also, if you like today’s song (and I happen to), it’s brought to you by One Tree Hill, Season 3, Episode 3.
http://www.oth-music.com/episode303.html
Show your work.
Anything times zero is still zero.
Good morning, good people.
I like American men, however, Paulo has the chest and abs of an American MAN so he’s good to go (into my dreams). Hey would one of you put Henry Cavil’s head on that body? Thanks in advance.
Actually his body looks kind of like my husbands.
Mr. Maaaaaaare!!
Ashley Judd as a Senate candidate makes me smile. In a debate with McConnell? Bwahahahaha.
Then again, Obama survived his debates, too.
Can I assume if no name follows a link in Ace’s sidebar, Ace posted it?
I want to thank whoever posted this:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-two-presidents-helped-me-deal-with-love-guilt-and-fatherhood-20121129
I’m absolutely convinced, ANYONE, ANYONE can run and can win if they are a democrat.
Really, how do you explain, Reid, any of the black democrats the stupid stuff they say is “functioning idiot” level, Pelosi, Frank, Biden?
And don’t forget Ashley Judd has a vagina and evidently that skews well.
I like her!!
Said the voters that vote.
I like him!!
Said no one.
Seriously, she’s probably lose, but who knows these days. The president never had a full time job before this one.
Ashley Judd is a racist misogynist homophobe gun grabbing enviro-terrorist.
She better get used to getting her ass kicked rather than kissed.
Numbskull black Dem candidates win only because of district gerrymandering into supermajority districts.
That’s why there are no black Dem Senators.
’m absolutely convinced, ANYONE, ANYONE can run and can win if they are a democrat.
Really, how do you explain, Reid, any of the black democrats the stupid stuff they say is “functioning idiot” level, Pelosi, Frank, Biden?
Al Franken.
Imma take Paulo out for a spin before Cyn gets here.
Maybe he can teach me some new phrases in a Romantic language or two while
I’ve got him trappedhe’s here.“I have to take rage baby with me today.”
you still letting him drive?
http://tinyurl.com/by7n7tf
Hank “Guam is gonna tip over” Johnson.
Does Ashley Judd have high cheekbones?
Huh. Just incinerated a black widow with WD-40. Don’t usually see them this late in the year.
I *think* it was a black widow. Didn’t spend a lot of time looking at him. Spent more time grabbing the WD-40.
I have my annual physical at 9:30 a.m., so I’m fasting for bloodwork.
Why is it that most mornings I’m not hungry, but the one morning that I’m not allowed to have anything to eat, I’m starving?
Quick – somebody find some money to fund a study…..
Some of the job application processes of big companies have changed. Rather than being Native American, you have to be Native American that is currently affiliated with a tribe.
Al Franken, good example. A pathetic, whiny, mean spirited, nothing.
But if you’re a big enough attention whore, and you believe that you know how to run our lives better than we do, well then, you’re a perfect candidate.
No casino, no job.
Since I was born here, doesn’t that mean I’m a native American?
Capital letters, how do they work?
MJ, does the Lolipop Guild count as a tribe?
I think I could lie my way into office in Fl, serve one term, then cash out as a lobbyist or some such bullshit.
I would start every speech like this: What do you want to hear?
I’ve considered that, MJ. I don’t think either of us are tall enough, though.
Attention Whores and Congress Mare is being redundant again
I’ve always liked Rush’s take on being a candidate; You’ll hate me because I won’t do anything besides get out of your way.
Watching Tuesday morning’s edition of Red Eye was enlightening. Remi Spencer was take Terry Schappert to task for his comment that the GOP should just let Obama have his way, with the fiscal arguments. She said that Obama was just starting out on the far end of his position, preparing for a negotiation. I found that I agreed with her.
But then it occurred to me. We have all been treating it as a normal negotiation, all the time, The only ones that haven’t are Obama and the Democrats. If they don’t get everything they want, they do NOT give anything to the GOP. There is NO give and take with them. Hence, the reason we have no budget, 1.4 trillion dollar deficits, and executive orders coming out of our ears.
The GOP is acting in good faith, the Dems are not.
Fuck Ashley Judd.
Yes, yes I would, but fuck her anyway.
Comment by leoncaruthers on December 5, 2012 8:48 am
40-50F, so pretty warm, really.
In what God-forsaken frozen wasteland is 40-50F considered WARM?
It’s 48 degrees outside, and I’m freezing my tits off.
Heh
Only in the land of Disney would a local morning news show have a celebrity birthday shout out for a guy that has been dead 50 years.
Happy birthday Walt!
MJ, does the Lolipop Guild count as a tribe?
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Sadly no. But as almost everyone who has rural roots from the Midwest will attest to hearing stories about Native American heritage.
My grandmother told me almost exactly the same story about being part Cherokee. She showed me old photos and talked about high cheekbones and hair so black that it had a blue sheen to it.
Only a fool would believe her story. The fact that she seemed to really believe it speaks volumes about her intellect.
In what God-forsaken frozen wasteland is 40-50F considered WARM?
North of Oklahoma, perhaps?
Jeez, you Texans can be sissies when it comes to cold weather.
They have a new invention. It’s called a COAT.
It’s December, Teresa. If the water in your immediate area isn’t solid, it’s warm.
Heh
Only in the land of Disney would a local morning news show have a celebrity birthday shout out for a guy that has been dead 50 years.
Shhhh, George Orwell will hear you, and he’s kinda sensitive about that dead thing.
I’ve seen a photo of my great-great grandmother at some point, but the tribe she belonged to dissolved before WWI, so it’s moot. All it means to me is some bald spots in my beard.
It’s December, Teresa.
Ah, yes – when the temperature finally dips below 80 degrees.
I love that time of year 😛
Cold! I am still running my A/C darn it!
Yeah, I love it when the electric bill dips. When you can crack a window, and have that lovely cold air seep in.
Brrrrrr, goooooood.
From Ace’s overnight thread:
Can this possibly be true? What kind of accounting/statistical deal am I missing. This can’t be right:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/11/but-its-all-about-fairness-144000.html
Elizabeth Warren taught us that if you believe it, and need it, it’s true. You can even get into universities and not be penalized.
Family lore on my father’s father’s side of the family spoke of an Indian grandmother. Of course, back in the day, nobody would be caught dead admitting that in public. And there are no written records that we can find.
That having been said, my grandfather and my dad’s brothers all had jet black hair in their 70’s.
My dad turned 80 this year, and his hair (what little is left) is STILL black. A few white hairs here and there, but not many.
Our winter is going to be much warmer when we start burning wood next week.
Mare, imagine if half of those families moved to Nevada.
Leon, that’s exactly what I was thinking, how little it would take for the
ratio of producers (companies) to takers to be screwed.
40s won’t bother me, even my lame “Texas” overcoat will cover that.
I’m just glad it ain’t gonna be 13 up there this week.,
Ashley Judd
That one percent makes 80% of the income, but only pays half the taxes. God forbid that rich people should have to pay a tax. I won’t shed any tears for them.
That’s the first comment from Mare’s link. We’re screwed. An entire generation of people think like this. They’ve been raised to always get recognition, praise, regardless of results. Naturally, when they grow up, they want to level the field because they DESERVE IT.
Rage baby asked me to say that.
Know where there’s a level playing field? North Korea.
Cuba has a level playing field, too.
It’s easier to bring the top down a couple of notches, than to bring the bottom up a couple.
Reagan did the second, and it’s still not “fair” to this day. We have the wealthiest poor in the history of history.
But, as we all know the very top is never affected by any of this.
“Rage baby asked me to say that.”
Does Rage Baby™ have a newsletter?
True, and neither are the self-reliant “poor”. Those guys on Moonshiners and Swamp People are probably dirt-butt poor on paper. Once again, I wish I’d taken the time to learn a Trade while I was learning my Profession.
The whole concept of equality is rather scary. I’m pretty sure it dawned on Robespierre, Danton, et al when their heads were being put into the guillotine.
Everything I’ve read, heard, and seen related to the American and French Revolutions made me sympathetic to the French nobility, you know, the guys who actually sided with us when we were a nation of hick farmers fighting the British Empire.
75% of Detroit pulled the Obama lever for President.
47% of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate.
Coincidence?
Some of the nobility in France was admirable, leon. The others were just plain out of touch elitists, taking advantage of everyone. It isn’t amazing how many lost their head. We don’t have to live under that type of rule.
Well, for now at least.
The French Revolution had more in common with the Russian Revolution than ours.
Adams, who spent time over in Frants as a diplomat during the Revolution, was really unimpressed with all of the sodomy & such. That said, as in the case of Russia in 1917, “the people” exchanged one tyrant for a whole slew of even more savage tyrants, & Jefferson was a fag.
I don’t know where I’m going here, so I’m just going to stop.
Ashley Judd was the lawyer’s wife in the Grisham Movie ‘A Time to Kill’. She was only in a few scenes, but they hosed her down with glistening sweat for all of them. She looked really pretty, but sweaty.
The Russian revolution was about punishment. So was the French.
The government is the new aristocracy.
What MJ said.
*hands Rage Baby a sucker
The irony is that this new aristocracy (in all senses of the word) mouths platitudes about fairness, etc.
Off with their heads, I say.
I’m very, very worried that that may happen.
The government is the new aristocracy.
This. +1,000,000
Sweaty Ashley Judd.
“I don’t know where I’m going here, so I’m just going to stop.”
HAHA
The next president will run against the government excess and corruption. I hope.
“The government is the new aristocracy.”
STOP BEING RIGHT!
The irony is that this new aristocracy (in all senses of the word) mouths platitudes about fairness, etc.
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That’s my favorite part. Populism could totally destroy the leftists that inhabit most levels of government.
Do you realize we had an ignorant, rich bitch, who somehow became the speaker of the House, actually say,
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it…”
An over 2000 page bill that she herself had not read.
Mare thinking about this POS government: http://tinyurl.com/apaarte
It’s all too depressing. If anybody needs to cuddle, or trade guns, or drink heavily & fistfight, I’ll be a couple blocks away helping an old crazy guy hork a ladder over a fence.
Dave Brubeck died.
KINDLE FIRE.
‘Ello, fuckfaces.
Well. Look at that. Rage Baby killed MJ.
It was just a matter of time.
Daddy went to take a dump. I locked him in there.
Quick, how long does it take a moron to figure out how to get out of a bathroom and how long does it take to a cat to die of asphyxiation?
I’m asking for a friend.
Rage Baby (and I call you RB?) – MJ should be in there for a long time.
You’re good.
Go see if he locked the liquor cabinet.
You should look for some matches too.
RIP Dave Brubeck
http://tinyurl.com/c99wjcx
Check out Mrs MJ’s underwear drawer.
Is MJ’s liquor cabinet made up of all those little tiny bottles?
Good morning, humpty dancers.
I found this:
http://is.gd/yO5vuQ
I’m going to hide a few of the green ones in my sippy cup. That fag will never know.
Can’t reach the underwear drawer, but I did find a lighter.
BURN MOTHERFUCKER BURN!!!!!!!!!!!
An Ender’s Game movie?
Woot!
Complete with Harrison Ford.
http://tinyurl.com/auj3ntb
Good morning, humpty dancers.
I was JUST doing the humpty hump.
Why would MJ have a lighter? I just have boxes of wooden matches for… things.
Complete with Harrison Ford.
I’m not sure how I feel about that.
I don’t think I’m happy.
Why would MJ have a lighter?
two words:
crack
I gotta run back to my corner. He’s almost done.
I can tell because the squeals of pain are coming closer together.
I wish the Repugnicans would show up at negotiations saying “Here is our final offer” and slide a canister of napalm across the table.
You look like MC Hammer on crack, C arin.
I found this:
http://is.gd/yO5vuQ
Don’t drink them all in one flight.
You look like MC Hammer on crack, C arin.
Why thank you!!
That was a compliment, right?
Ender’s Game looks very interesting. I can’t wait to see how Hollywood twists this one.
*sniff sniff
Huh. I must have left the stove on. It smells like something is burning in here.
xbrad, I like the choices for Petra and Mazer. But Harrison as Hyrum Graff? He’s not menacing and manipulative enough.
That was a compliment, right?
Yes. It means you’re doing it right.
Huh. I must have left the stove on. It smells like something is burning in here.
Perhaps you have the Federal budget on the hob.
Oh dear, the director also directed Rendition.
This is gonna suck. Get Peter Berg on the phone, stat!
Haha, “Puff Piece” on AOS about Ashley!
I think that should sort of stand as a basic rule: If what you’re saying can be said, and in fact frequently is said, in Cosmo, it’s not philosophy and it’s not politics. Sorry, it’s not.
That’s some deep shit, there.
For shame. Cosmo is up there on the weighty shelves alongside <<Das Kapital.
I’m not thrilled about the Ender’s Game flick. The more I read on it, the less I like it.
Also, Howdy!
Aggie!
That is one of my favorite science fiction books. Even more so since the gay marriage proponents want to boycott the movie, because Card made comments on gay marriage.
What Ender’s Game has to do with gay marriage, I don’t know. But it gets the libs tail in a knot, so I’m behind it.
I’m sticking to books until something really worth it hits theaters, though my wife will probably drag me out to see The Hobbit.
Orson Scott Card’s liberalism has failed him?? Say it isn’t so!!
*waves to Brad*
I’m baaaaaack.
The doctor asked me to squeeze her fingers – she was not impressed.
I gave the lab some precious bodily fluids, then met Mr. TiFW for lunch.
I’m pooped.
Entertain me, people!
Science fiction is a genre of literature that I’m almost entirely ignorant of. Westerns, too. Which is weird, because I will watch both when it comes to movies or teevee.
Yet, interestingly enough it seems as if the most successful SciFi is the stuff which mirrors the great Westerns.
After all, Gene Roddenberry said that he wanted Star Trek to be a “Wagon Train to the stars”.
I think that’s why people love Firefly so much, too.
Spotted locally…
How do you scare children for Christmas?
http://i.imgur.com/jhNDp.jpg?1
I’m not a very big consumer of sci-fi books. Though I read Ender’s Game sometime way, way back.
Never read Ender’s Game. I read Ender’s Shadow, though, which I liked.
I mostly read comedy, by which I mean horror, which is almost entirely about urban dwellers visiting the country and being mauled anymore.
I love science fiction.
what’s wrong with you people?
Heh. Listening to the 10th Anniversary Les Miz soundtrack right now!!! Dan keeps telling me I have to get a friend to go to the movie with me.
re: sci fi
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2012/09/was-pournelle-prescient.html
I’m a big fan of Jerry Pournelle’s The CoDominium science fiction series. In it, as Wikipedia explains:
The United States of the CoDominium Era is a welfare state divided into two classes: Citizens and Taxpayers. “Citizens” are welfare dependents who are required to live in walled sections of cities called “Welfare Islands.” People are given whatever they need, including the drugs like Borloi to keep them pacified.
Would that this were not fiction.
I love Thomas Pynchon. What the hell is wrong with you?
Would that this were not fiction.
No shit!!
Read Bainbridge’s post at my above link. His point is that we may be headed for welfare islands, in effect. Probably not with walls, unfortunately.
I was just watching those videos with Ben Domenech linked on the sidebar at Ace’s yesterday. Interesting discussions. They’d be easier to focus on if the camera wasn’t making me fucking carsick.
There are few cinematographic trends I hate more than “shaky camera.”
It’s not shaky camera in this instance. It’s a camera that zooms in an arc around the table every minute or so for no apparent reason.
Maybe the camera operator is sick and Isadora Duncan is filling in.
I love Thomas Pynchon. What the hell is wrong with you?
Don’t make me kill you.
With a Pynchon book. You know which one.
A screaming comes across the sky.
*ducks*
*kills sean
I’m sorry folks. it had to be done.
Good Sci-Fi is forward looking, like Lem, or Wells, or Voltaire.
Great Sci-Fi, on the other hand, is allegorical, like P. K. Dick, C. S. Lewis, or Voltaire.
I actually find Wells unreadable. His politics were abhorrent, and bubble through.
MOM! CAR IN IS MURDERING PEOPLE WITH GRAVITY’S RAINBOW AGAIN!
Pynchon the butt? WTF?
Who is that?
At least the Patriarchy is still keeping Ashley Judd down.
I don’t want to go to welfare island.
Read Wells’ “Shape of Things to Come.” Fascist wishcasting.
I love Philip K. Dick.
Is this where I say “SYWM!!” or where I denounce myself?
I don’t want to go to welfare island.
It’s run by a Spanish dude with an Irish handle, and a midget.
Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
HE WAS ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DAYS DYING and not yet dead. He fought for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap. He was delirious and rotting, but occasionally his primitive mind emerged from the burning nightmare of survival into something resembling sanity. Then he lifted his mute face to Eternity and muttered: “What‟s a matter, me? Help, you goddamn gods! Help, is all.”
Blasphemy came easily to him: it was half his speech, all his life. He had been raised in the gutter school of the twenty-fifth century and spoke nothing but the gutter tongue. Of all brutes in the world he was among the least valuable alive and most likely to survive.
Who left the fucking door unlocked?
On Welfare Island cell phones are free and it’s always 78 degrees.
I don’t want to go to welfare island.
Everybody’s got new orders
Be a nice girl and kiss the warders
On Welfare Island cell phones are free and it’s always 78 degrees.
As long as they can’t leave or vote, it’s worth the money it takes to keep them there.
I left out M. P. Shiel from my second list by mistake.
You’re right about Wells being a political bore, but The Food of the Gods & The Island of Doctor Moreau are both simply brilliant.
MOM! CAR IN IS MURDERING PEOPLE WITH GRAVITY’S RAINBOW AGAIN!
You’ll never get a jury to convict me.
I can’t wait for Dan Brown & Stephanie Meyer[s?] to collaberate.
I love Thomas Pynchon. What the hell is wrong with you?
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Nobody loves Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot Whatever was pretty good, but I’m convinced that no one has read Gravity’s Rainbow, but everyone claims to have done so.
Collab0rate, even.
Holly sticks, I quit qhung’wbnre]pi;rjuvnJ;vbnłvk
Dan Brown & Stephanie Meyer
Sparkling Jesuits??
I tried reading Gravity’s Rainbow, twice. It was like I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving.
I’ve read Gravity’s Rainbow. Several times, actually. It’s close to being unhealthy.
I’d like to see Dan Brown collaborate with Michael Moore. Seems like a natural partnership.
Sci-fi recommendation to read “Fallen Angels” by Pournelle, Flynn and Niven.
Online and free, apparently!
http://library.beau.org/lib/ebooks/baen/01/Fallen%20Angels/Fallen_Angels.htm
…government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age…
On Welfare Island I’ll get to watch a lot more TV.
Yes, you will, scott, but it will all be episodes of Survivor, Judge Judy, and Real Housewives of _______ .
I think the 3 older girls read “Ender’s Game” for HS English.
Of course, I’ve slept since then, so it could have all just been a dream (tries to remember if Bobby Ewing was there).
I read Gravity’s Rainbow while I was in high school. I don’t remember it, so I guess I wasn’t impressed.
But I can almost quote Time Enough for Love or Stranger in a Strange Land by chapter and page.
And you folks do realize Ender’s Game is just Part 1, right?
Malthus & Smith/Ford? I think someone already wrote “Brave New World”.
I read Time Enough for Love and the relentless polygamy was almost enough to put me off Heinlein forever.
And you folks do realize Ender’s Game is just Part 1, right?
Yuuuuup.
/Lana Lane
I think the only O. S. Card I’ve read is the original short story (c1977) of Ender’s Game. It was okay. I tried picking up one of the novels, & there’s just no way. He’s like the Mormon Steven King of Sc-Fi.
I saw Relentless Polygamy open up for Great White at the Omni in 1984.
Comment by leoncaruthers on December 5, 2012 4:13 pm
HAHA! Don’t ever pick up Number of the Beast or To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Bleh.
…and then, another state union member calls the local radio show bitching about 1) not having gotten a pay raise in five years, and 2) having to pay into her own pension fund for the first time.
They just. Have. No clue. What has been going on.
People in the real world are losing their homes and businesses. And these folks- whose pensions we will be paying for forty years after they retire- are bitching about having to make contributions to their own damn pensions.
*vacant stare*
If they ever visit Welfare Island we’ll kick their ass.
Show off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLJtX877sGE&&
Mrs. Caruthers used to board her horses at a UAW guy’s farm awhile back. I went with her at one point and he happened to be out and tried to engage me on pensions. I laughed in his face. If it hasn’t been raided by your union bosses, it will be. My 401k is at least mine on paper, they don’t even have that. Just a bunch of promises.
and the relentless polygamy was almost enough to put me off
Not bothered by the incest/Oedipus Complex, though? Interesting….
Our State is borrowing 500 million to pay bills. Someone asked the Governor if he thought this was a good idea and he says “we aren’t borrowing money to pay bills, we are taking out a line of credit to pay bills.
Not bothered by the incest/Oedipus Complex, though? Interesting….
I was, but I didn’t want to spoil it for any other unwitting victims.
Ha! You douches, Rage Baby and comments to him are pretty funny!
Mare! You need this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRUJxAN38w&t=4
Our State is borrowing 500 million to pay bills
From who?
North Korea.
There will be a blue state bailout.
It may trigger serious thoughts of secession in Texas.
I really don’t see why they haven’t left already.
When is our SS gift supposed to get to its recipient?
I gotta get it here first, then send it out to my
victimperson before we leave for the annual “TiFW Family Trek Across Texas”.This year, ’twill only be me, Mr. TiFW, and Rebecca in our vehicle.
The other spawn (and their respective significant others) are responsible for getting to the rental house on their own.
Do you get a unicorn with that $500 million? I’d ask.
North Korea.
That must be why the Norks don’t have any lights at night, huh?
It may trigger serious thoughts of secession in Texas.
I really don’t see why they haven’t left already.
The bumper stickers are already starting to pop up.
It’s a line of credit, so they will only spend what they need.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
* gasp *
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yo, I just need like 50¢ to catch a bus, dude. Uh, I mean $500,000,000. I swear, I’ll pay you back.
Any state requiring a bailout should be returned to Territory status and forfeit its congressional and electoral representation. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
It will be kind of hard to hide the corruption when CA, IL, and other blue states suddenly get cash from the tax payers in OK and TX.
Rage baby has been talking about this all afternoon, but I suspect he’s been drinking.
He’s swaying a bit and he’s thrown up more than usual.
There will be a blue state bailout.
Clownifornia delivers. I promise you.
The only actual question is, now that Obama doesn’t need anyone’s support to play God-Emperor, how far will he life a finger for blue state demands? This is the Chicago way, remember. Clownifornia has to give something Barry wants to have in order to get stash.
life a finger = lift a finger
in non-typo land
Oh – the other thing I found out at the Dr’s office today is that I have lost 14 pounds since May.
I’m not sure how that happened, though.
*pulls down dog-eared copy of “Hypochondria for Dummies”, starts thumbing through it*
I found out at the Dr’s office today is that I have lost 14 pounds since May.
I’m not sure how that happened, though.
*pulls down dog-eared copy of “Hypochondria for Dummies”
You might look at the chapter “Tapeworms: Diet craze or creepy parasite?”
I swear if I hear one more conservative pundit drool about how Republicans have “a brand problem,” I’m going to stencil “CLUEBAT” on the side of a hydrogen-filled dirigible and crash it into the intertubes.
There is no brand problem. People know very well what both parties are selling, and people voted for Free Shit. That’s the winning brand.
You might look at the chapter “Tapeworms: Diet craze or creepy parasite?”
*looks suspiciously at DD#3’s kittens*
I knew those two were trouble.
Of course, at this rate, it will be at least 5-6 years before my doctor starts squawking about it 😛
Baking bread for the first time in a few months (after I got all frustrated & depressed at having my starter die). If this doesn’t work out I swear I’m gonna drink beer & post a bunch of facetious & sarcastic stuff on twitter.
My kale leaf starter seemed to start to work after a few days but something went wrong. I’m going to try the red cabbage leaf method next, maybe this weekend.
http://tinyurl.com/atch5h3
We just heard 2 shots out back and nobody called the police.
Woo Hoo! This changes everything!
States wanting bailouts. Sheeeeeeeeeit!!!!
Desensitize them Scott
We just heard 2 shots out back and nobody called the police.
Or they called the police, who might show up in a couple of hours. Might.
just got home –
saw this (maybe it’s old) it’s funny in sad way – maybe more of the world will start to loathe the piece of shit as much as some of us do-
http://tinyurl.com/dyvb2nc
Its probably the police doing the shooting.
Well, one of my ghetto bar buddies died – 45 years old. WTF?
I am roasting a whole chicken for the first time in a long while.
Yep. Roasting. Ought to be done in an hour.
*twiddles thumbs*
I remember why I stopped doing this.
Jam2, there’s some smarter diplomacy there somewhere. Or it’s Bush’s fault.
That’s awfully young. Was it someone I met, Hotspur?
Not on our street, and nothing on the scanner. A coyote probably had a bad night.
Sorry to hear that Hotspur.
Rage baby…’s thrown up more than usual.
You wore a clean shirt, didn’t you.
He might have been here that night, Leon. Name was Dave – a chef – taught in the culinary program at WCC.
I’m also sorry to hear it, should have said that first.
Was he the fellow holding down the end of the bar with his laptop? I really only remember that fellow and the pizzeria owner.
first he lets him drive… now he let’s him drink.
mj might be a marginal role model:
http://tinyurl.com/ajlf9sn
Damn, HS. Sorry to hear that.
Cocaine?
Tempus fugit
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121205-NEWS-121209871
Sorry for the bad news, Hotspur.
Sorry about your friend, Hotspur.
Xbrad, Can you tell me the difference between the Marpat and Molle II packs? I found some surplus sellers.
Yikes ‘Spur!
Thanks, guys.
We don’t know the cause of death. He’d been dead for at least a day when they discovered him.
Friend of mine died about 10 years ago at the age of 40. He was a cook.
His official cause was heart failure.
Everybody dies of heart failure………..
Was he a family man, Hotspur?
Andy, truth be told, I’ve never even seen either a MarPat or MOLLE II. We were still in the good old days of ALICE packs when I got out.
Sorry, HS.
Did anybody have the portrait anybody else painted of them burned today?
Sorry about your friend, HS. 😦
Comment by leoncaruthers on December 5, 2012 7:05 pm
I am roasting a whole chicken
I’ve been hanging around you people too long – I read that as “whore chicken” the first time.
And I figured she must’ve had it coming.
Condolences, HS.
I would imagine that 45 is considered a “normal” age to pass away in most countries.
I don’t think our bodies were made to last much longer than that, truth be told. We’ve just got the good fortune to have the medical science that allows more of us to survive infancy and early childhood – not to mention the vaccines which protect us from stuff that routinely kills.
It’s still sad when it happens.
We’ve just gotten used to people living longer in this country.
Comment by pepelp2 on December 5, 2012 7:59 pm
Everybody dies of heart failure………..
The leading cause of death is birth.
Thanks Vmax.
One of my FB friends from HS posted an article with her little spiel about how making the millionaires/billionaires pay “a little bit more” in taxes (aka “their fair share”) isn’t “socialism”.
I told her she was right – it’s called “communism”.
She wasn’t happy with me.
I don’t remember seeing a note from Cyn’s doctor.
Teresa, you’re actually wrong on that. Low life expectancy is almost always due to high infant and child mortality or death by violence. People who live to early adulthood have been living into their 70s for most of the history of homo sapiens sapiens, the difference now is how many people survive to early adulthood. We’re meant to live to be grandparents.
That depends Leon. According to the cemetery up the street a woman’s chances of surviving childbirth was about 50/50 200 years ago.
Think about that, Scott. How does the species ever multiply if half all births end in death for mother and child? That can’t be the general rate, and the anthropological record doesn’t support it.
Wikipedia says 1/100 is the historical rate, but there was a spike to ~40% in some places in the 1800s due to an infectious disease, so we’re both right.
More females are born than males.
More males die doing stupid shit in their teens.
(or get eaten by tigers while hunting)
Actually, in communist societies, they just confiscate everything, kill the rich people, and then move into their houses and offices.
My condolences, Hotspur. 😦
Cemetery up the street is 1700’s. If a male made it to 40, he buried 3-4 wives and half a dozen kids.
We’re meant to live to be grandparents.
Before birth control, weren’t most people grandparents by the time they were 40-50?
Hadn’t heard that about most people being expected to live into their 70’s. It’s luck of the draw, I guess…..
You wore a clean shirt, didn’t you.
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Shirt?
Teresa, the fastest way to shut up the libtards when they are on that soap box is to ask them to define “fair share”.
Globally, the average is 107 boys to 100 girls, last I checked. 105:100 in the US (supposedly close to “natural” since sex-selective abortion is rare here).
In India and China, it’s as high as 119:100 in some places. Whether that’s natural or not is left as an exercise for the reader.
Leon, I have read as high as 140:100 in some places in India and China. 30 million Chinese men doomed to bachelorhood.
Before birth control, weren’t most people grandparents by the time they were 40-50?
Very likely, but fossil evidence says Psalm 90:10 is mostly right.
And nothng better to do than fight…..
My god, I hadn’t heard numbers that far out of whack. That’s going to end very, very badly.
Aggie – she did agree that she wanted to see a budget before giving Congress an open credit card.
So she is capable of perhaps being convinced…..
^^^What Leon said.
China’s gonna be a real hot zone in the not too distant future.
30 million Chinese men doomed to bachelorhood.
————————-
Google Tenga. It’s a few billion yen waiting to happen.
Wisdom teeth tell me that at around 18, 4 more molars was awesome.
Google Tenga.
Dammit. I hate when I fall for that.
*shakes fist at Xbrad*
Jenga!
No doubt, MJ – but the natural instinct for young males is to pass their genetic material on to the next generation.
Tenga can’t make babies.
Leftovers from our pre-fire, pre-meat-eating days, Scott. Our mandibles shrank faster than we selected against the extra teeth, probably because they’d push into place after you might have lost a few.
Aggie,
Also, ask them to define, with specific numbers, “rich”…
Dammit. I hate when I fall for that.
On the other hand, I think I have my Secret Santa gift.
I don’t remember seeing a note from Cyn’s doctor.
If this keeps up, I’m gonna need a note. From Dr. Feelgood. Or maybe it’s Dr. Love I need to call, I forget which.
No doubt, MJ – but the natural instinct for young males is to pass their genetic material on to the next generation.
Google for Japanese “herbivore” or “grass-eating” men. A lot of modern males are opting out of a rigged game. Porn and sex toys are enough to wipe out any drive they might have to put up with a real woman, let alone bother finding one.
Also, ask them to define, with specific numbers, “rich”…
Yeppers. I know I strike a nerve when they come back at me by calling me “Lily white”, and “entitled” 😀
From AOS:
“Democrats just elected Maxine Waters to the top Democratic spot on the House Financial Services committee. ”
The same Maxine Waters that wanted to know if the Martian Rover had found the flag the astronauts planted?
Bahwawawa!
We’re in good hands now…
The same Maxine that facilitated stimulus moolah to her husband’s bank, too.
-British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b1211
Was that Maxine? I thought that was Cynthia McKinney.
I remember Maxine assuring us that FM and FM were doingjustfine right before the collapse in ’07, though.
That’s awesome Cyn.
*shakes fist at Xbrad*
The fuck?
Look, I masturbate the old fashioned way. Hand, lube, and .flv files of busty lesbians.
Don’t blame me for crap Sean’s into.
>> The same Maxine Waters that wanted to know if the Martian Rover had found the flag the astronauts planted?
That was Sheila Jackson-Lee.
Those congress women all look alike to me.
.
.
Stupid.
Andy,
Thanks! I get them confuzzeled, but I can’t imagine why.
Both being in the left-hand margin of the IQ bell-curve, perhaps…
I found the answer right here in The Know-Your-Idiot Field Identification Guide, 3rd. Ed..
Heh
Andy rocks
I sort of wonder if the media is going to use the cliche of shooting the hostage when referring to the fiscal cliff.
Who’s the one with the crazy hair? Pretty sure that’s Cynthia McKinney, but she lost her election bid, yes?
Yes and yes, Chris. She ran for president after that.
Cynthia McKinney lost to that mental giant Hank Johnson.
I sort of wonder if the media is going to use the cliche of shooting the hostage when referring to the fiscal cliff.
Our blog hits are gonna go thru the roof!!1! Let’s hurry up and monetize this bitch stat for moar crazy meat-up money.
Our blog hits are gonna go thru the roof!!1! Let’s hurry up and monetize this bitch stat for moar crazy meat-up money.
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When we’re all famous we should pretend not to know each other, but secretly know each other.
“,i.Our blog hits are gonna go thru the roof!!1! Let’s hurry up and monetize this bitch stat for moar crazy meat-up money.”
Cynthia, I love you and wanna have your children!
SmooocHes!
Everyone will pretend not to know MJ…
Seems to me if Harry Ried (non-denier of pederasty) won’t even allow a vote on Obastards ‘cliff plan’, there is no use even discussing it.
Not that you could get the media to take note of that and maybe ask a question or two.
Cynthia McKinney looked like Buckwheat on meth.
Have we got enough Amazon money to buy a drink yet?
I dunno if a meetup is such a good idea. Cyn is pretty intimidating.
Aggie,
YES! Exactly, Buckwheat on meth!
Hugs(gentle) on you!
I hope you are feeling better…
Everyone will pretend not to know MJ…
Who?
Cynnabuns,
Exactly…
I had my worst day today, but the H2 thread and the redhead made it far better, ChrisP 😀
Comment by roamingfirehydrant on December 5, 2012 9:26 pm
30 million Chinese men doomed to bachelorhood.
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Doomed? Blessed?
HAHAHA! That made me LOL and pee a little, Pupster! Oh, to have gif avatards…
Cynthia McK:
http://tinyurl.com/dy6xwy8
I buy a lot of 99 cent kndle books on the H2 link I bet we are rolling in the $
Worthless trivia the $ sign comes from the Spanish piece of 8. That was some Spanish kings thingamagig or something.
My I is sticky Kindle not Kndle
Worthless trivia question: I thought that our dollar sign technically has two vertical lines so that it looked a bit like “U” and “S” combined?
Cynthia McKinney looked like Buckwheat on meth.
You know where to send the keyboard, missy…… 😛
/scrapes shit off the bottom of boots
/scratches all the wrong spots
I give this poat 3 of these thingies ###
“Look, I masturbate the old fashioned way. Hand, lube, and .flv files of busty lesbians. Don’t blame me for crap Sean’s into.”
http://tinyurl.com/cn68nz3
My I is sticky Kindle not Kndle
TENGA!
Tiger Chick
The Spanish king thing has 2 pillars and the scroll or s thingy.
I saw it on History Channel Mankind thing
**facepalm**
Shit.
I spent $140 on Amazon today. And forgot to use the link here.
I’m sorry.
JD/unclefacts,
Stop by again on Friday. Trust me…
Hope all is well with you and yours, have not logged on to FaceDouche for a month.
UNCLEFACTS!!!!
*waves howdy*
I spent $140 on Amazon today.
Dolly’s friends don’t come cheap.
I give your # # # thingies these ¡^^^^^! thingies
yeah fb, you will never find a more wretched hive of asshats and shrewbitches.
I wonder if I took a pic of my ass with a smiley face drawn on it if fb would ban my account for posting it?
also I’d like to say Merry Christmas to all you all as well.
From what I’ve seen, so long as it doesn’t look like bewb elbows in a tub, you’re SOL for getting banned, UF.
Post two girls, one cup, see how long you last.
UF, if they banned you, you’d be better off.
my god, I just realized how much time has opened up for masterbation…
So….winning??
well, yeah. I mean come on
I quit masturbating and used my new-found spare time to learn organic chemistry. To each their own.
Hey, you call it what you like, and I’ll call it what I like.
what are we talking about again?
Leon,
Didn’t Morsi get a PHD in that at USC, before he became Pharo?
well, yeah. I mean come on
Come on whom?
“I am now mandated by the government to talk to you about
your weight, exercise, family life, gun ownership, smoking, sexual abuse(!), and even to ask if you wear seat belts. And I am mandated to record your answers. I am a physician. But I need to tell you to wear a seat belt and then record your answer.”
Have you heard this from your “Family Doctor” lately? You will.
It wouldn’t surprise me, Chris, but I don’t know the answer to that.
I’m shopping for a new primary care since my last doc retired. Imagine that.
I’m seriously looking for a female doctor so I can see the look on her face when she asks me that question, and I answer her.
In detail.
With video.
bow chicka bow wow.
Have you heard this from your “Family Doctor” lately?
Yeppers. Hubby came home with his face split open and fire coming out of his sockets when he found out he had to ask.
As a pathologist.
“I am now mandated by the government to talk to you about…
We, however, are not mandated to answer.
bings pathologist.
My Doc asked me some of those questions, and I asked him “What the fuck business is it of yours?
I’m 64, ex-army, have WAY more weapons training that you. What is the fucking problem here?
“Well, these questions are for the 20-30 somethings that have children at home that may have problems with firearms safety, NOT YOU, okay?
Harumph, harumph…
Bedtime.
G’night, Leon!!
Time for me to turn in as well. Have a great evening!
Time for the TiFWs to go to bed.
Sweet dreams, y’all! ♥♥♥
Lucy … I’m home …
Hi Car in
By Car in
I need a smoke or something after that fb rantpost
hi vman.
bye vman
I saw that unclefacts. But since I don’t read ace’s that much – I skim once a day for interesting articles but don’t read comments anymore – I have really no idea what the dealio is.
So, I should call now?
Car in, it wasn’t directed at the mothership, it was directed at some of the children infesting the facebook aos page I no longer admin or belong to.
apparently they had no idea what the word consequences meant.
NO.
Ga.
*throws phone into glass of water
Itdoesn’t really appear to be working right now
Hmm, do I wanna know?
The doctor had sex with one of his female patients and felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he just couldn’t. The guilt and sense of betrayal of his patient were overwhelming. But every once in a while he’d hear an internal, reassuring voice in his head that said: “Don’t worry about it. You aren’t the first medical practitioner to have sex with one of his patients and you won’t be the last. And you’re single. Just let it go.”
But, invariably, another voice in his head would bring him back to reality, whispering……
“You’re a veterinarian, you sick bastard.”
nah, it isn’t worth bringin here to you “people”.
there’s an explanation on my fb page for those who are so bored as to not even want to play with themselves to kill the time.
//starts high school drama shit with UF-MS//
Ah yes, I understand. Life’s too short for that.
I see roamy is having a twisted good day, too!
Dear Doctor: Since your question is required by the government, it constitutes a search. Since you do not have a warrent, I will not be complying with your search. If you persist in asking non-medical questions, I will fire you and demand a refund for all services rendered.
Warrant. Holly fugue, why cin’t I spell shite to-day?
I don’t now, sterk.
sup brad
**patents “Bitch-B-Gone:**
**…..**
**PROFIT!**
Apparently, the profit motive killed the thread.
Ugh, well things just went to shit rather quickly.
Good night, sleep well, I’ll most likely kill y’all in the morning.
Pupster?
That joke works better when I include the link…
http://tinyurl.com/9wgbm7s
Oh I, I just died in your arms tonight
It must’ve been some kind of derp
I should’ve walked away
http://m.quickmeme.com/meme/3rzhve/
Grumpy cat wouldn’t like me.
NHL not playing this year.
Tree falls in forest, etc
Don’t take it personal, Leon.
Nobody likes you.
Good day, all!
*tosses Pupster a cookie*
*tosses Leon a seven-pound roast*
Nobody likes you.
At least I got that going for me: consistency.
Drive time.
G’Morning, cool kids.
News you can use (and by “you”, I mean Cyn)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121205121151.htm
Giva giva giva giva Garmin
This http://tinyurl.com/ckf8gbb is why I got this http://tinyurl.com/cf67sj6 and this http://tinyurl.com/dyvwlha since November 7th
I left the baby at home. Had to go to Orlando.
wakey wakey 2
Is the right margin blown out for everybody, or is it just me?
I’m trying to poat, but I’m not sure if I am creating more havoc than necessary.
I just want a handgun or something, jimbro.
Try jiggling the handle, Pupster.
*finger hovers over the speed-dial button labeled cArIN*
Doesn’t look odd to me, pupster. Did you eat hashish instead of dog food this AM?
Car in, I have a Springfield Armory XDm in 9 mm (well, a few more than that in the big safe), in my handgun safe near the bed. It’s a good gun, 9 mm defensive ammo is good enough for my purposes. There’s lots of opinions, that’s just mine. Glock, XDm, S+W’s M+P line, they are all good guns. 9 mm vs .45 ACP is a debate I’m tired of…I like the 9’s!
Whataya mean “instead of”?
New Poat.
Couldn’t decide between the Mossberg and the 870, huh, jimbro?
Shotguns are fun. I think I should buy some clay pigeons, and have a contest at Christmas with the brothers, like we used to. The neighbors will think we’re having a little war again.
Good times, good times.
Mossberg 500. I paid for one of those. Hopefully it comes in some day.