Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Happy New Year! 2012, KMA and GTFO. South Carolina won the Outback Bowl, GO COCKS! That said, let’s see some skin.
I was never a fan of Marky Mark, but he’s improved with age.
Redhead for Carin.
Swimming is good exercise.
Hopefully not a repeat.
We need a hairy guy to round things out.
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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Leon, are you using light bulbs for heat?
Do you live in a cardboard box?
Any recommendations for what I should read next?
I have it down to:
Childhood’s End
Stranger in a Strange Land
2001
Left Hand of Darkness
The Foundation Trilogy
Good morning children. Grrr, 4 degrees outside.
Michael, a lot of people leave a light on in well houses to keep the pipes from freezing.
Childhood’s End
Stranger in a Strange Land
2001
Left Hand of Darkness
The Foundation Trilogy
1- good
2-good
3-never read
4-couldn’t make it through
5 -again, almost finished second book.Almost. There was a discussion of it at Protein Wisdom the other day that was sorta interesting.
Why the old stuff MJ?
http://tinyurl.com/ab4tpg4
Here’s the discussion of books from the the other day:
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=46306#comments
comment from 12:01 is when it starts
I recommend “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. Kinda the first major cyberpunk work, and more readable than Snowcrash. I read Snowcrash first and was a bit lost for a while.
It shouldn’t be your first.
I just downloaded Cryptonomicon because Leon said he like it so much.
I’m working my way through the top 100 sci fi novels. Just finished Starship Troopers, which was very good.
NICE! ROAMY!
For MJ:
http://cheezburger.com/6856025856
Stranger in a Strange Land is good. I don’t know the rest.
When you’re done, tell me you don’t hear Jubal Harshaw as Fred Thompson.
I read Starship Troopers after I saw the movie. I was pissed that the movie was so different. The book was way better.
For MJ:
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Hahahaha. Lurves me some grumpy cat.
And how is everyone’s Monday, errr, Wednesday going?
The book was way better.
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I really enjoyed the subtle critiques of present day society (1960s).
As odd as it seems to many, universal suffrage is a really bad idea.
Childhood’s End
Stranger in a Strange Land
2001
Left Hand of Darkness
The Foundation Trilogy
wow, I read all of these almost 35 years ago
Imma gonna read Childhood’s End when I’m done with Killing Kennedy. That sounds really good.
I have read all 3 and they were meh. Not bad but not great either.
If you like cyberpunk I found Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacks Character in Altered Carbon and Broken Angles and Woken Furies interesting sort of a gritty 50′s detective story mashup with a 25th century twist of cyber reality confusion where everything blurs together and identity’s are downloadable into new bodies
Was Neuromancer on that list? It should have been.
I didn’t pick up my first book until I was in HS. In most of my classes we read the classics, but also ‘new classics’ that are well disguised cultural indoctrination and diversity specialties.
The good part was that there is only one black, gay, southern novel, so the TAs assigned it for multiple classes without talking to each other.
Randall Kennan and Sandra Cisneros were very popular.
Leon, are you using light bulbs for heat?
You’re using them for light? They are way better at making heat. And yes, one 75W bulb keeps my $900 well pump from becoming a cracked piece of salvage in wintertime. They also make cheap block heater substitutes for ICEs and diesels.
I think you’ll enjoy Cryptonomicin, Car in. I apologize in advance if it’s not your thing.
60W should do it too, leon. As long as it isn’t too big of a space. It’s only a few degrees, isn’t it?
Was Neuromancer on that list? It should have been.
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It was, but I’m going to pass for now.
MJ, did you ever read those Honor Harrington books I sent you? If not, you’re missing out.
Or you could spend 99 cents on a poorly edited non-fiction pamphlet:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AVTJU1A
Does anyone have a reference for LBJ saying about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “We’ll have those n****s voting for us for a 100 years.”
I sort of wonder if it’s true, but I’m stringing together a brief history of the democrat support for slavery and racism and it would make a good citation.
I liked childhoods end but it was way too short.
Along the cyberpunk likes I have said this before China Mieville early stuff is wildly imaginative and good reads.
Or he takes a lot of acid trips and writes them down. They are still good reads. Cactus people crack me up.
Found it!
“Any recommendations for what I should read next?”
Anything in the “Uncle John’s Bathroom Humor” series would be good.
“As odd as it seems to many, universal suffrage is a really bad idea.”
Yeppers, ever since wimens got the right to vote, it’s been mostly downhill.
Nice X!
Really MJ!?
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It was, but I’m going to pass for now.
Ass.
Or should I say assface?
Anal bleaching slut!
It’s about a cubic yard, Jay, and I don’t want to take chances. I figure I can switch the fixture to 2 bulbs and be good until the bans take us down to 45W bulbs.
Ga. I got into a discussion with one of my co-workers yesterday; this is her last week because she’s joining the airforce.
Anyway, she said she had friends who took issue with the oath because you swear to obey the President.
So what happens when the Presidents orders you to act counter to the Constitution, since you swear allegiance to both?
She said she hated to say it, but she did.
Anal bleaching slut!
That was a PRIVATE discussion.
Now Mare is going to get all upset.
It can get down to the negative teens here on occasion, and that’s a 50F deficit to keep the water in the wellhead from freezing. It’s an insulated box and it’s out of the wind, but it’s not a risk worth taking in the dead of Winter.
Really what, Vmax?
MJ, did you ever read those Honor Harrington books I sent you? If not, you’re missing out.
Or you could spend 99 cents on a poorly edited non-fiction pamphlet:
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Not yet.
Very, well done, Roamy! Bearded swimming man is calling my name.
Car in, as I’ve heard it, you are not bound to obey an unlawful order, since the Constitution is the law, the Oath requires that you do not do anything the President tells you to do that is contrary to the Constitution.
So I started eating more protein, trying to build muscle, and I get all shaky and weird feeling at times. Like I’ve had 12 cups of coffee.
This sucks.
So, when the military is needed to depose a dictator, we’re cool?
So I started eating more protein, trying to build muscle, and I get all shaky and weird feeling at times. Like I’ve had 12 cups of coffee.
This sucks.
Perhaps your wife is poisoning you?
Just a thought.
Where’s your protein coming from, MJ? You shouldn’t be doing the whey concentrate/methamphetamine shakes.
So, when the military is needed to depose a dictator, we’re cool?
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What are you thinking? It seems kind of fun to game out what would happen if that happened today.
Really what, Vmax?
I found it
Did you find the quote you were looking for? If so that is news.
Eggs this morning. Meat and black beans last night.
So, when the military is needed to depose a dictator, we’re cool?
No. He’s still an American citizen. The best we can hope for is that they stay out of it and prevent any would-be foreign interlopers.
So, when the military is needed to depose a dictator, we’re cool?
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What are you thinking? It seems kind of fun to game out what would happen if that happened today.
Oh, third term Obama. Or when he just starts executive ordering shit.
Protein is thermogenic, as in it tends to raise your body temp when eaten because the warmth is required for digestion. Give it time and you’ll adapt. You may also want to track your food for awhile to get some sense of your macronutrient intake. FitDay is pretty good for that, and there are some good smartphone apps as well.
So we’re fucked if we have a citizen tyrant?
Generally, the presumption is that orders from the CinC are lawful. But post-Nuremberg, the defense of “I was just following orders” doesn’t fly. So each soldier has a moral and legal obligation to not follow those orders that are unlawful.
The problem is, soldiers are soldiers, not lawyers. Some calls are easy to make. Being ordered to shoot women and children? Otherwise clearly violate the letter and spirit of the law of war? Yeah, you’ll have a pretty strong defense if you’re charged for failure to follow orders.
But anything other than a clear war crime*, you’re going to be shit out of luck.
*I mean a real war crime, not what every liberal calls every use of force by the good guys.
We went through this with Clinton suspend the constitution bla bla 3 terms bla. The fact is we bribe them out of office why settle for 400k when you can make that in 2 speeches?
So we’re fucked if we have a citizen tyrant?
You asked what was legally possible. You didn’t ask what might actually happen if Obama refuses to leave office on Jan 21, 2017, or has President Michelle appoint him Chancellor.
The Honor Harrington books are good, I enjoyed them other than all the attempts to explain the science behind space travel and battle tactics. If you liked murder mystery police and private detective stories, I’ve just started reading the Longmire series, and Iike them a lot.
http://www.goodreads.com/series/41170-walt-longmire
Haven’t watched the TV show yet.
We went through this with Clinton suspend the constitution bla bla 3 terms bla. The fact is we bribe them out of office why settle for 400k when you can make that in 2 speeches?
In effect, if Hillary become president, isn’t really nothing more than a third Clinton term?
Third term Obama is far fetched, but it’s not because of the money that one does it. It’s the power and adoration. Obama loves that. He’s never been as popular. You can tell by that fucking smug look on his face during his speeches, that he eats it up. THe laughter at not funny jokes, etc.
Anyway, I’m more concerned about his executive orders.
Here’s a real proposition-what if he can’t get congress to do anything about guns, so he executive orders the banning of just about every type of gun except for hunting rifles?
Plus, AF1.
You can never make enough money to have the perks and power of the President.
They close restaurants for him. The streets clear for his motorcade.
Even Donald Trump has to deal with traffic.
“Eggs this morning. Meat and black beans last night.”
I think I’ve diagnosed your problem, MJ. Seems to me you just need to take a big dump.
You’re welcome.
Excellent poat, Roamy. It will make therapy in a few quite bearable.
Honestly, so far 2013 totally sucks.
A straight up EO ban on Modern Sporting Rifles (a term I first heard yesterday, that I kinda like) wouldn’t fly.
But I can see a lot of stuff that he can get away with. Using ATF to harass sellers and other FFLs, using the IRS to go after manufacturers, more EPA bullshit about lead in ammo, DoJ selective enforcement, suddenly finding that lots of private ranges are suddenly wetlands, attempting to ban firearms in National Forests and that sort of shit.
I agree with the power and perks but being prez isn’t easy look at how much it ages them.
Of course he is the phone in prez so there is that.
After a few years of speeches he can buy a Hawaiian island and live his fantasies.
Did you find the quote you were looking for? If so that is news.
“I’ll have those n****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One -
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ
You can find this in Ronald Kessler’s “Inside The White House”
Well, since we aren’t making light bulbs anymore, there’s gonna be plenty of tungsten around to cast slugs from.
>> It will make therapy in a few quite bearable
So that’s what it’s called.
I hate posting from the phone, since I can’t copy/paste. I will get even with you, Dave!!
I agree with the power and perks but being prez isn’t easy look at how much it ages them.
Of course he is the phone in prez so there is that.
Eh. Everyone ages in 4, 5 years. Before he colored his hair, and when it suits him he doesn’t.
I’m of the belief that he sits around watching sports center all day, when he’s out golfing.
This is the easiest gig he’s ever had, because he’s no longer trying to go up the ladder.
hee hee hee
The only reason I’ve entertained the notion of running for a third term is that his base will support it, without question. His other constituent groups probably would as well.
And then there’s the whole cult of personality thing. I think its kind of fun to think about, even if it’s unlikely. Transformation.
I think he Peter Principled out a long time ago, though.
Would be pretty difficult to change that 22nd amendment, his popularity ain’t all that.
*puts on tinfoil jockstrap
Am I doing it right?
So, in addition to the $1700 my federal tax is going up, my state, county, borough and school taxes are also increasing to the tune of almost another $1000. This does not include the proposed 300% increase to my healthcare insurance. Boy, 2013 is gonna be GREAT! /sarc
Heh.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255939/Hugo-Chavez-kept-alive-life-support-cancer-surgery.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
“Many Venezuelan’s have been left frustrated over the lack of information over the president’s condition.
Chavez’s political opponents have complained that the government hasn’t told the country nearly enough and have demanded it provide the country with a full medical report.
Even some of his supporters say they wished they knew more
”
Hillary Clinton, anyone?
But I guess I’m just crazy.
http://tinyurl.com/bej37hs
Louis XVI lived and ruled more publicly than our current political class. Or Venezuela’s.
Gander Mountain has screwed up my online order for going on 2 weeks now, but they are so nice about it I’m having a hard time maintaining my wronged retail customer rage level.
Sudafed + coffee + DayQuil = lightheaded. Don’t try this at home.
xBrad – She looks friendly.
Gander Mountain isn’t an awful company, and they are swamped right now between Christmas and pre-emptive hoarding, I’d give ‘em the benefit of the doubt for a bit.
“Anything in the “Uncle John’s Bathroom Humor” series would be good.”
HAHAHAH…good one, Clint, these sci-fi snobs got their comeuppance.
“Gander Mountain has screwed up my online order for going on 2 weeks now, but they are so nice about it I’m having a hard time maintaining my wronged retail customer rage level.”
That happens to me too. Screw me over, but in a nice way, and it’s harder for me to get angry about it.
I have to agree with Carin, for me at least, 2013 has SUCKED!
What is the over/under on “real” inflation (including groceries and energy) this year? I’ve got it at 8 -16%
I’d say you about nailed it, MCPO.
Gander Mountain, unlike Dick’s Sporting Goods, didn’t fuck over its suppliers and customers by cancelling orders for MSRs arbitrarily and without warning.
Where’s that whore Mare?
http://tinyurl.com/acw8mvg
We have it at about 22% MCPO. That is, our household.
I feel that pall settling over me again.
Let’s go get some doughnuts, Mare.
Oh, I had a good laugh, yesterday there was a Christmas get-together and as the three couples left, the host gave us each the same wrapped gift, it was the Williams and Sonoma Ebilskiver maker with dough mix and recipe book included….kind of bummed we didn’t get the Ebilskiver turners.
Made me think of H2….with a smile.
HA! Clint come over, I’ll make you some Ebilskivers. Whatever the fudge those are….donut holes?
Time moves much slower in the alternative universe named “Work”
For xBrad:
http://biggeekdad.com/2010/09/manly-men/
*Puts on formal Ebilskiver eating suit … heads toward Mare’s.*
formal Ebilskiver eating suit
They make those?? Cool.
thanks, Hotspur, because there’s no way I could ever have seen a video from 1997 before.
Holy crap, this was at the chive:
http://tinyurl.com/b58xqe3
Nothing fricken gets better.
You can get them at Men’s Warehouse, Cyn, and you’ll like ‘em … I guaraaaanttteeee it.
Good “morning.” I hope somebody is drunk right now, because I’m not & it would be wrong for there to be no drunks at all here, & I really don’t feel like chugging a pint of whiskey, but I’ll do what needs to be done to keep things fair & balanced around here.
Fore Mare:
http://is.gd/ZXpsqh
hahahaha
Mare loves mj
I like stark dickflosser’s attitude!
We need more of that “can do” spirit.
Men’s Warehouse, awwww, none for me then.
For MJ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gycu1HwtISI
Didn’t the assholes at men’s wear house semi-support the occupy dickwads?
Mare – The owner (the guy in the commercials) is a HUGE pothead hippie.
Shit. Back to Urgent Care. Pogo’s dehydrated again.
Holy crap, this was at the chive:
http://tinyurl.com/b58xqe3
This is a perfect example of why they don’t teach history in school any more.
Hahaha. Cats suck except for the grumpy one.
Aww dang, Xbrad. Hugs to her, and you. You’re a good son.
Is this lipstick on a pig or something?
And now the Bush tax cuts are permanent for 98%. Permanent AMT fix and Death tax are definitely steps in the right direction.
What is a Pogo?
“Pogo” is Xbrad’s mom’s name.
Ohhhh! The more you know. . .
You must be new here. Welcome!
Vmax – It’s the difference between going over the cliff at 75mph or 40mph.
Cyn – Like I read xBrad’s “stuff”?!
Heh. Fair enough, Chief. Are you feeling better today?
The stove comes today!
At least we know with ample certainty the outcome of the debt ceiling and sequestration fight in two months. The Democrats will get 90% of what they are asking, and always at the very last minute, with Republicans lending a hand.
This is getting to be like those bad episodes of tired TV shows where the writers run out of ideas, so they peddle a story where the main character of the series apparently dies. Everyone watching knows he will return at the end of the last commercial break because the series cannot go on without him.
We keep saying what can’t go on, won’t. Looks like The Nation Below Canada can go on, for quite some time. Little here will change until real pain happens, as in Greece where bennies have actually been cut. And even Greece hasn’t yet left the EU or failed to get bailout measures.
I’m wondering if perhaps there remains plenty of road for can-kicking.
Vmax – It’s the difference between going over the cliff at 75mph or 40mph.
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Am I the only one that wants to speed this up?
America 2.0 is going to be awesome.
Yes I see. Thank you MCPO.
I sure hope Obama can get a round of golf in today.
America 2.0 is going to be awesome.
It’s the 10 years in between that are going to suck. The younger I am when I live through those, the better.
Vmax is right. It’s hard to see why avoiding Clinton income tax rates isn’t a win for most people. But the real problem was never too little taxation, rather too much spending. Anyone see much chance of substantial spending cuts? Not in this lifetime. Half of gubmint has been financed with credit cards for decades now. There is no other way to raise that kind of cash. Taxes won’t do it.
If the republicans weren’t dicks, they wouldn’t leave town. They’d spend the next 2 weeks brainstorming, number crunching and making blood pact agreements concerning the debt limit deal.
But they are dicks.
The only real question left is whether the funny money financing can continue without a collapse, or perhaps it just portends decades of stagnation like Japan. And Japan seems to survive on its stagnation.
I have no idea what could burst our credit bubble. Certainly four years of multi trillion dollar deficits haven’t.
Sorry about Pogo, xbrad. Stop giving her vodka with her pills and she won’t dry out as fast.
It’s simple really. We just need GDP higher than it has ever been which means the chronically lazy and shiftless 40% of the country will decide to work.
I like skittles!
You shouldn’t have to work for mere survival, MJ. People have rights. Food and housing should be free.
It’s interesting to me how MJ has consistently remarked that growing our economy is an important facet to fixing this swirled turd….and he’s right, however, convincing scum (who’ve lived for years off of our sweat) to work, start businesses, to think and act beyond a 5th grade level is a bit unrealistic.
You’re a worker and a planner MJ. The weakest part of our tripod is the 47% which Romney correctly stated, are kind of worthless.
Revenue, GDP, Spending
I understand your skittle remark means you also believe in unicorns.
If we stopped baselining Porkulus, that’d help, but that requires we pass a budget.
MOM!!! MJ’s tasting the rainbow again!!1!
MJ’s tasting the rainbow again!!1!
NTTAWWT
Oh, and we are part of the 1% (which I think is BS, I don’t even know what 1% earners mean) that will watching what we earn so as not to cross another tax threshold. And I’m dead serious. We are holding back growing the economy. FU IRS.
G’morning! Nice stuff, Roamy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=WVdzP53X9vw&feature=fvwp
People have rights. Food and housing should be free.
And there you are, working in an evil restaurant with the gall to demand poor people pay their pittances for just a little food. You vile, heartless vulture.
When you hear people mention businesses that are not hiring because of Obamacare or regulation concerns, or are closing offices or what not, we know tens of people like that. 30 or so I can name personally. Holding back the economy because of the dick licker we have as President.
but that requires we pass a budget.
How can you budget and pinch pennies with our childrens’ future? You must be another vile, heartless vulture.
Does anyone know what Obama considers “rich”? Obviously I’m not a 1%er. I’d be off on my private jet hitting Maui right now.
rich = 250,000
400k was him compromising.
Thanks Jay.
Didn’t that bitch, Michelle talk about the hardship they had “paying back student loans” (yeah, right), paying rent and what not and they were earning 2 lawyers salaries?
When you hear people mention businesses that are not hiring because of Obamacare or regulation concerns, or are closing offices or what not, we know tens of people like that.
More examples of businessmen who are actually vile, heartless vultures. And there are no shuttering businesses. No one will be laid off. All vile propaganda from heartless conservatives.
And if it were true, we would have to consider prosecuting such economic traitors running sweatshops.
In the future, the Two Minute Hate will be known as the mainstream media, and it will last two centuries.
I think all of you are missing the point: if we extend unemployment long enough, give out enough money to EBTers, & generally make it easy enough to live without working, those people are bound to become productive eventually. Giving people a comfortable life without asking for anything in return has always led to extreme gratitue & wealth generation.
A doctor, with a wife at home and two or three kids going to private school is going to make that $250,000 disappear pretty quickly. And they are saving up to pay cash for college, no loans on their cars, and a pretty, safe neighborhood.
Two working parents, kids in public school, one or two vacations a year, saving for retirement, saving for college, one car paid for one on a loan, mortgage in a good neighborhood, that $250,000 will disappear pretty quickly.
Of course you all know here, that making 250K doesn’t mean you take home 250K.
if we extend unemployment long enough, give out enough money to EBTers, & generally make it easy enough to live without working, those people are bound to become productive eventually.
The thing I’ve been thinking for a few years now is that our modern industrial society has become so efficient and productive in spite of the predations and shackles of the welfare state that we can actually afford to keep vast numbers of people idle and fed with basics. Section 8 housing, EBT bennies, your Medicaid paid for by others, and enough left over to buy the off-brand flatscreen and rent Xbox games.
Reposting the prescient Jerry Pournelle via Prof. Bainbridge:
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. There are no limits to how long they can stay on welfare, except that they must live in a Welfare Island. Although people are free to gain an education and work or become a colonist, many citizens did not, preferring to live their whole lives supported by the government. Generally citizens are uneducated and illiterate. Some BuReLoc involuntary colonists are Citizens. By the late CD era, the Welfare Islands were three generations old. “Taxpayers” are the working, educated, and privileged upper class. They carry identification cards to separate them from Citizens.
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2012/09/was-pournelle-prescient.html
I hate them both so much. I need a break.
This economic situation is really getting to me… and changing me. I used to like to read conservative bloggers and discuss all this. But I CAN’T STAND DOING IT ANYMORE!!!! I’VE FUCKING HAD IT!!!
…um
…okaaaay.
I feel a little bit better. But I still don’t want to talk about this shit anymore. You all go right ahead. You don’t bother me. Really. Love y’all.
I like pie.
Yea, it’s not really science fiction anymore.
Cathy – what I think would be helpful is to stop ruminating over the suk, and start focusing on what we can DO.
The only problem with Pournelle’s fantasy, is that in the real world the “Citizens” get to vote.
I’m with you, CarIn. I’m still wanting to be involved with Conservative groups like the Tea Party, but I’m tired of complaining. We are in this situation because we conservatives have failed at getting our message to those who need to hear it. Maybe we can’t do anything, but I still think we have not really penetrated… instead we have clustered into our ciiques and our strategies have excluded the real targets.
The thing here being: the govenrment going over some “fiscal cliff” doesn’t hurt me at all. The government stealing my money to pay layabouts, eventually confiscating my IRA, & causing inflation to make any attempt to save money futile does hurt me.
What we can do is look out for ourselves, and let the others decline into human ballast. Politics cannot address a cultural rot; politics is driven by culture, not the other way around. This is a peculiar rot. As Victor Davis Hanson today notes, our rot is rife with comparative prosperity.
We have redefined poverty itself through government entitlements, modes of mass production and consumerism, and technological breakthroughs. The poor man is not hungry; more likely he suffers from obesity, now endemic among the less affluent. He is not deprived of a big-screen TV, a Kia, warm water, or an air conditioner. (My dad got our first color television during my first year in college in 1972, a small 19 inch portable; I bought my first new car at 39, and quit changing my own oil at 44.)
In classical terms, today’s poor man is poor not in relative global terms (e.g. compared to a Russian, Bolivian, or Yemeni), but in the sense that there are those in America who have more things and choices than does he: a BMW instead of a Hyundai, ribeye instead of ground beef, Pellegrino rather than regular Coke, Tuscany in the summer rather than Anaheim at Disneyland, and L.L. Bean tasteful footwear rather than Payless shoes. I was in Manhattan not long ago, and noticed that my cheap, discount-store sportcoat and Target tie did not raise eyebrows among the wealthy people I spoke to, suggesting that the veneer of aristocracy is now within all our reach.
http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/very-scary-times/
GO, I was going to comment to that effect. I think you’re right. We’re at the point where we’re so good at producing food/clothing/shelter that we can hand out subsistence levels essentially for free to vast numbers of what Cowen calls Zero Marginal Production workers, i.e. people who could “work” but are only competent enough to do jobs machines already do better than they can.
I don’t know how, if, or whether that should be fixed.
Enough of the heavy depressing stuff. Time for dick jokes:
Rosetta.
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Okay, it’s not one of my best, I admit.
I don’t know how, if, or whether that should be fixed.
Don’t think it can be fixed. They are functionally drone ants. As I’ve said for a long time, the Left’s dream of humanity’s future is an ant colony.
If you don’t watch this EXCELLENT 6:30 video, you should at least bookmark it. Send it to any gun grabbers you know, post it on Dickface, or tweet it. This is a guy who has taken the politics out of statistics.
http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=91200
I pretty much took a break from politics after the election. For me. I couldn’t take all the yelling, it’s like being in an asylum.
So yeah, dick jokes. Boobs. Listening to records I bought at wiserbud’s store.
It’s interesting to me how MJ has consistently remarked that growing our economy is an important facet to fixing this swirled turd….and he’s right, however, convincing scum (who’ve lived for years off of our sweat) to work, start businesses, to think and act beyond a 5th grade level is a bit unrealistic.
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I completely agree with you. Andy (who?) and I had this discussion a few years back when the shit hit the fan. My theory was that efficiencies were baked into businesses, but were masked because of healthy top line numbers. The result is that we have fairly healthy bottom line numbers, but top lines are stagnant.
The left thinks the top line will grow because of Obamacare. I shit you not. They believe there is labor creativity that is hidden because people are job locked by the need for insurance.
I think we can spur top line growth, but certainly not like this. I also don’t think the economy will ever grow at a rate to put a serious dent in the debt. The drag is too great, and will pull us under.
Anal bleaching slut records? They rule.
Have you read Diamond Age, George? It’s Neal Stephenson’s novel set in a post-molecular-nanotechnology future. The setting basically assumes that subsistence living is free to all, but anyone with any gumption finds a way to be useful so as to rise above that. I don’t think that’s altogether wrong, but I don’t know what it will ultimately mean for the species.
The impulse to seek greater social status might be enough to keep things moving forward, but there’s no way to tell. We’re in a world now where video games and pr0n represent real Darwinnian pressures, and we’re two generations into the pressure from ubiquitous hormonal birth control. My suspicion is that the humans inhabiting the planet in two centuries will be those who have no interest in any of the above, being entirely the descendents of those who avoided them in the here and now.
Listening to records I bought at wiserbud’s store.
Honestly, how much can you listen to Nickelback?
Saw that video first thing this AM, Mare. It’s like we’re sympatico.
Installation has begun!
Gonna have to look at Diamond Age, leon. You’ve got me interested now.
“Holding back the economy because of the dick licker we have as President.”
I’m thinking more like pole parking place, Mare.
It’s a short read, George, and I really found it more interesting as a setting than as a novel, but it’s good.
The main plot centers on educational technology, which I really liked. If I could get into games that teach, somehow, I think I’d like it a lot. If something as engaging as Skyrim could teach organic chemistry or calculus, I think that’d be a huge boon to society.
Installation or INSTALLATION!!!!!!!!?
MJ, I was just thinking about you, my comment to you was a compliment to you, you get it. And you understand economics, which I don’t. Regardless, stark said it really well:
“Giving people a comfortable life without asking for anything in return has always led to extreme gratitue & wealth generation.”
*laughes….then takes some of Cyn’s red meth
Simpatico, Aggie!
MJ, I was just thinking about you, my comment to you was a compliment to you, you get it. And you understand economics, which I don’t.
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I don’t really understand economics, just that it’s not as complicated as everyone makes it. I’m just an operations guy that gets how to run a business. It really boils down to this:
Do what you say you are going to do and everything will be fine.
Also, thanks. That’s nice.
Great link, Mare. I posted that on Facechimp.
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“While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills they have already racked up,” Obama said.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-fiscal-cliff-deal-2013-1#ixzz2GqOFtjFD
Yeah, that Obama is a real penny watcher. He hasn’t “racked up” any of this nasty debt in his four years.
He is so fricken out of his mind.
What’s the BFD about 98% getting to keep their Boooosh tax cuts when they are getting f*cked from Barkycare?
Have I told you all, lately, how much I hate people? (excepting you folks and my immediate family and a few coworkers)
Yeah, thanks, Cathy!
Welcome to my world, Beasnsnsnsns.
Oh and to everyone:
I’m currently making some changes in my life. If you don’t hear from me, you’re one of them…
- Unknown
I’m sure we’ve had this discussion before, but why bleach your ass crack if you’re not a pron star? Even then, why bleach it? If God wanted my ass to look like my face, my name would be Harry Reid.
If you don’t hear from me, you’re one of them…
You going to need help digging some holes?
Later…lunch is over.
Bwahahahahahaha! I lurves beasn.
Good video Mare.
*puts chocolate in your horsie oats*
“If God wanted my ass to look like my face, my name would be Harry Reid.”
hahahahaha…Stupid Harry Reid. He is weird looking. And stupid, mostly stupid, and weird looking.
Here’s the thing about tax rates and GOP squishyness that irks me.
The underlying philosophy behind modern GOP insistence on low tax rates was that it was to serve as a brake on the growth of federal government and spending.
Since we’ve effectively lost that battle, with revenues and rates decoupled, shit, go whole hog on the tax rates. Let people see now why the GOP has (notionally) been against the growth of government.
Hahahahahaha!
Harry Reid is an anal bleaching assface slut.
*gives Beasn a New Year doc fix*
Since we’ve effectively lost that battle, with revenues and rates decoupled,
This has been true for decades now. Alternatively, why even tax people at all? The only thing that keeps this shaky train on the rails is some bizarre homeostasis between an expanding credit bubble and a stagnant economy. Who knows what will upset this apple cart?
I suspect what that implies is that 0 is intending to borrow money to pay our bills regardless of the debt ceiling, citing some nonexistent power to do so.
I decided to prosper this year in spite of all this bullshit.
When does the Second Revolution start?
oh, and that doesn’t mean just $
Skinny Dave is skinny.
*pokes head out from under covers, sees headlines, coughs, lays back down on couch in flu-induced stupor*
Death is looking better and better……
I picked up a few pounds over the holidays but I’m back on the program now. 185 is the new goal. Still can’t believe the 34s fit. Maybe the folks at Levi rigged the numbers and it’s really 40?
I suspect what that implies is that 0 is intending to borrow money to pay our bills regardless of the debt ceiling, citing some nonexistent power to do so.
Mark Steyn spelled it out this morning on Fox. He said they Obama needs to get everyone use to the goodies for a few years, until the point that they cannot be taken away.
Then – THEN – come the huge tax rates and redistribution.
For the fairness.
Strongly recommend:
http://coffeeandmarkets.com/2013/01/02/breaking-down-the-fiscal-cliff-deal/
*takes Carin’s running pants and hides them*
Dave, all jeans are vanity-sized now. Get a measuring tape.
You’re supposed to redistribute them, Dave. Go give them to some fat person on welfare.
Dave, all jeans are vanity-sized now. Get a measuring tape.
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Not true. I wear a 13 x 30. It seems right.
Moobs for everyone!
No moobs no peace!
Hmm, I’m gonna buy jeans, and put labels with smaller sizes on the outside. Then resell!
I’m gonna be rich!
Good day, resolution breakers.
MJ, kid sizes aren’t vanitied, so you’re fine.
Crap. I don’t know what to make for dinner.
WWMC?
(what would Michelle cook?)
Why not go out to eat?
What do you think I am? An Obama?
(what would Michelle cook?)
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Crackers.
tape says 35.
dangit
It’s okay, Dave, your bigger pants were vanity-sized too. When I wore 38s, my waist was 41-42″.
Just checked, 32″ now, which matches the size on my Cabela’s cargos, but they’d fall down without the belt.
We are burning wood.
Screw you big oil!!!!!
(what would Michelle cook?)
Nothing. She has a kitchen staff for that. But if you tried to serve your family whatever they might cook, you can be sure she would issue you a stern lecture about eating healthier.
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!
What would Michelle cook What would Michelle eat
Crackers.
I see what you did there.
Grats, Scott.
oh, nice formatting, word ass press
So I guess I’m cramming myself into 34s which are like 40s or something.
I used to think women’s clothing sizes were confusing.
We are burning wood.
You Gaia raping anal bleacher. Have you no respect for the Trees?
sorry about your running pants carin.. I couldn’t fit in em
We are burning wood.
Hooray! Fuego!!
Hey guys. It’s been 22 days since my surgery!
http://flic.kr/p/dGQsLX
I see Scott is jumping for joy…
http://tinyurl.com/ayxvb95
Lookin’ goooood, Master Chief!
MCPO, that looks really good.
How’s the vision/swelling there, Chief?
How many fingers am I holding up????
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/24268829.gif
Leon – Still some swelling over the left eye as evidenced in the photo, but my vision is WAY improved.
Nice set of peepers, Chief!
HA! It’s always about the dicks with MJ.
How many fingers am I holding up????
MJ – Stand up so I can se. . . Oh, never mind.
Glad to hear it, I know you were having sensory difficulties for a long enough time to concern you.
http://tinyurl.com/aja4apl
$5 per day for heat.
Are you burning pellets, Scott?
http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef305fbf68be7378a5d634d4ebb6f819/tumblr_mfxr88sYHW1qdlh1io1_400.gif
LOL, I love that gif.
Yes, Hotspur. We don’t have gas on our street and oil is outrageous.
Important!
http://tinyurl.com/asoealo
Finally have an appetite again. Life is good and the sun is shining!
Despite all the disappointments of 2012, we have some things to be thankful for.
I missed Lapeeralooza, but I did meet Carin.
I got to see my friends in CT. That one will last me a while I think.
I have to stop smoking. FUCK.
But I will.
I got the awesomest Christmas tree ornaments from xbrad. They are packed away now, but they will be so remembered for years.
I hugged wiserbud and drank vodkas at breffish.
Lost a little weight.
Buried my father but I’m at peace with that.
My daughters snugged me on the couch while we watched movies and just loved on one another.
Scott and Laura got a stove.
I call this year a win over a loss.
I love you idiots.
ohh.. damn. Absent people we loved too.
shit
I call this year a win over a loss.
From my perspective, I’d take the other side of that position. But I think 2013 is actually going to be a good year for my wife and I personally.
We all owe some thanks to Scott and Laura for burning wood and postponing the next ice age by a few milliseconds.
(like CO2 actually makes a difference)
Given the below normal temps expected here this week, I’d welcome me some global warming.
As a man with real estate in a potential tropical freshwater paradise, I’m on record as being strongly in favor of global warming.
Leon – Surely you’re not talking about Michigan!?
Tropical. Freshwater. Paradise.
All we need is a global average temp about 20 degrees higher.
That might make us beachfront.
Profit!
*considers buying 40 acres and a mule in Perry County (other side of the mountains)*
All we need is a global average temp about 20 degrees higher.
The global warming crowd fails to appreciate the fact that Greenland did not gets its name from somebody named “Green” finding it, but from the fact that it was warmer back then and had green stuff growing on it.
And that was only about 10 degrees higher, AD.
20 might actually be bad. Like, “Virginia is a desert” bad.
It’s a shame Boehner has to step down. It again portrays the republicans as weak and in disarray.
The real shame of it though is that the dickhole should never have been elected speaker in the first place.
And in other disaster news, I see we are going to have this huge, bright comet in Nov/Dec of this year, if it survives its swing around the sun (it is suppose to pass within one solar diameter of the sun – not a given that it will survive). So how long before some crackpot says the Mayans were right and we were just off by a year in estimating their end-of-the-world date?
They should elect me Speaker. I got this.
If Virginia was a desert, then the shithole we call our nation’s capital would have to move elsewhere. Maybe Greece, or France.
Like, “Virginia is a desert” bad.
That would be bad. I’ve been to Virginia – it’s nice. My wife and I say we’re gonna retire to there or Kentucky.
“The opposition cannot do basic arithmetic. They have offered to increase spending by X while increasing taxes by Y. Leaving aside that you’d have to be an absolute idiot to believe static tax analsyis, Y is less than X. This can’t work, why the Hell are we even talking about it?”
/speakerLeon
“Look, the math is a bitch, I get that, but it’s not hard math. This is checkbook-balance math. They think you don’t get that, and they are trusting reporters like the dipshit asking me questions to cover for them. Don’t let that happen. Demand better from your press.”
/speakerLeon
Speaker Leon on the job:
http://bit.ly/Vvlwsm
Bill Whittle, speaker of the house.
Demand better from your press.
Unpossible. Last week, I watched one of the local TV stations report: Story about gun violence in Mass. -> story on number of murders in Chicago -> story about calls for more gun bans after CT shooting. Yet they had the gall to not mention that Chicago/Illinois has the strictest guns laws in the country, and it ain’t helping there. When the media actively hide the truth, we’re so screwed.
I’m not convinced party loyalty is around anymore. Who cares if the republicans look like dicks today? Tomorrow, when they nominate Rubio, they’ll pull in a ton of LIVs as long as he looks cool, speaks well, and connects culturally.
Plus its a personality cult so once Obama is gone what are they going to do? How could you possibly live up to god?
“Also, you may not know this, but there’s no budget right now. Really. No one talks about it, but we’ve passed a budget here in the house every year for the last 4. Harry Reid won’t even bring them up for a vote in the Senate. Seriously, guy’s a complete and utter shiftless layabout. Talks a lot, doesn’t do his damn job. You know someone like him at your job, I’m sure, assuming you’re still lucky enough to have one. Maybe if just a few people asked him to do his job, or noticed that he clearly isn’t doing it, he might get off his ass.”
/speakerLeon
Alternate choice for Speaker:
http://bit.ly/VvmLb4
I would step aside for Speaker Whittle.
Alternatively, I would tag in Speaker Whittle, WWE style, when needed.
I think we might coax Gallagher to be Speaker.
It’s not like it would make a difference compared to the current state of affairs.
Bill Whittle, speaker of the house.
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That would be nice. Even at 8% GDP growth at current tax rates we’d only collect 150B more or so.
Without cuts, none of this is sustainable at all. The merest hint of instability is going to topple the whole thing.
But like Dave said, 2012 was great, and 2013 will be better because at least we sort of get what is going on.
Would we get the uekelele and guitar players to go along with Gallagher?
I think we might coax Gallagher to be Speaker.
And then get Pelosi et. al. to wear watermelon caps for a day?
Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfield need tv spots on a channel other than fox.
Do you think the dumb ass repubs are smart enough, crafty enough, forward thinking enough to pick someone good that will use the speakership to negatively PR the President? Which is what Bonehead should have been doing, but his shriveled sack got in the way.
Even Cantor dicked out on us with regard to signing the bill as is. Actually, how do I find out what Cantor did on the bill sent from the Senate?
Would we get the uekelele and guitar players to go along with Gallagher?
I was thinking wiserbud could be his musical backup.
Oh, okay, Cantor voted no. Take back what I said.
I just got home and flipped on the tv and it appears that Ray Lewis has announced his retirement. Did anything else happen in the world today? Cause it seems to be on every fucking channel.
Of course not Mare they will vote for the next guy with seniority do you think they care about doing things right?
Vman, NOPE.
Michael?
http://fansided.com/2013/01/02/dallas-cowboys-fan-blows-up-tony-romo-jersey-video/
Michael?
http://fansided.com/2013/01/02/dallas-cowboys-fan-blows-up-tony-romo-jersey-video/
hahahaha
Roamy, I think Michael is too busy weeping in a corner over the Michigan Game to worry about that cracker jack passer Romo.
I missed it on Monday, but apparently my employer gave me the wonderful Christmas present of barred and locked electrical panels. If I trip a breaker, I am not allowed to reset it, I must call the contractor electrician, and they will reset it. Your tax dollars at work.
Good point, Mare. **watches that gif of Clowney’s hit again**
MJ, does your alien do this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVc-Z8yFYW8
Heal the sick, raise the dead. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjd8Zpz_840
Is anybody here an electrician? or knows about electrical wiring? I have a pretty good understanding of the basics, but am having a weird situation and could use some help.
Make sure the circuit breaker is working before you grab the live wire. Oh, and standing in a half-full bath tub is ALWAYS a good idea.
http://fuckyeahdementia.com/post/39491049335
MJ, does your alien do this?
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I don’t know. We have no stairs. Can’t afford ‘em.
Hot on the left, cold on the right, shit don’t flow uphill, and payday is on Friday.
I’d go for a speaker Leon. Screw the civility bullshit and say it like it is. What are they going to do, spank you? The public has been dumbed down and will only understand straight shootin’ to the point of ‘coarse’ which you wouldn’t have to be.
I must call the contractor electrician, and they will reset it. Your tax dollars at work.
Will they come right away or will you have to wait around two days hence sometime between noon and five?
But, Roamy, the unions brought us The Weekend.
Brudder bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime. . .
Work was kind of boring today. But I only cut the shit out of myself twice, so that’s nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eak_a9jOV8A&feature=youtu.be
Beasn, I guess it depends on how many other calls there are and whether anyone in the building has pissed them off recently.
Roamy – They tried that with us when I worked at DON’s eBusiness office. . . took us a couple of hours to hack the lock.
I got bolt cutters, it’s just I’m personally not strong enough.
It just pisses me off that I’m responsible for 12 million dollars’ worth of equipment, I can operate a flight experiment 250 miles up, but apparently I’m too stupid to be trusted with flipping a breaker. Some dumbass somewhere must have had an accident. Or someone’s brother-in-law is getting a kickback for every phone call.
*hands roamy the bolt cutters and flashlight to the breaker panel*
I’m not a scientist.
Eyes look nice, Chief. They’ll be even prettier in a few weeks.
Yes, MCPO, the progress you’ve made makes up for it not being a DG pic.
Roamy, I wouldn’t go THAT far.
Thanks guys. I would post the latest DG picture, but she is being held by one of Miss Julia’s hawt blonde girl friends who is just wearing her pjs.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
not a bad thing, but I understand dad.
Here is DG on NYE. It will be up for an hour and then it’s go-go-gone.
http://tinyurl.com/amu2drb
baby gaining weight! HOORAH
My eye immediately went to the guy in the pjs. Heh.
And then I look at little fuzzy haid and I want to smoochie smoochie those cheeks.
Pretty in Pink!!!! Love my ummm your DG pics!
Cute!
The kids had a sleep-over NYE party. Lots of food, booze and fun. Nobody had to drive home and they got breakfast in the morning!
That is the way to celebrate NYE. I have dogs that get freaked out by fireworks and gunshots. Unless my dogs are welcome, we don’t do NYE.
me too beasn.. I just want to tickle her baby feets.
stop being like me.
stop being like me.
You can’t make me because YOU’RE NOT MY REAL ME!
..or something…
*slams door to be all dramatic like our daughters*
Well, the nap was good, but now I can’t get half the web to load.
XB, how’s Pogo doing?
Speaking of daughters, I’m about ready to turn mine into a lizard.
*we watched Brave last night, so the bear idea was taken*
Ha! Winter just got about $2500 cheaper.
Where can I find some wood fired AC units?
>> *slams door to be all dramatic like our daughters*
HAHAHAHA.. I do not have to endure this now.
hang in the mom. YOU AREN’T THE REAL ME.. punk
Scott –
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,12848.20.html
Scott, I am happy for you and Laura. Your joy at getting something you need/want and having it be an economical boon (for years) is just excellent.
And Mr. Beasn came downstairs and is about to get his ass whooped if he inserts himself into this mother/daughter head butting.
LOLPups:
http://tinyurl.com/bh6qt6k
Beasnsnsns, what is your daughter doing that is irritating?
I mentioned a week or so ago mine gave me a know it all attitude, I gave her a good verbal drubbing, she later hugged me and the issue was over. But I like to hear others working on their older kids too.
That looks like a lot of work MCPO.
there.. I meant hang in there.
Oh seriously beasn, your man is that dumb? I learned better that to stick my nose into a mom daughter fight in like, 2002.
It’s scary how they both turn on you.
Did anybody leave a comment on anybody else’s thread and then take off for several hours today?
Have you guys seen the “Forever Lazy” commercials?
My family looses their crap when they see it. If MCPO’s granddaughter wasn’t so irresistibly cute, I’d have mentioned the outfits the adults were wearing.
Scott, Sam’s Club sells pallet quantities of pellets. Sold 3 pallets today. Glad you guys have your stove!
Oh. Sorry, Oso, got busy with other stuff and forgot to update on Xmom.
Turns out the waitlist at UrgentCare was forever, and full of sick people. Xmom just gave up, tried the other UrgentCare, which had even more, and said fuckit and we came home. I think in retrospect most of it was anxiety. She did manage to get down some water and gatorade today.
Mare, my hubby keeps linking the Forever Lazy to my FB page. He may not survive 2013.
XB, does Pogo drink Ensure when it gets rough with the dehydration? My MiL keeps it on hand.
No, Ensure is banned in our house, partly because of the fact it was all Dad could drink when he was dying.
I didn’t mean to call beasn’s man dumb.
I meant to say, he’s learning.
You learn from that shit. Hoo boy.
mare, the daughter has to make door tags for the residents on her floor. She’s nervous as hell about the job (R.A.) and is fretting to the point of making more work for herself which is making her fret more and she is lashing out at me.
I told her that we can check how much it will cost to copy the design at the library and Office Max and maybe enlarge it a bit. And she bit my head off.
her – “You’re not listening”
me – “I’m listening just fine, you need to loosen your panties a bit”
her – “You’re the one with wound panties”
me – “No, yours are, mine have been stretched out by my big ass and are just hanging there.”
*here comes Mr. Beasn who dips his toe in and offers his opinion on an already beat horse and gets the death rays*
Plus, the doc “prescribed” gatorade. She’s got low sodium.
xbradtc.. last year of mom’s life she got a bit careless about hydration. Stay on top of it.
Our old peoples. I don’t have to look after em now, but I do remember it.
HA! Oso, I think I like your husband….in a purely hilarious way.
heh. And raht there is the stuff I used to stick my head into.
Not any more. Nuh uh.
Ouch, XB. Mil was on Ensure last chemo go round and when she had the exploded ventricle. She would rather go to the ER than take it now.
HAHAHAHA…good one, Beananananans.
My favorite part: “my big ass”
Mare, my hubby is an ass. He’s watching Young Guns. His favorite scene is when my great great grandfather gets killed. (Sheriff Brady)
You learn from that shit. Hoo boy.
Yep. He decided to let it go after laughing himself silly.
I try to, Dave. She’s been working pretty hard at it.
But I’m also trying to break her of some bad habits. She’s cheap, so if she drinks bottled water, she likes to save the bottle and refill it again and again. And leave bottles laying around.
I found a bottle this morning inthe truck with some kinda shit growing in it. Which, gee, mom, that’s the kind of shit that will make you sick! Maybe a fresh bottle from time to time might be in order.
It’s hard bradley. I know. Or I remember.
beasn, he walked away laughing? HAH! I walked away bleeding.
My daughter thinks she is smarter than I am, which of course she is (by a ratio of 10…at least) but it pisses me off when she assumes I don’t understand something and adds an eye roll or a “pfffffffft.” That sets me off like a rocket. I set her ass straight, real quick.
Good thing we laugh about it later.
I expect DinT to look after me once Herself runs off with Raoul the Poolboy.
Wait, Oso, is that the real deal, your grandfather is portrayed in that movie?
*checks “ON DEMAND” immediately
FWIW, I had the same job at the same college many moons ago. I know what she has to do and know she’s making a bigger deal out of it than she should. But she’s nervous and gets prickly and I prickly back at some point.
Is anyone at the H2 up for that “King of the Nerds” show on TV?
That seems like something one of us could win.
XB, we got the call from the inlaws today. MiL can’t get sound on her TV. Dan is driving over tomorrow to reset her cable box. It is becoming a once a month thing. His Dad was on a cordless phone, but couldn’t walk to the TV and troubleshoot with Dan on the phone. I give thanks every day they are still around to aggravate us.
beasn, he walked away laughing? HAH! I walked away bleeding.
His ears might have bled as I pointed him to his chair. A little. Then he laughed.
My GGGrandfather, Sheriff Brady, was leaving the home of another GGGrandfather, when he was gunned down by Billy the Kid in Lincoln.
Well, now, Billy the Kid will forever be a double secret asshole, douche, killer in my mind.
I expect
DinTRaoul the Poolboy to look after me once Herself runs off withRaoul the PoolboyDinT.fixt
I just ordered a new PC for sis. She wants me to come set it up. Uh, you budgeted $400 for a new computer, but want me to spend $100 on gas to fix it up for you? Plus, I kinda feel the need to keep a close eye on Xmom right now.
but it pisses me off when she assumes I don’t understand something and adds an eye roll or a “pfffffffft.” That sets me off like a rocket.
That is my son. But he sets me off on purpose. He knows what buttons to push. He’ll grow up or I will stop making him turkey pot pie and banana bread.
Usually thought, he will side with me, while the husband and daughter team up.
thought = though
xbrad, you’re a good son. I have no doubt your mom appreciates you.
thefuck I don’t want the poolboy
Beasn, I’m this><close to smothering her with a pillow.
oh wait I messed that up.
ok then
The boy is smart as can be, but they ain’t shit when you sass your mother. I birthed them brains, nourished them, loved them, and made them pot pie.
Guilt trumps brains.
xbrad, but you haven’t, yet. That means something and she appreciates that.
There have been times in your life when she was this >< close to doing it to you.
Oh…well…Miss Thang just asked me if I calmed down yet.
Maybe I’ll make 20 copies of my ass while at Office Max.
;D
I’ll smother Beasn with hugs.
So true, both my kids, call regularly, text or email for advice about a wide variety of life issues. Strange, mom is incredibly wise at that point.
I can do hugs but no smothers. I like air. And pie.
OK, no more Mom stories. . . gets too dusty in here for that!
yeah I should whack that.. my bad
just laughing really, at beasn’s story about her hubs and getting into the middle of a mom daughter spat
Wait, when did Dave shack up with Raoul?
(((Hugs))) Dave. When MiL blew out the ventricle, the Docs had to make sure she was cancer free before they would operate. She got a little maudlin and it was worse than any of the cancer treatments. We are now seeing the effects of her heart surgeries. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma was easier.
Dave, that’s why you love ‘em and comfort ‘em when you can, because you never know when life is going to kick you in the ass. Comforting is not lying when the odds are good.
yep
Heh. . .
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My SiL with her 3 grown children live less than a mile from my inlaws. That battle was lost long ago. I bite my tongue and let Dan be Dan. Even if that means listening to a 20 minute rant about his parents this afternoon
Squeeeee! Does anybody know where Dave & Raoul are registered??
Pretty sure that graphic is exactly backward for me and the wife.
Other than the shotgun. We’ll both do that.
Cyn – At Tiffany’s and Buttchuggers in Baltimore.
Looks like the Gators aren’t going to show up tonight.
I did it again. The Red chile in my posole is so hot, my lips are burning, I can’t breathe, and I’ve got hiccups.
*registers with Cyn*
Thanks, MCPO. Wanna go in halfsies on something?!
*hoses Oso down with a tanker truck full of sour cream*
Thanks, Cyn. I can’t believe I continue to do this to myself.
No moar Jalapeño Popper Stories!
I’d be as big as a whale if I could eat sour cream. Sour cream and Lays. Sour cream and bacon.
Is there nothing sour cream can’t make taste delicious?
Sour cream butter and bacon Beasnnnsnsns
Somebody brought diced pepperoni in sour cream to the New Year party. It didn’t last long.
And cheese I forgot cheese
Sack, sack and they still are marching down field. I am gonna quit watching soon I thing.
I wonder why sour cream has an expiration date?
Sour cream with chives, bacon, and green chile, potato skins.
DiT, the same reason cottage cheese does.
I have a friend that won’t eat sour cream because he cannot tell when it is bad.
I say mold growing is a clue
Dominated in the first half
Moldy? Wow, I don’t think I’ve had it around long enough for it to get moldy. Even at that, scoop it off and you’re good to go, right?!?
It has been a pretty sad game, Vman. I know that I’m tired of looking at Smith already.
It’s only Penicillin right Cyn? Who doesn’t like penicillin?
The Gators might be showing up maybe 2nd and goal
FINALLY
Who doesn’t like penicillin?
Exactry. It’s good for ya… puts hair on your chest.
or “Exactly” for those of you lurking in the Western Hemisphere.
BWAAAHAHAHA!
Did I miss where they zoomed in on Emmitt Smith? OMG!!
*rolls eyes sarcastically*
Odds that Scott & Laura are roasting marshmallows this evening?
I miss having a fire place; we need one here tonight.
I don’t want Cyn to have a hairy chest!
*does a backflip*
Hahaha!
I don’t.
In the summertime.
We only get FIRE!!!! when we’re camping. Stupid condo building codes.
Seriously, Oso? I can remember having fireplaces in several apartments I lived in. Naturally, we have “no burn” days in the wintertime, just when you want the fire, so it didn’t get used all that much.
Gas fireplace here. Not as nice as wood, but quicker to light and easier to clean up.
My condo has a fireplace. Wouldn’t qualify as a Hobbit Hole without one!
Our unit didn’t meet the specs for a fireplace. The other 3 condos have them. Gas fireplace. We are the “Penthouse”. Our unit is above the garages. The builder explained it to us but it was Charlie Brown adult to me. He stopped offering counter and master bath choices after dealing with me! LOL
He stopped offering counter and master bath choices after dealing with me! LOL
Sounds like somebody gave someone a migrane!
He still messed up my fan situation in the living room!!!! LOL He wasn’t happy with my walk through either!!! My neighbor of 15 years moved out to take care of her mom. I have new neighbors and I’ve yet to meet them. They are still moving in. My dogs don’t bark at them anymore, but we haven’t met.
Gators are really screwed
I take that back Really Really really screwed
I am out
brick fireplace with rug and everything
I do a happy dance every time a team from Florida loses.
They have an unfair recruiting advantage — the “beach and bikini” factor.
MIchael – Remarkably, my son turned down Florida after being accepted and went to Michigan instead. Dumbass kid!
On the plus side, MCPO, he met a chick that could make a DG.
Are all the chicks at Michigan still hippies?
I tried to talk my nephew into ASU, but he’s at U of A. I H8 the Wildcats.
Michael – No. Now half of them are hipsters.
Hey, I could understand him turning down the complete free ride at Penn State (fucking kid), but, given the choice, I would have been enjoying those half nekkid coeds at football games in October!
When I was at Michigan (mid-70s), the Rainbow People’s Party was represented on the Ann Arbor city council. Smoking pot was about a $5 fine under the city code. People smoked in public everywhere.
It could be worse, Chief. Michigan used to have an all-male cheerleading squad.
I am not making this up. An. All. Male. Cheerleading. Squad.
Mr “Valedictorian” just wouldn’t succumb to the lures of Tempe. Kids these days…
I saw the guy cheerleaders with my own eyes, back when I was a Boy Scout usher in the Big House. Even back then I wondered, how come the other teams have chicks cheering for them? And why is Stanford’s band so much cooler than ours?
I am not making this up. An. All. Male. Cheerleading. Squad.
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And still better looking than Ohio State’s…
Scott,
Are you guys okay? Has the pellet stove killed you with CO poisoning? How is it heating the house?
Sometimes, we turn on the furnace-fan to circulate the warm air from the gas-log so it will heat the back-rooms. Other-times, just the ceiling-fans.
Tonight it’s severe-clear, to the point that the Pleiades can be seen directly, and the Milky-Way is bright. It’s gonna be a cold SOB. No twinkle of the stars, so very little moisture in the air. I hate Winter…
/Astronomy blog
IIRC, the Stanford band was an entirely student-led organization. Back in the day, they rocked. And they were funny. The Michigan fans hung around to listen to them after the game.
ChrisPy – Only going down to 17F here tonight!
XB, them’s fighting words!!! Had an Uncle dot the i on script Ohio and a cousin carried Woody’s microphone cord. Way more cache than my Rhodes scholar cousin. She was a Bobcat.
Chief,
You’ve got some cloud-cover.
We’ve got zip!
Just tweakin’ your little fluffy bear tail, Oso.
6° here right now, supposed to be going down to ±0°. Whee, I love weatherblogging.
I may have to put on a jacket to go smoke.
//the horror!
Some of the comments at “The Belmont Club” got interesting following the Georgetown “Constitutional Law Professor” advocating doing away with the document, as it inhibited the government taking action(as it was DESIGNED to do).
“I will close with a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago wherein former prisoner Solzhenitsyn notes the greatest regret of the inhabitants of the camps:
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
Part I The Prison Industry, Ch. 1 “Arrest” (p13, The Gulag Archipelago, Collins 1974)
There are more effective implements here than “axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand”, and they can’t be kept in stock in the stores.”
Yeah, like the three-year supply of ARs, 30rd mags, and ammo that have vanished from the retail-chain since Dec-14.
I should have bought more guns at gun-shows, that were not paper-trailed to me, and lots more ammo. I really should set-up my press again…
XB, it is COLD here!!!! Weather people said High in the 40s today…yeah no. High of 32. Your desert and my desert are different.
Of course they’re different, Oso. Mine’s full of old people turning up the heat.
my cousin that lives in PHX thinks that 70 is cold. So glad the guest bedroom has its own thermostat.
Xbad,
Us skinny old-fucks get cold! We don’t have your insulation. We turn the gas-log on in the morning, dress warm, and hope for the sun to come out.
You’re 1,000 miles south of us. You have no idea about winter, though you should remember your youth on Whidbey.
Ingrate!
We actually have winter in the PNW.
Chrispy, I spent 12 winters in Whidbey, three in Germany, four in Colorado, and eight in Chicagoland,
Why do you think I moved to CA? Cheap housing? The labor market?
Oh, and two winters on the Palouse that make your little Tacoma winters look like a warm breeze.
non-alliterative, non-SFW-pron-themed poat now available for your defiling….
Xbad,
I’m not in the Heat-Island that is Tacoma.
I’m SE of Graham.
The Rock is in my back-yard.
I’ve got your winter “Right Here”, I’m sure you know the context…