Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. This one might be a little weird because it’s being put together at 3 AM. Not the best treatment for insomnia, but it is what it is.
I like Gary Allan’s “Smoke Rings in the Dark” album and think this is pretty fine, too.
Country music goes with country boys.
One way to stay in shape.
A rest in the shade.
We’ll pretend this one is a redhead for Carin.
Nice smile.
Last but not least.
And with that, I’m heading back to bed. Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.
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I hit publish instead of schedule. Oh well.
Good morning all!
Looks up…oh shit, first dude to comment here.
*hangs head*
Time for a party
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Workie workie
RL friend is posting pics of dead possum
No she isn’t. I mean, it’s a possum, sure, but it’s not dead.
My .38 didn’t kill it. I’m sure it’s giggling silently about the .22.
The drug lawsuit people are going after testosterone supplements. I’m sure this won’t make it harder to get them when you actually need them.
I give up, it’s a conspiracy. It has to be. Literally everything in the modern world is trying to feminize men in every way, hormonally first and foremost.
My day is starting out fucking fantastic.
#2 left me low on gas and I watched my “miles left” go from “40” at my house to “0” on the 6 mile drive.
FUUUUU
THen my debit card had NSF and the money I THOUGHT I had put in my purse was back home. I had to pay for $7 of gas in CHANGE.
Is it too early to drink?
wake the fuck up
My dogs killed our possum. Last week. I did mention that didn’t I?
It was cold stiff dead. Picked up with a shovel and it was hard as a rock. It’s in a bag to go out with the garbage by the garage.
It’s better when the animals die in the winter. Had a possum crawl in behind a planter this past summer and die. Found it by the smell.
Heh, I did that gas thing once. I was lucky that the attendant recognized me, and let me drive home and get my money off the table.
Good morning, cool kids.
BUNK!
Morning, children. Hope your day gets better Carin.
Breakfast is ready
Mornin’ Jazz. How’s your day starting out? We are already in the 20s, so things are looking up here.
G’morning, J’Ames! I had already left for Ash Wednesday Mass when you hit me up earlier. I got in at the 7AM service, which doesn’t have all the music and long sermon (for the folks who have to go to work). My parish has the earliest service in the diocese, so it was kinda full, and we had to get there a bit early.
It’s 14* this morning with a winchill of 5*. So, it’s not atrocious, but it’s still pretty danged cold.
My 830 telecon was cancelled. Yay.
I left my mug in my other office. Boo.
Trying to be a good Catholic and fast today. I feel bad for the average grazer who tries this. I’m like a fasting veteran at this point. Loading up with 3# of chicken thighs for dinner last night probably won’t hurt, either.
I’m taking mom to Social Security here in a minute. The office is, for all intents and purposes, right around the corner, so I hopefully won’t be gone long. The office opens at 9 AM.
My wife has to be at work in Mt. Clemens by 7am, so we’re headed to evening services. Likely to be packed. At least I hope it is.
I’m eating a vegetarian omelet right now, leon. Vegetarian chili with cheese & sour cream w/ dill. I hadn’t intentionally thought of fasting, but, since you brought it up, I think I’ll avoid the meat for the rest of the day, anyway.
It took me 75 minutes to get my replacement SS card request filed. 60 of that was waiting.
That’s why I’mma be there when the office opens. BBIAF!
One big meal was what Sister Theresa said. Snacks as needed, but I find those actually make fasting harder. Abstaining from meat today and every Friday, with another fast on Good Friday.
Aw crap, Steak & BJ day is a Friday this year. I guess it’ll be salmon.
since I’m a horrible catholic, I don’t feel the need to fast. I’ll avoid meat, of course. If I’m going to find my way back, I’m not going to start with the hard stuff.
I don’t like my local church, and the “good” church is way down in Lake Orion. I like it, but it’s also a bit stuffy. $$ people. But the service, and atmosphere is nice. Very welcoming.
Perhaps I’ll just have Jazz be my spiritual leader for a while? What do you say, Jazz?
St. Anthony’s has been very good for us, but it’s impossibly far for you folk.
Thing is, I was considering a switch to a one-meal-per-day plan anyhow, at least for a little while. I do okay on them.
Dinner is often my first meal of the day.
I’m not a faster. I’m a grazer.
Yes, we’ve talked about this. I’m pretty sure my RCIA sponsor is going to have a tough time of it today. His blood sugar takes regular dives if he doesn’t have little doses of carbs throughout the day.
Rawr – nice selection of beefcake today, Roamy!
You don’t have to fast if you have a health issue. Pregnant, or I’m sure blood sugar issues.
Surely “fasting” doesn’t apply to anyone with a medical condition like diabetes.
Years and years ago there was a young woman at work who had immigrated here from Afghanistan – not sure if her husband was from there or somewhere else. She was pregnant, and during Ramadan while everyone else fasted (only during the day; everyone could eat at night), she told us that there had always been special exceptions for pregnant women, children, the elderly, and those with medical conditions such as diabetes.
I’ve been watching the series Homeland. It’s pretty intriguing. Can’t figure out who the bad guys are yet. Well, except for the muzzies.
Surely “fasting” doesn’t apply to anyone with a medical condition like diabetes.
Ages 14 to 59 with no health conditions. I don’t think my sponsor has anything diagnosed, he just gets a little drowsy if he misses breakfast before mass.
Mrs. Caruthers has watched all of Homeland, HS. I couldn’t get interested in anything other than Morena Baccarin.
She’s definitely a dish. Sometimes there are more tits in this show than the ladies locker room at the gym.
It also kills me that Claire Danes decided to be blonde. I know she wasn’t a real redhead, but I hate fake blonde. She’d be better with her natural brown.
This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/code-pink-hag-medea-benjamin-tweets-from-lockup-at-cairo-airport/
Poor dear had her arm broken and is only being fed bread and water….
Perhaps I’ll just have Jazz be my spiritual leader for a while? What do you say, Jazz?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Man, would you be in for a ride. 😀
*cackles on the bench with Teresa*
Was she wearing a vulva suit? Please tell me she was wearing the vulva suit.
Better than a courtesy rape.
So, I’ve been to services, Social Security, and my mother’s former employer already this morning. I’m kinda ready for a nap now.
I posted this last night, but, if you didn’t see it, it’s fecking AWESOME. Niagara Falls froze for the second time this year. The pix stun:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572681/Niagara-Falls-comes-frozen-halt-AGAIN-subfreezing-temperatures-freeze-millions-gallons-water-normally-flow-Falls.html
Help. They broke my arm. Egypt police
That shit is just FUNNY.
Oh my . “help” . Ba haa haaa haaaaa …
I know, right, Carin? Here’s how you learn about the “unenlightened” world. She’s so lucky she hasn’t been Lara Logan-ed yet.
Or worse.
She can thank her looks for the broken arm, instead of the rape-rape.
They put her on the “Third World Weight Loss Plan.”
ahahahahahahahah
Dr. Tim Stanley is an Englishman who has a PhD in American History. He’s fecking AWESOME.
http://bit.ly/1jRydeg
He used to be a lefty, but he’s come around.
I dunno if you’ve seen this case at all, but this little girl is a real bitch.
http://dailym.ai/1jRz9zx
The best part is the guy who’s footing the kid’s lawyer bill is an attorney himself, and he’s gonna hafta eat the $12,000+ already billed in legal expenses – and the expenses yet to be billed. What a total and complete ARSE he is, too. So much bad judgment everywhere there.
If that had been decided the other way, the precedent would have been incredibly economically and culturally destructive.
http://xbradtc.com/2011/09/19/load-heat-claire-danes/
In other words, we should all be thankful that the brat wasn’t the least bit sympathetic.
xbrad, Ms. Danes is delicious.
She’d be so much prettier to me as a brunette.
Security is insane. Between Windsor and Hartford, that’s about 6 miles, I saw over 20 state cops. There is at least one sitting at every on-ramp, and every exit on both sides of the highway.
This was 2 hours before his plane lands.
I
All those cops to protect the worst criminal in the nation.
I’m currently wading through the Donziger/Chevron decision, and boy, howdy, is it a doozy.
Surprisingly, it’s not your typical dry reading; it almost reads like a crime novel – except it’s not fiction. Give a real insight into the mindset of some of the people who keep pushing their bullshit ideas (that we end up paying for in the end).
Thank goodness Chevron refused to roll over and just settle.
Would make a great movie – but I’m sure it would get bastardized and Chevron would end up the bad guy in the end, and the psychopath of a lawyer would be the hero…..
And that particular lawyer is quite proud of the fact that he played basketball with the JEF while they were both students at Harvard Law School.
The company you keep –
If one were clever, one could make that movie and cast Matt Damon as the psycho lawyer, all the while assuring him that he’s playing the good guy.
Then edit it to tell the truth and don’t tell him. He’ll never notice, he’s too stupid.
Cast Ashton Kutcher as the Chevron guy, let him in on the joke, and tell him it’s a super-elaborate episode of “Punk’d”.
All those cops to protect the worst criminal in the nation.
THey’re protecting him because he’s so popular.
I saw Obozo’s mug on the wall at the SS office. All I could think was, “That would make a GREAT dart board graphic.”
Of course college kids are going to support a hike in the minimum wage. That’s what they’ll be working for if they find a job.
Is this for REAL?
http://bit.ly/1hMzClG
Last I saw, Abbott was up 11 pts. I’m hoping this Billy Bob Ray Colonel Sanders wishcasts more than forecasts.
Elijah Cummings is a repugnant, angry man.
Is this for REAL?
You can see his Democrat leanings from the first sentence after when you posted above. How revered Ann Richards is nationwide, etc.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
This video at this article is priceless
http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/dnc-attendees-cant-name-single-hillary-accomplishment
Elijah Cummings (D- bloviating, fatass, entitled shit-disturber) has a conniption:
http://bit.ly/1hMDsv7
He’s also a big fat, loud-mouthed bitch who takes his self-hatred out on everyone who doesn’t share his skin color, IMO.
“Have you met Bill Clinton?”
“No.”
“That’s probably a good thing.”
Hahahahahaha Great video.
In all fairness to the democrats, republicans are guilty of the same thing.
*cough* Bob Dole
*cough* John McCain
Eh, Hotspur, neither of those guys was the candidate I really was excited about, but they both did more than Hillary or Obama did.
Salon, the internet rag, posts:
Why I can’t stand white belly dancers
Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation
by RANDA JARRAR
This is worse than children with brain tumors or using the word “niggardly” in prose. I have been weeping for hours now.
I saw Obozo’s mug on the wall at the SS office.
SS stands for many things.
Whether they know it or not, white women who practice belly dance are engaging in appropriation
So, white people have a moral obligation to celebrate multi-culturalism, but when they do, they’re oppressive exploiters of the downtrodden.
Eh, Hotspur, neither of those guys was the candidate I really was excited about, but they both did more than Hillary or Obama did.
They won the nomination because it was “their turn.” *spits*
And you’r right, after the Obama nomination, it isn’t even worth asking the question as to what she’s accomplished. At this point, what difference does it make?
Srsly. Think for a moment…
You have to be someone who enjoys watching belly dancing. So instead of enjoying the lovely lady, your mind can’t get past the skin color. You don’t like that she is white. Then you think of all the rationalizations you can to support your dislikes. Then you have to decide it bothers you so much you need to write about it. Then you have to actually do so. But that still isn’t sufficient. You must air your grievances. Instead of facechimping your tearful woes, you figure you must get them published someplace with visibility and a minimum of prestige and eyeballs. You peddle your piece to every connected media outlet you know. You finally get it on Salon and let the world know you hates you some cracker peckerwood bishes doing the belly shake.
Bravo.
Are white people the only ones on Earth who celebrate when someone wants to share our culture?
I wonder which Republican’s turn it is to lose to Clinton in 2016?
Did we say “multicultural?” Sorry. What we meant these past decades was “whitey is inferior.”
Any bellydancers I’ve ever seen were of zaftig proportions. I couldn’t get past that to contemplate their skin color.
xbrad, it’s racist to embrace elements of other cultures, but also racist to avoid elements of other cultures in favor of “white culture”.
Eating Indian food is abrogating their culture.
Boycott their restaurants so you don’t hurt their feelings.
You know, I’m beginning to think it’s racist of me to do anything with other cultures, and especially with my own white culture.
Old and busted: Original sin
New hawtness: You rayciss
I used to think going to Taco Bell was a subversive act of cultural oppression, with whitey bowdlerizing Messican foods.
Now if I don’t go, I’m disrespecting the brown peoples.
Or do I have this backwards?
Any bellydancers I’ve ever seen were of zaftig proportions. I couldn’t get past that to contemplate their skin color.
I didn’t see too many large belly dancers, but I usually had problems getting past the piercings and numerous tattoos.
Hah. Rush just called O’Reilly “Ted O’Baxter.”
Don’t know what that chick is bitching about, unless she’s jealous.
On the census, arab is grouped under ‘caucasian’. So she can suck it.
Lots of white blood in arabia. Back in the day many a slave were white and the women were put in harems.
No George, if you go to Taco Bell, you’re oppressing La Raza.
If you look at the pictures of Iran from the 60’s and 70’s, they don’t look all that ethnically far off from Spaniards, Italians, or Greeks.
Rush has been making fun of O’Reilly like that for a while. First time he’s attached “O'” to his name, though.
The brothaz better not start taking up bowling, or I’m writing a nasty article for the Weekly Standard.
Obama golfing is an abrogation of my culture.
That’s the level of stupid in that article’s premise.
I remember a very hawt girl I knew in high school who took belly dancing. Blonde and slender.
Those were the days.
Only in Ann Arbor:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/03/photo_gallery_drive-thru_ashes.html#incart_m-rpt-2
Lesbians wearing flannel shirts and work boots are abrogations of my culture.
Lutherans, Hotspur. J’ames has some explaining to do.
Lutheran, female minister, Ann Arbor. I blame Michael.
Also, Heaven forfend you actually, you know, sacrifice something during the season that celebrates and remembers suffering.
Lesbians having sex with women is abrogating my culture.
I didn’t eat a paczki out of respect for Polish culture.
“Okay, Bitch, slap some of them fuckin’ ashes on me so I can go to work and act all holy and shit.”
I didn’t eat a paczki out of respect for Polish culture.
I didn’t belly dance either.
I wonder if Leon ever belly dances…
I do not. I mostly Urkel dance, which is not an abrogation, it’s me reclaiming it from a heinous culture thief.
I saw Heinous Culture Thief open for Tears For Fears in 1998.
Seven Senate Democrats joined Republicans to block President Barack Obama’s pick of Debo P. Adegbile to lead the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division amid a controversy over his legal defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Adegbile’s nomination needed a simple majority to cut off debate but the chamber voted 47-52 against him.
Obama called this a travesty. So I guess it matches the rest of his tyrannical rule.
I see two more bitcoin exchanges have been robbed and one of them shut down permanently.
Time to kick off the Pieces of H8 datamining.
What do Pieces of H8 look like? Can I make one with a 3D printer?
Each one bears the logo of Animosity International on one side, and a DickButt on the other.
What a disgusting love fest this is turning into. All the college girls are screaming I LOVE YOU MR PRESIDENT.
I hear Hershy’s is going to market a Dickbutt Kiss
I thought a Dickbutt Kiss was one of MJ’s cocktails.
The Pope may drive me to Orthodoxy if he’s fucking serious about this shit about civil unions. I’m not even joking.
Obama should hand out free condoms.
People want to be serfs and peasants. They want to put their necks in chains. Because then they will belong.
Typical stupid campaign speech. Unicorn farts and fairy dust.
Raise the minimum wage and people will spend more. When people spend more, businesses make more money and hire more people.
It’s common sense!
* crowd goes wild *
Jazz, I’m willing to wait for a good translation. As I understand it, he was speaking in the context of inheritance and property rights, what’s Caesar’s to Caesar, etc. If that’s not the case, ugh.
It will get ugly.
I’ve been inclined toward Orthodoxy for a while, leon. If the civil union thing is accurate, that will be the straw. I prefer the Roman rite based on papal primacy, but if the Romans start to get wonky, I have other options that don’t include abandoning my faith.
Scott, he forgot the some steps: 1) Raise Minimum Wage 2) Companies can’t afford to pay minimum wage, fire workers 3) $10.00 Big Mac 4) People spend more
$10.00 Big Mac killed it?
I’ve been busy writing emails, Tom.
My new tech manager gave notice. I’ve been in my new position for 3 weeks. I’m busily trying to correctly point a set of expenses I need to/have incurred which require approval.
I had a dream a few nights ago that I invented an iPhone/iPad app that allowed you to place your order at McDonald’s from anywhere. Then as you drove into their parking lot it would automatically connect with their wifi. The payment would be on credit card so all you had to do was drive to the food windows. You would get a window number, and you’d just drive up, put in your order number, and voila – reach in and grab your food.
When I told HotBride about it in the morning, she replied “They already have that in Japan.”
Raise the minimum wage, bitches. I’m sick of dealing with surly people whom I can’t understand when they speak.
All McDonald’s employees should be college educated.
People were standing so long that Obama had to tell the people with seats to sit down. Then he told those standing to make sure they bend their knees a little to avoid fainting.
I had a dream last night about zombies. I could not escape the zombies. It was a long night.
Then he told those standing to make sure they bend their knees a little to avoid fainting.
Very Clinton-esque.
All McDonald’s employees should be college educated.
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Quite a few already are…
Where do they find these people?
I just noticed on FB that my nephew has knocked up his current baby mama yet again. She’s the one who hates his six year old son from the other baby mama he knocked up.
So proud.
HS, the fundamental difference between places like Chik-Fil-A, In-N-Out and Five Guys and their counterparts (Carl’s Jr/Hardees/McDonalds/Yum Brands) is that the former are built on quality then speed and the later are speed then quality. When it has to be fast first, you go for cheap/ Cheap food & cheap help.
I am the only native English speaker in the kitchen of my Obamajob, although two of the busboys were born in the US. But the two other cooks this Sunday both speak proper English with accents, which is why they were hired in the first place.
COngrats!
CT college kids.
It’s probably all he has left.
It was broadcast on local radio.
I ripped a nail while listening to it.
Obama voters don’t grow on trees. They are created through a lifetime of 1)mis-education and 2) poor life choices.
I gotta get ready for my Obamajob.
Went to get my hair cut this morning, and these two songs played back-to-back on the radio…
That was kind of weird.
Behold: Pieces of H8. Animosity Int’l and Dickbutt Kiss.
Fuck Boehner.
http://bit.ly/1cagLlh
I used to give him respect given the circumstances he faces. What a fucking total douche.
Not exactly the DickButt I had in mind, but close.
It’s. Snowing.
I hope scott didn’t have to attend the Obamabot meeting, and could listen from a distance.
No snow here, but the wind is blowing about 50 and therefore the sky is brown. Spring in west TX sux for the most part.
My left thumbnail is 25% superglue.
It’s Obama’s fault.
Nothing is, has been, or ever will be Obama’s fault. If you disagree then you’re just trying to hold the whole damned Negro race down.
Sean gets special Pieces of H8.
Heh, that should be a header pic
How much is that worth in ass pennies?
Those are exactly what I had in mind. We’re gonna be rich!
Looks like a chocolate coin, but it’s not!
Comment by scott on March 5, 2014 2:46 pm
Raise the minimum wage and people will spend more.
Well, duh – they’re gonna be spending more because businesses will be passing along the additional cost in the form of higher prices.
Oh, wait.
The Chocolate Messiah doesn’t understand that part, amiright?
Jazz – re: Pope/civil unions
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/05/us-pope-homosexuals-idUSBREA040BX20140105
How much is that worth in ass pennies?
About 64. Nice power of 2 number, and an ass has 2 cheeks. Most of them, anyway.
All the college girls are screaming I LOVE YOU MR PRESIDENT.
Maybe he can unilaterally force their parents to pay them child support ’til they’re 30.
One of my former co-workers is knocked up by a guy who has two kids by two different women. He has not married a one, and bitches they take all his money in child support and boss him on when he can see the kids.
The first time they hooked up after a night at the bar, he gave her a life-time itchy scratchy.
She only works part-time.
Guess who is going to pay for the medical expenses, food, etc. of this kid and her bitch of a mother?
When I worked with her, she complained that she made $25 above what would have qualified her for a EITC.
You know she’s going to milk it now.
Hahahahahaha @ lifetime itchy scratchy
Comment by Jazz on March 5, 2014 12:21 pm
Is this for REAL?
http://bit.ly/1hMzClG
Bob Ray Sanders is about as liberal a writer as you will find in this area – he’s been with the “Startlegram” for quite some time. He left for a while to work for the PBS station in the area, but came back after a long stint with them.
Unfortunately, that coincided with the paper’s drag to the left. Haven’t been able to read that rag for quite a while. Their endorsement of Teh One was the last straw – and I told them so every time they tried to get us to resubscribe.
I did leave a choice comment at today’s post – it will probably get deleted:
I got one of those robot calls today that are programmed to respond. Very very strange. Occasionally when I asked something that wasn’t in it’s repertoire it would just speak gibberish, but most times it had an indelible response.
I kept “her” going for about five minutes.
HAHAHAHAH- Excellent comment, T.
to get the ABBA out of my head
Thanks, Cyn!
I haven’t heard Georgia Satellites in, oh, forever or so.
http://tinyurl.com/k8jaxs7
Jazz, there’s an endlessly running ad with the dad playing “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” while chauffeuring his young daughter and her date.
Beasn, thanks. I’m pleased but unsurprised to learn that the Pope is Catholic.
Woo-hoo! We’re #1 (at something good)!!!!!
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/03/04/5620846/fort-worth-no-1-city-to-find-a.html
4 eggs today! It’s a miracle!
Afternoon.
**glares at XBrad**
Today I built three (3) of these:
http://tinyurl.com/mqcdcgn
What did you build today, Jewstin?
{{{HUGS Roamy}}}
Speaking of Texas politics, the Republican primary for Wendy Davis’ State Senate seat is going to a runoff – so Mr. TiFW and I can expect our phone to be ringing off the wall for the next 10 weeks (oh, joy).
The Tea Party candidate was 12 points ahead of her nearest opponent, but she failed to garner 50% of the vote, which is necessary in Texas to secure an initial primary win. This is one of the most-watched races in Texas politics this year, as the seat is considered the only one which could swing either way.
Our State House seat’s long-time incumbent (a Democrat) lost his bid for re-election by 111 votes; the results are not official, and by all accounts it was a very nasty race. No run-off if the results stand, though; the challenger won with over 50% of the vote. Thanks to gerrymandering, this seat will probably stay in the D column.
And the Lt. Gov’s Republican primary is going to a runoff as well – the upstart Tea Party candidate Dan Patrick blew by establishment incumbent David Dewhurst in a race that is starting to resemble the Ted Cruz steamrolling of 2 years ago – this could get VERY interesting, indeed….
(Ironically, Cruz is the person who beat Dewhurst in the Republican primary for the US Senate seat in 2012 – Dewhurst was considered a shoe-in for that seat)
Missed it by *that* much
Okay, I should have known better than to click on that one.
Not an ABBA song, swearsies:
http://tinyurl.com/kxtw89q
Here’s a link to those election results (I know y’all are all wondering….):
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/03/04/5621497/republicans-in-senate-10-may-be.html
Oooh – ‘splodey!
Here’s a ‘splodey.
http://sonicbomb.com/iv1.php?vid=drd_paratus&id=950&w=600&h=380&ttitle=DRD-Paratus
State of Michigan passed a law today outlawing the term retarded. So now how do we describe Thomas Friedman?
How are scientists supposed to describe something whose growth has slowed significantly?
Climate change.
Whoa…..just looked at the raw numbers for the Dewhurst/Patrick race – the upstart Tea Partier SMOKED the career politician, garnering 50.3% of the vote to 26.2%.
I do believe Texans are sending Mr. Dewhurst a message…..
http://blurbrain.com/handy-guide-political-correctness/
There are better ABBA songs:
maybe we should start on Fleetwood Mac or Pink Floyd.
Ace’s favorite ABBA:
This is Mr. TiFW’s favorite:
Agnetha Faltskog still looks good:
Wow, Jay – that one looks like Elton John meets Rhinestone Cowgirl meets Love Story meets Sgt. Pepper….
State of Michigan passed a law today outlawing the term retarded.
That’s retarded.
Sir.
That’s retarded, Sir.
Fixt.
Al Jazeera America… isn’t even pulling in half the total audience that predecessor Current TV managed. Al Jazeera America has averaged just 15,000 total viewers in prime-time since bowing in August, with only 5,000 viewers in the target 25-to-54-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen figures. That’s low enough to be considered “scratch,” or negligible, by Nielsen.
Serves you right for buying anything from Manbearpig.
Why didn’t they ban the n word?
Since Jay suggested it – my favorite by this group:
Retarded racists.
Haha, great gif, pups!
oso, click TiFW’s link. You’ll love it!
If I can’t say “retarded,” how am I going to describe Elijah Cummings?
Send Elijah to Guam with Hank Johnson.
Nessie needs a mask.
Word of caution to Leon, when I recommended Jim Beam Red Stag, I like the original Cherry flavor…they just came out with a Red Stag Spice which is cinnamon and fucking awful in my opinion.
George, Time Warner Cable floated a trial balloon of replacing New England Cable News (NECN) with Al Jazeera America. They changed their mind after a week of people telling them it was a bad idea.
A student group at University of California – Berkeley is hosting a “White Anti-Racist Training” to teach white people how to confront white privilege in “queer and women’s communities.”
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The group is “designed to equip white* students, faculty and staff with the tools to analyze white privilege and to challenge racism within and beyond our campus women’s and queer communities,”
Racist peckerwoods are a problem inside Berkeley feminist and lesbo cliques? White wimmens?
Some women are retarded. By the way, do I need track shoes or a singlet for this training?
I get what the State is getting at. Unfortunately, there will always be nomenclature to refer to people who do not conform to the majority’s view of “normal.” I agree that using pejoratives in the language of official state communication and documents is inappropriate. I disagree that the language police should try to ban offensive language altogether via laws. The meaning of language is fluid, and what is innocuous today could be incendiary tomorrow. “Retarded” was in common use in the medical and legal community for a long period of time. “Gay” once meant “happy.” There are all sorts of examples where words have taken on different meanings. Cultural consequences and social pressure are the vehicles to effect a changed attitudes, not invoking the coercive power of the government.
I took Hotspur’s comment at face value, but, after looking up what happened, the MI legislature only voted to purge the word from statutes and regulations.
My apologies for being crass.
I wonder if Al-Jism-on America has to pay clients to advertise instead of the other way around.
“Gay” once meant “happy.”
But not since Perez Hilton gained weight.
Nessie needs a mask.
If I can’t say “retarded,” how am I going to describe Elijah Cummings?
“Big, fat, stupid, bloviating rayciss” should do it.
pupster after tasting red stag spice
At least it’s not a possum.
The hot, bikini wearing Eastern Euro chick was in the hot tub again today.
//makes a 4:30pm reservation for the hot tub every single day from now on.
little help here please. i hit some combination of buttons on my keyboard and when i hit the shift key it goes forward. also when i hit control it magnified. i tried to get the text back to normal and now it is so large i could read it from the next room. and yes, it’s plugged in and i rebooted it.
Did anybody tell anybody else that they didn’t want to answer their stupid customer service survey today?
Intellectually Disabled.
JIGGLE THE HANDLE JIMBRO
Jiggle the fucking handle.
No one’s ever seen me and pupster at the same time. But I swear to god we’re different species.
If it’s Windows 7, try hitting the windows button and escape.
ctrl + or – on the numeric keypad
That last dood is a spitin image of my cousin’s son. Amazing resemblance.
Jimbro, hit any key. It’s labeled “any.”
The shift key problem is solved. I’m still looking at a screen like Reader’s Digest Large Print Edition. Freaky Deaky.
Just sit eight feet away from the screen.
You must have enabled some sort of accessibility features, for people with vision impairment or really small brains.
Hit random F keys.
My working theory is that by November, Obamacare will be a net positive for Democrats.
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hahahahaha. My working theory is that if you use the phrase working theory you are fucking fucked in the fucking goat ass, but don’t want to admit it.
Take off your glasses, Jimbro. the screen will look fine.
Your working theory will be working part time by November.
My working theory is on disability.
Sean got it pregnant.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Black Nixon delays the individual mandate and deadlines for “officially approved” insurance policies until after 2016.
Sean got it pregnant.
So you can forget child support.
>>>Hit random F keys.
I was just resorting to that. Who really knows what the hell they do. The “Ctrl” and minus on numeric keyboard got it down to about half the size it was. I’m going to keep hitting random keys till it’s fixed or smoke starts coming out of the computer.
My working theory is that random Fs are included in Obama’s transcript.
Just don’t let the blue smoke out, Jimbro. It’s magic. It’s what makes the compooter go.
Google is your friend Jimbro.
Racist peckerwoods are a problem inside Berkeley feminist and lesbo cliques? White wimmens?
I was reading about something along those same lines in another article – some black lesbian whining about how all of the people in power in lesbian circles are the over-40 white chicks, and “something must be done about it”.
Listen, sugartits – lesbians make up less than 1.5% of the entire US population, and blacks make up only 12% of the entire population. Given the abortion numbers in the black community over the last 40 years, I’m guessing that percentage is going to be lowered in a few years, but we’ll spot you that number for now.
12% of 1.5% = 0.12 x 0.015 = 0.0018 = 0.18%
In a country of 300 million people, you and your black lesbian sisters total around 54,000; only 25% of you are between the ages of 20-40, which lowers your power base to 13,500.
That’s an average of 270 black lesbians per state.
Don’t plan on making too many cookies for your grievance meeting.
OMG YOU GUYZ TEXAS IS TOTES TURNING BLOO!!!
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2014/03/wendy_davis_pri.html
Jimbro, did you look at the far bottom right-hand side of your screen to see if maybe you accidentally increased the % of the screen to something larger than 100%?
I….um….may have done that once or twice……
(BTW, to get to 100%, it says to hit “ctrl” and “0”)
I just searched on the google and the first page was about text size on Firefox. It gave step by step instructions on how to install a “+/-” on the toolbar which I did. I’m happy to say you guys are now normal.
I read that earlier in the process Teresa and tried Ctrl “0”. It just made it bigger all over again.
I’m happy to say you guys are now normal.
How little you understand.
I see Kinky Friedman is neck and neck for Texas Ag Commissioner
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/font-size-and-zoom-increase-size-of-web-pages
Enough of this excitement. Not touching the font size anymore tonight (not a euphemism)
OMG YOU GUYZ TEXAS IS TOTES TURNING BLOO!!!
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They are so-libs.
They want late term abortion and to take everyone’s guns. That’s it.
“I’m currently wading through the Donziger/Chevron decision, and boy, howdy, is it a doozy.”
I read it last night! Wowzer.. what boggles my mind is the mindset that Donnziger had that he could pull off a fraud of such huge dimensions. In the end he was no different than some street thug who rolled a drunk for some change and has his friends film it. Then posted it to Facebook. I loved one of the shorter sentences in the ruling that went something like…… “Someone at Chevron saw it.” talking about the part of the film where they showed some of the co-conspirators at a bar or somesuch.. Such hubris.
Meet the next US Senator from Arizona:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arizona-senator-reveals-his-homosexuality-n45506
Evening Hostages. How goes it?
Racist peckerwoods are a problem inside Berkeley feminist and lesbo cliques?
They’re like slightly more aggro Klan meetings.
>>>Meet the next US Senator from Arizona:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arizona-senator-reveals-his-homosexuality-n45506
That might be the ugliest gay guy I’ve ever seen.
If Arizona elects this guy Gallardo to be a US Senator, every gay will leave the state out of embarrassment. Unless he gets a makeover.
Evening Hostages. How goes it?
Apart from the Dick Butt and the Ass Pennies, fine.
I read that earlier today, GSG – the filmmakers were asked to remove a potentially damaging blurb after the film had been screened for festivals (and before it was released on DVD). They didn’t get all of them, though, as someone from Chevron caught the “original” version on Netflix.
The countersuits from Chevron are going to be popcorn-worthy.
I just keep saying, “No way!” – and then things escalate even more.
And I’m only about halfway through the ruling so far. For some reason, it won’t download on my Kindle, so I couldn’t read it in bed last night.
Who signed Cyn’s hall pass?
Mare
Who the hell is mare?
“I just keep saying, “No way!” – and then things escalate even more.”
Yup! also, laugh out loud funny a couple of times.
Woo-woo!
Hit a high of 36 degrees in North Dakota today!
Spring is coming..
http://tinypic.com/r/2po9jbn/8
Who the hell is mare?
Mare is MJ when he’s feeling faaaaabulous.
Yeah, who the hell invites a film crew to document their fraud?? Someone who wanted the billions AND the fame, I guess.
Obama has a cigarette.
Nice test tanks.
PG
You impress me with your oilpatch savvy
Find the hot oil truck
“Someone who wanted the billions AND the fame, I guess.”
He got greedy too… seems I remember Chevron talking about settling for like 600 mil?
Those test tanks are fake.
Bobtail to the right of the pulling unit behind the crew cab. Is that a reverse unit beside the test tank and if so, where’s the steel pit?
Orwell selects a raft for his pool.
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8082379264/hE26B6618/
“Yeah, who the hell invites a film crew to document their fraud?? ”
Exactly! They also for some reason thought the out-takes weren’t producible in discovery? Fools.
>>He got greedy too… seems I remember Chevron talking about settling for like 600 mil?
haha, didn’t know that. Hope he remembers that when he is disbarred (hope, hope)
Yeah, I saw that clip – he just brushes it aside when someone expresses concern.
My production tanks are a lot cuter, plus they come with their very own Port-A-Potty..
http://tinypic.com/r/2h69h8j/8
Very good PG!!
You got it
That truck on the right is the hot oiler, there is a small open top steel pit hidden behind the test tanks and behind that, on the left side is the Weatherford wireline truck
I’m perforating the payzone tomorrow morning and will run a gamma ray log to correlate
The best part of the Texas results is that our Speaker, Bob Strauss (more powerful than the governor down here), is losing a bunch of his allies. Maybe now we will finally get a Republican speaker who thinks it’s more important to represent his conservative political base rather than be pals with a bunch of Democrats, lobbyists, and other fixtures on the liberal Austin scene.
They aren’t perky.
Which one of you guys back east is this?
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8076160256/hC452397F/
That’s much more likely to be a Texas Splitter.
Hi
CYH!!!!
Looks like there were shake-ups all across the State, Michael
Cyn explores the intertubes.
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8076961536/h0A8D19C7/
Who is CYH?
I am ready for my cocktail and debriefing now. Thank you in advance kind person.
The “N” has taken the high road it seems.
Cyn explores the intertubes.
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8076961536/h0A8D19C7/
Ha! Yes – just add tequila.
I was too excited to type properly.
Maybe it’s a hew way of spellihg for strahge white people. Sort of like Ebohics, mah hizzles.
Hi guys!
Hola, osoloco!
Sean’s Penis wouldn’t have made that typing mistake.
*waves at Oso*
Good evehihg, friehd.
Scott?
J’ames, thanks for the ABBA heads up.
I know it’s only Spring Training, but we suck! KC schooled us yesterday. Dodgers are winning tonight.
You like ABBA, oso? Or just the warning?
Mr. TiFW is out of town until Sunday. It’s been a long time since he was on a business trip.
I’d better die first – I don’t like this being in bed all alone at night…..
The warning. I don’t H8 them as much as Fleetwood Mac.
Just a quick hello as I finish the latest in a never-ending series of 14 hour work days.
If you are a sort who is of a praying kind, please ask that my death be painless, dignified and soon.
Thank you in advance
I’m not praying for that.
Me neither.
>>>I’m not praying for that.
Why do you hate me?
Anita & I went to the noon showing of “Son Of GOD” today. I took foam ear-plugs, and I’m glad. The back-ground sound-track was deafening!
They should have given me the volume-control…
I’ll give an 85. They did a good job, the cinematography was nice, and they followed the story-line pretty well.
Of course, having read “The Book”, there was a lot that was left-out. Had they included it, it would have been a “Very Long Movie”.
They pulled the heart-strings pretty well and it made us both cry.
We did get the “Senior Discount”, so there’s that.
Well done…
>>>They pulled the heart-strings pretty well and it made us both cry.
So, like Love Story but with a religious theme…..
Wiser,
You got it…
You want my death to be painful?
Dayum…..
I’ll pray for two out of the three thing you requested, Wiser.
>>>>Wiser,
You got it…
Being the Son of God means never having to say “I’m sorry.”
What Carin said.
Wiser,
No, I was talking about the movie, but now that you mention it…
You want my death to be painful?
Dayum…..
It’s the Hostage way.
>>>I’ll pray for two out of the three thing you requested, Wiser.
Can I choose?
‘Cause I have a real high tolerance for pain.
>>>No, I was talking about the movie, but now that you mention it…
I love you.
>>>It’s the Hostage way.
I thought the Hostage way ™ was writing an insane, balls-to-the-wall screed before flaming out in a huge ball of infamy.
Stupid autocorrect.
“Insanity”
I like “ball of infamy” better.
Autocucumber sometimes is wise.
Good Evening! And goodnight.
Yea … good night from me too.
>>>I like “ball of infamy” better.
Some things in life are simply perfect and will never be forgotten.
HI BYE LAURAW!
G’nite Car In
btw, if anyone was planning to take a Saturday off from listening to SES, this would be a good one.
Wiser,
I kid.
I hope your shit-storm lightens the fuck-up, real soon…
Give us a hint of who (besides Tom Hill) will be a guest.
http://tinyurl.com/khop9r2
Autocucumber
I think I’ve seen that for sale on the Adult Toy Shopping Network.
I thought the Hostage way ™ was writing an insane, balls-to-the-wall screed
AKA BBF.
Comment by Cyn on March 5, 2014 10:24 pm
Sean’s Penis wouldn’t have made that typing mistake.
It uses the Hunt and Pecker method of typing.
Sean’s Penis wouldn’t have made that typing mistake.
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It uses the Hunt and Pecker method of typing.
It never unintentionally pulls a boner.
J’ames will be so sad to have missed the puns.
They say puns are the lowest form of humor. Clearly they have not sat through a Love Boat marathon.
There will be no coronation
There will be no flowers flowing in the derp
That passes though me now
In the derp that passes through me
Hi, y’all. Good day!
Good morning all!
Damn, missed the puns.
http://imgur.com/gallery/XNibo
If republicans are smart (yeah, I know), they would swarm these places, create a scene and demand that heads roll. The Al Sharton/Jesse Jackson strategy.
Teachers union funds democrats. Get on the side of parents and students. Give them hell.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/03/school-forces-half-naked-sopping-wet-student-to-stand-outside-frostbite-results/
Everyone involved in that incident should be fired and legally barred for life from any situation that might give them in loco parentis rights.
Those type of stories really hit home when you begin to compare the outcome for the adults supposedly in charge with parents who may have done the same or a similar thing.
Teacher, cop or politician? Meh, they were well meaning and didn’t intend for anything bad to happen. Parent? The full force of the law must be brought to bear to warn the others!
The union will fight tooth and nail to protect the first two in your list, Jim. Even if they get suspended, they’ll never miss a paycheck.
Again: All the kids I went to college with twenty years ago who were extremely stupid, were in the process of becoming educators.
Present company excluded, of course.
But really. Worse than mediocre. Of course, half of them are probably retired with pensions by now, and I’m back in school to try again, so who is the dumbass?
Viruses replicate well and spread rapidly, entirely without intelligence or even cells of their own. “Success” != smart.
Also, vote no on any school millage. Gauss and Einstein learned everything they did with nothing but pencils, paper, chalk and slate.
Pupster, saw your note about Red Stag Spice. Have no fear, I’ve had no luck whatsoever with anything cinnamon-flavored, and wouldn’t have risked it.
My sister knows I love Biggby coffee (most of which is wonderful and I highly recommend), so she got me several bags at Christmastime. One of them is “cinnamon toffee”. I made one pot, and it was so unbelievably odd that I can’t even open the bag now. The smell makes me ill.
The girl I dated in high school retired several years ago after being a probation officer for 20 years. Full pension, health insurance. She was 4′ 10″ so she worked with the youngest juvenile offenders. Her uncle was a cop and I’m sure he tipped her off to this legal scam.
wakey wakey
Also, vote no on any school millage. Gauss and Einstein learned everything they did with nothing but pencils, paper, chalk and slate.
Ga. Worst thing ever is when someone I know “brags” that all the kids in their school have iPads. I either have to bite my tongue, or start raging about how stupid that is.
Yeah, an iPad will help you concentrate and learn arithmetic.
Good morning, cool kids.
Home inbox had 33 emails in it. That is never a good sign. Apparently one of the moms lost her shit that no one was volunteering to help with a dance in May and told us off. Yeah, that’ll make me want to sign up.
The girl I dated in high school retired several years ago after being a probation officer for 20 years.
I used to fight a guy at the dojo who was a federal probation officer. If he was 4’11” and 120#, I’m 7’10” and a world-class basketball player. I think he’s retired now, too. He was a fun guy, but I’m sure he’s an Obama voter. Dude could take a wollop, though. I’m known for “heavy hands,” and he never bitched once.
Only 33? Sounds like they forgot to “Reply All”.
Sup losers.
Home inbox had 33 emails in it.
That sounds like it’s rife with opportunity for mischief and fun. 😉
Morning, children.
I’m not going to worry about it. It’s the week before Rocketboy’s graduation, and I have enough to do.
Is pot legal where Thomas Friedman lives?
Raising the price on oil is going to lower the price of oil. We raise our taxes, so Americans can’t afford to use it anymore and the price of EVERYTHING goes up, but world oil prices fall. WIN!!
WTF kind of crack is he on? Asshole.
Ga. Ayn Rand was dead fucking on.
Good morning, citizens! Or is it comrades? I keep forgetting.
Gas tax! Carbon tax!
Have Friedman pee in a cup, or cut some of his hair, and test it. I’m pretty sure we know the results, but lets make it official.
Natural gas export he gets right, after that he starts humping his hobby horse.
I’m a little bemused by this:
http://nydn.us/1e5iJP6
In that last paragraph, in his three exampls, he goes from perceived ill intent and presumed rational to tarring an entire neighborhood with racism on the basis of one encounter to suggesting without any basis whatsoever other than religion and color that another neighborhood might not have welcomed him. Kudos to the reporter calling out Lee, but, fer cryin’ out loud, look in the mirror, brother!
Have Friedman pee in a cup, or cut some of his hair, and test it. I’m pretty sure we know the results, but lets make it official.
I say “kick him in the jimmy until he pees blood.” We can do blood and urine tests then – for accuracy’s sake.
Natural gas export he gets right, after that he starts humping his hobby horse.
That’s why I only bolded the last bit. I quoted it in full so you’d see it in context.
The “attractive mugshot gallery”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/top-10-attractive-mug-shots-gallery-1.1334391
Yeah, I would…. 😀 The gallery contains no men, btw.
I tried to come up with some sort of analogue stupidity that I could spout, but none of my hobby horses require anyone to lose freedom and prosperity.
Well, no one willing to work, anyhow.
Heh:
http://bit.ly/1e5nWXn
Nah, this’ll never get abused.
Reminds me of the Orgasmatron from Sleeper.
Obviously, before scientists invented this machine, they did not consider Sean’s Penis.
Button-press pleasure with no refractory period?
Pretty sure this is part of the War on Women Getting Anything Accomplished Ever.
WTF kind of crack is he on? Asshole.
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/rant on
I think he’s trying to say that raising the price would lower demand, but I’m not sure the Chinese, whom he loves, are going to understand this.
They are buying cars at an astonishing rate. There will be no slow down in the demand for gas and oil in the foreseeable future.
This is a fact that everyone on the left tries to ignore. If we had any balls, we’d shift to becoming a more hydrocarbon based economy.
Drill more, frac more, export more, and get fucking rich doing it.
But fucktards like TFG and the rest don’t understand basic economics let alone the use of economic power as a weapon.
Remember, this was a guy that proud of just paying off his student loans in his late 40s.
He chose to be a debt ridden, part time worker, dependent on his wife’s no show job cuz it made him feel good. This is the height of immaturity and irresponsibility.
/rant off
But the rich are the problem, MJ! Don’t you see? That’s what Occupy tried to tell us!
If we were all poor, we’d be better off!
Yes, Thatcher and all that. They want everyone poorer so that we’re more equal rather than everyone richer with a bit of variance between the top and bottom.
It’s been tried. Like 10 times. It doesn’t work, but….look squirrel!!!!!!!!!!!!
MJ, I have this weird theory that we’re holding off on our own oil/gas/coal for all these bullshit public reasons — knowing everything you just said — because waiting until the rest of the world runs out will let us make buku bucks selling it late in the game, and might even zero out our balance sheet.
Publically: Carbon is BAAAAD!!! Privately: Hoarding is good.
It would make sense as a plan, but if it was a plan, we’d never pull it off, so it’s happening anyhow.
I really like how the world is falling apart all around him and he’s talking about the minimum wage.
He’s back in full campaign mode, which is probably the safest thing for all of us.
Who will you sell it to later? They’ll have us by the nuts at that point.
He’s hoping for another mini-vacation this weekend. Ocean Reef (where I went to that wedding last fall). Hopefully Putin doesn’t wreck it. I think Michelle and girls will go anyway.
We’ll still have the arsenal to defend it, in theory.
But yeah, we should be doing what you said, and running full-bore on nuke research so we can synthesize fuel after the oil’s gone.
Because batteries will always suck, and liquid fuel will always be awesome.
I think he’s trying to say that raising the price would lower demand, but I’m not sure the Chinese, whom he loves, are going to understand this.
I think he’s trying to say he raise rates ONLY ON US. Only suckers will be paying higher taxes and carbon bullshit.
But a decrease in American use is enough to lower global price, it happened before.
These fucking nudgers. Central planners. They can all go fuck themselves.
Fox News poll sez Obama’s approval hits new low
http://fxn.ws/1e5rx7O
A few interesting observations:
If you had to say one way or the other, would you say the Obama administration has mostly succeeded or mostly failed at…
Only one of the six choices determines Obama failed with less than 50% of the respondents, and that still beat the number who said he succeeded on the same question. In every case, Obama is a failure. Obama’s “suceeded” tallies were mostly in the 30s, with one 42% and one 27%.
Another funny one: Of all the names suggested as a possible good Presidential, only Joe Biden receives more than 60% (63%, actually) “no” votes.
In the same question, Rand Paul loses to Hillary 50% to 28%, but 20% claim not to know who Paul is.
I’m not super comfortable with the MOE’s on the data sets and final results. I have to think them through a bit.
Do liberals hang up on FoxNews poll calls, or does Fox call under another name so they get better results?
“MJ, I have this weird theory”
It might play out that way but I don’t think it’s the plan.
Look at California, they are sitting on a sea of oil.
The environmentalists and lawsuits have made it impossible or horribly expensive to extract that oil. No planning needed, but it’s a nice side effect.
CA will eventually look at its balance sheet and elect their own version of Sarah Palin. But by the time that happens, Detroit will look like a nice place to live.
I hang up on all pollsters, or don’t answer the phone.
I have never been polled.
Uh-oh….
http://bit.ly/1e5xxxe
Rasmussen called me last month. I stayed on for the entire poll. I wanted the free gift at the end.
I was duped.
I was polled once right after the ’08 election. I asked them not to call again.
New stoopid post.
Media fucks with portraying the armed services in a good light: