Open Thread

IMPORTANT UPDATE (Leon): I ate this yesterday.

Bragging update (car in)

494 Comments

  1. Thank you, baby Mohammed that I don’t have to look at moobs.

  2. Also, I stopped eating cat litter almost 4 days ago, so this is still kind of a touchy subject for me.

  3. Oh.

    Sorry, Stark. Congrats though.

  4. Carin, did you need keys to the Recipes site?

  5. Why do they schedule work for so early in the morning?

  6. Aren’t these ALL open threads?

  7. That video is awesome!

  8. We’re much stricter on topic adherence than AOS, EOJ.

  9. I love teh bear ladder.

  10. That vid IS adorable, huh?!

    Facebook is good for stealing shit.

  11. It is like the dumpster equivalent of a clown car. Just not as creepy!

  12. Redneck Solutions!™

  13. Oh, & congrats Cyn: this poast is 3-times better than Gab’s wheezy ONT at your so-called HQ.

  14. I feel like I’m looking at an Atrios site.

  15. We’re much stricter on topic adherence than AOS, EOJ.

    Who do you mean by “we”, Kemosabe?

  16. Aminals & humans really can coexist.

  17. 10:09 time for another beer.

  18. Hey, now, Geoff; watch your tone there, buster!

  19. Aren’t these ALL open threads?

    You clearly don’t get this site.

  20. 10:09 time for another beer.

    Slacker.

  21. I remember Ace ripping on Atrios for all those open threads:

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/182293.php

    http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=180850

    Good times.

  22. And in our house, it would “0 days since I ate the cat.”

  23. Maybe that cat is drunk and his doggie friend is helping him out.

  24. Even still, that doggie did it without any help from government roads.

  25. Yea, probably. Unless you want to do the work for me. LOL.

  26. No, I guess I don’t, Leon.

    Le sigh…

  27. without any help from government roads

    Baiting Mare this earlier in the morning?

  28. It’s for when she gets back.

  29. Comment by Stark Dickflüssig on July 26, 2012 10:08 am
    Aminals & humans really can coexist.
    ========
    Yep, until somebody gets hungry

  30. We’re importing corn. Corn.

    *Watches another episode of Mountain Men*
    *Takes copious notes*

  31. Romney kisses chicken sandwiches.

    Obama kisses butt-holes.

  32. I may have done it wrong – the recipe thing. I didn’t put it in under a category or nuthin.

    I aint fancy like Cyn.

  33. HAHA!

    I got the email that you’d poated the recipe, Carin, and just went in and added the categories.

  34. Obama kisses butt-holes ate a dog.

    FFA

  35. *tosses fancy feather boa over shoulder and winks*

  36. Golly

  37. Mrs. Cleaver, you sure don’t have a lot of hair on your back.

  38. dickhole

  39. 108 here today as well, Cynilicious.

  40. Lapeer is w/o power. The whole main part of town.

    Had to go to mail a package.

  41. We are in the cone of certain death.

    Remain calm MCPO

    http://www.trbimg.com/img-501124e7/turbine/hc-connecticut-storm-watch-warning-0727-20120725/400/16×9

  42. Ric Locke, it appears, has passed.

  43. Damn. He posted just last week that he had a month or less.

  44. Who?

  45. He certainly had some awfully hard years at the end. Crap. Lost his business. Wife was ill.

    Just dang.

  46. Installing Mountain Lion right now.

  47. We are supposed to get ‘some’ precip today. Where is it?

  48. Apparently is was less. A reader commented. Jeff is still searching for verification.

    Ric was a frequent commenter – for years – at PW, then he started his own blog and wrote a book.

  49. Ric Locke…refresh my memory.

  50. Cyn
    THERE IS NO SPOON!

  51. Car in, wasn’t Ric in cahoots with Dan Collins on some stuff? I don’t conflate the two, but tend to think of them as going hand in hand.

    I often disagreed with Ric, but he certainly was a fine commenter, always giving food for thought.

  52. Ric and Dan were certainly online buddies. Ric hung out at a few places.

  53. What if we find out that the hokey-pokey really is what it’s all about?

  54. Dead thread.

  55. Hostage Community Theater

    Me: Apparently Twitter was down a long time today.

    Scott: Oh my God. Is Cuffy okay?

    fin

  56. its only dead in the head
    dance like you are a supernova

  57. heheh, the PA Voter Id law has a provision to provide an ID AT NO COST if the voter doesn’t have one.

    Poll tax, my ass. Next up, there’s not enough DOT offices to issue all the IDs in time for the election.

  58. If we blow up Twitter, will Cuffy come back to us?

  59. Cuffy has gone over to the dark side. He isn’t coming back.

  60. Cyn FTW!

    http://tinyurl.com/d4a69f8

  61. He is so fucking stupid:

    Barack Obama ‏@BarackObama

    FACT: Congress could jumpstart hiring by giving a 10% income tax credit to small businesses that create new jobs or increase wages in 2012.

    OMG!!!! A 10% tax credit!!!! WEEEEEE. For hiring and raising wages. What could possibly be the hole in this marvelous plan?

  62. 10% across the board would be a good idea. As long as you aren’t already rich like CARin.

  63. Comment by xbradtc on July 26, 2012 1:15 pm

    Cyn FTW!

    http://tinyurl.com/d4a69f8

    i KNEW cyn was hawt, but DAYUM

  64. Carin —

    My upcoming birthday next week could be the last one I celebrate as President of the United States, but that’s not up to me — it’s up to you.

    This July deadline is our most urgent yet, coming after two consecutive months of being significantly outraised by Romney and the Republicans.

    And if you pitch in $3 or whatever you can before midnight tonight, you and a guest will be automatically entered to join me at my birthday get-together next month:

    https://donate.barackobama.com/My-Birthday

    Thanks. Hope I’ll see you soon.

    – Barack

  65. At some point we really ought to phase out the mortgage deduction. Timing it with a 10% overall cut would ease the pain.

  66. Good day, capitalist American running dogs.

  67. I’m not sending any money for his birthday, but I’m sending some to Romney for his retirement party!

  68. At some point we really ought to phase out the mortgage deduction. Timing it with a 10% overall cut would ease the pain.

    Flat tax. Then we’ll talk.

  69. That Ru Paul sure can fill out a cat-suit, yeah?

  70. My upcoming birthday next week could be the last one I celebrate as President of the United States, but that’s not up to me — it’s up to you.

    Hey, thanks for the reminder!

  71. don’t rain on the cat suit yet, stark, I’m still picturing Ann Hathaway in one on an IMAX screen.

    Bunk!

  72. hell with nthat J’ames, think Aggie in cat suit, WITH a machete

  73. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT??

    um, heyhowzitgoin…

  74. Somebody is in Twitmo.

  75. Car in was just talkin’ crap about you.

  76. Who’s the new guy?

  77. I keep hearing about this twitmo thing but have never experienced it.

  78. Rosetta sock puppet.

  79. Cuffy is “verified” by us morons following.

  80. Hahahahaha

    Twitter is in the shitter.

  81. Hmm, still updating tweet deck. It’s down again?

  82. What is this strange land?

  83. Flat tax. Then we’ll talk.

    Fair enough. I’d like to kill all the behavior mods encoded in our tax system, so this works fine for me.

  84. We missed you at Lapeerapalooza, Cuffy. I even tweeted about it, go look.

    *giggles*

  85. Sorry I couldn’t make L-palooza. In the process of building an actual new business, like, moving dirt and pouring concrete and shit. DOn’t tell this douche:

  86. You shouldn’t work so hard, you should just hope to be lucky like O.

  87. You must of had a great 4th grade teacher.

  88. It’s weird: my property has a road, power and sewer, but… nothing was there until I came along. Makes no sense at all.

  89. Comment by Jay in Ames on July 26, 2012 1:14 pm
    What The F*** Facts

    @WhatTheFFacts
    A recent study shows that alcohol does not kill brain cells as previously conceived.

    *cries tears of joy

  90. Can we all agree at this point that Obama is not the genius *snicker* that Beschloss (obviously not out of the closet) said he was?….hahahahaha…..

  91. “Can we all agree ”

    OK I’ll agree.

  92. It’s weird: my property has a road, power and sewer, but… nothing was there until I came along. Makes no sense at all.

    So, your property was a formless void before you got there? Let me tell you something–you didn’t create that. You must have had a powerful deity or prime mover somewhere along the line that created matter.

  93. “Agree” is one of those words.

    Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree Agree

  94. And since this is an open thread…..hahahahaha…..I just have to ask for the thousandth time, exactly what sexual fantasy are you entertaining to mention…”and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.”

    Also, what drugs are be taking?

    And/or what pathetic inadequacies do you harbor to write that and not be thoroughly embarrassed afterward?

  95. Also, COCK!

  96. I assume you’ve seen iowahawk’s latest, Sean?

    http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2012/07/you-didnt-build-that.html

  97. Also, COCK!

    I missed you, mare.

  98. It was so cool when Columbus came to America. When he saw all those roads and bridges he said “Hey. People should come here. They can become successful and build businesses and shit.”

  99. Yeah, Cuffy, I saw that. And snicker all you like, but our philosopher-king was actually giving us all a valuable lesson in metaphysics.

    Obama 2012: No Entrepreneur is an Island

  100. Holy crap! This video made me look at Romney’s creased pants!

    http://tinyurl.com/brx92ks

  101. Cuffy, we know you’re just slumming here because twitter has AIDS but WE LIKE IT!

  102. hehe, a little birdy told me I should check in, mare. My H2/other blogs access varies per work location, so it became easy to slough off entirely (twitters are unrestricted).

    Maybe this all goes away once the new biz is off the ground, but then I’ll prolly be too damn busy for anything. NO WIN!

  103. And/or what pathetic inadequacies do you harbor to write that and not be thoroughly embarrassed afterward?

    Seriously, just because your dry cleaner sucks and you’re too timid to confront him about it, that doesn’t mean the rest of us should have to suffer.

  104. Cuffy’s slumming today?

  105. Cuffy- how’s the wife?

    (am I coming across too eager?)

  106. Blog Sluts

  107. Apart from being part of the 8.2%, Mrs. Cuffy is doing fine, Car in. Another reason I’m hustling for new work. Plus, defense biz is going to hell. Time for something new.

  108. Bummer cuffy.

  109. Are we too stupid to understand the new venture?

  110. Hotspur, Obama has already said he didn’t want his daughters, “punished with a baby.”

    Also, SKANKS!!

  111. “Your shuttle bus driver is Hung”

    HAHAH…good header douches.

  112. Speaking of skanks, what ever became of Chelsea Clinton?

    Shortest TV career ever!

  113. Plus, defense biz is going to hell.

    I hear you. Nada on raises or promotions since just after Nov ’08, 15% of the building has been laid off since then, and I’m hanging on by fingernails.

  114. “Are we too stupid to understand the new venture?”

    10,000 points to be used for bore holers, gas, whiskey and any coffee but Dunkin Donuts.

    HA! I was afraid to ask him, Scott.

  115. Hahahahaha

    WordSmegma thinks skank is skunk.

  116. Are we too stupid to understand the new venture?

    HA! Oh no no no no. Just wait until I tell you what it is! (not yet)

    Hint: high traffic retail.

  117. People who use the Earthlink spam blocker are dickheads.

  118. Adult book store!

  119. You’re going to sell Rosetta’s ass?

  120. Comment by Jay in Ames on July 26, 2012 1:57 pm

    don’t rain on the cat suit yet, stark, I’m still picturing Ann Hathaway in one on an IMAX screen.

    Bunk!

    I know, but my wife knows what kind of places I comment, & she knows my alias(es), so I have to say things like that to take her off the scent. Once she’s convinced I’m totally into trannys she’ll never bother to see if I’ve been looking at .jpgs of Louise Brooks or Hedwig Kiesler.

    Oh, shit, I’m pathetic.

  121. Liquor store?

    IS IT A LIQUOR STORE!!!?????????????????

  122. hahahaha

  123. As long as it’s not NASA either, Cuffy. I see all the managers leaving and wonder if I’m a chump for staying.

  124. Duffy is gonna sell Avon?!

  125. Oh, and you’re a towel!

  126. Obama has nearly burned missile defense to the ground, leon. And I’m fucking sick of being at his mercy. Sad part is, sequestration/budgets are so messed up that it won’t be much better under Romney. Hence my new plan.

  127. What could possibly be more high traffic than liquor or Rosetta’s ass?

  128. Chris Matthews’ esophagus?

  129. Gun store?

  130. Missile defense (since my years of Reagan loving) always seemed one of our smartest costs.

    Got the Soviet Union to think twice.

  131. “Chris Matthews’ esophagus?”

    LOL

    *makes appointment with priest

  132. ALL OF THE ABOVE!

  133. Is it a VCR repair shop? Because there aren’t many of those around anymore, and I figure people gotta go somewhere when their VCR goes on the fritz.

  134. Gun store?

    Ohhh, that’s a good guess.

  135. Comment by mare on July 26, 2012 3:13 pm

    Hotspur, Obama has already said he didn’t want his daughters, “punished with a baby.”

    Now, some people will try to tell you that there’s a special place that daddy has other men put their meat. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s okay, uh, okay for a lady to have, uh [transcript ends here]

  136. It’s a floor wax store AND a dessert topping store!

  137. roamy, towels may very well be involved. No more hints!

  138. Is it my favorite a “white wine, chocolate, magazines, TV’s, pictures of military guys” store?

  139. If this Defense thing doesn’t work out, I might get a CDL and move to ND so I can be in da erl bidness.

  140. It’s a floor wax store AND a dessert topping store!

    Free Bag O’Glass with purchase!

  141. leon, if I was single, I’d totally be living in a car in ND for this new gold rush.

  142. Hahahahahaha

    The Brits sure are a bunch of thin-skinned pricks, aren’t they?

  143. towels may very well be involved

    A turkish bathhouse?

  144. Cuffy’s last failed venture, building children’s toys:

    http://tinyurl.com/c6ku8t8

  145. “white wine, chocolate, magazines, TV’s, pictures of military guys” store?

    Add in manicures, pedicures, and massage therapy, and that might make it in this recession.

  146. Chicago politics indeed!

  147. Cuffy, I checked into it, and your idea of building your own toll booth on the interstate is not legal.

    You will totally get arrested for that, and maybe even shot.
    Sorry, man.

  148. WHAT??

  149. By the way, I was talking to someone this morning who just heard about the “You didn’t build that” remarks last night. On The Daily Show. And is now convinced that Romney is the bad guy for “taking it out of context.”

    Reekris, save us.

  150. To be truthful, Sean, “Conflicts of Interest” are not allowed for the “little people” – they seem to be required of Washington insiders.

  151. Taking that statement out of context is a kindness to O. The context is worse.

  152. Twitter Store-Front Solutions!

    Genius.

  153. Oh yeah, and…CUFFAY!

    http://tinyurl.com/82texy4

  154. “towels may very well be involved.”

    massage parlour

  155. Battery store?

    I think Cuffy should just open a store where people come in to have his wife make them laugh.

    I would totally pay for that experience.

  156. Did any one guess Muthafucking Bootleg Fireworks store?

  157. Combo taco bell/ Pizza hut?

  158. Scott and Laura got a nice paint job on the party van.

    http://tinyurl.com/ckdb8d4

  159. Me: You should leave early and go home before me.

    Scott: WHY?!?

    Me: So you can pull the lawn chairs in before the tornado hits.

    Scott: I’m not doing any of that shit.

    Me: Well, you can get the chicken started.

    Scott: WHAT?!?

    Me: Spatchcock it.

    Scott: (pretends he doesn’t speak English)

    Me: It’s easy. There’s videos online. (briefly describes the process)

    Scott: WHAT DO I DO WITH THE BEAK??

  160. How could you do that to Little Jerry?

    I hope you have plenty of sides. He’s not gonna fill you up.

  161. I would not eat Little Jerry! He would make a real pretty hat, though.

  162. Can’t ever leave the defense biz. How will I get chicks?

  163. Mutha fuckin bootleg Little Jerry

  164. Can’t ever leave the defense biz. How will I get chicks?

    I’m clearly doing something wrong.

    On that note, are you on LinkedIn? Can I point you to my profile and suggest me for an opening that includes chick-getting?

  165. LOL, Facechimp screws pooch http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/net-us-facebook-results-idUSBRE86P1LT20120726

    Perhaps facebook should raise it’s prices on it’s users?

  166. Excuse me.

    I just farted.

  167. Isn’t it exciting that Obama’s creating a new office devoted to the education of black children? ALL THE PROBLEMS IN INNER CITY SCHOOLS WILL BE SOLVED.

    He’s a super genius.

  168. And no negro dialect.

  169. The GATE is UNLOCKED. All because of one Obama executive order.

    *wipes tear.

  170. >> Can’t ever leave the defense biz. How will I get chicks?

    You could get you one of these rocking sexy knee scars. That might work.

    Although I’m staying in the defense biz too.

  171. So what is this office going to do, specifically? Here’s the details:

    The Executive Order creates a presidential commission on educational development for black students, and only strengthens his 2010 Executive Order to bolster the nations’ Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that suffered extensively from decreased funding due to state’s budgetary challenges.

    Isn’t that wonderful?

  172. The GATE is UNLOCKED.

    I very clearly heard you say “boy” after you typed that.

  173. You know me so well, Cyn.

  174. Sometimes I grow so tired. . .

  175. And to think you missed the racism workshops at Lapeerpalooza, Cyn.

  176. My computer takes dictation now.

  177. Historically “black” colleges and universities are an anachronism, born from a time when blacks were not afforded the same rights to access to higher education as whites. I’d say the same for women’s colleges too, why are these even necessary now?

    Why does the racist Obama administration wish to perpetuate the notion of “separate but equal?” I thought our nation cast that evil aside 50 years ago.

    *stretches knee to see if I can make the scar move*

  178. ow

  179. “Buckwheat, use dictate in a sentence.”

    “So, Michelle, how do my dictate?”

  180. Okay, I’m going to plead ignorance and ask why Jay Carney couldn’t answer the dang question about the capital of Israel.

  181. My computer takes dictation now.

    Dragon ™?

  182. Because he thought the name was al Quds?

  183. Speaking of ball-garglers.

  184. My computer takes dictation now.

    Ahhh, it all makes sense now…

    Excuse me.
    I just farted.

  185. Dragon ™?

    Nope, it’s built into the new OS.

  186. Cuffy!

  187. My upcoming birthday next week could be the last one I celebrate as President of the United States, but that’s not up to me — it’s up to you.

    And if you pitch in $3 or whatever you can before midnight tonight, you and a guest will be automatically entered to join me at my birthday get-together next month:

    https://donate.barackobama.com/My-Birthday

    I expected a lot of things when America committed suicide in slow motion by electing a sociopath Marxist to the White House.

    But I never expected we would see the world’s whiniest crybaby.

  188. Vmax!

  189. Anyone know a good OCD (character to text) program for windows? Preferably free. They are all kinda sketchy.

    Good to know the speech to text portion is working.

  190. Apparently this is one of those rare nights that CT could see a tornado. Exciting!

  191. Yeah, tornadoes are a blast.

  192. Apparently the Olympics is now like MLB or something. Makes Romney pulls ads that contain Olympics footage:

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/us-olympic-committee-will-tell-all-candidates-cough-mitt-romney-to-stop-using-olympic-footage-in-ads/

  193. Jay, I usually see that written as OCR (optical character recognition). This may help you in the finding thereof.

  194. me rite gud.

  195. Anyone know a good OCD

    I didn’t know Windows supported Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

  196. Cuffy! Used to see you at Ace all the time, when I was there.

  197. Hotspur’s (racist) joke up there made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

  198. George, don’t get used to this.

    Cuffy’s going to break our hearts again.

  199. Ha, correct!

    I was just wondering if anyone had experience with any.

    Dyslexic atheists don’t believe in dog.

  200. S-o-o-o, the Ford salesman requested that I bring my Jeep in on Monday to get a trade-in value. Any bets on what they will offer me for a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 64420 on the odometer?

  201. Dream maker, love taker. I shall mess around.

  202. Dude, if that’s all the miles you have, why the fuck are you trading it?

  203. Sheryl Crow is performing at Interlochen on August 13. Fucking cunt.

  204. I see you caught that Barry Soetero Birthday Beg, Car in. What the fuck is next with this motard? Will he beg people to forego their Labor Day getaway and give their long weekend time and money to his campaign?

    Is there a way for his campaign to profit from organ donations?

  205. Daniel SIlva’s latest book “The Fallen Angel” has been out a week and it’s already #1.

  206. Used to see you at Ace all the time, when I was there.

    That is old school. I stopped commenting there before I stopped here! waitaminute…

  207. I have an organ I’ll donate to him.

  208. Good luck with the new venture, Cuffy. It’s a shame about missile defense – it had finally arrived.

  209. Cuffy Meigs – love ’em and leave ’em. Fuck ’em and forget ’em.

  210. I have an organ I’ll donate to him.

    You may not like where he wants you to put it.

    If you get my drift.

  211. I see you caught that Barry Soetero Birthday Beg, Car in. What the fuck is next with this motard? Will he beg people to forego their Labor Day getaway and giv

    Give till it hurts, folks. Michelle isn’t ready to give up the crown.

  212. Apparently the Olympics is now like MLB or something. Makes Romney pulls ads that contain Olympics footage:

    Makes ’em pull that ad from the Obama SuperPAC, too, that took a faceplant.

  213. geoff, did you hear about the 3-star missile defense director getting shitcanned for being Atilla? Morale here is awful. Plus sequestration. Wheee!

  214. “S-o-o-o, the Ford salesman requested that I bring my Jeep in on Monday to get a trade-in value. Any bets on what they will offer me for a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee with 64420 on the odometer?”

    Not nearly enough.

  215. >> Apparently this is one of those rare nights that CT could see a tornado. Exciting!

    That’s the kind of excitement I would just as soon not happen for you.

  216. geoff, did you hear about the 3-star missile defense director getting shitcanned for being Atilla?

    I did not.

    Plus sequestration. Wheee!

    That one has me puckering a little.

  217. Well it’s all BS. I just got done watching Brazil play Egypt in Olympic soccer (SYWM) on MSNBC, and the tag line for the commercial was “Lean Forward” and it was Tingles and the Dyke talking about green energy and equality.

    So, basically a free Obama ad. It was obvious and gross.

  218. Read all about my ultimate boss’s fall from power. What a dick:

    http://freebeacon.com/missile-defense-fallout/

  219. it was Tingles and the Dyke talking about green energy and equality.

    I saw TIngles and the Dyke open for Toad the Wet Sprocket in 1993.

  220. I call dibs on the job of shaving Nidal Hasan’s beard.

  221. Read all about my ultimate boss’s fall from power. What a dick:

    You rarely see an intervention like that – he must’ve been a real sweetheart.

  222. I call dibs on the job of shaving Nidal Hasan’s beard.

    Can’t we just set it on fire?

  223. A 3 star who resorts to screaming and berating, if that’s what he did, is unworthy of command. And got promoted way beyond his ability to lead.

    That in and of itself should embarrass the Army. You don’t give assholes 3 stars. You shouldn’t give em one.

    Were I to speculate, and I will, I’d say he never learned that as he moved up in the ranks of leadership he failed to understand that the lessons you learn at one level are pretty much useless at the next.

  224. Dude’s had that reputation since he ran THAAD as a colonel. Axe-swinging boss from hell.

  225. I worked with a guy like that. Threw a coffee cup in a meeting during one of his tantrums. Dickhole.

  226. Well, the coffee is for closers.

  227. Read the full Inspector General report on him when you have a moment (PDF warning): http://foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_documents/120703_Inspector%20General%20Report_MDA%20Director_2012.pdf

    He’s single-handedly run off dozens of quality engineers/managers.

    Anyhoo, off to check on construction progress of my secret Turkish bathhouse/gun store/tollbooth — pouring footings today!

  228. I liked in the article how he tried to say those were isolated incidents. If you get 3 dozen people to testify to the IG, you flunked charm school.

  229. Great to see you around, Cuffah

  230. “Well, the coffee is for closers.”

    LOL

    Mare *heart* Cyn

  231. “…you flunked charm school.”

    HAHA

    I’m not even drinking and you guys are making me laugh.

  232. PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN

  233. Cyn, I know that’s from a movie, but I don’t remember which one. Help?

  234. I’d like to know how asshole O’Reilly kept moving up the ladder and no one thought to put a big “reject” stamp on his file?

    Nothing happens in a vacuum. People knew stuff and didn’t do the right thing and now firings and embarrassment. This stuff is going around.

  235. Glengarry Glen Ross

  236. Now I want coffee.

    WANT

  237. Second place is a set of steak knives.

  238. What’s my name? FUCK YOU, that’s my name.

  239. Are we ever going to have a so called “open thread” here?

  240. Never mare, structure and discipline is the H2’s middle name.

  241. George, I also subscribe to emails from the Obama campaign. Saw the one you quoted.

    It is an endless source of amusement.

  242. Is an “open thread” anything like an “open marriage?”

  243. I also subscribe to emails from the Obama campaign.

    I prefer the e-mails selling herbal Viagra from Nigeria. They have more credibility and inspire more confidence.

  244. Angry stormfront is angry. I picked the cukes that were ready. Guess I’ll gather up some lawn furniture type items and stash them in the garage. I dunno. What else do you people do?

  245. “Never mare, structure and discipline is the H2′s middle name.”

    Much like our middle finger.

  246. >> I dunno. What else do you people do?

    Drinking is good. We do that.

    And watch the shit out of the local weather warnings.

  247. What else do you people do?

    Make sure the chain saw is working.

  248. Also, don’t believe the myth about opening windows to reduce the air pressure differential. It’s bullshit.

    You also might want to clean your bathtub, a likely safe spot.

  249. Get the gas can’s filled up.

    ZOMFG!!! Don’t forget the Eggs and the Milk!!11!

  250. Wait, might be too late for that.

    Move the mattress into the bathroom so you can cover yourselves with it when you get into the tub.

  251. If you don’t have booze you’re screwed.

    It’s good for cuts and what not.

  252. And don’t forget to comment here when you’re in the bathtub. Dave could probably cover that better.

  253. Don’t park where a tree can fall on the Party Van!

  254. …and what not

    ^This.

  255. If you get 3 dozen people to testify to the IG, you flunked charm school.

    Kinda like my job, on a smaller scale. Dept. manager a complete witch. Everyone in her dpt. complained and the assist. above her told a coworker that if he finds ONE person not having an issue, he is going to drop the issue. He later told another coworker that he’s tired of everyone bitching about little missy.

    They moved her out of our department and then wrote her up for her absences (which should have gotten her canned twice over). She showed up one day and called off the rest of the week.

  256. There is a rumor running through the whole store now, that she is f*cking one of the managers.

  257. Laura, if you have a basement, be in it with some pillows and your cell phone.

  258. I wonder how the Chief held up through the Gespacho.

  259. The big storm just blew through here. MASSIVE winds, but it moved so damned quick, I don’t think the rain had a chance to sink in.

  260. And an extra pair of pants in the event yours blow off.

  261. We had 30 seconds of light drizzle today. Boy howdy.

  262. Beasn’s Ark Solutions™

  263. We had 20 min of “cow pissing on a flat rock” rain.

  264. Laura, if you have a basement, be in it with some pillows and your cell phone.

    Also grab one of your iPads (with a full charge) and the NetFlix DVDs you have.

  265. I don’t think the rain had a chance to sink in.

    Damn; you guys need the water, too. Is there more rain behind to follow?

  266. Milk, bread, and eggs.

    You can’t survive without emergency French Toast.

  267. …bathtub is on the top floor, I don’t theenk so Lucy.

    Guess I’ll find some flashlights and candles. SIGH. We had two long-term outages last year…sick of this already and nothing has happened yet, lol.

    Oh well, at least my smart hubby invented GrillShower Solutions™.

    I just saw a huge flock of blackbirds hauling ass in a southerly direction. Strange behavior for high Summer.

    *ominous feeling*

  268. Scott is smoking some chicken with crabapple chips from our tree, and mixed hardwood pellets, and it smells just exactly like maple syrup outside! Delicious. I could lap the air.

  269. Hope you don’t see anything bad, including a tornado. Heard there might have been one in new york.

  270. Phone is charging and we have beer.

    OMG! Coffee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  271. Meh. We were warned a year or so ago that we were going to get a lot more of these weather event warnings, but only because of an improvement in their ability to detect rotation.

    So now every normal Summer storm is ‘OMG twisters,’ even though most of them stay up there.

  272. You know what is strange behavior? Not seeing any fireflies this summer.

  273. Eating in style… that’s the way to ride out the storm, Laura.

  274. >> Also grab one of your iPads (with a full charge) and the NetFlix DVDs you have.

    Uhm. That won’t work so good.

  275. I have no advice for post-tornadic apocalyptic zombies.

    You’re pretty much on your own there.

  276. I’m eating by myself. Beasn Jr. is at work and Mr. Beasn is getting new tires. He shoulda been here by now.

    So ronery.

    turkey nuggets, pasta salad (with tomatoes from our garden/broccoli/cauliflower/carrots), corn on the cob, tater, lemonade.

  277. The Mrs. is on an airplane somewhere between ATL and BOS. She’s supposed to land around 10.

    *checks radar map*

    Yeah, right.

  278. Beasn, we usually get our fireflies in July. This year they happened in June. Everything was several weeks ahead of schedule.

  279. Andy – As I said, the storm was hauling ass to the east. It may not last too long. . .

  280. We had lots of fireflies this year, Beasn.

  281. We cheated death and brought home a rotisserie chicken from HEB. It was yummy, and slightly meatier than Little Jerry.

    I’m always amazed at the history involved in rotisserie chickens, that somewhere in our past, a caveman was able to convince his bitch to turn a stick around over a fire for 3 hours.

    God bless you caveman ancestor, for your contribution to dinner.

  282. Car in stole Beasn’s fireflies?

    Trouble brewing.

  283. The cause of your erratic weather and odd insect cycles is obvious.

    Bush.

  284. We live on a swamp and had no skeeters. NONE.

  285. We usually have them by now, but this year, nada.

    Car in, why did you take our fireflies?

  286. Cuffy – Close. When Rove gave up the controls to the weather machine in the West Wing basement, Obama put some Chicago crony in charge. The result; corn and soybean futures through the roof. . . just sayin’.

  287. Runaway Slave is now showing in select theatres. Take a lib friend.

    http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/

    The trailer gives me goose bumps. Mutha farkin bootleg commie bastard demonrats.

  288. The showing was received well in Atlanta.

  289. I have all of your CT skeeters in my backyard apparently. We don’t take kindly to migrants in these parts.

  290. It’s not too many Summers that I can just walk comfortably around in my backyard without being doused in DEET. Like, this is the first one. Ever.

  291. Hardwired internet connection to Pupster Boy 1’s room is down. Cable tester shows an open on pair 1. Re-did both ends and still no love. Boy has been standing over me watching since I got home and started trouble-shooting, but when I said “looks like somebody has got to get in the crawl-space” I looked up and saw nothing but a cloud of dust.

    *puts on miner’s cap*

  292. Sounds like some creature chewed through the wire.

  293. Hah! No way, man. Think about your Dad, and grab that kid by the collar!

  294. Spiders probably chewed through the wire.

  295. Dude. Wireless. Access. Point.

    The only good thing about droughtyness is that skeeters die. They fucking die and cannot attack me.

  296. Storms crapped out as they reached us.

  297. fire ants

  298. They like the low voltage, it amplifies their venom.

  299. It feeds a WAP for that end of the house, and his computer is plugged into it. The office with the cable modem is on the other side, I ran the cable myself at great personal risk.

  300. We are now in Round 2 of the heavy rain!

  301. Hey! Listen up!

    heh!

  302. I have devastated the fire ant stations for 50 meters all around the watchtower.

    Scott, I’m glad you have collapsing storms. We have that too, on station 150 miles away, and they will not break through to here.

  303. You cannot defeat fire ants. You can only control them.

  304. What you need to do, is find someone who is in their 80’s and has lived in the same home since at least the early 1980’s. And root around in their shed. Until you find some Chlordane.

    And offer to take it off their hands.

  305. Looking good Cuffy http://i.imgur.com/Z1lsQ.jpg

  306. That will bring in the “high traffic”…..that is Hotspur running in to correct the spelling and Leon for the lightbulbs.

  307. Oh my God.. I used Chlordane, and Malathion in the early 80s.

    I’m surprised my daughters didn’t have 3 legs.

  308. I have three legs.

  309. So glad I am not French

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEMj6ik1kg&feature=youtu.be

  310. I’m surprised my daughters didn’t have 3 legs.

    I hear they melt knees.

  311. Correction…. Canadian. HA! Stupid Canadians.

    No offense Hotspur.

  312. I shed a tear when I used the last of my ancient jug of Chlordane around the foundation while we were building this place.
    “Silent Spring” my aching ass…

  313. Nice rain now. . . Hope the corn and soybeans around here get a good drink!

  314. Hope the corn and soybeans around here get a good drink!

    You’re a soybean.

  315. You’re a cob of CORN!!

  316. Cheaters.

  317. Scott,
    You getting some rain, now?

  318. Scott – Those damned Malfoys!! Bad enough on the quidditch pitch!

  319. ATTENTION ALL HOSTAGES, I HAVE EATEN OUR FIRST EGG.

    Carry on.

  320. Gentle rain with some boomers thrown in ChrisP.

    Local eggs are best Leon.

  321. It was pretty delicious.

  322. Was it still in the chicken? I can see that happening.

  323. He probably ate a pig, that was stuffed with goats, that were stuffed with chickens and wrapped with bacon.

  324. In a bed of smoked salmon.

  325. No, wife found it in one of the nesting hutches.

  326. Scott, am I missing something, why wouldn’t the woman move over like she did at the end? It took two seconds.

  327. Did anybody force anybody else’s hand today?

  328. Tonight’s my carb refeed, so I just cooked it over easy before my parsnips and ground sirloin.

  329. So, Kelly Blue Book says the Jeep is worth $5700 trade-in. I was thinking $4500.

  330. But your ideas have merit and I’ll add it to the recipes page if I ever try that.

  331. What is a carb refeed?

  332. There are people like that, I have met them. They are usually wealthy.

  333. Set it on fire MCPO.

  334. Obama 2012: Smarts & hard work are overrated.

  335. No, that would be wrong.

    Park it in a bad neighborhood.

  336. Obama 2012: Trust me, I’m basically living proof..

  337. MareJvon!

  338. Scott – Next door neighbor is an insurance adjuster. He says $4600 is fair.

  339. I’m trying to eat most of my carbs in punctuated intervals. Theoretically it lets your body react better to the carbohydrate because it’s easier to manage one big dose rather than lots of small doses. I haven’t tried this for very long, but some folks swear by it. I do find that it helps if I’m starting to get the blues or I’m finding myself too tired to finish my training sessions.

    Today it’s 4 giant parsnips.

  340. Whose job was it to make sure that Romney got the European upgrade to his software package? You fucked up.

  341. MareJvon!
    ——————–
    The cops shot me twice today. Once just for being fat.

  342. What’d Mitt do to Europe?

  343. They plugged him into one of those funny outlets and he shorted the place out, leon.

  344. Mitt observed that the Brits screwed-the-pooch on security for the Olympics. They contracted with a company that could not really do the job. Now, they have the Army doing it.
    He’s correct. He’s been there and he got it done. They failed. That observation is a sin? How?

  345. If being fit and healthy involves eating parsnips, I’ll die young and fat, thank you very much.

  346. Dealers…pah!

    Internet MCPO.

  347. XBrad, I fried mine in butter and dusted them with salt, coriander, and garlic. They’re fantastic.

  348. They’re making space pens on How It’s Made right now. Muthafuckin’ SPACE PENS!!!

  349. He just put his foot in his mouth a little. It doesn’t matter because the British won’t be voting in our election, but still.

  350. The traffic in London is also a CF.

    I pray we don’t get the Olympics again in my lifetime, I like them but I don’t want to pay for them.

    It’s a boondoggle for some places exactly like it would have been for Chicago.

    Let’s not forget dumb assing (thinking his holiness would automatically win the bid) the Olympic bid was one of Obama’s earlier failures.

  351. Space pens? Cuffy timed this perfectly!

  352. Four months ago I was fat. Today I’m hefty. By September I will be .. shit I’ll be 53.

    But not 253. 205 I think.

  353. Romney said something that wasn’t perfect was, in fact, not perfect?

    *yawn*

    It’s not like he gave the Queen an iPod full of his greatest hits or the PM some DVDs he couldn’t even watch or something.

  354. Awesome shot. WTF is that rodent? http://i.imgur.com/iDXmX.jpg

  355. Parsnips are just white, sugary carrots. I grew a crop two years ago and ended up giving most of them away to Mom because they were too frickin’ sweet for me.

  356. I hear Romney didn’t bow to anybody over there. How gauche.

  357. IT’S NOT CHICAGO? WHAT? IT’S NOT CHICAGO?

  358. I have a sense — nay, a certainty — that President Romney’s gifts to the Queen and PM will be worthy tokens of the Special Relationship.

    I hope he gets the bust of Churchill back. Not by asking, but by getting it as a gift, and putting it right back where it belongs.

  359. …but yeah, they are so delicious.

  360. Scott & Laura’s marriage is a series of compromises. . .

    http://tinyurl.com/d84ar4f

  361. Bear-Cam,
    Fishing at Brooks Falls.
    http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls

  362. As long as he didn’t bow to the guards, queen, prime minister, ceremonial horses, statues, some guy named Nigel, Big Ben, or a picture of himself bowing to the queen, it’s all good.

  363. At the ChrisP Household:

    Anita: I want to paint the man-door between the attached garage and the house.

    Chris: I’ll take the hardware off so you don’t have to paint around it.

    Anita: I want to take it off and lay it down so the paint will lay flat.

    Chris: Honey, It’s a Fire-Door.

    Anita: Blank look… So?

    Chris: It’s not a motherfuckin’ bootleg hollow-core-door! It’s a Fire-Door!

    Anita: Blank look. We can just pop the hinge-pins and take it off.

    Chris: The Top and Bottom hinges are spring-loaded, with STRONG Springs! You can’t take them apart. You have to remove the screws.

    Anita: Okay we’ll take it off and carry it to the garage.

    Chris: Knock the pin out of the center-hinge. I’ll get the screw-driver and the Mikita.

    Anita: Holy Shit! This door must weigh 200 frickin’ pounds!

    Chris: I told you. It’s a Fire-Door!

    /fin

    I have no idea how we’re gonna re-hang the fucking door…

  364. Jeebus. That’s no fun ChrisP.

    I was a door-hangin’ mofaku last weekend and will be this weekend too. But they’re wood and glass, not cement.

  365. I couldn’t hang a hollow core door right now if my life depended upon it.

  366. In positive news, I reached 130 degrees on the knee bend today.

    5 degrees past my goal.

    also, ow. fuck. sonofa…

  367. Dave,
    Staples out yet? If so, how did it go? How do they remove them? Never had it done. Always wondered…

  368. I have no idea how we’re gonna re-hang the fucking door…

    Just burn down the house and blame it on the lack of a fire door. Easy-peasy.

  369. Got the staples yanked on Monday. They have a special little tool, works very much like a staple puller for papers… it spreads them as it extracts them.

    Amazingly, like scissors for sutures, they come in a packet and get thrown away. It’s cheaper than cleaning them up for the next sucker.

    I have a nice clean wound. No bleeding, no oozing. No infection. They pasted butterfly tape over it, which will stay on for another week or so.

  370. I was cutting out the hinge recesses in the French *spit* doors I was hanging for the Mrs. last weekend and thought briefly about going old-school with a chisel.

    Then I came to my senses and said, “this is why God invented the router”.

  371. Andy – Bring down your router and re-hang my screen door that the storm ripped out of the door frame. Thank you in advance.

    .
    .
    .
    .
    Oh, and would you prefer to be paid in scotch or beer?

  372. Mmmm,
    Router…
    I wish. Fuckin’ chisel.

  373. scotch

    Better get the door hung first, though.

  374. I got a set of nice, new chisels and have them sharpened to a fine edge.

    But I’ve been using them enough on other parts of this little project.

  375. I feel like such a dork for selling/giving away all of my tools when we moved to the condo.

  376. A chisel and a hammer. You love the wood with these.

    A router? Machine shop.

    Love the wood. Be the wood.

  377. Mama don’t give a shit about any of that, she just wants the doors hung.

    And you can cut all the recesses with a router in the time it takes to do one with the chisel.

    Power tools FTW!

  378. Imma have to cut out the chewed up part of the framing, put some new wood in there (scarf joint on 1 side?), fill, sand and paint before I can even start with the door.

  379. Andy hates wood!

  380. The door story’s pretty classic Casa Andy stuff.

    There are 3 doorways in our kitchen. 2 open into the dining room, and 1 opens to the mud room. The 2 doors that went to the dining room were removed a couple of years ago and the holes in the casing were filled in so there was just an open passageway between the 2 rooms.

    A couple of weeks ago, the Mrs. got the bright idea to put doors back in those openings. But not the same doors … noooooo. French *spit* doors.

    Being the smarteh, I didn’t get rid of the old ones when I took them down, and they made fine templates for laying out the hinge locations on the new doors.

    Oh, and that third door … now it doesn’t match! *facepalm*

    So back to the Home Depot we go this weekend …

  381. Dave sleeps. Hands Andy some router bits.

    Yeah, I know.

  382. Also, I think I could have built the damned doors from scratch and spent less time on them.

    The “30 inch” opening in my house is really 29.75″. Do you have any idea how big a pain in the ass it is to remove 1/8″ (a saw blade width) from each side of a heavy ass door on a table saw?

    Trust me, it ain’t easy.

  383. Pic: http://twitpic.com/aamlhr

    This is right before I cut it. You can see the sacrificial fence and feather board I had to make for the table saw as part of this little exercise.

  384. FUCK!!!!!!!!!! I missed Cuffy!?!?!?!?!

  385. So what you are saying is…I could own this bitch?

  386. Is it bedtime for hostages?

  387. I made an awesome dinner tonight but I had to go to Walmart twice b/c I didn’t move here with a can opener or skillet wtf???? Took me 3 months to finally cook in my new place?

  388. No wonder I am so damn skinny I realize I haven’t eaten in 3 months. My poor child…That’s ok I am back in business in the kitchen again

  389. She was working nearly every night and they feed her at work so she really wasn’t as neglected as I make it seem but damn! I didn’t realize how long it has been since I actually cooked. She gave her 2 weeks notice FINALLY so I can be Holly Homemaker

  390. la la la la la la la la la la la la tequila!

  391. Have another shot, SoHoT!

  392. Sohos,
    I responded to your first comment, but it did not show-up.
    Lost, like tears in the rain…
    Oh well, time to die.
    /Roy Blatty

  393. No shots!!!! Huge day at work tomorrow. So glad it is Friday

  394. Oh, I forgot. Everyday is Saturday for me.

  395. Chief,
    Me too…
    When you’re 63 and funemployed, everyday is Saturday…

  396. What the hell is a parsnip and why in the hell is Leon pushing them?

  397. Andy, next time you have to take off 1/8 from a door, straightedge and a circular saw. You can glue a piece of plywood under the straightedge if you are going to use it more than once. Much easier than the table saw. Also easy to cut down 4X8 sheets of plywood, too.

  398. 1/8″ calls for a plane. or a circular sander.

  399. Daughter dear and I are going to see The Dark Knight Rises tomorrow morning. I’m stoked.

  400. Just watched the Avengers. ScarJo may be a lefty, but damn that girl has a great butt.

    Not Hostagette quality, but very nice. And in spandex, no less!

  401. Dwight Eisenhower raised pigeons.

  402. Mornin. http://i.imgur.com/B8ceE.gif

  403. Just got back from Mexico last night. My shuttle bus driver was not named Hung. He was named Federico. I have no idea whether he was hung, but I’d bet serious money that he’s not circumcised. But if he shows up here claiming he found $20, it wasn’t me. I’m not that good of a tipper.

  404. For Leon:

  405. *practices flying scissor kick*

  406. *ducks

    wakey wakey

  407. I had two people question me on why I had Rush Limbaugh on the radio at work yesterday. And one the day before that. No one has said anything for the longest time.

    Carin, have I told you how awesome you are lately? You’re awesome. I was thinking about the meetup yesterday while I was at work. You are the coolest.

    And OMG that creme brulee. And the salmon after it came off the smoker. Lawd Reekris.

  408. *blushes

    I buy love with food.

    And dang you with that water gardening book. Not only am I fantasizing about one, I’ve got two of my kids in on the plot as well.

    Apparently, we now *need* one.

    I checked out our neighbor’s – they’ve got a really pretty one. I’ll have my son take a picture.

  409. I wanted to make fun of her coffee brewing technique but she was so nice I just couldn’t.

  410. Heh.
    Have you sunk that waterlily in a big pot of water yet? It likes to live under about a foot of water, in full sun. Just throw some topsoil over it in that little pot, and then sink that in a bigger one full of water.

  411. I’m afraid to touch it again since last time it was so unhappy. I’ll work up the nerve.

    I planted the other thing in the lake (tied it to a rock – lol) and it seems kinda happy. The purple thing.

    foot of water. Got it.

    I have the perfect container – at my house in detroit. ack.

  412. I wanted to make fun of her coffee brewing technique but she was so nice I just couldn’t.

    It’s how you brew coffee when you have no electricity. Fire. That’s all I need.

  413. ok, well. If that one doesn’t make it I will have more divs in Spring.

  414. It will make it.

    It will MAKE it.

    Hey, there is a girl from a nearby town running the 800 in the Olympics – which is one of my FAVORITE events. Abby something.

    I love the 800. The 400 is cool too, but the 800 … man. THat’s the race.

  415. I believe that’s what the woman ran in that one video long ago – who fell. and then won.

  416. 600 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnOYGYEe1Mw

    It’s a classic

  417. If those zucchini still have borers I think I’m going to pull them and plant spinach there in about a week. Time to start Fall greens. The ones I planted too early are still just sitting there, unhappy in the heat. August is better for that.

    I need to do a garden journal so I don’t keep repeating these mistakes.

  418. 600 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnOYGYEe1Mw

    It’s a classic

    Yea, it’s awesome. Indoor competitive distances are different but I knew it was longer than a 400 and shorter than a mile. There is no 600 in standard outdoor track.

  419. A friend from the gym is supposed to bring me some zucchinis.

  420. I love Slu’s post at Ace’s.

    I didn’t really follow the stuff yesterday about the freakout, but I got quietly steamed listening to the fox-crowd with Bret Baier whining about it. The Hammer was completely off the mark, and so were the others. I had heard that he made some huge misstep, then when I found out what he said…

    WTF is wrong with people ? Idiots.

  421. He’s probably hitting on you.

  422. He’s probably hitting on you.

    Yea, well. He already tried that, and it didn’t get him too far. So now he’s just giving me some veggies.

  423. HA!

  424. *ignores Krauthammer’s article about Romney In England WITH PREJUDICE.

  425. >> I had heard that he made some huge misstep, then when I found out what he said…

    Same reaction here. I was all *yawn*.

    Back to the door, I did the circular saw/straightedge trick to crosscut the bottom of it, but this cut was on the long edge (80″). I didn’t have a straightedge that long, and the rip fence on the table saw made it virtually impossible to screw the door up (a key consideration).

    I might buy a planer this weekend to use on the last one. That’d probably be easier, and I can always use a new power tool.

  426. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don’t you?

    *flexes*

  427. Yea, but what color are you going to paint these doors?

  428. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don’t you?

    *flexes*

    Ha. Yea. He’s sorta on the take at the gym. I’ve put the kabbosh on that.

  429. My mom’s dad, the only grandparent I knew, was a trim carpenter. I inherited most of his hand tools, including a set of planes that are still razor sharp. I’ve used them on doors for 30 years.

  430. For Leon:

    It’s a trick. All of the squares along the cut seams form rectangles that are slightly less than square when re-combined in the second image. The loss to each one is sufficient to permit the new shape to be 5 “boxes” tall and 13 “boxes” wide, but not all the boxes are the same size anymore as they are in the first shape. The total area isn’t changed, just the arrangement. The drawn boxes are just a pattern that deceives your eye, and the second shape’s width hides the distortion.

  431. Of course, you probably knew that and are just tweaking me.

    Meany.

  432. Of course, you probably knew that and are just tweaking me.

  433. How is everyone?

  434. I knew it!!!!

    Meany.

  435. I had heard that he made some huge misstep, then when I found out what he said…

    Yeah, noting concern that only 4,000 guards out of 10,400 are ready. Why, that’s so much worse than putting your feet up on the Resolute desk, returning the bust of Churchill, giving an iPod to the Queen with boring speeches, giving DVDs that don’t work, and giving plastic helicopter toys (probably made in China) to Gordon Brown’s kids.

  436. You know, you’d expect a man to answer a question in an explicit manner when it’s completely in his wheelhouse. It’s like asking Leon about the caveman diet, or Hotspur about dickholes. They’re just not going to glad-handle the response.

  437. That’s why they did it, Car in. If he’s too nice, he’s pandering to foreigners, if he’s honest, he’s undiplomatic. He couldn’t win, and that’s what they wanted.

    Also, this poat may have been updated.

  438. cool, leon.

  439. Morning, whore bags.

  440. I see from Hot Air that some PETA stand-ins are trying to remove milk from school lunches. Reason #12,478 I send my kids to private school.

  441. Also, it’s too early in the morning for Juan Williams.

  442. Hi Mare-J.

  443. I promise, that’s the last picture of an egg I will use to update such a topical and well-crafted post.

  444. You know, I feel kind of bad about that.

    Good morning, nice people.

  445. You know, I feel kind of bad about that.

    Good morning, nice people.

    So I’m not supposed to pick the scab?

    Where am I?

  446. Poat updated.

    And I make no such promises regarding poating pictures of eggs or chickens or similar.

  447. Yesterday I was confused about this term, as regards the defense budget.
    http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/sequestration

    Now I am no longer confused, but absolutely disgusted.

    You know these shitbags would never abuse their own personal budgets this way. I’m sure when things come out of their own pocket, they suddenly rediscover mathematics and common sense.

    SIGH.

  448. So I’m not supposed to pick the scab?
    ————————-
    No I felt bad about calling you all whore bags. MareJ-von is pretty funny.

  449. Sequestration will likely make me funemployed, so it’s got that going for it.

  450. We’re having our company summer party today here in the back lot. Rodger smoked pork all night, and has chosen the inside of the office to pull it apart this morning.

    He’s now keeping it warm in a roaster in the conference room. How the fuck am I supposed to get any work done?

  451. This is the kind of thing that makes me hate government and drives me nuts:

    http://tinyurl.com/cs3vqq3

  452. Also, it’s too early in the morning anytime for Juan Williams.

    Fixt. Just send him back to NPR, where we can ignore him in peace.

  453. Yeah, what happened to “you get this much money, make it last”.

  454. *egg envy*

  455. Just got notice that two of my proposals are getting picked up. Forwarded the email to my boss and the owner with this note:

    “FYI

    Also, WOOHOO!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opk4x7jzRS4

    We’ll see where that goes.

  456. So now he’s just giving me some veggies.

    Does that not work? ‘Cuz I don’t know how to cook these things.

  457. Should I bother seeing the movie The Watch? Where’s Clint?

  458. Just want to point out that my waterlily from Laure is still alive, and Dave’s is dead.

    So why is he the cool guy that all the girls like?

  459. Do you guys know my legal obligation to support gay marriage?

  460. Mare, do you like Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn movies? We’re waiting to watch it. I was more excited before I found out the alien angle.

  461. Is wearing a T-Shirt that says “I support traditional marriage” a hate crime or an offshoot of my free speech rights.

    And no, I don’t have a T-Shirt that says that, just curious.

  462. Oso, you haven’t been around much, what have you been up to?

    I think I’ll wait too.

  463. I often like things explained to me so here goes; What the FF is not firing within this guys head to say, “we tried our plan and it worked?”

  464. I’m usually working while you guys are chatting.

  465. From Mare’s link up there :

    The report, released Tuesday, comes 18 months after a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that billions of taxpayer dollars are being poured into job training programs that benefit those who run them, not the unemployed workers they are supposed to assist.

    Isn’t that what I told you last week? Every time dems mention jobs programs I wanna go on a 57 state killing spree.

  466. Mare, he’s all about “trying”. It worked as much as the Evil Republicans let it work. We’re too dumb to see the brilliance of JEF. SQUIRREL!!!

  467. Mare, you ask too many questions.

    Oh, and raise your hand.

  468. I often like things explained to me so here goes; What the FF is not firing within this guys head to say, “we tried our plan and it worked?”

    He stopped short with that sentence. “We tried our plan and it worked FOR ME” is the complete line.

  469. Plus now he says he was talking about Clinton’s programs. Where is this great orator of our time? Every time he speaks he has to go online and explain what he says.

    Good thing MSDNC is there to help him.

  470. What the FF is not firing within this guys head to say, “we tried our plan and it worked?”

    The problem is that there is no baseline that is objectively knowable. So he can easily say “it would have been worse without me,” which is a statement that is both unproved and unprovable.

  471. Dan goes to a local strip mall barber to get his hair cut. Last month, the street in front of the barber shop was torn up for median beautification. Almost impossible to get there. Yesterday, city was working on curb enhancement in front of the barber shop. At least all the chairs were empty and Dan didn’t have to wait/

  472. I mean, Adolph Hitler could claim from his grave that he made Germany a better nation, and nobody can refute him.

  473. I see Michelle Ogabe managed to make her address to the U.S. athletes this AM all about her.

  474. I know, that I know, that I know, that they have meetings at the WH and say things like, “just make up shit if you have to, Carney will bumble and mumble enough to confuse everyone, MSNBC, will, like sheep, take our side and make fools of themselves for our benefit, and the majority of the US isn’t paying attention so don’t worry about what you say.”

  475. Oh shit, I just broke Godwin’s Law.

  476. And then Obama says, “Okay, great, because I have no idea what I’m doing.”

    And then Axeldouche says, “We know, it’s okay, after the election you can vacation and golf again, and the Harvard swells will restart their policy wonking.”

  477. the Harvard swells will restart their policy wonking

    *hat tip*

    That was funny, and well written.

  478. You didn’t break the law, you validated it.

    *bills $200 for legal advice*

    Thanks Government Roads!

  479. jimgeraghty ‏@jimgeraghty

    Remember, this president is particularly bothered by business owners thinking of themselves as smart and hard-working.

    Retweeted by Jim Treacher

  480. Got to go vote for Ted Cruz!

  481. Mmmmmm……government roads……..

  482. New post.

  483. I’ll say it again — I think I have invented the best fast-and-easy breakfast ever.

    It consists of:

    1. Honey Nut Cheerios (do not settle for an off brand, or regular Cheerios)
    2. Sliced banana
    3. Blueberries
    4. Milk (real milk, only wusses buy that 2% crap)

    To prepare, put that stuff together in a bowl.

  484. Too many carbs.

  485. I think I have invented the best fast-and-easy breakfast ever.

    Beer
    Repeat

  486. http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/cnns-jim-walton-resigns_b79823

    Wanna bet on how long before he takes a position in the democrat party political machine?


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