Christmas Jazz: Keith Jarrett Trio, “Never Let Me Go”
Recorded live in Tokyo, March 30, 1996 at Hitomi Memorial Hall
Keith Jarrett (p)
Gary Peacock (b)
Jack DeJohnette (d)
Recorded live in Tokyo, March 30, 1996 at Hitomi Memorial Hall
Keith Jarrett (p)
Gary Peacock (b)
Jack DeJohnette (d)
Reposting from dead thread:
Trump is on a Twitter binge. I actually find it kind of sad. If he had any truly loving people in his life, instead of marrying trophy wives and surrounding himself with sycophants, he’d be a much happier, much less bitter old man.
@realDonaldTrump are you really posting on Twitter twice an hour on XMas day? It must be so lonely being you.
— Unabogie (@Unabogie) December 25, 2015
— Staunch Atheist (@StaunchA) December 25, 2015
Speaking of pathetic, there was a bizarre Pamela Geller love fest going on over at her blog last night. I usually try to avoid her poisonous spewing, but I was curious to see if she could wish people Merry Christmas without trashing Muslims (no, of course not—silly of me to even consider the possibility that she might give it a rest for a few hours). Anyway, I don’t usually read comments, but I was drinking some Mexican hot chocolate and it made me feel like I could handle anything. It was hard to choose the most pathological one, but I think this one wins the prize (emphasis added)1:
chris wolf Craig Doriot • 18 hours ago
That’s very well and sincerely said.
God the Father watches as Pamela Geller walks in his path of righteousness and fights for the truth and light and good in this world as he knows we must.
I never feel so flattered and full in my heart as when I hear great, wise Jewish men and women like Mark Levine, Michael Savage and Pamela Geller praise Christianity and reach out to us as Christians. We have our faith only by way of theirs. We have a common ancestry, common values and a great Judeo-Christian society to defend — together.
Great, wise Jewish men and women… move over Maimonides! Yeah, I’m, still cleaning the hot chocolate off my monitor. //
1. The name of the blog post is “Merry Christmas Eve”. Not gonna link to it, but you can easily find it via Google if you’re feeling masochistic.
Alabama peeps:
5:00pm - Radar now CONFIRMS tornado w/debris near MIDFIELD, AL. Take shelter now Birmingham Homewood Mountain Brook pic.twitter.com/EPgi8ekGpN
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) December 25, 2015
re: #4 CuriousLurker
“wise Jewish men and women like Mark Levine, Michael Savage and Pamela Geller…”
More like the 3 stooges, especially Wiener-Savage. I would nominate Levin as the least crazy of the trio but that’s like being the anthrax letter with the least powder.
re: #7 Shiplord Kirel
More like the 3 stooges, especially Wiener-Savage. I would nominate Levin as the least crazy of the trio but that’s like being the anthrax letter with the least powder.
LOL, perfect analogy!
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I’m sometimes tempted to post something like this here when I see one of these mistakes ;)
GUNS for Christmas….. Sounds like a flippin’ war zone around here……
re: #4 CuriousLurker
These people have been getting more and more insane for years. I keep expecting them to just melt down into a stinky puddle of white supremacist glop.
It was the best decision I ever made to run screaming away from Geller, Spencer and their fellow travelers.
5:11pm CST: Birmingham, AL airport air traffic control is evacuating due to confirmed tornado moving through south side of city. #alwx
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) December 25, 2015
I think I’m gonna go watch a move.
Have a good night, everyone.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
These people have been getting more and more insane for years. I keep expecting them to just melt down into a stinky puddle of white supremacist glop.
It was the best decision I ever made to run screaming away from Geller, Spencer and their fellow travelers.
A lot of Lizards molted and became snakes, but jeez, you made the right call. What shocks me is how many still e-stalk you.
My friends Brooke and CK have sent me a pic of themselves on the beach in balmy Atlantic City today, while I am in Lubbock helping the locals prepare for the worst blizzard in 30 years. My daughter and I are at my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house for Christmas. They have sort of adopted us in recent years, poor waifs that we are. They are in their 80s and absolutely lovely people. We are well prepared, with propane stuff and a multi-fuel generator. Stocking up on food for an event like this is kind of silly unless you are low to start with, since the storm is not likely to shut down all transport for more than a couple of days at the extreme worst. The worst part will be the usual blog and radio suspects yukking it up about “gorebull warming,” not realizing that a single storm does not a trend make, and the long term trend in this part of the country is toward decidedly warmer winters. Fortunately, the aunt and uncle are enlightened people so we will not have to endure this nonsense in person.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
These people have been getting more and more insane for years. I keep expecting them to just melt down into a stinky puddle of white supremacist glop.
It was the best decision I ever made to run screaming away from Geller, Spencer and their fellow travelers.
But what ever led you to align yourself with them in the first place? Not trying to badger you, but I used to avoid this place like the plague because of the things I read here, and even though I never agreed with the right wing about issues, their racism has been around since William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, and Pat Buchanan.
Serious question.
re: #11 Dave In Austin
GUNS for Christmas….. Sounds like a flippin’ war zone around here……
You’ll take your eye out!
From Barry Ritholtiz’s site The Big Picture on the resurgence of vinyl:
re: #21 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey come on now, there is some music that only sounds right on Vinyl…
Spent two hours talking music with the night clerk at our motel last night, which just made me realize how much I miss having friends to talk about that kind of stuff with at home.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Hey come on now, there is some music that only sounds right on Vinyl…
Yeah, The Archies.
Bone-in spiral ham
Roasted asparagus
Cheddar scallop potatoes
Ham was amazing. Came pre-glazed in the wrapping but I rubbed it lightly with yellow mustard so the general purpose pork rub I use would stick. Only an 8 lb’er since it’s just the folks and I. Still a bunch of leftovers. Vacuum sealed and frozen. Saved the bone for soup.
Got a bunch of Hallmark Star Wars/Star Trek ornaments for the tree next year. Mom can’t object since she’s the one that got them for me.
Nice and quiet day with phone calls from the out-of-state immediate family. I’m not complaining.
Hoping everyone else has had a nice day too. :)
re: #25 GlutenFreeJesus
Bone-in spiral ham
Roasted asparagus
Cheddar scallop potatoesHam was amazing. Came pre-glazed in the wrapping but I rubbed it lightly with yellow mustard so the general purpose pork rub I use would stick. Only an 8 lb’er since it’s just the folks and I. Still a bunch of leftovers. Vacuum sealed and frozen. Saved the bone for soup.
Got a bunch of Hallmark Star Wars/Star Trek ornaments for the tree next year. Mom can’t object since she’s the one that got them for me.
Nice and quiet day with phone calls from the out-of-state immediate family. I’m not complaining.
Hoping everyone else has had a nice day too. :)
Ham n Bean soup….mmmmmmmmmmm
We failed Festivus and aired our gratitudes today
re: #26 PT Barnum
That and split pea. Definitely on the horizon. :)
re: #19 Unabogie
The 9/11 attacks were a real shock to me, and I was trying to understand the forces that led to them. People like Robert Spencer presented themselves at that time as reasonable critics of radical Islam, and seemed to reject extremism and bigotry, but there was a point at which I understood it was a consciously deceptive facade - when I realized they were making alliances with outright fascists in Europe. Spencer tried to deny this for a while, but when his fascist allies called him on it and made him take a stand he couldn’t hide it any more - and I wanted absolutely nothing to do with people like that.
It was a learning experience.
Well I got mountains of goodies today but thanks to a canker sore that has a death grip on the underside of my tongue, I have been unable to enjoy them. Even eating the ham and mashed potatoes at dinner was a chore.
re: #6 CuriousLurker
I hope DD isn’t in its path.
IIRC, DD is way south of B’ham and lives closer to Troy and Enterprise.
re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg
Hey come on now, there is some music that only sounds right on Vinyl…
If it was pressed on virgin vinyl, the master was done at half-speed and the stampers were replaced after 40,000 pressings maybe I could agree.
But then you run into the nasty non-linearity of the RIAA equalization curve, and the sad reality is the quality of mass-produced vinyl pressed before CD’s came online was horrid.
And I mean REAL horrid. When the sound of the reground vinyl is louder than the tape hiss of the recording, that’s bad.
re: #32 Decatur Deb
No, but Daughter2 and Grandson1 are in the cone.
Yeah, I’ve got friends in Pelham and Calera, which sounds to be south of this, but still makes me worry.
I hope your daughter and grandson are OK.
re: #32 Decatur Deb
No, but Daughter2 and Grandson1 are in the cone.
Storm appears to have run south of the southern ridge through Mountain Brook and the airport. My cousin Sandra lives in Mountain Brook. Damn.
re: #33 Eric The Fruit Bat
If it was pressed on virgin vinyl, the master was done at half-speed and the stampers were replaced after 40,000 pressings maybe I could agree.
But then you run into the nasty non-linearity of the RIAA equalization curve, and the sad reality is the quality of mass-produced vinyl pressed before CD’s came online was horrid.
Waiting for the resurgence of cassette tape.
re: #35 austin_blue
Storm appears to have run south of the southern ridge through Mountain Brook and the airport. My cousin Sandra lives in Mountain Brook. Damn.
High-rent district.
re: #36 Decatur Deb
Waiting for the resurgence of cassette tape.
re: #38 Eric The Fruit Bat
“But audiophiles refuse to be deterred, preferring “the warmth and presence in an analog recording that you will not hear in the digital recording,”
Gotta sell these folks some re-bottled box wine.
re: #37 Decatur Deb
High-rent district.
She and her husband bought the smallest house in MB back in 1978 so their daughter could go the school system there. Turned out to be one hell of an investment.
NWS has let the Birmingham warning lapse (for now).
re: #42 austin_blue
Any news?
Not from family—they’ve been texting. Dog is losing its mind. The worst of it stayed NW of I-59, from the radars.
re: #43 Decatur Deb
Not from family—they’ve been texting. Dog is losing its mind. The worst of it stayed NW of I-59, from the radars.
Good! Looked scary there for a while. When the FAA evacuates the airport tower…
Typical Christmas. The microwave oven committed suicide on Christmas eve just when my wife needed it to prepare some christmas goodies. Of course neither of us had a microwave on our wish lists. Hope the stores still have some on sale tomorrow.
re: #47 Decatur Deb
Who in the hell deliberately releases hours of bloopers and re-takes?
You know, I’m not sure it was a bad idea. I think Cruz is slime, but that video is cute and funny and shows people acting like real people around him.
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
Well I got mountains of goodies today but thanks to a canker sore that has a death grip on the underside of my tongue, I have been unable to enjoy them. Even eating the ham and mashed potatoes at dinner was a chore.
my sympathies. I had a tummy bug a few years ago that wrecked christmas treats for me
I’m thankful for Charles turning me onto Jarrett. Which led me back to a Joe Jackson reminisce.
Lizards. Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Sleep well and may the deity of your choice smile down upon you.
re: #51 Bubblehead II
Lizards. Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Sleep well and may the deity of your choice smile down upon you.
Aaaand… a drop of pasta water just plopped on the top of my head.
re: #47 Decatur Deb
Citizens United. Seriously.
Evening Lizardim from wingnut central. I’ve already had the awkward political talk with papa fish, so here’s hoping most of the rest of the week is peaceful. How go things among the lizardfolk?
And of course, Merry Christmas to my scaly friends here. Y’all are awesome.
After you’ve opened all your Christmas cards from distant relatives. pic.twitter.com/VGRPeRYJSB
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) December 26, 2015
Merry Christmas, Lizards!
re: #54 thedopefishlives
Guess the Eastern folks are finished with dinner and either sacked out or running around the block trying to work off all the goodies they consumed. The West gang maynbe getting set to partake in their dinner.
Christmas is a great time to remember that not all of your relatives are family, and not all your family are relatives.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 26, 2015
re: #24 PT Barnum
Yeah, The Archies.
Sugar, sugar, honey, honey.
You are my candy girl and you got me wanting you
46 years after that p.o.s. came out and I still can remember its lyrics. God, I need help!
Merry Christmas Lizards! Thank you for helping me stay sane, or at least somewhat sane. I love you all.
Thank you Charles for this island of reality. It’s a wonderful thing.
The only trivia from imdb’s trivia page for Will Zens’ cheaper than cheap-o Capture That Capsule, aka (by nobody excepting maybe Quentin Tarantino’s nerdier cousin, Quark Tarantino) Spy Squad (1961):
This movie has a two minute long car chase sequence that has no dialogue, no music, and only one car in it.
“Hey, I’m spy squadin’ here!”
“You know something, Frank, these c-sticks do smell better than burning flesh.”
re: #61 De Kolta Chair
The only trivia from imdb’s trivia page for Will Zens’ cheaper than cheap-o Capture That Capsule, aka (by nobody excepting maybe Quentin Tarantino’s nerdier cousin, Quark) Spy Squad (1961):
I remember watching this with my dad, had to be 50+ years ago. Dad sad it was so bad he had to scrape the Velveeta off the picture tube…
re: #62 Joe Bacon
I remember watching this with my dad, had to be 50+ years ago. Dad sad it was so bad he had to scrape the Velveeta off the picture tube…
LOL Do you recall where you saw it? Theater or drive-in?
re: #63 De Kolta Chair
LOL Do you recall where you saw it? Theater or drive-in?
It was on TV! The Early Show on KDKA 2 Pittsburgh! Damn, I remember the scene where a guy keeps stamping on the hand of a swimmer and you know it’s fake! Then the scene where a guy is holding the knife in his belly pretending he’s stabbed with no blood…
I’m going to watch A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sims this evening. I love that version, but the climactic scene where Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day has lost some of it’s magic once I noticed that the mirror Scrooge looks into reflects one of the film crew standing off set wearing a white shirt and tie. Impossible to unsee once you know it’s there.
re: #64 Joe Bacon
It was on TV! The Early Show on KDKA 2 Pittsburgh! Damn, I remember the scene where a guy keeps stamping on the hand of a swimmer and you know it’s fake! Then the scene where a guy is holding the knife in his belly pretending he’s stabbed with no blood…
Oh my, I have got to see that! ;-)
Btw, I only brought it up because I watched MST3K’s riff of Zens’ equally awful The Starfighters this morning. Air Force folks might get a kitschy kick out of it.
Hey, kids:
Hope everyone has a great Christmas Day, even if you didn’t get the cybernetic Tyrannosaurus with laser beam eyes and nuclear-powered rocket thrusters you asked for.
Not that I’m bitter…
re: #61 De Kolta Chair
I look at these pictures and all I can think is Radar Secret Service.
re: #67 Joe Bacon
The absolute worst movie I ever saw was The Phynx. Mom, Dad and I were watching it and doing MST3K riffing on it all the way through when it was on TV in the early 70s. If you think I’m kidding, Pay to watch it.
I vaguely recall that one. Didn’t it have lots of old movie stars working for scale, bless their hearts?
re: #71 De Kolta Chair
I vaguely recall that one. Didn’t it have lots of old movie stars?
Yes it did. Mom kept saying, “…so X needs $100 that baaaaaaaaaaaad”.
re: #70 Feline Fearless Leader
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Niece got this photo last night while the sun was setting. Lights, cat, city, etc.
LOL, I’m such a nerd. I know exactly which skyscraper that is.
Great photo, BTW. Merry Christmas!
Was it George Orwell who wrote “If you want a vision of the future, imagine the Twilight Zone episode ‘The Midnight Sun’ running on an endless loop forever, only without the twist ending”?
re: #72 Joe Bacon
Yes it did. Mom kept saying, “…so X needs $100 that baaaaaaaaaaaad”.
I just looked it up on imdb. Practically everybody who was anybody at one time was in that! Hope the checks cleared.
re: #70 Feline Fearless Leader
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Niece got this photo last night while the sun was setting. Lights, cat, city, etc.
You should let the cat in, must be cold outside!
re: #66 De Kolta Chair
Oh my, I have got to see that! ;-)
Btw, I only brought it up because I watched MST3K’s riff of Zens’ equally awful The Starfighters this morning. Air Force folks might get a kitschy kick out of it.
Also known as the public debut of (future) Congressman “B-1 Bob” Dornan.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad.
re: #77 TedStriker
Also known as the public debut of (future) Congressman “B-1 Bob” Dornan.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad.
On the bright side, it’s a lot (a lot) better than Bob Dornan himself.
“Every time I see Dornan, he looks like he needs a rabies shot.” — Bill Clinton
Trump fans.
LMAO 😂😂😂 this is the world’s biggest idiot https://t.co/CPRXctQCNF
— Samuel Erwin (@deadawg120) December 26, 2015
For those who thought Mitt Romney’s sons weren’t creepy enough…
Tax Abatement Trump and his brother Chapter 11 Trump
@Green_Footballs please tell me all about how following our national immigration laws and abiding by the USC title 8 sec 1182 is extremism
— Samuel Erwin (@deadawg120) December 26, 2015
Molly sad to discover Santa doesn’t bring Things of Evil presents. So I gave her this ribbon. pic.twitter.com/zoSYOM1qzN
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 26, 2015
@StephenKing I sense her plotting to even the score.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
Worst movie I ever saw, huh?
How about “Arthur”?
Didn’t see Arthur 2.
Speaking of movies, I was always disappointed that they never continued the Austin Powers line just because Goldmember sucked. There was an awful lot they could have done with those characters.
My nephew gave me a cool Game of Thrones t-shirt for Xmas, which I’ll wear when we see Star Wars this weekend. (He’s already seen it four times.)
NWS tweeted out my flowering quince is confused on Christmas Day photo:
Plants are a little confused by this unseasonably warm December and Christmas! Thanks @justafarmer4 and @plasma1. pic.twitter.com/0aIlGCzXKr
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) December 25, 2015
re: #86 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Speaking of movies, I was always disappointed that they never continued the Austin Powers line just because Goldmember sucked. There was an awful lot they could have done with those characters.
Yeah, I was hoping for…Thundershag…You Only Shag Twice…Shag and Let Die…The Man With The Golden Shag…
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I must tell the truth: My friend Barbara gave her that ribbon. I DID give her a pat.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 26, 2015
Good grief. Just stop. https://t.co/SjUtbrJS4x
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
re: #89 Joe Bacon
I’d ding you but it seems my dinger buttons are broken. I get kicked out to the front page. Speaking of AP, they could have also gotten another actor to take over the role and had a Sean Connery/Roger Moore dynamic. I think Steve Carrell would have made a good Austin Powers.
re: #85 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Worst movie I ever saw, huh?
How about “Arthur”?
2016 Christmas Card List:
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
re: #89 Joe Bacon
Yeah, I was hoping for…Thundershag…
I hated hated hated Fat Bastard, who was obesely unfunny, pardon the pun. Maybe next time a prequel about Sir Nigel Powers’ early years?
re: #93 Usually refered to as anyways
LOL! It was a close run race to the bottom between Arthur and Pretty Woman.
re: #94 De Kolta Chair
I hated hated hated Fat Bastard, who was obesely unfunny, pardon the pun. Maybe next time a prequel about Sir Nigel Powers’ early years?
Get. In. My. Belly!
Worst movie I’ve seen in the past ten years — Adam Sandler’s remake of The Longest Yard. I can’t bring myself to make fun of it, it was that bad.
re: #94 De Kolta Chair
I think sometimes people fall in love with a character and try to force it into a movie. As bad as FB was I thin Mini Me was great. (loved the lunar fight scene)
re: #95 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
LOL! It was a close run race to the bottom between Arthur and Pretty Woman.
Do a deal we can go with Pretty Woman, and you can be on a three month good behaviour bond.
What’s with Arthur?
I thought John Gielgud played a great part.
I think because in many ways he reminded me of my Grandfather.
re: #98 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I think sometimes people fall in love with a character and try to force it into a movie. As bad as FB was I thin Mini Me was great. (loved the lunar fight scene)
Okay, that made me laugh out loud. And great use of set design.
Uncle who accidentally shot 2yo niece in face this AM while cleaning gun… had gotten cleaning kit for Xmas https://t.co/Zubt0Z6phc #GunFAIL
— David Waldman (@KagroX) December 26, 2015
I think Kenny’s having another acid flashback. @thehill
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
re: #100 Usually refered to as anyways
My beef with Arthur was the whole drunken playboy thing. Arthur was utterly incapable of anything. I just hated the character and couldn’t get into the movie at all. I’ve seen movies with bad plots, bad acting, bad jokes, but never left a movie as annoyed as I did with Arthur. Heck as disgusted as I was with the premise of Pretty Woman, the characters had some redeeming qualities and the things they did made some sort of sense.
. @LaFayJJL @pharris830 @Letha_Hughes @jojokejohn @stphil @Astorix23 “@DigitalTourBus: What did Santa bring you? pic.twitter.com/9us9PEWy7D”
— patricia (@pppatticake) December 26, 2015
re: #65 stpaulbear
I’m going to watch A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sims this evening. I love that version, but the climactic scene where Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day has lost some of it’s magic once I noticed that the mirror Scrooge looks into reflects one of the film crew standing off set wearing a white shirt and tie. Impossible to unsee once you know it’s there.
Curses! I was going to watch it today. Now I’m going to be thinking about the guy in the mirror all through the movie. The Ghost of Stagehands Past.
I love this version, too. The Patrick Stewart TV version from 1999 vies with the Alastair Sim version for my favorite movie treatment. The Stewart version uses dialogue from Dickens’ novella, word for word. I’ll see how close the Sim version follows the book’s dialogue.
re: #100 Usually refered to as anyways
I think because in many ways he reminded me of my Grandfather.
John Gielgud reminded you of your grandfather?
//// Sir John was great in that. Won an Oscar for it, as I recall.
re: #70 Feline Fearless Leader
Is the deer head wearing a hat?
HOLY CENSORED!
I have to change what I thought was the worst movie I ever saw. I just started watching Sandler’s latest, The Ridiculous Six on Netflix. Saying it’s awful is an understatement…
re: #109 Joe Bacon
Maybe Adam Sandler should have a division all to himself.
re: #110 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Maybe Adam Sandler should have a division all to himself.
My jaw is dropping from the blatant racist stereotyping! This movie is a CENSORED train wreck!
re: #108 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Is the deer head wearing a hat?
Yes. My brother tossed one up there. It was a Christmas present.
re: #103 Charles Johnson
Apparently he does not know when to walk away. Just like when he decided to donate his face to science.
re: #111 Joe Bacon
Could be worse-Adult Swim ran a series called Minoriteam:
The plot of the show revolves around five male superheroes, each of whom is based on a racial or ethnic stereotype, who join forces to fight against a bunch of villains who are mostly discriminatory concepts. The show’s artwork is largely an homage to Jack Kirby (“King Kirby” is thanked in the show’s end credits), while the animation style parodies the limited animation of the Marvel Super Heroes Show of 1966. The opening tag declaring that Minoriteam is broadcast “FULLY COLORED” is both a racial reference and an homage to the “IN COLOR” or “IN TECHNICOLOR” line opening many old cartoons.
re: #107 De Kolta Chair
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//// Sir John was great in that. Won an Oscar for it, as I recall.
Best actor in a supporting role.
My Grand Father was British, worked in India he was one of the big wigs for British Rail, immigrated to Australia in 1948. My father was 10-11 at the time.
My Grand Father was immaculately dressed ‘for breakfast’.
Growing up, he would write my sister and I a letter each week, and when we replied he would send our letters back with grammar and spelling corrected in red ink.
There was nothing he wouldn’t do for us.
I never heard him swear, and he always spoke the Queens English.
re: #114 Eric The Fruit Bat
Could be worse-Adult Swim ran a series called Minoriteam:
I think I’m in love with a show I’ve never heard of. How’d I miss that??????? //
re: #111 Joe Bacon
My jaw is dropping from the blatant racist stereotyping! This movie is a CENSORED train wreck!
We can say ‘fucking’ here.
@WesleyLowery This is the right wing journalism business model at work.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
Not just being snarky. Many right wing media sites have made a conscious decision to encourage the racist RW base for business reasons.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
re: #117 b_sharp
We can say ‘fucking’ here.
Honestly, the F word is too good for this pile of dog turds!
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another human sacrifice to water the tree of liberty.
Arson suspected at Bill Clinton ‘s birthplace.
A fire at former US President Bill Clinton’s childhood home in Arkansas is believed to have been caused by arson, officials say.
They say the blaze in the city of Hope slightly damaged one interior room before it was extinguished.
Arson is suspected because accelerant was detected at the scene. Graffiti is also being examined.
Mr Clinton spent his first years in the house, which was designated a National Historic Site in 2011.
It’s the driving force behind the Trump campaign: the clear-eyed recognition that racists & xenophobes are a huge part of the RW base.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
re: #120 Joe Bacon
Honestly, the F word is too good for this pile of dog turds!
Just saying that a bit of creative profanity isn’t looked down on here.
re: #115 Usually refered to as anyways
My Grand Father was British, worked in India he was one of the big wigs for British Rail, immigrated to Australia in 1948. My father was 10-11 at the time.
Your grandda sounds like he led an interesting life.
re: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Curses! I was going to watch it today. Now I’m going to be thinking about the guy in the mirror all through the movie. The Ghost of Stagehands Past.
I love this version, too. The Patrick Stewart TV version from 1999 vies with the Alastair Sim version for my favorite movie treatment. The Stewart version uses dialogue from Dickens’ novella, word for word. I’ll see how close the Sim version follows the book’s dialogue.
IMO, one of the best screen adaptations of “A Christmas Carol” would have to be Scrooged.
Bill Murray (and pretty much his whole real-life family), Alfre Woodard, and a hell of a ensemble cast make it for me.
And it’s also the driving force behind sites like Daily Caller and Breitbart “News,” that directly appeal to racists and xenophobes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
re: #123 Charles Johnson
It’s the driving force behind the Trump campaign: the clear-eyed recognition that racists & xenophobes are a huge part of the RW base.
re: #127 Charles Johnson
And it’s also the driving force behind sites like Daily Caller and Breitbart “News,” that directly appeal to racists and xenophobes.
American Psychological Association Designates “Trump’s Syndrome”
inability to stop spouting rude and ignorant crap even on christmas day said to spreading so fast it’ll make your head spin
Happy Christmas one more time!
I worked seven hours at the ski shop and skied for two hours. I skied my favorite in-bounds aspen glade today and it was on point. I couldn’t hear my skis through most of the forest. Very very nice Christmas day turns today. It snowed on and off all day, a genuine White Christmas.
The owners of the shop bought all the employees and their friends a ham dinner with all the fixings. Nothing like tuning skis while stuffing yourself with a Christmas dinner courtesy of the paycheck signers!
Did I say the skiing was good? Four of the runs I did today made it the Best Christmas Ever!
re: #128 FormerDirtDart
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We should collect a list of bigoted Ayn Rand quotes and pass them around as “Chucky C. Johnson’s favorite Ayn Rand quotes”. However UpChuck reacted, the freakout would be amusing.
re: #128 FormerDirtDart
In Ayn Rand’s defense (?), she was just mimicking Winston Churchill’s imperialist racism. Jeez, she couldn’t even be original being an asshole!
re: #131 Dark_Falcon
We should collect a list of bigoted Ayn Rand quotes and pass them around as “Chucky C. Johnson’s favorite Ayn Rand quotes”. However UpChuck reacted, the freakout would be amusing.
You would need to find one he objected to first.
re: #126 TedStriker
IMO, one of the best screen adaptations of “A Christmas Carol” would have to be Scrooged.
Bill Murray (and pretty much his whole real-life family), Alfre Woodard, and a hell of a ensemble cast make it for me.
Bill Murray’s speech at the end of Scrooged gets me all Niagara Falls every time I see it; for me, it’s probably one of the most powerful moments on film:
What a bummer Christmas Eve for those poor 80 skiers.
Once upon a time a guy tweeted this tweet and now he leads the GOP race for president by ~20 points. The End. pic.twitter.com/Wy6h9239Hn
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 26, 2015
Trump: “Last night I dreamt 3 ghosts visited me and then I was such a loser I helped a family in need. What a nightmare!”
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 25, 2015
re: #29 Charles Johnson
The 9/11 attacks were a real shock to me, and I was trying to understand the forces that led to them. People like Robert Spencer presented themselves at that time as reasonable critics of radical Islam, and seemed to reject extremism and bigotry, but there was a point at which I understood it was a consciously deceptive facade - when I realized they were making alliances with outright fascists in Europe. Spencer tried to deny this for a while, but when his fascist allies called him on it and made him take a stand he couldn’t hide it any more - and I wanted absolutely nothing to do with people like that.
It was a learning experience.
Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the honest answer. Glad you found your way on this.
re: #103 Charles Johnson
Apparently Kenny Rogers does NOT know when to run…go figure.
Well we do have rare clear crisp clean air tonight in Los Angeles. Almost perfect viewing for the full moon tonight just windy so the air softens the shot a bit. . Paged but wanted to share this one here
re: #130 teleskiguy
Did you get to see your lady skier friend today?
Will not see the full moon here. NWS thinks snow will start here in less than hour.
The great thing about this tweet is both my British step-family and my Irish relatives will think this is funny, though for totally different reasons:
I over-cooked the hell out of a roast today which made it spot on perfect for my English in-laws (nailed the Yorkshire puddings though.)
— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) December 26, 2015
re: #132 De Kolta Chair
In Ayn Rand’s defense (?), she was just mimicking Winston Churchill’s imperialist racism. Jeez, she couldn’t even be original being an asshole!
His utter disdain of the “fuzzies” was one of the less enlighted aspects of his character, but again, different times. His racism was not particularly remarkable in the society he inhabited, it was pretty much the status quo.
A fascinating map based on a peer-reviewed CDC paper.
re: #131 Dark_Falcon
They would also apply to the Speaker of the House as well, Dark.
re: #147 teleskiguy
A fascinating map based on a peer-reviewed CDC paper.
What do they mean by distinctive?
re: #146 ausador
His utter disdain of the “fuzzies” was one of the less enlighted aspects of his character, but again, different times. His racism was not particularly remarkable in the society he inhabited, it was pretty much the status quo.
I see your point, but must disagree. Churchill had many friends who told him he was a backward-thinking colonial dinosaur. Not everyone in his day was a moron; far from it in Great Britain.
Which, come to think of it, is one of the things I like about Churchill, in that he had and kept friends who would say that to his face, unlike a lot of folks in his class.
re: #149 b_sharp
What do they mean by distinctive?
The resulting map depicts a variety of distinctive causes of death based on a wide range of number of deaths, from 15,000 deaths from HIV in Florida to 679 deaths from tuberculosis in Texas to 22 deaths from syphilis in Louisiana. The largest number of deaths mapped were the 37,292 deaths in Michigan from “atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, so described”; the fewest, the 11 deaths in Montana from “acute and rapidly progressive nephritic and nephrotic syndrome.” The state-specific percentage of total deaths mapped ranged from 1.8% (Delaware; atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, so described) to 0.0005% (Illinois, other disorders of kidney).
Some of the findings make intuitive sense (influenza in some northern states, pneumoconioses in coal-mining states, air and water accidents in Alaska and Idaho), while the explanations for others are less immediately apparent (septicemia in New Jersey, deaths by legal intervention in 3 Western states). The highly variable use of codes beginning with “other” between states is also apparent. For example, Oklahoma accounted for 24% of the deaths attributable to “other acute ischemic heart diseases” in the country despite having only slightly more than 1% of the population, resulting in a standardized mortality rate ratio of 19.4 for this cause of death, the highest on the map. The highest standardized mortality rate ratio after Oklahoma was 12.4 for pneumoconioses in West Virginia.
A limitation of this map is that it depicts only 1 distinctive cause of death for each state. All of these were significantly higher than the national rate, but there were many others also significantly higher than the national rate that were not mapped. The map is also predisposed to showing rare causes of death — for 22 of the states, the total number of deaths mapped was under 100. Using broader cause-of-death categories or requiring a higher threshold for the number of deaths would result in a different map. These limitations are characteristic of maps generally and are why these maps are best regarded as snapshots and not comprehensive statistical summaries
re: #152 Belafon
I want a bass guitar so bad. I have electric and acoustic guitars. No bass. I’ve wanted a bass for years. Every time I visit my musician friends in Denver the first thing I always do is pick up a bass. Last time I did this a month ago I was still working on my thumb slap technique.
Another asshole who spewed filth on Christmas Eve:
The disloyal slimeball says what? POS Manning isn’t fit to tie Caitlyn Jenner’s shoes.
re: #152 Belafon
I need to find an inexpensive amp.
“What this country needs is a good five-watt amplifier.” —Paul W. Klipsch
re: #153 teleskiguy
I want a bass guitar so bad. I have electric and acoustic guitars. No bass. I’ve wanted a bass for years. Every time I visit my musician friends in Denver the first thing I always do is pick up a bass. Last time I did this a month ago I was still working on my thumb slap technique.
The last string instrument I played was violin about 33 years ago. My dad plays guitar, and I bought my sons mandolins, so I figured someone needs to play bass.
re: #148 Eric The Fruit Bat
They would also apply to the Speaker of the House as well, Dark.
I haven’t seen Paul Ryan associate himself with Rand since 2012. It was made clear to him at that time that Objectivism is not compatible with Catholicism.
re: #153 teleskiguy
I want a bass guitar so bad. I have electric and acoustic guitars. No bass. I’ve wanted a bass for years. Every time I visit my musician friends in Denver the first thing I always do is pick up a bass. Last time I did this a month ago I was still working on my thumb slap technique.
I have one I haven’t looked at for years.
Hundreds of flights cancelled in Beijing on hazy Christmas. Smog to disperse at noon, return on Monday. No kidding. pic.twitter.com/5qVAQEqmki
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) December 26, 2015
re: #152 Belafon
I told my wife I wanted to learn to play bass guitar, and she bought me this:
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I need to find an inexpensive amp.
Nice! Go to Amazon and look up Fender Frontman 10G. Inexpensive but decent beginners solid state amp. Hope you have as much fun as I’ve been having with my guitars!
re: #161 William Lewis
Nice! Go to Amazon and look up Fender Frontman 10G. Inexpensive but decent beginners solid state amp. Hope you have as much fun as I’ve been having with my guitars!
I wish my fingers still worked.
re: #158 Dark_Falcon
I haven’t seen Paul Ryan associate himself with Rand since 2012. It was made clear to him at that time that Objectivism is not compatible with
Catholicismhumanity.
FTFY, though I think in his case he still believes in his goddess rather than in God but has learned to be silent about it for expediency.
re: #160 Eric The Fruit Bat
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I like the innocence of “No kidding.” As if the pollution in China hasn’t been a big story lately. Sorta like tweeting “Shooter decimates school in Anywhere, USA. No kidding.”
re: #161 William Lewis
Nice! Go to Amazon and look up Fender Frontman 10G. Inexpensive but decent beginners solid state amp. Hope you have as much fun as I’ve been having with my guitars!
Not knowing anything about bass, can you use the same amp with both types of guitar?
re: #150 De Kolta Chair
I see your point, but must disagree. Churchill had many friends who told him he was a backward-thinking colonial dinosaur.
Which, come to think of it, is one of the things I like about Churchill, in that he had and kept friends who would say that to his face, unlike a lot of folks in his class.
I think that it is probable that working with the native levies during hostilities with the Boers colored his judgement thereafter. Longer explanation than I want to attempt via phone touchpad…
Great man, yes, racist, absolutely, like many others (Lindberg, etc.) of the time he also had feet of clay. :(
re: #147 teleskiguy
A fascinating map based on a peer-reviewed CDC paper.
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Our AL distinctive cause of death: accidental discharge of firearms.
re: #165 Belafon
Not knowing anything about bass, can you use the same amp with both types of guitar?
IIUC, for low end practice amps, you can. If you get into gigging you’ll want something bass specific.
The Fender Rumble 15 is about $20 more and bass specific though so perhaps that would be a better bet?
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
Hey Teleskiguy,
Have you ever seen that movie ‘Frozen’? NOT the one with Olaf and Elsa, this one:
What self-respecting ski enthusiast hasn’t see “Frozen?”
I thought it was kind of stupid, personally.
re: #169 teleskiguy
What self-respecting ski enthusiast hasn’t see “Frozen?”
I thought it was kind of stupid, personally.
My major complaint with it is what kind of Ski Resort worth its salt would NOT you know, DOUBLE check to make sure the lifts were clear before shutting down? With lawsuits and insurance issues at risk, it seems like a no-brainer. I know obviously that would have defeated the purpose of the movie, but if I’m suspending disbelief on something I like it to be logical whenever possible.
Chuck C. Johnson and the Taliban, on the same page. pic.twitter.com/d7jrhrkPWt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 26, 2015
Spot on…
Just watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the first time this Christmas. Don’t know how I never saw this one before. What a movie!
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 26, 2015
In case you don’t pick up on it, your side is Mr. Potter https://t.co/KHQ75YpP7P
— Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47) December 26, 2015
re: #168 William Lewis
IIUC, for low end practice amps, you can. If you get into gigging you’ll want something bass specific.
The Fender Rumble 15 is about $20 more and bass specific though so perhaps that would be a better bet?
Thanks. I was looking at the Rumble 15. I have a small 10 amp for an electric guitar I have if one of the kids wants to learn to play. If I can plug into that until I can get something bass specific, just to make some sound, that would be nice.
re: #166 ausador
I think that it is probable that working with the native levies during hostilities with the Boers colored his judgement thereafter. Longer explanation than I want to attempt via phone touchpad…
Great man, yes, racist, absolutely, like many others (Lindberg, etc.) of the time he also had feet of clay. :(
Fair cop. And as much as I despise Churchill’s colonial and domestic views over most of his lifetime (don’t get me started on Ireland), for several years, as you know, he and his countryfolk stood up to ultimate evil, and eternal thanks to them. Apropos of that, my late step-mom’s mum died very young from asbestos poisoning working in a factory building bombers, the thought of which is very humbling.
re: #168 William Lewis
William, Sergey found this unpleasant fellow on Twitter. Given your interest in the Spanish Civil War, he might be someone to watch out for online as he is an open admirer of Franco’s Nationalists:
The armed leftist forces then came under attack. The army brought in the feared elite Spanish Legion, which would deal with the communist and Marxist elements in the city. Anyone with even the slightest ties to left-wing groups would be targeted for execution. Years of resentment against leftist arrogance and brutality now swelled to the surface in a fury of retaliatory violence. The Legion attacked the leftist areas of the city, killing anyone who offered the slightest resistance. By July 25, the city was secure.
Although many left-wing historians have decried the violence and alleged brutality that the Legion and its Moorish auxiliaries committed in Seville, the reality is that it was the most efficient way of taking the city and restoring order. Few (if any) historians dwell on the atrocities committed by communist, anarchist, or socialist militias in Spain before and during the outbreak of war. But it happened on a very wide scale, and cannot be denied.
After the city was secure, anyone with ties to the Republican government was thrown in jail. Death sentences were handed out liberally to the unlucky ones tainted by association with left-wing causes. It has been estimated that about three thousand were shot in the first month after the city was taken. Mopping up was done by irregular forces (Civil Guards, Falangists, and militias) in the rest of the province.
The subtext of this passage is clear: “The dirty Commies got what was coming to them!!1” I suppose it was inevitable that the crop of Nazi apologists would produce a Franco apologist, but its still nasty to see.
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
My major complaint with it is what kind of Ski Resort worth its salt would NOT you know, DOUBLE check to make sure the lifts were clear before shutting down? With lawsuits and insurance issues at risk, it seems like a no-brainer. I know obviously that would have defeated the purpose of the movie, but I’m suspending disbelief on something I like it to be logical whenever possible.
Believe it or not, this happened in Vail in the 90s, though it was the skiers’ own damn fault for ducking a rope past closing time.
This hapless skier got on the still-running High Noon lift when nobody was around. About a minute into his ride the lift stopped for the night. Dude ended up jumping a couple of hours after the sun set, broke his back, then proceeded to crawl back to the bottom of lift where he broke into the lift shack and started a fire with a broom that was nearby. Employees found him the next morning sleeping in the shack.
Dude couldn’t sue. He ignored two signs: CLOSED when he ducked the rope and IF LIFT IS RUNNING AND UNATTENDED DO NOT LOAD when he boarded that chairlift.
re: #177 teleskiguy
Yeah, completely self inflicted. Dumbass.
re: #175 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh hell. He would do that, wouldn’t he?
Fucking idiot.
He is in possession of a special kind of stupid.
re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, completely self inflicted. Dumbass.
It was all over the ski magazines in those days. One of those egregious fuck-ups that skiers read about, talk about - and in my case because of some comment on LGF - remember.
I should do a search for an article about that. I’m pretty tired, though.
re: #167 Decatur Deb
accidental discharge of firearms
There is no such thing as an accidental discharge of a firearm.
@realDonaldTrump Yeah, you’ll fix it with another VA budget cut like the one your fellow Republicans just passed!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) December 26, 2015
re: #182 Joe Bacon
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What? I have heard nothing of next year’s budget for DoVA being reduced.
Bernie’s campaign still encouraging DNC conspiracy theories…
This is unbelievable. The Sanders team has lost its damn mind. pic.twitter.com/9dqlRley8d
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) December 26, 2015
re: #181 Eric The Fruit Bat
There is no such thing as an accidental discharge of a firearm.
Take it up with Army Regulation 385-40.
re: #183 Dark_Falcon
What? I have heard nothing of next year’s budget for DoVA being reduced.
re: #176 Dark_Falcon
“The dirty Commies got what was coming to them!!1”
Which ironically was exactly what the commies said about the commies who disagreed with them during the Spanish Civil War. As to that subject, I highly recommend Paul Preston’s The Last Stalinist, one of my top five books of 2015. First-rate history about a third-rate character who did the most atrocious things to defend his third-rate ideology. Fascinating stuff and very well written.
re: #184 ausador
Bernie’s campaign still encouraging DNC conspiracy theories…
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Sanders’ campaign is going off the tracks the same way McGovern’s did in 1972…
Wow, the wind is now really whipping up here in Mid Wilshire! Palm leaves are flying around all over the place! Just had a couple slam against my windows…
re: #185 Decatur Deb
You do realize that documents is the proverbial kitchen sink document, covering just about every kind of accident conceivable?
Tweetcecption?…
uh. what happened here pic.twitter.com/NNGhzhzrsL
— chris hooks (@cd_hooks) December 26, 2015
re: #65 stpaulbear
I’m going to watch A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sims this evening. I love that version, but the climactic scene where Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day has lost some of it’s magic once I noticed that the mirror Scrooge looks into reflects one of the film crew standing off set wearing a white shirt and tie. Impossible to unsee once you know it’s there.
re: #106 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Curses! I was going to watch it today. Now I’m going to be thinking about the guy in the mirror all through the movie. The Ghost of Stagehands Past.
I love this version, too. The Patrick Stewart TV version from 1999 vies with the Alastair Sim version for my favorite movie treatment. The Stewart version uses dialogue from Dickens’ novella, word for word. I’ll see how close the Sim version follows the book’s dialogue.
No, no, no. That’s not a stagehand, it’s the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, admiring his new look now that Scrooge has redeemed himself!
(I have about 13 version of Christmas Carol, and the Sims one is probably my favorite live-action one, and Mr. Magoo the best animation.)
re: #190 Eric The Fruit Bat
You do realize that documents is the proverbial kitchen sink document, covering just about every kind of accident conceivable?
I know far more about that document than I care to remember. Had lunch today with the lady who edited the 1987 version.
Texas mosque fire on Christmas called suspicious https://t.co/qoMaXOdHEj via @usatoday
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 26, 2015
re: #186 Joe Bacon
That’s not actually a budget cut. That’s the president asked for x amount more than last year for the department and Congress decided to allocate a lower amount y. The congressional decisions on where not to increase funding were in large part based on the DoVA’s continued failings. Congress is for example not too willing to allocate monies to hire new staff when the DoVA has yet to hire the staff authorized by the previous budget.
Moreover, for facilities it is entirely possible that Congress is seeing the functions the not-funded new facilities would have provided as already being covered by other non-federal facilities in the area. Understandably, the DoVA would like to keep the funds Congress is allocating for Veteran’s treatment at non-VA facilities within its own system instead, but this sometimes leads to wasteful duplication of services and that’s something Congress is right to try to prevent.
That press release is not the whole story, Joe.
re: #176 Dark_Falcon
Not really a surprise to me. They’ve been there all along, usually camouflaged as supporters of the Pinochet regime. It was always PC to support the Chilean fascists thanks to Nixon but the language was always tying back to admiration of the thugs of nationalist Spain.
Like Orwell, I have no love for what the Soviets did to the Republican cause but the evil that was Franco was no better for anyone.
re: #196 William Lewis
Not really a surprise to me. They’ve been there all along, usually camouflaged as supporters of the Pinochet regime. It was always PC to support the Chilean fascists thanks to Nixon but the language was always tying back to admiration of the thugs of nationalist Spain.
Like Orwell, I have no love for what the Soviets did to the Republican cause but the evil that was Franco was no better for anyone.
Agreed. I just thought it useful to let you know about this schmuck as “Know the Enemy” information. That way if he tries to troll you online, you’ll be forewarned and thus able to cut right through his BS.
re: #191 ausador
Tweetcecption?…
Speaking of James Woods, who can be a superb actor — check out Ted Kotcheff’s badly and sadly overlooked 1985 Canadian film Joshua Then and Now, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America, and his scene-stealing turn in Casino — and yet he’s a compleate asshole, a good friend of mine, born and raised in Tulsa, is a terrific stage actress and a total sweetheart, but years ago we agreed not to talk about politics, not because our views clashed (I have no problem with that), but because when she talks politics it’s literally like listening to a speech over the radio by Mussolini, only not in Italian.
End of that rant, and srsly, check out Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler’s adaptation of his novel. It’s one of those classics that hardly anyone, at least below the 49th parallel, got a chance to see due to bad distribution and marketing. And that asshole James Woods should’ve gotten an Oscar.
I got Elle King’s Love Stuff album as well. Very good.
re: #199 Belafon
I got Elle King’s Love Stuff album as well. Very good.
Nice choice. I like her song, “Playing For Keeps.”
re: #198 De Kolta Chair
Why are you switching gender pronouns? Am I missing something?
re: #201 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
Why are you switching gender pronouns? Am I missing something?
My fault, I miss everything. It’s part of my charm, don’t ya know? ;-[)
Nighty night!
re: #202 De Kolta Chair
Sometimes I look for the missing element. I think something happened while you were typing your post. One “she” is a typo, but it happened repeatedly. Something threw you off of your train of thought and when you came back, you were thinking of somebody else. I’ll bet whatever it was, it lasted around 10 minutes.
Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic
attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the
last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed
tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond
ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of
life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and
the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children
playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is
never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers;
tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his
own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength,
knows that human beings don’t only want comfort,
safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control
and, in general, common sense; they also, at least
intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to
mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However
they may be as economic theories, Fascism and
Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any
hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably
true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All
three of the great dictators have enhanced their power
by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples.
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more
grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good
time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle,
danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation
flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get
sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the
last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation
“Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a good
slogan, but at this moment “Better an end with horror
than a horror without end” is a winner. Now that we
are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought
not to underrate its emotional appeal.
George Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf, 1940.
re: #205 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
This basically predicts ISIS, Donbass and whatever else.
re: #164 De Kolta Chair
I like the innocence of “No kidding.” As if the pollution in China hasn’t been a big story lately. Sorta like tweeting “Shooter decimates school in Anywhere, USA. No kidding.”
To each nation its own way of killing off its own population…
re: #165 Belafon
Not knowing anything about bass, can you use the same amp with both types of guitar?
Only rule of thumb is that if you use a tube amp (rare except among afficionados) you need a separate speaker and amp so that the vibrations do not wreck the tubes.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It’s funny how tube amps have made a rather spectacular comeback in guitar amps but not so much for bass players. My guitar amp is a hand wired tube amp and was less than $350; an equivalent bass amp is much more. I wonder if it really is the vibrations? Or just that there are that many few bass players?
re: #126 TedStriker
IMO, one of the best screen adaptations of “A Christmas Carol” would have to be Scrooged.
Bill Murray (and pretty much his whole real-life family), Alfre Woodard, and a hell of a ensemble cast make it for me.
I like Bill Murray in everything I’ve seen him in.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
To each nation its own way of killing off its own population…
Got a light?
what a pathetic little man:
.@realDonaldTrump trashes reporters and opponents on Christmas Eve https://t.co/vwVPWvLlbp pic.twitter.com/B1AtG1ktzo
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 26, 2015
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
what a pathetic little man:
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This is his beauty pageant. He’s not even going to make Miss Congeniality.
Radiohead released their unreleased Bond Theme for “Spectre” on Soundcloud for Christmas yesterday, and already someone’s put it together with the actual titles for the movie! (Which originally featured Sam Smith singing “Writing’s on the Wall”.)
There doesn’t appear to be any edits in the video, but it syncs up pretty well in general, considering it’s edited to a different song. I expect there will be someone slaving away on their computer today making up a tighter edit. :)
(Note- it’s a Bond Title Sequence for a Cert 12A Bond Movie, so it’s may be NSFW, depending on where you work.)
re: #212 William Lewis
It’s funny how tube amps have made a rather spectacular comeback in guitar amps but not so much for bass players. My guitar amp is a hand wired tube amp and was less than $350; an equivalent bass amp is much more. I wonder if it really is the vibrations? Or just that there are that many few bass players?
I assume that the range of sounds for guitars is a bit broader than that for basses.
re: #223 Romantic Heretic
And then it’s too late.
The sleep of reason produces everything from Hitler to Trump.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
To each nation its own way of killing off its own population…
The US capitalist elite would like to improve their current way, and also strip out some laws so that they can adapt China’s method as well since we were one of the pioneers in it who have since lost their lead.
(Happy Boxing Day everyone!)
Can’t believe you guys talk about bad movies without mentioning the crapfest that is “Skidoo”.
Miserable Preminger plot with hippies, LSD and the mob, it has an ensemble cast of Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney - and in his last movie, Groucho Marx.
re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader
The US capitalist elite would like to improve their current way, and also strip out some laws so that they can adapt China’s method as well since we were one of the pioneers in it who have since lost their lead.
(Happy Boxing Day everyone!)
How about start by making Dec 26th a holiday as well and calling it Domestic Gun Violence Day? Bound to be a hit with all the guns and relatives floating around American households at this time of year…
re: #224 Nyet
The sleep of reason produces everything from Hitler to Trump.
It’s easier to think of Hitler, Trump, Stalin, Attila and the Caesars as normal. The enlightened moments in between are painfully-cultivated aberrations.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
How about start by making Dec 26th a holiday as well and calling it Domestic Gun Violence Day? Bound to be a hit with all the guns and relatives floating around American households at this time of year…
aka “Put Your Annoying Relative in a Box” Day?
Maybe too obvious in its purpose.
re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader
The US capitalist elite would like to improve their current way, and also strip out some laws so that they can adapt China’s method as well since we were one of the pioneers in it who have since lost their lead.
(Happy Boxing Day everyone!)
No, I don’t think they want that. The “capitalist elite” like having cleaner air and rivers that don’t catch fire as much as anyone else. They’re content to leave the dirty stuff in China and are glad its not in the US anymore.
re: #230 Dark_Falcon
No, I don’t think they want that. The “capitalist elite” like having cleaner air and rivers that don’t catch fire as much as anyone else. They’re content to leave the dirty stuff in China and are glad its not in the US anymore.
The elites can afford to relocate to the remaining areas with clean air and water and leave the rest of the toiling masses to choke on smog and drown in sewage.
re: #230 Dark_Falcon
No, I don’t think they want that. The “capitalist elite” like having cleaner air and rivers that don’t catch fire as much as anyone else. They’re content to leave the dirty stuff in China and are glad its not in the US anymore.
Elitia is it’s own place, and those decision-makers are increasingly Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth
Clean water, like in Flint, Michigan…
Or a river that catches fire like the Cuyahoga in Cleveland or the Calumet in Gary…
Shooting at Wynsong Movie Theatre in Mobile. The little orange arrows in the grass are bullet casings @FOX10News pic.twitter.com/WIYsOENBzg
— Kati Weis (@KatiWeis) December 26, 2015
Mobile police now say 4 people injured in shootings at Wynnsong Theater earlier https://t.co/sMzDXQOSaW pic.twitter.com/0BkMFfEZtG
— FOX10News | WALA (@FOX10News) December 26, 2015
Police are looking for two juveniles believed to have shot four people at a Mobile movie theater Christmas night.// https://t.co/sMzDXQOSaW
— FOX10News | WALA (@FOX10News) December 26, 2015
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Or a river that catches fire like the Cuyahoga in Cleveland or the Calumet in Gary…
The industrial elite of smoky Pittsburgh spent a lot of time at their hunting and fishing retreat upstream of Johnstown, until their jury-rigged Galtian dam gave way.
re: #230 Dark_Falcon
No, I don’t think they want that. The “capitalist elite” like having cleaner air and rivers that don’t catch fire as much as anyone else. They’re content to leave the dirty stuff in China and are glad its not in the US anymore.
Until someone asks them to pay for the damages to local water supply after their retaining dam on that coal ash pond fails.
Freedom Industries’ massive chemical spill into the Elk River in W. Va. last year that eventually traveled down the Ohio River resulting in Cincinnati and other cities closing the intakes to protect the city water supplies.
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
Freedom Industries’ massive chemical spill…
That’s trickle-down economics for ya.
re: #237 Feline Fearless Leader
Until someone asks them to pay for the damages to local water supply after their retaining dam on that coal ash pond fails.
Then they just park their assets out of reach and declare bankruptcy…
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Or a river that catches fire like the Cuyahoga in Cleveland or the Calumet in Gary…
The Calumet got help from there being more corporate executives in Chicago, truth to tell. The number of business leaders who attacked BP’s plan to dump mercury into Lake Michigan was important in causing the big energy firm to back off before its plan could even be rejected by the federal government.
Turns out executives don’t like piloting their yachts through polluted water and they don’t want to lose staff to water problems, either. So it is at times possible to maintain standards simply by appealing to the interests of some elites to push back against others. This is actually better than just regulation alone because it causes said elites to support and bind themselves to said regulations.
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
The Calumet got help from there being more corporate executives in Chicago, truth to tell. The number of business leaders who attacked BP’s plan to dump mercury into Lake Michigan was important in causing the big energy firm to back off before its plan could even be rejected by the federal government.
Turns out executives don’t like piloting their yachts through polluted water and they don’t want to lose staff to water problems, either. So it is at times possible to maintain standards simply by appealing to the interests of some elites to push back against others. This is actually better than just regulation alone because it causes said elites to support and bind themselves to said regulations.
It’s better than regulation alone, but without regulation it is pretty hopeless.
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
The Calumet got help from there being more corporate executives in Chicago, truth to tell. The number of business leaders who attacked BP’s plan to dump mercury into Lake Michigan was important in causing the big energy firm to back off before its plan could even be rejected by the federal government.
Turns out executives don’t like piloting their yachts through polluted water and they don’t want to lose staff to water problems, either. So it is at times possible to maintain standards simply by appealing to the interests of some elites to push back against others. This is actually better than just regulation alone because it causes said elites to support and bind themselves to said regulations.
Without regulation that sounds an awful lot like an oligarchy/pseudo-nobility making all the meaningful decisions in their clubs and on the golf course. And I expect their “standards” for the hoi polloi are fairly low, or easily purchased in exchange for a favor or inclusion on a good deal.
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It’s better than regulation alone, but without regulation it is pretty hopeless.
Agreed. The regulations were needed to prevent the dumping, but it was the massive opposition to BP’s plan from every group that mattered that ensured the regulations would not be bent.
re: #198 De Kolta Chair
Yeah, Woods was great in that. Overlooked like Richard Dreyfuss in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
Sadly, my favorite Mordecai Richler novel, Barney’s Version, was turned into an absolute abortion of a movie. So horrid. Who started the rumor that Paul Giamatti can act? But the movies of Kravitz and Joshua were good fun.
re: #246 Not a Sparkly Vampire
How about that cold weather, eh???
52 F here in Philly today. Rained yesterday, and will probably start doing so again this evening.
re: #245 LastYearsMan
Yeah, Woods was great in that. Overlooked like Richard Dreyfuss in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
Sadly, my favorite Mordecai Richler novel, Barney’s Version, was turned into an absolute abortion of a movie. So horrid. Who started the rumor that Paul Giamatti can act? But the movies of Kravitz and Joshua were good fun.
That would be this gentleman.
re: #243 Feline Fearless Leader
Without regulation that sounds an awful lot like an oligarchy/pseudo-nobility making all the meaningful decisions in their clubs and on the golf course. And I expect their “standards” for the hoi polloi are fairly low, or easily purchased in exchange for a favor or inclusion on a good deal.
Yes, that’s why we see so many power plants, mines, landfills and the like in all of the “elite” neighborhoods…
oh, wait….
oops
Semi causes bridge to collapse in Paoli, Ind.: https://t.co/Q2ntVysaAz
— wave3news (@wave3news) December 26, 2015
re: #247 Feline Fearless Leader
52 F here in Philly today. Rained yesterday, and will probably start doing so again this evening.
56 F in Frankfurt and sunny.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
oops
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It looks like the truck was too big and heavy for the bridge, which is very old for an iron bridge:
The iron truss bridge was built in 1880 by the Cleveland Bridge & Iron Company.
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re: #252 Dark_Falcon
It looks like the truck was big and heavy for the bridge, which is very old for an iron bridge:
The iron truss bridge was built in 1880 by the Cleveland Bridge & Iron Company.
The truck was too big. It got stuck on the bridge.
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
Alabama. Must be one of those strict gun control states.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Was I the only one to giggle at “Semi,” while thinking “What would a full on, do!?”
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I…I’ll get me coat.
re: #252 Dark_Falcon
It looks like the truck was too big and heavy for the bridge, which is very old for an iron bridge:
The iron truss bridge was built in 1880 by the Cleveland Bridge & Iron Company.
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PIMF
Still waiting for @realDonaldTrump’s toddler temper tantrum in response to George Will’s fabulous evisceration. pic.twitter.com/cwAdaYGs3O
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 24, 2015
“Best day of the year!” — cats #BoxingDay pic.twitter.com/Ivg8qJUll2
— LoveMyKittyo (@LoveMyKittyo) December 26, 2015
I hope you all had a great holiday! We’ve had a, shall we say, trying couple of weeks.
Hard drive on the laptop had be replaced. Lost everything, but was smart enough to back up my photos after the first issue a few weeks back.
My daughter caught her husband of not quite two years cheating on her. Three days ago. The same day that her oldest child’s dad (with whom he had been living so he could attend a slightly better school) dumped him off at her house with none of his clothes because their building was ordered evacuated by the health department. Bedbugs.Twelve apartments covered in them in that building. His stepmom threw all his clothes and shoes away. All he had was the clothes on his back and his school backpack. He may be allowed to get his PS3, books and some of his other stuff back later, but the kid has a total of 4 outfits now. So I went and purchased all I could afford to (with the gift card my mom in law sent me for Christmas) and will send it out on Monday.
Let’s just say I am glad the holidays are nearly over. I got nothing from anyone, didn’t decorate, didn’t cook. I baked some cookies and a from scratch cake. I give up. No one comes to see us, we’re never invited anywhere and I give gifts which are NEVER reciprocated. I know, that’s not the reason for giving, but it’s a little disconcerting, let’s just say. Bah Humbug. I quit. I used to be one of those Martha Stewart type women at holiday time. I had THREE trees, decorated the hearth, made all this food, ran myself stupid. No. More. This year I did the bare minimum and we ate at a crappy buffet (which I will NOT do again, I’ll cook rather than wade through that nastiness again)and I took my dog out into the yard and cried. I give up.
re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This one is from a Russian fellow who intends to dominate the coverage of the Donbass with one of the key mediums of the internet, that medium being cat photos:
I was going to post this one today anyways, given that its Caturday and I like the image of a sleigh full of cats.
re: #259 A Mom Anon
{A Mom Anon}
This is one reason a lot of people have trouble this season. The gray of oncoming winter and shorter days, and increased stress dealing with a holiday that is supposed to be happy happy happy and also complex if you’re organizing it. Plus the hassle with the stores being crowded, etc.
The holiday stays pretty low-key in my family. Relatively few of us, shared cooking chores, and we’re not extreme decorators.
And I have experienced the bed bug thing. Luckily here it was caught at an early stage, and not after they had spread and heavily colonized a chunk of the building.
re: #260 Dark_Falcon
This one is from a Russian fellow who intends to dominate the coverage of the Donbass with one of the key mediums of the internet, that medium being cat photos:
I was going to post this one today anyways, given that its Caturday and I like the image of a sleigh full of cats.
Winterized cats with full coats I see.
re: #247 Feline Fearless Leader
52 F here in Philly today. Rained yesterday, and will probably start doing so again this evening.
It’s supposed to be 73 in DFW today, then 55 tomorrow, then 41 on Monday.
An ISIS supply route between Turkey and Raqqa has been taken:
Syria’s Democratic Forces have seized the Tishreen Dam, just three days after launching the offensive to take it, spokesman tells @AFP
— Maya Gebeily (@GebeilyM) December 26, 2015
QAMISHLI, Syria: An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels seized a key dam on the Euphrates River from Daesh group jihadists in northern Syria on Saturday, the group said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces captured Tishreen Dam after intense clashes with Daesh, as well as seven villages along the river’s eastern bank, spokesman Talal Sello told AFP.
He said dozens of Daesh fighters had been killed.
The dam, held by Daesh since 2014, helps generate electricity for large parts of the northern Aleppo province.
arabnews.com
re: #147 teleskiguy
A fascinating map based on a peer-reviewed CDC paper.
(Upding for teleskiguy)
Great Snapshot:
[…] Some of the findings make intuitive sense (influenza in some northern states, pneumoconioses in coal-mining states, air and water accidents in Alaska and Idaho), while the explanations for others are less immediately apparent (septicemia in New Jersey, deaths by legal intervention in 3 Western states)[…]
[…] A limitation of this map is that it depicts only 1 distinctive cause of death for each state. All of these were significantly higher than the national rate, but there were many others also significantly higher than the national rate that were not mapped. The map is also predisposed to showing rare causes of death — for 22 of the states, the total number of deaths mapped was under 100. Using broader cause-of-death categories or requiring a higher threshold for the number of deaths would result in a different map. These limitations are characteristic of maps generally and are why these maps are best regarded as snapshots and not comprehensive statistical summaries (5)[…]
The Most Distinctive Causes of Death by State, 2001-2010
re: #259 A Mom Anon
{{{ A Mon Anon }}} I hope everything works out for you.
re: #194 Jenner7
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Well, at least it wasn’t a shooting and nobody was hurt. My boyfriend is convinced some asshat with a gun is going to lose it and shoot up Friday prayers.
re: #259 A Mom Anon
re: #261 Feline Fearless Leader
This is why I have no patience for the idiots who scream about War on Christmas and get all bent out of shape because some people do not say Merry Christmas or get enthusiastic enough about the season.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons for preferring not to celebrate the holiday and it’s nobody else’s business.
Nothing more than bullies.
Something frightening that was noticed yesterday.
A Ginger Ted Cruz is loose in the world of board gaming.
re: #262 Feline Fearless Leader
Winterized cats with full coats I see.
Yes, it can get very cold in that part of the world in December, so cats tend to grow long coats for the winter. This means their staff needs to brush them daily.
re: #259 A Mom Anon
I feel you Mom. I wasn’t filled with a lot of joy this year either. I sometimes feel pressured by the day and this was one of those years. Sometimes the real gets in the way of trying to feel any great spirit.
Believe me, I understand crying Christmas day. It is a real feeling, sometimes more real than the joy many claim. People need to appreciate it and if you want to give any gift, a little understanding can go a long long way. Stay strong Mom. It is the strong that have true feelings and let them out. If you were uncaring, you wouldn’t feel the way you do.
Kurdish and #US #SOF raided an #IS base near Hawija Friday night #Iraq https://t.co/XbtBMEucfW pic.twitter.com/SHbGc1SCv2
— Tom Antonov (@Tom_Antonov) December 26, 2015
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is why I have no patience for the idiots who scream about War on Christmas and get all bent out of shape because some people do not say Merry Christmas or get enthusiastic enough about the season.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons for preferring not to celebrate the holiday and it’s nobody else’s business.Nothing more than bullies.
Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue started the War on Christmas in the early XX Cent. They’ve just about finished it off. We need a humane winter holiday, but this one has become pathological.
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yes. I usually stick to wishing people “Happy Holiday.” For the most part people accept it for what it is.
re: #264 jaunte
Good stuff. The @AFP Twitter feed also had this other photo from Syria I enjoyed of Santa and his little helpers:
Syrian Christian youth celebrate in the northeastern city of Qamishli pic.twitter.com/70iH7NZfhL
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 24, 2015
#Blizzard set for Texas, Oklahoma! #weather #snow #txwx #okwx pic.twitter.com/VwnwxnaEjq
— Nick Szankovics (@weather_talk) December 26, 2015
re: #274 PhillyPretzel
Yes. I usually stick to wishing people “Happy Holiday.” For the most part people accept it for what it is.
If I know what you celebrate, that’s what I wish you. Otherwise default to Generic.
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
::: shudder ::: That looks very bad. I hope everyone has their generators ready to go and extra food supplies.
re: #278 PhillyPretzel
::: shudder ::: That looks very bad. I hope everyone has their generators ready to go and extra food supplies.
Hopefully the funds weren’t spent on guns, ammo, and fancy open carry holsters.
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
My major complaint with it is what kind of Ski Resort worth its salt would NOT you know, DOUBLE check to make sure the lifts were clear before shutting down? With lawsuits and insurance issues at risk, it seems like a no-brainer. I know obviously that would have defeated the purpose of the movie, but if I’m suspending disbelief on something I like it to be logical whenever possible.
As long as humans are in charge, it’s possible.
I’ve skied a little, and have no experience with folk being stranded on ski lifts.
I have worked cases where scuba tourist dive boats have left dive sites with divers left in the water.
You would think that a dive boat captain would do a simple head count of persons on board to prevent that from happening.
Where as on a long and possibly out of sight ski lift section that could happen.
re: #152 Belafon
I told my wife I wanted to learn to play bass guitar, and she bought me this:
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I need to find an inexpensive amp.
Play Sweetwater and Musicians Fiend off against each other on price matching. Fee Bay has some decent deals at times.
.@NWSVegas had a trace of snow on Christmas Day. They now have more snow for the season than Central Park. pic.twitter.com/ovOtetb2BB
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) December 26, 2015
re: #259 A Mom Anon
{{{A Mom Anon}}}
I’m sorry things didn’t go well for Christmas. Expectations do not always equal reality. You are not personally responsible for making everything merry, even though sometimes it feels that way.
We had a perfectly nice Christmas here-a few decorations, a few gifts, and the center of the celebration-dinner for the kids, a son-in-law, his parents, my brother and sister-in-law and the Jewish neighbors. Hours of work, but lovely. But, I was in no way feeling Christmas-y this year. Early on I decided what was important to me (family dinner) and focused on that and was very happy with it.
You may find something different that will make you happy. Forget the rest.
re: #212 William Lewis
It’s funny how tube amps have made a rather spectacular comeback in guitar amps but not so much for bass players. My guitar amp is a hand wired tube amp and was less than $350; an equivalent bass amp is much more. I wonder if it really is the vibrations? Or just that there are that many few bass players?
Bass players tend to want cleaner tone for their instruments, and apply distortion situationally. Solid state amps are much better suited for delivering a clean tone than tube amps, which will distort by nature of the glowing bottles therein.
Power ratings are also important for keeping distortion down. If a bass player played through a 10 watt tube amp, for example, distortion would be inevitable. A higher-wattage tube amp gives the player more ‘headroom’ before distortion occurs, providing more power and volume.
re: #279 Feline Fearless Leader
Hopefully the funds weren’t spent on guns, ammo, and fancy open carry holsters.
They can just stand their ground and shoot the storm. Problem solved.
Musician William Guest, member of Gladys Knight and the Pips, dies at 74 https://t.co/O1bkbD8yVY pic.twitter.com/G2A5NTsc42
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 26, 2015
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is sad. :( The world is a sadder place without music.
Wife is a Christmas addict, and goes all out to make it a major undertaking. My only requirement is a live tree, which usually stays up until New Year’s Day. (Travel to Birmingham means this year’s comes down today.) At least we flex the celebration date a week or so to accommodate everyone’s schedule. Sometimes, like this year, that means grilling 3-4 turkeys from TG—Christmas.
So this came under my nose a coupla moments ago. Sorry if it already has been posted here. Also, be aware it is trippy and may be seizure-causing:
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You say “grilling 3-4 turkeys” like that’s a bad thing. ;)
We had 3 Thanksgivings this year. And not one complaint about it.
Must clean up the remnants of last night’s festivities.
BBL
We took our oldest cat to the animal hospital this morning, because he’s not doing well. He’s lost a lot of weight and muscle mass, though he remains alert and every bit as stubborn as he’s been for his whole life.
The doctor told us that his chances of pulling out of this are about 10%, but we went for blood work and rehydration anyway. He was in a similar situation nine years ago - the doctor gave him a 10% chance then of recovering from diabetic shock - and not only did he come back, but his diabetes completely went away.
My wife and I are trying to be careful not to make this about us and not the cat, but Zoey is a tough old animal, and I was sure he was going to check out the last time he wandered up to the Bridge and he surprised us. I’ll take one more chance with the big guy, and we’ll know better which way to go tomorrow. For all the joy he’s given us for the 14 years he’s been in our lives, I think we owe him that. If we need to say goodbye, we will. But where there’s life there’s hope. Cross your fingers for our old man cat.
re: #291 calochortus
You say “grilling 3-4 turkeys” like that’s a bad thing. ;)
We had 3 Thanksgivings this year. And not one complaint about it.Must clean up the remnants of last night’s festivities.
BBL
Not bad at all—we freeze quarts of turkey soup made from the drippings and carcasses. By the third, we offer a ham option with it.
re: #292 makeitstop
We took our oldest cat to the animal hospital this morning, because he’s not doing well. He’s lost a lot of weight and muscle mass, though he remains alert and every bit as stubborn as he’s been for his whole life.
The doctor told us that his chances of pulling out of this are about 10%, but we went for blood work and rehydration anyway. He was in a similar situation nine years ago - the doctor gave him a 10% chance then of recovering from diabetic shock - and not only did he come back, but his diabetes completely went away.
My wife and I are trying to be careful not to make this about us and not the cat, but Zoey is a tough old animal, and I was sure he was going to check out the last time he wandered up to the Bridge and he surprised us. I’ll take one more chance with the big guy, and we’ll know better which way to go tomorrow. For all the joy he’s given us for the 14 years he’s been in our lives, I think we owe him that. If we need to say goodbye, we will. But where there’s life there’s hope. Cross your fingers for our old man cat.
I’ll cross my fingers and my toes, too.
re: #290 Teukka
So this came under my nose a coupla moments ago. Sorry if it already has been posted here. Also, be aware it is trippy and may be seizure-causing:
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Fhtagn.
One nice thing about Christmas day being over is most of the commercials go away. No more need to wonder why I am not getting a new car from someone. I’ve never gotten a new car on Christmas. I do not fit in this commercial world. ///
re: #297 ObserverArt
One nice thing about Christmas day being over is most of the commercials go away. No more need to wonder why I am not getting a new car from someone. I’ve never gotten a new car on Christmas. I do not fit in this commercial world. ///
I meant to get you a new car, but I couldn’t suss out how to wrap the stupid thing.
re: #298 makeitstop
I meant to get you a new car, but I couldn’t suss out how to wrap the stupid thing.
Awww. A huge red bow and big ribbons would have been enough!
Oh…and good wishes for your cat’s health.
re: #298 makeitstop
I meant to get you a new car, but I couldn’t suss out how to wrap the stupid thing.
I got my son a new car. It fit in a box 1”x3”
Classic Matchbox I found at a swap shop
Leaving the cover of dog whistles for more open expressions of racism is having a measurable effect.
Americans who say racism is a big problem 2011 28% 2015 49% https://t.co/SheCoYsWro pic.twitter.com/F7AgvEScUH
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) December 26, 2015
So yesterday I learned from my crazy uncle that YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN BUILDING 7!!! and SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!
The Sandy Hook bullshit really sent me over the edge and I even raised my voice. Tell the parents of the twenty dead kids it was a hoax, for fuck’s sake.
re: #301 ausador
Leaving the cover of dog whistles for more open expressions of racism is having a measurable effect.
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That’s a good thing. Someone wake the Chief Justice.
re: #230 Dark_Falcon
No, I don’t think they want that. The “capitalist elite” like having cleaner air and rivers that don’t catch fire as much as anyone else. They’re content to leave the dirty stuff in China and are glad its not in the US anymore.
Bullshit. Why do you think they’re working so hard against the EPA?
Oh, and then I also learned from my new step-dad (another wingnut) that the constitution was based on the ten commandments, and after the fall of the Soviet Union there are 60 suitcases filled with nuclear bombs floating around. Somewhere.
re: #305 Kid A
Oh, and then I also learned from my new step-dad (another wingnut) that the constitution was based on the ten commandments, and after the fall of the Soviet Union there are 60 suitcases filled with nuclear bombs floating around. Somewhere.
They used to call people who believed swap like that cranks.
re: #305 Kid A
Oh, and then I also learned from my new step-dad (another wingnut) that the constitution was based on the ten commandments, and after the fall of the Soviet Union there are 60 suitcases filled with nuclear bombs floating around. Somewhere.
They’re the ones you see in airports, the orphan bags on the carousel that nobody ever takes, that are there before the other bags come down the chute and are still there after the last one has been snagged by the poor schmo who’s been standing there wating for his bag for 20 minutes.
They’re in every airport, everywhere. But since they were built by Communists, they don’t work. Shoddy workmanship, by workers who realized that they didn’t get any more stuff no matter how hard they worked….
Boy it is a good thing the police got called…
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Chicago police say officer fatally shot 2 people while responding to domestic disturbance call: https://t.co/Bvp8fYSEMS
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 26, 2015
re: #302 Kid A
So yesterday I learned from my crazy uncle that YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN BUILDING 7!!! and SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!
The Sandy Hook bullshit really sent me over the edge and I even raised my voice. Tell the parents of the twenty dead kids it was a hoax, for fuck’s sake.
I wonder…what does it take for someone to say Sandy Hook did not happen and that it was all a hoax? Do you have to love guns that much so that everything that comes out about guns being a problem is automatically a step on that slippery slope?
Geez…I think people that think that way are already on a slippery slope. It’s called denial of reality and closing your mind completely. Not a good thing for the person or the society.
re: #308 ausador
Boy it is a good thing the police got called…
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One of them was the downstairs neighbor, who got told to stay out of the way, and did…
re: #308 ausador
Boy it is a good thing the police got called…
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My brother says “There’s no situation that can’t be made worse by police”, which I used to think was a terrible thing to say, but since Ferguson and Baltimore and especially poor Sandra Bland, I understand what he means. It’s not that police automatically make things worse. It’s that a lot of them, motivated by the wrong things, DO make things worse when they could make them better.
re: #308 ausador
Chicago police say officer fatally shot 2 people while responding to domestic disturbance call:
So Domestic Gun Violence Day is catching on already…
re: #310 gwangung
Pretty awful. Dad calls 911 because son is acting unstable, police kill his son and accidentally kill a neighbor. https://t.co/0jaK43pxXP
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) December 26, 2015
re: #305 Kid A
Oh, and then I also learned from my new step-dad (another wingnut) that the constitution was based on the ten commandments, and after the fall of the Soviet Union there are 60 suitcases filled with nuclear bombs floating around. Somewhere.
Last night I fond out that there is a lot more creeping wingnut-ism in our family than I thought.
I smoked way more than I should have last night because I was the designated driver and it kept getting more difficult to hold my tongue, so I kept ducking out to have a smoke when the urge to call a family member stupid got too strong to resist.
re: #305 Kid A
Oh, and then I also learned from my new step-dad (another wingnut) that the constitution was based on the ten commandments, and after the fall of the Soviet Union there are 60 suitcases filled with nuclear bombs floating around. Somewhere.
I remember being instructed at Christmas (in 1980 or 81) by a relative that there was an entire Soviet armored division stationed in Nicaragua just waiting to roll north across our undefended southern border.
re: #309 ObserverArt
I wonder…what does it take for someone to say Sandy Hook did not happen and that it was all a hoax? Do you have to love guns that much so that everything that comes out about guns being a problem is automatically a step on that slippery slope?
Geez…I think people that think that way are already on a slippery slope. It’s called denial of reality and closing your mind completely. Not a good thing for the person or the society.
The initial infection point for the SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!11 (hereafter ‘SHWAH’) conspiracy theory was in pro-gun people but its rate of infection among people who actually go to the range and shoot their guns is fairly low, mostly because almost all pro-gun orgs and gun-oriented sites are hostile to this theory and many will ban those who try to propagate it. As a result, its currently popular mostly with “The US Government is behind all crises!!1” types of conspiracists and with mall ninjas who mostly bought their guns out of fear of President Obama, Muslims, and/or black people.
The primary drivers of SHWAH nowadays are ODS and a refusal to admit that people can do very bad things for little or no reason.
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I remember being instructed at Christmas (in 1979) by a relative that there was an entire Soviet armored division stationed in Nicaragua just waiting to roll north across our undefended southern border.
In fact the only tanks the Soviet Union sent to Nicaragua were T-55s. The M48A5s and M60A1s that the Texas National Guard fielded back then would have turned T-55s to scrap iron in open terrain. That Quasi-Bircher who told you that must also have been a Military No-Nothing.
OMG, they can see the hole in Russia’s budget from here:
Oil’s Decline Threatens to Revive Alaska’s Income Tax After 35 Years
re: #317 Dark_Falcon
In fact the only tanks the Soviet Union sent to Nicaragua were T-55s. The M48A5s and M60A1s that the Texas National Guard fielded back then would have turned T-55s to scrap iron in open terrain. That Quasi-Bircher who told you that must also have been a Military No-Nothing.
I told him that there was nothing to worry about, the Russian tankers would all stop at the Mexican border and abandon their ammo to make room for cheap souveniers and bottles of tequila and Kahlua
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I remember being instructed at Christmas (in 1980 or 81) by a relative that there was an entire Soviet armored division stationed in Nicaragua just waiting to roll north across our undefended southern border.
And somehow, during the entire 2200 mile trip from Nicaragua, through Guatemala and the entire length of Mexico, nobody would notice them?
Thanks for all the well wishes. I hope there were lots of you who had good times with family and friends. I need something else to do this time of year I think. My own kids got me nothing, the daughter I get, she’s poor and her marriage is falling to bits. But the son? He has no excuse. He’s working and he works at a STORE in a shopping center. I know it’s not about the gifts, trust me, I’ve been teaching that lesson since forever ago. But shit, I really thought I raised a more generous soul than this with my son. I’m very sad about that. It’s kind of heartbreaking in a way. And now it’s time to go walk the dog and clean and do laundry and all the regular things again….thanks for listening. And if you got something cool and special, share, I’d love to see what people did or got or where they went. (((((hugs))))))
re: #320 Blind Frog Belly White
And somehow, during the entire 2200 mile trip from Nicaragua, through Guatemala and the entire length of Mexico, nobody would notice them?
They would be buried under piles of flowers tossed at them by the local residents…
re: #321 A Mom Anon
Thanks for all the well wishes. I hope there were lots of you who had good times with family and friends. I need something else to do this time of year I think. My own kids got me nothing, the daughter I get, she’s poor and her marriage is falling to bits. But the son? He has no excuse. He’s working and he works at a STORE in a shopping center. I know it’s not about the gifts, trust me, I’ve been teaching that lesson since forever ago. But shit, I really thought I raised a more generous soul than this with my son. I’m very sad about that. It’s kind of heartbreaking in a way. And now it’s time to go walk the dog and clean and do laundry and all the regular things again….thanks for listening. And if you got something cool and special, share, I’d love to see what people did or got or where they went. (((((hugs))))))
I feel your pain. Our daughter hung up on V when she tried to call her, & we haven’t seen our 4 yr old grandson for a year. Kids can get wrapped up in the same emotional nonsense we try to educate them to avoid. It happens, unfortunately and the pain we feel in response is quite real.
re: #316 Dark_Falcon
The initial infection point for the SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!11 (hereafter ‘SHWAH’) conspiracy theory was in pro-gun people but its rate of infection among people who actually go to the range and shoot their guns is fairly low, mostly because almost all pro-gun orgs and gun-oriented sites are hostile to this theory and many will ban those who try to propagate it. As a result, its currently popular mostly with “The US Government is behind all crises!!1” types of conspiracists and with mall ninjas who mostly bought their guns out of fear of President Obama, Muslims, and/or black people.
The primary drivers of SHWAH nowadays are ODS and a refusal to admit that people can do very bad things for little or no reason.
I have no patience for Conspiracy Theorists. There’s absolutely no intellectual rigor, no testing of hypotheses, just cherrypicking reality to match what they want to believe.
All put together, most CTs would require hundreds or thousands of people to ALL be in on it, and NOT ONE to have second thoughts and figure out how to get the documented evidence out? And when you ask the Theorists why anyone would go to all that trouble, the reasoning behind it is always ludicrously weak. Like Sandy Hook - the Obama Administration put the whole thing together just to make Americans more amenable to gun control.
re: #324 Blind Frog Belly White
I have no patience for Conspiracy Theorists. There’s absolutely no intellectual rigor, no testing of hypotheses, just cherrypicking reality to match what they want to believe.
All put together, most CTs would require hundreds or thousands of people to ALL be in on it, and NOT ONE to have second thoughts and figure out how to get the documented evidence out? And when you ask the Theorists why anyone would go to all that trouble, the reasoning behind it is always ludicrously weak. Like Sandy Hook - the Obama Administration put the whole thing together just to make Americans more amenable to gun control.
I have no patience for them either and online I openly ridicule them. But its important to know who is likely to believe a given conspiracy theory and why they would believe it in order to recognize and contain such BS.
re: #314 makeitstop
Last night I fond out that there is a lot more creeping wingnut-ism in our family than I thought.
I smoked way more than I should have last night because I was the designated driver and it kept getting more difficult to hold my tongue, so I kept ducking out to have a smoke when the urge to call a family member stupid got too strong to resist.
I do believe a certain ‘politician’ that is very boisterous, arrogant, and orange is giving many the ‘right’ to be able to let it all out. They have been acting too politically correct for too long, now it is okay just to let out the hate. The Triumph of Trump.
re: #321 A Mom Anon
Thanks for all the well wishes. I hope there were lots of you who had good times with family and friends. I need something else to do this time of year I think. My own kids got me nothing, the daughter I get, she’s poor and her marriage is falling to bits. But the son? He has no excuse. He’s working and he works at a STORE in a shopping center. I know it’s not about the gifts, trust me, I’ve been teaching that lesson since forever ago. But shit, I really thought I raised a more generous soul than this with my son. I’m very sad about that. It’s kind of heartbreaking in a way. And now it’s time to go walk the dog and clean and do laundry and all the regular things again….thanks for listening. And if you got something cool and special, share, I’d love to see what people did or got or where they went. (((((hugs))))))
Get him a card for his next birthday and tell him you think his “no presents” policy is a good idea. (We don’t exchange gifts much in my family, but that was a joint decision.)
re: #259 A Mom Anon
{{{hugs}}}
I am having a great holiday. Fishfolk, for all their faults on the wingnut end of the spectrum, are genuinely good, generous people.
re: #325 Dark_Falcon
I have no patience for them either and online I openly ridicule them. But its important to know who is likely to believe a given conspiracy theory and why they would believe it in order to recognize and contain such BS.
A friend of mine whom I always thought of as very intelligent and rational leaves all that behind when discussing Global Warming. Here is a guy who will immediately ding a Creationist who thinks he can debunk Evolution by attacking Darwin, but who thinks he can debunk Global Warming by attacking Phil Jones. He laughs at the idea that Biologists pretend to believe in Evolution because they want to 1) keep that sweet, sweet grant money, and 2) ‘destroy God’ so they can sin with impunity. But asked about the motivations of Climate Scientists to all like, he says it’s because they want to 1) keep that sweet, sweet grant money, and 2) destroy Capitalism - though he can’t ever say why they want to do that.
I think Conspiracy Theorists are often people who subconsciously realize that something they want desperately to not be true is in fact true, so they retreat into CT because it allows them to deny the thing the fear is true. Confirmation bias writ large.
re: #330 thedopefishlives
{{{hugs}}}
I am having a great holiday. Fishfolk, for all their faults on the wingnut end of the spectrum, are genuinely good, generous people.
That’s one of the hardest things - so many people who believe horrible things and support horrible policies, and often are terribly racist are otherwise sweet, funny, giving people.
re: #327 ObserverArt
I do believe a certain ‘politician’ that is very boisterous, arrogant, and orange is giving many the ‘right’ to be able to let it all out. They have been acting too politically correct for too long, now it is okay just to let out the hate. The Triumph of Trump.
I heard that phrase from three different family members last night. The conditioning is going according to plan.
Each time I heard it, I wanted to scream but ended up lighting up a Red instead.
re: #292 makeitstop
We took our oldest cat to the animal hospital this morning, because he’s not doing well. He’s lost a lot of weight and muscle mass, though he remains alert and every bit as stubborn as he’s been for his whole life.
The doctor told us that his chances of pulling out of this are about 10%, but we went for blood work and rehydration anyway. He was in a similar situation nine years ago - the doctor gave him a 10% chance then of recovering from diabetic shock - and not only did he come back, but his diabetes completely went away.
My wife and I are trying to be careful not to make this about us and not the cat, but Zoey is a tough old animal, and I was sure he was going to check out the last time he wandered up to the Bridge and he surprised us. I’ll take one more chance with the big guy, and we’ll know better which way to go tomorrow. For all the joy he’s given us for the 14 years he’s been in our lives, I think we owe him that. If we need to say goodbye, we will. But where there’s life there’s hope. Cross your fingers for our old man cat.
It’s always hard. When one of my cats had kidney failure, I nursed her along for almost a year because she seemed to be enjoying her life — but I wonder to this day whether I waited too long. Another stopped eating, and turned out to have inoperable stomach cancer. I tried chemo for a bit, but after two weeks she wasn’t responding, ate and drank nothing I didn’t force down her throat, and was so weak she had trouble getting to her litter box, so I decided she was done.
Both of those “cases” were cats about eight years old — your Zoey has had a splendid run no matter how it ends.
re: #302 Kid A
So yesterday I learned from my crazy uncle that YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN BUILDING 7!!! and SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!
The Sandy Hook bullshit really sent me over the edge and I even raised my voice. Tell the parents of the twenty dead kids it was a hoax, for fuck’s sake.
Bah, humbug. That’s why, by choice, I spend Christmas alone, at home. (Not near my family, and prefer not to spend the day with someone else’s crazies.) Binge watched Season 1 of House of Cards; made a turkey breast; ate when I wanted to and pretty much ignored the whole thing. Not my holiday anyway, but it’s hard to avoid, except by being a hermit.
re: #333 makeitstop
I heard that phrase from three different family members last night. The conditioning is going according to plan.
Each time I heard it, I wanted to scream but ended up lighting up a Red instead.
Oh yeah. It is Conservative Phrase Number 1 with a bullet on the Hit a Liberal Parade!
I know we have a New Year coming up…and truth be told, I am worried that it is not going to be a happy one…much to do with the political climate. Yeah, it too is warming. And with Trump and the beasts he is releasing the political hot air is heating up way too rapidly.
I hope I am wrong, but the forecast does not look good.
re: #314 makeitstop
Last night I fond out that there is a lot more creeping wingnut-ism in our family than I thought.
I smoked way more than I should have last night because I was the designated driver and it kept getting more difficult to hold my tongue, so I kept ducking out to have a smoke when the urge to call a family member stupid got too strong to resist.
I do that on Thanksgiving (the smoking bit.) When wingnut brother and wife get going, I head outside. I always end up with a nicotine headache, but at least there are no fistfights.
re: #328 Snarknado!
Get him a card for his next birthday and tell him you think his “no presents” policy is a good idea. (We don’t exchange gifts much in my family, but that was a joint decision.)
On my mom’s 40th birthday, she informed us that henceforth she didn’t want “another thing to have to dust” for a present ever again. Birthdays, hannukah, anniversaries, mother’s day. The only presents she ever wanted again were “do something” presents — theater tickets, restaurant dinners, picnic in a pretty place, lessons of some kind. (although she did accept the big emerald dad gave her for their 25th; she designed the setting herself and we helped her find a goldsmith to construct what became known as the vastly delayed engagement ring.)
re: #337 BeachDem
I do that on Thanksgiving (the smoking bit.) When wingnut brother and wife get going, I head outside. I always end up with a nicotine headache, but at least there are no fistfights.
It is assumed that those who object to racist, offensive speech want to ban it. That is not necessarily the case, they just want the people who utter it feel the real-life consequences of their bigoted, hateful speech.
re: #317 Dark_Falcon
That Quasi-Bircher who told you that must also have been a Military No-Nothing.
Isn’t that a redundancy?
re: #334 Snarknado!
It’s always hard. When one of my cats had kidney failure, I nursed her along for almost a year because she seemed to be enjoying her life — but I wonder to this day whether I waited too long. Another stopped eating, and turned out to have inoperable stomach cancer. I tried chemo for a bit, but after two weeks she wasn’t responding, ate and drank nothing I didn’t force down her throat, and was so weak she had trouble getting to her litter box, so I decided she was done.
Both of those “cases” were cats about eight years old — your Zoey has had a splendid run no matter how it ends.
The doctor cautiously suggested that liver failure might be the culprit here, and that’s what it looks like to me. He’s been eating less and drinking a lot more water in the past week.
The doubts of whether you’re keeping an animal alive for them or your own comfort weighs heavy with us, my wife especially. She’s the one who would take in every stray, feed every straggler, and give zero fucks about the expense or impracticality. We brought Zoey to bed with us last night, tried to make him as comfortable as we could, and talked about the difficult decision we may have to make, and we’re both okay with it.
We’ll ride it out unless we’re told that he’s too far gone. But goddamn, I’m going to miss that cat if that turns out to be the case.
I forgot that my wingnut step-dad also wants to cut the government by “at least 30%.” (and when asked what gets cut he had no idea, but not the military of course!!!!) I pointed out that real people would be affected such as a massive loss of jobs in the government from those cuts. His response? “They’ll have to find a real job then.”
Oh fuck off.
re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is assumed that those who object to racist, offensive speech want to ban it. That is not necessarily the case, they just want the people who utter it feel the real-life consequences of their bigoted, hateful speech.
You have no right not to be offended, but god forbid you say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.
re: #342 Kid A
I forgot that my wingnut step-dad also wants to cut the government by “at least 30%.” (and when asked what gets cut he had no idea, but not the military of course!!!!) I pointed out that real people would be affected such as a massive loss of jobs in the government from those cuts. His response? “They’ll have to find a real job then.”
Oh fuck off.
A “real job” being, among other things, one where you can be fired at a moment’s notice at the whim of a manager, or as a result of (or an attempt to cover up) one of his mistakes.
re: #338 sagehen
On my mom’s 40th birthday, she informed us that henceforth she didn’t want “another thing to have to dust” for a present ever again. Birthdays, hannukah, anniversaries, mother’s day. The only presents she ever wanted again were “do something” presents — theater tickets, restaurant dinners, picnic in a pretty place, lessons of some kind. (although she did accept the big emerald dad gave her for their 25th; she designed the setting herself and we helped her find a goldsmith to construct what became known as the vastly delayed engagement ring.)
What a shocking sacrifice of principle. :)
re: #342 Kid A
I forgot that my wingnut step-dad also wants to cut the government by “at least 30%.” (and when asked what gets cut he had no idea, but not the military of course!!!!) I pointed out that real people would be affected such as a massive loss of jobs in the government from those cuts. His response? “They’ll have to find a real job then.”
Oh fuck off.
Then they want to add layers of bureaucracy to programs for the poor - drug testing, fraud investigators, etc. These things always add to the cost and never pay for themselves, but to them, the cost is insignificant if it might stop ONE PERSON from getting benefits he doesn’t deserve. It’s like Blackstone’s Formulation turned upside down - better that 10 deserving families starve than a single drug user get welfare!
re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
A “real job” being, among other things, one where you can be fired at a moment’s notice at the whim of a manager, or as a result of (or an attempt to cover up) one of his mistakes.
Because businesses need ‘flexibility’, which for some reason only ever works in favor of the company….
re: #346 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s like Blackstone’s Formulation turned upside down - better that 10 deserving families starve than a single drug user get welfare!
To them, there are no “deserving” families, just lazy ones…
Obviously I’m still pretty pissed off about being subjected to this rubbish for three hours yesterday. I think that I’m going to go skiing every Christmas from now on.
This will surely infuriate people:
Pet owner has a mass removed from a dog, dog is diagnosed with terminal cancer, pet survives for months before having a seizure, pet owner prepares to take the dog to a vet to be euthanized, but the dog recovers from the seizure and seems okay, a couple days later, the dog is taken to the local Animal Shelter and is euthanzied, 11 days later the pet owner is charged with cruelty to animals and is convicted:
Travis Evans never imagined what would happen to him after he drove to the Stafford Animal Shelter July 7 to euthanize his family’s yellow Labrador retriever, Buxton.
“I was hoping to deal with the grief of losing Bux, but instead, it turned into a different story,” Evans said.
Eleven days after Buxton was euthanized, Evans was charged with animal cruelty, a class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
A judge found Evans guilty in General District Court on Oct 7. Evans appealed and the case is headed to Circuit Court.
Evans said he likely face only a fine, but still worries about the misdemeanor on his record.
“The family had just lost their dog and now the Commonwealth of Virginia arrested their father for making the difficult decision to end Buxton’s life,” Evans’ attorney, Jason Pelt, wrote in an email. “This action by the Stafford Sheriff’s Office is a complete abuse of power.”
Looks as if i may get to play with the snow blower later today. Don’t plan on going anywhere.
re: #348 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
To them, there are no “deserving” families, just lazy ones…
No, no - they generally figure the disabled are deserving. But while complaining about lack of well-paid jobs, ore even jobs generally, they don’t think able bodied people who can’t find work are deserving.
That’s what gets me - on the one hand they cite the dearth of high-paying jobs so they can blame Obama, and then they piss all over the working poor for not taking the high-paying jobs they JUST SAID don’t exist!
No posts in 16 minutes! Is it my breath?
re: #353 Blind Frog Belly White
No posts in 16 minutes! Is it my breath?
Yes. You smell like turkey.
Looking back on a lot of pets, the only one we feel guilty about is the poodle we let live many months too long. We made it easy on ourselves, not him.
re: #353 Blind Frog Belly White
No posts in 16 minutes! Is it my breath?
re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White
And here I’d hoped I’d said something so profound as to be unanswerable.
Nope, sorry. =)
re: #359 Kid A
Nope, sorry. =)
“Captain Corcoran, it is one of the happiest characteristics of this glorious country that official utterances are invariably regarded as unanswerable.”
I’ve been tasked with setting up my Mom’s new cricket phone. Brother bought it, I have to complete it.
re: #356 Decatur Deb
Looking back on a lot of pets, the only one we feel guilty about is the poodle we let live many months too long. We made it easy on ourselves, not him.
And, in the end, we don’t make it any easier on ourselves after all.
re: #346 Blind Frog Belly White
… - better that 10 deserving families starve than a single drug user get welfare!
It’s the principle of the thing libtards/progressives!!! You don’t get it, do you?!?!?!
re: #350 Timothy Watson
I just knew there was more to the story than the excerpt.
“Buxton was sitting under the family’s kitchen table when he started having a seizure July 2. Travis Evans said he removed his daughter from the kitchen so she wouldn’t see Buxton suffer while Aaren called nearby Stafford Animal Hospital.
The hospital couldn’t take them, according to Aaren Evans, so she made an emergency appointment at Aquia-Garrisonville Animal Hospital.
But when she returned to the kitchen about two minutes later, Aaren said Buxton was walking in the backyard. The family decided not to show up for the appointment.
“He rebounded, and he was fine. And we already knew he has cancer,” she said.
Travis Evans showed up at the Animal Shelter to euthanize Buxton four days later, on July 7. The prosecution focused on that four-day gap between the seizure and the euthanization.
According to court documents, Animal Control Officer Aaron Morelli said Evans allowed Buxton to suffer for four days.
Morelli also wrote in a criminal complaint that Evans disregarded veterinarian recommendations and didn’t show up for an appointment made to have Buxton seen by an urgent care facility.”
Further, they decided to euthanize the dog on Sunday, but waited until Wednesday so they could do it for free.
The fact that they knew the dog was suffering enough to make the family decide to euthanize it, AND NOT CHANGE THEIR MINDS in the four days they waited, tells me the statement that the dog rebounded and was fine a lie.
You know, I think I’ll put up another tune from the home grown project. This one is more rock out noisy and all so it’ll get the blood flowing a bit. Good for the day after Christmas funks.
For the guitar lovers… You Ask A Lot.
re: #335 BeachDem
Bah, humbug. That’s why, by choice, I spend Christmas alone, at home. (Not near my family, and prefer not to spend the day with someone else’s crazies.) Binge watched Season 1 of House of Cards; made a turkey breast; ate when I wanted to and pretty much ignored the whole thing. Not my holiday anyway, but it’s hard to avoid, except by being a hermit.
I am trying to make today a hermit day. All the running the last 2 days has been enough. I will run a little tomorrow, but today I am not planning on leaving the house. That is subject to change if the boy decides he wants to go over to his girlfriends house. Then I will have to make a drive, but the roads aren’t snow covered so it is all good.
I forgot this doozy- My crazy uncle also mentioned something about “…when Marx and Stalin were in power.” O_o
Uh, Marx was never “in power,” and he died 34 years before Stalin was.
I’m working through all the holidays this year (included Thanksgiving). Let’s the folks that care enough have the day off with family. I consider it a gift to myself mostly.
Them: “We’re going to RWNJ uncle Dittohead’s for Christmas and you must come!”
Me: “Oooo sorry but I have to work. I really, really want to be there though. Say hi to everyone”
minitribal dance
re: #368 Kid A
I wonder what Marx would have thought about people thinking he was “in power”?
Season’s Greetings from Crazy Uncle Bill Burgin, camouflaged as a pile of used wrapping paper.
Please also post a pic of your tiny dick if you can find it. @BillBurgin_VA #gunsense #moron pic.twitter.com/dvJwyio1So
— imfabulous (@imfabulous13) December 26, 2015
re: #371 jaunte
He’s holding it right in front of your face
re: #371 jaunte
His witter line is full of racist filth. Even holocaust denial.
re: #373 Amory Blaine
His witter line is full of racist filth. Even holocaust denial.
Conservative Christian Patriot Warrior. Love my Guns, my God, my Race, my Country, and my family. In that order. Pride in your own race is not racism.
re: #373 Amory Blaine
Definitely one to report and block.
re: #371 jaunte
Looks like he deleted it.
re: #376 Eric The Fruit Bat
His twitter timeline is like a Stormfront feed.
re: #364 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
You’ve obviously never had a dog with cancer while, at the same time, having limited funds when the end has arrived.
Yes, I read the entire article when it was first shared here. And yes, I have had dogs who had cancer and dogs who have had seizures (sometimes both) since I seem to specialize in adopting special needs dogs and cats.
I would have, perhaps, responded to the situation differently, but I am not about to wag fingers and shame this family for what they did.
re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth
You’ve obviously never had a dog with cancer while, at the same time, having limited funds when the end has arrived.
Yes, I read the entire article when it was first shared here. And yes, I have had dogs who had cancer and dogs who have had seizures (sometimes both) since I seem to specialize in adopting special needs dogs and cats.
I would have, perhaps, responded to the situation differently, but I am not about to wag fingers and shame this family for what they did.
I not so obviously fricking have had one. You are the one who shared only one side of the story, which is always a giveaway that there is more to it. I think the vet staff involved probably were closer to the situation than we will ever be. Mr. Evans could have said that the family couldn’t afford care, but he didn’t. Instead he tried to insist the dog was fine, even while the family was preparing to euthanize the dog. (If the dog was fine, why did they continue to plan the euthanization for Wednesday?) I’m sure if he said they couldn’t afford the care the dog needed, there would not have been a conviction. I’m sure that if the family couldn’t afford to care for the dog, the veterinary caregivers would have realized that. Somehow I’m more inclined to think Mr. Evans was a cheap grade A asshole.
re: #380 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN
I not so obviously fricking have had one. You are the one who shared only one side of the story, which is always a giveaway that there is more to it. I think the vet staff involved probably were closer to the situation than we will ever be. Mr. Evans could have said that the family couldn’t afford care, but he didn’t. Instead he tried to insist the dog was fine, even while the family was preparing to euthanize the dog. (If the dog was fine, why did they continue to plan the euthanization for Wednesday?) I’m sure if he said they couldn’t afford the care the dog needed, there would not have been a conviction. I’m sure that if the family couldn’t afford to care for the dog, the veterinary caregivers would have realized that. Somehow I’m more inclined to think Mr. Evans was a cheap grade A asshole.
EXCUSE ME Mr. Perfect…I did NOT share that story.
Get your holier than thou shit together.