COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Monday, December 21, 2009

Never bring a snowball to a gunfight


(BBC) - Police in the US are investigating a detective who appears to draw his gun during a mass snowball fight on the streets of Washington DC.

Police say they are looking into reports that the plain-clothed police officer stepped out of his own vehicle and drew his weapon after his car had been hit by snowballs.


Not cool. Never brandish a piece to intimidate anyone. That weapon clears your holster only when you are ready to use it.

137 comments:

  1. PAPER: There'll be nowhere to run from new world government...

    UK Brown calls for new group to Police global environment issues...

    The Prime Minister will say: “Never again should we face the deadlock that threatened to pull down those talks. Never again should we let a global deal to move towards a greener future be held to ransom by only a handful of countries. One of the frustrations for me was the lack of a global body with the sole responsibility for environmental stewardship.

    S B wrote:
    Hopefully the Chinese will have nothing to do with anything that Brown proposes.
    Not content with destroying the finances of the UK, this morbid prat would no doubt find much pleasure in destroying the finances of other countries.

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  2. Mark Steyn addresses one of my pet peeves. The high muckety mucks can buy their way around carbon problems, often with our money, while us commoners must sit at home or take public transit.

    Climate Hypocrites
    Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes.

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  3. Yes, it's all about Obama
    Samuelson:
    His self-indulgent crusade to seize the liberal holy grail of 'universal coverage' won't work.

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  4. Anonymous bob said...

    "Like this--just cause all the climate data has been shown to a BIG FRAUD, that doesn't mean climate change ain't real, ASH argues.

    How in the hell do you argue with that?"


    Mostly I don't bother arguing with folks like you boobie - I mean, c'mon, "Just cause all the climate data has been shown to a BIG FRAUD" demonstrates the intellectual depth that must be dealt with if one were to seriously entertain your ideas.


    Anonymous bob said...

    "You are, basically, all a bunch of assholes.

    Even you, al-doug, sometimes.

    You should all be ashamed of yourselves, but of course, you are not."


    hee hee hee, this after he writes all that unseemly stuff to MLD here on a public blog. It reminds me of the experience of reading Tiger's sext messages though he never intended the general public to read them -

    - how banal.

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  5. Holiday Advertisers Seek Coveted Dicktard Demographic

    NEW YORK—A series of brightly colored and inoffensive ad campaigns will also target the key fuckbrain and asshat market segments.

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  6. LOL!

    The Onion is profanely funny!

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  7. "Mostly I don't bother arguing with folks like you boobie"

    See, there's something inherently wrong with that, Ash. You've lazily swiped another guy's put-down while simply piling on.

    Be your own man. Be original. Be audacious.

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  8. Why bother - not really worth the effort now is it?

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  9. Bob Saget is advertising homecall pap smears on Miller Show.
    Gaurantees to wipe front to back.

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  10. "Why bother"?

    You "bother" to mimic.

    You tell me.

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  11. I'm just following bob's exhortation to argue by ridicule. All that schmaltzy pining for MLD screams out for it and boobie is an appropriate term when he starts screeching about others idiocy:

    "Their name was possibly based on the Spanish slang term bobo, meaning "dunce", as these tame birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships, where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing to this, boobies are often mentioned as having been caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors, notably Captain Bligh of the Bounty and his loyalists, during their famous voyage after being set adrift by Fletcher Christian and his mutineers"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby

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  12. I built a live Booby Trap on the farm.

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  13. The only good Booby is a hostage Booby.

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  14. "All that schmaltzy pining for MLD screams out for it and boobie..."



    There are worse things in the world than schmaltzy pining. (For an Okinawan sumo wrestler in assless chaps.)

    And again, your gleeful appropriation of "boobie" smacks of childish mimicry.

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  15. That's how nicknames start and stick.

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  16. Indeed. I think it's sad, stupid, and mean, Ash.

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  17. Spies in Plain Sight
    Communist agents pass for run-of-the-mill liberals in our elite institutions.


    Something's rotten in the State Department and DC.

    Nonetheless, during the couple’s time in Washington, nothing about Mr. Myers seemed exceptional. He fit right in with his anti-American attitudes and bitter fury at U.S. policies — his “deep and long-standing anger toward his country,” as court documents put it. “To his liberal neighbors in Northwest D.C. it was nothing out of the ordinary,” according to the Washington Post. “We were all appalled by the Bush years,” volunteered a neighbor.

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  18. Yeah, it's like a form of bullying.

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  19. Verbal bullying can also involve sending cruel instant or email messages or even posting insults about a person on a website — practices that are known as cyberbullying.

    One of the most painful aspects of bullying is that it is relentless. Most people can take one episode of teasing or name calling or being shunned at the mall. However, when it goes on and on, bullying can put a person in a state of constant fear.

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  20. Makes you wonder how many "Myers" are walking the streets....

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  21. Safe to say hundreds of thousands of malcontent misfits. Probably thousands of actual spies, especially Chinese.

    Joe McCarthy was right.

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  22. insulting someone who loves to toss out the insults himself is a form of bullying? My my what a bunch of PC rightwingers you've become.

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  23. The knife cuts both ways.

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  24. It certainly does and I've experienced my share of ridicule, primarily spewing forth from Bob.

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  25. "insulting someone who loves to toss out the insults himself is a form of bullying? My my what a bunch of PC rightwingers you've become."

    I have to agree with Ash on this one. At least with his thought.

    However,

    Boobie? It, like Bob's constant use of Dirty Dinky for one of our higher ranking members of the board are kind of candyass insults.

    Try not to embarass yourselves boys. You can do better than this.

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  26. candyass....CANDYASS!!! How dare you!!!!!!

    I'm taking all my toys and leaving RIGHT NOW!

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  27. "...It, like Bob's constant use of Dirty Dinky for one of our higher ranking members of the board, are kind of candyass insults.

    Sorry, I left out a comma and I know how this offends PC Trish's anal fixation on punctuation.



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  28. When in doubt (,) leave it out.






    Proper punctuation saves lives.

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  29. "Proper punctuation saves lives."

    :)


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  30. We're not PC here at the EB.

    We all like to wield the shiv and flick the jab every now and then.

    Having said that, polite society makes exceptions for the "sick and less fortunate". To not do so is boorish.

    Just flickin' the jab, boss. :)

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  31. The PC reference in my post above was for "parenthetical clause" as opposed to politically correct.

    After you jumped on someone over mis-use of a comma, I noticed one of your posts made up of one sentence that ran about four inches on the page. It was made up of a whole string of parenthetical clauses and phrases making it very difficult to read.

    I re-read it three or for times and still had a hard time understanding it. So I thought this would be a good opportunity to stick it to the girl (that is, in the sense of turn the tables on her of course.) I assumed there was no way this could be grammatically correct.

    So I checked it out with spell/grammar check and, to my surprise and admittedly to my disappointment, there was not one red, green, or blue underline.

    I have to admit it girl, you do know your punctuation.

    (Of course I still couldn't understand what you were trying to say.)


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  32. (Of course I still couldn't understand what you were trying to say.)

    - Quirk

    I like to think of that as a part of my charm.

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  34. Defense Contracts

    Should DOD consider US jobs when awarding defense contracts?

    "The DOD is not a social-service organization," said Jacques Gansler, who served as the Pentagon's top weapons buyer in the Clinton administration. "Its mission is providing national security for the nation. Its mission is not to provide subsidies for jobs. The DOD is not in the business of employing people for the sake of employing them."

    VS.

    "This is the only country in the world where major weapons contracts are awarded without any thought to their economic impact," said Loren Thompson, a defense industry consultant at the Lexington Institute.

    A tough choice?

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  35. "I like to think of that as a part of my charm."

    There is no denying that it does have a certain mystique.

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  36. "if in doubt, leave it out"

    I can apply that wisdom to all kinds of things....

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  37. Regulators once again postpone testing toys for lead.

    "The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to delay the requirement until 2011. The panel in January voted to push back for a year toy-testing rules that were to take effect earlier this year, following complaints from manufacturers and toy sellers that the rules were confusing and expensive."


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  38. Winners and Losers on Healthcare

    "The analysis, done by the Democratic polling firm of Bennett, Petts & Normington and obtained by the Fix, concludes that "large losses of more than 20 seats have only occurred when the president's approval rating has fallen significantly below 50 percent."

    The four elections in which significant seat shifts happened -- 1978 (Democrats lost 15), 1982 (Republicans lost 26), 1994 (Democrats lost 54) and 2006 (Republicans lost 30) -- all corresponded with weak presidential job-approval numbers in the two months before voters cast ballots.

    By contrast, in the four midterms in which the president carried an approval rating above 50 percent, his party either gained seats (in 1998 and 2002) or suffered minimal defeats -- a five-seat GOP setback for Ronald Reagan in 1986 and an eight-seat loss for George H.W. Bush in 1990.

    Given the conclusiveness of that data,[ ? ] both parties are right to keep a close eye on Obama's standing with the American people over the next 10 months. In the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, 50 percent of the public approved of the job Obama was doing, data consistent with other surveys gauging perception of the president's job performance.

    If that number goes up by five percentage points between now and Election Day 2010, history suggests Democrats will be looking at small-scale losses in the House. If it goes down by five points, the party's 40-seat majority could well be cut by half (or more)."



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  39. Illuminating the the Human Cost of War: "The Good Soldiers"

    For millions of Americans who are disconnected from that experience, "The Good Soldiers" offers one tenuous, luminous thread to that distant world.

    "They were soldiers whose choices had ended when they had signed contracts and taken their oaths," Finkel writes. "Whether they had joined for reasons of patriotism, of romantic notions, to escape a broken home of some sort, or out of economic need, their job now was to follow the orders of other soldiers who were following orders, too. Somewhere, far from Iraq, was where the orders began, but by the time they reached Rustamiyah, the only choice left for a soldier was to choose which lucky charm to tuck behind his body armor, or which foot to line up in front of the other, as he went out to follow the order of the day."



    "The Good Soldiers" $15.20 at Amazon.

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  40. Opposition Leaders Funeral Spurs Protests in Iran

    The political opposition remains a strong force in Iran. They can't be ignored in the debate on what the US should be doing with regard to Iran's nuclear program. Any overt actions by the US would likely unite the country against us. Probably one of the factors in Adminijabber's policy of trying to push confrontation.

    "The funeral of a founding father of Iran’s Islamic revolution now embraced as the spiritual leader of the reform movement became a vast opposition protest on Monday, as mourners flooded the holy city of Qum and faced off with Iranian security forces and the volunteer Basij militia…

    Ayatollah Montazeri was widely regarded as the most knowledgeable religious scholar in Iran, and that gave his criticisms special potency, analysts say. His religious credentials also prevented the authorities from silencing or jailing him. Last month, he stunned many in Iran and abroad by apologizing for his role in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran, which he called a mistake. Iran’s leaders celebrate the takeover every year as a foundational event of the Islamic revolution…"



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  41. The Essence of the Aftermath...mini-thread...hot, smoking chromic acid quenched by ribald commentary...chuckles at the bar...meanwhile, Linearthinker was blissfully asleep...unaware of the vengeful wrath his innocent post had engendered...


    Anonymous bob said...

    Fuck you, Linear, you mocked, MOCKED, a woman you don't even know.

    YOU LINEAR, ARE A PIECE OF CRAP.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:18:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    Settle down, Bob. You don't know her either. Hell, she might be an Okinawan Sumo Wrestler for all you know.

    It's the internet, Bubba.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:20:00 AM EST
    Blogger Doug said...

    Damm!

    Mon Dec 21, 05:20:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    Did I mention I'm really the King of Sweden? I just use this "proxy" server in Ms to play with you fellas.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:21:00 AM EST
    Blogger Doug said...

    "Settle down, Bob. You don't know her either. Hell, she might be an Okinawan Sumo Wrestler for all you know."
    ---
    That's exactly what I was thinking!

    Mon Dec 21, 05:21:00 AM EST
    Anonymous bob said...

    I want my name off this worthless blog, now.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:22:00 AM EST
    Blogger Doug said...

    I'm a tranny that never came out of the closet.
    Much less the house.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:22:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    Go get a little sleep, Bob. You'll Love us again in the morning.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:23:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    Yeah, but we already knew That, Doug.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:24:00 AM EST
    Blogger Doug said...

    That and two aspirin.
    Ambien, if you got em.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:25:00 AM EST
    Blogger desert rat said
    ...

    [I love this next part]

    I vote he has to stay.

    He can ban himself from posting, but cannot resign from the Board, Like any good boys' club, he's in for the duration!

    That's my vote.


    Mon Dec 21, 05:25:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    I second that. Why should HE have all the fun.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:26:00 AM EST
    Blogger Doug said...

    Oh! the humanity!

    Mon Dec 21, 05:27:00 AM EST
    Blogger rufus said...

    The Cosa Nostra doesn't let people just resign, willy nilly.

    We're at least as worthless as they are.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:28:00 AM EST
    Blogger desert rat said...

    Only the women of the Bar get to resign, multiple times, they having the prerogatives due their fairer gender.

    Mon Dec 21, 05:29:00 AM EST

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  42. By the way, fellers. Viktor is probably collecting annotated archives of y'all's threads. He told me it would make millions, a serial sitcom. Said you couldn't dream up that shit. Nobody'd believe it!

    :-)

    Old Viktor's a smart dude.

    I appointed myself casting director. That's a work in progress.

    Thanks for y'all's time. You can get back to the pissing contest now.

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  43. Shucks, Whit. You took it down 'fore I could check it out.

    :-(

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  44. The link's the same but discretion is the better part of valor.

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  45. A lesson I'm oft reminded of. After the fact.

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  46. A small number of Iranian troops entered Iraq, where they took control of an oil well and raised the Iranian flag Dec. 18. The Iranian-Iraqi border in this region is poorly defined and is contested, with the Iranians claiming this well is in Iranian territory not returned after the Iran-Iraq War.

    ...

    Multiple sources have reported that Tehran ordered the incident. The Iranian government is aware that Washington has said the end of 2009 was to be the deadline for taking action against Iran over its nuclear program — and that according to a White House source, the United States could extend that deadline to Jan. 15, 2010.

    ...

    Iran’s problem becomes clear when we consider Tehran’s options. These options fall into three groups:

    1. Interdicting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf through the use of mines and anti-ship missiles. This would result in a dramatic increase in world oil prices on the Iranian attempt alone and could keep them high if Tehran’s efforts succeeded.

    ...

    2. Causing massive destabilization in Iraq. The Iranians retain allies and agents in Iraq, which has been experiencing increased violence and destabilization over the past months.

    ...

    3. Use Hezbollah to initiate a conflict with Israel, and as a global tool for terrorist attacks on American and allied targets. Hezbollah is far more sophisticated and effective than al Qaeda was at its height, and would be a formidable threat should Iran choose — and Hezbollah agree — to play this role.


    Incursion in Context

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  47. 179. JJRedfan:

    RWE,

    One possible direction may be the use of an informal currency based on caliber rather than some arbitrary denomination of a bankrupt gummint.

    Word problem: John has 3 x 50 Caliber rounds, 7 .45 ACP, and a 50-round box of subsonic .22. If he trades the box of .22 with Julie for a head of cabbage, two onions and one live chicken, can she make change if she only has a box of 25 Russian 9mm cartridges?

    Or a currency of canned goods. 1 can of Danish Ham = 6 cans of tuna = 12 cans of peaches = 18 cans of beans & weenies = 36 cans of Puppy Chow.

    “This case of condensed milk is redeemable for 1 pound of SPAM at any location…”

    One hesitates to extend speculation into certain areas – lingerie, tube sox, No.2 pencils, 3-in-1 oil, water filters, high-efficiency camp stoves, Dr. Bonner’s Peppermint soap, Tampax, etc.

    Woodcrafty knowledge and primitive technologies may again become highly-prized. Composting, cultivating a family garden, building cob (mud) structures, milling wheat berries into usable flour, blacksmithy, herbal medicine, first aid, midwivery, weaving, felting, knitting, papermaking, gravedigging, et cetera.

    Accountants and bookkeepers, and scribes will be much in demand in a post-technological society that became dependent on cash registers with pictures because waitrons otherwise could not enter transactions or make change for payment tendered for a burger and fries.

    Buy stock in Boy Scouts of America.

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  48. Sorry I was first to the riber, fellas.
    Luck of the draw.
    Such is life.

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  49. "The Iranian government is aware that Washington has said the end of 2009 was to be the deadline for taking action against Iran over its nuclear program — and that according to a White House source, the United States could extend that deadline to Jan. 15, 2010."

    Where do they get this shit?

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  50. "...a serial sitcom. Said you couldn't dream up that shit. Nobody'd believe it!"

    - Linear

    It's all fun and games til somebody loses an eye.

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  51. I think someone brought a gun to a snowball fight.

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  52. Here is my two cents about climate change...

    The global alarmists are predicting a increase in temp's will cause the destruction of what we know as the earth....

    Siberia used to be a cold place but not anymore.. the alarmists are complaining that the "peat bogs" of siberia are warming up and giving off methane gas ( a bad gas)...

    My query...

    If the PEAT BOGS exist, and the are NOT that old (in geologic time) the siberia HAD to be warmer, in the NOT to distant past.

    Fact facts, there was no human internal combustion engines around the planet the last time the BOGS were in fact FORMING...

    So if the BOGs in fact do exist, then in fact it was WARMER not to long ago in Siberia....

    Then why would it be so terrible if the planet warmed up again?

    Siberia, Canada, Chicago, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska would all benefit...

    Who would really loose?

    The people of the desert for one...

    I can live with the Sahara, the Gobi & death valley being 3 degrees warmer...

    So now I am a PROPONENT of Global Warming...

    I want the Sahara to be hotter...

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  53. Doug said...
    179. JJRedfan:

    RWE,





    Doug, I advocate everyone having at least 3000 rounds of 2-3 types of ammo....

    It aint much but it will cover you for those trading situations if a short time...

    what is the real cost of keeping 3000 rounds of a .40? it's one large (heavy) briefcase...

    It's not what you have in a "go bag" but it's not a bad thing to have as reserves...

    same goes for shot gun shells (not as weather resistant)

    .38

    .22

    Real value will be had in 30.06

    Of course a nice reloader may actually also be an issue.. (collecting the brass could be interesting)

    reloaders are not that expensive but getting the supplies for it could be an issue....

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  54. doug...


    Buy stock in Boy Scouts of America.




    Belong to the BSA, learn what they offer and push beyond that...

    Philmont and the Road to Eagle only take you 1/2 way there....

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  55. Get off to a good early start as a Weeblo or Brownie.

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  56. WiO: I want the Sahara to be hotter...

    Unfortunately it also means members of your tribe in the Levant will say, "It Isreali hot" too.

    But you make a great point about Siberia being hotter once. There was also a time when the whole planet was covered in ice. Obama says it's time for a change, but when it comes to the weather, he's more conservative than the Gipper.

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  57. It's not what you have in a "go bag" but it's not a bad thing to have as reserves...

    - What Is

    I've always wondered: What's REALLY in the Go Bag other than...jerky. Lots of jerky. And cheddar goldfish.

    Change of underwear, maybe.

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  58. No, don't tell me.

    It'll just ruin the mystery.

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  59. I just got thru photoshoping a basket full of junkfood for my wife:
    Sending the pic with some other stuff to some rich guy that's coming here on vacation.

    Kinda hard to make junk food look high class.

    When I asked about that, she said he had kids.
    Then it all made sense.
    Trish's inner kid loves cheddar fish?

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  60. Wife says they were in the basket!!

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  61. Trish's inner kid loves cheddar fish?

    - Doug

    Heh.

    Trish's Somewhat Better Half puts away cheddar goldfish like nobody's business when he's on the Go.

    Must also include at least a few cans of Skoal.

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  62. Bob thanks for sticking up for me. I wouldn't let it bother you, though. It's not worth it. You can get angry and retaliate but that wouldn't make you any better than them. They're just jealous, frigid, lonely old men. They have nothing better to do than sit on this blog and bash people who they think are inferior to them.

    See, the thing is Bob, they don't know anything about the situation and that bothers them. For all they know I could be you next door neighbor.

    They only see black and white. People like that can't step out of the box and see other people for who they really are. You can. I knew what you meant when you used the word vixen. And that's all that matters.

    They don't know me so if it makes them happy to mock me, then so be it. Don't let it upset you. Please. It doesn't upset me because if it did they would know it.

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  64. All you need is a small reload press, for everything but rimfire .22s.

    Those .22s, you'll need well over 10,000 rounds at a minimum. A semi auto handgun and rifle for each member of the family, along with a scoped rifle for small game at distance.

    For center fire and shot gun rounds, the powder stores best outside the brass.
    If you think push will come to shove.

    But if you think you'll be trading ammo for food, your shit will be stinkin', regardless.

    If you're not in a settled small town, part of an established community of friends and neighbors, you or any other "survivalist" will be easy meat.

    The lone mountain man always was, go watch Jeremiah Johnson, there are real survivalist lessons in it.

    It is much more the reality than "I am Legend".

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  65. Cheddar Fish, breakfast of Warriors.

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  66. Thing about nacho Doritos is, they stink up a vehicle. So do Cheetos. Smell like dirty gym socks.

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  67. No one was mocking you, Ms Melody.

    You were not the subject of the discussion. Excepting that boob targeted you with his prose.

    Which spoke of his hard-on for you, amongst the boys of the blog.

    It's all about boob telling us his fantasies while sleeping alone, while telling me I'm ignorant, nothing in the thread was about you, but in boob's mind.

    Not a word by any of us was 'bout you.

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  68. Flying in a cargo plane, however, it's probably not a consideration.

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  69. There being more than one vixen in my life.

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  70. I know. Why do you think I didn't say anything? You guys just pick on him in a very malicious way that I don't like. I know he does the same thing. But I wasn't here long ago to know who started the first name calling.

    I can't help that I have an aura about me that some people like.

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  71. Okay. Now I'm really going to vomit.

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  72. Must be the (squinting at label) Don Julio Tequila.

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  73. hmm, I did not know that Cheetos stink up the car...

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  74. Melody: I can't help that I have an aura about me that some people like.

    I like Elizabeth Arden Red Door for my aura.

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  75. Grounds for summary ejection from the vehicle, Cheetos are.

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  76. I'm not a perfume wearer. Although, it smells good, I'm very funny with any fragrance right down to the shampoo I use.

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  77. re: Skoal

    Friend of mine's wife was a cancer doc's assistant. Oral surgeon.

    Kept patient privacy pretty good until one day.

    Came home and said she'd had a difficult time at the office. Patient came in for a check up on a palate reconstruction.


    Used the skin from you know where.

    Somehow they got skin with hair follicles. She had a difficult time keeping a straight face.

    Said at least the hair was growing in the right direction...

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  78. Can't go downrange or wherever the hell without it, gnossos.

    And God forbid anyone discover you're a relapsed, closet smoker.

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  79. L'Occitane Rose body wash, for me, MeLoDy.

    And Joop perfume on the occasional evening.

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  80. Any fragrance has to be light and airy. Very subtle. It can't be fruity or flowery. I have to tell you this story.

    The only thing I wear is body lotion and again the scent has to be just right. And when you find that, just right scent, it always seems to get discontinued. Of course, I find the ultimate lotion that is just right and when I went back to buy more I couldn't find it. So I asked the girl if they discontinued it so we look all around and of course we couldn't find it. So she helped me pick out a new scent. I tried it. I like it. I bought it. I used it everyday for two weeks and then had to go find it in my daughter's room. She said, "Wow, Mom I really like that stuff." I'm sitting there talking to her and tossing the tube in the air and looked down to read it and I couldn't believe my eyes. For the past two weeks my daughter and I relished in the sheer elegance of hair gel.

    Yup! The girl sold me hair lotion in place of body lotion. I wandered why it was sticky for a second after I put it on.

    I've been using Rusk Calm body lotion ever since.

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  81. lavender is my favorite scent. Not in perfume but pure essential oil. I like to just pick it and rub it between my fingers.

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  82. Next week should be much more relaxing for me.

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  84. My daddy used to get up every morning about 4:00 and milk cows. Then, again, every evening. Then wash all the cans, tubes, lines, etc. 365 Days/Yr. Back-Breaking Work.

    So, it was with Amazement that I read This article. Cows that Milk Themselves

    Hint: Robotics are involved.


    What do I keep telling you?

    Robotics.

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  85. "...it always seems to get discontinued."

    This is the sad story of almost Everything Good that one finds.

    It's a conspiracy.

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  86. Cornhuskers Lotion, $4 a bottle, odor free, soothes those rough chapped hands after a hard day of shopping.

    And, for all those special occasions, the old green can.

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  87. Cornhuskers Lotion! Oh My God!

    That was an everyday thing for my Ozark, Mo., grandmother and I can vividly recall the smell of it just now.

    Chanel No. 5 on (church) Sundays.

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  88. Thank God someone agrees with me. It doesn't matter what it is food, body products or TV shows as soon as I find something I like...boom it's gone.

    And as for the post at hand this is why assholes shouldn't carry guns.

    Also, it pisses me off that I'm always five seconds to late so see the deleted post. I want to know what it said.

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  89. You have to watch things you use especially if it's medicated. It will make things worse.

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  90. especially for the lips like; blistex, chapstick, burts bees, etc....

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  91. good old bag balm it's good for cow utters and it's good for your lips.

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  92. when i bought it they didn't have the small can. I have had the same can for like 8 years. thank god there's not an expiration date on it.

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  93. corn huskers is good, too. but it's slimy. I can't have slimy on my hands.

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  94. I'm rambling. It must be time for bed. I can't keep my eyes open.

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  95. Interesting thread, maybe Bob knows Melody better than we thought.

    I did enjoy the story about the hair gel body lotion. Would have enjoyed his prose on that, as I have enjoyed much of what he has written in the past.

    Seems as if Red has diagrammed a sentence or two in her distant past.

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  96. I want to know what it said.

    Just an edit. Bag balm showed up with two green cans in the line cause the link thingee was corrupted.

    All my kids had bag blam used on 'em one time or another. Still have some at home. Cornhuskers is good stuff, too.

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  97. And as for the post at hand this is why assholes shouldn't carry guns.

    An armed society is a polite society.

    Think about it.

    Regarding the post at hand...

    well...

    "...stay out of the damned kitchen."

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  98. L-3 Spy Plane on its way to the goat farm.

    Can EAVESDROP on Conversations

    From 35,000 ft.


    My ex-wife could do that.

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  99. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_xHi7E5OQ&feature=player_embedded

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  100. Teresita said...
    WiO: I want the Sahara to be hotter...

    Unfortunately it also means members of your tribe in the Levant will say, "It Isreali hot" too.



    members of MY tribe dont say "isreali anything"


    As for what israelis might say with warmer weather?

    Let's create micro climate with drip irrigation and make alush tropics where we can grow rareplants and harvest medicines...

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  101. desert rat said...
    All you need is a small reload press, for everything but rimfire .22s.

    Those .22s, you'll need well over 10,000 rounds at a minimum. A semi auto handgun and rifle for each member of the family, along with a scoped rifle for small game at distance.

    For center fire and shot gun rounds, the powder stores best outside the brass.
    If you think push will come to shove.

    But if you think you'll be trading ammo for food, your shit will be stinkin', regardless.

    If you're not in a settled small town, part of an established community of friends and neighbors, you or any other "survivalist" will be easy meat.

    The lone mountain man always was, go watch Jeremiah Johnson, there are real survivalist lessons in it.

    It is much more the reality than "I am Legend".




    We have a group of 6-8 families that have 200 acres we can get to about 1 hour away in southern ohio...

    We are all working both independently and together on a variety of situations.

    I am looking to purchase some land with water and a cave in my own neck of the woods...

    If i can figure it correct, I will be able to write it too...

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  102. Bottom Line: If the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate country, it would be tied with Germany as the world's third largest economy. It would also be larger than the entire economies of India and Russia combined.

    U.S. Manufacturing - World's 3rd Largest GDP

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  103. That's the one I bought last summer for about $550. It's still in the box. I like my old Compaq with Windows XP. Once I got the Avast AV package Doug recommended, the bugs disappeared in the old one that I thought was fixin' to crash. I'll get around to using the new one one of these days.

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  104. If a Dairy Farmer can afford a robot that can identify a cow, then identify the teats, then position the tubes on the teats, and milk the cow,

    There's not a job on an assembly line anywhere in the world that can't be done cheaper, and more efficiently by a robot.

    The people with the Capital would seem to come out alright; but what about the "workers?"

    And, then again, how can the ex-worker afford to buy the product?

    THIS IS Truly going to be the question of the 21st Century. And, not the "2nd" half of the century, either.

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  105. "Bottom Line: If the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate country, it would be tied with Germany as the world's third largest economy. It would also be larger than the entire economies of India and Russia combined."


    On a percentage of GDP basis, US manufacturing contributes less than half of what it did 50 years ago to the economy.

    Grasshopper, when you can remove this pebble from my hand you will be ready.

    You are not yet ready.

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  106. Of course, that was, also, the "question" of the first half of the 18th Century.

    The Luddites

    Is it "different" this time?

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  107. That's not the point, Q. It's still Massive.

    It's just that the "economy" as a whole has grown even faster.

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  108. Look, Q, that Dell Inspiron, while allowing the "service" part of the economy to grow faster than the year 2000 model, contributed only 1/3 as much to GDP by its manufacture and sale.

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  109. Or, another way, my Impala cost a Lot less in hrs worked than my first car, a 62' ford galaxy. But, the maintenance is considerably less, and it will easily last four times as long.

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  110. Pebble's gone ain't it, Master?

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  111. Naw, Ruf, I just moved it to the other hand. You have to watch close grasshopper.

    What you have said is true; however, you seem to ignore all but the obvious implications of it. Two streams back on the “Stealth Reparations – The Racial Implications of Healthcare” blog, I left you a rather lengthy response to your, in my opinion, rather Pollyannaish comments about the economy, unfunded liabilities, healthcare costs, etc. It was at the end of the stream, right before T’s usual “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here” speech, so you might not have seen it.

    However, the point was that when things are expanding exponentially, they will continue to do so until they don’t, and then the shit hits the fan. A point you seem indifferent to.

    You have pointed out the miracles brought about by productivity. The majority of that progress we've seen has been because of Moore’s Law as applied to technological improvements made possible by smaller, more powerful chips. Chips keep getting smaller and their capacity doubles every couple of years. This affects everything, computers, digital cameras, test equipment, manufacturing equipment, robots, and on and on.

    I was watching the Science Channel tonight and saw a program on Henrich Schohn. It reminded me that today’s chips are silicon based and at the current pace of innovation, in ten years, transistors will be down to atom size. Beyond that size, the silicon falls apart. That means we will not be able to count on the same productivity gains we have experienced in the past without some new leap forward into another technology. Will we get it in ten years? There’s a good chance. There are a number of technologies people are looking at. Should we assume one will be there on time? At a similar cost? I guess it depends on your philosophy, ant or grasshopper.

    Further, GDP growth is based on two factors, increases in productivity and increases in the amount of people working. Robots may increase productivity but they don’t buy a damn thing.

    Anyway, I guess all I'm saying is that I see a shit storm coming in the next 10-15 years, and it pisses me off that you damn grasshoppers are so damned happy all the time.

    :)

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  112. All right grasshopper, one more time with the...

    Hey, I wasn't ready.

    How about two out of three?



    Well, you still have to walk across this rice paper without leaving a mark.


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  113. "An armed society is a polite society."

    You know how I feel about guns. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

    As far as Bob goes A)there's a difference bullying and sarcasm B) he has good taste in women and C)he has good taste in expressing himself on that subject. He feels comfortable enough in his skin to share that...here. And y'all took away my knight and shining armor.

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  114. Melody: As far as Bob goes A)there's a difference bullying and sarcasm B) he has good taste in women and C)he has good taste in expressing himself on that subject

    I've been pretty much out of the loop, working and all for the first half of this week, but if you mean that Bobal is gone that's a crying shame. He and I made a connection a few years back over a shared love of Huckleberry Finn and he's been one of my favorites.

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  115. Further, GDP growth is based on two factors, increases in productivity and increases in the amount of people working. Robots may increase productivity but they don’t buy a damn thing.

    Job security for me, I'm the girl that fixes the robots. They can't get robots to do that.

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  116. T, he'll be back. He just needs to cool down and realize that staying away only makes the bully sit back with a grin, thinking he's had the last word.

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  117. You know how I feel about guns.

    How would I know how you feel about guns. Why would I care?

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  118. And y'all took away my knight and shining armor.

    As far as Bob goes, he ran away, as is his habit, if you haven't noticed.

    Don't worry. He'll come slinking back. Another habit. He can't resist slatterns.

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  119. "Job security for me, I'm the girl that fixes the robots. They can't get robots to do that."

    Yet.

    Google 'grey goo'.

    Remember, nanotechnology and the the von Nuemann machines?

    Hell, T, haven't you seen any of the terminator movies?


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  120. Well, now I think I'm going to have agree with, Bob.

    YOU ARE A FUCKER

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