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Another poster mocking Devolved Leader, just to liven up the afternoon thread.
http://bit.ly/HOQ3MW

I've always wondered, when, exactly, does "afternoon" end?

Hello ST site. Long time no comment.

In the all-out Obama re-election barrage, they will send up ten thousand flaming trial balloons. If several thousand get shot down, and folks go down with them, that's the costs of war; the ones that get through are all that matter, those themes and memes which can be fanned to successful distraction and society-disruptive insanity to suit their ends.

Wrote the above, then I found that John Nolte at Breitbart noted that "in a speech last Friday at 'The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,' President Obama seemed to be laying the groundwork for exactly this attack."

Hi, HillBuzz. Long time since I’ve visited the hive.

Re “Love is the answer.” Scariest thing I’ve seen since… disco. I saw the video yesterday, but when I saw it again here, I remembered that as I drove in this morning, I heard Beck & co. talking about how suddenly Jesse rile-em-up Jackson and that Black Panther woman who was screaming for blood in the streets a few days ago both dialed it back yesterday and changed their themes to “love.”

Where do they all go to get the Memo? or Tweet. “60s r back. Wear tie-dye. Wednesday is a rest day.” (Farscape joke)

Sharpton. Not Jackson. Sharpton. Can’t imagine how I confused the two.

What? What is this with the giant penii? I come here for the grand tetons iykwimaocyd!

To be fair, at the time, n!gg@r was no more a term of derision than the general racism of the South. I mean, it was just a word, not meant to be any more derogatory than Negro, although more frequently employed by the 'lower' classes, of all races. Certainly less fraught with ugliness than how blacks tend to use it about themselves now.

I had a most interesting talk about the term once with a college friend, a black inner-Detroit fellow, discussing the colloquial usage. He later told me he had me pegged for a typical white Southern racist, but I think he got past that. Different cultures. His house was the only one not burned on his block in the '68 riots, because his family and a white family shared the house! I did not grow up like that!

That's no bunny toe! Sheesh! Hef himself ordered those stiff plastic shields that they had to wear down there. That's a well-known fact that I just entered in Wikipedia.

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It's what it says on the teaser I get by RSS. And what a teaser it is. So intriguing. So... easy to do I'll bet.

Guess it worked. Here I am.

First report I managed to get about the crash, they talked about the dumping of the fuel, the evidence that they had ejected low & late, their injuries and I knew what those guys probably did. Yet no immediate reports of fatalities. A few days of some unaccounted for, and then not even that. Don't know how bad those injuries were, but the whole episode is just astonishing.

Marvel at the incredible Forklift! Gape in wonder at the innovative wooden pallet! It's modrin timez I tells ya!

Transistor "will do almost anything a vacuum tube will do." Heh. Now that the cathode ray tube is history, I think we can remove the "almost."

When I want to impress the kids, I tell them about how when I was very young, we already had voice-activated dialing. I'd pick up the receiver, the operator would say, "Number please?" I'd say my friend's three-digit number. Later we got dial phones, but they didn't work as well. Especially when a number had a lot of zeroes in it. The emergency number was the longest-to-dial number. Good planning. Pardon me. Gotta go take some Geritol and sit in the rocking chair.

I felt a terrible disturbance in the force. The AoS force. And it had nothing to do with the Borg or the Death Star.

Just had to say that. Now, as always, I hit & run. Goood night, gracies.

(To the tune of Maxwell's Silver Hammer)
BO was stuttering
fuklycluster uttering...

Fun with statistics. However, I wonder... a lot of things.

What are the comparative numbers on the size of the military in those years, the per capita ratio? What changes of culture or technology, training or techniques actually effected the difference in non-hostile deaths? Knowing what made the difference over those 25 years could be important to continuing the trend.

Also, selecting these two years doesn't necessarily signify trending; those could be statistically anomalous periods for whatever reasons. Lots of difference in the whole world in those 25 years. Would be interesting to see the larger picture.

I'm not knocking the graphic (nor trying to detract from its wtf impact), and I am not suggesting that you need to go do all that other research! (heh:) Just musing. Wonder what the comparative figures would be in, say, the worst of WW1. Logistics and technology in the past took quite a "non-hostile" toll.

Also... I guess Carter's helicopter in the desert counted as accidental.

Ramblin' on now.

Pipe fitting Machines. Artificial intelligence doilies! March backwards without thinking of mayonnaise. Write three pages single-spaced on why Obama is a stu stu stu stu stuttering cluster fu fu fu uck of a m m m m iserable fffffffffffff fu fu fu fu fu fuuuuuuuuuu

Once again, it's off to bed just as the excitement (yaaawwwn) begins. Feels like a cold, but doc says it's viral. Body doesn't care.

This one stuck with me 'cause I might've said it:
820 Smart ass crap pops into my head pretty much 24/7 and I really have a hard time sometimes remember that not everyone has my rather warped sense of humor.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at April 04, 2012 12:14 AM (R5yLq)

Another sixty years, and maybe I'll learn.

Good night, Gracie. Everybody play nice.

Well, I was going to say: Er, no, friend Patty, I meant italicize just the single Latin word. Italicising the whole phrase just seems to... emphasize the pun. But I'm not going to say that. Having made my little joke and then actually seeing you respond was too devastating. I can't handle the power. Or maybe it was being called "dear." (Might be this cold medicine....)

Time to play it once again:

Steve Goodman: A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request
http://youtu.be/7xBxZGQ1dJk

I sure miss Steve!

[2nd try. Hope this isn't a duplicate post, but I don't see the original.]

"Obama did his coke-related nose rubby thing..."

AS he's saying "Ronald Reagan." As I recall, at various times, he would do that casual middle-finger thing when saying "Hillary" or "McCain." Thumbing his nose or flipping the bird, while alluding to someone, just those short bits. I'm too busy to do that one this week. Sooo... maybe the magnificent Granny Jan? :D

Oh, G#@D! PETE! Put a WARNING up! NSFW, eyes, or anything else. Didn't watch the vid, but the still was bad enough. Time for brain bleach.

Just for that, take this!

Assuming Romney, who would he pick for veep? My thinking has been going this way (and the pessimism may be a condition of this cold or whatever I've got).

Sarah? Good Heavens, no, as if she'd take that a second time anyway.
Santorum? Even less likely.

Any Constitution-defending anyone? West? Jindal? Rubio? Ryan? No, no, no, and probably not. Who's left out of the runners-up? Newt? Would he even take it? Romney/Gingrich -- it's as if they ran McCain/McCain! (Two pro-bama health care Republicans? It's come to this? Really?)

Beyond that, anybody's guess. A dramatic choice like Rice wouldn't take it. Bolton might, but he won't be asked and the Left would treat him like the second coming of Dick Cheney (and they'd be about right - heh).

Maybe someone right-wing but still acceptable, like most of the Oklahoma congresscritters. But, sadly, I see the WIN receding more and more into the distance as I contemplate, well, Romney/anyone to start with.

Our only hope may be that the chip in O's head will fry so badly he'll do something so outrageous, he won't make it to the convention. But then what will we have to run against? Shrillery/Biden?

And with four more years of the Manchurian President, all I see is, hunker down, stock up on food, water, ammo, and barter-able goods, Short wave radios. Harder times ahead. Even if it doesn't all collapse dramatically, it's going to be a long politically-nuclear winter.

Relatedly (I guess - brain's running in low gear today), just watched this vid yesterday, one of my greatest heroes, Milton Friedman, addresses "The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!" I think maybe h/t to Ace of Spades.
[Link to YouTube]

And perhaps even less on-topic, I'll throw this in anyway, courtesy of AC on Moonbattery:

A young commie asks his political officer, “So what do we do after we liquidate the one percent?”

The seasoned Marxist responds, “Oh, that’s easy – then we liquidate the one percent.”

Oh, wow! The thread is up early enough I can follow some, maybe join in... [starts reading... keeps reading... next morning] So, how is everyone tonight? Hello? Hello?