Tuesday South Park Open Comments

Missed this yesterday, but it was the 15th anniversary of the debut of everyone’s favorite group of foul-mouthed fourth grade libertarians.


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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You know.

  2. El Gordo Avatar

    These guys have a much better grasp of what’s going on with this country than many adults. The often have a hard time understanding the stupid things adults, and politicians in particular, do in response to events and situations. Who knows, if we can elect a Zero as President, one of these days we might elect Cartman.

  3. El Gordo Avatar

    Looks like Zero is bringing in the A team in the name of civil discourse and the like.
    http://donnyferguson.blogspot.com/2012/08/obama-mobster-who-rushed-at-paul-ryan.html

  4. Hamous Avatar

    Hey Wagonburner! You missed one Olympic story for your OC series.

  5. bob42 Avatar

    Last night Super Dave posted this:

    Dishonorable Mention:
    Professor Lemieux had anticipated that his latest paper would be received with skepticism within the small, fractious circle of professional cosmologists, few of whom were prepared to accept his hypothesis that our universe had been created in a marijuana-induced industrial accident by insectoid aliens; nevertheless, he was stung when Hawking airily dismissed it as the Bug Bong Theory.

    Actually, there could be something to this new theory. At least there is some supporting evidence.

  6. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Best use of the del button ever.

  7. Hamous Avatar

    Do you have and inalienable right to your neighbor’s labor?

    Food for thought: we concluded our most deadly Civil War (1860-1865) with the affirmation that one did not have an inalienable right to another human being’s labor. How ironic it would be to elect a president of color who will return us to such plantation thinking?

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Several months ago I mentioned and linked to an article that spoke of a pole shift in progress now with the North Pole moving towards Russia. This Youtube video puts some more meat on that bone and explains a possible scenario why the poles shift on a somewhat regular basis in geologic terms. Gnaw away.

  9. Katfish Avatar

    #9 – YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAW (let’s hope the EPA losers don’t take it to the Supremes)

  10. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #7: Great article
    #10: In the last century when I worked in the artic for a couple of years I was stationed 500 miles north of the north magnetic pole – northern tip of Melville Island, Sabine Peninsula. A recent look now has the pole about 500 miles north – my guesstimate of that location. It apparently moves if my memory is correct about 50 miles a year. I can’t open u-tube from here.
    http://www.google.ca/search?q=melville+island+canada&hl=en&rlz=1T4ADRA_enCA460US460&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=z1kqUNLLEOTVyAHzrIGACg&ved=0CFcQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=550

  11. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Chinese publicly-traded companies are pulling out of US exchanges.

    Some Chinese companies say they are pulling out of U.S. markets because a low share price fails to reflect the strength of their business. Withdrawing also eliminates the cost of complying with American financial reporting rules.

  12. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    #8 Bones
    Sorry to burst your bubble, but…………….

    The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare
    Anyone who cruises the internet or all-night talk radio knows why. The ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala kept a calendar that is about to roll up the red carpet of time, swing the solar system into transcendental alignment with the heart of the Milky Way, and turn Earth into a bowling pin for a rogue planet heading down our alley for a strike.

    /snip

    The Secret NASA Conspiracy
    Some advocates for the 2012 catastrophe say that what will actually cause the devastation is an alignment of planets. There is no planet alignment on the winter solstice in 2012. Nonetheless, advocates of doom connect the fictional alignment to astrological predictions or groundless claims about a reversal of Earth’s magnetic field and unprecedented solar storms. Many internet postings and guests on all-night apocalyptic radio have elaborated on these themes.
    In particular, several threads of irrational thought have created an internet phantom, the secret planet Nibiru. It’s the bowling ball, and Earth is the pin. There is no such planet, though it is often equated with Eris, a plutoid orbiting safely and permanently beyond Pluto. Some insist, however, that a NASA conspiracy is in play and that Nibiru, looming in on the approach, can already be seen in broad daylight from the Southern Hemisphere. It was supposed to become visible from the Northern Hemisphere, too, by last May, but like a fickle blind date, it stood up those awaiting it.
    Others on the Web, confused about the supposed alignment of the winter-solstice sun with the Milky Way’s center, have declared that the Sun is now plummeting to the Milky Way’s center and dragging Earth with it. The predicted result? Earth’s polar axis will shift. Most of what’s claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy, and a level of paranoia worthy of Night of the Living Dead.
    So maybe the Maya were on to us after all. The clock is ticking. And it’s the end of the world as we know it.

    Much, much more:
    http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-guest.html

  13. Katfish Avatar

    #12 – Yet ANOTHER of the 4 QUADRILLION reasons I’ll N E V E R be found on FB!!!!!!!!!

  14. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    #14 texanadian
    🙂 🙂 🙂

  15. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Hope these things don’t get out in South Texas. That’s all we need to go along with the hogs.
    Photo:
    http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./Everglades_giant_python.jpg

    17-foot-long Burmese python caught in Everglades
    By MATT SEDENSKY
    Associated Press
    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida – 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164 1/2 pounds – was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday.
    The snake was pregnant with 87 eggs, also said to be a record. Scientists said the python’s stats show just how pervasive the invasive snakes, which are native to Southeast Asia, have become in South Florida.
    “It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild,” said Kenneth Krysko, a snake expert at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where the euthanized snake was brought. “”There’s nothing stopping them and the native wildlife are in trouble.”

    More:
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/13/17-foot-long-burmese-python-caught-in-everglades/

  16. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    I saw where Trojan condoms company was giving out free vibrating sex toys from push carts in New York Friday. The giveaway was monitored closely.
    Bloomberg had three recipients arrested for super-sizing.

  17. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Vietnam’s airline Viet-Jet hired its flight attendants to dress in Hawaiian bikinis and dance in the aisle.
    The whole world is upside down.
    Flying on a communist airline is like a trip to the Swinging Sixties while flying on a United States airline is like a night in the Hanoi Hilton.

  18. Hamous Avatar

    #18 I think South Texas is probably too dry to support pythons.

  19. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’ve seen stock ponds with lots of growed-up water moccasins in them.

  20. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Michelle Obama scolds someone who is in far better shape than she will ever be and who is actually smaller than her wide @$$ for eating an Egg McMuffin.

  21. Hamous Avatar

    I’ve seen stock ponds with lots of growed-up water moccasins in them.

    Growed-up water moccasins ain’t 17′ long. I suppose pythons may be able to survive in the lower Rio Grande but even that regularly dries up. What Florida should do is create a bounty on Burmese pythons and open season. Within 10 years they’d be wiped out. Jonah Goldberg talked about this earlier in the year:

    I understand that the serpents are very well suited to survive in the Everglades, they have no natural predators, they possess the ability to swim and go without food for up to a year, and the native animals have no natural fear of giant snakes etc etc. Ecologists talk as if this is a lost cause. This amounts to blanket amnesty for illegal immigrant giant snakes.
    The Hell, I say: We nearly wiped out the buffalo in this country because a bunch of guys made money off of buffalo hides. Thousands of years before that, mankind eradicated the woolly mammoth with spears. Spears! Give me five thousand Ted Nugent fans and all the weapons they can carry and the waters of the everglades will run red with Burmese snake blood.
    You see, I don’t think we need a vast new government bureaucracy to kill snakes. Heck I think if we created a vast new bureaucracy to kill snakes we would very quickly end up subsidizing people to raise snakes to kill them. But, are you telling me that during a time when unemployment is outrageously high, the government can’t put a bounty on snakes and get results? I don’t know what the right number is but for the sake of argument if we had a hunting season in which you could bring in unlimited number of Burmese pythons for $50 per pound, my hunch is Burmese pythons would be erecting memorials to the great snake genocide of 2012.

  22. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Hammie and Pyro
    Don’t forget about the multiple thousands of acres of rice fields and coastal marshes.

  23. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    What Florida should do is create a bounty on Burmese pythons and open season.

    They done got that.

  24. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    northern tip of Melville Island, Sabine Peninsula.

    Isn’t that where the Dick Dowling statue is?

  25. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    21 Hamous says:
    August 14, 2012 at 10:13 am
    #18 I think South Texas is probably too dry to support pythons.

    Too bad.
    I hear you can make some purty nice boots outta them.

  26. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Hammie
    I agree with your concept, but in reality it hasn’t been successful on either pythons or hogs

    July 2009
    Florida Governor Charlie Crist has announced he’ll be hiring expertly trained bounty hunters who specialize in hunting down the pythons. The plan was in discussion for some time, but it looks like the pythons just got their official death sentence. Details as to what they’ll be doing with the snakes after they’re killed weren’t available. Which brings us to the tricky question often presented with cases of environmentally devastating invasive species: animal rights enthusiasts will certainly cringe at the idea of knocking off 100,000 snakes whose only crime was to thrive in a foreign land. But the threats presented by the pythons are too great not to take preventative action, and relocating the animals would be costly, difficult, and generally infeasible.
    So let’s end our B-movie plot with a snazzy tag line, shall we? Something like: “A hundred thousand giant snakes have invaded Florida, consuming everything in their path. Now, only a ragtag band of bounty hunters can stand in their way. Good hunting.”
    Seriously, though–with any luck, the operation will hopefully help restore the balance of the Everglades ecosystem.

  27. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Growed-up water moccasins ain’t 17′ long.

    True, but you get 300 of them in a glorified puddle and they get to be a problem.
    When they get that bad, they dynamite the pond before the cows start getting bit.

  28. Hamous Avatar

    Excellent article on the leader of the country’s largest hate group – Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.

  29. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Japan starting to find some Mothra’s around the Fukushima area.
    We might not just feel the results of the butterfly effect. We might actually be able to feel their wing flaps.

  30. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    From last night:

    That wasn’t “nasty”? smearing my faith right in my face wasn’t nasty? you and the two other babosos are free to worship the way you want but don’t be surprised that when you publicly use my faith against me to dictate my nature and my politics that you dn’t get stung in return.

    First, how the heck did the Crazy Aunt and I get dragged into this?
    Second, what’s a baboso? Should I be flattered or offended?

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I think it means you are the Devil’s sputum.

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Darren, I am astonished by the behavior you are showing here lately. Perhaps you are under a lot of stress at home or at work, but there is no need to take it out on everyone here. I hope you will calm down, get a grip, and lower the level of — I don’t even know what to call it. Whatever it is, please. stop. now.

  33. Hamous Avatar

    You should be very offended. Dang. I missed the baboso in the long-winded comments. That’s not cool, Darren. Just keep in mind you’re not the only one who can speak Spanish.

  34. bob42 Avatar

    #32 Speaking of “hate” groups (your term, not mine) a NOM-PAC-Fil-A affiliate has accused the REI corporation of opposing your right as a biological parent after the Washington based company bravely endorsed equal treatment under the law for all citizens. Feel threatened, xenophobes. Feel very threatened, and send NOM-PAC more money now!

    “I want to ensure that our colleagues and customers who have beliefs that run counter to the position the co-op is taking on this issue feel respected in their right to disagree. My own journey in understanding and coming to this position on marriage equality has been shaped by thoughtful, heartfelt discussions with people who have held a variety of differing perspectives. I encourage you to engage each other in a discussion, practicing our core value of respect—“we listen to and learn from each other.”
    REI joins a growing list of Pacific Northwest-based employers including Nike, Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce that have taken sides on this contentious issue.

    I don’t really think the irrational authoritarian fear mongering nut-jobs of the NOM are a “hate group.” But from looking from the facts of the matter, I rationally conclude that they are a purely politically motivated group of pathetic, pathological, purposeful liars.

  35. Tedtam Avatar

    I just translated/looked up “baboso”. As far as I know, I’ve never given Darren cause to call me that.

  36. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I think it means you are the Devil’s sputum.

    🙂

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    As long as I’m not called “mayonnaise” by Hammy, I think I can handle it.

  38. bob42 Avatar

    I’m feeling a bit left out because Darren has never said anything to me that I found personally offensive.
    I’ll get over it… 🙂
    Seriously, I think some of you folks have been a little hard on my favorite Mormon lately. Why can’t y’all just get a bong along and pray together in harmony?

  39. Tedtam Avatar

    BTW – I finished writing another vignette for my future (I hope) publication. I thought I might have taken it a bit too far – it’s St. John at the cross – but I let someone else read it last night, and she said it was “very good” and “powerful”. I didn’t cross a line, according to her, so I guess I can move on to my next project.
    The kid with the fishes and loaves is next, I believe.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Darren apologized.

  41. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    The DOC NOAA National Weather Service – Western Acquisition Division ? Boulder requires the following items, Purchase Description Determined by Line Item, to the following:
    LI 001, 16,000 rounds of ammunition for semiautomatic pistols to be factory-loaded .40 S&W caliber, 180-grain jacketed hollow point (JHP). No reloads may be used with these weapons. All service furnished ammunition for issued firearms will be U.S. factory production.

    Does the NWS actually have federal peace officers? If so, why do they need them? To enforce mandatory evacuations? Or is this a round-a-bout way to procure ammo and deliver it to another federal agency?
    h/t Infowars

  42. duhmoose Avatar
    duhmoose

    TexMo, the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, which are the addresses the rounds are being sent does have some enforcement authority, hence the name. Now why they need hollow points for their annual target qualifications and training, I am not sure.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/national-weather-service-ammunition-solicitation-triggers-confusion/2012/08/14/3dc6b67e-e62a-11e1-936a-b801f1abab19_blog.html

  43. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    44 Shannon says:
    August 14, 2012 at 12:20 pm
    Darren apologized.

    Yes, but not without making it somehow my fault, and not without missing the point.
    And he apologized only to Hamous. He left out the part about apologizing to me for saying I was not being true to the Faith exhibited by my “recent Baptism.”
    Nobody attacked his religion or his faith. We all made observations of obvious fact, that he took as an attack—or somebody told him it was. If, in fact, somebody is bolstering the idea that he is being personally attacked in order to egg him on, they ought to be taken to the woodshed and taught a lesson because thier misdeed is worse than his.

  44. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #38 Bobo: As to your incessant rant about authoritarian, racist, homophobe, etc: I B~ in your general direction.

  45. Hamous Avatar

    Darren apologized.

    Not that I have asked for one or want one, but where?

  46. Hamous Avatar

    I don’t want any apologies from anyone. I hold the keys so I’ll just evict your happy ass if you piss me off good enough.

  47. Tedtam Avatar

    #50 Hammy
    /all bow before the key master

  48. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was thinking : “Hammy’s the Decider”…

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    49 hamous
    It was in his # 183.
    But upon further review, it was highly qualified.
    No apology offered to Sarge.
    I’ll leave this fight to you guys from now on.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #49 Couchmaster:

    Not that I have asked for one or want one, but where?

    #183, 184 last night.

  51. Hamous Avatar

    Well, after trudging through the long-winded commentary, I came across this:

    You say you’re Mr. Ecumenical

    I have no idea where you got that. I’ve never said that.

  52. Hamous Avatar

    Again, I want no apologies.

  53. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Shannon started it.

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is really interesting; tempers are flaring, people are irritated and I had nothing to do with it. . . . :>)

  55. Katfish Avatar

    36 – I believe you were searching for………………. ‘vitriol’
    *no charge*

  56. Katfish Avatar

    I’m unclear exactly how one ‘could be’ offended when the potential offender tries to use and adjective where a NOUN should be
    eet ees to risa!! 🙂

  57. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    What? Are you the new Grammar Boy?

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    59
    Like Robert Plant said,
    your time is gonna come.
    🙂

  59. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    troublemaker

  60. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    36 – I believe you were searching for………………. ‘vitriol’

    Katfish, you can finish my sentences any time!

  61. Hamous Avatar

    The Instigator. I bet you’re part of tehstablishment.

  62. Tedtam Avatar

    Okay, time outs for everyone!
    Every body take a separate corner and put your nose in it for five minutes.
    Except Hammy. He’s the Key Master. The Couch Bouncer. BMOC. He can do whatever he wants. I suggest taking advantage of the nose-in-corner posture and administer some corporal punishment.

  63. Hamous Avatar

    I think BabosoWagonburner started it with his ratpack burger recipe.

  64. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    For y’all Couch Critters w/o FB — This poll says 83% of Americans want a work requirement for welfare handouts. Yet another example where Obama is way out of touch with American values.

  65. Hamous Avatar

    And BabosoHamous tacitly egged him on, while BabosaTedtam quietly ignored the building storm. BabosoShannon seeded the storm clouds and BabosoSarge blew up the levees.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #68 Hammy
    B’gosh, I think you’re right. That’s when the snowball started rollin’ down the mountain. Then all those garish exercise tights got it way revved on up.

  67. Hamous Avatar

    I suddenly felt the urge to listen to this song:

  68. Katfish Avatar

    #62 – Sheesh I caint let Sha-Na-Na have ALL the dang fun!
    Besides I have been called a LOT worse than “a slimey” ROFLMAOOOOOOO

  69. Katfish Avatar

    #67 – Wait jes one minizzle – even us innocent pot stirrers gotta time to tew??

  70. Katfish Avatar

    #70 – I blame BabosoBOOOOOSH 🙂

  71. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #15 OTL: Can you explain why the poles shift (as opposed to wander around a bit) on a relatively regular (in geologic terms) interval? A super massive black hole spinning at extreme rate has the potential (I think) to put out some energy (gravity waves, electromagnetic spectrum, and other forms of which we may not be aware) that modern physics may have a hard time explaining. Newtonian physics describing the behavior of matter works well over a certain interval of parameters (temperature, mass, size, etc). When we get to the extremely small realm of sub atomic particles, or really massive like the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the rules start to get a little fuzzy.
    I am giving no credence what-so-ever to the Mayan calendar, planet Nabiru or that sort of thing.
    What struck me was the portion of the video where it shows the earth in a sinusoidal path crossing the “galactic equator”. I do not know the period of that sine wave, but I do know that not only do the earth, moon and sun wobble with respect to each other, but also the entire solar system is moving as a unit through space and I suspect that the unit of the solar system is following a similar path but on a much grander scale. If there is a “paper thin” yet extremely powerful magnetic/gravitational/energetic thingie on a particular plane with the galactic black hole at the center, then when a planet or star crosses that plane it is only reasonable to assume that instability would result, particularly in the gravitational or magnetic realm.

  72. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I liked the burger recipe.

  73. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Horshack has died.

  74. Hamous Avatar

    And I’m sure BabosoGJT has some culpability in the great ecumenical summerslam throwdown.

  75. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon Hamsters. I think.
    Just speculating on what and how much crowds coming to hear Romey and/or Ryan are gonna put up with in disruption by Obamabots paid to interfere with freedom of conservative speech. I can see attendees getting fed up with it pretty quickly and deciding to handle it themselves before security has a chance to get there. Umm, then hand the miscreant over to the law. It’s a given that the hired disrupters won’t stop unless it gets to be too uncomfortable/expensive to continue.

  76. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    … and is this self administered corporal punishment?

  77. Katfish Avatar

    #72 – Bubba I wouldn’t have admitted I ever listened to that much less remembered it to post!!
    SHEEEEEEESH – Yall are gettin plumb twister (er)

  78. Hamous Avatar

    Didn’t Epstein recently die too?

  79. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Then all those garish exercise tights got it way revved on up.

    It was the beauty, grace, and sheer athleticism.

  80. Hamous Avatar

    Which one of you babosos is going to take the night shift?

  81. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I have been waiting for our local misogynist to point out that Darren IS living with a pregnant woman. Since we have not had an update on that front in awhile, I hope all is well.

  82. Tedtam Avatar

    I’m up dang near every night, so I guess I’ll do it.

  83. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I hid the bus keys.

  84. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    This babosos is all set for a road trip. Plus you could not pay me to take the keys to this joint. Too much responsibility.

  85. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    83 Hamous says:
    August 14, 2012 at 2:11 pm
    Didn’t Epstein recently die too?

    I think Travolta is taking them out.
    They know too much.

  86. Hamous Avatar

    ABBA – Georgia-style

  87. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #88 GJT

    I hid the bus keys.

    Oh, if ya just needed a bus driver tonight, whyn’t ya say so?
    (Erk. Looks like you have to watch a 30-sec ad to get to the video now.)

  88. Hamous Avatar

    I think Travolta is taking them out.
    They know too much.

    Freddy Boom Boom Washington better be looking over his shoulder. Especially after this movie.

  89. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    76 Bonecrusher says:
    August 14, 2012 at 2:04 pm
    #15 OTL: Can you explain why the poles shift (as opposed to wander around a bit) on a relatively regular (in geologic terms) interval?

    We studied that in physics. Following is prolly the best layman’s explanation. Solar winds, sunspots and Jupiter’s shield have some input to it also, but explaining that would make both you and me sit in the corner and blow spit bubbles.

    Earth’s polarity is not a constant. Unlike a classic bar magnet, or the decorative magnets on your refrigerator, the matter governing Earth’s magnetic field moves around. Geophysicists are pretty sure that the reason Earth has a magnetic field is because its solid iron core is surrounded by a fluid ocean of hot, liquid metal. This process can also be modeled with supercomputers. Ours is, without hyperbole, a dynamic planet. The flow of liquid iron in Earth’s core creates electric currents, which in turn create the magnetic field. So while parts of Earth’s outer core are too deep for scientists to measure directly, we can infer movement in the core by observing changes in the magnetic field. The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward – by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) – since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century.
    Another doomsday hypothesis about a geomagnetic flip plays up fears about incoming solar activity. This suggestion mistakenly assumes that a pole reversal would momentarily leave Earth without the magnetic field that protects us from solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun. But, while Earth’s magnetic field can indeed weaken and strengthen over time, there is no indication that it has ever disappeared completely. A weaker field would certainly lead to a small increase in solar radiation on Earth – as well as a beautiful display of aurora at lower latitudes — but nothing deadly. Moreover, even with a weakened magnetic field, Earth’s thick atmosphere also offers protection against the sun’s incoming particles.
    The science shows that magnetic pole reversal is – in terms of geologic time scales – a common occurrence that happens gradually over millennia. While the conditions that cause polarity reversals are not entirely predictable – the north pole’s movement could subtly change direction, for instance – there is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the 2012 doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously. A reversal might, however, be good business for magnetic compass manufacturers.

    http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html

  90. Hamous Avatar

    #96 The Party of Hate says Teh Establushmint is worried about Ryan. They’re long on “Republican strategists”, “campaign operatives”, “old hands”, and “rising next-generation conservatives” and short on actual names other than Mark McKinnon:

    He has worked for causes, companies and candidates, including former President George W. Bush, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, late former Governor Ann Richards, Congressman Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong and Bono.

  91. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    He really gets around, don’t he?

  92. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    The source of the story notwithstanding, I do find it ironic that the very same people who told us that Paul Ryan wouldn’t be a good candidate for prez, are now hailing him as an inspired choice for VP.
    The fact of the matter is, anybody who is good enough to be VP is, by definition, good enough to be President, and therefore good enough to be a Candidate for the office.

  93. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Except that Ryan himself thought he was not yet ready to be President. And said so.

  94. Hamous Avatar

    Hell, the current Occupier has been there four years and he’s still not ready.

  95. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    94 Sarge,
    They sounded a lot better with some pot. Sobriety just doesn’t complement the humor; kinda like red wine and fish.
    Simple

  96. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    94 Sarge,
    I still get a kick out of Nick Danger .. Third Eye
    Simple

  97. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Oh Nick, You’re such a tool

  98. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    100 wagonburner says:
    August 14, 2012 at 4:15 pm
    Except that Ryan himself thought he was not yet ready to be President. And said so.

    But he thinks he’s ready now?
    What happened in the last few months that made him change his mind?

  99. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Simple;
    Nick Danger and Georgie Tirebiter are probably the only real good Firesign Theater schticks. But Bozos On The Bus seemed to fit.

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ecumenical Schmecumenical
    If you ain’t Lutheran, you’re all going to hail.

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Pot. Or better.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What happened in the last few months that made him change his mind?

    Testicular Implants.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And if Ryan has to assume The Office they made a deal with Patraeus to be VP.

  104. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And to sweeten the deal, they got Dana Perino to agree to be his personal assistant.

  105. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    But he thinks he’s ready now?

    Newsflash:
    He’s running for VP.
    Last time we had a VP do anything more difficult than casting a vote in a deadlocked Senate or going to some foreign dude’s funeral was almost 50 years ago when Ford took over after Nixon went through a couple other VP’s.
    Last one that took over due to the President assuming Oval Office temperature was 60 years ago when LBJ got in there.

  106. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dana Perino

    hubba hubba

  107. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ryan’s wife told him, “Don’t be such a puss. You can do it.”

  108. Hamous Avatar

    Last time we had a VP do anything more difficult than casting a vote in a deadlocked Senate or going to some foreign dude’s funeral was almost 50 years ago when Ford took over after Nixon went through a couple other VP’s.
    Last one that took over due to the President assuming Oval Office temperature was 60 years ago when LBJ got in there.

    Ford took over for Nixon 40 years ago. LBJ took over for Kennedy 50 years ago.

  109. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #7 Hambone, Great article and Spot On!
    I don’t wish to sound like a racist but most of the blacks in power want to keep the rest of their people on “The Plantation”. 🙁

  110. Hamous Avatar

    Testicular Implants.

    I heard RMoney gave him a pair of his magic underpants.

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #9 Shannon, YES!!

  112. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #115 hamous
    I’m a math major. We don’t do numbers.

  113. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #14 Ttexanadian, my favorties, (because they’re the most 180 from me);
    7. No thanks, I have enough ammo already.
    3. Tell that bikini model wearing the thigh holster she is not welcome here.
    1. The right to keep and bear arms could be interpreted to mean a lot of different things.
    😀

  114. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ryan has agreed to turn Mormon.
    Huntsman gets the Homeland Security post and loads up all those FEMA camps
    with people who won’t convert.
    Harry Reid gets appointed to the Supreme Court.
    I’m tellin’ ya, it’s a gall darned Mormon Establishment conspiracy.

  115. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Who gets the Magic Manties?

  116. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Brent Scowcroft and the rest of the Mormon cabal were more than happy to let Cheney, Halliburton and the evangelics take the heat all those years.
    While they ran the entire show.

  117. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #95 OletimerLin, Don’t forget “Magnetic Declination” All Pilots know that this changes every year and all aeronautical charts show it, that is one of many reasons that a professional pilot has to purchase a new, updated set every year. For you folks in Rio Linda, that big leather bag that the Pilot carries into the cockpit has all his charts, he’s required to have charts (maps) for every place he flies. It’s been a while since I’ve been in the industry, but back in the day this was VERY expensive, and heavy, I’m betting that they’re downloaded somehow now. I bet someone here knows. That enchanted guy comes to mind. 😉

  118. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Famous Mormon Jack Anderson brought down the Nixon adminstration.
    It all fits together.

  119. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #124 The reason the true north is soo important is because if EVERYTING else fails, (all the instruments) you still have the “Whiskey Compass”. That said with all the newfangled navigation gear, I wonder if it is stilll applicable. It probably is but dig you that the no longer the Cadets at the Naval Academy how to use a sextant?!? Dayaam scary, that is.
    As a sidebar, one of the boy’s favorite movies growing up was “Independence Day” and although it was a goofy movie there were a few parts that were well thought out, one being that the US communicated with the rest of the world in Morse Code because it is a universal language and the Aliens didn’t understand it. Oh and, Ms Adee knows about Morse Code.
    FWIW; Ole Dave liked the Goofy movie. 😀

  120. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    But you’re right.
    It’s Wagonburner’s fault.
    As always.

  121. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One more thing, I had a “Whiskey Compass” mounted under the rear view mirror of my old 84 GMC Pick-Um-Up and I even adjusted it on a “Compass Rose” at a small Alabama airport. 😉

  122. squawkbox Avatar

    Testicular Implants.
    And you can get gear to go with your new gear.
    And there is a stud for the new stud in yew.

  123. squawkbox Avatar

    Super Dave
    #128
    Thanks for the great memory. My Grandpa (PBUH) always had a whiskey compass in his boat and cars. Best thing in the world to keep the two hooligans quiet (me and my brother) during a short trip watching it change direction. Did not take much to amuse us at that age.

  124. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge yesterday #189;
    Sarge;

    I’ve been called a liar and worse.

    I don’t mind being called a liar. Whatever it is I was called a liar on should be defensible if true. My beef here is not being called ignorant. In fact, I’m the first to admit my ignorance. It’s when my faith, my personal life is used to create a false narrative about what I do and why that I find uncalled for. If that’s up for public blogging then your personal life is as well. Facts be damned, if I can create a narrative about you, than I’ll run with it. That’s what’s going on here. NOBODY HAS SHOWN HOW MITT ROMNEY IS A MODERATE HERE yet that’s what he’s called and then I’m accused of using my faith to ignore his supposed moderate candidacy. The most you have done is to point out to things he did in the past and say that’s why you don’t support him now. That’s fine with me. I don’t care that you don’t support him but I do. At the very least accept the reasons I’ve laid out several times and debate the merits of my reasons. This has nothing to do with my personal life or faith. Also note how bent out of shape you got when your faith was used against you. That’s what you’re doing to me.
    I say he’s not a moderate but a conservative. How is that wrong?

    You’ve talked a lot about puttingon your “big boy pants” when using snark on me—go find them and put them on.

    I hnestly forget why i told you to put them on but I remember I needed them when you declared that you’ll be part of the destruction of the Republican Party. That was scary. 😯

    You seem perfectly capable of dishing this kind of thing out, but when the going gets tough you go looking for reenforcements and do the whiny cry baby thing.

    Please point out one instance where I defaulted on anybody’s religion fr any reason t denounce the political position they take. That’s the difference, sir.

  125. squawkbox Avatar

    .. / .– .- -. – / — -.– / — – …- / -.. .- .-. .-. . -. / .– . .- .-. / — — .-. — — -. / -.-. — .-.. — .-. . -.. / –. .-.. .- … … . …

  126. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #127 Shannon
    yabbut you started it

  127. squawkbox Avatar

    NOBODY HAS SHOWN HOW MITT ROMNEY IS A MODERATE HERE

    Were you on vacation when I pointed out his record and his statements after his statements of “his policies”? ALL could be considered moderate. If it walks like a chocolate bunny and talks like a chocolate bunny it is a duck.
    Oh and it appears you have forgotten the first rule of blogdom, if someone finds a chink in your armor ya better expect to get needled.
    I have chosen to renew my vows of chastity concerning Romney so at this point I will move along to more enjoyable endeavors. Romney is the (presumptive) nominee so be it.

  128. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    yep.
    It’s getting boring.
    You need to find a new subject, Darren.

  129. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I have chosen to renew my vows of chastity

    🙄
    So when can we call you Chaz?
    😆

  130. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Were you on vacation when I pointed out his record and his statements after his statements of “his policies”? ALL could be considered moderate. If it walks like a chocolate bunny and talks like a chocolate bunny it is a duck.

    You forgot to read the rules.
    You can’t use anything he’s done or said in the past.
    Go ahead. Try it that way.

  131. squawkbox Avatar

    Okay bunsonburner, maybe you will believe this
    I have chosen to renew my vows of chastity silence

  132. squawkbox Avatar

    Sarge

    You can’t use anything he’s done or said in the past.

    Oh ya mean I gotta treat him like the libDems?
    /My bad

  133. squawkbox Avatar

    So when can we call you Chaz?

    Buhwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    /never if you want to see peace continue to reign during your tenure as a Hambone Henchman Moderator.
    /Well there ya go Squawk you have opened the door wide open.

  134. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    For the record:
    I have never said that Romney is a moderate. I have said he is the wrong Candidate for this moment in History. Most recently I have said that, once again, the Republicans are running a guy for Vice President they should have run for President. In the past I have criticized Romney for signing the only permanent ban on a class of firearms extant in the country, and that I believe he should not be rewarded for that.
    So, no. I am not going to try to prove that he’s a Moderate. I don’t need to.
    And this crap about demanding tailored responses got old in the Third Year in the Age of The Headshaker.

  135. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #129 Squawkie
    I’m sure the “Neuticles Earrings” on that site would be a big hit with a special lady! Try it on your lady’s next birthday or perhaps your anniversary.

  136. squawkbox Avatar

    MHarper
    Yeah right.
    Here honey I love you
    Oh that is sweet of you, What is the stone? Mother of Pearl?
    Nope plastic testicle
    Silence………………………………………
    BSue what are you doing with that boot? OH CRAP INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!

  137. Hamous Avatar

    BabosaTedtam volunteered to be in the barrel for the night shift so I’m out. I’m one tired babosito tonight.

  138. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Strangely enough, I’ve never heard of plastic testicles.
    And I’ve been to the Main Gate At Fort Sill.

  139. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    hamous yesterday #188;

    …and my religion was scraped up and tossed right at me.

    I have no idea what you’re talking about. No one has in any way denigrated your religious beliefs during this whole discussion. Several people including me have pointed out, accurately in my view, that you’re not objective when it comes to Romney and Huntsman. From my perspective you speak favorably of them in large part because they’re Mormon like you. In no way is that “scraping up your religion”. 93% of Mormons voted for Romney in Arizona’s primary. That’s up there with 95% of blacks voting for Obama. And its certainly strong evidence that there’s a lack of objectivity among Mormon voters. I don’t care. I don’t understand why you’re so bent out of shape about this.
    Finally, when you start digging up old revisionist history Democrat talking points about Reagan while trying to make an argument for Romney, well, you’ve lost the argument with me.

    1) While my religious beliefs were denigrated since you use them to create a false narrative about me. I’ve like Romney since 2008 and I knew then if he made it as the 2012 nominee I’d most definitely support him.
    2) The “several people” you referred to are you and two others. Here’s the quote which you used to show fat albert that I have a totally subjective view of Huntsman (bold mine):

    OK, before I truly go to bed, would anyone here who opposes civil unions and cap-n-trade willing to put those issues on the backburner (not abandon them) and vote for Jon Huntsman?

    So, let me ask you, if John huntsman were the GOP nominee now, would you vote for him? Yes, you would. See, this is where a lot of the frustration comes in. You ignore what I say, refuse to pay any attention to when I explain what I meant and continue to believe the narrative you’ve created upon me. That narrative places blame for my disagreeable political positions on how I use my religion. That denigrates my religion as well as my beliefs based on my religion. Although John Huntsman supported civil unions and cap-n-trade, you’d still vote for John Huntsman over Obama. I would too. How does that mean or lead you to conclude that since I’m a Mormon I’d vote for him? Where in that quote do I advocate ignoring your opposition to Huntsman? I specified to “not abandon” your opposition; just place them “on the backburner”. And placing them on the backburner is exactly what you’d doing voting for huntsman. It’s what you’re doing to vote for Romney now. Despite my dislike for Gingrich, I made it very clear that I’d absolutely vote for him were he the nominee. That means I’d place my dislikes for him n the backburner. Not abandon them but put them on hold so to speak in order to vote him for president. Same goes for Gary Johnson who wars civil unions and supports gay marriage. Same goes for Ron Paul or Rick Santorum. And these people are not Mormon, are they? It’s a bit frustrating and appalling as well that you cite my religion in any way as to why I support Mitt Romney. By doing that we are not debating his positions but only denigrating me for how I’m using my religion. The bottom line is that my religion has little to nothing to do with supporting Romney nor or inquiring if people here would vote for John Huntsman.
    2.5) For obvious reasons, your voting for John Huntsman would have nothing to do with your Mormonism, Hamous.
    3) I’d like to remind you, I did my “Huntsman Inquisition” in part from the LST calls to stop “purity tests” peple there (some have come over to your site) were using. Should we have performed a purity test upon John Huntsman if he entered the GOP race, particularly if he won the nomination? My religion and how I practice it had little to nothing to do with this.
    4) There are good things about Huntsman and Romney. Period. Saying as much has nothing to do with my religion or how I practice it.
    5) “93% of Mormons voted for Romney in Arizona’s primary. That’s up there with 95% of blacks voting for Obama.” And as I pointed out before, that means John Huntsman got less than 6% of the Mormon vote. If Mormons were voting for Romney because he was Mormon than why so little for one Mormon and not the other. John Huntsman was even Utah’s governor. You’d think he’d be a bit more popular with the Mormons, no? But there are other factors you ignore. One is that John Huntsman left his governorship to work for Obama and Obama has a very small favorability among Mormons (so does Harry Reid). Also, Mitt Romney saved the Olympics in where? That would be Utah. Talk about getting a big favorability boost among the Mormons. Also, a “typical Mormon” admires industrious people. Thus my initial interest in John Huntsman who is the son of John Huntsman Sr. who I hold up as an epitomy of American Exceptionalism. And placed side by side, John Huntsman des not project industrialism nearly as much as Mitt Romney does. So perhaps here you can make the case that Mormonism creates some bias. But I don’t think you’ll see that bias as bad. Also you can definitely say that my Mormonism brought me some bias into being curious about John Hunstman but the more I learned of John Huntsman (Jr), the more I disliked him. The more I learned about mitt Romney (again, starting in 2008), the more I liked him. My religion and how I practice it made little to no difference in my decision.
    6) ‘Finally, when you start digging up old revisionist history Democrat talking points about Reagan while trying to make an argument for Romney, well, you’ve lost the argument with me.” I’ve no idea what you’re talking about as I merely pointed out that Reagan wasn’t exactly the übberconservative you and others here are expecting Mitt Romney to have been. But Reagan was a conservative by the time he got the GOP presidential nomination, right? My pointing to Governor Reagan can also follow parallels with Governor Romney but if you’re disinterested in dialoguing about them then so be it.
    But that’s part of my frustration, you’re disinterested in dialoguing my reasoning and continue with the narrative you projected upon me. I’d really, RRRRREEEEEEAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYY appreciate it if you did not do that particularly since you’re the owner of this website. I’d strongly prefer that you did not allow anyone to do that but if others do than so be it. Buy if my personal life and faith is up for scrutiny, especially in the degrading manner you presented it and the gutter-filled worthless tripe Sarge brought it to yesterday, than so is anyone else’s, right? I guess I’ll return to my former sin and do unto others as they did unto me. But rest assured, I won’t start it. I despise using one’s religion against another in any way. And you *can indeed say* that that’s largely due to my faith and how I practice it.

  140. squawkbox Avatar

    Did y’all steal Darren’s “O”?

  141. squawkbox Avatar

    I’d really, R(edited)Y appreciate it if you did not do that particularly since you’re the owner of this website. I’d strongly prefer that you did not allow anyone to do that but if others do than so be it.

    Darren apparently you do not know the blog rules concerning NIGYSOB. Let’s just say that you are leading with your chin and, dude, someone is gong to poke it.

  142. squawkbox Avatar

    Oh and Darren NEVER NEVER NEVER tell a blog owner how to run his blog. Ya see you have the choice to visit or not and there are many outlets for you to create your own blog and run it your way.
    /just sayin’

  143. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Darren
    Stifle yourself.
    You’re making the same points. Repeatedly. Endlessly. Verbosely.

  144. squawkbox Avatar

    I mean it is really bad form to gripe about how someone runs THEIR blog.

  145. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I never knew that OCD was contagious. Just how close have Sarge and Darren been, hmmmmmm?
    Hasta Banana

  146. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge #141;

    I have never said that Romney is a moderate. I have said he is the wrong Candidate for this moment in History.

    LOL, he’s wrong because he’s Mormon and he’ll be up against a black president. That is what you’ve said. And even if you don’t use that as the exact reason now, than isn’t that much more difficult to justify than him merely being a moderate?

    Most recently I have said that, once again, the Republicans are running a guy for Vice President they should have run for President.

    I would love it if Paul Ryan were the nminee but he did not run fr the ticket in the first place. He was asked and even begged to run but he chose no. That’s not the GOP’s fault per se. So let’s put it this way (as I see it), a vote for Romney will mean a vote for Ryan. A no vote for Romney will no absolutely nothing to get Paul Ryan into the White House. So I think it comes to whether or not you will vote for Romney.

    And this crap about demanding tailored responses got old in the Third Year in the Age of The Headshaker.

    Things got old with Headshaker because he’s Headshaker. Personally, I think this post has lts more substance than have been several other previous posts. Heck, talking about plastic testicles has more substance than those previous posts. And I’m very glad you’ve never seen them before. Nor have I. The closest thing I’ve come to a visual of plastic testes for me have been the iron ones on the trailer hitch of pickups. I bet squawkbox drives his truck around sporting a pair of those (on his truck, don’t get dirty) cuz squawk is bad a**. 🙂

  147. squawkbox Avatar

    BSue won’t let me have any truck balls. 🙁
    She says I am nuts enough

  148. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    TedTam volunteered to be in the barrel for the night shift so I’m out.

    That’s like having the assistant principle sit for detention.
    Hide the beer and stuff.

  149. squawkbox Avatar

    BTW I could care less about Romney’s religious affiliation. I have never and will never vote for/against anyone because of their religion. I can look at what they do and listen to what they say and pretty much pin down the character of the person.

  150. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I have chosen to renew my vows of chastity silence

    Dang, dude. That’s almost as funny. 😆

    Henchman Moderator

    I wanna be a Papist Stooge Moderator.

  151. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Oh and Darren NEVER NEVER NEVER tell a blog owner how to run his blog.

    I appreciate that feedback. I made it public since what happened is public, including my implosion.

    I mean it is really bad form to gripe about how someone runs THEIR blog.

    I agree. I tried to do it respectfully though. In the form of a suggestion. In the past that is how Hamous has asked me to conduct my opposition to what goes on here or to use the backchannels. I would have used the back channels now had thing not becme somewhat chaotic here. I’ll keep it in mind though.

  152. squawkbox Avatar

    Hey Tedtam I brought enough munchies for everyone.
    Heh i got in so much trouble in school when my teacher caught me munching on some hard candy. They asked if I brought enough for everyone so I pulled out the bag and said yes. Bad move. Seems I totally missed the point of the question that I should not be eating in class.

  153. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #154;

    BSue won’t let me have any truck balls.

    Does she realize the opportunites she’ passing up by saying, “yeah, that’s my man!!!” to her lady friends?
    BYW, did I ever tell you BSue’s you’re better half?

  154. squawkbox Avatar

    I wanna be a Papist Stooge Moderator.

    Let it be written, let it be done

    /never if you want to see peace continue to reign during your tenure as a Hambone Henchman Papist Stooge Moderator.

  155. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    You’re making the same points. Repeatedly. Endlessly. Verbosely.

    Mother’s also noted my verbosity” so I know what you mean. I didn’t want to do this at all initially and frankly I’ll probably do it again if the narrative comes up again.
    They’re good points though, right?

  156. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Allen West wins his primary!
    That’s like a slam to the jaw — with those big red cartoon boxing gloves from the ad — for Nancy Pelousy and Debbie Doodle-Schnitzer.

  157. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Did y’all steal Darren’s “O”?

    New keyboard. Youngest Son spilled water on the old one and so I bought he cheapest new one I could immediately get. The “o” key can be depressed without typing out. That plus my very poor grammar skills and you got “o” omitted blogging. As I noted previously, I don’t mind the meme of being anti-“O”.

  158. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Munchies?
    I sure hope TT is in the kitchen making some bruschetta.

  159. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Squawk;

    Were you on vacation when I pointed out his record and his statements after his statements of “his policies”? ALL could be considered moderate. If it walks like a chocolate bunny and talks like a chocolate bunny it is a duck.

    Which is exactly what I have wanted to talk about but not now unless you want to. I’m worn out.

  160. squawkbox Avatar

    Shannon
    I was kinda thinkin along the lines of Doritos, bean dip, cheetos and Mountain Dew. Oh yeah and Oreo cookies milk and sardines.

  161. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    That’s like a slam to the jaw — with those big red cartoon boxing gloves from the ad — for Nancy Pelousy and Debbie Doodle-Schnitzer Jar Jar Binks.

  162. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    BabosaTedtam volunteered to be in the barrel for the night shift so I’m out. I’m one tired babosito tonight.

    Cuídase

  163. squawkbox Avatar

    Nope Darren I have said all I am gonna say about Romney. He is the (presumppump) nominee and that settles that. i will have my final say about him in the ballet box.

  164. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Can’t have Mountain Dew, the king of caffeinated soft drinks.

  165. Hamous Avatar

    Preemptive defensive move on Wagonburner. Kinda like setting a back burn.

  166. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    bruschetta

    that’s gay
    What’s wrong with a nice sammich?
    /and you have the gall to give me grief about nutmeg

  167. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I got bruschetted once—-

  168. Hamous Avatar

    And this crap about demanding tailored responses got old in the Third Year in the Age of The Headshaker.

    Heh heh. That’s actually a very good comparison.
    /waxing nostalgically
    Oh, how I remember those days when he would get banned, then sneak back in under some pseudosockpuppet name. Then we’d make bets on who would identify him first. It usually only took a couple of comments. Good times.

  169. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    17th annual South Florida Tattoo Expo

    Kinda says it all right there, don’t it?

  170. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Katfish #10;

    9 – YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHAW (let’s hope the EPA losers don’t take it to the Supremes)

    I agree. Their show would suck without any lights. 😉
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ7uXX9K7Sk

  171. squawkbox Avatar

    Preemptive defensive move on Wagonburner. Kinda like setting a back burn.

    Oh man i could have gone the rest of my life without seeing that story. I skipped the vidiot.
    /This country is in so much trouble.

  172. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #163 Iron Mary,…U forgot the Linky!
    Oh, and thanks for the heads up, I wasn’t sure that he’d pull it off. NEVER, EVER underestimate that bunch of malcontents that the Dems and the RINOS just hate, the “Tea Partiers” Just ask Dewchips!! 😀

  173. Hamous Avatar

    that’s gay
    What’s wrong with a nice sammich?
    /and you have the gall to give me grief about nutmeg

    What if BabosaTedtam grinds a little nutmeg on your bruschetta for you, punkin?

  174. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Can’t have Mountain Dew, the king of caffeinated soft drinks.

    But ooohhhh so tasty.

  175. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I cheat a little on coffee but I’m caffeine free.
    A couple of months ago, without thinking, I grabbed one of those giant cans of Arizona Iced Tea and chugged it.
    Ten minutes later I guess my heart thought I had eaten an entire box of NoDoz.
    Almost went on home. Bad bad episode of atrial fib.

  176. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #180
    I don’t have a link to the announcement, I saw it in my FB feed.

  177. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If loving bruschetta is gay, i guess I better get on over to Dillard’s and find me dress.

  178. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #20;

    Vietnam’s airline Viet-Jet hired its flight attendants to dress in Hawaiian bikinis and dance in the aisle.

    Can I fill out an application for flight attendant?

  179. Tedtam Avatar

    The Dems are not going to have nearly enough tape come November.

  180. Tedtam Avatar

    Someone finally comes out and says it:
    Giuliani Wonders Whether Biden Has ‘Mental Capacity’ for Presidency
    Ohhhhh mmmmmmy woooorrrrrrrddddddd – I can hardly wait for the talk shows tomorrow! I may need to run out and stock up on popcorn.

  181. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #183;

    Ten minutes later I guess my heart thought I had eaten an entire box of NoDoz.

    Not good. I take beta blockers for my blood pressure. For whatever reason, my heart speeds up and thus raises the blood pressure. The beta blockers make a huge difference. This was a reason I too decided not to consume caffeine through beverages.

  182. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The woman is Italian and you’re going to turn down her bruschetta?
    You are a cad.

  183. Tedtam Avatar

    I used to have a Diet Dr. Pepper and a bag of peanut M&M’s as a snack in the afternoon. (Yeah, yeah, yeah – I know how it sounds, but when you’re young you can rationalize almost everything.) The rest of the day all I drank was water. One afternoon I had TWO DPs, and my knees were knocking so hard I almost couldn’t walk out of the building that afternoon.

  184. Tedtam Avatar

    I’ve actually never made bruschetta, but I’m sure I’ve got the fixin’s for a tasty pasghetti if’n you want some.

  185. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    pasghetti

    That’s how I remember it being pronounced when I was a kid and no kid could pronounce it correctly.

  186. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Ten minutes later I guess my heart thought I had eaten an entire box of NoDoz.

    Dang.
    Just when I’d bought your Christmas present.

  187. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Crestfallen. Absolutely crestfallen.
    That’s alright. I’ll get Kim to make some when he’s here.

  188. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Quit bogarting the bean dip and pass it over here.

  189. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam #188;
    Like Hamous did the other day, Hewitt today expressed conviction of Joe Biden getting the boot from the campaign and possibly get replaced with Hillary.

  190. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #196;

    Quit bogarting the bean dip and pass it over here.

    I think the chihuahua ate bean dip tonight. She’s not so pleasant to have around at the moment.

  191. Hamous Avatar

    /This country is in so much trouble.

    I don’t know. That seems rather mild compared to the ease of finding a licensed physician to sew up your woolybooger or chop off your tallywacker.

  192. Tedtam Avatar

    Obama has instructed the Mars rover scientists to inform him if life is found on Mars. Like, really?! Did he expect them to withhold this kind of information?
    Perhaps it would be more significant and significantly more difficult to find intelligence in the White House.

  193. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Those things look luscious, Sarge.

  194. squawkbox Avatar

    What is wrong with this sentence?

    I cheat a little on coffee but I’m caffeine free.

    J U S T sayin

  195. squawkbox Avatar

    Hammie
    #199
    A few years ago I skipped a story for LST about a woman that ummm dang how do I say this delicately…… had her well you know, the same place that woman got the tattoo, had it bleached. The newsies asked the same question if that was gonna be the next big thing.
    I reiterate
    /This country is in so much trouble.

  196. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon
    I was kinda thinkin along the lines of Doritos, bean dip, cheetos and Mountain Dew Budwiser. Oh yeah and Oreo cookies milk and sardines.

    with ONE exception, a man after my own heart. 😉

  197. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #181 Hamous
    I thought you was goin’ nite-nite ‘cuz you was sleepy.

  198. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    201 Shannon says:
    August 14, 2012 at 9:41 pm
    Those things look luscious, Sarge.

    Put ’em on a stick: Coffee Pops!

  199. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Preemptive defensive move on Wagonburner. Kinda like setting a back burn.

    For the record, I wouldn’t have went there.
    The ick factor was way too high and I do have standards.
    Really low ones, but they’re there.

  200. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    mharper 42, Pasghetti, I mentioned that Sunday in my #208, daughter always called it that. 😉

  201. squawkbox Avatar

    I do have standards.
    Really low ones, but they’re there.

    Most Papist Stooge Moderators do. 😉

  202. Hamous Avatar

    I thought you was goin’ nite-nite ‘cuz you was sleepy.

    No, I’m just not engaging in filtering through any treatises, looking in vain for something substantive.

  203. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The grammar police are getting thick around here.

  204. squawkbox Avatar

    Hey I was J U S T sayin

  205. squawkbox Avatar

    Besides I got defrocked from the grammar police some time ago. Getting frocked was tough but dang it is so easy to get defrocked.

  206. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I bet you could get both frocked and defrocked near a certain military installation in SW Oklahoma.

  207. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, from Squawk’s #132, We need help from Simple or Mr Adee to solve the morse code riddle. I’ll be the first to admit that even though I hold an FCC First General Class License, I know “Diddley Squat” about morse code. I, like everyone else knows that … – – – … is SOS, BUTT thats it, so after LQQking at the code book and getting real confused I cheated and went on-line and found a translator and it came up with; I/.–AN–/—-.–/—–…-/DARREN/.–EAR/——R——N/C—L—RED/–.LA……E…
    🙁

  208. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #213 😀

  209. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I make the best bruschetta, pesto and “red gravy” I’ve ever tasted.
    But my insalata Italiano – tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, (red, white, green like the flag) cracked black pepper, minced garlic, sea salt, olive oil and aged balsalmic vinegar is the best. My friends invite themselves over and ask me to make it.

  210. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Oh my: New Romney ad hits Obama on … Medicare
    Good video and very good commentary.

    (The greatest risk of picking Ryan as VP is that, if Romney loses, it could scare all but the most committed fiscal conservatives in Congress away from entitlement reform for years to come)

    Definitely one of the risks of chosing Ryan.

  211. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Super Dave #215;
    The most morse code I did was eons ago in Cub Scouts. This should help though you’ll have to translate by hand and I don’t even know if it’s accurate.
    http://kidavalanche.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/morsecodeletters.jpg

  212. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #208 Dave

    mharper 42, Pasghetti, I mentioned that Sunday in my #208, daughter always called it that

    Well, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let you do that. You see, I went back and looked it up and you did not mention pasghetti. No, you didn’t Dave and now I’m going to have to sing a song. Shall I sing a song Dave?

    280 Super Dave says:
    August 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm
    One of the things that they were going to make was Pspaghetti, (I spelled it that way because that is what daughter called it when she was little)

  213. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Squawk #132;
    But not to vote. 😉

  214. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    And your grammar was terrible, Squawk.
    (Like I know morse grammar let alone English)

  215. Tedtam Avatar

    Well, I must be off. I have to get up early and go get some fans – it seems the window unit used to cool our office has gone belly up.
    And I’m tired, too, listening to you guys talk testicles and bruschetta and morse code.
    Dang – a real cornucopia of topics this evening. Fun and interesting, but it’s late. If you guys plan on staying, don’t go spilling any sauce on the couch, and sweep up the popcorn on the floor before turning in, okay?

  216. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #36;

    Darren, I am astonished by the behavior you are showing here lately. Perhaps you are under a lot of stress at home or at work, but there is no need to take it out on everyone here. I hope you will calm down, get a grip, and lower the level of — I don’t even know what to call it. Whatever it is, please. stop. now.

    You should have seen my debut on Lone Star Times. I helped to “kill” that blog over Dan Patrick eating fried pickles at Hooters. That was my first encounter with Squawk and Big Iron45 too. Well, first encounter that I remember.

  217. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    And I’m tired, too, listening to you guys talk testicles

    Now what about that can get you tired?

  218. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    214 wagonburner says:
    August 14, 2012 at 10:08 pm
    I bet you could get both frocked and defrocked near a certain military installation in SW Oklahoma.

    Fricked, fracked, defricked, defracked—everything but plastic testicles.
    Well, that was the old Army. There’s new rules today, so I really don’t know.
    Probly more than twenny bux these days, too.

  219. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper;
    Also true my ugly side to what you saw recently, I absolutely respoded to the owner of LST, who’ll remain nameless ulness otherwise deemed necessary to penly talk about (no secrets here, hamous, just being respectful to him) after he suggested that I supported child molesters. I forget what I said to him but answer him I did. He never repeated anything like that to me again and I did apreciate that. That was the end of it.
    I’m not saying what I did was right. In fact I know some of it was downright wrong but one thing about me, and I’ve been this way since my earliest childhood years, definitely a weakness of mine, is to not tolerate false narratives of consequence. When those narratives are focused on me I like to set the narrative straight. If after that they are repeated, I can get real upset real quick. That’s what happened. I know I should find a better way to deal with it. I thought of even removing myself for a while, like, until after November, but, right or wrong, I caved to my desire to take the narrative on directly. Like I said, I’m not saying I did the right thing but and perhaps I’ll suffer some mre for it. So be it. I’ll learn frm the experience.
    Back to LST. That site was very well run and despite the fact that I bumped heads with the owner much more than I agreed with him, I really like the guy and have high respect for him.
    (This post is verboso)
    UPDATE: Let’s put the me supporting child molesters into context because that in and of itself sounds like he made a really bad accusatin against me. The LST owner was blogging about the weirdos of the Yearn for Zion camp. Texas CPS already runded up the children and shipped them out. LST owner was asking what wuld “we” meaning the bloggers (or maybe it was to a specific person and I chimmed in) would have done otherwise since others, including myself, denounced CPS running in and taking all the children. My reply was to allow the children to stay until otherwise evidence showed they were in danger. That’s when the accusation was made and perhaps it was in jest but I found the suggestion not accurate and so I responded.
    (More verboso)

  220. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    The President’s having way to much fun

    And at a moment when homegrown energy is creating new jobs in states like Iowa, my opponent wants to end tax credits for wind energy producers. He’s said new sources of energy like these are “imaginary.” His running mate calls them a “fad.”
    During a speech a few months ago, Governor Romney even explained his energy policy this way: “You can’t drive a car with a windmill on it.”
    That’s what he said about wind power: “You can’t drive a car with a windmill on it.”
    Now, I don’t know if he’s actually tried that. I know he’s had other things on his car.

  221. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    bob #38;
    I never got the sense that you were offended. I just wanted to lay out some consistancy.
    Take care my baboso blogging asocio.

  222. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Dang.
    For some reason the phrase “total lack of remorse” just popped into my head.
    Strange—-

  223. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Sarge;
    Justifiably so.
    UPDATE: Depending on circumstance.

  224. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Ladies and gentlemen, I’m of to bed. The latest crown of a**holidity belongs to me for my recent behavior. I do luv you all though.

  225. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Sorry gang, I am no help with Morse code. My spouse is. I’m sure Simple is given his vingtage. Curent amateur radio license classes no longer require knowledge of Morse code at any level. As an outsider looking in, this seems to be a big mistake.
    Let’s hear it for Allen West. Another victim of filthy opposition ads triumphs. When might we expect the perpetrators of this garbage to figure out it doesn’t work any more? The target audience is on to them–at last.

  226. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has won the GOP primary for US Senator. He’s not the most conservative candidate, but maybe Paul Ryan’s and Scott Walker’s influence will push him rightward.

  227. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Adee;
    I’m off to bed soon but I remember Tommy Thomson via news about him while I lived in m in the Land of Lincoln reforming welfare by kicking people off of it who did not look for jobs.
    Did you follow the primaries closely? Who was your pick?

  228. Katfish Avatar

    #211 –

    The grammar police are getting thick around here.

    *Physician heal thySELF! 🙂

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