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That was the night before the night that the lights went out.
oh. I had to google that in texas we call them things deep freezes
I blame Bush. And unfunded tax cuts for the rich. And Palin.
And, Kyoto.
That is all.
Before I clicked over, I figured it was either gonna be about sex or drugs. Wrong again.
I’m just glad I got an HDTV before the looting started.
‘Cause when you’re at a store that’s being looted, you kind of have to go for the biggest and best, and I don’t think I would have been able to carry a 50″ plasma out to the truck all by myself. Plus, plasma TVs are energy hogs.
don’t worry someone’s found the answer to our problems:
Link
Plus, plasma TVs are energy hogs.
So are chest freezers. If only there were a way to convert stupidity to electricity…
Bears just don’t give a shit.
Looks like the Sucker Run is over, back to dropping like a rock…
Going down.
Still, there’s no pleasure in it. Standing in the cratered ruins saying “We told you so” is about the least pleasant thing on earth.
I’m thinking this may just be the start of a good old panic – and double dip.
Standing in the cratered ruins saying “We told you so” is about the least pleasant thing on earth.
Second-worst. First-worst is being the thing smoking at the bottom of the crater.
Heh, well, “least pleasant” doesn’t preclude it being the “possible best” position in any case, as the good and the pleasant are not identical.
I’d like to think I’d have the sang froid to stand there smoking.
I’m thinking this may just be the start of a good old panic – and double dip.
According to the Fake AP Stylebook, “Your think piece on the double-dip recession should include the terms ‘jobless cone,’ ‘lost savings sauce,’ and ‘oh god we’re so hungry.'”
I’d like to think I’d have the sang froid to stand there smoking.
A cig? Or you in general.
Not even in the woods?
Havana, dear girl.
Also, make sure to pause and make fun of Glenn Beck for calling our attention to The Coming Insurrection, for suggesting that the “Arab Spring” in Egypt would put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, and that the rioting would spread into Europe and then over here.
Most dangerous man in America, that one.
Havana, dear girl.
Un puro!
Just making sure. One could easily be the smoking thing in or near the crater.
The Pinhead still has an over 40% approval rating. That is an awful lot of profound stupidity to overcome.
Communism still hasn’t managed to wreck the Cuban cigar industry?
oh look who’s giving baracky’s bus tour some competition
Link
Not to worry B Moe, he’s going to go on a BusTour, sure to repair any negative trend!
Don’t forget to bring the tomato sauce, BusTour recipients.
There have been wobbly years, Ernst, but some splendid vitolas remain. Even commies wouldn’t be that stupid. Besides, El Jefe is fond of his Trinidads.
The Cuban commies at least ought to be given some credit for having had the effect of boosting other nation’s cigar industries.
I guess I’ll just stick to my Hondurans for now.
Indeed, sdferr. Would the Nicaraguans be as good?
It kinda like thanking Hitler — ok, it’s not, but pressing on anyhow — for Leo Szilard and other ex-patriot high energy physicists. Thanks Addy, we needed ’em!
and the chest freezer stands alone
The freezer only buys you a couple of days unless you have a generator and fuel to go along with it. Make sure you get plenty of shells for the shotgun.
As for action across the pond: English rioters are such wussies.
This is a pretty good summary of why England is one big FAIL. Don’t get too smug though. We are not that far behind them.
Denver?
I’d look into passive drip irrigation and a greywater cistern.
Perdomo certainly is.
I like my Excaliburs and El Rey Del Mundos and Sancho Panzas.
Tried the La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero this past Sunday. That cigar is not for the young or faint of heart!
Ryan and Rubio chat. We can listen.
I think I just threw up a little in the back of my mouth.
Rubio and Ryan all upset about IPAB or whatever but if we’re going to become a third world socialist backwater we’re gonna have to ration medicare severely and lots of codgers are gonna have to die sooner than they otherwise would simply because we can’t afford to care for them.
IPAB is the only rational part about obamacare really. It’s the only way the system works.
Otherwise we have to pay more and more taxes to care and feed an increasingly piggy piggy union herd of aids and nurses and slackjawed illiterate foreign “home healthcare workers.”
My days of enjoying a fine smoke are over, apparently. A good friend of mine and I were relaxing drinking a few IPA’s, while enjoying a very fine Cohiba red dot. The next morning I felt a very dull pain in my right lung. About 4 years ago I nearly died from double pneumonia and the worst of it was in my right lung where a very large amount of fluid and blood decided to congregate. The same spot where my dull pain was after enjoying my last cigar :( Enjoy em for me ladies and gents. Nothing ever happened to my liver, so I’ll keep on enjoying my pale ales and single malts, though :)
If ju like dem fuerte, try the Joya de Nicaragua Antano series. The nicotine will actually burn your lips.
smoking makes you look cool
“IPAB is the only rational part about obamacare really”
go back to analyzing walmarts. you’re better informed there.
“My days of enjoying a fine smoke are over, apparently”
my father died about a month ago. he hadn’t had a cigarette in 25 years. the obamacare doctor listed “tobacco abuse” as the cause of death.
Me I’m not paying increasing amounts of taxes to Failmerica for so some dirty socialist codgers can suck on a goddamn iv for 20 years.
“Me I’m not paying increasing amounts of taxes to Failmerica for so some dirty socialist codgers”
so privatize the med industry and let everyone pay on what they can afford
that’s a good idea mr. newrouter
sorry about your dad I lost mine to a lung disease five years and 3 days ago
well those docs listed tobacco abuse but if you read the thing he really died of a heart attack. and this so called “greatest medical industry evah” couldn’t tell the family what the f**k was going on. f**k the ruling class med industry.
that’s so strange I’m so glad I had my brudder and sister with me for both and to help with the medical stuff
it’s a dismaying process
“so privatize the med industry and let everyone pay on what they can afford”
and if the folks in a state wanna do more fine. but get the a@@hole barney’s fart fed gov’t out of it
That RCP average was like – 7.6 when I posted it earlier today. Currently? – 8.0
“it’s a dismaying process”
no i saw what obamacare is early.
Hey, nr, sorry to hear that, man.
Two things, wholly unconnected:
1. Charles Johnson is so structurally irrelevant to this moment it’s incredible. I just looked at LGF and it’s…..words fail. It’s all Bachmann and he’s still hitting on Pam Geller. Look, they are rioting in England, the economy is hanging on the razor’s edge and he’s warring against the Tea Party. He’s not even UNserious. A macrame blog would have thrice the urgency that his widgety blog has.
2. I just listened to the full Telegraph Road by Dire Straits on Youtube. So elegantly brilliant, easily the best guitar solo ever.
I saw the medical process up close 4 years ago when my father had a triple bypass. They kept giving him medication that he had stated on his chart he was allergic to, and wondered why they couldn’t get him off the ventilator (they figured it all out much later). When my sister kept expressing concern about his overall treatment process, they kept telling her she shouldn’t care so much because he’s old anyway. This was in what was supposed to be one of the best hospitals in San Diego.
Fuck them.
As far as what the electric hamster says, you HAVE to be on medicare. All the insurance companies expect it. So, fuck him about killing off the old. Remove the mandate and let everyone pay what they can afford, and have a choice of health care services. Right now letting them just die because they are old is evil, because they have little say in the matter.
Enjoy em for me ladies and gents.
Glad to see OI is an enlightened soul. Might I suggest this or this?
Excellent quality.
if all they’re gonna be is a burden on our beloved corrupt socialist government then too bad we need the beds
Cigars? This is money you people could be spending on scotch. Grave misallocation of resources.
I’ll be there to hit you over the head with a baseball bat if you like, electric hamster.
as long as my death glorifies obama – blessed savior of the people – and glorifies the united socialist states of america i will die content
Better Gloriana
good point I want you to play that cranky while you swing for the fences
my prob was these clown’s treatment. the old guy had these black blue marks up his arms. they gave him a cocktail that at 1 point made him delusional. they never spoke to us about what they were doing. they relied him to make decisions when he obviously was incapacitated. f&&k this med “care”. and oh noes he was an irs retiree. the fed gov’t paid for this bs.
A fine scotch can only be fully appreciated with a good cigar. Preferably on the back nine.
Went to the PGA Championship today. I was surprised to see how small Martin Kaymer is. He makes Rory Sabbatini look positively gargantuan. Ishikawa is a waif of a thing, too, but boy can that kid play some golf. We followed him on the back nine for a while.
Was deeply disappointed that Phil decided to forgo his Wednesday practice. Tiger was on the range at predark 30 and on the course by 7:05 – played just the back nine. Press conference at 10 and back to the range til 1:00.
I didn’t know LGF was still open for business.
Learn something new every day.
except yesterday. I didn’t learn nuthin yesterday.
My cousin said friday (that was the day of the first drop, right?) that now was NOT the time to panic.
LOL
Obama voters are so optimistic.
it’s hard when you can’t be there for all of it we were lucky
so back to life. how’s come bonerfag hasn’t passed a bill banning federal hiring? dc has enough losers.
today it didn’t close lower than two days ago
tomorrow we might explore some new territory at the close
bonerfag is paralyzed by his own fecklessness plus I think he’s tired
so very tired
LGF! I remember that blog! I got banned from there years ago. Can’t remember why now.. only place I ever got banned from.
Ok, so I was having a conversation with another engineer today about guns and if we should buy them. we went around and around on whether it would be useful to even have a gun in a mob situation, and finally we decided that there were so many variables that it was impossible to make a decision. (we are both women so I don’t know if that makes a difference. watching the London riots made us very nervy and we over-analyze everything to death)
So i told her I was going to just keep a baseball bat for now.
1929 variations. baracky hussein hoover
My bat doubles as a rolling pin.
or golf clubs! those would be good too.
You can always have a gun and not use it, but you can’t not have a gun and use it.
My condolences, newrouter.
Yeah, Stephanie. My wife has helped me reach enlightenment much faster than I believe I would have on my own. She is a damned fine woman. A Maduro is indeed a nice smoke, but alas those days have moved on for me.
Bh, my only vice budgeting now is for single malt scotches and tasty pale ales.
kinda funny that baseball bats were a big seller in the uk lately not cricket bats.
I’m not too worreid. Police here aren’t afraid to use the water hoses, wooden bullets (wullets), tasers, and other such measures. When the droogs hit the streets here they will be lucky to come out of it in one piece.
wullets are for vampires
A fine scotch can only be fully appreciated with a good cigar. Preferably on the back nine.
You had me for a moment and then lost me again with golf. I hate golf. It’s of the devil. It makes us doubt and hate ourselves to where it would be better to have never been born.
Bh, my only vice budgeting now is for single malt scotches and tasty pale ales.
You, sir, are wise. And a puncher of dangerous horses. Which I mention because some people haven’t heard that anecdote yet and it’s legendary.
kinda funny that baseball bats were a big seller in the uk lately not cricket bats.
Good, I’m not the only one who thought that.
Ok, so I was having a conversation with another engineer today about guns[…]
Engineers are awesome. People don’t say that enough. So I just did.
(This has been “quick takes” with bh.)
newrouter, you have my heartfelt condolences.
Sorry to hear about your dad, newrouter.
There’s hope in his Strongly Disapprove number of 42%. Sure, you might still like him, but do you still like him enough to get off your ass and go vote for him again? That number looks like 21%.
thanks for your condolences(sp?)
I prefer my wooden bullets fired from a crossbow.
A couple of rounds of 00 buckshot into the front of a mob would tend to encourage that mob to go somewhere else, I think.
Police only work in a society such that the vast majority of the people obey the law. Once that breaks down police are not much use, really.
a couple of dudes with buckshot would of quelled the losers. the political in the usa tolerates the the 9/11 void.
oh hey, my parents are there.
that’s all I’ve got.
MissFixit, if you’ve never been around guns, I would discourage just strolling into the hardware store and buying one. I suggest you and your friend go to a shooting range that offers firearm courses, and talk to people that can lead you through a process of familiarization.
Pointing a gun at someone is heavy shit, it’s not something that comes naturally. If you have a gun for self defense, you not only need to know the use and care of the tool, but you have to be psychologically ready to pull the trigger. Hesitate and you’ll be murdered with your own weapon.
All, I’m saying is, take it seriously. It’s not about matching the pistol grips to your purse. (Not that I think that’s your concern, just making a point…)
As far as what the electric hamster says, you HAVE to be on medicare. All the insurance companies expect it
It’s not the expecting, it is (thank you Clinton) the law – you have to join Medicare or you forfeit any right to dime one of your Social Security ransom.
Sorry about your experience in San Diego.
My dad had quad by-pass 2 years ago (just before he turned 80). Awesome experience, had surgery Friday morning, went home following Tuesday. But he’s part of a Doctor-owned hospital group as part of his Medicare Advantage … something ObamaCare takes away — BOTH the Advantage plus making it illegal for doctors to own their own hospitals.
i like how mittens is speaking from a “bat cave” on hannity.
Speaking of San Diego, I’ll be there the beginning of next month. Any San Diegans in here?
I’ll settle for El Cajonians, provided you’re not methheads.
NR: I am sorry. Good luck in all else.
Hey, Roddy, from where you’re sitting, hearing any rumblings before JH?
What’s it sound like to you? Talk in code if it helps. Just friends here.
From the Federal Good Idea Fairy: We’re out of money, so lets start (new) Job Training Programs!
rto, that’s not new. It was started under clinton. the evil republicans are trying to cut it (it runs a tab of $3.6 billion). Michigan uses the money for it’s useless Michigan Works! program. No Worker Left Behind. etc.
Love these…
Justin had a breakthrough while pulling Romex from the houses at the abandoned subdivision. “The Mastercard! I’ll put the Pirelli’s on the Mastercard! I’ll get points!”
The problem with having a gun is this: I’m very small and it’s really difficult for me to hold a handgun steady enough to keep my aim true. They are just really heavy pieces of metal and my arms can’t really handle it.
Haven’t been to the range in a long time so I would have to go again before I bought one, but it seems like a baseball bat is easier because I can actually pick it up without grunting.
And yeah engineers are awesome unless we are stuck in the over-analyzing loop of doom with 50 variables and we’re not too crazy about taking risks. Plus if we are women it is, like, 100X worse.
Someone needs to work out a bit. Guns aren’t that heavy. Also, lighter ones that aren’t all steel are available.
If you can’t manage a Glock under 20 oz or a Sig 1911 C3 under 30 oz, how the hell can you swing a baseball bat?
Exactly, SW. Plus, if you swing a baseball bat and miss, how are you going to recover in time to take another swing? It takes strength to do that, too, much more than to hold a gun.
My 12 year old fires this lump quite happily, which is 42 oz and change, and he’s 5 ft nothing.
Ok my only memories of handguns are glocks. They were super heavy. Like I said it’s been a while…my dad and the guys I went to the range with had glocks mostly.
aluminum bats are light. I bought myself a much better DeWalt drill recently, and it’s so heavy I have trouble holding it up to screw things into the walls. If I can handle a DeWalt, I don’t know how much hope I have for handguns.
I meant if I Can’t handle a DeWalt.
Can you pick up one of these, MissFixit?
Try this maybe?
#103
Smith and Wesson .38 snub nose airweight. Shoot wad cutters so you don’t hurt your hand.