This place is so totally fucked.
I think I’m going to call it a day and go get me some Dairy Queen. While such a thing is still even possible.
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don’t forget the sprinkles
Chocolate Resse’s Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard…
*drool*
If you caught Rush Limbaugh’s second hour today, you know why (yeah, I know, as if you didn’t already know) that’s the case.
Short version: The Left believes it own propaganda to be the objective (subjectively speaking) truth. So when shit like Benghazi happens, they don’t know how to deal with it because they can’t fathom the idea that it could happen to them —they’re good people .
Ernst’s shorter short version: They’re pod people. And if we don’t defeat them, they’ll turn us into pod people too.
All of this chocolatey goodness….
I think I’m going to call it a day and go get me some Dairy Queen.
FWIW, DQ is now serving original Orange Julius at all remodeled locations, so you could double your gustatory pleasure. Alas, the DQ near me is kinda slow on the remodeling.
If you’re ever in South Kensington, stop in at Oddano’s Gelato on Bute Street. Kinda spendy (it’s South Kensington, after all), but very very yummy. And it’s far enough off the beaten path that you actually find a fair number of locals, and not just tourists wandering down from the V&A.
Wife of Slog and I lunched at our favorite DQ yesterday. Tasty goodness, even if I did have to specify no (cinco de) mayo on my burger.
i hate how fucked it is but trading Warren Buffett your rapidly devaluing dollars for carbs is not the way of the samurai
But are you taking the family, Jeff?
My wife recently went to visit her folks in AZ. While she was there, I realized our favorite local ice cream shop was now open for the summer, so I stopped in and got a dish. Since she had been taunting me with AZ weather, I took a pic with my phone and sent it to her, with the logo clearly visible.
She threatened to call a divorce lawyer, if I went back without her. I think she was joking….
We are so well and truly fucked, I feel like a used condom.
Oh you’re such a literalist.
OT: Something got stolen off of my front porch today.
So much for living in an honest neighborhood. So much for online shopping and the convenience of just having stuff delivered and not having whatever company hold it for me to pick up later because I’m on the second floor and cannot hear someone knocking on the stupid screen door.
I hate people.
how about some sherbert for the samurai?
It’s enough to make your hair turn gray.
I miss the honky-tonks, Dairy Queens and 7-11s…
Naptime!
I read this on my phone and went to Culvers for a custard shake.
Dairy Queen is dead. All we have left are DQ’s and they just aren’t the same. Country basket? More like a suburb basket with (low salt, gluten free breading on the steak fingers).
I saw Iron Man 3. I guess it sort of implied that terrorism is fake and oil companies are behind it? Oh and they ruined A.I.M. the best bad guys rogue scientist comic book villain organization ever. Not a yellow hazmat uniform to be seen anywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_nfazQaek
Enchiladas.
Oh, and let the Rags be rags. Down you go, Torts.
palaeomerus says May 6, 2013 at 4:12 pm
I saw Iron Man 3. I guess it sort of implied that terrorism is fake and oil companies are behind it?
Coworker and I were talking Iron Man movies today. I told him that I thought they were just another opportunity for Hollywood to do a hatchet job on corporations/capitalism. He said he thought that was more the original Iron Man comic book storyline than a Hollywood thing.
Neither of us is a big comic person, but from what I can tell coworker was probably right.
Comic book writers are generally lefties.
cranky-d says May 6, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Comic book writers are generally lefties.
You’re right, and I mentioned that, too.
What’s funny is that it sounds like Stan Lee came up with the character to mess with his reader’s heads. He wanted to make them like the evil weapons merchant.
The Congressional Hearing scene at the start of Iron Man 2 was the finest libertarian defense of private property rights I’ve seen on screen pretty much ever.
Dairy Queen is dead. All we have left are DQ’s
I miss Foster’s Freeze circa 1960’s …
we still have us a Foster’s Freeze here in da burb
Foster’s
Old-Fashioned Freeze is where you get
The tastiest treats and burgers yet!
Oddly enough, I had a dipped cone at Dairy Queen earlier this afternoon, for the first time in two years. Guess I’m feeling the despair, too.
So a Torontonian hoists a sign reading “Toronto Stronger”, and gets for his gesture “Condemned for insensitivity! Too soon!” from the whinging lefty.
SDN says May 6, 2013 at 7:26 pm
The Congressional Hearing scene at the start of Iron Man 2 was the finest libertarian defense of private property rights I’ve seen on screen pretty much ever.
Fair point. Or at least capitalizing on most of America’s secret wish to be able to tell a Senator to “get stuffed”.
From me he gets a “So, you’re just as insipid and asinine as Bostonians are.” And I say that some 50 miles from Boston. Stop with the freaking slogans already.
SDN says May 6, 2013 at 7:26 pm
I watched the scene again a couple of times. It’s really masterfully done. It confirms everyone’s worst images of Washington without specifically assigning blame to either party. The Senator’s motivations are ambiguous enough that the viewer can ascribe to him the party affiliation he desires, and it remains totally plausible.
Kinda like one of those pictures that can be viewed from more than one angle, and makes a different image depending on your point of view.
I always thought that Tony Stark was pretty transparently Howard Hughes as a super hero. But then when he died it came out how nuts he was and so in the seventies they diverged him away from the source material. Then during the post seventies “relevancy” kick Marvel decided he was an off again/on again wino, probably because a few years before that, over at DC, Green Arrow’s teen partner Speedy, was revealed as a smack fiend in a very special issue.
The movies have made Tony Stark more of Howard Hughes’ messed up genius son.
“But then when he died it came out how nuts he was and so in the seventies they diverged him away from the source material.”
But then when Hughes dies in the late seventies, it came out how nuts he was, and so Marvel diverged Stark away from the source material.
i don’t understand how Roobs thinks it’s even minimally acceptable for him and Meghan’s coward daddy to ram through their half-baked immigration scheme without a semblance of debate
It’s cuzza he’s a Senator. In Harry Reid’s Senate, debate is an incivility of the highest order.
That’s the only way it’ll pass, silly.
What’s that saying about how every poker game has a mark?
Rubio is still trying to figure out who the mark is.
go rube be a schmuck suckup . the “hispanic” bush luvs you
smarmy stupid and beholden to identity politics is no way to go through life even if you’re a stupid smarmy cheeseball
marco: whitey like baracky
marco: cheesy like cheddar
“Alas, the DQ near me is kinda slow on the remodeling”
Because I am a giver.
Half blender of ice
The juice of one large orange, (tangelo or navel)
1/2 cup of sugar
1 fresh egg white
Blend until smooth and enjoy
also you need a dash or two of vanilla
No. Just no.
oh. i thought you were making an orange julius
Not with vanilla. Period.
that’s how warren buffett makes them Mr. Gulermo – with vanilla plus he likes to make them super frothy then do a couple bong hits
then him and his whore secretary take their clothes off and it quickly descends into a PG-13 landscape of nebraskan debauchery
Mike Lupica should stick to sports. The stoopid, it burns.
A thousand years ago? What, he’s trying to outstupid Jesse Klein?
Tall order, there.
And the First was written for the handset printing press.
We need reasonable microphone safety laws. To say nothing about video capture technology.
Imagine how many needless injuries we could preent if children no longer had to live in fear of accidentally getting between Chuck Schumer and a camera?
Media regulation now!
Ezra. Ezra Klein.
Caffeine. I needs more of it.
Plus close italics flag.
Rifles have been around in some form or other since about the 15th century. The reason they didn’t replace muskets as weapons was because the black powder fouled the rifling, so that frequent shooting (as happens in battle) wasn’t practical. Also the increased range wasn’t considered valuable, because the smoke from the powder obscured vision anyway. The military drove the market for muskets, and to a large extent drove weapons development for the first several centuries of firearm history. Because of this, rifles were limited for a long time to hunting.
Knowing this, we know that the founders a) knew about rifles and b) looked at firearms, like most people of their day, as weapons of war. Yet they still protected the right of the people to own them. “The hunting amendment” is in fact anything but.
The 2nd wasn’t “written for” guns of any sort. It, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was written to restrain government.
Restraining government is so Eighteenth Century.
Steven Den Beste said it rather well. From the Second half of his recent guest post at Ace of Spades:
Knowing this, we know that the founders a) knew about rifles
It’s rather fortunate that George Washington wasn’t better acquainted with them.
There is no link in your link S.W.
You’re too kind, old bean. Link.
HTML has gone agley.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/George+Washington's+life+spared%3A+Major+Patrick+Ferguson's+rifle+was…-a030150390
It’s still monkeying with your link. Best to just Google George Washington rifle Ferguson
Similar story, different source
And what about laser printers? Have you people seen “Star Trek” and Star Wars? Those death-ray printers need to be BANNED!
The great London gunsmith Durs Egg made some Ferguson rifles. One came up at auction at Christie’s a number of years ago, and made $38,213.
Chuck Schumer is already clutching his pearls about 3D printers. Lotsa luck banning that technology, Chuckles. It’s used in hospitals to print skin cells to grow skin grafts for burn victims. (Sorry, I can’t find the link, but it is fascinating.)
Talk about whistling Always Look on the Bright Side of Life past the fiscal graveyard! Kevin D. Williamson:
In other words, it’s all a question of luck.
(<via Ed Driscoll)
I know that each of the words in the above, including those I’ve emphasized, has a meaning.
I just can’t find a way to parse them in that order without it devolving into something about mimsy borogoves and mome raths.
What is the principle of equality?
Hobbes: “the fear of violent death.”
And the principle of equality (as a theoretical matter) arises when?
Shortly after the invention and subsequent widespread profusion of the personal firearm.
[“. . . the invention of firearms equalized the vassal and the noble on the field of battle; the art of printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; . . . “]
The tyrant wants to control what?
The individual’s equality with, and thereby power over, himself.
Ah. So the tyrant disagrees with Tocqueville then? He thinks democracy is not a providential inevitability, but something he alone can escape?
So where are the J-O-B-S ?
J is for Joe, as in Biden.
O is for Obama.
BS you already know.
I’ve tried to explain this concept to even allegedly brainy progs, thinking this kind of irrefutable cold hard fact will act as a starting point we can agree upon. They won’t touch it. They cannot grasp the concept (or simply do not care) that their utopia costs more money/resources than exists in the world to operate.
I’ve been forced to make my own DIY Orange Julius for years. It’s time for someone behind the counter to do it for me and charge me way too much. Because racism or something.
“Knowing this, we know that the founders a) knew about rifles and b) looked at firearms, like most people of their day, as weapons of war. ”
I’ve mentioned this here before, but one can occasionally shut up a progtard of the “but the Second Amendment didn’t mean THAT” species by pointing out that at the time private individuals could, and did, own fully-equipped warships. Not only that, they ran them for profit. The Founders were perfectly okay with that, and in fact hiring them is a power explicitly granted to Congress in the Constitution.
Yeah, SBP. Any time I get into a “frank exchange of viewpoints” with my peacenik acquaintances, I just pray that they’ll throw out the “I suppose you think everyone should have a cannon in their front yard” line for me to pounce on.
PresBO: We have a moral obligation to end the slaughter in Syria.
And round and round we go. Again. “We can’t not do nothing” saith BO. “Why?” asketh I?
Where the buck stops. It’s called the Chain of Command.
Brit Hume says they’re fucked. Of course, Brit is old and honorable (which is why I trust him) but he’s also been around Washington since he was a boy and I’m sure he knows the score.
Valerie Jarrett’s highest of the high security clearances is for damned sure a confidence builder.
So long as “confidence” is taken in the sense of the Confidence Man.
Sean Smith’s mother Pat: Still getting the stiff-arm from the Obazmites.
Says ObaZma: “We’re not doing nothing.”
Warning, this is what not doing nothing looks like in just one village. A village insufficient to raise a child.