Rhoidian Slip
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Marc Ambinder mistypes the truth:
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In an op ed to be published in the Wall Street Journal, the heads of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Foreign Policy Initiative warn that there will be “long-term prosperity” if the US military is “hollowed out” and can’t defend the country.
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It would be awesome if the op-ed actually said that, since it’s the case. And it would be awesome if Ambinder never corrects his post. In respectable organs the truth can only appear by accident, but accidents will happen.
7.
The Dangerman
Whatever it was is as likely as me finding a Supermodel under my tree this Christmas (already “unwrapped”, of course), but I can always hope, too.
What the hell was it?
8.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
My leg has started to hurt. For those who weren’t following late last night (early this morning) I managed to stab myself in the thigh with a miniature. It didn’t look that bad, but when it soaked through seven gauze pads, the last three in about two minutes, I figured it was time to head to the emergency room.
I ended up with three stitches, but I’ve been saying all day that I was surprised at how little it hurt. Silly me. It took about 15 hours for the local anesthetic to wear off.
FTFY
9.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Timed out for me too. John must have killed it.
Oh, and my apologies for whatever has upset your delicate sensibilities this time.
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Martin
@Warren Terra: Probably a WordPress site. 3 concurrent page loads seems to be the max.
11.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@The Dangerman: Boooooooooooooo!!!!! Unwrapping is half the fun.
12.
BombIranForChrist
If we could all just come together and build a browser for the radical center. It will have a mustache and automatically forward you to David Broder columns and hand job porn.
LOL, “delicate sensibilities” yup, I’m over run with em. It’s the running trail of stupid you’ve been laying down lately, thread by thread, and just thought I’d pre flame you on this one. For a change of pace.
If we could all just come together and build a browser for the radical center. It will have a mustache and automatically forward you to David Broder columns and hand job porn.
Such an awesome task should easily be accomplished in six months.
17.
jl
You darn kids quit that fighting right now. Or get off my lawn and go squabble someplace else.
LOL, “delicate sensibilities” yup, I’m over run with em. It’s the running trail of stupid you’ve been laying down lately, thread by thread, and just thought I’d pre flame you on this one. For a change of pace.
That doesn’t even make any sense. I’ve barely commented in the last twenty threads.
Yeah. Apparently, being Arab-American and/or supporting Arab-Americans inherently means you are bad for West Virginia and you should die in a fire.
God, what the hell, West Virginia. Why has my home state doubled down on the fucktardedness?
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flavortext
if the US military is “hollowed out” and can’t defend the countryseveral dozen countries around the world simultaneously.
That’s the real complaint. If the United States military was “hollowed out” so that it was merely strong enough to defend…the United States, few people would object to the amount we spend on defense.
Pretty sure it’s about John’s invitation to Jane Hamsher for some cuddle time.
22.
bkny
can this election become any more insane:
“They would leave, I would come in and work for two or three weeks, whatever, until the regular Bozo came back,” Mr. O’Donnell said. “I was the fill-in Bozo.”
Neither have I, but the ones I do comment on, you usually show up. Velly interesting it is.
Yeah, it’s all about you, as usual. However, last I checked you were the first in to most threads and the last out. A mutual friend refers to it as “Stuck’s Front Row.”
25.
dmsilev
@bkny: Awesome. Perhaps the most awesome part is that Wikipedia maintains a list of Bozo the Clowns (or should that be Bozos the Clown?).
Yeah, it’s all about you, as usual. However, last I checked you were the first in to most threads and the last out. A mutual friend refers to it as “Stuck’s Front Row.”
@kdaug: Note that he claims he stabbed himself, leaving out the dark rituals which brought the miniatures to life. He was hoping for the chick in the fur and metal bikini, but instead animated the angry dwarf.
32.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Clearly yer just looking to pick a fight. I regret you are the way you are. That’s the best I can do now.
Rackham, actually. It was one of their Confrontation figs, from before they went to pre-painted plastic. One of the Fianna Kelts. Be careful of those bitches; they’re dangerous.
I was using a utility knife to cut off the flange that you insert into a base, so I could put it on a scenic base. I was being really careful with the knife, because I poked myself in the finger with the tip of the Exacto earlier in the evening. It wasn’t what bit me. As I made the last cut, somehow the knife and the released piece imparted enough velocity to the fig to take a chunk out of my thigh when it plummeted from the table. Pretty impressive, really, given the amount of effort I was putting into making sure I didn’t hurt myself with the knife.
@PurpleGirl: Hey, the local anesthetic lasted 14 hours. That’s pretty impressive. It was damned effective, too. I watched him putting in the stoitches and didn’t feel a thing.
I’m convinced that, somehow, this was Eddie’s revenge for my taking him to the hospital so much. Sure, he lives in the front of the house and I was working in the back, but cats are nefarious, so I don’t put anything past them.
Maybe, a little. Clearly you have a headache tonight. So I will leave ya alone.
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kdaug
@MikeJ: No, I mean seriously. How the hell do you do that?
I painted little D&D figurines 30 years ago as kid, but I just put them in a display box on the wall.
To stab yourself hard enough to require 3 stitches, he had to have them out playing with them.
Further, although my experience was limited, I don’t recall any really pointy bits on the creatures I painted. I do, however, recall other figurines for sale of Civil War soldiers (not really my thing) that did have rather long, pointy bayonettes.
So are we to assume this was a Civil War re-enactment with figurines that went horribly awry? Perhaps a bit too enthusiastic about the win (or loss)? Do tell.
In the op-ed, the authors say that the cost of fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about 4.9 percent of gross domestic product and not the cause of soaring deficits.
That’s actually really fucking high, and a ridiculous amount to spend during peacetime. Which is what these dipshits are advocating when we finally get out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@kdaug: Honestly, I have no clue how it happened. It was exactly like I described it. I cut off the piece of the fig, and then I picked her out of my thigh. (Not really; she was just lying there, not embedded in anything.) I even picked her up before it really started bleeding, so there’s no blood on her. Just on my floors, a couple of books, my sock, my shoe and my car.
It took a moment to fill with blood, so I got a good look at it. When they took me for x-rays, I told them they were overreacting; there’s no way it justified that. What I found out when they probed it is that, due to the amount of blood, they assumed it was a lot deeper than it really was. In fact, it wasn’t even a quarter of an inch deep. I must have just found a vein.
I’ve got no room to snark though. I managed to bring a ~60 pound branch down on my ass trimming trees last weekend. Followed by my ass hitting the pavement. Followed by bruised and swollen right wrist and big toe. (Compounding my stupidity, I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt – my work gloves and boots were safely tucked away.)
In all my years of reading linked posts at highclearing, I thought the masthead was a finch, or perhaps a tit.
Turns out it’s a dog.
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LT
Hey Stuck and Fuck, I lost track of which one of you was the sane one. I’m sorry. I just noticed that you were owning the thread on a related-to-nothing argument, and made a joke about Raiders fans. Cuz Raiders fans are dicks.
Ash Can: I should have.
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bago
Your link-whoring seems to have put him in a server bind.
cleek
in the ten seconds it took me to read that, the US DoD spent $2220.
in the 8 minutes from the time you posted this until i responded, the DoD spent $106,500.
bago
Yep, totally timing out.
The Other Chuck
I guess indeed it isn’t going to happen. Whatever it is.
General Stuck
Timed out, but let me guess. Fuckhead getting a clue? Coulda told you that without no linky.
Warren Terra
Surely Balloon-Juice isn’t a powerful enough driver of traffic to Slashdot a server quite that fast?
In any case, from the Google Cache:
The Dangerman
Whatever it was is as likely as me finding a Supermodel under my tree this Christmas (already “unwrapped”, of course), but I can always hope, too.
What the hell was it?
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
My leg has started to hurt. For those who weren’t following late last night (early this morning) I managed to stab myself in the thigh with a miniature. It didn’t look that bad, but when it soaked through seven gauze pads, the last three in about two minutes, I figured it was time to head to the emergency room.
I ended up with three stitches, but I’ve been saying all day that I was surprised at how little it hurt. Silly me. It took about 15 hours for the local anesthetic to wear off.
FTFY
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Timed out for me too. John must have killed it.
Oh, and my apologies for whatever has upset your delicate sensibilities this time.
Martin
@Warren Terra: Probably a WordPress site. 3 concurrent page loads seems to be the max.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@The Dangerman: Boooooooooooooo!!!!! Unwrapping is half the fun.
BombIranForChrist
If we could all just come together and build a browser for the radical center. It will have a mustache and automatically forward you to David Broder columns and hand job porn.
Comrade Jake
Inconceivable!
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
Mr. Cole’s home state is back in the news.
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
LOL, “delicate sensibilities” yup, I’m over run with em. It’s the running trail of stupid you’ve been laying down lately, thread by thread, and just thought I’d pre flame you on this one. For a change of pace.
Just Some Fuckhead
@BombIranForChrist:
Such an awesome task should easily be accomplished in six months.
jl
You darn kids quit that fighting right now. Or get off my lawn and go squabble someplace else.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck:
That doesn’t even make any sense. I’ve barely commented in the last twenty threads.
Kryptik
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal:
Yeah. Apparently, being Arab-American and/or supporting Arab-Americans inherently means you are bad for West Virginia and you should die in a fire.
God, what the hell, West Virginia. Why has my home state doubled down on the fucktardedness?
flavortext
That’s the real complaint. If the United States military was “hollowed out” so that it was merely strong enough to defend…the United States, few people would object to the amount we spend on defense.
LT
Pretty sure it’s about John’s invitation to Jane Hamsher for some cuddle time.
bkny
can this election become any more insane:
“They would leave, I would come in and work for two or three weeks, whatever, until the regular Bozo came back,” Mr. O’Donnell said. “I was the fill-in Bozo.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/send-in-the-clowns-and-the-truth-squad/?src=twt&twt=thecaucus
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Neither have I, but the ones I do comment on, you usually show up. Velly interesting it is.
Say, like this one. But whatever, I stand corrected. Your trail of stupid only applies to the threads you comment on.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck:
Yeah, it’s all about you, as usual. However, last I checked you were the first in to most threads and the last out. A mutual friend refers to it as “Stuck’s Front Row.”
dmsilev
@bkny: Awesome. Perhaps the most awesome part is that Wikipedia maintains a list of Bozo the Clowns (or should that be Bozos the Clown?).
Thank you, Internet.
dms
Chuck Butcher
@bkny:
Apparently his daughter is attempting to rectify that situation.
Stillwater
@dmsilev:
Imagine an obit: The solemn gathering was attended by previous Bozos the Clown, as well as many current Bozos…
kdaug
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal:
Wow. ER by way of Ral Partha.
That’s some serious geek cred.
But how, precisely, does one accomplish this?
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
“fuckhead’s trail of stupid” marches on
Stuck’s Front Row — I like it
PurpleGirl
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Ouch. I hope they gave you some good drugs to help with the pain.
MikeJ
@kdaug: Note that he claims he stabbed himself, leaving out the dark rituals which brought the miniatures to life. He was hoping for the chick in the fur and metal bikini, but instead animated the angry dwarf.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Clearly yer just looking to pick a fight. I regret you are the way you are. That’s the best I can do now.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@kdaug:
Rackham, actually. It was one of their Confrontation figs, from before they went to pre-painted plastic. One of the Fianna Kelts. Be careful of those bitches; they’re dangerous.
I was using a utility knife to cut off the flange that you insert into a base, so I could put it on a scenic base. I was being really careful with the knife, because I poked myself in the finger with the tip of the Exacto earlier in the evening. It wasn’t what bit me. As I made the last cut, somehow the knife and the released piece imparted enough velocity to the fig to take a chunk out of my thigh when it plummeted from the table. Pretty impressive, really, given the amount of effort I was putting into making sure I didn’t hurt myself with the knife.
@PurpleGirl: Hey, the local anesthetic lasted 14 hours. That’s pretty impressive. It was damned effective, too. I watched him putting in the stoitches and didn’t feel a thing.
I’m convinced that, somehow, this was Eddie’s revenge for my taking him to the hospital so much. Sure, he lives in the front of the house and I was working in the back, but cats are nefarious, so I don’t put anything past them.
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Maybe, a little. Clearly you have a headache tonight. So I will leave ya alone.
kdaug
@MikeJ: No, I mean seriously. How the hell do you do that?
I painted little D&D figurines 30 years ago as kid, but I just put them in a display box on the wall.
To stab yourself hard enough to require 3 stitches, he had to have them out playing with them.
Further, although my experience was limited, I don’t recall any really pointy bits on the creatures I painted. I do, however, recall other figurines for sale of Civil War soldiers (not really my thing) that did have rather long, pointy bayonettes.
So are we to assume this was a Civil War re-enactment with figurines that went horribly awry? Perhaps a bit too enthusiastic about the win (or loss)? Do tell.
MTmofo
@LT: Win!
MTmofo
@bkny: So it’s official, you have to go to a school in Texas to become a certified Bozo.
Mark S.
Ambinder:
That’s actually really fucking high, and a ridiculous amount to spend during peacetime. Which is what these dipshits are advocating when we finally get out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@kdaug: Honestly, I have no clue how it happened. It was exactly like I described it. I cut off the piece of the fig, and then I picked her out of my thigh. (Not really; she was just lying there, not embedded in anything.) I even picked her up before it really started bleeding, so there’s no blood on her. Just on my floors, a couple of books, my sock, my shoe and my car.
It took a moment to fill with blood, so I got a good look at it. When they took me for x-rays, I told them they were overreacting; there’s no way it justified that. What I found out when they probed it is that, due to the amount of blood, they assumed it was a lot deeper than it really was. In fact, it wasn’t even a quarter of an inch deep. I must have just found a vein.
kdaug
@That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Holy crap – that’s actually more plausible than my theory.
I’ve got no room to snark though. I managed to bring a ~60 pound branch down on my ass trimming trees last weekend. Followed by my ass hitting the pavement. Followed by bruised and swollen right wrist and big toe. (Compounding my stupidity, I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt – my work gloves and boots were safely tucked away.)
Roger Moore
@bkny:
Unlike his daughter, who is doing her level best to be a full time bozo.
LT
General Fuckhead and Just Some Stuckfuckhead – you two are acting like Raiders fans in a sports bar. I’m just here to watch the Bills, man.
General Stuck
@LT:
Silly me. I thought you were here to be wrong.
Just Some Fuckhead
@LT: That is really an asinine thing to say considering he launched into me unprovoked and I politely extricated myself from the situation.
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
A tad strong, don’t you think. More like a minor spitball launched from the balcony.
You can extricate yourself any time you want, but you can never leave.
Ash Can
@LT: Dude, stay out of the domestics.
dirk
In all my years of reading linked posts at highclearing, I thought the masthead was a finch, or perhaps a tit.
Turns out it’s a dog.
LT
Hey Stuck and Fuck, I lost track of which one of you was the sane one. I’m sorry. I just noticed that you were owning the thread on a related-to-nothing argument, and made a joke about Raiders fans. Cuz Raiders fans are dicks.
Ash Can: I should have.