Should John really contract the site rebuild out to a single company? Why can’t each commenter choose a provider to service his or her own comments?
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by DougJ| 132 Comments
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Should John really contract the site rebuild out to a single company? Why can’t each commenter choose a provider to service his or her own comments?
Consider this an open thread.
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Brian S (formerly Incertus)
Some suggestions for taking the Tea Party into the bedroom. One of the suggestions is DeepWater Lube.
JonathanW
The catfood commission has released a draft proposal:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/deficit-commission-co-chairs-simpson-and-bowles-release-eye-popping-recommendations.php
Arclite
While it would be hundreds of hours of programming and unnecessarily complicate things to allow users to view this site in their choice of blogging software, we should have choice. No one said democracy was neat or cheap.
John Cole, stop the government take over of Balloon Juice!
srv
We aren’t the consumer, we are the trash heap.
sherifffruitfly
Clearly this site is socialist.
Probably Muslim too.
mcd410x
Let’s go back to the days of phone company and cable monopolies. Those. Were. Awesome.
Pangloss
@JonathanW: Meow!
some other guy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/deficit-panel-s-plan-would-seek-to-cut-social-security-mortgage-deduction.html
Republican recommendations for reducing the deficit: tax cuts for the rich, benefit cuts for the poor, and laying off 200,000+ federal employees.
What was Obama thinking appointing these people to his deficit commission?
EDIT: @JonathanW beat me to it.
General Stuck
@JonathanW:
Where’s the beef?
TheMightyTrowel
Also, every misspelling on this site indicates that the commentor/front-pager wanted to cede the entire site to me as I frequently misspell words. Like Joe Miller.
Davis X. Machina
@JonathanW: In further news, The estate of John Kelsey is suing the Commission, claiming that the suggestions in the Commission’s report infringes on his “Deader than my nuts®” trademark.
licensed to kill time
Nobody’s gonna tell me what comment service to use, by gum! I’m gonna haul my own comments to the dump! Or burn ’em in the back yard.
jacy
Lou Dobbs had been hired by Fox Business Network.
Color me surprised.
Maybe he will do a business show on how to make a fortune by hiring illegal aliens and then getting them kicked out of the country before you have to pay them. That’s a sure winner!
Zifnab
@jacy:
Wait, does that mean he’s running for President?
KRK
They’re still counting the last 500 ballots in my county, but it appears that we had 74.88% voter turnout last week. Mail-in ballots FTW.
Not only is Rossi a 3-time loser, but our Democratic congressman and county commissioner won re-election, if narrowly, and the scary Republican candidate for sheriff lost by double digits. I’m feeling more hopeful than I did at this point last week.
Roger Moore
@Arclite:
Down with Blogocare!
pragmatism
i didn’t realize the car game piece in monopoly was a fiat. i guess the parker brothers didn’t believe in ‘murican exceptionalism. rename baltic avenue as the great salt lake avenue STAT!
Bnut
So did they recommend we should get only dry, or are we allowed to splurge on the wet stuff occasionally?
JonathanW
And here’s a direct link to the proposal page:
http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/news/cochairs-proposal
freelancer
@Roger Moore:
Rod Blagovich’s new job is moderating Balloon Juice? FSM help us all.
jacy
@pragmatism:
It all makes sense now.
Martin
@srv: True that.
bobbo
@jacy:
Buy gold!
Hob
The logical extreme of this kind of thing was covered in Samuel Delany’s SF novel Trouble on Triton: one of the few details he gives about his libertarian-ish society is that if I vote for candidate A and you vote for B, they both get elected and they set up separate parallel systems of laws and budgets that apply only to the people who voted for them. Delany doesn’t really try to explain how that could possibly work– it’s just part of the premise that this is a place where no one really has any excuse to complain about anything (especially since you can always go to a part of town where there are no laws); of course, someone still does.
cleek
holy crap, via Atrios:
in The Plan:
this isn’t a deficit reduction plan, it’s a fucking GOP smorgasbord.
Arclite
@Roger Moore: John Cole was blogging at me, so I had to throw him down and step on his head. I would have used my hands if not for my bad back. I’m currently awaiting his apology for making me do that to him.
JGabriel
Open Thread?
Susan Collins trash talks Sarah Palin:
I think Collins is right that Palin likes being a celebrity commentator, but wrong about the presidential run. Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan in his presidential campaign, and her analysis will be that she has to run for president to maintain her relevancy as a celebrity, because that worked pretty good for Pat.
So Palin will run. It’s win-win-win from her point of view:
If Palin gets the nomination and wins the election, she gets to be President! Cool!
If Palin gets the nomination and loses, she gets more “credibility” as a pundit who was The Republican Nominee for the Presidency.
And if Palin fails to win the nomination, then, like Buchanan, she still gets to pad her resume with former GOP primary candidate for president.
So Palin will run, if only because, no matter the outcome, it will still increase her speaking fees and commentator gigs.
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Calouste
I can already tell which proposals of the commission aren’t even going to make it to the committee stage of the House:
Defense spending cuts:
Double the number of defense contractor positions scheduled for elimination from 10 percent of current staff augmentees to 20 percent.
Reduce procurement by 15 percent, or $20 billion.
Eliminate the V-22 Osprey program.
Cancel the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program.
Halve the number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in favor of F-16s and F/A-18Es.
Cancel the Marine Corps F-35 program.
Cancel the Navy’s Future Maritime Prepositioning Force.
Cancel the new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), the Ground Combat Vehicle, and the Joint Tactical Radio.
Reduce military forces in Europe and Asia by one-third.
Send all military children based in the U.S. to local schools.
Well, except that last one.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
My socialist state of Washington’s Liquor Control Board has temporarily banned energy-alcohol drinks. How many more of these outrages can the free market absorb?
pragmatism
@jacy: how are the kids going to learn that we live in a randian completely unfettered free market without monopoly? pure captialism! goes down smooth.
Arclite
@cleek:
Maybe, but with all the deductions and loopholes I thought the effective corporate tax rate was something like 13%, so it might actually increase revenue. I’d like to see that top bracket 33% on the rich tho. 33% and no loopholes.
General Stuck
@cleek: I think I read it is in the presence of closing a bunch of existing looholes to offset the reduction in outright income tax rates.
James K. Polk, Esq.
@General Stuck: It’s there, but in small pieces because it is mechanically separated.
jacy
@pragmatism:
All my kids take great joy in knocking someone out of monopoly, while I always feel bad when somebody is down on their luck and I start lending them money under the table. I guess you can’t beat the soshulism out of me. I also guess that means randians have the empathy of sociopathic adolescents.
Arclite
@Calouste:
I was impressed when the Brits proposed knocking 12% off their defense budget. I wonder if it makes it easier to cut defense spending now that the Brits have broken the ice.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
And speaking of the Catfood Commission, the Social Security part of the proposal doesn’t seem as bad as I feared. If the stories I’m reading are correct the cuts are pushed so far out into the future that the Rapture will have long since solved the problem before they take effect.
The other parts look a little crazy at first blush.
jeffreyw
Bah, my head hurts. Spaghetti and meatballs makes it all better.
General Stuck
Seems the thing is about 50 50 between military cuts and domestic cuts, or savings, so overall doesn’t look like on the surface, it is all one sided to domestic.
I think the whole thing is just for highlighting peoples positions ideologically though, and mostly theater for politicians to hem and hawe about the portions that fit their mindset, or that don’t, as well as the village and bloggers to engage in parlor games. The real show is going to come in about Feb, between the House wingnut tea baggers and Obama.
Barb (formerly gex)
What really irks me is the government created TCP/IP protocol being THE protocol for the network. I want to use SNA.
pragmatism
@jacy: i make the kids mortgage their holdings and then create complex derivatives which ultimately fail and i scream when the bank bails them out. all of this makes one thing clear: our children is learning. its an important question.
Corner Stone
@jacy:
My sister recently played my 6 year old son’s Nintendo DS and got the high scores on a couple games. And my son couldn’t beat them after trying for a while. Last night before bath time he tells me, almost quivering with fury mind you, “I can’t tell you how angry I am at XYZ right now!”
So yes, there is nothing more Randesque than an adolescent.
JGabriel
DougJ:
But wouldn’t it be more efficient for us to form Browser Client Associations, such that we can create a separate Balloon Juice interface for each browser?
Since the browser associations would be smaller than the entire client base, they could respond to local browser complaints more quickly and with more accountability, while relieving John Cole and the other front-pagers of the tedium of dealing with Balloon Juice’s HTML plumbing!
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Sue
I reserve the right to choose the cheapest option and then expect the same service provided by the most expensive one.
Zifnab
@Hob:
Then why vote for representation at all? Why vote at all? If the only things that apply to you are things you support, then there’s no legal system at all to speak of. What on earth would the justice system look like? “Citizen A was caught violating Law CitA-26B, ‘No jaywalking’. He jaywalked. Would he like to repeal the law or pay himself the requisite $50 fine?”
What’s more, libertarianism prizes property possession above nearly every other virtue. But if we all just make our own laws, there’s no way to settle on concepts like theft or vandalism, much less complexities such as contract law. When you get rid of government, you effectively get rid of private property.
Culture of Truth
Well I’ll say this — by creating the Commission finally got the GOP to show their hand.
Zifnab
@Sue:
See, I reserve the right to choose the most expensive option I can personally afford and tell everyone with less money than me to suck it, cause I’ve got mine.
freelancer
If Balloon Juice was a crayon, which municipal service would it choose to riot about?
Culture of Truth
These recommendations should create a frenzy from the blogosphere to cable tv to Capitol Hill
“Catfood Fight !!!!!!!!!!!”
pragmatism
@Sue: i reserve the right to choose the heavily subsidized gubmint one but rail against supernanny/big gubmint.
JGabriel
pragmatism:
I like how “Randian” is becoming a general term for free-market extremism and losing the capital “R”, in much the same way that Kleenex(tm) became a generic term for snot-rags and lost its capital “K”.
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debit
Did Rush’s show just end? A client just called and screamed that he refused to pay Social Security anymore. “It’s a Ponzi scheme!” he shouted. “Make it so I don’t have to pay it anymore!” When I told him that wasn’t possible, he demanded to speak to my boss.
Jesus, some days…
Corner Stone
@Culture of Truth: To who?
pragmatism
@JGabriel: but Dumpster (TM) keeps the capitalization. what a world. really that’s just me. i think i’m e.e. cummings or something like that.
JPL
I was hoping that our in house libertarian would comment on Cookiegate.
Let them eat cake..Sarah is our own Marie Antoinette. I’m so proud.
MattR
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.):
The paranoid part of me wonders if the goal is to push them so far off into the future that Democrats don’t object and then use that to show that Democrats are not opposed to those cuts in principle so let’s move them closer to the present.
Corner Stone
I already paid taxes to build the internet! Why the hell should I pay more to get the things I find on there?
Damn lazy bloodsuckers.
Jay S
@Zifnab:
This is Fox business not Fox News. This is more like exile than support. Of course Lou might not understand that, so maybe he is running.
Andre
How long before the bears take over this blog?
Calouste
@Arclite:
In the end it came down to 8%, and they still got a slap from Hillary Clinton for that. Because, you know, we’re at “war”.
Defense cuts in the US won’t top 3% and most of that will be cutting soldiers’ and veterans’ benefits, and cutting a few projects in blue states (but resurrecting them with a less realistic budget in red states).
cleek
i will not write pie filters for everyone.
Jay S
@Barb (formerly gex):
Does IBM still sell that? Maybe you could get a TN3270 session as part of the redesign.
debit
@cleek: I mentioned in another thread: I have embraced the way of the pie and am so much happier for it. Thanks, man.
cleek
take money from the DoD budget? get real.
how on earth could we find a way to spend an extra $22,200 per second?
Sly
We all know that WordPress is run by the mafia. That’s what you get with nanny-state blogging.
@Corner Stone:
Unless he set fire to the store where you bought him the DS, raped your sister, and delivered a 60 page speech on individualism, then he is not a proper Randian.
jacy
@JPL:
Palin just wants kids to get fat so that when the zombie apocalypse comes the teatards in the scooters will have some chance of escape.
Martin
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.): Yeah, SS isn’t in bad shape. It’s easy to fix, and the fixes seem okay. I’d like to see Medicare/SS eligibility come into alignment, though. That’s double the paperwork needed now (you apply for Medicare through SS), and it creates a monster clusterfuck. They should get hooked together and other parts adjusted to make that work.
Some of the Medicare items are redundant with what’s proposed in ACA. It’s almost like they’re unaware that the bill was passed.
The gas tax is disappointingly timid. They should call for a maximum annual increase/decrease in the tax until it reaches a certain % of the (non taxed) rolling average price from the last 3 years. I’d like to see that at a 20% tax (about $.60) to be directed specifically into alternate energy/mass transit, but with increases/decreases limited to no more than $.05 per year until they hit that 20%. That’d take 9 years minimum.
Cleek got the income tax proposals right. Eliminating the mortgage interest deduction would be extremely painful for some people. For me personally, that’d result in a huge tax increase, even with the lower base rate. I appreciate the desire to simplify the tax code, but that seems too much since it penalizes new households w/kids. I like the look of the 2nd code a bit more. I’d be okay with eliminating the mortgage interest deduction if there was a simple personal deduction that reasonably took these factors into account. Add a simple dependent deduction onto the personal deduction and call it a day. The top rates are too low, though. We’re already suffering with massive wealth accumulation – that needs to be addressed. And no comment on cap gains rates? That’s just fucking cowardly to not even mention it. Those should be substantially higher and connected to income.
Lowering corporate taxes and eliminating loopholes would be good, but I question whether they could successfully increase revenues this way. Exxon already pays no taxes on huge profits because their foreign tax liability is so much higher than their domestic that they can deduce the whole thing. That’s just fucked.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@General Stuck:
Yes, but they also propose to exclude from being taxed all income earned abroad by US based companies and expats. As in zero percent. That is closing loopholes and opening a freaking 4 lane express off-ramp.
Guess how much more income is going to be off-shored if these changes go into effect? After all, everybody knows that the biggest problem in the US economy today is that our corporations aren’t moving their operations overseas fast enough.
Tonybrown74
@debit:
BLINK BLINK
whu …whu … what now??
I don’t believe you!
(actually, I do. But, really!?!? FSM help us all!)
Mark S.
Wow, the Catfood Commission’s proposals were loonier than I thought they would be. Was it written by the Cato Institute? It has zero chance of ever passing. Was a colossal waste of fucking time.
MattR
@Martin:
They are just anticpating its repeal.
Michael
Oh, fuck me running. Now the glibtards are singing paeans to payday lending.
http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/10/reasontv-in-defense-of-payday
This is the sort of intellectualism that makes me support the notion of revolutionary excesses that involve grinning commissars, dingy basements, grimy pistols and easily maintained sawdust floors.
arguingwithsignposts
@Martin:
That’s not cowardly, that’s doing what your corporate overlords want.
arguingwithsignposts
@Michael:
I am not getting out of the boat for that. No way. No how.
Nutella
@Sue:
I reserve the right to pay nothing at all and then demand the same service other people paid for when my browser burns to the ground.
Jay S
@debit: Hey, all he needs to do is not have earned income, you know, go Galt. No Social Security tax. Easy peasy.
YellowDog
Information is power. While the children were talking trash and libertarian principles, karoli at Crooks and Liars was actually investigating. It turns out one of the losers in the great trash bidding war is well connected (i.e., gives much money) in Republican circles. So, it turns out the Tea Party fuss may be just another AstroTurf event. New/old rule: follow the money.
meh
Anyone watching The Walking Dead on AMC?
me
@Michael:
Of course he didn’t actually do any of those things. He just asserted that “sometimes people need quick emergency cash” without looking at whether people get into traps. How many “working poor” even use pay day loans? You’d think he could’ve presented some actual data.
Hob
@Zifnab: Well it’s a satire, more or less, so there’s that. But to be fair, that part was more about constituent services, not criminal law– and foreign policy is a whole other story (basically no one pays much attention to it, and it seems to be conducted by basically the CIA, with really awful results).
Citizen_X
Hey, anyone get a new passport lately? I just got mine. It’s mighty fancy-schmancy: full of pretty pitchurs and nice quotes. And there’s a chip in there somewhere.
kindness
I used to drive a Fiat. A ’69 124 Sport Coupe. All kinds of fun but I hope John can afford the mechanic he’ll need to have on speed dial. (actually the car was very good. It was me who was young and poor and didn’t keep it up and one thing leads to another until it ain’t worth fixin’ any more).
MikeJ
@me:
Fixed it for him.
NonyNony
@YellowDog:
I actually took it as a given that the outrage was being stoked by one or more of the parties who were losing out from the garbage being contracted with a single company. Nobody gets outraged over their city making a garbage contract that is going to save them money without external prompting.
The stories I saw all suggested that the folks in that city were going to be saving something like a million dollars over the course of the five year contract. Even if we’re talking 4 or 5 companies shut out because of the exclusive contract that’s a couple hundred grand per company over the span of the contract. Even more if there were fewer companies involved. Certainly enough money to start a low-rent astroturfing Tea Party campaign. Especially when the rubes are willing to go out and agitate for their right to waste as much money as they feel like with just the slightest bit of prompting.
Corner Stone
@Sly: It was only last night. Give the 6 year old a little time for pete’s sake.
R-Jud
@Citizen_X:
We just received my daughter’s US passport, and it is, as you say, very nice. She also has a UK passport: the US one is definitely snazzier.
@kindness: Doesn’t “Fiat” stand for “Fix It Again, Tony”?
Redshift
@MikeJ: Actually, that’s not quite it, if you actually talk to people in those neighborhoods. The assumption at the core of the business is that banks won’t give them credit cards or open branches in their neighborhoods, so the sky’s the limit for how much you can screw people when they have no other options.
Michael
@me:
To the Fonzie of Freedom, facts are distracting from the ideological message. Knowing what I know about the “industry”, I found that video infuriating to the point of really wishing that an Al Quaeda hit team would go and put some bullets in the back of some heads, principally that of 17ther law professor Zywicki, followed shortly thereafter by Gillespie.
These enterprises are shadowy, do a quick milk of assets of dupe investors and the poor folks that get trapped, then disappear into insolvency and bankruptcy 12-16 months after the grand opening. They’re simply fraud conduits.
And, if you think about it, for your average low wage slob, that “quick cash” loan of $300 wound up costing him a full day’s worth of labor just to pay for the privilege of borrowing it..
A Duck
Citizen_X: No, but did notice that we are now paying $110 for the goddamn unsecure things.
WereBear
I reserve the right to order the most expensive option and pay for it by whining and calling people Muslin soshallists.
Mnemosyne
@JonathanW:
Well, no. Bowles and Simpson have held a press conference to present their personal draft, because they couldn’t get the rest of the commission to agree on it:
So, no, this isn’t coming up for a vote anywhere, because it’s not the commission’s report. This is basically just a PR stunt by Bowles and Simpson because they couldn’t get their way.
PurpleGirl
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.): Yes, it does seem that they are pushed to future, but they will have an impact on people’s children and grandchildren. I thought these characters were all scared of what their grandchildren will have to pay for today’s deficits.
freelancer
@jacy:
She hasn’t watched Zombieland. The first rule is Cardio.
@meh:
Yes. The pilot was awesome. The second show was great, but suffered a little from the tv trope of the injection of moral struggle of racist asshole vs black guy, so that our protagonist could become the “leader”. That said, it’s still pretty great.
frostys
@jacy: When we were kids, we used to borrow from the bank so the game could go on for hours. The guy who held the greens (me) usually ended up deep in the red by the end.
We also sent each other to jail for income tax evasion if we found someone had been hiding money under the table when they pulled that card.
Modern finance at its best, eh?
me
@Michael: The only one bit of data he did use was that bankruptcy rates rose in Georgia after pay day lending was banned which apparently happened in 2004. Now since 2004 the banking crisis occurred and bankruptcy rates have risen nationwide. I guess he couldn’t be arsed to even address the correlation-causation problem in the single hard fact he used in that video.
Suck It Up!
@debit:
What’s wrong with you? Never tell a client no. He specifically said make it so he doesn’t have to pay it anymore. At that point you should have asked which other country has he ever thought about moving to?
Silver Owl
Doug you’re first one to make me laugh today. lol Thanks.
me
@Suck It Up!: Or how much time he wants to spend in federal prison.
Redshift
@freelancer:
But that would involve actual effort, so it’s automatically off the table for Snowflake Snooki and the Teabag brigade.
Suck It Up!
@meh:
I do. I love it.
Citizen_X
@A Duck:
Did I mention it was very pretty?
Re: security, the literature accompanying it says the chip can be read “from a close distance” by chip readers. But never fear:
I read that and thought, “I smell a hacker challenge.” Am I wrong about that?
cleek
@debit:
sounds like someone who’s ripe for some creative scamming.
freelancer
@frostys:
Still won’t win you a McRib. Stupid Monopoly, I keep buying fries and winning fries. Suck on that, FLOTUS.
cleek
@Citizen_X:
ta-da!
Zifnab
@meh: Quality show. I’m enjoying it. My girlfriend was (somewhat surprisingly) very upset at the lack of zombie shooting.
YellowDog
@NonyNony:
So did I, but I guess the pissing match over libertarianism felt too good. I stopped reading the posts–great way to drive off traffic guys. Perhaps they figured it out eventually.
Citizen_X
@cleek: Yeah, exactly as I figured.
pandera
doug wins.
Suck It Up!
@me:
this too, also. let’s make that option b.
ruemara
@meh:
I’m watching it in the American Political System.
General Stuck
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
They won’t be. case closed on this distraction
A Duck
Citizen_X: I don’t know what the latest turn of the merry-go-round hath wrought, but I do seem to recall at least one report of a team succesfully lifting data from a distance with previous versions of the rfid passports.
In the end, the things are meant to be read remotely, so securing the data involves asking things of the chip that are not in its nature (cf. scorpion v. frog). Frying the chip in the microwave is illegal and will probably cost you at least another $110. I have heard it recommende that one should carry the thing in an anti-static bag to inhibit remote sensing, but have no idea of the utility of such.
I just have a low opinion of the people who decide these things, so I’m sorta waiting for the other shoe . . .
jeffreyw
Dessert for all that finished dinner.
A Duck
cleek: yep, that’s what I’m talking about, Willis.
FlipYrWhig
Payday loans make me sad. You’re just getting boned every which way.
asiangrrlMN
@cleek: MikeJ did the Chrome one, so maybe we could get other commenters to do the rest. You know, sociaIism.
DougJ, thanks for the belly laugh. I REALLY needed it today.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
News Flash: Chris Matthews is mind-bogglingly stupid.
Platonicspoof
Please notify John that I have contracted for my own intertube from his house to my computer in Little Beirut to avoid using sociaIist ISPs.
Trackhoe rates are lowest at night, so digging in his yard will have to start at midnight.
Hob
@meh: I’m digging it so far. The writing & characterizations are uneven to say the least, but it works for me as a really well done long B-movie. The 16mm film look helps.
Barb (formerly gex)
@Jay S: It has to be part of the design or I would have my precious freedoms impinged.
Kyle
@Barb (formerly gex):
Commie. Everyone knows real Murkans use the Mormon-created IPX/SPX protocol.
Jay S
@Kyle:
You know, it’s religious wars like this that allowed the collectivist TCP/IP and X.25 standards to win. If only you IPX/SPX folks had seen the light and used SNA and Netbios like God intended, we’d be using token ring instead of ethernet. Now the banks are the last rear guard action defending SNA with battered hardware held together by will power alone.
Admiral_Komack
@General Stuck:
@JonathanW:
“The catfood commission has released a draft proposal:”
“Where’s the beef?”
I don’t know, but something smells fishy about all this.
Cheryl Rofer
We need Tunch’s opinion of the Catfood Commission report.
SiubhanDuinne
Here’s what makes me happy: I just got an email from CaféPress telling me that my three BJ Pet Calendars have been shipped!
I love the way Café Press just gets so excited (“WOO-HOO!”) whenever the UPS guy stops by their place. If they were puppies, they’d be peeing on my shoes from sheer exuberance.
So, good. That’s a start, anyhow, on my Christmas shopping. Can’t wait to see the finished product.
Martin
@Mnemosyne:
Heh. Well fuck them then. I’ll feel free to ignore the poutrage until something real shows up.
SiubhanDuinne
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.):
I’m almost afraid to ask. What did he do/say/tingle this time?
General Stuck
@Cheryl Rofer:
Ha. good one :)
Davis X. Machina
If you have a toll-road transponder, they gave you a bag to put your transponder in when, eg. towing a trailer, the transponder should not be read.
Put your passport in that, and bob’s your uncle. It’s meant to be RF-attenuating.
Anti-static bags are just that — anti-static.
Ruckus
@Corner Stone:
So yes, there is nothing more Randesque than an adolescent.
Or There is nothing more adolescent than a Randtard.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
@SiubhanDuinne:
Complaining the Democrats don’t compromise enough whilst absorbing a creamy money shot from Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Matthews is not only stupid, he’s creepy; all his heroes/deities/porn studs are dead politicians.
jimmiraybob
Will the rework offer curbside recycling and less road congestion/repair?
Matthew
@jacy: The teatards are the zombie apocalypse.