I’ve had a sinus infection for three days, so it is another night snuggling my Alka Seltzer Cold Medicine and watching the boob tube. Any games on of note tonight? The Georgia/Auburn game was rather exciting…
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stuckinred
Both the SEC games, Fla-SC and Bama MSU should be barn burners.
JPL
Alabama won’t mind facing Auburn without a few starters at least through the first half. As a GA fan, I can only say PFFFT.
stuckinred
@JPL: By then there might be 3 starters out, know what I’m sayin?
wonkie
Sincethis is an open thread: oh pleaswe, please, please whtever deity cares about dogs let this rescue happen! I just got home form a property a few iles away where two dogs have died from nelgect and four others are just hanging on. The owners of the dogs are metally disabled and really shouldn’t have custody of any animal. they don’t mean to do harm but they do. Any way the dog that is in the worst shape is a lab mix who has spent the four years of his life chaned to a tree with no shelter. He is pitifully skinnny and has adistended belly. The two akitas up until two days ago were confined to boxes on much bigger than they are and the last dog, a feral dog is the sole survivor of a group that were left locked in a house to starve to death.
Anyway LSS the owners agreed today to give me the lab if I could fid aresce that would take him. And just a few minutes ago I found one! So now I need to get the owners to sign him over to me officallly and make arrangements to transport him tothe rescue.
Oddly I was pretty calm about all of this until I found the resuce that will take him. Now I am a quivering ball of anxiety lest anything go wrong and the resuce fall through.
The dog, Thumoer, is a lab mix and a needy anxious hyper friendly boy who, unfortuantley humps legs, a behaviour I hope he can ove come once he’s nuetered.
i thnk i may have to resort to alchohol to calm down.
General Stuck
Not a college feetball fan, but B Ball season has started and so far the KY wildcats are doing just dandy, though I haven’t been able to catch a game web streaming yet.
And for the first time since I can remember am excited about pro football tomorrow, and seeing if my upstart Browns keep winning and playing like the Browns of old.
Think I will watch Alice tonight and get totally freaked out.
General Stuck
@wonkie:
fingers crossed here.
D-boy
Nebraska v Kansas
Go Big Red!
The Dangerman
Cal’s up on Oregon early in the “Shitty Uniforms” bowl.
TCU looked less than world beaters against San Diego State.
BCS could be open warfare before it is over.
The Dangerman
@JPL:
Didn’t watch the game; who did they lose and why only first half?
I think Bama beats Auburn.
JPL
@stuckinred: hahaha
Mark S.
Cindy McCain–two-faced, drunk or something. But can anyone tell me why the fuck she has a piece of tape over her mouth on her twitter? Has she been silenced a lot in her career as a beer heiress? What a warrior for social justice!
Corner Stone
There is simply nothing more delightful than Matt Millen three times in the same week.
Thank you ABC network, thank you.
MikeJ
I’d rather snuggle boobs and watch an Alka Seltzer tube, but that’s just me.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Heterosexualist.
To JC: Chicken soup. Generations of Jewish grandmothers can’t be wrong.
James K. Polk, Esq.
GO BEARS! Let’s ruin Oregon’s season!
mr. whipple
@General Stuck:
Been thinking about you since they started their little run. Wife and I get to go tomorrow.(Free club seats from a customer.)
MikeJ
@Yutsano: I explicitly said that was just my preference. I never said it was better than anybody else’s, but that’s what I’d like.
And if anybody is arranging that, I ran out of maraschino cherries for my manhattans. Please bring some along.
The Dangerman
@Yutsano:
Hot and Sour soup, with enough hot and sour that any hotter would eat the bowl.
NobodySpecial
@Corner Stone:
I think you meant to say “There would be nothing more delightful than Matt Millen being banned from public or private discussion of or having paid work involving football.”
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Quelle horreur! I agree with your general lassitude though, my only desire to leave my condo at this moment is to go get Chinese food at some point.
Dee Loralei
@wonkie: I’m keeping my fingers crossed and sending goof vibes your way. Let us know how it goes.
NobodySpecial
@Yutsano:
Simply change ‘boobs’ to ‘moobs’ and you’re good to go!
mr. whipple
@The Dangerman:
Horseradish soup. Damn, that good.
stuckinred
@The Dangerman: Two defensive linemen threw punches when the game was in hand for them. Fucking morons.
justawriter
I’m watching Food Network’s Thanksgiving Question Show. I’m taking the turkey and three points.
asiangrrlMN
Pissy mood here, despite the snow. Someone entertain me, please. kthxbai.
@stuckinred: Oh, I thought you meant the starting back controversy.
ETA: My national game is Oklahoma St. v. Texas. Woo the mofo hoo.
@stuckinred: I know. I was shocked when I saw the score.
Yutsano
@The Dangerman: That will also work. And fits my culinary mood rather nicely as well.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: The Gophers shocked my Illini!
robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles
What’s Tunch up to?
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Did you see that Northwestern’s QB threw a game winning pass on the last play of the game and ruptured his achilles?
The Dangerman
@stuckinred:
Same play? Indeed, stupid fuckers.
In basketball, you get tossed for the next game; in football, just a half? That isn’t right (albeit painful enough).
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: I saw it on replay. I winced just watching it. Poor kid.
@MikeJ: But you made me laugh, so that’s good.
MikeJ
@asiangrrlMN: 1500 miles away makes my suggestion for something to do a bit difficult.
The Dangerman
@mr. whipple:
Recipe online? Sounds good.
stuckinred
@The Dangerman: NO, on consecutive plays which makes it even stupider!
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
Rice porridge. Generations of Chinese grandmothers can’t be wrong. And there are a lot more of them.
JPL
@The Dangerman: One was Fairly’s backup. I’m sure that GA’s coach is going to show film to the SEC. Fairly should have been suspended imo.
The Republic of Stupidity
Cal is leading Oregon 7-0 in the 2nd Q…
Yes, Oregon is No 1 in the country and has one of the all-time great offenses this year, but Cal also plays much tougher at home and has a very, very good defense…
And the execrable Kevin Riley (CA-Bad) is gone…
NobodySpecial
@asiangrrlMN: Maybe this will help.
Thanksgiving PSA
asiangrrlMN
@Roger Moore: Black chicken soup is also good for what ails you. Ancient Taiwanese secret.
@NobodySpecial: Snicker, snort, heh.
mr. whipple
@The Dangerman:
This is close to how we make it. There’s a lot of variation on it out there.
NobodySpecial
@Roger Moore: I’m always reminded of what a friend said.
“You know what it means when someone calls you one in a million? It means there’s 4,000 Chinese JUST LIKE YOU.”
Yutsano
@MikeJ: If this involves French maid outfits, I’m outtie. Not that I object to wifey knocking boots mind you…
@asiangrrlMN: Recipe. My inbox. NAOW. I don’t care if you have to call your mother and ask.
rasta999
Delurking to ask where are the blogging headlines? Momma Grizzley MAULED in her own den. Can Death Panel Palin spell MURKOWSKI? Check her palm. King Maker Palin LOSES her crown.Palins picks are putrid.
The Dangerman
@mr. whipple:
Thanks. Never heard of it (and I love horseradish; then again, I live in the sticks and our restaurants are … challenged).
Roger Moore
@asiangrrlMN:
I think I’ve heard of the black chicken soup, but rice porridge seems to be what all of my coworkers have when they’re not feeling well. I think ginger tea is another favorite, not that I need much excuse to have anything with ginger in it.
asiangrrlMN
@NobodySpecial: That’s even funnier!
@Yutsano: Great. Now I’m imagining a random guy on the internet (who looks, strangely enough, a lot like Johnny Depp) in a French maid outfit. Actually, that does cheer me up.
And, what part of secret recipe don’t you understand?
@Roger Moore: Yes. Ginger tea is also a winner. Anything with ginger, really. And, rice porridge is really good, too. But black chicken soup? Ain’t nothing like it.
Gah! Brett Favre was just on my teevee for his stupid Wranglers commercial. Now I’m in a worse mood! Good thing I mute commercials.
MikeJ
@Yutsano: I was only talking about my original idea @13, but you never know where these things go. If she happened to have a french maid outfit and some maraschino cherries I wouldn’t argue.
stuckinred
@JPL: Mark was pretty quiet about the whole deal on the postgame.
The Dangerman
@Yutsano:
Inbox? No fair! Here!!
Shit, Ducks just scored.
Yutsano
@mr. whipple: Nom. I could eat that. And it would clear out JC’s sinuses faster than one of Rush Limbaugh’s farts could clear out an elevator.
asiangrrlMN
@MikeJ: I thought YOU were wearing the French maid’s outfit. I was gonna wear the pirate one.
@Roger Moore: And, you must have an open heart and an open wallet to win the hand of this fair lady.
ETA: Please note that I refuse to even give it to Yutsy.
Roger Moore
@The Dangerman:
You don’t think she’s going to give out ancient family secrets to just anyone, do you. If you want to ask her for favors, you need to fake marry her like Yutsano did.
NobodySpecial
/sigh. Inbox – 435 emails.
Yutsano
@Roger Moore: And keep in mind the marriage process is a rather democratic one. Insofar as members of the Denobulan coupling get to vote. Or wifey gets whimsical and says you’re in, cuz that’s how I got roped in.
stuckinred
The evil genius chompin the gators
burnspbesq
@The Republic of Stupidity:
Susan Bayh (who was two years behind me in law school) is a former Cal cheerleader. Seems a perfectly good reason to root for Oregon.
The Republic of Stupidity
@burnspbesq:
Piffle…
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Here you go. I am sure this is recipe is just as good as the secret family recipe.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: QUACK!!
(and I’m not just saying that because my Cougs beat the Beavs today.)
Incidentally I threw up a restaurant rec for your fam in the College Football thread but I think it got buried.
Mark S.
Who says the Catholic Church is behind the times?
Catholic bishops say more exorcists are needed
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
Is licking a robot’s clitoris like touching your tongue to a 9-volt battery?
scav
well. Having watched a video, all I can say is I have severely underestimated the blackness of the chicken involved. but, even without going that far (as it depends on the quality of my nearby markets), the mere concept of adding ginger, ginseng and wolfberries to chicken soup has perked me up already.
stuckinred
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): only if you are not grounded
Alan
You get sick too often. Maybe you’re vitamin D deficient. I live in Florida and get plenty of Sun but still supplement with at least 5000iu of vitamin D-3 when I don’t get outside. FWIU, most people are deficient. I’ve read 1000iu for every 25lbs of body weight is what most people need.
Punchy
About to go see–get this–Split Lip Rayfield and Reverend Horton Hears a Hoo. And since Yonder Mountain String Band is in town, too, they’ve promised to end their show early and join in the festivities. This could be the tittiest titties concert in the history of all time ever always, also too. I’ll be dancing with a hard-on rarely seen at a bluegrass show.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
I saw it. Sounds good. Thanks.
Final score, Duke 69, BYU 54. The men start tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time against Princeton.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Brian S (formerly Incertus):
Why do I get the feeling this is a lead-in to a rousing, Saturday night discussion of the Darwin Awards…
asiangrrlMN
@scav: Here’s another recipe with less of the blackness. This just looks like regular chicken, though, and the blackness really makes the soup, IMHO.
ETA: The herbs, I mean. And such.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I’m not so certain how honorable it is to beat up on a bunch of tall Mormons. Then again a few of them play a decent round of hoops.
@asiangrrlMN: Parsley instead of cilantro? I declare shenanigans there! Plus reading the first recipe it calls for a particular type of chicken. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll still all count.
mr. whipple
@Yutsano:
Indeedy. It’s wonderful stuff for a cold, or just a cold day. I’ve seen recipies from Poland, Russia and Germany(where we first had it.)
SectarianSofa
Whee! Sinus infections. If I’m lucky, I only get three of those a year. Pffft. At least my ENT is good. She’s one of those follows new research, talks to other MD’s, etc.. Still, I am just getting over (knock on dryad’s particleboard) a sinus infection myself. Gives me an excuse to sleep in, though.
SectarianSofa
@mr. whipple:
Hadn’t thought of horseradish. Must try that.
I’ve got kimchi in the fridge right now, which I just remembered because of this thread. Thanks!
Evolved Deep Southerner
Auburn? Motherfucking cocksuckers. All of them. Chizik. Newton. Especially that motherfucking cocksucking cheap-shotting Fairley. I hate to wish an injury on a player, but a career-ender for that piece of pigshit would be proof that God existed.
Whatever the NCAA lays on them – whatever victories they vacate, however many scholarships and TV appearances they lose – will be too good for the cocksuckers.
And CBS? I hope Danielson and Lundquist both die in disgrace choking on the business end of a cheap crossdressing hooker’s dick tonight in separate incidents.
I’m a Georgia fan. I know what it’s like to lose – God knows I do, especially this year. I expected to lose this game. But Auburn? What a classless amalgamation of human scum in one place. I hope their display tonight shows the world what they are. They belong in the deepest, hottest, most unpleasant ring of hell.
scav
@asiangrrlMN: thanks, but have no fear, the blackness isn’t a problem, you should have seen me with the squid in their own ink while in Venice. I’m just not sure my local markets are up to the task of providing me with the proper chicken.
ETA: and finding all the variants makes me really believe that each and every Chinese grandmother has her own secret version.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Cilantro is the suxxor. I am sure they mean Chinese parsley. And, yes, there is a special kind of–whoops! Almost gave away the secret!
Larkspur
Dude. All the soup is good and healthsome and healing, but if you have a genuine bona fide infection-y sinus infection, you damn well better be taking antibiotics. Sure, maybe your body will vanquish it on its own, but sinus infections are, by definition, near your brain.
A thousand pardons if, in a previous post (for I have read all of the preceding comments to this one) you have already explained that you are partaking of the antibiotics.
WyldPirate
@stuckinred:
You missed the georgia players intentionally going after the Auburn DL who was blocked into the Georgia QB on the play before, I guess.
Number 90 for Auburn did not try to intentionally injure the Georgia QB. Three separate Georgia players went after the Auburn player.
Quite possibly the most classless act I’ve ever seen in CFB. Mr. “Good Christian” Mark Richt needs to have a come to Jesus meeting with his players.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: I didn’t miss shit asshole. Fuck you and those cheapshot cocksukers.
with all due respect
WyldPirate
You’re blind as fuck, dude. Fairley was blocked into him. Next play three goddamned GA intentionallyt zeroed in on Fairley. then most of the Georgia team left the sidelines.
asiangrrlMN
@scav: I agree with you that there are probably as many recipes as there are Taiwanese (Chinese) grandmothers. Isn’t that always how it is with family recipes?
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: You are fucking idiot, Fairley was throwing cheap shots from jump street. Stick to your moronic political bullshit.
Yutsano
@efgoldman: And I was just about to make popcorn too.
mr. whipple
@stuckinred: Did I see you post a few days or so ago that you fish the Outer Banks?
stuckinred
@mr. whipple: Yea, you headed there?
Mark S.
@efgoldman:
I thought it was Shakespeare.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@WyldPirate: Eat shit and die, fucker. Fairley? That piece of shit doesn’t need to be walking free in society, much less playing football. If Georgia had gang tackled his ass and stomped on his knee in unison, it would have still been too good for his sorry ass.
Fuck him, fuck you, and fuck Auburn University. If you’re a fan of theirs, it makes sense given your past commentary. If you’re not, you’re a fucking troll, and not an entertaining one.
Either way, I hope the War Eagles/Tigers/Plainsmen/whatever-the-mascot-for-this-year-is enjoy their time in the sun. Gonna be a helluva lot of asterisks after a helluva lot of victories soon.
Corner Stone
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Looks like part of your nym is burning.
mr. whipple
@stuckinred:
Nope. Back when wife and me were gainfully employed, we’d head down for a week or so every October. Stayed in Avon. Didn’t have a 4WD, but we’d park at an oceanside lot, grab the surf rods, sand spikes, mullet, lawn chairs and thermos and spend the day watching the rod tips bob in the surf. Freaking awesome.
stuckinred
@mr. whipple: Yea, I haven’t been in the fall. I have these giant ass rigs and I never catch anything on them but I’ve gotten some nice fish right one that first drop-off. I try to get out on a headboat once and a charter if I can but it’s hard for one person to get on a “make-up”. Headed for the Emerald Coast of Florida next weekend, they extended the snapper season this year so I’m a hopin.
Corner Stone
@mr. whipple: Damn, I may have to give that a try. Sub some mixed chicken meat for the turkey, and probably do half stock and half broth.
Couple other tweaks as it would just be feeding me.
mr. whipple
Awesome. Fall is great on the OB. Everyone is gone, nothing to do but eat, fish and fuck.
Never got any big drum, but always got small ones, blues, flounder, shark, etc. Maximum relaxation.
change
President Obama called the Democrats’ November 2 loss of sixty-one House seats a “shellacking.” Yet in a day-after press conference, Obama sported a self-absorbed manner, contrived reflection, and a basic misread of the American people. In a “60 Minutes” interview aired four days later, he denied that voters had repudiated his agenda. The president doesn’t understand why a center-right nation would reject a left-wing Obama. This man will not “move to the center.”
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. In early 2008, Senator Obama accused businesses of having cultures “rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.” Only ten months shy of establishing a federal regime rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and greed, the senator also warned that America’s “real problem is … that the corporation you work for will ship [your job] overseas for nothing more than a profit.”
Obama’s implicit suggestion that companies should bleed dollars to keep people employed revealed his blindness to economic reality. The practice of demonizing capitalists and the free market has become an Obama favorite. So goes the “progressive” mentality. So goes Barack Obama.
Obama destroys. Wearing the cape of savior, he destroys the resolve of people seeking to be saved. Abusing the office of president, Obama destroys American prosperity. He genuinely believes that government creates wealth. But Obama’s policies and pontifications scare the hell out of the machine that creates all wealth: private enterprise.
The president makes a show of caring about private enterprise, about people. But he is in love with big government, with ideas. Almighty central planning is progressivism’s dearest idea. Barack Obama’s idea, too. Obama clings to the notion that government legislates progress. He cannot see that society progresses when doers do profitable things that improve people’s lives, an endeavor called “business.” Remove the profit motive, and action fades. Without action, no business. Without business, no progress. Yet Obama doesn’t get it. Our president is an ideologue.
Since 1900, in America as in Europe, progressive ideologues like Obama have dominated a ruling class that focuses government on one overarching pursuit: political patronage. Today, snowballing organizations like George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Tides Foundation, “green” advocacy groups; climate alarmists; social, economic, and environmental justice zealots; multiculturalism preachers; and victimhood-mongers of all kinds vie for government backing to push agendas.
In Bought and Paid For, Charlie Gasparino shows how the chummiest kowtowers to Obama’s favor, Wall Street “fat cats,” push agendas of personal profit. The president’s rhetoric and policies ooze contempt for the general idea of business, but business writ large across Lower Manhattan draws only pseudo-threats that camouflage friendly policies. The double standard subjects honest, traditional, small-business entrepreneurs to a baked-in disadvantage: omission from Obama’s corporatist gift list.
Corporatism does create prosperity, but mainly for businesses that play the game. Widespread prosperity arises when anyone with a legal business idea gets an unimpeded shot at trying out that idea in the marketplace without playing games. Entrepreneurs must be free to direct talent and money into products and services that people want.
Today’s business leaders instead navigate a maze of flagrant political patronage tailored to accommodate a chosen few. Among the few are the Wall Street fat cats, as well as “green” and “alternative energy” interests. EPA overregulation will, for instance, force consumers to buy green electricity at jacked-up prices and pay mark-ups on anything that requires electricity to produce — in other words, everything.
Barack Obama presides over this abuse while hyping the need for vision, the need to help fellow Americans. The opposite side of the presidential mouth vilifies visionary people whose business revenues do help Americans by providing jobs. Obama paints these traditional business people as coldhearted, bigoted, nature-hating Ebenezer Scrooges. What else could traditionalists be? Anyone opposing the visionary, compassionate, planet-saving Obama is obviously a Neanderthal.
The president locks out Neanderthals. The presidential network accommodates only enlightened beings who push, Kool-Aid drinkers who accept, and savvy partners who profit from fundamental transformation. It will be no surprise when Obama keeps the unenlightened Republican House Speaker, John Boehner, on the fringes of the network. Barack Obama will tolerate nothing resembling Republican accomplishments over the next two years.
Neither will the president mothball his anti-business ideology. The stunting economic effects will be insidious. Markets create maximum wealth when businesspeople move about freely, developing and ending relationships across various social networks. In those networks lie common interests, and in the interests, needs. When entrepreneurs decide to fulfill the needs, businesses are born. Entrepreneurs benefit. Networks benefit. Other entrepreneurs replicate the process. Society thrives. Prosperity grows.
Barack Obama abhors this natural order.
Obama the progressive views himself as a socioeconomic engineer. Although the free market’s health depends on government respecting citizens’ right to freely and randomly associate with each other, our control-obsessed president cannot stand for something so serendipitous derailing his brilliantly planned economy. Progressives know better. Progressives must dictate. The free market’s smooth functioning also depends on respect for the rule of law. But Obama displays staggering disregard for the law. The president has anointed dozens of policy-making “czars” accountable only to him. Halting America’s fundamental transformation now hinges on the GOP finding ways to stop vast amounts of czar-initiated backdoor regulation.
If Barack Obama cares about being reelected, he might try something new: admitting his faults. The president might reflect on how he contributed to two years of economic misery, caused the electoral slaughter of his political party, and lost the trust of Americans, who said, “No, no, no!” as he kept saying, “Yes we can!” He might try adopting the proposals of Capitol Hill conservatives and setting America’s businesses free. The private sector will produce an economic recovery for which ideologue Obama would take credit. The president’s drool-soaked media toadies would eagerly sell the claim.
But Obama is an ideologue — and a man addicted to demonizing his opponents. So the president will play ugly games with a recharged GOP. He will agree to extend the Bush tax cuts. But the left-winger will cling to left-wing dogma and choose ever sneakier routes that will burden American business. The ideologue and his czars and agency bosses will try to circumvent Congress and the Constitution to bring about state-controlled capitalism.
God give the Republicans the courage to rediscover integrity and sane economic principle. For the sake of Americans living today and Americans not yet born, may voters continue to awaken between now and November 2012 and finish the purge that was started in November 2010.
stuckinred
@mr. whipple: I can’t seem to get a link to work, try this
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4661540984_eb35a822d0_o.jpg
WyldPirate
Stuckinred, I won’t retract my statement about what happened at the end of the game. I tuned in late in the game and didn’t see this hit on the Georgia QB by #90.
Number #90 for Auburn should have been ejected for that hit above and never been around for the one that happened in the end.
That said, it didn’t justify what the Georgia players did on the play after the QB was hurt.
Looks to me like both sides have a lot of dirt on them.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Texas has just had their spirit broken this season. Not to be unexpected they’d be pretty weak, but this is a debacle if you’re a longhorn fan.
Which I’m not, so meh.
mr. whipple
@stuckinred:
Awesome!
change
In addition to naming scores of Post Offices and officially congratulating multitudes of successful amateur athletes, college teams, and professional sports franchises (all gender-balanced, of course), the current House turned its attention to weightier matters by passing, sometimes unanimously, some very interesting bills and resolutions, most of which were never covered by the media.
For example, on April 29, 2009, by a nearly unanimous vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 357, “Supporting the goals and ideals of Financial Literacy Month 2009, and for other purposes” (Roll Call No. 217).
This is the same body that, in the prior three months, committed trillions of dollars of American wealth as yet unearned by taxpayers, including by millions of taxpayers yet to be born. It’s astonishing that a group of legislators, a majority of whom cannot count well enough to be terrified by the word “trillions,” would dare urge the rest of us to become financially literate.
Viewed only on the basis of its unwitting artlessness, the resolution is hilarious.
Despite failing to read the massive bills on which they vote, members periodically pass similar resolutions expressing the sense of the House that Americans should learn to read, too.
The U.S. House of Representatives proves over and over that all of Washington, but especially Capitol Hill, is an irony-free zone. It’s not surprising that voters have begun to flush out the place.
Members of Congress are very sentimental about animals, too, and concerned about their welfare.
Consider the ROAM Act. (Note: The medical community does not consider “persistent acronymia” a terminal disease, but merely an annoying one.)
H.R. 1018 passed the House on July 17, 2009, by a vote of 239 to 185 (Roll Call 577).The bill, titled the “Restore Our American Mustangs” Act, is a welfare program for wild mustangs. That’s right, welfare for horses. Not only did the House squander time on this matter, but they’re willing to squander $700 million of our tax money to fund it.
Among other provisions, the ROAM Act mandates a horse census every two years, provides “enhanced contraception” and birth control for horses, and sets aside an additional 19 million acres of public and private land for wild mustangs.
Frankly, we were unaware that wild mustangs used birth control. The bill is not specific about what forms of birth control the House approved or why it favored those methods. Did members choose equine condoms, chemical methods, or intra-uterine devices? Will stallions or mares be responsible for birth control? Will members of Congress “administer” this new equine policy? Or will American taxpayers be on the hook for a new bureaucracy of horse pimps and procurers on the federal payroll?
An easier, less expensive solution to the wild mustang conundrum can be captured in the following two-word phrase: “Dog food.” But when has Congress ever transformed a perceived problem into a revenue stream?
Wait — it gets better.
Amid the terrible problems of our times — mounting unemployment, a financial crisis, a declining dollar, two wars, and following the passage of massively expensive, ill-considered, unread, and un-debated spending legislation — the United States House of Representatives found time to honor a dude who’s been dead for more than 2,500 years.
On October 28, 2009, the House passed a resolution marking “the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius and recognizing his invaluable contributions to philosophy and social and political thought.”
Thought? Who thinks of this stuff? And who votes for it? Sadly, pretty much all of them do.
Sometimes it’s what members of Congress don’t do that provides entertainment.
Members’ failure to read bills often allows the revelation of some really funny stuff after bills are signed into law and released for public scrutiny, though one must often get past the outrage to appreciate the humor.
The unread, failed Stimulus Bill contained some knee-slappers. According to various media reports, the Stimulus paid for, among other curious items:
$25,000 for The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis, a group which puts on an annual May Day Parade. Copied from its website, punctuation and all, one of the Theatre’s recent productions was titled “balloon balloon balloon, balloon balloon.”
Another $25,000 grant went to Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre, which calls itself a “dance-clown-theatre ensemble.” The group has staged a production of “Welcome to Yuba City,” described by their website as a “cowboy/clown odyssey presenting hilarious fragments of a mythic American desertscape.” I doubt “mythic” even begins to describe their portrayal.
And my favorite:
A $2-million grant was made to extend the Virginia & Truckee Railway, a tourist train line originally built during Nevada’s silver mining boom. The grant will allow the line to be extended beyond Mound House, NV, a community housing a number of legal brothels, including the Moonlight Bunny Ranch and the Kit Kat Guest Ranch. One wonders which attractions get more tourist traffic.
So, there you have it: May Day Parades, clowns, and whores — perfect metaphors for the 111th Congress.
Some members who controlled the last one will return in the next Congress, so much House-cleaning remains to be done.
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Not a fan of either team. Both of teams have dirt on them if you ask me.
See my post above with the link to the video above. I’m still trying to find one with the sequence where the GA QB was injured.
Refs lost control of the game at the end if you ask me.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: That’s one of three. Google his name and look at the comments from Arkansas, LSU and others in the SEC. Danielson pointed out in the first quarter that opponents coaches have asked the conference to review his repeated cheap shots. It a goddamn war out there and eventually you fight fire with fire.
with all due respect
Yutsano
@change: tl;dr x2.
EDIT: x3. Getcher own blog asswipe.
change
On November 2, many voters expressed their displeasure with the 111th Congress and its efforts to control personal lives by passing massive legislation few members of Congress bothered to read, much less understand. Some of these bills have future costs which are now coming to light. By its actions, the 111th Congress abrogated a basic principle of representative democracy: that legislation be freely and openly discussed so that the public has the opportunity to understand its consequences.
As the 111th Congress is entering a “lame duck” session, some members are proposing additional legislation, the consequences of which are shrouded by myths and half-truths — the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Using government coercion, RES will force Americans to purchase a product few want and most can ill-afford — electricity generated by wind and solar. Coupled with renewable energy tax credits (tax breaks for the rich), this legislation will advance the interests of a few at the expense of the many.
Repeated economic studies of the experiences in other countries show that electricity from renewable sources, namely solar and wind, is expensive and unreliable. Electricity rates are skyrocketing in Spain, Germany, and Denmark, where these efforts have been tried. Although some companies profit greatly, once the mandates and subsidies are removed, the industry fails. Economic prosperity requires reliable, affordable electricity, not quick fixes that benefit only the promoters.
RES is heavily promoted by wind and solar interests using myths and half truths, such as:
RES will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2008, the U.S. generated only 1.1% of its electricity from oil, generally on-site at refineries, etc. RES will do little to reduce U.S. oil dependency.
Solar and wind need the same subsidies as oil. Countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China sell gasoline to their citizens at below-market prices, thereby subsidizing it. The U.S. does not. It taxes gasoline and other oil products. U.S. energy policies should not be determined by other countries.
Solar and wind need tax and regulatory subsidies as oil did. The Rockefellers and others did not build the oil industry with subsidies and protective tariffs. They built it by offering a superior product at an affordable price. Kerosene was far superior to candles and less expensive than whale oil. Tax breaks did not come until the U.S. implemented high taxes to pay for WWI, which it needed oil to win.
Wind power will reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The wind industry has failed to produce a single compelling study based on experience to support the claim. If it had one, it would flaunt it.
Megawatt capacity compares the capability of solar and wind with other sources. Megawatt nameplate capacity is grossly misleading. All sources of electricity need some downtime for maintenance. In the U.S., nuclear produces over 90% of megawatt capacity, base load coal exceeds 70%. Operators control the downtime for nuclear and coal. However, nature controls most of the downtime for solar and wind. The frequently cited figure for wind is usually 30% of megawatt capacity, but that is also misleading. The most useful statistic is dispatchable capacity — what the producer can guarantee for, say, New York City at 4 pm on August 7. For nuclear and coal, it is almost 100%. For wind it is less than 10% and may approach zero! There are few facts available for solar.
Once built, electricity from wind and solar are low-cost. Wind and solar power are highly unreliable. To prevent blackouts, wind and solar require costly backup that must be immediately available, which is expensive and inefficient. They are a waste of resources.
Dependability of wind and solar can be raised by building more and with the smart grid. Germany thought so, but experience shows the reverse. Germany discovered that the greater the number of wind turbines, and solar panels, the more susceptible the grid system is to failure. Thus, to prevent blackouts, the greater the use of wind and solar, the greater is the need for backup.
RES will provide high-paying green jobs. If jobs are the issue, it is better to build pyramids in the desert. At least once the construction stops, we will not saddle our children and grandchildren with high utility bills.
We need RES to win the race with China in these new forms of energy. Solar and wind have been used for thousands of years and still remain unreliable. China is in a totally different race — a race to build the greatest possible capacity of affordable, dependable electricity for the benefit of its citizens. A brief examination of what China is actually building, as compared to what is “planned” or what RES promoters claim, demonstrates China’s goal:
Today, China is constructing 24 nuclear power plants — the U.S., only one.
In 2008, China added 20.1 GWe of hydro capacity — the U.S., zero GWe.
In 2008, China added 65.8 GWe of coal-fired capacity (net increase, while closing 26 GWe of old, inefficient coal-fired capacity) — the U.S., 0.7 GWe.
In 2008, China added 4.7 GWe of wind — the U.S., 8.5 GWe (nameplate) of wind.
The one U.S. bright spot not reflected in the above statistics is the falling prices of natural gas, which is now competitive in many places with coal for generation of electricity. This change came from new techniques for extraction of gas from deeply buried dense shale thanks to innovative private enterprise, not government mandates or subsidies.
When one looks at facts rather than “plans,” clearly, the U.S. is winning the wind race in which China is not even running. China is winning the race for affordable, dependable electricity for the prosperity of its citizens — a race the federal government refuses to recognize.
Are the leaders of Communist China more concerned for the future of Chinese citizens, their children, and their grandchildren than the leaders of the 111th Congress are concerned for Americans, their children, and their grandchildren?
A vote for RES will tell!
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
I don’t know what’s less entertaining–the fight over whether Georgia or Auburn players are scummier, or the anti-Obama spammer.
Larkspur
@change: I started to read your comment, but I got so bored. I’ll do better next time, I promise.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Corner Stone: Yo, did you watch the game? If so, what did you see? If not, with all due respect, step the hell out of this exchange and go nym yourself.
WyldPirate, if you only watched the tail-end of the thing, go back and watch the whole thing. I suspect you’ll feel differently if you do.
stuckinred
Let this jackass keep posting these cut and pastes and don’t talk to it. It’ll go away.
change
Throughout history, the rise and fall of nations reflects an increase in decadence without a proportionate increase in economic resources. The resulting unsustainable levels of debt lead to economic bankruptcy.
Old proverbs place great weight on the economic significance of debt, e.g., “The borrower is servant to the lender.” But after nearly a century of U.S.-driven global prosperity based in mountainous debt, general comprehension of debt and its effects is sorely lacking. As evidenced by the surge in national debt and unfunded federal liabilities, it would seem that Americans are deaf to formerly revered principles, mainly because the lender has so far been content with American promises to pay at some future date.
But even the richest nation cannot indefinitely play the fiddle with public finances without a destructive increase in taxation or loss of sovereignty. In point of fact, China has demanded control over American public infrastructure as a condition of future loans. The U.S. is already living on borrowed time.
If a nation continues to amass debt in the present in exchange for economic devastation in the future, the result will be the effective destruction of the free-market system. This is because welfare states rarely grow smaller, but they are prone to constant expansion. Greece is a current example of this principle. The more people there are dependent on government for health care, pensions, employment, etc., the fewer people in the private sector there are to generate taxable income.
And without taxable income, economies must either revert to pure capitalism or become communist. America faces such a choice in the very near future.
As the great philosopher Lord Woodhouselee once wrote,
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy. …
Debt creates a vicious cycle of economic destruction that leads to systemic instability. As debt increases, taxes must increase to levels at which businesses cannot operate. And if businesses cannot operate, businesses cannot hire, and if businesses cannot hire, consumers cannot buy goods and services. The present crisis is no exception: new hidden taxes and new entitlement programs have scared investors, creating an economic vacuum. In the absence of private enterprise, government usually steps into the vacuum. But since government largesse depends on the existence of a taxable base — consumers and businesses — the length of time during which government can fill the vacuum will necessarily be limited and dependent on more debt. Government must have something to tax.
That is why socialist paradises like Sweden have begun to pursue tax cuts and general free-market reform. With taxes exceeding half of personal and corporate income, Sweden could no longer raise the revenues necessary to maintain coveted social services, since there were fewer sources of revenue to tax. Instead of adopting the failed communist model, Sweden realized the importance of business and the unsustainability of ballooning social spending and corrected course.
France too has faced similar choices, opting for reductions in wealth transfers and cuts in basic government services.
Like Sweden and France, but on a much larger scale, the United States faces possible alienation of business instead of desired economic recovery. Under the Obama administration, America has attempted to fill the current vacuum with stimulus spending and temporary employment schemes. The problem? Government spending cannot stimulate the economy. In fact, government spending takes money out of the economy. Government debt takes future dollars out of the economy. What dollars do make it into the hands of citizens can provide only temporary economic relief, since government-generated economic activity transfers existing wealth instead of creating additional wealth. By taking money from employers, government prolongs unemployment, delaying true recovery.
Government created a few “shovel-ready” Census jobs in 2010, jobs that were gone as soon as they were created. How many real jobs could the private sector have created with the $800 billion in failed stimulus spending? Bottom line: Government cannot stimulate the economy, but government can create the conditions for genuine economic prosperity.
Instead of taking money from ailing businesses and creating “shovel-ready” jobs, government should provide market-friendly incentives that encourage businesses to hire.
The outdated Keynesian economic approach clearly favored by the Obama administration — i.e., attempting to increase aggregate demand in the absence of consumer spending with government spending and high taxes — is based on a flawed assumption: namely, that recessions are bad and must be prevented. To the contrary, recessions have been taking place for hundreds of years and are the hallmark of a healthy capitalist society. Seasonal unemployment rises, and inefficient businesses with unsold inventories fail. In effect, recessions serve to eliminate fat and rejuvenate profitable industries.
Economic chaos must run its course from time to time. The 1921 depression lasted no more than a year, followed by the “Roaring Twenties,” an age of untold prosperity. Government did nothing and stood aside as business did everything. Conversely, the Great Depression lasted nearly a decade, prolonged by government programs intended to help alleviate suffering but instead acting to prevent natural recovery.
When government replaces industry, often taking the form of subsidies or, in extreme cases, nationalization, it displaces private sector initiative, which diminishes income, productivity, and efficiency — all the benefits of capitalism. At its peak, the Soviet Union was plagued with gross inefficiency. Lines for bread, shoes, and other essentials were a daily factor in the lives of Russian citizens. Central planning committees attempted the impossible task of determining what people needed and in what quantities. Similarly, the new Obama-inspired Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) claims the ability to “behaviorally inform” consumers.
Such a system cannot reflect the needs of human beings. Only prices — a characteristic of free markets — can do that. Demand drives resource distribution and supply, creating perfect market equilibrium in the form of a price. No other system tried can claim such a track record of tested success.
As Winston Churchill once said of democracy, “Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all others tried.” The same could be said of capitalism. Capitalism, although imperfect, maximizes the benefit of the many. Other systems — e.g., communism — rely on committees of self-appointed economic masters determining need, which demonstrably results in unprecedented misery and poverty, except for the select few.
America is at a crossroads. Current trends are not sustainable. Rampant entitlement spending without basis in economic reality cannot endure indefinitely. Either America will revert to tried-and-tested free market principles, or communism, perhaps under a different name, will out of necessity replace capitalism as the dominant American economic paradigm.
America must make a choice. Welfare states driven by debt have immediate results but-long term consequences. Free markets have delayed benefits but offer long-term economic security.
If America is to remain an economic superpower, it must value the future over the present.
sherifffruitfly
Ore/Cal game is officially exciting with that defensive td for Cal.
The Republic of Stupidity
@change:
When you simply cut and paste from, oh say, The American Spectator, it’s considered good form to cite your source…
Very, very classy…
Who do you work for, BTW? Koch Bros?
Yutsano
@stuckinred: It’s like the Republican soulmate of mclaren. Or something.
@The Republic of Stupidity: Don’t be too harsh. He’s just following in the footsteps of his great idol, the plagarist known as Dubya.
Corner Stone
@Evolved Deep Southerner: I watched the game, have no dog in it, and fuck you jackass.
The Republic of Stupidity
@sherifffruitfly:
Yes indeed…
The Dangerman
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Could be a porn video AND a snuff video; get Senator Vitter and a few farm animals involved and we might have a winner.
change
Now that the midterm elections are over, Tea Party energy is at risk of dissipating due to the lack of a pressing goal to work towards. If the Tea Partiers are going to become a long-term, serious force, they must be willing to tackle serious problems without an immediate payoff like an election, else they risk going home and becoming a flash in the pan. This is exactly what the establishment hopes will happen.
The election results point to several areas needing our attention. Tea Party favorites Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ron Johnson won despite predictions to the contrary. Defeats of Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle are being trumpeted by the Republican establishment as proof that their big-tent RINO strategy is superior. O’Donnell made the point on “The O’Reilly Factor” that the Republican establishment worked against her campaign by refusing to share their voter lists and provide needed base support that strangled her candidacy. This is unconscionable!
Seize the Parties
Our first order of business should be to purge the Republican Party leadership of establishment figures complicit in this affair. First to go should be the gaffe-prone Michael Steele, whose defining legacy will be remembered as the massive waste of party funds to schmooze with potential donors at a strip club. Along with Steele should go any supporters he’s implanted to provide cover for his misdeeds. There are already calls within Republican ranks for Steele’s ouster, and pressure should be applied to the state party chairmen who make up the RNC and choose the chairman.
The next Republican Party Chairman should be someone with close ties to the Tea Party who can insure that Tea Party views are taken seriously and Tea Party candidates are supported. A few Tea Party luminaries should be installed in key positions to tap into their grassroots networks and activist spirits. The politics of “it’s my turn” is over!
Tea Party patriots are demanding that the Republican Party present a clear distinction from the Democrats’ progressive liberal agenda instead of accepting it as a fait accompli and seeking to merely slow down its implementation. The RINO establishment resemble the Chinese autocrats in the sense that they don’t appear to believe in the platform anymore but instead are interested only in retaining power.
Takeovers of the parties will serve the same function as Republican victories in the state legislatures by providing a consolidated base from which to conduct future operations and insure that Tea Party-backed candidates like Christine O’Donnell get the support they need to be competitive. It’s one thing to lose because voters reject your ideas or your inability to effectively articulate them, but it’s another to have to fight both sides in an uphill struggle.
However, we must be ever-mindful of the temptation to acquire power for power’s sake, and of the establishment’s efforts to co-opt us with offers of power, prestige, and other fickle inducements. These are exactly the things that got us in this mess to begin with.
Govern Effectively
We must endeavor to employ our electoral success for legislative success. Legislative success won’t necessarily translate into actual passed legislation, but rather an attempt to deliver what was promised to the voters. We know Democrats still control the White House and Senate and have the ability to thwart Republican legislation. It is crucial to pass these bills and demonstrate to Americans that we are offering solutions that Democrats are blocking. Take away the obvious Obama tactic of pointing to a do-nothing Republican majority by sending bills to the Democrat-controlled Senate so they can either be bottled up by Democrats or vetoed by Obama. Then point to the do-nothing Democrats.
Pass a symbolic bill to abolish ObamaCare, then start passing bills to defund it at a dizzying pace. Stop tipping your hand in the press and let Obama make the first offer to you. Make him reach out for compromise. Negotiate from a position of strength. Stop following and start leading. You might get lucky and actually abolish ObamaCare with your first shot.
Start implementing Paul Ryan’s budget plan and dare Democrats to defend the failed and utterly discredited (yet again) policies of Keynesianism. Pick a cabinet department to defund and force the administration to define what it does and why we need it. Then pick another. My personal favorites are Housing and Urban Development and Labor, but any will do. Put Obama on the defensive and keep him there. He has shown in this election cycle that he is powerless on the defensive and comes across as arrogant, elitist, condescending, and thin-skinned — not endearing qualities to voters.
Continue the RINO Rout
Finally, we need to continue applying pressure to the RINO wing of the Republican Party by targeting for defeat RINOs such as Kay Bailey Hutchinson in Texas and Olympia Snowe in Maine. We need to identify passionate conservatives who can mount credible campaigns, nurture their ambitions to higher office, and support their election efforts without resorting to acrimonious personal attacks that destroy party unity and shift the focus to personalities over issues.
We need to remind Scott Brown that we are watching and will be voting again in 2012, but we must also remember that Scott is in a tough place and allow him a little more slack than usual. That doesn’t mean you get free rein though, mister.
Mindful of the fact that senators on both sides of the aisle are pretty old, we need to be grooming a new class from House ranks and state legislatures to replace them. We must continue to support local conservatives to maintain a deep bench from which to replenish the House and Senate ranks.
We also need to target statewide offices such as Secretaries of State, Treasurers, and Attorneys General. These state officials hold huge sway over how their states are governed at the policy level. We’ve all become painfully aware that the Secretary of State controls election results, with obvious implications. And, we’ve seen how Attorneys General have launched an impressive judicial offensive against ObamaCare that will not only kill it, but insure that such an attempted unconstitutional usurpation of citizen rights will not be breached again for some time.
Tea Party Patriots, there is much to be done, but success has energized and emboldened us. So let us role up our sleeves and get down to work.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
I think, no matter whether you love Auburn or Alabama, Georgia or Arkansas, we can all come together in agreement that Vanderbilt really sucks. And that the world would be a better place if the earth opened up and swallowed LSU whole.
Corner Stone
@change: C’mon dog.
South of I-10
Oregon/Cal is getting interesting.
Corner Stone
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): May I take it that you would prefer to not Kick it With The Captain then?
Andy K
@change:
People are just scrolling past your c&p work, ya know. And you’re costing Cole for the bandwidth.
stuckinred
@Andy K: Oh, that’ll get it to stop. Jesus
South of I-10
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): Hey now, leave my Tigers out of this.
Andy K
Has anyone else ever turned down the sound at halftime just to watch Tirico and Palmer communicate in their own bizarre sign language? Fascinating!
stuckinred
@South of I-10: The Tiger message boards are full of vitriol directed at that punk from Auburn.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@WyldPirate: The “refs lost control?”
Oh, my goodness. They reaped what they sowed through inaction early. Fairley was notorious coming into this thing – even the Dumb and Dumber CBS crew pointed that out before the first snap – and he equaled a whole year’s worth of cheap-shottedness in the first half. And the refs, duly warned, did nothing.
Blow that Richt/Jesus thing out your ass. God helps those who help themselves. And if a Georgia defensive lineman was pulling the kind of shit Fairley was pulling tonight, and has been pulling all year, his ass would be warming the bench.
When God reaches down and places His final asterisk after the result of that game, it won’t be because of anything Georgia did.
Auburn is the better team. They won. They should have. Not disputing that. I expected them to beat us. But Fairley’s brand of fucking horseshit doesn’t belong in football at any level. And Chizik and company didn’t do shit but encourage it.
Corner Stone
Damn, that looked that hurt in the FL game.
Andy K
@stuckinred:
I was going to add “DIAF”, but I thought I’d make the nice, logical appeal. It didn’t kill me to do so.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@Corner Stone: I’m afraid I have no idea what that means. I suppose I am no longer familiar with all internet traditions.
I’m unusual among those from south Louisiana in my distaste for LSU, but I got my BA from SLU, just up the road, the school which got crapped on financially every year by the legislature, and the school which LSU failures came to when they flunked out. I’m a little bitter. Add in that I pretty much loathe college athletics as a general principle and you can see why I take that attitude.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Man you and I are on the same page!
Corner Stone
Got him again. Go Cocks!
stuckinred
@Andy K: ok, I just keep thinking if no one ever responds it will go away.
scav
@asiangrrlMN: if you’re still struggling along beneath all the vapid text-spam, would your Taiwanese grandmother keel over if my Czech great grandmother insisted I try adding a little garlic to the mix? I’m not sure how it would taste but as a cross-cultural tonic, it hits certain buttons.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@Corner Stone: If you watched the game, what’s your take as a disinterested observer? I’d like to hear it.
Yutsano
@scav: My personal opinion? Ajo is welcome everywhere. In fact, garlic is quite common in Chinese cuisine as well. Plus what is the ghost of her grandmother going to haunt you just because you added one herb?
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@South of I-10: Sorry. I generally have a low opinion of college athletics all the way around–it’s my line of work. I get the crap end of the stick–three years without a raise, but the legislature finds $35 million for a new football stadium, that sort of thing.
Andy K
@stuckinred:
That works with trolls, but not spammers.
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
I do. Go back up to my post at #100. That’s a bigtime cheap shot by #90.
@stuckinred:
I’ll do that, stuckinred. That was a nasty hit by Auburn’s #90. I didn’t like his taunting after the little scrum either when his coach or sideline hanger on was trying to get him off the field, either.
I still think he was blocked into the QB at the end though. He was definitely trying to intentionally injury him on the earlier hit.
asiangrrlMN
@scav: All I see is a lot of pie.
I dunno what granny would say, but I say go for it. Garlic is a staple for Asian foods, too. I love garlic. I’d eat garlic ice cream if I weren’t lactose-intolerant.
@Yutsano: How you know my granny is dead?
And, to any front-pager around, plz to open a net thread. kthxbai.
Larkspur
I scroll fast. My dexterity is adequate to the task. I am not troubled. Except by the football, which I cannot watch, as I do not have the cable which is required in my neighborhood to see stuff on the television machine .
Last year I’d have been watching of the television and partaking of the football. Last year I was engaged in my autumnal stay with my best beloved dog, in my capacity as trusted house and critter-sitter, and we’d have been tucked into the nicely appointed guest house, and she would be in her bed, prolly snoring, and I could watch the football while reaching down to pet her. She was so fun to pet.
But she got old. She had to leave us. So this year my autumn sucks and I miss her so much, but she’s gone forever and ever.
So probably now a new thread has been started, partly because a garrulous asshole can’t be bothered to find an actual real hobby. I’d trade his ass for more years with a healthy strong best beloved dog-friend, but none of that shit is up to me.
The Dangerman
No dog in the fight and didn’t see the game, but if that video is indicative of the cheap shots #90 was dishing out AND it hurt my QB, he’d be leaving the stadium on crutches or a stretcher after the next play.
madmommy
@Brian S (formerly Incertus):
Hear hear!!
The tears and wailing that will arise from the Plains after Auburn gets the NCAA sanctions that are coming will be music to my ears. Alabama’s chance to repeat is over, I might as well enjoy the hated rival’s demise.
stuckinred
@Larkspur: Your pup is with you, just listen to yourself.
scav
@Yutsano: well, all I have to work with the ghosts of my own grandmothers and several stories of Chinese ghosts to work with . . . well, that and a general appreciation for the forthrightness of asiangrrlMN’s options. It would make for a potent haunting. Actually, I was wondering more about general taste as I’ve only had wolfberries in tea.
Corner Stone
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): Aw, just a t-shirt Vandy sells with “Kickin it with the Captain” for the founder Captain Vanderbilt, and they’re named The Commodores.
Nothing tricky.
General Stuck
@change:
How can we help?
I would like to recommend early passage of a House bill to privatize SS, hit the libtards in New Deal entitlement gut, then toss em in that briar patch.
head shot that flying pig. Wolverines motherfuckers!!
Pretty good plan there change, gotta say. More tea party candidates is what this country needs, yes sireee,
You need a slogan though.
How bout “A Fucked Chicken In Every Pot”
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: You don’t want to mention that it’s a booze commercial too?
Larkspur
@stuckinred: Thank you. You are right, I know, but I’m gonna go cry now.
South of I-10
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): I actually understand exactly how you feel. I graduated from ULL (actually USL) and like every other school in LA that is not LSU, they get shit on constantly. The rest of my family went to LSU. Being a ULL football fan is pretty damn depressing, so I pull for LSU’s football team.
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Like I said, I didn’t see any of that shit. I’ve not watched much of Auburn all year, so I had no idea if Fairley had a history or not. I was just judging on what I saw in the last 8 mins or so of the game that I watched. I didn’t see anything particularly nasty that Fairley did in that part.
I do think that the rumors re: Cam Newton probably have some credence. You can look at the dude and the way he acts and tell he’s a hotdogger. If the rumors are true, I hope auburn gets busted.
Truth be told, I hate both Auburn and Georgia.
stuckinred
It was a lousy day with the Illini and the Dogs going down but it is GREAT to watch these down-in-the-mouth Gator fans twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
asiangrrlMN
@scav: The goji berry (wolfberry) has to be in the soup. I think garlic would be a nice touch, and it’s good for throat issues, too.
@Larkspur: My sympathies on the loss of your pup. She sounds like a great friend. stuckinred is right, though. She’s still with you. (But go ahead and shed a few tears for her).
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@South of I-10: Looks like my current school just eked out a win over your old one. And that’s about the extent of my interest in it. :-)
burnspbesq
Come on, Cleek, we need a pie filter for mobile devices.
P.S. to Change. No one here cares what you think. The polite thing to do would be to gargle with Drano, but we’ll settle for you going away and never coming back.
jl
@asiangrrlMN: Did you put no garlic in it? That is hard to believe. More garlic, with something lemony. That works for everything.
Not sure if you are cooking chicken or squid, but whatever it is, if is not dessert (usually) the answer is try out some garlic.
The Dangerman
Question for any that might know: where does one get black chicken (other than raising them oneself, which, even though I’m in the country, sounds like too much work).
Martin
Kids had colds. Took them to have a bonfire and weenie roast anyway. Hot dogs cooked over a campfire, beer, smores. It’s still 73 degrees out. Good stuff.
scav
@asiangrrlMN: well then, I think I’ve got my shopping list. and I’ve learned about chickens that have too many toes (or at least more than expected).
Yutsano
@South of I-10: My family is almost evenly split between University of Washington and Washington State grads (I’m one of the latter) so I feel your pain sistah.
Going off to get Chinese grub now, shall be back soon.
@The Dangerman:
Chickens are by far the easiest domestic animals to raise, regardless of the territory you have. Pretty much just feed, water, and clean up after, they’re no more work than a dog or a cat really. Plus besides the meat is the bigger and better pay-off: the best damn eggs you’ll ever taste in your life.
stuckinred
@The Dangerman: Gladys Knights Chicken and Waffles?
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@WyldPirate: You know, if Newton gets busted for trying to sell his services, I don’t really care. I think the NCAA really doesn’t have a moral case to make, and Newton will probably have a chance to make a lot of money in the NFL.
But as someone who teaches in the university system, I hope whoever leaked the news about Newton’s issues with academic honesty gets fired. That stuff is supposed to be private. I fail, on the average, 2 students a semester for that kind of stuff, and I would never consider letting that information go, no matter how much the student pissed me off. It’s unethical.
Corner Stone
@stuckinred: It is, but he wanted us all to agree that Vandy sucks. So that was why I tossed that in there.
I thought anyone with enough knowledge of Vandy to despise it and ask us all to agree to also despise it would know about their sloganeering merchandise.
stuckinred
Or Weaver D’s
Automatic for the People
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: gotcha
J. Michael Neal
Red Wings up 3-0 on the Avalanche late in the 2nd. That’s my sports endeavor for the night. I’m watching it delayed on the TiVo, so don’t spoil it if you’re ahead.
The Wings have been playing some damned good hockey lately, save one night in Vancouver where they didn’t bother to go to the arena.
Corner Stone
Not that I follow Pro Basketball, but is there any person in the world I could care less about than LeBron? Him and Lindsay Lohan are tied at the bottom of my F’ng list of people I just don’t give a shit to ever hear from, or about, ever again.
Martin
@The Dangerman: I can get them at a few of the local asian grocery stores. As a rule of thumb – the less english found on the labels in the store, the more likely you’ll find something like that.
There’s always mail order.
South of I-10
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): Thus the depressing part of being a Cajuns fan. Florida Atlantic is not as bad as losing to Western Kentucky, like they did this year. Western Kentucky!
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Black chicken soup. It is for Cole and his sinus problems. I don’t cook. If I made it, I would put garlic in it.
@scav: Cool! Let us know how it turns out. Oh, and chicken feet is really tasty, too. Not good for colds, but yummy.
@Yutsano: You would think so. I have no idea where to buy a black chicken. Hm. I want Chinese now. Damn it.
jl
This what you people talking about with this ‘black chicken’ stuff?
They use Silkies for black chicken meat in Taiwan, or are there other black meated chickens?
I think you throw dates and dark spices in the soup too for more blackness.
The Silkie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkie
We raised silkies on the farm with other varieties of chicken. They are really cute pets, smarter than domesticated chickens and turkeys or ducks, much nicer than geese. I think they taste like any other chicken. Except when I was a kid I loved the silkies so much I cried when I saw the first one cooked.
Edit: I posted the wikipedia article before I scrolled down to the end. Awww, they are soooo cuuuute! Aren’t they lovable? And they are just as nice tempered and lovable as they are cute. Then, down at the bottom, there is one of the sweet things, all chopped up in a pot.
I feel a little choked up over the silkie, my friends.
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
Was an extra in a movie with Ms. Lohan; she was a bit of a space case (shocking, I’m sure), but was sweet to the hired help. Feel bad for her (and bad that the movie was a POS).
Lebron can DIAF for all I care; another overpaid headcase.
J. Michael Neal
@South of I-10: Feh. I root for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, who manage to lose to ULL when they play. I don’t want to hear about bad football teams.
How they beat Illinois today, I have no idea.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@WyldPirate: Hating both Georgia and Auburn is fine. I’m a UGA alum, but I’d like to think that if a Georgia player was doing the same shit, I’d feel the same way.
As far as the Newton situation goes, I’m like you. I hate to say “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” but damn if the smoke there doesn’t smell pretty believable. Cam Newton is a once-in-a-generation player, just a freakishly good player. He’ll do great in the NFL. It’s even plausible to me that perhaps his dad was negotiating outside his knowledge and that he knew nothing of it, but I’m sure that won’t make a damn lick of difference when the penalties are handed down.
As far as being an NFL great, hell, Fairley COULD be great there. God knows he can get to a quarterback. The problem I have with him is what he does when he gets there, after the ball is released and the thrower is defenseless. I mean, shit, c’mon, you know? You can be a great player without that shit.
Otherwise, peace. I appreciate you going back and looking, and speaking from an informed place. Better than assholes that cut and paste big ol’ long things just to clog up a thread.
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Yes. This is what we are talking about. It’s mentioned in one of the recipes I posted. And, you have the chickens of my people!
ETA: I love your stories about growing up with farm animals. You really should write a memoir.
@Corner Stone: Can I get an amen? I really loathe that guy, which is probably not fair to him.
stuckinred
Aite, I’m steppin up for Le Bron. The Miami signing thing was stupid but the dude can play some serious hoop.
Andy K
@WyldPirate:
That program needs to go the way of SMU in the ’80s.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: The senior QB shredded our D. It may be weak but I think the triple overtime loss to Michigan last week had an impact.
WyldPirate
@Brian S (formerly Incertus):
Man, I’m feeling you on this. I think the NCAA and the D1A schools exploit the shit out of their athletes. I think the whole business of college sports has gotten entirely out of hand as well.
The school that I formally taught at has had 100M in budget cuts in the past two years, but the athletic budget has increased by 50% from 20M to 30M per year. Each year the Chancellor and BOT whine and say how sorry they are that they have had to increase tuition and fees while they cut services while they have doubled the portion of the fees that go to athletics from about $250/FTE to $500.
I think all of the emphasis on money in college athletics is reflective of the decline of society overall. It’s all “bread and circuses” as Juvenal said to keep the rubes placated.
I’m not familiar about what was leaked re:Newton’s academic records. I agree with you. That shit is sacrosanct and shouldn’t be leaked.
General Stuck
@mr. whipple:
Lucky you, let’s hope they keep it up.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: This is from last year
Posted By – The Associated Press
Last Updated On: 2/5/2009 1:36:46 PM
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The University of Georgia Athletic Association is donating $6 million to the institution’s academic side.
The association’s board voted unanimously Wednesday to let University President Michael Adams use the money however he wants. The state cut the university’s funding by 10 percent, or about $40 million, this fiscal year and could slash another 10 percent next fiscal year, which starts July 1.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: I hope she pulls it through, with the help she needs.
I just think when we reach the point of her getting like the 4th chance to straighten up and fly right, none of us need to hear about the details any longer.
Kinda like Charlie Sheen. Do I care that he freaked out and trashed a hotel room? Nope. As long as he didn’t hurt anyone then let him pay the bills and go to therapy.
I proposed this idea a while back and will mention again. If there was a way to program a cable channel where you bought the “opt out” package premium service I think it would pay for itself. Just the news about actual news. Never a word about Lindsay or Paris or an athlete’s 3rd DUI, or Prince Whatever’s marriage rumors.
You’d pay more to hear about less.
Phyllis
@stuckinred:
This is better than the ‘Bama win. Suck it Gators!
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Gladys Knight cooks a mean chicken and waffle, no dispute. But the prices? Oh, my God. I had a loved one in the hospital in Atlanta and wen there for dinner one evening. I ordered two pieces of chicken, collard greens, mac/cheese and sweet tea. $22 for that.
Are you fucking kidding me? I mean, yeah, it was all quite toothsome, but twenty-two fucking dollars?
Nah. I’ll take the Midnight Train to Georgia and cook all that stuff myself for six bucks, with comparable results.
Evolved Deep Southerner +7 (been a long day of football)
jl
@asiangrrlMN: Suddenly occurred to me that my grandmother on the farm, who was very well read and knowledgeable about the world, more so than most people I have known, thought they were from Japan.
My farm grandma was not very PC and she always called silkies ‘them Jap Chickens’. She was old school, though not prejudiced against Japanese, she just had a crude mouth.
But, for a long time I thought they were from Japan. But, they are used all over Asia, looks like.
South of I-10
@stuckinred: Are they calling for Les Miles head as usual?
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: I’m down, I was just havin fun. You been to Weaver D’s here in Athens? REM named the album after his joynt.
stuckinred
@South of I-10: Not this week.
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred: I like Adam Weber. I think that he could have been very good if he had played for better coaches. He’s gotten visibly frustrated on the field this year. There was one time he had to call timeout to avoid a delay of game, after he’d spent 10-15 seconds gesturing to the sideline for someone to give him the play.
Tim Brewster turned out to be a disastrous hire. I couldn’t stand Glen Mason. Hell the only coach we’ve had in the 25 years I’ve been here that I liked was Jim Wacker, and that had nothing to do with winning games.
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Heh. Yeah. I don’t see that flying these days. But, seriously. Memoir. You. Think about it.
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
I’d sign up, too. Some complex analysis of the complex issues facing us right now.
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Hey, it’s all good. No hard feelings here.
I have to hate UGA and AU, I’m a Tennessee alum. ;)
I think Newton might possibly be the best college football player I’ve ever seen. He’s in a class with Herschel Walker, Eric Dickerson and Michael Vick. He’s definitely a once in a generation player.
Corner Stone
It’s so bad that I can’t even pretend to watch “at” the Texas game.
This Cocks game has been sweet though.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Not only have I been there, I worked with them for a time back in ’94 when they cooked chicken on behalf of the Our Daily Bread soup kitchen. I took them the chicken, they cooked it, I picked it up, and I helped serve it.
Automatic. Automatic for the People.
asiangrrlMN
FYWP!
@J. Michael Neal: La la la la la I can’t heeeear you. God, the Gophers suck.
@Corner Stone: I want my sports, my Food Network Channel, my Comedy Central, and straight-up news. That’s it. That’s all. Which is why I don’t have cable.
stuckinred
@J. Michael Neal: Yea, I left Urbana right after the Rose Bowl and Tim was a hell of a tight end. Sometimes people work out and sometimes they don’t. What happened with his son? He had signed at Illinois but went up there when Tim took the job.
South of I-10
@J. Michael Neal: Ha! If you make it down to Cajun Field for a game, let me know. I will hook you up with some really good food!
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Damn dawg, we must have crossed paths. I’ve been here 26 years.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@WyldPirate: The story’s disappeared a little since the bit about Newton’s dad shopping his services broke, but it was a serious enough charge that Urban Meyer had to deny he had anything to do with it. Apparently Newton was accused of two cases of academic dishonesty of the completely unsurprising variety and something involving a stolen laptop while he was at Florida. I don’t want to make out like Newton’s some innocent here, but there’s no reason whatsoever that the public needs to know about that.
Corner Stone
@WyldPirate: Did you just leave out Bo Jackson?
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: Now you didn’t say “no hard feelings” to me but if you can say that after the assault you were subjected to I have to say, “you’re a better man than I Gunga Din”. Salute
Corner Stone
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): What I liked was the report supposedly said two university people went to ask him about a reportedly stolen laptop and he threw it out the window.
Like it wouldn’t exist after it exited the apartment. On the ground his fingerprints would never be recoverable.
If that’s true it is awesome.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@WyldPirate: Well I can tell you that you have one HELL of a young man in Tauren Poole. He is from my hometown of Toccoa, Ga., and I had the privilege of watching him play for the mighty Stephens County Indians. He was a man among boys at that time, and I’m happy to see him come into his own in Knoxville.
Tauren is just as much of a class act off the field as he is on it, and I just hate it that it took the departure of Lane “Gaping, Festering Asshole” Kiffin for him to shine. If Lane Kiffin had been worth a shit …
Ah, well. Let’s not speak of that unfortunate time. Suffice it to say that Tauren Poole is the kind of young man I’d be proud to root for. Unlike …
Well. I won’t beat that to death, either. I’ve said my piece.
Peace.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: And he’s up there with Derek now. Curahee!
WyldPirate
@Corner Stone:
Yeah I did. Quite the damn oversight I must admit. ;)
It was purely unintentional and due to the fact that I’m getting old and my memory is starting to go.
jl
@asiangrrlMN: Hey, AsiangrrlMN, my beloved fake internet wifey. I want to come to MN to visit you, since we are fake married we should meet.
But I probably won’t because Minnesota is such strange and frightening place to me, and I am scared.
But I want to visit Taiwan. I saw a food travel show on Taiwan and it looks like a beautiful country. So beautiful!
And in the most beautiful segment, in some place with unbelievably deep lush green tea plantations, surrounded by rainbows and sun dappled mist, they ate fried bees.
Those fried bees looked pretty good.
Let’s meet in Taiwan and eat fried bees!
Only thing is that all the Taiwanese womenfolk looked beautiful. If I gaped and leered at all the beautiful chicks, would you not care, or would you cut something off?
Lemme know, since that issue is key.
stuckinred
@Corner Stone: I got popped by an MP with a couple of joints in my pocket in Nha Trang and he said, “dumb ass, all you had to do was throw it on the ground.” Cost me a stripe!
change
I can almost hear the bristly voice of Burgermeister Meisterburger — “I hate toys and toys hate me” — from the 1970 Christmas animation. It’s not necessarily that the San Francisco council members hate toys; they just feel the need to conform restaurants and parents to their own lifestyle ideology.
Nevertheless, with the advent of the toy-less Happy Meal in San Francisco via the recent 8-to-3 Board of Supervisors vote, kids are sure to hate the Puritanical Eight.
Not many in the streets of San Francisco are overly excited with the city’s new law. The CBS News Health Blog refers to the Board of Supervisors as the “food Grinch.” Carla Fried writes that many “parents don’t seem exactly thrilled with government stepping in and trying to do their job. Cries of ‘nanny state’ and ‘leave the parenting to the parents’ dominate the comments to the Happy Meals ban report at the San Francisco Chronicle’s website.” The results of an internet poll on the Health Blog reveal that 75% of respondents believe San Francisco is overstepping its boundaries.
Everyone, it seems, has commented on the new ordinance, with conversations centering on the craziness of the law and of San Franciscans in general. But for lovers of Constitutional liberty, the merit of the ban is the wrong focus.
The San Francisco Happy Meal regulation offers a teachable moment on the role of our constitutional system.
Unless we live in San Francisco, our opinions on the law are irrelevant. And so are the opinions of federal judges. Under our federalist system of government, the localities are supposed to be free to govern themselves in all affairs of ordinary life. The city of San Francisco could literally take the Meisterburger’s lead and ban all toys within city limits, and the federal government would have no jurisdiction to overturn the ban. It is up to the residents of San Fran to elect council members to change the law if they don’t like it.
It turns out that it’s much easier to repeal laws at the local level. Once the feds make a national law or a pronouncement for all localities, it becomes one size fits all across the country, and its repeal becomes a federal issue.
That’s one reason why Thomas Jefferson wrote in his autobiography that
[i]t is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected. Were not this great country already divided into States, that division must be made that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly and what it can so much better do than a distant authority. Every state again is divided into counties, each to take care of what lies within its local bounds; each county again into townships or wards, to manage minuter details … It is by this partition of cares descending in gradation from general to particular that the mass of human affairs may be best managed for the good and prosperity of all.
We’ve become conditioned to look to the federal government for help concerning various grievances. The federal government’s illicit assumption of jurisdiction over local affairs in the name of constitutional rights has made the dependence unavoidable.
As such, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is reportedly preparing to run to the federal courts seeking national injunctive relief against McDonald’s. “McDonald’s[‘] use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity — all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction,” says Stephen Gardner of the CSPI.
Well, if we were to ever get back to the actual Constitution, CSPI’s only recourse would be to take their argument to the marketplace of ideas. CSPI would have to convince the individual city council members or state legislators across the country that banning toys in kids’ meals makes sense for each particular locality.
If we were to get back to the actual Constitution, we would find that the Bill of Rights grants individual rights by preventing the federal government from passing liberty-killing laws. The only legitimate federal rights guaranteed to individuals involving the localities and states are found in specific constitutional amendments (and any enforcement legislation authorized by the relevant amendment). For example, the Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) protect the posterity of the former slaves from oppressive laws of the states while ensuring equality under law. The 19th Amendment (1920) states that no state may deny women the right to vote, and the 26th Amendment prevents the states from denying citizens 18 and over the right to vote.
We must observe that the 14th Amendment (1868), which has been used in recent decades to broadly expand federal power, did not provide women with the right to vote; it took a specific additional amendment to do so. Under current federal jurisprudence, however, the 19th would be wholly unnecessary, for the U.S. Supreme Court could simply use its discretion to expand the principles of the 14th to a class of persons outside of its specific context and purpose.
Amending the Constitution is an expression of popular sovereignty, and to stretch an amendment’s meaning beyond its context and structure is a crime against the people. If we actually need a specific federal power that has not been delegated by the Constitution, we have a remedy: the amendment process. And, as with the 18th Amendment, if it turns out that an amendment was a bad idea, it may be repealed. The amendment process protects the Constitution and the liberty of the people. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has a bad habit of bypassing the process and “amending” the Constitution unilaterally at its discretion.
This is what Thomas Jefferson says on the subject:
[The Constitutional Convention delegates] constituted a general [federal] government for special purposes [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers and whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. To this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming, as to itself, the other party. The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution the measure of its powers.
Sadly, the conditions warranting Jefferson’s warning have materialized, and they have constituted the rule for quite some time. The Constitution does not govern the feds; the feds use their discretion to manipulate the Constitution.
Until we get back to the Constitution, the right to impose a toy ban, a national health care mandate, or whatever is entirely up to the discretion of the federal government.
So the next time we hear of some local, crackpot law, we should remember that diversity is the result of our constitutional system. One-size-fits-all central planning is most often the result of tyranny.
J. Michael Neal
@stuckinred:
He transferred somewhere after a year. He clearly wasn’t as good as Weber and wasn’t going to play. That is one positive thing I’ll say about Brewster: he had no problem telling his own kid to hit the bench.
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Fried bees. Can’t promise you that, but I can promise you fried pig’s blood, chicken feet, and other assorted tasty foods (I was just there eleven months ago. I did a travelogue on my blog, but it wasn’t a pleasant trip. The food, though, was marvelous). It is beautiful and lush and green. And, the women are beautiful (if you can stand thirty year old women acting like they’re twelve). I do not mind if you politely look and comment in a low tone to me, but no ogling and leering as I would not want you to frighten them.
P.S. I find it amusing that you find MN scary.
@stuckinred: Taiwan? During your tour of duty? Did you like it? Or do you mean MN, which is not as exciting?
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: I was there in 1969.
WyldPirate
@stuckinred:
We’re all good as well, stuckinred. ;)
Sorry I went off on you earlier as well. I took your advice and googled Fairley. He’s got quite the bad rep as you said.
I was working off limited info for sure. I know I wouldn’t have stuck up for him had I seen that earlier spear-in-the-back late hit.
I still can’t condone what seemed to be the UGA retaliation. I might feel different if I were a Dawg fan.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: Oh, Lord, now I think our paths MUST have crossed at some point. It’s kind of spooky. Even spookier than when I realized that I met Dennis G. back in the day when he was the head knocker at Flagpole. I was so happy – and spookily taken aback – when I realized he was “dengre” here that it took me a time to process it.
He – and you – give me hope that there’s still hope for this whole region. It will take a while – Obama’s election set us back several years – but we’ll get there. The obvious answer – i.e., everybody with a lick of sense ought to move to other places where people actually have sense – is not the answer.
I don’t know if you’re male or female, but brother/sister, keep the faith. We will change it from the inside.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: You are a gentleman and a scholar!
South of I-10
@change: Please go the fuck away.
John O
@The Dangerman:
I’ve come to appreciate Oregon’s “non-clown” unis. But they didn’t exactly win any more convincingly than TCU did, so that’s who I want in the BCS Big One. The best offense against the best defense.
Auburn will get beat by Alabama the day after turkey.
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Here are the pics my bro took of Taiwan when we were there eleven months ago.
ETA: Mostly food. Lots of food. Tons of food.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: BGinChi was here then too. I’m a he. I’ve chatted with DG some, I see Pete all the time and know much of the staff. I live in the Boulevard hood and it’s really become a fun place in the past few years. I was a Globe regular but I put all that down and now just try to stay healthy. Were you in school?
jl
@change: I skimmed towards the end, since your rant become incoherent and self-contradictory.
So, the bottom line is, for me, an SF Bay resident, is that the SF supes are clowns, the law is stupid, but it is SF’s business, and nobody else’s. So who give a rat’s ass?
You live in SF? If not, why do you give a damn?
If you’re life is ruined because you wanted to get your kid (or yourself) a McDonald’s happy meal toy in San Fran Frisco, I must say I do not feel the slightest bit sorry for you.
Anyway, Newsom veoted the law, and the clownshow supes will try to override his veto. So the law is not in force now.
Post it again when the matter is settled, and we know better wether FREEDOM! is threatened in Fogdhad by the Bay.
burnspbesq
@J. Michael Neal:
News flash: you probably thought scheduling Union on New Year’s Eve was a good idea. A look at the USCHO poll might suggest otherwise. Although we let one get away tonight – fucking RPI came back from two goals down and beat us in OT.
The ECAC schedule is stupid. We shouldn’t play both of our games against fucking RPI on the same weekend in November. It should be like Duke-Carolina: one in midseason and then the last game of the regular season.
stuckinred
@jl: I saw Foghad! They rocked.
J. Michael Neal
@WyldPirate:
I guess it’s that I’m a hockey fan, and a defenseman at heart,, but I have no problem with what the Georgia players did. If someone is taking cheap shots at your goalie, and the refs don’t call anything, it’s not only okay to drop him, it’s your responsibility.
I dislike fighting in hockey in general, but that’s the one time I condone it. Cross-checking is an acceptable substitute.
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Tauren Poole has turned into a nice TB, for sure. I like him even better because he shines in the classroom as well. You really have to admire the athletes at big-time programs that have their heads screwed on straight and can excel on the field and on the classroom. It takes a special level of maturity that most of them don’t have to recognize the opportunities they have and to make the most of both the academic and athletic side.
Lane Kiffin is quite possibly the sorriest human on the entire fucking planet. If I say anymore, the artery throbbing on the left side of my head may rupture and start spewing blood across the room.
SiubhanDuinne
@change: At least one of your excruciatingly long screeds is a cut-n-paste from one Jerry Shenk of The American Thinker. Ever heard of quotation marks? Blockquotes? Attribution?
Ever heard of plagiarism?
(Of course, I guess it’s always possible that you *are* Jerry Shenk of The American Thinker, in which case you have worse problems than failure to attribute authorship.)
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: Are you in Knoxville?
jl
@asiangrrlMN: Wow! thanks. Lotsa nice food pics there.
But why are there two pics of what looks like a standard McDonalds cheeseburger? Or is it a beeburger?
Your description of Taiwan makes me want to visit even more. Except all several Taiwanese women I have worked with have all be very mature (but they have are med and pharm and grad students, or health professionals, so maybe there is selection mechanism).
I am afraid of MN because it was founded by Scandinavians, who are communists. Maybe you did not know that.
burnspbesq
Oregon dodged a bullet.
John O
Illinois will have a very good basketball team this season, and I will be disappointed if they’re not top 10 by the end of the year and in the Elite 8.
You heard it here first.
stuckinred
@John O: Oskewow! I listened to the beatdown of the Salukis.
asiangrrlMN
@jl: You really do have bees in your bonnet, don’t you? No, my niece who was eleven at the time did not like much of the local food, so she had McDonald’s and Subway most of the time. She did try everything, though. And, the first time I went, I didn’t much like the food, either.
Women: You are right. There are definitely different types. And, as I said, I do not mind looking (I look myself).
ETA: Snort on the sociaIist Scandahoovians.
WyldPirate
@stuckinred:
No. North Carolina.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: I was there from 1988-94. Got my undergrad degree from the Grady School and liked it so much I stayed there and got my graduate degree from the same place. (I stayed in school after I realized that a man couldn’t BUY a job in the recession of ’92.)
I teach at Clemson now (I know, I know, don’t be hatin’ on a man for earning a living however he can) but I miss Athens every day. I was there at a wonderful time, and I will eternally consider myself fortunate to have been a part of it.
Pete’s done a great job with Flagpole as far as I can tell, but Dennis’s time there was a damn fine time for it; he set the stage for the mag’s future success. I’m glad to see it still thriving, and I’m glad to still (serendipitously) enjoy Dennis’s work. As far as I’m concerned, he and Cole are the best front-pagers on this blog, though I’m sure my status as a sanity-starved Southerner hopelessly biases me in that respect.
J. Michael Neal
@burnspbesq: For the Gophers this year, it really has a lot less to do with who we are playing, and everything to do with which team we bring. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more inconsistent team.
Oh, you meant the men. Same thing, really, but I haven’t watched them as much.
At this point, it isn’t even a question of trying to schedule patsies for your holiday tournament. So many teams have one that you take any team that will come. We used to bring in two teams that should get lit up and one other strong team, but we can’t do that any longer. Union is on the schedule because they were available.
That’s also the same time as the World Junior Championships. Even in a down year, Zach Budish and Nick Bjugstad won’t be there to play Union. The women’s team, sensibly, just doesn’t schedule games the weekend of the Four Nations Cup (which happens to be this weekend); we have five players gone, the Americans and two Finns.
Besides, I believe the hype about ECAC teams only when I see them prove it. As a general rule, whenever I watch them, they prove to be less than advertised.
stuckinred
@WyldPirate: Aha.
No matter where I’m at
I’ll always hang my hat
under those Blue Ridge
Mountain Skies
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: I played a lot of hoop with Scott Schamp, Barry Sherman and a bunch of other cats from the j school down at Stegman. I did a masters in rec and a doc in adult ed.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: Hooooo-boy. I did not know the Vikes were playing the Bears tomorrow. In Chicago. This ought to be interesting.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Bear down Chicago Berz!
stuckinred
Clemson FSU is a barn burner.
jl
@asiangrrlMN: Oh, well, if they were for your niece. I feel like a meany now.
Good night, I will dream of fried bees knees, and running from my internet wifey after I leer too much at random beeaauutiful Taiwanese maidens.
Except I will check back and see whether AsiangrrlMN will tell me whether she is a mainlander or native Taiwanese?
I went out with a Taiwanese girl for awhile when I was in So Cal, but I don’t think of her as ethnically Chinese. Her family was half indigenous and half from old school mainland Chinese who came over hundreds of years ago and now think of themselves as kind of ‘native’ Taiwanese. For some reason she comes to mind just now, had not thought of her for awhile.
She was a very nice, sophisticated literary very sensible and mature person. No twelvish in behavior at all. But she was very good looking, so she did follow that stereotype.
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: The Vikings will…at least show up for the game. That’s really all I’ve got at this point.
@jl: Heh. Don’t worry about it. We gave her some grief over it. But, she really was a good sport.
I am Taiwanese, full stop. Independent Taiwan and all that. Ancestors have been in Taiwan for roughly four hundred years. My parents speak Taiwanese to each other (though, of course, they speak Chinese outside the home and English to me and my brother).
I’ll whap you over the head with an umbrella if you get too bug-eyed at all the beautiful women. Good night!
WyldPirate
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
It is difficult beyond belief being a liberal and living in the South. I see and hear so much mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging stupidity on a daily basis when I’m out amongst my fellow Southerners I’m surprised I haven’t throttled someone since I moved back in 2002.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@stuckinred: I had classes with Schamp in grad school back when the Internet was a new thing. He took us to a lab where we had those monitors where it was nothing but green type on a black screen, and we e-mailed each other from across the room. We thought this “e-mail” stuff was the cat’s ass.
And look at us now.
stuckinred
@Evolved Deep Southerner: He runs the “New Media Institute” now. Hell, I traveled all over the state with a huge box of laptops introducing literacy teachers to a computer program designed to help low literate adults learn to read. We trained them and gave them the disks but 90% of them did not have computers that would run it.
Evolved Deep Southerner
@WyldPirate: No fucking shit! It’s like I’m trying to just outlive the previous generation down here, but I’m determined to do so. We sure are looking stupid as hell in the meantime.
And, yes, Clemson/FSU is indeed a barnburner. After the Auburn game, though, I just don’t have much in the tank for it. Besides, even though I’ve worked at the place for eight years now, I’ve just never been able to get behind them, football-wise.
Of course, they’ll be back on Georgia’s schedule next year. It will change drastically then …
stuckinred
FSU wins with a 55 yard FG at the buzzer! And Jimbo is getting all jesusy
Evolved Deep Southerner
RE: Clemson vs. FSU:
A 55-yard kick? You’ve got to give that kid props. That’s a long-ass way to kick a football.
stuckinred
good night miss calabash, wherever you are
Evolved Deep Southerner
Yabo-Dabo-Don’t.
fraught
@stuckinred: It’s MRS.
calabash, if you don’t mind.
John O
@stuckinred:
Weber is a very good coach, they get guys who stick around 4 years, 3 minimum, and they have a good mix this year. First big game is NC, which they can afford to lose tough.
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burnspbesq
@John O:
Riiiiiiiight. Tell us again about how Weber got Jon Scheyer, who played high school ball for his brother.
If Illinois finishes better than fifth in the Big Eleven this year, it will only be due to (a) Hummel getting hurt and (b) OSU being slow to adjust to life after Evan Turner. They aren’t better than Michigan State, and they aren’t better than Wisconsin.
frosty
@WyldPirate: I have some of the same issues that you do in South Pennsylvania. I poll-watched for 11 hours during the election and can’t say I was impressed with my cohort. I mean, old, fat, white I can understand… everybody (white) gets there, but why are they all so fucking angry?
Angry Black Lady
@asiangrrlMN: a little slow on the draw, but done!