On the left is one of my cute little Australorp chicks at one week old, and on the right is that same chick eight weeks later:
Every morning I ask her the same question: Where are my goddamned eggs?!?
In other news, the Vetting the Bed* process continues apace at Big Dead, where cub reporter Joel B. Pollak reckons President Obama must have entered Columbia as an Affirmative Action student with SAT scores even lower than the famously dumb George W. Bush.
His evidence? A 1981 newspaper article about the average score of the Columbia transfer class:
Breitbart News has learned that the transfer class that entered Columbia College in the fall of 1981 with Obama was one of the worst in recent memory, according to Columbia officials at the time…If Obama’s SAT scores were near the average of the transfer students entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored significantly lower than George W. Bush…
Yeah, and if my granny had wheels, she’d be a go-cart. These are painfully stupid people.
*H/T: Different Church Lady
TheMightyTrowel
I have never been happier to live abroad than i am this election year.
c u n d gulag
And IF my hen had a d*ck, I’d have a rooster!
Yeah, the “Stupid,” it is powerful in these fecken idjits.
And righties, I’m still looking for clarification:
-Is Obama a version of a feckless, shuffling, stupid, “Steppin’ Fetchid” come to DC?
-Or is he some elite Hitlerian Fascist Professor-Dictator, hell-bent on redistributing wealth?
He can’t be BOTH!
And even though he’s chocolate, he can’t be some version of ‘Racist’s Peanut Butter Cups.’
He’s either chocolate.
Or he’s steel shards.
sherparick
Apparently this is the memorandum that Roger Ailes and Karl Rove sent out this year, to beat the “white” resentment drum hard. See the Boston Herald’s root canal work on Elisabeth Warren’s native American or not stories. I am am afraid that although this trope means little to folks under 30, it still has some legs with white baby boomers based on the comments I hear on the van pool.
c u n d gulag
I don’t know why part of my comment’s crossed out – let me try again:
And IF my hen had a d*ck, I’d have a rooster!
Yeah, the “Stupid,” it is powerful in these fecken idjits.
And righties, I’m still looking for clarification:
-Is Obama a version of a feckless, shuffling, stupid, “Steppin’ Fetchid” come to DC?
Or is he some elite Hitlerian Fascist ProfessorDictator, hell-bent on redistributing wealth?
He can’t be BOTH!
And even though he’s chocolate, he can’t be some version of ‘Racist’s Peanut Butter Cups.’
He’s either chocolate.
Or he’s steel shards.
Randy P
How is that an attack in GOP circles? I thought that stupid was a selling point for them?
Look at the big guns over the recent years in the Democratic party: Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama. All famous for intelligence and work ethic.
Then look at the big guns on the other side: Saint Ronnie, W, Sarah Palin. All famous for being genial idiots and working as little as possible.
How are they going to push “lazy and stupid” as a negative for people who have historically formed cults around “lazy and stupid”?
ornery_curmudgeon
“These are painfully stupid people”
Actually these are painfully evil people … trying to influence painfully stupid people.
Unsympathetic
The SAT is changed every year, and so all scores are relative only to the year in which the person took it.
My 1490 got me admitted to an Ivy League school when 1600 was the max.. today, a 1490 won’t get you a cup of coffee at a state school. Also, a 1490 from the year following me might have been better or worse than my score depending on the relative strength of the pool of students taking it that year.
I demand proof that GWB took his own SAT’s. I want to see the actual papers with GWB’s X on the signature line – their assertion isn’t good enough!
Linda Featheringill
Oh, my! The girls are growing up!
I really don’t care about test scores. I don’t even care about grades. I suspect that Obama did okay but it really doesn’t matter.
The real question is what did BHO do with that education? And what have you done with your education, Joel B. Pollak?
Ash Can
Squeee! Chickens!
And on the subject of Professional Moran Joel Pollack, I’m delighted to be living in a Congressional district that re-elected Jan Schakowsky by a large margin over this fraud. I am not happy, however, that he received even the votes that he did.
Of course, I am more than happy to let him continue to make a complete laughingstock of himself, and further sully the Breitbart name. Keep those bombshells coming, Joel, and please don’t ever get smart enough to figure out that all they’re doing is blowing your own ass off.
Linda Featheringill
OT but good news anyway:
nytimes.com/2012/05/24/world/middleeast/global-powers-and-iran-meet-in-baghdad.html?_r=2
Apparently Iran and the Powers That Be are meeting to talk about how to resolve the nuclear impasse. Very good. And if this eventually led to resolution, that would be wonderful.
Do you think maybe Obama/Clinton can reach a solution that doesn’t involve hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Unsympathetic: My oldest is taking the SAT and visiting colleges here in Texas. According to all of the administrators at the colleges, they aren’t even looking at the writing portion of the SAT: It’s too subjective.
danielx
Right. And if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. Which would be a terrible change to my 82 year old auntie who I dearly love, not least because she refers to Newt Gingrich as “that miserable sonofabitch”. There’s nothing like talking with an unreconstructed New Deal-type Democrat. Another of her lines, which she admits she borrowed from Harry Truman: “Why the hell don’t Democrats act like Democrats any more? Why would anybody vote for an imitation Republican if they could vote for the real thing?”
To which my response of course was “Yes, well….yeah, why don’t they?”
Schlemizel
@c u n d gulag: it was your use of the dash. WP sees anything between two dashes as crossed out.
If I write dashDELETEdash I get -DELETE-
but if I write dash DELETE dash I get – DELETE –
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Linda Featheringill: That’s a good thing only if your goal isn’t hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians and a few thousand dead lower/middle class Americans.
HRA
Moments ago I finished defending this stupidity fueled by Rove and sent by the Breibart idiots online in an email to a relative. He is from the generation after the Baby Boomers, a well educated lawyer and from Ohio. Frankly, he is the last person I would expect to buy into this kind of bashing even though he is not a liberal politically.
On the other hand, I expect it to occur from the lowly informed occupant in the office adjacent to mine.
Ben Cisco
Nice work on the yardbirds.
On a serious note:
Fuck all those racist assholes.
They simply can’t stand the fact that President Obama won the election, and will stoop to anything to justify their hatred.
They think they are “patriots.” THEY ARE NOT.
They think THEY, and only THEY, represent what is good and right and authentically “American.” THEY DO NOT.
They think this supremacist bullshit is going to win them an election. IT. WILL. NOT.
They’re simply not going to get it, and for that reason they deserve to keep getting slapped in the face with their FAIL, until the words “Republican” and “conservative” do no more among the sentient American population than elicit laughter and/or ridicule.
They’ve earned it.
c u n d gulag
@Schlemizel:
D’oh!
Thanks!
If I ever knew that, I forgot it.
Frankensteinbeck
@sherparick:
Good. It means they’ve got nothing else. The whole thing smells like Birtherism, and anyone who’s not a wingnut finds these discussions distasteful. I want the mushy middle to think about Romney this year and not only find him boring, but associate a vague unease and disgust with him. They’ll do jack squat for GOTV. They’ve already been pushing this button nonstop, and their base has run out of steam. The Tea Party rallies have stopped. Screaming paranoia has become resentful in-group jokes. Replaying 2008’s failed strategies is not going to work, especially since Obama’s owning the economy right out from under their noses.
@c u n d gulag:
No, this really is consistent, it’s just racist as Hell. In particular, remember how hard they’ve sold to their salt of the earth (you know, morons) base that ‘elites’ have fancy educations, but their big city book-larnin’ is inferior to faith and a narcissist’s gut desires – er, common sense. Sorry.
So, the reasoning is that Obama is an Other – evil and inferior. It’s important, because he can’t possibly have obtained the Presidency fairly. And because he can’t possibly have obtained the Presidency fairly, he must be stupid. It’s not only consistent, it’s damn near circular logic. Oh, he’s got lots of evil schemes, but they’re the kind of complicated, transparently malicious, but really pretty dumb schemes cooked up by book-larnin’ types who don’t have REAL common sense. Comic book villain stuff, that anyone with common sense (IE, a gut feeling of fear when they look at a black president) can spot. He almost certainly got help from his smarter and downright demonic white masters like Nancy and George Soros.
@Unsympathetic:
A self-proclaimed handwriting expert who heard about GWB’s unreleased SAT papers is going to assure me that the signature will be a fake.
Randy P
@danielx: I hang out in a lot of Quaker circles these days. It’s a great place to find feisty 80-year-olds of both genders. Verbally, they’re usually somewhat more polite than your aunt, but no less angry. If you hear of an 80-year-old being arrested at a protest, it was probably a Quaker.
Hal
Every school is different, but transfer students don’t always need SAT scores. The Colleges just go by their academic record. What’s interesting to me is, you could have done poorly on the SAT, then went and performed very well at your original college, which kind of shits on the idea of the SATs as some sort of crystal ball on how good of a student you would be.
Also, does Breitbart focus on anyone other than black people?
Linda Featheringill
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): #14
Ahhh, yes. I stand corrected. :-)
gnomedad
Obviously, Obama’s Kenyan Muslim SAT scores were so low that he dragged down the average all by himself.
For these guys, “Obama sucks!” is their religion, and all their “reasoning” is theology in service of the core belief.
Boudica
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Same here. Toured colleges in New England over spring break with my junior son. Administrators said the writing portion goes against everything they teach about writing: take your time, revise, etc. Which leads me to wonder why it was added (i.e who benefitted?)
Santiago
-test-
Patricia Kayden
Why should Chick Australorp produce eggs for your consumption? What if she wants children?
She’s cute!
Ed in NJ
@Unsympathetic:
HUMBLEBRAG!
Cacti
My oldest son finishes kindergarten today.
Damn I feel old.
AHH onna Droid
@Unsympathetic: I got a 1600 the year they changed the scoring system. And that plus bus fare gets you a ride to the end of the line.
“This is the last stop. Continuing passengers must step off the bus and pay another fare.”
dexwood
You’ll begin to see eggs when they’re about 6 months old.
AHH onna Droid
@Boudica: I think they started demanding sat ii as a cheap way to weed out esl students.
It’s a total joke. I got an 800 on writing sat ii but was in remedial class for my state essay test. Why? Because it’s not a real writing test and is no doubt scored by juvenile capuchin monkeys. No spelling mistakes or misplaced commas in an hour? Moi?
I did not score perfect on the chem or phys, which pissed me off but I probably was more scared about the other tests and studied harder for them.
Oh, did I mention you can ‘ up your score’ on these all-important tests if you are middle class and don’t have to go flip burgers every day after school?. I was working but the jobs were low stress. I didn’t get f*cked until college.
Keith
This is what happens when a crazy person gets to hire people.
Dana
My sex-link brown egg layer (SLBEL) pullets started laying at about 18 weeks or so. I’d say you’ve got at least another nine weeks to wait.
The Australorps grow up to be very pretty. Make sure you socialize your hens. Pick ’em up, carry ’em around, chat with ’em. Sure beats having to chase ’em if you need to put ’em up.
joel hanes
You have read or are reading The Egg And I, yes ?
draftmama
Patience, patience – we have 8 of them and they are the BEST LAYING CHICKIES EVER! They are rumored to lay 300 a year. Unfortunately I stole their heat lamps to put in the greenhouse and (this is Montana) all 30 chicks stopped laying in protest. We are now back to normal production. Yummy……
Betty Cracker
@Dana: I’m mostly just kidding the hens when I ask about the eggs. It’s a conversation starter. They are very friendly. I keep a chair in their run and sit there for awhile daily, and they’ll perch on me like a flock of parrots. The ‘lorps are pretty in the sun; their feathers have an iridescent cast.
@joel hanes: Not yet, but I should. Many have recommended it. I’ve read tons of chicken books, but that one keeps coming up.
@draftmama: Since we’re in FL, I don’t reckon heat lamps will be an issue, but they may demand air conditioners!