Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans in disarray!

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    Betty, I left this message for you down below.
    We are winning the race to the bottom. Our backup running back is out due to trying to eat his marijuana stash in front of a police officer.

  2. 2.

    debit

    Thanks, Betty!! I think the Steelers have found a way to play well this year: wear their Halloween jammies when playing. Maybe the stripes have magical powers.

  3. 3.

    Yatsuno

    Seachickens vs the Vikes. AKA the game that could lead to me and wifey divorcing if Minnesota were decent this year.

    Shit, home game. So much for going on a TJ’s run…

    PS: tornadoes in Chicago? But Algore is fat!

  5. 5.

    dedc79

    This is one of four weeks in the NFL season when I root for the Washington Redskins Somethings. (i.e. when they’re playing either the Cowboys or Eagles). Of course, they’re down already.

  8. 8.

    Gator90

    Even the lowly Bucs were able to beat the Fighting Incognitos, who, amazingly, remain in playoff contention at least for now. Go Fins!

  9. 9.

    Violet

    Hey, you could be a Texans fan. They specialize in losing in the second half after having any kind of lead in the first. Even the coach collapses at the half (mini-stroke, no kidding).

  11. 11.

    lamh36

    Go Saints!

    So, ok, when looking for a used car. Besides pricing male and model, what else would/do you look for? My main question: how many miles max would you look for? My current car has 95000 miles on it after almost 8 years. I’d prefer less than 30k, but at least 1/2 of my current miles…so like 45k

  12. 12.

    Violet

    @lamh36: Spend the money to get the Carfax on it. That’s the main thing, especially if buying from any kind of a dealer. They lie–happened to a friend of mine. If you are in any area near a recent flood, make sure you get the car checked out for flood damage. A lot of cars that go through floods are re-sold as not going through a flood and it’s a lie.

    Besides pricing male and model,

    Sure it’s a car you are looking for? Heh.

  13. 13.

    Betty Cracker

    @lamh36: Depends on the car and the type of mileage. I had an old Volvo tank that was still running with 500K miles when I gave it up. It probably rolls still!

  17. 17.

    Yatsuno

    @Betty Cracker: My brother has a 1997 Volvo with over 250K miles on it. That thing still runs like a champ, although he rents cars for longer trips now. I think the only major issue it had was a transmission glitch that got fixed & has never popped back up. Volvos before Ford are workhorses.

    @lamh36: Definitely get the Carfax and also spring for an independent mechanic inspection if you don’t have a car savvy family member. It’s about $100 but it could save you thousands down the road.

    Also: look at retired rental vehicles. They usually have really good mileages, aren’t that expensive, and the rental companies maintain the bejeezus out of them. My car started life that way and other than routine stuff I haven’t had problem one.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @lamh36:

    If you’re planning to finance any of it, see if you can get pre-approved for a loan from your bank or credit union before you shop. The subprime loan scams have started up again (where they steer people who qualify for prime loans into subprime ones) only this time it’s cars, not houses. And, yes, it’s generally minorities who are being victimized, so you need to be extra careful. ?

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    It’s amazing how durable some old cars can be. I saw my late father’s mid-1960s Peugeot (the same model number as Lt Columbo’s, but a four-door hardtop version rather than the two-door convertible Peter Falk drove) on the street in the late 1980s, many many years after he sold it.

  23. 23.

    J.

    I had to stop watching the Jets game. Too painful. Hard to believe this is the same team that beat the Saints a couple of weeks ago. Meh. Hope the Giants game is better. (And yes, I go both ways, Jets and Giants.)

  25. 25.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh36:
    I think people’s ideas about mileage are out of date. 100K just isn’t that much anymore. You may be off setting a budget and then trying to meet it rather than targeting a specific age and mileage and then seeing what it costs.

  27. 27.

    gene108

    @lamh36:

    If there’s a CarMax near where you live?

    They have a good reputation for selling good used cars.

    I got 1 year old rental fleet retiree, Mazda 626, from them, back in 1999 and it ran without any problems.

  29. 29.

    Keith P

    @Violet: 100% correct, and I’m from Houston. There’s something about this city that makes our teams disappoint. I firmly believe Houston is still Choke City, and the Texans have exemplified that this season. I get die-hard Houston fans all kinds of pissed off when I mention this, but it’s the truth, and it has been since at least the Oiler days.

  30. 30.

    Gravenstone

    CBS sports just doesn’t know where to turn in my region right now. Bears/Ravens game is currently suspended due to weather, so they give us Bills/Jets. That one is turning into a laugher for the Bills, so now they’ve shifted to Browns/Bengals.

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    raven

    @lamh36: Always have an independent mechanic that you PAY do a buyers check and make sure they do a compression test and that all of the cylinders are within 5lbs of each other.

  32. 32.

    max

    Geez. It ate the comment?

    max
    [‘I didn’t mention male genitalia. Guess it was the words involving vehicular devices.’]

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    Rather than watching a game right now- I’m waiting for the Broncos/Chiefs this evening- I’m going through photos from my recent trip to the National Parks of Utah. It was a great trip. Early November is a great time to go, because it’s had a chance to cool down enough to make good hiking weather and the major crowds are finally starting to disperse. I’m still geeking out over having visited Upheaval Dome, the remains of a ~160 million year old meteor crater.

  34. 34.

    Gravenstone

    @Gravenstone: And now the Bengals are hammering the Browns, running off 28 unanswered points. Wonder what bottom feeding pairing we’ll be shunted to next?

  35. 35.

    ruemara

    OK, for all the tech savvy types on this blog. Why in the fucking fuck is my NAS constantly changing IP? It’s only consistent when I’m hard connected. Worked fine all this while and with the new dual band, the NAS and the wireless printer are freaking out and costing me a lot of valuable time trying to fix things. I’m running windows 7, both have the correct ssid, the router says the IP is one thing, but the drive’s networking software gives me a different ip and can’t connect without ethernet. Then it’ll correct, stay connected for a bit, then disappear again. I was hoping to get some work done, instead I’m considering shooting the drive. and the printer. some sort of techno mass murder spree with an electron gun.

  36. 36.

    Brendan in Charlotte

    @J.: Don’t worry. As a Bills fan, i can tell you that we’ll let you back in it soon enough…

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    @ruemara:

    Why in the fucking fuck is my NAS constantly changing IP?

    Do you have it set up to use DHCP? If you do, it may be getting reassigned by the router. You’d be better off setting it to have a static IP.

  40. 40.

    HinTN

    @lamh36: You can buy a Camry with 100k miles if they are road miles (not NOLA street miles) with confidence you will get AT LEAST another 100k. I’ve bought four like that and taken them to 300k

  42. 42.

    HinTN

    @raven: Also excellent advice, although I have a great working relationship with my local Toyota service department and they do all my maintenance.

  43. 43.

    ruemara

    @Roger Moore: Did that. Would not appear even when connected. Then it reset to the new IP. Now it’s holding steady after a reboot of both systems and some downloaded updates, but it is still invisible to the network.

  46. 46.

    lamh36

    @gene108: yes. There is a carmax. I’m Def looking there. My current car is a 2005 Hyundai Tucson. Aside from needing new tires and brake pad replacement, it’s in relatively good condition. I figured I’d use it for the trade in value, but I admit I’m having sentimental issues with selling/trading it. It’s the very first car I bought paid for and owned all by myself.

  47. 47.

    Gator90

    @AxelFoley: I used to know a guy who went to S. Carolina. He had a T-shirt that said “You Can’t Lick Our Cocks!” He was very proud of it.

  49. 49.

    raven

    @lamh36: Trade-in’s are usually a ripoff but carmax is pretty cool because a trade can be made independent of the purchase. Selling through craiglist or buy putting a sign on it can bring more dough but there are a lot of creeps out there.

  50. 50.

    negative 1

    @Yatsuno: Sea! Hawks! Sea! Hawks! Was actually responding to the second part of your comment though — the local chuckleheads on my (Boston area) sports talk radio said the same thing, then did the audio equivalent of rolling their eyes. I really hate our local sports radio.

  51. 51.

    AxelFoley

    @Gator90:

    @AxelFoley: I used to know a guy who went to S. Carolina. He had a T-shirt that said “You Can’t Lick Our Cocks!” He was very proud of it.

    LOL, I’d hate to see a T-shirt from a bad season.

    “Our Cocks Suck!”

  53. 53.

    jharp

    Anyone in the paths of the storms in the midwest?

    I am and both of my kids in different cities are though it is passed through my daughter’s town already.

    It does not look good.

  56. 56.

    jharp

    Wow. These storms coming across Indiana are amazing.

    Holy fuck. It is not good. Tornadoes on the ground.

  57. 57.

    Svensker

    @J.:

    Not sure inconsistent is the word you’re looking for here…

    Hey, Simms. Did the Bills put in their 3rd string? Or was that the Jets’ O actually doing something?

  58. 58.

    Tommy

    @jharp: Yeah. Just outside St. Louis. High winds (no rain or hail), maybe around 65 MPH, but honestly not as bad as some other areas got or the news is reporting. Which clearly is a good thing.

  59. 59.

    Tommy

    Well my team based in DC officially sucks. I keep trying to keep a positive mental attitude but it is really, really hard. Second game the local station in St. Louis has shown of them, and in both not long after halftime they went to another game cause they were getting stomped into the ground.

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Dang, the Washington [Redacted] are coming back. Two TDs with two-point conversions, and now they’re behind 24-16 with 5:30 to go.

  63. 63.

    Tommy

    @Steeplejack (tablet): And my local station has not cut back to it. They switched to the Steelers and Lions game early into the second half of the Washington game. Off to the NFL Redzone channel I guess.

  64. 64.

    YellowJournalism

    @AxelFoley: I would love to see what the opposing team had for T-shirts. “Your Cocks are kind of small.”

    The most clever thing we had was “FUW.”

  65. 65.

    gene108

    @lamh36:

    Brakes and tires need replacing. Even in newer cars this will happen eventually.

    Maybe get a mechanic you trust to check it out and see if anything else needs replacing other than the brakes and tires. If it’s just brakes and tires, you might be O.K. in keeping it awhile longer.

  66. 66.

    jharp

    Tornadoes to the north and tornadoes to the south.

    Just a regular massive thunderstorm with 70 MPH winds is headed my way.

    It’s about 3 miles out.

  70. 70.

    satby

    @jharp: I was, so were friends south of me. Only tree damage by me, lost the tops of 4the large pines, but in Coal City, Eashington, and Diamond IL bad tornados. They think there’s people trapped in wreckage in Coal city.

  72. 72.

    satby

    @satby: Washington, Il. I’m sitting in my car to charge my phone, power went out about 2to hours ago. Hard to edit on mobile.

  73. 73.

    jharp

    Holy shit.

    Right after I posted that the winds blasted through worse than ever.

    Very weird. Dark clouds and sun and wind. Spooky. And sheets of rain. And rainbows.

    On November 17th.

  74. 74.

    jharp

    @efgoldman:

    I was in north central Ohio during the blizzard of ’78.

    That thing was amazing. It took my town 10 days to get dug out. And a tractor trailer with driver inside was buried in a snow drift for 13 days. He survived by eating snow.

  75. 75.

    satby

    @jharp: yep. Second bad blow coming through now… got the heck out of the car and back into the house. Won’t get power any time soon, it’s way too windy for the linemen to fix live lines in this.

  79. 79.

    James E. Powell

    @jharp:

    I was in north central Ohio during the blizzard of ’78.

    I was a student at Ohio State. A large area east and north of campus had no electric power for a few days. We had to leave our apartment and find friends who could take us in.

  81. 81.

    jharp

    @James E. Powell:

    My brother was a student at Ohio State that year. 14th and High area.

    Fellow Buckeye here. Lived mostly east of campus.

    Do you recall that if you had an Ohio High School diploma they had to admit you in those years?

    And tuition was less than $300 per quarter and a 19 inch color television was $400.

    Oh, and the needle to play records was $100.

  83. 83.

    Hawes

    @kindness: What else is new? Once upon a time, the Superdome was the scene of an American tragedy, so we are supposed to forget that Sean Payton is an oxycontin snorting asshole control freak who levels bounties on opposing players.

    #notabitterfalconsfan

  84. 84.

    jake the snake

    To Betty and any Falcon fans.

    Bob-by Rain-ey! Bob-by Rain-ey.
    At least that was the chant when he would be fed the ball the run out the clock in the fourth quarter of his college games at WKU.

    If the Bucs didn’t want to win games, they shouldn’t have picked him up. Ravens and Browns loss is Tampa Bay’s gain.

  85. 85.

    burnspbesq

    @YellowJournalism:

    The most clever thing we had was “FUW.”

    That’s actually better than “Duck Fuke,” but not as good as the “Spay the Terriers” gear that Boston College folks break out for their games against Boston University.

  86. 86.

    CaseyL

    Went down to a friend’s housewarming/football watching party in Tacoma. The drive there and back went through spots of torrential rain. This is Seattle; it’s supposed to rain in the winter (… and spring, and summer, and autumn); but the last 7 years the winter rains have been more like monsoons.

    The ‘Hawks won just the way I like: took a big lead early, and kept adding to it. None of this come-from-behind-in-the-4th-quarter stuff. Getting some of the first string offensive line players back from IR helped.

  87. 87.

    Jackie

    The Seahawks won; SF lost. Good wknd. I hate the ‘Hawks going into bye week at this stage. Next team NO, then SF in SF. Too much time off when team is just getting 100% = poor timing.

    Enjoying the Denver/KC game – torn equally between who I want to win.

    Steelers uniforms ugliest in football history. They won because they creeped out the Lions in those break-out-of jail unis.

  88. 88.

    PaulW

    As a fellow Bucs fan, I’m not sure what we need to draft in the first round in 2014, what I do know is that Schiano is not a very good coach and ought to be fired #FireSchiano at season’s end. Because of this two-game win streak against not-very-good teams, the buzz to fire the coach(es) (save the RB coach who seems to be the only one who knows what he’s doing) has died down a little bit, but upcoming games versus very good teams – Lions, 49ers, Panthers, Saints – ought to highlight the problems with Schiano – lack of on-field discipline, ultraconservative game schemes that lead to Second Half chokes – and end up with enough losses to demonstrate he’s not working out as HC.

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