Just think, right now, Loretta Lynn is at home in Hurricane Mills outside Nashville reading poorly spelled emails calling her a commie traitor ACORN loving Black Panther.
Also, thanks to John Oliver, I know that this exists:
THE SALMON CANNON.
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Just think, right now, Loretta Lynn is at home in Hurricane Mills outside Nashville reading poorly spelled emails calling her a commie traitor ACORN loving Black Panther.
Also, thanks to John Oliver, I know that this exists:
THE SALMON CANNON.
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Felonius Monk
A real Coal Miner’s Daughter doesn’t worry about such shit.
ETA: I’d also be more interested in a Fried Chicken cannon.
Comrade Luke
I think The Guardian is having a little fun with this picture: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/09/scott-walker-2016-president-wisconsin-governor
John Cole +0
I ain’t never gonna buy ‘nother one of yer 45’s ‘Ret. You done us rong.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole +0: Jesus, I had to read that twice before it made any sense. I just am not very fluent in hillbilly wingnut.
Felonius Monk
@Omnes Omnibus:
Do you know anyone who is?
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: seriously, it is another language. One time when we went to visit Mr. Suzanne’s family in Arkansas, his grandfather asked me to look at a story in the newspaper, and he asked me what I thought. The story was about an interracial couple, and I think one of them assaulted the other. His grandfather then proceeded to say that he thought black women were unattractive. But i could barely understand what he was saying. He sounded like I do when I go to the dentist and am trying to talk with my mouth still numb. Anyway, I told him my cousin is married to a black man and that he’s a great guy and we love them both and think they’re great together.
I have politics fatigue. The AZ Superintendent race was called, and it makes me want to vomit.
I made an upholstered slipcover for my headboard today. That was nice.
Omnes Omnibus
@Felonius Monk: Luckily, no.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: I saw the pic. Nice job.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I felt so domestic. I am not really expert in the womanly arts. Kind of cool.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Omnes Omnibus: It took me 6 or 7 tries, and all the clues were there and everything. It’s as far removed from the English I speak as Shakespeare is.
CanadaGoose
“It’s called Twanglish, developed by people who found grunting too complicated.” — seen on Twitter today
Villago Delenda Est
The Breitbart people are all just utter scum.
Just like their thankfully (blessed be FSM, ramen) dead founder. They continue in his vile Leninist tradition.
May they all join him in Gre’thor as soon as possible.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: Good god, hillbilly wingnut and pure-bred nerd in the same thread.
Villago Delenda Est
@John Cole +0: I’d have an easier time decoding Jive. Or Aramaic.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: I should have said “The Breitbart people are VaRools” for the full effect.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: Please don’t make me google again. I am just basking in the glow of 55-14.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Stewardess, I speak Hillbilly Wingnut.
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Luke: It’s like being at the Zepplinplatz in Nürnberg in 1934. Flag fetish and all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Villago Delenda Est: The upside of that article is that GWB said he was “all in” for Walker for president. First, the man is wrong by definition. Second, it is lovely quote to use against Jeb if he runs.
Morzer
Looks like the rightwing paranoiac mob is getting their money’s worth:
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/09/mass_surveillance_out_of_control_uncle_sams_limitless_spying_database_partner/
God only knows what they’d make of my taste for Civ V and the Total War franchise. They’d probably imagine that Fallen Enchantress is a reference to Sarah Palin. Or maybe HRC.
Villago Delenda Est
The clowns at Noisemax strike again:
Study: Liberals More Emotion-Driven
Right. This from people who need to inculcate fear at all times.
Morzer
@Villago Delenda Est:
To be fair, if anyone is a replicant, it’s got to be the Romneybot.
Villago Delenda Est
@Morzer: Ask him about the turtle on its back in the sun. That ought to be amusing.
“Governor Romney, I’m afraid you did not pass the Voight-Kampff test.”
“Norman co-ordinate!”
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: I’ve had MS Flight Simulator for the last 30 years, so I guess I’m in trouble. Then again, I found out the Google Earth also has a flight simulator(CTL-SHIFT-A); so there are probably alot more folk that are in trouble as well.
PurpleGirl
Flight Simulator was the first program I had on the Commodore 64 a friend gave me. I explained to my father that I could use the program to learn how to fly a plane. He wasn’t interested in what it could do. To him it was a waste of time. It was a time waster but it was also fun.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah and if cops came into my house they might see Civilization on my TV and think I am trying to take over the known world:).
Quaker in a Basement
Salmon cannon. I thought it was a commentary on the Packers-Bears game.
Tommy
@PurpleGirl: I knew there was something I like about you. Of all my computers, the Commodore 64 might have been at the top of the list of my favorites. You could play all the old school Atari game I used to pay a quarter to play. The numbers of hours I spent in front of that machine is hard to imagine.
Tommy
@Quaker in a Basement: Rodgers is really, really good. There are so many good QBs playing now it is hard to comprehend. Manning. Brady. Brees. But when Rodgers is on his game not sure there is anybody better. Fun to watch.
Morzer
@PurpleGirl:
I remember that game. Did you ever play Elite? I loved that game far too much – and it is now being remade and is due to be available on December 16th IIRC. Yay, er.. capitalism?
Morzer
@Tommy:
For me, Rodgers have masked some pretty mediocre drafting by the Packers over recent years, much as Brady has done with the Patriots. I’d pick Mr Discount Doublecheck as the best QB currently playing without too much hesitation.
Tommy
@Morzer: Agreed. The list of QBs I listed seem to be able to turn an average receiver into an All Pro. To me that is a definition of a great QB. They just put the ball where they can catch it time and time again.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: You kids and ya fancy games, all we had was pong.
Tommy
@Morzer: Not even heard of that game, but so in my wheelhouse according to my Google search. I have no idea how I didn’t hear of it. I am sure you could call me a “gamer” but never much of a first person shooter. I like to build and explore worlds. Not blow shit up.
My favorite games now are on my phone and tablet. Both introduced to me by six-year-old niece. Dots and Cut the Rope (many versions). I note this cause I find it somewhat strange I enjoy the same games she does :).
Morzer
@BillinGlendaleCA:
You remember the days before the NFL, pops?
I am impressed!
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Oh I had Pong. I play more on my N64 and PSII then I do on the more “advanced” consoles. I find the game play on them more than enough for me.
Morzer
@Tommy:
Elite was one of the first real classics ever made for a personal computer, back in the early, early days, when 64k seemed like all the computer power one could ever desire and you had to play cassette tapes to load anything and everything. It also had one of the most sophisticated early anti-pirating devices, plus a halfway decent game novel by Robert Holdstock of all people. There’s quite a bit of backstory about how the two men who developed Elite fell out over the years, which is why David Braben is running the show for Frontier and Ian Bell is apparently out of the picture.
I remember getting up really early in the morning before going to school so I could play Elite for a couple of hours. As Billy Wordsworth had it in the Prelude:
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive
But to be young was very heaven.”
IIRC there are a few ported versions of the old Elite out on the internet. Ian Bell used to maintain listings at his site:
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
Tommy
@Morzer: I will just say, oh saving to a cassette. I know of that.
Morzer
@Tommy:
Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when the hardest part of playing computer games was knapping the flints to replace any part of the computer that burned out at an unhelpful juncture.
Another classic I remember from Ye Days Of Ye Olde Ones: Jet Set Willy.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Morzer: NFL? What’s that? Only pro football in this town is U$C.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: My first PC was an original IBM PC(16kb standard) had a cassette port. I never used it.
Warren Terra
Now that our salmon cannon is fully operational, no force in the general vicinity shall defy the might of this hydroelectric station!
raven
Big blow up north!
JPL
@raven: What?
raven
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Oh, I thought you were talking about Joe Scar bloviating in a few minutes.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: Remember when Felipa Gomez said it?
raven
This will probably be a front pager
REDEFINING THE WORD
EXAMINING A RACIAL SLUR ENTRENCHED IN AMERICAN VERNACULAR THAT IS MORE PREVALENT THAN EVER.
JPL
For some reason, I decided to to stream Morning Joe. Gosh, he sure is whiny.
Woodrowfan
the the “New Black Panthers” were actually at that polling place to protect voter,s not to prevent people from voting. But big black men with big sticks MUST be up to no good so…..
Woodrowfan
@Warren Terra: WIN!
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@raven:
kind of pissed. Minneapolis is getting up to a foot today. 80 minutes to the southeast it’s going to rain all day, and will only give us 3-4 inches.
AliceBlue
What sacrilege did Loretta Lynn commit?
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@AliceBlue: Having a name similar enough to that of Loretta Lynch, Obama’s AG nominee, to confuse the wingnuts with the Google.
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW!