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Happy BttF Day!

by John Cole|  October 21, 20155:30 pm| 120 Comments

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  1. 1.

    craigie

    October 21, 2015 at 5:32 pm

    The future is yesterday!

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 21, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    I thought that middle word meant something else.

  3. 3.

    Davebo

    October 21, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    I see those “skateboards” all the time lately at the hotel. In the lobby and the spa. Not sure what to make of it but the really rich seem to love them.

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    October 21, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    Today only, you can add a $1.2 mil flux capacitor to your Ford Fiesta order.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    October 21, 2015 at 5:38 pm

    Good thing his tshirt is already red.

  6. 6.

    dubo

    October 21, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    A brilliant and sober movie whose message is still relevant today

  7. 7.

    Cacti

    October 21, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Looks like the Chicago Cubs are about to learn that their part of the film was still just fantasy.

    :-P

  8. 8.

    FlyingToaster

    October 21, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    The two most common things in the universe: Hydrogen and stupidity.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    Christopher Lloyd did a pretty cool little video in honor of today:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL0HZSc2Sc

  10. 10.

    mdblanche

    October 21, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    @craigie: The future will be better tomorrow.

  11. 11.

    srv

    October 21, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    And as always, Trump is relevant

    ‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump

    An American Icon. It’s morning in America again.

  12. 12.

    David Koch

    October 21, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Bill Kristol @BillKristol

    Biden confirms to Obama at lunch today he’s running, announces at U Delaware tomorrow. You can feel the Joementum!

    7:24 AM – 20 Oct 2015

    471 471 Retweets

    The kiss Kristol of death

  13. 13.

    Felonius Monk

    October 21, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Just another example of increasing entropy stupidity.

  14. 14.

    ruemara

    October 21, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Happy me birthday day. I’d like a nap.

  15. 15.

    beltane

    October 21, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    @David Koch: Bill Kristol might be a terrible pundit, but he’s also a world-class troll. Looked at in this light, the guy is something of a genius.

  16. 16.

    Gravenstone

    October 21, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    @David Koch: Bloody Bill, wrong as always.

  17. 17.

    Fair Economist

    October 21, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    @ruemara: Happy you birthday day!

  18. 18.

    David Koch

    October 21, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    ABC News/WaPo Poll — Nationwide Oct 15 – 18

    Trump………………32%
    Carson……………..22%
    ¿Jeb?……………….7%◄
    Cruz………………….6%
    Rubio………………..6%
    Fiorina……………….5%

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    October 21, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    @beltane: I’m not sure who has the creepiest smile, Kristol or Ted Cruz.

  20. 20.

    mdblanche

    October 21, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    @Felonius Monk: The second law of derpodynamics.

  21. 21.

    ruemara

    October 21, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    I sort of want to try the real hoverboard. But does seem silly.

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    @ruemara:

    Happy birthday! You should at least make your cast and crew sing to you, even if you have to wait for tomorrow.

    And don’t forget to bring a riding crop to the set — old movies tell me that’s a necessity, and I think you’re starting to understand why.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Webb is OUT.

    Biden is OUT.

    Baud! is IN!

  24. 24.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    @ruemara:

    Happy Birthday.

    Naps are awesome.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    @FlyingToaster:

    Listed in reverse order.

  26. 26.

    MattF

    October 21, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    @Brachiator: Jen Rubin takes a stab at the question “Why do so many people want to punch Ted Cruz in the face?” As a bonus, the column includes an exceptionally creepy shot of Cruz.

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    October 21, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    @ruemara:
    My spouse’s as well so a fortuitous day–have a happy!

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    @ruemara:

    For some reason, Burbank seems to be hoverboard central — I see people on them all the time. I’m pretty sure I would break something, either the hoverboard or myself.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    @David Koch:

    As soon as he tweets that I can never be president, I can relax and phone it in the rest of the way.

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    October 21, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    @Gravenstone:
    Don’t you just wonder if his “tip” wasn’t somebody fvcking with him just prior to Biden bowing out, knowing he’d claim the “scoop?” Onion Joe would totally do that.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    October 21, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    @David Koch: The next Republican debate is October 28. Are they going to cut anyone or demote them to the kiddie table?

  32. 32.

    JPL

    October 21, 2015 at 6:23 pm

    @ruemara: Happy, happy, happy day!

  33. 33.

    Hungry Joe

    October 21, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    @Brachiator: Kristol’s smile is a little creepier than it is evil; Cruz’s is slightly more evil than it is creepy.* Subtle difference, but it’s there.

    RE future: I don’t know why so many future-themed films have ordinary people wearing absurd costumes. That would have only been accurate in an old, old movie in which time travelers jump forward to the 1970s … though I guess it’d work just as well if time travelers jumped BACK to the 1970s.

    * Either that, or it’s the other way around. Tough call.

  34. 34.

    beltane

    October 21, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    @Brachiator: Kristol comes across as an insincere guy who is basically mocking just about everyone and everything. There is no cause, person, or principle he truly respects. Ted Cruz, on the other hand, takes himself very, very seriously. Both men are sociopaths, but Cruz is the more frightening of the two.

  35. 35.

    WereBear

    October 21, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    @ruemara: don’t blame you. Durn shorter days. But have a happy!

  36. 36.

    goblue72

    October 21, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    @Baud: Needs an umlaut.

  37. 37.

    srv

    October 21, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    The Demise of Jeb Bush

    Adds an unaligned lobbyist familiar with Bush’s gubernatorial runs: “Jeb learns but it takes him time. He internalized the lessons from losing to [Lawton] Chiles and was a much better candidate his second time out. He’s patient and disciplined and smart but could not ad-lib a fart. He will think of how to win this race sometime in 2017 and be ready to rumble in 2020.”

    Donald Trump has ended the Bush Dynasty and he will end the Clinton Dynasty.

    You’re welcome.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    October 21, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    @Brachiator: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), former New York Gov. George Pataki, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) qualified for the 6 p.m. undercard debate.

    Good job candidates!

  39. 39.

    bemused

    October 21, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Kristol’s smile is smarmy/gormless.

    Cruz’ smile makes me wish I had a garlic necklace.

  40. 40.

    Felonius Monk

    October 21, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    @ruemara: I was going to send you a nap, but I see efgoldman beat me to it. So I’ll just wish you a Happy Birthday.

  41. 41.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    @JPL:

    Poor Gilmore.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 21, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    @ruemara:

    Happy birthday! Take a nap.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    @goblue72:

    Baüd!?

  44. 44.

    Yatsuno

    October 21, 2015 at 6:36 pm

    @ruemara: Happy Day of Revolution!

  45. 45.

    Cacti

    October 21, 2015 at 6:37 pm

    @srv:

    Donald Trump has ended the Bush Dynasty and he will end the Clinton Dynasty.

    You’re welcome.

    George W. ended the Bush dynasty.

  46. 46.

    goblue72

    October 21, 2015 at 6:38 pm

    So when does Linc Chafee drop out? Really do not need his presence on the stage at this point. Democratic debates involving just Clinton, Sanders, and MOM would be a heck of a lot more focused. Wouldn’t even mind just seeing a debate that is just Sanders v Clinton – a focused opportunity for the centrist wing and lefty wing to go at it.

  47. 47.

    goblue72

    October 21, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    @Baud: Sweet.

  48. 48.

    ruemara

    October 21, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): If the second lead does not stop taking callbacks during clear filming times, I am going to use that damned riding crop.

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    October 21, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    @mdblanche:

    The second law of derpodynamics.

    That is so getting stolen.

  50. 50.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    @goblue72:

    Thanks. It’ll help in the Midwestern states with their German stock.

  51. 51.

    Felonius Monk

    October 21, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    @mdblanche: Is there an isenderpic system in the real world?

  52. 52.

    Ripley

    October 21, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    @srv: I’ll vote for Biff only on the condition that Crispin Glover is his running mate.

    Trump/McFly 2016: America, This Is Your Density

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    October 21, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    @MattF:

    As a bonus, the column includes an exceptionally creepy shot of Cruz.

    Is there any other kind?

  54. 54.

    Mandalay

    October 21, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    There is no cause, person, or principle he truly respects.

    Mossad.

  55. 55.

    Felonius Monk

    October 21, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    @Baud: Baud!? —- It needs a catchy campaign slogan.

    How about: Baud!? — Leading Us Backward into the Future

    or

    Baud!? — Leading Us Forward into the Past.

  56. 56.

    Mike J

    October 21, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    @Baud:

    Thanks. It’ll help in the Midwestern states with their German stock.

    Why don’t you go full Netanyahu and say Germany wasn’t responsible for the holocaust?

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    October 21, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @Cacti:
    RtR is off in some corner, breathing into a paper bag.

  58. 58.

    MattF

    October 21, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    @Roger Moore: A publicist’s nightmare. “And Ted, whatever you do… DON’T SMILE.”

  59. 59.

    David Koch

    October 21, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    @Mike J: But Pat Buchanan already did that.

  60. 60.

    JPL

    October 21, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    @Mike J: Between Carson’s statements about the Jewish population not fighting back and Netanyahu’s statement that it was the Palestinians, Baud could easily poll at 27 percent.

  61. 61.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 21, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    @ruemara: Happy birthday! Wishing you many naps at times most convenient for you.

  62. 62.

    Mike J

    October 21, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    @David Koch: You expect it of a nazi, you don’t expect it of the PM of Israel.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    @ruemara:
    @trollhattan:

    And also the birthday of my younger sister and brother (twins), who have been wandering the planet for a combined 140 years! Happy birthday to ruemara (wishing you many lovely naps) and to trollhattan‘s fortuitous spouse.

  64. 64.

    Tommy

    October 21, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: May they wonder many more years ……

  65. 65.

    Roger Moore

    October 21, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    @efgoldman:

    I just emailed you one, with a pink ribbon.

    I don’t have any naps to email, but I could fax this lovely credenza.

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    @ruemara:

    Anne Bancroft said that the reason she only directed one movie was that directing made her hate actors.

  67. 67.

    Roger Moore

    October 21, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    Baud!? —- It needs a catchy campaign slogan.

    Frankensteinbeck already nailed it:

    Baud 2016: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  68. 68.

    Gimlet

    October 21, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    http://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9582316/iraq-otto-reich

    One of Jeb Bush’s principal foreign policy campaign advisers, a man named Otto Reich who is a veteran of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, has just made a very odd and enthusiastic argument in support of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, in which he repeats one of the most widely discredited justifications for the war.

    “I can defend the invasion of Iraq,” Reich told me. “What did the invasion of Iraq do? It caused all of the people who would’ve otherwise come and attacked us and killed Americans on our soil — it caused them to go to Iraq and die there. That may sound very brutal, or whatever, but we have seen what has happened when you have an administration like the current one, that did not realize what Bush had done; sent the troops home from Iraq; created a vacuum that was filled by ISIS. And they’re killing Americans and everyone else — they’re mostly killing Muslims. I lay that at the feet of the Obama Administration.”

    Rick Santorum memorably endorsed it with a super-weird Lord of the Rings analogy: “As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

  69. 69.

    jl

    October 21, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    @David Koch: Jeb? is third now! Roaring to victory the only way he can. At least I guess that is how some pro-Jeb? troll will try to spin it. Probably they will besiege this blog now, crowing.

  70. 70.

    Elizabelle

    October 21, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    @ruemara: Happy Birthday!

    Are you going to shoot a movie the day after all your upcoming bdays?

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    October 21, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Sorry, Tweety. I doubt very seriously that anyone needs “Joe Biden’s full throated endorsement” to win a god damned thing.

  72. 72.

    Tommy

    October 21, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    @Gimlet: Wow. Just wow!

    I will keep mentioning what I often note here. My father has a Phd in military history. Taught at the Army War College. Wrote, let me say that again, wrote the text book for the military on the use of air power during war. Nobody has ever confused him with being a liberal. He thought at the time (retired) and to this very day invading Iraq was a shit all stupid thing to do.

    I don’t often agree with my father on many political issues. But as for warfare, well I listen. He is rarely wrong.

  73. 73.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 21, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    Where’s my flying car? I was promised a flying car!

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    @Tommy:

    Thank you! I feel sure they will.

  75. 75.

    Peale

    October 21, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    @Gimlet: the number of Americans ISIS has killed so far since their emergence is less than the number of students killed in college shootings in the past month. Yeah. It’s totally worth $200 billion a year to make sure we have troops there for Isis to kill.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 7:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Have I tried to force “Hamilton” on you yet? I think you might like it. Here’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2009 White House performance of what turned into the first number (with surprisingly few changes when you listen to the cast recording):

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE

  77. 77.

    Elizabelle

    October 21, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: What about our damn jetpacks?

  78. 78.

    Peale

    October 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    @Felonius Monk: Baud! adorable like a puppy but doesn’t pee so much when exited.

  79. 79.

    beltane

    October 21, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    My son is attending community college this semester. He tells me that several of his classmates are Donald Trump supporters. Baud needs to come up with some campaign materials to help keep these young people from making a very big mistake.

  80. 80.

    Pogonip

    October 21, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    @ruemara: Happy birthday!

  81. 81.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    @Peale:

    That may not be 100% accurate.

    @beltane:

    Trump is for chumps!

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Well, not on me specifically, but I follow the threads :-)

    Have not yet sampled any of it but the raves are so enthusiastic that I will, very soon, I promise. And I’ll come back and let you know what I think. Thanks.

  83. 83.

    HRA

    October 21, 2015 at 7:37 pm

    @ruemara:

    Happy Birthday day to you and to me :)

  84. 84.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    @HRA:

    Happy birthday!!!

  85. 85.

    Tommy

    October 21, 2015 at 7:40 pm

    I have to post this every year or so …..

    The Washington Post years ago hired maybe one of the best violinists in the world, Joshua Bell to play music at a DC metro stop. They wondered if anybody would stop and listen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw

    You can see for yourself if you care, what happened.

    A young child making his mother stop so they could listen. A lady at the end saying I saw you play at the Library of Congress last night, this could only happen in DC.

    But pretty much nobody else stopped or even broke stride. I used to live in DC. Been in that Metro stop a few hundred times. I don’t know what I’d have done, I don’t want to sound so elite to say otherwise, but my fucking god.

    Maybe we should slow down a little and smell the roses …….

  86. 86.

    Just One More Canuck

    October 21, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    @Mike J: Upward, Not Forward, and Always Twirling, Twirling Twirling Towards Freedom

  87. 87.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    @HRA:

    Happy birthday, HRA!

  88. 88.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    The good news for us is that, after 2 1/2 years, we have moved into the big new bedroom. They delivered the king today and we’ll give it a spin tonight. The bad news is that we decided to have the entire house painted instead of just doing the addition. It will certainly be better in the long run but it means that we have to clean off both the front and back porch and move tons of stuff again!

  89. 89.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    @Tommy:

    I remember when that happened. I’ve heard some very fine buskers (as well as some pretty, well, not-fine ones) playing in subway stations and on street corners. It’s not easy to make a living as a professional musician. But the reaction to Joshua Bell — or, I should say, the lack of reaction — says a lot about how we tend to pay a lot more attention to the sizzle than to the steak.

    There have been similar experiments done in which best-selling, critically acclaimed authors publish new works under pseudonyms just to see whether a writer with no previous reputation will get good reviews and sales.

  90. 90.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    @Tommy:

    A metro station is a bad spot for that kind of thing — people are there because they have to catch their train by a specific time or they may not be able to get home.

    Opera Philadelphia seems to get a better response by picking shopping areas where people have more time to linger:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-dX8u5fg2c

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    @raven:

    Pleasant sleep! Let us know tomorrow morning, in between Morning Joke updates, how it all went. Will Li’l Bit and the Bohdi be sharing the mattress?

  92. 92.

    Elizabelle

    October 21, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    @Peale:

    Baud! adorable like a puppy but doesn’t pee so much when ex[c]ited.

    Do we know that for a fact?

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 21, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    @efgoldman:

    :-)

  94. 94.

    Elizabelle

    October 21, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    @HRA: Happy birthday, dude or dudette.

    October 21 was good to Balloon Juice.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    @ruemara: Happy Birthday!!!

  96. 96.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Bohdi will but with Lil Bit’s surgery we can’t risk her jumping up or down. We don’t like it but it’s going to be this way for quite a while for her.

  97. 97.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    @Tommy:
    “One striking piece Woodward writes about is the “Zilch” memo. In the note, Which Nixon wrote sideways across a top-secret document, the president updates Henry Kissinger, then his national security adviser, on war developments. Nixon wrote: “K. We have had 10 years of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam. The result = Zilch. There is something wrong with the strategy or the Air Force. Meanwhile, Nixon had been publicly declaring for three years that the bombing had been effective, and even went as far as to order more bombings. “Just the night before, he had said in a nationally televised interview that it was very effective,” Woodward said. “You connect the dots with other tapes and documents, and you realize that this is all about winning re-election. Not the war, which, he acknowledged at least the bombing, achieved zilch.”

  98. 98.

    Roger Moore

    October 21, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    There have been similar experiments done in which best-selling, critically acclaimed authors publish new works under pseudonyms just to see whether a writer with no previous reputation will get good reviews and sales.

    There’s at least some anecdotal evidence that they can. Stephen King was successful as Richard Bachman, and J.K. Rowling won critical praise, if not massive sales, as Robert Galbraith.

  99. 99.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 21, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    @raven:

    You’re going to need some of those pet stairs. I’m pretty sure she’s not going to stand by while Bodhi sleeps in the bed with the rest of the pack.

  100. 100.

    Poopyman

    October 21, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @Baud:

    That may not be 100% accurate.

    Well I dunno. What’s it like when you get exited?

  101. 101.

    WaterGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @raven: Oh, raven, that’s so awesome. Very big day for you guys!

    It’s really smart of you guys to do the painting now. If you are anything like me after the big “tree hit the house” repairs, you won’t want to have to move anything again for a long, long time.

  102. 102.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): She will when she’s in her kennel which is where she’ll be until further notice. The CCL surgery was $2500 and were going to do our level best to make sure it is effective. We already have a footstool that knucklehead uses.

  103. 103.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @Poopyman:

    We’ll found out on Inauguration Day.

  104. 104.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @WaterGirl: At my age this may be it.

    eta Actually it was a big day until we realized we had to spend hours after work moving shit again. Two days and we move it all back.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Thanks for posting that. It makes me feel a little better – I am bummed that Biden is out.

    Baud is in, though, so yay for that!

  106. 106.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 8:06 pm

    @raven:

    Live large.

  107. 107.

    Tommy

    October 21, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): Or this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gww9_S4PNV0

  108. 108.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    I will try to make Onion Biden proud.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @raven: Hey, you’re still young!

    During the repairs, I moved all my stuff 4 times. As the contractor said, “you really have to love your stuff to move it 4 times”. She was right, and before the final move-in, I gave a lot of stuff away.

    I’m glad you are getting your house back, and extra house, too! Happy day.

  110. 110.

    WaterGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    @Baud: You make us all proud. :-)

    BTW, I like both Bidens – Onion Biden and Regular.

  111. 111.

    Tommy

    October 21, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    @raven: Yes. A few things. One my father hates to fly. Only done it twice I am aware of since I have been in this world (46). That was to get to Hawaii and Scotland (where we are from).

    I am trying to think how I can get you his brief on the use of air power. There is a version that is open to the public. But what he comes back to again and again is air power only does so much, at some point you have to put boots on the ground.He openly questions our government and if they are willing to do it.

  112. 112.

    srv

    October 21, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    @Tommy:

    One my father hates to fly.

    Your father hates to fly and was in the Air Force and wrote and taught about the use of air power.

    I guess it’s good I avoided the Air Force so I can actually enjoy flying my plane.

  113. 113.

    delk

    October 21, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    Speaking of BttF, go to microsoft.com and just type outatime. No input box, just type the word.

  114. 114.

    raven

    October 21, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    @Tommy: He would have enjoyed flying in the gun seat of the Cobra like I did in the spring!

  115. 115.

    PurpleGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    OT: If you have the chance to see Nature: Pets: Wild at Heart: Playful Creatures do. It talks about puppies and kittens and a bunch of other pet animals and looks at where various behaviors come from. It has some incredible footage of pets at play. So glad I decided to watch it tonight (on WNET), and I will look for the replay on WLIW.

    ETA: And incredible heat sensing footage of kittens and a momcat.

  116. 116.

    Sad_Dem

    October 21, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    @mdblanche: The First Law of Derpodynamics: Cutting taxes increases government revenue.

  117. 117.

    PurpleGirl

    October 21, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @PurpleGirl: PBS says they screen whole episodes of Nature on-line. The show tonight was part 1 and there is a part 2 next week. Really pet people, you gotta see this show.

  118. 118.

    Baud

    October 21, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    @PurpleGirl:

    Thanks. I want to see it. I hope I remember.

  119. 119.

    J R in WV

    October 21, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    @ruemara:

    Happy, Happy Birthday!!!

    I took a nap earlier, not long after I had some coffee this morning!

    But you can too, as naps are non-privy to the law of conservation of mass (or energy).

    So enjoy a good nap anytime it’s quiet and not too brightly lit.

  120. 120.

    Sasha

    October 21, 2015 at 11:45 pm

    No hover boards, no self-lacing sneakers, no flying cars.

    Thanks, Obama!

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