Sorry- I thought the actual Cracker would take care of this or I would have put it up earlier. I’ve been doing things around the house and went and got a haircut and checked in on my car. Somehow, a brake job and alignment turned into replacing a cam humaduh humaduh because it was rusted and they broke the whosiwhatsit and need to replace the arm something something and it won’t be ready until Tuesday. I wish I lived somewhere where I didn’t need one of these god damned car things but then I would have to deal with people because public transportation doesn’t make much sense when there is no public.
Oh, Sunless Sea is a delightful little video game.
JPL
Miss Cracker is camping.
Heliopause
I made a comment the other day that playing defense is forbidden by rule in the Big XII. As I write, the conference has completed five games and the best defensive effort so far is 37 given up by Oklahoma. Oregon now has 28 on the board early in the 2nd against TCU. Maybe WV has a decent chance against that 6-6 Arizona State juggernaut.
Randy P
So we went to Star Wars today. My wife was very struck by how different a Star Wars script written by an actual writer was. There were actual (human and non-human) beings instead of cartoon cutouts, and that includes the characters who were returning from the earlier movies.
I’ve heard that there’s been some online misogyny against Carrie Fisher who is OMG older than she used to be, and nobody wants to hear from a woman over 40 amirite? She was gorgeous IMHO and knowing that she is a professional humor writer, making a living “punching up” scripts, I’m dying to read what her comebacks have been. Any links will be appreciated.
This was also our first experience with the AMC restaurant-and-movie setup. The theater only has about 70-80 seats in the form of comfy chairs with little tables, like airline food tables. The ticket prices are still about $10, so I was wondering about their business model. Are they making up the difference in profit on the food?
In a word, yeah. It’s decent food, not outstanding but pretty good. A step above nachos-at-the-popcorn counter, stuff like pretty good sushi and not bad burgers. Fairly alarming calorie counts as you might expect from the grease-and-salt food group. And a wide selection of overpriced drinks. I was a little grumbly about the prices, but my wife was very happy at the food and drink offerings and we’ll probably be contributing more to AMC’s bottom line this year.
a different chris
The suspicious ‘rusted cam’ is probably an eccentric adjuster, somewhere in the alignment-related part of the suspension, since you were getting an alignment done. Shit like that tends to rust (like everything under there) but then seize up (unlike the suspension parts that move every time the car is driven) since those adjusters are parts that never move except every 15 years when some poor soul is sent under there to fix what you fucked up driving into curbs and potholes.
Corner Stone
@Heliopause: All the $$$’s on the offensive side of the ball.
Schlemazel
@Heliopause:
The XII exists so that B1G doesn’t look so pathetic.
RobertDSC-Quad Intel Mac
I got a PS4 for my birthday. Playing Metal Gear Solid V on it after nearly platinum-ing it on the PS3 is a treat. Though I have to build my base from scratch, the graphical improvements and gameplay are top notch. So far, this game is the one that has spent the most time in the PS4. I have several others, but I like MGS V the best.
Randy P
Did I commit a faux pas interpreting “Football Open Thread” as both “Football” and “Open”? Is this supposed to be Football-only? Will I be shunned?
Elizabelle
@Randy P:
Haven’t seen Star Wars, but WRT the charms of older women: one of the top stories on NY Times today:
Over 50, Female and Jobless Even as Others Return to Work
The comments are honest and appalling.
Omnes Omnibus
@Randy P:
Yes, but only for your appalling fashion sense.
Elizabelle
@Randy P: I stand with you on an Open Open thread.
2 posts back to back on guns? Interesting topic, but have been jonesing for an open thread.
Scott S.
I had a devil of a time with Sunless Sea. I think I would’ve had an easier time, but I never got the hang of using a game controller, and I think that’s a game that just won’t work well with the keyboard and mouse. :/
JCJ
@Schlemazel:
An excellent diagnosis
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: I did mine as a thematic follow up. I thought we might compete for some NRA funding or something. Maybe then Cole can get new speakers.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: And of doing consulting work from home! I’ll probably go Tuesday early afternoon.
Germy
Bernie Sanders was heckled by a trump supporter?
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: Not getting after you, Adam. Gun violence is an important topic.
And especially not after you gave us Boris Karloff’s guacamole recipe (sherry and canned green chiles; who knew?)
But it was a lot of guns and morons to consider when an open thread would have been lighter.
I am so down on current events. Want to step away from it for a while. The Twilight Zone is about my speed. And I have not watched any NBC news product for about ten days now. And counting.
Elizabelle
Next up on Twilight Zone: the living doll episode. Never saw it.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: I caught the El Rey Network showing of the early 00s Twilight Zone on New Years Eve. Turned in just in time for the modern version of the Monsters on Maple Street. Or whatever that street was called.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
should I have said “as pathetic”?
Germy
@Elizabelle: I have to admit one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes is from the later series. The one where Robert Klein suddenly finds everyone speaking and writing gibberish. He has to relearn the “new” language to function in society. A metaphor for a stroke victim’s aphasia? I don’t know, but it was haunting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yet another good Heartlander, totally non-racist and psychologically well-adjusted, expressing his sense of economic insecurity.
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: Noticed El Rey was doing that; will have to catch them later.
RE the present TZ episode: I think some writer got real sick of his daughter’s Chatty Cathy doll. Talking Tina, hmmm?
Germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And he laughs as he is gently escorted out. A BLM protestor at a tRump rally gets beaten and kicked.
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
You’ll hate Tully Savalis by the time it reaches its end.
OTOH, anybody else think Mickey Rooney was under appreciated as an actor? I thought he was masterful in his TZ episode.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: Some of those original episodes were great. Some were written after Serling had clearly had one too many cocktails.
Germy
@Schlemazel: I agree; he did some amazing dramatic work.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Germy: Dave Weigel is live-tweeting a rally in Biloxi
ETA:daveweigel @ daveweigel 2m2 minutes ago
Trump: “I have great genes and all that stuff, which I’m a believer in.”
No matter who cynical you get, you can’t keep up.
Elizabelle
@Germy: Aphasia? Maybe so. Didn’t see it, but great catch.
I always loved “The Passage of the Lady Anne” (re the elegant old cruise ship); loaded with great dialogue about being left behind the times, and about what is lost by hurling forward into modernity. A lot of these TZ episodes really resonate.
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: What episode for Mickey Rooney? Totally missed that one.
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
I mentioned earlier that Serling wrote a lot of these things and brought some interesting issues with him. His war experiences particularly. But there is one where a guy summons Shakespeare to write a TV show and has a major issue with the sponsor demanding changes. That was a complaint Serling has often & was a big part in why he quit. The sponsor in the episode was a complete doofus & I think that was not accidental.
PurpleGirl
@Elizabelle: Thanks for the link. Being in that position myself I didn’t want to read the comments yet. After not getting any responses to the jobs I had applied for, I finally stopped looking, I did get a small inheritance that I’ve been living on but now will be applying for early SS.
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
He plays a jockey who is granted a wish, he mistakenly wishes to be a “big man” You can write the ending from that but it is not the destination, it is the journey that makes it a treat. Its a one-man show, only Rooney & he chews it up & spits it out without being hammy.
I looked it up, Last Night of the Jockey. Don’t know if you can find it on line
schrodinger's cat
@Elizabelle: I feel the same way, like taking a sanyas from political blogs.
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: Oh, I skipped that one. It was just in the last hour or two. These are apparently all online now …
debbie
@Elizabelle:
If it’s Tina, I still can’t watch it.
PurpleGirl
What I’ve found intriguing watching the TZ episodes over the last two days are the number of actors in shows who are smoking. And even Rod Serling opened the show with a cigarette in hand. (Ironic that he died of lung cancer, IIRC.)
Elizabelle
@PurpleGirl: Hugs. It’s rotten.
PurpleGirl
@Elizabelle: Thank you.
Elizabelle
@PurpleGirl: Yeah. In “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” I was thinking “why isn’t that airplane cabin filled with cigarette smoke? Cause back in the day ….
Schlemazel
@PurpleGirl:
The show was sponsored by a tobacco company so it was probably required. OTOH it was the early 60s & the cigarette companies where still hiding the truth.
It was a heart attack but smoking didn’t help & probably contributed.
Satby
@Elizabelle: I can vouch for the truth in that article.
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Did he tell the audience that he would wean out the weak genes?
Elizabelle
ooooooh. The sound effects ….
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
I can’t watch ‘20,000 Feet” without hearing James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) talking about working with Shattner on radio in Canada years before:
“Poor boy, couldn’t act then either”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Schlemazel: Lucy and Desi used to do ads for IIRC Chesterfields. I believe there’s even a Flintstones cigarette ad floating around out there.
Jed and Granny pitching Winstons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEx44ETP8Ac&list=PLVuD29rYolHwQFs_va_ggG4P-I8vm9wZ4&index=2
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: I thought Shattner did really well in 20,000 feet.
debbie
@Satby:
I can too. I stay in a job I hate with a white-hot fury because I know there is nothing else.
Elizabelle
Now up: The Old Man in the Cave. With James Coburn.
Have become quite the Coburn fan.
ETA: Talking about mutated tomatoes. Prefiguring GMO by decades.
They’re talking about atomic bomb aftereffects. Fear of the bomb has showed up in numerous episodes by now.
Satby
@PurpleGirl: So will I, in 18 months. And it will improve my standard of living and income even at the reduced early rate. I always worked, technically I’ve worked since I was laid off, but they were all classified as part time jobs with no benefits and fluctuating hours, sometimes as little as 8 in a week. You just can’t survive on that.
Davebo
@Randy P:
In my experience for the vast majority of showings 60 or 70 seats per theatre are more than enough.
Satby
@debbie: that stinks, sorry.
Elizabelle
@Satby: I think I want to see a Hillary/Bernie ticket, and have Bernie talk constantly about the importance of JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. That pay adequately.
Hillary can multitask, but Bernie is more honest about what the real problem has been.
Fox and the hedgehog territory.
Satby
@Elizabelle: I would love them both on the same ticket.
debbie
@Satby:
If you could shoehorn Elizabeth Warren in there somewhere (even though she isn’t interested), it’d be a trifecta!
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: If Bernie doesn’t get the nom, he would be more effective in the Senate than on the ticket.
@debbie: Warren is currently in a place where she can do a lot of good.
JPL
@debbie: I’m going out on a limb, but I wouldn’t mind Hillary choosing someone younger like Seth Moulton.
debbie
@efgoldman:
There was a feature on one of the “Mad Men” DVDs about the history of cigarette advertising. More venal than the oil companies. Even back then, the manufacturers knew how deadly cigarettes were. I learned from that feature that the brand my mother had smoked (Kent) used asbestos for the filter, which explains why she had both kinds of lung cancer.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Randy P: I saw snippets of a rebroadcast of her show Wishful Drinking a day or so ago. It was fascinating and hilarious.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who never thought someone could make ECT sound therapeutic and funny.)
Elizabelle
“Friends, Romans, Farm Animals.”
I love the dialogue in the TZ. This one takes place in the future.
1974. After we’ve all been irradiated …
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
You forgot the Flintstones
Elizabelle
@schrodinger’s cat: You and me both.
One of these days, I have to devote time to your wonderful post on the East India company.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Randy P: Carrie Fisher shuts down the ageist haters as only Carrie Fisher can
Litlebritdifrnt
Our New Years Eve sucked due to the fact that Molly Darcy’s changed their menu and the winter menu sucked. We got fed up after a while and we went to Crocodile Rocks. The pianists as you know continuously come up with schemes to make themselves money (in addition to the money they get for requests) Anyhow they have this thing now where you can pay $20 to have something written on the mirror behind them and they will call it out between each song. The rules are it has to be THREE WORDS OR LESS and each slogan has to pay more than the last. So the first one was “Happy Birthday Becky” for $20.00. the next one was Happy Anniversary Bob&Sue for $21.00 (kind of fudging the rules. After several others someone paid $40.00 to have “2016 the last f*kin year of Obama” put up there. Obviously blowing the THREE WORDS OR LESS thing but the pianists put it up there anyway. The crowd went wild every time the guys yelled it. (I am in Myrtle Beach SC remember). This is where is gets funny. The next wingnut pays $80.00 to have the same thing put up there. Then the next wingnut pays $100.00 to have the same thing put up there but with the “f*kin” actually spelled out. It was hilarious, the wingnuts were actually bidding against each other to get the same phrase left on the mirror. One of the pianists pointed out that in reality 2017 is going to be the last year of Obama but “don’t let that whole Constitution thing phase you guys” which went right over the SC wingnuts heads. The entire atmosphere was surreal and I decided to get the hell out of Dodge and thin out back to the motel room. have a photo if only I knew how to post it.
Baud
@Litlebritdifrnt: Obama is so divisive.
Schlemazel
@Litlebritdifrnt:
The Dumpster said he is looking forward to spending next New Years Eve at the White House. But Obama doesn’t know the Constitution.
Mike J
@Elizabelle:
I don’t think honesty is the issue. Bernie has one idea that appeals to white liberals and nothing else. Hillary actually tries to talk to everyone in America.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a white liberal and agree with Bernie on a lot of things. But it’s not because he’s more “honest”.
Randy P
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Ah, thank you. Nice summary of the idiocy.
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: @Satby: @Omnes Omnibus: @JPL: Its going to be one of the Castro twins.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Schlemazel:
I told my husband about that one and he said WTF doesn’t the guy understand the law? How the fu*k can he be President?
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Would not surprise me a bit.
Baud
@Elizabelle: I’m not giving up on political talk (for obvious reasons), but I’m also in a phase of trying to become more well rounded.
Satby
@Adam L Silverman: And that would be great. I was being somewhat facetious about Bernie on the ticket with Hillary. Geritol generation, represent!
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
See, that’s the beauty of New York City. People ignore each other, partly because many of us are misanthropes, but mostly because everyone recognizes that it’s just impossible to live here unless everyone respects each other’s boundaries and privacy, to the greatest extent possible without infringing on the rights of others or infringing on the ability to conduct business.
Hell, even celebrities get ignored here – unless they’re standing outside a theater inviting people to request autographs.
Satby
OT, but I guess I need a new Roku. I don’t remember having to reboot the thing every day before.
Schlemazel
@Litlebritdifrnt:
It breaks my brain trying to imagine a President Trump. Seriously, there is no way I can envision what the nation would look like. A man so full of himself he can’t take advice, so sure of himself he can’t imagine he is every wrong, a man with no clue how to govern. The entire clown car has issues but not one of them has all the issues wrapped into one ugly litle package.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: It could be both twins, and they can switch up without telling anyone. The hijinks would be legendary.
Baud
@Schlemazel: I’m looking forward to his reaction when someone tells him the U.S. cannot declare bankruptcy.
dogwood
@Satby:
I was having that problem for a while, and then it seemed to end when I got a new router.
JGabriel
@Elizabelle:
Also, any wingnut crazy enough to try to assassinate Clinton would have to consider the possibility of an even more liberal Sanders administration.
Personally, I’m supporting Sanders – but I don’t mind Clinton, and think a combined ticket with either of them on top could work well.
On the other hand, that probably won’t happen. Either candidate would represent a first – first female president or first Jewish president – and I suspect neither will be willing to take the risk of pushing two firsts on a single ticket.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Makes me wish you had a twin.
JGabriel
@Schlemazel:
Which is why Trump will win the GOP nomination: His issues are YUUUGE!
Heliopause
Strange that Oregon’s 2nd string QB can’t pass. Even stranger that their 2nd string center can’t snap. That’s, uh, kind of the absolute minimum requirement for the job, isn’t it?
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Imagine how classy it will be when the giant sign gets erected christening the Grand Canyon
TRUMP CANYON
Witha YOOOOG real classy casino on the floor.
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Imagine how classy it will be when the giant sign gets erected christening the Grand Canyon
TRUMP CANYON
Witha YOOOOG real classy casino on the floor.
Baud
@Schlemazel: I think he uses Reagan’s Star Wars laser to write a YOOGE gold “T” on the surface of the moon.
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
Intellectually or physically?
Schlemazel
@Baud:
How about “Chairface?” Is that too obscure?
Baud
@Felonius Monk: Ha. Intellectualy. I’m hoping to move in the other direction psychically, but I keep hurting myself and eating stuff.
JPL
@efgoldman: It is fun. Nice to see them get the two points. I started off not caring who won, and now I’m all go TCU. I lived in Dallas during the Jim Wacker era.. He was one entertaining but crazy dude.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: @Satby: @Baud: I can’t prove it, but it just makes sense. My guess is it would be the one now in the Cabinet so there isn’t a worry about losing a Democratic seat in the House.
As for them switching off: I know they’ve done it a couple of times in press conferences just to mess with the news media. I’d pay money to see this happen at the national level.
dogwood
@Schlemazel</a
The republican establishment likes to pretend that Trump and his bombast offends their civil sensibilities. Truth is what scares them about Trump, is that there's no evidence that he's a fiscal conservative. He might be willing to talk about cutting taxes right now, but if he were to win and find out tax cuts means fewer Trump Highway, bridges airports etc., he'll say screw that.
Gravenstone
@Baud: The Tick got there first.
Baud
@efgoldman:
Well, I’m not quite that rotund, but I’m may use Taft’s tub for the official White House hot tub parties.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
Dang, you beat me to it. I was trying to respond to Baud with some clever remark about Wm. Howard Taft, but you shot the wind out of my sail. :)
Gravenstone
@Schlemazel: And, I’m slow because I went looking for the clip before posting.
Schlemazel
@dogwood:
I doubt that even the nut jobs in Congress would go along with that. But imagine him trying to deal with Israel/Palestine or with Putin over Ukraine, or Iran. This is a guy who can’t conceive of the notion he does not know that he has no simple easy solution. Here is a guy who shoots his mouth off & expects everyone to kiss his ass in admiration. I just can’t imagine how bad it would be.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
You’re going to show bipartisan leadership by reaching out to Tom Delay? I think you just won Fournier’s endorsement. Though you may have to invite him to that party.
Felonius Monk
@Baud: The nice thing about hot tub parties in the White House is that it will make republican heads explode. More exploding heads, less republicans.
Baud
@Schlemazel:
@Gravenstone:
I think I had that memory in the back of my subconscious.
ETA: I wish American Maid had her own movie.
Schlemazel
@Gravenstone:
I posted & then looked for an image but can’t find a good one. In later episodes the moon is their with the badly burnt “plan ahead’ style CHAIRFACE on it. I love that sort of continuity across episodes. In the Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies there is one where he fires some bullets into the wall above his mantle, in later movies those bullet holes are always right there. I love that!
J R in WV
@Adam L Silverman:
How can it be a Castro, aren’t they Cuban? ;-)
Schlemazel
@Baud:
How about Sewer Urchin? Now that would be a movie!
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman:
I don’t have a problem with them, but the purity ponies will throw a shit fit.
Baud
@Schlemazel: IIRC, there was a live action Tick movie, although I didn’t see it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike J: are they blue-doggy?
JPL
Well that was good..
dogwood
@Schlemazel:
If a republican wins in 2106 the freedom caucus will lose its power. They’ll all fall in line. Fox News and the president will convince the base that they can’t get all their new ponies because Obama destroyed America. Instead they’ll get a brand new war with lots of boots on the ground.
Corner Stone
TCU QB says whut?
JPL
@efgoldman: Are the purity ponies the same ones who think that single payer will solve all our health care woes?
also, too.. will someone win this game.. It’s past my bedtime.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They are. And they are Hispanic in South Central TX. So ipso facto ergo qui facto tatum.
Corner Stone
Mack Brown, really?
Schlemazel
might need a new thread
150 nut jobs took over a federal building in Or
Mr Stagger Lee
@Schlemazel: When you ever watch the Original Planet Of The Apes with Charlton Heston you are basically watching the big screen version of the Twilight Zone. Serling wrote that one also.
JPL
@efgoldman: There’s something classy about WVU playing in the Motel 6 bowl… I’m still not staying up though.
Corner Stone
Charles Nelson Reilly for the Ducks!!
Schlemazel
@Baud:
Nope, me either. I love Warburn as the Tick but the live TV show did not live up to the cartoonn
Corner Stone
“Dirty Grandpa” ? Really??
Schlemazel
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Not his best work, pretty sophomoric story I thought. Now 12 Angry Men and Requiem For A Heavyweight were much better
JPL
@Schlemazel: Adam had a post about the Bundy crew down below.
MomSense
@PurpleGirl:
I’m really sorry. My mom recently gave me the talk about making my job move now. She speaks from experience.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Their statement, according to the link, says they’re planning to stay in the building “for years.” I wonder what they plan to eat. This seems like a pretty self-limiting course of action, but then what the fuck do I know.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
what is it with these people and “rammed down throats”?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Sublimation.
@efgoldman: He updated.
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Ammon Bundy said in Facebook video they have taken over refuge to use as militia base for years. Called patriots from U.S. to come.
In an ominous sign, one member of the group, Jon Ritzheimer, posted a goodbye video to his family on YouTube today. “I want to die a free man,” Ritzheimer says.
This can’t end well. Either they play soldier for a few weeks & then go home or the government has to squash them. Heros or martyrs. The Army can’t do it legally (is the NG under the same rules?) and the nuts probably have some decent firepower. This can’t end well.
Gravenstone
@Baud: There was a brief lived live action Tick tv show. With Patrick Warburton in the title role.
JPL
@efgoldman: Amazing!
Schlemazel
@efgoldman:
Look how that worked out after the Waco standoff. This is a no win situation. I agree they should be put down but that will end up with another OKC, maybe more than one.
Gravenstone
@Schlemazel:
This is the same whackjob who threatened to drive to NY and lay waste to some town with a high proportion of Muslim residents. Only he never got the crowd funding he claimed he would need, so as usual sound and fury, amounting to nothing.
In this case, yes unfortunately it’s probably not going to end well. But the first thing the authorities should do is cut off all utilities and prevent any resupply. Let’s see how long these morons last without clean water.
muddy
@Corner Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IIkZS_06Nw
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: omnibus, parabolus, hyperbolus, I’ll take the bus.
Adam L Silverman
@Schlemazel: done!
FlyingToaster
@muddy: I was wondering when that one would show up. I have the disc, and know the lyrics all too damn well.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: No, this doesn’t require the military. Law enforcement is more than capable of dealing with this. And we have the Posse Comitatus Act. And the last thing we want is to use the US military for law enforcement.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Leave me out of it.
@Adam L Silverman: Exactly right.
Adam L Silverman
@Schlemazel: Title 10 versus Title 32. They’re on Federal land. This’ll be a Federal Law Enforcement in the lead response. They’ll have a tactical HRT on the way from the closest FBI field office, if its not there already. They’ll be backed up by DHS agents, BLM and Fish and Wildlife Services from Interior, and, if necessary, ATF and Marshalls. They will also be backed up by the local sheriff and Oregon state police.
Schlemazel
@Adam L Silverman:
I believe it is actually unconstitutional to use the Army inside the US against its citizens. Thats was a hold over from the days Kings used their Army to crush civilian populations who misbehaved.
Adam L Silverman
@Gravenstone: What’s so funny about that is that Hancock, NY has a very, very large Hasidic Jewish community. So if the local Muslim community was in anyways suspicious we would have heard about it.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Me gustibus. You gustibus. We missed the bus. They missed the bus.
muddy
@FlyingToaster: Rightwing Pigeons is one of my favorite songs. So prescient.
Listening to a lot of music along this line lately, I put it in my earbud to keep up the pace at the busy season job.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: If I wanted to include you I would have written Omnes Omnibus, parabolus, etc, etc, etc.
Adam L Silverman
@Schlemazel: Posse Comitatus Act. Unless martial law is declared, because actual US soil has been invaded, the military, nor the Guard, can act under their Title 10 authorities. The Oregon governor could call out the Oregon Guard under Title 32.
http://www.ngaus.org/sites/default/files/Guard%20Statues.pdf
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I’m watching you.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman:
For the win.
Bill
John, it’ll be the camber adjustment bolt on the rear suspension. It’s a very common issue on subarus, mostly because they rarely need adjustment until they’re about a decade old and the bushings have gotten soft. As the second owner of a 200k+ mileage 05 outback, I’ll likely be doing them myself in the spring. BTW, my car came from CT and is nearly rust free underneath. I can only assume that the first owner was fairly liberal with the ol’ undercarriage wash, for which I am grateful. Gen 3 Outbacks (and the Gen 4 Legacies of which they are variants) are fabulous cars, and will go nearly forever if the rust doesn’t get ’em, and they are far less prone to rust than the previous generation of cars.