Open thread
Ex-PH2 wants an open thread where she can spin her yarns, and I always do what she tells me to do. So here you go.
And to open the discussion, there’s a story going around the internet about 60-year-old Beula Montgomery who supposedly ventilated two street thugs who tried to play the “knock out” game with her. I’m calling BS on the article because there’s no media coverage of the incident, there’s no city listed in the story, so I can’t verify it with the local PD, and a lot of the blogs that linked to the story initially yesterday are taking down their links today. And the story sounds too good to be true. I passed on the story yesterday, so please stop sending me links to it. If you want to read it, the whole thing originated at the Mixed Martial Arts forum.
Category: Who knows
@93–he sounds like Wittgenfeld on crack
Isn’t that redundant? Or is it a new blend of super potent crack?
Psul is busy brining his turkey…and liver
I am going to spend tomorrow on a movie marathon, plus dinner. I have the following lined up:
‘Tom Jones’ – Albert Finney, great swordfight scene and the eating orgy is the best flirting scene I’ve ever seen
‘Hamlet’ – one of the few movies where I’ve seen Gibson do some decent acting
‘Richard III’ – best damned presentation ever; Ian McKellen is absolutely vicious as Richar, even though there is some evidence that he wasn’t as nasty as this play makes him out to be
‘Henry V’ – I just love this presentation, period.
‘Troy’ – men in short skirts, sword fights, drums and sex
‘Excalibur’ – Nicol Williamson as Merlin, Wagner’s epic music
Oh, yes – I will have turkey, etc., and a glass of wine, and later popcorn and soda.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry is in Antarctica for the race to the South Pole (starts 11/30/13) in the company of wounded Brit vets.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20760561,00.html
Earlier this summer the Governor of Virgina asked the Governor of Minnesota to return a Virginia Flag that was captured during the Civil War. The Governor of Minnesota correctly refused. He stated that it would be an insult to the Veterans of Minnesota to return that flag. Well since tommorrow is Thanksgiving Day and we all have so much to be thankfull for I think that it would be reasonable to make a two part suggestion that could lead to some reconcilation of adversaries from a past war. Although I am not willing to give Virgina its lost flag back I am willing to propose that Virginia have its lost counties returned to it. Some of you widely read red blooded men might not immediately understand so let me clarify what I mean. I mean that the state of West Virginia should no longer be recognized as one of the 50 states but should instead revert back to being the western part of the state of Virginia. The artificial division of one state in to two states came about as a result of war. That war no longer officially exists so the the artificial division of the state of Virginia should no longer officially exist either. While we are at it another state was also divided in to two as a result of the slavery question that divided this country for so long. The Missouri Comprimise allowed that state to enter the Union as a slave state but to keep the balance of power between reasonable and unreasonable states in the Union at that time the state of Maine was created by seperating it from the state of Massachussets. It could therefore be argued that since Missouri is no longer a slave state the reason for the existence of Maine as a seperate state is no longer valid. I can not imagine why conservatives would oppose a proposal that would close down two state governments. This proposal is a one time offer. It must be accepted in the next 24 hours or it is no longer valid. There could be… Read more »
And we, Curt you dipstick, will propose that you stop smoking cracking and trying to write full sentences at the same time. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
You don’t live here. You’re in Germany, you mordant fishmonger. Stop pretending you know anything at all about the USA, and mind your own damn business. In fact, move back into the slums of East Berling, over the old line where The Wall used to be, and stop pretending that you have any understanding.
And while you’re at it, SYFM.
I am currently working on a movie script that will someday become a holiday viewing tradition. The premise is an angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated veteran by showing what life would have been like if he never reenlisted. The title? “It’s A Wonderful Lifer”.
See, everything doesn’t have to revolve around All Points logistics.
So long as you’re happy, Hack.Stone.
Did I at least elicit a groan from you? It works better with a rim shot from a snare drum at the end.
No, no groan. Possibly a gigglesnort. But I think people should do what makes them happiest as long as it doesn’t break the law or piss off the people of the Kindgdom of TAH.
So, for anyone I can’t e-mail because I don’t have your e-mail address, HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY to you and yours!
Thanksgiving Day was established by a Veteran. His proclamation, instituting this day of thanks would never pass muster today. Just read the first paragraph and you’ll agree. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.” Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us… Read more »
Well, as the editor of my local newspaper pointed out, we should be thankful that the Puritans (who were NOT the Pilgrims) didn’t cook up Thanksgiving, because they were notorious party-poopers.
Instead, the Pilgrims were befriended by that party animal Massasoit, the head man of the local tribe, the Wampanoag, around 1618. It was his idea that you should eat until you pass out from food overdose.
And for what it’s worth, I’m thankful that I live in a country full of capitalist pigs, because that offers me the chance to have a long and successful second career.
@106 – I propose that we reunite the former Oregon Territory.
Happy Thanksgiving, TAH!
I propose that we let NY, CA, MA, & NJ secede from the USA and let them crash & burn worse than they already have!!
Pope Francis the New thinks that money is abhorrent and should be choked like a pig. http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/pope-francis-king-money-system-has-failed-unemployed-youth-older-people
But he’s from Argentina, which might account for his miunderstanding of capitalism.
The Pope is a Socialist.
His open letter railing against Capitalism (the Church is Capitalist, by the way) says it all.
Yes, and the Catholic Church has its rather notorious history of taxing everyone to death, while those in the papacy lived quite high on the hog.
I’ve also noticed that a lot of top clergy has been way out of touch with reality in recent years. I left the Episcopal Church over their stance on gay Clergy, and I quit attending the Anglican Church when the Archbishop of Canterbury voiced that he was in favor of shari’ah law!
This little item, a quick but detailed report on the uptick in US oil production in the last 5 years, is very much worth the few minutes of your precious time that it takes to read it.
http://news.msn.com/us/impact-of-us-oil-boom-global-reordering
A – The only country interested in Iran’s oil is China and since there is drilling going on in the South China Sea, even that may wane.
B – When US oil production gets a worried look and a nod from OPEC, after 40+ years of OPEC’s dominance in the field, you know there is a major shift underway.
C – Even that pipeline in the US plains will get built, no matter what environmentalists do, and believe me, they will do their best to sabotage it.
D – A byproduct of refining oil sands is petcoke, a black, carbon-rich, powdery dust, that is used in every industrial synthetic product you can think of, including lighter and stronger materials for automotive production, airplanes, and space vessels.
Try to smile, my peeps. No matter how much bodaprez tries to completely screw things up, even he has his limits.
War Eagle fly down the field.
Always to conquer, never to yield!
The Alabama football team is a criminal organization.
And they should be served.
Maybe Phildo can do it in his capacity as a Brevard County Sheriffs Deputy.
EX-PH2: As regards the Puritans … http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/MHartmann/files/lit%20text%20pages%20134-136.pdf
War Eagle!
BSBA 1978
We’ll continue to see stubbornness and the out-of-touch with reality thing from now on, unless something drastic happens.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/26/21630421-obama-health-care-law-critics-will-meet-my-resistance?lite>1=43001
If you don’t like what he’s done he’ll take his balls and go home. It’s his sandbox and what he says goes. 😛
I see that psulie-o the uncoolie-o toi-boiar has not raise his greasy, balding skull in the past few days.
One might wonder – has he gone into hiding? Or is something else lurking in the shadows, and he fears it?
Stay tuned. You never know.
Instead of trying to clone Dallas, maybe you could turn him into some kind of shambling, reanimated, putrified, zombie? Make the bull shark the Team saw was some kind of rescue submarine in disguise? Just some thoughts.
I do feel sorry for Dallas. The guy is a real war hero in his own right and time. I’m sorry to have watched him go off his rocker and turn into something out of a horror movie. Hope he comes around, but I ain’t gonna hold my breath.
@121, Ex-PH2, Thank you, Ma’am, I needed that! The USA was once the World’s biggest oil producer and exporter, the days when no one worried about supply or prices. Like a sign I once saw said, “America runs better on American oil!”.
FREE THE HYDROCARBONS, DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!!
Jim Legans, there was a long discussion on whether or not Dullasastick should be reanimated, but the smell would be appalling, so the evil cloned twin sister (with a mustache) works as the evil genius. Try to picture Dallas in a dress.
There is serious talk now about mining the asteroid belt for water and metals http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/us-space-mining-asteroids-idUSBRE9AK0JF20131121
Think of Edison and his 1500+ experiments to get the right material for an electric light bulb filament. So how would you smelt the rocks for the metals and water? They haven’t discussed that yet, but my guess is an orbiting solar furnace. Positioned properly with the mirrors focused, I think the focused beam temperature would be more than high enough to do the job. And eventually, someone could build a tibanna gas mining facility to mine Titan’s methane for fuels and polycarbon molecules, as shown in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’.
Is this possible? Yeah, because the Leidenfrost effect can be used to make water flow uphill on command. Lack of imagination will keep you grounded, so we’d damned well better beat the Chinese to it if a lunar base is going to be built. Period.