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Come 2016, Stewart and those of his ilk we be back on the reservation and going full tilt for the dems. All they are doing now is building a few soundbites so when they are called out for being in the tank for the next dem presidential candidate, they’ll point to these little blurbs from back in 2013 and say, “See, we criticize everybody. Remember when we smacked down Obama?”

He must have felt threatened by his fellow cops.

Kenyalot.

I’m not sure if it has anything to do with humans getting smarter or dumber, or if it’s just a matter of the values placed on education and the emphasis placed on the virtue of self-improvement and striving to improve one’s own lot.

"I'm voting for the monkeys. That's based on my experience with the internet ~ people toss poo all over the place ~ definitely monkey-like behavior!"

If you want real intense poo flinging, you're better off looking toward the hippo family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings...

...These are a few of my favorite things

"Currie suffered a small powder burn on his right leg from the discharge and Northrup had a small red mark on his right leg from the ricochet..."

Good thing he wasn't using "cop killer" bullets.

Ought to save the campers quite a bit on toilet paper...

Nope. Obama will complete his second term. We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t go for a third. He’s still useful, and will continue to be propped up.

"Anybody remember the ‘spy on your neighbor’ thingy a couple years ago."

You mean ATTACK WATCH!

True enough, but it’s also a major taboo for a male officer to use an umbrella (females are excepted), so either he was ordered to hold it for somebody else, or he took the initiative to hold it for somebody else; he’s most assuredly not holding it for himself.

That is an Army officer's sleeve holding the umbrella for Monica's BFF...

"It’s pretty sad when Russia has moral leadership and we don’t. Who would have thought a former head of the KGB would have more dignity and respect than the POTUS?"

While the Russian leadership may be energizing the morality of the people in these cases, I think they're doing so more as a matter of pragmatism than virtue.

The Soviet intelligence apparatus spent decades deliberately trying to undermine traditional morality and promote decadence in the west precisely because they knew it would rot the states from within, and they know enough to nip such movements in the bud. They're not so much promoting a healthy diet as they are simply preventing the ingestion of poison.

"Well, to be fair, I did find this image of a soldier holding an umbrella for her."

The soldier is actually trying to keep the weapon dry ;-)

I've been down that road before. CS Lewis's two books, The Problem of Pain, and A Grief Observed, helped me work through them.

WOOOF!

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"Sherlock Napolitano is manly enough to play Jaws."

The real life Janet Napolitano is based on the fictional character Rosa Klebb.

"This law is hideously stupid. The microstamping can be filed down. A firing pin can be replaced. Or you can simply shoot cases into a bag."

Or buy a revolver...

"weighing 800 pounds and measuring 14 feet, 3 inches."

In Louisiana, that's bait for the big ones ;-)

"Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue."

Fossil fuel exhaust from SUVs, no doubt.

"Blood trail from a Ma Deuce shot - that one probably won’t get far."

LTG Boykin took a .50 round to the arm in Grenada, but he only did it to level the playing field for Chuck Norris :-)

LOL...I wonder if they’re afraid somebody will try to pass off a used coffin as brand new. I’m not sure there’s much use for a casket lemon law. Certainly, there may be a few unhappy buyers, but when it comes to end user complaints, the industry has a perfect, blemish free record!

"The House better get them in a safe house,quickly."

Like the one in Benghazi?

I think either Crowe or Mortensen would do OK with the part; I just think Isaacs would be better. By King’s own acknowledgement, the character and original storyline were born when he was watching Eastwood spaghetti westerns so it’s hard to argue against Clint as the archetype. However, in the subsequent books he gets increasingly descriptive in the physical details of Roland to include thick black hair (which later takes on some gray) and his, “bombardier blue eyes.” Roland was also high born and grew up in something of a courtly environ, although being turned over to Cort Andrus for rigorous training as a child, then grew to learn the ways of the road and a more knight-errant type existence, so he has a rough hewn exterior with a nobility at his core that is the result of nature and nurture...

Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller Orchestra

Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues

Night Swimming - REM

"Viggo plays a fine cowboy and can also do that odd royalty of Roland's Barrony."

I still think Jason Isaacs is a better actor...and IMHO, is closer to the physical Roland that King paints. He can be both baronial and ruthless...

... and does the stubble thing pretty well.

Jason Isaacs would be about perfect for Roland.

The GOP response was swift and unambiguous...

Yogi Berra Quotes:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml

"He is not man enough, has never been man enough."

Bammy could take some manliness lessons from Janet Reno.

Yes.

Reminds me of back in the 1990’s when an enthusiatic Military Police lieutenant (and former peer of mine) was working as the Military Police Duty Officer at Ft. Hood and called out the installation Special Response Team (SRT) on a gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

"My younger bro lived in SD for a lot longer than I did, and always liked to quip about how Muncie liked to streak up the sideline because the white chalk line lured him irresistibly."

Reminds me of the joke about the DeLorean being the only car that snorted the dashed white lines as it cruised down the highway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KMMxAQp8I

"Analysis - Mark Mardell - North America editor"

Analysis - Joe 6-pack:

A few lower level lackeys are going lose their jobs, maybe even do some time. It's going to be held up as proof that the IG system in the Executive Departments works. Future scandals will then be more easily dismissed with a remark, "Our Inspector General looked into it and found no wrong doing."

Prayers on the way Conor!

Bienvenue en Louisiane!

Doctored?

Blame it on Obamacare.

"Problem with that is that he's way older than Sandusky's tastes..."

I don't think Sandusky has much of a choice these days.

When I was stationed in Korea I fell in love with good, homemade kimchi...which is a little hard to find stateside. Albertson's has a decent brand made in California, which is at least generally crisp and not soggy, but even the spicy stuff is a little bland. Every time I open a jar and eat some, I'll add some additional minced garlic and sea salt before popping the jar back in the refrigerator.

When I finish one jar, I'll strain the remaining brine and garlic into the next jar.

"The average American consumes more than 3,400 mg of sodium a day, equivalent to 1 ½ teaspoons."

At least there's one area I can consider myself, 'above average" :-)

She’s a better Christian than me.

"But Rand didn't write in a "military context". Do you think that a military context is an accurate description of everyday morality?"

Nope. Just human history.

"Aren't you searching for holes in her philosophy?"

I don't really think of confronting the blatantly obvious as a "search."

"Just think you're over-analyzing her."

And I think she over-extends her arguments re: altruisim, self-sacrifice and the common good to the extreme. I understand what she's trying to say, and all these things should, in every day matters of charity, revolve around the individual's free decisions. Where she falls down is her absolutist approach towards the concept of a "duty to others." First, as a Christian, I have a duty to my fellow man. Not to give them all my money, or my labor, certainly, but a duty nonetheless. One needn't be a Christian, strictly speaking to recognize this. If one really wants to understand the things strongly independent men can accomplish when they recognize and commit to an ideal greater than themselves and their own personal interests, one need only read the lines:

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

What made that pledge effective is that the men who took it held to it even when it was no longer in their personal interests to do so.

I hope he bunks with Sandusky.

"Maybe the rate increases will finally get the low-information crowd to yank their heads back out of their a$$es and realize what a big mistake they made in Nov 2008 and 2012."

Are you kidding? Do you really think the people who didn't know this was going to happen are really going to understand why it's happening? The MSM will blame the evil insurers and the Republicans, and the sheep will buy it hook, line and sinker regardless of how clearly it's explained to them.

This is all by design and just one step towards a single payer system.

My heart just breaks to think about those precious little children in the clutches of these monsters.

Howdy Roommate!

I hope he gets to bunk with Sandusky.