If you watched Justified last night you saw Raylan, Art and U.S. attorney Vasquez celebrating the arrest of Theo Tonin with a glass of Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve 20 year old bourbon.
Since I have a birthday coming up I thought I would drop a hint and tell you I would really like a bottle. I’m sure you can find one somewhere.
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Looks cool from the trailer …
Man, what a shame! I don’t go to LA that much, the nearest RVW outlet, so you’ll have to settle for a Tim Horton’s Gift Card.
Mmmmm Tim Horton’s!
Congress dodged a bullet, but California didn’t 😀
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/02/fluke-was-in-now-shes-out-but-partially-in-again/
As far as expensive booze goes, I never could tell the difference between top and bottom shelf stuff. Johnnie Walker Blue comes to mind 😀
A ready-made celebrity-politician for those too busy in line in welfare offices to study issues and candidates.
Obama needs to hire Putin’s PR person. This is how you do a photo op……..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26038480
“He tried to calm one leopard cub, which had become agitated and attacked two journalists, Russian media said.”
I bet someone was poking the leopard with a stick right before the “journalists” entered. LOL..
Let’s send our MSM there.
honk
I hear their living accommodations are to die for.
I like Putin, he is a patriot. He cares about building his country and if anyone can handle security of the Olympics it’s him.
It’s kinda like when you visit the resort areas of Mexico – the government goes to a lot of trouble to make sure the tourists stay safe.
There are other parts of Mexico where even the cops won’t go.
Let’s see what his PR team does with this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/02/04/journalists-at-sochi-are-live-tweeting-their-hilarious-and-gross-hotel-experiences/
They hate Russia now. (They loved it and tried to put the best face on everything when it was a communist state. I was alive. I remember.)
The international media is bitching about the hotels in Sochi.
My ass bleeds buttermilk for them.
Good. Maybe they’ll wake up to where Obama’s taking us.
You won’t find it in Sochi. From one of the menus.
Check out all that global warming!
It is really cold here in Seattle, 27 degrees as I drove into work and the traffic is miserable due to the Seahawk parade. I bet they are going to have trouble with people being sick from the cold. Seattle people aren’t used to these temps and many don’t have the coats for it.
About the same temperature but we’re at a foot of snow, and it’s still coming down heavy.
We had our 3rd emergency storm action in my town in the past week. I’ve lived here for 30 years, and this is the first time I remember having more than one in a season.
This morning there were an additional 6 inches of snow and people are being way more helpful at the train instead of griping at one another (as they had last week). I have no idea how many more inches have accumulated since I left for work. It’s still snowing.
For those who need a break from the whiny Sochi journos, this is a pretty cool video ….
That was very cool , thanks , just triggered my winter Olympics excitement !
http://weaselzippers.us/171479-oopsie-hard-working-american-in-new-ofa-ad-is-actually-a-british-commuter/
damn an American can’t even get a job in a obamacare commercial
Article on purse snatchers and muggings of women:
What men? The men you have spent a decade or more bashing and belittling that you don’t need them because GRRRRRRL power? The men that you sneered at for opening a door for you? The men that get told every day that they offer not JACK SHIT that a woman can’t do for herself? The men that you told to fuck off and mind their own business, and how DARE they even suggest that women might be a weaker sex and in need of male protection? Those men? Wonder where they went?
Yeah, that role that you are bitching now that they won’t fill? YOU shoved them out of it, forcibly, cupcake. We have an entire generation of young men now who feel NO compunction to protect women at all. They have had it drilled into their heads. No special treatment. Women are STROOOOOONG, dontcha know. YOU built that special modern breed of feral unchivalrous men who don’t see women as anything worth risking their male ass to protect, sweetcheeks. You.
Be careful what you wish for. Because your utopian female-centered dreams only work so long as men as a whole LET you have it both ways. The moment men start actually behaving as if women are “equal” in the sense of being IDENTICAL (which is what you claimed to want), you are fucked six ways from Sunday. Because women and children will always be easy prey unless MEN voluntarily protect them – that is a fucking biological fact. You threw out the old tradeoffs without considering for one second what you were trading away.
http://articles.philly.com/2014-02-04/news/47009371_1_three-women-northern-liberties-two-women
They knew best. The solution many have come up with is of course big daddy government protecting us all. Which effectively means a police state.
They should talk to Uncle Sugar, the State. Men got no special responsibility to women, right?
Equality cuts both ways. And yep, that means the gov. It’s a downhill journey from there towards a totalitarian state.
Look, I’m not saying that every single thing about the old social contract was good. Of course not. But we could have tweaked it. Instead, idiots decided to burn it down totally.
The older I get, the more I observe, the less inclined I am to burn down very old, time-tested constructs. Improve on them? Sure. But what comes after when you burn it down is too often much much worse in the end.
That is a righteous rant. And so, so, true. Also, when are people going to realise that the grrrrl power chicks beating up the bad guys on tv have the scriptwriter on their side?????
I’m sure idiots will try to tell me I must be opposed to equal legal rights, equal pay for equal work, etc. Nope.
I’m saying that the **social** fabric of the relationships between the sexes didn’t need to be thrown out like they’ve tried to do. Dumbasses.
“But…….. but……. but.. why didn’t SOMEBODY warn us”?
Oh, some did warn, and are still warning. Unfortunately, anyone who objects to even the most insane feminist batshitness gets lumped in with “keep ’em all barefoot pregnant and oppressed.”
It’s how the Left operates. ANY objection, any limit on their agenda at all, is painted as some weird extreme view that wants to return to the stone ages.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/01/29/nbc-gop-inviting-duck-dynasty-star-sotu-not-dignified-trying-make-part
Since when is Chuck weird little poodle trim bearded Todd the arbiter of who or what is dignified ? Who the fuck do these people think they are ?
I wish someone would drop lil Chuckie way out in the woods , so he could cry and wish someone from Duck Dynasty would find him and help him .
Your White House Correspondents Dinner, OTOH, invited that icon of dignity Kim Kardashian. Hack.
Because her gluteus maximus is so “dignified”???
Foul-mouthed misogynist thug-praising rappers in the WH is also plenty dignified for them. But not Willie Robertson – he’s icky.
😆
I made a facebook movie.
https://facebook.com/lookback/ #FacebookIs10
That’s the link to MY movie 😉 I think there’s a “share” button for it ? Put it on the TCH page !!!! I’m going to test it now……
Oops. Ok, here’s the real link:
Okay, here’s mine, just c/p’d the url while the video was playing, will it work? We’ll see …
There’s a share button too, I’ll test if it takes me to the TCH’s page….
It worked!
Because you’re a FB friend? Wonder if anyone else can see it ? I saw yours, swan’s …. if myiq was my “friend” he’d see my rawkin’ granddaughter for his grandson /snork. I mean, she copped backstage passes for Yo Gabba Gabba at Madison Square Garden 😉
LOL, how desperate do I sound for attention?
Totally OT, does Afrocity ever come around. If anyone knows..
I talk to her all the time on FB , but seldom here .
Not around here, but you can follow her on FB.
Personally, I think that IF we are going to have an absolute minimum standard of living, we need to get rid of the dozens of various help programs and have ONE “dole” that is easy to track, easy to manage, and easy to adjust. In some places there are over 60 overlapping federal “programs” being administered, with all the attendant bureaucracies and graft. Welfare, foodstamps, section 8, unemployment, get rid of all of it – make it ONE check, given via tax return, that gives them minimal support.
If you’re going to do it, then do it simply, and transparently. We don’t need 47 branches of bureaucracy and offices and departments and State employees and cushy appointments and boards etc to administer and suck off of it.
But the pols NEVER want to do help in a manner that is simple and transparent and end-result focused. Where will they hide the graft and turf-trading and nepotism and favors?
Good article on the minimum wage:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/01/30/almost-everything-you-have-been-told-about-the-minimum-wage-is-false/
I’d bring back poorhouses. Places to eat, sleep and bathe. Minimal privacy, strict rules and no cash payments.
I like the poor house idea. There is an old poor house in Troutdale Oregon that is now the Edgefield. I love to stay there and they have stories of the old residents all over the hotel. They also have about 8 bars on the property so you can go out at night and not have to drive back to the hotel. Anyway in the old days I guess they had the “meat tables” for those who did the job they were assigned and the “no meat” table if you didn’t do anything. They have a lot of local history lectures and the poor farm sounds like a pretty good idea. I know a lot of my friends who have been pushed out of their careers between 55 and 65 because of the economy would like to work. They don’t want hand outs they want a job!
http://www.mcmenamins.com/54-edgefield-home
When Carl Paladino ran for governor of New York (as a Tea Party Republican) in 2010, one of his platform items was to bring back poor houses. I love the idea because people can find one-stop shopping for everything. They could build an apartment building with hard to damage concrete walls, furnish it from Wal-Mart, but in a cafeteria, a alundry rom and computer room / wifi.
Well, remember, the Olympic committee is one of the few orgs to say to Obama: “Nah, we can do better.” And Putin is the only world leader to take delight in showing Obama’s incompetence every chance he gets. It’s a double-whammy. So I really don’t trust the progressified American media to tell me the truth about any of what’s going on in Sochi.
I am just not in the mood for this today. A facebook friend posted some meme pic about teh evil Republicans “GUTTING” foodstamps while people starve.
I replied that a 1% cut of a program that has expanded by almost 50% in 5 years is not a “gutting” of anything.
Not. In. The. Mood. for the emotional kneejerk bullshit today. Maybe I’ll go read a book.
You can direct their attention to the SNAP program. Anyone can apply. And this includes the working person and persons with assets. It also includes food stamp recipients.
Let him cry. Their crocodile tears or tears of ignorance.
Oh, in all the hoopla over the 2.5 million job losses due to Obamacare, the media has missed another pertinent part of the CBO’s report. We are going to end up with even MORE uninsured persons than we had before:
REPEAL THIS PIECE OF SHIT. ENTIRELY. NOW.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/05/congressional-budget-office-sends-death-blow-to-obamacare/
” One killer detail comes on Page 111, where the report projects: “As a result of the ACA, between 6 million and 7 million fewer people will have employment-based insurance coverage each year from 2016 through 2024 than would be the case in the absence of the ACA.”
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The 6-7 million number has about as much value as the original CBO cost estimate for ACA. Loss of employment-based covered is a feature of ACA; that is why is had corporate support. The “exchanges” are the perfect cover for faze out of work based coverage. A $2000 per employee “tax” is dirt cheap compared to providing health insurance.
“phase out”
Yes, but the 31 million continuing uninsured, period is a big deal.
AHA is not insurance since, except for a few exceptions, underwriting is forbidden. It’s a ~10 year money laundering Ponzi scam and no one has a clue or a plan to undo it or replace it.
In which author Sarah Hoyt explains what is happening with the slow preference cascade, and the refusal of evil horrible conservatives, libertarians, (or none of the above, like me) to adhere to the Left’s stereotypes of us, or reflexively apologize anymore when scolded.
The Left is losing credibility. Fast. No one may like the R’s much either (I don’t), but the elite opinion-shaper intelligentsia has lost control of a big chunk the public mind. Read the whole thing. It’s long, but good.
http://accordingtohoyt.com/2014/02/05/we-played-the-pipe-for-you-and-you-did-not-dance/
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/votes/197585-house-picks-people-over-fish-with-california-drought-bill
whoa the republicans got some guts