Archive of entries posted on 7th August 2019

Wednesday Night Open Thread

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I’m not sure the first time I heard about the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It could have been the Star Trek episode “Spectre of the Gun,” but I think I already knew about it before then.

It’s one of those moments that you hear about, but Hollywood has played it so many different ways, you aren’t really sure what’s true and what isn’t. But, while that event has a lot that’s uncertain, we still know a lot about the people who participated: the Earp gang and the Clanton gang.


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So, what’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

Link of the Day: Three Ways the World Ends… Well, Resets…

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[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]

The Coming Debtpocalypse

This is a longish recreational read. Not really meant for skimming. Good with a snack nearby. I read it over breakfast.

BONUS LINK:

[High Praise! to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air]

To go Green, McDonald’s switches from recyclable plastic straws to non-recyclable paper ones

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Trump Tweets Mean Things About Democrats: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

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“We don’t need the Socialist Squad, because, like Romney once said, we have binders full of women. And they’re all smarter than you. Including the binders.”

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) – After President Trump published a series of tweets pointing out the shortcomings of a number of elected Democrats, critics of the Commander-in-Chief insisted that the criticisms were completely unrelated to policy choices, but rather stemmed entirely from immutable personal characteristics, such as race and gender.

Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib – a recent victim of Trumpian diatribes – said she “knows 100%” that President Trump wouldn’t tweet-bash her if she were white.

“Just because I believe in socialism,” said Tlaib “which – within 20 years – turned a prosperous, oil-rich South American nation into a starving mob of zoo-monkey-eaters trapped in a toilet-paperless nightmare, doesn’t mean that that capitalist pig Trump has any non-racist reasons to single me out. After all, he’s a socialist, too. He just wants the kind where government doesn’t confiscate people’s property and choke individual initiative with webs of bureaucratic hoop-jumping which eventually devolve into a brutal conflagration of blood, whips, and guns. So in essence, Trump and I see eye-to-eye economically. He just hates that my eye is brown. Because he’s a racist”.

Dr. Walrus K.K. Kechoo, professor of psychology at Miskatonic University, unindicted Trump sympathizer, and right wing conspiracist, disagreed with Tlaib’s assessment.

“While it is true,” said Kechoo “that President Trump sometimes criticizes Democrats – especially the dumb ones – it’s strictly on the basis of their anti-free-market ideology, and it’s really just a quirk of statistics. Allow me to explain with simple logic: minorities tend to be Democrats; Democrats tend to vehemently disagree with Trump; Trump vehemently yells at those who disagree with him. Thus, Ipso Facto, Quid Pro Quo, Illegitimi Non Carborundum: Trump yells at minorities more than non-minorities.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disagreed, saying she was “convinced” that the criticisms flowed from Trump’s innate racism.

“Why would anyone ever criticize me?” asked Ocasio-Cortez. “Certainly not for ideological reasons. Heck, I can’t even spell ‘ideological’ without an app. I mean, like, just because I believe in socialism, the ideology which has only filled 100 million graves in the last hundred years – which probably isn’t even half of what climate change will do in the next decade if UN climate experts are right. Which they are. Because the science is settled. Like an undercooked hamburger into a queasy stomach. The point is, there’s nothing wrong with me. I mean, like, I’m not always right, and maybe I’m a little too into shoes, and sometimes I tar and feather Barbie dolls because I can’t stand that smug look on her perfect little face, but that’s just, like, normal, right? Trump’s gotta hate me for my skin color. Which matches my shoes. Aren’t they the cutest?”

Asked if he did, indeed, hate women and minorities, President Trump clarified his position by saying.

“Yes. Every single one of them who advocates for socialism. But only because they say dumb things. I hate people who say dumb things. Sometimes *I* say dumb things, too, and I hate myself for that. But I really do hate all socialists. Like Crazy Barry Sanders and Sleepy Joe Biden. I hate fake-Mexican O’Rourke, too. But only because he’s Irish.”

[IMAO Ace Reporters Frank J. and walruskkkch contributed to this story]

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Random Thoughts: Endgame and Creating an Audible Book

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Question for dogs who tilt their head when something confuses them: Has that ever helped?

The SMOD is going to wait until we solve climate change.

If you want something to be crazy expensive, have the government help people pay for it.

If you guys keep watching these debates, they’ll keep having them.

I finished Endgame. It was good!
I’m not really sure no the extend of Captain Marvel’s powers, though. Seems like everything would have been really easy if she just stuck around.

Kamala Harris is like Oprah, but instead of everyone getting a free car, they get prison.

Yes, Trump is unbelievably awful, but we spent billions of dollars back in 2016 to find a president and he was the best we could come up with.

Seriously, though, Chick-fil-A does great food and customer service, and the people trying to make them into a political entity are making up a battle just to lose it.

UHF is available free if you have Amazon Prime. Time to find out if that’s a movie I only liked because I was a dumb kid.

I’m so libertarian, I bristle every time I use the word “free.”

BTW, remember when Weird Al Yankovich’s American Pie parody about The Phantom Menace came out and he suddenly didn’t have glasses or a mustache anymore? Man, it took me years to accept that.

Got Endgame with Bonus Features on Amazon video, but it’s just one over 7 hour long movie file. No sections or anything you can quickly move between. No way to navigate on a Roku except fast forward. Gives me vague memories of using a VCR.

Though I had an NES and played both Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 3 when they both came out, I notice I get the most nostalgia feeling for the Super Mario World mode in Mario Marker 2. I was 12 when that came out.
BTW, if you want to check out my Mario Maker levels, my Maker ID is WX4-YQD-22G. In a recent one, I try to bring back the fear of Mario’s first enemy. It’s very conceptual.

Using ACX to get an Audible version of Hellbender. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I just put it up yesterday morning and already have 20 auditions to go through. Hopefully I can find someone good as I think it could be even funnier with the right performance.

We have significant amounts of people on the right and left espousing horrible ideas I thought we left back in the 20th century, and I don’t think either party has someone who will forcefully speak out against both.

I hear the term “common sense gun legislation,” but I haven’t seen any that reflects common sense. There are 400 million guns in this country. If your bill operates under the assumption you can successfully keep people from obtaining guns, then common sense was not a co-signer.

All you people who are yelling at Trump even though he said exactly what you want him to say are convincing me you don’t care about white nationalism or mass shootings — you only care about stupid partisanship.

Finding a narrator for Hellbender isn’t easy. More than half the people who’ve auditioned through ACX seem like they’d do a good job. And now I’ve heard the same part of my book read 100 times and hate my own writing.
I’m just kidding. It’s still hilarious.

If the concern really is 30-50 feral hogs coming after your kids, then I want an AR-15 with one of those 90 round drum magazines.
I don’t think I’d trust myself to one shot, one kill in that situation with feral hogs running everywhere. I’d probably also need a second 90 round magazine as backup. Man, where would I keep all that?
Man, I’d be happy to save my kids, but 180 rounds of .223? That has to be uber expensive.

I know your kids are being threatened, but a range of 30-50 is a pretty large margin of error on your estimation on the number of feral hogs.

“Do you want to scream at Trump or actually solve prob–”
*can’t finish the rest of the sentence because the person is already screaming at Trump*

I don’t trust anyone’s outrage anymore. And the louder people scream, the more I assume they’re trying to cover up they’re just being partisan.

These easily angered screaming idiots know what’s best for society and society should conform.

I think a key to 2020 will be whether more Americans feel personally targeted by Trump or the left.