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The codeword for "go" on the escape:
"Release the Vic!"

Obama Lectures Republicans:
The Founding Fathers Would Not Approve Of You…
(headline at WeaselZippers)

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I just thought you should know.

OTOH, He didn't say, don't pay attention to the blog commenters!! -me
That's NSA's job! -Hrothgar

Wait, what? NSA's job to not pay attention to commenters?

In that case, I'll share the prime secret password...

SCOAMF

Secretion handshakes [gag] - as long as it's not the handshake from, whatwasit, Mallrats?

Not recommended as password in the camps: assless chaps.

N.B. They telegraph their targets. He gave a laundry list.

OTOH, He didn't say, don't pay attention to the blog commenters!!

--How I wish Prissypants read this blog. FUCK YOU, you lying, worthless, lazy, un-American piece of shit! And your wife is an ugly cow, too. -Jane D'oh

--The funny thing is, he just read that out loud and has no idea what he said. -t-bird

Just like the words on the teleprompter. (Did I get in 1st with that?)

The smart people are sure we commoners have too many choices. -gurgle

That's what a fellow from Red China said to my wife, in line one day at a Chicago Post Office, regarding the various options on shipping. "Americans have too many choices."

Personally, it's fine with me if They have Their place where They can have no choices, and we have our place over here where we have as much choice as we can manage, but for some reason, They don't seem to think that's as good an idea as I do.

Well, it wasn't like he singled bloggers out.

Apparently, everybody needs to stop listening to anybody.

Except President Teleprompter, stringing together whatever random irrational phrases sound good to his ginormous ears, while failing the Turing test.

The woman in the red jacket usually has to play a song on the bicycle horns with her nose before she gets a muffin. -Cicero (@cicero)

Actually, this got the biggest snort (of laughter) from me, so far, despite all the chuckles. The unexpected imagery!

It would be wrong to hope the next jihadi aiming for NY hits the UN building by mistake, wouldn't it? Even on a day off with everybody out of the building, and nobody killed by the jihadi, still wrong. Darn these wrong thoughts. ::smacks head::

Joe Biden by way of Will Rogers, a webwork from last May:
Best Job in the Country
Plus, you get to applaud like a wind-up monkey.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/best-job-in-the-country

Well, I started checking comments for my thought, "Oh, look, the crisis must be over, they let Biden out." I found Panz sounded that note at 89 or so:

So Barry finally let Joe out of the cage, and gave him an errand. : panzernashorn

oot oot eet eet ::mashes banana into keyboard::

Charlie Chan: They used to say, what's good for GM is good for America. Something like that. It was so long ago.

The moment that guy seems to be raising the clicker...!

This, like other self-immolating jihadi vids I've seen, apparently real and not staged - it's not like it's good promotion for them, so how is it the videos get out?

Are the cameras found by non-jihadis and posted?

Or is this like the "jackass" and "hold my hookah" video of the jihadi world?

Hello, WeaselZippers, by the way.

eleven: I totally missed the dump party, too. Thought I might just be ranting to myself. There's half a warm beer over on that table if you want it. heh heh.

PJ: Re the stenographer: I still haven't heard the audio, think I'll head off and do that now. Maybe she just had had one too many Red Bulls, but, from what I gather, despite having erupted with some confused elements, it sounds like she was struggling with a profound internal dialog, altogether representative of this nation's civil disparity.

You cannot serve two masters.
He will not be mocked.

Verrry interesting.

Yay. Long link worked.

Chiming in on something glanced back upthread almost 20 minutes ago :

"Pass a law to debundle cable channel packages.
Let the free market wipe out the sources of crap propaganda." -Diogenes' Lamp

Let me think. If it's a free market, the cable providers should be able to offer packages or a la carte as they choose, right?

Of course, cables are a monopoly in the first place, so it's not like you can vote with your dollars by leaving your package-provider for an a-la-carte-provider.

Ergo, yes, by way of whatever level of your gov't permits the cable, you could demand a law insisting upon a-la-carte. You could even demand as many a-la-carte offerings as possible. This would produce a relative free-market within the monopoly, with the intended effect if wide-spread enough.

At this point, as a businessperson, I can see you could get either a disincentivised or a crony-ized cable provider, unless there is very strict supervision, and you get into the question of what else your government can demand the cables carry, or not, depending on which parties are in charge of your government down the line.

Soon enough (and, for some of us, already), it all is just Internet. The problems are still there, transferred to the providers. Again, who gets the cable monopoly, or the cell airwaves, or whatever other government-'permitted' sources of transmission, can threaten your freedom as a consumer, and as a member of the "free press" of modern networking.

There's going to be a serious front in the war on liberty inside them thar intertubz. Oh, wait, did I say going to be?

I see Drew is up; folkz has moved on?

I hope, then, I won't annoy too many folks announcing this little thing:

Face of BO
Just a glimpse of the many.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/face-of-bo
1.6Mb animated GIF

Also this: Since I seem hopelessly compelled to produce such rants, I've been working on a new view for the front rants page on my website, so that instead of just previews, you get the whole post. You can see the close-to-final format here:
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical-incline/full
Compare current front page here:
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical-incline

But most significantly, this not-final version of a video I've been working on for the past couple of days. Posted because, who knows? I might never get it right. You could wait for the final cut:

2013 Oct 13 Washington DC (v1)
The march of Truth cannot be halted
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/2013-oct-13-washington-dc-v1

Wonder if that last link is too long for Pixy.

hope my video produced okay overnight. Trying to do complicated quad-core level editing on a prehistoric single-core XP box.

Pushing the limits of computers since 1964, and never had The Latest.

BBL, possibly with vid

However, I don't think a boy of 18 would call a 17 year old a "young girl". -FS

Actually, back when the so my came out.... what passed for scandalous was much closer to just that. Even if he's saying, go home, it's saying you're hot and you get me hot, girlie

And my younger sister really liked Puckett, which I tried to ignore....

"Come back, when you grow up, girl,
You're still living in a paper-doll world..."
did it better.

Good morning, world of people!

This morning's news does not exceed my expectations, so my disappointments were already pre-amortized.

Problem #12

If John McCain is on a train heading for the fiscal cliff.

and John Boehner is rocketing toward hell in a handbasket.

while TFG takes the entire military budget and dumps it in the EBT program,

then,

awww, lookit! A sink full of little duckies!

a) the quiz was rigged
b) I have to do #1
c) they told me there'd be ice cream!

I see steno lady has been covered in comments above. Can't seem to get the soundcloud link to work, though.

Just the tip of the iceberg, I tells ya. Meltdown going to happen all over the place.

#globalmeltdown