Distractions

A email server in a bathroom, emails turned over the Gummint, investigations of emails, investigations of aides, etc etc.

Weird... Seems to me there isn't a lot of concern regarding her situation there.
Perhaps it's because she knows that all of that can be dealt with via an executive pardon. (And if you think the current animosity between the Obama administration and Hillary would preclude that,  I have a bridge to sell you... Progressives might bicker, but they protect each other when it comes to the big picture.)

But...
Seems to me that there are lots and lots of things that need to be investigated and that could bear some tasty fruit...
Her not-so-subtle connections with foreign governments, dealings with the Clinton Family Foundation, and all the contributors thereof. Many things.

A quote that might bring some things into perspective:

'If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.'
-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

He's right you know...
Think about it.

TBG

Quotes To Live (or Die) By

To the people that insist on pissing me off...

(And the ones that do it unknowingly too- this does not excuse stupid behavior.)

I'm Always polite. Always respectful. And always making plans to kill everyone within a 50' radius. Just in case.

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." 

"You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be."

"When kind men grow angry, things are about to change."

"When the nice ones snap, it's always a good show."

"Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness." 

"You're too nice a guy to know so many ways to kill someone..."

"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."


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Reactions - Douglas Adams

In The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams writes, "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1.    Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2.    Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3.    Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Damn right.
You kids take your new-fangled blueteeth every-damn-thing and iPhones and GTFOff my lawn. Pronto.

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Quote of the Day

During today's lunchtime rant on politics and generalized stupidity of the American voter an interesting and oh-so-accurate quote was uttered...

One of the ODMQD* was trying to draw correlation between the fact that Obama is unable to tell the truth, and the fact he is so completely clueless about far is is in over his head when it comes to, well... everything.
Granted- it does help that you have a whipping boy like Carney to try to gloss over the lies, half-truths, and inept mutterings, but still.

So-
MQD1: "...then he says 'I learned about it on CNN'. Just like back in 2011- he only learned about Fast & Furious on the news."

Yours Truly: (always one to stir the pot) "That's pretty racist of you. Because... Uh..."
(Trying desperately to come up with a hook and not finding one) "... You're racist!"

MQD1: "See- that's where you're wrong. It is quite possible that the fact that he's black is the ONLY thing I DON'T hate about [him]. It's every OTHER [expletive] thing about him that I find so offensive."

YT: "Wow. I'm soooo blogging this. Truer words have never been spoken."


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*Really. Don't ask.

Good One...

Quote of the Week
(So far...)

We were pulling out of a parking lot this evening when a delivery vehicle came blazing by, cutting us off.

As he passed by we saw the cartop sign for Jimmy Johns sandwich shop.
Our resident propeller-head piped up.

"Wow... He *was* going freaky fast."

Very impressive, young Skywalker...

TBG

Truer Words Never Spoken

In the waiting area for my flight to Krasnodar there are some scary people queued up for standby seats, and I am seeing the truth to a saying I read on the Intarwebz not too long ago.

"Never compliment a woman on her mustache, no matter how magnificent it is."

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Politeness suggests neither course is correct.

TBG

Sexist Quote

Watching Lolo Jones getting ready to run in the Women's 100m Hurdles...


YT: "Man, I bet you could open a coke bottle with her belly button."

Yeah. I know.
I'm a sexist pig.

What else is new?


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...And That's When The Fight Started.

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Listen Up...

I have a propensity for using comparatives when speaking...
One of my favorites I picked up years ago at The Masters. I had an opportunity to use it here in London this morning.
Unfortunately I used it on St.Ass, and due to the twin-threat of my mumbling, and his English-as-a-second language, the exchange wasn't a clean of it might have been.

St.Ass (in thick Russian accent) "...so zhey arrre now serrrving zhe wonderrrful brrrreakfast at zhe commissarry."

Yours Truly: "Awesome. I'm on it like a rat on a cheeto."

(Very puzzled look from St.Ass)

SA: "Zhe rrrat on zhe what?"

YT: "A. Rat. On. A. Cheeto. You know- little yellow cheese puff?"

SA: "Ah! Cheeto. I zhought you cheeta. You know - big cat. I din't understand."

YT: (Trying to envision a rat on a cheetah, and how that would work out...Which devolved into a strange tableau involving Mickey and Chester Cheetah. Don't judge me.)

YT: "Uh... No. Cheeto. Not cheetah."

I walk out, still getting funny looks from St.Ass.



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Ew. Just ew.

Overheard in the car:
TBG: "That must be a bakery or something."
JR: "I don't know... Could be an underwear store."
TBG: "Uh...Wow. That's pretty gross."

Personal Philosophy

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1 Corinthians 6:19

 Good food, good friends-

I made a little detour on Sunday afternoon and dropped by Waco TX for a late lunch and good conversation with Famous the Borepatch. A little rum, some great tales and catching up...
I caught the Quote of the Week during our chat:
"Bad news doesn't improve with age." came out during an exchange about how to break bad news to Upper Management.

Anyone want to hazard a guess what was on the menu?
You got it...
A chicken-fried steak the size of a Ford Pinto.


Holy Mackerel!

Astute readers will note the Uncle Jay signature move: The double-starch side dishes.
Yep- Macaroni & Cheese AND mashed potatoes.

As The Mighty Skunk opined recently:
"Your coronary arteries must really hate you."
Probably so... But with this variable weather, I prefer to believe that my cholesterol is the only thing keeping me from freezing to death.


Life's too short NOT to eat chicken fried steak...
But at least I wait to have GOOD CFS... Life is NOT too short to eat BAD chicken fried steak. (I'm looking at you, Waffle House & Cracker Barrel...)


Abe Sapien: "My body is a temple..."
HellBoy: "Not anymore. Now it's an amusement park."
-HellBoy II

If I'd know I was going to live this long I'd have taken better care of myself.


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Quote of the Night Week Month

From an arena technician I first saw waaaay back in May,
when I ran into him again last night at The Game:

AT: "Still at it, eh? Are you DOING this cat, or are you just holding it's tail?"

TBG: "(stunned silence)"

Succinct, descriptive and creative.
Very nice.

I'll be using that one.

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Quote of the Day - In Da 'Hood edition.

Background - What good is being in these different cities if you don't get a taste of the local cuisine? And by all means, let's try to patronize the small business owners. So, it's my turn to pick a place to eat- let's find some good ol' Chi-Town Bar-B-Que.
I consult the oracle...
"Oh Mighty Google, Find us some BBQ near the UC. Some place tasty. And not too expensive..."

Here ya go:

Mary's BarBQ

Ok..Perfect- Pulaski and Harrison. Not too far away.

Kids- I thought the UC was in the 'Hood.
Nope.

Pulaski and Harrison is the 'Hood...

So... As we (finally) arrived at Mary's after numerous stops, starts, going the wrong way down one-way streets, and getting examined as if we were on a menu by some rather dubious-looking gentlemen on the street corners, John uttered the words that might have been needed for his tombstone, had we not seen the error of our ways...
"Are you kidding? I'm not getting outta the car.
I'm a white guy in khakis... I wouldn't last 5 minutes down here."

No BBQ for us.

Damn.

I was just trying to broaden their horizons.

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Source? Anyone?

And, can you supply the punchline?

A naked blond walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a two foot salami under the other.
She lays the poodle on the table...
The bartender says "I suppose you won't be needing a drink?"
The lady says...

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Veracity

Really? Something on the Interwebz could be inaccurate?
Say it ain't so!

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Fair Warning

For all you happy assholes out there that don't have a clue, this is fair warning:

I'm tired-tired-tired of you ignorant, mouth-breathing, inbred, hillbillies that only know how to parrot the Party Line without giving a thought of how you are applying your rhetoric.

The next time, while discussing the Tea Party's position on taxes and how the FedGov's unlimited growth/expansion and penchant for meddling in shit they have no business getting involved with, and the the first thing out of you mouth is "You justa buncha racist motherfuckers..." you're going to get a verbal beatdown the likes of which that will make Change The Sacred Name Of Arkansas* sound like a Shakespearean sonnet.

Is it racist to identify constitutionality of every new law?
Is it racist to demand a balanced federal budget?
Is it racist to want to simplify the tax system and reduce taxes?
Is it racist to audit federal government agencies for waste and constitutionality?
Is it racist to limit annual growth in federal spending?
Is it racist to repeal the healthcare legislation passed on March 23, 2010?
Is it racist to reduce earmarks?

I really don't think so.
Ergo, Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

Look, you want examples of racism? Let me help you out...

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health."
-- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

(I) "will not let the white boys win in this election."
-- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager on the 2000 election 

"The old white boys got taken fair and square."
-- San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election 

"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning."
-- Jocelyn Elders 

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years."
-- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York 

"There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there."
-- USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux

"Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong."
-- Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP 

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it."
-- Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ

"The white race is the cancer of human history."
-- Susan Sontag 

 "Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." -- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community.
If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . .
Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.
What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal.
Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."
-- James Cone - New York's Union Theological Seminary  - Jeremiah Wright's mentor.

Maybe I'm missing something- I don't see how you you come up with the following theorem:
"Demanding accountability from our Government and elected officials" = "Racism"

* One for polite company and children, and a more colorful one...
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Gun Owners in New York

 The Rich, the Famous, the Armed

Money quote:
"Having a swimming pool is way more dangerous than having a gun..."
- .357 owner Alexis Stewart (daughter of Martha Stewart)

Wow. Who knew?

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Overheard in the Office

Sumdood@NHL: "Can you spell 'Allegheny'?"

Mr Miller: "Of course. A-L-L-E-G-H-E-N-Y. Want me to use it in a sentence?
'I threw the body of my first ex-wife in the Allegheny river.'"

S@NHL: "Wow. How about 'Monongahela'?"

MrM: "Nope. But I *can* use it in a sentence... 'I threw my second ex-wife in the Monongahela.'

S@NHL: "Wow."

MrM: "Are you gonna ask about 'Confluence'? C-O-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E. Using it in a sentence...'The confluence of the Monongahela and the Allegheny is where my first ex-wife met my second ex-wife.'"

S@NHL: "Where ya gonna put the next one?"

Note to self: Don't piss off Mr. Miller.

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Travelin' - Pittsburgh

I've just returned from a little sojourn to Pittsburgh to check out the Stadium for the NHL 2011 Winter Classic...
In my infinite wisdom I decided to drive from Jax to Three Rivers...
Just my luck, the trip coincided with the cold from/weather system that passed through the Northeast on the way out to sea...

I caught the leading edge on Tuesday night - As I climbed up I-77 outside Mt Airy I got rain and 25mph winds and finally hung it up in Hillsville VA. The next morning the snow started.

It was ugly as I crossed through West Virginia.

It too most of the day Wednesday to get to Pittsburgh.
The snow kept falling the whole time I was there, most of the time it was little pain-in-the-ass flurries, but there was some definite accumulation along the highways.

Had dinner with JR on Wednesday night where he came up with the Quote of the Week:
"I don't start rumors, but I'm not opposed to spreading them."
Nice.

Thursday we had our tour of the stadium...


This is where Bad Phil and The Boys will be working...


The view of the field from the scoring position.
Not too shabby.


Heinz Field Scoreboard in Hockey mode...
The space to the right is 16:9 for video and the space beneath the scorebox is for sponsor/marketing content.


This is the view back up to the Scoring Position from field level.

I got a peek at all the internal IT infrastructure in the stadium as part of my pre-planning for the game.

"Cut the gray wire............ But first, cut the blue wire."

The Winter Classic is going to be a hoot. Penguins vs. Capitals.
Be sure to tune in, 1:00 New Years Day.

I headed back- the weather was still crappy all the way down to Charlotte.
A bit stressful at times, but it was better than getting the full body rub from the TSA.

Next stop- Minneapolis

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