Tried putting some Kona coffee in the do-it-yourself Keurig container. Results: yummy!
Looks like a beautiful day. If we can get enough work done, we might hit the beach later this afternoon.
Oh, and life is unbearable due to the government slowdown. I forgot that part for a second.
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Most gorgeous day in Austin so far this year. I love this time of year. Took two dogs on walks and played some frisbee. Might bake some bread later.
Dustin (bae706) — 10/6/2013 @ 1:45 pmYou weren’t walking on Federal sidewalks now, were you (answer the question tough guy, or the dogs get it!)?
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 1:56 pmMeghan’s coward daddy says this shutdown is way worser than last time cause last time more appropriations bill had already been passed
but if this one is worse than last time then last time must’ve been almost entirely unnoticeable
these shutdown things are very very subtle I guess is what we’re learning
happyfeet (8ce051) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:09 pmPatrick, didn’t you get the memo?
The Pacific Ocean has been CLOSED!
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:10 pmI say we take the national parks away from Obama and give them back to the indians.
Back in the old days when it was indian country you could go there. True, sometimes you didn’t want to get going there if you were hunting their buffalo. But it never occurred to them to wire together barricades.
If the indians were still in charge of it the Shenandoah valley would be open today.
And you wouldn’t have to pay to see it. There’d be a nice casino paying for the whole thing.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:29 pm*you didn’t want to get caught going there…*
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:30 pmGulp!
Dustin (bae706) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:42 pmIf Mitt Romney had won, he would have shut down the interstate highways—and the interstate sidewalks.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 10/6/2013 @ 2:54 pmOr something !
Howie Long made a point to mention that Armed Forces network had not broadcast NFL today.
SPQR (768505) — 10/6/2013 @ 3:10 pmI sure enjoyed watching the replay of today’s Candy Crowley interview with Sen. Ted Cruz on CNN. Cruz is such an eloquent spokesman for the conservative pov… he took his time in clearly making the case for the “R” approach, as well as taking pains to gently highlight Crowley’s biased commentary and verbiage of her questions. We are fortunate to have him in the Senate. We need many more cut from the same cloth.
Colonel Haiku (835503) — 10/6/2013 @ 3:40 pmhttp://theothermccain.com/2013/10/06/tedcruz-dribbles-dem-party-proxy-candy-crowley-in-the-basketball-fashion/
Colonel Haiku (835503) — 10/6/2013 @ 3:41 pmTo misquote the classic 1980s song by new wave band Bow Wow Wow, “I don’t want Candy.”
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 10/6/2013 @ 3:44 pmha! Funny you should mention them, Stones… some friends and I drank the night away with their guitarist Matthew Ashman (dude with a mohawk) back in June of ’82 at a Clash concert in Hollywood, Ca. Worst concert I ever saw, but that guy was a crack-up.
Colonel Haiku (835503) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:06 pmI’ve been on a Doug Sahm/Texas Tornados kick all weekend… damn those guys were good.
Colonel Haiku (835503) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:18 pmIf AFN is still AFN then they’re probably filling the time slots with really usefull PSAs. Like telling servicemembers stationed in the tropics to start winterizing their cars so they don’t get stuck in the snow. Like they used to do when I was stationed at Rodman.
Why anyone would think getting stuck in the snow in Panama should be a concern I don’t know. But there they were warning me about it.
One of the major advantages to living off base was not having AFN. And it is possible to watch American football in foreign countries. Just like if it trips your trigger you can follow Manchester United in the US. Or get Budweiser in Tokyo.
In fact, the NFL has a pretty big following abroad. They’re thinking of opening a franchise in London.
But no doubt Obama is paying federal agents overtime so they can raid the off-base homes of servicemembers to impound the TV just in case they might watch an NFL game on local cable.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:37 pmDue to the shutdown all USN and USCG vessels have to head to the yards so shipyard workers can be paid overtime uninstalling the satellite TV antennas.
Because they might still be able to watch NFL games otherwise.
Curse you, Republicans!
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:43 pmMeanwhile, some juiceboxer imagines his promotion for NPS signs Due To HISTRIONIC fonts that make his president look like a 13yo girl having a facebook snit.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:45 pmhttp://images.politico.com/global/2013/10/01/wwii_2_js.jpg
I can just imagine the person who crafted that.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:47 pmGoing to the Beach in October! Everyone is envious.
Kenneth Simmons (88736a) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:24 pmIt was hot today. I had a chocolate rocket italian water ice.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:29 pmMy oldest wanted to take her FAA civilian written test for her private helicopter certification, before she graduates next week as a brand new minted army pilot
The FAA told her that the test allows 8 hours but they were closing in three due to the shutdown, she finished the test in 1 hour 46 minutes with a perfect score of 100
going to the 18th CAB Nov 11th, she gets to spend some time with me and one of her sisters for a couple of weeks before a 3 year tour in Germany, her west point fiancée is graduating next month and joining her stationed in the same city.
what fortune for them to be young engaged pilots with three years in Germany
EPWJ (1cedce) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:34 pmCongratulations, EPWJ, and thank them for their service.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:48 pmIt’s impossible not to make President Mean Girl not look like a 13yo having a facebook snit.
That’s how she/he/it rolls. President Mean Girl also has a thing for jock boyfriends that abuse President Mean Girl.
If you understand that, you understand President Mean Girl’s foreign policy. Vlad Putin, one of the jocks Princess really, really wants to like him, advertised to the world in a NYT op-ed that he intends to keep using and abusing our historic first adolescent girl President.
That’s not the first time the jocks used the press to announce to the world that President Mean Girl apparently likes private and public humiliation.
Recall that we learned Obama had sent a secret diplomatic note to Iran in 2012. How did we find out about it? The Iranians found it so pathetically laughable that they published the secret note. In which Obama alternated between begging for them to at least please, please, please talk to him and threatening to TP their house if they didn’t.
He actually said if the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz that would cross one of his “red lines.”
President Mean Girl has no red lines. The entire football team knows it. That’s why they keep passing him around and posting the pictures on facebook.
And President Mean Girl keeps going back to the dorm begging for more.
Vlad Putin and the Iranian Parliament used his sexts to post revenge porn. And President Mean Girl keeps right on sexting.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:52 pmTales of the 1%:
Exactly. See how easy that was, Harry?
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:52 pmThat is awesome, EPWJ. You must be incredibly proud.
Dustin (bae706) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:52 pmOh, forgot to add that in case the tone of desperation wasn’t obvious to Iranians by the language alone (it was), President Mean Girl underscored the fact by sending his note to his jock boyfriends three different ways.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 5:55 pmhttp://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/content/travelers/boats
Does anyone doubt that if President Mean Girl finds out you can get satellite TV on boats which allows you “[e]njoy over 190 all-digital channels, including locals1…[p]lus, you’ll have access to the same sports in HD and premium movies channels you enjoy at home” he’d put a stop to it?
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:00 pmTerrorist embassy bomber captured in Libya, indicted in New York, and will be given Miranda warnings:
Too bad we don’t have someplace to put him for interrogation and safekeeping.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:08 pmDustin
Thank goodness she got all the good genes from her mom, from me the jury is still out…
But thanks Dustin and DRJ, they may deploy in the spring to Afghanistan
EPWJ (1cedce) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:09 pmIn response I’m crafting this:
http://stwot.motortrend.com/files/2013/02/Ford-Crown-Victoria-P71-cop-car-plowing-through-trash-cans-1024×640.jpg
You’d have to be nuts to do something like in a $40k Jeep Wrangler Rubicon or a $50k LR4. Cheaper and easier to their own technology against them.
Just the thing for ramming the barricades. Cop cars are designed with the notion that at some point you might have to ram something with it.
I think I can make it a little bit better, which is the essence of hot rodding. A small lift kit, more horsepower, and a stout roll cage and a better bull bar.
http://www.partstrain.com/ShopByDepartment/Bull_Bar
The Navy does something called FONOPs. Freedom of Navigation Operations. When some two bit dictator announces that they’re closing some stretch of international waters the Navy steams through it just show them no they’re not.
Now we’ve got to do it against our own government.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:20 pmSkid plates, too. Must protect the oil pan and tranny in addition to the radiator.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:21 pmLiar!!
Mr. Flaming Trousers, you couldn’t possibly do anything like that without government assistance…
You ain’t fooling anyone, Sir!! You are IN PAIN, up Sh** creek without a paddle, without your Official Daily Supply of Gummint Assistance…
Surrender now, and end the pain.
Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:39 pmWhat we should be learning from this is just how many things the US Government controls that it shouldn’t. Also, only an idiot gives the government control over something important to them.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 10/6/2013 @ 6:47 pmI hear that Obama is going to declare the Apollo landing sites as national parks and shut down moon. Getting those Barrycades in place is going to be outsourced to Vlad Putin and will cost a fortune since NASA is now exclusively engaged in Muslim outreach and can’t be bothered to launch anything into a Lunar orbit…
WarEagle82 (2b7355) — 10/6/2013 @ 7:29 pmOh noes! Bashar al Assad is disrespecting President Mean Girl in the press! More revenge porn.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Assad-admits-to-mistakes-in-Syrian-civil-war-327947
Obama doesn’t even like Assad, but Varsity president Putin told him he had to have sex with JV president Assad or he’d stop seeing him.
Government shutdown or no the WH dream team is burning the midnight oil trying to figure out ways to make these people like him more. They’re evenly divided. Secretary of State Kerry thinks he should try a different hair style, but National Security Adviser Susan Rice thinks that won’t be enough and recommends a Brazilian bikini wax.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 7:34 pmTo stall for time, Obama will sext a picture of himself in a teddy to his “partners in peace” in Syria and Russia.
He’s not going to make the nude pic mistake he made back in 2012 with the Mullahs. At least not yet.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 7:39 pmEPWJ, I’ll pray for their safety. Keep us informed.
Dustin (bae706) — 10/6/2013 @ 7:47 pmToo bad we don’t have someplace to put him for interrogation and safekeeping.
Too bad that .45acp ammo is soooo expensive that they couldn’t buy just one-round.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:20 pmComment by Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 7:34 pm
I thought it was Rice arguing for the new doo?
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:23 pmDoes anyone else know that the President has shut down military commissaries? That affects military personnel as well as veterans.
I won’t call him a petty, small man. No, I would say that everyone who supports him are petty, small people. They know what he is and they like it.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:28 pmThose dastardly military members must not be allowed to save money in the feeding of their families, and must be compelled to spend their pay in overpriced civilian establishments.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:31 pmDid you know that Katy Perry is going to be on “Good Morning America” Monday? Because I sure do.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:36 pmEPWJ – congratulations to you and your daughter.
mg (31009b) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:38 pmTo get this country back, we have to take the media out first. When the media can’t make payments – we win.
mg (31009b) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:41 pmYou can’t take the media out, nor should you. You can try to make it accountable. Ted Cruz took apart that CNN person today by simply knowing what he was talking about.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:52 pmAg, I think mg was speaking metaphorically re the media institutions such as the NYT/WaPo/etc.
askeptic (2bb434) — 10/6/2013 @ 8:56 pmForce them all into BK, where they are forced to sell their assets for pennies on the Dollar – or in the case of Newsweek: $1!
Media individuals can have their credibility destroyed by just engaging them, and repeating back to them the lies they spew.
That is what the Jr. Senator from Tx was able to do with “that CNN person”.
Does the MFM think they can prevent the public from finding out Barack Obama is a Richard Head by not reporting on it?
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/03/sf-shutdown-theater/
Over at Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft posted this photo of the roads near Mt. Rushmore.
http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/600x450xmtr-cones.jpg.pagespeed.ic.zD8wysSLU9.jpg
You can’t pull over and look at Mt. Rushmore cuz President Mean Girl sez so.
It isn’t like the foreign press hasn’t noticed that Prom Queen is a petty vindictive little man.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58371
How long does the US MFM think they can keep the lid on the fact President iBama is a complete and utter ****?
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:00 pmThe enemedia is slowly destroying itself. Their revenues are dwindling at an alarming rate and they will have to downsize as revenue dries up.
The only problem is, they may be able to stave off the inevitable collapse until it is too late for the rest of us to win back the country from low information types who read and believe what the WaPo and NTY print.
Of course, nobody believes what MSLSD says, probably not even their anchors…
WarEagle82 (2b7355) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:09 pmThe Lake Meade BS hits close to home because I along with my brothers and sister inherited a cabin in a national forest in the Sierras.
The NPS is telling people they won’t allow people to stay overnight in their own homes that they own outright because the NPS can no longer provide services.
The thing about my place is ever since my uncle built it the feds never did provide services. I’ve got a well, a generator, propane for cooking, etc. We even still have the original outhouse, although the place does now have indoor plumbing with a septic tank.
This talk about how they have to prevent people from accessing their own property because of the lack of services that never existed to begin with is for mush heads.
In other words, Obama’s base. What we have learned in the past two election cycles is that there will be about 40% of the population that will believe anything. That’s the frightening part.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:20 pmLocal T.V. talking Dick Heads need to be held accountable for the lies they tell. Perhaps following them around and disrupting the everyday life of a T.V. hack is whats needed.
mg (31009b) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:27 pmCrush the media and Obama dies.
So . . . the administration has shut down the AmberAlert.gov website. Because well, you know; that money had to be spent on erecting barricades to prevent WWII vets from visiting their own memorial.
Icy (d4d39f) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:30 pmNo one will sign up for Obamacare until they actually need a doctor.
No pre-existing-conditions condition.
AZ Bob (c99389) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:36 pmSo the vast majority of government employees are essential, but Amber Alert information isn’t?
And what’s with all these websites being knocked out? It’s not like Patterico dot com stops working if the blogger skips a day of blogging.
Dustin (303dca) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:41 pmThe government has to keep open only essential services during a government shut down. What’s essential? Apparently the Department of A**holes.
They hire temporary workers to ramp up operations during a shut down.
The House GOP needs to start holding hearings on how much of the Obamacare statutory spending is going to buying the barrycades the HHS is going to need to close down the hospitals the next time Preezy Tiger Beat decides to throw a tantrum.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:46 pmKona is expensive, but well worth it.
mg (31009b) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:47 pmThe Obama administration doesn’t think we can puzzle out that websites keep working with nobody working on them.
Final post at Verum Serum:
http://www.verumserum.com/
Just like they think we’ll never catch on that highly paid government experts aren’t necessary to guide me through the complicated process of parking in a parking lot.
Sure, I can go to one of those untended Ace parking lots and just pay for the space myself.
But if I go to the tax-payer funded lot on National Park Service land I need an entire crew of tax-payer funded advisers in order to park my car.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:57 pmhttp://moonbattery.com/Obama-Phones-Iran.jpg
Everybody is noticing what President Putin’s Doormat is made of.
Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 11:45 pmComment by mg (31009b) — 10/6/2013 @ 9:27 pm
Remember the one media big name (many of you know the name, I don’t) who said the press was good for 15% of poll/election results?
The last I saw Obama had a positive rating of 41%.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/7/2013 @ 5:23 am41-15 = 26; I imagine 25% to 33% of the population are true believers with very little possibility of turning on Obama no matter what he would do.
Tried to discuss this with a doctor, yesterday. She told me about the one full-time person her office needs whose job is only to fight with insurance companies over proposed treatment for the patient. Obamacare will make that better. I gave up, and shut up.
nk (dbc370) — 10/7/2013 @ 5:53 am1. “I love this time of year.”
Agreed. We’ve had a lovely end to Summer and start of Fall up here.
No hurricanes or earthquakes and just a week of the 90’s with high humidity. Makes the coming freeze worth the pain.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/7/2013 @ 6:20 am60. “I gave up, and shut up.”
There’s a lot of that going around now. Milton said, “Those also serve who merely watch and wait.”
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/7/2013 @ 6:23 amAgree with the frustration, nk.
What the doctor doesn’t understand, yet, is that Obamacare will make it simpler because it will be no use to try to argue with the government.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 10/7/2013 @ 6:43 amKicking butt and taking names:
http://theothermccain.com/2013/10/06/tedcruz-dribbles-dem-party-proxy-candy-crowley-in-the-basketball-fashion/?
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/06/pelosi-faces-unexpected-tough-questions-from-cbs-hosts-84754?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Pretty soon the Dhimmis are going to pick up on the fact that following Il Douche is never a good idea.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 10/7/2013 @ 7:18 amMD, it was somewhat ironic because that day she was going to a fundraiser for a fourteen-year old boy with medulloblastoma, that she had already bought tickets for, who has just been taken off an FDA clinical trial (telemestad?) and whose family is looking for other “orphan drug” avenues.
nk (dbc370) — 10/7/2013 @ 7:23 amImetelstat.
nk (dbc370) — 10/7/2013 @ 7:25 am15. Comment by Steve57 (234b9e) — 10/6/2013 @ 4:37 pm
But no doubt Obama is paying federal agents overtime so they can raid the off-base homes of servicemembers to impound the TV just in case they might watch an NFL game on local cable.
Not that, but they warned IRS agents that they better not do any work from home (they can log on remotely, and apparently commonly do so) or they’ll get fired. (They can check who logged into their computers)
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 10/7/2013 @ 9:27 am40. The commisaries are going to re-open. Secretary of defense Chuck Hagel said they did a review of the law that gave appropriations to the military and the report just came in, and it looks like most civilian employees are covered because they contribute to the morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members.
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/hagel-furloughed-pentagon-civilians-to-be-recalled-back-to-work-1.245398
Just in time, as the House was about to pass anotehr bill authorizing that.
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 10/7/2013 @ 9:34 amThose not eligible to be recalled include furloughed civilians who work in programs broadly dedicated to departmental efficiency and oversight, including auditor functions, and those whose works supports non-DOD activities and agencies.
But while many civilian employees will be able to go back to work soon, the DOD still does not have the authority to spend money on supplies or fuel for non-essential functions.
So it looks like the commissaries will not be heated if it gets cold, unless maybe somebody offers to put up the money. And they won’t re-stock.
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 10/7/2013 @ 9:38 amAlso lost to the sequester: government economic statistics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/opinion/the-shutdowns-data-blackout.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303492504579113731832411284.html Wall Street Journal:
Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 10/7/2013 @ 9:46 amTrue, but this is hardly a high bar.
When was the last time you actually saw any evidence that anyone in the media knew anything of what they were talking about…?
Example: Not only to they constantly get the references to the AR-15 as an “automatic” weapon constantly wrong, but the NYT recently commented about the DC police that shot and killed that woman in the car with her child (yes, they had nothing bad to say about this) they SPECIFICALLY mentioned the weapons as being SEMI-auto. Since those police probably had FULL auto weapons, not only were they showing bias by referring to them as semi-auto when they constantly misuse the term “assault” weapon to refer to semi-auto weapons, but they were now referring to ACTUAL assault weapons as being semi-auto.
Again: I challenge you to name a time when the media got anything RIGHT that was more complex than peeling a potato.
Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/7/2013 @ 4:41 pmComment by Smock Puppet, Gadfy, Racist-Sexist Thug, and Bon Vivant All In One Package (afdedb) — 10/7/2013 @ 4:41 pm
Again: I challenge you to name a time when the media got anything RIGHT that was more complex than peeling a potato.
They didn’t even get the potatoe story with Dan Quayle right – that wasn’t his spelling, but the school’s. Which he didn’t have the confidence and/or the courage or the presence of mind to reject.
Here is a first hand account from a reporter as to how it began:
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1992.html
Sammy Finkelman (a04c34) — 10/8/2013 @ 6:29 amhttp://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/08/justice/libya-al-libi/index.html
narciso (3fec35) — 10/8/2013 @ 6:33 am