They oddly don’t look a day over 50…
America’s dysfunctional alter-ego turned 500 Sunday.
They have poked fun at the highbrow…
One of the best things is the variety of characters you can have on an animated show. That and they never age.
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I wonder if I still have DOOM Simpsons anywhere. That was funny. The other I’d like to find someday is the After Dark version where Opus is blasting the toasters with a shotgun.
And the definition of insanity is…Greece. Seems like this happens every 2-3 months now. Probably by May we will hear ‘and the DOW is down over worries about Greek debt’ again. Hands will be wrung, hair will be pulled, teeth will be gnashed, and Germans who saved their money will have more of it converted to worthless Greek paper again.
While I rarely look at tv, I do wonder if the Simpson’s don’t parody our way of life so much as mirror it.
Currentlty up in the Great White North enjoying the snow /sarc
Check with y’all later, enjoy your short week.
Everybody’s gotta be a victim (from comments)
Sorry dude, nobody thinks enough about you to hate you, just easy pickins’.
One episode that always sticks in my mind was a Halloween show. Homer was being chased by zombies. He yells “Out of my way, you chalk-faced zombies!” and hits two of them in his car. Then he drives by a Johnny and Edgar Winter tour bus.
Dunno if this has been posted before. Air Force Sargent gots some pipes.
Well, by golly you’ve convinced me. There’s no threat to our Gun Rights, we’re safe from Liberalism, and Conservatism is in no danger whatsoever. Calling attention to small denials of our Liberites or those of others will just scare Independents away, and that will get Barry elected. Everything is so peachy keen, we should nominate a nice, safe, moderate who won’t scare anybody, and our policies should reflect that attitude.
Great way to keep folks in the fold too. Just call them nutcases and they’ll be eager to help you out with your little elections.
Yah, that’s the way to get Barry out of the White House.
And if he wins, its THEIR fault.
Go away, Sarge.
There’s too many of us Hamous. I could go away, but there’s at least 3 others here who would be saying the same things.
And that doesn’t count the thousands of others on Facebook and other blogs. People are seeing that we’re making more sense than E Types, and a lot of them are getting really pizztoff that folks don’t listen to us and call us names.
Don’t you see, Sarge? It’s not the others here. It’s you. Only you. You’re the only one with OCD. You’re the only one who can take a comment like “It takes eternal vigilance…” and twist it into “There’s no threat to our Gun Rights, we’re safe from Liberalism, and Conservatism is in no danger whatsoever.” Sure, there will always be some goonier’n a road lizard self-proclaimed Über Patriot who knows all the answers, is smarter than everyone else, and thinks he’s here to save us from ourselves. It’s the First Law of the Blogosphere: Ban one chucklehead and there will be an equally goony chucklehead in the queue to take his place. It’s like Newton’s Third Law for the innernet. But that chucklehead doesn’t have to be you.
So here we are. Bottom of the ninth, tie game, two outs, bases loaded, full count, and Sarge is at the plate. The pitch is on its way and it’s a screwball…
Ari Fliescher weighs in on Santorum’s chances.
How many folks here think that Romney and the E Types have a better chance of uniting with the Tea Party to beat those scary Socons?
G’Morning All
H/T Daughter Reesa
Even though she is a show business left-leaner, she still shows her conservative upbringings.
Yeah baby!
Wow. Nice knockers.
Lutherans in Afghanistan have a group schvitz over burned garbage.
The Simpsons has long been one of my favorite cartoons. It is not intended for children! Bart’s Blackboard is always one of the highlights of the show.
BTW, it’s Fat Tuesday. New Orleans will have about a million revelers at Mardi Gras tonight. If your a young man, be sure to remember the most important rule in the French Quarter:
Never pick up a lady wearing a Super Bowl ring.
Well, I spent most of yesterday totin’ tools to Hubby’s worksite – seems he had a bit of a “situation” that needed fixing. So now, I have to put yesterday’s (and last week’s) work into today. This is a short week for me, as Lovely has a bridal shower in her fiance’s hometown up near the Oklahoma border. Handsome and I will be leaving Friday morning and coming back on Sunday. It’s about a 10 hour drive (although I made Lubbock in 8, which surprised my Hubby, and the town isn’t far from Lubbock).
So I have a short week and a pile of work. I should have been working on my stuff on Sunday, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to spit in the eye of the unions and enter Scott Walker recall petition signatures. I need to go and see what the status is on that project…
Oh, and I’ve never watched The Simpsons. Couldn’t get past the nasally voices.
#16 WB
How do the “appropriate religious authorities” dispose of old, used Korans?
I bet they burn ‘em. But they burn ‘em with RESPECT.
If a majority of the American People vote “NONE OF THE ABOVE”, do we get to get two new candidates to choose from?
I can’t help with data entry today for Verify the Vote, but you can. They are close to being finished, and every little bit counts. If all you enter is a hundred names – that’s a hundred names closer to being finished. It only takes a few minutes to register and get your logon id.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it….
#20 TT: Rocky and Bullwinkle were chirrenzez cartoons but had humor injected that only the adults would catch. The Simpsons, pretend to be a chirrenz cartoon but all the humor is adult (not pornographic) in nature. The humor is usually based on current events/culture/people which is why, IMHO, it has stayed fresh and people continue to watch.
#18 – CHECK those Adam’s Apples!
Micheal Berry is devoting his whole show today to the “gay bar” thing.
This is not the first time I have seen this threat.
So here we have the major instigator and financier of terrorism against Israel, and the major supplier of soldiers, bombs, IEDs, etc, against the USA against our efforts in Iraq and Afcrappystan. Now they are threatening a preemptive strike? If that is not picking a fight, then what is? Do we have to wait for a huge bomb to kill thousands of Israelis all at once before we believe that Ahmadinnerjacket is gonna do what he says? What do we and/or Israel have to see before the goat-rapers in Iran are deemed to be the clear and present danger that they are? Israel could make a real good case right now that the current Iranian regime represents an imminent existential danger to the State of Israel and are therefore within their rights to self defense.
#21 tedtam
They prolly just throw them out. It’s ok if they do it.
So the military is burning all sorts of stuff in preparation for their departure from Afcrappystan, some things which I am sure have value.
Solyndra has been destroying glass solar panels, which have value, at an alarming rate. Why can’t those panels be sold to a willing buyer and have the proceeds go towards repaying their loan from the taxpayer? Why are the panels being destroyed?
Where is the LSM on this blatant waste of taxpayer money?
I got an email yesterday with VTR stats:
The link is here – it didn’t copy over.
http://www.ttvverify.com/volunteer/?source=TTV
More voter hijinks in Wisconsin.
Hmmmmmm…..
- fraudulent voter registration forms
- asking for party affiliation
- returned items to be sent to a third party address, not the official address
- by groups with ties to the Democrat party
Nah, must be okay.
/sarc off
Shortage of Skilled Workers
But as the 2012 presidential candidates roam the state offering ways to “bring the jobs back,” many manufacturers say that, in fact, the jobs are already here. What’s missing are the skilled workers needed to fill them. A metal-parts factory here has been searching since the fall for a machinist, an assembly team leader and a die-setter. Another plant is offering referral bonuses for a welder. And a company that makes molds for automakers has been trying for seven months to fill four spots on the second shift. “Our guys have been working 60 to 70 hours a week, and they’re dead. They’re gone,” said Corey Carolla, vice president of operations at Mach Mold, a 40-man shop in Benton Harbor, Mich. “We need more people. The trouble is finding them.” As noted yesterday, Michigan’s economy is mounting a major comeback – but if there aren’t people with the skills to do those jobs, they will naturally migrate elsewhere.
#22 Shannon
I remember having this argument with my kids’ charter school. I was a strong proponent of having a track for the non-college bound kids where they could learn a trade. Create internships. Work co-ops. Something. But I was shot down time and again; they wanted to focus on creating a “college bound” culture and would not consider doing anything regarding trades training.
My husband just finished his annual recertification class. The plumbers aren’t getting any younger. In 10-15 years, any plumber can name his price, as the supply will be far below the demand. I told my son that people who work with their hands will always be in demand. In times of trouble, those who can fix things and are willing to get dirty will always get by. If our whole electronic society breaks down, it’ll be the ones who can create shelter, raise crops, and fix things that’ll survive. (Them and the ones with guns.) The basics of plumbing, digging, hammering, etc., don’t change much. Technology may make fancier gadgets, but the basics of the plumbing business will never change. “Payday’s on Friday and wiss runs downhill.”
Shannon,
I can tell you that they are not here either. My company must actively recruit Field Service Technicians. Our new hires usually have 2-4 years of college in Engineering or Technical School and we have an attractive pay scale.
All of the post WW-II Baby Boomers that were the backbone of our workforce are retiring. These are folks that grew up with a wrench in their hands and a pretty good understanding of mechanical practices. Try to find that today! Most of the kids can play video games, but selecting the racecar in some PlayStation game is as close to mechanical skills as they get.
It isn’t just Michigan.
Simple
#33 TT:
Weekends and holidays are extra
Don’t bite your fingernails
#35 Bone
And we won’t even get into the whole moustache/beard thing.
Ewwww.
Good morning Hamsters. Party cloudy and getting warmer going toward noontime, and we might make it to the lower 70s.
Tedtam and I must be the only two around here who never got interested the The Simpsons.
I started watching one program, never finished it, and did not return for another sample.
Much preferred Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle. Would be interesting to see current pictures of The Simpson’s cartoonists, however.
I stopped on p. 29 of Clancy’s Against All Enemies last night, and already there have been mass deaths in the wake of a bungled exchange of a Taliban asset to the CIA deep undercover protragonist, Maxwell Moore. Agent Moore has barely escaped death twice while just about everybody around him reached amibent temperature one way or another, none of them pretty. When the movie is made, as it likely will be, there will need to be a cast of thousands in the opening minutes. And none of it seems at all farfetched given today’s intrigues.
This just hit my inbox:
IIRC, the Clinton admin declared the first World Trade Center bombing a criminal act and not an act of terrorism/war. The 0 admin refers to acts of terrorism as ‘man caused disasters’ so they don’t have to treat the act of war as an act of war with the appropriate response.
IF we can only get the islimist loving Ds to properly classify things as they really are, we may actually make progress.
Rapidly progressing towards socialism is not progress.
#33 – p.s. “hot’s on the left / cold on the right”
#37 – MsAdee…………..count me in as not much of a Bart or Homer fan
“DOH!™”
Adee
I keep the whole set of Clancy’s Ryanverse novels around, and every few years or so I’ll start re-reading them from beginning to end. The Splinter Cell books aren’t too bad, either. Some of the books with Clancy’s name on them aren’t really Clancy, and it shows. I saw that he had a new one out, but I’m going to wait until I can get a cheap copy.
I always wondered if he’d come up with a follow-up book to “Teeth of the Tiger’. I was hoping he would.
#39 Katfish
Well, usually.
I haven’t heard that one, please elaborate.
#43 Bone
It involves cabling sewers, and no, I’m not going to elaborate.
#41 TT. The book reviews page just inside the cover lists Dead Or Alive as the immediate predecessor in the Clancy line. Have not seen that, but the review is good, sooo.
I purchased the latest book at Randalls, $9.99 US paperback price, beats ordering from Amazon.
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#6 gto
Staff Sgt. Angie Johnson is a competitor on The Voice this year.
The video of her intial audition show is here. If the only image you’ve seen is the one you posted, you won’t recognize her here. Not exactly your everyday staff sgt.
The New Madrid fault in Missouri yawned and stretched this moring to the tune of 4.0. It was a great reminder to all that it is there.
#6 & #46 – hummina Hummina HUMMINA!
you GO Sarge!!!!!
On the subject of books, Broadside Books is the new conservative non-fiction imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. They have Gov. Jan Brewer, Frank J. Fleming, Aaron Klein, Michael Patrick Leahy and a number of other good writers on board.
They also have this which I believe is unique:
Voices of the Tea Party
Broadside Books website.
I found this video of the sergeant’s band Sidewinder. I love how they involve their audience. The black guy does okay with the vocals, too.
After reading this article my BS-O-Meter is officially pegged out.
3 FREAKING YEARS is not long enough?? The Rs forced him to deny the permit but he did not turn down the pipeline??
Yes, the meter is pegged.
#15 What knockers
Climate scientist admits stealing docs from conservative think tank.
What hubris. It’s the Warmmongers who have done everything they can to prevent scientific debate, declaring it “settled science” and refusing to listen to any evidence to the contrary, not to mention practicing downright fraud.
#46 Texpat:
Now there’s a Sarge that I can totally endorse!
#53, 54: I think the term “lying sack of crap” gets close to describing this Gliek character. He is whining because the public is starting to realize that the whole MMGW is a farce, and the proponents of same are frauds. When the people realize they have been played for a fool it really wisses them off.
54 Hamous
It truly is a sickness.
Respected professionals willing to do anything for the cause.
They might as well be smoking crack.
The more we learn about the 0 admin the worse it gets. This comes from the chairman of the JCS
I am in agreement with McCain on this one, Dempsey is a dipstick.
h/t: jpost.com
#57 Shannon
Instapundit reader Kevin Coenen said it precisely:
I recall the Kyoto protocol during the Clinton admin. They tried to call it the Kyoto Accords because there were 1700 scientists that signed onto the document; what they failed to disclose was that there were 17000 scientists at the meeting, so to call it an accord would be a blatant falsehood. Very few chemists, physicists, meteorologists or the like signed the document but lots of anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists did, so what does that tell you. Now, over a decade later when the fraudulent behavior is being exposed, they start to change the debate from “global warming” to “global climate change”, they conveniently lose all the raw data and source documents, and engage in a full scale assault against all who would dare to disagree with them. I would say that a full scale house cleaning of the academic institutions and the government agencies is in order; purge the liars as they can not be trusted and they defile the title scientist by their very existence.
Oh, aren’t we cute?
She is, don’t know so much about you there, Sarge.
This Arizona law sounds good, I applaud the effort, but trying to enforce “non-partisan” lessons in the classroom may be hard to do.
Drudge has a funny picture of OOOgo Chavez with Sean Penn with the headline, Hugo has another tumor. Sean Penn a tumor, heh.
#46 Texpat. Wow. I’d never heard of that show. Young singer despairs of getting her big break and joins the USAF. While singing for some troops last August somewhere in the Mideast, somebody recorded her and posted it on youtube. Here is Sgt. Johnson singing the Star Spangled banner. The actual song starts at about 2:20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLAHt2VKHtM
#61 Sarge:
Don’t know about you – I’m uglier than mud.
#65 gto
I share a home with someone who is addicted to American Idol, X-Factor and The Voice. I have to watch whether I want to or not.
The wages of peace and tranquility.
Looks like the same show Tedtam linked to in #50. That ought to be enough cowbell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4221NcSKjo
Now here is some entitlement spending I can support.
Freebies for Furries!!!
Sarge, this is a personal choice item, if you don’t want to spend the money you don’t have to. It’s the thin edge of the wedge – a gateway freebee – to get you onto the government teat. Once you take a bite of that forbidden fruit you will be hooked for life.
Save yourself before it’s to late.
Too late. I started the ‘stache when I was in the Army. The gummint already subsidized it once.
That was a trade, your life for your stash. You kicked the habit once, don’t let them own you again.
#65 – powerful and “done straight up”…………….OUTSTANDING!!!!
Now this is a heart warming story:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fu-you-now-its-my-turn-90-year-old-man-describes-harrowing-shootout-with-burglar/
#75 – God BLESS that old Gent! Good shootin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I predict 50 years from now, colleges will conduct courses in Simpson 101 as a reflection of American society.
More power to them.
WOOT!
Some folks may remember my carping last year about my former employer’s pension plan being $500M in the hole. It was due to
mismanagementdownturn in the 2006 Obama economy. They sent out notices regarding how to apply when the government’s Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation picked up the tab.Well due to the ceaseless efforts of our Congressional delegations and Senators, $470M was inserted into the NASA budget just for us! Of course after putting it in, many of the Republican contingent voted against it, but their hearts were in the right place. At any rate, I will receive enough to pay off the house and trade up to that SLK380 I’ve had my eye on. And I thought Republicans only bailed out car companies.
#7
Hmmm ……….. that was easy.
From Alexis de Tocqueville’s observations on American character to the Simpsons. That the latter will be taught as equal to the former may well happen. Maybe one day in the future we will require comic book coloring tests for welfare. That may be all the liberal indoctrinated chillrens can comprehend by then. Gotta draw a line on the freebies somewhere.
Ok I just dropped in and have NO IDEA of what is going on, but last night Sarge said; “As I said, I remember my Dad buyin guns from Herters and having them mailed to the house.”
Man that brought back memories, when I was small my Dad got these little catalogs in the mail that had guns and all kind of accessories, gunsmithing tools, hunting/ shooting attire, ear muffs/safety glasses, reloading equipment including bullet molds, etc the list goes on and on. I loved looking at them and after my Mom passed away in April of 2010, I found one of these old books; Gil Hebard Guns, Knoxville, Illinois, catalog # 15, copyright 1962. It’s now one of my most prized Possessions.
FWIW; The Pix that I linked is the only old one I could find, I wish that I could show you # 19 because it has a “Hi-Standard Trophy” target pistol, in color on the cover and it has a Hammerli Olympic Gold Medalist inside the cover.
#80 gto
Maybe they will include drawings of a Mercedes SLK380 in the coloring book.
Going through my “Gil Hebard” catalog, S&W 44 mag 6 1/2″-11 7/8″ $140.00 in 1962! Oh, and for you folks in Rio Linda, that’d be about $1000 in today’s $$, Ruger Super Blackhawk (my favorite) $116, $825 in todays $$. Gold Cup National Match $125.00, $890, today.
Speaking of Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in 1830:
and augmented by the esteemed Daniel Greenfield:
#13 OTL
You sly dog, someone’s pulling somebody’s leg.
Texpat, I’ve always loved de Tocqueville, after all he wrote/knew this way back in 1830!
Maestro,
Cue the Schadenfreude, please
They can’t all be Dead Sea Scrolls …………
After scrolling up, I’ll have to Agree with Tedtam, Ms Adee and ole Katfish, I’m NOT a Simpsons fan, I’ve watched a little of it and it just seemed to mock/degrade the family unit, kinda’ like ALL Sitcoms today. Just my dos centavos.
#87 Yup, just another victum of the dreaded LDS syndrome.
Herter’s is the one I remember best. Not only did Dad’s rifle come from there, but all the duck and pheasant hunting gear did too. I still remember buying my own Herter’s cleaning kit out of that catalog for the single shot 20 gauge I got for my 14th birthday.
That .243 was a purpose built varmint gun. Dad ordered it with a Weaver V12 variable scope and a Harris Bi-pod back when they were a new thing.It was a Remington bolt action that was as smooth as buttah. We’d go out to the north country and he’d shoot woodchucks from one hillside across the valley to another. 200-300 yards was the norm. The scope was variable up to 12x and could be adjusted for up to 1000 yards.
When I was 16 I had a job with a carpenter and we were doing a kitchen remodel in an old farm house. We spotted a woodchuck about 150 yards down the pasture from the back door of that kitchen. Since the owners hadn’t occupied the house yet, we figured it would be OK to shoot him. I took that .243 to work with me the next day and we kept an eye out for that chuck. When he made his appearance, I setup in the prone position right on that kitchen floor and shot him from the kitchen door. I was so dam proud of myself, I picked it up and took it home to show my Dad. I’d put that round right under his ear.
That picture on Drudge of the G20 Summit looks like a retirement home for a barber’s college…
Thats all. We just don’t want to go bankrupt. To dream for anything beyond that is unrealistic.
Mrs. Shannon refuses to watch anything animated….or singing competitions.
I figure I’ll survive without them.
An interesting report on the Carriers that are still hanging around. I’ve been aboard all the West Coast carriers and a few of the East. I did not know that Brownsville was big in dismantling.
Last year the yard scrapped Vincennes, the cruiser that shot down a civilian Iranian Airliner based on self induced case of mistaken identity, one of the darker blots on the US Navy.
Tocqueville and all those older philosophers understood that human nature doesn’t change.
The have nots will always blame the haves for not having
Their will always be someone wanting to “help” someone to make themselves feel better. Even if “helping” makes that person unable to function and care for themselves.
There will always be people wanting power over others.
The ones seeking power will use the other groups of people to pursue their own selfish desires, whether they realize what they are doing or not.
People can easily delude themselves.
Some people are sheep. Some people are shepherds. Some people are wolves in shepherd’s clothing.
A few more de Toqueville quotes:
This is interesting, I just saw this happened to a Deer Park couple on the news.
K-Beech is a company that make pornographic movies. Apparently one of the movies made its way into a download site called BitTorrent where it was viewed by many folks.
K-Beech is suing Internet Service Providers to obtain the records of folks who allegedly downloaded the products, then sends a letter threatening to sue for copyright infringement. Rather than have their names become a matter of public record for downloading pornography, folks pay up.
There’s so much wrong here, I am unable to begin. But one of the enablers of this extortion racket are those who passed those laws requiring ISPs to keep track of their clientele in order to catch kiddie abusers or governments that demand records of internet transactions in order to catch foreign terrorists.
It will be interesting to see how this develops.
I’d like to think I’ve been low-key about not getting involved in the traveling political Circus keeping the nation entertained, but man, Santorum takes the center ring. Now he’s taking on Drudge for reporting his previous speeches about Satan taking over
There’s a reason the Democrats are not running anything against him; his [recorded] pronouncements on the corruption of the Protestant Churches are enough to ensure Obama’s re-election, Hillary Clinton becoming Vice-President and Bill Clinton being appointed to the Supreme Court.
And that trifecta would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Satan has indeed taken over.
How does Bill fit into the progressive identity politics narrative for court appointees?
Oh, I know!!! The long-oppressed narcissistic rapers.
Whoohoo, just filed my tax returns! Moving out of the 99% soon…NOT.
Once upon a time not to long ago I would have had no idea what “tea bagging” meant. This all changed when the liberal media openly mocked Tea Partiers as “tea baggers”. I particularly remember two news hosts giggling at the repeated mentioning of “tea bagger” referring to the grass-root movement. Well, just otnight my oldest sone and a neighbor boy payed ith Youngest Son by hopping over his head and shout, “tea bag!”. I aksed what that was all about and Oldest Son said, innocently enough, that when you jup over a person’s head, and get this, “with your legs opened”, you say “tea bag”. I immediately told the boys to say “leap frog” instead in my house and made an immediate correction when the neighbor boy slipped and said, “tea bag”. Latter tonight when i was one-on-one with Oldest son I explained as basically as I could what “tea bag” meant and that it involved two men. He said he didn’t know and I figued he didn’t but I told him that he now has the opportunity to set a good example to others by not participating in these “tea bag” call outs.
He’s a good boy and I’m very confident he’ll make the right choice.
I tell you, liberals sure do know how to steal away childhood innocence.
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Thanks to Bill Clinton a generation of 6th graders don’t think oral sex is sex.