Re: Gun love

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In related news, apparently Trump's all for gun control now. (Including taking people's guns without due process!)


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 3:50 PM
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"Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... they're everywhere."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 3:50 PM
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2: Moby, you complete me.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 3:53 PM
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It was necessary.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 3:56 PM
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1: Give him a couple of days. He'll have an entirely new position.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:07 PM
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Jared lost his security clearance. I'm pretty sure that means Trump will be more hostile and unstable than usual for the next few days.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:10 PM
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Maybe next we arm the teachers and deputize them to take the guns from the crazies.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:10 PM
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There was a teacher who fired a shot (not at anybody) in a school in Georgia. Not many details, except that the teacher was arrested. If I knew this was thread was coming, I would have put the link here instead of the other thread. If I weren't lazy, I'd put it here now.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:15 PM
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2 is good, but no one has posted the Zardoz quote? This is not the blog it used to be.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:25 PM
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I can't do everything myself.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 4:29 PM
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Also, Hope Hicks (no relation) is resigning.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 5:18 PM
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How is Wry Cooter's security clearance process going, then?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 6:25 PM
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I thought his application for a clearance got knocked back to Secret instead of Top Secret/SCI. He had an interim clearance at the highest level, now he has an interim at the Secret level. At least that's what I read this morning. It could be a major handicap for someone in his role, of course.


Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 6:42 PM
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* An interim only lasts until the investigation of your background is complete, and people with an interim don't have the same level of access as people with a full clearance.


Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 6:45 PM
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I read that any asshole can get "Secret".


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 6:57 PM
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It could be a major handicap for someone in his role, of course.

This is deeply concerning. Without access to the best information, he may now start giving the president ill-considered advice!


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 7:21 PM
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When it was just Dick's saying they'd stop selling guns to people under 21, I didn't think much of it. But now it's Dick's and Walmart. You can boycott Dick's. I don't think you (where you is somebody who really loves guns) can boycott Walmart.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 7:40 PM
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15 You still have to decide whether and what to disclose about Mossy Character and ajay.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 8:40 PM
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...
Will it make it easier on you, now
You've got something to aim?

You say gun love, gun life
When it's gun need in the night
Gun love, we get to share it
...


Posted by: AR-2 | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 9:01 PM
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19 is great.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 9:12 PM
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These folks should be committed, amirite Armalite!


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 9:52 PM
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Stopping selling to people under 21 is sort of weaksauce. Just because the latest shooter was 19? Dick's actually got rid of semiautomatics, which seems more material to me. Walmart's change is more cosmetic, at least from what I've read so far.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 9:56 PM
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I read that any asshole can get "Secret".

Strong enough for an asshole, but made for your armpits.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-28-18 10:40 PM
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You can boycott Dick's.

I was about to make a rather predictable Lysistrata reference, and earn the scorn of nosflow as a mere dilettante, but was sidetracked by the discovery that the play, according to Wikipedia, includes mention of a sexual position called "The Lioness On The Cheese Grater".


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 3:04 AM
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Enter URPLIOS, habited strangely.

CHORUS: Look, folk of Athens! Hear his words!

PNEUMALACERTA, an argumentative woman: Surely we must pay attention to Urplios. We know well how strange is the food that he eats.

AIAS, a foreigner: Indeed, what comes out of his mouth will be no less strange than what goes into it.

CHORUS: We support you in email!

URPLIOS: I have invented what I believe to be an entirely classical sexual practice!

NOSPHLOS, a philosopher: That is a deliberate anachronism!

(He is struck down with an atlatl. The CHORUS utter strange cries and begin to dance.)


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 3:12 AM
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25 is superb.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 3:42 AM
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Βρεκεκεκράνοπλαν, κοὰξ, κοάξ


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 3:53 AM
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I love you ajay.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 5:23 AM
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I was about to make a rather predictable Lysistrata reference, and earn the scorn of nosflow as a mere dilettante, but was sidetracked by the discovery that the play, according to Wikipedia, includes mention of a sexual position called "The Lioness On The Cheese Grater".

More proof there were lions in London in ancient times!


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 6:00 AM
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27 is almost better!


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 6:27 AM
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Yesterday was fun on Twitter because you saw all the people making fun of the gun church who had clearly clicked on the link expecting to see Reverend Jim's Megachurch in suburban Tennessee, but then saw it was a weird Korean cult that occasionally gathers in their temple in the forest, and then sort of made the same joke anyway but their heart wasn't in it.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 7:27 AM
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22: Walmart's sauce has other things in it, like they don't sell handgun (except in Alaska, because bears) and I think several years ago it stopped selling most (all?) of the types of guns Dick's is just now dropping. Both of them are a long way from banning semi-automatics.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 7:38 AM
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25 is great.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 7:38 AM
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Oh right, Dick's just got rid of assault rifles, so-named.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 7:44 AM
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Yes. And Walmart did a few years ago. But, I'm not sure they are defining "assault" the same way.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 8:22 AM
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Oh Christ I finally got 27 and it's even better than 25.
Well, more αναχρονιστικ at any rate


Posted by: Nworb | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 12:29 PM
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κοάξ

I've never been able to understand what the cable plugged into the back of the TV set has to do with frogs.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 12:52 PM
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That was good. Thank you, google translate and vague memory of the classics.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 1:02 PM
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It's literally the only line of classical Greek drama I actually know (well, minus the ranoplan). In fact, the only line of classical Greek I know about from ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον, and I only know that because of Joyce.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 1:10 PM
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about s/b apart


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 1:11 PM
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I'm proud I can say I can read 27 in the original Greek and while it is very good it is not as great as 25.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 1:11 PM
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To say. That is.To say.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 1:12 PM
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37: if you unplug it, all the frogs get out.


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 2:18 PM
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Who let the frogs out? Βρεκεκεκεξ, κραξ, κοάξ!


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 4:06 PM
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Who let the frogs out? Βρεκεκεκεξ, κραξ, κοάξ!


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 4:06 PM
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39: I know a couple of others because I had to stare at them every morning in assembly and learned to translate them just out of sheer frustration.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 4:09 PM
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Applause for 44. But not 45.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 1-18 4:10 PM
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39/46 AIMHMHB, when I was working in Blackwell's Classics department I used to wear a badge saying, "θεοὺς μὲν αἰτῶ τῶνδ᾽ ἀπαλλαγὴν πόνων" (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 1). The bosses hadn't a clue but the customers loved it.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 5-18 4:22 AM
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