Behold! What may be the single greatest piece of 21st Century art. Buy one for all your conservative friends! UPDATE: It can be found here.
When I get home from work, I have to begin packing for vacation, which starts on Saturday morning. Only one more day of being pretty much useless at work until we go! San Diego, with your 70’s and 80’s weather, and your Comic-con, here I come! I’m looking forward to the Battlestar Galactica panel and the Dexter panel. I’ll suffer through attending the Breaking Dawn Pt. 2 panel with my daughter because it’s her first Comic-con.
It’s been a while since we’ve had a jobs thread around here. It’s perhaps time for another. If you need a job, post your request. If you have or know of an available job, post that information. Also, too, open thread.
ETA–as always from me, USA Jobs should be your first stop for an employment search.
Speaking of wingnut patriotism, Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh was on the Ashleigh Banfield show on CNN and got into what has been described as a 10-minute long shouting match with the usually genial and inoffensive host over his remarks last week that his opponent, Tammy Duckworth is not a “real hero” because, unlike John McCain, she actually talks about being in a war. NOTE–I haven’t seen the video. It’s blocked at work.
Here is a link on Talking Points Memo. Walsh looks like hell, like he hasn’t slept in days. My God, that melt down is fucking epic! He’s blaming the Duckworth campaign for video taping him. It’s Duckworth’s fault that he’s a prick.
Frankensteinbeck
Next year at Comic Con!
Mino
Sorry, but if that is supposed to be Reagan, they could have done a better job.
I got it from the context, however. Unless it’s Ryan.
AliceBlue
What the..? Is that Reagan? On a dinosaur??
I’m rubbing my eyes but I still see it.
Joshua Norton
Not enough Jeebus.
Walker
Speaking of weird patriotic art, what does everyone think of the modified colonial flag in the Assassin’s Creed III special editions? Fox is going to have a field day when they get ahold of that.
ruemara
What are you talking about? I, a big ass liberal socialist, want one to paper my wall with. Full of Win. And yes, people, please post jobs if you know of them.
Gromit
Totally unrealistic. Velociraptors never grew that big.
syzygy
Love the way he uses the American flag for a saddle blanket. Sort of says it all.
slippy
@syzygy: Yeah. He is literally wiping his ass on it.
Also, doesn’t look like Reagan AT ALL. But that is fitting, because Reagan wasn’t real AT ALL. He was just a guy reading a script.
vera lynn
I need a job if anyone in NC knows of any. I have many years experience in AP and office work. I have been laid off 3 times since 2009, the last time being Tuesday. I just want to work at a place where I can work with little or no fear of getting laid off again. I am near Charlotte. Thanks.
MaryJane
We spent most of last week in San Diego. Gorgeous as always and only a 90 minute drive.
I’ve never been to Comic-Con, just not my thing. My 16 year old entered the lottery for a wristband to Dethlok’s performance on the USS Midway 7/13. He’ll be notified only 72-48 hours in advance if he gets one. If so, this will be an interesting experience, to say the least.
Tim in SF
Funny, I’m leaving for my San Diego vacation in three hours. I’ll be there until Tuesday, but I’m skipping the Con this time. Have fun at the Con! Don’t forget sun screen and an umbrella – the sun outside is a killer.
The Other Chuck
Tell me this is a parody?
Poe’s Law strikes again.
Todd
There’s an eagle pin, but no flag pin, for fuck’s sake. What kind of hippie commie portrays Reagan without a proper flag pin?
Interrobang
What the fuck is that? Oh my god, is that supposed to be Reagan? Really? Looks more like Tom Cruise to me, but I’m young enough that I don’t remember Reagan as being anything other than a wrinkledy old warlock who I could tell (even at the age of five when he first got elected) was both completely senile and crazier than a shithouse rat.
Roger Moore
I still want to know why St. Ronnie of Raygun is shooting a German made MP5K and carrying a Soviet RPG-7. Aren’t there perfectly good American made weapons he could be toting?
@syzygy:
Not as well as American Flag toilet paper would. I’ve actually seen American Flag paper napkins, which really bothered me. I understand the sentiment- you want to show off your patriotism- but the idea of wiping your mouth with the flag is just wrong.
The Other Chuck
The layout of the stars appears to be 5 rows of 10 stars. That’s not even how the US Flag looks. Was this art project outsourced to Sri Lanka or something?
(edit: now that I’m told it’s spoof, I guess it’s just part of the package)
Ruckus
I’m looking.
Welder/fabricator
Bicycle fitter/mechanic
Motorcycle mechanic
Machinist – EDM operator
bon vivant
Santa Monica, SF Valley. Living currently in Topanga
evinfuilt
@The Other Chuck:
If you check out his site, you’ll find out that yes, this isn’t from some ultra-conservative. He depicts FDR in a giant robot, out to crush evil with his all powerful New Deal.
Riilism
Machine gun, grenade launcher, velociraptor, and alzheimer’s … a winning combination! …???
pragmatism
have not an will not go to comicon. i have posted up a sidewalk table down in the gaslamp district and done some people watching. because nerd prom is hilarious.
MaryJane
@vera lynn: Sorry about the lay-off, that sux. Good luck in your search.
Soonergrunt
@Roger Moore: It’s actually an MP-7, but yeah.
http://world.guns.ru/smg/de/hk-mp7-pdw-e.html
blueneck
…and THAT, children, is how we won the Cold War!
Aardvark Cheeselog
What is with the commie RPG strapped to St. Ronaldus’s back? Surely he ought to be toting a Carl Gustav or M72?
ETA: Roger Moore beat me to that…
Allan
Are we sure that isn’t John Travolta wearing a Reagan mask?
bliekker
It’s a bit overcast in SD right now. I think it might start to clear out by Sunday. Have fun.
kooks
I’m looking for a civil engineer position in Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay area or Silicon Valley for a friend of mine. She has lots of project and construction management experience working on facilities (Apple campus, Stanford children’s hospital) and transportation projects, and she’s also LEED certified.
Ruckus
WP atted my comment!
Anywho.
Not another raygun movie poster.
I am looking for work.
Welder/fabricator
Machinist – EDM operator
Bicycle fitter/mechanic
Motorcycle mechanic
bon vivant
Santa Monica – SF Valley Currently living in Topanga.
tulip
nice touch… property of the united stated on the velociraptor.
dead existentialist
The D.A.R.E. sticker on the saddle adds a nice touch.
Gin & Tonic
@Tim in SF:
I was in San Diego a few weeks back for five days. Saw the sun maybe on parts of two of them. Mid 60’s, cloudy and damp. Might as well have been in Maine.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
I hope he has the proper permits to carry fully automatic weapons like that.
J. Michael Neal
Still looking for an accounting job in the Twin Cities area. I’m not that confident that I can make a living as a novelist.
Mino
I thought raptors were feathered.
pragmatism
@Gin & Tonic: gray may and june gloom. happens every year. july through sept are the hot months. oct through april are the glorious weather/no crowds months.
The Other Chuck
@tulip:
Took me a while to see that one. I’m guessing there’s a lot more gags in there.
Also, the face looks a little more like Reagan in the full size version. The wrinkles kinda disappear in the scaled-down image.
The Other Chuck
@Mino:
Only the gay ones. That’s why they died out after all.
HRA
I think it looks a lot like Mark Halperin. Blech! Maybe he posed for it?
Soonergrunt
@Mino: The description says ‘velociraptor’ but I think it’s a Utahraptor. It’s too big to be a velociraptor. Utahraptor got to be about six feet tall, and I don’t think (if I remember my college class correctly) that they had feathers.
EDIT–the wikipedia article states that they most likely did have feathers because all of the preceding species in that line of Dromaedsauria had feathers.
Gin & Tonic
@pragmatism: My luck.
Original Lee
@J. Michael Neal: But you could make a living writing about accounting! Not all jobs are listed, and not all jobs require being in DC.
slag
Ha! Though I think I prefer Ben Franklin v. Zeus: http://www.etsy.com/listing/87294979/ben-franklin-vs-zeus-hq-11×17-print . I had no idea Franklin had an adamantium skeleton, but, in retrospect, it makes a lot of sense.
pragmatism
@Gin & Tonic: it seems like it should be the time of year when it is nice down here. it’s counter intuitive. the marine layer just doesn’t retreat during those months and we get socked in.
Cassidy
@J. Michael Neal: Try PSS World Medical. I know that thye’ve been looking for accountants at their corporate HQ in Jacksonville, FL. As for your area, they have branches all over.
Roger Moore
@Soonergrunt:
Right you are. I obviously haven’t been keeping up with modern developments in weaponry.
Cassidy
@Roger Moore: Such an unrealistic picture. Picatinny rails were not all the rage back in the early 80’s.
Tony J
@Roger Moore:
Because he fired off all of his American made death-metal during his assault on the re-education camp where Freebird the Ameriraptor was being held. The weapons he’s using in this picture are ones he liberated from the cold, dead hands of the UNSSO guard detail when he and his time-lost steed made their escape.
Obvious in context, no?
J.W. Hamner
@dead existentialist:
@Roger Moore:
The D.A.R.E. sticker and the non-American weaponry were what jumped out at me as well.
Felanius Kootea
@Gin & Tonic: Ah. You experienced June gloom. Took me a while to get used to it, having moved to SoCal from Boston, MA.
ETA: Oops, just noticed @pragmatism‘s comment.
Julia Grey
It doesn’t look anything like Reagan, but does bear a passing resemblance to Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.
Cassidy
@J.W. Hamner: Should have been a 1911. We suck at smg’s.
Roger Moore
@slag:
I’m rather partial to “Abe Lincoln Reloaded“: “Four Score and Seven Years ago He took the Red Pill.”
butler
@Gin & Tonic: There’s a reason we call it “June Gloom”, and its not just because it rhymes. This last weekend had plenty of sun, and I’ve got the sunglass lines to prove it.
Also a friendly reminder to anyone visiting not to blink or look away when viewing fireworks here or you might miss the whole show.
Cap'n Magic
Lets not forget the obligatory Bible is in there, too.
Jewish Steel
@Soonergrunt:
You don’t have to settle for a poster if you’re willing to wait for the Reagan/Raptor sex robot.
Soonergrunt
@Roger Moore: The German troops in Afghanistan had them, in addition to their G-36 rifles. I got to fire both for the Schützenschnur along with the P8 pistol and the MG3 machine gun.
It’s a nice little sub gun, meant for vehicle drivers and radio operators.
David in NY
It’s obviously aimed at adolescent boys. Promotes dinosaur analysis, weapons analysis, and immature political analysis. No computer angle I can see, however.
jeffreyw
There is a bag of jelly beans in a pistol holster on the saddle. Obviously not Jelly Bellies. The painting is a fake.
Roger Moore
@Cassidy:
How about the original Thompson? Besides, traditional SMGs are a dubious idea anyway, so maybe having given up on them is a point in our favor, anyway. The assault rifle is really a much better solution, at least as a military weapon.
The Moar You Know
The artist
I think I’m going to have to buy this. And probably some of his other stuff as well.
Raven
Notice the Twin Tower frame in the corner.
Southern Beale
Sorry, but the painting of Sir Rants-A-Lot Breitbart is still the best piece of conservative art ever, especially since it turned out to be photoshopped from a video game.
Roger Moore
@butler:
That was nothing. I went to the Cai Guo-Qiang “Sky Ladder” performance. That wasn’t quite a “don’t blink or you’ll miss it” type of performance, because it was bright enough you could probably see it through your eyelids.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@vera lynn:
Sadly, no such place meeting your search criteria exists anymore.
el donaldo
I’m sure it’s exactly as Reagan remembered it happening.
Raven
This is some weak shit Big Daddy Ed Roth knew hot to do it!
http://edroth.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html
Jerzy Russian
@Interrobang:
While I like that expression, I have always wondered why a shithouse rat should crazier than the typical rat.
Getting back to the image itself, WTF? Is this some sort of tribute, or some sort of inverse tribute (i.e. a put-down)? I understand the conservative mind less and less as times goes on.
satanicpanic
Damn, wish I had finally gotten around to visiting Comic-con this year, woulda bought you a beer SG
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Raven: Ronald Reagan’s velociraptor destroyed the WTC?!
Culture of Truth
@Comrade Scrutinizer: Indeed, I was looking for a wrecked Berlin Wall. This is history – it’s important to get it right.
Soonergrunt
@Roger Moore: The Thompson was good, but the M-3A1 Grease Gun was better. As accurate, less complex, cost a LOT less. M-3A1s were still issued to Bradley drivers and gunners when first joined the Army.
elmo
If you don’t like June gloom, just head a few miles east. I grew up in Santee, and I think we had two cloudy days during my entire childhood.
Raven
Big Daddy even did us lowly truck drivers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coop666/2577157060/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Raven
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I didn’t draw it!
Todd
Just noticed that the laws of physics broke down, and that all 40 rounds from the MP7 mag are airborne.
St Ronald is being portrayed as week, as he’s still got the original stick in the weapon, and hasn’t moved to reload.
Damn commie artist.
The Other Chuck
@Jerzy Russian:
It’s a spoof on all “patriotic art”. Here’s his whole ouevre: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sharpwriter
Violet
Is that a DARE to Keep Your Kids off Drugs bumper sticker on Reagan’s saddle? Hilarious.
Raven
@Todd: week?
slag
@Roger Moore: I like that one too! This guy’s got talent. I even like how Reagan is just sort of generic-looking because he’s the every Republitarian. During 08 election, I once Photoshopped John McCain and GW Bush onto the back of the dinosaur, but this guy’s work is way better–a parody rather than a satire. I bet he might even get some Republitarians to buy it not getting the joke. A la Colbert. That’s high art.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Roger Moore:
Depends on the context. The SMG is a better choice for CQB, or presumably, fighting mounted on a velociraptor.
Mnemosyne
Why is a skinny Chris Noth riding a velociraptor?
And isn’t that thing supposed to have feathers?
TaMara (BHF)
Hey, if you’re in the Boulder/Denver area, I could use a really good boiler tech/plumber/solar guy (if you can do boilers, you can do solar thermal). Also, too if you don’t mind doing pools in the summer I can get you lots of hours. Must be okay being on roofs (cause, see that’s where we put the solar.)
We’re a dysfunctional company, but honest and hard working. Email me at tamara (at) aquacaresolar (dot) com with your details.
And come September we’ll probably need an entry level office person, too.
Soonergrunt
@Comrade Scrutinizer: “…fighting mounted on a velociraptor.”
I would re-up just for the chance to that. I wonder if they’d let me use my cavalry sabre while I was at it?
Davis X. Machina
@Todd:
It’s painted in slow motion, silly.
Ruckus
I’m looking for work.
Santa Monica/west side SF Valley
Bicycle fitter/mechanic
Motorcycle mechanic
Mold maker – EDM operator
Welder/fabricator
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Soonergrunt:
Dunno, but I’d give it a shot if I could use a P90 in place of the MP-7.
Brooklyn Michael
…it’s like “Red Dawn” meets “Dogs Playing Poker.”
Ruckus
@Soonergrunt:
I don’t think it is going to be possible for me to find a job.
I have posted on this tread 4 different times and they all have been eated. Maybe it really is just me.
Seems not to like to post for me unless I am replying to someone.
JGabriel
I’m staring at that painting and thinking, “I don’t remember Alec Baldwin riding a velociraptor in Glenngarry Glenn Ross.”
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Ruckus
@Brooklyn Michael:
That sounds classier.
scav
This was pretty much day 2 of the News of the World meltdown last year, no? And I don’t know why the scariest thing about that whole things is my having to see Rayguns ankles because his pants aren’t long enough.
Roger Moore
@Soonergrunt:
Would you need to? I’d think the raptor would handle the close in stuff with teeth and claws, leaving you to focus on beyond hand-to-hand range stuff.
scav
Actually, if that thing had feathers and wings, he could go all Anne Perry and have a flame-throwing dragon to go with those teeth.
Tonal Crow
See libtards! The Bible is correct as always! Humans and dinosaurs DID co-exist!
JGabriel
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__The Other Chuck:
Actually, the Reagan in the full-size version, looks a lot like Scott Bakula dressed up for Halloween as Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black.
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Soonergrunt
@Ruckus: I don’t see anything awaiting moderation. I’d tell you to shoot your post to me in email and I’d post it, but I can’t get to [email protected] until I get home in a couple of hours. Try again–what kind of job are you looking for, and where?
@Roger Moore: But the photograph of that would be fucking EPIC!
bago
@Joshua Norton: Will Bea Arthur suffice?
http://www.brandonbird.com/bea.html
jeffreyw
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill…
Ruckus
@Soonergrunt:
Bicycle fitter/mechanic
Motorcycle mechanic
Mold maker – EDM operator
Welder/fabricator
Santa Monica/west side or SF Valley
JGabriel
@scav:
Because it means the artist purposefully left the pants too short specifically so he could lovingly detail the foot inserted into the stirrup, the old man sock, and the exposed flesh above it.
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Ruckus
@Soonergrunt:
WP really, really does not like at least one of the words I used or some of my punctuation. I’ll try again
Bicycle fitter, mechanic
Mold maker, EDM operator
Welder, fabricator
Santa Monica and west side or SF Valley
Ruckus
@Soonergrunt:
That’s twice I replied to your post number 94 and they are both just gone. I’ve never had this kind of response from word press. Till now.
scav
@JGabriel: yeaa-arrggh, I need to go lie down in a cold dark room now and shudder for a bit.
Ruckus
@JGabriel:
Did you consider the possibility that the “artist” is just not very good?
Roger Moore
@Soonergrunt:
Not as epic as the ones of the raptor simultaneously disemboweling your enemies with its toe claws and decapitating them with its mouth while you stare majestically into the distance. That said, somebody desperately needs to hook this guy up with Sandow Birk; their collaboration could be truly staggering.
Soonergrunt
@Ruckus: That one seems to have worked. I don’t know what to tell you. I know very little about WP.
Tonal Crow
I think it’d resemble reality better if the creature had huge bat-like wings, and Reagan was wearing a black robe with such a deep hood that you couldn’t see any face.
MattR
@Ruckus: Is it possible that your comment includes the name of a banned commenter? That seems to be one of the triggers that eats posts. I’ve also foudn that every now and then there is a link it just does not like.
freelancer
My guess is he is shooting at a group of Catholic nuns.
scav
@scav: Christ, that means I’ve got to crawl into the refrigerator. oh well, needs must.
Commenting at Balloon Juice Since 1937
That picture is the epitome of how we would be mocking the right. Do they realize how ridiculous they are?
Amir Khalid
No one’s brought this up in the thread so far, but that portrait shows Ronald Reagan firing that MP-7 with his right hand while holding the velociraptor’s reins in his left. Wasn’t Reagan left-handed?
Violet
@Ruckus: I’ve had comments just vanish. No moderation, just gone. Sometimes it has to do with a link, sometimes a word seems to trigger it. No real rhyme or reason.
Try looking through your post and re-spell any questionable words and eliminate links. You might be able to get the point of the post across without whatever is causing it to vanish.
Soonergrunt
@Amir Khalid: Honestly, I never noticed that about him.
Culture of Truth
@JGabriel:
It’s a subtle shout-out to the time Peggy Noonan wrote and published an ode to Reagan’s feet.
Valdivia
Regarding the topic at hand, in Santa Monica, InstaCanvas is looking for a Web Engineer. They do cool stuff for InstaGramers.
Ruckus
@MattR:
Can’t think of any word I used that would be a banned commenter and no links in the post.
I’ve tried not to worry about the banned posters so that sure is a possibility. I changed all the punctuation with no change, so I’ll bet one word is a banned poster. Damned if I have a clue which one it might be.
PeakVT
@Roger Moore: What, you didn’t believe my answer from the last thread?
slag
@Culture of Truth: I was going to go with this explanation: http://www.albertspage.it/sigle_tv/foto/Miami%20vice08.jpg .
Violet
@Ruckus: Did you use the common word for footwear? That’ll send you to mod.
Like I said above, try re-spelling various words that you think might be tripping the filter and see if that helps. You never know which one it is. And, if someone recognizes one that was used as a banned poster’s name, then they can let you and the rest of us know.
Svensker
The Swedish Cultural Center in Seattle is hiring. It’s not much, but it’s something!
http://swedishculturalcenter.org/staff.htm
Amir Khalid
@Soonergrunt:
Per Wikipedia, Reagan was naturally leftie, but forced to use his right hand as a child — commonly done to southpaw kids in those days.
Ruckus
@Violet:
All the words are job titles or descriptions and locations and none of them are long posts so whatever the word is I’m probably not going to find it with out posting one word at a time.
Thanks everyone for the help.
ETA Sooner said nothing in mod so it must be a banned word and I have no idea. For once no swear words, no calling rethugs assholes. Life is a whatever it is.
Tonal Crow
@Violet:
I thought John fixed that. Let’s see: shoes!
ETA Yep, works fine. Could it be the word for the Vegas table game with the spinning wheel? I seem to remember losing a couple of posts to that problem.
Soonergrunt
@Ruckus: Nothing in the quarantined posts at the moment.
Ruckus
Looking for that elusive ability to post about needing a job. Please read between the lines
bike mechanic
bike fit specialist
mold maker
welder
Santa Monica SF Valley
Violet
@Ruckus: Were you offering a job or looking for work?
Soonergrunt
@Amir Khalid: You learn something new every day!
Raven
Not a word about Dig Daddy, what a bunch of nerds.
PaulW
For the job thread, I am a long-time reference librarian with extensive reference desk public support and basic computer troubleshooting skills. I can perform research requests both through print and online database resources. I’ve performed collection management duties in various subject areas. I can relocate as needed to any library or research opening at Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland/DC, and North Carolina.
Citizen_X
@Tonal Crow:
It’s Reagan. Of course he rode dinosaurs.
Oh, and here’s another President on the artist’s site.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
It says “Gipper” on the side of the gun.
There’s little Captain America sticker on the saddle.
Reagan’s buckle is the American flag.
Culture of Truth
Shoes! Boots! Socks! Slippers!
Ruckus
@Violet:
Looking
Odie Hugh Manatee
You people who believe in Net Neutrality are stomping all over the constitutionally protected corporate person-type rights of Verizon to throttle downloads. That’s right, it’s all your fault!
If I was a Verizon customer I would drop their service and tell them to go fuck off.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Amir Khalid: Yep, so out of the last five presidents, four were left handed: Only GWB was not.
Maike
@slag: My personal favorite is Abe Lincoln Reloaded.
burnspbesq
OT, a nice story.
Adam Fullerton is the backup goaltender for the Denver Outlaws of Major League Lacrosse. Last night, he played for the first time in over a year. Big deal? Well, it kinda is.
See, he didn’t miss the last year due to injury. He missed the last year because his day job got in the way. Capt. Adam Fullerton, USMA Class of 2008, is a fire support officer, and he just finished a year in Afghanistan.
Welcome home, Captain.
Ruckus
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
If it violates their free speech rights then are they responsible for content?
And as I have a hate-hate relationship with Verizon I’d love to tell them to fuck off but as they are the only provider in this area, I have no choice.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
As always, if you are in the Dallas area, or are willing to relocate, and are a senior software engineer and is eligible to obtain a security clearance (US citizen, no felonies, etc), L-3 is hiring.
burnspbesq
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Chill. If those are the best arguments Verizon can come up with, it is, to use a highly technical legal term, toast.
Amir Khalid
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
And in 1992, 1996, and 2008, there were no right-handed candidates in the presidential election.(Bob Dole lost the use of his right due to war injuries, and had to learn to use his left hand.)
duck-billed placelot
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tworivers
I used to think that Eric Cantor was indisputably the most loathsome a-hole in all of Congress, but now I’m wondering if Joe Walsh might just have him beat.
Wotta douche!
Amir Khalid
Another thing that strikes me as weird: Why is Reagan in a suit? Shouldn’t he be in cowboy gear, or a 19th century cavalryman’s uniform?
Soonergrunt
@Amir Khalid: THAT’s what strikes you as weird with this picture?!?
different-church-lady
@duck-billed placelot: You are entering a world of pain, son.Sorry, didn’t realize this was a job thread — mistook your post for spam.
Southern Beale
@Amir Khalid:
Dude. Don’t ask why. Just … don’t.
It is a path fraught with peril.
scav
@Amir Khalid: Savior come to us from the 0.000001% imagery is my guess. Missing a halo though.
Violet
@tworivers: Joe Walsh is a misogynistic jerk and an idiot. Eric Cantor is worse because he’s got a bit of power in addition to being a loathsome a-hole. Walsh just lashes out and eventually looks the fool he is. But you can just see Cantor’s beady eyes calculating just how far he’ll get by saying/doing whatever. He’s amoral and in it just for himself. I see that as worse.
different-church-lady
@Odie Hugh Manatee: You mean throttle them even more than their usual shitty speeds?
MattR
@burnspbesq: I kept meaning to flip over to that game and I kept forgetting to do so. Now I am disappointed I never made the switch.
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Fuck Verizon with a rusty pitchfork. (Not that the other telcom companies are much better)
Amir Khalid
@Violet:
To add to Joe Walsh’s woes: a far more famous (and popular) man of the same name, the guitarist, has endorsed Tammy Duckworth and is campaigning for her.
shortstop
@Amir Khalid: Now THAT’S funny!
Raven
@Amir Khalid: Life’s been good to him so far. . .
Steve in DC
@tworivers:
Cantor is smart and acting as he does out of malice and personal greed/ambition. Walsh is just a fucking moron and a crazy person being moronic and crazy.
slag
@Maike: That’s a good one too.
Though I’m surprised so many people don’t get parody art when they see it. He’s riding a fucking dinosaur here, people! This isn’t exactly a Hail to the Chief kind of image.
I’m wondering if those weapons he’s carrying were traded to Iran.
Balconesfault
Do they have that on Black Velvet?
Tonal Crow
@Balconesfault:
Yes, but cheesy rhinestones and new-car scent are then mandatory.
The Other Chuck
@slag: After the Medieval Breitbart Bobblehead ‘shop job, I simply don’t know how to recalibrate my irony meter anymore.
The Other Chuck
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Sounds like a sinister plot to me ;)
Valdivia
The villagers are beginning to notice Romney is running on empty. It gives me a happy!
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh! Ashleigh!
Gah, like I didn’t already hate that fucker.
Maude
@Amir Khalid:
He was most often seen in a suit. Remember the flap over Obama not wearing a tie or whatever in the Oval Office?
Other than that, I don’t know.
Mary G
I am a ways up the coast from San Diego but the weather is about the same. Everyone is complaining how cold it was yesterday and today. (Right now at 3 p.m. it’s 66 degrees). It’s supposed to get up to 74 by Saturday, though. June Gloom has no respect for your stinking human calendar.
I was in the hospital cafeteria earlier and heard the Walsh interview. It was hilarious. I thought Ashley was going to bust a gut.
Citizen_X
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Gawd, just watched that interview. What a misogynist fuckwad.
ETA: Maybe he’s got a crush on Ashleigh. Sure loves saying her name.
Hal
Speaking of getting hired: noticed on TPM that Allen is ahead in VA. Is he really going to get re-elected? Amazing that Virginians aren’t sick of the dude.
The Other Chuck
Joe Walsh on Joe Walsh’s interview performance: http://imgur.com/DVw8t
PeakVT
Speaking of first names, Bob Diamond managed to tick off Parliament by using members’ first names during testimony yesterday.
How much of an asshole do you have to be to think that’s a good idea?
SiubhanDuinne
@Roger Moore:
In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”,
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a Javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by “commissariat”,
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy—
You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
(Always the apt word.)
Valdivia
@Hal:
that result is based on a poll from a Republican firm that had Romney winning Virginia by more than 5 points. They haven’t updated in about a week and that poll was bs. Other polls have come out showing Obama ahead.
slag
@The Other Chuck: There is that. I suspect it’s getting harder and harder for Stephen Colbert to outpace the wackiness as well. Heck, I’m starting to worry that the universe won’t be able to expand fast enough to contain the wingnut wack factor, eventually resulting in some sort of cataclysmic supernova event that will rapture us all. But until it actually happens, I’m going to play it safe and assume that the creationists have it wrong about both dinosaurs and raptures.
ABL
I can’t even.
killer
@Soonergrunt: If you are in Balrom 20 for the Dexter panel, go to the control platform on the side of the room and ask for Killer. That’s me. I am teh camera engineer for that event.
shortstop
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: I had to stop after the 437th ASHLEIGH! My ears were bleeding.
shortstop
@SiubhanDuinne: Never get tired of it.
tworivers
@Violet:
I guess you’re right. Cantor is more knowing in his evil, whereas Walsh is unconscious of his evil, and acts out because he’s an unenlightened idiot / spoiled child prone to temper tantrums
That being said, Walsh is still pretty f’ing irritating to listen to.
Yutsano
If anyone is interested in home-based work, a good website for that is http://www.flexjobs.com. They do charge a fee to join, but there are lots of good opportunities listed. And they screen out the scams.
The Other Chuck
@Yutsano: There is a certain irony in paying a fee up front to weed out work-at-home scams that charge a fee up front…
kyle
@el donaldo: That’s the best comment of the thread.
deianaera
Las Vegas or San Diego (North County) areas:
My company is hiring for sales and technical positions!
http://www.bluepointsolutions.com/careers/
lamh35
President Obama Consoles Woman Whose Uninsured Sister Died Of Colon Cancer
Soonergrunt
@killer: I’ll try to remember that!
Yutsano
@The Other Chuck: Good point. However you can just go on and look around as well without paying anything.
poemworld
I’m looking for a job in the Austin, TX area. BS Mathematics from U.T. Austin, 14 years in the teacher labor movement, two years teaching science and mathematics. I want to leave education for now; it’s become intolerable in Texas. Any ideas/leads are appreciated. Thanks y’all!
jeffreyw
Thread needs moar puppeh.
Litlebritdifrnt
@MattR:
Speaking of cell companies I have been happy with mine (US Cellular) ever since we got a “talk tracking” pay as you go phone eons ago and then went to a full plan about a year later. I recently upgraded my phone to a Droid (well a couple of months ago) and it did not cost me anything. I did not know why, but whatevers. DH now wants to upgrade his and I checked today and they said “you can’t until September on your current plan however you have 8,000 points so you can do it now for 3,000 points and then you can add on a case and chargers” etc., etc., I have no clue how I have been accruing these points but apparently I have, time to spend them I reckon. I would agree that US Cellular have the happiest customers in wireless.
Amir Khalid
@jeffreyw:
Aww. He’s so CUTE!
jeffreyw
@Amir Khalid: Heh, indeed.
bemused
@lamh35:
There is no way Romney could ever do anything remotely like this.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
That’s crappy “art”… it doesn’t look at all like Reagan; I half-heartedly assumed it was Paul Ryan (though the figure doesn’t much resemble him either, really).
In Wingnut World, Republicans are forever striking heroic poses against a background of starbursts… Dems are forever wiping their keisters on the flag. Must be sort of comforting, really, to have your world so simple and certain.
Morons….
SiubhanDuinne
@shortstop: Me neither.
Soonergrunt
@Litlebritdifrnt: You are on a Belief plan. That’s how you get points. We’ve had USCC for almost eight years, and we love them. I’m upgrading my Galaxy S Mesmerize to a Galaxy S3 after we get back from San Diego.
Calouste
@PeakVT:
Specially considering that MPs don’t even refer to each other in debate by their last name, but instead as “The Honourable Member for Islington” or whatever their constituency might be.
But yeah, when you are in an adversarial, formal situation last name is genrally considered the safest option. You also think he’d catch on when they replied with “Mr. Diamond” rather than “Bob”.
Robert Sneddon
@Ruckus: The word starting with “spec” and ending in “list” contains the trade name of a drug that regularly gets advertised in spams — “cxxxxs”. This trips up a lot of folks hence the common cry of FYWP.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Original Lee:
@J. Michael Neal:
And for a good example of a novel where the sting is based on accounting, try this one:
Pale Gray for Guilt
Ruckus
@Robert Sneddon:
Thanks!
I have a hard enough time spelling and typing let alone trying to remember all the WP word traps.
FrankieB
I’m down to my last little bit of money and need a job badly. I was a delivery route driver for a bakery but was laid off last year. I’ll do anything from driving to washing dishes or waiting tables. I was in the Restaurant business for years prior to my route work.
I’m in St. Pete, FL. I wish I could make money campaigning for Obama
Thanks in advance
vera lynn
@MaryJane: thanks
Original Lee
@PaulW: Have you checked USAJobs? Most library positions for the feds are contract positions, but there was one librarian position listed here.
This companyis one of a number of contractors that specialize in library services.
Hope this helps!
Original Lee
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Looks interesting! I’ll have to add it to my list.
joel hanes
I’m in Silicon Valley.
My boss urgently needs to hire five people with senior-level experience in silicon chip CAD engineering.
If you can automate Verilog/VHDL chip development data flows in perl/tcl/Linux/make/shell, and especially if you’re good at user support, please send your resume to
my first name
followed immediately by the three-digit number that is twice two hundred seventy seven
followed by a dot
followed by comcast
followed by another dot
followed by net
JoyfulA
On my way to PT today I saw a “mechanics wanted” sign outside a truck depot along the Carlisle Pike west of Harrisburg, PA. If anyone’s interested, I’ll get the name of the company and whatever other information I can gather.
Arclite
Heh, Ronnie is shooting an H&K MP7, a weapon of German design and manufacture.
Steeplejack
Deleted for futility.
Derek
@Violet:
Sure the hell is. That’s when I absolutely knew this was the greatest piece of American art ever made.
Cassidy
@FrankieB: How old are you and are you interested in Law Enforcement? The St. Pete area is always hurting for candidates; they’re one of the only areas in Florida that’s consistently hiring and they have their own academy, meaning you get paid while going through.
LanceThruster
To all those seeking employment, I’m holding out a good thought for you and I wish you the best of luck.
I’ve got my carpenter friend coming to live with me until work picks up for him. He’ll be receiving room and board for his contributions until that time I can actually pay him for his efforts. I would love to be able to hire him full time. There’s so much that needs to be done and so many people with the time and ability to do so.
It’s insane that so many people’s talents are being squandered at the very same time so many tasks require performing. It’s the same description I remember reading about the Great Depression. Labor and factories went idle for want of sufficient credit to be tracked down. All this misery based on some convoluted paper chase.