I was flipping through the channels the other night and saw that the old Steve McQueen hit movie Bullitt was on. I tuned in just as the bad guys in the black ’68 Charger goosed it, made a hard, tire-smoking left turn and the chase through the hills of San Francisco was on. The chase scene was a classic match-up between 2 classic muscle cars; a 1968 Charger equipped with a 375 hp 440 Magnum and a 1968 Mustang Fastback GT fastback packing a Ford 325 hp 390 cu motor. Two of each car were used during the filming which took weeks and resulted in 9 minutes of film time. Classic car enthusiasts will be pleased to see many classic cars from the 50’s and 60’s in the background. I spotted ’57 and ’58 Cadillacs, a bathtub Porsche convertible and a variety of other venerable old land yachts. Pay close attention and you’ll see that the Charger loses 4 hubcaps while in town, and one more on the open road. However, in all of the closeup open road shots the Charger has all of its hubcaps. Early in the chase you’ll see that they pass the same forest green VW Bug twice.
So, go to full screen, crank up your speakers and buckle up. It’s a wild ride and just the thing for a Saturday night OOT.
For more reading on the making of Bullitt click on this article; THE GREATEST CHASE OF ALL; An inside look at how they filmed BULLITT, the granddaddy of car pursuit movies.
Someone should do a thread on automobile personalities. When you look at cars in moves that have a certain identity appeal, they are all from the 60′s and 70′s. The latest honda civic is a just a project managers money dream and will never pick up a chick or catch a bank robber. Unless you are herbie of course, but that was a random roll of the dice by a forgiving god.
@ darkwords:
I was born in ’52. As a child I was looking at all those cars from the late 40′s and early 50′s. They had very expressive faces. The Buicks had big teeth. The Packards and Nash’s had sour faces. The Pontiacs looked angry.
The open road scenes are on US1 heading south to Pacifica. Driven that road many times.
They Bay Area is full of lefty psychos but I miss the place.
SF is a beautiful city but the people are whacked.
Actually, the same green VW bug is seen 4 times in that sequence.
@ The Osprey:
@ The Osprey:
I spent 4 months out there in 1999. We stayed in Concord and rode the BART downtown to Market & and about 3rd. I really enjoyed it. Great food, weird people. Going to work was like going to the zoo everyday. The maniacs, weirdo’s and stumblebums were a real trip.
Bordm wrote:
Yep. 2 scenes going downhill passing the VW and 2 scenes looking uphill as the chase comes down the hill and passes the VW.
@ huckfunn:
I like the avenues out toward the beach on Geary. Lots of good Irish bars, Asian restaurants and Russian delis.
Not as many psycho freaks as downtown or the Haight.
Hey does anyone know the word that describes those woven, Mexican hoodie things?
Bumr50 wrote:
When I lived in Alamogordo we called them Juarez letter jackets.
@ huckfunn:
Yep, lots of ‘errors’ in the movie, each time I watch it I spot another. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve seen it, it’s still one of the greatest action movies of the 60′s.
@ huckfunn:
LMAO!
I just got a new, used car that was in great shape, but a big gouge out of the top of the steering wheel. I bought a cover for it today at Sears, and it’s made of that material. I was trying to describe it in an e-mail.
Did you ever put one those on? Holy Toledo!
I had to open the door to use the ground for leverage, I’m occasionally hitting the horn in the parking lot, and my wife is asking me questions like “Are all steering wheels the same size?”
Repost from earlier, because I feel like sharing more!!
Or I’m just an attention whore;-):
Got a feel-good story to share!
On my way back from Sears and Longhorn the Mrs. and I got stuck in traffic due to an accident.
I pulled up slowly next to a pickup wearing Utah plates and anti-Obama stickers, rolled my window down, and commented to the girl in the passenger seat that I couldn’t wait for Election Day.
She responded that her and her husband were flying 2000 miles to Utah just to vote, and then flying back because they couldn’t register here in time.
@ huckfunn:
Gee, I spent one week there in ’99 and I got the same reaction!
Bumr50 wrote:
“Is that a real Mexican poncho, or a Sears poncho?”
- Frank Zappa
@ Bumr50:
Those covers can indeed be a pain in the ass sometimes.
@ The Osprey:
Heavy, man.
I spent 6 months in the East Bay area back in 2007.
I’ve never been so happy to leave a place in my life.
I am drinking tequila at a bar in PHX right now and all this talk of the Bay Area is giving me “savage flashbacks” as Hunter S. Thompson would say…
“We can’t stop here…this is bat country”.
@ lobo91:
Where in the East Bay? Oakland? Berzerkeley?
The Osprey wrote:
I was TDY at Camp Parks (Dublin), and lived at a Residence Inn in San Ramon.
lobo91 wrote:
Could have been worse! You could have been in Oakland!
@ The Osprey:
The only thing the Army would use Oakland for is target practice.
Car chase starts at 54:20, lasts until 1:31.
And so it begins.
Obama supporter votes 5 times and gets away with it.
HAven’t been able to tell if it is true or not. But the guy doesn’t look that radical.
Stephen Hanks. About as much of a low life as a person can be. UK Bristol Palin story.
@ huckfunn:
Ah, just scrolled up from the bottom to see if anyone else made this observation. I guess it is that obvious (the VW). I caught something else too the other night that I had never noticed before but now can’t think of it for the life of me … should have made a note of it (upon all my other notes)
Maybe after I sleep on it …
I dunno, guys… VWs were pretty damned ubiquitous back then, and that dark green was extremely popular. Had one myself.
Thinking about buying myself one of these…
http://www.subaru.com/build-your-own/xv-crosstrek.html
Kind of a step down from that Mini Countryman S All4 I want, but then, it doesn’t have a turbo engine, the dealer is less than 5 miles away, and I’d save at least $ 7000. If only they’d drop the six-speed tranny in there and offer leather in a manual tranny vehicle… Well, The Mighty Geo still runs, so I guess there’s no hurry. But I would like to have at least one new car of my own before I kick the bucket. The wife is on her third, and even the daughters have had one each. Me, not so much…
@ Mike C.:
$39.99 for a cigarette lighter.
Sheesh.
@ Bumr50:
Who gives a crap?
On the other hand, there’s this…
http://www.subaru.com/build-your-own/brz.html?s_kpi=hero_image
They’re as rare as hen’s teeth, though. But once, just once… I get another contract and I might just have my local dealer put my name in for one…
@ Mike C.:
Almost looks like a little Porsche. Probably drives like one too.
I like these.
http://www.scion.com/buildyourscion/configure#model=fR-s&year=2013&transmission=Manual
Mike C. wrote:
Just sayin’- the markup on that’s bigger than draft beer at a ball game…
The final Susquehanna Polling & Research Poll shows a 47-47% tie heading into the Tuesday election. This is good news. Pennsylvania is within reach. It’ll depend on voter turnout, now. That gives us an edge. We have the enthusiasm and the momentum going into Tuesday. If Obama can’t hold Pennsylvania, he cannot win. I am so very hopeful going into this election, but I so want to get it done.
Bumr50 wrote:
If you mean the Scion FR-S, it’s the same car as the last Subaru I posted, It’s a Subaru/Toyota (Scion) joint venture. Subaru drive train and overall engineering, Toyota design.
@ Mike C.:
I didn’t get to drive it, but I did sit in the very first one my local dealer received. My thought was “I could drive this!” Hate the God-damned red stiching in the seats, though. I’m sorry, but I never thought red and black was a great color combo. But if I could overlook the white dinner plate-sized speedo in a Mini, I could get over the red stitching…
@ Mike C.:
I like the vehicle, but wouldn’t want a rear wheel drive car for my daily runner here.
I just picked up a clean 06′ Hyundai Elantra hatch, and I’m hoping it lasts me until I can buy a new car.
These past three weeks dealing with craigslist, used car dealers, and working nights have jaded me to the point where I don’t want to have to go through that again.
More votes allegedly changed from Romney to Obama
Students for Obama ‘Obama doesn’t deserve 4 more years’. HA!
@ Bumr50:
Well, I’ve always got access to the wife’s 2011 Outback if I need a serious car. But this is all just sort of fantasy anyway -- I’m still flogging the 96 Geo Metro. Still has less than 42 K miles on it. Pretty grim cometically, though.
Er, “cosmetically.”
@ Iron Fist:@ Iron Fist:
The Husquehanna poll is Bs. I’ve told that you before. You don’t know that by now?
theoutsider wrote:
Why?
Bumr50 wrote:
maybe you should simplify your question
Feh. Two more days, then we get answers. Excepting the inevitable Democratic challenges to anything that is even remotely close, that is.
Enough speculation and bullshitting… Let’s just throw the dice and see how they fall, eh? It’s the “Free Shit Army” v the “Free Army.” Let’s go..
@ theoutsider:
Actually, it is the most accurate poll in Pennsylvania:
I’ll take those odds. Hell, man, the poll I linked to last week that only had Obama up by four in Pennsylvania had a D+13 bias. You don’t really expect Obama to do better this year than in 2008, do you? Obama had a D+7 in Pennsylvania in 2008, so if the D+13 poll is accurate and you correct their egreigious error on the sample, Romney would be winning. Obama won’t get D+7 in Pennsylvania this time around, so all things being equal, it looks like Obama is going to have to fight hard for Pennsylvania. And if he loses Pennsylvania, it is all over for him. HE has to hold Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio to win. That is a tall order for a President in a country where over 50% of the population thinks the country is on the wrong track.
@ theoutsider:
It’s just not very reliable. Check Results.
On, and evven Minnesota is in play:
That independent lead is critical. If we get an R+0 or R+1 turnout (which Gallup is predicting), then Obama may be taost even in traditional Blue States. We have the momentum and we have the enthusiasm going into the critical phase of the election. The numbers simply aren’t there for Obama. If he were going to win, he’d have broken 50% nationally, and he hasn’t done that since the first debate.
@ Iron Fist:
Hey Iron Fist,
What are you going to say to President Obama on his Reelection day? It hasn’t happened yet, but let’s get your response.
We can’t let this enthusiasm die down over the next few days. We’ve got to get every Romney voter & every Romney leaning voter out there.
Don’t let the thugs from the unions,the New Black Panthers, NAACP and the Occupiers stop you. Tell the UN goons to get stuffed.
Send Obama packing!
Jesus, guys -- enough with the freaking polls, eh? I can hear the proverbial Fat Lady running through scales in her dressing room. Let’s get ready to rumble!
Oh, and there are only two more shopping days until the election. If you’re in one of the “Free Shit Army” urban areas, you might want to check those supplies in case they lose. They’ve spent the last few weeks promising riots should that happen. Couldn’t hurt to be prepared…
@ theoutsider:
How will Queen Michelle react when she has to give up her taxpayer funded vacations?
@ theoutsider:
Congratulations. Now resign over Benghazi. Why do you defend the man who cut those people off to die? But in any event, that looks unlikely to happen. Instead, I’ll be congratulating Romney on defeating the SCOAMF. That will be one of th ebest days of my life. The choice in this campaing is start: continued failure and ultimately collapse under Barack Obama or the possibility of a brighter future under Romney. It’ll be tough for Romney to pull us out, and Reid has already indicated that he’ll keep trying to drive America over the cliff. I think we’ve got the Presidency sewn up, but I am not sure how the Senate will fall. If Romney wins big we’ll get it, but I think if it is close the Democrats may hang on. That’ll be bad for the country, but not as bad as Obama being re-elected. Obama being re-elected would be as bad for the Union as McClellan winning the 1864 election would have been.
@ theoutsider:
What’s the primary reason that you support Barack Obama?
@ Mike C.:
I want to win the debate by the preponderance of the evidence, but it’ll be even more satisfying Tuesday night to gloat. I won’t be a good winner. I intend to gloat heavily
@ Iron Fist:
I won’t do it, since sending an email to the White House that says ‘bwahahaha’ would get me an IRS audit, but it’s tempting.
theoutsider wrote:
Where are your links ? Or do we have to trust you because it’s you ?
@ Guggi:
Can you google Guggi? Just find a legitimate source.
Headline from one of our more important newspapers:
Obama: Zu fein, um ein Kämpfer zu sein
(Obama: to noble to fight)
Liberal paper, The New York Daily News just endorsed Romney!
theoutsider wrote:
You claim something and I should google ? Are you serious ? I’m not your slave and you can quit this slaveholder mentality.
I want to see some facts for your claims and YOU’ll provide them not I.
@ Iron Fist:
What are you talking about? Give it to me in wingnut language? It’s total bullshit that has been debunked the last week.
@ Guggi:
hE CAN’T PROVIDE FACTS. aLL HE CAN POSSIBLY FO IS LINK TO nATE sILVER, WHO CAN’T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. sILVER USES ONLINE POLLS IN HIS CALCULATIONS, AND ONLINE POLLS ARE NOT RELIABLE AT ALL. tHEY ARE TOO EASY TO GAME, AND THEIR SAMPLES AREN’T EVEN REMOTELY REPRESENTATIVE. iT IS, IN A WORD, JUNK.
I absolutely hate the caps lock key. I’m not going to retype that, though
@ theoutsider:
You’ve not heard about Benghazi? How blind are you? That should tell our readers all they need to know about you and your agenda.
Still having a hard time understanding why any of you are talking to this supposed person… It doesn’t respond to specific questions or presented evidence, so what’s the point?
Well, whatever -- carry on…
I have a bit of despair over this election mainly because I was one of those cheerleaders last time that said “the only poll that matters is elections day”. Well the polls for the most part were accurate and McCain lost. Funny thing is I am not sure I would have been voting Libertarian by this point if he had won (or any number of weirder scenarios — but I digress).
One thing that I have found a little comfort in is the inventive snark of comments on the online news sites. Like this one today in response to one of the “hope and changers” once again trying to change the subject:
Priceless:D
@ Mike C.:
Like the stinkbugs in my apartment, their numbers are dwindling, and soon they will be completely gone.
theoutsider wrote:
He said, (as I understood it) “President Obama is toast, finished, done, already gone. However, the Dims can still destroy the country if they hang on to the Senate”
So cheer up, all is not lost, the Dims can still wreck the country if they hang on to the Senate.
@ theoutsider:
[GAZE]
Here’s another one:
@ Iron Fist<@ Iron Fist:
Heard of the Washington Post? Can you reference them?
@ Prebanned:
Exactly. The Outsider is willfully ignorant, or pretends to be. Notice that he never provides any links to back up his assertions. That is because his assertions are always wrong. HE simply can’t back up what he says.
Iron Fist wrote:
And that’s why he is a troll.
@ Iron Fist:
He is a little better than ferb.
Ferb hangs out here to derail the conversation.
I do not think Ferb cares who wins, he is probably doing the same thing at huffington post or kos.
Ferb wants everyone else to be as miserable as he is.
The outsider on the other hand wants Obama to win.
Otherwise his motivations are the same as ferb’s.
@ Guggi:
@ Guggi:
he’s also a very unhappy person, the surly, insecure type
@ Guggi:
I don’t worry about him. We have lots of readers who don’t post. They are the one’s I am trying to reach with my responses. Really, the Outsider helps us. Undecideds who read us can see the difference between his unscourced opinions an dour assertions backed up by links and cogent writing. It is important.
heysoos wrote:
It’s not so bad to disagree in a discussion but you have to have at least some arguments and provide some facts not only “claims”.
Iron Fist wrote:
That’s why I told ferb that he gives a bad picture of Germans.
Guggi wrote:
Of course the author would praise him …..
Written by a well known Marxist, Robert Misik.
The Wisconsin State Journal endorses Romney! Just the latest LIBERAL paper to flip from Barry to Mitt!
@ Iron Fist:@ Iron Fist:
I’m the best person you have got engaging you today. Who is going to be talking to you on Wednesday, Iron Fist. It won’t be me.
Peter wrote:
Yep and he quotes Benjamin Barber who has told him that Sandy will push Obama to a victory. Doubtful from what I’ve seen.
Y’all are discussing this as if it matters. 2 days until the feacal matter hits the air motion machinery. Then we shall see what we shall see.
Clean the weapons, fill the magazines, then wait to see what goes down. If you are so inclined, pray that the first two items are uneccessary.
theoutsider wrote:
but me and many others.
theoutsider wrote:
Promise?
So Bloomi makes an unannounced visit to the outer burroughs and gets an earful. His response?
“You’ve got to understand people’s frustration,” the mayor said. “They’re cold, they’re tired, they lost a lot. Sometimes we all get a little bit overanxious, if you will.”
@ Urban Infidel:
What kind of rag is that? I used to listen to your radio show. Why should I read that?
Guggi wrote:
The states that are in play were all or mostly out of the path of Sandy, therefore I doubt much halo effect for Obama in terms of electoral votes. Is that understandable or should I clarify?
Moe Katz wrote:
It is understandable
@ Guggi:
Thank you.
So apparently the crack election sleuth & race detective aka Chuckles Johansen has exclusively uncovered a video that shows Mitt Romney having an on air meltdown over his Mormon beliefs, specifically where women’s rights & abortion are concerned.
Only problem is it’s from 2007 & lots of folks already know about it.
Predictably he refuses to admit it’s old & has doubled-down on ridiculous.
Urban Infidel wrote:
I don’t get this (from your link):
Everyone who has seen the interview with Jon Stewart could see that he is still the old stuttering clusterfuck he always has been.
theoutsider wrote:
Just out of idle curiosity, what state do you reside in? I’ll go first, if you like -- I’m from Virginia.
Mike C. wrote:
I’m going with Washington, Oregon or California.
@ Mike C.:
I predict Wednesday morning he’ll be from the state of shock.
John Difool wrote:
After which he’ll move on to the state of denial, where he’ll claim that Romney “stole” the election since the results don’t match Nate Silver’s garbage.
lobo91 wrote:
Well of course, he & many others. Which is why I hope it’s a landslide & not even close.
theoutsider wrote:
Funny…that’s my reaction to you pushing Nate Silver’s crap from the NY Times.
Have they started giving it away at supermarkets yet?
This is my suggestion. Blow me off if you want. A Blogmocracy radio show on Wednesday the 7th, No matter who wins or who loses.
mornin ya’ll
nice to see ya’ll playing with the outsider like a cat plays with a mouse
New York Daily News to endorse Romney. NYT-Jazeera, mouth-piece of the communists since 1939
theoutsider wrote:
Why would you demand a radio show you have no intention of showing up for?
I wasn’t pushing any sort of agenda with that question. I know rock-solid conservatives that live in the most liberal shitholes, and liberals that live in the reddest of states. I was just curious.
I wonder if the reason he calls himself outsider is because he lives outside in his sisters garage like this other guy we know?
I continue to have this terrible vision of Comrade Obama running through the corridors of the WH late Tuesday night with a hatchet and a can of spray paint.
theoutsider wrote:
nobody cares about your empty suggestion….you type blab here because you’re not even worthy at lgf
huckfunn wrote:
If he swings a hatchet like he throws a ball he’s liable to cut his own hand off.
John Difool wrote:
The only way he’s from California, is, if he’s Northern Coastal, and yes… Northern Coastal does rhyme with went postal and most of the folks in Northern Coastal California are one squirrel shit nut short of postal.
theoutsider wrote:
Not sure what you mean. Have you never heard of the NY Daily News?
@ eaglesoars:
Another Bloomberg/Obama screwup:
@ Urban Infidel:
Are they the paper that bought out The Daily Planet?
@ lobo91:
I used to joke that with Democrats in charge we would all be living in a real life Mad Max movie before long, fighting in the streets over gasoline and such.
Now it’s become a reality.
@ huckfunn:
I expect one of his last acts will be to carve his initials in the top of the Resolute Desk.
John Difool wrote:
Amen to that. Everything they touch turns into a full blown fustercluck. What more could one expect from a gaggle of academicians who have never created anything and view the world as a petri dish for their goombah social experiments.
John Difool wrote:
I read where there is 40-50% of the usual stash around the city but no electricity….8m people and nobody thought to open the tanks, drop a hose down and pump it out
huckfunn wrote:
just look how they ruined the outsider….turned him into a drooling bot
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
I hope the WH steward made a careful pre-0 inventory of the silverware and crockery.
heysoos wrote:
I’m betting the problem isn’t so much as supply but can be attributed to over-regulation & non-union truck drivers shipping it in, probably with potable water & food too.
With Democrats politics always trump humanitarianism or they play politics with humanitarianism….same deal.
@ John Difool:
get the MOB on it….problem solved
Obama is still using the same lines in his stump speech today about how “al Qaeda is on the run.”
Shameless.
Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans are unavailable for comment.
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heysoos wrote:
I get the feeling that he/she/it has been a lifelong drooler.
huckfunn wrote:
They ARE The Daily Planet…
In the 80′s my dad delivered a truckload of frozen food to a cold storage warehouse in NYC. He got paid extra to unload the cargo himself. Once at dock he was informed that not only could he not unload his own cargo he would have to pay a union guy $300 to do it.
He basically gave them a choice, either they let him do it or he was taking his load back to Richmond.
After several phone calls & lots of red tape they finally gave him the go-ahead to do it….about 8 hrs. later.
huckfunn wrote:
I was just trying to squeeze a twofer out of it….if liberals cannot attract enough natural bots, they can manufacture them…
lobo91 wrote:
Still looking for it but I saw on Twitter that in a campaign speech in Ohio today Obama compared the Romney/Ryan campaign to Hitler & somewhere Valerie Jarrett said that if Romney is elected we’ll all be living in a police-state.
You know you’ve lost the argument when…..
huckfunn wrote:
Inventory of the Whitehouse Crockery: One Barack Obama, check, One Moochell Obama, check, two little Obama girls, Check, One very scared Portuguese Water Dog… Ok… where’s the Portuguese Water Dog?
doriangrey wrote:
Imagine Bo on the phone with the police who are talking him through being harassed by a deranged man who is making repeated phone calls threatening to eat him:
” The Phone Call Is Coming From Inside The House……It’s Coming From Inside The House ! “
doriangrey wrote:
You’re right. BO’s been mysteriously absent from any coverage lately. Issa and Grassley need to open another another doggone investigation.
huckfunn wrote:
ROTFLMAO… I see what you did there…
Bo is a Portugese Water Dog….so I imagine he’ll be plenty juicy coming out of the oven this Thanksgiving.
John Difool wrote:
I can’t see the Obamas actually celebrating Thanksgiving.
lobo91 wrote:
O.k., Ramadan then
and then there’s this…from Chicago
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/Black-Grassroots-Activists-Protest-Obama-Fundraiser-City-Hall-and-ABC-News-in-Chicago
BO gets sucker punched by his very own peeps…second story like this
doriangrey wrote:
heysoos wrote:
Suspicious media black-out on that one….no pun intended
@ heysoos:
Wow…the wheels are coming off…
If you’ve lost the blacks in Chicago….
No wonder the O campaign is resorting to juvenile LGF like scare tactics in it’s final days.
According to FEMA:
But then there’s reality:
They might be able to fool the public on something like Benghazi, but people know what’s happening on the ground in Long Island.
I guess it really is hard to stage supplies in advance of something like a hurricane. I mean, it’s not like it spent several days moving north at 15 mph, or there were computer models showing where it was going to hit, or anything.
//
heysoos wrote:
Now there’s some peeps who are tired of being kept on the dem plantation. The local GOP needs to get in there and talk to those folks.
@ lobo91:
I believe Budweiser has been canning water for a couple of days now…where I have no idea, but then packed, trucked, unpacked, distributed…this entire part of the story is downright criminal
heysoos wrote:
I think it’s coming from South Carolina.
I’m sure the city or state will manage to screw that up somehow, though.
lobo91 wrote:
But most importantly was it packaged in a union plant, using union labor & then delivered by a union trucker?
This is what thirsty people are most concerned about.
lobo91 wrote:
probably….the whole thing up there is very discouraging…too many people failed to prepare and relying on the various agencies is a loser…a double whammy
Holy cow, NY Newsday just endorsed Romney too! That is not a conservative paper at all.
@ lobo91:
I was wrong. It’s a plant in Georgia.
@ John Difool:
I’m sure they’ll be fine. I mean FEMA solicited bids on Friday for food and water.
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where are those Navy amphibs?…where are all the big ass choppers that fly huge bladders of water around the ME….it’s just friggin water
@ heysoos:
Just think what would happen to NYC in the event of a catastrophic loss of power or communications infrastructure for several months, like after a massive solar flare or an EMP event.
It would look like an episode of The Walking Dead.
Bumper sticker of the week!
heysoos wrote:
There is a simple way to desalinate or purify your own water in desperate situations but I wouldn’t expect your average New Yorker to know that.
lobo91 wrote:
Speaking of, Hines Ward is making a cameo tonight as a zombie on The Walking Dead.
Ben Rothlisburger makes a cameo next week…..look for the zombie going around sexually assaulting people instead of biting them.
@ John Difool:
fly the bladders over to a fire hydrant in Jersey, fill the damned things, fly them to a parking lot and set it down….repeat
Surfing the morning programs , I landed on NBC.
The Libs, Cokie Roberts & Matthew Dowd etc are
really very smug & confident.
They were mocking anybody who actually thinks that Romney can win.
I do hope that they get it handed to them on Tuesday.
Urban Infidel wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
It’s gonna get real ugly real quick up there. I predict riots the day after the election and it won’t be about politics. It will be about groceries, heat and gasoline.
@ John Difool:
Brooklyn and Queens residents are arming themselves against looters. I’m pretty sure folks on Staten Island are doing the same.
lobo91 wrote:
Budweiser has done that for a very long time. Back during the 2007 Witch Creek Wildfire here in San Diego they trucked in tons of canned water. Heck, I drank about three cases of it myself before I realized it wasn’t their beer..
@ huckfunn:
I feel pity for the people up there but I can’t get over the whole “Feed me, Gimme Sumtin’ To Drink, Clothe Me !” mentality of the people up there.
When the shit really hits the fan these will be the first ones to go.
Reason A-Numero-Uno I refuse to live in a heavily urbanized area. I’m only minutes away from prime fishing & hunting & I know how to do both very well.
RIX wrote:
When Obunga goes down in a landslide, MSM will have lost their last few remaining shreds of relevance.
Urban Infidel wrote:
But, but, but….this simply cannot be…..Mike Bloomberg has banned firearms?
huckfunn wrote:
after all the phony bs about a good job!, co-operation, timely co-ordination!….back slapping and butt kissing…before anything at all was even accomplished!….why didn’t they just give Bloomberg a Nobel?….bunch of empty rhetoric….let’s have a marathon instead!
John Difool wrote:
The first catastrophe that I went to during my brief stint as a storm adjuster was Hurricane Andrew. It was shocking to see the devastation. Equally shocking was the sight of 20,000 Americans lined up for a jug of water, a few cans of beans and some toilet paper. I absolutely will not live in an urban environment. When the lights go out the thin veneer of civilization is pretty quickly peeled away.
BTW, when does goose season start up?
John Difool wrote:
That happened in NYC long before Bloomberg.
He’s been focused on trying to ban everyone else’s firearms.
@ heysoos:
He’ll probably try to ride his “success” with this storm to a presidential bid in 2016.
John Difool wrote:
Check it out: BLOOMBERG REFUSES NATIONAL GUARD ENTRY INTO BROOKLYN BECAUSE THEY CARRY GUNS
@ lobo91:
and people will believe him….millions of them
Oh, goodie…Janet Napolitano will be live at 3:15 eastern to brag about all her department has done to save the day.
@ huckfunn:
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I really wonder if they are just trying to demoralize Republicans
to hold down the vote.
Romney is campaigning outside of Philadelphia today.
They have to have reason to believe that Pennsylvania
is in play.
FNC has a new poll showing the state tied.
huckfunn wrote:
Now ya know why I insist on calling him Mayor Bloomingidiot.
lobo91 wrote:
It only makes sense. After all, she made the Arizona border safer than it’s ever been. //
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huckfunn wrote:
Last time I checked New York state had a governor. If I were him I would instruct those guardsmen on how to properly take a rifle butt to an uncooperative mayors face.
huckfunn wrote:
That’s just crazy. You have roving “Wolf Packs” preying on people.
They need the Guard.
This is just what the Louisiana Governor did after Katrina.
It didn’t end well.
@ John Difool:
That’s what would happen in America.
But this is New York you’re talking about.
lobo91 wrote:
Good, I hope she brings the pom-poms with her & some fireworks.
People know when someones shitting down their backs & then telling them it’s raining. This storm will probably create more new Republican voters than the RNC has in thirty years.
RIX wrote:
I think that’s exactly what they’re trying to do. Ironically, it’s probably having the opposite affect. When republicans see that the race is close or Obama is slightly ahead, that will just drive more of them to the polls.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t quite get it. Do the police & FBI in NYC not carry firearms also or is it because the National Guard isn’t union?
doriangrey wrote:
I’m thinking that Doomberg’s response to this storm will mean that this is his last term as mayor.
@ huckfunn:
Yup, Republicans are energized.
5 PM EASTERN Romney/Ryan rally in Bucks County, PA tonight. 30,000 people expected.
@ John Difool:
It’s the same logic that led them to decrease the security at a consulate located in a war zone.
They’re worried about “sending the wrong message.”
huckfunn wrote:
I don’t know, New Yorker’s aren’t really know of late for being the sharpest tools in the shed, seems like all the really bright ones moved to Florida…
(well, except for Urban Infidel, who might have Stockholm Syndrome 
)
Urban Infidel wrote:
Only 200 people showed up for a recent Obama/Stevie Wonder event.
Not many people called to say they love Obama….
huckfunn wrote:
Unless he gets them to change the rules (again) it will be anyway. He can’t run again under current law.
I’ve got to get some errands done before football.
Remember to “fall back” your clocks.
Later….
@ doriangrey:
And Brookly Red.
John Difool wrote:
Ya, but Brookly definitely has Pizza Syndrome…
Anybody else think the da Bama Phones are receiving IM’s
to vote for Obama.
RIX wrote:
Does a bear shit in the woods? Probably came preloaded with a campaign app.
If he wins a second term they’ll probably upgrade them to Droid 4 & iPhone.
@ John Difool:
Only the best.
Excellent twist on the Romnesia buzz word at SCENES FROM OHIO ‘ALL-STAR’ RALLY.
Today is the anniversary of another great Democrat foreign policy triumph:
Just saw a Tweet that thousands of the NYC marathon runners decided to stay & volunteer in the relief efforts.
Bloomberg last seen tripping up some steps to get to a podium to take credit for this.
lobo91 wrote:
Say what you want about Carter but at least he tried to send commandos in to rescue our people, failed raid or not.
Reason #10,331 why Obama is a worse president than carter..
A slightly different perspective on today:
@ John Difool:
Argo is actually a pretty good movie, too.
lobo91 wrote:
Been wanting to go see it, but bearded Ben Affleck makes me apprehensive.
lobo91 wrote:
And John Goodman stole the scenes near him:-)
Bill Clinton spending Monday in PA
He’ll want something for that.
waldensianspirit wrote:
“You’ve Got A Friend In Pennsylvania” doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
John Difool wrote:
Thanks for reminding me about that…
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(We’re currently going with “State of Independence.”)
George Will predicts R 321- O 217
Dick Morris predicts R 351 -- O 189
Michael Barone predicts R 315 -- O 223
BLOWOUT!
huckfunn wrote:
Yeah, but CJ and theoutsider predict a big Obama win.
Who are you going to believe?
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@ doriangrey:
I would hope UI doesn’t smack you upside the head for that! 8)
John Difool wrote:
Grand Funk Railroad is going to be there tonight!
doriangrey wrote:
I do. You’re right. But I could never live in Florida.
@ John Difool:
Uze guyz are forgettin’ sumpin’ … there are elderly, handicapped people living 10, 20. 30 stories up with no elevators working without power, no plumbing and, even if they made it down all those floors, gettin’ back up ? Fagettabout it. NOT like walking out the front door on Maple St and over to the football field LZ at the local high school. Not a good situation at all.