Overnight Open Thread (7-4-2016) - 4th of July Edition

Happy 4th of July all.

[It] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

-- letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams about Independence Day

Today is the 40th Anniversary of the Raid on Entebbe

Possibly the most audacious military raid in history. Yet another reason to be grateful on this day.

How It Went Down in '76

Judy and Mickey

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1 Foist.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at July 04, 2016 11:32 PM (M2zF+)

2 Second? Listening to fireworks.

Posted by: Dr Alice at July 04, 2016 11:33 PM (Vycn3)

3
DAMN, I read the contents AGAIN!

Posted by: iforgot at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (5o5ek)

4 Did Adams say the Fourth ought to be celebrated with...guns?

Posted by: Mike at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (c056A)

5 Hola, loz amigoz Americanoz en loz interetuboz, si estan natividad aqui o no!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (EzgxV)

6 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 04, 2016 11:35 PM (T/cxb)

7 Top ten

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 04, 2016 11:35 PM (89T5c)

8 "Did Adams say the Fourth ought to be celebrated with...guns? "

Well ain't that "problematic."

Posted by: Lauren...TEXIT at July 04, 2016 11:35 PM (Qd+Yz)

9 Evening. Spent the 4th writing. 3,300+ words. Closing in on the Day 5 word count. On Day 4. So that is good.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2016 11:36 PM (0SMdI)

10 Guns and bells?

Posted by: blaster at July 04, 2016 11:36 PM (2Ocf1)

11 And not blowed up!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at July 04, 2016 11:36 PM (vyqqu)

12 And he said 'bonfires' which really means bone fires.. oh dear...

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2016 11:36 PM (0SMdI)

13 Good night all.
Sweet dreams!

Posted by: @votermom at July 04, 2016 11:37 PM (7lVbc)

14 heheheh eh heheh... she said "bone"... heheheh

Posted by: beavis at July 04, 2016 11:38 PM (EWg9n)

15 Hola, loz amigoz Americanoz en loz interetuboz, si estan natividad aqui o no!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (EzgxV)

****

Given the National mood, you may wanna stay with an English greeting. Just sayin'.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at July 04, 2016 11:38 PM (M2zF+)

16 Well ain't that "problematic."
Posted by: Lauren
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Dead white guy. Why would anyone listen to him?

Posted by: Prog/Left/liberals at July 04, 2016 11:39 PM (ANVXm)

17 The Ugandoid Domain Holds Fast

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 04, 2016 11:39 PM (GdFQh)

18 Anna Puma, as a fellow writer, I admire, and envy, your discipline.

Posted by: Mike at July 04, 2016 11:40 PM (c056A)

19 Night Voter Mom, happy writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2016 11:40 PM (0SMdI)

20
Hola, loz amigoz Americanoz en loz interetuboz, si estan natividad aqui o no!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (EzgxV)
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Hola, soy un nativo! I am also soy!

Posted by: iforgot at July 04, 2016 11:40 PM (5o5ek)

21 Toil,blood and treasure? We'll squander all that and just lord over all you fucking rubes.

Posted by: Globalist Asshats at July 04, 2016 11:40 PM (89T5c)

22 Rue John Moses Browning

I have the vague feeling that is safer to live on that namesake road than Barack Obama Boulevard.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 04, 2016 11:41 PM (gyKtp)

23 After 15 years of having the 4th at my house, with all the expense and work that entails, I got to be a guest at someone else's party.

Very nice.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (kKHcp)

24 Given the National mood, you may wanna stay with an English greeting. Just sayin'.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at July 04, 2016 11:38 PM (M2zF+)

****

In advance, as I am going to bed.

What. Ever.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (M2zF+)

25 Suck it, King George!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (sl+zA)

26
Trump rallies tomorrow and Wednesday in Raleigh and Cincinnati.

Posted by: iforgot at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (5o5ek)

27 Indeed, let us remember Bibi's brother, Yonaton Netanyahu -- the sole military fatality in the raid on Entebbe. Clearly a bloodline destined for greatness.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (EzgxV)

28 Sigh.....
Tomorrow is going to be like Monday in Tuesday.
Wait...what???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (08Znv)

29 Idi Amin had an old lady who was a hostage who had been sent to the hospital in Kampala, dragged from her bed and murdered. Because she had been separated from the group she was left behind by the raid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (EZebt)

30 Discipline? Not really. Just facing the reality of an eight hour work day thoroughly scuttling any chances of writing 1,600 words tomorrow. So striking while the verbal iron is hot.

Though I'm probably demoralizing the other writers in my cabin with this output.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 04, 2016 11:43 PM (0SMdI)

31 happy america day everyone!

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:43 PM (DjLh9)

32 Also, I've been drinking since 3 this afternoon, and I'm not sorry.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:43 PM (kKHcp)

33 Boobs of Liberty ONT Compliance Pics

23 sets, click on the link

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2016 11:44 PM (d5G8X)

34 One day, America will be America again. Unironically, without reservation or guilt. I know this because the people we are fighting are liars, and a lie can only be propped up for so long before it is doomed by its own complexity.

The truth is always simple. Not always easy, but always simple. Their funhouse mirror world can not endure.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at July 04, 2016 11:44 PM (J+mig)

35 Time to name a gun free school for Mr Browning. Just to see the splody heads.
Guessing that strasse has to be in Belgieland..

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (ocw+t)

36
15
Hola, loz amigoz Americanoz en loz interetuboz, si estan natividad aqui o no!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:34 PM (EzgxV)

****

Given the National mood, you may wanna stay with an English greeting. Just sayin'.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at July 04, 2016 11:38 PM (M2zF+)

Y si estan Mexicano, cuando esta natividando en los Estados Unidos, tu madre es una puta.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (EzgxV)

37 32 Also, I've been drinking since 3 this afternoon, and I'm not sorry.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:43 PM (kKHcp)

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*clink*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (sl+zA)

38 Tomorrow is going to be like Monday in Tuesday.
Wait...what???
Posted by: Diogenes
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Crap! Got to put the garbage out. Almost forgot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (ANVXm)

39 Since the crapfest of Ghostbusters is soon approaching, I found this really good video today about Sony's attempts to hit back on the fan backlash claiming its all about misogny. Its a pretty good even handed run down of what's happened. And at the end they cover Sony's current marketing, which seems to include only men dressed as Ghostbusters.

https://youtu.be/6aQTJw1wlQ8

Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (z/Ubi)

40
The truth is always simple. Not always easy, but always simple. Their funhouse mirror world can not endure.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party

When those mirrors face each other the world exists in infinite reflectivity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (IqV8l)

41 22
Rue John Moses Browning

I have the vague feeling that is safer to live on that namesake road than Barack Obama Boulevard.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 04, 2016 11:41 PM (gyKtp)

Gotta wonder what shit goes down at the intersection.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (EzgxV)

42 Good fireworks show on the Galveston Seawall.

Just got home, from enjoying the show with a few tens of thousands of, at least for today, very patriotic Americans of all colors, styles, cultures and ages.

An entirely positive celebration of our Independence. With a strong vibe of optimism in the air.

Whether right or not, I'm going to take that optimism, and ride on it for a few days, or as long as I can make it last.

It's a much needed boost after lo, these many weeks of rightful cynicism towards those who would be our masters.

We will succeed, and they will fail.

God Bless America, and God Bless Teh Moron Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (v5iqM)

43 Gee. Mickey Mouse looked alot whiter back then.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 04, 2016 11:47 PM (A/+my)

44 35 Time to name a gun free school for Mr Browning. Just to see the splody heads.
Guessing that strasse has to be in Belgieland..
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (ocw+t)

"Here at John Moses Browning High School, teachers may not be armed, unless their weapon was designed by John Moses Browning."

Posted by: Splunge at July 04, 2016 11:47 PM (iMxBJ)

45 "Y si estan Mexicano, cuando esta natividando en los Estados Unidos, tu madre es una puta."
-Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (EzgxV)

It adds an extra sense of *poke* when you use the familiar.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:47 PM (6gk0M)

46 https://youtu.be/6aQTJw1wlQ8
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (z/Ubi)

Midnights edge is a bauws!

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:48 PM (DjLh9)

47 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary at July 04, 2016 11:48 PM (89T5c)

48 40
The truth is always simple. Not always easy, but always simple. Their funhouse mirror world can not endure.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party

When those mirrors face each other the world exists in infinite reflectivity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (IqV8l)

You could almost call it an INTERSECTIONALITY of mirrors

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:49 PM (DjLh9)

49 *clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (sl+zA)

Sploonch!

Or whatever noise a can of Miller makes when smooshed agains a glass.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:49 PM (kKHcp)

50 47 *hic*
Posted by: Hillary at July 04, 2016 11:48 PM (89T5c)

Lightweight. Some of us can get ourselves to bed after a bender without a personal assistant. Not saying whose bed, though.

Posted by: Diane Sawyer at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (iMxBJ)

51 Looks like a good burn. Juno is in orbit around Jupiter.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (sdi6R)

52 45
"Y si estan Mexicano, cuando esta natividando en los Estados Unidos, tu madre es una puta."

-Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (EzgxV)

It adds an extra sense of *poke* when you use the familiar.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:47 PM (6gk0M)

Years back, I had a riff about common Mexican swearing using "usted" instead of "tu". It was like using Shakespearian English -- except Shakespeare really went there.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (EzgxV)

53 When those mirrors face each other the world exists in infinite reflectivity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (IqV8l)

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Can I buy some pot from you?

Posted by: Larry Kroger at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (sl+zA)

54 una paloma blanca

Posted by: Zombie Slim Whitman at July 04, 2016 11:51 PM (Tyii7)

55 51
Looks like a good burn. Juno is in orbit around Jupiter.

Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (sdi6R)

Confirmed?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:51 PM (EzgxV)

56 49 *clink*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (sl+zA)

Sploonch!

Or whatever noise a can of Miller makes when smooshed agains a glass.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:49 PM (kKHcp)

*Girglegle*
Got me some 18 year whiskey, its noice smooth stuff.

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:51 PM (DjLh9)

57 "After 15 years of having the 4th at my house, with all the expense and work that entails, I got to be a guest at someone else's party."
-Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (kKHcp)

It always seems that way, but as a host of One Single Big Party per year?...

I wouldn't have it any other way.

-Unsubscribe if you host more than one.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:52 PM (6gk0M)

58 Still twilight here-- neighbors are beginning to light off some noisemakers.

Overall, the weekend has been eerily quiet.

Cops are enforcing with vengeance (extra $$$ doncha know...) this year.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at July 04, 2016 11:52 PM (044Fx)

59 Success! Engine burn complete. #Juno is now orbiting #Jupiter, poised to unlock the planet's secrets.

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:53 PM (DjLh9)

60 49 Sploonch!

Or whatever noise a can of Miller makes when smooshed agains a glass.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:49 PM (kKHcp)

Squoink? Floontch?

The Don Martin collection finally got down to my price, used, so I've been absorbing the works of the sounds-in-words master.

Posted by: Splunge at July 04, 2016 11:54 PM (iMxBJ)

61 Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:50 PM (EzgxV)

You gots to axe yo sef...
Is it "your mother" or
"yo mama?"

always use the familiar in insults, especially about family members.

and remember to smile. In case they're reaching for their waistline.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:54 PM (kKHcp)

62 "una paloma blanca"
-Posted by: Zombie Slim Whitman at July 04, 2016 11:51 PM (Tyii7)

I'm just a bird in the sky.
...No One can take my Freedom away.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:54 PM (6gk0M)

63 They're finally gonna bring back that flag from Jupiter.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at July 04, 2016 11:54 PM (Tyii7)

64 Every year my neighborhood gets filled up with people too stupid to turn their car alarms off. Every year.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at July 04, 2016 11:54 PM (jPfyO)

65
Quietest evening of the Fourth ever here.

Only heard two brief fireworks displays tonight. None at all on my road. The dogs didn't even have a chance to get upset.

I wonder what that means?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 04, 2016 11:55 PM (4DCSq)

66 65
Quietest evening of the Fourth ever here.

Only heard two brief fireworks displays tonight. None at all on my road. The dogs didn't even have a chance to get upset.

I wonder what that means?
Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 04, 2016 11:55 PM (4DCSq)

The end is nigh, we all gonna die...

Posted by: Literalness at July 04, 2016 11:56 PM (DjLh9)

67 54
una paloma blanca

Posted by: Zombie Slim Whitman at July 04, 2016 11:51 PM (Tyii7)

Actually, "paloma" is one of those words that seriously indicates where a Spanish-speaker comes from. It can mean anything from "[generic] bird" to "Streptopelia turtur".

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:57 PM (EzgxV)

68 micky rooney: 5'2"

judy garland: 4'11"

two firecrackers: heightless

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (WTSFk)

69 My neighborhood sounded like Beirut. Never saw the po-po.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (89T5c)

70 "Quietest evening of the Fourth ever here.
Only heard two brief fireworks displays tonight. None at all on my road. The dogs didn't even have a chance to get upset.
I wonder what that means?"
-Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 04, 2016 11:55 PM (4DCSq)

One of two things...

#1. Hiring opportunities are plentiful.
#2. Your neighbors have turned Forty and go somewhere else.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (6gk0M)

71 -Unsubscribe if you host more than one.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:52 PM (6gk0M)

You mean, sit down dinners at Thanksgiving and Easter for a dozen and a half, and until recently Memorial Day, Today, and Labor Day?

A break was very nice even if I felt a little guilty.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (kKHcp)

72 The folks with fireworks here blew their wad at sundown. All quiet now.

(Fireworks have only been legal here for about a year, so pardon any premature explosions.)

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 04, 2016 11:59 PM (GdFQh)

73 65

Quietest evening of the Fourth ever here.

Only heard two brief fireworks displays tonight. None at all on my road. The dogs didn't even have a chance to get upset.

I wonder what that means?

Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 04, 2016 11:55 PM (4DCSq)

"Run silent, run deep." Trump by 10, bigly-est stomp since Reagan.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 04, 2016 11:59 PM (EzgxV)

74 Here's to the last real Fourth of July.

240 years was a hell of a run.

Sorry Ben.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 04, 2016 11:59 PM (Z/FKv)

75 ..."A break was very nice even if I felt a little guilty."
-Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (kKHcp)

Roger that, amigo!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:00 AM (6gk0M)

76 (From the Guardian.) #BREAKING: Nasa's Juno spacecraft has successfully entered orbit of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet

...Really banking on the highbrow intellect of your audience, for whom we expect the planet Jupiter is somehow not synonymous with monstrously huge.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 12:00 AM (DjLh9)

77 70 "Quietest evening of the Fourth ever here.
Only heard two brief fireworks displays tonight. None at all on my road. The dogs didn't even have a chance to get upset.
I wonder what that means?"
-Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 04, 2016 11:55 PM (4DCSq)

One of two things...

#1. Hiring opportunities are plentiful.
#2. Your neighbors have turned Forty and go somewhere else.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 04, 2016 11:58 PM (6gk0M)

Most people shot their stuff off Saturday or Sunday night. Monday for Independence Day is really crappy for shooting off fireworks.

Posted by: buzzion at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (z/Ubi)

78 una streptococcus marron

Posted by: Zombie Slim Whitman at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (Tyii7)

79 Ghostbusters: The guy that produces that youtube channel, Midnight Edge, has exposed the Fox and Sony drama that has resulted in terrible movies. They also kept Deadpool in development hell five years after nailing the proof-of-concept short film.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (VdICR)

80 240 years was a hell of a run.

Sorry Ben.
Posted by: Kreplach at July 04, 2016 11:59 PM

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Whatevs, man. You were warned.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at July 05, 2016 12:02 AM (sl+zA)

81 The USPS has come out with planet stamps, one for each planet in the solar system. They look really cool. I got a few sheets.

I'm saving the Uranus ones for tax payments.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:02 AM (iMxBJ)

82 79 Ghostbusters: The guy that produces that youtube channel, Midnight Edge, has exposed the Fox and Sony drama that has resulted in terrible movies. They also kept Deadpool in development hell five years after nailing the proof-of-concept short film.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (VdICR)

Deadpool could have been better but at least it wasn't total trash.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 12:02 AM (DjLh9)

83
he USPS has come out with planet stamps, one for each planet in the solar system. They look really cool. I got a few sheets.

Did Pluto make the cut?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 05, 2016 12:03 AM (IqV8l)

84 ..."Most people shot their stuff off Saturday or Sunday night. Monday for Independence Day is really crappy for shooting off fireworks."
-Posted by: buzzion at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (z/Ubi)

That's the way it was here. Sunday beat Saturday and I was a little surprised by that. Most folks in this little Township worked today.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:04 AM (6gk0M)

85 83 he USPS has come out with planet stamps, one for each planet in the solar system. They look really cool. I got a few sheets.
Did Pluto make the cut?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 05, 2016 12:03 AM (IqV8l)

Good question. I had to go check. It did not.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:05 AM (iMxBJ)

86 Pluto is the 2 cent stamp.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 05, 2016 12:05 AM (89T5c)

87 86 Pluto is the 2 cent stamp.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 05, 2016 12:05 AM (89T5c)

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GFY

Posted by: Pluto, A Planet and a Damn Good One at July 05, 2016 12:06 AM (sl+zA)

88 NAPOLI HOME-RUN!

0-1 Heater Taken DEEP!

5-3 Cleveland!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:06 AM (6gk0M)

89 Most people shot their stuff off Saturday or Sunday night. Monday for Independence Day is really crappy for shooting off fireworks.
Posted by: buzzion at July 05, 2016 12:01 AM (z/Ubi)

It is now 11;10 pm and we've been quiet for 10 minutes exactly.

I came home to what sounded like a war zone. 360 degrees of pyrotechnic fun.

then, it ended. Cannot say my neighborhood isn't polite and law abiding.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 05, 2016 12:06 AM (kKHcp)

90 I think 3,500 words is enough for today.

Night all.

http://astore.amazon.com/aoshq-20/detail/B014BTSEYO

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (0SMdI)

91 Hey everybody.

Whatever became of Olivia Newton-John?

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (q7T0y)

92 Idi Amin had an old lady who was a hostage who had been sent to the hospital in Kampala, dragged from her bed and murdered. Because she had been separated from the group she was left behind by the raid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (EZebt)

Israel should have whacked Amin, too. Or nuked Kampala. Who would miss it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (GSdpU)

93 91 Hey everybody.
Whatever became of Olivia Newton-John?
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (q7T0y)

I think I saw an ad for her show the last time I was in Las Vegas.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:08 AM (iMxBJ)

94 john wayne was 6'3", 1 foot and an inch taller than rooney. if you hold your hands, palm down, one above the other by 1 foot one inch, it doesn't seem like that much. but if they were standing next to each other, wayne would tower over him.

height is funny, not ha ha funny, but odd funny.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (WTSFk)

95 "Hey everybody.
Whatever became of Olivia Newton-John?"
-Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (q7T0y)

She was hot, but perverts turned to "Come on Eileen".

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (6gk0M)

96 92 Israel should have whacked Amin, too. Or nuked Kampala. Who would miss it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (GSdpU)

But what if one of the people Amin was going to eat next, turned out to be the next Hitler?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (iMxBJ)

97 93 91 Hey everybody.
Whatever became of Olivia Newton-John?
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (q7T0y)

I think I saw an ad for her show the last time I was in Las Vegas.
Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:08 AM (iMxBJ)

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Topless?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (sl+zA)

98 Crap! Got to put the garbage out. Almost forgot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2016 11:45 PM (ANVXm)

I hate it when the garbage spontaneously combusts, and I have to put it out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (GSdpU)

99

A fitting celebration of the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by the most exceptional people.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 05, 2016 12:10 AM (X35Yt)

100 97 Topless?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (sl+zA)

As Madonna has discovered, the Grandma-tit market is a lot smaller than people think.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:11 AM (iMxBJ)

101 92
Idi Amin had an old lady who was a hostage who had been sent to the
hospital in Kampala, dragged from her bed and murdered. Because she had
been separated from the group she was left behind by the raid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2016 11:42 PM (EZebt)

Israel should have whacked Amin, too. Or nuked Kampala. Who would miss it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (GSdpU)

It's unfashionable to whack those stuck in a century before the 20th -- but, then, it's unfashionable to wear bell-bottom jeans. What happens when it again becomes fashionable?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:12 AM (EzgxV)

102 Posted by: irongrampa at July 05, 2016 12:10 AM (X35Yt)

You sir, are the most optimistic person at AOS.

Bar none.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 05, 2016 12:13 AM (kKHcp)

103 Topless?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 05, 2016 12:09 AM (sl+zA)

Too rude

Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at July 05, 2016 12:13 AM (shMPn)

104 Splunge and Slap, thanks.

Cicero, let's hope not...

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:13 AM (q7T0y)

105 one other thing about height: if you look at the top of your wall it's 8 feet. that's about the record for the high jump. can you imagine someone throwing themselves entirely over that height?

for me, that's the most impressive individual athletic accomplishment.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 05, 2016 12:14 AM (WTSFk)

106 99 A fitting celebration of the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by the most exceptional people.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 05, 2016 12:10 AM (X35Yt)

I'm with ya.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:14 AM (iMxBJ)

107 "A fitting celebration of the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by the most exceptional people."
-Posted by: irongrampa at July 05, 2016 12:10 AM (X35Yt)

I'm okay, I guess. I simply know how to spell things, though.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:15 AM (6gk0M)

108 Whatever became of Olivia Newton-John?

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 12:07 AM (q7T0y)

She fell victim to the great Hyphen Famine of '98. Sad, it was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:15 AM (GSdpU)

109 Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 05, 2016 12:14 AM (WTSFk)

and I'm thinking that if I guess right and go strong shoulder first, and miss the studs, I could go through the drywall and catch that summabeech as he's landing.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (kKHcp)

110 108 She fell victim to the great Hyphen Famine of '98. Sad, it was.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:15 AM (GSdpU)

Say, this hyphen thing has been around for a while now. We must have had two of them get married by now. So why aren't there any four-words-with-hyphens names around? Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)

111 Never trust a woman with a hyphenated name.

That's just my rule.

Your Mileage May Vary.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:18 AM (6gk0M)

112 Say, this hyphen thing has been around for a while now. We must have had two of them get married by now. So why aren't there any four-words-with-hyphens names around? Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)

Well, that's the root cause of the Hyphen Famine. Of course, the Bilderbergers covered it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:18 AM (GSdpU)

113 110
108 She fell victim to the great Hyphen Famine of '98. Sad, it was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:15 AM (GSdpU)

Say, this hyphen thing has been around for a while now. We must have
had two of them get married by now. So why aren't there any
four-words-with-hyphens names around? Did people finally realize that
the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)

A lot of young would-be brides signed up for hyphen-restoration surgery....

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:19 AM (EzgxV)

114 I should expand upon that...

"Never Trust a Woman With a Hyphenated Surname."

...Your Mileage May Vary.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:19 AM (6gk0M)

115 Nasa's Juno spacecraft has successfully entered orbit of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet ...
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*queues up Holst*

Because, we're sophisticated here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:19 AM (ANVXm)

116 Hyphens? Hell. We can barely get vowels.

Posted by: The Welsh at July 05, 2016 12:20 AM (sl+zA)

117 You rich guys with all your vowels and shit.

Posted by: The Hebrews at July 05, 2016 12:21 AM (sl+zA)

118
Heh. I read that as 'hymen famine', probably because ONT.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:21 AM (ANVXm)

119 Because, we're sophisticated here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:19 AM (ANVXm)

Holst wrote The Planets before the discovery of Pluto, didn't he? And, yes, it is great music.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:22 AM (GSdpU)

120 115
Nasa's Juno spacecraft has successfully entered orbit of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet ...

------------

*queues up Holst*

Because, we're sophisticated here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:19 AM (ANVXm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDFocqYSrfE

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:23 AM (EzgxV)

121 The Daily Mail is a great place to find coverage of stories that the U.S. press won't cover, but their stories don't usually make me laugh out loud. This one did.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jpkrrzb

All I could hear when reading that story about how the hos of Rio are discounting their prices for the Olympics, and looking at those pictures, was the voice of Velvet Jones. Just three words.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:24 AM (iMxBJ)

122 I eschew sophistication for Rock and Roll.

Mostly due to beer.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:24 AM (6gk0M)

123 Time for the old folk.

Remember, y'all,we are Americans, so that head is held HIGH--especially during these times.

Cherish our country as you know it to be, not what the left wishes it to be.

Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 05, 2016 12:24 AM (X35Yt)

124 the solar system's largest planet

...Really banking on the highbrow intellect of your audience

Damn, it made it all the way to the solar system? How long did that take?

Posted by: t-bird is as highbrow as they get! at July 05, 2016 12:25 AM (RrDm2)

125 G'Night, irongrampa!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:25 AM (6gk0M)

126 Say, this hyphen thing has been around for a while now. We must have had two of them get married by now. So why aren't there any four-words-with-hyphens names around? Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)

Have you seen some Spanish names?

But I think the Spanish are able to do it because they buy name offsets from the Chinese.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 12:26 AM (v9gSJ)

127 Holst wrote The Planets before the discovery of Pluto, didn't he? And, yes, it is great music.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Cannot hear 'Jupiter' without thinking of 'I Vow to Thee', which leads to thoughts of Churchill, which leads to allergies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (ANVXm)

128 God Bless America and God Bless you all.

Posted by: thathalfrican - keeping people on their toes like they hate sittin' at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (R5HRU)

129 Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)
The hyphen thing was a bullshit measure by halfwitted semi-lez chicks to show their independence by not taking their husband's name. (It'd be interesting to see what proportion of hyphenated married women got divorced; in my experience, that's pretty much all of them.) Of course, sooner or later some names have to be dropped, so all these stupid bitches did was kick the can down the road a bit. So empty symbolism, utterly bereft of any real-world point, i.e., liberal bullshit.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (oKE6c)

130
Good fireworks show on the Galveston Seawall.

When I was 2 I was at the Galveston display. They had a malfunction and the whole thing went off all at once. Almost sank the barge it was on. According to my parents it was the absolute best, albeit shortest, fireworks display they've ever seen.

And I took the boat out for the first time yesterday, just me, Gingy and Little. We just went a couple of miles out into the bay and back. It was kinda hard with me being the only one that even sorta knows what I'm doing. Highlights:

*Thump*
"What's that?"
*Thump*
"That's the keel hitting the bottom, see that marker out there? That's the channel, I gotta get out to it". (I had wandered into the shallows while figuring out how to get the sails up. Jib was easy, Main works a lot better if you attach the halyard to the actual sail and not leave it on the mast. It didn't help that Gingy kept coming out of the wind onto a beam reach). I had a couple Mr. Wilson moments.

I got some kind of electrical issue, hope it's just a dead battery. I could start the engine but had no power for anything else when I was off the dock power.

There's some small water leak on one of the engine hoses when it's running, it sprays up, a small stream. It just occurred to me that I didn't shutdown the water intake line when I docked. Shit. I hope it doesn't sink. It shouldn't though, the bilge pump works on shore power, and the leak was under pressure, it should be fine just sitting there.

I couldn't quite get the sails set right for a close haul. It worked, and we were going, but other boats of the same size on the same tack passed me. Slowly, but they did. I was doing 3-4 knots and they must have been doing 4-5. Only about 7-8 knots wind speed though.

I backed into the slip and tied up with 0 issues. A couple of guys on their nearby sailboats complimented me on the job and couldn't believe that it was my first time.

Had a lot of fun though. I'm looking forward to doing it again, and to Gingy taking the ASA 101 course so that I'm not all alone out there.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 05, 2016 12:28 AM (N8hFs)

131 Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

You mean like if 'Bjork Ingasdottir-Sigridsson' marries and has kid? Imagine carrying your whole family tree around on your name tag.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2016 12:30 AM (9mTYi)

132 128
God Bless America and God Bless you all.

Posted by: thathalfrican - keeping people on their toes like they hate sittin' at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (R5HRU)

God Bless you, too -- you give us hope, and it's a wonderful gift.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

133 Well, here's a conundrum. GCsurplus.ca has an '88 Chevy 2500 3/4 ton standard cab long-bed pickup for auction. And it has 6-stud wheels. I thought all 3/4 tons from that era and newer had 8-stud wheels. My '88 3/4 ton suburban has 8-stude wheels. But running the VIN says, yes, indeed, that truck is a 3/4 ton.

Minimum bid is $500, and it's actually a pretty decent-looking truck. No rust visible. I could use a "better-than-beater" pickup. Hmmm....

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:31 AM (GSdpU)

134 What a perfect night for a first run.
And a good one too.

Posted by: Patina Awry Newt at July 05, 2016 12:33 AM (shMPn)

135
The hyphen thing was a bullshit measure by halfwitted semi-lez chicks to show their independence by not taking their husband's name.
---------------------

It was a bullshit measure -- they should have just kept their maiden names, like Dr. Laura Schlessinger who also insisted that her son take her name considering all she went through to bring him into the world.

Posted by: iforgot at July 05, 2016 12:33 AM (5o5ek)

136 "God Bless America and God Bless you all."

-Posted by: thathalfrican - keeping people on their toes like they hate sittin' at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (R5HRU)

You too, amigo.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:34 AM (6gk0M)

137 Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

Cooth my dude! Not sure how I give hope, I just try to live up to the standards my parents and I set for myself.

Posted by: thathalfrican - keeping people on their toes like they hate sittin' at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (R5HRU)

138 135 It was a bullshit measure -- they should have just kept their maiden names, like Dr. Laura Schlessinger who also insisted that her son take her name considering all she went through to bring him into the world.
Posted by: iforgot at July 05, 2016 12:33 AM (5o5ek)

Pretty clear who wears the pants in that family.

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (iMxBJ)

139 Minimum bid is $500, and it's actually a pretty decent-looking truck. No rust visible. I could use a "better-than-beater" pickup. Hmmm....
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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How many miles... excuse me... kilometers on the clock?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (ANVXm)

140 129
Did people finally realize that the hyphen thing doesn't scale?

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:17 AM (iMxBJ)
The
hyphen thing was a bullshit measure by halfwitted semi-lez chicks to
show their independence by not taking their husband's name. (It'd be
interesting to see what proportion of hyphenated married women got
divorced; in my experience, that's pretty much all of them.) Of course,
sooner or later some names have to be dropped, so all these stupid
bitches did was kick the can down the road a bit. So empty symbolism,
utterly bereft of any real-world point, i.e., liberal bullshit.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (oKE6c)

A lot of it tracked certification, which turns out to be another form of bullshit -- you can be certified in 19 kinds of shit and accomplished in none. If you're certified, it's handy to maintain some sort of continuity with your name. So if you're certified in left-handed progressive critical basket-weaving for trans-Hispanics bottoms, you want to maintain that advantage in your government HR department even if you [somehow] get married.....so you need to hyphenate.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (EzgxV)

141 Hymen hyphen harfen hayman.

Posted by: Jerry Lewis at July 05, 2016 12:36 AM (IqV8l)

142 can you imagine someone throwing themselves entirely over that height?

To go fully pedantic, they don't. Only a piece of them at a time goes over, their center of gravity is always below the bar.

That being said, today a high school girl, Randall Cunningham's daughter, high jumped 6' 5' or so to earn a trip to the Olympics, and, yes, that's truly amazing.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2016 12:37 AM (w/iDp)

143 Hola all.

Damn, that John Adams comment was downright inspiring. Kinda reminds me of irongrampa.

Posted by: Blano at July 05, 2016 12:39 AM (oO+cT)

144 "Cannot hear 'Jupiter' without thinking of 'I Vow to Thee', which leads to thoughts of Churchill, which leads to allergies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lE"
-Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:27 AM (ANVXm)

Nicely played. I wouldn't have put those two together. Thanks.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (6gk0M)

145 Cthulhu, why do I feel compelled to fix your Spanish?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (ry34m)

146 Splunge, I showed down on sheng Jian bao. Tasty !

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (dULJN)

147 Happy Independence Day, American Morons and Moronettes!

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Traveling Horde, Pennsylvania at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (iZ/y/)

148 The Hebrew alphabet has vowels! Alef, he, vav, yod, ayin...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (kP16F)

149 Chowed

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2016 12:42 AM (dULJN)

150 When those mirrors face each other the world exists in infinite reflectivity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 04, 2016 11:46 PM (IqV8l)

Dare you to scream "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 12:42 AM (ry34m)

151 Dare you to scream "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary"

Last time I did that three drinks were delivered to my table.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at July 05, 2016 12:43 AM (T/cxb)

152 146 Splunge, I showed down on sheng Jian bao. Tasty !
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (dULJN)

Excellent!

Posted by: Splunge at July 05, 2016 12:43 AM (iMxBJ)

153 ..."Damn, that John Adams comment was downright inspiring. Kinda reminds me of irongrampa."
-Posted by: Blano at July 05, 2016 12:39 AM (oO+cT)

Dude doesn't vary and remains consistent. Adams is his stubborn Doppleganger.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:43 AM (6gk0M)

154 How many miles... excuse me... kilometers on the clock?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (ANVXm)

236123 km. 5-liter V8, EFi, 4-speed automatic, disc/drum brakes. Truck is brown, has a nice-looking headache rack, duct tape on edge of driver's seat. They say it was in working order when taken out of service, but now needs a boost to start. Truck is in Waterton National Park.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:43 AM (GSdpU)

155 The Hebrew alphabet has vowels! Alef, he, vav, yod, ayin...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (kP16F)

They're not vowels. In fact the Greeks made the mistake of thinking they were when they took the alphabet ... and that's how we ended up with one of the greatest advances in writing - independent vowels and truly phonetic writing.

Hebrew is really a syllabic language. You infer the vowels by the organization of the consonants - and that includes aleph, ayin, etc - because Hebrew words are all built on very specific templates.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 12:44 AM (v9gSJ)

156 That being said, today a high school girl, Randall Cunningham's daughter, high jumped 6' 5' or so to earn a trip to the Olympics, and, yes, that's truly amazing.
Posted by: t-bird
-----------------

Which reminds me, I see Miki Sudo again scored a win in the female category of hot-dog eating. I find her nick name amusing, 'The Black Widow'. 38 1/2 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:44 AM (ANVXm)

157 "Cthulhu, why do I feel compelled to fix your Spanish?"
-Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (ry34m)

?Porque sus ancestros son Francos?

Iberian rubbish?

I'm just grasping at straws.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:47 AM (6gk0M)

158
137
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

Cooth my dude! Not sure how I give hope, I just try to live up to the standards my parents and I set for myself.

Posted by: thathalfrican - keeping people on their toes like they hate sittin' at July 05, 2016 12:35 AM (R5HRU)

When all the best in the world want to share in the American Experiment and jump through all the immigration bullshit hoops, I am so happy to have them as my fellow citizens. They reinforce my view that America was something special and will be something special in the future.

When all the worst in the world come here and demand to be set apart and sustained in the name of a failed country or belief, it makes me sad.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:47 AM (EzgxV)

159 Which reminds me, I see Miki Sudo again scored a win in the female category of hot-dog eating. I find her nick name amusing, 'The Black Widow'. 38 1/2 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:44 AM (ANVXm)

I heard on the radio this afternoon, that the mens' winner snarfed down 70, count 'em, 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes. His body probably contains enough nitrates to be regulated by the BATF.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 12:47 AM (GSdpU)

160 AOP - Well, as long as it runs, isn't visibly burning oil, or dripping fluids, what the hell. Can you look at it, hear it run, before bidding? Or, is it a long ways away?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:48 AM (ANVXm)

161 It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

I do believe we have done almost every one of those today. It has been a great, restorative Fourth for me.

Our neighborhood has been sounding like a war zone for close to two hours. Must have had 10 or 15 different groups within a 3/4 mile radius, lighting aerials and any other kind of combustible. Never been quite like this before. There's something in the air.

Not really an optimist yet, but maybe there's some hope to be found...

Posted by: Chipotle at July 05, 2016 12:48 AM (Kedbl)

162 His body probably contains enough nitrates to be regulated by the BATF.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Lots of water and pee called for.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:49 AM (ANVXm)

163 Dude doesn't vary and remains consistent. Adams is his stubborn Doppleganger.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:43 AM (6gk0M)

I have this theory that throughout all of history there is a very clear understanding among almost the entire human population that there is a difference between regular people and the great men. Which is why all the great people of history are such incredible people. Whereas nowadays I can hardly point to a single person who I think... Yes, that man is truly a great person.
It seems to me almost everyone fails to achieve the ideal.
Maybe its just that we've reached a point where the difficulty of achievement is so high that it can only be actualized through collaboration?
I don't know, it doesn't seem that way to me except in the hard sciences, definitely not in any of the social fields like politics, writing or anything of that nature.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 12:49 AM (DjLh9)

164 Evening everyone.

I'd watch 1776 in the style of 300. I want to see an overly muscular George Washington bang Martha Washington and then rip a redcoat in half with his bare hands.

Also, who'd play Martha Washington?

Books are almost packed. After that comes all my paperwork, once I've sorted out the stuff that work needs before I leave.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (fC9RO)

165 "When all the worst in the world come here and demand
to be set apart and sustained in the name of a failed country or
belief, it makes me sad."
-Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:47 AM (EzgxV)

When those who were born here try to teach our youth that we are not exceptional, that makes me even sadder.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (6gk0M)

166
145
Cthulhu, why do I feel compelled to fix your Spanish?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 12:40 AM (ry34m)

I intentionally use bastardized [then interneted] Spanglish.....'cause that's what I get so often around here. I took three years of formal Spanish, I could do better using references, but why?

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (EzgxV)

167 I don't know, it doesn't seem that way to me except in the hard sciences, definitely not in any of the social fields like politics, writing or anything of that nature.
Posted by: Literalness
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I don't get it either. There is a terrible sense that they simply do not come into being anymore. It is possible, of course, that they are simply swamped by the noise of contemporary, valueless society.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:54 AM (mxCgt)

168 Great men still exist, but not in any field where they might be recognized the way they were in the 18th century. What great man would enter politics? I hope this is only a period of history and not a permanent situation.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 12:55 AM (VdICR)

169 Maybe its just that we've reached a point where the difficulty of achievement is so high that it can only be actualized through collaboration?

No. 'Collaboration' is the lack of greatness. Indeed, I think it conspires to prevent it.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2016 12:55 AM (w35Hj)

170 Didn't read all comments and shit, but I have one pet peeve. Why are all these people saying "happy 4th of July"? I know it's the 4th of July. Wanna say something about the 4th of July, say "Happy Independence Day" for crying out loud

Posted by: GrandMa Bell at July 05, 2016 12:55 AM (RLdcX)

171 The Hebrew alphabet has vowels! Alef, he, vav, yod, ayin...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at 12:40 AM
________

Good! Those Hebrew consonants need a kick in the shin.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 05, 2016 12:55 AM (OYN1B)

172 >>I see Miki Sudo again scored a win in the female category of hot-dog eating. I find her nick name amusing, 'The Black Widow'. 38 1/2 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Piker.

Posted by: Annabel Chong at July 05, 2016 12:58 AM (ZVWnB)

173 I'll nominate Gen James Mattis for great person. He already has legendary wrapped up.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 05, 2016 12:58 AM (ocw+t)

174 Let's see if I can take a trip to the Barrel with my next post... politics and math, but mostly math, so I will will have earned it...

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 05, 2016 12:58 AM (P/kVC)

175 Clinton 10 point lead
Ipsos / Reuters Poll (Jun 5 - Jun 29)
42% Clinton, 32% Trump
1247 polled

Of those polled,
Dems: 75% for Clinton, 7% for Trump
Repubs: 7% for Clinton, 70% for Trump
Indies: 223% for Clinton, 34% for Trump

Running the numbers based on number polled and 42% Clinton and 32% Trump:
524 for Clinton
399 for Trump
324 for 'Other'

Skipping the math, but based upon the magic of matrices and determinants,
Those polled,

45% Democrats
28% Republican
27% Independant

Is 45% card-carrying Democrat a realistic projection for the upcoming election?
Is 26% voting for 'Other'a realistic projection?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 05, 2016 12:58 AM (P/kVC)

176 I don't get it either. There is a terrible sense that they simply do not come into being anymore. It is possible, of course, that they are simply swamped by the noise of contemporary, valueless society.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:54 AM (mxCgt)

I think at least partly to fault is science.
Before hard sciences the most intelligent and creative people would basically pursue statecraft and contemplation of ideas for their own sake.
In the modern world most of those type of people dedicate their lives to the pursuit of scientific research, many of whom think science will provide deterministic, objective answers to all questions. There is point to contemplating the nature of something if in the future the nature of that thing will be exposed by someone else who specializes in that field of scientific research.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:00 AM (DjLh9)

177 AOP - Well, as long as it runs, isn't visibly burning oil, or dripping fluids, what the hell. Can you look at it, hear it run, before bidding? Or, is it a long ways away?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:48 AM (ANVXm)

Yes, they "recommend" that you go view the item before bidding. But I have found them to be painfully honest when it comes to disclosing known faults. Almost to a comical degree. "Worn floor". No shit, Sherlock. But a photo shows the rubber floor mat in shreds. Porcupines must have been fucking on it.

Waterton Park is a 4-hour road trip for me. So, say, $150 worth of fuel to drive there and back. To have a look at a $500 truck. Not worth the expense. I could easily get $500 out of it by parting it out. The pickup box looks great. Windshield is undamaged. Better just to bid what it's worth to me, as a pig in a poke, and then make the one trip to fetch it if I win the auction. Last two Suburbans I bought from GCSurplus both have been absolute gems.

And I won the bid on the "vintage tools" last week. A Black & Decker "Holgun" 1/4-inch drill, and a "Scrugun" power screwdriver, both 1950's vintage or earlier. In fact the Holgun looks exactly like the 1940's model Holgun that my father used when he worked in the Boeing Aircraft factory in Vancouver, BC, building tail sections for PBY's. Which self-same drill is in my tool drawer right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 01:01 AM (GSdpU)

178
Is 45% card-carrying Democrat a realistic projection for the upcoming election?
Is 26% voting for 'Other'a realistic projection?
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 05, 2016 12:58 AM (P/kVC)
---------------------

Seems off.

Posted by: iforgot at July 05, 2016 01:02 AM (5o5ek)

179 What great man would enter politics? I hope this is only a period of history and not a permanent situation.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 12:55 AM (VdICR)

The whole point of a Constitutional Republic like ours (was) is that not only do you not need any great men in politics but great men would specifically not want to go into politics. If the Constitution was adhered to and the arms of government kept within their various constraints then bad and stupid men couldn't do too much damage from within the government. Further, positions that are so constrained and restricted are not the sort that any great man would be interested in, outside of a few years of "service" after his main productive and creative years were already done.

These are the strengths (and the weaknesses) of our Constitutional Republic and part of the reason why it always had a limited shelf life (though it lasted far longer than anyone had a right to think it would). By putting constraints on the power of government one should expect that the people who will populate that government will tend to be the mediocre and the power-hungry (who are looking to break the constraints and benefit from the awesome money and power that the government has at its disposal ... once the Constitution is breached).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:02 AM (v9gSJ)

180
165
"When all the worst in the world come here and demand

to be set apart and sustained in the name of a failed country or

belief, it makes me sad."
-Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:47 AM (EzgxV)

When those who were born here try to teach our youth that we are not exceptional, that makes me even sadder.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (6gk0M)

I had a young lady who I hired fresh off the plane from Malaysia....probably the only time I said, "cancel all other interviews, get her", and I wasn't disappointed.
There are Americans who are fortunate enough to be born here. There are Americans who get here through legal means. There, sadly, are Americans who are lead away from America through personal weakness or institutional lies. And, let us not forget, there are non-Americans.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 01:03 AM (EzgxV)

181 I intentionally use bastardized [then interneted] Spanglish.....'cause that's what I get so often around here.

Posted by: cthulhu at 12:51 AM
________

There's so much franglais and Spanglish that I've long ago recognized them as full-fledged languages - so I bastardize them into Franglish. (Or maybe Spanglais. Still working out the name for it.)

Posted by: FireHorse at July 05, 2016 01:03 AM (OYN1B)

182 not only do you not need any great men in politics but great men would specifically not want to go into politics...

Check!

Posted by: The Uniparty at July 05, 2016 01:05 AM (Z58Xa)

183
Alarm goes off in less than five hours. Good night, all!

Posted by: iforgot at July 05, 2016 01:05 AM (5o5ek)

184
I intentionally use bastardized [then
interneted] Spanglish.....'cause that's what I get so often around here.
I took three years of formal Spanish, I could do better using
references, but why?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (EzgxV)

Yeah, OK. That's why.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:07 AM (ry34m)

185 Beautiful letter by Adams! It's so sad that so many actually feel no joy on a day like today, just bitterness.

We had a decorated bike parade, a hundred riders strong, streaming down the road. Awesome!

Posted by: PJ at July 05, 2016 01:07 AM (cHuNI)

186 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:02 AM (v9gSJ)

The problem is the Constitution was not violated.

The situation we are in now was created fully within the boundaries set by the Constitution.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:09 AM (MQEz6)

187 Great Men
>>>>
You would think that with 7 billion of us there would be great men popping up like wild flowers.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:10 AM (DjLh9)

188 It is hard to realize facts and come to conclusions amongst the T.V., internet and gaming folks who "just want to be left alone".

The interesting thing is that they'll never understand that Orwell was right. They've never read Orwell. The only reason I read Orwell was because I was in middle school in 1984.

They've never read Thomas Sowell, because will not be assigned.

They will never read Milton Friedman, because it will never be assigned.

Hayek, Von Mises, Popper, Hoffer?

These will be authors of our future and we must fight to implement their assignments as Freedoms of Speech.

The "elites" and their unelected School Boards must stop. If you don't attend meetings, (something I have never done --to be honest), you are going to watch the Constitution fade, as I have.

I don't have children, but that is no excuse.

I make phone calls to Ohio and National Representatives and Senators almost every week. --Mostly around election time.

I have been remiss on attending local meetings because I'm part of the T.V., Internet, Gaming and Local Sports crowd that finds diversions.

Ignorance is bliss.

--Right?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 01:11 AM (6gk0M)

189 Oh, wonderful. A couple of big kabooms followed by the sound of three EMS vehicles heading out of town sirens wailing.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:12 AM (ry34m)

190 G'Night, iforgot.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 01:12 AM (6gk0M)

191 The problem is the Constitution was not violated.

The situation we are in now was created fully within the boundaries set by the Constitution.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:09 AM (MQEz6)

I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that. Barky's election violated the Constitution and he has breached it countless times ever since. Congress has not done its Constitutional job - a whole bunch of them. The Judiciary has made a total mockery of the Constitution.

The Constitution was poked through here and there for decades but the final push in the last 7 years has just ripped it to shreds and rendered it a dead letter, by my reckoning.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (v9gSJ)

192 You would think that with 7 billion of us there would be great men popping up like wild flowers.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:10 AM (DjLh9)

I'm thinking crab-bucket has something to do about this.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (ry34m)

193 189 Oh, wonderful. A couple of big kabooms followed by the sound of three EMS vehicles heading out of town sirens wailing.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:12 AM (ry34m)

And the 2016 darwin award goes to...

(too soon?)

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (DjLh9)

194 184

I intentionally use bastardized [then

interneted] Spanglish.....'cause that's what I get so often around here.

I took three years of formal Spanish, I could do better using

references, but why?
Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 12:51 AM (EzgxV)

Yeah, OK. That's why.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:07 AM (ry34m)

Shorter cooth: all the z's were supposed to indicate that things weren't serious.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 01:15 AM (EzgxV)

195 And the 2016 darwin award goes to...

(too soon?)
Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (DjLh9)

Ir's just that we have six months left in the qualifying period. Lotsa' beers to be held, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:16 AM (ry34m)

196
I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that. Barky's election violated the Constitution
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

How?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 05, 2016 01:17 AM (IqV8l)

197 196
I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that. Barky's election violated the Constitution
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

How?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 05, 2016 01:17 AM (IqV8l)

We elected a black man, don't'ca know?
The system is racist man!

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:17 AM (DjLh9)

198 Well, I am going to hit the rack. Early day tomorrow. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 05, 2016 01:18 AM (GSdpU)

199 Well, I got a better than OK view from the roof of several firework displays ...

Happy 4th, All ...

Here's to freedom for another year.

Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at July 05, 2016 01:18 AM (AoK0a)

200 Goodnight all, and I hope everybody had a great Independence Day weekend. Bonus: short(er) work week ahead. :-)

And thanks for the great chat, both here and in the previous thread.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 05, 2016 01:18 AM (q7T0y)

201 The whole point of a Constitutional Republic like ours (was) is that not only do you not need any great men in politics but great men would specifically not want to go into politics. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:02 AM (v9gSJ)

I agree completely. But this essential quality was superfluous to the founders, a generation that had a surplus of great men.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 01:19 AM (VdICR)

202 191 The problem is the Constitution was not violated.

The situation we are in now was created fully within the boundaries set by the Constitution.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:09 AM (MQEz6)

I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that. Barky's election violated the Constitution and he has breached it countless times ever since. Congress has not done its Constitutional job - a whole bunch of them. The Judiciary has made a total mockery of the Constitution.

The Constitution was poked through here and there for decades but the final push in the last 7 years has just ripped it to shreds and rendered it a dead letter, by my reckoning.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (v9gSJ)

No.

The 16th and 17th Amendements were put in place as specified. The New Deal, Great Society, all of it.

The fact people did the wrong thing or failed to do the right thing is not the problem. The problem is the system was inadequate.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:19 AM (MQEz6)

203 Benton County Oregon has some of the nicest county parks. Today I went to Fort Hoskins park, it is the site of the first constructed US fort in the Oregon Territory.
Lovely park and I have loved every time I've gone there.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:20 AM (ry34m)

204 sorry, "one of the first"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:21 AM (ry34m)

205 A really big shew.

Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2016 01:22 AM (qUNWi)

206 How?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at July 05, 2016 01:17 AM (IqV8l)

He's ineligible. But the worst part is not that, it's that people didn't have the integrity to, at the very least, demand that he prove his eligibility in court (which would not even have been a risk, as the courts would all happily say that he was eligible, no matter what the truth).

Actually, even worse than that was that many people went apeshit, attacking anyone who even mentioned that Barky needed to prove he was actually eligible. At that point it was clear that not even many of those who claimed to support the Constitution really cared about it. It was clear that if Barky got in after that all bets were off. And that's exactly what happened.

The same timidity and fear of even broaching the Constitutional question with barky carried through with the Vichy GOP (and the Judiciary) letting him do any damn thing he wanted. The Rule of Law was reduced to nothing but a sad joke.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:22 AM (v9gSJ)

207 Getting a good dose of heavenly fireworks and boomers here in DFW tonight.

Posted by: Blano at July 05, 2016 01:23 AM (PKOgf)

208 I live in So Cal and it still sounds like a war zone. Don't these people know fireworks are illegal.

Guess it won be a problem getting ammo into the state

Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2016 01:24 AM (dULJN)

209 What did John Adams think about the internet?

I would spell Nazi his ass.

Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2016 01:24 AM (qUNWi)

210 The fact people did the wrong thing or failed to do the right thing is not the problem. The problem is the system was inadequate.

For one we didn't have a document of things that cannot become law or powers that the government cannot have. Only rights that shouldn't be infringed, powers that cannot be had over the citizenry.

Its been a good run but the founders never planned for half of the population desiring to tear the entire nation to the ground over superfluous PC bullshit.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:24 AM (DjLh9)

211
186
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:02 AM (v9gSJ)

The problem is the Constitution was not violated.

The situation we are in now was created fully within the boundaries set by the Constitution.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:09 AM (MQEz6)

The real problem is that the Constitution is built to be enforced by shame or the courts. If a party has no shame and has a lockstep majority in SCOTUS, the rest of the Constitution just folds. If the second amendment said, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed and any attempts at infringement should be subject to immediate execution by any citizen, militia, or armed forces of the United States. -- well, then, we would have had much less bullshit over the last 50 years.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 01:24 AM (EzgxV)

212 I remember July 4th, 1976 pretty well.
The patriotism, the flags, the Headline news shows!

Sadly, that seems like a dream or something. Like I was on another planet... and yet, I was right there the whole time...

Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 01:27 AM (Smm/k)

213 Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 01:24 AM (EzgxV)

That is why it doesn't work anymore.

Shame is dead and its power with it.

Posted by: eman at July 05, 2016 01:27 AM (MQEz6)

214 I don't get it either. There is a terrible sense
that they simply do not come into being anymore. It is possible, of
course, that they are simply swamped by the noise of contemporary,
valueless society.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 05, 2016 12:54 AM (mxCgt)

There's a lot of this at play. The truly great are marginalized by the society the Left has created, which at every turn elevates falsehood over truth, incompetence over competence, and decadence over art. To be great these days is to speak the truth with boldness. There are many great men, but we do not hear them. The defilers have bigger microphones.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at July 05, 2016 01:28 AM (HalrA)

215 203
Benton County Oregon has some of the nicest county parks. Today I went
to Fort Hoskins park, it is the site of the first constructed US fort in
the Oregon Territory.
Lovely park and I have loved every time I've gone there.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2016 01:20 AM (ry34m)

Silver Falls SP -- and the trail of 10 falls -- is awesome beyond belief. It is mind-boggling.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 01:29 AM (EzgxV)

216 Weirddave @130.

Glad you had a good sail today. And got home, safely!

Were it me, I'd just replace all of the hoses in the engine compartment, period. Zero-time as many of the maintenance and serviceable items as you can. Including engine zincs and intercooler zincs, most importantly.

The electronics? Fine tooth comb every inch of it. Might not be connections, or a bad switch. Could be chafe on a wire(s) though.

And awesomely done, backing her down to dock. You win and lose all your salty points around the docks, like it or not.

You'll enjoy sailing more when your crew is trained, too. Go easy on the wife with the rum, sodomy and lash though? lol

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 05, 2016 01:31 AM (v5iqM)

217 And with that, I'm off to snoozeville, y'all.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 05, 2016 01:32 AM (v5iqM)

218
There's a lot of this at play. The truly great are marginalized by the society the Left has created, which at every turn elevates falsehood over truth, incompetence over competence, and decadence over art. To be great these days is to speak the truth with boldness. There are many great men, but we do not hear them. The defilers have bigger microphones.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at July 05, 2016 01:28 AM (HalrA)

boop-a-doop...

I don't think there are as many great men as you think, they aren't being outshouted. They aren't there at all. The world we are in now is not theirs anymore.

Posted by: Literalness at July 05, 2016 01:37 AM (DjLh9)

219 Docking a boat is always made easier with a plentiful supply of human fenders and the willingness to put them in harms way.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 05, 2016 01:37 AM (ocw+t)

220 Hey, they did the Marines, Army, Navy and Coast Guard anthems at the NY fireworks show. Why no TSA anthem?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 05, 2016 01:43 AM (ocw+t)

221 I celebrated Independence Day today by liberating my deep fryer from the tyranny of oxidized oil varnish mess all in and over it. That's what happens when you let shit go.

I almost got some gasoline on it, almost, but the damn stuff is getting too expensive to use for a solvent like I used to do. Hell, I would have had any handy in a can, the non-ethanol kind, of course.

I think I'm going to spring for a deep fryer with the drain on it. After each use, the oil is drained through a filter into a nice storage tank. Makes it easier to clean.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at July 05, 2016 01:47 AM (DW+jj)

222 Simply the existence of great men makes leftists uncomfortable. I heard a 3-hour conversation between Sargon of Akkad and two former liberals / classic liberals. And they tried to figure out the riddle of what is the mental defect of SJWs. Sargon finally said, maybe they're just shitty people? Bad people like certain things, and they have the sense to know that collusion is the only way they can get ahead in the world. (And so they have more "dog whistles" than anyone else.)

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 01:50 AM (VdICR)

223 Towering cities combined with teeming, clamorous populations have conspired to make unknown great men an American tradition.

Posted by: On the wall in the restroom, George's Delicatessen, Atlanta at July 05, 2016 01:51 AM (9mTYi)

224
212 I remember July 4th, 1976 pretty well.
The patriotism, the flags, the Headline news shows!

Oh, I remember it well, too.

I was a young Air Force airman at the time.

We repainted my ATC tower from standard red and white checkerboard to red, white and blue.

On the fifth we were back out changing it back...

Posted by: Spun and Murky at July 05, 2016 01:53 AM (4DCSq)

225 The problem isn't the Constitution or whether the government followed it. It's that new states were admitted to the Union without first being free and independent states.

A sports analogy: The NFL (or any of the big leagues) were true leagues at first - a bunch of guys make a team, and a bunch of teams form a league. They agree on rules and a schedule and pick an official to oversee it all. It was like a local bowling league is today.

But then the league grew to the point where the term "league" is an antiquated misnomer. The NFL is a business that awards (actually sells) franchises. The so-called league is in charge of the teams, not the other way around.

So it is with U.S. states. Nevada was never a state in the true sense - not like Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Texas (or, arguably, Utah). And as for being free and independent, there's not 1 out of 50 that qualify as being either.

No solutions here - not even describing the problem very well - just offering a contrast between 18th-century America and 21st-century America.

(Then again, maybe I'm all wet. Thoughts?)

Posted by: FireHorse at July 05, 2016 01:54 AM (OYN1B)

226 You laugh at us from your cocktail parties, but deep down, you want us on that wall. You need us on that wall!

Posted by: TSA Agent who Likes to Pat Down MILFs at July 05, 2016 01:54 AM (VdICR)

227 I remember July 4th, 1976 pretty well.
The patriotism, the flags, the Headline news shows!

Sadly, that seems like a dream or something. Like I was on another planet... and yet, I was right there the whole time...
Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 01:27 AM

Yes, it's odd to me that was 40 yrs ago. Where has the time gone? Long time passing...

T

Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2016 01:56 AM (o/90i)

228 Spent the weekend in Palmer, AK campground, along the banks of the Matanuska River.

It was beautiful, green, lush (the foliage, not me), and the weather was fine.

The illegal Mexican horde that moved in on day one played miserable music over loudspeakers and sang karioke over a microphone until 3:00 in the morning all three nights. The cops came through, but did nothing. Bastards ruined a perfectly good weekend by forbidding anyone there to sleep.

I'm voting for Trump, if only because he will deport these bastards who come here to take our jobs, ruin our leisure time, and refuse to learn how to behave like an American. And if that makes me xenophobic and racist, then I guess I am.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 01:59 AM (+YMhA)

229 22 Rue John Moses Browning

I have the vague feeling that is safer to live on that namesake road than Barack Obama Boulevard.

Just avoid my part of town!

Posted by: MLK Blvd at July 05, 2016 01:59 AM (AWwDY)

230 ..."The Constitution was poked through here and there for decades but the final push in the last 7 years has just ripped it to shreds and rendered it a dead letter, by my reckoning."
-Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 05, 2016 01:14 AM (v9gSJ)

The sidebar link, "You Owe Them Nothing" is a high-quality affirmation of the shredding of the Rule of Law.

http://tinyurl.com/zxpasp9

-Please read that before you read further.

Ironically, it leads to more freedom; as we are free to disobey the "Elites" and those who would not conform to what we plebes are subjected to.

I'm not talking about immorality and revolt... (as some idiots call for violence and an abhorrent form of "justice".)

I'm talking about a Local Push to get people elected to ground-level positions.

What I completely understand is this final paragraph from Kurt Schhlicter's post:

I abide by the Rule of Law. I will murder no one, as God is my Witness. I will, however, defend the Constitution of These Great United States of America.

I don't think we're at the "Tree of Liberty" position, yet.

I do believe that the bastardization of the Constitution has achieved a level not seen since A. Jackson, T. Roosevelt, W. Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, R. Nixon; and for some of you, A. Lincoln.

...I tend to agree with "some of you" more often than not. The "War of Northern Aggression" turned out better than its instance Against Our Constitution.

Perhaps I'm too drunk to make an actual point. In fact, I know I am.

I'll simply ask you to try to influence your local neighbors by learning the Constitution and Our Founding Fathers by reading The Federalist Papers.

...and the authors prescribed above.

For those who would say that our country isn't exceptional, I would simply point out history itself.

God Bless these great United States of America.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 01:59 AM (6gk0M)

231 Yes, it's odd to me that was 40 yrs ago. Where has the time gone? Long time passing...

T
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2016 01:56 AM (o/90i)

Yep. I was 15 years old, in tight-ass cutoffs and a skinny t-shirt, running around like the jailbait I was.

Those were the days.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:00 AM (+YMhA)

232 Too much typing for few results.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 02:01 AM (6gk0M)

233 Nite Slappy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:02 AM (+YMhA)

234
Yep. I was 15 years old, in tight-ass cutoffs and a skinny t-shirt, running around like the jailbait I was.

Those were the days.
Posted by: tcn in AK
-------------------
c'mon - you know the freakin' rule!

And, I'll get off y'alls lawns. I had just turned nine. But I remember that summer very well.
Recall that Bruce Jenner was a man to respect that year...

Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:04 AM (Smm/k)

235 P.S: I had to omit that last paragraph of Kurt Schlicter's post. It was rejected by Minx 0.7 Alpha.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 02:05 AM (6gk0M)

236 *static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at 2:01 AM
________

It's 2 a.m. I have trouble formulating ...

... forgot where I was going.

Yeah, I'm switching over to - I wish there were still test patterns on TV.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 05, 2016 02:05 AM (OYN1B)

237 G'night Slap (and everyone I missed ).
Nice to see you around.

Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:10 AM (Smm/k)

238 c'mon - you know the freakin' rule!

And, I'll get off y'alls lawns. I had just turned nine. But I remember that summer very well.
Recall that Bruce Jenner was a man to respect that year...
Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:04 AM (Smm/k)

I think I may be excused on account of the age restriction. Jailbait is not photo fodder on the ONT, last I checked.

Plus, I had really big glasses, so maybe not so sexy after all this time....

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:16 AM (+YMhA)

239 I don't think it's a coincidence that great men along less often as real-time media grew, while at the same time greatness was frequently declared for those who had a talent for performance but not necessarily anything else to recommend them. The greatness inspired by past historical figures required a bit of distance, for the men to be known for their accomplishments and deeds, and not their every minute foible. Less than a century ago, a man running for high office was known primarily for his words reproduced in newspapers and pamphlets. Those words were better weighed and considered by the average man who could be bothered to pay attention than somebody taking in a soundbite on TV.

Consider how long it has been since a President could be judged by something he'd written entirely himself, as per Lincoln with the Gettysburg Address. Today, Lincoln's reedy voice would be a disaster in a candidate and at the time the Address got rather mixed reviews from those in attendance, hearing it from Lincoln's own mouth. The appreciation for the text grew greatly as it was picked up by every newspaper and readers assigned whatever mental voice they chose to the speaker.

Posted by: Epobirs at July 05, 2016 02:16 AM (IdCqF)

240 Funny thing about age - some people, like poor wines, improve with time.

I was always sorta dumpy and weird-looking until I hit my late 30's......

Now, I'm not at all painful to look at. If old family pics are anything to go by, I've still got quite a few 'handsome' years ahead.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 05, 2016 02:20 AM (3DKJ1)

241 #222

They simply have different criteria. A high body count really turns them on, thus their love of Stalin and Mao.

Posted by: Epobirs at July 05, 2016 02:21 AM (IdCqF)

242 Epobir - I think a lot of these reprobates cherished murder fantasies most of their lives. Natural for them to be drawn to a cause that justifies and encourages their own evil.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 05, 2016 02:23 AM (3DKJ1)

243 And as we're talking about time, why not hear a ventriloquist's dummy discourse on the subject?

https://youtu.be/lxplpDKx_Qk

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at July 05, 2016 02:25 AM (3DKJ1)

244 I think I may be excused on account of the age restriction. Jailbait is not photo fodder on the ONT, last I checked.

Plus, I had really big glasses, so maybe not so sexy after all this time....
Posted by: tcn in AK
---------------------
Time Machine rules - in '76 I was only 9, so I can't be a pervert for looking at pics of a hawt 15 yr-old running around in Daisy Dukes & a wifebeater.

And big glasses? I was nine. You were fifteen. Pretty sure you had boobies, so even if you looked like Velma from Scooby Doo, I was crashing my bike paying more attention to you than the traffic I was riding into.

Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:27 AM (Smm/k)

245 238
c'mon - you know the freakin' rule!

And, I'll get off y'alls lawns. I had just turned nine. But I remember that summer very well.

Recall that Bruce Jenner was a man to respect that year...

Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:04 AM (Smm/k)

I think I may be excused on account of the age restriction. Jailbait is not photo fodder on the ONT, last I checked.

Plus, I had really big glasses, so maybe not so sexy after all this time....

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:16 AM (+YMhA)

I vaguely remember some sub-clause regarding pix about "as soon as the subject was legal." We can go with that when you post.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 02:30 AM (EzgxV)

246 ..."And big glasses? I was nine. You were fifteen. Pretty sure you had boobies, so even if you looked like Velma from Scooby Doo, I was crashing my bike paying more attention to you than the traffic I was riding into."
-Posted by: Chi - not a sax legend at July 05, 2016 02:27 AM (Smm/k)

*HAH!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 02:30 AM (6gk0M)

247 231 Yes, it's odd to me that was 40 yrs ago. Where has the time gone? Long time passing...

T
Posted by: Farmer at July 05, 2016 01:56 AM (o/90i)

Yep. I was 15 years old, in tight-ass cutoffs and a skinny t-shirt, running around like the jailbait I was.

Those were the days.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:00 AM (+YMhA)

I was 11 years old and excited to start collecting the special quarters, half dollars, and dollar coins that the mint was releasing.

I was also excited by the 15 year old girls running around in tight cut off shorts.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper at July 05, 2016 02:32 AM (1JnAL)

248 Okay... listening to the Halo Soundtrack and I am mesmerized. My "thinking self" is gone, at this point.

Getting kids into Orchestra and Theater may only be one Soundtrack away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8vaCrVIR-Q

*click*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 05, 2016 02:34 AM (6gk0M)

249
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 02:16 AM (+YMhA)

Plus, I had really big glasses, so maybe not so sexy after all this time....

All you had to do was move your glasses down a bit, and say molecule ...

Posted by: Arbalest at July 05, 2016 02:37 AM (FlRtG)

250 VERY interesting conversation at a Fourth of July BBQ this evening.

Talking with a mother of a 11-year-old who just finished fourth grade at a public elementary school in [liberal Bay Area school district].

Now, this mother, who is the older sister of a childhood friend of mine, is a big-time lefty. If you're from the Bay Area you might understand, but those of you from normal places can't quite grasp the depth of leftism people are capable of around here. She's one of them -- uber-ultra-liberal, kneejerk loathing of anything even faintly conservative. The worst curse word in the English language is "Reagan." That type of person.

Why is this relevant? Because this was the conversation:

Me: [small talk about school and childhood memories.]

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Yeah, but that's nothing compared to what kids learn these days."

Me: "Really, What do you mean?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Well, for example. last semester, my kid brought home his assignment about the history of science, and I caught a glimpse of it, and literally every scientist mentioned was African-American. I mean, that's fine in theory, I get the point, but every single one?"

Me: "Like, Einstein and Newton and so forth -- not mentioned?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "No -- just marginal people I had never heard of. I asked him and he thought this actually was the history of science. He straight-up told me that white people had not contributed anything to science, because that's what he was being taught. Really, I understand why they might want to do this, it's good for self-esteem for some of the class, but we're using our kids as guinea pigs. At some point they should be taught the truth."

Me: "So what did you do?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Well, I went to his teacher, and basically confronted her about the curriculum, and do you know what she said?"

Me: "What?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: " She said, 'He'll learn eventually.' And I said to her, 'Learn what?' And she said, squinting her eyes, 'He'll learn not to let his parents see the workbook..' "

Me: "Whoa."

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Can you believe it? I mean, really, I think there should be reparations, I'm all for that, but we shouldn't be taking it out on our children. They don't know what's real and what's not. I'm just so frustrated."

Me: "Ever thought about private school?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Oh, no, never! They should be banned. That's elitist."

Me: "So, you left him in the same school?"

Liberal mom of fourth-grader: "Yeah, of course."

---

So, she had her eyes opened about the indoctrination in public schools, AND she's angry that SJWs are using the nation's kids as educational guinea pigs to erase history, and EVEN SO, her leftism compels her to leave her kids in school at the mercy of the communists in charge.

It's sheer child abuse to leave your child in a situation where you know they are being hurt (intellectually). I didn't reveal my feelings to her (I'm too polite for that), but I held her partly responsible for the ruination of her son's brain. She should have pulled him out of school immediately, because next year he will learn his lesson not to show her the workbook, where the indoctrination will increase even more exponentially -- all the way through college.

Take this situation and multiply it by 10 million and you have contemporary America in a nutshell.

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)

251 Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)

Our leftie-parented godkids went Waldorf. We never had to storm the citadel of biases.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 02:45 AM (EzgxV)

252 251
Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)

Our leftie-parented godkids went Waldorf. We never had to storm the citadel of biases.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 02:45 AM (EzgxV)

I have to admit, my initial thoughts about a Waldorf school came out of reading Auntie Mame -- but research gave me more confidence in their approach.....and a few years of monitoring the results left me satisfied.

Posted by: cthulhu at July 05, 2016 02:55 AM (EzgxV)

253 And they have great salads for lunch ...

Posted by: Adriane the Educational Critic ... at July 05, 2016 02:57 AM (AoK0a)

254 zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)

Thanks for the report, depressing though it may be ...

Posted by: Adriane the Educational Critic ... at July 05, 2016 03:00 AM (AoK0a)

255 I imagine the designers of the curriculum were torn over whether to include Trofim Lysenko. White guy but such an important contributor!

How old do they think these kids will be before they realize the people they've been told are the sole major scientists to date must have been incredibly busy people to have covered so much ground in their scant lifetimes?

Posted by: Epobirs at July 05, 2016 03:03 AM (IdCqF)

256 254 zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)

Thanks for the report, depressing though it may be ...
Posted by: Adriane the Educational Critic ... at July 05, 2016 03:00 AM (AoK0a)

Oh, it gets better.

My son brought home straight F's with the exception of one D for his final grades in 4th grade. It was inevitable once we discovered that the teacher never asked the kids to turn in homework. We were told it was up to the kids to do this on their own. It was a bridge to far to expect the only adult in the room to enforce the rule.

When I called the District to ask if my son was going to repeat 4th grade, since his grades indicated that he has clearly failed, I was told that if that were going to happen, it would have been brought to my attention by February, so of course he would not be held back.

What the actual fuck?

So, not only will the teachers be responsible for acting like adults and actually teach the kids, but when they fail horribly, the kids will just be passed up the pipe to the next round of failures.

I shall be homeschooling the boy this year, and he will be the better for it, even if I have to give up my current, fabulous job to pull it off.

Public schools are NOT about children any more--they are entirely about imbeciles pulling big paychecks from the public trough to warehouse kids until they can kick them out at 16. I will be damned if I pay another dime to support public school. Now I just have to figure out how to do that and not go to jail.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 05, 2016 03:06 AM (+YMhA)

257 If they have the inclination to find the objective truth, when they grow up they will be furious. I know because lies make me fucking furious. You don't have to prove the teachers wrong, you just have to give them the tools of discovery.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 05, 2016 03:07 AM (VdICR)

258 Instead of an eveeeel meat hotdog eating contest, how's about a kale eatin' contest? Yep, that's a real thing.

Here's how it would go if I were in it --

Me: I ate one bite.
Second contestant: I ate 1/2 bite.

Me: You win.

The only way to win is to not play.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 05, 2016 03:10 AM (gyKtp)

259 As more people become aware of academic absurdity, the resources for home schooling get better and more numerous.

Best of luck to you & your son, tcn in AK. Lots of activities & carefully supervised apprenticeships with craftsmen won't hurt either.

Posted by: Adriane the Educational Critic ... at July 05, 2016 03:31 AM (AoK0a)

260 When in the Course of Human Events...

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12098

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 05, 2016 03:32 AM (vBeA5)

261 Best schools I attended were DoD schools, I'm sure they're not as good as they were.

Posted by: BignJames at July 05, 2016 03:36 AM (NtJ8p)

262 11 years old in 4th grade?

Derp.

Posted by: eleven at July 05, 2016 03:42 AM (qUNWi)

263 I hate when you get up way before the alarm
But at least it's raining
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2016 03:51 AM (Yo9Lf)

264
Who cares about Jupiter? Jupiter is big nothing. Now, Saturn with its sexy rings is a planet to strive for.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 05, 2016 04:02 AM (iQIUe)

265 Being mean to Jupiter is just ... mean! Why can't we all just get along?

Posted by: goon at July 05, 2016 04:06 AM (WCaSy)

266 I used to really like the Thursday sloppy Joe lunch. It was like the fast-food that I wasn't allowed to have at home. "Mom, mom, why don't we have sloppy joe's?", "Sit down and eat your gruel!". And then there was the 5 mile walk, uphill, through the snow, to the bus stop.....

Posted by: goon at July 05, 2016 04:10 AM (WCaSy)

267 I will be damned if I pay another dime to support public school. Now I just have to figure out how to do that and not go to jail.

Posted by: tcn in AK

You let me know when you figure that out ... my BP spikes every month when private school tuition and property taxes are due. If I ever stroke out, it will be over those two checks - dear god its going to get rough in a few years when the kids are in high school.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:11 AM (Doh4+)

268 Boris Johnson endorses Andrea Leadsom as next Conservative Party leader.

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 05, 2016 04:15 AM (vBeA5)

269 Is she hot, pics?

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:16 AM (Doh4+)

270 Is she hot, pics?

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:16 AM (Doh4+)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Leadsom

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 05, 2016 04:19 AM (vBeA5)

271 Somebody had better WAKE UP and go to WORK! Or we're going to be standing in soup lines, or laying at the end of dark corridors pressing buttons that get no response, by Haitians, or other people that hate our guts, so you better vote, you better vote good, and show some stinking guts this time. Violence is certainly an option that you should not take off of the table. But, hey, it's only Tuesday now ... plenty of time to alibi waiting for Wednesday to act ... just like our founding fathers did. uh-huh.

Posted by: goon at July 05, 2016 04:25 AM (WCaSy)

272 If you'll can find this at your local library: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0057753/ you should watch it.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:25 AM (Doh4+)

273 Jessica Tarlov worked on Boris Johnson's campaign.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at July 05, 2016 04:27 AM (GzDYP)

274 I know that everyone on Earth cares about what I'm going to do next, but I thought that I would just give you a head's-up rather than Tweet it ... I'm going to go to Netflix and watch Star Trek Voyager episodes now. So there.

Posted by: goon at July 05, 2016 04:30 AM (WCaSy)

275 Hat, so not hot; but " Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.[29] This was despite her previous opposition to wind farms and European Renewable energy targets.[30] ". This might be ok, if the AGW crowd hasn't co-opt'ed her.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:32 AM (Doh4+)

276 goon, don't worry about voting 'good; vote often.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 04:34 AM (Doh4+)

277 I'm slowly getting ready to go to work.

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2016 04:37 AM (Yo9Lf)

278 262 11 years old in 4th grade?

Derp.
Posted by: eleven

Well, he's 11 years old now but he just had his birthday. When he was actually in fourth grade, up until a month or so ago, he was 10.

Posted by: zombie at July 05, 2016 04:47 AM (jBuUi)

279 Night all.

Here is "London Dungeon" by The Misfits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0B4Nae_LeA

Posted by: The Political Hat at July 05, 2016 05:15 AM (vBeA5)

280 Who cares about Jupiter? Jupiter is big nothing. Now, Saturn with its sexy rings is a planet to strive for.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at July 05, 2016 04:02 AM (iQIUe)

Joviaphobe!

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 05, 2016 05:20 AM (oq87a)

281 Working out the orbital calculations with all those moons must have been fun.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:29 AM (Doh4+)

282 Working out the orbital calculations with all those moons must have been fun.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:29 AM (Doh4+)

The only moon that actually helped with the calculations was Europa... we were told to attempt no landing there...

Posted by: NASA at July 05, 2016 05:35 AM (vBeA5)

283 Working out the orbital calculations with all those moons must have been fun.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:29 AM (Doh4+)

Checking the computers math?

Posted by: BignJames at July 05, 2016 05:35 AM (NtJ8p)

284 With sliderules ... I suspect that 'No Landings on Europa' will become a dogma spoken ex cathedra for our new religion of science.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:41 AM (Doh4+)

285 It's in a polar orbit, and for the duration of the mission, isn't expected to come close enough to any of the moons to materially affect it's orbit. At the end of it's planned mission, it will be deorbited into Jupiter.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 05, 2016 05:48 AM (oq87a)

286 Morning, Peeps.

Posted by: fluffy at July 05, 2016 05:52 AM (eiFlk)

287 Good Morning Morons. Today is Tuesday, July 05, 2016. On this day in 1935 the National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, was signed into law by communist infested FDR. This was one of the worst laws ever enacted by congress and we are still feeling the effects of it now.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

288 Huma says Scankles did illegally destroy some of her daily schedules while SOS.

http://tinyurl.com/glh53to

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

289 Stickey -thats weak, some of our science mission produce data decades after their planned missions end.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (Doh4+)

290 Syrian terrorist that Obama let out of GITMO has disappeared in South America.

http://tinyurl.com/hrz4jo6

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

291 Obama to cozy up to Scankles in NC today.

http://tinyurl.com/hdco4zr

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

292 Meanwhile Trump is cozying up to people he is looking at for a VP pick. Prominently mentioned here are Ernst and Pence. Ernst had an ACU rating of 88 in 2015 which is just in the RINO territory and Pence sold us out long ago. As for Newt his sell by date expired as soon as he sat on the couch with Pelousy.

http://tinyurl.com/z2qf63d

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

293 Newspaper publisher jailed in GA for going after a judge in the paper.

http://tinyurl.com/gplv2um

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

294 Obama's State Department is illegally thwarting deportation of criminal illegals which forces them to be released on the streets of the US since that stupid court ruling that says they can not keep them in jail.

http://tinyurl.com/hgl85jt

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

295 Recall a few months ago I posted a link to an article that says that the Skankles machine was pressuring the alphabets to blacklist the author of that revealing book about her escapades while she was in the WH. Well, the author has come out now and verified that the MFM is blacklisting him to prevent him from getting his message out.

http://tinyurl.com/hcnd2mq

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

296 Illegal alien in NC is buying child sex slaves for prostitution in the US. This is the kind of assholes Obama is letting in with his open borders policy.

http://tinyurl.com/z8zt8s6

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

297 What's this crap that Scankles is telling Lynch she can stay on as AG ... is she trying to get the AG to recuse herself?

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:56 AM (Doh4+)

298 There are several bills floating around in the House that would put potential gun buyers on a "no sale" list. Not all of them that are supported by some RINOs are good bills. Of course none of them are supported by Democrats who view this as an election issue. Yes, they piss on the Constitution in order to get support from their fascist supporters.

http://tinyurl.com/zb82vzr

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

299
Ramirez - no update

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 05:57 AM (mpXpK)

300 Deport them to Gitmo

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:58 AM (Doh4+)

301 284 ... Jean, wonder if I remember how to use my slide rule from high school. It's been a decade or four. At that it was a step up from the clay tablets and abacus we had in junior high.

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 05:58 AM (V+03K)

302 I remember my first pocket calculator from the mid/late '70s....it was a National Semiconductor that absolutely ate 9v batteries.

Posted by: BignJames at July 05, 2016 06:02 AM (NtJ8p)

303 My first calculator only had one function key and that was a square root. It used a weird size battery that was hard to find. I paid nearly $200 for it. My last scientific TI calculator does everything and only cost $20. And I suspect that a lot of that $20 went to the instruction manual.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

304 Stickey -thats weak, some of our science mission produce data decades after their planned missions end.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:54 AM (Doh4+)

Yes, but....since a few of Jupiter's moons might harbor life, they want to avoid any possibility of the Juno probe one day smashing into one of those moons, and potentially introducing earth originating microbes....this is why they plan on destroying it at the end of it's mission life.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at July 05, 2016 06:10 AM (oq87a)

305 302 ... I recall one kid who had one of the first pocket calculators, circa 1969 or 70. The actual cost is hazy but it was beyond the budget of most families. I believe his wealthy grandparents got it for him. The joke is a slide rule, at a fraction of the cost, was far more versatile and just as accurate.

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:10 AM (V+03K)

306 I remember getting a TI-50 from Texas Instruments and walking into slide rule class, yeah, I'm THAT old, in Jr College and asking the teacher a smart ass question about if I could use it instead of my slide rule. Yes, it was a trip to the Dean's office and I got tossed out of the class but next quarter it wasn't on the curriculum nor a requirement to graduate.

PS... I already knew how to use my KE Slide rule.

Posted by: Gmac- All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. at July 05, 2016 06:14 AM (4pjhs)

307 The last time I actually used my old slide rule was when I took the General level ham radio test. It worked. The younger people there didn't know what it was and the older folks who administered the tests smiled at the memories. After the session they started a discussion about where they had their own slide rules. They had all kept them.

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:16 AM (V+03K)

308 Curses, no ampersands for me...
This was also in '73 - 74 era.

Posted by: Gmac- All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. at July 05, 2016 06:17 AM (4pjhs)

309 So why aren't there any four-words-with-hyphens names around?

Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880-1967)

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at July 05, 2016 06:18 AM (J8/9G)

310 "So, she had her eyes opened about the indoctrination in public schools,
AND she's angry that SJWs are using the nation's kids as educational
guinea pigs to erase history, and EVEN SO, her leftism compels her to
leave her kids in school at the mercy of the communists in charge.

zombie at July 05, 2016 02:39 AM (jBuUi)"

I imagine she is thinking "If only Obama knew about this. He would set things straight."

Posted by: Ripley at July 05, 2016 06:21 AM (1BQGO)

311 Ha! Just took out the old Pickett slide rule. It's amazing how the gradations and lines have shrunk since 1970. I rarely do math these days beyond basic arithmetic and balancing a checkbook, but it was fun trying to remember which scales did what. I was surprised that the slide still moved so easily. Maybe I'll keep it out next to the 1939 Royal typewriter and start a 'retro-but-still-useful' section of my office. (The Royal isn't for display. I use it often. I type better on it than any modern keyboard.)

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:30 AM (V+03K)

312 (The Royal isn't for display. I use it often. I type better on it than any modern keyboard.)

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:30 AM (V+03K)

My guess is the sound of the keys is a Endorphin releaser. Do recognize the sounds of the keystrokes and can tell when you make a mistake?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 06:35 AM (WVsWD)

313 Oh, and Good Morning Everyone.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 06:38 AM (WVsWD)

314 " (The Royal isn't for display. I use it often. I type better on it than any modern keyboard.)

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:30 AM (V+03K)

My guess is the sound of the keys is a Endorphin releaser. Do recognize the sounds of the keystrokes and can tell when you make a mistake?"

Hi Tim, I don't sense it by sound but there is a 'feel' when I hit the wrong key. But I do like the sound and slight effort to work the keys. Makes me think I'm accomplishing something. Heck, I even like the aroma of the ink on the ribbon. The whole process is therapeutic. And it's relaxed since I don't have to produce clean, error free copy on it. It's my favorite first draft tool. (I'm not a touch typist anyway so I'm always looking at the keyboard.) and the size and spacing of the keys and angle of the keys is more comfortable for my big ol' hands. Plus it's reassuring that something older than me is still functional. :-)

Posted by: JTB at July 05, 2016 06:58 AM (V+03K)

315 Ha! I read and posted in in the previous thread thinking it was the ont!! Now I can no longer hide the fact that I wake up slowly, real slowly, and my observation skillz arrive long after my 2nd cup o joe....

Posted by: Ruth at July 05, 2016 06:59 AM (uyqly)

316 So why aren't there any four-words-with-hyphens names around?

Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880-1967)

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner

Because we're not German.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:04 AM (Doh4+)

317 JTB

I would say that yes, you release Endorphins when you are typing. That's good though.

Typing as a drug? Who would think it but I think I am the same way when I am building a Model.

Let's not talk about observation skills. I am sorely lacking in that area.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 07:06 AM (WVsWD)

318 Hyphenated names are not a recent thing and they used to be more popular. Mostly they were used to keep a important family connection.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 07:08 AM (WVsWD)

319 G'mornin' Horde !

That Schlichter piece in the sidebar is spot - on.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez_ at July 05, 2016 07:08 AM (gUoN4)

320 I have not yet begun to prevaricate!

Posted by: Commodewhore Loretta Lynch at July 05, 2016 07:15 AM (ZEzaq)

321 Given that Wikileaks is widely regarded as a front for Russian intelligence

I did not know that. (Source Instapundit)

After the Bill Clinton, Lolita Lynch meeting, we are treated to The President of the United States, Barack Insane Obama inviting unindicted felon Hillary Clinton to fly with him on Air Farce One.

What does that say?

Holiday is over. You serfs get back to work paying that Social Security Tax. Millions are depending on it.

Posted by: Jon Ne Onename at July 05, 2016 07:20 AM (CtWSq)

322 Commodewhore ?

I'ma go make coffee and resolutely not think about that word.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez_ at July 05, 2016 07:21 AM (gUoN4)

323 Speaking of mysteries, which we weren't.

Why would one of the "persons of interest" intentionally give out a clue? Almost as if daring to be found out?

Why does answering one question always bring up more questions to be answered before the mystery can be solved?

arrggghhh-ie something.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 07:24 AM (WVsWD)

324 usbtypewriter.com

Convert your old typewriter to a modern input device

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:27 AM (Doh4+)

325 People do clever things with graphics. In an interesting (but depressing) article on Marion Zimmer Bradley and Witches in the modern feminist movement on RS McCain's site someone "OrangeEnt) put a graphic up relating to Hillary. It's serious but it made me laugh. Scroll 3/4 of the way down in the comments section after the article:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zg2wexy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 07:28 AM (frf5f)

326 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 05, 2016 07:29 AM (ZQfW9)

327
That Schlichter piece in the sidebar is spot - on.

Color me unimpressed.

As has been said before by commenters much smarter than myself, until "conservatives" and "Christians" actually walk the walk - massive, nationwide boycotts and tax strikes, just to start - not a goddamned thing will change!

"We owe them nothing," Kurt? And how, pray tell, shall we show that? By running stop signs at 3 in the morning?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 05, 2016 07:33 AM (X6fMO)

328 Who thinks the AF1 conversation was about how much the pardon was going to cost the Clintons?

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:34 AM (Doh4+)

329 My image of withces was forever set by that Dragon magazine cover when I was 11

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:35 AM (Doh4+)

330 Who thinks the AF1 conversation was about how much the pardon was going to cost the Clintons?

Could be.

Could also be that Obama was asking about how he should set up his own Charity for Community Organizing Institute and trying to get a list of names of people who made big contributions.

Posted by: Jon Ne Onename at July 05, 2016 07:37 AM (CtWSq)

331 "Who thinks the AF1 conversation was about how much the pardon was going to cost the Clintons?"

Oooh!!! Ooooo!!!! Me!! Mr. Kotter!! Me!!

Posted by: Horschack at July 05, 2016 07:37 AM (uyqly)

332 Morning horde.

Hope everyone haad a great 4th.

Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at July 05, 2016 07:38 AM (c9JbB)

333 I think Christians walking the walk-is about-you know -following Christ. If people want to do a boycott and tax strike that's fine, but that is political effort for a political purpose. If they were related to Christians. being forced to have gay marriages in their churches or pastors needing to have their sermons approved by the State example, then it would be theological. Otherwise it's not, IMO.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 07:39 AM (frf5f)

334 Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:35 AM (Doh4+)

Which is what-sexy women in skimpy black outfits.? Marion Zimmer Bradly may have been attractive in her youth, but she wasn't by the time "The Mists of Avalon" was written. I've known some young attractive witches. I've also known some that are dumpy and middle aged and the same can be said of Christians. It's about the theology, not about the looks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 07:42 AM (frf5f)

335 I've decided that the Left has become everything several Twilight Zone episodes warned us about.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at July 05, 2016 07:48 AM (Ee2nz)

336 The Navy is spending $100k to find out which vegetables and fruits grow best on US subs.

http://tinyurl.com/j4wus6s

(AP)

You're in the Navy now
You're still behind a plow
You'll never get rich
So eat your kale, bitch
You're in the Navy now

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 05, 2016 07:48 AM (gyKtp)

337 327 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 05, 2016 07:33 AM (X6fMO)

Every movement starts somewhere.

Prohibition died the death of a million papercuts.

Posted by: sven10077 at July 05, 2016 07:49 AM (SzZnW)

338 Fenelon, http://preview.tinyurl.com/h4x5mbo

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:51 AM (Doh4+)

339 325 Fenelon,

I just groused about a MZB book I was reading in the Sunday book thread. Aaaand I mentioned taking a look at her wiki entry to find out what a sleaze she was.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 05, 2016 07:53 AM (gyKtp)

340 "The Navy is spending $100k to find out which vegetables and fruits grow best on US subs."

Torp Tubes and Silo's going to double as Green Houses?

Quick! LT unload the lettuce from tubes 1 and 2, reload the Torps and Fire......

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. at July 05, 2016 07:55 AM (WVsWD)

341 333 I think Christians walking the walk-is about-you know -following Christ. If people want to do a boycott and tax strike that's fine, but that is political effort for a political purpose. If they were related to Christians. being forced to have gay marriages in their churches or pastors needing to have their sermons approved by the State example, then it would be theological. Otherwise it's not, IMO.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 07:39 AM (frf5f)

The Left won't leave it at that. Consider the recently-decided case of the Christian pharmacist. He declined to dispense abortifacients as a matter of conscience. He offered to refer the customer to one of 30 other pharmacies within a 5-mile radius of his store. The court found this to be an illegal and unconstitutional violation of the customer's rights.

So a Christian pharmacist who holds a conscientious objection to abetting abortion must choose between his conscience and his livelihood.

At what point are Christians justified in taking arms against their oppressors?

I'm thinking we're probably there now.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 05, 2016 07:55 AM (ZEzaq)

342 Cloyd, that's horrible. Where was that?

Posted by: bluebell at July 05, 2016 07:58 AM (805dc)

343 Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 07:51 AM (Doh4+)

So it's a sexy woman in a white diaphanous (sp?) outfit instead? ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 07:58 AM (frf5f)

344 dump

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 05, 2016 08:00 AM (mpXpK)

345 Posted by: GnuBreed at July 05, 2016 07:53 AM (gyKtp)

I'l have to go back and see what you posted. I wasn't around for that thread.

I would imagine that the Wiki entry is kind of cleaned up?-at least a bit. She was a nasty women who did horrific damage-as did her husband-to kids, including her daughter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 08:00 AM (frf5f)

346 Charge 5000x the going rate for the pills, to cover legal costs.

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 08:02 AM (Doh4+)

347 "342 Cloyd, that's horrible. Where was that?"

It's the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case from Washington state.

Note that state law allowed pharmacists to routinely refer customers for all sorts of other reasons, but not as a matter of conscience.

http://tinyurl.com/zx62qo7

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at July 05, 2016 08:03 AM (ZEzaq)

348 What's this crap that Scankles is telling Lynch she can stay on as AG ... is she trying to get the AG to recuse herself?

Posted by: Jean at July 05, 2016 05:56 AM (Doh4+)

Bubba whispers: "Loretta sweetie, Fort Marcy Park or US AG, maybe even a Supreme Court Justice nimonation, you might want to think about your options here!"

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 05, 2016 08:05 AM (wYnyS)

349 GnuBreed

"Feminist Grylpower junk" LOL.
Sorry you had a bad experience. I tossed out the Bradley books I had in my library.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2016 08:06 AM (frf5f)

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