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Filling The Ice House
Harry Gottlieb

Here's another depression-era artist who painted on orders from the government was able to continue working as an artist because of the generosity of the American people.

[I am being ungenerous, but state support of the arts smacks of socialism -- in particular the Soviet and Nazi kind]

Posted by: CBD at 09:45 AM




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1 Nope, not going to claim it.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 16, 2016 09:41 AM (J70i0)

2 mornin' rons

Posted by: willy at December 16, 2016 09:42 AM (Ffw22)

3 Is it just me, or is the guy in the red sweater (lower left) just a little threatening?

Or should the title be "Icehouse at the start of the stabbings with big pointy things"?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 09:44 AM (C9pBZ)

4 It was socialism.National socialism.

Posted by: steevy at December 16, 2016 09:44 AM (r/0kC)

5 That guy in red in the bottom left looks like he's about to give the guy in orange a big "surprise".

Posted by: ice house hijinks at December 16, 2016 09:44 AM (ir1zf)

6 If all the Climate Change regulations were enacted, all those mortgaged to their eyeballs special studies majors would the ones with the ice gaffs and wondering who'll get jabbed first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (1CeG9)

7 I see no crucifix or bottle of piss or flaming flag or any of that. I'm doubtful as to the claims of this being govt funded art.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (9CkBG)

8 Is it just me, or is the guy in the red sweater (lower left) just a little threatening?

Or should the title be "Icehouse at the start of the stabbings with big pointy things"?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 09:44 AM (C9pBZ)
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Yeah, he looks like he's got it in for the guy in gold in front of him. Not good.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (sBOL1)

9 I can remember going to the ice house with my dad. I thought it was the coolest thing on earth. The big, muscular guys who worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (97XyN)

10 From Drudge, a UFO conspiracy theorist vomited up two liters of black fluid before he died. I immediately thought about the black oil from The X Files:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ufo-conspiracy-theorist-who-sent-9467993

Posted by: Independent George at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (BDZWU)

11 This is, like railroading and most other industrial activities and almost all active life since Eastman, far better rendered on camera than by some pathetic Federally funded housepainter.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (TppKb)

12 Anna Puma, I trust you are feeling better. Colds are no fun, esp. with upper respiratory stuff.

In any event, have a serene day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (u82oZ)

13 The big, muscular guys who worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.



Ummmmmm.........

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (9CkBG)

14 I see no crucifix or bottle of piss or flaming flag or any of that. I'm doubtful as to the claims of this being govt funded art.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (9CkBG)
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You've got a point there.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (sBOL1)

15 >>>I can remember going to the ice house with my dad. I
thought it was the coolest thing on earth. The big, muscular guys who
worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (97XyN)<<<

Do you like movies about gladiators?

Posted by: Capt. Oveur at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (ir1zf)

16 Alternate Title:


"Curling: The OCD Version"


Posted by: naturalfake at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (9q7Dl)

17 FDR....what a visionary.

Posted by: BignJames at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (x9c8r)

18 Greedy capitalists with their "refrigeration" put those people out of work.

Posted by: Swami at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (t1QV2)

19 Reading on Drudge the case of the newly wed couple arrested on beastiality charges. Ironic that an Animal Farm quote can be paraphrased here. Some sexual deviant desires are more equal than others.

Not only more equal but must be celebrated.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 09:47 AM (IDPbH)

20 >>The big, muscular guys who worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.

Joey, you like movies about gladiators?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (/tuJf)

21 Was this ice for refigerators? Before they discovered that expanding gas could lower temperatures.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (mBYZv)

22 I read this morning, 0hhbama is going to take 'action' against the Russians for interfering in the election. ::insert eye rolling::

Whatever action he takes is based on another false narrative, like the youtube video.

Inauguration day can't get here fast enough.

Posted by: willy at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (Ffw22)

23 Salty Dawg, I am still in the sometimes cough up my lungs stage but the fever seems to have abated. Still no appetite so forcing myself to eat. And as soon as I find the paperwork, going to call in and not show for work.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (1CeG9)

24 Dammit

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (/tuJf)

25 I occasionally comment at a classical music blog. Another commenter, a hardcore leftist, regularly compares the number of opera performances in US city X with the state-subsidized number in European city Y.

My invariable response is, "Anytime X wants to have one or more full-time publically-funded opera companies, they're free to do so. Here's the website for their city council. Start writing. A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."

I have never gotten a coherent response.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 09:49 AM (ludWv)

26 >>Reading on Drudge the case of the newly wed
>> couple arrested on beastiality charges.

Drudge is getting slow. Daily Mail yesterday afternoon, I put it on the ONT

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 09:49 AM (TppKb)

27 They used to cut big blocks of ice out of the lake near me and send them by rail down to Chicago.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:49 AM (dFi94)

28 The tracks for the ice seem cartoonishly rendered. I don't like this.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (mBYZv)

29 The guy in red is about to impale that other guy. Otherwise it just looks COLD.

Posted by: joncelli Rickles at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (RD7QR)

30 [I am being ungenerous, but state support of the arts smacks of socialism -- in particular the Soviet and Nazi kind]

---

socialism often does...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (PNcou)

31 I can remember going to the ice house with my dad. I thought it was the coolest thing on earth. The big, muscular guys who worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.




Did any of them ask you if you enjoyed gladiator movies?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (CJRaf)

32 I have never gotten a coherent response.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 09:49 AM (ludWv)

You don't understand sputtering rage?

Posted by: BignJames at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (x9c8r)

33 My LP Pat Paulsen Live At The Icehouse (1970) is a classic!

Posted by: Pat Paulsen for President at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (+kwUl)

34 When I saw "Ice House" I thought it meant one of those old-timey taverns with the open front. Alas, dying out too.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (ludWv)

35 Nowadays, icehouses are much more enjoyable

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (7ZVPa)

36 The guy in red is about to impale that other guy. Otherwise it just looks COLD.




Orange jacket guy is Paolo.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (CJRaf)

37 Is it just me, or is the guy in the red sweater (lower left) just a little threatening?

He's the reason the guy in orange is so efficient.

Posted by: t-bird at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (2z74n)

38 On my blog, two writers who have asked to be added to the Horde list:

prolific Christian writer & speaker Bob Hostetler and Edgar-nominated mystery writer Libby Sternberg

Link in nic

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (Om16U)

39 i'm not comfortable with people putting their boots on my ice.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl, gird up your loins, this is not the time to go wobbly at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (0O7c5)

40 That guy in red has pretty good form. Gonna have to recruit him.

Wonder how he is with flaming, barbed wire wrapped pineapples...

Posted by: Satan at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (ir1zf)

41 cool halberds they're using.

And it's been too long since we've had a Halberd vs. bill-guisarme fight...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (PNcou)

42 When I saw "Ice House" I thought it meant one of those old-timey taverns with the open front. Alas, dying out too.



They are all over Houston.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (CJRaf)

43 alt. title,

Building the Canadian Wall

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (PNcou)

44 Some info and pictures of the ice house on the lake I live near.


http://tinyurl.com/zw7lenk

Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 09:53 AM (8ikIW)

45 Anyone found the sniper yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 09:53 AM (1CeG9)

46 >>>I can remember going to the ice house with my dad. I
thought it was the coolest thing on earth. The big, muscular guys who
worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place.


Did any of them ask you if you enjoyed gladiator movies?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:50 AM (CJRaf)
<<<




So, do enjoy watching gladiator movies?

Posted by: totally 100% original Amy Schumer at December 16, 2016 09:53 AM (ir1zf)

47 The Boss is easily recognizable . Holding the ice tool as a prop.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 09:53 AM (IDPbH)

48 Sexists. They never hired hot wimmins to work in those ice houses.

Because, hot.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 16, 2016 09:53 AM (v5iqM)

49 >>Nowadays, icehouses are much more enjoyable

Actually, most enjoyable from the 60s until the death of Bill Harrah, his car collection and restoration shop was housed in a former Pacific Fruit Express (SP) ice house in Sparks NV.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 09:54 AM (TppKb)

50 [I am being ungenerous, but state support of the arts smacks of socialism -- in particular the Soviet and Nazi kind]

Woth good reason. In Schlaes's The Forgotten Man those iconic "sad and jobless" photos were only fairly early in the FDR administration. The same photographer was later *ordered* to take more cheerful photos and because he took government money he took the photos as ordered. I

I know that *my* history classes only lightly touched the visual art (propaganda, but they didn't call it that of course) bit Forgotten Man was the first I learned about how much theater of the time was also paid for by the administration (and the administration had creative control of the performance so it was practically the definition of propaganda).

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 16, 2016 09:54 AM (sEDyY)

51 The only emperor is the emperor of ice.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 09:54 AM (Bdeb0)

52 Think of all the iceholes they're making!

Posted by: Roman Moroni at December 16, 2016 09:54 AM (PNcou)

53 They are all over Houston.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM (CJRaf)


Far fewer than there used to be. At least in my observations. We once had our fantasy football draft at one. Now a car repair place.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (ludWv)

54 And for the person on the last thread asking if they should date someone on anti-depressants. If that's a disqualifier for you, then your pool of potential dates has just significantly decreased.


I would much rather date a person (such as myself) who needs medication and takes it, than date a person who needs medication and doesn't take it. There are a lot of people who fit into that last category.


To me, it's like asking if you should date a diabetic. Depression is not uncommon and shouldn't be a factor. There are other conditions that would raise a red flag for me, such as schizophrenia.


If you wouldn't date a person on medication for depression, then you wouldn't date me. And I am charming

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (dFi94)

55 Kodos, did you see the WSJ feature about competitive Opera Crews in Malta? Damned inspiring, I thought. People actually like opera there. And so, they pay their own money to put them on. Damnedest thing.

Government monopoly of The Arts didn't start with NPR. But it's near-total now, to the extent that even more-or-less conservative classical fans and players cannot conceive of their institutions surviving without The Arts Council. It's...what they do. Culturally, this has been a menace.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (H5rtT)

56 The houses I grew up in had hatches for ice delivery. At the time, I couldn't imagine such a thing, but grandparents knew the retired ice guy -- the company changed into 'clear ice' for restaurants and such.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (MIKMs)

57 Cutting blocks of ice reminds me of my mom (rest her soul). She used to mangle jokes badly. My favorite was her version of "How To Catch A Polar Bear".


Q: How do you catch a polar bear?

A: Go to the lake, chop a hole in the ice, open a can of corn and sprinkle some niblets around the outside of the hole. When a polar bear comes up to get some corn you push him into the water.


(The joke is marginally funnier if you use a can of peas and when the polar bear comes up to take a pea you kick him in the ice hole. Over the years I have come to prefer her version.)


Love you, Mom!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (wPiJc)

58 The big, muscular guys who worked there seemed to really enjoy my fascination with the place."

Have you ever been in a Turkish Prison?

Posted by: Hey, if we're going to beat movie memes to death... at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (C9pBZ)

59 The MN fishing lodge had an ice house, some leftover tools and iron anchoring pins in shoreline rocks.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (8J/Te)

60 @ 3 Yup he's a punk!!

Posted by: SOMESASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (nQHw/)

61 10 From Drudge, a UFO conspiracy theorist vomited up two liters of black fluid before he died. I immediately thought about the black oil from The X Files:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ufo-conspiracy-theorist-who-sent-9467993

---

we were just fracking with him

Posted by: Martians at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (PNcou)

62 i'm not comfortable with people putting their boots on my ice.......
Posted by: phoenixgirl, gird up your loins, this is not the time to go wobbly at December 16, 2016 09:52 AM


Ice wine?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (DMUuz)

63 If you wouldn't date a person on medication for depression, then you wouldn't date me. And I am charming

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (dFi94)
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Ahem. And MARRIED.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (sBOL1)

64 And I am charming

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:55 AM (dFi94)

And modest....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (42Mgr)

65 Guess what? Pretty soon we will no longer have a president who daily broadcasts his disdain for the American people.

Won't that be nice?

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (xVuS6)

66 22 I read this morning, 0hhbama is going to take 'action' against the Russians for interfering in the election. ::insert eye rolling::

---

bending over IS an action

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:57 AM (PNcou)

67 Won't that be nice?
Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (xVuS6)


God, yes!

How are you today, by the way?

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 09:57 AM (ludWv)

68 >>There are other conditions that would raise a red flag for me, such as schizophrenia.

Yea, this would be a problem.

No it wouldn't you asshole.

Who are you calling an asshole you dipshit?



Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 09:57 AM (/tuJf)

69 >>bending over IS an action Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:57 AM (PNcou)

In this context, it's an invitation.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (Bdeb0)

70 Far fewer than there used to be. At least in my observations. We once had our fantasy football draft at one. Now a car repair place.



Sad. Used to hang out in one on Seawall Blvd in Galveston.
Watched Hurricane Alicia come ashore from there.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (CJRaf)

71 On my blog, two writers who have asked to be added to the Horde list:



prolific Christian writer speaker Bob Hostetler and Edgar-nominated mystery writer Libby Sternberg



Link in nic

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 09:51 AM (Om16U)
============================

I think I might have heard the first gentleman on the radio. He's written a book which looks at Shakespeare and the KJV Bible, and compares them as literature. I think.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (dFi94)

72 My favorite Hockey team name was a minor league club in Lafayette , LA.

Ice Gators

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (IDPbH)

73 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (42Mgr)


I have no idea why this memory just sprang up, but I think my favorite/funniest memory here at the HQ was when that idiot accused you of being anti-Semitic. Honest to Yahweh, I almost choked to death.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (9CkBG)

74 Amen, Emmie. I think of that each time I catch a little bit of one of Trump's "thank-you tour" speeches. Whatever else he may be, he's a man who clearly loves our country, and I am grateful beyond words for that.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (sBOL1)

75 Just doing jobs that eskimos wont.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (PNcou)

76 Apparently the Obamas have cost the taxpayers 85 million dollars for vacations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (tOcW/)

77 Far fewer than there used to be."

Still several in the further reaches (North) of Harris and Montgomery counties...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (C9pBZ)

78 And modest....


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (42Mgr)
====================

And good looking. But a terrible cook. I blame my meds.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (dFi94)

79 65 Guess what? Pretty soon we will no longer have a president who daily broadcasts his disdain for the American people.

Won't that be nice?
Posted by: Emmie
_________

The daily broadcasts will continue. I'll just be President E Pluribus.

* sound of whispering from Valerie Jarrett *

Oh, uh, uh, uh. Emeritus. President Emeritus.

Posted by: Low Information President at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (77i7V)

80 >>>And for the person on the last thread asking if they should date someone
on anti-depressants. If that's a disqualifier for you, then your pool
of potential dates has just significantly decreased.


I would
much rather date a person (such as myself) who needs medication and
takes it, than date a person who needs medication and doesn't take it.
There are a lot of people who fit into that last category.


To
me, it's like asking if you should date a diabetic. Depression is not
uncommon and shouldn't be a factor. There are other conditions that
would raise a red flag for me, such as schizophrenia.


If you wouldn't date a person on medication for depression, then you wouldn't date me. And I am charming

.
.
.Exactly. My brother was married to a woman who needed to take anti depressants. When she took them she was fine. Problem was she didn't always want to take them. She would get to where she thought she didn't need them anymore and quit taking them causing all sorts of problems.

He is back with her now because she takes her meds every day.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (icl5y)

81 "Black fluid" = blood

Aneurysm of large vein in stomach.. caused by crafty Aliens..or Obama.. or Putin.. or the EU covering up Alien tech for Airbus..
or .. Oh look! Squirrel !

Posted by: catman at December 16, 2016 09:59 AM (5H2BV)

82 Painting of another good paying job lost due to the minimum wage and Automation. But mostly Automation.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (tf9Ne)

83 GLADIATOR MOVIES
IT'S BEEN DONE MORONS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (8J/Te)

84 Honest to Yahweh, I almost choked to death.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (9CkBG)

That was a bit...odd.

I have been accused of many things, but that was new to me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (42Mgr)

85 Anna, hopefully you feel better soonish. I have gotten to the point I have to hold my ribs tight when coughing I think they are bruised and well abused.

grammie why yes, yes you are.. charming.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (R7cwD)

86
was able to continue working as an artist because of the generosity of the American people.







I don't believe for a second that any of those New Deal-funded artists were able to make a living before the Feds started paying them. I mean, none of them seem to be able to handle perspective at all.

I really don't think that the government mandated that the artists ignore depth perception.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (XWkhW)

87 o keep ice for the plantation, Thomas Jefferson constructed an ice house. In the winter of 1802-1803 the summer's harvest of wheat was safely stored in barrels and barns. Monticello overseer Gabriel Lilly had to wait for freezing temperatures before he could harvest his next crop: ice from the Rivanna River. Every available neighborhood wagon was assembled to bring ice from the river to the newly constructed ice house on the mountaintop. Jefferson, monitoring the operation from Washington, recorded it took "62. waggon loads of ice to fill it," and cost $70 for the hire of wagons and food and drink for the drivers.


*random

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (fWAjv)

88 Ahem. And MARRIED.





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:56 AM (sBOL1)
===========================

So - let me think a minute here - you're saying I shouldn't date?

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (dFi94)

89 Notice the guy on the Left in the suit coat - not working.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (NOIQH)

90 Those boys had better hop to it. That's only enough ice for one month of cocktails.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (mgbwf)

91 Anna, hopefully you feel better soonish. I have gotten to the point I have to hold my ribs tight when coughing I think they are bruised and well abused.

grammie why yes, yes you are.. charming.
Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (R7cwD)


This thread is over already?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (IDPbH)

92 Notice the guy on the Left in the suit coat - not working.




Boss man.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (CJRaf)

93
So - let me think a minute here - you're saying I shouldn't date?


Posted by: grammie winger


Well, not a third date.

Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (8ikIW)

94 69 >>bending over IS an action Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 09:57 AM (PNcou)

In this context, it's an invitation.
Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (Bdeb0)

---

It's not a red line, just some anal bleeding

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (PNcou)

95 >>Those boys had better hop to it. That's only
>> enough ice for one month of cocktails.

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (TppKb)

96 Just another unconstitutional FDR commie program. And guess what, we are still contributing to this kind of shit, only now "art" is stuff like "piss Christ".

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (mpXpK)

97 Crap, bringing my de-nooded rant up from the last thread:

The Sorriest Sumbitch Alive, with a bare month to go in office, decides to stick the US taxpayer with another $5 million + vacation to lovely Hawaii.

And the sad part is, no one even cares that he's doing it. Pretty much everyone is inured to his various abuses.

May he catch some rare tropical disease, like bunga bunga.
***********

In art newz, Trump is bringing in Sylvester Stallone for a high post in his admin, possibly as head of the National Endowment For The Arts.

I expect explosions and gunfire as part of his swearing in ceremony.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (oZEJt)

98 grammie of course you may date, just not srsly. and wear a burkha fgs.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (R7cwD)

99 Coffee is finally kicking in. Even when I have to pull an extra shift on Saturday, there is still something extra fresh and exciting about a Friday morning.

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (QCc6B)

100 Don't especially care for the artist's technique. The square cut ice blocks and crisp cold air call for a sharper rendition of the scene. This is just blotchy and inexact. Seems inappropriate.

On the other hand, I like the idea of a community coming together, voluntarily, to prepare for the coming season: a wise cooperation. At least I believe this was usually a community activity more than a business, IIRC.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (V+03K)

101 Dang Willow, heal up and get better.

Well logged in and submitted my absence. Hope to be clear of this crud by tomorrow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (1CeG9)

102 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (QCc6B)

103 If ice has to be processed by humans, it will melt. This whole enterprise doesn't make sense, unless it was totally automated.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (mBYZv)

104 So - let me think a minute here - you're saying I shouldn't date?
Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (dFi94)
----------------

Just thinking it may cause a bit of a problem with the Rev's congregation. I could be wrong.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (sBOL1)

105 Putin's representative on hacking charge. (because Putin wouldn't lower himself to acknowledge our clown Pres.) said 'show us your proof or stop saying we did it.'

....or 'put up or shut up you douche'.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (AGr9E)

106 Well, not a third date.


Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (8ikIW)
===========================

Third date? Or third base?

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (dFi94)

107 Halberds are clearly superior.

Only an fool would prefer a bill-guisarme.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (xeeHA)

108 In art newz, Trump is bringing in Sylvester Stallone for a high post in his admin, possibly as head of the National Endowment For The Arts.

I expect explosions and gunfire as part of his swearing in ceremony.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (oZEJt)

I look forward to his speech about the grant to some artist name "Adrienne."

Posted by: joncelli Rickles at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (RD7QR)

109 Didn't they care about the effect of the loss of ice on the polar bears?

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (PNcou)

110 Jefferson, monitoring the operation from Washington, recorded it took "62. waggon loads of ice to fill it," and cost $70 for the hire of wagons and food and drink for the drivers.



SEE what you can do without OSHA and the teamsters union?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (CJRaf)

111 Hmmmm. Anti-depressants. Cubs fan.

* strokes chin thoughtfully, then takes his meds *

Posted by: Furious George at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (77i7V)

112 I had one 3 mth stint on anti depressants after my cough cough(so she isn't to blame) child was born. It felt like what I thought taking a hit of acid would be like.

shudder.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:04 AM (R7cwD)

113 102
What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (QCc6B)

There was a whole thread on Christmas gifts yesterday. Some good suggestions there.

Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (Enq6K)

114 Stallone has considered himself an artist foremost since his semi retirement from acting. I like him but his art not so much.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (IDPbH)

115 That was a bit...odd.

I have been accused of many things, but that was new to me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:00 AM (42Mgr)


I've seen some spectacular explosions in the comments, trolls and idiots just fucking themselves all up, but that was the best. Just gloriously amazing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (9CkBG)

116 >>So - let me think a minute here - you're saying I shouldn't date?

Well, if he can cook...

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (gTQoY)

117 @71 A morning joke we had here: local rag has a front page photo of a guy who made the mistake of riding a motorcycle at high speed through our richest exurb, and was shot in the spine by a panicked policeman. He's making a court appearance, forgiving the cop in a Christian manner for paralyzing him.

Local rag saw fit to mention in the caption that he's holding a King James Bible as he speaks. Wife flipped it right over to me because she knows I preach that God does not speak Revised Standard or Good News. And now whenever the happy news comes on, of people doing fine nice and great things, we look at each other, nod, and intone "Yep. King James Version."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (H5rtT)

118
In art newz, Trump is bringing in Sylvester Stallone for a high post in his admin, possibly as head of the National Endowment For The Arts.

I expect explosions and gunfire as part of his swearing in ceremony.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (oZEJt)

LMFAO. Stop the world I'm getting off.

Seriously. Thought that was a joke.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (ATVNj)

119 Mama AJ, cook more than mac and cheese!

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (R7cwD)

120 This thread is over already?"

Nah. No gunz or boo... er, elbows yet.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (C9pBZ)

121 Yeah! Ice, bitch!

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (0mRoj)

122 Just another unconstitutional FDR commie program. And guess what, we are still contributing to this kind of shit, only now "art" is stuff like "piss Christ".
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (mpXpK)


Better than bringing in hordes of Muzzies to paint 'the sand house'.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (mBYZv)

123 "Used to hang out in one on Seawall Blvd in Galveston. "

for whatever reason I can't go to the 'Poop Deck' without having boiler makers as I watch the beach go by.

Posted by: DanMan at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (RusNE)

124 Yeah, I'm all for being ungenerous, but what the hecks wrong with some socialism. Where else can we find our obsequious compliant serfs?

Posted by: Humbug Hillary at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (QfSXK)

125 Trump in Denial as Evidence Grows Spymaster Putin Behind Election Hacks

With intelligence officials convinced that Russian spook-turned-president Vladimir Putin personally directed cyber-attacks aimed at interfering with the U.S. election, President-elect Donald Trump continues to downplay and dismiss growing hacking concerns as politically motivated.




The MFM continues to beclown itself over the hacking. Nothing has worked for them so far to now it's Trump had the big bad Russians hack the election for him. Didn't Hillary hit the reset overprice button with them?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:06 AM (493sH)

126 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?




Shark Vacuum.
Hey! She requested it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (CJRaf)

127 >>100
Don't especially care for the artist's technique. The square cut ice
blocks and crisp cold air call for a sharper rendition of the scene.
This is just blotchy and inexact. Seems inappropriate.
Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (V+03K)

It's also missing authenticity without a workplace accident, say, some guy with a pick shoved clear through his calf, screaming soundlessly in the background while gouts of blood ruin perfectly good block of ice in front of him.

Y'know, something to get the taskmaster at stage left to start yelling at him.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (Bdeb0)

128 The likely position would be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that doles out funds to aspiring artists and creative projects

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Ummm, how about we just cut that damn program.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (ATVNj)

129 Well, if he can cook...



Posted by: Mama AJ at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (gTQoY)
========================

And Mama AJ makes my day!

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (dFi94)

130 Ice has a magic,
can't be controlled.
Stronger than one, stronger than ten,
stronger than a hundred men! Ho!

Born of cold and winter air
and mountain rain combining.
This icy force both foul and fair
has a frozen heart worth mining.

Cut through the heart, cold and clear.
Strike for love and strike for fear.
There's beauty and there's danger here
Split the ice apart
Beware the frozen heart...

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (1H9ox)

131 Ice Tetris gets harder once they start adding in the 'L' shaped pieces.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (PNcou)

132 Can you imagine Stallone at NEA?
He could host events and invite all of his "Expendables" buddies, LOL!
Would certainly butch it up a bit after Kal Penn...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (NOIQH)

133 Was this ice for refigerators? Before they discovered that expanding gas could lower temperatures.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (mBYZv)
----------

Well, the real problem was the pumps and how to power them.

The first commercial refrigerator/ice-machine was made all the way back in 1854. It wasn't until 1913 that a home refrigerator was built and they were FAR from ubiquitous until, I'd wager, the 50's?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:07 AM (xeeHA)

134 106 Well, not a third date.


Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:01 AM (8ikIW)
===========================

Third date? Or third base?

---

I don't know

Posted by: Lou Costello at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (PNcou)

135 Thank you for asking, Kodos; I am nearly finished with my work for the semester. Went on an errand this morning and looked for the kitty to greet me when I got back as usual.
On the plus side, we can now close doors in the house if we want without kitty complaints.

Husband and I are going to a nearby city today. I plan to use road time to for us to search our hearts and see how we may have been hurting his daughter, if husband is up for that discussion. I'm still struggling with defensiveness. My perception may be wrong, but it appears that there may be some projection going on from his daughter.

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (xVuS6)

136 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (9CkBG)

The troll last night was amusing. Made some rational points, then went completely off the rails in his last paragraph.

They just don't train them well any more.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (42Mgr)

137 102
What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (QCc6B)


I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster. She still describes it (to anyone and everyone who'll listen) as 'the gift that keeps on sucking'...

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (AGr9E)

138 102 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?
Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:03 AM (QCc6B)

Nothing.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (0mRoj)

139 Local rag saw fit to mention in the caption that he's holding a King James
Bible as he speaks. Wife flipped it right over to me because she knows I
preach that God does not speak Revised Standard or Good News. And now
whenever the happy news comes on, of people doing fine nice and great
things, we look at each other, nod, and intone "Yep. King James
Version." Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:05 AM (H5rtT)
=====

Yep. If anything is 'divinely inspired' it is the KJV.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (MIKMs)

140
https://tinyurl.com/zo4gcuv


John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (y3aQB)

141 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

I promised my wife three screaming orgasms.

I'm not sure how many she'll have.

Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (8ikIW)

142 I don't know

Posted by: Lou Costello at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (PNcou)
===============

LOL

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (dFi94)

143 I can't get too ragey about govt support for the arts. As far as I KNOW, the Natl Council for the Arts (whatever it's called) hasn't gone ideological. Although, eternal vigilance is appropriate.

During the Renaissance, princes would commission Last Suppers in which Judas looked a lot like their principal political rival, btw.

One guy put all his family & friends in a Nativity scene too.

Posted by: mnw at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (hCbo0)

144 >>Ummm, how about we just cut that damn program.


"Yo! You want that grant? Gotta arm-wrestle me for it!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

145
In art newz, Trump is bringing in Sylvester Stallone for a high post in his admin, possibly as head of the National Endowment For The Arts.

I expect explosions and gunfire as part of his swearing in ceremony.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 16, 2016 10:02 AM (oZEJt)







Actually that makes more sense than it seems on the surface. Stallone has painted for decades, it's been one of his non-moviemaking passions for a long time. Pollock-ish abstracts for the most part, if memory serves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (XWkhW)

146 https://tinyurl.com/z6zvcjv


Democratic donors call for Clinton campaign post-mortem

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (y3aQB)

147 I once joked about what a big-city-subsidized orchestra inot the US would be like:

- Cushioned seats replaced by plastic chairs because "they're easier to maintain."

- New manager is the cousin of someone who "got sent." When asked by reporters who wrote Beethoven's Ninth, the reply is, "Hey, give a guy time to learn his job!"

- Restaurant contract given to Louie and Guido.

- At the Will-Call window, you're given a number and wait. And wait.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (ludWv)

148 Let it go, let it goooooo

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (1H9ox)

149 Hillary Clinton said Thursday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 election stemmed from a longtime grudge Putin has held against her.

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FFS I'm getting sick of the hack bullshit. You are a thoroughly unlikable nay detestable POS human being. THAT is why you lost.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (fWAjv)

150 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 09:45 AM (1CeG9)

Anna, I didn't know if you'd seen my willowed post; I've been trying to put up a picture, but I can't. Are you feeling better?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (X6fMO)

151 Look up Sylvester Stallone art. The Horde would be relentless in their mocking. He is a sloppy abstract painter.
Like I said I like the guy but he sells his paintings only because of who he is. IMO of course.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (IDPbH)

152 The temp here finally broke 32F

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (mpXpK)

153 102

I've got some unused fireworks for sale.

Posted by: Humbug Hillary at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (QfSXK)

154 Bruce!

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (R7cwD)

155 Ummm, how about we just cut that damn program.
=====

Do you want to kill Big Bird?

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (MIKMs)

156 May he catch some rare tropical disease, like bunga bunga.--GnuBreed

O I think he caught bunga-bunga a looong time ago IYGWIM.

Sure screws things up on the windward end of Oahu when he's there.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (H5rtT)

157 141
What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

I promised my wife three screaming orgasms.

I'm not sure how many she'll have.


Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (8ikIW)

lol. who cares.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (AGr9E)

158 The troll last night was amusing. Made some rational points, then went completely off the rails in his last paragraph.

They just don't train them well any more.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (42Mgr)


Right? Make a few halfway decent comments. Draw people in. THEN hit them with the crazy. I mean, come on Soros, hire a better class of idiots. There are millions of millennials sitting out there without a job. Surely at least a few of them are up to the task.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (9CkBG)

159 I hear Stallone is a huge Rothko fan.

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:10 AM (1H9ox)

160 >>>>>Well, the real problem was the pumps and how to power them.



The first commercial refrigerator/ice-machine was made all the way
back in 1854. It wasn't until 1913 that a home refrigerator was built
and they were FAR from ubiquitous until, I'd wager, the 50's?
.
.
.
My grandparents had an actual ice box when I was a small child and I was born in 1957. They also still used coal to heat their house at that time.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (icl5y)

161 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

---

tickets to go see Shen Yun (Chinese-y Ballet i think)

Posted by: Lou Costello at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (PNcou)

162 John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI
Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (y3aQB)
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Someone needs to deeply break something off up his ass.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (xeeHA)

163 FFS I'm getting sick of the hack bullshit. You are a thoroughly
unlikable nay detestable POS human being. THAT is why you lost.
---
And as a result, a Bernie supporter at the DNC *handed* that info to wikileaks. So there was no hack.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (3Liv/)

164 Back in grad school, we used to have a pre-test 'study session' with the prof at the local ice house. Those were the days.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (7ZVPa)

165 I see the wealthy Dem donors want some answered on what went wrong and why won't they be receiving lots of govt favors and jobs for their kids.

So I imagine they don't want to hear the "Russians hacked the election" BS the rest of America is expected to believe.


Posted by: Ripley at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (1BQGO)

166 'Show us your proof or stop saying we did it.'

Always works for the Clintons.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (ludWv)

167 You know who is becoming a better painter as he does more? George Bush.

He has just done a series of portraits of combat vets.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (IDPbH)

168 >>Do you want to kill Big Bird?


Heh, never gets old. Except....Big Bird's now on HBO - he ain't hurtin' for cash (not that he ever was).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (NOIQH)

169 I know what I'm getting because I peeked. Well, not so much "peeked" as Rev told me. He's buying me a cleaning lady. Not really buying her I guess, because they have laws about that. But renting her on a regular basis.


So now I'm down to no cleaning AND no cooking. And Rev already does the laundry. This marriage thing is a pretty nice set-up.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (dFi94)

170 That faithless elector story in the sidebar is double flaming skull worthy in my opinion.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (Ee6Qy)

171 63
FFS I'm getting sick of the hack bullshit. You are a thoroughly

unlikable nay detestable POS human being. THAT is why you lost.
---
And as a result, a Bernie supporter at the DNC *handed* that info to wikileaks. So there was no hack.


Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (3Liv/)


Exactly.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:13 AM (AGr9E)

172 John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI
---
He's trying to poison the jury pool.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2016 10:13 AM (3Liv/)

173 can't imagine what pile of doo will be left for the next administration. we might l be lucky to survive .

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:13 AM (R7cwD)

174 I like the sidebar article on how the faithless elector that the New York Times was slobbering all over has some, uh, gaps in his resume.

Layers and layers of fact checkers to keep from publishing fake news.

Posted by: Furious George at December 16, 2016 10:13 AM (77i7V)

175 157 141
What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

I promised my wife three screaming orgasms.

I'm not sure how many she'll have.


Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (8ikIW)

lol. who cares.

----

Paolo cares

Posted by: Paolo at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (PNcou)

176 Yep. If anything is 'divinely inspired' it is the KJV.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (MIKMs)

Good enough for Jesus...good enough for me ; )

Posted by: BignJames at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (x9c8r)

177 My grandparents had an actual ice box when I was a small child and I was born in 1957. They also still used coal to heat their house at that time.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (icl5y)
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It brings to mind how little modern people know about history - specifically, how close in time we are to a world we wouldn't even recognize.

The US is only a few generations removed from common, cyclical famine. Like, until the post-war period, we weren't stupid wealthy like we are now.

If the average person at the poverty line has every household appliance and a tv and a video game system and a magic phone that contains all human knowledge... I think we're doing pretty well.

People don't realize how easily we go back to the natural state of humanity.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (xeeHA)

178 My grandparents had an actual ice box when I was a small child and I was born in 1957. They also still used coal to heat their house at that time.



My great aunt was using coal up into the mid 70's in Central Missouri to heat her home. Remember the coal shed out behind the house.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (CJRaf)

179 So now I'm down to no cleaning AND no cooking. And Rev already does the laundry. This marriage thing is a pretty nice set-up.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (dFi94)
---------------

Then I'd definitely give up dating if I were you. It can't get much better than this.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (sBOL1)

180 So now I'm down to no cleaning AND no cooking. And Rev already does the laundry. This marriage thing is a pretty nice set-up.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (dFi94)

sheesh grammie, I am jealous!

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (R7cwD)

181 So now I'm down to no cleaning AND no cooking. And Rev already does the laundry. This marriage thing is a pretty nice set-up.



Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (dFi94)

Grammie is Patty Griffin country? cause I like 'oh heavenly day.'

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (AGr9E)

182 If Stallone gets appointed can we get him to fight Segal to determine the fate Crimea?

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (1H9ox)

183 The US Army Recreation Area at Chiemsee in Germany (shut down some years ago) had a series of large National Socialist commissioned paintings on the wall of the main dining room. You can get a sense of them at this site:

http://thirdreichruins.com/chiemsee.htm

I was always impressed with the massive size of the various workers hands in those paintings. Certainly emblematic of the Strong Socialist Worker™

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (wPiJc)

184 bluebell is right.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (R7cwD)

185 grammie- grammie you should give something back, does he like massages?

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (R7cwD)

186 MPPP, feeling a bit better. But no appetite and still dealing with congestion. So going to climb back under the covers. Been popping cough drops like candy also.

Thanks for asking. Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (1CeG9)

187 >>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster. She still
describes it (to anyone and everyone who'll listen) as 'the gift that
keeps on sucking'...


Oh, my!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (NOIQH)

188 https://tinyurl.com/zfjfrkl


Hillary Clinton hosted a holiday party for her millionaire donors in New York
Clinton was pictured looking glum as she arrived at the Plaza Hotel on Thursday

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (y3aQB)

189 Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (sBOL1)

Yes, Bluebell. He's not the kind of person who makes me comfortable, but so far he seems sincere.

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (xVuS6)

190
Paolo cares

Posted by: Paolo at December 16, 2016 10:14 AM (PNcou)


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:16 AM (AGr9E)

191 Oh, and be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom for "Die Schauende" sculpture.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:16 AM (wPiJc)

192 If the jokes are two minutes apart then I give both of them credit.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2016 10:16 AM (VdICR)

193 Stallone has painted for decades, it's been one of his non-moviemaking passions for a long time. Pollock-ish abstracts for the most part, if memory serves.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 10:09 AM (XWkhW)




Pollock-ish? I thought he was Italian?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:16 AM (493sH)

194 >>>There was a whole thread on Christmas gifts yesterday. Some good suggestions there.

Thanks! I will check it out...

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:17 AM (QCc6B)

195 John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI

He's trying to poison the jury pool.
Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2016 10:13 AM (3Liv/)


Nah ! I really think he think's the fix was in & that is what he means by FBI is Deeply Broken

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:17 AM (y3aQB)

196 As I recall, there's a large lake just up the road from here that used to ship its ice as far as Australia back in the day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 10:17 AM (p+Wdc)

197 And as a result, a Bernie supporter at the DNC *handed* that info to wikileaks. So there was no hack.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (3Liv/)

FAKE NEWS!!! FAKE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:17 AM (fWAjv)

198 >>>>My grandparents had an actual ice box when I was a small child and I was
born in 1957. They also still used coal to heat their house at that
time.







My great aunt was using coal up into the mid 70's in Central
Missouri to heat her home. Remember the coal shed out behind the house.
.
.
.My grandparents had a coal shoot that made a tremendous mess. They turned the coal storage bin in the basement into root cellar when the City brought gas lines in.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 16, 2016 10:17 AM (icl5y)

199 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

I promised my wife three screaming orgasms.

I'm not sure how many she'll have.


Posted by: Bruce at December 16, 2016 10:08 AM (8ikIW)


Wow! That is an expensive gift.. Gigolos are not cheap!

Posted by: catman at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM (5jdSv)

200 I think I might have heard the first gentleman on the radio. He's written a book which looks at Shakespeare and the KJV Bible, and compares them as literature. I think.
Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 09:58 AM (dFi94)

Yes, The Bard and The Bible! I put a cover pic & link on my blog since its his latest.

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM (Om16U)

201 The KJV, although beautifully poetic and very moving, is not the best or most accurately translated text. There are a lot of words in there that don't mean what you think they mean. The word-for-word most literal translation is probably the New American Standard, but it seems clumsy in the fact that it is so stiffly word-for-word. I usually use the NIV or the ESV. For memorization I most always fall back on the KJV because that's what I learned in Sunday School.


Let the translation wars begin.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM (dFi94)

202 179 So now I'm down to no cleaning AND no cooking. And Rev already does the laundry. This marriage thing is a pretty nice set-up.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:12 AM (dFi94)

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Paolo is also available for rent. satisfaction guaranteed!

Posted by: Paolo at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM (PNcou)

203 My grandparents had an actual ice box when I was a small child and I was born in 1957.
,,,
My daddy has a squeezbox he wears on his chest.

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM (1H9ox)

204 I'm surprised WeaselWoman isn't on medication. Being married to me has to be pretty depressing.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (Sfs6o)

205 Posted by: Lou Costello at December 16, 2016 10:11 AM (PNcou)

That looks amazing, but the tickets are *way* too expensive for five of us to be able to go. They send the flyers around every year and I sigh regretfully each time.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (sEDyY)

206
John Limpwood of CNBC was blathering about Barry investigating the "hacks". The funny thing was they showed a tweet from Trump saying something like - You mean the hacks that showed the DNC giving debate questions to Hillary in advance of the debates?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (493sH)

207 Do you wanna build a snowman?

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (1H9ox)

208 I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster."

Mentioned this some year previously - the Mrs mouse had chattered endlessly about an Oreck buffer (we had lots o' real wood floors), so I got one (pricey. as in how much?) and wrapped it for Christmas.

Went over about as well as you might expect. Subfreezing outdoor temps were no match for the subfreezing indoor...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (C9pBZ)

209
grammie- grammie you should give something back, does he like massages?

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (R7cwD)
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No, he's getting Cubs crap.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (dFi94)

210 187 >>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster. She still
describes it (to anyone and everyone who'll listen) as 'the gift that
keeps on sucking'...

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as is Paolo!

Posted by: Paolo at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (PNcou)

211 Well, time for me to get ready for our little trip.

Have a good day!

Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (xVuS6)

212 .My grandparents had a coal shoot that made a tremendous mess.


You're not supposed to shoot it.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (0mRoj)

213 Apropos to nothing, a web search tells me that, apparently, old ice houses make great loft apartments.

Oh, and the only hacks that did damage to the DNC were the ones on its payroll (directly or indirectly).

OH, and:

Hillary Clinton nikogda ne budet prezidentom Soyedinennykh Shtatov.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (9krrF)

214 209
grammie- grammie you should give something back, does he like massages?

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (R7cwD)
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No, he's getting Cubs crap.
Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (dFi94)

Does he even like the Cubs?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (0mRoj)

215 oldest structure on my old family farm homestead is the ice house, here from before 'grandpa' bought the place in 1911. Just a 12' x 20' bare wood sided structure. They may have used if for ice early on ... one aunt still alive, will have to ask her ... but she wasn't born till 1923.
The "new" house I'm in was built for electric just after WW2. Old house had a "refrigerator" that was a cool spot under the porch. They would lower it up and down from the porch, I'd guess for milk, butter and such. Maybe they had ice down there ... questions I should have asked. ha

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (LcUYB)

216 What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?

There are no women in my life at the gift-getting level.

Most unusual gift being given this year is Japanese Hanebisho toilet paper --- most expensive toilet paper in the world. "Butterflies Yuku soared to brilliant from the water surface to the clouds, and we become a magnificent design feel the Japanese taste. Please realize the skin crunchy of excitement that has never been experienced before."

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (O7MnT)

217 It brings to mind how little modern people know about history - specifically, how close in time we are to a world we wouldn't even recognize.


I think about this often. If my father's family had a chicken dinner it was because his mom went out back and wrung the neck of a chicken.

I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (mgbwf)

218
Hillary Clinton hosted a holiday party for her millionaire donors in New York
Clinton was pictured looking glum as she arrived at the Plaza Hotel on Thursday

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (y3aQB)







The same Plaza Hotel which used to be owned by the Magic Scalp Weasel himself.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (XWkhW)

219 >>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster."

I'd go with a Swiffer. That way you can give her refill clothes for important holidays like Valentine's Day and her birthday.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (/tuJf)

220 Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (493sH)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (tOcW/)

221 John Limpwood of CNBC was blathering about Barry investigating the "hacks". The funny thing was they showed a tweet from Trump saying something like - You mean the hacks that showed the DNC giving debate questions to Hillary in advance of the debates?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (493sH)




Seriously? Like, that's not a joke?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (9CkBG)

222 Hillary Clinton nikogda ne budet prezidentom Soyedinennykh Shtatov.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (9krrF)

Does that say "reset" or "overcharge"?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (0mRoj)

223 Does he even like the Cubs?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:21 AM (0mRoj)
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Oh yeah. Very much so. He'll get all choked up at his gifts. He loves the Cubs and is very sentimental.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (dFi94)

224 187
>>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster. She still

describes it (to anyone and everyone who'll listen) as 'the gift that

keeps on sucking'...


Oh, my!


Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (NOIQH)

Oh I gave her other stuff, but that's the one she likes to tell everyone about and I'll never live it down. Of course the other gals love the story. Think it gets embellished every year. I'm the perfect husband really.

Well there's the Rev....

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (AGr9E)

225 211 Well, time for me to get ready for our little trip.

Have a good day!
Posted by: Emmie at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (xVuS6)
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Emmie, hope it's a great trip and you can get things sorted. God bless.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (sBOL1)

226 Wow! That is an expensive gift.. Gigolos are not cheap!



Posted by: catman at December 16, 2016 10:18 AM


The Paolo, he has group rates for the special clients.

Posted by: Paolo at December 16, 2016 10:23 AM (p+Wdc)

227 My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to tell.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:23 AM (xeeHA)

228 I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
,,,
Sounds like a good bonding opportunity.

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:23 AM (1H9ox)

229 The KJV, although beautifully poetic and very moving, is not the best or most accurately translated text. There are a lot of words in there that don't mean what you think they mean. The word-for-word most literal translation is probably the New American Standard, but it seems clumsy in the fact that it is so stiffly word-for-word. I usually use the NIV or the ESV. For memorization I most always fall back on the KJV because that's what I learned in Sunday School.

Let the translation wars begin.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room


As much as it pains my Catholic heart to say so, the KJV will always stand out for me as a work of art in the English language. It may occasionally play fast and loose with meanings, but to me the others don't come close as literature.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (9krrF)

230 My daddy has a squeezbox he wears on his chest."

Caitlyn, is that you?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (C9pBZ)

231 We used coal to heat the house when I was little. Eventually, my folks changed over to oil heat but I really missed those coal deliveries. A five year old (and his friends), a bin full of filthy, dusty coal, and endless sidewalks to draw on. Good times.

Posted by: JTB at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (V+03K)

232 That looks amazing, but the tickets are *way* too expensive for five of us to be able to go. They send the flyers around every year and I sigh regretfully each time.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 16, 2016 10:19 AM (sEDyY)

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yep, leaving the 2 mini-morons behind. Got the good seat $300 and then some fancy city dinner afterwards. Should i expect oral after all that?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (PNcou)

233 219 >>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster."

I'd go with a Swiffer. That way you can give her refill clothes for important holidays like Valentine's Day and her birthday.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (/tuJf)
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You're not married, are you.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (sBOL1)

234 It brings to mind how little modern people know about history - specifically, how close in time we are to a world we wouldn't even recognize.


I think about this often. If my father's family had a chicken dinner it was because his mom went out back and wrung the neck of a chicken.

I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
Posted by: Bandersnatch



They're only one EMP device from living it.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (CJRaf)

235 >>Oh, and the only hacks that did damage to the DNC were the ones on its payroll (directly or indirectly).


Including the media hacks, right?

The DNC leaks showed us that DWS lorded over MSNBC, providing all sorts of suggestions and demands on their programming, including an order to kill a segment while it was airing.

The Podesta leaks showed us that pretty much everyone else in the MSM was in on it too, whether they were asking fro Trump oppo research on Trump for a column, seeking questions for GOP candidate interviews, or bragging about how they took down GOP targets on behalf of Hillary/the DNC.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (NOIQH)

236 My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to tell.

My house is a church built in 1898, on a foundation laid in 1868.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:25 AM (O7MnT)

237 Bush just released a book of his paintings of vets called Portraits of Courage. The proceeds going to veteran charity. He has some skills. Of course the Lefty art world won't credit him with any.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:25 AM (IDPbH)

238 217 It brings to mind how little modern people know about history - specifically, how close in time we are to a world we wouldn't even recognize.

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anytime the power is out for more than 2 hours, they get a small taste. And decide to go to bed early.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:25 AM (PNcou)

239 There are a lot of words in there that don't mean what you think they mean.

This is due to the tragic failure of English education here. Looking up the variants of KJV meanings is how you learn English. Same way you learn Attic Greek.

It also turns Song of Solomon into a real hoot.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:25 AM (H5rtT)

240 219
>>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster."



I'd go with a Swiffer. That way you can give her refill clothes for important holidays like Valentine's Day and her birthday.





Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (/tuJf)

See now that's good thinking. i can get her an Amazon monthly Swiffer refill...put it on auto. Then I have the other important occasions covered.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (AGr9E)

241 I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

They're only one EMP device from living it.


Or being it.

Posted by: Terminus at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (O7MnT)

242 I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (mgbwf)
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I have a friend in northern Wisconsin that raises chickens and he offers all of his city-fold friends the opportunity to come slaughter one to "know where your food comes from."

I always thought it was a good service to offer.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (xeeHA)

243 It brings to mind how little modern people know about history - specifically, how close in time we are to a world we wouldn't even recognize. "

Thus Heinlein's "Bad Luck" comment. Civilization is quite fragile.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (C9pBZ)

244 >>You're not married, are you.

Not anymore. How did you know?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (/tuJf)

245 I'd suggest to PE Trump that at his inauguration that he take Obama's Greek columns out of the warehouse, stack 'em up and light them on fire.

Posted by: Humbug Hillary at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (QfSXK)

246 "Please realize the skin crunchy of excitement that has never been experienced before."

--

I have that on a T shirt....

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (7ZVPa)

247 228 I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
,,,
Sounds like a good bonding opportunity.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:23 AM (1H9ox)

Especially in the post-apocalypse when we'll have to resort to long pig. The family that slays together stays together!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (0mRoj)

248 Faithless electors:

My take is, the GOP didn't vet these people well enough. I mean, Jesus Mary and Joseph, the electors are SELECTED by the GOP! Hard to blame anybody else.

That azalea from TX appears to have been selected (just my hunch) because 1) he's Hispanic; 2) he's a millenial; & 3) his horseshit lie about being a 911 responder-- which obviously nobody bothered to check.

There's a lot of Republicans in TX to choose from. This was a very bad show.

Posted by: mnw at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (hCbo0)

249 Is it just me or is anyone else not feeling quite "with it" today?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (X6fMO)

250 Bush just released a book of his paintings of vets called Portraits of Courage. The proceeds going to veteran charity. He has some skills. Of course the Lefty art world won't credit him with any.

SCOAMF's post-presidency is going to lack this quiet dignity.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (O7MnT)

251 I think about this often. If my father's family had a chicken dinner it was because his mom went out back and wrung the neck of a chicken.

I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (mgbwf)



Family Christmas party the other night. I was talking with my grandfather's best friend and the friend's wife. (He and my grandfather have been friends over 70 years, so yeah, they're family.) His wife spent a decent portion of her childhood in homes without running water or electricity. Which is just amazing to me.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (9CkBG)

252 244 >>You're not married, are you.

Not anymore. How did you know?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (/tuJf)
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Who got custody of the Swiffer?

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

253 "Donald J. Trump Saves a Thousand Jobs at Carrier Before Even Being Born"

Posted by: Lou Dobbs, Unchained at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (Ndje9)

254 You're not married, are you.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (sBOL1)
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Or won't be for long hehehe.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (xeeHA)

255 Including the media hacks, right?

That would be the "indirectly", natch.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (9krrF)

256 From the morning thread -
Anyone have any experience dating someone on high dose Celexa or similar antidepressants? Asking for un otro amigo!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy

My late wife was on Lithium, Zoloft, Prozac and a host of others at different times. Nothing worked long term.

She eventually took Enditall. No shit.

A hard end to a sad life - I ignored the signs and the kids and I suffered as a result. She's happy now.

Run away from it if you can.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (Q/obp)

257 My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to tell.




Depending on where you are, could be wood chutes, coal chutes, vegetable chute for root cellar.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (CJRaf)

258 I recall reading, I think it was in Paul Johnson's "Birth of the Modern" in which it is described how they preserved ice for use all year long. Something about the underground ice houses struck me as unbelievable.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (TOk1P)

259 there's always been "state support" of the arts. you might as well as referred to ur or athens. the real crime of government finance ng of the arts is not propaganda but the encouragement and sustenance of mediocrity.

holland made a law authorizing stipends for artists; the state bought the work. they ended with warehouse after warehouse of third rate junk. i believe the law was rescinded in the 90's.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (WTSFk)

260 188 https://tinyurl.com/zfjfrkl


Hillary Clinton hosted a holiday party for her millionaire donors in New York
Clinton was pictured looking glum as she arrived at the Plaza Hotel on Thursday

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 10:15 AM (y3aQB)

Love it. And that beeyotch Anna Wintour hiding her face from the cameras.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (fWAjv)

261 >>Who got custody of the Swiffer?

It went with the ocean front home I designed and built, my dog and my money.

But I'm not bitter.

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:29 AM (/tuJf)

262 252
244 >>You're not married, are you.



Not anymore. How did you know?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (/tuJf)

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Who got custody of the Swiffer?





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

LMAO...youz guyz!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:29 AM (AGr9E)

263 Speaking of hacking and Bush paintings, Bush's sister was hacked in 2012 (the Romanian guy) and Gawker first published some of Bush's early paintings when he first started.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:29 AM (IDPbH)

264 the real crime of government finance ng of the arts is not propaganda but the encouragement and sustenance of mediocrity.

holland made a law authorizing stipends for artists; the state bought the work. they ended with warehouse after warehouse of third rate junk. i believe the law was rescinded in the 90's.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (WTSFk)
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People defend government art by saying, "it gives a chance to artists to work that otherwise wouldn't be able to."

I say, "if they were any good, they wouldn't need government help."

I can tell you the value of any piece of art: how much someone will pay for it.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:30 AM (xeeHA)

265 I didn't think dust busters still existed. What about the Snake Light? Is that still a thing? The Salad Shooter???

Posted by: Independent George at December 16, 2016 10:30 AM (BDZWU)

266 My grandparents cooled stuff with ice. Bought it from a guy in a horse-drawn cart.

I'm not particularly elderly or rural, this was New York City in 1890.

Oh, and the streets were filled with tons of disease-spreading horseshit back then, too.

But now the internal combustion engine is supposed to be bad for you. Compared to horseshit. Sigh.

Posted by: Oschisms at December 16, 2016 10:30 AM (ZsN9X)

267 A stronger US-Russian alliance would be a very potent weapon against Global Jihad; perhaps this is why the Democrats are terrified of it.

Also, derangement.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:30 AM (O7MnT)

268 249 Is it just me or is anyone else not feeling quite "with it" today?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (X6fMO)

Depends on what you mean, but I probably fit that description.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:31 AM (0mRoj)

269
Who got custody of the Swiffer?





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

The surgeon that removed it.

Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 10:31 AM (Enq6K)

270 Is it just me or is anyone else not feeling quite "with it" today?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM


*raises hand*

Definitely catching a cold.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 10:31 AM (p+Wdc)

271 237 Bush just released a book of his paintings of vets called Portraits of Courage. The proceeds going to veteran charity. He has some skills. Of course the Lefty art world won't credit him with any.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:25 AM (IDPbH)

He does. But I don't think it is available until February.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (ATVNj)

272 Re: Hildabeast and her fireworks.

I was committee chair for the fireworks for our towns summer festival. One year we were expecting sketchy weather for Saturday night and being close to an airport we had a strict window with the FAA of when we could start and end. We had about 20K invested, and I knew the risks.
But, I swear to God, one of my "members" of the committee asked the guy that afternoon that if they didn't get launched, would we get out money back.

Strait faced and totally serious the guy replies, "I don't care if you blow em up or you don't, that's up to you. They're free today, but you're still gonna pay me for delivery."



Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (4byLl)

273 Oh, and the streets were filled with tons of disease-spreading horseshit back then, too.

Funny how period programs like Penny Dreadful and Downton Abby leave out that detail.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (O7MnT)

274 269

Who got custody of the Swiffer?




Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (sBOL1)

The surgeon that removed it.


Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 10:31 AM (Enq6K)

That was an orifice joke...amirite?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (AGr9E)

275 Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2016 10:28 AM (TOk1P)

One I saw was reconstructed @ Yorktown Va. was partially underground, lined w/logs and insulated w/straw.

Posted by: BignJames at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (x9c8r)

276 Late to the party but I noticed the running joke about "submissive Russian Women" yesterday.

Boy, if ever there were three words that didn't belong together.

Have these idiots ever actually MET any Russian women?

Posted by: Max Power at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (QCc6B)

277 Bitter?

No I'm not bitter. But I'm working on it. And I like it.

Posted by: Humbug Hillary at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (QfSXK)

278 Family Christmas party the other night. I was talking with my grandfather's best friend and the friend's wife. (He and my grandfather have been friends over 70 years, so yeah, they're family.) His wife spent a decent portion of her childhood in homes without running water or electricity. Which is just amazing to me.



We are only two generations removed from no television in the home and party lines. If you were lucky.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (CJRaf)

279 "What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?"


Three pairs of socks that go into Hunter boots, a Ninja mixer for protein shakes, a small Swarovski crystal necklace, a "ticket" for a post-Christmas shopping spree at a discount mall she likes and a white Maserati convertible.

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (Zs4uk)

280 This is why you don't eat at Arby's

twitter.com/brianmcarey/status/809773871708667905

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2016 10:33 AM (SkR14)

281 A stronger US-Russian alliance would be a very potent weapon against Global Jihad; perhaps this is why the Democrats are terrified of it.

Also, derangement.
Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:30 AM (O7MnT)
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I am not of the opinion that Russia and the US share many common interests but in so much as they do on Jihad, we should take advantage of that.

I really would prefer to avoid a war with Russia. Make it clear to them that the Baltic states are the line, and otherwise try to be cordial.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:33 AM (xeeHA)

282 I didn't think dust busters still existed. What about the Snake Light? Is that still a thing? The Salad Shooter???

If you loved my nuts, you'll go crazy for my salad shooter!

Posted by: Vince Shlomo at December 16, 2016 10:33 AM (X6fMO)

283 >>>If Stallone gets appointed can we get him to fight Segal to determine the fate Crimea?<<<

Steven Seagal is a triple secret agent who helped Trump help Putin help Trump hack the election.

Posted by: Fritz at December 16, 2016 10:33 AM (2Mnv1)

284 Late to the party but I noticed the running joke about "submissive Russian Women" yesterday.

Boy, if ever there were three words that didn't belong together.

Have these idiots ever actually MET any Russian women?
Posted by: Max Power



No. They haven't.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (CJRaf)

285 is RBG still breathing?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (PNcou)

286
I don't think my children have ever even seen living food slaughtered.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (mgbwf)

When I was little, my dad made me watch a chicken assasination so I'd understand these things and I made sure my daughter spent some time on a farm when she was small for similar reasons. It's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a baby goat...

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (oQQwD)

287 Progressivism 101: It is perfectly logical to use the government monopoly on violence to support art.

Posted by: Rhennigantx at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (bmkS9)

288 >>My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to tell.

When I got out of high school, last kid, my folks bought an old farm in MA that was built in the 1700's. It eventually went on the National Historic Site record.

The house was built around an enormous center chimney that spanned the width of the cellar and had a tunnel to the back of the cellar. There were chutes and bins for coal, vegetables and other items.

Every room in the house had a fireplace that fed off the chimney which was a damn good thing because the walls were insulated with corn cobs. I shit you not, that was one drafty, cold house before we redid it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (/tuJf)

289 Oh, and the streets were filled with tons of disease-spreading horseshit back then, too.

Funny how period programs like Penny Dreadful and Downton Abby leave out that detail.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (O7MnT)


And the teeth. Blinding white, perfectly straight teeth.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:35 AM (X6fMO)

290 264: "i say 'if they were any good the wouldn't need government help.'"

i agree completely.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 16, 2016 10:35 AM (WTSFk)

291 Seriously? Like, that's not a joke?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (9CkBG)




Regarding the SOB's name I refer to John Harwood as Limpwood. CNBC still has him as their political reporter even though the leaks revealed the rat was emailing Podesta and is all chummy with the Dems.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:35 AM (493sH)

292 We don't usually exchange gifts but WeaselWoman hinted recently for some perfume so I'm going to LIMP to the store on my HURT FOOT and buy this goddam overpriced perfume she just has to have.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (Sfs6o)

293 Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (ATVNj)

February? Who in the hell is his marketing team? Who buys Christmas presents in February ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (IDPbH)

294 "What gifts are the moron hoards getting for the women in their lives?"

*Sigh* A good-quality digital camera with which to take show poses and movement pictures of the dogs.

Needless to say, I'm the guy who will have to learn how to use it. Her Majesty doesn't fuss with trivialities like that.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (ludWv)

295 This is, like railroading and most other industrial activities and almost all active life since Eastman, far better rendered on camera than by some pathetic Federally funded housepainter.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 09:46 AM (TppKb)

To those of you who think all governmentally funded art smacks of socialism, does that mean then that building governmental buildings are a socialist enterprise? Are those carpenters and bricklayers merely pawns of a vast Marxist scheme?

I argue that art, whether decorative or not, is as legitimate an expenditure as the fucking plumbing and wiring--although our justice system could hold courts in tents, I suppose, and dispense altogether with that commie brick-and-mortar claptrap.

I remember when John Ashcroft had the nude statuary covered in the DoJ building in Washington because they offended his sense of modesty. What a complete, dull-witted asshole.

Those Greeks of the classical period? The ones who made the Parthenon? Fucking commies.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (ZkXe+)

296 When I was little, my dad made me watch a chicken assasination so I'd understand these things and I made sure my daughter spent some time on a farm when she was small for similar reasons. It's kind of backfired in a way:

she wants me to cook a kid for her. I keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a baby goat...



Um, you may want to confirm she means goat.......

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (CJRaf)

297 I really would prefer to avoid a war with Russia. Make it clear to them that the Baltic states are the line, and otherwise try to be cordial.


That would be nice. However, Putin has explicitly stated that taking Crimea and eastern Ukrain was justified because of the number of ethnic Russians there and has just as explicitly stated that the same holds for the Baltics.

Which is true, the USSR intentionally salted all the outer republics with Russians.

So it will all come down to how much he wants to risk, the moment he wants to risk it, and how we and Europe are disposed at that moment.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (mgbwf)

298
And the teeth. Blinding white, perfectly straight teeth.


At least Penny Dreadful got the 'hookers with TB' angle right.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (O7MnT)

299 292 We don't usually exchange gifts but WeaselWoman hinted recently for some perfume so I'm going to LIMP to the store on my HURT FOOT and buy this goddam overpriced perfume she just has to have.
Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (Sfs6o)

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barefoot, in the snow

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (PNcou)

300 For the woman in my life I'm getting three pairs of cashmere socks that go into jimmy choo boots, a 300 dollar blender, a small emerald and diamond necklace and a vintage 1930 Rolls Royce.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (tOcW/)

301 I noticed the running joke about "submissive Russian Women" yesterday.

Boy, if ever there were three words that didn't belong together.

Have these idiots ever actually MET any Russian women?
Posted by: Max Power

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Not submissive in the least. But they have absolutely no morals, so you take the good with the bad.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (7ZVPa)

302 That was an orifice joke...amirite?


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (AGr9E)

T'was, t'was...

Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (Enq6K)

303 does that mean then that building governmental buildings are a socialist enterprise? "

Check out most "governmental buildings" in the US, then compare with the pride of Stalin's day.

I'd say "yes".

Except some of the Soviet buildings had some actual style...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (C9pBZ)

304 I remember when John Ashcroft had the nude statuary covered in the DoJ building in Washington because they offended his sense of modesty. What a complete, dull-witted asshole.

Then you remember wrongly.

http://tinyurl.com/jxqotu7

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (X6fMO)

305 Banana Splits guy had a question last thread about dating someone on high dose Celexa.
If you're still around, I have some experience...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (bWBdM)

306 Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (O7MnT)

Oddly enough, Terry Pratchett's Disk World novels are one of the few fictional works that treat such things realistically. For that matter, I suspect that most non-fiction glosses over those bits as well

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (sEDyY)

307 300 For the woman in my life I'm getting three pairs of cashmere socks that go into jimmy choo boots, a 300 dollar blender, a small emerald and diamond necklace and a vintage 1930 Rolls Royce.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:38 AM (tOcW/)


Did I mention the cute blue and stainless steel restaurant I'm getting for my daughter?

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (Zs4uk)

308 296

Um, you may want to confirm she means goat.......
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (CJRaf

Oh, you weisenheimer, you!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (oQQwD)

309 >>I remember when John Ashcroft had the nude statuary covered in the DoJ
building in Washington because they offended his sense of modesty.


IIRC, someone on the DoJ staff did this preemptively, Ashcroft had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (NOIQH)

310 289 Oh, and the streets were filled with tons of disease-spreading horseshit back then, too.

Funny how period programs like Penny Dreadful and Downton Abby leave out that detail.

Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:32 AM (O7MnT)

And the teeth. Blinding white, perfectly straight teeth.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:35 AM (X6fMO)

That's always amusing. Pick any Victorian era period show and they've all got perfect teeth brought to you by modern orthodontics and laser whitening.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (0mRoj)

311 That would be nice. However, Putin has explicitly stated that taking Crimea and eastern Ukrain was justified because of the number of ethnic Russians there




Sounds just like the Sudetenland excuse.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (CJRaf)

312 For the woman in my life..."

Here, pull the other one.

Heh.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:40 AM (C9pBZ)

313 >>288
>>My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is
some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all
the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to
tell.


Crystal ball says you're going to hear an unexplainable sound in one of those chutes one of these times. It'll probably be the darkest one. You will wait until late at night to investigate, minor-chord music will become the soundtrack of your life, you will bring a flashlight with you but you'll drop it and it'll break, and the basement door will inexplicably click closed/locked behind you...

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:40 AM (Bdeb0)

314 IPspouse has been eyeing YET ANOTHER purse, this one by some guy named Kors? Anyway, in a moment of luck I found it on sale.

So she gets that and a new S+W 9mm, I don't have any other ideas at all.

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (4byLl)

315 >>Sounds just like the Sudetenland excuse.

History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (/tuJf)

316 It's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a baby goat...


Oh, but baby goat tastes gooood!

Only time I ever had it was in a dish called caprete, cooked by my Italian GF's mother at their place on the lake at Morcote.

I know what it's called because gmail has infinite memory and I was trying to explain to my uncle that I don't know what you call baby goat dishes in English because we don't really eat baby goat that much.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (mgbwf)

317 Filling The Ice House

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That's what i called it the one time i porked Hillary. One time.

Posted by: Bubba at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (PNcou)

318 >>Sounds just like the Sudetenland excuse. Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (CJRaf)

And the 1941 "Volga Germans" excuse...

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (Bdeb0)

319 Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (mgbwf)

Unfortunately the Ukraine hate of Russians gave Putin an excuse when they attempted to outlaw a number of ethnic Russian issues after they overthrew the government . I think language was one of them. The hate runs deep for good reason though sometimes you have to know when not to poke the bear.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (IDPbH)

320 292 We don't usually exchange gifts but WeaselWoman hinted recently for
some perfume so I'm going to LIMP to the store on my HURT FOOT and buy
this goddam overpriced perfume she just has to have.


Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (Sfs6o)


One word.....Amazon. No muss, no fuss, no bus.

Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (Enq6K)

321 >>t's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I
keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a
baby goat...


Go on...is there a lot of blood!?

Posted by: John & Tony Podesta - Spirit Cooking enthusiasts at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (NOIQH)

322 Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (Zs4uk)

Did I mention the Frank Lloyd Wright designed house I'm getting for mine?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (tOcW/)

323 To those of you who think all governmentally funded
art smacks of socialism, does that mean then that building governmental
buildings are a socialist enterprise?

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (ZkXe+)

Comparing the basic needs of government...a place to hang its collective hat....with completely unnecessary art is just silly.

If the world wants art, it should pay for it. But it is not the function of government to subsidize the creative process, because in addition to it being a waste of taxpayers' money, the involvement of government in artistic creation taints the work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (42Mgr)

324 285 is RBG still breathing?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:34 AM (PNcou)

Oh, I forgot that it's my turn to check. BRB.

Posted by: One of RBG's interns at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (RD7QR)

325 Not submissive in the least. But they have absolutely no morals, so you take the good with the bad.

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If you married not-submissive with morals, that might sound like an upgrade. Theoretically...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (PNcou)

326 Those Greeks of the classical period? The ones who made the Parthenon? Fucking commies.
Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (ZkXe+)
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I'm of two minds on it. Have you SEEN the art at the Denver Airport? I think public art IS something you need for government buildings but I'd much prefer it be of a more... classical variety.

A lot of the art commissioned IS commie horseshit.

But then I think, you can't have some approved list (and then an implied blacklist) of artists either so... bleh. I throw my hands up at the whole thing in the end.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (xeeHA)

327 Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (/tuJf)

See now that's good thinking. i can get her an Amazon monthly Swiffer refill...put it on auto. Then I have the other important occasions covered.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:26 AM (AGr9E)


Man, you guys are good. I never thought of that. I can get her diet pills put on a monthly account, so I never have to worry about forgetting her birthday, anniversary, V-Day, Mothers Day, etc.

It's good to be alive today.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (TOk1P)

328 Visiting my maternal grandmother in rural Ireland circa 1980, she woke up early and lit a fire for hot water with which to bathe and wash clothes. In a coal oven in the kitchen hooked up to a water tank and some kind of exhaust setup. A modern hot water heater wasn't put in until she died in the mid 90's.

My father visited his paternal grandparents in Ireland in the mid sixties, and he described the farmhouse as one room with a fire in the center and a hole in the ceiling.

Posted by: Oschisms at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (ZsN9X)

329 Why the hell do we have an NEA anyway? Why are "artists" given some special place in society?

Posted by: ajmojo at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (1H9ox)

330 I will get nothing and like it.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (R7cwD)

331 People defend government art by saying, "it gives a chance to artists to work that otherwise wouldn't be able to."

I say, "if they were any good, they wouldn't need government help."

I can tell you the value of any piece of art: how much someone will pay for it.



******

Hmmm.

Artist **coughdoctorcough**

Piece of art **coughsurgerycough**


Yep! True statement.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (wPiJc)

332 It's good to be alive today.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 16, 2016 10:43 AM (TOk1P)
===============

Tomorrow = TBD

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (4byLl)

333
Question of the Day:

Who is "hacking" or "meddling" with the election more: the Russians...or the Democrats who are trying to interfere with the lawful and rghtful duties of the Electors in order to create chaos and overturn an election?


Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (uBa68)

334 and the same for him.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (R7cwD)

335 278 Family Christmas party the other night. I was talking with my grandfather's best friend and the friend's wife. (He and my grandfather have been friends over 70 years, so yeah, they're family.) His wife spent a decent portion of her childhood in homes without running water or electricity. Which is just amazing to me."

My dad grew up in a farmhouse in Wisconsin with no indoor bathroom. I was upset about my heat being temporarily off yesterday. I can't imagine heading outside in 0 degree weather to use the outhouse.

My dad said he developed great mastery over his bowels and bladder at a young age because he held it in until he just couldn't anymore. No lingering or reading the Sunday paper in there either.

When I was a kid, it was annoying to see him head into the bathroom with the paper, because you knew that for the next hour, if you had to go you'd have to use the cold bathroom in our half finished basement and there were spiders down there. And I could never (still can't) understand why people want to read in the bathroom anyway. He cared not. For him being able to camp out in there was a huge luxury.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (ZM2xo)

336 Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (ZkXe+)

If you are taken in by fake news , think of the LIV that are swayed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (IDPbH)

337 Not submissive in the least. But they have absolutely no morals, so you take the good with the bad. "

So they're Viking women from Crichton's "The 13th Warrior"?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (C9pBZ)

338 315 >>Sounds just like the Sudetenland excuse.

History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (/tuJf)

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sudetenland does NOT rhyme with crimea. Would make an awful limerick.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (PNcou)

339 troyriser, "fucking commies" is just exactly what they were. You might want to read up on that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (H5rtT)

340 318. Those poor bastards ended up in Kazakhstan. About a million of them left when the USSR started dating Yoko, and went back to the Fatherland.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (VMi9x)

341 Then you remember wrongly.

http://tinyurl.com/jxqotu7

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing



Your debunking doesn't debunk it. It says they were specifically trying to keep the boobs out of press pool pics.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (mgbwf)

342 282
I didn't think dust busters still existed. What about the Snake Light? Is that still a thing? The Salad Shooter???



If you loved my nuts, you'll go crazy for my salad shooter!

Posted by: Vince Shlomo at December 16, 2016 10:33 AM (X6fMO)

I'm in...maybe she'll stop telling about the f*cking dust buster.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (AGr9E)

343 I noticed the running joke about "submissive Russian Women" yesterday.

Boy, if ever there were three words that didn't belong together.

Have these idiots ever actually MET any Russian women?

Posted by: Max Power



Dammit, Trump promised me a submissive Russian woman if I voted for him and he better make good on that!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (493sH)

344 316 It's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a baby goat...


Oh, but baby goat tastes gooood!


Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (mgbwf)

Yes, but I still have to look at it. I do yet have a card to play: there's a fresh-kill farm a few towns away and if you give them an advanced order, they'll cook your purchases for you.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (oQQwD)

345 the involvement of government in artistic creation taints the work.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


******


artistic creation **coughdiagnosticscough**



Must have something stuck in my craw.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (wPiJc)

346 318 >>Sounds just like the Sudetenland excuse. Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (CJRaf)

And the 1941 "Volga Germans" excuse...
Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:41 AM (Bdeb0)


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there are millions of Muslims trapped in Europe.

Posted by: ISIS at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (PNcou)

347 287 Progressivism 101: It is perfectly logical to use the government monopoly on violence to support art.

Statists of all political leanings love to use the power of the State to compel the individual to act against their will ... and cry like rats eating onions when compelled to act against their own.

Left-Wing, Right-Wing ... doesn't matter. Statists are always compelling For All the Right Reasons. Just ask 'em. They'll tell ya'. It's always either For Your Own Good, For the Good of the Country, or both.

But the Statists on the other end of the Political Spectrum ? Why ... they're a no good sorry sack of sum bitches.

I hate politics. Mostly because it's full of people. People ... as a general rule ... suck.

Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 10:46 AM (jeefx)

348 Crystal ball says you're going to hear an unexplainable sound in one of those chutes one of these times. It'll probably be the darkest one. You will wait until late at night to investigate, minor-chord music will become the soundtrack of your life, you will bring a flashlight with you but you'll drop it and it'll break, and the basement door will inexplicably click closed/locked behind you...

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:40 AM (Bdeb0)
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Gee, thanks for that.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:46 AM (xeeHA)

349
The same people who are saying the Russians meddled in the US election are, right now, trying to flip Electors via bribes, intimidation, and, probably, blackmail.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2016 10:46 AM (uBa68)

350 >>One word.....Amazon. No muss, no fuss, no bus.

Yes! If sold out, check out Macy's, etc. - just ordered something online today and got %50 off + free shipping. Think a lot of stores may be trying to squeeze a few more sales out today (cutting it close for shipping).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:46 AM (NOIQH)

351 321
>>t's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I

keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a

baby goat...

oh, I thought she wanted you to kill the boy next door.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:47 AM (AGr9E)

352 Oh, Gran never actually cooked in the coal "oven" that's just what it was called. The house had proper gas and electric by then.

Posted by: Oschisms at December 16, 2016 10:47 AM (ZsN9X)

353 Turns out that Eichenwald character is a weirdo

twitter.com/sebastianojones/status/809517338278133760

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2016 10:47 AM (SkR14)

354 299
292 We don't usually exchange gifts but WeaselWoman hinted recently for
some perfume so I'm going to LIMP to the store on my HURT FOOT and buy
this goddam overpriced perfume she just has to have.


Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 10:36 AM (Sfs6o)


Well at least you're doing it in the spirit of Christmas giving I see. lol.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:48 AM (AGr9E)

355 >>My dad grew up in a farmhouse in Wisconsin with no indoor bathroom. I was upset about my heat being temporarily off yesterday. I can't imagine heading outside in 0 degree weather to use the outhouse.

That was the other crazy thing about my parents old farmhouse. It had and attached shed and at the far end of the shed was the outhouse. It was a single room with two crappers leading to the same place.

Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (/tuJf)

356 she wants me to cook a kid for her.

I sometimes get irritated by kid but I've never actually thought about cooking my 16 year old. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (tOcW/)

357 345 the involvement of government in artistic creation taints the work.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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Why i have an entire collection of taint portraiture right here! Hillary modeled this one for me...

Posted by: gov. supported artist at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (PNcou)

358 And I could never (still can't) understand why people want to read in the bathroom anyway.

It helps to have something to occupy your mind if you're there more than five minutes or so.

I have a fully stocked bookcase in the loo at stately Poppins Manor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (X6fMO)

359
Late to the thread.... but.

Dude. Ice blocks on the coldest day of the year???

Pro Tip: Show THIS painting in August. Show sunny beaches in December.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (8XRCm)

360 Why the hell do we have an NEA anyway?

"But Mom! All the European kids have it!"

Understand this and you understand the reason for most Prog proposals (see also: "high-speed rail").

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (ludWv)

361 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (/tuJf)
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I think it's like those side-by-side bathtubs in those dick pill commercials.

Or, obviously, the classic SNL skit.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:50 AM (xeeHA)

362 Would make an awful limerick."

You had to poke the bear, huh?

*sits back in expectation of moron poetry*

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:50 AM (C9pBZ)

363 351 321
>>t's kind of backfired in a way: she wants me to cook a kid for her. I

keep trying to explain that a butchered baby goat still looks like a

baby goat...

oh, I thought she wanted you to kill the boy next door.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:47 AM (AGr9E)

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If you're too squeamish for that, we really should talk!

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (PNcou)

364 >>My house is an old farm house that was built in 1865. There is
some history down in that basement. I'd love to know more about what all
the chutes and bins were for but I don't know how I'd even be able to
tell. "

The house I grew up in was built in the '50's, but it had a laundry chute to the basement, where our washing machine (with wringer) was.

My old apartment building (built in the 20's) had milk bins outside each door. They had to get rid of the milkmen though. Judging by old jokes, the milkmen were basically Paolos in white suits, who fathered most of the children born in the US.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (ZM2xo)

365
sudetenland does NOT rhyme with crimea. Would make an awful limerick.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:44 AM (
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Muldoon could do it. I have faith.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (sBOL1)

366 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.

Posted by: JackStraw


The Olympics rejected Synchronized Shitting too soon.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (SkR14)

367
*sits back in expectation of moron poetry*
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 10:50 AM (C9pBZ)
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Someone should comb the archives and make a coffee-table book. Proceeds go to the Moron-In-Chief.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (xeeHA)

368 The same people who are saying the Russians meddled in the US election are, right now, trying to flip Electors via bribes, intimidation, and, probably, blackmail.

These are also the same people who were caterwauling a couple of weeks ago that the popular vote was paramount.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:51 AM (ludWv)

369 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (/tuJf)

an outhouse?
Perhaps it's a monsterously scary place to go solo.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (R7cwD)

370 I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)

371 "But Mom! All the European kids have it!"

Understand this and you understand the reason for most Prog proposals (see also: "high-speed rail").


Good thing we pay for their defense ... so that they can afford such shit ... so that we can pay for said shit here as well.

But Hell ... I guess if we didn't the Russians would just annex 'em all and ...

... what, exactly ?

Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (jeefx)

372 Your debunking doesn't debunk it. It says they were specifically trying to keep the boobs out of press pool pics.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (mgbwf)


Troyriser's comment was, I remember when John Ashcroft had the nude statuary covered in the DoJ building in Washington because they offended his sense of modesty. What a complete, dull-witted asshole.

My point was that the covering had nothing to do with Ashcroft, the evil, hidebound, Puritanical killjoy, but foiling a juvenile MFM who though that photographing the Rethuglican in front of a **snicker** BEWB! was the height of sophisticated humor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (X6fMO)

373 Crystal ball says you're going to hear an unexplainable sound in one of those chutes one of these times. It'll probably be the darkest one. You will wait until late at night to investigate, minor-chord music will become the soundtrack of your life, you will bring a flashlight with you but you'll drop it and it'll break, and the basement door will inexplicably click closed/locked behind you...


******


Now, where did I leave that cask of Amontillado, hmmm???

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (wPiJc)

374 325
Not submissive in the least. But they have absolutely no morals, so you take the good with the bad.

Had a small business Russian client. Barbershop/we but gold etc. Funny guy. I'd go in for a chat and he'd put a bottle of vodka on the desk. gees. water to him. Kept saying he wanted me to go out with him because 'you should go out with Russian woman one time'... of course we are both married.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (AGr9E)

375 >>I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure
of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never
notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Word

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (NOIQH)

376 366 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.

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one for you, one for your wife to sit on why telling you that you're doing it worng.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (PNcou)

377 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.




Thanksgiving and Christmas when the whole family is over?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (CJRaf)

378 Thinking about rural Ireland, calls to mind the words of the late Muhammad Ali:

"Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!"

Posted by: Oschisms at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (ZsN9X)

379 ... what, exactly ?
Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (jeefx)
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More and more, I wonder. I feel like the Bobs interviewing Europe.

What would.. you say... you do here?

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (xeeHA)

380
It's 6 defrees out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (uBa68)

381 370 I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)


And luggage is such a waste when Glad makes such sturdy trash bags...

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (Zs4uk)

382 my Russian friend was always trying to get me something...Rolex? Gun? I get you a good deal Mr. Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (AGr9E)

383 >>370
I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure
of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never
notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)

I don't understand the allure of designer hands. I use my hands until they wear out. I never notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (Bdeb0)

384 Must have something stuck in my craw.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:45 AM (wPiJc)

Look young man, you certainly won't get an argument from me.

Medicine is perhaps the most important private enterprise we have, and government involvement has destroyed it. Whether you choose to call it art or science (it's both), government should not be involved, for many of the same reasons that they should not be involved in the artistic creative process of painters and sculptors and architects, etc.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (42Mgr)

385 my grandmother actually had a water pump thing in the kitchen in the shack we would visit in summers.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:55 AM (R7cwD)

386 Now why would you need a two seat outhouse? Some things are just better handled alone.


*****

Tuba practice for the marching oom-pah band.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:55 AM (wPiJc)

387 380
It's 6 defrees out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (uBa6

That'f pretty ftinking cold.

Posted by: Geo. Washington at December 16, 2016 10:55 AM (RD7QR)

388 "I argue that art, whether decorative or not, is as legitimate an expenditure as the fucking plumbing and wiring- troyriser

There's a word for "it" ... giantism ... something like that. When the Soviet state was making huge structures as emblems of how much they did for the people. High speed rail may be the modern version of it.

Certainly it is a balance. Washington Monuments, Hoover Dam ... great symbols that unite us, and are probably a necessary part of keeping a nation "proud and strong". But wealthy men also sponsor some pretty awesome works.

Ideally we take care of base needs, then as a society we appreciate the arts by paying for concerts and the like. But schools now teach anti-American crap and eliminate band programs ... and starting early 80's mutual funds sent our extra money into multi-nationals, and people got pride watching their investment portfolios get bigger. That money needs to be invested locally in our own culture, on a greater scale.

Globalism strikes again. The cultural Marxists had a plan, to control the arts, to break down our traditional culture. "That's how we got Trump" ... but the battle has just begun. The arts are part of it ... not commie art.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2016 10:55 AM (LcUYB)

389 >>I don't understand the allure of designer hands. I use my hands until they wear out. I never notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Get a messenger bag. It's totally not gay.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (/tuJf)

390 Proportionately, this guy's figures are better than the painter yesterday. However, I have taken a jaundiced eye to any art where it is just people "working together" after the first time seeing Triumph of the Will.

Commonly, the working art the government creates is not of a lone craftsman, making something of such beauty that you can see the hand of God in his creation, but rather of largish numbers of essentially faceless people toiling at some task- but happy.

People are not f*cling ants, a*sholes. This is what I think when ever I see this kind of art. The first time I went to a museum in Cincinatti (a gorgeous deco train station) I marveled at the outside then went in and saw dreck like this in the main room.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (juQf+)

391 Judging by old jokes, the milkmen were basically Paolos in white suits, who fathered most of the children born in the US.

That reminds me of an old joke: a husband comes home to his flat and tells his wife, "I was talking to the super. You know that new guy in apartment 7? The super says he's screwed every woman in this building except one!"

The wife replies, "I bet it's that stuck-up Mrs Schwartz on the fifth floor!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (X6fMO)

392 Be sure and tune in today around 1:15 CDT. Barry is going to explain to all the democrat big money donors that Hillary! totally was about to win except Vlad hacked the election. There is a lot of secret evidence that no one can be allowed to see but for real, keep that money coming because Nancy and Uncle Joe need lots and lots to retake the Senate, the House and all those States next time.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (IyBar)

393 Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (Zs4uk)

It's nice that you at least give your wife nice hunting boots while she has to schlep around with trash bags for her luggage on the way to the hunting trip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (tOcW/)

394 This is not surprising at all: Group who put out celebrity video asking electors to vote Hillary is shady, foreign. LOL!

An image on the Unite for America Facebook page shows the
face of Russian President Vladimir Putin and asks, "Is this your
president?"

The Unite for America website does not contain much information about
the group or its members. It also does not list an address or phone
number. In order to contact Unite for America, a form must be submitted
through its site.

Despite the group's reference to alleged foreign influence in the
presidential election, a trace of the group's URL shows that its website
was registered in a foreign country.

According to a search on ICANN WHOIS, a website that provides public
access to data on registered URL names, UniteForAmerica.org was created
on Nov. 26 with internet service provider Tucows Inc., located in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (NOIQH)

395
The house was built around an enormous center chimney that spanned
the width of the cellar and had a tunnel to the back of the cellar.
There were chutes and bins for coal, vegetables and other items.
=====

Try to find a modern house with windows on at least two sides of every room. Cross-ventilation -- do you speak it?

Old house I inherited has an old cellar (center stack) and windows on at least two sides every room. Even with the insulation problem, it is still cooler than my house (and warmer in winter).

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (MIKMs)

396 SD, good news! At a meeting yesterday, all the EU defence ministers (they're all female, right?) voted significant increases to military budgets.

The Trump Effect. He's not even sworn in yet!
Now, they may be planning to defend themselves from us. That remains to be determined. But the Trump...it's working.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (H5rtT)

397 There's a word for "it" ... giantism ... something like that. When the Soviet state was making huge structures as emblems of how much they did for the people. High speed rail may be the modern version of it.
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There is also a "brutalism" thought that may be a pejorative for the same thing. I'm not an art scientist or anything.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:57 AM (xeeHA)

398 375 >>I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure
of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never
notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg."

True - but $800 means something different to you and I than it means to a multi-millionaire's wife. To them, spending $800 is like us spending $20.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 16, 2016 10:57 AM (ZM2xo)

399 We once lived in a house built in 1868. Outdoor pump, cistern, root cellar, carriage barn. Quite a place.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 16, 2016 10:57 AM (ludWv)

400 government should not be involved, for many of the same reasons that they should not be involved in the artistic creative process of painters and sculptors and architects, etc.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


*****


Heh. It's just that the comment up above (@259 musical jolly chimp) about warehouses full of third-rate art was eerily reminiscent of some hospital systems I've seen.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (wPiJc)

401 370 I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)

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apparently i'm also buying my wife a $1300 watch for Xmas. I think it tells the time. Wonder what it looks like....

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (PNcou)

402 my grandmother actually had a water pump thing in the kitchen in the shack we would visit in summers.
Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:55 AM (R7cwD)

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Yup.... I remember using the outhouse when I was little. I remember Gandma cooking on a wood stove. She had the well pump on the kitchen sink too. Ice box tha you had to put ice in. They didnt get electricty on the farm til 1957.

I have a picture of me, about 3 yrs old, "helping" grandpa build the first attached bathroom.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (8XRCm)

403 Downloaded the free sample of Tim Groseclose's 2011 book "Left Turn," which he wrote when he was still at UCLA teaching economics.

It uses facts, math, and statistical analysis to show how left-bent the media is. Or was, in the years up to 2011.

Dr Groseclose was drummed out of UCLA and now teaches at George Mason University in Virginia.

I decided after reading the sample that I'll not buy the book and read the rest. It seems so dated, now, in view of how much further left the media (and the academy, and entertainment, and sports, and culture) have traveled.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (U6f54)

404
Get a messenger bag. It's totally not gay.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM
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I was at Costco yesterday and there was a guy walking around with a handbag such as the ladies are discussing above. He was carrying it by the handles, no strap to be seen. No female companion to be seen either.


Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (sBOL1)

405
That reminds me of an old joke: a husband comes home to his flat and tells his wife, "I
was talking to the super. You know that new guy in apartment 7? The
super says he's screwed every woman in this building except one!"



The wife replies, "I bet it's that stuck-up Mrs Schwartz on the fifth floor!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (X6fMO)


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (AGr9E)

406 If John "Mohammad" Brennan is the anonymous leak source to whom NBC keeps attributing their info, despite the FBI and the DNI disputing the info, we can only conclude the DCIA is running a deliberate misinformation campaign against America, in violation of probably about twenty federal laws, and he's doing it specifically to delegitimize the election.

Is that right?

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (X4ZNp)

407 Remember when Ashcroft said he could see Russia from his house?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (IqV8l)

408 Great uncle Tom lived is a fish camp cabin, fished and hunted, kept bees, gardened, had a WW1 pension (got gassed). He had propane lights, no electricity, a ratty old truck that he hauled water home in and he was the happiest man I knew. Kinda like Jed when Pearl explained why they needed to move to Beverly Hills. "A man would be a fool to leave all that."

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (Eyx+b)

409 Eichenwald has a huge book "To Serve Tucker Carlson".

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (VdICR)

410 apparently i'm also buying my wife a $1300 watch for Xmas. I think it tells the time. Wonder what it looks like....
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (PNcou)
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Wow, you mean there isn't a clock on the stove?

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (4byLl)

411 Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 16, 2016 10:57 AM (ZM2xo)

Maybe, but I don't care about shoes or handbags I never have so i wouldn't know a monolo from what I pick up at shoe barn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (tOcW/)

412 it took me years to wisen up about purse buying, I used to buy big leather bags but the children and husband would than have me carry all their things.

now I carry a little hand purse.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (R7cwD)

413 That elector from TX is an obvious douchebag if you look at his Twitter feed - there's no evidence he's even actually a Republican. He's approvingly quoting every batshit leftist fake news site out there.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (3J/LN)

414 Looks like Putin has a little bit of chippy for Obama: Prove it or shut up.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (Bdeb0)

415 What would.. you say... you do here?

I just looked that up. That's some funny shit.

Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (jeefx)

416 370
I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure
of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never
notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)

My main requirement for a handbag is that I can fling it on my shoulder with one hand. If it doesn't clear my elbow, it goes back on the shelf. Also cheap.

I don't care who made it.

Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (Enq6K)

417 This attempt'll get me the banned
When I rhyme Sudetenland
"Cri-me-a" he said,
just rhymes with bread,
So this one will likely be panned.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (C9pBZ)

418 356 she wants me to cook a kid for her.

I sometimes get irritated by kid but I've never actually thought about cooking my 16 year old. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (tOcW/)

They're kinda stringy at that age anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (0mRoj)

419 404


Get a messenger bag. It's totally not gay.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM

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I was at Costco yesterday and there was a guy walking around with a
handbag such as the ladies are discussing above. He was carrying it by
the handles, no strap to be seen. No female companion to be seen either.








Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (sBOL1)

Yeah. Grocery store. Tall slender older guy in a long skirt and a white faux fur vest with his gal friend or wife. Like a skinny gay viking. gees.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (AGr9E)

420 Wow, you mean there isn't a clock on the stove?
Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (4byLl)
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YES! *fist pump*

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (xeeHA)

421 I have drawn a dipper of water out of the cistern. You need to look and make sure you don't swallow a wiggle-tail.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (Eyx+b)

422 >>it took me years to wisen up about purse buying, I used to buy big
leather bags but the children and husband would than have me carry all
their things.


Heh, ain't that the truth!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (NOIQH)

423 fixerupper, we are truly spoiled!
the outhouse was terribly scary for me as a child. I swore monsters would be lurking down the hole and grab me into the offal abyss.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (R7cwD)

424 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (X6fMO)

LOLOLOL

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (Om16U)

425 The Ashcroft thing is the PERFECT illustration of fake news becoming fact.. Ashcroft was not offended or had them covered up.. it was the puerile antics of a hostile biased media that caused a perfectly normal reaction by staffers to curb their offensive behaviour that became news.

Ask Sarah Palin how this works.. A perfectly well respected Gov of a unique and challenging state.. until the lawfare started and she was almost bankrupted because in AK the Gov has to bear the legal expenses. She resigned to end the lawfare and now OUR side, rather than hold her up, has labeled her a quitter.. "I can see Russia.." indeed..

Posted by: catman at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (5jdSv)

426 418
356 she wants me to cook a kid for her.



I sometimes get irritated by kid but I've never actually thought about cooking my 16 year old. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:49 AM (tOcW/)



They're kinda stringy at that age anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (0mRoj)


Not if you fatten them up in a small pen for a few weeks and massage them.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (AGr9E)

427 lizzy, Heck I would walk listing toi one side and always had shoulder pain LOL

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (R7cwD)

428 I swore monsters would be lurking down the hole and grab me into the offal abyss.
Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (R7cwD)

-------

ISWYDT.


Well played.....

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (8XRCm)

429 don't swallow a wiggle-tail.
________________________________


Kids these days will never know to look.

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (4byLl)

430 Wow, you mean there isn't a clock on the stove?
Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (4byLl)

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stove, microwave, telephone, wall....

but the stove only cost $1100.

On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (PNcou)

431 not even counting I always wore a child in a back pack for years to free up a hand

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (R7cwD)

432 I have drawn a dipper of water out of the cistern. You need to look and make sure you don't swallow a wiggle-tail.




Protein!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (CJRaf)

433 Looks like Putin has a little bit of chippy for Obama: Prove it or shut up.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (Bdeb0)



And panty waist Barry will do nothing and the MFM will claim victory for him as always

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (493sH)

434 412 it took me years to wisen up about purse buying, I used to buy big leather bags but the children and husband would than have me carry all their things.

now I carry a little hand purse.
Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (R7cwD)
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I hear you, willow. I got tired of being a pack mule too. I've gotten it down to the point where if I'm going out with my husband, I'll only take my ID just in case I get carded.





Okay, you all can stop smirking now.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (sBOL1)

435 The house I grew up in was built in the '50's, but it had a laundry chute to the basement, where our washing machine (with wringer) was.

My maternal grandmother was using an ancient Maytag with a wringer well into the 80s.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (3J/LN)

436 There once was a tyrant named Putin
Who obtained the Crimea by shootin'.
He got it in hand
Like Sudentenland
With some Facisto-communist lootin'!

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (RD7QR)

437 >> Like a skinny gay viking


You know, Leif Erickson was gay, right?

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (UD0Gq)

438 416 370
I do not understand paying $800 for shoes nor do I understand the allure
of designer handbags. I use my handbags until they wear out. I never
notice who the designer is and they don't cost an arm and a leg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:52 AM (tOcW/)

My main requirement for a handbag is that I can fling it on my shoulder with one hand. If it doesn't clear my elbow, it goes back on the shelf. Also cheap.

I don't care who made it.
Posted by: Tami at December 16, 2016 11:00 AM (Enq6K)

I bought my wife a little black clutch for Christmas a number of years ago. I don't think she's ever used it. All she cares about is capacity.

My only Christmas present miss--ever.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (hJrjt)

439 >>The Ashcroft thing is the PERFECT illustration of fake news becoming fact..


W's "fake" turkey in Iraq
Bush Sr. "marveling" at a grocery store scanner as if he'd never seen one

Fake.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (NOIQH)

440 What would.. you say... you do here?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM (xeeHA)

I have people skills! What's so hard about that to understand? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!??

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (0mRoj)

441 How about some long-strapped bag for the ladies with a kevlar liner ? So you could really wallop the hell out of somebody with it ?

Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (jeefx)

442 I'd like to see ace have a look at this one and decide what he thinks:

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/12/14/our_frackers_beat_their_hackers_112145.html

It kinda goes where I was thinking before the election: the ability of the Russians to punch above their weight internationally is heavily dependent on their ability to make money from oil and gas, and control the distribution of energy (both their own and from European clients like Iran) to European states.

Both of these goals would be much more easily accomplished under Clinton, who as a supplicant of the enviroclowns would do everything possible to constrain US energy production and export, than under Trump.

So why on Earth would Putin exert himself to elect Trump, other than personal distaste for the FAB?

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (TppKb)

443 On Twitter just now:

The NYT to vacate and rent out eight floors in their midtown office building. Will consolidate staff on redesigned floors.



Posted by: Azathoth at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (4ASYT)

444 Wow, you mean there isn't a clock on the stove?

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (4byLl)





Clock Boy: I can make one for you

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (493sH)

445 Sudetenland hasn't a rhyme
Crimea's the scene of a crime
The Germans of Volga
Were ruse for the bolder
As the Baltics may be in time

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:04 AM (mgbwf)

446 Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (0mRoj)

LOL. I was sort of tempted yesterday when he said for the fourth time, "Why did you give me this first name? "but I left it at, "Because I've always deliberately tried to make your life miserable" smiled and left it at that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (tOcW/)

447 ***Not if you fatten them up in a small pen for a few weeks and massage them.

About 17% protein feed for a minimum of ninty days.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (Eyx+b)

448 I hear you, willow. I got tired of being a pack mule too. I've gotten it down to the point where if I'm going out with my husband, I'll only take my ID just in case I get carded.





Okay, you all can stop smirking now.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (sBOL1)

I luuuv that comment it hits all the right things for me.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (R7cwD)

449
On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (
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Ooh, she's teaching you female math! Well done, Mrs. Buzzsaw90.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (sBOL1)

450 So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (PNcou)
________________________________


ka-ching!

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (4byLl)

451 @417 Nobly assayed, Anon. Not badatall. Like to see more of your work.
But you know and I know you're just trying to provoke Muldoon here.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (H5rtT)

452 So why on Earth would Putin exert himself to elect Trump, other than personal distaste for the FAB?

Hence Assange's frankly more credible story that a Bernie Bro from the DNC actually leaked all that stuff. Possibly the one that mysteriously turned up shot.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (3J/LN)

453 >>On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!



Duuuuude!
*shakes head*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (NOIQH)

454 On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (PNcou)

---

Mrs Fixer: How does THIS look??

Me: How much did it cost??

Mrs Fixer: Well, actually it was FREE!!

Me: *cocks head FREE???

Mrs Fixer: Yup. Its was 50% off. So it took the money I saved and used THAT to pay for the other half. Free.



She was teasing me...... I think.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (8XRCm)

455 thank you fixerupper, once in a while I can hit the ball.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (R7cwD)

456 If the world wants art, it should pay for it. But it is not the function of government to subsidize the creative process, because in addition to it being a waste of taxpayers' money, the involvement of government in artistic creation taints the work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 16, 2016 10:42 AM (42Mgr)


I'm not saying taxpayers should bankroll layabouts. I'm saying public art is as legitimate as public plumbing or public anything. Sculpture and paintings and the like in public spaces are as old as civilization--and a mark of it.

I think conservative antipathy to publicly funded art has to do more with popular conceptions of modern artists, most of whom are liberals, than with the art itself. You read about artists who make crappy or incoherent or anti-American pieces on the public dime and assume all publicly funded art is an inherently bad thing.

The Lincoln monument? Commie plot for sure.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (ZkXe+)

457
You know, Leif Erickson was gay, right?

Leif Garrett is Gay ??

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (y3aQB)

458 And luggage is such a waste when Glad makes such sturdy trash bags... Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 10:54 AM (Zs4uk)
=====

Matched luggage. You forgot the smaller grocery bags -- matched personal bags.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (MIKMs)

459 Re: the Russkies and closer ties...
Remember the Bush Doctrine? Anyone who fought the Jihadis was our buddy and friend.
Ah, so... unless they were Russians fighting the Chechneyans.
We gots some making up to do.

Posted by: MarkY at December 16, 2016 11:07 AM (i022r)

460 Hence Assange's frankly more credible story that a Bernie Bro from the DNC actually leaked all that stuff. Possibly the one that mysteriously turned up shot.




And now you know why he was shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:07 AM (CJRaf)

461 409 Eichenwald has a huge book "To Serve Tucker Carlson".
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 16, 2016 10:59 AM (VdICR)

Eichenwald is batshit crazy. Like genuinely needs antipsychotic drugs crazy.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:07 AM (0mRoj)

462 448
I hear you, willow. I got tired of being a pack mule too. I've gotten it
down to the point where if I'm going out with my husband, I'll only
take my ID just in case I get carded.



Okay, you all can stop smirking now.



Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (sBOL1)



I luuuv that comment it hits all the right things for me.

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (R7cwD)

wait...you mean wives AREN'T Sherpas?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:07 AM (AGr9E)

463 I hear you, willow. I got tired of being a pack mule too. I've gotten it down to the point where if I'm going out with my husband, I'll only take my ID just in case I get carded.

---

Welcome to the Ray Charles BBQ House! Hope you can read the menu, it's in Braille...

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:08 AM (PNcou)

464 Cannibal of course we are but do not like others knowing it!

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:08 AM (R7cwD)

465 Somebody here had the idea
The Sudetenland and the Crimea
Are both history's rhymes
A repeat of the crimes
For which sadly there's no panacea.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 11:08 AM (9krrF)

466 The worst thing about using an outhouse wasn't the cold. It was looking down in the hole and seeing all the spiders just below your butt when you were about to take a crap.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 16, 2016 11:09 AM (mpXpK)

467 Women are terrible sherpas.

They have weak arms.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:09 AM (UD0Gq)

468 The blog seems to have adopted a wide stance.

**looks at wall clock**

Too early to drink. Much to early to leave work. Guess I'll go have some tea.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 11:09 AM (X6fMO)

469 My maternal grandmother was using an ancient Maytag with a wringer well into the 80s.

---

a have a vague memory of a washboard, can't recall seeing it used.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:09 AM (PNcou)

470 Somebody here had the idea
The Sudetenland and the Crimea
Are both history's rhymes
A repeat of the crimes
For which sadly there's no panacea.





Golf. Clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:09 AM (CJRaf)

471 Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:01 AM (Eyx+b)

"Wiggle-tail"? Are we talking fish or worm here?

My grandma (who is in her late 80s now) grew up on the Osage (?) reservation in Oklahoma and had to get water from an outdoor rope-and-bucket well. Apparently snakes *really* liked to hang out in the bucket so getting water was always an adventure.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (sEDyY)

472 >> Eichenwald is batshit crazy. Like genuinely needs
>> antipsychotic drugs crazy.

I think he just came in thinking he was taking on the JV, and got flattened by the all-pro.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (TppKb)

473
I want SOMEBODY to ask all the Nancy boys that are pushing the Russia hacking thing "How did the Russians get better polling than you guys. YOU thought you were 10 points up going into election day??"

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (8XRCm)

474 ***wait...you mean wives AREN'T Sherpas?

They sulk in the traces and won't pull a load.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (Eyx+b)

475 449
On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (
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Ooh, she's teaching you female math! Well done, Mrs. Buzzsaw90.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:05 AM (sBOL1)

Female math indeed. "I spent $1000 dollars at the department store, but everything was half off! Think of all the money I saved!"

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (0mRoj)

476 Bernie Bro from the DNC actually leaked all that stuff. Possibly the one that mysteriously turned up shot.

Another mysterious death by the Clinton Crime Family?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (tOcW/)

477 Ma had a wringer washer, and a separate rinse tub until 1982. The apartment had a (pay) laundry set in the basement.

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (4byLl)

478 Guess I'll go have some tea.

I have recently discovered the joy of hot tea. Wife buys a pretty decent storebrand. Black with some orange in it. Pretty good.

Posted by: SD at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (jeefx)

479 >>Not if you fatten them up in a small pen for a few weeks and massage them. Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:02 AM (AGr9E)

That's one way, but I prefer free-range kids. Grass-fed kids are better for you--they're unstressed, and you can fatten them on corn in the last couple of weeks (or gorge them, if you want the livers for foie gras).

Of course, the ethical argument can be made that millions of lives have been saved in Africa by the introduction of higher-yield genetically-modified kids.

Posted by: General Zod at December 16, 2016 11:11 AM (Bdeb0)

480 Wow. Karen Finney has really porked out since the election.

She must be swallowing a lot of pain. And donuts.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 11:11 AM (/tuJf)

481
CNBC showed a clip from Rogue One. When the lefty writers said the movie was diverse peoples led by brave womyn fighting white supremacists they weren't kidding. The rebels looks like the UN (and none of them looks like they could actually fight) and the Empire is of course whitey. I wish it would flop but know it will be a hit

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 11:11 AM (493sH)

482 Wiggle-tail = mosquito larvae

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:11 AM (Eyx+b)

483 Now, where did I leave that cask of Amontillado, hmmm???

Posted by: Muldoon at December 16, 2016 10:53 AM


Definitely not in here. Dick.

Posted by: Fortunato at December 16, 2016 11:12 AM (p+Wdc)

484 Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse just broke a 99-year record for the coldest Dec. 16.

The temperature at Hancock International Airport, the official weather station for Syracuse, hit 2 below zero over the last hour.

The record for Dec. 16 had been minus 1, set in 1917.


... so, the NYTimes is saying that this isn't the Russians ?
I heard they have a lot "cold" over there.
Isn't that why they called it the "Cold War" ?

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at December 16, 2016 11:12 AM (e8kgV)

485 472 >> Eichenwald is batshit crazy. Like genuinely needs
>> antipsychotic drugs crazy.

I think he just came in thinking he was taking on the JV, and got flattened by the all-pro.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (TppKb)

Maybe up to a point, but his ravings about secret messages from the CIA made him sound like a paranoid schizophrenic.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:12 AM (0mRoj)

486 "Wiggle-tail"? Are we talking fish or worm here?

My grandma (who is in her late 80s now) grew up on the Osage (?) reservation in Oklahoma and had to get water from an outdoor rope-and-bucket well. Apparently snakes *really* liked to hang out in the bucket so getting water was always an adventure.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette




I assumed tadpole.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:12 AM (CJRaf)

487 480 Wow. Karen Finney has really porked out since the election.

She must be swallowing a lot of pain. And donuts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 11:11 AM (/tuJf)


I just saw that.

She has put on 50 lbs in about 3 weeks.

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (Zs4uk)

488 Brother Cavil, bravo. Bravissimo, in fact.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (sBOL1)

489 464
Cannibal of course we are but do not like others knowing it!

Posted by: willow at December 16, 2016 11:08 AM (R7cwD)

I've noticed Heidi takes the big purse to work, and carries the tiny one with room only for her gun when we go out. Meanwhile i have to carry the car keys, my wallet etc...not fair! i thought this was still AMERICA damn it!
this all started when you all got the right to vote. F*cking suffrage.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (AGr9E)

490 >> My grandma (who is in her late 80s now) grew up
>> on the Osage (?) reservation in Oklahoma and had
>> to get water from an outdoor rope-and-bucket well.

My grandparents (who are now long-gone, but would be 115ish) had a farm in the Midwest, their well was the hand-crank kind for a bunch of years. They eventually built a real bathroom onto their house sometime in the '30s, but they still kept the two-hole outhouse. My parents always made sure I looked inside before I sat down.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (TppKb)

491 474 ***wait...you mean wives AREN'T Sherpas?

They sulk in the traces and won't pull a load.
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:10 AM (Eyx+b)

Heh.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (0mRoj)

492 Drudge says Facebook is going to be "tagging" "Fake News" as such instead of straight-up censoring it, and is going to be taking George Soros' word for what is "fake" and what is not.

Yeah, that'll work. Keep digging losers, your hole is not yet big enough.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (X4ZNp)

493 China Warship grabbed one of our underwater drones..... Siren on Drudge....

Didn't know we had those.....

Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (jjaLl)

494 Who's Karen Finney?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (tOcW/)

495 454 On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (PNcou)

---

And then she felt guilt, so when we bought our new car, she decided to upgrade me to the Sport model for $1500 more!

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (PNcou)

496 I think conservative antipathy to publicly funded art has to do more with popular conceptions of modern artists, most of whom are liberals, than with the art itself. You read about artists who make crappy or incoherent or anti-American pieces on the public dime and assume all publicly funded art is an inherently bad thing.

The Lincoln monument? Commie plot for sure.

Posted by: troyriser


True enough. It's one thing when it's to celebrate something or someone worthy. It's another when it's public funding of self-indulgent crap.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (9krrF)

497 400 government should not be involved, for many of the same reasons that they should not be involved in the artistic creative process of painters and sculptors and architects, etc.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo


*****

When goverments support the arts, TWO groups become dependent: the artists and the public who grow accustomed to enjoying them without ever having to support them financially.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (oQQwD)

498 AGW- What we need more of.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (X4ZNp)

499 >> The rebels looks like the UN

What, you mean dysenteric and spreading cholera?

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:15 AM (TppKb)

500 Subtitled: Cleaning Up After the Snowplow Does Your Street.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2016 11:15 AM (ENpER)

501 Grandma had a gas engine powered washing machine in the backyard. I saw it operated once or twice. The expression "get your tit in the wringer" was a real concern.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:15 AM (Eyx+b)

502 #229

As much as it pains my Catholic heart to say so, the KJV will always
stand out for me as a work of art in the English language. It may
occasionally play fast and loose with meanings, but to me the others
don't come close as literature.
=================

The RSV 2CE for me.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2016 11:15 AM (JBggj)

503 Who's Karen Finney?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (tOcW/)

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Some chick on MSNMBC. And a porker, apparently.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 16, 2016 11:15 AM (8XRCm)

504 495 454 On the bright side, the first one she wanted was $2200. So it's like i just made 900 dollars!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM (PNcou)

---

And then she felt guilt, so when we bought our new car, she decided to upgrade me to the Sport model for $1500 more!
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (PNcou)

It's like they all learned budgeting and fiscal responsibility from former Enron adviser Paul Krugman.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:16 AM (0mRoj)

505 Underwater drone? Don't those have a self-destruct explosive package yet?

Seems like we want to add that, doesn't it.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2016 11:16 AM (X4ZNp)

506 494 Who's Karen Finney?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (tOcW/)


She's a fat girl in $800 shoes.

Democrat and sore loser.

Posted by: jwest at December 16, 2016 11:16 AM (Zs4uk)

507 I'll only

take my ID just in case I get carded.

Okay, you all can stop smirking now.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM


LOL. I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter. With the amount of gray hair I have, that was pretty funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (p+Wdc)

508 "We haven't reached our credit limit yet, so we've got plenty of money!"

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (0mRoj)

509 Didn't know we had those.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (jjaLl)
_________________________________


So does China, now...

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (4byLl)

510 Re: the faithless elector...don't we all kind of lie about our past?

Or at least omit the tawdry details, especially in mixed company?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (hqZPQ)

511 >>Who's Karen Finney?

She was one of Clinton's press people and a long time Democrat hack.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (/tuJf)

512 The Bing homepage is cool today - you can decorate it.

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (Om16U)

513 Greetings, horde.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (PY9jH)

514 Ask Sarah Palin how this works.. A perfectly well respected Gov of a unique and challenging state.. until the lawfare started and she was almost bankrupted because in AK the Gov has to bear the legal expenses.

IIRC a law she passed in her anti-corruption efforts. re-using leftover AK ice-hoists on her own petard.

See - a terrible master.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (8J/Te)

515
LOL. I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter. With the amount of gray hair I have, that was pretty funny.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM
------------

She must have thought you were cute.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (sBOL1)

516 Underwater drone? Don't those have a self-destruct explosive package yet?



Seems like we want to add that, doesn't it.

Posted by: MTF at December 16, 2016 11:16 AM (X4ZNp)


That was in the Platinum Package, and the JEF made them get just the standard model.....

Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (jjaLl)

517 >>Subtitled: Cleaning Up After the Snowplow Does Your Street.


Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (UD0Gq)

518 The Lincoln monument? Commie plot for sure.
Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:06 AM (ZkXe+)


That is architecture, not art. For some reason governments have been doing fairly well at architecture since the temple and before then, up until the invention of Bauhaus
I think the problem is that they concept of building turned from architecture to art.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (wZCfc)

519 Underwater drone? Don't those have a self-destruct explosive package yet?

Seems like we want to add that, doesn't it.




Aren't underwater drones just airborne drones that crashed?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (CJRaf)

520 So does China, now...


Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (4byLl)


HEH!

Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (jjaLl)

521 507 I'll only

take my ID just in case I get carded.

Okay, you all can stop smirking now.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:03 AM

LOL. I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter. With the amount of gray hair I have, that was pretty funny.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (p+Wdc)

That's pretty funny. I have a young-looking face so I got carded for quite some time after reaching legal age. Now I have a beard that's showing a few streaks of gray so it doesn't happen any more. Although I did get carded in a grocery store by some kid about a year ago...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (0mRoj)

522 513
Greetings, horde.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (PY9jH)

hi Jane! I'll catch you up. Do you carry a big purse?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (AGr9E)

523 >> I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter.


I always offer to show them a gray pube.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (UD0Gq)

524 Navy says the drone was mapping ocean currents.

Read the article on Drudge.

Why do we not have a way to explode the drone, right when the assholes on the Chinese skiff were picking it up and putting it in there boat to run back to the mother ship?

Posted by: Jen at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (en0W8)

525 I think public funding of the arts, and for a major public monument like the Lincoln one, was a bit different in 1922 than today. (Or in 1884 for the Washington monument.)

Posted by: andycanuck at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (ENpER)

526 And I was right about Ashcroft. His DoJ did in fact cover nude statuary with 'tasteful draperies'. I don't care if one of his staffers gave the order or not. It was Ashcroft's DoJ.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (ZkXe+)

527 The Bing homepage is cool today - you can decorate it.




Been that way since the first.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (CJRaf)

528 My maternal grandmother was using an ancient Maytag with a wringer well into the 80s.
================

My grandmother cooked on a wood stove-gas stove hybrid into the 70s. Every morning she'd light it up. Elbow flue and all.

Posted by: mrp at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (JBggj)

529 That pic of the Beast in her Beastmobile at Drudge is hilarious. Looks like she's seized up.

Probably taken right after she realized she'd never be president of the United States.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (PY9jH)

530 493 China Warship grabbed one of our underwater drones..... Siren on Drudge....

Didn't know we had those.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (jjaLl)


Not anymore, apparently.

Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (zoehZ)

531 Anyone have any idea how much the U.S. Government spent on artwork in FY 2016? I have no idea, but I would be willing to bet that there was less "waste" in the Federal Art Project of the WPA.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (OmhcY)

532
407 Remember when Ashcroft said he could see Russia from his house?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (IqV8l)






No, silly. That was Dick Cheney.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (XWkhW)

533 OK all. I NEED to write. I'm pathetic. Too much fun here. Luego.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (AGr9E)

534 She must have thought you were cute.





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (sBOL1)

I tell the young ladies they don't have to ask for my ID just so they can find out my address. Just ask for my phone number.

Posted by: Golfman at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (k0S3A)

535 Time to give Limericks a small hand
And find a rhyme for Sudetenland
a license is quite free
to make bad poetry
Or i'd be jailed in the Crimea

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (PNcou)

536
The NYT to vacate and rent out eight floors in their midtown office building. Will consolidate staff on redesigned floors


Awwwww, too bad!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Gob-Smacked Rage Monkeys (Suck It, NR!) at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (BK3ZS)

537 530 493 China Warship grabbed one of our underwater drones..... Siren on Drudge....

Didn't know we had those.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (jjaLl)

Not anymore, apparently.
Posted by: rickl at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (zoehZ)

Read the story all the way through -- apparently it was Trump's fault. Sigh.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (RD7QR)

538 532
407 Remember when Ashcroft said he could see Russia from his house?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 10:58 AM (IqV8l)






No, silly. That was Dick Cheney.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 11:21 AM (XWkhW)

Dick Cheney could bone submissive Russian women from his house.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (0mRoj)

539
And I was right about Ashcroft. His DoJ did in fact cover nude statuary with 'tasteful draperies'. I don't care if one of his staffers gave the order or not. It was Ashcroft's DoJ.

Might as well blame Bush.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM (IqV8l)

540 That is architecture, not art. For some reason governments have been doing fairly well at architecture since the temple and before then, up until the invention of Bauhaus
I think the problem is that they concept of building turned from architecture to art.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (wZCfc)

I think that's a hard argument to make given that statue of Lincoln is one of the finest sculptures of a governmental leader ever produced.

Mount Rushmore? A Trotskyesque piece of agitprop. Damn those socialists. Damn them to hell.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (ZkXe+)

541
hi Jane! I'll catch you up. Do you carry a big purse?


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (AGr9E)


*gives Bob the side eye*

Not very big. Why do you ask?


Choose your answer carefully.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (PY9jH)

542 So does China, now...
Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (4byLl)
--------
It was apparently from a science vessel (USNS) in the area. So, not military in mission per se?

They apparently just took it right in front of them while they were watching.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (xeeHA)

543 Barry shoulda put a fucking bow on the sub.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (eZ1Ky)

544 Russia Tests Nuclear-Capable Underwater Drone

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (/D5Lf)

545 523
>> I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter.





I always offer to show them a gray pube.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (UD0Gq)

That was like totally uncalled fro...funny though.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (AGr9E)

546 Damn, calling for 20 to 25 below zero this weekend.

True temps.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (UD0Gq)

547 In that Drudge picture of Hillary she looks very bad, yes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 11:24 AM (tOcW/)

548 Aaaand Obama gets in another jab at America before vacation:

In a move sure to fray his relations with
law enforcement, President Obama on Thursday appointed Debo Adegbile,
former lawyer for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, to a six-year
post on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Mr. Adegbile worked at the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., when he represented Abu Jamal in the
appeal of his conviction and death sentencing in the notorious 1981
shooting death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
Abu-Jamal's sentence was reduced to life in prison.

Because he hates us, he really hates us!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:24 AM (NOIQH)

549 Underwater drones (UUVs - unmanned underwater vehicles) are big, big, dark, dark, business.


This is why you don't see/hear much about them (the dark part).


"We don't discuss submarine operations" is one of the few classic principles of military PR that remains intact.


The UUV world is probably the darkest, blackest, most secretive part of the already-secretive world of submarine operations.


"I can say no more!"

Posted by: rhomboid at December 16, 2016 11:24 AM (QDnY+)

550 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Robert Van Winkle at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (mBYZv)

551 Have Barry, Mooch and the Moochettes left for Hawaii yet? I'm sure the JEF will issue a sternly worded scolding to the Chinese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (PY9jH)

552 Ice, ice, baby!

Posted by: Robert Van Winkle at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (mBYZv)

553 So does China, now...
Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (4byLl)
--------
It was apparently from a science vessel (USNS) in the area. So, not military in mission per se?

They apparently just took it right in front of them while they were watching.
Posted by: Moron Pundit





We ben heah fo owa. We go now.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (CJRaf)

554 ***Barry shoulda put a fucking bow on the sub.

It's on the other end from the stern.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (Eyx+b)

555 The guy in the red shirt looks like he's about the skewer the guy in the orange shirt with that harpoon.

"I've had enough of you bad mouthing me to the boss, orange shirt guy!"
*STAB*

Posted by: Agent Cooper at December 16, 2016 11:25 AM (1zARK)

556 >>Have Barry, Mooch and the Moochettes left for Hawaii yet?


The best part of his Presidency is going to be the end, when he jumps into the Volcano.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:26 AM (UD0Gq)

557 Bowditch had stopped in the water to pick up two underwater drones. At that point a Chinese naval ship that had been shadowing the Bowditch put a small boat into the water. That small boat came up alongside and the Chinese crew took one of the drones.
-----

Geebus. Jan 20th can't come soon enough. Sick of getting purple-nurpled by the rest of the world.

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 16, 2016 11:26 AM (/D5Lf)

558 556 >>Have Barry, Mooch and the Moochettes left for Hawaii yet?


The best part of his Presidency is going to be the end, when he jumps into the Volcano.
Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:26 AM (UD0Gq)

From your keyboard to God's ears.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:26 AM (0mRoj)

559 The best part of his Presidency is going to be the end, when he jumps into the Volcano.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:26 AM (UD0Gq)



And takes Mooch with him, hopefully. Gah, those two will be insufferable forever.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (PY9jH)

560 I think conservative antipathy to publicly funded art has to do more
with popular conceptions of modern artists, most of whom are liberals,
than with the art itself. You read about artists who make crappy or
incoherent or anti-American pieces on the public dime and assume all
publicly funded art is an inherently bad thing.

A lot has to do with the way artists are trained. What is considered modern hasn't been classical in a long time. I don't think we'll ever see sculptures done as well as the Lincoln Monument or Mount Rushmore again because no one or very few artists have the skill. It used to be a trade that was apprenticed but became a feelz thing somewhere along the line.

Posted by: dartist at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (Cf0i2)

561 I always offer to show them a gray pube.

---

wait till the male pattern penis baldness kicks in

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (PNcou)

562 541

hi Jane! I'll catch you up. Do you carry a big purse?




Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:20 AM (AGr9E)

*gives Bob the side eye*

Not very big. Why do you ask?


Choose your answer carefully.




Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:23 AM (PY9jH)
*gets very nervous**blurts out*
You are so beautiful and smart and witty Jane!
...so gotta go write! Later!


Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (AGr9E)

563
LOL. I got carded the other day by some kid who looked young enough to be my daughter. With the amount of gray hair I have, that was pretty funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:17 AM (p+Wdc)






I never get carded anymore, which is obvious with the gray hair and beard. But sometimes I get a kick out of indignantly asking the cute girls running checkout at HEB why they didn't card me for the wine I bought.

The look on their faces is priceless.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (XWkhW)

564 560 I think conservative antipathy to publicly funded art has to do more
with popular conceptions of modern artists, most of whom are liberals,
than with the art itself. You read about artists who make crappy or
incoherent or anti-American pieces on the public dime and assume all
publicly funded art is an inherently bad thing.

A lot has to do with the way artists are trained. What is considered modern hasn't been classical in a long time. I don't think we'll ever see sculptures done as well as the Lincoln Monument or Mount Rushmore again because no one or very few artists have the skill. It used to be a trade that was apprenticed but became a feelz thing somewhere along the line.
Posted by: dartist at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (Cf0i2)

When splatters and oversized paint samples are "art," well...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:28 AM (0mRoj)

565 You chose wisely, Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:28 AM (PY9jH)

566 Carrier's going to bring back American jobs by bringing back ice houses!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 16, 2016 11:29 AM (hqZPQ)

567 Because he hates us, he really hates us!
Posted by: Lizzy


He's letting it all hang out. He's flying his racist freak flag high and proud with only a few more days to go. Fine. It will all be undone within a few days after his term.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 11:29 AM (mBYZv)

568 "We haven't reached our credit limit yet, so we've got plenty of money!"

Insomniac knows my ex-wife. Huh. Small world.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 11:29 AM (97XyN)

569 Mount Rushmore? A Trotskyesque piece of agitprop. Damn those socialists. Damn them to hell.

This is why I should dry out my brain cells from time to time. I half-remember things.

There was a documentary about a guy who wanted to something bigger than Rushmore. He was carving an Injun (Crazy Horse?) into a mountain that overlooks Rushmore.

Spent his whole life on it and only finished the nose. Yuge nose, really classy.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:30 AM (mgbwf)

570 look folks, you can't put a red line on the ocean, it just floats away. There's literally nothing we can do...

Posted by: Barry at December 16, 2016 11:30 AM (PNcou)

571 565
You chose wisely, Cannibal Bob.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:28 AM (PY9jH)

lol. hate leaving this group. later.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 16, 2016 11:30 AM (AGr9E)

572 >> look folks, you can't put a red line on the ocean, it just floats away


Or, sinks.

Posted by: garrett at December 16, 2016 11:30 AM (UD0Gq)

573 I love to get carded - makes me feel young and lovely. Sadly, it rarely happens anymore. Sob.

Posted by: IC at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (a0IVu)

574 Trump should ask Debo Adegbile, "How long have you worked here, not counting tomorrow?"

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (Eyx+b)

575 568 "We haven't reached our credit limit yet, so we've got plenty of money!"

Insomniac knows my ex-wife. Huh. Small world.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 11:29 AM (97XyN)

Know her? Apparently I was married to her. Small world indeed.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (0mRoj)

576
It will all be undone within a few days after his term.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear


How do you get rid of a guy who was just appointed for a six year term?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (IqV8l)

577 It's that time of year when some people turn in their elderly, unwanted dogs and cats to our no-kill shelter.

Today's paper had a couple of dozen cute puppies and kittens, and several purebred, older dogs and a couple of cats no one wanted.

One poor dog is deaf and going blind, and the owner didn't want to care for him anymore, and they're looking for a home where he can spend what time he has left on this earth.

And as I'm typing this, the annual ad for homeless, abused, animals comes on Fox.

I just can't.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (PY9jH)

578 That is architecture, not art. For some reason governments have been doing fairly well at architecture since the temple and before then, up until the invention of Bauhaus
I think the problem is that they concept of building turned from architecture to art.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 16, 2016 11:19 AM (wZCfc)
-----------------------------
There is quite a bit of art in and on the Capitol building. Federal purchase of art was not new to the 20th century.

The great Federal Court House building program of the late 20th century managed to combine huge sums for architecture and art. No different than the Post Office architecture/art acquisition of the 1930's except that was part of the New Deal and hence was "socialism" of the "Nazi and Soviet kind".

Posted by: RioBravo at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (OmhcY)

579 Bander, they are still working on it, or at least they were when we saw it 9 years ago. At the rate they're going, it's going to take forever.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (sBOL1)

580 576
It will all be undone within a few days after his term.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

How do you get rid of a guy who was just appointed for a six year term?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (IqV8l)

Wait, I know the punchline to this...gimme a second...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:32 AM (0mRoj)

581 She must have thought you were cute.


Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:18 AM (sBOL1)

I tell the young ladies they don't have to ask for my ID just so they can find out my address. Just ask for my phone number.


Posted by: Golfman at December 16, 2016 11:22 AM


I like it! LOL This one had a few too many visible piercings for my taste, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:33 AM (p+Wdc)

582 Because I've always deliberately tried to make your life miserable" smiled and left it at that."

My Name is Sue?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:33 AM (C9pBZ)

583 >> That small boat came up alongside and the Chinese
>> crew took one of the drones.

That's just pure ritual humiliation.

And now Obama will blame it on Trump's phone call with Taiwan.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:33 AM (TppKb)

584 582 Because I've always deliberately tried to make your life miserable" smiled and left it at that."

My Name is Sue?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:33 AM (C9pBZ)

Gaylord.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:34 AM (0mRoj)

585 Bander, they are still working on it, or at least
they were when we saw it 9 years ago. At the rate they're going, it's
going to take forever.





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (sBOL1)


Good grief. We were there maybe 17 years ago, and the carving hadn't come very far. It's still incomplete?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:34 AM (PY9jH)

586 "... the cute girls running checkout at HEB "

Yeah, noticed that too. Wasn't that way back in VA...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:34 AM (C9pBZ)

587
As for the painting, I much prefer Pieter Bruegel the Elder over this dreck.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Gob-Smacked Rage Monkeys (Suck It, NR!) at December 16, 2016 11:34 AM (BK3ZS)

588 >> That's just pure ritual humiliation.

Let's just take Mabus out there, chuck him in the water and wait for the Chinese to come get him.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:34 AM (TppKb)

589 They took it.
Just rolled up on the Bowditch, gave em a nod, and took it.

That took balls the size of grapefruit.

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:35 AM (4byLl)

590 >>How do you get rid of a guy who was just appointed for a six year term?

Yea, this isn't the LA Rams we're taking about.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 11:35 AM (/tuJf)

591 The drone taken by the Chinese was apparently scientific rather than military, so hopefully no actually useful technology was lost. Still, pretty cheeky.

Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at December 16, 2016 11:35 AM (RD7QR)

592 Spent his whole life on it and only finished the nose. Yuge nose, really classy.

Good example of a scam there. Besides the thing being out of proportion already, they've been milking admission fees out of it for a lot of years. Blow a chunk out of the mountain every few years just to have a new supply of chips to sell.

Posted by: dartist at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (Cf0i2)

593 So, under Wonder Boy Obama, the Iranians capture and humiliate our sailors, and Kerry thanks them for not "mistreating" them (which turned out to be a lie).

Now the Chinese give us the finger and take a drone right out from under our noses.

January 20th can't get here quickly enough.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (PY9jH)

594 >> That took balls the size of grapefruit.

With Obama and Mabus in control? It took balls the size of #2 buckshot.

Posted by: JEM at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (TppKb)

595 OK. I'm back. Christmas shopping complete. I didn't have a coupon so the sales lady threw in a "free" cosmetic bag to go with the perfume.

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (Sfs6o)

596 How do you get rid of a guy who was just appointed for a six year term?

Yea, this isn't the LA Rams we're taking about.
Posted by: JackStraw




If he was appointed, he serves at the pleasure of the president.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (CJRaf)

597 True enough. It's one thing when it's to celebrate something or someone worthy. It's another when it's public funding of self-indulgent crap.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 11:14 AM (9krrF)

I haven't been arguing for the creation of self-indulgent crap on the public dime. I've been arguing the legitimacy of public funding for public works, which in this case happens to be art.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:37 AM (ZkXe+)

598 That took balls the size of grapefruit."

To insult the US? Nah. Only needs grape sized. Or maybe mustard seed...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:37 AM (C9pBZ)

599 Jane, "incomplete" is too kind a word. "Barely begun" would be a more accurate description.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:37 AM (sBOL1)

600 I think conservative antipathy to publicly funded art has to do more with popular conceptions of modern artists, most of whom are liberals, than with the art itself.

I give artists a fairly wide berth on being liberals as long as they don't e.g. stop their concerts or viewings or whatever to lecture me. But a *lot* of taxpayer-funded art is just childish - it's intended to offend conservatives or the non-Muslim religious for cheap virtue signalling points but it's so banal and dumb that it wrecks its own message.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2016 11:38 AM (3J/LN)

601 https://tinyurl.com/zmdh98g

So Chris Suprun is a complete & utter fake

Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 11:38 AM (y3aQB)

602 I'm finished with Christmas shopping, but now I've got to take my car to the dealer on Monday to find out what the heck is going on with some of the electrical stuff, and why the satellite signal keeps going out. Oh, and the right front tire may have a slow leak (yay, driving over hurricane debris for weeks).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:38 AM (PY9jH)

603 Good man, Weasel. Mrs. W will be so happy. Take the rest of the day off, elevate your foot and eat Klondike bars.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:39 AM (sBOL1)

604 hey took it.

Just rolled up on the Bowditch, gave em a nod, and took it.


by the end of the day, we'll be debating 18th century whaling laws...fast fish / loose fish & all that rot

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 16, 2016 11:39 AM (ZQfW9)

605 >>The UUV world is probably the darkest, blackest, most secretive part of the already-secretive world of submarine operations.


"I can say no more!"



Heh. My conversation w/my BIL, then a Weapons officer in a nuclear sub, after seeing "Crimson Tide"

Me: (asks question)
Him: "That's classified." *makes face about how stupidly Hollywood depicted some stuff, like red-framed glasses*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:39 AM (NOIQH)

606
Jane, "incomplete" is too kind a word. "Barely begun" would be a more accurate description.





Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:37 AM (sBOL1)


Then it's the same as when we last saw it. Wow.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:40 AM (PY9jH)

607 How do you get rid of a guy who was just appointed for a six year term?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 16, 2016 11:31 AM (IqV8l)

The President can ordain a new calendar system like Pope Gregory. Each day is therefore equal to one year. Problem solved by Saturday, or 6 years from inauguration.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 16, 2016 11:40 AM (hqZPQ)

608 Send them a politely worded request asking for the return of mis-salvaged property.

Attach a periscope photo of the warship that took it.

Posted by: DaveA at December 16, 2016 11:41 AM (8J/Te)

609 I advocate fucking with the Chinese military in creative ways every day. They have been waging economic war on the whole world for three decades.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 16, 2016 11:41 AM (Eyx+b)

610 OK, I shall re-tell my story about God's Mt. Rushmore, the Old Man in the Mountain in New Hampshire.

It's on the NH quarter, it's on their highway signs, it's the iconic image of a mountaintop that looks like the profile of a man. Supposedly the indigenous ones worshiped it as a god.

So, years ago I started a canoe camping tradition with another family. We'd plot out a route and paddle and camp for a week and live off what we brought or what we caught.

The first time we did it the boys were 7 and 3. It was great, of course, but when it ended they were totally wiped out. I was driving home past the Old Man and thought about waking them up to show it to them. Then I thought, "It's been there for 12,000 years, I can show them next year".

That winter it cracked apart and fell down.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:41 AM (mgbwf)

611 Wow. Chris Suprun the so-called Republican "faithless elector" is a complete fraud. He even made up a tale that he was a first responder on 9/11.

This is my shocked face.

Don't they do any type of checking on someone they pick to be an elector. What a disgrace.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (rQph1)

612 And then the President can declare the national language to be Swedish, and that we all wear our underwear inside out.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (hqZPQ)

613 A lot has to do with the way artists are trained. What is considered modern hasn't been classical in a long time. I don't think we'll ever see sculptures done as well as the Lincoln Monument or Mount Rushmore again because no one or very few artists have the skill. It used to be a trade that was apprenticed but became a feelz thing somewhere along the line.

Posted by: dartist at December 16, 2016 11:27 AM (Cf0i2)

Not so much of a feelz thing as it is a hard work thing. I'm currently doing representational sculpture. To do it right, you have to have a detailed internal picture in your head of human anatomy, a knowledge of a how the body works and moves, a down-to-the-bone feel for the human form. It's easier to come up with a clump of curvy-looking clay and say, 'Hey presto!'

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (ZkXe+)

614 >>If he was appointed, he serves at the pleasure of the president.

Eh, it sounds like a pretty ineffectual group. What it does show is that now that Obama doesn't have to worry about elections anymore he is going to let his inner freak flag fly.

He is what we've always claimed he was.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (/tuJf)

615 If he was appointed, he serves at the pleasure of the president.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (CJRaf)




Reggie: A lot of the time he pleasures me...err..what were you talking about?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (493sH)

616 Electors run for the position, so they're as trustworthy as any other politician: not at all.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (3J/LN)

617 Why are you bastiges talkin' about the fargin' ice??

Iceholes!

Posted by: Roman Maronie at December 16, 2016 11:43 AM (Ya7zs)

618 611 Wow. Chris Suprun the so-called Republican "faithless elector" is a complete fraud. He even made up a tale that he was a first responder on 9/11.

This is my shocked face.

Don't they do any type of checking on someone they pick to be an elector. What a disgrace.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (rQph1)

It really is an embarrassment. Just a little bit of vetting would have turned this stuff up.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:43 AM (0mRoj)

619
Schedenboner nickname was getting too tiring to continue to trot around, so I reeled it in a bit...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Elector Set (Suck It, Celebs!) at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (BK3ZS)

620 No, he's getting Cubs crap.
Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 16, 2016 10:20 AM (dFi94)

Does he even like the Cubs?

========
He does now, if he knows what's good for him.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (FeQVL)

621
Spent his whole life on it and only finished the nose. Yuge nose, really classy.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:30 AM (mgbwf)


Maybe he changed his mind about Crazy Horse and decided on the lesser known Chief Runny Nose.

Posted by: Mr. Potato Head at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (lKyWE)

622 And then the President can declare the national language to be Swedish, and that we all wear our underwear inside out.


I can not be made to wear underwear. I know my rights.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (mgbwf)

623
603 Good man, Weasel. Mrs. W will be so happy. Take the rest of the day off, elevate your foot and eat Klondike bars.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:39 AM (sBOL1)
---------
Will do!

Posted by: Weasel at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (Sfs6o)

624 American Drone Held Hostage - Day 35

Today, China released our underwater drone after weeks of stalled negotiations.

Posted by: Ted Koppel Jan 20, 2017 at December 16, 2016 11:45 AM (VndSC)

625 So, under Wonder Boy Obama, the Iranians capture and humiliate our sailors, and Kerry thanks them for not "mistreating" them (which turned out to be a lie).

Now the Chinese give us the finger and take a drone right out from under our noses.

January 20th can't get here quickly enough.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:36 AM (PY9jH)




It's so nice that America is respected in the world again because Barry is prezzy

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 16, 2016 11:45 AM (493sH)

626 Then it's the same as when we last saw it. Wow.

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i visited it in 1992. Looking at current photos, cannot discern a difference.

Posted by: Barry at December 16, 2016 11:45 AM (PNcou)

627 There was a documentary about a guy who wanted to something bigger than
Rushmore. He was carving an Injun (Crazy Horse?) into a mountain that
overlooks Rushmore.
=====

Black Hawk by Laredo Taft is in need of rehab. Beautiful outlook on Rock River in Illinois. Beautiful piece, and very much in the tradition of honorable opponent -- big thing for turn of the century (20th) in Illinois. Some of the military history people might know something of the Black Hawk Wars.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 11:46 AM (MIKMs)

628 Then I thought, "It's been there for 12,000 years, I
can show them next year".



That winter it cracked apart and fell down.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:41 AM


I'm still amazed by that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 16, 2016 11:46 AM (p+Wdc)

629 Is it too soon for more Dating Adventures of BSG?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at December 16, 2016 11:46 AM (hbG1L)

630 LOL

@RobLowe
Wait, did I just see Martin Sheen in a short film giving instructions to the members of the electoral college? Is our show back on? #huh?
12:14 AM - 16 Dec 2016

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 16, 2016 11:46 AM (Om16U)

631 Didn't Obama's presidency *start* with a contentious U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appointment?

So many scandals ago, but think it was a recess appointment or something....

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:46 AM (NOIQH)

632 Maybe they thought it was an Amazon drone.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (hqZPQ)

633 622 And then the President can declare the national language to be Swedish, and that we all wear our underwear inside out.


I can not be made to wear underwear. I know my rights.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:44 AM (mgbwf)

Sir, this is an underwear checkpoint. Give me your ID. Are you wearing underwear tonight? You don't mind if we check, do you? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. You're refusing? Pull over there, our underwear-sniffing dog will be over shortly.

Posted by: Your friendly local police department at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (0mRoj)

634 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

===

Exactly how normal Americans have felt for 8 years under your self-centered , gutless punk, pseudo husband, you nasty, ego-blinded, lazy-ass totalitarian wannabe skank.

Feel that hopelessness.
Suck it. Suck it deep.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (toH8T)

635 Me too, RMBS. I had no idea it was Bander's fault.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (sBOL1)

636 ...it's the iconic image of a mountaintop that looks like the profile of a man...That winter it cracked apart and fell down.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 11:41 AM (mgbwf)
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The updated modern art version. Nature adapted to man via Natural Cubism.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (OmhcY)

637 233 219 >>I'll tell you what I'm not getting her...a dust-buster."

I'd go with a Swiffer. That way you can give her refill clothes for important holidays like Valentine's Day and her birthday.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 16, 2016 10:22 AM (/tuJf)
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You're not married, are you.

Posted by: bluebell at December 16, 2016 10:24 AM (sBOL1

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If he is he won't be for long.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (FeQVL)

638 Not so much of a feelz thing as it is a hard work thing. I'm currently
doing representational sculpture. To do it right, you have to have a
detailed internal picture in your head of human anatomy, a knowledge of a
how the body works and moves, a down-to-the-bone feel for the human
form. It's easier to come up with a clump of curvy-looking clay and
say, 'Hey presto!'

I think we're saying the same thing. It is much, much harder to render a likeness or a representational figure than it is to throw some crap down and call it genius with a shitload of promotional cash behind it.

Posted by: dartist at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (Cf0i2)

639 China is going to use that underwater drone to help fish out lost shipping containers in the Pacific, so they can sell the crap in them to us a second time.

Posted by: Roy at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (VndSC)

640 It really is an embarrassment. Just a little bit of vetting would have turned this stuff up.
Posted by: Insomniac



It really is crazy and I'm not even sure you can legally "force" an Elector to vote a certain way since it was basically set up for these people to "vote their conscience".

It would be a violation of the Constitution to punish an elector, at least if we're going by the original intent of the Founders

There needs to be an extreme vetting, but I'm not sure you can trust the GOP to do it

Posted by: Maritime at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (1tUHC)

641 634 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

===

Exactly how normal Americans have felt for 8 years under your self-centered , gutless punk, pseudo husband, you nasty, ego-blinded, lazy-ass totalitarian wannabe skank.

Feel that hopelessness.
Suck it. Suck it deep.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 16, 2016 11:47 AM (toH8T)

Hear hear!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (0mRoj)

642 I haven't been arguing for the creation of self-indulgent crap on the public dime. I've been arguing the legitimacy of public funding for public works, which in this case happens to be art.

Posted by: troyriser


I think we're closer than it sounds. If the government chooses to commission work for a specific purpose--for a building it operates, as a memorial, or some such--that's something I can make piece with. Just randomly endowing "significant" artists for...whatever? Nope, no sale.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (9krrF)

643 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

What is it you're trying to say here?

Posted by: Michelle Obama's English Teacher at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (hqZPQ)

644 I'd go with a Swiffer. That way you can give her refill clothes for important holidays like Valentine's Day and her birthday.
Posted by: JackStraw

===

Genius.

Post slower, man! I'm writing this down.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 16, 2016 11:49 AM (toH8T)

645 Peace. Make peace.

derpderp
/smacks head to get it working again

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 11:49 AM (9krrF)

646 "This ain't Hell " would have uncovered Suprun in a few hours. Maybe John should offer screening service.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:49 AM (rQph1)

647 So Chris Suprun is a complete & utter fake
Posted by: Evilpens at December 16, 2016 11:38 AM (y3aQB)

Total scumbag conman. He's also had multiple charities based on this lie.

Posted by: ryukyu at December 16, 2016 11:49 AM (7iuxz)

648 China grabs underwater drone, US demands return of drone;

"Please Mr Chang, can we have our ball back? We won't play near your yard again!"

Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (Ya7zs)

649 If you want a funny story about public art then look up the blue mustang statue at Denver Int'l Airport. Artist was a tool......Haaaate that thing.

http://diaconspiracyfiles.com/2009/05/13/

meet-the-mustang-haunted-killer-blue-horse-sculpture-of-doom/

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (NOIQH)

650 641 634 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

===

Exactly how normal Americans have felt for 8 years under your self-centered , gutless punk, pseudo husband, you nasty, ego-blinded, lazy-ass totalitarian wannabe skank.

Feel that hopelessness.
Suck it. Suck it deep.
Posted by: Mortimer





Ride it like a Sybian Mooch!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (CJRaf)

651 THE ANIMAL NATURE WILL NOT BE DENIED!!!
VIRGIN BLOOD! VIRGIN BLOOD!

Posted by: John Podesta at December 16, 2016 11:51 AM (mBYZv)

652 Not a great piece of art, but that's what you get when the government pays you to make it.

That Suprun story in the sidebar: what a douchebag. Lying about being a first responder at 9/11, lying about his work history, lying about his current work as a paramedic, lying about his net worth, wearing a fake uniform at public appearances. What a complete piece of slime.

As the prof says in the article linked:

"Parties might want to ask for a little more background information, do a little bit of checking into people who would like to be members of the electoral college"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 11:51 AM (39g3+)

653 643 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

What is it you're trying to say here?
Posted by: Michelle Obama's English Teacher at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (hqZPQ)


By starting her sentence with "Now", Michelle is implying this is a shoe on the other foot situation.
She is tacitly admitting that they took hope away from us. On purpose.

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab reading between the lines at December 16, 2016 11:52 AM (Om16U)

654 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

That must be why they're going to Hawaii on vacation yet again. One last spree on the public's dime. OH wait, never mind, they're on the dole forever

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 11:52 AM (39g3+)

655
643
Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

What is it you're trying to say here?


Posted by: Michelle Obama's English Teacher at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (hqZPQ)

She says this on her way to Hawaii for Christmas.Kind of sounds like someone bitching about farmers with their mouth full.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 16, 2016 11:52 AM (jxbfJ)

656 Bush just released a book of his paintings of vets called Portraits of Courage. The proceeds going to veteran charity. He has some skills. Of course the Lefty art world won't credit him with any.

SCOAMF's post-presidency is going to lack this quiet dignity.
Posted by: V the K at December 16, 2016 10:27 AM (O7MnT

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Well, duh. For all his political faults W is a decent human being. In addition to his political faults Obama is a swine.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at December 16, 2016 11:52 AM (FeQVL)

657 Don't they do any type of checking on someone they pick to be an elector. What a disgrace.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:42 AM (rQph1)
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Texas Republicans are known for their enthusiasm, not their brilliance. Probably elected with the solid support of the district secession bloc. /s

Posted by: RioBravo at December 16, 2016 11:52 AM (OmhcY)

658 So Won Hung Lo grabbed our underwater drone? To bad it doesn't have a C-4 self destruct.

By the way. I bet Trump would grab one of their ships to increase the negotiating stakes.

Obama? He's swimming in Hawaii.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (rQph1)

659 649 If you want a funny story about public art then look up the blue mustang statue at Denver Int'l Airport. Artist was a tool......Haaaate that thing.

http://diaconspiracyfiles.com/2009/05/13/

meet-the-mustang-haunted-killer-blue-horse-sculpture-of-doom/

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (NOIQH)

Well, at least it's not a Rothko.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (0mRoj)

660 China grabs underwater drone, US demands return of drone;

"Please Mr Chang, can we have our ball back? We won't play near your yard again!"
Posted by: kbdabear at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (Ya7zs)

Fredo has made us in door mats all over the World. Thanks Fredo

Oh by the way Fredo's bitch wife who was ashamed to be an America -remember that- now says she knows what it is not to have "Hope" now that Fredo or The FAB will not be President?

Fuck you asshole, you arrogant pie hole

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (sRFAL)

661 >>Now the Chinese give us the finger and take a drone right out from under our noses.



Oh, Iran caught one of our drones, too. Obama demanded they return it and they returned a miniature pink drone instead. This was *before* the Iran deal.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (NOIQH)

662 Just a little bit of vetting would have turned this stuff up. "

Der intwebz, how do they work?

Or yes, too many folks in politics are not terribly bright. Nor skeptical.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (C9pBZ)

663 >>> Banana Splits guy had a question last thread about dating someone on high dose Celexa.
If you're still around, I have some experience...
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (bWBdM)

Looking for experiences, I don't have any

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (hbG1L)

664 Man, I hate my job.

Posted by: underwear-sniffing dog at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (wPiJc)

665 So is Moochelle a man?

Discuss.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (97XyN)

666 Well, at least it's not a Rothko.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (0mRoj)

Not biting. Nope.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (ZkXe+)

667 Hey Michelle, Trump will be a President for all Americans, even ungrateful, vindictive wretches like you and yours. Every AMERICAN will have hope. Globalists will despair.

And Melania will be the most beautiful FLOTUS in history.

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab reading between the lines at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (Om16U)

668 Dear Michelle Obama,

EATADIK.

Regards,

The "Rubes" in flyover country who have felt that way for about 8 years now.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (rQph1)

669 Obama? He's swimming in Hawaii.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:53 AM (rQph1)
______________________________


Hello? Is this the Chinese Navy? We have this drone just off Hilton Head...

Posted by: IP at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (4byLl)

670
643 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

What is it you're trying to say here?
Posted by: Michelle Obama's English Teacher at December 16, 2016 11:48 AM (hqZPQ)


How is that, exactly? After all, you'll no longer ve luving in a house built by slaves as if noon on January 20, 2017.

And neither will Hillary!

Win-win!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Elector Set (Suck It, Celebs!) at December 16, 2016 11:55 AM (BK3ZS)

671 Obama? He's swimming in Hawaii.

Posted by: Marcus T
===

It's a covert tactical insertion.

He is gonna swim to Kamchatka and wag his finger at Putin from Russian soil.

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 16, 2016 11:55 AM (toH8T)

672 Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:28 AM (0mRoj)

Art is not a 'need'...

Its a Luxury.

So the question becomes should the Government use the power of Taxation... ie the THREAT of putting me in Jail, to take my money for someone's Luxury... a Luxury I will never enjoy...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (qf6WZ)

673 Alternate subtitle for painting:

"Festive celebration of the cocaine harvest in Bolivia"

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (Fb9aZ)

674 665 So is Moochelle a man?

Discuss.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (97XyN)

How are we defining "man" for purposes of this discussion?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (0mRoj)

675
So is Moochelle a man?



Discuss.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 16, 2016 11:54 AM (97XyN)


The late Joan Rivers said Mooch was a trannie and Barry was gay.


She died right after that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (PY9jH)

676 Ace is awake.

Posted by: HH at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (DrCtv)

677 In a move sure to fray his relations with law enforcement, President Obama on Thursday appointed Debo Adegbile, former lawyer for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, to a six-year post on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Mr. Adegbile worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., when he represented Abu Jamal in the appeal of his conviction and death sentencing in the notorious 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamals sentence was reduced to life in prison.

The case prompted the Senate to reject Mr. Adegbiles nomination in 2014 when Mr. Obama appointed him to lead the Justice Departments office on civil rights. Some Democrats joining Republicans in voting down the selection at that time.

Another final fuck you to America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 16, 2016 11:57 AM (sRFAL)

678 I'll never believe Michelle Obama was as popular as her poll numbers say she was.

She's a nasty, angry black woman that most people can see through. She's also ugly and looks like a man.

But everyone has to pretend otherwise lest you be labeled a racist.

Posted by: Maritime at December 16, 2016 11:57 AM (1tUHC)

679 663 >>> Banana Splits guy had a question last thread about dating someone on high dose Celexa.
If you're still around, I have some experience...
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 16, 2016 10:39 AM (bWBdM)

Looking for experiences, I don't have any
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy
_________

Winona is on Celexa?

Posted by: Furious George at December 16, 2016 11:57 AM (77i7V)

680 I wonder how many Trump supporters are going on a vacation to Hawaii financed by the taxpayers this Christmas?

But yes, Michellle. Please tell us what it feels like to have no hope you jackass.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 16, 2016 11:58 AM (rQph1)

681 "Parties might want to ask for a little more background information, do a little bit of checking into people who would like to be members of the electoral college"

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I think they vet these members pretty well. There haven't been that many faithless electors in our history. Would indicate that the parties are pretty good at it.

Posted by: SH at December 16, 2016 11:58 AM (gmeXX)

682 And I was right about Ashcroft. His DoJ did in fact cover nude statuary with 'tasteful draperies'. I don't care if one of his staffers gave the order or not. It was Ashcroft's DoJ.

Your assertion was, and I quote:

I remember when John Ashcroft had the nude statuary covered in the DoJ building in Washington because they offended his sense of modesty. What a complete, dull-witted asshole.

And I pointed you to the truth, which was that:

- yes, Ashcroft's DOJ asked for the statue to be covered, but

- it was because asshole propagandist MFM 'reporters' were amusing themselves by making sure nasty Rethuglican Ashcroft was photographed in front of OMG!! BARE BEWBS!!

- it had nothing to do with Ashcroft being, as you snarked, "a complete, dull-witted asshole."

But whatever.



Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 11:58 AM (X6fMO)

683 When my grandparents moved back to Chicago (from far west), when I would see these sculptures I knew we were almost there.

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

Turn of the century public art. Beautiful.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 16, 2016 11:58 AM (MIKMs)

684 So in the 30's the Federal Ice Price Stabilization Board bought ice and then let it melt to help support ice farmers?

Looks like low level aggression in the Pacific. Hope it does not end up with another Panay Incident.
BTW, anybody know the going rate for kidnapped submersible drones?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 16, 2016 12:00 PM (FtrY1)

685 What is it you're trying to say here?
Posted by: Michelle Obama's English Teacher


I have a good hearted BIL who tries his best to convince himself that Mooch is an intelligent, virtuous individual, and she would have nothing but contempt for him. This is the hardest part, having to see these blind masochistic dupes lovingly cling to the vampires that want to destroy them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 16, 2016 12:01 PM (mBYZv)

686 Michelle Obama: "We're feeling what not having hope feels like"

"We campaigned on hope, but after 8 years all we gave you was bitterness, strife, misery, and hopelessness. Which is why we lost."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 12:01 PM (39g3+)

687 23 Salty Dawg, I am still in the sometimes cough up my lungs stage but the fever seems to have abated. Still no appetite so forcing myself to eat. And as soon as I find the paperwork, going to call in and not show for work.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 16, 2016 09:48 AM (1CeG9)

1. try Zicam; it has really worked for me, to keep from becoming full-blown sick
2. your 'call in to work' comment reminded me of a bad text message I recently saw. person texts in to work, "I am ill and cannot come in today, regards", except spell check CORRECTS it to, "I am ill and cannot come in today, retards"

Posted by: the Butcher at December 16, 2016 12:01 PM (AGJqR)

688 Art is not a 'need'...

Its a Luxury.

So the question becomes should the Government use the power of Taxation... ie the THREAT of putting me in Jail, to take my money for someone's Luxury... a Luxury I will never enjoy...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (qf6WZ)

Art can be a personal luxury, a private indulgence, sure, but public art is intended as a means of civic expression by which people are inspired and united by a common national identity and shared ideals. Two different things.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 12:02 PM (ZkXe+)

689 So Won Hung Lo grabbed our underwater drone? To bad it doesn't have a C-4 self destruct.

From what I understand its not a military device, its oceanographic.

Of course that could be intelligence cover, and its some super spy drone, but I'm not betting on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 12:02 PM (39g3+)

690 >> So is Moochelle a man?

Yes.

https://goo.gl/JO9xG3

Posted by: haggis at December 16, 2016 12:03 PM (urKNz)

691 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowman_and_The_Spearman

Turn of the century public art. Beautiful.

Posted by: mustbequantum


It isn't "The Bowman and The Crossbowman", so it's not Horde compliant.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at December 16, 2016 12:03 PM (9krrF)

692 Art can be a personal luxury, a private indulgence, sure, but public art is intended as a means of civic expression by which people are inspired and united by a common national identity and shared ideals.

While I agree, I do not believe the government has the right or can justly seize money from the public in order to pay people to produce art.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 12:03 PM (39g3+)

693 493 China Warship grabbed one of our underwater drones..... Siren on Drudge....

Didn't know we had those.....
Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 16, 2016 11:13 AM (jjaLl)

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But...what about the "Free Trade" and all the cheap goods we get from China?

You don't do lavish trade deals with countries that are openly hostile toward you, and are too stupid to even know the rules of the road. The Russians do provocative stuff too, but they understand after years of cold war games on the high seas how far to push.

What China just did is the kind of stuff I expect from Iran or some other half baked 3rd world gutter state. This is piracy, and there is no other way to say it.

Frankly a tariff is the lest we can do in response to this crap.

Posted by: William Eaton at December 16, 2016 12:04 PM (MuTTO)

694 try Zicam; it has really worked for me, to keep from becoming full-blown sick

I always wonder about that: how would you know it worked without a time machine?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 12:04 PM (39g3+)

695 Ride it like a Sybian Mooch!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 16, 2016 11:50 AM (CJRaf)
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BRAIN BLEACH NEEDED HERE!!!

Posted by: Catwrangler at December 16, 2016 12:04 PM (L62jT)

696 But whatever.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 16, 2016 11:58 AM (X6fMO)

The deal about reporters catching Ashcroft in photos with boobs was also pure conjecture. I choose to believe he did it because he was a prudish asshole since no other Attorney General before or since has done so.

But yeah, sure, whatever.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 12:05 PM (ZkXe+)

697 The deal about reporters catching Ashcroft in photos with boobs was also pure conjecture. I choose to believe he did it because he was a prudish asshole since no other Attorney General before or since has done so.


It's all willowed, but fwiw this is also how I see it.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 16, 2016 12:07 PM (mgbwf)

698 Three-day Jeopardy! champion Cindy Stowell defends her title again tonight (at 7pm in most markets). Which means another night of watch parties for patients on our oncology floors.

Staff are secretly rehearsing an apppropriate Al Yankovic number for the pre-game festivities. We're taking yuge liberties with the lyrics, figuring that Weird Al is the last guy on earth who can complain about that.

It's a surprise, so don't tell the kids.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at December 16, 2016 12:08 PM (UfqKz)

699 Darn. I almost got a morning comment in before Ace.

Maybe tomorrow

Posted by: mindful webworker - too slow at December 16, 2016 12:11 PM (5kNms)

700 It's going to get colder than the Beast's cooter this weekend.

Posted by: Soona at December 16, 2016 12:16 PM (Fmupd)

701 It's nice that you at least give your wife nice hunting boots while she has to schlep around with trash bags for her luggage on the way to the hunting trip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 16, 2016 10:56 AM (tOcW/)

Fenelon, why are you constantly mocking jwest? Once, can be a joke, but mocking every post of his seems unseemly. Petty, even.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 16, 2016 12:18 PM (MiBfH)

702 688
Art is not a 'need'...



Its a Luxury.



So the question becomes should the Government use the power of
Taxation... ie the THREAT of putting me in Jail, to take my money for
someone's Luxury... a Luxury I will never enjoy...



Posted by: Don Q. at December 16, 2016 11:56 AM (qf6WZ)



Art can be a personal luxury, a private indulgence, sure, but public
art is intended as a means of civic expression by which people are
inspired and united by a common national identity and shared ideals.
Two different things.

____________________________________________

OK throwing a flag on this one. The government buying art to decorate a public space or building is A-OK and should be done sparingly and with guidelines that ensure the tastefulness of the art that is being installed.

The government "funding the arts" i.e. providing block grants to artists, television stations, theatre/ movie production companies etc. is always completely wrong in every way shape and form. Period. The government should never interfere with the arts and vice versa; which is what always happens when money gets involved. The government then puts itself in charge of deciding what "art" is worthy of being funded and which is not - which is wrong on so many levels. Any artist ( and I am one in my spare time - performing arts, musician, acting, musical theatre) should abhor such a thing. Further, the Federal government taking money away from say, Utah, to fund performance art in New York City strikes me as the ultimate in wrong.

Trump should end this ridiculousness immediately and defund the CPB and all "arts grants." When the left howls simply say: when I have finished ensuring that the VA is overhauled, staffed and properly working to giev care to our wounded vets I may think about giving money to "artists" and rich television production companies (but don't hold your breath) - until then GFY."

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 16, 2016 12:19 PM (Fb9aZ)

703 At 17 with an obviously fake ID (the drinking age in WI was 18 then):

"Please, please, don't card me!"

Now:

"Please card me!"

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 16, 2016 12:21 PM (ZM2xo)

704 While I agree, I do not believe the government has the right or can justly seize money from the public in order to pay people to produce art.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 16, 2016 12:03 PM (39g3+)

Then you don't understand the distinction between art as an aspect of a public work and art as a means of personal enjoyment. You have a fixed idea about what art is and what it's for and what it can do.

This narrow, blinkered view of art as superfluous luxury and even borderline idolatry goes back to Martin Luther. It was wrong then and wrong now.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 12:22 PM (ZkXe+)

705 Posted by: Publius Redux at December 16, 2016 12:19 PM (Fb9aZ)

I agree overhauling the VA should take precedence over arts funding.

Posted by: troyriser at December 16, 2016 12:24 PM (ZkXe+)

706 "Black Hawk by Laredo Taft is in need of rehab. Beautiful outlook on Rock River in Illinois" mustbequantum

I bought a coffee table type book about his works, inspired by a pic of my Mom in WW2 days walking along a tree covered path, toward his fountain work in Denver. Awesome work. I lived in a dorm across the street from Krannert Art at U of Illinois, which features a lot of his work. He has one in my hometown park as well, about the Lincoln Douglas debate there.

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

Certainly inspirational works have a place in developing national themes. Building a welfare class and importing third world Dem voters is not the way to "make America great again".

Posted by: illiniwek at December 16, 2016 12:35 PM (LcUYB)

707 Late, again.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 16, 2016 12:42 PM (EzgxV)

708 That guy in the Fedora ain't doin shit.

Posted by: Corona at December 16, 2016 12:46 PM (xVq5B)

709
state support of the arts smacks of socialism -- in particular the Soviet and Nazi kind

Indeed. If you pay attention to this piece, and others a similar type by Thomas Hart Benson, they smack of the New Soviet Artist.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at December 16, 2016 01:26 PM (1hM1d)

710 I will just post to the end of this thread with my "dating someone on maximum dose antidepressants" questions. I have no real experience with this. I get that 90% of advice will be "run". Expect that from everyone I know RL - dad's been married 48 years, most my friends have either been married for decades or there's a few divorced guys with different experiences. Maybe I should run. But I do have some soldiers on high dose antidepressants - does that mean got to be alone? Let's be honest here, I am not without my own baggage at this point - just a different kind of cuckoo I guess. There won't be kids. Just wondering if anyone has experience and is it always run or how do you know if you can handle?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at December 16, 2016 01:35 PM (hbG1L)

711 One should not totally dismiss government support of the arts. Juan of the Dead, a 2010 zombie movie funded by the Cuban government, is worth a watch. It manages to put the marvels of the Cuban revolution in perspective with some good, dark laughs along the way.

I think the bureaucrats that approved it are likely languishing in a Cuban prison far less luxurious than GITMO.


Posted by: Dennis at December 16, 2016 01:37 PM (Qm6TR)

712 Thank you for giving me the opportunity to use one of my all time favorite quotes!!

"A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!"
Robert Heinlein

Posted by: L.B. at December 16, 2016 06:05 PM (qb38s)

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