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Mid-Morning Open Thread
Hat Tip: Bluebell
Joan Of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the province of Lorraine, gained new status as a patriotic symbol after France ceded the territory to Germany following the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear to Joan in her parents' garden, rousing her to fight against the English invaders in the Hundred Years War. When the painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1880, critics praised the expressiveness of the principal figure, but found the saints' presence at odds with Bastien-Lepage's naturalistic style.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: .87c at March 09, 2017 09:24 AM (APdPY)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 09:24 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:25 AM (uSlc8)
One man's nuts is another man's rapture.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at March 09, 2017 09:26 AM (lZaEn)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:26 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:27 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:27 AM (J+eG2)
And from the willow end of last thread:
Although I can't believe we're all sitting here talking about alcohol and it's not even 9 am.
Posted by: bluebell
O_O
This is the Horde you're talking to.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
That and it's 5:30 or 6:30 pm to night shift workers.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:27 AM (4Ru5B)
I will grant that she does look a little crazy about the eyes.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Max Power at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (QCc6B)
Especially the movie (you knew this was coming) The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Made in the first decades of movies and still one of the best movies ever made.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:29 AM (/f1mm)
Posted by: Cardinal Fernando Nino de Guevara at March 09, 2017 09:29 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 09:29 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Fritz at March 09, 2017 09:30 AM (2Mnv1)
You'd look nuts if you hadn't tended your Pubic Puff for a while, too.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:30 AM (9q7Dl)
textbook schizophrenia in our century
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:30 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:30 AM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (J+eG2)
So it is inappropriate to sing "Roasting nuts by an open fire"?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (jxbfJ)
Liberation theology, don'tcha know.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:31 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (mbhDw)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (4Ru5B)
It's the Archangel Michael whomJoan said that she saw in visions. along with Saints Catherine and Margaret
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (fDdVG)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Publius Redux at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (Fb9aZ)
Chick needs a weedwacker
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 09:29 AM (TppKb)
Think Emma Watson does too. Goes through WAY too much fur oil.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 09, 2017 09:32 AM (jxbfJ)
That looks like Joan's vision of herself leading the French army, hence the gold armor.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (sBOL1)
This is a beautiful picture, BTW.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
See chapter VII, The Glorious Martial History of the French.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (uSlc8)
nah CNN, it was probably just the weather or something...
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (TixTl)
nah CNN, it was probably just the weather or something...
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (TixTl)
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Seasonal adjustments!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:34 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Dancing Queen at March 09, 2017 09:26 AM (lZaEn)
Seriously?
No one?
It's like I don't even know you people anymore.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (/f1mm)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (sBOL1)
It's technically gorgeous. And my discomfort with Joan is not a criticism of the painting. Actually it is praise. That is one of my prerequisites for art...it must evoke emotion.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (rF0hx)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (J+eG2)
This is a beautiful picture, BTW.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (CPk0
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Have you ever read Mark Twain's book about her? He said that was his favorite of all his books. I haven't read it, but my daughter did (she picked St. Joan of Arc for her confirmation saint) and she really liked it.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (sBOL1)
Joan made a living raising weasels.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (uSlc8)
See chapter VII, The Glorious Martial History of the French.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (uSlc
Hmm.
Sounds like I could take me a few pointers from that there book.
Posted by: The Turtle at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (fDdVG)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:37 AM (4Ru5B)
Shut your whore mouth.
Now, where's my wool socks? Damn cold here.
Posted by: Bonaparte at March 09, 2017 09:37 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Barney, Harry, and Barry at March 09, 2017 09:37 AM (jjaLl)
Quokkan.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:37 AM (/f1mm)
Dennis Kucinich: New WikiLeaks reveal proof we are sliding down the slippery slope toward totalitarianism
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z87jb79
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (zGttg)
Am I the only one who immediately thought of Barky and Reggie?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (jail)
With faith in-
Fur Oil.
There is nothing you can't accomplish!
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (9q7Dl)
Have you ever read Mark Twain's book about her? He said that was his favorite of all his books. I haven't read it, but my daughter did (she picked St. Joan of Arc for her confirmation saint) and she really liked it.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (sBOL1)
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I read that he picked up the topic at least partly so that he could bash the Catholic Church.
He was pretty virulently anti-Catholic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (vRcUp)
It was the first I read. Twain is a personal hero of mine.
St Joan is simply an amazing figure.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (lKcIL)
Which I wouldn't mind if he were more Innocent III rather than Frankie Fabulous.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (mC1ZI)
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That may be, but apparently he was pretty keen on Joan.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Charles Brown, DDS at March 09, 2017 09:40 AM (RwwCT)
Am I the only one who immediately thought of Barky and Reggie?
Yes. The rest of us were thinking about Lindsey Graham.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:40 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: ploome at March 09, 2017 09:40 AM (vzZKT)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:40 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2017 09:40 AM (zGttg)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: Cate Blanchett at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (0i9eW)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (RwwCT)
Hot story: Miami lawyer's pants erupt in flames during arson trial in court
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Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (TixTl)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (sBOL1)
Yep. He was blown away by her. Twain wasn't much on any religion, but he had a lot of respect for St Joan.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 09, 2017 09:41 AM (9krrF)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:33 AM (Om16U)
What distinguishes Joan's experience of hearing voices from the auditory hallucinations of those afflicted with schizophrenia is the outcome of the schizophrenic's received commands.
e.g.: "Your mother is the devil, you need to kill her."
"Your teacher has poisoned the lunch in your locker."
I don't know too much about Jeanne d'Arc's story, except that she led men into battle and consequently won a critical victory. The average schizophrenic when untreated can't lead their dog to the corner bus stop. That is if the poor puppy isn't killed for being demonic or something.
It's a terrible, devastating illness.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (nNdYv)
We must completely overhaul our immigration system and re-orient it to the first world and anglosphere and away from the 3rd world.
90pct of legal immigrants come from the 3rd world, are largely illiterate in their own languages, are low skilled and have cultures that are antithetical to our own.
The design was to reduce the white majority and they have largely succeded, whites are now 62pct of the population, if that number goes below 60pct its for all intents and purposes over but the shouting.
Posted by: Kreplach at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (3Xxpy)
That may be, but apparently he was pretty keen on Joan.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (sBOL1)
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I don't let it get in the way of enjoying his fiction though.
I'm not the kind of guy who refuses to read an author because they had "bad thoughts".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (mC1ZI)
Well, yes, and also it was the ice cream in your recipe that most caught my attention.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:18 AM
Mmmm....Ice cream.
Actually,
I forget which cooking show I was watching this on, something PBS, but
the host made beer floats. I have to try that this summer. Lots of room
for pairings, there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM
And is it just me, or does Joan look like she's about to lean on a wall that isn't there?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: IP at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (hUtue)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (X6fMO)
It does make it very tidy if everybody who has mystical experiences is regarded as nuts because then people can lock them up, but when you look at people like St Paul, St Francis, St Theresa of Avila. Padre Pio or others who were not only good people but tremendously creative as well as great organizers-well to me, they're a whole lot saner than someone like George Soros who evidently has great deal of organizing ability too and is fairly creative.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (fDdVG)
let's say that somne people are going to be hearing and seeing things because they are schizophrenic
what determines whether they see/hear good things or bad things?
or useful things (thinking of John Nash now, the guy in A Beautiful Mind)
as a story idea - maybe schizophrenia could be a talent rather than an illness
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (Om16U)
(see what I did there? Stop me or I'll do it again...)
Posted by: IP at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (hUtue)
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yeah, yeah, burning at the stake joke.
Still, he looked good when played by Ingrid Bergman. Also like she was 30 years old. Weird, that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (KP5rU)
I think the painting succeeds in capturing the bleak atmosphere of that region of France. Just so many grey days.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Roundup at March 09, 2017 09:44 AM (UOJLJ)
I think the bamboo looking thing is actually a framework for some rotating device used in either knitting or the making of yarn.
And just behind it is an overturned stool, as if Joan was toiling there sitting, and suddenly stood up, knocking the stool backward.
You know who would know these things?
WeirdDave's wife, Gingy.
She is wise in the ways of things involving the ancient skills with wool and yarn.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:44 AM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 09, 2017 09:44 AM (98RO2)
(see what I did there? Stop me or I'll do it again...)
Posted by: IP at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (hUtue)
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yeah, yeah, burning at the stake joke.
Burned steak joke? Well done!
(SWIDT?)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (p+Wdc)
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Oof. Beer and ice cream, yuck. You can have the beer, I'll have the ice cream.
I think it's more that she's reaching out to someone she is seeing in her vision. I've seen this picture in person and it really is compelling.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (sBOL1)
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You just haven't met the right beer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:46 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 09, 2017 09:46 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 09:46 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: IP at March 09, 2017 09:46 AM (hUtue)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (Om16U)
Although sadly, schizophrenia attacks a disproportionate number of talented, intelligent souls...it definitely is not a talent. It's a disorder in brain chemistry. I think it's too much dopamine.
I do volunteer work with the mentally ill, was really clueless about their entire situation until I got involved. You would not wish that illness on your worst enemy. Well, maybe John McCain.
wait...
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (J+eG2)
Which I wouldn't mind if he were more Innocent III rather than Frankie Fabulous.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 09:39 AM (X6fMO)
Blessed Innocent XI - He organized the relief of the Siege of Vienna in 1683, and the subsequent war against the Ottoman Empire. He also reformed the tax codes of the Papal States, prohibited abortion, promoted personal morality in the laity & ordained, and fought for the independence of The Church from state control, especially in France.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (7HtZB)
e.g.: "Your mother is the devil, you need to kill her."
"Your teacher has poisoned the lunch in your locker."
I don't know too much about Jeanne d'Arc's story, except that she led men into battle and consequently won a critical victory. The average schizophrenic when untreated can't lead their dog to the corner bus stop. That is if the poor puppy isn't killed for being demonic or something.
It's a terrible, devastating illness.
Whatever Joan had, it was not the usual form of schizophrenia. She had very well formed visual hallucinations, which are unusual in schizophrenia. Also, her voices were not telling her things she felt were bad: they explicitly told her to be good. She wasn't paranoid or threatened by her voices: they were a source of joy, and longing.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (CPk08)
I think "by their fruits" you shall know them" and I believe that Catholic Saints.theologians write about how you can tell if visions come from God or the work of a demon and of course there are people who are schizophrenic, and obviously I; biased but I don't think seeing visions automatically makes you schizophrenic.
And if you have story idea-I encourage you to work with it. It sounds interesting.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (fDdVG)
Asked by BuzzFeed News if he'd been visiting Julian Assange, the former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, said he couldn't remember what he'd been doing in the building...
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (TixTl)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:43 AM (Om16U)
Although sadly, schizophrenia attacks a disproportionate number of talented, intelligent souls...it definitely is not a talent. It's a disorder in brain chemistry. I think it's too much dopamine.
I do volunteer work with the mentally ill, was really clueless about their entire situation until I got involved. You would not wish that illness on your worst enemy. Well, maybe John McCain.
wait...
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 09:47 AM (nNdYv)
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I just read We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick last night.
The last third is an exploration of schizophrenia. No idea how accurate it is, but it was kind of interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:49 AM (fDdVG)
Except for the unicorns.
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 09:49 AM (wPiJc)
There are two ghostly figures on the left, and beneath them is what
looks like a small bamboo cage. What's the symbolism of that?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at March 09, 2017 09:35 AM (vRcUp)
The bamboo cage represents Dien Bien Phu, meaning the French are really going to screw up some stuff in Asia.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at March 09, 2017 09:49 AM (7N6ox)
Joan had a falling out with her bush-barber and it's so hard to find good help these days.
Posted by: Fritz at March 09, 2017 09:50 AM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 09:50 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (4Ru5B)
**golf clap**
Well done.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 09:51 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 09:51 AM (FZYNt)
Tell us more about the dangers of reporting fake news Rolling Stone...
Posted by: Nathan R. Jessup at March 09, 2017 09:51 AM (TixTl)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 09:51 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 09:51 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 09:52 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (fDdVG)
Well, you lock people up when they are nuts AND dangerously criminal. There are lots of clinically insane people that are better left living on their own.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:52 AM (CPk08)
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untreated, yes
but I am positing that earlier, stronger cultural beliefs in religion provided a framework for dealing with schizophrenia that may have in some cases been more positive than modern treatment
modern shrinks: it's all just in your head, we will try to fet yoy to stop seeing/hearing them, barring that, lock you up
in the past (not just Christianity) - these visions maybe either Good or Evil, gotta start praying daily to just get Good visions
The person then has daily cognitive therapy, support sustem of people who don't think they are cuckoo necessarily...
Of course they might get labelled as possessed/cursed and get killed trying to get cured. Although even then, sometimes the belief in the ritual can work (placebo effect), at least temporarily.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 09:52 AM (Om16U)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
the other day someone was bragging about anal beef
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 09:52 AM (FZYNt)
THANK YOU!!!
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be President of the United States at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (uSlc8)
I read recently that the mental hospital where they filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest had given the film permission to use actual patients as extras, but the director/producer/whoever said no because they didn't fit the public's perception of "crazy."
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (/f1mm)
Y'know what, I'm stepping out of this one before I get nudged to go ballistic. Later, Horde.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (9krrF)
"The Martian Time-Slip"
is another one that's particularly good and creepy.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (4Ru5B)
**golf clap**
Well done.
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Ooooh... "rare". I didn't get that one at first. Got to catch up.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (OVUYQ)
Posted by: Leslie Jones at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton
had to let that joke marinate, didn't you
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 09:54 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (4Ru5B)
**golf clap**
Well done.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Well done? **Slow golf clap**
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 09:54 AM (4Ru5B)
Am I the only one who immediately thought of Barky and Reggie?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 09, 2017 09:38 AM (J+eG2)
I'm not touching that one.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:54 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: Ted Theodore Logan, Duke of Ted at March 09, 2017 09:54 AM (Ct+pi)
Of course, I always struggle to see those things, as my nick would suggest.
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 09:55 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2017 09:55 AM (AXMqy)
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2017 09:55 AM (zoehZ)
"The Martian Time-Slip"
is another one that's particularly good and creepy.
Didn't he actually have schizophrenia, or am I misremembering?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:55 AM (CPk08)
Strange things are afoot! That doesn't look anything like Jane Wiedlin!
Posted by: Ted Theodore Logan, Duke of Ted at March 09, 2017 09:54 AM (Ct+pi)
May need to check with Rufus. Ted remember to wind your watch.
Posted by: Bill S Preston, Esquire at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (7N6ox)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (zGttg)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (y3aQB)
Well, you'd lock people up who were and so would I. but it was rather a thing as you know in the Soviet Union to lock people up who disagreed with the government and these people were told they were crazy or mentally ill . Who knows if we might get to the point where people were locked up for believing in God or that God "spoke" to them-not audibly, I mean, but the whole idea of God as a halliucination communicating with us
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (fDdVG)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:48 AM (mC1ZI)
I believe the new frontier in treating the illness is human genome therapy. The latest theory I've heard is that schizophrenia is caused by a retrovirus, which is pretty messed up.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (nNdYv)
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There is also an unexplored genetic component to some mental illnesses. Currently disallowed. Can you imagine marrying someone and discovering a percentage of their family has serious mental illnesses? That is one of my irritations with the current trivialization of mental illness.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (/f1mm)
"The Martian Time-Slip"
is another one that's particularly good and creepy.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (9q7Dl)
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I'll probably read that soonish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:58 AM (mC1ZI)
Baldheaded Buzzard, Like Egg McMuffin
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 09:58 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 09:59 AM (lwiT4)
We won't recognize you if you keep your mouth shut. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:59 AM (fDdVG)
09/03/17 09:49
Made the official move today and joined the #RepublicanParty! It took a great man (@POTUS ) to get me to make the switch. #MAGA
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (AXMqy)
How do you drink coffee with your mouth shut?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (/tuJf)
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Well, Rev proposed, so there's that ....
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (KP5rU)
*sorry, just sick of the silly dumb shit today
Coffee?
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (/tuJf)
======================
Find a good vein.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (hLRSq)
Marry someone and a few years later they get more and more "off," and then you find out there's an entire history of it. You realize you've not only already paid for your ticket, but the rollercoaster is still cranking it's way to the top of the first drop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:01 AM (/f1mm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:01 AM (fDdVG)
There is also an unexplored genetic component to some mental illnesses. Currently disallowed. Can you imagine marrying someone and discovering a percentage of their family has serious mental illnesses? That is one of my irritations with the current trivialization of mental illness.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:02 AM (/f1mm)
Posted by: IP
*****
Her radiance lit up the dark
Providing a much-needed spark
She led the French nation
Into great conflagration
The fiery young saint, Joan of Arc!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2017 10:02 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (KP5rU)
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Wasn't that something? I came home and found a huge tree limb across my driveway. On the way to town, we saw garbage cans way out in the cornfield, with the farmhouse off in the far distance. You okay up there?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:02 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (AXMqy)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: kallisto
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I have personal experience with schizophrenia. It is beyond destructive.
It's why I get so emphatic about NOT calling the snowflakes "mentally ill".
They are puling, mewling, spoiled, undisciplined, self-soiling brats who have the ability to change their behavior.
Schizophrenics have no such control.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (lKcIL)
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IRS Finds 6,924 Documents Related to Obama Tea Party Targeting -- Two Years After FOIA Request
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (y3aQB)
Breitbart
Yeah no. Fuck you frog
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (KlI/a)
Well, you'd lock people up who were and so would I. but it was rather a thing as you know in the Soviet Union to lock people up who disagreed with the government and these people were told they were crazy or mentally ill . Who knows if we might get to the point where people were locked up for believing in God or that God "spoke" to them-not audibly, I mean, but the whole idea of God as a halliucination communicating with us
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:56 AM (fDdVG)
I think when we finally figure out how consciousness works, a lot of people are going to be surprised at how messy, chaotic and feedback prone a normally functioning brain is. The problem here is unjustified certainty, I think. Little scares me more.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:05 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:42 AM (fDdVG)
Well, you lock people up when they are nuts AND dangerously criminal. There are lots of clinically insane people that are better left living on their own.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 09:52 AM (CPk0
My stepson is bipolar and I can say that this is definitely true.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 09, 2017 10:05 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (KP5rU)
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That's crazy. This morning we have snow. Supposed to stop soon though.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:05 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 09, 2017 10:06 AM (AXMqy)
I likey.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:06 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: sinalco at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (yODqO)
Posted by: Ricardo Montalban at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (sBOL1)
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You just haven't met the right beer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:46 AM
Exactly. I can appreciate if you're not a beer gal, but I'm thinking Guinness and a good French vanilla or ginger ice cream would work. A nice chocolate stout would be a good starting place, too.
Back me up here, people...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (/f1mm)
What is simple about mental illness?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (1zARK)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (Om16U)
I saw ace's post yesterday. From what I gathered the SJWs have been behaviorally conditioned into a personality disorder, whereas, as you note, schizophrenia just shows up out of the blue and then...chaos.
I don't want to sound so hopeless. I'm confident that the advances in biotech will help the younger folks who are diagnosed with this disease.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (nNdYv)
Back me up here, people...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (p+Wdc)
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Backed up.
That would probably be delicious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (mC1ZI)
"The Martian Time-Slip"
is another one that's particularly good and creepy.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 09:53 AM (9q7Dl)
Yes, he was schizophrenic and agoraphobic to boot. Pretty much everything he wrote from The Divine Invasion on was informed by his mental illness. (And, miraculously, was still well written.)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:00 AM (/tuJf)
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Find a good vein.
Posted by: grammie winger
Snort instant.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (4Ru5B)
Examine any relationship you have in your life. There is a percentage of overlap of your reality with the reality of the other person. You could make a case that schizophrenia is a realm where the degree of overlap is minimal- i.e. less total "shared reality".
The definition of insane depends largely on who is doing the defining.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (wPiJc)
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They'd have to to marry me.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Max Power at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (QCc6B)
Global Warming push back
The Hill:
The head of the EPA said Thursday that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a "primary contributor" to climate change.
Posted by: WisRich at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (hdpay)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (CPk0
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Memorizing the phone number to the pharmacy becomes easier over time.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (/f1mm)
What is simple about mental illness?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:07 AM (CPk0
See #129.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (/f1mm)
In other words, a human female?
Posted by: Max Power at March 09, 2017 10:09 AM (QCc6B)
http://tinyurl.com/hfmxhqe
An experiment designed to reveal gender bias by reenacting the presidential debates with the candidates' genders reversed found that Hillary Clinton would have been even less likeable as a man.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (y3aQB)
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As you have always been upfront about whatever, don't think it applies in your situation. I am talking about young people -- not people like us.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (MIKMs)
talked out of it, and the people think that yes, indeed the miraculous
can and does happen probably won't be convinced otherwise.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 09:36 AM (fDdVG)
on logic alone, you can't be convinced, but by logic alone, a miracle is proof of God, and is overwhelming in what it implies. It also is enormous responsibility because you aren't just a chip tossed in a random, meaningless sea. You are an actor with responsibilities.
That may be why so many fight against that.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (WQX/u)
If anyone can't see the miracle in that and would rather write it off as a schizophrenic who got lucky, that's their choice.
Posted by: Dancing Queen at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (lZaEn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (fDdVG)
http://tinyurl.com/hfmxhqe
An experiment designed to reveal gender bias by reenacting the presidential debates with the candidates' genders reversed found that Hillary Clinton would have been even less likeable as a man.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (2x9LM)
===============
Ace did a thing.
Still, it's worth revisiting.
Because it's hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (mC1ZI)
Back me up here, people...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Sorry RMBS. Not a beer guy. Single malt scotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:11 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (0x/TW)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (B+qrE)
Sorry RMBS. Not a beer guy. Single malt scotch.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:11 AM (4Ru5B)
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Embrace "and".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (mC1ZI)
Oof. Beer and ice cream, yuck. You can have the beer, I'll have the ice cream.
Posted by: bluebell at March 09, 2017 09:45 AM (sBOL1)
Trust your instincts. Beer is terrible. Any food or beverage whose taste must be "acquired" is, of course, plainly terrible. Good things taste good without any obfuscation necessary.
And this is from a guy who drank my fair share of beer in my service days.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (1zARK)
Breitbart
Yeah no. Fuck you frog
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 09, 2017 10:04 AM (KlI/a)
Well we did have a Day Without Wymyns forcing them to not go to work or shop...oh wait..they did that to themselves
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (493sH)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (wPiJc)
And this is from a guy who drank my fair share of beer in my service days.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM (1zARK)
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If that were the case we'd never grow past sweets.
Bitter, sour, spicy...these are all things that require some level of experience to enjoy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (mC1ZI)
I'm not criticizing you, rather the "modern standards," which make it totes okay to kill and dismember unborn babies, and sell those parts or to decide you are a different sex rather than the one your genetics indicate, and then force the rest of society to bow to your ever changing demands of recognition.
I think modern standards are pretty much in the toilet now.
And Jeanne D'Arc did a lot more for her fellow men than today's current Women of Importance. So I'll take her "crazy."
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (wuzmq)
Still, it's worth revisiting.
Because it's hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (mC1ZI)
LOL. Need to come here more often than I've been lately.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (4WhSY)
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In the case that I was close to. The schizophrenic sufferer married a woman who was not quite SJW , but not a very strong person. Malleable , I guess is the word.
Within a very short time as he began to deteriorate, she also began to mimic his behaviors and to believe his wild tales and to make them her own reality. Almost as if it were contagious.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (lKcIL)
She led an army! That shoulda kept her in the food tent for most of the day!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (4Ru5B)
I'm going to need a list and from the French, it sure as hell can't start with abortion rights.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (2x9LM)
===============
Some of us need to lead real lives.
GO! Out into the world! Let us know what it's like.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (mC1ZI)
How are you doing?
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (wuzmq)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:08 AM (lwiT4)
LOL. I'll give you that.
Seriously, there's just such a spectrum, going from people with just a lot of bad ideas in their heads, through personality disorders, and then into frank disorders of mood and thought, addiction, paraphilias....I mean, its a whole wild world inside people's heads, and we never know a hundredth of what is going on around us inside other people.
That's why I love St Joan. No matter what you believe, she will shake your world if you take her seriously.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (CPk08)
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Same with anal sex.
Posted by: LGBTQZYZ Club at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (SsblQ)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:16 AM (FZYNt)
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Same with anal sex.
Posted by: LGBTQZYZ Club at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (SsblQ)
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That escalated quickly...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:16 AM (mC1ZI)
Joan made a living raising weasels.
Posted by: Cicero
****
Bamboo cage?!
(wets self and curls into fetal position)
Posted by: McCain at March 09, 2017 10:16 AM (+aCe4)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:16 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 10:16 AM (lKcIL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:14 AM (mC1ZI)
Spoiler - it sucks
But I'm a cheerful Moron so I make due and try to make others smile
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Snopes Rates This Painting As Fake Art at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (ndGCC)
I'm going to need a list and from the French, it sure as hell can't start with abortion rights.
Posted by: Circa
Yeah. He who smelt it, dealt it. List please Francis.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (le7jz)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (lwiT4)
Her posture is awkward also. Almost as if she were caught mid-step or something. She looks off-balance *physically*.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (sEDyY)
tess holliday (never heard of her) decided to pose nude to destroy the power objectification
well done tess.......well done.....have bleach on hand......
Posted by: phoenixgirl..spring training at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Max Power at March 09, 2017 10:18 AM (QCc6B)
Fox Business - Border Crossings down 40% since Trump took office. That's a good start now let's get it down to 100%
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 09, 2017 10:18 AM (493sH)
Bitter, sour, spicy...these are all things that require some level of experience to enjoy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:13 AM (mC1ZI)
Of course.
But beer is terrible.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:18 AM (1zARK)
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Same with anal sex.
Posted by: LGBTQZYZ Club at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (SsblQ)
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That escalated quickly...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Oh my!
Posted by: Mr. Sulu
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:18 AM (4Ru5B)
Time to put on the banana suits and sing I'm a Little Tea Pot.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (uhftQ)
Yes. And I'm nursing my payback until the right moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Killerdog at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (iKuGK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (fDdVG)
But beer is terrible.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:18 AM (1zARK)
================
There's a world of beer out there.
I hate certain pockets of it myself, but there's so much variety that I find it very hard to believe that there isn't SOMETHING that would appeal to your taste buds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (mC1ZI)
So last night I said to my husband, "I'll bet the front page of our paper tomorrow is all 'Day Without Women' with the usual Planned Parenthood suspects."
Gosh. I was right.
Some twit named Coco Papy managed to get her face on the front page once again as the "voice" of Planned Parenthood.
Oh, and there was a Muslim woman who is "terrified" her Iranian-born husband, who is a U. S. citizen will be thrown out of the country because Trump.
Another day ending in "Y."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (PY9jH)
Time to put on the banana suits and sing I'm a Little Tea Pot.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW
just change his depends and up his meds
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (FZYNt)
Not that i'd buy beeras a choice if I wanted to drink something.
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:20 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (/tuJf)
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You got a picture too? This is outrageous.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:20 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (y3aQB)
http://bit.ly/2m6FJc7
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (xJa6I)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
The thing about beer that I can't stand? Warmth. Anything above 37 degrees. Blech.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: BignJames at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (x9c8r)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (B+qrE)
Time to put on the banana suits and sing I'm a Little Tea Pot.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW
just change his depends and up his meds
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (FZYNt)
Need to stuff another 8 yards of cotton in his fat cheeks too.
Posted by: Killerdog at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (iKuGK)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (2x9LM)
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Tom Brokaw drops knowledge on DUMocrat Party
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (y3aQB)
TOM BROKAW??
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (4Ru5B)
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If you're implying that scotch in ice is the way to go:
You're actually dumbing down the taste and numbing your taste buds.
Scotch tastes better room temperature.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (UOJLJ)
... throw the lawyers in jail until all the documents are produced.
Posted by: undocumented SMOD at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (e8kgV)
It is also possible to be so attached to the day-to-day humdrum world that your life is devoid of creativity, or imagination, or belief in something beyond the tanginble.
I like to think there is a happy medium, or a sweet spot if you will, where you are able to function and interact meaningfully. Maybe Joan of Arc found such a sweet spot.
To be in the world, but not merely of the world.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:11 AM (4Ru5B)
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Embrace "and".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:12 AM
What he said. But, for the love of all that's holy, do not put ice cream in the single malt.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:10 AM (fDdVG)
It's a real joy ride...
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
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Doesn't help that both of those are terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
Whaaaat? Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy is the nectar of the gods!
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: EVLINC!
My life outside of the stable
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (FZYNt)
Major difference is that the "voice in my head" doesn't tell me to harm myself or others.
He *does* snark though. I was play-complaining at John because he had been watching tv instead of listening to me when I heard clearly "Does that remind you of anyone?" Yes, I did take the hint.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (sEDyY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (mC1ZI)
That this has to be voiced is upsetting.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (vg8iE)
The Immigrants March, the Tax Day March, the National Pride March, all scheduled to take place on or near the National Mall. Can't get your hotel reservations to early!
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (zM7sQ)
You're actually dumbing down the taste and numbing your taste buds.
Scotch tastes better room temperature.
No. Sorry. Was confusing. Beer = ice cold. Scotch = neat.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (4Ru5B)
I got a fat, naked dude on a couch.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (fDdVG)
From Vietnam to Horses Ass & Back?
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Killerdog at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (iKuGK)
Posted by: Cate Blanchett at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (PY9jH)
This chic?
http://tinyurl.com/hqwh8pz
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Jen the original at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (CYr2b)
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (/tuJf)
======================
That was for you? And you still keep commenting here?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Snopes Rates This Painting As Fake Art at March 09, 2017 10:17 AM (ndGCC)
My favorite adaptation was a two-part made for TV version starring Leelee Sobieski.
Posted by: rickl at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (zoehZ)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
Could I interest you in some Lenie's Man Ass Pale Lager?
(just testing)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (KlI/a)
This sort of thing gets harder as you get older, I think. He'd really
like an office job. There don't seem to be too many of those around for
men in their 60s, however, but his work ethic s excellent.
Posted by:
FenelonSpoke
~~~~~
Has he tried applying to the state? (You're in NJ, right?) They are very sensitive and receptive to hiring "mature" applicants. I'm pretty sure I got my job there by mentioning during the interview that I knew "it was difficult to get a job at my age" (55 at the time). I forget what the context was, but I swear that worked.
Here's a link to the Judiciary jobs that are available. It may take a while, and some jobs require a test first (8th grade level if you ask me) and it seems to me he would be qualified for many of them. Not all require a college degree, and most that do will allow you to substitute work experience for college credit. The entire process for me took eight months, but the pay is decent and the benefits can't be beat.
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/jobs/index.html
Also note that at the top of the page they give instructions as to where to find other jobs in different areas of the state.
Good luck!
Posted by: IrishEi at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (HiDrR)
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Same with anal sex.
Posted by: LGBTQZYZ Club at March 09, 2017 10:15 AM (SsblQ)
The learning curve is surprisingly small.
Posted by: Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (X6fMO)
Just waiting for the right moment. I will be avenged.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (PY9jH)
This chic?
http://tinyurl.com/hqwh8pz
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (2x9LM)
That's her! She's lovely, don't you think?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (fDdVG)
Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be President of the United States at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (uSlc8)
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (fDdVG)
(just testing)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (uSlc
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Stirred or shaken?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
You can mix beer with fruit juice of your choice and it takes away the aftertaste a lot of beer haters point to. Beer and cranberry juice is actually quite tasty and dangerous because it goes down fast.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (XfAUP)
The Immigrants March, the Tax Day March, the National Pride March, all scheduled to take place on or near the National Mall. Can't get your hotel reservations to early!
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (zM7sQ)
There are always idiots marching. You know who pays attention? No one.
Posted by: dagny at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (Mc+44)
bad but it was the sustained 40mph winds for eight hours that caused so
much damage.
Posted by: Jen the original at March 09, 2017 10:26 AM (CYr2b)
I was impressed by the CSX double stack train that was derailed. Always wondered how they fared in high winds...Like trucks that don't have any weight in the trailer.
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (zM7sQ)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
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Doesn't help that both of those are terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:23 AM (mC1ZI)
I've heard some people tell me that to them, beer tastes like soap(?) Kind of like how cilantro tastes to me, I guess.
But I've never much liked any alcohol, beer, wine, booze, whatever. Only thing is, I like a Corona if Mrs. Muse is serving up tacos and beans. But other than that, I prefer water, milk, soft drinks.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:29 AM (kPGdd)
253 The thing about beer that I can't stand? Warmth. Anything above 37 degrees. Blech.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:21 AM (4Ru5B)
Because the cold dulls the taste. In general the warmer a beverage is, the more its taste comes through. And beer tastes terrible.
American beer has to be ice cold for most people to stand it.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:29 AM (1zARK)
Posted by: dagny at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (Mc+44)
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Except the political blogs.
Posted by: RioBravo at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (SsblQ)
I had thought that was the equivalent of a tomato cage or something, but on further inspection you may be right. If so the item is called a "swift" and is used to wind yarn.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (sEDyY)
scheduled to take place on or near the National Mall. Can't get your
hotel reservations to early!
*ahem*
Don;t forget the March for Science.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (NOIQH)
It's not even an island.
But we could dig a moat and make it one.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Agent Cooper
Not going to get into what the Canadian morons think about American beer
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (FZYNt)
For example, Alex Jones seems a lot less crazy now than he did 4 years ago, even though he didn't change.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:31 AM (Om16U)
just rapidly homophobic. It's difficult to believe people could be that
stupid.
Fairly certain it's a annual thing in DC.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 10:31 AM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:24 AM (zM7sQ)
You might want to stock up on popcorn. Because I'm thinking lefty gridlock and slapfights here. But mostly slapfights.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:31 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:31 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:31 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Crusader at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (ewSN2)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (lwiT4)
That's her! She's lovely, don't you think?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (PY9jH)
She COULD be attractive if it wasn't for her views. The hate just bleeds through and makes progs unattractive.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (IqV8l)
clear that Trump is just rapidly homophobic. It's difficult to believe
people could be that stupid.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (fDdVG)
But it does give your chaps that show your great ass, a place to show off. Save a horse, ride a cowboy....as the saying goes...
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (zM7sQ)
just rapidly homophobic. It's difficult to believe people could be that
stupid.
SJWs: Donald Trump is not "of the Body."
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (JO9+V)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (2x9LM)
She loves her some abortion. That makes her extra purty.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 09:57 AM (/f1mm)
I agree with this one.
Enough with the carping about "Nuts" not being simple. not what was meant by the comment.
Posted by: West at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (1Rgee)
It's not even an island.
But we could dig a moat and make it one.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (B+qrE)
===
Does that make Delaware the Uranus of the states?
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 10:33 AM (BDZWU)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (lwiT4)
Fish Market Fish Bowl LIIT FTW.
Supposedly they can only legally sell you one.
Pfftt.
Guess I'm an outlaw
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:33 AM (2x9LM)
Discuss
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 10:27 AM (wPiJc)
So what's Rhode Island's Charon?
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 09, 2017 10:34 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:34 AM (UOJLJ)
Don;t forget the March for Science. Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 10:30 AM (NOIQH)
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Still laughing from Tucker last night when Jorge kept referencing some National Science thing. Tucker kept saying that he was not arguing sources this interview, but Jorge kept bringing it up. Ridonkulous.
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2017 10:34 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (lwiT4)
You're kind of an anomaly, you know that? Most evangelical Christians I know either don't drink, hate drinking, or think drinking is sinful. Or some combination of the three.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Circa
*******
They also said that Pluto wasn't a planet. I rest my case! Quod Ipsi Decorum
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (2x9LM)
She loves her some abortion. That makes her extra purty.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (PY9jH)
Yeah, reading up about her. She is womynz, hear her roar.
And scratch my last. Thoroughly unattractive.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Dr. Mr. Badman at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (cfjq1)
Oh dear - someone check on Mika and make sure she's now cowering in her safe space!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (NOIQH)
When our mental model keeps us from functioning in the world, that's crazy.
I think that in modern times, we have narrowed the boundaries of what is functional a lot. There was more space in the past for mental models that included visions, voices, seeing ghosts, practicing magic.
In some ways that's a loss.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (Om16U)
No. Sorry. Was confusing. Beer = ice cold. Scotch = neat.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:25 AM (4Ru5B)
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Sorry. I assumed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: deplorable Jewells45 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (zRZaJ)
The USC Marching Band.
Also Hitler.
Do you now see how deep it goes?
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 09, 2017 10:36 AM (Ndje9)
Do you wingnuts even geography?
This blasphemy will not stand!
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:36 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (lwiT4)
Yankees can't make good iced tea to save their lives. Oh wait...
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (0mRoj)
The USC Marching Band.
Also Hitler.
Do you now see how deep it goes?
Posted by: The Gipper Lives
Does this mean the March For Dimes wants to send you to gas chambers?
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (FZYNt)
*******
Watch out for your huevos, rancheros!
Posted by: Blind Lemon Melon Jackson, King of the Delta Blues at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (wPiJc)
You can mix beer with fruit juice of your choice and it takes away the aftertaste a lot of beer haters point to. Beer and cranberry juice is actually quite tasty and dangerous because it goes down fast.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:28 AM (5M4cQ)
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I'm of the opinion that if you have to mix an alcohol with something else to make it palatable to you, then you're just wasting the alcohol.
If you have to do that, use something tasteless like vodka or something absolute bottom shelf.
Whiskeys in particular should be enjoyed on their own.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (mC1ZI)
Don't drink myself because the taste of alcohol is repulsive to me. For Her Majesty, that's convenient however. When we go to dinner (or her Sunday morning Bloody Mary), I'm the designated driver and she's the designated drinker.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (aa1K7)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (UOJLJ)
Yeah, reading up about her. She is womynz, hear her roar.
And scratch my last. Thoroughly unattractive.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA
Needs more tattoos.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (IqV8l)
Yesterdays Chicago windstorm blew pieces off the river birch across 2 neighbors front yards. River Birch - the tree that makes it's own tinder.
Posted by: DaveA at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (8J/Te)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (NOIQH)
I caught a bit of her this morning. Joe was blathering to John Podhoretz, and her "contribution" was muttering in the background and going, "Mmmm hmmm." Oh, and the stupid little faces she makes.
She really belongs in the housekeeping department of a Motel 6 somewhere.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (PY9jH)
American beer has to be ice cold for most people to stand it.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at March 09, 2017 10:29 AM (1zARK)
====================
The British make the best beer.
Look up the brewery St. Peters in Suffolk.
I've never tasted a beer of theirs that I didn't love.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (mC1ZI)
Time to put on the banana suits and sing I'm a Little Tea Pot.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW
just change his depends and up his meds
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:19 AM (FZYNt)
Need to stuff another 8 yards of cotton in his fat cheeks too.
Posted by: Killerdog
****
We'll just use walnuts.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (+aCe4)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:22 AM (lwiT4)
Okay,forget what everybody else told you, they're wrong.
The best training wheels beer out there is-
"Schofferhofer Hefeweizen Grapefruit Bier"
But, and here's the caveat-
You have to like grapefruit juice, if you don't, you won't like this at all.
If you do, you'll love it.
Plus, it's German brewed. and if there's one thing the Germans do well (except throw away their society and culture for islam)-
it's make beer.
This one is a complete winner for people who hate beer.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (kPGdd)
Always take two Baptists fishing with you, otherwise the first one will drink all your beer.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:38 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:39 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:37 AM (FZYNt)
Marching up and down the square not good enough for you, eh?!
Posted by: hogmartin at March 09, 2017 10:39 AM (8nWyX)
Yes and our capital is named Providence. Because we were founded by a preacher and are a God fearing people unlike you heathens in the great unwashed areas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:40 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:40 AM (vg8iE)
boundaries of what is functional a lot. There was more space in the past
for mental models that included visions, voices, seeing ghosts,
practicing magic.
In some ways that's a loss. Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (Om16U)
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More than a loss.
What is the current percentage of children 'diagnosed' with something as non-functional? I would bet at least 25% .
Posted by: mustbequantum at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (MIKMs)
High stomping day. Stand clear!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (4Ru5B)
??? He's still nutty as squirrel shit.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (98RO2)
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (dQJCS)
You're kind of an anomaly, you know that? Most evangelical Christians I know either don't drink, hate drinking, or think drinking is sinful. Or some combination of the three.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (kPGdd)
There are some preachers in the Evangelical realm (mostly Baptist) who claim the Bible means Jesus turned the water to grape juice, rather than wine.
That's just silly, and changing scripture to satisfy their man made doctrine. There is no proscription against drinking in the Bible, unless you have taken a Nazarite vow. There is proscription against getting drunk, because of the various consequences of not being in full control of one's mind/actions.
I say this as a Southern Baptist raised gal. I don't personally drink, because I have an unfortunate allergy to fermented things-wine, beer, spirits, all of it. But I don't have an issue with others drinking- God bless and enjoy the fruit of the vine.
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (wuzmq)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (HSmrB)
I didn't even know there were 4 movies currently in theaters that were worth seeing!
Posted by: Crusader at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (ewSN2)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:39 AM (kPGdd)
He's been on a roll this week.
Posted by: Golfman at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (k0S3A)
and I was disappointed that they might be considered on the same side as i.
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (R7cwD)
evangelical Christians I know either don't drink, hate drinking, or
think drinking is sinful. Or some combination of the three.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (kPGdd)
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I was raised "drinking is a sin" Baptist. My grandmother wouldn't even go to my cousin's confirmation because they served real wine at communion.
Then the more I read, the drinking thing seemed legalistic to me. The Bible cautions against being drunk, but does not condemn drinking. I make it a practice to never get drunk, and to remain sober as I believe the Scriptures admonish us to do. Except there was this time on my honeymoon ..... all-inclusive you know. But really, not even a problem there because they water everything down so much.
I could be wrong, and I don't drink in the presence of those who might view it as a stumbling block. But, if it violates one's conscience, I think it's best to refrain.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 09, 2017 10:32 AM (2x9LM)
And the tats. And the piercings. And the scowl. But mostly her views.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:43 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Mickey Mouse at March 09, 2017 10:43 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 09, 2017 10:43 AM (vg8iE)
But those eyes and the stiffness of her stance is rather disturbing. Instead of overawed, which would be understandable, she looks unbalanced (to put it mildly) and nearly catatonic. It distracts and, in my opinion, diminishes the painting's effect.
Posted by: JTB at March 09, 2017 10:43 AM (V+03K)
Yes and our capital is named Providence. Because we were founded by a preacher and are a God fearing people unlike you heathens in the great unwashed areas.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:40 AM (/tuJf)
Our state motto assumes that people sometimes wake up and just think "Gosh... you know, I really want to find a pleasant peninsula. Peninsula... but like, a pleasant one. That would be great."
And our capital is named after a city in New York where a bunch of people were sold deeds to lots in what was basically a swamp by a scammer.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (8nWyX)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (R7cwD)
Every bartender school in the world would disagree with you.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (KP5rU)
Customer just paid off his seatbelt violation fine.
$25 fine. $149 court costs.
Posted by: Golfman at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (k0S3A)
PT needs to eliminate the CDC yesterday.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:39 AM
We won't acknowledge you as a leaker, OM. You're safe with us.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (DMUuz)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (hLRSq)
You're kind of an anomaly, you know that? Most evangelical Christians I know either don't drink, hate drinking, or think drinking is sinful. Or some combination of the three.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM (kPGdd)
Know the difference between a Baptist and a Methodist?
The Methodist will say hi to you in the liquor store.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (/f1mm)
......
Well duh! Pluto was a dog!
I have no idea WTF Goofy was supposed to be. Some freak from the Island of Dr. Moreau.
Posted by: Mickey Mouse at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (71OEY)
Especially the movie (you knew this was coming) The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Made in the first decades of movies and still one of the best movies ever made.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 09:28 AM (mC1ZI)
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This^^^^ ... bought the DVD a few years ago, watched it again and again. The actress who play Joan, Renee Jeanne Falconetti, was a stage actress, and this was the only film she ever made. Carl Theodor Dreyer was one of the greatest writer/directors ever. And if you haven't seen his "Day of Wrath" (filmed in occupied Denmark in 1943) I'd highly recommend it.
Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (5JlYa)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (PY9jH)
I despise motorcycle cops for that very reason. They do ZERO investigative work. They respond to *real* crime ONLY if it QUITE LITERALLY takes place in front of their very noses. They "patrol" only to raise money for the city by TAKING IT from the rest of us who are driving to and from our appointed rounds. Fuck them. (And that's from a guy who is otherwise quite devoted to the notion of law and order.)
Posted by: Crusader at March 09, 2017 10:45 AM (ewSN2)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 10:45 AM (Nwg0u)
Still the name. Actually it's The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Smallest state, longest name. Take that.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:45 AM (/tuJf)
Every bartender school in the world would disagree with you.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (5M4cQ)
======================
"Experts"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 10:45 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:46 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 10:45 AM (Nwg0u)
That would be also-rams
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 09, 2017 10:46 AM (KlI/a)
President Obama referred to slaves as "immigrants" long before Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
USA TODAY NETWORK
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 10:46 AM (zM7sQ)
dirty tree lickers..
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (R7cwD)
*fistbump*
For me a close second is anything licorice or anise flavored. Gaaak.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:46 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (PY9jH)
Butt-hurt because he can no longer defend his boy, Tillis?
Posted by: Golfman at March 09, 2017 10:46 AM (k0S3A)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (lwiT4)
I'm almost identical in my view of drinking and drunkenness. Sin = sin, and I can't even go to the grocery store without admiring the way God decided to make women walk. I'm sure not going to tell someone he can't have a beer while he's catfishing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (/f1mm)
I like Block Island, the seafood, Providence's Little (really) Italy, the omni hotel where we had a great brunch due to being staffed by students at the culinary school.
On my way home I stopped at a flea market and bought a little trinket with "philadelphia" stamped on it.
Conclusion: Rhode Island and I are a natural match.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (R7cwD)
I could be wrong, and I don't drink in the presence of those who might view it as a stumbling block. But, if it violates one's conscience, I think it's best to refrain.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:42 AM (lwiT4)
I used to help distribute the communion elements at my church. It always saddened me when I would collect the cups afterwards and I would see one where the wine was obviously spat back into the little cup.
But then, I remember that I live in a country where sale of alcohol was once made illegal by constitutional amendment, so I know we're kind of funny that way.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (kPGdd)
Grammie, I knew there was something familiar in your words and teachings! I love my old Baptist church in Texas, but up here (NoVA) they all seem to be leftist leaning. Which is why we go to a Lutheran church (Missouri Synod of course.) I don't agree with all the doctrine, but at least I'm not being inundated with SJW claptrap from the pulpit. Plus they put on an awesome Oktoberfest!
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (wuzmq)
I've seen at least half a dozen places link to his "Survival in the Age of Rage" piece.
And to think we knew Teh Ewok when he was only a little cub.
**sniffles**
SUNRIIIIIIIISE, SUNNNNSET. . .
Posted by: Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:48 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 10:48 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:48 AM (KP5rU)
Now, if the congregation will turn to page 2020 in the hymnal, and join me in singing 'The Cisco Kid'........
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (R7cwD)
Let's not go...ummm...crazy.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:48 AM (KP5rU)
No doubt. A lot of them tend to either be porkers (pun somewhat intended) or roid freaks on the other extreme end.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 10:49 AM (0mRoj)
a biscuit pathetic. the chief lives better than most doctors. something
is fucked up here.
hm, sounds like a town that needs an audit
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (c6/9Q)
>>> I despise motorcycle cops for that very reason.
I'll see your cops and CHiPs and raise you traffic light cameras. Though they do provide for amusing articles when a lawyer gets a traffic cam demand for payment from some 3rd party IT/ billing company.
Posted by: Mickey Mouse at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (71OEY)
I'm not being inundated with SJW claptrap from the pulpit. Plus they put
on an awesome Oktoberfest!
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 10:47 AM (wuzmq)
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Yeah, I have a few problems with their doctrine as well, which is why I would never become a member, but you're right about the SJW stuff. From what I can see, they don't put up with that crap.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: fixerupper at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: My Guess Is Their Evil Hearts Are Twins at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (ndGCC)
Block is one of my favorite places. Sitting on the front porch of The National on a beautiful summer morning with a bloody mary or 2 is heaven.
Don't tell anyone though. We are trying to keep the place a secret.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (/tuJf)
The Methodist will say hi to you in the liquor store.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:44 AM (/f1mm)
I know, right? That's my second favoritist Baptist joke. Here's my favoritist:
Q: Why don't Baptists have sex standing up?
A: Because it might lead to dancing.
ThankyouthankyouI'llbehereallweek...
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (kPGdd)
The only thing I dislike about Southern Baptists, is that they won't speak to you when you pass them in the liquor store.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:51 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: irright at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (aSKRB)
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That's good. I should forward that to Walker
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 10:51 AM (lwiT4)
??? He's still nutty as squirrel shit.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (98RO2)
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Alex Jones does get things right, Vault 7 for instance. It's when he talks about chemtrails and Sandy Hook being a false flag is when he loses me.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the whole Bohemian Grove thing did turn out to be a pedophile ring though.
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 10:51 AM (BDZWU)
......
That's 'cause police chief is a political job that only pretends to be a police job on occasion.
Your political masters all live like kings compared to the people they allegedly represent.
Posted by: Mickey Mouse at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (71OEY)
Don't tell anyone though. We are trying to keep the place a secret.
According to our betters, it's going to sink in a couple of years anyway.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM
This place seems more in tune with that space than many. Buzzion, for example. And the diversity of voices commenting is very rich, as well.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 09, 2017 10:52 AM (DMUuz)
Now, if the congregation will turn to page 2020 in the hymnal, and join me in singing 'The Cisco Kid'........
In my Army days I got in a little bit of trouble for my "First Church of Beer" flyers.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2017 10:53 AM (4WhSY)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:53 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2017 10:53 AM (4WhSY)
Is that you, Skippy?
http://skippyslist.com/list/
Posted by: Golfman at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (k0S3A)
A: Because it might lead to dancing.
ThankyouthankyouI'llbehereallweek...
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (kPGdd)
I've always heard it as "Why don't Baptists keep the radio on while they're having sex?"
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (/f1mm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (Nwg0u)
Don't tell anyone though. We are trying to keep the place a secret.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:50 AM (/tuJf)
It's been a while since I visited. Glad to hear it's still lovely.
Posted by: kallisto at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (nNdYv)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 10:41 AM (4Ru5B)
You got that right. At the rate ace is cranking them out, none of the cobs will be able to get a word in edgewise for at least a fortnight.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (kPGdd)
All lies.
Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (vg8iE)
That would be distressing. Seriously, one of the most beautiful places you will find if you like islands.
And if you are a bird watcher it is a very cool place. Sits right in the middle of a lot of migratory paths and something like half of the island is national seashore so there are trails and hiking areas galore.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (/tuJf)
It too can be breakfast food!
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (R7cwD)
Smallest state, longest name. Take that.
Posted by: JackStraw
kinda like Saskatchewan,
easy to draw, hard to spell
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (FZYNt)
Gorgeous technique, I weep that I cannot paint that beautifully. Looks like a still from a movie.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at March 09, 2017 10:35 AM
I have single handedly replaced all that with the internet and PowerPoint movies.
Posted by: Al Gore at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (lKcIL)
Dont drink..... much. About 4 drinks a year.
Not because of my faith, but because I just dont like it anymore.
Having said that, I never understood the religious prohibition on drinking.
Frown on drunkeness.... yes. NO Drinking at all??? Dont get it.
One of the Holy Sacraments involves the consumption of alcohol. Jesus himself turned the water into wine. Jesus himself ran the open bar for a wedding reception. One could say Jesus was the life of that party.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 10:55 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: The sniper in the tree at March 09, 2017 10:56 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 09, 2017 10:56 AM (shLnc)
410; an audit, or an enema. it's out of control here. no accountability.
trust me, the closest this outfit ever got to roids is at the vet. the
reason they all drive suv's is because they can't fit in cars.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:54 AM (KP5rU)
heard of Rita Crundwell ?
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 10:56 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (R7cwD)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (4WhSY)
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (R7cwD)
I did a marathon viewing of the LOTR extended editions recently with friends! Potluck style snacks and hot breakfast by the host. Took a full twelve hours with breaks between the movies. So fun. One friend had never seen it before, was fun to see her reactions.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: 11B40 at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (evgyj)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (WTSFk)
He said he was trying to write a couple of posts each night to have something ready to go at a reasonable time in the morning.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (sEDyY)
The USC Marching Band.
Also Hitler.
Do you now see how deep it goes?
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I thought the Saints were supposed to come marching in.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (PNcou)
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It's not wine! It's blood! (Because cannibalism and vampirism are way better than drinking alcohol).
I hope the Catholics around here will forgive me and take this with the levity intended.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
Me too.
Then I'd sell it, hang Kinkaide's all through the house, and put the rest in the bank.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 09, 2017 11:00 AM (nw6G5)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at March 09, 2017 11:00 AM (Eyx+b)
Watched a James May (Top Gear guy) and Oz Clark show where I learned that gin is essentially a lab creation. Alcohol + juniper berries and other spices IIRC. Thought that was pretty interesting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 11:00 AM (/f1mm)
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When we're actually commanded by Jesus Christ at the last supper to drink wine in remembrance of Him. Glad to see some of the Baptist churches backing away from that "drinking is a sin" thing.
Posted by: Dang at March 09, 2017 11:00 AM (8b+oT)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (KP5rU)
small town comptroller defrauding said small town of gazillions - spent on horses/horse breeding, got caught eventually, now serving time
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:00 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:01 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:01 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: Roxanne, Roxanne at March 09, 2017 11:01 AM (flSXZ)
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:01 AM (BDZWU)
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Yes, there will be an exhibit on Greek vases & the stories depicted on them.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:02 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:02 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 09, 2017 11:02 AM (nw6G5)
Duuuude, stop by our nearby Walmart.
Hubby has nicknamed it "Walid World" - many hijabs, and even the occasion full-cover burka'd shoppers.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (NOIQH)
Do you know the story of Joan of Arc Light? She rode a B-52 Stratofortress in the carpet bombing campaigns against the Norks before the reckoning.
Posted by: Fritz at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (2Mnv1)
.......
Have a look at th packaging for darn near anything that you eat or drink. It's all lab creations.
That good though. I'm going to eat as much crap as possible and become immortal like Keith Richards.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (WTSFk)
Heh. I see 4 posts by ace in draft. This might be a high output day.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004
Going to be an early afternoon!
Posted by: Wild Bill Wynner at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at March 09, 2017 10:34 AM
Great Falls.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:02 AM (PNcou)
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LOL
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (lwiT4)
I am willing to credit Pizzagate as being in the realm of the possible, but at a percentage down there with the odds that I'll ever find myself motorboating Kate Upton.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: willow at March 09, 2017 10:57 AM (R7cwD)
Here you go, 18"x20" print on canvas for only $21:
http://tinyurl.com/zvv5wz8
I got a print of Metcalf's On the Suffolk Coast from there for about the same price after seeing it on a previous MMOT.
Stretching and framing the print was about $320 though, so... y'know... be aware of that.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (8nWyX)
As the KTVU announcer put it: Ho Lee Fuk.
And I'd bet every one of them is dissertation-length.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:05 AM (TppKb)
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so about that Jesus turning water into wine story...
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:05 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 09, 2017 11:05 AM (WTSFk)
I did a marathon viewing of the LOTR extended editions recently with friends! Potluck style snacks and hot breakfast by the host. Took a full twelve hours with breaks between the movies. So fun. One friend had never seen it before, was fun to see her reactions.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (hvf9s)
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I haven't done that in years.
I did do one movie a day over three days a couple of years ago.
Maybe when my son is old enough to sit through it, I'll give it a go in one day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:06 AM (mC1ZI)
Interesting the USA Today suddenly no longer thinks Trump is Satan incarnate and is willing to post actual news that looks less than shining for O. Wonder what happened since during the election they were baying right along with the rest of the anti-Trunp pack.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:06 AM (sEDyY)
I hope the Catholics around here will forgive me and take this with the levity intended.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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Do we still burn heretics?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:06 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 09, 2017 11:06 AM (8nWyX)
These cock suckers will never get it.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (UOJLJ)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90
they didn't have Daisani back then
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: grammie winger
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*?!*
So, those Lutherans really are fascists.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (/ZEVC)
John the Baptist was the model. He did not drink.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 09:25 AM (uSlc
More than a bit, I'd say.
And what's with the giant Oscar statue in the background, with the photoshopped head "attached" in among the trees?
Is this really bad art week, and I just didn't get the memo?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Queen Mary I at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (TppKb)
John the Baptist was the model. He did not drink.
Posted by: Jack Sock
He lost his head over it
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (FZYNt)
I'll agree that the Podesta's pedo art collection + spirit cooking (and the associated witchcraft imagery) + weird and unsettling emails = something just ain't right with those people, and they are likely into some weird-a$$ sh#t.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (NOIQH)
IRS anal probe.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (4Ru5B)
Posted by: MathMom at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (mSbwX)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (lwiT4)
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One of the priests at my elementary school was a recovering alcoholic, so the chalice he did the consecration with was always filled with grape juice. I know this because I was an altar boy at the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (mC1ZI)
Only if they weigh more than a duck and therefore are made of wood.
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (BDZWU)
Posted by: Queen Mary I at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (WTSFk)
So, those Lutherans really are fascists.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (/ZEVC)
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You know who else wouldn't let non-Lutherans take communion?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:03 AM (lwiT4)
Sure you can. Just sucker punch the deacon, grab it and run.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (0mRoj)
I did a marathon viewing of the LOTR extended editions recently with friends! Potluck style snacks and hot breakfast by the host. Took a full twelve hours with breaks between the movies. So fun. One friend had never seen it before, was fun to see her reactions.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 10:58 AM (hvf9s)
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I haven't done that in years.
I did do one movie a day over three days a couple of years ago.
Maybe when my son is old enough to sit through it, I'll give it a go in one day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:06 AM (mC1ZI)
I'm planning on doing that during my "staycation" this year. With hookers & blow thanks to my tax refund.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: JEM there goes that sock thing again at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Jeremiah the bullfrog at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (/ZEVC)
police department here. she was lucky to get out of that with her life.
the corruption runs deep. real deep.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 09, 2017 11:04 AM (KP5rU)
right, it can get dangerous. probably needs to come from the outside, like an auditor.
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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absolutely
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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absolutely
*** sinks stake and gathers kindling ***
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (PNcou)
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If you can't beat him, join him? We, for one, hail our orange overlord!
Accusing of of actually printing news is going too far, sir.
*throws gauntlet*
Posted by: USA Today at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (71OEY)
John the Baptist was the model. He did not drink.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (5M4cQ)
Crazy sumbitch also ate locusts and wild honey.
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (NOIQH)
Only if they weigh more than a duck and therefore are made of wood.
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (BDZWU)
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SAME as a duck.
It's a fair court.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (mC1ZI)
It's a trap!
Posted by: GMan at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (sxq57)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (WTSFk)
Bring 'em a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 and see if everyone actually sips from the cup...
Posted by: JEM no sockfail this time? at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Insomniac - sin valor at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (0mRoj)
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My husband is the one who dispenses it! He'd cut off my shoe money!
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (lwiT4)
He was on the Paleo diet. No bread either.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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absolutely
*** sinks stake and gathers kindling ***
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (PNcou)
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Yay!
Haven't had a good heretic burning in years!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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I've always liked the passage in John 6 where Jesus tells the Pharisees "whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." It's like he was deliberately trying to gross them out.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (kPGdd)
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Yes, there will be an exhibit on Greek vases & the stories depicted on them.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:02 AM (7HtZB)
Is this museum the one planned for downtown LA, that I think was finally greenlit recently?
I'm expecting tons of Frazetta or it's not a real museum of narrative art. Also pulp fiction covers.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (hvf9s)
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 10:39 AM (kPGdd)
So you're saying ace is a prepper?
Posted by: buzzion at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (z/Ubi)
>>> absolutely
*** sinks stake and gathers kindling ***
........
Ooo! BBQ!
umm... wait. Yeah, cannibal BBQ is still weird. Especially when I'm being spitted.
Posted by: USA Today at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (lwiT4)
Coughing and gasping are a dead give-away!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (4Ru5B)
Guillotine is more humane
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (c6/9Q)
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Less purifying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (hLRSq)
We're on board...
Posted by: Earthworm Local 102 at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (4WhSY)
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that means that this is the Best Picture
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: Jeremiah the bullfrog at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (/ZEVC)
I'll bet it's mighty fine...
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (kPGdd)
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Talk about gainz! He lost 10 lbs. over night when Salome danced.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Jeremiah the bullfrog at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (/ZEVC)
I'll bet it's mighty fine...
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (kPGdd)
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We'll have a most triumphant time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (mC1ZI)
Your preferred option is environmentally unsound
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: grammie winger
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lol
But seriously, I've never been questioned about it in the Anglican-ish churches, and I've taken communion in some *very* High Churchy churches. Some that for all intents and purposes were protestant only in name, almost indistinguishable in liturgy from Catholic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (/ZEVC)
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It's not wine! It's blood! (Because cannibalism and vampirism are way better than drinking alcohol).
I hope the Catholics around here will forgive me and take this with the levity intended.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
I'm sorry but as a Catholic your joke need to be un-levity. Like our communion wafers
Posted by: buzzion at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (z/Ubi)
Being involved with fighting human trafficking, I am no bigger a fan of the H1B program then of turning a blind eye to illegals. Both create a huge incentive for exploitation and trafficking but H1B companies get to skirt the definition of slavery while under cover of law.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (sEDyY)
Why can't we see sidebar items in actual post/comment threads? Why must we go to the main page?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (mC1ZI)
I'll agree that the Podesta's pedo art collection + spirit cooking (and the associated witchcraft imagery) + weird and unsettling emails = something just ain't right with those people, and they are likely into some weird-a$$ sh#t.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (NOIQH)
The reason I think there's something to it is that of all the conspiracy theories out there, pizzagate is the one the NYT & the National Laughingstock chose to run articles to debunk it, and reddit, where you can talk about anything, shut down the subreddit on pizzagate.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 10:59 AM (71OEY)
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absolutely
*** sinks stake and gathers kindling ***
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:09 AM (PNcou)
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Yay!
Haven't had a good heretic burning in years!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:10 AM (mC1ZI)
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Burn me if you must (though if the guillotine option is available...). I want it on record, however, that I weigh more than a duck and have never turned anyone into a Newt. That was all Gingrich's mom's doing.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (71OEY)
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well that's because it's hard to find a good heretic
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (mC1ZI)
Your preferred option is environmentally unsound
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (c6/9Q)
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We can buy indulgences to make up for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (lKcIL)
Posted by: grammie winger
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Wow. That's interesting, because our church welcomes all believing Christians to the Lord's Table-you don't have to be a member. I guess that's the SJWism slowly creeping in...
Posted by: moki at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (wuzmq)
Dentists rejoice.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (TppKb)
Invented the 'cannonball'.
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Or the Preacher's Seat.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (4Ru5B)
Is this museum the one planned for downtown LA, that I think was finally greenlit recently?
I'm expecting tons of Frazetta or it's not a real museum of narrative art. Also pulp fiction covers.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (hvf9s)
From what I understand, there will be original comic & pulp magazine cover art.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:16 AM (7HtZB)
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The actual greek/aramaic (whatever term) has the sense of gnaw just to make it more visceral
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:16 AM (PNcou)
Good grief, if this is what passes for high art, give me Jax Pollack tossing the contents of his trashcan at a canvas any day.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:16 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Val Kilmer, your less drunk than you neighbor at March 09, 2017 11:16 AM (GzcB9)
Posted by: Jeremiah the bullfrog at March 09, 2017 11:08 AM (/ZEVC)
I'll bet it's mighty fine...
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:13 AM (kPGdd)
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We'll have a most triumphant time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Jeremiah only spoke Latin, I never understood a single word he said.
Posted by: Hoyt Axton at March 09, 2017 11:17 AM (/ZEVC)
Well Ivanka's clothing company just posted record sales, Joy Villa was #1 in iTunes after the MAGA dress, and Melania's approval rating has skyrocketed. Maybe they want to make money and realized appealing to middle class conservatives that at least tolerate Trump is profitable?
Nah, not possible, that would be too intelligent of them.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 11:17 AM (hvf9s)
If you go round to the surplus-property auctions where the PDs get rid of their used vehicles, it's amazing how many of the old Police Interceptors have driver's seats that are totally fatigued out. Can't be repaired, have to be replaced.
Fat cookie-monster cops plus body armor plus an array of belt equipment that would fascinate Batman. It adds up.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2017 11:17 AM (noWW6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:12 AM (mC1ZI)
Your preferred option is environmentally unsound
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (c6/9Q)
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We can buy indulgences to make up for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (mC1ZI)
Bully for you
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:17 AM (c6/9Q)
I note Churchill's take on this because he was not the sort given to conceding the miraculous.
Posted by: troyriser at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (Fw5cQ)
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But everyone in the church knows I'm not Lutheran, so I can't blend in with the crowd.
It's all good. Once a month we either go to the Evangelical Free Church for their Saturday night service, or I go home to Kenosha and go to my old church. I just learned recently that some churches only take Communion on the Thursday before Easter - once a year - so I don't feel so bad.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (mC1ZI)
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like carbon credits in eternity
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:19 AM (PNcou)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants
curious about what he would have been carrying if you had bumped into him at the sex shop
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 11:19 AM (FZYNt)
Why can't we see sidebar items in actual post/comment threads? Why must we go to the main page?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:14 AM (mC1ZI)
Uh, because.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:19 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Unemployed burgermeister at March 09, 2017 11:19 AM (IqV8l)
Hey kids, there are 10 angels, saints and assorted cherubim in this picture, can you find all of them? Turn to page 74 to see if you found them all!
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (TOk1P)
Uh, because.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:19 AM (kPGdd)
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Oh, well. As long as you put it that way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (7HtZB)
+1. That's a bizarre thing to witness. I watch local and national news daily, and the first hint of it was when the guy went to the restaurant with a gun and every talking head said the same "fake news conspiracy theory" line while somehow simultaneously being the first time they'd mentioned the story on air.
It was deemed vs. determined.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (/f1mm)
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**Thumbs through the New Testament.
I cant seem to find the Book of John the Baptist.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (8XRCm)
"I was spreading The Word, my son to sinners here " ?
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (PNcou)
I'll agree that the Podesta's pedo art collection + spirit cooking (and the associated witchcraft imagery) + weird and unsettling emails = something just ain't right with those people, and they are likely into some weird-a$$ sh#t.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:07 AM (NOIQH)
I remember the big "scandal" about Nancy Reagan's astrologist, but wasn't there something about Hillary and seances?
Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2017 11:21 AM (uiwCw)
Posted by: gracepc at March 09, 2017 11:21 AM (OU4q6)
I'm expecting tons of Frazetta or it's not a real museum of narrative art. Also pulp fiction covers.
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 11:11 AM (hvf9s)
Wasn't the Lucas museum one planning on being in Chicago? Of course now they are getting the greatest of all museum/library. Millions will visit it every year to see the wax dummy's of Obama and Michelle..
Posted by: Colin at March 09, 2017 11:21 AM (zM7sQ)
**shifty eyes***
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:22 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: Colin
amazingly the wax versions are more intelligent than the real thing
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 11:22 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (XfAUP)
Madeira and Malaga? That's right out of Edward Lear.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 09, 2017 11:22 AM (CPk08)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (r/0kC)
Haven't had a good heretic burning in years!
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well that's because it's hard to find a good heretic
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 09, 2017 11:15 AM (PNcou)
Is not. Just ask the AGW cult.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: grammie winger
The church I was raised in started offering the choice of wine or grape juice (from originally just using grape juice) about 10 years ago. Mostly seems like an added expense to provide both, although I know there are recovering alcoholics that they don't want to hurt so *only* wine wasn't really an option either. I don't know what the deciding factors were though since we had moved away by then.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (sEDyY)
I note Churchill's take on this because he was not the sort given to conceding the miraculous.
Posted by: troyriser at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (Fw5cQ)
That's nice and all, but I subscribe to the notion that God is not up there whispering in teenage girls' ears to go lead armies to slaughter folk who believe in a slightly different version of His story.
I kinda think God leaves the military decision-making to us mere mortals.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: runner at March 09, 2017 11:24 AM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: steevy at March 09, 2017 11:24 AM (r/0kC)
......
I was raised Catholic and even did the altar boy thing (where every altar boy I ever knew of, including me, was guIlly of snitching some wine from the bottle in the fridge).
One day, while I was in the middle of seriously questioning my beliefs phase, someone made a joke about some of the fundamentals being a belief in cannibalism, vampirism, and zombies.
That didn't change my mind (that took a lot longer) but when I first heard, my mind fought for a few minutes between being upset about heresy, horrified, and finding it hysterically funny. Kinda felt like the rumor that if you eat pop rocks with Coke, you'll explode.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:24 AM (71OEY)
Why can't we see sidebar items in actual post/comment threads? Why must we go to the main page?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Witness the power of a fully operational MoveableType 00.005 Beta!!!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 09, 2017 11:25 AM (4YGWz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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*makes note in Madison's permanent dossier: -Troublemaker*
Posted by: The gods of the AoSHQ Copybook Headings at March 09, 2017 11:25 AM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 11:25 AM (UOJLJ)
He is written about in every gospel. And deemed to have been prophesied in the Old Testament. Admittedly your sarcasm went over my head.
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: troyriser at March 09, 2017 11:18 AM (Fw5cQ)
Not being one that's seen any kind of supernatural event ... I'd be pretty much impossible to convince that one happened.
OTOH, if I actually saw one - I wouldn't deny what I saw either.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (nw6G5)
I kinda think God leaves the military decision-making to us mere mortals.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (TOk1P)
Religion played a role but was not the primary driver behind the 100 Years War.
Posted by: troyriser at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (Fw5cQ)
Howdy.
Another fantastic summer's day here in Oklahoma. 70° now, going up to 83 at least.
Is it too soon to start griping about Daylight Slaving Time?
Posted by: mindful webworker, easily at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (5CJXD)
I cant seem to find the Book of John the Baptist.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (8XRCm)
I think it's right after the book of Fred the Lutheran.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Max Power at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (QCc6B)
Posted by: LizLem at March 09, 2017 11:17 AM (hvf9s)
Exactly. The fact that it is economically sound to support Trump sure hasn't weighed with *most* of the MFM. Makes me wonder if the composition of their board/editors is a little different than the rest.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (sEDyY)
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**Thumbs through the New Testament.
I cant seem to find the Book of John the Baptist.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 09, 2017 11:20 AM (8XRCm)
yeah, I think John the B is another one of those fellas whose story probably should have been left on the cutting room floor. Edited out, for clarity of the narrative, and not just to cut down the running time.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (TOk1P)
*thumbs through the old testament*
God could get pretty particular about what the mere mortals were to do to those folk over there. Real fatally particular.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (TOk1P)
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**ahem**
A word please sir.
Posted by: Joshua at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (8XRCm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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*makes note in Madison's permanent dossier: -Troublemaker*
Posted by: The gods of the AoSHQ Copybook Headings at March 09, 2017 11:25 AM (/ZEVC)
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Really? I'm only NOW getting into that?
Jeez.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (mC1ZI)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (XfAUP)
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That's Allah.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:28 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (5M4cQ)
And Jesus referred to him as the greatest man who had ever lived.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:28 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: grammie winger
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Sneak into an Episcopal Church some time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:28 AM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (5HBd1)
2 volumes.
Good reading.
Posted by: navybrat at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (w7KSn)
Woo-woo!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants
Pleased to meet you
Posted by: Rick in SK at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (FZYNt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:28 AM (/ZEVC)
We usually use sherry.
The Frozen Chosen have standards, you know.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (hLRSq)
........
*searches through history of reasons people have posted, "This is why we can't have nice things!"*
It's a long list.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (71OEY)
2 volumes.
Good reading.
Posted by: navybrat at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (w7KSn)
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Anything published before 1923 is in the public domain.
Gutenberg.org is a great source.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (mC1ZI)
I kinda think God leaves the military decision-making to us mere mortals.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:23 AM (TOk1P)
Religion played a role but was not the primary driver behind the 100 Years War.
Posted by: troyriser at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (Fw5cQ)
I was specifically referencing Joanie here, not the rest of the story.
Had Churchill said something like "hey you know, maybe the endless wars we had with france (and others), now that we look back on it, was mostly over silly nonsense, and this Joan girl in particular, we weren't very nice to her." I could get on board with it.
I just don't buy the "inspired by God" aspect of her whole thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:31 AM (TOk1P)
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House Democrat Staffers Accused Of Holding Woman 'In Captivity' For Cash | The Daily Caller
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 11:31 AM (y3aQB)
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I'm a good deal less certain about that.
Posted by: Goliath, Philistine at March 09, 2017 11:31 AM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (TOk1P)
Thank you, I shall take that under advisement.
Posted by: the Alnighty at March 09, 2017 11:31 AM (kPGdd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
#twoweeks
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at March 09, 2017 11:32 AM (dQJCS)
fellas whose story probably should have been left on the cutting room
floor. Edited out, for clarity of the narrative, and not just to cut
down the running time.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (TOk1P)
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Since he was foretold in the Old Testament as the one who would come before the Messiah, and the Virgin Mary went to tell her cousin Elizabeth about her pregnancy, and Elizabeth herself said the baby she was carrying (John the Baptist) leapt for joy at Mary's news, and John was the forerunner of Jesus, declaring "Repent, for the Kingdom of God is near", and since Jesus Himself declared that there was no one ever born who was greater than John the Baptist .....
I wouldn't leave him on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:32 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: BurtTC
Mind your "P"'s and "Q"'s
Posted by: Zombie George Washington at March 09, 2017 11:32 AM (FZYNt)
Heh. At least pixy isn't refusing to host comments on sites at which comment content offends her like Disqus is (someone linked to a Vox Day post on this).
Pixy is a lot more random and mysterious about who she bans
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:32 AM (NOIQH)
**gives BSG the hairy eyeball**
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (BDZWU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (mC1ZI)
Not if we can help it!
Posted by: Disney lawyers at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (kPGdd)
I wouldn't leave him on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: grammie winger
Maybe give him a prequel
Posted by: George Lucas at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (FZYNt)
......
*throws up hands*
Everyone is a critic!
Posted by: Council of Nicea, Vatican I, Vatican II at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (71OEY)
The Germans had an automobile company named 'Goliath'. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 09, 2017 11:34 AM (/ZEVC)
We are rapidly approaching the point at which 'scum' is an insufficient term for Democrats.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:34 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Lurker primus at March 09, 2017 11:34 AM (DhPrq)
'I have my doubts.'
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at March 09, 2017 11:34 AM (XfAUP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (5y4sp)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2017 11:21 AM (uiwCw)
Yeah, she was once accidentally summoned by some kids playing with a Ouiji board. Spooky.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (7HtZB)
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Those are the same three Pakistani brothers with high-paying IT-security positions. Who *are* those people?
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (PXbkt)
Especially since Pixy Misa is actually a *he*. I'm not sure anyone's ever asked him why he chose a female anime character as his avatar (probably afraid to find out).
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (sEDyY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:30 AM (mC1ZI)
Not if we can help it!
Posted by: Disney lawyers at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (kPGdd)
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As long as Disney is theirs, they won't push it further back.
Ugh, just let the thing go. You have Star Wars and Marvel now, not to mention Pixar.
You're a mint. Who cares if everyone and their uncles starts selling knockoff Mickey stuff?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (mC1ZI)
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*thumbs through the old testament*
God could get pretty particular about what the mere mortals were to do to those folk over there. Real fatally particular.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 11:27 AM (hLRSq)
Yes, I have read the OT.
I don't happen to buy those stories either. Mostly political battles, with lots of heads and arms and genitals hacked off... "in the name of the Lord."
Eh, no. I believe in a "living Gospel," which is to say, how people have viewed the stories that are handed down over generations are subject to change, and as humans gain greater understanding of God, and our purpose on Earth, our view of what motivated men to war is MUCH LESS attributable to God than is written in the texts.
Call me a heretic, if need be, but that's where I am with this stuff.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (TOk1P)
.........
John the Baptist wanders around Manhattan?
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: Salome at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (/ZEVC)
Posted by: mindful webworker, easily at March 09, 2017 11:26 AM (5CJXD)
If Trump wants to win in a 50 state landslide, all he has to do is get rid of DST.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (BDZWU)
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Without proof?
Oh, poof!
Posted by: RioBravo at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (SsblQ)
Posted by: Under Fire at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (UOJLJ)
God always chooses sides.
Posted by: If Your Pope Ain't Liberation Theology, He Ain't... at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Country Singer at March 09, 2017 11:21 AM (uiwCw)
Yeah, she was once accidentally summoned by some kids playing with a Ouiji board. Spooky.
Posted by: josephistan at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (7HtZB)
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I seem to remember Hillbot claiming that she spoke with the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, which somehow didn't cause the press to label her crazy.
Posted by: Independent George at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (BDZWU)
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Those are the same three Pakistani brothers with high-paying IT-security positions. Who *are* those people?
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (PXbkt)
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"They are who we are."
-BHO
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (mC1ZI)
Plausible since we know he was mucking around with elections in Israel at the very least.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (sEDyY)
Drudge
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Deemed: Rational
Posted by: RioBravo at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (SsblQ)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Brings You Bladerunner: The Musical at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (y3aQB)
Why?
Turns out, in the beginning we used wine just like everyone else as part of the Communion equivalent.
But Joseph Smith got tipped off that someone was trying to sell him poisoned wine, so we use water now.
As for the general prohibition on alcohol, the Lord gradually weaned the people off of it: Joseph Smith was commanded to issue the advice to not drink, but it was only in the early 1900's it became mandatory.
So clearly alcohol is not a sin, per se. Jesus of course drank wine. But then, back then wine, or slightly fermented grape juice, and even beer in the revolutionary period, was 1) far less potent usually and 2) since it had alcohol, there was no bacteria. Until modern water treatment plants, drinking water could kill you.
Why did God make pigs forbidden for the Jews, but Jesus revoke that punishment? Because pork was quite likely to be lethal in Moses' day, but by the time Jesus was on earth, most of that had been cleaned up. Just as alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc are far more dangerous to us now than they were back then.
Still, we Mormons have a prophecy that Jesus will come and drink the "Fruit of the vine" with us at some point, so clearly our current prohibition against alcohol is only temporary.
Posted by: Vanceone at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (A9Gmy)
Posted by: Joshua at March 09, 2017 11:37 AM (8XRCm)
I remember the big "scandal" about Nancy Reagan's astrologist, but wasn't there something about Hillary and seances?
Posted by: Country Singer
She used to chat with Elanor Roosevelt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2017 11:38 AM (IqV8l)
Everyone is a critic!
Posted by: Council of Nicea, Vatican I, Vatican II at March 09, 2017 11:33 AM (71OEY)
Amen, brothers! Indeed yes, A-freakin'-men!
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:38 AM (TOk1P)
Good question. They were paid double what other IT people, were young (think one started at age 19 or 20), and yet didn't pay their mortgage, held stepmom for dad;s insurance payout ransom - WTF?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 09, 2017 11:38 AM (NOIQH)
Call me a heretic, if need be, but that's where I am with this stuff.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:36 AM (TOk1P)
So in other words, you read the Bible the same way a progressive reads the US Constitution.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 09, 2017 11:39 AM (kPGdd)
The point is this: any return to a sane copyright regime costs Disney the mouse and many other characters they continue to mine for content year after year.
Indeed, when you look at what Disney's pilfered from the 'public domain' spectrum with Tangled and Frozen and etc. it's far broader than that.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:39 AM (TppKb)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at March 09, 2017 11:35 AM (PXbkt)
Yeah, those brothers are right up there with Podesta's emails in the "Huh?" factor. *Nothing* about their employment was even close to normal.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 09, 2017 11:39 AM (sEDyY)
Just as alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc are far more dangerous to us now than they were back then.
Huh?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 09, 2017 11:40 AM (IqV8l)
Indeed, when you look at what Disney's pilfered from the 'public domain' spectrum with Tangled and Frozen and etc. it's far broader than that.
Posted by: JEM at March 09, 2017 11:39 AM (TppKb)
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I get it. I just wish Congress would draw the line.
The deadline to extend copyright is in the next couple of years, or else new stuff starts entering the public domain again.
Disney's going to be buying a lot of really expensive steak dinners, hookers, and cocaine between now and then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:41 AM (ELUpj)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:41 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:41 AM (Nwg0u)
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"Only if it can be virulently anti-Catholic."
-Hollywood
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 09, 2017 11:42 AM (ELUpj)
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...and beer all week and every weekend, and pizza, and drugs, and...
Then, they graduate- with 1/3 or more of their classes being blogging, gender studies, cultural appropriation, white prilvige, and social justice- with tens of thousands in debt... and go on to their career in high finance.
That guy doing your books and taxes? Yeah, he thought that it was wise to take out a long term loan for spring break, beer, pizza, etc. and pay interest on it for 30 years. Let that settle in for a while.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (5M4cQ)
The reason it had to be debunked in print is because there were a shitload of death threats and eventually a crazy guy with a gun. Death threats to multiple businesses nearby.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (98RO2)
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You fvck with the mouse, you sleep with the fish.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Now worse than Hitler! at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (5HBd1)
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Since he was foretold in the Old Testament as the one who would come before the Messiah, and the Virgin Mary went to tell her cousin Elizabeth about her pregnancy, and Elizabeth herself said the baby she was carrying (John the Baptist) leapt for joy at Mary's news, and John was the forerunner of Jesus, declaring "Repent, for the Kingdom of God is near", and since Jesus Himself declared that there was no one ever born who was greater than John the Baptist .....
I wouldn't leave him on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 09, 2017 11:32 AM (lwiT4)
My wording is poor, and certainly no pun was intended.
Here's my thing about John. He's included in the Gospels precisely because the early Church was desperately trying to enlist the support of Jews who would see Jesus as the Messiah they had been waiting for.
John, if we can somehow separate out him as a real live human being, from his role, was no doubt a great man, with an important place in the life of Jesus. I just happen to think he's one of those guys whose story doesn't really add anything to the Gospel message, EXCEPT as a way to convince Jews to come on board.
So maybe he's as vital to the message as he needs to be, and belongs in the Gospel as is. For me though, I can note his place in the story, and leave it behind without necessarily giving it another thought.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 09, 2017 11:43 AM (TOk1P)
So Jesus's baptism was a farce or not necessary to the gospels?
Posted by: Jack Sock at March 09, 2017 11:49 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:49 AM (71OEY)
the mouse and many other characters they continue to mine for content
year after year."
Yeah. I'll believe that "there's a new broom sweeping clean" in D.C. as soon as I see stuff like infinitely elastic copyrights being done away with. No sign of it right now, that's for sure.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 09, 2017 11:50 AM (noWW6)
France was getting its butt kicked when Joan showed up. In fact, I think the Brits were about to win the whole thing.
So if God wanted France to exist a couple hundred years down the line (you know... maybe to side with a certain George Washington and keep the Brits of his back), then God intervened to preserve France.
God's overt intervention into human affairs waxes and wanes, but He most certainly intervenes. George Washington was clearly protected and inspired by God (indeed, the amount of sheer talent, skill, and incredible men that constituted the Founding Fathers is a pretty clear indicator of God's intervention).
World War II was another time where God sent lots of great men and women to stand up to pure evil.
And God has historically removed truly evil civilizations from the earth: the Aztecs, the Nazis, the Imperial Japanese, the Assyrians and Babylonians; even the Romans once they became evil. One of our greatest mercies were that God sent Reagan who defeated the Soviet Union without having to go to war or exchange nuclear weapons.
I think history is littered with evidence of God's intervening.
Posted by: Vanceone at March 09, 2017 11:50 AM (A9Gmy)
Posted by: Tuna at March 09, 2017 11:56 AM (Phln5)
Copyright law is one of exceedingly few areas that I don't mind being heavy handed. If Disney can milk the mouse until the end of time, I really don't have a problem with that.
There are limits and a good arguments to be had but, in general, I am not much of a fan of declaring anyone's work "public domain" because of a calendar. My stuff does not become your stuff because of the date. Screw you. Make your own stuff or pay me.
Posted by: Damiano at March 09, 2017 11:59 AM (71OEY)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 09, 2017 12:04 PM (XWkhW)
- textbook schizophrenia in our century"
Then, like now, we all have a really big problem when those voices turn out to be telling the truth.
And it's even worse when they start predicting the future. Accurately.
Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at March 09, 2017 12:04 PM (KeRkT)
Looks like a Dutch Masters version of Black Sabbath's first album cover.
ohmigod - that is so gloriously obscure - and you're right! It does!!!
Posted by: Ozzy O. at March 09, 2017 12:07 PM (KeRkT)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut IN at March 09, 2017 12:31 PM (CPk08)
Posted by: Robert Crawford at March 09, 2017 12:38 PM (QddDi)
Posted by: Robert Crawford at March 09, 2017 12:38 PM (QddDi)
Actually, a closer character in the Bible to Bombadil would be the priest Melchizedek. Dude just comes out of nowhere, very mysterious, but obviously of great power. NT compares him to Christ.
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