Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (6/27/17) The Second Monday of The Week Edition

(What rhymes with Valu-Rite?)

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Quotes of The Day

Quote I

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. Lee Iacocca

Quote II

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

Quote III

I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

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My late Father-in-Law was a model railroad enthusiast who spent hours on 2 different sets. I don't see him using these figures if he were alive today. h/t Hank Curmudgeon

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Black Rappers calling other Black men N***** is ok. Calling women Whores or Sluts is fine. Sing about the wanton destruction of human life and private property those are acceptable behaviors. But as an artist, don't you dare call for orderly and legal immigration.

In a Facebook statement yesterday, Castle Face Records criticized comments that musician couple Doris and Matthew Melton made during an interview with the French publication Still in Rock. While the California-based record label can’t pull the album it released in May, it vowed to donate profits from sales to charity.
“We’re horrified and ashamed by this, and we appreciate people being upset but respectful in letting us know how they felt about it,” the record label posted on Facebook.

Here's hoping this band goes on to making bigger and better albums and laughing all the way to the bank.

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Homosexuality. Illegal Aliens. Tax Dollars. Stir them all together and what do you get? A $20,000 musical.

“Using the Mime Troupe’s signature style of broad, physical theater, the work will explore immigration, gun violence, the opioid epidemic, depression, the public education system, and racial tensions, and how they relate to societal health,” according to the grant for the project. “Portions of the work will be developed through playmaking workshops in California’s Central Valley with low-income youth, inmates, and migrant workers.”

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Right, wrong or otherwise, the U.S.A. is playing the role of the world's policeman. U. S. Special Forces spread throughout the world.

Those numbers, however, only hint at the true size and scope of this global special ops effort. Last year, America’s most elite forces conducted missions in 138 countries—roughly 70 percent of the nations on the planet, according to figures supplied to TomDispatch by U.S. Special Operations Command.
Halfway through 2017, U.S. commandos have already been deployed to an astonishing 137 countries, according to SOCOM spokesman Ken McGraw.

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The ONT chuckles, We told you so!!

According to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research:
Using a variety of methods to analyze employment in all sectors paying below a specified real hourly rate, we conclude that the second wage increase to $13 reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by around 9 percent, while hourly wages in such jobs increased by around 3 percent. Consequently, total payroll fell for such jobs, implying that the minimum wage ordinance lowered low-wage employees’ earnings by an average of $125 per month in 2016. Evidence attributes more modest effects to the first wage increase. We estimate an effect of zero when analyzing employment in the restaurant industry at all wage levels, comparable to many prior studies.

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Steven Crowder becomes Bob Ross.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

June 27, 2002, One day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour, bass player John Entwistle, died aged 57 in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine. via thisdayinmusic.com

1987, Whitney Houston became the first women in US history to enter the album chart at No.1 with 'Whitney' she also became the first woman to top the singles chart with four consecutive releases when 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' hit No.1. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Had a young white male from Iowa burnt a mosque, we would all know about it. Young black Muslim woman, not so much.

A 22-year-old Muslim woman was arrested in Iowa after she was caught by security cameras setting fire to her own mosque.
From The Des Moines Register:
Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of starting a small fire at an Iowa mosque Thursday morning.
Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines about 10 a.m. There had been a small fire on the carpet, according to a Des Moines police report.

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Perhaps this should have been in the Quotes of The Day, "If you are still somehow paranoid about something this ridiculously stupid, I insist that use a condom. Mainly to stop you from reproducing." One of the ONT's favorite science sites.

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Tuition and fees at Lewis University are $29,040 USD without financial aid. With room, board, and other fees combined, total cost of attendance is $42,100 USD. Obviously Lewis University doesn't overcharge their students. They are seeking a Coordinator for Social Justice Pilgrimages.

“Pilgrimages are a unique combination of educational study, faith-based reflection, and social justice immersion,” the University Ministry’s website notes. “Through these immersive experiences, students will become educated about a current world social issue, grow deeper in their faith, and be inspired to work toward a more peaceful and just society.”

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Historically, June has always been the most popular month for weddings. The age of first marriages for men around the world.

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Addiction, is it a disease? Or is it a behavioral issue? Treating addiction as a disease makes it harder to treat.

Botticelli’s analogy doesn’t work. No amount of reward or punishment can alter the course of, say, brain cancer. It is an entirely autonomous biological condition. Imagine threatening to impose a penalty on a brain cancer victim if her vision or speech continued to worsen or to offer of $1 million if she could stay well. It wouldn’t matter.

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Karma strikes.

Have a blessed day.

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Everything you wanted to know about the email deletion flow chart. But, were afraid to ask.

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Legalized pot. Conflicting data on car accidents.

With marijuana legalization on the horizon, Canada may be looking south of the border for clues as to how cannabis impacts vehicle collision rates. But a pair of American studies released last week came came to seemingly opposite conclusions on whether rising marijuana use is causing an increase in car crashes in states that have legalized the drug.

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Winner of the The Feel Good Story of The Day and Genius Award Winner Meet.

Is you English bad? Genius Award Winner

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Woman helps those less fortunate. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:08 PM

Comments

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1 First!

Posted by: Unsure if deplorable, now with keys to the time machine at June 27, 2017 08:39 AM (9MlEz)

2
*TSST!*

*re-asserts dominance*

I am The Horde Wheeeesperer.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 09:57 PM (6gk0M)

3 rd!

Posted by: Hrothgar Political Consulting Done Dirt Cheap at June 27, 2017 09:57 PM (gwPgz)

4 I want the nine. It's mine.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (Id9+8)

5 Howdy, y'all.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (yzxic)

6 Behold my firstitude, ye fappers, and tremble!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (e9G8E)

7 What rhymes with Valu-Rite?

Vegamite

Posted by: f'd at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (BO/km)

8 Vodka too.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (Id9+8)

9 Mine?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (Id9+8)

10 You Time-Machine Wielding Wizard!

You have done it again, Son.

The Student has become The Master!

*bows*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (6gk0M)

11 *re-asserts dominance*

I am The Horde Wheeeesperer.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 09:57 PM (6gk0M)

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L O fcuking L!

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (QoDdh)

12 YAY!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (Id9+8)

13 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 27, 2017 09:59 PM (IcT7t)

14 "L O fcuking L!"
-Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 09:58 PM (QoDdh)

*HAH!* I'll eat my shit and probably stick to "NINE!" from now on!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 10:00 PM (6gk0M)

15 If you can find a better government, buy it.

Posted by: Lee Iacocca at June 27, 2017 10:01 PM (IqV8l)

16 top 20?

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:01 PM (v7o4i)

17 Witless Tools of the Left

America, and Western Civilization in general, has been co-opted by Cultural Marxists who have fundamentally transformed us. Thee are many good sources that succinctly and frighteningly lay out exactly how the virulent Left has done this.

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13590

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 27, 2017 10:01 PM (vBeA5)

18 Campus Socialists Go Full Jacobin

Stalin and Mao aren't the only ones the Leftist lunatics on college campuses look up to. They go way back and start itchin' to emulate the Jacobins of Revolutionary France.

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13533

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (vBeA5)

19 I'm in no ways tard.

Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (agoUM)

20 No not Vegamite, Vegemite. Yall know what I mint.

Posted by: f'd at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (BO/km)

21 The wizard shall be bowing out in a few posts. Just a little experiment that took 5 minutes, but i got a little carried away...

Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (Eynls)

22 Posted by: The Political Hat at June 27, 2017 10:01 PM (vBeA5)

Heinlein summarized this as "Bad Luck!"

Posted by: Hrothgar Political Consulting Done Dirt Cheap at June 27, 2017 10:03 PM (gwPgz)

23 In under 20?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 10:03 PM (TdMsT)

24 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2017 10:03 PM (9mOGz)

25 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (KCxzN)

26 I'm in no ways tard.

Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (agoUM)

Good thing, because it's going to be a early night!

Posted by: Will Bynn at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (gwPgz)

27 >> Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine

At least he died doing what he loved.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (6i8i1)

28 They go way back and start itchin' to emulate the Jacobins of Revolutionary France.

Right, dear Political Hat. The Leftist lunatics are unAmerican. They don't get Freedom/Responsibility/Authority.

They want Freedom/irresponsibility/Anarchy, which doesn't work. They've been lied to by the originator of lies.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (v7o4i)

29 Thermite

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (pUDQf)

30 well then

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

31 At least he died doing what he loved.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (6i8i1)

It does seem that are far worse ways to check out!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 27, 2017 10:05 PM (gwPgz)

32 pink floyd, the hairy, ass cling on, infected, of all things england.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 27, 2017 10:06 PM (KP5rU)

33 Who's eating tuna fish? Dammit, it's a brand new thread clean smelling and someone brings tuna fish in here??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:06 PM (pUDQf)

34 Portions of the work will be developed through playmaking workshops in
California's Central Valley with low-income youth, inmates, and migrant
workers.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 27, 2017 10:06 PM (Tyii7)

35
Right, wrong or otherwise, the U.S.A. is playing the role of the world's policeman.

Policemen are paid by the community they serve.
Is the world paying us?

Ha
Ha

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:06 PM (IqV8l)

36 Crowder got jacked

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (rmVvL)

37 Mmm, that apple looks good.

--Mrs. Franpsycho

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (EZebt)

38 The blueberry cobbler was well-received.

Posted by: Eromero at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (zLDYs)

39
Over at the Daily Caller, I see it's another day, another female teacher banging a student.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (8O3HH)

40 Who's eating tuna fish? Dammit, it's a brand new thread clean smelling and someone brings tuna fish in here??

Could be worse, could be untuned fish.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (IcT7t)

41 They've been lied to by the originator of lies.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:04 PM (v7o4i)

Pssst, don't worry, it'll work this time when YOU'll be the ones in charge!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (gwPgz)

42 All my teachers ever let me bang was the erasers...

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:08 PM (rmVvL)

43 Damn it ... can't wait until we get to go OT.

I got a present today

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:09 PM (fiGNd)

44 That picture of Mohammed could use a cabin.

I always like a little cabin.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (CPk08)

45 You can tune a piano...

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (agoUM)

46 wow, Dream Machine rocks. mixes the retro sound of the Doors' organ with Blondie's tone, but fresh.

Thanks, Mistah Humanitarian. you rock TOO

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (v7o4i)

47 There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

Much truth here. I don't know about the no happiness part, but there is great happiness in accomplishment.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (0mRoj)

48 "Halfway through 2017, U.S. commandos have already been deployed to an
astonishing 137 countries, according to SOCOM spokesman Ken McGraw."

Armed ambassadors, doing jobs the State Dept. can't/won't do. Unfucking things that the Kerry/Clinton/Obama machine wrought wrong.

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (d3wbb)

49 What rhymes with Valu-Rite?

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High a a kite?

Best ask Muldoon

Posted by: Javems at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (yOqwj)

50 "One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. Lee Iacocca"

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Of course they can't. The word profit is not in their lexicon. They literally have no experience with anything but spending/consumption of money.

Case in point: IRS takeover of The Mustang Ranch. These fcuking idiots went bust selling legal booze and poontang.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (QoDdh)

51 According to a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research

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No, duh.

I cannot wait to order my first McDonald's from a kiosk.

Minimum wage in SF goes to $14 on Sat. And $15 next year.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (EZebt)

52 Man, I hope Sarah Palin bankrupts the NY Slime.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (pUDQf)

53 Hugh Jackman to play Gary Hart in a movie called The Frontrunner...

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (rmVvL)

54 Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:10 PM (v7o4i)

You're welcome

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (ZTRlp)

55 good evening, Horde. Great ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (TdMsT)

56 I have a recipe for citrus Chrysler CEO mountain oyster. You put the lime on the Iacocca nuts ...

Posted by: Harry Nilsson at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (xAvrH)

57 Unfucking things that the Kerry/Clinton/Obama machine wrought wrong.

Then 137 countries is just the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (Tyii7)

58 "Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"

One of the best lines in a song ever.

Posted by: shibumi at June 27, 2017 10:12 PM (W4hSN)

59 What rhymes with Valu-Rite?

High as a kite?

Best ask Muldoon

Posted by: Javems at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (yOqwj)

Valu-Rite
gets you tight
amiright?

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 27, 2017 10:13 PM (gwPgz)

60 19 I'm in no ways tard.
Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (agoUM)

We don't call you "Corky" for nothing bitch.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 27, 2017 10:13 PM (//uTY)

61 "Night and day, you are the one
"Only you 'neath the moon or under the sun
"Whether near to me or far
"It's no matter, baby, where you are
"I think of you Valu-rite!"

Some people never remember the assignment.
.

Posted by: OregonGuy at June 27, 2017 10:13 PM (o8jYf)

62 I didn't really get the e-mail deletion flowchart, but I found this in a link there. It's pretty cool. Let it run for a few minutes.

http://flowingdata.com/2015/09/23/
years-you-have-left-to-live-probably/

Watching all the dots dropping off the line is a bit disconcerting, though.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 10:13 PM (sdi6R)

63 Over at the Daily Caller, I see it's another day, another female teacher banging a student.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (8O3HH)

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I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (QoDdh)

64 59 What rhymes with Valu-Rite?

High as a kite?

Best ask Muldoon

Posted by: Javems at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (yOqwj)

Valu-Rite
gets you tight
amiright?
Posted by: Hrothgar

Burma Shave!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (di1hb)

65 39
Over at the Daily Caller, I see it's another day, another female teacher banging a student.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (8O3HH)

It's no big deal. It's different when female teachers fuck their students.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (0mRoj)

66 Thermite and Vegamite. Also termite.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (pUDQf)

67 The wizard shall be bowing out in a few posts. Just a little experiment that took 5 minutes, but i got a little carried away...
Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (Eynls)

You figure out how to post forms to the anticipated comment thread number before the post is up? Then when the post goes up you automatically get first?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 27, 2017 10:15 PM (3JQ/p)

68 It's different when female teachers fuck their students.

Yes.

Posted by: Macron at June 27, 2017 10:15 PM (Tyii7)

69 Pssst, don't worry, it'll work this time when YOU'll be the ones in charge!
Posted by: Hrothgar

exactly, just like ol' Nicky said, you'll be a smart as God if you eat that fruit. He's just trying to oPPRESS you.

heh.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:16 PM (v7o4i)

70 @21

...the post isn't up yet that has a dozen or so Firsts! (unless pixy already did clean-up on aisle 4). When y'all see that, know that the end is near. Horsemen may be involved; about 4 of them, IIRC.

Or it might just indicate that my overenthusiastic joyride in the time machine is nearly over.

Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:16 PM (Eynls)

71 Could be worse, could be untuned fish.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Well, you can tune a piano
But you can't tuna fish

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at June 27, 2017 10:16 PM (S6Pax)

72 68
It's different when female teachers fuck their students.

Umm, I think it's kind of the other way around. What teenage boy would think of himself as having been raped? Does not compute.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (Cxofo)

73 Had a young white male from Iowa burnt a mosque, we would all know about it. Young black Muslim woman, not so much.

Let me guess ... it's like the gay Episcopal organist who drew swastikas on his own church.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (xAvrH)

74 Can't wait to talk about my present today.

But I'll wait. Don't want to hijack the thread.

*giggles*

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (fiGNd)

75 It's no big deal. It's different when female teachers fuck their students.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (0mRoj)

At least they are getting arrested and locked up. I haven't seen any get a pass for being a pedo. Unless I missed one.

Silly thing is, they are too stupid to realize that:
A. The boy she's fucking will tell all his buddies no matter how much he swears he won't.
B. He's likely to take pictures and share them with said buddies.
C. She will go to jail and never teach again. Except maybe in California.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (pUDQf)

76 Student headed to prion for registering dead voters for Democrats

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/268567/

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (rmVvL)

77 21 The wizard shall be bowing out in a few posts. Just a little experiment that took 5 minutes, but i got a little carried away...
Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (Eynls)

I have no idea how you did that, but it was mighty impressive.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (sdi6R)

78 C. She will go to jail and never teach again. Except maybe in California.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:17 PM (pUDQf)

Heh. Or go into pr0n.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (0mRoj)

79 I didn't really get the e-mail deletion flowchart, but I found this in a link there. It's pretty cool. Let it run for a few minutes.
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F*ck.

It says I have a 47% chance of 30-39 years more of life.

I was going for the "drop dead before retirement and leave a passable looking corpse" plan.

/the stats, they LIE!!!

Posted by: shibumi at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (W4hSN)

80 Moving the goalposts

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/268553/

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (rmVvL)

81 "The wizard shall be bowing out in a few posts. Just a little experiment that took 5 minutes, but i got a little carried away..."
-Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:02 PM (Eynls)

No, dude...

You won!

You Da Man.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (6gk0M)

82 @67

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:18 PM (Eynls)

83 Probably could have been first, but I read the content,and watched Crowder's entire video.

Sad about the Dutch girl plunging to her death, but bungee-jumping, in general, has a Darwin Award vibe to it.

Incidentally, does poor Otto Warmbier qualify for a Darwin Award?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:19 PM (XUcIQ)

84 39

Over at the Daily Caller, I see it's another day, another female teacher banging a student.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:07 PM (8O3HH)

That teacher is Teh Hawt! I wish I were 17 again so that I could be similarly "traumatised"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 27, 2017 10:19 PM (e9G8E)

85 Portions of the work will be developed through playmaking workshops in
California's Central Valley with low-income youth, inmates, and migrant
workers.
Just what those people need, learning how to write semi-literate play scripts where they whine about what sad, little victims they are. "semi-literate" is generous.
If whoever came up with this useless program really cared about low-income youth, inmates, and migrants, they'd put the money toward literacy or job training programs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 27, 2017 10:19 PM (+lVUW)

86 Sally Yates makes the case for yet another case of bureaucratic xenophobia
(or simply ... Not One Of Us)

"Surely [criminality is] not our bar. That's not the standard of conduct that we're looking for from our president or our administration," she said in a sweeping panel discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
"I mean, It shouldn't just be whether you've committed a felony or not. It should also be whether or not you're observing the kinds of norms that we've been talking about here today."

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at June 27, 2017 10:20 PM (e8kgV)

87 Thermite and Vegamite.

Here we go again. Vegamites are whats eats up Vegas. Vegemite you spread on some bread.

Posted by: f'd at June 27, 2017 10:20 PM (BO/km)

88 >>>When y'all see that, know that the end is near. Horsemen may be involved; about 4 of them, IIRC.

Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:16 PM

Stylin' and Profilin'!

WHOOOO!

Posted by: Nature Boy Ric Flair at June 27, 2017 10:22 PM (q1+kD)

89 Over at Gateway Pundit, Dick Durbin's office has emails from Crazy Scalise shooter. However... they won't release them.

Gee, I bet the story would be different if it was Sarah Palin and Gabrielle Giffords shooter. The media would be screaming 24/7. This time... not a peep.

Posted by: shibumi at June 27, 2017 10:22 PM (W4hSN)

90 does poor Otto Warmbier qualify for a Darwin Award?

No, suicide does not qualify for the Award. Going to NK goes beyond the stupidity required for consideration.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:22 PM (Cxofo)

91 Grrrr ...

... not a gun thread yet ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:22 PM (fiGNd)

92 I doubt we have full Ambassadors in 137 countries.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2017 10:23 PM (9TU00)

93
It was in Missouri -- if she wasn't a teacher, it would be fine. Age of consent is 17. The crime is the teacher-student relationship.

These ages of consent vary, with special "Romeo and Juliet" exceptions. I think in Missouri, it's 14, provided the other party is under 21. That's not criminal. But if the other party is 21+, the minimum is 17.

In some cases, you get ridiculous things where the sex is legal, but taking pictures of it is not.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:23 PM (8O3HH)

94 ... not a gun thread yet ...

So, how about those 1911s....

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:23 PM (Cxofo)

95 Slap! How are things?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 27, 2017 10:23 PM (KP5rU)

96 Woman phoned asking if we had vodka in a box. She calls every few days.

Posted by: Chappaqua Liquors at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (agoUM)

97 Lewis U?

Another batch of resumes I don't have to waste time on.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (26aeI)

98 There was a teacher at my high school who routinely did this sort of thing with a great number of my classmates with impunity, but what a minger she was! I never let her "traumatise" me, though...

She was nicknamed "Bird Legs"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (e9G8E)

99 National Sunglasses Day ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879750894509850624

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879750985438068736

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751277290422272

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751385272778756

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751492814680064

Posted by: kbdabear at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (AOrEZ)

100 I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (QoDdh)

The ScoggDog binary scale had not yet been invented, back when I was in high school, but applying it retroactively, the female teachers would have all been zeros.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (XUcIQ)

101 @83 AOP coulda binna contenda

No you couldn't. Look at the timestamp on 1...

Posted by: unsure if deplorable, now with keys to time machine at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (Eynls)

102 While listening to Whitney sing the National Anthem, I was moved by her voice to nearly weep.

I see there's another bit of content about the addiction as a disease vs. moral failing question and I assert: Disease.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (v7o4i)

103 I'm good, chavez. I'm tired after a good day's work.

How's life treating you?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (6gk0M)

104 100
I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago.

You have a point there.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (Cxofo)

105 Hola Pensacola and all the ships at sea.

Posted by: Deacon Blues at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (dZGNV)

106 what rhymes with "Valu-Rite"?

Easy. "Acute gastritis".

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 10:26 PM (CPk08)

107 Is you English bad? Genius Award Winner

That's horrible. Were there any witnesses? There should be an investigation, sounds like a murder.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2017 10:26 PM (xAvrH)

108
The ScoggDog binary scale had not yet been invented, back when I was in high school, but applying it retroactively, the female teachers would have all been zeros.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM

They could have been double naught spies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:26 PM (IqV8l)

109 More National Sunglasses Day ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751598355959810

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751699736428544

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751800999604224

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751895467905024

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/879751993870495746

Posted by: kbdabear at June 27, 2017 10:26 PM (AOrEZ)

110 great, my friend. lifes good. thanks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 27, 2017 10:26 PM (KP5rU)

111
High school, 10th grade algebra teacher. Smokin' hottie.

She used to sit up on desk, and you could get a glimpse of upper thigh.

All us boys were so well-behaved in her class. Hell, we all had constant boners busting at our zippers. You didn't dare stand up.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:27 PM (8O3HH)

112
Incidentally, does poor Otto Warmbier qualify for a Darwin Award?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:19 PM (XUcIQ)

Nobody liked Warmbier, the NORKs did him a favor and put him on ice

Posted by: Cervesa fria aqui at June 27, 2017 10:27 PM (NLaFJ)

113 Right, wrong or otherwise, the U.S.A. is playing the role of the world's policeman. U. S. Special Forces spread throughout the world.

It's nature, There will always be a top dog, a king of the hill, the one world's top superpower; the one who puts its foot down. I am most comfortable that it is the USA. I do not begrudge one tax dollar for defense.

I respect and honor the men and women who willingly volunteer to serve our country and defend and project liberty. It is the great shame of this country that we do not support them completely when they get home. - I'm talking to you, VA.-

Posted by: gNewt at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (6iw++)

114 10th grade boys had constant boners even if the teacher looked like Mr.Ed...

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (rmVvL)

115 Weasel Zippers is saying that Dick Durbin has email from the attempted mass murderer Hodgekinson and won't turn it over to the investigation. Anyone else hearing this from an original source?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (sEDyY)

116

You'll the charge against that hottie teacher is "sexual contact by a teacher with a student". That's the crime. Were she not a teacher, or he not a student, AOK.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:29 PM (8O3HH)

117 115 Well,the FBI probably isn't interested anyway.It was a random and spontaneous shooting after all...

Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:29 PM (rmVvL)

118 As pointed out above, we have embassies in every semi-civilized nation on Earth, and each of those is staffed by military attaches and Marines. Are they going around wiping out the indigenous fold willy-nilly, as implied by this statistic. Well, no. It is another example of fake news.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:30 PM (Cxofo)

119 Oh man. Durbin's such a dirtbag. I would enjoy seeing him get into hot water.

I've emailed him, requesting that he support the President because of most of Illinois voting for him, but have gotten form letters back that made my blood boil.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:30 PM (v7o4i)

120 Lewis U?

Another batch of resumes I don't have to waste time on.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (26aeI)

=======

I've bern a hiring manager for 15 years. For the last ten, I have listed the positions (Sales) myself. I found that the eternal bane of any company, HR, was only sending me double plus good think and background type resumes.

I want Sales pros, and those do not come from the twinks from places like Mizzou and Lewis.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:32 PM (QoDdh)

121 I respect Puddles as much as anybody, but that's just wrong. Sacrilegious, like doing a remake of Citizen Kane.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2017 10:32 PM (xAvrH)

122 My HS bio teacher was hot. The boys would basically be drooling during class.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books at June 27, 2017 10:34 PM (hMwEB)

123 well if the assassin sent durbin emails the the nsa has them somewhere, as does his internetss provider, various devices. you wold think durbin would want to get ahead of the game and cooperate.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:34 PM (0wem/)

124 114 10th grade boys had constant boners even if the teacher looked like Mr.Ed...
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (rmVvL)

Willllllllllllllbur

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 10:35 PM (ZTRlp)

125 100 I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM (QoDdh)

The ScoggDog binary scale had not yet been invented, back when I was in high school, but applying it retroactively, the female teachers would have all been zeros.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (XUcIQ)

My Sophomore Geometry teacher had a Christina Hendricks vibe. And I was no fool - even back then.

I'm just sayin' ... yeah. But I would have kept that shit under wraps.

No Gun Thread yet ? Grrr ...

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:35 PM (fiGNd)

126 The ScoggDog binary scale had not yet been invented, back when I was in high school, but applying it retroactively, the female teachers would have all been zeros.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:24 PM (XUcIQ)

=======

I had a couple of student teachers and regular teachers (ne each) that definitely would have lit up a one on 16 year old Scoggs binary scale.

Alas, nothing.

Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:36 PM (QoDdh)

127
10th grade boys had constant boners even if the teacher looked like Mr.Ed...
Posted by: steevy

Especially if she looked like Wilbur's wife.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:36 PM (IqV8l)

128 My math teacher was an ex-Marine who told us that he knew 20 ways to kill someone with his bare hands. No boners there.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:36 PM (Cxofo)

129 Evening Horde, LadyL!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2017 10:37 PM (tr2D7)

130

You know, I liked Wilbur and all, but I did wonder about that boy. He was married to Connie Hines, and he seemed to prefer to hang around with me all the time.

Posted by: Mr. Ed at June 27, 2017 10:38 PM (8O3HH)

131 dick "dick" durbin has as much credibility as a local meth head selling magazine subscriptions for gas money. penis sipper on the side. way to go shitcago!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 27, 2017 10:38 PM (KP5rU)

132 A California male doctor is criminally charged with having sex with 16/17 year old male patients. not rape rape $3million bail....the same state that forces its K-12 students to be taught Harvey Milk Day is a good thing. Can someone explain this?

Posted by: torabora at June 27, 2017 10:38 PM (6dFYM)

133 the stupid thing, though, about treating addiction as a disease is giving the addict drugs to help him through it.

long-term behavioral change with 24/7 peer support, one day at a time, works.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:38 PM (v7o4i)

134 No Gun Thread yet ? Grrr ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:35 PM

*points to thread title*

ahem

Posted by: that guy that says "ahem" at June 27, 2017 10:39 PM (XHDeu)

135 >>>My late Father-in-Law was a model railroad enthusiast who spent hours on 2 different sets. I don't see him using these figures if he were alive today.

What a screwy train.

Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at June 27, 2017 10:40 PM (xAvrH)

136 104
Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:25 PM (Cxofo)

Geez, I just read the link in your nick. Yikes.

I've never had a cell phone, so I don't miss them.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 10:41 PM (sdi6R)

137 Connie Hines was quite racktastic:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yaly925f

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:41 PM (XUcIQ)

138 My sixth grade teacher was a smokeshow. Absolutely beautiful. My first crush (I was maybe eleven?).
Mom used to buy me bottles of wine with my lawnmower money to take her her Christmas, birthday and holidays - Blue Nun was the only wine I knew, son that's what she got.

She even used to come visit the house occasionally. I was so sweet on her, but wouldn't have known what to do if she was sitting on my lap...

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (//uTY)

139 the stupid thing, though, about treating addiction as a disease is giving the addict drugs to help him through it.

long-term behavioral change with 24/7 peer support, one day at a time, works.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:38 PM (v7o4i)

There's good (and easy) money to be made with a drug regimen. One day at a time is a lot of work over a long period of time!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (gwPgz)

140 Geez, I just read the link in your nick. Yikes.

Yeah, there is no doubt about it at all. EVERYTHING we say within hearing distance of our "devices" is being recorded and scanned for keywords.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (Cxofo)

141 Elvis' Comeback Special was on this date...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJd-av4HgRw

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (PUmDY)

142
Hell, I wouldn't bungee jump with the bungee cord attached.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:43 PM (sQ1li)

143 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:43 PM (sQ1li)

Lol no shit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 10:45 PM (ZTRlp)

144 114 10th grade boys had constant boners ~~even if the teacher looked like Mr.Ed...~~
Posted by: steevy at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (rmVvL)

Can stop right there.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 10:45 PM (0mRoj)

145 134 No Gun Thread yet ? Grrr ...
Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:35 PM

*points to thread title*
ahem
Posted by: that guy that says "ahem" at June 27, 2017 10:39 PM (XHDeu)

A fine point. Thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate it.

I PUT NEW SIGHTS ON THE .357 MAGNUM !!! THEY'RE AWESOME !!!

Went with the Williams Fire Sights. Took five minutes. Bore sighted them.

Just damn awesome. Ordered a case of Prvi Partizan to break 'em in.

Have a good evening all. Was nice talking with you.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2017 10:45 PM (fiGNd)

146
Yeah, there is no doubt about it at all. EVERYTHING we say within hearing distance of our "devices" is being recorded and scanned for keywords.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (Cxofo)

That Bungee jumping instructor doesn't have to worry about stuff like that.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:46 PM (rZ+mb)

147

They need to bring back those torpedo bras, aka bullet bras.

In fact, we need to demand it.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:46 PM (8O3HH)

148

On Tuesday, 8,500 African migrants are reaching Italian shores aboard 14 different ships, adding to the 5,000 who arrived on Monday. The massive arrivals have led local media as well as politicians to speak of an authentic immigrant “invasion” exceeding the country’s capacity of assimilation.

Officials reported on June 15 that more than 65,000 migrants had arrived since the beginning of the year, but that was prior to the latest influx. Figures for the year now stand at 73,380 migrants into Italy, or a rise of 14.42 percent over the same period in 2016, when then-record arrivals had reached 64,133.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:46 PM (IqV8l)

149 What's up, Horde?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 10:47 PM (rJUlF)

150 yeah nothing like tourist hot spot recreational guides to keep you safe. somewhere in mexico some parasailing guy had an underpowered boat. he tried to get his client into the air but did not have enough power to do it quickly enough to miss another boat. the client hit the other boat, had his legs removed by the boat, and the parasailing guide cut the rope and took off.

mexico.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:47 PM (0wem/)

151 Using the Mime Troupe's signature style of broad, physical theater, the work will explore

Once you see the phrase, "this work will explore" ... there's no need to read any further. Just avoid whatever it is they're peddling.

Posted by: Ozzy Osbourne at June 27, 2017 10:48 PM (xAvrH)

152 149
What's up, Horde?

Apparently, teenage boners are the subject du jour.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:48 PM (Cxofo)

153 thanks for the link, Cosmic Charlie.

I love Elvis. very much.

I watched "Elvis on Tour" today, just because. but that comeback special, he was the epitome of smokin. in that leather suit. my gott.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:48 PM (v7o4i)

154 why is everyone going for these biometric scanners? when will we start making some bioimperial models?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:49 PM (0wem/)

155 On Tuesday, 8,500 African migrants are reaching Italian shores aboard 14 different ships, adding to the 5,000 who arrived on Monday.
------------

See: 'The Camp of the Saints'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:49 PM (sQ1li)

156 wow, everyone kicks down the door to claim a great table and then leaves after having a coke?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:50 PM (0wem/)

157 why is everyone going for these biometric scanners? when will we start making some bioimperial models?
Posted by: yankeefifth
-----------

It's a commie plot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:50 PM (sQ1li)

158 It's a commie plot.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June

trying to steal our precious fluids.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:51 PM (0wem/)

159 Perhaps this should have been in the Quotes of The Day, "If you are still somehow paranoid about something this ridiculously stupid, I insist that use a condom. Mainly to stop you from reproducing." One of the ONT's favorite science sites.

So the doctor spanked the newborn and it started to cry. The woman said, "Thank goodness it didn't bark!"

Posted by: Just the punchline at June 27, 2017 10:51 PM (xAvrH)

160 Hell, I wouldn't bungee jump with the bungee cord attached.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:43 PM (sQ1li)

Remember when some reporter downloaded a bunch of files off a private file server for that Cali supreme court justice (a non-lefitst) and it was reported that there was nasty porn in there? What was the justice's name, Alex Kozinski, I think?

They "reported" there was beastiality and scatological porn ... Well, what was the "scatological" porn? It was a picture of a guy, who had gone bungee jumping and shit himself, dangling on the end of the bungee cord.

The beastiality part was ... a video of some idiot who had tried to take a piss in a field who when the bull, there, noticed him and started chasing him around.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:51 PM (rZ+mb)

161 Yeah, there is no doubt about it at all. EVERYTHING we say within hearing distance of our "devices" is being recorded and scanned for keywords.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (Cxofo)

That is an interesting story in your link. Not owning a smart phone, I cannot really comment. But it seems to me there should be a ready market for "blinders" and "earmuffs" to put on smartphones, to render them blind and deaf to their surroundings, until the user decides to permit them to see/hear.

Or else hack the phone to put in a shorting switch for the mic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (XUcIQ)

162 149
What's up, Horde?

Apparently, teenage boners are the subject du jour.

None of my high school teachers would rate a one on the binary scale, except for one of my high school art teachers. She was also a shrew, which cancelled out any potential boners.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (rJUlF)

163 JUNE 27.
The first big Clinton holiday is June 27, CLINTON ARIZONA DAY.

That's the day we all put out the Arizona sunburst flag to remember Bill Clinton's June 27, 2016, accidental secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in her airplane on the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

On this day this year, all of us will get together secretly with the prosecutor investigating our closest relative and talk about golf and grandchildren.

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (e8kgV)

164 trying to steal our precious fluids.
Posted by: yankeefifth
---------

Exactly. They're after our radical moisture.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)

165 153, whole show used to be on yt. It is amazing.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 10:53 PM (PUmDY)

166 Addition is a "sorta" disease. It's a disease in that BEING an addict isn't something you should be ashamed of. It's not a disease in that you are responsible for your actions. It's a disease in that you must have help and others should help you. It isn't a disease in that others can't fix things by acting on you: you have to act on yourself. The problem is that our notion of "disease" is basically something that can primarily be fixed by someone else acting on your body, and this is not true of addiction, but our notion of moral responsibility imagines an essentially unlimited scope of free will over purely cognitive (as opposed to emotive) events, and this is not true under compulsion.

The notion of "compulsive behavior" is one that many systems of ethics break down on. Best not to adopt simple psychologies. Biology is complicated. Minds are even more complicated.

my $0.02

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 10:53 PM (CPk08)

167 There's good (and easy) money to be made with a drug regimen. One day at a time is a lot of work over a long period of time!
Posted by: Hrothgar

the exploitation of addicts is so sick!

treatment plus long-term living (at least a year) in self run self supported and zero tolerant single gender Oxford Houses is super effective. one day at a time's all we get

but it does work.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:53 PM (v7o4i)

168 That is an interesting story in your link. Not owning a smart phone, I cannot really comment. But it seems to me there should be a ready market for "blinders" and "earmuffs" to put on smartphones, to render them blind and deaf to their surroundings, until the user decides to permit them to see/hear.

Or else hack the phone to put in a shorting switch for the mic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June

there are pouches that you can buy that will block their ability to send or receive a signal. some have removable batteries but it seems that feature is being phased out as quickly as possible.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 10:54 PM (0wem/)

169 It's not a disease in that you are responsible for your actions.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 10:53 PM (CPk0

Addicts certainly ARE responsible for their actions.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (rZ+mb)

170
That blind and deaf smartphone...

Sure plays a mean pinball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (IqV8l)

171 Wow, MisHum, a veritable plethora, indeed, a cornucopic garden of delightful content. An exquisite dessert for the previous fun thread. Thank you!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (DMUuz)

172 Crowder is a wild man .

The Dream Machine is retro cool.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (IDPbH)

173
This ... ONT
has the flavor of weird dave.

Might have been the music,
might have been the clown.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (m9X4Y)

174 Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 10:53 PM

I was just emphatically agreeing with your point, there.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:56 PM (rZ+mb)

175
The dream machine, "I walk in fire" had a better beat.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at June 27, 2017 10:56 PM (m9X4Y)

176 165 153, whole show used to be on yt. It is amazing.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at

it's playing, just one song at a time, in a series of videos. I'm letting it play!

I own it on VHS. *blushes*

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:57 PM (v7o4i)

177 140 Geez, I just read the link in your nick. Yikes.

Yeah, there is no doubt about it at all. EVERYTHING we say within hearing distance of our "devices" is being recorded and scanned for keywords.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 10:42 PM (Cxofo)

I saw this in the Wall Street Journal today:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ycgv8ov5

It's behind the paywall, but the first paragraph is enough to get the gist of it.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 10:57 PM (sdi6R)

178

Oh, another one I almost forgot. Senior year of high school. Another smoking hottie teacher joined the faculty. I remember her name, but won't say it. She would walk by the gym, during lunch, and all the boys would hoop and holler.

She made out like she was appalled and the principal told us, uh them to stop it now, boys, or I'm gonna get mad, but damn, if she didn't keep walking by.

And a couple of coaches (and boy, I hated those guys -- parodies of "dumb jock", they were) would try to put moves on her. The head football would visibly suck in his gut, and tense his muscles and strut. Peacocking.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 10:57 PM (8O3HH)

179 I got married at 35. That's a good thing because if I had gotten married in my 20s it would have been a disaster.

Posted by: f'd at June 27, 2017 10:58 PM (BO/km)

180 time to break out popcorn seems antifa is hitting gettysburg over this upcoming weekend. wonder if they realise those re-enactors use real guns loaded with paper wads but still have the bullets if needed

Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 10:58 PM (6vcUG)

181 You know, I liked Wilbur and all, but I did wonder about that boy. He was married to Connie Hines, and he seemed to prefer to hang around with me all the time.

Posted by: Mr. Ed

Heh, imagine a parody of Equus with Mr. Ed and Wilbur as Alan Strang.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2017 10:59 PM (xAvrH)

182
time to break out popcorn seems antifa is hitting gettysburg over this upcoming weekend. wonder if they realise those re-enactors use real guns loaded with paper wads but still have the bullets if needed
Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 10:58 PM

Get close enough the wad will hurt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:59 PM (IqV8l)

183 Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (DMUuz)

Where do I mail my thank you card?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:00 PM (ZTRlp)

184 Remember when some reporter downloaded a bunch of files off a private file server for that Cali supreme court justice (a non-lefitst) and it was reported that there was nasty porn in there? What was the justice's name, Alex Kozinski, I think?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:51 PM (rZ+mb)

He's on the Federal 9th circuit.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 27, 2017 11:00 PM (vBeA5)

185 The notion of "compulsive behavior" is one that many systems of ethics break down on. Best not to adopt simple psychologies. Biology is complicated. Minds are even more complicated.

my $0.02
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut

Well, well well said.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:00 PM (v7o4i)

186 >>>Addition is a "sorta" disease.

Is that why there's a math quarantine on this blog?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2017 11:01 PM (xAvrH)

187 182
time to break out popcorn seems antifa is hitting gettysburg over this upcoming weekend. wonder if they realise those re-enactors use real guns loaded with paper wads but still have the bullets if needed
Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 10:58 PM

Get close enough the wad will hurt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2017 10:59 PM (IqV8l)

Bayonets will hurt even more.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:01 PM (sdi6R)

188 Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 10:58 PM

Get close enough the wad will hurt.

Be a real shame if some assholes got hurt.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:01 PM (Cxofo)

189 I saw the article on Dream Machine over the weekend, and their music is pretty good. It reminds me of late 60s/early 70 psychedelic rock, probably because of the retro instruments they use. I think they should ease off the echo/reverb, though.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:01 PM (rJUlF)

190 He's on the Federal 9th circuit.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 27, 2017 11:00 PM (vBeA5)

Oh, right. Thanks, Hat.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 11:01 PM (rZ+mb)

191
Another one of those coaches taught a "science" class, hell, 9th grade something I think. That was when I began to realize things about teachers. They weren't necessarily so smart.

He did some demonstration of H2 and O2, making a little "pop" -- he was just reading from a book, basically.

Then he commented that was the principle on which the "hydrogen bomb" was based. That's when I realized, "Gosh, that man's supposed to be a teacher, and he's dumb as a box of rocks!" Gee, Wally.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:02 PM (8O3HH)

192 Addicts certainly ARE responsible for their actions.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 10:55 PM (rZ+mb)

Well yeah, I agree. But that's a (useful) social standard, not a purely biological one. In most disease, we don't hold people responsible for the progression of the disease itself (ie if someone gets cancer, we on't say "You did something wrong, so it went to your liver".) But in addiction, people are held responsible for the progression of the disease (ie worsening behavior). So in that way, we don't see it so much as a disease. But everybody who looks at an addict sees a person who needs help, and feels we should help them, which is how we DO look at disease.

It just doesn't fit neatly into intuitions about "disease". In a philosophical way, addicts were far better served by ideas of demonic possession, frankly: the psychology was better, even if the science (and therapy) sucked.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 11:02 PM (CPk08)

193 Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (rJUlF)

Do HS boys know what a shrew is?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:03 PM (ZTRlp)

194 193 Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 10:52 PM (rJUlF)

Do HS boys know what a shrew is?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:03 PM (ZTRlp)

Yes, but they usually call them bitches.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)

195 The feel good story ...really struck a chord. Exactly what I hope and pray for my kid too when she grows up.

Posted by: IC at June 27, 2017 11:04 PM (aSw2V)

196 all right. I'm babbling now. G'night all.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 11:04 PM (CPk08)

197 Evening horde

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 27, 2017 11:04 PM (IYHxL)

198 what I loved about Elvis was his over the top poses, like lunges and kicks and stuff. makes me smile.

he could pull off that jumpsuit. in 1970, Vegas, there wasn't anything better.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:05 PM (v7o4i)

199 Booknlass, kind of crazy, Bowie worshipped him (as everyone should)....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UHZ_62GCI

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 11:05 PM (PUmDY)

200 Is there a twelve-step program for Jane's Addiction?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2017 11:05 PM (v5iqM)

201 I have seen a lot of addiction in my life (including my late wife of 49 years' alcoholism and cigarette addiction) and while it is perhaps not a disease, it is certainly a real thing. The victims are no less victims than those suffering from cancer or heart disease.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:05 PM (Cxofo)

202 am i an asshole that when the rehab commercial comes on the tv in a bar i say loudly yeah its the only disease where the cure is to do nothing

Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 11:06 PM (6vcUG)

203 "Addiction", rather like "homelessness" is never the core problem, it's just one of the more salient symptoms of the underlying pathology...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at June 27, 2017 11:06 PM (e9G8E)

204 Do HS boys know what a shrew is?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:03 PM (ZTRlp)

I did. Studied Shakespeare in Freshman English Lit.

Yes, but they usually call them bitches.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 11:04 PM (0mRoj)

I was a little more...cultured...then. The Horde is "helping" with that, but sometimes I slip up...

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:07 PM (rJUlF)

205 did y'all know Whitney's mama sang backup for Elvis? of course you did.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:08 PM (v7o4i)

206 Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:07 PM (rJUlF)

You're a moron in good standing

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:10 PM (ZTRlp)

207
I remember I think it was Eddie Murphy doing some bit about Elvis, fat Elvis farting on stage, "Uh, 'scuse me, 'scuse me" in an Elvis voice.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:10 PM (8O3HH)

208 Salut night!

Used to love singing this Entwistle tune with my children . . . http://tinyurl.com/9m72l84

Posted by: Locke Common at June 27, 2017 11:11 PM (zSXXo)

209 You're a moron in good standing
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2017 11:10 PM (ZTRlp)

I hope someday I can upgrade my membership from Cardboard to Formica.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:11 PM (rJUlF)

210 I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago.
Posted by: GOULD at June 27, 2017 10:14 PM

Twinkles in their daddy's eyes.

Posted by: Zoltar at June 27, 2017 11:11 PM (DMUuz)

211
Dick Durbin before he dicks you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 27, 2017 11:11 PM (pNxlR)

212 So Scogg just drops his gun newz and splitz? OK.

Must be a huntin' .357? Otherwise, why the need for special sights? I find the factory adjustable sights on a K-frame or a King Cobra just fine, but I don't hunt.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2017 11:12 PM (mBYZv)

213 >> Twinkles in their daddy's eyes.

Tingles in their daddy's crotches.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:13 PM (8O3HH)

214 G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at June 27, 2017 11:13 PM (6gk0M)

215 For those headed to Gettysburg -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ogJlaLi3k

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2017 11:13 PM (9TU00)

216 Why is addiction not referred to as a mental disease as are other self destructive behaviors. Or is it? I just hear people refer to it as a disease.

Posted by: Jack Sock at June 27, 2017 11:14 PM (IDPbH)

217 But everybody who looks at an addict sees a person who needs help, and feels we should help them, which is how we DO look at disease.

I don't generally feel that way. Addicts made their choice long before (excepting, of course, those who got addicted out of no fault of their own) and that is where the responsibility ultimately lies. That their addiction gets worse is no excuse. THey still hold full responsibility.

It just doesn't fit neatly into intuitions about "disease". In a philosophical way, addicts were far better served by ideas of demonic possession, frankly: the psychology was better, even if the science (and therapy) sucked.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at June 27, 2017 11:02 PM (CPk0

Most of the bullshit, these days, in trying to to label all personality problems and mental issues "diseases" (which is mostly done just to release a vast array of criminals from any criminal liability) is a seriously twisted pursuit. People who are evil and fucked up are not merely "suffering" from some mental "disease". THey are fucked up people who, ordinarily, would have been taken out of the evolutionary competition.

The courts have made a mockery of the concept of human consciousness and free will. Basically, the courts don't even believe that either of those two things exist, and it has been the clear goal of all associated with the courts (on the left) to eventually declare that no one is responsible for anything ... because there is no such thing as free will. This is going badly now and will end very, very badly - as well it should.

Addicts and all the other sorts of fucked up head cases and evil shits have to be held responsible for ALL their actions. This doesn't mean that one has to make any moral judgments about them but they need to be held legally responsible for everything they do, whether they felt "compelled" to do it, whether they were blacked-out in one fo their usual fucked up states while they did it, whether they had any "knowledge" that what they were doing was bad or wrong. None of those particulars really matter when it comes down to one person's actions causing consequences for others. But the lefties currently trying to make a disaster of the law are trying to assign moral judgments, surreptitiously, in place of legal judgments and then trying to have them all rendered moot because they don't believe in free will, to start with.

It's intensely infuriating to watch all this stuff go on ... and the idea that the poor, widdle addicts are victims of their own minds the same way that others become victims of their later actions is an insidious concept that needs to killed sometime soon.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 11:15 PM (rZ+mb)

218 Bowie worshipped him (as everyone should)....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UHZ_62GCI
Cosmic Charlie

something I did Not know.

My son played the title song of Bowie's last album for me in my truck in a parking lot a couple days after he died. My my. what an eerie sound, a brilliant use of his certainty that when the album was heard, he'd be gone, and it would be a voice from beyond.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:16 PM (v7o4i)

219
Another one of those coaches taught a "science" class, hell, 9th grade something I think. That was when I began to realize things about teachers. They weren't necessarily so smart.

Remember the preference cascade:

Those who cannot do, teach.

Those who cannot teach, teach gym.

Those who cannot teach gym, teach drivers' ed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 27, 2017 11:16 PM (pNxlR)

220 I hope someday I can upgrade my membership from Cardboard to Formica.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread
----------

Cardboard? You have cardboard?
Mine seems to be paper mache...and smells suspiciously of septic tank.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 11:17 PM (OdK9v)

221 >> Twinkles in their daddy's eyes.

Tingles in their daddy's crotches.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear

Glorp in their mommie's turkey baster.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at June 27, 2017 11:17 PM (xAvrH)

222 Does Puddles always intentionally get one line wrong in every song he covers? What a dick.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at June 27, 2017 11:17 PM (xzV6l)

223 216 Why is addiction not referred to as a mental disease as are other self destructive behaviors. Or is it? I just hear people refer to it as a disease.
Posted by: Jack Sock

it is, Jack. by many people. mental, physical and spiritual

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:18 PM (v7o4i)

224 Did I read somewhere that Bernie Sanders says his wife is the most honest person he knows?
Well, he's a socialist who hangs out with Democrats so I rate that claim as true.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at June 27, 2017 11:18 PM (nBr1j)

225 216
Why is addiction not referred to as a mental disease as are other self
destructive behaviors. Or is it? I just hear people refer to it as a
disease.

From my observations, addiction and mental illness are often intermingled. My late wife was not only addictive, but also suffered from mental illness for the last 30 years of her life. She would sometimes end up in mental wards for a few weeks or as much as a couple of months, and one of the common denominators among the patients was that the were virtually ALL addicted to cigarettes. Hospitals with no smoking rules had to provide a smoking place, at least up until a dozen or so years ago. It's part of the package that the mentally ill have substance addictions. It is explained as attempted self-medication, but I don't know. Anyway, it is like a syndrome.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:19 PM (Cxofo)

226 129 Evening Horde, LadyL!
Posted by: Tonypete at June 27, 2017 10:37 PM (tr2D7)

Good evening Tonypete! I hope you are doing fine.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:19 PM (TdMsT)

227 I wish I never had to learn as much about mental illness as I have in the past 4 years, but I've come to the conclusion that all addiction is a symptom of untreated mental illness. And most mental illness can be avoided through intact, loving families.

People who had healthy childhoods rarely become addicts. It won't inoculate 100% percent of the cases, but damn close.

Posted by: Oschisms at June 27, 2017 11:20 PM (70QTT)

228 Cardboard? You have cardboard?
Mine seems to be paper mache...and smells suspiciously of septic tank.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 11:17 PM (OdK9v)

Don't be jealous. Mine has grease stains and smells like anchovies.

I don't even like anchovies.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:21 PM (rJUlF)

229 About that special forces stuff.

I'd bet what's in my wallet, or more, that 95% of those missions (countries) involve training and coordination - not trigger pulling or going in harm's way.

It's what some of our post-WWII special forces were really specifically created for (Green Berets).

Anyway, we've had special forces in hot situations, or warm situations, battling whatever the local flavor of AQ is, since 9/11, mostly in Africa and Indian Ocean littoral countries. To great effect. Not that seems to matter to people, much.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2017 11:21 PM (mBYZv)

230 Soundtrack for the bad English story:

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Kb9P8BLipqo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Unwoking Dead at June 27, 2017 11:22 PM (Nwg0u)

231 Listening to Dream machine right now. I hear echoes of the '70's. Innagaddavida, even.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 11:23 PM (XUcIQ)

232 228 Cardboard? You have cardboard?
Mine seems to be paper mache...and smells suspiciously of septic tank.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2017 11:17 PM (OdK9v)

Don't be jealous. Mine has grease stains and smells like anchovies.

I don't even like anchovies.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:21 PM (rJUlF)

My membership came as a puff of air from the sewer grate down the block. Perhaps I should donate some $$ to Ace?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:23 PM (TdMsT)

233 odd, or perhaps not...

Elvis and Whitney died of untreated alcoholism/addiction.
Entwistle, above, died the addict's death.
"Wish You Were Here" is addressed to Sid, who lost his mind from too much acid.

Bowie was clean and sober. very quietly. just a thread, I see.

Ruthless, I'm sorry you had to experience such sorrow.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:24 PM (v7o4i)

234 Well, good night all. I usually just lurk, but it's fun to join in the hilarity.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:24 PM (Cxofo)

235 52 Man, I hope Sarah Palin bankrupts the NY Slime.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 27, 2017 10:11 PM (pUDQf)

Never happen.

Carlos Slim will just raise telephone rates in Mexico so that he can come up with the cash to pay her off.

Funny how everyone forgets that Mexico's biggest oligarch owns the US newspaper that pushes the open borders so much. Could it be that old Carlos gets more money from all those long distance calls and cash wires from the US to Mexico?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac asks "Who Hungry" at June 27, 2017 11:25 PM (1JnAL)

236 "Wish You Were Here" is addressed to Sid, who lost his mind from too much acid.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:24 PM (v7o4i)

I highly doubt it was from the acid.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 27, 2017 11:26 PM (rZ+mb)

237 The substances that one gets addicted to (or the hookers, or the gambling, or the shopping) are an attempt to distract oneself from the feelings that we find so difficult to handle.

I've always had anxiety. I just didn't know what it was until my breakdown. Now I know why I drank/smoked so much. My internal life is painful without medication.

Posted by: Oschisms at June 27, 2017 11:27 PM (70QTT)

238 Ruthless, I'm sorry you had to experience such sorrow. Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:24 PM (v7o4i)
Thank you. She passed six years ago last week at 70. I am fine and having a second go at life.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:27 PM (Cxofo)

239 Another thundershower rolling through. I hope my pork tenderloin on the grille gets done before the wind and rain get too intense.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 11:27 PM (XUcIQ)

240 Hello, Horde.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 11:32 PM (Id9+8)

241 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 11:27 PM (XUcIQ)

It's a bit late to be cooking.......but I like your style

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 27, 2017 11:33 PM (IYHxL)

242 240 Hello, Horde.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 11:32 PM (Id9+

Hi Miley! How is life treating you?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:33 PM (TdMsT)

243 Miley!!!!!

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:33 PM (rJUlF)

244 hi, Miley

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:33 PM (v7o4i)

245 Ruthless, good to "see" you. Feel free to post whenever you feel like it.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:34 PM (rJUlF)

246 Good evening, Miss Miley.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 27, 2017 11:34 PM (IcT7t)

247 Miley, good evening.

Posted by: thathalfrican - new faces tie like shoelaces at June 27, 2017 11:35 PM (IYHxL)

248 245
Ruthless, good to "see" you. Feel free to post whenever you feel like it.

Thanks. I really should do more than lurk. Main reason is that I usually lurk on my iPhone, not the computer, so it is not easy to comment. Good night again.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 27, 2017 11:35 PM (Cxofo)

249 My internal life is painful without medication.
Posted by: Oschisms

Mine is too, Oschisms. you're not alone. as you know. right?

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:35 PM (v7o4i)

250 Thanks guys, things are OK. The days are long, nights are short, no snow. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 11:36 PM (Id9+8)

251 as for addiction back in the early 80's i was using meth for about 3 years i decided to just quit havent touched the stuff in like 30 years no rehab no 12 steps i just stopped because i wanted to back in the 90's a friend of mine was in a car wreck after 3 years with the doctor giving out pain meds like chicklets he decided to get off them however due to the opiates screwing with his brain chemistry they gave him a pill that basicly took the depression and cravings away but he has to be on that med for the rest of his life and i cant remember the name of that med but its real popular among opiate abusers

Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 11:36 PM (6vcUG)

252 I love Elvis. very much.

I watched "Elvis on Tour" today, just because. but that comeback special, he was the epitome of smokin. in that leather suit. my gott.
Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 10:48 PM (v7o4i)

I watched a YT video recently of the Elvis comeback in 1968, to pick up the chords and style of "Blue Christmas". One thing, the chicks looked like they were having "difficulty" with this guy. IYTWIMAITTYD.

Elvis struck me as someone who was pretty shy when ya get right down to it. He hadn't performed in a while publicly when that was taped, and he really looked a little bewildered at times. Just for a second.. but you could tell. His life must have been nuts.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:37 PM (L9eMC)

253 Tony Visconti, after recording half the songs on BlackStar, told Bowie he was a "canny bastard" after he figured out what Bowie was doing.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 11:38 PM (PUmDY)

254 249 My internal life is painful without medication.
Posted by: Oschisms

Mine is too, Oschisms. you're not alone. as you know. right?
Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:35 PM (v7o4i)

Y'all are in good company. Or at least a lot of it.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 27, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)

255
Well, Gorsuch looks like he was just as promised. The lefties are all messing their underoos over his opinions so far, calling him, Thomas, and Alito, the "the three horsemen of the Apocalypse".

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:38 PM (8O3HH)

256 It has taken me a long time to realize that many many people have some level of chronic anxiety, and those who do generally have some form of OCD and/or addiction.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:39 PM (TdMsT)

257 Elvis struck me as someone who was pretty shy when ya get right down to it.

Common Tater, he was shy. I recommend the 2 vol. bio, Last Train to Memphis, and Careless Love. he was emotionally young, perpetually.

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:39 PM (v7o4i)

258 As many have commented, why was a Dutch girl bungee jumping in Spain expected to understand English?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:40 PM (L9eMC)

259 255
Well, Gorsuch looks like he was just as promised. The lefties are all messing their underoos over his opinions so far, calling him, Thomas, and Alito, the "the three horsemen of the Apocalypse".
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:38 PM (8O3HH)

The buttercups on the left had better buckle up.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:40 PM (TdMsT)

260 as for the link between mental illness and addiction i agree the addiction usualy starts out as a way to self medicate what i dont understand why after going through the sickness of withdrawal why someone would start doing that substance again and believe me some stuff makes you so sick you will pray for death

Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 11:42 PM (6vcUG)

261 Bwaahahahahahahahah!

https://heatst.com/politics/antifa-opens-
self-defense-training-gym-
in-chicago-floral-hats-not-provided/

Read their 'fund me' link, too.

How can anyone take these clowns seriously?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2017 11:43 PM (DMUuz)

262 "I just want, nay demand, to know where these horndog female teachers were 35 years ago."

I was wondering the same thing except for 50 years ago. We had some hot young female teachers back in junior high and high school. And mini-skirts were the fashion. Sigh!

Posted by: JTB at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (V+03K)

263 It was interesting to watch, because these girls would be grunting and letting out screams, and Elvis would look down for a second. He'd snap out of it and smile, ever the showman. But he knew it was all BS. Entertainers are strange, in that they spend years telling everybody "Look at me! Look at me!" and eventually, when they become rich and famous - "Don't look at me!" Hm.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (L9eMC)

264 My membership came as a puff of air from the sewer grate down the block. Perhaps I should donate some $$ to Ace?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:23 PM (TdMsT)

My AoS "Membership" came in the form of a past-due collections letter from the long defunct Time-Warner Record Club.

Most expensive $0.99 I've ever spent, dammit.

@ Ruthless. You! Sir! More! And I'm sure the AoS Publishers' Clearly Housed will fully refund you your membership fee!

Just as soon as you return this postage paid envelope to Ewok, Inc. LLC, Esq., Etc.

Can't win if you don't play, right?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (v5iqM)

265 They are seeking a Coordinator for Social Justice Pilgrimages.

"Pilgrimages are a unique combination of educational study, faith-based reflection, and social justice immersion," the University Ministry's website notes.

I'm working on this allegory, a genderfluid twentysomething named Libtard journeys through various lands, such as the Safe Space of Self-righteousness and the Antifa Arena of Anarchy in order to reach the Marxist Utopia xhe knows exists, somewhere.

Posted by: John Bunyan at June 27, 2017 11:45 PM (xAvrH)

266 What could go wrong?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 11:36 PM (Id9+

You could drop your new phone 2 days after you bought it?
(I found 2 new tiny eggplants today! The weird Asian variety ones)

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 27, 2017 11:46 PM (//uTY)

267 Common Tater, English proficiency among the Dutch is extremely high. As in, just about everyone understands English, and most speak - very well, better than many Americans.

So actually I would fully expect a Dutch tourist in Spain to be fluent in English. Problem appears to be with the guide's English, and with the Dutch victim/jumper's state of mind and focus, probably.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2017 11:46 PM (mBYZv)

268 You can tell someone who really has OCD if they say/write CDO.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 27, 2017 11:46 PM (DMUuz)

269 Entertainers are strange, in that they spend years telling everybody "Look at me! Look at me!" and eventually, when they become rich and famous - "Don't look at me!" Hm.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (L9eMC)

Being constantly under the virtual microscope can wear a person down. Some handle it. Some don't.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at June 27, 2017 11:47 PM (rJUlF)

270 256 It has taken me a long time to realize that many many people have some level of chronic anxiety, and those who do generally have some form of OCD and/or addiction.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 27, 2017 11:39 PM (TdMsT)

I heard someone once explain OCD as "You have to do these things in order for things to be all right." You know it on a visceral level that is not really coming from the reason side of the spectrum.

This does not combine well with any habit that affects mood or your chemical balance in general. You not only have the chemical dependence, but also the OCD telling you that "This is the way things have to be or you are not right."

I learned very quickly not to start drinking even lightly on a regular basis after getting myself hooked on nicotine. If I made it a habit, it started tasting too good. So when I drink it is only occasionally (for me, it does not matter how much I drink, but rather how regularly.)

I can handle constantly wondering if I locked the front door (even after checking it after locking it while standing there.) I can even handle nicotine (thank God for vaping.) However, alcohol is about the hardest drug I ever wanted to get involved with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2017 11:47 PM (9mOGz)

271 (What rhymes with Valu-Rite?)

======

Taint-Paint night!

Posted by: ShainS at June 27, 2017 11:48 PM (ZcAbN)

272 "Pilgrimages are a unique combination of educational study, faith-based reflection, and social justice immersion," the University Ministry's website notes.

I'm working on this allegory, a genderfluid twentysomething named Libtard journeys through various lands, such as the Safe Space of Self-righteousness and the Antifa Arena of Anarchy in order to reach the Marxist Utopia xhe knows exists, somewhere.

Posted by: John Bunyan at June 27, 2017 11:45 PM (xAvrH)

Sadly, I missed this year's pilgrimage to mecca on the St. Joseph.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 11:48 PM (XUcIQ)

273
Oh, and see the Daily Mail for another Moron level story. Mia Khalifa, the "Muslim pornstar", punched some dude in the face who tried to take a selfie with her, without asking. Dude seemed to enjoy it, though.

Her schtick was doing porn in a hijab. She got death threats from ISIS.

I never paid that any attention, not my cup of tea, but damn, I see she's got some jugs..... Oh, she's retired, now....

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:49 PM (8O3HH)

274 So actually I would fully expect a Dutch tourist in Spain to be fluent in English. Problem appears to be with the guide's English, and with the Dutch victim/jumper's state of mind and focus, probably.
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Well the point being, the person responsible for securing the cord - and issuing verbal commands - didn't speak English, at least not well. He should have been speaking Spanish, or Dutch. Oops. And not securing the bungee cord first, before attachment to the jumper, seems dumb as hell.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:50 PM (L9eMC)

275 Don't know if true, but allegedly Bowie wrote Golden Years for Elvis.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 11:50 PM (PUmDY)

276
Oh, there is a petition for Donny Two-Scoops to appoint Mia Khalifa as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Hell yeah.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:50 PM (8O3HH)

277 251
back in the early 80's i was using meth for about 3 years i decided to just quit havent touched the stuff in like 30 years no rehab no 12 steps i just stopped because i wanted to
Posted by: jimmytheclaw at June 27, 2017 11:36 PM (6vcUG)

Same here, and same time frame. At some point I decided that I didn't really like the people I was hanging around with, so I stopped hanging around them.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:51 PM (sdi6R)

278 Physicians and hospitals don't get paid for treating moral failings, nor can you claim disability.

Posted by: CN at June 27, 2017 11:51 PM (2+tI4)

279 Van Halen, Hot for Teacher

https://youtu.be/2OlAx4Dok38

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 27, 2017 11:52 PM (VdICR)

280 Oh, and see the Daily Mail for another Moron level story. Mia Khalifa, the "Muslim pornstar", punched some dude in the face who tried to take a selfie with her, without asking. Dude seemed to enjoy it, though.

Her schtick was doing porn in a hijab. She got death threats from ISIS.

I never paid that any attention, not my cup of tea, but damn, I see she's got some jugs..... Oh, she's retired, now....

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:49 PM (8O3HH)

What the Caliph ate?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2017 11:52 PM (XUcIQ)

281 Gorsuch may well be as hoped for/advertized, but the fact that this is so important, and the reaction of many authoritarians ("liberals"), confirms the war is lost, for now.

That is, the war to regain/retain a constitutional system based on law, where the constitution and actual law are the guide. Instead, as now, those things aren't so important - it's just about personnel.

So yeah, I'm stoked with the possibility that some actual judges who understand their role and have some integrity and intelligence might make up a majority of SCOTUS within 3 years (and will be placed in the many open spots lower down). Might even concretely improve life during my lifetime.

But, with rule of law out the window (and it is, wherever one side deems it convenient), we're at the mercy of elections, and the (sub-pathetic) political class, esp. the GOP variety.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2017 11:54 PM (mBYZv)

282 Dream Machine reminds me of Spirit.

Posted by: Dave (in MA) at June 27, 2017 11:54 PM (/H3v4)

283 Well, Gorsuch looks like he was just as promised.
The lefties are all messing their underoos over his opinions so far,
calling him, Thomas, and Alito, the "the three horsemen of the
Apocalypse"
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:38 PM (8O3HH)

Well then. Maybe we will get THE FOURTH!?

(stupid idiots with "liberal" education know sh!t about the liberal arts)

Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2017 11:54 PM (mkDpn)

284 263
Entertainers are strange, in that they spend years telling everybody "Look at me! Look at me!" and eventually, when they become rich and famous - "Don't look at me!" Hm.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (L9eMC)

Sounds like a combination of "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence" and "be careful what you wish for".

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:54 PM (sdi6R)

285 well, if you are bungee jumping you may want to double check that everything is attached before you jump yourself.

seems the jump guide used the phrase "no jump" when he should have used "do not jump." the phrase for jump is "now jump." so he used a phrase that was too close to the phrase for jump.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 11:55 PM (0wem/)

286 allegedly Bowie wrote Golden Years for Elvis.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie

I didn't know that.

I hadn't watched the Blackstar video until you mentioned the connection. Medieval, Reminds me of the paintings of Bosch. or Jerzy K.'s "Painted Bird?" disturbing

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:55 PM (v7o4i)

287 You could drop your new phone 2 days after you bought it?

(I found 2 new tiny eggplants today! The weird Asian variety ones)

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 27, 2017 11:46 PM (//uTY)

Yeah, dropping a flip phone doesn't carry the same danger.
I love those little Asian eggplants.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 27, 2017 11:57 PM (Id9+8)

288 Common Tater, agree, I'm not getting into the particulars of this awful case. Just noting that most Dutch speak English, fluently. Pretty sure it's the most English-fluent country in Europe outside the UK/Ireland.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2017 11:57 PM (mBYZv)

289 249 My internal life is painful without medication.
Posted by: Oschisms

Mine is too, Oschisms. you're not alone. as you know. right?
Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:35 PM (v7o4i)

I'll drink to that!

*cheers!*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2017 11:57 PM (v5iqM)

290 285
seems the jump guide used the phrase "no jump" when he should have used "do not jump." the phrase for jump is "now jump." so he used a phrase that was too close to the phrase for jump.
Posted by: yankeefifth at June 27, 2017 11:55 PM (0wem/)

It would have also been a good idea to attach the cord to the bridge before attaching it to the jumper. Then the language confusion wouldn't have mattered.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:58 PM (sdi6R)

291 very awesome...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oRj2FmQOYoc

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 27, 2017 11:58 PM (PUmDY)

292 Kaith Olbermann is a twat.

I almost imagine that people like Olbermann think that any day now the masses will revolt and try to establish a new Peoples Republic, but since the masses are people who think Obama was a great president they will make a complete shit of things, and they will finally turn to people like Olbermann in the hope that he will be able to lead them to the promised paradise.

remember, a socialist might have a brain and a high IQ and a couple of college degrees, but when you come right down to it, a socialist is still just a jackass in human form

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 27, 2017 11:59 PM (ILitO)

293 I'm working on this allegory, a genderfluid twentysomething named Libtard journeys through various lands, such as the Safe Space of Self-righteousness and the Antifa Arena of Anarchy in order to reach the Marxist Utopia xhe knows exists, somewhere.

Posted by: John Bunyan

the protagonist could be called 'Anti-Christian'.
your idea is fantastic!

Posted by: booknlass at June 27, 2017 11:59 PM (v7o4i)

294 191
Another one of those coaches taught a "science" class, hell, 9th grade something I think. That was when I began to realize things about teachers. They weren't necessarily so smart.

He did some demonstration of H2 and O2, making a little "pop" -- he was just reading from a book, basically.

Then he commented that was the principle on which the "hydrogen bomb" was based. That's when I realized, "Gosh, that man's supposed to be a teacher, and he's dumb as a box of rocks!" Gee, Wally.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 27, 2017 11:02 PM (8O3HH)

I came to the realization that there is a good number of public school teachers that never should have been allowed to teach when I first got to high school. My Spanish teacher was the biggest fucking flake ever. She would have meltdowns in the classroom when she wasn't having the whole class run errands for student government (she was the advisor) the whole class period. We learned absolutely nothing for an entire year. Then when we took Spanish II the next year, the teacher retired at the end of the first day of school. She got her "years" in, so she retired immediately by using all of her unused vacation. It took the school district 6 weeks to find a replacement.

And what a replacement. 23 years old, about 5' tall, and had a body that was quite bangable. We all thought long and hard about making that move, but her husband was a cop in town and we didn't want to risk that shit. So no one did anything. Or so we thought.

25th class reunion, we found out that a guy in our class, the most unlikely to hit it, hit it. She served as a chaperone for some of the girls in the class for the post graduation beach week. A couple of the girls walked into the condo they rented one night and the guy was just plowing her. Turns out he had been banging her the whole year, and he didn't have anything to worry about because she and her husband had "an arrangement".

Lucky mother fucker.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac asks at June 27, 2017 11:59 PM (1JnAL)

295 Cheers, Jim!

how are ya?

Posted by: booknlass at June 28, 2017 12:00 AM (v7o4i)

296 This song of course is only a little bit about bungee jumping.

It is a lot about being stupid.

https://youtu.be/DgdP5U28jHc

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2017 12:00 AM (mkDpn)

297 I can handle constantly wondering if I locked the front door (even after checking it after locking it while standing there.) I can even handle nicotine (thank God for vaping.) However, alcohol is about the hardest drug I ever wanted to get involved with.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2017 11:47 PM (9mOGz)

I have never been much of a drinker, thank God, because I don't feel good physically great when I drink. But I have always had a propensity to minor addictions, so I'm very careful about what I expose myself to. I'm more neat and organized than is necessary, so I have to constantly be aware of that.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at June 28, 2017 12:01 AM (TdMsT)

298 To actually be in solid shape under Rule of Men, Not Law, we'd need to get rid of Roberts, too. Clearly unfit for the court, in every way. Obviously, the four fascist hacks are the main problem. But Kennedy and Roberts have shown more than once they're just as useless and dangerous as the hacks, who as McCarthy put it, "vote, don't judge".

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2017 12:02 AM (mBYZv)

299 It would have also been a good idea to attach the cord to the bridge before attaching it to the jumper. Then the language confusion wouldn't have mattered.
Posted by: rickl at June

yeah. should have attached everything well back from the jump point and had some sort of rail to prevent jumping without the proper checks. not much time for the jumper to worry about something going wrong, likely never knew.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:02 AM (0wem/)

300 Entertainers are strange, in that they spend years telling everybody "Look at me! Look at me!" and eventually, when they become rich and famous - "Don't look at me!" Hm.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2017 11:44 PM (L9eMC)

Sounds like a combination of "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence" and "be careful what you wish for".

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:54 PM (sdi6R)

I have a fairly robust resume' subset, encompassing public speaking up to about the 8,000 audience level.

Corporate stuff, with some topics bordering onto the management guru acreage. All, with very high marks, reviews, and yes, fees.

Point is, the "groupie" effect is true, even in the suit n' tie, Fortune 1000 world of corporate attendees.

I avoided entanglements therefrom, as I was still an honorably wed man back then in the mid '90s.

But I wish I'd have kept a few of those phone numbers.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:03 AM (v5iqM)

301 Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac asks at June 27, 2017 11:59 PM (1JnAL)

Heh. I think you're the one that loves Roadhouse as much as I do - you just missed it. Last 15 minutes are playing out now.

Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 28, 2017 12:03 AM (//uTY)

302 I'm out, guys. Too tired, not enough sleep last night. Catch you tomorrow. Have a good night!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 28, 2017 12:04 AM (Id9+8)

303 Obama said there's no way you could rig an American election and thousands of dead people in Philadelphia and Chicago cried out from their graves.

Posted by: norrin radd, sojourner of the space ways at June 28, 2017 12:05 AM (IrpTh)

304

And what I love is the left has blown their wad with the filibuster. They blew it on Gorsuch, so the 4th horseman out to be easy. However, as has been noted we have Susan Collins, Murkowski, McStain, and Rand Paul might be a dick -- some stupid shit he might object to.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:05 AM (8O3HH)

305 yeah. should have attached everything well back from the jump point and had some sort of rail to prevent jumping without the proper checks. not much time for the jumper to worry about something going wrong, likely never knew.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:02 AM (0wem/)

Bungee jumping is like sky diving. Both "sports" feature their practitioners doing acts that would be certain suicide, absent technology, and the skilled application of that technology by trained personnel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2017 12:05 AM (XUcIQ)

306 re 293: Gullible's Travels, aka the Obama Voter's Canticle

I'm all verploopfed. Night.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 28, 2017 12:05 AM (ILitO)

307 303 Obama said there's no way you could rig an American election and thousands of dead people in Philadelphia and Chicago cried out from their graves.
Posted by: norrin radd, sojourner of the space ways at June 28, 2017 12:05 AM (IrpTh)

There are studies that say 3 - 5 MILLION illegals may vote in elections...

OK then...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 28, 2017 12:06 AM (NgKpN)

308 I avoided entanglements therefrom, as I was still an honorably wed man back then in the mid '90s.

But I wish I'd have kept a few of those phone numbers.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June

that has to be an awkward call. hey, you may remember we met after I gave a speech in 90. whatcha up to tonight?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:07 AM (0wem/)

309 re 303:
Obama said there's no way you could rig an American election and
thousands of dead people in Philadelphia and Chicago cried out from
their graves.

he said you couldn't, he said nothing about his side

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 28, 2017 12:07 AM (ILitO)

310 It would have also been a good idea to attach the cord to the bridge before attaching it to the jumper. Then the language confusion wouldn't have mattered.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2017 11:58 PM (sdi6R)

You would think that that would be the standard procedure.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM (rZ+mb)

311 remember, a socialist might have a brain and a high IQ and a couple of college degrees, but when you come right down to it, a socialist is still just a jackass in human form

---

But you can get a days work out of a jackass. so Jackass > Socialist

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM (vChNs)

312

You know, recalling, there was some scuttlebutt about one about dude, who was the class stud in our senior year. Also, teacher's pet, he could get away with murder. It was with a young girls' gym teacher. Something like that.

He didn't brag or say anything. And I quickly learned the ones who were bragging were lying. The ones who were really getting it did get their mouths shut generally.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM (8O3HH)

313 Cheers, Jim!

how are ya?

Posted by: booknlass at June 28, 2017 12:00 AM (v7o4i)

Good evening, ma'am.

Self medicating with aspirin and bourbon. So, even though pain is yet, extant, I can for now, ignore it with ease.

Do NOT ask me the same question at, oh... 0700 hrs.?

Hope all is well with you and yours?

*break* A Miley sighting! Hold your glass under the USB, ma'am. I've got some bourbon for you!

I'll share with the ONT, but that 1 ml. bottle ain't gonna 'old, Cap'n! /scotty

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM (v5iqM)

314 I'm working on this allegory, a genderfluid twentysomething named Libtard journeys through various lands, such as the Safe Space of Self-righteousness and the Antifa Arena of Anarchy in order to reach the Marxist Utopia xhe knows exists, somewhere.

Posted by: John Bunyan

the protagonist could be called 'Anti-Christian'.
your idea is fantastic!

----

Gullible's Travels

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2017 12:09 AM (vChNs)

315 I pray for anyone suffering from addiction, seeing my Mother Drink herself to death as a boy is not something I would wish on anyone.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 28, 2017 12:11 AM (dKiJG)

316 Gullible's Travels

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2017 12:09 AM (vChNs)

A Grim Pill's Progress?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2017 12:11 AM (XUcIQ)

317 He didn't brag or say anything. And I quickly learned the ones who were
bragging were lying. The ones who were really getting it did get their
mouths shut generally.

If you were doing it right, you didn't have to talk. The girls would talk plenty.

Usually in front of me like I wasn't there, which is how I know.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 28, 2017 12:12 AM (IcT7t)

318 If the next justice that retires or dies is a moderate or liberal, I could see Trump nominating a moderate or a liberal as a replacement.

I hope that's not the case and he nominates Mark Levin or equivalent, but I'm saying don't be too surprised or disappointed if that happens.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 12:12 AM (sdi6R)

319 Goo'night, Miley and sleep tight

,,me too. sleepy girl here.
feels so good after such a day of winning

Posted by: booknlass at June 28, 2017 12:12 AM (v7o4i)

320 that has to be an awkward call. hey, you may remember we met after I gave a speech in 90. whatcha up to tonight?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:07 AM (0wem/)

Fk'n dreamkiller. Always one in the crowd. USUALLY, some guy's ex, but in this case, just some GUY.

Actually, in that I got divorced in '99, those numbers would have been fairly relevant, even then. Not so much now, of course.

But this goes into the file labled "YankeeFiLth", just for an eventual reckoning.

Hopefully, over a bottle of bourbon and fine cigars, but whatthellever, over!?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:12 AM (v5iqM)

321 It would have also been a good idea to attach the cord to the bridge before attaching it to the jumper. Then the language confusion wouldn't have mattered.
Posted by: rickl at June
------------

¿Qué?

Posted by: Manuel, from Barcelona at June 28, 2017 12:14 AM (OdK9v)

322 I hope that's not the case and he nominates Mark Levin or equivalent, but I'm saying don't be too surprised or disappointed if that happens.
Posted by: rickl at June

Had wondered if he might do so but I have a feeling that after the garbage he has put up with he is not feeling magnanimous and conciliatory so much as he is seeking to inflict pain and misery. He will go with someone from his list.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:14 AM (0wem/)

323 He didn't brag or say anything. And I quickly learned the ones who were bragging were lying. The ones who were really getting it did get their mouths shut generally.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM (8O3HH)

The wise man is silent- while the fool talks endlessly.

Hah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2017 12:14 AM (9mOGz)

324 There are studies that say 3 - 5 MILLION illegals may vote in elections...

OK then...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 28, 2017 12:06 AM (NgKpN)

Illegal voters. Most are legal residents - green card holders. They should immediately have their green cards revoked and be shipped out, post haste. But we don't so that sort of reasonable stuff.

Shit, Roger Calero was a green card holder who actually got himself on the Presidential ballots in a handful of states in 2004 and 2008 .. and not only didn't he get deported but some treasonous POS gave the guy citizenship (which should still be revoked and he and his family shipped the fuck out).

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 12:14 AM (rZ+mb)

325 Her schtick was doing porn in a hijab. She got death threats from ISIS.

I never paid that any attention, not my cup of tea, but damn, I see she's got some jugs..... Oh, she's retired, now....

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear

She got death threats from ISIS I presume, because they are so morally pure that they think porn is an abomination.

But ... how did they know she was doing porn if they weren't watch it? That seems suspicious.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 28, 2017 12:14 AM (xAvrH)

326 Mis Hum, you still here?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2017 12:15 AM (sf2BM)

327 And the ball-spiking by so many people about the ludicrous SCOTUS action on the EO sort of confirms the war is lost, as even the "good guys" are fine with a court wildly, insanely outside its bounds, usurping executive and legislative power.

An EO that was obviously, unquestionably fully within the lawful authority of the executive - a pause meant to last 90 days for a review to be made of extraordinary security challenges in vetting applicants from select failed states with large jihadist sectors - is delayed for 120 days.

Based on campaign statements. And absurd, slanderous ravings of a few district judges. Giving people and entities with no possible standing, standing.

Then, in its majesty, SCOTUS assumes both legislative and executive power, and tweaks the EO to its own liking - all without any basis, apart from solicitude towards all the parties without standing. And agrees to review the whole lawless mess in 4 months' time.

Judicial coup status:

[X] Consolidated, expanded, and lookin' sharp
[ ] Reversed, rule of law restored

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2017 12:15 AM (mBYZv)

328 Fk'n dreamkiller. Always one in the crowd. USUALLY, some guy's ex, but in this case, just some GUY.

Actually, in that I got divorced in '99, those numbers would have been fairly relevant, even then. Not so much now, of course.

But this goes into the file labled "YankeeFiLth", just for an eventual reckoning.

Hopefully, over a bottle of bourbon and fine cigars, but whatthellever, over!?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June

hey, there was s smiley face in there. besides, if they were from the 90s most of them were probably land lines that are out of service now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:16 AM (0wem/)

329
I don't think Donny Two-Scoops rolls that way. That would be a GOPe "reach around across the aisle" move.

After all they've done, "destroy them" is what he'd do. Go Michael Corleone on their asses.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:16 AM (8O3HH)

330 so isis could not put together a plan to take out some pornstress?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:17 AM (0wem/)

331 Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2017 12:15 AM (mBYZv)

Hear, hear!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 12:17 AM (rZ+mb)

332 so isis could not put together a plan to take out some pornstress?

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:17 AM (0wem/)

Maybe she was the real target of the Pulse Nightclub shooting?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2017 12:19 AM (XUcIQ)

333 hey, there was s smiley face in there. besides, if they were from the 90s most of them were probably land lines that are out of service now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:16 AM (0wem/)

AND NOW, SAH!, you have made me feele OLDE!

Ah, fuckitall. I am...olde....

....landlines...90s....

*shuffles off, muttering, kicking at rocks with toe of Rocksiders, muttering still.......*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:20 AM (v5iqM)

334 "I can handle constantly wondering if I locked the front door (even after checking it after locking it while standing there.)"

You can buy locksets which always lock when closed.

Better have an outside key discreetly stowed, though.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2017 12:21 AM (ujwCG)

335 Torque, it is not the thing you are worried about that is the problem. Once you solve that particular issue, several others pop up and get worse.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2017 12:23 AM (mkDpn)

336 NOW, SAH!, you have made me feele OLDE!

Ah, fuckitall. I am...olde....

....landlines...90s....

*shuffles off, muttering, kicking at rocks with toe of Rocksiders, muttering still.......*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June

now, let's be silly. besides, you are probably a better shot now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:24 AM (0wem/)

337 Another cool Bowie legend, if true, is that Bowie had no problem with James Brown's complete ripoff of Fame. from what I've read Alomar was very upset.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 28, 2017 12:24 AM (PUmDY)

338 Seems likely Trump will stick to his list, as he said he would. Don't see why he wouldn't. (I forget who is next on the list)

Again - I'm just thrilled to death that, in a post-constitutional system where the courts are just unaccountable unelected super-legislatures with some attributes of Third World revolutionary juntas, there's a good chance the appointments to this uber-Leviathan may be like Gorsuch.

But it's not academic to point out that the importance of these appointments only underlines how rule of law is kaputgemacht, gone, finito, and we are at the mercy of the electorate (barf) and a political class of such minute stature that that Brezhnev would have been embarrassed to have them as his lackeys in the Supreme Soviet of his day.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2017 12:24 AM (mBYZv)

339 But you can get a days work out of a jackass. so Jackass > Socialist
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at June 28, 2017 12:08 AM

Plus, after the jackass has passed on, you can use its jawbone for smiting

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 28, 2017 12:24 AM (DMUuz)

340 Plus, after the jackass has passed on, you can use its jawbone for smiting

Posted by: Duncanthrax

"Samson killed the Philistines with yo' jawbone".

Posted by: sh*t Fred Sanford said to Maxine Waters at June 28, 2017 12:28 AM (xAvrH)

341
You can look up her up, Mia Khalifa. Wiki has an article on her. She's Lebanese-American, and actually a Lebanese Christian. They moved to America, Texas, when she was a little girl.

She was working at a "Whataburger", when someone spotted her and said "you outta be in porn".
She had the look, so the schtick was to have her "perform" in a hijab.

That set Lebanon and the Muzzies into a rage.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:29 AM (8O3HH)

342 You can buy locksets which always lock when closed.

Better have an outside key discreetly stowed, though.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 28, 2017 12:21 AM (ujwCG)

Thanks, but as I said before, this is not really a "problem===> solution" situation.

That gets into the "check pockets for both sets of keys, e-cig, wallet. Check the wallet for debit card. Check again because it might have fallen out when you last checked it. (Literally, I just checked my wallet- I had a checkbook stolen in '93 which started that whole deal.) Did I leave the stove on? I know I checked the light on the stove before I left. Was it on? I think it was off. I am pretty sure I turned it off after I finished cooking last night. Or did I just turn it down to low? Low could start a fire. I think..."

It comes and goes for me. It is not like that all the time, just every now and then. Worse when I am under stress. For some people it is one whole hell of a lot worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2017 12:30 AM (9mOGz)

343 326 Mis Hum, you still here?
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 28, 2017 12:15 AM (sf2BM)

Yup

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2017 12:32 AM (ZTRlp)

344 "Samson killed the Philistines with yo' jawbone".
Posted by: sh*t Fred Sanford said to Maxine Waters
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Thread Winner

Posted by: Manuel, from Barcelona at June 28, 2017 12:32 AM (OdK9v)

345 329
I don't think Donny Two-Scoops rolls that way. That would be a GOPe "reach around across the aisle" move.

After all they've done, "destroy them" is what he'd do. Go Michael Corleone on their asses.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:16 AM (8O3HH)

I hope so. When I voted for him, I never thought I'd agree with everything he said or did. I expected some disappointment.

But I'm very, very happy so far.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 12:32 AM (sdi6R)

346 I would call addiction a disorder rather than a disease.
Diseases may be fully cured but addiction is a permanent condition you have to cope with.
Diseases may also kill or disable you, regardless of what you do. Addiction won't do that--- if you lay off the stuff. So you do have control, even though the disorder makes it hard to exercise.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 12:33 AM (0jtPF)

347
Muzzies and sex is just one fucked up mess. Porn is abomination, but having slave girls you beat and rape brutally is okay.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:33 AM (8O3HH)

348 now, let's be silly. besides, you are probably a better shot now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:24 AM (0wem/)

If only I had the time and the practice budget.

Here's the thing. There are more shooting disciplines than there are the time and sufficient practice rounds to master them all.

By time I got to where I could dominate the PPC course of fire, it was obsolete.

I can shoot the hell out of an Appleseed course of fire. But would not even rate entry to a Camp Perry rifle match.

Now then, I am too old, too heavy, too injured and too slow to "master" IDPA, Bianchi or "ISPIC" (sic?) courses of fire.

But I can still, with the S&W Highway Patrolman, put six into the 10 ring, at 7 yards, from the low-ready, in about 1.2~1.3 seconds.

Or shoot 100 yd. cloverleafs, with an Accuracy International in.308, five shot groups, with a good Vortex PST 4x16x40 MOA scope.

I can SHOOT.

But others, can *shoot*, so very, very much BETTER than me.

I can defend my "rifleman's quarter mile" from wherever I choose to post-up.

But the State of the Art, has far exceeded my training and skillset.

I'm not angry about that.

But I do take it into account, and duck below the sandbags, accordingly.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:38 AM (v5iqM)

349 defend my "rifleman's quarter mile" from wherever I choose to post-up.

But the State of the Art, has far exceeded my training and skillset.

I'm not angry about that.

But I do take it into account, and duck below the sandbags, accordingly.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June

so experience and treachery

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:39 AM (0wem/)

350 I can't go to bed until I fold my laundry.

And I can't fold my laundry until Kira decides to get off the pile. She likes the warmz.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 12:40 AM (sdi6R)

351 It comes and goes for me. It is not like that all
the time, just every now and then. Worse when I am under stress. For
some people it is one whole hell of a lot worse.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 28, 2017 12:30 AM (9mOGz)

since I don't hug guys, here's a stiff punch on your upper arm.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 28, 2017 12:42 AM (mkDpn)

352
trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

Posted by: original jake at June 28, 2017 12:44 AM (jzZsN)

353 so experience and treachery

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 12:39 AM (0wem/)

shhhhhh, dammit.

I mean, I already tried to bribe ya with bourbon n' cigars. What I gotta do, offer you tryst with 'ette?

They'd KILL ME, merely for the thoug.....

Jim
Sunk New Daw...

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2017 12:45 AM (v5iqM)

354 Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 27, 2017 10:28 PM (sEDyY)

I am getting really tired of people refusing to turn things over, refusing to answer questions outside your rights to do so, refusing to show up. In general just saying up yours. So, refuse once, you will be asked again. Refuse a second time, if a federal employee of any rank, terminated.

In the case of a Congresscritter, lost all committee positions.

Obviously, withholding information, Congress has the right to ask for.

Posted by: gracepc at June 28, 2017 12:45 AM (OU4q6)

355 Heh. I think you're the one that loves Roadhouse as much as I do - you just missed it. Last 15 minutes are playing out now.
Posted by: Albert Kings Flying V at June 28, 2017 12:03 AM (//uTY)

Fuckety fuck fuck.

Any movie that has Terry Funk in it is an instant 5 star classic.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac asks at June 28, 2017 12:46 AM (1JnAL)

356 Mia Khalifa.

was sh3e UBL's favorate?

other than the goats?

Posted by: original jake at June 28, 2017 12:46 AM (jzZsN)

357
Did they ever release an inventory of OBL's porn stash? That would be interesting. ANd publicize it all over the Muzzie fanatic world.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:48 AM (8O3HH)

358 Just had $55 worth of cannabis product delivered. Too bad I already ate my cobb salad. BTW, Alex Kozinski is a great judge. Smart, moderately conservative (in a political, not social, sense), good sense of humor.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 28, 2017 12:50 AM (KAi1n)

359 Ok so I looked up Mia Khalifa.

Other than having huge tits, she's nothing to write home about. There's probably 100,000 or more Latinas around San Antonio better looking than her.

Posted by: Country Boy at June 28, 2017 12:51 AM (Jcg9Q)

360 92
I doubt went have full Ambassadors in 137 countries.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2017 10:23 PM (9TU00)

Trump appointed Ambassadors or Obama appointees. I am betting Obama. Caroline Kennedy Whatever is on an Obama style vacation in Japan.

Posted by: gracepc at June 28, 2017 12:51 AM (OU4q6)

361 rickl, reason?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at June 28, 2017 12:52 AM (PUmDY)

362 I had to check the dictionary
to see if cellulite
rhymes with neat and tweet and feet
or rhymes with value-rite

(both acceptable, as it turns out)

aaaaaaand by the time I read backward from the bottom of the thread, unwinding all the intertwining conversations, my teeth got brushed, and my time ran out, and considering it doesn't like we'll be getting to the cursed comment number anytime soon, and also considering that I am trying to start getting up earlier, so I'm going to say hello and good-bye and go to bed if I can just get this sentence to quit going on and on as if it were some kind of word-zombie that will not die no matter how many BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

Posted by: mindful webworker - humor is a dangerous business at June 28, 2017 12:52 AM (21UM+)

363
Well, the CIA refuses to release OBL's porn stash. It's a national security operational secret, they say. And further, even if it's not, they are barred by law, they say, from distributing obscene material, so they couldn't even if they wanted to. They say.

I wonder why? Just pussy boy stuff about not wanting to upset the Mooslims? Or what.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:53 AM (8O3HH)

364 Often people fail to make the distinction between physical addiction and psychological addiction. While physical addiction has worse symptoms, psychological addiction is much, much harder to break.

My wife had an experience which highlighted the difference between physical and psychological addiction. Some years back, she had major back surgery (rebuilt her spine and inserted a rod) After the surgery, she was given percodan (iirc) 3 or 4 times a day for at least 30 days. (her spine had just been taken apart and put back together like some erector set, it was justified)

When it came time to wean her off the percodan, it had been long enough that she had to go through the whole physical withdrawal thing - bad sweats, feeling strange things, all the classic symptoms - but it wasn't really that big a deal, since there had never been any psychological addiction; it was more like having a really strange case of the flu for 3 days. And since she hadn't been addicted before the surgery, once she got through the withdrawal symptoms there was never any urge to go back and start eating those pills again.

Psychological addictions often lead to physical addictions, but physical addictions that come about due to medical circumstances rarely lead to psychological addictions; WITH THE GREAT EXCEPTION of people who suffer long term chronic pain from cumulative injuries, ex-sports players being the best example.

Posted by: an NYT reporter who doesn't know the difference between CO and CO2 at June 28, 2017 12:53 AM (V2Yro)

365 359 Ok so I looked up Mia Khalifa.

Other than having huge tits, she's nothing to write home about. There's probably 100,000 or more Latinas around San Antonio better looking than her.
Posted by: Country Boy at June 28, 2017 12:51 AM (Jcg9Q)

Not in Pennsylvania. The Latinas around here are pretty damn homely.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 12:55 AM (sdi6R)

366 sock off

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2017 12:56 AM (V2Yro)

367 >> Other than having huge tits, she's nothing to
>> write home about.

The hook was "Mooslim girl fucking and sucking in a hijab". Without that, she would've been nothing, and note that she looks the part ethnically, she wasn't even Muzzie.

But she looked it.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 12:56 AM (8O3HH)

368 Not in Pennsylvania. The Latinas around here are pretty damn homely.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 12:55 AM (sdi6R)

That's the case here too, especially once they hit mid life, generally speaking. 'Course there's way more here than there I'm sure. There were very few in Michigan before I left.

But a lotta younger ones here, up to about 35-40, aye carumba.

Posted by: Country Boy at June 28, 2017 12:57 AM (Jcg9Q)

369 Jim, you still here?

i found a bucket list toy the other day, laid down the 1st $$ Father's day.

1961 South Gate Weatherby (FN Action) in 300 WB Mag.

down side: Bubba the Gun Smite put a thumb hole stock on it long ago...
(albeit with a colored in tip to replicate the original ebony insert)

Upside? it'll be mine, it's from South Gate, and i may have a line on an original stock.

\/\/()()T!

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 12:57 AM (U+dIE)

370 Jim,

missed the bourbon and cigars bribe. forget I said anything.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 01:03 AM (0wem/)

371 night everyone.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0wem/)

372 Hey everybody.

Infidel, if you're out there: I mailed your stuff this afternoon. You should hopefully get it on/by Saturday.

And, I finally wathced Yojimbo. For realz this time. Not bad. Next on the Kurosawa list: Ikiru.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (eMKNe)

373 When I watch late MLB games, I get some local/regional ads. They're shilling some CA place called Pollo Loco and make it look really good. Bigly.
But I bet it's no better than Taco Bell.

Makes me want a chicken quesadilla though.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0jtPF)

374 Margarita DeVille, honestly you've *never* heard of El Pollo Loco yet?!?!?

They've been here in SoCal since at least 1983.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:06 AM (eMKNe)

375 Off to bed. Nite all.

Posted by: Country Boy at June 28, 2017 01:08 AM (Jcg9Q)

376 368
That's the case here too, especially once they hit mid life, generally speaking. 'Course there's way more here than there I'm sure. There were very few in Michigan before I left.

But a lotta younger ones here, up to about 35-40, aye carumba.
Posted by: Country Boy at June 28, 2017 12:57 AM (Jcg9Q)

I am talking about the young ones, and we've got a metric fuckton of them. At least 90% of them are shapeless and dumpy.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 01:09 AM (sdi6R)

377 374 Margarita DeVille, honestly you've *never* heard of El Pollo Loco yet?!?!?

They've been here in SoCal since at least 1983.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:06 AM (eMKNe)
---------------------------------
Heh. No. They don't have them in this neck of the woods (VA.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:11 AM (0jtPF)

378 Margaritaville, give 'em a try. Honestly they're *not* bad, and a lot of their entrees actually are at least semi-healthy. They marinate the chicken in fruit juices and flame-broil rather than fry or coat it to death.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:13 AM (eMKNe)

379
You know, the ones around here, and there are more an more, the majority are just sort of short, plump little butterballs.

There are no "Mexican weather girls" around here by a long shot.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 01:17 AM (8O3HH)

380 378 Margaritaville, give 'em a try. Honestly they're *not* bad, and a lot of their entrees actually are at least semi-healthy. They marinate the chicken in fruit juices and flame-broil rather than fry or coat it to death.
Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:13 AM (eMKNe)
--------------------------------
That's what they show in the ad --- broiling marinaded chicken. It looks delicious!!!
If I ever run into one, I'll try it for sure.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:19 AM (0jtPF)

381 379
You know, the ones around here, and there are more an more, the majority are just sort of short, plump little butterballs.

There are no "Mexican weather girls" around here by a long shot.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 01:17 AM (8O3HH)

And I *like* plump, as long as they're shapely. These aren't. Like I said, they're shapeless and dumpy.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 01:20 AM (sdi6R)

382 When I watch late MLB games, I get some local/regional ads. They're shilling some CA place called Pollo Loco and make it look really good. Bigly.
But I bet it's no better than Taco Bell.

Makes me want a chicken quesadilla though.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0jtPF)

It isn't like Taco Bell at all.

Good chicken grilled well.

Posted by: El Sombrero Loco at June 28, 2017 01:28 AM (vBeA5)

383 And I *like* plump, as long as they're shapely. These aren't. Like I said, they're shapeless and dumpy.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 01:20 AM (sdi6R)

Probably depends upon where in Central America the local crop of Latinas originated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2017 01:28 AM (XUcIQ)

384 >> Probably depends upon where in Central America
>> the local crop of Latinas originated.

Bingo. You can see the differences. That's not my bag at all, knowing what I'm looking at, but I can see broad "looks" that different groups have.

I think, *think* mind you, the short and dumpy little butterball types may be more of the native indian type of stock. But that's not anything I know about at all.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at June 28, 2017 01:37 AM (8O3HH)

385 Bill says I go vodka loco.

Posted by: Hillary 2020! at June 28, 2017 01:40 AM (bc2Lc)

386
373 When I watch late MLB games, I get some local/regional ads. They're shilling some CA place called Pollo Loco and make it look really good. Bigly.
But I bet it's no better than Taco Bell.

Makes me want a chicken quesadilla though.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0jtPF)

This reads like saying that a taco bell XXL burrito is just like going to Chipotle. Or the McDonald's Chicken sandwich is the same as Chick Fil a.

Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2017 01:44 AM (cAnNx)

387 Hat, that's what I meant to say. EPL flame-grills the chicken. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:45 AM (eMKNe)

388 But I bet it's no better than Taco Bell.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0jtPF)

I like Taco Bell. I could eat Taco Bell tacos until someone physically restrains me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 01:47 AM (rZ+mb)

389 Well, I am going to go to bed. Need my beauty sleep. night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2017 01:48 AM (XUcIQ)

390 388 But I bet it's no better than Taco Bell.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:04 AM (0jtPF)

I like Taco Bell. I could eat Taco Bell tacos until someone physically restrains me.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 01:47 AM (rZ+mb)

Or until you realize you need a seat belt to stay on the toilet.

Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2017 01:48 AM (cAnNx)

391 Kira finally deigned to let me fold my laundry, so the bed is clear now.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2017 01:50 AM (sdi6R)

392 Story at Twitter: Guy Fieri admits that "donkey sauce" is really just aioli.

Damn!! And here I thought that by eating it, I was getting my USDA recommended allowance of donkey every day!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 01:54 AM (eMKNe)

393 Pollo Loco was pretty good when we lived in CA. A family takeout meal was a whole chicken, warm tortillas and sides with salsa and stuff. Pretty healthy and fairly cheap.

But yeah, in VA it's all Peruvian chicken or fried.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at June 28, 2017 01:54 AM (GzDYP)

394 Now I want some pollo.

There it goes again! El Pollo Loco ad!
Now that I know it's good, it looks reeeeaaallly good.

Rockies and Giants are tied in the 12th and I feel obligated to see who wins.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 01:57 AM (0jtPF)

395 Or until you realize you need a seat belt to stay on the toilet.

Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2017 01:48 AM (cAnNx)

Never had that problem with Taco Bell.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 01:58 AM (rZ+mb)

396 Did someone say El Pollo Loco?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Food Critic ... at June 28, 2017 02:02 AM (AoK0a)

397 Homosexuality. Illegal Aliens. Tax Dollars. Stir them all together and what do you get? A $20,000 musical.
“Using the Mime Troupe’s signature style of broad, physical theater, the work will explore immigration, gun violence, the opioid epidemic, depression, the public education system, and racial tensions, and how they relate to societal health,” according to the grant for the project. “Portions of the work will be developed through playmaking workshops in California’s Central Valley with low-income youth, inmates, and migrant workers.”

%$&#@%$!!!

You do realize, I assume, that the group the received the grant, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, is a Maoist cult, right? And that they've been dedicated to overthrowing the United Stated for 40 years, right?

The worst part is learning that Trump STILL hasn't booted out the communists that Obama appointed to run this nation. From the original link:

"The San Francisco Mime Troupe, a self-described socialist theater group, received the funding in the first round of grants awarded under the Trump administration. Jane Chu is the current chairman of the NEA, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama in 2014."

TRUMP YOU LAZY MOTHERF*CKER! Fire all the goddamn communist revolutionary traitors that Obama installed! WHAT IS THE FREAKIN' HOLD-UP??!?!?

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2017 02:03 AM (DQ4Fv)

398 Fuuuh it's early!

Working at 6 am all week because our early-morning gal is on vacay. Crashed at 6 pm yesterday and now I'm up early as hell.

I guess drinking covfefe and smoking a bowl at the same time kind of cancels each other out, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

My gym is open 24-7, guess I could head there in an hour or so and at least do something productive with these extra awake hours.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 28, 2017 02:05 AM (ul9CR)

399 Remember the preference cascade:

Those who cannot do, teach.

Those who cannot teach, teach gym.

Those who cannot teach gym, teach drivers' ed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 27, 2017 11:16 PM (pNxlR)

My gym teacher was my Drivers' Ed teacher.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 02:09 AM (OFItL)

400 El Pollo Pendejo...

not bad, if'n yer into grilled chicken.

give me carnitas or carne asada any day.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:21 AM (U+dIE)

401 This one is magical.

https://goo.gl/D4ZYeo

We actually had this happen around here, with a smallish 'chain' (five branches, I think) of seafood restaurants.

They basically shut down a couple of them for three weeks while they tried to hire a new staff.

Curiously, that happened in the Obama days. I figure an owner contributed to the wrong candidate.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:23 AM (TppKb)

402 redc1c4, I still remember when I first discovered carne asada tacos. It was at a hole-in-the-wall place in Downey, right across the street from my first full-time job at GTE (now Verizon).

They were spicy and delicious, and I never regretted going there... even years later, after I found out the place was closed down and taken out of business by the Health Department for being infested with vermin. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 28, 2017 02:25 AM (eMKNe)

403 My gym teacher was my Drivers' Ed teacher.
---
my gym teacher in high school was the cross country coach, who got away with molesting students for decades.

good for me i never tried out for the team, eh?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:26 AM (U+dIE)

404 I like Taco Bell. I could eat Taco Bell tacos until someone physically restrains me.

Get off of my chihuahua.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:26 AM (TppKb)

405 my gym teacher in high school was the cross country coach, who got away with molesting students for decades.

I need one of those government jobs.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:27 AM (TppKb)

406 deep fried shredded beef tacos are my personal weakness....

dios mio but i lurve those things.

and no, they are NOTHING like what you get at Jack in the Crack

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:29 AM (U+dIE)

407 I need one of those government jobs.

---
Catholic School, Archdiocese of Lost Angels.

you need say no more.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:31 AM (U+dIE)

408 Catholic School, Archdiocese of Lost Angels.

Plaid skirts about four inches above the knee have been producing boners on this farm for 45 years.

Not that I've ever DONE anything with them.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:34 AM (TppKb)

409 my gym teacher in high school was the cross country coach, who got away with molesting students for decades.

good for me i never tried out for the team, eh?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:26 AM (U+dIE)

I don't know. Maybe you'd have set a world record in cross country by training hard to run away from 'Coach'.

As for drivers' ed, we had these little Opel Kadetts on which we learned to drive. The best thing was they were stick, forcing all the kids in school to learn to drive a stick. I still enjoy driving a stick. I remember reading a while back, when Jersey City was having a car-jacking crime wave, having a stick was auto theft prevention as the little thieves couldn't drive a stick.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 02:37 AM (OFItL)

410 Plaid skirts about four inches above the knee have been producing boners on this farm for 45 years
--
white, effectively transparent, button up blouses have had a similar effect here as well, over the years.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:37 AM (U+dIE)

411 Apparently the best tacos in history were sold at a tiny little shack called "Joe's Place" that was in a town called Jacksonville -- not the one in Florida, but a dinky town in the California Gold Rush country that is now at the bottom of a gigantic man-made lake, subsumed when they built a dam nearby. They served tacos until the rising water lapped at their front door. God wept when they closed down the grill for the last time, and the waves claimed the ultimate tacos forever.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2017 02:40 AM (DQ4Fv)

412 Caitriona Perry.

Tomorrow's news today.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:43 AM (TppKb)

413 Apparently the best tacos in history

Wrong.

The truck across from Bevmo off Hillsdale in San Mateo.

Tacos Peralta.

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:46 AM (TppKb)

414 white, effectively transparent, button up blouses have had a similar effect here as well, over the years.

The fact is that they are only as 'effectively transparent' as the wearer intends them to be.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima...ooooh!

Posted by: JEM at June 28, 2017 02:48 AM (TppKb)

415 Apparently the best tacos in history

Ciro's, on Evergreen, south of Wabash in Boyle Heights.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 02:54 AM (U+dIE)

416 397 You do realize, I assume, that the group the received the grant, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, is a Maoist cult, right? And that they've been dedicated to overthrowing the United Stated for 40 years, right?

Posted by: zombie

Le sigh. In very related news, the NEA just awarded that group that is putting on the Trump assassination in Central Park a new $100k grant. In total, this group has received multi-millions from the gubmint for their 'performance art'.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8vx6hdk

(Washington Free Bacon)

Lots of dragons for PDT to yet slay. I believe NEA is targeted for 0$ in his proposed budget.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 28, 2017 03:01 AM (6jaju)

417 Man Jailed After Drywall Powder Mistaken For Cocaine

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yd62nm7m

Posted by: The Drywall Hat at June 28, 2017 03:04 AM (vBeA5)

418 Question for the more "mature" Hordelings: is AARP membership worth it? I just got one of those mailings with the enclosed membership card offering all sorts of bennies/discounts on stuff, for the low low price of $16 a year. The restaurant and hotel discounts might come in handy when we travel around for book signings and other events. However they are also a rather aggressive lobbying group and I dunno that I want to endorse or support all their causes. What say you?

Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:22 AM (9WuX0)

419 Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:22 AM (9WuX0)

AARP should go straight to fvcking hell.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 28, 2017 03:24 AM (rZ+mb)

420 AARP was 3\/1L before anyone had ever heard the term "Yahoo!", let alone "Google".

started out as a Teacher's Union health/pension something that just expanded.

you might just as well send the cash to Shrillery or Antifa

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 03:29 AM (U+dIE)

421 419 AARP should go straight to fvcking hell.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

I will *never* do any business with those OCare lovin' assholes. I'd rather have my taint licked by a Komodo dragon.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 28, 2017 03:29 AM (6jaju)

422 Question for the more "mature" Hordelings: is AARP membership worth it?

Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:22 AM (9WuX0)

Speaking for myself, I have never joined AARP. After the bullshit they pulled back in 2009 with the healthcare 'debate', I refuse to give them a dime.

That said, most of my family like AARP. They enjoy the discounts and the like.

But I will never join them. Ever. They are another lefty organization claiming to 'look out for the little people'. Yet when the little people pushed back against their bullshit (look up AARP 'having public meetings with their customers' videos on YouBoob), they lied like a prayer rug.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 03:31 AM (OFItL)

423 After the AARP question, 4 straight vehement 'no's' (as I type). I hope that gives you food for thought, Secret Square.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 03:34 AM (OFItL)

424 Ok then, one more piece of junk mail for the trash.

Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:37 AM (9WuX0)

425 418 Question for the more "mature" Hordelings: is AARP membership worth it?
Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:22 AM (9WuX0)
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Check out AMAC, which is a conservative alternative.
AARP has become very leftwing.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 28, 2017 03:40 AM (0jtPF)

426 Ok then, one more piece of junk mail for the trash.
Posted by: Secret Square at June 28, 2017 03:37 AM (9WuX0)

---
not so fast!

i keep fake cards, etc, and send them back to other unsolicited advertisers who were thoughtful enough to enclose return postage.

suitably sliced/diced/etc, they should w*rk wonders on the automatic opening machine at the other end... ;-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2017 03:42 AM (U+dIE)

427 I wouldn't get a AARP membership if they gave me one, those socialist bastards wanted Obamacare so F'in bad they crawled up his ass to taste it. Screw them.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2017 04:12 AM (Ot7+c)

428 AARP Polling* (for Bill Whynne):

Yea - 0
Nay - 6

* Full Disclosure: This poll is more scientific -- and accurate -- than any polls pushed by the Fake News Media and Democrats (but I repeat myself), Barry and Hillarity! in particular.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 04:16 AM (OFItL)

429 NASA celebrates International Asteroid Day this coming Friday. Speakers from the Planetary Defense Office will speak (live stream available) and they will probably have some scary things to say. I hope!

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8grl6kt

Posted by: goon at June 28, 2017 04:36 AM (EaQ6/)

430 Dream Machine have a nice sound to them. A throwback band. The female in the band is very cute and kills that organ. She's really really good. Wonder what music background she has. Obviously trained. And yes, I hope this 'attention' garners much success for them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 28, 2017 04:49 AM (gJYnh)

431 Even the last bill by congress about changing ( not worth the name repeal) Obamacare AARP themselves by name had commercials to call your congressman and tell them you don't want back room deals to steal your healthcare.

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2017 04:51 AM (Ot7+c)

432 Col Saito in Bridge over the River Kwai was quoting Henry Ford

Posted by: Skip at June 28, 2017 04:52 AM (Ot7+c)

433 The Most Busted Name In News: CNN.

Posted by: NY Post Cover 6/28 at June 28, 2017 05:07 AM (bc2Lc)

434 http://tinyurl.com/y9x67dgc

Lovely.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 28, 2017 05:18 AM (gJYnh)

435 434: Probably should have posted a little more. The Fascists of "antifa" are planning disrupting the 154th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. And when I say "disrupting" I mean desecrating Confederate graves. I have a ancestor on the wall of one of the Pennsylvania regiments that fought there. I hope the police are on there toes and if any kind of disruption happens, a severe beat down occurs. Gettysburg is not Berkley.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 28, 2017 05:29 AM (gJYnh)

436 I hope the police are on there toes and if any kind of disruption happens, a severe beat down occurs. Gettysburg is not Berkley.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 28, 2017 05:29 AM (gJYnh)

I hope they taste cold steel from re-enactors.

I'm a bad person.

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 05:35 AM (OFItL)

437 Wait, the antifa are going to rural PA to mess with a bunch of old breaded white guys with guns and bayonets who sleep on the ground with wool blanket for entertainment. Will this be televised?

Posted by: Jean at June 28, 2017 05:51 AM (9TU00)

438 Wait, the antifa are going to rural PA to mess with a bunch of old breaded white guys with guns and bayonets who sleep on the ground with wool blanket for entertainment. Will this be televised?

Posted by: Jean at June 28, 2017 05:51 AM (9TU00)

Some typos are funny.

And, yes, antifa are planning exactly that. Sounds like family entertainment, right?

Posted by: RickZ at June 28, 2017 05:59 AM (OFItL)

439 I keep thinking of the South Park episode where that little girl kicked the shit out of Eric Cartman because he kept mocking Breast Cancer victims. He still thought he was "kewl" even though he got curb stomped by a little girl. So it will be of the "antifa" dopes if they go through with there threats. Again, Gettysburg is NOT Berkley.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 28, 2017 06:05 AM (gJYnh)

440 Ola fellow mouth breathers and slackers! What's shakin this morning?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 28, 2017 06:05 AM (OlNRF)

441 Ola fellow mouth breathers and slackers! What's shakin this morning?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

All 4 cheeks and a couple of chins.

NORM!!

Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2017 06:08 AM (8ikIW)

442 Skip, I'm someone who actually stood on the "Bridge Over the River Kwai". It's not anything like what is in the movie. It looks like a bridge over the Brazos here in Texas.

I did walk it for a mile or two into the forest. Spooky as hell.

Posted by: Bayou City at June 28, 2017 06:08 AM (CqhDV)

443 Heh! Sarah Palin is gonna sue the NYT using their own product against them. Nice.

http://tinyurl.com/ya7ythgf

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 28, 2017 06:17 AM (OlNRF)

444 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2017 06:18 AM (FeRav)

445 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2017 06:31 AM (J+eG2)

446 Well, I just opened my email at work and lo and behold, my boss has resigned.... this week is gonna suck.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 28, 2017 06:35 AM (OlNRF)

447 Well, I just opened my email at work and lo and behold, my boss has resigned.... this week is gonna suck.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Whoa! Bummer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2017 06:36 AM (FeRav)

448 "Well, I just opened my email at work an"

Unexpected?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2017 06:44 AM (J+eG2)

449 "Well, I just opened my email at work an"

Unexpected?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Sub-optimal.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2017 06:45 AM (FeRav)

450 >>> Well, I just opened my email at work and lo and behold, my boss has resigned.... this week is gonna suck.

Are you the interim replacement?

Some bosses leaving is a cause for celebration.

Posted by: fluffy at June 28, 2017 06:45 AM (jw2Xw)

451 Palin is trolling the NYT. She is asking for $75,000. They should settle to save money. My bet is they don't settle and that they lose.

Posted by: Mudd at June 28, 2017 06:46 AM (cfHE9)

452 Posted by: rickb223 at June 28, 2017 06:36 AM (FeRav)

Yeah our division has two significant design efforts in work now followed by an extremely short certification cycle, and a third design is going into qualification testing later this month. And to add to uncertainty and anxiety, the company just got bought out by an 'investment group". I don't want to think about looking for another job at my age.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 28, 2017 06:47 AM (OlNRF)

453 You may remember the teenage girl who was beaten to death by a guy using a baseball bat last week.

She was a practicing Muslim, and the news practically gave itself an orgasm over the speculation that it was a Muslim hating white guy.

Looks like another one of Obama's southern sons.

(South of the border type southern)

http://tinyurl.com/ycqoeera

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2017 06:48 AM (J+eG2)

454 Le NOOD
Now arriving on track two.

Stand clear, please.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 28, 2017 06:50 AM (J+eG2)

455 MS13 is a scourge and needs to be eradicated. Obama, and the entire executive branch of ICE and DHS should be in jail over that shit.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 28, 2017 06:51 AM (OlNRF)

456 Did anyone else read the comments at the "Karma" link? There was one leftie whining about people who called the phone scammers "scum" because colonialism and racism justifies stealing grandma's income. Really.

Posted by: George LeS at June 28, 2017 07:10 AM (+TcCF)

457 Crowder is not always on top of everything, but I'm a sucker for muhammad paintings.

Posted by: Rinar at June 28, 2017 10:02 AM (6/J77)

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