Sunday Overnight Open Thread (8/13/17) It's That Time Edition

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4 [373 comments] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
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2 [54 names] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
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10 [23 names] 'Mortimer - Finish Her!'

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Go-getters,Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Expensive joy ride or commonly known as Genius Award Winner.

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There are two ways to load a dirt bike. The wrong way. And. The right way.

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There is also a correct way to place your car on a ferry. h/t ibguy

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Research? Oh heavens no!!! Fake outrage and hypersensitivity.

Late in 2015, the student activists at Lebanon Valley College briefly became national laughingstocks for demanding that the name of Lynch Memorial Hall be changed. You see, it reminded them of lynching.
Although the students’ other demands—for sensitivity training for faculty, for example—were greeted warmly, the demand concerning Lynch Hall met resistance. Clyde A. Lynch, as Emily Shire explained in the wonderfully titled “The Dumbest College Renaming Debate Yet” not only led Lebanon Valley through the Depression and World War II but also was “active in helping refugees settle in the U.S.” after the war.

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What's not to like? A Golden Retriever puppy named "Ace".

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Sometimes the gene pool isn't that deep.

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Is there a way to avoid conflict with North Korea? Sanctions do not seem to work. What if we were to leave South Korea?

Why not move U.S. forces off the peninsula, let South Korean troops replace them, sell Seoul all the modern weapons it needs, and let Seoul build its own nuclear arsenal to deter the North?
Remove any incentive for Kim to attack us, except to invite his own suicide. And tell China: Halt Kim’s ICBM program, or we will help South Korea and Japan become nuclear powers like Britain and France.

Love him or hate him, Patrick J. Buchanan presents some points to ponder.

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Conferences, workshops. Pick your subject matter. Book your location. Invite your speakers. Invite your guests. Pretty simple isn't it? No, not really. Writers workshop canceled due to lack of diversity.

A recent local example: A Minneapolis writing conference was canceled because of the lack of diversity of the presenters. Via the Star Tribune:
The lineup of speakers for the Loft Literary Center’s conference on writing for children and young adults was stellar. William Alexander, winner of a National Book Award. Kelly Barnhill, winner of the Newbery Medal. Phyllis Root, author of more than 40 books for children. And 19 others.
Other than Alexander, who is Cuban-American, every writer who agreed to speak was white. And so, just days after announcing it, the Loft in Minneapolis canceled the Oct. 20-21 conference.
“We have set a goal for ourselves to be inclusive and to work toward equity, and we didn’t think the conference would live up to that mission,” Britt Udesen, executive director of the Loft, said Wednesday. “We made a mistake.”

So diversity means different colors, amirite? Not so at Stanford. Stanford introduces a course Abolishing Whiteness.

Stanford University will introduce a course this fall which will task students with considering “abolishing whiteness” and the ultimate goal of understanding “what is the future of whiteness,” according to the institution’s course catalog.
The course, which is entitled “White Identity Politics,” will be taught by instructor John Patrick Moran, and analyze the “future of whiteness.” For the uninitiated, the concept of “whiteness” refers to the social aspect of race. According to the University of Calgary, “whiteness” is a socially and politically constructed learned behavior built upon the systematic privileges afforded to whites in Western society.

While Stanford is abolishing whiteness, perhaps they should study Joseph Gayetty.

Joseph C. Gayetty (b. 1827? Massachusetts - d.__ ) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper.[1][2][3] It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern Tissue Company.[4][5]

Here's a suggestion. Don't care for Western Civ? Go somewhere where it isn't practiced. Say for example North Korea.

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Speaking of ~~ass wipe~~ toilet paper. The ONT is sure you have heard someone lament, "They don't make things like they use to. In the case of toilet paper, that is a good thing.

Most of us can’t imagine this today, but in the early stages of toilet paper usage, many of the rolls actually contained splinters! This was mainly due to the crude production techniques that were being used at the time.

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From past ONTs you have probably concluded this Cob is ambivalent on the legalization of marijuana. Pretty much ambivalnent on tobacco as well even though I am an ex-smoker.

If there was an industry promoting a product which associated with a three-fold risk of death from hypertension what would our Nanny State say? Very little as one of the industries pushing this product is government.

Marijuana use is associated with a three-fold risk of death from hypertension, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.1
"Steps are being taken towards legalisation and decriminalisation of marijuana in the United States, and rates of recreational marijuana use may increase substantially as a result," said lead author Barbara A Yankey, a PhD student in the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, US. "However, there is little research on the impact of marijuana use on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular mortality."

Big Tobacco was the target of the Nanny State and their ~~extortion~~ law suits. Will Big Marijuana be in their cross hairs eventually?

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Graham crackers. Good stuff. From cheese cake crusts to S'mores to sex. SEX???

Most would be surprised to learn, then, that the Graham Cracker — most commonly associated with s’mores (an undeniably sensual snack) — was actually created to stifle sexual urges.
The cracker/cookie combo was the brainchild of Sylvester Graham — a Presbyterian minister and huge Debbie Downer who lived in Philadelphia in the mid-1800’s

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Maybe Gamers should get off their duffs and do something for their community. Gamers petition IKEA to build affordable gaming table. Let's not let capitalism, supply and demand get in the way.

He writes:
The board gaming community is passionate and fickle about their gaming accessories. They are also a large group with disposable income. There have been many attempts in the community to develop a high-quality table appropriate for both dining and gaming, but few have been affordable enough for the community at large to enjoy.

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A genius award winner is taken into custody. Construction worker style.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

August 13, 2009, Guitarist Les Paul died in hospital in White Plains, New York at the age of 94 suffering from severe pneumonia. Paul is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock. He also developed other influential recording innovations such as multi-track recording and overdubbing. In the early 50s, Paul and his wife Mary Ford had a string of hits including 'Mockin' Bird Hill', 'How High the Moon', and 'Vaya Con Dios'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Nice collection of Gibson Les Paul guitars owned by Slash.

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August 13, 1951, Born on this day, Dan Fogelberg, US singer songwriter, (1979 album 'Phoenix'). Worked with Joe Walsh, Jackson Browne, Randy Newman. Fogelberg died on 16th Dec 2007 at his home in Maine at the age of 56 of prostate cancer. via thisdayinmusic.com

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The future of America? Bright or dismal? The ONT will let The Horde decide.

Those who make up Generation Z — generally defined as those born after 1995 — are coming of age after the Great Recession and the September 11, 2001 attacks. They do not remember a US president before Barack Obama, or life without the iPhone. Everything has always been one tap away.
At approximately 60 million, Generation Z Americans outnumber millennials by nearly 1 million. Compared with their predecessors, members of Gen Z are true digital natives, with 92% having a digital footprint on social media and the web. But that doesn't mean they overshare. Teens are more likely to curate their profiles than their parents, who just put everything up.

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Experts can identify psychopaths as early as age 3. Previously considered untreatable, there is now hope.

From the start, Samantha seemed a willful child, in tyrannical need of attention. But what toddler isn’t? Her biological mother had been forced to give her up because she’d lost her job and home and couldn’t provide for her four children, but there was no evidence of abuse. According to documentation from the state of Texas, Samantha met all her cognitive, emotional, and physical milestones. She had no learning disabilities, no emotional scars, no signs of ADHD or autism.

But even at a very young age, Samantha had a mean streak. When she was about 20 months old, living with foster parents in Texas, she clashed with a boy in day care. The caretaker soothed them both; problem solved. Later that day Samantha, who was already potty trained, walked over to where the boy was playing, pulled down her pants, and peed on him. “She knew exactly what she was doing,” Jen says. “There was an ability to wait until an opportune moment to exact her revenge on someone.”

Being a parent is one of the toughest jobs one will ever have. I can't imagine having to go through what these parents have.

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Imagine being the parents of this woman. Woman intentionally blinds herself.

Jewel Shuping was born with perfectly healthy eyes, but she told Barcroft TV in a recent interview that growing up there was always something missing.
“By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable,” she said. She fantasized constantly about losing her vision, and spent hours staring directly at the sun after her mother warned her that it would damage her eyes.

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It looks like Brazil, the 2016 Olympics host, flushed a hell of a lot of money down the drain.

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were doomed from the start. Some daft optimists thought that maybe, just maybe, if we just believed in Brazil, the politicians would pull through on their promises that the games would lift the city up to a new level of prosperity. But a year later, the opposite is true.

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Fruit Cake in the news. h/t Mis. Hum daughters.

Dark Fruit Cake Recipe. (Do not post in old threads)

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~~Big Ass Snowflakes (BAS)~~ Montclair State University offers a “weekly discussion group” exclusively for LGBTQ students who are “fat-identified.” The discussion group, colloquially referred to as “F.A.B.” (“Fabulous and Big”

We already know you are big. If you were fabulous you wouldn't have to tell us. At the time of the national divorce, I do not want custody.

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Baby Boom parents. The worst ever? Slide show.

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Finally, a soccer game Deplorables will enjoy.

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“People who are good at excuses are seldom good at anything else.” HOW PRIVILEGED ARE YOU? Competitive Victimhood 101.

But “privilege” per se? It is a stupid word in most of the contexts in which the “intersectional” mush-minds use it. Mostly it is used as a bludgeon with which to browbeat anyone who has worked hard and achieved anything. And also to excuse massive laziness and the eagerness to demand benefits unearned except on the basis of some accident of birth, like color or gender.
The whole school of thought makes me sick – not just for the inherent unfairness of blaming people for reading to their children, for being smarter than the average bear, for “not building” the many businesses they worked 12 hour days to sustain. But even more for the disaster that professional victimhood inflicts upon those who rely on it to skate through life.

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So un-PC we just had to share with you.

Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quote II

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin,

Quote III

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” ― George Harrison

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(Stressed? What stress?)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:02 PM

Comments

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1 Hi

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 09:50 PM (3C9q2)

2 Where is everyone?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 09:51 PM (3C9q2)

3 Ichiban de wa nai...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2017 09:51 PM (e9G8E)

4 Hola, alternate universe fappers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2017 09:51 PM (QGoUX)

5 Yay! ONT!!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (RrhD2)

6 Here I is!

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (f73RN)

7 Bash the fash! Punch a NAZI --Liberals July 2017

OH MY GAIA HOW COULD SOMEONE ENGAGE IN VIOLENCE AT A PROTEST! -- Liberals August 2017

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (aZq03)

8 Are we in some sort of temporal oubliette?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (QGoUX)

9 Can you please hurry the fuck up and get my coffee.

Thank you

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (89T5c)

10 Thanks. Tits and ass.

Posted by: I'm A Traveling Man at August 13, 2017 09:52 PM (952c0)

11 red river!

Posted by: booknlass at August 13, 2017 09:53 PM (Ldq+P)

12 Wow! So much content!

Great work MisHum.

Off to read.

Posted by: tbodie at August 13, 2017 09:53 PM (7a8uF)

13 Splinter free TP seems like a basic requirement. I might as well us cob otherwise.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 13, 2017 09:53 PM (5uJX2)

14 Holy cow, that's a LOT of (really great) content.

Thanks, MisHum.

And thanks, too, for the Hat Tip

*Amazing* Baby Sister Update follows.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 09:54 PM (vUcdz)

15 Splinter free TP seems like a basic requirement

There's a reason why old Sears and Roebuck catalogs used to be standard equipment in outhouses.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 09:55 PM (3C9q2)

16 Who needs tits when you've got ass?

Posted by: a moroccan with rabies at August 13, 2017 09:55 PM (mJ8mX)

17 Bonsoir mes amis!

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at August 13, 2017 09:55 PM (nvMvs)

18 Baby Sister Update

From her friend Jessica a little while ago (Sunday's are almost always Jessica/swim days):

"Today another perfected swim day. We swam, water jogged and did our stretches the same as last week in record time ....however today, Joyce lured in an additional perk.

PLEASE NOTE HUBBY HAS BEEN ADVISED

It's official, Joyce has become the YMCA Hunk magnet:

Today while exiting the pool (Joyce was actually doing very well) a very nice, big, strong man rushed over to us offering us his help. I quickly thanked him but said we were fine "She is practicing perfection ....She's come along way since a one and two months ago."

Joyce immediately said, "Yes he can help me

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By then it was too late, we were out of the pool. Then the man asked, "Can I at least give her a hug ?" Joyce smiled, the man didn't have to say it twice. They wrapped their arms around each and gave the biggest bear hug.

Moral to the story.....

The next time a nice, strong man rushes over and offers to help us , I'm pretty sure I'll probably fake an ouchie or maybe even fake a faint a little bit."

Thanks, Jess!

[To my fellow Hordelings, thank you all in advance for your prayers and well-wishes for my sister and her family]

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 09:55 PM (vUcdz)

19 16-

Heh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2017 09:56 PM (89T5c)

20 Ibguy--

Thank you for the update/story-- I'm glad your sister is doing so well.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 09:57 PM (3C9q2)

21 I like Buchanan, but I think he's pretty naive on a lot of foreign policy topics. I'm far from being a big foreign policy hawk, but the North Korea problem is not going away, and giving South Korea nukes is not going to fix the problem. All Fat Boy has to do is survive long enough to develop a half-dozen nukes he can point at the United States, at which point a nuclear exchange is not worth the cost of losing the western seaboard.

Folding on this issue also teaches other groups and nations that are hostile to the United States that nuclear insurance is all they need to effectively do whatever they want.

Posted by: TK-421 at August 13, 2017 09:58 PM (0W+ig)

22 Evening Horde!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2017 09:58 PM (tr2D7)

23 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news.

http://politicalhat.com/?p=13736

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2017 09:59 PM (vBeA5)

24 Mr. H just killed a bug that came in through the fireplace.
Sometimes, you just need a man.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 09:59 PM (f73RN)

25 Late in 2015, the student activists at Lebanon Valley College briefly became national laughingstocks for demanding that the name of Lynch Memorial Hall be changed. You see, it reminded them of lynching.

I demand that that racist, bitch actress, Jane Lynch, change her name.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:00 PM (+lVUW)

26 I read all the tasty content. Late to the thread due to that.

Good job MH!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 13, 2017 10:00 PM (hyuyC)

27 Bass the fish!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2017 10:00 PM (IqV8l)

28 Oh crap I forgot I had chicken in the crockpot.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:01 PM (f73RN)

29 Most would be surprised to learn, then, that the Graham Cracker -- most commonly associated with s'mores (an undeniably sensual snack) -- was actually created to stifle sexual urges.

Apparently you do have to kick her out for eating crackers in bed.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:02 PM (sdi6R)

30 Annnd...I just realized it's bass akwards.

/golf clap

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:02 PM (vUcdz)

31 One might say we have a veritable abundanza of middling to excellent content this evening, yes?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (e9G8E)

32 Well.. the event I planned and worked so hard for was kind of disappointing. I made some sales but after paying $85 for the booth and donating $20 for a raffle I netted about $35. For a full day of standing and greeting and trying to sell my wares I came home exhausted and feeling slightly defeated. The face painting lady must have made a fortune. I think I got into the wrong business.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (CNHr1)

33 muHsiM, TNO eciN.

eguuuy dnA.

Posted by: bluebell at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (UoSKV)

34 Are European gatherings now going to include a burro bordello for the safety and protection of their womenfolk?

Posted by: Marla Hooch, Georgia Peach at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (Ww2BM)

35 Feel good, genius, commenter stats on top; quotes on the bottom. An upside down ONT or new format?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 13, 2017 10:04 PM (FUu/Z)

36 The young woman who dies in Charlottesville is being described as a "lifelong do-gooder who wanted to help people." This really sounds like the upper-middle class version of "Aspiring rap artist who was turning his life around."

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at August 13, 2017 10:04 PM (Jeh5i)

37 If I went and read all the content and clicked all the links, I would be all set to comment on the EMT.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:04 PM (sdi6R)

38 Imagine being the parents of this woman

Look up body integrity identity disorder (BIID). Yes, it is a bona fide mental disorder. Most people with BIID seek to have a limb amputated, but the condition also includes those who seek other forms of disability, such as blinding oneself.

Most people presently diagnosed with BIID are middle-aged males. Caitlyn Jenner, anyone?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (3C9q2)

39 I'm glad I live in the era of splinter-free toilet paper.

Count your blessings, I always say.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (nvMvs)

40 33 muHsiM, TNO eciN.

eguuuy dnA.
Posted by: bluebell at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (UoSKV)

It's been a long weekend, you're welcome. Very welcome.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (ZTRlp)

41 muHsiM, TNO eciN.

eguuuy dnA.
Posted by: bluebell at August

quick drag your monitor over to a mirror.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

42 After reading tonight's ONT, all the blood is rushing to my head.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (rJUlF)

43 If you'd like a little more culture than this joint will provide, check out Rudyard Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings". (Warning: Listening to this poem in today's political climate may induce nightmares. Possibly save the link for the morning.)

https://youtu.be/-c0ZvPhEumk

Posted by: Zaklog the Deplorable at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (YgGN4)

44 @Mis Hum, thanks for the great ONT.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (nvMvs)

45 Posted by: TK-421 at August 13, 2017 09:58 PM (0W+ig)

I'm convinced that we KNEW Osama bin L was in Pakistan... but that some in our government would not do anything, because Pakistan is a nuclear power.

WE KNOW they have given aid to Iran... and probably the NORKs... but... Nukes...

And the rest of the world understands that lesson... once you have nuclear weapons... you will only fall to INSIDE forces (aka Sov Union)... not outside forces.

Posted by: Don Q., at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (NgKpN)

46 The young woman who dies in Charlottesville is being described as a "lifelong do-gooder who wanted to help people." This really sounds like the upper-middle class version of "Aspiring rap artist who was turning his life around."
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at August

caterpillar charger / tomato tomahto.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (0wem/)

47 >>>quick drag your monitor over to a mirror.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

No need. I can read backwards.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 13, 2017 10:06 PM (rJUlF)

48 10th??

This is the greatest moment of my life.

I'd like to thank the Academy...

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at August 13, 2017 10:07 PM (2wRtc)

49 check out Rudyard Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings"

A perennial favorite of the Morons.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 13, 2017 10:07 PM (5uJX2)

50 Splinter free TP seems like a basic requirement

There's a reason why old Sears and Roebuck catalogs used to be standard equipment in outhouses.
Posted by: Basement Cat

Not the underwire corset section?

Posted by: Jean at August 13, 2017 10:07 PM (9TU00)

51 Oh, Lord. That story about the blind woman.
Now we have the "transabled," people who deliberately mutilate themselves because they identify with being disabled.
Are we going to be allowed to call them batshit crazy?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:07 PM (0jtPF)

52 36 The young woman who dies in Charlottesville is being described as a "lifelong do-gooder who wanted to help people." This really sounds like the upper-middle class version of "Aspiring rap artist who was turning his life around."
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at August 13, 2017 10:04 PM (Jeh5i)

Yeah.... i'm sure no one has bothered to look to see if she was PART of AntiFa... or BLM... or any of the other Soros sponsored groups...

Posted by: Don Q., at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (NgKpN)

53 Yay, my alma mater made the ONT! How embarrassing...

Posted by: Mike in Jersey at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (WXqyC)

54
Graham was my buddy. You perverted deviant masturbators. Read my book. Just about all health problems are caused by masturbation.

Posted by: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (8O3HH)

55 I demand that that racist, bitch actress, Jane Lynch, change her name.

Not to mention our favorite woke POC, Loretta Lynch.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (3C9q2)

56 A recent local example: A Minneapolis writing conference was canceled because of the lack of diversity of the presenters.

Well, it's Minneapolis, there should have been some illiterate Somalis presenting at that writers conference.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (+lVUW)

57 A former boss of mine had a shorter version of that G Harrison quote:

Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, all you have is today.

Posted by: davidt at August 13, 2017 10:09 PM (XoldI)

58 [542 comments] 'Insomniac ' [76.18 posts/day]
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Wow.

Just wow.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at August 13, 2017 10:09 PM (2wRtc)

59 Oh fuck me, I'm at the top of the list. I didnt even think i commented all that much, relatively speaking. Oh well.

Helluva ONT, though!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:09 PM (0mRoj)

60 I would probably kayak that creek. 20 years ago, when I had less stress.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2017 10:09 PM (zLDYs)

61 She should be flattered.

Posted by: zombie rachel corrie at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (mJ8mX)

62
So, is a transabled persyn with a really good prosthesis the transable version of a trap?

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (8O3HH)

63 I'm convinced that we KNEW Osama bin L was in Pakistan... but that some
in our government would not do anything, because Pakistan is a nuclear
power.

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One of the CIA analysts charged with finding Osama made the case to the Obama administration for like a year that he was in that place in Pakistan.

Why Obama ignored her is anyone's guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (aZq03)

64 Finally!

Some interesting content!

Posted by: Bored With Blather at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (k1z03)

65 Thanks for sharing the Les Paul video. I could listen to "How High The Moon" all day.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (rJUlF)

66 Mr. H just killed a bug that came in through the fireplace.

Sometimes, you just need a man.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 09:59 PM (f73RN)

It is customary to reward your bug warrior with your favors. Have a nice night, Mr. H.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (JO9+V)

67 Don' key up that it's ass-backwards. It's just MisHum foaming at the format.

Posted by: a morrocan who says bestiality is best at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM (DMUuz)

68 Are we going to be allowed to call them batshit crazy?

Be prepared for lawsuits by animal rights lawyers on behalf of outraged bats.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM (3C9q2)

69 Yeah Buchanan is often pretty silly when weaving complex schemes to magically disengage the US from the world. As noted by another above, in this case his "ideas" would accomplish nothing. It's not that there is some magical alternative that *will* solve the entire problem - but the relentless search for implausible schemes that will magically let the US ignore events outside our borders has long been stale and silly. I know one of the sorts who does this - he's been doing it, and beclowning himself, since the Soviet collapse - but he doesn't lead with that, and gets good media traction by focusing on his other specialty.

I'd actually love for the US to try a Belgium-sized profile outside our borders, with a military to match, just for giggles, as an experiment. Pat and his fans would probably find it not too much to their liking. But alas this will never happen.

Oh - and "empire" - FFS give it a rest.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM (QDnY+)

70 We get paid, what, 10-20 bucks per sock puppet, right?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM (2wRtc)

71 Comment #12, then read the content.

Let's see what comment i return at...

Posted by: tbodie at August 13, 2017 10:12 PM (7a8uF)

72 Here's one for Stanford's initiative in abolishing whiteness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a-HpjBwyE

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2017 10:13 PM (SRKgf)

73 There should be a debate about supplying RoK, JapLand, and RoC with nukes, rather than letting them develop their own. At least we can keep the proliferation genie in the bottle a little longer.

Posted by: Jean at August 13, 2017 10:13 PM (9TU00)

74 While Stanford is abolishing whiteness, perhaps they should study Joseph Gayetty.

The BLM types need to stop appropriating my culture.

Use tree bark or rocks or whatever your ancestors did.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:14 PM (sdi6R)

75 20 Basement Cat

Thank YOU

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:14 PM (vUcdz)

76 Nice toilet paper, what brand? Doug Fir cross cut for a sensitive keister.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 13, 2017 10:15 PM (ZRytP)

77 Some of us cannot handle things when they are not in the right order.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2017 10:15 PM (EZebt)

78
There should be a debate about supplying RoK, JapLand, and RoC with nukes, rather than letting them develop their own. At least we can keep the proliferation genie in the bottle a little longer.
Posted by: Jean at August 13, 2017 10:13 PM

Kind of surprised that more nations don't have them. It's 1945 technology. You know, like tube amplifiers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (IqV8l)

79 trump
trump
trump

deport
deport
deport

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (QvI/V)

80 I'm praying GenZ is more conservative and more grounded than Millennials.

Posted by: Mike I at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (c056A)

81 "Here's a suggestion. Don't care for Western Civ? Go somewhere where it isn't practiced. Say for example North Korea."

Yep. When they talk about "abolishing whiteness" they're really talking about abolishing Western civilization and culture, and the underpinnings thereof. If that succeeds, then we are proper fucked.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (0mRoj)

82 Watching "Barnwood Builders" a couple guys on the show tonight who are fairly young 40 to 60. Are talking how they grew up with no indoor plumbing. I knew that was common for rural houses in the 50s from stories from relatives. But did not know it was so common when I was growing up in the 70s. I'm more of a cityboy than I thought I guess.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (zoSd2)

83
I'm pretty sure that we gave Israel nukes. Or at least helped them out.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (8O3HH)

84 75

I always look for your updates about your sister-- it is so good to know that she is continuing to improve.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:18 PM (3C9q2)

85 Jean, a long time since it was part of work, but I don't think Japan or SK are much more than a "turn of the screwdriver" away from nuking up, if they make it a priority. Providing them nukes - problematic in many ways all by itself - I don't see that as preventing any "proliferation".

The entertainment value in watching Beijing's reaction to either country nuking up would be worth almost anything that follows.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 10:18 PM (QDnY+)

86 70 We get paid, what, 10-20 bucks per sock puppet, right?
Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM (2wRtc)

You're getting paid?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:18 PM (0mRoj)

87 MisHum: what a bountiful ONT! Thank you for all your hard work.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:18 PM (TdMsT)

88 Israel has nucular weapons? The dickens, you say...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2017 10:18 PM (e9G8E)

89 Pat Buchanan is an anti-semite.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (rnAwa)

90 I bought some eclipse glasses from Amazon, and 2 days after they arrived, Amazon sent me an email saying that the seller did not respond to their request for proof that the glasses were certified.
Amazon said not to use them to watch the eclipse.
So now what.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (f73RN)

91 Jean, a long time since it was part of work, but I don't think Japan or SK are much more than a "turn of the screwdriver" away from nuking up, if they make it a priority. Providing them nukes - problematic in many ways all by itself - I don't see that as preventing any "proliferation".

The entertainment value in watching Beijing's reaction to either country nuking up would be worth almost anything that follows.
Posted by: rhomboid

Yep, four turns of a torquewrench. What I would expect to see is an unannounced, unclaimed underwater test in Pacific - with hints it could be RoK, Japan, or RoC. But, no attribution. There's a plot for you, moron writers.

Posted by: Jean at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (9TU00)

92 80 I'm praying GenZ is more conservative and more grounded than Millennials.
Posted by: Mike I at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (c056A)

I postulated on an earlier thread that they will not buy the "abolishing whiteness" crap being peddled at the universities. The backlash will be epic, and extremely ugly.

Be careful what you wish for, lefties.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (sdi6R)

93 It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Like the wound of your piece of shit husband openly having an affair with Gloria Swanson while you take care of 7 children? I hope you at least spit in his food.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

94 82 X-ray

>> Barnwood Builders

I *love* that show!! Interesting, entertaining, great teamwork, fascinating history.

Plus Mark's love of Dad Jokes and pickles is hi-larious.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (vUcdz)

95 Ibguy--what a great update about Joyce! She continues to amaze. Prayers for Joyce and her family continue as well.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:22 PM (TdMsT)

96 I'd actually love for the US to try a Belgium-sized profile outside our borders,

If you count the EU and the climate change crap, little Belgium is punching well above her weight.

Posted by: Jean at August 13, 2017 10:22 PM (9TU00)

97 Insomniac @ 81---Abolishing whiteness.........
I may not be so easy to abolish as they may think, the white part especially.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2017 10:22 PM (zLDYs)

98 buy the "abolishing whiteness"
...

reaping, sowing....

this will boomerang like a bitch

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:22 PM (QvI/V)

99 Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

Heh. The Kennedys were scum. I will never understand the starry-eyed admiration they received.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:23 PM (0mRoj)

100 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
...........

that the one who got involuntarily lobotomized?

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:24 PM (QvI/V)

101 >>> Amazon said not to use them to watch the eclipse.
So now what.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (f73RN)

Welding goggles, rating 14 or higher, if you can find them. Found four pairs at a Lowe's today with friends.

... and/or build a pinhole camera.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2017 10:24 PM (0ReGO)

102 95 LadyLibertarian

I was laughing out loud reading Jessica's text. It was esp wonderful since her Friday date with Roni ended up kind of a bust (she had some intestinal issues, but those seem to have cleared up).

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (vUcdz)

103 Powerball is $438 million. I could learn to live on that.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (f73RN)

104 Plus Mark's love of Dad Jokes and pickles is hi-larious.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (vUcdz)

The amount of bad pun show segments are hilarious in their innocent stupidity.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (zoSd2)

105 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (mknWS)

106 One of the CIA analysts charged with finding Osama made the case to the Obama administration for like a year that he was in that place in Pakistan.
Why Obama ignored her is anyone's guess.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (aZq03)

Oh I can guess. He's on the other side ... that's my gutsy call.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (rnAwa)

107 93 It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Like the wound of your piece of shit husband openly having an affair with Gloria Swanson while you take care of 7 children? I hope you at least spit in his food.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

That wasn't as scaring as the lobotomy that the poor little girl got.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (ZTRlp)

108 How much are welding glasses?

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (f73RN)

109
I'd actually love for the US to try a Belgium-sized profile outside our borders,
***
Unfortunately that never seems to work.

I think a more sustainable model is to move to spending a lot more of foreign focus to either: ignore, bomb, or assassinate.

Most countries don't need America babysitting them - Germany, South Korea, etc can all start to spend to protect themselves...

For those countries that can't be handled this way we need less bribing and a hell of a lot less boots on the ground. Start engaging in terrorism against the US? You get a warning...and then one day your supreme leader wakes up with a MOAB in his living room or some of those Podesta wetworks...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (aZq03)

110 I bought some eclipse glasses from Amazon, and 2 days after they arrived, Amazon sent me an email saying that the seller did not respond to their request for proof that the glasses were certified.
Amazon said not to use them to watch the eclipse.
So now what.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (f73RN)

======

Send them back and let Amazon deal with it. They are the ones who allowed an uncertified product to be sold fraudently.

Posted by: GOULD at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (lCt1V)

111 100 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
...........

that the one who got involuntarily lobotomized?
Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:24 PM (QvI/V)

No, the poor lobotomized girl was her daughter.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

112 29 Most would be surprised to learn, then, that the Graham Cracker -- most commonly associated with s'mores (an undeniably sensual snack) -- was actually created to stifle sexual urges.

Apparently you do have to kick her out for eating crackers in bed.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:02 PM

I'm hightailing it to the kitchen for some graham crackers right now.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (TdMsT)

113 This ONT's back asswards!

Posted by: Robert at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (mknWS)

114
The official recommendation is Shade 14 or higher to look at the Sun, but I can look at the Sun with a Shade 12. Shade 11 is a bit too bright, but 12 seems okay.

But that is officially not kosher.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (8O3HH)

115 104 X-ray

Yup. May be the funniest "serious" show on the cables.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (vUcdz)

116
Oh I can guess. He's on the other side ... that's my gutsy call.
___
I have no idea why you would say that. Inshallah

Posted by: John Brennan at August 13, 2017 10:27 PM (aZq03)

117 rickl, you are immeasurably more optimistic than I. And even if there's "backlash" over time - the degradation of our civic culture is so extreme, so many unique or distinctive American values and accomplishments have been inverted into ugly imitation of the worst that others' history has to offer - it's sort of academic. "Racial hygiene" was the formal version of Nazi make-believe "science" to rationalize their racism/ethnic hatreds. Imagine a "prestigious" US university actually hosting anything remotely similar - oh! Wait! There are!

Jean - underwater test? Cool! Been a long time since anyone's done one of those. Of course it will probably be a very small proof-of-design low-yield device. But that doesn't rule out three-headed fish and other cool sci-fi stuff to follow.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 10:27 PM (QDnY+)

118 Amazon said they would refund my money and I didn't need to send the glasses back.
They came from Hong Kong, so good thing.
I didn't know where the seller was when I ordered them. Amazon doesn't tell you that, like eBay does.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:27 PM (f73RN)

119 109
For those countries that can't be handled this way we need less bribing and a hell of a lot less boots on the ground. Start engaging in terrorism against the US? You get a warning...and then one day your supreme leader wakes up with a MOAB in his living room or some of those Podesta wetworks...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (aZq03)

I can haz newsletter?

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:28 PM (sdi6R)

120 102 95 LadyLibertarian

I was laughing out loud reading Jessica's text. It was esp wonderful since her Friday date with Roni ended up kind of a bust (she had some intestinal issues, but those seem to have cleared up).
Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2017 10:25 PM (vUcdz)

Joyce is my kind of friend for sure!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:28 PM (TdMsT)

121 Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (0wem/)

Check you e-mail.

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2017 10:28 PM (vBeA5)

122 ALH-

Sue the shit out of them. Everyone else does it.
Let Bezos know what is up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2017 10:28 PM (89T5c)

123 No, the poor lobotomized girl was her daughter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

====
this is sad, you want to lobotomize my kid you better be immunized against .308

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (QvI/V)

124 111 100 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
...........

that the one who got involuntarily lobotomized?
Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:24 PM (QvI/V)

No, the poor lobotomized girl was her daughter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

That's what I meant. Sorry I wasn't clear.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (ZTRlp)

125 Check you e-mail.
Posted by: The Political Hat at August

no, you check your email.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (0wem/)

126 >>> Send them back and let Amazon deal with it. They are the ones who allowed an uncertified product to be sold fraudently.
Posted by: GOULD at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (lCt1V)

*smacks forehead* Yeah, that too!

Welding *masks* are $100 plus, but the *goggles/glasses* were $14 where we found them; I've seen others up to $30 or so.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (0ReGO)

127 69---Oh - and "empire" - FFS give it a rest.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 10:11 PM
---------------------
Eh. I believe the US has pretty much transformed from a federal republic into an empire of provinces. Hey, we even have robed priests declaring empire-wide "laws" and "rights" based on reading the entrails of a chicken.

But being an imperial power abroad, yeah --- give it a rest.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (0jtPF)

128 Welp - for once, glad the weekend craziness is over.

I watched the Sunday Talking Dunderheads this morning, and the level of hubris these people have to clutch their pearls over this unfortunate incident finally struck my last nerve.

The rush to disavow the white nationalists (a small group I detest) while remaining their usual radio silence on even uttering a mention of the Anti-fa thugs involvement and instigation of violence is the definition of hypocrisy. The GOPe and NeverTrumpers claims that Trump's condemnation of the incident "did not go far enough" are sickening. Scott Adams made a great point in that if Trump was to condemn by name a group participating (e.g. White Nationalist idiots), the same question would be asked for all other groups, with the intent to ostensibly call out broadly half of the voting population (aka the non-Hillary voters).

Hell, Paul Ryan's tweet yesterday was part an parcel the same tweet he had last June when Trump did not condemn David Duke and his ilk for something they did (I forget, but I think it was DD's endorsement?).

I detest that whole segment of white identitarians (which has only become emboldened by the Left's usurping of their own identity politics deep into the mainstream) that try to cling to the rest of the larger conservative / libertarian / center-right / rational political spectrum - but good god people, let justice be served equally for those that violate the law (uphold first amendment rights and enforce criminal matters equally).

It's all so tiring. Anyone else feel tired?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (fFfWq)

129 I just checked out the dirt bike vids... I note that "the right way" was actual done with a trials bike!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (e9G8E)

130 I'm praying GenZ is more conservative and more grounded than Millennials.
Posted by: Mike

My youngest is off to start college in two weeks. He is far more conservative (and lippy about it) than his older siblings.

He's going out of state and the only thing I worry about is he might say "Good Morning!" the wrong way some day and the SJW harpies will descend on social media to ruin him. He knows of my fear and has promised to keep his head down and mouth shut.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (Y6JzV)

131 hey!

who took my neighbors goats?

I have the horney

Posted by: mohamed mohamed mohamed at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (QvI/V)

132 (Stressed? What stress?)
-------

Hmm. Unless...you're in an open boat trying to run that river.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (OdK9v)

133 I'm praying GenZ is more conservative and more grounded than Millennials.
Posted by: Mike I at August 13, 2017 10:16 PM (c056A)

They're Bernie Bros. We don't pray that they're more conservative, we just pray they're too fucking lazy to register to vote.

Posted by: Robert at August 13, 2017 10:31 PM (mknWS)

134 I think I've been to where that last picture was taken. Or a place very similar.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 13, 2017 10:31 PM (w+Jhj)

135 Back asswards is how I got into this situation in the first place!

Posted by: a moroccan with rabies at August 13, 2017 10:32 PM (mJ8mX)

136 The Les Paul video is amazing. He is remembered mostly as an inventor but he was more than that.

I didn't know Dan Fogelberg had died. He wasn't my cup of tea but he was exceedingly popular from the mid-seventies or so through the mid-eighties.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at August 13, 2017 10:32 PM (nvMvs)

137 Like the wound of your piece of shit husband openly having an affair with Gloria Swanson while you take care of 7 children?

Rose inflicted a fair amount of pain on her own children; she threatened to disown her daughter Kathleen for first marrying an Anglican and then getting involved with a married man after her husband was killed in 1944. Rose refused to go to the memorial service after Kathleen died in a plane crash, going into a hospital instead for "medical tests." Rose also hid the fact of her oldest daughter Rosemary's low IQ (between 60 and 60) from other family members.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:32 PM (3C9q2)

138
Every damn hotel and motel around here (Greenville, SC area) is booked up for the eclipse. And it seems stupid, but the cops and EMS are all drilling for it.

They're afraid of traffic accidents with people being distracted.

It's just an occultation of the Sun by the Moon. BFD.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:33 PM (8O3HH)

139 114
The official recommendation is Shade 14 or higher to look at the Sun, but I can look at the Sun with a Shade 12. Shade 11 is a bit too bright, but 12 seems okay.

But that is officially not kosher.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (8O3HH)

Shade 14 for when the Sun is high in the sky. Shade 12 is acceptable when it is near the horizon.

You can buy these rectangular faceplates for a few dollars at any welder's supply store. They give a crisper image than the Mylar "eclipse glasses".

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:33 PM (sdi6R)

140 It's all so tiring. Anyone else feel tired?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM (fFfWq)

Yeah, but a glass of whiskey, a warm bed and a soft pillow usually fixes me right up.

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:33 PM (mknWS)

141 100 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
...........

that the one who got involuntarily lobotomized?
Posted by: original jake

Nope, that was Rosemary, and she wasn't born retarded. Rose's bastard of a husband, Joe, was responsible for that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

142 it just occurs to me --
the Dems and their flacks in the MSM are complaining that Trump denounces violence but does specifically single out 'white nationalism', or something like that.
Is this really that different from the way lefties reacted when some people said "all lives matter"?

Posted by: mallfly suPreme at August 13, 2017 10:34 PM (ILitO)

143 "Amazon said not to use them to watch the eclipse.

So now what."

Protip: you can find, pretty cheaply, the inserts that go into the slot in the front of a welding helmet. They're just a rectangle of dark glass, but they're OK for eclipse viewing. You just hold them in your hand, which given that you'll be doing so for only a few minutes, is fine.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 10:34 PM (ujwCG)

144 123 No, the poor lobotomized girl was her daughter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:26 PM (0mRoj)

====
this is sad, you want to lobotomize my kid you better be immunized against .308

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:29 PM (QvI/V)

Yeah, well, Joe Sr., that vile piece of shit, had it done to her. Scrambled her brains because he thought her below-average IQ and behavioral problems would embarrass the family

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:34 PM (0mRoj)

145 138
It's just an occultation of the Sun by the Moon. BFD.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:33 PM (8O3HH)

It really is a BFD, though.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:35 PM (sdi6R)

146 Now I know how the goats feel.

Posted by: Achmed's donkeys that now has a gaping asshole at August 13, 2017 10:35 PM (89T5c)

147 Most would be surprised to learn, then, that the Graham Cracker -- most commonly associated with s'mores (an undeniably sensual snack) -- was actually created to stifle sexual urges.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:02 PM

I'm hightailing it to the kitchen for some graham crackers right now.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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*types*
*deletes*
*types*
*deletes*

Nope, nope, nope - not going there. LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2017 10:35 PM (tr2D7)

148 Rose also hid the fact of her oldest daughter Rosemary's low IQ (between 60 and 60)
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:32 PM (3C9q2)

Like between an American 60 and a British 60, right?

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:36 PM (mknWS)

149 Buchanan basically wants the US to walk away from commitments, in this case oh the UN ones that saw that only an Armistice was signed in 1953 plus the ones the US signed with such Asian countries as South Korea and the Philippines. After eight years of Gaylord, one would think people would wise up that abandoning allies never works.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 10:36 PM (BTvE8)

150 The danger of looking at the eclipsed sun is from how the moon acts as a lens, focusing the radiation.

Posted by: Soledad O'Brien's Earpiece at August 13, 2017 10:36 PM (XoldI)

151 145 138
It's just an occultation of the Sun by the Moon. BFD.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:33 PM (8O3HH)

It really is a BFD, though.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:35 PM (sdi6R)

Prepare the sacrifices! Blood for the blood god!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:36 PM (0mRoj)

152 Most would be surprised to learn, then, that the Graham Cracker -- most commonly associated with s'mores (an undeniably sensual snack) -- was actually created to stifle sexual urges.
Posted by: rickl at August

uh, yeah, you want to define your use of the word sensual more precisely there?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (0wem/)

153 Graham Cracker

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never heard of it. that what white girls like?

Posted by: mohamed mohamed mohamed at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (QvI/V)

154 So, the Kennedys were fucking deplorable human beings.

Why do so many people admire them again?

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (mknWS)

155 148 Rose also hid the fact of her oldest daughter Rosemary's low IQ (between 60 and 60)
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:32 PM (3C9q2)

Like between an American 60 and a British 60, right?
Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:36 PM (mknWS)

Metric system and all.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (0mRoj)

156
I've got Shade 10 - 12, small rectangular for welding helmets.

I've been to get one of the large faceplate autodarkening ones with a variable shade range. 9 - 13 is the usual range.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (8O3HH)

157 Welding *masks* are $100 plus, but the *goggles/glasses* were $14 where we found them; I've seen others up to $30 or so.)))

I bought an automatic shade change welding helmet on amazon for $45.I'm guessing new non automatic welding mask glass is cheaper.

Looked it up. $6.50

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y9hbrl4m

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (zoSd2)

158 46 The young woman who dies in Charlottesville is being described as a "lifelong do-gooder who wanted to help people."
_______________

The best way to help people is to teach them that they have the power to help themselves -- not to reinforce their self-defeating beliefs that government owes them a living, or that whitey has been holding them down, or that they're the innocent "victim" of an unjust society.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (HZrjw)

159

I'm hightailing it to the kitchen for some graham crackers right now.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian
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*types*
*deletes*
*types*
*deletes*

Nope, nope, nope - not going there. LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at August 13, 2017 10:35 PM (tr2D7)

LOL

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:38 PM (TdMsT)

160 Well.. the event I planned and worked so hard for was kind of disappointing. I made some sales but after paying $85 for the booth and donating $20 for a raffle I netted about $35. For a full day of standing and greeting and trying to sell my wares I came home exhausted and feeling slightly defeated. The face painting lady must have made a fortune. I think I got into the wrong business.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 13, 2017 10:03 PM (CNHr1)

Ah well, we're not gonna hit a home run every time. Hang in there.

Evening all.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2017 10:39 PM (D2vc1)

161 Les Paul with ZZ Top

https://youtu.be/3egBlDjMWtc

The Texan accent is a deep but nasal voice.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:39 PM (rnAwa)

162 154 So, the Kennedys were fucking deplorable human beings.

Why do so many people admire them again?
Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (mknWS)

As I said earlier I will never understand it. Joe Sr., JFK, RFK, Fat Teddy, Michael Skakel...all pieces of shit. It boggles the mind.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 10:39 PM (0mRoj)

163 *types*
*deletes*
*types*
*deletes*

Nope, nope, nope - not going there. LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at August

meh, skeptical that the type /delete thing is anything more than a ruse. Something vile, ruthless, humorous, silly, disgusting is allowed even encouraged here.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:40 PM (0wem/)

164 I thought the kennedy girl liked boys and to have fun/party

who fucking knows what here iq was.

that is like antifa telling everyone they attack are Nazis.

need some proof here

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:40 PM (QvI/V)

165 Wow! What a lot of content. Thank you MisHum.

Posted by: cod mom at August 13, 2017 10:40 PM (lGhRT)

166 "Yep, four turns of a torquewrench."

I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.

"What I would expect to see is an unannounced, unclaimed underwater test in Pacific - with hints it could
be RoK, Japan, or RoC."

Doing the analytical radiochemistry on the seawater afterwards would be a bitch, what with having to sort it out from the Fukushima signature. One of those melted reactor cores had been running MOX fuel. Salted with some of Japan's prodigious stockpile of plutonium. (Largest in the world, if memory serves.)

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 10:41 PM (ujwCG)

167 China has India to worry about too, they are building their own aircraft carrier Subs etc.. and if rumors are to be believed a carrier with a catapult.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2017 10:41 PM (dKiJG)

168 I thought the kennedy girl liked boys and to have fun/party

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:40 PM (QvI/V)

An 'Ette, through and through.

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:41 PM (mknWS)

169 Wow! What a lot of content. Thank you MisHum.
Posted by: cod mom at August

isn't a cod mom another cod?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:41 PM (0wem/)

170 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771229474074628

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771378615119874

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771466334801920

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771588141568001

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771688163094530

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2017 10:42 PM (3i2nH)

171 my binocular eclipse glasses come tomorrow ... only 2x, but others were out of stock

this lists the reputable dealers ... they say. Amazon had many but delivery date was too late on some.

https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters

Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2017 10:42 PM (7Ep0P)

172 156
I've got Shade 10 - 12, small rectangular for welding helmets.

I've been to get one of the large faceplate autodarkening ones with a variable shade range. 9 - 13 is the usual range.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (8O3HH)

Shade 14 is considered necessary for viewing the Sun. It blocks out the UV and infrared light.

Shade 12 is OK when it is near the horizon and dimmed by the atmosphere.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:42 PM (sdi6R)

173
Ol' Dr. Kellogg developed Corn Flakes for the same purposes, to tame sexual desire. They thought a bland, high fiber diet would tame the desire. Meat inflamed the desire.

He came up with some "stitch up the dick" operation he did to cure chronic masturbators. Make erections painful.

And he did clitorectomies to cure it in girls.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:43 PM (8O3HH)

174 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771784070004736

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771869877121025

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896771958720868352

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896772059090628608

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/896772148689334272

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2017 10:43 PM (3i2nH)

175 142 it just occurs to me --
the Dems and their flacks in the MSM are complaining that Trump denounces violence but does specifically single out 'white nationalism', or something like that.
Is this really that different from the way lefties reacted when some people said "all lives matter"?

Posted by: mallfly suPreme at August 13, 2017 10:34 PM (ILitO)

Exactly my thoughts. Bernie was taunted by BLM and awkwardly claimed "Black Lives Matter", followed by a less than full-throated claim by Hillary. I have barely heard a peep from the MSM hacks, and besides those GOPe & NeverTrumpers that are asked pointblank on FNC about those Leftist groups, its crickets everywhere else.

Will Ana Navarro disavow her Sandinista links? Nope - "b-but Trump is a MAN-BABY!" (to great applause on CNN).

One thing is for sure, though. Terry McAuliffe is running for president (in the same fake outrage, authoritarian Clintonite mold).

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (fFfWq)

176 Ol' Dr. Kellogg developed Corn Flakes for the same purposes, to tame sexual desire. They thought a bland, high fiber diet would tame the desire. Meat inflamed the desire.

He came up with some "stitch up the dick" operation he did to cure chronic masturbators. Make erections painful.

And he did clitorectomies to cure it in girls.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:43 PM (8O3HH)

Fuck me, man, I'm never looking at Tony The Tiger the same way ever again.

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (mknWS)

177 How dumb can the Kennedy women be?

*points to Caroline Kennedy, former US ambassador to Japan*

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (BTvE8)

178 Trebuchet.

Thank you. Come again.

Posted by: indian navy officer at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (mJ8mX)

179 Hey everybody.

Wow, I'm in the Top 10 again! Feels good!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (eMKNe)

180 Seems the clowns on the left do not really understand the score. I am not going out to fuck around on the streets with this nonsense. However, they should not interpret that as a lack of resolve. I have much more resolve and determination than they do but I am just doing it once.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (0wem/)

181 179 Hey everybody.

Wow, I'm in the Top 10 again! Feels good!
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 10:44 PM (eMKNe)

You won't be with the new gig and btw I neglected to say the other evening, "Congrats"

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (ZTRlp)

182 I just had a thought, but if you sank an Indian aircraft carrier wouldn't it just reincarnate as an attack sub?

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (mknWS)

183 who fucking knows what here iq was.

By Massachusetts state law (in the 1920s), Rosemary was given the Binet IQ test when she was 7 because she had twice failed to advance from kindergarten into first grade. Her reading, writing, and counting skills never got beyond a fourth-grade level.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (3C9q2)

184 Hmm ran across a video on zero hedge claiming to show James Alex Fields's car being hit by rioters before he slammed on the gas.

No idea of the providence of the video though...

https://streamable.com/21gc9

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (aZq03)

185
Kbdabear's contributions are another asstastic extravaganza tonight. Now, what does "Al Pacino version" of swimwear mean?

He "extravaganza" -- riff on that. Extravagina Extravulvagantastic.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (8O3HH)

186 Thnks for the ONT MisHum.

I'm heading to bed, we had our monthly meeting. Good movie called "George Washington, the Man Who Wouldn't Be King".

Learned some stuff about GW I never knew.

Posted by: Farmer at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (yJ1e6)

187 Her reading, writing, and counting skills never got beyond a fourth-grade level.
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so basically a Somali ?

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (QvI/V)

188 Meat inflamed the desire.
==

Anecdotally, a lot of the ppl doing the carnivorous diet say their libido is way up.

Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (hMwEB)

189 While the Mean Girl Media was ignoring global problems because their dreamboat swain Gaylord had his feet propped up on the Resolute Desk, other countries have been busy building up their forces to ensure they don't get eaten.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 10:48 PM (BTvE8)

190 163 *types*
*deletes*
*types*
*deletes*

Nope, nope, nope - not going there. LOL
Posted by: Tonypete at August

meh, skeptical that the type /delete thing is anything more than a ruse. Something vile, ruthless, humorous, silly, disgusting is allowed even encouraged here.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:40 PM (0wem/)

You are addressing a real gentleman, Sir.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 10:48 PM (TdMsT)

191 so basically a Somali ?
Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (QvI/V)

I was born a poor black child...

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy at August 13, 2017 10:48 PM (mknWS)

192 182 I just had a thought, but if you sank an Indian aircraft carrier wouldn't it just reincarnate as an attack sub?

Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (mknWS)

Nope - just a shitty Tata Nano car - for a bargain price of $3,000. It's the caste system, so they tell me.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:49 PM (fFfWq)

193 166 "Yep, four turns of a torquewrench."

I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.

"What I would expect to see is an unannounced, unclaimed underwater test in Pacific - with hints it could
be RoK, Japan, or RoC."

Doing the analytical radiochemistry on the seawater afterwards would be a bitch, what with having to sort it out from the Fukushima signature. One of those melted reactor cores had been running MOX fuel. Salted with some of Japan's prodigious stockpile of plutonium. (Largest in the world, if memory serves.)
Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 10:41 PM (ujwCG)

=======================

Worth noting: There's 1 of those three going nuclear that would make the PRC shit themselves: the Taiwanese. SK and Japan would be straightforward MAD dynamics. They'd have to reign in NK, but otherwise, no real threat to China's ambtions. A nuclear Taiwan, though, would practically kneecap them. For them it would be an effective doomsday weapon. Imagine the damage, say, a 100 boosted fission devices could do to the PRC should they decide to invade...
Just 1 would be enough to wipe out the 3 Gorges Dam, and flood some of the most populous areas of S.China...

Posted by: Jackal at August 13, 2017 10:49 PM (NiR1r)

194 128---It's all so tiring. Anyone else feel tired?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM
----------------------
Yeah, it's tiresome.
And unlike you, I can't even relieve the tedium by sending dick pics.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:50 PM (0jtPF)

195 Only if it was an honest aircraft carrier. If it did bad, then it returns as the USS Gabrielle Giffords.

Posted by: indian navy officer at August 13, 2017 10:50 PM (mJ8mX)

196 the clowns on the left do not really understand the score. I am not going out to fuck around on the streets with this nonsense.

=====

antifa does not get this, is I ever get to the streets I'm going to be pulling triggers, not fucking around with street theater

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:50 PM (QvI/V)

197 194 128---It's all so tiring. Anyone else feel tired?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:30 PM
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Yeah, it's tiresome.
And unlike you, I can't even relieve the tedium by sending dick pics.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:50 PM (0jtPF)

I DISAVOW the sending or receiving of dick pics. But shirtless selfies....

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:51 PM (fFfWq)

198 Anecdotally, a lot of the ppl doing the carnivorous diet say their libido is way up.
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (hMwEB)

Actually, since you bring it up, when I was on my big diet a few years ago my libido fucking died. Low calorie, lots of exercise.

Break diet, libido returned.

Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy at August 13, 2017 10:51 PM (mknWS)

199 You are addressing a real gentleman, Sir.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August

Well, that only matters if there was something to delete. If there was nothing to delete then his behavior was ungentlemanly.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (0wem/)

200 I just went to the bathroom, and Kira followed me and hopped into the bathtub, and sat there looking at me.

She is so sweet I can't even.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (sdi6R)

201 *Erm*

*Cough*

*Puts sock away*

Posted by: Robert at August 13, 2017 10:53 PM (mknWS)

202 That would ironic, Kim's nuclear firecracker veers off course, they never installed a self-destruct because it would be an admission of defeatism, and before the PRC bureaucracy mobilizes the errant nuke strikes the Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 10:53 PM (BTvE8)

203
Re Al Pacino version:

From "Heat":

"When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me."

Indeed, Mr. Corleone.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:53 PM (8O3HH)

204 Kira followed me and hopped into the bathtub, and sat there looking at me

I suppose that's less creepy than Ryuk doing that

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 13, 2017 10:53 PM (6FqZa)

205 it would be a real bitch if the norks first nuke landed in fooking china

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:54 PM (QvI/V)

206 So, a friend forwarded this to me:

The best game of thrones character for each state.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jlzgf37

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2017 10:55 PM (mkDpn)

207 182 I just had a thought, but if you sank an Indian aircraft carrier wouldn't it just reincarnate as an attack sub?
Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey at August 13, 2017 10:46 PM (mknWS)

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

208 "Every damn hotel and motel around here (Greenville,
SC area) is booked up for the eclipse. And it seems stupid, but the cops
and EMS are all drilling for it.

They're afraid of traffic accidents with people being distracted.

It's just an occultation of the Sun by the Moon. BFD.

Posted by: publius,"

The path of maximum totality goes right across the NC/GA state line directly where Hwy 441 crosses the border. I'm sure it'll be packed there.

I plan on going to the Blue Ridge Parkway, at Water Rock Knob. I'm sure we'll have to get there early to get a space to park. It's only a 44 second long totality, but the view to the west to watch the oncoming shadow is just awesome.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 13, 2017 10:55 PM (w+Jhj)

209 Thank heaven's for AOS and the Horde or I would be going stir crazy.

I am in the middle of a week-long stay at a motel in small town North Central Kansas. There is truly nothing to do here other than the local swimming pool, minimal shopping, a handful of restaurants and one actual bar. Luckily the motel I am staying at has a restaurant with a liquor liscense, but alas it is Sunday.

Being a prepared moron I had reviewed the local laws in advance of my trip so yesterday walked the two miles (rountrip) to the ABC store to get my supply of Valu-rite.

I thought I lived in flyover country but not any more. This is the middle of nowhere. That said, I could live here quite happily if I could drop my home and vehicles on a lot in this town.

Posted by: cod mom at August 13, 2017 10:56 PM (lGhRT)

210 Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy at August 13, 2017 10:51 PM (mknWS)

You have time for that in Hell?

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2017 10:56 PM (D2vc1)

211 87 Her reading, writing, and counting skills never got beyond a fourth-grade level.
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so basically a Somali ?
Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (QvI/V)

Or a democrat.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:56 PM (ZTRlp)

212 Anecdotally, a lot of the ppl doing the carnivorous diet say their libido is way up.
Posted by: votermom pimping great books! at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (hMwEB)
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Is this your way of telling us that KidTheYounger is going to become KidTheMiddle?

Posted by: bluebell at August 13, 2017 10:57 PM (UoSKV)

213 wait, when did cfo mom become cod mom?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:57 PM (0wem/)

214
Well I do eat a hell of a lot of meat, and I've been horny as hell ever since puberty kicked in. Maybe a little before.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:58 PM (8O3HH)

215 I assume Kira is a cat. People sitting on the toilet is forever fascinating to cats.

Here's a cute girl covering Pink Floyd.

https://youtu.be/OMckcBuOD1s

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:58 PM (rnAwa)

216
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (0wem/)

Be careful, she is no TP.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 10:59 PM (ZTRlp)

217 the middle of the eclips path is about 70 miles north of Boise, ID

going to be an epic traffic jam

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 10:59 PM (QvI/V)

218 200 I just went to the bathroom, and Kira followed me and hopped into the bathtub, and sat there looking at me.

She is so sweet I can't even.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (sdi6R)
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Well, I and most others here know Kira is your cat.
But the casual lurker might think Kira is your wife.
Just sayin'.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:59 PM (0jtPF)

219 Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (0wem/)

Be careful, she is no TP.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 10:59 PM (0wem/)

220 137 Like the wound of your piece of shit husband openly having an affair with Gloria Swanson while you take care of 7 children?

Rose inflicted a fair amount of pain on her own children; she threatened to disown her daughter Kathleen for first marrying an Anglican and then getting involved with a married man after her husband was killed in 1944. Rose refused to go to the memorial service after Kathleen died in a plane crash, going into a hospital instead for "medical tests." Rose also hid the fact of her oldest daughter Rosemary's low IQ (between 60 and 60) from other family members.
Posted by: Basement Cat

I was wrong. She did have a low IQ, the lobotomy made it worse.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (+lVUW)

221 Being a prepared moron I had reviewed the local laws in advance of my trip so yesterday walked the TWO MILES (rountrip) to the ABC store to get my supply of Valu-rite.

Posted by: cod mom at August 13, 2017 10:56 PM (lGhRT)

My kinda girl right there.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (D2vc1)

222 Egad. Can't even spell my own inc right on this stupid tablet. How do you people manage on them or a phone. I want my pc.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (lGhRT)

223 218 200 I just went to the bathroom, and Kira followed me and hopped into the bathtub, and sat there looking at me.

She is so sweet I can't even.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 10:52 PM (sdi6R)
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Well, I and most others here know Kira is your cat.
But the casual lurker might think Kira is your wife.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 10:59 PM (0jtPF)

Ya never know, the marriage laws have been changing quickly.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (ZTRlp)

224 Japan's not going to go nuclear any time soon. The population won't allow it.

And it's not as if the country needed our help, anyway, if they did decide to go nuclear.

For that matter, South Korea likely wouldn't need our help, either.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:01 PM (Q6qiA)

225 Being a prepared moron I had reviewed the local laws in advance of my trip so yesterday walked the TWO MILES (rountrip) to the ABC store to get my supply of Valu-rite.

Posted by: cod mom at August 13, 2017 10:56 PM (lGhRT)

My kinda girl right there.
Posted by: Country Boy at August

Well she has to do that so she can dissolve the coke in the vodka until she gets home.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:01 PM (0wem/)

226 And now I understand the hatred of autocucumber.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:01 PM (lGhRT)

227 Kbdabear's contributions are another asstastic extravaganza tonight. Now, what does "Al Pacino version" of swimwear mean?

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:47 PM (8O3HH)

Here's the scene from Heat to give it context.

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2017 11:02 PM (3i2nH)

228 @91
Yep, four turns of a torquewrench. What I would expect to see is an unannounced, unclaimed underwater test in Pacific - with hints it could be RoK, Japan, or RoC. But, no attribution. There's a plot for you, moron writers.
----------------

You know, if I were president of the US, I might do something like that just for my own amusement. Secretly conduct a test, don't tell anyone about it, and let everyone scramble and try to figure out who really did it.

And then hint that Manila was responsible. *THAT* would freak out Beijing.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:03 PM (Q6qiA)

229 Here's the scene from Heat to give it context.
Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2017 11:02 PM (3i2nH)

*Mimes*

Posted by: Robert at August 13, 2017 11:03 PM (mknWS)

230 And now I understand the hatred of autocucumber.
Posted by: cfo mom at August

oh, well that is especially unfortunate because I was wondering if cod mom was for Cash On Demand Mom, which was going to open up a whole nother line of questioning.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:03 PM (0wem/)

231 I think I got into the wrong business.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells
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Quidvis Recte Factum Quamvis Humile Praeclarum

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (OdK9v)

232 Who will get a selfie with Hopo Solo during the eclipse?

Posted by: Widepsread Pepe at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (XFue2)

233 I liked seeing the Tata vehicles overseas. Reminded me to smile once in a while. Mmmmm, tatas.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (zLDYs)

234 I could live here quite happily if I could drop my home and vehicles on a lot in this town

Watch out for munchkins.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (6FqZa)

235 Didn't an indian sub catch fire at the dock, burn and sink?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (0wem/)

236 227: I saw the Pacino quote later in one of the pics. I posted that before I saw it. But now, I'm educamated.

And I agree with Mr. Corleone.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (8O3HH)

237 Well now the Tata vehicles are here, they wear Land Rover and Jaguar badges.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:05 PM (0wem/)

238 Don't even hint that someone might have done it. Do it and say nothing.

Meanwhile you have CIA, DIA, and FBI watching the PRC and Russian embassies to see where the spy squirrels go. And see who in government suddenly has an emergency.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 11:06 PM (BTvE8)

239 I was wrong. She did have a low IQ, the lobotomy made it worse.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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It's a wonder that Teddy escaped the same fate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:06 PM (OdK9v)

240 Holy smokes, that Agent Tammy.
Screen door, hurricane, and all that. Wow.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at August 13, 2017 11:06 PM (lIMqx)

241 154 So, the Kennedys were fucking deplorable human beings.

Why do so many people admire them again?
Posted by: Robert just realized he's out of whiskey

Easy, because they're pro-abortion. And as prominent Catholics, they make it appear that being pro-abortion isn't a problem for Catholics.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:07 PM (+lVUW)

242 >> Who will get a selfie with Hopo Solo during the eclipse?

I will if she'll clean up that corona.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:07 PM (8O3HH)

243 Here's a cute girl covering Pink Floyd.

https://youtu.be/OMckcBuOD1s

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:58 PM (rnAwa)

Ought to have been a Barrett era (or Barrett solo) song.

Posted by: The Madcap Hat at August 13, 2017 11:07 PM (vBeA5)

244 actually I think we'll be shooting at moslems first before the lefties,

could be wrong tho

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 11:07 PM (QvI/V)

245 Pelosi does the same thing. She isn't just pro-abortion, she connects it to her being a Catholic.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:08 PM (+lVUW)

246 Y5, you might be having a cross-wired moment since a US fast attack which was in dock for renovation had a fire erupt in the forward section of the boat. Culprit turned out to be one of the shipyard workers and he cost the US government like a billion dollars in damage.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 11:09 PM (BTvE8)

247 "Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy"

Imma let you finish, but this is one of the greatest sock failures of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (ujwCG)

248 223----Ya never know, the marriage laws have been changing quickly.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (ZTRlp)
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Hey, love is love, right?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (0jtPF)

249
I liked seeing the Tata vehicles overseas. Reminded me to smile once in a while. Mmmmm, tatas.

Posted by: Eromero at August 13, 2017 11:04 PM (zLDYs)

Sounds way more fun than airbags if Tatas deploy to save you. Though it might give incentive to crash so a problem.Yeah I know it's the name of the car company not their safety features. Just like the idea of being saved by tatas.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:11 PM (zoSd2)

250 I supported Buchanan on trade and borders, but couldn't take the hostility to Israel. Also, on balance, alliances prevent wars. That's one of the lesson of the '30's.

That said, if I were a South Korean, I might want my own nuke program. Our interests diverge in that we're more concerned about ICBMs.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:11 PM (Ndje9)

251 182,
"I just had a thought, but if you sank an Indian aircraft carrier wouldn't it just reincarnate as an attack sub?"

We need to have a little talk about royalties.

Posted by: Space Battleship Yamato at August 13, 2017 11:13 PM (d3wbb)

252 197. I DISAVOW the sending or receiving of dick pics. But shirtless selfies....
Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 10:51 PM (fF

As long as your chest & abs look like ripped (not fat) chris Pratt & Taylor Kitsch, knock yourself out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:13 PM (hscyr)

253 a-dios

Posted by: original jake at August 13, 2017 11:13 PM (QvI/V)

254 @167 China has India to worry about too, they are building their own aircraft carrier Subs etc.. and if rumors are to be believed a carrier with a catapult.
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I was actually looking at the Wiki page on this ship - the proposed Vishal - just last night. They've already decided it will be nuclear powered, and are considering an electro-magnetic catapult like the one that's been installed on the Ford. But because it's a brand new design, and they don't have experience building this sort of ship, it won't be ready until 2030 at the earliest.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:14 PM (Q6qiA)

255 Cash on delivery y5.

I never demand...don't have to. ;-)

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:14 PM (lGhRT)

256 Be well all, time for bed here.

SNOOOZZZ

Posted by: Farmer at August 13, 2017 11:14 PM (yJ1e6)

257 245 Pelosi does the same thing. She isn't just pro-abortion, she connects it to her being a Catholic.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:08 PM (+lVUW)

I hope she has a change of heart because that's a belief that's going to be hard to explain to God one day.

Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at August 13, 2017 11:15 PM (nvMvs)

258 "I just had a thought, but if you sank an Indian aircraft carrier wouldn't it just reincarnate as an attack sub?"

Or it may reincarnate as a rabies infested donkey.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:15 PM (zoSd2)

259 Yeah, my daughter got the Amazon notice about the glasses this morning and nearly stroked out when she saw that Amazon was selling their few remaining compliant glasses for about $125.00 a pair. Luckily, Himself got ours around this past Thanksgiving, so we are good to go. $15.00 for five pair. My son-in-law grabbed the last eight pairs at his friendly local Wally World. I'm thinking maybe we can scalp our extra pairs.

Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable cats at August 13, 2017 11:16 PM (UY5/p)

260 There's a special on Smithsonian Network called "Inside Windsor Castle".
It's pretty interesting, but the reason I bring it up is this is a network that hasn't yet gone over to idiotic reality programming.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:16 PM (+lVUW)

261 U.S.S. Miami was the dockside fire. At Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 2013.

http://tinyurl.com/6oshoyz

Good gantry-crane photo of the fire in progress in that article.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2017 11:16 PM (v5iqM)

262 Y5, you might be having a cross-wired moment since a US fast attack which was in dock for renovation had a fire erupt in the forward section of the boat. Culprit turned out to be one of the shipyard workers and he cost the US government like a billion dollars in damage.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August

Here is what I was thinking of

2013: Blasts ripped through the torpedo compartment of the submarine INS Sindhurakshak while it was berthed at the naval dockyard off the Mumbai coast. Fifteen sailors and three officers were killed.[16] Other sources state that a small explosion occurred around midnight which then triggered the two larger explosions.

was not so bad

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:17 PM (0wem/)

263 @193 Worth noting: There's 1 of those three going nuclear that would make the PRC shit themselves: the Taiwanese. SK and Japan would be straightforward MAD dynamics. They'd have to reign in NK, but otherwise, no real threat to China's ambtions. A nuclear Taiwan, though, would practically kneecap them. For them it would be an effective doomsday weapon. Imagine the damage, say, a 100 boosted fission devices could do to the PRC should they decide to invade...
Just 1 would be enough to wipe out the 3 Gorges Dam, and flood some of the most populous areas of S.China...
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I suspect that if Beijing heard that Taipei was planning on going nuclear, then they'd start getting the invasion force ready the very next day.

Beijing will *never* accept the idea of Taiwan as a permanently independent island.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:17 PM (Q6qiA)

264 Ya never know, the marriage laws have been changing quickly.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:00 PM (ZTRlp)
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Hey, love is love, right?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (0jtPF)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8782lkd

Posted by: The Commentin' Hat at August 13, 2017 11:17 PM (vBeA5)

265 "Didn't an indian sub catch fire at the dock, burn and sink?"

There was INS _Chakra_, formerly _Nerpa_, a.k.a. _Derpa_, which was a nuke boat built in Russia. One of the post-Soviet ragged orphans which couldn't get through Russian Admiralty acceptance trials and was sold off.

She had an engineering casualty underway on INS sea trials that ended up suffocating a bunch of the crew with fire suppressant.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:18 PM (ujwCG)

266 215 I assume Kira is a cat. People sitting on the toilet is forever fascinating to cats.

Here's a cute girl covering Pink Floyd.

https://youtu.be/OMckcBuOD1s
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2017 10:58 PM (rnAwa)

Yes. Kira is the Platonic ideal of cat.

That girl is good, and really gorgeous.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 11:18 PM (sdi6R)

267 I never demand...don't have to. ;-)
Posted by: cfo mom at August

heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:19 PM (0wem/)

268 Or submerged super battleship Ra

https://youtu.be/Fg3hxOqnIvg

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 13, 2017 11:19 PM (BTvE8)

269 There was INS _Chakra_, formerly _Nerpa_, a.k.a. _Derpa_, which was a nuke boat built in Russia. One of the post-Soviet ragged orphans which couldn't get through Russian Admiralty acceptance trials and was sold off.

She had an engineering casualty underway on INS sea trials that ended up suffocating a bunch of the crew with fire suppressant.
Posted by: torquewrench at August

maybe I was conflating those. lots of mishaps with the Indian navy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:20 PM (0wem/)

270 I don't think Kennedy worship has anything to do with abortion. That wasn't even an issue when JFK and Jackie were set up as little divinities. And if it had been, they almost certainly would have been on the pro-life side. The Dems were not a party of death back then.

Even Bobby, who dropped his (and JFK's) earlier anti-Communism to take hold of the New Left moment in '68, would never have agitated for abortion on the national stage.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 11:20 PM (0jtPF)

271 "Culprit turned out to be one of the shipyard workers and he cost the US government like a billion dollars in damage."

A stoner loser, hired on at a federal facility, who was feeling depressed and wanting to go home early from his shift, so he deliberately set a "little" fire inside the hull.

The government's in the very best of hands.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:20 PM (ujwCG)

272 MisHum: thanks and we shall see! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (eMKNe)

273 maybe I was conflating those. lots of mishaps with the Indian navy.
Posted by: yankeefifth
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Brain damaged. I blame sitar music.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (OdK9v)

274 Greetings all, long time no see.

Almost finished the new roof, just the ridge caps to put on and the chimney counterflashing.

Turned out to be a big job, with lots of repair work to correct prior mistakes, but it is a beauty now. Just in time for the Cape Verde Hurricane season too!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (rJEUr)

275 Agent Tammy, Monica Belluci dreams, and flashback to the Bowie scene from the movie. Shaping up to the best one since episode 8.

Posted by: moronhorde minion at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (lIMqx)

276 This is like five days of content.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2017 11:23 PM (MZcWR)

277 245 Pelosi...She isn't just pro-abortion, she connects it to her being a Catholic.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:08 PM (+lVUW)
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How does she do that? Catholic Church very anti-choice.

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:23 PM (GkpWM)

278 On the eclipse viewing. Can't you just use your phone in video/camera mode to view (and record)? Yes do not use the view finder on a SLR to look at and take pictures of the eclipse but any video screen viewing is safe.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:23 PM (zoSd2)

279 Neither of those vids are "loading" bikes although the first is hilarious in that there were clearly two ramps - one for the bike and one for the loader to walk up as a ladder while guiding the bike up. What a maroon.

Posted by: Smitty at August 13, 2017 11:24 PM (OyFM2)

280 247 "Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy"

Imma let you finish, but this is one of the greatest sock failures of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!
Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (ujwCG)

I can't stop laughing!

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 11:24 PM (TdMsT)

281 By which I mean, "Thanks!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2017 11:24 PM (MZcWR)

282 273 maybe I was conflating those. lots of mishaps with the Indian navy.
Posted by: yankeefifth
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Brain damaged. I blame sitar music.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (OdK9v)

types
deletes

never mind,
carry on

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:25 PM (ZTRlp)

283 Speaking of cats and Pink Floyd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbIMx2MYNXk

The song was apparently about Syd Barrett's girlfriend's cat.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 11:25 PM (sdi6R)

284 Kudos to MisHum for a virtual plethora of ONT content.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2017 11:26 PM (PXj2C)

285 As long as your chest & abs look like ripped (not fat) chris Pratt & Taylor Kitsch, knock yourself out.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:13 PM (hscyr)

Not an issue. I am the ranking member (formerly) of the P90x - Capital Hill club. Taught Paul Ryan how to get his Speakership in beachbody form.

Say, can you provide me a valid ID that shows you are over the age of 18? Need to make sure the Tatas are road ready, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 11:26 PM (saj0X)

286 264---http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8782lkd
Posted by: The Commentin' Hat at August 13, 2017 11:17 PM (vBeA5)
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I would love to see that sign in a marriage license bureau!
Sure, whoever posted it would be fired and have his house burned down, but .... it would still be funny.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 13, 2017 11:26 PM (0jtPF)

287 Bomb threat on Toronto's subway at largest train interchange this afternoon. Probably fake, speaking of losers, but still. (And, no, I don't have to take the subway that often for e.g. work or the like.)

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2017 11:26 PM (mJ8mX)

288 Interesting experience last night:

About 24 hours ago, in one of the political comment threads at Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Elsewhere, a well-known author at a MAJOR entertainment publication, *called on Jeff to ban me.* (This is a guy whose name would probably be recognizable to you.)

And Jeff even acknowledged the comment... but he *hasn't* banned me. At least not yet.

I guess it's official, Jeff doesn't consider me threatening. I'm not sure if I should be insulted or not. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:26 PM (eMKNe)

289 "I don't think Kennedy worship has anything to do with abortion. That wasn't even an issue when JFK and Jackie were set up as little
divinities."

I occasionally point out to the aging, shrinking cohort of New Frontier Democrats that an absolutely vitriolic dissent to _Roe_ came from Justice Byron "Whizzer" White, nominated to the SCOTUS by Kennedy.

They don't much like being reminded of this. Retconning.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:27 PM (ujwCG)

290 Would you say I have a plethora of ONT content?

Posted by: El Guapo at August 13, 2017 11:27 PM (PXj2C)

291 280 247 "Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.
Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy"
Imma let you finish, but this is one of the greatest sock failures of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!
Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (ujwCG)
I can't stop laughing!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 11:24 PM

Where's Ben rothlesberger to tell us this is funny because they used Rosemary's liking to fuck as the excuse to lobotomies her?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (hscyr)

292 Al Pacino "GREAT ASS!" scene

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

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (3i2nH)

293 Yes, something has got to be done about Fat Boy. That can has been kicked down the road about as far as it will go. Frankly, I suggest we outsource the job to the Mossad. Once the head of the snake has been cut off, we can take leisurely bites out of the body. The Norks have been trained from birth to worship Kim Jong Sung and his direct descendants. Without such an authority figure in constant view, it might be possible to deprogram the Norms. Or, at least, the subsequent power struggle will be truly epic. Many, many bowls of popcorn dripping with real butter will be eaten out here in fly over country.

Posted by: Deplorable lady with a deplorable basket of deplorable cats at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (UY5/p)

294 280 247 "Since I started doing heavy lifting and needing to eat more I seem to want to fuck just about anything that moves.

Posted by: Rosemary Kennedy"

Imma let you finish, but this is one of the greatest sock failures of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!
Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:10 PM (ujwCG)

I can't stop laughing!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 13, 2017 11:24 PM (TdMsT)

Tears, literal tears from laughing.

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (8DvH0)

295 Hey, where all da rabid donkeys at?

Posted by: Sheriff Morocco Dudes at August 13, 2017 11:29 PM (PXj2C)

296 Where's Ben rothlesberger to tell us this is funny because they used Rosemary's liking to fuck as the excuse to lobotomies her?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (hscyr)

Seems it would have been more effective to do it to Ted.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:30 PM (zoSd2)

297 It appears the driver in Charlottesville was attacked by bat-wielding mobs and may have been fleeing for his life.

It also appears cops were told to stand down. Clearly Mayor Signer was on the side of the Antifa thugs and failed to do his job. He let this spiral out of control.

Was he trying to manufacture a riot to Get Trump? It sure smells like it.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:30 PM (Ndje9)

298 I suspect that if Beijing heard that Taipei was planning on going nuclear, then they'd start getting the invasion force ready the very next day.

Beijing will *never* accept the idea of Taiwan as a permanently independent island.
Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:17 PM (Q6qiA)

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Thing is, I suspect they're relatively close to nuclear capability. Maybe not "4 turns of a torque wrench" but not far from it. And a sudden invasion of Taiwan, depending on the US president, could have horrendous economic consequences for the PRC. Yeah, they'd get Taiwan back, burning and smoldering with insurgent warfare throughout, but their economy would be kneecapped severely.

Posted by: Jackal at August 13, 2017 11:31 PM (NiR1r)

299 >>>Culprit turned out to be one of the shipyard workers and he cost the US government like a billion dollars in damage.

400 million.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (RrhD2)

300 I have never understood why the Catholic Church (of which I am a former member) does not sanction people like Pelosi who publicly repudiate church doctrine. I am a bad Christian for being glad that she will answer for it.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (lGhRT)

301 296 Where's Ben rothlesberger to tell us this is funny because they used Rosemary's liking to fuck as the excuse to lobotomies her?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (hscyr)

Seems it would have been more effective to do it to Ted.
Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:30 PM (zoSd2)

If that was the standard then JFK (poonhound), RFK (poonhound) and Fat Teddy (poonhound, murderer, possible rapist) should all have gotten an ice pick through the eye socket.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

302 GET THE ICEPICK!!!!!!1!!!

Posted by: Joe Kennedy at August 13, 2017 11:33 PM (eMKNe)

303 297 It appears the driver in Charlottesville was attacked by bat-wielding mobs and may have been fleeing for his life
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:30 PM

We still don't know what really went down. BUT Daily Mail UK reported from the start that the car may had a rock thrown at it.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:33 PM (hscyr)

304 300 I have never understood why the Catholic Church (of which I am a former member) does not sanction people like Pelosi who publicly repudiate church doctrine. I am a bad Christian for being glad that she will answer for it.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (lGhRT)

I indeed wonder why she and people like her haven't been formally excommunicated.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

305 Speaking of cats and Pink Floyd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbIMx2MYNXk

The song was apparently about Syd Barrett's girlfriend's cat.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 11:25 PM (sdi6R)

A good cover by the band The Well, who I first heard of as an opening act for Black Tusk at a place literally named "Dive Bar":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdk5IlmfX8U

Posted by: The Metal Hat \m/ at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (vBeA5)

306 By bell, book, and candle.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (mJ8mX)

307 Was he trying to manufacture a riot to Get Trump? It sure smells like it.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:30 PM (Ndje9)

The Mayor and the Governor. Both are aspiring to higher offices, so they conspired to keep things less than secure.

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (saj0X)

308
She was a Kennedy, wasn't she. Likes to fuck. No, Jack, Bobby and Fat Ass could horndog all they wanted, but she couldn't.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (8O3HH)

309 My kid is gen z. He stood in line with us for hours in 2000 and 2004 so he remembers a president before obama. He knows there was life before iPhone because he didn't get one until high school.

Posted by: NCKate at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (8Xttu)

310 Brain damaged. I blame sitar music.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:21 PM (OdK9v)

types
deletes

never mind,
carry on
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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AKA, 'The Banjo of the East'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (OdK9v)

311 @254 I was actually looking at the Wiki page on this ship - the proposed Vishal - just last night. They've already decided it will be nuclear powered, and are considering an electro-magnetic catapult like the one that's been installed on the Ford.
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Just a stray thought and comment on this...

China's planning to build their own super carriers. India's planning on doing the same.

Meanwhile, the former possessor of the second most powerful navy in the world - right up until we sent it to the bottom of the ocean in the early '40s - is more or less twiddling their thumbs. I'm confident that Abe wants to do more than build suspiciously large "helicopter destroyers" (every warship in the JMSDF is a "destroyer"). But yesterday I was reading an article from a few years ago over at Diplomat 2.0 that stated that the civilian population of Japan isn't ready for that, that they can't really conceive of a Japan that has an actual real military instead of the glorified Coast Guard that they mistakenly believe the JMSDF to be.

And then I sent a note to a friend of mine who is a Japanese national via Facebook's messaging service. I had a question about military ranks and Japanese honorifics, so she was the logical person to ask. Her response was that Japan doesn't have a military. So it looks like the Diplomat 2.0 article was likely correct.

And then I see Japan's complete inability to address what the Japanese did in World War 2, and their denial of wrongdoing on their part (and Abe appears to be a part of this), and I shake my head.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (Q6qiA)

312 Random suggestion for the COBs - link the story and documentary of the life of Morphine ex Frontman Mark Sandman who died of a heart attack on stage. Anyone who was a fan of Morphine the band it's a must watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkUINW0rg0 unbelievably heart wrenching story of losing both his brothers before his untimely death.

He was a genius on the bass - actually used a single string, something I've messed around with with little success. Morphine's sound will never be duplicated often copied with no success. Sad, bass, and drums - un friggen believable.

Posted by: Smitty at August 13, 2017 11:35 PM (OyFM2)

313 >Culprit turned out to be one of the shipyard workers and he cost the US government like a billion dollars in damage.

400 million.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (RrhD2)

Amateur.

Posted by: Prezzy 4 Putt at August 13, 2017 11:36 PM (XFue2)

314 publius, yup.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:36 PM (eMKNe)

315 SAX, bass n drums, damn phone....

Posted by: Smitty at August 13, 2017 11:36 PM (OyFM2)

316 I watched 'The Founder' last night.

Great movie, but it does *not* portray Ray Kroc as any kind of hero.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:37 PM (eMKNe)

317 400 million here, 400 million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 13, 2017 11:37 PM (PXj2C)

318 @289 I occasionally point out to the aging, shrinking cohort of New Frontier Democrats that an absolutely vitriolic dissent to _Roe_ came from Justice Byron "Whizzer" White, nominated to the SCOTUS by Kennedy.
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I've got a biography of Justice White. It's called "The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White". Good read, imo.

Anyway, the author notes that even when Justice White disagreed with a majority opinion, he never had a problem incorporating that opinion into opinions that he wrote for the court. He might have disagreed with the opinion when it was written, but he was able to accept that the opinion in question was now the accepted viewpoint. The author then noted that there was one very big exception to this - Roe v Wade. Apparently Justice White never incorporated it into any of his opinions because how poorly reasoned he believed it to be.

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:38 PM (Q6qiA)

319 301 296 Where's Ben rothlesberger to tell us this is funny because they used Rosemary's liking to fuck as the excuse to lobotomies her?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 13, 2017 11:28 PM (hscyr)
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That is NOT why I thought it was funny. Man, that would make me a heartless person.

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:38 PM (8DvH0)

320 If that was the standard then JFK (poonhound), RFK
(poonhound) and Fat Teddy (poonhound, murderer, possible rapist) should
all have gotten an ice pick through the eye socket.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

Yes they all deserved (except Rosemary) the Ron Popeil inside the egg shell scramble to the pre frontal cortex.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:38 PM (zoSd2)

321 I think Pelosi follows the branch of Catholicism where the Gospel includes Mary having an abortion because ... screw you, it's none of your biz ness why she had the abortion.
Hail Mary, not full of fetal tissue, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou at Planned Parenthood
and blessed is the barren crypt of thy womb.
Holy Mary Not-mother of None,
Pray for us non-Republicans.
Amen.

Posted by: Downcast at August 13, 2017 11:38 PM (Ww2BM)

322
Did they ever prove if Mary Jo was pregnant or not? I remember that was a question.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:39 PM (8O3HH)

323 not sure if the left has considered how things are changing, however, before Trump came to office I was inclined to think nuking the norks was a really bad plan. Now, I am starting to think it has some merits.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2017 11:39 PM (0wem/)

324 I would bet money that Pelosi, for all her issues, actually sends some hefty tithes to whatever Catholic church she sometimes attends in NorCal.

Probably helps protect her a bit.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:39 PM (eMKNe)

325 311 @254 I was actually looking at the Wiki page on this ship - the proposed Vishal - just last night. They've already decided it will be nuclear powered, and are considering an electro-magnetic catapult like the one that's been installed on the Ford.
---------------------

Just a stray thought and comment on this...

China's planning to build their own super carriers. India's planning on doing the same.

Meanwhile, the former possessor of the second most powerful navy in the world - right up until we sent it to the bottom of the ocean in the early '40s - is more or less twiddling their thumbs. I'm confident that Abe wants to do more than build suspiciously large "helicopter destroyers" (every warship in the JMSDF is a "destroyer"). But yesterday I was reading an article from a few years ago over at Diplomat 2.0 that stated that the civilian population of Japan isn't ready for that, that they can't really conceive of a Japan that has an actual real military instead of the glorified Coast Guard that they mistakenly believe the JMSDF to be.

And then I sent a note to a friend of mine who is a Japanese national via Facebook's messaging service. I had a question about military ranks and Japanese honorifics, so she was the logical person to ask. Her response was that Japan doesn't have a military. So it looks like the Diplomat 2.0 article was likely correct.

And then I see Japan's complete inability to address what the Japanese did in World War 2, and their denial of wrongdoing on their part (and Abe appears to be a part of this), and I shake my head.
Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (Q6qiA)

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Maybe a societal equivalent of subconscious guilt? It's puzzling, like so much of Japanese society...

Posted by: Jackal at August 13, 2017 11:40 PM (NiR1r)

326 I weary of this. Imagine every day without some Left/Liberal/Progressive induced problem/crisis. I might be wrong, but I think the general mood of the public would be much, much more optimistic.

They are intent upon making people as miserable as possible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:40 PM (OdK9v)

327 And Boston wins.
Yankees back 5.5 games
8-(

Posted by: New Yawk Sports Fan at August 13, 2017 11:40 PM (Pby3z)

328 Just found out the name of the Catholic church in NorCal that Pelosi sometimes attends:

"Our Lady Of The Perpetually Aggrieved"

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:40 PM (eMKNe)

329 "They've already decided it will be nuclear powered, and are considering
an electro-magnetic catapult like the one that's been installed on the
Ford."

I thought nuclear power for surface ships was a pathetic, backward, expensive technological relic in the age of "green, renewable, sustainable" energy. Why haven't they gotten the message?

As for the cats, maybe we can have the USN go hat in hand to the Indian navy to ask for help sorting out the endless problems with the EMALS systems on the _Ford_.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 13, 2017 11:41 PM (ujwCG)

330 Althouse on Charlottesville police response and McAuliffe's statement.

"Pathetic. The police were afraid of the guns? But no shots were fired, even in response to punching and brawling. That makes it sound as though those people with guns were quite restrained, and yet they terrified the police. "

http://tinyurl.com/y8obbqdz

Posted by: geoffb5 at August 13, 2017 11:41 PM (d3wbb)

331 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (OdK9v)

I was going to blame something else.
But thought it best not to

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:42 PM (ZTRlp)

332 Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:38 PM (Q6qiA)

the very idea of Stare decisis fries in the face of objective law and Justice.

Because its a basic of logic... that if you base your thesis on a flawed premise, then the proof if flawed and unproven.

Posted by: Don Q., at August 13, 2017 11:42 PM (NgKpN)

333 306 By bell, book, and candle.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (mJ8mX)

I love that movie!

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:42 PM (8DvH0)

334 @330 Althouse on Charlottesville police response and McAuliffe's statement.

"Pathetic. The police were afraid of the guns? But no shots were fired, even in response to punching and brawling. That makes it sound as though those people with guns were quite restrained, and yet they terrified the police. "

http://tinyurl.com/y8obbqdz
---------

To add, here's the comment from those right-wing apologists at the ACLU of Virginia noting that the police stated they weren't going to intervene until commanded to do so.

https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/896386562484731904

Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:43 PM (Q6qiA)

335 There was supposedly going to be a repeat performance of Charlottesville in Seattle today.

Read the story in the Seattle Times. Tons of hate and namecalling and screaming, but *no* violence, because the police (a) wouldn't let the left marchers and the right marchers come close to each other and (b) they kept cornering/pepperspraying the leftist contingent.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:43 PM (eMKNe)

336 270 I don't think Kennedy worship has anything to do with abortion. That wasn't even an issue when JFK and Jackie were set up as little divinities. And if it had been, they almost certainly would have been on the pro-life side. The Dems were not a party of death back then.

Even Bobby, who dropped his (and JFK's) earlier anti-Communism to take hold of the New Left moment in '68, would never have agitated for abortion on the national stage.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille

Yeah, I was thinking more of Ted.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2017 11:43 PM (+lVUW)

337 qdpsteve - I never thought of that and sadly must consider that feasible.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:44 PM (lGhRT)

338 >>>I indeed wonder why she and people like her haven't been formally excommunicated.

Money

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:44 PM (ZTRlp)

339 I was going to blame something else.
But thought it best not to
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
----------

Curry? Over-consumption of curry?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:44 PM (OdK9v)

340 Here's a tip: You're not "ambivalent" about pot legalization, you're against it.

How do I know ? Because you just referenced a complete bullshit study. You know who was in that study ? Anyone who ever used or tried pot. Once, twice, monthly, weekly, daily. Multiple times per day. All equal in the eyes of the "hypertension" study. As they say, correlation does not equal causation. Least of all in a study as unbelievably flawed as that.

You really think people that smoke pot have high blood pressure ? LOL!!! Wow. We should probably go back to the times when the government was telling us fat was bad for us, but YAY carbs!

Posted by: deadrody at August 13, 2017 11:45 PM (FvbGP)

341 cfo mom, yup. It's like the mafia supposedly did.

"Hey, I gave the church 200 grand last year. Is it so bad if I ice this guy??

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:45 PM (eMKNe)

342
AKA, 'The Banjo of the East'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM

Dueling Sitars...

https://youtu.be/TyAh4-LJ2Hg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2017 11:45 PM (IqV8l)

343 To add, here's the comment from those right-wing apologists at the ACLU of Virginia noting that the police stated they weren't going to intervene until commanded to do so.

https://twitter.com/ACLUVA/status/896386562484731904
Posted by: junior at August 13, 2017 11:43 PM (Q6qiA)

Yep. Looks like I called it. Not like it wasn't fairly obvious.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:46 PM (0mRoj)

344 Splinter free TP seems like a basic requirement. I might as well us cob otherwise.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 13, 2017 09:53 PM (5uJX2)

The cobs might object to that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2017 11:46 PM (+v28m)

345 Freep has video links. The car is struck with a baseball bat at least once before the incident. In another, bat-wielding mobs are on the car instantly as if they were chasing it.

It appears to me the authorities co-sponsored these riots for political gain. What's the word for that...?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:47 PM (Ndje9)

346 338 >>>I indeed wonder why she and people like her haven't been formally excommunicated.

Money
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:44 PM (ZTRlp)

The love of which is the root of all sorts of evil.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:47 PM (0mRoj)

347 344 Splinter free TP seems like a basic requirement. I might as well us cob otherwise.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 13, 2017 09:53 PM (5uJX2)

The cobs might object to that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2017 11:46 PM (+v28m)

And there's the Dildo factor to consider.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2017 11:48 PM (0mRoj)

348
Cobs. They told me that back in the outhouse days, you had red cobs and white cobs. You'd use a white cob to tell if you needed to use a few more red ones.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:48 PM (8O3HH)

349 305
A good cover by the band The Well, who I first heard of as an opening act for Black Tusk at a place literally named "Dive Bar":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdk5IlmfX8U
Posted by: The Metal Hat \m/ at August 13, 2017 11:34 PM (vBeA5)

Thanks, but it's nowhere near as good as the Floyd original.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 11:48 PM (sdi6R)

350 speaking of Tatas, I ran across someone who's last name was Siski.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (mkDpn)

351 In irony news, the WaPo is upset that the news media is publicizing the content of emails and the like that the HBO hackers took. I wonder if Sarah Palin was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (mJ8mX)

352 As far as the gamers comment goes, you do realize a petition to IKEA is effectively communicating to them that there IS demand they may not be aware of.

So terrible. But, go ahead, make more jokes about "gamers". They must all be losers. They probably enjoy your insults.

Posted by: deadrody at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (FvbGP)

353 Dueling Sitars...

https://youtu.be/TyAh4-LJ2Hg
Posted by: Bertram Cabot,
---------

That thar wuz pretty damn funny.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (OdK9v)

354 Splinters from a dildo?

That's what I'd call a bad day.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (eMKNe)

355 Mrs Siski??? I thought that was a thread from a few days ago?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (mJ8mX)

356 Look up body integrity identity disorder (BIID). Yes, it is a bona fide mental disorder. Most people with BIID seek to have a limb amputated, but the condition also includes those who seek other forms of disability, such as blinding oneself.

Most people presently diagnosed with BIID are middle-aged males. Caitlyn Jenner, anyone?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:05 PM (3C9q2)

Loved the comment at the link, that her blindness hadn't impaired her ability to find the refrigerator. LOL. And the "psychologist" who poured bleach in her eyes should get life in prison for that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2017 11:50 PM (+v28m)

357 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2017 11:44 PM (OdK9v)

Beef lack of beef
It was much snarkiercat the time

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:50 PM (ZTRlp)

358 andycanuck: I'd love to see HBO get destroyed, along with Google.

I'd bet money there's a Stalinist regime at HBO too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:51 PM (eMKNe)

359 The Kennedy Years & the Camelot Myth were born out of a time where the press covered for the the behaviors of the Kennedy Boys. People that remember that time, esp. democrats, prefer to live on that illusion rather than face the truth.

Kind of like the Obama years, but heightened.

As for little Rosemary Kennedy, she was slow, but not retarded and not promiscuous. But once she got older she became harder to manage...and was acting out. And of course patriarch Joe couldn't have that & worried about hormones.

The docs said they could help. Lobotomy was never the expectation. Mother Rosemary did not want any operation, and Joe went behind her back. It may have been the one thing Joe regretted in his sorted life. It was pretty awful.

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:52 PM (8DvH0)

360 Re the Kennedys, I have to pose the following question:

If slavery is an evil of such magnitude that anyone who ever supported it, or fought to defend the existence of the Confederacy, thereby becomes unworthy of public honor or recognition, wouldn't the same apply to Catholics (or Evangelical Christians) who support abortion on demand or accept/raise funds for Planned Parenthood, EMILY's List, and similar organizations?

Posted by: Secret Square at August 13, 2017 11:52 PM (9WuX0)

361 It appears to me the authorities co-sponsored these riots for political gain. What's the word for that...?
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 13, 2017 11:47 PM (Ndje9)

the Enragee and the san cullottes were used by the radical politicians to over-awe the national assembly - at first as directed, and then later on their own.

And Stalinists LOVE them some French Revolution as an inspiration.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2017 11:53 PM (mkDpn)

362 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 13, 2017 11:53 PM (IcT7t)

363 Splinters from a dildo?)))

This is why it is so important to understand the properties of the wood you whittle and finishing like polyurethane vs linseed oil.

Posted by: X-ray at August 13, 2017 11:54 PM (zoSd2)

364 Posted by: deadrody at August 13, 2017 11:49 PM (FvbGP)

Obviously you're too lazy to produce a product that your tribe likes

But you can bitch about a valid point

Please go to lgfb to complain

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2017 11:54 PM (ZTRlp)

365
Thanks, but it's nowhere near as good as the Floyd original.
Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2017 11:48 PM

This one's not bad...

https://youtu.be/hMLE11EYXcs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2017 11:55 PM (IqV8l)

366
I want to a register a complaint about Dueling Banjos. The original seems to be a banjo vs a guitar. But they still call it dueling banjos?

Here's Roy Clark and Buck Trent -- both of whom could tear the everloving doo-doo out of a banjo, and lots of other things, doing a proper dueling banjo bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8rUZfQJjPY

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 11:55 PM (8O3HH)

367 * sordid

Damn you autocorrect...or autocucumber.

Posted by: Gorilla gumdrop at August 13, 2017 11:56 PM (8DvH0)

368 The Dems' national footprint right now pretty much looks like what it is without the black super-vote (ridiculously high tribal/automaton voting for any D on the ballot). They desperately need above-long-term-average turnout now, to be a presence anywhere beyond their coastal/urban enclaves.

It was observed by many here and elsewhere that a potential part of Hillary's undoing would be black turnout falling well off the very high numbers of 2008 and 2012. While it may not have been decisive, this in fact did turn out to be the case, and certainly was one reason for her defeat.

The jaw-dropping pandering to the vile, criminal BLM during the campaign - amidst the largest uptick in attacks on police ever seen, as I recall - certainly was attributable to the national Dems' desperation to maintain that bloc vote at high levels.

I expect the already-astonishing levels of race-baiting, racism, and violence on the part of BLM and their ilk to continue, and I especially expect the Dems/MSM to continue ramping up the race hysteria and tension for the next 14 months. It appears nothing can possibly move any in the GOP to stand up for decency and American values and denounce and shame this spectacle (this weekend being the latest example). So only hope that remains is that sufficient numbers of people find it all repugnant and punish the Dems at the polls ("hope" being a term of art here - I doubt given the dumbing down of the civic culture that there are enough aware/thoughtful people left to constitute much of a backlash, and even if there is, a GOP "victory" in the mid-terms is meaningless absent a huge primary purging of incumbents).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 11:56 PM (QDnY+)

369 Good evening all.

...So why is the ONT downside-up?

cob conference in Oz?

Celebrating international left-handers day?

Posted by: mikeski at August 13, 2017 11:56 PM (GeD7C)

370 Amazon said not to use them to watch the eclipse.
So now what.

Posted by: ALH at August 13, 2017 10:20 PM (f73RN)

Return them for a refund. If they are not fit for the purpose for which they were sold, the seller must refund your money.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2017 11:56 PM (+v28m)

371 "Small coffee." $5
"Small coffee please." $3
"Hello, one small coffee please." $1.75

How much more can I save if I pinch the barista's butt?

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:58 PM (eMKNe)

372 If you don't follow Minnesotans for Global Warming on fb (if you do fb), you are missing some wonderful people , including Elmer Beauregard who is a genius.
If you have not seen his youtube "It's a Climategate Christmas", go watch it.
now.
(Elmer ROCKS)

Posted by: barbarausa at August 13, 2017 11:59 PM (Elk67)

373 Bidda bing bing bing bing bing bing bing!
Bidda bing bing bing bing bing bing bing!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:59 PM (eMKNe)

374 In preparation for the move, been going through some old CDs/DVDs I'd burned of my stuff, before destroying those very same CDs/DVDs.

I did some fairly interesting stuff, then.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2017 11:59 PM (MZcWR)

375 But that doesn't rule out three-headed fish and other cool sci-fi stuff to follow.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2017 10:27 PM (QDnY+)

BTDT

Posted by: Gojira at August 13, 2017 11:59 PM (+v28m)

376 BeckoningChasm: destroying the evidence eh?

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2017 12:00 AM (eMKNe)

377 Posted by: barbarausa at August 13, 2017 11:59 PM (Elk67)

He's been featured here before

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 14, 2017 12:01 AM (ZTRlp)

378 Mmm, three-headed fish!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2017 12:01 AM (eMKNe)

379 In the mid-fifties I sat on a bale of straw directly in front of Les Paul, not more than six feet away. Idolized him and his music. As he states in the video, heaven on earth. As he took breaks between songs he chatted with people in attendance - mostly farmers. Very informal and friendly. At the time, he was a major, major musical star. What a difference from music concerts nowadays.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2017 12:02 AM (WMvHw)

380 365
This one's not bad...

https://youtu.be/hMLE11EYXcs
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2017 11:55 PM (IqV8l)

WOW! That was fucking awesome!

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2017 12:03 AM (sdi6R)

381 I'm tired. Tired of being admired.

Posted by: Lilli von Schtupp at August 14, 2017 12:03 AM (PXj2C)

382 Not to mention our favorite woke POC, Loretta Lynch.
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 13, 2017 10:08 PM (3C9q2)

I found out recently I know her husband. :-O

Great guy BTW.

Posted by: The Gimp at August 14, 2017 12:03 AM (jdWK0)

383 Come on in and enjoy our new specials! It's three-headed fishfest this month!

You'll love our new three-headed scampi, three-headed cajun-seasoned fish, and three-headed tempura-fried fish!

Posted by: Red Lobster at August 14, 2017 12:03 AM (eMKNe)

384 For all the jokes and stories about genetic mutations due to nuclear radiation....have there ever been any actual mutations?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2017 12:05 AM (IqV8l)

385 So, who should Red Sox fans root for to displace the evil Yankees from a guarenteed Wild Card spot?
LAA?
Twins?
KC?

Posted by: Bosox Fan at August 14, 2017 12:06 AM (Pby3z)

386 I've been to get one of the large faceplate autodarkening ones with a variable shade range. 9 - 13 is the usual range.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 13, 2017 10:37 PM (8O3HH)

I have an autodarkening helmet, and it works as it should for arc flash, but will not darken reliably if I look at the sun. The electronics must look for a very fast rise time in the illumination level.

Are the shade numbers on filters additive? Would a stack of two elevens equal a twenty-two?

Posted by: Gojira at August 14, 2017 12:06 AM (+v28m)

387
And here's Glenn Campbell and daughter Ashley doing Dueling Banjos back in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISFgE2njlfo

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 14, 2017 12:06 AM (8O3HH)

388 At this stage if the Yankees were challenged in the championship by the Norks, I'd have a hard time deciding who to root for...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2017 12:07 AM (eMKNe)

389 Attack me if you must, but please leave poor little Blinky out of it.

Posted by: charles montgomery burns at August 14, 2017 12:08 AM (mJ8mX)

390
Socialism Has Consequences - a limerick

Every time that I set out to poop
It turns into a big whoop-de-doop
When I wipe, "Ouch, alas"
It's a pain the ass
Cause my TP joined a radical splinter group

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2017 12:08 AM (wPiJc)

391 Muldoon!!!

Hmmm. A rare ONT appearance.

Ever do any field artillery limericks?

How about race riot limericks?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 14, 2017 12:09 AM (QDnY+)

392 Rime Disease strikes again.
Damn you ticks! DAMN YOU!

Posted by: andycanuck at August 14, 2017 12:11 AM (mJ8mX)

393 300 I have never understood why the Catholic Church (of which I am a former member) does not sanction people like Pelosi who publicly repudiate church doctrine. I am a bad Christian for being glad that she will answer for it.
Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (lGhRT)
--------------------------------
Depends on the bishop.
The Archbishop of San Francisco has forbidden priests in the archdiocese from giving communion to Pelosi (and certain others) for open and flagrant support of abortion.

The Archbishop of Washington DC looks the other way on the rare occasions when pro-abortion pols go to Mass.

*sigh*

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 14, 2017 12:13 AM (0jtPF)

394
my binocular eclipse glasses come tomorrow ... only 2x, but others were out of stock

I ordered bifocal eclipse glasses so I could see close up eclipses as well as distant ones.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2017 12:13 AM (IqV8l)

395
Welding shades are not linear, but close to it, turns out. I didn't know and had to look it up.

The approximation is to add and then subtract 1 in the usual range.

That is a shade 8 + 6 would be roughly a Shade 13.

Now, what is linear and additive is "optical density". Look up the conversion from shade number to density. You can add optical density directly, and get the actual formula for shade addition.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 14, 2017 12:13 AM (8O3HH)

396
Going to have my corneas inspected and measured tomorrow to determine if lasik surgery is applicable to restore my vision to normal along with the mandatory cataract surgery--they finally started developing.

No macular degeneration evident, and the preliminary exams show lasik will restore (or should) normal vision without glasses.

Doctor tells me that I am in a handful of people that benefit fully from these procedures.

Both eyes are being done, only drawback is it my impact waterfowl season some. We'll see.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 14, 2017 12:13 AM (S/hVx)

397 I accidentally landed on this interview of Alice Cooper about Glen Campbell.

Interesting and enlightening of what I pictured Glen to be.

http://www.fox10phoenix.com
/news/arizona-news/272768918-story

Posted by: X-ray at August 14, 2017 12:16 AM (zoSd2)

398 Pat Buchanan, love him or hate him

I've take door 3, ignore him. So his great idea is to arm up the Souks with nukes, and threaten to do the same with Japan. Nuclear proliferation -- It's an idea that has come. The more the merrier, so to speak.

Let's see, the younger generations in Guam, South Korea, and Japan already want us off their property. Sounds just like France in the 60s, or the Philippines in the 2000s. Gratitude (except for Japan, who has never really had a good reason) is for pussies. And it's a very short walk from ousted to forgotten debts to hated. Now, with nukes and that fresh minty taste, but mostly nukes.

Yeah, Patrick, go blow it out your ass.

Good evening. all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 12:17 AM (6jaju)

399
Going to have my corneas inspected and measured tomorrow to determine if lasik surgery is applicable to restore my vision to normal along with the mandatory cataract surgery--they finally started developing.

Friend of mine got cataract surgery where they replaced the lenses in both eyes. He now has 20-15 vision but needs reader glasses for close up stuff.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)

400 I am a bad Christian for being glad that she will answer for it.

Posted by: cfo mom at August 13, 2017 11:32 PM (lGhRT)

No you aren't. I say/think the same thing all the time.

Nancy's a fake Christian anyways, like the SheBeast.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:18 AM (Jcg9Q)

401 MH, tl;haveyet and will.
Imma take a big step, Ron -- big step!!!
Nope, I'm fine.
Y'all are a tassle more literal than I, and thought-prank-saying-ish
God bless.

Posted by: micky at August 14, 2017 12:18 AM (dF9Lb)

402 368 Well said, rhomboid.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 14, 2017 12:19 AM (Ndje9)

403 Ever do any field artillery limericks?

*****

Hmmmm, I'll Give It a Go - a limerick

If our final calculations are correct
And the targets are the ones that we select
Azimuth and elevation
Powder charge and observation
Now you're zeroed in, so "Fire for effect!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2017 12:20 AM (wPiJc)

404 So, if you were supposed to get the GNAMM group rate info and did not, let me know. Was surprised hotel did not have some option for a playmate upgrade.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 12:21 AM (0wem/)

405
Here's the formula for optical density, O vs shade number S:

O = 0.428*(S - 1)

So suppose you have two shades you want to stack, S1 and S2.

The optical density is the sum

O = 0.428*(S1 + S2 - 2)

To convert back to equivalent shade (S3):

S3 = O/0.428 + 1

= S1 + S2 - 2 + 1
= S1 + S2 - 1

And there's our subtract 1 formula.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 14, 2017 12:22 AM (8O3HH)

406 When Pelosi touches the Holy Water, it boils.

And I'm not even Catholic.

Grew to respect a lot of Catholicism when JPII was in charge. He lived a truth and reality of his faith that ANY Christian ought endeavor to achieve.

The current guy? Not. So. Much.

I think if had JPII had an audience with Pelosi, and let loose on her with both barrels, it might've made a difference.

Too late, and we'll never know. She though, eventually *will* know. Too late, but she'll know.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2017 12:26 AM (v5iqM)

407 Gipper Lives - thanks.

Muldoon - wow, dude you are scary. That's excellent. Thinking of your dad, of course, when I (jokingly) suggested it. (umm, you can forget the "race riot" idea)

Publius - "I was told there would be no math!", I think, is the correct citation from the AOSHQ Standard Procedure Handbook, as revised August 2017.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 14, 2017 12:27 AM (QDnY+)

408 So, if you were supposed to get the GNAMM group rate info and did not, let me know. Was surprised hotel did not have some option for a playmate upgrade.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 12:21 AM (0wem/)

Just sent you an email.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:27 AM (Jcg9Q)

409 Here's what I do not 'get' about folks like The Troll Deadrody�:

If you don't like the content here (hey different strokes...), why bother reading it, let alone criticizing it? Pretty sure the LGF and Tepid Gas buttons work on *all* devices.

Posted by: ibguy at August 14, 2017 12:27 AM (vUcdz)

410 I would bet money that Pelosi, for all her issues, actually sends some hefty tithes to whatever Catholic church she sometimes attends in NorCal.

Probably helps protect her a bit.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:39 PM (eMKNe)

I suspect the reason the RC Church doesn't excommunicate her is that such a move would be seen as "meddling in politics".

Posted by: Gojira at August 14, 2017 12:27 AM (+v28m)

411
That's not any serious math, that's just a little romper room 'rithmetic.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 14, 2017 12:28 AM (8O3HH)

412 Wonder if Frankie the Red's inner council calling out Bannon would seem like "playing politics".

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2017 12:31 AM (89T5c)

413 Has anybody heard anything about a bomb blast somewhere involving US soldiers??

My kid coworker left early tonight because one of his close friends was supposedly killed in some kind of bomb blast, but I haven't seen or heard anything about one.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:32 AM (Jcg9Q)

414 Thinking of your dad, of course, when I (jokingly) suggested it.

Posted by rhomboid

****

Hey. I appreciate that. Oddly enough, a couple of my brothers took offense that I wrote the Anzio book with the hamster thing. Like somehow Dad would have been offended. He would have thought it was a hoot!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2017 12:33 AM (wPiJc)

415 "Small coffee." $5
"Small coffee please." $3
"Hello, one small coffee please." $1.75

How much more can I save if I pinch the barista's butt?

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:58 PM (eMKNe)

And why does the cafe put the $ symbol after the figure? Isn't that the mexican way of doing it?

Posted by: Gojira at August 14, 2017 12:34 AM (+v28m)

416 410 I would bet money that Pelosi, for all her issues, actually sends some hefty tithes to whatever Catholic church she sometimes attends in NorCal.

Probably helps protect her a bit.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2017 11:39 PM (eMKNe)

I suspect the reason the RC Church doesn't excommunicate her is that such a move would be seen as "meddling in politics".

Posted by: Gojira at August 14, 2017 12:27 AM (+v28m

I suspect that whatever Parish she attends has a priest like Obama's buddy Father Pfleger.

Posted by: buzzion at August 14, 2017 12:34 AM (cAnNx)

417 I saw two killed five hurt in Iraq. Daily mail had it

Posted by: NCKate at August 14, 2017 12:36 AM (8Xttu)

418 I couldn't even decipher what deadrody was saying, other than 'I like pot' and 'I like games'.

Good for him, I guess, and all that makes him totally not a loser like us.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 14, 2017 12:37 AM (6FqZa)

419 Combat incident but not from the enemy. Whatever that could mean. Accident I guess.

Posted by: NCKate at August 14, 2017 12:38 AM (8Xttu)

420 So, if you were supposed to get the GNAMM group rate info and did not, let me know. Was surprised hotel did not have some option for a playmate upgrade.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 12:21 AM (0wem/)

The room rates don't seem bad, but then they add on taxes, and "resort fee" (rolls eyes), and then hose you for parking, and the whole schmear comes in about double the quoted room rate. Like a friggin' electric bill.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 12:39 AM (+v28m)

421 Nice string of les pauls. It feels like home.

oh btw, abolish whiteness huh. This is how you get more Virginia.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2017 12:39 AM (aMlLZ)

422 Hasta la nite nite, Horde.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2017 12:39 AM (v5iqM)

423 "Combat incident but not from the enemy."

Language of that sort has been used in the past when ostensibly "friendly" foreign nationals have suddenly attacked American service members.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 14, 2017 12:42 AM (ujwCG)

424 Thanks NCKate.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:42 AM (Jcg9Q)

425 How about race riot limericks?

*******

Bad Morning In America - a limerick

As you watch all the video streams
Each day it grows worse...so it seems
What the hell has gone wrong
Caj't we all get along?
And to think. MLK had a dream

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2017 12:44 AM (wPiJc)

426 Good night all!

Endeavor to persevere!

Rugged individualists unite!!

Content of character, not color of skin.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 14, 2017 12:45 AM (wPiJc)

427 Heh, sure the resort fees are a pain, but that is nothing compared with "loss factor" in commercial leases.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (0wem/)

428 Funny story about les paul. I had him sign one of my les pauls. I started talking to him about the newer Gibson les pauls they were making at the time, when they seriously were trying to recreate the originals they built in the 1950's. I asked him if he tried any, and what he thought of them.

He had no clue wtf I was talking about. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (aMlLZ)

429 The room rates don't seem bad, but then they add on taxes, and "resort fee" (rolls eyes), and then hose you for parking, and the whole schmear comes in about double the quoted room rate. Like a friggin' electric bill.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 12:39 AM (+v28m)

Jesus, they tack on the $30 per night Resort Fee, then tax THAT at 13.38%??

Nice gig if you can get it.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (Jcg9Q)

430 Green on Blue workplace violence.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (IqV8l)

431 Olsen Muldoon is right!

Posted by: Olsen Johnson at August 14, 2017 12:47 AM (PXj2C)

432 And, Man, is it ever smoky here tonight. Effective visibility is under a mile. You can see car lights maybe two miles, but no lights? Forget about it.

I was at an event about 90 miles away, and driving back home in a very light shower; it was surreal. The countryside, on road I have driven about a thousand times, looked quite alien. When I approached the town of Beiseker, the row of poplar trees along Highway 9 looked like distant bushes on the African veldt. I half expected to see a pride of lions taking down a wildebeest.

And the smell of the smoke (from forest fires in B.C.) is very strong tonight, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 12:48 AM (+v28m)

433 Jesus, they tack on the $30 per night Resort Fee, then tax THAT at 13.38%??

Nice gig if you can get it.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (Jcg9Q)

Holy shit.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2017 12:48 AM (aMlLZ)

434 Bass Ackward Award winner ONT.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 14, 2017 12:48 AM (kIxPI)

435 430 Green on Blue workplace violence.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 14, 2017 12:46 AM (IqV8l)

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Mermaids vs crustaceans?

Posted by: Olsen Johnson at August 14, 2017 12:49 AM (PXj2C)

436 So, if you were supposed to get the GNAMM group rate info and did not, let me know. Was surprised hotel did not have some option for a playmate upgrade.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 12:21 AM (0wem/)

The room rates don't seem bad, but then they add on taxes, and "resort fee" (rolls eyes), and then hose you for parking, and the whole schmear comes in about double the quoted room rate. Like a friggin' electric bill.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 12:39 AM (+v28m)

Parking ought not to be a problem. The Strip and Downtown charge... for people who aren't booked at the hotel. Even then there are alternatives.

But hey, the hotel taxes and "fees" are why I don't have to pay state income taxes and but a modicum of property taxes... so thank you!

Posted by: The Silver State Hat at August 14, 2017 12:50 AM (vBeA5)

437
I was looking up the autodarkening technology. Turns out, with modern designs, the things filter out nearly all the IR and UV before it even gets to the visible filters. So, it's killing that whether light or dark.

Sensitivity is a problem. If you're welding outside, you don't want it to be triggered by the Sun. Close by, a welding arc is much brighter in visible light than the Sun by a long shot.

The more expensive AD lens will have adjustable sensitivity.

Turns out the sensor on some is very sensitive to IR and near-IR light, and a TV remote control can actually trigger them, allowing a test without a bright flash. Not all of them do this, however.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 14, 2017 12:59 AM (8O3HH)

438 63 I'm convinced that we KNEW Osama bin L was in Pakistan... but that some
in our government would not do anything, because Pakistan is a nuclear
power.

***
One of the CIA analysts charged with finding Osama made the case to the Obama administration for like a year that he was in that place in Pakistan.

Why Obama ignored her is anyone's guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2017 10:10 PM (aZq03)

Word: Valerie Jarrett

Posted by: chewydog at August 14, 2017 01:01 AM (Thkxi)

439 time wounds all heels

[looking around]

has anyone said that?

[shrugs]

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 14, 2017 01:04 AM (AxFdW)

440 Man do I get sucked into the stupidest nonsense.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:05 AM (0wem/)

441 Man do I get sucked into the stupidest nonsense.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:05 AM (0wem/)

There are worse things in life...

Posted by: The Not-that-bad Hat at August 14, 2017 01:06 AM (vBeA5)

442 I have an appointment Monday morning to meet with a salesman showing me a product we need. It will be interesting to see if he (I've already talked to him on the phone) knows more about his product than I do.

Posted by: X-ray at August 14, 2017 01:08 AM (zoSd2)

443 There are worse things in life...
Posted by: The Not-that-bad Hat at August

Heh. Share your optimism.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:09 AM (0wem/)

444 I share your optimism.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:12 AM (0wem/)

445 Parking ought not to be a problem. The Strip and Downtown charge... for people who aren't booked at the hotel. Even then there are alternatives.

But hey, the hotel taxes and "fees" are why I don't have to pay state income taxes and but a modicum of property taxes... so thank you!

Posted by: The Silver State Hat at August 14, 2017 12:50 AM (vBeA5)

Well, the hotel under discussion does charge for "self-parking", and they also charge for oversize parking at some remote lot, and since I expect I will be hauling a car trailer with my Suburban, that's where I will be, I guess.

Going to check and see what Motel 6 has to offer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 01:13 AM (+v28m)

446 So when you are in a lousy situation and the person you are with says "well this is sucks, I can't imagine it getting any worse" and you "say, heh, this is nothing it could be lots worse", who is the optimist and who is the pessimist?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:13 AM (0wem/)

447 Watching Comrade Detective on Amazon Prime, pretty good. "Uncovered" Romanian 80's tv show, He battles the evils of the West, like a smuggling ring that's bringing in Jeans etc pretty good spoof.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 14, 2017 01:14 AM (dKiJG)

448 432 When I approached the town of Beiseker,...

AOP, that sounds like the name of a town that had only one R in their letterbag, and was trying to say "Berserker". Hey, let's toss out the extra Rs, but hey I've got this extra "i" collecting dust.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:16 AM (6jaju)

449 There are worse things in life...

Posted by: The Not-that-bad Hat at August

Heh. Share your optimism.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 14, 2017 01:09 AM (0wem/)

Better have be in the position to obsess about stupid nonsense than have no other choice than to deal directly oh-so-rational horrors...

Posted by: The Non-Euclidean Hat at August 14, 2017 01:20 AM (vBeA5)

450 Well, the hotel under discussion does charge for "self-parking", and they also charge for oversize parking at some remote lot, and since I expect I will be hauling a car trailer with my Suburban, that's where I will be, I guess.

Going to check and see what Motel 6 has to offer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 01:13 AM (+v28m)

E-mail me the particulars and I will make inquiries.

Posted by: The Oh-so-local Hat at August 14, 2017 01:22 AM (vBeA5)

451 "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

This is part and parcel of one of my key operating philosophies of life. We are all allotted 24 hours a day, to use as we see fit. So when someone tells you "I don't have time for X", they are lying. What they really should say is "I've chosen to allot my time otherwise." "My minutes are all booked up by me."

I love 'wasting time', if it is on things within my interest sphere. I'll break the speed limit to get to my destination where my only plan is to drink beer and visit with friends.

Priorities, baby.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:24 AM (6jaju)

452 I love 'wasting time', if it is on things within my interest sphere. I'll break the speed limit to get to my destination where my only plan is to drink beer and visit with friends.

Priorities, baby.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:24 AM (6jaju)

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Hooker with Cocaine lined up on her ass at August 14, 2017 01:27 AM (vBeA5)

453 E-mail me the particulars and I will make inquiries.

Posted by: The Oh-so-local Hat at August 14, 2017 01:22 AM (vBeA5)

Looks like the Motel 6 Tropicana will fill the bill. Remember, I have a dog with me, too. The Motel 6 on I-15 is closer, but they don't have their parking policy on-line, and it looks a little seedy, too.

I'd want to be able to deck the trailer at the motel, and have the use of the 'burb for getting around town.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 01:31 AM (+v28m)

454 Dan Fogelberg died in 2007 of prostate cancer. I bet he ignored the initial symptoms, frequent urination being the key one. I'd probably have died around the same time as him. But in 2005 I noticed the symptom, did something about it, and fuck cancer but I'm still here to annoy you all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:33 AM (6jaju)

455 What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Hooker with Cocaine lined up on her ass

That is a possibility.

Posted by: Gary Ridgway at August 14, 2017 01:33 AM (IcT7t)

456 and fuck cancer but I'm still here to annoy you all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:33 AM (6jaju)

http:/preview.tinyurl.com/y7z6q7uh

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 14, 2017 01:38 AM (vBeA5)

457 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 14, 2017 01:39 AM (IcT7t)

458 I can't sleep.

Posted by: Mike at August 14, 2017 01:41 AM (c056A)

459 Via Gateway Pundit, a local news guy was beaten in the head by Gay Antifa during a "peaceful protest" in Richmond.

Had to go to the hospital.

Am I a bad person for not being unhappy that the media, who is 110% behind the liberals, are being attacked?

Posted by: shibumi at August 14, 2017 01:48 AM (aT+Bx)

460 http:/preview.tinyurl.com/y7z6q7uh

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 14, 2017 01:38 AM (vBeA5)

Thanks. And yeah. If I'd been in socialized medicine, I'd probably be dead. Fast aggressive treatment was the key, cuz the fucker was hot to trot. I took the one most likely to save my life.

It's one of many reasons I carried protest signs against ObamaCare.

Now I'm on The List.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:49 AM (6jaju)

461 "But in 2005 I noticed the symptom, did something about it, and fuck cancer but I'm still here to annoy you all."

It really works best if the cancer is detected via a modality such as a PSA test before it even gets to the stage of being overtly symptomatic.

Purely by coincidence, as soon as Obamacare really kicked in, it was determined by Our Betters that it was "not cost-effective" to be administering routine PSA tests.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 14, 2017 01:50 AM (ujwCG)

462 Now I'm on The List.
--

We're all on one list of another. We plan on meeting up in the FEMA camps and plotting against Our Captors.

/and talking about Food. And Chess. And Dress Pron.

Posted by: shibumi at August 14, 2017 01:50 AM (aT+Bx)

463 Am I a bad person for not being unhappy that the media, who is 110% behind the liberals, are being attacked?

Posted by: shibumi at August 14, 2017 01:48 AM (aT+Bx)

No.

I pray every day they get it good and hard.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 01:51 AM (Jcg9Q)

464 /and talking about Food. And Chess. And Dress Pron.
Posted by: shibumi at August 14, 2017 01:50 AM (aT+Bx)

---
but NOT soccer...

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2017 01:55 AM (YtJs4)

465 It's 2 am, and the gun's still warm.
Can't make my connections
and the drugs are all gone.

Posted by: Theo Weighless at August 14, 2017 01:55 AM (m9X4Y)

466 461 It really works best if the cancer is detected via a modality such as a PSA test before it even gets to the stage of being overtly symptomatic.

Purely by coincidence, as soon as Obamacare really kicked in, it was determined by Our Betters that it was "not cost-effective" to be administering routine PSA tests.

Posted by: torquewrench

What you say is all true, but I had no yearly exam via an employer. But I had knowledge, and it was enough to actually insist on a PSA test when I went in on my own.

My decisions saved my life, though I had help from the docs. My surgeon actually said "I saved your life", and it is true, but I put myself there. I give myself an assist.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:57 AM (6jaju)

467 Am I a bad person for not being unhappy that the media, who is 110% behind the liberals, are being attacked?

Posted by: shibumi at August 14, 2017 01:48 AM (aT+Bx)

No.

I pray every day they get it good and hard.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 01:51 AM (Jcg9Q)

Hell, I wouldn't mind if they displayed their impaled corpses along Pennsylvania Ave. Give the trumpster a chuckle every morning when he opens the curtains.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2017 02:05 AM (aMlLZ)

468 Back in the day when that Prostate test was a big thing, I asked the Doctor about it, since I was in that age group.

He waved it away saying, 'It is just a number; doesn't mean anything." That was twenty years ago.

"Hang man is coming down from the gallows and I don't have very long. The jig is up, the news is out, they finally found me."

Posted by: Theo Weighless at August 14, 2017 02:05 AM (m9X4Y)

469 Life during wartime.

Posted by: Styx and Stones, and Talking Heads at August 14, 2017 02:08 AM (m9X4Y)

470 Thanks. And yeah. If I'd been in socialized medicine, I'd probably be dead. Fast aggressive treatment was the key, cuz the fucker was hot to trot. I took the one most likely to save my life.

It's one of many reasons I carried protest signs against ObamaCare.

Now I'm on The List.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 01:49 AM (6jaju)

Quite. I'd have lost loved ones back in the day if socialized medicine had been fully implemented.

Remember, the "right to die" was nothing more than a tool to legitimize the purposeful killing of another, without their consent, as acceptable medical procedures...

Posted by: The Rx Hat at August 14, 2017 02:08 AM (vBeA5)

471 A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information.

Clint Eastwood, A Fistful Of Dollars

I hear ya, Clint.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 02:11 AM (6jaju)

472 Hello all!

Just got back home, completing an 1100 mile, 16 hour trip from Saskatchewan. Had a great time with Mr. WDS's family. But oh what a long trip.

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 14, 2017 02:13 AM (mMeIQ)

473 When some jive ass punk asks you why they need to know anything, because the Internet is just a few clicks away, ask them in return

How do you know what to search about?

This is the Value of Knowledge. You need to know the search terms.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 02:21 AM (6jaju)

474 "But I had knowledge, and it was enough to actually insist on a PSA test when I went in on my own."

And if they won't agree to one's insistence, then instead to pay for it privately out of pocket, which can be the most effectual fifty bucks a guy can ever spend.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 14, 2017 02:28 AM (ujwCG)

475 It has been brought to my attention that my post 420 might be taken as a disparagement of Y5's efforts to secure a group rate for the GNAMM. Not so. Y5 did great, and the quoted rate seems good; it's just all the added fees and charges mount up real fast. Hotel people are pirates. Same here in Canada.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 02:29 AM (+v28m)

476 "By the time I was 21 it was a non-stop alarm that was going off," she says in the video. So, she did the only rational thing: She got a sympathetic psychologist to pour drain cleaner in her eyes."

Yeah right. Blame it on someone else, or someone else needs some prison time. But I ain't buying her lie. I don't deny that body dysmorphia exists; I've read other accounts. Caitlyn Jenner and Karen Carpenter comes to mind.

But I doubt she had 'professional' help. There have been people that have cut off their own arm or leg, because "It bothered them."

I'm glad that most of my fantasies involve the entire Swedish Bikini team and me in a multi-some.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2017 02:39 AM (6jaju)

477 "it's just all the added fees and charges mount up real fast"

Nevada seems to be especially bad about this.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 14, 2017 02:39 AM (ujwCG)

478 Hotel people are pirates. Same here in Canada.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 02:29 AM (+v28m)j

The hotel is run by pirates, but the salt of the Earth for the most part are just trying to get by.

Posted by: The Blue Collar Hat at August 14, 2017 02:39 AM (vBeA5)

479 It has been brought to my attention that my post 420 might be taken as a disparagement of Y5's efforts to secure a group rate for the GNAMM. Not so. Y5 did great, and the quoted rate seems good; it's just all the added fees and charges mount up real fast. Hotel people are pirates. Same here in Canada.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 02:29 AM (+v28m)

Yeah same here, I wasn't trying to sound like a whiner. Y5's efforts is appreciated. It was just the taxes that made me realize I've apparently made a wrong turn in life somewhere.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 02:40 AM (Jcg9Q)

480

"~~Nevada~~ "Dingy" Harry Reid seems to be especially bad about this.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 14, 2017 02:48 AM (FlRtG)

481 Nite all.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2017 02:50 AM (Jcg9Q)

482 The hotel is run by pirates, but the salt of the Earth for the most part are just trying to get by.

Posted by: The Blue Collar Hat at August 14, 2017 02:39 AM (vBeA5)

"What? You want a bed in your room, and a toilet? You high roller, you, you'll have to pay our additional $40 per night "amenity fee" to get those extras."

Seems to me there is a golden opportunity for some smaller hotel to make bank by offering an "all-inclusive (less meals) rate".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 02:57 AM (+v28m)

483 Fat, homosexual and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 14, 2017 02:59 AM (NXsWM)

484 AOP......because you will be there.....is the reason I named it the Great North American MoMee

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 14, 2017 03:06 AM (mMeIQ)

485 Y5 is kicking ass. I'm going to start calling him Mr Perillo. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2017 03:07 AM (aMlLZ)

486 "What? You want a bed in your room, and a toilet? You high roller, you, you'll have to pay our additional $40 per night "amenity fee" to get those extras."

Seems to me there is a golden opportunity for some smaller hotel to make bank by offering an "all-inclusive (less meals) rate".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 02:57 AM (+v28m)

The irony is that most of the casinos focus on the "minnows" rather than the "whales".

Plenty of deals to be had, if you avoid the more obvious tourist traps.

Posted by: The Local Hat at August 14, 2017 03:35 AM (vBeA5)

487 Night all.

Here is "Mercury Ocean" by The Bad Light :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVfHdaaOI3o

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 14, 2017 03:39 AM (vBeA5)

488 I am out for the night, too. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 03:47 AM (+v28m)

489 And, Man, is it ever smoky here tonight. Effective visibility is under a mile. You can see car lights maybe two miles, but no lights? Forget about it.

I was at an event about 90 miles away, and driving back home in a very light shower; it was surreal. The countryside, on road I have driven about a thousand times, looked quite alien. When I approached the town of Beiseker, the row of poplar trees along Highway 9 looked like distant bushes on the African veldt. I half expected to see a pride of lions taking down a wildebeest.

And the smell of the smoke (from forest fires in B.C.) is very strong tonight, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2017 12:48 AM (+v28m)

Smoke is pretty thick up here in Red Deer area too; had to check to see whether or not there was a more local fire causing it, but nope, BC wildfires.

Posted by: Smash'em at August 14, 2017 04:53 AM (4A5fG)

490 Later job start today, ( hopefully a few days)
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2017 04:54 AM (pPKG5)

491 Damn, I'm out of coffee. Thought I had another can, but nope. Out of coffee. The day is ruined.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 14, 2017 04:58 AM (m9X4Y)

492 Never run out of coffee. At the very least keep a handful of whole beans to crush with your musket stock for emergency.

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2017 05:16 AM (pPKG5)

493 Damn, I'm out of coffee. Thought I had another can, but nope. Out of coffee. The day is ruined.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 14, 2017 04:58 AM (m9X4Y)

THIS is why I keep a pitcher of iced coffee in the fridge in the summer. Since I make a pitcher every 3 or 4 days, I have plenty of 'you're out of coffee, go shopping' warning.

Posted by: RickZ at August 14, 2017 05:17 AM (ubbjO)

494 I'm out of kahlua! hic

Posted by: Sunrise Hillary at August 14, 2017 05:24 AM (bc2Lc)

495
Campus Reform reached out to the LGBTQ Center for additional comment on the matter, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

They were out chowing down at a nearby all-you-can-eat lunch buffet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2017 05:39 AM (pNxlR)

496
But "privilege" per se? It is a stupid word in most of the contexts in which the "intersectional" mush-minds use it.

Myself, I prefer the term "mush-heads"...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2017 05:42 AM (pNxlR)

497
Are JoMika back this week? I do so miss their erudite and informed musings on the workings of our country.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 14, 2017 05:43 AM (pNxlR)

498
Meanwhile, on Instapundit, the war of hymens.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 14, 2017 05:54 AM (m9X4Y)

499 Well, even Fox is running with the "The driver loved Hitler!" narrative now...

Posted by: Hikaru at August 14, 2017 05:56 AM (Vevy5)

500 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 14, 2017 06:08 AM (hyuyC)

501 Mornin'
happy monday

Posted by: wing at August 14, 2017 06:13 AM (Ohl7S)

502 Busy VJ Day here in RI...going to a job interview at 9:30 then using the rest of the day to go to the beach.

Posted by: KWDreaming at August 14, 2017 06:14 AM (S6xeB)

503 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2017 06:22 AM (J+eG2)

504 good luck at the interview

Posted by: wing at August 14, 2017 06:22 AM (Ohl7S)

505 504 good luck at the interview
Posted by: wing at August 14, 2017 06:22 AM

Thanks! Rusty on interview skills...fortunately, I guess. Leaving my paralegal job after 14 years and prior to that was employed for 20 years. The paralegal job has just burnt me out.

Posted by: KWDreaming at August 14, 2017 06:26 AM (S6xeB)

506 KWDreaming. Have a good interview.

Skip, wing and VIAm top o ta morning to ya.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 14, 2017 06:27 AM (hyuyC)

507 VIA Have the local drums of Next Door been quiet, and a new spirit of brotherhood spread into Charm City?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 14, 2017 06:29 AM (hyuyC)

508 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2017 06:33 AM (U76Nz)

509 Thanks! Rusty on interview skills...fortunately, I guess. Leaving my paralegal job after 14 years and prior to that was employed for 20 years. The paralegal job has just burnt me out.

Posted by: KWDreaming at August 14, 2017 06:26 AM (S6xeB)

My best interviewing advice is to take a couple of seconds to form an answer before you reply to an questions. Speaking too fast/rushing one's thoughts into speech is not a good trait to show in an interview.

If you want other interview 'don't's', look around YouBoob. You'd be amazed at some of the stunts pulled in interviews and by not doing those things you'll stand out from the rest of the applicants.

Best of luck.

Posted by: RickZ at August 14, 2017 06:36 AM (ubbjO)

510 Posted by: KWDreaming at August 14, 2017 06:26 AM (S6xeB)

Just try to do your best to relax. If you're the best person for the job - then all you have to do is be you.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 14, 2017 06:44 AM (fiGNd)

511 Posted by: KWDreaming at August 14, 2017 06:26 AM (S6xeB)

Good luck! Don't fart

Let us know how it goes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 14, 2017 06:48 AM (iIma1)

512 G'morning, Salty.

NextDoor is staying away from the national topics, but the local level is as stupid as ever. Lots of local crime and political insider crap that is actually. Eginning to directly and negatively effect the local snowflakes.

Sort of fun to watch.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2017 06:49 AM (J+eG2)

513 Never run out of coffee. At the very least keep a handful of whole beans to crush with your musket stock for emergency.
Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2017 05:16 AM

This may be the penultimate argument in the longbows vs. crossbows discussions.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2017 06:52 AM (DMUuz)

514 Our police force os trying to start Next Door as the new Neighborhood Watch.

When the local Jersey and Angus cows get on, maybe I'll join.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 14, 2017 06:53 AM (hyuyC)

515
*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 14, 2017 06:57 AM (j/Mlu)

516 My day just got better. I never have to wake up next to *hic* Hillary Clinton.

I gave Janet Reno a pass as well. Life is good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 14, 2017 07:00 AM (hyuyC)

517 Just drank my last batch of colon prep. There has to be a better way.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 14, 2017 07:04 AM (IDPbH)

518 If you want other interview 'don't's', look around YouBoob. You'd be amazed at some of the stunts pulled in interviews and by not doing those things you'll stand out from the rest of the applicants.

Best of luck.
Posted by: RickZ

Don't forget,
Eat a BOD's is a perfectly "cromulent" response here, but not at most job interviews.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2017 07:04 AM (8ikIW)

519 "Our police force os trying to start Next Door as the new Neighborhood Watch. "

One of our local idiots was commenting that maybe NextDoor could be used to notify neighbors of crime based activities in the area.

But, she continued, those social media types tend to stereotype minorities.

Which was interesting, because many of our neighbors homes are equipped with everything from low end to high end security cameras.

And the replies to her comments, many of which which contained video image of individuals of a darker complexion entering, exiting and carrying things off from garages and residences was rather remarkable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2017 07:05 AM (J+eG2)

520 Oh look...

Le NOOD

It has arrived

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 14, 2017 07:06 AM (J+eG2)

521 Just drank my last batch of colon prep. There has to be a better way.
Posted by: Jack Sock

They used to have you take a Fleets Prep. Very salty liquid that you would drink and then follow up with a bunch of water. Problem was, too many people with kidney problems were destroying their kidneys.
So now you get to drink 50 gallons of slime water instead.

Posted by: Bruce at August 14, 2017 07:07 AM (8ikIW)

522 Just drank my last batch of colon prep.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 14, 2017 07:04 AM (IDPbH)

Heh. Don't take it personal but I am laughing pretty hard. Best of luck.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 14, 2017 07:09 AM (iIma1)

523 NextDoor is staying away from the national topics, but the local level is as stupid as ever. Lots of local crime and political insider crap that is actually. Eginning to directly and negatively effect the local snowflakes.

Sort of fun to watch.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Oh yes. We had an out of state sex offender move into a nearby neighborhood. Someone posted about it. A few SJW cackled about his rights and got flamed hard.

Posted by: Jean at August 14, 2017 09:30 AM (9TU00)

524 That George Harrison quote has to be one ot the stupidest utterances ever offered by a mammal.

Was that supposed to be profound? I can see him smoking a joint and staring at his own hand while offering that nugget.

Wow man.

Posted by: Pep at August 14, 2017 01:21 PM (0qa12)

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