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Mid-Morning Open Thread
Frans Snyders [Hat tip: OregonMuse]
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 09:21 AM (TUkHv)
Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at February 21, 2018 09:22 AM (Nu6Gg)
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Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (BtQd4)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (Boy/L)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 09:23 AM (SjImc)
I just had my house sprayed for cats.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Hawkpilot
There are some pretty clear tactical deficiencies to his position. Kitteh on the right is likely waiting to pounce to finish off the survivor.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, CAPRICAN STEEL! at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (zyiet)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (ks6bw)
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Willowed from last thread
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R.I.P. Billy
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (y3aQB)
They aren't as relaxed about it as the dogs are.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: JAS at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (sCN2W)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (QQ+il)
BTW, Vic, if you're here, too, always meant to thank you for your morning news bits.
Posted by: RI Red at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (/a4WL)
Posted by: Eromero at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (djCea)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 21, 2018 09:24 AM (p6e8W)
He'll be catatonic after it's over.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (mpXpK)
Still life with fighting hookers
Still life with fighting baby daddies
Still life with fighting trannies
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (BtQd4)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (fuK7c)
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (TUkHv)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (mpXpK)
Upside down cat was caught with the ace of spades in his collar. Don Watchingcat is seeing that he gets what's coming to him.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (p6e8W)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (Hk/NM)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (mPeei)
How To Medicate a Cat - a limerick
When you're giving a cat his eye ointment
Be prepared for a great disappointment
Since your arms he will shred
You had best plan ahead
With a pre-scheduled doctor's appointment!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:28 AM (wPiJc)
Looks like my wives when the cat brought in a new one.
Posted by: Ragnar Lothbrook at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (zyiet)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (xInes)
Posted by: dantesed at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (88xKn)
Posted by: josephistan at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (djCea)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, CAPRICAN STEEL! at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 09:30 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: grammie winger - at February 21, 2018 09:30 AM (lwiT4)
Posted by: BignJames at February 21, 2018 09:30 AM (0+nbW)
The really bad ones - the really mean ones - will go for the throat, usually a big male. Also, the ones that go for the throat don't yowl or make any noise. I think somehow a few cats get born with tiger brains, stear clear of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 09:31 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 21, 2018 09:31 AM (p6e8W)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:31 AM (I3+56)
Title of the painting is in Krautish, so maybe they're sour krauts.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 21, 2018 09:32 AM (fuK7c)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:32 AM (BtQd4)
Still life with fighting hookers
Still life with fighting baby daddies
Still life with fighting trannies
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (BtQd4)
Still Life with Hipster Slapfight was one of his more controversial pieces.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (suO/a)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (wPiJc)
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And a good one. I should like it because I do like domestic scenes, but for some reason artists tended to show bugeyes in animals to express just about everything. Don't like it much because the cats really look more like dogs.
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (nV+c8)
Posted by: Tyler at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (djCea)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
No actual slapping as they were busy adjusting man buns and sipping lattes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (BtQd4)
for a while we had two cats that would sneak into a spare room full of boxes and spare furniture and then stage big fights at about 2 am. ye gods.
we realized that our house could be under assault by the gangs in "The Warriors" and we would say to each other "oh its just the cats, go back to sleep".
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:35 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
Best Bday card my daughter got me was I love you so much I would push a hipster in a wood chipper for you!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:35 AM (BtQd4)
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 09:36 AM (djCea)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 09:36 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:36 AM (zyiet)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
Best Bday card my daughter got me was I love you so much I would push a hipster in a wood chipper for you!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:35 AM (BtQd4)
Congratulations, you raised an 'ette!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:36 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:34 AM (nV+c
I still prefer Ikea Drill in Repose
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 21, 2018 09:37 AM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: James Audubon at February 21, 2018 09:37 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 09:29 AM (djCea)
That's the female.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 09:37 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JTB at February 21, 2018 09:37 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 09:38 AM (r9UYA)
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 09:36 AM (djCea)
Artist was an alien time traveler with a stasis ray. Held the poor kitties in that pose for a week while he sketched! Boy were THEY pissed off when he released them!
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:38 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Ignatz at February 21, 2018 09:38 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: geoffb at February 21, 2018 09:39 AM (zOpu5)
Actually no, as my two don't shed each other's blood (fur is another story), and these two look like the battle will be to the death.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 09:39 AM (ROcGq)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:39 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 09:39 AM (TUkHv)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 21, 2018 09:39 AM (wPiJc)
I still prefer Ikea Drill in Repose
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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I prefer 'Nude Shelving, Descending a Bookcase'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 21, 2018 09:40 AM (w1zJX)
Anyone hearing Uptown Girl by Billy Joel in their ears right now?
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018
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More like "Rumble in Brighton Tonight" by . . . well, you know.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 09:41 AM (ROcGq)
I still prefer Ikea Drill in Repose
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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I prefer 'Nude Shelving, Descending a Bookcase'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 21, 2018 09:40 AM (w1zJX)
It's a good thing that's a cubist work or else it would be disgusting.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:41 AM (RD7QR)
He retreats and licks his nethers.
Posted by: RI Red at February 21, 2018 09:42 AM (/a4WL)
Posted by: Temba, his nostrils held wide at February 21, 2018 09:42 AM (UDqQR)
Still life with fighting hookers
. . .
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:27 AM (BtQd4)
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I know exactly which pornstars I'd cast in that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (ROcGq)
"Olympics Filled with Athletes Who Aren't That Good..."
They've gone political enough this year that a headline like that is schadenfreude.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: fly gal at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (9OLTK)
For a while I had two cats that made every day a 3 stooges film playing through my house. (if you count me as the 3rd, I guess) one was solid black, one was solid gray. Typical move, the black one would be calmly walking across the living room, and suddenly the grey one would shoot out of his hiding spot to the side and hit the black one on a dead run, just bowl him over. And then the real hilarity would start, it was like watching this screaming yowling grey and black yin&yang ball caroming around the living room. the best I could do would be to try and stay out of its way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Jim H at February 21, 2018 09:44 AM (Hb/ve)
Anyone hearing Uptown Girl by Billy Joel in their ears right now?
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018
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I am now, dick.
*Thinks of worse ear worm to throw at Soothie*
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 09:44 AM (gC2IV)
Maybe you should focus on the sport and not politic and Social Justice Whoring
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 21, 2018 09:44 AM (BtQd4)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 21, 2018 09:45 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: huerfano at February 21, 2018 09:45 AM (EtMVh)
Posted by: CN at February 21, 2018 09:46 AM (5gaNQ)
Oh, give him The Night Chicago Died, but figure out how to keep it away from the rest of us.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (fuK7c)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (Pg+x7)
"Olympics Filled with Athletes Who Aren't That Good..."
They've gone political enough this year that a headline like that is schadenfreude.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (oVJmc)
Did you read the article?
Because the article is a PJ Media puff piece about lovable losers.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe deeply. Namaste. Prayer-hands. Warrior Pose. at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (mf5HN)
The Trump Curse
Posted by: Grump928(C) gasps at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (ROcGq)
Drudge link:
"Olympics Filled with Athletes Who Aren't That Good..."
They've gone political enough this year that a headline like that is schadenfreude.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (oVJmc)
One of the most infuriating things I heard was the US Olympic Ski team was bowing out of an event because they had zero chance to medal. Guess they heard that there are no participation trophies in the Olympics.
The US Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame for sending athletes like this. There are so many other hard working athletes out there who would give their eye teeth for a chance to compete and the ski team shits all over them.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (jxbfJ)
The Pina Colada song. You're welcome.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:48 AM (CClpm)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 09:49 AM (gC2IV)
Posted by: Grump928(C) proffers the antidote at February 21, 2018 09:49 AM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 21, 2018 09:49 AM (VzOQD)
*Thinks of worse ear worm to throw at Soothie*
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 09:44 AM (gC2IV)
Be Happy, Dont Worry
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:49 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 21, 2018 09:50 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: REDACTED. at February 21, 2018 09:50 AM (VWsDy)
Oh, give him The Night Chicago Died, but figure out how to keep it away from the rest of us.
Posted by: Bandersnatch
Manamana! Doo do dee doo do doo do do doo manamana!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 09:50 AM (0PD0H)
Posted by: LASue at February 21, 2018 09:50 AM (hZ+us)
Posted by: REDACTED. at February 21, 2018 09:50 AM (VWsDy)
So stop fucking them.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at February 21, 2018 09:51 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 09:51 AM (r9UYA)
*Thinks of worse ear worm to throw at Soothie*
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 09:44 AM (gC2IV)
Be Happy, Dont Worry
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small small world
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 09:51 AM (0PD0H)
A preview of coming events if we ever get into a real shooting war
Posted by: REDACTED. at February 21, 2018 09:51 AM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (CClpm)
Heh.
Oh, and morning, y'all, from a very wet SE Texas...
More coffeve. Stat.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (zyiet)
The bottom is the place of choice for cats.
They can disembowel their opponent with their back claws.
Posted by: JT at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (YDowk)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 09:53 AM (r9UYA)
Now there's an ear-worm: the fight scene music from TOS.
Na na na na NA na na na na
Na na na na na na na NA na
You're welcome.
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at February 21, 2018 09:53 AM (7oUUT)
I went out and the Siamese took off, and my black tom looked at me all bottle-brushed up and with a lick of white fur on his lip.
I am probably bad because my first thought was "another $300 vet bill for an abscess"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2018 09:53 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:53 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:54 AM (zyiet)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 21, 2018 09:54 AM (Pg+x7)
Drudge link: "Olympics Filled with Athletes Who Aren't That Good..."
Heard a report yesterday that the #2 winner in men's figure skating was passed over for a slot on the team so they could give it to the #4 person AKA Adam Rippon in the name of "Diversity"
This shit is going to get us all killed.
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at February 21, 2018 09:55 AM (HPNqc)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2018 09:55 AM (2K6fY)
Pretty sure that's illegal, man.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (CClpm)
Bird law in this country is not governed by reason.
Posted by: Charlie Kelly, Esq. at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM (bT8Z4)
Pretty sure that's illegal, man.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 09:52 AM (CClpm)
Perfectly acceptable in the 17th century. Supposed to be bad luck though
Posted by: REDACTED. at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM (VWsDy)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM (I3+56)
Indeed. As the "team" falls apart, we'll likely hear more and more about how it was constituted (usually a fairly opaque process).
I just point and laugh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 09:57 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 21, 2018
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I suspect Korean restaurants have catfight sounds recorded. "Hey, Myeong-Su! Put up the 'special' sign!
We got enough for dinner tonight!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 09:57 AM (ROcGq)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Earworm Wrangler at February 21, 2018 09:58 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 21, 2018 09:58 AM (pNxlR)
Well yeah. I mean, a gay figure skater -- when has that ever happened before?
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at February 21, 2018 09:58 AM (7oUUT)
Indeed. As the "team" falls apart, we'll likely hear more and more about how it was constituted (usually a fairly opaque process).
I just point and laugh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 09:57 AM (7LY+6)
Somebody didn't want to be part of the "snort cocaine and eat feces" parties, apparently.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 09:59 AM (CMbMd)
Sounds like the DOD is now choosing our Olympic team
Posted by: REDACTED. at February 21, 2018 09:59 AM (VWsDy)
1 800 Cars for kids
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:54 AM (zyiet)
Kids can't drive.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 09:59 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 21, 2018 09:59 AM (XPyKp)
Well of course not. They were good athletes, just not "team players".
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (7LY+6)
The model for the painting looks remarkably like several of my aunts in their later years, both the faces and general build. Shows the persistence of Scandi genes. That side of the family derives from the Vikings who settled Normandy France. Must have been a numerous but insular group because a thousand years later in Quebec Province the traits remained.
Not important, just a personal point of interest about the painting you might find amusing.
Posted by: JTB at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (V+03K)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (0PD0H)
Of course I've got a cold and I'm rummaging around in old books and crap, but still
Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (w/mxD)
Well of course not. They were good athletes, just not "team players".
Snort.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:00 AM (7LY+6)
If you won't lick shit off an old bald man's dick, you don't REALLY want it.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Roy at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (7n4KQ)
The US team is falling apart at the Winter Olympics and on pace to have its worst medal performance in 2 decades
Scratch the "send a boxload of self-indulgent bitches" strategy!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (pNxlR)
The urge to repeat this tune in one's head while picturing Kirk and Spock fighting for matrimony with T'Pring with oversized fish-forks and barbells is not logical.
Posted by: Zod at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (Bdeb0)
1 800 Cars for kids
Posted by: Soothie -- Black Diamond Crew at February 21, 2018 09:54 AM (zyiet)
Kids can't drive.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 09:59 AM (NWiLs)
In Florida, kids can buy hand grenades before they can drive.
Posted by: This... Is CNN at February 21, 2018 10:02 AM (7oUUT)
https://gab.ai/RickTempest/posts/20229548
Posted by: Rick Tempest at February 21, 2018 10:02 AM (JkygK)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 10:02 AM (/qEW2)
I've always wanted that for a ringtone.
Posted by: davidt at February 21, 2018 10:03 AM (djCea)
The US Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame for sending athletes like this. There are so many other hard working athletes out there who would give their eye teeth for a chance to compete and the ski team shits all over them.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (jxbfJ)
Remember Eddie the Eagle???
The Ski Jumper who was lucky if he even stayed alive and didn't seriously injure himself...
But was there to COMPETE damn it!..
That, is the Olympic Spirit... that somehow has been lost in all the SJW crap.
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 10:03 AM (NgKpN)
in 1965 it was "Please don't eat the daisys"
now its
Please don't fuck the peacocks.??
I hate them for what they have become of us.
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at February 21, 2018 10:03 AM (HPNqc)
The US team is falling apart at the Winter Olympics and on pace to have its worst medal performance in 2 decades
Scratch the "send a boxload of self-indulgent bitches" strategy!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 21, 2018 10:01 AM (pNxlR)
But the boxload of condoms each athlete was given has probably been used up.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:04 AM (jxbfJ)
@RealDonaldTrump 20 minutes ago
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 10:04 AM (r9UYA)
All thrust, no vector.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 21, 2018 10:04 AM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 10:04 AM (+1EJs)
This shit is going to get us all killed.
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at February 21, 2018 09:55 AM (HPNqc)
Well it's only the olympics, which really don't mean jack shit, so this will not get us killed.....but since the left is doing this across American life, as in the Military, police, and Gov...yeah that might get us killed
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:05 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at February 21, 2018 10:03 AM (HPNqc)
Your nic made me smile this morning. Thanks!
And this art...I have no words. Thanks CBD!
Posted by: moki at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (V+V48)
Well, we both agree on that outcome. Where we differ is on the reason.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (bLYYT)
@RealDonaldTrump 20 minutes ago
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 10:04 AM (r9UYA)
Sounds like the President is loosing his Patience...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (NgKpN)
One of the most infuriating things I heard was the US Olympic Ski
team was bowing out of an event because they had zero chance to medal.
Guess they heard that there are no participation trophies in the
Olympics.
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I know they won't because gay or whatever, but this should end whatever contract and association these participants have with representing the United States.
(Except now they probably do represent the urban areas and many young people of the United States)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (ks6bw)
One of the most infuriating things I heard was the US Olympic Ski team was bowing out of an event because they had zero chance to medal. Guess they heard that there are no participation trophies in the Olympics.
The US Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame for sending athletes like this. There are so many other hard working athletes out there who would give their eye teeth for a chance to compete and the ski team shits all over them.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 09:47 AM (jxbfJ)
What? They're too high and mighty to compete for the Boxboard Medal awarded for * mumbled * place?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Jmel at February 21, 2018 10:07 AM (d0VNo)
The US team is falling apart at the Winter Olympics and on pace to have its worst medal performance in 2 decades
Scratch the "send a boxload of self-indulgent bitches" strategy!
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Maybe Trump can teach them about Winning?
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 10:07 AM (2LelM)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 21, 2018 10:07 AM (XKZwp)
Posted by: Petula Clark at February 21, 2018 10:07 AM (UDqQR)
Posted by: Adam Rippon at February 21, 2018 10:07 AM (NWiLs)
We adore them all.
Posted by: jomama at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (sO6CM)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 09:56 AM
Well she took care of the problem of having to turn down an invitation to the WH. Only gold medal winners. Sorry Lindseee. Now you can go back to nobody giving a shit about your thoughts and being some athlete's cock holster.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: Don Q. at February 21, 2018 10:06 AM (NgKpN)
Patience should be nice and tight.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Adam Rippon at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (SkuXa)
There's a guy from New Zealand competing at the Olympics this year in cross country skiing. He had never even seen snow up until a year or so ago when he started training.
He also competed at Rio in judo or one of the martial arts and says that he is going to try to make the next summer Olympics in a water sport TBD.
He knows he has no shot at a medal, he just wants to be there and compete.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: US Ski Team at February 21, 2018 10:08 AM (djCea)
passed over for a slot on the team so they could give it to the #4
person AKA Adam Rippon in the name of "Diversity"
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Very much like the NASCAR Danica lady. Over a decade of racing and her only win was in '08 after not running out of gas when the leaders had to pit. Best sponsors, best trainers, a guaranteed spot in a car, and lost every race since a single victory ten years ago.
But it's better to lose as a girl/gay/black than to win as a white male.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:09 AM (ks6bw)
They've gone political enough this year that a headline like that is schadenfreude.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 21, 2018 09:43 AM (oVJmc)
Maybe if America had sent some actual athetes instead of SJW's and gay boys...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2018 10:09 AM (Dbv1R)
The Dutch-based Christian charity Open Doors described the broad daylight attack as being carried out by a group of Muslim Fulani who are traditional cattle herdsmen. "One attack took place in broad daylight, as people were about to go to church. The assailants chased and killed the villagers and burned down nine churches and many more houses," their spokesman added.
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 10:11 AM (2LelM)
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On the bright side it is the most gayest, diversest, committed to justice team evah (or so Ive heard.) So America can be celebrating that.
Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2018 10:11 AM (MxEKc)
was bowing out of an event because they had zero chance to medal. Guess
they heard that there are no participation trophies in the Olympics.
"The
US Olympic Committee should hang their heads in shame for sending
athletes like this. There are so many other hard working athletes out
there who would give their eye teeth for a chance to compete and the ski
team shits all over them."
I'm only half kidding when I suggest maybe they ought to start sending Special Olympics teams. While Special Olympians do all get medals for participating, there is real competition for the gold and silver and the participants give their best efforts. And they are always happy to be there. A young lady I know from my daughter's bowling team has participated in SO State Winter Games doing cross country skiing and snowshoeing and she loved it.
Posted by: Secret Square at February 21, 2018 10:11 AM (+HoK2)
Let's say that a cat really dislikes other cats: hisses at them, raises its fur, etc. But the cat loves the humans that serve it.
Would you call such a cat "self hating"? Or rather, does it hate its peers and would like to eradicate them and be surrounded only by lesser beings that serve it? Is the cat's problem really self hatred, or rather narcissism and envy?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 10:12 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM
I can take the heat. She's the one who made it political. She also won't have the chance to turn down the invite since she failed to win gold.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 10:12 AM (+1EJs)
There's a guy from New Zealand competing at the Olympics this year in cross country skiing. He had never even seen snow up until a year or so ago when he started training.
He also competed at Rio in judo or one of the martial arts and says that he is going to try to make the next summer Olympics in a water sport TBD.
He knows he has no shot at a medal, he just wants to be there and compete.
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I'm not sure this is ideal either. Should every country be allowed to compete in every event? There should be some athletic standards - best of the best and all.
But who cares at this point - judging by the ratings, few.
This is the least amount of an Olympics that I have ever watched.
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 10:13 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Maddogg at February 21, 2018 10:13 AM (9Vruh)
Posted by: Jackson Galaxy at February 21, 2018 10:13 AM (hqZPQ)
Posted by: booknlass at February 21, 2018 10:14 AM (xGMkv)
I don't know why the Olympics continues to add more of these type of events.
In my opinion, if we have to vote on who won, it's not actually a sport.
And for God's sake why would you need to add "Style points" to things like ski jumping? Can't you just see who can jump the farthest?
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (bLYYT)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (H0hPC)
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM (e8kgV)
It's sad that the only thing that surprised me about your comment is that there is such a thing as a Dutch-based Christian charity.
I guess it consists of the last 10 remaining Dutch Christians.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (ZM2xo)
He'll be feline fine when he's back on his feet.
Posted by: Fritz at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (2Mnv1)
A Facebook friend complained the US hockey looked like it wasn't even trying when they had the power play 4 on 3 for forty seconds, not even a shot off.
idk, I'm not watching ... anything good gets infiltrated by commies/Soros/leftists ... can't have anything bringing America together.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: DaveA at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (KP5rU)
cross country skiing. He had never even seen snow up until a year or so
ago when he started training.
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I'm not sure this is ideal either. Should every country be allowed to
compete in every event? There should be some athletic standards - best
of the best and all.
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That's interesting because I'm guessing there is some sort of set requirement or standard of winning for getting in. It's pretty impressive that a guy could start training and meet Olympic level requirements in a year.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (ks6bw)
Let's say that a cat really dislikes other cats: hisses at them, raises its fur, etc. But the cat loves the humans that serve it.
Would you call such a cat "self hating"? Or rather, does it hate its peers and would like to eradicate them and be surrounded only by lesser beings that serve it? Is the cat's problem really self hatred, or rather narcissism and envy?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 10:12 AM (/qEW2)
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That behavior is seen in some more primative dog breeds, Alaskan Malamutes in particular. I don't think it's self hating as much as it doesn't view itself as a "dog". A cat with similar behavior might have a similar root. I've heard chimps and gorillas that learn sign language act similarly.
Posted by: Jackal at February 21, 2018 10:16 AM (CxtMa)
He also competed at Rio in judo or one of the martial arts and says that he is going to try to make the next summer Olympics in a water sport TBD.
He knows he has no shot at a medal, he just wants to be there and compete.
Posted by: JackStraw
Just like the female 2 person bobsled team from Jamaica.
They ran last night.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:17 AM (0PD0H)
But who cares at this point - judging by the ratings, few.
This is the least amount of an Olympics that I have ever watched.
Posted by: SH at February 21, 2018 10:13 AM (sX1BW)
He's not even competing for New Zealand. He's competing for Tonga.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 10:18 AM (CMbMd)
It is impossible for a cat to hate itself.
Each cat is a self-contained locus for the center of the universe (Betcha didn't know the universe had so many centers, huh?)
So for a cat to hate itself would be to deny the existence of the universe, which as we all can see, is pretty certain to exist.
Therefore, ipso facto, cat cannot hate itself.
Simple!
Posted by: Put that kid back where it came from or So Help Me at February 21, 2018 10:18 AM (HPNqc)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
If you are the only person representing your country, you're in.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:18 AM (0PD0H)
I've got a cat like that, and the only human it likes is me. After a few years she finally got to where she tolerates my wife as well, since that's where the food comes from most of the time.
most people who meet the cat just call her psychotic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:19 AM (k1TUh)
Would you call such a cat "self hating"? Or rather, does it hate its peers and would like to eradicate them and be surrounded only by lesser beings that serve it? Is the cat's problem really self hatred, or rather narcissism and envy?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 10:12 AM (/qEW2)
Maybe cats (and dogs) like that just don't want to share the human owner's largesse with other cats. No competition means more goodies for them.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 21, 2018 10:20 AM (7uYFy)
And that is why I need an AR 15.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:20 AM (I3+56)
Let's say that a cat really dislikes other cats: hisses at them, raises its fur, etc. But the cat loves the humans that serve it.
Would you call such a cat "self hating"? Or rather, does it hate its peers and would like to eradicate them and be surrounded only by lesser beings that serve it? Is the cat's problem really self hatred, or rather narcissism and envy?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018
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Miss Linda's little white shorthair, Annabelle, is like that. Fine with humans, hates and doesn't want to acknowledge other cats. Boy, did we have fun times when she lived with my two when we all had to evacuate for a hurricane in 2008.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 10:20 AM (ROcGq)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:18 AM (0PD0H)
Hence why you see people compete for their "heritage" countries instead of where they were from. Like the "Hungarian" Freestyle Skiier.
Who can't ski.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 10:20 AM (CMbMd)
So AA hits the olympics. They're part of the team mainly because of their skin color or pet perversions. This should be a cautionary tale about the monkeying around that's still going on in the military regarding physical standards.
Oh well, your team sucks but when you stand for a photograph, everyone can see what a diverse, motley crew you are, and that's the main thing.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 10:20 AM (/qEW2)
I don't think it matters any longer. The while point of the modern Olympics was changed forever when the Soviets and their satellites started sending professional athletes pretending to be amateurs and eventually the west followed suit.
It's now a hodge podge of pros and amateurs, mostly pros no matter what they call themselves, so if some Maori from New Zealand wants to train enough to meet the bare minimum requirements to compete in cross country skiing I'd just as soon watch him as a bunch of pros pretending they are amateurs.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 10:21 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:22 AM (I3+56)
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An American competing for Hungary got into the Ski half pipe by coming in the top 30 for a certain number of world championship races.
Except the races she competed in didn't even have 30 people competing. I saw a video of her half pipe event earlier, pathetic. She skis up one side and then the other, no tricks, barely any air.
But she's an Olympian!
Posted by: Adam Rippon at February 21, 2018 10:22 AM (SkuXa)
they should strap the boy with no arms and legs in for the sled competition. And be sure that he is named Bob.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:22 AM (k1TUh)
She's the one who made it political. She also won't have the chance to turn down the invite since she failed to win gold.
Were she invited, I would stand and cheer if she was awarded with the Double Acosta by PDJT. She begins pitching a bitchy fit and PDJT points at her and tells his staff, "Out!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 21, 2018 10:22 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 10:23 AM (2LelM)
I am a Lutheran who attended a Catholic college, married a Catholic and raised my children in both churches. I attended protestant, Chatholic and Jewish-led divinity services whenever I was deployed. I have an open heart to worship.
Having said that, I was a huge fan of Billy Graham. He was a scripture-based preacher who was filled with hope. I now he was the poster boy for televangelists, but he was unlike any other. His revivals in Madison Square Garden were amazing.
There are days when life wears me down. If I am unable to make it to church, I go onto youtube and play some of his inspirational sermons from the 1960s and 1970s. He was truly gifted and devoted to a Godly life.
He is in a better place today.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:24 AM (ATVNj)
"Officials overlooked Ross Miner who was the surprise runner up at Saturday's national championship in San Jose, CA"
And surprise surprise the SJW Rippon was placed on the team. Shocker!
Posted by: Timon at February 21, 2018 10:25 AM (NTM5E)
lindseeeeeee "brawney" vonn.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:25 AM (KP5rU)
It was never the same after the end of the predictable-but-still-amusing Soviet-era judges' vote-rigging against Western athletes, and the East German mutant-athletes.
Posted by: Zod at February 21, 2018 10:26 AM (Bdeb0)
"Maybe you should focus on the sport and not politic and Social Justice Whoring"
But then you wouldn't make the team because SJW is the selector that is first applied.
When you select first for ideological loyalty then you shrink the pool of excellence in what matters to win against those who don't do that. The Olympics is just a very visible part of what is being done across the board wherever the left holds sway in choosing who gets to play. Corporate HR departments deciding who get hired, college faculty deciding who gets into higher degree programs, etc.
Posted by: geoffb at February 21, 2018 10:26 AM (zOpu5)
The Dutch-based Christian charity Open Doors described the broad
daylight attack as being carried out by a group of Muslim Fulani who are
traditional cattle herdsmen. "One attack took place in broad daylight,
as people were about to go to church. The assailants chased and killed
the villagers and burned down nine churches and many more houses," their
spokesman added.
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 21, 2018 10:10 AM (e8kgV)
It's sad that the only thing that surprised me about your comment is
that there is such a thing as a Dutch-based Christian charity.
I guess it consists of the last 10 remaining Dutch Christians.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (ZM2xo)
I have two priests in our Parish who are from Nigeria. I hope their family, friends and Parishioners back home are OK.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:26 AM (jxbfJ)
Shame that others turned the Graham televangelist script into scams. He was truly all about evangilizing.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:26 AM (I3+56)
If you are the only person representing your country, you're in.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:18 AM (0PD0H)
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No, if it's this same guy, he had to race and qualify (businessinsder dot com):
"Taufatofua failed in three races on snow, but had
the race of his life in Iceland in late January to qualify for the
Olympics."
He had essentially never seen snow and became an Olympic level skiier in less than six months. That's badass.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:27 AM (ks6bw)
The East German women gave birth to the modern transgender movement without even realizing it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 10:27 AM (/tuJf)
they should strap the boy with no arms and legs in for the sled competition. And be sure that he is named Bob.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:22 AM (k1TUh)
hahahah.....fine i denounce myself too
Posted by: phoenixgirl now officially retired ...baseball can't get here soon enough at February 21, 2018 10:27 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 21, 2018 10:23 AM (2LelM)
They should go the way of the Worlds Fairs and Expos.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 10:27 AM (r9UYA)
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo
No arms and legs on dry land? That's his brother Matt.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (TAu/7)
Hoft seems to be butthurt because his speech was cancelled at CPAC.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 21, 2018 09:51 AM (r9UYA)
If intentional, nice work!
Posted by: WeBoned! at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (EfEQe)
Woohoo !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (H0hPC)
It's sad that the world has lost Billy Graham.
I am a Lutheran who attended a Catholic college, married a Catholic
and raised my children in both churches. I attended protestant,
Chatholic and Jewish-led divinity services whenever I was deployed. I
have an open heart to worship.
Having said that, I was a huge fan of Billy Graham. He was a
scripture-based preacher who was filled with hope. I now he was the
poster boy for televangelists, but he was unlike any other. His
revivals in Madison Square Garden were amazing.
There are days when life wears me down. If I am unable to make it
to church, I go onto youtube and play some of his inspirational sermons
from the 1960s and 1970s. He was truly gifted and devoted to a Godly
life.
He is in a better place today.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:24 AM (ATVNj)
And with his passing, the world is a poorer place without him.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Quint, Amity Gazette art critic at February 21, 2018 10:29 AM (ctuyM)
they should strap the boy with no arms and legs in for the sled competition. And be sure that he is named Bob.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo
No arms and legs on dry land? That's his brother Matt.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (TAu/7)
No arms and legs on water? Let me introduce you to Skip.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:29 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (bLYYT)
I said the exact same thing to my wife. Instead of competing only to see who can display the greatest skill, you now have to have jazz hands or something to win. It's beyond stupid.
Posted by: physics geek at February 21, 2018 10:30 AM (huQJB)
after he flubbered the opening.
So of course, the top 3 were not at the Olympics.
Worked out about as well as the US Navy in the Pacific over the past year or so...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:31 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 10:31 AM (5NMZN)
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All of the faux deification of these athletes as heroes. And the back stories are nauseating. As if no one else in the world has a tough life.
You know who the real heroes are? The firefighters and policemen who save lives; the laborers and farmers who make an honest living sacrificing their bodies to put food on the table for their families; the professionals who bettered themselves through education and discipline.
They all do it with their own back stories of suffering and pain and loss. They are the real heroes.
They (we) don't need to hear about how hard life is for these Olympic athletes. We already know.
We want these athletes to win and succeed and triumph -- not bitch and moan and pontificate.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: Puddin Head"
They should have it in the same host city very year to reduce some of the hype and enormous financial burden, which usually leaves a mountain of debt and huge, un-needed venues. Summer Olympics in Greece, winter Olympics in Norway, maybe Sweden. Or rotate between a handful of countries. Take some of the power from the IOG which spend most of it's time traveling
around the world in luxury having politicians kiss their ass with taxpayer money.
Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (7LY+6)
and then the US said "hey, sure, we've got a lot of skandis here, so what the heck lets go for it."
I suppose the figure skaters appeal to that demographic that pays money to go see the Ice Capades. I never could figure those people out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (SjImc)
And for God's sake why would you need to add "Style points" to things
like ski jumping? Can't you just see who can jump the farthest?
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 21, 2018 10:15 AM (bLYYT)
I said the exact same thing to my wife. Instead of competing only to
see who can display the greatest skill, you now have to have jazz hands
or something to win. It's beyond stupid.
Posted by: physics geek at February 21, 2018 10:30 AM (huQJB)
So Gus Kenworthy, who recently announced to the world he is gay, could get style points for fellating his pole?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 10:33 AM (ks6bw)
Summer Olympics in
Greece, winter Olympics in Norway, maybe Sweden...
Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2018 10:32 AM (MxEKc)
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I proposed Berlin (Germania) for the summer games years ago.
Posted by: A. Hitler - kuntsler at February 21, 2018 10:34 AM (5NMZN)
What killed them was that they were massive money pits. The Olympics are the same thing and they're heading that way.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 10:34 AM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: phoenixgirl now officially retired ...baseball can't get here soon enough at February 21, 2018 10:34 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:35 AM (KP5rU)
they should strap the boy with no arms and legs in for the sled competition. And be sure that he is named Bob.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo
No arms and legs on dry land? That's his brother Matt.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM
No arms and legs on water? Let me introduce you to Skip.
No arms and legs in the Hipster Gallery? That's Art.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:35 AM (k1TUh)
Maybe the Team USA was too busy being screwed and buggered to properly prepare for the Games.
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 10:31 AM (5NMZN)
They were all given 37 condoms per competitor. When would they find time to compete (competitively)?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:35 AM (jxbfJ)
________________________________________
Those were for the balloon drop at the closing ceremonies.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:37 AM (ATVNj)
under a pile of leaves? russell
Posted by: phoenixgirl now officially retired ...baseball can't get here soon enough at February 21, 2018 10:34 AM (0O7c5)
On a ball field? Chuck.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:38 AM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:37 AM
Shit.
Posted by: Lindseee Vonn Gold Cockholster Extrodinare at February 21, 2018 10:38 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: physics geek at February 21, 2018 10:30 AM (huQJB)
The '22 Winter Olympics will no longer pass out gold, silver and bronze medals. It will now be Winner, First Runner Up and Miss Congeniality.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at February 21, 2018 10:39 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:39 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2018 10:40 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:40 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Rick Tempest at February 21, 2018 10:40 AM (JkygK)
Yay, NZ. Where north-islanders despise south-islanders and never go there.
Posted by: cheech marin at February 21, 2018 10:42 AM (6FqZa)
Posted by: PugBot Mahon at February 21, 2018 10:42 AM (xPJvm)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 21, 2018 10:42 AM (6FqZa)
Some parts of San Francisco, because of human feces being left on the streets along with needles, are now dirtier than parts of Brazil or Kenya. And SF's answer on doing something about this? Raise taxes. So the U-Haul place still has difficulty meeting outflow demands because so many of its trucks are one way trips. Escape from San Francisco indeed.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7wjfmyn
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 10:43 AM (TpgyH)
The Oxford report claimed that the cost overruns ran approx 720 percent.
Imagine that in the real world...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:43 AM (7LY+6)
The Oxford report claimed that the cost overruns ran approx 720 percent.
Imagine that in the real world...
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Ahem!
Posted by: Boston's Big Dig at February 21, 2018 10:44 AM (ATVNj)
No, it's going to be held at Mt. Ranier, just outside of Seattle, and the prizes are going to be Tall, Grande, and Venti.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: mindful webworker - chiming in from the comfy chair over in the corner at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (xzezz)
Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (w/mxD)
Re: condoms and Olympics - I've had the same thoughts - are you going there to compete or are you going there to get ass? I guess we know the answer to that.
Re: Olympic venues - yep, they should always be held in the same place each year. They are usually a net loss for the sponsor city and then these usually hideous buildings are left to rot and decay or the host city thinks they can bilk tourists for money from it.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (vg8iE)
I said the exact same thing to my wife. Instead of competing only to see
who can display the greatest skill, you now have to have jazz hands or
something to win. It's beyond stupid.
I call them the hipster douchebag sports. Notice that they are the ones where the US has won most of their medals.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (O5Q3r)
Hopefully Texas is turning them back at the border. Or directing them to Portland, Oregon.
Posted by: Ripley at February 21, 2018 10:45 AM (MxEKc)
That's also Zoidberg's National Anthem.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 21, 2018 10:46 AM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:47 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Archer at February 21, 2018 10:48 AM (gbWkA)
some may care about ratings, but for the Soros types, DESTROY anything good and just is the mission. The want the conflict/chaos, nothing that might unify.
The whole Marxist/Soviet/PC Naked Communist thing was about breaking apart America, so they will suffer the ratings hit as part of The Plan.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 21, 2018 10:48 AM (bT8Z4)
Posted by: Grumpy Cat at February 21, 2018 10:49 AM (lkYi7)
Always. Every single summer and winter games since 1960 (start of the OOR).
Yet city fathers continue to salivate...
Chicago is OUT?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:49 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:49 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 21, 2018 10:50 AM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at February 21, 2018 10:50 AM (LQLeS)
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Willowed from last thread
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R.I.P. Billy
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 09:25 AM (y3aQB)
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Amen
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 10:51 AM (71o8T)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 21, 2018 10:51 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 21, 2018 10:35 AM (jxbfJ)
Condoms? That defeats the purpose of the whole poop fetish thing.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 10:51 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: The boys at Cheers at February 21, 2018 10:51 AM (LQLeS)
So you are saying its like the US in reverse?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 10:51 AM (/tuJf)
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My cats are full sisters - never been apart a day in their lives (maybe that's the problem!) and they cannot stand each other.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 10:52 AM (vg8iE)
Was there a massive thunderstorm between 3 and 4 am north of Houston? There was an enormous peal of thunder here at 3:30.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2018 10:52 AM (rp9xB)
The Oxford report claimed that the cost overruns ran approx 720 percent.
Imagine that in the real world...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February t21, 2018 10:43 AM (7LY+6)
I do have to give Romney credit for the job he did.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:52 AM (I3+56)
And they will be buying their own ticket home if they don't hold up their ski or helmet or whatever it is they have that carries the sponsor's name.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (0tfLf)
Some parts of San Francisco, because of human feces being left on the streets along with needles, are now dirtier than parts of Brazil or Kenya..
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7wjfmyn
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 10:43 AM (TpgyH)
Last week I had to be in NYC early in the am on a Saturday. The streets were so covered with trash, it was shocking. I wasn't in a bad neighborhood; I was in Times Square and the theater district. I have to wonder what kind of animals raised the people who leave such filth in the streets. I don't remember NYC being this dirty, even back in the 1970's & 1980's, before Giuliani cleaned it up.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (SGpFT)
Man those cats were fast as lightening
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (UXr0T)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (70cRb)
Kitteh Isis has found one hiding spot between moving boxes that is very hard for me to get to. She'll just look at me very calmly as I struggle to reach her. After giving up and about ten minutes later she does the whole 12th Iman thing, comes to find me, and then looks at me innocently wanting to be petted.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 10:54 AM (TpgyH)
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 21, 2018 10:53 AM (SGpFT)
Even Dinkins was more competent that DeCOmmio. Sigh
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:54 AM (SjImc)
Indeed there was. Woke us all up...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (MWX7h)
Imagine that in the real world...
Hold my beer.
Posted by: California High Speed Rail at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (Boy/L)
That observation goes nicely with the story today of the retired NYC Sanitation workers $285,000 yearly pension.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (I3+56)
And they will be buying their own ticket home if they don't hold up their ski or helmet or whatever it is they have that carries the sponsor's name.
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There's some rickety late night program here - I don't know if it's only local or if it's nationally syndicated (it's on the WB here and is hosted by some very attractive black woman). Anyway, I saw a commercial for it last night - their story?
How these poor Olympic athletes don't have any money, can barely make ends meet.
My thoughts?
1. Too bad, so sad. Then get a job. You want to pursue your "dreams?" Fine. But life isn't about having cake and eating it too. There are consequences to each and every decision you make.
2. I imagine those who get endorsements don't have money problems.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 10:57 AM (TpgyH)
That observation goes nicely with the story today of the retired NYC Sanitation workers $285,000 yearly pension.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (I3+56)
Shouldn't be more than $28,500.
Don't care that it's NYC.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 10:57 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 21, 2018 10:57 AM (fuK7c)
My father Billy Graham was once asked, "Where is Heaven?" He replied, "Heaven is where Jesus is and I am going to Him soon!" This morning, at the age of 99, he departed this world into eternal life in Heaven, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ - the Savior of the world - whom he proclaimed for nearly 80 years. He will be missed by our family, his colleagues, faithful ministry partners, and, yes, many around the world. But what joy he has to be welcomed by God the Father, and be reunited with my mother in the presence of Jesus who speaks peace to eternal souls.
What about you? When you depart this world do you know with certainty where you will spend eternity? You can know this today. Jesus said, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). The One who comforts weary souls has given us this promise, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me ... I go to prepare a place for you ... I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also" (John 14:1-3).
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 21, 2018 10:58 AM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 21, 2018 10:59 AM (nTIWK)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (I3+56)
I read that. As far as I can see the Sanitation worker did nothing wrong. Just took advantage of a bad system and law. Typical of what democratic/union heavy sities have done and do. But the worker, played by the rules. And good on him
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:59 AM (SjImc)
Hilarious.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/20/joy-reid-russian-trolls/
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 21, 2018 10:59 AM (398bZ)
I heard he fell into a hole. Or was that his brother Phil?
Posted by: This... Is CNN at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (7oUUT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Tofer732 at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (5M4cQ)
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 21, 2018 10:53
The Seattle media last week have a report on how "great" and "clean" the new "Safe Injection Sites" are.
Gawd!
But on the upside, the sugar tax has killed the soda sales in the city so we can be thankful for that. "Yeah, they are junkies, but their teeth look great!"
Posted by: Diogenes at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (0tfLf)
That observation goes nicely with the story today of the retired NYC Sanitation workers $285,000 yearly pension.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 10:55 AM (I3+56)
For that kind of money, the streets of NYC should sparkle and be pristine. Must be a nice, no-show job.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (SGpFT)
FTFY
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 11:01 AM (Boy/L)
It's getting awfully close...
Sad to say.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 11:01 AM (7LY+6)
I heard he fell into a hole. Or was that his brother Phil?
Posted by: This... Is CNN at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (7oUUT)
In hole? Doug.
In a pile of leaves? Russel.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 11:01 AM (NWiLs)
Olympic Stadium's turf did a number on Andre Dawson's knees, though.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 21, 2018 11:02 AM (Boy/L)
I heard he fell into a hole. Or was that his brother Phil?
Posted by: This... Is CNN at February 21, 2018 11:00 AM (7oUUT)
In hole? Doug.
In a pile of leaves? Russel.
Hey!!!
Posted by: Neal at February 21, 2018 11:02 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 11:02 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:02 AM (CMbMd)
That's not fishing, that's catching.
Posted by: Tovarich Trollski: Russian "Internet Specialist" at February 21, 2018 11:03 AM (O5Q3r)
230
they should strap the boy with no arms and legs in for the sled competition. And be sure that he is named Bob.
I denounce myself.
Posted by: Tom Servo
No arms and legs on dry land? That's his brother Matt.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 21, 2018 10:28 AM (TAu/7)
No arms and legs on water? Let me introduce you to Skip.
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Nah, he got body slammed into the wall, his name is Art.
Posted by: Gronk at February 21, 2018 11:03 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 11:03 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:02 AM (CMbMd)
The electoral make up of NYC is hopeless
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:03 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 11:04 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 21, 2018 11:04 AM (nTIWK)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 11:05 AM (TpgyH)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at February 21, 2018 11:05 AM (ABuva)
The electoral make up of NYC is hopeless
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:03 AM (SjImc)
Dishonorable mention to one Carlos Danger.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:05 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: WisRich at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at February 21, 2018 11:05 AM (ABuva)
Most hockey teams would have some.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (NWiLs)
It's getting awfully close...
Sad to say.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 11:01 AM (7LY+6)
Remember they use to shoot dystopian movies in the South Bronx. My Mother cried when she went back to visit her old Apartment building, and her Catholic school was surrounded by a double fence of Razor wire.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (dKiJG)
I didn't want to get involved but I felt bad for her so I asked what was the matter. She said, in my entire life I've never been hugged by a man. Would you give me a hug?
I really didn't want to get involved but again, I felt bad for her so I bent down and took her in my arms and gave her a hug.
But she was still crying. So I asked, why are you still crying? She looked at me and said, that was a nice hug but it just reminded me I've never been kissed. Would you kiss me?
No I was getting really mad but once again my better angel took over and I gave her a deep and long kiss.
I was sure that would be the end of it but no, she was still sobbing. Frustrated, I asked, now what is wrong? She answered, your kiss made me realize I've never been screwed by a man in my entire life.
So I picked her up and threw her in the ocean and said, there, now you're screwed!
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 11:07 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 10:49 AM (SjImc)
It is impressive the way the pound on the ice from underneath and blow bubbles, all in unison.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at February 21, 2018 11:07 AM (tMFgx)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at February 21, 2018 11:05 AM (TpgyH)
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Isn't that just Seattle?
Posted by: RioBravo at February 21, 2018 11:07 AM (5NMZN)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 21, 2018 11:06 AM (/qEW2)
"I represent the
A-Yup.
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:07 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: PugBot Mahon at February 21, 2018 11:08 AM (xPJvm)
I remember when we all walked out of class in high school. It was so we could wear jeans.
We won too.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 11:08 AM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at February 21, 2018 11:07 AM (tMFgx)
Yup, but the ones with small lungs tend to drop off after a bit
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:08 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (nTIWK)
Yes the SJW's are annoying as all get out. And yes, I could not root for them which I feel a bit of guilt about. BUT the majority of the athletes are there to compete and are proud to do so. Maybe I am the exception to the rule here. I love the winter Olympics.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (+1EJs)
And being guarded by hundreds of uniformed and undercovered armed police and security forces. LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (SjImc)
The families of the 11 workers killed during construction were given free tickets to the games...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at February 21, 2018
*
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I got really lucky then. I thought my two would have to be separated. But they walked warily around each other and sniffed. In an *hour* I found them, two altered males, sitting in the window together watching birds.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (ROcGq)
If you look at the scam they pulled to get to that figure you may question if he is just going with the flow.
The pension amount is based on the last year salary plus another calculation. What they do is require the newbies to call in sick and give the shift to the about to be retired worker.
I dont think that was the intention of the plan.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (I3+56)
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 11:09 AM (+1EJs)
Your a romantic...we need some of you to keep hope alive
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at February 21, 2018
LOL.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 21, 2018 11:11 AM (tVWQB)
LOL!
Ok sure I've got sympathy for the survivors, but I'm 29 and that means I've matured enough.
When I was a wee lad in school? I didn't give a serious shit about much. Everyone I knew was pretty much the same, and you can bet your ass we took advantage of any opportunity to walk out of school.
This is a big nothingburger outside of the fact that it's obvious this whole thing is being run by the usual Lefty goon groups.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 21, 2018 11:11 AM (4ErVI)
Like Schtudents don't require any kind of an excuse to walk out of school....
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 21, 2018 11:12 AM (tVWQB)
I dont think that was the intention of the plan.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 21, 2018 11:10 AM (I3+56)
This particular worker contributed extra to his pension for years, in full compliance with the then law, to boost his pension. And he worked there for ever.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 21, 2018 11:12 AM (SjImc)
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 21, 2018 11:13 AM (MIKMs)
Posted by: gNewt at February 21, 2018 11:14 AM (71o8T)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 09:57 AM (7LY+6)
Was there a massive thunderstorm between 3 and 4 am north of Houston? There was an enormous peal of thunder here at 3:30.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2018 10:52 AM (rp9xB)
**********************************************************I live in Copperfield and the darned thing woke me out of a sound sleep and set my truck alarm off.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at February 21, 2018 11:15 AM (JNTt1)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 21, 2018 09:33 AM (RD7QR)
No actual slapping as they were busy adjusting man buns and sipping lattes.
You comedians forget his most famous work:
Still Life with Bumfight.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at February 21, 2018 11:15 AM (DXfIG)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at February 21, 2018 11:11 AM (tVWQB)
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She's a budding 'ette.
Posted by: Jackal at February 21, 2018 11:16 AM (CxtMa)
Maybe Frans was drunk when he titled it.
"I don't see the cats actually moving, so it must be a still life *hic*"
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at February 21, 2018 11:16 AM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at February 21, 2018 11:15 AM (DXfIG)
"An Evening with Kimbo Slice".
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:17 AM (CMbMd)
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They'd walk out to protest the absence of homework.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 11:17 AM (+y/Ru)
Don't you have a post by a gorilla to be translating? I'm running out of my "goof off" time.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2018 11:18 AM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 11:18 AM (gC2IV)
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They'd walk out to protest the absence of homework.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 11:17 AM (+y/Ru)
CNN : "Schtudents demand Obama be re-installed as Ruler-For-Life!"
Posted by: Hikaru at February 21, 2018 11:18 AM (CMbMd)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at February 21, 2018 11:19 AM (7LY+6)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 21, 2018 11:19 AM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 21, 2018 11:19 AM (rp9xB)
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Global Rethinker at February 21, 2018 11:15 AM (DXfIG)
The light shining through the discarded bottle of Colt 45 was such a tasteful touch.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at February 21, 2018 11:20 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at February 21, 2018 11:20 AM (RD7QR)
And it sounds like I had the norovirus. Several other people at the dinner party I was at on Sunday came down with it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 21, 2018 11:20 AM (Dbv1R)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at February 21, 2018 11:21 AM (xzqr4)
Posted by: Lindsey Vonn at February 21, 2018 11:21 AM (398bZ)
Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at February 21, 2018 11:21 AM (7oUUT)
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It's so immature and stupid. Of a kind with no nukes and ban guns. War and murder are bad, mmmmkay, so we'll just not have any. Works for cancer, too. Cancer is bad, mmmmkay, so we just won't have any.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 21, 2018 11:22 AM (+y/Ru)
I'm not terribly happy about the way my visceral reaction to SJ posing makes me unable to enjoy so many things that I used to like.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 21, 2018 11:22 AM (H0hPC)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 21, 2018 11:18 AM
One of the two is from MN (Jesse Diggins) and she's cute as hell! And as far as I know hasn't taken any SJW stances!
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 11:24 AM (+1EJs)
>>It was never the same after the end of the
predictable-but-still-amusing Soviet-era judges' vote-rigging against
Western athletes, and the East German mutant-athletes.
The East German women gave birth to the modern transgender movement wi9hout even realizing it.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 21, 2018 10:27 AM (/tuJf)
I loved that stuff.
Old School Juding of Adam Rippon on a scale of one to sixCanda- 5.8
US 9!!!!
France 4.8
China .05
USSR- 0
Like friggin clockwork. I miss the good old days. Remember when they had boxing at the Olympics. The judging there was the best.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 21, 2018 11:25 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Archer at February 21, 2018 11:26 AM (gbWkA)
I'm not terribly happy about the way my visceral reaction to SJ posing makes me unable to enjoy so many things that I used to like.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 21, 2018
I try to not lump all the athletes in one basket. Not all of them are SJW's. I'll root for those who aren't.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 21, 2018 11:26 AM (+1EJs)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 21, 2018 11:27 AM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 11:28 AM (ks6bw)
Skepticism fails. I say that as a person committed to analysis by Skepticism. I've long know that a policy of doubting first would lead us to doubt that such a policy yields anything--because first we doubt anything.
But I just realized that a universal policy of skepticism question of whether we even have the faculties for skepticism. Whether what we call a "doubt" is indeed anything like a "doubt" would be. I guess I didn't realize that skepticism is the very engine of nihilism.
As I have a strong impression that the above means something (and really a pleasant feeling--and no reason to not engage--if it cannot), I chose the empirical experience that I can recognize as a refutation by contradiction. Skepticism is generally useful, it is just not universally useful.
Of course, this is probably just a modern tracing and filling of Thomas Bayes skeptical case for faith.
Yet, it remains doubt is not universally prescribable, and like all questions of prescription need to be answered by the subjective question "What do we gain?" It's clear what we gain by a special application of doubt: we gain to some degree a tested and weathered--perhaps more robust--statement that hopefully conflates less than it otherwise might. But again, to say that anything is gain, is to not doubt it is gain and to implicitly trust in the subjective act of weighing.
Posted by: Axebot at February 21, 2018 11:31 AM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Blacks and Hispanics are beating up LGBTs in record numbers and it's Trumps fault!!!! at February 21, 2018 11:33 AM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Quirky bookworm at February 21, 2018 11:37 AM (gppsv)
Posted by: Rodney B Smith at February 21, 2018 12:01 PM (oJ6hK)
I homeschooled my kid to avoid many downsides of high-school. The march through the institutions had been well underway, he got exposure to ideas he would have been carefully shielded. One advantage was that air and freedom in plenty, led to less resentment of hours spent in study. There was a lot less wasted time - gathering and sitting and coming to order and getting from class to class are time sucks. The best advantage was no lord of the flies group dynamics egged on by foolish adults with their own agendas.
When I was six our first grade teacher made us all write a letter to Ho Chi Minh pleading for release of POWs. I don't know if my reaction was typical but I had a clear sense of being used and I resented it. I knew I didn't know anything about the matter and that adults were expecting my "kidhood" to make adults weepy and interested. Nothing against Paul Galanti but I knew it was over my head and that adults were using me.
Posted by: SarahW at February 21, 2018 12:19 PM (Sp1NT)
Kitties are the clawest, squirrels fly from the trees.
... Geddy Shoots and Leaves.
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Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)