EMT 5/12/18

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Posted by: krakatoa at 06:00 AM

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1 Good Morning Morons; today is Saturday, May 12, 2018. On this day in 1846 the Donner Party of pioneers departed Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and and very limited cannibalism by some of the party on already dead bodies. This action has been sensationalized to the max. It was nowhere near as bad as it has been made out to be.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:52 AM (mpXpK)

2 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 05:52 AM (aC6Sd)

3 Here we go again. Bribes for the Norks if they give up nuclear weapons. When will US politicians ever learn?

http://tinyurl.com/y8rtj2zs

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:52 AM (mpXpK)

4 Madmaxine Big Hair is on another big mouth roll. She doesn't like the slogan 'Make America great Again'. I say tough shit you loudmouth freak.

http://tinyurl.com/ybcdjeka

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

5 Yes Coral Snakes are poison and yes, they do look somewhat like a variety of king snake. But don't attempt to find out the hard way. Here we have man in AL dying because he didn't.

http://tinyurl.com/ybgpnquw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

6 Morning, Horde.

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (cHbmY)

7 And just for edification here are some pics:

Coral Snake has a pic with the article.

Here is a King Snake. There are various varieties but this is the one that looks like a coral snake. Notice that the nose stars out red and not black. That is the dead give-away. So remember the old slogan; if the nose is black get back. As for me I would not mess with either one although king snakes are harmless.

http://tinyurl.com/ya2omm7c

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

8 Evidently there are a lot of people in CA who are tired of the communists who have ran the State for decades.

http://tinyurl.com/yclj8232

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

9 Another Republican traitor to the second amendment. The OK legislature passed a new gun carry bill. The so-called Republican gov vetoed it.

http://tinyurl.com/yalchlsm

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

10 Kelly says he reads BB every morning before he starts his day.

http://tinyurl.com/y8qo6an2

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

11 A few black activists succeeded in pressuring the spineless idiots who run Reed College in OR in removing white people from their humanities course. Now they want all the old Greek and Roman people removed too. As I have said in the past, you can never satisfy these racists idiots.

http://tinyurl.com/y8dw9roz

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:54 AM (mpXpK)

12 Spanish Grand Prix qualifying is on ESPN2 at 8:55, At 7am they are replaying the Azerbaijan Grand Prix which was a very entertaining race.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 05:54 AM (aC6Sd)

13 Remember those Disney Workers who were forced to train cheap foreign labor to replace them? Well they have been fighting this in court. Now they are giving up. Disney owns the courts too.

http://tinyurl.com/y7b6el35

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

14 Colbert is on another stupid expedition. He should get together with Madmaxine.

http://tinyurl.com/yb63yvfx

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

15 The RNCe was a big loser in the WV primary so Bitch McConnell can eat it. The good guy won the primary with 100% reporting in.

http://tinyurl.com/ybf2p563

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

16 G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at May 12, 2018 05:55 AM (BU61H)

17 The California Assembly discussed Thursday a bill that would replace Abraham Lincoln or George Washington's birthday with International Socialist Workers' Day as a paid holiday.

The State really is insane. But I have some news for them. President's day is a federal holiday.

http://tinyurl.com/y9622wpn

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

18 And speaking of communists, the NRA is suing gun-grabber Cuomo.

http://tinyurl.com/ybzwf9vf

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

19 Ramirez (repeat)

http://tinyurl.com/ycsemf35

And that's it for today. And as a footnote; temps peaked out here yesterday at 103F. Unbelievable for May.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

20 http://6abc.com/nurse-charged-following-death-of-hr-mcmasters-father/3455055/
Posted this story when it happened

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 05:58 AM (aC6Sd)

21 Vic that 103 degree day you will remember when at end of year the media will tell you 'It was the hottest year EVER'

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:01 AM (aC6Sd)

22 John McCain is the single greatest political leader of our time - Dana Milbank, Washington Post

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for those who did not wish to keep their breakfasts down

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2018 06:03 AM (vChNs)

23 21
Vic that 103 degree day you will remember when at end of year the media will tell you 'It was the hottest year EVER'

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:01 AM (aC6Sd)

My response would be that the month of April here at the same location was the coldest April that we have has since I began keeping records in 2008.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

24 "limited cannibalism"

I heard a couple songs on college radio, but I hear they were fantastic live.

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:06 AM (cHbmY)

25 http://tinyurl.com/ybgpnquw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

Red next to black, friend of Jack.
Red next to yellow, kill a fellow.

Mnemonics work.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:06 AM (89MSv)

26 And that's a whole month, not just a single day

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:07 AM (mpXpK)

27
And that's it for today. And as a footnote; temps peaked out here yesterday at 103F. Unbelievable for May.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

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The Sky Is Burning!!!

Posted by: Al Gore at May 12, 2018 06:07 AM (vChNs)

28 Thanks, krak! Coulda been a contendah, here, but was reading the post.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:08 AM (0bRDi)

29 >>> My response would be that the month of April here at the same location was the coldest April that we have has since I began keeping records in 2008.

Next week the NOAA will announce it as the warmest March on record.

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:09 AM (cHbmY)

30 4 Madmaxine Big Hair is on another big mouth roll. She doesn't like the slogan 'Make America great Again'. I say tough shit you loudmouth freak.

http://tinyurl.com/ybcdjeka
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

PDT has announced he'll be changing the slogan to "Keep America Great."

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:10 AM (0bRDi)

31 Red next to yellow, kill a fellow.
Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:06 AM (89MSv)

Yup. Dangerous coral snakes have red and yellow bands next to each other. Safe king snakes have black bands between the colored ones.

That way you don't have to see the business end of the snake to know if it's the right kind or not.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 06:11 AM (JGBbg)

32 I'm very disappointed in all of y'all for never recommending the movie Hobo With A Shotgun to me.

Posted by: Monk at May 12, 2018 06:12 AM (8SG/h)

33 Also be aware that Coral Snakes are more poisonous than rattlesnakes. Most people survive a rattlesnake bite, most people die from a coral snake.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:14 AM (mpXpK)

34 Vic,

When I was a kid in Calif, we got both Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's birthday off from school. State holidays.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2018 06:15 AM (ii30j)

35 Yup. Dangerous coral snakes have red and yellow bands next to each other. Safe king snakes have black bands between the colored ones.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 06:11 AM (JGBbg)

Animal mimicry at its finest.

I guess they don't teach that stuff anymore. Wrong kind of 'science', I bet.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:16 AM (89MSv)

36 34
Vic,

When I was a kid in Calif, we got both Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's birthday off from school. State holidays.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2018 06:15 AM (ii30j)

It used to be that way in the whole country. They combined the two so they could add another holiday w/o having the feds get even more time off. IIANM it was MLK day.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:17 AM (mpXpK)

37 Coral snakes live in Maxime's hair and what is left of her brain.

Posted by: saf at May 12, 2018 06:17 AM (5IHGB)

38 37
Coral snakes live in Maxime's hair and what is left of her brain.

Posted by: saf at May 12, 2018 06:17 AM (5IHGB)

I figure it was full of red wigglers just waiting for someone who needed fish bait.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:19 AM (mpXpK)

39 5 Yes Coral Snakes are poison and yes, they do look somewhat like a variety of king snake. But don't attempt to find out the hard way. Here we have man in AL dying because he didn't.

http://tinyurl.com/ybgpnquw
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

This is the kind of skill that you learn in Scouts.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:19 AM (0bRDi)

40 I heard a clip of Maxine Water's Hair speaking on the House floor yesterday. According to her, only black people in general, and black women in particular can understand or recognize the unspoken bigotry and racism that goes on in the new car showroom. Stupid scrunt.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:20 AM (2saZ/)

41 When I was a kid in Calif, we got both Washington's Birthday and Lincoln's birthday off from school. State holidays.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2018 06:15 AM (ii30j)

Growing up in Virginia, we'd get Lee-Jackson Day in January as a holiday. I gather it's still a holiday in Virginia.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:22 AM (89MSv)

43 {Wipes brow} Whew!!!!

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:23 AM (89MSv)

44 So my morning newspaper breathlessly reports that Trump knew about:
A New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was abusing women...

You had to read all the way to the bottom of the article to see it was long before Trump became President.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 06:26 AM (FMMBD)

45 44
So my morning newspaper breathlessly reports that Trump knew about:
A
New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael
Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman was abusing women...

You had to read all the way to the bottom of the article to see it was long before Trump became President.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 06:26 AM (FMMBD)

What I don't understand about that flap being ginned up by the MFM is so-what if he knew what a creep the guy was. They were not exactly friends from what I can find.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:27 AM (mpXpK)

46 44 So my morning newspaper breathlessly reports that Trump knew about:
A New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was abusing women...

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 06:26 AM (FMMBD)

And we all *really* want to encourage third parties--not the victim, not the perp--to inform on possible perps on the basis of rumor. Stasi-like.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:29 AM (0bRDi)

47 Coral Snakes are a close relative of Cobras. That's why they are so poisonous.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:29 AM (R5lpX)

48 What I don't understand about that flap being ginned up by the MFM is so-what if he knew what a creep the guy was. They were not exactly friends from what I can find.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:27 AM (mpXpK)

My sense is that they're damning PDT by association. "He knew" and didn't report.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:30 AM (0bRDi)

49 48 My sense is that they're damning PDT by association. "He knew" and didn't report.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:30 AM (0bRDi)

That is so stupid. The entire State "knew" already. But I guess the MFM figure most of the country don't know anything about NY politics so they brand Trump with it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (mpXpK)

50 What I don't understand about that flap being ginned up by the MFM is so-what if he knew what a creep the guy was. They were not exactly friends from what I can find.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:27 AM (mpXpK)

On top of that, at that time, what was Trump the real estate developer going to do? He wasn't a witness to anything.

Gawd, but I hate our media. After 8 years of giving blow jobs to Obama, it's now 'everything is Trump's fault eleven!!ty!!' mass hysteria.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (89MSv)

51 Just saw a great headline, but was disappointed by the story:

Maxine Waters explodes on the House floor

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (cHbmY)

52 Here we go again. Bribes for the Norks if they give up nuclear weapons. When will US politicians ever learn?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:52 AM

I see it as 'carrot and stick' approach. Conditional assistance. Most people will respond to that. The only other method is KITA - kick in the ass. Trump has shown we're more then prepared for that approach.

The secret to 'carrot and stick' is to keep the donkey constantly moving while the carrot is slightly out of reach. Over promise, under provide.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at May 12, 2018 06:33 AM (LOgQ4)

53 That is so stupid. The entire State "knew" already. But I guess the MFM figure most of the country don't know anything about NY politics so they brand Trump with it.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (mpXpK)

Agreed. It took about one day for the story to go from "Schneiderman did this" to "Trump knew Schneiderman did this."

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:33 AM (0bRDi)

54 It used to be that way in the whole country. They combined the two so they could add another holiday w/o having the feds get even more time off. IIANM it was MLK day.

Lincoln's birthday was never a federal holiday, though it was a holiday in many states.

Prezzie's Day was just part of a move to glue more Federal holidays to a weekend, rather than having a useless Tue/Wed/Thu off. Federal Holidays Act of 1971.

MLK Day started 12 years later in 1983, signed into racist law by one of those notoriously racist Republicans, Ronald Racist Reagan.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 06:34 AM (JGBbg)

55 51 Just saw a great headline, but was disappointed by the story:

Maxine Waters explodes on the House floor
Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (cHbmY)

Ha! Thanks for the i m a g e.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:34 AM (0bRDi)

56 Red next to black, friend of Jack.
Red next to yellow, kill a fellow.

Mnemonics work.
Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:06 AM (89MSv)

First thing that came to my mind when I saw the link!

Posted by: Derptastic at May 12, 2018 06:36 AM (DB16e)

57 Just saw a great headline, but was disappointed by the story:

Maxine Waters explodes on the House floor

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:32 AM (cHbmY)

Lots of great headlines could be written using:Hank Johnson tipped over on the House floorNancy Pelosi.........

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 06:36 AM (FMMBD)

58 Well, it's a done deal. Granddaughter is finally out of college and job hunting. Unfortunately, she and her boyfriend want to move to Oakland CA so she can persue her Masters at Berzerkely. Her grandmother tried talking her out of it and made gd mad.

So I gave it a shot. Told her about the damn junkies in SF shooting up and pissing and defecating on the sidewalks...her answer, Papa, we'll be living in Oakland. Her boyfriend's parents aren't happy about their big move either.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (R5lpX)

59 Maybe the coral snake identified as a king snake.
haters.

Posted by: Derptastic at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (DB16e)

60 Anyone know if Maxine Waters ever practiced law? If she did, I bet that was interesting.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (N3JsI)

61 On Twitter, on some websites, I've been getting a message that "our terms will change May 25th." Can someone chime in on what that means for us, and what we should do? Thanks.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:38 AM (0bRDi)

62 48 My sense is that they're damning PDT by association. "He knew" and didn't report.

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third hand information is never bogus. But why didn't the people up the food chain, closer to the source report?

and given the state of law enforcement, who's to say he didn't report and they ignored it.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 12, 2018 06:38 AM (vChNs)

63 So I gave it a shot. Told her about the damn junkies in SF shooting up and pissing and defecating on the sidewalks...her answer, Papa, we'll be living in Oakland. Her boyfriend's parents aren't happy about their big move either.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (R5lpX)

Ask her to google oakland shooting 2018.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 06:40 AM (0bRDi)

64 Luckily I have no Coral or Cobra snakes here, only Timber Rattlers, Water Moccasins and Cottonmouths.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:42 AM (aC6Sd)

65 >>> Told her about the damn junkies in SF shooting up and pissing and defecating on the sidewalks...her answer, Papa, we'll be living in Oakland.

Maybe offer airline tickets if she pays the hotel, with a stay of about 10 days. That might be long enough to see what a freak show Berkeley is.

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2018 06:42 AM (cHbmY)

66 Traveling man. I'm assuming the boyfriend has a job. If not, what are they going to live on? That area is insanely expensive. Step-daughter pays 3600.00/month in rent for a small home. Nothing is cheap.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at May 12, 2018 06:43 AM (N3JsI)

67 Traveling Man - the problem as I see it isn't the were to live, its the raving lunatic Master Degree in Leftism she will get.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:45 AM (aC6Sd)

68 Luckily I have no Coral or Cobra snakes here, only Timber Rattlers, Water Moccasins and Cottonmouths.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:42 AM (aC6Sd)

Water moccasins and cottonmouths are the same snake. You don't have copperheads?

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:45 AM (89MSv)

69 60
Anyone know if Maxine Waters ever practiced law? If she did, I bet that was interesting.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (N3JsI)

According to Wiki:
She worked in a garment factory and as a telephone operator before being hired as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program at Watts in 1966.[4] Waters later enrolled at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles), where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology.

IOW a nothing degree for a stupid bent.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:47 AM (mpXpK)

70 and given the state of law enforcement, who's to say he didn't report and they ignored it.

That would never happen.

Posted by: Florida Sheriff's Association at May 12, 2018 06:47 AM (JGBbg)

71 And that's it for today. And as a footnote; temps peaked out here yesterday at 103F. Unbelievable for May.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:56 AM (mpXpK)

Wow, 46F here this morning.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2018 06:47 AM (kiSdp)

72 Living in a Leftist hell hole might actually open eyes to it, totally wanting to get away or dive into it to make the world a bigger shit hole.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:47 AM (aC6Sd)

73 McStainsy has passed

Let the showering of "gifts" commence.

Just kidding , just practicing my eulogies.

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 06:48 AM (Ymy4N)

74 NEC, don't know if either one have jobs out there yet. His degree is in Agribusiness and hers is in Sociology. They won't be leaving until her lease is up in August, so we're hoping and praying that they both come to their senses.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:48 AM (R5lpX)

75 Yes Copperheads are in north eastern America

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:49 AM (aC6Sd)

76 Some idiot, probably Joy Behar, is going to say "he knew but didn't do anything about it because he abused Ivana." Bet on it.

Posted by: itsacookbook at May 12, 2018 06:50 AM (yPxXc)

77 Most people survive a rattlesnake bite, most people die from a coral snake.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:14 AM (mpXpK)

Thankfully we don't have either here in your favorite state.

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2018 06:50 AM (kiSdp)

78 So, has everyone figured out that the mole in Trump's campaign was Jeff Sessions.

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 06:51 AM (Ymy4N)

79 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 12, 2018 06:53 AM (KCxzN)

80 Here is a King Snake

I'm waiting

Posted by: SHEP at May 12, 2018 06:53 AM (Ymy4N)

81 Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (R5lpX)

Who is paying for her Master's?

Posted by: clutch at May 12, 2018 06:54 AM (kiSdp)

82 Why yes Agkistrodon piscivorus is Water Moccasins or else know as Cottonmouths.
Crotalus horridus is Latin name for Timber Rattlers
Agkistrodon contortrix is the Latin name for Copperheads.

Ok, I needed to refresh my memory on all this, high school was a long time ago and this is useful information.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:54 AM (aC6Sd)

83 FWIW, in my experience rattlesnakes and copperheads typically run off, unless they're trapped or pursued. Cotton mouths don't run off and will chase you. I hate snakes. The only good snakes are boots.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

84 Oops. Thought Maxine had a law degree. Thanks Vic.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (N3JsI)

85 " So, has everyone figured out that the mole in Trump's campaign was Jeff Sessions.

Posted by: REDACTED"

Well, that would certainly explain a lot of things ... including how he got Senate confirmation so easily.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at May 12, 2018 06:57 AM (BU61H)

86 That both will will be up to their eyes in life crunching debt is just a blind fact of life. Not totally unlike the Federal government.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:57 AM (aC6Sd)

87 Good morning Horde-lings....hope all are doing well.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 06:58 AM (bYltU)

88 83
FWIW, in my experience rattlesnakes and copperheads typically run off,
unless they're trapped or pursued. Cotton mouths don't run off and will
chase you. I hate snakes. The only good snakes are boots.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

I have had cotton mouths try to climb in a boat to get me.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:58 AM (mpXpK)

89 84 Barak has one too, though never proven he passed a test, wrote a paper or showed up in a class.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:59 AM (aC6Sd)

90 FWIW, in my experience rattlesnakes and copperheads typically run off, unless they're trapped or pursued. Cotton mouths don't run off and will chase you.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

Yep, cottonmouths are aggressive bastards. As for the coral snake, it's very shy and just wants to be left alone. You really have to piss of a coral snake for it to bite you. A

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:59 AM (89MSv)

91 Good Morning Morons; today is Saturday, May 12, 2018. On this day in
1846 the Donner Party of pioneers departed Independence, Missouri for
California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and and
very limited cannibalism by some of the party on already dead bodies.
This action has been sensationalized to the max. It was nowhere near as
bad as it has been made out to be.

It was the United flight of its day.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 12, 2018 06:59 AM (oVJmc)

92 5 Yes Coral Snakes are poison and yes, they do look somewhat like a variety of king snake. But don't attempt to find out the hard way. Here we have man in AL dying because he didn't.

http://tinyurl.com/ybgpnquw
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXp

red and yellow kill a fellow

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:00 AM (JFO2v)

93 So, has everyone figured out that the mole in Trump's campaign was Jeff Sessions.

Nothing would surprise me at this point. But you're gonna have to show your work.

BTW...Have you asked Jack Straw? Let us know how that goes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 07:01 AM (2saZ/)

94 @Clutch. I am assuming that she will. She had a couple of grants and scholarships to pay for Clemson, plus a student loan for the last year. She held down a full time job the whole time she was in college. Even though she supported Bernie Sanders, she's not a mooch, unlike a lot of his other supporters.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 07:01 AM (R5lpX)

95 I hate snakes. The only good snakes are boots.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

I grew up in southern NYS (Catskills) near the PA border.. They catch rattlers and milk them of venom. . I think some pharmaceutical companies buy it?

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (FMMBD)

96 89 been waiting 10 years for a Leftist to prove me wrong on that.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (aC6Sd)

97 Barak has one too, though never proven he passed a test, wrote a paper or showed up in a class.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:59 AM (aC6Sd)

I've always wanted to see someone make a humorous short of Barry as a defense lawyer. The jury would be out like a light after the first couple of ah's and um's. I can see it now: Barack Obama and Teleprompter for the Defense, your Honor.'

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (89MSv)

98 Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 07:01 AM (R5lpX)

I hope it works out for them. Nothing like learning a lesson the hard way.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (2saZ/)

99 89 84 Barak has one too, though never proven he passed a test, wrote a paper or showed up in a class.
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 06:59 AM (aC6Sd)

1 guy did claim he went to college with Bhussein. But why has no one from law school spoken up?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:04 AM (JFO2v)

100 They catch rattlers and milk them of venom. . I think some pharmaceutical companies buy it?

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (FMMBD)

Sure the pharmacos buy it. That's how you get anti-venom.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:05 AM (89MSv)

101 I want to identify as a sand crab and go here...

https://tinyurl.com/ycm38qyr

Posted by: f'd at May 12, 2018 07:05 AM (UdKB7)

102 95 I grew up in southern NYS (Catskills) near the PA
border.. They catch rattlers and milk them of venom. . I think some
pharmaceutical companies buy it?

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (FMMBD)

I had a guy who lived down the street from me where I grew up who used to do that. But he would have to take them to some place who did that for a living because they would not except raw venom from a civilian. He would get thew snake back afterwards and eat them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:05 AM (mpXpK)

103 Sessions was originally put in Trump's as a mole for the FBI/Cankles just to screw with the GOP primaries. They never thought Trump would win. Then the scam began evolving. Trump knows it Sessions. He tried to get him to quit. Anyone else would of quit but not Snoozy the mole.

Posted by: SHEP at May 12, 2018 07:06 AM (Ymy4N)

104 BTW he said "tastes like chicken".

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:07 AM (mpXpK)

105 But chickens aren't venomous

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 07:08 AM (aC6Sd)

106 Learning a lesson the hard way. Been there done that, have a whole collection of t-shirts. Our graduation present to her is to pay her student loan as long as we're able to. Thankfully it's only 10 grand.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 07:08 AM (R5lpX)

107 Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:03 AM (FMMBD)

They have a rattlesnake round up out in west Texas every year too. Guys in the rings handling snakes and booths where you can see snakes getting 'milked'. They have some pretty good snake eats, too. Fried, smoked, honey glazed...

I realize snakes have their place in the ecosystem, as well as on the table and in the cobblers shop, but it's not like they're irreplaceable in each of those applications.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 07:08 AM (2saZ/)

108 1 guy did claim he went to college with Bhussein. But why has no one from law school spoken up?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:04 AM (JFO2v)

No one at Columbia remembers Barry, not even the profs.

I think someone took his tests for him. After listening to him for eight long and dreary years, Barry is simply not bright enough to survive Columbia. Harvard, yes, Columbia, no. Speaks a lot about Harvard, too.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:09 AM (89MSv)

109 108 No one at Columbia remembers Barry, not even the profs.

Maybe they should look under B Hussein Soetoro

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:11 AM (JFO2v)

110 Baby copperheads are quick and vicious. I worry about them more than the adults.

Posted by: itsacookbook at May 12, 2018 07:12 AM (yPxXc)

111 Maybe they should look under B Hussein Soetoro

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:11 AM (JFO2v)

Well, you'd think someone would remember the 'student who became president'. I'm still waiting for Gerry Rivers to open that super-secret underground vault where all his records are buried.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:14 AM (89MSv)

112 College coffee shop statement:

"Joe Van Gogh has always been about bringing people together, not driving them apart. We are open to all people and we value people over our profits. "

If I go in somewhere and a rap "song" is on it's going to drive me out. It's a stupid business that does not value profit and they deserve to fail.

Posted by: f'd at May 12, 2018 07:16 AM (UdKB7)

113 One of my great mystery's is why I never read anyone ever say they went to school with Obama..Or played with him as a child.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:17 AM (FMMBD)

114 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:17 AM (EyPfd)

115 Baby copperheads are quick and vicious. I worry about them more than the adults.

Posted by: itsacookbook at May 12, 2018 07:12 AM (yPxXc)

All baby poisonous snakes are more deadly than adult ones. The babies haven't yet learned how to control the amount of venom they inject, going for the WOW! factor instead of keeping some venom in reserve. Plus, they come out of the nest quite hungry.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:17 AM (89MSv)

116 No comments on the pinchable young ladies at the Finland female only island link?

Posted by: A sand crab at May 12, 2018 07:18 AM (UdKB7)

117 Ed Siad covered for Barry at Columbia while he interned with the Weatherman. Call it a practical, independent study program.

Posted by: Jean at May 12, 2018 07:18 AM (Ytb94)

118 113
One of my great mystery's is why I never read anyone ever say they went to school with Obama..Or played with him as a child.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 07:17 AM (FMMBD)

There have been a very few stories. But I would suppose that there have been many stories where people tried to report it but they were squashed by the MFM.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:19 AM (mpXpK)

119 mole sessions

Posted by: hazy cosmic jive at May 12, 2018 07:19 AM (WX+x0)

120 Red next to black, friend of Jack.
Red next to yellow, kill a fellow.

And if that doesn't ring a bell
Then run like hell

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2018 07:21 AM (Qh72v)

121 My sense is that they're damning PDT by association. "He knew" and didn't report.

Like Democrats about Clinton, like Hollywood about Harvey and others...

They still haven't learned the 'Me Too' stuff blows back on them a lot more than it soils others...

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 12, 2018 07:21 AM (oVJmc)

122 f rank m arshall d avis and baracko sitting ina tress,K I s s I ng

Posted by: hazy cosmic jive at May 12, 2018 07:21 AM (WX+x0)

123 Ed Siad covered for Barry at Columbia while he interned with the Weatherman. Call it a practical, independent study program.

Posted by: Jean at May 12, 2018 07:18 AM (Ytb94)

If my memory serves, Bill Ayers lived a couple of blocks away from Columbia student Barry while getting a Masters at some other nearby school. But 'just another guy in the neighborhood'. He just didn't say which neighborhood. One has to carefully parse every one of Barry's statements.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 07:22 AM (89MSv)

124 "My sense is that they're damning PDT by association. "He knew" and didn't report."
I thought that was why Trump said "Call this lawyer, and see about your options"?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:23 AM (EyPfd)

125 103 degrees for Vic! That's too damn hot. Normally now we would have 68 degrees here in No. Ill. It got up to 45 yesterday.

Emwarmining!!

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:26 AM (8ikIW)

126 It was nowhere near as bad as it has been made out to be.

Posted by: Vic
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On the other hand, The Whale Ship Essex...
https://preview.tinyurl.com/j5fsq2m

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:27 AM (YOW17)

127 Good news for the cold though. I got to try out the new furnace I had installed the day before.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:28 AM (8ikIW)

128 FWIW, in my experience rattlesnakes and copperheads typically run off,

unless they're trapped or pursued. Cotton mouths don't run off and will

chase you. I hate snakes. The only good snakes are boots.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

I have had cotton mouths try to climb in a boat to get me.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 06:58 AM (mpXpK)

Shit man. I'm going to start carrying a light saber.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 12, 2018 07:29 AM (9Om/r)

129 126 On the other hand, The Whale Ship Essex...

https://preview.tinyurl.com/j5fsq2m

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:27 AM (YOW17)

GLAD I wasn't on that ship.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:29 AM (mpXpK)

130 128 On the other hand, The Whale Ship Essex...

https://preview.tinyurl.com/j5fsq2m

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:27 AM (YOW17)

Not to worry, they may try but they can't grip a metal or fiberglass boat. And they can't raise themselves out of the water enough to go over the top.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:33 AM (mpXpK)

131 Yup. Dangerous coral snakes have red and yellow
bands next to each other. Safe king snakes have black bands between the
colored ones.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 06:11 AM (JGBbg)

Animal mimicry at its finest.

I guess they don't teach that stuff anymore. Wrong kind of 'science', I bet.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2018 06:16 AM (89MSv)
Differentiating on the basis of color is a trick of the #WhitePatriarchy. All snakes are equal, yearning to bite free, and #AllSnakesMatter!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 07:33 AM (n9EOP)

132 128 FWIW, in my experience rattlesnakes and copperheads typically run off,

unless they're trapped or pursued. Cotton mouths don't run off

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 06:56 AM (2saZ/)

The ones we get here in the Berkshires dont have no legs

Posted by: SHEP at May 12, 2018 07:33 AM (Ymy4N)

133 RickZ - Nice save @42.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:35 AM (YOW17)

134 We have been having a major snake outbreak this year. I have seen more in this first month of the season then in the last ten years combined.

My neighborhood has many Coast Guard families who often have little experience with snakes so I just tell them to leave all snakes alone.

Posted by: Big V at May 12, 2018 07:36 AM (ZvLtE)

135 I don't know what I would do if I saw anything beyond a garden snake. Heck, when I have seen garden snakes, I have freaked out.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 07:37 AM (bYltU)

136 No comments on the pinchable young ladies at the Finland female only island link?

What link?

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 07:38 AM (bZ7mE)

137 Graham Parker & the Rumour playing here tomorrow night. So many good songs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 07:39 AM (PUmDY)

138 Red touch black, safe for Jack.

Red touch yellow, kills a fellow.

Red touch Maxine, commies dream.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2018 07:40 AM (EoRCO)

139 Yeah but snakes can and do climb the side of a house. The other day, wife was frantically texting me about a large Black Snake that had climbed up to the soffit of our house to get to a bird's nest. I tried to convince her that it was a good snake and it would keep Rattlers and Copperheads away. But she wasn't having none of that.

When it finally came to ground, she shot it...or thinks she did because she says she saw some blood on the ground after it crawled off. She's not sure because she said her hand was shaking so bad. For her, the only good snake is a dead snake and one she can't see. She will refuse to watch any show with snakes in it.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 07:40 AM (R5lpX)

140 'What link?'

https://tinyurl.com/ycm38qyr

Posted by: A sand crab at May 12, 2018 07:40 AM (UdKB7)

141 135 I don't know what I would do if I saw anything beyond a garden snake. Heck, when I have seen garden snakes, I have freaked out.
Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 07:37 AM (bYltU)

Want to find out ??

Posted by: John Holmes at May 12, 2018 07:42 AM (Ymy4N)

142 I kind of like snakes. I've never seen a live copperhead in the wild, though. Two that were already dead, but never one that was alive.

I did grab and pull a big a big blacksnake out of a rockpile once, though.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 07:42 AM (bZ7mE)

143 Yeah but snakes can and do climb the side of a house. The other day, wife was frantically texting me about a large Black Snake that had climbed up to the soffit of our house to get to a bird's nest.

At least a whale wasn't climbing the side of your house.

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2018 07:44 AM (Qh72v)

144 142, why?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 07:44 AM (PUmDY)

145 Canoeing rivers down through the SE, it is good policy to keep an eye on low/overhanging tree branches. There are tales of snakes dropping into boats. The problem isn't that they are poisonous, the problem is the panic, and ensuing loss of firearms.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:44 AM (YOW17)

146 Easiest rule of thumb is leave snakes alone.

They don't want nothing to do with you.

Except water moccasins. They will aggressively protect their AO and will be on you like white on rice if disturbed.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2018 07:45 AM (EoRCO)

147 Heh. On that all female island. The entrepreneur sure hates her some men. And Finland. You need to buy a member ship to be on the island. 4 living quarters that can accommodate 4 womens. I'm thinking they mat be pinchable, but it would be Trigglypuff pinchable

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:45 AM (8ikIW)

148 I'm gonna get some breakfast before any more snake or cannibalism stories appear here.

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2018 07:46 AM (Qh72v)

149 @141

Um...

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 07:46 AM (bYltU)

150 All female island ??

Phukett

Posted by: John Holmes at May 12, 2018 07:47 AM (Ymy4N)

151 Good morning all. 39 degrees and sunny here on the 45th parallel

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 12, 2018 07:48 AM (BJYIf)

152 149 @141

Um...
Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 07:46 AM (bYltU)

Um's not no

Posted by: John Holmes at May 12, 2018 07:48 AM (Ymy4N)

153 Evidently there are a lot of people in CA who are tired of the communists who have ran the State for decades.

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Wait, whut?

And good morning. Good to see VNN back on the air.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 07:49 AM (EZebt)

154 All female island ??

Phukett
Posted by: John Holmes

Not to worry. I, The Paolo, have a boat. And it only has one "snake" aboard.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:49 AM (8ikIW)

155 139
Yeah but snakes can and do climb the side of a house. The other day,
wife was frantically texting me about a large Black Snake that had
climbed up to the soffit of our house to get to a bird's nest. I tried
to convince her that it was a good snake and it would keep Rattlers and
Copperheads away. But she wasn't having none of that.

When it finally came to ground, she shot it...or thinks she did
because she says she saw some blood on the ground after it crawled off.
She's not sure because she said her hand was shaking so bad. For her,
the only good snake is a dead snake and one she can't see. She will
refuse to watch any show with snakes in it.

Posted by: Traveling Man at May 12, 2018 07:40 AM (R5lpX)

Wow, I have never seen a snake climb the side of a house w/o the aid of a bush, vine, or tree.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:50 AM (mpXpK)

156 142, why?

I was doing clean-up around a construction site and had to remove the rockpile. The snake wanted to stay and wasn't trying to get deeper in the pile instead of going into the bucket I was providing for it, whereas I wanted it to move so that I didn't accidentally hurt it as I was shifting the rocks around, nor did I want to have it turn and bite me. So I grabbed its tail while it's head was in the rocks and pulled it free.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 07:51 AM (bZ7mE)

157 Not to worry. I, The Paolo, have a boat. And it only has one "snake" aboard.
Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:49 AM (8ikIW)

Even I got a boat but I need a barge for my friend

Posted by: John Holmes at May 12, 2018 07:51 AM (Ymy4N)

158
I was admitted to the hospital Thursday evening for vertigo and vomiting and they also diagnosed incipient pneumonia. The pneumonia they're treating but I'm all but deaf in my left ear and my head still spins when I turn it. I may be released today but no doctor has seen me. An odd situation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2018 07:51 AM (RJcOX)

159 *was* trying to get deeper

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (bZ7mE)

160 Just asking, but if Stormy Crotch Daniels lawyers head would appear on a pike pole somewhere, would some of this shit quiet down?

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (8ikIW)

161 Mueller, Mueller is no investigating inauguration donations.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (JFO2v)

162 153 And good morning. Good to see VNN back on the air.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 07:49 AM (EZebt)

I've been on all week.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (mpXpK)

163 Having spent a goodly chunk of my life in the South, I've never seen either a coral snake or its mimetic cousin in the wild. I've run into rattlers, copperheads, and oodles of cottonmouths, plus beaucoup non poisonous varieties...but no corals. Sad.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2018 07:53 AM (0ogQG)

164 Can we start the public argument that "Common sense gun control" is a dog whistle, and rights denying code for Gun Confiscation?

And...triggering.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:53 AM (EyPfd)

165 Even I got a boat but I need a barge for my friend
Posted by: John Holmes

Yes, TrigglyPuff will be delighted to have you on board.

Below decks, IYKWIM

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:54 AM (8ikIW)

166 "but I'm all but deaf in my left ear and my head still spins when I turn it. I may be released today but no doctor has seen me. An odd situation. "

You're not driving yourself home...right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:54 AM (EyPfd)

167 I would have been trying to crush its head with any rock.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 07:54 AM (PUmDY)

168 163
Having spent a goodly chunk of my life in the South, I've never seen
either a coral snake or its mimetic cousin in the wild. I've run into
rattlers, copperheads, and oodles of cottonmouths, plus beaucoup non
poisonous varieties...but no corals. Sad.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 12, 2018 07:53 AM (0ogQG)

??? Coral snakes are prevalent in the South, but not the North.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:55 AM (mpXpK)

169 Mueller, Mueller is no investigating inauguration donations.
Posted by: rhennigantx
---------------

He is trying to get fired. The idea is to produce a Dem/Media frenzy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:55 AM (YOW17)

170 I was admitted to the hospital Thursday evening for
vertigo and vomiting and they also diagnosed incipient pneumonia. The
pneumonia they're treating but I'm all but deaf in my left ear and my
head still spins when I turn it. I may be released today but no doctor
has seen me. An odd situation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2018 07:51 AM (RJcOX)
====================

Hadrian! Yikes! I hope things improve for you, and the doctor comes in to see you soon. Wow. No fun.

Posted by: grammie winger - Springing at May 12, 2018 07:55 AM (lwiT4)

171 So I gave it a shot. Told her about the damn junkies in SF shooting up and pissing and defecating on the sidewalks...her answer, Papa, we'll be living in Oakland. Her boyfriend's parents aren't happy about their big move either.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (R5lpX)

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Oakland is much worse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (EZebt)

172
You're not driving yourself home...right?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:54 AM (EyPfd)

I got here by ambulance and Her Majesty will drive me home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (RJcOX)

173 I have seen King snakes down on the coast of SC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (YOW17)

174 I may be released today but no doctor has seen me. An odd situation.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Wow! Hope you get released today. How long has this been going on?

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (8ikIW)

175 Mueller, Mueller is no investigating inauguration donations.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (JFO2v)

That's what "they" are telling us!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (n9EOP)

176 I got here by ambulance and Her Majesty will drive me home.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (RJcOX)
================

Ambulance? Oh my.

Posted by: grammie winger - Springing at May 12, 2018 07:57 AM (lwiT4)

177 > and my head still spins when I turn it.

So, worn threads are too loose?

Loktite!

Posted by: Morton at May 12, 2018 07:57 AM (/hlBG)

178 164
Can we start the public argument that "Common sense gun control" is a dog whistle, and rights denying code for Gun Confiscation?

And...triggering.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 07:53 AM (EyPfd)

All you have to do is reference them to that county in Broward County, FL where they are confiscating guns right and lefty.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:57 AM (mpXpK)

179 my head still spins when I turn it.
================

Rev had that for about a month. They finally put him on Prednisone and that did the trick. Don't know if it would help in your case.

Posted by: grammie winger - Springing at May 12, 2018 07:58 AM (lwiT4)

180 Mueller, Mueller is no investigating inauguration donations.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (JFO2v)

Hmm, "no" = "not" or "now"?

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 07:59 AM (n9EOP)

181 171
So I gave it a shot. Told her about the damn junkies in SF shooting up
and pissing and defecating on the sidewalks...her answer, Papa, we'll be
living in Oakland. Her boyfriend's parents aren't happy about their big
move either.

Posted by: Traveling Man at May 12, 2018 06:37 AM (R5lpX)

===

Oakland is much worse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 07:56 AM (EZebt)

I would tell them to move to Castro Valley. It's only a hop and a skip to the freeway to get into SF or Oakland.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:59 AM (mpXpK)

182 Clean up after Hugo introduced me to every snake in the South

Posted by: Jean at May 12, 2018 07:59 AM (GGvbb)

183 TFF
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/tom-steyer-super-pac-warns-gop-nazis/

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 07:59 AM (JFO2v)

184 Hmm, "no" = "not" or "now"?
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 07:59 AM (n9EOP)

the one with the W

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 08:00 AM (JFO2v)

185 All you have to do is reference them to that county in Broward County, FL where they are confiscating guns right and lefty.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:57 AM (mpXpK)

Well played, my good man!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:00 AM (n9EOP)

186 " Normally now we would have 68 degrees here in No. Ill. It got up to 45 yesterday.
Emwarmining!!

Posted by: Bruce

I'm more in West Central IL, we had 87 yesterday ... has been hitting 80s for most of May, but was cold in April. Hot and dry ... crops were 2-3 weeks late, but are catching up now, if they have moisture to germinate.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2018 08:01 AM (bT8Z4)

187 I've had episodes of vertigo since I was in my 20's. It's not too difficult to deal with if you know that you're into a period of vertigo.

The unexpected onset, however, is nasty. I have fallen once.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:01 AM (YOW17)

188 Damn Hadrian.. that sounds similar to when my son had to go to the ER. It turned out he has Menieres disease. Easily treatable and he has regained most of his hearing. Hope they diagnose you correctly and you begin feeling better.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2018 08:02 AM (dUJdY)

189 the one with the W

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2018 08:00 AM (JFO2v)

Should have realized that was really the only answer but my broken spanglish translator kicked in!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:02 AM (n9EOP)

190 I would have been trying to crush its head with any rock.

They are harmless and eat pests. Why kill it?

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 08:02 AM (bZ7mE)

191 Clean up after Hugo introduced me to every snake in the South
Posted by: Jean
------------

FEMA carpetbaggers? Contractors?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:03 AM (YOW17)

192 158 - Hadrian...Meuniere's Disease? Messes up your hearing and your balance? It can be managed. Prayers for you.

Posted by: vivi at May 12, 2018 08:03 AM (11H2y)

193 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:01 AM (YOW17)

Vertigo is scary stuff, I had a couple of episodes, but managed to recover. Never had a clue what set it off or why it stopped.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:04 AM (n9EOP)

194 I almost stepped on a water moccasin barefoot and in shorts when I was about 10. It just flicked its tongue at me and I stared back at it. No attempt to bite me. Scary stuff now that I am an adult and not a stupid, fearless kid.

Posted by: Jmel at May 12, 2018 08:04 AM (OeWgo)

195 Hey Lord, Don"t Ask Me Questions is a fine song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:05 AM (PUmDY)

196 The Tom Steyer GOP = the KKK ad is hilarious If I didnt know it was from him, I would have thought it was a spoof.

I hope he continues to waste his money like this

Posted by: LASue at May 12, 2018 08:05 AM (BZA5F)

197 Ear infections can set off vertigo

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:05 AM (aC6Sd)

198 193
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:01 AM (YOW17)

Vertigo is scary stuff, I had a couple of episodes, but managed to recover. Never had a clue what set it off or why it stopped.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:04 AM (n9EOP)

At least two of my drugs cause dizziness. One even has a warning not to get out of a chair or bed to quick.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:06 AM (mpXpK)

199 They freak me out. Irrational, I know.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:06 AM (PUmDY)

200 I cannot see Calif going GOP. The "jungle primary" is designed to keep the GOP off the ballot.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2018 08:07 AM (ii30j)

201 Time for breakfast and then get started on my "Honey Do" list. The bad thing about traveling for work is that the list grows exponentially while I'm away so that I'll never be able to catch up.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 08:07 AM (R5lpX)

202 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2018 07:51 AM (RJcOX)

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Prayers for your complete and speedy healing. Does not sound like too much fun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 08:07 AM (EZebt)

203 Ear infections can set off vertigo

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:05 AM (aC6Sd)

Inner ear problem?
BPPV: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is a disorder arising from a problem in the inner ear.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:08 AM (n9EOP)

204 I don't get out into the woods that much here in SC. But when I first moved in I killed a rattlesnake out in the road which was dirt at the time. Ans when contractors were clearing out a swamp two blocks over to build more houses I had a water moccasin come get in my pool. So only two snakes in 40 years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:09 AM (mpXpK)

205 I'm more in West Central IL, we had 87 yesterday ... has been hitting 80s for most of May, but was cold in April. Hot and dry ... crops were 2-3 weeks late, but are catching up now, if they have moisture to germinate.
Posted by: illiniwek

I looked at the weather app. Springfield is showing 85 today. We are at 55. 30 degrees difference in about 220 miles

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 08:09 AM (8ikIW)

206
I've been on all week.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 07:52 AM (mpXpK)

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The last I saw was your neighbor was back to banging on your door for booze!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 08:10 AM (EZebt)

207 Vertigo is scary stuff, I had a couple of episodes, but managed to recover. Never had a clue what set it off or why it stopped.
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar

At least two of my drugs cause dizziness. One even has a warning not to get out of a chair or bed to quick.
Posted by: Vic
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Yeah, mine comes and goes. More frequently as I get older.

Vic- Yup, I edge upright from bed, and hold onto something until I'm sure that the world isn't spinning. Abruptly looking up or down can also result in disaster.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:10 AM (YOW17)

208 Even if Mueller never convicts anyone, he has damaged a lot of people that deal with Trump ... the inquisition is the punishment.

Plus he has raided or otherwise invaded so many private files and interrogated so many, he has vast material to spread around his mob to use to compromise anyone, when outright threats are not enough. It's the police state Stalinist way.

If these insider mobsters don't get locked up, we might as well all just join the most powerful gang we can find or form, and destroy anyone that gets in our way, since legit rule of law is over. Lawyers are only powerful when the citizenry believes there is a legit legal system. Once that charade is over ... many lawyers will lose their leverage over people .. might have to go into hiding for past sins.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2018 08:10 AM (bT8Z4)

209 Last summer had a ear infection, about every half hour or so felt like I was being stabbed in the ear with a 16d nail, after a minute it went away. That's what lead to 2 full hearing tests to find my hearing was diminishing. I really am trying to wear hear protection now when required.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:11 AM (aC6Sd)

210 In case you missed it, here is Maxine on the House Floor, head exploding...
http://tinyurl.com/yczfjjhv

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:11 AM (FMMBD)

211
Menieres disease -- wonder if that is what my daughter had. The Dr put her on diuretics.

I told her to cut out inflammatory foods, especially bread. She went along. Within two weeks it was gone. After four weeks she stopped the medications altogether.

A lot of people have issues with bread and grains.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at May 12, 2018 08:12 AM (LOgQ4)

212 H/T Insty

He has a link to an Amazon special:

23andMe DNA Test Ancestry Personal Genetic Service

but the best part is in the Amazon description:

"20% Off for Mother's Day ends May 13, 2018"

No comment

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:12 AM (n9EOP)

213 When I was a kid, we used to find baby rattlers curled up in the sandy fields. Maybe 8 inches long. Pretty cute when they shook their tails. Don't think they had any rattles yet

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:12 AM (Ymy4N)

214 One even has a warning not to get out of a chair or bed to quick.
Posted by: Vic

Not a problem for me. Between my knees, ankle and back, it's about a 5 minute 4 stage process.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 08:12 AM (8ikIW)

215 They are calling for 94F here today, but they were calling for 91F yesterday when we hit 103F. And just so everyone knows, I keep my temperature sensers in the shade all day long. If I somehow miss moving them before the sun hits I don't use that reading. I use the local airport.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:12 AM (mpXpK)

216 Snakes are like most animals. You don't bother them, they wont bother you. Animals are definitely not liberals

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (Ymy4N)

217 Throw her into the volcano and see if that fixes things.

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (Y274z)

218 206 The last I saw was your neighbor was back to banging on your door for booze!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 08:10 AM (EZebt)

That was months and months ago. She has been on the wagon now for months.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (mpXpK)

219 Vic, is that when you turn the a/c on?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (PUmDY)

220 So many little nuggets of data in one article.

https://cbsloc.al/2rAYnNX

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (EyPfd)

221 Mueller Et al in the past destroyed innocent people just to get who ever they were out to get. It doesn't bother them whatsoever. During the French revolution miss identified people where put on trial and after it was determined it was the wrong person it was decided while they were there to be put on trial anyway.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:15 AM (aC6Sd)

222 BPPV: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is a disorder arising from a problem in the inner ear.
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:08 AM (n9EOP)

My wife had that. They have therapy for it and it worked for her. There are vids online and you can do it at home. Not hard

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:16 AM (Ymy4N)

223 VIA: "We're the Government and we're here to help!"

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:16 AM (n9EOP)

224 Vic - Surprised it was so warm down there yesterday. Quite warm here yesterday for early May, but only 82 deg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:17 AM (YOW17)

225 219
Vic, is that when you turn the a/c on?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (PUmDY)

I turned my A/C on about days ago when it hit 91F outside and the house got to 90F.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:17 AM (mpXpK)

226 Vic, lol.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:18 AM (PUmDY)

227 I fully expect Mueller to hang on as long as possible and is planning an FBI raid on the White House as an October surprise.

Regarding Sessions, the fact that he has given his approval (by his silence over a blatant violation of the Constitution by a subordinate) of the Cohen raid moves him into a member of the Deep State.

Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2018 08:18 AM (LnOh3)

228 Snakes,
Why did it have to be snakes?

Posted by: Henry "Indiana" Jones at May 12, 2018 08:18 AM (KOF8G)

229 >>>>I don't get out into the woods that much here in SC.
But when I first moved in I killed a rattlesnake out in the road which
was dirt at the time. Ans when contractors were clearing out a swamp two
blocks over to build more houses I had a water moccasin come get in my
pool. So only two snakes in 40 years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:09 AM
.
.
.We see that many in a week here in Texas walking the dogs around our neighborhood. The feral cats usually kill most of them though.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:18 AM (+Dllb)

230 Trouser snake is popular at parties.

Posted by: Shep at May 12, 2018 08:19 AM (5iPef)

231 My wife had that. They have therapy for it and it worked for her. There are vids online and you can do it at home. Not hard
Posted by: REDACTED
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Heh.
Lift left arm.
Holding arm up, sit down.
Lie down.
Roll over to your right.
Put your left foot in
Put your right foot out

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2018 08:20 AM (YOW17)

232 My wife had that. They have therapy for it and it worked for her. There are vids online and you can do it at home. Not hard

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:16 AM (Ymy4N)

Thanks for pointing that out, I should have mentioned it because there are two or three fairly simple "exercises" that can be done at home and they seemed to work for me. I never wound up in the ER with mine however.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:20 AM (n9EOP)

233 Headline story (I think is kind of funny)...Make of it what you will....Baltimore news.

Overcooked McDonald's French Fries Causes Fire Scare; Resident Overjoyed To Be Alive

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:21 AM (FMMBD)

234 Ah, the weekend! Had some coffee and some eggs, then read that the eggs I ate might be tainted with salmonella.

So yeah: TAINTED EGGS WARNING.

Wish me luck.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 12, 2018 08:22 AM (donMa)

235 Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2018 08:18 AM (LnOh3)

Thinking of Sessionzzz as the "mole" sure explains a lot of otherwise inexplicable behavior!

Wonder what Bobby M might have on the Jeffster?

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:23 AM (n9EOP)

236 I know Trump would never have done it but he should of tweeted out, "I would declare Hawaii a disaster to help with aid to the state but the judges there would probably just decide my declaration was unconstitutional."

Posted by: buzzion at May 12, 2018 08:23 AM (cAnNx)

237 I see where Trump has already declared HI a disaster area ahead of that volcano eruption.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:24 AM (mpXpK)

238 ""We're the Government and we're here to help!"

Yeh..ain't that a hoot.

Just saw a sign for 1/2 bushel of crabs, $125.00

And in another article, the Republican official claims that crabs can be considered as a food staple, and should be allowed to be bought with EBT cards.

My head hurts.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2018 08:24 AM (EyPfd)

239 That was months and months ago. She has been on the wagon now for months.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:14 AM (mpXpK)

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Great news for both of you. But I obviously need to drink more coffee.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2018 08:25 AM (EZebt)

240 208 Even if Mueller never convicts anyone, he has damaged a lot of people that deal with Trump ... the inquisition is the punishment.

Plus he has raided or otherwise invaded so many private files and interrogated so many, he has vast material to spread around his mob to use to compromise anyone, when outright threats are not enough. It's the police state Stalinist way.

If these insider mobsters don't get locked up, we might as well all just join the most powerful gang we can find or form, and destroy anyone that gets in our way, since legit rule of law is over. Lawyers are only powerful when the citizenry believes there is a legit legal system. Once that charade is over ... many lawyers will lose their leverage over people .. might have to go into hiding for past sins.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2018 08:10 AM (bT8Z4)

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The past two years has clearly demonstrated the basic illegitimacy of the Federal government, which has been corrupt quite some time.

My vote and support for Trump is to put my man at the top of the gang in an act of desperation.

Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2018 08:25 AM (LnOh3)

241 When I was a kid, we used to find baby rattlers curled up in the sandy fields. Maybe 8 inches long. Pretty cute when they shook their tails. Don't think they had any rattles yet

They gain a rattling scale every time they molt, and need at least 2 scales to rattle against each other, so that's correct. Babies can't rattle until they've molted twice.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:25 AM (JGBbg)

242 241 They gain a rattling scale every time they molt, and
need at least 2 scales to rattle against each other, so that's correct.
Babies can't rattle until they've molted twice.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:25 AM (JGBbg)

Rattle snakes are really easy to ID. Water moccasins not so much until they open their mouth to hiss at you. A common black water snake looks much like some varieties of moccasin.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:28 AM (mpXpK)

243 Maximum Stupidity Waters should be told that no matter what color you are, if you're getting your car loan through the dealer, you are getting screwed.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 08:29 AM (8ikIW)

244 Thinking of Sessionzzz as the "mole" sure explains a lot of otherwise inexplicable behavior!

Wonder what Bobby M might have on the Jeffster?
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:23 AM (n9EOP)

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I don't know if he is a mole, but he makes extremely bad decisions which all seem to benefit the Deep State.

Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2018 08:30 AM (LnOh3)

245 243
Maximum Stupidity Waters should be told that no matter what color you
are, if you're getting your car loan through the dealer, you are getting
screwed.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 08:29 AM (8ikIW)

I bought one car where I got the loan through the dealer, but the loan actually was from Ford Motor Credit so it was reasonable. I paid it off after two years and haven't financed one since.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:31 AM (mpXpK)

246 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2018 08:32 AM (SjImc)

247 Good news out of WV. Morrissey is leading the man chin in the first poll after the Primary 46-44. That is impressive because incumbency usually results in a 80% reelection rate.

51% of RV's say it's time for a new face in the Senate.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:32 AM (+Dllb)

248 Gettin' to be about time for the coffee thread so we can close out the snake thread.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:32 AM (mpXpK)

249 Folks do look at me funny when I shake my boots out before putting them on even in hotel rooms.
I have seen enough spiders and snakes lurking in and around shoes to be glad I still have the habit.

Posted by: Big V at May 12, 2018 08:32 AM (ZvLtE)

250 "I keep my temperature sensers in the shade all day
long. If I somehow miss moving them before the sun hits I don't use that
reading. I use the local airport. Posted by: Vic

I'm too lazy to do that ... I have an Acurite little "weather station" that has a solar powered fan that is supposed to give "ambient air temp" via a little fan. But it is in the sun and showed 93 the other day when the airport said 87.

It works really well on the rain gauge though, almost exactly what my real gauge reads. It reports to my desk for every 0.01 it measures. kinda handy.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2018 08:32 AM (bT8Z4)

251 I don't know if he is a mole, but he makes extremely bad decisions which all seem to benefit the Deep State.

Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2018 08:30 AM (LnOh3)

I don't know if he's "the" mole, but he was a DC Denizen for decades in the good old Mitch McConnell collegial Senate, so...

The statistical bias rule says that when every error is always in the same direction, you might be able to infer something!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:33 AM (n9EOP)

252 In case you missed it, here is Maxine on the House Floor, head exploding...

--

That crazy bat is so full of hatred and her own deep racism that I don't know how she gets up each day. At the very least, her wig probably flies off of her horrible head at least once a day.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at May 12, 2018 08:33 AM (mQ0Mc)

253 The California Assembly discussed Thursday a bill that would replace Abraham Lincoln or George Washington's birthday with International Socialist Workers' Day as a paid holiday.

And after that they voted to replace the California bear flag with a red one that has a hammer and sickle on it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 08:33 AM (SiINZ)

254 I bought one car where I got the loan through the
dealer, but the loan actually was from Ford Motor Credit so it was
reasonable. I paid it off after two years and haven't financed one
since.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:31 AM (mpXpK)

Two years ago I got a zero interest loan through Ford Credit. Paid it off within two years, so not all dealer loans are bad.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:34 AM (FMMBD)

255 And that's it for today. And as a footnote; temps peaked out here yesterday at 103F. Unbelievable for May."

Where are you, Vic, that it got so hot? Still pretty nice here in East Texas, 72 degrees this morning. Kept the windows open all night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:34 AM (V2Yro)

256 Babies can't rattle until they've molted twice.
Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:25 AM (JGBbg)

They do however shake their tails, rattles or no.

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:35 AM (Ymy4N)

257 242 241 They gain a rattling scale every time they molt, and need at least 2 scales to rattle against each other, so that's correct. Babies can't rattle until they've molted twice.
Posted by: mikeski

Rattle snakes are really easy to ID. [...]
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

They can lose their rattles; they're just dead shells of keratin. So it is possible to find a "silent" adult rattlesnake, too.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:36 AM (JGBbg)

258 Red on Black, Venom lack.

Red on Yellow, Kill a fellow

We learned that little ditty very early since there were coral snakes in our area.

Surprised the bit guy didn't know it.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2018 08:36 AM (9q7Dl)

259 A common black water snake looks much like ~~some varieties of moccasin~~ a target.

FIFY.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 08:36 AM (2saZ/)

260 Thinking of Sessionzzz as the "mole" sure explains a lot of otherwise inexplicable behavior!

Wonder what Bobby M might have on the Jeffster?
Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 08:23 AM (n9EOP)

Sessions seems to be blind to all of the bad actors he's surrounded by. Whether that's intentional or he's just not that bright about it I don't know. But Trump needs a war time consigliere and Sessions has failed him miserably

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 08:37 AM (SiINZ)

261 The quality of your dealer loan is directly proportional to the quality of your credit rating.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (ii30j)

262 >>>>I bought one car where I got the loan through the

dealer, but the loan actually was from Ford Motor Credit so it was

reasonable. I paid it off after two years and haven't financed one

since.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:31 AM (mpXpK)

Two years ago I got a zero interest loan through Ford Credit. Paid it off within two years, so not all dealer loans are bad.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:34 AM
.
.
.I got a 0.9% loan on my Tacoma from TMC, not paying that one off early because I make more interest keeping the $$$ in my savings account that I am paying on the loan.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (+Dllb)

263 Mueller, Mueller is no investigating inauguration donations.

So the Rooskies colluded with Trump in order to pay for his inauguration!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (oVJmc)

264 255 Where are you, Vic, that it got so hot? Still
pretty nice here in East Texas, 72 degrees this morning. Kept the
windows open all night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:34 AM (V2Yro)

I am in middle-north SC.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (mpXpK)

265 Mueller didn't seem so bothered by pay-for-play in the Uranium One thing.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (oVJmc)

266 On my last cup o' Joe. Then I have to decide which item on my list of "do s" I want to get started on.

So far, I've torn an old deck apart, dug and buried 150 feet of trench for new power to my well house and installed half of the faux tile backsplash in the kitchen. Also had time for a round of golf with brother.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 08:38 AM (R5lpX)

267 Leave the black snakes alone. They eat the bad snakes.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:39 AM (LpC6w)

268 I bought one car where I got the loan through the dealer, but the loan actually was from Ford Motor Credit so it was reasonable. I paid it off after two years and haven't financed one since.
Posted by: Vic

I've had the zero interest loans too. If you know how it works and actually do a little homework on the loan, it's no problem. But those that walk into a dealership with crappy credit, still owe on their last car etc. etc and are in love with a new/newer car, are going to get taken advantaged of IF they don't do some homework beforehand.

Posted by: Bruce at May 12, 2018 08:39 AM (8ikIW)

269 Grew up in deep south, hunted snakes. Easy peasy guide was never to fool with any snake that had any bright colors.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at May 12, 2018 08:39 AM (KvCow)

270 There is a 3 day right to cancel on refinances due to companies like Sears preying on seniors for home repairs.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:39 AM (PUmDY)

271 Jewells, if ever again any ear/balance probs in the family, get ahold of me.
One of the best in the business is in Topeka. Known him 25 years. KU Med has had him teach clinicals/diagnosis.

As a side note, he is also a whale of a songwriter, and a fine guitar and mandolin player and vocalist.
Yes, he fronts the trio I'm in.

One of my two most unforgettable characters.

Posted by: Bobby at May 12, 2018 08:40 AM (Ixqnq)

272 Sitting at loves in Ft Pierce. Just dropped a load of stuff at the Clewiston Sugar plant.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:40 AM (LpC6w)

273 With all the talk about snakes in the south I should mention the biggest North American snake I ever saw was a timber rattler just off base of Fort Drum New York.

It just ignored me and kept moving the guy I was hiking with said it must have just feed since it was so fat.

Posted by: Big V at May 12, 2018 08:40 AM (ZvLtE)

274 259
A common black water snake looks much like some varieties of moccasin a target.

FIFY.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 08:36 AM (2saZ/)

LOL, yeah I have shot a few and then after killing them found they were only water snakes. Didn't bother me a bit.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:40 AM (mpXpK)

275 I've been wondering, just how long has Snoozy been an informant. Has he been ratting people out for 20-30 years. Is the left's racist charges just a cover to make far lefties comfortable talking to him.

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:41 AM (Ymy4N)

276 With all the talk about snakes in the south I should mention the biggest North American snake I ever saw was a timber rattler just off base of Fort Drum New York.

It just ignored me and kept moving the guy I was hiking with said it must have just feed since it was so fat.
Posted by: Big V at May 12, 2018 08:40 AM (ZvLtE)

The most bugs I ever had in a Hotel room was at the FT Drum Inn. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2018 08:41 AM (SjImc)

277 That's Fla. Any cons around, come get me, I'll buy.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (LpC6w)

278 So after next week, we'll get TrumpHate from the British royal family.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (xOga2)

279 Easy peasy guide was never to fool with any snake that had any bright colors.

Aposematic coloration.

Works for humans, too. Neon green hair? Probably dangerous!

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (JGBbg)

280 Two years ago I got a zero interest loan through Ford Credit. Paid it off within two years, so not all dealer loans are bad."

It depends how much the dealer wants to sell you the car. I got one from Toyota recently that was 1.7%, I think. I still remember my first car loan back in the Carter years, when I had to pay 13% and thought I was lucky to get it that low.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (V2Yro)

281 Haven't seen any snakes at WeaselAcres yet. Lots of bunnies though. And a coyote, which may have to go.

Posted by: Weasel at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (MVjcR)

282 Not cons, rons. WTF?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:43 AM (LpC6w)

283 Rich Zeoli on 1210am said yesterday this investigating inauguration contributions doesn't pass the smell test. 1 its after the election, 2 shaking down foreigners for more cash after they already according to Mueller paid in full for President Trump's election makes no sense.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:43 AM (aC6Sd)

284 Thinking of Sessionzzz as the "mole" sure explains a lot of otherwise inexplicable behavior!

Maybe. I would posit that Snoozy McSnoozerson is just another politician who's been in the swamp a long, long time and believes in the 'system'. Ergo, he is honor bound to recuse himself and remain out of all things involving Team Mueller, because principles and shit. He thinks the good guys are gonna prevail because they play by the rules and it will all come out in the wash. I say the other team has cast the die and they're playing to win at any cost.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 08:43 AM (2saZ/)

285 They can lose their rattles; they're just dead shells of keratin. So it is possible to find a "silent" adult rattlesnake, too.
Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:36 AM (JGBbg)

Prolly some skitsy rattlers that bite their tails

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:43 AM (Ymy4N)

286 Read something that makes me happy. Seems there is going to be a movie made about my Dad's ship, the Laffey. He was a young LT on it (gunnery officer) off Okinawa in '45.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 12, 2018 08:43 AM (di1hb)

287 I think the Cottonmouth is probably the hardest venomous snake to identify straight off.

There's a lot of variation.

Except for the big white mouth,

and they are very aggressive SOBs. Surprisingly, they'll come straight at you.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM (9q7Dl)

288 Then again, cons can be rons, but not all rons are cons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM (LpC6w)

289 Good Morning Morons; today is Saturday, May 12, 2018. On this day in 1846 the Donner Party of pioneers departed Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and and very limited cannibalism by some of the party on already dead bodies. This action has been sensationalized to the max. It was nowhere near as bad as it has been made out to be.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:52 AM (mpXpK)

Yeah, they're always making it out to be worse than it really was.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM (9BLnV)

290 280 It depends how much the dealer wants to sell you the
car. I got one from Toyota recently that was 1.7%, I think. I still
remember my first car loan back in the Carter years, when I had to pay
13% and thought I was lucky to get it that low.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (V2Yro)

I bought my house during the carter years. My house loan was 16% and that was with set-aside money and I had to pay a 5% fee to get it. Those were some bad years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM (mpXpK)

291 While snakes can be anywhere, I always seem to find them on rocky outcrops for sunning themselves

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:45 AM (aC6Sd)

292 Spanish Grand Prix qualifying is coming on.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 08:45 AM (aC6Sd)

293 280 Two years ago I got a zero interest loan through Ford Credit. Paid it off within two years, so not all dealer loans are bad."

Why would you pay off a 0 interest loan early ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:45 AM (Ymy4N)

294 That should be 6%

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:46 AM (mpXpK)

295 Poet, go check out my brick at the UDT/SEAL Museum.....

Posted by: goatexchange at May 12, 2018 08:46 AM (um0kb)

296 Oops.
Be gone Blue Velvet sock.
Sorry Jewells, that was me.

Posted by: teej at May 12, 2018 08:46 AM (Ixqnq)

297 From ONT: "I doubt she's sent me a quarter of that many messages in all that time. 65,000 messages? She should have written a book instead."

She did write a book. 650 pages. It's called "Bob". Here's an excerpt: "BobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBobBob" Small font. It's black and white, and red all over.

She's writing a new one called "Howard". It's twice as long.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 08:47 AM (IeDO8)

298 Snakes will move on if the can. It's just dog days when they're blind and mating season they'll strike. Unless you step on one, or threaten the nest, snakes won't bother you.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:47 AM (LpC6w)

299 >>>>280 It depends how much the dealer wants to sell you the

car. I got one from Toyota recently that was 1.7%, I think. I still

remember my first car loan back in the Carter years, when I had to pay

13% and thought I was lucky to get it that low.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (V2Yro)

I
bought my house during the carter years. My house loan was 16% and that
was with set-aside money and I had to pay a 5% fee to get it. Those were
some bad years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM
.
.
.Same with my Mom when she married my Step Dad in the 70s. 15% and they had to come up with $10,000 on a $60,000 house.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (+Dllb)

300 Prolly some skitsy rattlers that bite their tails

Since they know how to rattle before they actually have rattles, I'm now envisioning a snake coiling up, shaking its tail for the first time after it's second molt... and jumping 10 feet with a "wtf was that!?" expression on its face.

Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (JGBbg)

301 I bought my house during the carter years. My house loan was 16% and that was with set-aside money and I had to pay a 5% fee to get it. Those were some bad years.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:44 AM (mpXpK)

Yeah but you could yield 15-16 % o a 10 year treasury note

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (Ymy4N)

302 Here is a King Snake. There are various varieties but this is the one that looks like a coral snake. Notice that the nose stars out red and not black. That is the dead give-away. So remember the old slogan; if the nose is black get back. As for me I would not mess with either one although king snakes are harmless.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

As we learned in Genderless Scouts (pre-pedophilia), the stripes are the best indicators. Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, venom lack.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (9BLnV)

303 Anyone been to the WWII museum in New Orleans? It is very good.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (PUmDY)

304 Poet, go check out my brick at the UDT/SEAL Museum.....
Posted by: goatexchange at May 12, 2018 08:46 AM (um0kb)

I would but I'm stuck in my truck.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (LpC6w)

305 I still remember my first car loan back in the Carter years, when I had to pay 13% and thought I was lucky to get it that low.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:42 AM (V2Yro)

I bought my first house back then, and thought I was lucky to get 13%. I believe mortgage loans topped out at 18%, and that was through a Savings and Loan Co.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:49 AM (FMMBD)

306 Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 08:47 AM (IeDO

Thanks. Got a light?

Posted by: The Margins at May 12, 2018 08:49 AM (JGBbg)

307 Posted by: mikeski at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (JGBbg)

I've see thousands of baby rattlers especially in peanut fields

They're pretty cute with their big heads

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:51 AM (Ymy4N)

308 I've been wondering, just how long has Snoozy been an informant.

It hasn't been established that he is.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 12, 2018 08:51 AM (bZ7mE)

309 305 I bought my first house back then, and thought I was
lucky to get 13%. I believe mortgage loans topped out at 18%, and that
was through a Savings and Loan Co.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:49 AM (FMMBD)

Luckily I was able to pay off that shitty 16% loan in 5 years.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:52 AM (mpXpK)

310 As we learned in Genderless Scouts (pre-pedophilia),
the stripes are the best indicators. Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red
on black, venom lack.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 12, 2018 08:48 AM (9BLnV)

Ah, the good old days....The local Starbucks announced today that I can now come in a sit all day and not buy anything. Going right over...not.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 08:52 AM (FMMBD)

311 IIRC a moccasin is a pit viper. Has a pit beneath each eye.

The black water snake does not.
Now, as to whether or not you want to get close enough to check for that pit, especially at my age...

Posted by: teej at May 12, 2018 08:53 AM (Ixqnq)

312 Nowadays, a savings account yeilds 0.15% interest. A CD will yeild around 1.5% interest if you buy the longest term. I remember my first savings account yeilded 6% interest.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 08:54 AM (R5lpX)

313 Where are you, Vic, that it got so hot? Still pretty nice here in East Texas, 72 degrees this morning. Kept the windows open all night.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 08:34 AM (V2Yro)

Where you at in ET, Tom? North of Nacogdoches? Which is full of roaches.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 12, 2018 08:54 AM (9BLnV)

314 That was before the mortgage interest deduction, right?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:54 AM (PUmDY)

315 Evidently there are a lot of people in CA who are tired of the communists who have ran the State for decades.
http://tinyurl.com/yclj8232
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 05:53 AM (mpXpK)

Last night I watched Blue Bloods on the San Francisco CBS station. Some of the commercials just blew my mind. Bottom line was they are all trying to out "progressive" each other in order to get elected. Then, on the news, I find out there's a controversy over helping ICE with dangerous felon illegal immigrants. Who the hell would want to live in such a place?

Posted by: Bill R. at May 12, 2018 08:55 AM (IuYIh)

316 Did someone blow out the margins???

Posted by: Bill R. at May 12, 2018 08:55 AM (IuYIh)

317 II started selling antiques in 1966 full time when I was 15. I started making serious money almost immediately. My favorite memory is writing a check for a 1972 MB 280 SL demo. I think it was a little under 10K. My father thought I was selling drugs

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 08:55 AM (Ymy4N)

318 314
That was before the mortgage interest deduction, right?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 08:54 AM (PUmDY)

No we still got the mortgage interest deduction then. But loosing it wasn't so bad since you had to spend a dollar to save 30 cents. The bad thing was losing that deduction sometimes cause you to not be able to itemize at all.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:56 AM (mpXpK)

319 Never ceases to amaze me when people have been around long enough to know better and still pull that crap.

Hey Dirks, go ahead and give us an excerpt from Howard why don't ya.

Posted by: teej at May 12, 2018 08:57 AM (Ixqnq)

320 The Atlanta Fed has upped their forecast to 4% annual GDP growth.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:58 AM (+Dllb)

321 316 Did someone blow out the margins???
Posted by: Bill R. at May 12, 2018 08:55 AM (IuYIh)

Blew 'em. Flat out blew 'em.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 08:58 AM (0bRDi)

322 Also at that time the deductions until most of them were gone unless you were too poor to begin with.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 08:59 AM (mpXpK)

323 Well, my son hasn't had another incident in well over a year. The first time he had to go the the ER but he went to an ENT afterwards who put him on medication and only had a few incidents after that.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2018 09:00 AM (dUJdY)

324 I have saved every window sticker since I bought my first new car (didn't always buy new) Interesting to look back, not only the price but what was included. Remember when most things were extra...? 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner was my first new car!

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 09:00 AM (FMMBD)

325
No coffee-induced dump this morning?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 12, 2018 09:00 AM (72ylg)

326 The Guardian has a headline "John McCain is not fighting a losing battle." Um.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 09:01 AM (0bRDi)

327 312 Nowadays, a savings account yeilds 0.15% interest. A CD will yeild around 1.5% interest if you buy the longest term. I remember my first savings account yeilded 6% interest.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 08:54 AM (R5lpX)

If you look around, you ca find 2.20 % on a cd. My guess is by 2019, you could get 3.5 % on a two year. I just opened a checking acct. yesterday that pays 3% o the first 15K. No other fees. My wife opened one too. That close to a grand for a checking acct. Unfortunately, it's Lee bank in the Berkshires and they only give it to the locals

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 09:01 AM (Ymy4N)

328 Well hell. Might as well get started before it gets too hot. Supposed to hit low 90's here in the Upstate of SC. Have a good one y'all.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&& at May 12, 2018 09:02 AM (R5lpX)

329 7 And just for edification here are some pics:

Coral Snake has a pic with the article.

Here is a King Snake. There are various varieties but this is the one that looks like a coral snake. Notice that the nose stars out red and not black. That is the dead give-away. So remember the old slogan; if the nose is black get back. As for me I would not mess with either one although king snakes are harmless.

http://tinyurl.com/ya2omm7c

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

True for 'kingsnakes' but normally doesn't king just mean they eat other snakes? Australian Black Snakes are king snakes and eat the equally venomous but aggressive brown snake. They normally choose whether to inject venom based on whether they are defending or planning to eat what they are biting. King cobras are also venomous and dangerous.

And all snakes can cause heart attacks in many male homo sapiens and all females just by looking at one, and are a great cure for constipation.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 09:02 AM (IeDO8)

330 The doubling of the standard deduction is a big deal. Shame that outgoing pols like Flake are against it.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 09:02 AM (PUmDY)

331 These remembrances of the Carter years remind me that none of the younger voters today have any clue what those years were like, and why we all still despise Jimmy Carter so much. For the last 20 or 30 years, I feel greatly for the people who have lost jobs, and who's industries have been outsourced. (the Disney workers who had to train foreign replacements, frex) But for those who were able to hang onto jobs, it has been pretty good economic times, comparatively, for about 35 years now. Some ups and downs, but remove the politicking and they haven't really been all that big. (Even 2008 - 2009 loan crisis was over fairly quickly)

but back when Carter was Pres, the ENTIRE country sucked for everyone, every transaction, every day! And all the "experts" would say was "oh this is the New Normal, no one can do anything about this, all of our Top Men are on it and they all agree, so Quit yur Bellyachin', peasants."

And youngsters forget that what Reagan did more than anything was to ignore all the Top Men and all the Naysayers who said he was a fool to think he could change anything, and he turned all the policies upside down, and by sheer force of will put in place the policies that led to the 80's boom and most of the growth this country has seen since then.

And oh, how the Left has ALWAYS hated him for that!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:02 AM (V2Yro)

332 very limited cannibalism by some of the party on already dead bodies...

******

That'll Come Back To Bite You - a limerick

At the trial of Old Mister Donner
The defendant said, "Spare me Yer Honor!"
Now why should we quibble
I just took one nibble
Plus we all knew he was a goner.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2018 09:03 AM (m45I2)

333 CNN is this illiterate:

"McCain is a genuine American hero -- who fought and suffered for his country in the theater of war and had *decided* the better part of the last four decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a two-time presidential candidate"

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 09:04 AM (0bRDi)

334 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner was my first new car!
Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 09:00 AM (FMMBD)

Prolly wish you still had it

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 09:04 AM (Ymy4N)

335 330 The doubling of the standard deduction is a big deal. Shame that outgoing pols like Flake are against it."

"Shame"? Depends on how you look at it. Flake coming out and showing his True Colors on issues like this are one of the reasons he is now referred to as "Outgoing".

Some good ones are retiring this cycle, for personal reasons (Hensarling, for instance), but for most of the ones that are leaving, THANK YOU DONALD TRUMP!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:06 AM (V2Yro)

336 My first car that wasn't a farm vehicle was a hand me down 1956 Renault 4CV. A genuine POS. Some sister I got

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 09:06 AM (Ymy4N)

337 That'll Come Back To Bite You - a limerick

At the trial of Old Mister Donner
The defendant said, "Spare me Yer Honor!"
Now why should we quibble
I just took one nibble
Plus we all knew he was a goner."

Yer Honor, that man is innocent! What's more I'd feel privileged to have him over for dinner anytime!!!

Posted by: Alferd Packer at May 12, 2018 09:08 AM (V2Yro)

338 I went to the local Carter Center with my Dad while my Mom was on a shopping binge once. It was depressing.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 09:08 AM (PUmDY)

339 Any military aviators around here? I'm curious about a pros take on the F-35. There is a prototype at the Air and Space Museum in D.C., and it looks damn cool. Despite the programs issues (yeah, let's get Lockheed and Boeing to collaborate), it looks like this plane is pretty amazing.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 12, 2018 09:08 AM (ty7RM)

340 The Atlanta Fed has upped their forecast to 4% annual GDP growth.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 12, 2018 08:58 AM (+Dllb)

Barry O: About time the recognized how good MY economy is going to be

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:08 AM (SiINZ)

341 1972 Plymouth Roadrunner was my first new car!

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 09:00 AM (FMMBD)

Prolly wish you still had it

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2018 09:04 AM (Ymy4N)

You bet I do! Still remember sitting in the showroom playing with the shifting lever. Salesman went out for a test drive with me, probably didn't trust me. I was just out of college and had a good job.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 09:09 AM (FMMBD)

342 I have always read and heard King Snakes were not poisonous and since they did eat poisonous snakes we should leave them alone. And I have never heard of anyone being harmed by a kingsnake like we have around here. They do kill by constriction so they normally don't go for the bite.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 09:09 AM (mpXpK)

343 John McCain is not fighting a losing battle." Um.
Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 09:01 AM

Well to be truthful its still a nip and tuck between Mueller and the Leftists against President Trump

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 09:10 AM (aC6Sd)

344 45 44
So my morning newspaper breathlessly reports that Trump knew about:
A
New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael
Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman was abusing women...

You had to read all the way to the bottom of the article to see it was long before Trump became President.

Posted by: Colin at May 12, 2018 06:26 AM (FMMBD)

What I don't understand about that flap being ginned up by the MFM is so-what if he knew what a creep the guy was. They were not exactly friends from what I can find.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party

Yes, and Trump just heard rumors from Cohen. He's supposed to start a federal investigation of it as a private citizen? Now maybe if it was in a dossier he would have had to do something.

I think MSM's logic is making it's audience stupid.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 09:10 AM (IeDO8)

345 CNN is this illiterate:

"McCain is a genuine American hero -- who fought and suffered for his country in the theater of war and had *decided* the better part of the last four decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a two-time presidential candidate"

Posted by: m at May 12, 2018 09:04 AM (0bRDi)

Gee, I wonder if that's what they said about him in 2008 when he was running against their boyfriend

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:10 AM (SiINZ)

346 And that's it for today. And as a footnote; temps peaked out here yesterday at 103F. Unbelievable for May.
_________________

We had the same here.

Not so unbelievable for us, as it's AZ.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 12, 2018 09:13 AM (fqUgw)

347 I've been wondering, just how long has Snoozy been an informant.

It is a bit of a head scratcher that he wasn't just an early GOPe supporter of Der Trump. He was THE FIRST. Almost like the Chamber of Cocks said: "Go keep an eye on this guy. He might actually do what he says..."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 12, 2018 09:14 AM (ty7RM)

348 Ugh, I am kind of freaking out. Is this what love is? Periodic freaking out?

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:15 AM (TL2pK)

349 5 Yes Coral Snakes are poison and yes, they do look somewhat like a variety of king snake. But don't attempt to find out the hard way. Here we have man in AL dying because he didn't

Snakes are venomous. Mushrooms are poisonous.

Coral snakes and sea kraits are not dangerous as they tend to be docile and have very small fangs at the rear of the palate.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid, at May 12, 2018 09:16 AM (wAauG)

350 F35 may be over budget and overdue, but at least it underperforms!

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2018 09:18 AM (jHrzU)

351
68 Luckily I have no Coral or Cobra snakes here,

Wut you gonna use for a necktie, man?

Posted by: Lonesome George Thorogood at May 12, 2018 09:18 AM (wAauG)

352 Yes, and Trump just heard rumors from Cohen. He's supposed to start a federal investigation of it as a private citizen? Now maybe if it was in a dossier he would have had to do something. ?

Everything about this story is dirty, and stupid to boot. First, the only way this came out is that some of the people who raided Cohen's files are rifling through them and leaking what they think is juicy to the MSM. Illegal, illegal, illegal, and Contempt of Justice in its purest form.
Next, there's not even a hint, IF this is true as portrayed, that Trump and Co. had actual evidence, he just was told the rumor, which apparently half of NYC knew. And last, it's stupid to say that Trump should have kneecapped Schneiderman when every Dem in Congress would have called for him to be impeached if he had.

And lastly, the story as told doesn't hurt Trump at all, it just points out that everyone knew that one of the Dem's biggest stars enjoyed abusing women in private, and all the Dem's knew about it.

I think this is an example of the Masters anxious to put anything they find in Cohen's files out into the public, and miscalculating, and all of their little lap dogs in the MSM are too stupid to even realize their masters have made a mistake in throwing this to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:19 AM (V2Yro)

353 Just like Leftists knew about all about other Leftist sexual predators, but was it Trump's job to tell the world and would the media believed him?

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2018 09:20 AM (aC6Sd)

354 The "source" is probably not a mole - not someone inside the campaign, but someone with dealings with the campaign - according to Kimberly Strassel.

My current theory is Julian Assange.

The source has worked for FBI and CIA. I think Assange is a CIA asset.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2018 09:20 AM (jHrzU)

355 Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:15 AM (TL2pK)

Why the angst?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 09:21 AM (2saZ/)

356 Jamie Kirchick
@jkirchick
Two Obama administration officials call for Europeans to recall their ambassadors from Washington, and expel American ambassadors from their capitals, in response to US pulling out of JCPOA (phony ass Iran treaty).

Are these people crazier than they are evil or eviler than they are crazy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 12, 2018 09:21 AM (+y/Ru)

357 Despite the programs issues (yeah, let's get Lockheed and Boeing to collaborate), it looks like this plane is pretty amazing.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 12, 2018 09:08 AM (ty7RM)

Not involved in the F-35 program, but little I've heard in my discipline indicates that weight limitations are a concern. Despite the designator (F), it's actually more of a fighter-bomber than an interceptor. That role is reserved for the F-22, but we don't have very many of them.

My suspicion is that the F-35 program has turned into a $h!t-show and is the now the F-111 redux. Too much money has been spent and now more money is going to be spent in order to salvage the program.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 12, 2018 09:21 AM (5Yee7)

358 President Trump allegedly laid into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a White House meeting, as border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continue to skyrocket, according to a new report.

Trump lashed out at his Cabinet, and Nielsen in particular, when told that the number of people arrested for illegally crossing the Mexico border topped 50,000 for the second consecutive month. The blowup lasted more than 30 minutes, according to a person with knowledge of what transpired, as Trump's face reddened and he raised his voice, saying Nielsen needed to "close down" the border.

"Why don't you have solutions? How is this still happening?" he said, adding later, "We need to shut it down. We're closed."

Keep kicking ass and taking names Mr. President

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (SiINZ)

359 >>9
Another Republican traitor to the second amendment.

She's a hog face.

Posted by: Under Fire at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (r9UYA)

360 @355

Haven't heard from the guy in 24 hours. Kind of worried about him, but more upset about it.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (TL2pK)

361 Mnemonic for coral v king snakes:

Black next to white you're alright
Red next to yellow can kill a fellow

Posted by: Simon Carly at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (B5ySB)

362 King snakes are beautiful - I used to catch them at boy scout camp in northern arizona, and they're harmless. And yes, I learned how to tell the difference between King Snakes and Coral Snakes. Only saw a coral snake in the wild once.

Just fyi, in the South I think the most dangerous snake is the Copperhead, because they'll stay quiet and get up close to where you live, and then strike without warning. Kinda like a democrat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:23 AM (V2Yro)

363 358
President Trump allegedly laid into Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a White House meeting, as border
crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continue to skyrocket, according to
a new report.

Trump lashed out at his Cabinet, and Nielsen in particular, when
told that the number of people arrested for illegally crossing the
Mexico border topped 50,000 for the second consecutive month. The blowup
lasted more than 30 minutes, according to a person with knowledge of
what transpired, as Trump's face reddened and he raised his voice,
saying Nielsen needed to "close down" the border.

"Why don't you have solutions? How is this still happening?" he said, adding later, "We need to shut it down. We're closed."

Keep kicking ass and taking names Mr. President

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (SiINZ)

Actually that whole story which originated in the NYT is now being called fake news.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 09:23 AM (mpXpK)

364 TP>> Heh! you sound like you're smitten. Go do something productive and quit worrying.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 09:24 AM (2saZ/)

365 Vic, are you a Coasters fan?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 12, 2018 09:24 AM (PUmDY)

366 cofffee up

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 09:24 AM (mpXpK)

367 Actually that whole story which originated in the NYT is now being called fake news.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 12, 2018 09:23 AM (mpXpK)

Well I just saw it in Breitbart and it made me happy

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:25 AM (SiINZ)

368 Drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait 'til lunchtime!

Posted by: Hungarian Immigrant at May 12, 2018 09:25 AM (oVJmc)

369 very small fangs at the rear of the palate.

*****

Hissssstory - a limerick

In the Garden all golden and glammery
The serpent engaged in flim-flammery
Now who would have guessed
He bit Eve on the breast
and said "Fangs! Fangs for the mammaries"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2018 09:25 AM (m45I2)

370 Haven't heard from the guy in 24 hours. Kind of worried about him, but more upset about it.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:22 AM (TL2pK)

Try texting him 65,000 times

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2018 09:26 AM (SiINZ)

371
64 Luckily I have no Coral or Cobra snakes here, only Timber Rattlers, Water Moccasins and Cottonmouths.

Posted by: Skip

In Newfoundland we have no snakes of any kind unless they are some idiot's pet. Although I have heard rumors of garter snakes on the west coast. No dangerous spiders either, only ones that eat bugs. On the other hand we have 1,000 pound moose who will run out the woods and crash through your windshield.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 09:26 AM (IeDO8)

372
Haven't heard from the guy in 24 hours. Kind of worried about him, but more upset about it."

Just be sure not to text him 65,000 times.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:26 AM (V2Yro)

373 @364

Haha thanks. I was productive all day yesterday in anticipation he would get in contact with me. Now, I am just plain anxious.

Not sure whether to ride it out and wait for him to contact me, or to message him....I don't want to appear clingy and weak.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:27 AM (TL2pK)

374 What good are volcanoes if you don't feed them?

Posted by: torabora at May 12, 2018 09:27 AM (Y274z)

375 Muldoon, I had a slight disquiet when I saw what I thought might be acanthosis nigricans on the back of my GF's neck, but I think what is going on is that the chain I bought her on really steep discount may not be all gold.

I'm not sure if this means I should leave diagnosis to the experts, or go to reputable jewelers.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2018 09:28 AM (2K6fY)

376 113 One of my great mystery's is why I never read anyone ever say they went to school with Obama..Or played with him as a child.

Posted by: Colin

There was a puppy who played with him but it didn't end well, just medium-well.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA 1997 at May 12, 2018 09:30 AM (IeDO8)

377 The slave patrol known as the Guardian wants Candace Owens back on Plantation Donk picking cotton as Marx intended.

https://bit.ly/2rHvnn4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 12, 2018 09:31 AM (+y/Ru)

378 In Newfoundland we have no snakes of any kind unless they are some idiot's pet. Although I have heard rumors of garter snakes on the west coast. No dangerous spiders either, only ones that eat bugs. On the other hand we have 1,000 pound moose who will run out the woods and crash through your windshield."

I have friends who duck hunt a lot in East Texas and Louisiana, and they remind why they (or anyone else who goes out into swampy water) were super heavy hip waders that can't be bitten through - they say out there walking through that water, every step you take you can feel something alive squirming out from under your foot, and you never know what it is. That's what Cajun life is all about, really - finding stuff to eat is easy, staying alive from everything that's trying to bite you and kill you, that's the hard part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:32 AM (V2Yro)

379 Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:27 AM (TL2pK)

Then don't call or text.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 09:32 AM (2saZ/)

380 cobs got the day off?

Posted by: BignJames at May 12, 2018 09:34 AM (0+nbW)

381 Ugh, I am kind of freaking out. Is this what love is? Periodic freaking out?
Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:15 AM (TL2pK)

No.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2018 09:34 AM (2K6fY)

382 Coffee thread is up

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 12, 2018 09:34 AM (2saZ/)

383 375 Muldoon, I had a slight disquiet when I saw what I thought might be acanthosis nigricans on the back of my GF's neck,"

I'd freak out if I saw nigricans on anyone's neck.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:35 AM (V2Yro)

384 Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2018 09:25 AM (m45I2)

I shared that masterpiece on another forum that I frequent.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 12, 2018 09:35 AM (+y/Ru)

385 @379

So you think messaging him would be a bad idea then?

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:36 AM (TL2pK)

386 Tickled Pink, don't be needy, and if he isn't doing what you need, be prepared to walk away.
Needy, so the saying goes, is catfish bait. For anyone but bottom feeders it is repulsive.

You don't want a bottom feeder, be sure of that.

(not chunked up, battered and deepfried at least. Nom nom, fried catfish!)

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2018 09:38 AM (2K6fY)

387 So you think messaging him would be a bad idea then?"

It's easy to be snarky, but we don't know him and we don't know you. Is he feeling smothered, or is he just being stupid? Your answer is no if the first, yes if the second. Only you can be the judge of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2018 09:39 AM (V2Yro)

388 I'd freak out if I saw nigricans on anyone's neck.

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I thought they'd learned their lesson at Rourke's Drift.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 12, 2018 09:41 AM (+y/Ru)

389 @386

I totally agree.....that's why I didn't text him yesterday. I was trying to be cool, calm, collected, and not needy.

I guess I just don't know where the line is that I should or shouldn't cross. I mean, I genuinely do want to make sure he is okay and not laid up in a hospital somewhere.

Maybe he is just testing me, and I don't wanna fail the test.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:41 AM (TL2pK)

390 Maybe he is just testing me, and I don't wanna fail the test.

Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:41 AM (TL2pK)

People that test you are also sending you a subtle message!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 09:55 AM (n9EOP)

391 Maybe he is just testing me, and I don't wanna fail the test.
Posted by: TickledPink at May 12, 2018 09:41 AM (TL2pK)

Don't make it a game, just move on. The whole I don't want to fail thing is needy and not really centered. Go live your life and meet other people.

See, there are about 3 billion men on the planet, give or take, a fair number of whom are not married or horribly flawed. He is perfectly aware of that too if he has a lick of sense.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 12, 2018 09:55 AM (2K6fY)

392 NOOD

and BBL

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at May 12, 2018 09:55 AM (n9EOP)

393 Where you at in ET, Tom? North of Nacogdoches? Which is full of roaches.

Hey now. Look out.

Posted by: jazzuscounty at May 12, 2018 10:12 AM (x8MK0)

394 My idea for "food stamps" is raw materials only. No nothin' that is ready to eat. Want a sammich? Get bread and stuff. No sody pop. Not a popular idea, very triggering.

Posted by: Burger Chef at May 12, 2018 10:16 AM (RuIsu)

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