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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (6/26/18 ) Quotes of The Day Palooza

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” Groucho Marx

Quote II

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” Oscar Wilde

Quote III

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” Albert Einstein

Quote IV

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” Camille Paglia

Quote V

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." Booker T. Washington

Quote VI

The immigrant now has a superior place in the moral order. The state is now in service to foreigners. Z Man

Quote VII

The extraordinary and astounding hypocrisy of it, to see the constancy of the assertion of Christian virtue by political leaders in this country who have established internment camps for babies and toddlers," Schmidt said. "By the way, and I never in a million years thought I would sit here or anywhere and say this, but the difference now between Venezuela and Cuba and the United States is this. Venezuela and Cuba are the countries without internment camps for babies and toddlers." MSNBC analyst Steve Schmidt.

Mr. Schmidt you are free to:
[ ] Eat shit
[ ] Fvck off
[ ] Don't let the door hit your ass while you leave for 3rd world shitholes
[x] All of the above

Quote VIII

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan

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As my Mother would say, "Well, it's about time!!!" No, not me living up to one of her goals, the FDA has found marijuana useful.There is acceptable use for pot.

Marijuana now has an accepted medical use.

The US Food and Drug Administration announced today, Monday June 25, the approval of the country’s first marijuana-based prescription medication. The drug is called Epidiolex and is a plant-derived oral solution of cannabidiol (CBD)—a chemical component of marijuana that does not cause intoxication or a euphoric “high.” The FDA approved it for use in patients aged two and older who suffer from rare and severe forms of epilepsies known as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, which can develop early in childhood. Epidiolex’s approval also marks the first time the FDA has approved a drug to treat Dravet syndrome.

Do we legalize pot? And crack down on opioids and cocaine? Do we just legalize it all? If we alter this war on drugs we will need to adjust the treatment efforts as well. There is no perfect one size fits all solution to the problems.

As long as America is the "Land of the free" there will always be a desire for drugs and alcohol. 'Scuse me while I get off my soap box.


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It appears that the LWCF is about to disappear. What is the LWCF? Why a government programs that spends money on land projects.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is about to expire. And if the government takes no action, it will go away on September 30. That will leave funding holes at both the state and federal levels that likely won’t be filled for years to come.

The LWCF has benefitted American communities and open spaces for more than five decades. But the majority of Americans aren’t even aware of its existence.

At the state level, the program funds everything from city pools to public beach access. And its grant program has completed over 40,000 projects since its 1964 inception.


Seems to be a better way to spend money than the joys of sex with contraceptives. Or why Lesbians look fat in flannel.

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If you can't run with the big dogs you best stay on the porch or your Mamma's basement.

Contrary to the beliefs of leftists, civility is a two-way street.

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Remember “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?”

And one more thing, the men who save the world here during those frightful few months, were white. They were white males. Thank God! for toxic masculinity that could defeat the German war machine.

Yes, the ‘Boys of Pointe du Hoc’ could tell a thing or two to our SJWs, safe in their ‘diversity’ positions in our elite universities. It’s time we taught our children the real history of America. The history that saved the world, many times over. The history that put men on the Moon. The history that rebuilt Europe. That is the America I know, and the one I am teaching my children about.

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Depending on the subjective definition of "Moderation" I could live to be one old mean bastard.

A recent study has linked a daily cup of coffee and glass of wine to playing a role in the longevity of your life. Ongoing research has revealed similar habits in everyday behaviors of people who live to be 90 and beyond.
The 90+ study is one of the largest studies in the world of the “oldest-old” Americans. Some 1,800 others between the ages 90-99 have jumped on board with this research, contributing their blood and DNA, having their bodies imaged, and sharing details of their lifestyle.

The study says that people who drink "moderate amounts of coffee and alcohol" live longer than people who don't.


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Spelling and/or formatting errors are a bitch. Or you had one job to do.

June 22 (UPI) -- A 30-foot guitar installed outside of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in New Jersey was corrected after onlookers pointed out a massive typo.

The sign, installed Thursday at the corner of Route 30 and Virginia Avenue, contains the details of a Gibson Les Paul guitar, including a rhythm and treble pickup selector switch with a giant misspelling, "RHYTHEM."


Spelling and/or formatting errors are pretty petty in the big game of life. Now we are talking about some serious errors. Fourteen fvcking million dollars are missing. Government. Help. You. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, Yad.

The Crow Tribe of Montana was classified as “high risk” by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for failing to properly document millions of dollars received from the government under the Tribal Transportation Program (TTP), government auditors said in a report released Monday.

“We could not perform the audit because the contractor and the BIA could not provide the necessary documentation for its contract or claim,” the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of the Interior (DOI) said.

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Fourteen Million missing. Amateurs, they should have taken lessons from Rita Crundwell who walked away with $54 Million.


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What's been happening in Manitowoc? Let's find out.

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Children should be seen and not heard. Unless they are naming their sibling. What?

Actress Hilary Duff, 30, recently announced that she and her boyfriend Matthew Koma, 31, are having a baby.

When she went on The Late Late Show soon after, she told host James Corden that her six year-old son, Luca, is interested in helping name his new sibling.

"We're up for any kind of suggestions, but Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," she said.

"When I just refer to it as 'Cofant' — and I'm like, 'That would be so cool, no one at school's going to be named 'Cofant'!' — he's like 'Croissant. Cofant Croissant.' It goes together. There's no separating the two."

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Driverless cars. Automated burger flippers. What's next on the horizon, robot sport refs?

Kill the (robot) ump!

Let's assume someone seriously wants to create a robot umpire or sports referee. Is it possible to build an accurate and trustworthy augmented reality solution today? Or must we wait for the technology to catch up?

It was the kind of play that gives an umpire—or a baseball fan—nightmares. It was Oct. 26, 1985, and the sixth game of the World Series was underway at Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. At the top of the ninth inning, the home team was staring into the abyss. Their opponents, the St. Louis Cardinals, were up three games to two and holding a 1-0 lead. If the Royals couldn’t put some runs on the scoreboard stat, the show was over.

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Contrary to the screams and cries of Biff Kristol, Rachel Maddow, George Will and others........The United States of America is a pretty damn good place to live.


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The ONT Musical Interlude


June 26, 2008, Total Guitar magazine voted Celine Dion’s rendition of the AC/DC track ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ as the world's worst cover version ever. In the best cover versions list, Jimi Hendrix was voted into first place with his version of the Bob Dylan song ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ The Beatles rendition of ‘Twist and Shout’, (first recorded by the Top Notes), was in second place, followed by the Guns N' Roses version of the Wings song ‘Live and Let Die' via thisdayinmusic.com


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June 26, 1955, Born on this day, Mick Jones, guitarist, singer with The Clash, who had the 1979 UK No. 11 single London Calling and the 1982 US No. 8 single 'Rock The Casbah. Their 1991 UK No.1 single 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go', was first released 1982. And with Big Audio Dynamite had the 1986 UK No.11 single 'e=mc2'. Jones plays with Carbon/Silicon and also toured the world as part of the Gorillaz live band. via thisdayinmusic.com


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My, my, my. NY Times reporterette really gets around.

A New York Times journalist at the center of questions about media ethics and how information leaked from intelligence services reached new heights Monday after a report from the paper shows the reporter had dated more than one member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Ali Watkins, currently with The times, faced scrutiny after a Department of Justice investigation revealed that she was having a romantic relationship with Senate Security staffer James Wolfe, a man around 30 years her senior, while she was working at other outlets like BuzzFeed news and Politico.

But Watkins did not limit her romantic entanglements to just one source


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Drunk driving? Yes, it can happen. Busted twice in 24 hours. Genius Award Winner.

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Customer service above and beyond the call of duty. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.


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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Take That!!

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 09:16 PM




Comments

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1 No More. They Must be Made to Stop.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2018 09:17 PM (9De+S)

2 Glad I didn't publish my tome on the last thread.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 26, 2018 09:18 PM (FTlwv)

3 So. Much. Content.

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at June 26, 2018 09:18 PM (u56bl)

4 Today marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 09:18 PM (0Ef//)

5 Ahh....roomy, like a base ball ground.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:19 PM (fA1SL)

6 waaaa?

Posted by: Dumpster at June 26, 2018 09:19 PM (UdKB7)

7
Anyone want to see my tits?

Posted by: Abigail Shapiro at June 26, 2018 09:19 PM (8O3HH)

8 Fifth?

Posted by: Surfperch at June 26, 2018 09:19 PM (/FLNB)

9 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2018 09:20 PM (0bGss)

10 A good friend will help you move. A real friend will help you move a body. A best friend brings his own shovel.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 09:20 PM (yQpMk)

11 I see why the ONT is so early. There is a buttload of stuff there to read before I fall out.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:20 PM (UdKB7)

12 10th! And First!

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2018 09:20 PM (9De+S)

13 Thanks for the ONT.

Groucho: the best Marx.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 09:20 PM (GIHSy)

14 Well, at least one of those.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2018 09:21 PM (9De+S)

15 Ahh....roomy, like a base ball ground.


SERPENTINE!!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 09:21 PM (yQpMk)

16 Wow, that's some content right there! Nice pic at the top. Thanks, Mis Hum.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:21 PM (2sCft)

17 The New & Improved ONT - Now with MOAR CONTENT!

Thanks, MisHum. You ROCK!

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:22 PM (Gvnja)

18 Early t'nite.

Oscar Wilde, it seems, gave up on trying to love women...

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:22 PM (6FqZa)

19 "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." Oscar Wilde




Had he taken his own advice he would have avoid time in the clink

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 09:23 PM (SiINZ)

20 18 Early t'nite.

Oscar Wilde, it seems, gave up on trying to love women...
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:22 PM (6FqZa)

I am not sure he ever gave it the good old college try.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 09:23 PM (GIHSy)

21 That post! It just went on and on and on and on!

Still no longcat, though.
___

"WAR! … as long as it's civil."
-Stuff Andrew Breitbart didn't say.

Posted by: mindful webworker - wasted my vote by voting at June 26, 2018 09:23 PM (jMD9L)

22 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (KCxzN)

23 After all the negativity of the last thread, I want to shout that I feel incredibly excited about tomorrow, specifically about what I think is going to happen at 10 pm Eastern Tomorrow. It's foolish to speculate on something that we will all know the truth of in a few hours, so I won't.

But my working hypothesis is that this week is our Battle of Midway - we're still in the middle of it, but I think the outcome of this battle is decided tomorrow morning.

Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.

It's coming, just wait for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (V2Yro)

24 17 The New & Improved ONT - Now with MOAR CONTENT!

Thanks, MisHum. You ROCK!
Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:22 PM (Gvnja)

humbly bows.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (neocU)

25 Good thing this ONT is early, huuuuuge quantities of content. Thanks Miss. Hum.!!!!

Posted by: Random Lurker Commenter at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (oLa9K)

26 23. What is this good thing?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (fA1SL)

27 Let's get this beatdown party started. Leftists, you called this one.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (Y9uH4)

28 23. - 'tick tock' ?

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (6FqZa)

29 Marijuana is the cure for anorexia.


Well, probably not but it should be.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (+lOpA)

30 Wow, early ONT! Good evening, all!

I saw Steve Schmidt on the frickin' Chris Hayes MSNPropagandaBC show tonight. What a sanctimonious prick. If he is a typical GOPe-type, good riddance, and take all of you pals, like the Mika- Brzenski (sp?) wanna-be Nicolle Wallace with you.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (AMIL/)

31 Lurv that lighthouse shot. Ya can tell it was taken in the golden hour. No light like that anywhere.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (fA1SL)

32 Oops M I s Hum . Damn auto cucumber

Posted by: Random Lurker Commenter at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (oLa9K)

33 Gorsuch and Thomas drop thousand pounders on the Union flattop?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (0Ef//)

34 23 After all the negativity of the last thread, I want to shout that I feel incredibly excited about tomorrow, specifically about what I think is going to happen at 10 pm Eastern Tomorrow. It's foolish to speculate on something that we will all know the truth of in a few hours, so I won't.

But my working hypothesis is that this week is our Battle of Midway - we're still in the middle of it, but I think the outcome of this battle is decided tomorrow morning.

Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.

It's coming, just wait for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (V2Yro)

Not so much.

The Battle of Midway got a badass video game based on it.

The Battle of AFSCME won't.

Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (9De+S)

35 no one expects the early ONT!

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (0bGss)

36 Anyone want to see my tits?


I forgot all about Abby's tit meat. I must be losing it.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (+lOpA)

37 Tom Servo: what going to happen at 10PM eastern tomorrow?

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (KCxzN)

38 >>It's coming, just wait for it.

I have been.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (gSALf)

39 "RHYTHEM."

I saw a big "For Sale" sign the other day. "10 Arces".

I wasn't sure I saw it right until I drove by it again on the way back.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (UdKB7)

40 I bet I could make Oscar Wilde love me.

Posted by: samantha mears with a machete at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (6FqZa)

41

Little Boy. The first version.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (IqV8l)

42 32 Oops M I s Hum . Damn auto cucumber
Posted by: Random Lurker Commenter at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (oLa9K)

all is good, don't worry.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (neocU)

43 Best cover ever is ZZ Topp's version of Sam and Dave's I Thank You.

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (BqR2k)

44 I saw Steve Schmidt on the frickin' Chris Hayes MSNPropagandaBC show tonight. What a sanctimonious prick. If he is a typical GOPe-type, good riddance, and take all of you pals, like the Mika- Brzenski (sp?) wanna-be Nicolle Wallace with you.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (AMIL/)



There are cucks and then there is Steve Schmidt what takes it to a whole nother level

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 09:27 PM (SiINZ)

45 35 no one expects the early ONT!
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (0bGss)

No one expects a headache the size of Montana either.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:28 PM (neocU)

46 I think it would be a lot of fun to toss bombs from a biplane.
It's like the ultimate lawn darts.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:28 PM (UdKB7)

47 For a few seconds I thought the dude in the plane was Kermit the frog.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 26, 2018 09:29 PM (2NqXo)

48 Just think if Yamamato had not lost his nerve at Midway like Kurita did at Surigao. That instead of retreating after the loss of four carriers and the mauling Mikuma and Mogami got; had instead joined with the invasion fleet his force that included Yamato and simply balled their way in to conquer Midway?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 09:29 PM (0Ef//)

49 I think it would be a lot of fun to toss bombs from a biplane.
It's like the ultimate lawn darts.


I saw the Red Baron screw that up on Johnny Quest.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 09:29 PM (yQpMk)

50 The Battle of Midway got a badass video game based on it.

The Battle of AFSCME won't.


Should have a hell of a song, though.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 09:30 PM (fVubI)

51 Swedish Vallhund, a.k.a. Wolf-Corgi.

https://twitter.com/landpsychology/status
/1011705427367809025

Want !

And g'night, Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 26, 2018 09:30 PM (GNCPT)

52 35
no one expects the early ONT!


Posted by: redc1c4 at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (0bGss)
MisHums' three ONT weapons are pertinent quotes, cutting satire, humorous photos, and terrific music videos... DRAT!

MisHum's FOUR ONT weapons are...

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 09:30 PM (AMIL/)

53 23 After all the negativity of the last thread, I want to shout that I feel incredibly excited about tomorrow, specifically about what I think is going to happen at 10 pm Eastern Tomorrow. It's foolish to speculate on something that we will all know the truth of in a few hours, so I won't.

About 10:15 am EST, I expect I will be having multiple orgasms!

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (Gvnja)

54 Steve Schmidt is Stupor Cuck! ????

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (0Ef//)

55 23 But my working hypothesis is that this week is our Battle of Midway - we're still in the middle of it, but I think the outcome of this battle is decided tomorrow morning.

Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.

It's coming, just wait for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (V2Yro)

+++
Ya big tease. What is it? Com'on, what?

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (2sCft)

56
A wasted evening at handling class. Too many people tonight trying to work with their dogs before the July shows here in Texas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (GWOQG)

57 For a few seconds I thought the dude in the plane was Kermit the frog.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 26, 2018 09:29 PM (2NqXo)

I thought it was Elmo.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (/FLNB)

58 What's going on tomorrow at 10pm?

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (kufk0)

59 Trade Unions Delenda Est.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:32 PM (md3fh)

60 BTW, the instigator shit behind the Chao-McConnell is a Mexican immigrants' kid student names Roberto...

My parents are Mexican immigrants, and I was infuriated that a man who blocked the Dream Act and a Trump cabinet official were invited to my campus. As a result, my friends quickly mobilized and went to the event that was held inside Copley Formal.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 26, 2018 09:32 PM (Evws/)

61 >>What's going on tomorrow at 10pm?

Strzok is testifying.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2018 09:32 PM (gSALf)

62 Sodomy free Baseball Ground tomorrow at 10:01pm EST!

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (kBuGL)

63 The union dues case is manana?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (89T5c)

64 Ya big tease. What is it? Com'on, what?
Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (2sCft)

The Mother of All Supreme Court Decisions. They're deciding on whether Unions can take your money without your consent- or the End of the Democrat Party as we Know it.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (Gvnja)

65 I like Disturb's cover of Sound of Silence.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (kufk0)

66 That instead of retreating after the loss of four carriers and the mauling Mikuma and Mogami got; had instead joined with the invasion fleet his force that included Yamato and simply balled their way in to conquer Midway?

Wouldn't the Enterprise and Hornet just have just put them on the bottom too?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (yQpMk)

67 We're under T-40 minutes now. Here is the YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHPtSfjoF8A

Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (sdi6R)

68 Warms the cockles of the empty space where my heart used to be, reading about the Red Hen scrunt whining about getting harassed after ejecting Sarah Sanders. Tough shit, bitch; that's YOUR rules.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (5Yee7)

69
Swedish Vallhund, a.k.a. Wolf-Corgi.

"Vallhund" is the Swedish for "little bossy pain-in-the-patoot dog."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (GWOQG)

70 "No one expects a headache the size of Montana either"

maybe you should
get a cuppa coffee

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (UdKB7)

71 About 10:15 am EST, I expect I will be having multiple orgasms!
Posted by: ALH

acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=375872#c29067442
At 10:05 I should be experiencing multiple orgasms if all goes well.
Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 06:14 PM (Gvnja)


You posted that... more than once.

Posted by: samantha mears with a machete at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (6FqZa)

72 I like Disturb's cover of Sound of Silence.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (kufk0)



But it can't beat Maxwell Smart's Cone of Silence

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (SiINZ)

73 /sock

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (6FqZa)

74 >>>Mr. Schmidt you are free to:
[ ] Eat shit


Are you finished with that, Senor?

Posted by: Starving Venezuelan Peasant, Desprate for a Meal at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (/FLNB)

75 *temporarily hits chute*

I'm listening to Owen Benjamin's live stream and drinking copious amounts of Budweiser.

...The King of Beers.

-For All I be, This Bud's for Me

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (Ckg4U)

76 26 23. What is this good thing?"

Janus - it's not a big sexy topic, it's technical, and it's hard to explain to people that this is going to be the greatest change to US Labor Law since the Taft Hartley Act of 1947 authorized Right to Work states. It is not going to be an immediate change, but it is going to be a massive, system wide change that is going to change forever how the Democrat Party is funded, and which I believe is going to permanently seal the fate of the Democrat Party as a bi-coastal boutique party with no political bases in the center of the country at all.

And that is going to come on top of the Texas Redistricting Ruling, which was technical but huge, throwing away race based arguments that the left had been pushing for 9 years, and the dismissal of the Exxon Case in Oakland, which will eventually result in the collapse of every enviro-lawsuit the left has been filing around the country, and of course the Trump travel ban win, which demonstrates that these leftist judges and their deep state cohorts have been full of legal shit from the start.

These things may not be as heart pumping as idiot shouting in front of a restaurant, but THESE are the kind of events that shape and mold a countries future permanently.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (V2Yro)

77 Tomorrow is the Union Dues case.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (6FqZa)

78 Let us all pray for the wisdom of the SCOTUS -- or at least five of them. Killing the union's ability to automatically collect dues would be a knife in the heart of the Progs. Coming along with worker support shifting to Trump, this can be a Yuge change maker.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:35 PM (md3fh)

79 No one expects a headache the size of Montana either.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:28 PM (neocU)

I'm sorry you don't feel well.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:35 PM (Gvnja)

80 dang left off my pygmy pony sock

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:35 PM (UdKB7)

81 Strzok is testifying.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2018 09:32 PM


at 10 PM eastern? is he testifying from Singapore?

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (KCxzN)

82 @48 Just think if Yamamato had not lost his nerve at Midway like Kurita did at Surigao. That instead of retreating after the loss of four carriers and the mauling Mikuma and Mogami got; had instead joined with the invasion fleet his force that included Yamato and simply balled their way in to conquer Midway?
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And then what?

The purpose of the invasion was to draw the American carriers into a trap. It's possible (even likely, I'll grant you) that the invasion still could have proceeded. But so far as I can tell, Midway's primary strategic value was that it was closer to Hawaii than Yokosuke was (you might say that it was midway between the two locations /rimshot). And without Carrier Divisions 1 and 2, Japan's offensive strength was pretty much shot until and unless they managed to sink the remaining US carriers. The IJN only had two fleet carriers left at that point - Shokaku and Zuikaku. So long as the US had its carriers, the IJN wasn't going to launch a successful invasion of Hawaii without more carrier strength than it had on hand at that time.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (USMA7)

83 70 "No one expects a headache the size of Montana either"

maybe you should
get a cuppa coffee
Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (UdKB7)

What makes you think I don't have one here at the desk?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (neocU)

84 But I am trying to curb my enthusiasm for now, not count chickens before they hatch. The 4th carrier still has to be sunk tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (V2Yro)

85 Tomorrow is when your vote for Trump pays off.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (Gvnja)

86 I'm feeling deplorable.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (iTpm7)

87 If Strzok is in Singapore, he better not chew any gum or spit on the sidewalk or he's toast. If he is in the U.S., he's also toast.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (md3fh)

88 She really likes multiple orgasms.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (+lOpA)

89
No fun in being a Leftist if you can't compel people to do things they don't want to do or forbid them from doing things they enjoy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (GWOQG)

90 76. Inshallah, the progs will lose this, and, with it, some of their money and power.

* kicks dirt with toe, hoping it was MAGA DEFFSKWADZ Day at Chik-fil-a. *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (fA1SL)

91 Lurv that lighthouse shot. Ya can tell it was taken in the golden hour. No light like that anywhere.


Ya, fine, the light is nice.

But what kind of lighthouse is that? There are little slits for the beacons and they only point one way?

This is not a traditional lighthouse. The image says Cape Lighthouse, but I assure you it's not from Cape Cod, whence all the best lighthouses spring.

Here, it's not technically Cape Cod, but the Scituate Lighthouse is the epitome of the species:


https://bit.ly/2KqEung

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (fuK7c)

92 When do the justices usually announce retirements?

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:38 PM (kufk0)

93 No one expects a headache the size of Montana either.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


******


Ouch. Sounds like you're going to Helena handbasket!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2018 09:38 PM (m45I2)

94 I thought tomorrow's festivities with Strzok were gonna be behind closed doors at a 'confidential' senate meeting. I'd bet nothing is gonna come out of that, and I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 26, 2018 09:38 PM (qWg0i)

95 I'd rather see the money spent on prisons, spent on treatment.

And then the Police would have to go after the gangs and the illegal importers. Instead of the easy meat of the user.

people in jail for years cause they rolled a joint, sniffed a line popped a pill and got caught.

The "wars" against poverty and drugs were lost. It's time to surrender. Apply regulations to illegal importers and dealers.

Time to acknowledge the biblical saying: "blessed are the poor for they will always be with you."

We can't help all the poor we can help them help themselves. But they have to show willing. No generations of families on welfare. No rich people collecting Social Security.

Just stopping the waste by duplicated programs would be a start.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 09:38 PM (psHEv)

96 No fun in being a Leftist if you can't compel people to do things they don't want to do or forbid them from doing things they enjoy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (GWOQG)



I think they have the douche gene.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (+lOpA)

97 Oh, retirements might be announced at the end of the session, which is underway now. Could Trump have one, two or even three SCOTUS appointments in his pocket? That would be too sweet to bear.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (md3fh)

98 I knew about the hearing on the Union Dues. I agree it could be big and alter the political landscape. But is Peter Strzok still testifying tomorrow? Closed door testimony as I recall. Those hearings really, really should be public.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (2sCft)

99 When do the justices usually announce retirements?


******

About 20 minutes after their last heartbeat.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (m45I2)

100 @66 Wouldn't the Enterprise and Hornet just have just put them on the bottom too?
----------------------

IIRC, the Hornet had lost almost all of its planes at that point. I don't remember how many planes the other two carriers had left, but Hornet's flight groups had been part of the sacrifices that allowed the US latecomers to bomb the first three Japanese carriers.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (USMA7)

101 OScar Wilde as married and had 2 sons, so I guess he did give it a try. THat poor woman. AFter he was jailed she changed her last name to Holland and moved to the Continent with her sons. SHe died in poverty. one son was killed in WWI; the other one married late in life and had a son, Merlin Holland. I met Holland about 15 years ago when he was on a book tour promoting a book about his grandfather. he looks eerily like Oscar.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at June 26, 2018 09:40 PM (H80UQ)

102 When do the justices usually announce retirements?"

Summer, before the new session starts. That would be sweet, sweet icing on the cake.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:40 PM (V2Yro)

103 Ouch. Sounds like you're going to Helena handbasket!
Posted by: Muldoon
-----
I have met Helena Handbasket at a meetup.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:40 PM (kufk0)

104 Checks watch.

Checks HQ.

Checks watch.

Well, thank you! Now I can get some sleep at a decent time.

Posted by: joncelli, delivering his speech at June 26, 2018 09:40 PM (1FhAQ)

105 'Take me out to the baseball ground, take me out to the dusty floor...'

Posted by: kallisto at June 26, 2018 09:41 PM (v2uEC)

106 Let us all pray for the wisdom of the SCOTUS -- or at least five of them. Killing the union's ability to automatically collect dues would be a knife in the heart of the Progs. Coming along with worker support shifting to Trump, this can be a Yuge change maker.
Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:35 PM (md3fh)

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Yep. My sister is a non union educator in a Union system. She has been stolen from for over 2 decades. According to her, there is quiet talk about a lawsuit to recover the dues they were forced to pay. Slim chance of recovery, but the trial and discovery would be buckets of popcorn worthy.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 09:41 PM (I16G8)

107 "What makes you think I don't have one here at the desk?"

ya know FZ said he lived on that "black water" and cigarettes. That's not what killed him though.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:41 PM (UdKB7)

108 Is it wrong to NOT pray for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health on a daily basis?? Asking for an uncharitable friend.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (2sCft)

109 Not even the top 100.

Posted by: fluffy at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (cHbmY)

110 Oh, retirements might be announced at the end of the session, which is underway now. Could Trump have one, two or even three SCOTUS appointments in his pocket? That would be too sweet to bear.


Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:39 PM (md3fh)
*************************

The left was tweeting that they need to stack the courts. Remember it's 50% +1.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (PvFoN)

111 GOP released this video about the Left:

https://tinyurl.com/ydf5frw8


Not bad. It's a start.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (4ErVI)

112 Yeah, Helena Handbasket is an 'ette. I met her at the CoMoMe a couple months ago.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (md3fh)

113 I thought it was one of the other admirals that retreated at Midway and not Yamamoto. I know he was the Commander but not with the carriers. Hmmm.

I do think he was using bad information. Maybe one of the other admirals were the supplier?

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (psHEv)

114 @97 Oh, retirements might be announced at the end of the session, which is underway now. Could Trump have one, two or even three SCOTUS appointments in his pocket? That would be too sweet to bear.
-----------------

Saw something the last day or two (likely a leak, so take it with a grain of salt) supposedly from a Trump insider who said that Trump is expecting at least two retirements before his first term ends.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (USMA7)

115 Posted by: joncelli, delivering his speech at June 26, 2018 09:40 PM (1FhAQ)

Enjoy, but it will probably be short lived.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM (neocU)

116 Cat people I have a question. I have my daughters cat for an undetermined amount of time. I hate to be graphic but her butt is constantly dirty. I often have to put her in the tub and clean it...not my favorite thing to do....hers either.

What is causing it? I've had cats before and never had this problem. Food? Too fat? (I've cut back on her food). Litter brand? She eats wet and dry food? Should I skip the wet food? I'm stumped.

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (Enq6K)

117
Public unions - who pretty much ARE organized labor now - are a big, big funding source for the Dems. Make dues voluntary and you basically dry up that source.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (GWOQG)

118 I love that concept of the Golden Hour. I've always been aware that photos I take then always look better than at any other time of day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (V2Yro)

119 58 What's going on tomorrow at 10pm?
Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:31 PM (kufk0)

I'll be stopping at Dunkin' Donuts for coffee and a bagel!

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (SY1FC)

120 Webcast should be starting in a few minutes, if they are still go for launch.

Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (sdi6R)

121 Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:41 PM (UdKB7)

Winstons and 100% arabica beans can be unhealthy.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (neocU)

122 I love baseball ground. Man with stick hit ball, then make point when Throwing Guy yells , 'Serpentine!'

Posted by: kallisto at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (v2uEC)

123 can you shave the cat's butt?

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (UdKB7)

124 >>Saw something the last day or two (likely a leak, so take it with a grain of salt) supposedly from a Trump insider who said that Trump is expecting at least two retirements before his first term ends.

Heard an interview the other day from the guy at the Federalist Society who has put together Trump's list of SC judges, the same list where Gorsuch came from. He was saying the same thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (gSALf)

125 Pretty funny, watching the SCOTUS/Janus - Strzok testimony confusion. And the 10AM/PM thing.


Isn't Strzok's appearance a deposition, non-public? Haven't kept up, thought I saw that.


And the incredible, loathsome idiot Schmidt owes me a cigar. True story.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (QDnY+)

126 118. There's nothing like it. I don't care who you're photographing - golden hour, turn subject's face toward that light. Million dollar shot every time.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (fA1SL)

127 I'll be stopping at Dunkin' Donuts for coffee and a bagel!
Posted by: RI Red
--x--
Isn't that bad right before bed?

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (kufk0)

128 @106 Yep. My sister is a non union educator in a Union system. She has been stolen from for over 2 decades. According to her, there is quiet talk about a lawsuit to recover the dues they were forced to pay. Slim chance of recovery, but the trial and discovery would be buckets of popcorn worthy.
---------------------

Quite a while back, California actually passed a law stating that individual union members could require the union to not use their dues for political purposes. Unsurprisingly, some of the unions (including the state teachers' union) got caught breaking it. They were trying to use some weaselly-worded nonsense to justify what they were doing. The case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, where the unions lost.

That was several years ago.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (USMA7)

129 Yeah, Helena Handbasket is an 'ette.


******

**Johnny Carson voice**

I did not know that.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (m45I2)

130 I am very much in favor of legalizing all drugs and putting dispensaries in all major cities.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (UOcKN)

131 Saw something the last day or two (likely a leak, so take it with a grain of salt) supposedly from a Trump insider who said that Trump is expecting at least two retirements before his first term end."

A lot of people expect Kennedy to retire. Can't see any of the 4 libs doing that, but RBG ain't no spring chicken. Possible that Thomas could be getting tired of the grind, but I hope he stays on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (V2Yro)

132 90 76. Inshallah, the progs will lose this, and, with it, some of their money and power.

* kicks dirt with toe, hoping it was MAGA DEFFSKWADZ Day at Chik-fil-a. *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (fA1SL)

You're SSPX now, 'Deus Vult' please.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (GIHSy)

133 Grump, that is the wild card.

But after three separate attacks that sank four carriers and one cruiser while damaging another cruiser, what kind of airpower did Spruance have left?

Torpedo planes? There were maybe five Devastators left between the two ships. During the strike against Mogami and Mikuma they were ordered not to attack unless there was no serious threat.

Dive bombers, both carriers had suffered losses to their four Dauntless squadrons. McClusky's long search cost a few planes going into the drink after running out of fuel. Ring's erratic flight and return also cost planes. Then there was the combat. Both carriers also had orphans from Yorktown that helped fill holes. But cohesion was iffy.

Fighters? IIRC some of Hornet's F4Fs went in the drink trying to reach the Japanese. Plus combat losses.

Supplies? Spruance turned back because he was running low on fuel for his ships after attacking the two Japanese cruisers.

Midway's airpower. What was left? The Marines were pretty much wiped out. VT-8 Detached only had one bullet riddled plane left. OF the four 22d Bomb Grp (Med) B-26s, the two survivors were shot up. And the B-17s had proven they couldn't hit anything from high altitude. The PBYs might have been game for a night torpedo attack.

So it could have been possible for Yamamato to actually succeed. But he wouldn't have gotten the remaining American carriers. So he would have still lost.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (0Ef//)

134 gotta go do a production deployment, brb

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (6FqZa)

135 Rats. Scrub for tonight.

Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (sdi6R)

136 121. When I smoked, it was Winstons for daily, Sobranie Black Russian for special occasions. Sigh.

* hits vape pen *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (fA1SL)

137 Just noticed a beautiful almost full moon rising over the trees!

if skies are clear, worth a step outside to take a look.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (V2Yro)

138 A lot of people expect Kennedy to retire. Can't see any of the 4 libs doing that, but RBG ain't no spring chicken. Possible that Thomas could be getting tired of the grind, but I hope he stays on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (V2Yro)

+++++
I really like Clarence Thomas. Hope he's around for awhile.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (2sCft)

139 "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." Oscar Wilde



Old ladies man Oscar.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (oVJmc)

140 All in all, it was a pretty good day, boys.

Posted by: Douglas at June 26, 2018 09:47 PM (Vnb/O)

141 Better hope the GOP holds the Senate,then, or those SCOTUS vacancies will never be filled with conservative jurists.

In fact, given the proclivities of a RINO or three to "put country ahead of party" (Jeff Flake), a WORKING GOP majority would probably require more than 50 + Pence.

Posted by: Dr. Emeritus strawdog at June 26, 2018 09:47 PM (Cssks)

142 I never pray for RBG's good health. On the other hand.... Well, better not go there. But she is 85 and looks like a walking corpse, so it could happen any day. Kennedy is 81 and has made noises about retiring in the last couple of years. Thomas has also mentioned the possibility. He is merely 70. Breyer is another old one, at 79. All told, there is a good chance Trump will get a couple more appointments in his first term, and almost a certainty he will get at least three or four by a second term, on top of Gorsuch. Thomas would be a trade-off for a younger Conservative, the rest could be improvements. This could vastly change the direction of the courts for a generation.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:47 PM (md3fh)

143 F'd I suppose I could shave it but it's really not covered with hair or anything. She's not a really long haired cat.

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 09:47 PM (Enq6K)

144 132. Heh. My priest was trying to reel me in a bit. 'Just wait. You can outlast,' long pause, 'that man'.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:47 PM (fA1SL)

145 Thirſt!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at June 26, 2018 09:48 PM (e9G8E)

146 @131 A lot of people expect Kennedy to retire. Can't see any of the 4 libs doing that, but RBG ain't no spring chicken. Possible that Thomas could be getting tired of the grind, but I hope he stays on.
-----------------

I misspoke. I'm pretty sure it was that he would need to replace two justices, not necessarily that they would retire. So it's possible that RBG is one that he's anticipating a replacement for.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:48 PM (USMA7)

147 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (V2Yro)

Remember where you are. That stuff gives me a woody.

Imagine no more union laundering money for the Democrats.

the Power of the gov unions broken? Can't think of a better july 4 explosion.

The left will go apeshit. Now if we can do the same for teachers. or does this cover teacher also?

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (psHEv)

148 Tiborasaurus Rex - the person who created the Sniper 101 series on
YouTube pointed out that what is occurring with suppression of gun
channels is the digital equivalent of the book burning done by the NAZIs
in 1933.



The topic of this post - harassing of conservatives - is a step toward widespread krystallnacht level stuff.

Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (gsO4B)

149 I keep telling my son that we need to watch the movie Midway soon. I don't know how it holds up, but I remember really enjoying it when I saw it in the theaters as a wee lad. Had an outstanding cast as I recall.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (2sCft)

150 Thomas' talk about retirement may just be him trolling the Dems/Left.

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (BqR2k)

151 > Actress Hilary Duff, 30, recently announced that she and her boyfriend Matthew Koma, 31, are having a baby.

She's 30 now?

Christ, I'm old.


Frank Zappa named his kids some bizarre shit, but even he drew the line at letting the kids pick the names.

As I recall, Dweezil (the older son) wanted to name Ahmet (the younger son) "Bone Sauce".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (GXOTw)

152 @76: Tom, do you expect a 5-4 vote on the Court regarding that issue?

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at June 26, 2018 09:50 PM (VOEBT)

153 Moon Unit.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 26, 2018 09:50 PM (iTpm7)

154 As I recall, Dweezil (the older son) wanted to name Ahmet (the younger son) "Bone Sauce".


That's some bullshit.

Posted by: Moon Unit at June 26, 2018 09:50 PM (fuK7c)

155 But my working hypothesis is that this week is our Battle of Midway - we're still in the middle of it, but I think the outcome of this battle is decided tomorrow morning.

Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.

It's coming, just wait for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:24 PM (V2Yro)



Baseball ground is short on water. Repeat - baseball ground is short on water

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 09:51 PM (SiINZ)

156 151. Of course he did. No way Moon-Unit would stand for that shit.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:51 PM (fA1SL)

157 There is a marked uptick in drama queen theatrics since the feminine Trump has begun desensitizing the population to hysterics.

Posted by: Dr Bob Krang at June 26, 2018 09:51 PM (2+qU5)

158 @142 This could vastly change the direction of the courts for a generation.
-----------------

Hopefully the next Dem president won't decide to pack the court and bump the number of justices up to 15 or something like that.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:51 PM (USMA7)

159 Frank Zappa named his kids some bizarre shit, but even he drew the line at letting the kids pick the names.

As I recall, Dweezil (the older son) wanted to name Ahmet (the younger son) "Bone Sauce".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 09:49 PM (GXOTw)


Daughter: Moon Unit Zappa

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (T71PA)

160 153. 154. 156.

Fucking Horde mind, man.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (fA1SL)

161 Tami, ignore the dirty butt. The cat will eventually clean it. Via tongue.

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (SY1FC)

162 Moon Unit was a One, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (sdi6R)

163 It's DOCTOR Krang. Probably a Ph.D. in lesbian basket weaving. With a minor in Lurking Under Bridges.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (md3fh)

164 It's DOCTOR Krang. Probably a Ph.D. in lesbian basket weaving. With a minor in Lurking Under Bridges.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (md3fh)



Not Krang. Krang!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (SiINZ)

165 Obviously need to go back and refresh on Midway, but -


* thought that Hornet lost some but not all of her planes, and as they never contacted the Japanese fleet, they didn't really contribute to the outcome (or is it just the dive-bombers that were way off?)

* thought Mogami was savaged by land-based aircraft?

* like junior, would think that the invasion force would be at great risk of aerial attack (I assume Midway would be reinforced with aircraft from Hawaii if possible)


But still on an eastern front jag (starting two more books on that), so Midway will have to wait. On that topic, somewhat amusing - today a Russian couple came in where I volunteer, and the guy was also a history geek. He guessed that my last book was by Glantz when I described the period I just read about - and agreed Glantz wrote reference books, not readable history books. They were from a Urals-area town that still has industry first moved there in 1942 to escape the German invasion (obviously quite different industry now, but that was the start - place was strictly farm country before that).


Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (QDnY+)

166
Oscar Wilde. That somdomite somdomized my Bosie!

[Ed. The Marquess wasn't a good speller, and spelled it "somdomite" in that famous note]

Posted by: Marquess of Queensbury at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (8O3HH)

167 !!

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (md3fh)

168 The left was tweeting that they need to stack the courts. Remember it's 50% +1.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 09:42 PM

FDR tried that. He wanted 15 (!!!!) justices.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (2NqXo)

169 Jimi Hendrix was voted into first place with his version of the Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower,' The Beatles rendition of 'Twist and Shout,' (first recorded by the Top Notes), was in second place

Astonishingly, that seems right.

Dylan himself acknowledged the former.

And Ferris Bueller's use of the latter is one of the greatest musical fantasy moments in film history.

Posted by: mindful webworker - shake it up baby now at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (jMD9L)

170 The Battle of AFSCME won't.
Posted by: Hikaru at June 26, 2018 09:26 PM (9De+S)


Well, maybe Zoe Quinn . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2018 09:53 PM (2K6fY)

171 A lot of people expect Kennedy to retire. Can't see any of the 4 libs doing that, but RBG ain't no spring chicken. Possible that Thomas could be getting tired of the grind, but I hope he stays on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (V2Yro)

I saw a picture yesterday I think of Thomas with Trump in the Oval Office. Thomas had a birthday, but maybe it was more than that?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (4ErVI)

172 162 Moon Unit was a One, as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by: rickl at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (sdi6R)
+++
Agree, not a bad looking lass. But has a strong resemblance to her father as she got older, but without the facial hair.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (2sCft)

173 Public unions - who pretty much ARE organized labor now - are a big, big funding source for the Dems. Make dues voluntary and you basically dry up that source.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (GWOQG)


And they are the heart of the Anti-Capitalist bloc controlling the Democratic Party. The Trade Unions know that money comes from business.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (yQpMk)

174 Three million bucks to study lesbian obesity? They could have just talked to Trigglypuff for five minutes!

Posted by: mercenary13 at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (2XQ0T)

175 A basket cannot be woven out of lesbians. This is like nonsensical ravings of womanly Trump.

Posted by: Dr Bob Krang at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (2+qU5)

176 A lot of people expect Kennedy to retire. Can't see any of the 4 libs doing that, but RBG ain't no spring chicken. Possible that Thomas could be getting tired of the grind, but I hope he stays on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:45 PM (V2Yro)

+++++
I really like Clarence Thomas. Hope he's around for awhile.
************************

I do too.
RBG is 85 and Breyer will be 80. They're going to be there till their last dying breath.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (PvFoN)

177 I've said before that I wouldn't mind Thomas stepping down. Not because of his record as he's been nothing but rock solid, but the age thing. It would be good to get another hardcore con in there who is decades younger.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (4ErVI)

178 152 @76: Tom, do you expect a 5-4 vote on the Court regarding that issue?"

I expect 5-4 on everything important - that's where we are now.

And on this topic - a case almost identical to this came to the Court 2 years ago or so, it was all set for a major ruling - and then Scalia died, and the case was sent back with a 4-4 tie, no ruling. The difference now is Gorsuch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (V2Yro)

179 Ali Watkins, currently with The times, faced scrutiny after a Department of Justice investigation revealed that she was having a romantic relationship with Senate Security staffer James Wolfe, a man around 30 years her senior, while she was working at other outlets like BuzzFeed news and Politico.

Most whores, at least they're not press.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (rnAwa)

180 174 Three million bucks to study lesbian obesity? They could have just talked to Trigglypuff for five minutes!
Posted by: mercenary13 at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (2XQ0T)


Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkk Yoooouuuu

Posted by: Triggly Fat Ass at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (neocU)

181 "The history that rebuilt Europe. That is the America I know, and the one I am teaching my children about."


As I mentioned yesterday, on last night's Jeopardy none of the three aged 30-40 contestants knew the source of “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor”

They didn't even try, not even a guess...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (+cu3S)

182 TCM is playing My Fair Lady now.

Audry Hepburn is magnificent!

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 26, 2018 09:56 PM (T71PA)

183

Blue wire? Orange wire? Hmmm...

Posted by: Color Blind Bomb Tech In ANTIFA Basement at June 26, 2018 09:56 PM (UFLLM)

184 181. No shock. They're as 'American' as a kitten, born in a kitchen, is 'bread.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:56 PM (fA1SL)

185 Audry Hepburn is magnificent!


Loverly.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (+lOpA)

186
Rats. Scrub for tonight.
Posted by: rickl


At least the rats will be clean.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (IqV8l)

187 Krang! Krang! Krang! Goes the Trollie!

Posted by: Martin/Blane at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (BqR2k)

188 I do too.
RBG is 85 and Breyer will be 80. They're going to be there till their last dying breath.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (PvFoN)

++++
Not if that beau hunk, Governor-Elect Gavin Newsome, gets elected POTUS in 2020! Swoon.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (2sCft)

189 "Vallhund" is the Swedish for "little bossy pain-in-the-patoot dog."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:33 PM (GWOQG)


The Vallhunds guard Valhalla, and will come running when Heimdall sounds his horn.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (2K6fY)

190 You dirty rat! Oh, wait, sorry.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (md3fh)

191 Audry Hepburn is magnificent!


Loverly.
Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (+lOpA)
+++
She was and always will be perfection.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 09:57 PM (2sCft)

192 Do we legalize pot? And crack down on opioids and cocaine? Do we just legalize it all? If we alter this war on drugs we will need to adjust the treatment efforts as well. There is no perfect one size fits all solution to the problems.

---

I used to tell liberal friends that we could legalize drugs or have national healthcare. Not both. They would argue about fat white men getting weight loss surgery or knee replacement, but I would argue that food eating is programmed into us. Breathing smoke or stabbing ourselves with needles takes an overiding of natural qualms about self injury.

I have neighbours raising their grandchildren because son overdosed and DIL is on her second rehab stint. She also has two associates degrees paid by the taxpayer.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (/+bwe)

193 June 26, 2008, Total Guitar magazine voted Celine Dion's rendition of the AC/DC track 'You Shook Me All Night Long' as the world's worst cover version ever. In the best cover versions list, Jimi Hendrix was voted into first place with his version of the Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower,' The Beatles rendition of 'Twist and Shout', (first recorded by the Top Notes), was in second place, followed by the Guns N' Roses version of the Wings song 'Live and Let Die' via thisdayinmusic.com

++++

MisHum had a choice to make here. He could have gone with a song from the best list, or the worst.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (pvjTE)

194 Trump needs to do his own thorough background investigation of any potential nominees.

Just checking that they've ruled according to Constitutional principles up to now is not enough.

You also need to check to make sure they don't have ANY blackmail material in their background -- such as whatever the communists managed to dig up on Roberts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (GXOTw)

195 They didn't even try, not even a guess...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (+cu3S)

That is pretty damn sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (GIHSy)

196 Hate to be a no-fun broken record, but Ace's national divorce idea is asinine, irresponsible, and impossible. The union will be either preserved peacefully, lost violently, or preserved violently. I will be God-damned if I will stand by and let actual communists seize control of and ruin millions of square miles of these United States, then secede. It's a stupid, lazy, apathetic idea equivalent to national suicide.

We all know Ace wants a divorce from the cuckservative failure theater nevertrump ninnies of Twitter, but he can't have that divorce AND this cucktastic "national divorce" hobby horse of his. It's one or the other.

Posted by: phone of kari at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (eY/ez)

197 She was and always will be perfection.

Except for that vagina part. *sniff*

Posted by: Shemp Smith at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (UFLLM)

198 So it's possible that RBG is one that he's anticipating a replacement for.

When's her birthday? Anyone want to help arrange a surprise party? Maybe a costume party, too.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 09:59 PM (fVubI)

199 174
Three million bucks to study lesbian obesity? They could have just talked to Trigglypuff for five minutes!

Posted by: mercenary13 at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM (2XQ0T)

The government did a study a few years back and determined it was because they were always eating out.

Posted by: jim at June 26, 2018 09:59 PM (gjGvH)

200 You could base an entire study on Michael Moore. It would be Yuge!

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (md3fh)

201 a case almost identical to this came to the Court 2
years ago or so, it was all set for a major ruling - and then Scalia
died, and the case was sent back with a 4-4 tie, no ruling. The
difference now is Gorsuch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (V2Yro)


That's very encouraging, brings me up to Cautiously Optimistic.

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (BqR2k)

202 Midway alternative history: Yamamoto may have been able to take Midway after the loss of the four carriers. It may have lengthened the war by six to eight months, IMHO. The Japanese on Midway would have been more unsupportable than those on Guadalcanal turned out to be. The big near-term effect would probably have been delaying the US's Guadalcanal move, to re-take Midway.

That would have been a good short-term thing for the Japanese if everything played out the same as actual history: Had the Japanese been able to complete what became Henderson Field, and put enough aircraft there to deter US carrier ops in support of landings in the southern Solomons, Admiral King would have had to pick another point of attack for the first counter-offensive.

Still, the Japanese lose the war, and lose it big.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (AMIL/)

203 Hate to be a no-fun broken record, but Ace's national divorce idea is asinine, irresponsible, and impossible. The union will be either preserved peacefully, lost violently, or preserved violently. I will be God-damned if I will stand by and let actual communists seize control of and ruin millions of square miles of these United States, then secede. It's a stupid, lazy, apathetic idea equivalent to national suicide.

We all know Ace wants a divorce from the cuckservative failure theater nevertrump ninnies of Twitter, but he can't have that divorce AND this cucktastic "national divorce" hobby horse of his. It's one or the other.
Posted by: phone of kari at June




hear, hear!



did we win ww2 by finding a way to divide europe with the nazis and the pacific with the japanese. hell no.



(we did it with the soviets.)

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (MTjB1)

204 I smell Gelfling!

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsburg at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (yQpMk)

205 But Watkins did not limit her romantic entanglements to just one source

++++

They don't call them presstitues for nothing.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (pvjTE)

206 196. I agree. Remember, in a divorce, one party leaves the house. I think physical removal is inevitable, necessary, and a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (3s4p1)

207 Lengthy AND Girthy! The key components, along with a little pI, for voluminous paroxysms of ONT pleasure!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (DMUuz)

208 Thank you kindly.

Posted by: Zombie Audrey Hepburn at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (1lhwM)

209 So it's possible that RBG is one that he's anticipating a replacement for.

When's her birthday? Anyone want to help arrange a surprise party? Maybe a costume party, too.


Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 09:59 PM (fVubI)
************************
She's stated that she's not going anywhere while Trump's in office.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (PvFoN)

210 So it's possible that RBG is one that he's anticipating a replacement for.

When's her birthday? Anyone want to help arrange a surprise party? Maybe a costume party, too.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 09:59 PM (fVubI)
+++
Heh. I like the idea of a big surprise party where we all jump out at and yell "SURPRISE" and startle ol' RBG's fragile heart.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (2sCft)

211 194 Trump needs to do his own thorough background investigation of any potential nominees.

Just checking that they've ruled according to Constitutional principles up to now is not enough.

You also need to check to make sure they don't have ANY blackmail material in their background -- such as whatever the communists managed to dig up on Roberts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (GXOTw)

Yeah and just flat out asking and demanding answers to hot button issues that WILL go in front of the court at some point.

GOPe was always well we don't do that because I don't know muh decorum or muh something. It's how we got people like Souter.

Times are different. We need to know how they're going to vote on these things. If there's a whiff of doubt, move on to someone else. We need to pack the court with far right wing shitlords.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (4ErVI)

212 I knew a guy who after he and his wife divorced continued to share the house. They lived together until he had a stroke and went into a care facility. Why did they bother?

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)

213 I'd rather Trump replaced Thomas and Kennedy in his first term than RBG. Two young conservative judges would secure the right flank of the court, in case the worst happens and Trump loses in 2020. If he wins, then likely there is at least one more replacement, this time from the left side of the court, which would swing it right for a generation.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (Tnhbr)

214 you know the real tragedy about celine dion is that only one of her songs can be voted worst song.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (MTjB1)

215 Junior, seizure of Midway would have given the Japanese an air base to more directly attack Pearl. Perhaps this time the Japanese would hit the oil tanks Nagumo's caution missed on 7 Dec and thus starve the US Pacific Fleet back to the West Coast.

What did Nimitz have left at Pearl air wise? Odds and ends of Saratoga's air group that did not get absorbed by any of the other three carriers. Plus the 12 brand new TBF-1 Avengers of VT-8 Detached who were still saddled with the same bad torpedo as the TBD.

As for ships. USS Long Island, the first escort carrier in the Pacific, was on the West Coast giving cover to Admiral Pye's surviving battle line. Other destroyers were on convoy duty. So Nimitz would have to rely on Spruance's fragile air groups and submarines like Nautilus to discourage Yamamato from pushing it.

The margin of victory was far far thinner than most realize. But instead of gutting it out to take Midway he adhered to the precepts of naval power as proposed by Mahan; so Yamamato turned around vowing to apologize to the Emperor personally while many of his staff thought of committing suicide.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (0Ef//)

216 151
As I recall, Dweezil (the older son) wanted to name Ahmet (the younger son) "Bone Sauce".
that's ambiguous. we're all bone sauce.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (2//jc)

217 Hey, Krang! Please to go lick Tami's cat's ass.

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (SY1FC)

218 She's stated that she's not going anywhere while Trump's in office.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (PvFoN)




The Grim Reaper: Oh really...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (SiINZ)

219 She's stated that she's not going anywhere while Trump's in office.

Yes .. well .. quite.

Posted by: The Angel of Death in a Funny Hat at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (yQpMk)

220 We all know Ace wants a divorce from the cuckservative failure theater nevertrump ninnies of Twitter, but he can't have that divorce AND this cucktastic "national divorce" hobby horse of his. It's one or the other.
Posted by: phone of kari at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (eY/ez)

The problem with a national divorce is not the idea- I understand why people want the idea. They would like for this whole ordeal to stop without bloodshed. However, the problem here is that the Left will never leave us alone. No matter if there is a divorce or not, the Left cannot abide dissent. It is not in their nature.

This is leaving out the geographical or the logistical problems of a national divorce.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (GIHSy)

221 RBG may not plan on "going anywhere," but Allah may have different ideas.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)

222 214. True fact - Celine Dion inspired Day of the Rake. Trudeau made it necessary.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:03 PM (fA1SL)

223 I'd rather Trump replaced Thomas and Kennedy in his first term than RBG. Two young conservative judges would secure the right flank of the court, in case the worst happens and Trump loses in 2020. If he wins, then likely there is at least one more replacement, this time from the left side of the court, which would swing it right for a generation.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June




Trump should have Thomas pick his replacement.


he should simply get some robot coin flipper to replace kennedy. you would never have the disappointment of unmet expectations.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 10:03 PM (MTjB1)

224 When's her birthday? Anyone want to help arrange a surprise party? Maybe a costume party, too.


Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 09:59 PM (fVubI)
************************
She's stated that she's not going anywhere while Trump's in office.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (PvFoN)

++++
I'm not sure Justice Ginsburg, tho a very powerful person, gets to have the final say on that.

Posted by: SteveOReno, as an intelligent person, I self-identify as a Moron at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (2sCft)

225 > I will stand by and let actual communists seize control of and ruin millions of square miles of these United States

We could stuff them all in places like Portland, Seattle, and Berkeley, with a really big wall, and just let nature take its course.

Monitor the enclaves with a fleet of drones with HD cameras, then play highlight reels of the resulting starving, cannibalistic mobs on television. Make watching them a requirement to graduate high school or vote.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (GXOTw)

226

Never count you chickens while you're sitting at the table.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (IqV8l)

227 The problem with a national divorce is not the idea- I understand why people want the idea. They would like for this whole ordeal to stop without bloodshed. However, the problem here is that the Left will never leave us alone. No matter if there is a divorce or not, the Left cannot abide dissent. It is not in their nature.

Schlicter's books about the future of America has a "national divorce", and, yeah, the "progressive" section can't leave anyone alone.

But, then, neither can the free section. It cannot abide seeing Americans under "progressive" slavery.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (fVubI)

228 "Trump needs to do his own thorough background investigation of any potential nominees."

Cruz needs a background check?

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (UdKB7)

229 205 But Watkins did not limit her romantic entanglements to just one source
++++
They don't call them presstitues for nothing.

Watkins - the hardest Working Girl on the Senate Intelligence Committee!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (V2Yro)

230 226

Never count you chickens while you're sitting at the table.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (IqV8l)

You got to know when to fold eggs, know when to run on them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (GIHSy)

231 I expect 5-4 on everything important - that's where we are now.

And on this topic - a case almost identical to this came to the Court 2 years ago or so, it was all set for a major ruling - and then Scalia died, and the case was sent back with a 4-4 tie, no ruling. The difference now is Gorsuch.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (V2Yro)

--------

The Leftards were, for them, relatively docile on the Gorsuch nomination, as it was more or less expected that a Conservative would replace Scalia.

If it is one of the 4 reliably lefty justices that need to be replaced, I expect them to amp up the screeching to Mad Maxscene levels. They will absolutely lose their shit.

I hope I get to see it, as it will be glorious to behold!

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (I16G8)

232 She's stated that she's not going anywhere while Trump's in office.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 26, 2018 10:01 PM (PvFoN)

Her saying that...

*smash cut to her coffin being lowered into the ground while Trump in voice over announces his pick for her seat*

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (4ErVI)

233 Cruz needs a background check?


I believe I might die of dehydration.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (yQpMk)

234 You could base an entire study on Michael Moore. It would be Yuge!
Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:00 PM (md3fh)

That's for sure.

Posted by: Massive Marxist Momzer Michael Moore at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (/FLNB)

235 212 I knew a guy who after he and his wife divorced continued to share the house. They lived together until he had a stroke and went into a care facility. Why did they bother?
Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)


The tax code punishes married people.

Posted by: ALH at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (Gvnja)

236

Robot Ump - Rump

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (IqV8l)

237

I was never fucked by that chicken on the kitchen table!

Posted by: Jake Turdcutter at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (UFLLM)

238 MisHum had a choice to make here. He could have gone with a song from the best list, or the worst.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (pvjTE

I only want the Horde to be well rounded and sufficiently informed. And with that reasoning you always get the best and the worst.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (neocU)

239 I'm not sure Justice Ginsburg, tho a very powerful person, gets to have the final say on that."

It's funny how, throughout the ages, powerful people always like to think that they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (V2Yro)

240 That's solid counter-factual history there, Gref. Jap-occupied Midway was totally indefensible and unsustainable - esp. given Japan's sudden fleet carrier problem (and it's unimaginable they would risk those two, their last, to try and hold onto Midway), but would still have to be re-taken.


Or ..... not? Why not treat Midway, in the last half of 1942, like a bypassed island in the central or southwest Pacific? Without airpower aboard Midway, it was pretty harmless. And would be subject to relentless attack - a perfect range, for example, for our battleship force (most damaged and refloated) to work on their bombardment skills.


So maybe Guadalcanal could still start in August. And whatever land forces and ships Japan had devoted to Midway would be write-offs, like so much of their resources ended up being later in the war.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (QDnY+)

241 Never count you chickens while you're sitting at the table.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:04 PM (IqV8l)

You got to know when to fold eggs, know when to run on them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (GIHSy)


The Scrambler, right?

Posted by: hogmartin at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (y87Qq)

242 I want to see this ad run on all stations across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (itfg0)

243 Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (SY1FC)

Please to go work on your English. Perhaps you should return to your home country.

Posted by: Dr Bob Krang at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (2+qU5)

244 229 205 But Watkins did not limit her romantic entanglements to just one source
++++
They don't call them presstitues for nothing.

Watkins - the hardest Working Girl on the Senate Intelligence Committee!
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:05 PM (V2Yro)

I also take issue with 'romantic entanglements.' I doubt there was much romance going on.

This is not Don Quixote or The Three Musketeers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (GIHSy)

245 Souter and Ginsberg, both found dead en flagrante...

Eh, I can dream.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (oVJmc)

246 192
I used to tell liberal friends that we could legalize drugs or have
national healthcare. Not both. They would argue about fat white men
getting weight loss surgery or knee replacement,


I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying your liberal friends want national healthcare so they can tell fatties "no knee for you!"?

Posted by: Anachronda at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (2//jc)

247 > Cruz needs a background check?

I would make an exception for Cruz.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (GXOTw)

248 161 Tami, ignore the dirty butt. The cat will eventually clean it. Via tongue.

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 09:52 PM (SY1FC)

But she either won't or can't (too fat). And she begins to smell, which is why I give her a bath. Area kinda looks red and irritated too.

Guess I'll call the vet. Oh hubby will love that.

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (Enq6K)

249 Candygram for Sotomayor!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (oVJmc)

250 I knew a guy who after he and his wife divorced continued to share the house. They lived together until he had a stroke and went into a care facility. Why did they bother?
Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)


They wanted to fuck other people but worked well as roommates?

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (Tnhbr)

251 Souter? He gone man.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (md3fh)

252 >>Never count you chickens while you're sitting at the table.


There'll be time enough for countin'

...

when the pluckin's done.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (Ocik3)

253
I only want the Horde to be well rounded and sufficiently informed. And with that reasoning you always get the best and the worst.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Hooray for diversity!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (IqV8l)

254 When I smoked, it was Winstons for daily, Sobranie Black Russian for special occasions. Sigh.



* hits vape pen *
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:46 PM (fA1SL)



Camels and Bugler. I figured there was no reason to lie to myself about the damage I was doing.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (2K6fY)

255 245
Souter and Ginsberg, both found dead en flagrante...

Eh, I can dream.


Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (oVJmc)

Why not make it a lesbian threesome? RBG, Sotomayor, and Kagen

Posted by: jim at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (gjGvH)

256 Anna Puma, how's your WW2 knowledge on the German side? Have you ever read 08/15 by Hans Helmut Kirst?

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (SY1FC)

257 75 A basket cannot be woven out of lesbians. This is like nonsensical ravings of womanly Trump.
Posted by: Dr Bob Krang at June 26, 2018 09:54 PM

You are so very wrong. It is not only possible, but the Horde could probably find you photographic proof. And if there is a man in the middle of the basket, it is Paolo.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 10:08 PM (/+bwe)

258 Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)

Medicare rules?

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (psHEv)

259 Cruz ran for president...if there was dirt it would have already been exposed.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (kufk0)

260 you know there is nothing cool about vaping. people are vaping in cars, bars, everywhere. gay.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (MTjB1)

261 Legalize all the dope. Give it away for free laced with fentanyl. High grade good stuff.

Kill off the retarded in our society.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (UOcKN)

262 254. Winstons were great because they discouraged people invoking Smokers' Union rule #1.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (fA1SL)

263 By certain definitions, a basket can be anything. For example, a basket of deplorables.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (md3fh)

264 @165 thought that Hornet lost some but not all of her planes, and as they never contacted the Japanese fleet, they didn't really contribute to the outcome (or is it just the dive-bombers that were way off?)
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Sadly, waaaay off. The torpedo unit that lost 29 of its 30 members (Ensign Gay was the sole survivor, and watched the entire battle while clinging to a floating cushion) was the Hornet's torpedo group. My vague recollection is that the Hornet's dive bomber group only got out slightly less scathed.

Also, I guess I wasn't clear enough. I happen to agree with Anna that Yamamoto likely could have taken Midway if he'd pushed forward. My argument is that doing so wouldn't have served any strategic purpose, and Japan would have been stuck running supply ships out to a remote outpost that would have been largely useless until such time as the Japanese could get a solid edge over the US in carrier strength.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (USMA7)

265 "Guess I'll call the vet. Oh hubby will love that"

Pet wipes if the cat will sit still for it . I'm dealing with the same thing right now except canine.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (UdKB7)

266 Camel Wides. The good thing about vaping is that I have not had a craving for a real cigarette in years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (GIHSy)

267 212 I knew a guy who after he and his wife divorced continued to share the house. They lived together until he had a stroke and went into a care facility. Why did they bother?

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)

++++

It could be to protect assets. If they stayed married, he would be on the hook for all her health care, plus when she dies, estate taxes. If their settlement was that everything went into his name, then her long term care would be paid for by the government.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (pvjTE)

268 > I would make an exception for Cruz.


Plus, can you imagine the screeching if Cruz replaced RBG?

It would be a glorious thing to behold.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (GXOTw)

269 261
Legalize all the dope. Give it away for free laced with fentanyl. High grade good stuff.



Kill off the retarded in our society.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 26, 2018 10:09 PM (UOcKN)

Sounds like Darwin rules. Only problem is that they often just don't take out themselves, but bystanders (or passengers, or pedestrians).

Posted by: jim at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (gjGvH)

270 Robot Ump - Rump
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (IqV8l)



Not huge boisbol fan but I'm anti robot ump.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (+lOpA)

271 While my work on the 2nd Amendment has not had direct visible impact - I believe that it has had real impact nevertheless.
1. None of the Newspapers I have sent my editorial to have joined in on the usual left wing anti 2nd amendment stuff after getting the editorial. The one exception is the NY Times which published former Justice Stevens editorial calling for repeal of the second amendment instead of my editorial. I take that as a panic response on their part - which was criticized by the rest of the leftists.
2. The last time Shaved Guevara was interviewed she didn't want to talk about gun control - but steered the topic to generic "women's issues". This was after I sent her a copy of the felony complaint I filed with the FBI about her activity. Since Camera Hogg was also in the complaint I note he has been pretty quiet about the subject since he graduated from high school also.
I think I am going to try getting the NRA to publish my editorial in American Rifleman magazine.

Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (gsO4B)

272 It is not only possible, but the Horde could probably find you photographic proof.


Rule 34.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (yQpMk)

273 I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying your liberal friends want national healthcare so they can tell fatties "no knee for you!"?

Posted by: Anachronda at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (2//jc)

That's exactly what they want. They definitely want to use that stick to control what people eat.

Millenials have a serious beef with obesity. They can't stand fat people. It's why you had subreddits like Fat People Hate and Hold My Fries where they're absolutely scathing about anyone who is heavy. It's actually amusing how bigoted they are with it considering how they bend over for every other "victim" group.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (4ErVI)

274 I smoked Winstons for a few years.
My roommate hated them, so I never had to worry about him bumming them.
Eventually I went to Pall Mall nons just to punish people who bummed my smokes.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (Ocik3)

275
See "basket weaving" in urban dictionary.

One definition is a jacking off technique. Lesbians wouldn't do that.

Another involves entangled pubic hair. Lesbians might do that when they scissor.

Posted by: Marquess of Queensbury at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (8O3HH)

276 Not Pall Mall, Lucky nons.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (Ocik3)

277 270
Robot Ump - Rump

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:06 PM (IqV8l)





Not huge boisbol fan but I'm anti robot ump.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (+lOpA)

He who hacks the Ump-bot controls the game...

Posted by: jim at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (gjGvH)

278 Do we legalize pot? And crack down on opioids and cocaine? Do we just legalize it all? If we alter this war on drugs…

Okay, not to get too heavy on a lovely ONT night, I hope: Note the words, war on DRUGS. War on CRIME. War on TERROR. Just to start with, ain' no sech thang.

I call it the war on some users of some substances.

Dang! I just gooshed a fly on my monitor with my thumb. (Does victory dance while washing up.)

All prohibition, all blue laws, are practically religious imposition. What goes on with individual consumption and the production and sale and acquisition of substances (or sex) ain' nobody's biznizz if I do. That is, IN AND OF ITSELF, they are not transgressions.

Beyond self-harm and self-destruction, the SYMPTOMS of sin which affect others are, for examples, child neglect or abuse, promulgation of contagion, general endangerment and reckless accidents. Doesn't matter in result if it's because you're stoned, shopaholic, or texting while driving, those are ALL transgressions, threat or harm. That is when Social intervention becomes required.

Damn. This is too long. You get the idea. I'll reserve the conclusions. I've been hammering the same thing for years (see mindfulwebworks.com/radical-incline). Short form: Prohibition per se is wrong; so is failing to enforce the protection against transgression.

If I've softened in anything since my libertarian origins on this, it might be that use of some substances in and of themselves represent threat. Never did 'em, but I deem that meth immediately voids judgment and those FloridaMan bath salts make meth seem mild, yet are there actually folks who can "handle it," not do so much they transgress and only lose their teeth? I don't know. But declaring a substance used as making one criminal on the worst drugs is a slippery slope - one that goes back through booze prohib and on down to anything moral warriors don't like today.

Mostly, only spiritual peace can prevent forest fires.

Posted by: mindful webworker - /rant - gonna go watch some viddies and cool off at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (jMD9L)

279 Of course you can weave a basket out of lesbians. Don't be so anti-LBGT.

Posted by: Jame Gumb at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (H5knJ)

280 I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying your liberal friends want national healthcare so they can tell fatties "no knee for you!"?
Posted by: Anachronda at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM

They would argue that if a drug user got addicted, he should have the same right to free rehab and services because using drugs is the same as overeating.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (/+bwe)

281 You picked a fine time to leave me Eugene....


With four hundred children and a box of oatmeal.


(that's how we sang it as kids)

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (+lOpA)

282 235 212 I knew a guy who after he and his wife divorced continued to share the house. They lived together until he had a stroke and went into a care facility. Why did they bother?
Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:02 PM (md3fh)

The tax code punishes married people."

There's a lot of truth to that. I can imagine a scenario where what that couple did would make perfect sense. Suppose the husband had some reason to know that his health was at risk - not unlikely. If they stayed married and all property was community property, they would have to sell their house and be stripped of all of their assets before he would get full Medicaid help. (this does vary some from State to State) BUT if they got divorced, and he granted her complete ownership of the house and all other assets in the settlement, then he can get FULL Medicaid support when he gets sick and needs it, and the wife gets to keep the house and all of their assets.

When the support in question adds up to a couple hundred thousands of dollars worth of elder care, that's a Big Deal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (V2Yro)

283 Jeopardy today had the returning champion pull a Cliff Clavin (or nearly so). She wasn't so far ahead that nobody could catch her, but she bet much more than she had to to guarantee a win. So when everyone missed the final question, she ended up in second place.

More amazing still, the guy who won played terribly throughout. He was only in contention because he got the last answer in Double Jeopardy, which was a Daily Double. He risked everything but $1, and got the answer correct.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (+F0Wk)

284 Tami: just dirty looking or balls of shit?

could be worms. could be the cat box.

could be what you're feeding her. Is she like that when not at your house?

You don't have to clean all of her you know. Use wipes. Wrap her in a towel with her ass exposed (you'll need help)

Quicker than a bath. She'll take care of the rest.

Oh and use baby wipes so no alcohol and stinging meds or chemicals or you will have trouble.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (psHEv)

285 Eventually I went to Pall Mall nons just to punish people who bummed my smokes.
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (Ocik3)

I was smoking between a pack and a pack and a half when a buddy bought a pack of Pall Mall non filter 100s. I tried one and: nope. Gah, the phlegm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (GIHSy)

286 Oh, Krang, you too funny. But you be here foah hoah already. You go home now!

Posted by: RI Red at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (SY1FC)

287 I used to smoke really nasty unfiltered stuff like Camels and Lucky Strike, then Marlboro filtered. But I quit 42 years ago next week. One of the best things I ever did.

Posted by: Ruthless at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (md3fh)

288 Jeopardy today had the returning champion pull a Cliff Clavin (or nearly so). She wasn't so far ahead that nobody could catch her, but she bet much more than she had to to guarantee a win. So when everyone missed the final question, she ended up in second place.

More amazing still, the guy who won played terribly throughout. He was only in contention because he got the last answer in Double Jeopardy, which was a Daily Double. He risked everything but $1, and got the answer correct.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June




math is oppressive.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (MTjB1)

289 Only problem is that they often just don't take out themselves, but bystanders (or passengers, or pedestrians).

Posted by: jim at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM

....

Those are necessary deaths for justifying the re-outlawing of drugs after the initial purge.

But first, kill off the addicts.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 26, 2018 10:14 PM (UOcKN)

290 Way to go AnOb. Keep it up. The pressure I mean.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:14 PM (UdKB7)

291 Just got my "we screwed up the voting process and need a Mulligan" ballot in the mail.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (itfg0)

292 Teh Drugz - legalize all the drugs, regulate the market. Treat addiction like a medical condition on a par with, say, diabetes. Remember - the only problem an addict really has is supply, and that's where the problem comes in.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (fA1SL)

293
Jeopardy today had the returning champion pull a Cliff Clavin (or nearly
so). She wasn't so far ahead that nobody could catch her, but she bet
much more than she had to to guarantee a win. So when everyone missed
the final question, she ended up in second place.


I dream of second place.

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (oVJmc)

294 I just got my "we screwed up the voting process and need a Mulligan" ballot in the mail.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (itfg0)

295 Pet wipes if the cat will sit still for it . I'm dealing with the same thing right now except canine.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:10 PM (UdKB7)

I've tried the cat wipes...takes to long and I think it hurts if it has dried on her.

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (Enq6K)

296 I really wish ace would see the hysterics and gaslighting for what it is...a way to start a war. That's the Resistance's sure fire way to regain power. How do I know? I've been listening to them for a year while they say it out loud. So don't keep talking about it...stop putting it out there in the lexicon and riling people up. Stop.It.Now.

It is aiding and abetting the enemy. They are making cucks out of all the people buying into this civil war shit. Yes, let's ramp up the hysterics more than even the press does.

This whole thing infuriates me. How many times do we have to play into the left's hands. It also depresses me...which is worse.

So put a pin in it.

Sorry. Not sorry.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 10:16 PM (1lhwM)

297 283 Jeopardy today had the returning champion pull a Cliff Clavin (or nearly so). She wasn't so far ahead that nobody could catch her, but she bet much more than she had to to guarantee a win. So when everyone missed the final question, she ended up in second place.

More amazing still, the guy who won played terribly throughout. He was only in contention because he got the last answer in Double Jeopardy, which was a Daily Double. He risked everything but $1, and got the answer correct.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2018 10:12 PM (+F0Wk)

I actually saw this because my Dad came over earlier and he likes watching it. He said, "The women always blow it with the money." I had to laugh.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 10:16 PM (4ErVI)

298 @215 What did Nimitz have left at Pearl air wise? Odds and ends of Saratoga's air group that did not get absorbed by any of the other three carriers. Plus the 12 brand new TBF-1 Avengers of VT-8 Detached who were still saddled with the same bad torpedo as the TBD.
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And what did the Japanese have air-wise?

Four of their best six air groups were effectively lost at Midway. While Shukaku and Zuikaku both survived Coral Sea in relatively good shape, iirc they both lost their air groups there. The Japanese could have easily replaced the planes (and did). But their core of trained and experienced naval pilots was gone (particularly since, unlike the US, they didn't rotate experienced pilots out to train new pilots).

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 10:16 PM (USMA7)

299 The difference now is Gorsuch.

If the Union dues case is decided 5-4, the Left is going to lose their everloving minds.

The whole Democratic Party, especially at the state level, is funded with union dues.

Posted by: The DC Uniparty at June 26, 2018 10:16 PM (dlwIY)

300 Tami, there might be something wrong with the cat.

When Ra, he was born tailless, was a kitten he did not get the hang of wiping himself. So he had a stinky matted mess of a butt. Which meant I had to wash him. He did not like the experience at all, then again neither did I. But in the years since I have never had to wipe his butt again.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:16 PM (0Ef//)

301 hehehe, my globohomo news feed is trying to signal that the SCOTUS is bad, really bad. losers.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:17 PM (FOPyv)

302 As a doc in a "legal marijuana state" I'd like to put my 2 cents in:

Syncope (fainting) and dizziness - way up particularly in female partakers.

Hyperemesis meaning intractable nausea and vomiting with the severe dehydration that would entail- way up in partakers of both sexes and now a common cause of ER visits.

Toxicity to toddlers and young children who have accidentally eaten a "pot brownie" or somesuch - up something like 50%.

I'm under the impression that accidents and seeking "disability" are also up from my own experience.

Ok - we'll legalize your favorite drug. Will you pay for all the consequences? Because I already work a boat load and pay for as many free loaders as I want to right now.

PS - if you can't do pot and keep your job and support the kids you decided to make, then you can't do pot.

Posted by: Jade Sea being a meany at June 26, 2018 10:17 PM (0sWXw)

303 I will be God-damned if I will stand by and let actual communists seize control

----

They already have.

Taking the Lord's name in vain is not how you ask for Him to save this country.

And yes, God has the final say as far as whether this land is saved or not.

Considering the vast amount of blood on our collective hands, we may not like His answer.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 26, 2018 10:17 PM (0jR9T)

304 296. It's not gaslighting when they're splitting your skull and picketing your house.

Yeah, yeah.....not the hill and all that.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:17 PM (fA1SL)

305 2 things about millenials and fatties:

1. It's easy for them to be so smug now. Let's see where they are at in 20 years. Time has a way of humbling vanity.

2. They're not completely wrong. A sound mind in a sound body is very old-fashioned. It would't hurt if we gave a liittle more of a shit in this area.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 26, 2018 10:18 PM (H5knJ)

306 "You picked a fine time to leave me Eugene.... "


You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.

is how we did it

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:18 PM (UdKB7)

307 Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (Ocik3)

happened to me in the service all the time: "hey let me have a smoke. Oh them. No thanks."

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:18 PM (psHEv)

308 @246
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying your liberal friends want national healthcare so they can tell fatties "no knee for you!"?
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That's pretty much what the NHS did.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 10:19 PM (USMA7)

309 OK, junior, well like I said, need to refresh my Midway factoids! Guess it was the fighter group from Hornet that got lost - or at least searched the wrong area and lost many to fuel/ditchings afterwards?


But as you noted Midway was means to an end (finishing off US carrier force), not an end in itself. And I see no way Japan sustains or defends that conquest, in any case. And I think my "bypass" idea would have probably worked. Use Midway as, literally, a training range for new squadrons/ships deploying to the Pacific, as we did with some bypassed islands in the central Pacific. Otherwise, it rots on the vine.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2018 10:19 PM (QDnY+)

310
Laura doesn't like Trump saying "ass".

Who is the snarky poofter she has on now? She has him on all the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 26, 2018 10:20 PM (8O3HH)

311 Joe Crowley is losing/winning and that's a big/huge deal?

who is this guy and why?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:20 PM (FOPyv)

312 "I've tried the cat wipes...takes to long and I think it hurts if it has dried on her."

yea yo gotta get it really wet to get that squit off. I wet it down with a wet paper towel first.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:20 PM (UdKB7)

313 to rhomboid at 240:
Good point about "bypassing" Midway for a while, and proceeding with the Guadalcanal move. Knowing what we know today, that's the right strategic move. The Japanese could have managed some bomber attacks on Pearl Harbor from Midway, but would have taken losses as bad or worse than they did on missions to Guadalcanal from Rabaul, and would not have been able to sustain a long, seriously damaging campaign. Also, transporting aircraft fuel and bombs to Midway would have proven costly in sunken ships due to US submarine attacks.

The wild card is whether cooler heads would have prevailed, and resisted the overwhelming pressure from the public and perhaps many high-raking military officers to re-take Midway ASAP for both pride and revenge reasons.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (AMIL/)

314 Is the Red Hen closed yet?
I know that Meryl Streeps cousin with the dirty awnings had to leave her position as the Town's Happy Fun Camp Director and basically her restaurant is now an oddity where customer's come for the food and stay for the abuse.

What happens when she asks a paying customer to leave and they refuse? Will she have the staff spit in their food?


Not a great business plan

Over under on three weeks?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (9dzlp)

315 Dems just had their Eric Cantor moment. Joe Crowley lost his primary race tonight. Dont know what issues his opponent was running on. They say he was a possible Speaker candidate if dems took over house.

Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (U+1b0)

316 Shokaku's bow was bombed out but her air group was mostly intact. Zuikaku had little damage but almost no air group. If the Japanese had simply plopped the intact air group on the intact carrier, Nagumo could have had a fifth carrier at Midway.

The Aleutian force had two light carriers. Yamamato had the grand old lady of all Japanese carriers Hosho with him. Memory also tells me the invasion force had a light carrier with it. So he would have had limited air cover if he would have ordered his vastly larger force to actually concentrate in one spot..

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (0Ef//)

317 I say something besides sitting in front of a tv and eating more than needed is the reason for the obesity. PPL did that before the '90's and that seems to when it grew.

It happened too quickly and all over the country.

i say it's some additive or lack thereof that is responsible.

The Food industry may know but don't dare say a thing.

Think of the lawsuits. And it's so ingrained into the recipes that they can't get rid of it.

I know. Tinfoil hat time. But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (psHEv)

318 284 Tami: just dirty looking or balls of shit?

could be worms. could be the cat box.

could be what you're feeding her. Is she like that when not at your house?

You don't have to clean all of her you know. Use wipes. Wrap her in a towel with her ass exposed (you'll need help)

Quicker than a bath. She'll take care of the rest.

Oh and use baby wipes so no alcohol and stinging meds or chemicals or you will have trouble.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:13 PM (psHEv)

It's mostly dirty looking...sometimes it will mat up a little. I'm not positive if she was like this before...I think my daughter has mentioned it before when she was living with her. And I do think part of it has to do with being a bit overweight...she can't clean it well enough.

I was just reading to use baby wipes. I'll get some.

I have to keep her upstairs because one of my dogs is NOT a fan of cats. She's in the Jack & Jill bedrooms.

I can just see my husband's face when I ask him, "Honey, come help hold the cat so I can clean her ass."

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (Enq6K)

319 274 I smoked Winstons for a few years.
My roommate hated them, so I never had to worry about him bumming them.
Eventually I went to Pall Mall nons just to punish people who bummed my smokes.
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:11 PM (Ocik3

My fav was always "Can I bum a smoke, ah, um, ah do you have a light to?"

Want me to smoke it for you too?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (neocU)

320 Actually junior I think only one of the two (Zuikaku and Shokaku) had a heavily damaged air wing - the other ship sustained damage at Coral Sea, thus both carriers were out of action under Japanese practice, which kept air wings with their own carriers. Can never remember which carrier had which issue.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (QDnY+)

321 296. It's not gaslighting when they're splitting your skull and picketing your house.

Yeah, yeah.....not the hill and all that.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:17 PM (fA1SL)


It is gaslighting in this context. Taking one person and extrapolating it to everyone. That's what they do. They will continue to ratchet it up. I need to shut it (me) down or I'm gonna go on a screed.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (1lhwM)

322 314. No, no. That would be playing into the enemy's hands. We must accept assault when in public, harassment at our homes, violence when we protest for redress of grievances. Otherwise, we're just giving tue left what they want.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (fA1SL)

323
Just got my "we screwed up the voting process and need a Mulligan" ballot in the mail.
Posted by: The Political Hat


So you're telling me I have a chance?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (IqV8l)

324 About that marijuana medication. ..
A bit over 20 yrs ago, my first husband was dying of a rare form of lung cancer. The chemo made him very ill (nausea, vomiting, no appetite ). Docs prescribed Marinol which was derived from marijuana. Calmed the nausea, improved the appetite and helped with pain to some small extent. It was extremely expensive at $70 per pill.
So why do they say this new stuff is the first ever?

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (myjNJ)

325 The US completely bypassed Wake Island for the whole war. In fact the island atoll was used as a way to give green pilots a bit of combat seasoning without a lot of risk.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:24 PM (0Ef//)

326 321. Then stay home. Never, ever go out in public if there's the slightest chance someone might think you're not a communist.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:24 PM (fA1SL)

327 The whole Democratic Party, especially at the state level, is funded with union dues. "

THAT is what far too people on our side realize! Not even many of the ground level democrats know that, the leadership tries to hide it.

Driving a stake through the heart of the Democrat controlled unions drives a stake through the heart of the Democrat Party itself. After that, they become totally beholden to freakish west coast millionaires, who despise the rest of this country and who have not a clue how to gain a political following. (see Tom Steyer, example #1)

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:25 PM (V2Yro)

328
Joe Crowley is losing/winning and that's a big/huge deal?
who is this guy and why?
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast


Is he that devil worshiper?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:25 PM (IqV8l)

329 @299 The whole Democratic Party, especially at the state level, is funded with union dues.
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I suspect that this will only affect Federal workers. My guess is that state laws that require such things will be allowed to stand. For that, you're going to need people like Gov. Walker in Wisconsin.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 10:25 PM (USMA7)

330 >>Want me to smoke it for you too?

I had a guy ask me to roll him a cigarette a few weeks back when I was fishing. I was smoking losse Am. Spirit that day...

I told him I would if he would show me his tits.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:25 PM (Ocik3)

331 I'll give that Hendrix had the #1 cover, but #2 is definitely The Who doing Mose Ellison's "Young Man Blues".

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 26, 2018 10:26 PM (w+Jhj)

332 You can also trim some that hair back there. All the cool cats are doing it.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:26 PM (UdKB7)

333 20 years for me kicking cigs. almost as long quit as I smoked.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:27 PM (psHEv)

334 I know. Tinfoil hat time. But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden."

Seems to me it's closely correlated to the amount of time kids sit in front of video screens tapping on keyboards.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:27 PM (V2Yro)

335 Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.------



And the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot comes in 2020.

Posted by: X-ray at June 26, 2018 10:27 PM (bYoS1)

336 Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:26 PM (UdKB7)

yeah. if she's a long hair that would be my next suggestion.

Might be better to have a vet do that after you know there's nothing health wise wrong.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (psHEv)

337 I suspect that this will only affect Federal workers.


I can see how you might limit it to government workers and not the trade unions but, if it's unconstitutional to compel speech at the Federal level, it's unconstitutional at the state and local level too.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (yQpMk)

338 >>>
I had a guy ask me to roll him a cigarette a few weeks back when I was fishing.<<<

Fish Slime rollie?

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (BqR2k)

339 A long time ago I smoke Camel unfiltered. Man was I a stud.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (UdKB7)

340 I suspect that this will only affect Federal workers. My guess is that state laws that require such things will be allowed to stand.

I think it will affect all unions - compelled contributions to labor unions are a First Amendment issue for all unions, not just the Federal ones.

The government unions in my state are certainly acting as if the decision will affect them.

Posted by: The DC Uniparty at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (dlwIY)

341 I know. Tinfoil hat time. But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (psHEv)


I seem to recall reading that animals are getting fatter as well. Wild, paranoid theory is that the Earth is about to go through another climactic shift, not for the better, and our bodies are adjusting.

Saner theory? People are a lot more sedentary, cleaner hygiene, and less starvation. We sit around, burning fewer calories, have less muscle tone, which makes us look fatter and burns fewer calories. We have fewer parasites than a couple generations ago, and fewer diseases, which means our bodies don't face the same stresses that previous generations endured which kept them lean. Finally, people have more food than previous generations. Our bodies developed in an environment where we take in more food than we actually need, because we may at any point face a lack of meals, a parasite, or a need to burn a lot of calories (such as moving the tribe or pursuing prey over a vast distance).

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (Tnhbr)

342 324 About that marijuana medication. ..
A bit over 20 yrs ago, my first husband was dying of a rare form of lung cancer. The chemo made him very ill (nausea, vomiting, no appetite ). Docs prescribed Marinol which was derived from marijuana. Calmed the nausea, improved the appetite and helped with pain to some small extent. It was extremely expensive at $70 per pill.
So why do they say this new stuff is the first ever?

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (myjNJ)

They gave my dad marijuana pills when he was dying of cancer....1987.

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (Enq6K)

343
I told him I would if he would show me his tits.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:25 PM (Ocik3)


Now, I'm afraid to hear what his answer was.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (neocU)

344 Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands Campaign was the final nail in the coffin for veteran Imperial Japanese Navy pilots. They simply were killed off.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (0Ef//)

345 The Hound counted chickens before they're hatched.

https://youtu.be/jwQAZ7_SjgU



Colorado heavily regulates pot, so you get the worst of both worlds. Both the black markets, bigger than ever, and the civil decay. But now the corruption is in the government straight up. Either puritans or libertines would be an improvement. I am shocked, shocked that the politicians didn't do this out of saintly concern for grandma's glaucoma.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (rnAwa)

346 315 Dems just had their Eric Cantor moment. Joe Crowley lost his primary race tonight. Dont know what issues his opponent was running on. They say he was a possible Speaker candidate if dems took over house.

Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (U+1b0)


His opponent ran on eliminating ICE, and was doing so before the current border brewahaha.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (itfg0)

347 But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.

HFCS.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (yQpMk)

348 I suspect that this will only affect Federal workers. My guess is that state laws that require such things will be allowed to stand. For that, you're going to need people like Gov. Walker in Wisconsin. "

I believe it's being approached as a 1st amendment case, Freedom of Speech (ie Union political contributions are seen as forced speech)

Bill of Rights cases trump all State Law.

heh heh yes I said "trump" didn't I.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (V2Yro)

349 I saw a part of a debate with Joe Crowley and the woman who beat him. She is batshit leftard insane. Calls herself a democratic socialist and wants to abolish ICE. I think she was endorsed by Cynthia Nixon.


Posted by: Mark1971 at June 26, 2018 10:29 PM (xPl2J)

350 Seems to me it's closely correlated to the amount of time kids sit in front of video screens tapping on keyboards.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 10:27 PM (V2Yro)


Probably just that simple. Internet/games. Kids were hardly ever fat when I was a kid.

We had 4 channels in my town.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (+lOpA)

351
I'll give that Hendrix had the #1 cover, but #2 is definitely The Who doing Mose Ellison's "Young Man Blues".
Posted by: AshevilleRobert


Old man, he's got all the money.

That's because I worked for it you young punk!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (IqV8l)

352 No, no. That would be playing into the enemy's hands. We must accept assault when in public, harassment at our homes, violence when we protest for redress of grievances. Otherwise, we're just giving tue left what they want.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (fA1SL)


What are you talking about? Of course you should defend yourself on a personal basis. That never changes. But it's a big leap from that to civil war.

You fight, you call the cops, you get a neighborhood watch, call the newspaper...But I don't think we go into a full blown civil war bcz stuff like this comes up.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (1lhwM)

353 But I am only 29.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (+lOpA)

354 >>I'm afraid to hear what his answer was.


He opted to try and roll his own.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (Ocik3)

355 336 Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:26 PM (UdKB7)

yeah. if she's a long hair that would be my next suggestion.

Might be better to have a vet do that after you know there's nothing health wise wrong.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (psHEv)

She's an orange tabby cat...are they considered long hair?

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (Enq6K)

356 So why do they say this new stuff is the first ever?
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 26, 2018 10:23 PM (myjNJ)


a) Because history started with this generation, don't you know.

b) Because medical marijuana is a bullshit excuse used to get legalization's nose under the tent.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (Tnhbr)

357 His opponent ran on eliminating ICE, and was doing so before the current border brewahaha.

She's also a 28-year-old socialist. The Bernie Sanders types are wildly celebrating.

Posted by: The DC Uniparty at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (dlwIY)

358 Surprised there wasn't much talk about the SCOTUS decision today on the Crises Pregnancy Centers who California was forcing to refer people to abortion providers.

It is a huge free-speech win and written in very sweeping pro-free speech wording by Justice Thomas.

Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (itfg0)

359 347 But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.

HFCS."

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switching from saturated fats like tallow/butter to seed oils.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (FOPyv)

360 340 I suspect that this will only affect Federal workers. My guess is that state laws that require such things will be allowed to stand.

I think it will affect all unions - compelled contributions to labor unions are a First Amendment issue for all unions, not just the Federal ones.

The government unions in my state are certainly acting as if the decision will affect them.
Posted by: The DC Uniparty at June 26, 2018 10:28 PM (dlwIY)


Here in WI the teachers union screamed and pouted about their "collective bargaining". Funny thing, when union dues were no longer required the teachers stopped for the most part. The union income has shrunken big time.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (neocU)

361 'and our bodies are adjusting. '

I thought it was the irradiated hybrid hormones.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (UdKB7)

362 >>The Who doing Mose Ellison's "Young Man Blues".


That Live at Leeds version is the shit.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:31 PM (Ocik3)

363 @316
The Aleutian force had two light carriers. Yamamato had the grand old lady of all Japanese carriers Hosho with him
----------------------

Speaking of Hosho, it's a shame she got scrapped after the war. It'd be nice to have the first ever purpose-built carrier around as a floating museum.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 10:32 PM (USMA7)

364 > As a doc in a "legal marijuana state" I'd like to put my 2 cents in:

As a "doc", you of course have some links to peer-reviewed research giving evidence that marijuana causes ANY of these effects at a statistically significant level?

Over half of Americans have smoked marijuana. If it were causing an epidemic of hyperemesis, we'd know about it.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:32 PM (GXOTw)

365 Good night, all. The next time we re-fight the Midway campaign, we need to start earlier in the day.

Posted by: Gref at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (AMIL/)

366 352. Fight and call the cops. Fine. Then what? Because the Berkeley case zombie shared earlier, to say nothing of the general stand-down of law enforcement in blue areas, means it's open season on non-communists. The 'authorities' are with the enemy in most urban areas. Fight back and get curb-stomped and prosecuted for your trouble. The enemy are acting collectively; individual acts have no chance.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (fA1SL)

367 HFCS."

-----------

switching from saturated fats like tallow/butter to seed oils.



All the "healthy" food.

THE FOOD PYRAMID IS A LIE, PEOPLE!!

EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (yQpMk)

368 "I saw a part of a debate with Joe Crowley and the woman who beat him. She is batshit leftard insane. Calls herself a democratic socialist and wants to abolish ICE. I think she was endorsed by Cynthia Nixon."

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the 2018 midterm ads just write themselves....

except they don't. I hope we got people on this.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (FOPyv)

369 I've long been of the opinion that, just as Jimmy owned Watchtower from the first time he put it on wax, SRV owns Voodoo Chile / Slight Return.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (Ocik3)

370 Alcohol is more dangerous than mj. The laws are not based on any kind of logic.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (UdKB7)

371 315 Dems just had their Eric Cantor moment. Joe Crowley lost his primary race tonight. Dont know what issues his opponent was running on. They say he was a possible Speaker candidate if dems took over house.

Posted by: WisRich at June 26, 2018 10:21 PM (U+1b0)

She's a 29 year old Latina Socialist so it's the usual stuff plus guaranteed job and abolish ICE.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (4ErVI)

372 But my working hypothesis is that this week is our Battle of Midway - we're still in the middle of it, but I think the outcome of this battle is decided tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Tom Servo

And Speaker Ryan is Stanhope Ring.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (+Tibp)

373 "That Live at Leeds version is the shit.





Posted by: garrett"

QFT

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (w+Jhj)

374 The Food industry may know but don't dare say a thing.

Think of the lawsuits. And it's so ingrained into the recipes that they can't get rid of it.

I know. Tinfoil hat time. But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:22 PM (psHEv)

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High fructose corn syrup, the (now quietly defunct after 40 years) Food Pyramid, the lack of daily Phys Ed in schools and parents that feel they can no longer kick little Kaitlyn or Chad out of the house on weekend and summer mornings to "go play" all contribute to this.

I blame mainly the Food Pyramid ( half carbs) and high fructose corn syrup, both of which our bodies were never designed to process.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (I16G8)

375 EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (yQpMk)


I'd prefer not to starve.

Posted by: The Nomming Hat at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (itfg0)

376 Too many ppl overfeeding their animals.

they are genetically geared to be always hunting. Cats and dogs are opportunistic feeders.

If it's there they'll eat it. If they know where to get it they will dig until they get to it.

just their nature. You as the more intelligent of the partnership (I assume) are responsible to say NO!

If you absolutely cannot bear to ignore them feed them small bits. It's a feeding ritual also and small bits will satisfy that need.

Imagine they don't eat much more than a mouse sized object for cats and a rat sized object for medium size dogs. Adjust the amount to the size of their mouth.

a teaspoon or so is good. for cats a bit less.

Then distract them by leaving the feeding area. And stop eating your self you will encourage them to beg and you are getting fat too!

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (psHEv)

377 Another first class ONT - Bravo, MisHum!

And that Home Depot mailbox story is fantastic - Thanks!!

Posted by: ibguy at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (vUcdz)

378 Full moon up over these northern Adorondacks, breaks in the trees arching over the dirt road bring shafts of moonlight down like in the Jimmy Durante exit, as I walk through firefly-studded darkness between the stage-bright sections, the crickets and tweeter frogs bathing the deep woods in a background chorus, I think of his line . . .

Goodnight Mr Calabash, wherever you are.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (boez/)

379 "EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS."

instead of paleo go pre-soy....

argh, I had something for this.

forget paleo go twenty two skiddo.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (FOPyv)

380 Junior, to moor next to Togo's battleship?

Well the US couldn't save Enterprise from the scrappers so...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (0Ef//)

381 "Good night, all. The next time we re-fight the Midway campaign, we need to start earlier in the day.


Posted by: Gref"

What if the Tone's search plane had taken off on schedule?

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 26, 2018 10:36 PM (w+Jhj)

382 370 Alcohol is more dangerous than mj. The laws are not based on any kind of logic.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM (UdKB7)


One of the benefits of legalization is that the increased availability of edibles like gummies and candies means that people who want to get high at concerts don't have to stink up the place to do so.

Posted by: The Music Hat at June 26, 2018 10:36 PM (itfg0)

383 Man. I miss fire flies.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:36 PM (Ocik3)

384 377 Another first class ONT - Bravo, MisHum!

And that Home Depot mailbox story is fantastic - Thanks!!
Posted by: ibguy at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (vUcdz)

If you really want to suck up send cash, $10s and $20s preferably.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:37 PM (neocU)

385 Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 26, 2018 10:35 PM (boez/)

That was purty.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (+lOpA)

386 >>>"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." Albert Einstein

What the heck does that mean? I think if you could kill Einstein and replace him with a clone of Isaac Newton, the bomb would have been developed much quicker and much more efficiently.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (/qEW2)

387 " Man. I miss fire flies"

We've got a million of them around here. I'll shove some in my USB port for ya.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (UdKB7)

388 If you really want to suck up send cash, $10s and $20s preferably.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:37 PM (neocU)


To Cam's mailbox?

Posted by: X-ray at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (bYoS1)

389 So, what do people here think of the immigration bill coming up for a vote in the House this week? I'm a little surprised how little attention it's been getting on conservative internet. My thinking, as long as it has full funding for the wall and something on e-verify, I'm okay with swallows the bitter pill of Amnesty for the DACAs and their parents.

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (GtG/j)

390 If you really like Mis Hum's posts, send dollar bills that way the tipping can be done properly while Mis Hum does 'research.'

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (0Ef//)

391 Isaac Newton invented math, or applesauce, one of those.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:39 PM (yQpMk)

392 "Alcohol is more dangerous than mj. The laws are not based on any kind of logic.

Posted by: f'd"


Possession of mushrooms that will you deader than a stone (Death Cap - Amanita phalloides) is perfectly legal, while other mushrooms that'll just make you act silly, are totally illegal.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 26, 2018 10:39 PM (w+Jhj)

393 389. Toss in an end to chain-migration, and I might be persuadable.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:39 PM (fA1SL)

394 Steve Schmidt is on MSNBC's anal list?

Posted by: Roy at June 26, 2018 10:39 PM (ABjxW)

395 In the Smokies there are fireflies called Synchronous Fireflies. Every one in the forrest will flash at the same instant.

It's a mystery.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:40 PM (+lOpA)

396 The answer is simple. Boycott blue urban cities. Do not allow supplies in. Let them starve.

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 10:40 PM (3cOA7)

397 391 Isaac Newton invented math, or applesauce, one of those.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:39 PM (yQpMk)


Cat door.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (+lOpA)

398 Toss in an end to chain-migration, and I might be persuadable.

End all immigration for 25 years and I'll consider amnesty for "dreamers". For the parents? Nothing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (yQpMk)

399 oh my, the RNC came out with an ad called unhinged...about the actual left...the moderate lefts' hyper violent fantasies.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (FOPyv)

400 "while other mushrooms that'll just make you act silly, climb trees, and listen to The Doors are totally illegal"

Embellished for accuracy

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (UdKB7)

401 395. Sojourning here in Best Virginia. Fireflies like I haven't seen in decades

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (fA1SL)

402 end the chain, end the anchor. period.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (FOPyv)

403 I thought William Tell invented applesauce.

Posted by: Roy at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (ABjxW)

404 Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie.

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (BqR2k)

405 "In the Smokies there are fireflies called Synchronous Fireflies. Every one in the forrest will flash at the same instant.



It's a mystery.

Posted by: eleven"


Yep. Not very far from here. They have to restrict the # of people allowed in to watch 'em because too many people and the fireflies get trampled on.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (w+Jhj)

406 Fight and call the cops. Fine. Then what? Because the Berkeley case zombie shared earlier, to say nothing of the general stand-down of law enforcement in blue areas, means it's open season on non-communists. The 'authorities' are with the enemy in most urban areas. Fight back and get curb-stomped and prosecuted for your trouble. The enemy are acting collectively; individual acts have no chance.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (fA1SL)



I do not have the same perspective as you on this. Not even close. So there is no way argue it.

You are for an actual civil war with bloodshed.
I am for riding out the cold, or soft, civil war for however long it takes to get the pendulum to swing back center. Especially bcz we are winning for the first time in decades.

We have 2 very different points of views.
But I like you.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (1lhwM)

407 >>My thinking, as long as it has full funding for the wall and something on e-verify, I'm okay with swallows the bitter pill of Amnesty for the DACAs and their parents.


That's a bitter fucking pill.

I want to see 100% of the illegal population deported.

All of them. Dreamers, Visa Overstays, I don't care how they got here. I want them gone.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (Ocik3)

408
No, Newton discovered the G-spot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (8O3HH)

409 398. 'For the father, nothing.' Dune reference is best reference.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (fA1SL)

410 Humphrey Bogart invented applesauce.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (+lOpA)

411 When I was in the USSR I tried a Soviet cigarrette called Cosmos.

When you lit it, the end would throw sparks and crackle like a bottle rocket. It tasted like hay, but I coyldn't afford Gauloises.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (EZebt)

412 Yeah the Japanese search plan left much to be desired. Instead of diluting the carriers' strike power, they send out the cruiser float planes. Soryu had a prototype Jill torpedo bomber.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (0Ef//)

413 I could compromise at ending birthright citizenship. Do that, and I'll let in lots of "guest" workers.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (yQpMk)

414 20 students to be trained in witchcraft, rituals in University of Zambia

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8usr4wz

Posted by: The Firebolt Hat at June 26, 2018 10:43 PM (itfg0)

415 389 So, what do people here think of the immigration bill coming up for a vote in the House this week? I'm a little surprised how little attention it's been getting on conservative internet. My thinking, as long as it has full funding for the wall and something on e-verify, I'm okay with swallows the bitter pill of Amnesty for the DACAs and their parents.
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (GtG/j)

No more consessions and no deals. Time to treat the Deep State and Elites like the ex wife who has for years and years been abusing power. Make em sleep in the bed they made for themselves.

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 10:43 PM (3cOA7)

416 406. Yep. I like you, too. Blame my SMR blood for making me sporty.
The world needs REMOVE and live together, both.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:43 PM (fA1SL)

417 Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie.
Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (BqR2k)

----------------------------

It's not a cookie! It's fruit and cake!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2018 10:43 PM (+F0Wk)

418 404 Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie.
Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (BqR2k

Son of a Bitch!!!!

I thought it was Ernie Keebler

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:44 PM (neocU)

419 What is the deal with the huge fireflies this year?

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 10:44 PM (3cOA7)

420 Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie.

That was his cousin, Fig.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:44 PM (yQpMk)

421 Zambia trying to conjure up a better leader?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (0Ef//)

422 They didn't even try, not even a guess...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 09:55 PM (+cu3S)

That is pretty damn sad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I intend to mention it to the next 'teacher' that I meet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (R+Cqa)

423 No, Newton discovered the G-spot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 26, 2018 10:42 PM (8O3HH)


C'mon now. Even Newton wasn't that freakin smaht.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (+lOpA)

424 "Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie. "

It's a cake.

Posted by: The Big Fig at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (UdKB7)

425 > That was his cousin, Fig.

When it comes to cookies named after calculus inventors, Choco Leibniz > Fig Newton.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (GXOTw)

426 >>20 students to be trained in witchcraft, rituals in University of Zambia


Hello Class.

My name is Ms. O'Donnel.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:46 PM (Ocik3)

427 415 389 So, what do people here think of the immigration bill coming up for a vote in the House this week? I'm a little surprised how little attention it's been getting on conservative internet. My thinking, as long as it has full funding for the wall and something on e-verify, I'm okay with swallows the bitter pill of Amnesty for the DACAs and their parents.
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (GtG/j)

No more consessions and no deals. Time to treat the Deep State and Elites like the ex wife who has for years and years been abusing power. Make em sleep in the bed they made for themselves.

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 10:43 PM (3cOA7)


We got screwed on such a deal back in the '80's.

Demonstrate that we can effectively enforce the law as written, and then we'll talk.

Posted by: The Border Hat at June 26, 2018 10:46 PM (itfg0)

428 No, it's Missus Calabash, right?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at June 26, 2018 10:46 PM (boez/)

429 Phlogiston & Aether Theories > G Spot theory

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:46 PM (fA1SL)

430 Good evening, Horde.

Looks like medical mary-ju-wanna is now legal here in Okie-land.

[sarc] yay. [/sarc]

Posted by: Captain Whitebread, World's Worst Superhero at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (Qj9FM)

431 Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:30 PM (Enq6K)

Not usually. Short hairs are about a half inch. long hairs much longer.

sometimes you can have a cat that has very long hairs or their anus is such that the hairs don't stay out of the way.

The being fat could do it. If she can't reach it she can't clean it.

If wipes aren't good for her. go to vet. They'll have much more suggestions specific for her.

don't tell hubby for a while.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (psHEv)

432 Isaac Newton invented the sandwich cookie.

That was his cousin, Fig.
Posted by: Grump928
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It was that Uncle Tom, Oreo.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (R+Cqa)

433 Phrenology was, in fact, a misguided effort to locate the G-spot.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (+F0Wk)

434 389 So, what do people here think of the immigration bill coming up for a vote in the House this week? I'm a little surprised how little attention it's been getting on conservative internet. My thinking, as long as it has full funding for the wall and something on e-verify, I'm okay with swallows the bitter pill of Amnesty for the DACAs and their parents.

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 10:38 PM (GtG/j)

From what I saw on Lou Dobbs, it's a crap bill. Something like $1.2 billion for the wall, doesn't end chain migration and I thought I heard him say cuts to border patrol.

I'll see if I can find the video where he's talking to David Brat about it....

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (Enq6K)

435 >> or their anus is such that the hairs don't stay out of the way.


This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Hope Solo at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (8O3HH)

436 421 Zambia trying to conjure up a better leader?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 26, 2018 10:45 PM (0Ef//)


Zambia actually had a President who is White not that long ago (IIRC, he was the Veep and took over when the President died).

Posted by: The Nyemba Hat at June 26, 2018 10:48 PM (itfg0)

437 See, I'm a simple man. I see commies and KEBAB, and I REMOVE.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:48 PM (fA1SL)

438 Here in Indiana we refer to them as lightening bugs. As it should be.

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 26, 2018 10:48 PM (myjNJ)

439 Rita the Embezzler was fortunate that everyone around her were incompetent boobs. Dixon was falling apart for two decades because of budget shortfalls and no one gave her a second look. Not even external auditors. She practically had a sign around her neck saying ' hey guys look at me. I'm stealing you blind' .

Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (2DOZq)

440 438. Poor people....at a want for the proper name.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (fA1SL)

441
From what I saw on Lou Dobbs, it's a crap bill. Something like $1.2 billion for the wall, doesn't end chain migration and I thought I heard him say cuts to border patrol.

I'll see if I can find the video where he's talking to David Brat about it....
Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:47 PM (Enq6K


Don't bother Tami, if Paul Ryan likes and is pushing it, it is a POS the size of an Olds stationwagon

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (neocU)

442 over half of Americans have smoked marijuana. If it were causing an epidemic of hyperemesis, we'd know about it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:32 PM (GXOTw)

????

https://tinyurl.com/ybpa6o7w


Look up hyperemesis and marijuana on Google scholar: dozens of articles. No one is saying they ALL have it. We're just saying it's getting old seeing the ones who do jam up the ER.

From a peer reviewed article: "Medical emergencies related to cannabis use increased by 29% from 2009 to 2011"

Aaand I know this because I see the people with it as well as with the other issues fairly frequently now.

So no - I'm not a "doc" with the disrespect that implies. I'm a doctor and know what's going on - no italics needed.

I did not say it was better than alcohol. Every choice you make comes with costs/risks. Marijuana is not somehow magically excluded from that.

I can't help but notice how many of the recreational users come to clinic trying to put forward some BS concept of disability they want. These requests have multiplied exponentially since the legalization in our state. They want to sit at home and do pot while the workers pay their way. Nope - not interested.

Posted by: Jade Sea being a meany at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (0sWXw)

443 If there's no money for a full funding of the wall, then Trump should not sign it. And i will be very mad at the house.

but I don't have to worry about that as no incumbent is up in my district nor as the other senator so they'll be easy to vote for.

Then we will see.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (psHEv)

444 C'mon now. Even Newton wasn't that freakin smaht.
Posted by: eleven
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Newton invented the earth apple. Homo Frogs stole it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (I83yK)

445
20 students to be trained in witchcraft, rituals in University of Zambia

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8usr4wz
Posted by: The Firebolt Hat


None of them look like Samantha Stephens.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (IqV8l)

446 No, it's Missus Calabash, right?

Where ever she is.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (yQpMk)

447 I know. Tinfoil hat time. But I just can't figure why it happened so quickly all over the country. Least it seemed to me sudden.
There is pretty good evidence from research done in India that there is a virus that causes obesity. One of the telltale signs of infection with the virus is that the patient is obese but has low cholesterol numbers.

Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (gsO4B)

448 oh my, the RNC came out with an ad called unhinged...about the actual left...the moderate lefts' hyper violent fantasies.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (FOPyv)

--------------

They seem to have mistakenly hired both a creative video director and a script writer with at least one ball each.

When the Left begins calling them racists, sexist and mysogonist for simply showing video of actual Libtard activity, I hope that this time they do not fold.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (I16G8)

449 If there's no money for a full funding of the wall, then Trump should not sign it. And i will be very mad at the house.
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As we have been pondering here, if Mexico continues to break down, we're going to be overwhelmed by 'refugees'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:51 PM (I83yK)

450 Here's the video segment of Lou Dobbs talking about the immigration bill....


http://tinyurl.com/ya62ufmu

Posted by: Tami at June 26, 2018 10:52 PM (Enq6K)

451 EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

Possum with lead pellets and dirt sauce? Oh, and: Poke......salad.

Posted by: Burger Chef at June 26, 2018 10:52 PM (RuIsu)

452 Witchcraft in Zambia.....shit, we've got a self-proclaimed witch with contacts and influence throughout the mediocre cadre that presumes to call itself our 'elite.' Marina Abramovic, by name.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:53 PM (fA1SL)

453 blame mainly the Food Pyramid ( half carbs) and high fructose corn syrup, both of which our bodies were never designed to process.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 10:34 PM

I think this. I had to go on a medication when I was in college and one of the side affects was weight gain. So I decided to be proactive and go to a nutrtionist. I started gaining weight, and then was on one program after another.

I chalked it up to my metabolic problems until my niece who has a severe insulin problem went to a doctor who told her to get ofv the high carb/lowfat diets. I just about died of anger, every damn program I tried and the nutrtionist, too, had me on high carb/lowfat.

On the flip side, I live in a town with almost no obese children. They play video games, but they also ride bikes or walk everywhere. And their parents think that growing children need more fish and meat!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 10:53 PM (/+bwe)

454 Posted by: Lancelot Link Secret Agent Chimp at June 26, 2018 10:49 PM (2DOZq)

That happened where I am. These little old ladies in these small rural towns. bow howza how they do get up to trouble.

Thankfully the tax base is small. They risked so much for so little money. It's amazing.

And no body gave them a second look.

Here's a business tip: never have anybody doing your books and paying your bills that is the only one doing all that. it is a recipe for embezzlement.

There should always be someone else necessary to sign the checks and knows how the books are kept. Preferably an outside professional paid to find trouble.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:53 PM (psHEv)

455 >>I can't help but notice how many of the recreational users come to clinic trying to put forward some BS concept of disability they want. These requests have multiplied exponentially since the legalization in our state. They want to sit at home and do pot while the workers pay their way


Yeah.

Because this never happens in the absence of Marijuana.

A full 25% of the population isn't worth the effort to reclaim their water. And I am being conservative here.
No matter what the variables, these people will seek to leech off of the rest of the population.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:53 PM (Ocik3)

456 That Unhinged ad is devastating.

Good job GOP!

That feels weird typing that.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 10:54 PM (jHrzU)

457 No, it's Missus Calabash, right?
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Missus Calabash?

Irene.

Posted by: Lead Belly at June 26, 2018 10:54 PM (I83yK)

458 Couple of points-

I don't believe Oscar Wilde ever really loved a woman.

The worst cover version ever is Limp Bizkit trying to play "Behind Blue Eyes."

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 10:54 PM (ACanc)

459 > So no - I'm not a "doc" with the disrespect that implies.

You're the one who described yourself that way.

> As a doc in a "legal marijuana state" I'd like to put my 2 cents in:

Remember writing that, doc?

> From a peer reviewed article: "Medical emergencies related to cannabis use increased by 29% from 2009 to 2011"

Link? And what are the absolute numbers compared to medical emergencies related to, say, aspirin? Or alcohol? Or prescription medication?

I guarantee that you see 10-20x the number of patients who are there for reasons related to alcohol than you do for weed.











Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at June 26, 2018 10:54 PM (GXOTw)

460 my, the RNC came out with an ad called unhinged...about the actual left...the moderate lefts' hyper violent fantasies.
Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 10:41 PM (FOPyv)


Hahahaha.

I gotta go find that.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 10:54 PM (1lhwM)

461 That "Quartz Media" with the Red hen story appears to be a commie fag site.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (a2xQ5)

462 I want to see this ad run on all stations across the country.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM
Posted by: The Political Hat at June 26, 2018 10:07 PM (itfg0)


It started good.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (2K6fY)

463 That Unhinged ad is devastating.

Is it playing on network tv?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (yQpMk)

464 As we have been pondering here, if Mexico continues to break down, we're going to be overwhelmed by 'refugees'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:51 PM

Vincent Fox had a policy of sending lots of people to the US and trying to get SS payments for his people who contributed, however illegally.

If Obrador is elected, expect a thousand times that.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (/+bwe)

465 Fireflies are so large I want to throw a rope over one and tie and commie on the end.

Posted by: MC Honey Mustard at June 26, 2018 10:56 PM (3cOA7)

466 Before the Battle of Midway, the US was always on the defensive in the Pacific. After that battle, the US was always on offense, and Japan retreated from that point forward.------


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Midway was in 1942. To say that the US was always on the defensive doesn't quite state it correctly. Seven months after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Uncle Sam was able to turn around the war in the Pacific.

Posted by: MAGA at June 26, 2018 10:56 PM (LnOh3)

467 Marijuana is the cure for anorexia.


Well, probably not but it should be.
Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 09:25 PM (+lOpA)

The only thing it's known for certain to cure is lackachoom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2018 10:57 PM (a2xQ5)

468 Is it playing on network tv?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (yQpMk)


Social media right now. The newsies are going to flip out over it, and they will give it lots of free media.

Trump University seems to be a good education.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 10:57 PM (jHrzU)

469 I saw Dirty Kat Ass open for Homo Frogs, State Theater Madison 1994

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:58 PM (neocU)

470 Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (gsO4B)

Crap that's me. I don't have optimum cholesterol but it's low enough the doctors don't argue with me when i tell them I'm not taking any statins.

No point. they only help those that are younger with way higher cholesterol. And they only statistically raise your longevity by like 30%.

i told this one doc: at my age it would mean like 4 months extra living. Pfft. Come get me death. I'm already bored and my other med problems aren't bad but they vex the hell out of me and make my life tedious. I don't need no maybe extra 4 months.

I've been considering acquiring a heroin addiction cause of the crappy legal pain meds they give me.

I wouldn't take enough to nod off. Just enough to get mellow and feel comfy.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 10:58 PM (psHEv)

471 Midway was in 1942. To say that the US was always on the defensive doesn't quite state it correctly. Seven months after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Uncle Sam was able to turn around the war in the Pacific.

Posted by: MAGA at June 26, 2018 10:56 PM (LnOh3)


Doolittle raid was just 4 months after Pearl Harbor.

US went on the offensive everywhere after Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 10:58 PM (jHrzU)

472 My son has Dravet's syndrome. It's one of the only genetic defects that is strongly correlated to autism.

This FDA approval is a good thing.

Posted by: MAGA at June 26, 2018 10:59 PM (LnOh3)

473 Hyperchondriasis + Pot = ER Visits


I'm not a doctor. But I am a pothead.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:59 PM (Ocik3)

474 464 As we have been pondering here, if Mexico continues to break down, we're going to be overwhelmed by 'refugees'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:51 PM

Vincent Fox had a policy of sending lots of people to the US and trying to get SS payments for his people who contributed, however illegally.

If Obrador is elected, expect a thousand times that.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 10:55 PM (/+bwe)


Obrador is so bad that all three of Mexico's main political parties, including far Left PRD, think that's he's too extremist.

Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.

Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)

475 It's not always bad for a sibling to choose a name. Back in the early 80's my 4 year old son was a superfan of Sesame Street, his favorite characters were Susan and Gordon--and the (original) Oscar the Grouch. He insisted the baby to be would be a girl and he called her Susan before the baby was born. It turned out I did indeed have a girl and we'd given up long before--we named her Susan.

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (JK7Jw)

476 The only thing it's known for certain to cure is lackachoom.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Well yeah ... but the effects are temporary!

Posted by: Adriane the Medical Technology Critic ... at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (AoK0a)

477 92 When do the justices usually announce retirements?
Posted by: lin-duh at June 26, 2018 09:38 PM (kufk0)

In their obituary.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (ACanc)

478 In New York State, the Democrat Speaker lost his primary to a 28 year old Democrat Socialist.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:01 PM (jHrzU)

479 469 I saw Dirty Kat Ass open for Homo Frogs, State Theater Madison 1994

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 10:58 PM (neocU)


ಠ_ಠ

Posted by: Alex Jones at June 26, 2018 11:01 PM (itfg0)

480 Here is the unhinged ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM

Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 11:02 PM (gsO4B)

481 Just saw the ___ of Mrs. McConnell defending her husband. The look on her face of fixed determination illustrates what the Pubbies don't have.

She doesn't need CB'sD, she's got a fist.

Posted by: Breaking Inn at June 26, 2018 11:02 PM (y1gYQ)

482 EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

Possum with lead pellets and dirt sauce? Oh, and: Poke......salad.
Posted by: Burger Chef


more like Cream of Wheat ... Cream of Rice ... Applesauce ... IYKWIMAITYD ...

Posted by: Adriane the Medical Technology Critic ... at June 26, 2018 11:02 PM (AoK0a)

483 They seem to have mistakenly hired both a creative video director and a script writer with at least one ball each.

----

Surely that's like illegal, man. The uncucked GOP may actually do ok...just get Ryan out now

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 26, 2018 11:03 PM (FOPyv)

484 It's not like the Japanese took Pearl. That would have been different.

Posted by: Burger Chef at June 26, 2018 11:03 PM (RuIsu)

485 Oh, wait, not Speaker in NYS - a Democrat US Representative.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:03 PM (jHrzU)

486 Obrador is so bad that all three of Mexico's main political parties, including far Left PRD, think that's he's too extremist.

Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.
Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)

My relatives are worried that he might win, all the same.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 11:03 PM (/+bwe)

487 That Unhinged Ad is brutal. I wonder if DeNiro will be upset he didn't make the cut.

It is scary to watch...to realize what we have lived through. How batshit crazy people are. Plus, no leaders on their side stepped up and said stop.

Then there was the SOTU address, where all the dems sat on their hands. The RNC has so much to work with to prove who is sane and insane.

I did not know Pelosi said that about uprisings until that Unhinged ad. Wacky.

Posted by: fuck off jamie at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (1lhwM)

488
It turned out I did indeed have a girl and we'd given up long before--we named her Susan.
Posted by: Lirio100


I was hoping for Cookie Monster!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (IqV8l)

489 I dropped off my GOP primary ballot today. I decided I agree with BTH that Doug Lopez seems like the best candidate for Governor, so that's who got my vote there.

A big chunk of my thinking was tactical. Walker Stapleton is another candidate, and I'd prefer not to have to hold my nose and vote for another member of the Bush clan.

But, Victor Mitchell has pretty much based his campaign on, "Don't vote for Stapleton. He's a Bush! Vote for me instead."

This is true, and I agree with the basic sentiment, but... our local GOP is very pro-Bush. The Bushes have a lot of pull around here, and I kind of didn't want a candidate who's alienated their supporters to such an extent that they have a plausible excuse to oppose the Republican. Trump did not win Colorado's electoral votes, and I don't think Mitchell would stand any sort of chance of doing better than that.

Also, we have a lot of Hispanics around here, and that's a voting bloc with a high degree of own-group preference. A GOP candidate named Lopez might just be able to peel off enough of those voters to have a shot at winning.

Lopez seems good enough on the issues for those tactical considerations to make him look like the best candidate overall, IMO. I'll probably still vote for whoever wins the GOP primary here, but I'll feel a lot better about my vote if it isn't for a Bush.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (wSC8T)

490 Ben Jealous is the Democratic nominee for Maryland Governor. God help us if that asshole beats Hogan!

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (GtG/j)

491 and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.

Whoa. Never heard of that one.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (+lOpA)

492 EAT LIKE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 26, 2018 10:33 PM (yQpMk)

Love ya Grump, but my great grandparents had an atrocious diet. It might be better to say "take in the number of calories your great grandparents took in," except for when the crop failed.

Posted by: joncelli, delivering his speech at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (1FhAQ)

493 The worst cover version ever is Limp Bizkit trying to play "Behind Blue Eyes."


I am not familiar with that, but why, why would anyone who isn't Roger Daltrey attempt to sing that?

It's like singing Rien de Rien if you're not Edith Piaf or Strange Fruit if you're not Billie Holliday.

(One of my favorite things in all of music is that Pete Townsend is a genius who can't sing his own songs and Roger Daltrey is an idiot who doesn't even know what they mean but is the only one who can sing them.)

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2018 11:05 PM (fuK7c)

494 Hi all, good day today. Had a group of docents on a tour from the Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, IL.

If you are ever in the area stop. Well also stop at our places, check out www.srfhs.com.

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (yJ1e6)

495
Ben Jealous is the Democratic nominee for Maryland Governor. God help us if that asshole beats Hogan!
Posted by: Serious Cat


The former head of the NAACP?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (IqV8l)

496 491 and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.

Whoa. Never heard of that one.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (+lOpA)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Solano_López

Posted by: The Imperial Hat at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (itfg0)

497 >>Pete Townsend is a genius who can't sing his own songs


Like Bob Dylan?

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:08 PM (Ocik3)

498 I think it's the mosquito spray that does in the fireflies.

I've noticed they disappeared about the time everyone freaked about the niles virus and such.

You got to go into the real back woods to see them.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:08 PM (psHEv)

499 As we have been pondering here, if Mexico continues to break down, we're going to be overwhelmed by 'refugees'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 10:51 PM


That is why I want a wall ASAP. We can send troops to help but we are not takin in their entire fvcking population. Canada can take people too. Other countries also.

Otherwise America is gonna be destroyed.

Which is what the globalists want, of course. I don't want to help them. We need the wall. Now.

Mike, please call Trump on the red phone and get it done. Thank you.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:09 PM (1lhwM)

500 ...the difference now between Venezuela and Cuba and the United States is this. Venezuela and Cuba are the countries without internment camps for babies and toddlers.

That's because neither of those other countries are worth crossing deserts, fording rivers, braving drug gang death squads, and risking arrest to break into, much less bringing their children along to enjoy the experience.

Posted by: Socratease at June 26, 2018 11:10 PM (BT83d)

501 Obrador's election will be a gift to PDT.
He's gamed this thing fifty ways.

Posted by: Breaking Inn at June 26, 2018 11:10 PM (y1gYQ)

502 "I agree. Remember, in a divorce, one party leaves the house. I think physical removal is inevitable, necessary, and a consummation devoutly to be wished."

I'm thinking those with all of the guns get to decide. Given how Mexico and Central America are the Left's dream site, and how Mexico just loves immigration, we can deport the Left to Mexico.

Win / Win

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at June 26, 2018 11:10 PM (lD3vL)

503 >>That's because neither of those other countries are worth crossing deserts, fording rivers, braving drug gang death squads, and risking arrest to break into, much less bringing their children along to enjoy the experience.



You left out the Rape.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:10 PM (Ocik3)

504 493 The worst cover version ever is Limp Bizkit trying to play "Behind Blue Eyes."


I am not familiar with that, but why, why would anyone who isn't Roger Daltrey attempt to sing that?

It is bad. They cut out the middle part ("If my fist clenches... ) and do some godawful crap with a speak and spell.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:11 PM (ACanc)

505 The former head of the NAACP?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (IqV8l)

Yes, him.

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 26, 2018 11:11 PM (GtG/j)

506 Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (yJ1e6)


Now how is Bailey? Has he managed to steal anymore sammiches?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:11 PM (1lhwM)

507
...the difference now between Venezuela and Cuba and the United States is this. Venezuela and Cuba are the countries without internment camps for babies and toddlers.

So why aren't the folks going to Cuba and Venezuela?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:12 PM (IqV8l)

508 It turned out I did indeed have a girl and we'd given up long before--we named her Susan.
Posted by: Lirio100

That is so sweet. Is her middle name Gordon or TheGrouch?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 26, 2018 11:12 PM (/+bwe)

509 >> Obrador's election will be a gift to PDT.
He's gamed this thing fifty ways.


I hope at least one of those ways involves a Croc Filled Moat lined to the north with Family Bucket Sized Trebouchet.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:13 PM (Ocik3)

510 But I am a pothead.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:59 PM (Ocik3)

This explains why you don't want to bang Kate Upton.

Kids, don't do drugs!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 26, 2018 11:13 PM (wYseH)

511 Also, Venezuela is having major problems feeding it's own people, let alone if it was facing a migrant crisis into the country.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:13 PM (GIHSy)

512 I'm scared, guys. My Mother had a stroke and my Father is in the throes of dementia.

Instead of visiting my Mother in the hospital, I decided to get drunk today.

-Confession.

I'm in a spiral and it is no good for anyone. I thought I was stronger than this.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at June 24, 2018 11:00

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:13 PM (yJ1e6)

513 It looks like the GOP is beginning to learn how to fight.

https://youtu.be/eFRHX6glTSM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 11:14 PM (rnAwa)

514 Ben Jealous is the Democratic nominee for Maryland Governor. God help us if that asshole beats Hogan!

Posted by: Serious Cat


Larry Hogan has 75% approval. As a Republican. In Maryland.

Ben Jealous is running on a platform of impeaching Trump, which revs up Dems, but, umm, I read the Constitution and nowhere does the Governor of Maryland play a part.

Cue Hawaiian judge.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:14 PM (jHrzU)

515 There is no "policy" disagreement between right and left. The left, being completely and utterly out of all ideas except trans-national socialism, now creates media psychodramas as policy positions, with the goal of taking all decision making out of the electoral process, where their chances are nil, and into their home field: the latest Star Wars piece of shit, the Twitter Outrage of the hour, and the daily late-night comic braindead fuck fest.

Posted by: Al Crapton at June 26, 2018 11:15 PM (u6WMm)

516 497 >>Pete Townsend is a genius who can't sing his own songs


Like Bob Dylan?
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:08 PM (Ocik3)

Now you and rickl get along

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:15 PM (neocU)

517 The RNC also put out a companion ad with Trump talking about what he has done...clips.

He sounds so sane compared to the other ad it is hilarious.

It's obviously intentional, and effective.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:15 PM (1lhwM)

518 eleven & the Political Hat

War of the Triple Alliance. 95% of Paraguayan men died in the war.

Against Argentina and Brazil.

I talked to a missionary when she went there. There are not a lot of Paraguayan last names. And one name is very common. Think it was like a sex-crazed Arkansas resident repopulating the country.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 26, 2018 11:16 PM (hyuyC)

519 Oklahoma just went full retard on medical marijuana and a very chamber of commerce Republican for the candidate in upcoming governor race. What the hell, Oklahoma? May be time to move to Texas.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's Boobs at June 26, 2018 11:16 PM (lx+Di)

520 I think even more doable than the Wall (time) is to get e-verify up and running. it will take awhile because of lawsuits and whatnot but that will make it much harder for the invaders to hide among the populace.

Either that or make a bunch of signs in spanish pointing at cali as the place to be.

Let them take care of all of them. No more welfare subsidy, Snap, farmer subsidy (goodby guacamole and fruit oh well) etc.

Let the calis figure out that they are not GIVING the rest of the country anything. They are taking.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:17 PM (psHEv)

521 Ugh. I'm maladapted to hard times if or when it comes to that. I may want to supplement my high-tech skills with something more practical, but have no idea what I'd be suited for.

Talk about problems better dealt with twenty years ago...

Posted by: Brother Cavil says "Fuck off, Jamie" at June 26, 2018 11:17 PM (lLeln)

522 Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:07 PM (yJ1e6)
Now how is Bailey? Has he managed to steal anymore sammiches?
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:11

Nope, I just put the last chicken leg in fridge, the dog won't get it.

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:18 PM (yJ1e6)

523 It's obviously intentional, and effective.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:15 PM (1lhwM)


Who is this political party, and what have you done with the GOP?

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:18 PM (jHrzU)

524
Either that or make a bunch of signs in spanish pointing at cali as the place to be.

They say Californy is the place you ought to be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:19 PM (IqV8l)

525 Love ya Grump, but my great grandparents had an atrocious diet. It might be better to say "take in the number of calories your great grandparents took in," except for when the crop failed.
Posted by: joncelli, delivering his speech at June 26, 2018 11:04 PM (1FhAQ)

----------

My great grandparents, on both sides, were farmers. Quite naturally, they consumed enormous quantities of eggs, pork products, and potatoes for breakfast, and switched it up to home made and ground bread and beef products combined with pork and chicken for a huge lunch. My grandparents were the same. All meals had a large variety of veggies fresh picked from their own separate garden.

They also physically worked their ever loving ass off from sunup to 11:00 lunch, and then from about 11:45 to sundown, going in to a small dinner.

This was the agrarian diet, and the were skinny and sinewy as hell, but tough as nails.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 11:19 PM (I16G8)

526
Oh, did you guys hear about that female professor soliciting dick pics for some study she's working on? This popped up on Rush today.

Prof. Alicia Walker, Missouri State.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 26, 2018 11:20 PM (8O3HH)

527 "There are not a lot of Paraguayan last names. And one name is very common. Think it was like a sex-crazed Arkansas resident repopulating the country."

So it was like a Hell Comes to Frogtown situation.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093171/?ref=m_nv_sr_1

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:20 PM (ACanc)

528 Kid kills himself after playing the game "Doki Doko Literature Club".

http://tinyurl.com/yaqbabzt

Fair warning, ads at site are NSFW.

Admittedly the game is kind of a mindf**k.

"While it appears at first glance to be a lighthearted dating simulator, it is in fact a psychological horror game that involves heavy use of breaking the fourth wall"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club!

Posted by: The Literature Hat at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (itfg0)

529 Shit, Slap. I can identify with that crap. Wish to God there was something I could say that meant something, since obviously my way of "dealing" has had a price of its own...

Posted by: Brother Cavil says at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (lLeln)

530 Define "moderate" amounts of coffee and alcohol?

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (L3YlV)

531 Townsend does a much better job with his music when he plays acoustic guitar and sings quietly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (wYseH)

532 Be well Slap, many here love you. Best to you and Mom, hope it all goes well.

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (yJ1e6)

533 The link is there in the comment I left - to a dozen peer reviewed scientific journal articles.

If you do pot and work and pay your bills and have not had to use the ER - bully for you.

Just saying that there have been high new costs to society that people (apparently like yourself) refuse to acknowledge. Or is it now forbidden to discuss the real costs of something new?

Again - it's not superior to be someone who sucks off society due to alcoholism than due to other drug abuse. Both are failing to contribute and failing to grow as people.

Just pointing out, the pro-cannabis crowd have not been honest (or maybe are ignorant) about the effects - we are seeing them and they are real.

Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career, and when we get down to it, marijuana often seems to be playing a major role. Things massively accelerated after the legalization. There was an extension from occasional illicit activity to daily can't-live-without-it habit that for some (not every one obviously) has been a problem.


Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)

534 Posted by: An Observation at June 26, 2018 10:50 PM (gsO4B)

Is that related to Doki Doki Morning by Baby Metal?

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:22 PM (psHEv)

535 I'm watching the positive RNC ad about Trump and got to him announcing moving our embassy to Jerusalem, and then their reaction and I got all goosebumpy and misty. It is so awesome.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:23 PM (1lhwM)

536 Talk about problems better dealt with twenty years ago...
Posted by: Brother Cavil
--------------

Well, I mean you were only nine years old then.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:24 PM (Coh3a)

537 Oh, did you guys hear about that female professor soliciting dick pics for some study she's working on? This popped up on Rush today.

Prof. Alicia Walker, Missouri State.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 26, 2018 11:20 PM (8O3HH)


https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46164/

Posted by: The Non-Complying Hat at June 26, 2018 11:24 PM (itfg0)

538 Oscar might have been a popular choice in my son's viewpoint but we told him since he chose her first name we got the middle one--that was after an aunt!

Posted by: Lirio100 at June 26, 2018 11:24 PM (JK7Jw)

539 There's nothing like it. I don't care who you're photographing - golden hour, turn subject's face toward that light. Million dollar shot every time.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 09:44 PM (fA1SL)

So what is the golden hour? How long before sunset?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2018 11:25 PM (a2xQ5)

540 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club!
Posted by: The Literature Hat at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (itfg0)

Geez, Hat. That sounds disturbing. The Japanese can be odd ducks, I say.

Of course, so can everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:25 PM (GIHSy)

541 Actress Hilary Duff, 30, recently announced that she and her boyfriend Matthew Koma, 31, are having a baby.

When she went on The Late Late Show soon after, she told host James Corden that her six year-old son, Luca, is interested in helping name his new sibling.

"We're up for any kind of suggestions, but Luca thinks Cofant Croissant is like, the coolest name," she said.

"When I just refer to it as Cofant and I'm like, 'That would be so cool, no one at school's going to be named Cofant! he's like Croissant. Cofant Croissant. It goes together. There's no separating the two."

---

Robert the Bruce weeps.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM (v3DL/)

542 "There are not a lot of Paraguayan last names. And one name is very common. Think it was like a sex-crazed Arkansas resident repopulating the country."
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A lot of Clintons?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM (Coh3a)

543 Define "moderate" amounts of coffee and alcohol?
Posted by: Minnfidel


Are you awake?

Can you still blink?

You're good.

Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM (JGBbg)

544 Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously? Like using additives for it too?

this may be a case of the growers pumping up the levels so ppl get high quicker and for less intake cause the stuff these days costs a fortune.

They should go back to just plain ol mexican weed.

Took half a joint to get a buzz. (or so they tell me)

That may be part of the problem.

The other is over ingestion. You really can't overdose on weed but you can get so mind f**ked you go to the ER just for company. Or something to do.

Like munchausens

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM (psHEv)

545 Posted by: The Literature Hat at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (itfg0)


Lovely.

There is some NetFlix show that glorifies suicide. I only heard about it because an actress was complaining her daughters have watched it (at a friends I think), and how it has put dangerous thoughts in their heads. Unusual to hear an actress blast a TV show, but she did, and said it should not be on the airwaves.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:27 PM (1lhwM)

546 I think the worst cover ever is Bootsy Collins singing Steve Miller's The Joker. You've heard it if you've watched the movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

The thing that makes it so terrible is, a lot of The Steve Miller Band's early songs were basically cover-proof, because Miller really liked to reference other songs that he'd made.

You really should not even bother covering The Joker unless you've already covered Space Cowboy, Gangster Of Love, Maurice, and Pompetus Of Love.

Oh, and you shouldn't cover Space Cowboy unless you've already covered Living In The USA and Gangster Of Love.

Just like how you should never cover any song about your guitar unless you actually play a guitar. If you don't play a guitar, do not cover George Harrison's My Guitar Gently Weeps or Ana Gabriel's Guitarra Mia. And don't do a cover of Aerosmith's Dream On if you're 19! There are no "lines in my face getting clearer" at that age.

Bootsy, I do not believe that anyone has ever called you the Space Cowboy or Maurice. You've never covered either of those songs, and... you're a girl!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:27 PM (wSC8T)

547 Geez, Hat. That sounds disturbing. The Japanese can be odd ducks, I say.

Of course, so can everyone

--------

Sssshpeak for yursssshelf, busssshter.

Posted by: Daffy at June 26, 2018 11:27 PM (ACanc)

548 Sorry I don't know why that showed up there. Was pasting the wiki doki doki literature club link

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:27 PM (psHEv)

549 Isaac Newton died a virgin.

"No kidding? What colour?"


Oddly enough, I got on the wrong side of a Newton fan with that one, on another site that purports to be all friendly and shit, and he sent me a little missive about how unimportant my life and children are compared to him.

He never did get the joke. I've been noticing, the Internet is like that.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (H5rtT)

550 Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.
Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)

Was Lopez really about social justice? I think he was a nut who fancied himself the Napoleon of Latin America, and tried to take on the two most powerful states in South America at the same time.

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (ANIFC)

551 Robert the Bruce weeps.


Winnie the Pooh agrees.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (IcT7t)

552 Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)

I am on my phone, and I suck at typing on it. I have big thumbs. But... In the absence of a keyboard here's my answer:

Fuckin' A!

I agree completely.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (wYseH)

553 Washed up Actress Hilary Duff, 30, recently announced that she and her boyfriend Matthew Koma, 31, are having a baby.

When, in a futile attempt to revive her non-career, the slut went on The Late Late Show soon after, she told host James Corden [who?] that her six year-old son, Luca, is interested in helping name his new sibling.

"We're up for any kind of suggestions, but Luca thinks 'Cofant Croissant' is like, the coolest name," she said.

"When I just refer to it as 'Cofant' — and I'm like, 'That would be so cool, no one at school's going to be named 'Cofant'!' — he's like 'Croissant. Cofant Croissant.' It goes together. There's no separating the two."


And I'm like, why wasn't this retarded bitch spayed?

How about naming him "Spot?" Or "Fido?" Or, perhaps more appropriately, "Burst Condom?"

And if you're "up" for any suggestions, how about keeping your legs together henceforth?

Just a thought.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (hDNQh)

554 Last reference about this topic:

https://tinyurl.com/y7ox8mbb

(Ducks and runs away!)

Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (0sWXw)

555 543 Define "moderate" amounts of coffee and alcohol?
Posted by: Minnfidel

Are you awake? Yes

Can you still blink? Yes

You're good. Cool!!
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM (JGBbg)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (neocU)

556
Prof. Alicia Walker, Missouri State.

Another crazy Alice Walker!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (IqV8l)

557 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (hDNQh)

please pass the paper towel, the drink was spewed

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:30 PM (neocU)

558 MSNBC Analyst Steve Schmidt, so is Robby Mook going to end up a Fox News Contributor yakking it up with Hannity?

Posted by: Jean at June 26, 2018 11:30 PM (MS0+a)

559 >>Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously?


Yes. But not additives.

Just perfected through horticulture.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:30 PM (Ocik3)

560 Robert the Bruce weeps.


Winnie the Pooh agrees.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Vlad the Impaler ruminates.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:31 PM (/lkI0)

561 550 Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.
Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)

Was Lopez really about social justice? I think he was a nut who fancied himself the Napoleon of Latin America, and tried to take on the two most powerful states in South America at the same time.

Posted by: josephistan at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (ANIFC)


Perhaps I'm conflating him with another Paraguayan leader who forbade marriage between two people of the same race.

Posted by: The Non-Complying Hat at June 26, 2018 11:32 PM (itfg0)

562
Smoking marijuana leads to wearing dungarees.

And titty banging.

Posted by: George Will at June 26, 2018 11:32 PM (8O3HH)

563 speaking of pot, someone needs to tell colorado that abandoned fields do not really qualify as open spaces. well, they qualify as open spaces but there is no need to mark them with fancy signs and celebrate them.

Also, dry creeks would be in the same category. Further, dry creeks that are set aside as open spaces, especially the big dry creek open space and the little dry creek open space, would be better labeled "gulch", sounds cooler.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 11:33 PM (MTjB1)

564 Bertram @11:29... Alice Walker? Rosie from the Bounty paper towel commercials of the 70s and the director of the Village People movie You Can't Stop The Music? That Alice Walker?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:33 PM (wSC8T)

565 1. I have a man crush on Victor Davis Hanson

2. Put all the illegal immigrants in every college dorm room and give the students tents and a box of matches. Let them live their prog beliefs.

Posted by: Trigger Warning at June 26, 2018 11:33 PM (YRXy3)

566 544 Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously? Like using additives for it too?

------------

A couple of buds of CA Sinsemila in a bong and you are blasted.

I was buying that stuff quite a few decades before I turned 29. I still cannot believe I was able to function in society at all considering how much of that stuff I ingested.

Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at June 26, 2018 11:33 PM (WEBkv)

567 Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90% of his own country slaughtered.
Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)


It occurs to me that we need some shithole country to come to a sticky end, just to serve as an example to others. Looks like Mexico is volunteering for that role. OK, go all social justicey lefty. We build the wall, close the border, impose huge tariffs on all products coming out of Mexico, impose a 30% withholding tax on all remittances to Mexico, and summarily deport any and every illegal alien we catch.

Then we watch the Mexican economy collapse, and Obrador stood against a wall and shot by insurrectionists.

Message delivered, and received.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (hDNQh)

568 MisHum had a choice to make here. He could have gone with a song from the best list, or the worst.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 26, 2018 09:58 PM (pvjTE)

Most of us are familiar with the best covers. The worst are obscure, and deservedly so. But it can be fun to listen a little.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (a2xQ5)

569 Prof. Alicia Walker, Missouri State.



"Can I get some muscle over here?"

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (H5rtT)

570 So Gizmodo is out with a call for Progressive terror attacks.

Just like the good old days, according to their nutty writer, layers of editors, corporate counsel and, oh yeah, ownership.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (XNkEi)

571 The positive ad called "500 Days" ends with a clip of a financial guy saying

"It is called, I believe, a return to prosperity".

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (1lhwM)

572 The japanese, as fond of them as I am, are odd ducks. kind of the british of east asia, but with decent teeth and better food.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (MTjB1)

573 Another crazy Alice Walker!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
---------------

I knew her well, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Tracy Chapman at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (/lkI0)

574 Nite all, I'm fading off here, be well.

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (yJ1e6)

575 Thank you mindful webworker, a thoughtful discussion you present. As someone who has done waaaay more then my fair share of bad stuff, it certainly seems to me that alcohol and weed are more alike than not in the context of other, harder drugs and it stands to reason that they have the same legal status. People talk about meth, but meth is mostly a self harming drug. It should certainly stay illegal. I think cocaine is actually much more harmful to society in general, because it encourages both self harm and harm to others depending on the situation and manner of its usage.

Posted by: Max Power at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (q177U)

576 That literature club thing is NOT a game.

That's a Mindf**k.

That thing should not be marketed and should be banned. And I don't say that about much of anything.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:36 PM (psHEv)

577 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:27 PM (wSC8T)

Funny how often Harrison had to hand the guitarnover to somebody else on songs he wrote. Clapton played "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and McCartney played "Taxman."

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:36 PM (ACanc)

578 The japanese, as fond of them as I am, are odd ducks. kind of the british of east asia, but with decent teeth and better food.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (MTjB1)


And tentacle porn.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at June 26, 2018 11:36 PM (jHrzU)

579 Define "moderate" amounts of coffee and alcohol?
Posted by: Minnfidel

Are you awake?

Can you still blink?

You're good.
Posted by: mikeski at June 26, 2018 11:26 PM

Name two things Nancy Pelosi cannot answer yes to.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 26, 2018 11:37 PM (L3YlV)

580 576 That literature club thing is NOT a game.

That's a Mindf**k.

That thing should not be marketed and should be banned. And I don't say that about much of anything.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:36 PM (psHEv)


Don't delete my character file!

Posted by: The NPC Hat at June 26, 2018 11:37 PM (itfg0)

581 557 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:29 PM (hDNQh)

please pass the paper towel, the drink was spewed
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:30 PM (neocU)


This is why I'm a fan of The Donald and his tweets. He just needs to dial back the political correctness and gentility.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:37 PM (hDNQh)

582
Perhaps I'm conflating him with another Paraguayan leader who forbade marriage between two people of the same race.
Posted by: The Non-Complying Hat
-------------

I thought that was Parador.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:38 PM (/lkI0)

583 Vlad the Impaler ruminates.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:31 PM (/lkI0)


Nods.

Posted by: Ivan the Terrible at June 26, 2018 11:39 PM (sXefu)

584 Fuckin' A!

I agree completely.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 26, 2018 11:28 PM (wYseH)

Thank you! Made my day!

Of course hitting refresh on AoSHQ is also very addictive and is currently taking the place of something productive for me - so I can't make myself out to be better than our friendly neighborhood potheads

Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:39 PM (0sWXw)

585 So Gizmodo is out with a call for Progressive terror attacks.



Just like the good old days, according to their nutty writer, layers of editors, corporate counsel and, oh yeah, ownership.


Juxtaposed with:


The positive ad called "500 Days" ends with a clip of a financial guy saying



"It is called, I believe, a return to prosperity".



Tells me that the left is at war with prosperity itself. This should play well with the LIVs.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at June 26, 2018 11:39 PM (IcT7t)

586 Night Farmer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:40 PM (GIHSy)

587 Prince at the 2007 Superbowl "press conference"

https://youtu.be/LjxHZ5Od7zs?t=1m25s

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 11:40 PM (rnAwa)

588 @540 Geez, Hat. That sounds disturbing. The Japanese can be odd ducks, I say.

Of course, so can everyone.
--------------------

That game was actually made by a non-Japanese individual. Although I've heard that the big twist in the game (or one of them - I haven't played it myself) is something that had previously appeared in a Japanese game.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:40 PM (USMA7)

589 Gizmodo is out with a call for Progressive terror attacks.

Just like the good old days, according to their nutty writer, layers of editors, corporate counsel and, oh yeah, ownership.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 26, 2018 11:3


I think it is all they've got left. Violence. Get people so mad they'll fight back physically. Then war, martial law, get rid of Trump...at least stop his train of success...get more dems in power or we won't stop the riots, extortion. Stuff like that. Ya know, coup kind of stuff. This is intimidation.

The more solid we stay, the more batshit crazy they get. We have police and the National Guard to handle them. I don't want to make the mistakes other countries have made.

Let them be destructive and make fools of themselves. I want a GOP tsunami at election time.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:40 PM (1lhwM)

590 Shit, 578 beat me to it!

Posted by: Trigger Warning at June 26, 2018 11:40 PM (YRXy3)

591 Prof. Alicia Walker, Missouri State.



"Can I get some love muscle over here?"


Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (H5rtT)


Fixed.

Posted by: Bert G at June 26, 2018 11:41 PM (yzxic)

592 Tells me that the left is at war with prosperity itself. This should play well with the LIVs.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at June 26, 2018 11:39 PM (IcT7t)


Crumbs.

Trump understands wedge issues. You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:41 PM (jHrzU)

593 Vlad the Impaler ruminates.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:31 PM (/lkI0)

Nods.
Posted by: Ivan the Terrible
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Peter the Great waxes tumescent.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:41 PM (R+Cqa)

594 544 Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously

Blame Carl Sparkler.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:42 PM (ACanc)

595 In Russia hotel, every hour is a Golden Hour.

Posted by: Russian Hookers at June 26, 2018 11:42 PM (Y274z)

596
Prayers for Big Leo. We came home from handling class and found he had been in a fight (with whom we don't know) and his neck was laid open. Looks like stitches will take care of it but it's nasty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 11:42 PM (LsBY9)

597 they've got left. Violence. Get people so mad they'll fight back physically. Then war, martial law, get rid of Trump...at least stop his train of success...get more dems in power or we won't stop the riots, extortion. Stuff like that. Ya know, coup kind of stuff. This is intimidation.

The more solid we stay, the more batshit crazy they get. We have police and the National Guard to handle them. I don't want to make the mistakes other countries have made.

Let them be destructive and make fools of themselves. I want a GOP tsunami at election time.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June




yep. their insanity is evidence of their desperation.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 11:42 PM (MTjB1)

598 "mathematician Edray Goins talk about math as a liberal art"

How Abstract Math Can Analyze Social Injustice
https://bit.ly/2yM9t8L

Shoot me now! These progs are insane!

Posted by: Trigger Warning at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (YRXy3)

599 The literature club game is not made by a japanese guy, at least from his name: Dan Salvato. The game seems to be primarily him trying to work through his love hate relationship with anime.

This reminds me of a couple of things. One, a guy I worked with once told me about a Japanese movie called 'Suicide Club' or something similar. There is something odd in the culture there.

Two, I am always fascinated by how many artists are actually using art to work out and even express their personal issues and demons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (GIHSy)

600 >>Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously?


Yes. But not additives.

Just perfected through horticulture.
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:30 PM (Ocik3)

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Holy shit, is it ever! I have not smoked it in about 28 years. Since I have to be 29 and all, that was 27 years ago, when I I was two.

Anyhoo, bout a year ago sat in a room where peeps were just vaping real pot oil, not the stripled down legal stuff.

I got a contact buzz, laughed, had of Doritos and about 8 Twix bars, and went to bed.

All of this because of the exhalations of pot vapors.

I would not even take one hit of current pot now, plsnt form or vaper.

Good Lord.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (I16G8)

601 >>You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.


I remember having this talk with my Dad.

It was ... awkward.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (Ocik3)

602 You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:41 PM (jHrzU)


Go on.

Posted by: Sandra F. - now with more of me to love at June 26, 2018 11:44 PM (sXefu)

603
Then we watch the Mexican economy collapse, and Obrador stood against a wall and shot by insurrectionists.

Message delivered, and received.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (hDNQh)


If it isn't happening in Venezuela, there is not much hope it will happen in Mexico.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:44 PM (ACanc)

604 Shit.. I didn't win the Megamillions tonight.. Looks like work for me tomorrow!

Posted by: urly Howard at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (5tSKk)

605 @545 There is some NetFlix show that glorifies suicide. I only heard about it because an actress was complaining her daughters have watched it (at a friends I think), and how it has put dangerous thoughts in their heads. Unusual to hear an actress blast a TV show, but she did, and said it should not be on the airwaves.
--------------------

13 Reasons, I'm guessing?

I haven't watched it myself, but I'd thought it was supposed to be more of a "stop mistreating fellow students so they don't kill themselves" sort of a series. Guess I was wrong?

Also, over at Sarah Hoyt's blog they mentioned some troubling bits about it that I can't recall at the moment.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (USMA7)

606 It occurs to me that we need some shithole country to come to a sticky end, just to serve as an example to others.
osted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:34 PM (hDNQh


Didn't Venezuela just do that?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (1lhwM)

607 I remember having this talk with my Dad.

It was ... awkward.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (Ocik3)


I should have preemptively called "phrasing."

Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (jHrzU)

608 You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.
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Oh, my!

Posted by: George Takei at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (R+Cqa)

609 I love watching them implode. I just hope we manage to survive it cause I got the feeling they're gonna go kami kaze on us real soon.

Interesting times.


Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (psHEv)

610 Didn't Venezuela just do that?
Posted by: platypus
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The wrong people were charge!

Posted by: Socialists everywhere at June 26, 2018 11:46 PM (RNno0)

611 If it isn't happening in Venezuela, there is not much hope it will happen in Mexico.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:44 PM (ACanc)


Seems to me it IS happening in Venezuela, through their idiotic policies. We just need to make it happen in Mexico through what everyone will perceive was our whim.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (hDNQh)

612 Name two things Nancy Pelosi cannot answer yes to.
Posted by: Minnfidel at June 26, 2018 11:37 PM (L3YlV)

1) I'm a practicing and believing Catholic
2) My appearance is completely natural without chemical or surgical imput.
3) I'm a fvcking rocket scientist

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (neocU)

613 The wrong people were charge!
Posted by: Socialists everywhere


IN charge..dammit.

Posted by: Socialists everywhere at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (RNno0)

614 How about you post a link to "500 days"?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (rnAwa)

615 I think it is all they've got left. Violence. Get people so mad they'll fight back physically. Then war, martial law, get rid of Trump.

Whatever happened to having a second beer and bitching to your friends? That does not work anymore? We have to have bombings now?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (XNkEi)

616 Seems to me it IS happening in Venezuela, through their idiotic policies. We just need to make it happen in Mexico through what everyone will perceive was our whim.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (hDNQh)

There is one vital ingredient missing in your formula for Venezuela though.

Maduro is still walking around.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (GIHSy)

617 13 Reasons, I'm guessing?

I haven't watched it myself, but I'd thought it was supposed to be more of a "stop mistreating fellow students so they don't kill themselves" sort of a series. Guess I was wrong?

Also, over at Sarah Hoyt's blog they mentioned some troubling bits about it that I can't recall at the moment.
Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (USMA7)


Yes. That was the name. I guess the producers say that, but the reality seems to be very different. Very disturbing.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (1lhwM)

618
Trump understands wedge issues. You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.
Posted by: blaster


That's the atomic wedgie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (IqV8l)

619 Appalling cover versions of hit songs, you say?

Well, then! Say hola! to Jose Feliciano singing The Doors' "Light My Fire"!

Posted by: Dr. Emeritus strawdog at June 26, 2018 11:49 PM (Cssks)

620 601 >>You get the pointy end in, then smack the hell out of the ass end.


I remember having this talk with my Dad.

It was ... awkward.
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (Ocik3)


All i got was a lousy book.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:49 PM (neocU)

621 Two, I am always fascinated by how many artists are actually using art to work out and even express their personal issues and demons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:43 PM (GIHSy)


Art typically results from a tortured soul. Someone who is well-adjusted and happy, comes in to work at 8, leaves at 5, etc. is unlikely to produce much in the way of art, which is kind of like a pearl in an oyster. That sand grain has to be there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:49 PM (hDNQh)

622 There is one vital ingredient missing in your formula for Venezuela though.

Maduro is still walking around.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (GIHSy)


(Checks news.)

Yes, you're right.

So far.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (hDNQh)

623 How about you post a link to "500 days"?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (rnAwa)


Awesome. I'm a huge Tool fan.

Posted by: Joey Biden at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (sXefu)

624 619 Appalling cover versions of hit songs, you say?

Well, then! Say hola! to Jose Feliciano singing The Doors' "Light My Fire"!
Posted by: Dr. Emeritus strawdog at June 26, 2018 11:49 PM (Cssks)

Stay tuned tomorrow night's Musical Interlude may surprise you or turn in your platinum subscription.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (neocU)

625 I guess we know who had stewardship of Mitch's balls today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (GIHSy)

626 Unlike with Chaves, Castro, or Ortega, Obrador is
full on "Social Justice" in a way that no other previous Latin American
leader ever was... and that's including that Paraguayan dude who got 90%
of his own country slaughtered.
Posted by: The Latin Hat at June 26, 2018 11:00 PM (itfg0)


Francisco Solano Lopez was more of a Louis Napoleon III than any sort of Socialist.
And he was, by the way, he was spending his loans on infrastructure and modernizing his country the best he could, but he wanted to also be important and negotiate, and later come to the rescue of the Uruguayan government, much the way ol Louis Napoleon III got involved in Piedmont Sardinia and Rome.

His bad luck was to be on the wrong side of the Argentinos, their puppet government in Uruguay and have something the Brazilians wanted.

The general slaughter came about because there was no way the Paraguayans would have surrendered to those three armies

Posted by: Kindltot at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (2K6fY)

627 The Shat is where it's at for covers.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (+lOpA)

628 Well, then! Say hola! to Jose Feliciano singing The Doors' "Light My Fire"!
Posted by: Dr. Emeritus strawdog
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Pfft.

Pat Boone doing 'No More Mr. Nice Guy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:51 PM (RNno0)

629 There is one vital ingredient missing in your formula for Venezuela though.

Maduro is still walking around.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (GIHSy)


Nicolae Ceauceascu and Muammar Khaddafi were unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:51 PM (hDNQh)

630 How about you post a link to "500 days"?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (rnAwa)


How about I might, bcz I feel kind of guilty about something I said earlier.

If not for that guilt, I'd say google is your friend, buttmunch.

I shall go create a tinyurl.


Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (1lhwM)

631 I guess we know who had stewardship of Mitch's balls today.



Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (GIHSy)


I get them back every other weekend.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (sXefu)

632 Proof that socialism doesn't work and cannot work is found in SMR Theory, as is true of most things. If the superhuman descendants of the Ancient Slavonauts cannot make something work, other, lesser peoples have no chance whatsoever.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (fA1SL)

633 /sock off

Posted by: Chuck C at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (YTxkQ)

634 Stay tuned tomorrow night's Musical Interlude may surprise you or turn in your platinum subscription.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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*ponders what covers Yoko did*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (I83yK)

635 I also think the best response to anything mentioning Farrakhan is to play Calyso Louie's 'Is she is or is she ain't?' Have that playing as a bumper on every show he appears on, blast it as his events, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:53 PM (GIHSy)

636

Awesome. I'm a huge Tool fan.
Posted by: Joey Biden

FIFY

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 26, 2018 11:53 PM (IqV8l)

637 This link takes you to both RNC ads.

Unhinged

And

500 Days

https://tinyurl.com/y8uwejpj

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:53 PM (1lhwM)

638 >>All i got was a lousy book.



'Everybody Felches'

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:53 PM (Ocik3)

639 @599
Two, I am always fascinated by how many artists are actually using art to work out and even express their personal issues and demons.
------------------

What in the world are you taking about?

Posted by: Hideaki Anno at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (USMA7)

640 Proof that socialism doesn't work and cannot work is found in SMR
Theory, as is true of most things. If the superhuman descendants of the
Ancient Slavonauts cannot make something work, other, lesser peoples
have no chance whatsoever.



Socialism always works, as long as you're willing to kill enough people.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (IcT7t)

641 Nicolae Ceauceascu and Muammar Khaddafi were unavailable for comment.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:51 PM (hDNQh)

Good times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (GIHSy)

642 If you like Covers, check out 'More Oar' : A Tribute to Skip Spence.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (Ocik3)

643 Teh Drugz - legalize all the drugs, regulate the market. Treat addiction like a medical condition on a par with, say, diabetes. Remember - the only problem an addict really has is supply, and that's where the problem comes in.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 10:15 PM (fA1SL)

The addicts' problem is raising the money to buy the dope. My problem is the crime they commit in order to raise the money.

You cannot ever control drug use by only interdicting the supply side. All that does is make it ever more profitable for the smart dealers who don't get caught.

Three strikes for users. One year, five years, a bullet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (a2xQ5)

644 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:49 PM (neocU)

My mother had the nerve to ask me if I had any questions.

Well, Yeah Ma. But not for you!

Geez. Just what I want to do at 11 yrs old. Talk to my mom about sex.

I barely knew what the hell it was. Questions?

Yeah I got a ton of questions but I'm not asking you a one of them. Nope.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (psHEv)

645 Well, Yoko must have some hellacious demons.

Posted by: eleven at June 26, 2018 11:55 PM (+lOpA)

646 I believe McConnell is physically disabled & does not have full use of his legs. I think he uses walker, but I might be wrong.

Posted by: Dr. Emeritus strawdog at June 26, 2018 11:55 PM (Cssks)

647 Seems to me it IS happening in Venezuela, through their idiotic policies. We just need to make it happen in Mexico through what everyone will perceive was our whim.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:47 PM (hDNQh)

Far from putting him against the wall or giving him the full Mussolini treatment, Maduro was re-elected a month ago.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:55 PM (ACanc)

648 >>My mother had the nerve to ask me if I had any questions.


How much is too much to pay for a hummer?

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (Ocik3)

649 Good times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (GIHSy)


Every morning I check the news to see if Maduro has finally had some good times.

I look for it any day now. A friend of mine is from Venezuela, and his stories of the situation there are unbelievable.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (hDNQh)

650 625 I guess we know who had stewardship of Mitch's balls today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (GIHSy)

Truly a married man who knows that if Mamma aint happy Mitch won't have any balls. nobody's happy,.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (neocU)

651 I'll give Axl Rose credit and say that Guns and Roses did a decent cover of Live And Let Die. It was not the third best cover of all time.

As evidence, I present some vastly superior covers of Guns and Roses songs!

Paradise City, by Pat Boone...
https://youtu.be/6rg-4F-hVI4

Welcome To The Jungle, by Postmodern Jukebox featuring Daniela Andrade...
https://youtu.be/kjt-aYQO5zA

Sweet Child Of Mine, by Postmodern Jukebox featuring Casey Abrams...
https://youtu.be/bZpdXgsI6C0

Another cover of Sweet Child Of Mine, by local bluegrass band Thunder and Rain...
https://youtu.be/6cIxF4Ex7a4

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (wSC8T)

652 640. Ha. Nobody killed more than the Slavs. Shit, we even conned the Celestials into trying their inscrutable hand at it.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 11:57 PM (fA1SL)

653
How much is too much to pay for a hummer?
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (Ocik3)

Half your lunch money and your complete baseball card collection? Or are we talking later in life?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:57 PM (neocU)

654 Some of the Beetles songs played by an orchestra sound pretty good.

Some do not.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:57 PM (psHEv)

655 I will say this, Guns and Roses took an awful song and revved up the awfulness.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:57 PM (Ocik3)

656 Yeah I got a ton of questions but I'm not asking you a one of them. Nope.


Posted by: jakee308 at June 26, 2018 11:54 PM (psHEv)


Size matters?

Posted by: Oedipus at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (sXefu)

657 493 (One of my favorite things in all of music is that Pete Townsend is a genius who can't sing his own songs and Roger Daltrey is an idiot who doesn't even know what they mean but is the only one who can sing them.)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2018 11:05 PM (fuK7c)


Agreed. One of my favorite things within that is that, and this is a guess, that Roger Daltrey drew the line at singing one part of a song, so Pete had do do it.

You can cover up your guts
But if you cover up your nuts
You're admitting that there must be something wrong.

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (Vb4BV)

658 Far from putting him against the wall or giving him the full Mussolini treatment, Maduro was re-elected a month ago.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:55 PM (ACanc)


Interesting, but irrelevant. Venezuelan elections are subject to fraud that would make a Democrat blush. Besides which, in a dictatorship, power holds the only vote. The question is, "who has that vote?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (hDNQh)

659 @649 I look for it any day now. A friend of mine is from Venezuela, and his stories of the situation there are unbelievable.
-------------------

So far as I can tell, he's more or less letting the army do what it wants to. So he's still got the army's backing.

Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (USMA7)

660 643. See, my thinking is in a way every addict's dream - get it on RX, with insurance. Cheaper in terms of gold and liberty that way.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 11:59 PM (fA1SL)

661 Holy Schneikes! Oklahoma voted to allow recreational medical marijuana. My goodness. It wasn't very close either.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 26, 2018 11:59 PM (+Tibp)

662 Public unions - who pretty much ARE organized labor now - are a big, big funding source for the Dems. Make dues voluntary and you basically dry up that source.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2018 09:43 PM (GWOQG)


Yep. And if the Supremes step up to the plate on the Janus decision - minus the usual suspects, of course - THAT one is definitely going to last more than four hours.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:59 PM (hDNQh)

663 I once almost got NJP for playing Within You or Without You on watch too much.

I loved that sitar. I bought an electronic one once. Never learned how to tune it or play it. I just wanted to own it and it was cheap.

Good times.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (psHEv)

664 Far from putting him against the wall or giving him the full Mussolini treatment, Maduro was re-elected a month ago.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 26, 2018 11:55 PM (ACanc)


It only takes one person with the right opportunity...

Posted by: The Assasin's Hat at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (itfg0)

665 I look for it any day now. A friend of mine is from Venezuela, and his stories of the situation there are unbelievable.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (hDNQh)


Saw a youtube of some english guys there. There are No Gun signs everywhere and for some reason No Smoking signs everywhere. I just thought that was bizarre. In the middle of hell and No Smoking signs everywhere.

Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (+lOpA)

666 It all looks fine to the naked eye.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (IqV8l)

667 guess we know who had stewardship of Mitch's balls today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:50 PM (GIHSy)

Truly a married man who knows that if Mamma aint happy Mitch won't have any balls. nobody's happy,.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (neocU)


He married way outta his league with her. She's beautiful. He's McTurtle.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (1lhwM)

668 Larry Hogan has 75% approval. As a Republican. In Maryland.
.....

.
Posted by: blaster at June 26, 2018 11:14 PM (jHrzU)

Yeah, but he has that recent history of cancer... and the only reason Jealous had a shot at nomination is that the Democratic front runner dropped dead of a heart attack last month. I don't want to tempt fate with radicals like Jealous.

Posted by: Serious Cat at June 27, 2018 12:01 AM (GtG/j)

669 So far as I can tell, he's more or less letting the army do what it wants to. So he's still got the army's backing.
Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (USMA7)


Ceausceau had the army's backing too. Until he didn't.

They didn't decide that until one day when they were facing demonstrators. That morning, they were on board with Nick. That evening, they were on the other side.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:01 AM (hDNQh)

670 Watching Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, which I have never seen before. The whole film is pure crazy but she is pretty hot in kind of a Mistress of Discipline sort of way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at June 27, 2018 12:01 AM (XNkEi)

671 658 Venezuelan elections are subject to fraud that would make a Democrat blush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 26, 2018 11:58 PM (hDNQh)


Oh no, dear. I had those blood vessels flash-frozen and removed decades ago.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at June 27, 2018 12:02 AM (Vb4BV)

672 *ponders what covers Yoko did*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (I83yK)

Realizes that Mike Hammer is a sustain member and Ace has told us Cobs don't fvck with the sustaining members


Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2018 12:02 AM (neocU)

673 Yes. That was the name. I guess the producers say that, but the reality seems to be very different. Very disturbing.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM

I read the book and discussed it with kids who had. It is a revenge fantasy about killing oneself and having all the meanies regret it. The girl who killed herself gets a cute classmate to deliver audiotapes to the people she blames for making her commit suicide.

The series is more graphic than the book.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 27, 2018 12:03 AM (/+bwe)

674 How much is too much to pay for a hummer?
Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (Ocik3)

The original HMMV or the pussied up ones that GM built(d?)

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:03 AM (psHEv)

675 > >Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously?

Wow dude! Are you seeing my thought waves shimmering into The Sky?

Can they read them on Mars?

I've got the munchies! Where's the hotdogs, pickles 'n mustard!?

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 12:04 AM (i/KWu)

676
He married way outta his league with her. She's beautiful. He's McTurtle.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:00 AM (1lhwM)

Maybe he really knows how to use a vacuum cleaner.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2018 12:04 AM (neocU)

677 578 The japanese, as fond of them as I am, are odd ducks. kind of the british of east asia, but with decent teeth and better food.

Posted by: yankeefifth at June 26, 2018 11:35 PM (MTjB1)

And tentacle porn.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at June 26, 2018 11:36 PM (jHrzU)
*************
And used pantie vending machines

Posted by: Perv Nipponstein at June 27, 2018 12:04 AM (Y274z)

678 Okay, I'm gonna trademark "Tokelahoma". Y'all all cool with that?

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:05 AM (+Tibp)

679 well that was a fucking nightmare

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:05 AM (6FqZa)

680 *ponders what covers Yoko did*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2018 11:52 PM (I83yK)

OH God no. Mike ixnay on the okoyay.

Oh geez.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:05 AM (psHEv)

681 Misanthropic Humanitarian

If you hit the tip jar you are treated like you have a blessed glossy pasteboard membership?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:06 AM (hyuyC)

682 674. Even original HMMV is veak, vastly inferior to motor transport of the warrior heroes of the SMR.
GAZ2975, FTW!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 27, 2018 12:06 AM (fA1SL)

683 @669 Ceausceau had the army's backing too. Until he didn't.

They didn't decide that until one day when they were facing demonstrators. That morning, they were on board with Nick. That evening, they were on the other side.
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What I've heard with Ceaucescu was that one day (in December of 1989) he held a public rally... and no one cheered. This was literally unheard of. It had never happened before. There was *always* cheering at his rallies. So it simultaneously rattled him badly (which was obvious as it happened in the middle of his big televised speech), and made the entire country realize that they could give him the figurative middle finger and everyone else in the country would support them.

Dictators can't afford to have a personal crisis of confidence on national television.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:06 AM (SspEb)

684 681 Misanthropic Humanitarian

If you hit the tip jar you are treated like you have a blessed glossy pasteboard membership?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:06 AM (hyuyC)

Exactly, plus you can virtue signal like a muthafvcka

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 27, 2018 12:07 AM (neocU)

685 Oklahoma Choomers

Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2018 12:07 AM (Ocik3)

686 683. Close. There was booing and heckling, from the back, at first. Next thing you know, it's on like Donkey Kong.
NSF, FTW!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 27, 2018 12:08 AM (fA1SL)

687 617 13 Reasons, I'm guessing?

I haven't watched it myself, but I'd thought it was supposed to be more of a "stop mistreating fellow students so they don't kill themselves" sort of a series. Guess I was wrong?

Also, over at Sarah Hoyt's blog they mentioned some troubling bits about it that I can't recall at the moment.
Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 11:45 PM (USMA7)


Yes. That was the name. I guess the producers say that, but the reality seems to be very different. Very disturbing.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 26, 2018 11:48 PM (1lhwM)

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IMHO, this show is evil.

I read the book a few years ago for school, and I found it disturbing then.

When I recently found out Netflix made a series about it, it horrified me.

Efforts were made to stop the second season, but to no avail.

If anyone is interested, here's some background, including a heart-breaking story of a young girl who killed herself after binge-watching 13 Reasons Why.

https://www.afa.net/netflix/

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 12:08 AM (KCUTM)

688 and what NaughtyPine said about 13RW

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:09 AM (6FqZa)

689 Oklahoma Choomers
Posted by: garrett

Oklahoma State Oh, WOW boys.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:09 AM (+Tibp)

690 I am amazed at the number of people who seem to think North Korea and Venezuela are Muslim countries.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2018 12:09 AM (ACanc)

691 The new Oklahoma State Bird : Double Rainbow

Posted by: garrett at June 27, 2018 12:10 AM (Ocik3)

692 "Total Guitar magazine voted Celine Dion's rendition of the AC/DC track 'You Shook Me All Night Long' as the world\s worst cover version ever."

I guess they never heard AC/DC's cover of "My Heart Will Go On".

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 27, 2018 12:10 AM (Ndje9)

693 I read the book just before watching the movie, and reviewed it in a book thread as 'a kamikaze fantasy' starring someone who was 'insane' iirc.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:10 AM (6FqZa)

694 Beautiful evening here in Peon Country. Sun has gone down, but bright twilight. A few lenticular clouds in the NW, indicative of high winds aloft. And the Moon in the SE sky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:11 AM (a2xQ5)

695 Helena Handbasket is trending on this thread tonight?

I live in Helena, Mt right now. It would do wonders for health reasons (such as migraines) to have a Chik Fil-A open here soon. Kalispell has one, so hurry up and open one here soon, Chik Fil-A!

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at June 27, 2018 12:12 AM (xxG/v)

696 "There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

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That's a bunch of bullshit, and em-apple-pie-foaddy-fi!

Posted by: W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson at June 27, 2018 12:12 AM (UiRxW)

697 i am amazed at the number of people who seem to think North Korea and Venezuela are Muslim countries.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 27, 2018 12:09 AM (


See, statements like that make me despair. This is why we have a stupid problem in this country.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:12 AM (1lhwM)

698 Misanthropic Humanitarian

Hmmm. Well, if I can fund your dental plan ... it's all good. I have the remnants of a gift card balance around someplace.

You have provided me with hours and hours of highly entertaining content, clogged my browser with unusual-to-me youtube videos, and have a heartening picture on the ONT every night you post. Google must have quite a file on me by now.

Plus your pet thread published my pictures of the baby Eastern Phoebes.

Roundabout way of saying thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:12 AM (hyuyC)

699 651 I'll give Axl Rose credit and say that Guns and Roses did a decent cover of Live And Let Die. It was not the third best cover of all time.

As evidence, I present some vastly superior covers of Guns and Roses songs!

Paradise City, by Pat Boone...
https://youtu.be/6rg-4F-hVI4

Welcome To The Jungle, by Postmodern Jukebox featuring Daniela Andrade...
https://youtu.be/kjt-aYQO5zA

Sweet Child Of Mine, by Postmodern Jukebox featuring Casey Abrams...
https://youtu.be/bZpdXgsI6C0

Another cover of Sweet Child Of Mine, by local bluegrass band Thunder and Rain...
https://youtu.be/6cIxF4Ex7a4

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 26, 2018 11:56 PM (wSC8T)


Another interesting band, that does Bossa Nova covers, is Nouvelle Vague.

Their cover of "Dance With Me"

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

For comparison, the original video for the original song (and yes, that one shows why the lyrics are so disturbing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CYN14Ki5o8

Posted by: The Bande à Chapeau at June 27, 2018 12:13 AM (itfg0)

700 @687 When I recently found out Netflix made a series about it, it horrified me.
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There's something very very wrong going on over at Netflix right now. And it's not just their decision to let Obama get involved with their shows (though that's almost certainly connected).

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:13 AM (SspEb)

701 The Tokie from Muskogee?

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:13 AM (psHEv)

702 Pat Boone's still alive? holy crap.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:14 AM (psHEv)

703 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668252030881793

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668334495092737

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668417810747394

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668508109889536

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668589655543809

Posted by: kbdabear at June 27, 2018 12:15 AM (eh0Va)

704 Appropos of nothing, I really like the Andorians from Star Trek. Blue. With those tentacle things. I thought they created them for ST: Enterprise, but it turns out they go all the way back to the original Kirk Star Trek. So, there ya go.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:15 AM (1lhwM)

705 so Stapleton will be facing off against Polis for governor.

Treasurer is a more tight primary.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:15 AM (6FqZa)

706 Busting on Oklahoma. You guys are so funny.

I'll have to keep a straight face when they show up in town to root for their team.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:16 AM (hyuyC)

707 The Oklahoma Irony.

Merle Haggard was known to have smoked a joint or two in his life and times.

And Muskogee will never be the same again.




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2018 12:16 AM (QzJWU)

708 More Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668674795753472

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668761487839232

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668854362333185

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011668947106762760

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1011669035598172160

Posted by: kbdabear at June 27, 2018 12:16 AM (eh0Va)

709 The Tokie from Muskogee?
Posted by: jakee308

Living on Tulsa kindbud

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:16 AM (+Tibp)

710 Pat Boone's still alive? holy crap.
Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:14 AM (psHEv)



Well, "alive" is a matter of opinion.

Posted by: Mrs. Pat Boone at June 27, 2018 12:16 AM (lSrgA)

711 I like how they dress up the National Dildo Monument for Flag Day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 27, 2018 12:17 AM (lSrgA)

712 I'll have to keep a straight face when they show up in town to root for their team.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

What town is that NaCly Dog?

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:17 AM (+Tibp)

713 GAZ2975, FTW!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
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Hmm. They seem to make use of Cummins engines, and Allison transmissions...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:17 AM (sd+O2)

714 What I've heard with Ceaucescu was that one day (in December of 1989) he held a public rally... and no one cheered. This was literally unheard of. It had never happened before. There was *always* cheering at his rallies. So it simultaneously rattled him badly (which was obvious as it happened in the middle of his big televised speech), and made the entire country realize that they could give him the figurative middle finger and everyone else in the country would support them.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:06 AM (SspEb)

686 683. Close. There was booing and heckling, from the back, at first. Next thing you know, it's on like Donkey Kong.
NSF, FTW!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 27, 2018 12:08 AM (fA1SL)


That's exactly my point. What happened yesterday is not necessarily a guide to what will happen tomorrow. I've pounded this into my sons: eschew the fallacy of the linear extrapolation. History occurs at the discontinuities. Everything will continue as it has, until it doesn't, when something, perhaps some little thing, sets long-building events off in a new direction.

I call it the "avalanche effect."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:18 AM (hDNQh)

715 There's something very very wrong going on over at Netflix right now. And it's not just their decision to let Obama get involved with their shows (though that's almost certainly connected).
Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:13 AM (SspEb)


Can you say more? Why you feel this way?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:18 AM (1lhwM)

716 kbdabear

Thank you. You are a giver.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:18 AM (hyuyC)

717 There's something very very wrong going on over at Netflix right now

They killed off Walter White!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 27, 2018 12:19 AM (lSrgA)

718 There's something very very wrong going on over at Netflix right now. And it's not just their decision to let Obama get involved with their shows (though that's almost certainly connected).
Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:13 AM (SspEb)

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God has given us over to our lusts, to paraphrase a verse I read in some book...

Things are about to to get much, much worse, which coincidentally, is in the same book.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 12:19 AM (KCUTM)

719 See, my thinking is in a way every addict's dream - get it on RX, with insurance. Cheaper in terms of gold and liberty that way.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at June 26, 2018 11:59 PM (fA1SL)


I will say that you have not thought this through.

However, this is because , I suspect, that you are an honorable and decent person, and the idea of person crimes for the sake of committing crimes does not occur to you.

Something will have to be done for those crimes that Tweekrs like to commit, or at least deal with the broken and abused lives they leave in their wake.

And perhaps find some way to cope with the time to time psychotic break that makes a user to use a brick to beat middle-aged man to death while he was walking his dog at 5 am on a residential street.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2018 12:19 AM (2K6fY)

720 Lester Lanin had a society orchestra that played big events in DC. There was nothing exciting about Lanin's charts, but they were good for social conversation while dancing in formal wear. They played the White House when Nixon was in office, and had a version of "Satisfaction."

There has to be some kind of special rating for that, wouldn't you think?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 27, 2018 12:19 AM (H5rtT)

721 I have a bleg to make to the horde.

There's a parody Twitter account of Justin's Minister of the Environment (or Climate Change etc.) that was banned by Twitter but is now returned.

So if any horde members on Twitter (I'm not BTW) would follow the parody account to pump up its numbers, it would be a nice eff-you to Justin, the Canadian MFM, and Twitter.

Here it is:
https://twitter.com/CatheeMcKennnna

The real one and not the parody one is also known as "Climate Barbie" if you want to net search that phrase for some background information.

Come on. You'd do it if the same happened to Sean Spicier!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:20 AM (Evws/)

722 Because this never happens in the absence of Marijuana.

A full 25% of the population isn't worth the effort to reclaim their water. And I am being conservative here.
No matter what the variables, these people will seek to leech off of the rest of the population.

Posted by: garrett at June 26, 2018 10:53 PM (Ocik3)

Well, it's not necessarily cause and effect. MJ may not be causing people to become lazy bums who seek to get on disability so they sit around all day and smoke MJ. But lazy bums who seek to get on disability have nothing else better to do than sit around and smoke MJ all day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:20 AM (a2xQ5)

723 GorillaGumdrop: Netflix lost a lot of value yesterday so clearly their shareholders have to wonder.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:21 AM (6FqZa)

724 @669 Ceausceau had the army's backing too. Until he didn't.

They didn't decide that until one day when they were facing demonstrators. That morning, they were on board with Nick. That evening, they were on the other side.
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What I've heard with Ceaucescu was that one day (in December of 1989) he held a public rally... and no one cheered. This was literally unheard of. It had never happened before. There was *always* cheering at his rallies. So it simultaneously rattled him badly (which was obvious as it happened in the middle of his big televised speech), and made the entire country realize that they could give him the figurative middle finger and everyone else in the country would support them.

Dictators can't afford to have a personal crisis of confidence on national television.

Posted by: junior

Noted, install canned applause.

Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:21 AM (MS0+a)

725 Blutarski-esque 0.0

Manhattan, Kansas.

Our Constitution Bee raised funds by working a concessions booth at Kansas State University football games.

Good times. We have given over $40,000 in scholarships as of our last Bee in March. Not bad for only 7 years of operation.

Too many of the others aged out of working on concrete floors for 10 hours straight. So we have funding issues.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:22 AM (hyuyC)

726 #721 Addendum: this explains it too...
https://twitter.com/kelly_t_mac/status/
1011792944506945537

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:22 AM (Evws/)

727 One item that just struck me about the idiots confronting McConnell and his wife-

The idiots' professed reason for harassing McConnell was the family separation thing. What they don't realize is that McConnell is the *only* person so far who's taking actual useful steps to try and end that. Trump issued his EO, but has to overcome a previous court ruling to keep the EO going for more than a few weeks (and I'm not sanguine about the chances of that happening; it's not Trump's fault, mind you). Schumer has actively come out in opposition to the Senate doing anything about it. I haven't heard a peep from either Ryan or Pelosi about the House passing anything to put a stop to it. So McConnell is being harassed because of a policy that he - and only he - is actively trying to bring to an end.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:23 AM (SspEb)

728 Manhattan, Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Mrs. Blutarski is a Wildcat. No shit (her whole family actually).

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:24 AM (+Tibp)

729 Noted, install canned applause.
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:21 AM (MS0+a)


Not good enough. You need to show the adoring crowd, otherwise it's too obvious that the whole thing is bullshit.

And panning the crowd at that juncture risks having someone shoot the moon, or the bird, or otherwise disrespecting Maximum Leader.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:24 AM (hDNQh)

730 One thing driving the left the rest of the way to nuts is they Know that Trump has the Military.

They Love him. And he loves them back. And they know it.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:24 AM (psHEv)

731 Blutarski-esque 0.0

It's a cult! Too late to start running?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:24 AM (hyuyC)

732 It's a cult! Too late to start running?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Waaaay too late for me. I actually know the fight song.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:25 AM (+Tibp)

733 If you drop by, I'll fund a libation for you and you wife. Just give me some warning.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:26 AM (hyuyC)

734 Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:23 AM (SspEb)

No one ever has gone wrong on betting on how stupid the left is.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:26 AM (psHEv)

735 If you drop by, I'll fund a libation for you and you wife. Just give me some warning.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Absolutely will do. The Cats come acalling in Norman this year. But next year.......

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:27 AM (+Tibp)

736
And panning the crowd at that juncture risks having someone shoot the moon, or the bird, or otherwise disrespecting Maximum Leader.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity


It's 2018. CGI supporters.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2018 12:27 AM (IqV8l)

737 Blutarski-esque 0.0

But can you do the aerobic movements that come with The Wabash Cannonball in a stadium?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:27 AM (hyuyC)

738 Beautiful evening here in Peon Country. Sun has gone down, but bright twilight. A few lenticular clouds in the NW, indicative of high winds aloft. And the Moon in the SE sky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Should also be able to see Jupiter about 50 deg. to the west, Mars is probably up in the east. If the sky is clear, both are quite visible.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:27 AM (+cu3S)

739 Appropos of nothing, I really like the Andorians from Star Trek. Blue. With those tentacle things. I thought they created them for ST: Enterprise, but it turns out they go all the way back to the original Kirk Star Trek. So, there ya go.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel

But are they significant enough to warrant their own expansion for ST Ascendency?

Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:29 AM (MS0+a)

740 But can you do the aerobic movements that come with The Wabash Cannonball in a stadium?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Not in these pants. Not anymore. But the Mrs. loves that. That came after she'd graduated.

Purple helmets!

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 27, 2018 12:29 AM (+Tibp)

741 Just saying that there have been high new costs to society that people (apparently like yourself) refuse to acknowledge. Or is it now forbidden to discuss the real costs of something new?

Again - it's not superior to be someone who sucks off society due to alcoholism than due to other drug abuse. Both are failing to contribute and failing to grow as people.

Just pointing out, the pro-cannabis crowd have not been honest (or maybe are ignorant) about the effects - we are seeing them and they are real.

Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career, and when we get down to it, marijuana often seems to be playing a major role. Things massively accelerated after the legalization. There was an extension from occasional illicit activity to daily can't-live-without-it habit that for some (not every one obviously) has been a problem.


Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)

Could the increase in pot-related ER admissions have anything to do with the fact that with pot now legal, there is no perceived need for users to be coy about it when they hit the ER?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:29 AM (a2xQ5)

742 I have to admit, Jupiter, or some glowing circle, has been right where Mike Hammer has said it would be, for three nights running.

But isn't that just a little bit too convenient? Maybe it's really Hillary's escape pod being delivered.

Posted by: Splunge at June 27, 2018 12:30 AM (Vb4BV)

743 But can you do the aerobic movements that come with The Wabash Cannonball in a stadium?
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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One of the great C&W tunes

She's mighty tall and handsome
And loved by one and all
She's the combination
Called the Wabash Cannonball

Oh listen to the jingle
The rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands
Through the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of her engine
Hear that lonesome hobo's call
We're travelling through the jungles
On the Wabash Cannonball

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:30 AM (+cu3S)

744 Mike Hammer

Saw Jupiter at 0 deg relative, Venus at 090 relative and the Moon at 340 relative as I was walking south after dusk. Jupiter was high and bright. They were all just above a super-cell moving east. A stunning cloud formation, lit from within by cloud to cloud stuff.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:31 AM (hyuyC)

745 It's 2018. CGI supporters.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2018 12:27 AM (IqV8l)


Too late for Nick and Elena.

Also, probably wouldn't work. People who were there would tell others, and the truth would spread by word of mouth, forcing the dictators to do this live in an effort to disprove the rumors.

Now they could try to pack the audience, Obama style, but ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:31 AM (hDNQh)

746 @742 Maybe it's really Hillary's escape pod being delivered.
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As long as we're rid of her, I don't care if she "escapes" to another galaxy.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:31 AM (SspEb)

747 Jeepus Crisp on a shovel head.
Rhythem ?
On a Les Paul ?
Berzorker izza gonna has a stroke !

Posted by: chicongo johnny- cig smuggler at June 27, 2018 12:32 AM (5CirR)

748 @742 Maybe it's really Hillary's escape pod being delivered.

Funny, I never heard a Port-A-Potty called that before.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:32 AM (hDNQh)

749 Best all-instrumental cover of The Wabash Cannonball is The Bash by the Dixie Dregs. Check it out. Preferably in a live version.

Posted by: Splunge at June 27, 2018 12:32 AM (Vb4BV)

750 Hillary's going to ride the comet?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 27, 2018 12:32 AM (2K6fY)

751 Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:31 AM (SspEb)

Stupid alien probably will screw it up somehow.

Posted by: jakee308 at June 27, 2018 12:33 AM (psHEv)

752 @745 Also, probably wouldn't work. People who were there would tell others, and the truth would spread by word of mouth, forcing the dictators to do this live in an effort to disprove the rumors.
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Kind of like how reporters who've reported "booing" at Trump rallies invariably get tripped up when people who were actually at the rally point out that the "booing" was at an idiot demonstrator who caused a brief commotion. Or something similar.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:33 AM (SspEb)

753 But are they significant enough to warrant their own expansion for ST Ascendency?
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:29 AM (MS0+a)

Is that the one on TV now? Or is that Discovery?

I'm unfamiliar with Ascendency. I refuse to watch SJW Discovery after all their antics.

I got to like the Andorians during ST Enterprise. The main guy called us Pink Skins. Then at the end they kinda saved the galaxy or something.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:34 AM (1lhwM)

754 Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career, and when we get down to it, marijuana often seems to be playing a major role. Things massively accelerated after the legalization. There was an extension from occasional illicit activity to daily can't-live-without-it habit that for some (not every one obviously) has been a problem.

Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)


It's almost as if libertarianism is late-night dorm room political philosophy.

Almost.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:34 AM (hDNQh)

755 742 I have to admit, Jupiter, or some glowing circle, has been right where Mike Hammer has said it would be, for three nights running.

But isn't that just a little bit too convenient? Maybe it's really Hillary's escape pod being delivered.

Posted by: Splunge at June 27, 2018 12:30 AM (Vb4BV)


Open the pod bay doors, *hic*!

Posted by: Hillary in spaaace! at June 27, 2018 12:34 AM (itfg0)

756 Saw Jupiter at 0 deg relative, Venus at 090 relative and the Moon at 340 relative as I was walking south after dusk. Jupiter was high and bright. They were all just above a super-cell moving east. A stunning cloud formation, lit from within by cloud to cloud stuff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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I generally feel pretty small when observing such. Puts things in perspective.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (I83yK)

757 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:20 AM (a2xQ5)

Speaking lazy bums who sit around all day and smoke MJ, some lazy stoner bums have taken to smoking MJ all night down the street from my house. The smoke always blows towards my house which stinks everything up and I have a strong feeling that it is at least partially responsible for the bizarre nightmares I've been having of late.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (/FLNB)

758 I expect I'm not the first to note this but why would Cuba and Venezuela need internment camps for babies when the entire countries serve as internment camps for their entire populations?

Posted by: epobirs at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (AJKgl)

759 Hillary's going to ride the comet?

She's going to need a bigger machete.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (6FqZa)

760 Gilty feat have got no rhythem!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (Evws/)

761 Just when it's getting fun, I have to turn in. Lots of chores, and they start early.

Have a serene night.

Remember, we are carrying the torch of America, not the SJWs. And it is safe in our hands. We will prevail.

Head on a swivel and have a SECDEF Mattis plan. OPSEC, although the revealed OP Plans today show parallel planning that is not top-doen, but organic. The Left had best behave.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (hyuyC)

762 Kind of like how reporters who've reported "booing" at Trump rallies invariably get tripped up when people who were actually at the rally point out that the "booing" was at an idiot demonstrator who caused a brief commotion. Or something similar.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:33 AM (SspEb)


Exactly. It's too juicy a story not to have legs. The rumors would fly, the powers that be would eventually feel pressure (either through calculation, or ruffled tail feathers) to debunk the rumors, and then ... it's on.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:36 AM (hDNQh)

763 Mom update...

She's moving her right side a bit better, but speech is still difficult. She is able to swallow after the stroke, so she can (thank God) have coffee after nearly a week. (She really craved coffee.)

She's eating pureed food but still having a tough time with it. It has to be administered carefully.

She'll be transferred closer to home in a few days, but she is out of the I.C.U.

Her physical therapy begins soon and I want to be there for it, but I have to work. My Dad will be no help at all, as he is eating me out of House and Home and doesn't remember yesterday.

He fed my dog the wrong pills and I'll have to tell him again tomorrow not to give the dogs any pills.

I'm just fucking stressed to my wits' end. Thank God my Brother is there to help. I'd be fucked without him.

Your prayers are not only appreciated, but needed.

-Thank You, Horde.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at June 27, 2018 12:36 AM (Ckg4U)

764 742 I have to admit, Jupiter, or some glowing circle, has been right where Mike Hammer has said it would be, for three nights running.

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But can you find Uranus with both hands?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 27, 2018 12:37 AM (lSrgA)

765 Democrats are going even harder Left. It's not just Bernie Sanders calling themselves Socialists.

One one hand, easier to beat, but eventually the other party wins with enough time.

Posted by: Pede at June 27, 2018 12:37 AM (uc45P)

766 533 Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career, and when we get down to it, marijuana often seems to be playing a major role. Things massively accelerated after the legalization. There was an extension from occasional illicit activity to daily can't-live-without-it habit that for some (not every one obviously) has been a problem.
Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)


A 25 year old seeking, or worse, being granted disability payments because he'd rather spend his days lounging and stoned is a hideous sight.

But so is a 50 year old Marin County resident with family money, a grey ponytail, and a permanent anger problem from decades of pot smoking.

One of the most useful rules of thumb for drugs is that long term use produces the opposite effect from short term use.

Posted by: Splunge at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (Vb4BV)

767 Your prayers are not only appreciated, but needed.

-Thank You, Horde.
Posted by: Slapweasel
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We're there with you Slap. Prayers continue.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (I83yK)

768 I also think the best response to anything mentioning Farrakhan is to play Calyso Louie's 'Is she is or is she ain't?' Have that playing as a bumper on every show he appears on, blast it as his events, etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 26, 2018 11:53 PM (GIHSy)

That was originally a Louis Jordan song. Did Calypso Louie cover it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (a2xQ5)

769 One day I'll make a trip
Back to that Cherokee Strip
And I'll carry her away with meeeeee, aaannnd

Straight as an arrow flies,
We'll smoke some Northern Lights
That sweet little chickadee,
My little Cherokee maiden and me

Posted by: Zombie Bob Wills at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (+Tibp)

770 Greetings:

When the going gets tough, the tough getting going, and the smart are already gone.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 27, 2018 12:40 AM (evgyj)

771 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:18 AM (hDNQh)
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I always try to stress this to people to ask about their own personal lives, and then extrapolate it to a larger scale: When was the last time you decided to make a major change in your personal behavior/outlook/whatever?

Was it because of a well-considered, lengthily thought out thought process?

Or was it because some event it smacked you into focus?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 12:40 AM (UiRxW)

772 When the going gets tough, the tough getting going, and the smart are already gone.
Posted by: 11B40
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Posted by: Duke at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (rYk7m)

773 Yeah, the Andorians were in TOS but they really got covered well in the Enterprise. I liked them too especially as they didn't trust the sneering, virtue-signalling Vulcans who would do things out of self interest but pretend it was out of altruistic, logical reasons instead.

And the main Andorian who called us "Pink Skins" (not as good as "Spoon-heads" but pretty good!) was also the same actor who played the cloned guys who doled out the "white" to the Jem'Hadar warriors from the Gamma Quadrant.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (Evws/)

774 "We're there with you Slap. Prayers continue."
-Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (I83yK)

Thank you, Brother. I'm a sleepless mess right now.

I've got stuff to do tomorrow and I hope to be awake for the alarm clock.

G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (Ckg4U)

775 But are they significant enough to warrant their own expansion for ST Ascendency?
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:29 AM (MS0+a)

Is that the one on TV now? Or is that Discovery?

I'm unfamiliar with Ascendency. I refuse to watch SJW Discovery after all their antics.

I got to like the Andorians during ST Enterprise. The main guy called us Pink Skins. Then at the end they kinda saved the galaxy or something.
Posted by: platypus, gg

The boardgame, Im crossing geek streams

Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (MS0+a)

776 Speaking lazy bums who sit around all day and smoke MJ, some lazy stoner bums have taken to smoking MJ all night down the street from my house. The smoke always blows towards my house which stinks everything up and I have a strong feeling that it is at least partially responsible for the bizarre nightmares I've been having of late.
Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM (/FLNB)


Oh you poor thing. I hate the smell of pot. Hate it. I don't think it is legal here yet, but I hope people smoke it inside. There are a lot of kids around so I would think parents will be mighty upset if they stink up the neighborhood.

That's why I prefer alcohol at a barbecue. Doesn't stink up the neighborhood.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (1lhwM)

777 I always try to stress this to people to ask about their own personal lives, and then extrapolate it to a larger scale: When was the last time you decided to make a major change in your personal behavior/outlook/whatever?

Was it because of a well-considered, lengthily thought out thought process?

Or was it because some event it smacked you into focus?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 12:40 AM (UiRxW)


Good point!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (hDNQh)

778 Janus - it's not a big sexy topic, it's technical,
and it's hard to explain to people that this is going to be the greatest
change to US Labor Law since the Taft Hartley Act of 1947 authorized
Right to Work states. It is not going to be an immediate change, but
it is going to be a massive, system wide change that is going to change
forever how the Democrat Party is funded, and which I believe is going
to permanently seal the fate of the Democrat Party as a bi-coastal
boutique party with no political bases in the center of the country at
all.





Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (V2Yro)

First, I find freedom incredibly sexy:-P

Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the past.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (FTXAT)

779 Pat Boone is indeed still alive! I don't think he's singing anymore, though.

He did that Paradise City cover, like, 20 years ago, and you can already hear that his voice wasn't what it had been in the past. But he made a smart decision with that album to let the stronger Doc Severinson-style instrumentals carry each song, and Pat Boone In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy was just a straight-up amazing album as a result.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (wSC8T)

780 Remember when it was unthinkable to call a Dem a socialist?

Like, how can you even think such a thing. That was cute.

Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (+lOpA)

781 Disability is a nightmare for someone who truly wants to work, Imagine having the will, no the need to be productive and to support yourself and your family but being unable due to physical limitations. All without the hope of recovering ever... ever. Now imagine this happened at 40 smack in the middle of life after you have started a family. All this through no fault of yourself. Imagine.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

782 The boardgame, Im crossing geek streams
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (MS0+a)


There's a Board Game? My geek is limited to TV and movies. You can catch ST Enterprise tonight to see ya some Endorians.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (1lhwM)

783 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (V2Yro)

Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the past.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (FTXAT)


Stop it, you two! All the blood is ... uh ... draining out of my head. The big head, to be clear.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:46 AM (hDNQh)

784 Remember when it was unthinkable to call a Dem a socialist?

Like, how can you even think such a thing. That was cute.
Posted by: eleven

I think most Republicans are Socialists

Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:46 AM (MS0+a)

785 773 Yeah, the Andorians were in TOS but they really got covered well in the Enterprise. I liked them too especially as they didn't trust the sneering, virtue-signalling Vulcans who would do things out of self interest but pretend it was out of altruistic, logical reasons instead.

And the main Andorian who called us "Pink Skins" (not as good as "Spoon-heads" but pretty good!) was also the same actor who played the cloned guys who doled out the "white" to the Jem'Hadar warriors from the Gamma Quadrant.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (Evws/)


Weyoun, a Vorta and the name for a series of clones.

Posted by: To Boldly Go Where No Hat Hat Gone Before at June 27, 2018 12:47 AM (itfg0)

786 Oh, my...

Fed Judge just ordered Trump to reunite all illegals with there kids within 2 weeks...

Totally ignoring current Federal Law.

Constitutional Crises in 3... 2...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 27, 2018 12:47 AM (NgKpN)

787 Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will
be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately
shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their
HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up
in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the
past.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (FTXAT)



Stop it, you two! All the blood is ... uh ... draining out of my head. The big head, to be clear.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 27, 2018 12:46 AM (hDNQh)

All the winning! I am getting dehydrated!?!

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:48 AM (FTXAT)

788 The boardgame, Im crossing geek streams
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:42 AM (MS0+a)


There's a Board Game? My geek is limited to TV and movies. You can catch ST Enterprise tonight to see ya some Endorians.
Posted by: platypus

No TV for me.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193949/star-trek-ascendancy

Posted by: ean at June 27, 2018 12:48 AM (MS0+a)

789 Remember when it was unthinkable to call a Dem a socialist?

Like, how can you even think such a thing. That was cute.
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (+lOpA)


Yea, and now ya got Bernie's voice at the beginning of that Unhinged ad and he is specifically talking about socialism. He never has creeped me out, but now he kinda does...having that voice over was icky.

Damn, I should thank God everyday that Trump won.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:49 AM (1lhwM)

790 The smoke always blows towards my house which stinks everything up and I have a strong feeling that it is at least partially responsible for the bizarre nightmares I've been having of late.
Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 12:35 AM


Impossible! Pot is Awesome!

Posted by: Random Stoner at June 27, 2018 12:49 AM (YTxkQ)

791 @778
Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the past.
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Something to keep in mind is that the Dems are hurting BADLY for cash right now. IIRC, when Donna Brazile took over the DNC, she basically reported that Hillary had looted it. And everything that I've been hearing about fund-raising suggests that the Dems at the national level are doing pretty poorly.

So they *really* need that union money.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:49 AM (SspEb)

792 There are a lot of guys who wouldn't mind clawing back their union dues from a couple of decades. Make a nice down payment on a truck.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 12:50 AM (MS0+a)

793
Oh, my...



Fed Judge just ordered Trump to reunite all illegals with there kids within 2 weeks...



Totally ignoring current Federal Law.



Constitutional Crises in 3... 2...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 27, 2018 12:47 AM (NgKpN)

Trump can follow the judge's ruling AND the law that does not allow detention of children for more than 20 days by immediately deporting all of these families back to their countries of origin. Easy Peasy.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:50 AM (FTXAT)

794 Speaking lazy bums who sit around all day and smoke MJ, some lazy stoner
bums have taken to smoking MJ all night down the street from my house.
The smoke always blows towards my house which stinks everything up and I
have a strong feeling that it is at least partially responsible for the
bizarre nightmares I've been having of late.



You sure that's not the brown acid?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at June 27, 2018 12:52 AM (IcT7t)

795 780 Remember when it was unthinkable to call a Dem a socialist?
Posted by: eleven at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (+lOpA)


I do, but it seemed like that lasted about 10 minutes and then the Chairwoman of the DNC was asked what was the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist, and she couldn't answer.

To give her full credit, neither could I.

Posted by: Splunge at June 27, 2018 12:52 AM (Vb4BV)

796 Don Q. - without entangling ourselves in too much legal complexity - is it "federal law" that actually governs the details like how illegal crossers charged with a crime are detained (families together/families apart), or is that just policy detail?


Isn't the only legal issue on that, at the moment, the Flores consent decree, limiting detention of minors to 20 days (and I don't think Flores even addresses family separation, just time for minors in detention)?


The new EO had more about the DOD than any other subject - which gives me faint hope that they're thinking of solving this problem by overwhelming it with logistics - that is be able to house families, together, while the adults are prosecuted for illegal crossing crimes.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 12:53 AM (QDnY+)

797 Thanks, Dictator for 72hrs Jean, I just looked up the game at boardgamegeek that the others linked above. I'll have to read up on it.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 27, 2018 12:53 AM (Evws/)

798 @786 Fed Judge just ordered Trump to reunite all illegals with there kids within 2 weeks...

Totally ignoring current Federal Law.

Constitutional Crises in 3... 2...
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Current law says that Trump CAN'T do that. That's the current interpretation of the Flores decision. It's not that Trump doesn't want to. He literally CANNOT because he's not allowed to detain the kids with the parents. His EO directing it be done is actually in violation of the Flores decision, which is why Trump filed a suit to get the Flores decision reviewed at the same time that he issued the EO.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:53 AM (SspEb)

799 781 Disability is a nightmare for someone who truly wants to work, Imagine having the will, no the need to be productive and to support yourself and your family but being unable due to physical limitations. All without the hope of recovering ever... ever. Now imagine this happened at 40 smack in the middle of life after you have started a family. All this through no fault of yourself. Imagine.
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

---

Some of us don't have to imagine...

Also, according to some, it is your fault.

"No one forced you to sign up."

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 12:54 AM (KCUTM)

800 I generally feel pretty small when observing such. Puts things in perspective.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


Anyone not feeling small and perspectivey enough tonight?

Then here's a map of the solar system, to scale:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/l3n3zox

Posted by: mikeski at June 27, 2018 12:56 AM (JGBbg)

801 Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:53 AM (SspEb)

Kritarchy.... rule by Judges...

They don't care what the written law is anymore.

We have the Rule of Man, not the Rule of Law.

Posted by: Don Q. at June 27, 2018 12:57 AM (NgKpN)

802 That was originally a Louis Jordan song. Did Calypso Louie cover it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 12:39 AM (a2xQ5)

Yes. It is kind of horrifyingly funny in hindsight.

Let me see if I can find a link.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 12:57 AM (GIHSy)

803 RE misspellings:

Way back , I interviewed for a job with Harcourt, a big publisher.

They showed me a brochure of their new spellchecker. It's what they wanted to sell.

I pointed out that their brochure's cover illustration misspelled "cemetery".

I didn't jet the job.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at June 27, 2018 12:58 AM (611Lm)

804 Actually, redbanzai, I don't think so - that is, that simple fast deportation is an option.


Absurd beyond belief, obviously, but I don't think so.


I used to know things backwards/forwards, but there have been a lot of changes - all bad - and now all deportations require some "process". It doesn't have to be lengthy or involved, usually isn't, but it's still more than "pack your s**t, bus leaves in 10 minutes".


This is what Trump has been whining about - the need to hire more judges, to speed processing. Dunno if he was just planting the common sense idea (which most Americans would already assume to be the case) of no-nonsense immediate deportations of illegal crossers bereft of any special circumstances prominently in the public discussion. Not a bad idea, if that was the plan.


90% of those surveyed would respond with "what? huh?" when told that someone flagrantly and illegally crossing the border cannot, generally, just be summarily returned to Mexico. In this case, NOT an indicator of low-information among the populace - but the gap between common sense and current reality.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 12:58 AM (QDnY+)

805 778 Janus - it's not a big sexy topic, it's technical,
and it's hard to explain to people that this is going to be the greatest
change to US Labor Law since the Taft Hartley Act of 1947 authorized
Right to Work states. It is not going to be an immediate change, but
it is going to be a massive, system wide change that is going to change
forever how the Democrat Party is funded, and which I believe is going
to permanently seal the fate of the Democrat Party as a bi-coastal
boutique party with no political bases in the center of the country at
all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 26, 2018 09:34 PM (V2Yro)

First, I find freedom incredibly sexy:-P

Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the past.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (FTXAT)


Thanks guys. Interesting and I haven't paid a lot of attention. So the SCOTUS decision is tomorrow? Forced dues has been an issue for years, and in my lifetime unions have been the lifeblood of the Dem party. Never thought of what it would mean to the party itself. Dems have lost all the blocks that used to make them who they were. Maybe tech and millenials and socialism will be the future of the party. Plus the illegal mexicans of course. I want a wall.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 12:59 AM (1lhwM)

806 @801 Kritarchy.... rule by Judges...

They don't care what the written law is anymore.

We have the Rule of Man, not the Rule of Law.
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In this case, it's judge versus judge. Hopefully McConnell can get something useful rammed through the Senate, and then Ryan can be shamed into getting the votes needed to pass it.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:59 AM (SspEb)

807 I think most Republicans are Socialists
Posted by: Dictator for 72hrs Jean at June 27, 2018 12:46 AM (MS0+a)
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Posted by: #MeToo at June 27, 2018 01:00 AM (UiRxW)

808 Louis Farrakhan, in his younger years, singing about a tranny:

https://tinyurl.com/okh3rmo

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 01:00 AM (GIHSy)

809 Don Q. - without entangling ourselves in too much legal complexity - is it "federal law" that actually governs the details like how illegal crossers charged with a crime are detained (families together/families apart), or is that just policy detail?


Isn't the only legal issue on that, at the moment, the Flores consent decree, limiting detention of minors to 20 days (and I don't think Flores even addresses family separation, just time for minors in detention)?


The new EO had more about the DOD than any other subject - which gives me faint hope that they're thinking of solving this problem by overwhelming it with logistics - that is be able to house families, together, while the adults are prosecuted for illegal crossing crimes.
Posted by: rhomboid

Simple, move the venue for their asylum hearings to the US Embassy or consulate nearest their home, and put the Immigration Judges on a circuit. Make sure they can't schedule a hearing without standing in line behind all the folks who have trying to get a legal visa.
Get anyone not requiring medical attention or serious criminal looksee here back across the border in 24hrs.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 01:00 AM (MS0+a)

810 Night all.

Speaking of covers, here is a Lounge Signer version of "Baby Got Back" by Richard Cheese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieb41uYpb08

Posted by: The Lounge Hat at June 27, 2018 01:01 AM (itfg0)

811 Fed Judge just ordered Trump to reunite all illegals with there kids within 2 weeks...

Totally ignoring current Federal Law.

Constitutional Crises in 3... 2...
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Can we free range them all on an island and air drop food until their court date? They should be pretty good at camping by now since that's how the got to the border.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:02 AM (bYoS1)

812 Goodnight, Hat.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 01:03 AM (KCUTM)

813 Trump can follow the judge's ruling AND the law that does not allow detention of children for more than 20 days by immediately deporting all of these families back to their countries of origin. Easy Peasy.

Enjoined.

Now, that was easy!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge number 8 at June 27, 2018 01:03 AM (XlbwU)

814 Night Hat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 01:03 AM (GIHSy)

815 Well, I am seeing a very bright planet in the NW not far above the horizon. Venus? And a bright one just west of South. And the full Moon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 01:04 AM (a2xQ5)

816 junior, thought Flores was just the 20-day limit on detention of minors (regardless of family unity/separation)?


The Catch-22 was that prosecuting illegal crossers can take more than 20 days, thus the kids have to be released even if the adults aren't. Or - as the previous administration did - release them all, with a notice to appear (ha).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:05 AM (QDnY+)

817 810 Night all.
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Well, I'll keep on loungin' my ass for ya, dog.

Posted by: #MeToo at June 27, 2018 01:05 AM (UiRxW)

818 Something to keep in mind is that the Dems are hurting BADLY for cash right now. IIRC, when Donna Brazile took over the DNC, she basically reported that Hillary had looted it. And everything that I've been hearing about fund-raising suggests that the Dems at the national level are doing pretty poorly.

So they *really* need that union money.
Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 12:49 AM (SspEb)


Actually, it was Obama who looted it, and never paid back what he took, which is what you are supposed to do. So HRC had to fund it and that is how she obtained control of it and got Bernie outta the way. I don't know if Obama has been giving them money from his speeches now or not. Either way, yes, it is a mess. Not much money, if any.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 01:06 AM (1lhwM)

819 You want a real window into the Id of America?

Read the replies to Donald Trump's tweets.

Yeesh.

Makes YouTube comments look like the Transactions of the Royal Society.

I just popped in to make that observation.

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 27, 2018 01:08 AM (BRvh1)

820 Dylan's version of Watchtower sux. It sounds like he's singing it with a sock in his mouth.

Then again, that's most of his singin'.

The guitar work was pretty good though.

Posted by: GnuBreed, not a Dylan fan at June 27, 2018 01:09 AM (0ogQG)

821 Now imagine this happened at 40 smack in the middle of life after you have started a family. All this through no fault of yourself. Imagine.
Posted by: USNtakim
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The ball takes different bounces for different people. Sometimes it is a very bad bounce, and there is no way to ever completely recover from it.

There's plenty of grifters sucking at the disability teat, who ought to be in stocks, but there are plenty of people just trying to cope with a bad hand that fate dealt.

I do some work with Vets. There's no reason that most of them should not be settled in with families and jobs, decent guys, as smart as most people you meet, but fate pulled the rug from under them, and some are either a physical and/or psychological mess and need help from whatever source is available.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 01:10 AM (rYk7m)

822 Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 01:06 AM (1lhwM)
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Yep. First time I can think of, where the candidate had a positive balance with the Party.

Posted by: #MeToo at June 27, 2018 01:10 AM (UiRxW)

823 Louis Farrakhan, in his younger years, singing about a tranny:

https://tinyurl.com/okh3rmo
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 01:00 AM (GIHSy)

Heh. Too bad the audio on that one is really muddy and distorted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 01:11 AM (a2xQ5)

824 Jean, that is yet *another* separate issue (asylum).


I am astounded that asylum can be sought at a port of entry, as opposed to a US mission abroad. The actual intent and practice of asylum meant, for most of its history, that as a practical matter it took place only overseas - not at our borders.


In terms of the current typhoon of slander and lies, the asylum-seeking frauds (all of them - I am further astonished that up to 20% of these cases are found to have merit, according to DHS) are *not* separated, as families. Only those facing prosecution for crossing illegally are separated.


I'll say it again. The current DHS public affairs operation is Dubya, 2.0 (from the worst days of Iraq or Katrina hysteria). They should be attacking, explaining, refuting, and educating, 24/7.




Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:11 AM (QDnY+)

825 Shit. I suck at socks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:11 AM (UiRxW)

826 @816 junior, thought Flores was just the 20-day limit on detention of minors (regardless of family unity/separation)?
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You're probably right. But the important thing is that it basically means that they can't be detained with their parents. And some random Federal judge ordering Trump to put the kids with their parents doesn't change that.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 01:12 AM (SspEb)

827 Speaking of covers, here is a Lounge Signer version of "Baby Got Back" by Richard Cheese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieb41uYpb08
Posted by: The Lounge Hat at June 27, 2018 01:01 AM (itfg0)

Do lounge signers perform for conventions of deaf people?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 01:12 AM (a2xQ5)

828 Mitt Rombley is like McCain's tumor -- he just won't go away.

Thanks alot, Utah voters. Just what we need, another fucking carpetbagger.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 27, 2018 01:12 AM (0ogQG)

829 Your prayers are not only appreciated, but needed.



-Thank You, Horde.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at June 27, 2018 12:36 AM (Ckg4U)

You have them, {{{Slap}}}

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (iTpm7)

830 Posted by: #MeToo at June 27, 2018 01:10 AM (UiRxW)

Did you change your nick or is a sock just sticking?

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (/FLNB)

831 799 781 Disability is a nightmare for someone who truly wants to work, Imagine having the will, no the need to be productive and to support yourself and your family but being unable due to physical limitations. All without the hope of recovering ever... ever. Now imagine this happened at 40 smack in the middle of life after you have started a family. All this through no fault of yourself. Imagine.
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 12:45 AM (0OmEj)

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Some of us don't have to imagine...

Also, according to some, it is your fault.

"No one forced you to sign up."

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 12:54 AM (KCUTM)




Aside from service related tinnitus, all of my impediments were earned in the civilian world.

So yes, I can imagine.

But I still have to work, and do.

And will have to do so, till the day I go for the extended dirt nap.

Regarding the disabilities?

I'll just simply adjust the ladder downward, from heavy lifting, to rough carpentry skills, to cabinetry, to artistic fitments, etc.

Same in the metalworking arena.

Skills I'll never lose. Marksmanship. Perishable Skill? Perhaps, but....

I went once five years without firing a single round.

Entered a match, and recorded the range record in the Mozambique Drill.

Some things get engraved in your very soul, it seems. So as far as Life Skills go, my self investment in every skill I could ever lay hands on, has paid off, more often then not.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (QzJWU)

832 33 Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career, and when we get down to it, marijuana often seems to be playing a major role. Things massively accelerated after the legalization. There was an extension from occasional illicit activity to daily can't-live-without-it habit that for some (not every one obviously) has been a problem.
Posted by: Jade Sea at June 26, 2018 11:21 PM (0sWXw)



I must be reading this wrong. You can get disability for being a pothead? WTF?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (1lhwM)

833 Did you change your nick or is a sock just sticking?
Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (/FLNB)
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See 825. I suck at this...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:15 AM (UiRxW)

834 I must be reading this wrong. You can get disability for being a pothead? WTF?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (1lhwM)

Yeah, but your compensation doesn't cover the cost of weed...

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:15 AM (iTpm7)

835 @824 I am astounded that asylum can be sought at a port of entry, as opposed to a US mission abroad. The actual intent and practice of asylum meant, for most of its history, that as a practical matter it took place only overseas - not at our borders.
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It would depend on the circumstances.

If you were fleeing a Communist hell hole (and auto-correct just "helpfully" tried to change "hell hole" to "help hole"), then applying for asylum at your country of origin might be a bit difficult. But otherwise, yeah. Apply at the nearest embassy, consulate, or other US government building on foreign soil.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 01:16 AM (SspEb)

836 Isn't the weed being sold these days more powerful than previously? Like using additives for it too?

Weed these days is a billion times more powerful.

And kids these days will never know what it's like to sort out seed and stems inside a double album.

But all the studies have shown that people smoke to a specific point of intoxication, which nowadays means two hits and not two spliffs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 01:16 AM (fuK7c)

837 @828 Mitt Rombley is like McCain's tumor -- he just won't go away.

Thanks alot, Utah voters. Just what we need, another fucking carpetbagger.
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IIRC, Trump endorsed him. For the time being, I'm inclined to play "wait and see".

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 01:16 AM (SspEb)

838 Gnu, you're telling me that insufferable asshat Romney won his primary, and will now damage the country from the Senate?


The US just cannot catch a break, it seems.


McCain finally gone, and a much, much more pernicious replacement immediately appears. McCain is stupid, Romney is very intelligent. He can do a lot more damage to the country and the world. Or, we could get lucky, and he might vote as he's told, shut up, and be invisible, in which case it would be much better.


Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:16 AM (QDnY+)

839 Actually, it was Obama who looted it, and never paid back what he took, which is what you are supposed to do. So HRC had to fund it and that is how she obtained control of it and got Bernie outta the way. I don't know if Obama has been giving them money from his speeches now or not. Either way, yes, it is a mess. Not much money, if any.
Posted by: platypus
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I beat this dead horse because it's local. The cost of the 2012 Dem Convention was paid by a loan arranged by Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx, who was convention chairman. Ten million dollars. After the convention, they just walked away from the loan, defaulted.

Had the state AG not been a Dem, there would have been a fraud investigation, but, no.

Anthony Foxx was rewarded with the Sec. of Transportation position by Obama.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 01:18 AM (I83yK)

840 I must be reading this wrong. You can get disability for being a pothead? WTF?
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 27, 2018 01:13 AM (1lhwM)

No. More a case of lazy potheads seeking to get on disability benefits so they can laze around all day and smoke pot without the rude necessity of having to work for a living.

And there are lazy non-potheads who do the same thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 01:18 AM (a2xQ5)

841 Again - I'm pretty libertarian in my leanings but it is fact that I'm seeing more 25 year-olds seeking disability than at any time in my long career,------


I consider myself pretty libertarian. I don't remember welfare being part of the definition when I was taught what that word meant.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:19 AM (bYoS1)

842 Jim,

You truly are a Godsend, along with so many here.

Slap, always in my prayers.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 01:21 AM (KCUTM)

843 Mitt Rombley is like McCain's tumor -- he just won't go away.

Thanks alot, Utah voters. Just what we need, another fucking carpetbagger.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 27, 2018 01:12 AM (0ogQG)

Keep in mind, Rombler is replacing Orrin Hatch. He's no improvement over Hatch, but at least he isn't replacing an actual Conservative.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:21 AM (/FLNB)

844 I'd hope it wasn't my fault at all, nobody knows what the future will bring. If I had known going in that it would crash and burn when I turned 40sh I'd like to think I would have done it all anyway. Life is like a box of chocolates. We never know how long our run will be.

Pay no attention to my stupid ass. I'm just feeling a little cheated right now. The good part is I still keep on waking up in the morning.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 01:22 AM (0OmEj)

845 I just like guys...a lot.

Can't you give me credit for not pretending to be some crazy LGBTQAEIOU&Y?

I'm just a traditional, holesome ho. Most of the girls on tinder have banged more dudes.

Posted by: Ali Watkins - handcuffed & bent over a couch for daddi at June 27, 2018 01:22 AM (uvXcd)

846 Asylum, helpfully and very narrowly defined as based on a "well-founded fear of persecution", has never been a border thing. I wonder what the grand total # of such cases were, processed at a port of entry, since the concept existed.


And in authoritarian states it has always been the case of 1) get famous and on the US's radar, or 2) get to a neighboring country's US embassy. Just the way it's been.


The Mexican border case is definitionally absurd. Anyone with an asylum case to be made who is from Honduras, or Guatemala, or ..... anywhere on earth, can apply at a US mission in Mexico.


This leaves only Mexican nationals with even a theoretical case. Apart from informants with a US tie, there should be ZERO credible cases - unless one basically distorts the asylum concept to cover everyone fearing violence in a f***ing failing state that is partly a narco-terror state.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:23 AM (QDnY+)

847 I consider myself to be librarian. My hair is up and I'm wearing glasses. I shush you by coming up behind you and whispering softly in your ear...

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:23 AM (iTpm7)

848 The US just cannot catch a break, it seems.

You dodged an HFRC Presidency Tyranny. How much more luck do you want?

Posted by: Vegas at June 27, 2018 01:23 AM (f16d7)

849 unless one basically distorts the asylum concept to cover everyone fearing violence in a f***ing failing state that is partly a narco-terror state.
Posted by: rhomboid

So California

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 01:24 AM (MS0+a)

850 Prayers ascending, Slap.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:24 AM (/FLNB)

851 @846 Asylum, helpfully and very narrowly defined as based on a "well-founded fear of persecution", has never been a border thing. I wonder what the grand total # of such cases were, processed at a port of entry, since the concept existed.
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Two exceptions that I can think of -

A lot of the South Vietnamese refugees were, iirc, basically approved at the airport or shipping port where they arrived (though plenty likely went to places like the Philippines first).

Also, the Mariel Boat Lift (which wasn't purely composed of criminals...).

Both were very unusual circumstances, though.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (SspEb)

852 I consider myself to be librarian. My hair is up and I'm wearing glasses. I shush you by coming up behind you and whispering softly in your ear...
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:23 AM (iTpm7)

A pencil skirt completes the image.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (bYoS1)

853 Anyone with an asylum case to be made who is from Honduras, or Guatemala, or ..... anywhere on earth, can apply at a US mission in Mexico.
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If they are genuinely seeking asylum, they can simply ask for that in Mexico. It isn't asylum that they are seeking.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (I83yK)

854 Almost 900 comments, and nobody (search fu shows) suggested "best cover version" of Cash - Hurt?

Even that punk whoever wrote it acknowledged Cash owned it.

https://youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc

Posted by: mindful webworker - ow at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (jMD9L)

855 It would depend on the circumstances.

If you were fleeing a Communist hell hole (and auto-correct just "helpfully" tried to change "hell hole" to "help hole"), then applying for asylum at your country of origin might be a bit difficult. But otherwise, yeah. Apply at the nearest embassy, consulate, or other US government building on foreign soil.
Posted by: junior

I'm willing to put up a kiosk in certain places, with a touchscreen - icon driven application process.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 01:27 AM (MS0+a)

856 Mike H., I don't think the massive blatant corruption tale you frequently recount about the DNC convention $$$ is the least bit local or small in import.


It's actually one of the more brazen, outrageous bits of Third World corruption that now stains everything the Dems do, or touch.


And yes, I think there's a universe of difference between the "corruption" of being too craven for one's (legal) donors - "K Street corruption" - and the sort of outright fraud in that case.


Voters and voters alone put up with "K Street corruption" (or, don't) - the NC DNC convention case was brazenly lawless fraud, straight up.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:27 AM (QDnY+)

857 I shush you by coming up behind you and whispering softly in your ear...
Posted by: Miley
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Sweet nothings?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 01:28 AM (I83yK)

858 A pencil skirt completes the image.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (bYoS1)

A peasant skirt. I'm a Bohemian-librarian. A whiff of patchouli, and chronic.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:28 AM (iTpm7)

859 >>>Almost 900 comments, and nobody (search fu shows) suggested "best cover version" of Cash - Hurt?

Amen.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:29 AM (iTpm7)

860 A peasant skirt. I'm a Bohemian-librarian. A whiff of patchouli, and chronic.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:28 AM (iTpm7)


Who am I to argue with a Librarian.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:30 AM (bYoS1)

861 Damn. I went for cigarettes, and the neighbor dog tried to bite me!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:30 AM (UiRxW)

862 Sweet nothings?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2018 01:28 AM (I83yK)

Follow me into the stacks.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:30 AM (iTpm7)

863 838 Gnu, you're telling me that insufferable asshat Romney won his primary, and will now damage the country from the Senate?

Been trying to tell you this was a dead solid lock for months now. You're on the east coast, right? Too far away to realize what goes on out west.

Romney is NOT just running to be Senator - Romney is running to be the official representative of the Mormon Church Leadership in Washington. (I like to call the position Nunzio, just like the Vatican has) They gave him their official blessing months ago. That's why no one in Utah objects to somebody from Massachusetts moving there and becoming Senator - because the Mormon Church Leadership said it was ok, and anyone in Utah who has the official backing of the Mormon Leadership has a guaranteed 75% of the vote in Utah. That's how Utah works, always has, probably always will. The Mormon Church calls every shot on the important issues, especially on things like Who the next Senator is going to be.

Luckily for us, Mormons are mostly conservative, except for the love affair they have with Open Borders. And that explains Romney's position on the matter completely.

On the good side, Romney is NOT going to be like McCain - he is not going to start trouble on his own volition, or to grandstand. He's a true team player, and he won't do anything unless he's given the go-ahead by the men in the Salt Lake City Temple who picked him for this position. And they don't like to make waves unless they think they have to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:31 AM (V2Yro)

864 Miley is doing librarian fantasies.

Could she possibly have figured out what simple creatures we are? I thought we had it so well hidden.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (fuK7c)

865 Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:29 AM (iTpm7)
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I don't know where to find it, but I saw an interview with Trent Reznor, where he said he would never do "Hurt" again after Johnny did it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (UiRxW)

866 On the good side, Romney is NOT going to be like McCain - he is not going to start trouble on his own volition, or to grandstand.


I'll believe that when I see it from that carpet bagging gun hating illegal loving douchebag.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (cAnNx)

867 junior, don't think Vietnamese were processed at a port of entry, per se - the arrangement was made, indeed, while they were still in the PI or elsewhere. Plus, pretty sure they had refugee status, very different. Same would apply to the V'mese and Cambodians in camps in Thailand.


And Cubans are unique, per statute - they get "one foot dry" asylum, automatically, on US soil.


Asylum was created for the politically persecuted to seek refuge at US missions abroad, and thereby get access to the US (with immigration status).


The refugee program (entirely different) was established to accommodate large numbers of people dislocated by conflict. And it's pretty formalized, under UNHCR management, with countries agreeing on a case/case basis to receive X number of refugees from particular areas.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (QDnY+)

868 838 Gnu, you're telling me that insufferable asshat Romney won his primary, and will now damage the country from the Senate?

rhomboid, yep, he won. Fuckity.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 27, 2018 01:34 AM (0ogQG)

869 854 Almost 900 comments, and nobody (search fu shows) suggested "best cover version" of Cash - Hurt?

Even that punk whoever wrote it acknowledged Cash owned it.

https://youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc

Posted by: mindful webworker - ow at June 27, 2018 01:26 AM (jMD9L)



Hence why it shouldn't be counted as a cover. The Man in Black owns that song.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:34 AM (cAnNx)

870 Miley is doing librarian fantasies.



Could she possibly have figured out what simple creatures we are? I thought we had it so well hidden.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (fuK7c)

Simple, but with increasingly complex iterations.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:35 AM (iTpm7)

871 I don't know where to find it, but I saw an
interview with Trent Reznor, where he said he would never do "Hurt"
again after Johnny did it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:33 AM (UiRxW)

Very few videos make such a deep impression on me.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:36 AM (iTpm7)

872 I bet those Nancy boys today peed their pants after Elaine Chao almost hitch slapped them.

Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (Bh6pi)

873 861 Damn. I went for cigarettes, and the neighbor dog tried to bite me!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:30 AM (UiRxW)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuLG99dbfI

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (KCUTM)

874 Simple, but with increasingly complex iterations.


Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:35 AM (iTpm7)


Pretty girl in jeans t-shirt and a baseball hat with a ponytail out that back and my tongue is on the floor. Nothing complex about that.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (cAnNx)

875 Bitch not hitch !

Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (Bh6pi)

876 Hence why it shouldn't be counted as a cover. The Man in Black owns that song.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:34 AM (cAnNx)



IIRC, Cobain actually and literally signed over the rights to that song to Cash, as he really meant in when he said Cash "owned" that song.

I might be wrong, but that's the urban legend, nonetheless.

With that Horde, I'm to the snoozer.

But not before offering up prayers towards the benefits of Slap n' his Fambly.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2018 01:40 AM (QzJWU)

877 Soy boiz afraid of a 65 yo 5ft 3in asian woman. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Snort!

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (0OmEj)

878 Niters, Jim.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (KCUTM)

879
IIRC, Cobain actually and literally signed over the rights to that song to Cash, as he really meant in when he said Cash "owned" that song.

I might be wrong, but that's the urban legend, nonetheless.

With that Horde, I'm to the snoozer.

But not before offering up prayers towards the benefits of Slap n' his Fambly.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2018 01:40 AM (QzJWU)



Reznor not Cobain.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (cAnNx)

880 Goodnight, Jim.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (iTpm7)

881 Tom I'm as far west as you can get, and not be wet or on an island (well, OK, I *could* be about 8 miles further west, and still not wet). And the "lock" was initially the state convention, which didn't work out for Mitt, thus the primary, right? I didn't follow it and never had specific hope he wouldn't make it.


During this primary run he said he would speak out whenever Trump said/did things that were racist, dishonest, divisive, or destructive of democracy. Seriously, he said this. You know, the Steve Schmidt-level of vile passive aggressive slander and idiocy so beloved of the parasitic "elites" these days.


And if he is irresponsibly stupid about immigration, legal and illegal, then he is a net loss to the country, regardless of his votes on less important matters.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (QDnY+)

882 I'll believe that when I see it from that carpet bagging gun hating illegal loving douchebag."

Romney and McCain are totally different personality types. McCain truly is a self aggrandizing bitter, vicious, mostly stupid little man, who's made a career out of his lack of any real ability.

Romney is the Company Man through and through, far more intelligent than McCain, and also far more "conservative" in the personal sense. All you have to figure out is who he is actually working for, and when you know that you know exactly what he will do in any situation - he is one of the most predictable men in politics today. And I've told you above who he's going to be working for now. Ask yourself what they want, and that is what he is very faithfully going to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:42 AM (V2Yro)

883 Rick Rubin gave Johnny Cash a second career.

I love the cover of Rusty Cage by Soungarden

Redemption song is great as well

Posted by: Alligator Lizard, Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 27, 2018 01:42 AM (Bh6pi)

884 Would be kind of interesting if on the day Romney wins the senate seat, McCain dies. Kind of like a Universal Conservation of Assholes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 01:43 AM (GIHSy)

885 During this primary run he said he would speak out whenever Trump said/did things that were racist, dishonest, divisive, or destructive of democracy. Seriously, he said this. You know, the Steve Schmidt-level of vile passive aggressive slander and idiocy so beloved of the parasitic "elites" these days.


And if he is irresponsibly stupid about immigration, legal and illegal, then he is a net loss to the country, regardless of his votes on less important matters.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (QDnY+)



Also his goal for the Senate is to run for president again.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:43 AM (cAnNx)

886 And I've told you above who he's going to be working for now. Ask yourself what they want, and that is what he is very faithfully going to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:42 AM (V2Yro)



So giving US citizen to everyone south of the Rio Grande.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:44 AM (cAnNx)

887 Night Jim.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 01:44 AM (GIHSy)

888 Is it time to go to sleep? Maybe a little buzz.


Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:44 AM (iTpm7)

889 Very few videos make such a deep impression on me.
Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:36 AM (iTpm7)
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Oh, my.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:45 AM (UiRxW)

890 'Night Jim.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:45 AM (/FLNB)

891 A south Vietnamese guy/refugee I worked with in the 80s. Escaped from a commie reeducation camp. He was a navigator in a bomber during the war His stories were harrowing the commies really hated him. His refugee status made sense to me.

Posted by: X-ray at June 27, 2018 01:45 AM (bYoS1)

892 I've watched some of Soundbreaking, and the "Johnny Cash" cover of Hurt appears to be 97.435% actually the Rick Rubin cover of Hurt.



Posted by: never underestimate the producer at June 27, 2018 01:47 AM (f16d7)

893 Looks to me like Booker T Washington was discribing Jessie Jackson,Al Sharpton the NAACP,BLM,Barack Obama Etc exaculy

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 27, 2018 01:49 AM (FLiOE)

894 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuLG99dbfI
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (KCUTM)
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Ha! This appeals to me.

I might try it, but I'm guessing I'll stab at least one of my toes off before I finish fucking it up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:49 AM (UiRxW)

895 Soy boiz afraid of a 65 yo 5ft 3in asian woman. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Snort!
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 27, 2018 01:41 AM (0OmEj)

Reminds me of an incident from High School French Class, not that it's remotely relevant.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:49 AM (/FLNB)

896 Tom let's call you an optimist, and me a guarded pessimist, on Romney.


As I noted up front, he's very intelligent (unlike McCain) - and indeed is a very different sort of person. Up until the last prez cycle I respected him quite a bit (notwithstanding his craven performance as MA gov), and his personal integrity and standards are far above the norm in politics.


But his 2016 stunts and his despicable posturing on Trump's imaginary evils in the primary reduced my assessment by 90%.


Whatever - not my circus, not my monkey. He doesn't f**k up anything important, fine, he doesn't exist for me. I expect nothing positive beyond that.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 01:50 AM (QDnY+)

897 Keep in mind, Rombler is replacing Orrin Hatch.
He's no improvement over Hatch, but at least he isn't replacing an
actual Conservative.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 01:21 AM (/FLNB)

Romney is more for open borders and "bake the damn cake!" than Hatch. Romney is a large part of the reason Arizona's RFRA was not signed into law.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 01:51 AM (FTXAT)

898 i'm good with the peasant skirt...

it's easier to lift up when you catch the librarian bent over the card catalogue or the lower shelves in the stacks.


Posted by: redc1c4 at June 27, 2018 01:52 AM (K6DB5)

899 And if he is irresponsibly stupid about immigration, legal and illegal, then he is a net loss to the country, regardless of his votes on less important matters."

His positions on immigration aren't so much "his", as they are the positions of the Mormon Church. Consider the other recent Mormon Senators - Hatch, Harry Reid, Jeff Flake. There's a reason they don't want harsh restrictions on immigrants, and those ideas flow directly from Church positions on the topic. I try to be respectful since there are some Mormon members who post here from time to time, so I will just say that I disagree with their teaching on this topic and leave it at that.

Romney is who he is and holds the positions that he does because he is now going to be the representative of a fairly large and cohesive group, to far more of an extent than most Senators or Congressmen ever are. For that reason he is going to need to be taken seriously, even when we don't agree with him. He's going to be one of those rare Senators who has his own loyal base, a distinct but separate group existing inside the Republican Coalition.

Every kingdom always has a few barons who have their own power base and who have to be treated with kid gloves. Looks like Romney is going to be one of ours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:53 AM (V2Yro)

900 Rick Rubin gave Johnny Cash a second career.



Maybe a fifth or sixth, but he definitely gave Cash something new.

I should really learn more about Rick Rubin. He seems like the ultimate Svengali.

Every time I hear about him it's a rapper, a country singer, a pop band, or Johnny fuckin' Cash saying "oh, I recorded this with Rick Rubin and..."

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 01:53 AM (fuK7c)

901 Pretty girl in jeans t-shirt and a baseball hat with
a ponytail out that back and my tongue is on the floor. Nothing
complex about that.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2018 01:38 AM (cAnNx)

Well, for example, what happens when you pick your tongue up off the floor.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:55 AM (iTpm7)

902 I want to watch one video. Political. Suggestions?

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:56 AM (iTpm7)

903 882
And I've told you above who he's going to be working for now. Ask yourself what they want, and that is what he is very faithfully going to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:42 AM (V2Yro)


So he's going to be full tilt Open Borders 24/7. Traitorous scumbag.

Well, at least you gave us a heads up.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 01:58 AM (sdi6R)

904 Also his goal for the Senate is to run for president again."

That is the one point where we disagree about his character, and time will tell. I believe he has found the job and the position that he truly desires at this point in his career, and while I think he will seek to continue as Senator from Utah for as long as he can, I seriously do not believe he will ever try to run for any other office. He's found his briar patch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 01:59 AM (V2Yro)

905 Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 01:53 AM (fuK7c)
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Rick Rubin was a producer, in every sense of the word... he's at the top rank, with Jimmy Iovine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 01:59 AM (UiRxW)

906 "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

Embrace the power of "and." Divine.

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 02:00 AM (iTpm7)

907 893 Looks to me like Booker T Washington was discribing Jessie Jackson,Al Sharpton the NAACP,BLM,Barack Obama Etc exaculy
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 27, 2018 01:49 AM (FLiOE)

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Yep.

W.E.B. DuBois especially.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 02:02 AM (KCUTM)

908 I want to watch one video. Political. Suggestions?


Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 01:56 AM (iTpm7)
Reagan's "Time of Choosing" speech from 1964... it's an oldie but a goodie.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 02:02 AM (FTXAT)

909 Miley,

Seven Days in May.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 02:04 AM (KCUTM)

910 Well, I am seeing a very bright planet in the NW not far above the horizon. Venus? And a bright one just west of South. And the full Moon.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 01:04 AM (a2xQ5)

Venus... and Saturn.

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 02:04 AM (i/KWu)

911 I want to watch one video. Political. Suggestions?
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Not to be too hackneyed, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LWPcEo2gV0

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 02:06 AM (UiRxW)

912 Reagan's "Time of Choosing" speech from 1964... it's an oldie but a goodie.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 02:02 AM (FTXAT)

Seconded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 02:06 AM (GIHSy)

913 Also, just threw up the Reagan Foundation link from youtube on gab.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 02:07 AM (GIHSy)

914 Reagan's "Time of Choosing" speech from 1964... it's an oldie but a goodie.


Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 02:02 AM (FTXAT)

Miley,



Seven Days in May.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 02:04 AM (KCUTM)
Thank you both for your suggestions! This is something to go with coffee in the morning.I'm off to bed, goodnight all!

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 27, 2018 02:08 AM (iTpm7)

915 Time to go to bed - but I just had to look at the moon as well, wonderful! Very clear night here. Venus was in the west, but it should have set about 3 hours ago or so. The planet you can still see to the southwest should be Jupiter. And it's clear enough that the one I can see rising to the southeast has a brilliant, very noticeable orange-red glow. I think that's gotta be Mars!

So I'm gonna wave goodnight to John Carter and take myself to bed. And g'night to the rest of you as well!

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 27, 2018 02:10 AM (V2Yro)

916 Hi horde, arriving late and impaired. Slap, oh I do know and share what you are going through, just doing a little drunk housework after someone put Palmolive dish detergent in the dishwasher and suds were covering the kitchen floor, could have landed a distressed aircraft in there! MisHum, I don't think that I have ever thanked you or Weird Dave for the ONTs, they keep me grounded in a very strange world. To all 'Rons and 'Ettes in need of prayers and support, you got it!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2018 02:10 AM (nWc4E)

917 Night Miley and Tom Servo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 02:11 AM (GIHSy)

918 Seven Days in May has Burt Lancaster in uniform also, Miley.

Niters hun.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 02:11 AM (jUilJ)

919 Tom, I get that anybody elected in UT has the LDS check-off. Of course.


And if that church or that state's residents want to damage the country for their own purposes, dressed up in whatever rationale, then they are a threat and need to be shamed, isolated, weakened, and defeated - not "treated with kid gloves". If the Mormon leadership is working - de facto - with Tom Steyer, La Raza, the drug cartels, and the worst racist authoritarians of the Dem party - why should they be treated any differently?


And - this is not directed at you, but more at the commonplace mythology you reference - WTF is "harsh treatment of immigrants"? Aside from Israel receiving those making aliyah, the US - besides literally inventing the idea of mass immigration in the modern world - has always had and still has the best treatment of IMMIGRANTS on the planet. Jeebus. What is this crap?


Bit of info: those illegally crossing the southern border, or lying at ports of entry about ridiculous "asylum" requests, are in many, many cases extorted, beaten, raped, and otherwise mistreated during their journey, all with the connivance of the Mexican and other "governments" - and then are rescued, treated, fed, protected, and cared for WHEN THEY COME IN CONTACT WITH U.S. OFFICERS.


Just to wrap up - Romney's vile slander of "racist" in his campaign comments is an ominous sign. Al Sharpton only has 4 certain murders on his moral rap-sheet (Freddie's Fashion Mart) - if they don't contribute to fixing, as opposed to greatly worsening, the situation, Romney and his co-religionists will have thousands of murders and excess deaths on theirs.






Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:11 AM (QDnY+)

920 9 Oklahoma just went full retard on medical marijuana and a very chamber of commerce Republican for the candidate in upcoming governor race. What the hell, Oklahoma? May be time to move to Texas.

Don't cede one inch of ground to Le Resistance.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2018 02:14 AM (nWc4E)

921 Stay completely out of the marijuana wars, but know that the current OK governor vetoed a constitutional carry gun law. Hoping the "chamber of commerce" GOP governor-to-be will sign it. Just for the people of OK, and the scoreboard.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:18 AM (QDnY+)

922

Second, the effects of a decision for Janus will be more immediate than you might think. The taps will be immediately shut off as "union members" who never agreed to be such inundate their HR departments with opt-out forms. Also, several law suits are queued up in federal court demanding the return of monies forcibly taken in the past.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 27, 2018 12:43 AM (FTXAT)

Washington State has already passed THREE laws restricting people from notifying unions they want to opt out. State Supreme Court is a rubber stamp for the Dems so the only way may be ANOTHER federal lawsuit. See you in another decade.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 27, 2018 02:23 AM (e1mEI)

923 Venezuela's largest ISP blocks Tor

https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/26/venezuela-largest-isp-blocks-tor/

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at June 27, 2018 02:24 AM (jUilJ)

924 Also, that is a kickass fuse system on the Chuck A Bomb photo.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 27, 2018 02:25 AM (e1mEI)

925 Good night, all y'all crazy cats!

Here's one for the road:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 02:26 AM (UiRxW)

926 I've discussed it at length before, but there was one particular incident in the 2012 campaign that showed me that Romney was nothing but a shallow self-serving opportunist. I find hum utterly loathsome.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 02:26 AM (sdi6R)

927 him

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 02:26 AM (sdi6R)

928 Whoa, it'll hit a thousand here in a bit.

Posted by: m at June 27, 2018 02:30 AM (/TzhX)

929 Over 900 comments? Must have been a good night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 27, 2018 02:31 AM (9Om/r)

930 70 to go.

It's getting to that time where it will take 'til 0500 to get there.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 02:33 AM (fuK7c)

931 Bander - you've monitored ONTs til 0500 local?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:36 AM (QDnY+)

932 rickl - what was the incident? No need for lengthy description, just a reference.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:37 AM (QDnY+)

933
And then what?

The purpose of the invasion was to draw the American carriers into a trap. It's possible (even likely, I'll grant you) that the invasion still could have proceeded. But so far as I can tell, Midway's primary strategic value was that it was closer to Hawaii than Yokosuke was (you might say that it was midway between the two locations /rimshot). And without Carrier Divisions 1 and 2, Japan's offensive strength was pretty much shot until and unless they managed to sink the remaining US carriers. The IJN only had two fleet carriers left at that point - Shokaku and Zuikaku. So long as the US had its carriers, the IJN wasn't going to launch a successful invasion of Hawaii without more carrier strength than it had on hand at that time.
Posted by: junior at June 26, 2018 09:36 PM (USMA7

Late to the party, but Midway itself had no real value to the Japanese, other than its ability to draw the remnants of our pacific fleet out for the show. With the 4 carriers of Nagumo's force on the bottom of the ocean, any other move than withdrawal would be counterproductive. A Hawaiian invasion was always a conceptual pipedream, rightfully left on the planning table and never realistically considered. The IJN didn't have the logistic capabilities or the manpower to be able to see that successfully undertaken with any degree of confidence. Hell, they barely got the army to give them 3/4 of what they needed for the operations they already conducted. Everything they did up to that point was, as far as boots on the ground were concerned, done by the skin of their logistic teeth.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at June 27, 2018 02:37 AM (rhQVk)

934 Well I'm going to grab a beer and listen to some music, I've got a song in my head that won't quit, Just Like Heaven by the Cure, maybe I'll be back or maybe I'll succumb to the need to sleep, have a feeling you'll hit the 1000 early tonight. This blog is my salvation on a nightly basis. I miss qdpsteve and Insomniac too.Sorry that I am kind of melancholy, it's the booze talking.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2018 02:41 AM (nWc4E)

935 Bander - you've monitored ONTs til 0500 local?


I don't keep what you'd call regular hours. When I ONT it seems to roar along like a freight train and then sort of go off the rails. Then there's basically nothing until people are up having coffee and wondering if the machine still works.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 02:44 AM (fuK7c)

936 Good Lord Polis is too left for even San Francisco. If he wins I'm leaving Colorado, which may as well be dead and fucking buried as Virginia.

Thanks leftists for ruining another beautiful state, you stupid commie fuckholes.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 27, 2018 02:46 AM (+dsLj)

937 Here's one for the road:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 02:26 AM (UiRxW)
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I gotta respond to myself, and then I'm going to bed.

That song is as awesome I remembered, and in this video montage, there's hot chicks wearing tennis skirts at the end.

Just a warning.

For the morons who don't want to see hot chicks in tennis skirts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 02:48 AM (UiRxW)

938 932 rickl - what was the incident? No need for lengthy description, just a reference.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:37 AM (QDnY+)


Luckily, I saved a previous comment I made about it:

Back in the 2012 primaries, Newt Gingrich gave a speech about space policy. He is a longtime space enthusiast and is knowledgeable and passionate about the subject. We can quibble with his specific policies, but not about his passion for the topic.

A couple of days later, Romney gave a speech on space policy. He basically said that he would put "top men" to work on it, and concluded with a tearjerking story about a Massachusetts Boy Scout troop sending an American flag to fly on the ill-fated Challenger mission. Which has precisely fuck-all to do with present-day space policy.

It was obvious that he had zero knowledge, interest, or passion about the subject. He was just pandering to Florida voters.

But he didn't stop there. At the very next debate just a few days later, he used Newt's moonbase proposal for a cheap laugh line. I had flames shooting out of my ears at that point.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 02:48 AM (sdi6R)

939 Lonebadger, all true.


The Midway thing started waaaay back when Anna Puma threw out the interesting counter-historical of "what if Yamamoto/Nagumo had continued on with the seizure of Midway, despite the catastrophic losses of June 4" (my phrasing).


A few of us basically agreed with you, that there would be no point. I stressed that it would have been an unsustainable thing, given (as you note) exiguous Jap logistics, and the relative ease with which the US could have isolated and pounded any force on Midway.


So anyway, an interesting "what if" from one of the HQ's premier military history commenters.


And a reminder to me to refresh on Midway, as I got a lot of the details wrong about which US squadrons did what.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:49 AM (QDnY+)

940 Well, time for me to call it a night. be well, horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2018 02:51 AM (a2xQ5)

941 After that, I swore that I would never vote for Romney under any circumstances. But in the general election, I swallowed my words and my pride and voted for him against Obama.

The Never Trumpers can take 'muh principles" and shove them deep.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 02:51 AM (sdi6R)

942 After that, I swore that I would never vote for Romney under any circumstances. But in the general election, I swallowed my words and my pride and voted for him against Obama.

The Never Trumpers can take 'muh principles" and shove them deep.
Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 02:51 AM (sdi6R)
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Damn straight. I drove to the poll with my old man that day. I had to drink hundred proof bourbon to vote for Romney, but I did it.

And we still lost.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2018 02:55 AM (UiRxW)

943 And a reminder to me to refresh on Midway, as I got a lot of the details wrong about which US squadrons did what.


Here is another occasion when I just have to doff my cap to the Horde.

I thought I knew about Midway. You've got Ensign Gay and the TBDs, the fake message about the desalinization plant, the carriers hiding out over there, and oh by the way we turn the tide against the Japanese.

And you guys come out with counterfactuals, unit designations, ship ID numbers, and all sorts of shit I couldn't keep up with.

I continue to be impressed.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 27, 2018 02:57 AM (fuK7c)

944 Night AOP.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 27, 2018 02:57 AM (GIHSy)

945 Thanks, rickl.


I vaguely recall all that, now that you recount it.


I admire your knowledge and passion for space, and it's actually sort of cool that space policy would be an area where a public figure could let you down.


Which, to pull a whip-lash turn, reminds me of perhaps the key "lesson" (at this point) of the Trump phenomenon - don't pander, say what you think, and what you mean, and then act on it. This "process" virtue alone - let's call it political integrity - is incredibly powerful in a time when it is so RARE.


It's fundamental. Stupid policy ideas will be pushed - always. Some will even be popular, to some extent, or occasionally, to a disastrously wide extent.


But in a representative govt. system, if there is no political integrity, the voters are disenfranchised, the system becomes a farce, nobody knows what they're voting for.


And with that, I'll leave Bander to monitor the derailed train, and plow through another few pages of VDH's WWII book.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:58 AM (QDnY+)

946 Oh FFS. That robo-ref article, so CLEARLY writ by a bitter Cardinals fan.

It was the 6th game; it's been 30 years. Let. It. Go.

Posted by: Raised Royal at June 27, 2018 03:02 AM (csrNz)

947 Good Lord Polis is too left for even San Francisco.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at June 27, 2018 02:46 AM (+dsLj)

They used to say that about me, and look who's laughing now.

Posted by: Future Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) at June 27, 2018 03:05 AM (/FLNB)

948 Well one more thing. Today, as I mentioned earlier, a Russian couple came in where I volunteer, they're from a Urals town that was one of the places to which Soviet industry was evacuated, in a hurry, in 1941/42.


The guy was a history geek, and so we geeked out a bit (with my rusty Russian frustrating me to exasperation) on WWII history. I mentioned how much I wish I'd made it to a Victory Day parade in Moscow a few years ago, when many veterans were still alive and active. He said they still had small ceremonies in his area, but sadly it was mostly photos of deceased vets (the "immortal battalion" as they are now called), not many actual ones, there.


We both lamented the ignorance of WWII history in our respective societies, but it was clear (and it's logical) that it's quite a bit better in Russia than here. He was thrilled to visit and hear about things connected to US WWII history in the Pacific.


Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 03:06 AM (QDnY+)

949 Anyone still here?

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 03:09 AM (/FLNB)

950 945
I admire your knowledge and passion for space, and it's actually sort of cool that space policy would be an area where a public figure could let you down.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:58 AM (QDnY+)


Exactly. For me, it was an example of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect". If he was clearly a phony and a charlatan about a topic I have some knowledge about, then he's probably a phony and a charlatan about other areas as well.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 03:10 AM (sdi6R)

951 Again, I seem to recall that Trump endorsed Romney. So, maybe Trump knows something, or is already taking Romney's potential future comments into account and is still confident that he'll come out ahead. Or maybe he just wants another businessman in the Senate. For non-border items, that could be useful.

Time for a wait and see, imo.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 03:12 AM (SspEb)

952 Surfperch I am here, but I have obligations in the morning and I'm going to try and sleep, good night.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 27, 2018 03:31 AM (nWc4E)

953 Midway.
Who knew you could drop a torpedo from a B-26?
Who knew that it was futile to use defective American torpedos?
Bet both the engines were racing at war emergency and the torpedo dropped disintegrated on impact with the water.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 27, 2018 03:38 AM (e1mEI)

954 lts late, no body cares, but for reference-

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/mrst.php

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 03:39 AM (i/KWu)

955 Posted by: rhomboid at June 27, 2018 02:49 AM (QDnY+)

To my glee, when first reading the comments, I noticed a real good Midway conversation brewing, and without looking too hard, I wanted to throw my 2 cents out there. The Pacific War has been an area of particular interest to me since the age of 7, and the one thing that always fascinated me was how much the Japanese DID ACCOMPLISH. Other than hard combat assets, they were always operating under the pressure of severe supply and time constraints, and usually with very little in the way of actual usable reserves. The fact that they were able to put to sea what amounted to the bulk of their surface fleet at Midway still astounds me, considering their steel and fuel shortages.
Your second comment really interests me. To get an opportunity to talk to a veteran of the Red Army from WW2 would really be something special. The celebrations and remembrances they hold for those veterans, as I understand it, are considered very meaningful and personal. Even considering the brutality of their own government, the burden carried and the horrors experienced by the citizens and soldiers of the Soviet Union make WW2 something they have a much different perspective about than anyone else. I believe that how Russia relates today with the world is still more affected by the war years than any other single factor. Our leaders should well keep that in mind when dealing with today's Russia. It makes what they do make more sense.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at June 27, 2018 03:40 AM (rhQVk)

956
Leo is home and in a 4x4 man cave in the breakfast area. There was a good-sized hole in his throat which had to be stitched up. He had some Spam, so his appetite is there. He will be a house guest while he convalesces.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2018 03:43 AM (LsBY9)

957 I'm not worried about Trump endorsing Romney. I'm sure he has his reasons. It could be a case of "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" or "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". He probably figures that a Romney victory is a foregone conclusion and an endorsement is a chip he might be able to play at some time in the future.

I trust Trump's instincts. He certainly can deal with people much better than I can.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 03:43 AM (sdi6R)

958
954

Tried for SMOD and got doodley. Live another day.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 27, 2018 03:45 AM (e1mEI)

959 Ever been in a giant empty room and the only sound is the echo of your whistling?

Posted by: Willy T at June 27, 2018 03:51 AM (hUjHz)

960 953 Midway.
Who knew you could drop a torpedo from a B-26?
Who knew that it was futile to use defective American torpedos?
Bet both the engines were racing at war emergency and the torpedo dropped disintegrated on impact with the water.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 27, 2018 03:38 AM (e1mEI)

American torps were really bad. The British and Japanese had torps that were excellent, particularly the Japanese. But, like you said, you fight with what you got until you get something better. The fact that both Japan and Britain were on a war footing and had been in conflicts for several years by that point is probably the bulk of the reason for the disparity, from my perspective.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at June 27, 2018 03:51 AM (rhQVk)

961 Leo is home and in a 4x4 man cave in the breakfast area. There was a good-sized hole in his throat which had to be stitched up. He had some Spam, so his appetite is there. He will be a house guest while he convalesces.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 27, 2018 03:43

!?

Whatever happened to Leo, wishing a swift recovervy!

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 03:56 AM (i/KWu)

962 Thank heaven the bombs worked. And Japanese damage control was not effective. Mostly because the bombs worked.

Posted by: Willy T at June 27, 2018 03:58 AM (hUjHz)

963 And here I thought I had the place to myself.

Posted by: Willy T at June 27, 2018 04:00 AM (hUjHz)

964 Maybe I do. Hmmm.

Posted by: Willy T at June 27, 2018 04:01 AM (hUjHz)

965 Go ahead, lurk amongst yourselves!

Posted by: Willy T at June 27, 2018 04:02 AM (hUjHz)

966 I don't want to get up

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:03 AM (pHfeF)

967 The various squadrons losing contact eith wach other and attacking piecemeal was a gigantic clusterfuck that could have ended disastrously.

Suppose the dive bombers had arrived first. They would have scored some hits, but some of them would have been shot down by the Japanese fighters.

Then the torpedo bombers arrive with their defective torpedoes, and the fighters at high altitude diving on them.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 04:05 AM (sdi6R)

968 Skip!

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 04:06 AM (i/KWu)

969 eith wach = with each

Arrgh. No I'm not trying to invent a new language.

Posted by: rickl at June 27, 2018 04:07 AM (sdi6R)

970 @962

Problems with the carrier designs hindered the Japanese as well. Carriers were something new, and ideas that looked good on paper were catastrophic in combat. For instance, as I mentioned in the previous ONT, Kaga had a unique fuel storage system. And vibrations from the American bombs caused cracks to develop in that system. Fuel vapor was able to escape from those cracks, until *BOOM!*

It all looked good on paper. And no one had anyway of knowing that it would happen, right up until it did. It's kind of a shame, really. The Japanese taught everyone a lot of lessons in carrier design, but weren't able to take advantage of those lessons due to the post-war disarmament.

Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 04:10 AM (SspEb)

971 Waffles.
With salt.
No syrup!

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 04:12 AM (i/KWu)

972 There is complete Klingon and I think not quite as thought out Elvish language

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:13 AM (pHfeF)

973 So Stoner is CBD's sock puppet

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:15 AM (pHfeF)

974 8-)

Posted by: Stoner Dude! at June 27, 2018 04:19 AM (i/KWu)

975 Posted by: junior at June 27, 2018 04:10 AM (SspEb)

We taught the Japanese alot about damage control and ship design that day, that's for sure. I think a lot of the reason for their failures in those regards was a real overemphasis on OFFENSIVE CAPABILITIES. An even bigger mistake, as mentioned previously, was an almost disdainful approach to logistics in favor of that same focus on offensive power.

Posted by: The Lonebadger at June 27, 2018 04:21 AM (5leUT)

976 972 There is complete Klingon and I think not quite as thought out Elvish language

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:13 AM (pHfeF)

It's long been my running joke that if the indentity politics madness goes any further, we should just all identify as Klingon.

Stab someone with a batleth? It's just part of your culture. You can't be a loyal follower of Kahless and not do it. Any attempt to prevent your "cultural enrichment activities" is vile bigotry.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 27, 2018 04:21 AM (J+mig)

977 Coffee is finally done, I wish I could start a IV drip with it.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:34 AM (pHfeF)

978 WW II just emphasized the normal Russian state of xenophobia and tolerance for suffering.

Posted by: rammajamma at June 27, 2018 04:42 AM (xceTB)

979 And melancholia

Posted by: rammajamma at June 27, 2018 04:43 AM (xceTB)

980 At Power Line -Democrat Threatens to Murder Congressman 's Children.
They picked this guy up right away but with this frenzy Leftists and their media keep stirring up it will happen before it can be stopped.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:47 AM (pHfeF)

981 So close to 1000, I can practically taste it.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 04:53 AM (tA/XW)

982 Coffee is finally done, I wish I could start a IV drip with it.
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 04:34 AM (pHfeF)

Great idea!

Posted by: Surfperch at June 27, 2018 04:55 AM (tA/XW)

983 I could go straight back to bed right now, or do my afternoon 20 minute nap.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 05:00 AM (pHfeF)

984 https://pjmedia.com/trending/facebook-purge-begins-thousands-of-bad-actors-removed/
It won't stop there

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 05:11 AM (pHfeF)

985 I took it as close to 1K as I could, take it away from here.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2018 05:15 AM (pHfeF)

986 American Torpedoes were bad because the Navy brass that were in charge of their development and testing refused to admit they might be wrong about their pride and joy.

AIUI, when rumors started that subs on patrol were overhauling and modifying torpedoes on their way to their patrol stations, steps were taken.

not to retrofit the defective shit being issued, but to catch those dastardly scumbags screwing with perfection.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 27, 2018 05:23 AM (K6DB5)

987 Morning horde!

Posted by: TickledPink at June 27, 2018 05:25 AM (TL2pK)

988 yeah, i've gotta be vertical and coherent, or a reasonable semblance thereof, in about 4 hours.

hasta, y'all!

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 27, 2018 05:25 AM (K6DB5)

989 972 There is complete Klingon and I think not quite as thought out Elvish language
Posted by: Skip



Elves are the Oppressors!!!

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ybjjkmu6

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 27, 2018 05:26 AM (YDnPT)

990 not to retrofit the defective shit being issued, but to catch those dastardly scumbags screwing with perfection.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 27, 2018 05:23 AM (K6DB5)

Typical government.

And of course, it turned out to have a dash of the same scientism that's infected the modern Left wrapped up in it. The torpedoes apparently performed well in lab conditions, so the "experts" all agreed that it had to be the sailors misusing the torpedoes, not a problem with the weapons.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 27, 2018 05:36 AM (J+mig)

991 cortez wins n.y. 14 supports maxine waters over schemer. other sides brat vs cantor.

Posted by: nanuky at June 27, 2018 05:40 AM (Ow4Bc)

992 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2018 05:46 AM (FxM6p)

993 Morning!

Pretty sure my Mom is going to call my hotel this weekend. My Lord.

Posted by: TickledPink at June 27, 2018 05:48 AM (TL2pK)

994 I hate fucking Romney.

Posted by: Orrin Hatch at June 27, 2018 05:48 AM (/qEW2)

995 Eight more to drag it over 1000.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2018 05:48 AM (FxM6p)

996 >>> Eight more to drag it over 1000.

Can't be done.

Posted by: fluffy at June 27, 2018 05:54 AM (cHbmY)

997 Never tell us the odds.

Posted by: TickledPink at June 27, 2018 05:55 AM (TL2pK)

998 994 who doesn't hate mr. mormon morality mitt.

Posted by: nanuky at June 27, 2018 05:55 AM (Ow4Bc)

999 I see the young female latina clobbered the old white male establishment Dem in New York, LOL! Chickens coming home to roost.
What? This isn't the diversity you had in mind? Well get used to it. This is the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Ripley at June 27, 2018 05:55 AM (UMGNS)

1000 Are we there yet?

Posted by: fluffy at June 27, 2018 05:55 AM (cHbmY)

1001 Supreme court sides with crisis pregnancy centers - they are no longer required to publish pro-abort propaganda as per a California law. Good news, but why has California festered to the point where it would even consider passing such laws? Their state legislature needs to be beaten back or punished somehow.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2018 05:56 AM (/qEW2)

1002 Woah!

What kind of responsibilities accompany this great honor?

Posted by: fluffy at June 27, 2018 05:57 AM (cHbmY)

1003 Gah, have to get ready for work and I'm only halfway through the ONT. And it's a good 'un!

Here's a parting gift, The Who's "Love, Reign O'er Me":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSdNy1snaU

I'd forgotten how bracing it is.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 27, 2018 05:58 AM (gUCYC)

1004 >>> Their state legislature needs to be beaten back or punished somehow.

Why are waiting for them to secede?

Posted by: fluffy at June 27, 2018 05:58 AM (cHbmY)

1005 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 27, 2018 05:59 AM (EyPfd)

1006 >>>I see the young female latina clobbered the old white male establishment Dem in New York, LOL!

These stupid Dems supported illegal immigration as a means to cement their power. Once they see that it undermines their power, will they side with Trump?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2018 06:05 AM (/qEW2)

1007 Went in yesterday morning to vote.

Spent the day as an election Judge.

Interesting that us raycist white Republicans voted for a black female and a black male to move forward out of the Primary.


And couldn't help notice that most of the few Republicans in our area didn't arrive to vote until after 6:30pm.

What with having jobs.
And shit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 27, 2018 06:08 AM (EyPfd)

1008 Were the dive bombers and torpedo planes even able to communicate on the same radio freqs?

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 06:15 AM (MS0+a)

1009 cortez wins n.y. 14 supports maxine waters over schemer. other sides brat vs cantor.

Posted by: nanuky at June 27, 2018 05:40 AM (Ow4Bc)


I live in this district. The analogy is somewhat true. Crowley, the incumbent and the 4th top-ranking House Democrat, took a page from Hillary's failed campaign and did not run ads or even bother to campaign, he was that cocky. Also, my neighborhood in the district (which comprises parts of the South Bronx and northern Queens, two completely different worlds) has radically shifted when it comes to demographics. What was a German/Irish/Jewish neighborhood when I moved here 30 years ago is now a Central/South American United Nations. That a young radical lefty Hispanic woman, running on guaranteed jobs, universal health care and the end of ICE, beat an older white guy Party hack is no surprise. Maybe to the media talking airheads it's a surprise, hence the Brat/Cantor comparison, but not to someone actually living in the district.

What makes the comparison true is Brat is MAGA before MAGA, a TEA Party takeover of the Republican Party, so to speak. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' win exemplifies the radical left taking over the Democrat Party.

Posted by: RickZ at June 27, 2018 06:15 AM (8lsuS)

1010 The lefty winning in New York's to be earth shaking for the party of LBJ - consumed by their creation within 50 years is a neat trick.

Posted by: rammajamma at June 27, 2018 06:24 AM (xceTB)

1011 "has to be"

Posted by: rammajamma at June 27, 2018 06:25 AM (xceTB)

1012 >I see the young female latina clobbered the old white male establishment Dem in New York, LOL!

These stupid Dems supported illegal immigration as a means to cement their power. Once they see that it undermines their power, will they side with Trump?
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear



F them. #TooLate

Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2018 06:25 AM (FxM6p)

1013 Mornin Horde
Happy Hump Day

Posted by: wing at June 27, 2018 06:31 AM (RSMz4)

1014 Morning! I talked to the wife yesterday about my birthday wish and guess what? She's into it.

So we'll sign up for a couples beginners pistol class at the local range.

What did you think I was talking about?

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:31 AM (8ikIW)

1015 Morning! I talked to the wife yesterday about my birthday wish and guess what? She's into it.

So we'll sign up for a couples beginners pistol class at the local range.

What did you think I was talking about?
Posted by: Bruce


Um, ....

Posted by: rickb223 at June 27, 2018 06:34 AM (FxM6p)

1016 I think Crowley gets to keep his SuperDelagate status though.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 06:41 AM (MS0+a)

1017 My wife had gone shooting rats at the dump with her sister and husband (cheating bastard) and loved it. Had she known at the time what an A-hole the BIL was going to be....

Also has shot some trap and loved it too.

This could get expensive for me.

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:41 AM (8ikIW)

1018 WTF Utah? Romney? Really?

Trump needs another punching bag I guess.

Posted by: Valiant at June 27, 2018 06:43 AM (3MiF8)

1019 Good morning everyone! Well the primaries are FINALLY over. FFS, thank goodness that's done. I can hardy wait until it starts again for the general election.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 27, 2018 06:43 AM (qWg0i)

1020 Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:41 AM (8ikIW)

An afternoon shooting rats or clays is a good afternoon.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 27, 2018 06:44 AM (qWg0i)

1021 I can hardy wait until it starts again for the general election.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

The two for Illinois governors are already airing their "he's a doody head commercials and I can do better but I'm not telling you but believe me taxes will be raised" on TV

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:46 AM (8ikIW)

1022 Ali "Stormy" Watkins. It has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Advo at June 27, 2018 06:46 AM (ekVHT)

1023 An afternoon shooting rats or clays is a good afternoon.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

At this range, they have Senior Days with reduced range time rates and on Mondays it's Free Gun Rental day.

I can see some winter fun coming up.

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:47 AM (8ikIW)

1024 1023>> OH, VERY nice! An opportunity to shoot a wide variety of stuff (assuming they have a wide variety of rentals). She'll be packin heat in no time.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 27, 2018 06:50 AM (qWg0i)

1025 The best part is, my wife is going to let it casually slip at her book club that she is taking this class.

Second best part, when one of the book club ladies that my wife is friends with but not besties by any means, invites her to some goofy thing to do and my wife doesn't want to go, she's going to say she can't she going to a Gun Show that day.

This lady's head will literally explode

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:51 AM (8ikIW)

1026 OH, VERY nice! An opportunity to shoot a wide variety of stuff (assuming they have a wide variety of rentals). She'll be packin heat in no time.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

About 35 different handguns calibers and manufacturers.
About 10 long guns

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:52 AM (8ikIW)

1027 1021 I can hardy wait until it starts again for the general election.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead


Heh.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 27, 2018 06:52 AM (uxtrT)

1028 I think Mormon leadership has been bought out or infiltrated to the point where they support open borders. They then instruct the lay people on this point, who then vote for a shitstain like Romney.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2018 06:53 AM (/qEW2)

1029 About 2 to 3 inches of rain last night. The people at the low end of the area are having sewer troubles again.

The good news is it's about 95 percent humidity.

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 06:55 AM (8ikIW)

1030 I know not many here are on FB, but I see that comments/replies on say NBC News has this: "Most Relevant is selected, so some replies may have been filtered out." So the flow of replies do not make sense ....interesting...do not recall seeing that before.

Posted by: KWDreaming at June 27, 2018 06:56 AM (Z1I24)

1031 About 35 different handguns calibers and manufacturers. About 10 long guns.

Oh wow! Better prep the credit card...you're gonna spend some coin on ammo. ON another note, maybe she can put a cloth with a little Hoppes No. 9 on it in her purse when she goes to her next book club meeting.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 27, 2018 06:58 AM (qWg0i)

1032 Ali the reporter reminded me of Zoe Barnes in House if Cards.

Weird how so many news articles remind me of characters or plots in that tv show.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at June 27, 2018 07:00 AM (wbRN9)

1033 I hope the rain lets up long enough to mow, I somewhat detest telling folks to get off an unkempt lawn. Morning horde.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 27, 2018 07:03 AM (qhsPR)

1034 I hope the rain lets up long enough to mow, I somewhat detest telling folks to get off an unkempt lawn. Morning horde.
Posted by: Sumdumchief

We got it mowed on Saturday. I would mow today, but it's going to be too wet. Tomorrow, I'll be able to mow and bale.

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 07:04 AM (8ikIW)

1035 Legalized marijuana in the USA = less revenue for drug cartels.

Whether that would lead to a spike in other crimes like kidnapping for ransom or kidnapping for sex slavery, who can say. Pretty awful result if so.

But we cannot be extorted by a hypothetical problem. We should pass it to find out what is in it.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at June 27, 2018 07:05 AM (wbRN9)

1036 As damp as everything is though, the wife thought it was great when she went out yesterday to weed the flower beds. The weeds just popped out, roots and all

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 07:06 AM (8ikIW)

1037 We got it mowed on Saturday. I would mow today, but its going to be too wet. Tomorrow, Ill be able to mow and bale.

Im out of the gentleman farmer game, but to me, not much looks better than a well cut, raked and baled pasture. One of the best things about penciltucky.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 27, 2018 07:08 AM (qhsPR)

1038 On the reporter, if they never went out to dinner and a mover, they were not "dating" she was just making a trade for information.

Posted by: SpecialEd at June 27, 2018 07:09 AM (1C8vs)

1039 Im out of the gentleman farmer game, but to me, not much looks better than a well cut, raked and baled pasture. One of the best things about penciltucky.
Posted by: Sumdumchief

Mine is just a suburban lawn, but with all of the rain we have had, you almost need to mow every 4 days to keep up with it. If I could run a baler behind my Toro, I would.

I agree about a fresh cut field. I've always loved the smell too, reminds me of helping my uncle on his farm

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 07:11 AM (8ikIW)

1040 I think Mormon leadership has been bought out or infiltrated to the point where they support open borders. They then instruct the lay people on this point, who then vote for a shitstain like Romney.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear

They want a carve out for non-economic, sponsored resident visas. Basically, they convert them and bring them in.

If they would acknowledge that they are bringing them in to support the 10% Mormon tithe farm and have a high probability of being economically productive - we could use the current framework. But, no, they don't want to admit their gnostic pyramid scheme needs new blood at the bottom.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 07:13 AM (MS0+a)

1041 Venezuela and Cuba are also countries that are not being overrun by millions of "migrants" desperate to escape the destruction and corruption wrought upon their own lands by socialism.

Gee, I wonder why that is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 27, 2018 07:14 AM (fqUgw)

1042 Mine is just a suburban lawn, but with all of the rain we have had, you almost need to mow every 4 days to keep up with it. If I could run a baler behind my Toro, I would.

Been living on 26 acres for nearly 20 years, mostly pasture. Best piece of lawn care equipment I ever bought was the cheapest lawn sweeper at tractor supply. Thought they were just dumb for years. Works very well on leafs and dead grass. Moar easier than a rake for sure.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 27, 2018 07:17 AM (qhsPR)

1043 The Peter Strozk hearing is going to be behind closed doors, he may or
may not be under oath, the transcripts of the hearing are confidential
and will probably not be released unless leaked.




THIS IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT!!!

Posted by: Kreplach at June 27, 2018 07:20 AM (UfMVm)

1044 Trump! is tweeting...

Congratulations to Maxine Waters, whose crazy rants have made her, together with Nancy Pelosi, the unhinged FACE of the Democrat Party. Together, they will Make America Weak Again! But have no fear, America is now stronger than ever before, and I'm not going anywhere!

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 07:24 AM (8ikIW)

1045 Ya, fine, the light is nice.

But what kind of lighthouse is that? There are little slits for the beacons and they only point one way?

This is not a traditional lighthouse. The image says Cape Lighthouse, but I assure you it's not from Cape Cod, whence all the best lighthouses spring.

Here, it's not technically Cape Cod, but the Scituate Lighthouse is the epitome of the species:


https://bit.ly/2KqEung
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 26, 2018 09:37 PM (fuK7c)

Getting to this late but oh well.

This is the lighthouse thats about 50' from where I'm typing this. It was part of the Two lights tower system build in the 1840's to help ships get into Casco bay without running directly into Cape Elizabeth. The other lighthouse is "Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse". Note that neither of these is the Portland Headlight, which is also in Cape Elizabeth and which was pictured in this thread last week.

This particular lighthouse had its Fresnel lens removed in WW2 and was converted into a Uboat lookout tower. Combined with another fire control tower about a quarter mile down the coast, these towers would relay bearings to sighted Uboats off the coast who were hunting freedom ships coming out of Portland. In Two Lights state park you can climb up on top of the bunker's ammo magazine. The guns were never installed on the coast but the towers are still there.

This lighthouse was owned by Bette Davis at one point. Gary Merrill would get drunk and go to the top and holler down at people around the neighborhood that he was having a party and everyone should come up to the top of the lighthouse with him.

Today the lighthouse is owned by my neighbors. A family who is awesome and amazing and who I am blessed to know.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 27, 2018 07:26 AM (yG6Vk)

1046 1043 I think so too. But with the entire swamp in damage control mode I expect no less than obfuscation and distraction. On the plus side, I reckon thats the only play left in the playbook. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 27, 2018 07:27 AM (qhsPR)

1047 @1043-

THIS IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT!!!

Yes it is! It's the Washington D.C. way.

Posted by: Case at June 27, 2018 07:29 AM (2AmoJ)

1048 1045. Always enjoyed seeing a lighthouse, meant the potential for liberty was improving! Thanks for the post.

Posted by: Sumdumchief at June 27, 2018 07:31 AM (qhsPR)

1049 1043-

THIS IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT!!!

Yes it is! It's the Washington D.C. way.
Posted by: Case

It won't leak because the hot Fox chicks won't sleep with Senate staff stories.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2018 07:32 AM (MS0+a)

1050 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 27, 2018 07:36 AM (ZQfW9)

1051 Congratulations to Maxine Waters, whose crazy rants have made her, together with Nancy Pelosi, the unhinged FACE of the Democrat Party. Together, they will Make America Weak Again! But have no fear, America is now stronger than ever before, and I'm not going anywhere!
Posted by: Bruce


What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 27, 2018 07:44 AM (S6Pax)

1052 Got about three acres to mow, but it just started raining. An old Skag has been the best purchase my father ever made. So many trees and rocks and other 'features' to go around. Zero-turn radius for the win.

Posted by: t-bird at June 27, 2018 07:44 AM (rpZ5G)

1053 1021 I can hardy wait until it starts again for the general election.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

The two for Illinois governors are already airing their "he's a doody head commercials and I can do better but I'm not telling you but believe me taxes will be raised" on TV
_________________________

Like the PR chick who beat Crowley. She wants to abolish ICE, have Medicare and free college for all, and everybody should also get a guaranteed job from the federal government!

And how is she going to pay for all this "free" shit in her new open borders society? Eh, who cares about the details? Everybody should have whatever they want, and U.S. taxpayers should pay for it!

It would be satisfying to watch all the dumb-ass pandering leftists like Crowley getting booted out of office by the third-world Free Shit Army foot soldiers they've been importing for the last few decades, if not for the fact that they're destroying the country for the rest of us too.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 27, 2018 07:44 AM (fqUgw)

1054 JJ is NOOD

Posted by: Bruce at June 27, 2018 07:46 AM (8ikIW)

1055 It would be satisfying to watch all the dumb-ass pandering leftists like Crowley getting booted out of office by the third-world Free Shit Army foot soldiers they've been importing for the last few decades, if not for the fact that they're destroying the country for the rest of us too.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer


The word you are looking for is "locusts". They have come here like locusts to feed on the largess of America. It was cute and heartwarming when it was just thousands, just like those cute Somalis. (facepalm).
But now it's millions, and it's not going to stop. They want to bring in Uncle Fidel and Auntie Ramirez and all the rest. And no, they are not natural Republicans or Conservatives.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 27, 2018 07:47 AM (S6Pax)

1056 @ 1053 "And how is she going to pay for all this "free" shit in her new open borders society?"

Let's take it out of HER paycheck.

Posted by: Case at June 27, 2018 07:48 AM (2AmoJ)

1057 But we cannot be extorted by a hypothetical problem. We should pass it to find out what is in it.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at June 27, 2018 07:05 AM (wbRN9)


Heh, true.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 27, 2018 07:50 AM (/qEW2)

1058 Midway. A testament to set bravery of the Navy.
41
Obsolete TBD torpedo bombers started the battle. 34 were shot down, six ditched into the sea and three survived. Cdr Walden stood up, out of the cockpit to see over the smoke of his burning plane trying to get a hit.

Wade McClusky commanded Scouting 6 and Bombing 6 and over the target ordered Scouting 6 to attack the Kaga and Bombing 6 to attack the Akagi. Not everyone got the word. 27 planes from both squadrons attacked the kaga. Lt. Best commander of Bombing 6 frantically tried to stop his squadron but was only able to reach his wingman. So with three planes he lead the attack on the Akagi. Best scored a direct hit and sank the Akagi.

Where do we find such Men?

Posted by: Wild Bill at June 27, 2018 08:05 AM (EvD9/)

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The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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