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Late Summer Saturday Open Thread August 18 [KT]

cowburp.jpeg

Worried about cow flatulence, too?

Cows are being allowed to visit nude beaches in Sweden. Some people are concerned about cow poop. There are some other places where human poop is a concern.

Refuse

Daniel Greenfield on one lefty city's attitude toward refuse and related issues:

Here are a few things that are effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting. And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by the Bay.

Straws. Fur coats. Bottled water. Eating at work. Vaping liquids. Upholstered furniture. Plastic bags. Pet stores. Electric scooters. Coffee cups and packing peanuts. Tropical fish. The McDonald's Happy Meal.

If you can think of something, San Francisco has already banned it. Or will be banning it soon.

North Korea with a tech industry and some leftover Victorian architecture (which it's banning tour buses from visiting) has reacted to the collapse of living conditions and fleeing tourists by banning everything.

Everything except the behavior that's making San Francisco unlivable.

At least they have initiated a poop patrol now.

Meanwhile, city officials are surprised that people are complaining about the new open-air composting urinals near tourist destinations in Paris, filled with straw. They're sexist. I always thought that one of the reasons McDonalds was popular in France was the restrooms.

And in New York City, trash cans have been removed from the Upper West Side because people put trash in them. Thomas Sowell used to ask policy wonks, "And then what"? Did anybody ask these officials that question?

This week's VDH

This video is from a speech soon after the election, and it is interesting to listen to Hanson's analysis now. It tackles mythologies that surrounded the election, among other things. This week I passed it along to a guy who comes from the left but is trying to be open-minded. It's long - 44 minutes. But you might enjoy putting it on in the background while you do something else.

How could Ben Rhodes have been so wrong? VDH may have some clues.

Got any clean-up projects planned this weekend?

A little music:


Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:15 AM




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1 helloooo

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:15 AM (CE6iV)

2 Beroke

Posted by: Sons of Peter Gunn at August 18, 2018 10:15 AM (XeN7w)

3 Morning, horde.

Posted by: Robert Urich at August 18, 2018 10:15 AM (gC2IV)

4 *rolls around in roomy nood*

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:15 AM (CE6iV)

5 Off, Spenser sock.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:16 AM (gC2IV)

6 so it's 8/18/18

huh.

Posted by: mjc at August 18, 2018 10:17 AM (Pg+x7)

7 walked doggeh
some bug bit me behind my ear (mosquito?)
so itchy

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:18 AM (CE6iV)

8 I was about to mention in the last thread that the VDH article in the sidebar is good. I like the part where he suggested that Sarah Jeong collect her tweets in a book and call it "My Struggle".

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:18 AM (sdi6R)

9 old and busted: vids of Apache helicopter smoking a jihadi

new and hot: vids of Apache helicopter smoking John Brennan

Posted by: Buck at August 18, 2018 10:19 AM (FTPVM)

10 And in New York City, trash cans have been removed from the Upper West Side because people put trash in them.


Looks like the union doesn't empty them often enough.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 18, 2018 10:19 AM (mpXpK)

11 is never enough caffeine here?

i was gonna suggest a water pressure regulator valve on the pipe here water comes in from the water company

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:19 AM (CE6iV)

12 mooo, mofo...mooo

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (0+nbW)

13
Cows on the beach.
That's a fancy new cocktail, right?

Is there a recipe?

Posted by: Sons of Peter Gunn at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (XeN7w)

14
Around the Jersey shore a bunch of beaches have banned smoking. Outdoor smoking. Illegal.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (LOgQ4)

15 About the NFL and ESPN . Remember, though they might not be-as a group- the most deep-pocketed customers, African Americans are among the most rabid and loyal customers both the NFL and ESPN have. They buy a lot of jerseys and other NFL gear, so the powers that be probably think their decision to just ignore and not air the playing of the national anthem won't cost them anything.

I hope they're wrong.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:22 AM (y8Foj)

16 Meanwhile, city officials are surprised that people are complaining about the new open-air composting urinals near tourist destinations in Paris, filled with straw.

I think it's wonderful that they're trying to make their immigrants from the Third World feel at home.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:22 AM (sdi6R)

17 6 so it's 8/18/18

==

lotto time

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:23 AM (CE6iV)

18 Wow, a link to the Conservative Treehouse in the sidebar! First time I've ever seen CTH mentioned here, except in the comments.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 18, 2018 10:23 AM (5AVMW)

19 14


Around the Jersey shore a bunch of beaches have banned smoking. Outdoor smoking. Illegal.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (LOgQ4)

In SC you can smoke on the beach but you better not have any butts on the sand next to you when the patrol comes by. And if you put them in a beer can it had better have something around it that hides that it is a beer can.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 18, 2018 10:23 AM (mpXpK)

20 Around the Jersey shore a bunch of beaches have banned smoking. Outdoor smoking. Illegal.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (LOgQ4)

I knew the jig was up a few years ago when they made an issue of the litter of cigarette butts becoming hazardous to sea birds and other creatures.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:24 AM (y8Foj)

21 I suppose that San Francisco could try to ban white people, but then Nancy Pelosi would probably claim that she's Elizabeth Warren's (Fauxcahontas) sister, and they would still be stuck with her.

Posted by: CyberCipher at August 18, 2018 10:24 AM (p6WoB)

22 Doggy is turning into a picky eater

Have to walk him first before offering breakfast
then I have to sit nearby or else he won't eat

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:24 AM (CE6iV)

23 Isn't today's date the "dead mans hand"?

Posted by: No Longer Suberranean JT at August 18, 2018 10:25 AM (S23KT)

24 of course when he does start eahe scarfs it down in 6 seconds

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:26 AM (CE6iV)

25 My guess is that the Manafort Jury is hung.

Posted by: JAS at August 18, 2018 08:11 AM (3HNOQ)

You never know until the zipper goes down!

Posted by: SHEP SMITH at August 18, 2018 10:26 AM (MAstk)

26 I once saw a cow on a nude beach, lying on a beach towel. I thought I caught a glimpse of side udder, but I couldn't be sure.

And I didn't want to stare.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:26 AM (m45I2)

27 so it's 8/18/18

==

lotto time
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:23 AM (CE6iV)


I read that as "latte time." And I was thinking "what the heck does that have to do with coffee?"

By the by, I am literally sitting here with two cups of coffee. One I just made, and the other is warmed up from what I brought back home from work yesterday... the stuff I drink ain't cheap, and the warmed up version isn't noticeably worse than the fresh stuff.

Screw Miller, it's coffee time!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM (cY3LT)

28 >>>At least they have initiated a poop patrol now.

Colon all cars. Request immediate backup. Repeat, request immediate backup. Number 2 in progress at the corner of Haight and Ashbury.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM (/qEW2)

29 I was about to mention in the last thread that the VDH article in the sidebar is good. I like the part where he suggested that Sarah Jeong collect her tweets in a book and call it "My Struggle".
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:18 AM (sdi6R)

A friend of mine is married to a Chinese-American woman, and when he told her about Sara Jeong's tweets, she said, without missing a beat, "Sounds like she's pissed that some white guy dumped her..."

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM (y8Foj)

30 Fixed the Daniel Greenfield link. Some interesting details in the rest of the piece, too.

Posted by: KTbarthedoor at August 18, 2018 10:28 AM (BVQ+1)

31 so it's 8/18/18

huh.

-
I wanted to post in memory of the Battle of Amiens on its 100 year anniversary. It was the day the morale of the German army collapsed, the day Ludendorff called the black day of the German army, and the beginning of the so-called 100 days offensive that won the war. Unfortunately, I remembered the date as August 18 but it was actually August 8. So jump in Ace's time machine and go back ten days.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 10:29 AM (+y/Ru)

32 Speaking of coffee, the former UN Gen Sec died.

So that's Kofe Annan, Aretha Franklin. Who will be the third...

Mccain family, now's your chance!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 10:29 AM (cY3LT)

33 so it's 8/18/18


A bunch of brides have decided this is the luckiest day to get married this year. On a long enough time-line I'm sure they'll be proven wrong.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 10:29 AM (LOgQ4)

34 I want to comment, again, about John Brennan and the idiots who are outraged that his security clearance was revoked.
Do these dimwits not understand the concept of burning your bridges behind you.
If I had left my last job by mooning my boss, cursing him out and reviling him on Twitter I would not expect any favours from him going forward. And I would have to accept that.
Brennan has made it clear he views Donald Trump as the enemy. Why can't he simply smile and accept the consequences.
His supporters have no concept of the real world and deserve nothing but utter contempt.

Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at August 18, 2018 10:30 AM (nBr1j)

35 22 LOL
I have 2 the exact same way

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at August 18, 2018 10:30 AM (FTPVM)

36 And I didn't want to stare.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:26 AM (m45I2)

For anyone that may be self-conscious about any aspect of their appearance, a trip to the beach should put them at ease.

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2018 10:31 AM (0+nbW)

37 At least they have initiated a poop patrol now.
-----------------------
Colon all cars. Request immediate backup. Repeat, request immediate backup. Number 2 in progress at the corner of Haight and Ashbury.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM (/qEW2)


There's an old Daffy Duck cartoon, where he comes to town as the sheriff, and things don't work out. At the end...

Oh- SPOILER ALERT!!!

At the end, Daffy is pushing a cart that says something or other that would be understood as the horse shit patrol, and the punch line is "I told you I was going to clean up this town!"

Daffy was great. I bet San Francissy bans Daffy Duck cartoons.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 10:32 AM (cY3LT)

38 Ask not for whom the bell cow tolls...

Posted by: Sumdumchief at August 18, 2018 10:33 AM (XKfN6)

39 I admire how retro San Francisco is.

They're bringing back public health hazards that haven't existed since the 16th century.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:34 AM (/qEW2)

40 It's raining here which I'm quite happy about but my eight month old standard poodle puppy can't go on dog walk and he's running wild. And, despite being a puppy, he's not a small dog.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 10:34 AM (+y/Ru)

41 I used to oversea a commercial property with multiple dumpster locations on it.

I got a call from the city letting me know that someone had dumped some car parts, engines and some tires in and around one of the dumpsters and it's enclosure.

I told the idiot, "Well, where did you want someone to dump those items?".

Silence, then stammering, then the idiot said he would have to send me a notice for the "illegally" dumped items.

By the time I got there, someone had already grabbed the engines and other metal parts to scrap and probably put up a meth pipe.

I paid the dumpster guy an extra 20 bucks to haul off the rest.

Ah, gubmint and meth heads at work.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2018 10:34 AM (EoRCO)

42 I once saw a cow on a nude beach, lying on a beach towel. I thought I caught a glimpse of side udder, but I couldn't be sure.

And I didn't want to stare.
Posted by: Muldoon


Muldoon!!!

Posted by: Muldoon's Grandma...looking down from on High at August 18, 2018 10:34 AM (S6Pax)

43 Doggy is turning into a picky eater

Have to walk him first before offering breakfast
then I have to sit nearby or else he won't eat

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books!


Sounds like doggy is training you well!

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 10:35 AM (pcnVL)

44 Somebody in the last thread commented that, in fact, milk has a lot of sugar in it. Not true.

Sugars' chemical names end in 'ose' (sucrose, fructose, etc.) Milk has lactose, meaning it lacks -ose.

See, it's Science!

Posted by: Bill Neigh, The Science Guy! at August 18, 2018 10:35 AM (+FDdk)

45 34:I want to comment, again, about John Brennan and the idiots who are outraged that his security clearance was revoked.
Do these dimwits not understand the concept of burning your bridges behind you.
If I had left my last job by mooning my boss, cursing him out and reviling him on Twitter I would not expect any favours from him going forward. And I would have to accept that.

-----

Yes, and this from the EMT
---:
John Brennan, the guy who voted for a Stalinist, broke into the State Dept. for birth certificates, bugged the House cloakrooms, wiretapped the Justices' chambers, surveilled journalists, placed spies into a political campaign and hacked into Diane Feinstein's Senate computers and then lied about it under oath says Donald Trump is drunk on power.


Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 18, 2018 09:58 AM (Ndje9)

----
Is this all true? I didn't know half of it.

Posted by: LASue at August 18, 2018 10:35 AM (Z48ZB)

46 Spock, "Analysis of instruments shows the object is full of..."

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ayqxbk

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 10:36 AM (1NK0q)

47 Willowed from below:

Some rabid anti Trump person was doing on and on about how Trump hates people (in a thread about Trump sending a birthday card to a 100 year old Veteran) and someone responded:

"I don't understand your particular kind of stupid,
but I admire your total dedication to it."

That made me laugh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 10:36 AM (AllCR)

48 My guess is that the Manafort Jury is hung.

Posted by: JAS at August 18, 2018 08:11 AM (3HNOQ)

You never know until the zipper goes down!

-
And the fat lady sings.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 10:36 AM (+y/Ru)

49 That picture!!


"The Sound of Moo-sic" starring Julie Angus

The delightful tale of a rebellious young Holstein who leaves the dairy farm to become the governess for the household of a high-ranking Austrian military officer in the run-up to WWII.

&$9835; &$9834;
Haystacks and clover and milk-lapping kittens
Milk maids who milk me with warm woolen mittens
Salt licks that stand beside cool water springs
These are a few of my favorite things.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:36 AM (m45I2)

50 An oldie, but a goodie:

Q: What did socialists use for light before candles?

A: Electricity.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:36 AM (gC2IV)

51 Cow on the beach?

Kowabunga, dood!




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2018 10:37 AM (QzJWU)

52 Oops, I meant:

♫ ♪

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:37 AM (m45I2)

53 I once saw a cow on a nude beach, lying on a beach towel. I thought I caught a glimpse of side udder, but I couldn't be sure.

And I didn't want to stare.
Posted by: Muldoon


Sorry for your missed opportunity. Sounds like it could have been a real teat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 18, 2018 10:37 AM (+FDdk)

54 Love is a Cattlefield!

We are cows
Nobody knows who we are
All the herd knowing
Love is a cattlefield

Posted by: Pat Benatar at August 18, 2018 10:37 AM (S6Pax)

55 Top of the morning! Ms. Tami around? She is usually good with TrumpTwitter. PDJT is going after social media 4 their censorship And discrimination. Nice.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 10:39 AM (tnOuI)

56 A friend of mine is married to a Chinese-American woman, and when he told her about Sara Jeong's tweets, she said, without missing a beat, "Sounds like she's pissed that some white guy dumped her"

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM

If I had to guess, I'd say that some white guy dumped Jeong for (wait for it) another white guy.

Posted by: CyberCipher at August 18, 2018 10:39 AM (p6WoB)

57 Sorry, Grandma.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:40 AM (m45I2)

58 Milk is also loaded with calcium; too much of which will lead to hardening of the arteries and calcification of nerve endings.

Plus, too much milk leads to big tits on underage females.

Posted by: Ben Wa at August 18, 2018 10:41 AM (FTPVM)

59 Test

Posted by: McGyver at August 18, 2018 10:42 AM (prfmf)

60 Doggy is turning into a picky eater

Have to walk him first before offering breakfast
then I have to sit nearby or else he won't eat
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 10:24 AM (CE6iV)

It's working!

Posted by: VM's doggeh at August 18, 2018 10:42 AM (tnOuI)

61 I was told there would be no methane on this blog.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:42 AM (m45I2)

62 ''Top of the morning! Ms. Tami around? She is usually good with TrumpTwitter. PDJT is going after social media 4 their censorship And discrimination. Nice.''

That and Bruce Ohr.

Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2018 10:43 AM (jm1YL)

63 Clinton/Brennan in '20!

Posted by: Burger Chef at August 18, 2018 10:43 AM (RuIsu)

64 Poop patrol.

LOL

Posted by: J. Random FisCon at August 18, 2018 10:43 AM (MRd7D)

65 I was told there would be no methane on this blog.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:42 AM (m45I2)

We need better fact-checkers.

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2018 10:44 AM (0+nbW)

66 59 Test
Posted by: McGyver at August 18, 2018 10:42 AM (prfmf)

-----------------

I didn't study! And why am I back in college? Why am I not wearing pants? GAHHHHHHH

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:44 AM (gC2IV)

67 Cow on the beach?

Kowabunga, dood!


******


Heh.



"Turf's up!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:44 AM (m45I2)

68 *SHART*

Posted by: Hillary!! at August 18, 2018 10:45 AM (FTPVM)

69 Hey San Francisco,

Kurt Schlichter's book People's Republic is fiction, not a "how to" guide.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2018 10:45 AM (iiixZ)

70 Mooo

Posted by: Cow, Naked and Horny at August 18, 2018 10:46 AM (FTPVM)

71 Test#2

Posted by: McGyver at August 18, 2018 10:47 AM (prfmf)

72 Huh, extra-tropical storm Ernesto is bringing rain to parts of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England along with 50mph wind gusts.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 10:47 AM (1NK0q)

73 Poop patrol.

LOL

-
Car Number Two, Where Are You?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 10:47 AM (+y/Ru)

74 Don't let the local tweakers know, but they can buy methane by the cylinder-full.

*Sheriff* "Don't know why ol' Cletus suicide with that tank o' gas and his crack pipe, but he sho' nuff did. He blowed up good. He blowed up real good!"



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2018 10:48 AM (QzJWU)

75 Hmmmmm, cows on the beach. Get a couple of lobster traps. Build a fire. I'm seeing the possibilities.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:48 AM (gC2IV)

76 Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2018 10:43 AM

And, coincidently the PragerU videos were reinstated.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2018 10:49 AM (iiixZ)

77 Friend's son who now lives in San Fran is visiting.
I asked her to ask her son why people are shitting all over the streets.
She was vaguely aware of that happening.
LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 18, 2018 10:49 AM (8iiMU)

78 Cows on nude beaches?

Southwest Airlines will soon allow to board their 737s as Emotional Support Animals miniature horses.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 10:49 AM (1NK0q)

79

The Invention of Ice Cream - a limerick

The old dairy cow gave a shudder
Her eyes wide with shock, as she muttered:
"I wish that the farmer
Would buy a hand warmer
And get his cold mitts off my udder!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 10:50 AM (m45I2)

80 SF's director of public works is "Mohammed Nuru" and the mayor is a black woman, so at least they are diverse.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:50 AM (/qEW2)

81 What's a miniature horse? A polo pony?

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 10:50 AM (tnOuI)

82 Eurythmics video 'sweet dreams' featured cows. Try explaining that to mom when u were a teen in the 80's.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at August 18, 2018 10:51 AM (ZhS5t)

83 Would cows naturally want to swim in the ocean? Wouldn't their hooves sink into the sand? That Swedish cow beach article doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:52 AM (/qEW2)

84 You can bring an animal onboard as carry on, as long as can stuff in the overhead, or under seat in front. How do you stuff a miniature horse in the overhead? Don't think it'll fit.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 10:52 AM (tnOuI)

85 Interesting animal story: Cat returns home with live baby possum on its back:

https://tinyurl.com/yc97rlcj

Now, I have to say, that I don't think adult possums are the most prepossessing things , but the baby is cute.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 10:53 AM (AllCR)

86 Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:52 AM (/qEW2)

Never heard of sea cows?

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2018 10:53 AM (0+nbW)

87 39 I admire how retro San Francisco is.

They're bringing back public health hazards that haven't existed since the 16th century.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 10:34 AM (/qEW2)


Given that progressive socialism is just feudalism by another name, it's fitting.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:53 AM (sdi6R)

88 14
Around the Jersey shore a bunch of beaches have banned smoking. Outdoor smoking. Illegal.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 10:21 AM (LOgQ4)

I don't mind the smoking on the beach, but people who leave their cigarette butts in the sand should be drawn and quartered.

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 10:54 AM (Izzlo)

89 ...You can bring an animal onboard as carry on, as long as can stuff in the overhead, or under seat in front. How do you stuff a miniature horse in the overhead? Don't think it'll fit.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 10:52 AM (tnOuI)




A miniature giraffe would fit, but then again, Russian Ogliarchs don't fly commercial.

*this is where Unca Palp pipes up with some quip about SMR, doomed cosmonauts stuck in the coin-op dryer and the like*



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2018 10:55 AM (QzJWU)

90 ''And, coincidently the PragerU videos were reinstated.''

The president with super powers.


Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2018 10:55 AM (jm1YL)

91 What else is so 16th Century?

The Black Death

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (1NK0q)

92 23 Isn't today's date the "dead mans hand"?
Posted by: No Longer Suberranean JT at August 18, 2018 10:25 AM (S23KT

Sigh. That sounds like most Saturday night "dates" for me.

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (Izzlo)

93 Dear Your Honor,

Could you please tell us the names and addresses of all the jurors? We need to protect them from jury-tampering and Alex Jones.

By the way, what's your address?

#FakeSincerely,

Posted by: The CNN, AP, BuzzFeed, NBC, NY Times, Politico and the WaPo Media Coagulation at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (Ndje9)

94 >>Plus, too much milk leads to big tits on underage females.
Go on....

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (2cuLk)

95 Last night I watched the SyFy original production of Deep Blue Sea 2. Its quite possibly the dumbest movie they've ever produced and that's a real low bar to get under.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (gC2IV)

96 Like the Fourth of July. Idiot suspect with a loaded gun in his back pocket gets tazed and it's off to the races! I'm unclear about exactly what happens but I think the tazer sets off a round then the cops open up.

https://youtu.be/KheqvveVfkM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (+y/Ru)

97 Remember when the left bashed Ronnie Reagan for saying that cow farts were a major form of pollution? Hilarious ignorance on his part, according to the media. And now the leftard media wants to ban cows because of the methane. It's a good thing libs are unaffected by cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 10:57 AM (9BLnV)

98 A miniature giraffe would fit, but then again, Russian Ogliarchs don't fly commercial.

===

Hmmm. There should be table of animals the fit/don't fit in the overhead. Pythons. A python would fit.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (tnOuI)

99 Family does musical video about the parents celebration that kids are returning back to school after the summer:

https://tinyurl.com/yafuffe8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (AllCR)

100 95
Last night I watched the SyFy original production of Deep Blue Sea 2.
Its quite possibly the dumbest movie they've ever produced and that's a
real low bar to get under.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 10:56 AM (gC2IV)

Is that the one with the two chicks on the raft towards the end?
I think I saw that a couple days ago.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (8iiMU)

101 88
I don't mind the smoking on the beach, but people who leave their cigarette butts in the sand should be drawn and quartered.
Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 10:54 AM (Izzlo)


Agreed. Back when I was smoking, I said that people who throw their butts all over the place gave the rest of us a bad name.

It's not hard to put it out, shake off the remaining loose tobacco, and put the filter in your pocket until you get to a trash can.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (sdi6R)

102 That Swedish cow beach article doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Sentences I couldn't have imagined if I tried...

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (4jqDR)

103 Hopefully Southwest will charge the miniature horse for a seat.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 10:59 AM (1NK0q)

104 Maybe the San Francisco measures are a stealthy, unspoken way of the local government trying to "de-gentrify" it.

Or maybe they're trying to help people to diet. You can't eat food at the office, so you're forced to wander the streets in search of an eatery, walking around numerous piles of waste. Very effective method of suppressing appetite.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 11:00 AM (/qEW2)

105 Plus, too much milk leads to big tits on underage females.


********


Doctor Simpson was examining a young woman in the clinic. Applying the stethoscope to her back he said, "Okay, a couple nice big breaths."

She lisped, "Why thank you Doctor Thimpthon!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:00 AM (m45I2)

106 Grump grump grumble gripe grump.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:00 AM (ywNoU)

107 Pythons. A python would fit.

"No mother f...ing snakes on a plane!" - Samuel L. Jackson

Just imagine Emotional Support Tarantulas.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:01 AM (1NK0q)

108 people who throw their butts all over the place gave the rest of us a bad name

Well I NEVER!

Posted by: Shep! at August 18, 2018 11:01 AM (ywNoU)

109 Given the trend in housing, I suspect a miniature horse is what a post-modernist cowboy rides on his Tiny Home On The Range.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:01 AM (m45I2)

110 I kind of miss the regular Saturday morning coffee graphic

Posted by: Tuna at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (jm1YL)

111 Not to be confused with Little House On The Prairie

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (m45I2)

112
It's not hard to put it out, shake off the remaining loose tobacco, and put the filter in your pocket until you get to a trash can.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (sdi6R


I think they call that "field dressing," I have always done that.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (pcnVL)

113
Southwest Airlines will soon allow to board their 737s as Emotional Support Animals miniature horses.
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I was trapped in the doctors office this week, and read a really revealing article about "emotional support animals." Basically, it's an unregulated cottage industry. One person even wanted an emotional support peacock to join them on the plane. The gist seemed to be that for a fee, certain "therapists" online will write a letter saying you need an emotional support animal with you at all time, you buy a vest for said animal and voila! Your drooling, angry mastiff Cringer is now your emotional support animal and may even attack another person and/or animal.

But hey, it's totes OK if Cringer bites someone becuase you have "undefined anxiety."



Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (SbIX4)

114 Some idiots beleive Aninal agriculture is contrubuting to Global Warming/Climate Change never mind the fact that livestock have been on earth from day one its just these idiots dont read anything but the fake news from PETA,GREENPEACE and cracked urns like Bill Nye Al Gore

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (FLiOE)

115 Bring on the moo moos!

Posted by: mpfs, Deplorable Goblin at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (Mv63I)

116 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (DLK3N)

117 Coffee? Tea? Milk ?
Thanks! A bale oh hay, please.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (tnOuI)

118 I'm going to get an emotional support grizzly.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (ywNoU)

119 I just ordered a copy of Chuck Dixon's new comic "Trump's Space Force." Trump & Co. fight aliens (space aliens) and have a great time doing it. Only $25 and it comes signed by the artist, and you get a Space Force patch and trading cards! For an extra $25 you get a Make Space Great Again hat.

https://tinyurl.com/y7tl9nvj

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (Izzlo)

120 *Sound of Moo-sic continues*


You're a holstein
You're not a fraulein
So, I can play with your teats
Sometimes I squeeze them
Sometimes I tease them
And then I have milk to drink...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (9q7Dl)

121 117 Coffee? Tea? Milk ?
Thanks! A bale oh hay, please.
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (tnOuI)

No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea
No sugar to walk beside me
No sugar to run with me

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (ywNoU)

122 No mother f...ing snakes on a plane!" - Samuel L. Jackson

Just imagine Emotional Support Tarantulas.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:01 AM (1NK0q)

Right? I like Tarantulas- they look very clever. Behind glass that is.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (tnOuI)

123 Ok, I'm just gonna say it. If you need an emotional support animal to go out in public, maybe you should just stay home.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (gC2IV)

124 We here in the nation's capital keep our sidewalks free of litter by giving them offices on Capitol Hill. And if there is a double-tapped body on the sidewalk at 3 am, we sweep it up so fast it's like it never even happened!

Posted by: The Deep Doo-Doo State at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (Ndje9)

125 Hmmm. There should be table of animals the fit/don't fit in the overhead. Pythons. A python would fit.

-
Where does a gorilla sit on an airliner? Anywhere he wants!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (+y/Ru)

126 Sudden thought:


The people who have a long history of collusion with Russia are the Democrat party

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (T09ml)

127 Space Force?
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yafdb4ly

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (1NK0q)

128 I'm going to get an emotional support grizzly.

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Emotional support honey badger.

One side of the vest reads "emotional support animal," the other reads "MAGA."

Just because.


Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (SbIX4)

129 At the Iowa State Fair again today. Just saw our local congressweasel walking around, shaking hands. If I get the chance I'll corner him and tell him BUILD THE FREAKIN WALL ! ! ! 1 1 !.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (AOpTF)

130 Posted by: Insomniac at


Got any inspired by Pythons?

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (tnOuI)

131 No sugar tonight in my coffee

No sugar tonight in my tea



Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (ywNoU)

---
And for years I heard that line: "No sugar tonight, McCarthy".

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2018 11:06 AM (YOhRS)

132 Shibumi, yeah. The abuse of the ESA will grow and get out of hand. Until someone's cranky teacup chihuahua which is classified as an ESA actually nips ...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:07 AM (1NK0q)

133 Got any inspired by Pythons?
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (tnOuI)

Any what inspired by pythons? Grizzly bears?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:07 AM (ywNoU)

134 I just ordered a copy of Chuck Dixon's new comic "Trump's Space Force." Trump & Co. fight aliens (space aliens) and have a great time doing it. Only $25 and it comes signed by the artist, and you get a Space Force patch and trading cards! For an extra $25 you get a Make Space Great Again hat.

-
I smelling a sequel. Cowboys and Aliens and Space Force!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:07 AM (+y/Ru)

135 Amozon riased their prime membership rate. Still will continue. So worth it.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (tnOuI)

136 For an extra $25 you get a Make Space Great Again hat.



https://tinyurl.com/y7tl9nvj

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (Izzlo)

I love it!
I also dig the alien tentacles reaching towards a space Melania dressed like 'Fantastic Voyage Raquel'....
LMAO

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (8iiMU)

137 ...But hey, it's totes OK if Cringer bites someone becuase you have "undefined anxiety."


Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (SbIX4)




And you dare post this in a Day Thread, where AtC lurks, with her Ravage?

You're either brave, foolish, or both!


/snrk


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (QzJWU)

138 And for years I heard that line: "No sugar tonight, McCarthy".
Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2018 11:06 AM (YOhRS)

There's a bathroom on the right.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (ywNoU)

139 Got any inspired by Pythons?

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (tnOuI)


---

I won't interrupt this thread for a pound.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (YOhRS)

140 Any what inspired by pythons? Grizzly bears?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:07 AM (ywNoU)

Lyrics

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (tnOuI)

141 I am sick and tired of these melon-farmin' cows on this Monday-to-Friday beach!

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson, edited for TV at August 18, 2018 11:08 AM (wSC8T)

142

Hmmm, a subtle Chik-Fil-A plug, KT?

And yeah, now I'm hungry.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:09 AM (HaL55)

143 *Sound of Moo-sic continues*


♫ ♪

Cattle prod, cattle prod
Every morning you greet me
Shock and awe, cattle prod
You look happy to zap me!

Seventy amps may you sting and shock
Sting and shock forever...

Cattle prod, cattle prod
Zap my rear end for ever!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:09 AM (m45I2)

144 On VDH, What he said, Everyone who disliked Trump I disliked.Everyone who voted for Hillary I disliked.That is why we have Trump, his enemies were in the end our enemies.And I voted against Hillary and democrats.

Posted by: obsidian at August 18, 2018 11:09 AM (7+yqP)

145 Europe? She'dead, Jim.

Posted by: Bones at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM (89T5c)

146 Shibumi, yeah. The abuse of the ESA will grow and get out of hand. Until someone's cranky teacup chihuahua which is classified as an ESA actually nips ...
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:07 AM
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The guy who wrote the article HAD been bitten by someones "emotional support animal" and I believe that his service dog had been attacked as well. Service dogs have to go through a lot of training, while emotional support animals have to be abl to wear a vest. I think.


Can't remember where I read the article, since I was stuck in the doctors office for a while and perused everything in the room. I'm thinking it was somewhere weird, like the magazine that WebMd puts out.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM (SbIX4)

147 It's not hard to put it out, shake off the remaining loose tobacco, and put the filter in your pocket until you get to a trash can.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 10:58 AM (sdi6R


I think they call that "field dressing," I have always done that.
Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (pcnVL)


Oh great, all you people flinging your tobacco to the four winds... and then tobacco plants sprout up everywhere, giving the rest of us cancer.

Thanks, thanks a lot.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM (cY3LT)

148

I'm going to get an emotional support grizzly.



I want an emotional support supermodel.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM (HaL55)

149 "The only things assured In in life are death, taxes and leftist stupidity"

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at August 18, 2018 11:11 AM (T09ml)

150 Trump comics, action figures, artwork...

Didn't see much of the dogeater in comics or an Obama action figure did you?

Just that one painting, in the woods, on a chair.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2018 11:11 AM (iiixZ)

151 Let's face it, no one listens to flight attendants when the go through pre flight instructions. Some airlines just play a video. They should really think of ooompfing it up.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:11 AM (tnOuI)

152 You're either brave, foolish, or both!


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I'd say the safe money is bet on "foolish."

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:11 AM (SbIX4)

153 148

I'm going to get an emotional support grizzly.



I want an emotional support supermodel.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM (HaL55)

I'm trying to stay within the realm of possibility.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:12 AM (ywNoU)

154 Amozon riased their prime membership rate..

Well then, I'm going to order a bunch more crap so they have to ship it to me free. That'll show 'em.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at August 18, 2018 11:12 AM (4jqDR)

155

I'm trying to stay within the realm of possibility.


Which would be easier to get on a plane, a grizzly bear or a supermodel?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:13 AM (HaL55)

156 ....what happens to you if you don't follow instructions. Like those horrible films they show you in drivers ed.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:13 AM (tnOuI)

157 Lonely feeling deep inside
Find a corner where I can hide
Silent footsteps crowding me
Sudden darkness but I can see

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:13 AM (ywNoU)

158 I want an emotional support supermodel.
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I was kind of thinking about that. What are the legal ramifications if you have a companion that self identifies as an animal? Can you put them in a dog costume, buy them a vest and force the airlines to make them fly free becuase they are your emotional support animal?


Seems like a fun legal challenge to me.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (SbIX4)

159 Is that Alpen horns I hear?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (yQpMk)

160 Service animals go through an incredible amount of training.

One of our local affiliates is chronically the year of training required of 'Camden', a local service pup who after a year of that training, then goes onto the actual service dog training pipeline.

An emotional support animal?

You can grab a duck out of the airports pond on the way to checking in, and claim that you need the damn thing to fly without fear.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (wldC6)

161 155

I'm trying to stay within the realm of possibility.


Which would be easier to get on a plane, a grizzly bear or a supermodel?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:13 AM (HaL55)

I'm thinking in terms of obtaining one in the first place.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (ywNoU)

162 I want an emotional support supermodel.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:10 AM

Sex bot

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (tnOuI)

163 Don't forget to get a copy of Muldoon's book those of you with Amazon Prime- https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9arlh3k

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (1NK0q)

164 *Sound of Moo-sic continues*

Roast
My rear. My rump roast rear.
Steak.
A lot of steaks in me
Ribs
A part to barbeque
Chuck
That's ground up for chili...

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (9q7Dl)

165 112
I think they call that "field dressing," I have always done that.
Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (pcnVL)


I didn't always do it, but there was this one time I went to a weekend music festival and camped there with friends. As we were packing up to leave, I could see hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground all over our campsite. I didn't want to leave it like that, so I spent about an hour picking up every one I could find. After that I figured, "Why throw them on the ground in the first place?"

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (sdi6R)

166 Didn't see much of the dogeater in comics or an Obama action figure did you?


*******


They were going to do a special edition of "Ambiguously Gay Duo" but it lacked ambiguity.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (m45I2)

167 Southwest Airlines will soon allow to board their 737s as Emotional Support Animals miniature horses.
----

I was trapped in the doctors office this week, and read a really revealing article about "emotional support animals." Basically, it's an unregulated cottage industry. One person even wanted an emotional support peacock to join them on the plane. The gist seemed to be that for a fee, certain "therapists" online will write a letter saying you need an emotional support animal with you at all time, you buy a vest for said animal and voila! Your drooling, angry mastiff Cringer is now your emotional support animal and may even attack another person and/or animal.

But hey, it's totes OK if Cringer bites someone becuase you have "undefined anxiety."

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:02 AM (SbIX4)


Back in the day, they used to call these people "neurotic," and now it appears the word itself has disappeared from the vocabulary.

Basically, because neurosis implies a certain amount of responsibility on the "sufferer." As in, "you sir, are an insufferable jackass, so get your shit in order, so the rest of us don't have to put up with your nonsense."

Nowadays, all the rest of us are supposed to adjust to the existence of these ever increasing legions of neurotics.

That's our world, in a nutshell.

Pun intended.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (cY3LT)

168 Which would be easier to get on a plane, a grizzly bear or a supermodel?

Dunno but I know which one will get the seat next to me.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at August 18, 2018 11:16 AM (4jqDR)

169 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat. Nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:16 AM (1NK0q)

170 (131) I had a cousin (2nd) that thought "These Eyes" was "Bee's Eyes".

Posted by: Burger Chef at August 18, 2018 11:17 AM (RuIsu)

171 "Basically, because neurosis implies a certain amount of responsibility on the "sufferer." As in, "you sir, are an insufferable jackass, so get your shit in order, so the rest of us don't have to put up with your nonsense."

Nowadays, all the rest of us are supposed to adjust to the existence of these ever increasing legions of neurotics. "

I must fly with my emotional support peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

A really big one.

And it needs to ride sitting on the tray in front of me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2018 11:17 AM (wldC6)

172 Grump grump grumble gripe grump.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:00 AM (ywNoU)



You rang? And apropos of nothing, I'm watching Star Trek: Beyond. Is it just me, or is a recycled plot from something else. It seems so familiar.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 18, 2018 11:18 AM (yQpMk)

173 Re: NYC removing garbage cans. See this excerpt from a British expat in Japan from "12 things not to do in Japan".

https://youtu.be/0GCuvcTI090?t=557

There are virtually no trash cans, yet the streets are clean because people take their trash home with them.

But of course this won't work in NYC. Leftists never hold the person accountable. That good behavior must be cultural, as in Japan, is unthinkable (or racist) for them. See Vic's EMT article about Emmanuel "catching a lot of grief for blaming Chicago urban violence on a lack of morals and character."

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 11:18 AM (/qEW2)

174 Right? I like Tarantulas- they look very clever. Behind glass that is.
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:04 AM (tnOuI)

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How clever could they be? They're behind glass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (uSlc8)

175 You rang? And apropos of nothing, I'm watching Star Trek: Beyond. Is it just me, or is a recycled plot from something else. It seems so familiar.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 18, 2018 11:18 AM (yQpMk)

Sorry. Butt dial.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (ywNoU)

176 And for years I heard that line: "No sugar tonight, McCarthy".

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Joe don't get no respect.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (+y/Ru)

177 Just me and the pygmy pony over by the dental floss bush!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (9BLnV)

178 How clever could they be? They're behind glass.


It's a living.

Posted by: The Tarantula behind the glass at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (yQpMk)

179 Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (9q7Dl)


*******


Well played!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (m45I2)

180 Never watched Star Trek Beyond, but from the trailer the movie looks to be Fast and Furious in Space.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (1NK0q)

181 Back in the day, they used to call these people "neurotic," and now it appears the word itself has disappeared from the vocabulary.


Basically, because neurosis implies a certain amount of responsibility on the "sufferer." As in, "you sir, are an insufferable jackass, so get your shit in order, so the rest of us don't have to put up with your nonsense."


Nowadays, all the rest of us are supposed to adjust to the existence of these ever increasing legions of neurotics.


That's our world, in a nutshell.


Pun intended. Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM

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Bozo Conservative and I had a very similar conversation yesterday. But instead of "neurotic" substitute the words "snowflake millennial."


His workplace is changing and becoming intolerable because of a lack of professionalism from the younger generation, and everyone else is expected to tolerate it.


Also, a friend of mine does work in clinical drug trials and visited a high tech campus in Boston geared for snowflakes. She told the person giving her to tour that it reminded her of a pre-school.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (SbIX4)

182

Nowadays, all the rest of us are supposed to adjust to the existence of these ever increasing legions of neurotics.


Glen Close did an ad a few years back with her sister who suffers from some mental disease. The crux of the biscuit of that ad was the line, "One in six Americans has some form of mental illness."

That chilled me to the bone. And I don't chill easily.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (HaL55)

183 All you people worrying about what the planes will and will not allow you to store in the overhead compartments...

The inevitable outcome of all of this... ALL of it, is the Idiocracy. In the not-so-distant future, we will forget how to put the damned flying contraptions in the air, so none of this will matter.

Enjoy flying cans while you can.

And drink your electrolytes!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:21 AM (cY3LT)

184 Who the hell was Albert Flasher?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:21 AM (+y/Ru)

185 How clever could they be? They're behind glass.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:19 AM (uSlc

By choice!

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:21 AM (tnOuI)

186 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat. Nyah!
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:16 AM (1NK0q)

That's because if you were dying, your Emotional Support Cat would go off to look for someone else to feed him. Or her. Or xe. Or xer.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:22 AM (9BLnV)

187 129 At the Iowa State Fair again today. Just saw our local congressweasel walking around, shaking hands. If I get the chance I'll corner him and tell him BUILD THE FREAKIN WALL ! ! ! 1 1 !.
Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (AOpTF)
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You're still alive! Yay!

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 11:22 AM (JJZzu)

188 Complaints from bathers have led to municipal Vaxjo's Culture and Leisure Department taking a vote on whether the cattle were ok to visit, and have ruled they "have just as much right to be there as the human visitors".

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How far will they take Cattle Equal Rights? Do cows also have a right to eat in steakhouses?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:22 AM (uSlc8)

189

You're still alive! Yay!


Yes! We await your report on Fair Food Fried On A Stick.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (HaL55)

190 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat. Nyah!
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:16 AM (1NK0q)


That's because cats genuinely DO provide emotional support.

They just won't fly on a stupid airplane.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (cY3LT)

191 Fat Albert is a flasher?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (89T5c)

192 That's because if you were dying, your Emotional Support Cat would go off to look for someone else to feed him. Or her. Or xe. Or xer.

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My cat would totally not do that because that would require Going Outside, and Shibumi's Cat Lives Inside and is a Lady.


Of course, if I died and started rotting, and she had nothing else to eat, sure, she'd start snacking on my leg, but really, I wouldn't hold it against her. A girl has to eat...

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (SbIX4)

193 Glen Close did an ad a few years back with her sister who suffers from some mental disease. The crux of the biscuit of that ad was the line, "One in six Americans has some form of mental illness."

That chilled me to the bone. And I don't chill easily.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (HaL55)

Yeah, but when you figure that the left calls Islamophobia a mental illness, you realize what a pseudo statistic that is. And remember, they've taken homosexuality and transgenderism off the mental illness list. Mental illness has about as legitimate a meaning as racism.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (9BLnV)

194 This has meant that some farmers have decided to slaughter their cattle earlier than usual; but others have instead decided to bring their livestock to nearby nudist beaches, in order to cool them down, public broadcaster SVT reports.

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Oh. The farmers take the cows to NUDIST beaches. Just cooling off the cows. At nudist beaches.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:25 AM (uSlc8)

195 Pork chop wrapped in bacon wrapped in pork ribs fried in lard

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:25 AM (tnOuI)

196 Seems like a fun legal challenge to me.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (SbIX4)
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I suggest you and Bozo try it for your honeymoon, and report back to us. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 11:26 AM (JJZzu)

197 119 I just ordered a copy of Chuck Dixon's new comic "Trump's Space Force." Trump & Co. fight aliens (space aliens) and have a great time doing it. Only $25 and it comes signed by the artist, and you get a Space Force patch and trading cards! For an extra $25 you get a Make Space Great Again hat.

https://tinyurl.com/y7tl9nvj
Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (Izzlo)


Some of those illustrations show him with an American flag on his right leg and what appears to be a French flag on his left. What's up with that?

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 11:26 AM (sdi6R)

198 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat.

When I feel the need to be ignored and taken for granted, I just stay home.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at August 18, 2018 11:26 AM (4jqDR)

199
I wanted to post in memory of the Battle of Amiens on its 100 year anniversary. It was the day the morale of the German army collapsed

They slept through the Battle of Ambiens.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 11:27 AM (IqV8l)

200 Haram!

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:27 AM (tnOuI)

201 Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM

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Bozo Conservative and I had a very similar conversation yesterday. But instead of "neurotic" substitute the words "snowflake millennial."


His workplace is changing and becoming intolerable because of a lack of professionalism from the younger generation, and everyone else is expected to tolerate it.


Also, a friend of mine does work in clinical drug trials and visited a high tech campus in Boston geared for snowflakes. She told the person giving her to tour that it reminded her of a pre-school.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (SbIX4)


Yeah, I think that's an important note. The numbers, they will eventually push out the sane, and the insane will reach critical mass.

Any nation that still has adults, will take over. We won't be able to fly our planes, fire our nukular missiles, operate crew served weapons.

Instead, the mass of humans will be standing around complaining about their trigger warnings, while the troops pull actual, you know, triggers.

Then it's lights out forever.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:27 AM (cY3LT)

202 Anna Puma,

Here's a large but lovable emotional support cat which you could take on a plane, :^) :

https://tinyurl.com/y775eaq6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 11:28 AM (AllCR)

203 Oh. The farmers take the cows to NUDIST beaches. Just cooling off the cows. At nudist beaches.

And of course the farmers bring their cameras to, you know, document the bovines cooling down. It's science.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:28 AM (T6t7i)

204 Hey a little straw and a lot of nitrate; mix that with poop from San Francisco and you've got the perfect bedding material for mushrooms. And you know how the froggies like mushrooms!

Posted by: Comanche Voter at August 18, 2018 11:28 AM (Sda6L)

205 In 1918 the Germans went from being on the brink of taking Paris to complete demoralization in a couple of months. I still don't get it. I think Ludendorff just panicked.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:29 AM (uSlc8)

206 Back in the day, they used to call these people "neurotic," and now it appears the word itself has disappeared from the vocabulary.

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Back in the day a mentally and emotionally healthy person was described as well adjusted (to reality). Today the burden is on us to pretend to adjust reality to the mentally and emotionally ill.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:29 AM (+y/Ru)

207 Some of those illustrations show him with an American flag on his right
leg and what appears to be a French flag on his left. What's up with
that?


I think that's supposed to be a Russian flag.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:29 AM (T6t7i)

208 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat. Nyah!
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:16 AM (1NK0q)

That's because if you were dying, your Emotional Support Cat would go off to look for someone else to feed him. Or her. Or xe. Or xer.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:22 AM (9BLnV)


Exactly. What could be more emotionally supportive than a creature that will be nice to you, most of the time, but continuously remind you that you ain't all that.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:30 AM (cY3LT)

209 Yeah, I think that's an important note. The numbers, they will eventually push out the sane, and the insane will reach critical mass.


Posted by: BurtTC

It's not insanity, just laziness, blockheadedness, and obsession with smart phones. The "smart phone" is one of the stupidest inventions of the modern era.
It is making a lot of people obsessively dumb and pre occuppied.
yak.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 18, 2018 11:30 AM (S6Pax)

210 I don't give a fuck

Posted by: Emotional Support Cat at August 18, 2018 11:30 AM (gC2IV)

211 206 Back in the day, they used to call these people "neurotic," and now it appears the word itself has disappeared from the vocabulary.

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Back in the day a mentally and emotionally healthy person was described as well adjusted (to reality). Today the burden is on us to pretend to adjust reality to the mentally and emotionally ill.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:29 AM (+y/Ru)

I am not at all well adjusted but I don't expect the world around me to change.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (ywNoU)

212 1918 the Germans went from being on the brink of taking Paris to complete demoralization in a couple of months. I still don't get it. I think Ludendorff just panicked.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:29 AM (uSlc

Dint they have a revolution and remove Kayser roll?

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (tnOuI)

213 In 1918 the Germans went from being on the brink of taking Paris to complete demoralization in a couple of months. I still don't get it. I think Ludendorff just panicked.

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About that time, his beloved stepson was killed. He wouldn't allow him to be buried, kept his body there at the HQ. Ludendorff was definitely losing it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (+y/Ru)

214 205
In 1918 the Germans went from being on the brink of taking Paris to
complete demoralization in a couple of months. I still don't get it. I
think Ludendorff just panicked.

No, the brink of taking Paris was their last throw of the dice, and he knew it. It was like the Bulge. Whole units were breaking and running. The show was over, and there was nothing preventing the Allies from overrunning the country.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (T6t7i)

215

Yeah, but when you figure that the left calls Islamophobia a mental illness, you realize what a pseudo statistic that is. And remember, they've taken homosexuality and transgenderism off the mental illness list. Mental illness has about as legitimate a meaning as racism.


IDK, I've been around some people who were batshit crazy and still managed to hold down jobs and pay bills and stuff like that there. How they did it, I have no idea. Mumsey Dearest springs to mind.


I suppose that's why I enjoy Dr. Jordan Peterson's work so much. He invites his audience to think in new ways. Plus, I haven't found anything wrong with what he has to say.

He's coming here in a few weeks. If I get enough gigs to afford a ticket, I'd like to go. I'll have to order a T-shirt with a giant lobster on it first tho'.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (HaL55)

216 Kaiser roll

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:32 AM (tnOuI)

217 I am not at all well adjusted but I don't expect the world around me to change.
Posted by: Insomniac

I expect that when they don't agree with me, and they don't want to change, they leave me the fukc alone

Posted by: Bruce at August 18, 2018 11:32 AM (8ikIW)

218 I don't give a fuck
Posted by: Emotional Support Cat at August 18, 2018 11:30 AM (gC2IV)

Would you sell a fuck?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:32 AM (9BLnV)

219 That's because cats genuinely DO provide emotional support.

They just won't fly on a stupid airplane.
Posted by: BurtTC


Actually, some years ago, I was on a plane trip, and the older couple next to me had cats in a carrier. I think they had drugged them a bit to keep them calm, but they had two carriers with a cat in each one.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 18, 2018 11:32 AM (S6Pax)

220 No, the brink of taking Paris was their last throw of the dice, and he
knew it. It was like the Bulge. Whole units were breaking and running.
The show was over, and there was nothing preventing the Allies from
overrunning the country.


Their whole strategy was predicated on winning before America's armies could be fully brought to bear. After that, he knew they had no chance.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (T6t7i)

221 I am not at all well adjusted but I don't expect the world around me to change.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (ywNoU)

Things change all the time. Such is the way of thing.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (tnOuI)

222 that's a great video by VDH, exposing the MSM lies about Trump. But most of those lies are still accepted as fact, because they keep repeating them, and now are trying to censor/de-platform any that dare reject TheNarrative.

Nice that VDH points out the THEORY of free trade is much different than the reality of dealing with cheaters everywhere. imo it is broader than "cheating", but that sums it up well.

The actual basis for the "Free Trade" flawed hypothesis was rooted in David Ricardo's "comparative advantage", yet Free (global) Trade ideas ignored several limitations Ricardo himself spelled out clearly.

As it becomes clearer how corrupt our corporate/government alliance has been, it is clearer to me that the free trade concepts were not serious theory, but a way for the "profiteers" to escape US regulation and keep polluting, keep using slaves, keep "cheating".

this is pretty brief, but a scholarly article on the false assumptions made as we spent decades building up our enemy China.
https://tinyurl.com/y85x7gfw
by at least 2001 the academic views had moved toward more strategic trade, which in practice it always had been. Of course countries will do what is best for their own people, or at least for their own leaders. Communists did what was best for them, our leaders did what was best for their corporate donors.

That is government serving the "capitalists" but is not capitalism, it was fraud. And in any case, liberty for we the people comes first, and capitalism is useful under the umbrella of those (constitutional rights) terms of service.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (bT8Z4)

223 Things!

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (tnOuI)

224 I think they had drugged them a bit to keep them calm


The older couple or the cats?

Posted by: Bruce at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (8ikIW)

225 I wanted to post in memory of the Battle of Amiens on its 100 year anniversary. It was the day the morale of the German army collapsed

The Day the Germans Cried

Posted by: Don von Lean at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (sdi6R)

226 I don't give a fuck
Posted by: Emotional Support Cat

But you like me don't you?

Posted by: Cat's Emotional support Electric Can Oppener at August 18, 2018 11:34 AM (kG2lj)

227 I notice all you Humans are wicked smart... no one is even talking about in jest about an Emotional Support Cat. Nyah!

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My 23 year old daughter has emotional support cat and a card issued by a semi-legitimate organization identifying the cat as her emotional support animal so she can take him on airplanes etc.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:34 AM (+y/Ru)

228 That's the beauty of it, no matter how bad something is, there is a guarantee that it won't last forever.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:35 AM (tnOuI)

229 Those beachgoing cows? Ought to just send them back home to Catalonia.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 11:35 AM (m45I2)

230

Here's a large but lovable emotional support cat which you could take on a plane, :^) :


Good luck getting that kitteh in the overhead bin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:35 AM (HaL55)

231 Glen Close did an ad a few years back with her sister who suffers from some mental disease. The crux of the biscuit of that ad was the line, "One in six Americans has some form of mental illness."

That chilled me to the bone. And I don't chill easily.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (HaL55)

Yeah, but when you figure that the left calls Islamophobia a mental illness, you realize what a pseudo statistic that is. And remember, they've taken homosexuality and transgenderism off the mental illness list. Mental illness has about as legitimate a meaning as racism.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at August 18, 2018 11:24 AM (9BLnV)


I don't know about the made up mental illnesses, but the real ones, the bigger problem is that they are indeed, over-diagnosed.

We've talked about this stuff around these parts before, but the simplest examples are depression and anxiety. Anxiety is a self-identified condition of being in a state of unease, which is all too often a mental framework problem, not an organic condition.

Similarly, depression is a word that gets tossed around so much: I lost my job, so I'm depressed. Trump is President, so I'm depressed. I'm fat and ugly and nobody loves me, so I'm depressed.

NO YOU'RE NOT!!

You damned fool, a simple test to figure out if you are depressed or not: If you feel bad, because of something, you AIN'T depressed! If you feel bad, and you have no idea why... that's depression.

And don't even get me started on PTSD. That's the new black, so to speak.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:36 AM (cY3LT)

232 I had no idea who people here were referring to when they mentioned "Zephyr Teachout" . Now I know she's a candidate for NY State Attorney General who will make it her mission to get rid of Trump to save our country. What a loon!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 11:37 AM (AllCR)

233 Go ahead and try to put that little vest on me. Your will up to date?

Posted by: Emotional Support Cat at August 18, 2018 11:37 AM (gC2IV)

234 I will not cowtow to this udder foolishness.

Posted by: Fritz at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (CdLX2)

235 221 I am not at all well adjusted but I don't expect the world around me to change.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:31 AM (ywNoU)

Things change all the time. Such is the way of thing.
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (tnOuI)

Perhaps I should have been more clear. I don't expect the world to change to suit me.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (ywNoU)

236 Go ahead and try to put that little vest on me. Your will up to date?
Posted by: Emotional Support Cat at August 18, 2018 11:37 AM (gC2IV)

Lemme try and put this mask on you, mkay? Now breathe...

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (tnOuI)

237 RE: cures to feeling bad? I found a new one for the impressionable.

Take your neurotic friend who says they are "depressed" to a psychic. The psychic will tell them lots of good things about their future and voila! They will no longer be depressed.


Way cheaper than therapy.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (SbIX4)

238 A five fingered cat that weighs Five Squared? If I had my other three cats on one side of a scale they might outweigh Bruno... might.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (y4EGh)

239 I'm unpacking my suitcase, and it's only been on the floor for three days. Personal best!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 11:39 AM (kQs4Y)

240 Perhaps I should have been more clear. I don't expect the world to change to suit me.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (ywNoU)

It's like a machine. You are changing too. At some point, the gears align and it works.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:40 AM (tnOuI)

241 232 I had no idea who people here were referring to when they mentioned "Zephyr Teachout" . Now I know she's a candidate for NY State Attorney General who will make it her mission to get rid of Trump to save our country. What a loon!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 11:37 AM (AllCR)

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Harvey Weinstein already took care of the NRA so she/he/xhe had to promise something.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:40 AM (uSlc8)

242 44 minutes?
tl;dr

If you expect me to waste that much time, you'd have put it in small gray boxes.

Posted by: Not a Hawkeye at August 18, 2018 11:40 AM (VWE5i)

243 Progress is where you find it Eris, but is that becoming to one of your reputed discord?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (y4EGh)

244 239
I'm unpacking my suitcase, and it's only been on the floor for three days. Personal best!


I always do mine immediately, because I hate the "travel" part of travel so much. Anything to remove the horrid memories of airports and leeeetle bars of soap.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (T6t7i)

245 Yeah, I think that's an important note. The numbers, they will eventually push out the sane, and the insane will reach critical mass.


Posted by: BurtTC

It's not insanity, just laziness, blockheadedness, and obsession with smart phones. The "smart phone" is one of the stupidest inventions of the modern era.
It is making a lot of people obsessively dumb and pre occuppied.
yak.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 18, 2018 11:30 AM (S6Pax)


Yes, I use the word "insane" in the generic sense of the word. As in, people do all sorts of irrational stuff that causes them anguish, and won't lift a finger to fix themselves. That's insane.

Whether they have a diagnosable mental illness or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (cY3LT)

246

We've talked about this stuff around these parts before, but the simplest examples are depression and anxiety. Anxiety is a self-identified condition of being in a state of unease, which is all too often a mental framework problem, not an organic condition.


That's pretty much what Jordan Peterson says, too. It's the feeling of being overwhelmed by life and can be minimized by recognizing what it is that's whelming you constantly then developing some simple tactics to handle .

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (HaL55)

247
The "smart phone" is one of the stupidest inventions of the modern era.
It is making a lot of people obsessively dumb and pre occuppied.
yak.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet


Everyone constantly on their phones reminds me of the Star Trek Next Gen episode "The Game"


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708798/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (IqV8l)

248

it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (HaL55)

249 A friend of mine is married to a Chinese-American woman, and when he told her about Sara Jeong's tweets, she said, without missing a beat, "Sounds like she's pissed that some white guy dumped her"

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM


Getting dumped (or ignored by the guy they like; see Jackie/ Haven Monahan, Emma Sulkowicz, and Lena Dunham) is why 99% of the straight, bitter feminists became that way.

Who their vitriol is aimed at is the 'tell' about who dumped them. (White guy, fraternity guy, republican, etc.)

Posted by: LASue at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (Z48ZB)

250 231 Glen Close did an ad a few years back with her sister who suffers from some mental disease. The crux of the biscuit of that ad was the line, "One in six Americans has some form of mental illness."

That chilled me to the bone. And I don't chill easily.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (HaL55)

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Studies show that 98.2% of statistics quoted by celebrities are bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:42 AM (uSlc8)

251 Zipper Freakout

Yeah much like Reality Winner.

And both make a character's name I selected in my San Francisco story seem pedestrian now.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (y4EGh)

252 My emotional support cat just jumped up on my lap, and is reaching for my hand, trying to prevent me from typing.

Doesn't really get much better than this.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (cY3LT)

253 Well, stoked up the smoker, brisket looks good.

Nothing like starting food prep at 0430 or so...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (6qErC)

254 Everyone constantly on their phones reminds me of the Star Trek Next Gen episode "The Game"


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Exactly.


Conversely, if you're a young person who can effectively communicate with others verbally and in writing, you'll own the world of the future.

Literally Own It.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (SbIX4)

255 I'm unpacking my suitcase, and it's only been on the floor for three days. Personal best!

I always do mine immediately, because I hate the "travel" part of travel so much. Anything to remove the horrid memories of airports and leeeetle bars of soap.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (T6t7i)

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This. First order of business.

The trip isn't over until the empty suitcase is back in the closet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (uSlc8)

256 Take your neurotic friend who says they are "depressed" to a psychic. The psychic will tell them lots of good things about their future and voila! They will no longer be depressed.


Way cheaper than therapy.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (SbIX4)

You will meet someone tall... dark.... in an alley....

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (tnOuI)

257 O good. I see that this weekend is Infomercial Weekend, er I mean, Pledge Weekend here.

Ar 4 PM, Rick Steves in Travel as a Political Act. Emphasizes the importance of traveling outside the US to experience other culture, broaden perspectives and gain the ability to empathize (WTF) with people who live and think differently from Americans.

Like taking a bike trip to Buttholeastan and getting killed

Posted by: Bruce at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (8ikIW)

258 Playing and singing Lyle Lovett's "West Texas Highway," and lovin all the lines, particularly

He told me, Son
East Texas is where I come from
Been ridin that Jacksonville rodeo
An' I got humdrum

The tune starts with an F7 chord.

That Texas accent, the cowboy one, comes from its 1840s and 1850s settlers, who moved from northern Alabama and western Tennessee.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (QZ6gI)

259 Perhaps I should have been more clear. I don't expect the world to change to suit me.
Posted by: Insomniac

So you're saying you don't expect a naked, horny for you super model. To show up at your house in a truck full of money?

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (kG2lj)

260 Some of those illustrations show him with an American flag on his right leg and what appears to be a French flag on his left. What's up with that?
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 11:26 AM (sdi6R)
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Slovenia?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (kQs4Y)

261 You will meet someone tall... dark.... in an alley....

His name will be Paolo

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM (y4EGh)

262 14 Hours In Chicago: 25 Shot Including 3 Year Old Boy

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I think I know how Chicago could save some money. Pre-draw body outlines with permanent marker on sidewalks throughout the city and ask victims to fall into them. Chalk doesn't grow on trees, you know.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM (+y/Ru)

263 237 RE: cures to feeling bad? I found a new one for the impressionable.

Take your neurotic friend who says they are "depressed" to a psychic. The psychic will tell them lots of good things about their future and voila! They will no longer be depressed.


Way cheaper than therapy.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:38 AM (SbIX4)

I'd immediately conclude the "psychic" was full of shit, but then again I'm not particularly impressionable.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM (ywNoU)

264 That Swedish cow is undressing me with its eyes.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM (vXMB2)

265 I've noticed airports now having toilet rooms for pets. I don't what's in them, possibly fire hydrants and sand. But I'm seeing them crop up.
Might that be related to emotional support animals?

The good thing about Hillary's support dung beetle is she can just leave in her diaper.

Oh that was mean.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (eAMlh)

266 We've talked about this stuff around these parts before, but the simplest examples are depression and anxiety. Anxiety is a self-identified condition of being in a state of unease, which is all too often a mental framework problem, not an organic condition.
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That's pretty much what Jordan Peterson says, too. It's the feeling of being overwhelmed by life and can be minimized by recognizing what it is that's whelming you constantly then developing some simple tactics to handle .
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (HaL55)


I said some weeks ago, after I put down his book, I think he's basically right on point with his thinking, I just don't think I need to read it, because there isn't really anything he's saying that I don't already know, practice, and preach.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (cY3LT)

267 259 Perhaps I should have been more clear. I don't expect the world to change to suit me.
Posted by: Insomniac

So you're saying you don't expect a naked, horny for you super model. To show up at your house in a truck full of money?
Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (kG2lj)

No. I also don't expect it to become less of an oppressive, miserable shitpile either.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (ywNoU)

268 259 Perhaps I should have been more clear. I don't expect the world to change to suit me.
Posted by: Insomniac

So you're saying you don't expect a naked, horny for you super model. To show up at your house in a truck full of money?
Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 11:44 AM (kG2lj)

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He's well-adjusted enough not to be spending all his money on condoms, shoe shines and Old Spice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (uSlc8)

269 I'd immediately conclude the "psychic" was full of shit, but then again I'm not particularly impressionable. Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM

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I probably should have stated that this procedure works best with "open minded liberals."

You sir, are not an "open minded liberal."

Thank God.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (SbIX4)

270 269 I'd immediately conclude the "psychic" was full of shit, but then again I'm not particularly impressionable. Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:45 AM

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I probably should have stated that this procedure works best with "open minded liberals."

You sir, are not an "open minded liberal."

Thank God.
Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:46 AM (SbIX4)

Indeed.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:47 AM (ywNoU)

271 243 Progress is where you find it Eris, but is that becoming to one of your reputed discord?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (y4EGh)
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Entropy figures into my housekeeping too.

I'm currently in the "order" phase, but it will eventually dissolve into chaos, as must all things.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 11:47 AM (kQs4Y)

272 Ar 4 PM, Rick Steves in Travel as a Political Act. Emphasizes the importance of traveling outside the US to experience other culture, broaden perspectives and gain the ability to empathize (WTF) with people who live and think differently from Americans.

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Personal interaction with foreigners is the best way to explain to them why they're wrong.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:48 AM (uSlc8)

273 That Rick Stevens dude really needs to organise a Tajikistan Bike Rally Against Hate event. In Tajikistan.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:48 AM (y4EGh)

274

The good thing about Hillary's support dung beetle is she can just leave in her diaper.

...and there goes a mouthful of perfectly good covfeve...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:48 AM (HaL55)

275 To show up at your house in a truck full of money? "

Well, I've a nice truck. Explains where the money went...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 11:49 AM (6qErC)

276 Someone said Chicago is really two cities. North and South. True dat.

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:49 AM (tnOuI)

277 I like public waste bins, but they are the tragedy of the commons writ small. I've seen couches throw in recycle dumpsters and a family of immigrants tossing used diaper bags into the goodwill donation bin. I went to the Stewart/Colbert rally on the Grand Mall and saw a mountain of Starbucks cups burying a single trash can.
The public has learned that direct and overt littering may be punished, but half-assed, close-enough littering is easier than carrying it somewhere to dispose of properly.

Posted by: Not a Hawkeye at August 18, 2018 11:49 AM (VWE5i)

278 Re that couple who took a bike trip through Isis territory.

I'm going to dump this bucket of blood all over me and jump into this school of sharks. Sharks, you see, are greatly misunderstood and w.ill not harm me in any wa ow ow ow ow ow ow!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 18, 2018 11:50 AM (gC2IV)

279 Later taters. Woke up late, gotta do some chores.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 11:50 AM (kQs4Y)

280 197 119 I just ordered a copy of Chuck Dixon's new comic "Trump's Space Force." Trump & Co. fight aliens (space aliens) and have a great time doing it. Only $25 and it comes signed by the artist, and you get a Space Force patch and trading cards! For an extra $25 you get a Make Space Great Again hat.

https://tinyurl.com/y7tl9nvj
Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:03 AM (Izzlo)

Some of those illustrations show him with an American flag on his right leg and what appears to be a French flag on his left. What's up with that?
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 11:26 AM (sdi6R)

Trump conquered France? Which would be amazing if that was the backstory. I'll have to wait to read the comic & see.

Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:50 AM (Izzlo)

281 A friend of mine is married to a Chinese-American woman, and when he told her about Sara Jeong's tweets, she said, without missing a beat, "Sounds like she's pissed that some white guy dumped her"

Posted by: JoeF. at August 18, 2018 10:27 AM


Getting dumped (or ignored by the guy they like; see Jackie/ Haven Monahan, Emma Sulkowicz, and Lena Dunham) is why 99% of the straight, bitter feminists became that way.

Who their vitriol is aimed at is the 'tell' about who dumped them. (White guy, fraternity guy, republican, etc.)
Posted by: LASue at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (Z48ZB)


Not to disagree with your point, only suggesting that some percentage of those bitter feminists have been raped and/or beaten up by some guy. Those are the ones for whom I can muster up some sympathy. And forgiveness.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:50 AM (cY3LT)

282 189 Yes! We await your report on Fair Food Fried On A Stick.

I hope you don't expect me to try it all, I only have one heart.
The bacon wrapped pork rib on a stick was very good.
The pork belly (basically really thick bacon) on a stick was also quite good, but kind of pricey, so not a great value.
The deep fried pecan pie on a stick was OK, but not as crisp as it should have been.
The chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick (not deep fried) is very good.
The apple egg rolls (deep fried, but not on a stick) are also good.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (AOpTF)

283 Cya Eris.

Already fed myself, the cat,s and took the trash out. Still need to do grocery shopping. Plus thinking of lottery tickets.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (y4EGh)

284 open minded liberals."

Ah. Their minds leaked out...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (6qErC)

285 His workplace is changing and becoming intolerable because of a lack of professionalism from the younger generation, and everyone else is expected to tolerate it.

Posted by: shibumi at August 18, 2018 11:20 AM (SbIX4)
---
I've been warning people for years about that. It was once popular to say that the NEA-infected generation would have to shape up to get a job. But if you need bodies for a job, you're eventually going to have to deal with the crop the NEA sent you.

Yes, they sent our kids out as cannon fodder, but the line of cannon has been breached.

Posted by: Axeman at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (YOhRS)

286 Has anybody tried to feed a cow a steady diet of kale or spinach or arugula? I suspect the cow would become homicidal.

Posted by: Fritz at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (CdLX2)

287 Somehow the fact that the woman (Zephyr Teachout)- who seems to consider herself the new Churchill and whose platform is "get rid of Trump" operates out of a former urologist's office-seems oddly appropriate:

https://tinyurl.com/y6wlovpx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 11:52 AM (AllCR)

288 Former Yazidi slave surprised to find her former ISIS captor given refugee status in Germany

Former Yazidi slave girl is confronted by her Isis captor in German street, reports him to authorities, and is told: "he's a refugee like you". Ashwaq is scared for her life and returns to Kurdistan.

https://bit.ly/2wg2FM2

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:52 AM (+y/Ru)

289 Trump conquered France? Which would be amazing if that was the backstory. I'll have to wait to read the comic & see.
Posted by: josephistan at August 18, 2018 11:50 AM (Izzlo)

--------

You know who else conquered France?

*hums the Horst Wessel Song*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 11:52 AM (uSlc8)

290 286 Has anybody tried to feed a cow a steady diet of kale or spinach or arugula? I suspect the cow would become homicidal.
Posted by: Fritz at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (CdLX2)

--------

Homicidal and incredibly well marbled.

Posted by: Omaha Steaks at August 18, 2018 11:53 AM (uSlc8)

291 I'm going to dump this bucket of blood all over me
and jump into this school of sharks. Sharks, you see, are greatly
misunderstood and w.ill not harm me in any wa ow ow ow ow ow ow!

Posted by: Duke Lowell


I don't understand your point.

Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at August 18, 2018 11:53 AM (T6t7i)

292

I said some weeks ago, after I put down his book, I think he's basically right on point with his thinking, I just don't think I need to read it, because there isn't really anything he's saying that I don't already know, practice, and preach.


I sorta felt that way about his book myself. He does back up his ideas with some good scientific data, and the literary references he cites are very interesting IMO. He shows us history that's right under our noses in a way.

I thinks it's great that he came along when he did. I wish he'd been around when I was a real Boy because I sure could've used his info.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:53 AM (HaL55)

293 "the THEORY of free trade is much different than the reality of dealing with cheaters everywhere. "

It works in the lab. Which is how Paul Ryan wound up on the wrong side of history

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 11:53 AM (1UZdv)

294 "We're very sorry": Facebook admits it ZUCKED UP, restores censored Prager University videos

-
For now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 11:54 AM (+y/Ru)

295 Are Facebook shares continuing to drop in value?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:54 AM (y4EGh)

296 Someone said Chicago is really two cities. North and South. True dat.
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:49 AM (tnOuI)


Don't care. You can keep bofe of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:54 AM (cY3LT)

297 295 Are Facebook shares continuing to drop in value?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:54

That would not suit investors and at some point they will remove that little dickhead

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:55 AM (tnOuI)

298 I hope you don't expect me to try it all, I only have one heart.
The bacon wrapped pork rib on a stick was very good.
The pork belly (basically really thick bacon) on a stick was also quite good, but kind of pricey, so not a great value.
The deep fried pecan pie on a stick was OK, but not as crisp as it should have been.
The chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick (not deep fried) is very good.
The apple egg rolls (deep fried, but not on a stick) are also good.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 11:51 AM (AOpTF)
-----------

You, sir, are doing yeoman's work. God bless you.

In case you want to keep going, we have a cardiologist right here on the thread standing by.

No pressure though.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (JJZzu)

299 Don't care. You can keep bofe of them.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:54 AM (cY3LT)


Ok

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tnOuI)

300 you're eventually going to have to deal with the crop the NEA sent you. "

Mrs. mouse can bend your ear for hours on the younger set at the larger energy firms.

She's less than impressed. Too many "soft" sciences and such.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (6qErC)

301 I said some weeks ago, after I put down his book, I think he's basically right on point with his thinking, I just don't think I need to read it, because there isn't really anything he's saying that I don't already know, practice, and preach.

--------------------
I sorta felt that way about his book myself. He does back up his ideas with some good scientific data, and the literary references he cites are very interesting IMO. He shows us history that's right under our noses in a way.

I thinks it's great that he came along when he did. I wish he'd been around when I was a real Boy because I sure could've used his info.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:53 AM (HaL55)


Agreed. My decision to stop reading the book is more of a practical one. I'm such a slow reader, I have to be selective about what I read. If I'm spending time on this one, I have no time for that.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (cY3LT)

302 I wanna see Rick Steve fend off ISIS with a tote bag and an Elmo umbrella while on his Kermit the Frog bike.

The grand finale ends with a cage and a gas can.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (89T5c)

303

I hope you don't expect me to try it all, I only have one heart.

Heh. Your blood type will be "O" as in Oil in a couple of days.

OK, B'Gal's up, time to get to work. I'll be in and out for a while.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (HaL55)

304 187 129 At the Iowa State Fair again today. Just saw our local congressweasel walking around, shaking hands. If I get the chance I'll corner him and tell him BUILD THE FREAKIN WALL ! ! ! 1 1 !.
Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 11:05 AM (AOpTF)

In iowa news, with all due respect and apologies to the family, Leonard Boswell has left the congressional pension fund.

Posted by: Not a Hawkeye at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (VWE5i)

305 Facebook got sold with dual class stock, so that Zuck has and always will have voting control. And he has FU money x1000. He isn't going anywhere

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (1UZdv)

306 Has anybody tried to feed a cow a steady diet of kale or spinach or arugula? I suspect the cow would become homicidal.
Posted by: Fritz


But you could sell the meat at Kobe prices with the right marketing campaign.

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (kG2lj)

307 He is unsuitable

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (tnOuI)

308 >>> 252 My emotional support cat just jumped up on my lap, and is reaching for my hand, trying to prevent me from typing.

Doesn't really get much better than this.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (cY3LT)

Why isn't that hand petting me???

Posted by: BurtTC's cat at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (xz6UB)

309
Somehow the fact that the woman (Zephyr Teachout)- who seems to consider herself the new Churchill and whose platform is "get rid of Trump" operates out of a former urologist's office-seems oddly appropriate:


In fairness she is named after the ugly 4 door sedan that Ford produced in England.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (10vO4)

310 And Zuck is Aspie enough not to care about public shaming

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (1UZdv)

311 I don't understand your point.
Posted by: Timothy Treadwell"

I didn't understand the publicity...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (6qErC)

312 So Ford Prefect for Prime Minister?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (y4EGh)

313 I'm thinking in terms of obtaining one in the first place.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (ywNoU)

If you have enough money, the supermodels will find you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (LI7AQ)

314 Don't care. You can keep bofe of them.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:54 AM (cY3LT)


Ok
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:56 AM (tnOuI)


Same thing as Californica. People say "oh, but there's still pockets of conservatives here and there."

I don't care.

The State is a disaster, on balance, and there's no way to mitigate that fact, no matter how you slice it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:59 AM (cY3LT)

315 Yep, my doggone pup has me well-trained

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 11:59 AM (CE6iV)

316 Same thing as Californica. People say "oh, but there's still pockets of conservatives here and there."


-------

That's where you find all the plastic straws.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 12:00 PM (uSlc8)

317 I didn't always do it, but there was this one time I went to a weekend music festival and camped there with friends. As we were packing up to leave, I could see hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground all over our campsite. I didn't want to leave it like that, so I spent about an hour picking up every one I could find. After that I figured, "Why throw them on the ground in the first place?"
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 11:15 AM (sdi6R)

Could you not tuck them back into the cigarette package, between the foil and the cardboard?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 12:00 PM (LI7AQ)

318 Same thing as Californica. People say "oh, but there's still pockets of conservatives here and there."


Chicago has pockets of people who's main job is not to kill each other. They will still vote for the Dem though. Every frikkin time

Posted by: Bruce at August 18, 2018 12:00 PM (8ikIW)

319 Since we're talking about depression, I'll chip in with a few thoughts.
My wife died very suddenly seven months ago. I'm still experiencing sadness. Most days I'm on top of the sadness but somedays the sadness is on top of me.
The thing is I'm not depressed I'm grieving. It's a fact. It's a reality and it's normal.
Might medication help the process. I suppose but I'm functioning and healing day by day-by God's grace and the slight measure of wisdom I've been blessed with.
I got shit faced drunk in Las Vegas last week, which seems to have worked that form of self medication out of my system.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:00 PM (eAMlh)

320 My emotional support cat just jumped up on my lap, and is reaching for my hand, trying to prevent me from typing.

Doesn't really get much better than this.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 11:43 AM (cY3LT)

Why isn't that hand petting me???
Posted by: BurtTC's cat at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (xz6UB)


Oh, he left. My ratio of petting to types was unacceptable.

Now I have another one staring at me. He doesn't climb on the lap though. He'll bite me when he wants to communicate his affection.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:01 PM (cY3LT)

321 OK, B'Gal's up, time to get to work. I'll be in and out for a while.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (HaL55)


******


I wonder just what he meant by this?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 18, 2018 12:01 PM (0tfLf)

322 Oh, he left. My ratio of petting to types was unacceptable.

Now I have another one staring at me. He doesn't climb on the lap though. He'll bite me when he wants to communicate his affection.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:01 PM (cY3LT)


Typing.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:01 PM (cY3LT)

323 Ford produced in England."

Merc zephyr in the early 80s. Mrs had one...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:01 PM (6qErC)

324 >>>But you could sell the meat at Kobe prices with the right marketing campaign.<<<
A couple of cold beers and a nice massage with a happy ending, who could resist?

Posted by: Fritz at August 18, 2018 12:02 PM (CdLX2)

325 304 In iowa news, with all due respect and apologies to the family, Leonard Boswell has left the congressional pension fund.

Posted by: Not a Hawkeye at August 18, 2018 11:57 AM (VWE5i)

Yeah, that was the lead story on the local news last night. Boswell was an old-school Dem who was good at bringing home the bacon. I actually thought he'd croaked a while ago.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 12:02 PM (AOpTF)

326 313 I'm thinking in terms of obtaining one in the first place.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 11:14 AM (ywNoU)

If you have enough money, the supermodels will find you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 11:58 AM (LI7AQ)

Like I said...

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 12:02 PM (Js/7v)

327 Re Zuk...have to look into the structure, but I think the board can remove remove him from sticking his stupid nose into business decisions, even with shares he owns

Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 12:02 PM (tnOuI)

328 Baby cat has been jumping on me all am...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:03 PM (6qErC)

329 If you thought plastic straws were bad for sea animals, wait until you see the latest scientific study on those food sticks at the Iowa State Fair.

Beach-going sea cows have been pierced by over 500 million wood sticks that are discarded every day in Iowa, float down the Missouri-Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico and wash up on the beach in Sweden.

We as a society are literally committing skewercide.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 12:04 PM (m45I2)

330 Since we're talking about depression, I'll chip in with a few thoughts.
My wife died very suddenly seven months ago. I'm still experiencing sadness. Most days I'm on top of the sadness but somedays the sadness is on top of me.
The thing is I'm not depressed I'm grieving. It's a fact. It's a reality and it's normal.
Might medication help the process. I suppose but I'm functioning and healing day by day-by God's grace and the slight measure of wisdom I've been blessed with.
I got shit faced drunk in Las Vegas last week, which seems to have worked that form of self medication out of my system.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:00 PM (eAMlh)


Well said.

Prescribed meds can and often will, impede the grieving process.

But idiot docs still prescribe it. And still label normal grieving as depression.

That said, has it been seven months??

Wow, I had no idea it was that long ago. Keep forging ahead. This is life, as you know.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (cY3LT)

331 ormer Yazidi slave surprised to find her former ISIS captor given refugee status in Germany

Former Yazidi slave girl is confronted by her Isis captor in German street, reports him to authorities, and is told: "he's a refugee like you". Ashwaq is scared for her life and returns to Kurdistan.


Imagine that here post WWII: Polish Jew survivor of Auschwitz walking down the street and runs into former SS captain, complains to the State Dept. and is told, "too bad, so sad."

Posted by: LASue at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (Z48ZB)

332 couple of cold beers and a nice massage with a happy ending"

Yeah, that would lead to some happy cows...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (6qErC)

333 Andy Cuomo has been flirting with a Presidential run. He can't even stumble out of the gate

Locally many of us are pissed at Andy for sneaking through a midnite rider to rename the new Tappan Zee bridge the Cuomo bridge. The Triborough bridge was renamed the RFK bridge. I'm waiting for one of our small Harlem River bridges to get named after Teddy

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (1UZdv)

334 We as a society are literally committing skewercide."

Nailed it.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:07 PM (6qErC)

335 I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at August 18, 2018 12:07 PM (eisG/)

336 329 Beach-going sea cows have been pierced by over 500 million wood sticks that are discarded every day in Iowa, float down the Missouri-Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico and wash up on the beach in Sweden. 

Nah, we figured out how to get the federal government to pay us to recycle them into ethanol, and to require the oil companies to blend the subsidised ethanol into gasoline.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 12:08 PM (AOpTF)

337 I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago"

Did you get crabs?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:09 PM (6qErC)

338 If you thought plastic straws were bad for sea animals, wait until you see the latest scientific study on those food sticks at the Iowa State Fair.

Beach-going sea cows have been pierced by over 500 million wood sticks that are discarded every day in Iowa, float down the Missouri-Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico and wash up on the beach in Sweden.

We as a society are literally committing skewercide.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 12:04 PM (m45I2)


I do have hope though. One of the most popular names for girls these days is Jennifer. Or some variant thereof. So you can't swing a dead cat without hitting someone who goes by the name of Jen.

Many of them, however, are tired of being so labeled, and resent the shortening of their names to such a small, insignificant thing.

So they wish to now be called by their full, lovely name: Jennifer.

The Jenocide is a welcome thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:09 PM (cY3LT)

339 I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago.
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren

Didja see lots of little big horns?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 12:09 PM (+y/Ru)

340 couple of cold beers and a nice massage with a happy ending"

Yeah, that would lead to some happy cows...
Posted by: Anon a mouse

Hell that would lead to a happy Me.

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:10 PM (kG2lj)

341 The Jenocide is a welcome thing."

So there's a bunch of Jentiles?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at August 18, 2018 12:10 PM (6qErC)

342 I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago.
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren


*******


Don't go in the winter time. It's too difficult to keep your wig warm.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 12:11 PM (m45I2)

343 Maybe will rename that character in the San Fran story Whipper Freakout.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 12:11 PM (y4EGh)

344 Locally many of us are pissed at Andy for sneaking through a midnite rider to rename the new Tappan Zee bridge the Cuomo bridge. The Triborough bridge was renamed the RFK bridge. I'm waiting for one of our small Harlem River bridges to get named after Teddy
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (1UZdv)

How long until New York is renamed "The State of Cuomo"?

Posted by: Surfperch at August 18, 2018 12:11 PM (AcZtS)

345 You wanted to be a Cop.

You'd settle for Meter-maid.

They'll make you a Pooper-scooper.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 18, 2018 12:13 PM (BRvh1)

346 Aces High!

https://youtu.be/ve4kcWuQYsU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 12:13 PM (+y/Ru)

347
Sweden is overrun with fuzzy wuzzy muzzies and they're worried about cow flop on the beaches?

Priorities, volk!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:13 PM (/52yu)

348
I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago.


Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at August 18, 2018 12:07 PM (eisG/)


So your mammaries of that day have faded?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 18, 2018 12:14 PM (10vO4)

349 I'm waiting for one of our small Harlem River bridges to get named after Teddy


*******


Do they have one with the guard rail busted out?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 12:14 PM (m45I2)

350 The Iowa department of Weights & Measures has a booth here at the Fair, with a scale you can step onto and then they print out a weighticket with the time, date, and weight, like a truck scale. I'm a little disappointed that I've only gained 2 1/2 pounds from a week of gluttony.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 12:14 PM (AOpTF)

351 How long until New York is renamed "The State of Cuomo"?
Posted by: Surfperch

Can you imagine all the signs where an H is painted over the Cu?

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:15 PM (kG2lj)

352 "We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them"
that's from Orwell's 1984. In the end Winston loves Big Brother..
I know little about clinical depression and such, but it does seem the whole PC realm and 50 year Soviet PsyOp on America has not been about resistance, it has been forcing submission. The 60's "counter-culture" was the thing to join, if you wanted to be hip not square.

Societal pressure and fake news and even lawsuits, now the IRS and our own government are forcing compliance, along with this rather new social media coordinated suppression, and fake polls to constantly show "we are winning the war against Trump the Russkie stooge".

All that is part of the left's agenda ... use of force and pressure to push people into loving Big Brother, PC is the easy path.

PJ Watson has a good video on where they have taken us ... The Age of Emotional Incontinence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lct8ql2zoLo

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 12:15 PM (bT8Z4)

353 The Babylon Bee has an hilarious item about all violent extremists killing in a vicious brawl.
It started when a group of 20 rightwing extremists started brawling with a large group of leftwing extremists.
After the tiny group of rightwingers was wiped out the lefties started on each other until everyone was dead and violent extremism was eliminated.
Hilarious but no can linky with my tablet.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:16 PM (eAMlh)

354 Ted Kennedy really does deserve a fitting memorial, like a reflecting pool complete with a sculpture of submerged car. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe.

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 18, 2018 12:17 PM (H5knJ)

355 I WANT MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT HOOKER!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 18, 2018 12:17 PM (oVJmc)

356 Ted Kennedy really does deserve a fitting memorial, like a reflecting pool complete with a sculpture of submerged car. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe.
Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 18, 2018 12:17 PM (H5knJ)

Beached whale recumbent?

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:18 PM (eAMlh)

357 I'd been to one nude beach, but that was many moons ago.
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren


*******


Don't go in the winter time. It's too difficult to keep your wig warm.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2018 12:11 PM (m45I2)


I have to believe that woman knows she's as dumb as a load of bricks. She must fear, that when she dies, they'll just throw her in the cold, moist soil and forget she ever existed. None of her cash will save her.

She must cry herself to sleep each night, singing the phrase "bury me not, on the loam prairie..."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:18 PM (cY3LT)

358
Beach-going sea cows have been pierced by over 500 million wood sticks that are discarded every day in Iowa, float down the Missouri-Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico and wash up on the beach in Sweden.


In the meantime, residual hormones from discarded birth control pills and soyage continue their relentless assault on male genders everywhere.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:18 PM (/52yu)

359 KT, thank you so much for your contributions on the weekends. You find such interesting content!

Posted by: Emmie at August 18, 2018 12:18 PM (4HMW8)

360 Sweden is overrun with fuzzy wuzzy muzzies and they're worried about cow flop on the beaches?

Priorities, volk!

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Does Lena Dunham really need another place to be naked?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 12:19 PM (+y/Ru)

361 One memorial that should never be - Nude Teddy Recumbent at Martha's Vineyard.

Oh wait... Nude Lena Dunham on Beach would be probably worse.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 12:19 PM (y4EGh)

362 For a corrupt, incompetent little bureaucrat, Kofi Annan gets quite a tongue bath obituary from the usual suspects at the Associated Press.
https://tinyurl.com/y7k9yrdu

Posted by: tu3031 at August 18, 2018 12:20 PM (jDF8P)

363 I've noticed for the last few weeks this thread is entitled "Late Summer Saturday Open Thread". I've never thought of August as "late summer". Seems like it's pretty much the middle of summer to me.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (sdi6R)

364 "Got any clean-up projects planned this weekend?"

I need to either clean my kitchen and wash the dishes or just burn the place to the ground and buy a new one.

This is not an easy decision.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (y87Qq)

365 I've just been listening to a charming Irish woman talking with her teenaged daughter. Now I feel like a creepy stalker.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (eAMlh)

366 FNC just reported on the freak in CO that murdered his wife and kids. Locally they say the found the bodies on Anadarko property, his former employer. I can only hope he goes to pmita prison and hangs himself.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 12:24 PM (pcnVL)

367
I'm in Day Four of Beadfest classes (silversmithing) outside Philadelphia and my sixth class. One more this evening and one tomorrow. Learning a lot, but starting to recognize that my technical skill levels are now considerably advanced ftom where they were back when I started over four years ago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (/52yu)

368 I've noticed for the last few weeks this thread is entitled "Late Summer Saturday Open Thread". I've never thought of August as "late summer". Seems like it's pretty much the middle of summer to me.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM


You're right. Late September is when summer ends, and I really must be back at school.

Posted by: Rod Stewart at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (LOgQ4)

369 Ted Kennedy really does deserve a fitting memorial, like a reflecting pool complete with a sculpture of submerged car. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe.
Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls

A Reflecting pool or a fountain?

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (kG2lj)

370 If the three-month season of summer is divided into "early, middle, and late", then late summer should begin around August 20.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (sdi6R)

371 Krebs, that sounds fascinating. Do you make jewelry?

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 12:26 PM (JJZzu)

372 "Got any clean-up projects planned this weekend?"
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I need to either clean my kitchen and wash the dishes or just burn the place to the ground and buy a new one.

This is not an easy decision.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (y87Qq)


I have yard waste cleanup that absolutely must get done today.

Sometimes I believe I only exist on this planet to keep tidy this one tiny patch of land.

That's my role. That's what God created me for. That's my curse.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (cY3LT)

373 "Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (1UZdv) "

It's a big deal here in the Hudson Valley. Everyone calls it the TZ Bridge. Been that forever. The legislature conveniently tabled the bill to officially keep it the TZ before the last session closed.

Besides that, people are moving out by me in droves. The new motto should be "I Hate New York".

BTW. You missed they renamed the Battery Tunnel after another liberal douche, Hugh Carey.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (neTGq)

374 The Iowa department of Weights & Measures has a booth here at the Fair, with a scale you can step onto and then they print out a weighticket with the time, date, and weight, like a truck scale. I'm a little disappointed that I've only gained 2 1/2 pounds from a week of gluttony.
Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 12:14 PM (AOpTF)
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You're not trying hard enough. There's a big, deep-fried world on a stick outvthere waiting for you. Go!!!

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (JJZzu)

375 A Reflecting pool or a fountain?
Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (kG2lj)

A reflecting pool with a submerged Oldsmobile that emits air bubbles, and muffled pleas for help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 12:28 PM (LI7AQ)

376
25 My guess is that the Manafort Jury is hung.

Posted by: JAS at August 18, 2018 08:11 AM (3HNOQ)


"They said you was hung!"

"And they was right!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:28 PM (/52yu)

377 for school kids, "summer" is over ... at least here, they went back yesterday.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 12:28 PM (bT8Z4)

378 If the three-month season of summer is divided into "early, middle, and late", then late summer should begin around August 20.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:25 PM (sdi6R)


Clearly the calendar does not define what constitutes Summer, and the other seasons.

Your geography has a lot to do with it. Also your mindset.

I tend to see July 4 as the hump. Everything after that is the slow, inexorable crawl to winter and cold and death.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:29 PM (cY3LT)

379

BOSTON (AP) - A conservative rally against "far-left violence" is being organized in downtown Boston a year after a similar demonstration drew tens of thousands of counterprotesters.

Boston Free Speech, the group organizing the event, says on its Facebook page that its rally is scheduled for noon at City Hall Plaza. Organizer John Medlar says the event is meant to call out Internet censorship and "violent suppression of discourse in the public square."

The Boston Globe reports more than 100 counterprotesters are already gathering at the State House for a planned march to City Hall organized by Stand Against Hate-Boston and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 12:30 PM (IqV8l)

380 364 "Got any clean-up projects planned this weekend?"

I need to either clean my kitchen and wash the dishes or just burn the place to the ground and buy a new one.

This is not an easy decision.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (y87Qq)


I'm personally leaning toward the second option, but I've then got to decide if my apartment neighbors deserve a heads up first.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2018 12:31 PM (NL6wI)

381 Leavenworth O'Brien on CNN wanting to identify the Manafort jurors:


Soledad O'Brien
@soledadobrien
Or, um, start tracking them down for interviews once the verdict is in, because that's how journalism works. Jeez. Idiota.

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Tracking them down, stringing them up. Tomayto, tomahto.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 12:31 PM (+y/Ru)

382 Clean up? Going to dad's soon. I'm trying to put it off.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 12:32 PM (pcnVL)

383
371 Krebs, that sounds fascinating. Do you make jewelry?
Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 12:26 PM (JJZzu)


Not at the moment, as I am developing my skills and trying to see what interests me. Both Mrs. K and I are doing this and we both make cabochons as well as doing silversmithing. Right now she has a strong interest in wire wrapping and I am developing an affinity for applying chasing and repousse to create small metal pieces. We shall see ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:32 PM (/52yu)

384 In my state school dosen't start until the day after Labor Day. Which is also the day after our State Fair ends.

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:32 PM (kG2lj)

385 I need to either clean my kitchen and wash the dishes or just burn the place to the ground and buy a new one.

This is not an easy decision.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:23 PM (y87Qq)

I'm personally leaning toward the second option, but I've then got to decide if my apartment neighbors deserve a heads up first.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 18, 2018 12:31 PM (NL6wI)


The ones who play Bon Jovi until the wee hours of the morning?

F-'em.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:32 PM (cY3LT)

386 Sometimes I believe I only exist on this planet to keep tidy this one tiny patch of land.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (cY3LT)


I would happily turn my yard into a community garden if it were possible. Let the neighborhood retirees run the place. I'll serve iced tea on the rare occasions when I'm home, otherwise the hose is over there, leave me a couple tomatoes maybe if there are enough and we cool. Grass lawns never did me or anyone else any favors.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:33 PM (y87Qq)

387 356
Ted Kennedy really does deserve a fitting memorial, like a reflecting
pool complete with a sculpture of submerged car. Maybe I should start a
GoFundMe.

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 18, 2018 12:17 PM (H5knJ)



Beached whale recumbent?


Nope. A sandwich shop.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 12:33 PM (T6t7i)

388 Hand prints on the back window and an empty flask floating in the water would add a nice touch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 18, 2018 12:34 PM (89T5c)

389 The Boston Globe reports more than 100 counterprotesters are already gathering at the State House for a planned march to City Hall organized by Stand Against Hate-Boston and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 12:30 PM


The next line should read, ''the Democratic Socialists of America seek to overturn the results of the last election, repeal the US Constitution, destroy the free market economy, and bring one party rule to the USA''.

If we had an honest press.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 12:34 PM (LOgQ4)

390 hopefully they require chocolate milk, which comes from brown cows, not racist white cows.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 12:35 PM (bT8Z4)

391 votermom. Don't know if you are still here. Plumbers suggested a pressure control valve at the street where the water comes in. Oddly enough they said that sometimes the pressure surge blows it as well. Rather have it there then in the house.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (N3JsI)

392 362 For a corrupt, incompetent little bureaucrat, Kofi Annan gets quite a tongue bath obituary from the usual suspects at the Associated Press.
https://tinyurl.com/y7k9yrdu
Posted by: tu3031 at August 18, 2018 12:20 PM (jDF8P)

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Exotic name, dark complexion, minimal competence. No leftard is immune to the Obama Effect

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (uSlc8)

393 If Soledad wants to interview the jurors, offer $100,000.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (y4EGh)

394 I'm taking a break from yard work this weekend. I mowed last week and it doesn't really need it now. This time of year the grass is growing more slowly than it did in spring.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (sdi6R)

395 FNC just reported on the freak in CO that murdered his wife and kids. Locally they say the found the bodies on Anadarko property, his former employer. I can only hope he goes to pmita prison and hangs himself.

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I know little about this case including whether he did it or not but I do know that he is being held without bond while the NM terror campers were released on their signatures despite the, uh, suspicious death of a child.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

396
The Bridge of Sanctimonious Piety

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:37 PM (/52yu)

397 Sometimes I believe I only exist on this planet to keep tidy this one tiny patch of land.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (cY3LT)

I would happily turn my yard into a community garden if it were possible. Let the neighborhood retirees run the place. I'll serve iced tea on the rare occasions when I'm home, otherwise the hose is over there, leave me a couple tomatoes maybe if there are enough and we cool. Grass lawns never did me or anyone else any favors.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:33 PM (y87Qq)


Yup. What I cut out there, whether it's grass or weeds or clods of dirt, it's all the same to me. I keep it low-ish, so as to not hear them complain. The larks who reside around me, and seem to have nothing better to do with their time than pretty up their sod, to mock and ridicule my dusty track.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:38 PM (cY3LT)

398

The Bridge Over Troubled Otters

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 12:38 PM (IqV8l)

399 AW, the "justice" system is a joke anymore.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 12:38 PM (pcnVL)

400 Emotional support velociraptor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HFXgyTya0

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at August 18, 2018 12:38 PM (Ib/RG)

401 Krebs, that sounds really nice. How nice that your and your wife are doing this together. Sounds like a very rewarding hobby.

Posted by: bluebell at August 18, 2018 12:39 PM (JJZzu)

402 Antifa could beat half of CNN's on air staff to death and the media would still deny they're anything other than well meaning, peaceful children.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:39 PM (eAMlh)

403 > Oh wait... Nude Lena Dunham on Beach would be probably worse.

Greenpeace would show up to try to help her back in the water.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at August 18, 2018 12:40 PM (Ib/RG)

404
Class time beckons ... all y'all try not to burn down this place, hear? As for burning down your own places, shoot a video of that to share with the rest of us, m'kay?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 18, 2018 12:40 PM (/52yu)

405 I'm taking a break from yard work this weekend. I mowed last week and it doesn't really need it now. This time of year the grass is growing more slowly than it did in spring.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (sdi6R)


My thing right now is tree branches. Now, trees serve a purpose. They keep the sun from beating down too hard, and they sometimes obscure me from having to look at the loons who live nearby.

The downside of course, is they shed leaves in the fall, and the rest of the year, they just drop dead and/or dying branches wherever they please.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:40 PM (cY3LT)

406
Hot and humid here in Brazoria County. Yard work begins in 20 minutes. Fenced yard and dog pens today, back forty tomorrow, Her Majesty permitting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 18, 2018 12:41 PM (LsBY9)

407 FNC just reported on the freak in CO that murdered his wife and kids. Locally they say the found the bodies on Anadarko property, his former employer. I can only hope he goes to pmita prison and hangs himself. -----

That douche deserves to be drawn and quartered.

Posted by: X-ray at August 18, 2018 12:41 PM (kG2lj)

408 333---Locally many of us are pissed at Andy for sneaking through a midnite rider to rename the new Tappan Zee bridge the Cuomo bridge. The Triborough bridge was renamed the RFK bridge. I'm waiting for one of our small Harlem River bridges to get named after Teddy
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 12:05 PM (1UZdv)
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I was going to say that Teddy has nothing to do with NY but then realized that fact wouldn't stop them.
In any case, a very small bridge (preferably without guard rails) would indeed be fitting.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 12:42 PM (0jtPF)

409 Antifa could beat half of CNN's on air staff to death and the media would still deny they're anything other than well meaning, peaceful children.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:39 PM (eAMlh)


I'd like to believe you, really I would. But I'd have to see it happen first.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:42 PM (y87Qq)

410 How many honey badgers would it take to overcome one cow? They are like land piranhas I'm sure, but there's got to be a minimum amount.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 12:45 PM (/qEW2)

411 400 Emotional support velociraptor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HFXgyTya0
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI at August 18, 2018 12:38 PM (Ib/RG)


The woman in the video is much too tall.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:45 PM (sdi6R)

412 My thing right now is tree branches. Now, trees serve a purpose. They keep the sun from beating down too hard, and they sometimes obscure me from having to look at the loons who live nearby.

The downside of course, is they shed leaves in the fall, and the rest of the year, they just drop dead and/or dying branches wherever they please.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 18, 2018 12:40 PM (cY3LT)


I'm cool with trees. There's one out back that drops little green things the size of a squash ball - walnuts maybe? I think it's a black walnut tree. Anyway, when they drop onto the deck it sends the cats - who are watching rodents with murder on their minds - jumping about three feet vertically. It's hilarious to watch. They go from cunning apex predator in full stalk mode to terrified little bunny in an instant because of a little green thing falling off a tree.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:46 PM (y87Qq)

413
The Boston Globe reports more than 100 counterprotesters are already gathering at the State House for a planned march to City Hall organized by Stand Against Hate-Boston and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 12:30 PM


Fantastic let's get democrats on video acting like Pinkerton agents for the new robber barons violently putting down a protest against censorship.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 18, 2018 12:47 PM (10vO4)

414 Antifa could beat half of CNN's on air staff to death and the media would still deny they're anything other than well meaning, peaceful children.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 12:39 PM (eAMlh)


I'd like to believe you, really I would. But I'd have to see it happen first.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:42 PM (y87Qq)

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Give me a government research grant, and I will be happy to conduct this experiment.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 12:48 PM (/qEW2)

415 The cows are nude and stuff.

Posted by: Little Lupe at August 18, 2018 12:49 PM (Tyii7)

416 Give me a government research grant, and I will be happy to conduct this experiment.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 12:48 PM (/qEW2)


*waves arm*

Bartender! A round of free moneys for this man. Give him all the moneys.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:50 PM (y87Qq)

417 The Gardening Thread is up. Or you can stick around here. Cheers.

Posted by: KTbarthedoor at August 18, 2018 12:50 PM (BVQ+1)

418 Another dark rainy day.
I'm sick of rain....and the grass is out of control.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 12:51 PM (0jtPF)

419 The more poop the better, I always say and stuff.

Posted by: Little Lupe at August 18, 2018 12:52 PM (Tyii7)

420 There's one out back that drops little green things the size of a squash ball - walnuts maybe? I think it's a black walnut tree.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:46 PM

Sounds like a walnut. Last fall I collected a five gallon bucket of them. After the first snow I placed one each day on the deck outside the room I sit. They disappeared. Then I noticed a squirrel begin to get my attention on days when I was late putting out his free food. He was agitated, confused.

Why hadn't his free food appeared yet?

By early spring my bucket was empty but he still appeared every day. Sometimes he would claw at my sliding glass door. But that was it bub, spring is here, get your own food.

There's some psychology lesson there, I would assume. Also a political lesson.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 12:53 PM (LOgQ4)

421 for trees the method I learned (and like) is "vista pruning". That is on bigger trees, pruning them up 15-25 feet, so you have the view underneath the tree, but still get the shade and the pretty tree. Also lets more light in for grass/cover under the tree.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 12:55 PM (bT8Z4)

422 My wife died very suddenly seven months ago. I'm still experiencing sadness.


God bless you, Teem. There is a reason the traditional mourning period is a year and a day. You have to now go through all the seasons and occasions without her.

I have been assured that, while the wounds never heal, they do scab over.

Posted by: The Tarantula behind the glass at August 18, 2018 12:55 PM (yQpMk)

423 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(c) at August 18, 2018 12:55 PM (yQpMk)

424 379
BOSTON (AP) - A conservative rally against "far-left violence" is being organized in downtown Boston a year after a similar demonstration drew tens of thousands of counterprotesters.

Boston Free Speech, the group organizing the event, says on its Facebook page that its rally is scheduled for noon at City Hall Plaza. Organizer John Medlar says the event is meant to call out Internet censorship and "violent suppression of discourse in the public square."

The Boston Globe reports more than 100 counterprotesters are already gathering at the State House for a planned march to City Hall organized by Stand Against Hate-Boston and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 18, 2018 12:30 PM (IqV8l)


So "opposition to censorship" = "hate". OK then.

They're really leaving us no other choice than to go full Pinochet on their asses.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 12:56 PM (sdi6R)

425 Tarantula, that's what it took when we lost mom. It's a long haul. Dad had been dealing with his cancer for over a year before he passed.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2018 12:57 PM (pcnVL)

426 the grass is out of control.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 12:51 PM (0jtPF)


I mean... I didn't want to be the first to bring it up, but we were all thinking it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:57 PM (y87Qq)

427 It is hot AF outside.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 12:58 PM (NWiLs)

428 412---Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:46 PM (y87Qq)
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Deadlier than a land mine those black walnuts.
And you have to pick them up pronto if they fall on a deck or walkway. They stain.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 12:58 PM (0jtPF)

429 for trees the method I learned (and like) is "vista pruning". That is on bigger trees, pruning them up 15-25 feet, so you have the view underneath the tree, but still get the shade and the pretty tree. Also lets more light in for grass/cover under the tree.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2018 12:55 PM


My grandfather used to say that 'any tree you can't walk under is useless'. I have a 15 foot electric pole trimmer that I use religiously.

I just wish I owned a chipper. It only takes five minutes to 'down' the branches, but after that it takes another hour to clean up the mess.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 18, 2018 12:59 PM (LOgQ4)

430 My God it's hot outside.

Feh.

Will cower inside with the A/C and read all weekend.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 12:59 PM (kQs4Y)

431 426
I mean... I didn't want to be the first to bring it up, but we were all thinking it.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 12:57 PM (y87Qq)
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:01 PM (0jtPF)

432 430 My God it's hot outside.

Feh.

Will cower inside with the A/C and read all weekend.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 12:59 PM (kQs4Y)


Sounds like a plan. That's what I've been doing for about the last month. Today is not as hot as it has been, but it's still muggy.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:01 PM (sdi6R)

433 Will PDT attend the Aretha Franklin funeral? She refused his invititation to his inauguration.

Should he go and get booed by the crowd?

Good optics or bad 60 days before the midterms?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 18, 2018 01:02 PM (mdfoO)

434

I wonder just what he meant by this?


Heh, prolly not what you were thinking, oh ye of dirty mind. That would've been termed "the old in-out."

Her new medicine (inhaled) that I have to prepare every day plus all the rest of that primary caregiver type stuff.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 01:03 PM (HaL55)

435 Sounds like a plan. That's what I've been doing for about the last month. Today is not as hot as it has been, but it's still muggy.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:01 PM (sdi6R)


Today's the first in a long time that hasn't broken 80 before noon. Just got back about an hour ago and it's just now at about 80.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:03 PM (y87Qq)

436 My wife died very suddenly seven months ago. I'm still experiencing sadness.


God bless you, Teem. There is a reason the traditional mourning period is a year and a day. You have to now go through all the seasons and occasions without her.

I have been assured that, while the wounds never heal, they do scab over.
Posted by: The Tarantula behind the glass at August 18, 2018 12:55 PM (yQpMk)

Thank you.. I believe that to be true. I wonder if parts of the second year might be harder because of the deadening effect of shock fading.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:03 PM (eAMlh)

437 Thank you.. I believe that to be true. I wonder if parts of the second year might be harder because of the deadening effect of shock fading.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:03 PM (eAMlh)

Well, my wife didn't die - she kicked me to the curb - but in my case anger followed the numbness of shock. So I don't know for sure, but you may experience some of that.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:05 PM (NWiLs)

438 ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION
COW FARTS HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
COW FARTS HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL
COW FARTS HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL

Posted by: I stand atop a spiral stair at August 18, 2018 01:05 PM (5HkfU)

439 And you have to pick them up pronto if they fall on a deck or walkway. They stain.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 12:58 PM (0jtPF)


That ship has sailed. Which is handy, now I can go back to not caring.

But yes, going out to the woodpile and coming back with an armful of logs and stepping on a couple of walnuts is way more dangerous than it should be.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:05 PM (y87Qq)

440 I just saw a video of that queen cheerleading for the Saints.

Can't.

Stop.

Laughing.


Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2018 01:06 PM (EoRCO)

441 433 Will PDT attend the Aretha Franklin funeral? She refused his invititation to his inauguration.

Should he go and get booed by the crowd?

Good optics or bad 60 days before the midterms?
Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 18, 2018 01:02 PM (mdfoO)


Since when does a President go to an entertainer's funeral?

Yes, Aretha was a legend, but I don't see any reason why Trump should attend.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (sdi6R)

442 Sounds like a plan. That's what I've been doing for about the last month. Today is not as hot as it has been, but it's still muggy.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:01 PM (sdi6R)
----

I'm just getting sick of "What did you do this weekend, Eris?"

"Nothing. Nothing, okay?! Get off my back!"

Luckily, I have a rich inner life. *shifty eyes*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (kQs4Y)

443
Besides that, people are moving out by me in droves. The new motto should be "I Hate New York".
Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2018 12:27 PM (neTGq)

Contagion has spread to your neighborhood. The NY86 virus must be contained or it will infect your locality. Immediately collect all infection vectors and return them to the point source of NYC.

Posted by: CDC at August 18, 2018 01:09 PM (e1mEI)

444 Luckily, I have a rich inner life. *shifty eyes*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (kQs4Y)


Good for you! People often overlook the benefits of probiotics.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:10 PM (y87Qq)

445 Good for you! People often overlook the benefits of probiotics.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:10 PM (y87Qq)

I contain multitudes.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:11 PM (kQs4Y)

446 Will PDT attend the Aretha Franklin funeral?


Why? He needs to be there about as much as I do.

Posted by: tu3031 at August 18, 2018 01:12 PM (jDF8P)

447 I contain multitudes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:11 PM (kQs4Y)


But you're not a colony of corpse-animating transdimensional worms, right?

Haha!

*weak, terrified smile*

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (y87Qq)

448 I'm just getting sick of "What did you do this weekend, Eris?"

"Nothing. Nothing, okay?! Get off my back!"

Luckily, I have a rich inner life. *shifty eyes*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (kQs4Y)

Sounds like me. My inner life is my only life though.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

449 I spent a few days in Las Vegas last week and decided 115 degrees is too hot for me, even if it's dry heat.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (eAMlh)

450 439---But yes, going out to the woodpile and coming back with an armful of logs and stepping on a couple of walnuts is way more dangerous than it should be.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:05 PM (y87Qq)
----------------------------
No kidding. I sprained an ankle on one of those suckers once.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (0jtPF)

451 449 I spent a few days in Las Vegas last week and decided 115 degrees is too hot for me, even if it's dry heat.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (eAMlh)

Win anything?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

452 The surface of Venus is about 800 degrees, but it's a dry heat.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:14 PM (sdi6R)

453 449 I spent a few days in Las Vegas last week and decided 115 degrees is too hot for me, even if it's dry heat.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (eAMlh)

Win anything?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

Is there a prize for getting spectacularly drunk?

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:15 PM (eAMlh)

454 Sounds like me. My inner life is my only life though.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

No, you have us! The Ace Dimension is the Cool dimension. We are real, and even meat-based, though not in this dimension.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:15 PM (kQs4Y)

455 453 449 I spent a few days in Las Vegas last week and decided 115 degrees is too hot for me, even if it's dry heat.
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (eAMlh)

Win anything?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:13 PM (NWiLs)

Is there a prize for getting spectacularly drunk?
Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:15 PM (eAMlh)

The Moron Val-U-Rite Medal of Honor, with cluster

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:15 PM (NWiLs)

456

Will PDT attend the Aretha Franklin funeral?



He'd generate a bit of good will if he attended, IMO, but I agree the need isn't there.

Coming home from the gig last night, somebody down here rented an electronic billboard along the Interstate that had a quote from her: "I'll always be singing somewhere." RIP The Queen of Soul.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 01:16 PM (HaL55)

457 I hope this actor is spiritually and emotionally grounded, because dear Lord, what a horrible role to play-Kermit Gosnell. Media, of course will give no coverage to this movie coming out in October:

https://tinyurl.com/y9cqckza

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 01:16 PM (AllCR)

458 No, you have us! The Ace Dimension is the Cool dimension. We are real, and even meat-based, though not in this dimension.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:15 PM (kQs4Y)

You have a point. But in terms of my immediate meatspace (shut up), not so much.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:16 PM (NWiLs)

459 mmm food on a stick

on my bucket list is to eat at one of those Brazilian steakhouses where they just continually bring you meat on skewers

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:18 PM (CE6iV)

460 455. Order of the Golden Hammer.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, GECSPLAN, SMR and Ancient Slavonaut Newsletters at August 18, 2018 01:20 PM (fA1SL)

461 Oh, while in Michigan I went to the Detroit Institute of Arts to see the Star Wars costume display (did I already tell you all this?).

They were gorgeous. Everything from Chewie's walking carpet (actually yak and mohair) to all the iterations of Empire armor. Amidala's gowns were absolutely works of art that any modern monarch would love to wear.

One lavender velvet gown had actual amethyst crystals sown on because Lucas didn't feel that regular crystals caught the light quite right.

https://www.dia.org/starwars

(Scroll through at top picture)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:21 PM (kQs4Y)

462 Got any clean-up projects planned this weekend?

==

yup

doggatello is getting a bath!

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:21 PM (CE6iV)

463 "...continually bring you meat on skewers"

We got a couple out our way.
Fantastic.
Trays of meat being served to you after they slice them.
With swords.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at August 18, 2018 01:22 PM (w7KSn)

464 Since when does a President go to an entertainer's funeral?

Yes, Aretha was a legend, but I don't see any reason why Trump should attend.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (sdi6R)

I don't see any need. she was either hostile or indifferent to him. She was an Obama fangurl, so let Obama attend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 01:23 PM (LI7AQ)

465 391 votermom. Don't know if you are still here. Plumbers suggested a pressure control valve at the street where the water comes in. Oddly enough they said that sometimes the pressure surge blows it as well. Rather have it there then in the house.
Posted by: never enough caffeine at August 18, 2018 12:36 PM (N3JsI)

that's even better if the water company lets him out that in

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:24 PM (CE6iV)

466 on my bucket list is to eat at one of those Brazilian steakhouses where they just continually bring you meat on skewers
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:18 PM (CE6iV)


There is (or used to be) a place in Boston that sells some kind of mixed drink in a vessel with about the dimensions of a landscaping planter and there are people wandering around the club selling steak satay out of a kind of insulated apron thing. They're like marinaded steak-on-a-stick marsupials. That's about all I remember about it.

Did you get an email, by any chance?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:24 PM (y87Qq)

467 One lavender velvet gown had actual amethyst crystals sown on because Lucas didn't feel that regular crystals caught the light quite right.

https://www.dia.org/starwars

(Scroll through at top picture)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:21 PM (kQs4Y)

Amethyst is not that scarce. Just purple quartz, and they mine tons of it Brazil. Literally metric fucktons of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 18, 2018 01:25 PM (LI7AQ)

468
Since when does a President go to an entertainer's funeral?
Yes, Aretha was a legend, but I don't see any reason why Trump should attend.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:07 PM (sdi6R)


Barack Obama didn't attend B.B. King's funeral either.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 18, 2018 01:25 PM (10vO4)

469 I don't see any reason why Trump should attend.

The answer is "I invited her to my inaugural, but she declined. I have no reason to think she changed her mind and would want me there. Out of respect for her and her wishes, I will not attend." Done.

Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 01:28 PM (T6t7i)

470 Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at August 18, 2018 01:22 PM (w7KSn)

If I went I could only bring KTE with me. We'd totally demolish all the meats.

Hubby and KTY would not do it justice.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:29 PM (CE6iV)

471 469
The answer is "I invited her to my inaugural, but she declined. I have no reason to think she changed her mind and would want me there. Out of respect for her and her wishes, I will not attend." Done.
Posted by: pep at August 18, 2018 01:28 PM (T6t7i)


I don't think he even needs to say that much. He already issued a statement when she died. Just leave it at that.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:30 PM (sdi6R)

472 Did you get an email, by any chance?
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:24 PM (y87Qq)

not at votermom

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:32 PM (CE6iV)

473 not at votermom
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:32 PM (CE6iV)


The bookhorde@ one?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:33 PM (y87Qq)

474 458 ---You have a point. But in terms of my immediate meatspace (shut up), not so much.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:16 PM (NWiLs)
----------------------
It's damned hard to get the perfectionist/idealist monkey off your back.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:34 PM (0jtPF)

475 Plus the have this Brazilian drink, I have no idea how to spell it, but it is pronounced komshasha.
Holy cats, strong stuff.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at August 18, 2018 01:34 PM (w7KSn)

476 It's damned hard to get the perfectionist/idealist monkey off your back.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:34 PM (0jtPF)

Huh. That explains the smell.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:35 PM (NWiLs)

477 There's a Brazilian steakhouse not far from me. I've never eaten there.

Once I heard a commercial on the radio for it at the exact moment I was driving past it. That was funny.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:35 PM (sdi6R)

478 One lavender velvet gown had actual amethyst crystals sown on

Like with a seed drill?

Posted by: some pedantic ass at August 18, 2018 01:35 PM (YisB7)

479 477 There's a Brazilian steakhouse not far from me. I've never eaten there.

Buy two entrees, get a waxing for free?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:36 PM (NWiLs)

480 The bookhorde@ one?
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:33 PM (y87Qq)

the cutie with a spork?

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:36 PM (CE6iV)

481 461 Oh, while in Michigan I went to the Detroit Institute of Arts to see the Star Wars costume display.....
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:21 PM (kQs4Y)
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Wow. I'm not even a SW fan but that sounds wonderful.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:37 PM (0jtPF)

482 Ha! Yes, they were cast like pearls at/on swine.

Sewn.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:38 PM (kQs4Y)

483 Joking aside, I'm curious what you meant by "perfectionist/idealist monkey"

Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:38 PM (NWiLs)

484 the cutie with a spork?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:36 PM (CE6iV)


glaaaarg

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:42 PM (y87Qq)

485 471---I don't think he even needs to say that much. He already issued a statement when she died. Just leave it at that.
Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:30 PM (sdi6R)
------------------------------------
THIS. If the effing media presses it, just have Sarah point out that having a POTUS at such an event is an enormous distraction that does a disservice to the deceased and family --- which is why presidents do not ordinarily attend.

In any case, since when do POTUSes go to celeb funerals? They rarely even go to head-of-state ones, usually sending the VP or SoS.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 01:43 PM (0jtPF)

486 479
Buy two entrees, get a waxing for free?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:36 PM (NWiLs)


*types*
*deletes*

Well, of course, steaks should have the hide removed, but... I'm not a fan of waxing.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 01:44 PM (sdi6R)

487 Speaking of "on a stick". It reminds me of an Odd Couple episode where they hosted a student cellist, who ate a whole shishkebab that Felix had made, off a stick in a few seconds.

I can't find the episode, but it was significant because this is mainstream TV we're talking about, and this episode had a very strong anti-affirmative action message.

Turned out the student was talented at football, but was horrible at the cello, and the only reason the music department wanted to recruit him was to fill a diversity quota. Felix and Oscar realized that he was being played and talked him out of accepting the offer.

It's amazing this would be absolutely censored now. TV is forbidden from examining moral distinctions or questioning leftist principles. If anyone can identify the episode, I'd be thankful. It may have been scrubbed, or maybe my bing-fu and youtube-fu are just failing.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 01:45 PM (/qEW2)

488 glaaaarg
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:42 PM (y87Qq)

too cute

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:46 PM (CE6iV)

489 Here's an okay clip on the Star Wars exhibit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EBG3CY_gA

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:47 PM (kQs4Y)

490 Hello my lovelies.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Commemorative Presidential Panties at August 18, 2018 01:47 PM (PCb3o)

491 If anyone can identify the episode, I'd be thankful. It may have been scrubbed, or maybe my bing-fu and youtube-fu are just failing.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 01:45 PM (/qEW2)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0664287/

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:48 PM (y87Qq)

492 In Iowa State Fair news, today is the annual State Fair chili contest. This is an International Chili Society sanctioned event and draws a large crowd. Today's competition was marred by controversity when one of the entrants was found to have adulterated his chili with carrots. The offender was disqualified, banned from future competitions and ejected from the fairgrounds.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 01:49 PM (AOpTF)

493 Here's an okay clip on the Star Wars exhibit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EBG3CY_gA
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 01:47 PM (kQs4Y)


Trigger warning: ewok.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:50 PM (y87Qq)

494 The offender was disqualified, banned from future competitions and ejected from the fairgrounds.
Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 01:49 PM (AOpTF)


Sent to the cornfield?

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:50 PM (y87Qq)

495 Sent to the cornfield?
Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:50 PM (y87Qq)

planted head first in the carrot patch

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:51 PM (CE6iV)

496 What exactly is in Chewie's bandolier?

Posted by: Purina Wookiee Treats? at August 18, 2018 01:52 PM (YisB7)

497 >>>Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:48 PM (y87Qq)

Thank you sir, that is the one. The funniest scene is where he starts playing some Bach piece, Felix is in heaven for a few seconds, but then he starts playing out of tune, and Felix has this look of horror on his face.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 18, 2018 01:54 PM (/qEW2)

498 496 What exactly is in Chewie's bandolier?

==
suppositories

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at August 18, 2018 01:55 PM (CE6iV)

499 What exactly is in Chewie's bandolier?
Posted by: Purina Wookiee Treats? at August 18, 2018 01:52 PM (YisB7)


A gentleman never asks, and a wookiee never tells.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 01:57 PM (y87Qq)

500 The Kookifornians are up to it again:

New CA Bill To Mandate Only Milk, Water With Kids' Meals...

-
California: where coke and pedophilia are OK and Coke and kids aren't.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 01:58 PM (+y/Ru)

501 Interpretive Specialist Melanie Parker is pretty hot, but jeez that voice.

Posted by: vocal fry at August 18, 2018 01:58 PM (YisB7)

502 IIRC Obama loved attending celebrity funerals but wasn't so interested in military funerals.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 01:58 PM (zJmMh)

503 New CA Bill To Mandate Only Milk, Water With Kids' Meals

The California government could teach North Korea a thing or two about totalitarianism.

Posted by: rickl at August 18, 2018 02:01 PM (sdi6R)

504 "I was going to say that Teddy has nothing to do with NY"

Like his brothers, he grew up in Riverdale and Bronxchester during Papa Joe's Wall Street and Hollywood days.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 02:02 PM (1UZdv)

505 And here's one more link"

http://www.powerofcostume.si.edu/costumes.html

Bummed that it's not coming to the Smithsonian.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 02:04 PM (kQs4Y)

506 Bronxville

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 18, 2018 02:07 PM (1UZdv)

507 having a POTUS at such an event is an enormous distraction that does a disservice to the deceased and family --- which is why presidents do not ordinarily attend.


Absolutely; A funeral service (if it's a Christian one ) is a time to thank God for the life of the person, to commit their soul to God, to remember Scriptural promises about Jesus' resurrection and ours and to ask God for grace and comfort for survivors. Since people were responding to Trump's tweet recognizing the death of Aretha Franklin with comments like: "You're a f'ing racist. How dare you make a comment about Aretha Franklin" the partisan atmosphere surrounding it would be awful Let the people who knew and loved her best attend. . I think it would be inappropriate for Obama to attend too. They'd have to a provide Secret Service protection for him as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 02:09 PM (AllCR)

508 Bummed that it's not coming to the Smithsonian.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 02:04 PM (kQs4Y)


Hmmm... it's around all next month too. It's been far too long since I've been to DIA. Whenever I scrounge up someone to go museuming in Detroit we end up at the Ford. Which is nice! But it's not the only thing to see there.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 02:10 PM (y87Qq)

509 Quick check in and a gentle reminder:

JEFF SESSIONS STILL HAS NOT ARRESTED ANY OF THE CRIMINALS AT THE FBI/DOJ.

Have a great and wonderful weekend.

Posted by: Under Fire at August 18, 2018 02:13 PM (r9UYA)

510 The Henry Ford Museum is fantastic.

Mom and I both agree that they need to bring back:

1) Packards
2) Fins
3) Trunks big enough for five bodies
4) Rumble seats

I liked the section with the McCormick Reaper and all the tractors too.


Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 02:14 PM (kQs4Y)

511 Sargon talks about the less-dumb Cuomo and "America was never great."

https://youtu.be/cQCpwzPEDMM

Listen to the cackling hags laughing women cackling hags in the audience when he says that line. Always listen to the audience for additional context.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 18, 2018 02:15 PM (rnAwa)

512 483 Joking aside, I'm curious what you meant by "perfectionist/idealist monkey"
Posted by: Insomniac at August 18, 2018 01:38 PM (NWiLs)
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I don't know if I can articulate it very well.

It's a matter of being TOO goal-oriented and having high standards of what constitutes achievement.

It's a matter of being paralyzed in action great or small because of the (usually realistic) fear that things won't turn out the way your mind wants them to.

It's the thing that made me give up painting for ages, despite loving the brush in my hand--- the disgust at the gulf between what I wanted to do and what I actually did.

It's the reason why a room in our house is covered in dust, cobwebs, grime, and clutter. The carpet is wretched and we need to put in wood floors. So there's no point in cleaning it because, until the carpet is gone, it won't look Just Right anyway. And if it can't be Just Right, it might as well look like a homeless camp.

If I can't have a life that is Just Right, I shall have no life at all.

It's a matter of my saying, eh, don't hit "post" because the answer is inadequate.








Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 02:15 PM (0jtPF)

513 Mom and I both agree that they need to bring back:


5) Dymaxion houses

I almost added "...and Greenfield Village", but lol, if you have a couple of hours, you're going to the Ford, don't even pretend.

Greenfield Village is fun as hell and would be a destination by itself, it's just a shame it's right next to the Ford Museum which needs a full day to ALMOST see it all.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 18, 2018 02:17 PM (y87Qq)

514 Hillary Clinton's Commemorative Presidential Panties
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 02:18 PM (0jtPF)

515 The magnet in the motor of my washing machine's pump cracked and a piece broke off and it doesn't work. So I'm just sitting around waiting for Amazon to bring a replacement.
No good estate sales, I got distracted and lost a local auction for a pair of Gustavian repro chairs I could have afforded and now will never have.

A branch fell on the roof and cracked it like an eggshell and it hasn't rained yet so I'm not sure if it's really repaired correctly.

I feel rather thwarted to tell you the truth.

I need a big pile of money and a new house.

Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:22 PM (Sp1NT)

516 223 Things!
Posted by: runner at August 18, 2018 11:33 AM (tnOuI)

My God! They're EVERYWHERE!

Posted by: BJM at August 18, 2018 02:23 PM (O74hG)

517 Washington State wildlife officers refuse to rescue woman treed by a pack of wolves because wolves are people better than people, too.

https://bit.ly/2nLMYbL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 18, 2018 02:26 PM (+y/Ru)

518 My God! They're EVERYWHERE!
Posted by: BJM at August 18, 2018 02:23 PM (O74hG)


DON'T PANIC SIR DON'T PANIC

Posted by: L/Cpl Jones at August 18, 2018 02:26 PM (y87Qq)

519 This is a rather clever R-and in Mass, no less. He beats trangender drivers license bill by forcing votes on all 73 genders:

https://tinyurl.com/yd3wglqs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 02:27 PM (AllCR)

520 248
it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 18, 2018 11:41 AM (HaL55)

My God! It's EVERYWHERE!

Posted by: BJM at August 18, 2018 02:27 PM (O74hG)

521 The VDH link is a great talk.
Thanks for the link.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at August 18, 2018 02:30 PM (w7KSn)

522 507----Absolutely; A funeral service (if it's a Christian one ) is a time to thank God for the life of the person, to commit their soul to God, to remember Scriptural promises about Jesus' resurrection and ours and to ask God for grace and comfort for survivors....Let the people who knew and loved her best attend. .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 02:09 PM (AllCR)
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This. And Aretha was most definitely a Christian.

Sure, her fame being so great, there is bound to be a lot of extraneous hooplah at a public funeral. (That's why many celebs have a separate, very private service too.)

I expect it will be like a concert with more than a few performers eager to grab attention.

But there's no need to make it MUCH worse by injecting bitter politics.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 02:32 PM (0jtPF)

523 Here's what pull out the carpet and put in a floating floor, or make a floor cloth or put down some MDF and fricking paint it, pinterest-style, with some no-prime chalk paint.

It's hard to keep hope when everything is broken and you can't have your simple dreams realized. But chalk paint is a pretty good cure for a bad floor.


Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:33 PM (Sp1NT)

524 But there's no need to make it MUCH worse by injecting bitter politics.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 02:32 PM (0jtPF)

Exactly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2018 02:34 PM (AllCR)

525 I want a Pierce Arrow.
Ever see one of those?
The wheels come up to your shoulders.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at August 18, 2018 02:34 PM (w7KSn)

526 That VDH column in the sidebar manage to provoke. I have no doubt the average Moron is better read, more intelligent and smells better than that elitist nincompoop who needed to vent about Trump supporters.
Oddly enough I remember a time when being elitist meant having an IQ about 35.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 02:36 PM (zJmMh)

527 Gerald Ford, eaten by wolves... he was delicious. https://youtu.be/u7IN1UDWJgY

Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:38 PM (Sp1NT)

528 Leftists are just a bunch of kill-joy bastards

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2018 02:39 PM (lxZ71)

529 517
Washington State wildlife officers refuse to rescue woman treed by a pack of wolves because wolves are people better than people, too.

We camped up in that area in late June of this year(Loup Loup Pass) and knew there were wolf packs sighted in the area. Guess what? Under Wife and I both had Glocks on our belts. Why didn't the salmon researcher?

Posted by: Under Fire at August 18, 2018 02:40 PM (r9UYA)

530
In Iowa State Fair news, today is the annual State Fair chili contest. This is an International Chili Society sanctioned event and draws a large crowd. Today's competition was marred by controversity when one of the entrants was found to have adulterated his chili with carrots. The offender was disqualified, banned from future competitions and ejected from the fairgrounds.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 18, 2018 01:49 PM (AOpTF)


Of course you realize this means war!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at August 18, 2018 02:41 PM (10vO4)

531 Washington State wildlife officers refuse to rescue woman treed by a pack of wolves because wolves are people better than people, too.

That reminds me of a scene in LOTR . It's too bad she didn't have Gandalf with her.

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 02:42 PM (zJmMh)

532 I need a big pile of money and a new house.

Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:22 PM


This is why we need socialism in this country, so that you can lose your house and I can keep my three homes.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders - Avowed Socialist at August 18, 2018 02:43 PM (LOgQ4)

533 532
This is why we need socialism in this country, so that you can lose your house and I can keep my three homes.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders - Avowed Socialist at August 18, 2018 02:43 PM (LOgQ4)
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Preach it, brother!

Posted by: Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, et alia ad nauseam at August 18, 2018 02:46 PM (0jtPF)

534 The last performance of Aretha's I saw was at the Lions game on Thanksgiving.

No one kneeled when she sang the anthem.

R.I.P.

Posted by: logprof at August 18, 2018 02:48 PM (e7oj4)

535 Why didn't the salmon researcher have a Glock on her belt? Because researcher-eatin' wolves are a make-believe concept. https://youtu.be/-toH-FyPCuk

Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:49 PM (Sp1NT)

536 492, they shouldn't have been so hasty in that life long ban, a tar and feather job would have sufficient

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2018 02:50 PM (lxZ71)

537 Anybody else think "comedian" Michelle Wolf looks like Benicio del Toro in a curly wig?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 02:50 PM (kQs4Y)

538 >>535
Why didn't the salmon researcher have a Glock on her belt? Because
researcher-eatin' wolves are a make-believe concept.
https://youtu.be/-toH-FyPCuk

LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at August 18, 2018 02:57 PM (r9UYA)

539 We were seriously entertaining the idea of flying to Sweden to get a Volvo with the built in moose alert but what with Gothenburg car-torchings aren't so sure we shouldn't wait until well after the elections. And I don't want to go in winter. Swedish beaches really aren't that much fun though, if you want a beach trip go someplace else.

Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:58 PM (Sp1NT)

540 (Loup Loup Pass)

Waaaaaiiit. She went to a place literally called "wolf wolf pass" and didn't expect wolves?

"Researcher". I think I'll have to adjust my definition of this word.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2018 02:58 PM (P1f+c)

541 537 Anybody else think "comedian" Michelle Wolf looks like Benicio del Toro in a curly wig?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 02:50 PM (kQs4Y)
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No, not in the least --- but that still made me laugh bigly!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 18, 2018 02:59 PM (0jtPF)

542
Remember the story of the lesbian feminist "icon" professor charged with sexually harassing her gay male student? Well, here's her picture. And his:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6072623

His name is Nimrod. For real.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 18, 2018 03:01 PM (8O3HH)

543 Tell me I'm wrong, Margarita!

https://tinyurl.com/ya9boznc


Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 18, 2018 03:02 PM (kQs4Y)

544
Waaaaaiiit. She went to a place literally called "wolf wolf pass" and didn't expect wolves?


Weel they're supposed to pass and not chase people up a tree.

Posted by: Big City Nature Weenie at August 18, 2018 03:04 PM (10vO4)

545 Pets are a NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2018 03:04 PM (lxZ71)

546 Anybody been watching FNC this afternoon?

Seems like they're up to their old NeverTrumper tricks. They've got guys on there on the defending Trump side, on the security clearance thing" saying ridiculously stupid things that support the other side's desire to not have a bunch more pulled. It's pretty unwatchable.

Really, I don't know why anybody's still talking about it. The guy was at the center of a seditious cabal, and has been using his clearance to smear the POTUS and push nutty conspiracy theories. He really IS a genuine disgrace - and worse - as you might expect for a Communist.

The way these cucks talk about it, you'd think he was being denied the right to vote, or being thrown in jail. It's beyond ridiculous.

Posted by: Optimizer at August 18, 2018 03:25 PM (hOOi9)

547 His name is Nimrod. For real.

Well, the Biblical "Nimrod" was the king who supposedly built the Tower of Babel, a "mighty hunter", and a great-grandson of Noah.

Was he a foreign student? "Nimrod" meaning "dork" is an American thing.

Posted by: mikeski at August 18, 2018 03:27 PM (P1f+c)

548
Really, I don't know why anybody's still talking about it. The guy was at the center of a seditious cabal, and has been using his clearance to smear the POTUS and push nutty conspiracy theories. He really IS a genuine disgrace - and worse - as you might expect for a Communist.


And they fail to put it in context by pointing out this started almost two years ago with the horrendous amount of leaking that was going on.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at August 18, 2018 03:52 PM (10vO4)

549 539 We were seriously entertaining the idea of flying to Sweden to get a Volvo with the built in moose alert but what with Gothenburg car-torchings aren't so sure we shouldn't wait until well after the elections. And I don't want to go in winter. Swedish beaches really aren't that much fun though, if you want a beach trip go someplace else.
Posted by: sarahw at August 18, 2018 02:58 PM (Sp1NT)

Do Boris and Natasha come with it as well?

Actually my experience with moose on the road suggests a moose alert would consist of the car shrieking "you're going to die; you're going to die."

Posted by: Northernlurker lurkier than ever at August 18, 2018 04:01 PM (nBr1j)

550 Not many moose in se Pennsylvania but my aunt and uncle in Alaska tell me it's usually a total loss with the car, but they do also I hear taste pretty good so not a total loss to the driver.

Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2018 04:07 PM (lxZ71)

551 Not many moose in se Pennsylvania but my aunt and uncle in Alaska tell me it's usually a total loss with the car, but they do also I hear taste pretty good so not a total loss to the driver.
Posted by: Skip at August 18, 2018 04:07 PM (lxZ71)

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An ex roommate of mine totaled his rental car in SE PA in an encounter with a 7 point buck deer one night. Deer was injured, but able to walk away.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 18, 2018 04:18 PM (I16G8)

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