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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (11/18/18 )
“What hurts the most is this wanton disregard for the public safety of the community, apparently for some sort of personal vendetta, I don’t know … but it’s definitely gonna be difficult. It just made a difficult job more difficult.” Garden City (MO) Police Chief Thomas Alber
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For example, the several hundred people who were arrested for felony rioting at the time of the President's inauguration have all been let go. But, on the other hand, there’s complete Unequal Justice in Charlottesville, at the Unite The Right Rally. People who were simply defending themselves are going to jail. The people who attacked them were being let off. So, yes, we've reached the limits of American pluralism. Peter Brimelow
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When stupidity seems a sufficient explanation, there is no need for recourse to any more elaborate analysis. Michael M. Uhlmannh/t Hrothgar
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“Everything government touches turns to crap.” Ringo Starr
Tonight's giggle...........
Brilliant, fvcking stupendously brilliant.
At least one person has died and 229 others have been injured as around 282,000 people protested against soaring fuel prices throughout France. Police used tear gas to stop demonstrators at the Champs-Elysees.
Starting from the early hours of Saturday, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of French cities to express their discontent with the policies of President Emmanuel Macron and the French government’s recent decision to raise fuel prices through additional taxes. “Gasoline prices never stop rising. It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back. Macron and his buddies just let… things go from bad to worse,” one protester told RT.
If this teacher is telling the truth, The Snowflake Nation continues to swell.
“Long story short, one of the kids wanted to see the counselor, and then two days later I was asked to leave the building and never come back,” he said during a school board hearing this Tuesday, according to station KMOV. The school revealed to him that the student had told them he’d been “hurt” my Furkin’s remark, and according to KTVI, this “hurt” that Furkin allegedly delivered to the boy counted as an act of “bullying.”
I wish Congress critter Eric Swalwell (D-CA) had a pair of balls and was honest about his intentions.
Dem Rep Left Speechless After Dana Loesch Asks the One Gun Control Question He Couldn’t Answer
No word if this is the congress critter as a young boy............
Strong resemblance.
Illegal immigrants cost the U.S. billions a year in health care costs that the illegals never pay for, a Forbes Mag. report says. And that is even though federal law supposedly prohibits this spending. Federal law claims that no federal dollars can go to pay for health care for illegals. Unfortunately, this is a smoke screen because literally BILLIONS of our tax dollars go to fund medical care for illegals anyway. Forbes magazine’s Chris Conover recent ran the numbers and came up with at least $18.5 billion of our tax dollars wasted on health care for illegal immigrants.
I'm guessing we all have had some crappy maybe even shitty jobs over the years. Probably none this shitty.
Murder is murder. Countries kill their own citizens, shocking isn't it. Why wont the USA hold Saudi Arabia responsible?
There’s One Reason America Refuses to Hold Saudi Arabia Responsible for Murder The apparent extrajudicial execution of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey on Oct. 2, 2018 seemed like a watershed moment in the protracted push to hold the autocratic, theocratic Saudi regime accountable.
The moment seems to have passed. The recent U.S. elections have overshadowed the story, and neither Khashoggi’s murder nor U.S. relations to the Saudi government were election issues.
How is it possible that neither party took advantage of the controversy to stake out a position opposing such a criminal state? The answer is that Saudi Arabia is a linchpin of U.S. imperialism, and the American way of life makes it inevitable that we turn a blind eye to murder and crime from regimes like Saudi Arabia. Undoing that is something neither party intends to do.
Besides being a "Journalist", He was also an Islamic terrorism sympathizer.
As of late there has been a big push for more compassion in the criminal justice system. From prison reform to allowing felons to vote. #MeToo movement doesn't believe in forgiveness or compassion.
Before killing himself with a drug intended for rapid and painless animal euthanasia, Richard A. Morrisett had endured a nightmare at the University of Texas in Austin. The 57-year-old tenured professor of pharmacology and toxicology was once a rising star in the College of Pharmacy – a man regarded as a first-rate research scientist and teacher during his 21 years at the state's flagship university. Morrisett's research offered new insights into alcohol-related brain disorders and alcoholism – an arcane area of research among neuroscientists. Some colleagues called him “brilliant.” Morrisett's career, however, was destroyed by a single newspaper article. Published by the Austin American-Statesman, a metropolitan daily, the article dredged up an ugly episode from Morrisett's past – a domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend at the time.
Bill Maher is a fvcking a$$hole.
Merely days after the death of the comic world’s superhero, Stan Lee, television host and political commentator Bill Maher has blamed him for creating a culture responsible for electing President Donald Trump. Lee, who died on Monday at the age of 95, was the creator or co-creator of characters such as the Fantastic Four, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men. How this led a generation to elect Trump is unclear from Maher’s post, titled “Adulting,” that he shared on his blog early Saturday. “The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning,” he wrote in his post. “Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess.
Wanna go on a cruise with me?
November 18, 2017, Australian musician and songwriter Malcolm Young died age 64. Young was best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for AC/DC. Except for a brief absence in 1988, he was with the band from its November 1973 beginning until retiring permanently in 2014. Young was born in 1953 in Glasgow before his family emigrated to Australia when he was 10. His family confirmed he was suffering from dementia in 2014. via thisdayinmusic.com
November 18, 1962, Born on this day, Kirk Hammett, guitar, Metallica, (1991 UK No.5 single 'Enter Sandman', 1991 US & UK No.1 album 'Metallica'). via thisdayinmusic.com
“As individuals rack up DSCs, they would have both a permanent balance they’ve earned over their lifetime and a current balance. They could cash the points in for experiences, purchases with participating vendors, support for causes, and transfer points to others for special occasions,” Yang states on his website. “As their permanent balance gets higher, they might qualify for various perks like throwing a pitch at a local ballgame, an audience with their local Congressperson or meeting their state’s most civic-minded athlete or celebrity.”
Sounds like this candidate has been culturally misappropriating from the Commies of China.
TANUGGYI, Myanmar -- A hot air balloon packed with pyrotechnics exploded over a crowd during a popular festival in Myanmar, sending revelers running for cover. The frightening scene unfolded Nov. 14 during the Tazaungdaing Festival of Lights, an annual celebration that marks the end of the wet season in Myanmar. According to local media reports, festival organizers invite participants to launch unmanned balloons full of fireworks to usher in a new season.
At the right place, at the right time with the right attitude. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
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2 [386 comments] 'Mark Andrew Edwards, yea Nationalism'
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4 [357 comments] 'qdpsteve'
5 [345 comments] 'Jonah'
6 [330 comments] 'Yudhishthira's Dice'
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8 [309 comments] 'Insomniac'
9 [305 comments] 'yankeefifth'
10 [302 comments] 'runner' Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [51 names] 'Miklos, at the Waffle House' [7.16 unique names/day]
2 [40 names] 'Adirondack Patriot'
3 [35 names] 'LeftCoast Dawg'
4 [31 names] 'Duncanthrax'
5 [26 names] 'Notorious BFD'
6 [24 names] 'Duncanthrax'
7 [23 names] 'Bertram Cabot, Jr.'
8 [23 names] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
9 [23 names] 'Meade Lux Lewis'
10 [22 names] 'Julia Ioffe'
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(Jump to bottom of comments)For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil, but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house...
Yea verily, even the Wisdom of Solomon teacheth us that into the crazed thou shalt not stick thine rod.
Posted by: mindful webworker - yes at November 18, 2018 09:44 PM (n3Kee)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2018 09:44 PM (QWpu1)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 09:44 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 09:45 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:46 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 09:47 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: mindful webworker - and you can believe me at November 18, 2018 09:47 PM (n3Kee)
Posted by: mindful webworker - in a Waldo hat with a kitten at November 18, 2018 09:48 PM (n3Kee)
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What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:49 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:51 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 09:51 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:53 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: Roger Ramjet at November 18, 2018 09:54 PM (NtIho)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at November 18, 2018 09:55 PM (CLcKT)
Posted by: lowandslow at November 18, 2018 09:55 PM (gNCcC)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 09:56 PM (e/WPM)
Posted by: lowandslow at November 18, 2018 09:55 PM (gNCcC)
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THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:56 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: Ladyl at November 18, 2018 09:57 PM (TdMsT)
Victor Davis Hanson is Mark Levin's guest tonight on Life, Liberty & Levin (FOX) starting in a minute.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2018 09:57 PM (NtglE)
I mean it wasn't like I was hitting on the plant manager's daughter.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2018 09:57 PM (QWpu1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:51 PM (HJhxx)
Yeah, Myanmar-Shave just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 18, 2018 09:57 PM (+F0Wk)
You know what has three chambers there, champ?
Lizard hearts.
*looks around hopefully*
OK, I don't know where I was going with that. Sorry.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 09:58 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2018 09:58 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:51 PM
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Seriously. Myanmar Shave? I don't think so.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2018 09:58 PM (NtglE)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2018 09:59 PM (dczB+)
Posted by: Lizardheart at November 18, 2018 10:00 PM (H5knJ)
Several Hollywood actors have called for a boycott of Georgia's film industry after Republican Brian Kemp officially won the state's gubernatorial contest.
The reaction from Hollywood comes after Abrams has continued to argue, without evidence, that Kemp purposely suppressed black voters while he led the Georgia Secretary of State's office.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 10:00 PM (aKsyK)
Stunning. Hard to believe the Democrats elected a parody meme poster girl to one of the three branches of Congress.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for cortez eye exame at November 18, 2018 10:00 PM (n3Kee)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:56 PM (HJhxx)
THEY CERTAINLY ARE!
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 18, 2018 10:00 PM (q7IoS)
Posted by: Miklos, tatar steak is actually an American thing at November 18, 2018 10:01 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: no good deed at November 18, 2018 10:01 PM (1uG1d)
Good thing I can rest at work tomorrow.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (9rIkM)
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (Dagiw)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (uVK9r)
Posted by: jmel at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: jmel at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (OeWgo)
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The penalty for getting caught?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 18, 2018 10:03 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:03 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 18, 2018 09:57 PM (+F0Wk)
Seriously. Myanmar Shave? I don't think so.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2018 09:58 PM (NtglE)
All hail the Horde hive mind!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (+F0Wk)
Posted by: Farmer at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: lin-duh at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: Insomniac at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (T3zWB)
OANN showed a clip of a French government spokesman defending Macron's actions, and while I don't remember the exact wording, it was along the lines of "the French government will not be held hostage by these thugs, it will stand up for what it believes in." Arrogance, thy name is Jacques. (or whatever)
Posted by: T at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Insomniac at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (NWiLs)
Maybe the 'hq has low T?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Cicero
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The King is a fink!!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2018 09:58 PM (9rIkM)
The Lone Haranguer strikes again!
Posted by: Insomniac at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:05 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2018 10:06 PM (dczB+)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:06 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (uVK9r)
No, not really
See:
Gwen Moore
Hank Johnson
Sheila Jackson Lee
Cynthia Kinney
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 10:06 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: lin-duh at November 18, 2018 10:06 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM (CE5C/)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM (9rIkM)
Seems weird to write that title, but her long-time friend Sue D arranged for Joyce's Ohio folks to gather together to join in celebrating what would have been her 55th birthday.
As Sue said in her invitation:
"This gathering comes **EXACTLY** 25 years after having Joyce's 30th birthday party at my home! Even the same house! So I'm serving BW3 wings, as I did 25 years ago :-)"
So we gathered this afternoon to plant this tree in Joyce's memory, and to share fond stories and memories (and some yummy wings). And guess who joined us?
The one and only LadyL! What a treat to have her there to celebrate Joyce's memory. And of course this says so much for this community.
I am so grateful to Sue for making this happen (and I'm sure that Joyce is, too).
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (uVK9r)
No, she will be swaddled in bubble wrap. She's too valuable once she's
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (T3zWB)
Go DIAF! Preferably in steerage along with the other pretend conservatives.
Signed,
7.62 x 39
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (QWpu1)
I've also been culling through my decorations, downsizing a little, and hopefully making someone else's holiday happier when they find it at the Goodwill.
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (dczB+)
The reaction from Hollywood comes after Abrams has continued to argue, without evidence, that Kemp purposely suppressed black voters while he led the Georgia Secretary of State's office.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 10:00 PM (aKsyK)
Honestly, I don't think it would be such a bad thing if they did. The film industry's probably brought some business to the state, but it's also brought in a bunch of hipsters and "artistes" who make Atlanta even more of a nightmare and turn Georgia that much bluer. And it gives the Chamber of Commerce crowd that much more leverage over the GOP.
If a film boycott will weaken those two groups, I say go for it.
Posted by: T at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (T3zWB)
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Nope. Not enough syllables.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 10:09 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at November 18, 2018 10:09 PM (oAY8z)
"would definitely be better if we could hold off the freezing times.
Posted by: yankeefifth
Seriously.
All these fucking imbeciles pushing GoreBull Warmening as THE END OF THE WORLD have no idea what the true "resting" state of this planet is (hint - we are currently in a slightly warmer interglacial period IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ICE AGE) and has been for the last 20 million years:
MIND-FUCKINGLY COLD!!!
If only public policy was made in the US by people with brains, rather than ignorant people based on hysteria.
/Rant off
Posted by: Sharkman"
Posted by: Sharkman at November 18, 2018 10:09 PM (2eKoI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:09 PM (KP5rU)
This next two years are going to be non stop fun, I bet.
Te President should do an XO outlawing liberals and Democrats.
Posted by: irongrampa at November 18, 2018 10:10 PM (S/hVx)
Never ascribe to incompetence what can be adequately explained by malice.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 18, 2018 10:10 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 10:10 PM (aA3+G)
Low comment volume this past week.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM (NWiLs)
Maybe the 'hq has low T?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
The orange juice lacks palp.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 10:10 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Ladyl at November 18, 2018 10:11 PM (TdMsT)
By praising certain students for standing, the students who made the decision not to stand [for the Pledge] were humiliated and then teased...
I would say, would the last one leaving reality turn out the lights, but there's nobody left who knows how.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the horror! the horror! at November 18, 2018 10:11 PM (n3Kee)
This is not a complaint, just an observation. I have no idea how a YouTube video, uploaded today, with no fanfare or link-stuff, can garner a Like.
I guess there's some YouTube God (or Goddess--hey, baby!) who looks over these things. Great.
I sure wish there was someone in the same league who could send me a few bucks so I could stop being underwater, money wise.
But you know, those gods and goddesses in Greek and Roman times were really, really specific, so perhaps they need time to catch up to current times.
Thanks for the like.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:11 PM (l9m7l)
bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (H5knJ)
..........
I hear that. Been a fucked up bit lately (not the Horde). Our country is one step from a shit hole. Yay demoncraps!
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:11 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at November 18, 2018 10:12 PM (oAY8z)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 18, 2018 10:13 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:13 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 10:14 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (H5knJ)
Yeah. I've noticed.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:14 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2018 10:15 PM (QWpu1)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2018 10:15 PM (dczB+)
I didn't know Ringo Starr was a libertarian. The things you learn here.
Posted by: rickl
Maybe he doesn't like government because it doesn't do enough?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 10:15 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:16 PM (T3zWB)
My life is better for not knowing Maher.
Posted by: Northernlurker being f'n insufferable at November 18, 2018 10:17 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:16 PM (T3zWB)
Cute. I have a Maine Coon cat, she's a bit skittish, but very sweet.
On the flip side, she sheds like crazy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:17 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:16 PM (T3zWB)
D'awww
:3
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:17 PM (t+qrx)
Stan Lee was funny.
Here's Stan's last video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB688EBY-LM
&list=PLG3_B3t82rnJeUcpVgMw892igcQBdHosU
(The 2nd line is not required, but takes you to the latest Other People's Videos playlist du jour.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - thwwiippp at November 18, 2018 10:18 PM (n3Kee)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:18 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: klaftern at November 18, 2018 10:19 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:19 PM (l9m7l)
RIP Malcolm Young.
Posted by: otho at November 18, 2018 10:20 PM (LkFnL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:46 PM (HJhxx)
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He favored Brexit too!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2018 10:21 PM (Rxduq)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:21 PM (t+qrx)
Hey Big Sis!
78 MisHum
It was such a fun time!! It appears that my Baby Sis woulda been a true 'Etta,
!
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:22 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: wing at November 18, 2018 10:22 PM (JFzNN)
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=Y0lq_1542492480
Posted by: mindful webworker - partying heartily at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (n3Kee)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (uVK9r)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:21 PM (t+qrx)
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Now that you brought it up, no. Sucks when people just go silent.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (ffYR/)
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Swalwell and his party are the reason America's Founders intended the citizenry to possess military grade weaponry.
Posted by: Methos at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (kOpft)
All the taxes from gas go to pay pensions for transit workers (bus drivers, the railroad, etc) that sort of work for the government.
So all things considered, more people that get to retire at 55 or so want their pensions, and the rest of the country has to pay for them with higher gas prices, even though (actually) oil prices are falling worldwide.
Good call Macron. Good call.
Posted by: shibumi's friend, Bozo in the Mitten Kingdom at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (z1Dz9)
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (SsXuM)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:24 PM (vUcdz)
Hey Big Sis!
78 MisHum
It was such a fun time!! It appears that my Baby Sis woulda been a true 'Etta,
!
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:22 PM (vUcdz)
Ibguy--it was such a lovely tribute to Joyce. I was honored to have been included.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 18, 2018 10:24 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 18, 2018 10:04 PM
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Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2018 10:24 PM (NtglE)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:25 PM (3HNOQ)
I ain't spending my life here... I ain't livin' alone... ain't breakin' no rocks on the chain gang... I'm breakin' out and heading home.
Posted by: otho at November 18, 2018 10:25 PM (LkFnL)
On the flip side, she sheds like crazy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:17 PM (GBteo)
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Yup, honeywell air cleaners and brush OUTSIDE. Gawd, danderish and the fur is like a bad Dr Who episode where you get swarmed. But he is also very comedic. Tied for best life kitteh.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:26 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:23 PM (ffYR/)
It wouldn't be the first time she's gotten distracted and wandered off for a week or so, but yeah... I don't recall her around last weekend either.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:26 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:18 PM (LsBY9)
He sure as hell did.
Y'know, sometimes I envy you folks who live 'round D.C., California, NYC, Portlandia, etc.
Such target rich environments!
envy/off!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 18, 2018 10:26 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:02 PM (uVK9r)
No, she will be swaddled in bubble wrap. She's too valuable once she's sworn in"inaugurated". As long as she learns to play nice, she will spend the next 60 years with the Party hand up her ass as a golden sockpuppet.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:08 PM (t+qrx)
You better get used to seeing her face and hearing her voice. She is America's future.
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Sharkman at November 18, 2018 10:27 PM (2eKoI)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:28 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:29 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2018 10:29 PM (Dagiw)
Never happened when it was Burma.
Posted by: Uncle Lt. Col. Miklos, 1st Punjabi Lancers (ret.) at November 18, 2018 10:29 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:30 PM (uVK9r)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:51 PM (HJhxx)
And "Myanmarshave" didn't fit on the little signs.
I remember seeing actual BurmaShave signs, in the wild, as it were.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:30 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:30 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 10:30 PM (1+J19)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:31 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:31 PM (uVK9r)
Same people who've heard of "Mumbai" or the "Willis Tower".
No one.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:31 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (3HNOQ)
These are the same people who think coloring a rifle black makes it more deadly.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (vOkuK)
BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:29 PM (l9m7l)
......
Well that's just fun. Love you perking up. Love yourself.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Bwahahahaha.
You just don't get it, do you?
Posted by: Lois Lerner at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (1+J19)
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
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Back in the bad old days pre PDT, I was almost certain this was the case. Now, not so sure anymore.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:28 PM (T3zWB)
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is that anything like Dragon Energy?
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (Dagiw)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (3HNOQ)
I remember seeing actual BurmaShave signs, in the wild, as it were.
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I don't think I saw them, but my grandparents had a book documenting all the ads.
Posted by: Methos at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Infidel at November 18, 2018 10:35 PM (mGxqO)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2018 10:35 PM (Rxduq)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242361105096705
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242446413021185
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242535885938693
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242633671888898
Posted by: kbdabear at November 18, 2018 10:35 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: JAS at N
would guess being in pekig during the opium wars would have an impact on you.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 10:35 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (pHzbJ)
Posted by: JAS
----And Pluto was a planet?
And gay meant happy?And fag was a cigarette?
And you could smoke at work?
Damn, I just bummed myself out.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (9rIkM)
is that anything like Dragon Energy?
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (Dagiw)
.....
Well it all is here (other than drooly dooling trolls).
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Minimally productive Miklos at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: lowandslow at November 18, 2018 09:55 PM (gNCcC)
And it is about $26 per barrel here in Alberta, because we lack the pipeline capacity to get it to market, thanks to treehuggers and commie politicians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (fDU8w)
> Posted by: Lois Lerner
That was when Eric Holder was running DoJ.
If Sessionzzz were still in charge, I'd agree with you, but I'm cautiously optimistic that the new AG (whoever it turns out being) will actually enforce the law.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (vOkuK)
Pfft. I remember back when Germany was the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (HJhxx)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242723862061056
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242812512813056
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242894226276353
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064242973850943488
Posted by: kbdabear at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 18, 2018 10:33 PM (SiINZ)
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it is the accepted wisdom at our house that Ringo is the happiest and most successful Beatle, if only because he never got the big head, and just lives life to the fullest, without getting full of himself.
he strikes me as a great guy to have a beer with and shoot the shit. down to earth, and low on arrogance. he got luck and he knows it.
"Sir" Paul, OTOH, strikes me as an arrogant asshole, and his music is for shit, unless he lucks into w*rking with someone who has more talent than he does. he also got lucky, but won't admit it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (Dagiw)
Ringo for the win
Posted by: TheQuietMan
John Lennon: Yoko Ono
Ringo Starr: Barbara Bach
Nuff sed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:37 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:27 PM (sdi6R)
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Back in the bad old days pre PDT, I was almost certain this was the case. Now, not so sure anymore.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (ffYR/)
This last election makes me think that Trump is just a speedbump on the road to socialism.
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:37 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: sOME mORON at November 18, 2018 10:37 PM (uVK9r)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:37 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:37 PM (vUcdz)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064243064917643265
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064243168105897994
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064243268492423168
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1064243378358022146
Posted by: kbdabear at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (0Ntuf)
themselves are going to jail. The people who attacked them were being
let off.
***
This is one of the real problems we face.
Everyone is familiar with "their violence is free speech, our free speech is violence"...but the left is now treating this as the law.
As a point to consider...if a black nationalist rally had ended with Neo-Nazis attacking them, with the implicit approval of the local mayor, wouldn't that mayor be in jail right now?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (+DkQm)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: JAS
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I still call Sri Lanka 'Ceylon', and Thailand 'Siam'.
I enjoy the offense it gives in some quarters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (vUcdz)
Posted by: Ladyl at November 18, 2018 10:39 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: JAS at November 18, 2018 10:39 PM (3HNOQ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:39 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:40 PM (LsBY9)
And it is about $26 per barrel here in Alberta, because we lack the pipeline capacity to get it to market, thanks to treehuggers and commie politicians.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:36 PM (fDU8w)
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More inclined to first blame Globalist Fucktard Oligarchs who hire the jackwads to protest.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:40 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 10:40 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:39 PM (l9m7l)
Prostate cancer?
Hemorrhoids?
Canine hip dysplasia?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:39 PM (l9m7l)
.......
BC that's effed. If I interpret you correctly than call for help.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2018 10:43 PM (7T5tR)
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:42 PM (sdi6R)
I'll bet Vic remembers when it was Byzantium.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 10:43 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:43 PM (KP5rU)
They could've been up for a Nobel Peace Prize that way.
Posted by: Sjg at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (gDSJf)
I make an exception for Burma/Myanmar because the people who run the place are shitheads and shouldn't be allowed to name their own pets.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (t+qrx)
Tried voting swipes.
Soon may these types
Start wearing stripes.
Burma Shave!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM (vUcdz)
I always looked forward to reading your updates and your sister's attempt to not just survive the disease, but to enjoy life. Her example provided inspiration for me, since the first time I really noticed them was shortly after my diagnosis. I am happy to see that you are still celebrating her life.
Posted by: half a mind at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (np68J)
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2018 10:45 PM (7T5tR)
Jonah at November 18, 2018 10:43 PM (7T5tR)
.......
Wish he was 20 years younger. Make him benevolent till senile.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:45 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Dems at November 18, 2018 10:45 PM (NpvYf)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (+DkQm)
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I would hope so.
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 10:45 PM (55Mek)
These are the same people who think coloring a rifle black makes it more deadly.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:32 PM (vOkuK)
Yeah, it's just about the talking points. The goal is, and always has been, complete ban of civilian ownership of firearms. They try to use silly catch phrases to scare LIVs and give their NPC's talking points.
"semi-automatic" "pistol grip" "assault-style" "high capacity" etc. etc.
The media uses one or more of those phrases in every single negative story about guns to reinforce their point.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:46 PM (GBteo)
I've never heard of an Austrian getting pissy about people who still calling Vienna.
I haven't seen English people getting pissy about the French calling it Londres, either.
Nor even Americans getting pissy about the Mexicans calling our country Los Estados Unidos.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:47 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 10:30 PM (1+J19)
Perhaps they think it enables you to shoot a rifle one-handed, therefore you shoot two at once?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:48 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:47 PM (vOkuK)
Norte Americano, amigo!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 10:48 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: NavyLurker at November 18, 2018 10:49 PM (/tdLl)
Good point. Does hogmartin think we should force the Turks to change it back to Constantinople, or Byzantium?
The Greeks built it, and gave it those names. Istanbul is a name given to it by the Turkish conquerors.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:50 PM (vOkuK)
When Hollywood stops making movies with gun violence, I'll know the Democrats are serious about gun violence.
Most gun violence in the US is Democrats shooting Democrats.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:50 PM (LsBY9)
Pretty well. Work was uneventful (i.e., no griping from the usual negative nabobs), I started sound and light work for the community theatre's christmas play, and got to meet so new folks at a karaoke bar in the city.
Only downside is having to buy some new tires this week. But I'm not worried.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at November 18, 2018 10:50 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: tbodie at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (OZZ16)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at N
well, they have decided to start marketing their full size pickups to women.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (MTjB1)
I just wonder at this point how I can convince my father to give me the guns he bought for me when I was young back.
It's only a .22 Revolver and a .243 Hunting Rifle, but I'd still like to have them back.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (55Mek)
This is a better point than arguing the niceties of which caliber goes with which semi-automatic.
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2018 10:52 PM (lK7fO)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:52 PM (KP5rU)
Huzzah!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 09:53 PM (HJhxx)
https://youtu.be/voo60HArCnU
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2018 10:52 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (pHzbJ)
I need a new car. I've had my current one for 10 years.
But it only has 69,000 miles on it, and any other car with only 69,000 miles on it is going to cost more than the value I'll get from what I've got now (When I bought the car, it had 30 miles on it).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 10:54 PM (k+6VI)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:40 PM (T3zWB)
Well, yeah. But they are sort of included under "commie politicians". Soros may not be in public office, but his puppets are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (fDU8w)
These are the same people who think coloring a rifle black makes it more deadly.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at N
when we were in ny I called a gunshop outside the city to inquire about buying a benelli with a pistol grip, he nearly freaked out. not worried with selling the plain old benelli but the second I inquired about the pistol grip, he lost it.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (t+qrx)
Nope.
The people who speak a language get to decide what they want to call you and your country when they speak their language. Maybe they'll adopt what you call it, maybe they won't.
Posted by: Sjg at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (KP5rU)
She gets dumped and they lose the brick and mortar that united the dem front
Posted by: Jonah at November 18, 2018 10:56 PM (7T5tR)
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 10:51 PM (55Mek)
Always a slick dressed smartass, usually wearing an ensemble of grey n' white. Big ears, enamored of carrots?
He had an epiphany that he should've taken a right turn, there, Doc.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 18, 2018 10:56 PM (QzJWU)
But it only has 69,000 miles on it, and any other car with only 69,000 miles on it is going to cost more than the value I'll get from what I've got now (When I bought the car, it had 30 miles on it).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM
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I got a chevy silverado 2003 w over 300k. Just keep you auto. Save the newcarbill.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:56 PM (T3zWB)
Good point. Does hogmartin think we should force the Turks to change it back to Constantinople, or Byzantium?
The Greeks built it, and gave it those names. Istanbul is a name given to it by the Turkish conquerors.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:50 PM (vOkuK)
This might be a case where it may be better to leave it to the Russians to sort out.
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 10:57 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: tbodie at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (OZZ16)
But it only has 69,000 miles on it, and any other car with only 69,000 miles on it is going to cost more than the value I'll get from what I've got now (When I bought the car, it had 30 miles on it).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (pgXNG)
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May I ask why you feel that you need a new one? That car should go another 100k miles easily, unless it has issues already.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (ffYR/)
I haven't seen English people getting pissy about the French calling it Londres, either.
Nor even Americans getting pissy about the Mexicans calling our country Los Estados Unidos.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:47 PM (vOkuK)
I didn't hear anyone getting pissy about anything. If the people who live somewhere want to change what it's called, I don't care, they can change it. They live there. The few times a year I care what it's called, I can either remember it or look it up or call it by the old name. Whatever someone who doesn't speak their language decided it sounded like a couple hundred years ago isn't inherently a more valid name just because it's what I grew up calling it.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (DMUuz)
They could've been up for a Nobel Peace Prize that way.
Posted by: Sjg at November 18, 2018 10:44 PM (gDSJf)
That article was typical Marxist crap. Khashoggi needed killing. They made a messy job of it, but he was one of theirs. Ain't no right to due process in the magic kingdom.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (fDU8w)
With glamour girls
You'll never click
Bewhiskered
Like a
Bolshevik
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:56 PM (T3zWB)
My grandfather has started bugging me to buy a new car.
I don't have as much money in my savings as he expects me to have, though.
Maybe going into next January, I have enough to buy a new car with cash, but I really don't want to do it...
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (pgXNG)
I need a new car. I've had my current one for 10 years.
But it only has 69,000 miles on it, and any other car with only 69,000 miles on it is going to cost more than the value I'll get from what I've got now (When I bought the car, it had 30 miles on it).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (pgXNG)
Why do you need a new one then?
I drive a 2008 with 125,000 miles on it. Works fine.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (ffYR/)
Because my grandfather is riding my ass about it.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:59 PM (pgXNG)
Or maybe a joint commission of Armenians, Greeks, and Serbs.
That would work out well, I'm sure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 10:59 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 11:00 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 11:00 PM (k+6VI)
I drive a 2008 with 125,000 miles on it. Works fine.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 10:58 PM (Rz2Nc)
I'm driving a 2009 Nissan Versa that I paid for straight up in cash.
Well, I didn't exactly.
My grandfather gifted me a $17,000 dividend check that I used to buy it, heh. He told me to buy a car with it.
But yeah, he wants to know why I'm still driving the same car after 10 years.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at N
lol, they are most worried about the fact that every shooting costs them two votes.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Zed Zed Toppp at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (aKsyK)
Well, yeah. But they are sort of included under "commie politicians". Soros may not be in public office, but his puppets are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (fDU8w)
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Agree. Hate that nazi war criminal POS. How he keeps breathing? Why Israel has not extradited based on Steve Kroft interview? But Soros POS is only one of hundreds of globalist oligarchs who wish us dead.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (aA3+G)
That's not going to happen.
He wiped out most of what he had left taking care of his wife when she got sick.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Summer of Love at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (FJrl0)
Only one in Florida, though, thanks to that new law.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (vOkuK)
Lol
They might want to consider the following phrase as well, location, location, location
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 11:03 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 11:03 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM
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I got a chevy silverado 2003 w over 300k. Just keep you auto. Save the newcarbill.
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 10:56 PM (T3zWB)
Yeah, I'm currently rocking an '09 civic with 209,xxx on it.
I'll be excited to upgrade, for sure, as I've had it since new and am looking for something better, but I'm saving money to buy something newer and less practical for cash.
The Civic runs fine, I'm just bored with it ha.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at N
well, they have to do their tie first so that could take them out of the election for one or two congressional elections.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (MTjB1)
Nah, Israel is too soft on criminals.
Extradite him to Malaysia, where they have laws with teeth.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:53 PM (pgXNG)
Why do you "need" a new car? If it's ten years old, and has only 69,000 miles on it, it's practically a new car. My newest vehicle is an '08 Suburban with about 240,000 km on it = 145,000 miles. These things now typically run to over 400,000 km now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (fDU8w)
Can't say for sure off hand exactly when the job was created but it was created by the NAVY. The British Navy.
The young were used because they could speed up and down the low ceilinged decks and in the magazine more easily than a full grown man or even teenager. Many or most powder magazines had thick wet felt cloths placed over small openings into the magazine where the Gunner mates put together the charges for the guns to prevent fire and explosions from setting off the powder. These charges were handed to the powder monkeys who scampered through the curtains and the short doors and up to their respective guns.
This was probably also used in forts and such but they could protect the magazine better as they had only a few directions to be concerned about incoming.
Most apprentices jobs aboard naval vessels were how the training of new sailors was done as it took years to impart all the knowledge of a master.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (D+X8V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (AllCR)
He wiped out most of what he had left taking care of his wife when she got sick.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (pgXNG)
Still not seeing how he has any say in what you drive here.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 11:05 PM (t+qrx)
Well, I didn't exactly.
My grandfather gifted me a $17,000 dividend check that I used to buy it, heh. He told me to buy a car with it.
But yeah, he wants to know why I'm still driving the same car after 10 years.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (pgXNG)
Tell him it makes the best financial sense.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:05 PM (Rz2Nc)
We should start calling it Muscovy again, just to change things up.
Also: we should go back to calling the Middle East Outremer.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:06 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:06 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Hikaru
0
richard pryor had some advice for your gramps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYfenUt0u9A
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:06 PM (MTjB1)
Don't you remember what it was to be 28? It was only a year ago
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2018 11:06 PM (aA3+G)
The Civic runs fine, I'm just bored with it ha.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:04 PM (GBteo)
I've never had a Honda.
I've had 5 cars so far.
Can't name the make/models without tripping the spam filter, but here are the years.
-1991
-1994
-1992
-1995
-2009
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:07 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 10:55 PM (MTjB1)
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This sounds like my brother, lifelong Chicagoan. Several years ago, I told him I had bought an AK-47. He flipped his shit. I asked him to describe what that rifle was and did. I got every Libtard talking point in the book recited to me. I just told him the only thing he said that was accurate was that they had higher capacity mags than sone rifles.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 11:07 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 11:05 PM (t+qrx)
He wants me to spend money that I don't have.
And he expects me to do it because of seniority.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (pgXNG)
LOL. I'm so tired it seems much longer than that
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (AllCR)
These charges were handed to the powder monkeys who scampered through the curtains and the short doors and up to their respective guns.
"Look at that little monkey run!" - Adm. the Hon. Sir Howard Cosell, KCB, DSO
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:59 PM (pgXNG)
Tell him if he wants to give you a new car, you will take it, but that you have better plans for your money than sending a car salesman to Mazatlan for 2 weeks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (k+6VI)
He wants me to spend money that I don't have.
And he expects me to do it because of seniority.
Posted by: Hikaru
???????????????
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Northernlurker, but call me Teem at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (nBr1j)
Insert probes into our sensitive no-no orifices? I need something MOAR!
Posted by: Fritz at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (Z9C5C)
I've had 5 cars so far.
Can't name the make/models without tripping the spam filter, but here are the years.
-1991
-1994
-1992
-1995
-2009
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:07 PM (pgXNG)
This is my first Honda. Previously I had a Ford truck, a Dodge truck, and an Infiniti sedan.
The trucks were more fun, but had way more problems. The Ford lasted much longer, the Dodge barely limped to 100,000 miles.
My infiniti had 305,000 when I donated it (it was all rusted to shit. New England winters and all.)
I have nothing but good things to say about Japanese cars. Well, except they're not as much fun or as cool to drive. But overall... amazing value.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Smaug at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (T3zWB)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 10:59 PM (pgXNG)
Tell him if he wants to give you a new car, you will take it, but that you have better plans for your money than sending a car salesman to Mazatlan for 2 weeks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (fDU8w)
He's 90.
If he wants me to get a brand new car that bad, it's going to have to wait until he's dead.
And I don't want him dead any time soon.
My family may not like me much, but I can't really imagine them not being around.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:01 PM (MTjB1)
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Do you think that a little thing like death is going to keep them away from the polls?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (HJhxx)
Goglia
Posted by: NavyLurker
Forgot our Company LT's name. He was a tiny fireplug of a guy who took us on "Jungle Runs" periodically - Run 5 miles stopping each mile to do a hundred push-ups and a hundred sit-ups. Our Chief was Chief Francis. He was stereotypically awesome. I was Oscar Company.
I seem to recall the correct answer to the piloting final exam was running aground. At least that's what I did and still scored an A.
Good, good times.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 18, 2018 11:10 PM (2eKoI)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (pHzbJ)
The parents and grands (especially the Obashans) of my Japanese friends are very concerned with appearances.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (90KoH)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (k+6VI)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:09 PM (GBteo)
Let's try this. I had a Chevy, a Ford, a Toyota, another Chevy (SUV), and a Nissan.
The Toyota was probably the most fun to drive, but it sucked the most in winter.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (Ibwur)
OT-How was the mission assignment?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:12 PM (AllCR)
And he expects me to do it because of seniority.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:08 PM (pgXNG)
Well I don't want you to buy a new car that you can't afford, and I'm the King of Spain.
Problem solved.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 11:12 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:02 PM (pgXNG)
Tell him he should be proud of you for being thrifty, and making that car last for ten years, and that it is still going strong. And remind him that the depreciation it incurs, rolling off the lot is the largest single expense in a car's lifetime.
You are not making loan payments, not paying interest, and probably pay much less for insurance than you would for new car. You are in an enviable position.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:12 PM (fDU8w)
Sitting at 123,000 miles, it's got a lot of life left in it. Sure, it's ugly as sin and rough as a cob.
But run it does.
Can't see a reason to make a change, at least not for now.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 18, 2018 11:13 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 11:13 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:13 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: klaftern at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:12 PM (fDU8w)
My insurance is actually ridiculously expensive, mostly for being black.
A cousin of mine (white lesbian) has totalled 3 cars, and she still pays less than half what I do.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (pgXNG)
Most of them are studiously ignoring it, which I'm sure has NOTHING AT ALL with the protestors being convinced that their "president" has siphoned off billions in earthquake relief money, in collusion with the Clintons.
Their "president" did not travel to the Battle of Vertières commemoration ceremony in Cap-Haïtien today (contrary to long-standing tradition), opting instead to "lay a wreath" at a museum right across the square from his palace.
Rule of thumb: if a "president's" residence is referred to as a "palace", the country is almost certainly a shithole/
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (m45I2)
Dude! Verbing is totally thinging, right?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (mUa7G)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 11:15 PM (k+6VI)
Posted by: Grannymimi at November 18, 2018 11:15 PM (u5LFV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at N
lol. getting felon voting rights restored was silly. now they ae out committing more crimes and fucking things up by voting.
fl democrats would have been better of making having crack or weed capital offenses.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:16 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: JAS
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I still call Sri Lanka 'Ceylon', and Thailand 'Siam'.
I enjoy the offense it gives in some quarters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 10:38 PM (CDGwz)
Burma.
Bombay.
Rhodesia.
Posted by: tumbleweed at November 18, 2018 11:16 PM (uBX7f)
Indeed. if Hikaru doesn't insist on driving a brand-new car (which he obviously doesn't), he'll save a lot of money by buying a year-old model.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:16 PM (vOkuK)
I bought a 1991 Toyota Corolla station wagon in 1999 with 85,000 miles on it, and kept it for 15 years. The only reason I got rid of it was because the rust was so bad it wouldn't pass inspection.
But that engine still ran like a champ. Hopefully someone pulled it out of the junkyard and is putting it to good use.
*sheds tear*
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 11:17 PM (sdi6R)
The Toyota was probably the most fun to drive, but it sucked the most in winter.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:11 PM (pgXNG)
Eh, I've never had a problem with any cars in the winter. But again -- New England.
You kind of just get used to driving in the snow.
I've never owned snow tires either.
But I mean obviously my 4x4 trucks handled weather much differently then my front wheel drive cars.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:17 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at November 18, 2018 11:15 PM (k+6VI)
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Back then the Japanese were too busy buying up all the prestige real estate on the West Coast to have any time to pull a rickshaw.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:17 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 18, 2018 11:17 PM (m45I2)
Sitting at 123,000 miles, it's got a lot of life left in it. Sure, it's ugly as sin and rough as a cob.
But run it does.
Can't see a reason to make a change, at least not for now.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at N
the green one?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:18 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at N
lol, well they do love their science
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:19 PM (MTjB1)
A cousin of mine (white lesbian) has totalled 3 cars, and she still pays less than half what I do.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (pgXNG)
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This can not possibly be the reason your insurance is what it is. Any insurance company charging high rates due to ethnicity would have the Feds so far up their ass a colonoscopy would be like a beach vacation.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 11:19 PM (ffYR/)
I don't know about the rates for blacks, but the rates for young people are very high-no matter what your race. I don't recall them even asking one's race.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:19 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: Cuckstar Rick Wilson at November 18, 2018 11:19 PM (yhf6w)
I've never owned snow tires either.
But I mean obviously my 4x4 trucks handled weather much differently then my front wheel drive cars.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:17 PM (GBteo)
Rear-Wheel Drive and about 3900 lbs.
Under ideal conditions, it could reach 140 MPH (and I drove it at 125 driving up from Harrisburg to Allentown).
It pretty much needed snow tires and weight in the back.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:20 PM (pgXNG)
and a spy for the Secret Police.
Khashoggi was a known threat playing fatal games with homicidal players.
Now he is dead. No surprise.
Posted by: mikeyG at November 18, 2018 11:20 PM (LL1Be)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:21 PM (AllCR)
Got 1250 dollars cash for it. It was at 300,000 and still ran fine.
Only thing I ever had to do to it was replace one clutch, the master/slave cylinder, and have the carburetor rebuilt. Of course I had to replace the battery a few times, but with God as my witness, I think the spark plugs only got changed once or twice.
I still miss her.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:21 PM (90KoH)
Young men, especially.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (vOkuK)
It pretty much needed snow tires and weight in the back.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:20 PM (pgXNG)
Aha. The real cause of the high insurance rates, maybe? Too many tickets?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:18 PM (MTjB1)
That would be correct.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:21 PM (AllCR)
Probably not, but birth/RL gender is certainly on the actuarial tables.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:21 PM (AllCR)
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They should.
Its said that gay men have a much higher incidence of rear end collisions than the population at large.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (HJhxx)
Chicago here. Front wheel drive made my world much nicer in snow.
Posted by: dartist at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:22 PM (fDU8w)
No.
I've only had 2 tickets in my lifetime.
And the last one was over 15 years ago.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (pgXNG)
Got 1250 dollars cash for it. It was at 300,000 and still ran fine.
Only thing I ever had to do to it was replace one clutch, the master/slave cylinder, and have the carburetor rebuilt. Of course I had to replace the battery a few times, but with God as my witness, I think the spark plugs only got changed once or twice.
I still miss her.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at N
you sold her?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: mikeyG at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (LL1Be)
A cousin of mine (white lesbian) has totalled 3 cars, and she still pays less than half what I do.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (pgXNG)
Insurance is totally risk based, but I doubt they're allowed to take race in to account.
When I was 25 and living in a city, my insurance was 3x what it was when I was 27 and living in a ruralish area near a city in a different state. I don't know how old you are, but rates drop dramatically as you age -- the first big milestone is hitting 25.
I pay like $45 a month now for full coverage w/ pretty high liability coverage on my one car, living in a small city in a rural state with a car that's worth very little. I also have a perfect driving record, which helps.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:24 PM (GBteo)
And the last one was over 15 years ago.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (pgXNG)
One was for parking, the other was for having a light out.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:24 PM (pgXNG)
And the last one was over 15 years ago.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:23 PM (pgXNG)
Well, shop around for other insurers. You are old enough now that the horrendous "under 25" rates should not factor in any more.
Seems to me you need to get out from under the thumb of your family. Pack up and move to Texas. Go where the work is.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:26 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:24 PM (pgXNG)
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Having a light out, or taking a light out?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:26 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: colfax mingo at November 18, 2018 11:26 PM (tCvhJ)
Posted by: GOPe at November 18, 2018 11:26 PM (Z1eux)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:26 PM (HJhxx)
I'm glad you think I'm such a lame-ass libtard that I'd run into someone else.
But no.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:27 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:24 PM (pgXNG)
Only moving violations should affect insurance, and it should drop after 5 to 7 years.
Must be location based.
...Or you're getting hosed. Maybe shop around for insurance?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:27 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:27 PM (GBteo)
I tried.
I was told I wouldn't get a better rate than I'm getting where I am now.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (pgXNG)
I'm glad you think I'm such a lame-ass libtard that I'd run into someone else.
But no.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:27 PM (pgXNG)
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Bah. I was just funnin' with you. I'm sure you're a superb vehicle operator!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (HJhxx)
IIRC, CPO Francis was a large AA sailor.
I was Delta Co. BMC Goglia. Terror.
Brick Alley Pub back patio for massive quantities.
O'Club let me have tab. Prior enlisted.
Don't miss the 5 milers.
Finish AD 1Aug. Good ride.
Posted by: NavyLurker at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (/tdLl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (HJhxx)
Heh, no. You obviously think I'm a drug addict who rams into the back of people.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: ibguy at November 18, 2018 10:07 PM
Very cool. Best to all Joyce's loved ones.
Posted by: Farmer at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (yJ1e6)
I had recently had a 1987 Ford Ranger and loved it. So I was all excited when I was able to buy a new car in 2003.
Went to the Ford dealer and said get me one of those. I unfortunately did not do a test ride and when I got the new car realized they had changed so much about it from the older models that is was almost undriveable. Oh and it's extra special safety anti theft system failed on the 2nd day of ownership and I had to wait for 2 days for warmer weather before the truck would start.*grrrrr* 2. days brand new
And all through it's 7 year life it provided me every day with reasons why I would never buy a Ford again. The very last thing was when I was trying to separate the transmission (manual) from the engine and could not get it to come apart. Still don't know what I did wrong or what special situation caused my failure. I needed to separate it so I could repair the hydraulic clutch (another 'innovation' that sucked) as a result I had to junk the car as I couldn't afford to have the work done. (best estimate was 1,000)
I hated that truck and I've never hated a vehicle before.
I have a Dodge right now that I've had longer than the Truck and was older than the truck when I bought it. Runs like a swiss watch. Go. Figure. I want a newer one but it's not going to be a Ford. And I regret to this day that I didn't go to the Toyota Dealer when I was ready to buy a truck back in 2003.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (D+X8V)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (MTjB1)
You've got all those stoners there now, driving around in a daze. So they raise rates to cover all the 'uninsured driver" cases.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (pHzbJ)
2. Hire a lawyer, or more likely, hire the survivor of the attorney Battle Royale that spontaneously erupts outside your house, each one fighting to the death to try to take your case on contingency
3. Buy every new car that there is so nobody else can ever own a new car and drive one of your brand new cars every day and throw it away at night with the settlement
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2018 11:30 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 11:29 PM (pHzbJ)
My cousin lives in Fort Worth.
So that might be part of it.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:30 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: colfax mingo at November 18, 2018 11:30 PM (tCvhJ)
have traditionally gone with sorels. was looking at sorel, la crosse, and baffin. any input?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:30 PM (MTjB1)
I was told I wouldn't get a better rate than I'm getting where I am now.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (pgXNG)
Weird. I was with State Farm for years, I switched to like Ohio Mutual or something (I don't even know to be honest) on the advice of an insurance agent. Saved probably 20% a year though.
Not HUGE, but not nothing either.
Plus I got free glass coverage and a lower deductible.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:31 PM (GBteo)
you know what, insurance in colorado and ny are about the same. but the colorado insurance is worse.
I've been wondering with weed legal and stoners flying off those winding mountain roads. Can't be good for anyone.
Posted by: dartist at November 18, 2018 11:31 PM (K22Va)
Not HUGE, but not nothing either.
Plus I got free glass coverage and a lower deductible.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:31 PM (GBteo)
I'm with Penn National.
Any of the big companies wanted to charge more.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:32 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:32 PM (KP5rU)
I was told I wouldn't get a better rate than I'm getting where I am now.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:28 PM (pgXNG)
Told by whom?
You can go online to something like progressive and compare rates. Also, with how few miles you drive annually, you should get a discount.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:32 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Sharkman at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (Kge8X)
The first time, I was like "well that was a fluke".
Then it happened again about eight years later, with a different car in the same parking spot.
I changed parking spots.
Posted by: rickl at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (sdi6R)
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Oh yeah. The diabolical "Urban Surcharge"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:30 PM (MTjB1)
Sorels work for me, although lately, I find pointing the truck south, and pressing on the accelerator with my sneaker does a better job of keeping my feet warm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (fDU8w)
Couple of black and white shots of vets in uniform back in the day.
Then : " yeah, bro. Our house got all fucked up and shit with that really bad (insert natural disaster here) but USAA was right there by our side, fixing our house. "
Yeah. Amazing.
Fixing the home that you paid out the ass for homeowners insurance for. Homeowners insurance. Fixing homes.
Who knew?
Like total elven magic.
Such a nauseating whoring out of veterans and their service by a private company for marketing.
Posted by: mikeyG at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (LL1Be)
Any of the big companies wanted to charge more.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:32 PM (pgXNG)
Yeah, with the big companies you're paying a premium for their massive advertising budgets.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at N
lol
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:34 PM (MTjB1)
Sorels are okay, but the Chinese-made ones nowadays aren't nearly as good as the old-school Canuck-made ones.
They've improved somewhat since Columbia bought them out of bankruptcy (common story... young smartass punk goes to B-School, takes over the family business, ruins the brand by outsourcing production to China).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 18, 2018 11:35 PM (vOkuK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:33 PM (HJhxx)
Yeah, like I said, it was a massive drop for me moving from a city to right outside a smaller city in a different state. With the same coverage and company, I was paying a little more than 1/3 of what I was paying previously. When I switched companies, I'm actually a little below 1/3.
It's wild how much money I saved on insurance by moving a few hours away.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:35 PM (GBteo)
Like total elven magic.
Such a nauseating whoring out of veterans and their service by a private company for marketing.
Posted by: mikeyG at N
well, the accident forgiveness commercial thing is funnier.
they have run several variations, all but one are women and minorities going on about how insurance is so unreasonable and unfair but this accident forgiveness is super.
sure it is, they pay for it by charging you more every month.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:37 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:37 PM (pgXNG)
Not getting what you mean. That's why you buy insurance, right?
Posted by: dartist at November 18, 2018 11:37 PM (K22Va)
A cousin of mine (white lesbian) has totalled 3 cars, and she still pays less than half what I do.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:14 PM (pgXNG)
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I have never encountered an insurance company that charged different rates based on skin color. They don't even ask about it. And I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 11:38 PM (cpTaT)
They've improved somewhat since Columbia bought them out of bankruptcy (common story... young smartass punk goes to B-School, takes over the family business, ruins the brand by outsourcing production to China).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at N
lol. surprise. that is my concern, who wants chinese made anything. think la crosse was bought out by some vc firm.
one thing I like about Danner, even though they were bought out by the japanese is that they make some of their boots here and they are recraftable.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:39 PM (MTjB1)
well, the accident forgiveness commercial thing is funnier. *
*Accident forgiveness not available in California.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 11:39 PM (aKsyK)
https://tinyurl.com/yb3ztqbp
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:40 PM (AllCR)
Because we love you, man.
And you pay us.
But mostly because "we love you, man".
Posted by: mikeyG at November 18, 2018 11:40 PM (LL1Be)
Now, see, I have a 2006 Ford Ranger Sport and I love it beyond reason. I will say that the tranny slips on me now and then, but it never does it for the guys at the shop, so maybe it's something I'm doing. (Except it's not)
I also have an 2017 F150 Raptor that I love as well, I just wish it had a full sized bed. But when your old man is 6'5, you gotta go SuperCab on at least one vehicle. (Never mind that he squeezes himself into a Scion regularly)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:40 PM (90KoH)
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Yup. Very illegal. In fact, my recollection is that here in California they even banned using zip codes to influence auto insurance rates in part due to accusations that companies were using them as a form of racism. "That zip code is mostly populated by people from that ethnic group, so we'll charge this rate instead of the rate that we charge in that zip code where another ethnic group is in the majority."
Posted by: junior at November 18, 2018 11:40 PM (Qvm+G)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yddfbh2k
Posted by: Mr. Right at November 18, 2018 11:41 PM (iEe0A)
They always make it sound like there is no fault involved.
And, in some cases there is actually no individual fault (the other person hit YOU). But, I sense that they are targeting the peeps that are actually causing the accidents.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 18, 2018 11:42 PM (8iiMU)
I'm not a fan of car alarms; I regard them as useless, but some sort of secret disabling device, with a hidden switch, could foil all but the most resourceful car thieves.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:43 PM (fDU8w)
One time they had a contest where employees were invited to submit ideas for a new slogan. You know, "You're In Good Hands," "Like a Good Neighbor" type stuff.
Knowing how they actually handled their claims, I submitted, "We're [ABC] Insurance Co. Fuck you and your claim."
To my surprise, it didn't even make the Final Five.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:43 PM (HJhxx)
Posted by: colfax mingo
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77 mph, two lane road, in a turn which I had slowed for.
Deputy was rounding the turn from the opposite direction. I just pulled over and waited for him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (hkMWc)
They always make it sound like there is no fault involved.
And, in some cases there is actually no individual fault (the other person hit YOU). But, I sense that they are targeting the peeps that are actually causing the accidents.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at N
there is the one with the redhead the goes on about "you barely hit the other car and the damage was so slight you could have covered it by filling in the scratch with a pen?
really?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: dartist at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (K22Va)
charged different rates based on skin color. They don't even ask about
it. And I'm pretty sure it's illegal.
Posted by: Emmie at November 18, 2018 11:38 PM (cpTaT)
They can figure out pretty easily by where you live and that may be what they're really charging extra for is the increased risk of theft and vandalism in urban areas.
See the insurance companies unless forced to do otherwise (and then they lose money) assess risk. They don't care about social justice or profiling. The go by FACTS. And the fact is, driving/owning a car in a city is riskier than in the boondocks.
More people, more crime, more chances of accident or damage.
I did that drivers thing with progressive and that knocked my ins. down about 15% even tho I already live in a rural area. I could get more as a senior but I'm too lazy to take the class you have to do for it. it's like another 5%. In PA.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (D+X8V)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:45 PM (KP5rU)
Other than tending to the sheep and chickens, and splitting firewood, I have been retired since 2005 when I sold my construction company. So except for that everyday is a day off unless the Missus tells me otherwise.
Goodnight all, be of good cheer, love your family and neighbors, and stay alert. There is never enough ammo or lerts.
Posted by: colfax mingo at November 18, 2018 11:45 PM (tCvhJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2018 11:45 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:43 PM (HJhxx)
LOL.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 18, 2018 11:45 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:45 PM (KP5rU)
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Nazi membership shouldn't make a difference if your car is an automatic. Your right hand will still be free for the Nazi salutes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (HJhxx)
"you barely hit the other car and the damage was so slight you could
have covered it by filling in the scratch with a pen?
really?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (MTjB1)
Yes.
Precisely.
Shut up, wench.
LOL
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (8iiMU)
Doing it to avoid legal problems,I suspect. She'll still get her full pension and nothing will happen to her because D.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (AllCR)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (pHzbJ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (KP5rU)
Because EVERYBODY except me took Friday off.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:37 PM (pgXNG)
Good thinking!
When I was gainfully employed, I'd do stuff like that. Now I have a hobby farm, there are no days off.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at N
well, that explains their fondness for tanks.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (MTjB1)
Because EVERYBODY except me took Friday off.
Posted by: Hikaru at N
well, who made their request first?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:48 PM (MTjB1)
I could get more as a senior but I'm too lazy to take the class you have to do for it. it's like another 5%. In PA.
Posted by: jakee308
What do they teach in "senior" school?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (aKsyK)
Because EVERYBODY except me took Friday off.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:37 PM (pgXNG)
Good thinking!
When I was gainfully employed, I'd do stuff like that. Now I have a hobby farm, there are no days off.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (Rz2Nc)
Even my supervisor that doesn't like me and hates when I take days off told me that he'd have done the same if he was me (and he NEVER takes days off).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (90KoH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: jakee308
What do they teach in "senior" school?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at N
what the vertical pedal on the right is for and how the turn signal works.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (MTjB1)
Check and see if there's a Farm Bureau in your state.
For example, here it's Texas Farm Bureau. In Florida it's Florida Farm Bureau.
Same logo design, different words.
You're simply not going to beat their rates, I believe. 'Cause their entire customer base are, like you, low-loss-experience, older than 25, safe driving record drivers.
Moreover, because they really ARE a "Farm Bureau" that sells insurance, mostly to non-city dwellers... their customer base is overwhelmingly "deplorable", with all that entails as to work-ethic, responsibility, etc.
As compared to the stereotypical citified rice-rocket driver who's street racing at 3 am, or any/all other higher risk factors one finds in the more crowded environments.
You get a quote from Farm Bureau (if they operate in your State), and let me know how it comes out, okay?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Mr. Right at November 18, 2018 11:50 PM (iEe0A)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 18, 2018 11:48 PM (MTjB1)
Nobody.
They all called off on Friday Morning.
Even though I was in the building at 6 AM (and didn't get to leave until 7 PM the night before, and still didn't get to go home, thanks to the weather).
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:50 PM (pgXNG)
Sometimes I have to stop and think what day of the week it is cause I lose track.
The downside is I get bored a lot.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:50 PM (D+X8V)
Deputy was rounding the turn from the opposite direction. I just pulled over and waited for him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2018 11:44 PM (hkMWc)
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Early on in my driving, I was on a 2 lane road in Wisconsin. I was at about 75 in a 55. An oncoming cop flipped the gumballs as soon as he passed me. I pulled onto the shoulder and waited for him right away, over a hill.
He came screaming over that hill and couldn't even slow down enough not to pass me. He had to back up to get to me. He gave me a thank you and a 64 over ticket, 1 point.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 18, 2018 11:52 PM (ffYR/)
Being retired is like every day is Sunday.
I don't like the weekends because there are too many people around.
Posted by: dartist at November 18, 2018 11:52 PM (K22Va)
You get older you zone out a bit and forget what you're doing and if you don't take certain steps (like a mental check list and also don't hit the gas until all pedals and feet are accounted for) you can do damage.
We can get distracted a bit easier than someone younger altho that depends these days with some young ppl.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:53 PM (D+X8V)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:54 PM (KP5rU)
I passed a cop car on my way up towards Allentown/Whitehall doing 115, back around 2005.
But it was an empty car with a mannequin in it, and I didn't get pulled over, nor did I get mailed about it.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:54 PM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (90KoH)
Like I said -- it's all risk based.
The math is the math. If you live in, say, Bridgeport, CT, you're chances of filing a claim are much higher then if you live in Brattleboro, VT.
And the insurance companies have decades of data and a very healthy sample size. They hire the best actuaries in the world to correlate things like the kind of car you drive, the age and gender you are, the zip code you live in, etc. to your chances of making a claim.
It's unbelievably accurate in the aggregate.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2018 11:54 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: irongrampa at November 18, 2018 11:55 PM (S/hVx)
https://earthporn.org/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2018 11:55 PM (AllCR)
When I worked 9/80s, I wanted Monday off instead of Friday, but the state of CA would not allow it. They said workers are cheated out of Monday holidays that way. I asked if I could sign a waiver, and the answer was no. California apparently knows better than I know myself how I prefer to use my time.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 18, 2018 11:56 PM (90KoH)
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:49 PM (pgXNG)
If your supervisor doesn't like you and hates when you take off you're doing something right.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:57 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2018 11:57 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 18, 2018 11:59 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 18, 2018 11:47 PM (KP5rU)
Heh. True enough. But they will chew up the transmission gears trying.
I can tell this now, because, Look Ma, no ashtrays! Back in the 1990's when '80's and '90's Toyotas were getting routinely stolen because the punks had figured out how to quickly beat the ignition lock, a friend of mine theft-proofed his family's Toyota fleet by mounting an ordinary push-button switch behind the dashboard ash tray, wired into the crank circuit from the ignition switch. If the ash tray was pushed fully into place, it hot the switch button and completed the circuit, and the car would start in the usual fashion when the key was turned. With the ashtray pulled out even as little a quarter-inch, the circuit was broken, and the car could not be started with the key.
So the drill was to drive somewhere, park, and give the ashtray a little tug to move it out a tiny bit. Upon reentering the car to go on, push the tray in, and start and go. He said passengers never even noticed him doing it.
And if a thief enters the car, first thing they did was pull the ashtray out, looking for the spare key that many drivers stashed there. Failing to find that, they'd punch the ignition lock, and be unable to start the car. Most of those teenage thieves were not mechanically inclined; they learned to punch the lock because a buddy showed them how to do it. Hot-wiring was not in their repertoire. and they'd already wasted too much time on that car, so off to another.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2018 11:59 PM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 18, 2018 11:57 PM (Rz2Nc)
Normally, yeah.
But since I was stuck as the only person at all to come in on Friday, he said even he would find it bad if I didn't get a day off to make up for everyone else taking one without warning, heh.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 18, 2018 11:59 PM (pgXNG)
On the road doing my thing somewhere between when people go to work and come home. Way more kids on the road around here.
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:00 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:00 AM (KP5rU)
Yes. There are any amount of factors that go into it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:00 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:00 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at N
lol, had nearly same thing happen. was going downhill on a two lane road easily doubling the speed limit when some sheriff drove by in the opposite direction. while waiting on the of the road, watched him do a u-turn and turn on his lights. suddenly, he did another u-turn and took off in the other direction.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:00 AM (MTjB1)
Most times if I need something from the rest of the world I will check to see if they are open before heading out.
I only get fooled about some of the weird state/local holidays.
But i'm never in a hurry (which is very relaxing) as I have to where I have to be.
They should allow people to "retire" when they are young and then after 10 years make them go to work to pay for that 10 years of finding out a lot about life and yourself.
Course there'd always be somebody who'd abuse it.
That's why the human race can't have nice things.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 19, 2018 12:02 AM (D+X8V)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:02 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Emmie at November 19, 2018 12:03 AM (cpTaT)
A friend of mine got his car impounded because I couldn't drive Stick.
He got pulled over and arrested for DUI after failing a breath test (he thought he was sober, and I believed him)
He failed the breath test, but I passed it.
The cops asked me if I could drive stick, and I said I couldn't.
They said that if I could drive stick, they'd have let me drive my friend back, but since I couldn't, they were locking him up for the night and making me pay for a hotel room until they let him out.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:03 AM (pgXNG)
Time for the old folk who are retired and smiling about it all day.
Never despair, good people. We WILL, because we're Americans, prevail through this the latest situation, as we have in the past.
There'll be heartbreak and frustration along the way but victory is ultimately ours--IF we stay the course.
So remember, we are Americans, thus that head is held HIGH and PROUD.
Goodnite, good people. Be safe and sleep well.
Posted by: irongrampa at November 19, 2018 12:06 AM (S/hVx)
I love May Day, and still celebrate it. Making fewer and fewer May baskets these days, but the old folks in the nursing home love getting them and remember making them when they were children.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:06 AM (90KoH)
friend back, but since I couldn't, they were locking him up for the
night and making me pay for a hotel room until they let him out.
Why didn't you say you could and give it a try?
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:06 AM (K22Va)
He got pulled over and arrested for DUI after failing a breath test (he thought he was sober, and I believed him)
He failed the breath test, but I passed it.
The cops asked me if I could drive stick, and I said I couldn't.
They said that if I could drive stick, they'd have let me drive my friend back, but since I couldn't, they were locking him up for the night and making me pay for a hotel room until they let him out.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:03 AM (pgXN
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This literally cannot possibly be true.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (ffYR/)
Sometimes I have to stop and think what day of the week it is cause I lose track.
The downside is I get bored a lot.
Posted by: jakee308 at November 18, 2018 11:50 PM (D+X8V)
I think of it more as Saturday, I can do all the work I want or next to nothing. Sunday here is God's day, a day of rest, community standard and all.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:06 AM (K22Va)
Mostly because they would have followed me until I made it back onto the highway.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (pgXNG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (ffYR/)
It was.
You can want to say it's not and shit on me all you want, but it was.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:08 AM (pgXNG)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:08 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at N
well, not many manufacturers make them anymore.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:09 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:10 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:10 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:10 AM (MTjB1)
**TOP FIVE RECIPES FROM DEPLORABLE COOKBOOK II**
5. Cornish game hen stuffed with missing Broward ballots
4. Peruvian bathtub "whiskey"
3. Caravan Road Chili, with secret migrant spices
2. Deep-fried roadkill, Mexican-style
1. Spatchcocked Sinema Surprise
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:11 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (ffYR/)
It was.
You can want to say it's not and shit on me all you want, but it was.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:08 AM (pgXNG)
Yes, I totally believe it.
Posted by: rickl at November 19, 2018 12:12 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:12 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:12 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:13 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Zombie Senor Juan McCain at November 19, 2018 12:13 AM (Tyii7)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at N
well, not many manufacturers make them anymore.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:09 AM (MTjB1)
Most cars though seem to have a "manual" shift mode though. My Hyundai has it, and I think my parents Buick also has it.
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:13 AM (cAnNx)
IIRC, CPO Francis was a large AA sailor.
I was Delta Co. BMC Goglia. Terror.
Brick Alley Pub back patio for massive quantities.
O'Club let me have tab. Prior enlisted.
Don't miss the 5 milers.
Finish AD 1Aug. Good ride.
Posted by: NavyLurker
Chief Francis was indeed a very large AA. We called him the "Spine-ripper".
Thank you for your very long service to our country. I was supply, got out after 4 and went to law school. I did enjoy my 4 in, especially when at sea. Something about being on the open ocean, don't know what it is.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 19, 2018 12:13 AM (Kge8X)
Posted by: buzzion at N
right, but no clutch. does it require you to move the lever?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:14 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:14 AM (miE9U)
You can want to say it's not and shit on me all you want, but it was.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:08 AM (pgXNG)
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Not shitting on you in any way. Please cite the law that would compel you to pay for a hotel room for your "friend" and I will totes believe you.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (ffYR/)
Something about being on the open ocean, don't know what it is.
Posted by: Sharkman
You can see the stars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (aKsyK)
You can want to say it's not and shit on me all you want, but it was.
Posted by: Hikaru at November 19, 2018 12:08 AM (pgXNG)
Yes, I totally believe it.
Me too.
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (90KoH)
I'm afraid to touch it. I don't wanna grind my gears, literally.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:16 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:16 AM (90KoH)
I'm afraid to touch it. I don't wanna grind my gears, literally.
Posted by: qdpsteve at N
you won't grind your gears if you do not have to worry about the clutch.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:16 AM (MTjB1)
This literally cannot possibly be true.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:07 AM (ffYR/
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Why not? It actually seems kind of . . . practical.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2018 12:17 AM (13CQC)
Should be fun.
Also, I don't know if it's still available, but earlier today Amazon had the blu-rays of the entire series of The Sopranos on sale, for 50 bucks.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:17 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:10 AM (MTjB1)
That's what she said.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:17 AM (fDU8w)
421 Most cars though seem to have a "manual" shift mode though. My Hyundai has it, and I think my parents Buick also has it.
Posted by: buzzion at N
right, but no clutch. does it require you to move the lever?
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:14 AM (MTjB1)
Right, no clutch. And yeah you have to move the lever. On my car, when it is in Drive you push it towards you and that puts it into it's "manual" shifting up for a higher gear and down for lower. But it does automatically shift down after certain points while breaking, so if you're in 6th gear and coming to a stop it will automatically drop down to 1st.
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:18 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at N
yeah rarely touch the paddle shifters. why bother.
the only time I am tempted to use them is to downshift. does not seem to be much point in accelerating. stomp on the accelerator and the computer adjusts the shift points.
but why downshift? would rather put wear and tear on my brakes than on my transmission.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (ffYR/)
I read it as the cops put his friend in the drunk tank, and he was left with no option but to take a hotel room so he could bail his buddy out in the morning and get a ride home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (fDU8w)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (miE9U)
All complaints about insurance company practices flow from this simple truth, which very few people are aware of.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (Kge8X)
Posted by: buzzion at N
got it.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (MTjB1)
It used to be that manual transmissions got better gas mileage than automatics, but I think that has flipped the other way around in recent years with computer controlled automatic transmissions.
Still, I think manuals are probably cheaper to repair.
Posted by: rickl at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:15 AM (ffYR/)
I read it as the cops put his friend in the drunk tank, and he was left with no option but to take a hotel room so he could bail his buddy out in the morning and get a ride home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (fDU8w)
Likely with the cops answering a question of "What am I supposed to do?" with "Well if you can't get someone to pick you up to take you home you're gonna have to get a hotel room for the night until we release him."
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:21 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:21 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:21 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (MTjB1)
Downshifting puts no more wear and tear on the transmission than upshifting. And if you are towing a trailer, or simply descending a long mountain grade, you do not want to rely solely upon your brakes, because no matter how good they are, you can overheat them, and bring on brake fade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:22 AM (fDU8w)
The purpose of an insurance company is to maximize earnings for its owners/shareholders
Just like any other company.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:22 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:22 AM (KP5rU)
I read it as the cops put his friend in the drunk
tank, and he was left with no option but to take a hotel room so he
could bail his buddy out in the morning and get a ride home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:19 AM (fDU8w)
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Same here. I got stuck for an extra day in another city once when I had to hang around waiting for my ride to get out of jail for a DUI.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 19, 2018 12:22 AM (13CQC)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 12:23 AM (x591V)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:20 AM (90KoH)
Gear shifters on the steering wheel where you rest your hands so you can push them without taking your hand off the wheel. They're really popular on super-cars. I became aware of them from Top Gear.
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
The rabbit was fine. The venison backstrap was okay, but I am not a huge fan of venison in general, other than summer sausage.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:23 AM (90KoH)
You have never seen a stary sky untill you have seen it from the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
Never saw it from the Atlantic. Saw it plenty of times from the middle of the Pacific.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:24 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:24 AM (miE9U)
little paddles on the steering wheel or behind the steering wheel that shift the transmission up or down depending upon which you use.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:24 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:25 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:25 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:25 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: buzzion at N
do you still watch top gear? did you switch to the grand tour?
don't really care for top gear without the three that quit. not too fond of their new venture though.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:26 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:27 AM (aKsyK)
Well that explains why I have never heard of them, thanks!
I thought maybe it was just the thing that you move to go into reverse and drive, and there's Neutral and D2 or some such thing, too.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:27 AM (90KoH)
I love May Day, and still celebrate it. Making fewer and fewer May baskets these days, but the old folks in the nursing home love getting them and remember making them when they were children.
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I call it "International Victims of Communism Day". Seems appropriate.
Posted by: junior at November 19, 2018 12:27 AM (Qvm+G)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at N
completely agree, except they are so much faster and really do reduce wear and tear on the clutch.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:28 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 12:23 AM (x591V)
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Of course. Drop it here, Bitter.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 19, 2018 12:28 AM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:28 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:25 AM (K22Va)
Same in Canada. They even let you take your driver's test in an automatic. Some logic to that, I suppose. Newbies can concentrate on traffic hazards and rules of the road, instead of on shifting gears, which apparently requires superhuman powers of coordination.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:28 AM (fDU8w)
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Your average commuter vehicle, no. Some of the more specialized cars - like more expensive muscle cars - give you the option to have a manual transmission.
Posted by: junior at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (Qvm+G)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:25 AM (KP5rU)
I think they were on the steering column long before 4 on the floor.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (90KoH)
don't really care for top gear without the three that quit. not too fond of their new venture though.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:26 AM (MTjB1)
Never watched it after they all were fired/quit. I had Prime for a year but never got around to watching The Grand Tour
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:30 AM (cAnNx)
Better meats out there...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:30 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: buzzion at N
same, never watched it without them. the grand tour is a little too scripted. you are not missing anything.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:31 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2018 12:27 AM (aKsyK)
All my neighbors do.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:31 AM (Rz2Nc)
Uh, asking for a friend...
Posted by: Lena Dunham at November 19, 2018 12:32 AM (miE9U)
It's GAINZZ friendly, right?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:32 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:31 AM (Rz2Nc)
Some of mine do; we have Amish nearby. And Menonites, but they can drive as long as the vehicles are black.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:28 AM (MTjB1)
I have never driven a car with paddle shifters. Do they even have a clutch? I sort of assumed they were basically an automatic transmission with torque converter, that one simply shifted manually by means of the paddles. My 2008 Suburban has a manual setting, and I can upshift and downshift by means of a little rocker on the shift lever itself. But even in manual mode, if I exceed certain RPM limits for the gears, either high or low, it will throw a shift automatically, to prevent damage to the engine or transmission.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fDU8w)
Your average commuter vehicle, no. Some of the more specialized cars - like more expensive muscle cars - give you the option to have a manual transmission.
Posted by: junior at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (Qvm+G)
I have a Mazda 5 with a manual transmission. I think I got the very last one before they stopped making them.
Posted by: rickl at November 19, 2018 12:34 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fDU8w)
No clutch. It's similar to tiptronics. Pretty lame.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 19, 2018 12:36 AM (GBteo)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (90KoH)
.... she had two Mennonite.
/justthepunchline
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 19, 2018 12:36 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (90KoH)
All my neighbors are Amish or Menonite, the Menonites don't seem to do the black car thing. You in PA? I'm in Holmes county Ohio.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:37 AM (Rz2Nc)
I have never driven a car with paddle shifters. Do they even have a clutch? I sort of assumed they were basically an automatic transmission with torque converter, that one simply shifted manually by means of the paddles. My 2008 Suburban has a manual setting, and I can upshift and downshift by means of a little rocker on the shift lever itself. But even in manual mode, if I exceed certain RPM limits for the gears, either high or low, it will throw a shift automatically, to prevent damage to the engine or transmission.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:33 AM (fDU8w)
That's what I was talking about. Though I don't think mine has an automatic shift at high thresh holds. Or if it does I've never been stupid enough to let it hit that RPM level. However it doesn't let you shift into a higher gear until you hit a certain RPM/Speed either. Like you can't go from 5th to 6th until you are like at 45 - 50 mph or so I think.
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 12:38 AM (cAnNx)
No, sir, I am in the Arkansas Ozarks.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:39 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 19, 2018 12:39 AM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at N
your rocker switch is the same thing different location. the rev limitations are the same too. you will not be allowed to downshift in a situation that would over rev the engine and your transmission will shift when you are accelerating to avoid over revving too.
not really necessary, mostly fun.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 12:40 AM (MTjB1)
Today in a tweet, PDT called Adam Schiff "little Adam Schitt."
Someone at Qu... another site, just asked if that was intentional or not. (*eyeroll*)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:42 AM (miE9U)
1. The stars/Milky Way - like nothing you have ever seen before;
2. Sailing for a week on a sea that is smooth as glass;
3. Sailing through rough weather;
4. Seeing the horizon churn then seeing that churn get closer and closer as 50 porpoises rush to the ship to ride the bow wave . . . for miles.
5. Unrepping a carrier;
6. Re-enlisting a sailor aboard a CH-46 that is being jinked up and down and side to side during the swearing in by the really very un-funny pilot;
7. Standing on the fantail at night watching the phosphorescent sea critters churned up in the wake;
8. The smell of clean air.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 19, 2018 12:43 AM (Kge8X)
Ours moved down from Missouri (which has a large population of them and Amish) when MO made photo IDs mandatory, with no exceptions.
They have to go to Little Rock to get special paperwork, but so far Arkansas doesn't force them to get their pictures taken for ID.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:44 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:44 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:45 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:39 AM (90KoH)
Oh, wow, how nice. Any chance you're near beaver lake?
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:46 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:29 AM (Rz2Nc)
They were all on the floor up until circa 1940. But not the little short stick we see now. A long skinny one that went directly into the top of the gearbox. Mostly three speeds, but some four, like on Euro cars.
Then someone had the bright idea to put the shifter on the steering column, making the middle seating position on the bench front seat a lot more useful. The transmission got two short levers on the side, operated by linkage rods from the base of the steering column. Adoption of this happened over a 2-3 year span, IIRC. Most transmissions were still 3 speeds, and the same "H" pattern was used; its orientation just changed. There were a few 4-speed column shifters, too, but not many.
The muscle-car era made floor shifters a thing again, but they did not revert to the long lever in the top of the box; they had a short lever, mounted on a support further back, and connected by short linkage rods to those selfsame two or three levers on the side of the tranny case.
And Japanese and Euro cars used what was called a "remote" shifter. The lever sat in a socket at the rear of the transmission, and worked internal linkage rods that acted on the top of the gearset under the front portion of the gearbox cover. Datsun and Toyota, and practically any pickup made today with a manual shift.
Front-drive cars nearly all had remote shifters of some sort, owing to where the parts have to be.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:47 AM (fDU8w)
Has she tried tumeric? It is by no means any kind of miracle cure, but I do think it brings a little relief, and every little bit does help.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:47 AM (90KoH)
Just like any other company.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Exactly.
It's just weird that for some reason people don't realize this about insurance companies.
Posted by: Sharkman at November 19, 2018 12:47 AM (Kge8X)
I really enjoy being in the top ten of commenters every week, so I've designed a bot that will post a generic message signed 'qdpsteve' for me every couple hours when I can't be here. Here's the message:
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Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:48 AM (miE9U)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:49 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 19, 2018 12:51 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:52 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 19, 2018 12:52 AM (rnAwa)
Ours moved down from Missouri (which has a large population of them and Amish) when MO made photo IDs mandatory, with no exceptions.
They have to go to Little Rock to get special paperwork, but so far Arkansas doesn't force them to get their pictures taken for ID.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 12:44 AM (90KoH)
That makes sense. My mother lives in MO. Both my parents are from there. Most of my neighbors are Old Order Amish with some Swartzentrouper mixed in. I'm certain I spelled that wrong.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:53 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:55 AM (miE9U)
Thanks, I know when I learned to drive the shifter was on the steers no wheel shaft in the driving simulation class. .
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 12:57 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2018 12:59 AM (fDU8w)
It's s weird profession, because generally you get people from all walks that have drinks and then tell you things that no person would share in their right mind.
For years I've observed the steady, incremental downward slide of humanity, but lately it is just starting to weigh heavily on me. I'm used to hearing gripes from people about ex-wives, child-support, cheating husbands, asshole bosses and the like. But lately I can't help but notice the absolute degineration of society.
I used to have the occasional oddball, be it drug addict, dumb slut, weirdo cross-dresser, etc, that came in, I'd endure the visit, and then I'd sit around with the regulars and we'd laugh about "that one time".
But what do you do when there are more weird fuckers than you have normal human beings? What happens when the world is full of people that have no shame?
Tonight at the bar I had two it-thing shemales with everything peirced and dressed as dudes talking about eating pussy, I had some girl telling me about how she used to be a stripper, but had to move out of Texas away from her kids to dodge meth charges and hooked up with a methadone addict here in Tennessee and had a kid, but he was shot and killed in a drug deal so she had herself tattted to commemorate him. She told me about her plan to beat a drug test so that she could get visitation with her 4 year old son, who was being raised by her grandparents.
I had some millennial with a curly-Q mustache yapping about craft beer, yoga, organic colon cleansing and tiny houses.
It occurred to me that I had no normal person to laugh at these people with. This is the new normal. And the next generation is going to grow up with this not as the occasional horror story, but as the common place reality. How fucked up are their kids going to be. That shit can't be good.
It's f*cked. It's well and truly f*cked and it's highly depressing. I don't know that I hold any hope for the world my daughter will have to live in with weird, f*cked up, arrested development, Peter-f*cking-Pan non-human f*cktards she is gonna have to share society with.
Jesus. The Lord can not come back soon enough to this degenerate, confused, sick-ass world to straighten sh*t out. If He doesn't, we are all and truly screwed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:03 AM (x591V)
Great neighbors, though I feel they could feed their livestock better!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 01:06 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:07 AM (x591V)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 01:09 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: dartist at N
you must have been glad when they put the floor in and you could quit using your feet.
Posted by: yankeefifth at November 19, 2018 01:10 AM (MTjB1)
I'm hoping for a bit of a backlash from the freaks. I am technically a Boomer, but at the very tail end and I grew up with a burning hatred and revulsion for hippies.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 01:11 AM (90KoH)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 01:12 AM (K22Va)
Great neighbors, though I feel they could feed their livestock better!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 01:06 AM (90KoH)
I would imagine you do. Livestock here seems to be taken care of.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 01:13 AM (Rz2Nc)
We oughta open a bar down here 'round Galveston.
Shot n' beer kinda place. Jukebox with traditional country, Rock, Blues and such.
Small dance floor, live bands on Fridays n' Saturdays.
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em, but they can't be pot.
We'll call it "Norm's".
No, not as in "Cheers".
But, NORMALS.
This bar is for normals. If you come in because you were stapled to the chicken, you need to leave, now.
Bet'cha it'd be a success.
But, oh.... one thing.
You'd have to teach me how to mix a drink more complex than "bourbon, neat", and fast, too!
*pours bourbon*
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 19, 2018 01:14 AM (QzJWU)
I am so sleepy, I am not making sense. Good night, y'all!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 19, 2018 01:15 AM (90KoH)
Oh, Flintstone racist!
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 01:15 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:07 AM (x591V)
No problem. I assume you work in a city.
All I can say is kids are being made here as fast as possible. Maybe some day they will realize they need to vote.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at November 19, 2018 01:16 AM (Rz2Nc)
Jim,
That's brilliant.
Don't worry about the training, your recipes are already on point. If it's good bourbon, it needs nothing other than an ice cube.
I could've ranted further. I had what would have been a perfectly beautiful young lady in as well that decided it was necessary to pierce her nose, eyebrow, and put those shower curtain grommets in her ears. She ordered a "Witches Brew" from me, which I'd never heard of.
She informed me it consisted of Patron XO coffee flavored tequila, Diet Coke and 5 lime wedges.
Really? This is what it's come too? I've spent this many years behind the bar to make that drink?
No Jim, I'll take that bourbon neat, thank you.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:23 AM (x591V)
Posted by: ramondo at November 19, 2018 01:26 AM (NNZVe)
Posted by: dartist at November 19, 2018 01:29 AM (K22Va)
On the very upper end of that scale, dig into what local talk-radio host Michael Berry has done with his "Redneck Country Club" format.
https://theredneckcountryclub.com/
I'm thinking more along the lines of the Fire Marshall calling it a day at 'bout 120 in attendance. Not ten times that number.
But, he's got some of the essentials right, and it's been a roaring success, from the start.
Pity, I don't have a cent of free capital to fund such a project.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at November 19, 2018 01:30 AM (QzJWU)
------------------
Jeremiah was the topic of discussion today in my Sunday School class. And you can't talk about Jeremiah without talking about Babylon. Or, as the Bible sometimes refers to her, "The Whore of All The Earth". The person teaching the class read a few choice quotes about Babylon, and how it gained that particular appellation.
We're pretty much there. And some parts of the country (I'm looking at *you*, San Francisco) are way past it.
Posted by: junior at November 19, 2018 01:37 AM (Qvm+G)
Now that looks like my kinda place.... especially that crawfish boil. Love them mud bugs.
Ted Cruz rally there tells me they got their head in the right place on politics too.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:43 AM (x591V)
Posted by: junior at November 19, 2018 01:37 AM (Qvm+G)
Amen.
Gonna sign off for the night.
The Horde is the best, blessing on all your houses and may the Lord look down on all of you with extreme favor. That is my prayer for you good folk.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:47 AM (x591V)
MAxIE approved!!!
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 19, 2018 01:55 AM (9TR2V)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 02:07 AM (miE9U)
Today in a tweet, PDT called Adam Schiff "little Adam Schitt."
Someone at Qu... another site, just asked if that was intentional or not. (*eyeroll*)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2018 12:42 AM (miE9U)
I bet it was autocorrect, sort of like how my phone used to change "Andrew Gillum" to "Andrew Gollum" whether I wanted it to or not.
Posted by: Smoked Surfperch at November 19, 2018 02:19 AM (m2bLi)
Posted by: Robert Ferguson at November 19, 2018 02:40 AM (/ynHD)
with luck, i'll get seen elevinish....by some youngster who will know nothing about my case or history, and whom i will never see again.
because they just don't GAF at the LA VA...
#basta!
hasta, y'all!
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 19, 2018 02:55 AM (Dagiw)
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 03:15 AM (5k7/f)
Pbbbbt.
Trump actually had a resume before running. AFAIK, she's just winner of the Hot Girl lottery who wants to give stuff away.
That would make her the Game Show Girl Of Congress.
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at November 19, 2018 03:46 AM (vr3wn)
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at November 19, 2018 03:46 AM (vr3wn)
Occasional-Cortex couldn't do Vanna White's job.
Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2018 04:26 AM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: Shopgirl #PatrickIsMahomesie at November 19, 2018 03:46 AM (vr3wn)
Occasional-Cortex couldn't do Vanna White's job.
Posted by: RickZ at November 19, 2018 04:26 AM (Y8PSl)
She could replace the horse that counts with its hoof.
Oh wait, she's a socialist, she can't count.
Posted by: buzzion at November 19, 2018 04:47 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 04:50 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 04:55 AM (6VrXf)
https://tinyurl.com/ybqhowuf
Its getting bizarre out there
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:00 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 19, 2018 05:01 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:11 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 19, 2018 01:07 AM (x591V)
Thank you for the story. It's a wonderful story; painful, but your insight is appreciated.
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:15 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:21 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:22 AM (hyuyC)
What does that mean, "stapled to the chicken"?
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:23 AM (5k7/f)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:23 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:25 AM (hyuyC)
Gas costs $6.50 a gallon which is massively taxed because the current barrel price for petroleum is $0.92 a gallon.
It would cost $65 to fill up an econo box and $110 to fill up the average SUV.
I fill up roughly 4-5 times a month, so my costs would be $260-325 per month.
No wonder they are rioting.
I see Guiateen futures soaring in France.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 19, 2018 05:26 AM (qxq6t)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:26 AM (WOjjq)
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:27 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:29 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:30 AM (WOjjq)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:31 AM (6VrXf)
Very odd, and short-sighted.
I tell my students "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:32 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:11 AM (6VrXf)
This reminds me I need to pick up American cheese slices at the store. And now, maybe English muffins.
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:33 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:34 AM (hyuyC)
I'd love a big hunk of CBD's sourdough bread and a big slab of dry Monterey jack cheese for breakfast.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:34 AM (AtaaG)
A judge affirmed his order Friday to evict Michael Avenatti's law firm from a California office building for skipping out on $213,000 in rent over four months.
/ what a dumbass
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 05:36 AM (e7O7B)
I'd love a big hunk of CBD's sourdough bread and a big slab of dry Monterey jack cheese for breakfast.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:34 AM (AtaaG)
Maybe you and Skip could be in charge of the breakfast menu at Jim's bar:
517 Bitter Clinger.
We oughta open a bar down here 'round Galveston.
Shot n' beer kinda place. Jukebox with traditional country, Rock, Blues and such.
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:37 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:38 AM (AtaaG)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:39 AM (WOjjq)
And the even crazier thing is countries like Norway have even higher gas prices, nearly $8 a gallon in Norway.
We get all cranky pants when gas goes much above $2 a gallon, politicians would be dragged from their homes and beaten if gas prices taxed to those staggering heights.
That may be what eventually goes down in France.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 19, 2018 05:39 AM (qxq6t)
Top o ta morning to ya.
*Makes note of your breakfast desires*
Sends Monterey Jack slab to your usb port. Some molecular assembly may be required with your replicator.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:40 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:41 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:42 AM (AtaaG)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:43 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:43 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:41 AM (6VrXf)
We were entertained! 54 3/4:
#1 [390 comments] 'Skip' [54.75 posts/day]
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:44 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:42 AM (AtaaG)
And rotating specials.
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:45 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:45 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2018 05:45 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:46 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 05:47 AM (AtaaG)
https://tinyurl.com/yb96u7ws
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:46 AM (cqNba)
I had hoped it was Hillary!.
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 05:47 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2018 05:47 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:47 AM (WOjjq)
https://tinyurl.com/yaagsot6
Never saw this program and probably never will.
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:48 AM (6VrXf)
As you wish, Ben Had. Let me know what you want. I was quizmaster on our Constitution Bee efforts, so that is a strength. I knew a lot about how things worked or did not work in DC, but let's leave out that cynicism.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:49 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:50 AM (WOjjq)
Try Chick-fil-A.
Somehow, I have never met a rude employee at one.
Always polite and helpful.
As if they hire from another planet.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:51 AM (cqNba)
When I get a chance, I'll tell you about my time window. Is lunch a good plan, or do you need a wingman for something?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:51 AM (hyuyC)
Dr. Henry Foster (died 1902)
From the book "Life Lessons"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 19, 2018 05:51 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:50 AM
♫ Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman♫
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 05:53 AM (e7O7B)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:53 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2018 05:54 AM (zLDYs)
Somehow, I have never met a rude employee at one.
Always polite and helpful.
As if they hire from another planet.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:51 AM
I know a chef who was making nice coin who took a cut in pay to work for them. Reason? He wanted to go to church on Sunday with his family.
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 05:55 AM (e7O7B)
Lines are often long, yet move remarkably fast.
Drive thru is the same way with double lanes and a very efficient through-put of vehicles.
Inside, they will take your order, give you a stand-up thingy with a number for you to put on the end of your table.
And your seat, put your numbered things were they can see it.
Relax.
Your food will be brought to you shortly.
And the Ap makes it even easier if you want to order ahead.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:55 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 05:56 AM (WOjjq)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:59 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:03 AM (Yt3le)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2018 06:04 AM (AtaaG)
Only going to be high of 32 here Thursday
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:59 AM (6VrXf)
Just a couple of days ago I looked at the temp for Thanksgiving and it was going to be 45. Looking this morning, its says 30........
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:05 AM (Yt3le)
When Bill Clinton and the Senate Rino's went along with his shitty trade deals and the shiv got stuck in the back of manufacturing jobs, millions of Americans lost their Monday through Friday jobs and landed smack dab in the service industry working 'flexible' hours. Which often meant seven fvcking days a week.
It's nice that Chic-F-A gives their employees at least one day of the weekend off.
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 06:05 AM (e7O7B)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 19, 2018 06:07 AM (WOjjq)
589 Only going to be high of 32 here Thursday
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:59 AM (6VrXf)
A high temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit is forecast for the northern Delmarva Peninsula on Thursday. Oh, joy! Rapture!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 19, 2018 06:07 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 05:59 AM
Twenty degrees BELOW average high for the Philly area.
Handy little Philly area temp chart here:
http://www.stormfax.com/phlminmax2.html
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 06:08 AM (e7O7B)
Posted by: Colin
It's all your fault! QUIT LOOKING!!!
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:08 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:08 AM (Yt3le)
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 06:10 AM (5k7/f)
Posted by: m at November 19, 2018 06:10 AM (5k7/f)
http://www.stormfax.com/phlminmax2.html
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly
Interesting how far back the temps go. I've looked at the Weather Underground record temps, and they seem to not go back farther than 1980.
Hmmmmm.
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:11 AM (8ikIW)
Do you think the fires in California wiped out all the pols hard work trying to keep the air clean by shutting down the nearby power plant....Now we have to get power from Quebec or some such place far, far away.
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:08 AM (Yt3le)
California is a colonial state. Keep the filthy, messy, nature harming infrastructures outside our borders. Hail, Gaia!
Fine, do that. The demolition of your dams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains will take place, when, Gaia lovers?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 19, 2018 06:13 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2018 06:14 AM (LsBY9)
Hmmmmm.
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:11 AM
They don't want you to see the record high temperatures of more than a century ago. They're fully vested in the Global Warming scam.
Posted by: Gradually, Then Suddenly at November 19, 2018 06:15 AM (e7O7B)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:16 AM (Yt3le)
It's Thanksgiving week and the start of the shopping season.
Wal-mart was a zoo this week-end.
Posted by: ALH at November 19, 2018 06:18 AM (dczB+)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:25 AM (hyuyC)
Yeah, me too.
The coughing fits suck.
And just in time for Thanksgiving. .
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 19, 2018 06:18 AM (UsCnO)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 05:25 AM (hyuyC)
I'm saving up my days off in case I get the flu again.
Even a bad case of bronchitis can lay you up for a few days.
Posted by: ALH at November 19, 2018 06:20 AM (dczB+)
Posted by: Colin
When the Globull warming people point out that if it's a real cold day or week, they say it's weather, not climate.
Okay, how far back are you taking those climate models then? 20 years? The earth is how old?
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:20 AM (8ikIW)
https://tinyurl.com/yb96u7ws
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 05:46 AM (cqNba)
after she stole the ag commissioners election
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2018 06:20 AM (JFO2v)
Get well soon.
I tried a massage me cure request, but my wife said no dice. Now she thinks I can do more chores, since I'm not that sick.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 06:21 AM (hyuyC)
The earth is how old?
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:20 AM (8ikIW)
Created at 6:00 PM on October 22, 4004 BC.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2018 06:24 AM (LsBY9)
Have not missed work. It's everything else I missed.
I should be immune, since I've been exposed to the disease reservoir in America, public schools, for a while. And I get a flu shot and wash my hands. Sigh.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 06:24 AM (hyuyC)
About 4.5 billion years old.
But twenty years of spotty and massaged "data collection" is sufficient to prove GLOWBULL CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!
Posted by: Kreplach at November 19, 2018 06:25 AM (qxq6t)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 06:27 AM (6VrXf)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:27 AM (2El4P)
Yep and hoping the typical GOP sop is "Let's come together and heal!" and let bygones be bygones and then let this breathtaking corruption and criminality skate and get hosed by it further down the line.
Posted by: Kreplach at November 19, 2018 06:27 AM (qxq6t)
That is the rumor on the streets, yes.
Police Commissioner in Baltimore is sort of like being #1 in Al Qaeda.
Both have a target on their back.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 06:28 AM (cqNba)
And get a humidifier for your bedroom - inexpensive is fine. Use it every night and clean it regularly. It's amazing how much it helps. I started doing that a few years ago, as soon as we turn the heat on, and I've very rarely gotten sick.
Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2018 06:28 AM (U5tDi)
Posted by: Meh at November 19, 2018 06:29 AM (9zmxg)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2018 06:30 AM (6VrXf)
May every traffic light turn green as you approach.
I've been telling the GOP politicians I know for years to cheat in elections. It is the only way to fix the problem. When the Left loses, they will work to fix it. They all discount cheating as beneath them.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2018 06:31 AM (hyuyC)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:32 AM (Yt3le)
I looked at the venue in Toronto, (Toronto?) for Nov 27th, and it seems as if they invited a lot of empty seats
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:32 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: wing at November 19, 2018 06:32 AM (JFzNN)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 19, 2018 06:38 AM (boNFp)
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:38 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 19, 2018 06:40 AM (bim/x)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 19, 2018 06:41 AM (bim/x)
*Suggested edit
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 19, 2018 06:44 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:46 AM (Yt3le)
Posted by: Colin
I just checked my emails. I have one from Amazon about the Black Friday Week Sales.
I'm sure next week will be a Remember Black Friday? Week Sale
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:49 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 06:49 AM (Yt3le)
New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with digital social credits (DSCs) for good behavior.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2018 06:53 AM (JFO2v)
New York entrepreneur and Democratic 2020 candidate Andrew Yang wants to implement a system in which a government-run mobile app rewards Americans with digital social credits (DSCs) for good behavior.
Posted by: rhennigantx
It will last until he realizes that all the credits are going to law abiding Republicans.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:54 AM (2El4P)
And local premium gas in Cowtown at the QT is 2.47/g.
Posted by: John Doe at November 19, 2018 06:54 AM (WX+x0)
Posted by: rhennigantx
I hope it's like airline frequent flyer miles and I can buy credits if I've been bad.
We could call those Indulgences!
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:55 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Colin
I just checked my emails. I have one from Amazon about the Black Friday Week Sales.
I'm sure next week will be a Remember Black Friday? Week Sale
Posted by: Bruce
Pre-Halloween Black Friday Sale.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:55 AM (2El4P)
It now takes over 210 megabytes of data just to load the home page.
Posted by: gaines Wright at November 19, 2018 06:56 AM (uTe/t)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at November 19, 2018 06:56 AM (JUOKG)
And local premium gas in Cowtown at the QT is 2.47/g.
Posted by: John Doe at November 19, 2018 06:54 AM (WX+x0)
I saw 2.15 yesterday
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2018 06:57 AM (JFO2v)
And local premium gas in Cowtown at the QT is 2.47/g.
Posted by: John Doe
Highway robbery. I'm regularly seeing $2.16. Saw $1.99 at a Wal Mart in Frisco/Plano.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:57 AM (2El4P)
We could call those Indulgences!
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:55 AM (8ikIW)
Do you get point for do or not doing?
Like how many points for NOT sticking your dick in crazy?
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2018 06:58 AM (JFO2v)
We could call those Indulgences!
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 06:55 AM (8ikIW)
Do you get point for do or not doing?
Like how many points for NOT sticking your dick in crazy?
Posted by: rhennigantx
And define "good behavior".
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:59 AM (2El4P)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 19, 2018 06:57 AM (2El4P)
2 years ago it was 1.99 at the local Speedway, at this time of year, and that is in upstate NY, not noted for low prices. Its 2.59 this am.
Posted by: Colin at November 19, 2018 07:00 AM (Yt3le)
You do know that there is a Double Standard.
Compare and contrast when a D does something sinful. Say, like molest an intern in oval office or actually rape someone, The Party and the Enemedia (birm) treat it as a non-event. If it gets play, its only through alternative news methods. In fact, when the sexual deviancy bled into other areas and an investigation on suborning perjury, The Party believed that misdirection away from the perjury to the sex was the best media play. That is, adultery, molestation and rape charges are better than a perjury charge in the eye of the public.
Compare to Larry Craig who was hounded out of his Senate office over having a "wide stance" in an airport restroom.
Tom Price is condemned and chased out of office for his charter flights on small business jets, yet no one cares about Nancy Pelosi when she routinely has huge drunken orgies aboard tax payer funded C-32 (aka Boeing 757) because she can't be inconvenienced with having to make a fuel stop in fly-over-country on her repeated trips between DC and her district.
The point being, the GOP can't cheat or even give the appearance of cheating (e.g. actually win) because:
1) The Enemedia will run 24/7 coverage until the "cheater" is not only run out of office, but is thrown in prison with everyone else who might have been nearby.
2) The Party itself will lead in throwing the alleged cheater under the bus, and will make all kinds of reconciliary efforts to award the offended party by vowing now to compete in that race for the next ten terms.
3) Anyone involved in that effort (consultants, pollsters, etc.) will never find work in the GOP again (but will gladly work for the opposition)
4) Will accept the charge that ALL GOP politicians cheat and will thus lay down and accept as a Party many of the demands levied upon them by the opposing party.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 19, 2018 07:01 AM (boNFp)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 19, 2018 07:02 AM (bim/x)
I'm cool with that. What Timezone ?
Just for completeness, our LORD was born between 1800-1850 on what we would reckon as September 11, 3BC (Gregorian Calendar).
Make sure you get next year's Excessmass Cards out in August.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at November 19, 2018 07:09 AM (boNFp)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Judging by her hair, it looks as if someone tazed the hell out of her.
Must have had it set to "11"
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 07:11 AM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2018 07:12 AM (8ikIW)
is fine. Use it every night and clean it regularly. It's amazing how
much it helps. I started doing that a few years ago, as soon as we turn
the heat on, and I've very rarely gotten sick.
Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2018 06:28 AM
^^^ This.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2018 07:18 AM (DVvHX)
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