Mid-Morning Open Thread

The Conversion Of St Paul
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Parmigianino)

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1
He wants to become that horse?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:28 AM (pNxlR)

2 crap, almost got an artsy fartsy first...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 06, 2018 09:28 AM (8D42x)

3 Lost his ride, huh?

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (cxHbL)

4 That horse has a very small head

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (z4wG+)

5 Is transspecism a thing now?

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (J+mig)

6 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (XVF2z)

7 That horse is really hamming it up. Very disrespectful.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (XOBxb)

8 Wakes up.
Scratches.
Looks arounds.
Dang...its quiet here.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (0tfLf)

9 can't decide if he's trying to look at the horse, or the slit of light...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 06, 2018 09:29 AM (8D42x)

10 That horse has a very small head
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

Horses are supposedly the hardest to paint and get all of the proportions correct.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (XVF2z)

11
That horse has a very small head

Posted by: Vashta Nerada

A Democrat, then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (VgpiO)

12 I think there is something wrong with that horse.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (gmo/4)

13 That horse has a very small head
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

And a big ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (XVF2z)

14 Whenever JJ posts n o o d at the end of his thread, I come here hoping for a 16th C Tuscan hottie in the altogether. We don't see enough of them.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (VaN/j)

15 oh, and sniper on the hill to the right, that's how he got unseated....

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (8D42x)

16 Parmigianino

Is that like a little cheese?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (p+Wdc)

17 The horse is behind him, no matter how far he rolls his eyes into his head he won't see the horse like that.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:31 AM (XOBxb)

18 Chicken Head Horse?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2018 09:31 AM (cqNba)

19
Horses are supposedly the hardest to paint and get all of the proportions correct.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM (XVF2z)

Horses asses, on the other hand, are a cinch -- there are so many models around.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:31 AM (pNxlR)

20 Painted in 1527. Huh. You'd think the artist would have seen a horse or two before he painted this.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:31 AM (gmo/4)

21
16 Parmigianino

Is that like a little cheese?

Little baby cheese -- product placement, y'all!

Mazzola, too!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:32 AM (pNxlR)

22 The artist needs to work on his horses.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee please at December 06, 2018 09:32 AM (Z216Q)

23 We're on the road to Damascus!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 06, 2018 09:32 AM (hLRSq)

24 That horse has a very small head

Posted by: Vashta Nerada

And a big ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:30 AM
What's wrong with a little head?

Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 06, 2018 09:32 AM (p+Wdc)

25 Don t remember any horses in the story of the Damascas road.

Just started an interesting book: Washington s Son of Israel. The story of how Jews were involved in winning the Revolutionary War.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2018 09:32 AM (tu/2g)

26 Does this Saint make my ass look big?

Posted by: Horse at December 06, 2018 09:33 AM (FTlwv)

27
The horse is being drawn into that black hole in the upper left. 'Tis the stretching that accompanies that act which makes its head appear to be too small.

Paul, aware of this, is just trying to get as far away from both of them as he can.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:34 AM (pNxlR)

28 Little known fact. Many middle eastern horses were deformed due to being diddled by muslims - bloody wogs.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:34 AM (gmo/4)

29 This is an example of Mannerism. It was the era immediately following the High Renaissance. Their technique took the stylistic innovations of the Renaissance and toyed with them. They manipulated and experimented with the elements of style -- to see what they could do. Parmigianino is probably one of the bigger names of this period, although Michelangelo was still alive during its early years. Some scholars think M.'s "Last Judgement" is Mannerist, not Late Renaissance.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:34 AM (OyyDO)

30 Paul certainly didn't scrimp on leg days.

I think in real life he was a scrawny bald little shit.

And Mazzola may never have seen a horse in real life.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 09:34 AM (fuK7c)

31 Mmm, I love ChickenParmigianino.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2018 09:35 AM (EZebt)

32 I love the way the horizon is tilted- ads to the sense of disorientation

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at December 06, 2018 09:35 AM (365ZU)

33 They DID have horses in Paul s day. However, they didn t have Mooselimbs.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2018 09:36 AM (tu/2g)

34 And Mazzola may never have seen a horse in real life.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Mazzola is pretty corny for a name.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:36 AM (XVF2z)

35 Funny, that guy doesn't look at all like a city. -- Minneapolis

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:37 AM (gmo/4)

36 Randy Quaid's Equus

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2018 09:37 AM (iXnsK)

37 Is that horse a Kard-Assian?

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at December 06, 2018 09:37 AM (XZ3Gp)

38 I don't think the horizon is tilted, look at the mountains in the distance. He seems to be on a hill.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (XOBxb)

39
Doggies, beasties and peeps in the background ... and a sword of Damascus steel.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (pNxlR)

40 Umm...

Can someone explain to me how the US can arrest a foreign national for evading trade sanctions that apply to US companies only?

I'm not aware of China signing on to Iran trade sanctions?

This smells of the deep state trying to fuck Trump/China relations vis-a-vise trade agreements.

This fucking shit has to stop.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (qxq6t)

41 The horse reminds me of this: https://tinyurl.com/yacdwqhd

Chinese Horse from Lascaux Cave

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (OyyDO)

42
Secretariat he ain't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (VgpiO)

43 Is that a polka-dot blouse? Sister, please. Have some self-respect.

Posted by: Zombie Catherine the Great at December 06, 2018 09:38 AM (HtLSE)

44 One of the Four Horsemen fell off?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:39 AM (ptqGC)

45
Paul started out as his own time's version of a SJW by persecuting Christians, remember.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:39 AM (pNxlR)

46 Everyone always talks about St. Paul, but nobody ever mentions the effect this traumatic experience must have had on that poor horse.

Posted by: PETA at December 06, 2018 09:39 AM (KUaJL)

47 Is that a polka-dot blouse? Sister, please. Have some self-respect.
Posted by: Zombie Catherine the Great

Mrs. Paul is pissed. St. Paul borrowed it without asking.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (XVF2z)

48 Well, the AP didn't disappoint this morning. Used H. W.'s funeral to rip PDT apart.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (ptqGC)

49 30 Paul certainly didn't scrimp on leg days.

I think in real life he was a scrawny bald little shit.

Wasn't Saul a tent maker when he wasn't persecuting these new-fangled Christians?

And Paul continued in that trade so he could be sel-supporting on his missionary journeys.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (MwFQu)

50 Is that horse wearing an ostrich leather vest?

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (TUU1F)

51 It looks like he's trying to convince somebody offscreen not to do something to him: "No, seriously, check this out before you do that, doesn't it look like the horse is wearing a vest? Isn't that awesome? No?"

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (RD7QR)

52 Why does the Horse look like it's wearing a vest?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (tYPH9)

53 little known, but he was actually called Saul of Tardis, and he time traveled back and intervened to change history ... Dr. Who is a spin off from that true story ...

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (Cus5s)

54
I believe the rolling eyes represent Paul's having been struck blind at the outset of his conversion.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (pNxlR)

55 Is that horse wearing an ostrich leather vest?
Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (TUU1F)

Lock it up!

Posted by: Herr Mueller at December 06, 2018 09:41 AM (tYPH9)

56 Saul (Paul) was a tent maker, a Pharisee, and a Roman Citizen.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (tu/2g)

57 What's wrong with a little head?"

Nothing.

I know a little German.

He's right over there...

Morning, y'all. *sigh*

Tired. Cffeeeeeeee

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (6qErC)

58
52 Why does the Horse look like it's wearing a vest?
Posted by: Surfperch at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (tYPH9)

Quiet, you! You'll give away the next Marvel superhero movie "Monsieur Edwardo"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (pNxlR)

59 20 Painted in 1527. Huh. You'd think the artist would have seen a horse or two before he painted this. "

He had - but he also had a thing for Badonkadonks.

that's one badonkadok horse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (Kpl3J)

60 That horse still has a smaller ass than Hillary.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

61 Why does the horse have such a tiny head?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (tYPH9)

62 Mazzola is pretty corny for a name.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:36 AM (XVF2z)

You call it Maze.

My people call it Labyrinth.

Posted by: Minos at December 06, 2018 09:43 AM (mUa7G)

63 Parmigianino's biggest competitor at the time was Mozzarella.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:43 AM (bUjCl)

64 Is that horse wearing an ostrich leather vest?"

Gucci.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:43 AM (6qErC)

65 52 Why does the Horse look like it's wearing a vest?

Horse blanket in lieu of a saddle?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2018 09:43 AM (iXnsK)

66 Mazzola? Parmesan? I'll bet CBD stumbled across this artist while looking around for recipes for the food thread.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (/qEW2)

67 Damascus was the name of a very popular chain of gyms at the time.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (NWiLs)

68 OK, the Daedalus sock would be much funnier . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (mUa7G)

69
Mrs. Paul is pissed. St. Paul borrowed it without asking.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (XVF2z)

She had her fish sticks to comfort her.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (pNxlR)

70 Chinese Horse from Lascaux Cave

That horse must have been tired after such a long trot.

One of my victories in No. 1 Son's early education was when he came home from school saying that his teacher said that cavemen only spoke in grunts.

I gave him a little theory on how long it took for both voiceboxes and the neural pathways of speech to evolve, but the clincher was when I pulled out my book on the Chauvet cave paintings.

I said "do you think people who talk in grunts could do that?" I got a bad reputation among the teachers for being the Dad of whom he kept saying "but my Dad says..."

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (fuK7c)

71 In Mannerism, things are supposed to look "off". Whether it's the perspective, proportions, colors, scale... The idea is to take the discoveries of the Renaissance for a "test drive". The styles is called mannerist, because the style had style (the Italian word "maniera") and finesse. There was a charm about it.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (OyyDO)

72 The horse is trying to explain "Damascus is that-a-way!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee please at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (Z216Q)

73 Sheesh, that Lardassian horse. Frequent visitor to the stables, Girolamo?

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (98WNR)

74 Damascus was the name of a very popular chain of gyms at the time.

Looks like Paul didn't skip Leg Day.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (iXnsK)

75 The rights not specifically enumerated for the individual are granted to the states and vice versa. So 1st, and etc. supersede whatever the state can do, no?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 06, 2018 09:15 AM (/9p9e)

Willowed - I rarely do this.

Before the 14th ... the Supremems actually ruled in 1833, Baron vs Baltimore, that the Bill of Rights applied to the Fed only and not the States. In US vs Cruikshank, that was affirmed regarding 1A and 2A. My readings vary on when the slide to today's situation occurred ... but most point to a series of cases in the twenties.

So - No - I don't think the Fed was always the guarantee of the Bill of Rights. And as a resident of Indiana ... I don't want them true. My State reflects my views more than DC. Your's does not. I'm sure that sucks for you.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (U96ww)

76 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

77 Simon became Peter.

Saul became Paul.

It's almost like they were in witness protection.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (H7LIz)

78 Well, the AP didn't disappoint this morning. Used H. W.'s funeral to rip PDT apart.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (ptqGC)
************************
Daily Mail notification- 'This is your 'Christian' evangelical president': Trump slammed for not reciting the Apostles' Creed at funeral.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (hECVl)

79 61 Why does the horse have such a tiny head?
Posted by: Surfperch at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (tYPH9)

Equine microencephaly.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (NWiLs)

80 Title of AP's hit piece on Trump: "Trump odd man out as presidents assemble"

Picture shows PDT and Melania looking somber and dignified, Barry's nose waaaay up in the air, Mooch frowning, Billy Jeff literally sitting with his mouth hanging open, and the Beast glaring straight ahead.

I'd say PDT and Melania are way above the rest.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (ptqGC)

81 My people call it Labyrinth."

The obviously coke fueled 80's fantasy flick?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (6qErC)

82 Damascus was the name of a very popular chain of gyms at the time.
Posted by: Insomniac

And knife blades.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:46 AM (XVF2z)

83 Daily Mail notification- 'This is your 'Christian' evangelical president': Trump slammed for not reciting the Apostles' Creed at funeral."

They're Brits. Gotta listen to the muzzie caterhowling 5 times daily, so their understanding ....

yeah. Sure.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:47 AM (6qErC)

84 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

I actually dreamed about a reception for 300 I'm helping with on Sunday. A local school is having a concert in our church.

I'm worn out!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:47 AM (ptqGC)

85 In the case of Peter I'm pretty sure it was so Jesus could make a rock pun. Peter's name meaning rock and Jesus telling him he'd be the rock on which he'd build his church.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:47 AM (XOBxb)

86
Simon Saul "Mounds"
Simon Saul "Almond Joy"

nope, nope, nope

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:47 AM (pNxlR)

87 The horse's proportions look a bit off, it's unsettling, but this guy obviously knows what he's doing, so I'm assuming it's intentional.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 09:48 AM (/qEW2)

88 "Daily Mail notification- 'This is your 'Christian' evangelical president': Trump slammed for not reciting the Apostles' Creed at funeral."

Except he never claimed to be religious, just to respect those who are and to not persecute them the way Obama had and Hillary promised.

I swear, journalists watched a different campaign than I did.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 09:48 AM (ljEFa)

89
34 And Mazzola may never have seen a horse in real life.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Mazzola is pretty corny for a name.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:36 AM (XVF2z)

I hear that he was quite the unctuous fellow.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 09:48 AM (veoSD)

90 Why does the horse have such a tiny head?
Posted by: Surfperch at December 06, 2018 09:42 AM (tYPH9)

Equine microencephaly.
Posted by: Insomniac

Zippy!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:48 AM (XVF2z)

91 76 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

Helloooo nurse! I think weird dreams are willow's department.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:48 AM (NWiLs)

92 Simon Saul "Mounds"
Simon Saul "Almond Joy"

Sometimes you feel like a nut...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:49 AM (6qErC)

93 81 My people call it Labyrinth."

The obviously coke fueled 80's fantasy flick?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (6qErC)

Jennifer. Connolley. Too young to perv on, true, but you knew what was coming.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 09:49 AM (RD7QR)

94 I swear, journalists watched a different campaign than I did."

It's the Brit press, so "journalists" isn't the word that comes to mind...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:49 AM (6qErC)

95 Trump an evangelical LOL

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2018 09:49 AM (BXMxN)

96 nurse, no, but i'm still in hoping my last remembered dream to have results, and two happy people to make it worth the whole weirdness of it.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (2c0p7)

97 >>77 Simon became Peter. Saul became Paul.
It's almost like they were in witness protection.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (H7LIz)

Cover names. They claimed to be "just State Department employees," but everyone knew they were Agency guys...

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (Bdeb0)

98 yeah the horse proportions and Saul/Paul's left leg are out of whack but otherwise the human figure is perfect. Artist is exercising his artistic license privilege.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (vzMuS)

99 75: We really have a deteriorating federal government when it comes to enforcement. States and municipalities have their own drug policies, immigration policies and foreign policies. The feds are happy to look the other way and collect their checks. Sickening

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (U7k5w)

100 Daily Mail notification- 'This is your 'Christian' evangelical president': Trump slammed for not reciting the Apostles' Creed at funeral.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (hECVl)

Trump is an Evangelical Christian since when?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (hLRSq)

101 Simon became Peter. Saul became Paul.
It's almost like they were in witness protection.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (H7LIz)

Cover names. They claimed to be "just State Department employees," but everyone knew they were Agency guys...
Posted by: Zod

The first operators.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:51 AM (XVF2z)

102 Title of AP's hit piece on Trump: "Trump odd man out as presidents assemble"

They say it like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2018 09:51 AM (nIvDu)

103 I actually dreamed about a reception for 300 I'm helping with on Sunday. A local school is having a concert in our church.

I'm worn out!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:47 AM (ptqGC)

I used to have very literal dreams about being at work. It sucked since I'd wake up feeling like I'd already put in a full day.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:51 AM (NWiLs)

104 Title of AP's hit piece on Trump: "Trump odd man out as presidents assemble"

Picture shows PDT and Melania looking somber and dignified, Barry's nose waaaay up in the air, Mooch frowning, Billy Jeff literally sitting with his mouth hanging open, and the Beast glaring straight ahead.

---

Ha. It's amazing that they still honestly don't seem to understand why the US elected Trump.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 09:51 AM (LX21o)

105
Apollos Creed

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (TYj+F)

106 That horse must have been tired after such a long trot.

One of my victories in No. 1 Son's early education was when he came home from school saying that his teacher said that cavemen only spoke in grunts.

I gave him a little theory on how long it took for both voiceboxes and the neural pathways of speech to evolve, but the clincher was when I pulled out my book on the Chauvet cave paintings.

I said "do you think people who talk in grunts could do that?" I got a bad reputation among the teachers for being the Dad of whom he kept saying "but my Dad says..."
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (fuK7c)

I almost did my Master's on Pre-historic art. (Looking back, I should have tho.) The complexity of cave paintings alone convinced me that the artists were no primitives. The cave paintings are carefully planned and executed. They designed and built scaffolding to paint them. They even took into account the sound effects and echos within the individual cave chambers to dictate the subject matter and its composition. These people were highly intelligent, just limited by their circumstances.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (OyyDO)

107 I never remember dreams.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (0tfLf)

108 I actually dreamed about a reception for 300 I'm helping with on Sunday. A local school is having a concert in our church.

I'm worn out!

Posted by: Jane D'oh
-----

What if you had a similar scheduled and planned event, and in the days just previous the weather gnomes began to forecast 'possible' heavy snow?

What to do? There is a lot of planning and organization involved, and people.

At some point, in advance, a decision has to be made. And, I'm the guy that has to make the call.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (fZcn6)

109 Please don't talk about dreams. My wife annoys me enough by telling me about hers.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (y7DUB)

110 insmoniac, i'm hopeful my dream can come true, except I refuse to chaperone. so the next time I dream of being left a fortune from non existent rich relative I will have hope.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (2c0p7)

111 All the "good" horses were taken by the Romans, so Paul had to use an Uber horse.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (gmo/4)

112 Are those scales on the ground? I think those are scales.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (fZcn6)

113 The horse's proportions in that painting seem off to me. Such a tiny little head for such a big animal.

Posted by: troyriser at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (1JpTT)

114 Well, Kris is not here, so I had to, HAD TO cheat. a mannerist. one of the first.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (bUjCl)

115 Trump is an Evangelical Christian since when?"

In the Formerly Great Britainistan, the line is that all 'murricans are hat wearing evangelical fat prudes.

Seriously. Mumble that sorta stuff in a local hangout and you'll fit right in.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (6qErC)

116 Horse's proportion are all wrong.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (bUjCl)

117 Captain! did I tell you about the one I had giving birth to several placentas and no baby?

giggling mro

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (2c0p7)

118 "So - No - I don't think the Fed was always the guarantee of the Bill of Rights. And as a resident of Indiana ... I don't want them true. My State reflects my views more than DC. Your's does not. I'm sure that sucks for you."

So, some legal trivia that still applies today. Yes, Barron v. Baltimore ruled that the Bill of Rights only applied to the Feds, not to the States. But that was in 1833, and in 1868 the 14th Amendment was passed, in part to overturn the ruling in Barron v. Baltimore. (those taking notes, this is how Congress overturns a SCOTUS decision they disagree with) The language which overturned Barron, and was held to apply the Bill of Rights to the States (although it took the SCOTUS 60 years of dragging its feet to admit this) is known as the Due Process Clause, which reads:
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the Citizens of the United States, and no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."

you can see how a thing like Asset Forfeiture without a conviction directly violates that clause, no matter what level of government does it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (Kpl3J)

119 It's hard to kick against the pricks.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (/qEW2)

120 Where's the horn and skittle shits?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (F4u7C)

121 oh, there is Kris.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (bUjCl)

122 I see plants and a sword but no scales.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (XOBxb)

123 Title of AP's hit piece on Trump: "Trump odd man out as presidents assemble"

He's the only one with a job.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Ho Ho Ho! Red Faced Rants are In at The Outrage Outlet! at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (hLRSq)

124 109 Please don't talk about dreams. My wife annoys me enough by telling me about hers.
Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (y7DUB)

Does she dream about you cheating on her then freak out on you as if you actually were cheating on her?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

125 Please don't talk about dreams. My wife annoys me enough by telling me about hers.
Posted by: Captain Hate
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Her: "What do you think it means?"

Me: "It means that we shouldn't have pizza so late in the evening."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (fZcn6)

126
Mrs. Paul is pissed. St. Paul borrowed it without asking.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (XVF2z)

She had her fish sticks to comfort her.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (pNxlR)

He gave it back without laundering it first. It was totally ichthy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (veoSD)

127 I'm a cradle Catholic and have trouble remembering all the words to the Creed. Plus we have two versions of it, hard to keep up.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (vzMuS)

128 Hi Insom

*blushes

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (YZ+gh)

129 Captain, insomniac and Mike, you guys are bummers.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (2c0p7)

130 So the secular Associated Press is now going to criticize how Christian politicians worship?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (H7LIz)

131 126
Mrs. Paul is pissed. St. Paul borrowed it without asking.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:40 AM (XVF2z)

She had her fish sticks to comfort her.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (pNxlR)

In her mouth?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (NWiLs)

132 Did they ever carbondate the Chauvet paintings ?

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (bUjCl)

133 I pulled my back out again preparing Thanksgiving dinner. It gets so bad I can barely stand up. I'm going to give my son's chiropractor a try.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (ptqGC)

134 Does this Saint make my ass look big?
Posted by: Horse at December 06, 2018 09:33 AM (FTlwv)

That's a high quality comment, right there.

This place has no equal.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (F4u7C)

135 insomniac, She is blushing! How remarkable that is in this day and age, Why aren't you calling her!?

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (2c0p7)

136 She had her fish sticks to comfort her.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 09:44 AM (pNxlR)

You like fishsticks?

Well, you're a gay fish......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (F4u7C)

137 Trump slammed for not reciting the Apostles' Creed at funeral.

--

Trump slammed for not absent-mindedly reading spiritual words that are deeply cherished and meaningful to millions of people after they were printed on the back of a program by a company that makes taco sales circulars and junk mail on their other days and that half the congregation threw in the trash on the way out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (LX21o)

138 115 Trump is an Evangelical Christian since when?"

Trump is an Evangelical Christian the way that Cyrus the Great was a Jew.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (Kpl3J)

139
127 I'm a cradle Catholic and have trouble remembering all the words to the Creed. Plus we have two versions of it, hard to keep up.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (vzMuS)

And then someone created the Assassin's Creed.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (XOBxb)

140 BREAKING NEWS:
The kool kids dont like Trump! He's not one of them. Miss Obama yet? Suckers.

Posted by: mean girl media at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (FDQF8)

141 Jane ugh, i'm sorry you had to work in your dream and have to do it for real again.

I hate that.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 09:57 AM (2c0p7)

142 114 Well, Kris is not here, so I had to, HAD TO cheat. a mannerist. one of the first.
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (bUjCl)

121 oh, there is Kris.
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (bUjCl)

LOL. Felt like I was back teaching again.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:57 AM (OyyDO)

143 Well, Kris is not here, so I had to, HAD TO cheat. a mannerist. one of the first.

Kris is here and she told us about mannerism.

Nyah nyah.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 09:57 AM (fuK7c)

144 Does she dream about you cheating on her then freak out on you as if you actually were cheating on her?
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

Not specifically that but she has copped an attitude regarding something I did in one of her nocturnal brain farts as if I really did it. I should've sent it to a Rodney Dangerfield.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2018 09:57 AM (y7DUB)

145 You know what's spooky?

Saul took the name of a Minnesota City that wasn't even built yet.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 06, 2018 09:57 AM (H7LIz)

146 128 Hi Insom

*blushes
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (YZ+gh)

Oh my. Willow's dream must've been a real doozy!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:58 AM (NWiLs)

147 I had a dream last night. I was leading a company of Marines in a battle against space aliens last night. The aliens were colorful balloon creatures hiding in rock crevasses on a mountain. They had powerful weapons but were easily destroyed by popping them.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:58 AM (gmo/4)

148 I guarantee they gave everybody but Trump a heads up they were going to do this chant.

Posted by: mean girl media at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (FDQF8)

149 Better call Saul...Paul.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (AM1GF)

150 That horse looks silly.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (9AV11)

151 147 I had a dream last night. I was leading a company of Marines in a battle against space aliens last night. The aliens were colorful balloon creatures hiding in rock crevasses on a mountain. They had powerful weapons but were easily destroyed by popping them.
Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2018 09:58 AM (gmo/4)

Jeff Koons, is that you?

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (OyyDO)

152 139
127 I'm a cradle Catholic and have trouble remembering all the words to the Creed. Plus we have two versions of it, hard to keep up.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 09:55 AM (vzMuS)

And then someone created the Assassin's Creed.
Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:56 AM (XOBxb)

Some Canuck at Ubisoft.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (NWiLs)

153 This one is a lot better than yesterday's.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (mpXpK)

154 Paul Ryan... I hope he catches leprosy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (5aX2M)

155 "In the Formerly Great Britainistan, the line is that all 'murricans are hat wearing evangelical fat prudes."

And half the rest of the world considers us all godless libertines.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (ljEFa)

156
76 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

Nicely Nicely Johnson put it best --

I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven
And by some chance I had brought my dice along
And there I stood and I hollered "Someone fade me!"
But the passengers, they knew right from wrong.

For the people all said, "Sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat!"
People all said "Sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat!
And the devil will drag you under
By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat,
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down,
Sit down you're rockin' the boat!"

I sailed away on that little boat to heaven
And by some chance found a bottle in my fist.
And there I stood, nicely passin' out the whiskey
But the passengers were bound to resist.

For the people all said, "Beware! You're on a heavenly trip!"
People all said, "Beware! Beware, you'll scuttle the ship.
And the devil will drag you under
By the fancy tie 'round your wicked throat
Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down
Sit down, you're rockin' the boat!"

And as I laughed at those passengers to heaven (laughs)
(gasps!) A great big wave came and washed me over board!
And as I sank and I hollered, "Someone save me!"
That's the moment I woke up Thank the Lord!

And I said to myself, "Sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat!"
Said to myself, "Sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat!
And the devil will drag you under
With a soul so heavy you'd never float,
Sit down, sit down, sit down,
Sit down, sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (pNxlR)

157 Does autocucumber periodically insert an unwanted "a" in front of nouns for any of you or am I being singled out for that treatment?

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (y7DUB)

158 Did you ever go to sleep thinking about some work you needed to do and dream you did it?That sucks.

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (BXMxN)

159

Kris is here and she told us about mannerism.

I...need to keep up.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (bUjCl)

160 you can see how a thing like Asset Forfeiture without a conviction directly violates that clause, no matter what level of government does it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (Kpl3J)

So we agree ... the Republic, as founded, intended the Bill of Rights to be a check on Federal Power ... and nothing more. And the 14th allowed the Federal Camel to insert it's nose under the State's Tent. We have zero argument.

I prefer the Original Arrangement.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (U96ww)

161 I pulled my back out again preparing Thanksgiving dinner. It gets so bad I can barely stand up. I'm going to give my son's chiropractor a try.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
---------

If you're not wearing one, even a cheapie elastic back brace can make a *big* difference. Local drug store will have them. They have been a lifesaver for me. The reduction in pain, while not complete, is certainly noticeable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (KoKdw)

162 Better call Saul...Paul.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 09:59 AM (AM1GF)

Call Paul...Finebaum.....he'll make sense of it all.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (cxHbL)

163 Here's the lead from the AP's hit piece on Trump:

"There was no mistaking the odd man out.

Wednesday's funeral service for former President George H. W. Bush served as a rare reunion of the remaining members of the president's club, but the front row banter among Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and their spouses came to an uneasy end when President Donald Trump and wife Melania arrived.

The enounter was a real-time illustration of the uneasy ties between the current occupant of the White House and his predecessors, suggesting Trump as a member-in-name-only of the Oval Office fraternity....

Trump gave the two Obamas a handshake before taking his seat in Washington's National Cathedral without greeting the others. Hillalry Clinton nodded at Melania Trump but then stared straight ahead."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (ptqGC)

164 You know what's spooky?

Saul took the name of a Minnesota City that wasn't even built yet.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Saul became Minneapolis?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (XVF2z)

165 Did they ever carbondate the Chauvet paintings ?

My book says they were radiocarbon dated to 30,000 years ago and are the oldest known paintings.

Of course, I've had the book for a while so by now they're 30,020 years old.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (fuK7c)

166 I'm a cradle Catholic and have trouble remembering all the words to the Creed. Plus we have two versions of it, hard to keep up.

Posted by: kallisto

Pfft, they switched everything around in the decades since I've been in regular attendance. I have to have the book to follow along now.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (AM1GF)

167 >>Cover names. They claimed to be "just State Department employees," but everyone knew they were Agency guys... Posted by: Zod

The first operators. Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 09:51 AM (XVF2z)

If you look carefully at 'The Last Supper,' you can see that both "Peter" and "Paul" are each carrying a SIG P226 in a shoulder rig.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (Bdeb0)

168 Does this head make my butt look big?

Posted by: Mrs. Horse at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (KoKdw)

169 But interesting about M. Last Supper.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:01 AM (bUjCl)

170 158 Did you ever go to sleep thinking about some work you needed to do and dream you did it?That sucks.
Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (BXMxN)

Yep. Actually, there were a couple of times I solved a problem for work in my dream and carried it over into real life. No joke.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (NWiLs)

171 Wednesday's funeral service for former President George H. W. Bush served as a rare reunion of the remaining members of the president's club, but the front row banter among Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and their spouses came to an uneasy end when President Donald Trump and wife Melania arrived.

Because has beens feel small in the presence of a master.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (XVF2z)

172 Man, that horse looks like it just ate another horse.....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (jjaLl)

173 One of the interesting ways that helps to date the Chauvet cave is that there's evidence that a large landslide completely buried the main entrance to the cave about 25,000 years ago (roughly). It was only discovered in 1994 by cave explorers who were following a very narrow passage through a mountain, which led to it. That's also why it is so well preserved - it was almost completely sealed off from the elements and animals for 25,000 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (Kpl3J)

174 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM

Yeah, sometimes my brain picks up noises and integrates them into the dream. The wife had the tv on in 'her side' of the bedroom. Dogs were barking. Repeatedly, wouldn't shut up. In my dream I'm carrying a pick-ax and a step stool in my hands in order to get some network cable down from a shelf. Only things handy. As I'm walking along the dogs started biting me and I stabbed 'em with the pick ax.

I suppose I should turn my dream into PETA for doubleplusungood thoughtcrime.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (e7O7B)

175 139: I am a fan of General Charles Lee and the modern rendition of Spado. Too ridiculous, but yes their was a Revolutionary War pomeranian

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (U7k5w)

176 If you're not wearing one, even a cheapie elastic
back brace can make a *big* difference. Local drug store will have them.
They have been a lifesaver for me. The reduction in pain, while not
complete, is certainly noticeable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM (KoKdw)

I'll try that. The pain has made just baking a batch of cookies problematic.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (ptqGC)

177 Are those scales on the ground? I think those are scales.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (fZcn6)

Under his right leg? Looks like a sword. Scales come later.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (/qEW2)

178 You think it was a camel's nose. I say deputizing the whole country with the fugitive slave law was the whole camel. 14th amendment is not the source of federal overreach. Lets say the federal government deputized the whole country to enforce environmental regulations created by the state of California. That would've been scarcely different from what the federal government was capable of doing prior to the 14th.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (XOBxb)

179 171: And it got federal employees another paid holiday.

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (U7k5w)

180 I'll try that. The pain has made just baking a batch of cookies problematic.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (ptqGC)

Baking cookies is inherently problematic, as it's patriarchal oppression against the wymynz.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (NWiLs)

181
I'll try that. The pain has made just baking a batch of cookies problematic.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (ptqGC)

*crouches next to USB port*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (veoSD)

182 I pulled my back out again preparing Thanksgiving dinner. It gets so bad I can barely stand up. I'm going to give my son's chiropractor a try.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

---

I'm sure there are some good ones, but it's been my experience that their business operates on making sure you come back.

Consider finding a local occupational therapy business and working with a physical therapist to learn some exercises to become stronger and prevent it in the future. I'd imagine about one chiropracter visit would pay for it, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (LX21o)

183 Morning horde.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (p0nVR)

184
I'm going to give my son's chiropractor a try.

Oh, go ahead, but you'll come back around to turkey for your holiday meals -- people always do.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (pNxlR)

185 Does autocucumber periodically insert an unwanted "a" in front of nouns for any of you or am I being singled out for that treatment?
Posted by: Captain Hate
-----------
Not a aproblem here.

Posted by: Mrs. Horse at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (KoKdw)

186 Trump gave the two Obamas a handshake before taking his seat in
Washington's National Cathedral without greeting the others. Hillalry
Clinton nodded at Melania Trump but then stared straight ahead."

Imagine if he'd tried to step in front of Barry and Mooch to reach Billy Jeff and the Beast. REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:04 AM (ptqGC)

187 Should have saved The Weakley Dullard Mag. Ahoy Cap'n Bill ! moar Cruises though !! hahahahahaha

Bill Kristol @BillKristol
A friend called my attention to this tweet, and distasteful though it is, I'm glad. It reinforces my determination, for what it's worth, to try to save conservatism from the alt-right and to advance a conservatism that "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
====
Cap'n Bill reply to a tweet by D'Nesh D'Souza & my response !

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:05 AM (BqBId)

188 Yep. Actually, there were a couple of times I solved a problem for work in my dream and carried it over into real life. No joke.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:02 AM (NWiLs)

----

My brother frequently dreams up complex engineering solutions.

He's like Kekule with that. It's weird.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:05 AM (5aX2M)

189 Yes,I'm sure Trump is broken up about it...

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2018 10:05 AM (BXMxN)

190 I have to ask, what kind of cookies you baking?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (NWiLs)

191 Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza
Maybe the owners of the @weeklystandard should hire some Vietnamese guys to run the mag. This would fulfill @BillKristol 's own prophecy that when native-born Americans become stupid, lazy, decadent & overpaid they can be replaced by more industrious immigrants

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (BqBId)

192 Bill Kristol @BillKristol
A friend called my attention to this tweet, and distasteful though it is, I'm glad. It reinforces my determination, for what it's worth, to try to save conservatism from the alt-right and to advance a conservatism that "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."

Because YOU'RE the keeper of what's "conservative."

Fuck you, Billy. Fuck. You.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (F4u7C)

193 184: Love it.

Last time I ruptured a disk I just took lots of motrin for 8 weeks. I'd have needed something for pain even if I opted for surgery, and motrin allowed me to drive without worrying about problems from stronger meds.

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (U7k5w)

194 I have to ask, what kind of cookies you baking?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (NWiLs)

I'm going to make spicy ginger cookies this afternoon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (ptqGC)

195 So we agree ... the Republic, as founded, intended the Bill of Rights to be a check on Federal Power ... and nothing more. And the 14th allowed the Federal Camel to insert it's nose under the State's Tent. We have zero argument.

I prefer the Original Arrangement."

So did Robert E. Lee. (oh hell, so do I.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (Kpl3J)

196 Chuavet paintings - may be it was aliens ? any other works or artifacts that date 30,000 bc that have that level of sophistication ? I can't think of anything they found, other than primitive tools.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (bUjCl)

197
Here's the lead from the AP's hit piece on Trump:

AP and others truly have no idea how tiresome their perpetual mean girls' snark comes off for well over half of the country, do they?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (pNxlR)

198 98 yeah the horse proportions and Saul/Paul's left leg are out of whack but otherwise the human figure is perfect. Artist is exercising his artistic license privilege.
Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 09:50 AM (vzMuS)

I wonder who was the first painter to think of that phrase.

"You screwed up. The left leg doesn't look right."

"Uh, artistic license. That's it, artistic license."

All his successors are in his debt.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (VaN/j)

199 17
The horse is behind him, no matter how far he rolls his eyes into his head he won't see the horse like that.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 09:31 AM (XOBxb)

I think at this point in the sequence he was blinded, so he wouldn't see the horse anyway.

Posted by: Dan K. at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (b1sqO)

200 I'm going to make spicy ginger cookies this afternoon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (ptqGC)

But are you wearing only an apron?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (F4u7C)

201 I'm fascinated by how accurately pre-photography era painters depicted horses in motion.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (vzMuS)

202 Jane D'oh - I'm a broken record with this, but - CBD cream was a lifesaver the last time my back went out.

*presses "Start" on the Charlie Brown's Dildo joke machine*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (5aX2M)

203 It's interesting how liberals have developed a sudden respect and fondness for the Bush family.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (ptqGC)

204 It's interesting how liberals have developed a sudden respect and fondness for the Bush family.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (ptqGC)

Because they've cozied with the left once they left office.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:09 AM (F4u7C)

205 194 I have to ask, what kind of cookies you baking?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (NWiLs)

I'm going to make spicy ginger cookies this afternoon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (ptqGC)

Lord know plenty of Morons like a spicy ginger!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (NWiLs)

206 It's interesting how liberals have developed a sudden respect and fondness for the Bush family.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (ptqGC)

---

He's recently become their favorite kind of republican.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (LX21o)

207 Chuavet paintings - may be it was aliens ? any other works or artifacts that date 30,000 bc that have that level of sophistication ?

I think more likely it's that human culture was sophisticated, we just don't have many preserved artifacts.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (fuK7c)

208 202 Jane D'oh - I'm a broken record with this, but - CBD cream was a lifesaver the last time my back went out.

*presses "Start" on the Charlie Brown's Dildo joke machine*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (5aX2M)

*squirt*

Posted by: Carlos Danger at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (NWiLs)

209 "Chuavet paintings - may be it was aliens ? any other works or artifacts that date 30,000 bc that have that level of sophistication ?"

Most artifacts would have been bone, leather, and wood, so they've disintegrated.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (ljEFa)

210
I have to ask, what kind of cookies you baking?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:06 AM (NWiLs)

I'm going to make spicy ginger cookies this afternoon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:07 AM (ptqGC)

I have an open USB port off to my right. I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (veoSD)

211 203: Bush loved him some Islam and illegal immigration is an act of love. How can the MSM object to the destruction of the US?

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (U7k5w)

212 ...primitive tools from that long ago

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (bUjCl)

213 14th amendment is not the source of federal overreach. Lets say the federal government deputized the whole country to enforce environmental regulations created by the state of California. That would've been scarcely different from what the federal government was capable of doing prior to the 14th.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (XOBxb)

Except that's EXACTLY what's coming - as soon as the Fed connects Envoronmental Policy to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Becore the 14th - you only had to worry about the tyrants in your State Capitol. After the 14th - You had to worry about them all.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:11 AM (U96ww)

214 Does she dream about you cheating on her then freak out on you as if you actually were cheating on her?

My girlfriend would be mad at me during the day for things that happened in her dreams. She had the most vivid and detailed recollection of crazy dreams.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2018 10:11 AM (g0Lfb)

215 I'm sure there are some good ones, but it's been my experience that their business operates on making sure you come back.

Consider finding a local occupational therapy business and working with a physical therapist to learn some exercises to become stronger and prevent it in the future. I'd imagine about one chiropracter visit would pay for it, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

My insurance pays for 26 chiropractic visits a year.
OT/PT would have to be a referral from a Dr after establishing a medical reason. Then deductible and my 20% portion would apply.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:11 AM (XVF2z)

216 More AP drivel:

"The ceremony's tributes at times stood as an unspoken counterpoint to Trump's leadership, as historian Jon Meacham euologized Bush by recounting his life's credo: 'Tell the truth, don't blame people, be strong, do your best, try hard, forgive, stay the course.' George W. Bush added of his father, 'He could tease and needle, but not out of malice.'"

Jon Meacham: Regular on Morning Joe, Trump hater. Perhaps he should have stared straight at Barack Obama with those comments.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:12 AM (ptqGC)

217 Bush loved him some Islam and illegal immigration is an act of love. How can the MSM object to the destruction of the US?
Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:10 AM (U7k5w)

------

He once again called Clinton his "brother from another mother" in his eulogy yesterday.

The Bushes are just rubbing it in, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:12 AM (5aX2M)

218 215: Amazing how chiropractic successfully lobbied for insurance coverage. To me it will always be quackery.

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:13 AM (U7k5w)

219 14th amendment is not the source of federal overreach. Lets say the federal government deputized the whole country to enforce environmental regulations created by the state of California. That would've been scarcely different from what the federal government was capable of doing prior to the 14th.

Posted by: Someguy

They do it now. Why the fuck do I, in Texas, have to use an incompetent gas can just because CARB says so?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:13 AM (XVF2z)

220
Bill Kristol @BillKristol
A friend called my attention to this tweet, and distasteful though it is, I'm glad. It reinforces my determination, for what it's worth, to try to save conservatism from the alt-right and to advance a conservatism that "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."

Perhaps Billy can learn to code....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:13 AM (veoSD)

221 178 You think it was a camel's nose. I say deputizing the whole country with the fugitive slave law was the whole camel. 14th amendment is not the source of federal overreach. Lets say the federal government deputized the whole country to enforce environmental regulations created by the state of California. "

You bring up a point which may be more applicable to our current situation than you realize. In the years running up to the (first) Civil War, the pro-slavery forces began to use the law in ways they should not have been allowed to, which of course inspired a backlash from their opponents, which led to increasing waves of anger and violence which eventually resulted in open conflict and war. And finally, large parts of the Constitution itself were completely re-written by the victors 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The old Constitution died, a New Constitution (very similar, but not the same) took it's place.

We look to be on a similar trajectory today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (Kpl3J)

222 220" Who precisely is being "persecuted"

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (U7k5w)

223 146

Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

And btw, I really did bake cookies last night. White choc chip with cranberries. Christmas is coming!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (PFndM)

224 He once again called Clinton his "brother from another mother" in his eulogy yesterday.

The Bushes are just rubbing it in, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:12 AM (5aX2M)

Yeah, they've embraced an actual rapist and serial cheater as a member of the family. Unbelievable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (ptqGC)

225 It's interesting how liberals have developed a sudden respect and fondness for the Bush family.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:08 AM (ptqGC)
============
Nah Liberals LOVE dead Republicans ! also now they have another vote from a dead person

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (BqBId)

226 He once again called Clinton his "brother from another mother" in his eulogy yesterday.

The Bushes are just rubbing it in, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Bing "Barbara Bush & Planned Parenthood"

Real conservative.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (XVF2z)

227 for what it's worth

worth very little. not much, you may say. like...in the zero to minus one range...

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (bUjCl)

228 If you're not wearing one, even a cheapie elastic
back brace can make a *big* difference. Local drug store will have them.
They have been a lifesaver for me. The reduction in pain, while not
complete, is certainly noticeable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 10:00 AM

I second that. I wear two of them around my middle. Part of my issue is strictly muscular and cold temps cause my muscles to cramp. Hurts like a summa bitch when it happens. Almost incapacitating.

Hasn't happened once since I went to these velcro adhering braces. Side benefit is they're waist reducing over time. They sort of limit range of motion so you really can't engage in any bad twisting motions.

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (e7O7B)

229 My insurance pays for 26 chiropractic visits a year.
OT/PT would have to be a referral from a Dr after establishing a medical reason. Then deductible and my 20% portion would apply.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:11 AM (XVF2z)

---

Yeah, that's sort of my point, I guess. 26 visits that don't fix anything vs one (two if you count the phone call or possible visit to the doctor asking for the referral) to learn some back exercises and yoga recommendations for $200 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (LX21o)

230 226: HW knocked up Clinton's mommy?

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (U7k5w)

231 The 14th Amendment actually didn't give the government much, even though it was not legally ratified. But the far left SCOTUS of the 60s and 70s made some really bad interpretations and gave the feds infinite power.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (mpXpK)

232 Nah Liberals LOVE dead Republicans ! also now they have another vote from a dead person
Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (BqBId)

This is true. The DNC has a direct line to all morgues and once a death certificate is signed, they're automatically registered as a Democrat for the next election.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (F4u7C)

233 213 14th amendment is not the source of federal overreach. Lets say the federal government deputized the whole country to enforce environmental regulations created by the state of California. That would've been scarcely different from what the federal government was capable of doing prior to the 14th.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (XOBxb)

Except that's EXACTLY what's coming - as soon as the Fed connects Envoronmental Policy to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Becore the 14th - you only had to worry about the tyrants in your State Capitol. After the 14th - You had to worry about them all.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:11 AM (U96ww)

My very point is that they were doing it before the 14th anyways. The 14th can't be the cause of the fugitive slave law since it didn't exist yet. Ergo gross federal overreach exists regardless. The federal government or any other government doesn't need legal technicalities to justify itself, nor in the case of objectionable behavior is legality a defense for the government(see France riots).

Prior to the 14th you had to worry about politics in other states. After the 14th you still have to worry about it.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (XOBxb)

234 Bing "Barbara Bush Planned Parenthood"

Real conservative.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:15 AM (XVF2z)

Laura Bush and the Bush twins are also big supporters of PP. Yep, real conservative.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (ptqGC)

235 177 Are those scales on the ground? I think those are scales.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2018 09:53 AM (fZcn6)

Under his right leg? Looks like a sword. Scales come later.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:03 AM (/qEW2)

It's a sword -- Paul's attribute.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (OyyDO)

236 223 146

Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

And btw, I really did bake cookies last night. White choc chip with cranberries. Christmas is coming!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (PFndM)

*checks flights*

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (NWiLs)

237 to persecution no assistance

oh Bill K. the persecution that you and your pals have allowed , and defended and joined.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (2c0p7)

238 Larry apologizes for joining the KKK.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ccgh4m

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2018 10:17 AM (cqNba)

239 Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

---

Gofundme link?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG 🐘 at December 06, 2018 10:17 AM (LX21o)

240 217. He disrespected his dad like that on his funeral day? He's saying Poppy was whoring in Arkansas trailer parks. I guess he copped a lot of feels there.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 10:18 AM (vzMuS)

241 insomniac, you can play Santa clause and eat the cookies and milk!

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:18 AM (2c0p7)

242 Laura Bush and the Bush twins are also big supporters of PP. Yep, real conservative.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2018 10:16 AM (ptqGC)

I didn't just put the straight ticket mark on my ballot this last election. I marked every candidate.....I didn't pay close attention and started marking the box for George P. Bush.

The only vote I've EVER regretted.......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:18 AM (F4u7C)

243 It's a sword..16th century, Italian. Just like the landscape.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (bUjCl)

244 Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (PFndM)

OK - to Hell with Constitutional Talk. This is important.

Insom - I have airline points out the ass.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (U96ww)

245 I'm sure there are some good ones, but it's been my experience that their business operates on making sure you come back.
---------

There are always chiropractic believers nearby. I accept their testimony, which seems to be, "I got better!"

No doubt that is as true as it is for those who don't go to a chiropractor.

I have known people who regard their chiropractor as their primary physician. Got the flu? Off for an 'adjustment'. Your child having abdominal pains? Off to the chiropractor.

I always ask chiropractic fans if there is an 'adjustment' for hemorrhoids.

On the couple of occasions in my youth when I had a go at it, the most amusing 'therapy' was the little spring-loaded hicky that the guy would kind of randomly punch around on my back.

To each his own. It might be worth searching something like 'Died Chiropractor' to read about people who died while/after having their neck 'adjusted'.

Posted by: Mrs. Horse at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (HTHlp)

246 241 insomniac, you can play Santa clause and eat the cookies and milk!
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:18 AM (2c0p7)

Oh boy, is that ever a high hanging ball right over the plate...must...resist...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (NWiLs)

247 so even in the 1500s they were using the "Dutch Tilt" in framing the composition.
but the artist is Italian.
Cultural Appropriation!!!

Posted by: Waldo Trout at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (M1MpJ)

248 I think more likely it's that human culture was sophisticated, we just don't have many preserved artifacts. "

A good point I've seen raised is that then, as now, most of humanity would have lived in close proximity to the Sea - at least within a few miles of it. (it's a constant source of food, for one thing) It's hard to imagine how different the world would have looked during the last Ice Age - one long plain connected what is now Great Britain to France, for example. (those maps are fun) When sea levels rose by 400 feet after the ice age ended, almost all evidence of any previous human activity would have been wiped out, except for those few groups that lived high away, up in the hills.

(probably would have left the survivors talking about Great Floods and lost cities, like Atlantis)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:20 AM (Kpl3J)

249 The MFM headlines are all over the place. Trump gives frosty reception to former presidents and the next one is former presidents give frosty reception to Trump. Either way the message is Orange Man Bad

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 06, 2018 10:20 AM (OLCnA)

250 Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (PFndM)

OK - to Hell with Constitutional Talk. This is important.

Insom - I have airline points out the ass.
Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (U96ww)

Are we really going to try and achieve the first ever AoS booty call?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (F4u7C)

251 Swing, Insom!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (PFndM)

252 Morning Horde ( dashes into thread, tracking snow and pine needles, dog trailing behind)..... what is happening???

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (ffWPP)

253 250
Insom, why don't you hop on a plane and I'll show you what I was dreaming about

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:14 AM (PFndM)

OK - to Hell with Constitutional Talk. This is important.

Insom - I have airline points out the ass.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (U96ww)

Are we really going to try and achieve the first ever AoS booty call?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (F4u7C)

Do we need to start a GoFundMe account? I mean, there is airfare. There should be a nice dinner out somewhere.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:22 AM (jxbfJ)

254 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

When I was a kid we had a garage/shed. I dreamed that a mouse was infesting that shed, but had been trapped in a blue bag. I went in to collect the mouse, but saw lots of other mice scurrying around. One running on the workbench, then a mother and a brood of mice on a shelf, others running through a duct on the ceiling, etc. There was a freestanding shelf with a baby on one of the shelves. The mice climbed to its shelf and were crawling over it. I started pulling them off, and as they were clawing me I thought "clearly the trap was inadequate, we must come up with another way. And I need to get this baby out of here".

I've no idea what the baby thing was about.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:22 AM (/qEW2)

255
Trump gives frosty reception to former presidents and the next one is former presidents give frosty reception to Trump. Either way the message is Orange Man Bad

Orange Frosty ... mmmmmmm!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:22 AM (pNxlR)

256 Omg. The guy next to me on the bus just booted a poof and it's a real bomb

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (PFndM)

257 Are we really going to try and achieve the first ever AoS booty call?

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (F4u7C)
Deus vult?

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (XOBxb)

258 Do we need to start a GoFundMe account? I mean, there is airfare. There should be a nice dinner out somewhere.

And the private detective to plant cameras and listening devices.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (fuK7c)

259 Do we need to start a GoFundMe account? I mean, there is airfare. There should be a nice dinner out somewhere.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:22 AM (jxbfJ)

Hell, I'm in.

GoFundMe - AoS Booty Call Fund

LET'S DO THIS!

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (F4u7C)

260
I've no idea what the baby thing was about.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:22 AM (/qEW2)

The baby was the Constitution and the mice were leftists ... or, it could have been something else -- you were a kid, after all.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (pNxlR)

261 sponge there have been successes on booty calls (crass) in this room turning to love and stability.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (2c0p7)

262 Insom - I have airline points out the ass.
Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:19 AM (U96ww)

Are we really going to try and achieve the first ever AoS booty call?
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (F4u7C)

You bet your ass I am. I know a good deed when I see one.

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (U96ww)

263

Greetings fappers and fappees.

Nice artwork once again, CBD. I found an explanation of it, which helped a lot to grok it.

And I made the front page of last nite's ONT? Um, but so did Yoko, so it's sort of a wash.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (HaL55)

264 LOL. Y'all are killing me here!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (NWiLs)

265 Or.....GoFundMe - Get Nurse Ratched the Penis She's been seeing

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (F4u7C)

266 256
Omg. The guy next to me on the bus just booted a poof and it's a real bomb

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (PFndM)
A simple cough, and a comment something like "You might want to check your shorts after that one" usually works.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (jxbfJ)

267 245: A friend of my younger daughters went for "an adjustment" prior to a half marathon at the suggestion of a friend who believed in this silly practice. She ended up with a dissected carotid, three months in medical facilities to seal with that "stroke", and permanent speech difficulties. Quack, quack quack. If people "get better" it's just the body healing itself over the 6-8 weeks of "treatment".

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (U7k5w)

268 I didn't just put the straight ticket mark on my ballot this last election. I marked every candidate.....I didn't pay close attention and started marking the box for George P. Bush.

The only vote I've EVER regretted.......
Posted by: Sponge

I specifically didn't do straight party so I could INTENTIONALLY leave Sid Miller and George P's boxes blank.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (XVF2z)

269 If we're bored, we could g back to yesterday, and continue to expand on the impact to the human race if as Arnold Swartzenneger said he wished he could do...go back in time, and eliminate fossil fuels, and their discovery.

We had a pretty good list of just how fucked the human race would be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (cqNba)

270 You bet your ass I am. I know a good deed when I see one.
Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (U96ww)

You're a GREAT AMERICAN!!!

Posted by: Sean Hannity at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (F4u7C)

271 Our country and He should arrive with a nice bottle of wine, and flowers.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (2c0p7)

272 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (Bdeb0)

273 I think more likely it's that human culture was sophisticated, we just don't have many preserved artifacts.

It is possible. more is out there, not found yet.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (bUjCl)

274 Insomniac -you willing to travel up to see NR? Or should she come down to you to casa Insomnia?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (jxbfJ)

275 I specifically didn't do straight party so I could INTENTIONALLY leave Sid Miller and George P's boxes blank.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (XVF2z)

What can I say. I fucked up. I admit it.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (F4u7C)

276 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Matthew Broderick at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (t6MX/)

277 hmm, where does N Ratchet live, Florida actually might be nicer this time of year.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (2c0p7)

278 Our country and He should arrive with a nice bottle of wine, and flowers.
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (2c0p7)

I happen to have a "Wine Country Gift Baskets" catalog on my desk.......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (F4u7C)

279 I like yellow roses

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (PFndM)

280 >>go back in time, and eliminate fossil fuels, and their discovery. We had a pretty good list of just how fucked the human race would be.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (cqNba)

No Butcher Holler.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (Bdeb0)

281 Omg. The guy next to me on the bus just booted a poof and it's a real bomb
Posted by: nurse ratched

WASN'T me! I'm at work!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (XVF2z)

282 249: Why would Trump not give a frosty reception to these fuckers who have been bashing him nonstop? It's an honest response, unlike the pretense that we're all buddies outside of politics, unless politics is all for show and they're just greedy plutos.

Posted by: CN at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (U7k5w)

283 yellow roses are lovely , I agree.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (2c0p7)

284

Whoa, we're about to arrange a booty call for Insom and NR? Woot, woot. Y'all go for it.

'Tis the season, which is as good an excuse as any.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (HaL55)

285
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (2c0p7)

Washington state

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (pNxlR)

286 sponge it is fortuitous!

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (2c0p7)

287 If we're bored, we could g back to yesterday, and continue to expand on the impact to the human race if as Arnold Swartzenneger said he wished he could do...go back in time, and eliminate fossil fuels, and their discovery.

We had a pretty good list of just how fucked the human race would be.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Human race would have died out after the Black Plague.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:29 AM (XVF2z)

288 I have known people who regard their chiropractor as their primary physician. Got the flu? Off for an 'adjustment'. Your child having abdominal pains? Off to the chiropractor.

I always ask chiropractic fans if there is an 'adjustment' for hemorrhoids.

On the couple of occasions in my youth when I had a go at it, the most amusing 'therapy' was the little spring-loaded hicky that the guy would kind of randomly punch around on my back.

To each his own. It might be worth searching something like 'Died Chiropractor' to read about people who died while/after having their neck 'adjusted'. "

My wife is one who goes to far in believing in Chiropractic for everything, I think. BUT - I have seen a local chiro who is very good at joints and muscles, and I credit him completely with saving me from the knee replacement surgery an orthopedist would have recommended. After a pulled quad, I had gotten to where I needed crutches, but am now completely recovered, with no surgery. So, they have their uses.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:29 AM (Kpl3J)

289 273 I think more likely it's that human culture was sophisticated, we just don't have many preserved artifacts.

It is possible. more is out there, not found yet.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (bUjCl)

Check out the book "Forbidden Archaeology" if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2018 10:29 AM (7HtZB)

290 264 LOL. Y'all are killing me here!
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:24 AM (NWiLs)

Do it. Save an 'ette from Pugetroplis.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:29 AM (t6MX/)

291 Florida is definitely better this time of year.
hmm.

but romantically speaking as a woman, insomniac flying seems more romantic.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (2c0p7)

292 sponge it is fortuitous!
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:28 AM (2c0p7)

Things do happen for a reason......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (F4u7C)

293 "Washington state"

It's not a State.

It's a District.

Dumb-asses.

Posted by: Outspoken College Student. at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (cqNba)

294 Morning y'all. Any weird dreams from the horde?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2018 09:45 AM (PkVlr)

Not weird per se, but I was trapped in a mall and couldn't find my way out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (kqsXK)

295 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.....

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (ffWPP)

296 252 Morning Horde ( dashes into thread, tracking snow and pine needles, dog trailing behind)..... what is happening???
Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (ffWPP)

Come on, man! I just vacuumed the rug.

*swears under breath*

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (OyyDO)

297 Trees, lotsa little cabins...what's not to like?

All that, plus a weird Horse-Fish hybrid.

nice. Surreal, but nice.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (CPk08)

298
293 "Washington state"

It's not a State.

It's a District.

Dumb-asses.
Posted by: Outspoken College Student. at December 06, 2018 10:30 AM (cqNba)

The District is Columbia.

Dumbest ass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (pNxlR)

299 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM (Bdeb0)

I, too, will throw in a Grant. Who's setting up the GoFundMe account?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (kqsXK)

300 252 Morning Horde ( dashes into thread, tracking snow and pine needles, dog trailing behind)..... what is happening???
Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:21 AM (ffWPP)

Saint Paul, disproportionate horses in girly vests, the 14th Amendment, dreams, trying to get Nurse Ratched and Insomniac hooked up.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (RD7QR)

301 backwards, people should have someone to love during holidays. Being alone would be awful.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (2c0p7)

302 287 If we're bored, we could g back to yesterday, and continue to expand on the impact to the human race if as Arnold Swartzenneger said he wished he could do...go back in time, and eliminate fossil fuels, and their discovery."

One big change is the only important one - without the oil to fuel our war machines provided by the East Texas Oil Field during WW2, America would never have had an impact in that war, and Hitler's Reich would still be ruling all of Europe today.

Which of course is the one Big Historical Change that Schwarzenegger would love to go back and ensure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (Kpl3J)

303 271 Our country and He should arrive with a nice bottle of wine, and flowers.
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (2c0p7)

I don't know...sounds too "nice."

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (NWiLs)

304 277 hmm, where does N Ratchet live, Florida actually might be nicer this time of year.
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:27 AM (2c0p7)

It is. I was just down thete. 70-80s and pool weather. I'll kick in for the trip. Where do we sign up? Leave details here. I'll check back later.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (t6MX/)

305 It's interesting that chiropracters are covered by insurance but don't require a referral.

Has anyone ever been referred to one after hurting their back or having knee surgery? Again, I have no problem with them, but like I said, I just don't know anyone who has ever been able to stop going to one because something was "fixed."

I know lots of people who were hurt, went to physical therapy, and then no longer needed to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (LX21o)

306 Horde Hookups..... like it..... NR&Insom.... cool...

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (ffWPP)

307 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM

Wow. That just screams romance, doesn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (p+Wdc)

308 ..... what is happening???
Posted by: kraken

The HQ is setting up a horde booty call.

Not sure who is calling who.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (XVF2z)

309

hmm, where does N Ratchet live, Florida actually might be nicer this time of year.

High today is around 70. Low tonite in the mid 50's. Sunny.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (HaL55)

310 Insomniac, nice is GOOD. sheesh want to be a crank on a romantic weekend.

yeah im saying romantic not the cruddy booty call crap.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (2c0p7)

311 307 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM

Wow. That just screams romance, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (p+Wdc)

They better post the sex-consent video tape for us.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (KUaJL)

312 Watch--Insomniac will get laid, and three weeks later?

"I'm so miserable because I don't think I deserved to get laid."

Zod will also contribute $5/month to the Insomniac-You-Did-So-Deserve-To-Get-Laid-Therapy-Intensive Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (Bdeb0)

313 backwards, that does sound lovely.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (2c0p7)

314 So, in setting up the gofundme account it wants a category.
Should this be: 1) Emergency, 2) Celebration Events, 3) Dreams, Hopes Wishes, 4) Travel Adventure?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (jxbfJ)

315
That horse has a ridiculously tiny head.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (8XRCm)

316 It's 52F right now, but warmer than Washington.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (NWiLs)

317 My response to Bill's dumb little tweet:

"You've ruined TWS and it's employees.

You've disgraced yourself, your father's name, your party, and your country.

A decent man would shoot himself.

But no one would ever accuse you of decency.

You're just a fat sack of lipids and shame."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (5aX2M)

318 So, in setting up the gofundme account it wants a category.
Should this be: 1) Emergency, 2) Celebration Events, 3) Dreams, Hopes Wishes, 4) Travel Adventure?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

2

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (XVF2z)

319 303 271 Our country and He should arrive with a nice bottle of wine, and flowers.
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:25 AM (2c0p7)

I don't know...sounds too "nice."
Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (NWiLs)
:
Then maybe wearing a latex catsuit under the clothing if you want.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (CPk08)

320 "Check out the book "Forbidden Archaeology" if you want to go down that rabbit hole."

Oh, god, no. The reputable stuff has enough fun oddities without adding fruitloops to the mix.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (ljEFa)

321 our country, new beginning.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (2c0p7)

322 yeah im saying romantic not the cruddy booty call crap.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (2c0p7)

Willow is right. Listen to her.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (lwiT4)

323 Check out the book "Forbidden Archaeology" if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2018 10:29 AM (7HtZB)

Just read its synopsis. Hmmm, suppression of archeological and paleoanthropological record ? to promote evolutionary theory ??

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (bUjCl)

324 >>307 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund. Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM

Wow. That just screams romance, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (p+Wdc)

We're working up to romance. Right now, we're in sex-triage.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (Bdeb0)

325
Watch--Insomniac will get laid, and three weeks later?

-----

His hemorrhoids heal up???

**shrugs**

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (8XRCm)

326 gofundme must include BAIL MONEY.... of course...

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (ffWPP)

327 test

Posted by: Chezwick at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (ymnmz)

328 Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:33 AM (Bdeb0)

That was funny.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (NWiLs)

329
GoFundMe - AoS Booty Call Fund

LET'S DO THIS!
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (F4u7C)

Important - Set aside funding for the on-call blow jobs.

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (9rXxD)

330 >>314 So, in setting up the gofundme account it wants a category. Should this be: 1) Emergency, 2) Celebration Events, 3) Dreams, Hopes Wishes, 4) Travel Adventure? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (jxbfJ)

#1. Or, "Research and Development."

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (Bdeb0)

331 Watch--Insomniac will get laid, and three weeks later?

-----

His hemorrhoids heal up???

**shrugs**
Posted by: fixerupper

Zits go away. Voice deepens.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (XVF2z)

332 The Brazilian Steakhouse Invitational MoMe

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (LX21o)

333 Just read its synopsis. Hmmm, suppression of archeological and paleoanthropological record ? to promote evolutionary theory ??
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:35 AM (bUjCl)

:
Seems reasonable.

Those evolutionists will do anything.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (CPk08)

334 307 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM

Wow. That just screams romance, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (p+Wdc)

When it's been a long time, romance is anything short of yelling "Here it comes!"

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (RD7QR)

335 Zits go away. Voice deepens.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (XVF2z

stands taller, and they both giggle like girls

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (2c0p7)

336
I didn't just put the straight ticket mark on my ballot this last election. I marked every candidate.....I didn't pay close attention and started marking the box for George P. Bush.

The only vote I've EVER regretted.......

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:18 AM (F4u7C)

I hate that straight-ticket option. It's lazy, and I don't trust the elections assholes to properly log the votes.

Plus, I wouldn't have had the pleasure of voting against another Bush spawn, after having lived through Dubya pissing my votes for him away.

One nice thing with Texas ballots is that everything is partisan. You get a definite party identification, unlike in CA where anything other than Fed and State legislature candidates leave you having to do a shitload of research before voting just to figure out their party affiliation.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (veoSD)

337 330 >>314 So, in setting up the gofundme account it wants a category. Should this be: 1) Emergency, 2) Celebration Events, 3) Dreams, Hopes Wishes, 4) Travel Adventure? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:34 AM (jxbfJ)

#1. Or, "Research and Development."
Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (Bdeb0)

Emergency. Definitely an emergency.

Posted by: UN employee at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (RD7QR)

338 I wish Paul were better at expressing his concepts in a simpler manner. Sometimes he's easy to understand, other times, he's the most difficult biblical author to understand.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (/qEW2)

339

backwards, people should have someone to love during holidays. Being alone would be awful.

Agreed, willow. I went through a few solo Christmases, would've definitely been better with someone, even just some friends.
Insom, go for it dude. This might be the break you've been waiting for.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (HaL55)

340 "Zits go away. Voice deepens."

Hey, it can Happen

Posted by: VIA's shipmate, what did a hooker on UNITAS at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (cqNba)

341 yeah im saying romantic not the cruddy booty call crap.

Posted by: willow

Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (XVF2z)

342 Good morning grammie.... so glad to see you here.... doing better, I hope??

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (ffWPP)

343 "backwards, people should have someone to love during holidays. Being alone would be awful."

Willow, I've hated the holidays -- for myself -- for 25 years. Biggest heartbreak of my life on Christmas Day. And three years ago, my mom passed away the day after Christmas.

I love the season for kids, but for me it just means rejection, loss, and being alone.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (ljEFa)

344 Seems reasonable.

Those evolutionists will do anything.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:36 AM (CPk0

Like what ? Write a book based on records and artifacts available to everybody ? Sounds serious.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (bUjCl)

345 I once dreamed I was dreaming, in a dream.

Something horrible had happened in the dream, and I cycled through episodes of relief and unspeakable dread a couple of times.

Once I actually woke up, it took a minute get my bearings, but I was eternally grateful to be back in the real world.

Posted by: Roland THTG at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (88+cf)

346 hfinch63 Retweeted
ShannonBream's avatar
Shannon Bream @ShannonBream
10h
Per @AP - "Justice Department prosecutors have begun interviewing witnesses and contacting lawyers to schedule additional questioning related to the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs."

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (BqBId)

347
One big change is the only important one -
without the oil to fuel our war machines provided by the East Texas Oil
Field during WW2, America would never have had an impact in that war,
and Hitler's Reich would still be ruling all of Europe today.

Which of course is the one Big Historical Change that Schwarzenegger would love to go back and ensure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:31 AM (Kpl3J)

So basically Arnie wants us to burn trees to stay warm? Or whale oil?

Help me out here?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (ymnmz)

348 In fairness, I don't really want to know anything about it. I just want to donate $20 to it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (LX21o)

349 I just don't know anyone who has ever been able to stop going to one because something was "fixed."

I know lots of people who were hurt, went to physical therapy, and then no longer needed to."

I did. Now of course they kept calling and saying "come back for an adjustment!!!" which is mainly a nice back rub and yank on your legs, so I just said "no, not today, maybe later, bye".

You always have to remember, You are your own Doctor, everyone else is just an advisor, no matter how many degrees they do or don't have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (Kpl3J)

350 I once dreamed I was dreaming, in a dream.

Something horrible had happened in the dream, and I cycled through episodes of relief and unspeakable dread a couple of times.

Once I actually woke up, it took a minute get my bearings, but I was eternally grateful to be back in the real world.
Posted by: Roland THTG at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (88+cf)

-----

*squinty eyes*

Ive seen that movie. DeCapprio wins.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (8XRCm)

351 Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (XVF2z)

OTOH would you turn your nose up at the money?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (CPk08)

352 Agreed, willow. I went through a few solo Christmases, would've definitely been better with someone, even just some friends.
Insom, go for it dude.

This might be the break you've been waiting for.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy

Here's your sign.
Posted by: Bill Engvall

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (XVF2z)

353 Rob, my goodness, Im sorry Rob, If I weren't very married I would try to brighten your holiday!

I hate hearing this.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (2c0p7)

354 Sometimes he's easy to understand, other times, he's the most difficult biblical author to understand.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (/qEW2)

I don't have too much trouble until I get to Romans. Romans is laid out like a court case. So what I do is go to BibleGateway and select from their cornucopia of translations, going from paraphrase (The Message) to hardcore (Holman). Somewhere in between I'll get the gist of it.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (lwiT4)

355 yeah im saying romantic not the cruddy booty call crap.

Posted by: willow

How about simple human female intersction and a chance to get to know someone of similar mind?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (t6MX/)

356

Kristool is gonna "save" conservatism.

He's a Menshevik. The Left are Bolsheviks. Two sides of the same coin.

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (TYj+F)

357 "which is mainly a nice back rub and yank"

Tom, is this about chiropractors or booty calls?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (ljEFa)

358 345 I once dreamed I was dreaming, in a dream.

I had a really weird-ass dream once and dreamed that I actually knew it was only a dream and woke myself up. I remember dreaming "this is only a freaking dream, I'm outta here"

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (9rXxD)

359 >>Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (XVF2z)

Having 50 people crowded around a monitor of the livestreaming event that they Go-Funded just screams return on investment.

Insomniac: It wears the GoPro on its forehead.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (Bdeb0)

360 I take this as a deposit into Mendoza's spank bank .

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (glAWk)

361 stands taller, and they both giggle like girls
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:37 AM (2c0p7)

Wait, whut? Nobody mentioned giggling.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (NWiLs)

362 The horse is "Reubanesque"

and it has a really big ass to boot.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (M1BFL)

363 So basically Arnie wants us to burn trees to stay warm? Or whale oil?

Help me out here?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Denuded earf and extinct whales.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (XVF2z)

364 ric, it's still romantic, people love you enough to help to find someone fun smart and nice to fill your life with, Ratchet is all that I believe.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (2c0p7)

365 Rob Crawford - I'm so sorry.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (lwiT4)

366 Like what ? Write a book based on records and artifacts available to everybody ? Sounds serious.
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (bUjCl)

Worse. They'll do math and stuff.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (CPk08)

367 I missed my calling. Oh, well. Who wants to dig up old fossils anyway ?

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (bUjCl)

368 So basically Arnie wants us to burn trees to stay warm? Or whale oil?

Help me out here?"

Remember, Ruling Class. Caligula coated political prisoners in pitch, hung them on poles and set them on fire to provide light for his dinner parties.

(yeah, technically that's a fossil fuel too, but I wouldn't complain to Caligula about it. He didn't react well to complaints.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:42 AM (Kpl3J)

369 Nobody mentioned giggling.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (NWiLs)

Part of the package deal. Read the fine print.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:42 AM (lwiT4)

370 insomniac, after hanging out with you for coughing (10 years?) I would love to hear you and Nurse giggle at the absurdities of Life , but especially that Life is interesting and worth living.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:42 AM (2c0p7)

371 We get to pick the music, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:42 AM (LX21o)

372 Hi grammie!!! Hope you are doing better. I missed most of the story except something about an eye patch. I bet you're rocking it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (kG5hP)

373

Hey, if Nurse Ratched comes down here and I have a gig, y'all could come out. For recovery. After about three days or so.

If you have the energy, that is.

On second thought, y'all just have at it. We can have a Mini MoMe some other time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (HaL55)

374 Hell, I'm in.

GoFundMe - AoS Booty Call Fund

LET'S DO THIS!
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2018 10:23 AM (F4u7C)
---------------

I'm game. I'd like to see Insomniac and Ms. Ratched get together and help each other forget their problems for a while.

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (qC1Sy)

375 You always have to remember, You are your own
Doctor, everyone else is just an advisor, no matter how many degrees
they do or don't have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:39 AM (Kpl3J)

--

This is a great point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (LX21o)

376 Just read that 9,000 illegal Nike's were impounded with arrests. How is it illegal tennis shoes are policed but illegals humanoids not so much?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (2LelM)

377 flounder, that's a start for sure, But I have big dreams.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (2c0p7)

378 Man I got to get on that ONT. It seems to be the only place to meet someone.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (7HtZB)

379 "Rob, my goodness, Im sorry Rob, If I weren't very married I would try to brighten your holiday! "

I appreciate the thought! It's just bad luck, poor timing, and my own bad choices. Mom, I think, wanted to see another Christmas, and I don't begrudge her that.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (ljEFa)

380 358
345 I once dreamed I was dreaming, in a dream.

I had a really weird-ass dream once and dreamed that I actually knew
it was only a dream and woke myself up. I remember dreaming "this is
only a freaking dream, I'm outta here"

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (9rXxD)

I had a great dream recently.
I would be running along somewhere and I found that if I jumped to cross a stream I could will myself to coast longer in the air than normal, as long as I held the jump position. I could even turn a little bit and circle other people. Pretty cool... and then I woke up.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)

381 I bet you're rocking it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (kG5hP)

I am!!

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (lwiT4)

382 I missed my calling. Oh, well. Who wants to dig up old fossils anyway ?

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:41 AM (bUjCl)

---

Never, ever pursue a career that allows people (and little kids) to volunteer and perform nearly all the same duties at the same level as you with a masters degree.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (LX21o)

383 Man I got to get on that ONT. It seems to be the only place to meet someone.
Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (7HtZB)

----

Yeah.... but we'll always be daywalkers and held at arms length....

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (8XRCm)

384
Kristool is gonna "save" conservatism.

He's a Menshevik. The Left are Bolsheviks. Two sides of the same coin.

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (TYj+F)

Except the Bolsheviks were perfectly willing, and indeed were eager to do their own killing, rather than farming it out to others.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (veoSD)

385 Man I got to get on that ONT. It seems to be the only place to meet someone.
Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (7HtZB)

yes. someone you will meet.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (bUjCl)

386 371 We get to pick the music, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:42 AM (LX21o)

In the name of all that is holy, no disco.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (RD7QR)

387
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (KCxzN)

388 Meh ... it ain't gonna' happen.

Too many cooks in the kitchen. Now its flowers and romance and dinner and ... this is why the 14th Ammendment sucked !!!

I'm going back to failing miserably at updating RSLogix 5000.

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Jody Hamilton at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (U96ww)

389 I had a really weird-ass dream once and dreamed that I actually knew it was only a dream and woke myself up. I remember dreaming "this is only a freaking dream, I'm outta here"
Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:40 AM (9rXxD)

Perhaps you're in a dream right now...

Posted by: Dreamperch at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (tYPH9)

390 I would be running along somewhere and I found that if I jumped to cross a stream I could will myself to coast longer in the air than normal, as long as I held the jump position. I could even turn a little bit and circle other people. Pretty cool... and then I woke up.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)

-----

Lucid flying dreams rock.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (8XRCm)

391 Never, ever pursue a career that allows people (and little kids) to volunteer and perform nearly all the same duties at the same level as you with a masters degree.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Thoughts and prayers for RBG at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (LX21o)

Funny story - an archeology prof talked me out of it. He knew...

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (bUjCl)

392 Hey, if Nurse Ratched comes down here and I have a gig, y'all could come out. For recovery. After about three days or so.

If you have the energy, that is.

oh heck now I want to go too.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (2c0p7)

393 Here you go:
https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (jxbfJ)

394 348. If there are any cookies to be had I would like those.

Posted by: kallisto at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (vzMuS)

395 Insomniac is in Florida and Nurse Ratched is in Washington...

Posted by: lin-duh @ werk at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (9iLHi)

396 In the name of all that is holy, no disco.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (RD7QR)

Come on now. That's just jive talkin'.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (lwiT4)

397 "Horde Hookups..... like it..... NR&Insom.... cool..."

Insomniac is going on the National Review cruise? hey why not. there should be a lot of bored wives on that boat

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (glAWk)

398 Perhaps you're in a dream right now...
Posted by: Dreamperch at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (tYPH9)

Perhaps. Everytime I eat spicy pizza late at night I end up posting on AoSHQ.

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (9rXxD)

399 I had a great dream recently.
I would be running along somewhere and I found that if I jumped to cross a stream I could will myself to coast longer in the air than normal, as long as I held the jump position. I could even turn a little bit and circle other people. Pretty cool... and then I woke up.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)
:

I love those dreams! I get those every so often. Sometimes it seems like they last hours. Makes me feel great for days.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (CPk08)

400 eye patch. I bet you're rocking it.
Posted by: Jewells45 at December 06, 2018 10:43 AM (kG5hP)

Eye patch? Will someone get this woman a tri-corner hat and cutlass?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (t6MX/)

401 >>Pretty cool... and then I woke up.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)

Used to keep a dream journal. No interpretation, just as literal a capture of the dream as possible. (Published writers who produce a lot of copy can tell you about the weird phenomenon of not always recognizing your own work after a few years). Not unlike that, a dream journal makes for very, very, *very* strange reading years later...

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (Bdeb0)

402 Come on now. That's just jive talkin'."

Ohhhhh.... The BeeGees!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (6qErC)

403 Meh ... it ain't gonna' happen.

Too many cooks in the kitchen. Now its flowers and romance and dinner and ... this is why the 14th Ammendment sucked !!!

*kicks dirt*
Posted by: Jody Hamilton

Welcome to the HQ.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (XVF2z)

404

*does Forrest Gump wave at Dread Pirate GW*

Hey, how's your parrot?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:48 AM (HaL55)

405 399
I had a great dream recently.

I would be running along somewhere and I found that if I jumped to
cross a stream I could will myself to coast longer in the air than
normal, as long as I held the jump position. I could even turn a little
bit and circle other people. Pretty cool... and then I woke up.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)

:

I love those dreams! I get those every so often. Sometimes it seems like they last hours. Makes me feel great for days.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (CPk0

Yep. me too. Weird that it has such a waking impact.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:48 AM (ymnmz)

406 $1500... you think that will cover all the costs? What about the damages to the hotel room?

Posted by: lin-duh @ werk at December 06, 2018 10:48 AM (9iLHi)

407 The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD.

Posted by: Guzalot at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (prSvo)

408 >I love those dreams! I get those every so often. Sometimes it seems like they last hours. Makes me feel great for days.

I haven't had one of THOSE dreams since I was a teenager.

Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (9rXxD)

409 401
>>Pretty cool... and then I woke up.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:44 AM (ymnmz)

Used to keep a dream journal. No interpretation, just as literal a
capture of the dream as possible. (Published writers who produce a lot
of copy can tell you about the weird phenomenon of not always
recognizing your own work after a few years). Not unlike that, a dream
journal makes for very, very, *very* strange reading years later...

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:47 AM (Bdeb0)

LOL I kept a journal once, but the author was boring and trite.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (ymnmz)

410 406 $1500... you think that will cover all the costs? What about the damages to the hotel room?
Posted by: lin-duh @ werk at December 06, 2018 10:48 AM (9iLHi)

She's got a point. Hot oil and mayonnaise can really ruin carpet and drywall.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (RD7QR)

411 oh heck now I want to go too.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (2c0p7)

They could use a cheering section.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (t6MX/)

412 Gonna Freefall, out into nothing, gonna leave this, world for a while.....

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:50 AM (ffWPP)

413 ha flounder.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:50 AM (2c0p7)

414 407 The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD.
Posted by: Guzalot at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (prSvo)

They know the new House is going to set everything on fire and blame Trump.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 06, 2018 10:50 AM (J+mig)

415 They could use a cheering section.
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I don't want to see that!!!

Posted by: lin-duh @ werk at December 06, 2018 10:50 AM (9iLHi)

416 393 Here you go:
https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (jxbfJ)

We get pics if we donate?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (JFO2v)

417 The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD."

As long as your year doesn't go past Feb, Mar, June, October, and a month ago, sure...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (6qErC)

418 Oh, before I forget, grammie winger - here is some nice classical music for you :

https://tinyurl.com/yd8wz5rk

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (bUjCl)

419 oh heck now I want to go too.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (2c0p7)

They could use a cheering section.
Posted by: flounder

Push 'em back, push 'em back, waaaaay back!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (XVF2z)

420 411 oh heck now I want to go too.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:45 AM (2c0p7)

They could use a cheering section.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (t6MX/)

GO DEEP
GO DEEP
WAAAAAY DEEP!
WOO-HOOO!

Posted by: AoS Booty Call Glee Club at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (RD7QR)

421
OMG, the djia is at levels not seen since...

6 weeks ago!

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (TYj+F)

422 I haven't had one of THOSE dreams since I was a teenager.
Posted by: Roy at December 06, 2018 10:49 AM (9rXxD)

I started getting them as a teenager. I still get them 1-2 times a year. But yeah, it's sort of free happy juice for my brain.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (CPk08)

423 We get pics if we donate?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (JFO2v)
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Yeah, like clicking on any link supplied by the horde is a good idea...

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (qC1Sy)

424 A horse is a horse of course of course unless Girolama drew it of course.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (9Om/r)

425

She's got a point. Hot oil and mayonnaise can really ruin carpet and drywall.

Chocolate syrup stains will never come out of the sheets and Cool Whip is sorta sticky.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (HaL55)

426 They know the new House is going to set everything on fire and blame Trump.
Posted by: Cato
===========================

They're right. On the plus side, maybe home values will plummet so I can get a good deal.

Posted by: Guzalot at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (prSvo)

427 Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM (XVF2z)

Actually, I think we would be better at setting people together than any other dating site.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (kqsXK)

428 Mom, I think, wanted to see another Christmas, and I don't begrudge her that."

It's long been recognized that people who are "on the edge" are able to keep themselves going until some marker they have their heart set on is reached. Hospitals have noted that there's a always a spike in deaths on January 1 and 2, after the New Year has come, for one example. (not just accidental, but among patients who were already terminal)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (Kpl3J)

429 393 Here you go:
https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (jxbfJ)

When I get to my wallet, I'll kick in. Could've gone with social therapy or something. Someone needs to write this sucker off.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (t6MX/)

430 GO DEEP
GO DEEP
WAAAAAY DEEP!
WOO-HOOO!
Posted by: AoS Booty Call Glee Club

Hut hut, in da butt!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (XVF2z)

431 416
393 Here you go:

https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (jxbfJ)

We get pics if we donate?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (JFO2v)

Hopefully.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (jxbfJ)

432 we should have rules though, no syringes, no axes, and nooo politics.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (2c0p7)

433 >>>Are we really going to try and achieve the first ever AoS booty call?<<<

Baby, it's cold outside. Buy my book.

Posted by: Mitch Obama at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (2Mnv1)

434

O the humanity!

Markets dip to levels not seen since way, way, way back in October 29, 2018.

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (TYj+F)

435 So I bang up "Jive Talki'n" on the utubes, and the next selection?

Andy Kim!!!! Rock Me Gently!

WhOOOOOOHOOOO!!!!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (6qErC)

436 Funnily enough I don't think the House can really do all that much damage.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (XOBxb)

437 I've been reading about Prime Minister Pretty Hair Empty Head and his support for open borders.
If he believes the philosophy behind open borders shouldn't he just fuck off and go away? (Forgive my language.)
If the government no longer has the responsibility or authority to guard boundaries, how can it have responsibility or authority to do anything else, such as collecting taxes from people they refuse to protect and serve in meaningful ways.
So just go away Justin.

Posted by: Northernlurker being f'n insufferable at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (MkcN1)

438 Oh, before I forget, grammie winger - here is some nice classical music for you :

https://tinyurl.com/yd8wz5rk

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (bUjCl)

LOL Thank you!!

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (lwiT4)

439 >>The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD.

The Market is a straight up joke.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2018 10:54 AM (5vWKc)

440 Why no politics? They're largely aligned presumably and can hate sex over the 14th amendment.

Posted by: Someguy at December 06, 2018 10:54 AM (XOBxb)

441 runner, too funny.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:54 AM (2c0p7)

442 407 The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD.
----------------------
The ping pong game with ChiComs is going to go this way. Once a decision is made you will be able to divine the preferred investment path - infrastructure or defense stocks.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 06, 2018 10:54 AM (2LelM)

443 I think it's kinda funny, I think it's kinda sad
the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (Kpl3J)

444 WOO-HOOO!
Posted by: AoS Booty Call Glee Club at December 06, 2018 10:51 AM (RD7QR)

WHO LET THE DONGS OUT?!

WHO? WHO? WHO? WHO?

DONGS?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (t6MX/)

445 A horse is a horse of course of course unless Girolama drew it of course.

Leonardo painted some fresco of a famous battle, horses, I forget where, in Milan for Sforza maybe ? But he was always experimenting with paints and chemicals, so that fresco fell apart after a few years.

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (bUjCl)

446

@donlemon gets called out by @ChrisCuomo for saying he wouldn't have shaken Trump's hand at 41's service if he were Obama.

Cuomo: "You're petty and small."

Lemon: "I'm not petty and small. That's real, brother. That's real."

Cuomo: "Real petty and small."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (aKsyK)

447 432 we should have rules though, no syringes, no axes, and nooo politics.
Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (2c0p7)

You're no fun. Not even a discussion of the 14th Amendment? Maybe a tomahawk?

Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (RD7QR)

448 Oh, where oh where did our trollish go?

I wanna play.

And by "play", I mean "sharpen claws to eviscerate the stoopid".

Yeah. I'm in a mood. Even with Andy Kim in the background.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (6qErC)

449 438

LOL Thank you!!
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:53 AM (lwiT4)

You are wearing an eyepatch??? Is this temporary?

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (ffWPP)

450 https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Hmmmm... you set it up but didn't contribute??? What are we to infer from that???

Posted by: lin-duh @ werk at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (9iLHi)

451 Here you go:
https://www.gofundme.com/aos-booty-call-fund

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2018 10:46 AM (jxbfJ)

Excellent. I'll donate at lunch.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (kqsXK)

452 "The Joker" Steve Miller band....Just because I want to see Insomniac while "I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree" is playing.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (CPk08)

453 I imagine the artist stopped about halfway through and thought, "Holy crap that horse's ass is huge, and his head is tiny. Well, too late to start over now. I'll just call it perspective. Heh, heh, heh."

Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (xPJvm)

454
I don't know about the economy, but I have a couple hundred foot long driveway, then the pathway to the front door is another hundred foot walk, then the return trip another hundred foot, then drive a couple hundred feet back to the street. Neither UPS or Amazon ever took the time or effort to place packages directly at my front door.

Suddenly, they have the time to do that.

Did people stop buying stuff because they know the (D)'s taking back the House is going to cost them long-run?

Posted by: Embedded in my Pre-Frontal Cortex at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (e7O7B)

455 Funny...

We used to have Polock Jokes...

Then Wetback Jokes...

Then blonde Jokes...

Now, the EXACT same jokes are Ocasio jokes.

PROGRESS!

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (NgKpN)

456 You're no fun. Not even a discussion of the 14th Amendment? Maybe a tomahawk?"

Crossbows vs Longbows.

How will we raise the children?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (6qErC)

457 inte alls, grammie winger !

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (bUjCl)

458 Insomniac is going on the National Review cruise? hey why not. there should be a lot of bored wives on that boat

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo

BREAKING: Cruise ship speakers tossed overboard; ship raises Jolly Roger, terrorises the seas

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (AM1GF)

459 someguy, I just don't want axes and syringes to be needed, even while I politically agree 90% of the time here on this blog, there has been a moment or two where i'd want to smack a perp.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (2c0p7)

460 I've been reading about Prime Minister Pretty Hair Empty Head and his support for open borders.
If he believes the philosophy behind open borders shouldn't he just fuck off and go away? (Forgive my language.)
If the government no longer has the responsibility or authority to guard boundaries, how can it have responsibility or authority to do anything else, such as collecting taxes from people they refuse to protect and serve in meaningful ways.
So just go away Justin.
=========

Take it a step further - if there are no borders, just which people and where does he have authority over?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (vg8iE)

461 Wow, roses and everything on the go fund me.

And who said romance is dead?

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (qC1Sy)

462 Actually, I think we would be better at setting people together than any other dating site.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Oh, we would be. But I'd leave the match making up to the 'ettes. The 'rons are for advice.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (XVF2z)

463 You are wearing an eyepatch??? Is this temporary?

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (ffWPP)

I sure hope so. I came down with Bells Palsy and my face is paralyzed on one side. My eye won't shut so I have to tape it down and wear a patch. I look marvelous.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (lwiT4)

464 452 "The Joker" Steve Miller band. Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:55 AM (CPk0

Manamana.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (Bdeb0)

465 LOL Thank you!!
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate

You are wearing an eyepatch??? Is this temporary?
Posted by: kraken

She decided "pirate queen" was a perfectly cromulent late-life career change.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (AM1GF)

466

Nood

Posted by: Sooth-o-matic at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (TYj+F)

467 BREAKING: Cruise ship speakers tossed overboard; ship raises Jolly Roger, terrorises the seas
Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 06, 2018 10:56 AM (AM1GF)
--------------------

I suddenly have the urge to go on a cruise....

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (qC1Sy)

468 I sure hope so. I came down with Bells Palsy and my face is paralyzed on one side. My eye won't shut so I have to tape it down and wear a patch. I look marvelous.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (lwiT4)

Jeepers. Ar you on 'roids?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (CPk08)

469 Monkey Grin has arrived

Posted by: VIA's shipmate, what did a hooker on UNITAS at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (cqNba)

470 I almost did my Master's on Pre-historic art. (Looking back, I should have tho.) The complexity of cave paintings alone convinced me that the artists were no primitives. The cave paintings are carefully planned and executed. They designed and built scaffolding to paint them. They even took into account the sound effects and echos within the individual cave chambers to dictate the subject matter and its composition. These people were highly intelligent, just limited by their circumstances.
Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2018 09:52 AM (OyyDO)

The 30 Masterpieces of the Ancient World series from the Great Courses is good and, yup, there is no way that the pre-history societies that made these were composed of people who grunted at each other.

One of the main reasons I love Ancient Aliens as much as I do is that it is a travelogue to places with all kinds of ancient monoliths and art and architecture that I did not know about. Ignore the it's totally aliens stuff and just watch and learn about these amazing places.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (mf5HN)

471 >>Suddenly, they have the time to do that.

My guess is their insurance won't cover packages just left anywhere on your property.

So, packages reported stolen or missing that were not dropped off 'properly' might not qualify for replacement / loss costs.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (5vWKc)

472 Vanity Fair:

Is This It?: A Trump-Hater's Guide to Mueller Skepticism

Mueller's comportment suggests a man who's fallen prey to the same state of mind that warped Ken Starr - namely disgust over the people you're investigating and a desire to justify the sunk capital. Even if the special counsel presents one hell of a report, Democrats must ask: was it worth it?

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (QkjLD)

473 307 Zod will contribute $50 to the Insomniac-Have-Sex-With-A-Live-Consenting-Human-Female Fund.

Posted by: Zod at December 06, 2018 10:26 AM

Wow. That just screams romance, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2018 10:32 AM (p+Wdc)

Well, at least it may involve screaming.

Posted by: Luv is in the air, if it can get a ticket at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (e1q4h)

474 Yeah, like clicking on any link supplied by the horde is a good idea...

Posted by: Blake - tis the season for grinching at December 06, 2018 10:52 AM (qC1Sy)

Point of order - my links are always good.

https://tinyurl.com/yc6ac2sl

https://tinyurl.com/y8tfbp2y

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (kqsXK)

475 Breaking911
@breaking9111
BREAKING: Ecuador's president says Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Julian Assange to leave his government's embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been living under asylum since 2012 - AP

Posted by: Max BOOThole at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (BqBId)

476
The Dow is in freefall this morning and is now down YTD.

So what? Wait a week.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (veoSD)

477
Jeepers. Ar you on 'roids?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 10:58 AM (CPk0

Oh yeah.

Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (lwiT4)

478 BREAKING: Ecuador's president says Britain has provided sufficient guarantees for Julian Assange to leave his government's embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has been living under asylum since 2012 - AP
Posted by: Max BOOThole

You fucked up. You trusted them.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 11:00 AM (XVF2z)

479 463

I sure hope so. I came down with Bells Palsy and my face is paralyzed on one side. My eye won't shut so I have to tape it down and wear a patch. I look marvelous.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:57 AM (lwiT4)

You need a Church Pirate.... we all do.... you're always my favorite here ( you and willow) grammie, and the patch is dashing......

Posted by: kraken at December 06, 2018 11:00 AM (ffWPP)

480 Did Hillary the Vile actually refuse to shake Melania Trump's hand. That is maximum repulsive but OTOH, there's not hand sanitizer in the known universe to clean the germs of Melania's hand.

Does Don Lemon think anyone, let alone the POTUS wants to shake his hand?

Posted by: Northernlurker being f'n insufferable at December 06, 2018 11:01 AM (MkcN1)

481 kisses grammmie, you have the best attitude ever, I want to grow up to be like you.

Posted by: willow at December 06, 2018 11:01 AM (2c0p7)

482 Oh yeah.
Posted by: grammie winger, church pirate at December 06, 2018 10:59 AM (lwiT4)

Awesome. There's an up side to everything. Hope the face strarts moving better, th'o.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 06, 2018 11:01 AM (CPk08)

483 So Pirate Grammie out and about looting and pillaging?

Posted by: Northernlurker being f'n insufferable at December 06, 2018 11:03 AM (MkcN1)

484 The nubile ditz, Jessica Lange, in her first role, is about to get kidnapped and offered to the great ape on the MPLEX channel.

King Kong, 1976, baby.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 06, 2018 11:03 AM (8iiMU)

485 I pulled my back out again preparing Thanksgiving dinner. It gets so bad I can barely stand up. I'm going to give my son's chiropractor a try.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Good luck Jane !

Posted by: JT at December 06, 2018 11:04 AM (RTQZk)

486 yeesh, just looked up Bell's Palsy. hope you get better soon winger.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 06, 2018 11:04 AM (glAWk)

487 Is the science settled yet? 4th woman comes forward to accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of sexual misconduct

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I'm beginning to think that this guy may be a perv.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2018 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

488 In fairness, I don't really want to know anything about it. I just want to donate $20 to it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -

You don't want a copy of the video ?

Posted by: JT at December 06, 2018 11:12 AM (RTQZk)

489 Is the science settled yet? 4th woman comes forward to accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of sexual misconduct

----

Yeah.... but......

one of them women was Bill Nuy

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 11:13 AM (8XRCm)

490 Harvard dean threatened to blackmail all-male clubs with sexual assault claims: lawsuit

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2018 11:13 AM (QkjLD)

491 ~~Wise~~ words from Dan Rather:

Dan Rather
@DanRather
Watching today's eulogies I thought about our national reckoning. We can't rely on the consciences of those who have shown none or humility from those who refuse introspection. Forces of change must swell in the population at large to shake our republic into a more just future.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2018 11:13 AM (+y/Ru)

492 In fairness, I don't really want to know anything about it. I just want to donate $20 to it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -

You don't want a copy of the video ?
Posted by: JT at December 06, 2018 11:12 AM (RTQZk)

-----

Why???? Its gonna be on Facebook. Or Porn Hub.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 06, 2018 11:13 AM (8XRCm)

493 Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM

What, there should be a problem with this?

Posted by: Yenta at December 06, 2018 11:15 AM (p+Wdc)

494 The nubile ditz, Jessica Lange,

-
She used to be smoking hot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2018 11:15 AM (+y/Ru)

495 We should get business cards printed up for Insomniac.

Insomniac
Chick Magnet
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Posted by: JT at December 06, 2018 11:16 AM (RTQZk)

496 hmmm....

Looks like St. Paul been workin dem SQUATZZZZ!!

Posted by: trollfeeder@hounddogranch.com at December 06, 2018 11:16 AM (CF3YU)

497 They used to call this "blaming the victim":

Becerra, who by then had been appointed to succeed Harris, and two of this deputies said the department took "reasonable steps to prevent and correct workplace harassment" by instituting procedures for harassment and training Hartley on the policy.

[Plaintiff] Hartley "unreasonably failed to utilize the procedures during the period of time, and after, the alleged harassment or discrimination was occurring," Becerra wrote. "Had Plaintiff taken reasonable effort to utilize these procedures Plaintiff's alleged harm, injury or damages would have been avoided, in whole or in part."

But on May 16, 2017, the department settled with Hartley for $400,000. It continued to deny her claims.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at December 06, 2018 11:22 AM (+y/Ru)

498 493 Having 50 people chip in and publicly plan a date just screams "romantic". LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2018 10:38 AM

What, there should be a problem with this?
Posted by: Yenta at December 06, 2018 11:15 AM (p+Wdc)

Friends setting people up ain't new or weird. That's what this is. If you're a 'ron in good standing, you got a lot of friends. Even if they live in the electric word box and you don't see 'em.

Posted by: Cato by Phone at December 06, 2018 11:23 AM (J+mig)

499 Did Sir-Mix-a-Lot design that horses butt?

Posted by: P_Ang at December 06, 2018 12:43 PM (FGPDC)

500 A HORSE IS A HORSE IS A HORSE OF COURSE TALK TO MR ED

Posted by: Tamaa Bird 1000 Voices at December 06, 2018 04:58 PM (wGqjj)

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