Virginia Democrat Governor Jeremy Northam's Racial Reconciliation Tour Takes a Strange Twist When His Wife Hands Out Cotton to African American Students and Implores Them to Imagine Being Slaves

So these are the lessons we have to learn due to Jeremy Northam's wearing of blackface in the 80s.

A Virginia state employee has complained that her eighth-grade daughter was upset during a tour of the historic governor’s residence when first lady Pam Northam handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.
"The Governor and Mrs. Northam have asked the residents of the Commonwealth to forgive them for their racially insensitive past actions," Leah Dozier Walker, who oversees the Office of Equity and Community Engagement at the state Education Department, wrote Feb. 25 to lawmakers and the office of Gov. Ralph Northam (D).
"But the actions of Mrs. Northam, just last week, do not lead me to believe that this Governor’s office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness," she wrote.

Northam's office and one other parent of a child who was present said the first lady did not single out the African American students and simply handed out the cotton to a group. But the incident highlights the scrutiny and doubt that envelop the governor as he tries to push past racist incidents from his past and ignore continued calls for his resignation. His first attempt at a "reconciliation tour" failed last week when the student government at Virginia Union University asked him not to attend a civil rights commemoration there.

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1 When dem cotton balls get rotten...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 11:57 AM (O2RFr)

2 They just keep digging themselves deeper, don't they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 01, 2019 11:58 AM (7MRhd)

3
His name is Jeremy??

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 11:59 AM (16wrz)

4
Did the Democrat racist governor change his name be "more black" or something?

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 11:59 AM (16wrz)

5
"They're gonna put y'all back in... KOTEX!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (zBaqJ)

6 Northam should call a press conference, look the camera in the eye, and say, "I was what I was. Get over it."

Of course, if he did that, he wouldn't be a Dem.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (7MRhd)

7 Meh. I don't see a major issue here beyond the areyoufuckingstupid optics of the whole thing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (9CkBG)

8 Imagine if a republican had done this.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (MPuQT)

9 handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked
them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.

---

Again, $5000 says it's the first time the vast majority of the group had ever seen, much less touched, raw cotton, and instead of viewing it as a genuine educational opportunity with an unspoken but very clear and distinct line to the past, it's racism.

F*ck 'em because Virginia blackface whatever, but still.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Water Bottle Despot at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (xyung)

10 Sponge

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (d8iVQ)

11
Northam sure did pick a ninny for a wife...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:02 PM (zBaqJ)

12 I honestly think (D)s are at the point where they try stuff to see what they can get away with.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Water Bottle Despot at March 01, 2019 12:02 PM (xyung)

13

Racist Democrat governor of Virginia tweeted it's hope that someday VA will have a black governor, and he'll do everything possible to make that happen.

And then Gov Racist Northam tweeted in honor of MLK he "has a dream" that someday there'll even be an African-American president!

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:02 PM (16wrz)

14 Governor Northam entered the room, saw this, and yelled, "Honey, are you out of your cotton pickin' mind!"

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:02 PM (VWp7G)

15 "VA first lady under fire"
...from pouncing Republicans of course.

Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:03 PM (LL1Be)

16
The above is, of course, a joke. But it does seem like something "Jeremy" Northam would tweet.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:03 PM (16wrz)

17 Ok Hon, you can do your moon walk now.

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:03 PM (gC2IV)

18 Also Not Me's family owned over 80 slaves.

Posted by: sOME mORON at March 01, 2019 12:03 PM (ICWiF)

19 Yet he and the other two of the Virginia 3 now four are still untouched...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (O2RFr)

20 18 Also Not Me's family owned over 80 slaves.
Posted by: sOME mORON at March 01, 2019 12:03 PM (ICWiF)

If you are black and you still vote Democrat, you're still a slave.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (zBaqJ)

21 "... when first lady Pam Northam handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop."

Which was a bit awkward. But not nearly as awkward the governor moonwalking into the room while wearing a red leather jacket, grabbing his crotch, thrusting his pelvis towards the group, and shouting "HEE HEE!"

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (9CkBG)

22
Northam has been trying to make up for his past racism by pointing all the ways he thinks African Americans excel, such as penis size.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (16wrz)

23 VA First Lady Shuns Moonwalk, Embraces Cotton-Pickin Negroes

Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (LL1Be)

24 >>>Yet he and the other two of the Virginia 3 now four are still untouched...

And they never will be. Just like Hillary, Huma, et al, Comey, McCabe, etc.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (VWp7G)

25 Next as an apology they invite the kid for fried chicken,watermelon and Koolaid.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (BXMxN)

26 See: Hobby Lobby, a couple years ago.

Posted by: huerfano at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (6e1eX)

27 Ok. It's official. They're just f*cking with us now. This is all an elaborate, staged production of some kind of Reality TV experiment.

This can't be reality. It's too god damned stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (AURKQ)

28 Any time the topic is race the situation is made worse. It almost makes it seem like someone's color is the most important thing about them, and if you keep it up long enough, it is the most important thing about them.

Having a conversation about it is the worst thing you can do, which is why the Democrats always want to have one.

I have spoken.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (kfcYC)

29 Did she also tell them to sing "De Camptown Ladies"?

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (xqdqQ)

30 In 2019, democrats still see blacks as slaves.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (YslsA)

31

But did she make them comfortable before the cotton picking?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (aKsyK)

32 nothing will happen.

they could burn a cross in front of the governor's mansion.

they could stage a hanging

still nothing would happen

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (d7Ww2)

33 Keep voting for Dems and you won't have to imagine it for long. Remember who actually did it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (I2dne)

34 22
Northam has been trying to make up for his past racism by pointing all the ways he thinks African Americans excel, such as penis size.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (16wrz)

Northam is now looking into loose shoes, tight pussy and a warm place to have a BM.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (zBaqJ)

35 It's dat white privilege rearing its ugly head again!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (so+oy)

36 At least she didn't ask them to start singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Did she?

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 01, 2019 12:05 PM (sLicW)

37 Wait a Cotten picking minute!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (pUDQf)

38 Northam has been trying to make up for his past racism by pointing all the ways he thinks African Americans excel, such as penis size.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (16wrz)

If Northam starts talking about 'quick twitch muscle fiber', shut it down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (AURKQ)

39 >>>Ok. It's official. They're just f*cking with us now. This is all an elaborate, staged production of some kind of Reality TV experiment.

And they won the House with it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (VWp7G)

40 De camptown sing a song
Doo da Doo da

Posted by: JackStraw at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (/tuJf)

41

Lulz: Congressperson Donkey Chompers is hit with an FEC complaint of "money laundering."

By gum, she IS the Donald Trump of the Left!

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (16wrz)

42 Let's run the great Ed Gillespie against this guy again; this time he'll win for sure.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (y7DUB)

43 Could of been worse...She could of seen all the kids, bugged her eyes out comically while wailing, "Feets, don't's fails me now!!! and high tailed it out of there in her air jordons!

(h/y partially an old Ace joke)

Posted by: dananjcon at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (xqfqx)

44 COTTON PICKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5yhjNAYZo

Posted by: EDDIE COCHRAN at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (DHsB1)

45 I think maybe her point was that, due to the invention of the cotton gin, their ancestors only had to pick cotton, and not separate out the seeds. Progress is a good thing.

Thanks to Eli Whitney, slavery did not die out, it became too lucrative.

Thanks to Jim Crow and Lyndon Johnson, their people remained secure and in their proper place on the Democrat plantation.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (sj6X8)

46 Hey, who's up for some malt liquor?

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (gC2IV)

47 Great to see how conservative publicists have infiltrated the dem image-making process.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (0tfLf)

48 It's twue! It's twue!

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (xqdqQ)

49 38 Northam has been trying to make up for his past racism by pointing all the ways he thinks African Americans excel, such as penis size.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (16wrz)

If Northam starts talking about 'quick twitch muscle fiber', shut it down.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (AURKQ)

Fucking amateurs.

Posted by: Jimmy the Greek at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (9CkBG)

50 This is actually a thing now. Take chillins to old plantations, sometimes yoke them together, and make them go picking.

Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (BoMR8)

51 42 Let's run the great Ed Gillespie against this guy again; this time he'll win for sure.
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (y7DUB)

"Sheriff Gillespie."

- - Rod Steiger

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (zBaqJ)

52

Doesn't matter. They'll vote for him anyway. He's a "D"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (aKsyK)

53
"Here kids, try on these antique shackles!"

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (16wrz)

54 I'm in favor of punishing our enemies by any means. Because they'd do the same to us.

But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (bcbK8)

55 Someone maybe otter tell the Northam's the old Chinese proverb...

When you find yourself in hole, Quit Digging!

Posted by: Screw 'Em at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (j0+6c)

56 I'll wait here for CNN to call out the Northams for using cotton and slave imagery as a "prop".
I need Don Lemon-head to tell me if the Northams get to avoid the "racist" label or not.
It was all the rage, when a black woman stood up during Cohen's testimony, way way back about 24 hours ago.

Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (LL1Be)

57 >>"They're gonna put y'all back in... KOTEX!!!"

'Pull my string!'

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (DHsB1)

58 We dream of a day when people are judged not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin, variety of their genitals, or their sexual proclivities.

Posted by: Leftists at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (I2dne)

59
MAny many years ago in college, one night, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged into the room out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass table with his face. Totally ruined the mood. Now, I didn't know Joseph THAT well, don't even remember where he was from, but let' just say I put my plans on hold to help him through his injuries.

Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye, making him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend

Apparently they'd bonded during the time after his injuries, and eloped together , left me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could.

In conclusion, if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago. Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?

Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (8XRCm)

60 And now children, Master Northam is going to show us all how to tie a noose.

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (xqdqQ)

61
"I shall call you Kunta Kintay so you can imagine what it's like to be a slave!"

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (16wrz)

62 Y'all like N.W.A.?

Posted by: Mrs. Northam at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (VWp7G)

63 I don't want to defend Democrats, but why is it racist to hand cotton to a kid and imagine the hard life slaves had? Is it racist to show a pile of shoes or eyeglasses in the holocaust museum and ask someone to ponder all of the dead in the holocaust?

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (9DUrA)

64 >>But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them.

Mitt Romney kept women in a binder.

I didn't make the rules but I demand those who did live by them too.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (/tuJf)

65 Jump down turn around
pick a bale of cotton...

Jump down turn around
pick a bale a day...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (6qErC)

66 Again, I doubt it was intended to be racist, but it was fucking stupid given the optics.

Good thing she's a D and can't be an R.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (pUDQf)

67 40 De camptown sing a song
Doo da Doo da
Posted by: JackStraw at March 01, 2019 12:06 PM (/tuJf)

I get no kick from champagne,
mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (bcbK8)

68
Hey kids, did you know an African American by the name Elijah Whitney invented the Cotton Gin.

Posted by: Gov Northam at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (16wrz)

69 Ugh, these Northams!

Somewhat related: Has Kevin Hart been forgiven yet? I thought of him when I read:

"But the actions . . .do not lead me to believe that this Governor's office has taken seriously the harm and hurt they have caused African Americans in Virginia or that they are deserving of our forgiveness."

When has one apologized enough?
Northam opened himself up for that when he refused to resign.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (W+vEI)

70
COTTON PICKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5yhjNAYZo
Posted by: EDDIE COCHRAN

MST3K did that movie. Mamie Van Doren!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (aKsyK)

71 She locks her car doors when a black kid walks by. I guarantee it.

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (xqdqQ)

72 Governor Northam than demonstrated his moon walking skills.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (BXMxN)

73 Important Bulletin - I have now achieved my 30 seconds of fame. I was walking across our town square, and an NBC News crew was there, looking to interview people, and I was just there completely at random, at the right time, so they interviewed me, and I might make it on a segment of theirs.

And I want to say that I proudly gave them all of my profound opinions concerning the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, which had just pulled up and which I had walked through.

So that's it, I guess I'm done, I've made my public contribution to the cutting edge topics of the day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (Kpl3J)

74 Kids today will never experience the student slave auctions as fund raisers . Not even if the non PC name is cleaned up. I'm surprised someone hasn't raised a stink about Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (ODaO0)

75 64 >>But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them.

Mitt Romney kept women in a binder.

I didn't make the rules but I demand those who did live by them too.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (/tuJf)

Yep. I'm all in on hoisting them by their own petard.

I'm-a just saying, this is being....massaged.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (bcbK8)

76 >>MST3K did that movie. Mamie Van Doren!

MAMIE!

Posted by: Al Jolsen at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (DHsB1)

77 The governor's mansion now serves cotton candy!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (VWp7G)

78 Did she also tell them to sing "De Camptown Ladies"?

That's more a Kansas City kind of thing.

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (sZRzw)

79
Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:08 PM (8XRCm

Slow golf clap...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (pUDQf)

80 Maybe that is the "secret" Democrat plan after all?

Who Knew!

Posted by: Paladin at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (Br9Gi)

81 77 The governor's mansion now serves cotton candy!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (VWp7G)

At least the Negro servants do.

Posted by: Roy at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (xqdqQ)

82 On the one hand... if you're going to be on the side of destroying uncomfortable history you ought to know better than to talk about it.

On the other hand... are we not supposed to teach history?

On a third hand... part of me doesn't care, goose and gander, eff them all.

I think there's a WW2 statue of General Lee to burn down, where are the matches.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (BD/yx)

83 70
COTTON PICKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy5yhjNAYZo
Posted by: EDDIE COCHRAN

MST3K did that movie. Mamie Van Doren!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (aKsyK)

She's a babe! Tentpole!
Shwing!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (bcbK8)

84 Northam's ancestral family owned 80+ slaves.

Posted by: Archer at March 01, 2019 12:11 PM (gmo/4)

85 Posted by: Tom Servo

but did you say, "Live long and prosper, Morons."

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (d7Ww2)

86 MST3K did that movie. Mamie Van Doren!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 01, 2019 12:09 PM (aKsyK)

Just saw that one last night. I actually preferred the lady who played Mamie's sister. She was a dish.

Still, nothing against Mamie and her blouse full of mischief.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (xPJvm)

87
Don't forget the other HUGE GAFF by Mitt Romney: Accidentally telling the truth that 47% of The People are on The Dole which means they're attracted to the Democrats like a moth to a flame, or an addict to heroin.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (16wrz)

88 https://www.foxnews.com/us/students-at-south-

carolina-school-told-to-pick-cotton-sing-slave-song-on-

field-trip-report-says.amp

Broke the link up but this is just the first one to come up

Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (BoMR8)

89 When dem cotton balls get rotten..."

Dude's geography was all wrong. It's more than a mile to the Louisiana border from Texarkana...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (6qErC)

90 Even if I were a black woman Democrat, this bitch would have been read the riot act, and I've had stomped out.

Would you come up to a little Jewish kid and be all "put on this yellow star and imagine what it would be like to live in the Warsaw ghetto?"

These people are incredibly tone-deaf and tasteless and they're enabled by the black people who are willing to put up with this shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (Ho8ws)

91 >>Northam's ancestral family owned 80+ slaves.

They had their own NFL Team!?

Posted by: LeBron James at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (DHsB1)

92 She locks her car doors when a black kid walks by. I guarantee it.
Posted by: Roy Moore

Hmmmmm

Posted by: Boe Fah at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (zx0lV)

93 87
Don't forget the other HUGE GAFF by Mitt Romney: Accidentally telling the truth that 47% of The People are on The Dole which means they're attracted to the Democrats like a moth to a flame, or an addict to heroin.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (16wrz)

Well it WAS stupid. He should have been busting his ass, hustling trying to win them over.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:13 PM (bcbK8)

94 Is Trump's racism is directly responsible for what's going on in Virginia?

Posted by: CNN at March 01, 2019 12:13 PM (pUDQf)

95 Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?"

Rednex?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:13 PM (6qErC)

96 91 >>Northam's ancestral family owned 80+ slaves.

They had their own NFL Team!?
Posted by: LeBron James at March 01, 2019 12:12 PM (DHsB1)

Please, the correct term is 'student athletes', not 'slaves'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:13 PM (bcbK8)

97 old Chinese proverb...

When you find yourself in hole, Quit Digging!

***

What if you're digging to China

Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 01, 2019 12:13 PM (BoMR8)

98 Camel toe's family were slave holder's too.

Posted by: Archer at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (gmo/4)

99 77 The governor's mansion now serves cotton candy!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (VWp7G)

At least the Negro servants do.
Posted by: Roy
.............

Northam has started giving the black servants a jab in the ribs and saying stuff like "Would you look at the booty on that one!"

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (so+oy)

100 In light of recent misconstrued ancient trivial items, I have decided to renew my committment to equality. I shall now be known as "Coonperson".

Posted by: The Hon Genius Southam (Dumbass-VA) at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (6rX0K)

101 Northam sure did pick a ninny for a wife...
Personally I think he married up.

Posted by: Paladin at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (Br9Gi)

102 Yeah I know this is a nothing burger, but it's delicious to watch them swim...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (O2RFr)

103 I agree it's nit racist

any historical site they do the "imagine yourself" thung

you tour Valley Forge and they ask you to imagine huddling in tha cabins with little food or clothing, sick, in harsh winter

etc

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (iBAtG)

104 Oh, she just wanted them to feel right at home. She loves it when they sing too. "Camptown racetrack five miles long.. come on boys, it's in your blood!"

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (1FhAQ)

105 Yeah I know this is a nothing burger, but it's delicious to watch them swim...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (O2RFr)

squirm not swim...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (O2RFr)

106 My husband's office had a lunch to celebrate black history month. Which consisted of...a taco bar.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (QBy2Q)

107 Gov Not Me slave owner.
https://tinyurl.com/yyglgp99

Posted by: sOME mORON at March 01, 2019 12:14 PM (ICWiF)

108 Swiiiing looooow, sweet chariot...

Posted by: Mrs. Northam at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (xqfqx)

109 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (zBaqJ)

Mrs. Flounder says the morning report is her favorite part of AoSHQ. He's hilarious, she says. Sorry, Ace.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (t6MX/)

110 I hope the Northams didn't breed.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (JgA4k)

111 Northams are going to love their reparations bill.

80 slaves?

Posted by: Ha at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (MAstk)

112 25 Next as an apology they invite the kid for fried chicken,watermelon and Koolaid.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:04 PM (BXMxN)

I'd take that apology. Don't white people eat fried chicken?

Posted by: trev006 at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (gmJMS)

113 >>>Oh, she just wanted them to feel right at home. She loves it when they sing too. "Camptown racetrack five miles long.. come on boys, it's in your blood!"

"I meant a song. A real song. Like the Camptown Ladies!"

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

114 2020 New Hampshire Democratic
Primary:

Sanders 26%
Biden 22%
Harris 10%
Warren 7%
O'Rourke 5%
Klobuchar 4%
Booker 3%
Buttigieg 1%
Gabbard 1%
Bloomberg 1%
Gillibrand 1%

Posted by: Ha at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (MAstk)

115 I remember when I visited the Playboy Mansion and they told me to imagine myself sitting in the grotto in the 1970s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (pUDQf)

116 Swiiiing looooow, sweet chariot..."

De Camptown Ladies?

Don't know that one...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (6qErC)

117 Doesn't understand the concept of "quitting while you're ahead." Prolly told the wife "Quit helping me!"

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (ykq7q)

118 >>My husband's office had a lunch to celebrate black history month. Which consisted of...a taco bar.

George Washington Carver built the First Taco Shell. Out of a Peanut!

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (DHsB1)

119 >>>Sanders 26%

Frontrunner. LOL. Fifteenth time's the charm, Bernie.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

120 Say, darkies, hab you seen de massa, wid de muffstash on his face...

Posted by: Archer at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (gmo/4)

121
C'mon now be fair. The Northams offered the kids ribs and watermelon because they understand that's what coloreds like to eat

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (OLCnA)

122 they told me to imagine myself sitting in the grotto in the 1970s. "

Hmm. The term "adhesive" comes to mind...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (6qErC)

123 NSFW (Language)

I young black man with his friends regaling them with a tale of a field trip to go pick cotton. Guy has good comedic timing:
https://youtu.be/90XLNQXN_74

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (I2dne)

124 I love black people,all my best maids and chauffeurs have been black.
Mrs Northam

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (BXMxN)

125 Dunning Kruger squared.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (+y/Ru)

126
The Sef does a Yoeman's work on his Morning Thread.

I don't know what that expression means, exactly, but JJ's news-gathering and format is Excellent.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (16wrz)

127 Has Portly Cap'n Bill sneered why the Northams are better than Trump?

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (JgA4k)

128 Mrs. Flounder says the morning report is her favorite part of AoSHQ. He's hilarious, she says. Sorry, Ace.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (t6MX/)

----

Hey... Ace is hilarious too. !!!!

Ever see him hang shelves??? Dehydrate himself???? Lock himself out of his own blog???

Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (8XRCm)

129 >>My husband's office had a lunch to celebrate black history month. Which consisted of...a taco bar.

Well, maybe they like tacos?
More seriously, what if they had served soul food (or worse: fried chicken and watermelon!) - would that have been misread as some sort of stereotyping insult or something?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (W+vEI)

130 HAHAHA these Dems can't even help themselves!

Posted by: Pinochet's Sunglasses at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (n+0Aw)

131 When you take a tour of some of the plantations that still have some of the Slave quarters they ask you to imagine what it was like.

Though to me it's like visiting the pyramids and asking you to imagine yourself a Slave dragging these 2 ton blocks of stone for miles.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (ODaO0)

132 You know when to start worrying ?

When the left stops talking about race

Posted by: REDACTED at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (RZ6R1)

133 The Sef does a Yoeman's work on his Morning Thread.

I don't know what that expression means, exactly, but JJ's news-gathering and format is Excellent.
Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (16wrz)
++++++++++++
The Morning Report puts other aggregators and commentators to utter shame on a daily basis. Matt Drudge can eat his heart out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (I2dne)

134 Oh to be a fly on the wall and get to listen to what the governor and his wife are saying about black people right about now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - ace, make a mirror image liberal site for ads at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (LX21o)

135 119 >>>Sanders 26%

Frontrunner. LOL. Fifteenth time's the charm, Bernie.

I'm just imagining him as President meeting with Little Rocket man..... Of course we probably would never see that since we would be Nuked within a week of his Presidency

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (O2RFr)

136 Jeremy Northam played the pussy in Saving Private Ryan before running for office in Virginia.

Posted by: BuddyPC at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (QtPdB)

137 I hope the Northams didn't breed.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (JgA4k)

They have 2 sons Amos and Andy

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (OLCnA)

138 The fact that Sanders is only polling at 26 percent in New Hampshire is disgraceful. He should be at 50 percent, but he is a failure as a Vermont Senator and New Hampshire knows it.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (vbJig)

139
Alternate post title:

Gov Northam: "Look Away, Look Away..."

eh? eh?

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (16wrz)

140 137 LMAO

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (BXMxN)

141 I don't know what that expression means,"

The Sef = Sefton. Like "The Hoff" = Hasselhoff.

/

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (6qErC)

142 73 Important Bulletin - I have now achieved my 30 seconds of fame. I was walking across our town square, and an NBC News crew was there, looking to interview people, and I was just there completely at random, at the right time, so they interviewed me, and I might make it on a segment of theirs.

And I want to say that I proudly gave them all of my profound opinions concerning the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, which had just pulled up and which I had walked through.

So that's it, I guess I'm done, I've made my public contribution to the cutting edge topics of the day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:10 PM (Kpl3J)

So you condemned it as a tool of patriarchy, right?

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (1FhAQ)

143 And then Gov Racist Northam tweeted in honor of MLK he "has a dream" that someday there'll even be an African-American president!

-
Well, Obama had the African part down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (+y/Ru)

144 111. If anybody has to pay reparations it should be the slaveholder descendants, inc the Jeffersons, LOL.

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (U7k5w)

145 Morning Rapport is TL;DR

Posted by: Total Control Racist at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (BoMR8)

146 >>They have 2 sons Amos and Andy

Dog : Buckwheat

Cat : Safire

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (DHsB1)

147 If Warren can't win neighboring NH, where can she win?

She's done before it starts.

Posted by: Ha at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (MAstk)

148 Jeremy Northam? The actor? Is he even from Virginia?

Posted by: Boe Fah at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (zx0lV)

149 carolina-school-told-to-pick-cotton-sing-slave-song-on-

field-trip-report-says.amp

Broke the link up but this is just the first one to come up
Posted by: Total Control Racist

I gotta say, knowing songs sung during the period of slayery is, to me, exactly the same as knowing "Die Gadanken Sind Frei" that was sung in concentration camps.

That's history, and it is a testament to the human spirit.

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (6rX0K)

150 I'm surprised the MSM has not just universally declared Northam to be a Republican.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:19 PM (JgA4k)

151 Lock himself out of his own blog???
Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (8XRCm)

Yeah, in Ace's defense, Mrs. Flounder still does not know that the commenters are the best part.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (t6MX/)

152 I'd take that apology. Don't white people eat fried chicken?
Posted by: trev006 at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (gmJMS)

In the Green Book the relatives are pissed because of the scene where the white guy showed the black guy how to eat fried chicken.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (ODaO0)

153 Gov Northam: "Look Away, Look Away...""

"Sheridan"...

(ok, who gets that reference?)

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (6qErC)

154

Well, at least she didn't rape anyone, or kill any newborns, so there's that.

But, this is really a LOCAL CRIME STORY anyway.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (z8c2c)

155 I hope the Northams didn't breed.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:15 PM (JgA4k)

They have 2 sons Amos and Andy
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (OLCnA)

Just blew snot out my nose.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (xPJvm)

156
Yeah, poor ol' Rollo is mort.

I always felt bad for how Fred treated him.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (16wrz)

157 Well, Hell-O Deah - Chirrun!

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (DHsB1)

158 155: Aubrey and Wes

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:20 PM (U7k5w)

159 The Morning Report puts other aggregators and commentators to utter shame on a daily basis. Matt Drudge can eat his heart out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:18 PM (I2dne)

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

If Matt were smart he would just have someone copy & paste JJ's links, and then head out and play 18.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (ffYR/)

160 she then should have shown them a paystub and the withholding and explained how many hours each day they would be working for the government for nothing.

Posted by: x at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (nFwvY)

161
Pam Northam was definitely the one under the klan hood.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (TAmPV)

162 So, did Republicans pounce or seize on this latest racist gaffe by the racist Democrat governor of VA?

Or, being that it's the VA GOPe we're talking about, did they do their typical fuck-all nothing?

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (NYS7S)

163 Black History Month ended here with a bang.

So far this year, 18 yutes have killed each other.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (ptqGC)

164 158 155: Aubrey and Wes

I like Amos and Andy better... and maybe a third... Buckwheat...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (O2RFr)

165 Bernie has a great shot at IA and NH.

Who wins SC? If Harris doesn't she's in trouble.

Posted by: Ha at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (MAstk)

166 >>Lock himself out of his own blog???

It was running and Double Parked, too.

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (DHsB1)

167 Well, maybe they like tacos?
More seriously, what if they had served soul food (or worse: fried chicken and watermelon!) - would that have been misread as some sort of stereotyping insult or something?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (W+vEI)

My husband is literally the only non-white person in the office (he's Hispanic). I told him he should start screeching that they were appropriating his culture to celebrate black history month.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (QBy2Q)

168 So far this year, 18 yutes have killed each other.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (ptqGC)

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DY-NOOOOOOOOO-MIIIIIITE ! ! ! ! !

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (8XRCm)

169 162 So, did Republicans pounce or seize on this latest racist gaffe by the racist Democrat governor of VA?

Or, being that it's the VA GOPe we're talking about, did they do their typical fuck-all nothing?
Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (NYS7S)

Gentlemen don't pounce.

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (1FhAQ)

170 The racial insensitivity of the act notwithstanding, it was stupid. Imagine saying, "Here, children, have a handful of sand. Now imagine that you're going ashore on Normandy beach on D-Day."

These children have no concept of what slavery was like. I suspect the adults don't either beyond the vague notion that it was bad. So how can they possibly imagine what it would be like for them.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (xQfPr)

171 164: The whole thing is hilarious as they are dems

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (U7k5w)

172 Again, $5000 says it's the first time the vast majority of the group had ever seen, much less touched, raw cotton, and instead of viewing it as a genuine educational opportunity with an unspoken but very clear and distinct line to the past, it's racism.

I agree.

I like that Northam is getting heat over the blackface thing, because he's a race-baiting tool. But what are we supposed to be offended about? Mrs. Northam asked a black kid to imagine something they've never experienced?

Do little Jewish kids, upon visiting the Holocaust Museum, not get asked explicitly or implicitly to imagine going through those awful times?

Do little Native American kids not get asked to imagine having to march the Trail of Tears when they visit the Trail of Tears Museum?

Do little Mormon kids not get asked to imagine being forced out of their homes and march into the snow with only a few provisions when they visit historical Far West, MO?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (9t0Zz)

173 What did she serve them for lunch? Chitlins and watermelon?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (ptqGC)

174 129
More seriously, what if they had served soul food (or worse: fried chicken and watermelon!) - would that have been misread as some sort of stereotyping insult or something?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (W+vEI)

I worked for a big company with a diverse workforce that served ethnic food in the cafeteria for various holidays. They did indeed serve soul food on one occasion, and I don't remember anyone complaining.

Of course, that was back in the 1980s and people weren't on a hair trigger like today.

Posted by: rickl at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (xjiRE)

175 Maybe his wife just wants to destroy him for some reason.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (kG5hP)

176 Translation: we want more grievance money.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (AB9tT)

177 Any stick will do to beat a dog.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (K2UYJ)

178
The Northams said they don't know nothing about birthin' no babies. Aborting yes birthing no

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (OLCnA)

179 Just ginning up controversy.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (koNhm)

180 Next time spice up your slave virtue signaling!

We can provide leather thongs and swords so the tykes can imagine they are roman gladiatorial slaves.
Or check out our ever popular line of rags, wooden scoops and buckets, with a pound of real Polish salt to imagine being slaves in a salt mine.

Want adventure on the briny deep?! (This should appeal to Cap'n Bill!)
Chaines, rags and an oar, plus a spray down with salt water fresh from the ocean give students all the elements they need to imagine they are galley slaves on a Roman trade ship or man o' war.

The possibilities are endless at ImagineyouareaSlave Inc!

Posted by: Marcus Slavius - CEO of imaingeyouareaslave Inc at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (37IEG)

181 This is what happens when bluestockings acquire power.

Posted by: Caliban at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (QE8X6)

182 Wait, his name isn't Jeremy. It's Coonman, I believe?

Posted by: PHenry at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (ETNOL)

183 177 Any stick will do to beat a dog.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (K2UYJ)

"I have just the one..."

- - Ian Dury

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (zBaqJ)

184 Gentlemen don't pounce.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:22 PM (1FhAQ)

So, it was seize then? Because I have my doubts.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (NYS7S)

185 I worked for a big company with a diverse workforce
that served ethnic food in the cafeteria for various holidays. They did
indeed serve soul food on one occasion, and I don't remember anyone
complaining.

Of course, that was back in the 1980s and people weren't on a hair trigger like today.

Posted by: rickl at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (xjiRE)

I don't call fried chicken and watermelon soul food. I call it southern food. I love a delicious salad of watermelon and feta cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (ptqGC)

186 "I can no more disown [myself] than I can disown my white [spouse], a woman who helped [love] me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me [and my children], a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once [handed out cotton to African American students and implored them to imagine being slaves], and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me [laugh]."

...worked for Obama

Posted by: Bif at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (aiyac)

187 >>My husband's office had a lunch to celebrate black history month. Which consisted of...a taco bar.

Don't eat the Salsa!

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:25 PM (DHsB1)

188 My Mom picked cotton in Texas, and she wasn't a slave. She was actually very good at it.

But really, given the current climate regarding speech, this faux pas is rather STUPID for any grown person to say.

Posted by: Charlotte the sailor at March 01, 2019 12:25 PM (APMW0)

189 https://youtu.be/90XLNQXN_74

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:17 PM (I2dne)

That's hilarious!

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 12:25 PM (ykq7q)

190 As a penalty to Virginia, their electoral college and Congressional votes will be discounted to 3/5th of a vote for the next two years.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 01, 2019 12:25 PM (vbJig)

191 and these tuned out fucks will get 90% of the black vote next election cycle. and, i'm the racist knuckledragger. fuck you lefty.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 01, 2019 12:25 PM (KP5rU)

192 Cotton balls? For authenticity's sake, didn't she have any cotton bolls on hand?

She musta picked them up at Walgreen.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (Z4rgH)

193 Any news on Poonman? Is he still claiming he's being lynched?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (ptqGC)

194 170: As a member of a group that still commemorates being "slaves in Egypt", I think this seems oddly normal

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (U7k5w)

195 NSFW (Language)

I young black man with his friends regaling them with a tale of a field trip to go pick cotton. Guy has good comedic timing:
https://youtu.be/90XLNQXN_74

-
Hilarious!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (+y/Ru)

196 Did she offer to purchase them?

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (aTd3j)

197 Do you know how many bottles of aspirin I had to buy to get this much cotton for you little brats?

Posted by: Mrs. Northam at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (vbJig)

198 The possibilities are endless at ImagineyouareaSlave Inc!"

In this world there's two kinds of people my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig.

You dig...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (6qErC)

199

Let's be fair to the Northams. They tried to make the black kids feel special. Why they set aside a water fountain and lunch counter just for them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (OLCnA)

200 Of course, that was back in the 1980s and people weren't on a hair trigger like today.
Posted by: rickl at March 01, 2019 12:23 PM (xjiRE)

I've been in the workforce long enough to remember when defense plants till had the posters with the GI holding-up a canteen tin cup, big SEG on his face, with the caption "How about a nice big cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP?" in HUGE bold letters across the top.

Of course those pretty much disappeared once Bush 41 came on the scene, but still...

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (NYS7S)

201 Now I've got it--that smallish cougar that pounced on the hiker must have been a Republican. That's why it was so ineffective.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (JgA4k)

202 was Virginia even a cotton state? I thought they grew tobacco. and more slaves for the internal trade, down river to Georgia et al.

so I guess Northam should have been showing black and interracial porn.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (RdxdK)

203 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender." (FYI, Kensington Palace declined to comment on this when asked. Double FYI, Meghan is said to be having a boy.) "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.

Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)

204 I don't call fried chicken and watermelon soul food. I call it southern food. I love a delicious salad of watermelon and feta cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (ptqGC)
++++++++++++
My white-ass family routinely does fried chicken and watermelon during the summer time.

Why do black people like fried chicken and watermelon? For the same reason other people do. It's freaking delicious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (I2dne)

205 196
Did she offer to purchase them?

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 12:26 PM (aTd3j)
Landsakes no! She was there to sell not to buy!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (37IEG)

206 If Matt were smart he would just have someone copy & paste JJ's links, and then head out and play 18.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 01, 2019 12:21 PM (ffYR/)

I think The Sefton Report would lose its flair when rendered in Courier.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (AURKQ)

207 We recently drove past recently harvested cotton fields. I was tempted to stop and pick some bolls up from the roadside to plant at home. The flowers they produce are lovely, and the plants trigger our transplanted locusts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (ptqGC)

208 What will they think up next.....How about a Stepin Fetchit film festival and Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest on the Gubnor's Plantation?

Oh, the joys!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (Z+IKu)

209 203: Meghan Markle is such an asshole, there are no words, just megakohns

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (U7k5w)

210 203 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender." (FYI, Kensington Palace declined to comment on this when asked. Double FYI, Meghan is said to be having a boy.) "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)

WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!

Posted by: Charlotte the sailor at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (APMW0)

211 She locks her car doors when a black kid walks by. I guarantee it.

That's a bald faced lie.

The chauffeur locks the doors after he starts the car. Besides, the you can't see through those blacked out windows anyway.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (sLicW)

212 What if the First Lady resigns and The Guvnah stays?

Posted by: Phil Hartmark F/K/A Truck Monkey at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (flINI)

213 She should have been handing out EBT Cards and telling them to imagine themselves on the modern Democrat Plantation in somewhere like Detroit instead.

Posted by: WR at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (O9JR8)

214 OT:

Here the new "Hellboy" trailer-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=ZsBO4b3tyZg

Looks okay, but-

there is no cotton picking in it, so-

I expect the movie to fail in Virginia.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (9X624)

215 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE COACH TOLD ME I WAS OUT OF MY COTTON PICKIN' MIND AND I'M NOT EVEN BLACK.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (vbJig)

216 Here's to hoping VA Democrats make 2020 competitive for Republicans.

I'm not in the camp that thinks VA is long gone. A 4.5 point swing is very doable (about what we lost last time in 2016)

If 2.5% of the electorate flips to Trump, he can win it.

Posted by: Blago at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (UfkIY)

217 203 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender." (FYI, Kensington Palace declined to comment on this when asked. Double FYI, Meghan is said to be having a boy.) "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)

So has Queen Elizabeth started praying for the sweet release of death?

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (JgA4k)

218 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender."

That's some royal-level virtue signalling right there.

Lizzy II has to be wondering when God will call her Home.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (NYS7S)

219 ** man o' war. **

Double headed? Did somebody call me?

Posted by: (hic)Hillary!(shart) at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (B+ztx)

220 "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)
+++++++++
If Harry were next in line, Meghan would have been deported and locked in an new world Anglican convent the moment he started sniffing around her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (I2dne)

221 Beto O'Rourke Spotted Riding a Singlespeed [Bike]

yes, he looks just about as stupid as Obama

Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (QkjLD)

222 Keep in mind people have objected to displays of cotton plants and fiber. Not really sure why this implies slavery as my mom picked cotton as a teenager.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (JKNZq)

223 Let's be fair to the Northams. They tried to make
the black kids feel special. Why they set aside a water fountain and
lunch counter just for them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (OLCnA)

And their own separate entrance at the back door.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (ptqGC)

224 If 2.5% of the electorate flips to Trump, he can win it.
Posted by: Blago at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM (UfkIY)

He'll need 4% to flip to overcome the Margin of Fraud.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (NYS7S)

225 Meghan Markle is such an asshole, there are no words, just megakohns

Yup.. She was a big Hillary fan and said some not so nice things about Trump... B actress... I give it 3 years... The kid is her gravy train.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (O2RFr)

226 Man those Democrats have sure learned how to keep their blacks on the plantation.

Posted by: Xipe Totec still banned at rgICo at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (3CXto)

227 . Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.

Posted by: SMOD

Stupidity must be contagious. I am sure the Queen will be thrilled!

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (oiNtH)

228
It was really a trick. Once the little black child touches the cotton they are forever doomed to serve the Northams in hell.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (TAmPV)

229 218: She's waiting for Charles to go first

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (U7k5w)

230 You know, when I was a kid growing up, I learned how to sew, and my sister learned how to fix the brakes on a car. We both learned everything, because things are worth knowing. That didn't make us "Gender Fluid", it made us well rounded human beings.

Why do these Barbarians have to take everything nice and decent and pervert it into full out insanity? Every damned thing under the Sun. It's infuriating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (AURKQ)

231 Meghan Markle is such an asshole, there are no words, just megakohns
Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (U7k5w)

Another magic mulatto. What would we do without them? No, seriously, what? I'm thinking we'd do better.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (3sjI6)

232 Queen Liz is just thanking God that William and Kate are breeding like bunnies.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (iBAtG)

233 I love a delicious salad of watermelon and feta cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

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

add some fresh mint to that salad, Jane. it's awesome!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (d7Ww2)

234 1 - gender fluid royal child = princex?

2 - the thing with the governor's wife is overblown but hey they made the new rules. Not like they are leaving the Governor's Mansion anytime soon.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (9VeU0)

235 Yeah, it's always amusing when people tell on themselves by associating black people with certain foods.

Those are black foods. Those are poor foods. Whites in the region ate the exact same things.

And there's not much better than salted watermelon on a summer day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - ace, make a mirror image liberal site for ads at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (LX21o)

236 225: She'll make Sarah Ferguson look like a saint

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (U7k5w)

237 Lizzy II has to be wondering when God will call her Home.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:29 PM

Either that or she's going to go all Henry VIII on them and heads are going to roll

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (OLCnA)

238 Why do these Barbarians have to take everything nice and decent and pervert it into full out insanity? Every damned thing under the Sun. It's infuriating.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (AURKQ)
++++++++++++
Because they hate you and they want to destroy civilization and enslave the remnants while they walk through the ruins and take credit for what once was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (I2dne)

239 add some fresh mint to that salad, Jane. it's awesome!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (d7Ww2)

Yes! Yum. Now I'm hungry.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (ptqGC)

240 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender." (FYI, Kensington Palace declined to comment on this when asked. Double FYI, Meghan is said to be having a boy.) "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)

They've chosen a properly fluid name.

The Xoy shall be called-

Vagino.

That's it. Just the one name...Vagino.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (9X624)

241 Why they set aside a water fountain and
lunch counter just for them

We had a BBQ joint in Texas when I was a kid and Black folks weren't allowed to eat in the restaurant.... My dad had friends that were black so he would serve them outside and sit with them...He was a good guy.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (O2RFr)

242 Macaca karma.

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (aTd3j)

243 204
I don't call fried chicken and watermelon soul food. I call it southern
food. I love a delicious salad of watermelon and feta cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:24 PM (ptqGC)

++++++++++++

My white-ass family routinely does fried chicken and watermelon during the summer time.

Why do black people like fried chicken and watermelon? For the same reason other people do. It's freaking delicious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:28 PM (I2dne)

Yeah, and don't even go there with BBQ. I applaud the ingenuity and cultural development of that marvel of culinary goodness. Well done.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (t6MX/)

244 Just think about this. He insisted on using a highly insensitive racially charged image in his (adult) yearbook...in the eighties! This wasn't the fifties or sixties, this was the fucking eighties. A fucking blackfaced minstrel. He was so proud of that, he insisted on putting it in his yearbook.

If you are 29 like me, imagine trying to get that image used in your own yearbook back in the not so distant eighties. Imagine how that would have gone down in your own school. The shit would have hit the fucking fan.

Posted by: Max Power at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (q177U)

245 Ok kids, now that the tour is over it's lunch time! I've had our cook, we call her Mammy, prepare fried chicken and chitlins. We'll wash it down wif grape drank!

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (gC2IV)

246 Jordan61 - He shouldn't complain unless they're serving lousy tacos, right?

>>I worked for a big company with a diverse workforce that served ethnic food in the cafeteria for various holidays. They did indeed serve soul food on one occasion, and I don't remember anyone complaining.

Yes, it's become a catch-22. If you serve regular lunch food (sandwiches, pizza) then you are being insensitive to people of other cultures and food allergies/specifications. However, if you serve ethnic food it is either cultural appropriation or a racist insult ("Oh, you think just because I'm Mexican I must like tacos, stupid white ppl!").

Another thing SJW have ruined.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (W+vEI)

247 Yahoo:
The long-awaited first read on Q4 GDP has just come out, with results better than expected: +2.6%, whereas analysts had been pivoting right around that 2.0% figure ahead of the release. The historically strong Q3 results were revised upward in its third and final headline: 3.5%.

Even though it's too early to take the long view of 2018 GDP as a whole, this 2.6% number joins the 2.2%, 4.2% and now 3.5% from the previous quarter to put preliminary GDP at 3.125%, or above 3% for the first time since prior to the Great Recession a decade ago.

Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (QkjLD)

248 she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender."

The British Monarchy. Fucked up since 1066.

The crazy continues.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (vbJig)

249 Why do these Barbarians have to take everything nice and decent and pervert it into full out insanity?

==

it does reek of the actions of the Adversary

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (iBAtG)

250 If I was black I would actually want my kids to know something about what slavery was like (he said naively).

Posted by: xnycpeasant at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (koNhm)

251 Remember a few weeks ago when we thought she was the one with her head screwed on straight for stopping him from doing the moonwalk?

Posted by: asymptote at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (Le4jq)

252 >>>Lizzy II has to be wondering when God will call her Home.

I love her. She can stay around forever. WWII mechanic, driver, tough as nails, and mother to an idiot.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (VWp7G)

253 Is she a goer, guv'na, is she a goer? Know what I mean? Say no more, say no more?

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (JgA4k)

254 252: May she outlive Charles!!!

Posted by: CN at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (U7k5w)

255 Stupidity must be contagious. I am sure the Queen will be thrilled!
Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (oiNtH)

The Queen might care in "What will the peasants think?" But, she let Harry marry the mulatto because he's not of the royal line. Something about being the child of Di's fuck buddy.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (3sjI6)

256 Either that or she's going to go all Henry VIII on them and heads are going to roll
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (OLCnA)

I was thinking Victoria, myself. But yeah, that'll do.

But I think CN had it right @229 - she's hanging on so Charles the Nitwit will never, ever be King

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (NYS7S)

257 >>My husband's office had a lunch to celebrate black history month. Which consisted of...a taco bar.

George Washington Carver built the First Taco Shell. Out of a Peanut!
Posted by: garrett

...in a CAVE! With a BOX OF SCRAP...!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (AM1GF)

258 Yeah, and don't even go there with BBQ. I applaud the ingenuity and cultural development of that marvel of culinary goodness. Well done.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (t6MX/)
+++++++++++
BBQ kicks ass, and is highly regional. I like all BBQ styles I have ever had, but the stretch of the country between St. Louis and Cincinnati is probably my favorite at the moment. Give me a year or two and it will probably change.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (I2dne)

259 Isn't one of Charles' brothers gay? Not Andrew. The other one.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (ptqGC)

260 was Virginia even a cotton state?"L

Si.

Quite a bit, actually, but that's about as far north as one can reasonably go, and the temps made cotton more susceptible to the boll weevil. By the mid or so 1900s, supposedly less than 500 acres were planted in the Commonwealth.
A big comeback in the 90s, though...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (6qErC)

261 I dont blame William for keeping Kate aired up. I would do it too!

Posted by: Xipe Totec still banned at rgICo at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (3CXto)

262
If you wanted to be more contemporary when she handed the kid the cotton she should have told her to imagine being Asian.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (TAmPV)

263 Imagine not having cotton and having to be enslaved to polyester!

Posted by: josephistan at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (7HtZB)

264 How soon before we see another freeped poll telling us the people of Virginia want Northam to stay?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (VkWRL)

265 Lizzy II has to be wondering when God will call her Home.

"Wondering"?

Try "pleading".

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (vbJig)

266 BBQ kicks ass, and is highly regional. I like all
BBQ styles I have ever had, but the stretch of the country between St.
Louis and Cincinnati is probably my favorite at the moment. Give me a
year or two and it will probably change.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (I2dne)

I don't really get the BBQ flame wars. Bring it ALL to me.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (t6MX/)

267 So much learning with no accumulated wisdom whatsoever.

Posted by: El Kabong at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (datdl)

268 "Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid," a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:27 PM (QkjLD)

-----

But ..... Fifty bucks says if she was having girl.... THAT baby would be raised under the auspices of GRRRRRRRL PWRRRRRRRRR!!!

Posted by: Mrs Northam at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (8XRCm)

269 Isn't one of Charles' brothers gay? Not Andrew. The other one.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:33 PM (ptqGC

Amos?

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (xPJvm)

270 247 Yahoo:
The long-awaited first read on Q4 GDP has just come out, with results better than expected: +2.6%, whereas analysts had been pivoting right around that 2.0% figure ahead of the release. The historically strong Q3 results were revised upward in its third and final headline: 3.5%.

Even though it's too early to take the long view of 2018 GDP as a whole, this 2.6% number joins the 2.2%, 4.2% and now 3.5% from the previous quarter to put preliminary GDP at 3.125%, or above 3% for the first time since prior to the Great Recession a decade ago.
Posted by: SMOD

so Obama's initial numbers were always high and quietly revised down and Trump's initial numbers are low and get quietly revised up.

sounds legit. Drudge hardest hit.

Posted by: x at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (nFwvY)

271

ugg sock

Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (8XRCm)

272 261
I dont blame William for keeping Kate aired up. I would do it too!

Posted by: Xipe Totec still banned at rgICo at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (3CXto)

She proves out the hot-crazy matrix.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (t6MX/)

273 I love her. She can stay around forever. WWII mechanic, driver, tough as nails, and mother to an idiot.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:32 PM (VWp7G)

I'm pretty sure the mechanic thing was just for the photographers. The Royal Mechanic and his henchmen did all the work while she drank tea, ate butter scones, and practiced her wave.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (3sjI6)

274 If you wanted to be more contemporary when she handed the kid the cotton she should have told her to imagine being Asian.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (TAmPV)

"Here, play with this train set, Ching Chong."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (AURKQ)

275 True story. When I was in high school, the black guys opened their packs of Kools and Salems from the bottom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (K2UYJ)

276 What's next from Northam, an Al Jolson tribute where the proceeds go to African American causes?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (VkWRL)

277 >>Yeah, it's always amusing when people tell on themselves by associating black people with certain foods.

Those are black foods. Those are poor foods. Whites in the region ate the exact same things.

I was thinking that's why they served tacos. No one would accuse them of making assumptions about "stuff black people eat."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (W+vEI)

278 We had a BBQ joint in Texas when I was a kid and Black folks weren't allowed to eat in the restaurant.... My dad had friends that were black so he would serve them outside and sit with them...He was a good guy.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:31 PM (O2RFr)

Well, kinda. And my family is old South so I get it, but the better position, of course, would have been to NOT go to that BBQ joint.

When I was in SC I was in the Guard with someone even more old South, and he and his parents were at the drive in at Maurice Bessenger's Piggy Park (the original in Columbia) and a black family drove up, and someone inside got on the PA and said "we don't serve your kind here."

So the guy's Dad pressed the button and said "you don't serve me, either." And they drove off.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (9VeU0)

279 I still don't think Biden pulls the trigger, probs wrong

I think he's too old

He will be apologizing everyday for some truth he spoke

He will most prob not win the nomination, which would be embarrassing.

And he's a doofus supreme

Posted by: REDACTED at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (RZ6R1)

280 I don't really get the BBQ flame wars. Bring it ALL to me.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (t6MX/)
++++++++++++
I hope there's room on that train for one more.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (I2dne)

281 B actress... I give it 3 years... The kid is her gravy train."

5 years and she's in the back seat of a Merc polishing some guy's knob while the driver watches...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (6qErC)

282 Queen Liz is just thanking God that William and Kate are breeding like bunnies.
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (iBAtG)

Well, frankly, Kate is kinda yummy. Just sayin', is all.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (NYS7S)

283 271

ugg sock
Posted by: fixerupper at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (8XRCm)

They make stupid furry socks as well as boots?

Posted by: josephistan at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (7HtZB)

284 True story. When I was in high school, the black guys opened their packs of Kools and Salems from the bottom.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (K2UYJ)

Do you know why?

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (ykq7q)

285 Apple Inc said on Wednesday it planned to lay off 190 employees in its self-driving car program, Project Titan, changes that provide a rare window into the automotive technologies the company has been pursuing.

The tech firm said in a filing with state regulators that it planned to lay off people from eight different Santa Clara County facilities near its Cupertino, California, headquarters, as of April 16.

Among those laid off were at least two dozen software engineers, including a machine learning engineer, and 40 hardware engineers, according to a letter sent by Apple to California employment regulators earlier this month.

Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (QkjLD)

286 >>>I'm pretty sure the mechanic thing was just for the photographers.

Probably, but I still think she's awesome, and her relationship with Reagan was great.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (VWp7G)

287 I don't really get the BBQ flame wars. Bring it ALL to me."

Preach it!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (6qErC)

288 I dont blame William for keeping Kate aired up. I would do it too!

Posted by: Xipe Totec still banned at rgICo at March 01, 2019 12:34 PM (3CXto)

She proves out the hot-crazy matrix.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (t6MX/)

William seems like a decent chap. Too bad he got all the worst physical features of Charles and Diana. Hopefully, Kate can cancel that out, in the looks department.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (3sjI6)

289 Shade tobacco was big in my little hometown in the FL panhandle. My cousins worked stringing tobacco in the summer for pocket money. A truck pulling a trailer would come through the neighborhoods pre-dawn and they'd jump in the back and head to the tobacco barns, where they'd work until dusk.

My cousin has a tobacco needle and the first dollar she was paid, framed over a large leaf of tobacco in her family room.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

290 >>>Well, frankly, Kate is kinda yummy. Just sayin', is all.

Oh my god yes!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (VWp7G)

291 I think monarchies were generally better when the Lancastrian king had to constantly war against the Yorks.
There'd be no gender fluid babies if the king had to watch his back against potential usurpers.

Posted by: N. L. Urker at March 01, 2019 12:37 PM (JgA4k)

292 Northam could start a Racial Theme Park in Virginia where African American children can get sprayed with fire hoses and bitten by dogs to know what the civil rights protests were like

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (VkWRL)

293 Klown-butcher has 4%???

She should be negative 20. There should be a new metric created for toxic people like her.

Posted by: Max Power at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (q177U)

294 276 What's next from Northam, an Al Jolson tribute where the proceeds go to African American causes?
Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (VkWRL)

He can combine it with a breast cancer awareness campaign and call it a Mammy Gram.

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (1FhAQ)

295 Yeah,gender fluid only if it is an icky boy.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (BXMxN)

296 There's a place in town here, old place, called SOUL BBQ, and not only do they have great BBQ, they've got fried pork chops, and chicken fried steaks smothered in creamy gravy, and collard greens, and everything else. It's great.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (Kpl3J)

297 so Obama's initial numbers were always high and quietly revised down and Trump's initial numbers are low and get quietly revised up.

sounds legit. Drudge hardest hit.
Posted by: x at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (nFwvY)
++++++++++
Revisions are normal, but it is interesting how unidirectional they've been.

And Drudge will be fine. Q4 GDP did indeed "miss 3%" - as if everyone expected it to be there. Virtually no one expected it to be there. Although truthful, the more accurate headline would have been "Q4 GDP growth of 2.6% exceeds consensus expectations"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (I2dne)

298 Gender fluid means try to feminize a boy.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (BXMxN)

299 Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more "fluid approach to gender."

Edward VIII: If I had to step down from the throne they should be tossed out of the bloody family

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (OLCnA)

300 293
Klown-butcher has 4%???

She should be negative 20. There should be a new metric created for toxic people like her.

Posted by: Max Power at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (q177U)

WA's Inslee has thrown his pussy hat into the ring. I hope Klobuchar makes him cry at the debates.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (t6MX/)

301 Do you know why?

When I asked, they said 'Because we don't pick cotton any more!'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (K2UYJ)

302 293 Klown-butcher has 4%???
Posted by: Max Power at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (q177U)

She's "Generic Female Democrat I've Never Heard Of" in polls at this point.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (NYS7S)

303 The Northam family, in prerevolutionary times, owned 84 slaves.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (Z4rgH)

304 I wonder what Gov Northam will do on St Patrick's Day? Suggest all Irish are drunks?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (0tfLf)

305 Next Northam can lead a singalong of slave songs, "Oh Lordy, pick a bale o cotton Oh Lordy, pick a bale a day"

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (VkWRL)

306 True story. West Point has a dinner during Black History Month commemorating the first African American graduate, Henry O. Flipper.

The dinner is organized and the menu planned by a club which at another school might be called the Black Student Union, but West Point doesn't have Student Unions.

A friend of mine from New York State was chosen to escort Rep. Charlie Rangel to the Henry O. Flipper Dinner. He took Rep. Rangel to sit at the table, where they served Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, and Watermelon.

I shit you not.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (9VeU0)

307 Ace, fyi, your headline refers to actor Jeremy instead of Governor Ralph Northam.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (Z216Q)

308 285 Apple Inc said on Wednesday it planned to lay off 190 employees in its self-driving car program, Project Titan, changes that provide a rare window into the automotive technologies the company has been pursuing.

The tech firm said in a filing with state regulators that it planned to lay off people from eight different Santa Clara County facilities near its Cupertino, California, headquarters, as of April 16.

Among those laid off were at least two dozen software engineers, including a machine learning engineer, and 40 hardware engineers, according to a letter sent by Apple to California employment regulators earlier this month.
Posted by: SMOD at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (QkjLD)

Maybe Google is muscling them out. Or maybe the market isn't as eager for robot cars as they were told.

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (1FhAQ)

309 Well, frankly, Kate is kinda yummy. Just sayin', is all.

And a class act... Markel not so much... And she's old for a "breeder." 38 I believe... Kate is the same or a year younger with 3

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (O2RFr)

310 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH)

311 Why do black people like fried chicken and watermelon? For the same reason other people do. It's freaking delicious. "

The ironic thing about "soul food" is that it's mostly just working class white food in the South in the 19th century.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (Kpl3J)

312 Ace, fyi, your headline refers to actor Jeremy instead of Governor Ralph Northam.
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Oh wait! I just arrived. Is that a joke?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (Z216Q)

313 One thing I'll say for Harry. He got Markle the hell out of America.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (+y/Ru)

314 Someone needs to be defenestrated like young Phillip in Braveheart.

Would you agree?

Posted by: King Edward at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (vbJig)

315 Q4 GDP did indeed "miss 3%" - as if everyone expected it to be there."

The "actual" figure isn't due out until later in March, so...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (6qErC)

316 115 I remember when I visited the Playboy Mansion and they told me to imagine myself sitting in the grotto in the 1970s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 01, 2019 12:16 PM (pUDQf)

Did they have you dip your fingers in a can of tuna too?

Posted by: Sooner at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (Fs5vw)

317 When I was in SC I was in the Guard with someone
even more old South, and he and his parents were at the drive in at
Maurice Bessenger's Piggy Park (the original in Columbia) and a black
family drove up, and someone inside got on the PA and said "we don't
serve your kind here."

So the guy's Dad pressed the button and said "you don't serve me, either." And they drove off.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:36 PM (9VeU0)

Oh Lord, that Maurice guy is/was a huge racist. We didn't know about him and stopped in his place years ago while traveling through Columbia. He had all kinds of KKK crap. My husband and I turned around and walked out.

On our trip to upstate SC for husband's murdered cousins memorial, we saw a sign for Piggy Park along the interstate. We both immediately remembered that racist old coot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (ptqGC)

318 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM

Think white dude with Obama's intellect.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (0tfLf)

319 "And children, from now on In your honor every Friday will be chicken and watermelon night at the governors mansion".

Racist piece of shit.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (VkWRL)

320 310 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Nope... He's not the least bit intelligent

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (O2RFr)

321 >>Yeah,gender fluid only if it is an icky boy.

First, how will that work with royal titles?
Second, this is their first kid, so they are still under the impression they can shape the kid's personality. *snort* The little dude is going to be himself, and unless Meghan and her nannies are really oppressive and insistent on the fluid nonsense, he'll be all boy.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (W+vEI)

322
We here at AoS don't give a shit about Democrats' names, we're freaks!

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (16wrz)

323 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH

He's going to make fighting climate change his number one priority as president

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (OLCnA)

324 The Flipper Dinner?

No tuna?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (vbJig)

325 When I asked, they said 'Because we don't pick cotton any more!'

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:39 PM (K2UYJ)

When someone bummed a smoke, they wouldn't handle the filter w/their filthy fingers.

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (ykq7q)

326 -
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What's next from Northam, an Al Jolson tribute where the proceeds go to African American causes?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:35 PM (VkWRL)

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He can combine it with a breast cancer awareness campaign and call it a Mammy Gram.

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM
-----

Heh. Golf clap.

Posted by: irright at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (pMGkg)

327 The "actual" figure isn't due out until later in March, so...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (6qErC)
+++++++++
Right, but in great American tradition, the preliminary number is reported and final revision - good or bad - is ignored.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (I2dne)

328 323 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH

He's going to make fighting climate change his number one priority as president
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (OLCnA)

And fly around the country to do it.

Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (1FhAQ)

329 On our trip to upstate SC for husband's murdered cousins memorial, we saw a sign for Piggy Park along the interstate. We both immediately remembered that racist old coot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:41 PM (ptqGC)

Not to mention that sumbitch puts mustard in BBQ.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (9VeU0)

330
Inslee is the radical leftist with the major lisp.
He's running on Global Warming.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (16wrz)

331 Apple is stupid to go into the "self driving car" racket, and so will be google or anyone else who does it.

The obvious question is, "who gets sued when there's a wreck but no driver?" Well obviously the manufacturer. Want to build self driving cars? Say hello to a dozen lawsuits filed against you every day all over the country for as long as they exist. You're going to end up with your R&D department being 10% development, 90% legal costs. Forever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (Kpl3J)

332 Oh Lord, that Maurice guy is/was a huge racist.

Yeah, but his sauce is good. It used to be sold at our Winn Dixie but then SJWs got it black listed. Now I have to order my 'Patriot Pack' over the internet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (K2UYJ)

333 Not to mention that sumbitch puts mustard in BBQ.
Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (9VeU0)
+++++++++
Mustard/vinegar sauces can be exceptionally good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (I2dne)

334 First, how will that work with royal titles?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (W+vEI)

I was just thinking that. Thank goodness that kid won't be the king/queen. Everyone would have to call him/her Xer Majesty.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (QBy2Q)

335
Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH)

He's a fan of the Green New Deal. So idiot.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

336 The obvious question is, "who gets sued when there's a wreck but no driver?" Well obviously the manufacturer. Want to build self driving cars? Say hello to a dozen lawsuits filed against you every day all over the country for as long as they exist. You're going to end up with your R&D department being 10% development, 90% legal costs. Forever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (Kpl3J)
++++++++++
If the manufacturer has the correct political affiliations, they'll find themselves with nicely limited liability.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (I2dne)

337 This chick Megan Markle is having a negative effect on the already strained genes of the Brit royals. What the hell are they saying "raising their baby as gender fluid"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (Z216Q)

338 >>Kate is kinda yummy.

She's no Pippa.

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (DHsB1)

339 Right, but in great American tradition, the preliminary number is reported and final revision - good or bad - is ignored."

Well of course. It's not "trending"...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (6qErC)

340 Mustard/vinegar sauces can be exceptionally good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (I2dne)

Not of the body.

NOT OF THE BODY!

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (9VeU0)

341 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

At this point it's better to ask who isn't running in the Democrat party... jeeez

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (O2RFr)

342 First, how will that work with royal titles?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (W+vEI)

Wow, I've been reading this smart milblog far too long. I read that as...

First, how will that work with royal titties?

And I doubt I was the only one.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (NYS7S)

343 323 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH

He's going to make fighting climate change his number one priority as president
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (OLCnA)

He's hard Lefty, not very bright either. Got slotted into the Gov seat by the Democratic machine here in WA.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (bcbK8)

344 Not to mention that sumbitch puts mustard in BBQ.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (9VeU0)

Some of that mid-lands sacrilege.

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (ykq7q)

345 233 I love a delicious salad of watermelon and feta cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

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

add some fresh mint to that salad, Jane. it's awesome!
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:30 PM (d7Ww2)

That sounds fabulous!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (TdMsT)

346 338 >>Kate is kinda yummy.

She's no Pippa.
Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:44 PM (DHsB1)

They're both Ones

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (bcbK8)

347 At this point it's better to ask who isn't running in the Democrat party... jeeez
Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 12:45 PM (O2RFr)
++++++++++
We have a deep bench!

Posted by: The DNC at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (I2dne)

348 >>Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez

Because Washington State is such a huge success!

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (DHsB1)

349 We went to a little hole-in-the-wall place here that serves chicken and waffles or fried chicken and brown gravy and soul food. (The decor was all Prince, iirc.)

I mention it because (northern girl that I am) I ordered the collard greens as a side. I think that the lady who owned the place took one look at me and decided I was nuts so when I got my food she'd added an additional side of mac-n-cheese, so I wouldn't be disappointed.

I just thought it was sweet of her and sort of funny.

Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (BD/yx)

350 I've never heard of Maurice Bessenger. Guess I'll stay clear of his place on my next trip to Columbia. I'll stick with Blue Marlin. Love that place.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (JoUsr)

351 I don't want to defend Democrats, but why is it racist to hand cotton to a kid and imagine the hard life slaves had?

What. If. It. Was. A. Republican.

This is why we lose.

Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (LL1Be)

352 310
Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH)

He's an empty suit that has no original ideas or leadership ability and essentially tries to be first on all the far left wet dreams. AOC out-lefted him, and all the early announcers have already covered the lefty scoreboard by getting on the green deal train. I don't see him making any standout impressions, as the vanilla, uninspiring white guy.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (t6MX/)

353 Well, Obama had the African part down.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

That young man has no negro dialect.

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (uGKH7)

354 I haven't made fried chicken in ages. Now I have a craving for it. And I do make great fried chicken. My late mother taught me to put a little bacon grease in the oil, and use cornmeal with the flour coating. I still can't make it as well as she did. Sigh.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (ptqGC)

355 Because Washington State is such a huge success!

Ahem...

Posted by: California at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (O2RFr)

356 Trying to figure Inslee's angle on running for President. He knows he's a zero on name recognition. He knows Global Warming is ground well covered in the already crowded field.

Maybe he just plans to pay himself a lot of consulting fees out of his campaign funds.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (9VeU0)

357 If the manufacturer has the correct political affiliations, they'll find themselves with nicely limited liability."

Allow me to introduce the Tech Companies to one kinda big flaw to having a bunch of lawyers pretending to like you at the very beginning of your partnership...

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:47 PM (Kpl3J)

358 Racism is forever descending on the Right only to land squarely on the fucking Left as they are the original and forever racists.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 01, 2019 12:47 PM (0ogxh)

359 LMAO! Inslee is gonna run a "climate focused" presidential run. So a fucking gimmick character. Like a professional wrestling story line.

Posted by: Max Power at March 01, 2019 12:47 PM (q177U)

360
When Inslee speaks, he sounds like Sylvester the Cat and Cindy Brady had a son.

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 12:47 PM (16wrz)

361 The thing about self driving cars is what happens when the systems fail... A lot of death and destruction. My industry is tinkering around with self driving trucks. Insanity.

Posted by: Phil Hartmark F/K/A Truck Monkey at March 01, 2019 12:47 PM (flINI)

362 driverless cars will have cameras for 360 degree coverage, for evidence. So IF the makers get the tech right, we might guess they would have fewer accidents than your average driver, certainly fewer than the average drunk illegal.

So their insurance rates would be lower, not higher ... IF they can accomplish that.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (Cus5s)

363 I haven't made fried chicken in ages."

Never have. And won't. Just not a fan.

Ah well.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (6qErC)

364 The propaganda media has tilted the battlefield 45 degrees to the left.
For us? It's up hill battles all the way.Hell they are pumping Michael fcuking Cohen as a great American hero.

Rationality got nothing to do with this.

Wanna win?

Fight dirty.

Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (LL1Be)

365 296 There's a place in town here, old place, called SOUL BBQ, and not only do they have great BBQ, they've got fried pork chops, and chicken fried steaks smothered in creamy gravy, and collard greens, and everything else. It's great.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:38 PM (Kpl3J)

You're killing me. It's an hour and a half until lunch here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (bcbK8)

366 I mention it because (northern girl that I am) I ordered the collard greens as a side. I think that the lady who owned the place took one look at me and decided I was nuts so when I got my food she'd added an additional side of mac-n-cheese, so I wouldn't be disappointed.

I just thought it was sweet of her and sort of funny.
Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM (BD/yx)
++++++++++
I have a friend from CT who lived in NY for a while. We went out to breakfast to a soul food joint in Brooklyn and I ordered grits with my meal. They were done quite well.

She had never had them and asked to try it. I of course agreed and she took a spoonful and did that thing you do with grits (no chewing, just sort of munging), swallowed, and paused for a good 30 seconds. Her reaction? "Well, they don't have this in Connecticut."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (I2dne)

367 Wow, Jimmy got through to Rush
He use to always call in to Bob Grant
He hates Commies...

Posted by: McCool at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (KvRqW)

368

Is it possible they are doing this on purpose to get the conflict going?

They are generally stupid asses, so I can see this being part of a grander plot.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (z8c2c)

369 (Inslee)'s going to make fighting climate change his number one priority as president
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 01, 2019 12:42 PM (OLCnA)

And fly around the country to do it.
Posted by: joncelli of the Tribe of the Drunken Moose at March 01, 2019 12:43 PM (1FhAQ)

And the number of times our Firefighter-level brave media types will call him on that rank hypocrisy is south of zero.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (NYS7S)

370 Drudge is reporting that the Governor of WA Inslee is going to run for Prez....any intel on this guy?

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:40 PM (oiNtH)

He's running to save the Earf!

Posted by: Surfperch at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (T7t+x)

371 At this point it's better to ask who isn't running in the Democrat party... jeeez

--

You know, the first crop of runners are the ones who support Infanticide. As bad off as our culture is, I don't think this is going to sit well with the vast majority of people, even a lot of D voters. I think they really screwed themselves with that. The governor outsider(s) and Joey Choo Choo jumping in are going to have a better chance now.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (JoUsr)

372 Inslee is the Jeb! of the Dem 2020 lineup. No accomplishments. No name recognition. Utterly uninspiring.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (t6MX/)

373 Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 12:49 PM (Z216Q)

374 The mother of a viral I dated from Virginia made the best fried chicken, chitlins and collard greens on the planet.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (VkWRL)

375 I still don't think Biden pulls the trigger, probs wrong

I think he's too old

He will be apologizing everyday for some truth he spoke

He will most prob not win the nomination, which would be embarrassing.

And he's a doofus supreme
Posted by: REDACTED

____________

I sort of think the same thing, he wants a coronation. that's not going to happen.

I do think though he's far and away Democrats best chance, so I hope he bails.

He might jump back in though if Democrats can't make up their mind and they are about to nominate someone like Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: Blago at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (UfkIY)

376 361 The thing about self driving cars is what happens when the systems fail... A lot of death and destruction. My industry is tinkering around with self driving trucks. Insanity."

Not the same thing, really, but I noticed that in California, PG&E is saying "yeah, that Paradise fire, we guess that's kinda sorta our fault, sorry about that."

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (Kpl3J)

377 Maybe Google is muscling them out. Or maybe the market isn't as eager for robot cars as they were told.
Posted by: joncelli
..............

Just was reading about this last week..

They are having lots of problems with the cars keeping on the roads during bad conditions..

If the street is covered with snow, it can't tell where the lane is..

Fog, rain and snow messes up the images they get with the cameras.

So.. If you live in Arizona or Cali, then maybe you're OK. But they are a long way off from getting it to work 100% of the time in a lot of this country.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (so+oy)

378 She should hand the black kids EBT cards and free smartphones, so they can feel what it's like to be modern day slaves.

Posted by: RKae at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (/0Aqb)

379 >>Wow, I've been reading this smart milblog far too long. I read that as...

First, how will that work with royal titties?

Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (W+vEI)

380 The mother of a viral I dated from Virginia"

eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww........

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (Kpl3J)

381 Northam does the moonwalk.

True racists smirk and do the cakewalk or the geechee.

Northam is not hip.

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (s6nXH)

382 Here, try on these chains!

Posted by: Your Agricultural Tour Guide Joe Biden at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (wxZSX)

383 When Inslee speaks, he sounds like Sylvester the Cat and Cindy Brady had a son.

Posted by: Soothsayer,

LOL! Thanks everyone - but now I'm starving for BBQ and watermelon!

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (oiNtH)

384 Bridget Bowman
@bridgetbhc
A Capitol Police officer left a gun in a bathroom... again. And not just any gun. A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled.

-
THEY OUGHT TO BAN THEM THINGS!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (+y/Ru)

385 >>Just was reading about this last week..

They are having lots of problems with the cars keeping on the roads during bad conditions..

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (W+vEI)

386 I mention it because (northern girl that I am) I ordered the collard greens as a side. I think that the lady who owned the place took one look at me and decided I was nuts so when I got my food she'd added an additional side of mac-n-cheese, so I wouldn't be disappointed.

I just thought it was sweet of her and sort of funny.
Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at March 01, 2019 12:46 PM

There is a BBQ place in Chantilly VA called Willards. Un-freaking-believable!!!!
Best BBQ I have ever had and the collard greens are fantastic.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (0tfLf)

387
Wait a second: weren't we told about three weeks back that Pam Northam was the smart and "woke" one after she gave Coonman the stink-eye wave off on break dancing for the press?

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (pNxlR)

388 Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (Z216Q)

389 374 The mother of a viral I dated

Posted by: Marcus T at March 01, 2019 12:50 PM (VkWRL)

well, I've heard of infections that linger but...

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (iBAtG)

390 oh, Jane! when's dinner? I love fried chicken!

I'll bring the watermelon salad and some pie!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (d7Ww2)

391 Looks like a few commenters have forgotten "Make them live up to their own rules."

They're foisting their new religion of Intersectional Critical Theory on us at a rapid pace, so by God they can fucking choke on it.

If you're not going to make them choke on it, good and hard, you haven't been paying attention.

Posted by: McLurkerson at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (GVZIJ)

392 I love friend chicken. Everyone should love friend chicken.

Or baked.

Or BBQ.

I don't get why that is racist. The watermelon, yeah, I suppose I have seen some little black sambo cartoons when I was 5 with watermelon. But jeez, no one has done that even as a joke in decades, unless they're Spike Lee.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (bcbK8)

393 LMAO! Inslee is gonna run a "climate focused" presidential run. So a fucking gimmick character. Like a professional wrestling story line.
Posted by: Max Power

Inskeep will BE MINE and I shall emerge triumphant with the Presidential Title Belt!!!

Posted by: The Pollutor also running for President at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (uGKH7)

394 >>Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

Deport.

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (DHsB1)

395 Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

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Donkey Chompers was looking out for them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (+y/Ru)

396 OK, now imagine you are a member of the Iron Brigade, that took 80% casualties, to free slaves.

Whose descendants would hate you for the color of YOUR skin.

Posted by: Don Q at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (NgKpN)

397 True story:

A black acquaintance came to Casa Zod. He saw the Aztecs toiling. One of them was malingering; Zod gave the foreman a look, and the surly layabout was soundly thrashed with a knout.
"They're like...your slaves, Zod."
(Sip of bourbon)
"Yes. Yes, they are, aren't they."
A cicada buzzed.

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (s6nXH)

398 I like all BBQ except that mustardy vinegar stuff in South Carolina..

Can't wait for spring when I can set up my new smoker. Gonna do some spare ribs using Aaron Franklin's very simple recipe.. It's on Youtube.. along with 10,000 other BBQ videos!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (so+oy)

399 If the street is covered with snow, it can't tell where the lane is..

Fog, rain and snow messes up the images they get with the cameras.

----

Just think: Cars driving around covered with cameras!

And what's the latest "gold rush"? Selling data!

So those cars are going to sell everything they see to the state. Every one of them is going to be a rolling speed camera for the state.

You'll pass by 50 of them on your morning commute and find that you got 50 speeding tickets.

I say it again: All technology has for us now are toys, toxins and tyranny.

Posted by: RKae at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (/0Aqb)

400 I think autonomous cars could be a huge boon for an aging population that has a growing dementia/Alzheimers epidemic.

But liability law will kill it in the cradle.

I mean, we think nothing of restarting our phones to get it to work right. Rebooting the car not a great option.

Ford had to pay billions on a faulty gas tank bracket. Bug in software? Oh my.

What about getting hacked? Or if you hack it yourself?

What if your AI and the other car's AI have different ideas about what is safe?

Here there be dragons.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (9VeU0)

401 The thing about self driving cars is what happens when the systems fail"

See, we need a new Green Plan.

Or something.

/

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (6qErC)

402 The welfare plantation is so much more comfy than the cotton one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 01, 2019 12:54 PM (nPGq2)

403 Markle and Harry really said they were gonna raise their baby as gender fluid?

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:54 PM (JoUsr)

404 What a world we live in when Inslee isn't the craziest Democrat running for prezzy.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (1MizH)

405 What if your AI and the other car's AI have different ideas about what is safe?

Here there be dragons.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (9VeU0)

Just imagine

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (bcbK8)

406 364 The propaganda media has tilted the battlefield 45 degrees to the left.
For us? It's up hill battles all the way.Hell they are pumping Michael fcuking Cohen as a great American hero.
Posted by: mikeyG at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (LL1Be)

Earlier in the week they were cranking out one positive story after another about North Korea in an effort to make them look like the good guys in the negotiation with Trump. "Team America" is no longer a parody.

Posted by: asymptote at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (Le4jq)

407 Because Washington State is such a huge success!

If you look back, you will see every Dem candidate makes Seattle a stop on their fund-raising trail. They get a lot of $ from the locals here. Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Starbucks, etc...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (0tfLf)

408 399 Just think: Cars driving around covered with cameras!

And what's the latest "gold rush"? Selling data!

So those cars are going to sell everything they see to the state. Every one of them is going to be a rolling speed camera for the state.

You'll pass by 50 of them on your morning commute and find that you got 50 speeding tickets.

I say it again: All technology has for us now are toys, toxins and tyranny.
Posted by: RKae at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (/0Aqb)

Helllllooooooo, Mileage Tax!

Posted by: Hikaru at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (UnA8+)

409 >Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

I seem to recall the leader of his "Hispanic outreach" or whatever last time around was an illegal alien.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (W+vEI)

410 Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

They left off "unexpectedly."

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (9VeU0)

411 "The thing about self driving cars is what happens when the systems fail"

I'm starting to wonder if the whole push for 'self-driving cars' is to make driving so dangerous the greenie-fascists can say "See, we can't even make computers smart enough to drive - ban all cars NOW!!" and the soma-addled lemmings will all say "Baaaaaaaaaaa..."

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (NYS7S)

412 Hey! As you hand out the cotton balls, make sure to remind them that the first slave owner in America was black!

...I'm so sick of this shit.

Posted by: RKae at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (/0Aqb)

413 teaching kids to imagine they are victims, using props even, terrible.

It was covered up, but she later passed out butt plugs, told the kids to imagine they are gay and in a soda-masichist relationship, and were being oppressed by TheMan at a Chik-Fillet.

She is planning to pass out coat hangers later ... "imagine you have to do your own abortion". Lots of chances for educating the kids ... /s

Posted by: illiniwek at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (Cus5s)

414 IL will join in on infanticide.

http://tinyurl.com/y34vre6c

Posted by: Ha at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (MAstk)

415 409 >Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

I seem to recall the leader of his "Hispanic outreach" or whatever last time around was an illegal alien.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (W+vEI)

And no one arrested him?

Fuck, the GOPe sucks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (bcbK8)

416 There is a BBQ place in Chantilly VA called Willards."

Quite good. Especially the slaw...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (6qErC)

417
Bridget Bowman
@bridgetbhc
A Capitol Police officer left a gun in a bathroom... again. And not just any gun. A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled.

What a cosmic sinkhole of stupid that statement is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (pNxlR)

418 Anywhere north of the James river in VA was generally unsuited to growing large cash crops of cotton. The climate is not ideal. It wasn't really grown in quantity anywhere in the Commmonwealth until well into the 19th century, after the cotton gin and demand from English mills made it pay, and then only in areas south of the James.

Posted by: SarahW In Richmond right this minute at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (g1vnC)

419 It would almost be hilarious how fast Ocrazy-Eyes Hee-Haw turned into a Stalin-esque tyrant ("If you don't vote in lockstep with me, I'll send an army of activists to destroy you") if it wasn't so frightening.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (UnA8+)

420 384 Bridget Bowman
@bridgetbhc
A Capitol Police officer left a gun in a bathroom... again. And not just any gun. A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled.

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THEY OUGHT TO BAN THEM THINGS!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:51 PM (+y/Ru)

he also left his car outside. Not just any car, but one which will start if you turn the key.

Posted by: josephistan at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (7HtZB)

421 Fuck, the GOPe sucks.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (bcbK

Just realizing this now?

I kid. I kid.

Posted by: DocJ at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (NYS7S)

422 Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

--

A clever person may be able to use this as an example of an illegal taking yet another good job from a real American.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (JoUsr)

423 I say it again: All technology has for us now are toys, toxins and tyranny.
Posted by: RKae at March 01, 2019 12:53 PM (/0Aqb)

Drove to Arizona a couple weeks back through the big rain storms we just had.

Cars on the road did NOT have their tail lights on, even though it was raining cats and dogs.

Why? They were on automatic and it wasn't quite dark enough for some of the sensors to turn them on.

People THOUGHT they were on, because headlights were automatically on... but not their tail lights.

Dumb.

Posted by: Don Q at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (NgKpN)

424 a soda-masichist relationship

Wait whut?

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (9VeU0)

425 I'm old enough to remember people thinking the wife had the brains in the family.

Posted by: ShainS -- 2020 Dem candidate promising free hookers and blow to all! at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (2KkD9)

426 410 Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

They left off "unexpectedly."
Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 12:55 PM (9VeU0)

Did Republicans pounce?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (1MizH)

427 Markle and Harry really said they were gonna raise their baby as gender fluid?
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:54 PM (JoUsr)

Britain as we know has been dead for a long time, they just haven't realized it yet.

Posted by: Surfperch at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (T7t+x)

428 >>Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

Gotta love the Donks.

Restaurant that allows patrons to pay what they want to pay? Awesome idea.

Restaurant that is allowed to pay employees what they want to pay? Evil.

Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (DHsB1)

429 Not a joke. BSNPC is considering replacing Chris Matthews with Brian Williams. You know, bring a little dignity, class and credibility to the joint.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (+y/Ru)

430 A clever person may be able to use this as an example of an illegal taking yet another good job from a real American.

A real American wouldn't be working for Bernie Sanders

Posted by: California at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (O2RFr)

431 417
Bridget Bowman
@bridgetbhc
A Capitol Police officer left a gun in a bathroom... again. And not just any gun. A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled.

What a cosmic sinkhole of stupid that statement is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM (pNxlR)

Man, I prefer guns that only fire when you sing "Modern Major General".

Posted by: Hikaru at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (UnA8+)

432 >>Just think: Cars driving around covered with cameras!

And what's the latest "gold rush"? Selling data!

So those cars are going to sell everything they see to the state. Every one of them is going to be a rolling speed camera for the state.
- - - -
Yes, THIS!
One driverless car CEO was talking about that as a feature - "These cars will be great for things like Amber alerts, because he can activate the cameras and look into other cars!"

Is it really *your* car if someone somewhere can activate it's features as they please?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 01, 2019 12:58 PM (W+vEI)

433 I'm starting to wonder if the whole push for 'self-driving cars' "

It (autonomous and 'lectric cars) was the former administration's "Jimmy Carter UFO" distraction. Now that there's no taxpayer coin, it's all back to vapor.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:58 PM (6qErC)

434 422 Bernie outdid all the other Democrats yesterday, and hired an illegal alien as Press Secretary.

--

A clever person may be able to use this as an example of an illegal taking yet another good job from a real American.
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (JoUsr)

Better? Its still illegal to knowingly hire an illegal alien.

8 USC 1324 makes it a FELONY.

Arrest Bernie.

Posted by: Don Q at March 01, 2019 12:59 PM (NgKpN)

435 There is a BBQ place in Chantilly VA called Willards."

Quite good. Especially the slaw...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 12:56 PM

And the red bans and rice!
YUM!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 12:59 PM (0tfLf)

436
Jeremy spoke today.

Posted by: Pearl Jam at March 01, 2019 12:59 PM (jYje5)

437 Ace, I have the unfortunate luck to be living in this now-blue state. I've been here 30 years and live a short distance from the capitol. Ain't no "Jeremy" Northam as guv-nah. It's "Ralph," as in upchucking.

Posted by: SandyCheeks at March 01, 2019 12:59 PM (tGSHk)

438 428 >>Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

Gotta love the Donks.

Restaurant that allows patrons to pay what they want to pay? Awesome idea.

Restaurant that is allowed to pay employees what they want to pay? Evil.
Posted by: garrett at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (DHsB1)

Every single 'pay what you want' restaurant out here has gone out of business. Every single one. And there have been more than a few.

Reality is a harsh mistress but its the only way people learn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:59 PM (bcbK8)

439 I read a very touching story this morning about a young couple who became pregnant. Sadly, their OB/GYN told them that that babies lungs weren't fully formed and she would die soon after delivery and suggested abortion. They said no and went through the delivery. They name their little girl Hope and she lived for 90 minutes before passing away. They explained that those 90 minutes were precious as they held and loved their little girl. So wonderful to read about the courage and love this couple have for life in a world gone mad.

Posted by: Cheri at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (oiNtH)

440 What was that lady trying to say about the Glock? Is she trying to distinguish it from a sixshooter where one pulls the hammer back?

Posted by: SarahW In Richmond right this minute at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (g1vnC)

441 390
oh, Jane! when's dinner? I love fried chicken!

I'll bring the watermelon salad and some pie!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (d7Ww2)

Pecan pie or don't bother showing.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (t6MX/)

442 Ooopsie!

Posted by: DaveA at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (FhXTo)

443 There is a BBQ place in Chantilly VA called Willards."

Quite good. Especially the slaw...

--

Bubbalous in Orlando is incredibly good, too. BBQ, slaw, collards, mac, green beans, the most awesome baked beans...

Maybe we need a sidebar repository of great restaurants for the travelers among us.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (JoUsr)

444 Posted by: Don Q at March 01, 2019 12:57 PM (NgKpN)

The law here is if your wipers are on, your lights must be on. Seems to be rarely enforced.

Posted by: BignJames at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (ykq7q)

445 It (autonomous and 'lectric cars) was the former administration's "Jimmy Carter UFO" distraction. Now that there's no taxpayer coin, it's all back to vapor.

My Niece has one of those fancy electric cards and took me for a ride and showed me the self driving mode... Scared the crap out of me... drove entirely too close to the center and too close to cars in front of it... No thanks

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM (O2RFr)

446 oh, Jane! when's dinner? I love fried chicken!

I'll bring the watermelon salad and some pie!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 01, 2019 12:52 PM (d7Ww2)

Pecan pie or don't bother showing.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM

Ahhhh...my Mother-in-Law taught me how to make apple pie. I'll put it up against anything.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (0tfLf)

447 But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (bcbK

Thing is, she didn't have to say anything to any body. She should have stayed in the kitchen, making sammiches.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (nPGq2)

448
403 Markle and Harry really said they were gonna raise their baby as gender fluid?
Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 12:54 PM (JoUsr)

If there is film footage of one or both of them saying that, Parliament needs to pass a law that ends the British monarchy, immediately, upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II. They're going full retard.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (pNxlR)

449 I only buy guns that do NOT fire when the trigger is pulled. Safety first yo!!!

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (1MizH)

450 Autonomous cars would be an awful convenient way of killing occupants who are undesirable in one way or another.

And don't think they're not thinking about that.

Posted by: Hikaru at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (UnA8+)

451 436
Jeremy spoke today.

Bit the recess transperson' front upper chesticles, how could I forget.

Posted by: wooga at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (2sS3e)

452 I have lunch out for two days and have noticed both restaurants have lowered, lowered, there meal prices for lunch. Something is afoot.

Posted by: Puddin Head at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (2LelM)

453 I love friend chicken. Everyone should love friend chicken.

Or baked.

Or BBQ.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

Dude.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (0ogxh)

454 Daily Wire: "New York City experienced worst decline in restaurant jobs since 9/11 after $15 minimum wage passed"

-
Donkey Chompers was looking out for them.

-
At least they won't be exploited by Amazon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (+y/Ru)

455 fancy electric cards= cars... Stupid auto-cucumber

Posted by: It's me donna at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (O2RFr)

456 So wonderful to read about the courage and love this couple have for life in a world gone mad.

--

Cheri, that was a wonderful, touching story.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (JoUsr)

457 It wasn't always easy for me; I was born a poor black child.

Posted by: Ralph Northam at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (iys0/)

458
Nackt

Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (16wrz)

459 Nood ojoslocos.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (Hx3Yn)

460 9 .... $5000 says it's the first time the vast majority of the group had ever seen, much less touched, raw cotton, and instead of viewing it as a genuine educational opportunity with an unspoken but very clear and distinct line to the past, it's racism......

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Water Bottle Despot at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (xyung)
-----------------------------------
Late to the thread but, in case no one else has pointed this out, showing these kids raw cotton would NOT be educational in any "distinct-line-to-the-past" sense.

Virginia is not and never was a cotton state. You might as well hand out cotton in Ohio.

If you wanted to play the pretend-you're-a-slave game in VA, you should show people tobacco leaves. And of course, you should point out that whites grew and picked it too.

All you are doing otherwise is reinforcing the current cartoon-level narrative of slavery.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (Rxduq)

461 450 The movie scenes write themselves.

Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (BXMxN)

462 Nude! errr Nood

Posted by: Huck Follywood, who used to eat salsa at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (Z216Q)

463 If there is film footage of one or both of them saying that, Parliament needs to pass a law that ends the British monarchy, immediately, upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II. They're going full retard.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (pNxlR)

Queen Elizabeth: "I've almost outlived Charles, you know. Are you silly children trying to see if spite can make me immortal?"

Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (J+mig)

464 Maybe we need a sidebar repository of great restaurants for the travelers among us."

Oh yeah.

Hersey's in Burlington, NC.

Any of the outdoor BBQ places near Lexington and Spencer, NC...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (6qErC)

465 Maybe we need a sidebar repository of great restaurants for the travelers among us.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM

Good idea.
Here in Washington State I'd have to include a place in a small town called Enumclaw (see last night's ONT for conversation about town names in Washington State).
The place is called The Mint. Great food and pizza.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (0tfLf)

466 450 Autonomous cars would be an awful convenient way of killing occupants who are undesirable in one way or another.

And don't think they're not thinking about that.
Posted by: Hikaru at March 01, 2019 01:02 PM (UnA8+)

Watch the movie Upgrade on Netflix or wherever else you might find it.

Posted by: blaster at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (9VeU0)

467 447 But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (bcbK

Thing is, she didn't have to say anything to any body. She should have stayed in the kitchen, making sammiches.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (nPGq2)

Whoa, whoa, whoa....what kind of sammishes?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 01:04 PM (bcbK8)

468 >>447 But this ginned up controversy. So far as I can tell, she didn't single out the black kids. And even if she did, 'imagine being a slave' is just that: asking kids to use imagination. It's not saying 'you ought to be a slave' to them. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 12:07 PM (bcbK

"Handling cotton" is one of the entries on the list of Those Items Which Black People Must Not Touch.

It's a long list.

Posted by: Zod at March 01, 2019 01:04 PM (s6nXH)

469 handed raw cotton to her and another African American child and asked

them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.

---

Again,
$5000 says it's the first time the vast majority of the group had ever
seen, much less touched, raw cotton, and instead of viewing it as a
genuine educational opportunity with an unspoken but very clear and
distinct line to the past, it's racism.

F*ck 'em because Virginia blackface whatever, but still.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Water Bottle Despot at March 01, 2019 12:01 PM (xyung)

I wish the Northam's gone but this is a mostly stupid controversy. The kitchen that was used when the Governor's Mansion was built, which was also the slave quarters for the mansion, has become part of the mansion tour as an educational experience. They have agricultural products laid out as part of that. ALL the children, white and black, handled the cotton.

The part of this that is still stupid is Virginia did not grow a great deal of cotton at all... we are too far north... and even if we did, it is super unlikely that that picking cotton would have been part of the slaves' experience at the Governor's Mansion. If they had wanted an authentic educational experience for Virginia, they would have been handing around tobacco leaves. But cotton-picking is the stereotype for slaves so...

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at March 01, 2019 01:04 PM (F/KeJ)

470 Ahhhh...my Mother-in-Law taught me how to make apple pie. I'll put it up against anything.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 01:01 PM (0tfLf)

She's pieing wrong.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 01, 2019 01:05 PM (t6MX/)

471 What was that lady trying to say about the Glock? Is she trying to distinguish it from a sixshooter where one pulls the hammer back?

-
Although a Glock has safety devices, it doesn't have a traditional safety.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 01:05 PM (+y/Ru)

472 465 Maybe we need a sidebar repository of great restaurants for the travelers among us.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at March 01, 2019 01:00 PM

Good idea.
Here in Washington State I'd have to include a place in a small town called Enumclaw (see last night's ONT for conversation about town names in Washington State).
The place is called The Mint. Great food and pizza.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 01, 2019 01:03 PM (0tfLf)

*ponders road trip after range trip in Bellevue tomorrow*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 01:06 PM (bcbK8)

473 I have bought several sets of sheets from Red Land Cotton in Alabama. Great quality and the satisfaction that there are still people in America brave enough to grow cotton.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 01, 2019 01:06 PM (zavAN)

474 "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me"

Posted by: Ralph Northam at March 01, 2019 01:07 PM (FTlwv)

475 471 What was that lady trying to say about the Glock? Is she trying to distinguish it from a sixshooter where one pulls the hammer back?

-
Although a Glock has safety devices, it doesn't have a traditional safety.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 01, 2019 01:05 PM (+y/Ru)

She's saying she's stupid.

Every gun fires when you pull the trigger.

No modern gun fires unless you pull the trigger. The Glock has a trigger safety and two internal safeties.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 01, 2019 01:08 PM (bcbK8)

476 I think we've all learned a little something here...just not what they think.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 01, 2019 01:08 PM (AJj50)

477 in time I'd think they could fix most of the problems with driverless tech.... they should be able to stay in lanes in bad weather BETTER than humans, once all is fixed. Till then they should keep them off the road in bad weather.

Same with avoiding accidents, snow, other challenges ... computer could make near instant decisions, evaluate more parameters, more accurately than a human could. But that might be several versions away from where they are now. Hacking should be (relatively) easy to fix ... keep the driving software isolated from the inputs that could be hacked.

I got my step siblings to get my their dad to quit driving when he ran over some tub in my drive, telling them "what if that is some kid in a parking lot". He never had other issues, but there could be safety/utility in driverless cars, IF they get it right.

Johnny Cab might need a new personality though ... though blowing up those that don't pay might be useful.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 01, 2019 01:10 PM (Cus5s)

478
334 to call him/her Xer Majesty.

you know, it strikes me that the fact that everyone using "xer" instead of "xis" is some sort of -ist.

Posted by: Anachronda at March 01, 2019 01:15 PM (v3pYe)

479 Probably thought they would be praised for this. Radicalize the youth, make them mad about injustice perpetrated upon them by the Republicans, Democrat voter for life. Because everybody knows that the KKK was founded by Republicans.

Posted by: I like cookies at March 01, 2019 01:18 PM (xxAFD)

480 The propaganda media has tilted the battlefield 45 degrees to the left.
For us? It's up hill battles all the way.Hell they are pumping Michael fcuking Cohen as a great American hero.

A walking, talking lawyer joke is the great White dope of the democrats. Can he run with Princess Running Joke for Prez and VP?

Posted by: Blue Hen at March 01, 2019 01:22 PM (6rX0K)

481 So their insurance rates would be lower, not higher ... IF they can accomplish that.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 01, 2019 12:48 PM (Cus5s)

Tell that to the woman hobo that was run over by the self-driving Uber in Tempe. Oh wait, you can't. She's dead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 01, 2019 01:41 PM (nPGq2)

482 Northam should call a press conference, look the camera in the eye, and say, "I was what I was. Get over it."

Of course, if he did that, he wouldn't be a Dem.

Let's be honest here. He wouldn't be a Republican either.

Posted by: Polichinello at March 01, 2019 02:04 PM (0cVGW)

483 Democrat shows true self, apologizes when caught: http://tinyurl.com/y6m4gw3e

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 01, 2019 02:14 PM (ABuva)

484 #119 ir's gonna be 1972 all over again. Hunter Thompson will have to crawl out of his grave just to commit suicide twice.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 01, 2019 02:21 PM (ABuva)

485 This seems like a big nothing to me. A staple of teaching history to younger students is to entice them into imagining themselves in some different historical context. The goal, of course, is for the student to develop a greater appreciation of the experiences of others. I feel pretty sure this was Mrs. Northam's intention here.

And another thing: I grew up around cotton. I've picked cotton, and not just for fun. Cotton isn't racist. It's a fucking plant.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 01, 2019 02:27 PM (hjaPQ)

486 "Cotton isn't racist."

Tell that to all those natural conservatives that pinche Senator wants to keep out!

Posted by: Polichinello at March 01, 2019 02:55 PM (0cVGW)

487 Wait; she gave the cotton to the whole group? And this is wrong because...? Was she supposed to show the cotton yo everyone except the black children? I had been led to believe from the media reports that there was a group of kids and she only handed cotton to the tourists of color. Details matter, people!

I don't have to imagine what picking cotton is like. My mother grew up chopping and picking cotton, as you do when you live on a farm. She thinks it's important for everyone to know what that's like, so she also takes my kids out to the fields to see cotton growing and to handle cotton. I guess she can never be a governor's wife now!

Posted by: T.J. at March 01, 2019 04:34 PM (zLLOw)

488 My Mother was born in 1930, as a child she along with her seven brothers and sisters worked a cotton field near their home.She picked cotton all day at a young age recalling how the husks would cut her hands till they bled.She wasn't a slave and she wasn't Black and they were not the only family working cotton Right alongside Black Families doing the same.She was simply helping her large family of which she was the youngest make a living in the post reconstruction, depression era south.The President was Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) my how times have changed.

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