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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com | Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (3/12/19)Quote I "It was one thing when speakers who were too conservative were being harassed, but when professors who see themselves as good liberals are getting called in front of tribunals for something they said in class, that's not so much fun anymore." Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels Quote II Forgive me for repeating this story, but it’s a useful one: I have a relative who thinks of himself as a conservative. When I told him eleven years ago that I was coming to work for National Review, which I had been reading since I was a teenager, his response came in the form of this question: “Is that the one with that ol’ boy from New York who talks like a queer?” That’s what a pretty-well-representative septuagenarian Republican voter knew about William F. Buckley Jr. in 2008. That I would voluntarily move to New York City was, to him, incomprehensible: That place is nothing but cooties, including talk-like-a-queer cooties. There are conservatives, and there are conservatives. We’re the former, I think. Kevin D. Williamson Once again Williamson displays he has diarrhea of the keyboard. Quote III You’d imagine something called “Parents” would celebrate, well, normal parents. But no. Only odd “non-trad-dad” couplings or “non-couplings” seem to make the cover of Parents these days. Especially missing seems to be the fathers of the Caucasian persuasion. Nothing all that unusual about that these days. That’s pretty much how the soft machine pumps out that pink slime percolating in the pit at the politically correct cultural clambake.Gerard Van der Leun" Quote IV “Since I wasn’t getting married during the summer in the Hamptons, I wasn’t able to hire an airplane with a banner to go up and down the shoreline. I thought: ‘I own a building. Why don’t I just hang a banner from my own building?’”Harry Macklowe Ace wrote magnificently earlier today on the "Aunt Becky" situation. Of course "Aunt Becky" loves Hillary, cheaters and liars have to stick together, amirite? Quite the referral service you have there Mr. Rick Singer. I'm not really shocked. We haven't been a nation of laws for some time. If you are a leftist, rich or a crazy shithead of the progressive persuasion, laws don't apply. Its "funny" how the FBI could have such a deep and thorough investigation and the corrupt Obama administration (I'm looking at you Hillary, Huma & Cheryl Mills to name just a few) can skate away. Sorry I digressed. Life in an illegal massage parlor. When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was busted for allegedly getting a hand job in a Florida massage parlor, it put a national spotlight on the strip-mall spa where he was serviced. Orchids of Asia was one of an estimated 9,000 illicit massage parlors that anti-trafficking charity Polaris says account for a $2.5 billion industry in the United States. Florida police said the workers at the spas targeted in the six-month sting were trafficking victims, forced to live and eat in the same parlors where they worked, with armed men moving them between locations. Blonde, attractive and successful. It's no breeze being a blonde female founder of a blood-testing startup--even if your name isn't Elizabeth Holmes. Julia Cheek, the founder and chief executive of EverlyWell, is sick of the reference. "I think it's a representation of sexism in our space. There are 15 other companies that have popped up in blood testing and you don't hear anyone comparing Theranos to those male-founded startups," she said. What would have American life be like had J. Edgar Hoover become the MLB Commish and not the FBI Director all of his life? What if J. Edgar Hoover had become the baseball commissioner? NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is a King Size Dick. In other words, NYC public school kids, after suffering through eight miserable years of horrible inedible lunches thanks to Michelle Obama, will now begin, once again, throwing their vegan breakfasts and lunches in the garbage cans…on Mondays. Thanks for nothing, Mayor de Blasio. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced Monday that all New York City public schools will have “Meatless Mondays” beginning in the 2019-2020 school year…. I've known this for years. Visually challenged individuals are being ripped off. Charles Dahan knows from firsthand experience how badly people get ripped off when buying eyeglasses. He was once one of the leading suppliers of frames to LensCrafters, before the company was purchased by optical behemoth Luxottica. He also built machines that improved the lens-manufacturing process. The beat has stopped. RIP Hal Blaine. A tribute to Hal Blaine On this day, 12 Mar 2013 Born on this day 12 Mar 1949 Happy Birthday Internet TODAY, 30 YEARS on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go. The web has become a public square, a library, a doctor’s office, a shop, a school, a design studio, an office, a cinema, a bank, and so much more. Of course with every new feature, every new website, the divide between those who are online and those who are not increases, making it all the more imperative to make the web available for everyone. A woman was arrested after stealing an SUV from an Ace Rent-a-Car. WJXT reports that Gardina McCullough, 23 appeared in court Friday morning on car theft charges, with a bond set at $15,003. McCullough was arrested after stealing a Toyota RAV4 from an Ace Rent-A-Car. She was found less than a mile away, hiding at a hotel. On the scene, McCullough told a local news station, "Demons told me to do it...I didn't take it, demons took it." Issac is a pretty good guy and Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. A mother of a 9-year-old girl with special needs is feeling grateful after a cashier at a local supermarket went above and beyond to make her daughter's day. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Pertinent Questions. Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC. Tax-Refund Sale is right around the corner. Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 09:55 PM (SqKDB) 2
ONT!
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 09:55 PM (ffYR/) 3
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 09:56 PM (SqKDB) 4
Good Evening
Posted by: wing at March 12, 2019 09:56 PM (JFzNN) 5
Thirſt!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 12, 2019 09:57 PM (CLcKT) 6
Del Hall works at Fifty West Brewing Company in Cincinnati. He says he will only be drinking beer until Easter Sunday, and he's also giving up all food. "I am nervous, I'm very nervous about it. I've only fasted for 4 days." So for 46 days, Hall says he will have an assortment of beer for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Hall says he is following the lead of monks in the 1600s, who would fast during the season by a bock beer diet. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 09:57 PM (aKsyK) 7
First!
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 12, 2019 09:57 PM (wlx0a) 8
Top ten?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 09:57 PM (pUDQf) 9
The ONT is up at last!
Everything else is in the past! What will unfold tonight herein? Nobody knows. Behold! Begin! (As I write this, I see comments two. Top ten perhaps? Who cares? I do! Posted by: mindful webworker - coupplettes at March 12, 2019 09:57 PM (jMD9L) 10
3 If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 09:56 PM (SqKDB) Careful, Pride goeth before a fall Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 09:58 PM (aA3+G) 11
ONT Sponge
Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 12, 2019 09:58 PM (C1NyB) 12
Whoever said they have a problem with pizza and pasta needs put in the rack.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 09:58 PM (pUDQf) 13
That last pic, the ultimate melt down.
Posted by: tbodie at March 12, 2019 09:58 PM (V+bdf) 14
Spongioform encephalopathy
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2019 09:59 PM (Z4rgH) Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 09:59 PM (SqKDB) 16
it's the double-terlit ONT!
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 09:59 PM (ykYG2) 17
'evening, all. *tips hat* MisHum.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 12, 2019 10:00 PM (t+qrx) 18
That's a mighty rustic pic up top. I'd kinda like to be there.
Posted by: mindful webworker - salutes! at March 12, 2019 10:00 PM (jMD9L) 19
Careful,
Pride goeth before a fall Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 09:58 PM (aA3+G) Yes, dear. Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:00 PM (SqKDB) 20
15 Is that your man cave in the top pic, MisHum?
really cool. Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 09:59 PM (SqKDB I wish. Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:00 PM (aA3+G) 21
Question. You dropped your iPhone X in a Porta Potti.
You can see it just below the surface, hovering beer a turd and other assorted stuff. Would you put MikeyG in the rack for dissing pizza? Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:01 PM (pUDQf) Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:01 PM (IyMrw) 23
time to go start dinner prep...
back a couple 100 comments from now. (not that anyone cares, of course.) Posted by: redc1c4 at March 12, 2019 10:02 PM (wlx0a) 24
22 Evening, horde.
Shouldn't that gross cake say YOU'RE 30? Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:01 PM (IyMr Grammar Nazi. Maybe it was Your 30 Turds. Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:02 PM (pUDQf) 25
WHY ISN'T MY DAUGHTER LIKE 50 POINTS AHEAD IN THE SATS?
Posted by: Aunt Becky at March 12, 2019 10:02 PM (cRkMZ) 26
You can see it just below the surface, hovering beer a turd and other assorted stuff. What kind of beer? Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (LL1Be) 27
Interesting top photo, what do you suppose is the story behind the framed card hand on the wall?
Posted by: Billy Goat Gruff at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (0x00j) 28
Why this attack on libertarian capitalism at work? A capitalist found a need, rich parents needing to get their kids into prestigious colleges, and filled that need. its called creativity which capitalism rewards! If your against the wealthy being able to spend there money any way they please go move to venezuela.
Posted by: raimondo at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (YnZpl) Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (LHT0w) 30
The irony is that the same people who warn us that the whole point of terrorism was to get America to overreact, thereby radicalizing erstwhile moderates, are essentially making the same mistake in domestic politics. Trump has the first mover advantage. Their entire brand is premised on (over)reacting to him.
Trump couldn't have scripted this any better if he tried. Posted by: Ariana Grande at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (e8kgV) 31
Evening Horde!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (Y4EXg) 32
West Side Story Game tied!!!
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:04 PM (XAYDB) 33
Posted by: raimondo at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (YnZpl)
How about bounty hunters nailing wetbacks? Cool by you? Also, what are your coordinates? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 12, 2019 10:04 PM (Tc1vu) 34
Should have looked closer, it's a Royal flush.
Posted by: Billy Goat Gruff at March 12, 2019 10:04 PM (0x00j) Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:05 PM (IyMrw) 36
Trigger warning: Through sheer will and superhuman strength, I simultaneously like Aceofspades and National Review. There, I said it.
Posted by: Dear Bongo, No. at March 12, 2019 10:05 PM (LoS2z) Posted by: Dr. T at March 12, 2019 10:05 PM (2PXwn) 38
That last pic....Taco bell or Chipotle?
Posted by: A dude in MI at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (SxBH1) Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (SqKDB) 40
Taco Tuesday port o john
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (rOXDf) 41
michael moores private port o shitter.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (KP5rU) 42
38 That last pic....Taco bell or Chipotle?
Posted by: A dude in MI at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (SxBH1 Indian food. Dot, not feather. Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (pUDQf) 43
It burns when I poop! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (pNxlR) 44
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Interesting top photo, what do you suppose is the story behind the framed card hand on the wall? Posted by: Billy Goat Gruff Royal flush. It'd be nice to think those were the exact cards that won him the cabin. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (PDMtc) 45
endure harsh labor conditions because it is one of the few jobs available to a recent immigrant.
*** So let me get this straight...the only job available for illegals is giving handies in a massage parlor...but it is absolutely necessary for our national security to bring in as many illegals as we can so they can do the jobs Americans won't do. Is Bob Kraft setting our immigration policies? Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (cRkMZ) Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (LHT0w) 47
In the college corruption story Ace linked, they refer to Lori Laughlin as "Aunt Becky". I figured that one out with Google: she was on a show called Full House and she played a character named Aunt Becky.
But the story also contained the comment "all time smoke". What does that mean? I Googled it and got a bunch of links about where I could buy smoking products. Urban Dictionary failed me also. Here's the full sentence: "In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters." Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) 48
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Rogers Hornsby and I are waiting for Spring. It's just around the corner. Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (SqKDB) I sure hope so. Snowing again here tonight. *sigh* Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (IyMrw) Posted by: ibguy at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (EHVbt) 50
"As I've previously observed, online glasses sales hold potential for pushing retail eyewear prices lower, but the e-glasses industry still has a ways to go before posing a threat to the likes of EssilorLuxottica."
$25 single-focus glasses work just fine for me. They're not quite disposable, but if I break them or scratch them, I'm not going to cry about it. Posted by: hogmartin at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (t+qrx) 51
Once again Williamson displays he has diarrhea of the keyboard.
At some point his contempt for others not up to his standards is just an exposition of his own self hatred. It's projection all the way down. Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (Hk+Y0) 52
No no no. You're. You're!
You ARE Thirty! Geez. Posted by: rickb223 ---- I long for the days when every job posting listed as one of the requirements: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required for this position. Le sigh. Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (Y4EXg) 53
32 West Side Story Game tied!!! Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:04 PM (XAYDB) But the dance numbers have been fabulous, yes? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (pNxlR) 54
The irony is that the same people who warn us that the whole point of terrorism was to get America to overreact
*** The funny thing with that argument is America spent the 90s ignoring the rising threat of militant Islam - and the continuing radicalization of the Islamic world. So...seems kind of bullshit. Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:09 PM (cRkMZ) 55
But the story also contained the comment "all time smoke". What does that mean? I Googled it and got a bunch of links about where I could buy smoking products. Urban Dictionary failed me also.
Here's the full sentence: "In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters." Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) I have some ideas. However, my mother really likes Lori Loughlin from her stuff on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, so I won't ruin it by sharing them. Posted by: Dr. T at March 12, 2019 10:09 PM (2PXwn) 56
Lori Loughlin was amazing in RAD.
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Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (Y4EXg)
What I really hate is seeing these kinds of mistakes in our local paper. You can't even expect newspapers to use proper grammar anymore. Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (IyMrw) 58
Rogers Hornsby and I are waiting for Spring.
It's just around the corner. Posted by: ALH I sure hope so. Snowing again here tonight. *sigh* Posted by: Jordan61 Feel for you. I've already had the ac on twice last week. Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (LHT0w) 59
Julia Cheek, the founder and chief executive of EverlyWell, is sick of
the reference. "I think it's a representation of sexism in our space. *** Would not hit her company with a 10 foot pole. Ms Cheek on the other hand? Well... Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (cRkMZ) 60
What are the Olsen Twins up to these days?
Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (SqKDB) Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (Cn2yJ) 62
That last pic....Taco bell or Chipotle?
Posted by: A dude in MI at March 12, 2019 10:06 PM (SxBH1) I'm going with, dropped a lot cigarette in the shutter and it landed on dry toilet paper. Posted by: Vanya at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (L1PmV) 63
The horror! The horror! I spent ninety minutes earlier this evening enrolling in Medicare supplemental insurance plans. Now I know why animals will gnaw off their paws to get out of a trap. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (pNxlR) 64
I long for the days when every job posting listed as one of the requirements: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required for this position.
Le sigh. Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (Y4EXg) I got an email from one of those resume-trawlers today with this bullet point: - Someone who can pay attention to detailed Sure thing, champ. Posted by: hogmartin at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (t+qrx) 65
Ace wrote magnificently earlier today on the "Aunt Becky" situation. Of course "Aunt Becky" loves Hillary, cheaters and liars have to stick together, amirite? Being a cheater isn't enough. They gotta teach their kids to cheat to get what they want. There isn't a chance in hell that Chelsea will be anything but corrupt. Aunt Becky's daughter is going to go through life that it isn't fair that those smart Asian kids are making it harder for rich, white kids to get into the best schools. Posted by: nerdygirl at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (+lVUW) 66
Feel for you. I've already had the ac on twice last week.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM (LHT0w) I run the heater in the morning on the way to work and the a/c on the way home. Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (SqKDB) 67
RE - The recent massage parlor bust in Florida -
Reason has an article that suggests that the "trafficking" angle to the story is largely the invention of government officials (including law enforcement), and there's no real evidence of it. In particular, the article notes that the government is apparently having trouble getting the trafficking "victims" to cooperate with authorities. https://tinyurl.com/y6cp346p In short, yes, there was apparently some prostitution taking place. The cops apparently did see surveillance video of Robert Kraft getting a blowjob, among other things. But actual evidence of sex trafficking is apparently rather sparse, and may likely just be hype by the local law enforcement to make the case seem more important than it really is. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (Fp6vo) Posted by: mindful webworker - dark jack webb at March 12, 2019 10:12 PM (jMD9L) 69
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32 West Side Story Game tied!!! Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:04 PM (XAYDB) But the dance numbers have been fabulous, yes? Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (pNxlR) --Well, 3-3 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:12 PM (XAYDB) 70
There is no competition in the industry, not anymore, he told me. Luxottica bought everyone. They set whatever prices they please.
--- That sounds terrible! Good thing it could never happen with the tech industry because of all those anti-trust laws we have. Posted by: Google at March 12, 2019 10:12 PM (cRkMZ) 71
47 But the story also contained the comment "all time smoke". What does that mean? I Googled it and got a bunch of links about where I could buy smoking products. Urban Dictionary failed me also.
Here's the full sentence: "In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters." Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) Probably short for "smokeshow," which means "hot chick." Posted by: Splunge at March 12, 2019 10:12 PM (ed8K1) 72
Shit, Sharks up 4-3 on Jets
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (XAYDB) 73
What are the Olsen Twins up to these days? Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM half a kilo per day? Posted by: AltonJackson at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (cBwdQ) 74
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It burns when I poop! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (pNxlR) At least you're not asking, "Why does it hurt when I pee?" Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (aA3+G) 75
I long for the days when every job posting listed as one of the requirements: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required for this position.
Le sigh. Posted by: Tonypete I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I did have some very excellent elementary school teachers that taught the difference between your, you're, their, there , to, too & two. Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (LHT0w) 76
But the story also contained the comment "all time smoke". What does that mean? I Googled it and got a bunch of links about where I could buy smoking products. Urban Dictionary failed me also. Here's the full sentence: "In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters." Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) An ironic hipster douchebag variation on the ironic hipster term "smoke show" which in grownup means "extremely attractive woman". Also, smoke shows tend towards a lot of sweater mischief. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (mNlmu) Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 10:13 PM (Hk+Y0) 78
When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was busted for allegedly getting a hand job in a Florida massage parlor, i
___ Look, she was just deflating my balls. Posted by: Bob Kraft at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (cRkMZ) 79
But the story also contained the comment "all time smoke". What does that mean? I Googled it and got a bunch of links about where I could buy smoking products. Urban Dictionary failed me also.
Here's the full sentence: "In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters." Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) Probably short for "smokeshow," which means "hot chick." Posted by: Splunge Which is a riff on "smoking hot chick". Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (LHT0w) 80
With the ghostgunner mills and the new 3D printing, I was musing on a new way to make lenses. There is this newish process that sinters optical grade spinel, MgAl2O4, which is being researched for armor. I would love to be the guy who developed that as a lens for public use.
Stronger than polycarbonate, clearer than glass, and diamond tough. Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (mUa7G) 81
Molly worked hard at her craft,
pulling the geriatric pud of Robert Kraft. But then she was busted, left sad and disgusted, he got off and she got the shaft. Posted by: Billy Goat Gruff at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (0x00j) 82
ONT greetings, Horde!
As to the sentiment of the Feebs expending all of that spare energy and righteous Law Enforcement Zeal against the Scholarly Scams... All while Hillary and her cabal yet walk free. Department of Justice? Nah. Department of "Just Us." For them, and not "us". The only consolation in this? This is how they'll get Moar Trump. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (QzJWU) 83
There are conservatives, and there are conservatives, We're the former, I think. Kevin D. Williamson
------------ "Once again Williamson displays he has diarrhea of the keyboard." ----------------- Sounds like he's coming out. Posted by: Braenyard en tanto delicto at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (ePWRo) 84
Holy shit. Rich kids! Privileged kids!
Rich! Privileged! Kids! Yet millions get into colleges based on skin tone, national origin and genitalia. My fucks given just generated a divide by zero error. Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (LL1Be) 85
Melania -- body double?
KDW -- double body Also, he talks like a faggot and his shit's all retarded, but plentiful. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2019 10:15 PM (Z4rgH) 86
all time smoke in my opinion I'd hazard a guess the person was referring to her being on his "greatest smoking hot women of all time" list. Eh. Opinions are like assholes - everybody has 'em. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:15 PM (pNxlR) 87
Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (Fp6vo)
I am 50/50 on whether I believe they were trafficked, but most victims of trafficking are not going to cooperate with authorities, since the people who traffic them often threaten them with harming their families back in their country of origin. Plus, the shame factor. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:15 PM (qll3d) Posted by: mindful webworker - you want sexty nyne - you get sex sexty sex at March 12, 2019 10:16 PM (jMD9L) 89
@60 What are the Olsen Twins up to these days?
------------------- Wishing that they were as successful as their younger sister, Elizabeth? Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:16 PM (Fp6vo) 90
My fucks given just generated a divide by zero error. Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:14 PM (LL1Be) Nice! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:16 PM (pNxlR) 91
49 Nice job, MisHum!
That story about Lily at the grocery is wonderful - Thank you for sharing it Posted by: ibguy at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (EHVbt) Enough of the gratitude send me a fucking burner phone so I can get banned again Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at March 12, 2019 10:16 PM (aA3+G) 92
So my AO (NoCo) is preparing for some kind of OMG snowpocalypse. The schools preemptively cancelled classes tomorrow. the TV "news" is all about the weather.
I predict some rain, maybe some wet snow, a lot of wind, and it'll be the folks east of us who will get the real blizzard. Bunch of wusses out where I live. Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 12, 2019 10:17 PM (jo0+f) Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:17 PM (SqKDB) 94
No no no. You're. You're!
You ARE Thirty! Geez. Posted by: rickb223 at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (LHT0w) Your welcome. Posted by: Kindltot - finding a little Michael Malice at March 12, 2019 10:17 PM (mUa7G) 95
(from the last thread, cont. on women traveling alone) my father told the story of growing up in the 30's and 2 lady school teachers who lived together down the street from his house. everyone knew they were "sisters under the skin" but no one said or did anything. back then, there actually wasn't a wide spread violent anti-homosexualityism. anyways, he said one summer these 2 women bought motorcycles and rode across north africa, from morocco to egypt,. i was very impressed by their courage, but you know what, i doubt there was any real risk at that time of them being raped or attacked. i wouldn't advise it now.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 12, 2019 10:18 PM (Pg+x7) 96
What are the Olsen Twins up to these days?
Posted by: ALH Making billions in fashion and fragrance. And chain smoking. The one that married Sarkozy's brother apparently had huge bowls full of cigarettes on their reception tables. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (qll3d) 97
Thanks for the ONT, MisHum!
He would have replaced Happy Chandler,..., took a tough stand against players who became free agents" I don't think there were free agents in baseball in the '50's since the Reserve Clause wasn't overturned by SCOTUS until the '70's. Once that happened, baseball salaries started going up. I remember a priest (who was sort of a SJW type) going on during his sermon about how it was immoral for Pete Rose to make a million for playing baseball. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (d6Ksn) 98
We're supposed to care, or be impressed, with this stupid college admissions bust? Why? Who was injured? Body count here? Constitution shredded? Did the people get what they paid for?
Meh. Boring. I heard the MA US atty talking, so if he was the big honcho here, I'd rather hear him explain how the stuff with the int'l drug cartels thriving in "sanctuary" jurisdictions in MA and nearby is going. You know, something important. Oh. Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (QDnY+) 99
@87 I am 50/50 on whether I believe they were trafficked, but most victims of trafficking are not going to cooperate with authorities, since the people who traffic them often threaten them with harming their families back in their country of origin. Plus, the shame factor.
------------------- Among other things, the article that I linked notes that authorities haven't leveled any trafficking charges against the people involved with the parlor. There are various charges relating to prostitution. But nothing relating to trafficking. I would think that the authorities would at least try to get something to stick if they thought that there was something there. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (Fp6vo) 100
In the effort to describe himself as Above All That, Kevin displays his fear that all people who are at risk of thinking that elitist fartsniffers might have cooties... have cooties.
The mind reels. Are we sure he wasn't BSG? Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:20 PM (lBjZi) 101
Off Zappa sock
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:20 PM (aA3+G) 102
Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:16 PM (Fp6vo)
I sincerely doubt they are in the least bit jealous of their sister; in fact, they named one of their fashion lines after her, and their brother James. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:20 PM (qll3d) 103
I don't know if anyone has done it yet but someone with the ability should photoshop the cast of the View's faces with appropriate substitutes and title it The View's Body Doubles.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 10:20 PM (2DOZq) 104
On the plus side the current MA US Attorney isn't either doing favors for Whitey Bulger OR having him assassinated to make sure he doesn't start talking. So...that's something. Oh, Hi there Mr Mueller! Would a wonderful MA US Attorney you were! Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (cRkMZ) Posted by: weft cut-l00p at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Hk+Y0) 106
In the effort to describe himself as Above All That, Kevin displays his
fear that all people who are at risk of thinking that elitist fartsniffers might have cooties... have cooties. KDW's peer group is shrinking like a salted slug. Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (LL1Be) 107
98 We're supposed to care, or be impressed, with this stupid college admissions bust? Why? Who was injured? Body count here? Constitution shredded? Did the people get what they paid for?
Meh. Boring. I heard the MA US atty talking, so if he was the big honcho here, I'd rather hear him explain how the stuff with the int'l drug cartels thriving in "sanctuary" jurisdictions in MA and nearby is going. You know, something important. Oh. Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (QDnY+) --It sucks because since Reagan has mo president has not attended an Ivy League college. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (XAYDB) 108
All Time Smoke... https://tinyurl.com/qym9qwt
Posted by: davidt at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Pp8LH) 109
Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (Fp6vo)
Agree, but they do have to have some cooperation from the alleged traffickees. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:22 PM (qll3d) 110
. . . .i was very impressed by their courage, but you know
what, i doubt there was any real risk at that time of them being raped or attacked. i wouldn't advise it now. Posted by: musical jolly chimp ----- Hell, I'm so old, I remember when hitchhiking was common. We never gave it a thought as dangerous. Clearly, times have changed. Posted by: Tonypete at March 12, 2019 10:22 PM (Y4EXg) 111
I thought that was normal for portajohns?
Posted by: Eromero at March 12, 2019 10:22 PM (zLDYs) 112
getting a steady rain here. snow is going down.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (KP5rU) 113
Jets-Sharks tied at 4
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (XAYDB) 114
Ooooh, our traitorous "betters" in the "conservative" commentariat look down their noses at us proles. Learn to code, mofos! Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (pNxlR) 115
In other news, the first Hello Kitty-themed dental office in Southern California apparently just opened in Temple City...
(Temple City is on the east side of LA County, and there's a fairly sizable Asian population in that area) Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (Fp6vo) 116
112 getting a steady rain here. snow is going down.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (KP5rU) Like Hillary exiting a suburban Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (aA3+G) 117
So Rep. Swallwell wants a bill to make it illegal to cause bodily injury to a journalist.
Wait, was it previously legal, and I missed it? Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (w7KSn) 118
115 In other news, the first Hello Kitty-themed dental office in Southern California apparently just opened in Temple City...
(Temple City is on the east side of LA County, and there's a fairly sizable Asian population in that area) Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:23 PM (Fp6vo Wouldn't that be Rello Ritty? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (aA3+G) 119
In other news from our friends across the pond...
British moms team up to make porn they'd be happy for their children to watch https://tinyurl.com/yxzlb28l Parody and satire are no longer possible in Europe I'm afraid. Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (cRkMZ) 120
87 Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:11 PM (Fp6vo)
I am 50/50 on whether I believe they were trafficked, but most victims of trafficking are not going to cooperate with authorities, since the people who traffic them often threaten them with harming their families back in their country of origin. Plus, the shame factor. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:15 PM (qll3d) I saw a horrible 20/20 segment about a 15 year old runaway in Florida who ended up in the clutches of a sex traffic. He beat and raped her, kept her locked in a scummy motel room tied to a bed with no clothes on, bought 4-5 men in at a time to rape her, and fed her drugs so she'd be addled and confused all the time. And he told her he'd kill her and her parents if she got away or told police. She did eventually manage to run away - ran down the street naked - and she reported him. What he did to her was so horrific that the judge sentenced him to life. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (d6Ksn) 121
Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:19 PM (Fp6vo)
What law authority allows sex slaves to continue sex slaving so they can film them and their johns over a number of days? Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (2DOZq) 122
>>> 92 So my AO (NoCo) is preparing for some kind of OMG snowpocalypse. The schools preemptively cancelled classes tomorrow. the TV "news" is all about the weather.
I predict some rain, maybe some wet snow, a lot of wind, and it'll be the folks east of us who will get the real blizzard. Bunch of wusses out where I live. Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 12, 2019 10:17 PM (jo0+f) Yeah, did the entire frkn Front Range shut down?! Denver and Longmont have joined in the hysteria too... Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (0ReGO) 123
I'm disappointed I missed the Iditarod thread, i "watch" the great race every year.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (Rz2Nc) 124
@118
Wouldn't that be Rello Ritty? ---------------------- That sounds more like the name of a female performer who uses lots of jello in her act. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (Fp6vo) 125
All Time Smoke... https://tinyurl.com/qym9qwt
Posted by: davidt at March 12, 2019 10:21 PM (Pp8LH) Nice. Posted by: DR.WTF at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (aS1PU) 126
9-year-old girl with special needs ... at a local supermarket
Only reason it didn't get more dusty in here is the smiling at her skill, technique, enthusiasm, and how much this checker's small gesture means. == Thanks for the ONT and all of 'em, MisHum. Slagged porta-potty: Taco Bell issues disclaimer. Chipolte denies any involvement. Posted by: mindful webworker - I WANT MY HOUR BACK!! NOW!! at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (jMD9L) 127
116; exactly. and just as sloppy.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (KP5rU) 128
Ivy League degree is ticket to fuckery.
Jamie Gorelick fucked the dog multiple times, and look how many passes she got. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (XAYDB) 129
Somebody used to have a Hello Kitty AR-15. Seemed appropriate.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 12, 2019 10:25 PM (QDnY+) 130
117 So Rep. Swallwell wants a bill to make it illegal to cause bodily injury to a journalist.
Wait, was it previously legal, and I missed it? Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (w7KSn) People were talking about punchable faces earlier. That idiot has the most punchable face on the planet. He looks like a Ken doll. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:26 PM (d6Ksn) 131
Also from Russia Today
Troops and tutus: Russian soldiers and ballerinas pose for surreal Womens Day shoot https://tinyurl.com/yxdpsdbn I do have to say the Russians might be on to something here - feminine women and masculine men. I mean it sounds crazy but it just might work... Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (cRkMZ) 132
97
Thanks for the ONT, MisHum! He would have replaced Happy Chandler,..., took a tough stand against players who became free agents" I don't think there were free agents in baseball in the '50's since the Reserve Clause wasn't overturned by SCOTUS until the '70's. Once that happened, baseball salaries started going up. I remember a priest (who was sort of a SJW type) going on during his sermon about how it was immoral for Pete Rose to make a million for playing baseball. Posted by: DonnaV. Everything you said is right, but ... what he was talking about was the Mexican League. It's actually an interesting story. In the late '40's this ultra-rich Mexican guy started his own major league, and he went hard after big leaguers. Ted Williams met with guy - he talks about it in his autobiography - and said this guy offered him something like three times the money he was making. Williams said it was a lot of money, but something about the whole deal just felt off. He did sign some big names - Sal Maglie, for one. Mickey Owen? A few others, and after the league folded after a couple of years, these guys had stories about grocery bags full of cash, guns, and a lot of other hair-raising stuff about getting out of Mexico. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (PDMtc) Posted by: Ersatz at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (zuVZw) 134
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in an 11-6 decision, has overturned a lower court ruling and will allow an Ohio law to withhold funding to Planned Parenthood to be enacted.
Next stop SC I'm guessing. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (Z4rgH) 135
I think a group of liberals should be called a "constipation."
America is currently suffering from a constipation of liberals. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (l9m7l) 136
Posted by: DonnaV. at March 12, 2019 10:24 PM (d6Ksn)
Yep. Absolutely horrifying what goes on. They love to give them heroin, in particular, because it's so addictive. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:28 PM (qll3d) 137
The Ewok runs a car rental business? I'm confused and impressed.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at March 12, 2019 10:28 PM (I0GW5) Posted by: John Roberts at March 12, 2019 10:28 PM (cRkMZ) 139
And one of Swallwell's supporters at a rally locally in fact did punch someone.
Wasn't that long ago. Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:28 PM (w7KSn) Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:29 PM (XAYDB) 141
Wait, was it previously legal, and I missed it?
Seems like we get left out of things. I tells ya. Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:29 PM (lBjZi) 142
Chris ibn Bill on growing up Buckley -
nytimes.com/2009/04/26/magazine/26buckley-t.html Chris as we all know jumped ship entirely and endorsed the dog eater 2008. Bill Buckley had his uses in rallying the country against the USSR during the Cold War. But his heart was coastal and he didn't have an answer to Rust Belt concerns about their livelihoods - their "jerrrrbs" as has been oft-mocked by coastal types. Agreed that Kevin Landwaster hates his own origins in that general setting. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 10:30 PM (ykYG2) Posted by: French Dogs du Sleigh at March 12, 2019 10:30 PM (f6lTY) 144
I think a group of liberals should be called a "constipation."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm ________ I like this! Posted by: FireHorse at March 12, 2019 10:31 PM (furmq) 145
Just a hit-and-run tonight to say "Hi!" I can barely keep my eyes open, and I have to get up at the crack of pre-dawn for dialysis. TTFN
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at March 12, 2019 10:31 PM (ebZss) 146
What are the Olsen Twins up to these days? Posted by: ALH at March 12, 2019 10:10 PM My is guess is about 12st between the two of them... My God, Jim, they still look positively ghastly! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 12, 2019 10:31 PM (CLcKT) 147
TOOT TOOT!
Posted by: Little Engine That Could at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (7A4qQ) 148
Troops and tutus: Russian soldiers and ballerinas pose for surreal Womens Day shoot
https://tinyurl.com/yxdpsdbn There is actually quite a message in those pictures. Posted by: t-bird at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (oTMWb) 149
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at March 12, 2019 10:31 PM (ebZss)
Take care of yourself, ma'am. Keep up the good fight! Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (qll3d) 150
@134 The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, in an 11-6 decision, has overturned a lower court ruling and will allow an Ohio law to withhold funding to Planned Parenthood to be enacted.
-------------------- It ticks me off that any organization could successfully argue that it has a right to funding that trumps the government's right to cut off that funding. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (Fp6vo) 151
redc1c4 #23:
(not that anyone cares, of course.) THAT'S RIGHT! Nobody cares. Not here. NOt anyWHERE. NOBODY EVER CARED. MOM never loved us. NOBODY is even HERE. These are all CGI NPC LMDs designed to make us think we're real. * takes slug of drink * Okay, sorry. Momentary paranoia attack. I'm okay now. Posted by: mindful webworker - matrixized for your projection at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (jMD9L) 152
More Smoke... https://tinyurl.com/y3l6kl28
Posted by: davidt at March 12, 2019 10:33 PM (Pp8LH) 153
Fuckin' Sharks
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:33 PM (XAYDB) 154
If the Olsen twins had bad teeth they'd look like crackheads. Rich crackheads, but crackheads nonetheless.
Posted by: Eromero at March 12, 2019 10:34 PM (zLDYs) 155
"Hell, I'm so old, I remember when hitchhiking was common. We never gave it a thought as dangerous. "
It got dangerous in the '70's. Two girls I knew went to Florida on spring break and were picked up by a rapist. One of the girls jumped out of his car as it was getting on the expressway and was hospitalized with broken bones and a concussion. The other girl did not jump out of the car, and was raped. The rapist kept telling her "your friend is dead" as he raped her. Then he dropped her off on the shoulder of some road. I guess she was lucky he was "just" a rapist and not a serial killer. They thought he looked sketchy when he stopped, but didn't want to appear "racist" so they got in. Screw that. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:34 PM (d6Ksn) 156
133 C'MON!
I like the way WFB talked. It's how you knew he was better than everybody else! Posted by: Ersatz at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (zuVZw) Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll nail you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered! Posted by: Zombie WFB, Jr. at March 12, 2019 10:34 PM (0x00j) 157
140 Ugh, Jets-Sharks into OT at 4
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:29 PM And Sharks win it. I'm more concerned about the ARI-STL and DAL-BUF games. Needed ARI and DAL to lose to help Blackhawks. So much for that... Posted by: Little Engine That Could at March 12, 2019 10:36 PM (7A4qQ) 158
@154 If the Olsen twins had bad teeth they'd look like crackheads. Rich crackheads, but crackheads nonetheless.
---------------------- They might very well be. Heath Ledger was found dead in the apartment of one of them. Drug overdose, iirc. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:36 PM (Fp6vo) 159
None of the college cheats will see a day in jail. Neither will Jussie. Neither will any Democrat involved in the coup. John Edwards was right, we have two Americas. One America is where if I'm a day late paying my taxes the IRS asses penalties. The other is where Aunt Becky does her thang and the IRS shrugs.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:36 PM (eZuvF) 160
So, let me tell you why "Genetic IQ Testing" is bullshit.
I'm part black. I tested at 157. I can't do math. I can't land a good job. Posted by: Hikaru at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (pgXNG) 161
A dude in MI #38:
That last pic....Taco bell or Chipotle? Me #126: Taco Bell issues disclaimer. Chipolte denies any involvement. Beat by a dude in MI. Of all the things! Shows great Moron Horde mind unity that we both chose those two, though, and in the same order, right? (does sidewise slide) Posted by: a mindful webworker dude in OK at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (jMD9L) 162
Didn't Ted Bundy pick up hitchhikers in the 70s?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (pUDQf) 163
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:27 PM (PDMtc)
I didn't know that! Thanks, that's interesting! Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (d6Ksn) Posted by: t-bird at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (x/2Z8) 165
153 Fuckin' Sharks
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:33 PM Sharks-Flames and Jets-Predators battles for their divisions should go down to the wire. Same in the East with WSH-NYI-PIT. Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (7A4qQ) 166
OT, but tomorrow is Wednesday -
That's the day 'Ette moms join in praying for all the AoSHQ kids. ( actually anyone in the Horde can join in and pray for the Horde children, just add them to your prayer practice and intentions on Wednesdays) Posted by: RondinellaMamma at March 12, 2019 10:38 PM (9Ni3Z) 167
I think a group of liberals should be called a "constipation."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm Until they open their mouths. Then it's a "Diarrhea of Liberals". Or, conversely, a "Shitstorm of Statists". Respectfully, Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 12, 2019 10:38 PM (QzJWU) 168
162
Didn't Ted Bundy pick up hitchhikers in the 70s? Posted by: AlaBAMA Yeah, in his "customized" VW. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:39 PM (PDMtc) 169
157 140 Ugh, Jets-Sharks into OT at 4
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:29 PM And Sharks win it. I'm more concerned about the ARI-STL and DAL-BUF games. Needed ARI and DAL to lose to help Blackhawks. So much for that... Posted by: Little Engine That Could at March 12, 2019 10:36 PM (7A4qQ) --Jets-Preds is gonna be a dogfight to the end. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:39 PM (XAYDB) 170
re: Parents Magazine
90% of luxury car ads show a non-white male driver. Usually Hispanic or Black. In reality 90% of luxury cars (that are not Escalades) are owned by Asian and white people. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:39 PM (eZuvF) 171
162 Didn't Ted Bundy pick up hitchhikers in the 70s?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (pUDQf) Yep. The 70's were really the golden age of serial killers, weren't they? No DNA testing, no database tracking killers who crossed state lines. Also - no cameras in public areas and no cell phones... Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:40 PM (d6Ksn) 172
Good to hear about that 6th Circuit decision. 11-6 is quite a bitch slap to the lower courts too.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:40 PM (eZuvF) 173
That Yekaterineburg subway station is pretty flashy. Never been to the former Sverdlovsk. Looks like a Japanese tax-free store.
The "tank ballet" was pretty good. Russkis are odd birds. But note the public and official prominence of what would be called "traditional values" elsewhere. Posted by: Cartel thugs swaggering around Lawrence, MA at March 12, 2019 10:41 PM (QDnY+) 174
Sharks and Jets.
Maria: [singing] Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight, I saw you and the world went away. Tonight, tonight, there's only you tonight, what you are, what you do, what you say. Tony: Today, all day I had the feeling a miracle would happen, I know now I was right. Oh my. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 10:41 PM (ykYG2) Posted by: The Last Dog at March 12, 2019 10:41 PM (yQpMk) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:41 PM (aA3+G) 177
Weirdly coincidental but they just used DNA to prove that Bundy did kill a woman in Utah. After all these years.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:41 PM (pUDQf) 178
Yep. The 70's were really the golden age of serial killers, weren't they? No DNA testing, no database tracking killers who crossed state lines. Also - no cameras in public areas and no cell phones...
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:40 PM (d6Ksn) ___ Watching that Netflix doc on Bundy was very eye opening. He was killing people in multiple states and nobody was communicating or comparing notes. They finally figured it out but it took 30+ deaths for it to finally gel together. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (eZuvF) 179
@172 Good to hear about that 6th Circuit decision. 11-6 is quite a bitch slap to the lower courts too.
-------------------- The problem is that it should have been 17-0. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (Fp6vo) 180
Yep. The 70's were really the golden age of serial killers, weren't they? No DNA testing, no database tracking killers who crossed state lines. Also - no cameras in public areas and no cell phones...
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:40 PM (d6Ksn) Imagine how many lives have been saved just by the fact that DNA testing exists. Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (pUDQf) 181
Idle banter: I am watching Clive Barker/David Cronenberg's "Nightbreed", and it is a rich vein of insanity and derp.
On the other hand I now know where waaaay too much of Palladium's rpg "nightbane" was borrowed, er, shamelessly ripped off from. Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (lBjZi) 182
Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I'll nail you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered!
Posted by: Zombie WFB, Jr. at March 12, 2019 10:34 PM (0x00j) That clip with Gore Vidal makes me chuckle each and every time I see it! Posted by: Ersatz at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (zuVZw) 183
Georgia commercial bitching that GA hospitals will only take " the highest paying patients".
Operation Eat The Rich is entering Stage 2. Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM (LL1Be) 184
Sharks-Flames and Jets-Predators battles for their divisions should go down to the wire. Same in the East with WSH-NYI-PIT.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2019 10:37 PM (7A4qQ) --I know, and it's driving me crazy with every game!! --and the Blues are tearing it up as well! Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM (XAYDB) 185
The problem is that it should have been 17-0.
Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (Fp6vo) ___ In the world we live in I don't think you can get 17 people to agree that 1+1=2, let alone 17 judges to agree on anything. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM (eZuvF) 186
DC is like SO BITCHEN
Posted by: AOC at March 12, 2019 10:44 PM (e8kgV) 187
--and the Blues are tearing it up as well!
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM Yep, but Blues just lost Tarasenko for the stretch run it seems. And then proceeded to go out and get shutout at home by ARI and Kuemper. I can see them fading down the stretch now. Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 12, 2019 10:45 PM (7A4qQ) 188
THAT'S RIGHT! Nobody cares. Not here. NOt anyWHERE. NOBODY EVER CARED. MOM never loved us. NOBODY is even HERE. These are all CGI NPC LMDs designed to make us think we're real.
I like where your head's at. Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:45 PM (LL1Be) 189
Another news item dropped recently about how a new study says that blacks and hispanics suffer disproportionately as the results of environmental pollution.
One wonders what the remedy to this may be... Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:45 PM (w7KSn) Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (XAYDB) 191
What a neat flag picture. Where and what is it representative of? Very familiar look, like I've seen it somewhere. Posted by: irongrampa at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (S/hVx) 192
189 Another news item dropped recently about how a new study says that blacks and hispanics suffer disproportionately as the results of environmental pollution.
One wonders what the remedy to this may be... Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:45 PM (w7KSn) ___ I'll take a stab in the dark....higher taxes on white people? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (eZuvF) 193
Holy cow KDW, step away from the computer already. You write like a queer.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (qdLxg) 194
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM (XAYDB)
Whoop it up My team is a downward spiral choke job Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (aA3+G) 195
DC is like SO BITCHEN
Posted by: AOC Get her to say that word and you'll get the chompers on full display. And a lot of spray, I imagine.. Posted by: t-bird at March 12, 2019 10:47 PM (CMq2e) 196
Another news item dropped recently about how a new study says that
blacks and hispanics suffer disproportionately as the results of environmental pollution. Fucking trash bags. How do they work? Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:47 PM (LL1Be) 197
Just heard on Laura Ingraham that the cowbell gonger was not a student therefore was not breaking any student rules and cannot be punished. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 10:48 PM (aKsyK) 198
194 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:43 PM (XAYDB)
Whoop it up My team is a downward spiral choke job Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:46 PM (aA3+G) --Who's your team???? Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:48 PM (XAYDB) 199
Only odd "non-trad-dad" couplings or "non-couplings" seem to make the cover of Parents these days.
I've read that you can't get a young-adult novel published these days without including at least one homosexual relationship in the novel. It's amazing - the population of the United States that regularly practices homosexuality is only a few percent, yet it's astonishing how pervasive pro-gay propaganda is in this society. I remember reading at the start of the AIDS epidemic that the New York City Department of Health was surprised that AIDS was spreading more slowly in New York than they expected. They investigated, and discovered that they had been drastically overestimating the number of active male homosexuals in New York City. Posted by: The ARC of History at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (I2/tG) 200
OK, we used to hitchhike across country a lot when I was in college, talking early '80's. Anyone hear remember the good states and the bad states? The bad states, the cops would bust you. The good states, the cops would wave as they went by. Made the trip from Chicago to New York, or back, in two rides several times.
Also - got picked up by a guy on the way to the hospital to get his wife who just had a baby - gave me a cigar. Got picked up by a guy on the way to see his parole officer. Freakiest ride? A ride by a guy moving for a new job as a pizza parlor organist!!! Freaky, but turned out ok. Gave me an autographed album of his, uh, organ pizza music. Got picked up in Louisiana by a really nice old couple, who used to live in California. There, they used to play cards with Moe Howard and Larry Fine. Plus, they knew Sirhan Sirhan when he was a kid. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (PDMtc) 201
"Professor Robin DiAngelo that it is "dangerous" for white people to say that they see people as individuals."
OK, then. MLK's dream is officially dead. Story at Breitbart. Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (w7KSn) 202
Idle banter: I am watching Clive Barker/David Cronenberg's "Nightbreed", and it is a rich vein of insanity and derp.
*** Ugh, one of those movies from the 90s of the "what if the Christians/normies are the evil ones and the evil people are the good guys?" genre Posted by: 18-1 at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (cRkMZ) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:50 PM (aA3+G) 204
Hey everybody.
Well, it's enough to make me paranoid. I'm trying to send out information to everyone who's responded to me about the 2019 Southern California Ace Of Spades Moron Meetup in August, and NOW Gmail doesn't want to work! Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 10:50 PM (miE9U) Posted by: Andrei Chikatilo, The Butcher of Rostov at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (I2/tG) 206
I watch more "Dateline" episodes than I should. One thing that has struck me is how many murderers are betrayed by their cell phones. Either there are incriminating calls or texts or they can trace the murderer to the crime scene by tracking the pings. Goes to show you just how attached people are to their damn phones - they don't even think to leave the things at home when they go out and commit crimes. "Oh, I'll just shut it off and delete my texts and I'll be fine."
Well, it's a good thing they are dumb. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (d6Ksn) 207
203 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:48 PM (XAYDB)
The MN mild Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:50 PM (aA3+G) --Oh yeah, the Jets have *finally* lapped the Wild. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (XAYDB) 208
Well, there's a crisis at Hallmark Channel, now that Lori Loughlin has been busted. Garage Sale Mysteries will have to be put on hold. Luckily, "Murder She Baked" is so far unaffected. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (f1Vqw) 209
Lynn Holly Johnson has aged really well (the blond Bond girl from For Your Eyes Only). She looks great. But then she got out of acting and went full time Mom. Hollywood ages you.
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I watch more "Dateline" episodes than I should. One thing that has struck me is how many murderers are betrayed by their cell phones. Either there are incriminating calls or texts or they can trace the murderer to the crime scene by tracking the pings. Goes to show you just how attached people are to their damn phones - they don't even think to leave the things at home when they go out and commit crimes. "Oh, I'll just shut it off and delete my texts and I'll be fine." Well, it's a good thing they are dumb. Posted by: DonnaV. at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (d6Ksn) Heh, I was just having this conversation with my son last night (because I watch way more Investigation Discovery than I should). Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (IyMrw) 211
I did some consulting work for Luxottica. Who knew I was contributing to the worldwide glasses monopoly being formed.
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Well, there's a crisis at Hallmark Channel, now that Lori Loughlin has been busted. Garage Sale Mysteries will have to be put on hold. Luckily, "Murder She Baked" is so far unaffected. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (f1Vqw) --I have no idea what you are saying, but details welcome. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (XAYDB) 213
Having just returned from a "procedure" at the hospital, I can REALLY relate to the last pic.
Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (LOq4H) 214
Serial killer in "Nightbreed": obsessed with killing "breeders", i.e. people with children, before diverting to the weird demon-kin/monster folk.
Clive Barker is a silly man. Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (lBjZi) 215
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Most 3 legged border collies could lap The Mild Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (aA3+G) 216
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Lynn Holly Johnson has aged really well (the blond Bond girl from For Your Eyes Only). She looks great. But then she got out of acting and went full time Mom. Hollywood ages you. Posted by: Puddleglum at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (UxsqT) Is she the one from Ice Castles? Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (IyMrw) 217
Bill Buckley had his uses in rallying the country against the USSR during the Cold War. Bill and James had a brother, Reid, who lived at one of the family homes in the old money section of Camden, SC (my old stomping grounds in the early 80s) and ran a school of public speaking out of it. He was a dead ringer for Bill and passed in 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/books/ f-reid-buckley-novelist-and-columnist-dies-at-83.html Posted by: cocktail hour! at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (pNxlR) 218
So like I go into this like salon place, y'know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails Are like so GRODY It was like really embarassing She's like OH MY GOD, like BAG THOSE TOENAILS I'm like sure... She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, y'know... I was like really embarassed.. . Posted by: AOC at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (e8kgV) 219
Having just returned from a "procedure" at the hospital, I can REALLY relate to the last pic.
Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (LOq4H) LOL but TMI, dude, TMI. Posted by: DR.WTF at March 12, 2019 10:54 PM (aS1PU) 220
Cable channel sales slogans:
Hallmark Channel: "Where it's Christmas year-round! Also, men suck." Lifetime: "Women are good. Men suck BAD." Lifetime Movie Channel: "Women are great. Men suck CRAZY SUPER BAD." :-P Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 10:54 PM (miE9U) 221
>> -I have no idea what you are saying, but details welcome.
Lori Loughlin, who was busted by the feds today in that college admission bribery scandal, is one of the queens of Hallmark Channel. She stars in "Garage Sale Mysteries". Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (f1Vqw) 222
Another news item dropped recently about how a new study says that blacks and hispanics suffer disproportionately as the results of environmental pollution. One wonders what the remedy to this may be... Posted by: navybrat __ I'll take a stab in the dark....higher taxes on white people? Posted by: Lurking Lurker Well, since the article said whites are doing the polluting my guess is the answer is YES!! Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (aKsyK) Posted by: Puddleglum at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (UxsqT) Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (LL1Be) 225
206 I watch more "Dateline" episodes than I should. One thing that has struck me is how many murderers are betrayed by their cell phones. Either there are incriminating calls or texts or they can trace the murderer to the crime scene by tracking the pings. Goes to show you just how attached people are to their damn phones - they don't even think to leave the things at home when they go out and commit crimes. "Oh, I'll just shut it off and delete my texts and I'll be fine."
Well, it's a good thing they are dumb. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (d6Ksn) ____ The other thing that seems to trip up 75% of Deatline murderers is buying shit at Walmart. It's always something like, well we found a receipt for a shovel and rope from WalMart Store 1728 and then we went to Store 1728 and saw video footage of the guy buying the shovel and rope. And turns out the rope matches that which the victim was bound with. And I'm like dude you are too stupid to be in the general population. You need to be locked up for life on principal alone. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:56 PM (eZuvF) 226
Steve one oof them has to be men suck bad but don't swallow
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Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (PDMtc)
Are you a female? Because even back when hitchhiking was common, I would have been afraid to hitchhike by myself. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (d6Ksn) 228
It's amazing - the population of the United States that regularly practices homosexuality is only a few percent, yet it's astonishing how pervasive pro-gay propaganda is in this society. Why, they are the best, the brightest, the most compassionate and the most worthy of emulation among us all! * barfs * Posted by: cocktail hour! at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (pNxlR) 229
216:Is she the one from Ice Castles?
Posted by: Jordan61 a According to that article posted above, yes. I never saw Ice Castles though. Posted by: Puddleglum at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (UxsqT) 230
I can't understand the to-do over this kolej admissions scandal... I've never even heard of these "famous" people...
It is curious to me only in that today Teh Elder Zettaispawn coincidentally got his acceptance letter to his first pick! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (CLcKT) 231
Bill Buckley had his uses in rallying the country against the USSR during the Cold War. Who won that war anyway? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (aKsyK) 232
Heard Dolan the owner of MSG and The Knicks on TV today...what a thin skin'd sick sorry SOB
And bye bye Odell. May you grow up in cleveland Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (Y+V3r) 233
Boy Franpsycho is like a rock star at our Safeway, we walk in there and everyone seems to know him by name. Me? I get a grunt.
Granted we have been going there since before he was born, but I think people who work retail tend to become very sensitive to people with special needs. Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (qdLxg) Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (LOq4H) 235
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"Ugh, one of those movies from the 90s of the "what if the Christians/normies are the evil ones and the evil people are the good guys?" genre" It would be kind of that genre if it were coherent enough to remember to try to be, but mostly it isn't/doesn't. Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (lBjZi) 236
I know I'm in the vast minority, but as I assess the world I knew in high school and the world I know now, the internet has been a detriment to society.
If you could offer a vote that we could go back and it never have been invented, I'd vote to do away with it. Feel free to bash away at my ignorance. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (51k37) 237
Other cable channel sales slogans:
HBO: "Because you've got 'fuck you' money" Cinemax: "Not just Skinemax any more" FX: "We don't care what anyone says, Simpsons episodes just keep getting better and better" TV Land: "Admit it, you can't quit watching Two And A Half Men no matter how hard you try" MSNBC: "Because off-their-meds lefty liberals mean ratings gold" Logo: "Because Backpage.com just wasn't kinky enough" MTV: "All hedonism all the time" Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (miE9U) 238
Hey Horde, if you could, I could use your prayer help. In a very rare instance, I saw a job come up that fits my experience almost exactly. I mean, my former job for 15 years could be the job description I read.
I just applied. These jobs are incredibly rare as my experience is deep but narrow in scope. Please take a minute if you would. This needs to happen. Thank you. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/) 239
She stars in "Garage Sale Mysteries". Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (f1Vqw) A few quick name changes and, hey! presto!, she's in "Cell Block Mysteries"! Posted by: have we got a pitch for you! at March 12, 2019 10:59 PM (pNxlR) Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 10:59 PM (miE9U) 241
Here are the women who were ultimately elected to Congress in 2018.
Stephanie Murphy (House, D-Florida) Joyce Beatty (House, D-Ohio) Marcia Fudge (House, D-Ohio) Marcy Kaptur (House, D-Ohio) Elizabeth Warren (Senate, D-Massachusetts) Ayanna Pressley (House, D-Massachusetts) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (House, D-Massachusetts) Terri Sewell (House, D-Alabama) Eddie Bernice Johnson (House, D-Texas) Alma Adams (House, D-North Carolina) Donna Shalala (House, D-Florida) Jennifer Wexton (House, D-Virginia) Kirsten Gillibrand (Senate, D-New York) Lisa Rochester (House, D-Delaware) Robin Kelly (House, D-Illinois) Jan Schakowsky (House, D-Illinois) Susan Brooks (House, R-Indiana) Sheila Jackson Lee (House, D-Texas) Sylvia Garcia (House, D-Texas) Veronica Escobar (House, D-Texas) Kay Granger (House, D-Texas) Nydia Velazquez (House, D-New York) Virginia Foxx (House, R-North Carolina) Ilhan Omar (House, D-Minnesota) Grace Meng (House, D-New York) Carolyn Maloney (House, D-New York) Jackie Walorski (House, R-Indiana) Amy Klobuchar (Senate, D-Minnesota) Yvette Clarke (House, D-New York) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (House, D-New York) Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (House, D-Florida) Tammy Baldwin (Senate, D-Wisconsin) Martha Roby (House, R-Alabama) Bonnie Watson Coleman (House, D-New Jersey) Liz Cheney (House, R-Wyoming) Carol Miller (House, R-West Virginia) Mary Gay Scanlon (House, D-Pennsylvania) Chrissy Houlahan (House, D-Pennsylvania) Marsha Blackburn (Senate, R-Tennessee) Sharice Davids (House, D-Kansas) Rosa DeLauro (House, D-Connecticut) Gwen Moore (House, D-Wisconsin) Cheri Bustos (House, D-Illinois) Susan Wild (House, D-Pennsylvania) Deb Fischer (House, R-Nebraska) Rashida Tlaib (House, D-Michigan) Betty McCollum (House, D-Minnesota) Brenda Lawrence (House, D-Michigan) Katherine Clark (House, D-Massachusetts) Ann McLane Kuster (House, D-New Hampshire) Debra Haaland (House, D-New Mexico) Vicky Hartzler (House, R-Missouri) Madeleine Dean (House, D-Pennsylvania) Diana DeGette (House, D-Colorado) Val Demings (House, D-Florida) Kathy Castor (House, D-Florida) Lois Frankel (House, D-Florida) Frederica Wilson (House, D-Florida) Debbie Dingell (House, D-Michigan) Elaine Luria (House, D-Virginia) Michelle Lujan Grisham (House, D-New Mexico) Nita Lowey (House, D-New York) Lauren Underwood (House, D-Illinois) Tina Smith (House, D-Minnesota) Mazie Hirono (Senate, D-Hawaii) Mary Scanlon (House, D-Pennsylvania) Cindy Hyde-Smith (House, R-Mississippi) Lori Trahan (House, D-Massachusetts) Elise Stefanik (House, R-New York) Debbie Stabenow (Senate, D-Michigan) Kathleen Rice (House, D-New York) Abby Finkenauer (House, D-Iowa) Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 11:00 PM (LL1Be) Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 12, 2019 11:00 PM (LOq4H) Posted by: that boy loved him some Skinemax! at March 12, 2019 11:00 PM (pNxlR) 244
AOC = Just the Beginning.
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@199 I remember reading at the start of the AIDS epidemic that the New York City Department of Health was surprised that AIDS was spreading more slowly in New York than they expected. They investigated, and discovered that they had been drastically overestimating the number of active male homosexuals in New York City.
-------------- I remember once reading that the estimates from back then were based on studies that basically went to areas that had higher than normal percentages of homosexuals, and polling people about their sexual practices. The percentages from those surveys were then assumed to apply across the country. Posted by: junior at March 12, 2019 11:01 PM (Fp6vo) 246
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Hey Horde, if you could, I could use your prayer help. In a very rare instance, I saw a job come up that fits my experience almost exactly. I mean, my former job for 15 years could be the job description I read. I just applied. These jobs are incredibly rare as my experience is deep but narrow in scope. Please take a minute if you would. This needs to happen. Thank you. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/) Praying for you CM! Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:02 PM (IyMrw) 247
AOC=Anti O Christ
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Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 10:49 PM (PDMtc) Are you a female? Because even back when hitchhiking was common, I would have been afraid to hitchhike by myself. Posted by: DonnaV. Oh no, I'm a guy. Listen, I'm sorry to be sexist, but at that time, when me and my buddies were doing it, it was commonly thought to be dangerous beyond sense for a girl or girls to do it. A couple of guys who picked us up even said, well, weird things about girls hitchin'. I think if any of our girl friends would have tried it, we'd have physically restrained them. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:02 PM (PDMtc) 249
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (miE9U)
I watch FX for Archer and TVLand for Everybody Loves Raymond reruns. Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:03 PM (IyMrw) 250
the hallmark movies are just dull. i find them unwatchable. (but i have a very short interest span).
but an interesting series of movies that preceded the hallmark mystery women (florist, book dealer, baker, etc.) was the "jane doe" mysteries starring lea thompson (of back to the future") from about 10 years ago. she plays a housewife who secretly is a c.i.a. type agent. they are very well done, i think. catch them if they come around. Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 12, 2019 11:03 PM (Pg+x7) 251
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 12, 2019 10:57 PM (Y+V3r)
Spoiled asshole in Cleveland I see nothing but failure Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 11:03 PM (aA3+G) 252
215 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 10:51 PM (XAYDB)
Most 3 legged border collies could lap The Mild Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (aA3+G) --LMAO if the Jets can make good with Kevin Hayes they'll be all right. But the Preds and Blues . . . Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:04 PM (XAYDB) 253
Jordan, I love those ELR reruns. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 11:04 PM (miE9U) 254
Well tomorrow A.M. I go to have (large) benign masses removed from my head/neck & back. General anesthesia & location & size of growths make me a little nervous. Supposed to stay over night, assuming insurance issues are settled.
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...I did some consulting work for Luxottica. Who knew I was contributing to the worldwide glasses monopoly being formed.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (eZuvF) Luxottica absolutely destroyed Ray Ban sunglasses. Went to replace a set of 62mm Outdoorsman IIs, amber driver's lens. Only to discover that they were no longer made. Worse still, handling the Luxottica lineup, it was quite obvious that Precision Engineering and Quality Control weren't exactly touchtone words in the Optical Empire. So, for now I've got the $19.95 CVS specials. The classic Baush & Lomb Ray Bans that I want are sometimes available on eBay. For well above $300, on a cheap day. Dammit. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 12, 2019 11:05 PM (QzJWU) 256
hi hordlings
the night we met i knew i needed you so and if I had the chance I'd never let you go Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:05 PM (xIKXj) 257
Posted by: Puddleglum at March 12, 2019 10:52 PM (UxsqT)
Is she the one from Ice Castles? --Icehouse? Sorry https://youtu.be/YMQwRL0EzW0 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:07 PM (XAYDB) 258
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/)
------------ Done, good luck, my friend! Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs, still needs a new Nic! at March 12, 2019 11:07 PM (I0GW5) 259
Prayers sent, calm.
Posted by: Infidel at March 12, 2019 11:07 PM (9L2du) Posted by: Lump at March 12, 2019 11:07 PM (xsJ/0) 261
The other thing that seems to trip up 75% of Deatline murderers is buying shit at Walmart. It's always something like, well we found a receipt for a shovel and rope from WalMart Store 1728 and then we went to Store 1728 and saw video footage of the guy buying the shovel and rope. And turns out the rope matches that which the victim was bound with. And I'm like dude you are too stupid to be in the general population. You need to be locked up for life on principal alone. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:56 PM (eZuvF) Yep. I saw one recently where the guy carefully plotted out the murder of his estranged wife, cleaned up everything - and left the receipt for the Walmart where he bought all his shit on the floor of his car. The other "Dateline" standard is when they pretend to "find" the body of their spouse and call 911 and end up giving the cops information that incriminates them. Like when they say "Burglars broke in and stabbed my wife and stole stuff!" Then the cops show up and find the place is neat and there are money and valuables in plain sight that weren't stolen. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:08 PM (d6Ksn) 262
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:07 PM (XAYDB)
That guy is in desperate need of a haircut. Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:08 PM (IyMrw) 263
Feel free to bash away at my ignorance.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (51k37) I couldn't agree with you any more. Posted by: Albert Arnold Gore Jr. at March 12, 2019 11:09 PM (vqIkG) 264
Posted by: Baldy at March 12, 2019 11:04 PM (+EDVk)
Any medical procedure makes me nervous! I'll say a prayer for you. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:09 PM (d6Ksn) 265
256 hi hordlings
the night we met i knew i needed you so and if I had the chance I'd never let you go Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:05 PM (xIKXj) In a plutonic fashion, Amirite? Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 11:09 PM (aA3+G) 266
Posted by: DonnaV. at March 12, 2019 11:08 PM (d6Ksn)
Or the ones where the husband turns up dead and they find out the wife has been going to bars asking every guy she meets if he'll kill her husband for x amount of money. Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:10 PM (IyMrw) 267
I'll pray for you Calm
Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:10 PM (xIKXj) 268
"Aunt Becky gonna need to learn to code."
Thank God, the government is protecting us from these monsters. Next up: "Mattress Tag Rippers - Anarchist Menace or Just Low Level Thugs" Posted by: mikeyG at March 12, 2019 11:10 PM (LL1Be) Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:11 PM (xIKXj) 270
237 Other cable channel sales slogans:
HBO: "Because you've got 'fuck you' money" Cinemax: "Not just Skinemax any more" FX: "We don't care what anyone says, Simpsons episodes just keep getting better and better" TV Land: "Admit it, you can't quit watching Two And A Half Men no matter how hard you try" MSNBC: "Because off-their-meds lefty liberals mean ratings gold" Logo: "Because Backpage.com just wasn't kinky enough" MTV: "All hedonism all the time" Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019l 10:58 PM (miE9U) --The whole point of cable TV was that one didn't have to sit through ads forever. Now one has to anyway, and pay through the nose for it. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:11 PM (XAYDB) 271
The other "Dateline" standard is when they pretend to "find" the body of their spouse and call 911 and end up giving the cops information that incriminates them. Like when they say "Burglars broke in and stabbed my wife and stole stuff!" Then the cops show up and find the place is neat and there are money and valuables in plain sight that weren't stolen. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:08 PM (d6Ksn) Okay! Okay! Okay! Stop me if you heard this before - I was mugged by MAGA hat wearing racists in Chi-Town at 2 AM on one of the coldest nights of the winter. And - get this! - I was still holding my intact Subway sandwich and wearing the noose they slipped over my head thirty minutes after I called 9-1-1 and the police showed up! Har! Posted by: Juggalo, race baiter at March 12, 2019 11:11 PM (pNxlR) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 11:12 PM (aKsyK) 273
I just applied. These jobs are incredibly rare as my experience is deep but narrow in scope. Please take a minute if you would. This needs to happen. Thank you. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/) Good luck! I have a phone interview tomorrow morning so pray for me as well! Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:12 PM (d6Ksn) Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 11:12 PM (f1Vqw) 275
logprof, yup
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Have you guys heard that, supposedly, there are a handful of serial killers doing their thing today. The problem is, they think they are cross-country truck drivers. The victims are hookers at rest stops. But if you have a murder at a truck stop in, ?, Nebraska, you find the body 24 hours later, a trucker could be practically anywhere in the country. My understanding is this is a real thing.
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There is no "u" in MeTV Posted by: trite sayings, raised to the tritest power at March 12, 2019 11:14 PM (pNxlR) 278
Mr Misanthropic Humanitarian, you're righter than rain
Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:15 PM (xIKXj) 279
I just applied. These jobs are incredibly rare as my experience is deep but narrow in scope. Please take a minute if you would. This needs to happen. Thank you.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/) Good luck! I have a phone interview tomorrow morning so pray for me as well! Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:12 PM (d6Ksn) ------------------- Done deal! Thank you. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 11:15 PM (ffYR/) 280
@214 - of course, Clive Barker is openly gay.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 12, 2019 11:15 PM (l9m7l) 281
Tuff crowd lately. Time for a break. Stay safe, prayers up CM.
Posted by: Billy Goat Gruff at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (0x00j) 282
Clive Barker is a silly man.
Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 10:53 PM (lBjZi) Company I worked for did some work with Clive in the late 90's. Our marketing guy met up with him at Clive's house. Clive answered the door in a tied up shirt and daisy duke shorts. Flaming Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (rOXDf) 283
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--The whole point of cable TV was that one didn't have to sit through ads forever. Now one has to anyway, and pay through the nose for it. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:11 PM (XAYDB) Yep, I remember the original selling point was no commercials, yet, here we are. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (Rz2Nc) 284
Whatever, mullet aside "Crazy" is a great song and not a bad video.
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (XAYDB) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (aA3+G) 286
225 The other thing that seems to trip up 75% of Deatline murderers is buying shit at Walmart. It's always something like, well we found a receipt for a shovel and rope from WalMart Store 1728 and then we went to Store 1728 and saw video footage of the guy buying the shovel and rope. And turns out the rope matches that which the victim was bound with.
my local walmart also has a subways. convenient for when i want to pull a hate crime hoax. Posted by: Anachronda at March 12, 2019 11:17 PM (0NzJ9) 287
Whatever, mullet aside "Crazy" is a great song and not a bad video.
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (XAYDB) Patsy Cline had a mullet? Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 12, 2019 11:17 PM (jo0+f) 288
276; i've heard that. not sure if it's true or not. over the years, i've run into some pretty sketchy dudes driving trucks cross country. wouldn't surprise me if it's true.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 11:17 PM (KP5rU) 289
276 Have you guys heard that, supposedly, there are a handful of serial killers doing their thing today. The problem is, they think they are cross-country truck drivers. The victims are hookers at rest stops. But if you have a murder at a truck stop in, ?, Nebraska, you find the body 24 hours later, a trucker could be practically anywhere in the country. My understanding is this is a real thing. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:13 PM (PDMtc) The series, "The Closer" on TNT had an episode where the serial killer (the "I-10 Killer") drove an 18-wheeler between Texas' Gulf Coast and LA and murdered young women along the route over the course of several years. "Why do they always have three names?" asked the Texas Ranger who helped bring in Jessie Ray Whomever during the episode. Posted by: trite sayings, raised to the tritest power at March 12, 2019 11:18 PM (pNxlR) 290
Drudge blurb sez -- Gavin Newsome to stop death penalty in CA
Might as well. They haven't had an execution since 2006, and a grand total of 13 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1972 or 73. And yet California rejected two initiatives to repeal the death penalty by popular vote in 2012 and 2016, and it adopted in 2016 another proposal to expedite its appeal process. Gavin overrules CA voters like a Hawaiian judge. Posted by: GnuBreed at March 12, 2019 11:18 PM (Z4rgH) Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 11:18 PM (aA3+G) 292
@NYCMayorsOffice New York City: There are only FOUR things that should go in your toilet poop pee puke toilet paper Everything else causes FATBERGS! What are Fatbergs? Well, you gotta click on http://FatbergFree.nyc Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 11:19 PM (aKsyK) 293
236 I know I'm in the vast minority, but as I assess the world I knew in high school and the world I know now, the internet has been a detriment to society.
If you could offer a vote that we could go back and it never have been invented, I'd vote to do away with it. Feel free to bash away at my ignorance. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (51k37) No, I agree. And it isn't going to last. Not sure how it will end, but it will. People in Venezuela thought it would never end - it has now, for them. Posted by: Tom Servo at March 12, 2019 11:19 PM (V2Yro) 294
The victims are hookers at rest stops. But if you have a murder at a truck stop in, ?, Nebraska, you find the body 24 hours later, a trucker could be practically anywhere in the country. My understanding is this is a real thing.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:13 PM (PDMtc) ___ Wouldn't it be easy to track this down. Trucks all have GPS and shit now don't they? So if hooker goes missing at Truck Stop X in Kansas and the body is found in Florida 24 hours later, you can narrow down the truckers who were at the truck stop and in FL at those times. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:20 PM (eZuvF) 295
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276; i've heard that. not sure if it's true or not. over the years, i've run into some pretty sketchy dudes driving trucks cross country. wouldn't surprise me if it's true. Posted by: chavez the hugo I'm pretty sure it's a real thing. I don't mean to sound cold, but could you have a better getaway plan? What are the cops going to do, issue an APB to stop every truck within a 500 mile radius of Omaha? Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:20 PM (PDMtc) 296
Donna, good luck and I'll say a little prayer for you too
My son has a second interview Saturday my boss has offered me enough of a raise that I can quit the post office good things are on their way Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:20 PM (xIKXj) 297
Have you guys heard that, supposedly, there are a handful of serial killers doing their thing today. The problem is, they think they are cross-country truck drivers. The victims are hookers at rest stops. But if you have a murder at a truck stop in, ?, Nebraska, you find the body 24 hours later, a trucker could be practically anywhere in the country. My understanding is this is a real thing.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:13 PM (PDMtc) I don't believe that's anything new. There have been trucker serial killers for decades. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (Rz2Nc) 298
Mountain climbing dreams all night
Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (BbGew) 299
RE Bond girls : Can't believe that Ursula Andress wasn't in the roundup.
Coming out of the water in Dr No with that white bikini was fantasy and material ... Posted by: Hagar-Jarl of the Noth of Flyover County at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (FxJnm) 300
Lori Loughlin, who was busted by the feds today in that college admission bribery scandal, is one of the queens of Hallmark Channel. She stars in "Garage Sale Mysteries".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (f1Vqw) She's trading in her Hallmark specials for Lifetime's Movie of the Week. Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (SgjGX) 301
That is good news booknlass. I cross my fingers for you too
Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (mUa7G) 302
Florida police said the workers at the spas targeted in the six-month sting were trafficking victims, forced to live and eat in the same parlors where they worked, with armed men moving them between locations.
Took them six months to figure it out? Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (1g7ch) 303
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Whatever, mullet aside "Crazy" is a great song and not a bad video. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (XAYDB) I can't believe I've never heard it. I graduated HS in 1989 and I think the only Icehouse song I know is Electric Blue. Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (IyMrw) 304
Lori Loughlin, who was busted by the feds today in that college admission bribery scandal, is one of the queens of Hallmark Channel. She stars in "Garage Sale Mysteries".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 12, 2019 10:55 PM (f1Vqw) Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. I have to pay extra for that whereas the Hallmark Channel is a freebie. Posted by: RickZ at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (Y8PSl) 305
287 Whatever, mullet aside "Crazy" is a great song and not a bad video.
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (XAYDB) Patsy Cline had a mullet? Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 12, 2019 11:17 PM (jo0+f) --Here ya go: '80s!!! https://youtu.be/YMQwRL0EzW0 Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (XAYDB) 306
Wouldn't it be easy to track this down. Trucks all have GPS and shit now don't they? So if hooker goes missing at Truck Stop X in Kansas and the body is found in Florida 24 hours later, you can narrow down the truckers who were at the truck stop and in FL at those times.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:20 PM (eZuvF) There is no central database that keeps track of that info, thank goodness. Or, are you OK with trading privacy for the perceived conception of safety? Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (NgKpN) 307
Thank you all for the prayers. Hope to hear from them by the end of the week.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 11:23 PM (ffYR/) 308
Both Uncle Jesse and Aunt Beckie look the same today as they did 30 years ago on Full House. They don't age. Ever.
They would have made some seriously good looking kids had they been a real life couple. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:23 PM (eZuvF) 309
302 Florida police said the workers at the spas targeted in the six-month sting were trafficking victims, forced to live and eat in the same parlors where they worked, with armed men moving them between locations.
Took them six months to figure it out? Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (1g7ch) They had to go undercover... uh... multiple... times. To, make sure, ya know? Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 11:23 PM (NgKpN) Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:24 PM (xIKXj) 311
Watching that Netflix doc on Bundy was very eye opening. He was killing people in multiple states and nobody was communicating or comparing notes. They finally figured it out but it took 30+ deaths for it to finally gel together.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 10:42 PM (eZuvF) We've been talking about boneheaded criminals, but in Bundy's case, there were a lot of boneheaded LEOs as well. I don't mean the lack of a database, but the idiots in Colorado who thought it would be just fine to let the scumbag stroll into the Law Library at the prison with no cuffs on, nobody guarding him and an open window in the room. Oops, Bundy's gone! Then he escapes again though a damned ceiling panel. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:24 PM (d6Ksn) 312
I would say that 99% of all lot lizards have pimps. Getting out of the lot with her still in the truck probably isn't going to happen.
No pimp is going to lose a meal ticket so easy since very little jail time is involved. For a driver to accumulate enough bodies to be a serial killer is not likely anymore. Posted by: 750,000 miles later at March 12, 2019 11:24 PM (vqIkG) 313
Wouldn't it be easy to track this down. Trucks all
have GPS and shit now don't they? So if hooker goes missing at Truck Stop X in Kansas and the body is found in Florida 24 hours later, you can narrow down the truckers who were at the truck stop and in FL at those times. Posted by: Lurking Lurker Uh, why would you take the body to Florida? Yeah, you can probably figure out what truckers were at truck stop x in the last 48 hours - all 300 of them. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:24 PM (PDMtc) 314
If your against the wealthy being able to spend there money any way they please go move to venezuela.
Posted by: raimondo at March 12, 2019 10:03 PM (YnZpl) Funny, though, ain't it, how most of those taking advantage of that guy's crooked services are Communists, or Democrats. BIRM. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 11:25 PM (nPGq2) 315
The classic Baush & Lomb Ray Bans that I want are sometimes available on eBay. For well above $300, on a cheap day.
Dammit. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Jim, try aoeyewear.com legit American made sunglasses in many frames/lenses Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at March 12, 2019 11:25 PM (CL76w) 316
299 RE Bond girls : Can't believe that Ursula Andress wasn't in the roundup.
Coming out of the water in Dr No with that white bikini was fantasy and material ... Posted by: Hagar-Jarl of the Noth of Flyover County at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (FxJnm) --Miki Berenyi, one of the lead singers of Lush, is a daughter of a Bond Girl, Yasuko Nagazumi Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (XAYDB) 317
There is no central database that keeps track of that info, thank goodness.
Or, are you OK with trading privacy for the perceived conception of safety? Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (NgKpN) ___ Trucking companies most certainly have databases with eal time info on their trucks. Not only where they are but how fast they're moving, how much fuel they're consuming, when the next oil change is needed, etc. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (eZuvF) 318
Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics
http://tinyurl.com/yyzzgkqe http://tinyurl.com/y29czxsc http://tinyurl.com/y3dtdfeq http://tinyurl.com/y6qyxhfg http://tinyurl.com/y5ctenka Posted by: kbdabear at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (0Ntuf) 319
I wonder if the investigators are sorting through weigh station logs and trip permits from the PUC.
That is where I would start. Posted by: Kindltot at March 12, 2019 11:27 PM (mUa7G) 320
"In total, Aunt Becky (all time smoke in my opinion) paid 500k for admission into USC for her two daughters."
Posted by: mr_jack` at March 12, 2019 10:07 PM (57l0O) Maybe "all time smoke show", meaning very hot mama? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 11:28 PM (nPGq2) 321
Time for another episode of Mystery Odor Theater
Some time after we got home this evening, I smelled something perfume-y on my hands. Potent & icky for my tastes. I hadn't touched anyone or anything unusual. Picked up from a checker at the weird German grocery store, perhaps? No, Milady did the sacking. I checked her hands for the scent to be sure. Hmm. SO, I just went and poured myself a second little drink from the bottle milady purchased at our local adult beverage emporium. And that's when it hit me. Yes, the bottle smelled perfume-y. Milady hadn't touched it because it had been sacked by Tiffany. Tone it down, Tiff! Tune in tomorrow for "something's gone bad in the fridge." Posted by: the mindful webworker mysteries at March 12, 2019 11:28 PM (jMD9L) 322
truckers lives are really micromanaged now. not like it used to be.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 11:28 PM (KP5rU) 323
More Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics
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I can't believe I've never heard it. I graduated HS in 1989 and I think the only Icehouse song I know is Electric Blue.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (IyMrw) --"Crazy" > "Electric Blue" Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:29 PM (XAYDB) 325
Cake maker from that pic needs grammar lessons.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 12, 2019 11:29 PM (DjIXP) 326
Trucking companies most certainly have databases with eal time info on their trucks. Not only where they are but how fast they're moving, how much fuel they're consuming, when the next oil change is needed, etc.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (eZuvF) ----------------------- True, but independent contract owners are not bound by all that. Paper logbooks are disappearing, but still exist. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 11:29 PM (ffYR/) 327
The Bundy doc on Netflix was absolutely chilling
The guy was a charmer, a sick charmer, but he obviously had some serious beguiling skills, plus being good looking and intelligent. Who has seen on Netflix "The Confession Tapes" A series of documentaries in which the cops wear out a suspect over hours or days, or whatever it takes, until a confession is agreed upon. Suspect is usually low IQ or otherwise impaired. Cops want to "wrap it up". Never talk to cops without a lawyer present. or, better yet Never talk to cops. Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (w7KSn) 328
Uh, why would you take the body to Florida? Yeah, you can probably figure out what truckers were at truck stop x in the last 48 hours - all 300 of them. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:24 PM (PDMtc) ___ That's what that one serial killer trucker did in WA, he killed then transported the body far away from the murder site. And OK 300 of them. Then you look at the next murder and see if any of those 300 match the other 300. And so on. It's not really that hard to do, a couple of mouse clicks, given every truck stop has video surveillance, allowing for license plate lookups, trucking company gps data, etc. This is AI 101 stuff. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (eZuvF) 329
Trucking companies most certainly have databases with eal time info on their trucks. Not only where they are but how fast they're moving, how much fuel they're consuming, when the next oil change is needed, etc.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (eZuvF) No they don't, that's what is called evidence. Truck drivers are limited on how much they can drive a day/week, etc... , that is frequently exceeded, no company is collecting the evidence against themselves. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (Rz2Nc) 330
"truckers lives are really micromanaged now. not like it used to be.
Posted by: chavez the hugo" And they wonder why the experienced ones are quitting in droves. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (DjIXP) 331
$25 single-focus glasses work just fine for me. They're not quite disposable, but if I break them or scratch them, I'm not going to cry about it.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 12, 2019 10:08 PM (t+qrx) Last time I bought glasses, I got two pairs for about a hundred bucks in Los Algodones, Mexico. Nice frames, too. Likely last years "designer" frames, but not odd-looking. Same-day service, too. Had the cataract surgery done, so I don't need them anymore. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (nPGq2) 332
Trucking companies most certainly have databases
with eal time info on their trucks. Not only where they are but how fast they're moving, how much fuel they're consuming, when the next oil change is needed, etc. Posted by: Lurking Lurker But that's just it. You got hundreds of truckers coming thru that truck stop. And everyone of them can say, of course I was there. I was hauling from x to y. I didn't try to hide anything - there's a credit card receipt for the gas, a credit card receipt for the restaurant. That's where I spent the night. You found a body 100 yards away from the parking lot? Don't know anything about that. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (PDMtc) 333
Thanks, kbdabear!
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (Rz2Nc) Posted by: qdpsteve at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (miE9U) Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (XAYDB) 336
Hookers are easy victims. Half the time no one even knows they're missing. They almost always have severed ties with family ( or vice versa) because of drug or alcohol issues, and many of them were abused, so it doesn't take much to make them cut the ties at all.
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (qll3d) 337
Good luck, Calm and Donna!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 12, 2019 11:33 PM (l9m7l) 338
In all honesty, how different is Aunt Becky paying $500K to Yale (or whatever school it was) than a famous alum getting their kid in after donating $500K? Alums donating big bucks to get their kids in is SOP.
There's a lot to get mad over in the world. Aunt Becky getting her kid into an Ivy school isn't really at the top of my list. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:33 PM (eZuvF) 339
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (Rz2Nc)
No, seriously they track all that now with transponders and such in the truck. Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 11:33 PM (qll3d) 340
326 Trucking companies most certainly have databases with eal time info on their trucks. Not only where they are but how fast they're moving, how much fuel they're consuming, when the next oil change is needed, etc.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:26 PM (eZuvF) ----------------------- True, but independent contract owners are not bound by all that. Paper logbooks are disappearing, but still exist. Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 11:29 PM (ffYR/) Also, although the companies have that info, the Police to NOT, without a subpoena. For which they would have to show probable cause. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 12, 2019 11:34 PM (NgKpN) 341
Speaking of "mystery odour"... Who was it that brought up "keto crotch" recently?
I looked that up and now everything is clear -- another mystery solved! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 12, 2019 11:34 PM (CLcKT) 342
Hey, those Osmond twins.
NPC LMDs designed to make us think we're real. * takes slug of drink * Okay, sorry. Momentary paranoia attack. I'm okay now. Posted by: mindful webworker - matrixized for your projection at March 12, 2019 10:32 PM (jMD9L) It's the shadow world created by the reptilian overlords living behind Uranus. Posted by: Braenyard en tanto delicto at March 12, 2019 11:35 PM (ePWRo) 343
Hey, where all da white wimmen at?
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 12, 2019 11:35 PM (4knXT) 344
Spoiled asshole in Cleveland
I see nothing but failure Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Odell will doing the job that Lebron will not be doing anymore.....in Cleveland. Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at March 12, 2019 11:35 PM (S6Pax) 345
336 Hookers are easy victims. Half the time no one even knows they're missing. They almost always have severed ties with family ( or vice versa) because of drug or alcohol issues, and many of them were abused, so it doesn't take much to make them cut the ties at all.
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 11:31 PM (qll3d) Not to mention they're standing around on the street trying to get into a strangers car or truck. It's not like they need to be dragged into the vehicle. Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:35 PM (d6Ksn) 346
No they don't, that's what is called evidence. Truck drivers are limited on how much they can drive a day/week, etc... , that is frequently exceeded, no company is collecting the evidence against themselves.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:30 PM (Rz2Nc) ___ OK you're right. That whole multi billion dollar trucking logistics industry is just there for shits and grins. My bad. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:37 PM (eZuvF) 347
But if you have a murder at a truck stop in, ?, Nebraska, you find the body 24 hours later, a trucker could be practically anywhere in the country. My understanding is this is a real thing.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:13 PM (PDMtc) There have been a few truck driver serial killers, Keith Jesperson being one that comes to mind. Typically more frequent with independent truckers and not company truckers (whose entire life behind the wheel is poked, prodded and downloaded). Truckers have a history of picking up hitchhikers, now with the added easy prey of hookers at truck stops, too. So, yeah, truck driver serial killers are real although I would wager it's gotten tougher with all the security on the highways, which is probably why they've been catching more than a few truck driver serial killers of late. Posted by: RickZ at March 12, 2019 11:37 PM (Y8PSl) 348
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Hookers are easy victims. Half the time no one even knows they're missing. They almost always have severed ties with family ( or vice versa) because of drug or alcohol issues, and many of them were abused, so it doesn't take much to make them cut the ties at all. Posted by: red headed 'ette All true. And then, truck stops are in the country. What if you haul the body 200 yards from the parking lot. If I hauled a body 200 yards from a truck stop parking lot outside Omaha, that no one was looking for, how long until it's found? And if it's a week - how many truckers came through in the last week? Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:38 PM (PDMtc) 349
Soon enough trucks will drive themselves, so no more truck serial killers.
Problem Status: Solved Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:38 PM (eZuvF) 350
Spanish Moon
out Posted by: Big Tuna at March 12, 2019 11:38 PM (wZ29p) 351
Night, horde. Prayers to all on the job interviews and Baldy on your surgery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 12, 2019 11:38 PM (IyMrw) 352
I feel you, brah. I'm also 8 percent black with an IQ in the 150s and no one would give me a job. So I started my own company instead of whining to the horde. Pucker up, buttercup. Dew u no da whey?
Posted by: Ugandan Knuckles at March 12, 2019 11:39 PM (Jj+59) 353
Back in the day locally, there were anti-john operations afoot and there were so called street walkers that were propositioning males as they walked by.
It was so obviously a set up because these ladies looked absolutely dynamite, every hair in place, perfect make up, they smelled great, they had nice posture, you get the idea. No bruises or tatts. "Hey fella, wanna party?" I've seen hookers and I've seen more hookers and these weren't hookers. They were undercover detectives. "No thank you, nice try". Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 12, 2019 11:39 PM (w7KSn) 354
"There's a lot to get mad over in the world. Aunt Becky getting her kid into an Ivy school isn't really at the top of my list.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker" What about the claiming the 500K as a charitable contribution on her taxes? That's a little more to get angry about. Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 12, 2019 11:40 PM (DjIXP) Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:41 PM (XAYDB) 356
@ free Tibet.
Thanks for the AO tip. Might consider a pair for backup purposes, but they don't have much variety in their frames, and those all look to be smaller sized options, at that. Oh, and they're polycarbonate, vs. the classic B&L glass lenses. Specs for my specs. 62mm Outdoorsman II frames w/ cable temples. Black finish. Ray Ban "Driver's" lenses. Deep amber lens, with gradient mirror tint. Those things fit like they're tailored to me, and the cable temples are very motorcycle helmet friendly. The larger lenses provide more peripheral vision coverage and more wind and debris protection out on the road. Search those out on eBay, and belt in for a helluva case of sticker shock! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 12, 2019 11:41 PM (QzJWU) 357
What about the claiming the 500K as a charitable contribution on her taxes? That's a little more to get angry about.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 12, 2019 11:40 PM (DjIXP) ___ True. And in a sane world she'd spend a few months in prison. Instead she will get 2 weeks community service volunteering to register Democrats. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:41 PM (eZuvF) 358
OK you're right. That whole multi billion dollar trucking logistics industry is just there for shits and grins. My bad.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:37 PM (eZuvF) That covers what, UPS, FEDEX, and USPS, that's a small fraction, most trucking is independent/1099. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:42 PM (Rz2Nc) 359
Soon enough trucks will drive themselves, so no more truck serial killers.
Problem Status: Solved Posted by: Lurking Lurker Until the machines rise up, that is ... Posted by: Adriane the Bad Sci Fi Movie Critic ... at March 12, 2019 11:42 PM (LPnfS) 360
most independent owner/operators have everything tied up in their equipment. the margins are thin. doubt they have the resources for lot lizards. and, cheating on shit would kill their livelyhood.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 11:43 PM (KP5rU) 361
And truck stop hookers are not rare.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:43 PM (PDMtc) 362
Good night, horde.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V. at March 12, 2019 11:44 PM (d6Ksn) 363
That covers what, UPS, FEDEX, and USPS, that's a small fraction, most trucking is independent/1099.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:42 PM (Rz2Nc) ___ Knight-Swift: 28K employees JB Hunt: 22K employees Schneider: 12K employees There's a lot more corporate trucking than you think. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:45 PM (eZuvF) 364
The '80s were weird.
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:45 PM (XAYDB) 365
338: It takes some gall to hire a firm to create fake scores for your kid so that he or she can essentially steal a seat from some other, much more deserving applicant.
Legacy applicants whose parents buy them a seat through donation to a school are a problem too. But screw these people. Some kind of example has to be made that the laws apply to those who would consider themselves our "betters." Posted by: Revenant at March 12, 2019 11:45 PM (bD2Jh) 366
Next corny movie: Battle Beyond the Stars.
Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 11:46 PM (lBjZi) 367
361 And truck stop hookers are not rare.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:43 PM (PDMtc) Friends of the road. Posted by: Ray at March 12, 2019 11:47 PM (XAYDB) 368
Greasy, Ray
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (XAYDB) 369
Knight-Swift: 28K employees
JB Hunt: 22K employees Schneider: 12K employees There's a lot more corporate trucking than you think. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:45 PM (eZuvF) I know JB Hunt drivers are 1099,they might call them employees,but They won't pay their bills. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (Rz2Nc) 370
The fake charity deduction is definitely a crime.
But is it a crime to donate money to buy your kid a Harvard spot? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (eZuvF) 371
Somehow, I'm just not figuring a way to jump into this conversation about automated trucks picking up sexbot hookers at recharging stations.
I should probably wander off to bed. Posted by: mindful webworker - neo eon one? at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (jMD9L) 372
Lots of truck stop have tall light poles in the lot. How many of those poles also contain cameras? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (aKsyK) 373
367 361 And truck stop hookers are not rare.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:43 PM (PDMtc) --- AKA Lot Lizards. Posted by: SMH at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (RU4sa) 374
Knight-Swift: 28K employees
JB Hunt: 22K employees Schneider: 12K employees There's a lot more corporate trucking than you think. Posted by: Lurking Lurker Not trying to argue with you friend, but that's 62,000 possible suspects. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (PDMtc) 375
I know JB Hunt drivers are 1099,they might call them employees,but They won't pay their bills.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (Rz2Nc) ___ Whatever they are, JB most likely keeps close tabs on where those trucks are. Which was my point. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (eZuvF) 376
Stormy has a book out. Saw it in the B&N (the one which is too good to carry History of Jihad)
I didn't buy Stormy's book and I won't be reviewing it in the Book Thread. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (ykYG2) 377
Whatever, the video is kinda fucked, but "Something About You" is still an awesome song.
Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (XAYDB) Posted by: booknlass at March 12, 2019 11:50 PM (xIKXj) 379
Little Feat. Their best-known songs are -Dixie Chicken' and -Sailin Shoes'.
Ah um, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqv85coyTw Posted by: Braenyard en tanto delicto at March 12, 2019 11:50 PM (ePWRo) 380
Not trying to argue with you friend, but that's 62,000 possible suspects.
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (PDMtc) __ heh Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:50 PM (eZuvF) 381
Berenyi 1991ish was hawt. 9/10 would have motorboated
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (ykYG2) 382
Awesome content again Mis Hum.
If a cob could be so kind, visit last nights ONT, see comment 615 and send My life is Insanity my email add Id be grateful. Or let me know how to contact a cob other than bother one of them on Twitter while interrupting them while they do the Lord's work of taking the piss out of the left for the joy of so many of us. Posted by: Bete in reflection at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (Yl8dY) 383
...Somehow, I'm just not figuring a way to jump into this conversation about automated trucks picking up sexbot hookers at recharging stations.
I should probably wander off to bed. Posted by: mindful webworker - neo eon one? at March 12, 2019 11:48 PM (jMD9L) No, not until you go cash your check from Porn Hub for selling 'em that script idea. You *are* gonna sell 'em that script idea, right? Posted by: Mack Truck from Death Race at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (QzJWU) 384
Good evening, I wonder if there are any documented cases of poor poor defenseless women being sexually assaulted along the truck stops of the Iditarod. Seems like a perfect spot for picking up females just down on their luck and needing a hand. Maybe Terri Gross could investigate.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattlrboro Vermont at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (Jj+59) 385
Vis a vis what to watch with pre-teen kids, if Moron Robbie is still around...
My kids all love Around the World in 80 Days: the classic made in '56. They also love Ivanhoe, with Liz Taylor. And Court Jester, with Danny Kaye. And the old Robin Hood series, with Richard Greene (4 seasons on Amazon Prime). Also, Father Goose, with Cary Grant. And Bringing Up Baby. The old Doctor Dolittle, with the British actor whose name I can't remember..Rex Harrison? There's more, but I can't prop my eyelids open any longer. Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at March 12, 2019 11:52 PM (adsVM) 386
Stormy could star as the sex bot
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:52 PM (eZuvF) 387
What gets me is "meatless Mondays" are suppose to be cost-neutral. You're cutting out meat and not saving money---how? All organic magic beans?
Posted by: CCO at March 12, 2019 11:52 PM (JTa+B) 388
If you're a female solo OTR driver, Mace and/or a firearm is your friend.
Even though carrying heat is supposedly prohibited by federal law. Drove for PAM for a year after I got out of the Army. Definitely not like it was back in the 70s. Posted by: SMH at March 12, 2019 11:53 PM (RU4sa) 389
Whatever they are, JB most likely keeps close tabs on where those trucks are. Which was my point.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:49 PM (eZuvF) That's fine. My point are countless trucks on the road that no one knows where they are. Serial killing/rapist has gone on for decades with that profession. I have multiple relatives that did that for a living. The opportunity is just there. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:53 PM (Rz2Nc) 390
I doubt the mortar was fully cured on any of those Ivy League schools before someone took a "donation" that allowed certain young men, who were not of the class the chancellors hoped to see roaming their hallowed halls, to enroll and live right there amongst the nobs.
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 12, 2019 11:53 PM (qll3d) 391
spent more than half my life dealing with trucking companies and drivers. there are good and bad in every industry. don't get me started on railroads and container shipping. how the fuck a major port in this country hasn't been nuked is a testament to "feel lucky, punk?"
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 12, 2019 11:54 PM (KP5rU) 392
359 Soon enough trucks will drive themselves, so no more truck serial killers.
Problem Status: Solved Posted by: Lurking Lurker .... Autonomous vehicles still have to be manned, no? Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 12, 2019 11:55 PM (gCzjH) 393
I just applied. These jobs are incredibly rare as my experience is deep but narrow in scope. Please take a minute if you would. This needs to happen. Thank you.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 12, 2019 10:58 PM (ffYR/) Good luck to you, CM. I hope you stressed in your covering letter that you have done basically that exact job for 15 years, and are the best-qualified person they could hope to find. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 11:55 PM (nPGq2) 394
Oh, and Lurking Luker, I enjoy a lot of your posts, I just disagree with you on this one point.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:56 PM (Rz2Nc) 395
57 ... "What I really hate is seeing these kinds of mistakes in our local paper. You can't even expect newspapers to use proper grammar anymore."
This reminds me of an ad in our local paper many years ago. Someone was selling an antique chair in a well-known style. It was listed as a Chip N Dale chair. Who knew Disney characters made furniture. Posted by: JTB at March 12, 2019 11:56 PM (bmdz3) 396
387 What gets me is "meatless Mondays" are suppose to be cost-neutral. You're cutting out meat and not saving money---how? All organic magic beans?
Posted by: CCO at March 12, 2019 11:52 PM (JTa+B) --uh, not to mention the Catholic Church had that beat by, oh, 2,000 years (except on Fridays) but Heaven forfend Christians beat libtards to the punch. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:59 PM (XAYDB) 397
at least it wasn't a male stripper chair
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 11:59 PM (ykYG2) 398
In a plutonic fashion, Amirite?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 12, 2019 11:09 PM (aA3+G) You mean rising up from abyssal depths in the Earth's mantle, and crystallizing in the roots of a mountain chain? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 12, 2019 11:59 PM (nPGq2) 399
Knight-Swift: 28K employees
JB Hunt: 22K employees Schneider: 12K employees There's a lot more corporate trucking than you think. Posted by: Lurking Lurker A lot of that # is indies contracted to the carrier. Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (LOq4H) 400
394 Oh, and Lurking Luker, I enjoy a lot of your posts, I just disagree with you on this one point.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:56 PM (Rz2Nc) ---- I dig debate. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (eZuvF) 401
I've just read Kentucky has enacted constitutional carry! There are now 16 such states, 3 added just this year...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 12:01 AM (CLcKT) 402
I could make great money at Chippendale's.
Women would pay me huge sums of cash, if I'd but KEEP MY CLOTHES ON! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:01 AM (QzJWU) 403
381 Berenyi 1991ish was hawt. 9/10 would have motorboated
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (ykYG2) --Oh yeah, hawt as hell. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:01 AM (XAYDB) 404
402 I could make great money at Chippendale's.
Women would pay me huge sums of cash, if I'd but KEEP MY CLOTHES ON! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX .... I respect your standards Jim. Lesser men wouldn't. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:03 AM (gCzjH) 405
thread is out of gas. nite all. be well.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 13, 2019 12:03 AM (KP5rU) 406
just read Kentucky has enacted constitutional carry! There are now 16 such states, 3 added just this year...
That's a sign that the Federal Government and/or the banks will abolish the Second Amendment or make it a dead letter, within the next four or five years. Remember all the states that blocked gay marriage in the 2000s? including California? Yeah... like that. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:03 AM (ykYG2) Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:04 AM (Rz2Nc) 408
Wouldn't it be easy to track this down. Trucks all have GPS and shit now don't they? So if hooker goes missing at Truck Stop X in Kansas and the body is found in Florida 24 hours later, you can narrow down the truckers who were at the truck stop and in FL at those times.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:20 PM (eZuvF) That could narrow it down to hundreds, maybe a thousand or more. There are a lot of trucks on the road, running similar routes. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:04 AM (nPGq2) 409
All true. And then, truck stops are in the country. What if you haul the body 200 yards from the parking lot. If I hauled a body 200 yards from a truck stop parking lot outside Omaha, that no one was looking for, how long until it's found? And if it's a week - how many truckers came through in the last week?
Posted by: Vertov at March 12, 2019 11:38 PM On a related note, there was at least one trucker serial killer. Randy Greenawalt who was in the Tison prison breakout and murder spree. Greenawalt picked truckers sleeping in their cabs, drew an X outside where the driver's head would be and shot them through the truck. Apparently when asked why truckers?... he replied, "Well, nobody else is killing truckers. Why not?" Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 12:04 AM (LkFnL) 410
...I dig debate.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (eZuvF) #metoo Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:04 AM (Rz2Nc) You two Master Debaters need to Get a Room. /snrk Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:05 AM (QzJWU) 411
I had a really bad day. (A "lifetime dream collapsed for good" sort of day.) So I apologize, but here goes the full rip:
Regarding that"Holy Shit Your 30" thing: HOW THE FUCK DOES SOMEONE NOT KNOW THAT IT SHOULD BE "YOU'RE"? You go through all the trouble to make a complex cake and you don't even notice that it's misspelled. Fuck you. You're an idiot, whoever you are, and I hope you don't vote. I'm sick of adults who do that "self-betterment" crap where they're going to learn something new. You know the shit I'm talking about? "Hey, I'm 50, so I'm going to go skydiving!" That sort of crap. Here's an idea, America: Why not take a weekend to sit down and learn what the fuck an apostrophe is for? Learn it and apply to your life from that day forward. I'm sick of it. It's REALLY FUCKING EASY! Just do it, damn you! Posted by: RKae at March 13, 2019 12:06 AM (Rd8+4) 412
That's a sign that the Federal Government and/or the
banks will abolish the Second Amendment or make it a dead letter, within the next four or five years. Remember all the states that blocked gay marriage in the 2000s? including California? Yeah... like that. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:03 AM Oh, I don't know BTH... One would think the Obergefell decision has set a precedent of sorts for 2A which actually is in the Constitution, unlike homosexual marriage -- if the right challenge comes before The Supremes! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 12:08 AM (CLcKT) 413
407 I dig debate.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (eZuvF) #metoo Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:04 AM (Rz2Nc) I don't because I just want to be friends with everyone. I really don't want to debate anyone. Just everyone needs to understand I'm always right. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:08 AM (fxYNS) 414
I am bad about slapping unnecessary apostrophes before any ol s. It's like my pinky has a mind of its own.
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:09 AM (qll3d) 415
*shoves Snicker's bar through USB port to RKae*
Here. Your not yourself when your hungry. runs serpentine! /snrk Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:09 AM (QzJWU) 416
You two Master Debaters need to Get a Room.
/snrk Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:05 AM (QzJWU) I'll loop back to an earlier thread where this might have been funny, and say your a fun guy. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:10 AM (Rz2Nc) 417
Posted by: RKae at March 13, 2019 12:06 AM (Rd8+4)
You totally made me laugh. When I meet stupid people I tend to ask them to please not vote. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:10 AM (fxYNS) 418
@413 Just everyone needs to understand I'm always right.
------------------ Though you might sometimes mistakenly misstate your position when you accidentally post something that appears to disagree with something I posted. Posted by: junior at March 13, 2019 12:11 AM (Fp6vo) 419
283 miE9U)
--The whole point of cable TV was that one didn't have to sit through ads forever. Now one has to anyway, and pay through the nose for it. Posted by: logprof at March 12, 2019 11:11 PM (XAYDB) Yep, I remember the original selling point was no commercials, yet, here we are. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 12, 2019 11:16 PM (Rz2Nc) Wasn't that something PBS used to bray about, too? Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at March 13, 2019 12:11 AM (di1hb) 420
No, not until you go cash your check from Porn Hub for selling 'em that script idea. You *are* gonna sell 'em that script idea, right? Posted by: Mack Truck from Death Race at March 12, 2019 11:51 PM (QzJWU Reason Magazine put their "Make Guns at Home" video on PornHub because YouTub wouldn't let it on. InRange TV has a PornHub channel. My life is slightly more complete this week for learning this. Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2019 12:11 AM (mUa7G) 421
There's a lot to get mad over in the world. Aunt Becky getting her kid into an Ivy school isn't really at the top of my list.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 12, 2019 11:33 PM (eZuvF) What if it's your kid who misses a chance at an Ivy League school because Aunt Becky paid bribes to get her crotchfruit in there instead? When you are talking freshman intake at a prestigious college, it is a zero-sum game. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:12 AM (nPGq2) 422
I don't because I just want to be friends with everyone. I really don't want to debate anyone. Just everyone needs to understand I'm always right.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:08 AM (fxYNS) ---------- Sheeit, my Ex went to your school. She was class of '78, so she can't use hot for an excuse to put up with her shit anymore. What year were you? Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (ffYR/) 423
366 Next corny movie: Battle Beyond the Stars.
Posted by: Sporkatus at March 12, 2019 11:46 PM (lBjZi) The spaceship with boobs Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (rOXDf) 424
CaliGirl!
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (qll3d) 425
I am bad about slapping unnecessary apostrophes before any ol s. It's like my pinky has a mind of its own.
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:09 AM (qll3d) I know, I tend to put them in to indicate a glottal stop. Posted by: Kindltot at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (mUa7G) 426
407 I dig debate.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (eZuvF) --Best pop song of the '80s? "Something About You" thrown on th table. I also love "Head Over Heels" by the Go Gos and "All Through the Night" by Cyndi Lauper. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (XAYDB) 427
InRange TV has a PornHub channel.
My life is slightly more complete this week for learning this. Posted by: Kindltot Explaining my browser history just got a lot easier. Posted by: Some rat in the Swamp at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (LOq4H) 428
Though you might sometimes mistakenly misstate your position when you accidentally post something that appears to disagree with something I posted.
Posted by: junior at March 13, 2019 12:11 AM (Fp6vo) Your ( you're) not married to me. My husband has two (too) choices, right or happy. He usually chooses right. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (fxYNS) 429
Not to worry. I give Mrs. De Blasio extra meat on Mondays so NYC stays at equilibrium.
Posted by: The Paolo at March 13, 2019 12:14 AM (H5knJ) 430
I just want to be friends with everyone. I really don't want to debate anyone. Just everyone needs to understand I'm always right.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:08 AM (fxYNS) ___ Mrs. Lurking Lurker, is that you? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:14 AM (eZuvF) 431
424 CaliGirl!
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:13 AM (qll3d) Yo, chicki mami baby! Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:15 AM (fxYNS) 432
CBS Sport Network has a story about high school Muslim girls playing basketball in their hijabs.
So brave, they say. So wonderful, they say. I'm growing ever more sick of this by the day. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:15 AM (gCzjH) Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:15 AM (qll3d) 434
Arrrgh. Attended Administrative Board meeting tonight at church, to discuss recent Methodist general Conference decision to maintain current discipline re LGBTQLSMFT.
It was definitely a hostile environment...for me. The Church is doomed. I've never personally encountered a group of people so incapable of rational, adult judgement. Schism is only a question of time. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM (CDGwz) 435
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:15 AM (fxYNS)
How are things? Last time I was around regularly, I think you were having big troubles (This is Tammy al-Thor, btw) Hoping things a great now! Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (qll3d) 436
80s music...I was (and still like) the Brit stuff, Depeche Mode, New Order and the like.
Sad to say, my wife who was fucking born in the 80s didn't know who Rick Astley was. Sad trombone. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (eZuvF) 437
I don't because I just want to be friends with everyone. I really don't want to debate anyone. Just everyone needs to understand I'm always right.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:08 AM (fxYNS) You're wrong. I think lurking luker and I are "friends" , and we both enjoyed the debate we had. Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (Rz2Nc) Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (PDMtc) 439
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM (CDGwz)
You one of them there U-nited Methodists? Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:18 AM (qll3d) 440
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM (CDGwz)
..... Does your church have queer clergy? Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:19 AM (gCzjH) 441
...You're wrong. I think lurking luker and I are "friends" , and we both enjoyed the debate we had.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (Rz2Nc) And I enjoyed spinnin' ya up, just for the fun of it. We ARE the ONT after all. This isn't a space for sissies, snowflakes or soi-boyz. *buys round of drinks for me, evasive n' lurker* Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (QzJWU) 442
How are things? Last time I was around regularly, I think you were having big troubles (This is Tammy al-Thor, btw)
Hoping things a great now! Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (qll3d) Still in the shit deep. You will see my doppelgänger on dateline. I will give everyone a heads up. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (fxYNS) 443
I thought Hammer was a High Anglican, actually. (What we used to call Episcopalian)
Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (qll3d) 444
There was a story a few years ago about the super duper brave muslim football players who played during Ramadan. The mostest braviest people in the history of bravery.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (eZuvF) 445
I dig debate.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:00 AM (eZuvF) Good plan. Fish love those earthworms. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (nPGq2) 446
Schism is only a question of time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM Its (It's) almost as if all those things we were told would never happen with the ghey 'marriage' mandate, actually are coming to pass! Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (CLcKT) 447
--Best pop song of the '80s?
----------- There can be no debate about this, 'Walk Like an Egyptian', The Bangles. Wait, wait...there is another possibility...it's possible that all 80's music sucked, and blew, at the same time. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (CDGwz) 448
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (fxYNS)
My God. Are you safe? Come my house if you need to! Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (qll3d) 449
And I enjoyed spinnin' ya up, just for the fun of it.
We ARE the ONT after all. This isn't a space for sissies, snowflakes or soi-boyz. *buys round of drinks for me, evasive n' lurker* Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (QzJWU) Thanks, and cheers Jim! Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:22 AM (Rz2Nc) 450
448 Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:20 AM (fxYNS)
My God. Are you safe? Come my house if you need to! Posted by: red headed 'ette at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (qll3d) I'm safe, I'm just involved peripherally in a crazy thing that will go viral eventually. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:24 AM (fxYNS) 451
Its (It's) almost as if all those things we were told would never happen with the ghey 'marriage' mandate, actually are coming to pass!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto ----------- There were a couple of people there crying , because they were so traumatized that the discipline which they had voluntarily joined, and which has not changed, wasn't changed. "Frightened", they said, "Persecuted" they said, blah, blah, blah. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:24 AM (CDGwz) 452
I'm safe, I'm just involved peripherally in a crazy thing that will go viral eventually.
Posted by: CaliGirl Does it involve a truck driver serial killer? Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:25 AM (PDMtc) 453
Does it involve a truck driver serial killer?
Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:25 AM (PDMtc) I wish. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:27 AM (fxYNS) 454
I thought Hammer was a High Anglican, actually. (What we used to call Episcopalian)
Posted by: red headed 'ette ---------- I used to be, but was booted for partaking of the wine a bit too heavily. Something about, "Hey! Leave some for everyone else!" Then, the kneelers hurt my back. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:27 AM (CDGwz) Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:27 AM (ykYG2) 456
Jim
Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2 I miss all of you, you too Tammy. I lurk. I only comment after some red wine. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:29 AM (fxYNS) 457
Arrrgh. Attended Administrative Board meeting tonight at church, to discuss recent Methodist general Conference decision to maintain current discipline re LGBTQLSMFT.
It was definitely a hostile environment...for me. The Church is doomed. I've never personally encountered a group of people so incapable of rational, adult judgement. Schism is only a question of time. Posted by: Mike Hammer, I dont know if it would help, but the recent story about the horrors that befell the first non binary person is a great cautionary tale to stay rational in the face of pc pressure to accept the unreasonable Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2019 12:29 AM (XROPS) 458
453
Does it involve a truck driver serial killer? Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:25 AM (PDMtc) I wish. Posted by: CaliGirl OK, ya got me. That's funny. Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:30 AM (PDMtc) 459
Wait, wait...there is another possibility...it's possible that all 80's music sucked, and blew, at the same time.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:21 AM (CDGwz) Now here is an '80's band that didn't suck, Doug and the Slugs, from Vancouver, B.C. Fun band, with tight arrangements, and witty, literate lyrics: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=eCkHUp0qPCo Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:30 AM (nPGq2) 460
pop song of the 1980s? In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
we're done here. Posted by: boulder t'hobo ---------- "Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies" Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:30 AM (CDGwz) 461
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:24 AM (CDGwz)
..... Tough situation. Does the Pastor ever preach on homosexuality or abortion? Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:31 AM (gCzjH) 462
when you find yourself thinking that a serial killer driving the lorry from Duel is better than your own situation, that's usually a bad sign.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:31 AM (ykYG2) 463
There were a couple of people there crying , because they were so traumatized that the discipline which they had voluntarily joined, and which has not changed, wasn't changed. "Frightened", they said, "Persecuted" they said, blah, blah, blah.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:24 AM (CDGwz) Surely they would find a loving home in the Metropolitan Community Church of What's Happening Now? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:32 AM (nPGq2) 464
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies" Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:30 AM (CDGwz) Now I'm over here alone playing air drums in my den. The cat thinks I've lost it. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:32 AM (fxYNS) 465
the recent story about the horrors that befell the first non binary person is a great cautionary tale to stay rational in the face of pc pressure to accept the unreasonable
the Bible lasted three thousand years; Gomorrah didn't Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:33 AM (ykYG2) 466
...I miss all of you, you too Tammy. I lurk. I only comment after some red wine.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:29 AM (fxYNS) Hugs atcha, CaliGirl. *mails her a brick of .22 sub-sonic ammo* Here, shoot a backyard predator. It's practice *and* therapy! Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:33 AM (QzJWU) 467
436 80s music...I was (and still like) the Brit stuff, Depeche Mode, New Order and the like.
Sad to say, my wife who was fucking born in the 80s didn't know who Rick Astley was. Sad trombone. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:17 AM (eZuvF) --In no order, Top 5: "All Through the Night" "Under the Milky Way" "Something About You" (gotta stay honest) "Blood and Roses" Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:33 AM (XAYDB) 468
462 when you find yourself thinking that a serial killer driving the lorry from Duel is better than your own situation, that's usually a bad sign.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:31 AM (ykYG2) This sums up my situation perfectly. When it's over, you will all know. It will be viral. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:34 AM (fxYNS) 469
Bed time. Good luck cm and caligirl. Being on nightline is never good.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at March 13, 2019 12:34 AM (Rz2Nc) 470
462
when you find yourself thinking that a serial killer driving the lorry from Duel is better than your own situation, that's usually a bad sign. Posted by: boulder t'hobo Unless .... you have reason to believe he's going to be on *your* side. Posted by: Vertov at March 13, 2019 12:35 AM (PDMtc) 471
Concur with the Collins selection.
To hell with the '80s. That's a great piece of music, then, now and always. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:35 AM (QzJWU) 472
I had a really bad day. (A "lifetime dream collapsed for good" sort of day.)
Posted by: RKae at March 13, 2019 12:06 AM I had one of those when I found out my boy friend was having an affair. It left quite the hole, so Prayers for Strength and Resilience ... Posted by: Adriane the Bad Sci Fi Movie Critic ... at March 13, 2019 12:35 AM (LPnfS) 473
im
Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:33 AM (QzJWU) I have two coyotes on my list. They are in my yard at noon. I shot one with the pellet gun. The rifle was in the house. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:35 AM (fxYNS) 474
Tough situation. Does the Pastor ever preach on homosexuality or abortion? Posted by: Bitter Clinger -------- The guy is walking a tightrope. We have a significant number of 'progressive' members who are noisesome and aggressive. Naturally, the over 50 people are just live and let live, and do not understand that the so-called 'Reconcilers' have their collective nose under the tent, and like Progs everywhere, they will continue to push, until it is too late to save things. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:36 AM (xSo9G) 475
I have two coyotes on my list. They are in my yard at noon. I shot one with the pellet gun. The rifle was in the house.
Posted by: CaliGirl ---------- Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Posted by: The Coyote at March 13, 2019 12:38 AM (xSo9G) 476
460 pop song of the 1980s? In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
we're done here. Posted by: boulder t'hobo --More like rock than pop, but okay. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:38 AM (XAYDB) 477
Let's Dance was is amazing.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:41 AM (PUmDY) 478
Did Hoover wiretap Richard Nixon for LBJ in 1968?
Posted by: Goatweed at March 13, 2019 12:41 AM (iR3Gu) 479
T'pau, "China In Your Hand"
Fleetwood Mac, "Little Lies" Pet Shop Boys, "Opportunities" Bronski Beat, "Smalltown Boy" OMD, "If You Leave" ... hope I didn't break anyone's gaydar with that selection Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:42 AM (ykYG2) 480
the Bible lasted three thousand years; Gomorrah didn't Posted by: boulder t'hobo ------------- Don't look back, you should never look back... Posted by: Lot's wife/Steely Dan at March 13, 2019 12:43 AM (CDGwz) 481
Let's Dance was is amazing.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:41 AM https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XaIx_FBk4-Q Posted by: Adriane the Bad Sci Fi Movie Critic ... at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (LPnfS) 482
477 Let's Dance was is amazing.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:41 AM (PUmDY) --Album? "China Girl" was the tits. SRV FTW. https://youtu.be/_YC3sTbAPcU Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (XAYDB) 483
On CNN, Sam Donaldson calls Fox News viewers ignorant rubes. Cuz you see, Tucker Carlson something something.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (eZuvF) 484
...I have two coyotes on my list. They are in my yard at noon. I shot one with the pellet gun. The rifle was in the house.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:35 AM (fxYNS) With either a .22 firing sub-sonic, or your pellet gun, you can bag a song-dog, but you've got to be quick and you've got to be accurate, above all. If the dog is in profile to you, imagine a line between the eye and the opening of the ear, aim halfway along that line, and fire. If it's looking straight at you, imagine that line from the upper eyelid to the upper eyelid. Bisect the line, and fire. You need to practice till hitting a dime sized target at forty yards is routine. A nickel will do, mostly. If you're only reliably hitting a quarter, you're not quite ready, yet. If you have an accurate rifle, buy an even MORE accurate SCOPE. Oh, and .22s are very persnickety about ammo selection. Keep trying brands and weights, till you find one that'll hit those dimes, every time. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (QzJWU) 485
Deadhead sticker on a cadillac.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (PUmDY) 486
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:36 AM (xSo9G)
..... Easier said than done, but sometimes the best solution is to let the book and the Lord speak. If the parishioners want to leave when faced with the word of the Lord, they aren't rejecting the Pastor and they aren't rejecting you. They are rejecting God. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:45 AM (gCzjH) 487
Didn't Ted Bundy pick up hitchhikers in the 70s?
Posted by: AlaBAMA Yeah, in his "customized" VW. Posted by: Vertov at March 12, No. Im kind of an expert in this. He lured girls to his VW with stories of needing help, but none of his known victims were hitchhikers Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2019 12:45 AM (XROPS) 488
On CNN, Sam Donaldson calls Fox News viewers ignorant rubes. Cuz you see, Tucker Carlson something something.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker ------------ *sticks out tongue* Posted by: The Cartoon Network, crushing CNN at March 13, 2019 12:45 AM (CDGwz) 489
Tucker Carlson has gone to war with the msm.
It appears that FOX is backing him up. If last night was a warning shot tonight is a broadside. 3/12/19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCOkJcGWcY4 3/11/19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WH-hc3Ckg Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2019 12:46 AM (ePWRo) 490
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 13, 2019 12:48 AM (PLfkE) 491
If the parishioners want to leave when faced with the word of the Lord, they aren't rejecting the Pastor and they aren't rejecting you. They are rejecting God. Posted by: Bitter Clinger ---------- The pattern is pretty well established (See: Episcopal Church, PC(USA). First the ghey stuff is allowed to creep in, then, hitherto complacent people begin realize that the church has strayed from both custom and scripture, and they go find another church. Posted by: The Cartoon Network, crushing CNN at March 13, 2019 12:49 AM (CDGwz) 492
So weird that Bowie randomly decided he wanted huge pop songs.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:50 AM (PUmDY) 493
Jim
Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (QzJWU) I hit one of the coyotes in the flank/hind leg. It's a one shot pellet gun. My .22 I have more shots but they surprised me. I had a 75 foot tree fall and knocked down a fence behind my guest house. The coyotes were sneaking in over the fallen fence behind the shrubs. I've had the tree removed and the fence fixed. There was a red fox out there today in the grapes, I didn't get a shot but I scared him away. These critters are sneaky. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:51 AM (fxYNS) 494
Tone Loc - Wild Thing
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 13, 2019 12:51 AM (PLfkE) 495
The Stone Roses, "Don't Stop"
https://youtu.be/d0MoFA2rUC8 P.S. and bth, you're a homo (although I like all but the Bronski Beat song) Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:52 AM (XAYDB) 496
Milli Vanilli!
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 13, 2019 12:52 AM (PLfkE) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:52 AM (CDGwz) 498
485 Deadhead sticker on a cadillac.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:44 AM (PUmDY) A little voice inside my head said don't look back. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 12:52 AM (fxYNS) 499
China Girl was an Iggy Pop song, I believe.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:53 AM (PUmDY) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 12:53 AM (nPGq2) 501
Lowell George looks like he's been Acid Campin' and Canoeing.
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 13, 2019 12:53 AM (RuIsu) 502
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM (CDGwz)
You one of them there U-nited Methodists? Posted by: red headed 'ette --------- Yup. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:54 AM (CDGwz) 503
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:16 AM (CDGwz)
..... Does your church have queer clergy? Posted by: Bitter Clinger ------------ Organist, and Music Director Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (CDGwz) Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (ykYG2) 505
First the ghey stuff is allowed to creep in, then, hitherto complacent people begin realize that the church has strayed from both custom and scripture, and they go find another church.
Posted by: The Cartoon Network, crushing CNN at March 13, 2019 12:49 AM ... Understood. But the Methodist Church reaffirmed God's word. In the individual member churches, that's a mandate for the Pastors to reinforce what Scripture has to say on the subject. I'd say a sermon on Romans 1:28-32 would be a good place to begin. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (gCzjH) 506
Saw remnants of Little Feat tonight. It was great to hear the music live.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (PUmDY) 507
Hmm, J. Edgar as MLB Commissioner?
I guess, that would eventually mean Comey as MLB Commissioner in turn. So, about right now, Peter Strozk, starting short stop for the Yankees, would be pulling random people out of the spring training stands and investigating them for colluding with the Red Sox. On a brighter note, former Deputy Commissioner McCabe, would probably be in prison for lying to the FBI about something or another. Oh, and occasionally some incompetent MLB player would do a backflip and shoot some innocent fan in the stands when his loaded gun fell out of the field. Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (dYe5S) 508
Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 13, 2019 12:56 AM (PLfkE) 509
Watching/Listening to Braenyard's link to TuCa on Ewtoob... I think that scholars in the distant future will proclaim the Obergefell decision as the tipping point in the American experiment, unless... Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 12:57 AM (CLcKT) 510
504 Watching Jane's Rush Hour video, giving a dolphin a, er, fin job
wut Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM (ykYG2) --Whatever, I would stand in for that porpoise. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:57 AM (XAYDB) 511
Night all. Be well.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 13, 2019 12:58 AM (ffYR/) 512
Heh:
"In a classic episode of Full House, Lori Loughlin's Aunt Becky refused to play along with a school admissions scam" https://preview.tinyurl.com/y46kgdbb Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (eZuvF) 513
"Ace wrote magnificently earlier today on the "Aunt Becky" situation."
Doesn't anyone know about her Hallmark career? They have to go all the way back to "Full House"? Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (NMAzL) 514
Spent 2 months looking for eyeglass frames that would fit my prodigious noggin and not look like safety goggles.
Whether or not Luxottica is to blame, the industry has gone mostly to one-style-one-size. That holds for national chains, mom-and-pop shops, designer shops, and online retailers. You find what fits and settle for the style. Shuron USA did me right. Shuron probably made your grandparents' eyeglass frames, back when your grandparents chose the style and the optician ordered the size. Shuron is still in business; they're not getting much love from eyeglass shops, but they sell online. Since I wasn't getting any cooperation from the local eyeglass shops and lens grinders in Phoenix in getting a frame that would fit in the style I wanted (round wire frames, is that so difficult???) I gave Shuron a call. Shuron let me order 5 different sizes to try, charged the price of 1 frame as a deposit, and gave me 2 weeks to pick the one size out of the 5 that fit best and to return the other 4 by USPS. Worked great. Pleased with the style and quality of the frames; better than I had ordered (and returned) from Zenni and WarbyParker, better than the chain shops, better than the local mom-and-pop shops (which, at least in the Phoenix area, don't try very hard). Had a grinder in Scottsdale make the progressive bifocal lenses. Ordering those online had been a big mistake (although I got my money back). Posted by: El Lurker Grande at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (k9XT/) 515
Organist, and Music Director
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:55 AM .... Mmm. That's really tough. So the church has basically been condoning the behavior for a while, avoiding the topic to keep harmony. The longer a problem persists, the more entrenched it becomes. I wish you and your congregation the best on figuring it out. Prayers up that God will show you folks the way. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (gCzjH) 516
Cali Girl
You can do this, with a highly accurate .22 bolt action rifle. Fact is, I'd suggest a good single-shot rifle, straight up. Why? You've got to develop that "first shot" standard of ultimate accuracy, if you're going to succeed at all. I know coyotes and foxes. I've bagged my share, this isn't idle talk. You've got to become AWESOME with only ONE shot. Don't count on follow up shots to do the job. If you fell the dog with your first shot, you'll have time to reload for the coup de grace. If you miss with your first shot, doing the mag-dump from the 10/22 really ain't gonna get 'er done, anyway. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (QzJWU) 517
Understood. But the Methodist Church reaffirmed God's word. In the individual member churches, that's a mandate for the Pastors to reinforce what Scripture has to say on the subject. I'd say a sermon on Romans 1:28-32 would be a good place to begin. Posted by: Bitter Clinger ------------- Our minister is a good man, but he is cruising to retirement. He has personally told me that there will be no ghey marriages in the church...but he is likely to bail at any moment. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (xSo9G) Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:00 AM (eZuvF) 519
Tucker referred to Brian "Tater" Stelter as a "court enuch" tonight. I guess that's as close as you can come to "cuck" with FOX. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 13, 2019 01:01 AM (f1Vqw) 520
Gimme Missing Persons.Long Distance Love is very great.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:02 AM (PUmDY) Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:02 AM (XAYDB) 522
513 "Ace wrote magnificently earlier today on the "Aunt Becky" situation."
Doesn't anyone know about her Hallmark career? They have to go all the way back to "Full House"? Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (NMAzL) ____ Until this morning I had no idea she was on Hallmark. Hell I kinda forgot there was a Hallmark channel. She will always be the HAWT AS FUCK Aunt Becky to me. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:03 AM (eZuvF) 523
CaliGirl, good to "see" you.
Which red wine? I'm way over-due for a visit to your area, speaking of red wine. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (QDnY+) 524
No. Im kind of an expert in this. He lured girls to his VW with stories of needing help, but none of his known victims were hitchhikers
Posted by: LASue at March 13, 2019 12:45 AM (XROPS) Yep, Bundy was into ploys to lure his victims into his trap, or VW Bug in his case. He used a fake cast 'needing help', a fake badge as 'the police needs her help', etc. I think the hunt, the setting the trap and springing the trap were all a part of the sexual nature of his crimes. The necrophilia was just a bonus. From my reading about Bundy, only one victim ever got out of his clutches, leaping out of the Bug with a handcuff still attached to her wrist. Of all the young adult women Bundy killed, he was executed for assaulting and murdering 12-year-old Kimberly Leatch. Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (Y8PSl) 525
just like the white wing dove sings a song, sounds like she`s singin` . . . ooo
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (ykYG2) 526
..."In a classic episode of Full House, Lori Loughlin's Aunt Becky refused to play along with a school admissions scam"
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y46kgdbb Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (eZuvF) The lesson well learned, the Pawadan did. /yoda Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (QzJWU) 527
Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (QzJWU)
You are right but I'm not that good of a shot in the clutch. I've shot some critters. My 10/22 is my favorite gun. I'm a better shot with that than the pellet gun. I hate coyotes. They look like skinny mangy dogs. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (fxYNS) 528
Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. I have to pay extra for that whereas the Hallmark Channel is a freebie.
Posted by: RickZ at March 12, 2019 11:22 PM (Y8PSl) I get both for free. I prefer HMM. Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 01:05 AM (NMAzL) 529
I'm way over-due for a visit to your area, speaking of red wine. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (QDnY+) I am so sick of Pinot and Cabs. Tonight was Malbec and a GSM, or as my friend calls it jism. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:06 AM (fxYNS) 530
"Ace wrote magnificently earlier today on the "Aunt Becky" situation."
Doesn't anyone know about her Hallmark career? They have to go all the way back to "Full House"? Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 12:59 AM (NMAzL) ..... I'm guilty. Not really familiar with her Hallmark movies. I think I saw her on some late night infomercial hawking face cream though. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:07 AM (gCzjH) 531
518 I nominate Jane Says by Jane's Addiction as best song of the 1980s.
Cuz why not? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:00 AM (eZuvF) --It is awesome. It's in the discussion, as "they say." Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:07 AM (XAYDB) 532
De Blasio called all the Catholics together for a meeting and they all agreed that meatless Mondays was just like sooper. Right?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2019 01:08 AM (ePWRo) 533
Rhomboid,
Yesterday I had a friends petite sirah. I had to brush my teeth after we drank that. My teeth and toungue were stained. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:08 AM (fxYNS) 534
Zettai, as ludicrous and pernicious as Obergefell was, substantively and procedurally, what's going on since Trump was sworn in - in the lower courts and in SCOTUS's refusal so far to rein them in - seems far more fundamental.
I mean, the one ruling was just ridiculous and fairly odious social engineering, imposing changes in the definition of the oldest institution in human civilization, over (mostly) the expressed will of the culture. The current stuff is a rampage laying waste to the central structure of the constitution - talk about "norms" being violated, jeebus. But it's OK, rule of law will be re-established with the RICO/mail fraud case against some college admissions scammers as the bedrock. Or something. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:11 AM (QDnY+) 535
China Girl was an Iggy Pop song, I believe.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie ----- David Bowie. Good evening, all. Posted by: Blond Morticia's phone at March 13, 2019 01:11 AM (qEnnB) 536
--In no order, Top 5: "All Through the Night"
"Under the Milky Way" "Head Over Heels" ""Rush Hour" (Jane Wiedlin kills it) "Something About You" (gotta stay honest) "Blood and Roses" Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 12:33 AM Ah.... The Church. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 01:11 AM (LkFnL) 537
...You are right but I'm not that good of a shot in the clutch. I've shot some critters. My 10/22 is my favorite gun. I'm a better shot with that than the pellet gun.
I hate coyotes. They look like skinny mangy dogs. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:04 AM (fxYNS) Here. Transform your 10/22 into a rig that'll shot the heart out of an aspirin tablet at 25 yards, every time. https://volquartsen.com/ Buy a great barrel. Buy a great trigger. Then top it with a really nice scope. Don't buy a typical ".22" scope for it. Serious glass, from Leupold, Vortex, Nikon, or better. Mr. Coyote will soon learn to un-ass your locale. Or, die. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:12 AM (QzJWU) 538
"JEXODUS" 'We left Egypt, now we're going to leave the Democrat Party'., _Elizabeth Pipko
Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2019 01:13 AM (ePWRo) 539
if i only could make a deal, a deal with G-d
i`d get him to swap our places . . . Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:13 AM (ykYG2) Posted by: Apu de Beaumarchais at March 13, 2019 01:13 AM (xwegw) 541
532 De Blasio called all the Catholics together for a meeting and they all agreed that meatless Mondays was just like sooper. Right?
Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2019 01:08 AM (ePWRo) --Fuck him. Fridays. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:14 AM (XAYDB) 542
Tears For Fears had some good 80s pop songs. Sowing the Seeds of Love is very good.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:15 AM (PUmDY) 543
CaliGirl you're lucky, your area abounds in good reds of all kinds. Can't think of one that doesn't do well up there. Now you're making me wish I had a good Turley zin opened and disappearing.
I think petite syrah was the first varietal commercially produced in CA. Up in Livermore, or the Sierra foothills. I like it - it's really unlike most any other red. And it *is* almost black in color. Darkest red wine there is. Don't spill it on a good shirt. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:15 AM (QDnY+) 544
Ah.... The Church.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 01:11 AM (LkFnL) --That song is over 30 years old. *SIGH* Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:15 AM (XAYDB) 545
Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:12 AM (QzJWU)
Thank you! I'm here alone doing this stuff. My husband is a better shot but this happens when I'm here alone. I had to kill one of my own chickens a couple of months ago after a critter attack. I was upset. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:16 AM (fxYNS) 546
Don't You (Forget About Me) --Simple Minds
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:17 AM (gCzjH) 547
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:15 AM (QDnY+
I may be wrong but around here they use it to blend with other wines. I have wines from the local wineries with no labels that my friends give me. I had a really good Nebbiolo a few weeks ago. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:18 AM (fxYNS) 548
Don't You (Forget About Me) --Simple Minds
A (the?) quintessential '80s song ... which Simple Minds didn't write, or really want to record. Posted by: The Breakfast Club at March 13, 2019 01:20 AM (xwegw) 549
As Jim says, a tricked out 10-22 with the right ammo would indeed be a handy ranch implement. For critters with all numbers of legs. And probably would be no problem for your recoil issue, CaliGirl.
If it was a good crop year, there's also a CZ bolt-action .22mag rifle ..... with good optics. That would surely allow you to protect the chickens. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:20 AM (QDnY+) Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:21 AM (fxYNS) 551
Don't You (Forget About Me) --Simple Minds
A (the?) quintessential '80s song ... which Simple Minds didn't write, or really want to record. ___ Definitely up there. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:22 AM (eZuvF) 552
If it was a good crop year, there's also a CZ bolt-action .22mag rifle ..... with good optics. That would surely allow you to protect the chickens.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:20 AM (QDnY+) I can always use another gun and more ammo. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:23 AM (fxYNS) 553
I know it's doubleplusbadthiink....but Thriller is a top 80s song.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:23 AM (eZuvF) 554
Billy Idol had some great 80s songs.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:23 AM (PUmDY) 555
Yep petite syrah is often used to blend, like some other varietals, so you don't see the name that much. Best one I can remember having was from a place up in the Sierras, a winery run by an Israeli immigrant, '67 War veteran, and in his previous career co-inventor of Captain Crunch cereal. D'Arie, I think the place is called.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:23 AM (QDnY+) 556
...I had to kill one of my own chickens a couple of months ago after a critter attack. I was upset.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:16 AM (fxYNS) You're welcome, and I'm honored to help. There is another "trick" that works here, too. Buy a half dozen good .22 rifles. Cheap ones, bolt or semi-auto, but with sterling reputations as to accuracy / dollar ratios. Top 'em with Nikon or Vortex scopes, in the $125 dollar range. Good enough, but not "awesome". DILIGENTLY bench-test each rifle with various ammo, at 15, 25 and 50 yards. Note carefully, the ammo that each individual rifle shoots the best, and buy a 500 rd brick of the same, for each. Place those rifles near the entrance doors of EVERY where you go in and out of, routinely. Odds are, when you need to "grab a rifle" one of those will be there. They'll all have identical scopes. You'll have zeroed each rifle & scope to the same Point of Impact, vs. Point of Aim. Regardless of which rig you grab, it should shoot the same, perform the same, kill the same. No need to go "running around" looking for your rifle. If, that is, "your rifle" is sitting there, damn near everywhere you turn. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:25 AM (QzJWU) 557
There was so much good music in the 80s and 90s. And no this isn't my version of "today's music sucks" which every generation does. I like a lot of 70s music and some 60s stuff too.
But fuck, what happened to music sometime circa 2010? It all went to shit. Rock, pop, rap....all of it just fucking sucks today. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (eZuvF) 558
CaliGirl, it's good to see you're back. Hope all went well with your travails.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (ePWRo) 559
546 Don't You (Forget About Me) --Simple Minds
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:17 AM (gCzjH) --"Under the Milky Way" beats it hands down. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (XAYDB) 560
Dancing with Myself was huge.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:27 AM (PUmDY) 561
Cali as I recall not a lot of malbec being done up your way, compared to other types, more of a Napa/Sonoma thing. And of course Argentina.
Your friends can probably tell you the $/ton for pinot and chard from your area (esp. towards the coast) speak loudly. The area just produces great stuff. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:27 AM (QDnY+) 562
Rhomboid,
I'm changing my vineyard this year. I'm grafting Syrah to the Chard. Just a few lines of the chard. We will see how it goes. We just bottles my rose. I have a bunch of barrels of Chard and Pinot in the barn. I have one barrel of Syrah but that won't be ready for another year or more. The Chard is almost ready. We hand bottled the rose, no bottle shock. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:28 AM (fxYNS) 563
--"Under the Milky Way" beats it hands down.
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (XAYDB) ..... Party All the Time -- Eddie Murphy *check* Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:28 AM (gCzjH) 564
Lurker : i tend to agree. in the 2000s there was Ladytron, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zoe (en espanol), the Killers: a ton of good stuff. since 2010, can't think of much worth the bother
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:29 AM (ykYG2) 565
Why does Ace think that the blog cannot render Greek letters? As I demonstrated earlier today, they work just fine if you use the decimal codes from this link:
http://tinyurl.com/kq2s Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:29 AM (tVQUs) 566
Your friends can probably tell you the $/ton for pinot and chard from your area (esp. towards the coast) speak loudly. The area just produces great stuff.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:27 AM (QDnY You have to have contracts to sell the grapes. It's about 2500-4,000 a ton for Pinot. I forget the price of the Chard. We did not pick it all. It's an expensive hobby. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:30 AM (fxYNS) 567
The 80's was actually pretty interesting.
You started the decade with like Billy Ocean, Lionel Ritchie, and such. You ended the decade with Metallica, GNR and Motley Crue. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:31 AM (gCzjH) 568
But fuck, what happened to music sometime circa 2010? It all went to shit. Rock, pop, rap....all of it just fucking sucks today.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (eZuvF) --Twerk it, twerk it!!! Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:32 AM (XAYDB) 569
You ended the decade with Metallica, GNR and Motley Crue.
you misspelled the Cure`s Disintegration, Depeche Mode`s Violator and New Order`s Technique Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:33 AM (ykYG2) 570
Cali Girl.
I used to love a classic, unpretentious, old fashioned, French Burgandy. Did the variety die out, or the merchants turned and considered it passé? Just a simple Red. And God help me, find me one without the "contains nitrates", price be damned. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:34 AM (QzJWU) 571
Why does Ace think that the blog cannot render Greek
letters? As I demonstrated earlier today, they work just fine if you use the decimal codes from this link: http://tinyurl.com/kq2s Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:29 AM What was the Greek word, again? Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:34 AM (CLcKT) 572
Yeah the 80s definitely had a wide range of stuff, 2nd Wave brit stuff, big hair bands, Madonna, Michael Jackson, heavy metal, new kids on the block, Springsteen
that's some serious range for a 10 year period. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:35 AM (eZuvF) 573
The 80s were very interesting, musically..
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:35 AM (PUmDY) 574
you misspelled the Cure`s Disintegration, Depeche Mode`s Violator and New Order`s Technique Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:33 AM (ykYG2) ____ YES!! Finally someone else who appreciated that music. I'll raise you a Joy Division! Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:36 AM (eZuvF) 575
I'm out everyone, nice talking to you.
Rhomboid, it's beautiful here right now. The hills look like green velvet. There are ponds in the back of my ranch now. I drove past Cachuma yesterday, it looks 75 percent full. I haven't seen Cachuma like that in years. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:36 AM (fxYNS) 576
But fuck, what happened to music sometime circa 2010? It all went to shit. Rock, pop, rap....all of it just fucking sucks today.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (eZuvF) Even some country music these days sounds like white-bread rap. Just plain lame. Asswipe "music". Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:37 AM (nPGq2) 577
...What was the Greek word, again?
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:34 AM (CLcKT) The Greek Word was: "I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." It translates into: "Bend Over, prole!" Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:38 AM (QzJWU) 578
"Under the Milky Way" beats it hands down.
I tried to watch this, but as I typed it in, YouTube recommended MotorWeek's 1983 Porsche 928S vs Camaro Z28 comparison test instead. Spoiler Alert - the Z28 was actually faster, but far more unpredictable, and shed fan belts like ... an Ewok in molt? Posted by: spindrift at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (xwegw) 579
I'll raise you a Joy Division!
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:36 AM (eZuvF) Kraft durch Freude! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (nPGq2) 580
557 There was so much good music in the 80s and 90s. And no this isn't my version of "today's music sucks" which every generation does. I like a lot of 70s music and some 60s stuff too.
But fuck, what happened to music sometime circa 2010? It all went to shit. Rock, pop, rap....all of it just fucking sucks today. Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (eZuvF) --I'm with you. I am just pickier with anything after 2000. Now that I'm way past 30, I love romantic pop music. Gimme lots of Norah Jones and Diana Krall. --And I am rediscovering Ella Fitzgerald, who was botd right down the road from me. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (XAYDB) 581
Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:34 AM (QzJWU)
I don't know what a burgundy is. I learned wine from my local wineries. Then I started branching out. Rhomboid can probably help you. I'd have to ask my winery friends. Like the oenology major. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (fxYNS) 582
you misspelled the Cure`s Disintegration, Depeche Mode`s Violator and New Order`s Technique
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:33 AM .... True, the rise of Emo music. Also, U2, R.E.M., began their ascendancy. And probably the most iconic song of the decade.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (gCzjH) Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (CLcKT) 584
It's very true that ads and TV shows purposely look for non-trad couples and never an entire white family. The crews make fun of all the fake diversity. You will never find an intact, traditional white family. If a judge on a show is a bigot he will be a white male. So good for all the ethnically ambiguous people getting jobs these days, but I'm not buying the crap from companies who hate me any more.
Posted by: Best girl at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (qlTN9) 585
576 But fuck, what happened to music sometime circa 2010? It all went to shit. Rock, pop, rap....all of it just fucking sucks today.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:26 AM (eZuvF) Even some country music these days sounds like white-bread rap. Just plain lame. Asswipe "music". Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:37 AM (nPGq2) Auto tune, sometimes technology is not a good thing. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (NgKpN) Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:41 AM (CLcKT) 587
Why does Ace think that the blog cannot render Greek
letters? As I demonstrated earlier today, they work just fine if you use the decimal codes from this link: http://tinyurl.com/kq2s Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:29 AM What was the Greek word, again? Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:34 AM (CLcKT) I don't have the patience to type in the Greek translation of "Who Dares Wins" but I can give you a flurry of random Greek letters to prove the blog can support them. ΣφξΡαδ Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:41 AM (tVQUs) 588
Bauhaus was great. Style Council as well.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (PUmDY) 589
574
you misspelled the Cure`s Disintegration, Depeche Mode`s Violator and New Order`s Technique Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:33 AM (ykYG2) ____ YES!! Finally someone else who appreciated that music. I'll raise you a Joy Division! Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:36 AM (eZuvF) Whenever I meet a new Woman, I make her listen to Depeche Mode's song, Somebody. Says it all as far as I am concerned. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (NgKpN) 590
...I don't know what a burgundy is. I learned wine from my local wineries. Then I started branching out.
Rhomboid can probably help you. I'd have to ask my winery friends. Like the oenology major. Posted by: CaliGirl at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (fxYNS) Your winery friends, as does Rhomboid, will know from the question itself, that I am an Olde Farte. Still. I want some Burgandy again, before I die. It was the very definition of "Red Wine", in it's time. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (QzJWU) 591
you misspelled the Cure`s Disintegration, Depeche Mode`s Violator and New Order`s Technique
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:33 AM (ykYG2) ____ YES!! Finally someone else who appreciated that music. I'll raise you a Joy Division! Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:36 AM (eZuvF) --Joy Division barely made it into the '80s Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (XAYDB) 592
Whenever I meet a new Woman, I make her listen to Depeche Mode's song, Somebody.
Says it all as far as I am concerned. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (NgKpN) ____ Are you my long lost twin? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (eZuvF) 593
Spoiler Alert - the Z28 was actually faster, but far more unpredictable, and shed fan belts like ... an Ewok in molt?
Posted by: spindrift at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (xwegw) There must have been a pulley alignment problem on that particular car. Throwing fan belts has not been a commonplace problem with products from North American manufacturers for a long, long time. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:43 AM (nPGq2) 594
Θράσος!
Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:43 AM (tVQUs) 595
And I still f*ck it up!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:43 AM (CLcKT) 596
Cali if you're still here that's amazing about Cachuma. Last time I drove over the pass you didn't see water for quite a while. Good to hear. SD County also looks like Ireland at the moment. Which should last for another few weeks or so, then back to yellow.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:43 AM (QDnY+) 597
Tru Joy Division was barely 80s but New Order carried on their essence. So to me it's JD/NO as one gloriously awesome band that was a 70s, 80s and 2000s band.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:44 AM (eZuvF) 598
592 Whenever I meet a new Woman, I make her listen to Depeche Mode's song, Somebody.
Says it all as far as I am concerned. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (NgKpN) ____ Are you my long lost twin? Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:42 AM (eZuvF) I also make them listen to the Elvis Presley song, 'Treat me Right'. Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:44 AM (NgKpN) 599
Somebody made it on a lot of my mixed tapes.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:46 AM (eZuvF) 600
charset. org
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:46 AM (CLcKT) 601
True, the rise of Emo music.
Also, U2, R.E.M., began their ascendancy. And probably the most iconic song of the decade.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:39 AM (gCzjH) --Reckoning by R.E.M. (1984) is a great album. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:46 AM (XAYDB) Posted by: Just the punchline at March 13, 2019 01:46 AM (nPGq2) 603
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Posted by: Emmie at March 13, 2019 01:46 AM (4HMW8) 604
In fact, this blog can render a vast range of symbols.
(I don't know how many of these work, I'm just taking a stab in the dark.) 🙻 Lj ϒ ȉ Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:47 AM (tVQUs) 605
Jim, I recall the term and the product (generally - was more of a beer guy as a young'in), and I have to think it was some sort of pinot noir. Since that is what red wine from Burgundy (Bourgogne - sp?) generally is. But I don't know.
Have you tried getting an everyday (cheap) pinot to see if that's what you're looking for? I'm sure there is a good wine store somewhere in your AO. Just find someone there (maybe of the correct "vintage"!), they'll probably actually know, and be able to help. These days there's so many kinds of wine, in so many styles, usually at such accessible prices, that I think you should be able to find one (or more) that you like. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:48 AM (QDnY+) 606
I think the Greek homos use something that looks like a semicolon for the exclamation mark... I'm not sure anymore since they went all monotonal and shit...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:48 AM (CLcKT) 607
Surreal day. Water Polo family. In competition for many many years. Vavic was worshipped as a demigod by many. Not by our family though. But we knew he was big and very arrogant. Our sons gained college admission based on their academic excellence. Their many years of wp and swimming and state championships were part of what made them 'well rounded' for college admissions. Scored very high on their act on the first try. They did study and put effort into preparing for the standardized tests. We wouldn't have had the money to buy admission favors anyhow. We also were too moral and brainy to ever go that low. We suspected money exchanging hands under the table but had no idea to what extent. My my how the mighty have fallen. Stunned.
Posted by: Martell at March 13, 2019 01:49 AM (fdVEh) 608
Whenever I meet a new woman, I make them listen to Sugarhill Gang Apache (Jump on It).
A hunga hunga hunga hunga! Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:49 AM (gCzjH) 609
You people flaunting all your exotic characters are just stirring resentments and envy that can only turn, ultimately, to violence.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:49 AM (QDnY+) Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:49 AM (tVQUs) 611
There is another "trick" that works here, too.
Buy a half dozen good .22 rifles. Cheap ones, bolt or semi-auto, but with sterling reputations as to accuracy / dollar ratios. Top 'em with Nikon or Vortex scopes, in the $125 dollar range. Good enough, but not "awesome". DILIGENTLY bench-test each rifle with various ammo, at 15, 25 and 50 yards. Note carefully, the ammo that each individual rifle shoots the best, and buy a 500 rd brick of the same, for each. Place those rifles near the entrance doors of EVERY where you go in and out of, routinely. Odds are, when you need to "grab a rifle" one of those will be there. They'll all have identical scopes. You'll have zeroed each rifle & scope to the same Point of Impact, vs. Point of Aim. Regardless of which rig you grab, it should shoot the same, perform the same, kill the same. No need to go "running around" looking for your rifle. If, that is, "your rifle" is sitting there, damn near everywhere you turn. . Or . . . you could just bury a few sticks of dynamite every couple square yards on your property and leave detonators at every door and window. . Posted by: Immortant Joe at March 13, 2019 01:50 AM (S4rpa) 612
597 Tru Joy Division was barely 80s but New Order carried on their essence. So to me it's JD/NO as one gloriously awesome band that was a 70s, 80s and 2000s band.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:44 AM (eZuvF) --Well, not enough to impress my love from HS who kinda looked liked Norah Jones (Norah is 1/2 Asian Indian; my target was 1/2 Polynesian). Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:50 AM (XAYDB) 613
An 80s band that nobody really thinks of as an 80s band is Sonic Youth.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:51 AM (eZuvF) 614
...I'm sure there is a good wine store somewhere in your AO. Just find someone there (maybe of the correct "vintage"!), they'll probably actually know, and be able to help.
These days there's so many kinds of wine, in so many styles, usually at such accessible prices, that I think you should be able to find one (or more) that you like. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:48 AM (QDnY+) Sounds like a good reason to go see the Wine Buyer at the Spec's Wines & Spirits HQ in downtown Houston. Full city block, three stories high. If they can't get it, it can't get got. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:51 AM (QzJWU) 615
Night all, driving to Tahoe tomorrow to ski for a couple of days now that the weather has cleared!
Posted by: Don Quixote, dreaming the impossible dream at March 13, 2019 01:53 AM (NgKpN) 616
You people flaunting all your exotic characters are just stirring resentments and envy that can only turn, ultimately, to violence.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:49 AM I've got the long eſs down pat... Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:53 AM (CLcKT) 617
613 An 80s band that nobody really thinks of as an 80s band is Sonic Youth.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:51 AM (eZuvF) --Well, same goes for any SST band. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:53 AM (XAYDB) 618
Guy who likes Depeche Mode and skis....confirmed. You are my long lost twin
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:53 AM (eZuvF) Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:55 AM (nPGq2) 620
Martell, interesting. I haven't really followed the story today, but thanks to you I know there was a water polo angle. Well, not really, just one person. Title IX has changed so many collegiate sports scenes in CA at least, one noticeable thing was schools that had top water polo and volleyball programs (men's) now have nothing at all. Seems sort of stupid. And is, actually, sort of stupid.
But at least we have a chaotic gender-crazy Olympics cycle to look forward to. Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:55 AM (QDnY+) 621
Talking Heads started being absurdly great in 1980.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:55 AM (PUmDY) 622
618 Guy who likes Depeche Mode and skis....confirmed. You are my long lost twin
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:53 AM (eZuvF) --Conversely, any dude who has Norah Jones show up at his doorstep and turns down a drink with her is a homo. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:56 AM (XAYDB) 623
Talking Heads, This Must Be The Place is perfection.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:56 AM (ykYG2) 624
Oh Jim that place should be able to take care of you. Check to see if they have tastings (they almost certainly do), that can be an efficient way to sample.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:57 AM (QDnY+) Posted by: irongrampa at March 13, 2019 01:57 AM (S/hVx) 626
621 Talking Heads started being absurdly great in 1980.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 01:55 AM (PUmDY) --Damn straight. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:57 AM (XAYDB) Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 13, 2019 01:58 AM (gCzjH) 628
My point with all this is that someone needs to point it out to Ace that he's behind the wheel of a Ferrari when he thinks he's driving his Granny's Oldsmobile. If this blog is used to it's full potential, not just with the symbols but also the countless other virtually unused features (such as custom hashes and an archive of sidebar postings), it could be much more influential (not to say that it isn't already).
Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 01:58 AM (tVQUs) 629
There must have been a pulley alignment problem on that particular car.
---------------------- I wonder if it was because they were really wailing on the car -- they still blew engines in that era and they didn't last much more that 100K miles, typically. Another 20 years before quality started to resemble what we know today. Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 01:58 AM (/sJCA) 630
...Oh Jim that place should be able to take care of you. Check to see if they have tastings (they almost certainly do), that can be an efficient way to sample.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:57 AM (QDnY+) And Lyft and a local Hotel, shall be my friend. *hic!* I'm not quite to Hillaryesque stumbles n' sharts yet, though. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 01:59 AM (QzJWU) 631
623 Talking Heads, This Must Be The Place is perfection.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 13, 2019 01:56 AM (ykYG2) ___ Always makes me think of Wall St (the movie). Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 01:59 AM (eZuvF) 632
Ferraris are always in the shop. Oldsmobiles are out on the road, earning their keep.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:59 AM (nPGq2) 633
But at least we have a chaotic gender-crazy Olympics cycle to look forward to.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 13, 2019 01:55 AM (QDnY+) I wonder if there are any sports where the men competing as women won't dominate the actual women? Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 02:02 AM (tVQUs) 634
620 Martell, interesting. I haven't really followed the story today, but thanks to you I know there was a water polo angle. Well, not really, just one person. Title IX has changed so many collegiate sports scenes in CA at least, one noticeable thing was schools that had top water polo and volleyball programs (men's) now have nothing at all. Seems sort of stupid. And is, actually, sort of stupid.
But at least we have a chaotic gender-crazy Olympics cycle to look forward to. Cant wait for a Croatian/Serbian/Russian/Hungarian male 'trans' player demanding to be part of a top national female water polo team. Anyone that has watched those dudes shoot point blank on goalies knows what I mean. Cringe worthy to see a female goalie try to stop that. Posted by: Martell at March 13, 2019 02:03 AM (fdVEh) 635
606 I think the Greek homos use something that looks like a semicolon for the exclamation mark... I'm not sure anymore since they went all monotonal and shit...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:48 AM (CLcKT) --Semicolon was when a tiny dick inserted itself into the rectum. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:03 AM (XAYDB) 636
I wonder if it was because they were really wailing on the car -- they still blew engines in that era and they didn't last much more that 100K miles, typically. Another 20 years before quality started to resemble what we know today.
Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 01:58 AM (/sJCA) Back in the day, "magazine cars" were often pre-production models that were not completely sorted out, and may have already been flogged unmercifully by the previous crew of test drivers. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:04 AM (nPGq2) 637
Remain In Light is one of the best albums.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 02:05 AM (PUmDY) 638
(Norah is 1/2 Asian Indian; my target was 1/2 Polynesian).
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 01:50 AM (XAYDB) I met a college friend of my friend's once. She was Vietnamese-French. She was, in a word, stunning. Even at the ripe old age of 26, I knew this woman was beautiful, gorgeous, exotic beyond all description. She was the kind of beauty who takes your words away, leaving you staring, agape, dumbfounded. That's only happened once in my life. There were cute; there were good looking; there were attractive; there were sexy. But there's been nothing in my life close to the stunning looks like that beautiful young Vietnamese-French woman had. Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2019 02:05 AM (Y8PSl) 639
...Tis time.
Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well. Posted by: irongrampa at March 13, 2019 01:57 AM (S/hVx) @ Irongrampa.... Last night, I was at the Zac Brown concert, at Rodeo Houston, at the NRG arena. Same place the Houston Texans do the NFL football thing we kinda ignore, now. Point is. Zac Brown's two sentence "America is the Greatest Country on Earth and Forever", declaration in the middle of "Country Fried", reminded me of YOU, sir. I mean that. I thought of you as the words were being pronounced through the more than ample amplifiers. When I stood and saluted, it was to you, and not to the band. I mean this, and I hope you get the full effect of my words. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at March 13, 2019 02:06 AM (QzJWU) Posted by: Colonel Haiku at March 13, 2019 02:07 AM (Y8JQ4) 641
may have already been flogged unmercifully by the previous crew of test drivers
--------- Agreed. The tester may have had a belt that was out of spec, same way. And yet if you repeat the process with the more current crop of cars, no problem. The quality improvements -- in this old fart's opinion, anyway -- are staggering. Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:07 AM (/sJCA) 642
Ferraris are always in the shop. Oldsmobiles are out on the road, earning their keep.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 01:59 AM (nPGq2) I didn't want to imply that the blog wasn't without flaws even at its full potential. Not the best example, but I can't think of anything better at this hour. Posted by: Surfperch at March 13, 2019 02:08 AM (tVQUs) 643
637 Remain In Light is one of the best albums.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 02:05 AM (PUmDY) --That said, "Burning Down The House" is also a great single. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:08 AM (XAYDB) 644
606 I think the Greek homos use something that looks like a semicolon for the exclamation mark... I'm not sure anymore since they went all monotonal and shit...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at March 13, 2019 01:48 AM (CLcKT) Greek ; = ? Posted by: m at March 13, 2019 02:10 AM (ysOGz) Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:10 AM (XAYDB) Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 02:12 AM (PUmDY) 647
I hear the mushers are flecked with dog poo from stem to stern.
Posted by: torabora at March 13, 2019 02:12 AM (Y274z) 648
Agreed. The tester may have had a belt that was out of spec, same way. And yet if you repeat the process with the more current crop of cars, no problem. The quality improvements -- in this old fart's opinion, anyway -- are staggering.
Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:07 AM (/sJCA) Yeah. I agree. Fan belts get thrown when something else is wrong. Maybe they installed a heavy-duty alternator in place of the standard one, and got it a little out of line, and there wasn't time to make it right. Another thing that throw belts is something like a rubber flap under the radiator, or an overflow hose dangling down, which, at speed, blows back, gets snagged in the belt, and derails it. Come to a stop, and the errant part is back where it belongs. I worked on a car that had an electrical short of that nature. Tricky to find. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:13 AM (nPGq2) 649
The problem with the Ohio descision is that 6 judges there don't think the legislature, with the executive's signature, gets to spend or not spend tax money they way they desire.
That in a nutshell is what's wrong with libturds. Posted by: torabora at March 13, 2019 02:15 AM (Y274z) 650
Listened (well watched on YouTube) This Must Be The Place....ahhhh such a great song. And down the YouTube rabbit hole I go.....
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 02:15 AM (eZuvF) 651
I met a college friend of my friend's once. She was Vietnamese-French. She was, in a word, stunning. Even at the ripe old age of 26, I knew this woman was beautiful, gorgeous, exotic beyond all description. She was the kind of beauty who takes your words away, leaving you staring, agape, dumbfounded. That's only happened once in my life. There were cute; there were good looking; there were attractive; there were sexy. But there's been nothing in my life close to the stunning looks like that beautiful young Vietnamese-French woman had.
Posted by: RickZ at March 13, 2019 02:05 AM (Y8PSl) --I lament that I did not pursue that stunning Polynesian/Anglo babe in high school. 'Tis a topic in my forthcoming novel. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:18 AM (XAYDB) 652
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:13 AM (nPGq2)
------------------------ Update on your F-150? No more freaky-deak from the GEM'hadar unit? Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:19 AM (/sJCA) 653
LL, you will be down there a long time.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 02:19 AM (PUmDY) 654
Or . . . you could just bury a few sticks of dynamite every couple square yards on your property and leave detonators at every door and window.
. Posted by: Immortant Joe ---------- We're having a special. Check our web site. Posted by: Acme Co. at March 13, 2019 02:19 AM (xSo9G) 655
Ferraris are always in the shop. Oldsmobiles are out on the road, earning their keep.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------- *ponders Oldsmobile project in the garage* Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 13, 2019 02:21 AM (xSo9G) 656
Update on your F-150? No more freaky-deak from the GEM'hadar unit?
Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:19 AM (/sJCA) It did it briefly after a rainstorm a couple of weeks ago. But it rained again today, and no issues. Going to have remove the windshield and get it resealed. May be some holes in the body under the edge of the glass. Now that I know what the source of the problem is, it doesn't worry me so much. Last time it happened, I just ran the heater on full blast until it dried out and came good. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:23 AM (nPGq2) 657
650 Listened (well watched on YouTube) This Must Be The Place....ahhhh such a great song. And down the YouTube rabbit hole I go.....
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 13, 2019 02:15 AM (eZuvF) --Talking Heads were arguably America's best band of the '80s, but maybe not *pop*. Best pop was British. Best American? Gah! Help my memory, Morons! Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:25 AM (XAYDB) 658
it doesn't worry me so much
------------------- Heh. Good on you. The damned thing would flake on me at the worst possible time -- similar to how a brake line failed in the driveway before a dr's appt -- climb out, crimp the brake line, wipe hands a bit -- off to the doc's and don't use the brakes too much. I'm sticking to the '92-'96 era of 150s (and 250s 350s, FWIW). Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:29 AM (/sJCA) 659
Heh. Good on you. The damned thing would flake on me at the worst possible time -- similar to how a brake line failed in the driveway before a dr's appt -- climb out, crimp the brake line, wipe hands a bit -- off to the doc's and don't use the brakes too much. I'm sticking to the '92-'96 era of 150s (and 250s 350s, FWIW).
Posted by: lurk at March 13, 2019 02:29 AM (/sJCA) Reminds of the time, many years ago, my daily driver was a VW dune buggy. So I was going down this long steep hill, Columbia Street in Kamloops, B.C., which was then the Trans Canada highway (since built a bypass). Hit the brakes to slow down for the light at the bottom, and the pedal went to the floor with a band. Luckily, the light went green with a left turn arrow, so I hauled on the hand brake, and geared down, and made it around the corner, and came to a safe stop. Big puddle of brake fluid on the left rear wheel. So I hammered the brake line flat, bought a can of brake fluid, filled it up, and I had brakes on three wheels again. When I finally got the drum off, I found the cast iron wheel cylinder had split in half and burst. Never saw that before or since. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:40 AM (nPGq2) 660
Another lovely flag photo. And royal flush!
Posted by: sinalco at March 13, 2019 02:43 AM (yODqO) 661
Okay, just looked up the Billboard #1 charts from 1980.
Here we go: ISSUE DATE TITLE ARTIST January 5 Please Don't Go KC And The Sunshine Band January 12 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Rupert Holmes January 19 Rock With You Michael Jackson January 26 February 2 February 9 February 16 Do That To Me One More Time Captain & Tennille February 23 Crazy Little Thing Called Love --KC and Queen: winners. Michael Jackson: Creepiness aside, "Rock With You" kicks ass. Captain and Tenille and Rupert Holmes; well, chalk that up to any generation. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:43 AM (XAYDB) 662
Michael Jackson wals the King of Pop then, hard to argue.
Posted by: cosmic charlie at March 13, 2019 02:45 AM (PUmDY) 663
Well, coming on for midnight here. Time to get some shuteye. Be well, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 13, 2019 02:48 AM (nPGq2) 664
662 Michael Jackson wals the King of Pop then, hard to argue.
Posted by: cosmic charlie at March 13, 2019 02:45 AM (PUmDY) --Anything from Off The Wall was The Tits. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:48 AM (XAYDB) 665
Thriller album was not bad either
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at March 13, 2019 02:53 AM (PUmDY) Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:53 AM (XAYDB) 667
--Talking Heads were arguably America's best band of the '80s, but maybe not *pop*.
Best pop was British. Best American? Gah! Help my memory, Morons! Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:25 AM Well, I think TH are a 70's band anyway... yeah they were still kicking arse in the early 80's, but, their highpoint was probably Remain In Light, which was 1980? ... just barely 80's. Not that I'd disagree that TH was america's best 80's band... just that the timeline makes them hard to place. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 02:58 AM (LkFnL) 668
Okay, so maybe the '80s were a wasteland of *American* pop music.
Token entry: https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:00 AM (XAYDB) 669
Okay, so maybe the '80s were a wasteland of *American* pop music.
Token entry: Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:00 AM Prince and Michael Jackson off the top of my head. I was in a different world in the 80's, so my judgement is questionable. Good shit was coming out of the UK, but I don't recall America falling short during that period. Just that they wren't hitting it as hard as the 70's. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:05 AM (LkFnL) 670
Okay, I was just a squirt, but both Christine and Stevie were hittable back then (1982?)
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:06 AM (XAYDB) 671
Prince and Michael Jackson off the top of my head. I was in a different world in the 80's, so my judgement is questionable. Good shit was coming out of the UK, but I don't recall America falling short during that period. Just that they wren't hitting it as hard as the 70's.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:05 AM (LkFnL) --Prince, Springsteen (yeah, I know), and Cyndi. I shall speak not of Madonna. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:08 AM (XAYDB) 672
My pick for best of the 80's in pop? Scoff allyou want... but "Faith" by George Michael comes close. Pure gold and sheer perfection in an 80's 45 rpm. Put blues, country, rock, pop, dance and rockabilly in a blender and get a kick arse single that bucked the trends in the 80's. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:11 AM (LkFnL) 673
My pick for best of the 80's in pop? Scoff allyou want... but "Faith" by George Michael comes close. Pure gold and sheer perfection in an 80's 45 rpm. Put blues, country, rock, pop, dance and rockabilly in a blender and get a kick arse single that bucked the trends in the 80's.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:11 AM (LkFnL) --I'll step back and say that that shit catchy. Docked points for not being American, though. Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:15 AM (XAYDB) 674
I shall speak not of Madonna.
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:08 AM (XAYDB) I was just looking at her 80s videos. She was cute before her "British" phase. Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 03:21 AM (NMAzL) 675
Well, I think TH are a 70's band anyway... yeah they were still kicking arse in the early 80's, but, their highpoint was probably Remain In Light, which was 1980? ... just barely 80's. Not that I'd disagree that TH was america's best 80's band... just that the timeline makes them hard to place.
Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 02:58 AM (LkFnL) --Tru dat. Were awesome in the '80s though, especially "Road to Nowhere". Awesome '80s non-American pop: "There's Something Going On": https://youtu.be/p98PjtSfNWo And damn, I had no idea Fleetwood Mac were Magritte fans Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:23 AM (XAYDB) 676
I saw John Stamos play with The Beach Boys at Pacific Ampitheatre in sommer of 1990.
Posted by: Summer of Love at March 13, 2019 03:28 AM (FJrl0) 677
ugg amphitheater in the summer LOL
Posted by: Summer of Love at March 13, 2019 03:30 AM (FJrl0) 678
Anyone who would cheat on Frida is a moron, and not a moron in the good sense.
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:32 AM (XAYDB) Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:37 AM (XAYDB) 680
I can't resist a fantastic groove. Talking Heads Take Me to the River (original version) kicks so much arse. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:39 AM (LkFnL) 681
As a writer, I like the line "hold me" . . . mot "bang me" . . . not even "kiss me" . . . there's just something sweet and primal at the same time about it.
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:44 AM (XAYDB) 682
Time to hit the hay.
One more piece of '80s pop goodness: Roxy Music: "More Than This" https://youtu.be/kOnde5c7OG8 Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:50 AM (XAYDB) 683
Time to hit the hay.
One more piece of '80s pop goodness: Roxy Music: "More Than This" https://youtu.be/kOnde5c7OG8 Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:50 AM Roxy Music. Awesome! Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:56 AM (LkFnL) 684
Love Is The Drug
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 04:02 AM (NMAzL) 685
I don't want to get up
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2019 04:05 AM (BbGew) 686
683 Time to hit the hay.
One more piece of '80s pop goodness: Roxy Music: "More Than This" https://youtu.be/kOnde5c7OG8 Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 03:50 AM Roxy Music. Awesome! Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 03:56 AM (LkFnL) --*SIGH* Unfortunately, another example of aeseome damn song/lousy video. Anyway, back to bed for good: OMD: "Forever Live and Die" https://youtu.be/moFiaQPCl04 Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 04:06 AM (XAYDB) 687
Love Is The Drug
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at March 13, 2019 04:02 AM 1970's classic. Under rated heavily. Mostly coz so much good shit was coming out in the 70's that something as awesome as LITD could become just part of the background. Posted by: otho at March 13, 2019 04:11 AM (LkFnL) 688
Raining here. But 40[&176]
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 13, 2019 04:21 AM (pq8Lz) Posted by: My life is insanity at March 13, 2019 04:22 AM (pq8Lz) 690
661 Michael Jackson: Creepiness aside, "Rock With You" kicks ass.
Posted by: logprof at March 13, 2019 02:43 AM (XAYDB) Ack! Earworm. I wonder: did he write and arrange and do everything for that? And also for the video/stage? It's kind of perfect. Posted by: m at March 13, 2019 04:26 AM (ysOGz) Posted by: m at March 13, 2019 04:32 AM (ysOGz) 692
Not moving so fast today again.
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2019 04:40 AM (BbGew) 693
>>> Not moving so fast today again
Me either and I have too much to do at work to be late. How's your back? Posted by: My life is insanity at March 13, 2019 04:46 AM (pq8Lz) 694
It has been ok, I really need to pay attention how I bend over every time.
Posted by: Skip at March 13, 2019 04:51 AM (BbGew) 695
Yeah, that sucks. It can be someting as stupid as a sneeze for me
Posted by: My life is insanity at March 13, 2019 04:54 AM (pq8Lz) Posted by: My life is insanity at March 13, 2019 04:55 AM (pq8Lz) Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 05:27 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: torabora at March 13, 2019 05:36 AM (Y274z) 699
Look, I don't talk like a fag - OK?
I talk like a forever failing sister fucker on helium who will eventually achieve his goal once that Rohypnol finally kicks in. Posted by: Ben Shapiro - fapping to his sister's bewbz with Michelle Fields missing arm at March 13, 2019 05:43 AM (Y4Ibc) 700
298 Mountain climbing dreams all night
Posted by: Skip at March 12, 2019 11:21 PM (BbGew) Because of the rock wall site you were working on? Posted by: m at March 13, 2019 05:46 AM (ysOGz) 701
Good morning!
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere. Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 05:57 AM (u82oZ) 702
The Bill Murray karaoke version of More Than This sums up Lost in Translation.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 13, 2019 05:58 AM (/Je1u) 703
Good Morning Vic.
Hope you and Mrs Vic are dooing the best that can be expected. And that your neighbor is still on the wagon. Which is good for her. It's been almost, what, two years! Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 05:59 AM (u82oZ) 704
Gov Cuomo doesn't want to talk to the press anymore:
This is the second time in two weeks the governor has held a press conference in western New York without actually taking questions from the press. Nothing new there, he seldom answers questions anyway. Hes just a blowhard anyway. Posted by: Colin at March 13, 2019 06:02 AM (+ME2/) 705
G'morning, all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 06:03 AM (cqNba) 706
Hope you and Mrs Vic are dooing the best that can be expected.
And that your neighbor is still on the wagon. Which is good for her. It's been almost, what, two years! Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 05:59 AM (u82oZ) Yes she is on the wagon still, And I have been for over two weeks. It looks like I will have to go in the hospital for the same shit that hit me last time around this date last year. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:04 AM (mpXpK) 707
Hey Salty....
A certain young Sailor who is near and dear to Mrs VIA's heart, one could almost say her most favorite person in the entire world, was advanced to Petty Officer Third Class. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 06:06 AM (cqNba) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 06:06 AM (cqNba) Posted by: ALH at March 13, 2019 06:07 AM (SqKDB) 710
Morning y'all
Posted by: wing at March 13, 2019 06:08 AM (JFzNN) 711
Prayers up for you Vic
Posted by: wing at March 13, 2019 06:09 AM (JFzNN) Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:11 AM (mpXpK) 713
Village Idiot's Apprentice
Top of ta mornin to ya, govnor. And that is excellent news. I think those that earn 3rd Class PO are better in the long run than push-button thirds. Makes them more understanding leaders. Or sumtin. May your son be a rate-grabber, even in today's Navy. Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:11 AM (u82oZ) 714
711 Prayers up for you Vic
Posted by: wing at March 13, 2019 06:09 AM (JFzNN) A wing and a prayer! Posted by: m at March 13, 2019 06:12 AM (ysOGz) 715
Praying for you Vic
Posted by: ALH at March 13, 2019 06:12 AM (SqKDB) 716
Vic. OMG!
Advances EOT to all Ahead Flank 2 on your 1A and 2B prayer wheels. Prayers ascending. Ya know, there are easier ways to meet nurses, right? Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:13 AM (u82oZ) 717
713 And that is excellent news. I think those that earn
3rd Class PO are better in the long run than push-button thirds. Makes them more understanding leaders. Or sumtin. May your son be a rate-grabber, even in today's Navy. Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:11 AM (u82oZ) I don't think so, all it does is make them older. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:14 AM (mpXpK) 718
" Makes them more understanding leaders. Or sumtin. "
I remember back, oh those so many years ago when as a young MMFN, I would see MM#'s report to the ship after not completing Nuke School. Third Class crow firmly sewn onto their arm. And If I remember correctly, we simply referred to them as Push Button Thirds (PB3). So there is wisdom in your words there. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 06:15 AM (cqNba) 719
MM#=MM3
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 06:16 AM (cqNba) 720
And today I have some crushing deadlines for the AM. Wish I could stay and chat.
But blessings on you all. Safe travels, and no YOLO Darwin Award candidates in sight. Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:16 AM (u82oZ) 721
Vic. You are right, it does depend on the individual. But that is the overall trend I saw, in OPS and ENG. WEPS ratings, not as sure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:19 AM (u82oZ) 722
My ex- nephews wife has been on and off the wagon for years. But things are catching up with her. Shes 40, and broke with two small children. No way to pay her rent, and and older daughter living with her who is 20 now. Her husband is in prison, so he is no help. probably will end up in a tent on the street. Glad I live a long ways away!
Posted by: Colin at March 13, 2019 06:20 AM (+ME2/) 723
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Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 13, 2019 06:13 AM (u82oZ) Thanks; recall the last time the Doctor scheduled me to go down to MUSC for the operation. I didn't want to go. Wifey got on here and fired up the Morons. This time there is no choice, no drivers left. Wife can't do it. MIL is near 100, daughter has been taking a lot of days off to take wifey down there and that can not continue. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:22 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2019 06:29 AM (l4G13) 725
The people who signed up for Nuke got pushbutton E4 out of A school as promised on joining. If they flunked out of Nuke School they kept it. They also kept the 6 year obligation Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:30 AM (mpXpK) 726
Morning all
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 06:42 AM (LHT0w) 727
Vic, prayers for the both of you.
The Cancer Society in your area will help with drivers anytime. Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2019 06:42 AM (l4G13) 728
people who signed up for Nuke got pushbutton E4 out of A school as
promised on joining. If they flunked out of Nuke School they kept it. They also kept the 6 year obligation Posted by: Vic at And got assigned some miserable oiler deck hand duty Posted by: Jean at March 13, 2019 06:42 AM (25Dt7) Posted by: Bruce at March 13, 2019 06:44 AM (8ikIW) 730
The
people who signed up for Nuke got pushbutton E4 out of A school as promised on joining. If they flunked out of Nuke School they kept it. They also kept the 6 year obligation Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:30 AM --- And they got a guarantee they would make Second Class the first time they took the test. All they had to do was not fail. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 06:44 AM (JUOKG) 731
Must be a bitch to be Eric Swallwell. Here is a guy who will say and do anything to get publicity. Full of empty-headed enthusiasm and ambition, he is willing to even promote the idea of nuclear attacks on political foes.
But because he is not a woman of color, or wearing a hajib, his outrageous publicity seeking gets drowned by others outrageous publicity seeking, and his boundless need to be generally recognized as the Biggest Butthead In Congress drowns in the sea of competitors. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Raise You! at March 13, 2019 06:49 AM (0YEwp) 732
And they got a guarantee they would make Second Class the first time they took the test. All they had to do was not fail.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 06:44 AM (JUOKG) I don't recall any such guarantee. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:51 AM (mpXpK) Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2019 06:53 AM (l4G13) 734
It sure seems to me that if Felicity Huffman and Aunt Becky had all that loose change to bribe their kids' way into the college of their choice...they could have spent it on tutors and test taking workshops and avoided all that pesky FBI stuff.
Posted by: antisocialist at March 13, 2019 06:53 AM (vCrRy) 735
they could have spent it on tutors and test taking workshops and avoided all that pesky FBI stuff.
Posted by: antisocialist That sounds like a lot of work. Skool iz harddddd Posted by: Bruce at March 13, 2019 06:56 AM (8ikIW) 736
I do not know how dangerous Felicity Huffman is, but sending seven agents with guns drawn and pointed, to wake her up at 6 am seems pretty damn stupid. The FBI is crazy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Raise You! at March 13, 2019 06:57 AM (0YEwp) 737
Storm just blew in. 60/70 mph winds.
I wonder how many tree branches will be down by daylight. Posted by: Ben Had Already drove thru some in Dallas/Addison. Whole mile long stretch in Carrollton is without power. That has a spooky feel to it when you are driving thru an area when ALL the power is off. Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 06:58 AM (LHT0w) 738
I do not know how dangerous Felicity Huffman is, but sending seven agents with guns drawn and pointed, to wake her up at 6 am seems pretty damn stupid. The FBI is crazy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Raise You! We've got the guns and like to get an early start... Win Win!! ...FBI... Posted by: Bruce at March 13, 2019 06:59 AM (8ikIW) 739
And they got a guarantee they would make Second Class the first time they took the test. All they had to do was not fail.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 06:44 AM (JUOKG) I don't recall any such guarantee. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 06:51 AM --- There were no quotas for any Nuke E-5. Everyone got advanced who passed the test. There were no PNA's like every other rate. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 06:59 AM (JUOKG) 740
"That has a spooky feel to it when you are driving thru an area when ALL the power is off."
You get used to it. Posted by: President Maduro at March 13, 2019 07:00 AM (cqNba) 741
Storm just blew in. 60/70 mph winds.
I wonder how many tree branches will be down by daylight. Posted by: Ben Had Already drove thru some in Dallas/Addison. Whole mile long stretch in Carrollton is without power. That has a spooky feel to it when you are driving thru an area when ALL the power is off. Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 06:58 AM --- It is just hitting us now. They are saying 70mph gusts. Gonna be trees down all over the place. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 07:00 AM (JUOKG) 742
rickb223, overturned 18 wheeler overturned on 61 and a house blown down in Cleburn.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 13, 2019 07:03 AM (l4G13) 743
Looks like maybe another day with no rain. An opportunity for the front yard to partially dry out.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:04 AM (cqNba) 744
Congrats to Alex Rodriguez and JLow on the occasion of their engagement. This will test my theory that the rich and famous get married only as a last ditch effort to avoid breaking up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Raise You! at March 13, 2019 07:05 AM (0YEwp) 745
"sending seven agents with guns drawn and pointed, to wake her up at 6 am seems pretty damn stupid. "
200 FBI agents on the case. And Hillary still waddles free. Posted by: f'd at March 13, 2019 07:06 AM (UdKB7) 746
That must have come a long after I got out.
Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 07:06 AM (mpXpK) 747
Congrats to your son VIA!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 13, 2019 07:07 AM (gNADb) 748
"That has a spooky feel to it when you are driving thru an area when ALL the power is off."
You get used to it. Posted by: President Maduro ^^^^^ That right there is funny. I don't care who you are. Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 07:08 AM (LHT0w) 749
Actress who bribed sleazebag to get her kid into college: Handcuffed in Morning Raid by FBI
Woman who put classified documents in the reach of the entire world: Immunity before testimony But there is no Deep State. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:08 AM (oVJmc) 750
Thank you, Tonypete.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:10 AM (cqNba) 751
"sending seven agents with guns drawn and pointed, to wake her up at 6 am seems pretty damn stupid. "
200 FBI agents on the case. And Hillary still waddles free. Posted by: f'd at March 13, 2019 07:06 AM --- According to the leaked Congressional hearing testimony of fbi agent lisa page, they were going to recommend charges on hillary for gross negligence for her emails but lynch told them not to do it. I don't know whether to believe that or not, but at the point of her testimony she had nothing left to lose, so maybe she was telling the truth. Makes no difference as session let the SOL expire. Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 13, 2019 07:11 AM (JUOKG) 752
Venezuela highlights yet again the fact that many socialist regimes collapse when the Cult of Personality dies along with its personality.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:12 AM (oVJmc) 753
Woman who put classified documents in the reach of the entire world: Immunity before testimony
We only like doing early morning knock down the door arrests. You ever seen Hillz in the morning? Let alone her bedroom smell like a cross between a full cat box and the monkey pavilion. ...FBI... Posted by: Bruce at March 13, 2019 07:13 AM (8ikIW) 754
prayers up for vic. makes my problems pale. hang in there, vic.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 13, 2019 07:13 AM (KP5rU) 755
Every day, millions of children struggle with meat. Please help the children who are struggling with meat.
Brought to you by: Meatless Mondays and Posted by: The Ad Council at March 13, 2019 07:14 AM (UdKB7) 756
Two minute BBC video from inside Venezuela: http://tinyurl.com/FvckCommunism Fvck those who want to bring communism to this country. Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:17 AM (jYje5) 757
@753
I will never let the letting of Hillz go. What really kills me is that everyone complains about FBI/DOJ changing the requirement of the Espionage Act from "gross negligence" to intent. Yes, absurd, as it's absurd that "extreme carelessness" does not, in fact, equal "gross negligence." But the real kicker is that her actions, to bring classified material outside its lawful, protected space was ABSOLUTELY AND DEMONSTRABLY INTENTIONAL. Negligent would be "Oh my God I never realized that you were using a private server Mr. IT Guy." Intentional is: Hey lets hire IT guys at great time and expense to make sure that my emails are off the government grid. Juries should nullify every verdict brought by the Feds and return a note to the Judge saying: If Hillary got off we can't convict this guy. Fuck you. War." Posted by: xnycpeasant at March 13, 2019 07:20 AM (jlX7q) 758
756 Fvck those who want to bring communism to this country.
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:17 AM (jYje5) Half the country do. At least 50% vote Democrat Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 07:20 AM (mpXpK) 759
Oddly enough, on our NextDoor, Social Media site is a thread about a speaker lecturing on Global Warming.
The unusual part is the 27 comments posted by residents of the area. ALL of them are referring to the over-reach in claims, and the altering of global temperature readings to support a non scientific position that the world is being destroyed by human activity, and that we should all live in mud huts to save the planet. Not a single comment supporting Glowball Worming. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:22 AM (cqNba) 760
Fvck those who want to bring communism to this country. //// Half the country do. At least 50% vote Democrat Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 07:20 AM Because they're too ignorant to know what socialism and communism will bring. Or they just don't fvcking care. They're miserable and if everyone else is miserable so much the better. They should all move to Venezuela and enjoy the 100 degree temperatures, with no water, no air conditioning, no electricity, and no food. Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:25 AM (jYje5) 761
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:25 AM (jYje5)
They are either a Yellow Dog Democrat or a member of the FSA in good standing. Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 07:27 AM (mpXpK) 762
We, the students of Caracas stand in unity with the students of New York City, in our commitment to Meatless Mondays.
And Waterless Wednesdays. And giving up Lights For Lent. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:30 AM (cqNba) 763
@757
The other little publicized wrinkle in all of this is that in order for her server set-up to work, forwarding and synochonization would have had to be implemented from within the governmental servers. So the question is, who authorized that? Posted by: John The Savage at March 13, 2019 07:30 AM (Jacsn) 764
I too am so glad to see our Angels in Blue, also known as the FBI, tackling the tough jobs. You know ... College Basketball Corruption and Entrance Exam Bribes.
I'm sure we'll hear from all those honest, hard-working ranking and file guys. Yep - any day now. Posted by: The Artist Formerly Known as SD at March 13, 2019 07:30 AM (ytC/k) 765
"So the question is, who authorized that?"
You ever come across a question that you just know deep in your heart is never going to be answered? Yeh...this is one of them. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:32 AM (cqNba) 766
Okay, BBC, WTF are we supposed to do about Venezuela when the whole thing was caused deliberately by the asshole in charge? Invade?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:32 AM (oVJmc) 767
China offering help to Venezuela with power grid: https://news.yahoo.com/china-offers-venezuela-help-restore -power-103108275.html Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:35 AM (jYje5) 768
Okay, BBC, WTF are we supposed to do about Venezuela when the whole thing was caused deliberately by the asshole in charge? Invade?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles Not a thing. Not our monkeys, not our circus. It's not like setting back will let Russia get a toe hold in Central/South America. Venezuela was already commie. Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 07:35 AM (LHT0w) 769
Last?
Posted by: Shoeless Guy at March 13, 2019 07:45 AM (p+/iO) 770
Every day, millions of children struggle with meat. Please help the children who are struggling with meat.
Brought to you by: Meatless Mondays and Posted by: The Ad Council at March 13, 2019 07:14 AM This. Help them beat their meat. Posted by: H. Reed at March 13, 2019 07:47 AM (Cn2yJ) 771
Five FBI Agents Shot in Arrest of Actress Over College Admissions Payoffs
--Headlines you'll never see It's pretty obvious that the FBI is just doing their usual publicity-seeking with a high-profile arrest they make out to be the Raid on Entebbe Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:47 AM (oVJmc) 772
The most interesting thing about the "Aunt Becky" story is that she's married to Mossimo Giannuli.
I never knew that. Huh. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:48 AM (Ct55T) 773
hiya
Posted by: JT at March 13, 2019 07:48 AM (nubzz) 774
758 756 Fvck those who want to bring communism to this country.
Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:17 AM (jYje5) Half the country do. At least 50% vote Democrat Posted by: Vic at March 13, 2019 07:20 AM (mpXpK) Ergo: Fvck 'em. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:50 AM (Ct55T) 775
It's pretty obvious that the FBI is just doing their usual publicity-seeking with a high-profile arrest they make out to be the Raid on Entebbe
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:47 AM (oVJmc) At least they didn't send a Hostage Rescue Team. They don't seem to be long on the whole "rescue" thing. Posted by: The Artist Formerly Known as SD at March 13, 2019 07:51 AM (ytC/k) 776
I don't like Mondays.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 13, 2019 07:52 AM (UdKB7) 777
The most interesting thing about the "Aunt Becky" story is that she's married to Mossimo Giannuli.
I didn't know who that was, but his pic looks like the definition of 'douche.' Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:53 AM (oVJmc) 778
I'm also heartily amused that anyone thinks this admissions scandal does anything to besmirch the reputation of Academia.
That's like worrying about a smudge on the wall of a Jersey Turnpike shithouse. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:54 AM (Ct55T) 779
I didn't know who that was, but his pic looks like the definition of 'douche.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:53 AM (oVJmc) He's the guy who designs clothes for factory direct outlets. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:54 AM (Ct55T) 780
The Ponchos Mexican Buffet on Beltline Rd has destroyed many port a potties!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 07:54 AM (JFO2v) 781
It's said that you can vote socialism in, but you have to shoot your way back out. Venezuela is now at stage two. Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:55 AM (jYje5) 782
I didn't know who that was, but his pic looks like the definition of 'douche.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 13, 2019 07:53 AM (oVJmc) (And also, seemingly, less of a celebrity than Lori Laughlin.) Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:55 AM (Ct55T) 783
776 I don't like Mondays.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 13, 2019 07:52 AM (UdKB7) Well, you are the kind of chick whose every day ends in "Why?!?!?!".... Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:56 AM (Ct55T) 784
"I didn't know who that was, but his pic looks like the definition of 'douche.'
And the daughter could pass for the offspring of a union of Aunt Becky and Salena Gomez. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 07:57 AM (cqNba) 785
778 I'm also heartily amused that anyone thinks this admissions scandal does anything to besmirch the reputation of Academia.
That's like worrying about a smudge on the wall of a Jersey Turnpike shithouse. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:54 AM (Ct55T) What I think it means is the Progressives know there are so many coveted position in elite schools given to academically undeserving students that it is OK to cheat the system. Much like Big Govt politicians and workers given exemption and cash to get around BhusseinCare system. Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 07:58 AM (JFO2v) 786
I remember a little while back that Villanova law school went through a big scandal involving basically "cash for sheepskin". No celebrities involved, though, so nobody outside of the legal world seemed to GAF.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 08:00 AM (Ct55T) 787
Two Americas.
Posted by: Infidel at March 13, 2019 08:00 AM (9L2du) 788
I'm also heartily amused that anyone thinks this admissions scandal does anything to besmirch the reputation of Academia. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 07:54 AM (Ct55T) Hogg to Harvard makes some bribes to get rich kids in a triviality. Academia has destroyed its own reputation rather effectively already! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 13, 2019 08:01 AM (wYseH) 789
781
It's said that you can vote socialism in, but you have to shoot your way back out. Venezuela is now at stage two. Posted by: Newest Nic at March 13, 2019 07:55 AM (jYje5) I man with Kimber 45 extended clip, 10 votes! Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 08:01 AM (JFO2v) 790
It's elite, & you ain't in it.
Posted by: The Thousand Comment ONT Club at March 13, 2019 08:01 AM (kK4Ub) 791
786 I remember a little while back that Villanova law school went through a big scandal involving basically "cash for sheepskin". No celebrities involved, though, so nobody outside of the legal world seemed to GAF.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 08:00 AM (Ct55T) UT Law had a backdoor program for Texas politician children for about 20 years! Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 08:02 AM (JFO2v) 792
Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 13, 2019 08:02 AM (Ki5SV) 793
Much like Big Govt politicians and workers given exemption and cash to get around BhusseinCare system.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 07:58 AM (JFO2v) They've become their own Reactionaries. Liberate the Proletariat!... yeah, but nah, we're just gonna keep living like an Aristocracy. Smash Bourgeois social norms!..... yeah, but nah, we're gonna be bigger puritans than the actual Puritans were. (And no, that's not funny.) Et cetera. Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 08:03 AM (Ct55T) 794
What I think it means is the Progressives know there are so many coveted position in elite schools given to academically undeserving students that it is OK to cheat the system.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 13, 2019 07:58 AM (JFO2v) All the Rah Rah stuff about hard work and determination is cute. Bullshit mostly, but cute. It ain't what you know, its who you blow. I've seen it a million times. These parents are just trying to buy their kids a golden ticket - same as anybody would that could. Posted by: The Artist Formerly Known as SD at March 13, 2019 08:03 AM (ytC/k) Posted by: Off the reservation at March 13, 2019 08:05 AM (vWMNq) Posted by: Off the reservation at March 13, 2019 08:07 AM (vWMNq) 797
Nood
Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 08:08 AM (LHT0w) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 13, 2019 08:08 AM (cqNba) Posted by: Off the reservation at March 13, 2019 08:08 AM (vWMNq) 800
796 No jjs yet.
Posted by: Off the reservation at March 13, 2019 08:07 AM (vWMNq) 797 Nood Posted by: rickb223 at March 13, 2019 08:08 AM (LHT0w) Someone needs to give willow her +2 Staff of Threadbane back... Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 13, 2019 08:08 AM (Ct55T) 801
JJ's awake.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 13, 2019 08:09 AM (NtglE) 802
I'm proud to say #1 son got into his school of choice 100 percent on his own merits. That wouldn't mean anything if I did it for him.
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