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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (5/14/19)
Quote I
When no hill is worth dying on, eventually your enemy has all the high ground and you are surrounded. CDR Salamander
Quote II
“This oil field would not run without the Mexican nationals, God bless their souls. The majority doing the hard work are Mexican nationals. Are they legal? Do they have their paper work?” John Cantu
Quote III
But to my knowledge, Maya “Alec” McKinney is the first tranny accused of a school shooting, and for that I thank her in helping to make the world a more equal place. Jim Goad
Quote IV
See, the thing that kept the establishment in power was the veneer of legitimacy over our institutions which made us defer to them even when we felt they were wrong. But maintaining that veneer got inconvenient, so they stopped trying to. Now we won't obey. Stupid ruling class
Col. Kurt Schlicther
Another day, Another lie from Anti-Semite Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
Seth Meyers Lets Rashida Tlaib Justify Her Comments, Insult People And Lie More About Israel
She's not even a good liar.
The
Another reason to approve of PDT. 'Ending the Union Medicaid Skim. Organized labor has been dunning home health-care workers for years, without their consent—but now the Trump administration has stepped in.'
Even when the Supreme Court tells a government labor union that it can’t do something, there’s no guarantee that the union will comply. In its 2014 Harris v. Quinn decision, the Court ruled that an Illinois law forcing home health-care workers—paid with Medicaid funds—to shell out cash to labor unions was unconstitutional. That should have ended unions’ ability to collect fees from these workers—many of whom were not really professionals but were receiving a small subsidy from Medicaid to care for disabled family members at home—unless the workers agreed to join the union. In response, labor-friendly states crafted loopholes to keep the cash flowing to unions. Now the Trump administration has stepped in, moving to stop unions from skimming funds from paychecks. The Center for Medicaid Services has ruled that federal law does not allow the diversion of Medicaid funds to third parties, including unions. Caregivers can join a union if they wish, but unions must collect dues directly from their members.
Civilian parking enforcers, this should go over well in Washington, D.C.
Wherever a car parks too close to a crosswalk, a fire hydrant is blocked, or a bike lane is intruded upon, code enforcing vigilantes are quick to snap a photo and tag the relevant local department demanding action be taken against the offending motorist. Soon enough these bike lane Batmen might get to play police for real under a proposed pilot program that would give citizens the ability to ticket each other for parking violations.
Fabulous, just fucking fabulous.
Remember cake-loving teacher Mr. Ratburn from the PBS Kids show Arthur? Well, he just got married to a man—and people on Twitter are absolutely elated.
OK, a serious question, if science is settled, why is there such a disagreement about coffee consumption?
In Australia, one in six people are affected by cardiovascular disease. It is a major cause of death with one person dying from the disease every 12 minutes. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, yet one of the most preventable. Investigating the association of long-term coffee consumption and cardiovascular disease, UniSA researchers Dr Ang Zhou and Professor Elina Hyppönen of the Australian Centre for Precision Health say their research confirms the point at which excess caffeine can cause high blood pressure, a precursor to heart disease. This is the first time an upper limit has been placed on safe coffee consumption and cardiovascular health.
Transparency for thee, not for me. So says various governments. They don't care for their laws, rules and regulations being posted for all to see.
WASHINGTON — Carl Malamud believes in open access to government records, and he has spent more than a decade putting them online. You might think states would welcome the help. But when Mr. Malamud’s group posted the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the state sued for copyright infringement. Providing public access to the state’s laws and related legal materials, Georgia’s lawyers said, was part of a “strategy of terrorism.” A federal appeals court ruled against the state, which has asked the Supreme Court to step in. On Friday, in an unusual move, Mr. Malamud’s group, Public.Resource.Org, also urged the court to hear the dispute, saying that the question of who owns the law is an urgent one, as about 20 other states have claimed that parts of similar annotated codes are copyrighted.
What's been happening in Manitowoc? Let's take a look.
Is there a magic potion to parent successful children? 'I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor—here’s one of the biggest mistakes I see parents making'
It’s rather strange to be a “famous” parent and have your family profiled on the cover of magazines. I certainly don’t claim all the credit for their successes, but all three have turned out to be accomplished, caring and capable people.My .02? Stop treating your children as friends or peers. You're their parent act like it.
Want to keep unwanted guests including your mother in law from appearing at your home? Pet tarantula to the rescue.
In a desperate attempt to get a break from his nagging in-laws and regain his privacy, a Reddit user allegedly took advantage of his mother-in-law’s severe arachnophobia by getting a tarantula as a pet. Reddit user “ProbablyAssholeGuy” isn’t really into tarantulas. He thinks they’re cool and all, but he wouldn’t have actually gotten one as a pet if weren’t for the added bonus of keeping his wife’s mother away from his house. In a post that recently went viral on the social network, the man said that his traditional Chinese in-laws had really been getting on his nerves with their unannounced visits and blatant breaches of privacy, but despite complaining to his wife about it for years, she just ignored his concerns. So when he notice his mother-in-law’s reaction to simply seeing a spider sitting in the corner of the house, he got the idea to use her arachnophobia to keep her away.
Some days I miss Twitter. This probably would have gotten me booted anyway. Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so.
How long before the cry of "Crossbow Control"? H/T CBD
Three people were found dead from crossbow wounds in a hotel room near the southern German city of Passau, according to police. Two other deaths, in the northern German state of Saxony, are possibly linked, police said Monday. The revelations began on Saturday morning when an employee at a quiet inn on the river Ilz near the southern German town of Passau discovered the bodies of two women and one man after repeated knocks on the door of their hotel room failed to get a response, the Associated Press reported.Quite the whodunit, two more bodies were found in the apartment of one of the women.
'A third of youth firearm deaths could be prevented without taking away a single gun. Locking up guns keeps kids safer'
In 2015, more than 1,100 young people died by suicide or by accident because of a gun. New research suggests that almost one-third of those deaths could be prevented by simply locking up guns in the home. “The take-home message from the findings of the study is that even a relatively modest increase in the practice of safe storage by parents could result in substantial reductions in firearm suicides and unintentional fatalities among youth,” says Michael Monuteaux, a Harvard Medical School professor of pediatrics and epidemiologist who is the first author of the new study.
Will Bayer be litigated out of business?
A Northern California jury on Monday awarded $2.055 billion to a Bay Area couple who say Bayer's Roundup weedkiller caused their cancer. Alva and Alberta Pilliod are in their 70s, and said that after using Roundup for more than 35 years, they were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011 and 2015; both are now in remission. Their attorneys argued that scientific studies show glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Roundup, is a carcinogenic. Bayer's lawyers retorted that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other regulators have approved the product for use.
Twofer Tuesday Edition
Born on This Day: 14 May 1943
Scottish musician, singer and songwriter Jack Bruce who was a member of the Graham Bond Organization, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Manfred Mann and Cream, who had the 1967 UK No.11 single 'I Feel Free', and the 1968 US No.5 single 'Sunshine Of Your Love'. Their 1968 Wheels of Fire becoming the first platinum-selling double album. Also a member of West, Bruce and Laing. Bruce died on 25 October 2014 from liver disease in Suffolk, England, aged 71 via thisdayinmusic.com
It seems there are cameras everywhere. Just ask our Genius Award Winner.
Dashcam footage shows the refuse collector throwing himself onto the bonnet of the Audi and writhing on the ground in Teversham, Cambridgeshire. He then continues to roll around in apparent pain as his colleague confronts the driver, Wayne Nightingale. The trash collector then tries to stop chauffer Wayne driving off by holding onto the side of the car as it moves out of the junction. Wayne, 58, told MailOnline: “As he stood there I decided to go around him and that’s when he came towards my car and pretended that I hit him. But I knew I’d never touched him. “The driver in front told me that he had the scene on video and we arranged for him to give it to me later on in the evening.”
Speaking of cameras, Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
It is a tad graphic. You have been warned.
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Loitering.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (mx70g)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (htgmn)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (5sBuX)
https://youtu.be/6UrPJzxCN0A
Posted by: Zaklog the Great at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (sNwDD)
Posted by: FireHorse at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (ta49A)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read Some Movie Thoughts at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (5sBuX)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (htgmn)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (CLcKT)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:05 PM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2019 10:06 PM (f8dwL)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2019 10:06 PM (f8dwL)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:06 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: wing at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (JFzNN)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:06 PM (TdMsT)
But we will obey.
We are decent people with morals. Unlike the antifa trash.
Would you cold cock someone with a bike lock?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (mx70g)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
If one of Tycho or Gabe doesn't watch Tucker Carlson, I'll be impressed. They probably don't want to divide their base, but the fact is that AAA video games are becoming so evil, I increasingly want no part of them.
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (OnEJV)
When the best the lawyer ads can say of Glysophosphate it is a 'possible,' then yes it is all junk science.
Tis DDT deja vu all over again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (Z0KTx)
Would you cold cock someone with a bike lock?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
When you can no longer trust earthly rulers, you go back to he Bible.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (htgmn)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (soHCJ)
So what is it that the WHO would prefer to see as the leading cause of death? I mean, there always has to be one.
Just wondering.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (vq6T3)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2019 10:10 PM (uL22A)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:10 PM (htgmn)
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You're stuck in the "marketplace of ideas" model which implies persuasion. They've long ago stepped away from that model because it ultimately relies on buy-in.
They don't want you to buy into to anything that they offer. They want you to accept it, even though you don't want it. Especially because you don't want it.
It's not control if you agree to it. They don't want to seduce you. They want to rape you.
Posted by: FireHorse at May 14, 2019 10:10 PM (ta49A)
The judge and that jury should be hog-tied and dropped into the Pacific.
What total bullshit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:11 PM (vq6T3)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:11 PM (htgmn)
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at May 14, 2019 10:11 PM (113G5)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 10:11 PM (XG6a8)
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A few paragraphs down he writes about an RV with a trump sticker on it that he assumes MUST BE an armed far right Nazi. JOURNALISM!!
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (FiUMj)
Alva and Alberta Pilliod are in their 70s, and said that after using Roundup for more than 35 years, they were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011 and 2015; both are now in remission.
Bet they each live another 50 years. I'm surprised they didn't contract gluten sensitivity and Morgellon's syndrome too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (X3lUd)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (t5Hd3)
And this is where they tell you to eat plants, no salt, and no sugar.
My genes are the cause of my heart stuff. I keep it in check with Lipitor and marathon sessions of tennis three days a week. I still eat steak.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (soHCJ)
Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (qBNEP)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (htgmn)
They know the truth, they refuse to tell it.
Posted by: davidt at May 14, 2019 10:13 PM (EfMCv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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It happens. You could appeal, but even if it goes your way, you're still out of the first 20.
Posted by: FireHorse at May 14, 2019 10:13 PM (ta49A)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:13 PM (aA3+G)
No, they don't know the truth. 1948 was like a hundred years ago, man.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:14 PM (soHCJ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:13 PM (aA3+G)
You always are.
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:14 PM (htgmn)
O.N. muthafreakin' T.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (t5Hd3)
6 month platinum subscription headed your way.
I don't care what the boss says.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:15 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Turn those machines back on!
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:15 PM (htgmn)
O.N. muthafreakin' T.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:12 PM (t5Hd3)
6 month platinum subscription headed your way.
I don't care what the boss says.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:15 PM (aA3+G)
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Don't spend those ampersands all in one place!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (8g9zh)
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Where I live in upstate New York, parking codes are enforced by the police, and the officers in the various police departments around here are all civilians, aren't they?
Aren't they??
Posted by: FireHorse at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (ta49A)
Meanwhile, the rest of the Democrat field is engaged in ritual self-immolation.
Posted by: Anonymous 7 at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (DwzBO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (X3lUd)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (f8dwL)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (htgmn)
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
But would you shoot someone that was threatening you or a loved one? Civilized people (and we really don't want to lose that veneer unless absolutely necessary in an existential sense) don't do random attacks on the unsuspecting. BUT civilized people can, and should, righteously defend their family and homes unto death!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (3hr5B)
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I don't believe any gun "research". However, locking up guns when there are small kids in the house is a no brainer.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 14, 2019 10:16 PM (f8dwL)
I can see today, but it's still sore and inflamed. Seeing the surgeon tomorrow!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (TdMsT)
He's doing that "10,000 hours to achieve mastery" thing in anticipation of The Day Of The Pudding Cups.
Posted by: Miklos, with respect at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (t5Hd3)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (3hr5B)
Hell yes.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (aA3+G)
In the 2012 election there was a ballot proposal pushed by the SEIU that would have resulted in home health-care workers having to pay dues. It failed.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:19 PM (+lVUW)
In a New York Minute and then reload.
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:19 PM (htgmn)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (TdMsT)
I think a lot of us were hoping you went in today.
Prayers still up for a good eye.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (aA3+G)
I wonder if our friend at McDonald's there was any relation to the "I Want To Dip My Balls In It!" guy from The State.
Posted by: The Hoser at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (v3UCk)
Posted by: ALH
Looks like the Holland Michigan light.
Posted by: Aviator at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (2cuLk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
The problems only started when they had their alien implants removed.
Posted by: Miklos, investing in Noory Beets at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (TdMsT)
Joel 3:10
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2019 10:21 PM (qBNEP)
I always wondered about a lot of those male kids show people.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:21 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (OnEJV)
It depends a lot on the publisher and the game. Some genres are worse than others, shooters in particular seem to be plagued with lootboxes and pay-to-win.
Some publishers are also better than others. Bethesda and Blizzard are flushing their good reputations down the toilet at astonishing speed, and EA has always been the Evil Empire of gaming (the list of companies they've snapped up and great IPs they've let go fallow is staggering).
The thing to do now is wait until games are out, and people you trust have weighed in on them, before biting the bullet. Know what you're getting beforehand.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (113G5)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (2DOZq)
Because while running for Congress the guy made a....wait for it...."disparaging" remark about Obama.
Utah, get your shit together.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (soHCJ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (aA3+G)
Threaten my pup, and ...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (3hr5B)
and Southern Republicans?
The answer can be found by posing the following question:
You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises his knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Glock cal .40, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.
What do you do?
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (htgmn)
"Where ever there is injustice, I'll be there." -- Tom Joad
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (dUJdY)
That same question was asked a few times at the Yakima MoMe.
He is a good guy.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: The Hoser at May 14, 2019 10:23 PM (v3UCk)
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Truth to progressives is like sunlight to vampires.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 14, 2019 10:23 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 10:23 PM (xIKXj)
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I don't think they really care-they just hope you die before you get old.....
Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2019 10:24 PM (o1fzk)
Posted by: FireHorse at May 14, 2019 10:24 PM (ta49A)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:25 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:18 PM (aA3+G)
Threaten my pup, and ...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (3hr5B)
That's also a hell yes.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:25 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2019 10:25 PM (uL22A)
Because while running for Congress the guy made a....wait for it...."disparaging" remark about Obama.
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- Zombie McCain
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:25 PM (FiUMj)
What do you do?
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (htgmn)
I'm already done.
someone call 911.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 14, 2019 10:25 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (o1fzk)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2019 10:21 PM (qBNEP)
And that is the rational and civilized answer.
Quite different from the uncivilized antifa sucker punch bike lock attack on fellow residents* of the country!
I have stopped using the fellow "citizens" term because it seems that now have more "residents" than citizens!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (3hr5B)
While it may not be for everyone, I have really enjoyed it. I was also surprised by the story. The story is definitely odd because it is not a central story arc with sub plots, more an attempt to do non-linear story telling to get a more realistic feel. Almost everything you do in game advances one or more story points.
I was also surprised because, as much as you might expect for the zombie genre to be downbeat and nihilistic, it is surprisingly hopeful and actually positive, story wise. Compare and contrast with Last of Us and the difference in story arc is quite telling. While it may not be as polished or focused, I like the direction it went in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 10:26 PM (mx70g)
What do you do?
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (htgmn)
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Democrat: Shoots the Republican
Republican: Pees his pants and shoots his foor
So. Republican: Shoots Ahmed then punches the Democrat
Am I close?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:27 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:27 PM (soHCJ)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 10:27 PM (xIKXj)
Then I drove it again last week to get to Odessa because of the sudden death of my brother
A 6 hour trip now takes 8 hours. We waited for 45 minutes to get through the 4 way stop in Orla.
Posted by: Fred Weldon at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (Jxkji)
One of her kids is demonetizing conservatives, the other is cataloging DNA profiles for the federal government (disguised as a legitimate business).
I'll take the .02 from MisHum a leave the rest.
My .02, treat them like small adults that you manage. That means expectations, discipline, benefit packages, punishment and rewards.
Doesn't hurt if you hug them and tell them you love 'em every now and again either.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (t5Hd3)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (FiUMj)
Because, if it was, that would make him the coolest judge ever.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Fred Weldon at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (Jxkji
More round-abouts
Posted by: Worthless State of WI DOT at May 14, 2019 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Miklos, who did what he could at May 14, 2019 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)
And how many "disparaging" remarks has old Mitt made about Trump?
Posted by: JoeF. at May 14, 2019 10:29 PM (o1fzk)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (dUJdY)
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That same question was asked a few times at the Yakima MoMe.
He is a good guy.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (sy5kK)
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He has disappeared, and has shut down his GoFundMe page.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (NtglE)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (xIKXj)
Couldn't agree with you more, ask my kids to finish the following sentence, "For every .............
Posted by: Worthless State of WI DOT at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (aA3+G)
On a related note, and depending on your circumstances you might want to reconsider the "science" behind the popular low dose aspirin regimen:
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (3hr5B)
Prayers still up for a good eye.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:20 PM (aA3+G)
Thank you so much.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
There wasn't a warning on the container telling them not to drink the stuff?
There's no way in hell that anyone can prove what caused the cancer.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Worthless State of WI DOT at May 14, 2019 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
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Heh.
I like roundabouts. My city/county have both embraced them and they rock. It has made several intersections much quicker to get through. I don't get the hatred from some people towards them. Is it cuz they're Euro?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (FiUMj)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:28 PM (FiUMj)
Yes.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (dUJdY)
Mrs. Kimball, this is an urgent call regarding your Medicaid income! Your mandatory contribution to the Union of Home Healthcare Workers is no longer being automatically deducted from your monthly payment. To maintain your status, you MUST call the Union of Home Healthcare Workers to arrange a personal payment schedule NOW. Dues may have risen since your last payment.
Posted by: Union Scammer Robocall at May 14, 2019 10:32 PM (XG6a8)
Now let's make the world "a more equal place" using his blood instead of an innocent h.s. student's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 10:32 PM (EZebt)
The rubes are speaking amongst themselves, and comparing notes, and that simply Can't Be Allowed. It's virtually impossible to keep a lid on all the abject failures they've foisted on us, observable in real time. Before, it wasn't even reported, or hand waved away as "conspiricy theories".
There's only two ways to get someone to do something. Persuasion, or force. The "liberals" of either main party were content to gain a kind of manufactured consent, but that isn't working so well. Their bag of tricks is losing efficacy, therefore they get nasty. It gets much worse before it gets better, because intimidation works.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (kVErN)
Too funny. @nycmayor getting trolled at his own press conference. Well, he got 20 people to show up which is substantially more than what he has put together in the primary states for his 2020 "run"... also those guys were just there for the free donuts.
Video:
http://tinyurl.com/y3uagqaa
They're riding the escalator up and down behind the presser! Too effing funny!
Posted by: Tami at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (cF8AT)
Bad kids shows written by people with no kids.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (HaL55)
Check out BLT, Bruce, Lordan & Trower
Posted by: Worthless State of WI DOT at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (aA3+G)
2.05 BILLION??? Jesus.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:17 PM (dUJdY)
No shit, california. Why any manufacturer does business or sells any products in the land of fruits and nuts is beyond me.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)
This^
As I've said before, my parents lived to 93 and 97 and they both ate all the kinds of food that people are warned about. Heart disease is rare in both their families.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:34 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: 29Victor at May 14, 2019 10:34 PM (BJKQV)
Just wondering.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (vq6T3)
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Genocide of white people. It's only fair.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 14, 2019 10:34 PM (t5m5e)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (FiUMj)
I hate roundabouts. It's partly because they are Eurotrash crap. Mostly, it's because they are wastes of space and property. Roundabouts take up about 300% more space than a simple intersection, require much more maintenance, and can't really be changed without going through a whole bunch of shit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:35 PM (vq6T3)
++++
Which is why their shows are just chocked-full of Conservative, Pro-life, healthy, devoutly Christian families. Right?
Posted by: 29Victor at May 14, 2019 10:35 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: *hic* at May 14, 2019 10:36 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (dUJdY)
Thank you, Jewells. My vision is fantastic but my eye is sore. Called today, and apparently this is normal for some people. I have an appointment to have it looked at tomorrow.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:36 PM (TdMsT)
There wasn't a warning on the container telling them not to drink the stuff?
There's no way in hell that anyone can prove what caused the cancer.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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Oh, you wanted evidence and proof? I'm becoming less and less convinced that a product liability case is the place to guarantee finding those items.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2019 10:36 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (dUJdY)
~~~~~
I hope so too Jewells, but to be honest, I have some serious misgivings about the whole CM saga.
Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2019 10:36 PM (NtglE)
Suicide Booths.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 14, 2019 10:37 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:33 PM (kVErN)
Intimidation works even better when only the "authorized" intimidators have the guns to assist in the intimidation!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:37 PM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at May 14, 2019 10:31 PM (FiUMj)
I hate roundabouts. It's partly because they are Eurotrash crap. Mostly, it's because they are wastes of space and property. Roundabouts take up about 300% more space than a simple intersection, require much more maintenance, and can't really be changed without going through a whole bunch of shit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:35 PM (vq6T3)
Visit US Hwy 8 in the Village of Turtle Lake, WI. Hell we put 2 of them in a 1/2 mile stretch of 4 lane road with a posted speed limit of 35mph.
Posted by: Worthless State of WI DOT at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (aA3+G)
The dashcam car drives off nonchalantly.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (+exTc)
I'm such a little shit
I scream and cry and throw a fit
A dumb motherfucker named Caiiiiiillou
Posted by: The Hoser at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (v3UCk)
59 Ending the Union Medicaid Skim. Organized labor has been dunning home health-care workers for years, without their consen--but now the Trump administration has stepped in'
In the 2012 election there was a ballot proposal pushed by the SEIU that would have resulted in home health-care workers having to pay dues. It failed.
Posted by: nerdygirl
That was supposed to specify Michigan.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (+lVUW)
The kill joys of the world have been trying to pin every evil known on coffee for I don't know how many years. And every time they think they've nailed it down, along comes another study proving them wrong.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: 29Victor at May 14, 2019 10:34 PM (BJKQV)
*****
Well crap.
Only got to 499.
Cheated again.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 14, 2019 10:39 PM (0tfLf)
....action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:39 PM (t5Hd3)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:39 PM (+exTc)
Otherwise, she's talking about raising your kids have a greater purpose in life and to value more than money while her claim to fame is three financially successful kids.
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at May 14, 2019 10:40 PM (adsVM)
Posted by: Miklos, who did what he could at May 14, 2019 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)
Yes, that surprised me.
I just sent him an email,I'll see if I hear back.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 10:40 PM (Rz2Nc)
The dashcam car drives off nonchalantly.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (+exTc)
LOL.
Fvckin' clowns ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 10:40 PM (vq6T3)
I mentioned last night getting a new Combat Rosary. I have two now, one from Roman Catholic Gear, which I keep in the car and use on Sunday at church, and one from Rugged Rosaries, which is now at the office. I also have one with olive wood beads at home.
Both are based on the 1916 Service Rosary. They're sturdy and handsome and, yes, I feel armed against the evil spirits when using them. Recommended for all you snappers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 10:40 PM (X3lUd)
The thing to do now is wait until games are out, and people you trust have weighed in on them, before biting the bullet. Know what you're getting beforehand.
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (113G5)
Oh naturally. Ubisoft is converged too, and their products increasingly expensive SJW shit. That's too many companies... but when you consider how shit the entire mass media is? You're super thankful for Slavic overlords like CDPR and Warhorse.
Hope lies in the ruins.
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 10:41 PM (OnEJV)
Most frightening of all is that the Swiss idolize Tell and even have artwork and statues depicting his exploits. It's almost as if they've adopted a neutral status in the matter of law or relations with other countries.
Posted by: A. Pendragon at May 14, 2019 10:42 PM (lJMCC)
What do you do?
Posted by: ALH at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM
Consider the issues that may arise, given Glock's lack of chamber support in .40. Ask St. JMB for understanding and forgiveness for carrying Tupperware this day.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 14, 2019 10:42 PM (uL22A)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2019 10:42 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at May 14, 2019 10:43 PM (CLcKT)
Both are based on the 1916 Service Rosary. They're sturdy and handsome and, yes, I feel armed against the evil spirits when using them. Recommended for all you snappers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 10:40 PM (X3lUd)
I have the verse Jeremiah 29:11 framed on a wall in my bedroom. I make a point of reading it mindfully every day.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:43 PM (TdMsT)
Retro-fitting them, jamming them in where they weren't before... especially in quick succession... not so much. It's like an obstacle course. Stupid.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:43 PM (kVErN)
I did, however, watch the debate between Biden and Paul Ryan. I was under the impression Biden was a paste eating moron but I had no idea he combined that so well with being an arrogant asshole.
I voted for Donald Trump because he was a business man that had to be tired for government red tape and so he would try to get the economy going. Oh, and he was NOT Hillary Clinton. I think I will vote for him in 2020 because he got the economy going and he is NOT a paste eating moron who is also an arrogant asshole, he's a business man who is also an arrogant asshole.
Posted by: JB1000 at May 14, 2019 10:44 PM (0JkhZ)
....action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 10:39 PM (t5Hd3)
Yup, that's the one.
We must have done something right, all 3 of them have turned out very well.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:44 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: ALH
Can I get two 40s into him before my wife can get three nines? Hmmm.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (+exTc)
Posted by: Jean
Well there is a roundabout on the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge. At rush hour, its a cluster. Even more so now that the bridge is under construction.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (WNAuL)
Retro-fitting them, jamming them in where they weren't before... especially in quick succession... not so much. It's like an obstacle course. Stupid.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:43 PM (kVErN)
The problem with roundabouts is constructing them in areas where drivers are unaccustomed to them.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (TdMsT)
Will do.
And on that note, it's bedtime for Bonzo.
Y'all try to behave.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy says #PurgeProgressivismBAMN at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
You should not be driving in Jersey if timid
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:46 PM (+exTc)
No. But I'll tell you what'll harm your children's chances for success in life:
Crushing their spirits
Filling them with fear and self-doubt
Making them second-guess everything they do
Making them believe that nothing they do is good enough
Making them believe that they will never be good enough
Making them believe everything they do is wrong
Making them afraid of doing anything for fear of failure
Making them believe their only worth as a person is to do the parents' will or the will of other authority figures
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 10:47 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2019 10:48 PM (Y4EXg)
You should not be driving in Jersey if timid
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:46 PM (+exT
Driving is not for the timid. I was told many years ago: make a decision and do not hesitate.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:48 PM (TdMsT)
Well there is a roundabout on the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge. At rush hour, its a cluster. Even more so now that the bridge is under construction.
Posted by: Puddleglum
The government signage on that one is stupid.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:48 PM (+exTc)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 10:48 PM (ebZss)
Let me know when I can write a ticket for driving slow in the left lane, merging without accelerating, and texting while driving. Then I'll care.
Posted by: GWB at May 14, 2019 10:49 PM (PpL0X)
Humorless Scold: (pointing to non-diet soda) You know, you're setting a bad example.
Shopper: (without missing a beat) Don't worry. When I drink it, I'll cut it with bourbon, to make it healthier.
SCOLD gets mad, CASHIER has strangled look of trying to hold in laughter, and you guys get a funny story.
Posted by: Locarno at May 14, 2019 10:49 PM (3WLXg)
You should not be driving in Jersey if timid
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:46 PM (+exTc)
You should not be driving in Jersey
You should not be
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 10:49 PM (X3lUd)
--
On a related note, and depending on your
circumstances you might want to reconsider the "science" behind the
popular low dose aspirin regimen:
shorturl.at/agDXY
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM
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No linky worky for me.
Posted by: irright at May 14, 2019 10:50 PM (RVcmP)
https://tinyurl.com/yydw9kka
https://tinyurl.com/y6cmm8kf
https://tinyurl.com/yxv6v8tw
https://tinyurl.com/y5kld8hl
https://tinyurl.com/yxvyl6kq
Posted by: kbdabear at May 14, 2019 10:50 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 14, 2019 10:50 PM (IsnnR)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 10:48 PM (ebZss)
I called this morning, and I'm seeing the surgeon tomorrow, My eyesight is great, but there is some inflammation, which can be normal.
Thank you for asking!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (kVErN)
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (7njPr)
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
So was it when my life began
So it it now, I am a man
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man,
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at May 14, 2019 10:51 PM (PkVlr)
Now let's make the world "a more equal place" using his blood instead of an innocent h.s. student's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Did you happen to read the linked article? The quote was from the end of the article, and was actually pretty heavy sarcasm.
So no, I don't think Jim Goad was loathsome. Go read the article at Taki's Mag at the link.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 10:52 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:52 PM (+exTc)
https://tinyurl.com/y2xlnwp2
https://tinyurl.com/y6dxqnt8
https://tinyurl.com/y2eqlqgw
https://tinyurl.com/y4rkuwk4
https://tinyurl.com/y6s68zqd
Posted by: kbdabear at May 14, 2019 10:52 PM (0Ntuf)
Ironically, she's measuring her children's success by their individual success within a capitalist system.
Posted by: McLurkerson at May 14, 2019 10:53 PM (hFbrr)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 14, 2019 10:53 PM (MasTK)
Tis DDT deja vu all over again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2019 10:09 PM (Z0KTx)
If glyphosate were carcinogenic, there would be a metric fuckton of farmers and home gardeners with cancer. It's all bullshit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 10:53 PM (7njPr)
Because while running for Congress the guy made a....wait for it...."disparaging" remark about Obama.
Utah, get your shit together.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (soHCJ)
So ashamed I voted for this prick and effen' Ryan in 2012. Angry too.
Best part about PDT, besides the economy, his stand-ups at his rallies, and riling up the leftists?
Outing the cucks.
They've completely beclowned themselves in the last 2 1/2 years too.
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 10:54 PM (MEgUr)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:54 PM (TdMsT)
Now we don't have to worry about Melissa Aylano showing up here!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 10:54 PM (pUDQf)
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Don't they get kinda pissy when ya try to use pennies?
Posted by: Common Tater at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (kVErN)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (sdi6R)
If he is marrying a man that is problematic.
You don't know the half of it....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (O0FVw)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (TdMsT)
Such as anywhere in the US.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (NWiLs)
Fake News PBS's Frontline, which is taxpayer funded, is doing a hit piece on McConnell about the Court (or courts) called "Supreme Revenge."
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (r0kI8)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (c1nDO)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:39 PM (+exTc)
FIFY
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2019 10:56 PM (ZfRYq)
Such as anywhere in the US.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (NWiLs)
Except Boston.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:56 PM (TdMsT)
Now we don't have to worry about Melissa Aylano showing up here!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 10:54 PM (pUDQf)
That's a twofer. Congratulations!
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 10:56 PM (MEgUr)
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Mrs. Franpsycho works at an elementary school, and I usually inquire about her day with, "Crush any spirits, today?"
Some kids could use a little spirit-crushing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 10:56 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 14, 2019 10:55 PM (c1nDO)
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And after that fantastic pitching performance by Sale. Ugh. Well, congrats WDS. I'm going to bed.
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (aXucN)
I'd like reciprocal laws which allow drivers to ticket bike riders who pedal in the middle of traffic lanes and run through stop signs.
Posted by: kbdabear at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (0Ntuf)
Posted by: Big fat and round Stacey Abrams at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (sdi6R)
Back in the late '50s, I lived less than two blocks from the White Horse Pike. Most Sunday mornings, I would leisurely stroll across all four lanes to get breakfast from the bakery on the other side, then stroll just as leisurely back to my side of it. Last time I was back east, the WHP had been enlarged to a full six lanes and could have been mistaken for the Atco Speedway.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 10:57 PM (sdi6R)
I always had the impression that Biden's good, ol' Joe act was completely fake.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (+lVUW)
Yes!
I love that one. My youngest memorized it in fourth grade and recited it in front of class. Most of the other kids were doing little kiddie crap.
The next year he did "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Posted by: Nurse ratched at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: dartist at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 10:56 PM (MEgUr
Very proud of my state tonight. I know this all ends up in the Supreme Court but it's nice to know I'm not surrounded by the enemy.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (CLcKT)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:00 PM (pUDQf)
Now let's make the world "a more equal place" using his blood instead of an innocent h.s. student's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 10:32 PM (EZebt)
Maybe you should have read the link?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:00 PM (7njPr)
I'd like reciprocal laws which allow drivers to ticket bike riders who pedal in the middle of traffic lanes and run through stop signs.
Posted by: kbdabear
"Keep an eye out for motorcycles!" say the lighted signs (instead of telling about accidents and lane closures). Yeah, I watch them dangerously weaving in and out of traffic, riding on the shoulder and lane splitting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:00 PM (X3lUd)
Posted by: IrishEi
You have no idea how relieved I am to hear someone here say that.
We've been led some merry chases here, over the years, but most of them have been fits of fancy, pieces of story-telling, or at the worst, mere trollery.
In this case, I have more severe suspicions. There is probably no way this will ever work out in a way that reveals the truth. Brave new world, innit.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 14, 2019 11:01 PM (8ZmvG)
Rashida Tlaib strikes me as a wannabe. She's frumpy and her hair is a frizzy mitt and she wears ugly glasses and doesn't have an accent. Her thoughts are all derivative and she can't pull off the wild insult or the crazy plot the way AOC and Ilhan can. She's not as beautiful or exotic or daring or original as them. They're nice to include her in all their club meetings and pep rallies, but she really has no glory of her own.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:01 PM (XG6a8)
OK, I'll bite...
What's alive, rickl?
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (CLcKT)
I think I've got Linux Mint working.
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 11:02 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 14, 2019 11:03 PM (w7U7L)
The dashcam car drives off nonchalantly.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (+exTc)
If they did that to the people who theatrically fake injuries in soccer, I'd start watching the sport.
Posted by: Splunge at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 14, 2019 11:01 PM (8ZmvG)
Whoa. I hope no one lost more money than they could afford trying to help him.
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (OnEJV)
Posted by: nerdygirl
He's always been a kind of an obnoxious butt-head. Everything most people think they know about him is probably just a lie.
He's dumb and a jerk.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (S6Pax)
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Yes, I did read it and appreciate your point, but I really didn't get the sarcasm.
Maybe you could rephrase his point? What, that there is no racial correlation to mass shootings? I would say using sarcasm clouds rather than clarifies...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (EZebt)
it's epic
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (xIKXj)
I'd like reciprocal laws which allow drivers to ticket bike riders who pedal in the middle of traffic lanes and run through stop signs.
Posted by: kbdabear
It's ticket vs ticket tonight in the octagon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: IrishEi at May 14, 2019 10:30 PM (NtglE)
Probably changed his nic and is going to try a new story on his marks.
Posted by: Bunko Squad at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (cFOPA)
It appears you do!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at May 14, 2019 11:04 PM (CLcKT)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 11:05 PM (sdi6R)
She was very good with "No", and "We can't afford that", which was great because by the time I headed off to college I was really good at restraining my spending and budgeting.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 11:05 PM (+lVUW)
i'm enjoying that whole concert in the Albert Hall Mr. Misanthropic posted White Room from
it's epic
Posted by: booknlass
Not bad for old guys.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:05 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2019 11:06 PM (Zo1XC)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 10:38 PM (+exTc)
To be fair, one does not know if the dashcam driver was being nonchalant or simply prudent
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:07 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:07 PM (miE9U)
Since I can't see anything more than four inches in front of my face without my glasses, I take eye issues very seriously. I've been tempted a couple of times by lasik, but then I remind myself I only have one set of eyes. When my cataracts get bad enough, my ophthalmologist will remove old lenses and insert prescription lenses.
Good luck with the surgeon tomorrow.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:08 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:08 PM (dm05u)
Things I wish were found to be carcinogenic:
Creamed corn
Raisins
Licorice
Celine Dion
The Boston Bruins
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (X3lUd)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
The article notes that reporting about Serial killers and mass shooters is pretty skewed. They like to report about some crazy white male kid, but there are a lot of other (statistically significant) people doing shootings like this, and the whole thing is kind of tragic.
The heavy sarcasm was that the two freaks that did the shooting in the Denver suburbs was that they were "statistically" off the expected norm for the reporter class. But they were nucking futs.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (S6Pax)
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One upcoming game has something that *might* be covertly mocking the SJWs...
Total War: Three Kingdoms is set in the Three Kingdoms era of ancient China (late second to early third centuries). It's due out on the 23rd of this month. The game largely focuses on the battlefield, where women had a very minimal role. That's not to say that they didn't do some important things during the era (even if Daiochan herself was fictional). But they weren't running around the battlefield as shown in the Dynasty Warriors series of games.
Obviously, the SJWs won't stand for such a thing these days. I'm not aware of any actual complaints about the lack of women in the upcoming game. But I would be surprised if Creative Assembly wasn't at least somewhat aware of the undeserved flack that they were undoubtedly going to catch over it.
So, they added a female warlord.
Now this female warlord is actually historically based. There's a couple of sentences in The Record of the Three Kingdoms that mentions a female bandit by that name, and that Cao Cao's army defeated and killed her. Literally not one other mention of her is found in the existing historical records, and so we know nothing else about her. As a result, Creative Assembly essentially had a free hand in designing her.
And they went nuts.
Leadership in the other factions is all based around the evil patriarchy. Leaders are all males, and leadership descends through the male descendants. But not her faction! Her faction has female leaders, and descent is through the female line! The other factions all want to take control of the Han Empire (or restore it, depending on the warlord in question). That's not good enough for her, though. She's so crazed that she wants to up end the whole edifice of the Empire, and burn it all to the ground! That way she can rebuild it as her matriarchal paradise!
Sounds like a good little radical feminist type, doesn't she?
And just to note - there are actual factions that are specifically aimed at confronting the corruption that ran rampant during the Late Han Dynasty. Her write-up makes it pretty clear that she's not one of those kinds of warlords. She just wants to raze all of it.
Posted by: junior at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (Fp6vo)
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2019 11:06 PM (Zo1XC)
Except for smoking weed. Smoking weed is great for you. Nothing wrong with it. While they're busy banning cigarette smoking everywhere - with total bullshit reasons, mostly illegal bullshit bans - they are encouraging everyone to light up joints day and night and puff away.
I fvcking hate lefties. Hate them with a passion. I clearly understand why their fathers were all so disappointed in them. What a bunch of loser douchebags.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (vq6T3)
It's written by CNN's crack reporter - Laura Jarrett.
Gosh Laura, why don't you ask your mother? I bet she knows a whole lot about the origins of the Russia probe!
Official Washington is more inbred than a West Virginia trailer park.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (I2/tG)
maybe not Baker? haha
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (xIKXj)
On a related note, and depending on your
circumstances you might want to reconsider the "science" behind the
popular low dose aspirin regimen
How about my high dose iboprophen regime?
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (+exTc)
Posted by: kbdabear
you know, in the big city it is called brief case justice.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:11 PM (MTjB1)
Tonight's show is so old that Conway hadn't been hired yet. Nixon and Johnson jokes. Harvey Korman with dark hair.
Burnett looks so different from how she appears in later shows. She must have changed hairstylists.
OK -- the network just showed a RIP card. Farewell, Conway.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 14, 2019 11:12 PM (DXCwS)
Except for smoking weed. Smoking weed is great for you. Nothing wrong with it. While they're busy banning cigarette smoking everywhere - with total bullshit reasons, mostly illegal bullshit bans - they are encouraging everyone to light up joints day and night and puff away.
Sovereign cure for all that ails, my betters tell me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:12 PM (X3lUd)
Yes!
I love that one. My youngest memorized it in fourth grade and recited it in front of class. Most of the other kids were doing little kiddie crap.
The next year he did "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Posted by: Nurse ratched at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (PkVlr)
You have a scholar.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:12 PM (TdMsT)
Well, they were there as whores and theives.
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 11:13 PM (+exTc)
Things I wish were found to be carcinogenic:
Creamed corn
Raisins
Licorice
Celine Dion
The Boston Bruins
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (X3lUd)
Holy crap, that would be my list too if i were to compile one.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 11:13 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (dm05u)
Thank you, VMs!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:13 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:13 PM (aKsyK)
Very proud of my state tonight. I know this all ends up in the Supreme Court but it's nice to know I'm not surrounded by the enemy.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 10:58 PM (pUDQf)
If there is any justice in the world, by the time it gets to the SCOTUS:
1. Amy Coney Barrett will have taken RBG's place,
2. Thomas/Alito/Gorsuch and yes Kavanaugh remain healthy
3. Roberts will not torpedo the whole thing by mumbling "Stare Decisis," finding another non-existent penumbra, or in some other way standing our Constitution on its head yet again.
There's no way he could say this is a tax.
Could he?
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (MEgUr)
I like creamed corn, raisins, and red licorice.
Celine Dion is Cnadian, so, ... 'nuff said and the Boston Bruins might not be carcinogenic but your health can be imperiled if you are in the audience while they're playing.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (vq6T3)
Can't have booze. Drink wine! No, wine will kill you. No, beer too. No booze for you!
No tasty fried chicken. No carbs. No sugar.
Now I can't have coffee??
Screw that.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: junior at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (Fp6vo)
Maybe? Rome II went super SJW in the DLCs, and the only reason they didn't let Warhammer go the same way is that it's a cash cow, and Games Workshop won't stand for it.
Either way, I won't pre order until I hear very good things about it. Very surprised their Collector's Editions are still available: but then, I think they're overpriced as hell.
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (OnEJV)
The name, to me anyway, does not conjure up a positive image. I sort of think it comes off as a companion to "Filthy, $5 Street Corner Peas".
But it was actually quite good.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (O0FVw)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2019 11:10 PM (+exTc)
Better that than tylenol. I don't think either one is great for your liver, but tylenol is definitely not good.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (3hr5B)
I decided not to remind her that a few years before thst she had said it was good for it.
LOL
I personally think legal weed is gonna cause a schizophrenia outbreak
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter
So, not biased at all.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 11:15 PM (+lVUW)
We need some grants to research this.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 11:15 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:15 PM (dm05u)
Things I wish were found to be carcinogenic:
Creamed corn
Raisins
Licorice
Celine Dion
The Boston Bruins
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (X3lUd)
Holy crap, that would be my list too if i were to compile one.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 11:13 PM (aA3+G)
Add goat cheese and garbanzo beans, and it's my list as well.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (TdMsT)
Turned on "The Carol Burnett Show" on MeTV for a personal Tim Conway tribute.
Tonight's show is so old that Conway hadn't been hired yet. Nixon and Johnson jokes. Harvey Korman with dark hair.
Posted by: Weak Geek
They've been showing shows from the 60's lately.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (aKsyK)
1. Amy Coney Barrett will have taken RBG's place,
2. Thomas/Alito/Gorsuch and yes Kavanaugh remain healthy
3. Roberts will not torpedo the whole thing by mumbling "Stare Decisis," finding another non-existent penumbra, or in some other way standing our Constitution on its head yet again.
There's no way he could say this is a tax.
Could he?
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (MEgUr)
I'm sure he will find a way. Roberts was such a snake in the grass. Now Kavanaugh seems to be following suit. That one really gives me heartburn.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
FWIW.
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at May 14, 2019 11:17 PM (adsVM)
I really am starting to miss chewing tobacco. A small pinch of fine cut Copenhagen hits you like a freight train. The tobacco hit was huge.
Posted by: Max Power at May 14, 2019 11:17 PM (q177U)
The Southern Republicans will argue with you about weapon choice.
The Republicans will ask whether or not it's legal to carry there.
The Democrat will suggest the muslim try up the street at the Knights of Columbus. Then die from bleeding out.
Posted by: GWB at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (PpL0X)
Posted by: Cheriebebe at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (a4qVe)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (ebZss)
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory's wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack- and roof-leveling wind,
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of the great gloom that is in my mind."
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (TdMsT)
Feta and chick peas?? Are you inssssaaaaane??
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (vq6T3)
Some day, some how, they were going to make marijuana almost mandatory, and ban tobacco. My friends from those days laughed and laughed.
And, here we are.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 14, 2019 11:19 PM (8ZmvG)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 14, 2019 11:19 PM (jp0Bv)
Good luck with the surgeon tomorrow.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:08 PM (ebZss)
Thank you so much, Captain Sabin! My cataracts developed quickly and affected my eyesight within just a few months. It's amazing how well you can see after the surgery!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:19 PM (TdMsT)
Probably part of the reason Imalways anemic
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:19 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
The only thing that gives me hope for him is that he's very pro-life, from what I've read.
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (MEgUr)
Honestly I can see why people are leaving twitter... it's not a fun place, like, at all... but I DID learn that abortion is now called "bodily autonomy".
You're probably gonna be hearing a lot more about that bodily autonomy this next year or so.
Course only half the bodies involved in the procedure get to be autonomous... but hey, that's close enough for the Left!
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
She's from Detroit.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (pUDQf)
===
OK, so I must be dense tonight. It's a bit hard to hear the sarcasm in thanking a murderer to make a tired old point about bias in reporting.
Then again, I can be very literal.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Max Power at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (q177U)
Feta and chick peas?? Are you inssssaaaaane??
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:18 PM (vq6T3)
Darling! Feta cheese is from sheep. And it's perfectly edible!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:21 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
She's from Detroit.
Posted by: nerdygirl
And she looks bad next to the gal from Somali. What does that tell you about Detroit?
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 14, 2019 11:21 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
Kav hasn't made a truly bad vote yet. Remember, Roberts is chief, and you must conserve the energy of the court.
I can only really judge him when Roberts is not a factor.
Posted by: trev006 at May 14, 2019 11:21 PM (OnEJV)
Posted by: Elizabeth at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (4knXT)
The problem with roundabouts is constructing them in areas where drivers are unaccustomed to them.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 10:45 PM (TdMsT)
That's what I think. They're probably great if you know where you're going, but less so for people who are not familiar with the area.
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (sdi6R)
Dogs fed and put up, evening prayers said, turning in now. Good night, Hordians. Coffee time is 0500 here at Schloss Hadrian.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (X3lUd)
Posted by: Max Power at M
you know, that feeling is mostly losing filthy feeling that comes with lying to yourself.
now much were you putting in your coffee? teaspoon or two of half and half hardly amounts to anything.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (MTjB1)
She's from Detroit.
Posted by: nerdygirl
=====
And that's kind of it. She looks like she suffered an awful industrial accident involving a truck running over her face.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (XG6a8)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:21 PM (TdMsT)
Thank G-d. You scared me for a minute.
I'll let the chick pea thing slide ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (vq6T3)
Posted by: rickl at May 14, 2019 11:23 PM (sdi6R)
I'll let the chick pea thing slide ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (vq6T3)
Thank you!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:23 PM (TdMsT)
I thought that the official euphemism for abortion was "reproductive health".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:23 PM (I2/tG)
they're stupid.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:23 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:20 PM (MEgUr)
Perhaps he won't grow in office, but I doubt it! The DC A-List Cocktail Circuit will be beckoning!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 11:24 PM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:21 PM (TdMsT)
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That's gouda to know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:24 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:07 PM (miE9U)
Isn't that what the MoMe's are?
Posted by: GWB at May 14, 2019 11:24 PM (PpL0X)
1. Amy Coney Barrett will have taken RBG's place,
2. Thomas/Alito/Gorsuch and yes Kavanaugh remain healthy
3. Roberts will not torpedo the whole thing by mumbling "Stare Decisis," finding another non-existent penumbra, or in some other way standing our Constitution on its head yet again.
There's no way he could say this is a tax.
Could he?
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (MEgUr)
You sound like Eddie Munster.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Cato, Media Delenda Est at May 14, 2019 10:22 PM (113G5)
/hugs copy of C64 version of "Pinball Construction Set"
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (DTX3h)
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea."
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (xIKXj)
Creamed corn
Raisins
Licorice
Celine Dion
The Boston Bruins
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2019 11:09 PM (X3lUd)
I'd go with:
Coconut
Pineapple on pizza
Hugging
Tardiness
Voting Democrat
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at M
useless, everyone lost their guns.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (MTjB1)
Good God Almighty, he really could be John F***ing Kerry's doppelganger. Ugly as sin - inside and out.
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (MEgUr)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
I'm hearing that in a Rex Harrison voice from My Fair Lady.
Posted by: Miklos from Budapest-I've never met a ruder pest at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Sandy at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (3hr5B)
--
I ate something called "Mexican Street Corn" today.
The name, to me anyway, does not conjure up a positive image. I sort
of think it comes off as a companion to "Filthy, $5 Street Corner
Peas".
But it was actually quite good.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM
------------------------
Just don't ask what it grows in on the street.
Posted by: San Francisco at May 14, 2019 11:26 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:23 PM (I2/tG)
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I always liked "women's healthcare." Killing your baby is "women's healthcare."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:26 PM (4knXT)
Good God Almighty, he really could be John F***ing Kerry's doppelganger. Ugly as sin - inside and out.
Posted by: Marybeth
He threw the Kentucky Derby, you know.
Posted by: Miklos, fast on the inside at May 14, 2019 11:26 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (DXCwS)
Posted by: GWB at M
more like roman empire party without the animal / gay sex.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (MTjB1)
1. Amy Coney Barrett will have taken RBG's place,
2. Thomas/Alito/Gorsuch and yes Kavanaugh remain healthy
3. Roberts will not torpedo the whole thing by mumbling "Stare Decisis," finding another non-existent penumbra, or in some other way standing our Constitution on its head yet again.
There's no way he could say this is a tax.
Could he?
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:14 PM (MEgUr)
I lost all mine. Damn shame. Somewhere in the gulf of undocumented workers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (MTjB1)
Amazing how many people have canoes...
and accidents!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 11:24 PM (3hr5B)
He's been on the Cocktail Circuit for more than a decade, I don't think he'll grow in office any more than he already has.
Posted by: Surfperch at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:28 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: VMs phone at May 14, 2019 11:28 PM (dm05u)
and accidents!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Last of the Moronhicans
Posted by: Miklos, AKA Chingachgook at May 14, 2019 11:28 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (MTjB1)
Right, right.
[qdpsteve navigates to www.farmfun.xxx and cancels sheep delivery for the SoCal MoMee] :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:28 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Elizabeth at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (4knXT)
Arf!
Posted by: Sandy at May 14, 2019 11:25 PM (3hr5B)
*waggles head questioningly*
Posted by: Petey at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
[qdpsteve navigates to www.farmfun.xxx and cancels sheep delivery for the SoCal MoMee] :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at M
lol
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (S6Pax)
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (miE9U)
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy,
That chooses right, and never find a friend."
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:30 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: Surfperch at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (tVQUs)
I doubt that Cocktail Circuit membership is permanent, particularly if you can be accused, or even rumored to support the #BadOrangeMan!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 14, 2019 11:30 PM (3hr5B)
One came before I woke up, and left a recorded message, which I erased. Second came early afternoon, again a recorded spiel from some vaguely ethnic female voice, warning me that I would be in trouble with the "Canadian Treasury" if I did not call back at that number. So, obvious scam, since Canada does not have a "Treasury" or "Treasury Department". It's called the "Canadian Revenue Agency", or "Revenue Canada".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (7njPr)
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (IYHxL)
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Yo.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (miE9U)
no sir. I lost all the guns one weekend. I went back out to look for them the next weekend and lost the canoe. Floated home on the oars.
I'll never go canoeing again. Damn unlucky, I am.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (ebZss)
The first thing you do after surgery is run around the house looking for all the dust and grime you missed while cleaning.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:32 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Max Power at May 14, 2019 11:17 PM (q177U)
It may be a high nicotine compared to the other all-in-ones, but if you have a tank and buy your juice separately, you can get nicotine concentrations up to 21mg (2.1%.) The better your e-cig set-up though, I have found the lower you can go. When I got my most recent e-cig, I was vaping a 12mg and sweet Lord, that was a HIT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 11:32 PM (mx70g)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:28 PM (TdMsT)
Yes, hugging. Maybe not all hugging. I'll hug my wife, nieces, sister, mother But if my wife friends come over, hugging isn't wanted. My body, my choice.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:32 PM (Rz2Nc)
Hope the Senate & Trump ignore symbolic nonsense like this and keep confirming those judges.
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (MEgUr)
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (ebZss)
but my bed's calling me. tomorrow's a day.
good night, rockers and rollers.
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (EZebt)
333 Cleaning? What is this strange word you are using?
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (ebZss)
Ha!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (TdMsT)
She's from Detroit.
Posted by: nerdygirl
Well, she's actually from Dearborn, but ...whatever.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (S6Pax)
The difference between Detroit and Dearborn is like the difference between LA and Long Beach; meaningless to anyone who doesn't have skin in the game.
Posted by: Surfperch at May 14, 2019 11:34 PM (tVQUs)
One came before I woke up, and left a recorded message, which I erased. Second came early afternoon, again a recorded spiel from some vaguely ethnic female voice, warning me that I would be in trouble with the "Canadian Treasury" if I did not call back at that number. So, obvious scam, since Canada does not have a "Treasury" or "Treasury Department". It's called the "Canadian Revenue Agency", or "Revenue Canada".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (7njPr)
I got 3 calls yesterday from a Text-To-Speech voice saying they were from the Social Security Department and my SS number had been suspended and to call them right away.
Posted by: DR.WTF at May 14, 2019 11:34 PM (aS1PU)
Kavanaugh has been living in DC since 2003, and has been a judge in DC since 2006.
It's not like he's a yokel, about to be bowled over by the Big City.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:34 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 11:34 PM (mx70g)
Yes, hugging. Maybe not all hugging. I'll hug my wife, nieces, sister, mother But if my wife friends come over, hugging isn't wanted. My body, my choice.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:32 PM (Rz2Nc)
Should we meet, please remind me!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (TdMsT)
I'll be expecting my deposit now in a couple days.
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (xIKXj)
RIP Tim Conway. I saw the thread earlier today about that and saw the famous elephant sketch was featured.
Carol got him back later with that in the following sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KpqXLxFck
She's playing a crazy bag lady telling ridiculous tales of her husbands. At the last, she tells her own elephant story. You'll note the look of recognition on Tim's face when he realizes what she's doing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (NMAzL)
When I get such calls, I speak Hungarian.
I figure furriner so fair. Not looking for a job as Hungarian teacher at the Bangalore Call Scam Centre though.
Posted by: Miklos, enjoying his small amusements at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:26 PM (4knXT)
If you want to argue that a thing is really good but can't call it by its name, that should honestly be Clue #1.
What do *we* say when we want more guns? We say MOAR GUNS. We don't say we're for "assisted personal defense".
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:33 PM (IYHxL)
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Fo' shizzle, mah equitez
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (4knXT)
"I've been eating so much bran, I'm passing wicker furniture."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:36 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:36 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Richard Pryor at May 14, 2019 11:36 PM (IGYfK)
.....
I reported the number of one of those scammers not too long ago. They were claiming to be from the utility company, said my power was gonna get cut off unless I went to Walmart and got a gift card, etc. The whole nine yards.
In any event, when I reported the call/number to the utility company and was talking to the lady, she told me they mainly try to target ESLs for their scams because they don't know the law and don't speak much English.
Kinda messed up, buncha boiler room Pakis trying to scam illegals and old folks.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (O0FVw)
I sometimes speak Russian. It's dangerous, though, in Portland, there is some chance that the person making the call also speaks Russian.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (lLeln)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:31 PM (7njPr)
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I never got robo calls until a few weeks ago, from different numbers. Similar message except with reference to the "Social Security Department,"
which also does not exist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:38 PM (EZebt)
354 Cleaning interferes with my reading time, my stitching time, and my several other activities. Besides, the second you get done, you just have to start all over again. As a friend of mine says: Dust is a protective covering.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (ebZss)
I spend as little time as I can on it. But I'm a bit of a clean freak.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:39 PM (TdMsT)
well, I'll run with it.
Posted by: thathalfrican - last night in Beverly Hills at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (IYHxL)
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LOL
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:39 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:39 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:39 PM (xIKXj)
"I've been eating so much bran, I'm passing wicker furniture."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:36 PM (miE9U)
What a loss today for us.
But perhaps Korman and Conway are yucking it up together at this moment.
Just looked up when Harvey Korman died - wow, over 11 years ago. Hard to believe.
Posted by: Marybeth at May 14, 2019 11:40 PM (MEgUr)
I'll be expecting my deposit now in a couple days.
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (xIKXj)
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Let me know if the check bounces.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2019 11:40 PM (4knXT)
Would it be too much to hope she falls down a bottomless pit?
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:40 PM (miE9U)
Crikey, I've been there, the place looks like a postcard.
Posted by: navybrat swimming upstream at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (w7KSn)
Conway used to specialize in getting Korman to lose it and crack up during sketches.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:39 PM (xIKXj)
Thank you!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:35 PM (TdMsT)
You have my permission to hug away!
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (Rz2Nc)
Kinda messed up, buncha boiler room Pakis trying to scam illegals and old folks.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (O0FVw)
I looked up area code 289. It is in southern Ontario, surprise, surprise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (7njPr)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (I2/tG)
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Kak priyatna!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (EZebt)
So, obvious scam, since Canada does not have a "Treasury" or "Treasury Department". It's called the "Canadian Revenue Agency", or "Revenue Canada".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
https://www.nomorobo.com/lookup/289-200-8579
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
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Go on .....
Posted by: Shep! at May 14, 2019 11:42 PM (Rxduq)
Posted by: The ARC of History!
If one actually spoke Magyar it could be a former student, and that would be extra double fun.
Sometimes if (as usual) I detect a slight Bidenesque Indian accent, I immediately demand the caller's mother's recipe for curry.
Posted by: Miklos, enjoying to be assisting you, indeed at May 14, 2019 11:42 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2019 11:42 PM (xIKXj)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:29 PM (pUDQf)
Probably George Michael.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:42 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:43 PM (ebZss)
You have my permission to hug away!
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (Rz2Nc)
Awwww! I pride myself on my hugging skills.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:43 PM (TdMsT)
Crushing their spirits
Filling them with fear and self-doubt
Making them second-guess everything they do
Making them believe that nothing they do is good enough
Making them believe that they will never be good enough
Making them believe everything they do is wrong
Making them afraid of doing anything for fear of failure
Making them believe their only worth as a person is to do the parents' will or the will of other authority figures
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 10:47 PM (NWiLs)
Thank you Insom. I've been thinking all day what a shitty, shitty parent I am, but I don't think I am actively doing anything on that list. Love my kids, but I am very flawed.
Posted by: Max Power at May 14, 2019 11:43 PM (q177U)
I'm hearing that in a Rex Harrison voice from My Fair Lady.
Posted by: Miklos from Budapest
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HAH! Never would have thought.
Wow, but now that you mention it, that also looks -- (quick, witty tuba music rises)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:44 PM (XG6a8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (miE9U)
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In the video Ace posted downstairs Tim Conway toys with the cast members, bringing them to the brink of busting out over and over. It is really funny.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:37 PM (ebZss)
*runs back to bedroom to see if wife is sleeping or posting on AOS*
Actually, wife reads content, occasionally lurks in comments, and found out my nic because I sent pics of the dogs to the pet thread.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:22 PM (MTjB1)
About 1-2 tablespoons X 2 cups of coffee.
Posted by: Max Power at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:43 PM (ebZss)
But what if I come to your home and need to perform surgery?
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ladyl
At least 23 Dem presidential candidates may need your services.
Posted by: Miklos, as is foretold at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:43 PM (TdMsT)
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Heh. How you doin'?
Posted by: Bob Filner, Graduate, Encounter Groups of Cleveland at May 14, 2019 11:46 PM (4knXT)
Insomniac, not to natter, just to express some benevolent interest and perhaps keep you a tad motivated, how is your job hunt going?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:46 PM (XG6a8)
Another one of my favorite Conway sketches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5eAjYpcYeg
He's playing a Nazi interrogator, the most feared in the all the world and parts of Canada. Harvey is playing another Nazi and Lyle Wagoner is their prisoner.
Conway cracks Lyle up there with the Hitler puppet. I won't spoil it further if you have seen it.
Conway was notorious about ad libbing. They'd do the sketches in rehearsal, and then, during the taping before the live audience, he'd go off script and crack them up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 14, 2019 11:46 PM (NMAzL)
Bad genetics?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 11:46 PM (aA3+G)
I went to a school taught by Hungarian monks, with several Hungarian students enrolled, so I passed up a world-class opportunity to learn Hungarian, which the school offered four years of.
Being a high school student, the only Hungarian words I learned were "shut up", and "penis".
I think the monks would have been rather offended to discover that I eventually learned Russian instead.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (I2/tG)
The good captain will hose the chainsaw down if it needs it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (0bu2O)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2019 11:27 PM (MTjB1)
Farmer has to be there to hit Roman Empire epic. He's in bow down & chant we're not worthy territory. Although I gotta say Country Boy also has some serious party animal chops.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (tUOCc)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (q1Pj5)
At least 23 Dem presidential candidates may need your services.
Posted by: Miklos, as is foretold at May 14, 2019 11:45 PM (QzkSJ)
I can't stop laughing.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42
Do the crime, do the time.
Posted by: Another Anthony Weiner joke at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:48 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:48 PM (pUDQf)
The good captain will hose the chainsaw down if it needs it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (0bu2O)
In that case, no problem!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: AOC at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (miE9U)
which also does not exist.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2019 11:38 PM (EZebt)
You know what would put a big dent in these scammers? An international telecoms policing agreement that states that parties to the agreement must agree to prosecute all such behavior with vigor, and that convicted scammers must be sentenced to the same length of term they would get if they were located in the country that they victimize. Failure to adhere to the agreement would mean direct dialing from the offending nation to other countries of the pact would be suspended. Any legitimate calls from that country would go through a live operator who would check the caller's bona fides (for a price) before making a connection. Even if the caller is the PM of Pakistan, eh.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (7njPr)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (miE9U)
When I get them it's always "hello, my name is Dorothy Parker", and I'm like right, what did your mother call you?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: AOC at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (miE9U)
How did you locate your brain? A magnifying glass?
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (TdMsT)
Some of those mid-70s Disney flicks were surprisingly funny too. Apple Dumpling Gang, No Deposit No Return...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (miE9U)
I think the monks would have been rather offended to discover that I eventually learned Russian instead.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Don't believe you. In addition to "kus" and "fasz", you must have learned "basz meg".
Even JJ Sefton knows basz meg. No, especially JJ knows basz meg.
Posted by: Miklos, kibaszott jo gyerek at May 14, 2019 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:51 PM (uEbPt)
Yes it would. Americans would run it just fine, though their labor would command a bit more money if not undercut by foreign nationals.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 14, 2019 11:51 PM (h2Bdk)
Oh God I hope this comes to something. Steny Hoyer gets a challenger: Mckayla Wilkes is a 28-year-old administrative assistant, part-time student, and mother of two. She is also a plus-sized person of dredlocks. CAN she pull off an aoc?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:51 PM (XG6a8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (miE9U
It was my first 'live' comedy show and we loved it. Just watching them trying not to break character was the best part.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:52 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:48 PM (ebZss)
I always need surgical assistants!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:52 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: AOC at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (miE9U)
How did you locate your brain? A magnifying glass?
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (TdMsT)
Heh. Microscope??
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2019 11:52 PM (0ReGO)
Some of those mid-70s Disney flicks were surprisingly funny too. Apple Dumpling Gang, No Deposit No Return...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:50 PM (miE9U
Makes me sad just thinking about how low Disney has sunk.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (pUDQf)
The school had more Latin American students than Hungarian-American students, so our foreign-language obscenities were mostly limited to Spanish.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Ladyl
Well. if you're still laughing while collecting mega hug therapy bucks, I think you win.
Posted by: Miklos, also wants video at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (QzkSJ)
'sup jack wagons?
Just spent the better part of today archiving or shredding financial documents from the past decade. No rain tomorrow - yay!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (pNxlR)
There. I've shared.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (uEbPt)
Also, it's hard to believe the tax man is going to call you, particularly over something serious.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 14, 2019 11:55 PM (h2Bdk)
Disney was more or less saved, as I understand it, by the movie Splash and the advent of Touchstone Pictures in the 1980s.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:55 PM (miE9U)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
https://www.nomorobo.com/lookup/289-200-8579
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2019 11:41 PM (aKsyK)
Too bad there wasn't a way to physically go there, and do a percussive reboot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:55 PM (7njPr)
There. I've shared.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (uEbPt)
Out with it!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:55 PM (TdMsT)
Insomniac, not to natter, just to express some benevolent interest and perhaps keep you a tad motivated, how is your job hunt going?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 14, 2019 11:46 PM (XG6a
I'm still hunting and plan to do so until I bag one. Thanks for asking!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 11:56 PM (NWiLs)
Bwaaaah. all my grandma would share with us was shut up & pig, for us to use on the Hungarian neighbors whose dogs barked day & night.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 14, 2019 11:56 PM (tUOCc)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (pUDQf)
Yes, with Don Knotts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 11:57 PM (mx70g)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 11:57 PM (aA3+G)
I'm still hunting and plan to do so until I bag one. Thanks for asking!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 14, 2019 11:56 PM (NWiLs)
Please know you are being prayed for.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:57 PM (TdMsT)
Y'all do know what present trends say will be the faces of Congress in twenty years, do you not?
Majority female and majority of what are now considered minority persons of color.
Because gubmintin' - it's all they can do.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 14, 2019 11:57 PM (pNxlR)
Now, I really, really have to say good night.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (ebZss)
Posted by: The ARC of History
The cross cultural magyar-hispanic Jesuit MS-13 artwork must have won some serious prizes.
Posted by: Miklos, apparently a Jesuit by hash at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 14, 2019 11:49 PM (pUDQf)
Yes, with Don Knotts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 14, 2019 11:57 PM (mx70g)
I remember watching that film as a wee lad when it hit the theaters. Wonder if it's still funny.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 14, 2019 11:56 PM (tUOCc)
bebe!
Were you able to connect with Table 9 chat again? The hosting provider outfit was useless for me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (7njPr)
...ring, ring, ring.
Tough sounding voice:
Hello, this is the IRS. You owe us $300, and if you don't pay us, we'll arrest you tomorrow.
The United States government only accepts Amazon gift cards in payment of debts - so you need to go to the store, get the gift cards, and call us back with the verification numbers.
You have two hours in which to do so.
...click
Posted by: The Real IRS at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (I2/tG)
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Yeah, guy made a very serious mistake. Probably won't do it again though.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (CDGwz)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy
"koosh" and "deesno" in case you need a quick refresher for current neighbors.
Posted by: Miklos, a happily happy Hungarian helper at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (h2Bdk)
You should do an Absent Minded Professor/Apple Dumpling/Lassie/Benji marathon.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 14, 2019 11:58 PM (h2Bdk)
I am not sure it was funny then. It was in the Pete's Dragon Oeuvre.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Andrew Weissman at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:01 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (tUOCc)
I am not sure it was funny then. It was in the Pete's Dragon Oeuvre.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (mx70g)
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Son Of Flubber was the apotheosis of that genre.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (4knXT)
-Nic Cage
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (pUDQf)
Mckayla Wilkes is a 28-year-old administrative assistant, part-time student, and mother of two. She is also a plus-sized person of dredlocks.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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omg, and she has a criminal record. Something about not paying a bunch of tickets and court fees, driving on a suspended license, and going to jail. Shockingly, she's running on criminal justice reform -- rehabilitation, not exploitation! End cash bail! Make sure pregnant women are treated fairly in prison! Free prisoner phone calls, none of this Collect call from an inmate at Soledad State. "Our representation is so out of touch with peoples' needs," she complains.
And that just may be a glimpse of felons voting.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (XG6a8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Without The Incredible Mr. Limpet, I cannot take you seriously.
Posted by: Miklos, no, not the movie thread at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (4knXT)
I was thinking the Cat from Outer Space or Blackbeard's Ghost with Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones and Suzanne Plechette (I actually liked that one- especially the rendition of Hearts of Oak.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Miklos, a happily happy Hungarian helper at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)
she told us, bear with wrong spelling, fogbeh & svenya. ????
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:04 AM (tUOCc)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 12:04 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at M
lol
you know, would like to do it until I get it right but hate to mess things in the blog.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:04 AM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Miklos, no, not the movie thread at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)
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I will see your Incredible Mr. Limpet and raise you one Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:04 AM (4knXT)
Another good one: Tim Conway as a dentist, just out of dental school. Harvey is his first patient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF_C3bO8WZ0
He cracks Harvey up so much, Conway himself loses it, laughing at Harvey cracking up.
A rumor is that Harvey laughed so hard he pee'd himself during that sketch.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:05 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Another Anthony Weiner joke at May 14, 2019 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)
No real crime. One day she came up,behind me in my office while I posted something. She just said, " you're a moron!, what's you're nic" I said you've known me how long and you just figured that out and I'll never tell. A bit later the dogs were on the pet thread. She saw and called me by my nic.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 15, 2019 12:05 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Miklos, no, not the movie thread at May 15, 2019 12:03 AM (QzkSJ
I could never take that movie seriously. Who wants to be a fish?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (tUOCc)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:02 AM (tUOCc)
Hey! An idea just came to me. I got B. Cowboy's business phone number off his website. I will e-mail it to you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (7njPr)
Posted by: rickl at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2019 12:04 AM (MTjB1)
I don't even use socks because I know how murphy's law works. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 15, 2019 12:07 AM (NbL+R)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (tUOCc)
Yo!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2019 12:07 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:05 AM (NMAzL)
Not a rumor. Tim said in a taped interview that you can see it if you look closely at the skit.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:08 AM (tUOCc)
I thought that Vicki Lawrence's character reminded us of one of our grandmothers.
Posted by: rickl
She doesn't need the makeup now.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2019 12:08 AM (aKsyK)
One can only hope & pray
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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And she has a criminal record. I'm almost starting to pity her. Lost lamb.
I'd love to see her sprout fangs and beat Hoyer, though.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 15, 2019 12:08 AM (XG6a8)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (Rz2Nc)
Glad I'm not getting blamed
At the moment that is
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 12:06 AM (7njPr)
lol, good idea. i think his email is in the gmail box too.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (tUOCc)
The second is not immediately clear, the first means, uh, roughly, "put a sock (or, um, rhymes with) in it".
And this is a nice, nice translation.
The second may have been intended for the dirty scandi Swedes down the road.
Posted by: Miklos, being ever so nice, must be the wine at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 14, 2019 11:55 PM (TdMsT)
Lol, I love you ladyl. Maybe one week I'll send it in to the pet thread with a few mashed up details. It's really good.
Let's just say the two of them found each other. It's enough to make you believe in anything. Doesn't end well but it never does, does it.
Posted by: ... at May 15, 2019 12:10 AM (uEbPt)
Posted by: kANYE wEST at May 15, 2019 12:12 AM (WJ8En)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (aA3+G)
Easily remedied!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 15, 2019 12:13 AM (3hr5B)
Not even slightly surprised. she earned the moniker grandma from hell. ok so second word sounds like sven yuh.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:13 AM (tUOCc)
https://tinyurl.com/y23qjjs8
The MSM is describing the visit of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary to Washington as "controversial".
Curiously, when the unelected President of China visits Washington, his visit is not described as "controversial".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 12:13 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2019 12:14 AM (tUOCc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 15, 2019 12:14 AM (miE9U)
Can I be a gay fish?
Posted by: kANYE wEST at May 15, 2019 12:12 AM (WJ8En)
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If you're a cyclid you can be gay or straight. None of the other cyclids care at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:14 AM (4knXT)
My favorite so far is the one where the vodder tells me that Microsoft can no longer offer insurance on my computer and I should call the number to reclaim my premiums.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2019 12:15 AM (TN7xY)
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Mandarin or Cantonese?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:15 AM (4knXT)
You been here Fow Howah!
Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2019 12:16 AM (WJ8En)
Curiously, when the unelected President of China visits Washington, his visit is not described as "controversial".
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 12:13 AM (I2/tG)
Anything they don't like is "controversial", even when everyone's basically on the same page.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 12:16 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 15, 2019 12:16 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 12:16 AM (h2Bdk)
"Controversial" = any politician who doesn't suck Obongo's dick.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 12:18 AM (7njPr)
Posted by: A dude in MI at May 15, 2019 12:18 AM (SxBH1)
I do not like Orban. His most praised policies simply reflect the opinion of 95% of Hungarians.
Apart from that, he is remarkably corrupt and more than a bit of an egomaniac. Napoleonic complex? He comes up to my nose, so maybe. He also has a long history of quasi-socialism and anti-Americanism. He was also originally funded by Soros, so at least the bastard maybe doesn't stay bought.
Posted by: Miklos, not a fan of Viki at May 15, 2019 12:19 AM (QzkSJ)
At the moment that is
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 15, 2019 12:09 AM (aA3+G)
LOL, nope, it's all on me. It's all good. She's just happy I communicate and interact with any other humans.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at May 15, 2019 12:20 AM (Rz2Nc)
I can't talk. I laughed so hard I pee'd myself one time as a teenager. A buddy and I were with our parents at a convention down in Myrtle Beach. It was the off-season, early Dec.
It was the Hilton hotel, and they had a game room with pinball machines and other machines down in the sub-basement. We got in there, and on a lark, discovered that unplugging and plugging back in one of the machines would cause it to spit a couple of quarters out of the change return.
Well, we did that and cleaned it out, with a damn bag of quarters.
Now, my buddy got an idea. It was an atrium style building with the room floors and mezzanine area opening over the lobby. Well, we'd drop quarters on the lobby floor and watch people find them and pick them up.
Some of them acted pretty sneaky. One guy was in a group with a couple of friends and stepped on it, and made some excuse to try to get his friends to go ahead so they wouldn't see him get the quarter.
Anyway, I got so tickled at those antics that I pee'd myself. The trouble was trying to stifle the laughter. I didn't want to laugh loudly and call attention to us standing above them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:21 AM (NMAzL)
Bah. He's a politician from Eastern Europe. The most you can hope is he's not so corrupt it has a material effect on daily life.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 12:21 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Cicero
Column A or Column B?
Comes with fried rice and egg roll, right?
Posted by: Miklos, time to kill most days at May 15, 2019 12:22 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at May 15, 2019 12:00 AM (0OmEj)
Of course not comrade, otherwise you'd be able to game the rules.
I swear there was an SC, IIRC, case where one judge basically said to the defendant "It looks like you read this law and built your system to comply with the law exactly as written; however, we're going to rule against you anyhow!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 15, 2019 12:26 AM (3hr5B)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 15, 2019 12:26 AM (3hr5B)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 15, 2019 12:27 AM (pUDQf)
We played a trick on a woman with the those quarters. She came in the lobby, walking toward the elevators, and came upon one of those quarters.
She looked around, and then walked in front of it and turned around and bent over to pick it up. At the moment I tossed another quarter to land a bit closer to the elevators.
She turned around and then saw the second quarter. That stumped her. Where the hell did that come from? She bent over to pick that up. At that point, both of us tossed several quarters a piece ahead and behind her.
As she was standing up, she saw a bunch of quarters rain down on the carpet. As her head went to look up, we just fell down on the floor behind the little wall and railing.
It's raining quarters, she thought.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:30 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Carlos Danger at May 15, 2019 12:32 AM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Surfperch at May 15, 2019 12:33 AM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Ace's liver
Well, it does. He has personal minions controlling all government contracts ( a lot of the economy over there) and the government controls hundreds of companies.
If you are not loyal, you are punished. You can't be neutral or apolitical. No company reliant on government for business or licenses can do business with a small company that is not regime-friendly. The effects are widespread.
Billions of EU Euros are pocketed by Orban and friends. If you are not a friend, no chance. I find it amusing that the EU knows this, but are powerless to stop it.
Orban was a leader of the Young Socialists in college, his father (who has become very wealthy) was leader of the Communist trade union.
Posted by: Miklos, oh I remember Viktor from the old days at May 15, 2019 12:34 AM (QzkSJ)
There. I've shared.
Posted by: ... at May 14, 2019 11:54 PM (uEbPt)
Well, power-washing the bird's cages *was* a funny story.
Would've been just another boring bird-tale except that you left them in the cages while you blasted the 3,000 psi water.
Polly wanna blow-dry?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2019 12:34 AM (QzJWU)
At the moment that is
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
"Stefan Halper on line one for Mr. MisHum."
Posted by: Top Men will see about that at May 15, 2019 12:35 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2019 12:36 AM (TN7xY)
Posted by: also steam at May 15, 2019 12:37 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2019 12:36 AM (TN7xY)
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Cantonese has chilis.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:37 AM (4knXT)
Still can't afford those damn shoes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at May 15, 2019 12:38 AM (0bu2O)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:38 AM (mx70g)
In effect, that is how chickens are plucked in an industrial setting.
Posted by: also steam at May 15, 2019 12:37 AM (QzkSJ)
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Keep plucking that chicken!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:38 AM (4knXT)
It was great meeting you. Thanks for coming out to Yakima. How was your drive home?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at May 15, 2019 12:39 AM (PkVlr)
Kinky is using a chicken feather during foreplay.
Perverted, is using the whole chicken.
Bwak!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2019 12:40 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 15, 2019 12:37 AM (4knXT)
Sze Chuan is dog.
Hunan is cat.
Moose out back in the alley shoulda toldya.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2019 12:43 AM (QzJWU)
Later on, after the quarter tossing fun, we nearly got ourselves in serious trouble. We got some "Snap 'n' Pops". They were this noise maker things that would pop on impact. "Pow!".
Well, we got ourselves a couple handfuls of those and went up to one of the highest floors. I got on one side of the atrium railing and my buddy got on the other. There were some people sitting in the lobby talking, and then a group came in through the main door. At that point we tossed 'em, and then cut tracks to the side stairwells, me to one and my buddy to the other.
"Pow, pow, pow, pow!", followed by some screaming. We disappeared into the stairwells and high-tailed it, with plans to meet up again.
Well, that got hotel security out. Guys in suits going all over the place looking for the disturbance.
That was back in the early '80s. Today, that would likely be a big deal. They'd be afraid it was gunfire or some explosives and probably get a damn SWAT team and no telling what else out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:43 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Basically. He was more of a socialist, now plus nationalist. He has been quite flexible over the years.
Also, he instituted the "your papers please" system. It is required to have your official ID on you at all times, and the police can (and do) ask for it at any time, for any reason or none.
Posted by: Miklos, should shut up 'cause going there in a few months at May 15, 2019 12:44 AM (QzkSJ)
I did get turned around and wound up turning right at the junction with the Gorge highway, and wound up pulling off at Maryhill Museum. So that was a nice experience. Once I got oriented I went on back and crossed the river and got home eventually.
The Columbia Plateau is lovely in the Spring, it was a beautiful drive.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2019 12:45 AM (TN7xY)
That is of interest, but of more interest - at this stage - is whether Orban's impact on the Hungarian and regional situation is positive/desirable, or otherwise. Meaning, essentially - resisting/defeating the insane EU/Merkel mass migration atrocity.
My impression is that he (and probably others) are in fact very positive in this key respect.
To borrow/not terribly mangle a framework from Jeanne Kirkpatrick, the corruption Miklos describes might/might not be fixed or reduced over time, or with different leadership. The demographic/cultural alteration of Hungary, and its subordination to stupid, corrupt EU dynamics, if either occurs - and which Orban seems to be effectively forestalling - would be irreversible.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 12:48 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Miklos, should shut up 'cause going there in a few months at May 15, 2019 12:44 AM (QzkSJ)
Hmmm, not great on it's face, but aren't they also facing an illegal immigrant*cough* refugee problem?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 12:48 AM (mx70g)
But these days, in the European Union, stating the opinion of 95% of Hungarians requires courage.
Asking whether allowing one million non-Hungarian speaking economic migrants from the Middle East and Africa to migrate to Hungary benefits the people of Hungary, is considered an illegitimate question by Europe's elites.
And, I find I've posted the wrong article - the one I was thinking of was considerably longer, and discussed all the corruption associated with Orban, and his earlier association with Soros. I'll see if I can find it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 12:49 AM (I2/tG)
I had to look up "Snap n Pops". That's a brand name for the things, "bang snaps" seems to tbe most used generic name. It's some small grave wrapped up in paper, with a tiny amount of silver fulminate, about
80 ug.
They are harmless. The silver fulminate produces a tiny high explosive detonation, but it's so small that all the force is easily buffered by the gravel. The only effect is the loud pop caused by the supersonic detonation shock wave.
You can pop them in your hands with no damage.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 12:52 AM (NMAzL)
https://tinyurl.com/y3wr5q57
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 12:53 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
The "your papers" began before the refugee invasion in 2015 (I was there, and wow). That was a political godsend to Orban, whose popularity was being crushed by the general knowledge of pervasive corruption.
To Rhomboid's point, Orban finds it useful, and he is useful, in attacking the target rich EU. The EU has repeatedly threatened to suspend EU funding (about 11% of Hungarian GDP) but actually haven't and can't. Orban has done an infinitely better job than May, perhaps the most catastrophic PM the UK has ever had.
I just enjoy watching the bastards go at each other.
Posted by: Miklos, not much of a kutya in the fight any more at May 15, 2019 12:56 AM (QzkSJ)
David Goldman (Spengler) recently wrote that he put on a kippah, and walked across Budapest. He didn't draw a second glance.
Try doing that in London, or Paris, or Berlin.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 01:01 AM (I2/tG)
Nobody wants to immigrate to Hungary. Everybody wants to go to richer countries, especially to Frau Merkel's wonderfully diverse garden party. But they had to go through the neighbors' back yards and across their carefully tended roses to get there.
There was genuine fear when they were coming through in 2015. The main train stations in Budapest were refugee camps. The Austrians closed the borders. Hungarian exports to West Europe (the basis of the economy) couldn't get through. The Arabs and such didn't want to stay, and the Hungarians wanted them out.
Posted by: Miklos, still not much of a kutya in the fight any more at May 15, 2019 01:02 AM (QzkSJ)
In the past, we have been dazzled by Soviet promises of a vanguard of the proletariat, producing a dictatorship of the proletariat, where class consciousness derives from the Revolution.
But, it never came to pass. We never achieved anything close. We vanguarded the proletariat as hard as we fucking could. We told every lie we could think of.
What did we get?
Bupkis.
This is not the fault of Communism, which has not yet been achieved (we are still building Socialism) but the fault of Russians.
Russians have been wreckers and saboteurs from the word go, right up until they installed their rapacious billionaire cat's paw at the helm of the capitalist juggernaut.
These filthy, hirsute, frankly Asiatic Russians must be ruthlessly extirpated from our soil.
Posted by: The Schizoid American Press at May 15, 2019 01:02 AM (5aX2M)
Watching Tim Conway skits. Remember seeing the originals oh so many years ago. Watched with the family religiously. Later, watched in reruns with friends in high school whom all had an appreciation for comedic timing and etc.
Another world. Another life. Sad.
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 15, 2019 01:03 AM (UFLLM)
There are many Lubavitch and Szatmari Jews in downtown Budapest. Distinct ultra-orthodox look and attire. No problem.
Now a hijab, that might get you a funny look.
Posted by: Miklos, Goldman-Spengler does not impress me at May 15, 2019 01:07 AM (QzkSJ)
But Merkel and Macron intend to force a significant number of the refugees heading for Germany and France to go to the poorer states in the EU, like Hungary and Poland.
After all, if no-one wants to immigrate to Hungary, then Orban's refusal to accept immigrants would be irrelevant, instead of being treated by the EU as a huge issue.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 01:07 AM (I2/tG)
Interesting, and not clear whether discouraging/encouraging, to hear them talk about their anguish and anger at things sentient Americans will find familiar - the collapse of the press into pernicious propaganda, the social and official (de facto or literal) suppression of individual freedom of thought and expression on select issues (mass migration!), and how much so many thought-criminals like them in Europe were looking to the Brexit struggle for inspiration and hope, or panic and even thoughts of escape.
The Austrians, unsurprisingly, were happy to share how they were fairly seething with righteous anger at the way demonization as "Nazi" was freely used by the idiots to suppress discussion (he was a fairly serious student of the Third Reich and Anschluss history) of the insane EU and Merkel policies.
The Brit (he was law enforcement) and Slovakian couple seemed quite serious about bailing out of the UK (Canada, US) if Brexit were successfully nixed by the political class - something to be decided this year.
Remarakable, and depressing, to see the parallels with trends in the US. They all believed that there was a (very) silent majority throughout Europe that was as appalled as they are with the situation, but they were disgusted with the passivity and submission to EU/political class/media "shaming".
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 01:11 AM (QDnY+)
On the other hand, what were Hungary's choices in the election (bad, worse... good?)
As a remote observer, one might say that at least he annoys all the right people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 01:12 AM (mx70g)
So unresolved, and I didn't hear a word after Orban's visit here.
Posted by: Miklos, idiots abound at the highest levels at May 15, 2019 01:18 AM (QzkSJ)
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In real terms, it's been irrelevant. Orban kept numbers low from the outset. The EU bitches about it (ostensibly) because it displaces immigrants into central Europe.
The real reason is that it puts the lie to the customs union and the open borders. Hungary just does an end run to get around the rules, keep the immigrants out, and remain in the customs union.
Brussels hates that sore thumb.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 01:19 AM (5aX2M)
Brussels hates that sore thumb.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Well put, but the EU pays Hungary to be a member. If I were Orban, I would play the same game, but hopefully in a much less corrupt and repressive fashion.
Many things from trains to parks to schools have been made nice with EU money. For example, this is where I will be later in the summer, all redone two years ago with EU money-
https://csopak.hu/hu/content/strand-webkamera
Posted by: Miklos, basically Hungary has always been between a rock and a hard place at May 15, 2019 01:25 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: rickl at May 15, 2019 01:26 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 01:30 AM (7njPr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No, there isn't. He has stated that he will never leave office, although he may do a Putin and transfer power to the President from the PM and do that job (Orban has said that he plans to be another Putin).
The government now controls everything from the media to kids' after school sports (national government, not local) as well as having re-nationalized key parts of the economy. As long as the legitimate scare of invasion lasts, the people of Hungary, not having won a war or even a battle in centuries, will put up with the negatives.
Posted by: Miklos, eyeing his US passport at May 15, 2019 01:37 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos, eyeing his US passport at May 15, 2019 01:37 AM (QzkSJ)
Hmmm, National Socialists against... whatever you want to classify Russia as these days 'State Oligarchy?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 01:46 AM (mx70g)
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Whoa. It's hard to tell ( for me) if it's the river or the lake, but I want to go either way.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 01:47 AM (5aX2M)
The government now controls everything from the media to kids' after school sports (national government, not local) as well as having re-nationalized key parts of the economy. As long as the legitimate scare of invasion lasts, the people of Hungary, not having won a war or even a battle in centuries, will put up with the negatives.
Posted by: Miklos, eyeing his US passport at May 15, 2019 01:37 AM (QzkSJ)
In which case, he is somewhat comparable to Franco in Spain, although having taken a different route to power. It's fashionable to deride him as undemocratic, but basically he holds the country together.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 01:48 AM (7njPr)
Humorless Scold: (pointing to non-diet soda) You know, you're setting a bad example.
Shopper: (without missing a beat) Don't worry. When I drink it, I'll cut it with bourbon, to make it healthier.
SCOLD gets mad, CASHIER has strangled look of trying to hold in laughter, and you guys get a funny story.
Posted by: Locarno at May 14, 2019 10:49 PM (3WLXg)
An EXCELLENT funny story.
Posted by: m at May 15, 2019 01:48 AM (Scps5)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 01:49 AM (QDnY+)
But I was thinking of Franco more in terms of his navigating the treacherous waters of WWII and preserving Spain's independence, and defying Hitler's pressure, rather than keeping the place together.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 01:54 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
It's Lake Balaton (north shore).
Rhomboid-yes, the invasion was Middle Eastern/part African. The Red Army left in 1990. Until recently, scars of WWII and 1956 were still quite visible on buildings in downtown Budapest.
But the tens of thousands of latter-day Ottomans roaming around on their way to Germany is what sticks in the memory of Hungarians.
The Turks occupied Hungary for 150-250 years. You can still go to original Turkish baths in Budapest.
Posted by: Miklos, where do you think the paprika came from at May 15, 2019 01:55 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 01:54 AM (QDnY+)
You never hear too much about Franco oppression. The style of government kind of lends itself to it. I assume there must have been some, the Spanish civil war was a nasty thing and would have also lent itself to reprisals.
Not an area of history I am very familiar with since they mostly kept to themselves.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 01:57 AM (mx70g)
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Gleichsaltung. Cultural Revolution. Komsomol.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 01:58 AM (5aX2M)
But at least the patch of grass in front of my little shop is now clear of engines and parts. So there's that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 01:58 AM (7njPr)
A twatters Mega-Scandal sleuth/analyst, Undercover Huber, has teased a specific thing - leaks from Team Mueller to the NYT regarding search warrant results (dunno know if that's illegal, assume it is). Waiting to see him deliver, too.
Learning about the Third World degradation of America's most important institutions - it's fun for the whole family!
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 02:01 AM (QDnY+)
FWIW.
Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at May 14, 2019 11:17 PM (adsVM)
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i've been taking them (Naprosyn/Naproxen/Sodium) for decades, even on an empty stomach, washed down with beer and zero problemas.
as least so far.
Posted by: redc1c4, the ONT Rx Tech at May 15, 2019 02:01 AM (MasTK)
From 1919 to 1944 Hungary was (not a joke) "a kingdom without a king, ruled by an admiral without a Navy".
Horthy could have done better, but it's hard to imagine how.
Orban today, perhaps holds things together by being a flagrant EU grifter who keeps too much for himself, which I suppose makes him a very successful politician.
Posted by: Miklos, captain of his constrained fate at May 15, 2019 02:01 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2019 02:02 AM (MasTK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:03 AM (7njPr)
FWIW.
FWIW, I think it's agreed that ulcers usually come from bacteria, not bothering of the stomach lining by Tabasco Sauce or other OTC meds.
Posted by: Miklos, holistic healer at May 15, 2019 02:04 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos, captain of his constrained fate at May 15, 2019 02:01 AM (QzkSJ)
I would rather take my chances with a corrupt heel who is more or less congruent with my interests, than with a scrupulously honest idealist who is opposed to everything I stand for.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:06 AM (7njPr)
He detailed how wrong-think was demonized and suppressed, and the increasingly outlandish crap poured on society by the press and academia, and I smiled and said "Gleichschaltung". The proverbial light switched on and his eyes brightened.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 02:06 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:03 AM (7njPr)
That's what they say. Doesn't seem to affect my stomach.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 02:07 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:06 AM (7njPr)
I could have gone either way in 2016 after eight years of corrupt heel opposed to everything I stand for.
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 02:08 AM (h2Bdk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
*puts AOP down as a "NO"-do not call again*
Posted by: Dem fundraiser at May 15, 2019 02:09 AM (QzkSJ)
It was widely expected that Franco would be forced from power by the Allies at the end of the war, but Franco used the start of the Cold War to take advantage of his undoubted anti-Communism and strategic position to offer military bases to the United States in 1953, giving the United States a stake in the continuation of the Falangist regime.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 02:10 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Ace's liver at May 15, 2019 02:08 AM (h2Bdk)
Heh. Well, DJT is neither a heel, nor corrupt. That's Hillary's wheelhouse.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:11 AM (7njPr)
And, viewing it all from Mt Olympus, as we are doing here, not easy to see the alternatives that would be both plausible, and somehow superior.
Separately, not sure what mechanisms or incentive the Allies would have after May '45 to squeeze Franco out, even without the Cold War or bases.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 02:15 AM (QDnY+)
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It makes a certain amount of sense, unfortunately. Hopefully he doesn't decide to reopen the squabble with Romania over where exactly the border is located.
Posted by: junior at May 15, 2019 02:15 AM (Fp6vo)
But, but, but, White House staff allegedly spent eight thousand dollars on alcohol at Trump's hotel in Florida on the government dime!
This proves that Trump is utterly corrupt, and should be impeached, or something.
Posted by: The MSM at May 15, 2019 02:15 AM (I2/tG)
I owe a large debt to Franco - my Communist grandfather fled Spain because of him, thus ensuring that I would be born in the United States.
Posted by: The MSM at May 15, 2019 02:17 AM (I2/tG)
All NSAIDs can wreak havoc with your digestive tract. They are all (including aspirin) COX enzyme inhibitors. That has something to do with inflammation, but it also has to do with the stomach lining cycle and can weaken it.
It varies a lot with the individual. One molecule may be horrible for one person, but not too bad for another.
With my RA, I've taken them all just about at different stages. I've been taking them for hell, 15 years or more. One, Mobic, got to really tearing my stomach up. I take Aleve now, which doesn't seem to be too bad.
Long term use of these likely caused my BP to shoot up, and I bruise pretty easily now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 02:18 AM (NMAzL)
This proves that Trump is utterly corrupt, and should be impeached, or something.
Posted by: The MSM
It means they're lightweights.
Bottoms up! I mean, wheels up!
Posted by: Nanzi Pelosi's in-flight bar tab at May 15, 2019 02:18 AM (QzkSJ)
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Every totalitarian movement attempts it, but Fritz has a word for it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 02:18 AM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Rickey Mooney at May 15, 2019 02:19 AM (9Wd39)
Posted by: The MSM
The inverse of Murphy's Law.
Posted by: Miklos, also lucky at May 15, 2019 02:20 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2019 02:21 AM (QDnY+)
P.S. I was lucky a second time - Commie grandad initially moved to Cuba, and then very fortunately moved again to Puerto Rico before Castro showed up.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2019 02:24 AM (I2/tG)
Just read the Wiki on the NSAIDs class to see the adverse effect profiles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-
inflammatory_drug
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It's looking like NSAIDs in general greatly increase the risk of heart failure (10x for those at risk for heart failure). So far, it's just a correlation -- causation has not be proven, but it's suspected.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 02:24 AM (NMAzL)
Awwww! How cute. MisHum has his own troll. And such a brave one, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:25 AM (7njPr)
"I've been eating so much bran, I'm passing wicker furniture."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 14, 2019 11:36 PM (miE9U)
heh
Posted by: m at May 15, 2019 02:26 AM (Scps5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2019 02:26 AM (7njPr)
Y5 has had his own troll- which seems vaguely odd.
The anti-CMers.
I think even Fen had a troll for a bit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:28 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:29 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Rickey Mooney at May 15, 2019 02:29 AM (QzkSJ)
"Harmonious order" is the closest I can come up with.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 02:29 AM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Heck, I even had one for a bit. Just long enough.
Posted by: Miklos, with discount Troll-B-Gon coupon at May 15, 2019 02:31 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
"Coordination" is commonly given, but I think "harmonization" works too. Especially because that is the EU term of art.
Posted by: Miklos, got a Hohner harmonica at least at May 15, 2019 02:33 AM (QzkSJ)
As the old saying goes, never feed a troll. I learned that a long time ago, starting with online forums with CompuServe years ago.
And I've been amazed at the tenacity of some trolls. They get pissed at somebody, and then live to troll.
The best thing to do is just to completely ignore them. They get a kick from knowing they're pissing off their target. Deny them that thrill and they get no reward.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 02:36 AM (NMAzL)
What a country!
Posted by: Miklosov from Toth Kocsma at May 15, 2019 02:39 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:40 AM (mx70g)
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Lol. Of course... "coordination," everything being brought into a line. Thanks. It's been too long since I read German.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 02:40 AM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Miklos, got a Hohner harmonica at least at May 15, 2019 02:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Well, the connotations include cultural and social pressure to achieve control.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:41 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:43 AM (mx70g)
Hell, even San Francisco can pass a good law every once and a while. The stopped clock of cities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 02:45 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I must assure you that any such suggestion will attract inconvenient attention.
Posted by: Miklos, Dept. of Diversity and Gleichschaltung at May 15, 2019 02:45 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:45 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Miklos, Dept. of Diversity and Gleichschaltung at May 15, 2019 02:45 AM (QzkSJ)
Usually does. Darn Amish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:47 AM (mx70g)
Roberts was his corporatist self, and the 'conservatives' were all Muh Business Decisions.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 15, 2019 02:48 AM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Miklos, speaking Austrian and Hungarian at May 15, 2019 02:53 AM (QzkSJ)
Roberts was his corporatist self, and the 'conservatives' were all Muh Business Decisions.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 15, 2019 02:48 AM (ykYG2)
In general we have gotten a bit too complacent about monolithic businesses vs consumers.
What seems odder to me is that somehow, if people are engaging in the contact willingly, that somehow makes the business right or moral.
I am not sure exactly where I come down on that. Sure, people have the right to spend money however they please and you would think that they would flee a business which does not really allow them to own the product they purchase (I am thinking of software or apple not allowing people to fix/modify phones they paid $1000 for.)
On the one hand, we seem to have allowed monopolistic practices, but on the other, people are feeding those monopolies.
People are strange.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:55 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:56 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:55 AM (mx70g)
When you're a stranger.
Posted by: J. Morrison at May 15, 2019 02:56 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:59 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Miracle of Sound fan at May 15, 2019 03:00 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2019 03:01 AM (5aX2M)
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I have an iPhone 6s (2015) and a Macbook Pro (2013).
Both were cracked and had batteries that needed changing.
ifixit.com helped with that.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 03:02 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 03:03 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
01101110 01101111
I mean
This is a viscous lie........
{stop program........}
Posted by: MittRomneyNPC at May 15, 2019 03:04 AM (WNAuL)
Posted by: Miklos, keep 'er movin' at May 15, 2019 03:06 AM (QzkSJ)
Mitt is becoming almost a caricature of himself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 02:59 AM (mx70g)
He's is such a frigging caaaaahhk
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2019 03:08 AM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt - Cub Fan at May 15, 2019 03:10 AM (ufFY8)
You know, this reminds of what is dubbed the "liberal paradox". I would call it the "libertarian paradox", because that better represents the meaning of liberal in the classic sense.
Anyway, it's a theorem (proven) that says no economic system can be simultaneously Pareto efficient and respect a minimal standard of individual freedom.
In a nutshell it shows that a free market will conflict with individual freedom/choice.
This is something that the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists refuse to accept. And the corporate conservative types don't give a shit. They will choose Pareto efficiency over the individual every time. And even worse that Pareto efficiency (monopolism).
Example: Ayn Rand supported monopolies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:14 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 15, 2019 03:08 AM (9Om/r)
Going for a JFK accent there?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:14 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:14 AM (NMAzL)
Well, Ayn Rand was a crazy lady.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:15 AM (mx70g)
Huh, chrome recognizes 'Spillane'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:16 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Miracle of Sound fan at May 15, 2019 03:18 AM (ufFY8)
I think somebody said "the poor will always be with you".
Matt. somebody
Posted by: Miklos, ca change en plus, non? at May 15, 2019 03:18 AM (QzkSJ)
Rand considered creating a monopoly to be an individual freedom. If Rockefeller wants to corner the market, why he should be free to do so. It's his right.
However, that is the same thing, just differening degree, than saying someone ought to be able to kill someone to win, succeed, etc. And she would oppose that, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:19 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Miklos Higgins at May 15, 2019 03:19 AM (QzkSJ)
Matt. somebody
Posted by: Miklos, ca change en plus, non? at May 15, 2019 03:18 AM (QzkSJ)
Yeah, I have heard of the guy: 'Matt Hew.' Always seemed a little preachy to me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:20 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Ayn Rockefeller at May 15, 2019 03:21 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:19 AM (NMAzL)
Well most human systems are inevitably stricken by the fact that humans are inherently flawed. So you will never have a perfect system, no matter what the socialist assholes say. You just have to have one that tries to use the inherent foibles of the human race to it's benefit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:22 AM (mx70g)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work
Well, there is an old style (like since late 19th century) beer place in Budapest called "The Apostles", because the tradition was that beer was to be consumed in reverent silence.
Not sure if that helps.
Posted by: Miklos, your genial guide to Budapest pub crawls at May 15, 2019 03:25 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 15, 2019 03:28 AM (mx70g)
The liberal/tarian paradox goes along with the famous Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. It sort of deflates the notion of "democracy" and fairness.
Arrow basically proves that no voting system can be "fair" and consistent when there are more than two choices.
Further it shows there is no such thing as the "collective will" of two or more people (when there are more than two choices). Even if ever individual is rational, no system can ensure the collective choice function is rational in all cases.
Note that we developed a two party system, in effect forcing just two choices on the electoral system. That was not an accident... They didn't know Arrow at the time, but stability drove the system to that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:28 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 03:29 AM (BbGew)
The Ozzies actually implemented the Single Transferable Vote system, which is supposed to mitigate those problems.
Success? Try to get a straight answer from someone whose electoral system exists where toilets flush counter-clockwise.
Posted by: Miklos, actual political scientist on odd numbered Wednesdays at May 15, 2019 03:32 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: the pancakes at May 15, 2019 03:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Well, as Arrow shows, and later theorems expanded on, no system can be devised that won't have a flaw. The only question is which flaws you prefer.
Some systems are better than others -- they don't screw up as much/as bad, but they still will screw up.
Another corollary of this shows why war can never be eliminated. In certain cases, there is no optimum choice. No system that can satisfy everyone. That is, no optimum. No matter what the system determines, you will have group who hates the result, and the in fact is harmed by the result.
If that group gets too big, then you're at a deadlock. War is the result. One side had to destroy the other to go forward.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:37 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: publius,
Maybe divorce lawyers work on this principle.
Posted by: Miklos, with no experience in this at May 15, 2019 03:40 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 03:43 AM (BbGew)
"My turn" "No MY Turn"
Posted by: and the pancakes smile approvingly at May 15, 2019 03:47 AM (QzkSJ)
I'll give you a trivial example of this deadlock situation. Supposed you have three people and three choices. The choice is what to have for desert, A, B, or C, Apple pie, blueberry or Cherry.
Those three people have a circular cycle preference. Person 1 loves A, is meh on B, and hates C. Person 2 permutes that, loves B, meh on C, and hates A. Person 3 loves C, meh on A, and hates B.
No matter what voting system you use, 1 guy is going to be happy, one is meh, and the other is miserable.
That's a such a deadlock. The group is incompatible. The solution there is simple. You let each have which pie he wants.
But in the real world, you can't always do that. And that is when things get messy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:49 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, pie-monger at May 15, 2019 03:53 AM (ufFY8)
To boil the above example. Any voting choice will result in 2/3 being OK, and 1/3 being hopping mad, miserable.
You can see that none of the three choices is the best. They all have the same outcome, 2/3 all right, 1/3 pissed.
Thus, there is no group choice. No collective will. Just three different groups, any two of which can band together against the third.
This is a fundamental result and shows that no collective can every be completely consistent and well behaved.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 15, 2019 03:55 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2019 03:56 AM (KyvO7)
Posted by: publius
After bridge club, we go to lunch and Marge ALWAYS has the most expensive thing on the menu. I get half a chicken salad sandwich. But we pay together and we pay the same. That Marge.
She is good about asking people to volunteer for that nice Mr. Bernie Sanders For President, I'll give her that.
Posted by: Great Aunt Miklosina at May 15, 2019 03:58 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt,
Control of consumption is a task for the vanguard of the masses.
Posted by: Lenin, wiping pie from his goatee at May 15, 2019 03:59 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2019 04:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: raimondo at May 15, 2019 04:06 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 04:09 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt, pie-monger at May 15, 2019 04:10 AM (ufFY8)
And it wasn't me.
Carlos Castaneda is dead, but his books still sell.
Posted by: Miklos, non-shroom-based anthropologist at May 15, 2019 04:15 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 04:41 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 04:53 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2019 05:10 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Fabienne at May 15, 2019 05:12 AM (uL22A)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2019 05:13 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Burger Chef at May 15, 2019 05:29 AM (RuIsu)
1. If drinking more than 6 cups of coffee a day increases your chances of a heart attack members of the Navy would be dropping like flies. That Australian 'study' sounds like more BS.
2. There is absolutely no basis for these Roundup lawsuits and judgements. This is more out of control CA judge BS.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 05:29 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JT at May 15, 2019 05:29 AM (OIMLN)
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I'm trying to think of a time "______-nationals" was ever used as a positive term.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers when painting your face as a caricature of a minority was wrong at May 15, 2019 05:53 AM (EOEiY)
"Nearby, there was a baffling RV flying pro-Trump and "Don't Tread on Me" flags that was almost completely covered in stickers (Confederate flags and the "Make America Great Again" slogan were prominent).
I figured it must be the work of a compulsive (and almost certainly armed) traveling preacher of nationalism and far-right politics."
I'm guessing this isn't presented as an opinion piece and won't ever count as some type of political donation, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie remembers when painting your face as a caricature of a minority was wrong at May 15, 2019 06:03 AM (EOEiY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2019 06:11 AM (X3lUd)
Posted by: Big fat and round Stacey Abrams at May 15, 2019 06:14 AM (yhf6w)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I have all the necessary for Key Lime Pie.
I also live near an Amazon distribution center.
I won't eat the whole thing myself.
Talk to Jeff.
Posted by: Miklos, who learned sharing in school today at May 15, 2019 06:14 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:16 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2019 06:18 AM (F8EBp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2019 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
Yes, I'm afraid so.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:18 AM (H8QX8)
The lousy windmillheads all left to paint Dutch Masters, or get some cheap cigars, whatever, like I speak freakin' Nederlandse.
Noisy bastards up and down the stairs, too. I thought Euros left their shoes outside, prissy as they are. Especially the wooden fag-clogs.
Posted by: Miklos, up all night (wasn't there a song?) at May 15, 2019 06:20 AM (QzkSJ)
FOAD list
Mueller
Clapper
Brenon
Comey
Bhussein
HRC
The Bush Clan
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 06:21 AM (JFO2v)
Roberts was his corporatist self, and the 'conservatives' were all Muh Business Decisions.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 15, 2019 02:48 AM (ykYG2)
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Which leads me to believe that all these "conservative" judges Trump is appointing may be more likely be "pro-business" than conservative.
Posted by: MAGA at May 15, 2019 06:22 AM (t1/GK)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:22 AM (u82oZ)
Corn planting in Kansas is behind with just 46% of this season's crop now seeded, 21% behind normal. Wet fields is the main delay.
Soybean plantings are at 7%, 9% behind normal.
About 1% of the sorghum and sunflower crops have been planted.
Winter wheat is 35% headed, behind the 64% average. Wheat condition is 56% good to excellent, 33% fair, and 11% poor to very poor, which is much better than last year. Should be a bumper crop.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:28 AM (u82oZ)
Soon enough these bike lane Batmen might get to play police for real under a proposed pilot program that would give citizens the ability to ticket each other for parking violations.
Wait until they realize that they will have to take off work to go to court when someone challenges a ticket.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2019 06:33 AM (F8EBp)
David Brin wrote about this future in two books, the SF story Earth (where he had fun with the Swiss and a mini-black hole as the bad guys) and his prescient book The Transparent Society, from 1998.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:36 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: rickb223
Work?
Posted by: Bruce at May 15, 2019 06:37 AM (8ikIW)
A take-away phrase from last nights phone call.
' I didn't think it would get so hot...so damn fast, once we left the Suez'.
I'm not sure which is worse over there.
Main space MM on a conventional small boy in the 80's-90's, or flight deck.
Could be a toss-up on that one.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:39 AM (cqNba)
David Brin wrote about this future in two books, the SF story Earth (where he had fun with the Swiss and a mini-black hole as the bad guys) and his prescient book The Transparent Society, from 1998.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:36 AM (u82oZ)
Did it have people dying from diseases we wiped out 20 years ago? What about poor people dying of diabetes and cardio diseases? Towns that do not so drunk driving stops to avoid arresting illegals? Just asking!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 06:39 AM (JFO2v)
https://tinyurl.com/y3do8sr2
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 06:43 AM (JFO2v)
G'morning, Salty.
A take-away phrase from last nights phone call.
' I didn't think it would get so hot...so damn fast, once we left the Suez'.
I'm not sure which is worse over there.
Main space MM on a conventional small boy in the 80's-90's, or flight deck.
Could be a toss-up on that one.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:39 AM (cqNba)
If by MM you mean Machinest Mates in the Engine Room there is no contest. When I was on the Enterprise the CTG flats where our turbine generators were used to run 130F when we were in the IO. The main engine rook itself was hotter.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 06:45 AM (mpXpK)
there is no contest. When I was on the Enterprise the CTG flats where
our turbine generators were used to run 130F when we were in the IO. The
main engine rook itself was hotter.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 06:45 AM
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On The Midway the Boiler Techs had a 15 minute work shift limit on the boilers when we were in the Gulf in the summer. It got close to 140 degrees down there.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 06:46 AM (JUOKG)
Flight deck. Because of all the aviation in addition to the heat. Hole snipes only had what's inside the piping, an unlikely boiler explosion, 1200 lb steam leak, or main space Bravo fire to worry about.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:46 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/y64u3z2a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2019 06:47 AM (ahS0B)
shift limit on the boilers when we were in the Gulf in the summer. It
got close to 140 degrees down there.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 06:46 AM (JUOKG)
That is about what in ran right in from of our Steam Generator Control Panel. I used to hate that watch.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 06:48 AM (mpXpK)
Yup, that be what I'm talking about.
110 degrees at night down there, in the blast cooling vent.
130 to start, once a watch stander got out from the blast cooling stream.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:48 AM (cqNba)
Brin did not. Clearly we are in a dystopia unforeseen by many of the best SF writers. Because they based the future on the age of reason, not neo-feudal desires of an insular and short-sighted coterie.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 06:50 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I'll have to look those up. Thanks!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2019 06:50 AM (F8EBp)
https://tinyurl.com/y64u3z2a
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2019 06:47 AM (ahS0B)
IIRC 3 or 4 black students were stealing them blind and when they reported it to police the school formed a ban. Black Privilege ya know!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 06:51 AM (JFO2v)
Village Idiot's Apprentice
Flight deck. Because of all the aviation in addition to the heat.
Hole snipes only had what's inside the piping, an unlikely boiler
explosion, 1200 lb steam leak, or main space Bravo fire to worry about.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:46 AM (u82oZ)
The flight deck during flight operations was a damn dangerous area, and not because of the heat. If the jet exhausts did blow you over the side walking into a rotating prop on an E-2 Hawkeye or a cod sure would get you.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 06:51 AM (mpXpK)
On my second ship (with a steam plant ) I was on the bridge, mostly.
And with that it is past time to go.
Have a blessed day, everyone.
May every traffic light turn green as you approach. However, head on a swivel and have a General Mattis plan.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2019 06:55 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 06:56 AM (RU4sa)
Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 06:56 AM (JFO2v)
Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists
Posted by: rhennigantx
At best, she's delusional. At worst? She's mentally unstable.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2019 06:58 AM (F8EBp)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 06:58 AM (cqNba)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2019 06:58 AM (F8EBp)
She has been lying for 40 years. Her book on bankruptcy is still used in schools when the DATA was lost and has never been validated.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 07:01 AM (JFO2v)
dangerous area, and not because of the heat. If the jet exhausts did
blow you over the side walking into a rotating prop on an E-2 Hawkeye or
a cod sure would get you.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 06:51 AM
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We had one guy that got blown off the flight deck twice in his career. He was an AQ and the second time it happened all he could think of on the way down was "not again".
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 07:03 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:03 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:03 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:04 AM (mpXpK)
twice in his career. He was an AQ and the second time it happened all he
could think of on the way down was "not again".
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 07:03 AM (JUOKG)
That was a damn long drop on the Enterprise.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:05 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:05 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:04 AM (mpXpK)
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Demanding that the age should be lowered in 3...2...
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:06 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:06 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:06 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2019 07:07 AM (cqNba)
Is that 8 oz. cups? Probably ... my mugs are probably 10 oz. when not quite full. I drink 3-4 of those, so low risk.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2019 07:07 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: sinalco at May 15, 2019 07:08 AM (yODqO)
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2019 07:07 AM (Cus5s)
I drink a 12 ounce glass of coffee every morning and that its for the day.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Punk Floyd at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (UdKB7)
May not have had cool ports of call, but, no possible death by drowning or sharks, or working in furnaces day in and day out.
Plus, I got to operate tanks.
And shoot them.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:10 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:10 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Bilwis satellite location at May 15, 2019 07:10 AM (4GdAH)
We are getting non essential Personel out of Iraq? Glad we fought a war there and lost lives and limbs.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (Y+V3r)
They are definitely getting ready to hit Iran.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:11 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Punk Floyd at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (UdKB7)
Courtesy of the US Navy
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:11 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:09 AM (Y+V3r)
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What's going on in Iraq?
Or do I really want to know?
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:11 AM (RU4sa)
https://tinyurl.com/yxtq38cr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (ahS0B)
BTW, you squids make me glad I joined the Army.
May not have had cool ports of call, but, no possible death by drowning or sharks, or working in furnaces day in and day out.
Plus, I got to operate tanks.
And shoot them.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:10 AM (RU4sa)
And you did not have to try to sleep in coffins 20 feet below the jet engine test stand!
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:05 AM
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His second fall was on the Midway, no where near as far as a Nuke Carrier. I can't recall what ship the first one was on.
I remember one time we pulled into the Carrier piers at Cubi Point in the Philippines and the Enterprise pulled into the next pier a few days later. Standing on the flight deck I had to look way up to see the flight deck on that Carrier. We were dwarfed.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:11 AM (mpXpK)
Nah. I wish but never gonna happen
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (mpXpK)
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Yep.
Scorpions and camel spiders were definitely worth it.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:13 AM (RU4sa)
Or do I really want to know?
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:11 AM (RU4sa)
Just saber rattling
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:13 AM (Y+V3r)
NGU-Have you seem the video of Tim Conway playing a dentist just out of dental school and Harvey Korman as his first patient?. It's hilarious
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2019 07:13 AM (ahS0B)
at Cubi Point in the Philippines and the Enterprise pulled into the
next pier a few days later. Standing on the flight deck I had to look
way up to see the flight deck on that Carrier. We were dwarfed.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 07:12 AM (JUOKG)'
If I recall correctly it was 70 feet from the flight deck to the normal water level on the Enterprise.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:14 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 15, 2019 07:13 AM (ahS0B)
Yup a classic
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:14 AM (Y+V3r)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:15 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 15, 2019 07:15 AM (oVJmc)
Scorpions and camel spiders were definitely worth it.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:13 AM (RU4sa)
We have a lot of scorpions here and every poisonous spider and snake there is.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:16 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Hikaru at May 15, 2019 07:17 AM (NRQlH)
I do it all over again, though. I miss military aviation sorely.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 15, 2019 07:19 AM (6sskW)
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:19 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2019 07:20 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2019 07:20 AM (Cus5s)
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Looks like they are, even with all the rain, and the Mississippi at major flood stage.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:22 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 07:23 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:23 AM (mpXpK)
Our new POTUS says, "You're right. It's not the hill for us to die on. It's the hill for them to die on."
a la Patton's famous (mythical?) line, "... by making the *other* sorry son a of a b*tch die for *his* country."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 15, 2019 07:23 AM (Ct55T)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 07:23 AM (JFO2v)
Yeah? Much better we just all lay down and die
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 15, 2019 07:24 AM (Y+V3r)
IL had 10% of corn planted, compared to 66% average. But that was 10 days ago. They'll plant a lot this week.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 15, 2019 07:20 AM
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Had a whole bunch of people decide to plant corn last year here in NE Texas. The drought we had last summer killed every bit of it.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 15, 2019 07:24 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 07:23 AM (JFO2v)
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As opposed to getting assaulted and/or killed.
Posted by: SMH at May 15, 2019 07:24 AM (RU4sa)
If I recall correctly it was 70 feet from the flight deck to the normal water level on the Enterprise.
Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2019 07:14 AM (mpXpK)
that is hitting the water at about 42 MPH. damn
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 15, 2019 07:24 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at May 15, 2019 07:26 AM (81OU+)
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