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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/20/19)
Are we wiping out curiosity from our children? Where is the sense of adventure and exploration? Kids would rather be a You Tube star than an astronaut.
On the eve of the Apollo 11 anniversary, LEGO asked The Harris Poll to survey a total of 3,000 children in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom about their attitudes toward and knowledge of space. The results reveal that, at least for Western countries, kids today are more interested in YouTube than spaceflight.
Midwest waters, The Manitowoc Minute Style.
Biking the French way..........
Going through life with a chip on your
“Manspreading,” otherwise known as ‘having a pair of testicles’ – is where men sit with their legs spread apart on public transport. 23-year-old Laila Laurel says she designed the chair “following her own experiences of ‘manspreading'”. “It came both from my own experiences of men infringing on my space in public, and also from ‘The Everyday Sexism Project’, a website founded by Laura Bates in which women self-testify about sexism they experience,” she told LadBible.
Huh? Our neighbors to the north have a mafia problem. Who knew? More than igloos and sled dogs seized.
York Regional Police say they have arrested 15 people and seized $35 million worth of homes, sports cars and cash in a major trans-Atlantic probe targeting the most prominent wing of ‘Ndrangheta Mafia clan in Canada. Responding to spike in shootings, arsons in Vaughan and the surrounding area in 2017, police started “Project Sindicato,” targeting a group accused of operating illegal backroom gambling dens in various cafes. It resulted in what is believed to be the largest Mafia bust in Ontario’s history
Knitting and heavy metal are two important crafts, but one doesn’t imagine that the two intersect very often. However, a few days ago, the two came together when Finland hosted the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship — and it was legendary.
“Hold your nose,” instructs Cat Black. On her cue we spoon some melted chocolate into our mouths and taste without smelling, quietly considering what’s happening in our mouths. Contrary to the deliciousness my brain is anticipating, it’s an anticlimax: I can detect a slick of chocolate across my tongue and some vague sweetness, but almost no flavor. After a few moments, Cat signals to let go of our noses. Whoosh! As the aroma molecules waft from my mouth to the back of my nose, they fire the nerve signals that tell my brain about the different compounds in the chocolate. Suddenly there’s a flood of flavors: rich chocolate, a little bitterness, some bursts of fruitiness. And just when I think the flavors are fading, I detect a wave of something else. Is it coffee? “You can see that a lot of the subtlety of the flavor of chocolate is in the aroma,” Cat says. By some estimates, only 10 to 20 percent of what we perceive as flavor comes from our taste buds—the rest is delivered through our nose.
Rhyme or reason for tonight's selections? Nope.............
All this Apollo talk has me thinking............
Good help is hard to find. Really good help is even harder to find. Genius Award Winner.
A McDonald’s worker on probation for cocaine possession was arrested last night for dousing a customer with a large soft drink during a dispute at the drive-thru window, according to Florida court records. Katrina Lee Jordan, 37, was working at the Pinellas Park restaurant when she and the male victim “began having a verbal argument.” The nature of the drive-thru dispute was not detailed in an arrest affidavit. Cops allege that Jordan, seen at right, “took a large soft drink and threw it in the victim’s window,” striking the man and spilling the cup’s contents “all over his car and his clothing.”
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:00 PM (Ksjjk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (Ksjjk)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (kQs4Y)
Seven artists have asked New York City's Whitney Museum to remove their work from its biennial showcase of American art over a museum board member's ties to the sale of law enforcement supplies including tear gas.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (7WaWV)
Posted by: wing at July 20, 2019 10:01 PM (JFzNN)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 20, 2019 10:02 PM (dm05u)
remember FAR OUT SPACE NUTS?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 20, 2019 10:02 PM (qe9rM)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:02 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:03 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:03 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 10:04 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:04 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at July 20, 2019 10:02 PM (qe9rM)
"I said lunch, not launch!"
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 20, 2019 10:04 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2019 10:05 PM (Z/1Kk)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:05 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 10:05 PM (kLxSO)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:06 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 10:06 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Ozzy Man Bears v Hammock at July 20, 2019 10:06 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:06 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: empress wu at July 20, 2019 10:06 PM (ykYG2)
He is back home, they released him today. Doctor has ordered him to rest and do nothing strenuous for the next few days. Has nothing but praise for the surgical team that went in and fixed him. They only found one blockage area so only one stent.
Thanks for all the prayers Horde.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (cH3lq)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:05 PM (myjNJ)
Hey, free ring.
Posted by: hogmartin invites you to the summer MIMoMe (link: nick) at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 10:08 PM (7WaWV)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:08 PM (dUJdY)
You see it all the time now. Some mother pushing a 2-5 year old around in a stroller while the kid is belted in and can't move.
1. Children need to be active to exercise their nerves and muscles and gain coordination. It's particularly important when they are very young.
We're preventing that.
2. Children need express themselves and their energy and their curiosity and again see #1.
We're suppressing that.
I don't know if mothers do it because it's easier than riding heard over the kid or because the kid is lazy or what but it's a practice that seem universal now and it will come with costs later on.
One of them being early onset obesity with all it's attending diseases and tragedy.
This shit has got to stop ladies.
Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at July 20, 2019 10:08 PM (W+zVf)
At my age, far out nuts isn't something I'm remembering so much as looking forward to. If that's the expression.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:09 PM (ykYG2)
Yes. Thank helicopter parenting, the education system, law enforcement and CPS.
Where is the sense of adventure and exploration? Dead as a doornail. See above.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 20, 2019 10:09 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 20, 2019 10:09 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:08 PM (dUJdY)
Same here Anna. Belated prayers up!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:09 PM (BiNEL)
Oh yeah?
Well it's so hot here I saw two crackheads putting copper back into an air conditioning unit.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:10 PM (Ksjjk)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:07 PM (GaOgf)
Ha.
It was good, how was yours?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:10 PM (aA3+G)
This shit has got to stop ladies.
Posted by: jakee308
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One of the neighborhood moms picks her kids up at the bus stop which is 6-8 houses away from their home.
The boys are 11 and 14.
They don't have a chance.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (Z/1Kk)
Posted by: davidt at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (jY3BZ)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:10 PM (Ks
Now, that's hot!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:10 PM (aA3+G)
Fabulous!
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (7WaWV)
She single?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 20, 2019 10:12 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Peking Loe at July 20, 2019 10:12 PM (c8xLq)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 10:11 PM (7WaWV)
Starting small, but I intend to really expand!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:13 PM (BiNEL)
Stop.
Don't.
You can't.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 20, 2019 10:13 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:13 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip at July 20, 2019 10:13 PM (BbGew)
Lady asks why one is so cheap and the owner said it used to live in a whorehouse. Lady laughs and buys the bird. When she gets it home it says, wow! This is a great new whorehouse. She laughs again.
When her teen age daughters get home the bird says, great, two new whores. They all laugh.
The husband comes home. Bird says, hey Joe! Glad you found our new location!
And that's when the fight started.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:13 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: freaked at July 20, 2019 10:14 PM (UdKB7)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:14 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Ozzy Man Bears v Hammock at July 20, 2019 10:15 PM (mZLmb)
British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review.
German carrier Lufthansa also said it was suspending flights to Cairo from Munich and Frankfurt just for Saturday without giving any reason.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 10:16 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:16 PM (dUJdY)
Was the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want..."
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:16 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Jewells45
Same here. And ditto.
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:16 PM (arJlL)
LOL.
... I'm still laughing.
These idiot bikers might even be better than the British dorks who chase that big rolling cheese wheel down the hill and end up breaking an average of 2.4 bones apiece.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 20, 2019 10:18 PM (6fsOH)
Heh. More like that one please!
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 10:18 PM (kLxSO)
https://tinyurl.com/y3p3lxu7
Posted by: Not That Guy at July 20, 2019 10:19 PM (F3TDN)
"self-testify"? WTFF is that?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 20, 2019 10:19 PM (6fsOH)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:19 PM (GaOgf)
....
I guess we're just left to assume that British Airways and Lufthansa are racist.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:21 PM (Ksjjk)
You are cheese dip baby. You... Are....Cheese...Dip.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:21 PM (myjNJ)
g'evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 20, 2019 10:22 PM (KCxzN)
Starting small, but I intend to really expand!
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I see, my son. That will be a penance of 4 Hail Marys.
Posted by: stumck at July 20, 2019 10:23 PM (IpZ/y)
Whose idea was it to ride bicycles down an icy hill?
Posted by: rickl at July 20, 2019 10:23 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 20, 2019 10:23 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:24 PM (myjNJ)
I flew Egypt Air New York-Cairo about ten years ago.
The Egyptians clearly didn't trust TSA, because they had their own security people at the gate, who were going very carefully through everyone's carryon luggage.
A tough part of the world.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 10:25 PM (I2/tG)
Its so hot here, I came in from outside and got a water from the fridge, I felt the cold air from the fridge and wondered how much trouble it would be to cut a hole in the door so I could hang my balls in the fridge.
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:25 PM (arJlL)
A: Tell her the seats that are going to London are all in the middle row.
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:26 PM (myjNJ)
Hiya Horde!
Hello flowers! Hello trees! Hello clouds!
It's sunny and 75 here, mountains are out, breeze out of the north. Gorgeous day here in Sea Town.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:26 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:26 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: kallisto at July 20, 2019 10:27 PM (2vJ77)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 20, 2019 10:27 PM (6qErC)
Glad to hear everything turned out good for you and your family Anna.
Posted by: dartist at July 20, 2019 10:27 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 20, 2019 10:27 PM (t+qrx)
Annnddd... wine all over my monitor. Thanks.
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:28 PM (dUJdY)
You could put one of those freezer packs in your shorts. Who cares about shrinkage?
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:28 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 20, 2019 10:27 PM (6qErC)
Had to opine
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:28 PM (aA3+G)
Thanks! Never wise up, peeps.
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 10:29 PM (kLxSO)
1. Children need to be active to exercise their nerves and muscles and gain coordination. It's particularly important when they are very young.
We're preventing that.
2. Children need express themselves and their energy and their curiosity and again see #1.
We're suppressing that.
Get a flexi-leash instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 20, 2019 10:29 PM (Wx/+I)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:29 PM (myjNJ)
You could put one of those freezer packs in your shorts. Who cares about shrinkage?
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:28 PM (GaOgf)
You?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:29 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Somme Daywalker at July 20, 2019 10:29 PM (DMUuz)
hey Jewells, hogmartin
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 20, 2019 10:30 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Don Q. at July 20, 2019 10:30 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:31 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:32 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:32 PM (2DOZq)
I got some really dirty looks when I taught them how to back flip out of the swings. Other kids kept drifting over for lessons and their overprotective parents would drive them away and scold me.
I told them it's better if I teach them how to do it properly.
To each his own, I guess.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:32 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Skip at July 20, 2019 10:32 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:21 PM (myjNJ)
El Azteco cheese dip?
Posted by: hogmartin at July 20, 2019 10:33 PM (t+qrx)
You know why women can't measure?
Because all their life they've been told that this________________________is eight inches.
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 10:33 PM (GaOgf)
I.e., they make shit up.
I'm watching Mr Sunshine's first episode, involving nineteenth Korean serfdom / slavery. I doubt the modern snowflakes would last long in a system with real oppression under real despots.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:33 PM (ykYG2)
Got. A good carb coma going here.. it's our anniversary and we just got back from dinner at our favorite Spanish tapas restaurant.
I may not last too long!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 20, 2019 10:33 PM (438dO)
We usually have magnificent sunsets, crazy clouds, all kinds of colors, but...
Two days in a row the sun has set with absolutely no clouds in the sky, just dusky blue sky and a blazing disc on the horizon saying, "here, have a last blast of radiation!"
One more day before the weather breaks. So they say.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 10:34 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:34 PM (dUJdY)
Hotter than a three-peckered goat in a pepper patch.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:34 PM (Ksjjk)
I was thinking seriously about inventing freezer pack jockey shorts.
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:35 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: epador at July 20, 2019 10:35 PM (RyIfn)
Posted by: Jewells45
Seconded.
Well, not The goodnite part.
Yet.
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:36 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: logprof at July 20, 2019 10:36 PM (S7WbR)
Bring em!
I was working in my front yard and hung my camo jacket on the gatepost.
A guy drives up, hops out of his car and grabs my jacket. As he gets back behind the wheel, I notice he has only one leg.
"You one legged prick!" I yell. "You got my camo jacket. You can hide, but you can't run!"
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 10:37 PM (kLxSO)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 20, 2019 10:38 PM (LxTcq)
January 1959 discussions on a post-Mercury program. Art Silverstein who offered up the suggested name did so since, "it was just an attractive name."
pg 14. We Reach the Moon. John Noble Wilford. Bantam Books. July 1969.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 10:38 PM (cH3lq)
On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said: "Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back? " To which the farmer replied: "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf! "
That's all, folks!
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:38 PM (myjNJ)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:38 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:35 PM (arJlL)
Relevant space content:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6mwrcrr
Posted by: hogmartin at July 20, 2019 10:39 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:39 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 20, 2019 10:40 PM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:40 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 10:40 PM (cH3lq)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:40 PM (BiNEL)
I think keeping the balls cool is one of the recommendations for dudes trying to build up their sperm count.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:41 PM (Ksjjk)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:39 PM (PkVlr)
Eh, had a date tonight that didn't happen, so that's a bit of a bummer. And I don't have an AC (long story) and am suffering through a new england heat wave.
But other than that, everythings actually going remarkably well in my life, thanks for asking.
Hows everything with you?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:41 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Still in hospital?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 20, 2019 10:41 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:41 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:41 PM (2DOZq)
"Baby, what you doing on the corner?"
"I'm selling weed!"
haha
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:42 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:35 PM (arJlL)
Relevant space content:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6mwrcrr
Posted by: hogmartin
That's nice and all, but I was thinking of a more immediate "Ahhhhhhhhh"
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:42 PM (arJlL)
....
Hate to hear that.
Prayers for a speedy recovery for him.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 10:42 PM (Ksjjk)
To which the farmer replied: "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf! "
That's all, folks!
Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 20, 2019 10:38 PM (
Well done young lady. All quality!
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 10:42 PM (kLxSO)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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Nutz, hot nutz
You get 'em from the peanut man...
Posted by: Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts at July 20, 2019 10:43 PM (CDGwz)
Well that triggered them.
So no Armenian Genocide Rememberance Day for instance on FB?
Posted by: torabora at July 20, 2019 10:43 PM (OqSi4)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 20, 2019 10:43 PM (dUJdY)
Hows everything with you?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
all is well. I survived 90 degrees with 90% humidity in central FLorida. The beach was fantastic! I got to meet Bboy and Bgal. awesome folks. Insom and I had a really nice time together.
Hopefully he'll be heading west in the fall.
Just got home from Mass, and I prayed for all yall.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:44 PM (PkVlr)
About 12 minutes to go until Neil Armstrong steps off the ladder
Posted by: Skip at July 20, 2019 10:44 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: dartist at July 20, 2019 10:44 PM (K22Va)
Prayers for continued recovery
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:45 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 10:45 PM (mFoNl)
back flip out of the swings
??
??
From standing up?
Sounds like what I'd been thinking about recently (in my dotage): a couple of things I did in life that I did once to say I could and did twice to be sure the first time wasn't a fluke. Dived off the high tower. Standing back flip on the trampoline. Rolled a cigarette with my tongue, cowboy-style.
Took many a forward leap, but never thought of backflip off the swings.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 10:46 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:46 PM (aA3+G)
On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said: "Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back? " To which the farmer replied: "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf! "
That's all, folks!
Posted by: madamemayhem
One time I was driving, wearing a black shirt and my seatbelt was black.
A cop stopped me and asked me why I wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
I said " I am wearing a seatbelt"
He looked and said "Oh".
"nevermind".
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:46 PM (arJlL)
But remember, thanks to gerbil warbeling, hundreds of people will soon be dying from heatwaves in Seattle.
Truly! The science is settled!
Posted by: Enviormentalists! at July 20, 2019 10:47 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: JT
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No problem. CO2 fire extinguisher.
You've probably heard the old expression, "What really frosts my balls is...."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 20, 2019 10:47 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:48 PM (aA3+G)
Thank goodness your dad is doing well!
I can highly recommend the DASH diet for cardiac patients. Husband is ten years out from his quad bypass, and is in great health. It's also not too bad to follow.
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 10:48 PM (mFoNl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story
nah, sitting down. all you do is swing really high, lean back, tip your head back and let go at the top of the arc. the back flip practically does itself. all you really need to do is spot the landing.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:48 PM (PkVlr)
Truly! The science is settled!
Posted by: Enviormentalists! at July 20, 2019 10:47 PM (I2/tG)
To be fair, the only ones that will be around to die from gerbil warbeling will be those that didn't drown when the seas rose, so it's not as bad as you made it sound!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 20, 2019 10:49 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:49 PM (2DOZq)
Hopefully he'll be heading west in the fall.
Just got home from Mass, and I prayed for all yall.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:44 PM (PkVlr)
Excellent. I'll be in that horrific hellhole of an area later this summer (central FL). I don't know how anyone thought it was a good idea to settle somewhere that is literally unlivable without air conditioning.
And yes, I think the horde needs as many prayers as we can get.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:50 PM (GBteo)
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Hmm. 74 deg. here, 10:50 pm so, can't see the mountains. Still have a few lightening bugs though.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 20, 2019 10:50 PM (CDGwz)
Will be doing it tomorrow AM.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:50 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:51 PM (ykYG2)
It's getting worse tax and crime wise by the month. I was offered a space for a 3 season trailer on the Wolf to start. Maybe.
Posted by: dartist at July 20, 2019 10:52 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Not. Happening.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 20, 2019 10:52 PM (CDGwz)
They never seem to get any airplay on the oldie stations.
Posted by: cfo mom at July 20, 2019 10:52 PM (RfzVr)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 10:54 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 20, 2019 10:54 PM (2DOZq)
Cherokees ran wild during an eclipse banging kettles and making as much racket as possible to scare away the giant frog that was trying to eat the Moon.
In True History by the second century Greek Lucian of Samosata there is a story of a trip to the Moon and finding inhabitants who rode on the backs of three-headed vultures.
John Keats - "What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?"
pg 17-18. Ibid.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 10:55 PM (cH3lq)
And we've all already died from losing net neutrality, of course.
There is a meteorologist at the University of Washington, Cliff Mass, who runs a regionally popular weather blog.
Mass believes in AGW, but he also believes in refuting particularly stupid assertions about AGW, like the deadly Seattle heatwaves claim.
As a result, local environmentalists hate him - you are not allowed to deviate from the Party Line, no matter how absurd the Party Line is.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 10:55 PM (I2/tG)
Weird Dave had the ONT. Brought to you by a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=370777
"GOULD" grabbed firstesses.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 10:56 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 10:39 PM (PkVlr)
Eh, had a date tonight that didn't happen, so that's a bit of a bummer. And I don't have an AC (long story) and am suffering through a new england heat wave.
One time some friends hooked me up with a blind date.
The woman's skin was so white, it made her teeth look yellow.
Or her teeth were so yellow, it made her skin look white.
I dunno which. All I know is, I took one look at her teeth and said to myself "I ain't stickin' my tongue in that yap".
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (5aX2M)
Will be doing it tomorrow AM.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 1
{{{boulder}}}
I love worship in the original languages. I got to go to Latin Mass with our neighbor when his church offered it. It is beautiful.
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (mFoNl)
One giant leap for mankind
Posted by: Skip at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:51 PM (ykYG2)
Oh, thanks. Didn't mean to give off the impression my day was bad -- overall, had a pretty decent day -- got a lot done with work and around the house, spent many hours in the gym (it's air conditioned), got dinner with some friends. A little bummed about the date flaking on me, but I mean, she kind of sucks anyways, so it's not a huge loss.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (GBteo)
nah, sitting down. all you do is swing really high, lean back, tip your head back and let go at the top of the arc. the back flip practically does itself. all you really need to do is spot the landing.
Right. I get it. Next time I'm twelve, I'm a-gonna give that a try!
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (mZLmb)
On me iTunes right now.
One of a precious few songs I never tire of hearing.
A precious few.
Classic rock has been wrung dry.
Sweet Emotion and Comfortably Numb make the cut.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (aurSP)
Posted by: Richard Gere at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:57 PM (arJlL)
Heh.
Gotta use those whitening strips and get some sun, ya know?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (GBteo)
True fact: since the First Consul succeeded in escaping Ebla, the contingency plan in case he'd escaped St Helena too would have been to exile him to the far side of la lune.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (ykYG2)
Just as well, I'm pretty fried from the heat today.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 20, 2019 10:59 PM (7Llwi)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 10:59 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:59 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Richard Gere at July 20, 2019 10:58 PM (DMUuz)
Does that involve circular breathing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 10:59 PM (aurSP)
The Mass is in English, but I might be singing something in Aramaic in a few weeks. I'm a little apprehensive.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 11:00 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 11:00 PM (cH3lq)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 20, 2019 10:19 PM (6fsOH)
aka "Making Shit Up".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:01 PM (abNpZ)
Posted by: Ted! at July 20, 2019 11:01 PM (ykYG2)
How was your Birthday ?
Was it enjoyable ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 10:59 PM (arJlL)
It was!! I love being 29!!!! Kidlet and I watched season four of Bosch, and ate Chick Fil A. Can't beat that.
How are you??!!!
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 11:02 PM (mFoNl)
Posted by: rickl at July 20, 2019 10:23 PM (sdi6R)
Well, riding bicycles up an icy hill is right out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:02 PM (abNpZ)
Posted by: rickl at July 20, 2019 10:23 PM (sdi6R)
I know! I know!
What is being a teenager in Cody, Wyoming in 1980?
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (aurSP)
I recently acquired a crescent wrench and the handle is solid steel that comes to a point.
What is the purpose of this ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
The Mass is in English, but I might be singing something in Aramaic in a few weeks. I'm a little apprehensive.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 20, 2019 11:00 PM (ykYG2)
That is AWESOME!!!!!!
I wish there was a way for you to record it and post on here. That would be an amazing Musical Interlude!!!
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (mFoNl)
Found my copy at a garage sale.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (cH3lq)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (aurSP)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:05 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit at July 20, 2019 11:06 PM (CDGwz)
What is the purpose of this ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
striking the assailant behind you.
Duh!
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 11:06 PM (aurSP)
Said it is fresh to them so it's natural.
Also there's nothing here to excite the kids.
When we get something going our kids will be there.
Wisdom from the master.
he
Posted by: Charlie at July 20, 2019 11:06 PM (ePWRo)
Cherokees ran wild during an eclipse banging kettles and making as much racket as possible to scare away the giant frog that was trying to eat the Moon.
Sounds like the protesters in Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:06 PM (aKsyK)
What is the purpose of this ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
you can use it to align drilled holes
also useful for self-defense
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (dm05u)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Moki
.............
Thank you! 46 down and hopefully many more!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (438dO)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
striking the assailant behind you.
Duh!
Posted by: Pug Mahon
LOL !
And then poke him in the eye with the point ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit at July 20, 2019 11:09 PM (xSo9G)
As elsewhere, the environmental movement in Portland is increasingly relying on using fifteen-year-olds as spokespeople (it helps if you aren't aware of the fifty-year history of false predictions of ecological doom).
Some of these kids recently testified before the Portland city council, and they really and truly believe that they personally will die from global warming, if we don't immediately dismantle industrial society. This is obviously something they are being taught at school.
How screwed up is it to tell young teenagers that their future is almost certainly hopeless, because of an overblown alleged threat?
You want to talk about evil - there it is.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:09 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: vmom happy
LOOKITCHOO !
Not just another purty face, huh ?
Thanks !
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:10 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Iowa Bob at July 20, 2019 11:10 PM (wshbh)
Posted by: vmom
---------
In case you are attacked by a nut.
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit
LOL !
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:11 PM (arJlL)
And then poke him in the eye with the point ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (arJlL)
naw. Flail around like you're possessed. I might lose the fight, but the fookers will know they have been in a fight. I have surprisingly solid elbows.
Not to mention a berserker mindset that I keep carefully sated with Cheetos and beer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 20, 2019 11:11 PM (aurSP)
What is the purpose of this ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
That's an Ironworkers' wrench. Most are fixed sized, open end wrenches, but with the same point.
When the crane is hosting "red-iron" (steel "I" beams and their corresponding vertical posts) into place, the Ironworker will ram the point of the wrench into the holes in the adjoining steel pieces to align them.
He'll then insert a bolt into the next adjacent hole, which will also have been "lined up" by the wrench exercise.
Removing the wrench, that hole is now also aligned to receive it's bolt.
Lather, rinse and repeat a few thousand times, and now your steel superstructure is complete.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 20, 2019 11:12 PM (QzJWU)
Do you really want it?
Do you really want it?
Do you really want it?
Go, go, go, ale ale ale
Go, go, go, ale ale ale
Go, go, go, here we go, yeah
How dare anyone make fun of me, and my scared sexual preferences?
Posted by: Ricky Martin! at July 20, 2019 11:12 PM (I2/tG)
That'szzz one small stepzztggh man
One gianzzz leap zortbsztankind.
That's what I heard.
It was still cool.
Then to stand outside and gaze up in great wonder at that companion orb with bootprints on it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Moki at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (mFoNl)
My first few weeks here in Boulder County I went downtown in time to see a march through the streets, led by a big plush polar bear, of little kids chanting "what do we want / STOP GLOBAL WARMING / when do we want it / NOWWW". And I saw all the preening white parents standing around recording it all.
You want to talk about evil - there it is.
Yeah. That.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (ykYG2)
What is the purpose of this ?
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:04 PM (arJlL)
you can use it to align drilled holes
also useful for self-defense
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 20, 2019 11:07 PM (dm05u)
vmom has it right. Called a "spud wrench", IIRC. They make box end and open end wrenches in that style, too. Typically used in the construction trades.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (abNpZ)
Something funny and sad I saw today...
https://youtu.be/SkfwWL27NJI?t=344
^^
Senator Reed gives a pathetic little wave while Chuck Schumer gives a "thumbs-up" sign to illegal immigrant men locked up at a boarder patrol facility. This is after they spend five minutes haranguing border patrol for not letting them go free.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (GtG/j)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story
I taught my boys, my Goddaughter and my nieces when they were 5-8. It was great fun getting the other parents to freak the fuck out.
I'm a gymnast. I have also coached some pretty damn good gymnasts. It isn't rocket science.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 11:15 PM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 11:15 PM (7WaWV)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:16 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Charlie at July 20, 2019 11:17 PM (ePWRo)
Something funny and sad I saw today...
https://youtu.be/SkfwWL27NJI?t=344
^^
Senator Reed gives a pathetic little wave while Chuck Schumer gives a "thumbs-up" sign to illegal immigrant men locked up at a boarder patrol facility. This is after they spend five minutes haranguing border patrol for not letting them go free.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 20, 2019 11:13 PM (GtG/j)
So when does Congress put an end to the CBP and all border controls? (That is, if they are serious. But as we all know, per Emerson, a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines .)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 20, 2019 11:18 PM (/0HPZ)
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:18 PM (arJlL)
https://www.dynakitparts.com/shop/mark-iii-kit-120-vac/
Looked around for the associated preamps; not to be found. Haz sad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:18 PM (abNpZ)
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=382364#c31071258
...And that night we watched the televised broadcast from the Moon.
I sat on the couch next to my Grandmother, who had known the Wright Brothers 60 plus years before. And we talked about what an incredible century it had been.
From the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11, in the lifetime of a person....
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM (mZLmb)
There is a lot of pressure being put on the mayor of Portland to declare a "climate emergency" - apparently this would be the climate version of martial law.
Some wags have already suggested that Portland city government can immediately take these steps to Save The Planet:
First, ban all plane travel by city employees and elected officials.
No more flying to Amsterdam on "fact-finding" missions to look at bicycle lanes. If you want to attend a "climate conference" in New York, take the train.
Second, eliminate the reserved parking spaces city council members have at city hall.
Third, require that all city employees take mass transit to work.
And so on...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM (7WaWV)
On Friday I called and cancelled Direct TV.
Since we got the high speed internet, netflix and kinetic tv, we haven't missed the old provider one little bit.
The savings are significant, too!
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 11:20 PM (GaOgf)
No more flying to Amsterdam on "fact-finding" missions to look at bicycle lanes. If you want to attend a "climate conference" in New York, take the train.
Second, eliminate the reserved parking spaces city council members have at city hall.
Third, require that all city employees take mass transit to work.
And so on...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM (I2/tG)
I'm frankly not against any of that, so...
Well, maybe the mass transit thing, that's obnoxious.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 11:20 PM (GBteo)
By freight, with the hoboes. I'll even chip in for the Thunderbird fund.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 20, 2019 11:21 PM (ykYG2)
On Friday I called and cancelled Direct TV.
Since we got the high speed internet, netflix and kinetic tv, we haven't missed the old provider one little bit.
The savings are significant, too!
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 11:20 PM (GaOgf)
Since I moved out of my parents house 10ish years ago, I've only had cable when it was free at one of the places I rented.
I honestly don't understand people who insist on paying $100+ a month to watch advertisements and shitty shows.
I feel like a Luddite saying that, but I mean...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 11:22 PM (GBteo)
Once upon a time I dated some gymnasts those girls were limber
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 11:22 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: chango butt at July 20, 2019 11:23 PM (B+t5k)
Nice
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:23 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Max Power at July 20, 2019 11:24 PM (QCc6B)
On Friday I called and cancelled Direct TV.
Since we got the high speed internet, netflix and kinetic tv, we haven't missed the old provider one little bit.
The savings are significant, too!
Posted by: ALH
Nice
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:24 PM (arJlL)
No more flying to Amsterdam on "fact-finding" missions to look at bicycle lanes. If you want to attend a "climate conference" in New York, take the train.
Second, eliminate the reserved parking spaces city council members have at city hall.
Third, require that all city employees take mass transit to work.
And so on...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM (I2/tG)
I'm frankly not against any of that, so...
Well, maybe the mass transit thing, that's obnoxious.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 11:20 PM (GBteo)
Well, if they don't wanna ride the bus or the train, then require that they ride a bicycle to work.
That's what they flew to Hampsterdam to "study" after all, right?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 20, 2019 11:24 PM (QzJWU)
And so on...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:19 PM
But, but "De Wallen" has some of the best designed bike lanes in the world!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 20, 2019 11:25 PM (7WaWV)
Posted by: mercenary13 at July 20, 2019 11:25 PM (fvMOw)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 20, 2019 11:26 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Charlie at July 20, 2019 11:27 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: chango butt at July 20, 2019 11:28 PM (B+t5k)
Posted by: ALH at July 20, 2019 11:28 PM (GaOgf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:18 PM (abNpZ
That's because the preamps were there earlier.
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 11:29 PM (kLxSO)
Posted by: chango butt at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (B+t5k)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
we also have some pretty amazing muscle control.
......and I'm done
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (PkVlr)
I honestly don't understand people who insist on paying $100+ a month to watch advertisements and shitty shows.
I feel like a Luddite saying that, but I mean...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 11:22 PM (GBteo)
That's funny, because cable TV was originally sold as commercial free TV.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Max Power at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (QCc6B)
Posted by: Farmer posting from. R at July 20, 2019 11:31 PM (2+yJZ)
......and I'm done
Posted by: nurse ratched
It was just getting interesting !
Posted by: JT at July 20, 2019 11:32 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 20, 2019 11:33 PM (fuK7c)
Are there any stories out there about this?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 20, 2019 11:34 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 11:29 PM (kLxSO)
230 preamps were pre-empted
Posted by: chango butt at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (B+t5k)
Quite possibly, or perhaps they were built into a piece of furniture that was kept. The KT88 tubes in the one I opened up are "Groovetubes". Maybe made by Sovtek? Looks like a selected matched pair.
Maybe Garrett knows something about these.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (abNpZ)
The background behind that is that Portland city government hates cars, and is constantly reducing the vehicle capacity of major arterial streets to force people out of their cars and onto bikes and mass transit. Sauce for the goose...
That's what they flew to Hampsterdam to "study" after all, right?
A former mayor of Portland led a "fact finding" delegation to Amsterdam. Once he got there, he ditched the rest of the delegation, because he was more interested in "fact finding" Amsterdam's gay bars than bike lanes.
This was the mayor who had sex with an underaged guy while in office. Since it's Portland, he wasn't prosecuted, but he did decide not to run for reelection.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (I2/tG)
Healthy Vinyl Plant Growth
New pressing plants are sprouting up across the globe
https://tinyurl.com/y3sxkfxn
scroll down
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Farmer posting from. R at July 20, 2019 11:31 PM (2+yJZ)
Yep. Saw it live. Unforgettable.
Sad today that the spirit of those times is not to be found in what passes for our culture today.
Posted by: Halfwise at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (kLxSO)
Posted by: Biggus Dickus at July 20, 2019 11:36 PM (9MQsq)
This was the mayor who had sex with an underaged guy while in office. Since it's Portland, he wasn't prosecuted, but he did decide not to run for reelection.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (I2/tG)
Well, the rest of the delegation was either fact-finding in the brothels, or in the pot cafes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 20, 2019 11:36 PM (abNpZ)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (Rz2Nc)
Ha, yeah. So I hear.
I was at my ex's parents house a year or so ago and they were watching some screaming heads on MSNBC, then switching to some silly show about old cars during commercials, then back to screaming heads, but sometimes the commercials aligned, and...
All I could think was "this is worth $100+ a month? Yikes."
I mean, I pay $100 a year for prime (which I use mostly for the 2 day shipping, since I'm an internet hermit when it comes to shopping), and I use my sisters Netflix for free and my parents HBO Go for free, plus youtube and I feel like I have more content then I know what to do with. With minimal / no ads.
But I don't even watch that much TV or content to begin with.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 20, 2019 11:37 PM (GBteo)
"Provider" of what? (I so hate that word and the fact it is used for every damn thing...)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 20, 2019 11:37 PM (/0HPZ)
I'm actually sorry it did. I'm totally rooting for a Ballywood musical set in Tycho Crater.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 20, 2019 11:37 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:38 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Bandersnatch
----
Okay girlie, it's true you plucked that $20 out of the beer bottle (no hands!
) but if you had real talent, you'd fold it.
HA!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2019 11:38 PM (Z/1Kk)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:35 PM (I2/tG)
Crosses Portland, OR off places to ever visit.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 20, 2019 11:38 PM (Rz2Nc)
It's just fair compensation for all the suffering we endure on behalf of the People!
Posted by: Senior Portland Bureaucrats at July 20, 2019 11:39 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 11:39 PM (mZLmb)
Re: Telegraph Jokes
College Student to Dad: No mun, no fun, your son.
Dad to College Student: Too bad, you're sad, your Dad
Posted by: 11B40 at July 20, 2019 11:40 PM (evgyj)
Crosses Portland, OR off places to ever visit.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42
Is there a city anywhere on this planet that is not run by people like that?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:40 PM (aKsyK)
I felt like I was living out a Bill Burr skit as I put it together, just short of stomping it to pieces in frustration.
Turned out to be a pretty fun little grill. It's a charcoal grill on one side and a propane griddle on the other. Cooked some stir fry on it and it's a pretty good little griddle.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 11:40 PM (48XXE)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
we also have some pretty amazing muscle control.
......and I'm done
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 11:30 PM (PkVlr)
I bet you're not
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 11:41 PM (aA3+G)
I'm most pissed that the fat flabby boring looser that played Luke Cage
in the Netflix series is going to be Blade! Talk about rubbing salt in
the wound. Not only is that the death Nell of bringing the Netflix
Daredevil to the MCU, but it's an insult to all the Denzel fans
everywhere. I was a huge Denzel Washington fan back in the day. Talk
about big shoes to fill. What a massive disappointment in casting.
Posted by: Max Power
You're being sarcastic. <scows>
Posted by: Wesley Snipes at July 20, 2019 11:42 PM (Qt2ya)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Si vis Pacem, Para Bellum) at July 20, 2019 11:42 PM (l7Kbv)
To be fair to Portland, it's become the Costa Rica of city governments - no mayor ever gets reelected.
We'll see if the current mayor can manage that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 20, 2019 11:43 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: 11B40 at July 20, 2019 11:44 PM (evgyj)
Amen to that. Not hard to be accused of being a crabby old fucker either. Times has changed.
Posted by: dartist at July 20, 2019 11:45 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: Iowa Bob at July 20, 2019 11:48 PM (wshbh)
Posted by: Max Power at July 20, 2019 11:49 PM (QCc6B)
Posted by: Bandersnatch
Wiggle ears?
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 20, 2019 11:50 PM (7Llwi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:40 PM (aKsyK)
I would hope most cities aren't run by a gay pedophile.
As an interesting side note, autocuccumber offered no spelling help for pedophile.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 20, 2019 11:51 PM (Rz2Nc)
Apparently I'm unable to tell the difference between the Tang and the Jin.
If I'm to put in a word in mine own defence: when dealing with chubby mediaeval Chinese aristocrats, it *is* hard to tell the difference between the males and the females.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 20, 2019 11:51 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Iowa Bob at July 20, 2019 11:51 PM (wshbh)
Posted by: dartist at July 20, 2019 11:54 PM (K22Va)
I use to be accused of being a young crabby fucker
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 20, 2019 11:54 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 20, 2019 11:55 PM (eP3XU)
I felt like I was living out a Bill Burr skit as I put it together, just short of stomping it to pieces in frustration.
Turned out to be a pretty fun little grill. It's a charcoal grill on one side and a propane griddle on the other. Cooked some stir fry on it and it's a pretty good little griddle.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2019 11:40 PM (48XXE)
Blackstone tailgater? I have a Blackstone griddle, I like it. Considering getting a smaller one for the lake cottage.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 20, 2019 11:56 PM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:56 PM (aKsyK)
I can wiggle my ears. Independently.
I'm talking about girl muscles that I don't have.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 20, 2019 11:56 PM (fuK7c)
I'm talking about girl muscles that I don't have.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 20, 2019 11:56 PM (fuK7c)
How are you doing?
Posted by: Elsie The Cow at July 20, 2019 11:57 PM (abNpZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 20, 2019 11:57 PM (PkVlr)
All prayers for her to have less pain, especially in the morning, welcomed. (S'pose a few of us can relate to that.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 20, 2019 11:57 PM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Biggus Dickus at July 20, 2019 11:58 PM (9MQsq)
I wrote in Ned Flanders.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 20, 2019 11:58 PM (iB1oa)
I use to be accused of being a young crabby fucker
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
You could open up a restaurant in Bikini Bottom.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 20, 2019 11:59 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: cutting-edge twenty first century #woke american medical science at July 20, 2019 11:59 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Biggus Dickus at July 20, 2019 11:58 PM (9MQsq)
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Phrasing.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 21, 2019 12:00 AM (iB1oa)
I wrote in Ned Flanders.
Posted by: Captain Obvious
I'm so pissed those asshats messed up Portlandia. I used to go on girls' trips with my besties to Portland. Nice hotels, bars, restaurants, shops.....and Powell's
and the bastards fucked it up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2019 12:00 AM (PkVlr)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 21, 2019 12:02 AM (eP3XU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 21, 2019 12:02 AM (aA3+G)
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Nurse, it's what they do. Everywhere.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2019 12:02 AM (Z/1Kk)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 21, 2019 12:02 AM (fuK7c)
and the bastards fucked it up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2019 12:00 AM (PkVlr)
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It was a whole lot better when I moved here twenty years ago. Now...the deterioration is obvious. If they screw up Barbur Blvd (the main drag near my house) by running light rail down the middle of it...well, I'd just as soon not sell the house (it's paid off), but it may come to that.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 21, 2019 12:04 AM (iB1oa)
pg 209 - 210. Ibid.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2019 12:04 AM (cH3lq)
Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2019 12:05 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 21, 2019 12:06 AM (aA3+G)
Another "meetup" tomorrow which should be fun.
"Fun" I'm pretty sure has a definition and a standard meaning and all.
If I'm lucky, I'll ignore the alarm.
Well, that's not fair, the folks in this "meetup" are really very nice.
But I am who I am.
Damn it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 21, 2019 12:08 AM (l9m7l)
Two black women were in the runoff - a corrupt, left-wing, marginally competent lifer politician; and a batshit crazy radical who hates the cops and thinks that homeless drug addicts are your "neighbors", with the same rights that you have, even if you are paying north of five thousand bucks in property taxes every year.
Guess who won.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2019 12:11 AM (I2/tG)
It's similar to the tailgater and it is a Blackstone, but it's got more sturdy legs.
I think it's just called the Griddle Charcoal Grill Combo.
It's a tidy little unit. I'll let you know after I grill on the charcoal side. It's pretty sturdy, though, as near as I can tell.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:11 AM (48XXE)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 21, 2019 12:02 AM (eP3XU)
That's pretty cool.
Back when neighbors talked to each other.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:12 AM (48XXE)
I spent nearly all day fixing a mess caused by Win10's "fast startup" option, otherwise known as hybrid shutdown. It got turned on on this install without my knowledge.
If you're dual or multibooting, that will cause disk corruption if you start back up and boot into any other system than the one you shut down from.
I did that last night, booted Linux up, and then came back to this Win10, and noticed disk corruption.
Just a few files hoses, but boy did that cause a major malfunction. I thought I had it fixed earlier, but found something else and just got that fixed.
MS will just do shit like this without any regard for the consequences. Arrogance is what it is.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 21, 2019 12:13 AM (f1Vqw)
Lived in Portland for twenty years, but moved to the burbs when I bought a house.
Just two miles away from Portland, but the laws are actually enforced here - if a hobo meth RV parks in front of my house, I can call the sheriff to get the guy removed - I don't have to pretend that he is my new "neighbor", like I would in Portland.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2019 12:15 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Ha at July 21, 2019 12:15 AM (MAstk)
1) possums!
2) Linda Ronstadt!
3) piss troughs!
I went to a Linda Ronstadt concert once, but she was passed out drunk on stage with her guitar pick lost in her guitar somewheres, so... I went to the gents to pee, but they didn't have a piss trough, so I went outside & accidentally drowned a poor ole possum!
Posted by: mnw at July 21, 2019 12:16 AM (Cssks)
Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at July 21, 2019 12:16 AM (LPnfS)
In July of 1969 a ham radio operator and amateur radio-astronomer by the name of Larry Baysinger, W4EJA, accomplished an amazing feat. He independently detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface.
http://www.arrl.org/eavesdropping-on-apollo-11
https://soundcloud.com/shannon-hall4/apollo-11-recording
These were 5 watt radio transmissions, 239,000 miles away.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2019 12:17 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: John Pinette at July 21, 2019 12:17 AM (LPnfS)
Damn it.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
You have to say it with Popeye's accent.
"I yam what I yam an' tha's all what I yam!"
Try saying it outloud, with vigor, and feel your forearms bulge.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:18 AM (mZLmb)
competent lifer politician; and a batshit crazy radical who hates the
cops and thinks that homeless drug addicts are your "neighbors", with
the same rights that you have, even if you are paying north of five
thousand bucks in property taxes every year.
Are you sure you're not talking about our lovely new Chicago mayor in Crook County, IL?
Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2019 12:19 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:19 AM (48XXE)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:11 AM (48XXE)
Yes, please let me know how you like the grill side, I like the griddle.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 21, 2019 12:20 AM (Rz2Nc)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2019 12:20 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:22 AM (/O9R9)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 21, 2019 12:20 AM (Rz2Nc)
Will do.
It's kinda small.
Probably no more than 4 ribeyes will fit on it.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:22 AM (48XXE)
Posted by: Muad'dib at July 21, 2019 12:23 AM (5Ezu/)
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:24 AM (/O9R9)
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:22 AM (/O9R9)
garrett, what can you tell me about Dynakit mark III amps? I scored two of them, apparently intact, at the dump today. They have Groovetube KT88's in them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 12:24 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: Muad'dib at July 21, 2019 12:25 AM (5Ezu/)
Actually, now that I think of it, it's probably three miles from Portland.
The county line makes all the difference in the world - there is a homeless camp on a bike trail that literally ends right at the county line. South of the line, the laws are enforced - north of the line, they are not.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2019 12:25 AM (I2/tG)
His latest thing is that he's going to drive from Stevens Point to Freeport to pick up the flowers on the graves and then come to visit us in Dixon while I'm laid up and buy a ton of sweet corn take to his friends in Stevens Point.
This dude is 83 and his right foot is kind of dead from nerve damage from his back and he's going to drive all this way ugh. What do you do? It is good sweet corn we just got some the other day American Midwestern ethnic food it freaking rocks! You're going upstairs do you think the air works at all or what so you have the air conditioner off and you're going to turn it on did seem to run Ajo cuz we can't use the I'm not using those assholes we had the last time they pissed me off
Posted by: Farmer posting from strip smargphone at July 21, 2019 12:26 AM (2+yJZ)
That is a pretty nice score!
https://tinyurl.com/y47wqtk3
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:26 AM (/O9R9)
Where are the kids with Roman Candles?
In our youth, we'd have been assaulting hobo encampments with all the foreworks and pellet rifles we could round up.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:27 AM (/O9R9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2019 12:17 AM (aKsyK)
I'd never heard that story, thanks for that one.
I keep a preset for 145.80 in the 2m scan on my radios but I've never heard the ISS
Posted by: hogmartin at July 21, 2019 12:28 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at July 21, 2019 12:13 AM
Publius!
I run this little thing on my WinX installation:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y5pubzvy
I just apply the "spy rules" (to block telemetry)...
One can also apply the "update rules" to block updates, and "extra" to block all Micro$oft services, but things like imbedded Bing images in web sites will not display, etc....
Make sure to "Run as administrator"!
It uses Windows firewall... Most other fixes of this genre use host files rules or just Windows settings, which can be bypassed...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at July 21, 2019 12:28 AM (7WaWV)
Posted by: hogmartin at July 21, 2019 12:28 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Farmer posting from strip smargphone at July 21, 2019 12:29 AM (2+yJZ)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 21, 2019 12:29 AM (NMAzL)
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:29 AM (/O9R9)
https://tinyurl.com/y47wqtk3
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:26 AM (/O9R9)
Could not find the preamps that go with them. What is the appropriate preamp for those?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 12:29 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2019 12:29 AM (PkVlr)
It's kinda small.
Probably no more than 4 ribeyes will fit on it.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 21, 2019 12:22 AM (48XXE)
That would work for us, there is only my wife and I. Unless, she's not hungry and we should just spit one,because if she's not that hungry, I must not be either, lmao. No, I'm cooking two, eat what you want and have the rest for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 21, 2019 12:31 AM (Rz2Nc)
Anything will do, really. A nice little Bogen, or Heathkit. Even an early Fisher would work well.
Anything that puts out a line level output will work, really. You could get away with just a Phono Preamp that has an active gain dial.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:31 AM (/O9R9)
Posted by: Evasiveboat42 at July 21, 2019 12:31 AM (Rz2Nc)
Freeport to pick up the flowers on the graves and then come to visit us
in Dixon while I'm laid up and buy a ton of sweet corn take to his
friends in Stevens Point.
Give him some credit to know when to stop driving. He doesn't want to get hurt or hurt anyone. After my dad quit driving he had to eventually quit cutting the grass with the rider. It gets sad but it helps if family can help give them pride getting older.
Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2019 12:33 AM (K22Va)
Guess who won.
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The batshit crazy radical must have had some impressive backing - you saw her signs everywhere.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 21, 2019 12:35 AM (iB1oa)
Could not find the preamps that go with them. What is the appropriate preamp for those?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Pat-3 ?
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit at July 21, 2019 12:36 AM (xSo9G)
BIG MOTHER IS LISTENING
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:36 AM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2019 12:36 AM (xSo9G)
Used to be a vagrant problem there.
Used. to.
Wired a direct switch from the sprinkler system to a particular neighbor that could easily qualify as "Moron". Said neighbor lives next to said esplanade, separated only by a 6 ft. board fence.
We don't mind paying to replace the occasional sprinkler head. It's worth the laughs.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2019 12:37 AM (QzJWU)
Anything that puts out a line level output will work, really. You could get away with just a Phono Preamp that has an active gain dial.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:31 AM (/O9R9)
Thanks. Job #1 is to test or replace the big filter cap, and any bypass or coupling caps that night see a high DC voltage across them. before powering it up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 12:37 AM (abNpZ)
An increasing fraction of the Portland electorate is white, anti-cop, and pro-antifa, which is why no action will be taken locally against antifa. The last two city council elections both elected poorly educated, radical, cop haters.
And now, I have a date with a space station...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 21, 2019 12:38 AM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2019 12:39 AM (QzJWU)
Thanks. Job #1 is to test or replace the big filter cap, and any bypass or coupling caps that night see a high DC voltage across them. before powering it up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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A Variac is a good thing to have around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2019 12:39 AM (xSo9G)
Could not find the preamps that go with them. What is the appropriate preamp for those?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Dynaco PAS-3X
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2019 12:41 AM (aKsyK)
The 'dead' foot part bothered me most. No feedback on the pedal would be concerning to me.
But, mmm. sweetcorn. We have Oklahoma peaches. Trade?
Back to elderly drivers:
Can't remember how many years ago, Mom blew a stopsign. Got t-boned. Let's hear it for Cadillac sturdiness, she was pretty much fine. But she knew it was time to hang up her car keys. Wisdom.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:42 AM (mZLmb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2019 12:39 AM (xSo9G)
Yep. And I have at least 3 of them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 12:43 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2019 12:43 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:42 AM (mZLmb)
The opportunities to riff on the phrasing here are epic.
But it was your Mom, so chivalry requires decorum.
But geez, I'm rolling here in mirthful laughter!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2019 12:45 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: dartist
I have never had that experience. Never stayed up too late, just one more as ye say, because of a rollicking good ont. Never. Ever. Including not tonight.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:46 AM (mZLmb)
But it was your Mom, so chivalry requires decorum.
OKaayyy, my "phrasing" detectors must be dampened.
Thanks, Gentleman Jim.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:48 AM (mZLmb)
more as ye say, because of a rollicking good ont. Never. Ever. Including
not tonight.
His breath smelled of whiskey and the truth was not in him.
Posted by: dartist at July 21, 2019 12:49 AM (K22Va)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2019 12:50 AM (aKsyK)
Yeah, good idea. Then bring it up slowly on a Variac.
But those should be a nice, and very musical pair of amps.
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:52 AM (/O9R9)
Posted by: Just the punchline at July 21, 2019 12:55 AM (IGYfK)
Dr. Baker:
I wish we'd had the idea to do more tests before. But we were, I was, so busy! We were about to change the world, so the how of the phenomenon took a back seat. Even for me.
Science -- it was still important, just, not as important as saving everyone. So we missed out on that opportunity for rigorous testing.
What we did observe, in neuroimaging afterward, is that we apparently all had surprisingly highly-increased activity in the amygdala, which would normally indicate active fear and anxiety. There was also an inexplicable re-arrangement of some of the most- and least-active regions of the brain (see Appendix A). No chemical changes, other than those explicable by the state of ecstatic joy, could be found.
In logic, in law, it's hard to prove a negative. Just because no one's got proof of Bigfoot, or Santa Claus, does not disprove their potential, theoretical reality.
Similarly, lack of phenomena, health for example, does not innately tell you why or how it is happening, in the way that an imbalance, the sick organ or broken bone, reveals why it interrupts order. Order is the mystery.
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zzzzzPosted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 01:06 AM (mZLmb)
The truck runs, drives, and stops. When the transmission tries to shift into third gear, the engine just races. Probably the direct drive clutch is toast. Transmission oil seems clean enough. As luck would have it, this truck uses a 4L60E transmission, and my spare is a 4L80E. While it would probably bolt up, I doubt it would play nice with the ECM in the truck.
And the engine oil pressure was low, and the gauge flutters. Well, I found out why. Oil pan is way over full, and it smells like fuel. How gasoline got in there, I can only guess. It's a Vortec 350, with throttle-body injection, and there is no mechanical fuel pump to develop a leak. Ny best guess? One of the injectors leaks, or leaked, and somebody left the key on for a long time, and the electric fuel pump pumped fuel into the intake manifold, and from there it entered one cylinder, and leaked by the rings.
Job #1, then, is an oil and filter change.
And I also did some work on my Dixon mower. Last time I used it, it was rumbling like there was a bad bearing in one of the deck spindles. I lifted it up, and removed the blades, and the deck drive belt, and could find no problem with the spindles. Blades were dull, so I sharpened both sets, and hung a sharpened set on the mower. Went out and mowed the ditches, and it did just fine. Only one or two small patches of that nasty Prairie Wool grass needed a second pass. So I am happy that a sharpening job was all it needed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 01:06 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: garrett at July 21, 2019 12:52 AM (/O9R9)
I about shit when I saw what people were asking for the same exact amps on eBay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 01:08 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 21, 2019 01:17 AM (w7U7L)
As for the air-conditioning comment that was for my wife as she was going to bed. We have two air conditioners one in the basement for the first floor and one in the attic for the second floor. The last assholes we had here told us the attic one was a fire hazard and we are going to die I! First time we've heard that in 30 years dumbasses. And they didn't believe me it was in the attic and it were wandering around outside.
Well to change the subject isn't Trump The Artful no inartful president we've always wanted. Time will tell but who are these rabble-rousers will beat him in the next election seriously? Slow Joe fauxcahontas are my fav Kamala. I think you need them all alive.
Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at July 21, 2019 01:23 AM (2+yJZ)
How is this even a question?
NASA has done very little in the way of manned exploration in the last 40 years. The ISS is for science experiments, the last big exploration milestone was unmanned drones outlasting their absurdly short lifespan estimate. Or some satellite flybys of distant objects.
Meanwhile the people successfully making a living posting videos and streaming are the equivalent of TV stars for a new generation, with a significant difference of having almost no barrier to entry. Kids have always dreamt of making it big in entertainment industries. There have always been far more aspiring musicians and actors than explorers.
Posted by: Sjg at July 21, 2019 01:25 AM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at July 21, 2019 01:27 AM (w7U7L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2019 01:32 AM (abNpZ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 21, 2019 01:35 AM (LxTcq)
He gave the car to my brother this spring after moving into nursing home.
Brother lives far away, but on one of his visits he let Dad drive the car on a few short errands. Dad was elated! His autonomy was restored, if only for a little while. After a couple of trips he handed back the keys; he'd only wanted that little taste of freedom in defiance of his failing health.
Posted by: JQ at July 21, 2019 01:36 AM (gP/Z3)
Posted by: .Debby Doberman Schultz at July 21, 2019 01:48 AM (a4EWo)
Can't remember how many years ago, Mom blew a stopsign. Got t-boned. Let's hear it for Cadillac sturdiness, she was pretty much fine. But she knew it was time to hang up her car keys. Wisdom.
Posted by: mindful webworker - click for a story at July 21, 2019 12:42 AM (mZLmb)
That is why I drive the parents everywhere. They are in a retirement facility on a speed demon four lane highway. Half the time I wonder if I will make it.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 21, 2019 01:53 AM (e1mEI)
The WSJ treating Pewdiepie in an awful way ... should be seen through the lens of old vs new media. The political angle is obvious, but both can be true.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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Link?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2019 01:56 AM (13CQC)
We noticed a decline in my in-laws driving skills when going to Phoenix and they were trying to drive in that super fast traffic on the loop around town and got lost the last two times we took a trip with them. After that we rented a car.
Seems like my dad is doing pretty good at 83 I just dread the day when he loses his driving skills. He won't be happy and it will involve a lot more driving for us. But his mom drove into her 90s and then drove into a house. Time will tell.
Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at July 21, 2019 02:05 AM (2+yJZ)
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 02:07 AM (ORD9/)
I can only hope that the document dump on the Epstein case won't get buried by Big Media/Tech like that documentary was.
Hopefully, their Ahab-like obsession with the pitifully weak Trump connection will overcome their self-protection instincts, and they'll keep it front-and-center.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2019 02:09 AM (5aX2M)
Posted by: Farmer posting from stupid smartphone at July 21, 2019 02:11 AM (2+yJZ)
My sister was going through my dad's desk (he passed away a few weeks ago) and found a little notebook with only one page written on. It was a list of all the vehicles Dad bought or owned since he came to America in '61. Dad had a somewhat quirky taste in vehicles, which I was well aware of but didn't fully appreciate until I saw them all listed on one piece of paper. So here they are, in more or less chronological order (of ownership, not model year):
- '54 Studebaker Commander V8
- '56 Chevy Nomad wagon
- '69 VW Bus
- '68 NSU moto scooter
- '64 Ford Fairlane 500
- '69 Austin America (with day-glo orange plastic Donald Duck hood ornament)
- '72 Ford Gran Torino wagon (car I learned to drive in)
- '68 16' Fiber-Flite runabout w/40hp Evinrude outboard
- '75 Buick Skyhawk V6
- '70 Opel GT
- '68 Honda AN600 Sedan (this was my first car, which be bought for me)
- '78 Moto Guzzi 750 motorcycle
- '80 Mazda RX7 (My brother totaled this one)
- '81 Buick Regal
- '84 Mazda RX7 (My mom totaled this one. Poor Dad, he loved his RX7s)
- ? American Clipper 21' motor home
- '78 Ford F150 4x4
- '90 Lincoln Continental
- '95 Ford Thunderbird V8
- '96 Ford Taurus V6
- '69 Opel GT
- '94 Ford Explorer
Interestingly, I remember all of these. My recollection of the Studebaker must have been from when I was 3 or 4.
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 02:21 AM (BaHwF)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 02:47 AM (BaHwF)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at July 21, 2019 02:49 AM (jp0Bv)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 02:47 AM (BaHwF)
Nah, probably just the car guys aren't around.
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 02:49 AM (ORD9/)
Posted by: Igotnothing at July 21, 2019 02:53 AM (xf2hT)
Posted by: Igotnothing at July 21, 2019 02:58 AM (xf2hT)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at July 21, 2019 03:05 AM (jp0Bv)
I learned to drive on a '63 Ford Fairlane (yeah, it was a land yacht)-- but I'm still only a little past 29, swearsies.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 03:06 AM (pPNCa)
When I was a kid, all the dads on the block (and a couple of the moms) got together after a heavy snowfall and shoveled out the alley behind the houses on the block so that people could get their cars out. (The city plowed the street in front but parking there was verboten during snowstorms.)
Yeah, the neighbors were a pretty congenial group. My dad used to enjoy sitting out on the back steps with Mac (the guy directly next door) on a summer evening, drinking a couple beers and griping about the Phillies. I don't recall anybody following football back then; the dads and most of the moms were all baseball fans.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 03:16 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 21, 2019 03:21 AM (8xaIy)
Been thinking of you-- how's your family situation? Prayers up too.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 03:53 AM (pPNCa)
- '54 Studebaker Commander V8
- '56 Chevy Nomad wagon
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 02:21 AM (BaHwF)
Couple of cars in the 50s; did he get here in '51?
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 04:27 AM (ORD9/)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 04:34 AM (BaHwF)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 21, 2019 05:07 AM (KCxzN)
A contractor on the Apollo program needed a project management software. They wrote their own, and named it Artemis - the sister of Apollo. When I worked at that contractor some 30 years later, they were still using that software.
Posted by: Igotnothing at July 21, 2019 02:58 AM
371 Was the software that good, or the connection to the moon landing that valuable or just an unwillingness to spend on IT?
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at July 21, 2019 03:05 AM
the Apollo program was the first real use of program / project management theory & methodology
there probably was not any PM software available at the time
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 21, 2019 05:11 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Average Guy at July 21, 2019 04:34 AM (BaHwF)
Fun list for you all to find. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:13 AM (ORD9/)
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 05:28 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 05:29 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:30 AM (ORD9/)
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/live-from-the-apollo-11
Posted by: m
HA!! Thanks for the laugh this morning
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 05:37 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 05:40 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: Infidel
Make sure the toilet signs a DNR
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 05:41 AM (vd8XM)
http://100leaders.org.au/themes/reclaiming-identity/jim-stallard/
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:46 AM (ORD9/)
http://100leaders.org.au/themes/reclaiming-identity/jim-stallard/
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:46 AM (ORD9/)
Hmm. I wonder if that's another person by the same name. Sorry!
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:47 AM (ORD9/)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 05:48 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: m at July 21, 2019 05:49 AM (ORD9/)
Posted by: Infidel
I had to do that on one of mine. The hardest thing was finding the replacement part
And getting all the water out of the tank
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:00 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:05 AM (q1BC2)
"It's man against self,
And man against nature."
It's a golf game buddy. The ain't landing on the moon.
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:05 AM (vd8XM)
Good morning!
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:08 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 06:09 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 06:12 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Skip
I left a quarter cup in the bottom of the pot for you. And left the heat on too.
...That one A-hole in every office...
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:13 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:13 AM (BLFnH)
G'mornin' everyone !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 21, 2019 06:14 AM (pbg54)
...That one A-hole in every office...
Posted by: Bruce
Gah, my office is closest to the kitchen. Some afternoons I have to go turn the pots off cause someone let it sit and start to burn.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:15 AM (BLFnH)
That's his soul shining through its fleshly envelope.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 21, 2019 06:16 AM (pbg54)
...That one A-hole in every office...
Posted by: Bruce
Gah, my office is closest to the kitchen. Some afternoons I have to go turn the pots off cause someone let it sit and start to burn.
Posted by: Infidel
I'm gonna break on of the donuts in that box of a dozen in half too, probably with my filthy fingers.
I'm on a diet.
...Some other A-hole...
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:17 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:17 AM (BLFnH)
Just imagine the look, when some loved one realizes that you care enough to give the best.
https://republicanlegion.com/product/the-border-patrol-kit/
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:18 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Makes total sense.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:19 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: Infidel
I noticed the screeching weather talkers on TV are using the heat index to announce
"The Hottest Day Ever On the Planet"
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:19 AM (vd8XM)
We are over in Rehoboth right now, but my MiL said that heat index was up around 110-112.
Didn't see anything about 122.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:20 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 06:23 AM (BbGew)
Gave it to kidlet today. They are leaving Fri. for WV for a week.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:24 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:13 AM (BLFnH)
wear and tear of being wrong on every economics and foreign policy for last 40 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 21, 2019 06:27 AM (JFO2v)
Truth be told, there are no long term medical studies on the long term effects of eating paste on the human body.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:30 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 06:30 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 21, 2019 06:32 AM (pbg54)
Posted by: Skip
The summer wind chill factor.
Maybe the higher it is, you need to take off more clothes?
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:32 AM (vd8XM)
This is why I like animals more than most people.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:35 AM (BLFnH)
This is why I like animals more than most people.
Posted by: Infidel
And since numbers is infanite, we can make up anything we want. The higher, the better.
...GW...
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:40 AM (vd8XM)
Which is okay by me since I rarely watch it.
My wife will not be happy that she can't watch her stories tomorrow though
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:43 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: JAS at July 21, 2019 06:44 AM (I5SAg)
Sunday - Heat index 108 - 113
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 06:44 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:44 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: JAS at July 21, 2019 06:46 AM (I5SAg)
Posted by: Infidel
The other day we lost wifi, tv and phone.
We survived though.
Wife was not happy.
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:48 AM (vd8XM)
We are NOT freaking out.
We are......concerned.
Or something like that.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:50 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: JAS
For some reason people think that they should always be able to do their "normal" activities. No matter the weather.
I wanna golf today!!
Idiot, it's 100 degrees out.
Whhaaaaaa
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:51 AM (vd8XM)
We survived though.
Wife was not happy.
Since I'm a Little House on the Prairie fan, this does not bother me.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:52 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: Infidel
We survived, barely.
We did luck out, we had just picked up "They shall not grow old" dvd from the library the day before.
Very good movie
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 06:53 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 06:55 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: JAS at July 21, 2019 06:56 AM (I5SAg)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:57 AM (q1BC2)
I've switched to taking a sip of coffee for every f-bomb in the Deadwood movie.
*spasm*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 07:00 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:01 AM (BbGew)
Murphy was selected by Police Commissioner Michael Harrison back in March to oversee Consent Decree compliance.
I guess he consented to be robbed??
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 21, 2019 07:01 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 07:02 AM (BLFnH)
https://cbsloc.al/2xY9kMj
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Two African-American males exited the vehicle, brandished a gun, and demanded their property. A purse, wallet, cash and cell phones were taken.
Without actually arresting them, how do they know they are African American?
Shouldn't they just say black? Or POC?
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:04 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:07 AM (dm05u)
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:08 AM (dm05u)
How do they know they identify as male, as well?
Whole lot of presuming going on in that reporting.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 07:09 AM (q1BC2)
How do they know they identify as male, as well?
Whole lot of presuming going on in that reporting.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
HA!!
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:09 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:10 AM (BbGew)
is this how human sacrifices for better weather got started?
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:10 AM (dm05u)
It's going to be .97 times ten to the second today, The NBEFSHMI will be .97 times 10 to the third.
Posted by: klaftern at July 21, 2019 07:11 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: dr kill at July 21, 2019 07:11 AM (Jj+59)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 07:12 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:12 AM (vd8XM)
You're welcome to keep Florida People to yourself.
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 07:13 AM (pPNCa)
A feature not a bug of the educational system. What good are curious children? They might ask questions about our almighty State and their proper subservient role to it. Curiosity is part and parcel of autonomous critical thinking -- can't have that.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 07:13 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 07:14 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: dr kill at July 21, 2019 07:14 AM (Jj+59)
Posted by: JAS at July 21, 2019 06:44 AM (I5SAg)
Same with Generals. The Civil War and WW2 were the wars that people associated with Generals for some reason. You had Shwarzkopf in Desert Storm but that is about it.
I just Duck Ducke'd "shwarzkopf" and most of the results were about hair color. Sigh.
Posted by: Quint at July 21, 2019 07:16 AM (n13/j)
A feature not a bug of the educational system. What good are curious
children? They might ask questions about our almighty State and their
proper subservient role to it. Curiosity is part and parcel of
autonomous critical thinking -- can't have that.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 07:13 AM (H8QX
Do helicopter parents even allow them to be curios? When your parents shuttle you in cars to and from school, and don't let you explore anything, what are you supposed to think? I would think they think of themselves as extremely fragile.
I have a relative who proudly bought his kid one of those virtual reality head sets. I said "how cool", but what I meant was, "how 'bout taking the kid camping, aka, actual reality?"
Posted by: Quint at July 21, 2019 07:21 AM (n13/j)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 21, 2019 07:21 AM (lwiT4)
https://cbsloc.al/2xY9kMj
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 06:57 AM (q1BC2)
That's pretty good. The only one I've seen that compares was about five years ago when some dumb bastard hit the night drop of a local pizzeria on a Saturday night. I presume he was unaware that said pizzeria is the legitimate front of the head of the local mafia family.
He robbed the night manager at gunpoint, only to be chased down by two "individuals". Shots were fired, neighbors called the cops, who took the guy into custody and probably saved him.
I never did hear what ever happened to him after he made it to the county jail.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at July 21, 2019 07:21 AM (jp0Bv)
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 07:24 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 21, 2019 07:24 AM (bXf82)
Easy to tell where.
Tax = Maryland
No tax = Delaware.
wave when you go past Rehoboth.
We should be passing each other.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 07:26 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:26 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: saf at July 21, 2019 07:28 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Skip
Mmmm. Time to make cucumber, onion, vinegar salad.
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:29 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 07:30 AM (BLFnH)
Speed for one, the faster you go the less chance of stopping in Delaware, two - If you paid to get there your in Delaware.
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:31 AM (BbGew)
And then this response:
"I’ll never forget that day, that essential right of passage into womanhood when I first donned a tiara and dressed up like the mutant triplet of Pat Butcher and Danny Devito. Twas then my very atoms became female."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 07:32 AM (kQs4Y)
Umm, no, cucumber, onion and sour creme. Add s and p, worchtershire and garlic.
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 07:33 AM (BLFnH)
Well......alrighty then...
Posted by: VIA, A Person of Penis (POP) at July 21, 2019 07:35 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
I had to read that twice to make sure you weren't talking about you.
Whew !
Posted by: JT at July 21, 2019 07:37 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:37 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Skip
Ya think he accidentally shot a guy with 2 black eyes ?
Posted by: JT at July 21, 2019 07:38 AM (arJlL)
---
I possess neither a tiara nor a penis.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 07:39 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Skip
If we were real friends, we'd be in the same cell saying
"Man, that was fun!"
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:40 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Bruce at July 21, 2019 07:42 AM (vd8XM)
https://tinyurl.com/y5aerabc
Socialism is way to much fun, think of the shrinking carbon footprint.
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:42 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
Good.
Although, I bet you'd look great in a tiara.
Posted by: JT at July 21, 2019 07:42 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: JT at July 21, 2019 07:38 AM (arJlL)
*wipes coffee off tablet*
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:44 AM (dm05u)
Grammie, wasn't there a game at Wrigley (Cubs/'Stros) about 10 years back when lightning hit the flag pole in center field?
Posted by: Basement Cat at July 21, 2019 07:46 AM (pPNCa)
Posted by: All Hail Eris,
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Hah. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall could lend you both.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 21, 2019 07:49 AM (v4v6L)
Liftoff is scheduled for 5:13 am EDT on Monday. I don't know if I can get up for that.
Posted by: rickl at July 21, 2019 07:51 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 07:55 AM (BbGew)
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Then the first off-planet convenience store is still a go?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 21, 2019 07:55 AM (v4v6L)
Posted by: weirdflunky at July 21, 2019 07:56 AM (cknjq)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at July 21, 2019 07:56 AM (MySI0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 21, 2019 07:55 AM (v4v6L)
if there's a decent coffee shop there then there'll finally be a reason for regular folk to go to the moon
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:57 AM (dm05u)
if there's a decent coffee shop there then there'll finally be a reason for regular folk to go to the moon
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 07:57 AM (dm05u)
There you go!
Posted by: rickl at July 21, 2019 07:59 AM (sdi6R)
How many times did they brush their teeth before they got to the border? Were they walking across the desert brushing their teeth? Did they ever brush their teeth in their home country? Do they even know how to brush their teeth? How does Chuck know that the child is a he? Does he have a list of the child's preferred pronouns?
Posted by: freaked at July 21, 2019 08:00 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: freaked at July 21, 2019 08:01 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 08:03 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Les Kinetic at July 21, 2019 08:03 AM (lLJfM)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 08:05 AM (BLFnH)
Understand this though - YOU will be paying for all of their dental care from now on.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:06 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: never enough caffeine at July 21, 2019 08:07 AM (MySI0)
Been there, done that and it was so fun!
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 08:05 AM (BLFnH)
Not me. I was way too boring and repressed for that. What a waste of youth. Sad!
Posted by: Insomniac at July 21, 2019 08:07 AM (NWiLs)
Democrats: We'll change the laws - by abolishing them.
(of course they will know with precision exactly where the national forests boundaries are so that you can be penalized if you trespass with your snow mobile during the winter snowfall.)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:09 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:09 AM (2EMYr)
Posted by: freaked at July 21, 2019 08:10 AM (UdKB7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 08:12 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 08:13 AM (BLFnH)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 21, 2019 08:13 AM (cJBin)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 08:14 AM (q1BC2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:15 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2019 08:16 AM (EZebt)
Trump calling for Democrats to change border laws, that is a non starter if I ever saw one.
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 08:03 AM (BbGew)
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No, it's another piece of string for them to play with.
Trump wants to remind people that Congress can fix everything but refuse to do it.
Right now the Dems are going to the border, saying it's awful and then...refusing to fix it.
He's building the case that the House Dems are worse than useless. We know that, but the people in those swing districts may not. They're getting a lesson, though.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 21, 2019 08:16 AM (HIUfw)
where the national forests boundaries are so that you can be penalized
if you trespass with your snow mobile during the winter snowfall.)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:09 AM (lD3vL)
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Set one toe onto their property line and they'll call the SWAT team.
But feel free to defecate in the town square and shoot up drugs outside a school.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 21, 2019 08:18 AM (HIUfw)
How many times did they brush their teeth before they got to the border? Were they walking across the desert brushing their teeth? Did they ever brush their teeth in their home country? Do they even know how to brush their teeth? How does Chuck know that the child is a he? Does he have a list of the child's preferred pronouns?
Posted by: freaked at July 21, 2019 08:00 AM (UdKB7)
Somebody needs to tell Chuck U Schumer to go brush his teeth.
Whew!
More coffee......
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 21, 2019 08:19 AM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 08:20 AM (BbGew)
You do know why we call the majority of adults "Low Information Voters", right?
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:20 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: freaked at July 21, 2019 08:00 AM (UdKB7)
Heh... Schemer is lying. It takes almost no water to brush your teeth in field conditions: wet the brush and paste, brush, fill your mouth with water, swish, spit, rinse, done.
More likely, he asked some urchin if he brushed his teeth and got the reply, "WTF is a tooth brush?"
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 21, 2019 08:21 AM (5Yee7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
________
I'll go you one better and say they're the same person. And that's my conspiracy theory of the day.
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:21 AM (ta49A)
Ignore the giant ball of fire in the sky.
Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at July 21, 2019 08:21 AM (dm05u)
Plus, a bonus-
If the Dims actually do take the bait and produce something acceptable to the Maoist Progtards taking over their party.
It's just going to look like anti-American, anti-common sense insanity to most people,
even those who lean center left.
If the Dims write responsible legislation,
they get open and loudly vocal civil war within the party and disgust from the MSM.
It's a trap!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:21 AM (2EMYr)
"484 Trump calling for Democrats to change border laws, that is a non starter if I ever saw one.
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 08:03 AM (BbGew) "
He's just making sure that that albatross is firmly in place around their necks. Being the adult in the room.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 21, 2019 08:23 AM (pbg54)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 21, 2019 08:23 AM (dUJdY)
Schumer scares children. Reminds them of the creepy perverts that escorted them up to the border.
If one of his confederates asked any of the kids that question, it was part of the screening process for routing and recruitment to Comet Pizza.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:24 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 21, 2019 08:16 AM (EZebt)
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Those clever little hands -- could they handle a mini-Ruger? Or a tiny garrote?
*looks over shoulder nervously*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 08:24 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Jewells45
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Embrace the power of 'and'.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2019 08:26 AM (Z/1Kk)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 21, 2019 08:23 AM (dUJdY)
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Both -- it's called the MoMee-mosa!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 08:26 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 21, 2019 08:23 AM (dUJdY)
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Both -- it's called the MoMee-mosa!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 08:26 AM (kQs4Y) "
Hold that thought, Eris, you may have just created the newest Moron Horde meme !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 21, 2019 08:28 AM (pbg54)
I'm wondering how Yahoo/MSM news and the other propaganda sites will headline the request.
"Democrats to Counter Trump's War Against the Poor"
"Democrats Defend The Constitution: Bring Us Your Poor, Tired Huddled Masses" (yes I know that is from the Emma Lazarus poem)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:28 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: Infidel at July 21, 2019 08:29 AM (BLFnH)
even those who lean center left.
Which means it will like pass the Senate too.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:29 AM (lD3vL)
On shiny new blu-ray-
the original "Jonny Quest" adventures.
Fun for kids of all ages. Though also probably easy to find online.
And-
a new 4K scan of "Alphaville",
an excellent "futuristic" rather dark film noir from Frog director, Jean-Luc Godard from back when he actually knew how to make a movie and not just a cinematic pile of Progtard maoist garbage.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:32 AM (2EMYr)
@realDonaldTrump
I will help Angel Mom (and great woman) Mary Ann Mendoza with Twitter. I know Mary Ann from the beginning, and she should never be silenced. She is a winner who has lost so much, her child. Twitter, if you're watching, please do what you have to do, NOW!
(Twitter banned her for posting immigration stats)
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:32 AM (cF8AT)
Yep, then the scribblers from The CuckShead, will follow Max Boot's lead and accuse Trump of "Turning the Nation Against its Sacred Institutions".
branding him a traitor or something.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:33 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:34 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at July 21, 2019 08:34 AM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:35 AM (ta49A)
Which means that Twitter will now go doxx the Angel Mom, just because Trump is asking.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:35 AM (lD3vL)
Just had a very good call with @SwedishPM Stefan Löfven who assured me that American citizen A$AP Rocky will be treated fairly. Likewise, I assured him that A$AP was not a flight risk and offered to personally vouch for his bail, or an alternative....
....Our teams will be talking further, and we agreed to speak again in the next 48 hours!
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:35 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:35 AM (ta49A)
*...multiply by....then add 48....divide by zero..*
Yes!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:36 AM (2EMYr)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:37 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 21, 2019 08:37 AM (dUJdY)
Chuckles don't know spanglish. An aide said "this kid can't brush his teeth", and he ran with that.
Not knowing that the kid had run out of crest...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:37 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Anon a mouse
________
He's just taking Aim at the president . . .
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:38 AM (ta49A)
Exactly when would a traveler be aware of some native's personal dental hygiene?
Occasionally someone will brush their teeth at an office building after lunch, but from that does one extrapolate that to the entire population?
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:38 AM (lD3vL)
Another good reason to break up Googol.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 21, 2019 08:39 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:39 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:39 AM (ta49A)
I'm sure the Hawaiian judge is ready to step in and throw impediments into this process.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:41 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:42 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:42 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 21, 2019 08:43 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:43 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:44 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 08:35 AM
If powdered eggs are still alive.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2019 08:44 AM (0wxLi)
Posted by: Anon a mouse
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Don't worry, it will all be brushed away soon.
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:45 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
And why not?
Considering the propaganda of the Cold War and the Russians launching Sputnik, media was saturated with space travel.
Nowadays, its saturated with all-things-trans.
Kids are probably more interested in genital mutilation than spaceflight now.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:45 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: FireHorse
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You mean like a toothpaste?
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:46 AM (UUBmN)
The Presidents unlawful declaration over a crisis that does not exist does great violence to our Constitution and makes America less safe, stealing from urgently needed defense funds for the security of our military and our nation.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 21, 2019 08:46 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:46 AM (6qErC)
Do something really daring and go expand the borders and leave everything strike-through case.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:47 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:45 AM
We could all put on pants ...
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM (0wxLi)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM (/Fmtj)
I'm waiting for our expert AOC to be weighing in about now on this topic.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:49 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:50 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM
We're the only ones who remembered the Alarmo.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2019 08:51 AM (0wxLi)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:52 AM (UUBmN)
I was thinking about going on a distance ride this morning before the temps reached the century mark and the blast furnace from the south kicked in.
Apparently that idea failed.... time to french press some cofeveve
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:53 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:49 AM (lD3vL)
She can't make it.
Her legs broke due to osteoporosis,
from her teeth sucking all the calcium out of the rest of her body.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:53 AM (2EMYr)
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 08:47 AM (lD3vL)
That's a daily occurrence here.
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:53 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2019 08:54 AM (BbGew)
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:45 AM (cF8AT)
Are you not of the body?......
Landru save us!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 21, 2019 08:54 AM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:55 AM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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*snort* aka cats...
Posted by: lin-duh, was deplorable now a committed racist! at July 21, 2019 08:52 AM (UUBmN)
Ooooo, Netflix needs to make a movie of
"The Alamo" with all the actors in the make-up and costumes from "CATS".
Call it "The Calico".
You're welcome, Hollywood!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 21, 2019 08:56 AM (2EMYr)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2019 08:48 AM (0wxLi)
That's like Antifa level radical!
Posted by: Tami at July 21, 2019 08:56 AM (cF8AT)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 21, 2019 08:57 AM (6qErC)
I had no interest in space or spaceflight or astronauts as a kid. And if we'd had youtube, I may have thought that was the cool thing to do. I don't know. As it was, I was into sports and spy stories.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 21, 2019 08:59 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 21, 2019 08:59 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 21, 2019 09:02 AM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 09:02 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 21, 2019 09:02 AM (0wxLi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKyZ_7ZjabU
That'll buff right out. No, really! It was still standing on the pad at the end. It was a fuel leak, not an explosion.
Posted by: rickl at July 21, 2019 09:03 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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You're higher than that just for having played football for Donald Trump.
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 09:04 AM (ta49A)
I'm trying to think how that would look - some kid obsessing over spaceflight or astronauts.
Kids usually have remarkably short attention spans - which is good, since there is a great number of things worthy of exploration and interest.
We all can't be fighting for a spot on the Flight to Mars, and I don't know anyone who fantasizing about working behind a CAD/CAM station for years designing a component in a complex system... These days that work is off shored to developing country interns.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at July 21, 2019 09:05 AM (lD3vL)
Posted by: pawn at July 21, 2019 09:09 AM (PveK5)
Posted by: pawn
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That the nature of mass media as explained by agenda-setting theory, first proposed by Max McCombs at the University of Texas at Austin. This is how the media work, and it's natural.
What must be frustrating to the Left is that, though setting the agenda and dictating what we think about, the media don't tell us what to think. Media, therefore, are powerful but that power is limited.
Posted by: FireHorse at July 21, 2019 09:14 AM (ta49A)
Posted by: pawn at July 21, 2019 09:14 AM (PveK5)
Posted by: pawn at July 21, 2019 09:32 AM (PveK5)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 21, 2019 06:52 PM (FLiOE)
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